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The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
Leave a Comment	/ ★★, 1989, Film, Mystery / 20 February 2019 20 February 2019 / Denzel Washington, Esther Rolle, James Fox, M. Emmet Walsh, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mimi Rogers, Robert Townsend, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Mighty Quinn
Right until the action-packed finale of The Mighty Quinn, there's nothing the film can do lead Denzel Washington's charm can't forgive. But the finale, which incorporates poorly choreographed and poorly shot capoeira (from obvious fight doubles), a helicopter, a machine gun, suddenly awful music from composer Anne Dudley, and a handlebar-mustached M. Emmet Walsh in a tropical shirt… well, Washington can only do so much. And it seems like Quinn realizes it, because it doesn't even try to leverage Washington for the rushed epilogue. Actually, it sort of leans away from him.
Because even though Washington is The Mighty Quinn, the film's never comfortable being about him. Certainly not about his mightiness. Instead, Washington's protagonist—police chief on a small, unnamed Caribbean island—is in a state of disarray. He's functionally separated from wife Sheryl Lee Ralph (because he's trying to sell out like island governor Norman Beaton, though we don't find out about it until relatively late in the film), he's a loving but absent dad to son David McFarlane, and he's a lousy best friend to local pothead and ladies man Robert Townsend. Townsend's barely in the film, but the whole thing hinges on him. He is the prime suspect in a murder investigation, after all, but he's also the people's hero. Washington is not. Washington (we find out—again—very late) went off to the States to join the Marines and then go to FBI school only to return home to the island… presumably for Ralph, but it's very unclear. Washington's character revelations usually come either in brooding expository scenes or drunken expository scenes. The film avoids Washington's backstory, instead concentrating on the mystery… and Washington's charm.
And the charm focus works. For a long, long time.
The mystery? Not as much.
At the start, there's conflict with crappy White guy resort manager James Fox. There's never overt racism from Fox but it's always there. Until Fox disappears anyway. The scenes aren't good because Fox is a lousy villain-type. He can't stand up to Washington, but the character's written to be pompous and Fox isn't believably pompous. There's also the weird way director Schenkel handles tone. Fox's part of the mystery, including Mimi Rogers as his unhappy, abused, unfaithful wife, is all noirish. Or Schenkel's version of it, which is stylized and self-aware. After Fox disappears, Rogers sticks around a bit to provide some flirtation for Washington. She's that part of the film's femme fatale, even though the film doesn't really need one, because the mystery soon turns more to conspiracy thriller involving a suitcase of money, a company man (M. Emmet Walsh) arriving in town to clean-up the situation (officially), and a professional soldier (Alex Colon) also in town, but unofficially. Townsend figures into the conspiracy thriller a little, but never the noir stuff.
Not even when the film tries really hard.
After the conspiracy thriller takes over, there's more of Washington away from the White folks. And the movie's better when he's away from them. The mood is lighter. He's got gross old white man Walsh tagging along for a bit, but for those scenes, Schenkel still has the more playful touch. It's the best stuff in the film—Washington with McFarlane and Ralph (even though the former scenes are just for exposition on the island's colonial history and the best moment between Ralph and Washington was created in editing, not with the actors opposite one another), Washington with the other cops, whatever. Everything but the subplot about some other woman after Washington. Because Schenkel can't figure out the mix on the noir and comedy in it, because a femme fatale stalking a sullen but lovable cop is noir but it's for laughs. The film doesn't know how to be sincere. It wants to be, but Schenkel doesn't make it work.
It's not all his fault, of course. Townsend is… lacking. He's amusing enough. And some of the problem is the direction, but Townsend doesn't have a presence opposite Washington. Fox doesn't have one either. Only Ralph and Walsh hold up their part of the scene. Rogers does too—mostly—but there are a lot of style problems in her scenes, often both visual and narrative. Townsend needs to be Quinn's secret mighty weapon and he's not. Not even when he gets action sequences, which always come off like the filmmakers are trying too hard on their limited budget. Lots of silly at the end of Quinn. Lots of silly.
Until the end, there's also fantastic editing (except on the action set pieces) from John Jympson and an affable score from Anne Dudley. Neither of them come through in the finish. Though Jacques Steyn's photography is unchangingly solid throughout the film. It has some good moments, but what appear to be stylistic choices sometime just turn out to questionable standards. Schenkel's direction isn't successful, but it's interesting and engaging. If he could get the mix between comedy and thriller right, it'd be fine.
Washington is mighty but Quinn is not.
Directed by Carl Schenkel; screenplay by Hampton Fancher, based on a novel by written by Albert Z. Carr; director of photography, Jacques Steyn; edited by John Jympson; music by Anne Dudley; production designer, Roger Murray-Leach; produced by Ed Elbert and Dale Pollock; released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring Denzel Washington (Xavier Quinn), Robert Townsend (Maubee), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Lola Quinn), M. Emmet Walsh (Fred Miller), Art Evans (Jump Jones), James Fox (Thomas Elgin), Esther Rolle (Ubu Pearl), Norman Beaton (Governor Chalk), Alex Colon (Jose Patina), Tyra Ferrell (Isola), and Mimi Rogers (Hadley Elgin).
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, Carl Franklin)
1 Comment	/ ★★½, 1995, Film, Mystery / 8 September 2017 8 September 2017 / Denzel Washington, Devil in a Blue Dress, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Beals, Lisa Nicole Carson, Terry Kinney, Tom Sizemore, TriStar Pictures, Walter Mosley
Devil in a Blue Dress is almost so much better. Director Franklin gets easily distracted and follows tangents, both in the script and the directing. The latter makes sense–he's always too enthuastic about the (excellent) production design, recreating late 1940s Black Los Angeles. With Tak Fujimoto's warm but vibrant photography, the "regular life" part of the film is breathtaking. Sadly, Franklin's too loose on the mystery side and he can't bind the two.
The script's the same way. Franklin has devices for lead Denzel Washington, including the narration, but also just how Franklin directs the scene. How he visualizes the space Washington occupies with the people he comes across. Washington's a Black WWII vet turned amateur P.I. tracking down missing rich white guy's white girlfriend Jennifer Beals. Franklin and Washington pay a lot of attention to personal space and what it reveals about character relationships, race relationships. But when they get the most ambitious, the narration fails. Or just isn't present.
And Washington's biggest character development arc is out of nowhere, introduced over halfway into the movie, with Don Cheadle's arrival. Franklin desperately tries to forecast Cheadle through dialogue, narration, even one of the film's ill-implied flashbacks. Yet when it comes time for Cheadle to get called up, Franklin botches the narration. Franklin sets up Devil in a Blue Dress to need narration–even though he and Washington could easily get away without it, Washington's great and Franklin's great with his actors–but he sets it up as an essential, then botches it.
It's really unfortunate.
There are stops and starts throughout the film–scenes transitions are usually awkward, either too heavy or too light. Fujimoto's photography on the investigation stuff is bad, which is an additional problem given the first act visual tone doesn't match the rest of the film. But Franklin doesn't know what to do with those scenes either. Devil in a Blue Dress tries to avoid film noir tropes so bad it ends up putting its back out.
The acting is either good or great. Washington is great. His performance has a sadness Franklin the director focus on, but Franklin the screenwriter ignores. Cheadle's phenomenal as Washington's loyal, unrepentent murderer sidekick. Tom Sizemore's good as Washington's mysterious client turned nemesis. Mel Winkler and Jernard Burks are real good in smaller parts. Lisa Nicole Carson's good.
But then there's Beals, who's just okay. Some of it is Franklin's direction; she's supposed to be a femme fatale, but Devil in a Blue Dress doesn't believe in femme fatales and she's written as one. She's another victim to Franklin's indecision.
And Maury Chaykin is just bad. He's only in a couple scenes, but they're important ones, and he's just too much. Same thing. Written as a noir villain, but Franklin doesn't want to engage it.
Elmer Bernstein's score is oddly half on, half off. Either way, it lacks personality, which is a no-no for Devil in a Blue Dress; everything else about it exudes personality. Except, obviously, Fujimoto's "noir" shots.
Devil in a Blue Dress features some wonderful possibilities, some great photography, some great direction, some great performances. It should be amazing. It's sad it isn't.
Directed by Carl Franklin; screenplay by Franklin, based on the novel by Walter Mosley; director of photography, Tak Fujimoto; edited by Carole Kravetz Aykanian; music by Elmer Bernstein; production designer, Gary Frutkoff; produced by Jesse Beaton and Gary Goetzman; released by TriStar Pictures.
Starring Denzel Washington (Easy Rawlins), Jennifer Beals (Daphne Monet), Don Cheadle (Mouse Alexander), Tom Sizemore (Dewitt Albright), Terry Kinney (Todd Carter), Mel Winkler (Joppy), Jernard Burks (Dupree Brouchard), Lisa Nicole Carson (Coretta James), and Maury Chaykin (Matthew Terell).
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Flight (2012, Robert Zemeckis)
Leave a Comment	/ 2012, Drama, Film, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ / 3 August 2014 3 August 2014 / Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Flight, Garcelle Beauvais, John Goodman, Kelly Reilly, Nadine Velazquez, Paramount Pictures, Robert Zemeckis
There are so many easy targets in Flight. Not really the acting, even though a lot of the supporting cast is phoning it in. They're good actors–Don Cheadle, John Goodman (doing a riff on Big Lebowski)–and they're capable at phoning it in.
It'd be impossible for them to do anything else, however, given director Zemeckis. I don't think I've ever seen a feature film where the famous songs playing in the background always directly inform the action. It's either incredibly condescending to the audience or it's just supposed to be the most obvious movie ever made.
Occasionally, because the acting from Denzel Washington and Kelly Reilly is so good, I thought there might be a chance it was all a ruse and Zemeckis and writer John Gatins were lulling the audience into a false sense of security. Flight isn't about a happy ending, it's about Denzel Washington, movie star and good guy, playing a fundamentally decent human being who has a lot of problems. But he can overcome those problems… because he's Denzel Washington, good guy.
The film savors each moment of Washington's failed attempts at redemption, every time he goes lower into the depths–it's telling Flight skips ahead during what would have been its most difficult section dramatically.
Ignoring the trite foreshadowing, the manipulative writing, the general cheapness of the film overall, Flight is incredibly watchable. Both for Washington's performance and, sure, to bemusedly regard Zemeckis's vapid pseudo-sincerity. It takes major hits in the third act before going down.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis; written by John Gatins; director of photography, Don Burgess; edited by Jeremiah O'Driscoll; music by Alan Silvestri; production designer, Nelson Coates; produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey and Zemeckis; released by Paramount Pictures.
Starring Denzel Washington (Whip Whitaker), Don Cheadle (Hugh Lang), Kelly Reilly (Nicole), John Goodman (Harling Mays), Bruce Greenwood (Charlie Anderson), Brian Geraghty (Ken Evans), Tamara Tunie (Margaret Thomason), Nadine Velazquez (Katerina Marquez), Peter Gerety (Avington Carr), Garcelle Beauvais (Deana) and Melissa Leo (Ellen Block).
The Pelican Brief (1993, Alan J. Pakula)
Leave a Comment	/ 1993, Film, Mystery, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ / 20 May 2011 20 May 2011 / Cynthia Nixon, Denzel Washington, John Grisham, John Lithgow, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard, Stanley Tucci, The Pelican Brief, Warner Bros.
If you're ever stuck watching The Pelican Brief, you can amuse yourself wondering if the film would be better had Pakula shot it 1.85 as opposed to Panavision. Pakula shoots it empty Panavision, the right and left sides of the frame empty for easier pan-and-scanning. It's an inexplicable choice from Pakula, but not as inexplicable as him doing a Grisham adaptation in the first place (wait, never mind… money). It's the modern Hollywood version of his paranoia trilogy (which was seventies Hollywood and, therefore, quite different).
The film is a disastrous piece of garbage. It's boring, it's long, it's stupid—James Horner is just recycling scores again. There's nothing like a Julia Roberts movie with Star Trek II music.
It's also not a real conspiracy thriller. All of Roberts's fears are validated… ad nauseam. Of course, since it's a Grisham movie, it's unlikely, but uncertainty might've improved the film.
Roberts is terrible. She's supposed to smart in Pelican Brief, which is hilarious. It's absurd to think she might have even found the LSAT testing room.
Denzel Washington's great, in Warner's attempt to turn him into a marquee star. But John Lithgow (as his boss) is horrendous—and Lithgow's constant concerns over a racial discrimination suit are painful.
