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Tales from Exit 138: Fog on the Barrow Downs
Another 5:30 am wake up call and on a Saturday morning no less. But it was a small price to pay to go watch the first official full-squad workout. Since it was a Saturday, I went with my dad, and we were on the road by 6. We left so early that there was still some fog on the sides of the alley, and we were able to watch the sun rise behind us and the moon fade in front of us.
I had all of the essentials packed, which includes my big notebook which I have been using since my first Portland Sea Dogs game in 2009 against the Altoona Curve. It was Daniel Nava's Double-A debut, Luis Exposito DH'd, Adam Mills pitched, and Ryan Kalish had reached base in 18 straight games–not to mention the fact that he hit a two-run homer. Normally my notebook is full of all the papers I accumulated over the summer: scorecards, game notes, etc, but I had put that in a file so I wouldn't get confused between those and my spring training papers.
For the pitchers and catchers workout, I had made a spread sheet full of statistics for all of the minor league players that I intend on scouting this spring. I also had a document with their mugshots because I memorize statistics, not faces. This time, I brought a list of players that the website "Sox Prospects" wants me to get pictures of. Hardly any of the minor league players on my list were present, but they will be by this time next week.
I was going to bring a scooter this time so that I would be more evenly matched with the complex, but I decided not to since I would be carrying my dad's fancy camera around. This ended up being good intuition because I finally noticed this sign with some rules on it right before I walked into the complex. Among them was "No skateboarding."
Initially, I had planned on attempting to kill two birds with one stone: I wanted to check out the minor league workout at the stadium, and then check out the normal one at the Player's Development Complex. But when I asked the security guards if the minor league players were at the stadium, they did not seem to know what I was talking about. I further investigated this dilemma when I got home, and multiple twitter accounts have corroborated my theory that they had the weekend off.
We arrived at the complex no later than 8:30, but I started to become suspicious around 9:15 when not even the catchers had emerged from the clubhouse. But it was nice to simply walk around the complex in the early morning and feel the wet grass between my toes. It smelled like baseball. Luis Tiant walked out to one of the fields about a half an hour before the players came out, and Jim Rice went up to the NESN booth with Peter Gammons & co.
When the players finally did come out, I was on the wrong side of things. Not that it really mattered much, anyway, as only Lars Anderson stopped to sign on the way out. The catchers did pass where I was standing though.
Again, it was not the best day for autographs and pictures with players because it was the first full squad workout and everyone was figuring out the rotation. While I certainly do enjoy getting pictures with the players, that's not the reason why I go: I go because I find the drills fascinating.
The players were split up by position, and it even seemed like the everyday players were kept together. I mainly watched the pitching and infield drills. What fascinates me is that these are essentially the same drills that you do in little league, high school, and college. The level of difficulty my change, but the game itself always stays the same.
I think that we take advantage of how good these players really are because they make everything look so easy: whether it is completing a 6-4-3 double play or something as simple as catching a fly ball, it's not as easy as it seems.
The infield drill that I enjoyed the most was the slow roller one. Lars Anderson was at first base, and Jose Iglesias, Yamaico Navarro, and Nate Spears had to charge the ball and get it over to first.
Then I watched batting practice for a while. I completely ignored the regulars like Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez taking batting practice and instead focused on Josh Reddick, Daniel Nava, Lars Anderson, Yamaico Navarro, and Jose Iglesias taking batting practice.
At one point I was between two fields, hoping to catch players between them, and I said hello to Darnell McDonald as he walked by. I was completely shocked that he remembered me from Tampa. It was a quick "Oh yeah, I remember you," but it was still a cool moment.
I anticipated the players going back in around 12, so I intended on getting a spot around 11:30. Little did I know that the players were going in around 11:30 instead, so I ended up in a pretty poor spot. After a while, a cleanly-shaven Kevin Youkilis came over and signed for nearly everybody down the line, and I was nearly smushed on my way out.
I was on my way out of the complex when I noticed Jose Iglesias getting his stuff together. A few people were going over for autographs, but by no means was it a mob-scene, so I decided to go over and ask for a picture.
There was, however, a rather large mob of people on my way out, and Mike Cameron was signing autographs for everyone. It was kind of a weird angle for a picture, but he quickly posed for one nonetheless.
So as you can see, the whole getting-pictures-with-players proces
s at the workouts is kind of random, and it has a lot to do with luck. I was able to gauge, however, where they go between drills, so I will do my best to position myself wisely when I go up again tomorrow (Monday). It's an open house tomorrow, so regardless of whether or not I get anything done at the complex, there will definitely be autograph opportunities (which I will turn into photo opportunities). There are activities all day on the field for little kids, and let's get real: we all know that the slime making booth at first base is the real reason why I'm going.
I did have my very expired press pass with me on Saturday, but I did not put it to any use. I had intended to try and attend a press conference at the end, but they all seemed to be held at the beginning. Plus the security guards remembered me despite my attempted disguise of straight hair. Honestly, I should just try some these-are-not-the-droids-you're-looking-for Jedi mind tricks, and see how far I can get.
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Maybe I am seeing this wrong. I am certainly open to opinions but it seems to me like the changes to the Florida Stand Your Ground signed into law by Rick Scott last Friday is a win for the criminals.
If you don't know what the change is about - here it is. The original stand your ground law says that if you shoot someone and claim self defense you can do a pretrial hearing where you have an opportunity to convince a judge it was self defense. If he/she agrees you go on your merry way without having to stand trial...
The change, however, essentially puts all burden of proof in a pretrial stand your ground hearing on the prosecutors. I guess this sounds good in theory since thats how the justice system is supposed to work except for one thing. The pretrial hearing isnt a trial - it never was. The stand your ground law was put in place as a first line of defense for law abiding citizens to protect themselves from prosecution but the hearing itself is not prosecution.
My concern here is that this change is basically going to give criminals 2 chances to get off. Since the prosecution is going to have to try the case twice it will have to show its full hand in the first trial which is a gimmie loss for the defendant if they do in fact lose. This is going to make it way easier for a defense to come up with bullshit tactics to defeat the prosecution. Its also going to make it twice as expensive for the prosecution to try cases. They might not be able to afford to prosecute real bad guys.
I know that stand your ground has been under attack and anti gun prosecutors do try to make examples by prosecuting self defense cases for headlines but I think mostly prosecutors don't want to try losing cases. its bad for business - their careers - their bosses' careers etc etc. So ideally they only want to try cases they can win. Now they have to try every real bad guy twice just to get him once? They might not even bother anymore.
For those who don't agree with this - as I said, I am open to opinions...
Do supporters of this law think its the right of every person who shoots someone to get 2 trials?
Do supporters of this law think this is going to stop more prosecutions of true self defense cases over stopping criminals from avoiding the real trials and spying prosecution strategy by wasting time and money by claiming self defense every time they kill someone?
Can you support this change and still complain when dangerous criminals are arrested, but not prosecuted and released back into society?
I mean - this isn't even an anti-gun situation - gun grabbers are going to complain about every single pro gun law no matter what it is at any time so we can assume their opinions are always completely null and void on any legislation that isnt anti gun. So don't we have a responsibility to look at pro gun legislation and regulate it internally in the pro gun community - or should we just assume anything that looks like it might be pro gun should pass regardless of the consequences - blindly - just like the anti-gunners.
And why can this legislation appear and get passed out of nowhere, but we still don't have campus carry when its been needed for many years now.
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Interstice: Appropriation Looks Like This
This is just a quick, interstitial post about a thing I found online today. The attached meme tells us that the word 'tenalach' is Irish and 'describes a relationship one has with the land, air and water, a deep connection that allows one to literally hear the Earth sing'.
According to my Irish dictionary and the researches of several Irish-speaking commenters on the original post, this word does not exist in the language. In fact, it violates a basic principle of Irish spelling.
Folks, this is what cultural appropriation looks like. It matters less that the spiritual concept is gorgeous and fulfilling than it does that Irish language and culture were inappropriately overlaid upon it to lend it legitimacy. Irish deserves better than that and so do the people who speak it.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
This reminds me of the 1990s when a long poem about saving the environment attributed wrongly to Chief Sealth (the guy that Seattle is named for). The poem was widely published by many including most pagan environmentalists. A fact check determined that some of the topics in the poem could not have been known by the real Chief Sealth. It was written by a wannabe environmental activist in the 1980s. He added the fiction about "by Chief Seatlh" because so many environmentalists were also NA wannabes. It got a ton more sharing than it would have if he published it under his own name. Total inappropriate usurping of NA names and tribes.
