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When it comes to fantasy basketball, I'd like to think of myself as an optimist.
I believe that, despite all of the glaring signs that point to there being no season, or a half season, that Billy Hunter and the fat cat owners will come to their senses and deliver us from the despair of a basketball-less winter. We must, thus, prepare for another stellar season and specifically for our drafts. Before we do so, however, you should know your history, which in fantasy ball, doesn't stretch much further than a few seasons.
To start, we'll look at the fantasy monsters, the guys that should make up the first round of your draft. These guys are the back bones of your squad, the type of players that if injured, could potentially sink your season. While your first-round draft selection is often the most important in terms of sustainability, the GM's that routinely win out their leagues are the ones that draft solid in the middle to late rounds, the ones who grab a sleeper candidate that they can ride for the whole season to the top. Believe me, we will get there, as in the coming weeks we'll be looking at a position by position break down of who should go where and why, as well as busts, sleepers, players who will be drafted too high, as well as strategies on how to effectively manage your team, trades and the ever controversial topic known as streaming.
A side note: We're playing with what will be our standard issue h2h (head-to-head) format with a 10 team league, which has a randomly-ordered draft. The statistical break down is as follows: Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, Field Goals Made and Missed, Three Pointers Made and Missed, Free Throws Made and Missed, and Turnovers.
(I'm not saying that this is the best format, because in my opinion there is no best format. An auction Rotisserie might be more your style and speed, or maybe a 16-team keeper league which allows you to hold on to your best two or three players at the start of every year. These formats are all well and good but for the sake of uniformity and ease, let's stick to the most accessible and easy to navigate.)
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The First Round:
Ideally, you'd like to go first and be able to select any player that you so choose, but when you win that first slot, that means you choose last in the second round. I've been selected as the first pick before, and watching the next best 19 guys get selected before you hurts. Our draft order is random, so you have no choice, but if your league allows draft pick trading – which some do – I would recommend sliding out of that pick for a lower pick in the first round (3, 4, 5) as well as a supplemental pick anywhere beyond the third round, as nice of a pick as you can score.
What follows is my breakdown of how you should rank your first-round guys. Undoubtedly, some wild cat GM will select a huge reach in the first round trying to look like the genius of the group, while an absent Auto-Draft owner will get screwed with a projected player that is already injured for the whole season, which is why I can't stress enough that you should manually set your order of guys you would like to get.
No Doubt Big Ticket Picks
1. Dwight Howard, C. PPG: 22.9, RPG: 14.1, APG: 1.4, SPG: 1.4, BPG: 2.4
With LeBron James entering the more "team oriented" aspect of his career, the relatively weak competition at the center position and Howard's need to carry the Magic, Howard is poised for another monster fantasy year. When a guy puts up almost seven 20/20 nights in a season you know you're in for something special, especially when he tosses up 4-6 blocks on top of it too. Now, the man has a downfall, but it's one that you're going to find with almost every center in the league, and that's FT%. But don't ever let that stop you from taking Howard, who I just might mention, is in a contract year. Scary right?
2. LeBron James, SF. PPG: 26.7, RPG: 7.5, APG: 7.0, SPG: 1.6, BPG: 0.6
LeBron, of course, couldn't be that far behind Howard. Even though I have him ranked in the second slot, you can bet that there is a distinct possibility that LBJ finishes in the No. 1 position for fantasy points. There is also a possibility that he can conceivably be eligible for more than one position, as some leagues may have him designated as SF with SG, and PF capabilities. Consider yourself lucky if they do because last time I checked Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were the starting players at their respective positions. We all know the LeBron story and can see the stat line above and after a season where he was constantly needled and ridiculed, that line might just get better.
3. Chris Paul, PG. PPG: 15.9, RPG: 4.1, APG: 9.8, SPG: 2.3, BPG: 0.1
Do you want to know what's crazy? CP3's numbers last year were his worst in fourth seasons, and that was still good enough for sixth best in my fantasy league for total fantasy points. Playing in 80 games last year was a huge accomplishment after coming back from a knee surgery that healed much slower than anticipated, but you could tell that there were still serious signs of pain. With a summer of rest, and a fresh contract on the horizon you can bet your bottom dollar that Paul will be at the top of his game.
4. Kevin Durant, SF. PPG: 27.7, RPG: 6.8, APG: 2.7, SPG: 1.1, BPG: 1.0
Leading the league in scoring for the second time in a row, the Durantula's scoring numbers were down from the year before. This year, expect to see them rise again after a season where he was praised as the second coming and fell just a tiny bit short (thanks, in part, to Russell Westbrook's development). Here's the thing with Durant, you know exactly what you're getting from him every game. He's going to rebound like a PF. He's going to get to the line and shoot a high percentage. He's going to rain threes, again at a high percentage, and he is going to score in bunches. Most importantly, he is going to stay healthy (knock on wood). In the past four years Durant has missed a grand total of 12 games. 12!
5. Blake Griffin, PF. PPG: 22.5, RPG: 12.1, APG: 3.8, SPG: 0.8, BPG: 0.5
If there was ever a rookie who was not going to succumb to the sophomore slump, it's Blake Griffin. For one, he missed his entire actual rookie season, so really, that gem of a season that we just saw was his sophomore slump. Griffin put the league on notice last year with eye popping dunks, stat stuffed lines and Timofey Mozgov's ability to be a poster boy, and I don't see this year being any different. Griffin managed to play every single game last year and if The Clippers Curse can be held off for another year, then we are in line for much, much more of The Blake Show.
Question Time
Things begin to get a little cloudier once you're out of the top five. That's not to say that there aren't still a whole lot of guys who would merit being the number six choice, but with that group, you have to start to ask yourself questions. Can he possibly stay healthy again playing like he does? Will his new, big, fat (no pun intended) contract sap his passion and drive? Can they continue to stay amicable and co-exist in the same lineup? How will he react to the new coach and system around him? Is it even remotely possible that the log jam of players up front allows him to have a season as close to as amazing as he just had?
6. Dwyane Wade, SG. PPG: 25.5, RPG: 6.4, APG: 4.6, SPG: 1.5, BPG: 1.1
Every year it is the same question with D-Wade. Can he stay healthy playing the style of basketball that he does? After missing 31 games in 2007, Wade has only missed 14 games in the past three years, but I would say, with ease, that he has played hurt in at least 40% of the games he didn't miss. Approaching the over-ripe basketball age of 30, Wade will need to hope his battered body can hold up. With the help of LBJ, perhaps it will. If it does, and we see another predominantly healthy season from Wade, you can expect the same big numbers from one of the best SG's in the game today.
7. Zach Randolph, PF. PPG: 20.1, RPG: 12.2, APG: 2.2, SPG: 0.8, BPG: 0.3
"Grizzlies fans, please welcome, your newly minted four-year, $71 million man, Zaaaaaaaach Randolph". Do those numbers scare you too? Don't get me wrong, Z-Bo deserves every single penny of that contract for what he has done in Memphis for the past two seasons, but in the long run, the question still looms. Is this the Zach Randolph of old who got fat and lazy with his last big contract, or is this the Zach Randolph that hustled on defense, shot an incredibly high percentage and gobbled up rebounds like they were pancakes from IHOP? I know I'm rooting for the latter, and if you draft him this high, you should be too.
8. Russell Westbrook, PG. PPG: 21.9, RPG: 4.6, APG: 8.2, SPG: 1.9, BPG: 0.4
In Russell Westbrook we have a player who may ultimately make or break your season. On one hand, he is a five tool fantasy player that will give you points, rebounds, assists, steals and a high free throw percentage. On the other hand, he is a turnover machine with a low field goal percentage that seemed on the verge of fighting every single one of his teammates by himself in last year's playoffs. If Russell Westbrook can't figure out that he needs to be second banana to Kevin Durant, then you, and the OKC Thunder are in for a boat load of trouble.
