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"Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri" Review
Title: Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri
Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre(s): Drama
Rated: R (For violence, language throughout, and some sexual references)
While "Suburbicon" may have been the movie that the Coen brothers were officially involved in earlier this year, I have to say that "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" feels more like one of their movies from beginning to end. It is one of those murder mysteries that involve largely dumb people who find themselves in a frantic mystery where there is no suspect, motive, or evidence, and all who have been affected are trying to make heads and tails of their new realities. The key difference with director Martin McDonagh though is that he see's his characters as dumb through their willful ignorance of the situation, life, and the power they either have or merely perceive as having. Also, while the Coen brothers tend to view their characters as players in a story, McDonagh views his characters as very, very flawed human beings.
Rarely have a seen a movie where the motivations of the characters never change…yet our perception of them does on the very basis of what they want. Take, for example, the movies supposed protagonist Mildred Hayes (Francis McDormand), who buys the rights to three billboards asking the local sheriff why there have been no suspects found after her daughter was raped and murdered. It is a tragedy that everyone can emphasize with, and so we immediately side with her and want to see justice done. What catches us off guard is when the man she calls out - Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) - shows up to her house and explains that there was no evidence to point them anywhere. There were no leads, no eye witnesses, and the DNA found did not match anyone in the city (or even state). He would love to have found the killer, but there was nothing more to go on.
Besides, he is dealing with some fatal health problems of his own, and may not live long enough to see the case through to completion. With this information we see that the sheriff is not a bad or even obtuse man; he simply doesn't have anything to go on. That Mildred is asking for sympathy from him while not acknowledging his own struggles is the first sign we'll see that she is not completely innocent in her methods to get justice. For that matter, she scorns local police Officer Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell) as a bigoted racist who spends more time beating up local African Americans than doing any real work. She isn't completely wrong in her accusation, but Dixon is not a random red neck hillbilly. There is a deep sense of wanting to do good in the world, but feeling like he doesn't have the power (or trust from fellow officers) to do much. His abuse of power comes not out of a dominating spirit, but of a desire to be respected.
As the movie goes on it is amazing how the same situation morphs and evolves to the point where our initial feelings about everyone drastically changes. Mildred may be the one who gains our sympathies at first, but her obsession to get revenge at all cost makes us question if this is about finding a killer and lashing out against a world she considers to be unfair and biased. At one point it dawns on us that this movie isn't about the murder at all. Truthfully, there isn't much more we know about what happened after the fact than we did before the first. No, this is a movie about people who have demons they must deal with, and may be dealing with them in all the wrong ways. It is a movie where a situation can evolve in unexpected ways while still being a complete mystery at the end of the day.
In the end, "Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri" is a gripping drama where people deal with depression, the feeling of helplessness, and having to adjust to new ways of life. The acting is universally excellent with McDormand, Harrelson, and Rockwell all giving the performances of their lives, with a smart screenplay and direction by McDonagh, who with one movie has become an artist I am very much going to be keeping an eye on in the future. When the movie began I was ready to solve a mystery. When the movie ended I was thinking about life, how unresolved issues breed anger, how pent up anger can make extremists out of anyone, and how, maybe, we're all ultimately just looking for a little empathy in the world.
Parents, there is lots of bad language, violence, and discussions about rape and sexual assault. Recommended for ages 17 and up.
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Belles and Beaux is a 13-member vocal and instrumental band sponsored by the Department of Music at Harding University. They perform a wide variety of today's hot new songs as well as the cool hits of yesterday! This talented and diverse group performs all over the United States and accepts bookings for events such as youth conferences and banquets. Most of their repertoire is secular, but they also sing Christian a cappella songs. Members of Belles and Beaux receive scholarships.
Auditions are held on the Tuesday and Thursday of Dead Week for on campus students, and during Spring Sing weekend for incoming students. Additional information can be obtained by emailing Chuck Hicks, at chicks@harding.edu.
Chuck Hicks is the director of Belles and Beaux.
He received his M.S.E. from Harding in 1997 and has a strong background in the field of music, particularly in performance and stringed instruments. His musical talents have been interspersed with graphic design and marketing experience. Active in the university's International Campaigns program for eleven years, Hicks has taken student groups to Germany and Hungary and has also taught at the Harding campus in Florence, Italy. He teaches private guitar in the Department of Music and also directs the a cappella group, The Good News Singers.
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Limiting resolution is a simple metric that describes the ability of any image system to distinguish small details of an object. Limiting resolution is normally subjectively calculated from the smallest resolvable group and element in a resolution target such as the USAF 1951 target or analytically from the modulation transfer function MTF of the system. Although limiting resolution has limitations, it provides a quick method with low complexity to establish the performance of an imaging system. Various factors affect limiting resolution such as the optical performance of the system and sensor noise, both temporally and spatially. Evaluating the resolution performance of full motion video FMV results in uncertainty in limiting resolution due to the temporal variation of the system. In high performance FMV system where the modulation associated with the limiting resolution is small, the limiting resolution can vary greatly frame to frame. This paper explores how limiting resolution is measured, factors that affect its uncertainty in FMV system, and provides real world examples from airborne video.
This paper examines the measurement of MTF of slant edge targets from airborne imagery. The MTF is calculated by extracting the edge spread function from the slant edge, deriving the line spread function, the performing an FFT to get the MTF. Because characteristics of airborne imagery are not controlled, using edge targets to get the system level MTF present challenges. A method to calculate the MTF from edge targets in airborne imagery is proposed by normalizing the scan lines in the edge spread function and low pass filtering it. An example using air borne imagery is shown and compared with analytical results and laboratory measurements. The paper also examines extracting the effects on the MTF due to image blur from jitter common with air borne imagery.
Lenses for staring-array point-source detection sensors must maintain good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over fields of view often exceeding 100 degrees. Such lenses typically have f-θ distortion to provide constant solid angle sampling in object space. While the relative illumination calculation is often used to describe flux transfer from a Lambertian extended object for imaging applications, maximizing SNR for point-source detection depends primarily on maximizing collected irradiance at the entrance pupil, the shape of which can vary dramatically over field. We illustrate this field-dependent SNR calculation with an example lens and outline the calculations needed to derive a simple aberration-based expression for the field dependence of point-source SNR.
Long-range airborne full-motion-video systems require large apertures to maximize multiple aspects of system performance, including spatial resolution and sensitivity. As systems push to larger apertures for increased resolution and standoff range, both mounting constraints and atmospheric effects limit their effectiveness. This paper considers two questions: first, under what atmospheric and spectral conditions does it make sense to have a larger aperture; second, what types of optical systems can best exploit movement-constrained mounting? We briefly explore high-level atmospheric considerations in determining sensor aperture size for various spectral bands, following with a comparison of the swept-volume-to-aperture ratio of Ritchey-Chrétien and three-mirror-anastigmat optical systems.
