Just before Christmas, an administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission put a shiny package with a big bow under the tree for distributed solar PV companies, and gave the state's regulated utilities a lump of coal. That ALJ's proposed decision, which will next go to the CPUC commissioners, rejected the utilities' attempts to end net energy metering (NEM) for new residential solar customers. Around the same time, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission came to the opposite conclusion.
The immense challenge we face from climate change, and the limited resources the political landscape is willing to allocate to it, means it is critical to design energy policy that gets the greatest long-term greenhouse gas reduction bang for the buck. In previous blogs, I've argued that net metering is an inefficient and opaque way to support the growth of low-greenhouse gas technologies (see here, here, and here), and should be replaced with more direct and transparent subsidies.
Rather than rehash that argument, however, I thought I would start the new year discussing two rate structures that are being proposed as alternatives to repealing NEM: minimum bills (mostly proposed by rooftop solar supporters) and demand charges (mostly proposed by those on the opposite side).
Here's the simple math: a minimum bill is identical to a fixed charge plus giving every customer a set quantity of free electricity.
For instance, let's say that electricity costs $0.10 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and there is a minimum bill of $8 per month. This is identical to a fixed charge of $8 per month and each customer receiving the first 80 kWh for free each month. Either way, it will make no difference to the bill of anyone who consumes more than 80 kWh. Either way, any customer consuming less than 80 kWh per month will face an increased bill and an incremental cost of zero for consuming one more kWh of electricity. The same math holds whether retail rates are constant or tiered (though there is an extra step to calculating the number of free kilowatt hours if it goes beyond the first tier). A minimum bill yields exactly the same bill for every single customer every single month as the equivalent fixed charge and free quantity of electricity.
If the minimum bill is set at a low level, such as $10 per month, then nearly all customers will exceed the minimum level and it will make no difference to either customer bills or utility finances. If the minimum bill is set at a higher level, such as $50 per month, then it will raise the bills of a significant number of low-use customers. And it will also give those customers an incentive to consume more, because until they hit $50, their incremental cost of consuming one more kWh is zero. If you are already a small user who is nonetheless forced to pay $50 every month, why bother turning off the lights when you go out this evening?
Then why in the world are some environmental groups among the proponents of minimum bills? Perhaps because they will effectively maintain the status quo of recovering all revenues through volumetric charges. No one is seriously talking about a minimum bill of $50. Both NRDC and some solar companies have endorsed $10. The Regulatory Assistance Project is also advocating very low minimum bills, proclaiming that their virtue is that almost no customers would be affected.
That would be just fine if volumetric charges reflected the social marginal cost of a kWh, that is, the utility's marginal cost plus all emissions externalities from greenhouse gases, NOx, SO2, and particulates. But in California, and many other states with high electricity rates, the prices exceed any realistic estimate of a kWh's social marginal cost, as I wrote about a year ago.
Maintaining a high volumetric electricity price is not a worthy goal if that price greatly exceeds the full cost to society. It not only prevents customers from getting as much value from electricity as they can, it also discourages efficient switching from other energy sources, such as natural gas for heating and gasoline for transportation. I recognize that fixed charges are no panacea either, creating a difficult trade-off between efficiency and equity/distributional concerns.
In any case, rather than hiding behind a minimum bill, regulators should just admit that they are making no changes and continuing to put all costs into the volumetric price of electricity. A minimum bill either does nothing or takes rate design in the wrong direction.
A demand charge is a fee based on the customer's highest usage in any one hour (or shorter timeframe) during the billing period, regardless of whether that individual customer peak occurred when the system was stressed or during a time with plenty of spare capacity. With the technology of the mid-20th century, it was extremely expensive to meter usage in every hour, so a simpler device was used, which captured peak consumption, but not the time at which it occurred.
Back then, a demand charge may have been the best available approximation to a customer's usage during system peak periods, but it was never a very good approximation as the customer's peak may not be coincident with the system peak. Furthermore, the customer's single highest consumption hour during each billing period is not the only, and may not even be the primary, determinant of the customer's overall contribution to the need for generation or transmission capacity.
In any case, the value of such approximations has been mostly eliminated with smart meters that record usage in hourly or shorter intervals. Smart meters permit time-varying price schedules that can easily be designed to more effectively capture the time-varying costs that a customer imposes on the system, including their contribution to the need for generation, transmission, and distribution capacity.
Interestingly, some utilities and others are proposing a fee based on the customer's usage during system peaks and calling it a "demand charge." That gets a lot closer to Critical Peak Pricing, a form of time-varying pricing, though the details of such "demand charges" still make them a poor alternative. They tend to focus on one or two hours of highest system demand within the billing period, regardless of whether that demand level actually stresses supply capability. In one year, the hottest day in June may be a real scorcher and may occur when some major generation is off-line, while in another year June might be mild and have plenty of available capacity every day.
Sure, such a nouveau demand charge may be a small step in the right direction towards time-varying pricing, but it requires all the same infrastructure as pricing alternatives that are much bigger steps and are likely to seem much less risky to customers, because they are not driven entirely by just one or two hours.
An additional explanation for demand charges is that they capture the customer-specific fixed cost of providing a certain level of service capacity to the customer's site. Such capacity, however, is established by making up-front and largely sunk investments in the local distribution network and the final connection to the customer. These may constitute substantial fixed costs, but those costs are determined by the attributes of the connection, not by the customer's peak usage after the connection is established. A monthly fixed charge based on the customer's service capacity would more appropriately capture these costs.
The use of demand charges has also created a large market of consultants advising customers on how to reduce their peak demand (see here, here, and here for examples). Those strategies that may yield little benefit to the utility or society. Customers faced with demand charges place high private value on reducing their very highest hour of usage even if there are other hours in which usage is nearly as high, and even if none of those hours are coincident with system peak times.
At their very best, demand charges capture some customer-specific fixed costs and may very imperfectly reflect the time-varying costs of the customer's consumption. But customer-specific fixed charges that reflect service levels and time-varying pricing accomplish these goals much more effectively, so why would one use demand charges?
So What Should We Be Doing About Net Energy Metering?
The reality is that a customer who consumes 300 kWh in a month is imposing very different costs on the system than a customer who consumes 1500 kWh over some hours and also injects 1200 kWh into the grid during other hours. NEM treats them the same. That may have been a convenient benign fiction back when solar PV barely existed. But today it is a costly distortion that has the potential to create huge economic inefficiencies and unfairly shift billions of dollars in costs among customers.
The CPUC needs to dig into the studies and take a stand on the real value that distributed generation brings to the grid. And to be transparent about any additional subsidies based on learning or other technology development arguments. Then the Commission needs to craft a tariff that accurately accounts for these values. Continuing NEM is just politically ducking the hard questions. If California is going to be a leader in alternative energy and combating climate change it has to be willing to make serious and defensible policy choices.
A minimum fee will kill low income people, who can't afford solar, and already have to keep their usage low to be able to afford current costs.
If the minimum fee is greater than $50, that might be the case. However the discussion in California at least has been more at $10 to $20, which almost always higher than the minimum of any non-solar household. And there's a very easy fix for this–eliminate the minimum for any CARE-qualified household.
