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For several days in 1970, Lawrence held its breath as government and law enforcement clamped down on unrest. Experience this tumultuous time in a fiftieth anniversary exhibit... details>>
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Former Missouri Senator David Atchison's speech inciting border ruffians to violence in the 1856 sacking of Lawrence has become part of the lore of the free-state story in Kansas. But did Atchison really give this "border justice" speech during the Lawrence raid? Join us as historians Bruce Mactavish and Kelly Erby of Washburn University examine the evidence in a free talk at the Watkins....details >>


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Last month you were leading us on a tour dealng with tree husbandry on a month-by-month basis. But due to "space considerations" you paused at the end of June. Can we hope that you will now guide us through the rest of the year? – t.m.
Of course! We begin with
JULY: In this month, the June Gloom is well behind us and things are beginning to heat up. If you didn't have the foresight some years back to plant a large shade tree, you will not be happy with yourself. If you DID plant that tree and now understand how much water it's going to need this month, you will not be happy with the Water Authority.
AUGUST: IF that tree happens to be a ficus tree ("ficus andronicus"), this month is all about hate. Hate for whoever planted that @#$%&! tree! Because now you know that "ficus" is Ethiopian (or something) for FIG. And little ittty-bittty figs are what you will be walking on every morning. Sadly, there are very few remedies for this. You can either purchase a Zamboni-like riding vacuum cleaner, or rent about a dozen racoons or skunks. Every morning you will awake to a pristine patio/yard. You will be able to enjoy it for, oh . . . about an hour.
SEPTEMBER: According to our Guru of Gardening, Pat Welsh, this is the month when you must pamper your citrus and avocado trees. You've got to water them just right or the fruit might split, and then there is the brown rot. And the white mold. Next thing you know you're spraying this fungicide all over the place, cleaning up the ground and pruning the tips of branches. TIP: They sell fruit in supermarkets everywhere.
OCTOBER: According to The Book, this is the ideal month in which to plant trees. That is, of course, if you're not exhausted from doing all you have to do to take care of the trees you already have! The good news: you get a break this month from watering your deciduous fruit trees. It says here that you actually WANT your trees to drop their leaves and "pack it in" for the winter. Yay!
NOVEMBER: This month you get to correct your booboos and move all those trees you planted in the wrong place. If you do the math you will quickly caculate that the digging involved will be precisely two times the amount of labor involved in the original placement. You may be forgiven if you take the attitude: "Just WHO SAYS they are in the wrong place?!"
DECEMBER: Of course the only tree we are concerned about this month is our CHRISTMAS tree! And of course we want that tree to be as FRESH as possible, don't we? Yes – smells better, lasts longer. And what better way to assure this than to slice it down yourself just when you need it. So grab your favorite saw and in the dead of night sneak into Farmer Brown's forest and take your pick. If your car doesn't have a sunroof borrow one that does. Stuff the tree through the sunroof and parade your trophy through the village. You might want to trick it out with some lights, and a few ornaments.
Afterthought – If the helpful tips above backfire and make you think: "A pox on all trees. Too much trouble. Cut them all down!" – I suggest to you that you might want to spare our eucalyptus trees. Just think: without those little nuts lying all around, what are kids going to throw at each other?
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TBB Trier head coach Henrik Rodl has had an illustrious basketball playing career that not many from Germany can master besides a Dirk Nowitzki and new Alba Berlin forward Nils Giffey can compare which NCAA ring is more pretty. In German basketball circles he will be best remembered for helping Germany win the 1993 European title or in Berlin his 11 titles while on the hallow basketball grounds of Chapel Hill in North Carolina of his assistance in winning the school´s NCAA title in 1993 now one of surprisingly only 5 titles in their history. Even as a head coach The German has gained the ultimate respect having formed Alba Berlin youth teams where a guy like Giffey developed and made the next step to a role player with Uconn and since 2010 has been the man in charge with TBB Trier that last reached the playoffs in 2004 and won their last title of only two in 2001. At times it seems like Rodl has had to break out the food stamps to afford a player whereas a Marko Pesic can dabble with the Gold card with FC Bayern Munich. Rodl has had to scrape from the TBB Trier budget ever since 2010, but as always he has that rare talent of always bringing in the best possible players with the money that he has. As a result TBB Trier has always been somewhere in no mans land the last years and even were near the Beko BBL playoffs in 2011 at #10 in his first season. Rodl has brought forward German big men Maik Zirbes and Andreas Seiferth and this season has another very young roster and Mathis Monninghoff seems like his next project for further stardom. He has a majority of players that were born in 1991 or later and a few guys in the 87-89 year zone and of course two veterans on the team that are as vital for Rodl as Big Macs might have been for ex Tar Heel Sean May that tipped the scale at 270 pounds once. Rodl was already introduced to Canadian basketball at North Carolina in his first two years as Rick Fox who later played for the Boston Celtics was pivotal for the Tar Heels run to the 1991 NCAA Final Four as he averaged 16,9ppg and 6,6rpg as a senior. Rodl has incorporated two fine Canadian players that not only hold the team together but also help put some points on the board and not let the club lose their nerves in crunch time. 31 year old Canadian Jermaine Bucknor is playing his third season with TBB and 31 year old Jermaine Anderson his second. They have two similarities in that both have been teammates with the Canadian national team and also have Jamaican roots. Bucknor who played many years in France, but also found a home in Frankfurt and Wurzburg has improved his scoring, rebounding, assists, field goal and three point shooting percentage each season in Trier while Anderson like Bucknor also has had ample experience in the BBL having played for Bamberg, Tuebingen and Braunschweig. Both guys are exceptional players, have the right attitude and that special heart for basketball. For TBB Trier to function this season, they have to function and Rodl knows that. The only thing missing in Trier would be to have a reunion with Rodl and Fox and not only talk about the good old days but script a movie with Fox who has dabbled in cinema and add Bucknor and Anderson to the storyline. This could keep some boring days in the middle of winter more interesting and even if it doesn´t Bucknor and Anderson could entertain their teammates with good old fashioned Jamaican Reggae after a big TBB Trier victory.
It is always a challenge for Henrik Rodl to lead TBB Trier each season with the limited budget, but once again his team had no business staying at the end of the standings. They finished the season in 13th place and they were incapable of beating one of the top three teams, but beat ratiopharm Ulm and swept the season series from the Telekom Baskets Bonn, Ludwigsburg and MBC proving they are able to have a teams number for the course of a season. A big problem was there defense which for many seasons was their bread and butter that part of the game that was holy for team and coach. The club started out well into the season holding teams to under 70 points in two of the first three games, but then only did it three more times. Their defense was too erratic coupled with the fact that they couldn´t put points on the board on a consistent rate either hurt their overall chances to win games as well. And in those games where they mustered offensive punch, their defense was their Achilles heel. Rebounding was also a problem as they had no real classic big man that can scoop down rebounds with ease the way the eccentric Dennis Rodman did back in the game. Their number one center German national player Andreas Seiferth averaged only 4,9rpg which is definitely too little for a guy like him. Seeing the quality they had last season coupled with the experience, it is kind of scary to imagine where the team will land this season as they have lost key players.
