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It's just past 6 p.m. up at California Memorial Stadium and the 19th practice session of 2018 fall camp is in the books. But at this point, every tackle and drill is just one big blur. All that lingers on the north end of the field are echoes of screaming coaches and shadows of players whose blood and sweat have seeped into the green AstroTurf. The bleachers are abandoned and just outside the stadium's massive concrete walls, people bustle about their daily routines.
For one player, the north end zone and tunnel hold a special significance. He points up to the stands, just behind the goal post.
"I went up to my mom and sister — they were right over there — and they hugged me over the wall."
"Next thing I know, my dad snuck onto the field through that tunnel and he came up behind me and gave me a big hug."
California Memorial Stadium is where redshirt sophomore Cameron Goode enters his second season as a starting outside linebacker — where, last year, he helped pull off an upset win over an SEC team in the play that got his name on college football's radar.
After the last glimmers of light left the Houston sky on a hot Fourth of July night, Goode knew he had to return to Berkeley. The end of a brief vacation during the summer of 2016 meant Goode's first fall camp with Cal football loomed in the distance and he had a flight to catch — Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport to Oakland International Airport.
California Memorial Stadium awaited him, but whether Goode would be sitting in his seat when the flight attendants made their final call was uncertain.
"I didn't think he was going to get on the plane to go back," says Crystal Goode, Cameron's mother.
Long before Cameron Goode was receiving offers from Cal, Nebraska, Vanderbilt and a handful of others to play collegiate football, he sat in an Oklahoma Sooners jersey. Just a baby, his father's gear was far too large for him, but the shoes that James Goode left behind were just big enough for Cameron to one day fill.
That is, if he wanted to fill them.
Despite growing up with a defensive lineman for a father, one who played for the University of Oklahoma, Cameron found himself drawn to a different field when it came to sports — one with brown dirt, rubber pitching mounds and white bases.
At the age of five, Cameron got his first taste of baseball. The lefty played everywhere from first base to outfield to pitcher. His love affair lasted until about the third grade, when he recalls his father definitively telling him, "You're playing football."
"He kind of sprung it on me one morning and I kind of got mad at him," Goode says. "He ended up apologizing but he said, 'You're still playing.' "
Goode lined up at tight end — a time in peewee football when boys' helmets are often larger than the rest of their bodies — but he was tired of blocking. The position lacked action. On top of that, Goode's first encounter with the sport was spoiled by a sour-headed coach, who made football seem like more of an obligation than something that could eventually turn into a passion.
"Cameron actually wanted to quit," Crystal says.
But a change in leagues, teams and a familiar face on the sidelines the next year gave football a chance to erase the bitter first impression it had left on Goode.
"I switched to a different team and my dad was a coach — he was a defensive coach," Goode says. "I played outside linebacker and I was just getting to the quarterback and actually having fun."
With guidance from his all-time favorite coach, in addition to both knowledge and tough love, Goode finally took a liking to America's game. Throughout his childhood and leading up to high school, Goode excelled at both baseball and football — juggling both sports and developing real skill on each field.
But as he prepared to enter the ninth grade, he sat his mom down. He was hanging up his cleats.
"I started crying because I was like, 'What do you mean?' " Crystal says.
Hanging up his baseball cleats, that was.
Goode wanted to give his sole attention to football — a decision that made his father happy and one that shaped the rest of his future. He entered Klein Collins High School in Spring, Texas, where he would eventually become a starting linebacker for the Tigers. His talent was on full display during his junior and senior years and he reaffirmed that his toughness was an indispensable aspect of his game.
Rate your pain, 0 to 10. It's a common way that doctors gauge a patient's discomfort. Based on Goode's attitude and complete disregard for his own pain, it wouldn't be easy to diagnose that he played through two torn shoulders during his junior year of high school.
"Some games they would be good; some games they would be slipping around and it hurt like hell," Goode says.
"I tore one (shoulder) in spring ball," Goode says. "Then, the second or third game of the season I tore my other one like rushing and I knew it tore right away because it felt like the other shoulder."
Goode was tough, though, and he battled through the pain without ever complaining.
"Even after he had both surgeries, the surgeon couldn't believe that he didn't need pain medicine," Crystal says.
Two years later, Goode would need to channel a different kind of toughness as he prepared to take on a starting role for the Bears in the team's season opener against the Tar Heels.
Knowing it was Cameron's first collegiate game as a starter, the Goode family booked plane tickets to the University of North Carolina well in advance. The day was even more special, as Cameron's dad had his first collegiate start on the same campus, 29 years earlier, as a Sooner.
They bought their tickets and couldn't wait to make the trip. But as the Houston area flooded with the worst of Hurricane Harvey, the Goodes' hopes of making it to UNC crumbled.
Heartbroken in more ways than one after the inconceivable tragedies that riddled their community, the Goodes managed to find a silver lining. While they could not witness Cameron's Cal debut firsthand, they were present for Cal vs. Ole Miss just a couple of weeks later — a highly anticipated bout that brought a team from the SEC to Berkeley.
With a national audience tuning in, the game hung in the balance late into the fourth quarter.
Ole Miss quarterback Shea Patterson commanded the helm at the Rebels' 28-yard line down on California Memorial Stadium's field. His team trailed the Bears, 20-16, with 3:11 to play.
On third and seven, Patterson's eyes drifted downfield in an attempt to reaffirm the South's football dominance over the West, to prove that the Pac-12 couldn't hold a candle to even a lowly SEC team.
Three receivers lined up to the left of the center, Patterson palmed the snap, drop-stepped back and zeroed in on a target. The touchdown that followed sealed the deal.
Patterson's spiral found itself in the hands of a wide-open Goode, who, 32 yards and a nasty stiff-arm later, leaped into the end zone. Goode celebrated with jumps of joy and friendly shoving with his teammates. But mere moments passed before he regained his composure — true to Goode's humble style of play, he never lets the highs get too high.
Ole Miss 16, Cal 27.
After the madness on the field from the Bears' third straight win, Goode hugged his mom and sister by the north end zone. Moments later he was met by a smiling face who had recently snuck his way onto the field — it was, of course, his father.
George Bush Intercontinental to Oakland is now a frequent route that Goode flies. Goode is a quintessential detail of Cal football — one who lets his actions during the game speak louder for him than he ever will in a postgame interview.
Today, Goode will run onto the field with the starting defensive unit for the Bears. This time, his family will be in the stands cheering for their favorite player during his season opener.
After a big play, fans might see Goode get rowdy and loud. But don't blink, because you might miss it.
"He doesn't talk trash about anybody — he just does his job," says the other half of Cal's outside linebacker duo, senior Alex Funches. "I think that's what makes him as good of a player on the field as he is."
Look toward the north end of the stadium, where Cal runs out of the tunnel to take the field, and one thing is guaranteed when you spot the jersey adorned with the number 19.
The Goode times are about to roll.
Christie Aguilar covers football. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @caguilarsports.


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Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is refusing to dwell on the mistake that consigned his side to a 2-1 reverse defeat to Manchester City on St Stephen's Day.
The Belgium stopper could only meet Alvaro Negredo's tame effort with a weak palm to give City the lead at the Etihad on the stroke of half-time.
Manuel Pellegrini's side eventually held on for an important win but Mignolet, who became the Reds' most expensive keeper of all-time when he moved from Sunderland for around £9m in the summer, is unfazed by the mistake.
He said: "It is one of those things that happens, unfortunately, when you are a goalkeeper. Any goal you concede is a disappointment.
"I probably should have done better with it. I've been there in the past as a goalkeeper and you have to accept it and move forward to the next game.
"It was a very awkward moment for us just before we went into half-time. It gave them a lift and we went in being down but then again in the second half we lifted our heads and tried to create as many chances as we could."
Despite the loss, the Reds performed well against free-scoring City, and Mignolet is looking to take the positive display into the next game away to Chelsea on Sunday.
"I thought we played well and created a lot of opportunities but unfortunately we came out with a defeat rather than the three points because I think we had chances to win the game," he added.
"We can certainly take positives out of this game moving forward to the Chelsea game at the weekend.
"We have to make sure we prepare ourselves for Chelsea and do things right there."

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McCormick Place skylineEllen Barry is the CIO of Municipal Pier Expo Authority, one of the largest convention centers in the country. Her IT group is responsible for providing technical support for the business as well as running a revenue-generating IT shop that delivers services to show organizers, exhibitors, and attendees.
Note: For more details of Barry's IT operations, see this interview.
In 1989, McCormick Place was restructured as the Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority, joining the city-owned Navy Pier. MPEA is officially government sector. But CIO Ellen Barry says it operates as a cross between the public and private sectors. "Our legal entity is public sector, but the way we deal with clients is much more like a private sector organization, meaning that we know that our customers have choices. If we don't take care of our customers, they may go somewhere else."