9. Pau Gasol, PF-C PPG: 18.8, RPG: 10.2, APG: 3.3, SPG: 0.6, BPG: 1.6
Oh the Lakers, what do you have in store for us next season? No team has as many questions looming over it than The Lake Show. New coach. New system. Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum's knees, and well, you can never leave a guy named Metta World Peace off a list of questionable questions. If the Lakers can bring it all together under new coach Mike Brown, then you can expect another consistent season of double doubles, with a high number of assists for one of the best passing big men in the league. Pau should also be eligible for both the PF and C position in your league as well, which is a huge bonus.
10. Kevin Love, PF. PPG: 20.2, RPG: 15.2, APG: 2.5, SPG: 0.6, BPG: 0.4
I know what you're thinking, how can a big man who can shoot the three, lead the league in rebounding and score down low be ranked as low as 10th? Well, have you seen the Timberwolves roster? With the drafting of Derrick Williams, David Kahn created himself a bit of a logjam. Seeing as they already have Michael Beasley who could fit in at PF spot but is projected to start at SF, and Wesley Johnson who should be playing the SF spot but is the projected starting SG, we are in for a muddy ride. This logjam will almost certainly effect all of their numbers in a negative way and will probably lead to a trade near middle of the season. As fantasy players know, sitting on a player who isn't getting the full shine he deserves for half of a season usually spells trouble in the rankings. If you are drafting last in the round though, you will have first selection in the second round, so feel free to grab K-Love here.
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There's already tell tale signs of this one being almost forgotten if there wasn't so much reminders of how to take care of yourselfs out there. For the sake of comparison, the first time around I never missed a vitamin pill, even adding MORE. This time around, eating a vitamin is like a passing thought. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
But, to be fair, I did buy a pregnant lady-specific powder milk, just to compensate my cavalier attitude towards this pregnancy. I take milk--- fairly enough. So yay!
It's true what they say about a second pregnancy. They're almost always true, those stories. My pre-formed thoughts about raising the second one is also pointing towards fulfilling 'those stories'. You know, the one where the first one can't even go anywhere without me trailing, even almost growing eyeballs at the back of my head. And where the second one gets to pick up food from the carpet without me even batting an eyelash.
Oh no. I really really hope not.
That's why I'm doing this. To commemorate, to celebrate this pregnancy. Because somehow my body and the baby deserves it.
On to the Journal updates.
I just checked the pregnancy calendar and will you look at that.. I'm in my 3rd trimester. This pregnancy is going by too fast. I remember buying that kit yesterday and looking at daddy's annoyed face when I didn't tell him I was doing a test. Same as during Naila's turn. Yeah so I'm a bit impatient.
The same as the first pregnancy, I'm starting to feel the panic. I know I'm a bit weird... Everyone else is just excited at having a new baby. I panic. It's the feeling you get knowing final exams is tomorrow. Thinking about the long sleepless nights, the bfs. Okay relax. Another 3 months to go. I got this.
We just found out you're a boy 2 days ago and that's got me a little excited. A little boy! No wonder I had back pains. It's what people say. Back pain, boy. Hubs was like, good job baby, we've got a heir. Lol.
Baby is almost 1kg. Doctor Norshida told me to continue whatever I'm doing. I only gained 0.5kg since last month. So I'm about 57kg now. Looking at history, my babies are bound to be overdue so we don't want him to be too big. Because of the whole > baby = > pushing.
My emotions are somewhat haywire. They swing like a pendulum. One minute I feel super happy, one minute I feel depressed. We're moving soon, so that makes me really depressed.
I don't have any cravings. During my first pregnancy, I woke up a few nights thinking about cookies & cream ice-cream. Nothing like that this time around. The baby isn't angry when it's hungry, not like Naila. When I say angry, I mean kicking up a storm in the uterus.
Energy wise I'm relatively fine. I swim every week, doing a few laps. Although I did get breathless the last time so I had to stop after 2 laps. I walk alot at the park, at the mall. I was more tired in my first trimester comparatively but we'll see how it goes as we progress into the final 3-4 months.
Same as 1st pregnancy, I hate pregnancy pillows or any pillows at all. I gave away my pregnancy pillow because I never use them. Hubs really took a jab at me when I bought a RM200 huge*** pillow last time but never using it. Well how am I suppose to know that I won't like em? Everyone else swears by their pillows to get through the night! Seriously -_-
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Stampin' Up!'s product co-ordination is well known, and certainly makes it easier to choose stamps, paper and embellishments that create eye catching projects, especially if you're a doubter (like me) about what works and what doesn't!
They also have great colours to work with. But they don't just dump us in the colour wheel and let us fend for ourselves.
No sir-ee!
SU colours are all divided into families; Brights, Subtles, Regals & Neutrals. That gives us crafters a great starting point.
But then, to go one step further, they also share with us the colours that have been used in each of their packs of Designer Series Paper.
This is great for a few reasons:
the guesswork is taken away, and your colour co-ordination will be a breeze;
you get the feel for mixing colours across families;
you can identify with a particular colour family & may have a favourite;
you develop a sense of your style and "go-to" colours and;
you try colours that maybe you would've overlooked, but because they're in a pack of paper you like, you tend to experiment and venture outside your comfort zone.
Here's an example of how beautiful colours, across families are used:
The Designer Series Paper here is Floral Fusion....gojus!! And I'll tell you a secret, ssshhhhh, we're using it in our next class (Oct 10 & 12). The colours in the paper are Rose Red & Baja Breeze, both from the Subtles family. Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry & Tangerine Tango, all from the Brights family, Lucky Limeade, an In Colour, and Whisper White as the neutral.
Every sheet of paper in the pack is delicious and the floral images are fresh and contemporary.
In the current annual catalogue you will find the Designer Series Papers on pages 162-165. Under each you will see the colours listed that are used in the paper.
So why not pick out your favourite pack of paper, identify the colours and see what fabulous creations you come up with?!
If you would like even more help with your colour choices, and a little info about the science behind colour creation, you can consult our colour coach on page 151. It makes choosing colours a doddle and because they are Stampin' Up! colours you know you're on the right track.
Right, it's off to finish a project for my October classes, so I'll talk to you again soon.
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Just to let you know, we are still alive and on the face of the earth.
As you all know we started our own business. It was something that was to be coming eventually, but got started sooner than we expected. No biggie, just go with the flow.
We started out as a window cleaning service. Turns out there is one man in town that basically has the entire area wrapped up. It is either that, or the economy is so bad that no one can really afford the luxury of having their windows cleaned right now. So, we didn't give up, we decided that yards would be the thing.
Neither one of us like to do lawns, but might as well venture into uncharted waters, or lawns. And so we did.
We decided that we were going to advertise with "Welcome Friends" the local welcome wagon. The lady was so nice and just so happened to need someone to advertise to do yard work. I wasn't so sure of this, but, we got one nice hit out of it.
We got a phone call one night from a lovely lady, she asked if we did lawns and told us that she got our number from Welcome Friends. We got over there and found out that this lovely lady worked for Welcome Friends for a while and then found out that she had cancer and had to stop.
This yard was huge, still is huge. Chuck rides the rider and I push what I can get done. There is a hill, and it is my job to get the hill done. Oh lucky me!
