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Insect Recruitment to keep Pests at Bay
Sarah - Insects can be a real problem to plants but they can also surprisingly be their salvation. Some plants actually recruit insects in order to keep other pests away. We are joined now by Professor John Pickett from Rothamsted Research. Thank you so much for joining us.
John - Hello
Sarah - So, how do plants do this and why on earth would they want to attract insects to them?
John - Well, all insects are attacked by other insects and so if you're a plant being attacked by one set then it's a neat trick to bring in insects that will attack your attacker. And that's just what the plants do. So, when the herbivorous insect starts to bite into the plant, chemical signals are produced which bring in predators but more particularly parasitic wasps which we call parasitoids because they actually kill their host. And they can do a really spectacular job normally, but they do it rather late and so if it's a crop you're wanting to protect, you've got to bring them in earlier.
Sarah - Are the plants able to be very specific to bring in just the right kind of parasitoid wasp or it just kind of sending out a distress signal and it calls all sort of things there?
John - Yes, at the moment a lot of plants attract specific parasitic wasps. So the pea plant attracts in a particular wasp adapted entirely to feeding on that particular pea aphid. And in fact, the wasp can find the plant that is being fed on by just this host using particular chemicals associating with that interaction. Unfortunately, your horse-chestnut leaf miner is actually attracting quite a range of wasps. There's nothing really specific yet. We hope we'll get a very specific wasp for it eventually.
Sarah - And is it just insects that the plants look to for help? Do they recruit anything else like bacteria or fungi?
John - Yes, it's a more sophisticated process and less understood at the moment but we think it's probably true of other antagonistic organisms. These are multitrophic interactions and can get very complicated but I think we should stress that the parasitic wasps, they can do a spectacular job. They do it naturally but as I said, they do it rather late in the day and that's where some science and technology comes in to try and improve the way that they find their pests - our pests and their food.
Sarah - So, what sort of time scale are look at here? Are we looking at hours? Days?
John - Yes, as soon as the plant is fed upon by the herbivore the plants starts to go into various defensive modes. And it can in fact herbivore itself but if those processes start to take place as soon as the insect has bitten or has punctured, the cell sap system, as soon as that process starts to operate then these signals start to come out. And these could be picked up by the parasitic wasps on their own antenna in fact. And then they can start to forage for the host.
Sarah - And how do - does it affect just plant that's being munched on or does it affect the other plants around it?
John - Well very recently we, and various labs around the world, have found out that not only is the plant signalling to this sort of higher trophic level for help but it's also signalling to other plants particularly of the same species. And so it can switch on defence in adjacent plants prior to them being attacked.
Sarah - And you mentioned that science comes in to this to sort of bring down the time of response, how can we take advantage of this response in plants?
John - Well, we can try and breed it in. In fact, very recently we've published a paper showing that the open-pollinating varieties of maize, the land raises of maze can do this kind of job really very well. They can even do it when the eggs are laid on their leaves by stem borer moths. And the eggs caused the plant to send out signals that attract in not just egg parasite but larval parasites. They're really smart these plants are. Now, we can breed that in but we need to know a little bit more about the chemistry, which we are working on at the moment, so we can give a very simple protocol for African maize breeders to use in choosing this trait. We also hope it will be useful back in hybrid maize which seems to lost this ability all together to make better hybrid maize varieties.
Sarah - So, is this something that we're already seeing going into production? Are we seeing trials of this sort of modified?
John - Well, we've already used plants that can do it but we haven't done any improvement of this using breeding. What we're doing at the moment in our own agricultural research programs is to try and use GM to give the parasites a better cue for coming in and looking for aphids in this case. So next year, we've just received field trial clearance to do some trials, after a very, very successful laboratory results on modifying wheat plant to produce the aphid alarm pheromone the thermo.
Now, this is a pheromone which is a signal from members of the same species which causes the aphids to disperse when they're attacked but it also attracts in these parasitic wasps. And so, we will actually have experimental plots with full GM containment next year, wheat that can produce not only a frightening signal for aphids but one which will attract in later birds as predators but more particularly parasitic wasps to attack the aphids as they try to build up their population and damage the crop.
Sarah - Well, it sounds like it could be really potentially good news for agriculture in the future. Thanks John. That's Professor John Pickett from Rothamsted Research

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Submitted to: Soil Science Society of America Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/4/2016
Publication Date: 4/22/2016
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/5927836
Citation: Wuest, S.B., Reardon, C.L. 2016. Surface and root inputs produce different carbon to phosphorus ratios in soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 80:463-471.
Interpretive Summary: Formation of soil organic matter from crop roots and residues is important to maintaining soil productivity. In order to better understand what can be done to increase soil organic matter, we measured the effect of different natural substances applied to soil for a 5-yr period. Seven years after the applications ended, effects of wood, alfalfa, manure, and municipal biosolid were greater than wheat residue, sugar, mustard residue, cotton, wheat compost, or the un-amended check. Soil carbon increases ranged from 3 to 49% of carbon applied and had changed little in the last 28 months. The effect of amendments on soil carbon was highly correlated to phosphorus content of the amendments. Plots sown to continuous winter wheat during the period of amendment had 10% more SOC than plots that had been fallow, an effect over twice as large as most amendments. Also, the carbon to phosphorus and carbon to sulfur ratios were significantly greater in wheat-cropped soil. The increase in soil carbon caused by wheat plants and a perennial grass plot suggests that the contribution of roots was more important than aboveground crop residues. In summary, a five-year amendment period with aboveground biosolid, manure, and wood, or the roots of five years of wheat cropping or perennial grass, produced substantial soil carbon increases whereas much smaller increases were achieved by application of crop residues or sugar. The relative differences in soil carbon remained stable for seven years after the treatments ended and were correlated to phosphorus content of the amendments.
Technical Abstract: Formation of soil organic carbon (SOC) is influenced by inputs. We applied organic amendments for five consecutive years at 250 g C m 2 yr 1. Seven years after the applications ended, effects of biosolid and manure on SOC were greater than alfalfa, wood, wheat residue, sucrose, brassica residue, cotton, wheat compost, or the un-amended check. Soil C increases ranged from 3 to 49% of C applied and had changed little in the previous 28 months. Plots sown to continuous winter wheat during the period of amendment had 10% more SOC than plots that had been fallow, an effect over twice as large as most amendments. This suggests that the contribution of roots to SOC was more important than aboveground crop residues. The effect of amendments on SOC was highly correlated to their initial P content. In addition, for a similar available soil P and soil S content, SOC was significantly greater where wheat or perennial grass was grown. Wood caused an increase in C:N ratio that persisted over 3.5 years, but almost disappeared by the seventh year. This study indicated that continuous cropping or addition of animal waste or municipal biosolid had the greatest impact on the formation of SOC and this positive effect remained stable for many years after the end of the continuous treatment application.