However, unlike a typical business, the goal is not making money. "Our objective is to bring economic activity to Chicago and Illinois. We're responsible for bringing in about five billion dollars a year in revenue for the airlines, hotels, cabs, restaurants, shopping, and so on, from conventions, meetings, and tourism. That's our goal -- to be an economic engine that drives the Chicagoland region as well as the state of Illinois."


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"The most significant business development of 2010" is how Harvard Business School professor Bill George described social networking at the time.
He says that, during that year, social networking, "took a transcendent leap" from being merely a "personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers".
Prof George noted that the most important aspect of social media's rapid spread was that it meant that access to key information could be distributed much more widely than ever before. Even companies of the size of IBM were quick to realise the potential of using the internet to spread their messages, and today still hold major conferences on themes based around how they can expand the potential of their business by the use of social media.
One of the most important fields in which social media can push new discoveries forward is in raising awareness of new advances in medical treatment. As healthcare staff and clinicians increasingly expect to be able to find out about the latest advances online, they also hope for them to be closely integrated with the systems they use to manage their clinical workflow, so that they can achieve far better coordination between the many departments and individuals given responsibility for an individual patient's care and treatment.
Businesses in any field can easily learn much from this approach. It also shows that those enterprises which detach themselves from, or are sceptical of, getting involved in social media, are, in future, always likely to be lagging behind when it comes to discovering the latest advances in their field of business. Particularly in the industry of IT recruitment, connecting and networking is of utmost importance so social media is practically a must.
The internet is probably the largest collective resource of knowledge we will ever have. Any question, be it about how to start a business, to how to help it achieve world domination, is covered. And although much of the information offered may be very general in nature, social media, in the shape of comments which people share via their various connections, can help anyone sift the wheat from the chaff, and soon discover which resources are generally considered the most valuable.
Social media channels are also used widely by businesses to reach out beyond the limitations of how they might be discovered through their own website, and, as a result, the search engines which curate all the information they contain.
Customers and advocates who have discovered the business through another channel – and of course we must remember that the internet is far from the only means by which people find out about a company – can also be empowered to share their opinions about the service they have received from a business by adding comments to their own social media channels.
Whether that be through Facebook, LinkedIn, comment boards or any form of online communication, businesses need to be aware that they are probably being talked about through many different media – and by not monitoring and responding to this 'buzz', they are potentially missing out on useful information which could help them greatly in their efforts to market their services.


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Colin gears up for London with Santry win
Colin Griffin's preparations for the London Olympic 50Km race walk continued impressively last Sunday when the Ballinamore walker won the Athletics Ireland 10Km walk in Morton Stadium, Santry.
Taking a break from an altitude training camp with Ireland's other Olympic race-walkers in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain, Colin made a quick decision last Thursday to fly back to Dublin to win his first national 10km track title.
Speaking to the Observer in Santry, Colin said "It is good to get my first national track title and it is good to get it in an Olympic year. I only decided late in the week to do it when training was going well and under control otherwise, it wouldn't be advisable to break my training camp.
"I just decided Thursday evening to come home and do it. I had a plan to lap in around 4.10 a kilometre and I held that comfortably without killing myself. Once everything was going well and I was happy enough with my training, my main sessions, if there was any doubt at all, I would have just stayed up there."
The race, which Colin won in a time of 41.47.66, also served to give the Leitrim man some feed-back on his training – "I just came home last night, did the race today and more as well to go through the routine of the race, the whole discipline of it, get some technical feedback and have the race videotaped as well, look at biomechanical analysis as well.
"Preparations are going very well, I'm just in the middle of hard work so a little bit tired as you'd expect to be but it is five weeks out now so these next three weeks are the time to do all the hard work and then taper back then."
Colin's Olympic preparations now enter their final phase as he heads back to Spain for another ten days at a high altitude training camp where Mohill's Laura Reynolds is also based before heading back to Limerick to take up residence for 10 days in the Altitude House in Limerick.
Ireland's Olympic team will then head to St. Mary's College for a holding camp with Colin moving to the Athletes Village two days before his race on August 11, a day that will also see Laura Reynolds in action which makes it a very busy day for Colin, who is also Laura's coach.
"Its a double job now," joked Colin about the challenge of both racing and coaching in the Olympics, "I'm used to doing it now, I've been coaching Laura for years and we're often doing races at European Cup or Grand Prix so it is no different.
"Laura is fairly independent; she knows to do the right things so it is a nice challenge. It will be a unique occasion for Leitrim, especially on the same day so it is something to be proud of."
Colin's winning time was 41 minutes 47.66 seconds. Second was James Treanor of Shercock AC in 45 minutes 09.22 seconds and third place went to Luke Hickey of Leevale AC in 46 minutes 31.81 seconds in misty conditions in Santry.


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I have written several articles about the elite bankers aka banksters aka banking cabal and from what I see happening all over the globe and especially China these past weeks this is for the good of the masses.
Let me review some dominoes that have fallen starting with the two co-chief executives of embattled German banking giant Deutsche Bank, Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen resigned. (I bet they were fired.)
JPMorgan revealed it would fire another 5,000 by the end of the year in a "scalpel" headcount reduction, overnight the world's favorite drug money laundering bank HSBC unleashed the "machete" and announced it would cut almost 50,000 workers, or one in five bankers, a move which would shrink the investment bank division by one-third.
The same reason why US corporations are laying off tens of thousands so they can fund record stock buybacks and enrich their shareholders – to boost profits so that more money can be channeled in the form of dividends. Read More Here > HSBC To Fire 50,000, One In Five Jobs, To Fund Dividends To Shareholders
The closure of banks in Greece and it`s default > Greece crisis: a disaster for Athens and a colossal failure for the EU.
Venezuela's hyperinflation is expected to hit 200% by the end of 2015. I can`t even fathom that > Hyperinflation
Puerto Rico sees first-ever default, what is to follow > Public Utility Privatization
China stock crash causing global stocks and oil prices to drop setting in motion huge sell off > China Stock. China also devalues it`s currency 3 times in a week.
Dow Jones closes month of August down 892 / 5.12% and ends first week of September down 426 / 2.58% some think it is just time to reset over valued stocks.
HSBC System Failure Leaves Thousands Facing Bank Holiday Without Pay
"Thousands of people have been left without their salaries because of an IT glitch at HSBC that means employers who use its business banking accounts cannot make payments." > A Glitch
China announced a new oil contract that will be valued in Yuan and not the US Dollar.
China's new oil contract signals shift from Brent and US dollar China Oil Contract
Zhejiang Explosion: Another Massive Blast at Chemical Plant Rocks China > Another Blast.
Who do you think is causing all these explosions in China? This not about China and the United States Of America it is about taking down the cabal.
All 12 of the Federal Reserve Banks have liens against them. Read more here > Federal Reserve Banks
And here is the latest Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar > Putin Says Dump The Dollar
Being prepared even if this does not happens is something we should be doing, we have seen what the results are when mother nature decides to push her weight around. Be ready and be safe.
As always I highly recommend each individual needs to do there own research, this is the journey you have chosen.
What do you think is really going on?
The Mind Is Like A Parachute It Only Works When It Is Open!
When an individual learns how to tap into the higher consciousness there are no limits. ( Jack Shea)
" Wisdom leads to all the right paths, knowledge will gain you freedom and love is the glue for all things. " (Jack Shea)
Infinite Love,
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"Fear when eliminated opens up many doors. Love when understood keeps those doors open." ( Jack Shea )


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If you didn't know he was an adult now, he's letting you know right now. Catch this off his new Greenlight 5 mixtape. Read More
Hopefully Bow Wow's performance review at 106 & Park is coming up, and he gets a raise to cover this. Read More
There's a new sheriff in town, and it ain't Reggie Hammond. Looks like the YMCMB affiliate, AKA, "Mr. 106 & Park" will be living up to that moniker as he's set to become the new host of the popular show. He will also be joined by Ms. Mykie, Paigion and Shorty Da Prince. Read More
Bow Wow was interviewed by The Breakfast Club this morning. During the interview, Bow Wow touched on what famous girls he's been linked to and also which ones he smashed.
On Dolicia Bryant:
"She's ummm every man's dream (ha ha)"
On Superhead:
"She's a G…. she's 100"
On Kim Kardashian:
"We were cool… cool peoples"
Bow Wow links up with two of YMCMB brothers and do their thing on this track. Shit is pretty hard can't lie from Bow Wow's Underrated.


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Mirantis Doubles the Number of Trained Students, Expands Course Catalog With OpenStack Fuel Administration Training
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 20, 2016) - Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, expanded its OpenStack training efforts in 2015, adding two new courses, expanding to 15 new locations and training more than 5,000 students, doubling the total number of students the company has trained since 2012.