Anyway, we get done with her yard and mention to her that the ad that we were running with Welcome Friends was free pressure washing with a summer contract. So, Chuck mentioned to her that he would be coming out to pressure wash her porch and furniture so that way she could drink her coffee outside. She was very pleased. But what made her happy was this, I heard her mention that she wanted to get the windows cleaned. Well, Chuck and I talked about it and I ran this by him, if she gets us 2 referrals I would clean her windows for her. I told her this, and she was thrilled with that. So, she is still working on people because she wants her windows cleaned. And I will hold true to my word, she will get them done as soon as we have 2 referrals.
Here it is, close to the end of April. We started this thinking that if we got 3 yards this year, we would be happy. We went out and bought a used Simplicity from the main lawn place in town.
It would have been perfect if we stayed with just the 3 yards that we had. But, all of the sudden, we grew. And I mean grew! As of now, we have 7 yards, not including our own. Now, one is just part time, very small yard. One is just one time a month, but very large, and the rest are either every 10 days to 2 weeks. So, this coming Saturday, we have 3 yards to do and windows too. UGH! I will get back to you to let you know that I survived.
This week we picked up another yard. A lady that I go to church with lost her guy from last year and wondered if we could look at it and see if we wanted it. Ok, we go out there and get started, I push, Chuck rides the mower. I don't mind as long as it is FLAT. I got all around the front, around the trees and all over the place. I did this one spot twice, behind the azalea, the first time I got through fine, the second time the branch got hung up, and the third time when Chuck mentioned for me to do it again. Although I had been through there twice, I did it once more. Yep, should have stayed where I was at. I went through, the flowered branch passed by me with a little trouble, the one that was a thick limb, well, it stretched all the way up and came flying back on my thigh. I have a welt that is multicolored right now. And it hurts like anything!
We had been talking about buying a zero turn radius mower. Now, let me explain something here. I have only mowed once on the rider, just once, and that was our own yard. I haven't been on it since. I am not the kind that gets on mowers and knows what I am doing. So, a zero turn radius mower scares me.
We had the chance to buy a commercial mower a few weeks ago. It was used, 95 hours, a $7000 mower for $3000. WOW! But I wasn't so sure of it at the time. When we did finally decide on it, we were 5 minutes too late. Oh well, live and learn.
Today we went out to Vassey's again, for like the umpteenth time. Looked at one of the mowers and then talked to the owner about anything used. Well, he had something, but we thought it was sold, since the tag said "SOLD".
Turns out this man came up from Florida, built a house on a hill, bought the zero turn radius mower, used it for 5 hours, got scared and decided he was going to trade it. Lucky us, we get there, talk to the owner, I have to drive this thing, found out it has a tow package on it, and ended up buying it for about $900 less than a new one. Ok, so this is used only 5 hours, it is new to me. Full warrenty. SOLD!
I told Chuck that we weren't gonna go home and think about this one. Because if we did, it would be gone the next day. Go home, get the trailer and load it up.
Of course I had to try and figure this thing out, I ran into the neighbors bricks going down the hill, ran into my garden and Chuck said I hit something else, not sure, but I am sure I did hit something else.
Chuck decides to let Eric drive it. Now, this thing is fast, Chuck popped a wheelie on it once. Eric gets on it, nearly ran Chuck over
Gets some instruction
And off he goes
Of course he had a blast, while PJ is inside pouting.
Chuck finally gets Eric to stop and get off the mower and gets PJ.
All I hear is laughter and mower engine running, this is what I see
So, we are doing well, staying busy, living life, loving life, enjoying the boys and each other. It is work, but it is so worth it. So, we are a little sore the next day, get over it. We are ahead of what we thought we would be. Actually, we thought we would be looking at 8 yards in August. We are looking at getting another yard from someone that I know, and giving incentive to other customers to get us referrals.
Life is busy, but at least we are having fun at it.
We are doing well, having fun, living life, enjoying the boys and
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Quick update and then some more post to follow
Just to let you know, we are still alive and on the face of the earth.
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The live export or shipment of livestock from Great Britain and Northern Ireland to other countries has come under fire in recent weeks.
The Live Animal Exports (Prohibition) Bill passed its first hurdle in parliament in October last year. A parliamentary debate on a motion to "ban the export of live farm animals in favour of a carcass-only trade and introduce this as soon as we leave the EU" will take place on 26 February.
Transportation of live animals, particularly by sea, has been a contentious issue for many years. Those reading recent media reports about over a million chickens dying every year while being transported to slaughterhouses understandably feel alarmed.
Each day, millions of birds are transported in the UK from farms to processing plants - a total of 1bn broiler chickens every year. They are moved from their comfortable spaces on the farm into crates, to be transported to the slaughterhouse. Some of these birds die in transit. This can be down to anything from heat stress to over-filled transportation crates to failure to adapt to prevailing weather conditions.
While we are talking about a very small fraction of a percentage of birds reported dead-on-arrival (DOA), four to seven birds out of a lorry load of 6,000), it is a level that the poultry sector has been striving to reduce. The sector has pushed for a revised statutory code for the welfare of birds across all of its production systems, and is developing guidance designed to improve welfare practices at the slaughterhouse.
It is important that consumers know that poultry meat businesses are working hard towards improving bird welfare during transit. The sector wants to ensure that its birds are transported in comfort and it is doing everything it can to reduce the number of birds that die.
Hauliers have looked at ways to improve airflow to dissipate heat and prevent suffocation. Some processing plants have built air-conditioned sheds where trucks can be parked which helps to prevent the build-up of heat. The sector is constantly looking for innovative solutions , including ways to redesign plants, so that large numbers of birds can be unloaded in the shortest possible time. After all, DOA is not in anyone's interest. From a business's point of view, only healthy birds have value.
It's much the same when transporting cattle, sheep or pigs, where strict regulations are already in place.
UK exports of live cattle, sheep and pigs have tripled in value over the past 5 years, to more than £21m, according to HMRC.
The market is fuelled by a desire among some religious communities for live animals for ritual slaughter, and in some cases, difficulties in rearing livestock and refrigerating meat. There is also the attraction of labelling meat according to the country it is slaughtered in - for instance Scottish lamb slaughtered in France subsequently being labelled as French lamb.
The live export of cattle and sheep forms an integral part of the Northern Ireland livestock sector, injecting in excess of £70m/year into local farm businesses.
More than 50,000 cattle and 500,000 sheep are exported live annually for further production or slaughter in other regions of the UK and to EU member states such as the Republic of Ireland and Spain.
The suggestion that movements across water should be banned, rather than all live exports, is similarly illogical as sea transit causes no welfare problems and ending it would decimate essential UK trade and devastate many island communities.
Livestock has to be transported by sea from Shetland and Orkney to mainland destinations for breeding, further fattening or slaughter. It's much the same for livestock reared on the western isles like Islay and Mull.
Even when such animals arrive in markets at the likes of Aberdeen or Stirling, they may well face long onward journeys to their final destinations in England or mainland Europe.
UK livestock hauliers are well-equipped to transport animals long distances by road with lorries that offer plenty of room, ventilation and water.
Legislation dictates that animals have to be decanted at regular intervals for inspection and rest in straw-bedded yards, before being reloaded onto their transport and continuing their journey.
While I have no reason to doubt that the welfare of animals being transported abroad by UK hauliers is of the highest standard, I do object to animals being exported live for slaughter, on the grounds that it doesn't make economic sense. After all, why should we export the value of the "fifth quarter" - hides and offal, and more importantly, why export the processing jobs involved in slaughtering the animals?


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Ron Howard says everyone is behind a new season of Arrested Development
Earlier this year, Arrested Development co-creator/co-executive producer Brian Grazer said that Netflix had placed a 17-episode order for a fifth season of the show. That news definitely bodes well for fans, even if the fourth season didn't quite live up to expectations. In case you want a bit of an update on how that's going, Ron Howard spoke with Amy Robach earlier this morning about the progress of season 5.