There was another similar NA wannabe environmental thing circulating on FB last week. Its best to object whenever we see it.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I agree it's best to object to these sorts of things whenever we see them, both for the sake of the appropriated culture and for our sakes. We don't need to hang our belief in the sanctity of the Earth on some ancient culture in order to legitimize it. It really is all right for us to tell new sacred stories, and these should be celebrated on their own merits.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
SPEED's Vegas Testing Shows: Where's The Beef?
Like lots of fans I turned on the TV Tuesday night very excited to see a whole slew of COT cars on the big fast Las Vegas Motor Speedway. SPEED was on-hand to document the continuing testing and now had good weather and a fast track.
Unfortunately, the coverage of the actual on-track activity was more than a little light. It was non-existent.
While testing may be old hat to Larry McReynolds, Jeff Hammond and the TV gang, the fans tuning-in wanted to see only one thing. That would be cars on the track. What they got was everything else under the sun.
Certainly, this is a first time effort, but one fundamental truth remains. It is as true for the fans that braved the cool weather at Daytona several weeks ago to sit in the stands as it is for the viewers who rushed home to turn on their TV sets Tuesday night.
They did not come to see the announcers on-camera, even more driver interviews, or fancy graphics. What they came for was to see lots of COT cars going around Las Vegas very fast.
SPEED did a good job at Daytona, and then jumped-in and gamely covered the Media Tour. But, those two things were different.
NASCAR fans knew this Las Vegas test would be very important to their favorite drivers and teams. They knew the Las Vegas oval would prove to be tricky for some drivers in these brand new cars. They were ready for action.
After the Tuesday evening show, the only question to the SPEED guys was "where's the beef?"
The video highlights of the Tuesday morning session lasted less than two minutes, and the afternoon session less than one. While there were "cut-a-way" shots and footage used for "B-roll" during driver interviews, there were no full speed laps shown and no groups of cars shown running together.
Fans got the impression that there was limited acivity on the track. Meanwhile, the NASCAR.com website reported that during the morning session there were 76 cars running. In the afternoon, there were 74. That does not match what fans saw on TV. It is not even close.
As if to add insult to injury, the SPEED crew then pointed out that Dale Junior had run perhaps the most laps of all. If so, where was he?
One lap at Las Vegas is about thirty seconds. Even a big field of cars or a line of team cars would still be lapping at thirty seconds. So, even one minute would buy almost two full laps of COT cars at SPEED for the fans at home. One minute.
Don't get me wrong, the info from the announcers has been outstanding. The tire story, the wind on Monday, and the high number of teams made for good content.
But, the Vegas test is a huge story and perhaps focusing on full laps with McReynolds providing information on what teams are doing during the run would work better than "SportsCenter style" highlight packages of the sessions.
There was no "at the track" feel to the Tuesday program. It was a NASCAR Live style show with video highlights, some driver interviews, and a feature thrown-in from both McReynolds and Dillner. It had the SPEED Stage vibe without the crowd.
There were lots of comments on earlier posts about this subject, and almost everyone said the same thing. We are happy to have this coverage, we applaud SPEED for "upgrading" the pre-season testing commitment, but...where are the cars?
Some viewers suggested that if time is an element for the coverage, the network should consider one hour testing shows that could mix the action and the features.
SPEED has committed to running a historic Daytona highlight, they have a daily Tech Tip feature, and they also produce a specific driver interview. Along with the promos for the track's ticket sales and the multiple SPEED program promos, thirty minutes goes by pretty fast.
Maybe "fast" was the wrong word to use. It seems a tad ironic that "speed" is the one thing sorely lacking in this otherwise solid testing coverage.
Wednesday will bring another 7PM Eastern Time program from Las Vegas, with the testing coverage moving to Fontana for Thursday and Friday.
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20 comments:
- Sophia said...
Well, I am happy to see this article JD.
Did SPEED hire somebody from ESPU to run their shows???
I turned OFF this show to fix dinner. I am sorry but I can't STAND seeing the talking heads all the time. I like these guys but want to see the CARS!
Also, much like ESPN likes to yap and pretend the track is not even nearby, there is that ANNOYING CRAWL at the bottom of the screen CONSTANTLY.
Have we NOT griped about all the junk on the screen from ESPN?
Have we not griped how during practice and qualifying, ESP U shows the commentators too much and too little track?
It may be boring to some but I would like to see the practice.
I am worried this is more than pre season minutia, JD, but perhaps, SPEED for some sicko reason, wants to duplicate PeeSPN.
I will not be tuning in anymore. I will stick with reading your columns.
Enough with the yapping. SPEED could've saved some money and just made this an audio show for free on the SPEED website.
Sorry to be so negative but I am tired of the lack of cars on my screen.
Thanks for the column.
I agree, where's the beef!??
- January 30, 2008 at 12:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
JD, I realize the problem, but you fail to mention why there was no on track footage. You did not even seem to ask or try and find out why we saw no on track footage. Could it have been a technical issue? A tactical issue? I am leaning towards one of those two, but from reading your article, you make it seem as if SPEED left out on track b-roll "just because".
- January 30, 2008 at 12:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
WOW..what's with all the negativity? Not watching the show anymore just because of this?? And is the ticker really that annoying? Tired of the lack of cars...from just one episode? I sorry but it seems that some are now becoming unfairly critical.
- January 30, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- Sophia said...
just for the record, I have tried watching these shows and seen LITTLE on track footage, period. I am not flipping out over one show.
I will wait until we get closer to Daytona to turn the tv back to SPEED channel. I can read online what I need to know. :-)
- January 30, 2008 at 1:26 AM
- Unknown said...
After a 2 month drought of no Nascar coverage, personally I would rather see Speed talk to the drivers and talk about Nascar than see a bunch of gray cars with numbers taped to the side doing laps. I enjoy Nascar for the racing and the Drivers, not for the cars just going around in circles.
- January 30, 2008 at 6:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Love the idea of these shows.
The execution of them, however has been less than stellar.
I have yet to understand why each show features about thirty seconds of video from the AM practice session, then another 30 from the PM...and that's it. The rest, while interesting, isn't as interesting as seeing the actual cars running.
Maybe they do need an hour-long show, if the problem is trying to fit all the rest of the material into the alloted time.
- January 30, 2008 at 6:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
IMO, if we've only got half an hour I'd rather see informative features that tell us what the teams are learning -- who is fast, how the tires are doing, and such news.
I wouldn't object to seeing cars going around in circles, but when they aren't *actually racing* news is preferable to pretty visuals.
What seemed to me to be missing wasn't so much simply raw visuals of cars driving in circles, but rather following the lap with an emphasis on analyzing the track or the particular car's handling.
- January 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
Speed is at the tracks every week and they see how many fans come in to the stands to watch practice. I go to a few races and the stands have nobody in them, and there are many 10's of thosands of people right at the track camping. They must think if people don't want to watch pratice or testing in person, who wants to watch it on the TV. I can tell you without a scanner it will put you to sleep!
I don't understand the person who complains about tickers, these give you good info on times, which is what these sessions are all about. If the tickers were not there, all the info would be given by the hosts, which would cut out many features and interviews.
- January 30, 2008 at 8:15 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
It certainly is interesting how one comment about a sports ticker, not included in this column, has gotten a life of its own.
While ESPN and other networks that use a ticker focus on providing info and results from other sports, the point about SPEED in the pre-season is that there are no other racing results.
The information scrolling on the bottom of the screen is the same info contained in the program being watched.
The comment about tickers in the ESPN Classic column was the fact that ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News and ESPN.com all offer instant information in the same manner.
Every NASCAR fan who recorded Dale Earnhart Senior's win at Daytona will now have old scores from college basketball games and news from the NBA that they will be watching as well....forever.
If we need to create a new column about tickers because there is a lot of interest, I would be happy to do so. If you would like me to do that, just drop me an email so I can get a feel on that topic.
Please don't get confused between questioning TV issues and being negative. TV is subjective, with few rules. That is why this type of site gets very diverse comments.
If you like the coverage, like Bill and some other posters, just say so and the reasons why. He raises some good points.
- January 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
When SPEED announced that they would be broadcasting the tests from the track, many fans were excited for an upgrade to previous years' coverage. The way it has turned out, these shows could have been done from Charlotte.
