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Publisher: Bantam
Pages: 560
Year: 2011, Pb 2012
Buy: Hardback, Kindle, Paperback
Source: Review copy
Read my interview with Jon Steele here.
Set in Lausanne, Switzerland, The Watchers follows a few days in the lives of three seemingly disconnected people: Jay Harper, a private detective with a thing for the History Channel, who wakes up without memories; Katherine Taylor, an expensive courtesan who discovers that her life is worth far less than she'd thought; Marc Rochat, the young man with a limp who guards the nine bells of Lausanne Cathedral, marshalling their efforts with his lantern, encouraging and admonishing, but always vigilant. And not only the bells, because Marc sees ghosts from his past and present. For all three characters, nothing is what it seems in life. Figures outside their lives seek to manipulate their fate. Finally, it comes down to a battle between good and evil, with much more at risk than the lives of those seeking refuge within the cathedral.
The pace of The Watchers is deceptively subtle. The story is character-driven but that does not mean that it is slow. On the contrary. Harper, Katherine and Marc each have their own demons. Once the three characters come together there is no let-up in the energy of the story, which builds and builds and you will not be able to put the book down. A book of 550 pages or so disappeared into two nights of reading. This isn't just because of the story, which combines reality and fantasy in a seamless and magical fashion, but also because of the writing. The Watchers breathes beautiful prose, reaching poetic heights in places, sometimes literally.
'Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on' – a line by poet Edward Thomas, a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, who died at Arras on Easter Monday, 9 April 1917 at 7.30am. This line resonates through The Watchers. It begins the novel in a prologue that wrung my heart til the tears fell from my eyes. How common is it to begin a novel, read a prologue, and feel like that? It's so rare. But when you read these opening pages about a young man facing the end in the trenches of the Great War, you know that you are reading something very special indeed. You'll commit to it and you won't be disappointed. The rest of the story, and the characters, lives up to this unbelievably strong and emotional opening.
There is a fantasy element to The Watchers but, and I'm speaking as someone who doesn't tend to read fantasy novels, it emerges so gently that it doesn't disturb the reader's acceptance of this world. This is a masterly exercise in atmosphere.
I did not want this book to end. My only comfort when The Watchers finished was knowing that this was the first in a trilogy. Jon Steele has assured me that he already knows the final sentence of the third novel. I will try and be patient…
The Watchers is the debut novel by Jon Steele, an award winning cameraman and editor for ITN for over twenty years, a journalist who'd experienced war and conflict across the globe but quit on the day that war broke out with Iraq for reasons of conscience. The Watchers is not, however, Steele's first book. War Junkie (2002), described on the cover as 'One man's addiction to the worst places on earth', presents an impression of the horror of human behaviour and the unexpected brevity of human life, and this impression is carried through to The Watchers. It might be a first work of fiction, but it comes with a history of feeling.
'Rain' by Philip Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Remembering again that I shall die
And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks
For washing me cleaner than I have been
Since I was born into this solitude.
Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon:
But here I pray that none whom once I loved
Is dying to-night or lying still awake
Solitary, listening to the rain,
Either in pain or thus in sympathy
Helpless among the living and the dead,
Like a cold water among broken reeds,
Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff,
Like me who have no love which this wild rain
Has not dissolved except the love of death,
If love it be towards what is perfect and
Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.


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Date of this Version
May 2000
Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Applied Physics 87, 6734-6736 (2000). ©2000 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.
Mechanically milling SmCo5 powder significantly increases coercivity and remanence ratio by introducing defects; however, these defects can be removed by room-temperature aging, with a resultant decrease in coercivity. A series of (SmCo5) x:C1–x (0.15 ≤ x ≤1) samples has been fabricated to investigate the effect of C on oxidation protection and magnetic properties. SmCo5 was premilled for 1 h, then added to C powder and milled for times ranging from 15 min to 7 h. X-ray diffraction indicates the presence of crystalline graphite and SmCo5 for milling times ≤ 6 h and also shows the presence of fcc Co for milling times >7 h. The magnetic properties are very weakly dependent on milling time after the C addition, which is attributed to the lack of further grain refinement. The saturation magnetization scales linearly with the wt % of SmCo5. Remanence ratios are approximately 0.7 and independent of volume fraction. The maximum coercivity of 16.5 kOe is comparable to the maximum obtained by milling SmCo5 without C. Samples exposed to air for times up to two months show no decrease in coercivity or remanence ratio for x ≤ 0.70. The addition of C has no detrimental effect on the magnetic properties obtained by milling, except the expected reduction of Ms. ©2001 American Institute of Physics.

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That's enough pointing-and-laughing at the British National Party for a while. Now for a bit of pointing and laughing at the Tories…
I've never had much time for Cameron and Clegg, with Cameron modelling himself on Blair, and Clegg on Cameron. But what the election campaign is bringing out is the extent to which Cameron was only ever offering the most fraudulent impersonation of Blair, and that it's because of this that the Clegg-as-Cameron strategy is working out so very nicely for the Liberal Democrats.
The reason Blair was far more successful as a centrist politician than Cameron is managing to be is that he went out of his way to humiliate the Left of his party in public as a part of his move to the right. He chose to pick fights that he really didn't have to fight, with the result that it made it all much easier for former Conservative voters to think that it was safe to vote Labour after all.
Cameron, by contrast, has made a lot of centrist noises, and he's done various things that the Tory headbanger tendency doesn't much like (stuff on the website about tackling homophobic bullying in schools, running more women candidates or candidates from ethnic minorities in winnable seats, banging on about the environment, usw), but he's never seriously tried to stage a meaningful fight with the party's Right, to lure them out into the open, and to slap them down in public. Bullying Norfolk South West into having Liz Truss as their PPC just doesn't count, and when the Right tried to bully him, making it a condition of its support in the leadership campaign that he pledged to quit the European People's Party in the European Parliament, he was happy to fall in line. And one consequence of this kind of thing is that voters find it harder to take his centrist pretensions especially seriously.
And this is why Clegg is doing so well. Cameron's strategy has been to try to bring centrist-minded, middle-class, non-lunatic voters into the Conservative orbit, and to fight the election as if this is the key demographic, but if you're a C-M, M-C, N-L voter, and you want to vote for that kind of thing, there's no good reason not to vote for the real thing (Clegg) rather than the dubious fraud (Cameron). Cameron's only pretending to be Blair, and that's what's making it easy for Clegg to be what Cameron would like to be, but can't, a politician operating entirely comfortably on the terrain of what we might call the centre-centre-right of British politics.
So we have the happy result that John Major won 31% in 1997, William Hague won 32% in 2001, Michael Howard won 33% in 2005, and David Cameron's 'decontaminated' Tories are heading for, um, 34% in 2010. At this rate it'll be another quarter century or so before they're in spitting distance of a parliamentary majority. Happy days.