Ron Howard on season 5 of Arrested Development:
Well, Mitch Hurwitz the creator of the show is working with writers now," Howard informed, "Netflix is behind it, 20th Century Fox is behind it. It's hopeful. What has happened is that the cast has become so freakin' in demand and busy. Everyone wants to do it. Fans want it. I would be saddened if we didn't achieve it. I'm the announcer and the narrator, and I have to get back to that microphone.
Due to the fact that all of the actors of Arrested have moved on to other projects, the end result of season 4 was a bit disjointed in comparison to the previous seasons. Certainly unique for a season to focus on one or two characters at a time, but not something that fans are looking for going forward. I'm sure the biggest trick right now is just getting the entire ensemble together so that the chemistry will be there on the screen. Here's hoping they work something out!
Arrested Development: Season Five is currently scheduled to hit Netflix sometime in 2016.


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Matt Reeves clarifies quote about The Batman being in the DCEU
So first we hear about an 80s-set gritty Joker origin story from producer Martin Scorsese that's outside the official DCEU canon, and now we hear that Matt Reeves' upcoming THE BATMAN film (starring Ben Affleck) will also not be in the DCEU continuity. Who'd've guessed that?
Well, that's because it isn't true. Turns out that Matt Reeves' quotes were taken wrong. Here's some tweets clarifying his statement:
Jeez, what'd I miss, guys...? 😀— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) August 24, 2017
Just to be clear: Of COURSE Batman will be part of the D.C. Universe. Batman will be BATMAN...
In my comments from a while back about not being part of the DCEU, I was talking about The Batman being a story specifically about Batman...— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) August 24, 2017
...not about the others in the Universe. That it wouldn't be filled with cameos servicing other stories -- that it would be a BATMAN story.— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) August 24, 2017
🦇— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) August 24, 2017
Anyway, here's the original quote from Matt Reeves about the subject in an interview with Los Angeles radio station KCRW:
Well, I have a vision for a way to do something with that character that feels like it resonates with me personally, and a perspective that can grow out into other things. When they [Warner Bros.] approached me, what they said was 'look, it's a standalone, it's not part of the extended universe.
While many sites (including our own) misinterpreted what Reeves meant with that above quote, it makes sense in hindsight. And, regardless, that's great news! Because if there's own thing that has become a bit tedious in the MCU (and egregious in the worst of the DCEU films) are the constant nods to other films - like teasers in the middle of the film that stop the story cold. Making sure everything is standalone actually sounds refreshing. I'm even more excited now!
Meanwhile, you can next see Batman on the big-screen in the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE film November 17th!
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|Huh. Maybe that Joker origin story will turn out to be in the DCEU as well?


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In and a 'round' Westbury.. 26/05/12
We're greeted by a few familiar faces and some fine home made burgers!!!
Cafe relaxes in the Dressing room whilst affecting a very 'nightclub Bouncer' persona.. don't mess!
James is surprised again at how the PA sounds.... remarkable!
And it's Bobby Long time.. who excuses himself for not working out, as the stage revolves.
And on with the Show!
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Day 5: The Headache
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
I had gone to bed with a headache. When my SSP woke me up on
Thursday, my entire head exploded. Or at least that's how it
felt. It was a big-time, nasty, evil headache.
I was trying to dress and pack, but every little movement hurt.
When Ruby came to get me for breakfast, I snapped at her to come
back later. (So sorry, friend.) I still wasn't completely packed,
but we needed to get to breakfast.
Scott started to tease me for being late until he got a good look
at me. I've been told I didn't look good. Scott was going to give
me some Tylenol. Ruby beat him to it with some Advil. At least no
one called an ambulance.
There was so much excitement in the air about Andrew and Kelly's
wedding. They planned to marry after the bowling/mall field trip
and have their reception starting with a catered dinner. They
asked for camp donations in lieu of wedding gifts. I thought that
was wonderfully kind of them.
Unfortunately, Scott, Frank and I would be leaving after
breakfast and would miss the wedding. This was a hard decision to
make and was not meant as an insult to the bride and groom. It's
a three hour drive from camp to Scott's place. Frank made this
trip on Sunday to bring Scott to camp and on Wednesday for the
Tactile Carnival. We didn't want him to have to do it again on
Friday. So Frank spent the night, and we would leave Thursday
Because of my aching, screaming head, I wasn't in the mood for
lots of goodbyes. I told Scott I just needed to pack the bedding.
Ruby and I went to do that, while he and Frank waited. What
happened next was unexpected. It was quiet in the room, and Ruby
and I began to talk. We've been friends since 2003. We had a lot
of girl talk to catered up on.
After an hour, Scott sent someone in to check on us. At that
point, we hadn't even started. Ruby got the blankets pack, but we
weren't done chatting. The same woman came back 30 minutes later.
I felt bad for making the men wait, but it felt great to talk to
my friend in private.
We finally hit the road. My head wasn't at all happy about that.
Every bump felt like a brain mine going off.
Scott got me some Tylenol after we stopped for lunch. He is
constantly plagued by allergies, headaches and migraines. It was
a BIG bottle... and I spilled the entire thing in the car. I
tried to help clean up but knocked a bunch of pills out of
Scott's hands. Oh, boy.
I took the meds and lay back as he cleaned up the spilled pills.
I heard the "clink, clink" of pills being dropped back into the
bottle for a long time. It was a BIG bottle.
When we reached the house Scott shares with his parents and
sister, I felt 90% dead. Scott somehow managed to get me inside
and up to the guess room. I took off my shoes and braces and lay
down for a nap. Even the pillow made me head hurt more.
I woke up several hours later and felt a little better. It was
time for dinner. Camp was over and my Summer vacation had just
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Philly.com suggest that "You better hope Dredd doesn't pull you over some dark night for a broken taillight. Because this motorcycle cop dispenses justice with a strong degree of finality." Humorous as that might sound the author was somewhat serious.
The 1995 adaptation of the British sci-fi comic book series, "Judge Dredd," hits Blu-ray for the first time. Judge Dredd stars Sylvester Stallone in the title role and Armand Assante as his arch nemesis, Rico. The film suffers from cheap looking sets and costumes, as well as lazy storytelling. One of its only saving graces is a funny performance by Rob Schneider as an ex-con who quickly gets into more trouble. The rest of the film is a mess of sci-fi and comic book movie cliches that have been done to death (and much better) in tons of other films.
There's no doubt Stallone has made some real turkeys in his career. Judge Dredd may not be his worst, but I find it one of his most puzzling. Simply put, he does not fit the role at all. One thing about the character of Judge Dredd is that he is supposed to be unemotional. He only knows the law, and that is the only thing he follows. Stallone was not able to turn off the emotion in his voice, in his eyes (which are never seen in the print version), or in his overall demeanor for this film. So when another character asks him if he feels anything, it's hard to believe him when he says no. Still, it might have all worked better if the film was not so cheesy.
Perhaps Stallone was bitten by the sci-fi bug, having appeared in the far superior Demolition Man two years earlier. The plots of the two films even have some similarities. In both, Stallone plays a cop wrongly convicted of a crime who is forced to take on an escaped con whose goal is controlling the city. Unlike Demolition Man'speaceful San Angeles, Judge Dredd's Megacity is a violent, overcrowded cesspool. It is so overcrowded that there is no time for lengthy trials of the many criminals that plague the city. The "judges" have the power to arrest, try, and convict someone on the spot. It's an environment Judge Dredd thrives in. He wants nothing more in life than to uphold the law.