What SPEED might have done was to spend money on cameras going to the tests and gathering footage (on-track, garage, and interviews) rather than doing the show as a remote. Having the show live from the track doesn't seem to add much, other than the couple of on-set interviews from Daytona.
I was in an obsessive-compulsive mood the other night and timed how much "show" was mixed in with the promos, fillers and commercials. 17:45 min. SPEED's getting some bang for the buck there.
- January 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
John Daly wrote: The information scrolling on the bottom of the screen is the same info contained in the program being watched.
Exactly! This is the kind of overkill that the TV networks do so much lately and drive the viewers crazy!
- January 30, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have watched all of the "Thunder" and have enjoyed them.
I would have liked to see at least a couple of laps with multiple cars on the track. It seems that SPEED sent a minimal crew on the western swing and they did their best with what they had on hand.
Again, I say thanks to SPEED for helping us through our withdrawal pains. :)
- January 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Lower-third crawls came into widespread use on 9/11/01 and, sadly, have only become more common since then.
- January 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
Personally, I have, as others mentioned, attended testing in person. I used to play hookey from work to enjoy a day in the sun. But I'd bring magazines with me because it is incredibly boring at times (a few primer cars going around figuring stuff out is not my idea of exciting, even with a scanner--and you do hear funny stuff you can't say on TV...).
I'm thinking they could have showed a bit more on-track action, but let's not overkill with an hour of this. It's cars NOT RACING around a track. To be honest, unless you're the crew chief or engineer, I can't see that you're going to gain a lot from this. I'd rather see some good interviews and some tech talk...I totally agree with the 'at the track' feeling though. To have them out at a desk with their hair flying in the wind is more immediate (I've always been glad Krista Voda isn't a primadonna in that way for the Truck race show.)
- January 30, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Kevin in SoCal said...
Thanks for the info on being prepared at the testing. I'm going to CA Speedway on Friday and since its my first time going for testing, I will bring more than just my video camera and a sharpie.
- January 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
Having been to testing here in Ca and Vegas, It's boring! The cars go out make few laps,come back in for adjustments and go out again. Yes a few of them will bunch up to see how the cars handle in dirty air, but they are all being cautious. No Racing going on here. Right now I'm more interested in what's oung on with the cars and teams. Makes a difference on how I pick my fantasy teams. I think speed is giving some good info in a short period of time.We got 36 weeks of racing coming up to watch the cars rewoeucally run.
- January 30, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Newracefan said...
I WANT to see cars on the track but I Need information. So if I have to choose I'll take Larry Mac and company over primer gray. Many here have said that watching testing is boring, I guess if they showed some cars, and explained no one was really running close therefore there wasn't much to show us I'd accept it. Right now what many of us are picturing in our heads is probably not what is happening on the track. I also believe there may be a limited numbers of cameras there since all the car shots appear to be from the same area on the track. It is a wonderful thing we actually have a show watch and if it never becomes more than it is right now I'll still be happy that Speed thought fans were important enough to show them the information they could dig for on the net.
- January 30, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- PammH said...
I'm quite thrilled w/Speed's coverage. I see cars on the track, but I want to hear from the drivers & Larry Mac's good info. I am happy Speed didn't bail on us after Daytona testing!!
And JD, ignore the trolls-they are baiting you. Myself & many others appreciate what you have created for us here & hope that you can keep it going!! It will be missed if you don't...:(
- January 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great Article!!! Thanks!
"They did not come to see the announcers on-camera"
DW & Larry are ok, but enough is enough, we tune in for the racing, not to see the Three Stooges!!!
SPEED, Go back and look at 2001 coverage, before these three thought they were it!
- January 30, 2008 at 10:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
I take it nobody is intelligent enough to realize that during these test sessions there are no "packs" of cars on the track. These are single car runs... yeah, I'd love to see more cars too... but anin't gonna see packs.
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And just because I couldn't resist, I snagged this from Misa's website so I could introduce her properly:
Q: Where does a blonde-haired, green-eyed All-American girl get a name like Misa Ramirez?
A: Part A~ The Misa came from the Chinese cooks at the Orange Hut, a restaurant I worked at during my third year in college. They couldn't quite say Missy, my nickname since childhood, and it came out Misa. They also called me 'chicken legs' in Chinese–small favor that one didn't stick!
Part B~ I met my husband at the Orange Hut, so he's only ever known me as Misa. Coincidentally, Misa also means Mass in Spanish, his native language. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Part C~ Love and marriage equal the last name Ramirez and a passel of kids in a baby carriage.
Take it away, Misa!!!
When you aren't a regular on a blog, it can be hard to know what to write, and how to present it to a brand new audience. Should I be funny, like in my books? Serious, because murder is serious business? Or some combination of the two, perhaps?
The truth is, I'm no stand up comedian (not by a long shot), but I am funny--in my books. Like any fleshed out character, I'm a combination of things. I love a good mystery (cutting my teeth on Nancy Drew, graduating to Agatha Christie, and branching out from there), read the occasional romance (Julia Quinn makes me laugh), but stick mostly with women's and/or literary fiction (The Help is my new favorite book).
How, then, did I come to write mysteries, and why aren't my mysteries serious instead of sexy and sassy?
The short answer is, I like the mystery device. What better way to propel a plot forward than to have a crime to solve?
The little-bit-longer answer is that crafting a puzzle that the sleuth and readers need to piece together is challenging--and fun; watching characters you love to spend time with grow and discover themselves--and each other--is rewarding. Having humor and wit in a book is icing on the cake.
For me, then, the mystery is only half the story. Lola Cruz came about long before the framework of Living the Vida Lola. She came to me as a character who was at once sassy, smart, sexy, determined, strong, feminine, Latina, black belt in kung fu, idealistic, American, sister, daughter, friend, and so much more. When it was time to figure out how I was going to tell her story, it made perfect sense to put her into an investigative role. Elements of the mystery, I knew, could pit Lola against external conflicts, as well as internal conflicts, of which she has many. It would force her to evaluate her life, her choices, her dreams, her desires, and her future (all in a funny, light way). Balancing her drive to be a detective, her traditional Mexican family, cultural expectations, her American sensibilities, and her love life is no easy task. Add in a mystery, and it's a wild ride!
Lola Cruz Mysteries are character driven more than anything, but the mysteries really interest me. They're 'ripped from the headlines', twisted, redefined, and Lola-fied. The mysteries shape, form, and/or enlighten Lola in her personal life or with her decision-making. They are equal, then, to Lola's own story, which spans the arc of the series (we're only on book 2, so have a ways to go yet).
I'm always curious to find out from mystery readers if you like your mysteries straight up, or do you enjoy the zany, romantic elements which are in many series?
Visit Misa and learn more about Lola Cruz Mysteries at http://misaramirez.com/, at Chasing Heroes, and at The Stiletto Gang.


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Although a certain group of flippered flightless birds living closer to the bottom of the planet have long been hogging the cinematic spotlight in films like "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins," let's not forget that fauna primarily — or exclusively — living above 66°33"N have managed to garner a fair amount of non-documentary screen time as well. Below, you'll find five of our favorite, mostly anthropomorphic animal characters hailing from above the Arctic Circle. Did we forget one? Tell us about it in the comments section.
Hedwig — The "Harry Potter" series
Although the snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus, primarily live and breed north of the Arctic Circle in the frigid tundra of Canada, Alaska and Eurasia, this tufted-eared rodent-eater has also been spotted further south in other locales including Scotland. "O RLY," you ask? Yes indeed, a rather intuitive bird of prey named Hedwig resides at Scotland's famed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the trusty pet/companion/letter-carrier of Harry Potter. Although Hedwig (RIP) doesn't have the ability to speak like some of the animals on this list, it's implied that she and her young master are able to communicate with each other through other, magical means. We should also point out that although a lady owl, Hedwig is portrayed by male snowy owls in the "Harry Potter" films, as only males boast completely white plumage.
Mr. Narwhal — "Elf"
Cinema's greatest — and perhaps only — anthropomorphic appearance from the mysterious, massive-toothed mammal known as the narwhal can be found in Will Ferrell's raunch-free Christmas comedy, "Elf." In the brief but apparently T-shirt-worthy scene (right), a kindly Monodon monoceros named Mr. Narwhal (voiced by director John Favreau) emerges from the ice-covered waters of the North Pole to show off his unicorn-esque dental work and wish Buddy the titular elf (Ferrell) best of luck on his trip to New York City in search of his cranky, non-elfin biological father played by James Caan. And for the curious: Narwhals, along with beluga and bowhead whales, are one of only a handful of whale species that reside in the Arctic Ocean year-round.
