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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 9/30/17
Comic Convention Season is almost over! Tomorrow I will be selling Gamer Girl & Vixen at Uticon in lovely Utica, NY, so if you live in the area, stop on by! For now, though, I'm reading regular comics!
Plenty of fun entries this week, from the proper return of Tim Drake in Detective Comics to the return of Volstagg in The Mighty Thor. But Comic Book of the Week goes to the new issue of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for some great character moments, great monsters and a great twist ending!
I also read the first issue of Marvel Legacy, and it was fine. It's mostly just a big tease for all of Marvel's upcoming storylines, and some of them look fine. None of them tickle my fancy, so I just hope we get some good stories out of them. I don't particularly like this 1,000,000 BC Avengers, even if it's slightly clever. And the less said about the real Wolverine's "return" the better.
I can't have missed you if you never went away, Old Man!
Comic Reviews: Batgirl #15, Detective Comics #965, Infamous Iron Man #12, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #17 and Mighty Thor #23.
Batgirl #15
Writer: Hope Larson
Artist: Chris Wildgoose
Let us continue on with more classic Robin goodness in the pages of Batgirl!
While checking out the Mad Hatter in the hospital, Batgirl and Nightwing discover a doctor going crazy and attacking her nursing staff. The doctor doesn't seem to feel pain, even when her face gets covered in glass shards. Our heroes manage to blind her and get her into a room for safety. When they put her into the MRI to try and discover what's wrong with her, the woman's body vaporizes!
When they run some tests on what's left of the doctor (who called herself The Red Knight), our heroes learn that her body was pretty much 70% nanobots. And when they learn her real name, Babs remembers that she was working with Ainsley in the flashback period on a nanobot project! So the mystery of Ainsley continues!
Oh, and at one point, Dick and Babs, kiss, but he decides afterwards that it was a mistake.
Comic Rating: 7/10 – Good.
This was another fine issue, and Larson is doing a great job on the interactions between Dick and Babs. They feel very natural together, and their back-and-forths are fun. I'm especially enjoying the flashback scenes. Larson is telling a really nice story about the two of them, with fantastic art from Wildgoose — though he's drawing adult Nightwing a little too similarly to teenage Robin. But the overall story isn't all that interesting yet. Nanobots are hardly a new and exciting adversary, and we don't really learn anything new or interesting about this Ainsley person or the Red Queen. Larson is kind of just leading us through the mystery point-by-point, without there really being much of a mystery at all.
TL;DR: Come for the awesome Batgirl/Nightwing team up and stay for the awesome Batgirl/Nightwing team-up, because the story that unites them isn't very hot this issue.
Detective Comics #965
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Eddy Barrows
Finally, at long last, after waiting months and months, Tim Drake is back! Consider me 100% on board! Let's do this!
Mr. Oz interrogates Tim Drake about his origin and about why he became Robin, why he stayed being Robin and what he hopes to accomplish as a superhero. Tim knows he never wanted to be Batman, and part of him thinks he can do more out of costume. Tim then reveals that he took over the control room and is prepared to turn the tables on Oz, except that Oz reveals himself to be Jor-El, the not-dead dad of Superman, and further reveals that he, too, was a prisoner alongside Tim, of a much more sinister power. Oz then leaves Tim alone in the control room.
Tim is pretty flummoxed and is sad about being alone all this time. He gets on the computer and tries to get a message out to Batman — and it's received! But Batman claims he's a prisoner too. Tim opens his cell and rushes to join him, but finds this Batman wielding a gun. Turns out it's the older Tim Drake from a Teen Titans storyline from years ago (that I totally read and loved), and together they've got to team up against Doomsday!
Comic Rating: 7/10 – Good.
I'm as happy as a clam that Tim Drake's origin has been resored, so I don't really fault this issue at all for spending several pages setting things right. I was as bummed as a comic book fan can get when the New 52 altered Tim so much, and I'm glad that Tynion has set everything back to normal. Good for him! But it doesn't make for much of a story. Nor does the big Jor-El reveal, because it doesn't mean anything to Tim Drake. Tim is just a pawn in whatever bigger story DC is telling, so Tim being free of his cell and one-upping Oz don't mean anything, since Oz is needed elsewhere for the rest of the story and Tim is not.
So that leaves Tim teaming up with his future self, which is just the teaser at the end, so that's not much meat either. Overall, the story in this issue isn't much. But at least the character work — and the art — are solid. Tynion does a deep character dive on Tim Drake. We see him at his most heroic and noble, at his most triumphant, at his most scared and at his most confused all in a span of an issue, while laying the ground work for an Evil Tim Drake Batman story coming up in a few months. That's a solid kick-off to this hugely anticipated story.
TL;DR: Tim Drake is back and better than he's been in a long time! Tynion repairs the damage caused to the character by the New 52 and starts him on the path for a hopefully exciting storyline!
Infamous Iron Man #12
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Alex Maleev
What a disappointing ending to this otherwise amazing series! This comic was one of my favorites this year, based on just how powerful it was to see Doctor Doom, the Thing and the Human Torch try to pick up their lives after the end of the Fantastic Four.
But I guess early cancellation may have ruined everything for everyone. This is why we can't have nice things!
Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange launch their attack against Mephisto — prompting Mephisto pause the scene in order to spend several pages breaking the Fourth Wall to talk to the reader about how much of a bad guy Doctor Doom is, and how he's not going to get away. Mephisto also explains that he was behind everything in this series, both the evil Reed Richards and Doom's mother. So there's that.
Mephisto goes back to the fight and gets defeated. Director Carter wants to arrest Doom, but he promises that if she lets him go, he'll take out a Hydra science island for her. She's cool with that. The Thing isn't cool with that, so Doom teleports him to a nice suite in Amsterdam to kick back and enjoy life. Thing is cool with that.
So Doom goes and destroys the island, while the various super-villains he had locked up earlier conspire about teaming up to take down Doom.
Comic Rating: 5/10 – Alright.
When Mephisto paused the scenario in order to talk to the reader, I knew we were in for a doozy of a dumb issue. I don't know any of the behind-the-scenes details about Infamous Iron Man, but I'd like to imagine that Brian Michael Bendis had bigger and better plans for this series. And a weird Mephisto Wall break was surely just a quick way to wrap it all up in the end? I can't accept that the greatness in the beginning of this series was all leading up to an out-of-nowhere Mephisto reveal, I just can't.