The supporting casting is phenomenal. Robert Culp's good as the stupidest president ever. John Heard's good, Stanley Tucci's wasted. James Sikking is good. William Atherton and Anthony Heald are wasted in small roles. Sam Shepard is slumming.
It's a dreadful film.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula; screenplay by Pakula, based on the novel by John Grisham; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt; edited by Tom Rolf and Trudy Ship; music by James Horner; production designer, Philip Rosenberg; produced by Pieter Jan Brugge and Pakula; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Julia Roberts (Darby Shaw), Denzel Washington (Gray Grantham), Sam Shepard (Thomas Callahan), John Heard (Gavin Vereek), Tony Goldwyn (Fletcher Coal), James Sikking (FBI Director Denton Voyles), William Atherton (Bob Gminski), Stanley Tucci (Khamel), Hume Cronyn (Justice Rosenberg), John Lithgow (Smith Keen), Anthony Heald (Marty Velmano), Nicholas Woodeson (Stump), Stanley Anderson (Edwin Sneller), John Finn (Matthew Barr), Cynthia Nixon (Alice Stark), Jake Weber (Garcia) and Robert Culp as the President of the United States.
Unstoppable (2010, Tony Scott)
Leave a Comment	/ ★★, 2010, Action-Adventure, Film / 31 January 2011 31 January 2011 / 20th Century Fox, Chris Pine, Denzel Washington, Ethan Suplee, Mimi Rogers, Rosario Dawson, T.J. Miller, Tony Scott, Unstoppable
It would go a little far to say Scott's reinvented the disaster genre with Unstoppable, but he's certainly reinvigorated it. He borrows from the traditional standards (the Irwin Allen is heaviest in the first act, when setting up innocent people–children no less–in peril), then a little from the revisionist standards (the Die Hard approach), while maintaining a brisk pace. The present action isn't quite real time, but close to it.
Scott maintains his formula (solid composition if you can catch it–he cuts away from his shots every one and a half seconds) and it works out. He and cinematographer Ben Seresin construct a thoroughly acceptable action picture. But–even though Mark Bomback's script waxes melodramatic for the protagonists' ground situations–the movie really succeeds because of Denzel Washington.
Why Washington, maybe the most assured movie star of his generation, wastes his time with Scott films is inexplicable. His performance here is outstanding, whether it's chewing or hopping from train car to train car. It's so good, in fact, it hurts Chris Pine.
Pine does an okay job. Bomback's script gives him a stupid backstory and continues it through the entire film instead of just setting him up and leaving him alone. Worst is when Jessy Schramm, as his wife, shows up. She probably has three lines and she's absolutely godawful.
Great supporting turns from Rosario Dawson and Kevin Corrigan and an excellent score from Harry Gregson-Williams round it out.
It's easily one of Scott's strongest films.
Directed by Tony Scott; written by Mark Bomback; director of photography, Ben Seresin; edited by Chris Lebenzon and Robert Duffy; music by Harry Gregson-Williams; production designer, Chris Seagers; produced by Julie Yorn, Scott, Mimi Rogers, Eric McLeod and Alex Young; released by 20th Century Fox.
Starring Denzel Washington (Frank), Chris Pine (Will), Rosario Dawson (Connie), Kevin Dunn (Galvin), Ethan Suplee (Dewey), Kevin Corrigan (Inspector Werner), Lew Temple (Ned), Kevin Chapman (Bunny), T.J. Miller (Gilleece), Jessy Schram (Darcy) and David Warshofsky (Judd Stewart).
The Book of Eli (2010, Albert and Allen Hughes)
Leave a Comment	/ 2010, Action-Adventure, Film, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ / 30 June 2010 30 June 2010 / Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals, Michael Gambon, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, The Book of Eli, Tom Waits, Warner Bros.
I guess if The Book of Eli were a bigger hit, someone would have told Nick Cave composers Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne ripped off the beginning of his "In the Ghetto" cover and turned it into the musical score's theme.
Someone else might let Kevin Costner know about the… ahem… similarities between Eli and The Postman, but… those are the only good parts of Eli, so maybe don't.
For about half the movie–it's so split there should be a title card reading "End of Part One"–The Book of Eli is real good. It's Denzel Washington doing an action movie, but one where he gets to play his age, and also a samurai. There's Gary Oldman playing the boss of an Old West town, only in a post-apocalyptic future. It's solid. It's good.
I mean, the Hughes Brothers can direct. Their action sequences in this film, undoubtedly tied together with CG, are astoundingly good.
So what goes wrong? A couple things. First, Mila Kunis. She's more convincing as a voice on "Family Guy" than actually giving a full performance. She's incredibly weak and it's not believable Washington's hardened road warrior would have let her tag along, much less become emotionally attached to her.
Second, it's got a moronic, "affecting," "real" ending. I'm sure the filmmakers thought it was honest or something.
But it's not honest to the good parts of this film, so it must be being honest to something else.
Total waste of time.
Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes; written by Gary Whitta; director of photography, Don Burgess; edited by Cindy Mollo; music by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne; production designer, Gae Buckley; produced by Joel Silver, Denzel Washington, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove and David Valdes; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Denzel Washington (Eli), Gary Oldman (Carnegie), Mila Kunis (Solara), Ray Stevenson (Redridge), Jennifer Beals (Claudia), Tom Waits (Engineer), Frances de la Tour (Martha) and Michael Gambon (George).
Virtuosity (1995, Brett Leonard)
Leave a Comment	/ ★, 1995, Film, Sci-Fi / 26 May 2010 26 May 2010 / Costas Mandylor, Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Louise Fletcher, Paramount Pictures, Russell Crowe, Virtuosity, William Fichtner, William Forsythe
Virtuosity, being from the 1990s, is from the era when both Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington didn't only appear in films directed by the Brothers Scott and Kelly Lynch was still in movies getting theatrical releases. It's an early CG movie, with lots of computer references and set in the "near future." It's incredibly solid, however, for what it is–an action thriller.
Barely anything happens in the film not related to the main plot. There's no romance between Washington and Lynch–partially, I'm sure, because of Washington's boycott on interracial romances but also because there's just no time for it. The movie's present action is something like forty hours. Enough time to introduce conflict then go through a lot of action to resolve it.
While Washington's great in the film, it's a sturdy, leading man great. He's barely charming here, as Virtuosity is well into his asexual film career (was it Gene Siskel who said he was the only guy who could play James Bond?). Instead it's Crowe who gets to have all the fun, playing a psychotic virtual reality serial killer or something. It's mostly about him just being crazy and good at it. It's maybe not daring, but a lot more than what his acting has become.
Leonard's a fine director. He can compose shots. It's the 1990s, there's a Peter Gabriel song over the end credits.
Unfortunately, the principal supporting cast member–Stephen Spinella–is beyond terrible. Amongst the sturdy character actors, he seriously hinders Virtuosity.
Directed by Brett Leonard; written by Eric Bernt; director of photography, Gale Tattersall; edited by B.J. Sears and Rob Kobrin; music by Christopher Young; production designer, Nilo Rodis-Jamero; produced by Gary Lucchesi; released by Paramount Pictures.
Starring Denzel Washington (Lt. Parker Barnes), Kelly Lynch (Madison Carter), Russell Crowe (SID 6.7), Stephen Spinella (Lindenmeyer), William Forsythe (William Cochran), Louise Fletcher (Elizabeth Deane), William Fichtner (Wallace), Costas Mandylor (John Donovan) and Kevin J. O'Connor (Clyde Reilly).
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009, Tony Scott)
Leave a Comment	/ ★, 2009, Action-Adventure, Film / 4 October 2009 4 October 2009 / Columbia Pictures, Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Ramon Rodriguez, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Tony Scott
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 might be the worst directed film I've ever liked. I haven't seen a Tony Scott effort in eight years and he just gets more and more obnoxious with the post production effects. It's like he's competing with himself to affect more style and be more visually incoherent than any other filmmaker working today. With the possible exception of Simon West, he seems to be succeeding.
But even Scott can't ruin a solid Denzel Washington star vehicle and, with the exception of John Travolta, Pelham is rather well-cast. Luis Guzmán is wasted, but James Gandolfini has some good moments, as does John Turturro. Instead of teaming with Scott again for this one, Washington should have brought in Spike Lee, whose realistic sense of New York would have played well with Helgeland's script's more fanciful, Hollywood characterization.
The film's only source credit is the novel, which it doesn't resemble much narratively, and it doesn't improve anything on the earlier adaptation. In fact, it wastes the potential with Travolta, who does better than usual I suppose, but he's not interesting to watch opposite Washington. He's just not in the same caliber of acting and it isn't interesting.
The film's way too long, with the third act dragging on and on. The end's a little bit absurd too, as Scott tries to pretend he's capable of an honest observation of the human condition.
But it's a decent hostage thriller. Even if Scott's mise-en-scène horrifies.
Directed by Tony Scott; screenplay by Brian Helgeland, based on the novel by John Godey; director of photography, Tobias A. Schliessler; edited by Chris Lebenzon; music by Harry Gregson-Williams; production designer, Chris Seagers; produced by Todd Black, Scott, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch; released by Columbia Pictures.
Starring Denzel Washington (Walter Garber), John Travolta (Ryder), John Turturro (Camonetti), Luis Guzmán (Phil Ramos), Michael Rispoli (John Johnson), James Gandolfini (Mayor), Frank Wood (Police Commissioner Sterman), John Benjamin Hickey (Deputy Mayor LaSalle), Gary Basaraba (Jerry Pollard) and Ramon Rodriguez (Delgado).
Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee)
Leave a Comment	/ ★★★, 2006, Film, Mystery / 29 October 2007 29 October 2007 / Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Inside Man, Jodie Foster, Spike Lee, Universal Pictures, Willem Dafoe
Inside Man has got to be the cleverest remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three made to date, starring Denzel Washington as Walter Matthau and Clive Owen as Robert Shaw and Jodie Foster as Martin Balsam. Okay, just kidding. Kind of. Inside Man, rather pointedly, follows in the Dog Day Afternoon tradition of the present action being the robbery and hostage situation and the film's running time being divided, more or less equally, between cops and robbers. And Denzel Washington is playing Walter Matthau, or the same kind of role Matthau played in Pelham… a non-specific cop role with a little back-story but only enough to confuse the most gullible viewer he's not just a cog in the plot. Washington turns in Inside Man's least compelling performance (except maybe the–until this film–always reliable Chiwetel Ejiofar, who follows Washington around and gets shown up by Daryl Mitchell in a practical cameo)–Washington wears a hat to make him stand out. In terms of being an actor's role or an actor's film, it's embarrassing, but Inside Man doesn't offer either of those things. Instead, it's a real solid, traditional bank robbery movie.
One of the film's most traditional elements, after it opens–almost as a tease to the audience–different (more in line with a Spike Lee "joint"), is Terence Blanchard's score. It's classic Hollywood music for the genre. It's really good and effective, but it's the norm. Spike's direction reminds a lot of the third Die Hard, probably the first time I've ever thought of John McTiernan during a Spike Lee film, with only one patented walking shot and a few too many dolly zooms (like four–Spike's a little too good of a director to use exclamation points).
Clive Owen's excellent, turning in the film's best performance (though the morality angle of the script is kind of cheap and uninteresting). Jodie Foster is okay in her role, though it seems like they really wanted her name on the poster or something, because any number of non-Academy Award winning prestige actors could have played the part. Willem Dafoe has a smaller role and he's excellent, getting in to the communal spirit of the cop scenes in a way Washington cannot. Even Ejiofar manages well in those moments, but Washington is in a movie star role and can't break for the small stuff. Christopher Plummer–in the hiss-friendly villain role–does a little less than he could, even if the character is terribly defined in the script.
The script's high points are the plotting–which Spike and Blanchard had a lot to do with making great–and the heist itself. They aren't so good in the character moments. Also really good are the cop moments, though it's weird to see Spike do a traditional cop movie after he made such pointed changes–with great success–to Clockers. There's a neat little Clockers reference in Inside Man, but I'd imagine the films are for very different audiences.
I do have to say, I find the film's reputation for it's plot innovations a little silly. Besides being predictable–except perhaps in regards to its MacGuffin–it's essentially a remake of Quick Change, only serious….
Directed by Spike Lee; written by Russell Gewirtz; director of photography, Matthew Libatique; edited by Barry Alexander Brown; music by Terence Blanchard; production designer, Wynn Thomas; produced by Brian Grazer; released by Universal Pictures.
Starring Denzel Washington (Detective Keith Frazier), Clive Owen (Dalton Russell), Jodie Foster (Madeline White), Christopher Plummer (Arthur Case), Willem Dafoe (Capt. John Darius) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Detective Bill Mitchell).