Training for OpenStack surged in 2015. According to the OpenStack Foundation, since the launch of the OpenStack marketplace in September 2013, training offerings grew from 17 unique courses in eight cities to 119 courses in 99 cities.
"Training is often a leading indicator to a technology's impact. In 2015 OpenStack advanced beyond early adopters, and we saw an uptick in individuals and businesses scrambling to develop OpenStack skills," said Mirantis Head of OpenStack Training Services, Lee Xie. "Students choose Mirantis Training because our courses cover vanilla OpenStack, equipping them with true technical understanding of what it's like to deploy and operate OpenStack in the real world."
Mirantis Training is vendor-agnostic, and teaches OpenStack across the most popular distributions, hypervisors, storage backends, and network topologies. The company offers OpenStack Fundamentals (OS50), a one-day course for business professionals, OpenStack Bootcamp I (OS100), training IT professionals to operate, configure, and administer an OpenStack environment, and OpenStack Bootcamp II (OS200), comprehensive training on the manual deployment of OpenStack. Earlier this year, Mirantis launched Virtual Training, a synchronized, instructor-led online OpenStack professional training.
Mirantis trained more than 5,000 students in 2015, doubling the total count from 2014, and added 15 new locations -- bringing the total to 85 locations worldwide. Mirantis also added two new courses in 2015, including:
"The OpenStack Bootcamp with Exam was the best course that I took in the past 10 years," said Alexandre Sousa, a Principal Sales Consultant for Linux, Virtualization and Cloud at Oracle and Mirantis Certified Administrator for OpenStack (Professional Level). "The class has tremendous quality, covering both theory and hands-on deployment, and the Exam tested real-world skills on OpenStack in an agnostic fashion. The skills I learned have helped me use OpenStack in the real world."
To learn more, visit: https://training.mirantis.com.
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company, delivering all the software, services, training, and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than on any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is among the top three companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, and has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds in the world, at companies such as Cisco, Comcast, Ericsson, NASA, Samsung and Symantec. Mirantis is venture-backed by August Capital, Ericsson, Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Sielgler & Guff and WestSummit Capital, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Follow us on Twitter at @mirantisit.
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T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford to Exec Produce 'American Epic' Doc, Movie
T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and White Stripes singer Jack White are executive producing American Epic, a TV documentary series, a feature film and music recordings showcasing American music from the 1920s and 1930s, and how it has influenced today's music.
The ambitious historical three-part documentary will air this fall on PBS in the U.S. and the BBC in the U.K. and will be followed by a feature film featuring contemporary artists performing the vintage music, including Elton John, Willie Nelson, Nas and Alabama Shakes.
"We captured testimonials from the last living witnesses and direct descendants of American's musical pioneers," said one of the filmmakers, Allison McGourty. "This is the last time their story can be told before everyone who was there is gone."
For the film, McGourty and British filmmaker Bernard MacMahon re-assembled the recording machine used in the period to capture the emerging music. They also used the original microphones, amplifiers and other equipment of that era.
"This is America's greatest untold story," said Redford. "It's an account of the cultural revolution that ultimately united a nation."
Along with the broadcast, Sony's Columbia Records will release contemporary performances from the series, and Sony Music Legacy Recordings will put out archival recordings and audio restorations of the period music.
Third Man Records will offer a deluxe-boxed set of vinyl records of the music from the docuseries and film.
PBS International will handle worldwide distribution, and the shows will be available as DVD's or digital downloads from PBS Distribution.
"American Epic," said MacMahon, "is the story of one of the great moments in American history — when the voices of working people, minorities and rural people throughout the country were first heard, and how the discovery of these artists forever changed the sound of American popular music and introduced new genres such as R&B, rock and country. It celebrates American technological innovation, diversity and freedom of speech."
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text: Yeah I know I have spring fever like most everyone else. It's hard not to given the mild winter and now the high late winter temps. Since the fall I have only swung flies for steelhead, and there is nothing wrong with that, but in my mature years I have come to appreciate the benefits of variety. Some of our so called warm water denizens require a little checking up on. Somebody has to go and see if they indeed have survived another winter and if they are in their usual haunts. So my tying bench has been whispering my name lately to tie up some early season trout flies and carp flies in order to be ready. Given my overfull fly boxes this is somewhat of a joke but one doesn't ever seem to have enough flies because you just never know what one might need out there on the water.


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Appeal brought on 4 December 2019 by Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber, Extended Composition) delivered on 24 September 2019 in joined cases T-755/15 and T-759/15,Luxembourg and Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe v Commission
(Case C-885/19 P)
Language of the case: English
Appellant: Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe (represented by: J. Rodriguez, abogado, N. de Boynes, avocat, M. Engel, Rechtsanwalt, G. Maisto, avvocato)
Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission, Ireland
Form of order sought
The appellant claims that the Court should:
set aside the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber, Extended Composition) of 24 September 2019 in joined Cases T-755/15 and T-759/15;
annul the contested decision of the Commission of 21 October 20151 in accordance with Article 263(4) TFEU; or in the alternative, if and to the extent that the Court should be unable to make a final decision, refer the case back to the General Court; and
order the Commission to pay Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe's costs pursuant to Articles 138(1), 184(1) and (2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice and to pay Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe's costs at first instance.
Pleas in law and main arguments
First plea in law: the General Court's analysis of whether Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe derived an advantage from the advance pricing agreement ("APA") breaches Article 107 TFEU by virtue of (i) the General Court's misapplication of the legal test of whether the APA endorsed a methodology that exceeded the applicable margin of appreciation, and (ii) the General Court's failure to properly define the relevant undertaking that was the beneficiary of the APA.
Second plea in law: the GCEU's analysis of the legal basis for the Commission's arm's length principle ("ALP") is inadequate and contradictory and breaches the general principle to give adequate and coherent reasons.
Third plea in law: the GCEU breached the fundamental principle of legal certainty by (i) endorsing the Commission's ill-defined ALP without addressing its scope or contents, and by (ii) upholding the application of the selectivity presumption to the APA.


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Selfies. They're everywhere. Teens love taking pictures to share moments in their lives, and their social media feeds are filled with them.
Sending revealing selfies (sometimes called sexting) has become a growing trend among teens. Sexting is the sharing of sexual messages and/or semi-nude, or nude, pictures online or through text.
Parents should talk with their teen about the risks of selfies. Starting the conversation early can help your teen feel comfortable discussing issues they might have and empower them to say no to sending things they're not comfortable with. Here are some things your teen should think about before snapping that next selfie.
IT'S NOT PRIVATE: Teens may think their pictures are private or temporary because of apps like Snapchat. Snapchat allows you to send pictures and, after a few seconds, the picture disappears, creating a false sense of security. Teens need to realize nothing on the internet is temporary. Nothing.
IT CAN AFFECT YOUR FUTURE: Revealing selfies can have lasting effects on not only a teen's reputation but also college and job opportunities. Employers and colleges look online for information about candidates. A picture taken years ago can impact their decision. As an example, 10 incoming freshmen at Harvard were recently revoked admission because of inappropriate content they shared online.
YOU COULD GET IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW: Even more serious, revealing photos can lead to legal trouble. Many states now have laws specifically targeting sexting. States that do not have sexting laws may have child pornography charges if the photos are of someone under 18.
DON'T SEND ANYTHING YOU WOULDN'T WANT YOUR GRANDMA TO SEE: A good rule of thumb for teens is to never send anything you wouldn't be comfortable with your grandma, mom, dad, teacher, or any adult seeing. Due to the ease of sending selfies, many teens don't give their pictures much thought before sending. What seems like a fun and harmless photo can have lasting effects for the sender when seen by the wrong people.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIT SEND: Many teens aren't participating in sexting because they want to. When teens were asked why they send revealing messages, peer pressure was the number one answer, according to Psychology Today. It is important to tell teens they don't have to send any picture they're uncomfortable with. And if they receive a picture that makes them feel uncomfortable, they should tell a parent immediately. To learn more about smart phone safety and how to help your kids navigate a digital world, click here.


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Why does New York get all the cool stuff? Yahoo News sent a reporter to a silent disco yoga class. I love silent discos, the randomness of people dancing to different tunes next to each other and taking your headphones off in the middle of the dance floor to hear people singing along.
I love that the headphones act as noise cancelling and isolate you from the rest of class. I have problems ignoring others in class and I guess 'being present' so I think this would help.
I doubt this will grow very big and become something that I can take a class near me in but I'd love to try it maybe at a music festival or something.
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FLORIDA Film Project seeks cast and crew for California, Nevada and Maryland.
