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Banality and AnxietyMichael Mason
Vol. 3 No. 5 · 19 March 1981
Banality and Anxiety
Thirty Seconds
by Michael Arlen.
Farrar, Straus/Faber, 211 pp., £5.50, February 1981, 0 374 27576 9Show More
The Crystal Bucket
by Clive James.
Cape, 238 pp., £6.95, February 1981, 0 224 01890 6Show More
The Message of Television
by Roger Silverstone.
Heinemann, 248 pp., £14.50, March 1981, 0 435 82825 8Show More
It is common knowledge that British publishing is in the doldrums. This is generally thought of as a temporary state of affairs, but it is conceivable that something irreversible is taking place. Today's new wisdom about publishing may become as enduring, familiar and dispiriting as the truism of the decline of British cinema. That decline had much to do with television. Book publishing has seemed, hitherto, robust on this flank. The industry prospered in the 1960s, when television was completing its conquest of film in Britain. Books and television do not compete for the same ground, it might be said. In particular, there is a difference in respect of cultural quality between their undertakings. Books can be learned, beautiful, experimental, mentally searching, subversive and fanciful to an extent that television very seldom permits itself to be. Television is almost always banal.
This is what makes these three books about the medium a little ominous as tokens of the relative strengths of publishing and broadcasting. Each of them is a bookish book in its way. One is academic. One is by a very literary-minded critic (and draws its title from a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh). One is a piece of vivid journalism recognisably in the tradition of Norman Mailer and other modern American writers. All these books are from literary stables. Michael Arlen's first appeared in the New Yorker, and comes to the British reader via two very respected publishing houses (Fabers, incidentally, are apparently issuing the American edition with its original binding and title-page, without their own imprint: a direct expression of the financial discomforts of the industry in Britain.) But they all centre their attention on what is least bookish in television. They don't only recognise the banality of the medium: they embrace it. This no doubt has many explanations in addition to a loss of nerve on the bookish side of the question. Banality has been the theme of some prestigious literary utterances in our culture, some of them directly ancestral to the books under review (Roger Silverstone, for example, frequently acknowledges Roland Barthes on fashion). It is striking nonetheless that only one of them, Michael Arlen's Thirty Seconds, shows an inclination to regret the fact that intellectual and artistic adventurousness is habitually thwarted in television.
More precisely, his book suggests that the adventurousness is available, at work even, in something as staple as television advertising, but diverted and concealed in the outcome. Thirty Seconds recounts step by step the extraordinarily laborious sequence of activity required for the production of a half-minute commercial for an American telephone company. The extreme disproportion between the effort of the making, and the ephemerality of the result, is an equivocal matter, like much that Arlen notices. It betokens at once a cynical determination to get the maximum charge from every affective aspect of the brief film (music, decor, people, animals, costume), and at the same time a certain disinterested perfectionism on the part of the film's makers. When the film is finished, after six months' hard work, a vice-president of American Telephone and Telegraph runs it through just once. 'Fine' and 'a bit heavy on the red' are the only comments he offers. And that is appropriate in its way, it appears, because much of the detail of the direction, 'the props and extras and atmosphere that were thought up and assembled and arranged and rearranged with so much trouble', is not actually legible in the series of small, fleeting images which results.
This is an interesting, teasing complication in a story about our popular culture which keeps raising puzzles of this sort. But on the whole it is a bleak, if uncomfortably amusing story. The television commercial in question has only one purpose: to persuade more people to make long-distance telephone calls. In pursuing this aim, it mangles everything in its path, including the English language: 'so what we try to do is keep the obligation level very light, and, of course, artistic, and relate it to an upbeat, positive theme.' The structure of the half-minute film is a series of short takes of people making telephone calls, accompanied simply by a song (thus keeping the obligation level very light). The callers have generally just won something – a race, a tap-dancing contest etc – which is presumably the upbeat, positive theme. Drinking and sex are downbeat and illegal. The hockey-player who is having champagne poured over his head is forbidden to lick any of it. The girl in the yoga scene must not show her nipples.