Beyond that, the rest of the issue just kind of petered out. Doom solved his problem with Director Carter and SHIELD very quickly, and wrapped up the face-off with the Thing just as quickly. I don't think he even said "goodbye" to Doctor Strange. Things just kind of wrapped up, albeit with gorgeous and glorious art from Maleev, so at least there's that. And at least we can apparently look forward to Bendis continuing Doom's story over in Ironheart's comic (which I stopped reading awhile ago, so I guess I gotta go back).
TL;DR: The otherwise phenomenal Infamous Iron Man ends with a bit of a whimper, because it feels like Bendis switched out whatever stories he actually planned for a quick fake-out resolution.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #17
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Hendry Prasetya
So good, there's no wonder BOOM! has two ongoing Power Rangers comics now!
We see a couple vignettes of the Rangers out of costume, like Kimberly dealing with the fact that her divorced dad is going to propose to his girlfriend, or Billy's mom worrying about him. Then everybody gets called to a new monster attack! Two of Finster's latest creations — monsters that pose as people first and then burst out in crowded locations — attack some European cities, and the Rangers use teleportation to deal with both of them and get the upper hand!
When they return to the Command Center, the Rangers try to interrogate Finster to get more information, but he's not squawking. Zach tries to suggest they take Grace Sterling up on her offer to help, but they don't have time to debate it when Grace shows up at their front door! Not only does Grace already know Zordon and Alpha, but apparently she's a former Red Ranger!!
Comic Rating: 8/10 – Very Good.
Holy guacamole that's a good twist! I thought, for sure, that Grace Sterling would be revealed as a bad guy, but I held out hope that Higgins was throwing us an obvious red herring. I had no idea he'd turn his red herring into a freakin' Red Ranger! Now that's a good twist! It raises so many new questions and possibilities! And Higgins is already knocking this title out of the park with those! The man seems born to take the Power Rangers we know and love and just expose them to all manner of fun and awesome storytelling tropes!
I'm having so much fun with this comic. Twist aside, it was all still a blast. The out-of-costume moments were great, and are vital to this series. The in-costume scenes were a lot of fun as the Rangers dealt with two monsters without the need for Zords or going big. They just took on their foes, both of whom had interesting powers, and used their wits and varying levels of awesomeness to win the day. That's good storytelling, and that's good Power Rangers!
TL;DR: A super fun issue of Power Rangers features a bit of everything I love about this series: entertaining character moments, creative fight scenes, amazing art and the sort of twist that really throws this whole franchise for a loop!
Mighty Thor #23
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Valerio Schiti
So endeth the War Thor. I thought we'd get more out of him, but instead we get his swan song in this issue, and I hope that means Aaron is ready to get back to the War of Realms!
Thor and the War Thor do epic battle, with their blows drawing the attention of people from all across the Ten Realms (Including Baldur the Brave, the King of Hel!)! Odinson and Roz team up and try to lend a hand, informing Thor that the War Thor is actually Volstagg, driven mad by the ravages of war! So Jane drops her hammer and reverts to her human self, and that seems to get through to her friend Volstagg. Then Odinson casts the Ultimate Mjolnir back to Old Asgard.
Meanwhile, as the two Thors fought, the War of Realms has spread to many other previously untouched realms. Seems the war is only getting bigger!
Comic Rating: 8/10 – Very Good.
I love Jason Aaron's Thor. I've loved it from the very beginning. And I think this whole War of Realms storyline is amazing. The guy is killing it! And his art teams are great! But just like the Shi'ar storyline, this War Thor thing now feels like an odd tangent. I didn't expect him to be taken care of so quickly. Ultimate Mjolnir was an interesting piece to add to this puzzle, but this was where it led? What was the point?
Why is Aaron dragging this story out?
Don't get me wrong. This issue was hugely entertaining, the characters are still super fun and he's clearly got a lot more facets of the story to explore. So I'm not losing faith! I can't wait to see him re-introduce Baldur the Brave into the Thor universe, and having Malekith visit Heven is a great twist. So clearly Aaron is going somewhere with all of this. I guess I just wish he'd get there already and give us some more meaningful war stories.
TL;DR: It's an epic brawl the way only Jason Aaron's Mighty Thor can deliver! But I feel like this storyline was just another distraction from his already epic War of Realms overarching story!
The comics I review in my Hench-Sized reviews are just the usual comics I pick up from my local shop any given week, along with a few impulse buys I might try on a whim. So if there are any comics or series you'd like me to review each week, let me know in the comments!
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Sadly, I didn't get to record a Friday song. Looks like cold & flu season finally got me, gang. So here's me talking about youth camps.
Driving in the rain, just a rantin'. MUSIC DROP - "New Light" by Alanah Sabatini. Minisodes are small episodes recorded (usually in a car) where I freeform thoughts on worship leading. I'm like jazz music.
Music drop: "New Light" by Alanah Sabatini.
Some new songs that might work great in your church.
Beginning a series of reviewing landmark albums in worship!


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Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also a supporter of energy independence. On Monday he announced that the Department of the Interior will lease 73 million acres of the US continental shelf off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development.
The US outer continental shelf falls under federal rather than state jurisdiction. In 2016, the region produced 550 million barrels of oil and 1.25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, accounting for 72 percent of the oil and 27 percent of the natural gas produced on federal lands.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management "estimates that the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 90 billion barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and 327 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered technically recoverable gas. The Gulf of Mexico OCS, covering about 160 million acres, has technically recoverable resources of 48.46 billion barrels of oil and 141.76 trillion cubic feet of gas," the Department of the Interior stated.
Trump plans to increase the proportion of federal oil and gas in the country's total production of fossil fuels. Most of the US production increase in recent years has primarily occurred on US shale plays situated on land belonging to individual US states.
In 2015, the federal share of total US oil production fell to 21 percent, down from 31 percent in 2006 and nearly 36 percent in 2010.
Overall US natural gas production has dramatically increased in recent years but production on federal lands has declined. In 2015, federal natural gas production comprised 16 percent of the total US output, down from 32.8 percent in 2006.
Some US lawmakers are keen to open more federal lands for oil and gas development. Last month Oklahoma senator James Inhofe put forward a bill that would hand power over federal land to states, giving them the power to aggressively develop federal energy resources.