Dredd's attitude changes after he's framed for the murders of a prominent reporter and his wife. Dredd finds himself on the other side of the law, fighting for his innocence. Everyone turns against him except his partner Judge Hershey (Diane Lane) and Chief Justice Fargo (Max Von Sydow). Fargo stands up for Dredd, but is forced to retire in exchange for sparing Dredd's life. For reasons that are not fully explained in the film, Fargo is cast out of society for his "long walk" to the Cursed Earth, a barren and inhospitable land. Dredd finds himself being transported to prison with a group of violent criminals and Fergee (Schneider), a petty criminal Dredd had just sentenced to five years in prison.
Had Judge Dredd exploited the buddy aspect of the film between Stallone and Schneider, it might have been a better movie. The unlikely duo works well together (Schneider was also in Demolition Man, but with far more limited screen time). Schneider's main purpose in the film seems to be for comic relief (he certainly doesn't have anything to do with the actual plot), but he is a welcome presence. His imitations of Dredd and commentary on their circumstances are pretty funny. However, the film focuses more on a lame plot that has to do with corruption, genetic manipulation, and cloning. It's not very interesting, and I found myself not caring about the outcome. Armand Assante (whose first starring role was in Stallone's 1978Paradise Alley) gives an over-the-top performance as the villain Rico that comes across as more annoying than entertaining. It's not his fault. It's more that he is trying hard to do something with very thin material.
If there's anything easy to recommend about Judge Dredd, it's the Blu-ray presentation. The standard DVD release was a non-anamorphic disaster. Now the 17-year-old film looks awesome, with a 1080p transfer that truly adds depth and clarity. Having seen the old DVD several times, I was pleasantly surprised by the great level of detail, especially in the actors' faces, now visible. Black levels are deep but crush is never an issue. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack is just as impressive. The action scenes make good use of the surround channels, with gunfire zipping all around. The dialogue is always clear as a bell above the ruckus. Alan Silvestri's score (one of the film's best elements) is also well balanced between the front and surround channels.
There is one "new" special feature, a vintage featurette called "Stallone's Law: The Making of Judge Dredd" that wasn't included on the old DVD. The 20 minute piece is the standard mix of film clips, cast and crew interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. The fun aspect is that Stallone himself hosts the piece. It's funny hearing him say he's never done a film like this, consideringDemolition Man was only two years before. The only other feature is the theatrical trailer.
Judge Dredd feels like a movie aimed at 10-year-olds, but it's too violent for young kids. The story lacks interest and the performances are uninspired (except for Schneider). I can't help wishing I was watching a much better movie when sitting through Judge Dredd.
In the movies, the old saying goes, some stars wear the hat. And sometimes, the hat wears them.
Say what you want about Sylvester Stallone's kitschy 1995 turn as a futuristic comic-book judge-jury-executioner in "Judge Dredd," but the dude wore the helmet. Karl Urban replaces him in the new "Dredd," and, frankly, the helmet wears Karl.
He never takes the thing off. It closes off his performance and masks his charisma. We see only his scowling jaw and hear his hissed one-liners as he chews out rookie judge-jury-executioner (Olivia Thirlby) for forgetting to wear hers.
The movie, based on the comic-book character Judge Joseph Dredd, is set in a future in which much of America is irradiated and 800 million people are crammed into MegaCity, the concrete metropolis that stretches from Boston to Washington. Tens of thousands of people are packed into mega high-rises, and many of them live at the mercy of mega criminals.
Judges like Dredd are all that stand in the way of anarchy. They're wired-in, high-tech hunter-prosecutor-killers, men and women who solve (sort of) crimes, catch criminals and dole out punishment on the spot. The death penalty is their favorite.
There's a new drug making the rounds. There always is. It's called Slo Mo, and Ma-Ma is the drug lord who has it. Lena Headey ("300") plays her in a performance that begins and ends with the flashy scar-riddled makeup. When Dredd and judge-in-training Anderson (Thirlby) nab one of Ma-Ma's thugs (Wood Harris), you know that this means war.
The 3D in "Dredd" is used to greatest effect in slow-motion shootings, impalings and throat slashings — blood-on-the-lens stuff. The movie's nasty villain is poorly drawn, however. Headey just isn't big enough in persona, performance and presence to suggest a murderous monster who has ruthlessly slashed and intimidated her way to the top.
Thirlby is sensitive and funny when she has to be, but needs more to do. And Urban — so droll as Dr. McCoy in the "Star Trek" reboot, so sinister as Black Hat in "Priest," so worthy a foe for Bruce Willis in "Red" — is lost behind that big helmet. That help makes this mega-violent satire of MegaCity mega-boring.
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In Reply to: Re: Optrox Photomaker 3F drivers to W2k posted by Frank Mels on August 14, 2000 at 14:07:46:
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Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his most infamous invention -- a machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals - "foodimals!" Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world - again!
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The skin used on this little drum works perfectly and offers an amazing clear and warm sound, very easy and relaxing to play! (Usually DRAGONSkin on larger diameters needs a more compact frame to unfold it's wonderful qualities) This drum seems to be one of the "perfect-configuration-drums" so Christian decided to offer it as a regular model.
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Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan spends three years in pre-trial detention
Aug.9, NY: Today, the Cairo Criminal Court will review a new hearing of the case publicly knows as "Raba'a Dispersal", in which photojournalist Mahmoud Abdel-Shakour Abou Zeid, one of the recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ)'s 2016 International Press Freedom Awards, is involved. Abou Zeid has been held on remand since his arrest on 14 August 2013, when he was carrying out his work during the dispersal of sit-in staged by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Raba'a al-Adawiya Square.
Abou Zeid, also known as "Shawkan", is facing 12 different charges with penalties leading up to a possible death sentence. Most prominent of the charges are murder, attempted murder, participating in a gathering, and joining the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation declared a 'terrorist group' in July 2013.
Shawkan's case dates back to 14 August 2013, when he headed to an MB supporters' sit-in to cover the authorities' brutal dispersal of the demonstration for the Demotix agency, which he was working for at the time. Shawkan was randomly arrested together with a number of foreign journalists who were covering the incidents believing they would be on the safe side. Following their arrest, the foreign journalists were released; but Shawkan remained detained- after seizing his camera equipment- for a whole day with hundreds of people in Cairo stadium before being referred to New Cairo police department, where he was subjected to torture and mistreatment. The accusations over which he appeared before the Public Prosecution were trumped up against him, and after being subjected to interrogation without informing his lawyers, the prosecution ordered Shawkan's pretrial detention. He has been remanded in prison ever since.
Despite the fact that Shawkan has exceeded the two-year maximum period of pretrial detention determined in Article 143 of Egypt's Code of Criminal Procedure, the Public Prosecution refuses to respond to ANHRI's lawyers' demands to release him. They turned a blind eye to the implementation of the law that makes his release obligatory because of the annulment of the preventive detention order issued against him. The photojournalist was then brought to trial while he was on remand. The same matter was repeated when his lawyers submitted a memorandum to the head of the Court of Appeal demanding their client's release. Their request was disregarded.
Shawkan, who will have spent three years in pretrial detention on 14 August 2016, is suffering from [Hepatitis] Virus C and in need of medical care that is not available in Tora Prison where he is being detained. Because he hasn't been receiving proper medication on a regular basis, he will begin seeing a deterioration in his health condition.
"Pretrial detention has been used as a punitive measure and an alternative to administrative detention as well as a means to silence journalists and opinion makers. There is no evidence that may convict Shawkan, nevertheless, he has already been punished by serving three years in pretrial detention, and he is still being punished; as it is expected that the trial in which 739 defendants are prosecuted will be prolonged. Even if he was declared innocent, he has actually received punishment," stated ANHRI.
ANHRI calls for the swift implementation of law and justice. It also demands Shawkan's release, a man who has languished unjustly behind bars without being charged for three years simply for doing his job.