Clearwater, Florida, USA Film Production Company casting for Lead, Supporting and Featured Actors for main roles and extras
The Film "Chronicles Of Dalon" will begin production in California this Summer. Auditions for Actors and Crew will be held live, or via *Video Submissions (see below).
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It will be directed by Allan Hall , and produced by DreamScape International Entertainment
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* This is a ; SAG-AFTRA USA union film project and any actor compensation or work will be discussed at time of callbacks in relation to SAG Rules and Regulations.
Auditions: July, 2016 to April 2017
Call Backs: TBA (See below)
Shooting Starts: Mid to late July 2017 or early to mid August, 2017 (Subject to change)
Logline: After cursing God for his Wife's untimely death, Jim Conner unveils a secret to life... but not of this world.
Synopsis: Suddenly Real is a story of love, lies, honor and redemption based in the very near future. When we are faced with adversity, we are faced with a decision. Do we rise above? Or do we fall victim? Meet James Conner, an amateur astronomer who spends a solid year of his life choosing the latter and then finds himself fighting for his sanity… and his life.
Before he is given a chance to fully embrace a loving relationship with his beautiful wife, she suddenly dies in a terrible accident. Is there a chance for re-connection after death? James discovers a message from space that may just hold the key. This prompts NASA to select him and 8 professional astronauts from around the world to find the location of these strange signals and investigate. Soon, the lives of each and every astronaut aboard a newly developed deep-space craft are dramatically changed as they uncover untold secrets and rewrite the books of history.
This film is holding auditions for 4 lead, 10 supporting and 20 featured roles in the USA as well as 200+ extras and full production crew.
Nudity: Yes (brief)
Men (Caucasian, Asian, Light Hispanic, American Indian and African American and British; ages 30 to 55).
Women (Caucasian, Asian, American Indian, Light Hispanic, African American, British and Russian; ages 21 to 55) may audition.
Children (Caucasian) ages 6-8 and teenagers (Caucasian, African American, Asian, Light Hispanic, American Indian; (14 to 19) may audition with parent or guardian.
Extras (Any age, any gender, any ethnicity, any size [See below]
>> See the basic Casting Profiles below:
Character's Actual Screen Time
LEGEND Color: --> BLUE = Long PURPLE = Medium WHITE = Short
* = This person dies STRIKETHROUGH = Role not available
NOTE: All Leads and some Supporting roles will be cast by A-List Talent with IMDb scores of 30,000 or less.
MISSISSIPPI; Brookhaven TEAM
[James Conner] Jim [LEAD; PROTAGONIST] is in his mid 30's, tall; 6 + feet, professional Caucasian, handsome, masculine, assiduous, funny, caring, intelligent Security Guard/computer tech with a Southern accent and has Christian values
* [Leann Conner] Leann [SUPPORTING] is in her 30's, Female, Jim's wife, very pretty, long hair, sweet, loving, happy/bubbly personality, Real Estate Broker with a sweet Southern accent and Christian values
[Motorist #1] Preferably Male, (or Female) [Short speaking Role]. Age; 35-55, any ethnicity
[Motorist #2] Preferably Female, (or male) [Short speaking Role] Age; 21-55, any ethnicity
[Motorist #3-7] Male/female. (Background; Non-speaking roles) Age 21-55, any ethnicity
[Motorist #8-10] Male, female, children. (Background; Non-speaking roles) Age; 5-55, any ethnicity
NASA; Johnson Space Center TEAM
[Colonel Hayes, USAF] Edward [SUPPORTING] is in his late 40's to 50's, tall; around 6+ feet, male, clean cut Caucasian; take charge person, bold, clear, precise/All knowing professional, a deep worrying thinker
* [Lieutenant Monroe, USMC] Randy [SUPPORTING] is in his 30's to 40's, short; under 6 foot, [Med. Length speaking Role] male, short stout Caucasian, blunt, very clean cut, tough man, but also very professional
[Lieutenant Vorago, USAF] Victor is 30 to 50, [Med to short speaking Role]. male, any ethnicity, short to med. height; under 6', hyper, tough guy/no respect to women, a real prick
[Captain Larkin MD, USArmy] Terry [FEATURED] is in his/her 40's to 50's, [Short speaking Role] male or female, any ethnicity, easy going, med. build, direct. Chief MD at NASA
[General Matton, USARMY] Everett (the General) [FEATURED] is in his 50's, male, Caucasian, heavy set, cigar smoker, rough cut voice, always clearing throat. All knowing
[SECURITY GUARD #1] Preferably Male, or female. [Speaking Role]. Age; 40-55, any ethnicity
[SECURITY GUARD #2] Preferably Male, or female. (Non-speaking role) Age; 21-55, any ethnicity
NASA; Kennedy Space Center TEAM
[MP #1] Preferably male, or female. [Short speaking Role]. Age; 35-55, any ethnicity
[MP #2] Preferably female or male. [Short speaking Role]. Age; 30-55, any ethnicity
[MP #3-4] Preferably female. (Non-speaking role) Age; 21-55, any ethnicity
INTREPID; Shuttle TEAM
* [Commander Sanders, USN] Ian (Commander) [LEAD] is in his mid 30''s, male. Commander of SEARCH1. Caucasian, tall; around 6 foot, short brown hair, athletic. Has a strong, firm take charge voice. Caring, sympathetic and has a strong backbone
[Captain Foster, MD USN] Lynn (Doc) [LEAD] is the Medical Officer; in her mid 30's's, Female, pretty Caucasian, medium height, very loving, pretty, and busty. She is commanding but also caring and strong. She is on Jim's side. Has a very strong will to live life at its best
[Lieutenant Hall, USMC] John (Sparks) [LEAD] is in his 30's, Male, med. height, ambiguous/light Hispanic/bi-lingual, dark hair, med. Dark skin. Strong masculine physique, suave, jokingly funny. Not as silly or stupid as he looks and acts
ISS; International Space Station TEAM
[Lieutenant Kristy, USN] Carol [SUPPORTING] is in her early to mid to late 20's to early 30's, Female, Caucasian, short/sleek/busty, very cute and sexy, in Administration, friendly, smiling, flirty. All knowing
[Sergeant Fletcher, USMC] Ted (Fletch) [FEATURED] is in his late 20's to 30's, Male, Caucasian, (Carol's bf), Receiving Dept., very muscular (Schwarzenegger or Dwayne Johnson look), confrontational tough guy, arrogant womanizer, scarred/crooked face
*[Lieutenant Freeman, USN] Deborah (Deb) [SUPPORTING] is in her early 30's, female, any ethnicity, soft-hearted, true and honest.
[Lieutenant Baker, USMC] Catherin (Cat) [SUPPORTING] is in her early 30's, female, any ethnicity, tough girl, worrier type.
[Captain Russell, USMC] Henry (XO) [FEATURED] is in his 40's, male, medium build, a fine upstanding gentleman, Executive Officer of the ISS. Laid back (M.A.S.H.) style guy, pretty much head of the whole sha-bang. All knowing
[Sergeant Jameson, USArmy] Kyle is in his 30's to 40's, male, [Short speaking Role] med. height, snobby any ethnicity, head of Security
Over#1] Male/Female; any gender; any
ethnicity. The V. O. of the ISS's Com Tech
SEARCH 1; Deep-Space Shuttle TEAM
* [Lieutenant Commander Steele, USAF] Steven (Cap) [FEATURED] is in his 30's to 40's, medium height, short prickly hair, strong cocky voice, suave, tough and bold, know it all, but... Do not question his intelligence. Callous
* [Lieutenant Jenning, USN] Diane (Di) [SUPPORTING] is in her 20's to late 30's, Female, pretty, Russian, quiet, shady background, temptress, devious, witty, seductive
* [Lieutenant Smith, RAI] Loretta (Rhett) [SUPPORTING] is in her mid 20's to 30's, Female, Caucasian, cute, very beautiful, soft firm voice, quiet, shady background, walks like she's shifting gears
* [Lieutenant Saun, USArmy] Coui (Cookie) [SUPPORTING] is in his 40's, Male; under 5' 8", Asian, short in height, dark hair, always a smiley face, quick slanted accent, full of pun/jokingly funny, mumbles 'Chinese' proverbs at you
* [Lieutenant Benson, USAF] Woody (Ben) [SUPPORTING] is 35 to 40, male, African American, of African/American decent, witty, intelligent, black hair, brown eyes, tries to be a ladies man, and always does things by the book
DALON; Phasarian TEAM
* [Côdin] Caun [Featured] is in his 50's, Male, Caucasian, med. height, bearded face. Côdin holds a very prestigious position as Technical Scientist of Alonta, a Unity (City) on Dailon (their planet). He and his Grandfather designed and built the Transmitter Antenna used to send the signals throughout the Universe. Job Title: Chief Technical Scientist
* [Däili] Dale [Featured] is in her 50's, Female, Caucasian, Däili is very obedient and non questioning. Her true Loyalty and loving obedience are common of women in Alonta. Title: Unit Wife
* [Rôdin] Raun [Featured] male, is in his late 20's to 30's, is a very hyper and rugged individual, very intelligent, but curious. Job Title: Energy Field Expert
[Táira] Teri [SUPPORTING] is in her early to late
20's to 30 max, Female, Very, very Gorgeous, Beautiful Caucasian, sister of Rôdin, She is a
very, very beautiful Princess Looking young
woman; Gorgeous and very intelligent. Discovered the secret of Eternal Life. Job Title: Motion
Analyzer ( [up to 100%] nudity
required; 1 scene) Serious inquiries only!
