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YamahaThe Yamaha Corporation is a world leader in the manufacturing of pro-audio equipment. Yamaha products are top sellers at Musik Produktiv; these top quality products offer a great value for their money.
Founded in Hamamatsu, Japan by Torakusu Yamaha in 1887, the company has always been music orientated, thus, signified by the 3 tuning forks in the company logo. Originally Torakusu had been working as an instrument conservator, but started making own organs by 1889. In 1897 the Nippon Gakki Co. Ltd was founded, Torakusu became president.
In 1990 Yamaha started the production of pianos, two years later the first Grand's were built. The first international attention was gained in 1904 when the company won the Honory Grand Prize for Pianos and Harmonies at the St. Louis World's Fair. In 1914 the first Yamaha Harmonika was made. In 1922 Yamaha started to produce gramophones. In 1930 Yamaha opened the first ever acoustic lab and in 1942 the first acoustic guitar was made.
11 years later Yamaha expanded outside of Asia. In 1959 the Yamaha Technical Laboratories were set up. In the same year the first electronic instrument, the E-Organ was launched. In 1960 the first American office was opened. In 1965 wind instruments were added to the range, only a year later the company opened it´s first European office in Germany and started distributing guitars and drums.
In 1968 Yamaha introduced it´s first Hi-Fi-stereo equipment. In 1974 the portfolio was extended with speakers (Yamaha NS1000M), synthesizers (Yamaha CSY-1) and mixers (Yamaha PM-1000). In 1982 Yamaha made the first CD-players and the first disklavier. One year later Yamaha introduced the first FM synthesis based synthesizer, the Yamaha DX7, over 160.000 units were sold and it´s sound had a huge impact on the music of the 80´s. Since 1987 (the 100th anniversary of Yamaha) the official company name is YAMAHA CORPORATION.
In 1989 Yamaha introduced the first CD-Recorder. Yamaha was acquiring many small music instrument manufacturers at that time and even buying large shares of larger companies. Since 1993 Yamaha holds the majority of KORG shares, but KORG stayed an independent company with individual products. In 2004 the Stagea a further electronic organ was introduced and the famous music software company Steinberg was acquired. Here is a small range of the best known Yamaha products : Yamaha DX7-Serie (synthesizer), Yamaha PSR-D1, Yamaha SY77, Yamaha SY99, Yamaha Tyros-series (belongs to the PSR-series) (keyboards), Yamaha Clavinova-series, Yamaha PSR-series (Keyboards) and Yamaha Motif-series.


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Get the history right
Marcus Smith's article about OLLI was interesting, but the idea for SOLIR came from Sonny and Doris Klein from UCLA. They brought the idea to "SOU officials" who passed the "buck" to Meredith Reynolds, who contacted Art Kreisman, who got the ball rolling. Years ago, I read that "history" by the third generation is 60 percent hearsay. Let's get this part of the article right.
Al Scott, Ashland
Education alone won't do
In assessing the parlous state of American society today and emphasizing the social barriers that all poor Americans, and black Americans especially, face today as they have for so many centuries, Chris Honoré performs a great public service and offers valuable directions on what steps American society and our politics need to take to finally allow a decent life for all Americans.
Education, as Honoré emphasizes, is one key element in that solution. But there are other social resources that must accompany, and even precede, education as part of a solution. In a recent New York Times Op-Ed ("Is a Hard Life Inherited?", Aug. 9, 2014) Nicholas Kristof pointed out that America's successful people did not succeed "just because of hard work and intelligence." Rather, "Their big break came whey they were conceived in middle-class American families who loved them, read them stories, and nurtured them with Little League sports, library cards and music lessons. The were programmed for success by the time they were zygotes." (Yes, "zygotes" — look it up!)
Chris Honore, like Nicholas Kristof, is calling upon Americans to look with empathy upon all of our fellow citizens and, indeed, on all people, and then to set up a society in which all families thrive, with lifelong education and health care and social stability in a social world wherein all zygotes thrive. While time remains for us in this "Anthropocene Age," we must make the decision to achieve that worthy goal.
Gerald Cavanaugh, Ashland
More planters for the Plaza
The worst thing about the Plaza pavers is not that they are gray, but that they have replaced trees, so now they soak up the scorching sunlight all summer.
Just around the corner on Winburn Way (opposite Sesame Asian Kitchen) there are beautiful architectural planters that could be a model for giving the Plaza what it needs most: greenery, shade, and seating. Planters like these could immediately elevate newly planted trees to shade more of the Plaza; at the same time their height would protect other plantings from being trampled. These planters have margins broad enough for seating, as well inset wooden benches with backs. Installing several of these large planters would transform the "Go Away" Plaza to a green, welcoming space. This would be much more beneficial than replacing the pavers.
On a larger scale, making the area a pedestrian mall would improve downtown for everyone. If New York City can, why can't Ashland? Watch this TED talk by Mayor Bloomsberg's transportation commissioner, Janett Sadik-Khan: "New York's streets? Not so mean any more." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LujWrkYsl64
Frances Dunham, Ashland

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Re: Range cubes
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You are quite right and that's what has been said. Great as a protein supplement but not full feed.TexasBred wrote:Actually for most beef operations it contains too much crude protein unless limit fed and should be fed as a mix with grass hay. No need wasting all that good protein by allowing it to end up on the ground without being utilized. The cow needs that roughage part of it as much if not more than she needs the high protein.Faster horses wrote:FH:
"alfalfa hay is the finest feed source in the state of Montana--and--Hell--it ain't even named right! It ain't hay--it's protein supplement."
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Release Year: 1988
Country: France
Starring: Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Catherine Chevallier, Georges Wilson, Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Ducos, Christine Paris, Zaira Benbabis, Claude Degliame, Olivier Cruveiller, Jean-Pierre Jorris, Dominique Maurin, Jean-Jacques Scheffer, Jean Saudray, Frederic Witta, Philippe Noel, Philippe Duclos, Joel Barbouth, Michel Charrel, Roland Lacoste
Screenplay: Raphael Cluzel, Rene Laloux
Director: Rene Laloux
Born as I was in the early days of the 1970s, I am by law required to identify myself as part of the Star Wars generation. And to some degree I suppose that's accurate. I'm not going to try and retcon myself into some cool iconoclast who hated Star Wars when he was five years old. I loved it. Saw it in the theaters, saw it at the drive-in, saw it more times than I care to count at my friend's house when it finally came out on VHS. But Star Wars was not the sole reflection of my science fiction tastes. I started in on sci-fi at a very young age, exposed pre-concrete-memories to a lot of trippy hippy sci-fi freaks — the benefits of growing up with parents who were still in college. Neither of my parents were full-on hippies. My mom was a bookworm with hippy tendencies but too much anger, and my dad was basically one of those easy-going jock stoner types with a taste for Uriah Heep.
So I was around a lot of college weirdos, some of whom helped invent stuff like Dungeons & Dragons, and some of whom played football or were on the swim team back from that strange era when even athletes had long hair and Fu Manchu mustaches and lava lamps. I was a kid obsessed with comic books superheroes, robots, ray guns, and Ultraman. I "read" a lot of old sci-fi comics as well, or read them as much as any three-year-old can, which is to say I looked at them and drooled. But I guess the crazy covers and artwork were the sort of colorful eye-candy to me that Teletubbies or Yo Gabba are to modern children. All things considered, I prefer my version. This is going to be a long and winding road folks, full of memories that are only vaguely related to the film about which I'm actually supposed to be talking, so pour yourself a bourbon and relax.
