Where exactly did you see that Masayuki Nagao did Desert Palace?
Yeah, Jun Senoue did most of Sonic Adventure.
You guys should do a show that showcases a popular 8/16 bit tracks and how it evolved through current systems. Mario, Sonic, Final Fantasy (aka most things Square), and Castlevania (the clocktower theme, oh yeah!) would be prime grounds for an episode like that.
You guys have probably the most geeky podcast I've ever heard. But please don't sing any more. Especially over tracks. It ruins it for me. I even said please. Please.
This and the Rock episode are two of my favorites. Any chance we might see a return to the hyper-mammalian soundtrack?
I found the youtube clip you were referring to in which you played a rendition of Marble Zone (Hilarious btw). Quick question though: could you please tell me what was played at 1:58? It's driving me crazy. I kinda feel like it could be Marble Zone, but I'm not sure.
The music at 1:58 isn't from a video game. It's just the chords to an original composition by Brent. A disco song actually.
Well, for what it's worth, I really enjoyed it. Had a kind of Vince Guaraldi feel to it. Well done!
I played one of the Sonic games but only for a short time so I don't have any connection to music in this episode but I enjoyed it all the same.
Interesting note about Michael Jackson supposedly worked on the Sonic game.
Brent comments again about Guile's ending music sounds better on the SNES than Genesis. Of course, this goes back to his comment from an earlier epiode. This is just as funny as the first time I heard it.
Best line in the episode was Rob commenting on Super Mario Brothers not having any dating music, but it does have strung along music. It references what he said earlier what he said earlier in the episode about Princess Toad.
Speaking of the Jacksons, it appears that Janet was playing Sonic on the Sega Master System becuase "Together Again" (released 1997) sounds exactly the same as "Bridge Zone" (released 1991)!
I did an a cappella cover of the Sky Sanctuary Zone music.


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Desktop Calendars, 4 Season Calendars?
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i haven't made any of those items yet, Christine, although I know many ladies who do. Thank you for asking.


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Contact & Bookings
Luna Rumba / Duende
Luna Rumba Productions
Espiritu De Amor (The Spirit of Love), Duende's new music video! Check it out!
If you like what you see, consider voting for it in the IMA (Independent Music Awards) music video category. Please vote now before it goes public using the link below.
The story behind the new video
It was shot in and around Puerta Vallarta's Banderas Bay last season. Beach scenes were shot near Punta de Mita at both Destiladeras Beach and at La Lancha Beach in Nayarit. Live performance scenes were shot at Tracy Park's new nightclub "Incanto" in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. The song chosen for the video already won an international award (International Songwriting Contest - 2nd place with honorable mention, 2014) and we are hoping for another one! The same incredible talent that photographed Duende's promotional and concert images, was asked again to help direct, film and edit this new video - Oceanu of Oceanu Vision & Art.
We have submitted this video to the Music Video category of the IMA awards - please take a second to vote and support us!
You can vote by following this link:
https://fans.independentmusicawards.com/artists/duende/
Duende presents an unforgettable musical experience
The musical trio, Duende has combined the talents of 3 professionally trained, accomplished, musicians/entertainers to bring us a most satisfying, exquisite, world-class show. This is not 'high brow' music, but an unforgettable, musical experience shared in a relaxed, fun and completely entertaining performance. You might expect to see this level of entertainment in an arena of 20,000 or more, but we found ourselves pleasantly surprised to find it in a small venue of 100 people.
The goal of the musical trio, Duende is to give the audience new ways to think about the music that we all love. It is to imagine, create, arrange and share with all people who love music! The spirit of Duende is born of struggle and suffering. True creativity has this spirit flowing through its music, art and words. These musicians are serious about communicating the music, but doing it in a fun, lighthearted way!
Duende is infused with breathtaking musical talent, creativity, art, dance and hybrid instruments which leads to an exquisite, exciting and captivating musical experience.
The music is eclectic and covers both classical and popular. The extraordinary blending of 8 instruments, including the 5 string cello (with a range from cello to bass), the 5 string violin (covering violin to viola), acoustic guitar and percussion (including various drums and some unique percussion instruments) create a remarkable sound. Their goal is to find different melodies and rhythms and present them in new and creative ways.
On Saturday night at Octopus Garden in La Cruz, we heard dramatic and enjoyable interpretations of familiar songs, like "Eleanor Rigby," "Wild Horses" and "Wake Me Up," along with classical and gypsy/flamenco numbers. The musical group, Bohemia Viva, were guest artists for a thrilling set that included, "Dust in the Wind," "Unchained Melody" and "I Can See Clearly Now." Together the groups ended the night with an encore, featuring the Sting classic, "Fragile." As Duende and Bohemia Viva performed together, my first thought was, "Wow, these two groups need to do a worldwide tour!" Yes, they were that good!!!
Luis Rascon on cello, flute (the thousand year-old sound of a Duduk), drums, keyboards, etc… continues to show us in every performance that he is a musical wizard with a complete mastery of the music, playing perfectly in synch with Lilly Alcantara on percussion and Geo Ulrich on guitar and violin. Lilly with her beauty, grace and joy was simply riveting as a dancer, as well! With pleasing harmonies and vocals mixed into the performance, the show completely enthralled us throughout their two hour performance.
Duende's sound is a true collaborative effort as Geo writes the music and Lilly and Luis practice the new rhythms, passing creative suggestions back and forth. Duende commonly puts in 12 hour practice days preparing for their shows. This season they have added new music, vocals and original dance. Duende is all about 3 souls, sharing, collaborating and connecting as they present fresh, innovative and exciting 'world music' in every performance.
To create a full sound with just 3 musicians (without back tracks), Duende uses state of the art synchronized double looping. We hear the melody in the background as the looping works to create a complete sound. Their energies are focused on making merged melodies, interesting fusions, a touch of classic masterpieces, along with new tones and rhythms.
Duende brings a unique and exceptionally satisfying sound to Banderas Bay this season with their shows at Incanto Vallarta and Octopus Garden in La Cruz (on the North Shore.) From the classics to Rumba, pop, rock, gypsy, flamenco and now some African inspired rhythms from Geo's recent time in South Africa, Duende is always fresh and innovative! Come and see how this group has evolved in only one year, into a spectacular, world-class musical 'tour de force.' I guarantee you will be entertained!
Dudende performs at Incanto Vallarta on Friday nights and at Octopus Garden in La Cruz (on the North Shore) on select Saturday nights throughout the season. Go to www.incantovallarta.com and 'Octopus Garden/Hikuri' on facebook to see a full schedule of their upcoming shows. Please contact fernanda00008@hotmail for information or to book tickets for Duende at Octopus Garden. Duende's guest artists, Bohemia Viva, perform their new show 'Sound Garden' each Wednesday night at Incanto Vallarta
'A mysterious force that everyone feels, but no one can explain. The poet said, "The Duende is not in the throat. Duende surges up from inside – from the soles of one's feet." Musical ideas begin to coalesce into a structure that evolves, takes shape and then comes to life!
https://www.vallartadaily.com/living/entertainment/review-duende-presents-unforgettable-musical-experience/
When you put all your heart and good intentions into something, it is wonderful to see the result. We had the best season ever!. Started with a clean empty canvas and we end up with a beautiful result...... We feel so proud and thankful for Duende. Thank you, Tracy Parks for believing in our project, Thank you, Beverly Fairfax the pictures and promo. Gilberto Figueroa Puerto Vallarta it is refreshing to see your dedication and loyalty. Incanto Staff is amazing. We spend many hours there and we always felt like home. Thank you, Alfredo Jiménez and Marichui, for your support. You did an amazing job.7 sold out concerts is not an easy thing to do. Thank you, Gary R Beck, Vallarta Heather Wilson, Deb Jean, and Marcia Blondin for your support, you are a BIG part of Duende success.You tell the world what we are doing:), we appreciate much what you do. I want to thank Guicho Dominguez and Lilly Alcantara I have so much respect and admiration for you. I know this was not easy to do. Many nights of practicing, dedication and love paid off!!!, you are like family to us and we love your family and kids. Thank you to Christian Valverde and Pau León for supporting your love ones. Geo Uhrich I have so much respect for you. I admired your efforts and dedication. Many nights working on the creation of Duende. You never gave up. You are amazing and I love you so much. See you next season.....
When one door closes, another opens.
Geo & Luis and Lilly from Luna Rumba have teamed up to create our new production: Duende (The spirit of Creativity)
To say that we are excited to tell you about this is a big understatement! Take a look at our preliminary press release:
Luna Rumba Productions Presents: Duende (The spirit of Creativity)
What is Duende?
'A mysterious force that everyone feels but no-one can explain.'The poet said: "The Duende is not in the throat, the Duende surges up, from inside - from the soles of ones feet."
Musical ideas begin to coalesce into a structure that evolves, take shape and then comes to life.
We decided to continue to evolve and to create the evolution of a new hope……..Restriction has opened a door to creativity.
A total of eight instruments - blending the thousand year old sound of a Duduk and gut-string guitar with modern day classics:
Pop/Classical, Gypsy Rumba/Celtic, Rockin' Beethoven, R&B/Reggae, Folk/Bossa… are just some.
Geo Uhrich, Luis Rascon and Lilly Alcantara set out a clear mantra by focusing their energies on making merged melodies, interesting fusions, a touch of classic master pieces, new tones and rhythms where there's always something a bit different and unique and surprises are just around the corner. The level of professionalism and commitment has never been higher.
The Spirit of Creativity… Duende was made possible by new technology. All the music is professionally scored (written) in multi-instrumental parts and incorporate the all the instruments that Luis and Geo play: Nylon Guitar, 5 String Electric Violin, 5 String Electric Cello, Cello, Keyboards, Electric Guitar, Flute, Duduk and Percussion. This is not "backing tracks"! Everything but the drum set is played live with the entertaining use of new technology. The melodies you love with a presentation that's amazing.
The secret is in the technology of Loopers, which we are bringing to a new level in live performance use. That, plus the fact that Duende uses custom instruments that have a wider and more expressive pallet of notes and sounds.
We want the opportunity to connect with all kinds of people and give our audience new ways to think about the music we all love. To imagine, create and arrange this effort has been a beautiful gift to us personally. We want to share that love with all people who love music!
Music is the language of the soul
Duende is the soul of the music
Official Website for the band Luna Rumba - Copyright 2013 - All Rights Reserved
Espiritu de Amor 4:24
Time to Fly 4:50

