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Website reformers find more is not better
By FCW Staff
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in April calling on agencies to improve customer service, particularly through online channels. The findability of information on government websites plays a prominent part in that effort.
More on search
Take the struggle out of search
The Office of Management and Budget followed up on the president's order with guidance that, among other things, aims to reduce the proliferation of government websites, a trend blamed for hampering users' ability to find the information they need.
The OMB memo cites the following statistics.
More than half of Americans accessed a federal website in 2010, which demonstrates a significant use of online government services.
There are nearly 2,000 top-level federal .gov domains, such as WhiteHouse.gov, USDA.gov and USAspending.gov.
Many of those domains have smaller subsites and microsites, resulting in an estimated 24,000 federal websites.
"We're negatively impacting how people can find information via search," said Sheila Campbell, director of the General Services Administration's Center for Excellence in Digital Government, during a July 12 videoconference about the effort to reform the .gov domain. "With all the URLs, we're competing against each other...for good search results."
OMB's plans address the customer service problem on three fronts:
Executive branch agencies will not be issued any new .gov domains through Dec. 31.
Agencies must reduce — or redirect to existing domains — 50 percent of .gov sites by July 12, 2012.
Each agency had to develop a comprehensive Web Improvement Plan by Oct. 11 to help it streamline Web operations and improve customer service.
A review of the plans posted on USA.gov shows that many agencies do not have agencywide Web strategies. Some said the approach was difficult because of the diverse and independent nature of their subagencies and divisions. Overall, website and content management remain decentralized activities at most departments. In addition, several agencies mentioned a need for stronger information architecture.
Connect with the FCW staff on Twitter @FCWnow.


Admission: The Salem Fair does not charge the public a gate or admission fee for this event. Parking on the grounds is also free of charge. No pets are allowed.
Attendance: Estimated in excess of 350,000.
The Salem Fair is located in the heart of the Roanoke Valley on the grounds of the Salem Civic Center Complex. It is accessible north and south via Interstate 81 and east and west via U. S. Route 460.
We're open on July 4th! Come celebrate at the Fair!
Wednesday, July 3 – Friday, July 5 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 6 – Sunday, July 7 12 noon to 11:00 p.m.
Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 12 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 14 12 noon to 11:00 p.m.


STAR TREK (2009)- Uh...What The Hell Did I Just Watch?
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A brief overview of the only anime I've ever seen that was once banned in Japan...think about that for a moment.


This Tuesday, our friends at Farmers for Climate Action are hosting a water forum in Emerald. It's an opportunity to hear from experts in water management and the coal industry about how coal mines impact our land and groundwater.
It's not to be missed - RSVP below.
Keynote speaker Tom Crothers is a water expert, having worked in natural resource management for the Queensland Government for 35 years. He also wrote "Draining the Lifeblood", a major report exposing the risks to our groundwater from Adani's proposed Carmichael mine.


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July 21, 2017 June 7, 2019 Mihai Andrei
Rare photos of the Moon, as the Apollo astronauts witnessed it
Truly one of mankind's great successes.
July 21, 2017 June 7, 2019
February 18, 2016 February 18, 2016 Tibi Puiu
Apollo 11 astronauts made graffiti on the walls of their spaceship
While 3-D scanning the Columbia command module used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to splash down back on Earth, researchers found some amazing artifacts: graffiti markings.
December 15, 2014 Mihai Andrei
42 years ago today, Apollo 17 lifted off from the moon. Human beings haven't travelled beyond low Earth orbit ever since
It's a glorious reminder, but a sad day as well. It's been 42 years since humans have been on the moon… or anywhere else beyond low orbit for that matter. Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States' Apollo lunar landing program, and was the sixth and last landing of humans on the Moon. It left the Moon
March 21, 2013 Tibi Puiu
Apollo 11 rocket engines may have been recovered from Atlantic Ocean floor
Jeff Bezos is an extraordinary individual whom I admire very much, not because of its almost ubiquitous success in every attempt he has endeavored, but rather because Bezos, much like SpaceX's Elon Musk, is a man of vision – a man that recognizes value both in man and nature, and strives for progress. The Amazon founder, like all great visionaries, is
August 26, 2012 Mihai Andrei
Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon, dies
Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012. This is not something I wanted to write down – and I feel extremely sad and awkward doing it. The man who took the first step on the Moon died due to a heart condition. The American hero, 82 years old, who never dwelled on his success, and never tried to milk his fame for any reasons
Most detailed photo of the Apollo 11 lunar landing site released [visible astronaut footprints]
July 20th, 1969 marked the day man first set foot on the moon, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gracefully stepped out of their lunar lander and made history. A recent photo snapped by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured the most detailed view of the monumental landing site – it even shows remnants of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first
September 9, 2011 Mihai Andrei
Equipment and tracks left behind by the Apollo missions visible in new Moon pictures
These new pictures revealed by NASA reveal fascinating evidence that humans were there; even though they don't offer detail quality pictures, they offer more detail than any other pictures taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is now circling the moon. As it orbited the satellite and flew over landing sites of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 missions, the
July 20, 2011 August 20, 2018 Tibi Puiu
Short fact: the first man to pee on the moon, Buzz Aldrin
There were a lot of firsts during the initial lunar landings, especially during the very first Apollo 11 mission. There was, of course, the obvious first famous moon walk by Neil Armstrong, the first country to land on the moon, the first word spoken from the moon, and so on. A new genesis of gestures and representations of life in
July 20, 2011 August 20, 2018
October 14, 2010 October 14, 2010 Tibi Puiu
LK Lander: The Soviet Moon Landing Program [PHOTOS]
One of the most intense Cold War fronts, and probably the only one to actually provide mankind a monumental legacy, was the so called space race. Each of the behemoth nations battled each other for space supremacy for decades raising hopes for millions of people as to someday the stars may belong to man and spending billions of dollars/rubles. In
September 29, 2010 Mihai Andrei
New footage of Moon Landing found
A long lost footage of the best minutes of the moon landing (Neil Armstrong going down the ladder) has been found in Australian archives and will be released next week in Sidney. Wait, What ?! How do you lose footage of the Moon landing ? Just like that, according to Australian archivists. The film was lost for decades and when