The 1960s saw the emergence of a science fiction "new wave," a host of fans, authors, and film makers who were taking the loosely defined genre far beyond where it had been before. By that decade, the concept of science fiction fandom as an organized population was really beginning to emerge. Fans of science fiction were becoming creators of science fiction, and the psychedelic imagery and anti-authoritarian sentiments of the counter culture were increasingly pervasive in new works of science fiction. As the '60s became the 1970s, the science fiction new wave mingled with yet another new crop of fans and creators, resulting in the sprawling, often surreal style of science fiction that was my earliest exposure to the genre. While I was too young to actually grasp much of what was being said and done, the aesthetic of that era buried itself into my childhood subconscious, emerging years later to color my tastes and influences. Those early years were ones of impressions more than remembrances, if that makes sense. I recall a general sort of ambiance and style, but very little in the way of details. When I was old enough, I began deciphering and revisiting those impressions, and I was finally able to start exploring my obsession with the more outre, bizarre, and phantasmagorical examples of science fiction.
By the time Star Wars rolled around, I already had a firm footing in the more speculative side of science fiction. So while Star Wars dazzled me, it didn't lure me away from slower, more idea-driven science fiction. I still loved movies like Silent Running. And hell, I'm pretty sure I actually like Logan's Run more than Star Wars — but that could have a lot to do with Jenny Agutter's diaphanous mini-tunic. Even a six-year-old can recognize the positive aspects of Jenny Agutter. Around the same time, I was spending a lot of time with my mom at this big bookstore near Louisville called Hawley-Cooke. It was like a Barnes & Noble size bookstore back before anyone had ever heard of Barnes & Noble. I would camp out there in either the science fiction section or the magazine racks. One day, as I was flipping through the latest issue of Starlog or Omni or something, I happen to glance up and see the cover of a magazine a little bit higher up on the shelves. It was an illustration of a topless woman in a slinky loincloth, doing what I've since come to refer to as "the wizard finger." She was standing next to a sabertooth tiger and above her was a fantastic space scene. The magazine was called Heavy Metal, and I knew than and there that I had to have it.
There was just one problem: the breasts. By 1979, budding gadabout that I was, I'd already developed a healthy appreciation for nudity, but I also knew that convincing anyone that a magazine cover like that could contain anything within that was appropriate for a seven-year-old would be problematic. Why to merely get caught glancing at it would no doubt bring down the wrath of old biddies and disappointed store clerks with well-trimmed beards and wire-rimmed glasses. To say nothing of what my mother might say (by 1979, her freewheelin' days of being a hippy intellectual were behind her). But it was obvious from that cover that this taboo Heavy Metal contained untold wonders meant specifically for me and me alone.
And so it was that I devised a technique that would serve me and countless other shifty-eyed children for years. I glanced around to make sure the coast was clear and no one was watching. When the chance came, I stood on my tip-toes propped up on the first tier of the magazine shelves, and grabbed the issue of Heavy Metal, quickly sliding it inside a copy of a different magazine. Shaking with the pressure of having committed such a crime — I was pretty sure you could go to jail for it — I stumbled off to a more remote corner of the sprawling store and, with it disguised by another more innocent magazine, opened my first issue of Heavy Metal.
Back to the early 1970s for a moment. Actually, let's turn the clock back even further. In 1959, two French comics writers, Rene Goscinny and Jean-Michel Charlier, and two artists, Albert Uderzo and Jean Hebrard, founded a comics magazine called Pilote. It featured stories from across the spectrum of typical pulp genres, including science fiction. The magazine's initial popularity was built upon the foundation of a series called Asterix le Gaulois, being the story of a village of Gauls resisting Roman occupation. The magazine's content expanded over the years, and in 1967, it launched one of its most successful science fiction series, writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres' Valerian et Laureline.
This was the era of truly fantastic European comic book adventures, with creations like Barbarella, Modesty Blaise, and Diabolik tearing up the pages while, in America, we were still saddled with the overly cheery and goofball comics that resulted from the fallout of the Comics Code Authority. Eventually though, some of Pilote's stable of young sci-fi authors and artists felt that the magazine was too restrictive, and that the stories they wanted to tell were too dark or adult in nature to fit within the pages of the largely kid-friendly (by European standards) publication. Pilote made some attempts to change with the times, but it was never enough of a leap forward to keep this group satisfied. And so in 1974, contributors Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and a guy named Jean Giraud but better known simply as Moebius, left Pilote and founded the publishing house Les Humanoides Associes. In 1975, they published their first book, a sci-fi and fantasy comic magazine called Metal Hurlant.
Metal Hurlant allowed the authors and artists to explore whatever extreme tickled their fancy, which meant frequent nudity and irreverent material. It gained a substantial readership and became an incubator for many of the great science fiction comic artists and writers, including not just co-founder Moebius, but also Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known as the film maker behind El Topo, Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre) and Enki Bilal, whose Nikopol series served as the basis for the ambitious but ultimately disappointing sci-fi film Immortel AD VITAM. Shortly after Metal Hurlant's launch, the publisher of The National Lampoon in the United States — then considered on the very cutting edge of published comedy and satire — was looking for new material to add to the portfolio. In the slush pile of hopefuls was a copy of Metal Hurlant that attracted more attention than the other submissions. While in France looking to license a French language version of The National Lampoon, publisher Len Mogel met with the minds behind Les Humanoides Associes. The result of the meeting was the licensing of Metal Hurlant for distribution in the United States, under the translated title Heavy Metal.
Beneath the obvious shock aspects, Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal really plumbed the farthest reaches of the imagination of the creators' and their ability to dream up bizarre alien worlds and societies. Sometimes they were silly. Frequently they were childish. But every now and then they were also absolutely wondrous. Unfettered by the budgetary restrictions one would face trying to create vast and psychedelic alien landscapes in film, comic artists could really go batshit insane.
Over the years, when opportunity allowed, I would sneak whatever peeks I could at Heavy Metal, both for the expansive imagination as well as, admittedly, the titillation. It wasn't until I was sixteen and able to venture out on my own that I bought my first issue — Fall 1988, featuring among other things my first exposure to the artwork of Italian erotica cartoonist Guido Crepax. That was a stressful purchase, let me tell you. What if the clerk, a dour looking older woman, knew what I was trying to buy? What if she happen to flip through it directly to something like the illustration of Crepax' Valentina nude and straddling a chair? With trembling hand I decided to go for it, consequences be damned, and when my purchase went through without a hitch I sprinted with glee to my car, vowing to start buying all sorts of dirty stuff. it's one of the only goals of my youth I actually fulfilled.
Around that same time, I was ingesting a steady diet of Night Flight, the late-night weekend compilation show that used to air on The USA Network and about which I've told countless stories on this site and elsewhere. Usually, though, it's a framework for the day I discovered punk rock thanks to their fondness for Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains videos, but also because part of the programming was to air a feature film or two, and that's when I saw Another State of Mind — a documentary about punk bands Youth Brigade, Social Distortion, and to a slightly lesser extent, Minor Threat. But that was hardly the only favor the all-night-long programming block offered me. They played experimental shorts and weird feature length films. One night, near the tail-end of their seemingly endless (which was welcome) night of putting bizarre stuff on the television screen in our basement, I caught the animated French science fiction film Fantastic Planet.