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Update: At a town hall on March 17, Superintendent Stephens said that he does not expect any substitutes to be teaching students who remain in distance learning.Update: At a town hall on March 16, Superintendent Brent Stephens said that he thinks distance learning students will be taught by BUSD teachers and substitutes will be used for in-person classes. “We may here and there have a substitute working in distance learning, but by and large I think our substitutes will be working in-person,” he said. This is a change from what Stephens told Berkeleyside on Monday, that he would “prefer to have a mix of substitutes for in-person and distance learning.” Stephens also said the district is planning to maintain a connection between students in distance learning and their current schools through weekly assemblies or check-ins with students’ current teacher.
An afterthought. Second class. The short end of the stick.
This is how parents of elementary schoolers who have opted for distance learning are describing Berkeley Unified’s plan for their children’s final months of the school year, which they fear will mean substitutes with little experience in distance learning scrambling to teach jumbled groups of students online.
As BUSD prepares to reopen elementary schools five days per week, parents are speaking up to make sure that students remaining in distance learning are not left behind.
“I trusted that if they were going to reopen, the district would not completely abandon the rest of us,” said Roberto Santiago, a parent of a kindergartener and 4th grader at Malcolm X Elementary. “But the plans for distance learning are completely inadequate.”
On March 8, Berkeley Unified changed course from a hybrid model and announced plans to fully reopen elementary schools. In the same email, the district sent out an enrollment survey, giving parents less than three days to decide whether to send their student in-person or choose distance learning, a binding decision for the rest of the year. The district then extended the deadline to Sunday night.
In response, 17% of Berkeley elementary families chose distance learning. As of Tuesday, an estimated 6% of families had not submitted the survey, according to spokesperson Trish McDermott. The district is reaching out to those families personally, Superintendent Brent Stephens said.
Tonight, Berkeley Unified will hold two town halls in English and in Spanish to provide more information about its plans to reopen elementary schools and the distance learning option.
Will distance learners get the short end of the stick?
At town halls held at elementary schools throughout the district last week, parents were led to believe that children in distance learning will get “the short end of the stick.”
“What I’ve learned is that there’s almost no plan for the children who choose distance learning. It seems like almost all of the resources are being put toward in-person,” said Matt Soto-Rosen, a parent at Sylvia Mendez whose 5th grader has health concerns that make returning to in-person learning too risky. “We didn’t choose any of this. It just feels like a slap in the face.”
Parents worry that distance learners are more likely to be stuck with a substitute than students on-campus, especially a substitute without experience teaching online. Another concern is that students will be mixed with students from other Berkeley elementary schools— is there a plan to keep students from the same classes together? On top of that, students in distance learning will receive a new principal dedicated to remote learners, which some parents say makes their children feel disconnected from their school community.
“We have great quality teachers. We have a great principal at Sylvia Mendez. That’s all being ripped away from us because we have the misfortune of having to deal with a health issue,” Soto-Rosen said.
Superintendent Brent Stephens said he would “prefer to have a mix of substitutes for in-person and distance learning.” Currently, teachers for distance learning will include those who want accommodations, who have applied to continue teaching online, substitutes, and other BUSD staff. It remains to be seen how many BUSD teachers will provide remote instruction.
Enrichment classes will continue for distance learners. Teachers providing music or other enrichment for students will likely be expected to teach both in-person and online, according to Stephens.
The concerns deepen for parents at Sylvia Mendez, where a two-way language immersion program hangs in the balance. Typically, students at the school receive instruction in Spanish and English, but substitutes who speak Spanish have always been hard to come by. If all the teachers are in-person, will students receive Spanish-language instruction? “If the district has a two-way immersion program, they need to support it,” said Melanie Tang, a parent of a 3rd grader and 5th grader at Sylvia Mendez.
“It seems like they’re setting up a two-track system with the distance learners at a disadvantage,” said Tang.
The district is working to find Spanish-speaking substitutes for students at Sylvia Mendez. “We know it’s a need and expectation that our families have and we want to deliver on it,” Stephens said. In addition, the district plans to hold separate remote classes for Sylvia Mendez students to keep the Spanish-language portion of their education intact, according to Stephens.
An equity issue: Whose voice is getting heard?
In the debate about reopening schools, parents on both sides have argued that equity is at stake, with those pushing for reopening arguing that in-person learning protects the most vulnerable. Now, parents who have opted for distance learning are raising their voices in opposition to a movement that they feel has unjustly claimed to represent ‘the most equitable option.’
“It feels like the white, more affluent parents who wanted to open the schools got everything they wanted,” said Ludovic Blain, the parent of a fifth-grader at Sylvia Mendez. “Given how white the protesters were and the crazy messages that said they were doing it for racial justice, they were not certainly representing my interests. That’s fine, but they said they were.”
Data about which families have chosen to send their children back is limited. The district did not ask families about their race or ethnicity on the elementary enrollment form. At Sylvia Mendez, 64% of families have selected in-person learning, the smallest share in the district (16% of families at the school have not responded to the survey). The elementary school with the largest share of families choosing in-person learning is Ruth Acty in North Berkeley. There, 85% of families chose in-person learning and less than 2% have not responded the survey.
In a November survey, half of the white parents surveyed by Berkeley Unified supported reopening in a hybrid model as soon as possible, compared to 36% of Black parents, 31% of Latinx parents, and 30% of Asian parents.
Santiago said his reluctance to send his child back to school is deeper than a concern about the spread of COVID-19. It’s about a broader distrust of Berkeley schools and public education in general on the part of some families of color. “Schools are full of systemic racism. They haven’t kept us safe in the best of times. I don’t trust the school district to keep us safe now,” said Santiago, whose children are the third generation in his family to attend Berkeley public schools.
Given the uncertainty around what distance learning will look like, families who are not sending their children back to school, especially for health reasons, say they are being short-changed.
“For some of us, going back is not an option,” said Tang, whose third-grader has severe asthma. “It’s actually too dangerous for our family. I feel like that has gotten lost in all the outrage about wanting to open the schools full-time right away.”
“Those of us who have real concerns about health feel like we’re getting second class treatment,” Ludovic said. “I’m Black and my wife is Latina. We know many people who have gotten COVID and died, including family members and friends.”
Last week, frustrated by the district’s decisions around distance learning, Santiago co-founded Berkeley Unified Distance Choice Advocates, a group of parents and teachers advocating for a more robust distance-learning option.
The recently-formed group includes teachers who would like more choice on whether to return to in-person instruction. Currently, teachers who have been vaccinated are expected to return to school, unless they have a special accommodation, such as an at-risk family-member who has not been vaccinated, according to the district’s current MOU with the Berkeley Federation of Teachers. “If you don’t force teachers back, we have a better chance of keeping great teachers in distance learning,” Santiago said.
The group formed to carve out a space for families with different views amidst the heated debate about reopening in Berkeley. “I did not know I had to go out and stamp my feet and hold a protest,” Santiago said. But the district’s paltry plans for distance learning and the radical tactics of some pushing for reopening made him think differently.
“I realized I needed to start fighting back,” Santiago said. “We want to make ourselves known and make our needs known, but we’re not going to spray paint buildings and follow people around with a camera.”