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Q: Temporarily disable scrolling when a location is reached I've been having a look at this website - http://everylastdrop.co.uk/ and have been trying to work out how the page almost seems to stick for a while once reaching a certain position; for example at the very beginning as the sun comes up and as the shower curtain goes across in the bathroom. I am making a one page website and want to replicate this effect so that when the user reaches each page (div) the page sticks for a while allowing the parallax animations to still play through.
Many thanks, Jack

A: Try with jQuery:
$('body').on({'mousewheel': function(e) {
       e.preventDefault();
       e.stopPropagation();
       //then run smth you want to
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It is a sure sign that the pioneers of the American craft- brewing movement now have more than a few grey gray hairs. Last year Sierra Nevada celebrated its 30thth anniversary with a special four- beer series. Brewers like Avery (18), Great Divide (17) and Stone (15) are closer to their milestone 20thth anniversary than you might think.
It is also a sign that craft beer has put down roots and will be a part of the American culinary landscape for generations to come.
As brewers celebrate significant anniversaries, more labels with Roman numerals will start popping up. These beers are often limited- edition affairs, but some develop such a fan base that breweries are compelled to bring them back as part of their normal stable of brands. For fans of a brewery celebrating a milestone, these are must- have vintage brews.
"It is a chance to be experimental. We're brewing a finite amount, not trying to a build a brand per se," says Adam Avery of Avery Brewing in Boulder, CO, which started its anniversary tradition in 2003 to mark the brewery's 10tenth year in business.
Firestone Walker Brewer brewer Matt Brynildson says that when the brewery started in 1996, it "was kind of going in the opposite direction of most breweries at the time" by eschewing high- gravity brews in favor of session ales.
"We were kind of playing our own game and resisting the urge to brew big beers," Brynildson says, noting the company was building strength in a three- county trading area around Paso Robles, CA, where 90 percent of Firestone Walker beers are sold. "Then as we prepared for our 10thth anniversary in 2006, we brewed a Russian imperial stout as a pilot batch." More experimentation followed with a barley wine and imperial brown ale soon in the wooden Burton Union- style fermenting tanks.
At Great Divide Brewing, in Denver, CO, the answer to what to brew to celebrate the 15thth anniversary of the Denver, CO, brewery was to go back to the very roots of the brand.
"We took a lot of the same malts and hops we use in our Denver Pale Ale—one of the first beers we ever made – as the base ingredients," says Taylor Rees, Great Divide's brewer. "We started doing a lot more seasonals about three years ago and decided to do an anniversary ale." The wood-aged double IPA has a big following, so Great Divide keeps the beer close to the same each year.
In St. Paul, MN, Summit Brewing is celebrating its 25thth anniversary. The brewery distributes to 13 states, with 90 percent of its sales concentrated in the upper Midwestern. The company last made an anniversary beer—an Extra Special Bitter—to mark two decades in business and decide to do another this year.
In San Diego, Stone Brewing has been making anniversary beers for 15 years—starting with the very first birthday of the brewery. The effort is a team approach at the brewery with people tossing ideas around about styles and multiple test batches brewed each year.
"We released Stone IPA on our first anniversary," says Greg Koch, Stone Brewing CEO. "Every other anniversary beer was intended as a one- off, designed to be released and then go away." Even so, some of the anniversary beers are so popular they come back to lead "normal lives" in the Stone brand family. Sublimely Self Righteous Ale (11th), Ruination (4fourth), and Smoked Porter Aged in Oak (6sixth) got started as anniversary offerings.
"There are fans of each one of these beers who periodically call for the return of one of the beers," Koch says, noting that the imperial black IPA that became Sublimely Self Righteous is his all-time Stone anniversary favorite.
In Fort Collins, CO, New Belgium Brewing has a dual approach to milestone beers. Brewery President Kim Jordan says that on one hand they it brews Abbey Grand Cru to mark every 1,000thth batch made by the company. They The brewers also make an anniversary beer—this year, to mark 20 years, it was New Belgium Super Cru, which has a malt base similar to the Fat Tire brand, with fruit and a new yeast strain. These special celebration beers get rolled up in New Belgium's "Lips of Faith" series and sometimes will reappear from time to time. That is the case with Le Fleur Misseur, first made five years ago.
As long as there are brewers celebrating anniversaries, we can expect them to strut their stuff, making it a good chance that your next beer might just be in honor of a brewery birthday.