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Are there lessons for Northern Ireland in Bosnia?
It is a place where the consequences of bigotry and division were unspeakable.
Visitors to Srebrenica often say they find the experience hard to put into words, but they do come away with lessons and reflections.
I travelled to Bosnia with a group from Northern Ireland, on a trip organised by the charity Remembering Srebrenica.
The delegation included representatives of faith groups, community organisations, and Troubles victims.
'Visibly moved'
While acknowledging that the conflict in Bosnia was on a different scale to the Northern Ireland conflict - 100,000 were killed in the Balkan state - some of the ongoing challenges in a post-conflict society resonate.
"The war is constantly present somewhere in the background of our lives," explained Resad Trbonja, who guided the group as Remembering Srebrenica's co-ordinator in Bosnia.
He was in the Bosnian government army which defended the capital city, Sarajevo, when it was besieged by Bosnian Serb forces for almost four years from 1992 to 1995.
He says there are still those will deny the extent of the war crimes - and that is holding up healing.
When I asked him what it would take to bring about reconciliation in Bosnia, he replied: "Accept the fact, say it wasn't done in my name; acknowledge it and move on."
That theme of "acknowledgement" is one which came up repeatedly, when the visitors from Northern Ireland had discussions with Bosnians about the familiar issue of dealing with the past.
The Victims' Commissioner, Judith Thompson, said Northern Ireland was still struggling with acknowledgement.
"Recognition of pain and actually finding truth - or what's available of it - is more important than the discomfort of those people who don't want to acknowledge," she said.
She and other members of the delegation were visibly moved when Hasan Hasanovic told his harrowing story.
'Death march'
He was a survivor of the genocide in Srebrenica.
The area was designated as a UN "safe haven" and Dutch peacekeepers were charged with protecting the Muslims who fled there.
But in July 1995, Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian Serbs, and they set about killing all the men and boys.
Eight thousand were murdered.
Hasan was in a column which tried to get to safety over the mountains, but the Serb forces attacked them.
His father and twin brother did not survive what became known as the "death march".
I asked him what world should learn from Srebrenica.
"Whenever they see a problem with ordinary civilians being hurt, they should intervene and save their lives regardless of who they are," he replied.
"When there is a problem, politicians need to think about ordinary people, and not just about interests."
The Srebrenica victims were buried in mass graves.
Then, in an effort to conceal the war crime, the remains were removed to other sites - meaning bodies were dismembered, and dispersed.
The remains of Hasan's father were not found until 2003, and his twin brother's remains were not recovered until 2005.
'1,000 still missing'
The Northern Ireland group visited the laboratory run by the Missing Persons Institute where scientists examine exhumed remains to identify bodies,.
About 1,000 people remain missing and the experts say the future of the work is uncertain, as it is unclear whether funding will continue.
Most of the bodies which have been found are buried in a huge cemetery at Potocari, opposite the old factory which used to be the base for the UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica.
Visiting the graveyard was the final stage in the group's visit to Bosnia.
Denise Wright, the race relations co-ordinator for south Belfast, said the experience had made her "more determined" in her work.
She said it was frightening to think that the genocide started with "intolerance and thinking people were different".
Edwin Graham, a member of the Northern Ireland interfaith forum, said: "I think there's a massive amount we can learn in terms of the way in which it's very easy to categorise a whole group of people and demonise them."


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Private View: Friday 23 March 2018, 6.30 pm – 9 pm
Czech artist Pavel Příkaský partners with London based Miroslava Večeřová for this site-specific gallery intervention combining painting, installation and video.
Miroslava and Pavel have worked together as a collaborative duo for the past four years. Synthetically they combine the starting points of their individual approaches. Painting and drawing is at the heart of Pavel's individual practice. Miroslava works with video, photography and sculptural interventions. What connects their works are the specific installation strategies and small steps from flat image to spatial object. In their mutual affectation, materials and their surfaces explode with gradual, almost alchemic changes in their meaning. Making everything by hand to achieve an effect has become an important aspect of their practice. Relief – their first solo show in London – invites viewers into a sphere of corporeality. The intuitive, fluid installation is basically framed by the medium of painting. Medium of painting is "infecting" the character of the work´s photographic element, the nature of installation in space, to evolve into what can be regarded as a living, performing corporeal entity. It becomes a device in the process of exploring a pre-conceptual world, a way of inducing feelings, an endeavour to make real the sensation of touch: it is something that relates the cognitive body with the irrational aspect of its existence.
Their work has been exhibited in solo shows and group shows in the Czech Republic and abroad (London, Moscow, Berlin, etc.).
Pavel Příkaský (*1985)
Pavel studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in Vladimir Kokolia´s studio. He currently Lives and works in Prague. He mainly uses the medium of painting, which he blurs and obscures its boundaries using specific installation strategies, sculptural interventions and small steps from flat image to spatial object.
Miroslava Večeřová (*1985)
Miroslava studied photography at the University of the Arts in London and later at Prague´s Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (Hynek Alt´s and Aleksandra Vajd´s studio). She lives and works in both Prague and London. Whilst still a student Miroslava Večeřová captured attention with her video in which she interrupts a long static shot with an unexpected physical gesture. Both images thus started to express not only something about each other but also about the material essence of something that, thanks to advances in digital technology, we have come to consider as intangible. Her more recent photographs and videos specifically deal with natural material, corporeality, and physical contact with the surface.


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Understanding an insurance company is often an inexact science, but the conference calls can be a great way to see if executives' promises turn out to be money good for investors.
In this segment from the Industry Focus: Financials podcast, The Motley Fool's Gaby Lapera and Jordan Wathen discuss why insurance companies may be better off broken up, and why an insurer's track record is the single greatest source for understanding how good insurance companies are at measuring, forecasting, and pricing risk.
A transcript follows the video.
This podcast was recorded on April 4, 2016.
Gaby Lapera: Is it better to buy stock in a stand-alone insurance company, or in one of these mega financial institutions that do a little bit of everything, like AIG (NYSE:AIG) for example.
Jordan Wathen: That's a million dollar question. If you're going to put me on the spot, I personally would prefer to invest in a pure insurance company, because if you're taking the insurance risk I just want the insurance risk. If you look at the really big insurance companies out there, most of them, especially AIG, hasn't done particularly well recently. It's because I think personally it's very hard to run a company where you're taking so many different risks and truly understand it.
Lapera: Yeah. I don't know if you all know about this but Carl Icahn ... am I pronouncing his last name right? I think I've only ever read his name, I don't think I've ever heard his name.
Wathen: I think you're getting it right.
Lapera: Yeah. He is like this activist investor type person, except he's just one person instead of a group of people. He's taken an interest in AIG, and he really wants AIG to split up its divisions, and partially that's a good idea because that way it will dip underneath the systemically important financial institution line. But he says also that it makes business sense for them, they'll make way more money as a separate set of businesses, as opposed to this conglomeration that they have now.
Wathen: Mm-hmm (affirmative). To some extent I wonder if he might just be a little upset at management personally.
Lapera: He does.
Wathen: Because they finally have a CEO who really doesn't have any industry background, and I think it really concerns a lot of investors, for good reason. If you want a good insurance company executive, you really want someone who's familiar with underwriting and familiar with risk, so that when they see, "Here's what we're actually risking this year," they actually truthfully understand the number.
Lapera: Yeah. That's another thing of course just like any other company, insurers also have management that you have to look into. It's really interesting, because I feel like with a lot of the technology companies or consumer goods companies, they have super dynamic CEOs and you know a lot about them, but with insurance companies and banks and BDCs, there's not really ever a ton of information on managers. It's like, "They went to Harvard and graduated in '89."