TBB Trier lost two of their key figures from last season with top scorer TreVohn Hughes who has moved on to medi bayreuth and Andreas Seiferth who has taken his talent on to the Artland Dragons. Despite losing these two figures the club did a fine job despite not having the biggest budget to keep an identity within the team holding 8 players. Even if the combination of these 8 players may not be equal to most other clubs in the Beko BBL in talent, sometimes a healthy chemistry will do wonders for a team. The two biggest and most important players held were Canadians Jermaine Anderson and Jermaine Bucknor. The overall success of their play, fitness level and staying healthy will be vital for TBB Trier between finishing in the middle or fighting to stay in the league .Anderson who is a 31 year old 188cm guard got his first real basketball experience at FordhamNCAA) and has played much of his career in Germany for teams like Bamberg, Tuebingen and Braunschweig. He also played in countries like Poland, Canada, Croatia and Russia. Last season for Tuebingen he played 34 games: 10.5ppg, 3.2rpg, 2.6apg, FGP: 38.9%, 3PT: 38.2%, FT-1(96.9%). Never foul him in crunch time, because he is one of top free throw shooters in the Beko BBL. Bucknor is also 31 201cm forward and played at Richmond(NCAA) and then for the first four seasons as a professional in France before coming to Germany in 2010 where he played for Frankfurt, Wurzburg an dnow his third season with TBB Trier. Last season he played 27 games: 9.3ppg, 4.4rpg, 1.9apg, FGP: 60.8%, 3PT: 42.7%, FT: 75.8%. It was his best statistical season in Germany and is the glue guy of the team.
The club also held on to Vitalis Chikoko who is a 23 year old 207cm forward that is a talented, lanky forward/center who has a huge upside. Even standing almost at 6-10, he can spend yet time at the PF position, thanks to enormous athletic skills, versatility, and good feel for the game. He is playing his third season with TBB Trier after having Rodl notice him in the 2010-2011 season where he played for BG Goettingen. He has improved his scoring each season in Trier and last season played 34 games: 8.0ppg, 4.4rpg, 1.1bpg, FGP: 56.3%, 3PT: 17.1%, FT: 52.0%. He raising his game to another level this season also will be beneficial for the teams success. Mathis Monninghoff is a 22 year old 200cm swing man that started his career with Leverkusen and played 52 NCAA games for Gonzaga having ex NBA player Elias Harris as a teammate. His shot is his big asset, but he isn´t one dimensional, but smart turns over the ball seldom and plays aggressive defense. Like Chikoko, he also improved his stats from his first season in Trier and last season played 30 games: 5.0ppg, 1.9rpg. Laurynas Samenas is a 26 year old 192cm guard from Lituvania that is playing his second season out of his native country and second for TBB Trier. Last season he played for BC Siauliai (LKL) playing 22 games: Score-5(15.0ppg), 2.2rpg, 1.5apg, FGP: 49.6%, 3PT: 39.6%, FT: 78.4%; Baltic League: 17 games: 14.2ppg, 1.9rpg, 1.5apg, FGP: 54.4%, 3PT: 50.7%, FT: 79.1%. He is known for his shooting and defense and can give the team energy from the bench. Last season for TBB trier he gave played 30 games averaging 8.9ppg, 1.9rpg, FGP: 44.7%, 3PT: 36.4%, FT: 74.7%.
After four seasons and 74 Beko BBL games with Bayreuth, Stefan Schmidt came to TBB Trier last season searching for a new challenge. Schmidt is a 25 year old 207cm center that was born in Schwandorf. He had the chance to play behind two ex NBA players with Jared Reiner and Brandon Hunter. Schmidt never was able to make his breakthrough in Bayreuth and in Trier will came from the bench last season to give Seifert rest. He always works hard and this could be his breakthrough season with Seiferth gone if he decides to use it. Last season the German played 34 games: 3.4ppg, 2.4rpg. Anthony Canty is a 23 year old 183cm guard that has had problems with injuries last season as he played 1 game: 0pts, played also at SG DJK/MJC Trier (Regionalliga)1 game: 25pts. He started his career in 2007 with BSG Bremerhaven (Oberliga) and in 2009 to Beko BBl team Eisbaeren Bremerhaven where he played a total of 63 games in four seasons. He is another very big German talent that could shine in Trier this season if given the chance. His speed is his biggest asset and isn´t shy to take big shots if no one else wants to. . Andreas Wenzl is a 21 year old 201cm center that arrives to Trier as a big project and is playing his second season there. He started his career with ratiopharm Ulm and played at the 2011 and 2012 NBBL Allstar games. In the NBBL he has shown his scoring and rebounding ability, but knee problems have slowed him down. In Trier he will get a chance to get minutes with the Regionaliga team and Beko BBL club.
The club hauled in American Ricky Harris as he got a short term contract because the club has injury woes. Harris is a 27 year old guard 187cm guard from Baltimore that is playing his fifth professional season. He played at Massachusetts (NCAA) together with ex NBA player Tony Gaffney and turned professional in 2010. He played in countries like Lithuvania and the Ukraine and two seasons ago played for Biancoblu Basket Bologna (Italy-Lega2): 28 games: 13.3ppg, 2.1rpg, 2.4apg, 1.3spg, FGP: 40.2%, 3PT: 32.5%, FT: 77.3%. Last season he played for the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playing 20 games: 11.4ppg, 1.7rpg, 1.2apg, FGP: 48.3%, 3PT: 47.0%, FT: 84.1%. It takes a lot of courage to have only a few slots open to choose players and then pick young ones from other countries. That is exactly what Rodl did bringing in 22 year old 207cm forward Marko Lukovic from Serbia. It is his first destination out of his country. He played for Mega Vizura (A League) Adriatic League from 2009-2014 and last season played 24 games: 4.8ppg, 2.5rpg; Serbian League: 12 games: 5.3ppg, 3.6rpg, FGP: 54.5%, 3PT: 25.0%, FT: 64.0%. He has played for the Serbian U 18 and U 20 teams and is a player that plays the positions 3-4 and presents huge miss match problems there and is agile and can shoot well. The club also brought in another young player that is more or less expected to perform as soon as possible with Adin Vrbac who is a 20 year old 204cm shooting guard and huge talent from Bosnia. He started his basketball career at KK Spars Sarajevo (D3) in 2009. Last season he played for KK Spars Sarajevo (Division I, starting five): 30 games: 10.7ppg, 3.1rpg, 2.6apg, 1.0spg, FGP: 54.8%, 3PT: 21.6%, FT: 63.1%. Last summer he played at the European Championships U20 Division B in Sarajevo (Bosnia) -14 (Gold): 8 games: 11.9ppg, 4.0rpg, 3.6apg, FGP: 59.6%, 3PT: 20.0%, FT: 46.2%. He is a very athletic player that likes to create for his players, but his shot has to improve. The club also brought in Dennis Kramer. Kramer is a 22 year old 211cm center and rookie. His mother is German, his father Arvid Kramer is a former pro player (spent several years overseas playing in e.g. Italy and Germany) and NBA draftee, who worked as a general manager of German Bundesliga team Telekom Baskets Bonn for six years after his playing career. Kramer grew up in the States and played at San Diego (NCAA) from 2010-2014 playing a total of 123 NCAA games and as a senior played 31 games averaging11.3ppg, 6.8rpg, FGP: 60.0%, 3PT: 30.0%, FT: 71.2%. "Dennis is a young talented player that fits well into our concept.He can play both big man positions. I am happy that we could find someone of his calibur now", stressed TBB Trier head coach Henrik Rodl.