Mikhail Krutikhin of energy consulting company Rusenergy told the Russian newspaper Gazeta.ru that plans to ease drilling restrictions and lease more land for oil prospecting could turn the US into an oil exporter.
"According to preliminary estimates, hydrocarbon reserves in the new areas are about six times higher than those already discovered. If all Trump's initiatives are implemented, then the US may well stop being an importer of oil," Mikhail Krutikhin of energy consulting company Rusenergy told Gazeta.ru.
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[email protected] Symposium: Why Industry Expertise Matters
The 2012 Gartner Symposium and ITxpo officially kicked off today in Orlando with industry-specific sessions all day today. In this morning's keynote, Gartner VP Andrew Spender ended the 45-minute session with a look back at the first Gartner Symposium in 1996.
It had only four industry sessions and the rest were all based on technologies. Under a slide that read, "IT Success Factors in the 90's: Industry Doesn't Matter," Spender explained that in the 1990's Gartner clients weren't asking industry-specific questions, so they didn't have the need for industry sessions.
Sixteen years later and Spender noted that this year's Symposium has 81 sessions on 10 industries with 30 industry analysts. The slide on the screen read, "IT Success Factors in the 2010s: Industry Matters A LOT."
As IT has evolved and matured, so have the questions CIOs are asking. Their questions focus much more on how to solve business problems, often specific to their industry, not technologies. To answer these questions, Gartner has developed analysts with extensive industry knowledge that are constantly diving deeper into these industries to answer the questions of today's CIOs.
The same is true for vendors. A vendor needs to have knowledge of your industry to give you the best solution. A vendor that is unfamiliar with your industry limits its ability to help you use your IT solutions to solve real business challenges specific to your organization and the work you do every day. Their products should be developed to meet your specific organizational and industry needs.
If your IT vendors don't know your market or the challenges you face regularly, you could add time and money to your purchase, implementation, deployment and upgrade processes. As you choose your IT vendors, consider their industry knowledge and it's importance to making sure you have a solution that adds value to your organization quickly.
In the meantime, stay tuned to the Hyland Blog for daily updates on the Gartner Symposium. We'll start tomorrow off by commenting on the opening keynote with some of Gartner's top analysts.


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$ cnpm install grunt-express-server
Simple grunt task for running an Express server that works great with LiveReload + Watch/Regarde
This plugin requires Grunt
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-express-server --save-dev
express task
In your project's Gruntfile, you can create one or multiple servers:
express: {
options: {
// Override defaults here
dev: {
options: {
script: 'path/to/dev/server.js'
prod: {
options: {
script: 'path/to/prod/server.js',
node_env: 'production'
test: {
options: {
script: 'path/to/test/server.js'
You can override the default
options either in the root of the
express config or within each individual server task.
express: {
options: {
// Override the command used to start the server.
// (do not use 'coffee' here, the server will not be able to restart
// see below at opts for coffee-script support)
cmd: process.argv[0],
// Will turn into: `node OPT1 OPT2 ... OPTN path/to/server.js ARG1 ARG2 ... ARGN`
// (e.g. opts: ['node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee'] will correctly parse coffee-script)
opts: [ ],
args: [ ],
// Setting to `false` will effectively just run `node path/to/server.js`
background: true,
// Called when the spawned server throws errors
fallback: function() {},
// Override node env's PORT
port: 3000,
// Override node env's NODE_ENV
node_env: undefined,
// Enable Node's --harmony flag
harmony: false,
// Consider the server to be "running" after an explicit delay (in milliseconds)
// (e.g. when server has no initial output)
delay: 0,
// Regular expression that matches server output to indicate it is "running"
output: ".+",
// Set --debug (true | false | integer from 1024 to 65535, has precedence over breakOnFirstLine)
debug: false,
// Set --debug-brk (true | false | integer from 1024 to 65535)
breakOnFirstLine: false,
// Object with properties `out` and `err` both will take a path to a log file and
// append the output of the server. Make sure the folders exist.
logs: undefined
By default, unless
delay or
output has been customized, the server is considered "running" once any output is logged to the console, upon which control is passed back to grunt.
Typically, this is:
Express server listening on port 3000
If your server doesn't log anything, the express task will never finish and none of the following tasks, after it, will be executed. For example - if you have a development task like this one:
grunt.registerTask('rebuild', ['clean', 'browserify:scripts', 'stylus', 'copy:images']);
grunt.registerTask('dev', ['rebuild', 'express', 'watch']);
If you run the dev task and your server doesn't log anything, 'watch' will never be started.
This can easily be avoided, if you log something, when server is created like that:
var server = http.createServer( app ).listen( PORT, function() {
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + PORT);
} );
If you log output before the server is running, either set
delay or
output to indicate when the server has officially started.
If you have a server defined named
dev, you can start the server by running
express:dev. The server only runs as long as grunt is running. Once grunt's tasks have completed, the web server stops.
Similarly, if you start the
dev server with
express:dev, you can stop the server with
watch: {
express: {
files: [ '**/*.js' ],
tasks: [ 'express:dev' ],
options: {
spawn: false // for grunt-contrib-watch v0.5.0+, "nospawn: true" for lower versions. Without this option specified express won't be reloaded
grunt.registerTask('server', [ 'express:dev', 'watch' ])
Important: Note that the
spawn: false options only need be applied to the watch target regarding the express task. You may have other watch targets that use
spawn: true, which is useful, for example, to reload CSS and not LESS changes.
watch: {
options: {
livereload: true
express: {
files: [ '**/*.js' ],
tasks: [ 'express:dev' ],
options: {
spawn: false
less: {
files: ["public/**/*.less"],
tasks: ["less"],
options: {
livereload: false
public: {
files: ["public/**/*.css", "public/**/*.js"]
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.
hardStop flag (#99)
harmony flag (#86)
process.env.PORT before
3000 (#59)
coffee with additional arguments (#50)
--nodejs for Coffeescript users (#37)
error option (#27)
process._servers[target] (#22)
grunt-env to change environments, thanks to @FredrikAppelros (#20)
cmd option that defaults to Node, but can be set to
coffee for Coffeescript support, thanks to @JonET (#15)
debug option that gets enables Node's debugger, ideally for use with node-inspector
node_env option that sets
NODE_ENV when running the server & restores original env upon closing, thanks to @jgable!
delay option that, when set, passes control back to grunt after timeout
output regular expression option that, when set, waits for matching message before passing control back to grunt
express task has finished as much as possible
express is now a multitask with customizable options, better error handling and
:stop task
express-server task to
express: '...' instead of
server: { script: '...' }
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Down the TBR Hole was started by Lia over at Lost in a Story. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
How it works:
- Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 (or 10 if you're feeling adventurous) books
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
I will be repeating this process until I've filtered out my entire TBR.