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Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 201.

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Health Prescription: Are Seniors Getting The Right Medications?
We like to think our doctors know best but that may not always be the case. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have released a new study that waives a red flag within the health care community, specifically for those in the field of senior care. It's warning them to wise up on how medications are prescribed.
The UBC study suggests elderly patients in Canada are getting doses of medicine they just don't need and may also be harming their health. The alarming results became apparent when researchers started to take a look at the National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System – it is the database that keeps track of publicly funded drug prescription claims made within Canada and for this study, data from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island was used as it was the most complete. They tracked the prescriptions filled by patients, 65-years of age or older in 2013 and then compared the drugs they were being prescribed against a list of potentially dangerous medicines as laid out by the American Geriatrics Society in the Beers Criteria. This clinical guide has long been a go to resource for doctors to ensure they don't prescribe possibly unsuitable and dangerous drugs to their older patients. And the results were discomforting as 37 per cent of Canadian seniors filled at least one prescription that was classified as being inappropriate for patients in their age range.
This is obviously a worrisome statistic for seniors and their loved ones but it also affects the country as a whole financially. Because of the unnecessary and preventable burden being placed on our public health care system, it is estimated that about $419-million was wasted that year when the government supplemented or covered the costs of those unneeded drugs. Compounding the fiscal burden even more, it's believed Canada's health care system really absorbed closer to $2-billion in costs when you factor in the negative health consequences seniors suffered like dangerous drug interactions and side effects, falls and hospital visits that were required in some circumstances. All this stemmed from inappropriate prescriptions that researchers say is a common and risky practice.
Steve Morgan is a UBC professor and the study's lead author and says "it's a pattern that needs to be addressed. Doctors are very good at putting patients on new drugs but not so good at stopping by taking patients off of them." What has been happening in some cases is that doctors have been prescribing their older patients sedatives, stimulants and other potentially hazardous drugs that shouldn't pose a risk to younger adults but because of metabolism differences as we age, there is much more danger for seniors taking the same drug.
The study researchers suggest the Canadian government give serious consideration to creating a national strategy that would provide an outline for doctors on the appropriate use of medicines. Australia did the same thing back in 2010 and the results have been a decrease in drug costs and improved health in vulnerable patients.
Another reason behind incorrect prescriptions could be doctors not wanting to step on another doctor's toes. Morgan says "if they [doctors] are seeing patients who were prescribed these pills by other doctors they feel pressure not to make any changes." That plays into the serious need for continuing education for doctors, especially those with elderly patients. Having a coordinated, country-wide prescription guideline would significantly reduce the chances of physical harm to patients and reduce strain on the health care system in general.
The bottom line is it's all about communication. Sometimes patients can feel rushed by their doctor during their appointment because there is a waiting room full of people for them to see. Sometimes it is just a matter of feeling confused and embarrassed to ask follow up questions with a physician so it is a good idea to take notes while you are at your appointment. Along with calling for a national drug strategy, the UBC researchers are hoping their findings will quickly open up the dialogue within the health care industry and remove any patient's fear of speaking up. That means seniors having the confidence to ask more questions about their treatment regime and prescriptions. In the case of patients receiving Alzheimer's care or dementia care, it's recommended adult children be part of the discussion with doctors so they know their parent(s) are getting the right medication and the proper doses.


