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“Art for art’s sake. Money for god’s sake.”
So sang the British rock band 10cc. The precept is holding true these days for Portland’s Fertile Ground festival. Since 2009, the citywide event has served as a midwinter hothouse for hundreds of new works of theater, dance and other art forms, not just offering audiences a feast of fresh entertainment but also helping to nurture shows through the development process and even kickstarting careers. And it has accomplished all this on a budget that would make a shoestring look fat; though individual producers pay a small fee to take part, the festival has relied on passionate, largely volunteer organizers.
Even the Covid pandemic couldn’t stop the festival, which went entirely online for its 2021 iteration.
But this year the past couple of weeks have been quiet, as Fertile Ground has gone fallow for a season, planning to re-seed itself as a more sustainable operation.
A large portion of the festival’s work has been shouldered by Nicole Lane, who took over as festival director after the departure of founder Trisha Pancio. These days, though, Lane is busy as marketing and communications director for Chamber Music Northwest, and after a decade of almost unpaid work as organizer, publicist, mentor, etc. for Fertile Ground, she’s ready to hand the tiller to someone else.
Hence this season’s pause and a fund-raising effort by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (now the umbrella nonprofit organization for Fertile Ground) to hire – and actually pay! – a new festival director. We’re not talking one-percenter money here, of course; the goal of the GoFundMe campaign for the purpose is just $10,000.
“When Sara Jean Accuardi came on board PATA’s Fertile Ground committee to witness what we do, she noted that the mechanics of Fertile Ground are a bit like ‘Oz behind the curtain,’ meaning that it seems to be a much larger operation than it actually is,” Lane wrote in a press release about the fundraiser. “Run by a small and dedicated team, Fertile Ground has an enormous arts ecology footprint.”
“Fertile Ground Festival needs you, needs your support for what/who is ahead,” Lane added in a Facebook post thanking many of others who’d help keep the festival going. “Please be a part of that, and join me in making a small donation so that we can offer this leadership role with guaranteed income.
“Onward for the sake of artists and what they teach us, and the value of new work!”
Under new(ish) management
Portland Center Stage, in need of a new managing director to replace departed company stalwart Cynthia Fuhrman, has promoted from within, naming Liam Kaas-Lentz to the post. The announcement earlier this week officially puts Kaas-Lentz into a co-leadership role with artistic director Marissa Wolf; he has served as interim managing director for the past 11 months.
Well-liked and respected in the area’s theater community for the past two decades, Kaas-Lentz landed at PCS after working as a production manager and stage manager for several other companies, including Sojourn Theatre, Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth. Somewhat similarly to Fuhrman, who rose through marketing-related roles to the company’s top administrative post, Kaas-Lentz has moved through production-oriented jobs, using broad expertise and good humor to keep the creative trains running on time.
“I worked with Liam for years, and he was someone I consistently relied upon as a strategic thought partner,” the company’s press release about the hire quotes Fuhrman, who left PCS last year to work for an arts consulting and executive-search firm. “His deep knowledge of all that it takes to run a theater, coupled with his collaborative style and acumen with budgets, makes him an ideal managing leader at a time when the theater field is faced with so many complex challenges.”
One of the most impressive productions of the season in Portland theater, so far, has been Profile Theatre’s staging of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which used the milieu of pro wrestling to tell a multi-layered, sometimes menacing, story of money and control, in-group loyalties and cross-cultural conflicts, and, above all, the tremendous yet tricky power of storytelling.
At the center of all that, though, was a central character full of innocent, good-natured enthusiasm. Now Profile is presenting Welcome to Arroyo’s, another – earlier – play by the same writer, Kristoffer Diaz, that foregrounds such essentially agreeable characters.
“It’s a more youthful, more innocent kind of play,” says director (and ArtsWatch columnist) Bobby Bermea. “That, for me, is the main draw, what I love about it. It’s unusual for me to find a theater piece where I just like everybody, the characters in the play. I want them to succeed. They’re all young and trying to define themselves and live the lives they want. They have these impediments internally – there’s love, grief, confusion, and they’re all hustling – but their hearts are always in the right place.”
The subculture that Diaz lovingly mines this time is street-level hip-hop. The story is set in a fledgling bar in New York’s Lower East Side, where the owner’s friends/employee keep trying to finagle performance spot for their duo, and one customer thinks she’s discovered a link between the bar and a lost figure from early hip-hop history.
“If you can place a Puerto Rican women at the dawn of hip-hop’s creation, not just as an observer but as a vital participant, you change the perception of all women’s entitlement to the form AND you reshape the face of ethno-racial relationships throughout the Afro-Latino diaspora,” says the aspiring academic Lelly, in what’s one of her less jargon-laden effusions.
But whereas Chad Deity danced along a line between celebration and satire of its subculture setting, Arroyo’s is neither conflicted nor complicated in its stance.
“Arroyo’s is a play about gentrification, specifically in New York City’s Lower East Side,” Diaz wrote in an artist’s statement. “It’s a play about identity and authenticity, about an individual’s obligations to all of the cultures that contribute to defining exactly who he or she is. It’s a deeply personal play for me; I worked out a bunch of my own cultural issues in the writing process. Most importantly, though, I think this is a play that celebrates the spirit of Hip Hop culture, particularly classic Hip Hop culture. It’s a play about taking the good stuff out of life, mixing it all up, cutting it, scratching it, and spinning it back as something new.”
It’s not nearly as ambitious or artful a work as Chad Deity, which was a Pulitzer finalist. But it’s a work of honest enthusiasm, playfully theatrical in its way yet simply, endearingly human.
“I’m not doing satire or realism,” Bermea stresses about his approach to it. “I think this play is all about heart.”
“Paralyzed with grief, Samantha Brown loses touch with the part of herself that was learning to be brave,” begins the play description of The Mad Ones on the Oregon Children’s Theatre website. “Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away into a future she can’t imagine?”
Sounds like your typical kids’ show, right?
Well, for the work of OCT’s Young Professionals company, it does. The YPs continue an important facet of OCT that began under the late artistic director Stan Foote, staging thought-provoking works for teen audiences. Written by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, The Mad Ones is a musical, originally titled The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, that tracks, mostly through flashbacks, Samantha’s relationships with her mother, and also with her best friend, who has died in an auto accident.
In The Second City Swipes Right – subtitled An Incomplete Guide to the Ultimate Date Night – the famed sketch/improv comedy company dives into the fertile subject of love and romance (and, we’re guessing, less presentable subsets of those).
Triangle Productions launches a new series of readings in tribute to early LGBTQ plays produced in Oregon from 1971 to 1985, beginning with Jerker, perhaps best explained through its full title: Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty.
And while we’re on a theme, Eleanor O’Brien returns to the Back Door Theatre with Plan V: Pussy Parables and Epiphanies, the latest extension of her series of sex-positive shows that increasingly feel like rallying cries for a pleasure-centered social liberation movement.
The flattened stage
The Second City has had a broad and undeniable influence on comedy, be it in nightclubs, television or film. But to my mind, nothing greater has come from it than “SCTV,” the sketch series launched by the Toronto branch, which far outshone the higher-profile “Saturday Night Live” during the years they both were on the air.
Shows on the way out this weekend include Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Kate Hamill’s gender-switch adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes detective franchise at PCS; the classic musical Cabaret from Stumptown Stages; Ain’t Too Proud, the touring Broadway jukebox musical about the Temptations; and Okinum, the French performer Emile Monnet’s dream-fueled exploration of ancestry and identity, for Boom Arts.
The best line(s) I read this week
“I say this now more to myself than anyone, but with you as my witness: most everything we learn of significance is ushered in on the arm of hurt and a perception of failure – for it is out of stirred ruin that sparks fly; out of trauma that woke pledges are made manifest. We are none of us – globally speaking, but most particularly as Americans – out of the woods, I mean to say. And the woods are burning.
“But here: the fire is as warming and bright as it is consuming. And if you can find me the book wherein history and mystery are peaceably reconciled, we might just be able, hunkered in the wane dancing light, to read to each other from its pages.”
– Joe Henry, one of the greatest of contemporary songwriters, in the notes to his latest album, “All the Eye Can See.”
That’s all I have for now. I’ll try to do better the next time.