Wathen: You're right, they studied engineering, they went to Harvard and then they became a financial industry executive. I just wrote 95% of insurance or financial people's background.
Lapera: Yeah. It's like I don't know whether or not I should trust this guy. In order to do that you look at their track record. The other thing I really like to do is read conference call transcripts, because I think that you can get a sense of whether or not people are being honest and forthright via what they say. I know that's a nebulous thing to quantify, it's just a gut feeling whether or not you trust these people. But besides track record that's all you can really do.
Wathen: Right. Progressive (NYSE:PGR) usually has a really clear conference call. They're very plain and open about what they're looking for. They'll straight up say, "We're shooting for this underwriting margin and we think we can grow by doing this," for example. That's something they've done recently, targeted a lower, or a higher combined ratio rather, getting back to how that's confusing, a higher combined ratio but also growing the top line. Over time you'll see, especially with property and casualty, car insurance, things like that, you can figure out really quickly if they're a good company at underwriting or not, because those policies expire within a year, so either you nailed it or you didn't.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2018
5150 Campaign – S4f – Convoy Run
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Well we certainly know we've been in a fight. Looks like Ajax and Exeter are going to collide - hopefully it's just parallax and they will slide past each other.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure if I like playing chicken with the mother ship. Looks like we need to target the millennium falcon.
Exciting game report- well done.Replies
Yes it was a good dodge on your behalf. Got you nice and close to the fight thought but then Warspite stole your glory.Delete
Whilst we haven't technically lost any ships or fighters yet, there's too much damage piling up. It's going to be tough to avoid any fatalities...ReplyDeleteReplies
It might end up being a pyrrhic victory if we're not careful. At first it doesn't seem like it but after a while the damage does piles up doesn't it. The damaged ships (and their pilots) are sometimes unrecoverable too.....Delete
It's perhaps just as well that in space, no-one can hear you scream!ReplyDelete
There's plenty of action going on, and you're doing a cracking job with the write-up :-)Replies
Thanks for that. I think the fact that it's a campaign and the attritional nature of it really adds a level of drama to the game for me. I'm really feeling the loss of the forces and the reduced capability of the fleet and I know I'm going to have to make some tough decisions after this engagement as to how hard to press on.Delete
That X wing caused some damage before being taken out!ReplyDelete


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This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Luck and a storekeeper's camera phone were in play when Robb Kendrick made a new picture of two Mennonite brothers he had photographed 29 years earlier. Looking to capture the toll of last year's severe drought in his home state of Texas, he remembered Seminole, an agricultural community he had visited as a junior in college. "I like photographing people with hard jobs," Kendrick says. Gerhard and Peter Neustaeter, both cotton farmers, lost their entire crop in 2011. Reunited, the trio caught up on life. —Luna Shyr
Behind the Lens
Q: How did the brothers cope with the 2011 Texas drought?
A: Gerhard [at left in both photos] and Peter are like many farmers—they have a lot of faith that next year's going to be better. If you're a farmer, you have to constantly be optimistic. Last year was rough, but crop insurance helped, plus that farmers' ability to put so much hard work into something they're not in control of. Also Mennonites are very pragmatic people. They don't cry over spilled milk.
Q: How did you find them again nearly 30 years later?
A: It was a real shot in the dark, but I went into a Mennonite farm-supply store with the original photo I took of them. The store owner took a picture of the picture with his phone and emailed it to the community. Within 15 minutes one of the brothers showed up.
Q: And you went back to their town because ...
A: For this assignment I wanted to visit places I had a connection to. In college I passed through Seminole on my way home to visit my folks. Gerhard and Peter were 13 and 12 years old back then. We had a good time catching up—Peter said we should do it again in another 29 years.


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A wander around London. First stop, the London Eye.
The day started out cool and cloudy, and grew to windy and wet.
After buying tickets we were forced to endure a 10 minute advertisement on how Good the London Eye is, which was filmed in really poorly done 3D. I had to wear the 3D glasses over my glasses. I did not enjoy it as much as I would enjoy, say, 10 minutes on the engineering of the thing.
While enduring that, the weather turned really crappy and we queued in the wet and wind.
And so finally we were in a Gondola and going around. The views of London are rather good, even through rain-speckled acrylic.
"The flat above the shop." Buckingham Palace
Central London after rain
St Paul's.
Embankment Station, the Post Office Tower, and on the horizon, Wembley.
Looking down on the Thames from the top of the arc.
Have a panorama. Click on the image for a full-sized one.
After The Eye, Aaron and I went for a wander towards Buckingham Palace. Photos in the next post.
Den's Journal
Stories by a short, fat bastard
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Huh. I was dimly aware of a ferris wheel in iconic pictures of London, but somehow it never occurred to me that it would be so significant that I should know its name... and it may have given me a misconception of what Piccadilly Circus was.
Piccadilly Circus is merely a large intersection with lots of neon. The Eye is another beast altogether.
Ah, I know that design, they just Supersized a standard modern Ferris Wheel design - the only difference being the wire rope cable spokes rather than solid.
The whole thing is driven from 4 huge gearmotors near the bottom with truck tires on the Grit Paint traction rings, right?
The whole thing is driven from 4 huge gearmotors near the bottom with truck tires on the Grit Paint traction rings, right?
Those wire ropes are a good 3" diametre, or more.
It is driven as you say. The hub is just a very large bearing.
It is driven as you say. The hub is just a very large bearing.


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What are you writing for NaNoWriMo? Briefly explain how this book idea come about. Then write a mock first page for the novel.
I am going to announce this right now. I am not doing NaNo. Sorry. You should know from here that I cannot write novels. (Sorry if the link ends up somewhat messed up-I am using a different method to write this.) But anyways.
I had a really great dream the other night. I don't remember mich of i now, but it was two creatures (I was one) and we were trying to save this other creature from the wrath of the monster. We lived behind a shopping cart. I got more ideas for the short story I am currently writing from there. To think about it, I get a lot of my ideas from dreams.
Right now, the short story is entitled "The Memory Society" and here's my blurb or whatever you call it.
Fourteen-year-old Meli lives in the futuristic world of The Society. The Society can be kind, and usually is. However, each member must go to the Society's headquaters to do 'something'. Nobody knows what it is, except for a few high-ranking officials. When Meli is taken to the headquarters, she is abandoned somewhere. She finds a mysterious note reading, 'Memory distraction sucess. Get every society member before the' and a tear leaves the rest of the note gone. Puzzled by the note, Meli escapes with the note. As she combs the streets of the Society, she realizes the Society is on the brink of civil war and destruction. Unfortunately for Meli, the Society doesn't want her to find the truth-they want Meli dead. Here is the extraordinary story of a girl out to save her world.
Helpful critiques are welcomed on that.
Aaaanyways, that's pretty much the basic premise of the story……so far. I may change it, as sometimes I write a short story-only to discover that it already mirrors another, published story. It was depressing when that happened the first time.
Some of the other characters in this story are Ivan, who's going to be somebody whom I haven't figured out yet. There's Rosalie, Meli's little sister. Jennalyn, Meli's neighbor who first teaches Meli about going to the Society's headquarters. Member0H412, aka Humpfrey, works for the Society. And the Society Leader, who is the villian, well, main villian. You'll see there will be more than one.
I plan to publish this short story on my blog when it's done, maybe submit it to The Trivial Typewriter.
Now you are probably wondering what, exactly happened to my mock first page. Alas, I don't have one. (Yes! I finally used 'alas' in a blog post!)
Why? The trouble with beginnings is, they're the beginning. Beginnings stress me out because it's got to be interesting or the reader won't want to read it! This is why I like the middle the best.