Non-Speaking "Featured Extra" Parts in the ISS:
You could be a Driver; of a vehicle or a bystander [2-FEATURED] around the opening car crash scene .
You could be a passerby walking by; jogging, or with your animal walking on the path, or sitting by the edge of the lake.
IN THE ISS (International Space Station)
You could be military personnel just walking around, a worker, or at a store, in the Bar; (tavern) or in the Rec room.
You could be a worker, someone walking by, driving around, or at the cafeteria (canteen); eating or serving.
EXTRAS (Short to Medium screen time)
Any/All ethnicity, gender, ages, all
shapes/sizes; non speaking parts. Submit
to [email protected] using EXTRAS for 'subject'
heading. Send 2 headshots, 1 full body shot, bio and resume for consideration.
NOTE: Only the Featured Extras are paid, all others will be given either Credits, Souvenirs or DvD's of the film
CREW (Medium to Long Set Time)
Openings for IATSE Union Grips, Key Grips, Foley Artists, Jib/ Crane Ops, High speed Cam Ops (Vehicle), A, B, C Cam Ops, 2nd Unit, 3rd Unit, Gaffers, Set designers/Carpenters, Choreographers, Pyro techs, PM's, PA's, DP's, AC's, Model makers/VFX, SFX/Make-Up artists, Wardrobe designers, Welders/fabricators, ect. ect.
Apply with a one page resume (in MS Word DOC, DOCX or RTF or PDF format) and 'equipment list' to [email protected]mail.com and use: CREW for the 'subject' heading. No HTML Please
TALENT (Male, Female, Children**; Short screen time) SAG-AFTRA or SAG Eligible
Please select one role from above; (you may also include one secondary role of interest) and submit your submission "Portfolio" consisting of; a Resume, full Bio (in MS Word DOC, DOCX, RTF or PDF format), 2 head shots and 1 full body shot and any other personal photos requested for your particular Role (in .JPEG or .PNG format), a Reel URL (if you have one, limit resume to one page) and IMDb URL; sending all attachments to [email protected] using a Subject Heading: AUDITION. No HTML Please. Make sure to include a working email address, full name and your phone number.
Due to the large influx of submissions
pertaining to Actors 'Headshots', Please Label ALL your submitted photos with "your name". MAC users; Please convert all submitted documents to MS Word; DOC, DOCX, or RTF Format.
*NDA Form: This needs to be filled out by everyone submitting. Please read, fill it out and sign (electronically) at the bottom. Once your signature is verified, your 'Sides' will be sent to you by email.
Auditions are by appointment only. Full expanded character profiles and Sides (with direction); for readings, will be mailed upon submission request for a role, if chosen.
Those interested will send resume, bio, 2 headshots,
1 full bodyshot and links to a REEL or IMDb URL if applicable, to [email protected] (as
shown below).
The Auditions will be held from July 2016 to April 2017, live in Napa Valley area, California, or via "SKYPE" and Self-taped Video Auditions in MOV, AVI, MP4 or WMV format; of their readings (you will be notified).
If you get a 'Call Back', you MUST be available to interview LIVE for
further readings and or a re-direction in your previous reading.
Keep updated <HERE> on our Production Updates Page.
**NOTE: For Minor Children; "Release Forms" will be required and provided by Director's agent for signing at the time of the Audition and by Guardian or Legal Representative.
All other talent; will be provided with all necessary and appropriate Forms.
DEADLINES <<-----= ____________________________________________________The current Deadline for submissions is on April 28, 2017 at 11:59pm (EDT; East Coast; USA).
Entry Fee : Prior to deadline is FREE. After the deadline: there will be a charge of $19.95 (USD) for each (Role) entry.
After your portfolio is received, a verification email will be automatically sent to your email address on record; confirming your submission was received.
Callbacks will only be sent to those who most likely have been chosen for roles; which will include your final audition script, role, sides and any other info you may need to perform. However, you 'must' be present (see above); for Live interview/readings.
>>Date of callbacks should begin: 05/20/2017 continuing thru 06/30/2017 (Subject to change).
Your submissions; personal information, pictures, data and emails will be kept under the highest priority of privacy as always and sent to NO-3rd parties.
Shooting should begin in August, 2017 and run 10 months.
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Nice Perks, cool Prizes and great Awards await those who help :)
THANK YOU for your support.
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Students benefit National ForestTimes Observer
By BRIAN FERRY - Times ObserverA number of Allegheny National Forest projects that had fallen by the wayside got some much needed attention this year, thanks to a group of students.Through the Student Conservation Association (SCA), about 70 students including volunteer crew members and interns...Read more
SCA Intern follows conservation ethic to Tuzigoot Montezuma Castle national monumentsVerde Independent
In today's economy, hands-on internships can make a real difference for young professionals - and those same young people can make a real difference through national service.Read more
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After BP's oil-and-methane spill in the Gulf of Mexico this year, James (now 16), Elaine (18), and their long-time friend Andrew Daniels (17) recorded "The Bird," with James as the lead singer and guitarist, Elaine on drums and vocal, and Andrew on bass."The Bird" was featured on the "Weekend...Read more
BP Oil Spill Inspires One Eyed Rhyno to Record 'The Bird'JSYK
By Nadine Cheung, © 2010 JSYKIn April, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Five months later, a cement plug has sealed BP's gushing well, but people will be feeling the effects from the incident for years to come.Read more
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Two-time NSSA Nationals Women's Open Champion, "Most Outstanding Performance" award recipient and the first pick for the 2011 USA Pac Sun Surf Team, Lakey Peterson is an unstoppable 16-year-old.Charlestown, NH (Vocus) September 28, 2010Two-time NSSA Nationals Women's Open Champion, "Most...Read more
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Expanded Dune
This article or section refers to elements from Expanded Dune.
- "At one time I thought cruelty and malice were only human traits. Alas, it seems that the thinking machines have learned to imitate us."
- ―Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides [b. 223 BG] was a prominent military commander during the Butlerian Jihad who turned from the service of Omnius to fight against the Thinking Machines. He was also the founder of House Atreides and the ancestor of Paul Atreides.
Vorian had grey eyes and dark hair which he retained for decades due to his great longevity.
History[edit | edit source]
Vorian was born on Earth to a human slave, impregnated with the sperm of the Titan leader Agamemnon. He was raised as his son. Though he was aware his lineage stretched back to the Greeks of Old Earth, Vorian never knew his mother, and spent little time with his warring father. He did however learn he was the thirteenth son of Agamemnon, the others having been killed by the Titan due to perceived inadequacies.
Due to his lineage, intelligence and charisma, Vorian earned a position as a human Trustee in Omnius' empire. Vorian's main role was to accompany the robot Seurat on one of Omnius' update ships, which the young human jokingly named the Dream Voyager. The vessel travelled between the Synchronized Worlds and delivering update gelspheres to different incarnations of the Evermind.
Vorian was initially loyal to his father, who he admired greatly. And per his father's wishes he desired to become a cymek and realize Agamemnon's dream of becoming the heir of the Titan leadership. As part of this inheritance and as a reward of surviving an encounter with the League Armada above Giedi Prime, he undertook a life extension treatment that dramatically slowed down his body's aging process.
Change of Loyalties[edit | edit source]
Vorian met- and fell in love with- Serena Butler while she was imprisoned on Earth in the household of the robot Erasmus. It was Serena's defiant attitude and questioning nature that began Vorian's questioning of his father's subjective historical accounts.
After researching the details of Agamemnon's memoirs via the more pragmatic records of Omnius, Vorian became disillusioned with his biological father. He eventually fled to Salusa Secundus with Serena and Iblis Ginjo during the uprising on Earth, and pledged to serve the free humans in their fight against the Titans and Thinking Machines.
Vorian was questionable during that time. He had been thoroughly interrogated, even examined by doctors for implanted espionage devices; he was proclaimed clean and was even blessed by Zufa Cenva, who, as a Sorceress of Rossak, could detect lies. However, Xavier Harkonnen wondered if the machines had somehow anticipated all precautions and concealed something in his brain, such as machine components that could be triggered.