My question with respect to the article is why the discussion in most analyses is exclusively about the utility desire for a charge for facilities and does not simultaneously consider the time-of-day value of the electricity provided by solar systems. Perhaps this is already accounted for in California but this is not the case elsewhere–at least not here in MD where there is no time of day variation in costs for residential systems. Here, as I understand it, the incentives for solar are in part paid for by eliminating the need for a new tie-line connection to the Ohio River Valley fossil-fueled power plants and even without time-of-day pricing, I am getting essentially a guaranteed 9-10% after-tax return on a prepaid lease arrangement started several years ago. In my view, fine for utilities to get some sort of fee for infrastructure if homeowners simultaneously get the benefit of time-of-day pricing, but this tradeoff does not seem to get discussed by analysts, and certainly not by the utility executives making their case. Am I missing something about why these issues are not discussed together?
I also live in Maryland. Our utility just provides us wire services. The electricity comes from PJM, sometimes with PEPCo as the middleman, but increasingly with a marketer as the go between. With the result, PEPCo and other distribution utilities (such as the ones in California) are concerned about the cost of distribution wires. Such distribution utilities look at generation and transmission costs as something to pass through. Often regulators do not allow the distribution utility to make any markup on such costs. Getting the billing systems correct for hourly (or 15 minute) pass through has been taxing for utilities. And, I understand that TVA is trying to prevent one of its distribution utilities from implementing such a system.
Thanks for the note, and I can understand why the cost of the distribution wires is all they want to talk about. What I find troubling is that reporters interviewing various industry leaders on the issue don't simultaneously ask them about time of day pricing–so raise the aspect of the issue related to consumer interests. What I would think the various regulatory commissions should be doing is considering the two issues simultaneously on the public's behalf.
Severin, I have a couple of questions about a minimum bill policy. You say it results in no effective difference in the bill for any but very low use customers unless the minimum charge is quite high. Let's take a $15 monthly minimum bill and an energy charge of 10 cents/kWh; this will affect only those who use less than 150 kWh/month (presumably very few customers). But it also affects NEM customers who had a low, or no, bill. That additional $15/month does increase the contribution to fixed costs paid by NEM customers and does add to the utility revenue (reducing the variable energy charge, however slightly, for everyone). Especially for utilities without smart meters, isn't a minimum bill better than just straight up NEM with no minimum bill or, as you say: "A minimum bill either does nothing or takes rate design in the wrong direction."?
As opposed to a minimum bill, a fixed, or customer, charge would affect all customers, not just NEM (and very low use) customers. Is a fixed charge preferable, if the goal is to increase the contribution that NEM customers pay for the systems that support them?
I do get that installing smart meters is a first step opening the door to many possibilities!
The Regulatory Assistance Project is not advocating the minimum bill option. Rather, we present it in rate design discussions because we feel that decision-makers need to appreciate all their options, many are unfamiliar with how it works and we can't know their priorities which hopefully include the good economics discussed here as well as politics which are largely set aside in this analysis. We do see the minimum bill as superior to a straight-fixed variable rate with a high customer charge, but that is a very low bar. Happily, we converge with Borenstein on his conclusion that a time varying price with a critical peak price is superior to even a well constructed residential demand charge (and many proposals are not), but we also recognize that many decision-makers are not prepared to go there for a host of technical and social reasons. And we agree and feature in our work with states the value in a two way grid of aligning marginal consumption prices with long run marginal cost. Our mission at RAP is to help decision-makers make progress toward more value-based rates in the manner and pace that are in the realm of realism. They need options. For places with on the order of 0.1% of energy coming from DG, the simplicity of net metering may continue to be the pragmatic answer for some time.
Related comment: "The immense challenge we face from climate change" – – Do climate scientists ever think about what their data means? The surface and satellite temperature measurements indicate a temperature increase of 0.12 degrees Celsius per decade. So the global-warming, climate-crisis temperature of 2.0 C, as defined by the IPCC, is 100 years away.
As an oil and gas [petroleum] geophysicist in an early life I can estimate that the proven and projected global reserves of oil and gas are much too small — by a factor of 2 to 3 — to sustain 100 years of the emission increases causing these temperature increases.
Fortunately, as we know, emissions are declining in the US and EU, and will likely do so in Asia after 2030. Also, the IPCC notes that about 60% of CO2 emissions are absorbed by the Earth's sinks. Thus any possible crisis will be pushed even farther away.
Maybe the climate community is concerned about their data. I understand some are considering moving the climate goal posts closer – to 1.5 C!
With respect to the comment about how long it will take to get to a 2 C warming, it is important to note that the baseline is the preindustrial concentration and so warming to date has been near 1 C, so only about 1 C to go. Also, the projected rate of warming absent significant emissions reductions has had the world reaching about 2 C by 2050. The problem then is that if this warming would not be the equilibrium value as there is of order 0.5 C that is deferred due to the thermal inertia of the oceans, and then the cooling offset of sulfate aerosol layer created mainly by SO2 emissions from coal fired power plants would quickly disappear if emissions went to zero, allowing another 0.5 to 1 C warming (offset a bit as soot-induced and tropospheric-ozone-induced warming also disappear. In essence, we are already essentially committed to 2 C warming unless we also make cuts in current emissions of methane as well as CO2, so there is no basis for delay in cutting emissions. The international discussions really stick mainly to CO2 emissions and either ignore or don't quite properly consider the effects of non-CO2 warming and cooling agents; climate models do try to do this fairly well, but this all gets a good bit more complicated than the global negotiations seem capable of fully dealing with.
Net Metering can be Good Policy for the recovery of some costs incurred by a utility in serving its customers, such as the cost billed to it by its ISO supplier. But for the rest of the costs incurred by the utility, such as the cost of wires and meters, a demand charge and a monthly customer charge are more appropriate.
For the cost billed by the ISO supplier, the metering periods need to be aligned, an issue that is current before FERC in Settlement Intervals and Shortage Pricing in Markets Operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators, FERC Docket No. RM15-24-000. If the ISO is billing the utility based on fifteen minute intervals, it might be good policy for the utility to bill the retail consumer for those ISO costs on fifteen minute intervals using net metered amounts during those fifteen minute intervals. I filed comments in this docket on 2015 November 15, saying that the issue needs to be re-specified to include unscheduled flows within and between ISOs and interconnected systems.
The majority of the cost incurred by an increasing number of utilities are incurred for wires. A much better way to recover the cost of wires is a demand charge. When the customer wants to have access to a specific amount of power, the customer can contract for wires access in that amount, which would be billed monthly based on contract demand. Customers with poorer information about their power requirements can rely on a demand charge based on the interval with the highest net metered amount, generally fifteen minutes or an hour, though I have seen the interval being an entire summer month. Customers who exceed their contract demand would pay for the excess demand through a multiple of the demand charge.
There are a few appropriate demand metrics, such as the customer maximum demand or more exotic demands such as the contribution to the distribution system peak or the peak on a subsection of the distribution system, all as discussed in the above paper. We are still several years away from real time pricing of the distribution system, as I discussed in "Dynamic Pricing: Using Smart Meters to Solve Electric Vehicles Related Distribution Overloads," Metering International, Issue 3, 2010.
Delightful read as always, and thanks for the mention.
Two additional points on demand charges. First, even in coincident markets, simplification in tariff design (such as 5CP) means customers game coincident demand charges just as much as non-coincident. Secondly, most demand charge services actually find anomalous demand spikes and consumption reduction opportunities as a matter of course, meaning they have nice public benefits without the public costs.
Well said, Severin! To continue this program, basically intact, when solar's capital costs have become extremely competitive, and the ITC will be extended, is not a well thought out policy. If we wait until 2019 to make any substantive changes, the negative effects of cost shifting will absolutely become a reality!