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Loyola Law School > Academics > Experiential Learning > Moot Court & Trial Advocacy Programs
Moot Court & Trial Advocacy Programs
American Bar Association Team
Byrne Trial Advocacy Team
HNBA National Moot Court Team
ICC Mediation
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Team
Law Association of Asia and the Western Pacific Team
Loyola International Commercial Arbitration Moot
National Civil Trial Competition
National Environmental Law Team
National Moot Court Team
Practitioner Moot Program
Scott Moot Court Team
Transactional Negotiation Team
Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Teams
Members of Loyola's Byrne Trial Advocacy Team were named National Semifinalists at the 2018 National Board of Trial Advocates' Tournament of Champions, a competition they won in 2015.
Loyola leads the field in advocacy with teams named champions of more than 100 competitions and consistently ranks in the top 10 among trial and advocacy programs by U.S. News & World Report. Our teams regularly win regional, national and international awards. Loyola's programs promote innovative curriculum and a commitment to ethical advocacy by offering a multitude of practical learning opportunities. Loyola places a strong emphasis on skills training to better equip students for a competitive job market after graduation.
Faculty advisers and renowned alumni are on hand to offer guidance and support along the way. More than 200 Loyola alumni currently preside as trial court judges in Southern California -- more than from any other school.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR TEAMS' RECENT VICTORIES AND LEARN ABOUT LOYOLA'S LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE IN TRIAL ADVOCACY AND MOOT COURT PROGRAMS.
Cardozo/BMI Entertainment Moot Court
Loyola's Entertainment Moot provides students the chance to try out their entertainment litigation skills in a mock court setting.
Cardozo/BMI competition website is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/cardozobmimootcourtcompetition/
Environmental Law Moot
This statewide competition against other California law schools is sponsored by the State Bar of California Section on Environmental Law. Students will analyze an environmental fact pattern, analyze the law, gather facts, determine a strategy and negotiate on behalf of one of the parties.
HNBA
The Hispanic National Bar Association sponsors an annual moot court competition made up of approximately 30 schools from around the country. Each school may enter a team consisting of two or three members. Students chosen for Loyola's team must first write a brief. They then engage in a month-long series of practice rounds before traveling to the competition. The competition problem is prepared by the HNBA and typically involves issues of Constitutional Law, often coupled with a statutory claim.
Scott Moot Court Honors Program
In the Scott Moot Court Honors Program, upper-division students are given an appellate problem for which they must write a judged research brief and participate in a judged oral argument on behalf of both appellant and appellee. The top four oralists compete in the final round for the award of Best Oralist. In addition, the student writing the Best Brief and the Best Advocate, the student with the highest combined brief and oral scores, are also recognized at the conclusion of the Competition.
Williams Gender & Sexuality Law
The Williams Institute hosts the only national competition dedicated exclusively to the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity law. The competition provides an opportunity for competitors to write an appellate brief on a current legal topic and to argue the case before a panel of judges. The competition is designed to promote and recognize the finest oral and written advocacy on a significant problem in sexual orientation and gender identity law.
The Byrne Trial Advocacy Team is a nationally ranked competitive mock trial team where talented second-, third- and fourth-year students have the rare opportunity to receive extensive, individualized training in all aspects of trial advocacy. Students earn six units for the first year on the team and four units for subsequent years. Each year, team members are selected based on an intramural competition held at the end of the spring semester.
The Greene Broillet & Wheeler National Civil Trial Competition is an invitational tournament open to all ABA-accredited law schools that have demonstrated excellence in mock trial competitions and/or demonstrated excellence in the training of law students in litigation skills. The purpose of the tournament is to provide student litigants an opportunity to develop and display the skills of a successful civil litigator. Students will be required to perform opening statements, direct- and cross-examination of expert and lay witnesses and finally closing arguments, as well as argue objections based on the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration
The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (VIS) has become one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the world. It takes place every year in Vienna, Austria, and Hong Kong, and it sees participants from almost 300 law schools, coming from more than 60 countries.
Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court
The Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) competition established to train law students how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations. Since its inception in 1995, the yearly Competition has trained over 1,000 students and faculty participants from over 100 universities throughout the Americas and beyond. Written on a cutting-edge topic currently debated within the Inter-American system, the hypothetical case operates as the basis of the competition, and students argue the merits of this case by writing legal memoranda and preparing oral arguments for presentation in front of human rights experts acting as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Recent topics include: freedom of speech, gender discrimination and rape, freedom of the press, torture, labor unions, indigenous rights, and terrorism.
The Transactional Negotiation Team began in the 2009-2010 academic year and offers students a "moot court-like" experience in a transactional setting. Team members are given a complex business problem and, after research and analysis, develop a strategy for representing their client in the matter. They draft a term sheet or an agreement presenting their client's proposal for completing the transaction, then review and respond to drafts prepared by the students representing the other side of the prospective deal.
Practitioner Moot
Loyola Law School's Practitioner Moot Program allows attorneys with pending oral argument dates in federal or state appellate courts to have their cases thoroughly mooted by faculty experts and experienced litigators in the area.
Loyola has hosted moots for cases later argued in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal, among others, involving a wide range of issues. Feedback from practitioners who have availed themselves of the opportunity to moot their cases has been extraordinarily positive.
Loyola's practitioner moot builds on some of Loyola's competitive advantages, including a history of success with the student moots above. Loyola Law School's faculty boasts more former Ninth Circuit clerks than any other law school in the Ninth Circuit. Loyola also has an extensive array of faculty members with appellate practice experience and expertise mooting appellate advocates, including mooting members of the U.S. Solicitor General's Office for arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. And Loyola has longstanding close relationships with consistent appellate practitioners, including the ACLU, the Office of the Federal Public Defender, and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Professor Rebecca Delfino
Director, Moot Court Programs
Founders Hall 230
rebecca.delfino@lls.edu
Susan Poehls
Director, Trial Advocacy Programs
(o) 213.736.8173
susan.poehls@lls.edu