It was a mind-bender of a movie, obvious even in my semi-rural informational vacuum as a product of the same school of freaky sci-fi thought that birthed Heavy Metal. I was absolutely mesmerized by the film, the combination of late hour and lack of sleep making it even more amazing to me. I wouldn't feel that way about a film again until, decades later and during my first few weeks living in New York, I stumbled across a four in the morning airing of Adieu, Galaxy Express on the Cartoon Network. Not having the research capabilities (read: Google) at my fingertips then that I do now, I didn't know anything about Fantastic Planet beyond what I could read in its credits, and that was restricted mostly to knowing that it was directed by a guy named Rene Laloux and drawn by someone named Roland Topor. I didn't know a thing about either of them at the time.
What I did know was that Fantastic Planet was exactly the sort of science fiction I craved. It perfectly captured the astounding strangeness of some of the best Heavy Metal had to offer — even though it actually predated the founding of the magazine by a couple years. It was tapping into the same zeitgeist. In time, I discovered that director Rene Laloux had worked with Moebius himself in 1981 on a film called Les Maitres du Temps. Like Fantastic Planet, it was a very Heavy Metal style of science fiction, only without all the nakedness. And then, just around the same time I was finally tapping into all this, I read an article about Laloux's most recent film, 1988's Gandahar, which I knew by reference as Light Years — and hooray! Finally my verbose preamble about Heavy Metal is tied directly into the film I'm going to review.
Laloux began his professional career working in a psychiatric hospital. It was there that he developed an interest in film making and worked on short film projects with some of the patients. The notoriety the work attained soon brought Laloux into contact with adherents and founders of the school of art known as The Panic Movement, including writer Roland Topor and director/artist Alejandro Jodorowsky. Laloux and Topor collaborated on a number of short film projects before taking on the ambitious Fantastic Planet feature film. After the success of that film, Laloux began talking with artists Moebius and Phillippe Caza about doing an adaptation of Jean-Pierre Andravon's novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar. Unfortunately, schedules and funding never meshed, and so the project didn't gel. When Moebius and Laloux worked together on Les Maitres du Temps, talk of Gandahar continued but still nothing came together. It wasn't until 1988 that Laloux got an offer that made the film possible — and that offer came from North Korea.
Gandahar was the last of Laloux's three feature films, all of which can be seen in a way to be part of a trilogy despite not having connected stories. All of them — La Planete Sauvage, Les Maitres du Temps, and Gandahar — deal with similar themes of oppression, free will, and time travel. Each of them showcases a unique but similar surreal artwork. And each of them approaches science fiction in a poetic way, where imagination and the fantastic is more important than scientific plausibility. Of the three, La Planete Sauvage is the best known and most critically praised. Les Maitres du Temps had its day in the sun, thanks in no small part to the fact that its English language script was authored by none other than Isaac Asimov; to say nothing of the fact that Moebius was the film's art director. And Gandahar — well, poor ol' Gandahar is probably the most epic in scope but also the least known of the trio. In some regards, its comparative obscurity is perhaps warranted. But for me, it's still an example of what science fiction can be when it unfetters itself from convention and concentrates on trying to bring you something thought-provoking and strange, if not also just a little bit corny.
We begin on a typically idyllic planet where all the plants are pink and weird and all the people are sexy, blue, and naked, spending their care-free days playing the flute and collecting giant berries. The usual utopian Eloi sort of nonsense. Just when it looks like this flutey little berry pickin' trip is going to get wild, suddenly everyone gets blasted with glowing pink lasers that turn them into stone. Apparently, this has been happening all over the planet Gandahar, and it's up to the ruling body to figure out what the heck is going on. To accomplish that, the planet's benevolent, wing-headed matriarch, Ambisextra (voiced by Anny Duperey), dispatches lithe young warrior Sylvain (voiced by Pierre-Marie Escourrou — holy crap! A Zombie Lake alumnus!) — who perhaps proves why this is a matriarchal society since the first thing he does is fall asleep while cruising around the sky on his sweet chrome robo-pteranodon and crash.
He's rescued by a tribe of deformed mutants, outcasts from Gandahar's so-called perfect world. Yet they harbor no ill will toward the privileged Sylvain, even inviting him back to their giant cave home where you'll notice that most of the men are mutated in ways that make them have feet growing out of their eye sockets and whatnot, where as most of the women are mutated in a way that gives them a couple extra breasts. Sylvain also discovers that the mutants are possessed of a sort of psychic foresight that has, in the typically convoluted language of Prophecy, told them that a thousand years ago Gandahar was destroyed, and a thousand years from now it will be saved from that destruction. Or was it the other way around? Yeah, the other way around. Goddamn prophecies.
Whatever the case, the mutants may not be the perfect blue supermodels the rest of the planet is, but that hasn't spared them the wrath of whatever is turning people to stone. So Sylvain and his new mutant buddy head off to the big Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind lookin' forest to continue the quest. And once again, Sylvain proves maybe he wasn't the best choice. In a society of seemingly highly competent, statuesque Amazonian women, maybe they should not have left the fate of the world in the hands of a bumbling Ziggy Stardust cosplayer.
Sylvain and his chum happen upon a grove full of Gandaharians who have been turned to stone, and they do so right as the things responsible for the attacks arrive to collect the fruits of their labor. It turns out people are being turned to stones by an army of metal men, robots with glowing red eyes and finger lasers. Sylvain unwisely choses to engage them in a shoot-out, and as he is hopelessly outnumbered, he's quickly bested and himself turned to stone. Ah, but the statue status is only temporary. After a while, Sylvain wakes up inside a container, accompanied by a comely blue jungle lass. Immediately they fall in love, because what else can you do when you wake up next to a busty blue naked woman inside a giant pink egg?
A fortuitous dinosaur attack — Sylvain relies on more luck and coincidence than James Bond — allows him and his companion, Airelle (Catherine Chevallier, one of the little twin girls in Barbarella), to escape from the metal men and come up with a slightly better plan of attack than the "stumble upon something and get your ass kicked" route on which Sylvain has been relying. Once again, I guess it takes a woman. They follow the metal men and their cargo of stone Gandaharians first to a weird sort of citadel, then to a submarine, and eventually to what looks like a gigantic baboon's ass in the ocean. It's actually a giant brain, the source it would seem of the metal men and the creature for whom they are attacking and collecting the native population. With no one more competent on hand, Sylvain and Airelle infiltrate the brain's base and, surprisingly, are promptly detected and captured by pink lights and tentacles.
Inside the brain, things are not what Sylvain assumed they would be. It turns out the brain — Metamorphe (Georges Wilson) — is mortified by what the metal men are doing in its name, yet being a giant brain in the middle of the ocean, it lacks the ability to stop them. To make matters worse, it also can't stop them because it's the one sending and commanding them. Eh? Finally, the visions of the mutants make sense to Sylvain. The metal men are attacking from the future, traveling back through a time portal and under the control of Metamorphe in the future, where the mega-mind has gone batshit crazy and requires the raw fuel of Gandaharians to survive. In the future, this is a problem since all the Gandaharians were wiped out in the past by the metal men from the future. Got it?