It will be interesting to see what Rodl can do this season with this roster as it is another gigantic challenge for him. If the club is as deep as last season is hard to say, but having many players on board for an additional season helps. There are a lot of question marks with the team. How well will it be able to fill the void of top scoring point guard Trevon Hughes and center Andreas Seiferth. The club has no classic big man so the whole team has to help out on the glass and have been doing it so far. The team is young has some experience and Rodl will need to keep the team hungry and focused. This is a team that can´t look to the future, but take it game by game. Getting back to the early Rodl defensive principles also will be vital to winning games. So far Lukovic has been a pleasant surprise as he may be overachieving a bit. The club started the season very solid with a 2-2 record beating Braunschweig and Goettingen, but since then the club has suffered a three game losing streak and in the last two games gave up 100 points to Crailsheim and 91 points against Alba Berlin. With last placed team the Fraport Skyliners as there next opponent this Sunday might just be right for TBB Trier to get back into their defensive ways as they have been struggling very much on offense, but they are due for a break out game. So far Frankfurt is 1-2 at home, but have fond memories of their last game as they had their only win of the season against the Telekom Baskets Bonn. This game should be a defensive game as usual between these teams as for the Fraport Skyliners it is a must win as it is 10 seconds before midnight.
In the last Six years, The Skyliners have a record of 11-7 against TBB Trier with 5-3 at home and 4-4 on the road. In 2008-2009, TBB Trier played a very energetic and spirited game winning 78-70 despite a monster game by American Derrick Allen who registered 29 points and 10 boards. The Deutsche Bank Skyliners lost the first game of the season in Trier 71-67 as Jimmy Mckinney and Qarraan Calhoun were missing due to injury. It was your typical season opening game as both teams were nervous and missing way too many shots. The game was tied at halftime 26 all. Frankfurt had fire power in the third quarter, but went down in the fourth quarter scoring only nine points as Frankfurt had no nerves in crunch time to win. Derrick Allen had 19 points and eight rebounds and despite TBB Trier was without top scorer Chris Copeland, the team got needed production form Jamal Shuler, Brian Brown and George Evans to conserve the win. In 2009-2010, The Deutsche Bank Skyliners lost the first game ion Trier 71-67 as Ex Skyliner Derrick Allen contributed 19 points and eight rebounds and Frankfurt won at home 71-69 winning the game with Pascal Roller free throws. Derrick Allen led Frankfurt with 17 points. In 2010-2011, Frankfurt swept the season series. They won at home 72-55 as Pascal Roller led the home team with 17 points. The return date in Trier was an exciting battle as Frankfurt clawed out a 69-61 win as they came from behind going on a 10-0 run in crunch time to prevail. Dashaun Wood led the charge with 18 points and Jimmy Mckinney added 11 points. In their first meeting in 2011-2012, TBB Trier came out with a 64-54 victory as defense played a key role. The Fraport Skyliners were led by Jon Leuer and Jimmy Mckinney with 14 points a piece. In their second meeting that year, the Fraport Skyliners were riding the wave of a very strong second half of the season where they had beat top teams like FC Bayern Munich, ratiopharm Ulm, Bamberg, Artland Dragons and the EWE Baskets Oldenburg and came to Trier with a lot of self confidence winning 72-52 displaying another trademark top defensive performance as ex NBA player Jermareo Davidson steered 19 points to the win and Jimmy Mckinney added 18 points. This was also the game where Eisbaeren Bremerhaven forward Jacob Burtschi was on the floor as much as Boris Becker had dived on the hallowed lawn at Wimbeldon in his career. In the 2012-2013 season TBB Trier swept the season series won at home against Frankfurt 78-59. At halftime everything looked ok as Frankfurt trailed by only one point, but TBB trier exploded in the third quarter winning it 25-8 leading them on to the win. American Brian Harper proved too much for Frankfurt with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Skyliner Ted Scott gave his debut netting 20 points. In the return game in Frankfurt, TBB trier won 78-70 sending the Fraport Skyliners into a do or die game with Ludwigsburg as Jermaine Bucknor and Andreas Seiferth led the way with 14 points a piece. Frankfurt was led by Quantez Robertson with 14 points and Ryan Brooks added 13 points. In their first meeting last season, the Fraport Skyliners came out of Trier with a big 85-75 victory as Andrew Rautins smoked Trier for 30 points. Jacob Burtschi and Danilo Barthel added 15 points a piece. TBB Trier was led by Trevohn Hughes with 29 points and Vitalis Chikoko added 11 points. In the return game, The Fraport Skyliners won at home 67-56 as TBB Trier showed a good defensive effort, but Frankfurt buckled down a few gears better on defense. Frankfurt was led by Danilo Barthel with 15 points and American Jarred Dubois added 10 points. TBB Trier was led by Trevon Hughes with 18 points and Andreas Seiferth added 11 points.


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Sunday, July 11, 2004
New Mexican's Claims of Ground Zero Rescue Work Called Into Question
A 9/11 Phony Part one in a four-day series
Self-proclaimed rescue guru Doug Copp's mission to ground zero was considered so important that he had clearance to be flown to New York even though all civilian air traffic in the United States had been grounded. Once there, he says he assumed a pivotal role and sustained devastating injuries while wading through the "toxic soup" in search of survivors and victims, and was awarded nearly $650,000 for his injuries. But there is little evidence Copp performed real rescue work, and it is doubtful that he deserves compensation.
See column at right for links to all stories in this series
By Leslie Linthicum
Journal Staff Writer
Doug Copp made his case to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund last fall with a story that stood out even among the incredible tales of bravery and loss that are the daily bread of a board assigned to compensate victims of the nation's worst terrorist attack.
As the most experienced rescuer in the world, equipped with the only device that could detect the scent of decaying flesh, Copp said, he mobilized a search and rescue team from his home in the East Mountains after the World Trade Center buildings were hit.
Doug Copp
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He said he flew to New York the next day and undertook the most dangerous work searching the deepest underground cavities of the rubble.
"For six days, Mr. Copp waded in a toxic soup, breathed toxic air, and had toxins smeared on his body surface," a report by one of his doctors said. "It is unlikely that anyone has ever in human history been exposed to as concentrated or complex a mixture of dangerous chemicals."
Copp's claim to the victim compensation fund said he returned to New Mexico two weeks later and was never the same.
Over the next months, Copp said, his health deteriorated until he could walk no more than a block without resting. His list of 41 medical problems included chest pain, coughing, blurred vision, dementia and a fractured spine.