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So I thought I could get the appointment to see that doc today but I've got one for tomorrow now. Let's see how it goes. I've got some expectations but am trying to be as realistic as possible…you know my favourite quote – blessed is he who expects nothing, for he's never disappointed.
And that is the painful truth. The Buddha had his thoughts right, eh – desire is the cause of all suffering.Truly.
So anyway, can you believe I still find it a challenge to remember the before dinner tab? I am thinking of you, admiring you for always being so correct with taking your meds. I fondly think of your Sunday-Monday box which you filled diligently and took.
I am having high hopes over the diet plan I am expecting to work out tomorrow with that doc. Thing is, I need advice on how many calories per day and based on that, food choices.
Right now, sometimes I wonder what to snack on – salads all the time can be a bit tiring, and also, not ideal. I am learning to do like Padma used to for Shnu – stack the cooker in the morning and pick up cups to eat through the day. That means sprouts. I am also making rotis so I can grab one to go. Salads make me hungry in less than an hour. Initially I was embarrassed by it, but now know that lots of people feel that way. You know I miss you so much every day when I cut the cucumber. You would have loved this one – the small green variety with the almost edible seeds. The other big one was such a pain – more seeds than flesh it would seem!
Although bananas are out, I am glad guava is allowed! What a pity it is seasonal! Hmm. Apples and pears are in and so are pomegranates. I so enjoy opening up the pomegranates and packing them in small containers. When Sury has the day off, he does it so sincerely!
Oh by the way, I was eating a sandwich today when I felt something hard in my mouth and I wondered, stone in bread? Not unheard of! So imagine my shock when I took it out, careful not to bite it and found a white thingy – turns out half my tooth fell off! I groaned at the thought of having to visit the dentist now! Funny how it split vertically and fell off. This was root-canaled a year ago and not capped as the dentist didn't advise it. So they just filled it and left it like that. Heck.
By the way, I feel like cutting my hair Mi. But I am sitting on the fence over it – I keep visualizing thin short hair and don't like the mental sight! So a really weak bunch of coriander type it is going to be. Ha ha!
Down But Not Out. Yet.