Iorek Byrnison — "The Golden Compass"
OK, so this entry really veers into the realm of make-believe but when we think of talkin' and emotin' Arctic beasts, King Iorek Byrnison from the 2007 film adaptation of Philip Pullman's YA fantasy epic "The Golden Compass" immediately comes to mind. Voiced by Ian McKellen, this plus-sized, armor-clad polar bear (a Panserbjørner, if you want to get technical) is a fierce protector of and mode of transportation for pint-sized heroine Lyra Belacqua on her perilous journey to rescue kidnapped children. Iorek also happens to be a wiz at metallurgy (opposable thumbs and extreme intelligence come in handy here). For a film featuring polar bears in a non-parallel universe filled with Dæmons, Gobblers, and anti-Catholic sentiment, we recommend sticking to the National Geographic documentary, also from 2007, "An Arctic Tale," or the Meryl Streep-narrated IMAX film, "To The Arctic."
Prancer — "Prancer"
While Prancer may not be the most famous reindeer of all, this member of Santa's team of flying caribou did get a chance to steal the spotlight in the supremely drippy 1989 family film, "Prancer." The plot is simple: A young girl in rural Michigan finds an injured reindeer and, despite objections from her widowed father, tries to nurse it back to health with the help of a couple of kooky local geriatrics played by Cloris Leachman and Abe Vigoda. At the end of the film, Prancer makes a full recovery and flies off into the night sky on Christmas Eve to join Dasher, Dancer and the gang. And in case you were curious, the reindeer and the caribou are essentially the exact same animal — the latter is the North American term used to describe the Arctic and sub-Arctic antlered deer in a non-domesticated, non-Christmas-y context. The natural habitat of the animal includes the woodlands and/or tundra of Siberia, Norway, Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Finland.
Wally Walrus — "The Beach Nut," "Puny Express," "Wacky-Bye, Baby" etc.
Finally, there's Wally Walrus: frequently hungry, hot-tempered, dim-witted and prone to singing "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." WW was a blubbery, German-accented fixture of cartoons released by Walter Lantz Productions throughout the 1940s and early 1950s. Thought to be of Swedish origin despite the bad Kraut brogue, Wally was essentially to Woody Woodpecker what Elmer Fudd was to Bugs Bunny. That is, he was one of the super-annoying bird's most persistent adversaries. And Wally wasn't the only cold climate anthropomorphic critter to find stardom through Walter Lantz cartoons: There was also Chilly Willy, a pancake-loving penguin with poor circulation who defied his species' natural range by taking up residence in Alaska with a pooch named Smedley.
Click for photo credits
Snowy owl: chbaum/Shutterstock
Narwhal: Amazon.com
Polar bear: WarnerBros.com
Prancer: IMDb.com
Wally: YouTube


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Folkin' A! Spinal Tap unplugged
Fans of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show don't have to be told to see A Mighty Wind. It will take a court order to keep them away.
A Mighty Wind is slicker, not as laugh-out-loud funny as its predecessors, but it's just as wonderful in its way. Director Christopher Guest co-wrote the script outline with Eugene Levy again, and the dialogue was improvised by the cast.
The ever-expanding repertory company, 12 of whom appeared in one or both previous comedies (and Harry Shearer, making it a Spinal Tap reunion), has actually gotten too big. While each makes an indelible impression, there's not enough time to develop all the characters and situations.
The subject is folk music and the reunion of three groups from the 1960s for a Town Hall memorial concert for impresario Irving Steinbloom (1920-2003). It's hastily assembled by Steinbloom's anal son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) to take advantage of an open date at the venue. A live telecast is arranged– on Public Television, natch (where this film should play marvelously during pledge drives).
The easiest group to book is the New Main Street Singers (think New Christy Minstrels), the still-performing latest incarnation of a "neuftet," including one original member (Paul Dooley), one second-generation Singer (perky Parker Posey), and mystical married couple John Michael Higgins and Jane Lynch (she's a former porn star), who worship colors.
We don't learn much background (or foreground, for that matter) about the Kingston Trio-like Folksmen, except that they were formed in 1961 when the bass (Harry Shearer) and tenor (Christopher Guest) known as the Twobadours met the baritone (Michael McKean) they needed to fill out their sound. Long separated, they reunite without conflict.
Providing the film's nail-biting suspense elements are Mitch & Mickey, the lovebirds (Ian & Sylvia? Mimi & Richard Farina?) who brought romance to folk music and whose climactic kiss was as eagerly anticipated as that of t.A.T.u. today.
Mitch (Eugene Levy) has never fully recovered from the nervous breakdown he suffered after the act's violent breakup. Mickey (Catherine O'Hara) is a happy housewife whose husband (Jim Piddock) makes catheters for a living and is a model train enthusiast.
The first question is whether Mitch will agree to the reunion and the second whether he'll be able to keep it together for the performance, but the big question is whether they'll do their famous kiss. Place your bets.
Taking time away from developing some of these characters and letting more jokes build is the necessity of finding roles for several other actors, whether they fit into the plot or not. Ed Begley Jr. plays a TV producer who hails from Sweden but speaks in Yiddishisms. Michael Hitchcock is the Town Hall events coordinator who has to deal with Jonathan's controlling behavior. Fred Willard manages the New Main Street Singers, but has never gotten over his days as the star of a short-lived '70s sitcom. ("It only lasted a year, but that's how you build a cult.")
Most extraneous are publicists Jennifer Coolidge and Larry Miller, but Coolidge comes up with the funniest line in the movie.
The songs are the most perfect aspect of A Mighty Wind, pastiches of every folk song you've ever heard. Each line contains twisted clichés that sound familiar but aren't quite, especially the last line of the title song: "A mighty wind is blowin'... It's blowin' peace and freedom, It's blowin' you and me."
If you wonder why Peter, Paul and Mary have been spared, stick around for the epilogue.
This could be the year the talented Levy gets the recognition he deserves. He attracted a lot of attention in the hugely popular Bringing Down the House, is excellent here in a very different role and will show up this summer in American Wedding and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.
More hoot than hootenanny, A Mighty Wind is a step down from Guest/Levy's previous efforts but a step up from most screen comedies.


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Code security tools company Klocwork has joined the ecosystem for the QNX Automotive Safety Program for ISO 26262 on the basis that millions of lines of code are driving the latest innovations in today's vehicles.
From the engine to brakes, navigation, lighting, entertainment, and safety systems, software is being used by automobile manufacturers and their suppliers to bring cutting-edge features and functionality to their vehicles.
Klocwork's source code analysis tool Insight is designed to offer in-car electronics developers advanced code analysis on their desktop, including deep data flow and structural analysis.
The QNX ecosystem is a network of vendors that offers complementary hardware, toolchains, graphics technologies, and consulting services for safety critical systems. Klocwork Insight offers code analysis, including deep data flow and structural analysis at the desktop as developers write their code.
With Klocwork Insight plugged directly into the QNX Momentics Tool Suite, developers can run analysis in the suite's IDE, allowing them to find and fix security and safety vulnerabilities as they go.
"Application security and functional safety requirements in the automotive world continue to grow as the degree of automation in vehicles increases. More intelligent vehicles mean more software in those vehicles. The number of suppliers to the auto manufacturers will continue to grow as the demand for more consumer convenience grows. [Developers need] to produce compelling new applications with the confidence that they are protected and dependable," said Gwyn Fisher, Klocwork CTO.
"Klocwork Insight brings immense value to the QNX Automotive Safety Program for ISO 26262. It provides real-time feedback during code development, immediately alerting developers to code that may conflict with the MISRA coding standards required by ISO 26262," said Grant Courville, director of product management, QNX Software Systems.


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This is my attempt to share with you some of the stunning photography and artwork of my late father, Norman Weaver, together with what I know of his remarkable life.