Kenneth Feinberg, the special master of the fund, heard Copp's case for two hours in Washington, D.C. Then he sent Copp a check for $649,885, tax free.
That might have been the end of the story except for two things.
Copp is not satisfied with the amount of money. He says he will die if he doesn't get at least $1 million more for medical treatments.
And there is substantial evidence that Copp's claims of heroism and life-threatening injuries regarding 9/11 are not true. An Albuquerque Journal investigation also found a nearly 20-year history of exaggeration, self-promotion, freeloading and very little evidence of real rescue work.
Copp on various occasions has bartered tales of bravado and heroism for free airline flights, hotel rooms and donations all in the name of helping innocent disaster victims and saving lives.
One former high-ranking federal disaster official says Copp's modus operandi is to hang around rescue sites and take pictures, then say he played a crucial role.
The Journal's investigation found that Copp's experience in New York generally fit that description.
New York Fire Department Chief John Norman was in charge of the massive rescue and recovery effort at ground zero. He said Copp had no authority to be at the site and played no legitimate role in the search and rescue.
Norman said Copp's claim to have been the first to search collapsed subway tunnels and only one of four people to go underground is "a fraud."
Had he known Copp was on the site, the chief said, he probably would have had him arrested.
Chase Sargent, a night operations chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he ordered Copp off the World Trade Center site. Sargent called Copp a phony, and claims by Copp's rescue organization "a bag of lies."
Despite claims to the commission that he spent "a week several floors below ground zero," Copp now concedes he went underground at ground zero just six times for a total of eight to ten hours.
But one of Copp's former colleagues said Copp spent only a few hours at the World Trade Center site in the two weeks he was in New York. According to the diary of Stephen Lentz, each time Copp and Lentz ventured to ground zero, Copp obtained videotape, which he sold to a television news show.
Lentz said Copp visited the set of "Inside Edition" twice and passed much of his time in a nice Times Square hotel, on the phone trying to "drum up publicity for himself" or drinking from the mini bar.
Copp claimed his death-detecting machine helped him recover 40 bodies. In fact, there is general consensus that it didn't work.
Copp's medical claim relied heavily on a report by Dr. Timothy Smith, a California anti-aging specialist.
Smith said Copp's immune system is seriously compromised in ways that affect his breathing and thinking. He said Copp's exposure to molds and toxins have caused autoimmune responses that bring on shortness of breath and swelling of the brain.
But two doctors who reviewed Copp's medical records for the Journal said they do not show Copp was seriously injured or completely disabled.
A pulmonary specialist said the records submitted to the fund show the most serious ailment Copp suffers from is a mild lung restriction. An internist said the records show Copp has mild asthma, is overweight and is clearly depressed.
'A medical miracle'
Copp is a bombastic 52-year-old Canada native with a flair for dramatic exaggeration. He frequently talks about his accolades, which he says include 650 pages of diplomatic papers and thank-you letters and hundreds of hours of video of his rescue missions.
Copp says that lately he's been on the road in his RV.
In wide-ranging phone conversations from various locations on the road, Copp has talked about his health, his heroism and how he hasn't gotten a fair shake. He often rails against Feinberg, head of the compensation fund.
"I'm a medical miracle," Copp said in a phone call from somewhere in Texas in April.
He said his doctor told him that never in history has there been anyone with this concentration of toxins in their system.
"I'm literally trying to stay alive," Copp said in the telephone interview. "I haven't had a single day that hasn't been insufferable pain."
When Copp called two weeks later from a fishing village in Canada, he said Feinberg is "a rat. He's just a plain, son-of-a-bitch rotten rat. He's not doing his job because Congress put the money there to help people like me so we wouldn't be dying in the street."
In another phone call, Copp said, "He told me I was a hero and sentenced me to death."
New Mexicans who traveled to New York with Copp on Sept. 13, 2001, said they were astonished by the claims Copp made to the compensation fund and by his award.
"My understanding of that fund was that it was for the victims and bona fide rescue people," said Eric Wade, a writer and filmmaker who had known Copp only a short time when he signed on as a member of Copp's team. "I'm mortified. I'm horrified that he even made a claim."
Mike Holley, a former North Valley regional chief of the Bernalillo County Fire Department who flew to New York with Copp, said he spent hours crawling through crevasses and saw Copp only twice at ground zero once when they arrived and again when Copp returned to the underground subway station because his video camera battery had run out and he wanted more footage.
"I went down (underground) and I spent a lot more time than he did," Holley said. "Am I dying? I refuse to take money from the families of the victims."
John Grace, an Albuquerque videographer who also went to New York with Copp, said Copp fits neither of the categories the fund was designed to repay.
"Doug Copp," he said, "is neither a hero nor a victim."
Copp flew to New York on a corporate jet owned by the Journal Publishing Co. and piloted by publisher T.H. Lang with FAA clearance obtained by the office of Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M. Lang said he agreed to take Copp to New York because Copp came recommended as a bona fide rescuer.
He said he didn't realize until he was on the ground in New York that Copp's team consisted of a screenplay writer, a film producer, a cameraman and an adventurer. None had any rescue experience.
On the ride toward the smoldering ruin where thousands of people were still missing and presumed dead, Lang said Copp was telling gruesome tales and laughing. "It was all juvenile, unprofessional," Lang said. "I thought, 'This is bogus.' ''
'Pumped up' truth
Lentz, a state of New Mexico archaeologist who was writing a screenplay about Copp's life and came along on the trip, wrote an affidavit about Copp's work at ground zero at Copp's request.
That affidavit, signed by Lentz in his capacity with the state Office of Cultural Affairs, was part of Copp's claim to prove he was legitimately at the site and was injured. It was the only independent, firsthand evidence, besides Copp's own assertions and his video, of his work in New York.
Today, Lentz says he did not lie in the affidavit but says he "pumped up" Copp's role because he felt badly that Copp said he was ill and in debt.
"I painted a rosier picture of Doug than maybe was the truth," he said. "It is a little pumped up because I wanted to help him with his bills."
Lentz's affidavit said "... numerous casualties, including NYC firemen, rescue workers, EMTs and policemen were located as a direct result of Doug Copp's efforts and equipment."
But Lentz says today that Copp located no bodies that he knew of, although he believes Copp's equipment was used by others who found corpses.
The affidavit also said, "Several stories below ground level, we waded through water, jet fuel and effluents from ruptured sewage pipes and the Hudson River."
Lentz says today that he and others walked through that muck, but Copp was not with him. He also said he saw Copp smear soot on his face to appear he had been in more dangerous circumstances.
In terms of rescue work, Lentz said, "I gotta tell you, he didn't do anything like that."
"He never lifted a bucket," Lentz said. "He didn't do anything."
Lentz said in his affidavit that Copp slipped and fell in the subway area on Sept. 18. The September 11th fund initially refused Copp's claim based on a back injury because it would have had to occur by Sept. 15 to qualify for the fund.