If ever a Borussia Dortmund fan of a younger generation had the temerity to ask what Roman Weidenfeller has ever done for us - taking their cue from Monty Python - the answers would be shot back as swiftly as they were witheringly.
One of the Bundesliga's under-appreciated greats, Weidenfeller, who made his final top-flight outing as a late substitute in BVB's end-of-season defeat against Hoffenheim, has an honours list to compare with the best of them: twice a Bundesliga champion, twice a DFB Cup winner and a UEFA Champions League finalist in 2013. Put simply, he is one of the lesser-heralded – but no less vital – influences behind Dortmund's staggering recent success.
And that's only talking about club level – his brief but wildly successful international career made him both Germany's oldest debutant between the sticks and a 2014 FIFA World Cup winner. Not bad for a bloke who started out as back-up to Jens Lehmann.
Weidenfeller's consistency and leadership at the highest level were influential as Klopp turned BVB from domestic also-rans to continental powerhouse – as well as that fine shot-stopping and the aura of calmness he transmitted to his defence, Weidenfeller skippered the 2010/11 title-winning side in the absence of Sebastian Kehl, which was more often than not.
Regarded as a calm, family man off the field, Weidenfeller went down in BVB legend for a post-match interview given at the Signal Iduna Park after winning that Meisterschale. When begged for a comment by a visiting broadcaster, Weidenfeller responded: "I think we have a grandiose saison gespielt," mixing up German and English to much hilarity. So much hilarity, in fact, that to honour his career, Dortmund fans have produced t-shirts reading, "You have 16 grandiose saisons gespielt." Klopp called it a comment that would "go down in history".
Weidenfeller's on-field performances continued to draw praise the following year: he played 32 of 34 Bundesliga games as BVB retained the title, in large part thanks to his 86th-minute penalty save on Matchday 30 from Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben, preserving Dortmund's 1-0 lead and grip on the salad bowl.
The arrival of Tuchel's successor, Peter Bosz, also led to more bench time, although he was the first to admit that his role within the squad had changed: "Nobody happily takes a step back, but youth catches up with everyone eventually," he told kicker earlier this season.
"Since I've not been No1, I feel a bit more like the soul of the team. I try to keep the team together, to connect generations and set boundaries. I'm still hungry to win every game, and that's something I want to pass on."
There, then, would be the answer as to what Roman has done for us. No further questions, your Honour.


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Limited tickets remain for Saturday
A bumper Hillsborough crowd is expected this Saturday as the Owls host Charlton Athletic in the Sky Bet Championship.
Tickets are becoming extremely limited with less than 100 seats together in the North Stand (all in block P1 on the wing nearest the Kop).
Single tickets still remain in other blocks, while the South Stand has approximately 300 seats together and similar availability in the Grandstand.
Ticket prices for this category G fixture are just £20 for Adults and £5 for Under 11s in all areas of the ground.
Details of any turnstiles sales will be announced on Friday but fans are urged to buy in advance to guarantee their ticket.
Tickets can be booked at the Sheffield Wednesday online shop, the Ticket Office or over the telephone on 0871 900 1867 (£2 booking fee per ticket over the phone).


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Time for Kids Big Book of What?
Series: TIME for Kids Big Bks.
The follow-up to the TIME For Kids BIG Book of Why and the BIG Book of How, TIME For Kids BIG Book of What presents kids 8-12 years old with answers to the kinds of intriguing questions that appeal to their sense of curiosity. Colorful graphics, spectacular photos, and clear, engaging diagrams will help answer such questions as: What is the fastest animal in the sea?; What causes acid rain?; What is the most poisonous animal?; What was the longest war on record?; What will transportation be like in the future?
Divided by subject area-from animals, the human body, and technology to sports, games, and the future-the book's photos, diagrams, art, and clear text will help kids discover the background behind the questions.
TIME For Kids BIG Book of What is a must-have book to satisfy the most curious of kids.


If you're in Rijeka in January and February, you're likely to see some snow in them there mountains, and there is some skiing terrain around. Many locals love Platak: it's very close to Rijeka, and from the highest slope on a clear day you can see the Adriatic with the islands laid out in front of you. From the A3 Zagreb-Rijeka motorway, take the Čavle exit (Automotodrom i Sportski Aerodrom) and turn left - it's another 15 km. Web: www.platak.com. If facilities are more your bag than views, head for Bjelolasica, it's where the Croatian Olympic ski team train and has the highest slopes in the country. In snowy weather the safest way is to head to Vrbovsko on the A3 (Karlovac direction), then follow signs for Ogulin, Jasenak and Vrelo. Check out www.bjelolasica.hr. Or, for a cosy village atmosphere, head for the little slope at Petehovac (ideal for kids, and only 3km from Delnice, www.tz-delnice.hr); Čelimbaša slope near Mrkopalj, Rudnik near Tršće and Begovo Razdolje. They're all smaller places where you can have great fun.