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The same can't be said for other clubs as they frantically race to get some more deals over the line.
Here are the top stories from the Daily Mirror:
Joe Hart will be handed the chance to wave goodbye to Manchester City fans on Wednesday night – after being pushed closer to the exit door. Double Premier League title winner Hart, set to be demoted to third-choice keeper following the £17.4million arrival of Claudio Bravo from Barcelona, will be brought in from the cold for the Champions League dead rubber at home to Steaua Bucharest. With City 5-0 up going into the second leg of a play-off tie to decide who advances to the group phase, boss Pep Guardiola has decided to reinstate Hart for one game despite telling hi he can leave the club before next Wednesday's transfer deadline. Chile international Bravo’s move is set to be confirmed in the next 24 hours ahead of a likely debut at home to West Ham on Sunday, so this could be Hart’s final appearance for the Blues.
Arsene Wenger could face competition from Leicester for Monaco defender Marcel Tisserand. Wenger's Arsenal and the new champions have both made enquiries for the versatile DR Congo international who can operate at centre-half or right-back. Spanish side Espanyol have also been tracking the 23-year-old but that deal has been put on hold, with Tisserand keen on a move to England.
Tottenham's £22million forward Son Heung-Min is a target for Wolfsburg. The German club want to take the 24-year-old back to the Bundesliga just a year after he moved to England from Bayer Leverkusen. Son signed a five-year deal last summer and made 40 appearances for Spurs last season. But the north Londoners are understood to be ready to listen to offers for him - and want their money back - as Mauricio Pochettino reshapes his attack.
Manchester United are willing to accept just £2million in order to part with Bastian Schweinsteiger, according to media in his German homeland. The German midfielder, 32, has no future at Old Trafford under Jose Mourinho and has been told he can depart just a year after being taken to the club by former boss Louis van Gaal in a £7million deal.
Gabriel Barbosa has been told it is up to him whether he leaves Santos this month - with Manchester United targeting the Brazilian starlet. Jose Mourinho is believed to be a big fan of the 19-year-old striker, part of the Brazil squad who recently claimed gold at the Olympics. However, the South American club's president, Modesto Roma, has revealed that while the Red Devils continue to be linked with a move, the only concrete offers received have been from Italy's Juventus and Inter Milan (via Manchester Evening News)
Tottenham are considering using Nabil Bentaleb as a makeweight in their attempts to land Newcastle’s Moussa Sissoko. The relegated Geordies are keen on 21-year-old midfielder Bentaleb, whose Spurs career is all but over after he asked to leave. The Algerian is training with the Londoners' Under-21s as he waits for an escape route to appear. Spurs have turned down a £10million offer from Schalke for Bentaleb, as they value the player at £15m. He could now be used as a bargaining chip to try to reduce what Tottenham would have to offer for Sissoko.
Mike Phelan wants Aston Villa outcast Micah Richards as his first signing for Hull. Caretaker-boss Phelan needs to bolster a threadbare squad that is down to 13 fit senior players – two of whom are goalkeepers Eldin Jakupovic and Dusan Kuciak. And he has been given the go-ahead to snap-up Richards on a season-long loan from one of the clubs the promoted Tigers have replaced in the Premier League this season.
Stoke are hopeful of securing the signing of Manchester United defender Phil Jones. The 24-year-old hasn't played since January and is likely to struggle for opportunities this term. Jose Mourinho has already brought in Eric Bailly from Villarreal, while a move for Jose Fonte continues to be touted. Jones could be the one to make way and Stoke assistant Mark Bowen confirmed on Tuesday that a deal is in the pipeline.
Tottenham are open to offers for midfielders Ryan Mason and Tom Carroll. Promoted Hull are in talks to add 25-year-old Mason to their threadbare squad, although he has also attracted attention from Crystal Palace and Southampton. Carroll, 24, is wanted by Swansea, where he had a loan spell in the 2014-15 season, and Championship side Derby.
Champions Leicester are ready to splash the cash to make further additions to their title-winning squad, says Foxes vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Claudio Ranieri's champions have this summer already signed striker Ahmed Musa, midfielder Nampalys Mendy, keeper Ron-Robert Zieler, defender Luis Hernandez and Poland winger Bartosz Kapustka. Leicester lost N'Golo Kante to Chelsea, but star men Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez agreed new deals at the King Power Stadium. Austrian defender Aleksandar Dragovic has also been linked with the Foxes, and Srivaddhanaprabha has promised funds are available if the right opportunity to strengthen crops up (via Leicester Mercury).
Newcastle are closing in on a £2million deal for Brentford midfielder Alan Judge and have opened talks with Wolfsburg striker Bas Dost. The Magpies' Senegalese midfielder Henri Saivet is set to join French side St Etienne on loan.
Here are the top stories from other publications
Arsenal are reigniting their interest in Roma defender Kostas Manolas . (Mail)
Chelsea have had a bid for AC Milan's Alessio Romagnoli rejected. (ESPN)
Goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic is on Nottingham Forest's radar, and they hope to complete the deal on Wednesday. (Nottingham Post)
Southampton are eyeing a move for Lyon forward Rachid Ghezzal. (Star)


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Aluminum ingots for aluminum extrusion are produced by the method direct-chill (DC) casting.
Control of the chemical composition of the aluminum alloy
For popular extruded aluminum alloys 6060 and 6063 magnesium and silicon content, and the ratio of their content, have the greatest influence on their moldability - ease of pressing, than any other factor.
To control the chemical composition of an alloy generally used optical emission spectrometer. Metal samples are taken from the smelting furnace:
- to razlivki, to make an adjustment of the chemical composition and, if necessary,
- again after making alloying additions and mixing, To make sure, that the adjustment has been performed correctly.
Metallurgy of aluminum alloys is very complex and therefore small amounts of some undesirable elements, such as iron and sodium, may have a disproportionate impact. Therefore, the spectrometer must have a sufficiently wide range of elements to be determined, to allow to carry out a detailed analysis of the chemical composition of the produced aluminum alloy.
Filtration of molten aluminum
Oxide inclusions are removed from the melt through a ceramic filter, which is placed downstream of the melt. Oxide inclusions fall into the melt from the furnace lining, of lead gutters, as well as the contaminated charge. The charge - it is all the raw materials, which are loaded into the melting furnace: technological scrap, purchase scrap, primary ingots, secondary in pigs, ligature alloys. Oxides can cause excessive wear and damage to the extrusion dies during pressing time.
To remove coarse dirt, for example, oblomkov linings, frequently used filters made of special refractory grid, usually in multiple layers. Ceramic filters are quite expensive and, Moreover, require constant heating. Therefore, small enterprises often costing only a fiberglass filter, which is installed directly at the outlet of the melting (holding) furnace.
The hydrogen content in the aluminum melt
Excessive hydrogen content can be controlled by degassing the melt in the furnace itself or in a separate degasser, which is installed in the line casting. A large hydrogen content can cause porosity ingots, blistering on the profiles and further profiles material embrittlement.
The level of hydrogen content is measured by the number of cubic centimeters of hydrogen per 100 g of metal. In the production of aluminum profiles usually considered limiting content 0,20 look3 hydrogen 100 g of metal.
The approximate level of hydrogen content can be measured at the factory using simple equipment. Accurate measurements require sophisticated equipment, and they are usually performed in specialized laboratories.
Aluminum Melt Temperature Control
Poor control of temperature of molten aluminum, and particularly a too high temperature in the casting of ingots results in problems with the quality of metal ingots and surface quality. With increasing aluminum melt temperature increases the solubility of hydrogen in it.
Tight control of the melt temperature increases the probability of successful start casting pillars in the casting machine and ensures a successful casting of pillars.
Methods of casting ingots
Apply various technologies casting pillars. Casting technology determines the casting table design, which are arranged crystallizers.
A modern and convenient technology is the Hot Top casting method.. This method is used as a constant supply of lubricant to the molds, and with a single grease mold before casting. On the very best machines, permanent lubrication is supplied mixed with air or argon (for example, Air Slip technology).
Even in the 1990s, it was widely used technology of casting pillars with the float control system supplying a melt crystallizers. Although this technology, basically, It provides good casting results, it is almost universally supplanted by casting systems with heat nadsadkami.
An advantage of casting systems Hot Top, especially with a constant supply of lubricant, It is, that posts, which are produced by this method, have a reduced thickness so-called inversion of the surface layer. This layer comprises a high content of alloying elements and impurities, which can produce surface defects profiles. This may be of particular importance, for example, when pressing the profiles for subsequent anodizing.
homogenization of ingots
Homogenization of ingots - holding at a given temperature (above 500 ºС) for several hours followed by rapid cooling. Proper homogenization ingots increases its compressibility and thermal efficiency of subsequent processing profiles.
Cooling of bars after homogenization
Increased rate and uniformity of cooling after heating pillars cages pillars in homogenization furnace are very important. With slow and non-uniform cooling cages pillars may be formed in the metal structure unfavorable.
experience shows, that own foundry plant for extrusion of aluminum profiles capable of producing ingots of high-quality poles. Despite, that the primary feedstock such plants are own technological waste aluminum and recycled aluminum, they are capable of producing ingots, which are not inferior quality ingots largest producers of primary aluminum ingots. The key to this is a well-chosen equipment, as well as a motivated and qualified staff.
- D.C. Casting remelt shop handbook, Ashford Engineerig Services, Great Britain, 1997