Lentz said Copp asked him to change the date on the affidavit to reflect that the fall occurred earlier. Lentz said he refused and had nothing more to do with Copp.
Copp's initial claim included lung and other injuries, and his subsequent communications with the fund centered on those. Lentz said today he regrets that anything he wrote could have given the impression Copp did legitimate work at ground zero.
"I would never sign an affidavit saying he was the hero of 9/11," Lentz said. "I think basically he was a fraud and a bombast."
In earlier interviews, Lentz was more supportive of Copp and of the affidavit.
He said telling the full story now, "is kind of liberating for me because I've kept this to myself for so long."
Five-hour defense
Copp, when confronted with the accounts of his colleagues and other evidence that dispute his version of events, talked for five hours one Saturday in Albuquerque.
He was alternately angry, boastful and forlorn.
"So now is this going to come out that there's nothing wrong with me? That I'm a total fraud? That it's bogus? That I went there drinking and sitting in the hotel and wiping dirt on my face and now there's nothing really wrong with me?" Copp said.
"That would be . . . the most immoral thing I have ever heard of in all of my years of going and seeing death squads and all sorts of other things. That would be the most immoral, improper thing that I have ever heard of."
Copp provided scant evidence of what he did in New York to respond to assertions that he did nothing. But he attacked at length people who have questioned his claim. Copp said:
- Team members are lying because they are embarrassed about their own actions at ground zero or because they want to steal his body-finding machine technology.
- FEMA officials are lying about him because they are jealous of his TV time.
- The New York Fire Department is lying about him to cover up its cowardice in failing to search for victims.
- Lang is pursuing a vendetta against him because he wouldn't take Lang underground.
When he was asked by the Journal for the name of someone he worked with at ground zero who could vouch for him, Copp offered Ron Hadani, an electrical engineer from New Jersey.
When reached by phone, Hadani described the time he spent with Copp in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 as strange.
Hadani, who went to New York to lend a hand, said he ran into Copp at the Jacob Javits Center and Copp took him to ground zero twice.
Hadani said the area they were exploring was dirty and dangerous, but that Copp did not appear to be looking for victims. Copp had a video camera along, Hadani said.
"I don't know if it was picture taking, but if you want my opinion it wasn't rescue," Hadani said.
Hadani said Copp took a lot of video and found no survivors or victims in their time together.
"And then when FEMA threw us out, I realized the whole thing was fake," he said.
$6.5 billion payout
Congress created the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to avoid an anticipated onslaught of lawsuits against the airlines whose planes were hijacked and the New York Port Authority, which owned the World Trade Center.
The fund has compensated families of people who died in the four crashed airplanes, on the ground at the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center as long as they agreed not to sue.
The fund also has compensated families of rescue personnel killed in the initial response and rescuers who were injured in the aftermath.
The fund, which ended its operation last month, was essentially unlimited by Congress. And Feinberg, a veteran trial lawyer, was given leeway in deciding who got paid and how much. Awards have ranged from $500 to $8.6 million. Feinberg said the fund will have paid out about $6.5 billion.
There are four tests an applicant claiming to be a rescuer must have met to be considered for compensation according to the guidelines set by Congress.
- The rescuer had to have been injured at the site within 96 hours of the planes hitting the World Trade Center buildings, or by about 9 a.m. on Sept. 15.
- The rescuer had to provide proof of physical injury.
- The rescuer had to seek medical treatment within three days of the injury (although Feinberg could make exceptions to that time restriction).
- The rescuer required hospitalization or could show the injury caused partial or total physical disability, incapacity or disfigurement.
Copp told the fund he went to New York on Sept. 12, but didn't even arrive at a New Jersey airport until the afternoon of Sept. 13. He was escorted out of the rescue coordination command center when he went there to get credentials and got to the World Trade Center site several hours later by talking a street cop into taking him in.
His lawyer, Charles K. Purcell of Albuquerque, said in a letter summarizing his claim that Copp "quickly assumed primary responsibility for exploring the subterranean areas of ground zero. Day and night Doug searched for survivors in a place where day and night were indistinguishable in underground ruins where very few others dared to go."
A videotape made by the film crew Copp brought along shows Copp looking for bodies with his casualty-locating machine and going into a ramp leading to a collapsed parking garage that first night.
The tape shows Copp asking for a dust mask and coughing twice in the underground parking area and commenting "there's a lot of dust in the air."
However, Copp said in an interview in April that the air there was clean.
The videotape also shows Copp interacting that night with a New York Police Department supervisor who instructed him several times to leave the site and check in at the command post before returning.
Copp did neither but motioned for his cameraman to follow and keep filming.
According to team members, Copp was only at the site a few hours and then returned to the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square where he was staying for free.
The site was closed for most of Sept. 14 because of President Bush's visit. Copp spent Sept. 14 making telephone calls to peddle the videotape and arranging an interview with "Inside Edition," according to Mike Miller, a film producer who accompanied Copp on the trip.
Copp also took his casualty-locating machine to the fire station on Roosevelt Island in the East River and team members attempted to demonstrate its use so they could get permission to return to ground zero, where restrictions had become tighter after the president's visit.
Grace and Wade said the machine failed in that demonstration.
By the morning of Sept. 15, when the fund's timetable for injuries ended, Copp had been underground only once, according to Lentz, and had been above ground at ground zero only for a few hours.
Wade, who was in New York with Copp during the time period that coincides with the Sept. 11 fund's requirements for rescue work, said Copp spent most of that time at the Marriott Marquis.
"He was at the hotel and uptown and whereabouts unknown," Wade said. "At the hotel 16 hours a day at least. He was at the hotel when we left and when we got back." Bald-faced liar'
Copp says he made two trips to the parking garage and four to the subway area, each time looking for bodies. He said the subway area was where he encountered thick smoke, dripping jet fuel and other liquid that made him sick.
Lentz said he kept a diary of the trip. He said it shows that Copp's first trip into the subway area occurred sometime around midnight on Sept. 16 which would have been outside the fund's time frame for injury.
That excursion was also videotaped and the video sold to "Inside Edition."
Copp says a message spray-painted on the entrance to the subway underground that said, "DO NOT ENTER UNSTABLE" is evidence the area had not been searched and proves he was brave enough to go where others would not.
But FDNY Chief Norman said he had gone with crews into the subway stations late on Sept. 11, made the determination that no one had been crushed or trapped and had the areas marked "cleared." Norman said the claim that Copp had authority to clear the underground is untrue.
"That's an absolute fraud," Norman said. "I was the chief in charge of the site. I didn't authorize him to do anything." Norman bristles at Copp's assertion that he searched for survivors or bodies where FDNY or FEMA wouldn't.
"I'll call him a bald-faced liar to his face," Norman said. "That site was thoroughly searched, both primary and secondary searches, before any area was marked off limits. We had people going places and doing things that I never would have permitted in any other circumstance because we had over 300 of our brothers among the thousands missing."
Lentz said Copp's purpose in going into the subway the second time on Sept. 18 was to get more videotape. TV had been stymied by media restrictions and was hungry for more images from ground zero.