The human brain processes sound in a way that attempts to keep us safe. In seconds, it discerns the size, identity, and location of the source.
As humans have evolved, these natural abilities are used in perceiving whether a voice is trustworthy or authoritative.
An essential part of choosing the right actor for your audio project is whether they are male or female.
Keep reading to discover the difference between the male vs female voice and why it matters.
Female voices are higher in pitch and processed in a different area of the brain than the male voice. In a study of 12 men, women's voices were processed in the same area that processed music. The female voice is considered much more complex than the baritone of the male voice.
Because women have been caretakers of young children for centuries, female voices are perceived as more nurturing and trust-worthy. In a study of over two thousand participants, 46% of people stated that they felt a female voice was more soothing vs. the 46% that said gender didn't matter.
If people are so drawn to the feminine voice, where do men fit in? The male voice has long been associated with authority. Participants in the previous study said that males sounded more forceful. The baritone of the male voice is aligned in the mind with relaying information.
People were more willing to purchase a car or computer from a male voice than a female. These association might exist because society has evolved with men and women in specific roles.
To choose the right voice actor for your project, consider your brand needs. What emotions do you want to evoke with your overall brand? Make a list of them if you haven't yet.
The actor won't matter if the emotion and character they present is off-brand.
Keep your audience in mind. Age, gender, geography, and likes plays a role in how your target customer receives your information. Choose someone they can relate too and easily identify. Remember, also, the regions where people grow up affects how they perceive sounds and voices.
Consider your subject matter. A woman's voice might be best for explainer videos while a man's voice may be best for sales. However, your audience will be far more receptive to a female voice selling woman-centered products.
Male Vs Female Voice: Why Does It Matter?
The choice between a male vs female voice artist is important because the human brain has adapted to it in different ways. Consider the tone you hope to portray in your project.
A female voice might be best if you want to sound nurturing in your advertisement. A male voice may be the way to go if you want to be more direct.
Whichever you choose, begin with the end in mind.
How do you feel with male vs. female audio? Check out this list of voice-actor samples to get started.