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Associate Professor Thorsten Trimpop is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work examines the impact of history, politics and the changing natural world on private lives. His latest film, Furusato 古里, a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone, was shown at dozens of festivals and won the grand prize at DOK Leipzig. It had a cinematic release in over 80 cities in Germany and Austria and was internationally broadcast on Arte. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, a nonfiction tale of love and betrayal set against the fall of the Berlin wall, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous international awards and was broadcasted worldwide. His work has been presented at venues such as the Locarno Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Viennale, FID Marseilles, International Film Festival Pusan, BAFICI and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
He is currently working on a genre-blurring feature grounded in a true crime story that sparks a dual narrative about our colonial inheritance and the human obsession with beauty. For this project he has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Award.
Thorsten taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Boston University. From 2011–2013 he was a Research Scholar at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University. From 2014-17 he was a fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab. Thorsten has played a key role in developing new programs and curricula at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, where he taught prior to arriving at CU.


The Russian military intervention in the Syrian War began in 2015. The intervention consisted of air strikes fires by Russian aircraft and attack helicopters, included modern Mil Mi-28s, stationed in the Khmeimim base in North Syria, against militant groups opposed to the Syrian government.
During a military operation in Syria was revealed a number of technical flaws of Mil Mi-28 (NATO reporting name of “Havoc”) modern attack helicopter designed to close air support and destroy operations armoured and un-armoured vehicles, and enemy personnel in combat.
New Russian helicopters have problems with engine installations, avionics, control and navigation systems. Earlier there were cases had an engine control problem and was reported that debris ejected on the launching of rockets could cause catastrophic damage.
According to head of the Russian Federation Council’s Committee for Defence and Security, Viktor Bondarev, Russian defence industry has fixed a number of technical and design flaws of the helicopter, but still have problems with onboard electronics and night vision systems.
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According to the Russian Helicopters, Mi-28 can operate night and day, and in adverse weather conditions. The Mi-28 “Night Hunter” has been officially accepted into service with the Russian Ministry of Defence.


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In recent months it seems like hardly a day goes by without a story about scientific misconduct appearing in the mainstream news media, on industry blogs, or on social media. Scientific misconduct can take many forms, but the area that has garnered much attention is inappropriate image manipulation, a problem that in addition to questions of research ethics, drains time and resources from institutions, publishers, and referees that could be put to better use. But what constitutes image manipulation, what implications does it have for reproducibility and the integrity of the scientific record, and how can the research community combat it?
Akabana Consulting was commissioned by Maverick Publishing Specialists to write a white paper examining the current state of image manipulation in scholarly publishing. Read the online article here. A pdf version of the article is also available

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Founder, publisher & design director: Charles Hively
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3x3 is, in its own words, 'the first publication devoted entirely to the art of contemporary illustration.' Largely visual but with profiles, short interviews and even a couple of pages of book reviews at the back, 3x3's mission is to 'preserve, protect and promote illustration in all its forms. '
This issue focuses in on the work of illustrators Armando Veve, Feifei Ruan and Hudson Christie, Hanoch Piven and Jean-Michel Folon.

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A phenomenon where the cities are warmer than the rural surroundings, known as Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, is a concomitant impact of human-induced modifications to the intrinsic values of the natural environment and earth’s atmosphere. In line with United Nation’s highlight that three quarter of South-East Asian cities exhibit greater potential for rapid urbanisation by 2050, Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL), a global metropolis underwent a remarkable urban transformation as stipulated in Malaysian Tenth Policy while exerting greater impact on urban climate, often attributed to escalated ambient air temperatures in the city centres compared to rural peripheries. While hosting about 21.96% of the current urban population of Malaysia, it becomes one of the primary targets of National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) leveraging upon its strengths on a cosmopolitan population and a World class infrastructure.
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In a recent article published in ELSEVIER’s Sustainable Cities and Society entitled ‘A critical review of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in the context of Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’, Logaraj Ramakreshnan, a Graduate Research Assistant from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, together with the other co-authors provided a state-of-art analysis of UHI studies conducted in the region. This work, being a primary review for UHI studies in GKL, highlighted the major methodological shortcomings that hamper the reliability of previous measurements and provided vital suggestions in methodological perspective for an improved UHI quantification in future. This study is expected to serve as a reference for the upcoming studies to articulate more systematic studies that yield authentic results of UHI status for this region.
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Unconscious bias is a big issue.
How do Mediators and Arbitrators deal with this problem?
The difficulty is that the bias is not always recognised or detected and that is because the bias is nearly always unconscious.
Our problem has been that we could only deal with bias when we had displayed bias. It was always “after the event”.
Help is at hand. We are now on notice that bias does exist. It happens and we need to be on our guard. We need to avoid bias and deal with it before it happens.
So we need Bias Training. We need to be trained so our minds can be cleared of prejudice – however unconscious it may be.
So let’s list the examples of bias and discuss them to make us better mediators and better arbitrators.
In future daily posts I will highlight some examples – anti-women; anti-black; anti-foreign; anti-loud clothes; anti-forceful personality and the rest. Bias does lurk in the recesses of our minds ever ready to pounce
Have a good weekend and look out for my post – tomorrow – Sunday 21st February 2021

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At the end of 2015, we at FreeWave Technologies issued five bold Industrial IoT (IIoT) predictions for 2016 and beyond. At the time, the IIoT market was really beginning to pick up speed as more companies were looking for ways to securely and reliably connect their entire networking infrastructure. As a result, several people at the company had big ideas on how 2016 would shape up. Let’s revisit and reflect on those predictions to see where they currently stand.
2016 Bold Predictions
Status: Perhaps the boldest prediction of the bunch, FreeWave predicted that discrete RF manufacturers will be on their way out the door. Crediting this major shift to inevitable open standards, FreeWave predicted that the IoT industry will eventually commoditize the market by bringing backwards compatibility and interoperability between different radio manufacturers. While RF technology is still widely used at the end of 2016, we see a continued push for standards and regulations in the IoT industry. All of these signs point to RF obsolescence, but only time will tell.
Status: FreeWave viewed the new wireless networking protocol 802.11ah as a potential game changer in terms of connectivity and data transmission. The long range, reliable data transmission is very appealing, especially to industrial markets that rely on connectivity for operations. It is especially beneficial for rural solutions that have challenging connectivity issues and long distances to transmit data. However, new technology designed for this networking protocol is up against stiff competition with low bandwidth, BlueTooth 5. On the other hand, an article in IoT agenda cited security as a weak link for BlueTooth 5. This could be a big issue because machine-to-machine (M2M) devices account for the majority of digital IoT traffic and it is increasingly important (as seen in the other predictions) to have a secure way to transmit data. The number of M2M devices in service will continue to grow in 2017 and secure connectivity is certainly on the radar – if one protocol does actually solve two problems for M2M, the size of the IoT pie will keep on growing!
Prediction #3: Predictive Analytics Alters Fundamental IT/OT Practices
Status: Technology continues to advance at an incredible rate and a new workforce is on the horizon as the original SCADA adaptors retire. The result: we are facing a constantly changing and growing IoT infrastructure. In 2016, Sensor-2-Server (S2S) solutions surfaced as a reliable, secure bridge between the mission-critical technology demands that define IIoT and the growing need for Big Data, in order to establish a predictive analytics engine. As predictive analytics is leveraged more frequently to improve operations, we expect to continue seeing revised Information Technology/Operations Technology (IT/OT) practices in the enterprise.
Prediction #2: Government Regulations Coming for IoT and IIoT Devices
Status: The regulation of IoT was a widely discussed topic in 2016. During a joint subcommittee meeting of the House of Representatives in November, IoT experts discussed regulations for IoT to increase security, citing “troubling” attacks that pushed Spotify, Netflix and Amazon offline, according to an article from GCN.com. The article also mentioned three pending bills in congress calling for an IoT strategy. NIST also is playing an increasing important role in the drive for IoT regulation, has been pushing for a holistic approach to security.
Status: This prediction was heavily focused on IT/OT convergence and the security implications as IoT pushes the firewall between the two closer together. At the end of 2016, while there wasn’t one show-stopping attack on a SCADA system, cybersecurity concerns lingered. Ransomware attacks that sell access to SCADA systems in particular are a growing concern in critical infrastructure industries. With IT and OT working closer together than ever before and the continuing adoption of IoT, it appears the focus on cybersecurity remains a top concern in 2017.
We will continue to monitor the progress of these predictions as the IIoT industry grows and evolves. Stay tuned for a new set of predictions for 2017!