As airborne EOIR imaging systems strive to achieve high-NIIRS full motion video (FMV) from longer and longer standoff ranges, the challenges behind conceptualizing, designing, and fielding such systems grows significantly. We present a heuristic framework for dissecting the "goodness" of an FMV multispectral sensor and look at the various components behind what makes a high-resolution sensor. Combining spatial, temporal, spectral, and "signal" resolution with system footprint size/weight/power (SWaP) metrics allows deterministic tradeoffs between optical systems as well as system architectures. We present example trade studies of optical architectures from disparate application fields in various SWaP-constrained environments for long-range imaging and evaluating how system parameters are intrinsically linked.
Performance models for infrared imaging systems require image quality parameters; optical design engineers need image quality design goals; systems engineers develop image quality allocations to test imaging systems against. It is a challenge to maintain consistency and traceability amongst the various expressions of image quality. We present a method and parametric tool for generating and managing expressions of image quality during the system modeling, requirements specification, design, and testing phases of an imaging system design and development project.
While the use of optics in the playback of music has been a tremendously successful technology and laser light shows are a common occurrence, other intersections of optics and music tend to be less well known. Topics such as optics-based instruments, performance tools and effects, instrument characterization and manufacturing, recording, playback, and signal processing are explored.
Optical systems designed for some defense, environmental, and commercial remote-sensing applications must simultaneously have a high dynamic range, high sensitivity, and low noise-equivalent contrast. We have adapted James Janesick's photon transfer technique for characterizing the noise performance of an electron multiplication CCD (EMCCD), and we have developed methods for characterizing performance parameters in a lab environment. We have defined a new figure of merit to complement the traditionally used dynamic range that quantifies the usefulness of EMCCD imagers. We use the results for EMCCDs to predict their performance with hyperspectral and multispectral imaging systems.
Airborne surveillance presents challenging target-detection opportunities for optical remote sensors, especially under the constraints of size, weight, and power imposed by small aircraft. We present a spatial-frequency dependent figure-of-merit, called the Detector Quantum Efficiency (DQE), by first tracing its origins in single pixel photon multiplication detectors, where it is shown to be yield (quantum efficiency or QE) divided by the noise factor. We then show the relationship of DQE to several well-known figures-of-merit. Finally we broaden the definition of DQE to include the spatial-frequency dependence on the MTF of the system and the noise power spectrum (NPS) of the detector. We then present the results of the application of this DQE to a hyperspectral camera under development at BAE Systems Spectral Solutions LLC.
Science and Technology International (STI) has developed a six-band multispectral imager optimized for surf-zone reconnaissance and mine countermeasures (MCM). Airborne surf-zone MCM requires both accurate spectral imaging and high spatial resolution. Vibration and aircraft motion degrade the image quality. However weight, volume and power constraints preclude stabilized operation of the cameras. Thus, the MTF needs to be measured in flight to insure it meets the resolution requirements. We apply the slanted-edge MTF method to the in-flight characterization of airborne high-resolution cameras, analyzing images of orthogonal slanted edges to estimate the motion and vibration contributions to the MTF, and show that the system exceeds the resolution requirements for surf-zone MCM. We also develop a methodology for scaling to other altitudes and speeds, and show that the system will perform well throughout its operational envelope. The slanted-edge method is more accurate and reproducible than the alternative of placing MTF bar targets under the aircraft flight path. Further, the slanted-edge targets are easier to deploy and recover, and ease the navigation tolerances.


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Matt Schofield played a tour in Finland using Royal Blue Overdrive, Twimble and Deep Blue Delay by Mad Professor. Here Matt goes through the board telling how he is using the Mad Professor pedals. Other gear: SVL guitar/Mark Foley pickups, Fender Pro Reverb amp and Two Notes Torpedo Studio.


Top of the world, ma! Well, Indo-China anyway | Goodbye UK, Hello World!
It didn't break that promise. I was woken as promised/threatened at 6am for a healthy noodle soup breakfast. Just before 7am we started the assault on Mt Fansipan.
Briefly through forest and onto mountain path, the route seemed not too troublesome. We ambled past some mountain goats (I'm assuming they were mountain goats. Goats. On mountain. Mountain goats). They were possibly the healthiest goats I've ever seen, though they'd have had a damn good wash in the pelting rain overnight.
The way got harder. And harder. I can honestly say that I don't think I have ever attempted anything as physically demanding. I can only wonder if I'd have found it any easier immediately after I left the UK and 12 months of well-used gym membership.
The route seemed ot be getting steeper. As we climbed higher, mud also became a factor. At 2800m we passed a hut used on the 3-day trips.
After this is the hardest section.
"Half an hour. No more," was the welcome reply. Any longer and I'd have handed him my camera with orders to get pictures from the top. Then Photoshop would have been my best friend and none of you would have been any the wiser!
Somehow, don't ask me how, we made it. Paó let me go up first. It was 9:25. 2 1/2 hours after we started. My legs ached. My lungs burned. My head was light. I didn't care. I literally danced around the monument at the peak, unaware of the cold wind blowing over.
I barely even noticed the chill round my nethers courtesy of the stitching in my cheap Nepalese trousers giving way early in the day. At least that had made it easier to take some of the larger steps required to get up some of the steeper parts.
I'd been concerned that there'd not be a decent view when I got to the top due to cloud. I needn't have worried. Not because there was a view – there wasn't – but because I simply didn't care. I'd done it.
For those few minutes I was the highest person in all of Indochina. That's well over a billion people. In fact, I'm fairly certain that's the highest I've ever been outside of an aeroplane. OK, not including the skydive I did in Taupo.
As the cold started to bite, along with hunger pangs, we began our descent. The easy bit. Right? Wrong.
On the way up, it's a lot of effort. For those who've forgotten why, go back to physics class. For those who didn't do physics, why not? It's a great science.
Oh, OK then. When you go up, you're pushing against gravity. Gravity's like that stubborn kid in class who had no friends and probably turned into the school bully. It pushes back. So it's more work (that's a technical physics term – seriously) to go up than down or along. Unless you're sat in a plane or stood in a lift or something. Anyway, the assumption is that down is easier, especially as on the way up the air is thinner so you get less oxygen with each breath.
Now, if you could curl into a ball and roll down, or slide down a 3000m helter skelter then great. Big bad gravity becomes your friend. But walking and jumping down plays merry hell with your knees and calves. It's also very easy to slip. Gravity still shoves you down, often faster than you want to go.
As we neared the rest stop we'd started from, I actually looked forward to the handful of upwards sections. They gave my knees and calves a rest. On the other hand, they were the sections where the burst blisters on my heels rubbed on my boots.
Finally, another 2 1/2 hours later, we reached the village for lunch. Four French people had arrived at stage 1 of their 3-day clamber and as I sat necking my expensive but welcome Coke (d15,000), two more arrived who I recognised from Hanoi.
Our natter was ended by Paó calling for lunch, which we wolfed down before I gingerly donned by socks and boots for the final section.
The path was certainly less steep than the leg down form the summit. We passed several large groups – I think all Japanese – who had stopped for rests or who were simply struggling to get up some sections. They were all easily 20-30 years younger than the Japanese gent I'd seen the day before and far less fit than he was! I really held out little hope of many of them making the summit.