Anyway, current time Metamorphe doesn't want to die just yet, but it definitely wants its mad future-self destroyed. If Sylvain travels forward in time a thousand years, he can kill future Metamorphe, thereby preventing the destruction of the present by things from the destroyed future. Since the time portal is heavily guarded, Metamorphe puts Sylvain into hibernation for a thousand years. The young man awakens long after his world has been destroyed by the metal men, but of course the world is still full of familiar Gandaharians and even his mutant buddies, since they are all being carried forward from the past. Together, they must all — no, scratch that. It's really just Sylvain and the mutants who lead an uprising against the metal men. Oh, time travel! You always make it so fun.
Gandahar does a lot of things right for my tastes, but it also does a few key things wrong — and the chief thing it does wrong is be a co-production with North Korea. For some reason, it strikes me that the movie's message about lifting the yoke of an oppressive military dictatorship is somewhat undercut by having been animated in an oppressive military dictatorship. The problem was that, despite the popularity of things like Metal Hurlant, and despite the fact that animation is an ideal medium for the vast imagination of science fiction (especially in the days before CGI), sci-fi animation — or anime, as they call it in France — was basically a one man show, that one man being Rene Laloux. And by 1988, he was having a devil of a time finding ways to fund his visions. Even the sudden popularity of Japanese animation — or anime, as they call it in France — wasn't enough to get Laloux the money he needed to truly achieve the scope of a project like Gandahar. So he was stuck looking for ways to cut costs, and one of those ways was to get the thing animated in, err, well…let's say a country where labor was somewhat on the…inexpensive…side.
To address the production from a purely technical standpoint, Laloux and the French team ran into a number of issues working with the North Korean animators. For starters, there were the boobs. Like Fantastic Planet, Gandahar contains plenty of naked flesh, blue though it may be. It wasn't so much the nudity itself that caused the Koreans to pause. It was the melon-size breasts. The animators, sequestered as they were in their workers' paradise, couldn't really grasp the concept of women's breasts being the size of basketballs. Actually, they probably had a point. Anyway, legend has it that Laloux and the Frenchmen actually brought the animators dirty magazines from The Decadent West to prove that there were indeed women with bigguns. The entire nudity thing is a bit of a paradox for me. I have nothing against the flesh, and it makes sense within the context of the film that many of the citizens of Gandahar would have simply evolved beyond the desire to wear clothing. That's cool, man. I support the naturists of Gandahar — but note that it's pretty much only the women who go topless.
Sylvain, for his part, despite being a fine young thing, keeps his clothes on throughout most of the film. The spin you can put on it is that Gandahar is a matriarchal society, one in which the covering of the female breast makes no more or less sense than the covering of the male chest. The women are not oppressed, objectified, or abused, and so the entire concept of having to cover parts of themselves out of shame is simply alien to them. Philosophically that makes perfect sense, but it's disengenous not to suggest that the women also like to go topless because Laloux just really enjoys the sight of naked women.
The North Koreans also had problems with the concept of varied art styles. Art director Philippe Caza wanted to incorporate a number of different styles to realize the world of Gandahar, but the animators really only understood a single art style. Once again, the French had to bring examples of what they meant and struggle through language, cultural, and political differences to get what they wanted. It didn't always work, but the end result is visually gorgeous even if the animation itself is somewhat cheap and stiff looking. It has the surrealism of Fantastic Planet but rendered in a more traditional animation style than that film's sketched, paper doll look. It has the eye-candy colorfulness of Les Maitres du Temps but on a much grander scale. South Koreas was emerging as the place to go to get your animation done if you were Japan or the United States, so I guess I can understand why their brothers and sisters to the north would want to prove themselves just as adept.
Kim Il-sung was already being rendered in South Korean cartoons (made by a Chinese guy, for the Australian TV market) as a goofball general ready to sell the world out to martini-drinking green space aliens. It's unlikely that most of the people on the North Korean end of the production knew the message of the film, but purely in terms of an accomplishment of animation, I think it's a success. Not a stunning success — it has to be measured not just against Joseph Lai's crap South Korean animation, but also against its contemporaries from Japan. But it's an admirable effort, ambitious and worthwhile and certainly no worse than what you'd expect from a low-budget animated film from either the U.S. or Japan.
If Gandahar's gender politics swing schizophrenically from "female empowering" to "hee hee boobies," it's message about oppression and the sins of the past is more consistent — though also undermined somewhat by being a partnership with North Korea. In the end, the true heroes of Gandahar are the malformed undesirables, the shunned cast-offs of what we eventually learn was a vigorous program of eugenics to achieve a planet full of beautiful blue people and Sylvain, who for some reason is just a white guy.
We also learn that Metamorphe itself was a product of Gandaharian tinkering, abandoned and left to rot out in the middle of the ocean, thus making the people of the planet responsible for their own eventual demise. On their own, the perfect Gandaharians are ineffectual against the metal men. Even Sylvain is a lukewarm hero at best, and despite the fact that the mutants' own seers name Sylvain the Chosen One, the fact is that the malformed emerge as the true deliverers of the Gandaharians, and it's only when the two populations integrate that they're able to mount any sort of successful resistance against the metal men. Even then, the population pays a terrible price for their bigotry and lack of vision.
These eventual outcomes, the transformation of the "present day" Gandaharians into the raw material to create the metal men of the future, stems directly from their willingness to cull "the unusual" and the different from their heard in the name of fostering a Utopian society. And that's what makes the association with North Korea so painfully ironic. Very few totalitarian regimes begin with the express goal of brutally oppressing their population. Instead, they are founded on the notion that they are creating a more perfect civilization. But they quickly learn that their sway over people is tenuous. Human nature is simply too diverse and unpredictable, and so they take the first step of trying to suppress just a little bit of that nature. A few more rules, a few more cracked skulls. Better that a few suffer to deliver paradise to everyone else. But then the few continue to grow, and suddenly a glorious workers' revolution devolves into a totalitarian state where the masses are beaten down, paranoia spreads, and suddenly your Utopia is doing things like the Stalinist purges or Mao's Cultural Revolution.
As history has taught us, and as Gandahar expresses, the temptation of totalitarianism, even in the pursuit of lofty goals, is substantial. Good intentions can pave the way to disaster when people forsake thoughts and appearances that do not jibe with what has been defined as perfect. From their vantage point in "the present," the Gandaharians can't comprehend the cost of their society. But the quest for some arbitrarily agreed-upon aesthetic perfection that led them to ostracize the malformed is the same tendency that eventually finds its ghoulish culmination in the transformation of the Gandaharians into faceless, thoughtless, identical automatons. Laloux tackled the same issue (though it was not the whole point of that movie) in Les Maitres du Temps, when the heroes encounter a blob that abhors difference.
Like crazed future Metamorphe, it seeks to transform everyone into identical automotons. The metal men in Gandahar, and the faceless white angels in Les Maitres du Temps. Outside of Laloux's work, you can still find the occasional sci-fi film willing to tackle the idea that eliminating this freedom or that "for our own good" is a very slippery slope. Joss Whedon's Serenity is the most obvious example — and it's not surprising that it (and the Firefly series) is one of my favorite sci-fi films. And since we're on the subject of naked blue people fighting militaristic automatons, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Laloux's animated feature might have had at least some influence on the equally heavy-handed James cameron film Avatar.