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Cooper Fights On
* Do you understand that Cooper is more than a school (or a building)?
* What will happen to our kids — will they go to a failing school instead of one we've worked so hard to make successful?
* We did what you told us to do (raised WASL scores, set up special programs). Why are we being punished?
* What's the benefit of this closure for our kids?
Santorno addressed this last issue directly: "I could tell you this will help your kids now, but I would be fibbing." She did say that teachers could "follow their students," and wind up in the same school. But speakers clearly weren't satisfied with that answer. They see the school as central to a vital community, not as a building or a room that can be transported at will. The idea that the Cooper Elementary community could propagate what they've done across the school system didn't seem to offer much comfort."I would be fibbing?" Wow, that's quite an admission. At least when the CAC closed schools we were pretty sure that kids were getting better, in visible ways, than what they currently had at their school.
A parent, JJ Ball, presented a counter-plan that while heartfelt and thought out (it's actually pretty complex with a lot of upheaval) won't fly. (It involves closing Roxhill and merging them into Pathfinder, moving the whole group to the old Denny building and moving Lafayette's Spectrum program to Cooper - to fill it - while Lafayette would fill with more neighborhood kids.) First, you can't force people to go to an alternative school so merging Roxhill with Pathfinder doesn't work. Second, the old Denny school is gone, baby, gone and there is no force that would make Facilities change their mind. Third, move the Spectrum program from Lafayette to Cooper to shore Cooper up? I have no idea if that would work and/or be a good idea. Fourth, it practically creates a K-12 campus (the three buildings, the new Denny, Chief Sealth and old Denny are less than 3 blocks from each other). That's a lot of kids of all ages in one area. Maybe, but I think the district will have its hands full just getting the Denny-Sealth deal off the ground when the buildings are finished.
Is anyone else hearing counter-plans for any other schools?


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The Great Basin
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Dragon_of_Luck_Mah_Jonng1971 (Nov 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM):
'cryovolcanic' , not 'cryocolcanic' . Sorry for that.
Dragon_of_Luck_Mah_Jonng1971 (Nov 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM):
A side note: At the 1 and 2'o clock position at the center of this basin there are somewhat interesting features at the inner sides of the mountains making up the inner ring of that basin that are among the brightest features here. Perhaps they have been cryocolcanic flows of viscous, slow-moving ices ? I don't expect them to be young. They happened just after the formation of that basin I suppose.
The resolution of the image doesn't show enough details to be certain. So my idea is uncertain.
mipsandbips (Jun 3, 2009 at 9:35 PM):
Considering the uniqueness of the cratering density there is
evidence that may point to the causation as from an explosion or
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Now let me just begin right here with a confession. I have spent countless hours with the heaviness of worry wrapped around my shoulders and the burden of weariness lodged in my chest. So I am no stranger to the subject I'm addressing.
Years and years ago, as a high school dropout and teenage mother, I was broke and jobless and felt as useless as a broom with no bristles. It seemed every attempt I made to pull myself up and out of my fix only solidified me more firmly into the mire. Those were some long days and restless nights that spanned the course of a few years. Thoughts whirled endlessly through my worrying head and no solution was found, no peace attained from the mental anguish I spawned.
I think back to those times often as I recall the wasted energy, the lack of peace, the missed joy. I was a mother then with a bright, beautiful, wonderful child who needed only the simplest things, if only I could have realized. I was fretting about things and money, both of which we had to have for survival, but truly those things were there, if not from the work of my own willing hands, from that of loving others, and I would find my way in time, with God's help to a place of independence from the help that troubled me.
You see, I was still growing myself and had a long way to go before being fully adult, yet I had jumped right into that big, demanding world of responsibility and felt it was surely going to break me if I didn't figure out a way to make it without having to take the help of others. I was ashamed of needing help. I was just plain and simply ashamed of me…
My little child had no idea of any of that. She just needed her mother to smile, to play with her, to rest with her, to be content. If only I could have trusted that God would see me through. That in time all things would work out for surely I was willing. I would do my part, but I took no comfort in such a thought. I was too young yet to recognize the truth of how life works.
If only I had taken to heart the scriptures and focused on them and the unchanging messages found therein, I could have had some peace. There would indeed have been work for me to do, but I could have done all the things that led to a better life without the worry, without the stress, if only I had known to and had the heart to trust.
"…Do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these." (Matthew 6:25-29)
I've thought a great deal about this scripture. It is not implying that we have no work to do as one might think upon first glance. Instead, it points out that God provides for the birds and for the flowers to do exactly what He created them to do. Scriptures admonish us to work diligently, to not be slothful in business, to work heartily as unto the Lord, but we are not to worry or fret as long as we do these things. We can rest assured, He will provide all of our needs when we surrender to living according to His will, to do what He has created us to do, and that indeed includes work.
God used those times of my early struggles to build some very important attributes in my character. He taught me to be humble. He developed patience and endurance in me. He gave me a grateful heart that continues all these years later to be filled with thanksgiving for the many blessings I might otherwise have taken for granted. He also built compassion and mercy into my attitude toward others as a result of having walked a hard road, feeling downtrodden and less than others. I also came to know the blessing of having a job. Once I was blessed with regular work and a good salary, I engaged it with enthusiasm and great joy, recognizing it as a gift from the Lord and I worked with diligence and integrity as a result.
I well remember a Christmas Eve that I served on-call for the hospital. I was called out to Redmond at about 4am. I was expecting Noah then, about 4 to 5 months along, and it was freezing cold, down in the teens or low twenties. I was driving there in my nice, warm car wrapped in my cozy wool coat and I felt an overwhelming sense of grace covering me. I knew God had so richly blessed my life and had provided in abundance for me and my family and I was glad to go and see the person that had found himself there in need on such a special day…Christmas. If not for my previous difficulties, I might have had a different heart, a different attitude, but because of my own suffering I could be very sensitive to his. I'm very thankful for that.
The benefit of the life lessons I've learned through personal struggles have far exceeded the cost. I hope this helps to encourage those who are facing hardships by reminding you there are often treasures to be found in the difficult process of digging your way out.