We went past a few spots I recognised from our walk up the previous day, and the ground got more treacherous the further we got. All the water from the rains had run downhill (damn you, gravity) making earth muddy and rock slippy. As we walked through an open area of grassland, thunder sounded. Within a couple of minutes, rain was belting down all around us.
Quickly, we unpacked and donned waterproof jackets and kept trudging. And sliding. And slipping. And falling over. OK, that was mainly me. Paó was wearing trainers by this stage. Wet, but with good grip on the rock. I fell over maybe five times, managing to gash my hand on one of my downward expeditions. Alright, it's more of a nick, but "gash" sounds more dramatic.
My feet were soaked. Although my boots are waterproof, the driving rain drenched my trousers which transferred the water to my socks – and the traitors opened the way for water to spill into my boots. Then the insoles started to slip around and my toes got jammed to the front with every downward step. Ow.
As the rain eased, the sun came out. By the time we had passed through a quiet village, the waterproofs were repacked, socks wrung out and footsteps somewhat less squishy. We proceeded down one of Sapa's stunning valleys along a riverside to a slightly busier village where a 4×4 waited to take us back to the town. Paó pointed out Fansipan from where we were. I couldn't believe I'd walked all the way from there. And the top was still covered in cloud.
From peak to jeep was around seven hours including the lunch stop. Amazingly, allowing for the annoying wrinkly insoles, I felt like I could walk for another seven. I guess I was just relieved to be on flat ground.
I'm incredibly happy I did it was only minor casualties – two blisters, one cut, one pair of trousers (repairable) and every muscle from my waist down likely to ache like merry hell come morning. But the best things in life don't come easy. I'd never do it again… but then – I don't have to.
I asked Paó how many times he'd climbed Fansipan and his answer was "Today is 42". I couldn't explain to him why I found this so funny!
Sounds like a nice little (or not so little!)hike. I'd love to do it some day. Do you think a 52 year old can manage it?
52? Absolutely as long as they (you?) are reasonably physically fit. The last stretch up to the summit is quite steep, but a good guide will let you take your own time.
The Japanese man I saw on his way down was definitely older than 52. I'd say that anyone with any reasonable level of fitness should be able to do it. The challenge will depend on how quickly you want to do it.
I am looking for references to climb Fansipan in November.
I am from Spain and I don't know if I understand very well your post.
You said you go up and down in one day (7hours) and that you are not very fit ?
I was looking to do it in 2 days because I read lots of people saying it was difficult, but I climb mountains in Spain, walking more than 10 hours in one day, so I am thinking to do it in one day.
Can you tell me how much did it cost to you ? And do you have the contact of the guide ?
At the time I was quite fit, but the day was *very* hard. Usually it is three days, I asked to do it in 2. Normally this would not be too difficult as the guide *should* have taken me most of the way up on the first day. On the second day, there should only be a short walk to the summit and then all the way back down.
Instead, we climbed only a small amount the first day and arrived at a camp much lower down the mountain at an early hour. As a result, the second day was a very early start and a *long* climb. I did meet one man who did the whole thing in one day and he said it was very hard work indeed.
If you are fit, I would say you will find 2 days – if your guide splits it properly – a nice challenge and about right. There are not (or at the time I did the climb there were not) many guides who would do the trip in a single day. This may have changed.


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Please mark your calendars for the next Government Relations Affinity Group Breakfast. Our Government Relations group is geared towards government relations professionals, government staffers, policy professionals and lobbyists. We will be meeting on Tuesday, May 7 at 8:30 am for breakfast, networking and a discussion led by Rabbi Greg Harris. New this time, we will be meeting the DC office of Portland Cement Association. Thank you to Louis Baer for generously hosting us. Email Geryl Baer at gbaer@bethelmc.org with questions.


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Changes in World Politics That Highlight 2022
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As 2022 comes to a close, the year was filled with the tragedy of war, a continued health crisis due to the pandemic, and other events that forever changed world politics.
It was a year when we lost many pop culture icons and artists that shaped our entertainment landscape.
And in pursuit of remembering those events that marked the year that ends, we list a few for you.
200 Years U.S.-Mexico Relations
The U.S.-Mexico relationship is one of the world's most important, dynamic, and economically significant. The two countries share so much more than a border. With 200 years of bilateral relations, over 40 million U.S. citizens of Mexican heritage living in the United States, and millions of Americans living in and traveling to Mexico every year, the countries enjoy a unique shared history, heritage, and culture.
There were celebrations in many cities organized by the Mexican Consulates.
The year began with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The traumatic war crimes against the Ukrainian people and the escalating humanitarian crisis have strained the global economy and every level of civilized society.
Inflation, high gas prices, and the U.S. economy getting weaker resulted from the 2020 pandemic and the war.
Russia's invasion of its neighbor Ukraine unleashed misery on millions of Ukrainians, shattered Europe's sense of security, ripped up the geopolitical map, and rocked the global economy.
In her 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known.
The Oscars are Hollywood's biggest platform and Will Smith, one of its biggest stars, was expected to reign with a best-actor award for the tennis dad biopic "King Richard." But Smith lost while winning. Angered by a joke that presenter Chris Rock made at the expense of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, he strode onstage and slapped Rock, hard, drawing gasps from the TV and theater audience. A tearful Smith made excuses during his acceptance speech that March night and issued subsequent apologies. The film academy penalized him, but the Oscar prospects of his upcoming movie, "Emancipation," are being debated.
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Bell 505 Jet Ranger gets TC certification
By Bell Helicopter
Bell Helicopter has announced that its Bell 505 Jet Ranger X has been certified by the Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA).
Unveiled in 2013, the new, five-seat helicopter went from concept to a successful first flight in 20 months. Since then, the aircraft has flown more than 1,000 flight hours and undergone rigorous activities to ensure customers have superior handling qualities and payload performance.
Transport Canada, federal officials and Safran Helicopter Engines joined Bell Helicopter at its Mirabel facility to commemorate the achievement.
"Today's announcement reaffirms Bell Helicopter's unwavering commitment to product development and the introduction of new and enhanced products to the marketplace," said Mitch Snyder, Bell Helicopter's President and CEO. "The Bell 505 is truly a game changer in the short light single market, and we are proud of the excellent team that drove this program through certification as well as our suppliers, customers, certification authorities and the customer advisory panel that worked with us every step of the way."
The customer response has been astounding with more than 400 letters of intent worldwide since the initial launch in 2014. The Bell 505 offers operators many standout advantages including the Safran Helicopter Engines Arrius 2R engine that incorporates the dual channel Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) that delivers exceptional performance and reduces pilot workload. A first-in-class fully integrated Garmin G1000H flight deck features dual 10.4-inch (26.4 cm) displays, which provide critical flight information for crews at a glance. Through Bell Helicopter's high inertia rotor system, Bell Helicopter has demonstrated throughout the flight test program exceptional autorotation capability that is part of the Jet Ranger legacy.
Every Bell helicopter is backed by the largest support network in the industry with more than 100 Authorized Customer Service Facilities located around the globe. The Bell 505 is now available for expanded support offerings through Bell Helicopter's Customer Advantage Plans (CAP), which provides customers with comprehensive coverage solutions for daily operations. The plans offer a fixed-price-per-flight-hour that provides predictable maintenance costs, priority access to parts and assemblies, and ease of maintenance and planning.