Gandahar met with some success in France (I doubt anyone in North Korea other than baby Kim Jung-il ever saw the finished product), so American producer Harvey Weinstein decided to do what he did and continues to do best — be a total dick with the movie. He bought the rights, recut the entire thing, gave it a new score (not a hip hop one though, like he loved to do with Jackie Chan movies), awarded himself a directorial credit, then made sure almost no one could see the movie in the United States. It was released briefly under the title Light Years, but it didn't do much business. To this day, Gandahar remains MIA in the United States, where Fantastic Planet has enough of a cult following that Gandahar could probably be at least a modest success on home video. Laloux himself has said that he didn't really mind the changes Weinstein made, but for many the changes aren't the issue so much as the fact that Weinstein continues to sit on the title without releasing it on DVD. Luckily, there's the Internet and the rest of the world, so you can buy it there.
Because I didn't see it under the same young, sleep-deprived conditions as Fantastic Planet, Gandahar doesn't resonate with me in quite the same way. But I still love it. In the tiny field of adult-oriented science fiction animation, it's impressive on its own merits, and not just because there are so few works against which to measure it. As with his first film, Laloux creates a stange and wonderful atmosphere, made even stranger by the film's musical score. The themes are sometimes heavy-handed, but I have no real issues with that. I miss message science fiction, especially when it's made with the sort of hopeful earnestness of Laloux's work. I'm not a complete grouch about the fact that modern science fiction is actually just the action film with some fake technology and cargo pants thrown into the design. I've enjoyed plenty of films of that nature. But I'd love to see truly speculative science fiction find a niche again. Gandahar isn't without its action scenes. There are laser shoot-outs, a revolt, and the big war of Jaspar (I should note that the capitol building of Jaspar is a towering woman surrounded by what look suspiciously like penises) where the Gandaharians make their stand against the metal men by using their vast arsenal of giant crabs, seed bombs, and thorn bushes. But the action scenes are not why you come to a movie like this. You come partially for the otherworldly artwork and atmosphere, but you also come to watch the movie work its way through a host of themes and philosophical questions.
Unfortunately, this was the last feature film Rene Laloux ever made. By the 1990s, the trippy, surreal style of science fiction that had birthed him, Moebius, and Metal Hurlant was out of fashion even more than it had previously been. In 2004, Laloux passed away after suffering a heart attack. His work influenced many people, and his contributions to both science fiction and the promotion of Japanese anime outside of Japan were substantial. It's hard to look at some of Hayao Miyazaki's work and not see the influence of Laloux. My favorite of Miyazaki's films, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind would have fit perfectly into Laloux's universe both thematically and artistically, albeit with much better animation. And it's likely that Miyazaki would see in Rene Laloux a kindred spirit who shared many of the same beliefs: the importance of nature, co-existence with our fellow humans (or non-humans), and the value of independent thinking.


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Mortal Kombat X Tests Your Might with its Latest Screenshots and Revealed Box Art
These new screenshots give us a closer look at the curvaceous Cassie Cage and the other kombatants of Mortal Kombat X along with its official box art.
Taking place about 25 years after the events of 2011's Mortal Kombat, we see some of our favorite characters returning in new forms along with some fresh faces. As you can tell by these new screenshots from Mortal Kombat X's official Facebook, series frontman Scorpion has had small changes to their overall look to add more details in his ensemble since his previous fight. Newcomer Cassie Cage features a bodysuit similar to that of Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 5, but with her mother's (Sonya Blade) hair and father's (Johnny Cage) sunglasses. Kotal Kahn's new pictures suggests he is just as dangerous as his supposed relative, Shao Kahn. We also get to see yet another gross bug from the Outworlder, D'Vorah. Here's to hoping that the concept art we found last month of Ermac proves to be true.
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how do I upload that from a url?
Or can I save it and upload it from my saved pictures on my device
You just use http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...ntp20/dave.jpg and put the image tags around it like you would when posting a picture in a message. No need to download it or anything. I mean you could if you wanted it, but it's not necessary.
Something I designed for a friend
It's designed to be a 36x12 canvas print. I totally want to print it out myself (since it's my own work) and one day I may, but I am too cheap to pay $170ish to do so.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2008 NEWMAC Spring Academic All-Conference Team. Once again, MIT reigned supreme, collecting a league-best 48 honors, and finishing the year with a total of 125 awards.
Honoress must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2007 fall semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Spring sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include: baseball, women's crew, women's lacrosse, softball, men's tennis, and men's and women's outdoor track and field.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
WPI and Springfield secured the second-highest number of honorees with 29 selections, followed by Mount Holyoke with 24. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Paul Groudas
Matthew Harrington
Thomas Phillips
Women's Lacrosse
Stephanie Brenman
Lily He
Laura Watson
Leah Bogsted
Amanda Jason
Holly Jeffrey
Lara Kostun
Aubrey Tatarowicz
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Rajat Bhalla
Ryan Castonia
Jonathan Farm
David Iba
Vinith Misra
Peden Nichols
Michael Price
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Patrick Barragan
Matt Bieniosek
Jack Bourbonnais
Christopher Bruce
Yermie Cohen
David Fernholz
Tim Humpton
Brian Jacokes
James Oleinik
Stephen Oney
Bill Phipps
David Reshef
Joseph Roy-Mayhew
Jake Ruzevick
Nate Sharpe
Greg Tao
Christopher Wong
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Juls Andren
Adrienne Bolger
Jennifer Doyle
Erika Erickson
Elizabeth Finn
Emily Hwang
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Opinion: So Much for the Asia Pivot
American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow John Bolton on how China benefited from President Obama's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit snub. Photos: AP
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As I've noted before, I don't get awed by meeting celebrities. Over the years, I've encountered Rainn Wilson, Giada de Laurentiis, Gillian Welch, Kelly Slater and a slew of others, and the feeling is always the same: a second or two of giddiness, followed by the quick realization that they're just hardworking folks like everyone else.
That said, I will confess to a little burning anticipation when I prepared to interview "Weird Al" Yankovic on Friday morning. It's not because I view him as some kind of icon, although any songwriter who could pen "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" clearly ranks among the great poets of our time.
Rather, it was because I had to find out where he got that footage of Paul McCartney.
In addition to his famous novelty songs, Yankovic has a series of short films called "Al TV," in which he takes interview footage of pop stars, cuts the footage into snippets and edits himself in to create imaginary conversations. His "interviews" with Keith Richards, Madonna, George Harrison and Kevin Federline, to name a few, are gut-busters.
But the crown jewel among them, by far, is McCartney.
If you haven't seen it yet, go to your record collection and put on the most eloquent, tasteful McCartney ballads you can think of — "Let It Be," "Yesterday" and the like. Then go to YouTube, punch in "Weird Al McCartney" and enjoy nearly six minutes of the Cute One making silly faces, talking in dialects, impersonating guitar sounds, gasping, covering his eyes and generally behaving as if he's just taken half a dozen narcotics.
Every time I've shown anyone the video, they've always had the same question: Where did Yankovic find that astonishing material? And so, with the bard himself coming to the Pacific Amphitheatre for a "pre-summer O.C. Fair Show" on July 9, I had my chance to find out.
For most of our phone interview, we talked about the typical subjects: his plans for the summer tour, his songwriting process, his views on the record industry. You'll read about all that in an upcoming story.
But before we hung up, I asked him about the origin of the McCartney footage. Did he remember much about it? It turned out that he did, even 15 years after the fact.
The original interview, he said, came from the Canadian TV station MuchMusic, and it was conducted with a female interviewer (the one that Yankovic, of course, edited out and replaced with himself). He noted that McCartney seemed to be enjoying himself during the show, to say the least.