For 40 years, hospitals have been trying to shove computerized physician order entry (CPOE) down physicians' throats, and for 40 years physician adoption has been abysmal. According to KLAS's 2010 survey, less than one-sixth of U.S. hospitals are doing even a nominal amount of CPOE with commercial software, and less than six percent of hospitals have all their physicians using a CPOE system (most of these have lots of residents to help out).
One of the biggest reasons for the failure of most CPOE systems to date is that they were designed from the hospital perspective out to physicians, rather than from the physician's perspective in to the hospital. Most CPOE systems are modules of a hospital information system and, for the most part, force the vernacular and constructs of the hospital order processing infrastructure onto their physicians. If you couple this with the fairly strict requirement that most of these systems impose to standardize all orders (rather than just evidence-driven ones), you can quickly get a system that requires physicians to spend more time ordering with CPOE than using paper.


It's hard not to be amazed by Russia's eighteenth century Catherine Palace. With its sky blue and gold gilded façade, the building is three stories of "whipped cream" Rococo architecture. The interior is equally stunning: grand halls with marquetry floors, ornately-painted ceilings, and, of course, wall-to-wall flowery molding dripping with gold leaf.
Private collector Carole Kaye commissioned Robert Dawson of The Modelroom to miniaturize the fairy tale magic of the Catherine Palace. Nearly a decade later, the finished product has been gifted to the Kathleen Savage Browning Miniatures Collection at the Kentucky Gateway Museum (on view through April 30, 2016). One of the most stunning rooms in the miniature palace is a 1:12 scale interpretation of the Amber Room, in which Dawson hand painted and engraved hundreds of pieces of veneer to emulate amber. The full-scale Amber Room was once considered the "eighth wonder of the world." Maybe the miniature Catherine Palace could be considered for the ninth!