Additionally, the Bell Helicopter Training Academy is prepared for entry into service with customer training, and the flight training device and coursework are all on track.
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May I introduce to you Devil-May-Cry's Vergil.
This is obviously a personal fanart piece. Although I enjoyed last years DMC 5 a lot, I couldn't quite agree with "Neo" Vergil's style… Reminiscence and gold-acrylics pressured me into painting the portrait you see before you and destiny led me to the decadent picture-frame. Thanks to a good friend (with a nice cam) I was able to take a picture with a 100-times higher quality than my crappy old mobile-phone. YES!


Somtow's World: What's in a Map?
Several of my friends overseas have asked me to "explain Cambodia." As if she could be explained in the space of a couple of hundred words. But certainly there is a lot of propaganda, prejudice, and preconception going on about an argument that appears to be about a relatively insignificant chunk of territory located on the very edge of a cliff upon which an arbitrary border appears to fall.
So what follows is a highly oversimplified overview for the benefit of those friends of mine abroad who have been sending me frantic emails. They seem to think that there's something going on here akin to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
The only real expert on this subject is my dad, the only surviving member of a legal team that represented Thailand before the International Court almost half a century ago. He's been on TV quite a lot lately, analysing the niceties of the legal situation at length. My dear mama has also jumped into the fray, publishing a book that also "explains all" of the legalistic morass in layman's terms. An interesting adjunct to the confusion is that Thailand's Prime Minister has publicly stated that my father agrees completely with his own position on the issue ... a declaration with which my father has taken issue.
My mother's book is being launched on Thursday, but every indication is that it will sell out before the launch and have to go back to press. Bravo to her!
Almost all of this discussion has been in Thai, whereas Cambodia has been first out of the gate on the international front; I think that certain prejudicial attitudes in Thai society towards Cambodia and Cambodians in general may have caused Thailand to underestimate the impact of Cambodia's PR skills. Something I hear a lot is "But surely those farangs realize that Cambodians always lie." This sort of bias isn't, in the end, very helpful to one's own case.
I think that to understand this conflict one must appreciate that the little bit of land under dispute is not the main issue and in a sense, isn't even the issue at all. There are in fact centuries of angst underlying all this and there is really nothing that can be done about the piece of land that will really assuage the underlying angst. I think we have to step back and consider much more fundamental issues such as: What is a country? What is an ethnic identity? What is a culture? and we cannot ignore the biggest elephant in the room: colonialism — France and Britain, and the damage inflicted on the Southeast Asian peoples in terms of their sense of who they are, who they think they are, and who they think they ought to become.
For much of the last 800 years or so, the history of Southeast Asia has been one of a group of city-states, each trying to expand its hegemony over as many other city-states as possible. At different times, different city-states were in the ascendancy. Control of what is now Cambodia was, during the nineteenth century, hotly argued over by Siam and Vietnam ... But the notion of there being "countries" in the region, each one consisting largely of a homogenous people sharing a culture and language, would have been an alien idea in those times. Even in Europe, this idea is not terribly old.
King Rama IV had studied Britain and France very thoroughly, and he understood that for Siam to be able to hold its own, it too must be a "country" in the sense that Britain and France conceived the word. Britain and France had "empires", and it therefore followed that there was a "Siamese Empire" as well, one that encompassed many ethnic groups and many cultures. The very idea of Siam, therefore, was forged in the image of a western nation, and the fact that this idea of "a nation" existed made it much more difficult for Britain and France to simply draw a line through the middle of Siam and split it in two.
They could, however, and did, come charging in with their big guns and demand territorial concessions ... pieces of this "empire" ... because, as a junior "empire" in its own right, Siam presumably had possessions and could hand them over in order to protect its own sovereignty and integrity as a nation. Around 1906, it did hand over some territories to France and Britain. Essentially, at gunpoint.
One of those possessions was a very large chunk of what is now Cambodia, including such important locations as Angkor Wat. The French attached a map delineating the new border, which, through incompetent surveying, did not agree with the actual text of its treaty. The treaty clearly stated that the waterline was the new border; on the map, a slip of the pen sliced off the edge of one particular cliff, stranding the temple in Cambodia. But Siam signed. When your survival is at issue, you do what you have to do.
Now, during the Second World War, the Japanese occupied Southeast Asia and Siam did what most countries do when threatened by superior force of arms: it collaborated. As a reward, its borders were miraculously restored to pre-1906. So during the war, those territories were in Siam again. Indeed, as a child I knew a number of people who had grown up in what is now Cambodia, who never felt that the places they lived in were anything other than Thai. After the war, the territories were not returned to the people of those territories ... they were returned to their colonial owners. Thus, Angkor Wat was now in France again. When independence came, France and Britain did not return any territories to Siam. These territories were nowimagined to be "countries" in the western sense, and as such, they were born as countries for the first time. But their borders were not based on any logic of culture or ethnicity — purely on the boundaries of whatever Britain and France had been able to steal before.
The little temple on the cliff's edge is therefore a symbol. It stands for everything that the people of the region have suffered not only at the hands of colonial powers but also at each other's hands. As a symbol, it's much more than a patch of dirt with an ancient building on it.
The International Court's ruling was an extremely narrow one, pleasing no one and heavily favoring the colonial status quo. Thailand was excoriated for not objecting to the map in the first place, though how one can object with a bunch of cannon pointed at one I do not know. The little ledge was to be part of Cambodia, but at the same time the court refused to rule on the validity of the map even though the map clearly disagreed with the treaty, and the court also allowed for all sorts of loopholes for future rulings should "further facts come to light".
Why does Cambodia care so much about this ledge? Because the temple is built in an architectural style, and belongs to a historical epoch, in which the Khmer culture held sway over a far greater territory than today's Cambodia. In that sense, it is a "Khmer temple" they say, and Cambodia is the land of the Khmers. By the same token of course you could say that Hadrian's Wall is a Roman artifact, and therefore England should be in Italy.
And why does Thailand care so much? Is it not the same reason that England clung to Calais for centuries? So much territory has been swallowed up ... this little piece, so tantalizingly accessible (and so difficult to access from the Cambodian side) has come to stand for the entire loss. It is bitterness and anger over having had so much snatched away at gunpoint. Getting this little piece of land would seem to finally close up the gaping wound left by France.
In both cases, the final issue is not the land, but face. As long as these feelings run so deep, and as long as we don't even bother to acknowledge the ancient causes of this quarrel, it will never really matter who actually possesses that ledge. Only the resentment will matter. None of the usual solutions: political, legal, or military, can really satisfy everyone.
I can imagine a solution. It's an artist's vision of a way out, therefore, and probably could never happen, but I propose it anyway. It is to do away completely with all borders within the region. There are some who would read the above solution as simply an underhanded way to restore the Siamese Empire to its former size and beyond, but really the concept of "empire" is a bit passé by now, isn't it?