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Q: How to find unique number in 2D Array I have a 2D array, the index of the outer array represents the StateID and the integers in the inner arrays represent the StoreIDs.
StoreStateList = [[1,2],[1,2,3],[1,3,7,9],[1,8,12],[7,9,12]]

I am trying to find a state that has a store that no other state has. e.g. state 3 with StoreID 8.
My current implementation consists of 4 nested loops which appears inefficient. Does anyone know how I can make the function more efficient?
function findUniqueStore(StoreRegionList)

   for state in range(len(StoreRegionList):

      state_count = 0

      for store in StoreStateList[state]:
         // check if the store in the state occurs in any other state
         for state_inner in range(len(StoreRegionList)):
            for store_inner in StoreStateList[state_inner]:
               if store == store_inner:
                  state_count += 1

    if state_count == 1:

       return state

A: You can use two python sets to store potential unique elements and visited elements. Inside your two first for loops, check if the current element has already been seen, if not add it to potential unique elements or otherwise remove it from unique elements if it is still there :
def findUniqueStore(StoreRegionList):

   visitedNumbers = set()
   uniqueNumbers = set()

   for state in range(len(StoreRegionList):
      for store in StoreStateList[state]:
         // check if the store in the state occurs in any other state
         if store not in visitedNumbers:
             uniqueNumbers.add(store)
             visitedNumbers.add(store)
         elif store in uniqueNumbers:
             uniqueNumbers.remove(store)

    if len(uniqueNumbers)>0:
       return next(iter(uniqueNumbers))

This gives a nlog(n) solution where n is the total number of elements, as opposed to n² for yours.
Edit : I did not realise you didn't explicitly asked for a python solution, but the point is you can use sets which are in every language's standard library and usually implemented with balanced binary trees to support insertion, check and deletion of elements in log(n) time.

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You can learn more about ACTA here. One of the main concerns is that it's another attempt to punish people based on accusations without due process and without processes for accused to defend themselves.
ACTA has made it past the UK government with no input from stakeholders (e.g. the public) or discussion by parliament. The trade agreement is now in the European Parliament, so we should now get a chance to prevent it being put in place. Apparently it will be discussed some time after June.


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"""
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sMRI: Using ANTS for registration
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In this simple tutorial we will use the Registration interface from ANTS to
coregister two T1 volumes.

1. Tell python where to find the appropriate functions.
"""

from __future__ import print_function
from future import standard_library
standard_library.install_aliases()

import os
import urllib.request
import urllib.error
import urllib.parse
from nipype.interfaces.ants import Registration

"""
2. Download T1 volumes into home directory
"""

homeDir = os.getenv("HOME")
requestedPath = os.path.join(homeDir, 'nipypeTestPath')
mydatadir = os.path.realpath(requestedPath)
if not os.path.exists(mydatadir):
    os.makedirs(mydatadir)
print(mydatadir)

MyFileURLs = [
    ('http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/download?bitstream=13121', '01_T1_half.nii.gz'),
    ('http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/download?bitstream=13122', '02_T1_half.nii.gz'),
]
for tt in MyFileURLs:
    myURL = tt[0]
    localFilename = os.path.join(mydatadir, tt[1])
    if not os.path.exists(localFilename):
        remotefile = urllib.request.urlopen(myURL)

        localFile = open(localFilename, 'wb')
        localFile.write(remotefile.read())
        localFile.close()
        print("Downloaded file: {0}".format(localFilename))
    else:
        print("File previously downloaded {0}".format(localFilename))

input_images = [
    os.path.join(mydatadir, '01_T1_half.nii.gz'),
    os.path.join(mydatadir, '02_T1_half.nii.gz'),
]

"""
3. Define the parameters of the registration
"""

reg = Registration()
reg.inputs.fixed_image = input_images[0]
reg.inputs.moving_image = input_images[1]
reg.inputs.output_transform_prefix = 'thisTransform'
reg.inputs.output_warped_image = 'INTERNAL_WARPED.nii.gz'

reg.inputs.output_transform_prefix = "output_"
reg.inputs.transforms = ['Translation', 'Rigid', 'Affine', 'SyN']
reg.inputs.transform_parameters = [(0.1,), (0.1,), (0.1,), (0.2, 3.0, 0.0)]
reg.inputs.number_of_iterations = ([[10000, 111110, 11110]] * 3 +
                                   [[100, 50, 30]])
reg.inputs.dimension = 3
reg.inputs.write_composite_transform = True
reg.inputs.collapse_output_transforms = False
reg.inputs.metric = ['Mattes'] * 3 + [['Mattes', 'CC']]
reg.inputs.metric_weight = [1] * 3 + [[0.5, 0.5]]
reg.inputs.radius_or_number_of_bins = [32] * 3 + [[32, 4]]
reg.inputs.sampling_strategy = ['Regular'] * 3 + [[None, None]]
reg.inputs.sampling_percentage = [0.3] * 3 + [[None, None]]
reg.inputs.convergence_threshold = [1.e-8] * 3 + [-0.01]
reg.inputs.convergence_window_size = [20] * 3 + [5]
reg.inputs.smoothing_sigmas = [[4, 2, 1]] * 3 + [[1, 0.5, 0]]
reg.inputs.sigma_units = ['vox'] * 4
reg.inputs.shrink_factors = [[6, 4, 2]] + [[3, 2, 1]] * 2 + [[4, 2, 1]]
reg.inputs.use_estimate_learning_rate_once = [True] * 4
reg.inputs.use_histogram_matching = [False] * 3 + [True]
reg.inputs.initial_moving_transform_com = True

print(reg.cmdline)