Serena Butler insisted that all men should be freed from Machine control, and this should start with this man. Vorian could still be a valuable ally with inside information. Vorian had already provided exhaustive information on thinking-machine warships, their armor and their integral weapons took a position in the following Battle of Earth under strict controls in certain areas, and watched at all times.
During the Battle of Earth, Segundo Harkonnen had given him strict orders to accompany the warhead-carrying ships until they dropped their nuclear payloads. However, he detected a lone update ship exiting Earth's atmosphere. He was faced with a dilemma and felt obligated to abandon his post; should the update sphere pass through, all vital information, along with the orders to annihilate the humans, would be loaded to all the Evermind copies. The bombers he guarded were left undefended and became a short a work for the robotic vessels, while he was accused as a coward and a traitor, but he knew he did the right thing.
Soon after he boarded the vessel, which by chance, was guided by Seurat. Vorian stunned his old friend with an Electronic scrambler and apprehended the gelsphere. When he returned to Xavier Harkonnen's ballista, he was about to put on trial for treason, when he presented the silvery sphere, explaining the benefits of his move.
Serving the League of Nobles[edit | edit source]
Vorian emerged as a major military figure in the Butlerian Jihad, with his trademark being bold and highly inventive tactics. He served with the Army of the Jihad and Army of Humanity for about 135 standard years, and rose to become the Supreme Bashar.
During his long years of service he became close friends with Xavier Harkonnen, whose military talent was equally formidable yet stylistically very different. Grown in a life of absolute order and loss of individuality, Vorian tried to be more human, therefore being very free-minded and avoided formalities and chains of command, unlike Xavier. Vor's knowledge of machine thinking, programming knowledge and innovative skills helped the Jihad.
After Xavier sacrificed himself to kill the Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo, and concurrently had his aide Paolo deliver the message of Iblis's corruption to Atreides on Caladan, Vorian was the only person who tried to clear his name. The following years he remained the most longeval member of the Army of the Jihad until he reached the supreme rank of Supreme Commander of the Jihad.
He befriended Xavier's grandson, Abulurd Butler, the less loved son of Quentin Butler and became his patron through his advancement in the military ranks. Abulurd was the first to know the truth about his grandfather, and Vorian approved when Abulurd decided to change his surname to his inherited one: Harkonnen.
End of the Jihad[edit | edit source]
When news about Omnius's massive fleet against Salusa Secundus arrived. He ordered the planet evacuated and was the mastermind behind the plan of the Great Purge. Vorian was on board the LS Serena Victory during the battle, which was secretly equipped with navigation computers by Norma Cenva which ensured his survival through the Spacefolding jumps. Eventually Omnius was not vanquished but trapped on Corrin, thanks to Vorian's satellites armed with pulse-scrambler transmitters, set around the planet.
After the Jihad, Vorian inherited the Old Empire rank of Supreme Bashar, equivalent of Supreme Commander. He watched the League of Nobles falling in slumbering laziness and bureaucracy, deciding that the Thinking Machines did not pose a threat any more, and they neglected the danger of the cymek empire, who rebelled from Omnius' Synchronized Worlds years ago. Vorian was viewed as a relic of another past age of unrest and violence, and his callings to vigilance and a final coup against Omnius were annoying at best.
After Omnius made another attack on the League worlds with the invention of Piranha mites, and their subsequent neutralization by Abulurd, it was learned that his old friend, Quentin Butler was now among the cymeks as a captive. Vorian left all documents and proofs concerning Xavier's death to Abulurd and resigned from the Army of Humanity and moved to Hessra.
Vorian presented himself to his father Agamemnon, as defecting from the League and that he wished to join the cymeks. He played a major role in the destruction of the last remnants of the Titans, when he infiltrated his father's fledgling empire and plotted the death of the remaining Titans with the help of the captured Quentin Butler. On his return to Salusa Secundus, he was welcomed back to the Army of Humanity and was awarded with a title made for him, Champion of Serena, for his defeat of the cymeks.
Abulurd noticed that this experience made Vor different. While the Supreme Commander was famed as a cunning tactician using innovative ideas and deceit against the machines, now he seemed more direct and determined. Abulurd compared him to a hawk, and Vor decided that the Hawk would be the symbol of his family. Vorian was now more determined to press the League for the final strike against Corrin, using his newly gained prestige and seeing support from the Cultists.
His admiration for the Harkonnen name ended when the Atreides-Harkonnen feud began at the Bridge of Hrethgir during the Battle of Corrin when Abulurd committed sabotage in order to save the slaves from being collateral loss. When the Battle was over, Abulurd was sentenced to death but Vorian proposed that Abulurd be named a coward and banished from the League to which his brother Faykan Butler agreed. He also sentenced that Abulurd would obligatorily retain the shameful name of Harkonnen; Vorian sworn that for ever his descendants would spit upon the name Harkonnen. After that, it was impossible for Abulurd to recover his grandfather's memory.
Abulurd was exiled to the backwater planet of Lankiveil where his family carried on the bitter legacy of his downfall, thus beginning the feud with House Atreides. Vorian left for an anonymous, solitary journey across the Known Universe in order to escape from his former military life in a ship resembling the Dream Voyager, his old update ship.
Life on Kepler and new family[edit | edit source]
Vorian retreated on the backwater planet Kepler where he lived in a settled valley with his second wife, Mariella Atreides, and several generations of family members. While Vorian is away, the residents of the valley capable of manual labor are seized by slavers from Poritrin. Vor killed several slavers, and tracks the slave ships to the city of New Starda, where he buys and frees them before seeking revenge against their surviving captors.
Vor traveled to meet with Emperor Salvador Corrino I, grandson of his former comrade, Viceroy Faykan Butler. Warmly welcomed by the Salusan populace, he is asked to take the throne from the Corrinos. Although he declines to do so, Salvador and his brother Roderick Corrino become nervous, fearing that Vor might incite a revolution against House Corrino. They demand that he retreats into a deeper exile, and, in exchange, will station Corrino military forces around Kepler. Vor agrees to this, and travels to Arrakis. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by Griffin Harkonnen, the ambitious grandson of Abulurd. Griffin confronts Vor in a Zensunni Fremen sietch deep in the Arrakeen desert, but the two reconcile.
However, Vor is also being followed by the twins Hyla and Andros, two offsprings of Agamemnon who have survived for years in an isolated robotic outpost. They eventually catch Vor in the desert, and kill Griffin. Pursuing Vor, attempting to convert him to their beliefs in a new Time of Titans, they are swallowed with the sand around them when a sandworm arrives. Vor sends a message of condolence to Griffin's sister, Valya Harkonnen, who spurns the offer and plans revenge.
Family[edit | edit source]
During his military career, Vorian had many relationships with different women on numerous planets such as Karida Julan and a lot of others. This ended when he landed on Caladan and fell in love with a barmaid named Leronica Tergiet. He fathered twins with Leronica, Estes and Kagin Atreides. Because of his role in the war, the kids grew with a surrogate father, Kalem Vazz but after his death, Vorian married Leronica and the kids learned their true heritage. However there was always a distance between father and sons and they broke off connections after Leronica's death.
Later he discovered he had also sired a daughter during a brief relationship on Parmentier, who herself gave birth to Raquella Berto-Anirul, the founder of the Bene Gesserit.
The descendants from one of his twins on Caladan, Willem Atreides was the forefather of House Atreides.
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In The Dune Encyclopedia the ancestor of House Atreides/DE and rival of Abulurd Harkonnen/DE who fought in the Battle of Corrin/DE is named Demetrios Atreides.


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A Florida craft beer maker has replaced the harmful plastic of six-pack rings with ones made out of the barley and wheat leftover from the beermaking process.
In a project led by New York ad agency We Believers, the partners have engineered rings that are biodegradable and perhaps even edible – although this has not be proven – by marine animals that often fall victim to entanglement, strangulation, and deadly digestive problems caused by the ubiquitous rings that are used to package cans of soda and beer and end up in the oceans and in other natural habitats.
"We believed in it so much," Chris Gove, Saltwater Brewery president, told Mashable. "It came about through a love for the ocean and truly caring for the environment."
The edible rings are patent pending, with 500 of them produced last month as a prototype. Gove told Mashable that his team hopes to produce the rings widely by early fall, and by 2017 to spread the invention to other craft breweries.
"I think it's a really neat idea," Mike Harting, chief executive officer of 3 Daughters Brewing in St. Petersburg, Fla., told the Tampa Bay Times. "The industry needs other options, and the fact someone has found one that happens to be eco-friendly, too, that's awesome."
For now the edible 6-pack rings cost a few cents more than the plastic ones, which run about $.10 apiece, but that price could come down if the new rings are widely adopted by the beverage industry.