Norman Weaver, FSIAD, FZS
The following was written in his own (modest) words, which I recently discovered on various handwritten scraps of paper, so I have just copied what he said about himself:
I was born on 9th July 1913, within the sound of Bow Bells. I had a sporadic formal schooling - scraped past a Christ's College exam to get into Haverstock Central in Chalk Farm, London. Once established that I was, academically, a non-starter, I sat for three "Trade" scholarships: Junior London Art, Junior Trade and Goldsmiths. I won all three and chose the Junior Art. Went to Hammersmith School of Art on a grant, but left before a year was over, since my expenses topped my grant.
I got my first job in the cabinet making department of Heal's of Tottenham Court Road, where I became a pretty good joiner. After two years, a chance event made it possible for me to change over to becoming Heal's manuscript writer and calligrapher. Nearly five years of this made me a reasonably good scribe.
Regular evening classes during those years enabled me to win a Senior London Art Scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, Southampton Row, London. At the termination of this course I won a further extension scholarship, but was simultaneously offered a teaching post at the same school, which I took.
All of this ended with the outbreak of war.
I joined the Ordnance Survey as a Cartographic Trade Hand, which automatically enlisted me into the Royal Engineers, based in Southampton. In 1942, UNRRA (United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Admin) needed a map-man for their Rhine Barrage project and bought me out. In 1944, the American Forces, who wanted nothing to do with UNRRA's Rhine Barrage, did however badly need a cartographer for the operations room at HQ in France, and once more I was bought out. In September 1944 I went to Versailles - a British Civilian in American uniform, and an equivalent commission (rank), to join the Operational Analysis Team of G.5 SHAFF. This period also saw me employed for a while as General Eisenhower's personal Map Maker.Royal Engineers, based at Southampton.
After the war had ended, UNRRA took over much of the work hitherto handled by the US forces, and they needed a photo-reporter in the field, covering repatriation from concentration camps, welfare, tracing bureaux, etc, to which post I was now assigned, covering public relations stories for official publications such as Life, Time, Ebony and others.
I I was invalided out in 1947 with impaired use of my hands due to nerve damage. With the hand condition responding to treatment, I joined up with Beverley Pick, OBE - industrial design, model making, mural painting, etc., for work with Ideal Home, B.I.F. and similar exhibition work. We did a great deal of work for the Festival of Britain in 1951 Iron & steel Pavilion, including a 60ft, three-dimensional mural (bas relief carving augmenting the painting), illustrating all the known methods of making steel.
I left Beverley Pick in 1952 to join Artist Partners Limited, as a still life artist, for advertising. Work during this period included illustrations for Cadburys Dairy Milk (some of the original posters depicting the glass and a half of milk pouring into the chocolate bar), the original wrappers and posters for Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums, Polo Fruits, Foxes Mints, the crossed swords for Wilkinson Sword, many Guinness posters, Danish Bacon, Cape Fruit, Heinz Tomato Ketchup and Salad Cream, Consulate Cigarettes, Royale Lemon Meringue Pie, Fisons Rose Feed and many others.
I gravitated towards wildlife illustration, and after writing and illustrating my first book: "How to Draw Insects", I illustrated many wildlife books (see list), being called upon increasingly to paint fish, culminating in a three year project producing all 300 illustrations in the large hardback book "The Fresh and Saltwater Fishes of the World". I also illustrated special issue postage stamps for the Falkland Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and first day covers for Crown Agents to accompany Royal Mail stamps illustrating British fish.
I retired to the Isle of Wight at the end of 1983 where, although retired, my interest veered towards illustrating large watercolour landscapes of lesser known parts of this beautiful Island.


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Relive some of David Ortiz's best moments this year—"this is our fucking city," the iconic cop-celebrated home run in Game 2 of the ALCS and so much more—with quick cuts to David Ortiz sitting in a wood-panelled room with a tiny-ass dog on his lap. Since dogs that small are technically cats anyway, go right ahead and consider this the Dr. Claw to Derek Jeter's Inspector Gadget.
While speaking with the local Boston press, Ortiz was also stumping for Pedigree and apparently filmed some kind of movie. So there's a bit of context for the lapdog and, hopefully, the shirt, too. Aside from striking a ridiculous juxtaposition, Ortiz was also talking about his career in general, which he not so subtly hints could end elsewhere.
"I always keep on telling people, this is a business. Sometimes you've got to do what's best for you and your family. As long as they keep offering me a job and I keep doing what I'm supposed to do and then the relationship keeps on building up, I'm going to be there. Hopefully, I won't have to go and wear another uniform."
Ortiz is still a productive and feared member of the Boston offense so he is speaking from a position of power. Counterpoint:
Ortiz grumbling about contract status [Boston Globe]


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We get this question all the time. And sorry, but we can't steer you to a particular agent, broker or insurer. We're the state agency that regulates the insurance industry in Washington state, and in that role, it's not our place to endorse particular companies or agents.
That said, we do have some online tools that can help you pick who you want to deal with.
We have this agent and company lookup, where you can find local agents, companies that sell specific types of coverage, etc. If you look up a company, you can also see the number of complaints by year. And the agent/broker listings include any disciplinary actions taken against that person.
If you want to find out how many complaints we get about particular insurers, here's our complaint comparison tool. It helps you find out out how insurers compare to one another. You can compare health insurers, for example, or auto, or life, etc.
And because market share varies dramatically, we include a "complaint index" that makes it easier to make apples-to-apples comparisons between different companies.
Lastly, it's always a good idea to double-check by running the name of an insurer, agent or broker through our disciplinary orders database. It goes back to 2002, and includes details on violations, fines, and other orders we've issued.
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One of the cool things about my job is that I get to learn new things every day.
For example, my family has used an artificial tree for a long time now, so I never knew what happened once you picked out a real tree to buy.
Now I know – and it involves a cool tree shaking machine [Ignore the background chatter]:
This occurred at McClellan's Tree Farm in Middleburg – I'm assuming to shake out the loose needles and other things that can get stuck in a tree.
Very cool stuff.
Which do you prefer – real or artificial trees? Let me know in the comments!


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Aachen and the Surrounding RegionCopyright: RWTH Aachen
Aachen is Germany's westernmost city. It lies near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands and is nestled between the large national parks of the Eifel and the Ardennes.
The city has a population of 260,000, which includes about 50,000 students and more than 4,000 academic staff from across the world. Its lively student community lends the city just as much character as its history. Aachen is famous for its Printen gingerbread, its hot springs, its Mardi Gras carnival and one of the world's largest equestrian tournaments. The historic city center and a wealth of bars, cafés and restaurants, combined with the nearby nature parks, such as the Eifel, make Aachen a city where everyone feels at home.
Aachen - City of Science
Many new products and processes originate in Aachen. In the research laboratories and test rooms of RWTH, the first all-metal aircraft was developed, for example, as was the diesel soot filter. This is where the first wind tunnel stood and the first particle accelerator. This trend-setting innovative capacity and the practical technology transfer to the economic world have a long history in Aachen, the City of Science.
Here the first German Technology Development Centre opened in 1982. With its business start-ups and the approximately 32,000 jobs created as a result, Aachen has become the city with the highest density of university spin-offs and engineering offices in Germany.
Science has defined the structural change from a mining area to a technology region and today it is the most important economic factor. More than 50,000 people study and teach at the four universities and colleges in the Aachen region. Because of the academic expertise here, Forschungszentrum Jülich and numerous research centers of international corporate groups have been established in and around Aachen, making the urban region a Silicon Valley at the heart of Europe.
Aachen, known as "Europastadt" (City of Europe), is the center of a dynamic, cross-border knowledge region and stands for world-class university education in Natural Sciences and Engineering. More than 7000 international RWTH students from 120 nations, along with the close contacts the University has with its around 12000 graduates worldwide, give the scientific center of Aachen an international atmosphere.
Teaching and research are also reflected in the image of the city. Thanks to the students and their diverse cultural life, the tradition-rich City of Aachen has a lively and young appearance, particularly in the student quarter of Pontviertel.
Its proximity to the Eifel and the Ardennes, to Maastricht and Brussels with their linguistic and cultural distinctiveness, give the city that lies in the shadow of Charlemagne's palace chapel a particular charm. Anyone who has been here once, according to a study by the Prognos consultancy, keeps coming back ...
Aachen – Centrally Located in Europe
Aachen's central location offers quick access to numerous European cities. We have included a brief overview of the distances to many of them below.