Pet medications, just like human ones, carry potential risks for accidental poisoning or intentional abuse. "The good news is veterinarians are taking the lead in helping prevent misuse of the medicines they prescribe," said associate professor Elizabeth M. Byrnes, who studies the effects of opioids in her neuroscience lab at Cummings School.
• Store medication in its original container, always secure the safety cap, and lock it in a safe or lock box away from human meds.
• Always check the label every time before using or giving medications.
• When giving pets medication, make sure pets finish them before a child is allowed nearby.
• To monitor for possible human abuse, make sure that the amount remaining in the container is correct.
• Do not flush medicines down the drain unless specified by the label or accompanying prescription information.
• Be aware that certain dangerous drugs, such as fentanyl patches, may require special disposal. If you're not sure, call your veterinarian.


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Posts Tagged Antioch First Fire District
Posted by Admin in Site News, updated listing | 13 Comments
The long overdue job of updating department profiles on the site has finally begun:
MABAS Division 1:
Elk Grove Village: added Engine 8 and Quint 7
Palatine: added Squad 85, Tower 85, and Ambulance 83
Northfield: added Squad 29
Highland Park: swapped Engine 34 and Squad 33
Prospect Heights: added Squad 9
Des Plaines: added Dive Unit 73
Skokie: added Ambulance 16, Ambulance 17, refurbed Tower 16, refurbed Engine 17R, FPD 208, Utility 213,
Wilmette: added Rescue 27 and Engine 27, updated the other photos
Antioch: added Ambulance 211R and the rehab bus
Grayslake: added Station 3
Lake Villa: added Station 4 and hopefully unscrambled the ambulances
Waukegan: added Truck 1634 and the department patch
Tags: Antioch FIre Department, Antioch First Fire District, Des Plaines Fire Department, Elk Grove Village Fire Department, Grayslake Fire Protection District, Highland Park Fire Department, Lake Villa Fire Department, Lake Villa Fire District, lake Villa Fire Protection District, Northfield Fire Rescue, Palatine Fire Department, Prospect Heights Fire District, Skokie Fire Department, Waukegan Fire Department, Wilmette Fire Department
Antioch Fire Department assumes full EMS for district
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The Daily Herald has an article about the Antioch Fire Department initiating EMS for the town and unincorporated areas of Antioch:
For the first time since 1938, the Antioch Rescue Squad (ARS) is not contracted to provide ambulance service on fire or rescue calls in the Antioch area.
The contract between the controversial volunteer rescue squad and the First Fire Protection District of Antioch ended at 5 a.m. Friday, officials said. Ambulance calls for all 27,000 residents in Antioch and Antioch Township were switched to the Antioch Fire Department, officials said.
"We had an extremely peaceful transition at 5 a.m. and have now established ourselves throughout the district," Fire Chief John Nixon said. "The crews are hard at work moving into fire station 3 (on Grass Lake Road), and 11 fire department employees are staffed at the three fire station buildings."
Nixon said required fire service computer programs were uploaded to dispatch centers and ambulances to make for a smooth transition. He said people in need should not see any change in the calls.
The change in service came after the First Fire Protection District of Antioch decided this year not to renew its contract with the Antioch Rescue Squad in order to consolidate fire and rescue services in the village and township under one fire department. The village made a similar decision one year earlier.
ARS President Todd Thommes said the rescue squad is reviewing its options. "We do not have a future plan in place right now," he said. "I wish I could say what the future is, but as of right now, we just don't know. We still need to sit down and go over all of that."
thanks Dan
Tags: Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon, Antioch FIre Department, Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS to township residents, Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS to village residents, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, First Fire Protection District of Antioch
Antioch looking at tax referendum for EMS
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The Daily Herald has an article about a new tax levy to fund EMS operations in Antioch.
Antioch-area officials say they will streamline the area's emergency services by creating a new unified fire and rescue operation and ask residents to help fund it. The proposal, which could be launched within two months, would put the Antioch Fire Department in charge of all fire and rescue services covering the village of Antioch and Antioch Township. It would be overseen by a new five-member emergency services board.
A key component is creating the area's first tax levy for emergency services. Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon said members of the area's fire safety commission are beginning to meet with village and township leaders about placing a 25-cent property tax rate referendum on the November ballot. If the referendum lands on the ballot and is approved by voters, the owner of a $150,000 home would pay about $140 annually to fund the new operation, Nixon said.
The measure would include separate questions for village and township voters, and approval of both would generate about $1.6 million annually for the fire department, he said.
The proposal from the fire safety commission — made up of township and village officials — would overhaul the confusing system of fire and rescue services in the Antioch area. Currently, the First Fire Protection District of Antioch, the Antioch Rescue Squad and the Antioch Fire Department share responsibility for providing emergency medical service in the 37-square-mile area.
The fire district covers fire calls in the village and the unincorporated areas of the township. Rescue calls are split between the fire department in the village and Antioch Rescue Squad in the unincorporated areas.
Next steps call for village and township boards to sign an intergovernmental agreement naming the Antioch Fire Department as the sole provider of fire and rescue service in the area. The five-member emergency services board would replace the current three-member First Fire Protection District board, Nixon said. That new board — made up of appointed representatives from the village and township — would oversee the fire department operation.
The same intergovernmental agreement would require the village and township to provide any additional funding needed above and beyond the tax levy proceeds.
The fire department would staff three stations to create an overlap of coverage, officials said. Two stations are in the village, which generates 65 percent of the fire calls. The third station on Grass Lake Road would serve unincorporated areas in Antioch Township.
Currently, the village, township, insurance companies and private fundraising donations cover operating costs for the three emergency agencies serving the area. Nixon said it's impossible to continue funding fire and rescue operations that way.
Antioch Village Administrator Jim Keim said the village pays about $66,000 a month to Metro Paramedic Service to staff village-owned ambulances at the Antioch Fire Department and to handle rescue calls. The village recoups about 50 percent of the total cost from the patients or insurance reimbursements, he said. The difference, he said, falls on the local government to fund.
"We need to find a way to fund this," Keim said. "Until then, it will put stress on the village's general fund and a shortfall will exist." One casualty of the overhaul was the Antioch Rescue Squad (ARS). The First Fire District announced last week it would not renew a contract with Antioch Rescue Squad, ending their partnership. The contract expires in May.
It's the latest loss for the 75-year-old volunteer-based group beset by problems that have undermined its influence and importance since May 2012. Nixon said the rescue squad operated as a subcontractor for the fire district, and the service wasn't renewed. ARS Chief Brian DeKind said Friday the group will now shift its focus to community paramedicine, including wellness checks and home health care.
Tags: Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon, Antioch FIre Department, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, Antioch Rescue Squad Chief Brian DeKind, Antioch tax levy for EMS, Antioch Village Administrator Jim Keim, First Fire Protection District of Antioch, Metro Paramedic Service
Antioch First Fire District not renewing with Antioch Rescue Squad
The Daily Herald has an article about a decision by the First Fire District not to renew a contract for EMS with the Antioch Rescue Squad.
The Antioch Rescue Squad (ARS) faces an uncertain future after the First Fire Protection District of Antioch announced it will not renew its emergency management service contract with the volunteer organization in May, cutting ties with the squad after 75 years. The decision announced Tuesday night by the three-member fire district governing board means the troubled rescue squad will no longer provide assistance in Antioch Township on emergency rescue calls or in transporting patients to area hospitals.
In its letter to the ARS governing board, officials from the First Fire Protection District of Antioch said "the time has come for the district to look at options to provide EMS service other than our longtime partnership with ARS." It said the district will utilize the Antioch Fire Department, the emergency service provider for the village of Antioch, when the current contract expires May 9.
"I'm personally disappointed," ARS Chief Brian DeKind said Wednesday. "It means, after 75 years of service, the squad will not be providing emergency ambulance care in Antioch."
The ARS now faces the prospect of having to shift its focus away from emergency medical services or go out of business.
Antioch Rescue Squad members are scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss ways it can continue to serve the community "through programs such as home health care and wellness checks," DeKind said in a news release. DeKind added that, until last year, the volunteer-based ARS was the sole emergency service provider in Antioch and Antioch Township since 1940.
He stressed that ARS operated without placing a tax burden on the public, instead raising operating funds from donations and memorials. It purchased its own equipment, vehicles and supplies at no cost to taxpayers, he said.
However, trouble started for the ARS in 2012 when a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed by three former members against several rescue squad colleagues and high-ranking rescue squad officials.
That lawsuit led to an Illinois Department of Public Health investigation that revealed some rescue squad members were mistreating patients, allowing employees to begin shifts within hours of excessively drinking alcohol, and slipping medications into the food and drinks of fellow squad members. The state later fined ARS and asked for operational changes.