"That was a really bizarre interview," Yankovic said. "Paul was feeling really loopy or silly that day."
Later that morning, I found the website for MuchMusic and sent an e-mail asking for a copy of the raw footage. I haven't heard back yet, but my pursuit will go on.
Sir Paul, be very afraid.
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1. Re: WaterMarksBobLevine Feb 8, 2011 2:48 PM (in response to Loki-Ison)
Sad that you can't trust the client but no, you can't prevent them from removing the watermark.
You can't really prevent it in the PDF either.
2. Re: WaterMarksLoki-Ison Feb 8, 2011 2:58 PM (in response to BobLevine)
Bugger, I had a vage memory of something I though might work by making the master none editably but couldnt remember if you could do it with a password etc.
I think the clients can be trusted to be honest and even if they do give away the templates afterwards i dont really see a huge loss but the companys sales team doesnt trust anyone.
Well thanks for the help, you just saved me lots of playing around.
3. Re: WaterMarksShoepepper Feb 8, 2011 10:31 PM (in response to Loki-Ison)1 person found this helpful
As an alternative to a watermark how about putting a copyright notice in the 'File Info'.
It will not guarantee cast iron protection but it will be a warning to those in possession of your template.
4. Re: WaterMarksLoki-Ison Feb 9, 2011 4:07 AM (in response to Shoepepper)
I have to admit I am not entirly sure how to do that or even the effects it would have...
5. Re: WaterMarks[Jongware]-9BC6tI Feb 9, 2011 4:20 AM (in response to Loki-Ison)1 person found this helpful
In your InDesign document, choose File -> File Info ... and fill in the fields with useful default data. The "Title" and "Author" fields will appear as such in any PDF that gets exported from it, as can be seen in "Document Info" in Acrobat Reader or Pro. The "Title" will also appear if you select to show the title, instead of the default file name, in the title bar on opening the document.
And they appear in Google if the PDF is put online, so it might be a bad idea to plainly state "Do Not Distribute" into these fields. But all of the other fields of File Info also get stored in any PDF, so you can fill in a default "Description Writer" , "Copyright Notice", and "Copyright status".
Apart from that: it's even possible to add custom data with the File Info field, and that will also get stored into any exported PDF.
Note that any and all information in the File Info field only gets exported by InDesign on a straightforward export to PDF. Printing to a file, then distilling it, for example, will not retain it.
6. Re: WaterMarksEugene Tyson Feb 9, 2011 4:20 AM (in response to Loki-Ison)
If you add the Watermark in Acrobat and give it an opacity.
Put it at 45 degrees across the page
Then change the opacity to 25% or something (whatever suits)
Then use PDF optimiser to Flatten the PDF
The Watermark should break into pieces where it interacts with things on the page
7. Re: WaterMarksEugene Tyson Feb 9, 2011 4:22 AM (in response to Eugene Tyson)
If you want a logo then just use an image for the watermark in the options
8. Re: WaterMarksShoepepper Feb 9, 2011 4:24 AM (in response to Loki-Ison)
It's very simple:
With InDesign file open go
>File Info
>Description Tab
After you've added your copyright info export xmp data which makes it easier to apply same notice to other files.
You could also add a copyright message on the page as well.
This use of metadata can also be applied in other Adobe applications
9. Re: WaterMarksLoki-Ison Feb 9, 2011 4:39 AM (in response to Loki-Ison)
Thanks everyone, I will have a play with the info files
Now ive just got 400 templates to finish making and apply an info file..


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ELECTRICAL PEST DETERRENT: Mayhap the control unit on your freezer, one of your home's light switches, or the thermostat for the refrigerator started malfunctioning ... and for no clear reason? Austin, Texas's Eric Warren has found that ants and roaches — which like to nestle in such devices' warm crevices — will sometimes block the mechanisms' contacts or control levers. Eric's simple solution is first to clean the pests out, and then roll a few crushed mothballs inside a bit of toilet paper and tape that deterrent near the "workings" of the thermostat or switch.
Mr. Warren first used this insect-shooing ploy at a friend's home. Before long, so many other people were "bugging" him for similar assistance that he had to get the tip published in a local newspaper ... just to get some peace!
IMPROVISED AIR CIRCULATOR: "I spent my first wood-heated winter perched on top of a stepladder to stay warm, and became all too aware of that age-old law of physics: Heat rises!" recalls Martha Olson of Knoxville, Tennessee. "I didn't want to buy a fancy (and expensive) air circulator to remedy the difficulty, so I decided to suspend an ordinary window fan — face down — from the ceiling. (All it took was four screw hooks, some sturdy string, and a bit of effort.) That device not only keeps me warm down at floor level, but — when I hang my wet clothes on coat hangers from the fan's frame — the machine functions as a super-efficient clothes dryer (and room humidifier) as well!"
PIG TRANQUILIZER: When Karen Nunan's farrowing sow started having serious delivery difficulties, the Middleboro, Massachusetts homesteader called for the help of a local veterinarian. But her stressed hog was so skittish and hard to handle that the doctor couldn't examine the animal. Karen grabbed a meat taster and squirted a jigger's worth of vodka down the pig's gullet ... and within minutes, the sow was calm enough to be assisted through its birthing crisis. The porker apparently had no harmful after effects, either. Not even a hangover!
STOVE SHINER: Carol Santovi of Carver, Minnesota knows an easy way to shine the top of a wood burning cook stove: Simply rub the (hot) surface all over with a crumpled-up sheet of wax paper and watch that newly paraffined cooking top sparkle once again!
LOG CUTTING METHOD: 'Tain't always easy to saw up a felled tree without cutting through to the ground. Donald Houlihan avoids such chain-dulling accidents by first sawing off all but one of the log's limbs. He then makes deep cuts (a "stovewood's length" apart) along the trunk ... taking care that his machine never gets too close to the earth. When that's done, the Pontiac, Michigan wood gatherer grabs the one limb left on the tree and uses that handy lever to roll the whole log over. Dave can then finish his round-making cuts safely and conveniently!
AXE HANDLE PROTECTOR: You can help prevent your wooden sledge, maul, or axe handle from breaking when you're splitting firewood if you build a shaft protector for the tool. And how, you may ask, can one construct such a device?
"Simply wrap some baling wire and duct tape around the four inches of wood nearest the tool's head," advises Brian Tarrant of Bend, Oregon.
"Or heat an appropriate-sized length of plastic pipe in boiling water," suggests Saranac, New Yorker James Wood. "Then slip that malleable piece of hot conduit on the hardwood stem."
"Me, I like to weld a piece of angle iron onto the tool head just in front of the handle. That's a great maul protector," adds Yeagertown, Pennsylvanian William Wilt.
"Nah," rebuts Paul Snyder (who hails from Springfield, Ohio). "Just stick a four-inch piece of galvanized pipe over the wood and either weld that conduit section to the head itself or tape the pipe securely in place."
Well, reader, all you have to do is pick the idea you like and try it out. But don't dally ... time (and probably your splitter's handle) is a-wasting!
VINEGAR USES: You may remember the long list of constructive uses for household vinegar MOTHER EARTH NEWS ran in a previous column. Well folks, that piece prompted a whole swarm of readers to send in their own favorite uses for the versatile 5% acetic acid solution, and so many of the ideas are worth sharing that we're just going to have to run some of them.