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You've Got to Be Wrong to Be Right
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
Well, you don't really have to be wrong to be right, but I'm running out of clever titles for my corrections episodes. This is another in my ongoing sub-series of episodes dedicated to correcting mistakes made on the show. Cicero once said words to the effect of "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." So in an effort to disguise the fact that I actually am an idiot, I hereby correct a number of errors.
The Mechanical Turk and Maria Theresa
Let's turn back to the episode about the Mechanical Turk, the automaton that traveled the world through the 1700s and 1800s and beat everyone at chess wherever it went. We had a couple of errors in this one, fortunately both were minor enough and did not impact the show's conclusions. I mentioned Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria-Hungary, who ruled when the Turk was originally constructed for her court. I received this email from David in Israel:
Finally I caught an error in one of your episodes - shame on you Brian. You should have fact-checked!
Maria Theresa was NEVER Empress of Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary did not exist until 1867 in response to political crises within the Austrian Empire. It was ruled by Franz Joseph until his death in 1916 then by his Grand Nephew, Charles until it was dissolved in 1918 at the conclusion of World War 1.
He's absolutely right, I should have fact checked. Often I'll read something in one source and put it down without double checking against other sources. She had about every other title, though. According to Wikipedia, her title was:
Maria Theresa, by the Grace of God, Dowager Empress of the Romans, Queen of Hungary, of Bohemia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Slavonia, of Galicia, of Lodomeria, etc.; Archduchess of Austria; Duchess of Burgundy, of Styria, of Carinthia and of Carniola; Grand Princess of Transylvania; Margravine of Moravia; Duchess of Brabant, of Limburg, of Luxemburg, of Guelders, of Württemberg, of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Milan, of Mantua, of Parma, of Piacenza, of Guastalla, of Auschwitz and of Zator; Princess of Swabia; Princely Countess of Habsburg, of Flanders, of Tyrol, of Hainault, of Kyburg, of Gorizia and of Gradisca; Margravine of Burgau, of Upper and Lower Lusatia; Countess of Namur; Lady of the Wendish Mark and of Mechlin; Dowager Duchess of Lorraine and Bar, Dowager Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Rather redefines "overachiever" for you, doesn't it? And as David notes, she was the ruler of Austria and of Hungary, but Austria-Hungary wouldn't be a thing until about a century later.
The Mechanical Turk and Kempelen's Epitaph
And while we're on the subject, I got the following email from Cat in Los Angeles, a classicist, regarding the inscription on the gravestone of Werner von Kempelen, the creator of the Turk, which I had as Non orbis moriar:
The quotation at the end of your podcast on the Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk should run: Non omnis morior. It means "I shall not die entirely" or "Not all of me shall die"... The problem I saw is that non orbis morior translates literally as 'I do not die as a circle'.
Cat is absolutely correct; apparently I had the James Bond family motto on the brain when I copied this down — Orbis non sufficit — so I accidentally substituted orbis for omnis. Moriar is apparently what Kempelen has on his gravestone, which is the subjunctive; while Cat and other might argue that the indicative morior is more appropriate. So Non omnis moriar it is.
Correction to the correction: In the podcast of this, I accidentally said orbis again when I meant omnis. I'm never going to get away from that one. And this is supposed to be a corrections episode!! Even in corrections lie error. —BD
Amadeus Theophilus Gottlieb
So long as we're speaking Latin, here's one where I uncritically parroted a belief made popular by a Hollywood movie: that Mozart's middle name was Amadeus. I gave it as such in the episode about whether Salieri murdered Mozart, another untrue belief popularized by the same movie. Scholars of the period know that neither was true. Mozart's baptism name was Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Joannes Chrysostomus was St. John Chrysostom, whose feast day was Mozart's birthday; and it was a tradition in the Catholic Church to name children after a saint (called their saint's name) and also a secular name, which for Mozart was Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Theophilus is Greek for "love of God". As Austrians, the family spoke German, and his father Leopold announced his birth giving the name Wolfgang Gottlieb, the German version of the name. This was the common name that he went by.
But as a multilingual musician in Europe, Mozart followed the tradition of other composers who published their work with localized names; for example, Ludwig van Beethoven was Luigi, Louis, or Ludwig depending on where he was. Mozart began playfully referring to himself as Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozartus from an early age, and from his letters throughout his life, it was clear that Amadeus was the version of his middle name that he preferred. So if we're splitting hairs, Theophilus was his legal middle name; Gottlieb was his common middle name; and Amadeus was his preferred middle name.
Correction to the correction: In the podcast of this, I accidentally said Mozart murdered Salieri, rather than the other way around, an absurd slip of the tongue. The playwrights didn't change history that much. —BD
The Ark of the Covenant and the Stone Tablets
And lest we stray too far from things I uncritically believed when I heard them in movies so never bothered to independently verify them, you may remember Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark describing the Ark of the Covenant's contents:
"The Ark of the Covenant, the chest the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments in."
"What do you mean, the Ten Commandments? You're talking about THE Ten Commandments?"
"Yes, the actual Ten Commandments. The original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mount Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing."
And that's the extent of what I knew about the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, and parroted the claim in the 2012 episode about where it is today. But then I got this email from Cindy in Germany:
Just a quick correction on an old article. In Raiding the Ark of the Covenant, (Skeptoid Podcast #327, September 11, 2012), you say:
"… the Ark of the Covenant, the holy box in which the smashed stone tablets of the original Ten Commandments were said to have been stored by Moses himself."
but this is not accurate. According to the story, the smashed tablets were replaced, and the replacements put in the Ark. Don't worry, Indiana Jones made the same mistake. :-)
She then gave exhaustive Bible references (Exodus 32:19, 34:1-4, 34:28-29, 40:20), verifying that the correct version of the story is that Moses brought two replacement tablets back up the mountain, spent 40 days and 40 nights with neither food nor water to write the commandments onto these copies, and then placed these replicas into the Ark. This is what happens when you believe, as I seem to, that every Hollywood movie is a perfect, unerring, literal account of true events.
Devil's Hole, Death Valley
Now we're going to go way back to an episode from 2007, Bizarre Places I'd Like to Go, which included a mention of the Devils Hole in the Nevada part of Death Valley. It's an underground water system, best known as the home of a unique pupfish species living only on a single shelf near the surface of the tiny puddle which serves as the only place this massive system sees the light of day. In the episode, I said the Devils Hole stretches underground all the way to Montezuma Well, a famous spring in Arizona, 450 kilometers away. This was ridiculously wrong, and I've no idea where I got that information. Common wisdom, which I should have found, was that the water originated in the nearby Spring Mountains.
But then, three years after my episode, geologists finally pinpointed the source of the aquifer that feeds Ash Meadows, the basin where Devils Hole comes to the surface. The water flowing from the Ash Meadows spring has just completed a 15,000-year journey along a fault called the Gravity Fault which terminates under the Nevada Test Site, about 75 kilometers away. The isotopic signatures of the water proved the match, and also proved that the aquifers were more compartmentalized than was previously known. So even if I'd gotten it right in 2007, it would have still been wrong, because science is continuously self-correcting and improving.
While the exact extent of the Devils Hole cavern is not known, it is proven to go down at least 300 feet and quite possibly further. At least three divers have lost their lives there, and none have been recovered.
The Newest Oldest Tree
Here's a correction that's some good news: in my episode on the Biggest, Oldest, and Baddest living things on Earth I mentioned Methuselah, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine tree in the White Mountains of California, aged, 4,848 years. A number of people emailed to advise me that in 2012, two years before the episode came out, an even older tree in the same grove was discovered. This tree's location, and also its identity, have been kept secret, but it is known and verified by its core. It is 5,056 years old. It was actually cored in the 1950s, but the researcher who did it never got a chance to count its rings before he died. There it sat for some 60 years until a research tech from the University of Arizona discovered that he'd just found the new oldest tree in the world.
The Energy of Chemical Energy
Finally, we must correct a basic science error that I made in the episode debunking the concept of "energy fields" surrounding human bodies. I said:
A liter of gasoline has chemical energy stored in molecular bonds that, when broken, produce an exothermic chemical reaction.
I promptly received the following email from Matan in Israel:
The above sentence seems to support the common misconception that energy is released when chemical bonds are broken. In fact, breaking a chemical bond costs energy, and energy is released when a chemical bond is formed... When the total amount of energy released by the formation of the new bonds is greater than the amount required to break the old ones - the reaction is exothermic (this is the case with combustion of gasoline).
I stand corrected, and also note that this is a surprisingly common misconception. The same goes when you digest food: it costs your body energy to break those bonds, which is why cooking is largely analogous to digestion, it puts energy in to break those bonds. And then one of the basic forms of metabolizing food to produce energy is oxidation, which is the formation of a chemical bond.
Stand tall and take pride in keeping me on point: Keep those corrections coming in. Drop me an email any time you find an error, and if you're right, I'll gladly fix it. Especially if you tell me I need to retract my episode about ghosts because your friend's sister's very reliable Uncle Bob saw one once, and he's the kind of man who would never make anything up, and all third-hand reports of his observations are literal, unerring accounts unmarred by perceptual or memory errors.
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LIF & La Raza Lawyers Association Mixer!
Latinos In Finance and the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association are co-hosting a mixer on June 22nd at The Treasury in San Francisco. This mixer will bring together accomplished professionals from both the legal and financial sectors to network and learn more about each others' respective firms and fields. Join us as we have a drink and enjoy each others camaraderie! All are welcome!
San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association is one of the oldest Latino Bar Associations in the country. The organization's mission is to serve the public interest by cultivating the science of jurisprudence; promoting reform in the law; facilitating the administration of justice; advancing the standing of the legal profession; preserving the high standards of professionalism among Latino attorneys; and cooperating with other professional and community organizations in the furtherance of our mission.