Also, former Antioch Rescue Squad treasurer John Edgell was charged with theft of more than $10,000 after it was determined he had been taking cash from the squad. He pleaded guilty in November to a misdemeanor count of theft and was forced to pay back $25,000.
The mounting problems pushed former chief Wayne Sobczak to retire and led to former rescue squad President Steve Smouse to step down. DeKind replaced Sobczak and was tasked with rebuilding the squad's tarnished image.
Village officials and the ARS cut ties in May 2013, resulting in the Antioch Fire Department handling emergency medical calls in the village, and the ARS handling emergency calls in the township.
In Tuesday's letter announcing the split, the fire district board said its decision to change EMS service to the Antioch Fire Department will put financial, operational and personnel command for emergency services in Antioch and Antioch Township under one unified command. Antioch Fire Department Chief John Nixon said township residents will see no disruption in service when the change takes place May 9.
The letter from the First Fire District to the Antioch Rescue Squad;
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And from the Lake County News Sun:
The First Fire Protection District, serving Antioch Township, is terminating its contract May 1 with Antioch Rescue Squad to provide emergency medical services in the township. This follows action taken a year ago by the village of Antioch to terminate its contract with ARS, a not-for-profit organization of volunteers that had provided 911 ambulance service for all Antioch-area residents since it was created in 1940.
In a letter from the First Fire Protection District's board of directors, the squad was lauded for its service to the community but informed the squad that on May 1 it would be providing EMS services through the Antioch Fire Department.
Ambulance service for village residents is provided using contract personnel and part-time paramedics and EMTs on the fire department staff using village-owned ALS (advanced life support) ambulances.
Fire Chief John Nixon said ambulance service will be provided in both the village and unincorporated area with fire department staff and ambulances. "All of our ambulances will serve both the village and unincorporated areas out of three stations, including two in the village and one on Grass Lake Road in the unincorporated area that is being staffed now by ARS." He said unincorporated Antioch will continue to see quality EMS care and there will be no lapse in services.
ARS Chief Brian DeKind said the membership will meet later this week to discuss their options. "We could serve other municipalities, but the more realistic approach is to either dissolve the squad or serve the community in a different way, such as privately contracting with residents for medical transportation service. We want to continue to serve the community."
ARS had updated its policies and procedures, changed leadership and reorganized its board of directors since it was cited and fined in 2012 by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for violations of EMS protocols, including patient mistreatment, unprofessional conduct, breaches of confidentiality, improper use of medications and IV fluids and ARS paramedics working while under the influence of alcohol. Other issues have plagued the organization, including the arrest and conviction of ARS Treasurer John Edgell for stealing ARS funds, suspension of the licenses of several paramedics and the settlement of a sexual harassment suit made by female paramedics.
DeKind said with the loss last year of the village contract the organization, funded by community support and fundraisers, was facing financial difficulties. "We lost 50 percent of our revenue when we lost the village contract and we were asking for financial support from the First Fire District to make up that shortfall between insurance reimbursement and our costs."
Both the village and township are moving toward a consolidated services model under the direction of the fire department that would be funded through a separate EMS tax levy.
"It is apparent that the time has come for the district to look at options to provide EMS services other than our long-time partnering with ARS. The district, along with the village of Antioch, is working to establish an EMS tax levy to be decided by the voters in November 2014."
Tags: Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon, Antioch FIre Department, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, ARS Chief Brian DeKind, First Fire Protection District of Antioch, Illinois Department of Public Health
Antioch creates fire safety commission
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The Daily Herald has an article on a new fire safety commission in Antioch to explore various avenues of cooperation and possibly consolidation of emergency services for both the village and unincorporated township of Antioch.
Residents in Antioch and Antioch Township have … four fire or rescue agencies — First Fire Protection District of Antioch, Antioch Rescue Squad, the Antioch Volunteer Fire Department, and Superior Ambulance Service — provide services to about 28,000 residents in a 37-square-mile area.
But the number of agencies and the niches they've carved out in the community have also created a confusing system of service now being targeted for a possible overhaul to make it more simple and efficient, local officials said.
Antioch Village Administrator Jim Keim and Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon are members of a newly created fire safety commission including village, township and fire district officials that has been tasked with cutting through the confusion and replacing it with the best — and most cost-effective — protection available.
Village and township officials acknowledge that board disputes, ownership confusion and the ever-changing needs of fire and rescue have contributed to create a duplication of services in some areas in and around Antioch.
The quilt of emergency services begins with the First Fire Protection District of Antioch, the village of Antioch, and the Antioch Volunteer Fire Department. The volunteer fire department provides fire protection in the village and the fire district answers fire calls in unincorporated areas of the township, Nixon said. Roughly 65 percent of the fire calls are in the village, while 35 percent are elsewhere, he said. The boundaries are less clear when it comes to equipment, manpower and rescue services, officials said.
Nixon said most area fire stations, equipment and fire trucks are co-owned by the fire district and the village. The volunteer fire department also provides manpower to the fire district to fight fires in unincorporated areas. And, rescue calls are split between the Antioch Rescue Squad in unincorporated areas and Superior Ambulance in the village, he said. … Nixon … stepped down as the fire district chief earlier this year but still serves as a commander at the fire district and is chief of the Antioch Volunteer Fire Department.
To address the problem, the commission is reviewing four ideas, and will present the findings to officials from the three boards in January. They are:
• Give control of all the agencies to the fire district, and expand its board to five trustees to include two village-appointed members with a rotating chairman.
• Expand the village fire department operation to cover Antioch and the township, taking over control of the fire district in most areas.
• Completely split the two entities and create a full-time village fire department and a full-time township fire district,
• Keep things as they are, and continue to pool resources and money.
The toughest aspect of any change will likely involve the future of the Antioch Rescue Squad, which has been serving area residents since 1938. In May, the rescue squad elected to end its service in the village after leadership could not come to terms on a contract with the village board. At issue were various conflicts that began when village board members tried to exert more control over the squad after a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by three female squad members that came to light in May 2012. The lawsuit led to the state issuing fines and requesting operational changes at the rescue squad amid findings that squad members had unauthorized access to prescription drugs and patients were mistreated during ambulance runs.
Things worsened when former rescue squad treasurer John Edgell was charged with — and later pleaded guilty to — theft for stealing $25,000 from the squad. Those problems led to township Supervisor Steve Smouse stepping down as the rescue squad president and to the retirement of former rescue squad Chief Wayne Sobczak. The rescue squad is now headed by former Deputy Chief Brian DeKind.
After the rescue squad left the village, its officials signed a one-year contract with the fire district to continue handling rescue calls in unincorporated areas. Superior Ambulance Service was hired at the village's expense to cover ambulance calls for village residents.
Nixon admitted that, should the various entities consolidate, it could lead to the end of the Antioch Rescue Squad.
Antioch rescue squad Chief Brian DeKind said he favors being a part of the discussion and understands there are many scenarios that could play out before a resolution is reached. "I'm certainly in favor of doing what is in the best interests of the people of Antioch," he said.
The idea of consolidating Antioch-area fire and rescue services is not new. A study completed in 2008 by the Illinois Fire Chief's Association showed the Antioch Volunteer Fire Department, Antioch Rescue Squad and the First Fire Protection District should consolidate, Nixon said, but it was never implemented.
Tags: Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon, Antioch FIre Department, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, Antioch Rescue Squad Chief Brian DeKind, Antioch Rescue Squad Chief Wayne Sobczak, Antioch Village Administrator Jim Keim, Antioch Volunteer Fire Department, First Fire Protection District of Antioch, Illinois Fire Chief's Association, John Edgell, Superior Ambulance Service
Antioch FD to provide EMS in the village (update)
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The Lake County News-Sun has an article about the Village of Antioch extending their contract for EMS with Superior.
ANTIOCH — The village will continue to contract with Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service for 90 more days, extending the initial contract made six months ago when the village terminated its 72-year relationship with the not-for-profit Antioch Rescue Squad.
"We are providing better service to our residents, cutting response time by 15 to 20 seconds," said Antioch Fire Chief John Nixon. "Under the direction of the fire department, Superior has performed extremely well. We are providing enhanced level of care with our advanced life support engines answering each call with the ambulance. This means that we are sending at least four paramedics and EMTs to every call. Having that kind of response is crucial to dealing with the patient, talking to the family and taking a health history at the same time we are administering care."