"""
3. Run the registration
"""

reg.run()

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The Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquium (RMSC) has been running yearly since 2013, and has a central aim of educating and training young researchers in Ecology, alongside promoting their network and getting involved in academic debates. The 6th edition of the colloquium will serve as an opportunity to foster learning and discussions on the relevance of an interdisciplinary perspective in Ecology & Evolution. The event will consist of lectures, activities, and group discussion sessions. Advanced doctoral students and early post-docs are especially encouraged to apply.
Local and international lecturers will be invited to the event to work at the forefront of ecological and evolutionary research, applying state-of-the-art omics approaches.


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Among the Hooligans
June 13, 2000 12:01 am ET
F an is short for fanatic -- a linguistic observation that has surely been in the minds of Belgian and Dutch policemen in the last few days.
The Low Countries are the hosts of Euro2000, the month-long series of football contests that allows one nation to win the silver cup and Belgium and the Netherlands to reap a fortune in hotel revenues, restaurant tabs, bus tickets, and beer bills. But over that mountain of cash falls the shadow of the hooligan, the fan turned fanatic.
The Belgian government, at all levels, is expecting to spend more than $500 million on security -- added police, armored trucks, body armor, concrete barricades as well as plainclothes "spotters" to identify rowdies, nine new temporary jails to hold them, and fleets of rented buses to deport them. The Dutch government is taking similar precautions. Nor will the economic gain be as great as expected; many pubs and cafes are closing to avoid mayhem. Governments could end up spending more to guard against the football fanatic than they will earn in tax revenues from sales to football fans.
Of course, most of the more than 1.2 million people expected to attend the 31 matches will be peaceful and lawful: old women with tiny Norwegian flags painted on their cheeks, enthusiastic teenagers waving a bath towel-sized Italian flag, and entire families bedecked in Viking horns and their team's jerseys. And that's just outside the stadium.
But inside the mind of the hooligan, the innocent obsession with football has a sinister dimension. He is not a fan with an eidetic memory for old league scores, but a fanatic with a score to settle. Nor is he a man who simply drinks too much as his team scores too little. As police intelligence has long known, the hooligan is a different species from homo sportsfanicus. He is a criminal, often a gang member, who comes from every corner of Europe and uses football matches as cover for petty theft and grand violence. He longs for violence, as a number of hooligan Web sites devoted to coordinating English attempts to attack Turks reveal. And he is a predator who can easily hide amongst his prey.


RESULT OF A REAR-END COLLISION ON THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
TWO OTHER NEGROES AND THREE WHITE MEN HURT - FATALITIES IN TWO WRECKS ON THE PENNSYLVANIA.
New Orleans, Nov. 19. - A rear-end collision on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Kentwood, La., eighty-five miles from New Orleans, tonight, resulted in the killing of twenty negroes. Two other negroes and three white men were injured, some of them fatally.
The collision was between the McComb City accommodation train and the Northern express bound to Chicago. The McComb City train left here at 3:50 p.m. It should have sidetracked to let the express which left at 5:30, go by, but lost time before it reached Kentwood. Near that station the express train ran it down. The rear coach of the accommodation, filled with negroes, many of them section hands who had been picked up on the way, was completely wrecked. The engine of the express did not leave the track and after an hour's delay the through train proceeded.
Physicians from McComb City and Kentwood were sent to the scene of the wreck to attend the injured. No list of the dead or injured has been received at the railroad office here.
ANDREW KISEG, Crystal Springs, Miss.
BUD WILSON, fireman No. 6, McComb City, Miss.
ERVIN LOVE, Rogue Chitto, Miss.
V. S. GRANT, Eutah, Ala.
W. SMITH, Crystal Springs, Miss.