This is the 1st "Down the TBR Hole" post of 2019 and my TBR pile is sitting at 686 books. My goal is to get it down to 625 by the end of the year. If I meet my Goodreads reading goal of 50 books, that means I only have to remove 10 books from my TBR. I think that's more than doable.
This week's books:
Aster Wood and the Book of Leveling by J.B. Cantwell – KEEP. This is the 2nd book in the "Aster Wood" series. I already own it and the 1st book, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara. I'm going to keep this one for now and decide whether or not to keep it after I read the 1st book.
Darkness Brutal by Rachel A. Marks – GO. The synopsis sealed this book's fate with "But when he meets Kara, a broken girl who can spin a hypnotic web of passionate energy…" What?! No, thank you.
Hammers in the Wind by Christian Warren Freed – GO. The synopsis makes it seem like this book is a confused mishmash of two different stories that I highly doubt will turn out to be enjoyable reading for me. Good-bye!
The B-Side Diaries by Brian Joyce – KEEP. Stories involving music are in my wheel-house. I'll give this one a try.
Hero, Second Class by Mitchell Bonds – KEEP. The cover and the synopsis make me think this book will be the kind of "Monty Python" hilarious I love.
My to-read shelf is down to 684 books. I'm already on a roll! Next week is Bout of Books, so I'll be taking a week off from "Down the TBR Hole".


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Royal baby: Why George Alexander Louis?
By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News Magazine
- Published
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first baby has been named George Alexander Louis. But what's in the name?
It is a partial victory for the old maxim, "the bookmakers are never wrong". George was the rock-solid favourite for boys' names for a while, backed all the way down to 2/1. Alexander and Louis were both not far behind.
A cynic might point out that before we knew it was a boy, Alexandra - the Queen's first middle name - had been the favourite.
Of the three names, it is the significance of the third that is most obvious. Louis immediately makes one think of Louis Mountbatten, uncle of Prince Philip and last viceroy of India, who was killed by the IRA in a bomb attack on his yacht.
His father Prince Louis of Battenberg was Prince William's great-great-grandfather. Louis is also one of William's middle names. And, of course, the name of 17 kings of France (or 18 or 19, depending how you count).
If Louis honours one side of the Royal Family, George clearly resonates with the other.
Despite St George being the patron saint of England, it took the arrival of a German king, George I, to cement the name's place in England. Long a popular name in Germany, it has Greek roots.
There have since been five other Georges to sit on the throne. George III, king during the loss of the American colonies, is perhaps now best known for his mental illness thanks to Alan Bennett's play and the subsequent film adaptation.
His son George was a figure who certainly attracted more than his share of criticism. Arguably the best-known portrayal of him was by Hugh Laurie in the third series of Blackadder. In that comedy, he is a drunken, philandering fool of spectacularly limited grace and intelligence.
The real George was certainly both a drinker and womaniser who ate too much - the Times labelled him an "inveterate voluptuary" - but also an imaginative town planner, an ambitious patron of the arts and, most probably, not an idiot.
The most recent Georges reigned through two world wars. It was George V who declared war on Germany in 1914, pitting him against his first cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
George V recognised the strength of anti-German feeling and changed the Royal Family's name from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more English sounding Windsor.
It was his son George VI whose struggles with his stutter are so movingly depicted in The King's Speech. Christened Albert and known to his family as Bertie, but crowned as George, he's a reminder that the monarch has the final say on their regnal name.
On the other hand, Alexander has never been the name of a king of England or the UK, but was borne by three kings of Scotland.
And yet for any parent naming their child Alexander, it must be hard not to hear the phrase "the Great" sotto voce immediately afterwards.
Alexander famously conquered much of the known world and is often described as the best general ever to live. But he was not a well-rounded individual. An epic binge drinker who once killed a friend with a spear in a drunken rage, he only made it to the age of 32 before either ill health or well-disguised murder did for him.
The two later rulers of Macedon called Alexander - one of them his son - were both murdered but that has not stopped the name being popular with rulers down the ages.
Perhaps the least successful Alexander was the sole Byzantine emperor to bear that name.
Of him, historian Viscount Norwich said: "The only good thing that can be said of the reign of the Emperor Alexander is that it was mercifully short."
This Alexander supposedly died after an ill-advised game of polo in very hot weather. Modern Alexanders might want to heed his example.


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Jordan Peterson in his lecture "Introduction to the idea of God" describes Nietzsche's view on the medieval Europe in the following way:
"Nietzsche said that he did not believe that the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground if it hadn't been for Christianity and more specifically, for Catholicism because he believed that over the course of, really, a thousand years the European mind, so to speak, had to train itself to interpret everything that was known within a single, coherent framework. Coherent if you accept the initial axioms. So Nietzsche believed that that Catholicization of the phenomena of life and of history produced the kind of mind that was then capable of transcending its dogmatic foundations and then concentrating on something else which in this particular case, happened to be the natural world." "Introduction to the idea of God"
Catholicism created a coherent framework of interpretation. That was a key factor that ignited the growth of western civilization. Europeans managed to stave off the dangers of relativism with its subjective interpretations of good and evil that usually lead to many contradictory worldviews, social tensions and finally to degeneration of social fabric. As Jordan Peterson said:
"….When I started looking at the role that belief systems played in regulating psychological and social health. You can tell that they do that because of how upset people get if you challenge their belief systems. It's like why the hell do they care, exactly? What difference does it make if all of your ideological axioms are 100% correct? People get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms, so to speak. And it isn't by any stretch of the imagination obvious why. But it's like there's a truth that they're standing on." "Introduction to the idea of God"
The form of capitalism that took shape in medieval Europe distinguished itself from today's market conditions with a high degree of freedom and decentralization of political power because of the fact, that the actions taken by an individual were in big part optimised by the Catholic value system. This reduced the need of using coercion in form of state intervention in order to keep the individuals behave properly.