"We have made a transition of EMS services under battlefield conditions and so far, so good. I don't see us going back to ARS," said Trustee Dennis Crosby. "The value is being transparent and handling our own destiny," he said, referring to the ARS policy of not sharing its policies, procedures and revenues with the public. "If we are providing better life-saving service to our residents, it is all worth the time and effort."
After 90 days, the village will transition to using village-owned ambulances. "We have two fully-equipped ambulances with a third to be purchased and equipped at a future date as back-up," said Nixon. "The plan is to get the first two ambulances to pass state inspection and get them on the street within the next 90 days."
A new agreement will be negotiated with Superior or another provider for personnel to staff the ambulances that are housed at Station 1 downtown and Station 2 on Deep Lake Road.
In the first four months that the village has contracted with Superior Ambulance service, the ambulance company responded to 416 calls. The fire department responded to 226 fire calls, doubling village-provided life-safety services, said Nixon, who projects an annual increase from 1,000 fire calls to a combined total of 2,300 fire and EMS calls.
While fire services cost the village $585,000 annually, EMS personnel adds another $818,000 to personnel cost for 12 full-time paramedics with an additional $53,000 annually for each leased ambulance. "We will save $106,000 annually by eliminating the leased ambulances," said Nixon.
The reason fire personnel costs are lower is that the department only has one full-time employee, Fire Chief Nixon, otherwise utilizing part-time paid, on-call firefighters. "Remember, this is just the village's portion of the cost for fire services. The actual cost for fire protection is more than $1 million because we share them equally with the First Fire District."
The village is working with the township, served by the First Fire Protection District, to work out a joint agreement to provide fire and rescue services. Historically the village has shared costs with the fire district for fire protection but each entity has been separately responsible for providing rescue service. The township is continuing to contract with ARS for rescue calls in the township.
The original contract was for 180 days.
Tags: Antioch FIre Department, Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS to village residents, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, Superior Ambulance, Village of Antioch to cut ties with rescue squad, Village of Antioch to sever ties with Antioch Rescue Squad
Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS in the village (more)
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Recent posts have followed the decision of the Village of Antioch to obtain EMS from the fire department instead of the Antioch Rescue Squad.
Jeff Rudolph submitted this image of an ambulance in one of the fire stations.
Antioch fire has contracted to Superior for medics. This is what they're running
Superior Ambulacne in the Antioch fire station. Jeff Rudolph photo
Tags: ambulance photo, Antioch FIre Department, Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS to village residents, Antioch First Fire District, Superior Ambulance
Antioch Village warns Antioch Rescue Squad
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The Daily Herald has an article about the Village of Antioch and the Antioch Rescue Squad
The contentious relationship between Antioch officials and the Antioch Rescue Squad has flared, with the village threatening a lawsuit over advertised services it says created a potentially dangerous situation.
The village notified state authorities and issued a cease-and-desist order after learning of the flier, which it says was distributed last week to an unknown number of people including seniors and disabled citizens.
In the flier, ARS claimed to be able to provide emergency medical services within the village, and residents were directed to call a 10-digit number with the promise a 911 dispatcher would send an ambulance.
The rescue squad is composed of volunteers that for 73 years had provided emergency services within the village, but that relationship ended June 1. The village now contracts with Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service for emergency rescue service in town. The Antioch Rescue Squad provides emergency services only in unincorporated areas in Antioch Township.
According to the rescue squad, no more than 30 copies of the flier were set on a table at the Antioch Township center. Remaining fliers were removed after the village alerted the squad, although 21 fliers could not be collected.
Even if the two-call system worked, according to village officials, several dangerous situations could arise, including a delay that could cost lives and no chance of finding the caller if there is a hang-up or dropped call.
Citizens should call 911 in an emergency, Mayor Lawrence Hanson said Tuesday in a statement.
In a letter Tuesday to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the rescue squad explained its actions, saying it had tried to establish a system for nonemergency care of village residents,
The squad acknowledged it mistakenly said it could provide emergency care in the village, which is not the case. It also said the directive that a 911 dispatcher would send an ambulance was a misstatement, as the contract with a 911 dispatch agency had not been finalized.
Arrangements have been made for calls to the 10-digit number to be forwarded to 911 for proper handling, according to the village.
The rescue squad says it does not collect tax money and provides its service for free. Village officials say taxpayers contributed an estimated $70,000 to $80,000 per year in fuel, rent, dispatch and other services.
Previous articles about the relationship between the village and the rescue squad can be found HERE and HERE.
Tags: Antioch FIre Department, Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS to village residents, Antioch First Fire District, Antioch Rescue Squad, Village oF Antioch threatens Antioch Rescue Squad
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The Chicago Sun-Times has an article about the new EMS services beginning today in the village of Antioch:
Beginning June 1, Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Services will provide emergency medical services for village residents, providing two Advance Life Support (ALS) ambulances staffed daily around the clock from the two village fire stations.
Village officials have agreed to contract with the private ambulance service company for 180 days after the current contract with Antioch Rescue Squad, the village's EMS provider for the last 72 years, expires at 11:59 pm May 31.
A link to the complete article is HERE.
Antioch Fire Department to provide EMS in the village
Posted by Admin in Ambulance photos, Fire Department History, Fire Department News, Fire Service News | 3 Comments
The following announcement was posted to the Antioch Fire Department website:
By Fire Chief John Nixon
The Village of Antioch voted at a special board meeting on May 23rd to begin providing ambulance services to the residents of the village directly under the direction of the Antioch Fire Department. Superior Air Ground Ambulance Service, Inc. was awarded a six month contract to provide two fully equipped ambulances and four on-duty fire and EMS personnel beginning June 1st. This action was necessary as a result of the sudden departure by the village's former EMS provider, the Antioch Rescue Squad. At the May 20th village board meeting ARS declined an offer from the village board to extend their contract to serve village residents and businesses for another six months. Antioch Fire Department will now be the responsible agency for delivery of fire and paramedics services to the community. In addition to the already equipped ALS Engines, fire department ambulances will be placed at fire station 1 on Holbek Drive and fire station 2 on Deep Lake Road to serve village residents.
Antioch Fire Department photo
Here is the previous article about the departure of the Antioch Rescue Squad.
thanks Jeff
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There are quite a number of ways by which doughnut can be prepared. Various countries with various styles, various chefs with various styles. In Nigeria, there are quite a number of methods among which this post describes one. In the making of doughnut however, some ingredients are necessary; Flour, Baker's yeast, milk, Melted margarine, sugar, egg, salt and warm water.
The flour is the primary ingredient upon which the whole process rests, the yeast is the ingredient that raises the dough, makes it fluffy and puffy. the margarine and milk makes it moist, these as well as sugar makes it tasty and yummy. The warm water serves the purpose of activating the yeast.
To get the best of the recipe, kindly use standard measuring cups and spoons. Albeit, if you are substituting, a tin of evaporated milk is equivalent to 3/4 of a measuring cup. It's not upto a cup.
In another bowl, pour 1 cup of flour, the yeast and salt. Make a well in the middle of the dry mix and pour the the liquid mixture.
Whisk egg in a small container and carefully add to the batter(be careful not to allow egg shells that are settled at the bottom of the whisked egg fall into the batter) .
Also, add the melted butter.
Knead the dough, roll into a ball and keep in the mixing bowl. Cover with a cloth or nylon for about 30minutes till the dough has doubled in size.
After it has doubled in size, knead dough again and roll with a rolling pin on a board. Ensure to flour the surface before rolling to prevent the dough from sticking to the board/surface.
Once the dough has been rolled out to a thickness of half an inch, using two sizes of cookie cutters or substitutes (e.g a jar cover and the cover of a mineral drink) like mine, cut the dough into big circles using the big cutter and make a smaller hole in each circle using the smallest cutter.
Cover the dough circles to double in size again for about 10 to 15 minutes. While you wait, set the oil on a cooker. You can use a deep fryer, pot or a not too shallow frying pot that can hold enough oil to deep fry.
Test the hotness of the oil using the small balls. The balls should float on the surface immediately if the oil is not enough.
Once the dough circles and oil are set, fry till golden brown. Fry few doughs at a time not crowding the fryer because the doughs will still rise.
Hi Maeva, I'm very sorry you got a sticky dough. You're supposed to use 3/4 cup of water, maximum of a cup for the purpose of mixing the powdered milk and activating the yeast. I'm sorry I didn't state that clearly. So, what did you do to the dough?
Awww… see passion. I feel quite bad now but, I'm still curious as to how the doughnut turned out.
And, how many cups of water did you use?
Alright. Thanks a lot.. It turned out well tho.. Just that kneading was quite messy.
Okay then. Just reduce the water next time or incase of such with other pastry, you should add more flour.
Use 2 tablespoons of powdered milk in 3/4cup of warm water. That's not upto a cup but is equivalent to a tin of evaporated milk which is what you need for the recipe.
Hey Sandra, you should use the method described in this post for a better result.