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Priming of naive CD8+ Capital t cells by pathogens or vaccines
February 9, 2018
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The NYT's story on the CIA officers shot at in Mexico–and possibly the WaPo one as well–appear to be partly a response to the publication of the CIA connection in Mexico's lefty La Jornada, which published a series of stories on the event yesterday. But there are details in those stories not treated in the US stories I've seen–details that increase my questions about whether the CIA guys shot at their pursuers.
The NYT, for example, repeats the Mexico Navy's clarification of its original release that their captain wasn't actually driving the car, but was sitting in the back seat.
The Mexican Navy said Tuesday in a statement that an American was driving the vehicle and that during the attack the captain, who was handling logistics and translating for the men, remained in the back seat calling for help on his cellphone.
The men were wounded, the Navy said, when the rain of bullets managed to tear through the car's protective armor.
This appears to be an attempt to answer how the Americans got hurt inside a bullet proof car. But it actually presents more problems than it answers. The pictures of the Land Cruiser show three main kinds of bullet damage to the car: the tires appear to have been shot out (and something may have happened to the back right wheel), at least four bullets hit–and may have pierced–the rear window of the vehicle, and a ton of shots hit–but don't appear to have pierced–the passenger window. But there appears to be less damage to the driver side, mostly bullets in the steel. Did the bullets enter the rear window and go past the Mexican captain to injure Americans in the front seat? And how do such shots injure people in the leg and stomach–through the steel doors? Remember, too, that some reports say 30 bullets hit the car, but 60 shell casings were found at the scene.
Which is why I find it interesting that Mexico's Attorney General is asking the Federales for the guns used in the attack.
Oh, and by the way, according to this article, the CIA officers were shooting instructors who were training the Mexican Navy's special forces on, among other things, sharpshooting. Are you telling me shooting instructors had no guns in the car–not even the Mexican Navy captain–as reports say over and over?
Though of course if they were really training the Navy on shooting, it'd be more likely that they were JSOC or retired JSOC, which might explain why all these stories came out saying they're CIA, which is bad, but still not as bad as active duty military would be.
Incidentally, in one of La Jornada's stories, a Labor Party Senator, Ricardo Monreal bitches not only that Felipe Calderón lets the Americans fly drones in Mexico, but also that he allows US agents to be armed in the country.
And if the Americans–or the Mexican captain, now sitting in the backseat–did return fire, then it might explain another detail reported by La Jornada.
The paper reports that there were actually 18 police involved in the attack, not just the 12 in custody; there was an initial group of police in civilian clothes, and then a later group in uniform, who ultimately stopped the attack (family members of some of the men in custody say they were among the later, uniformed group). More interesting, three of the five (civilian) cars used in the attack are reportedly not in the custody of the Attorney General conducting the investigation. Is there evidence on those cars–such as bullet marks of their own–that somebody in Mexico or the US would like to bury?
Also note, the same article says that when the uniformed police showed up one of the agents yelled out that they were diplomats traveling with a Navy guy, which is what stopped the shooting. Uh, during a gun battle? Yelled? And in what language, given that the Navy captain was purportedly their translator (even the one attached to the US embassy in Mexico)? Did he open the door to yell?
All that's assuming these guys are really fancy shooting instructors, though. One of La Jornada's stories reports both that the kind of training these men were doing has been going on since the last Administration (presumably meaning the Fox Administration, which ended in 2006), but also that they've been engaged in it just since last Tuesday (remember, one of the two agents is not based in Mexico and was just here on a special assignment, so that's possible).
Then there's the question of where the Americans were headed. La Jornada–and the original Navy release–say they were headed to a training camp in Xalatlaco, which is marked on the map above. The fight took place close to the town of Huitzilac, as the Americans were pulling into a dirt road, where the police said they were hunting kidnappers. Except reports say the Americans were coming from Mexico City. It seems like it would only make sense to go through Huitzilac and Tres Marías to get to Xalatlaco if you were coming from Cuernavaca–there are more direct routes from Mexico City. As I noted, there was a shoot out in Cuernavaca the night before this attack, and the CIA agents were originally taken there, only later to be taken to a Navy hospital in Mexico City and then brought back to the States, so it would be interesting if they were coming from Cuernavaca.
Finally, there's this. La Jornada includes this story in their package on the shooting, without an explanation of what it has to do with the shooting. It talks about the cooperation and intelligence sharing between the US and Mexico on law enforcement–including drugs and money laundering. But it also focuses on US participation in interrogations. And it notes that both the Mexican Navy (in whose company the CIA agents were traveling) and the Attorney General (who is investigating the shooting) conduct such information sharing. Among the two notable cases of cooperation the article discusses is this one, in which the Navy captured a guy they believed to be El Chapo Guzman's son, but who turned out to be a used car dealer.
After working months with U.S. intelligence, the Mexican navy said it believed it had nabbed a big prize in a known Guadalajara narco-haven: the son of Mexico's top fugitive drug lord.
But it turned out they got the wrong man.
The man arrested Thursday as the presumed son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is really Felix Beltran Leon, 23, and not Alfredo Guzman Salazar, as the Mexican Navy had presented him, the Attorney General's Office said Friday.
Mexico and the US blamed each other for the faulty intelligence.
The Attorney General's Office issued a statement earlier Friday saying the original information on his identity came from the United States.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the information came from Mexico.
"The Mexican Navy and Mexican law enforcement have said this is El Chapo's son and that's what we took," said DEA spokesman Rusty Payne, noting that the DEA is working separately to confirm the man's identity.
Now, the article may be entirely unrelated, or it may imply there's a tie they can't confirm between this earlier botched operation and the shooting last week.
As the WaPo reported yesterday, one of the guys in the incident, Stan Dove Boss had a post office box in the same facility as a guy involved in renditions. And the Federales claimed they were investigating a kidnapping, which si another name for capture and interrogation, particularly of the kind we've been doing in the last decade.
Were these guys in Mexico for shooting lessons, or interrogations?
Update: In addition to all the reasons why the Mexicans and Americans would have for hiding whatever these spooks were doing in Mexico, there's also the recent example of the DEA-related shooting in Honduras. A report released earlier this month makes it clear our government has been lying its ass off about what went on in the May 11 shooting.


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While watching BattleBots last night, I couldn't help but recall the intense (though much smaller scale) robot wars that MIT, UCLA, Caltech and Japanese engineering colleges used to compete in back in the 80's. From what little I remember, their machines were a lot smaller, but seemed technologically superior. I also recall American colleges almost always losing. These current battlebots pale in comparison, it's really a dumbed down version of the uber nerd competitions of yesteryear.
I also saw Best in Show last night, and it was almost like a Waiting for Guffman 2 (which is actually a good thing). Very funny stuff.