Rather, I mean it would be nice to have a Greater Southeast Asia in which the various regions retain their identity and culture, but citizens travel freely and governments work jointly to preserve all historical sites no matter which region they're located in. In which people acknowledge that the past is a shared past. In time, people should no longer care what country things are in, and begin to think regionally ... and, eventually, globally.
No doubt we will have all destroyed ourselves before the advent of such a utopia.


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Doris Ellen Bryan Williford—born in Slocomb, AL, on August 29, 1922—passed away on Monday, February 18, 2019, surrounded by her loving family at the Arbor Springs Health and Rebab Center in Opelika, AL. She was preceded in death by her husband Frank; her parents Henry and Mary Elizabeth Bryan; three brothers James, David Earl, and Calvin; and her sister Ann Henderson Johnson. She is survived by her daughter Maureen Deery of Auburn, son-in-law Pat, brother Don Bryan (Flor) of Columbus, Ga., sister-in-law Frances Bryan also of Columbus, two grandchildren Evan Deery (Susan Poweski) of Atlanta and Stacey Laverick (Jack) of McDonough, Ga, and numerous nieces and nephews. Doris, or Grandmama as she was affectionately known, and Frank, a World War II veteran, were married 67 years. She was a consummate homemaker, worked in retail for most of her adult life, and was known for never having spoken an unkind word. Her kind and generous spirit shown through to all those she met, and she will be remembered as a devoted and loving mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. A devout Christian, she was a member of the Malvern, Ala, Methodist Church, serving as the secretary-treasurer, and a charter member of the Grace United Methodist Church of Auburn. She will return to her long-time home of Malvern with a visitation at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, February 22, 2019 at the Sorrells Funeral Home in Slocomb, AL, and a grave-side service, conducted by Rev. Hosea Parker, at 2:30 p.m. at the Malvern Baptist Church Cemetery in Malvern. The family thanks the many dedicated, supportive, and loving caregivers at The Harbor, Arbor Springs of Opelika, and Compassus Hospice and the physicians who have assisted with Grandmama's care and especially Mary Thomas, Dorothy Butler, Lettie Jones, Doris Hutchinson, and Ashley Jacobs. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating in her honor to Compassus Hospice of Auburn, Alabama or the Malvern Baptist Church, Malvern, Alabama.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. You have my thoughts and prayers. I have no doubt she is in the arms of our Lord.
Sincere Condolences to the family and friends of Mrs. Doris Williford. She was genuinely loved by all and definitely had such a giving heart throughout her life. Losing someone that was so close and dear to us is so tough but you can make it through. To help anyone who may feel no one can understand their feelings of grief or help them Matthew 6:26 sates: "Observe intently the birds of heaven; they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are?" God sees each and every one of us and cares for each and every one of us way more than the billions of birds in creation. Hope this is comforting for all who may read this.


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Orioles' bullpen candidates include familiar faces; Luhnow's graceless statement; Question time
By Rich Dubroff
Photo Credit: Joy R. Absalon
Four weeks from now, when pitchers and catchers report to the Ed Smith Stadium complex in Sarasota, Florida, many familiar names will be competing for roster spots.
The competition with the most familiar names is in the bullpen. It's conceivable that the Orioles' eight-man bullpen, and we're assuming that for now, will consist of players who pitched for the 2019 team.
It probably won't happen because there are some newcomers, and it's likely that general manager Mike Elias will add candidates in the next 28 days.
Elias could sign another potential starter or two, which could increase the bullpen jockeying because some of the current starter hopefuls could slide into the 'pen.
The current candidates for the rotation are Alex Cobb, John Means, Asher Wojciechowski, Kohl Stewart, who was signed to a major league contract on December 29, and Rule 5 pick Brandon Bailey.
If a veteran or two is added, perhaps Bailey or Stewart will get pushed into the bullpen.
Prospects Keegan Akin and Dean Kremer will be in spring training, but both are likely to begin 2020 in Triple-A Norfolk's rotation.
The bullpen names are familiar. Shawn Armstrong, Richard Bleier, Miguel Castro, Paul Fry and Mychal Givenswere were the top five in appearances last season.
David Hess, who began the season in the starting rotation, could be in the bullpen again. So could Branden Kline, Evan Phillips and Tanner Scott. They each spent chunks of time with the Orioles and Norfolk in 2019 and could do the same this year.
However, the new rule that a pitcher optioned to the minors must stay there for a minimum of 15 days, up from 10, could reduce the shuffling.
The most exciting bullpen addition of last season was Hunter Harvey, and the Orioles' hope is that having completed a healthy season for the first time as a professional, he can do it at the major league level in 2020.
Dillon Tate is another reliever who could come north with the Orioles.
Then, there's Michael Rucker, the Orioles' other Rule 5 pick. He has scant experience above Double-A and although it seems unlikely that the Orioles will keep Bailey and Rucker as starters, they could keep Bailey as a starter and Rucker as a reliever.
Cole Sulser, whom the Orioles claimed on waivers from Tampa Bay, is an intriguing name. A 29-year-old Dartmouth graduate, Sulser pitched 7 1/3 scoreless innings for the Rays last season.
The Orioles also claimed pitchers Marcos Diplán and Eric Hanhold.
Diplán, who was waived when the Orioles signed Stewart, cleared and is still their property. He's never pitched above Double-A and wasn't a contender to make the team out of spring training. He still could get a spring training invitation.
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Hanhold was designated for assignment when shortstop José Iglesias was signed, and he cleared waivers on Monday. Hanhold made three major league appearances with the New York Mets in 2018.
Another familiar name is Cody Carroll, who had a back injury. He logged just two innings in a rehab assignment at Gulf Coast before moving on to the Arizona Fall League.
Carroll is unlikely to break camp with the Orioles, but if he's healthy, is likely to log some time in the majors.
The Orioles haven't announced their non-roster spring training invites, but when they signed 12 players to minor league contracts early last month, there were several who could be in Sarasota.
Hunter Cervenka, a left-hander who had a 2.25 ERA in nine games for Norfolk last season, is an outside contender to make the team.
Cervenka has major league experience with Atlanta and Miami. Another left-hander, Rob Zastryzny, who appeared in 18 games with the Chicago Cubs from 2016-18 when manager Brandon Hyde was there, also could get a look.
Astros penalized for sign-stealing: The year-long suspension by commissioner Rob Manfred and subsequent firing by Houston Astros owner Jim Crane of general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch should serve as a deterrent against future electronic sign-stealing.
Luhnow posted a graceless statement, accepting responsibility but denying knowledge of the gambit, blaming it on "lower-level employees working with the bench coach."
The Astros' bench coach in 2017 was Alex Cora, currently the Boston Red Sox manager and facing the likelihood of similarly harsh penalties.
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Camden Brooks
I'm not sure I buy what Luhnow is selling. While I guess it is possible he was unaware, I don't see MLB booting him for a year without some sort of evidence that contradicts his statement. As a side note, I'd also like to hear from Pete Rose regarding the punishments.
Boog Robinson Robinson
Ever heard Pete interviewed? About as bright as a bag of rocks.