It is the drearily affirmative spirit of the thing, the spirit of Babbitt and boosting, which is the hardest to take. The actors and others involved in making the commercial seem subdued to Babbittry even when released from work. They have the peculiarly American way of achieving a 'positive', even idealistic-sounding, account of their personal lives through an unconscious negativity and coldness about ideals: 'Temperamentally, I'm very well adjusted to the creative side.' Or: 'I won't do everything. I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches. I mean, as you work your way up in the profession, you begin to set certain standards for yourself.' There is something melancholy at the heart of these utterances. They are the affirmation of rejection, of compromise, but such is the logic of boosting. Advertising has done extensive harm to American culture. Arlen's book suggests it has also damaged the souls of Americans.
This is, at any rate, the impression British readers are likely to get. The author is closer to his subject than they are, and probably has more complicated and ambivalent feelings. It is the Maileresque tendency of the book, anyway, to open itself towards, to harmonise with, its strange subject-matter: using extensive transcriptions of people talking, and richly detailed blocks of descriptive writing. Mr Arlen's long sentences and unexpected stylistic discords do not quite secure the full Mailer effect, however. He has Mailer's way of taking interesting linguistic risks, but not his way of outrageously surviving them.
Clive James writes wonderfully well, of course. He is one of the most remarkable figures in British cultural life at the moment: a poet and gifted literary critic who is also genuinely liked by the mass audience. In crossing the border-posts in our culture he does not even need to disguise himself, it seems. There are allusions in this new selection of his television criticism to Walter Pater, Keats, Saul Bellow and John Donne – consorting with boisterous jokes about the crushed budgerigars composing J.R.'s hatband.
James goes as far as it is possible to go towards miscegenating Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, and The John Curry Spectacular. Even he cannot blink the dullness of television, however. He seeks to pay compliments to soap operas and spectaculars, and curls his lip at avant-gardism, and programmes which 'Explore the Medium'. But a defensive note comes in: ATV's Jesus of Nazareth is 'not all that dire'; Washington: Behind Closed Doors is 'not entirely to be despised'. This is distinctly the language of the literary-minded Clive James, not of the man in the saloon bar. It is a peculiarity of television criticism that it appears post facto, and therefore is used by the reader either as something to check his own response against, or as a substitute for seeing the programme itself. For the second of these purposes James is the best critic we have, because his verbal gifts so often yield an object which is more skilful and interesting than the one he is writing about.
That we also like to read television criticism to see if we agree with it – so that, in James's words, 'everybody is a television critic' – is the kind of fact which has impressed Roger Silverstone. As he rightly says, television 'is involved in the very life-blood of contemporary culture', and it is important that people should ask what the consequences of this involvement are. The main trouble with his book is that he leaps straight to a general type of answer, of very doubtful correctness. His way of reformulating the question about the role of television is to ask: 'What is the message of television?' But why must the answer involve a 'message' at all? The man in the saloon bar would find the suggestion unintelligible.
Mr Silverstone makes his very big assumption because he believes in structuralism, a line of thought which is currently creating a great deal of mystification, but which is essentially quite simple. The origins of structuralism lie in an inference drawn by linguists from the fact that words are connected with their meanings as a matter of convention and not, or only rarely and tenuously, by any kind of resemblance. The inference drawn was that a word could not possess meaning unless there also existed other words with different meanings, the whole constituting a language. As an inference from the conventional character of meaning, this may not be very secure, but the idea that words generally could not function without the existence of other words to which they have a recognised relationship is intuitively extremely plausible – so much so that it is hard to think how an alternative view would be stated.
The difficulties about structuralism arise when this idea about language is applied in other contexts. Mr Silverstone sees some of the problems, and it is a merit of his book that it is intellectually rigorous enough to mention them. But his commitment to the general possibility of talking about television as if it were like language, and 'said' things, is overriding. His idea of an adequate clearing of the ground for the application of structuralist ideas to television amounts to listing and bringing into a shadowy kind of coherence the statements of a large number of structuralist-minded commentators on human culture. That the very terms of the discussion may be inappropriate he does not acknowledge.