Lentz videotaped Copp's second trip to the subway station and said he watched Copp smear soot on his face to appear he had been in a dangerous place.
Copp maintains he did not put soot on his face. He said Lentz must have been confusing him with someone else. When he was told Lentz was sure it was Copp who was involved, Copp said, "That is such an outrageous lie. My God, that breaks my heart to hear that."
Later in the interview Copp said, "I can tell you right now, telling me I put black on my face I'd rather someone put a bullet hole in me."
A FEMA supervisor said he confronted Copp outside the subway entrance that night and had him removed by police. Copp says FEMA did not have him removed he was leaving on his own and that they didn't want him there because he was showing them up.
"They got mad as bloody hell that we went in there, mad as bloody hell, and they came to me and they confronted me with it," Copp said.
Lentz said he stopped working with Copp after that excursion because he thought their purpose at the site should be to help, not to make money off videotapes.
"There wasn't much of an effort to do anything," Lentz said. "It was me training the camera on him. It was really posing for the camera."
The soot-smeared Copp posed for a still photograph when the team emerged from the subway that night, Lentz said.
Copp attached that photo to his cover letter to Feinberg with his claim to the fund. He pointed out, "I am the one with the Black Face."
Who's Who
JOHN NORMAN: Chief of special operations for the New York Fire Department.
Norman was in charge of the World Trade Center rescue and recovery operation, and he called Doug Copp's claim to have cleared the cavities underneath the twin towers "a fraud."
He said Copp was at the site with no authority and bristles at Copp's boast that he searched areas FDNY was afraid to enter.
"We had people going places and doing things that I never would have permitted in any other circumstance because we had over 300 of our brothers among the thousands missing," Norman said.
CHASE SARGENT: A Virginia Beach, Va., fire battalion chief and member of a FEMA task force.
Sargent was one of the night operations chiefs at the World Trade Center. He said he found Copp on the site without credentials and had him escorted off.
Sargent said he knew Copp by reputation as someone who shows up at rescue sites without authorization, takes video and gets on TV.
"Anybody who's legitimate in this business knows who this knucklehead is," Sargent said.
STEPHEN LENTZ: Archaeologist for the state of New Mexico.
Lentz had met Copp weeks earlier and had decided he would write a book about Copp's adventures. Copp persuaded him that writing a screenplay for a movie about him would be a better idea.
After another team member declined to take the camera underground, Lentz became the photographer and spent the next few days with Copp.
Lentz wrote an affidavit in support of Copp's claim to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, but now says he "pumped up" Copp's role because he felt sorry for him.
"I would never sign an affidavit saying he was the hero of 9/11," Lentz said. "I think basically he was a fraud and a bombast."
RON HADANI: A New Jersey man who went to New York in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 looking to lend a hand. Copp gave the Journal Hadani's name and said he could vouch for Copp's work in New York. Hadani said he ran into Copp at the Jacob Javits Center and Copp took him to ground zero.
"The whole thing was kind of weird," Hadani said. "We were wandering around there for a few days."
Hadani said he and Copp were thrown off by FEMA officials. "I can tell you," Hadani said, "that it was not serious rescue work."
When he found out Copp received money from the victims fund, Hadani got angry.
"That's outrageous," he said. "It's immoral."
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By PPA member Sue Bradshaw
Diary Notes –
08:30 am
I cut enough leaves from the super-mature plant in my front garden to fill the metal cooking pot (about $12 from Target). It can't be aluminium because you're using caustic soda.
For this cook I've decided to use both the stems and leaves. You can see how much lovely fibre is just waiting to become paper in the stems. The main leaf stem has a lovely boxy cellular form that I capture in a photo to use as part of the collage.
10:00 am
To the pot I add the leaves that I'd chopped into rough finger lengths and then fill it 2/3 with water. Now I am ready to start the cook! Now is the time to put on your boots and gloves and long sleeves or pants before you use the caustic soda – if it touches your skin it burns!
Add a generous serve of caustic soda and light the gas. When getting out the caustic soda from its storage place also get out the white vinegar that you'll use for neutralising. Leave the white vinegar next to the cook so that you don't forget to neutralise it after the cooking is finished. I've only forgotten to neutralise once … never again!
It takes about 15 minutes before it comes to the boil so I keep an ear and eye on it to make sure it doesn't boil over.
You can also smell it cooking, I love the smell that means another batch of paper is being prepared. It's clean and fresh and slightly acidic and I'm really quite addicted to it. Just smelling the leaves cooking makes me really happy.
1:00 pm
Once the pot has boiled, turn down the heat and cook for about 3 hours. This may vary according to your setup but it's a good guide.
4:00 pm
When the gas bottle finishes after about 3 hours, I check the status of the leaves and stems. The leaves have a slimy texture and they break apart easily in my gloved hand. The stems can easily be pushed apart by my fingers in the same way.
This means that cooking officially finished at 4pm. I usually leave the cook to cool before neutralising, but it probably doesn't matter.
Next day
I must buy some Okra! I've found a prickly pear growing wild in a back lane in Chatswood but I didn't have any gloves with me when I saw it so I will go back for it soon. I'm very keen to test its ability to create mucilage which is the formation aid you need to bind the fibres when you pull sheets of paper.
I start by giving the cook a gentle stir. Then I add some white vinegar and stir it again gently. I put the vinegar back with the caustic soda for the next cook.
A couple of days pass – I don't think this affects anything, as it happens to me frequently!
Washing – This is a long-winded task and can be very messy, it also uses lots of water. The goal is to pummel and squeeze the cooked leaves and stems until only the fibre remains.
I prepare a bucket by lining it with an old pillow case that is pegged around the top. Into this I pour the cooked leaves and stems making sure that it doesn't splash. The liquid is very dark and dense and capable of staining; a future project could use this liquid as a plant dye.
As I wash I can see how the lovely long and pale fibres reveal themselves from the leaves and the stems.
The water becomes paler, but I need to keep going until it's clear. This is a critical stage because unless I've cleaned the fibres completely from the cooked leaf debris, it will be present in the paper.
Now it's time to blend the fibre. Placing small amounts of plant fibre with water into the blender I create the fibre that will be used to make paper.
Below are the components for paper making using fibre, paper pulp and mucilage from Okra as the formation aid, and you can see the mucilage that I created from the Okra.
I add the combined plant fibre, blended cartridge paper and Okra to the vat and pull the first sheets. I place them into the post and leave them overnight.
The next day I take them out and place them on various surfaces to dry.
Once the paper is dry I print an image from my printer. It's one I created using Adobe Lightroom by combining Strelitzia photos I took at the beginning of the project.
Here is the result!
It achieved 'Highly Commended' recognition in the creative photography section of the Bellinger Agricultural Show 2018.
Webmaster & PPA committee note: We would like to congratulate Sue on her achievement and thank her for sharing her creative process with us by explaining in detail how she came to produce this unique piece of work.


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Today's post by Susan is very timely, and a subject I have been meditating on much while recovering with a new baby. There are important things in life that need tending to, but let Susan encourage you today to take time to make the most important things (people), most important.