[1] L.M. Knight from Weymouth, Massachusetts— stopped a nasty ant invasion in her kitchen by washing the room's countertops, cabinets, and floors with a half-and-half solution of water and vinegar.
[2] Several readers, among them Paul Bauhaus of Tulsa, Oklahoma, wrote us that they add small portions of the household condiment to their pets' drinking water when they want to rid their feline or canine companions of mange or fleas.
[3] And should one of your animals get itself into a "prickly" situation — that is, if the critter gets zapped by a porcupine — you can take a tip from Steven M. Waite of Starke, Florida and use a dash of "sour wine" to soften the embedded arrows so that they can be easily removed.
[4] A former chemist and technical bakery service director — Julian Hessel of La Belle, Florida — knows that substituting vinegar for a portion (as much as one-third) of the water in bread dough will retard the bacterial infection called rope ... which is a bread spoiler that often infests homemade loaves in warm weather.
[5] Sometimes when Lakeland, Florida's Billie Richley is working up a recipe in her kitchen, she'll add the acidic salad dresser to cream to make "instant sour cream" and to milk when she needs "quick buttermilk".
[6] Tallahassee's Leslie Campbell (another vinegar-loving Floridian) uses dilute you-know-what for a shine-producing hair rinse ... while Brenda Krupnau — a Hoxie, Arkansas resident — finds that the same treatment is an excellent remedy for head lice!
[7] As Edith Bernard of Manning, Oregon reminded us, sore throats can be soothed by gargling — and then swallowing — a solution of one teaspoon of vinegar in one glass of water.
[8] Some folks — like Melody Thennick — even splash the kitchen condiment under their armpits for an effective deodorant. This Evart, Michigan woman has also realized that a vinegar soaking is a good smell-removing laundry additive for odorous socks!
[9] A Phoenix, Maryland veterinarian named Michael Lynch routinely recommends a vinegar application for dogs and cats stricken with the common bacterial ear infection Pseudomonas. Dr. Lynch says that the pets' owners should first clear the animals' irritated hearing passages with cotton and oil, then pour in a teaspoon of the fermented liquid and massage the well of each ear. Repeat the treatment — everyday — until the persistent infection clears up.
[10] People who want to lose weight can try drinking a solution of two tablespoons of vinegar, one tablespoon of honey, and one-half cup of water 30 minutes before each meal. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Fuller — two Muskogee, Oklahoma readers — say the mixture "will definitely curb any appetite".
[11] We've recently learned of an absolutely amazing use of vinegar, which is also one that we hope you never need to try. Tom Welling of Aurora, Indiana was the first person to tell us that — according to studies done in Korea — a good whiff of the acid juice is practically 100% effective in reviving persons and animals that have just suffered carbon monoxide poisoning!
And, lastly, more people than we have space to name told us they use vinegar (plain, heated, or combined with baking soda) to clean everything from grimy silverware to mildew to all their bathroom appliances. Folks, it all just goes to show: When we told you before that plain old household vinegar can be a genuine elixir, we weren't kidding!
MECHANIC'S STETHOSCOPE: "Often engines signal their internal problems by making knocking, hammering, or pinging noises," writes Embalse, Argentina resident Dave Johnson.
"And it's important to figure out which cylinder is the troublemaker before you begin to disassemble the motor, but you often can't discern the culprit by standing next to the machine and listening (even if you put a screwdriver between your ear and the metal) because engines are just too noisy!
"So I use a six-foot length of garden hose for a 'mechanic's stethoscope'. To do so yourself, simply stand well away from the vehicle, with one end of the rubber line held to your ear, and have a helper hold the other end close to (but not touching ) the motor. Your co-worker can move around until you're sure you've located that loud, defective cylinder.
"Of course, standing around with a garden hose in your ear may make you feel a bit silly . . . but you'll feel a darn sight sillier if you don't do so, and then find you've 'repaired' the wrong cylinder!"


text: Motor skills are motions carried out when the brain, nervous system, and muscles work together. Fine motor skills are small movements — such as picking up small objects and holding a spoon — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. Gross motor skills are the bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting — that use the large muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet.


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Smith & Wesson Third Quarter Fiscal 2013 Financial Release and Conference Call Alert
Feb 25, 2013, 05:15 ET
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: SWHC) today announced that it plans to release its third quarter fiscal 2013 financial results on Tuesday, March 5, after the close of the market. The full text of the press release will be available on Smith & Wesson's web site at http://www.smith-wesson.com under the Investor Relations section.
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Smith & Wesson will host an analyst conference call that may include forward-looking statements. The conference call will be web cast live and is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The live audio broadcast and replay of the conference call can be accessed on Smith & Wesson's web site at http://www.smith-wesson.com (Windows Media is required). Those interested in listening to the conference call via telephone may call directly at 866-804-6928 and reference conference code 35129271. No RSVP is necessary.
About Smith & Wesson
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: SWHC) is a U.S.-based leader in firearm manufacturing and design, delivering a broad portfolio of quality firearms, related products and training to the global military, law enforcement, and consumer markets. The company's brands include Smith & Wesson, M&P® and Thompson/Center Arms™. Smith & Wesson facilities are located in Massachusetts and Maine. For more information on Smith & Wesson, call (800) 331-0852 or log on to www.smith-wesson.com.
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Get Balanced. The Celtics, 17 Time World Champions, go at it again! These are the hottest tickets in town and Girl Scouts of Eastern MA have them!
Every girl will receive a patch and a discount coupon to our the Pro-Shop.
Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Celtics vs NY Knicks
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Tickets will be available to be picked up at one of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Service Centers in the week prior to the game.
Tickets can be mailed, however, Council cannot be liable in the event the tickets are lost, stolen, or do not arrive in time.
NOTE: Face value of tickets is $45.00.
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How did my boyfriend get Chlamydia?
Heather Corinna replies:I have a very confusing situation. My boyfriend and I have been together over a year. We both had partners before each other, but have always used condoms. Since we have been in this relationship for a year, and have both been tested for STIs, and I am on birth control, we have started to use condoms less. We use them when we remember but if its a spur the moment kind of thing, we don't worry about it. Recently, my boyfriend approached me and said he has an STI (chlamydia) and I should get tested. I was mortified! I had just been tested two weeks before and everything came back negative. His previous testing had also been all negatives. I went back and was re-tested, and again the results came up negative (I was given a prescription just in case). Neither of us have ever had sex without a condom before now. How is it possible that he suddenly developed an STI when both of us have tested negative before, and haven't been with anyone else? Could it be a misdiagnoses, or is it possible to get an STI another way? For example, having unprotected sex while the girl is on her period? Help!!
Here are the possibilities, in order of most likely to least:
- He WAS with someone else over this last year. I know that's certainly the least easy possibility to look at, but if he really tested all clear before the last round of tests within the amount of time you two have been together, and you also have had fully negative tests in that time -- and are testing clear for Chlamydia now -- then it is a strong possibility you need to deal with and address, especially if you're still having sex with this person. I know it's not something anyone wants to consider, but people who agree to be monogamous do, as a group, break those promises pretty regularly.