Early in June 2018, electric steelworks staff succeeded in casting the first of three massive castings of cross girders for the BONATRANS modernization project. The whole story, however, began much earlier. Thanks to long-term and successful negotiations of the representatives of the sales department and the management of the company, we managed to get a prestigious contract for the modernization of the BONATRANS wheel rolling mill. The contract includes, among others, a press for which the manufacture of very massive semi-products is required, in this case the cross girder castings. The original structure and technology of pouring the cross girders was so massive that there was a need to outsource the castings. Consequently, the designers and developers of the Engineering Division have designed and verified a new, lighter design of the cross girder itself (see the picture) and the technologists of the Metallurgy Division have optimized the technology of pouring to minimize the casting risering. The result of this close cooperation between the two divisions was the reduction of the gross weight of the castings including all technological allowances to 83 tons (upper girder), 88 tons (movable girder) and 90 tons (lower girder). So, these weights are not record-breaking for the Metallurgy Division. For the most massive lower girder, the “2015” record was only repeated, when a middle girder having gross weight of 90 tons was poured for the Engineering Division. Unique, however, is that the pouring of all three massive castings took place over a short period of time – over five weeks. Each of the cast pieces had to cool down in the sand mould to which it was poured for two weeks from a casting temperature approaching 1600° C down to a temperature of 500° C. Then the castings were pulled out of the moulds and transferred to air cool. Then the finishers removed the gating and dressed the casting to be able to heat-treat it at a temperature of about 900° C. After partial cooling from this annealing temperature, so called risers and pockets were flame-cut off the casting, and now, at the ambient temperature, both the grinding of the surfaces and the dressing are done. From this stage of production, there is a photo of the upper girder casting you see in the picture. In order for the casting material to achieve the required mechanical properties, the heat treatment is another important manufacturing step that for this type of steel consists of normalization and tempering to the required strength. In the following period, the girder castings will be gradually roughed in the Engineering Division, returned to the Metallurgy Division to repair any defects detected by non-destructive testing. Before Christmas 2018, all the pieces should be back at the Engineering Division ready for final machining. Appreciation and thanks for well-done and professional work go to all technicians and workers involved in this prestigious engagement.


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Impact of moisture content on instant catapult steam explosion pretreatment of sweet potato vine Liu, Li-Yang; Qin, Jin-Cheng; Li, Kai; Mehmood, Muhammad A; Liu, Chen-Guang
Background: Lignocellulose originating from renewable and sustainable biomass is a promising alternative resource to produce biofuel. However, the complex component, especially high moisture content, leads to a higher cost of transportation and processing. The instant catapult steam explosion (ICSE) pretreatment can exploit the intracellular water of lignocellulosic materials and convert into vapors leading towards the breakdown of the feedstock during the explosion process. However, it is necessary to study the impact of moisture content on the pretreatment. Results: The sugar yield of wet feedstock after ICSE pretreatment reached 88.05%, which was higher when compared to dried and untreated biomass. The utilization of wet feedstock decreased the production of inhibitor and improved the carbohydrate content in ICSE-treated biomass. There occurred a shrinkage of feedstock after drying process and the mechanical breakage upon ICSE pretreatment. Moreover, not all water was converted into vapor to cause breakage in the lignocellulose. Conclusion: ICSE has shown to be preferably suitable to pretreat wet sweet potato vine with high moisture content, either fresh or soaked biomass that has been dried before. By using these materials, it would have a higher sugar yield and lower inhibitor production after pretreatment. Based on these advantaged aspects of ICSE platform, two potential strategies are proposed to improve the economic and environmental impacts of pretreatment.
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Air Date: Week of March 25, 2005
An 80 foot tile of uranium tailings sits in Moab, Utah, a remnant of the town's mining history during the Cold War. "The Pile," as locals call it, sits along the banks of the Colorado River and leaches thousands of chemicals into the river daily. Five years ago, the Department of Energy was charged with re-locating the pile but only recently did the agency submit an environmental impact statement with five options suggesting what to do with it. As Sheri Quinn reports, many locals, environmentalists, and public officials of Utah and states downstream are pressuring the DOE to consider only one option.
CURWOOD: In the early 1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made his famous "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations and a number of towns across the country rose to the occasion to mine the uranium for the atomic age. Moab, Utah was one of those towns and it built a booming economy around digging out uranium ore. But, when the demand for uranium dropped in the 1980's, operations in Moab ground to a halt. The town turned to tourism to promote its wilderness and national parks. But, a reminder of Moab's mining legacy—a gigantic mountain of sludgy radioactive waste—remains on the landscape, as does the question of the uncertain future of the radioactive pile. Sheri Quinn has our story.
[SOUNDS OF RIVER FLOWING]
QUINN: The small town of Moab in southern Utah is settled in a fortress of mountains and spiraling canyons. The Colorado River twists and turns and meanders through the area. Judy Carmichael is a longtime Moab resident. Standing on a road overlooking the valley, she calls this "Moab magic."
CARMICHAEL: The La Sal mountains are off in the distance to the south and they are spectacular and then we have a nice drop of red rocks and our valley's surrounded by red rocks. You can't ask for a better view than we have from right here.
Tailings Pile in Moab, Utah.
QUINN: But, amidst this view sits another mountain. This one has a flat top, is covered by a layer of rust-colored dirt and stands 80 feet tall, spreading over 130 acres. The "pile" as it's called by locals is 12 million tons of radioactive tailings perched on the banks of the Colorado River and it causes residents like Carmichael worry.
[KNOCKING SOUND OF TAILINGS PILE]
CARMICHAEL: It looks like it could give us a disaster. A responsible response to something that you know is potentially dangerous to the people that you love, you want it out of their way.
QUINN: Everyday, thousands of gallons of waste comprised of heavy metals, chemicals and radioactive elements used during the uranium extraction process leach from the pile into the groundwater and migrate to the river. Ammonia has reached toxic levels and has killed some endangered fish in the nearby backwater. Water quality officials say drinking water isn't at risk. The pollution gets diluted by the time it reaches users in four states downstream. Moab's locals get their water from another source. Bill Hedden is director of the environmental group, Grand Canyon Trust, which has been at the forefront of trying to get the pile moved. He says the big concern is the likelihood of a flood pushing the entire pile into the river, putting the West's delicate water supply at risk.
HEDDEN: After 1,000 years, one percent of the radioactivity will be gone and all of the other hazards will still be there. So, basically, we're just postponing a problem for our children or grandchildren if we leave it sitting there.
QUINN: The nuclear regulatory commission had approved plans for the owners of the mine, Atlas Minerals Corporation, to pay for capping the pile in its present location. But, the company went bankrupt in 1998 and in 2000; Congress put the Department of Energy in charge of the site and voted to have them move the pile elsewhere. Last year, the DOE put out a draft environmental impact statement with five alternatives for the pile. The three most expensive options involve moving it outside of town at estimated costs of 300 to 500 million dollars. Another alternative mentioned is to do nothing, but that's not considered legally feasible. That leaves the least expensive option of capping the pile estimated at a cost of $200 million. Utah Congressman Jim Matheson believes the DOE wants to take the easy way out.
MATHESON: I think that costs may be trumping what's the right thing to do.
QUINN: Matheson recently held a congressional hearing to call attention to the issue. He worked with Moab residents and environmentalists to organize governors and elected officials of states downstream of the pile to put pressure on the DOE to move it.
MATHESON: For all the down river, there are 25 million or more people living down river from this site, the potential for flooding, which was set as a near certainty, obviously has implications for everyone downstream.
QUINN: Many scientists have found problems with the on-site capping plan. Hydro-geologist and former DOE scientist Kip Solomon questions some of DOE's conclusions. While taking soil samples right across the river from the pile, he found toxic waste had migrated to the other side.
SOLOMON: The Department of Energy has assumed that the hydrologic boundary of the site is the river. And, they have over and over again chosen to not collect any data with one minor exception, even in light of our findings. It's not my responsibility to tend the Department of Energy but I remain astounded that they do not initiate additional studies on the south side of the river.
QUINN: To keep the pile in place, Solomon says the DOE would have to implement more stabilizing measures not included in their plan. He says it would end up costing tax payers more in the long run.
SOLOMON: I don't think that if the true costs were known. I don't think it makes economic sense either. On all fronts it's a bad option and it actually should not be on the table.
QUINN: The Environmental Protection Agency also believes capping this pile isn't a viable plan. EPA spokesperson Max Dodson says the agency gave the on-site option its worst possible rating.
DODSON: That is the exception more than the rule. I mean, we have probably every year between 200 and 300 documents to review. I would suspect that probably less than three percent of our total reviews end up with an environmentally unsatisfactory rating.
QUINN: But, not everyone agrees the pile should be moved. Noel de Nevers is a chemical engineer at the University of Utah. He believes there may be other motives at work, that the risks to the water supply are minimal and it's not worth spending the money to move it.
DE NEVERS: As land use planning, that's not the best use of that land, but if that's the reason for doing it, let's say that out loud. Let's not hide behind the magic words radioactive, drinking water, Colorado River. Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!
QUINN: The DOE has received over a thousand comments about their environmental impact statement. They say they will review every opinion before they make a decision. Joe Davis is a DOE spokesperson.
DAVIS: What our folks are focusing on right now is what do we need to do both in a regulatory environment and a legal environment and scientifically to make sure that we comply with the law and address this uranium mill tailings pile.
[RUSH OF WATER IN RIVER]
QUINN: Environmentalists and local residents say they are fueled by the "Moab magic" and their concern for the safety of the region and they are determined to continue the fight. Judy Carmichael says she'll make sure the pile remains in the spotlight until it's moved.
CARMICHAEL: I don't think the world realizes how darn tenacious we are. We've been at it since '84. We're not going to wear out. But, I'm going to go to my grave knowing that I did everything in my power to get the pile moved north of this town.
QUINN: The DOE is expected to announce what they will do with the Moab uranium tailings pile this summer. For Living on Earth, I'm Sheri Quinn in Utah.