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Post-Brexit climate change policy to be discussed following push from House of Lords
This week, academics and energy sector bodies will discuss the future of Britain's post-Brexit climate change policy, following a call to action from the House of Lords.
The House of Lords EU energy and environment sub-committee launched an inquiry earlier this week, with the intent of ascertaining what the UK's key interests will be in shaping a new environment prior to official Brexit negotiations.
The first evidence session will take place on Wednesday 26 October and will seek to determine the level of co-operation needed with the EU in order to achieve the UK's aims going forward.
Reports have revealed that the session will be split into two sections:
An examination of the UK's legislative position once Brexit takes effect, and what the UK will do in order to enforce environmental protection and climate change policy going forward.
An analysis of the UK's future involvement with the EU with regards to developing environmental policy. This will include a re-examination of Britain's key priorities for environmental policy post-Brexit.
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The Impact of Salt Reduction in Baked Goods
Aleksandar Yovchev1 | Martin Scanlon2 | Michael Nickerson1*
Dietary intake of sodium chloride (NaCl, commonly known as salt) has increased considerably over the last few decades due to changes in the human diet. The main source of NaCl in our diet is processed foods, accounting for ~70-75% of the total intake, with cereal and cereal products contributing 30-35% of overall intake.1,2 It has been widely reported that high daily NaCl intake results in hypertension as well as numerous cardio-vascular diseases and other health problems.3,4 This results in a serious strain on health systems which can have a negative impact on society. Cardiovascular disease (apoplexy, heart attack, heart failure) as a result of hypertension is thought to be the most common cause of death in industrial countries.5 Because cereal foods comprise a significant amount of our diet, yeast-leavened products are a major source of dietary sodium; therefore there is significant consumer and government demand on the baking industry to explore ways to reduce sodium in its products. The importance of such reduction has been highlighted by legislations introduced by the European Union6, Canada7, and the United States8. The World Health Organization (WHO)9 has set a target of a 30% relative reduction in population NaCl intake for all member countries of the United Nations by 2025. Baked goods, and in particular bread, are considered as a key target in salt-reduction strategies.10 As part of Health Canada's Sodium Working Group strategy, targeted sodium levels in pan bread should reach ~330 mg/100g by 2016. For the strategy to be successful, partnerships between the responsible organizations from industry, various government agencies, and research institutions would be required.
Impact on protein functionality and dough quality
Concerning cereal proteins, the unique capability of wheat gluten to build up a network structure is well known. Gluten proteins have been divided into roughly equal fractions according to their solubility in alcohol-water solutions of gluten (e.g. 60% ethanol): the soluble gliadins and the insoluble glutenins. The appearance of wheat dough viscoelastic properties is largely attributable to the functionality of gluten molecules. It is widely accepted that glutenin contributes mainly to gluten's elastic properties while gliadin contributes primarily to its flow properties. Wheat dough is generally regarded as a complex material composed of a hydrated protein network in which starch granules and insoluble flour particles are dispersed. Cysteine belongs to the minor amino acids of gluten proteins (~2%), but it is extremely important for the structure and functionality of gluten.11 Most cysteines are present in an oxidized state and form either intrachain disulphide bonds within a protein or interchain disulphide bonds between proteins. These bonds are the main target for most redox reactions that occur during dough preparation and baking.12 Additional covalent bonds formed are tyrosine-tyrosine crosslinks between gluten proteins13 and tyrosine-dehydroferulic acid crosslinks between gluten proteins and arabinoxylans.14 The incorporation of NaCl increases the ordering of the water structure, and also aids in the exposure of apolar groups on protein to the solvent, and thus allows proteins to interact with each other through hydrophobic interactions.15,16 The hydrophobic interactions between gluten proteins play an important role in stabilizing gluten.17 Reduction of NaCl causes a weakening of the dough and an increase in water mobility within the dough matrix, resulting in sticky dough.
Stickiness is a surface-related property related to both adhesive and cohesive forces. Dough with a weaker gluten network tends to have high and low adhesive and cohesive forces, respectively, leading to the stickiness phenomenon.18,19 In contrast, dough with a well-developed gluten network displays low and high adhesive and cohesive forces, respectively, enabling it to be processed well. Dough stickiness is the major limiting factor of NaCl reduction as it relates to the baking industry. In manufacturing, stickiness can lead to low product yield, operational issues, equipment wear and fire hazards.18,20 Whilst dough can often be well-handled and successfully baked on a small scale, production of low-salt baked goods on a big industrialized scale requires precise description of the rheological changes in dough to secure good machinability and proper handling.
Impact on quality characteristics of the final product
A wide variety of baked goods can be found on the supermarket shelves, such as breads, unsweetened rolls and buns, dessert pies, pizza, crackers, cookies, and others. Based on the method of leavening, baked goods can be classified as biologically (yeast) leavened, chemically leavened or unleavened. NaCl as an ingredient in dough formulations has a significant impact on the final quality of yeast leavened products, in particular bread. In bread making, the fermentation is the second important stage, after dough mixing. Dough passes through several stages of fermentation. The role of NaCl in controlling the fermentation is not only due to the increase in osmotic pressure, but also to specific actions of sodium and chloride on the semipermeable membranes of the yeast cells.21 A reduction in NaCl level causes an increased yeast activity and higher CO2 production. As the gluten network becomes weaker at reduced level of NaCl, dough has trouble entrapping the higher amounts of CO2, which negatively affects the bubble distribution within the crumb and leads to a greater level of collapse and defects in the final product.2
The baking process is the final stage, where the relatively high temperatures result in a profound change in taste, flavour, and texture in the dough. During baking a number of physical changes occur, including the rapid expansion of CO2 and water vapor as well as starch gelatinization and protein denaturation.22 These phenomena play a key role in the formation of the two sections of bread, the crust and crumb. Crumb formation involves the change of the gas fraction in dough, which is a disperse phase like foam, into a sponge structure where the gas cells are interconnected. At the beginning of baking the temperature rises up to about 100°C and is maintained there as long as the outer layer contains free moisture. The moisture evaporates or diffuses to the enterior.22 As soon as the temperature rises above 110°C processes such as nonenzymatic browning (known as Maillard reaction) begin. The reduction of NaCl influences the crust flavour and colour due to the impact on yeast activity. Increasing yeast activity leads to a reduction in the amount of free reducing sugars remaining for these processes. The melanoidins formed by the Maillard reaction contribute essentially to the flavour composition of baked goods. Moreover, clinical biochemical studies have recently shown that these browning products partly exhibit antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic properties.23 Most of the odorants which produce the aroma profile originate from the crust. The light crust of NaCl reduced bread is caused by a lack of melanoidins. The contribution of crust to the whole flavour composition of bread is reduced and the bread tastes insipid and stale.24 A descriptive sensory evaluation showed that bread without NaCl lies in the area of sensorial space described by ''sour/acidic", ''sourdough" and ''yeasty" flavour attributes2, thus making it unappealing to consumers.
Impact on shelf life
Baked goods, except cookies and crackers, belong to the group of intermediate moisture (having water activity 0.6 < aw < 0.85) and high moisture baked products (aw > 0.85).25 While physical and chemical spoilage problems limit the shelf life of low and intermediate moisture baked products, microbiological spoilage is the main concern of intermediate and high moisture products. In intermediate moisture products, osmophilic yeasts and molds are the predominant spoilage microorganisms, whereas in high moisture products, almost all bacteria, yeasts, and molds are capable of growth.26 NaCl acts as a preservative agent, due to its ability to reduce the water activity. The increased osmotic pressure causes cells to loose water to the environment, thus inhibiting cell metabolism and inhibiting microbial growth.27 Furthermore, sodium ions and chloride ions can promote specific changes in metabolisms inside the cells.21
Strategies for limiting the impact of NaCl reduction
A number of strategies have been employed in the literature to help circumvent technological issues associated with dough handling and bread quality at reduced NaCl levels. For instance, enzymes (glucose oxidase, xylanase and alpha-amylase) or enzyme mixtures have been used to target proteins, starches, and/or pentosans in order to alter the dough's viscoelastic properties and improve handling of sticky dough.28,29,30 Biopreservatives (e.g., lactic acid bacteria which produce organic acids such as lactic, acetic and propionic acids after fermentation) or chemical preservatives (potassium sorbate/ethanol, calcium propionate/ethanol or acetates) have been used as a means to improve shelf life through pH reduction, as an alternative preservative to NaCl.25,31 Furthermore, improved packaging, such as modified atmosphere packing, active packaging, or packaging with new and improved polymeric materials can be used to extend the shelf life of bread products which have reduced levels of NaCl.25,32 Taste contrast has also been used as a sensory technique to alter saltiness by creating a heterogeneous distribution of NaCl within the bread product, to give the same salt perception but with an overall reduced salt level.33 However, probably the most work associated with salt reduction are focused on the use of alternatives to NaCl, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium chloride in order to maintain dough/bread quality. Potassium chloride has been found to act best to partially replace 25-50% of the NaCl concentration to give good dough handling, however metallic or bitter flavors arise with 10-20% NaCl replacement rendering the product unacceptable to consumers and the strategy ineffective at reaching Health Canada targets.34,35
Although numerous strategies have been developed to combat the effects of NaCl reduction in bread, no one approach has shown sufficient promise to meet Health Canada's targets put forth by the Sodium Working Group. As such significant research efforts in this area through collaborative university-industry partnerships is warranted in order to improve the health and wellbeing of Canadians and to ensure the Canadian bakery industry remains competitive in the global marketplace.
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[2] Lynch, E. et al. (2009) Food Res Int 42:885.
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[4] du Cailar, G. et al. (2002) Am Hypertens 15(3):222.
[5] Lewington, S. et al. (2002) Lancet 22:1903.
[6] European Parliament and of the Council of the EU. EU, Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 Regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods.
[7] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada (2008). Nutrient Content Claim, Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising, Chapter 7.21.
[8] Food and Drug Administration (FDA). USA, Code of Federal Regulations-Title 21: Food and Drugs (2005). Nutrient content claims for the sodium content of foods.
[9] World Health Organization (WHO). A comprehensive global monitoring framework including indicators and a set of voluntary global targets for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Second WHO discussion paper. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Press; 2012. http://www.who.int/nmh/events/2012/discussion_paper2_20120322.pdf (accessed Sept 2014).
[10] Quilez, J. & Salas-Salvado, J. (2012) Nutr Rev 70(11):666.
[11] Grosch, W. & Wieser, H. (1999). J Cereal Sci 29:1.
[12] Wieser, H. (2003) The use of redox agents. In: Cauvain, S.P. (Ed.), Bread Making-Improving Quality. Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, pp. 424-446.
[13] Tilley, K. et al. (2001) J Agric Food Chem 49:2627.
[14] Piber, M. & Koehler, P. (2005) J Agric Food Chem 53:5276.
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[17] Wieser, H. (2007) Food Microbiology, 24:115.
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[20] Adhikari, B. et al. (2001) Int J Food Properties 4:1.
[21] Hutton, T. (2002) British Food J, 104:126.
[22] Sluimer, P. (2005). Principles of Bread making: Functionality of Raw Materials and Process Steps, 1st Ed. AACC, St. Paul, Minnesota.
[23] Belitz, H. et al. (2009) Food Chemistry, 4th Ed. Springer-Verlag, Germany.
[24] Belitz, H. et al. (2008) Lehrbuch der Lebensmittelchemie, 6th Ed.
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[25] Smith, J. et al. (2004) Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 44 (1):19.
[26] Smith, J. (1992) Bakery products. In, Principles and Applications of Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Food. Blackie Academic and Professional, London.
[27] Yigit, A. & Korukluoglu, M. (2007) Ann. Microbiol 57(2):209.
[28] Basman, A. et al. (2002) Eur Food Res Technol 215:419.
[29] Tseng, C. & Lai, H-M. (2002) J Food Sci: Food Eng Phys Prop 67:750.
[30] Caballero, P. et al. (2005) J Cereal Sci 42:93.
[31] Crowley, S. et al. (2013) Food Sci Technol 33:93.
[32] Lataou, E. et al. (2010) J Cereal Sci 52:457.
[33] Konitzer, K (2013) J Agric Food Chem 61:10649
[34] Miller, R.A. & Hoseney, R.C. (2008) Cereal Food World 53:4
[35] Belz, M.C.N el al. (2012) Crit Rev Food Sci 52:514
1Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
2Department of Food Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
(*Corresponding author email: michael.nickerson@usask.ca)
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package templates