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Commencement season is an often-controversial time. Last year was conspicuous for its wave of politically motivated disinvitations, with students trying, sometimes with success, to get their universities to rescind invitations to commencement speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Condoleezza Rice.
This year started out with a more pragmatic controversy. In April, the University of Houston reluctantly admitted it is paying actor Matthew McConaughey $135,000 to speak at this month’s commencement ceremony. This raises important questions: At what point does the graduation ritual become too extravagant? Could college funds be put to better use than attracting celebrity speakers to say a few inspiring words to the graduating class? After all, most commencement speakers are paid nothing.
And wouldn’t Houston have served its students better by spending that money on a one-year residency for a scholar of stature? Maybe the resident scholar could even give the commencement address.
Perhaps an even more fundamental question: what role do commencement speakers perform that makes them so essential?
The conventional knowledge is that colleges have powerful incentives to invite bigger and better speakers. Supposedly, they help with marketing by building buzz around a college’s brand. Also, they may have the potential to attract donations.
But picking the wrong speaker could cost a school donations as well, and it’s not always easy to tell which speakers those will be. The marketing argument is plausible for small private schools, but even then, marketing is no excuse to interfere with the academic mission of a college. At subsidized public colleges, the idea that it is necessary to spend six figures on a big name for marketing purposes is absurd. Public colleges are there to fill a state’s need, not to increase it.
There is also an argument to be made for giving students the speaker they want. Many schools choose based on student input: it’s their graduation, and they or their parents paid hard-earned money to make that happen. But how many of those students would spend money on a commencement speaker if given the choice to save it?
Bills in New Jersey and Illinois have proposed banning public universities from using public funds to pay for commencement speakers. That would solve the problem of wasting tax dollars on speakers, a practice that becomes more abhorrent when the money is spent on controversial speakers that many students and taxpayers disapprove of.
Still, grand commencement speeches are an old tradition that is not likely to disappear anytime soon. More and more universities aspire to host top celebrities and politicians, perhaps to compete with schools like Harvard, which has been churning out big-name speakers since at least the 19th century.
One highly controversial pick for commencement speaker this year was Common, a rapper and actor, who was given two very different receptions by two different schools. First, he was unceremoniously canceled by the administration of Kean University in New Jersey in March, just hours after the announcement. The reason was that a police union complained that one of his songs takes the side of Joanne Chesimard, a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper.
But Common will not be missing out on graduation season altogether; he is still the keynote speaker at Winston-Salem State University, a historically black university in North Carolina. In that university’s case, picking a commencement speaker is a democratic process. London Mickle, president of the staff senate at Winston-Salem State, told the Pope Center that a commencement committee chooses the speaker. The committee is formed from representatives of different units around campus—such as the chair of the faculty senate, the senior class president, people from the registrar’s office, academic affairs, and even the campus police. The committee picks the commencement speaker from a list of requests by the students, Mickle said.
Then the committee finds out who from the list is available. The next step? “See [who] we can afford,” she said.
Elsewhere in North Carolina (as in the rest of the country), there is a widely diverse group of commencement speakers, ranging from politicians and celebrities to academics and artists. High Point University—a school that has aggressively sought a higher profile in recent years—has boasted about attracting attention for its speakers. Recent picks have included former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; 2015’s pick is former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw. Also hosting a high-profile celebrity is Wake Forest University, with new Late Show host Stephen Colbert.
There is a sizable, albeit relatively uncontroversial, list of political figures speaking this month in the state. Speakers include Governor Pat McCrory and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The former is speaking at Elizabeth City State University and Forysth Technical Community College, and the latter is speaking at NC Central University. Furthermore, Attorney General Roy Cooper, who is seeking the nomination to be the Democratic candidate for North Carolina governor in the 2016 election, will deliver Elon University School of Law’s address. Shaw University is hosting U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield, the new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Another popular category of commencement speaker is entrepreneurs or business leaders. The most high-profile of these in North Carolina is former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, who is giving the address at his alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill. Warren Wilson College, the Asheville-based liberal arts college, is hosting New Belgium Brewing Company CEO Kim Jordan.
From the arts community, UNC-Pembroke picked Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore, a popular pick in 2014’s freshman summer reading programs. Queens University of Charlotte chose Marshall Curry, a documentary filmmaker who has been twice nominated for an Academy Award.
Here is a partial list of commencement speakers (or the absence of speakers) in North Carolina (in alphabetical order by college):
- Appalachian State University: no outside speakers
- Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College: no outside speakers
- Barton College: Sidney S. Eagles, Jr., former chief judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals
- Bennett College: Luke Visconti, CEO and founder of DiversityInc
- Bladen College: Vinston Rozier, district judge
- Campbell University: Dr. Allen L. Dobson, president and CEO of Community Care of North Carolina
- Campbell University Law School: Elaine Marshall, North Carolina secretary of state
- Davidson College: no outside speakers
- Duke University: Dr. Paul Farmer, humanitarian and founder, Partners in Health
- Elizabeth City State University: Governor Pat McCrory
- Elon University: Charlie Cook, publisher of Cook Political Report and columnist for the National Journal
- Elon University Law School: Roy Cooper, North Carolina attorney general
- Fayetteville State University: Kenyata Wesley, acting director for the Office of Small Business Programs at the Department of Defense
- Fayetteville Technical Community College: Chris Rey, mayor of Spring Lake
- Forsyth Technical Community College: Governor Pat McCrory
- Gardner-Webb University: no outside speakers
- Greensboro College: Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, author, nonprofit leader, motivational speaker, and founder/CEO of Future Leaders Group
- Guilford College: Aaron Fetrow, former dean of students and vice president for student affairs at Guilford College
- High Point University: Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC Nightly News
- Johnson C. Smith University: Tom Joyner, radio host
- Lees-McRae College: Harvey Lowd, chairman of the Lees-McRae College Board of Trustees
- Lenoir-Rhyne University: no outside speakers
- Livingstone College: U.S. Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina
- Meredith College: no outside speakers
- Methodist University: Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor at PBS NewsHour
- Montreat College: Ken Barun, chief of staff of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
- N.C. A&T State University: U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, civil rights activist
- N.C. Central University: Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
- NC State University: France A. Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation
- N.C. Wesleyan College: Quentin T. Sumner, senior resident judge for the North Carolina Superior Court
- Pfeiffer University: Arch Stokes, trial lawyer with Stokes, Wagner, Hunt, Maretz & Terrell
- Queens University of Charlotte: Marshall Curry, documentary fimmaker
- Salem University: Dr. Freda C. Lewis-Hall, executive vice president and chief medical officer at Pfizer, Inc.
- Shaw University: U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield of North Carolina
- St. Andrews Presbyterian College: Dr. Heath K. Rada, moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly
- St. Augustine University: U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Virginia
- UNC Asheville: Wiley Cash, novelist
- UNC-Chapel Hill: Jason Kilar, founding CEO of Hulu
- UNC Charlotte: No outside speakers
- UNC Greensboro: Tim Rice, former CEO of Cone Health
- UNC Pembroke: Wes Moore, author
- UNC School of the Arts: Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- UNC Wilmington (Watson College of Education and the College of Health and Human Services): James Faison III, district judge
- University of Mount Olive: Kenney Moore, founder of Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes, and Fries
- Wake Forest University: Stephen Colbert, comedian, television host, actor, and author
- Wake Technical Community College: James West, chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners
- Warren Wilson College: Kim Jordan, founder and CEO of New Belgium Brewing Company
- William Peace University: Dr. Assad Meymandi, founding editor and editor-in-chief of Wake County Physician Magazine
- Winston-Salem State University: Common, rapper and actor