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Traditionally a rural area, and today a semi-rural suburban region, Carrickmines is now divided northeast/southwest by the M50 motorway, with, to the northeast, more established residential areas, and to the southwest, notably along Glenamuck Road, new retail parks, office buildings, and housing schemes including many apartments.
Basic Tips on How to Choose the Best House Cleaning Service
Before you schedule a home cleaning service …
When looking for the very best house cleaning company, it's simple to get overwhelmed with info overload.
Arranging through websites, getting quotes, and talking with each company might take a number of days, perhaps even weeks, to go through.
Even then, you still might not make certain whether you're getting the most out of your loan or not.
So to help you browse the world of housecleaning, we're sharing 5 Insider Tips on How to Choose a House Cleaning Service.
You'll learn what to search for in a respectable home cleaning company, the best times to book, and how to make your cleaning company cheaper.
Make sure to read this prior to scheduling anywhere if you've never booked a housekeeping service prior to or are in the market for a brand-new clean service.
1. Lessen the Scope
Decide what you need cleaned in your house
What do you actually require aid with?
Of all, it's crucial to take stock of the things you actually desire cleaned because not all cleaning services perform the very same services. For instance, some do your laundry, make the beds, wash the dishes, etc.– so it's essential to understand what you need before you book and ensure that the company you work with does those tasks.
Do not assume anything. There's absolutely nothing worse than getting back and expecting the laundry to be folded and recognize it's refrained from doing since it's not part of their service agreement with you.
If you're on a budget plan, choosing on what you actually require cleaned up is a way to tailor your cleaning to make it a little less expensive.
For example, maybe all you really require aid on is the kitchen and bathrooms? Some cleaning services allow you to book cleanings for just parts of your house (usually the restrooms and kitchen because they're the hardest parts of the house to clean). Cleaning and wiping down of other surface areas they look after themselves.
Or perhaps you just need some aid with your housecleaning once a month instead of each week or every 2 weeks? If you do not have kids, this is a more reasonable option, however even if you do, getting a break as soon as a month can be something you eagerly anticipate.
2. The More Frequent the Appointments, the Better
Frequency matters
Need a monthly cleaning, bi-weekly, or weekly cleaning? Or possibly simply a one time clean for vacating? Take a truly close take a look at how frequently you need home cleaning consultations. Perhaps you can get away with bi-weekly cleanings rather of weekly?
With that in mind though, generally the more routine the service is the more affordable (in regards to expense per go to) it will be. For example, bi-weekly cleanings will be cheaper per see, than regular monthly sees, sometimes costing just a couple of dollars more monthly. You might also attempt going weekly, then changing your cleaning services later on if you feel like you do not require it as often, or vice versa by going regular monthly and increasing the frequency if needed.
Leave and one-time visits will nearly constantly cost the most per go to due to the fact that of how extensive the cleaning is and because it's not an ongoing, regular service.
3. Look Up Reviews Or Ask Friends For Recommendations
Asking pals, family and coworkers who have actually had hired a home cleaning service prior to for their recommendation can conserve you a great deal of headaches due to the fact that you can be fairly sure that if they had a great experience, you will too. That's one of the primary ways Scrubbi grew the method we did.
A side advantage of going through a cleaning service that was suggested you is that sometimes, they'll offer a referral credit to you AND a credit to the person suggesting you. It's a win-win for both of you.
If you don't have anyone to ask, or wish to do your own search, checking out up on a business' customer reviews can offer you an idea of what you're entering into.
Look them up on Google, Yelp, Homestars, and their own website for reviews that people have actually put up.
4. Flat Rates and Walk-throughs
Flat rate is much better
You understand that jaw-dropping cleaning quote that's €100 less than the others?
Yes it sounds terrific and all but you'll certainly wish to double check to see if it's a flat rate.
Possibilities are that it's not which they've grossly under approximated the job.
Which is how you might wind up with a surprise €350 expense at the end when you believed you were getting it for about €170.
Not just that, but the performance and effort of the housemaids is not something you will know beforehand– a flat rate is more stable and guarantees that you know what you're spending for and aren't stunned when you see the last bill.
Do a walk-through
This is one we can't worry enough.
As soon as the cleaning has been done, do a walk-through with the cleaner to guarantee that nothing has actually been missed.
This gives you a possibility to see if anything was missed or if an area of your home needs a bit more attention to be done a bit better.
As soon as the cleaners leave, it's practically difficult to get them to come back the exact same day, so make certain everything looks excellent prior to they leave.
Make sure to do the walk-through as soon as possible if you can't be home at the time of service. The more credible cleaning business have a cleaning service guarantee but you normally need to alert them within 24 hours about any issues.
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5. Try to find A Better Cleaning Experience
There are advantages and drawbacks to each and those distinctions cause big differences in terms of your experience.
Whatever from online customer assistance chat to scheduling, consultation reminders, and more, we utilize innovation to create a better customer experience for you.
We're likewise up front with the costs and don't try to trick you with "man-hours" or charge you for cleaning add-ons that you do not need.
Exactly what are "man-hours"?
What takes place is individuals fall under the trap of being quoted a rate per hour but they do not realize is that this cost per hour is per cleaner.
So for example, if a company says they'll charge you €25 per male hour and three cleaners show up, you're in fact being charged €75 per hour (3 x €25).
The other problem with charging by the hour is that the cleaners do not have a reward to work harder or faster– in truth, they really have a reward to go SLOWER!
If you're delighted with your cleaning, thankfully we've discovered a solution to both these issues by charging a flat rate and providing our cleaners a reward.
This ensures that you get the excellent quality cleaning that you're trying to find without the surprise costs at the end.
The "More Maids" fallacy
I get why individuals believe that having more cleaners is better.
It makes sense to think that having more house maids will suggest that your home will be cleaner and be finished in less time than just one.
That line of thinking is based on a couple of assumptions like: A) all house maids are terrific at cleaning and B) there will be no chit chat or wasting of time while they're in your house.
While 'B' isn't as huge of a concern, 'A' definitely is.
The truth is, it's hard enough to discover one great maid that: focuses on details, has the knowledge to go out various stains on a variety of surface areas, is reliable, appears consistently, and works effectively.
Having entire groups of 2, 3, or more terrific maids like that are– while not difficult -really, really rare.
Reward: What to Look Out For in Move Out Cleaning Services
Moving in or out of your house? The above pointers still use for one of the most part with some modifications. Here's a quick overview of what to keep an eye out for:
Reserve early
Not only can it get more pricey as you get closer to the end of the month, bookings fill FAST. If you wait to long, you might lose out and have to clean the home yourself (which does not assist when you're already busy) or you'll have to opt for any assistance you can discover– not precisely ideal for a time delicate task like moving out of a house.
Flat rate is still better
If you're reserving a move-out service, opt for one that cleans up for a flat rate instead of a hourly rate. The effectiveness and effort of the house maids is not something you will know in advance advertisement a flat rate ensures that you understand what you're paying for and aren't struck with a shock when you see the last expense.
Do a walk-through
This is one we can't stress enough. When the cleaning has actually been done, do a walk-through with the cleaner to make sure that absolutely nothing has actually been missed out on. Make sure to do the walk-through as soon as possible if you can't be house at the time of service. The more trustworthy cleaning business have a cleaning service assurance but you normally need to alert them within 24 hours about any issues.
If you choose to go through an independent cleaner, many times they don't have a service assurance and will automatically contest any issues you declare if you bring it up with them. The exact same chooses anything that may have been taken or harmed so once again, check your insurance to see if you're covered.


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I've been away from my beloved blog here for so long, I feel as though I should sing a chorus of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".
But I'll spare you.
My primary academic interest is examining the ways we create and recreate our lives in virtual spaces. I come from the point of view that technology like a hammer or saw; fantastically useful tools that someone can decide to pick up and use as an implant of construction or destruction. It's not the tool, its the end user.
Virtually every new communication technology from the alphabet (Thank you Nancy Baym for that great quote from Plato!)* to the airplane (because you do realize that transportation is a type of communication tool, right?) to the Internet has been decried as that thing that will make our society dystopic, make our society utopic, make us smarter, make us dumber, foster connections between people, drive us farther apart. And someone will always proclaim that it somehow makes us less human and our youths sex mad, .
Poppycock and Balderdash.
This is why I disagree with authors like Robert Putnam and Sherry Turkel. Yes I think society has changed, but I think it was and is still doing just that: changing. Every age has its affordances and constraints from its technology, but technology is just the tool, not the determiner of the world we live in.
That is completely up to us.
Anyway, for the uninitiated among you, xkcd is a thrice weekly web comic written by Randall Munroe. It is funny, highly geeky, and at times head scratchy. A few days ago, he absolutely nailed how ridiculous the moral ( and every other) panic associated with technology is.
(BTW: if you are not familiar with the comic, I suggest checking it out. It's great!)
* In her book, Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Nancy Baym quotes Socrates' warning', by way of Plato, that the creation of an alphabet that allowed people to write instead of extemporaneously orate would make us all dullards. Makes me chuckle every time.
(Link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1289/)


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Tartagal Site of the study
The city of Tartagal is located at the base of the Argentinean sub-Andean hills (22◦32-S, 63◦49-W, 450m above sea level) at 450m above sea level, in the Salta province (Fig. 1).
The city is distant of 365 km from the city of Salta, capital of the province, and of 55 km from the Bolivian border. Tartagal's urban area covers approximately 15 km2, with 60585 inhabitants, including several ethnic groups such as native Amerindians (Instituto Nacional de Estad´ıstica y Censos, 2001).
The city is surrounded by subtropical native forests and crops such as, beans, cotton, soybean, maize, grapefruit and tomato. The climate is subtropical, with annual rainfalls of about 1000 mm, means temperatures of about 23◦ C in spring, 38◦ C in summer, 14◦ C in autumn and 9◦ C in winter, with more than 350 days free of frost annually.
- Fig. 1. Geographical location and satellite image from LandSat 5 TM (25th January 2004) of the city of Tartagal


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Late/Absence Procedures
The school gates will be opened at 8.45am and the bell is rung at 8:50am.
Morning registration takes place between 8:50 and 9:00am.
Arrival after this time is marked late - L. Arrival after 9.00am is marked as U and counts as an unauthorised absence.
If your child is unwell and will not be attending school, please notify the school office no later than 9.15am.