Would you do what you are doing right at this moment?
Would you be reading this blog post, while simultaneously chatting on FB, holding up a finger to your child and whispering, "just another minute," for the umpteenth time in the past hour?
Not that you would do that. But I have.
Yep, I'm guilty. And more times than I really want to admit.
Time is a precious thing.
I don't know if there's going to be a next year, a tomorrow, or even another minute. I don't know when my husband, one of my children, or even I, myself, will be called home.
While the Father has given me this awesome gift of life here on Earth and a wonderful family to share it with, he has not guaranteed me a certain amount of time with them. I don't know when my time will come.
But sometimes I become complacent and act like I've got all the time in the world. I waste my time doing things that, honestly, don't deserve my attention.
How many hours have I whiled away hopping from blog post to blog post, checking my stats, tweeting, lurking on forums, or playing silly FB games?
I really don't think I'm going to wish I had spent more time on the computer at the end of my life. The internet is such a vast, fleeting place. Any mark I make there will be gone in the blink of any eye, anyway, replaced by the latest and greatest thing.
But it's just possible I will wish I had more joyful moments to remember with my children. I have an opportunity to make an impression on them that can last beyond my own lifetime, and I don't want them to have an enduring memory of a mother who always seemed to be putting them off.
A few days ago, my 13-year-old son sat down next to me and
My mind was wrapped up in the "news" on the web. I was typing furiously on my laptop, having a "conversation" with a friend online.
I told him to "wait a minute, I'm almost done."
I had put him off, again.
And I realized that I was sending him a very important message. I was saying, "You are not as important to me as this computer. These people online, they deserve my time and personal attention more than you do."
Ouch! What a statement! I may be a writer—but I sure stink at communicating how I really feel, don't I?
I looked into his eyes and knew that God was speaking to me
through my son.
He was reminding me that how I spend my time shows what is important to me.
If the first thing I do after stumbling out of bed is check my email, then my priorities are seriously messed up. My email should never be the first thing.
If I died tomorrow without checking my email, the world
would keep turning.
No one will perish because I didn't answer them in a timely fashion.
There are other more important things that I really must do today.
And so I begin my day in conversation with God. I pray that I will live this day as if it were my last day and Earth and be the Mom He intends me to be.
Have you ever crossed swords with the internet monster?
How would you live today if you knew it was your last?
Susan is a homeschooling mama to 4 kids: David (age 13), Mary (age 10), Peter (age 8) , and Emma (age 4). She's been married to her best friend, Chris, for 16 years. She blogs about real life and real learning at Homeschooling Hearts & Minds. She'd love to talk to you on Facebook and Twitter (but only when her kids are asleep).


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TITLE: Welcome to Crash
AUTHOR: Lina Langley
PUBLISHER: DSP Publications
COVER ARTIST: Anna Sikorska
GENRE: Sci-fi
E-BOOK: Yes
PAPERBACK: Yes
LENGTH: 214 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 12, 2017
PRICE: $6.99-e-book / $14.99 -paperback
At first, Damien feels lucky to land a job at an influential art studio, but it soon becomes obvious that something's not right. His gorgeous boss, John, is interested, and he'd be the perfect man for Damien—if Damien wasn't already in a relationship. It isn't long before Damien is at the center of a love triangle, forced to choose between hot, punk John and his secret affair with his professor, Levi. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, because something impossible is happening to Damien—and it's having a drastic effect on his health as well as his perception of reality.
Each time Damien goes to work, things grow more bizarre, starting with Sam—an artist who has been dead for years and now somehow… isn't. Damien's unusual circumstances also free him from the restrictions of monogamy—or so he thinks. Levi, who cannot believe Damien's claims, fears for his sanity. John also has strong doubts when Damien reveals knowledge of a catastrophic event looming in John's future. Whether the men he loves believe his wild claims or not, neither can deny Damien is languishing, and if they cannot save him, he'll be lost. More importantly, they must convince Damien to save himself.
Damien is a student in art looking for a summer job. He's hired to Crash one of the most famous art studios in the city. He's also in a complicated relationship with his professor Levi.
At his first day, he meets John, his boss. Stunning, sexy man. Damien, even if he's in a relationship with Levi, is attracted to John.
Damien suspected something was wrong with his job and his boss, and more, when he realised he works for Sam Riordan, THE Sam Riordan, a great artist…dead in 2006.
Between Levi thinking he's crazy and John who's laughing at him, Damien is completely lost and doesn't know what to do and where to go.
The book was good, the plot was captivating and the story interesting, but I have to admit something, I hate Damien.
He's the worst character ever, he is a detestable selfish, immature asshole and a cheater. Everything he did, everything that's happened to him, isn't his fault, nope, it's always someone else fault.
John is the pure tortured artist, he tries to understand Damien and what's happened, but most of all, he tries to accept who he is. He lives in an époque where being who we want isn't easy. But Damien's visit helps him, and at least he tries to help Damien in return.
Levi is Damien's professor. He's older, so he can't at first, just came out, with his students, the consequences for him and his career is too much. But when Damien's in trouble, sick, and really needs him, Levi is there, he doesn't fly out, he just stays, admitting his love and the future he wants with Damien. I love him, I really do love Levi, he's so faithful, strong, kind and adorable.
I'm torn about this book. In one hand, I love the story and the plot, it's interesting and captivating, the writing is fluid, and I read it easily. In another hand, Damien is an obnoxious character, and he spoils the book for me.
I can't say I hate the book, but I can't say I love it either.
So for me, it's 4 OptimuMM's, because despite Damien, like I said, the book by itself is good.
***The ARC was provided by DSP Publications. My review is an honest opinion of the book***


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Discussion in 'In-State Rivals' started by CyTwins, Mar 29, 2020.
Never would have thought Wadley could be up for a felony before Wegher.
Wegher is too busy chasing his herd of kids.
Interestingly we have this thread and a resurrection of the Marty Tirrell thread going at the same time. Coincidence? Could they be the same person?
Marty's more of a Frank Garza type of guy. The feds aren't after Akrum yet.
That's a name we haven't heard in a few years!
Wasn't he like 40 when he played
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The little thief was a minor so not much to report. Campbell took the high road and just moved on.
Does PT mean Playing Time or Prison Time?
Hum, next article on that page is "25 Colleges That Aren't worth Their Tuition". I guess since they were already writing about Iowa.................
Gonzo, to help you out during these bleak times, I'm going to help lift your day.
I sent in $50 to get an autographed Akrum Wadley jersey for you. Should be shipping in a couple days it reported. Keep looking in your mailbox for it.
What's the skinny on Frank Garza? I must have missed something.
SWEET. Thanks buddy, very kind. My Stanzi jersey is wearing thin and I've been getting strange looks lately, so the timing is perfect.
I was going to get you a Stanley jersey but the shipping was outrageous. To big for a normal delivery. Had to use an LTL delivery.
A Bernie Madoff wannabee. Scammed people out of millions, wouldn't even show up in court, it was that bad. Hell, the NFL hired a former FBI agent to even go after him.