Distances from Aachen to Major Destinations
- Aachen – Amsterdam 227 km
- Aachen – Berlin 632 km
- Aachen – Brüssel 143 km
- Aachen – Düsseldorf 87 km
- Aachen – Hamburg 487 km
- Aachen – Köln 67 km
- Aachen – Liège 53 km
- Aachen – London 501 km
- Aachen – Maastricht 37 km
- Aachen – Mailand 870 km
- Aachen – München 627 km
- Aachen – Paris 416 km
- Aachen – Saarbrücken 264 km
- Aachen – Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN) 85 km
- Aachen – Düsseldorf Airport (DUS) 96 km
- Aachen – Maastricht/Aachen Airport, NL (MST) 35 km
External Links
Aachen - City, People, Culture & Economy
Information on the city provided by Aachen Tourist Services
- Aachen on Wikipedia
Tourism NRW
Information on Culture, Activities, and Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia


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Cut off flame-throwing Infearno with this cool convertible hover car!
Calling Ultra Agent Solomon Blaze! Infearno is flying high above Astor City on his flame-powered hover board. The Super Villain is wearing a flamethrower suit and dropping sticks of dynamite, spreading fear among the citizens. Set off in hot pursuit in Agent Solomon's awesome convertible car with huge wheels and protective translucent blue energy panels. Fold the wheels for hover mode and launch into a midair battle! Target the flame-headed criminal with the dual laser cannons and the hidden automatic missile shooters. And if Infearno's attacks get too hot to handle, activate the super-cool ejector seat function to evade the flames! Includes 2 minifigures with assorted weapons and accessories: Infearno and Agent Solomon Blaze.
- Includes 2 minifigures with accessories: Infearno and Agent Solomon Blaze
- Convertible hover car features an opening cockpit, folding hover-mode wheels, dual laser cannons, hidden rear automatic missile shooters and an ejector seat function • Flaming hover board features an exhaust and translucent flame elements
- Weapons include a stud shooter and 2 bundles of dynamite
- Infearno minifigure features a translucent fire head, unique fire armor, fuel tank and translucent flame elements
- Dodge the dynamite dropped by Infearno
- Fire the hidden automatic shooters
- Flip the wheels to engage hover mode and launch into aerial battle
- Download the free LEGO® Ultra Agents app for the ultimate digital experience where you become the agent!
- Accomplish challenging missions, create your own graphic novel and search for hidden clues
- Convertible hover car measures over 2" (6cm) high, 7" (20cm) long and 5" (13cm) wide
- Flaming hover board measures over 3" (10cm) long and under 1"(1cm) highand 1" (2cm) wide


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In The World Of Podcasts, Judge John Hodgman Rules
If you're just joining us, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath.
You might be too embarrassed to admit it, but I bet at one time or another, you've spent more than a few minutes watching courtroom TV.
JUDGE JUDY: Does it sound as if you have to respond to me?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: No, but I chose to respond.
JUDGE JUDY: Because it sounds like - does it sound like you have to respond to me?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: No, but I chose to.
JUDGE JUDY: Well, you can't, because I make the rules.
RATH: That's the one and only Judge Judy. But daytime TV is lousy with judges. There's Judge Joe Brown, Judge Mathis. But I'm here to tell you, there's a better way - on the Internet. There, you can find Judge John Hodgman. You might know Hodgman from his books or perhaps as the deranged millionaire who appears on "The Daily Show."
JON STEWART: So how are we going to balance the budget?
JOHN HODGMAN: We have to start with cuts to the Pentagon. Do we really need a building with five sides? Honestly, in this economy, isn't that a little extravagant?
STEWART: You're suggesting we change the Pentagon to, let's say, a rectangle?
HODGMAN: A rectangle? What are we, Portugal? No. I'm talking about a rhombus, the most menacing of the quadrilaterals.
RATH: But on his podcast, Judge John Hodgman presides over what he calls his court of fake Internet law. And in the tradition of all great court shows, he's joined by a bailiff, Jesse Thorn, who also hosts the show "Bullseye." The three of us recently convened for a session and, well, I'll let the judge take it from there.
HODGMAN: This is Judge John Hodgman speaking right now, explaining to you - the uninitiated and the lawless - that it is very much like a court show that you would see on TV. People bring disputes before me, the judge, except instead of on television, they call into the podcast. I listen to their various arguments as to who should be doing the dishes or why they should be using hand soap or dish soap or whether a machine gun is or is not a robot, and then I tell them what is right and how they should live their lives.
JESSE THORN: As I think you can guess from that fact that John just said that one of the cases was whether a machine gun is or is not a robot, while the form is familiar, the content may be a little bit distinctive from your Judge Joe Browns and your Judge Judys.
HODGMAN: Yeah. Very rarely do we have people who owe money on a car or an apartment. More often, it's someone...
HODGMAN: ...it's someone who wants to know whether it's OK to instruct the taxi driver to drive through a late-night drive-through after going to a bar.
RATH: Well, the domestic sort of disputes are easy to understand. But for a machine gun, is it a robot - who wins that?
HODGMAN: The gentleman who is on the side of a machine gun is not a robot. Oh, but you should have heard the argument from the guy who believed the machine gun qualified as a robot. It was very compelling. And that's the thing that made that case worth hearing in the court of fake Internet law that is ours, because these were two friends who had been having this argument for years.
The one friend really believed that the machine gun as a machine that served a certain purpose that was devised by man could qualify under the strictest terms as a robot. But, no, obviously, the answer is no. A machine gun can kill you but only if a human is operating it. Whereas a robot will just kill you on its own.
THORN: The best Judge John Hodgman cases are always about the relationship between the litigants. I remember when I first realized what Judge Joe Hodgman really was. It was the fifth episode of the show. It was about the custody of this - I'm sorry robots keep coming up - this toy robot giraffe. And it was these two girls who'd bought this toy robot giraffe when they were in college, and they bought it together, and it had lived with them in their shared house in college. And now, one of them had moved away, and they weren't sure who should have custody of this toy because it had so much emotional resonance for them.
And Hodgman's ultimate decision, which I found honestly kind of moving, was that the custody-sharing arrangement should essentially require each of them to visit the other on a regular basis. And it respected that what the case was about was not this physical object but rather its symbolism in this relationship between two best friends.
HODGMAN: And I think a lot of the cases that we hear and a lot of cases that are most productive are young people who are learning to grow up and deal with the responsibilities of sharing a household, sharing a life and to stop being a sociopathic monster that all the single people in their 20s are.
RATH: At the same time, there is this very earnest quality about this that you were just talking about, seeing people through their relationships. I think people don't often associate that kind of earnestness.
HODGMAN: No, I have a real, sincere fondness for the monsters that come on to the program, because all young people are monsters. And even though they only see me as a faceless mannequin that has no feelings so they're trying to trick me into letting them get a few minutes of Internet podcast fame, you know, these are real issues. You know, the issue of, my friend wants to put indoor furniture on his outdoor veranda. We need to teach this young man to not to do things like that.
RATH: Jesse, your role in this, you're a bailiff. You kind of do everything else - anything non-judgely, I guess.
THORN: Yeah. Well, I...
HODGMAN: Oh, Jesse can be pretty judgmental, though.
THORN: That's what's great about my role on the show. I mean, sort of, in a technical sense, I'm the guy who hosts the "People's Court" who's not Judge Wapner, you know, who interviews the people as they go into the courtroom and so on and so forth. And I'm also sort of Roz from "Night Court," which is to say the sassy bailiff. I really have free reign to just periodically berate someone when they do say - do or say something I think is stupid.
RATH: So you mentioned that, you know, Jesse, you get kind of judgmental yourself. You tend to be simpatico, but I'm wondering if the two of you have had any serious disputes. Maybe I could help you resolve them.
HODGMAN: I don't think that Jesse and I have ever had any direct disputes in our personal lives, if that's what you mean.
RATH: Or even, you know, robot versus machine guns sort of disputes.
HODGMAN: No. We both know the truth about robots. Come on. We're not fools.
THORN: We did disagree on something recently, John. I don't know if you've blocked it out of your mind because you were so wrong on it...
HODGMAN: Uh-hah.
THORN: ...but it was the pronunciation of the beloved Vietnamese noodle soup...
HODGMAN: Oh, boy.
THORN: ...which I would call something like fuh. He said that it should always be pronounced pho.
HODGMAN: No, I did not say that.
THORN: Couldn't be more wrong.
HODGMAN: Arun, may I ask you, is this National Public Radio?
RATH: This is.