Hyp81
Him being unaware is about as likely as Belichick being unaware of all their illicit activities.
My point being is that this manager cheats and gets a 1-year suspension, while Rose gets a lifetime ban for betting on his own team.
Bancells Moustache
Rose has done more for baseball sitting at his house pissed off than he ever could have done in Cooperstown. Have you heard even a whiff of gambling controversy in the ensuing 30 years? Pete knew the consequences, broke the rules anyway, lied about it, and was made an example of.
Also, everyone says he only bet on his team to win because… well, he said so. Yeah, ok…
Whether or not Pete only bet on his own team is irrelevant when you consider the following ….
If Pete continually bet only on his own team … logic dictates that when he didn't bet on his own team .. he was in essence betting against them.
Baltimore Castaway
Thank you Mr. Bancells Moustache!!! You nailed the central issue w Pete Rose….
Brilliantly stated.
The stress of pinning Rose down with all his shenanigans likely cost the life of one of the greatest Commissioners the game has ever had in Bart Giamatti.
CalsPals
MLB network has good articles on this, as well as ESPN today, they didn't go into specific details, but they did mention two emails that implied he knew & did nothing…go O's…
In The Triangle
If it didn't stop at "lower-level employees working with the bench coach" how far into management does it reach? If this involves management, this quickly starts to hit close to home for Orioles' fans.
I'm hoping that Luhnow had a "don't tell Mike and Sig policy".
OrangeBird21
I know Elias and our former Astros are not implicated in this mess, but you must admit Elias picked a good time to rocket out of Houston
Nice wordplay!
Awful coincidental…go O's…
willmiranda
Question: How do you distinguish cheating from analytics? Follow up: Why is it that the kind of people good at one are so good at the other? Finally: Why is it that people who are wildly praised for being smart and knowing everything always claim not to know what's going on in their own kitchens?
Wow. I thought the hammer would fall, but didn't expect Manfred to go straight to the nukes. No doubt Alex Cora is hiding in an underground bunker with plenty of bottled water and Spam.
Is Elias invoked in that Houston scandal?
I meant to type involved
WorldlyView
Please help me out on how sign stealing works. Let's assume the opposing pitcher is ready to deliver a pitch within seconds of getting the sign from his catcher. How is there enough time for the following sequence? The spotter needs to process the finger movement, and send the right signal to someone, presumably in the dugout. The latter then needs to react and send a signal to the batter. Finally, the batter needs time to 1) refocus his attention from listening (?) for the signal, 2) adjust his batting stance, and 3) concentrate on the pitcher's motion.
And if the signal is a sound, wouldn't it become totally obvious after a couple of innings? I don't doubt there was sign stealing, I'm just too slow to understand the physics of making it effective.
On a different subject, has ANY of the Waiver Wire wonders signed and then waived to make room for a new WWW? If not, what does this say about the current state of the rebuild?
The signal used was the banging of a bat on a trash can, and I'm pretty sure they didn't do it every single pitch, for the very reason it would be too obvious. The sign-stealing isn't necessarily a massive advantage, it does take skill to adjust to the signaling, however we are talking about elite Major League hitters here. While it's no guarantee of success, being aware of whether an off-speed pitch or fastball is coming does confer an advantage to the hitter. I think people saying the Championship needs to be vacated are silly, it's awfully hard to hit Major League pitching, let alone win a World Series even WITH a slight advantage, but they still crossed the line and had to be brought to heel.
Omitted words in next to last sentence of previous posting: "for a new www BEEN SIGNED BY ANOTHER MLB TEAM? if not…
The Orioles have second choice of all major league teams on the waiver wire. Sometimes, they're claiming a player, knowing that they'll probably have to take him off when they sign or acquire another player. They guess, usually correctly, that they'll be able to get a certain player through waivers so that they can add him to their minor league system. They lost Joey Rickard on waivers to the Giants last season. They also lost Keon Broxton to Seattle, and most notably, lost Hanser Alberto to the Giants, only to claim him a week later.
BirdsCaps
Am I the only one that sees Hinch/Luhnow being signed by Elias in a year or two? Obviously, on a utilitarian level it would be a boost in organizational talent. However, both of them turned a blind eye to actions that damaged the history and statistics of the game, much like the PED users. I think both should work again ( and Luhnow did put too much blame on nameless/faceless underlings), but I would urge HOF voters to not vote either into the hall even if their careers eventually become hall worthy. With that said, I would be a little disappointed if the birds signed either.
ClayDal
You are forgetting that John and Lou Angelos still own the team. If the Orioles can turn this around and be successful in a few years, the last thing they would want is to bring in distractions such as Luhnow and Hinch. If the Orioles are still floundering in 2-3 years, Elias won't be able to hire them because he won't be here either.
The team may not be awful in 2-3 yrs, but I doubt that they will be winners at that point. It would not shock me if a team (not necessarily the birds) signs one of the two in about two yrs. People have very short memories (sometimes to a fault). For example look at Arod. there was a 60 minutes special where Selig presented facts that ruined Arods image.Now (with a lot of help from JLo), he has a seat at Mlb/fox's baseball discussion table. So he went from persona non grata to a retired superstar in less than a decade.
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Coming so close to the end of the shutdown, I am reminded of all the good work that Federal workers do. It is work that is low profile. If they stop working, we do not immediately notice. We might not notice at all that they are gone, but we would notice that our forests were less healthy, that our water was not as clean and that we just were confusingly lost.
It is always a little depressing to attend these forest health conferences, with the solace that lots of smart people are working to protect our trees.
Many of the scientists that presented their research at the conference were Federal employees and everybody depended on Federal programs in some way. Could we get along w/o their work? Yeah, but our world would be a lot worse.
Anyway, before I go into the insights I took away from the first day of the Virginia Association of Forest Health Professionals 27th Annual Conference, I want to say thanks to all those "non-essential" government employees who do the essential work of keeping our forests safe and defending our country from pathogens and pests, or at least giving us the science to fight back.
The agenda is attached, and you can see the biographies of the speakers. I am not going to make a full report but rather talk about my own takeaways.
Eric Day talked about our latest big threat, the spotted lanternfly. If we can control this pest, it will become not important. If it gets away, it will cost us billions of dollars. The spotted lanternfly is very fond of another pest from China – the ailanthus or tree of heaven. Mr. Day said that one way to control the fly would be to control the tree of heaven. He meant it ironically. We have been fighting the tree of heaven for more than 100 years. I have been going at it in my own corner of the forest going on fifteen years. The best we can do is fight it, knowing we will never win. Tina MacIntyre, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services also talked about the fly. She emphasized the need for people who spend a lot of time in the woods to be vigilant. If you see something that looks like a lanternfly, get a sample to share with the extension and then kill as many as you can. These bugs have no place in the Old Dominion. Kill them first and ask questions after.