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Han efterträdde Azali Assoumani som Komorernas president 2006–2011. År 2011 efterträddes han på posten av Ikililou Dhoinine.

Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi benämns ofta ayatollah eftersom han genomgått studier i islam i Iran.

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Bhubaneswar : Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), Odisha is organising its national convention at KIIT University from December 26 to 28, 2014. More than 1000 members of SJM from different States of the country would participate in the convention, which is scheduled to be inaugurated at KIIT University in Campus-6 Auditorium on December 26 at 11 am. On December 27, a rally "Swadeshi Sandesh Yatra" will be taken out in the afternoon. The valedictory session of the convention will be held on December 28 at 12 pm.
Addressing a press conference here, national convenor of SJM Arun Ojha highlighted that in order to make the programme successful, a welcome committee has been formed by the participation of eminent personalities from different parts of the State. Chartered Engineer Abhay Kumar Samantaray is the chairman and Odisha Rajya Byabasayi Mahasangha Secretary Sudhakar Panda is the Secretary of this committee. The programme will be held under the supervision of SJM State Coordinator Prabhat Kumar Palit and Akhila Bharatiya Sangharsh Bahini Chief Anada Shankar Panigrahi. The Byabastha Sanjojak of this Program is Dr Dhirendra Nanda, Byabastha Pramukha is Niranjan Mishra & Byabastha Sahapramukha is Nirmal Sarangi, During the convention, various issues relating to present status of Indian economy and other issues will be discussed and the outcomes in form of recommendations and suggestions will be submitted to the Central Government.
For spreading awareness among the masses about the importance of Swadeshi as a way of life and to fight against globalisation and multinationals, SJM was formed in 1991, which is working in the field of economic nationalism.