Oceantied is the solo electronic project started by Until We Last guitarist Ketan Bahirat and is an exploration of Ketan's electronic music headspace. Oceantied's music can be ambient, dancey, upbeat or anything in between. His music explores two main sides of the spectrum with downtempo tracks, alongside fast-paced footwork & jungle music.
Oceantied has shared the stage with the likes of AMIT, Sam Binga, Zed Bias, Lapalux & a bunch more.
Fresh from spreading his return from Red Bull Music Academy Montreal and spreading his unique brand of melodies all over the globe, Ketan Bahirat is all set to release his debut EP 'Tribes' under his solo project Oceantied on December 2nd 2016.
'Tribes', which has been in the works for two years, takes inspiration from Bahirat's views of the world around him. Polished with lessons from Bahirat's experience at the Red Bull Music Academy, 'Tribes' promises to be a listening delight for music lovers, genre no bar. From new age footwork and jungle, eclectic electronic beats made through found sound to recordings on Indian streets and samples from field recordings, 'Tribes' has it all. Czech Republic, Malta, Finland and Croatia have all witnessed Ketan's magic.
Apart from his constant involvement in playing live shows at clubs, venues and festivals around the country with Oceantied as well as Until We Last, Ketan Bahirat also works on the other side of music actively, where he has most recently created a property called Producer Circle, to help producers gather, collaborate and grow in an ecosystem of local music. He also founded the city collective Hybrid Cycle in 2015.