The result is a book which will strike the unbiased reader as topsy-turvy. The right way to proceed would have been to take a piece of television, and see if an adequate account could be given of it which exposed stable, systematic relationships between its elements. Then the question could be put, whether these relationships conferred meaning in a way analogous to linguistic meaning. Mr Silverstone does eventually look closely at a piece of television (the 13-part LWT serial about suburban family-life, Intimate Strangers), but the presumption that it will have a 'message' is already made.
The best approach to the book is to go straight to the quite brief part of it which discusses Intimate Strangers, and assess how convincing this is. Mr Silverstone has spotted some patterns in the narrative which lead him to interpret it as advocating 'withdrawal, a withdrawal above all from the extremes of city and garden, a withdrawal from nature and from supernature'. It is not clear why the same patterning shouldn't carry exactly the opposite message (for the assumption is arbitrarily made that the force of the narrative will be an encouragement rather than an admonition), but prior to this is the problem of the categories used: 'nature', 'supernature', and so forth. These appeal to Mr Silverstone because he is influenced by a school which has a strong circumstantial association with structuralism: the anthropological school of Lévi-Strauss.
Some of the most unsatisfactory parts of his book are those in which he tries to connect the role of myth in primitive societies with that of television in our contemporary one. In some fudging paragraphs the connection is achieved by calling myth 'transitional': between cultural stages anthropologically, and currently between 'specialised knowledge' (aesthetics, science, politics) and 'the nonsensical'. Without wishing to make a glib point, it must be said that this stuff reads like the bad kind of medieval theology: concepts are manoeuvred in relation to each other in a fashion that is wholly ungripping because they don't seem to contain anything, and the outcome is easily foreseen. Mr Silverstone appears to be saying that television gives us a somehow unconscious acquaintance with areas of experience which we do not feel inquisitive about: 'we may not, as individuals, be particularly anxious about problems of science or aesthetics on the one hand, or of life, death and identity on the other, but our culture, like any other, is.' This at once sensationally underrates and overrates the banality of television. A lot of people are anxious about science, and they require and receive explicit information about it from their television sets. I doubt whether Mr Silverstone is always free from anxiety about life and death, and gets much help from television when he isn't.
Michael Mason is the author of The Making of Victorian Sexuality.
A Little Pickle for the Husband
Rational and Companionate, or Carnal and Impulsive?
Larkin was right, more or less
More by Michael Mason


Promising UK soul man "paints a perfect picture of our bleak but hopeful existence."
It's not often that musicians are able to reap the fruits of their labor so early on in their careers. 23-year-old Jordan Max, an indie/soul songwriter from the Greater Manchester area of England, is doing just that, though, with his debut EP, the strikingly mature and polished Only One Is King.
The four-track effort, anchored by solid early singles "Hell" and "Let Me Lay Down", was written and recorded in the cozy comforts of Max's bedroom but has a worldly appeal — especially to those itching for a new R&B/soul man to champion. And yes, folks have been itching: Max has enjoyed much recognition from outlets big and small, and earned airplay on both sides of the Atlantic, earning coveted playlist spots on Pharrell's Beats 1 program and BBC Radio 1.
For the UK native, the road to success is one he's always dreamt of, but never been unrealistic about. In fact, much of that humbling self-awareness is what informs the EP and keeps it grounded. "'Only One Is King' paints a perfect picture of our bleak but hopeful existence, when coming from a small town, not far from the city," he tells Consequence of Sound. "All we have is hope when we don't have much." Seems holding onto that hope has certainly paid off.
Only One Is King is officially out on March 25th through Full + Bless. Pre-order it here.


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ArtPrize attracts film, game design live/learn/work community to Grand Rapids
Michelle Newson
culture opinion
in collaboration with JW & Michelle Newson
Grand Rapids has been selected as the location for Snow Monster Studios, a new affordable studio/school focusing on animation, video game design and films that aims to make Michigan a hub for film and game design using Michigan people.
Snow Monster Studios
New live/work affordable studio and school setting up in Grand Rapids, MI as a hub for a budding film and video game design industry
ArtPrize 2015 entry animated short "Snow Monster" displayed on the second floor of the B.O.B.