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	g "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	o "github.com/onsi/gomega"

	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	kapierrs "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait"

	exutil "github.com/openshift/origin/test/extended/util"
)

// ensure that we can instantiate Kubernetes and OpenShift objects, legacy and
// non-legacy, from a range of API groups.
var _ = g.Describe("[sig-devex][Feature:Templates] templateinstance object kinds test", func() {
	defer g.GinkgoRecover()

	var (
		fixture = exutil.FixturePath("testdata", "templates", "templateinstance_objectkinds.yaml")
		cli     = exutil.NewCLI("templates")
	)

	g.It("should create and delete objects from varying API groups", func() {
		g.Skip("Bug 1731222: skip template tests until we determine what is broken")
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		err = wait.Poll(time.Second, time.Minute, func() (bool, error) {
			templateinstance, err := cli.TemplateClient().TemplateV1().TemplateInstances(cli.Namespace()).Get(context.Background(), "templateinstance", metav1.GetOptions{})
			if err != nil {
				return false, err
			}

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				}
				if c.Reason == "Created" && c.Status == corev1.ConditionTrue {
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		_, err = cli.KubeClient().CoreV1().Secrets(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "secret", metav1.GetOptions{})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		_, err = cli.KubeClient().AppsV1().Deployments(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "deployment", metav1.GetOptions{})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		_, err = cli.RouteClient().RouteV1().Routes(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "route", metav1.GetOptions{})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		_, err = cli.RouteClient().RouteV1().Routes(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "newroute", metav1.GetOptions{})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		err = cli.TemplateClient().TemplateV1().TemplateInstances(cli.Namespace()).Delete(ctx, "templateinstance", metav1.DeleteOptions{})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		g.By("deleting the template instance")
		err = wait.Poll(time.Second, time.Minute, func() (bool, error) {
			_, err := cli.TemplateClient().TemplateV1().TemplateInstances(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "templateinstance", metav1.GetOptions{})
			if kapierrs.IsNotFound(err) {
				return true, nil
			}
			return false, err
		})
		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())

		// check everything was deleted as expected
		_, err = cli.KubeClient().CoreV1().Secrets(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "secret", metav1.GetOptions{})
		if !kapierrs.IsNotFound(err) {
			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
		}

		_, err = cli.KubeClient().AppsV1().Deployments(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "deployment", metav1.GetOptions{})
		if !kapierrs.IsNotFound(err) {
			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
		}

		_, err = cli.RouteClient().RouteV1().Routes(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "route", metav1.GetOptions{})
		if !kapierrs.IsNotFound(err) {
			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
		}

		_, err = cli.RouteClient().RouteV1().Routes(cli.Namespace()).Get(ctx, "newroute", metav1.GetOptions{})
		if !kapierrs.IsNotFound(err) {
			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
		}

	})

})