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Two years ago, when the New York Underground Film Festival decided to close its doors and reopen shop under the title Migrating Forms, it was more than a fresh name change. The film which gave them their new moniker, an odd but singular vision by James Fotopoulos released in 1999, would be used as the model for an improved framework: the films shown would be transitory, at once fleeting and grounded, migrating through the questions that permeate not just experimental film and video, but contemporary art as a whole. The stigma attached to the word ‘underground’ could finally be let go. The work is what would now set expectations. One expectation that has already been set is for exemplary programming. Here are glimpses from the sidebars of major, commercial-driven platforms such as Toronto and the New York Film Festival, or looped on walls in side rooms at the Whitney Biennial. Though these are vastly different venues and formats, the works themselves shares similar concerns. They constitute very separate audiences who, generally speaking, like to keep a safe distance from one another. Why is that? Why further isolate work that has a tough enough time being shown in the dwindling number of spaces open to non-commercial art? By subjecting experimental film to such skepticism and scrutiny, the gap between these two modes of production and presentation is widened, both audiences playing a part in its demise.At Migrating Forms, however, we got to see both factions rubbing up against each other. One of the highlights this year was the program of work by Kerry Tribe, whose double-projection film H.M. (2009) was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Her work stood out in the museum but it was here, projected on the screen in a dark theater, that I was able to fully appreciate the the complexities. Here & Elsewhere (2002), also by Tribe, a two-channel video featuring film theorist Peter Wollen and his daughter Audrey, is a stunning examination of cinematic representation inspired by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville’s video-essay France/tour/détour/deux/enfants (1977). In many ways more successful than it’s predecessor, Tribe’s video rejects the interrogative interview style employed by Godard in favor of an inquisitive, open dialogue.Although Tribe’s work made the transition from gallery to theater unscathed, others did not fare so well. Nira Pereg’s Kept Alive (2010), while visually stunning and hypnotic, must have worked better in a gallery setting. The video’s three-channels and fascinating use of the audio field — creating minimalist rhythms through the clanging of shovels — seems more suitable as an installation that one might walk around and through, than screened as a straight film. The video, which was shot at Jerusalem’s Mountain of Rest, almost requires space from the spectator instead of the sealed-off viewing hole of the theater. Peggy Ahwesh’s Ape of Nature, which deals with the hypnotic state brought on by our post-industrial society, as well as Amie Siegel’s two-part opus about the world of intense fandom, My Way I and My Way II, though shorter, felt part of something larger.Many pieces were screened, however, that trod that thin line, for better or worse, between inconsequentiality and pertaining to a greater total narrative or sense of completeness. The latter was usually true of those films which played to greater, universal themes. For example, Michael Robinson’s If There Be Thorns, the most deceptively accessible piece in the festival, uses elements of the classic trance film to evoke a sense of longing, as three characters — siblings? friends? strangers? — wander through a dense landscape attempting to connect, at times to the sounds of a purposefully hammy synth-ballad. Stephanie Barber’s to the horse dream of arms (2010) manages to evoke a wide range of childhood experiences through the manipulation of a short piece of film. Building tension though the repetition of a flicker caused by an overexposed burst of light, the film finally breaks free in a startling jolt that is genuinely shocking, as well as comical. Despite its short five minutes, Barber’s film created a palpable mood that hours of footage could not guarantee. Also successful because of its human appeal was I Know Where I’m Going (2009), a beautifully-shot tribute to the art of wandering and isolation by Ben Rivers. In a road-trip through various weathered terrains, the filmmaker/audience encounters various autonomous men, living out their existence away from the influence of the outside world. An idyllic dream-film that also taps into the cold loneliness of this way of life served as a neat allegory for the struggle every artist faces in the process of creation.Such themes were present in the longer features at the festival. The retrospective of films by Jean-Pierre Gorin was a revelation, and the packed audiences should be as strong indication as any that his work deserves to be seen by a larger audience. After moving to California in the mid-1970s, in a series of moves to possibly distance himself from the drifting motives of the radicals he once associated himself, Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group, he took a teaching position at the University of California at San Diego and began what is informally known as the ‘California Trilogy.’ Displaying a strong journalistic streak, Gorin inserted himself in the narrative, both as a narrator and character. While Gorin’s films deal with how small groups thrive, other works at Migrating Forms dealt with communities that are slowly collapsing. The effects of the constant exploitation of the Philippines forms the basis of two very different films that premiered at the festival. In Lav Diaz’s Butterflies Have No Memories (2009), we see the economic hardships faced by a community after the sudden departure of the local mining company. The narrative revolves around Martha, a former resident who moved to Canada when she was nine years old and has now returned after the death of her father to the resentment of the community who sees her no differently than as another one of the outsiders who put them out of work. John Gianvito’s Vapor Trail (Clark) (2009), a four-hour documentary, tells two parallel stories that echo each other; the first, a history of the Revolution and the second, dealing with the wreckage caused by the US Bases in the Philippines. It’s a powerful statement against American imperialism, filled with first-person testimonials that drive home the suffering caused by greed and, more sadly, plain stupidity.But not everything was so grim. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s Made in Hollywood (1990) uses popular clichés ranging from 1950’s melodramas, soap operas, and commercial advertising to hilarious effect. Regarding the latter, the film opens with a commercial for a faux-company called Stater Brothers (what they produce is never specified), scored to an over-the-top pop-country jingle. Sample lyric: “If the girl next door can become your wife / every friend you make is a friend for life!” Starring a young Patricia Arquette in one of her first roles, the film questions the meaning of a world made completely of popular images.Along the same lines were the the comic short films of Ed Ruscha. Rarely seen, the work has been largely overshadowed by Ruscha’s drawing, painting, and photographic output over the years. Even more startling, considering the artist’s interest in language, was the fact that both films shown, Premium (1971) and Miracle (1975) contain little dialogue at all. Premium features the artist Larry Bell making a large salad on a hotel room bed, trying to convince a woman to roll around in it, and then leaving the scene, all peppered with small, simple sight gags (such as a chair breaking, and a small rat that appears in the corner of the room). Miracle, very similar in tone, features a car mechanic who, while obsessing over the interior of a 1965 Mustang, forgets that he was supposed to meet one of his girlfriends (played by Michelle Phillips) for a date. Ruscha’s work has never been overtly serious, but never has his work been so outrightly humorous as it is here.The greatest triumph of the festival, however, came at the very beginning. In years to come, when I think back on this edition of Migrating Forms, I will conjure images from Kevin Jerome Everson’s Erie (2010). Building a loose narrative through a succession of formalist long takes, each one shedding light on the next, the film achieves dream-like states that end in a climactic boat tour of Niagara Falls. Like all great films, the various connections between takes develop gradually, but the images themselves are instantaneously imprinted in your mind. If Migrating Forms continues to procure this kind of work, its success and longevity as a festival is assured, and fostering the survival of an intelligent film community seems, then, inevitable.
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Hrithik Roshan is all set to make his Hollywood debut after being signed on by the US-based agency Gersh. Gresh will be the official representative of Hrithik in Hollywood along with the celebrity management firm, KWAN, in India.
After Hollywood debut of Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra. It seems like Bollywood’s Greek God Hrithik Roshan is also all set to make his big debut in Hollywood. The actor who delivered two hits last year with War and Super 30, has now been signed by US-based agency, Gersh.
Going by the reports in Deadline, the agency will be representing Hrithik along with celebrity management firm, KWAN, in India and manager, Amrita Sen. Taking to Deadline, Amrita said,
“Hrithik has always been an envelope pusher. For the last 20 years, he has been helping to drive Indian cinema into new genres, new narrative concepts, and ever-more sophisticated storytelling. He is excited about the fact that the market for global content, which features characters and stories from other parts of the world, couldn’t be stronger than it is today.”
Amrita further added,
“With Hrithik’s leadership, our goal is to continue to put India in a front and centre position on the path towards globalisation and diversity and help integrate creators into new markets that were previously not available to them. In partnership with Gersh, we will now be taking Hrithik’s ambitious vision around the world.”
Gersh will act as a face for Hrithik in Hollywood and create projects to be shot in India. Talking about Priyanka Chopra, she entered into Hollywood and took the silver screen by storm emerging as a global star with the ABC show Quantico and Dwayne Johnson movie: Baywatch.
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WHS girls were Region 2AA track queens in 1984
EDITOR’S NOTE: In June of 1984, the Worthington High School girls track and field squad won its first-ever Region 2AA championship. In 2020, spring sports are canceled, so The Globe is reprinting selected articles from great sports moments of the past. Today’s story (condensed), which first appeared in the Daily Globe in 1984, celebrates the Trojans girls’ historic track crown.
BY BILL BROWER
FAIRMONT -- There was a lot of hugging and well-wishing going on here Saturday afternoon among the black-clad Worthington Trojan girls track team, parents, fans and coaches.
There was Katy Suman being congratulated by her parents. There was Angie Koster near tears. Nearby was exchange student Birgit Otte, seemingly a bit embarrassed by all the attention. Then there was head track coach Larry Petersen, with a grin that ran nearly ear-to-ear.
All of this happiness, grinning, and tears of joy, came about as the Trojan girls captured the Region 2AA track championship. The regional team title is the first-ever won by a Worthington High squad. And the WHS team did it in convincing fashion, registering six first-place finishes and adding points in 10 of the 16 events held. When the final totals had been tabulated the Trojans stood atop the strong field with 68 points followed by Chaska in second with 61 and Eden Prairie in third with 49.
“It was a pleasant surprise,” said a delighted Coach Petersen. “We always hope to win, of course. But it’s very tough. We figured, with good performances from all the girls, that we would be in the running, possibly the top three.
“It was also important for us, in order to win, as to just how the points would be divided among the other schools. Every race in which I thought we would be in contention for, we won. Those six first-place finishes were a really pleasant surprise.”
Anytime a team wins a regional track title it has to be a team effort. And that’s just what it was as WHS took a first in the 800 meter relay event along with five individual firsts. A number of different girls contributed to the victory.
Pacing the Trojan effort was Katy Suman, who will be a junior next fall. Suman competed in four events winning two individual firsts (200M dash, long jump) and running a leg on the winning 800 team. The talented junior added a fourth-place finish in the high jump to round out a busy afternoon.
The 88M relay team of Anne Koppy, Karrie Jurgensen, Angie Koster and Suman, set a new school record in winning that event with a time of 1:46.4. It will be the second straight state appearance for Koppy, Koster and Suman on the 800 team with Jurgensen replacing the now-graduated Sue Molitor from last year’s foursome.
Two other school records were set, those by Birgit Otte in the 800M run (2:21.0) and by Koster in the 400M dash (58.9). Both are individual bests.
The sixth top finish came from Tracee Woitaszewski when she won the discus event with a toss of 113-11.
Rounding out the Worthington scoring was the 1600M relay team (fifth), the 3200M relay team (sixth) and Anne Koppy a sixth in the 100M low hurdles (17.3).
Second-place Chaska gave the Trojans a run with very strong placements in the dash events, finishing one-two in the 100M dash, two-three in the 200M dash and two-six in the 400M dash. …
In boys competition Saturday it was a case of being near but yet so far for the Worthington Trojan boys. None qualified for state competition.
“The boys competed hard and they were very determined,” said Petersen. “We thought we had a chance in a couple of events, mainly the medley and triple jump, but it was not to be.”
Try hard, the Trojans did.
In the 1600M relay, run by Jerry Rutgers, Ed Castle, James Honnerman and Don Caffee, a new Trojan school record was set with a time of 3:29.0. But it was good for only second behind winning Fairmont (3:24.3).
In the 1600M medley relay, the WHS team of Rutgers, Mark Hayenga, Caffee and Keith Newman were clocked at 3:36.7, just behind winning Shakopee (3:36.5). Only the first-place relay team qualifies for state from regional competition.
Other point-getters for the Trojan boys were Caffee in the triple jump (third), the 400M relay team (fifth), Hayenga in the 300M hurdles (fifth) and Kevin Newman in the 800M run (tied for sixth).