Visit their website for more information
Artprize 2015 entry Snow Monster by David Prindle /Kaitlyn Peterson - (K) Kaitlyn's Camera Photography
Artist David Prindle next to his ArtPrize entry Snow Monster /Kaitlyn Peterson - (K) Kaitlyn's Camera Photography
ArtPrize entry number card that folds up to make a snow monster /Kaitlyn Peterson - (K) Kaitlyn's Camera Photography
ArtPrize has put Grand Rapids, Mich on the art map on an international level. Now ArtPrize artist David Prindle (creator of the animated short "Snow Monster" displayed on the second floor of the B.O.B.) is a part of a project aimed at filling the void for Michigan filmmakers that the end of the government film incentives left. Their vision is to start an affordable live/work space in Grand Rapids where local talent interested in learning about animation, game design and the film industry can study and learn, while living at an affordable price in a sustainable, green space.
The ArtPrize entry "Snow Monster" stemmed from and, Prindle hopes, will bring publicity to this budding studio by the same name.
"I wasn't really looking to make a short for ArtPrize," said Prindle in an interview with WYCE radio programmer Jerry Wayne Newson. "I just had the name Snow Monster in my head for a while for a studio name. And then I was learning a new program and just decided to make a little snow monster to learn the program. And then I was learning another program so decided to use that same model to animate him. And from there I just ended up making a short and entered it into ArtPrize."
The ArtPrize entry is a short animated film, about a minute and a half long, about a snow monster's attempts to make friends, but his size scares the other arctic creatures away. However, there is a happy ending for the endearing furry creature. Prindle created everything for the piece, from each hair on the snow monster's simple but surprisingly expressive form to the accompanying music that sets the emotional tone of the scene. He even created ArtPrize entry cards that fold up to make a small snow monster.
"I started it way back in February," states Prindle. "It took probably a couple hundred hours."
"The whole reason I put the short in ArtPrize wasn't so much thinking I'm going to win any money, but I like money so if you want to go to the B.O.B. and vote for me I'll take it," Prindle jokes. "But really, me and some guys are starting a studio in town here and we want to do animations, and video games, and feature length movies all out of Michigan with Michigan people. And the idea is to be a teaching/doing studio so people can come and take classes in special affects or animation or film, and we're going to do it on a model of free for low income and affordable for everyone else to kind of make it up for those who can't afford college."
Prindle and the other faces behind Snow Monster Studios plan to make the school self-sustaining in the long term. However, they are raising money for the initial up-front cost of building a place to house this unique idea.
"We launched an IndieGoGo, and that's on our website," says Prindle. "If you want to go buy a t-shirt or donate some money it will help out, and then we'll be able to build a building."
The short film "Snow Monster" can be viewed on the second floor of the B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids, or on the Snow Monster Studios website.
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NWT Election 2019
NWT Election 2019: Randy Sibbeston's Nahendeh interview
Published: September 18, 2019 at 9:58am Sarah Pruys September 18, 2019 Last modified: September 18, 2019 at 10:02am
Fort Simpson council appointed Randy Sibbeston to council replacing Mike Rowe who resigned in April.
Randy Sibbeston is campaigning to become Nahendeh's next MLA.
Sibbeston focuses his platform on infrastructure projects for Fort Simpson, saying the improvements would benefit the whole region.
He says he'll advocate for a bridge across the Liard River and a hospital for Fort Simpson, as well as a secure storage facility. (Sibbeston was at the centre of an apparent discovery of health documents at the village's dump last year.)
Sibbeston, expressing interest in becoming the minister of environment or education, said the NWT's education system needs to focus more heavily on the trades and the arts, and the region needs to capitalize on timber production so residents can build their own houses.
Below, find a transcript of the full interview.
Listen to the full interview by downloading or streaming Cabin Radio's Lunchtime News podcast. Sibbeston's interview air date is September 24.