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HomeFlows in Roaring Fork and Crystal rivers are nearing record levels, and that's not good news — @AspenJournalism
Flows in Roaring Fork and Crystal rivers are nearing record levels, and that's not good news — @AspenJournalism
August 6, 2018 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Crystal River, Instream flow, Roaring Fork Watershed
From Aspen Journalism (Brent Gardner-Smith) via The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent:
Like children, every water year is different, but 2018 is now hanging out with some of the most notorious low-flow years in history.
This year started with a thin snowpack that ran off early and now has found trouble in a hot and dry summer.
The Bureau of Reclamation determined this week that 2018 had produced the fifth-lowest amount of runoff from the Colorado and Green rivers down to Lake Powell, between April and the end of July. That puts 2018 behind only 2013, 2012, 1977 and 2002, the low-water mark.
And locally, this year is now revealing dry reaches in the Roaring Fork and Crystal rivers not seen since 2012 or 2002.
Friday just before noon, the upper Roaring Fork River was dribbling through Aspen at 9.12 cubic feet per second, well below the environmental flow level of 32 cfs set by the state.
Also Friday morning, which saw some rare rain to the valley, a section of the lower Crystal River just above the state fish hatchery outside of Carbondale was barely running at 8.86 cfs.
The state's environmental flow level in that reach of the Crystal is 100 cfs, and the 2016 Crystal River Management Plan set a less-ambitious flow target of 40 cfs for the reach.
Hunter Creek in Aspen was "flowing" at 0.48 cfs at its confluence with the Fork on Friday. That's less than even half-a-basketball full of water in the stream bed.
"It's a bad year," said Alan Martellaro, a division engineer with the Colorado Division of Water Resources who manages water in the Colorado River basin above Grand Junction. "It's not 2002, I don't think, but it's up there."
This year already has a bad reputation on Colorado's Western Slope, and especially in the southwest corner, which remains under exceptional drought conditions.
"Hydraulically, 2018 is stacking up across western Colorado as, potentially, depending upon your specific location, the driest year on record," said John Currier, the chief engineer for the Colorado River District.
Another indicator of how dry 2018 is shaping up to be is the gage on the Roaring Fork River at Stillwater Road, just east of Aspen.
The gauge showed the Fork on Friday was flowing at 28 cfs, without any significant upstream diversions dropping the flow. The lowest flow on Aug. 3, in 53 years of record-keeping, was in 2002, when the river was flowing at 31.7 cfs.
A similar indicator can be found on the Crystal River at the gage that measures the river's flow below Redstone, and above a series of diversion structures on the lower river.
Friday morning, that gauge showed the Crystal flowing at 68.5 cfs. The lowest flow on Aug. 3, in 62 years of record keeping, was in 1977 when the river was at 64 cfs.
In response to such low flows in the region, the River District on July 27 started releasing water it controls out of Ruedi Reservoir into the Fryingpan River, something it has not arranged to do since 2002.
By increasing flows by about 80 cfs up to 200 cfs in the lower Fryingpan, which runs into the Roaring Fork in Basalt, the District's water helped cool the warm water in the Fork down to its confluence with the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs.
The water then also helped boost flows in the Colorado River near Grand Junction, where senior water rights known as "the Cameo call" are still calling for more water.
Such calls are often met by releasing water from Green Mountain Reservoir, south of Kremmling. But the River District and other water managers want to keep as much water as they can in Green Mountain until September, and the water released from Ruedi helps with that.
There was the added incentive this year to add water to the Fork and Pan to dilute the still-expected flow of ash and mud from Basalt Mountain in the wake of the Lake Christine Fire and the next heavy rainstorm.
There's no easy way, however, to add water to the nearly-dry sections of the upper Roaring Fork and the lower Crystal rivers.
On Friday, for example, no water was being diverted upstream off the top of the Fork via the Twin Lakes/Independence Pass diversion system, and a related 3,000 acre-foot allotment of water that can be used to bolster flows already has been sent downstream.
In response to the low-flows, the city of Aspen has dropped its diversions into the Wheeler Ditch, which takes water from the Fork near the Aspen Club, from a potential maximum diversion of 10 cfs down to 0.5 cfs.
On the Crystal, a non-diversion agreement between the Colorado Water Trust and Cold Mountain Ranch, which diverts water from the Crystal, was not implemented this year, despite the dry conditions.
The agreement was meant help boost moderately low flows in the Crystal of around 40 cfs, not to help bring the river up from, say, 10 cfs to 25 cfs, which may not help the environment that much.
"If it's not going to have an ecological benefit, it is not worth irrigators making the sacrifice," said Heather Tattersall Lewin, the watershed action director at the Roaring Fork Conservancy.
On Thursday evening, Jim Kravitz, the naturalist program director at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, took note of the distressing lack of water in the upper Fork and lower Hunter Creek.
"I didn't think flows were going to get this bad locally," he said after walking up a dry Hunter Creek. "It's eerie to hike up with no sound from the creek."
Editor's note: Aspen Journalism is covering rivers and water in the Roaring Fork and Colorado river basins for The Aspen Times. More at http://www.aspenjournalism.org.
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2009: A Year's Worth of Interviews – The Top 100 Quotes
December 23, 2009 / Will Harris
Some people think that the life of a work-at-home entertainment writer is one of the most lax jobs out there, since the perception is generally is that all you do is sit around and watch DVDs, occasionally venture out of the house to see movies or concerts, and then sit in front of the computer and write about them. Okay, it's a fair cop. But when you throw interviews into the mix, there's a bit more work involved. First, you've got to get the interview (they aren't always handed to you on a silver platter), then you've got to do the research to make sure that you can ask some halfway knowledgeable questions, and after you conduct the interview, let's not forget that you've got to transcribe it, too. In other words, yes, there really is work involved…and when I went back and discovered that I'd done well over 130 interviews during the course of 2009, I suddenly realized why I'm so tired all the time.
For your reading enjoyment, I've pulled together a list of 100 of my favorite quotes from the various interviews I conducted for Premium Hollywood, Bullz-Eye, Popdose, and The Virginian-Pilot this year, along with the links to the original pieces where available. As you can see, I had some extremely interesting conversations in 2009. Let us all keep our fingers crossed that I'm able to chat with just as many fascinating individuals in 2010…
1. Pamela Adlon: "In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals."
2. Jonathan Ames: "After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don't know, but something about what she said was true. 'Yes, why don't I?' Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I've done has a comedic edge to it."
3. Ed Asner: "I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'"
4. Sean Astin: "When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it."
5. Darryl Bell: "The legend of 'Homeboys in Outer Space' has become much more incendiary than the actual show. It's funny how I usually challenge most people who talk about how much they disliked 'Homeboys' to name me five episodes. Most of them can't, because they just bought into the 'oh, it's awful, just the title. Oh, it's terrible.' What's interesting is that I had a great conversation with Chi McBride, who was doing 'The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer,' which, if you want to talk about in terms of the imagery of what was wrong, that show was much more infamous than 'Homeboys.' Yet it's not remembered in the same way because the title didn't grab you in the same way. I remember Chi pulled me aside and he was, like, 'Look, everyone who is criticizing what you're doing would take your job from you in two seconds. All of them. So all I can tell you is that this is one blip on both of our careers, and we are moving on.'"
6. Adam Campbell: "For some reason, people always pick on the British sensibility, and we always come across as stupid, but remember: we used to run this country!"
7. Nestor Carbonell: "Let me make this perfectly clear: I do not wear make-up, and I do not wear eye-liner. This is something I've had to deal with my whole life. I remember I was in college in Boston, I had a commercial agent, and they sent me out for some print commercial stuff. And they called me into the office and said, 'Look, we called you in to talk to you because we just want you to know that…well, we don't think you need to wear eyeliner.' And I'm, like, 'What?' 'Yeah, it's okay, you don't have to wear it for print ads.' 'No, I'm not wearing eyeliner!' And I kept dabbing my eyes and saying, 'Look! No eyeliner! I'm not wearing any!'"