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Overview and aims
The module introduces you to project environments in which the construction industry operates. Its aims are to enable you to:
- critically evaluate a range of potential project environments and the consequences of operating within those environments
- develop competencies in the application of management to both the overall process of project management and to specific stages within that process, including knowledge and understanding of health, safety, welfare and environmental issues in the construction process
- acquire skill in project definition, planning, implementation and completion
Module content
- The contextual setting of projects. Project management systems as determined by the criteria of parameters such as time, cost, quality, safety and environment. The implications of off-site and on-site management of construction projects
- Project definition and project implementation. Project start-up, constructability, strategies, mechanisation. Capacity, logistics, production, productivity, purchasing and supply
- The operational planning the project in terms of time, cost, quality, welfare, safety and environment. The use of information technology
- Project close-down. Commissioning, documentation, handover, final settlement, project audit
Learning outcomes
After studying this module you should be able to:
- critically evaluate project definition, tender and bidding requirements from the client, designer, constructor and legal perspectives, and the implications for constructors
- define, analyse and critically evaluate/plan projects in terms of time, cost, quality, welfare, safety and environment, including the use of information technology
- identify and critically discuss project close-down procedures.
This module will help you gain the skills and qualities to:
- collect and integrate information and data from various sources
- analyse, evaluate and interpret complex factual information and relevant issues in a systematic, critical and creative manner, and evaluate alternative processes and/or measure against relative criteria; making logical recommendations based on analysis, information and circumstances
- identify, define, critically evaluate and propose solutions to complex problems, including generation of new ideas, innovations, and concepts where appropriate
- effectively communicate information, ideas and concepts in a clear and articulate style, including the use of information technologies and systems where appropriate
- develop and use personal skills and competencies to enable effective individual and team working, applying ethical and professional values to the work environment
- use a range of contemporary electronic methods in a critical, creative and innovative way, and use complex subject specific specialist software to communicate nationally and internationally
- gain a critical appreciation of the flexibility needed to manage projects.


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Little puzzles and enigmas in Licca and her family's life stories have finally been elucidated in a book called "Eien no Licca-chan" (Eternal Licca-chan), which was published in 1992 for Licca's 25th anniversary and seems to be the most complete and reliable source. So here's the definitive version of :
Licca's Trials and Tribulations
Contents :
Licca's Life Story
Licca's Profile
Licca's Family
The Phantom of the Kayama
In a way, Licca will be 11 years old for eternity. But as times change and little girls become more ambitious, so Licca, who was supposed at the time of her debut to be a not too bright pupil at school, changes also and eventually becomes a diplomat. Here is Licca's life story as concocted by Takara and revealed to the public on the occasion of her 30th birthday in 1997.
1967 Licca is born on May 3rd to Orie Kayama, a Japanese fashion designer, and Pierre Miramonde, a French musician. It seems that Pierre was so entranced by the beauty of his wife's family name (Kayama can be taken to mean "fragrant mountain") that he adopted it and became "Pierre Kayama Miramonde". In most Licca-chan literature he's identified as "Pierre Kayama"!
1st to 4th generation Mama
Licca's Papa
1969 Licca's mother Orie opens her first fashion boutique, "Jueru" (it's the phonetic transcription of "jewel").
Licca's first "Shichi-go-san". This means "Seven-five-three" and is a traditional ceremony taking place on November 15th; parents take their 3- and 7-years old girls and their 3- and 5-years old boys to the shrine, thank the local divinities and pray for their growing up healthy and strong. At this occasion Licca is very happy because her parents buy her some "Chitose-ame" ("thousand-year-candy") and she gets her picture taken to commemorate the day.
Licca enters kindergarten and makes many friends. She gets especially close to long-haired Izumi.
1974 Licca joins Shirakaba Elementary School (shirakaba means white birch). That same year her twin sisters Miki and Maki are born.
Miki (left) and Maki
1977 Licca takes first place in a piano competition (she has been studying the piano since the age of 3). Her father is euphoric.
1978 Licca is 11 years old, the age at which we know her as a doll. As a momento of that New Year she gets her picture taken with her 2 bosom friends, Isamu and Izumi. The 3 of them are known as the "Licca-chan trio".
1979 Licca enters Shirakaba Junior High School and joins the school tennis club.
Licca is in her second year at Shirakaba Junior High (in Japan the duration of studies is of 6 years in elementary school, 3 years in junior high and 3 years in high school; the school year is from April to March). She wins the tennis tournament and is elected "Miss Shirakaba" at the school festival.
1983 Licca joins Shirakaba High School.
1984 Licca spends the summer vacation of her second year at Shirakaba High staying with her grand-parents in France. Is it under the influence of her diplomat grand-father that from that time Licca begins to strive towards becoming a diplomat one day.
Licca enters university. She studies hard but also joins the university tennis club. Many boys from the club and from other universities whom she meets at competitions ask her for a date, but nobody knows who her favorite is.
1987 Licca's triplet brother and sisters are born.
1989 Licca's 4th and final year at university. She fulfills her dream and succeeds at the diplomatic service examination. In the past Licca's father had been away a lot of the time giving performances overseas, but now he's decided to spend more time in Japan and to increase the number of his local concerts.
1990 Licca has graduated from university, broken through barriers and become a member of the diplomatic corps. She's sent to her father's native land, France.
1991 Licca is dating Frantz, who's also a diplomat and who also has a Japanese mother and a French father.
After one year Licca marries Frantz. His family name is written phonetically as "Shibure". Licca decides to keep on working for a while (one would like to think so, after so much studying!).
1994 Anticipating a new addition to the family Licca and her husband move from an apartment to a spacious house.
1996 Licca is expecting. She plans to take a parental leave from work and considers concentrating on her child's education for a while.
Licca and Frantz's first child, a girl, is born on February 11th. Frantz says: "Licca, my dearest wish is to bestow your beautiful name upon our beloved daughter" and so the child is called Licca also. That's all folks! Maybe more in 29 years, for Licca's 60th birthday.
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Licca-chan Profile
Info from a 1987 booklet: Licca is 142 cm high and weighs 34 kg. She likes tennis, chowchow dogs and baking, her idol is Princess Diana. She wants to be a fashion designer when she grows up (but becomes a diplomat instead) and likes clothes like Akina wears (a singer well-known at the time) . Her favorite colors are pink and white, her favorite manga is Doraemon, her favorite snacks are custard pudding and Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, her favorite band is Shounentai and currently she's mad about SuperMario video games.
|Licca-chan profile
|Licca-chan doll
|Vinyl chloride resin
|11(5th year at elementary school)
|Arms and legs
|Vinyl chloride resin
|Blood type
|ABS resin
|Best liked school subjects
|Languages, music, art
|Least liked subject
|Chemical fiber (Saran)
|Favorite flower
|Pink rose and red tulip
|Face paint
|Vinyl chloride paints (7 colors)
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Licca's family tree
Who knew? Through her French father, Licca is actually the descendant of an illustrious royal family. The secret of her birth is now revealed to the wondering public!
Note : in France "Mirene" would usually be written as "Mylene", this name is too recent to be plausible as Licca's great-grandmother's.
Licca's Mother's name is Kayama. Pierre liked the name so much he took it as his surname.
Little tidbits about a few members of the family
Pierre's younger brother Luc is an F1 driver. He first met his wife Therese at a party where he was celebrating his victory. With kittenish Therese he lives as if in a perpetual honeymoon. Therese is the daughter of the president of a car company. She was a successful fashion model, but retired when she fell passionately in love. She's a charming childlike woman so delightful that her whims are always forgiven.
Licca's 11 year old cousin Charles is handsome and clever. Girls are infatuated with him but he doesn't even look at them. When he met his aunt Orie his perception of women changed, and he's also quite fond of Licca.
Charles and his girlfriend Chocolat
Charles has younger twin siblings a brother, Marron and a sister, Creme.
Pierre's younger sister Diane is a freelance writer specializing in animals and nature. When she visited Japan to gather material for her work, she was charmed by its beauty and now lives in Shinshuu.
The Miramonde family (pictured: Albert and Helene Miramonde)
Once upon a time the Miramondes' ancestors where part of a royal family, renowned throughout Europe. Their crest is distinguished by two white swans whose necks create a heart-shape over a banner proclaiming "Virtus, Amor, Honor" and a rose. As a clan tradition, a bangle is presented to each first-born daughter in the family by her grandmother. Licca's bangle is engraved with her birthdate and the words "Licca Kayama Miramonde". (Editor's note : what about Licca's elder sister Rie?) Who's the mysterious air stewardess with a mole on her ear? Why is Licca's elder sister never mentioned? Read on to discover :
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The Phantom of the Kayama or What happened to Rie?
One day, Licca's mother Orie, having won a fashion design contest in Japan, was on her way to France to take part in an international design contest. When she felt sick on the plane, a nice stewardess came to comfort her. As the strangely familiar-looking stewardess was bending over her, Orie noticed a mole on her earlobe, turned paler yet, and asked in a wavering voice : "What...what's your name? Who are you?" "My name is Rie, my father is a French orchestra conductor. My mother is Japanese but for certain reasons at the moment I'm living alone with my father in France." "Rie! My daughter!" "Ma...Mama?" Such was the story that accompanied the release of the Rie doll, sold from 1972 to 1974. It must be said that Orie and her husband Pierre were separated for a while after Licca's birth. Still, I don't see why Orie had to be estranged from her elder daughter! Stranger still, Orie by herself managed to give birth to the twins in 1974, and to the triplets in 1987 (let's draw a chaste veil on how she managed this exactly). Pierre came back to Japan to join his family and made his first appearance as a doll in 1989. Rie was a stewardess on international flights, a sweet girl who liked to paint pictures and write poetry in her spare time. In 1974, the Rie doll was suddenly removed from the market and all mention of her on the back of boxes and booklets disappeared. No explanation was given. What probably happened is that people at Takara realized that she wasn't consistent with the rest of the family. Orie's age at that time wasn't specified, but she had just had the twins when Rie disappeared, and the age gap between her children was certainly becoming conspicuous. Now that Orie and Pierre are supposed to be 33 and 36 (in the current Licca-chan story-line) and have baby triplets, there certainly seems to be no room for a daughter old enough to be an air stewardess! But it is possible that in the dead of night, in very old and dusty toy shops, if you kept a careful watch you'd be able to espy a small half-transparent silhouette, desperately searching all the nooks and corners, looking for her lost family. She's wearing an air stewardess' uniform.
News Flash: Rie has found her family at last........in Canada!!
Note: all pictures on this page not taken by myself are from "Licca-chan Perfect Data Catalog".
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History Point Score
- Have you taken tetracycline or other antibiotics for acne for one month or longer?
- Have you at any time in your life taken other "broad-spectrum" antibiotics for respiratory, urinary, or other infections for two months or longer, or in short courses four or more times in a one-year period?
- Have you ever taken a broad-spectrum antibiotic (even a single course)?
- Have you at anytime in your life been bothered by persistent prostatitis, vaginitis, or other problems affecting your reproductive organs?
- Have you been pregnant one time? 3 Two or more times?
- Have you ever taken birth control pills for six months to two years? For more than two years?
- Have you taken prednisone or other cortisone type drugs for two weeks or less? 6 For more than two weeks?
- Does exposure to perfumes, insecticides, fabric shop odors, and other chemicals provoke mild symptoms? Provoke moderate to severe symptoms?
- Are your symptoms worse on damp, muggy days or moldy places? 20
- Have you had athlete's foot, ringworm, "jock itch," or other chronic infections of the skin or nails? Mild to moderate? 10 Severe or persistent?
- Do you crave sugar?
- Do you crave breads?
- Do you crave alcoholic beverages?
- Does tobacco smoke really bother you?
Major Symptoms Point Score
For each of your symptoms below, enter the appropriate figure in the Point Score Column.
If symptom is occasional or mild score 3 points
If symptom is frequent and/or moderately severe score 6 points
If a symptom is severe and/or disabling score 9 points
- Fatigue or lethargy
- Feeling of being drained
- Poor memory
- Feeling "spacey" or "unreal"
- Depression
- Numbness, burning, or tingling
- Muscle aches
- Muscle weakness or paralysis
- Pain and/or swelling in joints
- Abdominal pain
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Bloating
- Persistent vaginal itch
- Persistent vaginal burning
- Prostatitis
- Impotence
- Loss of sexual desire
- Endometriosis
- Cramping and other menstrual irregularities
- Premenstrual tension
- Spots in front of eyes
- Erratic vision
Other Symptoms
For each of the symptoms below, enter the appropriate figure in the point Score Column.
If symptom is occasional or mild score 1 point
If symptom is frequent and/or moderately severe score 2 points
If a symptom is severe and/or disabling score 3 points
- Drowsiness
- Irritability
- Lack of coordination
- Inability to concentrate
- Frequent mood swings
- Headache
- Dizziness/loss of balance
- Pressure above ears, feeling of head swelling and tingling
- Itching
- Other rashes
- Heartburn
- Indigestion
- Belching and intestinal gas
- Mucus in stools
- Hemorrhoids
- Dry mouth
- Rash or blisters in mouth
- Bad breath
- Joint swelling or arthritis
- Nasal congestion or discharge
- Postnasal drip
- Nasal itching
- Sore or dry throat
- Cough
- Pain or tightness in chest
- Wheezing or shortness of breath
- Urinary urgency or frequency
- Burning on urination
- Failing vision
- Burning or tearing of eyes
- Recurrent infections or fluid in ears
- Ear pain or deafness
Total Score from section one ______________
Total score from section two ______________
Total score for section three ______________
Women Men
Yeast- connected health problems are almost certainly present >180 >140
Yeast-connected health problems are probably present 120-180 90-140
Yeast-connected health problems are possibly present 60-119 40-89
Yeast-connected health problems are less likely to be present <60 <40
This questionnaire is adapted from W. G. Crook The Yeast Connection.
Although the Candida Questionnaire can help determine your condition, ultimately the best method for diagnosing candidiasis is clinical evaluation by a physician knowledgeable about yeast-related illness.
If your score indicates you have a yeast overgrowth, I highly recommend the yeast control products: Yeast Max, YeastZyme Max, and Ultimate FloraMax Advanced Care 100 Billion