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TumbleBit takes advantage of an existing concept called "mixing service." The idea works like this: instead of Party A paying Party B directly, many different Parties A pay an intermdiary "tumbler," which then pays the Parties B. The more parties are involved, the harder it is to determine which Party A paid which Party B.
"We tested TumbleBit with 800 Bitcoin users, and found that the second phase only took seconds to complete," Scafuro says.
The paper, "TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub," will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, being held Feb. 26 to March 1 in San Diego, Calif.
Lead author of the paper is Ethan Heilman of Boston University. The paper was co-authored by Leen AlShenibr and Sharon Goldberg, of Boston University, and Foteini Baldimtsi of George Mason University. The work was done with support from the National Science Foundation under grants 1012910, 1414119 and 1350733.
Presented: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2017, Feb. 26-March 1 in San Diego, Calif.
Abstract: This paper presents TumbleBit, a new unidirectional unlinkable payment hub that is fully compatible with today's Bitcoin protocol. TumbleBit allows parties to make fast, anonymous, off-blockchain payments through an untrusted intermediary called the Tumbler. TumbleBit's anonymity properties are similar to classic Chaumian eCash: no one, not even the Tumbler, can link a payment from its payer to its payee. Every payment made via TumbleBit is backed by bitcoins, and comes with a guarantee that Tumbler can neither violate anonymity, nor steal bitcoins, nor "print money" by issuing payments to itself. We prove the security of TumbleBit using the real/ideal world paradigm and the random oracle model. Security follows from the standard RSA assumption and ECDSA unforgeability. We implement TumbleBit, mix payments from 800 users and show that TumbleBit's offblockchain payments can complete in seconds.
This is just wonderful. While all this security may be marginally useful for ordinary people doing ordinary things the biggest beneficiaries are probably those who need to pay for drug shipments, shipments of arms or nuclear material or to pay for slaves. If you are conducting legitimate business this isn't necessary.
I can appreciate the development of a solution to a complex problem, and any broader reasons for Tumblebit's development are not known to me, but this was exactly my thought while reading the article… a valuable asset for money launderers and all those who prefer to move money in the dark.


Tinted glass is all the rage in interior decoration right now. The transparent material creates a wonderful summer mood. The Shaped vase from House Doctor comes in a beautiful aubergine colour that gives the product a nice, feminine twist. It is therefore suitable for most homes.


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Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory It is common in Melbourne, with the subspecies Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis being the one normally found in Bayside. Eastern Banjo Frog It inhabits coastal swamps, dams, ponds associated with forest and heathland. Basis of record: MaterialSample This subspecies normally inhabits woodland, heathland and farmland. Catalogue number: DNA Laboratory:Z56057 Date: 2019-10-22 Date: 2017-12-06 Syntypes: ZMB 4727 (2 specimens), 4728 (3 specimens) & AMNH 23590. Frog - … Familia: Limnodynastidae Genus: Limnodynastes Species: Limnodynastes dumerilii Name []. Limnodynastes dumerilii (Eastern Banjo Frog, Pobblebonk, Bull Frog). Regions: Central Districts, Mt Lofty Ranges & Adelaide Plains, Eyre Peninsula, Flinders Ranges, Kangaroo Island, Murray Valley, North East, South East, Yorke Peninsula Description: A relatively large frog with a pale raised stripe from below the eye to the top of the front leg. Basis of record: MaterialSample Males of this subspecies have the most characteristic banjo-like "bonk" of all the subspecies. Snowy Mountains Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii fryi) is found only in the Snowy Mountains hence the name for the subspecies. The scientific names of Limnodynastes dumerili. Eastern Banjo Frog View record, Sub-species: The result set contains records provided under the following names: New South Wales (including Coastal Waters), South Australia (including Coastal Waters), South Australian Museum Herpetology Collection, South Australian Museum Australian Biological Tissue Collection, Queensland Museum Amphibians and Reptiles, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Herpetology, Western Australian Museum Herpetology Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection, South Australian Museum Australia provider for OZCAM, Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM, Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery provider for OZCAM, Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM, Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC). The Eastern banjo frog was the first of the species to have its reference genome sequenced, finding a compact (for an amphibian) 2.38 Gb genome and 24,548 protein-coding genes.[7]. Basis of record: MaterialSample Frog - Spotted Marsh Frog SCR. Synonyms []. Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory Eastern Banjo Frog Limnodynastes dumerilii Southern Bullfrog (ssp. southern banjo frog [Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis and Limnodynastes dumerilii variegata]zool.T Östlicher Banjo-Frosch {m} eastern bull frog [Limnodynastes dumerilii]zool.T pobblebonk [Limnodynastes dumerilii] [eastern banjo frog]zool.T eastern banjo frog [Limnodynastes dumerilii dumerilii and Limnodynastes dumerilii grayi]zool.T Date: 2016-10-12 Eastern Banjo Frog Southern Banjo Frogs (Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis) (also called Pobblebonks, but a different subspecies) are also found in the region every so often, but are better known from the coastal south of the state. Limnodynastes tasmaniensis SCR. View record, Species: Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis | Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis. Catalogue number: DNA Laboratory:Z7097 Limnodynastes (Platyplectron) dumerilii Peters, 1863; Limnodynastes … State: Victoria, Institution: Museums Victoria Catalogue number: DNA Laboratory:Z69350 View record, Species: Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis Eastern Banjo Frog Subsp variegatus Limnodynastes dumerilii variegatus Long-thumbed Frog Limnodynastes fletcheri Giant Banjo Frog Limnodynastes interioris Carpenter / Woodworker Frog Limnodynastes lignarius Ornate Burrowing Frog Limnodynastes ornatus In Queensland, the scarlet-sided pobblebonk, Limnodynastes terraereginae, is a small fat frog with distinctive orange or red irregular markings. Catalogue number: DNA Laboratory:Z57691 Basis of record: MaterialSample Date: 2017-12-11 It eats small invertebrates, and may live up to 10 years. The subspecies is normally one solid colour on the dorsal surface. Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis | It is characterised and distinguished by blue coloration present on the flank. Date: 2019-10-25 State: Victoria, Institution: Museums Victoria Males of … Tasmania; southeastern South Australia (including Kangaroo Island) through Victoria and eastern New South … Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory [2] The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog. Parker, 1940 Eastern Banjo Frog View record, Sub-species: Basis of record: MaterialSample Adults are roughly seven to eight centimetres long with dark warty backs, a prominent tibial gland, fleshy metatarsal tubercules and a smooth white or mottled belly. Snowy Mountains Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii fryi) is found only in the Snowy Mountains hence the name for the subspecies. It is chiefly distinguished by range. L. d. insularis Sub-species: Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis | Eastern Banjo Frog Date: 2017-12-07 State: Victoria Institution: Museums Victoria Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory Basis of record: MaterialSample Catalogue number: DNA Laboratory:Z60365 View record Limnodynastes dumerilii | The species is common. Collection: Museums Victoria DNA Laboratory Limnodynastes dumerilii is a frog species from the family Myobatrachidae.The informal names for this species, and its subspecies, include Eastern or Southern Banjo Frog, and Bull frog. Limnodynastes (Platyplectron) dumerilii (Peters 1863) Limnodynastes bibronii (Kref[f]t 1865) Platyplectrum superciliare (Keferstein 1867) Heliorana grayi (Steindachner 1867) Limnodynastes dorsalis insularis (Parker 1940) Eastern Banjo Frog Alternate spelling: Limnodynastes dumerilii. 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Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, written by Andy and Dave Lewis, and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. The film follows a high-priced call girl who assists a detective in solving a missing-persons case. It is the first installment of what has informally come to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy". The other two films are The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976).