More information: Randy Sibbeston's Facebook campaign page
More interviews: Browse our 2019 NWT election coverage so far
This interview was recorded on September 11, 2019. The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Sarah Pruys: Tell us a little about yourself and your experience.
Randy Sibbeston: I'm from Fort Simpson. I'm 49 years old, raising a family of seven at home, and politically active in the community. I've been involved in the Fort Simpson Justice Committee and the Fort Simpson Métis as well, I was the president for a while. And I was on the executive committee for the Dehcho First Nations. And I've been working as a real estate developer in Fort Simpson and as a farmer.
What's on your platform for this election?
Well, I'm interested in bridging the Liard River and advocating for a hospital in Fort Simpson in order to be able to provide emergency services for people in our region.
The education system is really lacking. Shop class, where young people can learn to work on engines and build things with their hands and work with their hands, that's very important. And also art and music are important as well. Those are some of the things that are almost considered extras now in school in Fort Simpson and in some parts of the Territories. And I think that from a holistic point of view, they're really essential.
You've got some infrastructure projects, you've got education, anything else?
Housing is failing in many communities due to poor design. I see houses that are not really designed to last very long and so they fall apart quickly. Through better design, and using modern building materials, we can easily overcome those problems.
And another thing is, too, we've got a lot of resources in our region. Nahendeh is very, very rich in timber. We can use some of that to build cabins and build homes out of timber. The last time that was really looked at was quite a while ago, and a lot has happened in the construction industry and products have been improved. It would be a good time to look at that again because it's a local resource, and we've got it.
In a way, we're just letting these forests burn down. Really, we should be using them. I think it would be a lot better for our economy if we were to make use of those resources.
So as an MLA, what's your role in getting timber production started?
Well, licensing and legislation are preventing that from happening. So I think that modernizing our legislation to help us to reach parity with some of the other provinces that are neighbouring us would be very helpful.
Which legislation is preventing this?
The forestry legislation.
But here, we really can use a little bit of economic development in our region. We've got great tourist potential and great forestry potential and great agricultural potential. We've got all of this great potential and we're not getting the benefit of it. And the reason is because of legislation, and that's why this job is relevant to me, because this is where legislation is influenced and affected. So that's why I'm running for MLA.
Tourism is something that has come up again and again as a way to stimulate the economy and create more jobs. What needs to be done in Nahendeh to encourage the tourism industry to really take off?
Well, here in Nahendeh, there are some challenges to accessing the Japanese and some of the big, high-volume markets, because we just have small airplane service to the community. So they generally like to fly into areas where they can all just get off the plane, and they don't like getting on regional flights. So that's a limiting factor for us.
But, however, what we've got, it's a little bit harder to access, is Nahanni, but the cost is worth it. It's really a beautiful area, a spectacular part of the country. I think that the tourism here has so much potential, and it needs to be really promoted. And that's a lot of it right, is promotion and advertising and getting people to come over. And that's something that maybe hasn't been addressed properly. We need to advertise more and get more people traveling to our region.
You said the education system is lacking and course offerings aren't what they used to be. What can we do to change that and improve that?
Well, one thing that I'm very interested in addressing is the accuracy of information being provided regarding First Nations history. I've found out quite a bit. I've been scouring the scientific literature available on the subject of history in our area, and what I found out is it's not the same as what's being taught in school. History needs to be taught accurately and taught well.
And then the other thing is a lot of people really like to work with their hands. And you know, going into trades, you work with your hands. And so I think that, at a younger age, getting young people to do more with their hands, like the more the hands-on stuff, like art and shop… you know, those are transferable skills. People think that maybe those are not as important as the reading and writing and arithmetic. But really, those hands-on skills are essential.
And the other thing I've done is I've looked into the education system in Finland, where they have some of the highest rates of literacy and numeracy in the modern world. There, they have completely revamped their education system just in the last few years, and what they're doing now is they're teaching kids to work and solve problems in small groups. And this is something as well that really caught my interest because it occurred to me that most workplaces are interactive environments with other people, and that type of education could go a long way in better preparing our children for the future. So that's really important.