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London buyers had better start saving up as experts predict property prices could hit £1million by 2020.
And that’s just for a standard house in the capital.
Portal Rightmove announced the findings as it revealed the asking price of homes coming to the market post summer have jumped by 2.2% - or more than £13,000.
This means those plumping for a new pad can expect to pay around £620,003.
Figures show this is an all time high and an 0.8% increase on the previous record set in July.
If this growth rate continues, the average price tag of a London home would be £1million by the end of 2020.
Rightmove director and housing market analyst Miles Shipside said: “This month’s 2.2% rise more than reverses the seasonal slowdown over the last two months when the average price of property coming to market fell by 0.6%.
“It’s a volatile time of year for average prices however, as potential sellers of higher-priced properties tend to refrain from coming to market in the holiday period, but then get on with their home moving plans again in September partly influenced by children going back to school.
“The back-to-normal service has resulted in new seller asking prices reaching another milestone, with a new record high.”
The annual rate of increase has now rocketed to 9.5% and the online portal pinpoints the long-term imbalance between supply and demand.
This has left the capital with what it calls a “desperate need” for more homes.
However those hoping to buy in the east London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets could have a little more hope.
The two authorities take their place on the top five list of Rightmove’s “worst performers”.
In Newham, there was a monthly price reduction of 2.8% with fees in August at £371,915 while September saw a price tag of £361,557.
In Tower Hamlets the change was even larger - a 4.4% drop.
Prices in August were listed as £629,626 while as autumn hit, they fell to £566,497.

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Monday, November 9, 2009
Part of my giant lot of jewelry included some post earrings in the shape of square frames decorated with stylized leaves and birds. The earrings had bezels inside the frame and were finished with antiqued silver plating.
I had planned to rework these earrings into dangles with pretty cabashons set in the bezels. However, even though I have a pretty good selection of cabs in different shapes and sizes, I didn't have a single one that fit the existing bezels. So I cut the bezels off and started filing those spots smooth.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that these earrings were not plated brass, but plated copper! As I said in my earlier post, most of these components are at least 20-30 years old, and these clearly date from the time before copper became so expensive. When these earrings were made, copper was as cheap as brass, and was often used as an inexpensive base for jewelry. Also, copper was not popular as a focal metal in itself like it is now.
So I carefully removed the plating from the earrings, leaving small amounts in the incised details, and the results are beautiful! After removing the bezels and the plating, I drilled holes to hang pinecone charms, wrapped the original earring posts into loops, and hung these from elongated copper ear wires.
The final product is a completely new design, with only a passing resemblence to the original earrings.


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The Importance of Literature sample essay
There are many different forms of art that an artist can choose to express them emotionally. One of these forms of art is writing. When art and literature is compared they seem to share some of the same components. These include a structure, a tone, and a theme. In Robert Frost’s poem “Home Burial” he writes about a couple that are grieving over the loss of a child, and the breakdown of communication that adds to the troubles the couple is having. The author uses his speech to paint a picture in our imagination that conveys the pain from an experience he and his family had to endure.
Through his words we are able to into the aftermath of emotions people feel when dealing with death. He expresses the importance of communication, and understanding within a marriage. While reading this poem the reader can through Robert Frost’s words see the scenario, and pain played out in their minds. Art is being able to speak without speaking, and to allow the beholder to interpret that work of art in a way that may speak to their hearts, and sensibilities. Literature is an art; it expresses feelings, struggles, successes, and failures.
Literature gives insight into political, and societal oppression. In Ezra Pounds “In a Station of a Metro” she uses her words to encourage readers to use their memory to Visualize a scenario that could be seen vividly by those who can relate to her setting of choice. Charlotte Perkins-Gilman uses literature to paint a mental picture of oppression off women in the 19th century. These works use theme, tone, and structure to bring the reader to the point where they can understand the reasoning, and meaning behind the work.
The structure of the mentioned works varies in style; the end result of the works is to help the reader have a better understanding of our world. Many times a common tool in literature is the use of symbols. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman work “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she uses the wallpaper as a symbol to represent something that is having an emotional effect on her. The wallpaper is used to tell a story about some of the domestic suppression faced by some women, and how this suppression is manifested. To be able to use words in such a way to demonstrate this theme is an art.
The message the author is attempting to demonstrate can be a hard one to understand. She does this through symbolism, conversation flow, and the narrator is talking to herself, she uses her own introspection to keep the reader engaged. The tone of the authors’ conversation with her helps the reader to understand the mental anguish she is going through. It is a fascinating look into the mind of the narrator, who is experiencing anxiety, and depression while tryinag to maintain the “good wife” image.
Domestic pressures on top of already underlying anxiety, and depression can cause a woman to go insane. I can understand, and relate to this literary work because I also struggle with my own anxiety, and depression. Domestic pressures seem to be a common theme in various forms of art. In Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” the couple he writes about. Unlike “The Yellow Wallpaper” this poem is mostly the conversation between the couple, we the audience are witnessing the exchange. This poem is not only about the death of a child, also the death of a marriage.
The different ways of grieving are evident in the authors use have phrasing, and vocabulary. The wife is surrounded by grief. Her world, and her loss is all she sees at this point. The husband working through his grief, he did this by physically exerting some of the emotions he was feeling. He took on the task of burying his child, through this act he may have made his peace, and gained closure. This poem demonstrates how easily communication can break or make a relationship. Neither way of grieving displayed is expressed as right or wrong, a parent can grieve any way they want.
However, this couple lost sight of the fact that not only are they parents, they are also a husband, and a wife in pain. They lost sight of how to be there for each other. She fails to take into consideration how he must have felt burying their child. He felt she was over reacting. The lack of empathy, and grief led to the miscommunication in the poem. This is a very sad poem; the author may have used literature to help him through his own loss of four children at young ages. The expression of pain through poetry could have been very therapeutic
for the author. In conclusion, the study of literature is vital today in many different fields of study. The quote “Literature is an art, and as an art it is able to enlarge and refine our understanding of life” rings very true for many students of life. We are able to see many different perspectives of situations, and how those situations affect those involved, the emotions involved are transferred from the author to the reader through paper. Many times the words can have great profound impact on the reader. This is why the study of literature is important.
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Updated at 9:30 a.m. Friday |
Containment of the River Fire in Madera and Mariposa counties improved to 51% Friday, owing to favorable weather conditions reduced fire activity after days of suppression efforts by firefighters from across California.
As of Thursday evening, all remaining evacuation warnings and road closures had been lifted in Madera and Mariposa counties.
“All roads are now open for public travel,” the Madera County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. “Please use caution when driving in the area and watch for emergency vehicles and personnel.”
Madera County Declares Emergency
Earlier in the week, Madera County declared a local state of emergency due to the impacts of the fire, which burned about 9,500 acres.
“The River Fire has strained our local resources and necessitates a proclamation of a local emergency in order to maintain our standard level of public protection to the county,” the Madera County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on social media. “By proclaiming a local state of emergency we are formally requesting help from state and federal officials.”
Firefighters and equipment from across the state quickly responded to the fire. At one point, Cal Fire reported over 1,500 personnel had been deployed along with apparatus an arsenal of aerial and on-the ground resources.
The River Fire began in the area of Oak Grove Road and Oak Grove School road, approximately nine miles south of Bootjack on Highway 49. The blaze has expanded primarily toward the east in the direction of Yosemite National Park.
At one point, the eastern edge of the fire came within about 2 miles of River Creek Golf Course and the community of Ahwahnee.
Additional information on the River Fire can be found at this link.