Klute was theatrically released in the United States on June 25, 1971 by Warner Bros. to critical and commercial success. Reviewers praised the film's direction, screenplay and most notably Fonda's performance, while the film grossed over $12 million against a $2.5 million budget. It received two nominations at the 44th Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress, which Fonda won.

Plot
After Pennsylvania chemical company executive Tom Gruneman disappears, the police find an obscene letter in Gruneman's office addressed to a New York City call girl named Bree Daniels, who had received several such letters. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable, a fellow executive at Gruneman's company, hires family friend and detective John Klute to investigate Gruneman's disappearance.

Klute rents an apartment in the basement of Bree's building, taps her phone and follows her as she turns tricks. Bree appears to enjoy the freedom of freelancing as a call girl while auditioning for acting and modeling jobs, but she reveals the emptiness of her life to her psychiatrist. Bree refuses to answer Klute's questions at first. After learning that he has been watching her, Bree says that she does not recognize Gruneman. She acknowledges having been beaten by a john two years earlier, but cannot identify Gruneman from a photo. Bree takes Klute to meet her former pimp Frank Ligourin, who managed Jane McKenna, a prostitute who had referred the abusive client to Bree. McKenna has apparently committed suicide, and their other colleague Arlyn Page has since become a drug addict and disappeared.

Klute and Bree develop a romance, although she tells her psychiatrist that she wishes that she could return to "just feeling numb" turning tricks. She tells Klute that she is paranoid that she is being watched. They find Page, who tells them that the photo of Gruneman is not that of the client, who was an older man. Page's body is later found in the river. Klute connects the apparent suicides of the two prostitutes, surmising that the client was using Gruneman's name. He also thinks the client killed Gruneman and might kill Bree next. Klute revisits Gruneman's acquaintances. By typographic comparison, the obscene letters are traced to Cable, to whom Klute has been reporting during his investigation. Klute asks Cable for money to buy the "black book" of McKenna's clients to learn the identity of the abusive client. He leaves enough bread crumbs to see whether Cable reveals his own complicity in the murders.

Cable follows Bree to a client's office and reveals that he sent her the letters. Cable tells her that after Gruneman accidentally found him physically abusing McKenna, Cable was worried that Gruneman would use the incident to sabotage Cable's career, and Cable tried to frame Gruneman by planting the letter in his office. After playing an audiotape that he recorded as he murdered Page, he attacks Bree. When he sees Klute rush in, Cable abruptly lurches backward, crashing through a window to his death.

Bree vacates her apartment with Klute's help. A voiceover conversation with her psychiatrist reveals her hesitancy to surrender her life of autonomy to enter into a traditional relationship with Klute, saying that she would lose her mind if she turned to a domestic lifestyle. She admits that although she will miss Klute, she is unable to tell him, and jokes that the doctor will likely see her again the next week. As they leave the apartment, Bree receives a telephone call from a client, and she informs him she is leaving New York and does not expect to return. She and Klute leave the apartment together.

Cast

In addition: Robert Milli appears briefly as Tom Grunerman, Trina's murdered husband; Jean Stapleton appears as a secretary; and Sylvester Stallone appears as an uncredited extra in a club scene.

Production

Development
To prepare for her role as Bree, Jane Fonda spent a week in New York City observing high-class call girls and madams. She also accompanied them on their outings to after-hours clubs to solicit men. Fonda was disturbed that none of the men showed interest in her, which she believed was because they could see that she was really just an "upper-class, privileged pretender."

Fonda had doubts about whether she could portray the role and asked Alan Pakula to release her from her contract and hire Faye Dunaway instead, but Pakula refused. One of Fonda's primary concerns was that she, as a nascent feminist, should not play a prostitute, but when Fonda admitted this concern to a more longstanding feminist, she was disabused of the notion. To overcome her doubts that she could not play such a role, Fonda turned to her memories of several call girls whom she had known while living in France, all of whom worked for the famed Madame Claude. She remembered that all of them had been sexually abused as children, and Fonda used this as an "entry" to her own character and as a way to understand Bree's motivations in becoming a prostitute.

Release

Home media
Klute was released on DVD in 2005, and on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in July 2019.

Box office
The film earned US$8 million () in theatrical rentals at the North American box office.

Critical response

Klute was praised for its screenplay and Fonda's performance. On Rotten Tomatoes, Klute holds an approval rating of 93% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 8.19/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Donald Sutherland is coolly commanding and Jane Fonda a force of nature in Klute, a cuttingly intelligent thriller that generates its most agonizing tension from its stars' repartee." On Metacritic, which assigns a rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."

The New York Times wrote, "Pakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of 'Citizen Kane' it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush. The acting in 'Klute' seems semi-improvisatory, and in this Jane Fonda, who is good at confessing, is generally successful. Everybody else merely talks a lot, except for Sutherland, who scarcely talks at all. A normally inventive actor, he is here given precisely the latitude to evoke a romantic figure with all the mysterious intensity of a youthful Calvin Coolidge."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded Klute 3.5 stars out of a possible 4, writing that while the thriller elements were poorly executed, the performances of Sutherland and especially Fonda carried the film. He suggested that the film should have been titled Bree after her character, who is the soul of the movie and avoids the hooker with a heart of gold stereotype: "What is it about Jane Fonda that makes her such a fascinating actress to watch? She has a sort of nervous intensity that keeps her so firmly locked into a film character that the character actually seems distracted by things that come up in the movie."

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune was appreciative: "More interesting than the mystery is the character of Bree….the nicest part of her character (due to the script and Miss Fonda's fine performance) is that this prostitute doesn't have a heart of gold. She's a hungup little broad who, when cornered by violence or tenderness, will scratch and bite. Director Alan Pakula's…crisply edited movie runs too long only in drawing out its conclusion….Sharp eyes will solve the mystery midway thru the film. Miss Fonda's performance is superior to her most recent work in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'….Sutherland…presents a controlled posture as the industrious detective. His low profile nicely balances Miss Fonda's incendiary role."

Fonda's performance received widespread praise. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus declares: "Fonda makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance."