Modern capitalism based on the central power of the state is a consequence of departing from objective truth. It is a pathological way of keeping a coherent social structure by means of coercion. In it there is a growing need for pagan ritual of sacrifice that is based on arbitrary victimisation of individuals. It is a tragic attempt to alleviate the growing feeling of hatred stemming from ideological differences in our current society (as it already took place in Nazi Germany with extermination of Jews).
Capitalism that is based on an objectified reality is different from a narrower definition of free market capitalism because it is in big part based on a universal interpretation of good and evil. Human action in such system Catholic Church defines by means of Participating Theonomy. In words of John Paul II:
"The righteous autonomy of practical mind means, that a man has inside of him his own right, given by God. But autonomy of mind cannot mean creation by his/her mind values and moral norms. If this autonomy led to the negation of practical participation of mind in God's wisdom, or if it were to allow the creation of moral norms, dependent only on historical circumstances or on needs of society or culture, then this autonomy would contradict the truth about man that Church teaches about. It would mean the death of true freedom."
"Some are right about theonomy or participating theonomy because voluntary obedience of man to the God's law implies real participation of mind and will of man in God's wisdom. Making it forbidden for the man to eat from the tree of good and evil God implies that man does not have this knowledge from the very beginning but has only part in it because of light of natural mind and God's Revelation…" "Veritatis Splendor"
Looking through the lens of anthropology, the notion of theonomy is based on correctly assumed hierarchy structure, on top of which there is a finely articulated concept of the ideal. In words of Jordan Peterson:
"Imagine you are a chimpanzee and on top of your society, there is an important individual that represents power. (…) then you can make an abstraction of the power means and divorce this concept form a person. We had to do it in certain moment because we can say 'power' in human context and we know what this means but it is divorced from any physical shape." "Introduction to the idea of God"
Such hierarchy structure solves the ever repeating problem of a tyrannical ruler that wants to abuse political power for his own benefits. In some circumstances, the concept of God the King sitting on top of the dominance hierarchy allows for total eradication of political power. A quote from the Book of Samuel is an example of how easy humanity used to turn away from this divine hierarchy what usually coincided with the enslavement of the entire nation:
"But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights. Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots…" 1 Samuel 8:6–12
History teaches us that after the fall of man the state of total objectification of reality is very difficult to achieve because of the burden of the Original Sin. But capitalistic society that took shape in middle Ages reminds us that pursuit of truth by means of Christian sacrifice is indeed successful in helping us to transcend the limitations of sin. True capitalism based on truth is now at hand if we only decide not to shut the door in God's face.


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Aphrodite's Child
Links www.vangelismovements.com (English)
Aphrodite's Child
Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards, flutes), Demis Roussos (bass, acoustic and electric guitar, vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Silver Koulouris (guitar).[1] The band's career ended shortly after release of their most impactful album, 666, which has appeared on a number of lists of the top progressive or psychedelic albums of all time.
Papathanassiou and Roussos had already been successful in Greece (playing in the bands Formynx and Idols respectively) when they got together with Sideras and Koulouris (born 26 January 1947, Piraeus, Greece) to form a new band. Their band's name was derived from the title of a track from another Mercury act, Dick Campbell, from his Sings Where It's At album.
Their first recording as a band was for George Romanos' album In Concert and in Studio where they played on four songs and were credited as "Vangelis and his Orchestra". In the same year, they recorded a two-song demo and submitted it to Philips Records. It was probably Vangelis's idea that the still-anonymous band should be relocated to London, which would be a more suitable environment for their music, as their country had entered a right-wing dictatorship in 1967. This decision, however, was not problem-free. Koulouris had to stay in Greece to fulfill his military service, while the band, on their way to London, got stuck in Paris partly because they did not have the correct work permits and partly because of the strikes associated with the May 1968 events.
Paris, and first album
In Paris they signed to Mercury Records and were christened "Aphrodite's Child" by Lou Reizner, releasing their first single "Rain and Tears", a reworking of Pachelbel's Canon in D major.[1] With this song the band became an overnight sensation in France and several other European countries in which the single charted well, despite the song being sung in English. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] In October of the same year, the band released their first album End of the World. The album contained equal amounts of psychedelic pop songs and ballads in the vein of Procol Harum or The Moody Blues.
The band began touring around Europe, and in January 1969 they recorded a single in Italian for the Sanremo Festival, in which they did not participate. Their next hit single was "I Want to Live", an arrangement of the song "Plaisir d'amour".
Recording in London and second album
For their second album, the band traveled to London to record at the Trident Studios. The first single from the album, "Let Me Love, Let Me Live" was released in November, while the album It's Five O'Clock came out in January 1970. It featured more successful ballads (like the title song), but also songs that crossed many musical genres including country rock.
After their second album, the band begun touring again, this time without Vangelis who preferred to stay in Paris and record the music for Henry Chapier's film, Sex Power.[1] Vangelis was replaced on stage by Harris Halkitis. The year 1970 went by with the band promoting their latest album and Vangelis working on his first film project. To keep the steady flow of hits, the band released another single in August 1970, "Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall".
Third album – 666, and breakup
The band began to record, late in 1970, a musical adaptation of the biblical Book of Revelation, entitled 666.[1] Koulouris, having finished his Greek army duty, rejoined the band. However, relations between the band members were declining, and things continued to worsen during the methodically slow recording process.
Essentially, the ambitious double album was Vangelis's concept, created with an outside lyricist, Costas Ferris. The music Vangelis composed was much more psychedelic and progressive rock oriented than anything the band had done before. This did not sit well with the other band members, who wished to continue in the pop direction that had brought them success. Furthermore, Roussos was being groomed for a solo career, having recorded and released his first solo single "We Shall Dance" (with Sideras on drums) and his first solo album On the Greek Side of My Mind. Meanwhile, Vangelis turned his attention to recording the score for the 1970 French TV documentary L'Apocalypse des animaux, and worked on a single with his then-girlfriend Vilma Ladopoulou, performing with Koulouris under the pseudonym "Alpha Beta". By the time 666 was finally released almost two years later in June 1972, the band had already split up, despite having sold over 20 million albums and remaining very popular throughout Europe.[1][3]
Both Vangelis and Roussos pursued successful solo careers: Roussos had a thriving solo career as a pop singer, and Vangelis went on to become a highly regarded electronic music artist. Vangelis's work composing movie soundtracks brought him much success for the next three decades, including an Oscar for Chariots of Fire. Vangelis's other soundtracks include Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), to which Roussos contributed vocals, 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004). Roussos died in 2015.