However, I’ve been growing dissatisfied with several things about it:
- There are great comment spam blocking features, but I recently started being victimized by trackback spam, and there isn’t much to combat that.
- There’s not much to help with importing RSS feeds.
- There’s not all that much flexibility in the configuration.
Since June, Drupal has released version 4.5.0, which has made a lot of progress towards being useful for a blog site. It has better support for trackbacks, including spam prevention for them, and can be configured to act pretty much like one would expect a blog to act, complete with anonymous comments. It also supports file attachments to nodes, one feature I’d been missing.
My one gripe is that the archive module stinks, but the tracker is reasonable at least. I’d rather let people see a whole month of history at once. Perhaps that will come yet.


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For the 4th of July I made root beer ice and vanilla ice cream for our family get together. I made it first using McCormick’s root beer concentrate. I wasn’t happy with the really dark brown color (the first ingredient is caramel color), though the taste was OK. I decided to try another batch using an extract made with natural flavors.
I found a reasonably priced extract with good ratings at The Spice House.
I like this extract much better then the first one I used. When I used it, the extract just seemed more like root beer. It made my kitchen smell strongly of root beer, and the scent spread through the house. My five year old son, came into the kitchen to tell me it smelt like root beer in the house.
I think the flavor of this version was better then that of the one using the McCormicks. Both taste sufficiently of root beer, but this one seemed to be less chemical tasting to me, which makes sense since it is supposed to be made of natural flavors.
The only issue I had was a minor one. This extract is clear because there are no added colors. I used gel food coloring to attempt to make my root beer ice a pleasing brown color. I had read that an equal amount of red, blue, and yellow food color should be used to get brown. Unfortunately, I must have done something wrong because my ice didn’t end up brown. When I was mixing it up, I thought it was light brown. However, when I took the ice out of the ice cream mixer it was more of a pinkish color. That was more of cosmetic issue then a real problem.
The pictures actually look a bit brown, but in real life it is more pink. I definitely didn’t add enough color, and I probably got to much red in the mix.
Using the natural flavor made for a superior root beer ice. I highly recommend using whatever natural extract you can get your hands on if you make this. If you can’t get natural extract, then using something bought in a regular store makes for a perfectly good root beer ice.