Accolades

References

External links

 Klute: Trying to See Her, an essay by Mark Harris at the Criterion Collection

1970s crime thriller films
1971 crime films
American crime thriller films
American detective films
American neo-noir films
1970s English-language films
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films directed by Alan J. Pakula
Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance
Films featuring a Best Drama Actress Golden Globe-winning performance
Films scored by Michael Small
Films set in apartment buildings
Films set in New York City
1970s American films


I have coached baseball for years and have told my kids that baseball and golf do not mix. A lot of golf can be a detriment to your baseball swing. Am I off base with my teaching.
I can't really agree with you to give the short answer. I see athletics as all independent. When I first started out baseball players did not lift weights, but now we know how to do it and the increased strength has not be gained at the loss of flexibility (that was the worry).
I don't believe one skill takes away from another. We have too many good and very good golfers with in baseball some of them almost PGA caliber.
I understand what you are asking but I think it fallen in the categories of "It sounds like a good idea" but in truth no factual basis.
Sorry to disagree but you and I are two coaches talking.


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Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell (or leukocyte). They help an organism to fight infections. They occur in the immune system of all vertebrates. All lymphoctes have a large, blob-like nucleus.
Natural killer (NK) cells are a part of the immune system a person is born with. They protect the organism from tumours and from cells infected by viruses. Natural killer cells are made active by chemicals released by damaged cells called interferons.
Natural killer cells can tell the difference between infected cells, tumours, and normal cells. They recognise changes in the level of a surface molecule called MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class I.
The NK cells then release cytotoxic (cell-killing) granules which then destroy the altered cells.
T cells (thymus cells) and B cells (bone cells) are the main cells of the adaptive immune response. They tackle infections, and they cause the immune system to 'remember' the event.
The function of T cells and B cells is to recognize foreign antigens. Antigens are surface molecules on a cell. Once they have identified an invader, the cells respond to remove pathogens or pathogen-infected cells.
B cells respond to pathogens by producing large numbers of antibodies which then destroy foreign objects like bacteria and viruses.
Some T cells, called T helper cells, produce cytokines that direct the immune response. Cytokines signal to other immune cells that there is a foreign antigen present. Other T cells, called cytotoxic T cells, produce toxic granules which cause the death of infected cells.
Once they are made active, B cells and T cells produce memory cells. Throughout the lifetime of an animal, these cells will 'remember' each specific pathogen encountered, and are able to make a strong response if the pathogen is detected again. Memory cells live a long time in the body, and are how vaccinations work.
Mammalian stem cells change or differentiate into several kinds of blood cell within the bone marrow. This process is called haematopoiesis (= blood growth). All lymphocytes come from a common basic lymphocyte cell before differentiating into their distinct lymphocyte types.
B cells mature into B lymphocytes in the bone marrow, while T cells migrate to and mature in a distinct organ, called the thymus. After they mature, the lymphocytes enter the circulation and lymphoid organs (e.g. the spleen and lymph nodes) where they are able to sense invading pathogens and tumour cells.
In the circulatory system they move from lymph node to lymph node. This contrasts with macrophages, which are rather stationary in the nodes.
When white blood cells are counted, the lymphocyte count is the percentage of lymphocytes present.
An increase in lymphocyte concentration is usually a sign of a viral infection (in some rare case, leukemias are found through an abnormally high lymphocyte count in an otherwise normal person).
A low normal to low absolute lymphocyte count is found with infections after surgery or trauma.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects and destroys T cells. Without the key defence that these T cells provide, the body becomes prone to infections that otherwise would not affect healthy people.
The extent of HIV progression is found by measuring the percentage of CD4+ T cells in the patient's blood. The effects of other virus or lymphocyte disorders can also often be estimated by counting the numbers of lymphocytes present in the blood.
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INTERVIEW: Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards and Ludovica Museumeci – directors MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW (2022)
"It's essentially a rom-com plot pushed to a dark place by the threat of impending death"
With its World Premiere at FrightFest this August, portmanteau horror anthology Midnight Peepshow promises to be provocative. Centred on a sinister Soho peep show, it follows one unlucky patron who gets more than he bargained as he slips into a world of dark desires…
Here Johnny Restall sits down with directors Ariel Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards and Ludovica Museumeci to talk about sex, death and the fine line in-between…
Who generated the initial 'wraparound' idea for the film, and how were you as individual directors enticed to the project?
AIRELL ANTHONY HAYLES: I came up with the concept a while back, wanting to fuse a Twilight Zone into three stories of sexual fantasies that go wrong. This idea of a 'horror threesome' that would explore the nightmare side of sexual fantasy was a fun hook, and led the script down a dark and dangerous path.
Later I teamed up with Jake West to write another version that pushed the limits of the story even further – he was enticed by the idea one night in the bar after a FrightFest event. I pitched it to him, and his eyes lit up at all the crazy directions we could take such a bold premise.
We teamed with Andy Edwards for the middle story – he had a brilliant high concept, that we thought had a ton of potential and would fit into the world we had already created. And Ludovica Musumeci had a desire to explore the dark side of cinema.
ANDY EDWARDS: When I came on board Airell and Jake had already written the wraparound and the opening and closing stories – they were just looking for a filling for their sandwich. They'd both seen my latest film, the erotic thriller Graphic Desires (out soon!) and thought I'd be a good fit.
As the rest of the film is pretty dark and disturbing, my plan was to come up with something a little more blackly-comic, to serve as a palate cleanser between the other courses. I pitched them several stories, and the one they liked best was "Fuck, Marry, Kill".
What's the set-up for your particular section?
LUDOVICA: My section is "The Peepshow" and unlike the other three it's split throughout the film. It begins when we follow Graham (Richard Cotton) through the streets of Soho, continues into the peepshow and ends with the closing scene. In essence, my section is the glue that ties the other three stories together.
ANDY: "Fuck, Marry, Kill" pretty much does what it says on the tin – our lead protagonist has to choose between three ex-boyfriends and decide one to fuck, one to marry and one to kill. The twist is that all four characters are being held hostage by a demented game-show host (played by Zach Galligan of Gremlins fame) and if our hero Helen (Miki Davis) doesn't complete the tasks, everyone dies.
AIRELL: With my segment "Personal Space" people will hopefully enjoy a new twist of ye olde' home invasion story. I like the direct and alarming energy of those stories, from extreme French thriller Inside (2007) to the brilliant high concept of Don't Breathe (2016). Without wanting to give too much away the story was inspired by watching a home invasion film and hoping it would go in a certain direction, which that one didn't. This one does…
Midnight Peepshow is described as exploring "the nightmare side of psychosexual fantasy." What drew you to this particular area, and how conscious were you of any need to balance the setting's potentially exploitative elements with social comment?
ANDY: I'd already been exploring some of the darker areas of sexual fantasy in Graphic Desires (out on 15th August on demand in the UK!). One of the reasons I wanted to make an erotic thriller in a post #MeToo world was to prove that you could work in that genre without being exploitative of cast or crew, and also appeal to both male and female audiences. Sex has become something of a taboo all over again for filmmakers due to both self-censorship and actual censorship, but I think there are definitely ways of including sexuality in movies without exploiting anyone, whether that be cast or audiences.
One of the things I did on Graphic Desires was use an intimacy co-ordinator named Jamila Wingett, and I brought Jamila with me onto Midnight Peepshow. I shared the best practices I'd learnt, and the other directors used Jamila in their sections too. For anyone thinking of shooting sexual scenes in their next movie, I'd definitely recommend working with an intimacy co-ordinator – both to keep cast and crew feeling safe, but also to get better results on-screen.
Jamila Wingett
As for social commentary, "Fuck, Marry, Kill" – despite the extreme setting – is a relatable scenario, in which a commitment-phobic character is suddenly forced by circumstance to commit. It's essentially a rom-com plot pushed to a dark place by the threat of impending death.
AIRELL: What drew me to this topic was the taboo nature of it. No-one talks about this stuff. Loving films like Clive Barker's Hellraiser and David Cronenberg's Crash we wanted to play around in a different kind of sand pit. Speaking for myself, there was ZERO conscious effort to balance exploitative elements with social commentary. We simply told the story, and let it take us where it wanted to go. Any deliberate attempt at either social commentary or exploitation sticks out like a sore thumb and loses its power. We just followed the story, sometimes into some scary places and dark corners. Life is full of those. Story can shine a light into them – thats the very nature of horror cinema as I see it.
LUDOVICA: My section only deals with the consequences rather than the actions themselves, and without spoiling too much it's actually quite a cathartic segment for all the characters involved, right to the very end.
How would you define the enduring appeal of the portmanteau horror movie, and do you have any particular favourites among the anthology films of the past?
ANDY: I think the appeal is two-fold: firstly they're classic campfire storytelling, and secondly if you don't like a section you know the next one is along in ten minutes and that might be better, something which doesn't happen if you're not enjoying a feature film.
And for filmmakers there are added bonuses – you essentially make a short but get a feature release, and you get to collaborate and see other talented filmmakers in action. On a personal level I've known Jake and Airell for a while now and admired their work, but as we are all directors it would be unusual to collaborate on a standard feature. And I've also got to work with Ludovica, who's working on her first full feature at the moment and is definitely a talent to watch for.
As for favourites, there's probably all the classics most horror fans know, from the Amicus anthologies all the way to the V/H/S series. One that does stick in the mind though is the first Three Extremes movie which is a pan-Asian trilogy of horror shorts, notable for featuring shorts from the legendary Takashi Miike and Park Chan-wook, although the best story is probably "Dumplings" by Fruit Chan.
LUDOVICA: Watching a portmanteau film is essentially like getting a taster menu rather than just a very large main at a restaurant. The audience gets to experience different styles, stories, visions – essentially different recipes. However they all have a theme tying them together, balancing the different flavours and textures.
AIRELL: I think the appeal of the portmanteau horror film is it's a rich celebration of creativity. You get lots of stories, not just one. You're going on a ride with them. Each will thrill / chill you in a different way. You're truly made a child again at the prospect of collection of horror stories presented in one film. It's Christmas morning for horror hounds.
The ones I love are Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) – especially the opening with the two guys driving at night. I remember seeing it as a kid and the way it built suspense was amazing. Trick r' Treat (2007) was a brilliant twisted trilogy of Halloween tales. Michael Dougherty is a genius. Finally, A Christmas Horror Story (2015) had its ups and downs, but the ending knocked the ball completely out of the park. Loved William Shatner's role in it too…
Johnny Restall
Midnight Peepshow has its World Premiere at FrightFest on 26th August 2022. You can check out our podcast episode where we discuss this and other films to look out for here.
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Watch: Conwy boat show offers first chance to get involved in dare-devil flyboarding sport
See our video of the adrenalin fuelled flyboarding sport which you can take part in at this year's All Wales Boat Show
Updated 09:24, 29 MAY 2014
Dare-devil visitors will get the chance to be the first in Wales to try out a spectacular new type of watersport set to make a big splash in Conwy .
The company that brought flyboarding – already tried by Hollywood stars like Leonardo DeCaprio, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel – to the UK will be showcasing the adrenalin-fuelled craze for the first time at the All Wales Boat Show.
One of the highlights for visitors at this year's show, to be staged at Conwy from May 30 to June 1, will be the opportunity to try flyboarding themselves with expert instructors in the safe waters of the marina.
A flyboard is a type of water jetpack connected by a long hose to a powerful jet-ski through which gallons of water are pumped at high pressure.
Water is shot out through jet nozzles beneath the feet of the rider who can be lifted up to 15 metres in the air. By using two hand jets the rider can change the direction of their flight.
It's been described as "flying like a bird while swimming like a dolphin", and more accomplished flyboarders can go on to perform manoeuvres like spins, back-flips and dives.
Mike Dear, head of sales and training at Dumfries-based Wetjets.co.uk, said: "We've demonstrated it at a couple of boat shows but bringing it to Conwy will be the first time it has been available to try at a show in Wales."
"It gives you a real adrenalin buzz and isn't that difficult to learn. I'd say most people can be up and be flying within about 10 minutes and self-sufficient after three or four lessons.
"For safety reasons we've set a lower age limit of 16 but last March we had a guy of 67 doing it on Loch Auchenreoch, near Dumfries, which was still partially frozen at the time.
Wetjets will have flyboards available for anyone to try on all three days of the All Wales Boat Show, offering a 10-minute lesson for £40.
This year's show will be officially opened by the Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, Ken Skates .
Luxury yachts and motorboats will be on show along with cars from Rolls Royce, Bentley and McLaren and motorbikes from Harley Davidson and even a helicopter. At the other end of the spectrum, there will be paddleboarding, coracles and bath-tub racing.
The show is being billed as a Celebration of Welsh Coast Life and the aim is to tap into the potential of the marine leisure industry which pumps around £200 million into the Welsh economy each year.
The 2014 event will be held over three days and will be staged on a single site on the Conwy side of the estuary instead of being split over two locations.
For more information go to www.allwalesboatshow.com


Currently Turn 36, for such a small template I'm surprised a game could last so long, any veterans willing to explain?
Small Earth can have stalemate situations.
Actually, the smaller the map, the bigger probability of stalemate.
Well, for what it's worth . . .
Here's a game I played on the same map that went until turn 65. But there were five players.
Quite an amusing game it was though. First I played musical continents, from Australia to South America. Then sat around for a while, doing nothing but building up armies and watching the others duke it out.
Then blasted out and captured the majority of the map, and almost won the game against the dominant player--only to find myself driven all the way back to Australia, where I was finally destroyed.