Praise the Lord for safe travels last night! We followed an awesome lightning display part of the way. Today we are unpacking, and will probably eat at least one meal that is not ham sandwitches or bean tostadas! (We enjoyed a kitchen free trip, except for our wonderful fare at the Criggers!) We hope to start posting tons of photos soon!!!
Very happy to see you all made it. Missing you all already.


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Q: Single pixel CSS error? In my previous question, CSS Hardware Accelerated Width, I mentioned that I was creating a Phonegap app that includes a feature that will allow you to change the size of a two column layout by moving the middle divider.
I am getting this to work, but I am having some CSS positioning problems. These problems are usually off by one pixel, but I'm sure are just a result of my math. Basically, the two column layout is normally set so that each side is even. Then, if you move the slider, it will change the left and right values of the columns to either increase or decrease their widths. The resize icon is positioned in between these two columns, and moves with them as their widths change.
The problem, however, is that when you rotate the device, the middle divider changes its positioning by a few pixels. To replicate the problem, you can either:

*

*Open page

*Rotate app

*Rotate app back to original position

Or:

*

*Open App

*Move slider

*Rotate app

*Rotate app back to original position

*Rotate app

In each case, the middle divider will be off by a few number of pixels, causing it to not align properly with the dividing line.
The JS that runs most of this looks like this:
$(window).on('orientationchange', function (e) {
    var page = $("#columnContainer").width();
    var totalWidth = $("#leftColumn").width() + $("#rightColumn").width() + 2;
    var left = $("#leftColumn").width();
    var test = page - ((parseInt($("#leftColumn").css("right")) * page) / 100);
    $("#columnResizeIcon").css({
        "-webkit-transform": "translate3d(" + (left) + "px, 0, 0)",
        "left": "auto",
    });
    if (totalWidth > page) {
        $("#leftColumn").css("margin-right", "2px");
    } else if (totalWidth < page) {
        $("#leftColumn").css("margin-right", "1px");
    }
    if ($("#leftColumn").width() < 100) {
        $("#leftColumn").css({
            "right": 100 - ((100 / page) * 100) + "%",
            "margin-right": "1px"
        });
        $("#rightColumn").css({
            "left": (100 / page) * 100 + "%",
        });
        $("#columnResizeIcon").css({
            "-webkit-transform": "translate3d(100px, 0, 0)",
        });
    }
    if ($("#rightColumn").width() < 100) {
        $("#leftColumn").css({
            "right": (100 / page) * 100 + "%",
            "margin-right": "1px"
        });
        $("#rightColumn").css({
            "left": 100 - ((100 / page) * 100) + "%",
        });
        $("#columnResizeIcon").css({
            "-webkit-transform": "translate3d(" + (page - 100) + "px, 0, 0)",
        });
    }
});
$("div").on("touchmove", "#columnResizeIcon", function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var page = $("#columnContainer").width();
    var left = e.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX;
    var right = page - left;
    if (left > 100 && left < page - 100) {
        $("#leftColumn").css({
            "right": ((right) / page) * 100 + "%",
            "margin-right": "1px",
        });
        $("#rightColumn").css({
            "left": ((left) / page) * 100 + "%",
            "margin-left": "1px",
        });
        $("#columnResizeIcon").css({
            "-webkit-transform": "translate3d(" + left + "px" + ", 0, 0)",
            "left": "auto",
        });
    } else {}
});

CSS:
body{
    background-color:#000;
}

#columnContainer{
    position: absolute;
    bottom:0;
    top:0;
    right:0;
    left:0;
    background-color:#000;
}

#leftColumn{
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    right:50%;
    bottom:0;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
    z-index: 1;
    margin-right: 1px;
}

#rightColumn{
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left:50%;
    right:0;
    bottom:0;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
    z-index: 1;
    margin-left: 1px;
}

.header{
    position: absolute;
    left:0;
    right:0;
    height:33px;
    z-index: 5;
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f4f5f7 0%,#a7abb7 100%);
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 #fff, inset 0 -1px 0 #7A8090, 3px 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
    border-top-left-radius: 5px;
    border-top-right-radius: 5px;
    font-size: 17px;
    font-family: Helvetica;
    font-weight: bold;
    letter-spacing: .2px;
    text-align: center;
    padding-top:9px;
    color:#71787F;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #E3E5E9;
    word-break: break-all;
}

.content{
    position: absolute;
    left:0;
    right: 0;
    top:42px;
    bottom: 0;
}

#leftColumn .content{
    background-color:#F5F5F5;
}

#rightColumn .content{
    background-color:#fff;
}

#columnResize{
    position: absolute;
    width:2px;
    top:0;
    bottom: 0;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-1px;
    background-color:#000;
    z-index: 2;
    display: none;
}

#columnResizeIcon{
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 3;
    width:10px;
    height:30px;
    top:50%;
    bottom:50%;
    margin-top:-15px;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-7px;
    border-left:2px solid #000;
    border-right:2px solid #000;
}

#leftColumn,
#rightColumn {
  -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}

HTML:

Left Header

Right Header

I would post a fiddle, but the code needs to be run from either the iOS simulator or an actual iOS device, and jsFiddle does not play well with Apple.

A: I'd say the problem is in the margins. I'd get rid of them (hear me out!).
#leftColumn, #rightColumn, #columnResize{
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    bottom: 0px;
    etc...
}
#leftColumn{
    left: 0%;
    width: 50%;
}
#rightColumn{
    left: 50%;
    width:50%;
}
#columnResize{
    left: 50%;
    width: 2px;
    z-index:2;
}

It's a cheap trick, but since your resize bar is only 2px wide, it might as well have the same left pos as the right column. A user wouldn't be able to tell that it should really be 1px to the left. e.g. Depending on the content of the two columns, you may want a margin on the left of whatever is inside the right column.

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Its been a while since I have posted to our blog, but I hope that this post will be helpful to you if you want to become a searcher with our team.
As you train to become qualified to search, lead search teams, and beyond, you will participate in interviews/discussions with other MSAR members. We hope to use this dialogue to prepare you for the next steps within MSAR, improve our team, and help you grow in the Search and Rescue community.
There are many topics that might come up, but here are a few questions and comments to consider.
Why do you want to do Search and Rescue?
Have you talked with boss/teachers/parents about searching/responding to searches?
What has been your biggest hurdle? What was the easiest?
What are you most excited/concerned about?
Searches can be upsetting. How are you preparing?
What is the role of the CQ/FTM/FTL?
What brought you to join Maryland Search and Rescue?
What are your MSAR goals?
Are there any offices or responsibilities that you are interested in or would consider in the future?
What do you do outside of MSAR (or what are you studying in school) and how can that help our team?
Do you have advice for people seeking your rank?
Do you have any advice on changes for the rank/program?
What can you do to help others reach your training level?
You have met the requirements for a new training level and we may look to you to help train others – What areas can you assist with? What topics are you most comfortable with?
How will you/can we make MSAR more inviting?
What have you done? What can you do?
Relax! While this is required – it is not something to get worked up about.
Watch out for field promotions! Make sure you do not go beyond training/comfort levels!
Make sure that you are on our call out lists!
Know and share your limits – physically/emotionally/etc – and adjust your search participation.
Adults – Don't dominate meetings. Give our youth a chance to talk, to do skills or teach first.
Youth – We need your parent/guardians support. If they are not already involved how can you get them involved?
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In the work we do as contemplative coaches, spiritual directors, and trainers in spiritual direction, Sandy and I work with a broad network of people representing a variety of denominational backgrounds. As a bridge-builder, working in agreement with the oneness Jesus prays for in John 17: 21-23 (see below), we believe that it's always important to stay open and cordial to those in our midst who might hold to different doctrinal practices in their Christian faith. Thus in our coaching and spiritual direction sessions, we will never insist that you conform to or agree with any particular practices of Christianity that are foreign to you or are vastly different from your particular system of belief.
'Essentials' are a very small circle of vital, life-giving Kingdom-basics, rock-bottom biblical truths, that we bridge-builders must never compromise on as we work hard to stretch our lives and faith toward others from a variety of backgrounds. 'Traditions' compose a much larger circle of beliefs. Generally, 'Traditions' are the many practices we Christians have determined are important as we live out our faith in Christ. It's in this circle we find the rich diversity that makes up the denominational differences found in the larger church of Jesus Christ. Finally, 'Opinions' are just that. And since they compose the largest circle of thought by far, 'Opinions' will be abundant at every turn in church life. Unfortunately, the church becomes quite divided and often, weakened, when we confuse 'Traditions' with 'Essentials'. Worse yet, Christians often take 'Opinions' and allow them to divide us from other brothers and sisters in Christ, leaving us to go it alone in our faith journey in life.
The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, so they might be one heart and mind with Us. Then the world might believe that You, in fact, sent Me. The same glory You gave Me, I gave them, so they'll be as unified and together as We are—I in them and You in Me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, and give the godless world evidence that You've sent Me and loved them in the same way You've loved Me.