"The kind of support we're being met with, assuming that holds, that could happen," brewery co-founder Bo Eaton told the Times.
Plastic debris is accumulating in the oceans at an alarming rate. And it's everywhere: floating in the deep sea, buried in Arctic ice, and being ingested with deadly consequences for about 700 species of marine wildlife.
In 2010 about 8 million tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries, an amount that is likely to increase tenfold in the next decade without changes to garbage collection and management, according to a study described last year by National Geographic. That amount of plastic is like lining up five grocery bags of trash on every foot of coastline around the globe, explains a study author.
"And by 2025, those five grocery bags of plastic are going to be ten bags," Jenna Jambeck, the University of Georgia environmental engineer who led the study, told National Geographic.
While the biodegradable rings are promising, but it's not yet clear whether they're safe for marine wildlife to ingest, since wheat and barley are not part of their natural diet. Research is needed to determine this.
"Obviously it's better than plastic, there's no doubt about that," Jennie Gilbert, co-founder of Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre in Australia, told Australian Geographic. "But does it cause a long-term effect if they ingest it, does it cause problems? We don't know that," she said.


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Recently a local design company asked me to photograph a restaurant at a golf club. The exterior shots they had were perfectly good, but the interiors weren't working. I found the interior shots on the builder's website, and they were competently photographed…except. By the looks of things, the shots had been taken in the morning. The space was bright and well lit, and the whole thing looked like a hospital. Nothing says 'let's go out for dinner' like a space reminds you of the place where they took your favourite aunt Ethyl off to die.
Photographing spaces is more than just recording the details of a place. it's about creating a sense in the viewer of being there, or wanting to be there. It's al about creating a mood. In this case, the photographer probably had to shoot during a window that really wasn't ideal. But the result was images whose mood just didn't communicate the right feel for the place.
Photographing a restaurant in the evening can be a problem. After all the best light often comes at dinner time, so I was a bit worried. As it turns out, not a soul came into the restaurant from the time we arrived at 3:30 to the time we had packed up and left two hours later. As we entered, I scoped out the shots I wanted to do and made 'notes' on my Phone. One of the shots looked like this
Bear in mind this is just a cell phone camera, but you can see that the space looks a bit cold and it seems dark in the middle. My assistant, Rob, and I figured out all of our shots and then waited until just after dusk before we ran around like madmen trying to get all the shots in our rather limited light window. In order to get just the right mood, I decided to light paint the scene. I maned the camera while Rob pointed the flash at different points of interest. I took all of those shots together and composited them into the final image below.
By shooting the restaurant at dusk we were able to make it feel warmer and more inviting, something that shows off the space and might make people want to come in and eat at the restaurant. Hopefully now a photographer can't come during the dinner time and shoot photos unbothered by paying customers.


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Residential Construction Dominated Dutch Construction Industry in 2012, States Timetric
02 May 2013 • by Natalie Aster
The Dutch construction market recorded a CAGR of -4.16% during the review period (2008–2012). All construction categories registered negative growth over this period. This is largely a result of the economic slowdown following the financial crisis and austerity measures implemented by the Dutch government.
Residential construction was the largest construction category in the Dutch construction industry, with a 45.1% share of the industry's total value in 2012. Despite this, prospects for growth in the residential construction market remain bleak, as depressed economic conditions are making it difficult for Dutch households to repay housing debt. Prospective buyers, especially those looking to get onto the property ladder, as well as households looking to refinance their debt, are finding it difficult to secure mortgages. There looks to be little improvement of this situation in the short term, as the government implements measures to protect the banking system from the risk of large mortgage defaults.
The new report "Construction in the Netherlands – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2017" by Timetric states that commercial construction recorded a CAGR of -5.17% during the review period, the largest decline of all construction markets in the Netherlands. The country's retail sector has recorded subdued levels of investment since 2008. Consumer spending is cautious, owing to large debt, low wage growth and a depressed economic outlook. While prime retail centers such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam continue to exhibit high occupancy rates and stable rents, secondary retail locations are coming under increased pressure. Secondary centers such as Schiedam, Gouda, Tilburg and Almelo are facing increasing vacancy rates. The retail sector, in particular the non-food retail segment, is expected to stay depressed in the short term, as government spending cuts and an increase in VAT puts further pressure on the domestic market.
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The Netherlands has well-developed infrastructure, consisting of several modern seaports, inland waterways, airports, highways and railroads, and is a dominant European logistics location. The infrastructure construction market, however, recorded a CAGR of -2.23% during the review period. Large budget cuts, as a part of the government's austerity measures, affected the growth of the market. Furthermore, budget cuts to road infrastructure construction were announced in November 2012. The infrastructure construction category is expected to record a moderate CAGR of 0.87% over the forecast period.
Industrial construction is expected to be the fastest-growing construction category, with a projected CAGR of 0.26% during the forecast period. Low domestic demand and virtually no growth forecast for the eurozone in 2013 will market growth.
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Pope Francis' first encyclical Lumen Fidei (Light of Faith) was released on Friday, and we spent some time reading through much of it together late last night. Hey, what are you going to do … watch a rerun of Law & Order or read our Holy Father's first encyclical? Choices, people, choices!
Coincidentally, our latest post for Catholic Stand was scheduled for today, too, and we were ready to submit a post about tangible things parishes can do to stop losing young families and start raising up the next generation of saints. As we read Lumen Fidei, we found pearls of wisdom and nuggets of gold to weave into our post. In other words, we wanted to strike while the iron was hot!
Head over to Catholic Stand to read our latest post, 5 Things Parishes Can Do To Stop Losing Young Families. Here's a teaser.
1. Get the Sacrament of Baptism right.
2. Stop offering childcare during Mass.
3. Provide childcare at adult events.
4. Actively promote Natural Family Planning.
5. Proclaim a Year of Marriage and the Family.
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For Easter, we did brunch and one of the things we had was carrot cake pancakes. We hadn't really planned on it- we just threw them together that morning. That's how simple they are!
3 Medium Carrots
1 tbs Baking Powder
2 c Flour
6 tbs Sugar
1 tsp Salt
1/4 c melted margarine
1 c Vegetable Oil
1 tbs Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 1/2 c Water*
1/4 tsp Ground Clove
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1 tbs Cinnamon
1 Brick of Cream Cheese
2-3 Cups of Powdered Sugar
Start by peeling three medium carrots, then shredding them and finally coating them in flour. This helps lock in most of their moisture.
Combine all your dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
Combine all your liquids in a larger bowl. (With the exception of the water) Use a hand mixer or stand mixer to mix and slowly incorporate your dry ingredients. As needed, splash water. Add the carrots last and use a spatula to stir in. (So they don't get shredded more)
Bake like normal pancakes and eat!
A cream cheese frosting is great on these. Start with one brick of cream cheese and incorporate about a cup of powdered sugar and a splash of milk. Slowly add more powdered sugar until you achieve desired taste and texture.
What's your favorite variation on a classic desert?
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According to a BCG Study, AI Will Create New Efficiencies for Biopharma, Providers, Payers, and Medtech Companies—But It Is Also Likely to Cause Some Value to Flow to Technology Players and Consumers
BOSTON—Companies in the four traditional sectors of health care risk ceding much of the value created by AI tools to technology players and consumers, according to a new publication by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Although AI will create significant efficiencies for biopharma companies, providers, payers, and medtech companies, those traditional players may not retain a sizable portion of the value created. The article, titled Chasing Value as AI Transforms Health Care, is being released today.
The article assesses two possible scenarios for the value pool shifts created by AI. Under the first scenario, players in all four traditional sectors retain the value unlocked by improvements in their own efficiency. At the same time, medtech, providers, payers, and non-traditional health care companies from the technology sector capture much of the additional value created by AI—while the impact on biopharma is likely neutral. Under the second scenario, consumers benefit significantly. AI helps drive what is known as value-based health care (VBHC)—improved outcomes at lower cost—and the value unlocked passes to consumers in the form of lower premiums or out-of-pocket expenses. Technology and medtech companies also benefit significantly, while biopharma risks losing value because of shifts such as enhanced detection, prevention, and earlier treatment. The article outlines a series of smart, low-risk moves that companies in all four traditional health care sectors can make today to maximize the benefits of AI—and avoid the loss in value they may otherwise suffer.
"Artificial intelligence is to some degree already being deployed across all incumbent sectors of health care today and will play an exponentially larger role in the years ahead," says BCG Partner Alexander Aboshiha, coauthor of the article. "Companies need to move quickly to harness this rapidly developing technology—including by ensuring they have access to the right data and the right talent to succeed."
Health Care Players Are Making Major AI Investments
The article also outlines areas within health care for which AI spending will total $8 billion by 2022. These include:
"Artificial Intelligence will drive major advances in realizing the vision of value-based health care. It has the potential to detect connections and correlations between medical treatment and patient outcomes in a way that hasn't been possible before," says Ryan Gallagher, BCG project leader and coauthor of the article. "That will not only save lives but also potentially help control rapidly rising health care costs."