HODGMAN: Nation, this is John - Judge John Hodgman speaking. All I said was that a consensus was building in the United States of calling it pho because it is most often spelled that way, and then that consensus may be wrong but language is a living thing. And unfortunately, usage would go down that road. However, since so many of you have written me back and I've been corrected so heartily, I think we're all going to turn this ship of mispronunciation, and I'm putting myself 100 percent behind fuh, fuh, fuh all the way.
THORN: Well, John, I accept your apology on behalf of the people of this great nation.
HODGMAN: All right. See? Things can be worked out.
RATH: Not a dry eye in the control room here.
RATH: Gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us.
HODGMAN: It's our pleasure.
THORN: Thank you, Arun.
RATH: That was Jesse Thorn and John Hodgman. Their podcast is "Judge John Hodgman."
RATH: And for Saturday, that's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath. Check out the WEEKEND ALL THINGS CONSIDERED podcast on iTunes and follow us on Twitter: @nprwatc. Of course, there's the NPR app for all of your smart devices.
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I've been writing this week about my recent experience at Summit Worldview Academy and the nature of student training. There are a number of similar worldview programs around the country (including the Centurions Program and the Worldview Academy), and I'm always impressed to see how many students are interested in this kind of intensive preparation. To be sure, there are always some students at these conferences who are present because their parents demanded their attendance, but these young people are always in the vast minority. Most students come (and put themselves through the rigorous material) because they heard about it through a friend who highly recommended the experience. And while there are some fun opportunities to hike, relax and play games along the way, these activities (commonly associated with youth group retreats) are typically few and far between at worldview camps. Students are here to roll up their sleeves and get to work. They're far more interested in learning than lounging. Youth pastors can glean something from worldview academies.
I have to confess: When I was a new youth pastor, I was more likely to provide my students with pizza than preparation. I thought the only way to attract students in the first place was to satisfy their desire for entertainment and social interaction. I simply tried to wedge in the important stuff (theological and apologetics training, Spiritual formation and Biblical literacy) along the way. It took me a year or so to find a better approach. I eventually realized my students would willingly delay their desire for fun if I could effectively show them their need for truth. I began to take them to places where their worldview was tested and I did my best to demonstrate their deficiencies. As a result, the Utah and Berkeley trips became a regular offering of my ministry. It wasn't long before my students were ready to do whatever it took to better defend themselves. They were more than willing to delay their desire for what they used to think of as fun to achieve a greater goal. Along the way, they discovered how satisfying it is to learn the truth, articulate it effectively, and engage the world.
It turns out that students are willing to raise the bar and do much more than we expect of them in most youth groups across the country. If you're a youth pastor or are serving in a youth ministry, think about what your students are typically willing to do in order to succeed on their club sports team or to prepare for their next academic AP test. Our students are already working hard to prepare themselves in some area of their young lives; why aren't we willing to ask them to prepare this rigorously as Christians? It's time to show students why it's so important to equip themselves as Christian ambassadors. It's time to stop teaching and start training.
Many of the students I spoke with at Summit told me they originally heard about the academy from a friend who was transformed by the experience. Some were attending the training for the second time. These Summit veterans said their second interaction with the material was even more helpful than the first. They admitted they were originally overwhelmed by everything they heard in the first year of training and many wanted to come back to better absorb the information. As a result, they spent two summers engaging difficult but important issues. Interestingly, some of these two year veterans were in that minority of students who were originally required to attend by their parents. While a few young people may arrive here reluctantly, none seem to leave here willingly. It's amazing how God uses the truth to transform the lives of students, and how willing these students are to delay traditional forms of recreation to become good Christian Case Makers. Let's learn something from worldview academies and turn every youth group into a Christian worldview training opportunity.
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Ash's Totodile was captured by Ash using his Lure Ball, making him the only one of Ash's Pokemon that had never been inside an ordinary Pokeball.
Totodile first appeared in The Totodile Duel. Since Misty also wanted it, she and Ash decided to battle in order to determine who's it was. Ash won the battle.
Totodile has a jolly and playful personality and really likes to dance. It has even been known to use this dancing tactic to help win battles, it has also proven to be a strong Pokémon in battles, although it's endurance was not very high but it made up for this with its impressive dodging abilities. Ash left it at Professor Oak's lab as he decided to make a fresh start when he left for Hoenn.
Totodile reappeared in An Old Family Blend, where it had gone missing from its Poké Ball, like Ash's other Pokémon. Totodile was found dancing in the fountain, where it bit Ash's head after Corphishtackled Ash
It is set to reappear in the Pikachu short airing with the 15th Pokemon movie. It will also reappear along with all of Ash's Pokemon in an upcoming episode of Best Wishes Season 2. ==Known movesEdit==
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- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
- Totodile was fought over for his ownership by Ash and Misty.
- Totodile and Ash's 30 Tauros are the only Pokémon to be caught in different types of Poké Balls; however Totodile was captured and kept in a Lure Ball and Ash used Safari Balls to catch his Tauros, when Ash uses one in battle they seem to be kept in normal PokeBalls.
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8.5.4 Land Surface Component (including the Terrestrial Cryosphere)
184.108.40.206 Introduction
The role of the land surface (soil, vegetation, snow, permafrost and land ice) was discussed in detail in the SAR. The SAR noted that improvements had occurred in our ability to model land-surface processes but that there was a wide disparity among current land-surface schemes when forced by observed meteorology. Our physical understanding of the role of land-surface processes within the climate system was discussed in Chapter 7, Section 7.4.1.
188.8.131.52 Developments since the SAR
Most of the effort in trying to reduce the disparity in land-surface scheme performance has been performed in offline intercomparisons under the auspices of International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Due to the difficulties in coupling multiple land-surface schemes into climate models (see Section 188.8.131.52) specific endeavours have been: the Project for the Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes (PILPS), the Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP), the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP), and the Biological Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (BAHC) (e.g., Henderson-Sellers et al., 1995; Polcher et al., 1996; Dirmeyer et al., 1999; Schlosser et al., 2000). In comparisons between offline simulation results and observations, difficulties in partitioning available energy between sensible and latent heat and partitioning of available water between evaporation and runoff were highlighted (e.g., Chen et al., 1997; Schlosser et al., 2000). While we are far from a complete understanding of why land surface models differ by such a large degree, some progress has been made (e.g., Koster and Milly, 1997; Desborough, 1999). Significant progress has also been made in adding physical processes into land-surface models (see Chapter 7, Section 7.4). Where some observations exist (e.g., for incoming solar radiation, net radiation and soil moisture), an evaluation of the ability of current climate models to simulate these quantities suggests that significant problems remain (Wild et al., 1997; Garratt et al., 1998; Robock et al., 1998). The evaluation of surface processes in climate models tends to focus on monthly and, less commonly, daily quantities. An evaluation of the ability of climate models to simulate land-surface quantities at the diurnal scale has yet to be performed systematically, although some efforts have been initiated since the SAR (e.g., Watterson, 1997).
Work since the SAR has also focused on trying to identify the relative significance of land-surface processes in comparison with other components of climate models. The sophistication in the representation of the land surface in coupled models is varied (see Chapter 7 and Table 8.1). The addition of more realistic plant physiology in some land-surface models (e.g., Bonan, 1995; Sellers et al., 1996 (See Chapter 7, Section 7.4)) which permits the simulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and gas isotope fluxes, provides the opportunity to compare these quantities with local scale, regional scale and global scale observations from flux towers and satellites.
Snow, and the snow albedo feedback, are important components of the land surface. Current climate models incorporate snow in varying degrees of sophistication and there is currently major uncertainty in the ability of land-surface schemes to simulate snow mass or cover (see Chapter 7, Section 7.5). Frei and Robinson (1998) evaluated the simulation of monthly mean snow extent from 27 AMIP AGCMs and found weaknesses in the simulation of the seasonal cycle of snow extent and a general underestimation in interannual variability. These weaknesses limit confidence in the simulation of mid- and high latitude changes simulated by current climate models, since a failure to simulate snow accurately tends to impact significantly on albedo, surface roughness length and soil moisture (and therefore precipitation on subsequent seasons).
The Northern Hemisphere snow simulations of fourteen global coupled models contributed to CMIP are summarised in Figure 8.11 and Table 8.3. Figure 8.11 (constructed similarly to Figure 8.10) provides a visual presentation of the range in simulated (land only) snow extent. The relative error in simulated snow extent is larger in summer than in winter. There is no obvious connection between either flux adjustment or land-surface scheme and the quality of the simulated snow extent.