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It's easy to see a lot of inspiration for future filmmakers drew from this B-movie spoof, but it doesn't quite stick the landing as well as others in its genre.
Before David and Jerry Zucker teamed up with Jim Abrahams to deliver one of the zaniest and funniest spoofs ever created, Airplane!, there was John De Bello's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a satire on the low budget B-movies of the '50s - most of which wound up getting criticized on Mystery Science Theater 3000 during its initial run. The reason why I bring up Airplane! here is because it, too, went the zany, slapstick route when spoofing a particular genre. In that case, it was disaster movies such as Zero Hour! and the Airport franchise.
Both Airplane! and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes are almost identical in terms of their approach to satire and the general silliness of it all. But the difference is, Airplane! zips by and is clever with its humor and line delivery. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes has some moments of sheer brilliance, but it's mostly the concept of the film for which people will remember it. The rest of it stretches thin the idea of tomatoes attacking people, and the longer it goes, the more dragged out it feels.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes begins brilliantly with a woman being killed by a tomato that literally rolls into her while making some garbled noise that sounds like the Looney Tunes' Tasmanian Devil in its infancy. What follows is a hysterical opening title sequence that plays with its credits by inserting silly lines, advertisement for a furniture store in Sunnyvale, and an open slot for anyone to advertise. It also has a catchy theme song and tomatoes drop right onto the screen, splattering everywhere.
After that, the jokes become more sporadic. Or they make its way into the movie, and then De Bello and crew decide that it would be funny to keep that joke rolling or bring it up again later. One example is a Japanese character whose voice is dubbed in English, while his mouth continues to move after his dialogue is over. It's a clever take on films like the original Godzilla series, which had the same dubbing issues. But the character gets brought back later in the film, and the joke has already worn out its welcome. Even select lines he says that are supposed to be funny don't quite have the impact, but that's also in part due to the fact that the jokes weren't funny in the first place.
The plot is simple, as it's expected to be. For unknown reasons, tomatoes have grown to the size of boulders and developed the ability to communicate with one another. They decide to invade the city of San Diego, and it's up to a select group of people to put an end to the madness.
The funny part about all of the attacks the tomatoes execute is that they literally consist of them rolling into people. They don't have any teeth or other facial features. They are just giant tomatoes, rolling into people and, somehow, killing them. It doesn't quite make sense, and it's not supposed to, and that's OK.
If it doesn't already sound over the top, the film also has some musical numbers thrown into the mix. One segment that features a group of Army soldiers is the best of them all, but the lead singer's enthusiasm in the dance number is absent. It's almost like he's doing it because that's what the script calls for, and he would rather be somewhere else.
Considered by many to be so bad it's good, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is more like so bad it's disappointing. It's extremely self-aware of how ridiculous it's supposed to be, and there's a lot of potential for it to take this idea and run with it. But De Bello and gang don't. They reach a certain point and decide to just rehash some ideas that were already implemented to see if they can get some more laughter out of the audience.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is considered a cult classic, and the fan base out there will most likely want to get their hands on this Blu-ray update from MVD. The picture quality is a remastered 4K scan of the original print, and it looks mostly clean, save for some spots where film scratches are pretty noticeable. The audio quality is nicely updated and comes in rather clear as well. And for those who don't have a Blu-ray player, they can still pick up this collecter's edition set and choose the DVD option instead.
The special features on both discs are mostly archive material from previous releases of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. They contain three deleted scenes with commentary provided by De Bello, as well as an audio commentary track with De Bello, Steve "Rock" Peace, and Costa Dillon talking about the process in getting the movie made.
The featurettes include Legacy of a Legend, which consists of interviews with De Bello and several cast and crew members from the film. One of the things mentioned is how, for being such a low-budgeted film, it heavily inspired the likes of the Zucker brothers and Abrahams when they went on to do Airplane! a few years after the release of Killer Tomatoes, and followed the same, slapstick approach, but that film, which had a bigger budget, also got more attention. Another mention is how Tim Burton's reference in Mars Attacks! is more like a blatant rip off of one particular scene in Killer Tomatoes.
There are two short films that the crew made on 8mm prior to the feature film. They are the 17-minute version of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which contains a lot of the same humor and setup that the film had, and Gone with the Babusuland, another 8mm film that features some of the same characters that were in the Killer Tomatoes movie.
Crash and Burn looks at the famous helicopter crash sequence that wasn't staged, but was captured perfectly and, since no one was hurt or killed, De Bello decided to use it for the film. Famous Foul examines the San Diego Chicken, who was featured in the movie. We Told You So is more of a joke, continuing the possible tomato conspiracy. Killer Tomatomania explores the streets of Los Angeles and interviews fans of the film, as well as those who aren't aware of it at all. Where are They Now? looks at the actors from the film and talks about where they went after the movie. And the last feature is Slated for Success, which pays tribute to the slate girls in the film industry and also looks at the one who worked on Killer Tomatoes and where she went after the production was complete.
Like a lot of satire films of the '70s, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes wouldn't get made the same way if it was made in the 21st century. It's politically incorrect, and almost too absurd for any studio to consider releasing. I understand there is a cult following out there for the film, but it didn't fully win me over. I can respect it and consider it a nice effort, but with some jokes that come across as repetitive and others that were simply not funny at all, it doesn't really nail its goal of being a clever satire.


Luca Chetoni triumphs at Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Bochum!
24 year-old from Italy wins 2-day event at one of Europe's most well-known Dueling venues.
More than 1100 Duelists from all over Europe made their way to Bochum to become the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series winner. Europe's strongest Duelists were all competing at the city's RuhrCongress venue on April 25th/26th but only one would become champion. After multiple rounds of high-level play over two days, Italy's Luca Chetoni was declared the victorious Duelist, becoming the latest player to triumph on the international stage.
Chetoni and his Nekroz Deck squared off against Germany's Eugen Heidt in an enthralling Final Match on the Sunday evening, broadcast worldwide via yugioh-card.com. and twitch.tv. Although Heidt, the current European Champion, showed tremendous skill throughout the weekend, besting several opponents, his Nekroz Deck was ultimately defeated by Chetoni's, as Mind Crush was played to win the final Duel of the event.
Chetoni is now the latest Duelist to call himself the victor of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG's travelling event series. In addition to claiming the title of YCS winner, he takes home a prize package that included a Notebook PC, exclusive YCS Prize Card and paid travel and accommodation to the 2015 WCQ: European Championship.
For those who did not participate in the main tournament there were several other events to take part in throughout the weekend, including tournaments to win giant Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards, Game Mats and other popular prizes, such as additional copies of the YCS Prize Card Ascension Sky Dragon.


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