Koulouris worked with both Roussos and Vangelis on occasion, while Sideras pursued a less successful solo career, releasing an album and the single "Rising Sun" after the break-up. As of 2017, Sideras still lived in Greece and performed with his band.
Influence and legacy
Despite their short existence and lack of hit singles outside of Europe, the band is respected as a cult band, and their album 666 is often considered their masterwork in addition to being one of rock music's first concept albums. The album caught the attention of many in the progressive rock field, including Yes frontman Jon Anderson, who would later collaborate with Vangelis (as Jon and Vangelis). Contemporary progressive rock acts such as Astra have also cited the band as an influence.
Covers and samples
- In 2004, Gregorian released a cover of "The Four Horsemen" on their album The Dark Side.
- In 2005, German dance group Scooter released a Techno version of "The Four Horsemen" called The Leading Horse on their album Who's Got The Last Laugh Now?.
- In 2015, the Greek band Cyanna Mercury (formerly known as Cyanna) covered "The Four Horsemen" on the Death Roots Syndicate compilation The End.
- "The Four Horsemen" has proven an especially popular cover among European heavy metal bands. Bands that have covered the song include the Italian band Death SS (on their 2006 album The 7th Seal), the Swedish doom metal band Griftegård (on an EP released through Ván Records in 2015), and the Greek black metal band Rotting Christ (on their 2016 album Rituals).
- In 1990, several tracks from the 666 album were sampled for the first Enigma album, MCMXC a.D..
- The Verve's song "The Rolling People" (from their 1997 album Urban Hymns) borrows its title from "Altamont", while also containing musical elements of "The Four Horsemen". Frontman Richard Ashcroft reportedly mentioned 666 as a strong influence on his music.
- Beck's song "Chemtrails" (from his 2008 album Modern Guilt) also resembles "The Four Horsemen".
- End of the World (February 1968)
- It's Five O'Clock (December 1969)
- 666 (June 1972)[1]
|"Plastics Nevermore"
|"Rain and Tears"
|"End of the World"
|"Valley of Sadness"
|"Lontano Dagli Occhi"
|"I Want to Live"
|"Let Me Love, Let Me Live"
|"Marie Jolie"
|"It's Five O'Clock"
|"Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall"
|"Such a Funny Night"
Compilation albums
- Reflection (1971)
- Best of Aphrodite's Child (1980)
- Aphrodite's Child's Greatest Hits (1995)
- The Singles (1995)
- The Complete Collection (Aphrodite's Child) (1996)
- Babylon the Great:An Introduction to Aphrodite's Child (2002)
- The Singles+ (2003)
- Dinos Dimatatis, Get That Beat: To Elliniko Rock, 1960s–1970s. Thessaloniki: Katsanos, 1998.
This article uses material from the article Aphrodite's Child from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.


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Motorcycle Bandits Choose Elderly Woman
This elderly woman had no fault in this, but can we learn some lessons from why the motorcycle bandits chose her and where? I think those are valuable for all self-protectors.
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What does this video teach us about defending ourselves against victimization?
- Since criminals are looking for victims and not fights, they tend to look for vulnerable people to target. Think about a pride of lions chasing wildebeest in Africa and you get the picture. They target the elderly, the young, and the sick for easier attack and greater success. Likewise, criminals pick victims who they think will not effectively resist them, or that the criminal can quickly overwhelm. This includes the elderly, the young (kids and early teens), the sick, and the distracted. Men (the overwhelming majority of attackers) also target women because women tend to be physically weaker than men. If you're in a vulnerable population take extra precaution and train!
- Perhaps the biggest benefit of situational awareness is that it buys you time and space to respond to a threat, and time and space buy you options when considering how to protect yourself and your loved ones from a threat. Time and space give you the chance to escape and evade, or time and space to get your force multiplier in the fight, and time and space to better your defensive position and give you a better chance to be victorious.
- Transitional spaces are places where we MUST be more careful of potential attack. A transitional space is any location that (1) allows attackers to prey on potential victims with an element of surprise and (2) provides ready escape for the attackers. The road here is an easily identifiable transitional space because of the ease of approach and getaway for the motorcycle bandits.
- If you have good awareness, you often can see enough pre-attack cues to know that the risk of victimization is high. If you can see it coming, you can often take proactive steps to escape the attack or evade it entirely. That means being willing to think and to take action to make yourself a harder target. It means being willing to alter your route or your behavior so that you get de-selected!
- Attackers often stalk their intended victims for some time, silently "interviewing" them to see if they are an easy target. (there's a great article in Psychology Today about the psychology of victim selection…read it!) Criminals absolutely look for opportune people and opportune times to ambush easy prey, so the solution to that is not to look like prey! The common adage is true, "If you don't want to be eaten, don't look like food."
There are 3 additional lessons for Patron Members and 3 class starters for Instructors from this video, so please join us in those programs to see them!
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The company has been supplying desserts and sauces to restaurants throughout the UK & internationally for decades and recently came up with the idea to produce them for retail so that you can enjoy them with family and friends at home.
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So next time you have a dinner party, or just want to impress the other half, make sure you have one of these little cartons in the cupboard.


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Among the many hazards that can happen in industrial facilities in Moses Lake, WA is oil or chemical spills. These spills can endanger human health, property and the environment.
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Often spill kits are used to clean up spilled solvents, hydrocarbons, organic liquids and corrosive chemicals. However, the usage of these kits presents some restrictions because of their limited capacity.
We offer spill containment services for Moses Lake businesses in need of better and more effective solution to deal with the spillage situation.
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Time is of the essence in spill control services. The spillage tends to become worse with every passing minute; delay in spill response can cause the Moses Lake facility irreparable damage and loss.
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Oil, chemical and fuel spills are inevitable in some industries, meaning a solution to these spills is important to avoid heavy fines and a bad reputation.
Large spills are considered as an emergency while small spills are usually handled safely by employees in that area. Spills can be caused by:
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Oil Spills can leave devastating effects on the environment as well as the company's image. Timely oil spill clean up in Moses Lake, WA is crucial to preventing soil contamination, ecological imbalances and water pollution.
Certified Cleaning Service, Inc offers prompt, reliable oil spill clean up services for Oil and Gas companies in Moses Lake. Our oil spill clean up team has HAZWOPER-trained personnel ready to respond to oil spill emergencies, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We have one of the largest fleets of emergency spill response and environmental remediation equipment, including.