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Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. Davis is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia.
Davis has published popular articles in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune, and Condé Nast Traveler.
Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In recent years his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland.
An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections. In 1974, at the age of 20, he crossed the Darien Gap on foot in the company of the celebrated English author and amateur explorer, Sebastian Snow.[1] His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), an international best seller and, loosely, the basis of a horror film.
His other books include Penan: Voice for the Borneo Rain Forest (1990), Shadows in the Sun (1993), Nomads of the Dawn (1995), The Clouded Leopard (1998), Rainforest (1998), Light at the Edge of the World (2001), The Lost Amazon (2004), Grand Canyon (2008), Book of Peoples of the World (ed. 2008) and One River (1996), which was nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. His books have been translated into fourteen languages, including Basque, Serbian, Japanese and Malay.
A native of British Columbia, Davis, a licensed river guide, has worked as park ranger, forestry engineer, and conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published 180 scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian vodoun and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. Davis has written for National Geographic, Newsweek, Premiere, Outside, Omni, Harpers, Fortune, Men's Journal, Condé Nast Traveler, Natural History, Scientific American, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, and numerous other international publications. Davis is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)
His photographs have appeared in some 20 books and more than 80 magazines, journals and newspapers, including National Geographic, Time, GEO, People, Men's Journal, Outside, and National Geographic Adventure. They have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography (I.C.P.), the Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, D.C., the United Nations (Cultures on the Edge exhibition 2004), the Carpenter Center of Harvard University, and the Utama Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Select images are part of the permanent collection of the U.S. State Department, Africa and Latin America Bureaus.
Davis is the co-curator of The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and currently touring Latin America.
A first collection of Davis' photographs, Light at the Edge of the World, appeared in 2001 published by National Geographic Books, Bloomsbury and Douglas & McIntyre. A second collection is under contract for fall 2011 publication with Douglas & McIntyre.
Davis' research has been the subject of more than 800 media reports and interviews in Europe, North and South America and the Far East, and has inspired numerous documentary films as well as three episodes of the television series, The X-Files.
A professional speaker for over twenty years, Davis has lectured at the American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and at the TED Conference. His clients have included amongst others Microsoft, Shell, Hallmark, Fidelity Investments, Bank of Nova Scotia, Mackenzie Financial, Healthcare Association of Southern California, National Science Teachers Association, NDMA (Non-prescriptive Drug Manufacturers Association), International Baccalaureate, European Council of International Schools, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Canadian Association of Exploration Geophysicists, American Trial Lawyer's Association, American Judges Association, American Bankers Association, Centaur Technology, Canadian Association of Actuaries, Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, as well as several leading pharmaceutical companies including Warner-Lambert, Bayer, Miles, Bristol-Myers, and Abbott Laboratories.
An Honorary Research Associate of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Explorer's Club, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Davis was a founding board member of the David Suzuki Foundation and he recently completed a six-year term on the board of the Banff Centre, Canada's leading institution for the arts. He has served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the Amazon Conservation Association, whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.[2] In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's most prestigious public intellectual forum.
Davis was the series creator, host and co-writer of Light at the Edge of the World, a four-hour ethnographic documentary series, shot in Discovery Channel in 1990.
Davis has recently completed a new four-hour series for the National Geographic, Ancient Voices/Modern World, which was shot in Australia, Mongolia, and Colombia. It is currently airing worldwide on the National Geographic Channel as the second season of Light at the Edge of the World.
Davis is a member of the International Advisory Board, Hunt Consolidated, PLNG, and is also currently engaged in a three-year campaign, Journey to Zero, an effort sponsored by Nissan and TBWA to support zero emission vehicles.
When not in the field, Davis and his wife Gail Percy divide their time between Washington, D.C., Vancouver and the Stikine Valley of northern British Columbia. They have two children.
In late 2013, Davis joined the University of British Columbia as research and teaching faculty.[3]
In 1983, Davis first advanced his hypothesis that tetrodotoxin (TTX) poisoning could explain the existence of Haitian zombies.[4] This idea has been controversial and his popular 1985 follow up book (The Serpent and the Rainbow) elaborating upon this claim has been criticized for a number of scientific inaccuracies.[5] One of these is the suggestion that Haitian witchdoctors can keep "zombies" in a state of pharmacologically induced trance for many years.[6] As part of his Haitian investigations, Davis commissioned the exhumation of a recently buried child.[7][8] (Dead human tissue is supposed to be a part of the "zombie powder" used by witchdoctors to produce zombies.) This has been criticized in the professional literature as a breach of ethics.[9][10]
The strictly scientific criticism of Davis' zombie project has focused on the claims about the chemical composition of the "zombie powder". Several samples of the powder were analyzed for TTX levels by experts in 1986. They reported[11] that only "insignificant traces of tetrodotoxin [were found] in the samples of 'zombie powder' which were supplied for analysis by Davis" and that "it can be concluded that the widely circulated claim in the lay press to the effect that tetrodotoxin is the causal agent in the initial zombification process is without factual foundation". Davis' claims were subsequently defended by other scientists doing further analyses[12] and these findings were criticized in turn for poor methodology and technique by the original skeptics.[13] Aside from the question of whether or not "zombie powder" contains significant amounts of TTX, the underlying concept of "tetrodotoxin zombification" has also been questioned more directly on a physiological basis.[14] TTX, which blocks sodium channels on the neural membrane, produces numbness, slurred speech, and possibly paralysis or even respiratory failure and death in severe cases. As an isolated pharmacological agent, it is not known to produce the trance-like or "mental slave" state typical of zombies in Haitian mythology, or Davis' descriptions, although one might consider the effects of "set and setting" in combination with the drug.
Others have argued that Davis did not suggest that the purported TTX-containing powder maintained the "mental slaves," only that it produced the initial death that, with the subsequent separate pharmacologic resurrection, convinced the victim and those who knew them that they had become zombies. Purported zombie cases such as Clairvius Narcisse were, according to Davis, kept biddable by regular doses of the poisonous 'zombi cucumber', Datura stramonium which produces amnesia, delirium and suggestibility.[15]
Otherwise, the effects of fugu TTX poisonings in Japan agree with the reports of zombification.
Davis is the recipient of numerous awards including the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2009), the 2002 Lowell Thomas Medal (The Explorers Club) and the 2002 Lannan Foundation $125,000 prize for literary non-fiction. He has been granted Honorary Degrees (Doctorate of Sciences) from University of Victoria (2003), University of Guelph (2008), Colorado College (2010) and University of Northern British Columbia (Doctorate of Laws 2010). In 2004 he was made an Honorary Member of The Explorers Club, one of twenty. In 2009 he was selected to be the speaker for the Massey Lectures, for his publication, The Wayfinders.[16] In 2011 he received The Explorers Medal, the highest award of The Explorers Club. He was awarded the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration, considered the most prestigious prize for botanical exploration, in 2012.[17]
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Light at the Edge of the World: Science of the Mind, directed by Andrew Gregg, produced by Wade Davis and Andrew Gregg for National Geographic
2008 Host/co-writer/co-producer Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey, 2 hour special for the History Channel based on the books One River and The Lost Amazon, produced in collaboration with Gryphon Productions and filmed shot on location in New Mexico, Oaxaca, and lowland Ecuador. DVD available A&E Television Network 2008 Principal character: Grand Canyon: River at Risk, 3D IMAX, MacGillivray Freeman Films, released worldwide Spring 2008.
2002 "The Explorer" Life and Times. 1 hr biographical documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) DVD by Monarch Films, October, 2008
1993 Narrator/co-writer "Cry of the Forgotten Land" 1 hour documentary on the Moi people of West Papua, New Guinea.
1992 Host and co-writer. "The Spirit of the Mask" 1 hour documentary produced by Gryphon Productions
1991 Host and co-writer " Earthguide" 13 part documentary on environmental issues, Cinetel Productions for the Discovery Channel.
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Ontario, Quebec City, Quebec, Ottawa, Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Cultural anthropology, Archaeology, Social anthropology, Sociology, History
Dominican Republic, French language, France, Port-au-Prince, United States
Anthropology, Botany, Ethnobiology, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Ethnology
New York City, New York, Time Inc., Time (magazine), Great Depression
Christopher Ondaatje, Charles Camsell, Wade Davis, Stephen Harper, 3m
Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Amazon rainforest, Ethnobotany, Harvard University, William S. Burroughs
University of Oslo, Polynesia, Peru, Larvik, Geography
Governor General's Literary Awards, Donna Scott, Canada Council, Jane Urquhart, Sandra Birdsell