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E5 European long distance path
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The E5 European long distance path or E5 path is one of the European long-distance paths from the French Atlantic coast in Brittany through Switzerland, Austria and Germany over the Alps to Verona in Italy. It is waymarked over the whole 3200 km (1988 mi) distance. The heaviest used section is the last part, which crosses Europe's highest mountains from Lake Constance to Italy (600 km, around 30 days). Even this part does not require climbing experience.
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The E5 route starts at Pointe du Raz in the north-west of France. It initially follows the Channel coast, then runs inland past Versailles and follows the Seine to Dijon. After traversing the Vosges the trail reaches Lake Constance.
The E5 passes the Rhine Falls, then follows the southern shore of Lake Constance to Rheineck.
The trail heads east from Bregenz, then ascends to the Staufner hut and the German border.
Most E5 walkers start from Oberstdorf, where the Alpine section begins. After 50 km the trail crosses the Austrian border after the Kemptner hut.
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Austrian part of E5 in the valley of the Höhenbach
The most strenuous and spectacular part of the track (175 km) crosses the Allgäu, Lechtal and Ötztal Alps. The route leads the traveller past the Memminger hut towards Zams and afterwards over Geigenkamm and Kaunergrat to Pitztal. Beyond Mittelberg the route crosses Pitztaler Joch, the highest point of the trail (2995m), before reaching the Italian border near the Timmelsjoch.
European Ramblers Association data on E5 in Austria
The E5 now goes past the Heilig Kreuz Spitze and the Hohe Warte to Merano and Bolzano. The trail is then less mountainous and less crowded, but there are still more than 12 hard days of walking to Verona. The track leads the traveller along the west flank of the Dolomites past the health resort of Levico Terme and over the history-charged Pasúbio massif towards the final destination, Verona.
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While road-tripping through the Arizona desert, the Lerolland family gets a shock when their son Rich (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is nearly run down by a gang of deranged drivers led by the vicious Cliff (Craig Sheffer). But the terror multiplies when Cliff ups the stakes to a deadly degree. It isn't long before Rich's uncle Jack (Christopher Lambert) becomes the sole hope for the family in this tense road thriller, also starring Josh Brolin.
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How to Get an Earworm Song Out of Your Head
By Erica Fleming | Published September 8, 2018
Sometimes a song overheard on the radio or TV can be quite catchy and can stick to one for a long time. Such songs, or 'earworms' as they are usually referred to, can cause a lot of trouble simply by humming its own tune in one's ear for days, or even weeks. For this, there are certain ways of how to get rid of them or calm them down in order to restore the peace of mind.
Method #1 – Giving Up To The Earworm Song
relisten to the melody all the way through
Sure, it might sound weird especially if the goal is to make a song leave the head. However, it's scientifically proven that songs repeating over and over again are actually only parts, usually a couple of lines that are extremely engaging because of their melody. The reason for the song's repetition is possibly its memorable tune or lyrics that make sense to the holder.
In order to decelerate it, it's advised to listen to the melody all the way through for a couple of times. Though it's considered the most effective method, it doesn't work every time but it's worth trying, isn't it? In case if this option is not pleasant enough for someone, there is a section down below describing other, more radical methods.
Read the Song Lyrics
It happens that the tune itself is not attractive and it causes no trouble, whereas a few lines of lyrics or just a couple of words are rollercoastering without giving the victim a break. In this case, it's good to have a look at the lyrics. Sometimes, one hums words, which are believed to be in a song, however, having looked them up they are nowhere to be found in the original version.
Singing along and working on the lyrics' pronunciation can help out sufficiently since the brain starts digesting the song, which makes it more conscious and therefore, encourages forgetfulness.
In case, if simple reviewing of a song's lyrics doesn't resolve the issue, then it might help to memorize them by rehearsing over and over again. This will also force the brain to focus on it and, consequently, lose it in a few tries.
Pickup and Play a Musical Instrument
Playing a musical instrument comes in handy as well. Instead of reproducing the song, it's helpful and entertaining to cover as a means to trick the brain into catching up with a new melody.
Obviously, there isn't always time to listen to songs or play them on a musical instrument. Notwithstanding, a victim can do a very simple technique that reduces anger and defocus, which is concerned with imagination.
A volume switch being turned down until the melody seems more like a distant whisper.
A wall being erected between yourself and an imaginary sound source. It's done slowly and gradually to make it as real as possible.
Experimenting with the song's properties, such as speed, pitch, etc.
Imagine Destruction
This approach should be used only if any of the previous ones have worked out. When the hated melody is nothing but slightly suggestive, it's a long time to finish it completely. For this, imagination is required again and is followed by visualizing:
A dagger or sable rapidly cutting an abstract connection between the holder and a song.
An old rusty gramophone with a vinyl record rotating on it. As the record slows down the needle is removed upwards and the sound gradually stops and there is nothing but silence.
Method #2 Using Additional Means
These methods are efficient in cases when an earworm song has not made its way deep in the brain. Sometimes, it's already stuck there annoying the heck out of a person. For this reason, there are a few radical options to be applied.
Try Bubblegum
Bubblegum is believed to have a positive impact on the issue. Chewing it for a long time supposedly hums down a song itself by concentrating on the tasty sweet in the mouth.
Think of Other Things
Giving in yourself to deep and thoughtful meditation is regarded by studies as a means to lose the sense of presence and switch the attention to something else. It might not work right away, but a few tries later the results will be surprising.
Direct Your Focus
If relaxing and meditating from reality don't do their job, then meticulous and focused occupations can give a hand. They include solving a riddle or a puzzle, playing scrabble or, even, dealing with deciphering anagrams. It's proven that doing such activities engages the same part of the brain as the one tortured by a noise song. On the other, being too focused to the extent of anger doesn't influence favorably since the sticky tune can be strengthened up.
Engage in Distracting Activities
Other activities that include quiet reading aloud or listening to audio sounds are too seen as a good way to process a song. For instance, one can meditate while humming a mantra or carefully listening to nature sounds. Or, reading an interesting book, or watching TV. It doesn't really matter which amenities are chosen as long as they provide a feeling of comfort and, more importantly, constant focus.
Listen to a New and Different Song
As they say – evil cures evil. In the case of an evil song, one can entrust their wellbeing into the hands of another famous melody. Doubtlessly, everybody has their preferences and a short list of the most hated tunes. However, there are a few standard songs that are most probably known by everyone, such as:
Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles
Mama Loves Mambo by Perry Como
Thunder by Imagine Dragons
Baby by Justine Bieber, etc.
Work on Solving Problems
Along with flexing the brain while doing riddles or puzzles, mathematical equations are also a good solution. Dividing, multiplying and other arithmetical activities will definitely shift any attention problem. However, it's practical to choose something that is known and won't take long to be resolved.
In conclusion, there are many ways of getting rid of an earworm song. The problem is not how to do it but what way to choose in order to ease your life for good.
My name is Erica Fleming. I support the effective adoption of new technologies or ways of working within writing by communicating complex information in an informative and inspiring way. My works you can at freebooksummary.com. I'm fond of writing articles for students, helping with essays.
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IWA Show 2016 Report Two
For HAM's second report from the IWA Show 2016, we're concentrating on FX and Weihrauch.
Both of these booths were packed with interested visitors for much of Saturday – a testimony to how much interest there is in these two outstanding – yet completely different air rifle product lines.
My guide for everything FX at the IWA Show 2016 was Johan Axelsson. Yes, that's right, he's FX President and founder Fredrik Axelsson's son. Our heading photograph, above, shown Johan holding the new FX Streamline model that he has been responsible for developing.
Johan described that the FX Streamline is a model so new that it wasn't even included in the latest FX catalog that was produced specially for the show! Unusually for FX, it features a simple, but good-looking wood stock with – as Johan outlined – a harmonious amalgamation of features that you will find from other FX air rifle models.
One main attraction of the FX Streamline is the price point, which is said to be lower than that of other FX models, although actual pricing in the US Market, for example, will be confirmed by FX specialists, Airguns of Arizona.
Of course, there's a huge amount of interest in the FX Impact air rifle at the IWA Show 2016. Johan explained that the massive demand for this new air rifle. It was launched just a few months ago and so is still a very new model. Apparently it's keeping the FX factory very, very busy as they try to satisfy the worldwide demand.
The FX Impact is a bullpup, takedown design that's available in .177, .22, .25 and .30 calibers. It's fitted with the FX Smooth Twist barrel in different lengths (longer for the two larger calibers) and is supplied in factory tune at power levels of up to 82 Ft/Lbs for the .30 caliber version.
Of course, FX also were showing their full range of products – as you can see from this general view of the booth.
Among the other highlights on display were differently-stocked versions of the FX Wildcat…
… together with this display of the FX Boss (top) in .30 caliber, with the FX Royale 500 below it in .25 cal and the Royale 400 in .177 caliber.
Then there's the FX Cyclone and T12 models.
And the Arrow editions of the Indy, Bobcat and Royale 400 were also prominently displayed.
Meanwhile Fredrik Axelsson himself was constantly talking to customers, explaining the benefits of his company's products.
Not far away from FX Airguns at IWA Show 2016 is the Weihrauch booth. That's Herr Weihrauch himself in suit walking to the left in the centre of our photograph.
As well as the familiar range of beautiful, classic air rifles the company produces, Weihrauch Sport introduced a couple of new PCP models at the IWA Show 2016. These were the HW100T and the HW110ST, as you can see below.
The Weihrauch HW100ST has a different breech assembly from the preceding HW100 models, including a Weaver/Picatinny rail for scope mounting. There's also a revised High Pressure Air (HPA) tank configuration.
The HW110ST is to be available in .177, .20 and .22 calibers. Initial production is expected to be at the 12 Ft/Lbs power level which is the legal unregistered maximum level for the UK market.
Below, Jurgen Pfeffer from Weihrauch proudly displays the HW110ST air rifle during the IWA Show 2016.
There's plenty more to come in future Hard Air Magazine reports from the IWA Show 2016.
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Q: Is it possible to send automated messages with Signal Messenger? I would like to send periodic, automated messages to a preset list of my Singal contacts. Groups would work if there were a way to Bcc group members such that other groups members couldn't see each other. I'm wondering if there's some kind of API or other interface for doing this?

A: It has been requested multiple times but it seems that nothing has come of it:

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*Feature: send schedule

*Add scheduling of text messages for Android
The latest messages in this thread on the official site do seem to hint that it's a possible addition in the future. Fingers crossed.

A: There's currently no official way to send automated messages to Signal.
But there is an app for sending automatic replies. It can also be connected to your web server:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tkstudio.autoresponderforsignal