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Trump's weaponizing of the flag is a political move
October 18, 2017
Columnists' opinions are their own and may not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Illini.
Traditionally, the American flag serves as a physical symbol for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These concepts are almost universally agreed upon as the founding rights for the United States, rights that many Americans are proud to possess. Even in politics, liberals and conservatives alike promote the democratic views of the United States and the flag that represents it. Rarely is the flag a cause for national controversy.
That is until this last month in President Trump's America. An increase in divisiveness on what it means to stand for the flag is an unprecedented political strategy that sacrifices long-term stability of the common good for short-term political expediency.
President Trump's recent tweets and public statements have included an overwhelming amount of attention toward the flag, specifically marking protesters who choose to kneel during the national anthem. Given that the initial reason for these protests was to spread awareness of police brutality, statistically speaking, all of the participating athletes have been black and almost all of the support for these protests have come from the left.
Trump's amplification of the protests essentially wage a cultural war on liberals or any political identity that shares common sentiment with these protestors, claiming that their actions are un-American. The Trump administration has even taken it so far as to stage a taxpayer funded walk-out of an Indianapolis Colts game by Vice President Mike Pence.
All these actions, observed more carefully, can be clearly identified as a political ploy to double down on the white nationalist vote by painting democrats, leftists, blacks or all of the aforementioned as un-American. If you were to go on Twitter, you would think that this is politically foolish and a failing strategy. But the reality is that most Americans, whether it is in public or in private, tacitly consent to this motive and therefore allow it to persist.
This aim for short-term gains and a re-election bid may be effective in the present, but it is detrimental to the commonwealth of the United States going forward. The United States cannot allow a nationalistic ideology that promotes isolationism and protectionism with tones of white supremacy to harness the most iconic symbol of the United States. This ill-willed strategy corrupts the values on which America was founded upon.
The dangers of allowing a universal symbol to represent a minority—a small but powerful, nationalistic movement—can be found in the stability of our union. As President Trump continues to attempt to push his political opponents out of the field of what it means to be "American," it leads to ideological backlash and anti-American sentiment.
The more divided and destructive the two sides of the political spectrum is, the higher the chance for President Trump to win re-election. At the end of the day, people are going to act in self-preservation according to what they believe benefits them. Most people believe in the idea of America and the values of liberal democracy that come with it. The issue is that it is incredibly easy to attach these principles to objects to represent them.
Objects like a flag can represent ideas that a vast majority of Americans, liberals or conservatives, can agree with—ideas such as honoring veterans. The president is then able to twist the flag's representation to something else while simultaneously including a universally accepted value with it. It's incredibly easy to point to an individual protesting an injustice by not standing for a universal symbol and then accuse them of disrespecting an idea that is universally accepted though unrelated to the reasoning of the protest.
As the United States seems to pull itself from pragmatism and more so to ideology, the cultural war for what the flag means and weaponizing it for individual agendas tears at the fabric of our republic. Time will tell if this is a blip in a strategy for an unorthodox presidency or if it leads to a more serious, dangerous movement in the United States.
Austin is a sophomore in Media.