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- Release Date
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by The Closer. Buy album CD: Set The Prisoner Free
This is going at breakneck speeds
And I'm sobering up to a cup half empty,
And a pack half full.
I must admit I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
I like the way you feel
I must admit I don't like the way you lie.
Who would go for a liar?
Not me, yeah.
So I don't wanna hear,
Whatever else you say.
All you need to know,
Is that I'm alive.
Lets give up on what we tried so hard to keep.
This is what I want oh common common.
Common common this is what you want,
Lets live to make mistakes.
Common common this is what I want
Yeah this is what I want,
And this is what I'll get,
Coz this is what I wanted oh common
I've got an angel in my ear,
And I've got the devil in the other one.
Trust me I'm not bragging about this.
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So here I am, midnight approaches, and I am watching one of the biggest disasters ever financed by Warner Brothers, one of the oldest studios that still exists today. I am watching no less a turkey of a film than Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. Superman IV is a classic example of when a franchise has gone on for too long without any real creative input or the money to pull off the ambitions of the creative staff. In the mid to late 1980s, Christopher Reeve was making it public knowledge that he was tired of playing Superman. After the debacle that was Superman III (or Stuporman ZZZ as Mad Magazine correctly dubbed it), one can hardly blame him. But all of this is beside my actual point.
Adonis Kyrou was a Greek filmmaker and writer. Whilst residing in France, he published a great tome entitled Le surréalisme au cinéma. One statement made in this volume that has been quoted multiple times by aspiring filmmakers the world over. The most prominent of these quotations is in Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The Plan 9 Companion. The quotation in its fullest form runs, “I ask you, learn to go and see the “worst” films; they are sometimes sublime”.
Comedy is a bit like attraction between two Humans. No two people will respond in exactly the same way to the same material. Films that are promoted as being the funniest thing since a child molester being sodomised to death in prison, for example, can often turn out to be as funny as being told one has a melanoma that is so far gone that removal is going to be physically impossible. But the funniest films are often so poorly made on a technical level that one stops taking the intended story seriously and starts laughing at the filmmakers’ collective inability to get any part of their story to work. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, is just one of many, many examples of this. So in this spirit, I would like to share some examples of the worst films that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
A note here: When I say the worst films, I do not merely mean “boring” or “not cool”. I mean that these films stuff up so badly on every level you can possibly imagine that laughing at the incompetence on offer is far more entertaining than anything else the film offers.
- Eegah (1962)
Look very hard at the image on the left. I could honestly stop this write-up right there, in case the title did not already tip you off. Eegah, or Eegah!, or Eegads! (as more discerning types call it) is a “star vehicle” for the young lad shown in the still capture, one Arch Hall, junior. And the film was written and directed by one Arch Hall, senior. Act as if you are surprised. Finding Eegah on DVD is actually pretty easy. The “best” version on that format is the Rhino version that includes both the unadulterated version that Arch Hall, senior intended his audience to see, and the version that resulted from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 deciding to give it their trademark treatment.
Now, as far as Arch Hall, junior‘s acting abilities go, let us just say that they match his looks. Not that Arch Hall, senior is any better, but at least senior manages to come across as something other than a complete and utter arrogant cock when he speaks. In a film where the hero looks and sounds like he has been smacked in the face one too many times with a rubber mallet, it is pretty easy to come across as a good guy.
Also worth mentioning is that Eegah is the feature debut of one Richard Kiel, a giant of a man who, due to acromelagy, stood at least a foot taller than the rest of the cast. Kiel has since gone on to play such great roles as Jaws in a “James Bond” film and a rather mean boss character in Happy Gilmore. I am pretty sure anyone can tell which of those I consider the more dignified role. Kiel is the one thing in Eegah that does not come across as a complete insult to the audience. He does not escape with his dignity intact, but he does retain at least some small measure of it, which is more than the rest of the cast.
Especially poor Arch Hall, junior. When your first shot in the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version is accompanied by one of the bots calling out “sorry about my face!”, you know you are not going to get very far in the film industry.
- Prayer Of The Rollerboys (1991)
Again, I could just show you the capture from the film, and leave it there. One of the biggest unspoken rules of filmmaking is that when you want to make a film about a future in which America has reverted to a third world country and the main villains are a bunch of teenage boys who go around rollerblading in white trenchcoats (don’t ask), you do not go out of your way to make these villains look like complete and utter nonces. Not only do the makers of Prayer Of The Rollerboys manage to not follow that rule, they pretty much openly flaunt that.
I could go on all day about how bone-headed the screenplay was, or how idiotic the compositions of shots still are, but I think the introduction does it all for me. Although the spiel about how the economic meltdown of the “present” was caused by the present generation’s parents borrowing more money than they could ever repay is a very pertinent one, the economy depicted here is not something any sane Human being could ever imagine any generation of Americans tolerating. Say what you will about PlayStations and plasma televisions, but let one generation have free access to them and then ask a subsequent generation to make do with living in a tent on a communal park of some kind, and look out. But leaving out all of these things, when you ask an actor to finish a speech about joining up with his merry band of imbeciles by putting up his clenched fists for the audience to see, give him a few lessons in how to look like he knows how to fight.
Oh yeah, and for god’s sake, if a sex scene happens to be necessary to your story for whatever reason, at least try to make it possible to mistake the participants for adults. This means that Corey Haim and sex scene do belong in the same universe, leave alone the same script, or the same sentence. Even viewers who pick out the strange by habit are going to be shuddering for years about that one.
- Highlander II (1991)
I remember the first time I saw Highlander II on VHS. It produced a lot of reactions in me, the most powerful of which was basically along the lines of “what in the hell did I just watch?”. But as a miniseries like V: The Final Battle, and films like Total Recall or Scanners demonstrate, you just cannot keep an awesome man like Michael Ironside down. Ironside has recently had a bit of a battle with cancer, and was given the all-clear by doctors. But this is not quite the accurate way to describe it. In all likelihood, Ironside took a good look at the cancer, sneered and snarled at it some, and it meekly told him it would go away now.
Ironside does not simply chew scenery in Highlander II. He devours it. He gorges himself on it. He hoovers it up like he is Charlie Sheen at a cocaine factory.
People will tell you that there are good and bad versions of Highlander II. For instance, the original cut of the film, subtitled The Quickening, was to director Russell Mulcahy‘s distaste to such an extent that he walked out of the premiere after twenty minutes. That is just someone covering Mulcahy‘s ass. Truthfully, I have seen no less than four films on which Russell Mulcahy is credited as the director, and Highlander II happens to be one of the best of them. When your other credits include Resident Evil: Extinction and The Scorpion King: Rise Of A Warrior, you know that protesting about having been creatively circumvented is a useless exercise. Simply put, Highlander II sucks so much irrespective of what cut you see that Michael Ironside is literally the only reason to watch it.
Unless you count the two psychotic birdmen that Christopher Lambert dispatches early on in the film. They, much like Ironside, decided that if they were going to be in a shitty Russell Mulcahy film about people chopping each other’s heads off, they may as well go for broke and at least attempt to be remembered in a positive light.
- American Ninja (1985)
One of the most important rules of making any film in which Ninjas and Ninjitsu are a prominent feature is to make damned sure that your actors are capable of pulling off the kinds of physical feats that audiences expect.
I am not going to offer any comment on Michael Dudikoff‘s ability to carry an action role. I have never met the man, and he at least manages to convince me that he knows something about being a soldier, so he has that much going for him. But the manner in which the martial arts sequences of this film are shot are so incomprehensibly incompetent at times that one just has to wonder. In the climactic martial arts extravaganza, the enemy Ninjas literally start exploding for no readily apparent reason. Making matters worse is a moment of exposition in which dates are read out that make the character’s current age or age at enlisting in the army to be no more than six years. This effect has been described by one commentator on the IMDB as the “Ninja time warp paradox”.
Another important step in making a good action film of any sort is to present the demises of villains, or indeed any kind of character, in a credible fashion. American Ninja might as well be called Ninja Holocaust, as there are some sequences in which Dudikoff only needs to give an enemy Ninja a funny look in order to kill them. And as mentioned before, during the climactic point of the film, Ninjas literally start exploding for no readily apparent reason. It is one thing when you have Ninjas dying from Michael Ironside snarling at them, or dying from Michael Dudikoff looking at them funny, but when they start to explode spontaneously, you might as well throw in the towel, claim that you were trying to make a comedy on purpose, and save what little dignity you have left.
If you are new to the sport of watching the “worst” films, then this short list will give you some idea of where to get started. If you are a moderate in this sport, then you might have found one or two in this list to complete your own list with. If you have been around the block in terms of watching bad films as many times as I have, you have doubtless already seen these films at least once. Whatever your level is at, hopefully this list has given you some idea or made for an entertaining read.
If you have read this far, then thank you for taking the time.
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Haha, Prayer of the Rollerboys is NOT one of the worst films ever. I love it, but that’s just me! Neat post! 🙂
Haha. I just cannot get over the idea of sex scenes with Corey Haim in them. *shakes head* No, in all seriousness, I watched it a few times and remember thinking that any moment now, someone was going to tell me I was on Candid Camera. I think what bowled me over the most was the big speech in the beginning about how America got to be the way it is in the film. Or maybe it was the claim that an entire university was being shipped over to Japan. Or… *hysterical giggle*


STRATHMORE — A woman charged after a critically injured dog was found tied to a car was confronted by animal-rights protesters when she made her first court appearance Tuesday.
Melinda Harris, 40, is accused of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
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On July 2, a police officer was stopped by a driver who had seen a dog on a leash being dragged behind a black car on a highway east of Calgary.
The car, with the injured dog tied to it, was found in a field later that day. Police said the dog was suffering from injuries consistent with having been dragged. RCMP took the dog, believed to be a border collie cross, to an emergency veterinary clinic but the animal had to be euthanized.
Heather Anderson from the Daisy Foundation, a group that fights for stiffer penalties for animal abusers, confronted a smiling Harris outside of the Strathmore courthouse, east of Calgary, during a break.
“How can you be joking? Your dog just died. I don’t find anything funny about this,” Anderson said. “I want to know why the dog didn’t end up at a vet.”


California Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a state budget that will pay reparations to survivors of forced or involuntary sterilizations sanctioned by the state under discriminatory eugenics laws.
Last week, California became the third U.S. state to approve these forms of reparations to survivors who were forcibly sterilized by doctors working in California prisons, ABC7 reports. The Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program was included in California’s new state budget deal signed by Gov. Newsom.
“Oh my goodness. I can’t even explain the overjoyed feeling that I have. But also the feeling of relief,” Kelli Dillon said.
Dillion is one of the hundreds of known survivors who were forced or involuntary sterilized while serving time in prison. Her story was featured in the documentary, “Belly of the Beast.”
“The advocacy, the journey of justice we’ve been on has been 20 years for me, but for some survivors has been for over 40 years,” Dillon said.
California’s eugenics law was enacted between 1909 and 1979. It forced sterilization on over 20,000 people, with most of them being poor, disabled, or people of color, NY Times reports.
Now, as part of the state budget approved by Gov. Newsom, California will spend $7.5 million to find and pay reparations to those who were forcibly sterilized under the state’s old eugenics law, Axios reports. Each individual will receive about $25,000.
“This is very much about acknowledging that there were wrongs committed by the state intentionally, against certain groups of people that were deemed unfit to reproduce or to be members of California society,” said Laura Jimenez, director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, told Reuters.
Most of California’s eugenics program was outlawed back in 1979, CNN reports. However, laws ending the sterilization of prisoners were not passed until 2014. The number of survivors remains unclear, but hundreds of people are estimated to be eligible for the funding, including some who are still incarcerated.


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I have always been the type to put off finishing a book or a movie. I can’t stand goodbyes of any kind – parting with someone I love causes a part of my chest to flutter and constrict and ache in a way that nothing else does. And leaving places – leaving places has always been especially difficult. Even when I was little, I struggled with leaving a place behind. Everyone around me would be ready to return home, while no amount of time was ever enough for me. I’d try hard to fight back tears, which would well up fiercely at the thought of me having to walk away. I learned that what helped feel better was to convince myself that I could return as soon and as spontaneously as I wanted. I thought that it would get easier with age and maturity. But of course, the older I got, the more my love for places became interwoven with my love for certain people or certain pivotal moments, and leaving became even more difficult in a uniquely complex and raw way.
When I was about eight or nine years old, I remember staring out at the sea with my Mom during one of our family travels. We stood quietly, side by side, watching the trees sway in the wind, and she forced me to “make a memory”. I can still hear her voice asking me to focus, to record the scene in my mind, and to remember. Then I would have the power to return there whenever I wanted, just by calling up that memory.
That way, even if I leave a place, it never leaves me.


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After a glorious 2-week break sans students, the sweet sounds of caroling can crash down into a chaotic classroom.
Fortunately, February is Children’s Dental Health Month and we have you covered. Teachers – try these lesson plans to get you back in your usual school spirit:
Happy Tooth/Sad Tooth
Grade Level: K-1
National Health Education Standards: 1, 7
Materials: Happy/Sad Tooth Template, magazines, scissors, glue
Students will identify nutritious foods and drinks that can keep our teeth healthy, as well as foods and drinks that can be harmful to our teeth.
1. Lead the class in reviewing why teeth are important and explain that teeth help us chew healthy food, which keeps our bodies healthy, and helps us to learn. The choices we make in our foods and drinks can help or hurt our teeth.
2. Help students brainstorm a list of foods and drinks that they think would be healthy for our teeth and why.
3. Repeat with a list of foods and drinks that would be bad for our teeth and why.
4. Give each student a Happy Tooth sheet and a Sad Tooth sheet.
5. Instruct students to cut out healthy foods and drinks from magazines and glue them to the Happy Tooth.
6. Instruct students to cut out unhealthy foods and drinks from magazines and glue them to the Sad Tooth.
Marshmallow Teeth Model
Grade Level: K-2
Materials: Teeth outline pattern, 2 large bags of jumbo marshmallows, scissors, glue, construction paper, yarn
Make a set of teeth out of large marshmallows as a class project. Use a magic marker to draw teeth outlines on construction paper. Break students into three groups: one group will flatten marshmallows for incisors, another will flatten and clip corners of marshmallows for canines and the third group will press in the middle of marshmallows to make molars. Next, have each group glue marshmallows to the paper in the correct order: 2 molars, 1 canine, and 2 incisors on each side and each end. Let dry and use the model to point out how food can get stuck in ridges and spaces. Practice “flossing” with some yarn.
Fuel your students’ imaginations while educating them about proper dental hygiene. From Tooth Fairy tales and brushing basics, to cavities and dental visits, these books cover it all. Find our recommended book list here.

domain: health


text: Toobers & Zots is the flexible, holdable, moldable toy that allows children of all ages to make an infinite number of creations. The large toobers can be bent in any shape to create large scale objects such as dinosaurs and flowers. The zany zots, skinnies and dots are used to further define and decorate these objects. Each colorful piece is made from foam, so it is soft and safe for ages 3 & up. The Toobers & Zots Bend & Build Foamstruction Set is truly limitless. This set contains 345+ pieces that can be used in an infinite number of ways. This set is great for both one child or groups because it is open-ended and promotes creative play.


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Weldesenbet S., Wohnlich S. and Wisotzky F
Posters: Hydrol Current Res
The Central Main Ethiopian Rift basin is a continental rift system characterized by volcano-tectonic depression endowed with huge geothermal resource and associated natural geochemical changes on groundwater quality that causes adverse health effect on the people in the area. Chemical composition of groundwater in the study area showed a well defined trend along flow from the highland and escarpment to the rift floor aquifer. The low TDS (< 500mg/l) Ca-Mg-HCO3 dominated water at recharge area in the highlands and escarpments evolve progressively into Ca-Na-HCO3 and Na-Ca-HCO3 type waters along the rift ward groundwater flow paths. These waters finally appear as moderate TDS (mean 960mg/l) Na-HCO3 type and as high TDS (> 1000 mg/l) Na-HCO3 -Cl type in volcano-lacustrine aquifers of the rift floor. The content of δ2H and δ18O in groundwater, surface water and rain water showed that the main recharge water for the geothermal system in the area originates largely from the highlands and escarpments areas.
Hydrology: Current Research received 1731 citations as per Google Scholar report


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Gene Regulatory Network in Schwann cell Disorders
Palomo Irigoyen, Marta
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Cancer cells can develop a strong addiction to discrete molecular regulators, which control the aberranttranscription programs that drive and maintain the cancer phenotype. Here, we report the identificationof the RNA-binding protein HuR as a central oncogenic driver for malignant peripheral nerve sheathtumours (MPNSTs), which are highly aggressive sarcomas. We show HuR was bound to a multitude ofcancer-associated transcripts in human MPNST samples. Accordingly, genetic and pharmacologicalinhibition of HuR had potent cytostatic and cytotoxic effects on tumour growth, and strongly supressedmetastatic capacity in vivo. Importantly, we linked the profound tumorigenic function of HuR to itsability to simultaneously regulate multiple essential oncogenic pathways in MPNST cellls, including theWnt/ß-Catenin, YAP/TAZ, Rb-E2F and BET proteins, which converge on key transcriptional networks.Regulating survival, proliferation, and dissemination. Therefore, we propose HuR represents an idealtherapeutic target for MPNST treatment. Peripheral nervous system involvement has also beenobserved in Lyme disease-assicated clinical manifestations, which is the most common arthropod-borne infectious disease in temperate regions. It is caused by infection with the spirochete Borreliaburgdorferi, which is transmitted by a tick bite. Here, we identified Schwann cells as the new targets ofB. burgdorferi, leading to demyelination in the absence of immune cells. We suggest that B. burgdorferiregulates intracellular signaling pathways, including Wnt/ß-Catenin, to strongly repress myelin gene andprotein expression, throwing light on one of the most intriguing pathological features of Lyme disease.

domain: biology


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