8. Elaine Cassidy: "The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like your head was freezing, and my motivation for most scenes was, 'The minute this scene is over, I'm heading straight over to that heater to get warm.'"
9. Chris Cornell: "I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'"
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Ken Marino is in "The State" of DVD bliss
July 14, 2009 / Jeff Giles
Ken Marino is a busy working actor — his recent gigs include stints on the CW's unjustly slain "Reaper" and the Starz Network's "Party Down" — and is doubtless usually too focused on whatever project's in front of him to look back. This week, however, sees the long-sought DVD release of "The State," the sketch comedy series that Marino (along with Michael Ian Black, David Wain, Joe Lo Truglio, Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, and many more) did for MTV way back in the young and innocent '90s. Never a huge ratings success, "The State" has nonetheless acquired cult status in the years since its cancellation, and its arrival on the home market is the answer to many fans' prayers — making Will Harris' recently conducted interview with Marino something of a "State" retrospective (and a perfectly timed one, at that). As it turns out, Ken hasn't seen those old episodes in years — and wasn't all that hopeful about seeing them on DVD:
"David (Wain) kind of headed the campaign to get it done, and he dealt with the outside forces that were trying to put it together or to block it or whatever, so I would just get E-mail updates. At a certain point, I just got numb to that. I was just, like, 'Oh, it's never gonna happen.'"
Reminiscing about his State days, Marino opened up about the writing process, the troupe's battles with MTV, the origins of the infamous phrase "I want to dip my balls in it," and the long-lost album the State recorded for Warner Bros.:
""From what I remember, it's a drunken mess. We were, like, 'Okay, if we take all our money and get tickets and go to the Bahamas to record it at a recording studio down there, we won't really make any money, but we'll be in the Bahamas for two weeks. You wanna do that?' If you listen closely on a number of the pieces, you'll hear ice in our glasses making noise, because we were constantly drinking whatever local flavored drinks were around."
To read the rest of the interview — including Ken's thoughts on a "Reaper" movie and Jane Lynch's recent departure from "Party Down" — click here!
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5 Shows Which May Make Bullz-Eye's NEXT TV Power Rankings
April 16, 2009 / Will Harris
If you've checked out Bullz-Eye's TV Power Rankings for April 2009, then you've already seen the site's picks for the top 20 shows currently airing, several honorable-mention entries, and what series they're most excited to see return. Given the way new programs are popping up constantly throughout the year, however, it was always inevitable that the voting for the Power Rankings would close just as a few promising series were making their debuts but before their consistency could be properly gauged. Here, then, are five shows which, at least as it stands right now, look like they have the potential to be ranked next time around.
1. "Party Down," Starz. It's a longstanding Hollywood tradition for producers to build themselves a gaggle of go-to actors who they can always count on to make an appearance in one of their projects, and although it's Joss Whedon who has one of the most recognizable posses on television, it's clear that Rob Thomas is building a pretty solid one, too. In "Party Down," which focuses on a Hollywood catering company helmed by aspiring actors and actresses, you can't go more than a few minutes without seeing someone who once appeared on "Veronica Mars." Ryan Hansen is the only "Party Down" regular who held the same status on "Mars" as well, having played Dick Casablancas, but Adam Scott ("Stepbrothers"), Ken Marino ("The State"), and Jane Lynch, who most recently proved hilarious in "Role Models," all made visits to "Veronica" at some point or other. Enrico Colentoni had an unforgettable nude scene in the first episode of "Party Down," and it looks like Kristen Bell will be turning up in the season finale.
Paul Rudd is one of the other co-producers of "Party Down," and it's clear he had a hand in bringing some of his favorite talent onto the show as well. Martin Starr, late of "Freaks and Geeks," is here, and after scoping out IMDb, it looks like Ken Jeong will be turning up in a future episode. With all this talent, you won't be surprised to learn that this is arguably the funniest new show of the spring season…if seasons even still exist, that is…and is already shaping up to be the place for cool comedians and actors to guest-star. "Crash" may have been a bust as Starz's first original series, but count on "Party Down" to do for the network what "Mad Men" did for AMC.
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A Chat with Joe Lo Truglio ("The State," "Role Models")
March 8, 2009 / Will Harris
If the words "rub a dub dub" conjure images of a bearded man in chain mail rather than three men in a tub, then you're probably one of the people who saw and laughed at "Role Models." The film was directed by (and features a cameo from) David Wain, late of The State, but he's not the only alumnus of that particular comedic organization to be found within its frames. There are actually a couple, if you're counting, but only one managed to spend the duration of the film dressed in Medevial garb and spouting laughably earnest comments using mock Elizabethan phrasing…and – what luck! – we actually had the opportunity to speak to the gentleman in question.
Stay tuned for…
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TCA Tour, Jan. 2009: "Party Down"
January 16, 2009 / Will Harris
Ever since the demise of "Veronica Mars," I think most die-hard Rob Thomas fans have been following the development of his remake of "Cupid" for ABC, but he's got another new series in the works as well, as this one – "Party Down," which focuses on the lives of a bunch of "cater-waiters" who came to L.A. in search of careers in the entertainment industry and haven't gotten very far with their dreams – has actually been in the works for more than five years.
"When the original British 'Office' started airing on BBC America, Dan (Etheridge) and John (Enbom) and I and Paul Rudd started gathering each week to watch the show and just became very intrigued about the tone of the show," said Thomas. "And we started talking about wanting to write something that had a similar comedic tone, and we decided if that show was about people who had given themselves over entirely to the rat race that it would be interesting if we took our stab at people who had perhaps chased the dream for too long, people who had refused to join the rat race. And so we came up with this idea about a show about cater-waiters in Los Angeles, people who came here to make it as actors, writers, musicians, comedians and find themselves in their mid-30s and perhaps, uh, having chased the dream for too long."
Thomas likens "Party Down" to "Taxi," in that "you start off following the ongoing lives of these characters who are doing some other job while pursuing the thing they really want to do. Each week, we take an opportunity to lampoon some facet of society, some different party idea. So each episode is one catered event, and these range from a senior singles mixer to a mobster-release-from-prison party to a super sweet 16 to an adult video awards after party, each one sort of giving us a unique group of people that we can have our characters interact with."
Cast members Jane Lynch and Lizzy Caplan have at least a little bit of first-hand experience in the show's subject matter; Lynch did some time as a waitress in Chicago, while Caplan catered a few premiere parties. (Adam Scott, meanwhile, claims to have never worked a day in his life.)
"It was interesting, because the whole experience made me so angry," said Caplan. "Like, having to go around and serve these people because I was so convinced that, like, 'It should be me. You should be serving me.' You're positive that you can do it better than anything you're seeing on any screen. There's nobody really cockier than the unemployed actor."
"Party Down" premieres on Starz in March 2009.
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Filipino Among Missing in London High-rise Fire
A Filipino woman who lived alone in a high-rise building that was destroyed in a fire on Tuesday, according to Sen. Joel Villanueva.
He said Ligaya Moore is a regular atendee of Jesus is Lord church located next to the 24-storey Grenfell Tower. Jesus is Lord is founded by the senator's father Eddie Villanueva.
Villanueva said members of the church informed him that Moore is living alone on the building's 21st floor.
"We're still praying, very hopeful that we will find her," he added.
Villanueva said Moore has family in the Philippines.
DFA spokesman Robespierre Bolivar said representatives of the Philippine embassy in the United Kingdom have already visited Filipinos taken to hospital for treatment of injuries.
Authorities are still determining the number of Filipinos affected by the fire in the building located in North Kensington, west London.
Seventeen people are confirmed to have died – six of whom have been identified – but the figure is expected to rise significantly. Twelve people remain critically ill in hospital. More than 70 others have not been accounted for, and police fear the blaze so devastating that some of them might never be identified.
"The embassy is still closely monitoring the situation and there have been appeals to the Filipino community in the UK for assistance to Filipinos who may have been affected," Bolivar said.
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