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Maria Enomoto is a glass artist based in San Francisco. Her studio practice involves an intuitive exploration of glass-making techniques that can lead to unconventional use of form, color, and texture. Her making process often leads to quirky objects inspired by a great curiosity for the everyday.
Maria made a collection of colorful butter bells for Workshop Residence and a set of clear glass drinking cups with a comfortable nub handle. Easy to hold and lovely to sip.


THE PHYSICS SUPERMARKET
- Specific Heat
- Temperature Profile of a Room
- Absoption and Radiation
- Rate of Heat Energy Conduction
- The Refrigerator
- Latent Heat of Ice
1. Specific Heat
Students use a calorimeter to determine the specific heat of water. They then use the vlaue to determine
the specific heat of a metal cube.
0-12 V DC Power supply, 0-5 A ammeter, 0-12 V voltmeter, -10 to 110 C thermometer, Calorimeter, Stop watch,
Methylated spirits, 2cm metal cube Top
2. Rate of Heat Energy Conduction
Using an interface and temperature sensors students use hot water in test tubes to determine how
the rate of heat energy conduction depends on the temperature difference and the suface area.
Students measure the temperature of the water inside the tubes and the air surrounding the tubes
as the hot water cools. Rates of temperature change are determined and using the mass of the hot
water and its specific heat, the rates of temperature change are converted to rates of heat energy
conduction. These are graphed against temperature difference. Two test tubes are used
simultaneously, one large and one small. The surface areas of the tubes that contact the water
are calculated and conduction is determined for a constant temp difference and then graphed
against surface area. This experiment is upper level of difficult and best done as a demonstration
with the teacher then leading the analysis.
Computer interface, PC, Large and small test tubes with matching holed rubber stoppers,
2 0-50 C thermistors, 2 brass shims, 2 strips aluminium foil, 2 stands bossheads and clamps,
Electric fan Top
3. Temperature Profile of a Room
A temperature sensor is connected to the bottom, the middle and the top of a long stick that
reaches the ceiling. Temperature is logged using an interface and a computer for about half an
hour after the heater in the room is turned on. The change in temperature of the different parts
of the room is discussed.
Computer interface, PC, 3 0-50 C temperature thermistors with long leads, Long length of dowel
that reaches the ceiling Top
4. Absorption and Radiation
In this experiment students investigate the effect of the colour of an object on the rate that
it absorbs and radiates heat. Students fill painted drink cans with cold and warm water and log
the temperature with an interface and a PC.
Computer interface, PC, Drink cans painted shiny silver and matt black, Bar radiator
5. The Refrigerator
In this experiment students do a theoretical analysis of the temperature of the air inside a bicycle pump that is sealed,
the plunger is pushed to compress the gas for a time and then suddenly released. Their predictions are checked by using
a pump that has a temperature sensor screwed into the end which is connected to an interface and a computer. The pump
is 'pumped up' a few times and then the pressure held while the computer draws the temperature versus time graph. The
pressure in the pump is released and the graph shows that the temperature in the pump is less than the initial value.
The findings are used to explain the operation a closed system refrigerator.
Computer interface, PC, Bike pump with an airtight thermocouple
6. Latent Heat of Ice
Students use their microwave oven at home to determine the latent heat of fusion of ice.
Microwave oven, 500 mL measuring cup, 0 to 110 C Thermometer, Stopwatch, 6 identical plastic
cups, Refrigerator Top


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|Feb / 2019||•||ALOE BLACC @ TWILIGHT AT TARONGA||Sydney, Australia|
|Aug / 2018||•||SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE||Sydney Opera House, Sydney, AU|
|Apr / 2019||•||4ESYDNEY FESTIVAL||Australia|
|Dec / 2018||•||SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL||Sydney, Australia|
|Oct / 2018||•||NPLH by DAYNE JORDAN||Sydney, Australia|
|Oct / 2018||•||AUSTRALIAN MUSIC WEEK||Sydney, Australia|
|Sep / 2018||•||OZ ASIA FESTIVAL||Adelaide, Australia|
|Aug / 2018||•||BIGSOUND||Brisbane, Australia|
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Aged 24, he proudly identifies as a Filipino and Aboriginal musician, whose family is from Brewarrina on Ngemba land, and is a member of the Murrawarri Republic in Weilmoringle, NSW. He is also a skilled composer, and is the 2017 recipient for the bi-annual Peter Sculthorpe Fellowship.
DOBBY’s musical training began at age 7. He studied classical piano and achieved AMEB grade 6 and grade 2 musicianship. At age 14, he learned jazz drumkit, and in 2012 performed as part of the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music in California and Nevada, USA. DOBBY has completed a Bachelor of Music at the University of NSW, and an Indigenous Studies Honours (focusing on Aboriginal Hip Hop music) in 2015.
He has performed as a rapper and drummer for a variety of events such as BIGSOUND 2017/18, The Plot Festival, Yabun Festival, UNSW corporate and academic functions, Koori Radio events and at numerous NAIDOC celebrations across Australia. He recently spoke on a panel as part of VIVID Sydney’s VIVID Ideas Exchange.
DOBBY is also a rapper and drummer for Sydney band Jackie Brown Jr in various events and festivals such as Wollombi Music Festival, Rabbits Eat Lettuce and Psyfari Festival.
He currently facilitates Hip Hop and drum workshops in community centres and schools throughout Sydney and rural NSW. DOBBY co-hosts the Hip Hop show “Sunsets with DOBBY and DIOLA” on FBi Radio. He is also currently an academic tutor in Indigenous Studies at UNSW.
LATEST RELEASE #theDOBBYep
DOBBY released his self-titled ‘DOBBY’ EP in September 2018, which he wrote and produced. The DOBBY E.P tour kicked off with a loud bang, making rapid waves in the Australian music scene. With incredible shows at BIGSOUND, Sydney Opera House and Surry Hills Festival DOBBY left people screaming for more (literally). He has upcoming shows at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide, Australian Music Week and No Place Like Home - an event run by international artist Dayne Jordan. DOBBY is a multi instrumentalist, his live shows consist of him jumping between the drums and mic, while also incorporating piano and live drum pads, and is accompanied by incredible turntablist DIOLA.
Tracks off the EP have been added to a number of Spotify playlists including Deadly Beats and Black Australia.
The EP was listed as 1 of 6 "incredible Australian artists you need to hear this week" on Tonedeaf, being described as a “sonic showcase of rhythm”.
Listed as the "BIGSOUND buzz act" DOBBY's live show has been described as "mind blowing", "dynamic" and "powerful".
“His super smooth (and damn quick) flow simultaneously harkens back to Aussie hip hop or year's gone by, while still feeling fresh to 2018” - Pilerats
“DOBBY’s flow and wordplay is so damn good” - Declan Byrne, Home & Hosed - Triple J
“DOBBY is a compelling new voice in Australia’s hip hop community” - OzAsia Festival
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(This is a photograph I took of a Delosperma species growing amidst various Sedum and other succulents in a green wall application in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
I have a plant on my terrace, looks sort of like an artichoke. For the first time since I've had this plant, it budded out and from the bud was born a perfectly beautiful daisy?
The other parts of this plant have sprouted their daisies as well and I would like to know what this kinds of succulent brings forth daisies?
Believe it or not, a succulent that has a showy, daisy-like flower is not that unheard of at all. Because they are used to growing in challenging environments, such as arid and exposed deserts, it makes sense from a survival standpoint that cacti and succulents are very compact, often drought tolerant, and otherwise durable plants in the landscape. What people may not automatically think about is that because their natural environment may lack an over abundance of pollinators, cacti and succulents typically have very bright and showy flowers to be able to attract their respective pollinators from great distances. One such example is a plant botanically known as Delosperma, or ice plants as some refer to them. Delosperma are succulents that do most of their nutrient storage and water retention in their large fleshy leaves and they appear very much like your typical succulent. Once established the plants do flower and their blooms are wonderfully showy daisy-like flowers that can range from pink to purple. Now, I am not sure if the plant that you have written me about is definitely a Delosperma, but if you are able to email me a picture of it, please do and hopefully we can identify it to a more specific genus and/or species.