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Our goal is to minimize risks and costs by offering fast, professional oil spill clean up services to Moses Lake clients. When hazardous spills and unexpected damage occurs, count on us to carefully provide an oil spill clean up in Moses Lake without further damaging the environment.
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Chemical and oil spills need to be addressed immediately to prevent health and safety risks. With our spill control and spill containment services in Moses Lake, you can rest assured we will take the best course of action to contain and clean up your oil spills.
Spill containment in Moses Lake is crucial to preventing the oil from leeching into underground water and contaminating the environment.
In order to handle emergency spill situations efficiently, professionally, and cost-effectively, we maintain state-of-the-art spill containment equipment, providing prompt response to spills and releases. We can quickly contain the oil with our Spill Containment Booms. We provide spill containment for
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We are here to respond to emergency spill control situations in Moses Lake, 24/7. With our 24-hour spill control services, we are able to minimize environmental impact caused due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Is your company prepared to respond to fuel spills? Do you have a fuel containment plan in place? Whether it is diesel, petrol-based gasoline, or kerosene, fuel is a highly flammable liquid that can cause fires and combustions.
And since most industries need fuel to power equipment and vehicles, spills are a common occurrence. This is why it is important for companies to have a fuel spill cleanup plan in place.
As a fuel-based company, you are bound to encounter all kinds of hazardous situations. We can clean-up and prevent these issues before and when they arise. Certified Cleaning Service, Inc provides fast, efficient fuel spilled cleaning services in Moses Lake, WA.
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We understand that emergency fuel spilled cleaning in Moses Lake is the key to reducing environmental liabilities. We have the expertise to provide fuel spilled cleaning services in Moses Lake for all sizes of oil spills, from a few gallons to thousands of barrels.
We can help reduce the amount of fuel lost at the scene of an accident. With our emergency fuel spilled cleaning services in Moses Lake, our clients can save cleanup time and money.
We have both land based and marine based emergency fuel spill response equipment and HAZWOPER-trained personnel, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We have a competent team of environmental managers, and emergency respondents fully equipped to provide safe and efficient fuel spilled cleaning services in Moses Lake. Our Environmental Response Units offer:
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Roadside Fuel Spilled Cleaning Services in Moses Lake
In situations involving potential leaks or accidents, our clients will benefit from our state-of-the-art equipment and the skills and expertise acquired in the emergency spill response industry.
As one of the first responders to a scene, we have the knowledge and skills to stop or limit the amount of fuel discharged from the vehicle. Our emergency fuel cleanup services in Moses Lake can help:
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Do you require well known services of spill containment in the area of Olympia, WA? If you do, then you do not need to look further.
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Spill control in the Olympia region is very critical as industries today pose a huge risk to both public health and environment.
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Improper storage and handling of hazardous materials can lead to a number of situations that can cause damage to human and environment health.
Timely response to an emergency situation, such as a chemical spill, can prevent a minor incident from turning into a major one.
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At Certified Cleaning Service, Inc., our emergency spill control services in Olympia are focused on minimizing the harmful effects of hazardous materials to human health as well as the environment.
Our highly-trained staff has the expertise to ensure prompt and reliable emergency spill control in Olympia so you can maintain the highest standards of safety.
For every project, we provide a professional team fully stocked and equipped to meet your needs. To ensure a safe transportation after pick-up, we provide a fleet of specialized vehicles to haul hazardous and non-hazardous wastes.
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We can help you during spill situations. We go an extra mile to maintain the safety of our clients as well as the environment by providing 24-hour spill control services in Olympia.
Our 24-hour emergency services means we are ready to execute a prompt and effective spill control in Olympia, at any time of the day or night.
We have an extensive experience in providing emergency spill control services in Olympia to a wide range of industries, including:
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Our team stands ready 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to handle chemical spill situations in Olympia.
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Our emergency spill control services in Olympia ensure complete customer satisfaction by quickly responding to their immediate needs. No job too big or too small for us.
Each job will receive the same attention and care that we are known for. We offer emergency response for a range of incidents, including:
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Certified Cleaning Service, Inc. offers one of the leading emergency spill control services in the Moses Lake, WA area.
Whether dealing with chemicals, oil or other hazardous materials, we have the skills and expertise to offer emergency spill control services in Moses Lake for disasters of all sizes.
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During an environment emergency, you need a prompt and dependable service that you can rely on. We offer 24-hour response to situations needing emergency spill control in Moses Lake.
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All our technicians are trained in Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) to ensure they are skilled at dealing with any hazardous material.
We will mobilize a team soon after you make an emergency call to our office. Our emergency spill control services in Moses Lake can help to:
- Minimize risk to your employees and the public
- Reduce environmental impact
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Emergency Spill Control Services in Moses Lake for Industrial & Marine Facilities
Chemical spills can be very dangerous due to the health risks associated with them. We are the environmental company looking out for your best interest on every chemical spill incident.
Our team can identify, clean up and disposal of the chemical in the safest manner possible. No matter what size industry you are we can provide professional emergency spill control services in Moses Lake.
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Spill control and clean up are services that companies in Moses Lake, WA working with oils and chemicals may need occasionally.
Despite exercising all caution, certain avoidable and unavoidable reasons can lead to spills.
What businesses/organizations should know is that having oil spills, but neglecting timely oil spill clean up in Moses Lake facilities can have serious consequences.
Oil spills can:
- Be hazardous for human health
- Harm marine life by polluting water bodies
- Contaminate soil and destroy vegetation
- Cause environmental damage and ecological imbalances
- Destroy the hard-earned reputation of the company
It is important take businesses take oil spills seriously and calling in professionals immediately for oil spill clean up in their Moses Lake facilities.
Certified Cleaning Services, Inc. is a spill containment expert they can turn to.
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Any time an oil spill accident occurs, it is an emergency. That is so because spill control and clean up of hazardous materials cannot wait. You cannot deal with such situations at your convenience.
We know this and so, make our services for spill containment in Moses Lake available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Our crew and vacuum trucks are on call 24/7 and respond to requests for spill containment in the Moses Lake area with alacrity.
No matter when the oil spill happens or how challenging the spill containment job in Moses Lake is, our well-equipped oil spill clean up crew is ready to do it:
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The oil spill may catch our client unawares, but not us!