I listened carefully to Anand Persad, Ph.D., Davey Institute, talking about pollinator habitat because I am working on pollinator habitat on my land. I am looking forward to March to plant more varieties of wildflowers. Most of what he said, I kind of knew already, but it was good to hear it again. You need a variety of plants that flower at different times, since pollinators need to eat all season long. One thing I just had not thought about was the need for tree flowers. Deciduous trees flower, although most forest trees are not showy. They flower earlier in the season, before the wildflowers even emerge. This tree pollen provides early food for pollinators, especially bumble bees. Bumble bees also need nesting places, often in fallen logs. An ecosystem is complex.
Most of the nasty pests that show up in America come from Asia. The big and obvious reason is that trade with Asia is so robust. There are lots of opportunities for the bugs to hitch a ride. Less easily seen but just as obvious when you look is that East Asia has many similar ecosystems. The forests there are similar to ours and their pests can easily adapt to our tree species. Back in Asia, many of these bugs are endemic, but not big problems. The ecosystems have developed balance and defense. When a foreign bug shows up in America, it does not bring along the full panoply of predators and counter measures. North American pests, BTW, can have the same disruptive effect in Chinese forests.
Dave Coyle, Ph.D., Clemson University talked about the above and suggested that we need for an early warning system. Take the example of the emerald ash borer, that is spreading across our ash forests like a deadly wave. Back home in China, it does not generally kill healthy ash trees. They have developed defenses. But a while back, the Chinese were reforesting their hills. Among the trees they chose for this were American imports – green and white ash. At first, they did wonderfully in their new environment, having left many of their old pests behind. But then the emerald ash borer found them.
The Chinese noticed this. They studied it and wrote about it. They even wrote about it in English, the international language of science, but nobody paid much attention inside or outside China. In retrospect, we could have seen this coming. What we could have done about it is another story, but it need not have been such a surprise.
Prevention is always better than cure, but it is hard to do. A pest now destroying laurel and bay trees throughout the South is a vascular fungus transmitted by the invasive redbay ambrosia beetle. This beetle is smaller than a sprinkle on a donut. Genetic testing indicates that ALL the beetles that have killed 500 million trees in the last decade originated from ONE bug that hitches a ride from China, probably to the Port of Savanna. These bugs can reproduce asexually, so one is all it takes. It is a tall task to keep out all these things. This bug is small enough to fit through a spaghetti strainer, and it takes only one.
Those of us who grow pines in Virginia are not overly fond of sweetgum that overrun our piney woods. Nevertheless, we can appreciate their place in the ecosystem. The Chinese like sweetgum for their nice form and beautiful fall colors, so there are lots in China. But they are now being attacked by a bug called the sweetgum inscriber. If this gets to America, it will devastate our forests. We should take the warning.
Adam Coates, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, talked out the value of fire in the ecosystem. He was responding to studies that showed that wildfire destroys forest soils. These studies are true but off target. The hot and destructive wildfires destroy forest soils. Prescribed fires and the formerly common light fires do not. I have written about fire so often, that I will not go more here, except to note that Mr. Coates talked about a couple places I want to go in South Carolina: the Santee experimental forest near Cordesville and the Tom Yawkey forest near Georgetown, SC.
The Asian longhorn beetle has the capacity to be one of the biggest forest pest in the history of forest pests. It can kill almost everything in its way. Fortunately, after it is detected it can be controlled and eradicated. Eternal vigilance is the price of this, explained Joe Boggs, Ohio State University. By the time they are discovered, they usually have been there for a while, but they are not very mobile; they can fly but usually prefer not to and they are big. The infestations can be traced to single introductions from Asia and then their spread. They tend to move where people move them. Don't move firewood.
Dave Coyle came back to talk about the southern pine beetle. This bug was the plague of southern pine forests, but it now mostly under control in the south. There are lots of possible reasons, none of which tell the whole story. The biggest factor is management. Pine beetles depend on over thick forests. If you thin your trees on time, the beetles have trouble getting hold. A forest with 120+ basal area is "beetle bait." BTW – my forests are thinned to 50 BA.
Beetle outbreaks have not been a problem in Virginia for more than 20 years. Beetles are a problem still in Mississippi and Alabama. Reasons for this are not completely clear, but one reason may be lack of thinning in National Forests. You can see an almost perfect correlation between poorly managed USG lands and beetle spots. Mr. Coyle showed us an aerial photo of a beetle outbreak that stopped exactly on the properly line between an private and thinned forests and an essentially unmanaged government property.
The pine beetle is a manageable problem in the South, where we are used to it, but the bug is moving north, affecting loblolly and pitch pine in New Jersey and as far as Massachusetts. If the bugs can keep moving north, they may eat their way into white & red pine. This could be a disaster. These trees do not have the same sort of open ecology as southern pines, with their regular burning regimes. I grew up around white pines and I simply love them. The idea that they could be so endangered is heartbreaking. Let's hope those smart guys working to find solutions will find one in time.
Speaking of heartbreaking tree death, Kathleen Knight, Ph.D., U.S. Forest Service talked about her research into ash mortality and the emerald ash borer. She has been monitoring ash in Ohio for more than ten years. The bad news is that mortality is nearly 100%, nearly – more on that later. The less bad news is that ecosystems can adapt. As the ash die back, other trees take their places, especially silver maples, elms & basswoods, that are present in the forest and in the understory. The dead ash are very brittle and they tend to fall down rapidly, presenting a danger to people walking in the woods, but making way for new trees. The good news and the bad news is that in a few years it will be hard to tell that the ash tree were ever there.
Ms. Knight also discovered some good news after returning to one of her sites, showing the value of follow up. She and her team saw a perfectly healthy ash tree among the many dead stems. Closer inspection of the site turned up 106 more. This was only around 1% of the total, but they are hope. Ash trees can be easily grown from cuttings. There may be hope for resistant trees in a short time. Studies show that the resistant ash can kill the borers. This is an adaptation of the Asian ash trees. The resistant American ash trees are not quite as good at this, but it is the first generation.
The other good news about ash trees is that they can be saved chemically. This is not cheap and cannot reasonably be done in forests, but valuable ash trees near homes or shading streets can be preserved. This is because of how the emerald ash borer interacts with the trees. The borers are phloem feeders, i.e. they are shallow. The phloem easily carries insecticide to kill the bugs and their larva. The question is if there can be "herd immunity". If a sufficient number of ash trees are treated and the bug that invest them are killed, will the populations be cut enough to save unprotected trees?
Last presentation of the day was about a pathogen that is attacking tree of heaven. Rachel Brooks, Virginia Tech, presented her research. Tree of heaven, ailanthus, is a serious pest from China so it seems almost poetic justice that a new pathogen from Asia might help free us from this trouble. So far, it looks like attacks only tree of heaven and spreads via root graphs. Biocontrol is good but I am always a little leery of it. What can kill one species today, might turn on another later.
I didn't stick around for the pesticide safety presentation, since I don't handle pesticides myself. Those who do get continuing education credit for these things. I do not. I will be back tomorrow for more.


The Tri-City ValleyCats are set to host their 7th Annual National Anthem tryouts at Crossgates Mall on Saturday, April 8 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Registration will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. and will be located on the lower level outside of Lord & Taylor.
Auditions will be conducted on a first-come, first-go basis in front of a panel of judges who will be judging on the criteria of sound quality, stage presence, and song accuracy. Anthem performances can be done individually or as a group, and must either be acapella, or performed with a musical instrument that does not require power.