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The Snyder Cut: The Walking Dead's Creator Robert Kirkman Is a Supporter
bySergio Pereira
Tags: Justice LeagueMoviesSnyder CutThe Walking DeadZack Snyder
Even though it's been nearly two years since the release of Justice League, that hasn't stopped fans from asking for the Snyder Cut of the film. High-profile individuals, such as Jason Momoa, Kevin Smith and Rob Liefeld, have thrown their support behind the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement, and now there's another person to add to that list: The Walking Dead's creator Robert Kirkman.
As reported by ComicBook.com, Kirkman screamed, "Release the Snyder Cut!" during The Walking Dead's Season 10 premiere. Kirkman's comment came while actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan discussed the possibility of portraying Flashpoint Batman in the DCEU (he said he'd do it if given the opportunity, by the way).
It should come as no surprise that Kirkman is a fan of Snyder's work. In April of this year, he tweeted about his excitement for Snyder's upcoming zombie film, Army of the Dead, starring Dave Bautista.
In the past, Kirkman has even defended Snyder's work from criticism. Just before the release of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, he spoke at an SXSW panel and provided interesting analysis about the DCEU at the time.
"Anyone would be foolish to think that Marvel hasn't done something extremely special. I think of Iron Man ending with a surprise cameo from Samuel L. Jackson [mentioning] the Avengers – you were like, 'What?! How did that happen?!' People forget that was a surprise. Everything that came out of that was very organic and very exciting," he said.
"I think [DC] announcing you're going to do a Justice League movie after a Superman movie, that was neat and had some awesome things in it, but it wasn't like amazing or ground-breaking – I shouldn't have said that. [Man of Steel] was an awesome movie, I like it. [The plan] just seems derivative, so it puts them in a backseat position to Marvel. It's not organic so there's going to be so much scrutiny on Batman V Superman when it comes out; it's got an uphill battle. If they hadn't told anybody if the Justice League were going to [be] appearing in that, and they were forming that, it would have been surprising and exciting and weird. People are forgetting how important the surprise is. But, you know, Aquaman looks awesome and I'm sure it will be great."
If you consider Kirkman's response, he looked into the crystal ball and made extremely valid points. The DCEU had an uphill battle from the start, because everything was compared to the MCU and it was always playing catch-up. As a result, Snyder took a lot of the heat when things didn't pan out as Warner Bros. had expected. Some fans saw through it and felt Snyder was unfairly maligned, hoping that his true vision for his last DC film would be released.
As the pressure for the Snyder Cut of Justice League mounts, it'll be curious to see if the studio heeds the calls and gives in. One thing's for sure, though: Kirkman is another person who'd love to see it as much as us.
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Much respect to Kirkman. Always great when the industry heavyweights support something the fans want. #ReleaseTheSnyderCut


Imagine a Tug Hill without it's rolling fields and farms, those deep woodlands, or the rivers and streams that define so many of our communities.
Imagine, if Tug Hill lost the very essence of what makes it special; our relationship to the land, each other, and our history.
While you may not see massive residential and commercial developments, like you might see in other parts of New York State or the country, development is chopping up lands every year. This steady, "death by a thousand cuts", could destroy the farms, wildlife habitat, and recreational lands of Tug Hill if we don't balance development with land and water conservation.
And that's what we are doing, in partnership with local towns, organizations, community groups and individuals like you.
We are here to support families and communities alike to conserve the special places of Tug Hill; the very places that are the heart and soul of our region.
You would think that balancing development and the conservation of farms and natural areas would be enough to do. But it's not.
Research from Yale has documented that increasing numbers of children and adults, even in rural areas like Tug Hill, are increasingly disconnected to farms and nature. And that spells trouble for long-term conservation.
Because, to quote Steven Jay Gould, a renowned scientist and writer, "We will not fight to save what we do not love." In other words, we need future generations to care about conservation just like you do so that they will support these efforts for years to come.
Whether hunting, fishing, walking, hiking, skilling or snowmobiling; kayaking, canoeing, tubing or swimming, the recreational experiences of Tug Hill are unparalleled.
By conserving these lands we are conserving a way of life as well as a central part of the local economy.
By offering free programs, conserving lands for the public to enjoy, or protecting the region's working farms and forestlands, together we are creating a future for Tug Hill that will ensure clean water, jobs, great places to experience the out-of-doors and a sense of place for generations.


William C. Friday was the founding co-chairman of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Friday served as the President of the University of North Carolina for thirty years until his retirement in 1986.
In 1989, Friday and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, were tapped as chairmen of the newly-formed Knight Commission. The two men led the Commission together until 2000, when Father Hesburgh retired. Mr. Friday remained chairman until May 2005, when he announced that Thomas K. Hearn Jr., outgoing president of Wake Forest University, would take his place.
Under Friday's and Hesburgh's leadership, the Commission successfully advocated for presidential control of intercollegiate athletics, rigorous academic standards for athletes, and a certification process requiring athletics departments to prove that they were running fiscally responsible, equitable, and ethical sports programs.
At North Carolina, Friday worked to ensure fairness and integrity in the university through the conflicts arising from desegregation and the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s, mediating between a conservative legislature and student activists. His commitment to education enabled the development of an accomplished, excellent faculty at UNC and supported the establishment of rigorous academic standards and the expansion of the university from three to sixteen campuses, fostering the university's reputation as one of the most respected institutions of higher education in the country.
William Friday has served in leadership roles on a number of national committees, boards, and commissions, among them the Association of American Universities; the Commission on White House Fellows; the Presidential Task Force on Education under two administrations; and the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. He has been honored with many awards for his service, including the American Council on Education's Distinguished Service Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1986, the National Humanities Medal in 1997, and the American Academy for Liberal Education's Jacques Barzun Award in 1999. In 1986, a study by the Council of Advancement and Support of Education rated him the most effective public university president in the nation.
William Friday graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in textile engineering in 1941 and received his law degree from the Law School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1948. Friday served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 until 1946.
Please LINK HERE for a Tribute to William C. Friday, 1920-2012.