So what do you think of my blurb? And unwritten story/first page/idea/whatever?
If you want to read a great first page, why not check out the rest of the chain?
October 5th – http://www.lilyjenness.blogspot.com – Lily's Notes in the Margins
October 6th – http://realityisimaginary.blogspot.com – Reality Is Imaginary
October 7th – http://onelifeglory.blogspot.ca – One Life Story
October 8th – http://gabrielletheauthoress.wordpress.com – Of a Writerly Sort
October 9th – http://towerofplot.blogspot.co.uk – The Leaning Tower of Plot
October 10th – http://insideliamsbrain.wordpress.com – This Page Intentionally Left Blank
October 11th – http://whatupdates.blogspot.com – What Updates?
October 12th – http://miriamjoywrites.wordpress.com – Miriam Joy Writes
October 13th – http://cinderscoria.blogspot.com – Between the Lines
October 14th – https://weirdalocity.wordpress.com – Inside the Junk Drawer (Today!)
October 15th – http://musingsfromnevillesnavel.wordpress.com – Musings From Neville's Navel
October 16th – http://kirstenwrites.wordpress.com – Kirsten Writes!
October 17th – http://mirrormadeofwords.wordpress.com – A Mirror Made of Words
October 18th – http://theteenagewriter.wordpress.com – The Teenage Writer
October 19th – http://platonicpencil.wordpress.com – Platonic Pencil
October 20th – http://markobrienwrites.blogspot.com – Mark O'Brien Writes
October 21st – http://amandafoody.blogspot.com – It's All In My Head
October 22nd – http://incessantdroningofaboredwriter.wordpress.com – The Incessant Droning of a Bored Writer
October 23rd – http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com – Teens Can Write, Too! (We will be announcing the topic for next month's chain)
P.S. To my usual readers-I have been taking a much-needed hiatus from blogging. But don't worry! I'll be back soon with more of my nerdy awesomeness! 😀
Edit: This was published a day early due to my being not sure that yesterday was the 14th or not. I hope you liked it anyways.


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Property owner John Meehan can demolish a house on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach that has fallen into disrepair and build anew.
The California Coastal Commission sided with previous Design Review and City Council determinations that the single-family house at 31381 Coast Hwy., referred to as Stonehenge, had not maintained its historical integrity and unanimously denied an appeal by preservationist groups South Laguna Civic Assn. and Village Laguna at a hearing in Long Beach last week.
"[Commissioners] agreed with the position we've taken all along, that this house was not the house built in [the 1920s]," Meehan's attorney, Larry Nokes, said of the 12-0 vote.
Commissioners agreed with the agency staff's recommendation that the residence, which also includes a guest house, detached two-car garage and beach access stairs, has lost its architectural integrity and is not historically significant, the staff report said.
The house, listed on the city's historic inventory, endured several remodels through various owners before Meehan purchased the property in 2011, and no longer depicts the original structure, Nokes said.


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…will be back to try again later! That isn't how that the old saw normally ends, but here lately that feels like the core truth – we may get stronger after a particular adventure, but we are not finished! Let me build that out a little.
Yesterday Karen went for her second chemo treatment, and so today we know the side effects will be on display. (That interview I promised with her is in the works, hope to have it later today.) Her first round taught us much, and overall she came through like a trooper…but now she is facing it again, and she knows it will be back at least twice more in this stage, and then weekly starting in November. I am concerned, not so much about her body (the doctors are well qualified to maintain her physical health) but about her spirit. I know from experience how frustrating it can be to want to do things and be too sick to do them; but when the treatment makes you sicker than the disease, it can really screw with your interior logic, and doubt finds a foothold. It can get hard to believe that the outcome is worth all the pain…that there is any purpose which justifies all that we are going through. Sometimes it can even appear that we'd be better off just letting the sickness run its course, and dealing with it later on, when we are "stronger". That of course is dead-end logic, because problems almost never get better by themselves. In physics, the word "entropy" describes the idea that the universe cannot sustain itself, and that eventually decay and loss robs the system of energy, bringing it to a stop. William Butler Yeats expressed it perfectly:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
"The Second Coming"
The poet is inspired by the devastation of war, but cancer is a war too, fought on the most precious of home fronts – our very own bodies – and a survey of that battlefield can be even more disheartening. We ponder over what remains after destructive forces which are supposed to "save" us have spent their fury…and we despair, "Is it really worth all this?"
Beyond the body, there is an unseen battlefield: that of the spirit. As Christians we are told the spiritual battle is the most important, the one with eternal consequences, and therefore we are best prepared when we avail ourselves of the protections heaven offers…the armor of God. There is a reason we need such mighty protection – it's not a one-time fight! We will be assailed again and again, simply because we choose to remain faithful. Jesus tells us many times that this is to be expected; one of my favorite instances occurs in Revelation, when Jesus tells the church in Smyrna that He knows about their sufferings, but relax – it's going to get worse! And then He reminds them of the reason we endure…because the reward is worth the pain it costs to get there.
Cancer hurts, and it kills. Curing it appears to hurt worse, but Karen's prognosis on the other side makes the cost worth bearing, we believe. In the same way, sin hurts, and it kills. Once we turn away from sin, seeking the cure of forgiveness in Christ, life can seem to hurt worse than the sin did. But we have a glorious prognosis on the other side of this life, and we believe that makes all we have to suffer to get there worth every step.
Following hard after Him,


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Conference on Improving Ambulatory Health Care Delivery (1976 : Henniker, N.H.).
Improving ambulatory health-care delivery.
Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1977
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Gail S Lasdon; Engineering Foundation (U.S.). Engineering Foundation Conference.
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|Proceedings of the conference held June 27-July 2, 1976, and sponsored by the Engineering Foundation, Engineering Foundation Conferences.
|ix, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
|Introduction / Gail S. Lasdon --
Part I. Manpower and technology alternatives to increase availability --
Nurses as providers of ambulatory care / Cynthia B. Dutton --
Bi-directional television to satellite clinics / Jon D. Wempner --
Analysis of ambulatory-care staffing using management science models / Kerry E. Kilpatrick --
Part II. Quality assessment --
Developing a quality-assurance strategy for primary care / Francis A. Appel and Alvin I. Mushlin --
Monitoring ambulatory-care quality with limited technologic resources / Peter Sigmann --
Protocols and quality assurance / Theodore M. Pass --
Part III. Cost analysis --
Cost analysis of outpatient care and its implications Stephen D. Roberts --
Comparing the cost of delivery alternatives using patient outcome as a measure of effectiveness / Gail S. Lasdon --
Part IV. Regional planning --
Models for health manpower planning / Kerry E. Kilpatrick --
Part V. Patient-oriented care --
A humanistic approach to primary care : a personal account / Samuel Putnam --
Evaluation of efforts to improve provider-patient interaction in a city hospital outpatient department / Michael M. Stewart --
Part VI. The administrator's perspective --
Issues in ambulatory care / William D. Barry.
|edited by Gail S. Lasdon.
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Green Berets (1968)
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Directed by: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Starring: Aldo Ray, David Janssen, Jim Hutton
Other mistake: After one of Col. Kirby's soldiers has been killed he takes the dead soldier's M-16 and smashes it against a tree. Instead of a magazine the rifle has a plastic sound box, because the 'rifle' is really a toy made by Mattel.
Other mistake: When Kirby and the Sarge are in the helicopter during the big battle scene, when Kirby talks to Kowalski, you can see that Kirby's mouth is not matching what he says. Look closely because his hand blocks his mouth.
Other mistake: When Peterson is walking and gets caught in the trap, when he flies and hits the sharp needle bed, you can see clearly that the right one of them bends like rubber.
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