- When he said he had been tested before, he was either dishonest with you, or thought that testing was something he got in regular doctor's visits, and didn't know any better then. So few straight men -- compared to women: it's about one man to every eleven women -- get STI testing at all or regularly, especially younger men. So, many have no idea what it entails and that it's usually something you have to ask for: we get guys every day who just assume that when you get regular checkups with any kind of urine or bloodwork, if they have an STI, a lab technician will just happen to see it, not understanding that lab tests just don't work that way: technicians find (or do not) things they are specifically looking for. testing isn't random or happenstance. If that was the case, he may well have had Chlamydia since his last partner. And in that is also the possibility that he wasn't being honest about using condoms all the time with previous partners, but too, safer sex is exactly that: safer, not 100% safe. Condoms do a great job of reducing the spread of disease, but again, they reduce it, they don't eradicate it. So, it's also possible (though not likely) he did always use latex condoms, but got it anyway.
- He DID have Chlamydia previously, and somehow, his previous test just didn't catch it. Lab errors do happen sometimes. And given they can happen in any number of ways, he could certainly go re-test himself to verify that his positive now for Chlamydia was correct.
You having your period and having unprotected sex has nothing to do with anything when it comes to this. Menses doesn't create Chlamydia, nor does it develop due to menses. To give someone Chlamydia, you'd have to have it yourself, and then spread it to someone else via vaginal, anal or oral sex (though it's far less likely to be transmitted orally: it is primarily transmitted though genital-to-genital sex).
Understand, too, that the incubation window for Chlamydia is pretty small: just one to two weeks. I don't know when your boyfriend was last tested (or why he just retested now?), but if he had a clear result for Chlamydia at his last test, and was not sexually active with anyone with the infection just prior to the tests, then it's relatively safe to say he acquired it since then.
No matter what, since an STI did crop up into the mix, you'll both need to take it from the top with safer sex practices again.
That means that for another six months, at least, you need to use latex barriers again, always, stay monogamous, and each have another set of tests at the end of that time period before you consider going without condoms again. And to be sure you have it all down for the future, before going without condoms with any partner, you want at least TWO full and negative screenings, one ending with that six month period of latex barrier use.
Talking about these possibilities isn't likely to be easy, but I strongly suggest you do discuss them, however hard it may be. Particularly if your partner isn't really being monogamous, that's something you need to know, both for the sake of your health, and also so that you can be sure that you're in a relationship you still want to be in, particularly if whatever rules you've both made aren't being followed by one of you. Whether your boyfriend cheated or not, this conversation is likely to be very intense and heated, so I'd suggest you be as calm about it as you can be, makming clear that honesty is the order of the day, and whatever the truth is -- even if it's one of the tougher ones -- it's important you both know the real scoop. You may even just want to print this answer out to share the possibilities so you both can get to the bottom of this and figure out what exactly it is you need to deal with here, and what you don't.


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Gift of the Magi
by Simon Semenoff 1945
Music: Lukas Foss
Choreography: Simon Semenoff
Libretto: Based on the story by William Sydney Porter (O'Henry)
Scenery and costumes: Raoul Pene DuBois
World premiere: 5 October 1945, Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts
Hello, I am looking for a bio of Simon Semenoff. There is info that he passed away in Israel some 20 years ago. He had 3 children, now in their 60's - o rmore. Thank you, PK


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Is this basically RLM? tried tracking this a bit in nba,but was not a solid strat.
Maybe Baseball will be better.
Originally Posted by smoothd20: Good Win Crush!
Thanks, Smooth!
Tonight for a win 7 going with the White Sox
Props to you, Booyahz. Good call on that one and the Brew Crew. Both great games.


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Workers are becoming increasingly confident as companies post more job openings, but hiring has only slowly crept higher this year, signaling a weak spot in the labor market, economists said Tuesday.
There were 4.72 million hires in May, up 3% from the end of 2013, according to U.S. Labor Department data. But over that same time period, job openings rose 18% to 4.64 million at the end of May.
"There are simply more and more unfilled openings," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities, wrote in a research note.
Over at the Economic Policy Institute, a left leaning think tank based in Washington, economist Heidi Shierholz wrote in a blog post that hiring needs to pick up for the labor market to experience a full recovery.
"Hiring is the side of that equation that, while generally improving, has not yet come close to a full recovery," Shierholz wrote.
Compared with when the recession began at the end of 2007, monthly hires are down 6%, while job openings are up 7%.
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ARLINGTON, VA – The York College
women's swimming team dropped a 166-94 result to Capital
Athletic Conference foe Marymount University Saturday afternoon in
Arlington, Va. The Spartans fall to 1-1 (1-1 CAC) on the year while
the Saints open the season at 1-0 (1-0 CAC).
The green and white captured a trio of wins on the day, with junior Molly Wasik (York, Pa./Spring Grove) notching two of those victories. Wasik touched the wall first in the 100 backstroke, coming in with a time of 1:05.60. The junior also landed a first-place spot in the 200 backstroke, finishing the race with at 2:20.47.
Sophomore Lisa King (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) secured a first-place finish for the Spartans when she won the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:22.12. King also grabbed a second-place spot in the 100 butterfly clocking in at 1:04.80, while taking third in the 400 IM with a time of 5:13.02.
Junior Kaitlin Crean (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) notched a pair of runner-up finishes, coming in second in the 500 and 1000 freestyle events. Crean posted a 5:49.12 in the 500 and an 11:47.90 in the 1000.
In the 200 freestyle, freshman Michaela Guild (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Pallotti) placed second in the 200 freestyle while junior Ashley Stanton (Columbia, Md./Hammond) finished third in the event with times of 2:06.11 and 2:07.31 respectively. Stanton placed third again in the 50 freestyle with a 27.16.
Senior Colleen Nolan (Annandale, Va./Annandale) registered two third place finishes. Nolan's 1:16.76 was the third-best mark in the 100 breaststroke while her 2:26.76 in the 200 breaststroke was also good for third.
York swimmers also finished third in the 100 and 500 freestyle. Freshman Kaitlin Estes (Athens, Pa./Athens Area) came in third in the 100 touching the wall at 59.13. Sophomore Alison Beverly (Andover, N.J./Newton) recorded a third spot for the Spartans with her 5:50.35 time in the 500.
The green and white returns to the pool on Wednesday, November 5, when they travel to Elizabethtown for a 6:00 pm match-up with the Blue Jays.
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Since 1966, Holiday Expeditions has provided trips to the most spectacular landscapes on earth. Today, we offer whitewater rafting in Utah, Colorado and Idaho, on the Colorado, Green, Yampa, San Juan, and Salmon rivers.
Grand Canyon, stargazing, kayak workshops, mountain biking, stand up paddling, custom women's trips and Baja sea kayaking trips round out our special offerings.
The land is awesome in every respect. Every canyon, every bend in the river reveals something else to stun the senses and leave you marveling that such a place exists at all... a place that's totally unlike any other. A place that demands to be shared like a special secret.
We've been going there for over 50 years. Whitewater rafting through the most spectacular landscapes on earth. On some of the hottest whitewater anywhere. And sharing it with anyone curious enough to come along. If you have never done the river it might be hard to imagine, but in all the world, there is nothing anywhere quite like a whitewater wilderness adventure in the Rocky Mountain West.
We offer twelve different sections of eight rivers in Utah, Arizona, Colorado and Idaho. Each trip is unique. Different landscapes. Different-sized rapids. Some trips are designed for scenic adventurers who are a little more interested in the scenic than in the adventure. Other trips deliver the best world-class whitewater the West has to offer.
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