Other components of the land surface potentially important to climate change include lateral water flows from the continents into the ocean, permafrost, land-based ice and ice sheets. Some land-surface schemes now include river routing (e.g., Sausen et al., 1994; Hagemann and Dümenil, 1998) in order to simulate the annual cycle of river discharge into the ocean. This appears to improve the modelling of runoff from some large drainage basins (Dümenil et al., 1997), although water storage and runoff in regions of frozen soil moisture remain outstanding problems (Arpe et al., 1997; Pitman et al., 1999). River routing is also useful in diagnosing the representation of the hydrological cycle in models (e.g., Kattsov et al., 2000). There has been limited progress towards developing a permafrost model for use in climate models (e.g., Malevsky-Malevich et al., 1999) although existing simple models appear to approximate the observed range in permafrost reasonably well (e.g., Volodin and Lykosov, 1998). The dynamics of ice sheets and calving are not presently represented in coupled climate models. To close the fresh water budget for the coupled system, fresh water which accumulates on Greenland and Antarctica is usually uniformly distributed either over the entire ocean or just in the vicinity of the ice sheets (e.g., Legutke and Voss, 1999; Gordon et al., 2000). The impact of these limitations has yet to be investigated.
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Three teacher friends "passionately fighting off" the three dreaded words – back to school – can't be wrong. Neither can Farmer Ed and Tippi, who have hiked to the summit of West Suffield Mountain and Chimney Point more than 60 times in 2012. This is one of the best views in the state.
West Suffield Mountain may not be the most creative name for the volcanic basalt intrusion that rises 691 feet into the northern Connecticut sky, but its views up and down the Metacomet Ridge are awe-inspiring. Just read the comments left in a logbook left in a wooden box hanging on a tree.
The mountain is part of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association's 63-mile-long Metacomet Trail, which snakes along the traprock ridge that runs through the central part of the state from Meriden to Massachusetts. The ridge, once home to volcanoes, is often referred to as the Central Park of Connecticut.
It seems like no matter where I access the Metacomet, the start of the journey is always practically straight up. Phelps Road, the access point for West Suffield Mountain, is no different, although the ascent is lessened by several leveling-off areas. But you'll break out in sweat before you reach the top.
Your first "must" pit stop is a huge abandoned chimney – the lone remnant of an old summer cabin. A side trail takes visitors up to the nine-foot-high chimney made with a couple hundred fieldstones. There are several benches around the chimney where you can put your legs up and warm your toes, or at least pretend to.
Much of the next mile of the trail is kind of a tease when it comes to the view you've been imagining. There are holes in the canopy where an old hemlock or white pine has fallen, opening up the forest and showcasing a view of the surrounding hills. The trip is beautiful, as the trail passes gorges and through deep shaded evergreen groves. The Suffield Land Conservancy has done a nice job protecting much of the ridge as it runs through town.
After passing through the George A. Harmon Woodlot, the trail snakes right along the ridge and suddenly before you are the hills of western Connecticut and southern Massachusetts. As you hike, there are more and more outcroppings jutting out into the viewscape until you reach Chimney Point.
Chimney Point, as the CFPA's Walkbook points out, are "one of several examples of the Metacomet basalt eroding into chimney-like spires." Anyone who has walked along the trail and seen these spires may feel like they are on the surface of a forlorn planet looking over the remnants of some lost civilization.
Visitors can sit on any number of outcroppings or piles of basalt and look north to Mount Tom or south to the lonely spire of Heublein Tower on top of Talcott Mountain. You'll feel the peacefulness that comes from looking out over a sea of green mountains and blue sky. And you'll want to make a return trip to Chimney Point as soon as you can.
To get there, take I-91 to Route 20. Take a right on Route 187 and a left on Route 168. Turn left on Phelps Road and look for the parking areas and blue blazes on the trees. Peter Marteka may be reached at 860-647-5365 or at firstname.lastname@example.com or The Courant, 200 Adams St., Manchester, CT 06040.


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Dianeowensdesogns necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
I live on Lord Howe Island and own 5 star holiday resort there. The lifestyle is simple, beachy, carefree. The resort has 6 self contained apartments on 4 acres of lush gardens, catering for couples. I love frangipani flowers.Most of the tourists are nature lovers, bushwalkers and couples who want to chill out.
I want to get the message of quality, class as well as beach and fun. I am an artist but find the task of design too complicated. I have had my property for 26 years and want to revamp and update the image.The decor in the apartments has a Balinese theme.
My target is people planning a tropical holiday or if not planning, when they see the new logo they'll want to go on holiday.I want the logo to reflect quality, class, beach, slightly Thai/Bali. The market is existing and we don't accept bookings for childern under 10 years-so mostly couples.The tourists are easy going,expect quality but not over the top posh.
I want a logo to be:
*classy, simple, attention grabbing ,and clever.
* able to secuce people into making a reservation at Lorhiti.
*able to be applied in various mediums e.g. Logo, stationary, T-shirts, menus, signs, compendiums, stubby coolers
*Simple to read and seen from a distance
* a font which is interesting and clever enough that it doesn't need a picture
or a simple font with a simple picture e.g palm leaf , frangipani flower, water swirl, shells etc. Not too big a picture.
* no citch palm trees, sunsets, people or fish
*upright font lettering but slightly sloped is OK ,maybe slightly Balinese
* Intertwining clever swirls among letters are good
* Lettering should have "Lorhiti" in largest font and "Resort" and "Lord Howe Island" in smaller font (suitable for a letterhead)-the roadside sign will just read "Lorhiti"
* The font attached with the word "Santrian" is a sign I photographed in Bali-I really like that font.
* Fonts I also like are Bonheur Royale (my Fonts), Zest medium (my fonts), New Day script (fontspace), present (myfonts), complimentOT Std (fontshop), ITC Kendo (fontshop) but anything suitable will be OK
* The font in blue "LORHITI" is the existing one which I want to update.
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LVS Consulting necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 150 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
LVS Consulting
I am a one-person boutique consulting firm. Although my background is in education and languages, I have my MBA and have worked in a field known as Organizational Development for several years.
Some of the work I do includes things like...
- team facilitation - working with teams to help them address difficult issues and to form as a high-performing team
- leadership development - I firmly believe that *anyone* is a leader, and you do not have to hold a leadership title in an organization to be a leader. So I work with leaders in all organizational positions to help them be a better leader, and increase their positive impact on the organization
- personal and professional coaching - coaching involves working with individuals one-on-one and helping them achieve their goals, realize their dreams, and be more fulfilled, in whatever positive aspirations they may have.
- change management - helping people adapt to change and helping organizations introduce change, keeping the people in mind.
Generally, I work *with* clients - by they organizations or individuals - to help maximize. I am a good relationship-builder, I am a strong learner, I get things done. I love training and teaching. I worked with a coach myself, and determined that my mission in life is to keep the learning conversation flowing.
I appreciate simplicity and practicality, in my work and in design.
My market likely already exists.
Large organizations that have several hundred or more employees, where I would go in as a consultant and/or trainer. For these clients, I would offer workshops on communications, leadership development, team facilitation and so on.
Small organizations would also be good clients where the organizational leader is wondering how to increase employee engagement - to reduce turnover and heighten employee productivity, while keeping a good culture that values morale and work-life balance.
I have also worked with entrepreneurs in a coaching capacity, helping them to stay on track as they create and build their business.
Typically, however, I am looking for something that will appeal to a professional audience. I picture working with knowledge workers - people who are smart, willing to learn, thoughtful, considerate, challenging (in a positive way) and open to trying something new. I also like my clients to have a creative flair, and experiment. Sometimes, trying something new requires a leap of faith, or an attitude of "fake it 'til you make it". I enjoy clients like that!
Right now, my business card is dark blue background with canary yellow printing. I am not wedded to those colours, but it gives you an idea of what I like.
My website (which is not beautiful) is at http://www.lvsconsulting.com and tells you more about the work that I do. The colours of the top of the page are similar to my card.
I appreciate the following:
- clean lines
- clean fonts (generally sans serif)
- graphics that tell a story
- a little bit of flair
- class (cashmere, pashmina, Tiffany lamps - that's the ambiance - although I personally own none of those...)
- cleverness and wit
- something that makes the audience sit up and think "Hmm..."
I look very much forward to your contributions.
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