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Warner Bros. Animation director Sam Liu talks about the experience of bringing the seminal comic to the screen.
Writer Frank Miller and illustrator David Mazzucchelli's Year One storyline is one of the seminal in comics' history. Now it has been adapted in animated form from DC Direct and Warner Premiere. Shepherded by Bruce Timm, the faithful rendition was directed by Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery. I had a chance to speak with Liu about his experience working on the project. He's not new to the Batman world having worked on the series The Batman, as well as the animated features Superman / Batman: Public Enemies and Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
Rick DeMott: How was this project different than some of the previous versions of the character you have worked with?
Sam Liu:
It's different because it's year one. Bruce is still trying to figure it out. And also the way Frank Miller wrote it it's not slick, ultra designed Gotham. Bruce [Timm] called it — old-school Chicago. It's not these super huge skyscrapers. [Bruce] is not a ninja, yet. So we didn't do these crazy types of fights. It's a lot grittier. Real world. Not Hong Kong fighting.
RD: The story is very close to the comic. What was changed and why?
The changes were very few. The ones that happened on the script level I'm not super aware of. Bruce's mandate from the very beginning was to make it as spot on as humanly possible. So we tried not to embellish too much, even though the running time was short. Lauren and I had talked about trying to get more things in or expanding certain areas but Bruce didn't want to do that. He wanted to stay as faithful as possible to the source material. Which is great in a way, but there were some things I wish we could have expounded upon a little more. That was the edict from the very top to make it as close as possible. Even when we came out short, we requested that a writer go in a write new scenes, but Bruce didn't want to do that.
RD: The comic was even used as part of the storyboard process; did you find that helpful or constraining?
SL: David Mazzucchelli's stuff is so cinematic that in this case it was very helpful. We do pick and choose as far as what we can use. If it flat out doesn't work we'll deviate. But in this case it made the job much easier. There are a lot of panels in there that could be the in-between panel. I didn't think it was limiting.
RD: Though it's called Batman: Year One, it's just as much James Gordon and Gotham's story. How did you like exploring areas of the Batman world that might not have explored so deeply before?
Just me personal the kind of stories that I get really invested in are the psychological ones. Human condition type stories. I loved it. It could be argued that it's more Gordon's story than Bruce, but in a way I thought that was smart, because you sort of leave Batman as a mythical figure because you don't see him too much. He kind of becomes the boogieman. It's a "less is more" type of thing, which I thought was great.
Working on The Batman series in the early 2000s, I think the edict on that was to humanize Batman more. The shows that were like flashbacks from other people's point of view were a lot more true to the character. It made him a lot scarier because he came in and you wouldn't set him up too much. If you were with him too much, it almost makes him too human.
I felt the Gordon story was this extra element. The backdrop is this bad city. It's corrupt top to bottom. The gangsters are working with the police. The people who are supposed to enforce the law are corrupt. The politicians are corrupt. Gordon is the only one that is trying to make things right. Batman, from the other angle, believes that he is the only one who is trying to make this right. So in a weird way it's two people with ultimately the same goal finding each other. That's why the combination works.
RD: Did you find it hard to balance the two stories over what is just an hour-long film?
SL: This falls into whether it's a benefit in having such a strong source material to work from or a hindrance? We just trusted the script. Bruce wanted it so close to the source material so I was a little gun shy to expound on moments. In a way it was a little bit of a limitation, but I didn't have to think about it because this is what we were doing. Bruce really worked out the story he wanted in the script phase. So for Lauren and I we just followed the blueprint. We just identified the moment and tried to nail those as visually interesting as we could.
RD: Was there fear that there wasn't enough action in the story?
SL: For me I was like "I don't know how this is going to go," because Christopher Nolan and so many other people whether they be Batman stories or other stories have taken elements from Year One. So I was a little concerned that people would say that they have seen this in movies before. Also most of the DC Direct movies have been about action. Big fight scenes. These apocalyptic tales. But this one is like an old mobster type movie like Scarface or Serpico. For me I thought if we made it into a superhero movie we're going to fail.
I was trying to push in more elements of the city and the mob. In the end, it's Batman fighting the nephew of the lead gangster who is kind of dumb, so I felt no one would be impressed by that because it's not like you're fighting Darkseid. So it was a challenge. It was a movie you had to immerse people in the character or else it was going to fail. It was like All-Star Superman because that was something different then we had been doing with the DC Direct stuff. It was a lot more personal.
RD: The story makes Gotham a place where it's going to take more than one person to make a change. The nephew is just part of a bigger problem. If he's gone there is someone worse to take his place.
SL: Yeah. It really wanted to hit that more though. I wanted to push the fact the police are in cahoots with the gangsters and all of the big powers. All of them are pressing Gordon, who is the public face of wanting to do right. Batman is coming in and helping him out.
RD: When it comes to pacing, how do you view the difference between comic storytelling and filmic storytelling?
In both mediums you can cheat time, but I feel in animation it's more difficult to do it. You have to explain things a little more. The separate dates on the screen helped a lot.
There is a scene where Gordon is having a nice dinner with his wife and she is massaging him and then it cuts to another Gordon scene, so Lauren and I were like "how are we going to transition out of this?" It's from a Gordon moment to another Gordon moment if we just cut it will look like it happened 30 minutes later. Is it the next day or the next week? So those are the problems that you run into in animation that a comic book doesn't have.
RD: How did you divvy up the directing duties between you and Lauren?
SL: Lauren and I worked together before on Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and on that one we were both a little freer so we worked together a lot, but with this one we were both so busy. I was editing All-Star Superman at the time and she was working on Green Lantern: Emerald Knights at the time. So it was about availability. We have offices right next to each other so we were like I'm busy for the next couple of days could you look at whatever else comes in sort of thing. Or there were sections that would come in and we were like you take this, this and this and I'll take that, that and that. I would do my revisions on it and I'd show her and she'd make additional changes and if we didn't agree we'd talk about it. It was a back and forth type of thing. It was out of necessity.
RD: This seems like a project Bruce Timm really wanted to do. How much was he involved?
SL: Bruce isn't as interested in the middle part, the building part. I feel like he is very specific about design. We went through a few people to find the ones who got the closest to the Mazzucchelli style. He is specific about the basic story and the writing process of it. Because he has worked with us on a couple of these, I hope he trusts us. He is very hands-on in the beginning and at the very end during the edit session.
RD: What was the most difficult part of this project?
It was actually a little easier outside of the struggles of trying to get the animation that you want. And technical kind of things. Because we had such a strong source material and Bruce wanted it to be like the source material it was like following the manual in that way. But the fear for me was that people would say it was something they have seen a million times. How was this going to come together? That was the only pressure.
RD: Because there is less action to rely on, did you find it difficult to get the subtly in the acting that you needed?
SL: The way we are trained for TV animation — because we are not Disney and we don't have that budget and we know that we aren't going to get the subtleties — we try to hit a key emotion. It's more of a Clint Eastwood style of acting. It's subtle but you only hit the change of emotion. It's not like you go through the range of five separate thoughts and try to animate that. It's usually a one to two type of thing. Lauren is great because she was brought up on Disney so she has a natural tendency to animate. We were pretty smart about it and found out what the key things were and hit that.
RD: So you're on the Green Lantern series now, any other DC Direct features coming up for you?
I'm finishing up the last few episodes of that right now. I've been working on the direct-to-videos for five years now and I want to go back to series work. Batman: Year One is the last one I'm going to direct for a while. The feature work is great because you have a longer time to explore story, but the down side is that you have one shot unlike series work where you develop the world and the characters and have time to work out who the characters are. With the direct-to-videos you design the world; you tell it the best you can. A lot of times you're not working off of original stories; it's stuff from the comics. So you're not being as creative. I'm following a template. There is a fanbase and they expect to see this and that. It's great and when I first got into direct-to-videos I thought it was a dream come true, but now I want to think outside the box.
Rick DeMott is the director of content for Animation World Network, VFXWorld and AWNtv. Additionally, he's the creator of the movie review site, Rick's Flicks Picks, which was recently named one of the 100 best movie blogs by The Daily Reviewer. He has written for TV series, such as Discovery Kids' Growing Up Creepie and Cartoon Network's Pet Alien, the animation history book Animation Art, and the humor, absurdist and surrealist website Unloosen. Previously, he held various production and management positions in the entertainment industry.