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20 Best Mods For Devil May Cry 5 (All Free)This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy something we may get a small commission at no extra cost to you. (Learn more).
With Capcom taking their time to release DMC5, I think it was worth the wait.
The game’s modding community has grown a lot over time, and I’ll tell you right off the bat – there are some crazy mods for this game.
Modders have found ways to do anything from bringing back specific aspects of older DMC games, to introducing completely new characters to the game. And all of it just adds to the fun.
Here are some of the best mods I’ve come across for Devil May Cry 5, all worth a try.
20. DMC5 Performance mod
DMC5 is also the most demanding of the DMC games.
The graphics are great, but it will require you to spend quite a bit on upgrades if you have a lower-end PC.
This mod is specifically for those who don’t intend to spend on upgrades just yet, as the DMC5 Performance Mod will make the game run more smoothly on lower-end systems.
As expected, the mod tweaks some of the graphics settings which you wouldn’t originally have access to. Having less detailed graphics isn’t a huge price to pay to have a much smoother experience.
19. Devil Bringer
For those who aren’t familiar with the Devil Bringer, here’s a bit of a history lesson to jog your memory.
The Devil Bringer was actually Nero’s demonic arm back in DMC4, which was the source of his demonic powers.
The arm was eventually destroyed towards the beginning of DMC5, which many fans weren’t happy with (to say the least).
He was left with a bandaged human arm for the rest of the game. But this mod changes that – bringing back the original Devil Bringer as if he never even lost it.
18. V Book My Little Pony Edition
V is one of the newest characters to be introduced to the DMC series, and adds a whole lot of flavor to the game as one of DMC5’s main protagonists.
He plays unlike any of the other characters in the series, which adds an unfamiliar dimension to combat.
He adds a lot in terms of story as well, as he’s one of the more mysterious characters in DMC5.
One thing you’ll notice immediately is his weird attachment to the book of poems he carries around with him all the time.
Being one of his signature traits, modders decided to poke fun at it. They’ve come up with some pretty crazy stuff.
This particular mod replaces the book with a colorful My Little Pony version, and it’s damn hilarious.
17. V Book Death Note Edition
The My Little Pony Edition might feel a bit too out of place, so if you’re looking for a book update that fits the theme a little bit better, well here ya go.
V Book: Death Note Edition replaces the notebook with the one seen in the Death Note anime series.
It might not be as drastic compared to vanilla, but it’s a cool little easter egg which should be a treat. Especially for anime fans.
16. Scythe replaces DSD and Sparda
While there have been a lot of cool weapons throughout the DMC series, I’ve always wanted to be able to grab those gigantic scythes carried by the Hell Cainas in DMC5.
Yeah, the swords are pretty cool and all. But there’s just something about wielding a scythe that makes me feel like much more of a death bringer.
Well modder Aracton has made it possible with this next mod, allowing you to replace the Sparda and Devil Sword Dante with the curved Hell Caina blade.
While the weapon is completely useable during fights, one downside is that the modder unfortunately hasn’t gotten it to work in cutscenes just yet.
15. DOOM Stuff
While fighting your way through hordes of hell’s creatures, it’s hard not to think of games like Doom.
Though there aren’t many other similarities between DMC and Doom, that didn’t stop modder vZv from creating his own unique bridge between the two games.
His mod is called DOOM Stuff, and it does exactly that – adds a few cool Doom-inspired weapons to your DMC5 arsenal.
This mod specifically adds 6 new weapons which include the Crucible Sword, Marauder Axe, Night Sentinel Sword, Hammer of The Betrayer, Argent Guitar, and the Sentinel Axe.
As an added bonus, the modder even includes the Doom soundtrack to replace the DMC5 original music.
14. NieR Automata Weapon Pack
It looks like “the crazier the better” is going to be the theme on this list.
NieR did have some cool weapons, and modder DigitalJoshie thought they’d work well in DMC5 too.
One more thing that sets this modpack apart is that it replaces Nero’s Red Queen instead of focusing on Dante, giving us 12 completely new weapons from NieR: Automata to fight with.
The mod includes the Virtuous Contract, Virtuous Treaty, Cruel Oath, Cruel Blood Oath, Type-3 Sword, Type-3 Blade, Type-40 Sword, Type-40 Blade, Phoenix Sword, Iron Will, Beastlord, and YorHa blade.
13. Legendary Dark Knights
Once you’ve finished your first playthrough of DMC5, there isn’t really much left to do.
Unless you’re going for a second vanilla playthrough.
The Legendary Dark Knights mod gives you the option for a much more challenging replay of the game, even allowing you to customize enemy encounters.
This mod gives you access to sliders where you can modify enemy spawn rates throughout the different levels of the game, so you’ll be able to make each level as easy or as difficult as you want.
12. Nero CYBERPUNK 2077 coat
The release of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077 was among the most disappointing video game releases in recent history.
With the game being so highly anticipated just to end up not meeting many gamers’ expectations, it’s actually quite funny to see how it made its way into the DMC5 modding scene long before it was released.
skyrile’s Nero CYBERPUNK 2077 Coat mod gives Nero a makeover, replacing his default outfit with a Cyberpunk 2077-inspired one instead.
The mod even features the original Samurai logo seen in the game, which is quite impressive considering it hadn’t been released when this mod was made available.
11. MGR Reskin
Metal Gear Rising has made its way into DMC5 thanks to modder Evilmaginakuma.
This MGR mod offers complete reskins for 3 of DMC5’s main characters, replacing Dante with Gray Fox, Nero with Raiden, and Vergil with Jetstream.
Not only are the character appearances affected, but a couple of weapons have been swapped out as well. This includes Gray Fox’s katana over the rebellion, and Raiden’s high-frequency blade over the Devil Sword Dante.
The amount of effort put in here is obvious, as the pack even includes custom visual effects and full facial animations to match the skins.
10. Replace Virgil with Genji from the Overwatch
The possibilities are endless when it comes to modding.
And it’s crazy to see what people can come up with sometimes.
Cyborg ninjas in DMC5 apparently doesn’t end with Metal Gear Rising’s Gray Fox, as modder little_noob233 brings us Overwatch’s very own technologically advanced katana wielder Genji.
Now there isn’t really much else to the mod except that it changes Vergil’s appearance to that of Genji.
But you can’t deny that having the option to have an Overwatch character in DMC5 is pretty cool.
9. Assassin Nero
Though I haven’t spent a whole lot of time on the more recent Assassin’s creed games, there was a time when I thought they were some of the best games out there.
I remember it being one of the first games I picked up when I first got my PlayStation 3 back in the day. And I don’t think anyone can deny that the assassins have become some of the most iconic video game characters in recent years.
That’s exactly why I jumped at the chance to have an assassin reskin in DMC5, with this particular mod replacing Nero’s default outfit with an assassin cloak.
The mod doesn’t include a hidden blade, though, which is the only reason it’s not getting a higher spot on the list.
8. Hellboy MOD
Up next is one of the more complete reskins you can get for DMC5, and this time it brings a well-known comic character into the fold.
Evilmaginakuma’s Hellboy Mod replaces Nero with the Beast of the Apocalypse Hellboy, and it looks incredible.
The textures were ported directly from Injustice 2, so they fit right in quality-wise.
What’s even better about this mod is that it includes an alternate version featuring Hellboy’s real form to replace Nero’s Devil Trigger transformation.
7. Spawn Mod
I remember Spawn being my favorite comic book character growing up.
And while he did end up getting a film, it’s unfortunate that he didn’t get nearly as popular as I’d hoped.
I collected Spawn figures then, and didn’t really understand why the film wasn’t that good until I was much older. But naturally I’d grab the opportunity to have anything Spawn-related these days.
And Evilmaginakuma does it again with his Spawn mod for Dante.
The pack even comes with weapons, an alternative Devil Trigger texture, and custom visual effects to complete the reskin.
6. V Joker costume
Joker has been all the hype since Heath Ledger’s portrayal in The Dark Knight.
And the more recent Joaquin Phoenix film didn’t do too bad for the character either.
While many fans saw similarities between V and Kylo Ren, GirlGamer1998 had different plans for the mysterious new DMC character.
This mod gives V a much more sinister look as the Joker, even replacing his book of poems with Batman comics to match.
5. Minecraft Weapons Pack
After reading the title of this next entry, you’re probably thinking “Minecraft and DMC5? That would make for a terrible mix.”
Well anything 8-bit or similar is great in my book. And having it come from Minecraft just makes it even better.
This mod brings Minecraft-style weapons to replace Dante’s original weapons in the game, making for a unique mix of art styles that should make things much more interesting visually.
4. A Dante’s Nightmare pack
You’re probably wondering at this point how much more crazy stuff we could add into DMC5.
Well Dante’s Nightmare pack is one of the more unique mods on the list, bringing some of our favorite horror villains to the DMC universe.
This might come as no surprise in a game like Dead By Daylight, but who ever thought we’d see these guys in a DMC game?
The mod adds Freddy Krueger, Ash Williams, and Jason Voorhees to the game, along with some of their signature weapons to match.
The pack reskins a large number of the enemies in the game as well, so you’re getting quite a lot with this one.
3. Michael Jackson Style Announcer and Ranks
The King of Pop himself shrilling away in the background as you slice your way through demons?
Come on, who could say no to that?
The mod even comes with Michael Jackson Style Ranks to match.
2. Deadpool for Dante
Now here we have everyone’s favorite superhero, and I just can’t imagine passing up the opportunity to have one of the quirkiest characters in DMC5.
Same as the previous skin mods, the textures in this one fits right in with DMC5. The textures are ported directly from Fortnight’s rendition of Deadpool, so nothing stands out when you’re using the mod.
Modder evilmaginakuma pitched in on this one as well, adding a DT version to complete the reskin.
1. Lil Peep (Nero) Mod
This might be the craziest mod I’ve seen for any game.
Many fans were shocked at the sudden accidental death of rapper Lil Peep back in 2017.
As a tribute of sorts to the late rapper, modder Nerozation created a DMC5 skin of him to replace Nero with.
The default face already works well with the reskin. But with the face tattoos, the resemblance is 100% there.