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When it comes to oil spill control services, Moses Lake businesses must hire competent spill containment experts who know their job well.
They can rest easy about having made the right choice by calling us for oil spill clean up.
We always send suitably skilled and experienced technicians to provide spill control in Moses Lake facilities.
Our technicians come with 40-80 hours training in Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER), along with annual refresher HAZWOPER courses.
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When you need urgent as well as effective spill control services in Moses Lake, WA, get in touch with Certified Cleaning Services, Inc.
Active in the environmental cleaning industry since 1996, our company has the experience and resources to provide top-notch emergency spill control services in Moses Lake for all types of situations.
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The focus of our emergency spill response for Moses Lake facilities is on minimizing the disastrous effects from the spilling of hazardous material on human, animal, plant and environment health in the community.
This also helps us minimize the liability of our clients, saving them from costly environmental violations.
Hazardous spills need to be controlled and cleaned-up at the earliest. That is the reason we offer 24-hour emergency spill control services in the Moses Lake area.
We have an emergency spill response team in place, ready to be dispatched at a short notice.
Our service trucks are kept well-maintained, well-equipped and properly-stocked, prepared to leave immediately for emergency spill control in Moses Lake facilities.
Businesses can rest assured that we will always take care of their accidental spills with emergency spill control services that are:
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There are three keys to reliable and successful emergency spill response in the Moses Lake area. These are:
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Facility owners and managers can count on us for world-class emergency spill control services in Moses Lake that contain their petroleum, chemical or oil spills effectively.
Our personnel and equipment are always kept in readiness to rush to the aid of the client. The emergency spill response technicians that we send over have trained for 40-80 hours in HAZWOPER, with yearly refresher courses.
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"I can't think of why I wouldn't want to do that."
That's what I said when Mike asked me if I'd like to join him on a tour of the new Dixie 311 Self-Supported Mountain Bike Race course. Tour. Meaning that we'd be going slower than a race pace, taking more naps, more photos. And that we'd have time for Mike to do some fly fishing along the way. More or less 311 miles connecting 5 pieces of high country in Utah's Dixie National Forest. Mike loaded the route into his GPS.
Off we went to Southern Utah, to Cedar City, and then up the canyon to the race start. Six racers lined up and took off. I didn't get the best look at them, but they looked sinewy and capable, and their bikes and kits looked light and efficient. The reason I didn't get a very good look was because I was still trying to jam what I needed into stuff sacks and to figure out how to get them strapped onto the bike.
A few minutes after the "crowd" left, we were on our way. Mike - a former racer - had a kit that appeared at least as efficient and sleek as any of the racers. Mine, a bit helter skelter, and crowned by a rather bulbous backpack where I'd stuffed everything else. A week of largely unknown riding was ahead of us. We soon caught up with a napping Lee B who'd started with the racers but was also going at Tour pace, and who rode with us for much of the route.
The first three days were brilliant. Meadows of bluebells and larkspur and red penstemon. Pink cliffs and spires above and below us on the Virgin River Rim Trail and the Grandview Trail. Roller coaster singletrack with a few technical sections and some powdery push-a-bike sections. Near the end of day three, we rode the swoopy and scenic Thunder Mountain singletrack, where we burned turns amid more pinkish hoodoos and spires.
Food, drink, and lodging were provided by, well, us. Mike had fabulous home-recipe freeze dried meals, but wasn't above eating a delicious pepperoni and Frito-dust "wrap". Lee and I carried slightly less elegant forms of lunch, dinner and breakfast. Water was available from creeks, springs, and small pools. Our camps were simple affairs: light sleeping bags on inflatable pads. With a tarp strung over if weather required.
On Day Four the Route got tougher and stayed that way. For hours each day we pushed up steep trails, rode through slashing bushes, and dragged our bikes over and under deadfall logs. Many of the trails were obscure, decaying, or lost altogether. Broken wood popped like kindling under our tires. Often, after pushing our bikes to the top of a ridge, we'd find that the trail down the other side was so loose and rocky that we'd have to hang on for dear life and slowly sketch our way down. Only the red line on the GPS kept us on track. Further delays were caused by our tendency to take naps in green meadows. And to have to lift our bikes over our companions who were taking naps, or who had fallen drunk onto the trail.
There were also miles and miles of open fire roads and ATV tracks. We lost thousands of feet of elevation and then gained it painfully back, bouncing between valleys as low as 6000 feet and peaks as high as 11,000 feet. At around the halfway point we passed through Circleville, the one serious re-supply on the Route. (We'd gone past a gas station on the morning of Day Two.) We tanked up on greasy breakfast, salty snacks, and gummy bears for the days ahead.
We passed over the fire-scorched desolation of the Sevier Plateau where dead stick trees pointed to the sky, or lay fallen across our path. We rode and pushed and climbed upward into the alpine meadows, forests and snow-painted peaks of the Tusher Mountains. More deadfall. Many stream crossings. We covered miles of open but uninspiring track through hotter pinyon, juniper, sagebrush country where lizards sprayed off both sides of the dirt as we passed.
Lee was ahead of us, but his tracks left the route one evening and we didn't see him again. Though Mike and I napped and rested along the way, and took photos nearly constantly, most of our days were spent on the move. From around 8:00 in the morning until 9:00 pm and dark, were moving. He only fished on two days, and caught several fish, all too small warrant eating. The combination of miles, elevation, roughness, deadfall, and the lack of ridable singletrack all wore us down. By Day Eight, the last day, we were tired, saddle sore, a bit grumpy.
More deadfall on the Marathon Trail and then some trail so infested with mole tracks that it was barely rideable had us almost ready to short-cut down the highway and be done. But we dragged ourselves onward until we hit the first stretch of the Virgin River Rim Trail that we had ridden on the way out.
This final reverse stretch of roller coaster singletrack, open forest, and lush flowered aspen groves revived us a bit. We zipped an zoomed and finished with smiles.
The time had come. My legs had lost their spring. My butt was sore. Back aching. Knees creaking. But more importantly, the cup was full. It doesn't happen very often. But I had managed to get enough mountain biking. I was ready to head home. And we did.
Update 8/1/11: Mike just posted a vid of his photos from this trip. Take a look!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Dixie 311 - Bikepacking Tour
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This past weekend, we decided to head on over to the Corn Maze for the afternoon.
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And the kids indulged mommy by letting me photograph them in the same spot I took our Christmas card photo at back in 2010.


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