And he's the same guy KXNO had on a couple weeks ago and were ranting and raving about how great of an interview he was?
He is. Murph interviewed him.
Thinking Gonzo has been hitting his white chili recipe a little to often and it come back to haunt him in the worse way.


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Guests will enjoy unlimited food and drink from caterers and restaurants around Central Florida. Alumni clubs from our partner schools in the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 (as well as Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M) will compete for the most spirited tent in the Alumni Village. The kids can enjoy the Kids Zone that has inflatable games, face painting and other fun activities. It will all be capped off with a fireworks show.
This event is a great way for new members and guests to enjoy the newly constructed Citrus Bowl that opened in November of last year. The 2014 edition of Feast on the 50 was hosted on the stadium's new party deck due to ongoing reconstruction of the facility, but this year's event will be back on the field.


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Game DevelopmentPostmortem
Overkill VR: Mobile Game Goes VR
Overkill VR is a result of cooperation between two teams: Game Troopers & Starloop Studios.
Game Troopers is the official publisher of Overkill VR, managing promotion, marketing and distribution. Game Troopers is also an experienced publisher in mobile gaming, with a strong background in the Windows phone & Windows PC markets. While Starloop Studios is a multi-platform studio formed by developers and artists. Starloop has had many successful projects on different platforms, including PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, mobile, VR, and more. This experience gives Starloop a unique perspective on game development in different environments and, as the devs state, increases their potential for success.
Starloop's biggest title to date is Make it Rain – The Love of Money, a mobile clicker with more than 20-million downloads across its three platforms, Android, iOS and Windows phone. These are the teams that created Overkill VR. Here's how it happened.
Taking The Plunge
In the spring of 2016, during a typical lunch at the office, the heads of Game Troopers and Starloop were talking about VR, the revolutionary new development in gaming. They had worked on small projects in VR before, but nothing significant and with their personal stamp. Despite being an indie studio, their lunch talk led them to decide they wanted to make something really big in VR, something that would feel very immersive to the player.
They knew that starting a new VR game from scratch would take time and resources, and was risky for an indie studio. They acknowledged that they couldn't afford to drop other smaller projects because they'd need them to keep the studio alive. And they knew there was a risk and they might fail. Maybe this VR project couldn't get completed without all the company resources directed towards it, maybe its quality would suffer, and what about competing deadlines between it and other bread-and-butter work?
But then they saw a way, a path between the rock and the hard place. What if they made a VR port of one of their own games? Development would be easier than starting completely from scratch, they'd save time and money, and allow the team to immediately focus on making a VR experience unlike one ever seen before. And so it began.
What did you cut? Reasons?
The overall project vision came easily, but not without some quandaries. The first big decision centered on the headset to work with. Each had pros and cons, and a good market presence. But one had an ace in the hole. The HTC Vive had a strong ally in Steam. As users, we feel integrated with Valve, and that ultimately made the choice easier.
The second big decision was choosing the game from our library to port to VR. After doing some benchmarking, brainstorming and asking our team, the choice was Overkill 3.
We had many ideas and thought we knew how to bring them to fruition on VR, but then reality set in. Overkill 3 is a free-to-play mobile game where there is a whole economy around every significant action taken. That's impossible in a VR environment. So the entire economy of the game had to change.
And this affected much more than the cost of a gun in the game. Things like damage, ammo needed to complete a level, HP of the enemies – all this would be different, changing much more than originally envisioned and planned.
There were also some problems with the VR itself, and effectively showing some stages of the game. The movement in the game was mainly under control, but there were special moments that we didn't know how to tackle. The chopper stages were especially difficult. How could we add this specialized movement while already facing challenges with normal movement? In the end, putting a player on a chopper in continuous motion, while they try to aim at enemies and avoid motion sickness, was a mission impossible.
And there were camera issues beyond the chopper stages. In every game, there are scenes where you experience the action from an external, third-person point of view, scenes where the motion and kinetics are the most important thing, like jumping over a gap, or keeping someone else safe in a flurry of bullets. How do you do that without giving up the first-person view? And how do you transfer the immersive feel of jumping from first-person to third-person? In the end, we decided to cut those scenes, since a fully immersive experience was our ultimate goal.
Things learned Developing in a VR world
When we started early access, some features of the game were taken out, while other were kept in. When you're working 8-9 hours a day on the same project, you get used to things that might feel weird for someone new to the game. That was what happened with the cover system, the core feature of the gameplay.
If you look at the original game, having a cover to protect you from coming bullets is always an advantage, even though its height is just one and a half feet. In the early stages, testing gameplay at the office, we didn't see any problem crouching a few times. But later on, we realized crouching was difficult, and not a good thing when you want to just have some fun and play a VR game after a stressful workday. Then we discovered that vertical covers worked fine in the game, offering the same amount of challenge but avoiding the physical overload felt after playing for an hour.
It's all about verticality when you play a deep horizontal game. Playing on a mobile screen limits your field of view, but in VR, where you can see all around you, your perception demands harder challenges. In a few levels, some spawn points for the enemies were in vertical spots, above or below the player area. We realized that the feeling of having enemies at heights different than you'd expect adds more adrenaline to the gameplay. When the enemy is directly in front of you, you can keep the situation under your control, but when you have a sniper on the third floor of the building next to you, things change.
Hear, Test, Implement
We learned so much from community feedback, and we tried to incorporate what we learned in early access, to give the community the best product we could make, the product they wanted. For instance, our initial concept of automatic reload was wrong, and so after hearing from our community, we developed manual reloading. This feature was very popular and appreciated by the players, and many of them congratulated us for designing it.
If we learned one lesson on this project, it's that you have to listen your potential players. This is a must in this industry that is very easy to forget. You must keep it in mind.
Both companies have grown through all the early access development. With the EA finished, the game completed, and thinking ahead to upcoming projects, both teams are in good shape, and ready to continue their adventures in VR.


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Feel it or not, a single of the finest issues you can do to take care of your time is to choose your time. By rushing as a result of significant tasks, you may possibly make mistakes that pressure you to commence more than. Having your time the very first time all-around makes certain the career is completed the suitable way.
In buy to properly control your time, you have to have to get enough slumber. A substantial aspect of time management is focus and without a very good night's snooze, it is going to be tricky to focus on just about anything. Slumber at the very least 7 to 8 hrs a night time with out any interruptions.
Manage your property to manage your time. If it usually takes you five minutes to find some thing on your desk, you can waste a large amount of time within just a week. Acquire some bins, spend in some filing cabinets and use these points to tidy up your place so you can get arranged. This organized operate region will help save you both equally time and aggravation.
Sustain some variety of scheduling technique. You could never discover a single that lets you do anything you want. Even so, just holding an structured agenda can suggest you are never ever late for the matters that you do get to do. You also get to avoid schedule conflicts at all instances for the duration of the 7 days.
In order to get the most out of everyday living, you really will need to learn the artwork of time management. Knowing how to prioritize, plan and harmony all the things in your daily program is significant to contentment. We hope the steering located in the posting earlier mentioned has provided you some food for assumed.