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Friday, April 24, 2009
Walking on Sunshine
Holy shit! I mean, like, HOLY SHIT! I'm in Pomegranate! Jesus
In celebration, here's a new poem.
When I handled the fine furze
at the back of her fresh-mown head,
sitting on the steps outside our building,
then nodded towards where the sky
had been yellow, then turned rust-red,
then damson, as if any different
from the hundreds of other sundowns
since we met, I couldn’t have imagined
how, weeks later, her eyes would glaze greenly
when I left town for the first time.
When I left town for the first time
we wrote letters like lovers, sent photos,
drafts of poems, postcards, newspaper clippings
as though our removal was only for now
and soon we’d be back in our best get-up
and she’d bubble over and we’d dance
or share a Stella as spring turned around
or sprawl on the grass between lectures
where she’d handle the fine furze at the back
of my head and talk about staying in touch.


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Southern Old-Time Fiddle Workshop with Erynn Marshall
September 23, 2018 : 11:00 am - 1:00 pm$30
Join the Handmade Music School for an intermediate fiddle workshop with Erynn Marshall on Sunday, September 23, 2018 from 11:00am-1:00pm. Cost is $30.
This class will delve into southern style fiddling. The secrets of bowing, left hand techniques, and playing more effortlessly will all be explored as well as getting that “old-time sound.” We’ll learn a great tune, and about the traditional fiddler it came from. Questions encouraged. Please bring a recorder to class and your adventurous fiddling spirit!
Erynn Marshall is an old-time fiddler who lives in Galax, Virginia and is known internationally for her traditional music. Erynn learned the nuances of Appalachian old-time fiddling from rare recordings and visiting 80-95 year-old southern fiddlers. Still she puts her own spin on the traditional music she plays – sounding authentic, archaic and transportive while playing in a smooth and effortless way. Erynn performs at festivals, teaches at music camps around the globe, and tours with her husband – songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carl Jones. Her tunes are becoming common repertoire in fiddle circles. Erynn won 1st place fiddle at “Clifftop” (The Appalachian Stringband Festival) and was the first woman to do so. She has recorded six albums and appeared in five films (Voices of Virginia, the Clifftop Experience I’ll Fly Away Home, Conversations with Old-Time Musicians,” plus the upcoming Never Met a Stranger). She is coordinator for Swannanoa Old-Time Week near Asheville, NC.


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Out of the Box Bathroom Vanity Turns Rolling Kitchen Island
I was given a Bathroom Vanity still in the box that was going unused. It needed a top, a back and a makeover! With some extra boards, CeCe Caldwell's paints and small wheels, I turned it into a rolling island instead!
Can you believe this was an out of the box bathroom Vanity from Home Depot? Friends gave it to me when they realized they were not going to use it for a rental property. It needed a top, a back and a whole new look. I painted the entire piece in CeCe Caldwell's Virginia Chestnut first. This gives the appearance that this piece is actually a dark hard wood. Great trick!
This is what I started with. Brand new, but very mass produced looking.
There was no back on this piece. I added a piece of thin board and painted it with chalkboard paint. How fun to write notes, or even a menu on the back!
I had a stack of 2x4 pine boards left over from a previous project. I cut them to fit the top. I wanted a rustic wood look, instead of just Pine. I used a few different layers of CeCe Caldwell's 100% natural chalk and clay based paints to create this weathered look. Details are on the original post for the weathered wood.
I painted the top coat with CeCe Caldwell's Destin Gulf Green and used a little tobacco brown paint to darken the existing knobs. Added some small casters, and I have a completely new kitchen island from a vanity! I sealed this piece with CeCe Caldwell's Endurance. FYI, because CeCe Caldwell's paints are highly adhesive, I DID NOT use a primer! The piece is holding up perfectly without a scratch, one year later!
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