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Monday, December 28
Indy Bowl roundtable: a man-to-12th-man talk.
So close to "GATA," and yet . . .
One of the nice things about getting plugged into the wider community of sports bloggers is you make some pretty knowledgeable friends and acquaintances. This past summer, I consulted with Coach Beergut of Texas A&M blog I Am the 12th Man on coach Mike Sherman's employment status heading into 2009; five months or so later, guess who Georgia gets matched up with in a bowl game. Given the mutual curiosities between our two fanbases -- we haven't played the Aggies since the national-championship season of 1980, and have played them like all of four times throughout history -- he was more than happy to participate in a little Q&A exchange leading up to the Independence Bowl. My answers to his questions are up on his blog now, and his answers to my questions follow.
1. A&M is a program with a lot of heritage and a lot of proud traditions, but this decade hasn't been especially kind to the Aggies. Where does A&M see itself in the college-football firmament, and does a bid to this year's Independence Bowl qualify as a disappointment (as a lot of Georgia fans see it), or as a sign that things are looking up?
I believe we Aggies see ourselves as one of the top 20 porgrams in the nation, histoircally speaking. We are one of the top 20 winningest programs in college football history, we have a solid winning tradition, we have won a national title and boast a Heisman Trophy winner in our past, so we had the tradition to back up this claim. We are one of the programs where it is capable to win a national championship in any given year; we are one of the destination college football jobs where a coach can come and win big.
The bid to the Independence Bowl is not a disappointment in that I believe going to a bowl game and making the postseason was one of our preseason goals after the losing season we had in 2008. We made a poor hire in bringing Dennis Franchione to our program in 2002, and we are still recovering from that five-year mistake. When you spend half a decade standing still or moving backwards, you have a lot of catching up to do, and we are still trying to do that on the field. Making the postseason this year is a sign of progress, but only a small one in that we have merely accomplished a goal, not surpassed one.
Yeah, the rest of the country joins you in wondering what the hell happened with that one.
2. The Aggies have fielded an impressively balanced offense this year, which a lot of Georgia fans no doubt watched hitting on all cylinders against Texas on Thanksgiving. Of the many talented skill-position players in your arsenal, which one is the one you would recommend Georgia spend the most time watching out for?
Quarterback Jerrod Johnson is probably our most dangerous player, simply because the ball is in his hands on every single play, and he is the triggerman for our offense. If you slow down Jerrod, you slow down our offense, period. Moving away fromt he quarterback position, WR Uzoma Nwachukwu (coaches and teammates call him "EZ") is one of our most explosive players, scoring TDs through the air and on the ground. EZ averages 18 yards per catch, has 6 TD receptions this season, and 1 rushing TD.
Prince? Bryan? Have fun defending this, fellas.
3. At the same time, there have been games in which the Aggie offense has exploded (Texas, TTU) and times when the explosion was more like a backfire (Arkansas, Kansas State). Do you have any idea where the source of that inconsistency lies?
During the Arkansas and Kansas State games, we were still shuffling our offensive line around, and were trying to find the perfect lineup to throw out there. The result was poor pass protection for Jerrod, which helped those teams shut down our offense. The Kansas State game was the first true road game for a young team where everything that could go wrong did, and the result just snowballed. The Arkansas game was a game where we went up early, they made some adjustments, and once they got their pass rush going, we weren't able to protect Johnson.
4. On the flip side, which of Georgia's offensive players scares you the most in terms of what they might be able to do to the Aggies? (And does anyone scare you on our defense?)
All of your RBs scare me, because I watched y'all rush for over 300 yards against Georgia Tech in your win, and we don't have much of a defense. Washaun Ealey and Caleb King really worry me, because I am concerned y'all will be able to control the game on the ground, and keep the ball away from our offense.
For the Aggie fans out there who may have missed the Georgia-Georgia Tech game, here's a bit of what Beergut's referring to.
Defensively, anyone who can pressure the QB concerns me, so Justin Houston and Cornelius Washington worry me. I am hoping the loss of your defensive staff will help us here, but I'm not optimistic.
5. When I talked to you about Mike Sherman's status back in the summer, you said his job was pretty safe, with the minimum expectations being 6-6 and a bowl bid. Now that he's cleared that bar, what are the expectations for the bowl game, and for the 2010 season?
Well, I hope we can win the bowl game, but I don't expect to. Georgia was a top-10 team in the preseason, so y'all have some talent, and beating y'all will be tough. As for the 2010 season, we return a lot of people, so expectations to win 9 games and compete for the Big 12 South are reasonable.
(Thanks to Coach Beergut for participating in this. Good luck, and good health, to both teams this evening.)
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I assembled a dozen Wargames Factory Romans last night, a nice cap to the three day weekend. I picked up a pair of these "Caesar's Legions" boxes during the WGF one-day sale a few years ago, and they've been sitting in storage ever since. When I decided to switch to 28mm from 20mm for my ancients, using these Romans as a core to build from made my decision a lot easier.
After reading a number of bad reviews I was expecting the worst of these figures, but they didn't turn out too bad. Detail is soft, and the one squatty pose does look a little odd, but overall they went together quickly and I think I can get them painted up rapidly. I really like the pose in which the legionnaire has his gladius poised for a thrust over his shield.
Taking stock of my current projects, I have a number underway. I like to keep several going at once so as one is wrapping up I can easily jump into another, while prepping a third.
- 24 Ancient Germans (Foundry and Wargames Factory) finished, awaiting shields.
- 10 Ancient Germans primed.
- 12 Romans assembled (84 to go! Yikes!)
- 6 Numidian Light Cavalry (Warlord) assembled.
- New woods terrain 80% finished.


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