The top five finalists will have their performances videotaped, which will then be placed online for a fan vote. The top vote-getter will receive the opportunity to perform on one of the biggest nights of the year at "The Joe," such as Opening Night and the 4th of July, in front of an average crowd of 5,000+ fans! The rest of the finalists will be awarded the chance to sing at another night during the season.
Jaime Roberts, host of Jaime in the Morning on 98.3 TRY, will be the guest MC of the event.
Individual tickets for the 2017 season go on sale Monday, April 3 at 10:00 a.m.. The ValleyCats home opener is set for Wednesday, June 21, and they will be proud hosts of the 2017 New York-Penn League All-Star Game on Tuesday, August 15 at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium.


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As National Games and Puzzles week comes to an end I'm finishing it off with an Ultimate Prize Pack from Goliath Games.
Rummikub is a classic and one that we play a lot. It's one of the world's best selling and most played games, and I love when I get to play with someone for the 1st time. It's great for 2-4 players and it's all about lucky and strategy. The board is constantly changing as players switch things around and no 2 games will ever be the same.
Sequence is another favorite of ours.You try to make a sequence of 5 in a row by placing chips down from the cards in your hand. Keep your eyes open for the one eyed Jack and 2 eye Jack as those are cards that you can remove a chip or add one anywhere. This is fun for the whole family, and we have spent many a game night playing ours.
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Get to know Tribeca
Though its name technically stands in for the mouthful of "Triangle Below Canal Street," Tribeca has long since distinguished itself as a recognizable word in the NYC lexicon. (Plus, its boundaries these days are hardly triangular). Tribeca lofts are the standard-bearer for that style of home; sitting within their landmarked cast-iron building exteriors, they have become objects of adoration and aspiration. Following the Civil War, the city's shipping industry shifted from East to West Side, due in no small part to the longer piers along the Hudson in present-day Tribeca. That body of water still looms large today, as views over it are another key draw for residents in the area. A chunk of Hudson River Park — which extends north over four miles — lies within Tribeca as well, granting a relaxing waterside public space and a simple route to travel as far north as 59th Street via the Hudson River Greenway.
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Three Things IMDb Confirms About Millennials
Apparently I'm a millennial, along with 95% of the people who read and write for this website. I'm not entirely sure what any of this means, beyond being old enough to buy a TV but young enough to never hook it up to an aerial. The young and the old have vastly different attitudes toward media – and indeed what media actually is. But how does that affect their taste in film?
Previously, we highlighted the difference gender makes on attitudes towards film by mining IMDb's ratings, learning that IMDb's userbase is overwhelmingly male, and that films with larger female fanbases tend to do worse overall.
Now we've done the same thing with age data in order to learn some specific things about my mysterious, irony-loving, cronut-eating age group.
1. Kids Don't Hang Out On IMDb
Source: IMDb.com
The overwhelming majority of film reviews are written by people we'd generally call millennials. Some draw the line at 30, some at 40. IMDb only classifies people into four distinct groups, as seen above: Under 18s ('teens'); 18 – 29 year olds ('millennials'); 30 – 44 year olds ('millennials who watch Channel 4 and maybe ITV'); and people over the age of 45 ('baby-boomers').
Baby-boomers and teens combined make up less than 13% of the overall votes cast on IMBb, with teens being less that one per cent.
The middle two groups account for 87.9% of votes, having cast 401,022,954 in total. Teens, on the other hand, cast just 2,697,723 votes – less than 1% of the total votes.
2. Millennials are extending adolescence as long as possible
In the table above, we've highlighted the films with an overwhelming amount of votes from two specific age groups: millennials (18-29) and boomers (45+).
There's an interesting trend here that's more subtle than it initially appears. Comparing the two lists, you'll immediately notice the ages of the characters in the movies correlate – roughly – with the ages of the viewers. Your dad probably isn't too keen on watching Zac Efron look hot for 90 minutes. His loss.
However, looking at Project X, Step Up, 17 Again, She's the Man and most of the other films on that list, you'll notice they're actually films about high-schoolers. People between 18-29 aren't still in high school, hopefully. So, they're reaching back five to 10 years into the past to escape to a simpler, more acne-ridden time.
It's another symptom of Millennialism – that idea that we're not really adults until we're well over 35.
You can also notice baby-boomers' predilection for films set in the past, or that are significantly aged themselves. Take 1983's The Right Stuff, for example. Following the first aeronautical test pilots, the film starts in 1947 and finishes with the end of the Mercury program in 1963.
It could be said that Boomers chase after "the good old days" , where millennials are chasing "my good old days" with their choice of film to watch and rate.
3. Millennials are ironic and insincere
Is that.. is that Freddy Got Fingered on another chart at One Room With A View?
Once again, Tom Green's 2001 horror show of a movie highlights the polarised views between two different groups. In the chart above we've plotted the movies with the biggest difference in average scores.
Just like before, millennials' tendency towards prolonged infantilism can be seen in the movies they rate higher than the boomers. Many are cartoons: both '90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies are rated highly, along with Space Jam and the original Transformers movie (yes, the Orson Welles one).
Elsewhere on the list are zany comedies, such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Good Burger, which also happen to be aimed at children.
The boomers' list actually features a number of younger-skewed movies too, such as Babe, The Santa Clause 2 and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Now, these aren't children's films. They're more like family films. The sort of films that your dad might tolerate – even enjoy – but yourself, as a sardonic millennial, can't stand. Hence, why they end up on this list.
We struggle to explain why The Last Airbender appears on this list, though. It's possible that IMDb-using boomers saw (and liked) it for the sparkly, mysterious Shyamalan action movie that it was, as they weren't aware of the audience and critic-acclaimed source material.
Similarly, Synecdoche, New York looks out of place on the list of films preferred by millennials. Perhaps it's because it's one of those films that's more enjoyable to explain (at great length) to your friends than to watch – millennials love them.
Courtesy of: Sony Pictures Classics
Sometimes, analysing data like this can be cold and impersonal. We've drawn out some aggregate trends, made some assertions, but you can't draw out a personal story from a pivot table. Many people won't connect with this data unless it's told in the first person.
So, to finish, I want to demonstrate the truth of this data with a story from my life. I'm 23. I'm a millennial. I watched Synecdoche, New York with my dad, who falls in the 45+ category. After watching it, he told he didn't hate it, but he didn't really get it. With those words, he essentially gave it a 5.5 out of 10.
I didn't get the film either, but I'm happy to pretend that I did. I would put the movie in my top 5, whenever people asked – or even if they didn't. I'd wax lyrical about it in anonymous online messageboards and forums. I – like thousands of other millenials – voted it 10 out of 10 on IMDb.
And then I watched Good Burger. And I laughed. And I had no prospect of ever owning a home. And I had done three unpaid internships that year. And I spent the last of my paycheck on a softbox.
I'm Marcus, and I'm a millennial.
Three Things IMDb Confirms About Millennials was last modified: January 13th, 2017 by Marcus Beard
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