I'd like to try to get that information exchange happening. That is the place to do it, at the Legislative Assembly level and at the territorial level – to be doing that kind of international outreach and research on improving what is currently available here.
As you said, a lot of the things that you're proposing would require legislative change. Are you interested in a position on cabinet?
Well, you bet I am. Most of the action is taking place at the cabinet level, that's where the decisions are made, and everybody else is just working to try to influence those ministers. So that's absolutely the place to be.
Any particular position that you're more interested in?
You know, education, culture, and employment, and natural resources are interesting to me. Our area has so many natural resources and we've really been lagging behind. And, you know, you look at any other jurisdiction, like Alberta or BC, and you can see a clear path to success if you look at their history, and how the legislatures in Alberta and British Columbia were able to manage their jurisdictions to a successful conclusion.
And I don't see why it's that hard for the GNWT to take some of that history and apply it to our area, in order to solve our basic meat-and-potato problems, which were actually solved a long time ago by those other jurisdictions. I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel. But let's look at some success stories and see what they did right and then build on that and incorporate that in our legislative material.
Now, you found medical records at the Fort Simpson dump last November, and you had them for a few weeks before you told anyone. I'd imagine this would make your community have a harder time trusting you. What would you say to that?
Well, I've lived in Fort Simpson for a long time and I've never hurt anybody and I don't owe anybody any money. I've just been a productive member of the community my whole life.
I can understand why people who are trying to deflect the attention from themselves to somebody else would say that. You know, I'd say the guilty parties and people who are probably acting irresponsibly, or whatever, would probably be the type of people to say those things. People with a clear mind and who are in positions of knowledge know me very well.
And, you know, like, for instance, during all that whole thing, it was just an exercise in media distortion, really, because it was kind of inaccurate in a lot of ways. So that issue to me is just sort-of a moot point.
How was it inaccurate?
Apparently, everything's worked out really well for those people who were affected.
On that note, what I would like to say is that I would like to be a guy who's promoting a secure data storage facility in Fort Simpson. And actively and absolutely one of the politically motivating factors was the discovery that those types of records were being thrown out at the dump: knowing that that is where things are at with the government has spurred me to action. And basically, I'm going to take a very hard stand on waste management and on record and privacy management.
You know, secure storage facilities, for data and for files and for everything else, are just an essential part of government. And they're not optional. They're necessary, if you want to have a government, you have to have the facilities in order to do it. And that's part of it. If you want to protect people's privacy, well, you need a security area where those records are held, and preferably all in one place. And that's the way they do it down in Alberta. Like I was saying, why are we having a hard time reinventing the wheel? Why don't we just look at those other jurisdictions that are successful and then apply their experience?
When you say records storage, that's not just for health records, but for all records, right?
Yeah, for all private records. That's right. Anything that might be sensitive is kept in a secure data storage facility. There are First Nations in Alberta that own them and then lease the data storage to health and social services and to the federal government. And they are like a windowless warehouse but it's not. You know, there are hundreds and hundreds of mainframe computers working in there day and night. And there are sensitive records being carefully stored there with strict management practices in place. And that's the way that it's supposed to be done.
So I don't know what's going on here in Fort Simpson with boxes of paper getting thrown out at the dump and stuff but it seems like it's happening all over the NWT. It seems to me it's because the government of the Northwest Territories just hasn't wanted to really adopt the more successful practices from other regions in the legislature. And you've really got the option to pick and choose what those successful articles are and to implement them in our area. So it's really not that hard. I don't see what the problem is for them to get up to speed on it.
So bridging the Liard River, building a hospital in Fort Simpson, putting in a storage facility – those are some pretty major projects which would cost a lot of money. What would be your pitch to the other MLAs in the legislature to get the money for your riding?
Well, I talked to an Elder from Fort Liard and they told me the story of having to get into a taxi in Liard, drive all the way to Fort Simpson, which is about a two-and-a-half-hour drive, and then wait for the helicopter to take them across the river because the ice was freezing up. And then they get to the heliport, they get into another taxi, and then they go downtown to the hospital. It's not a hospital, it's a healthcare centre. And they gave a blood sample. And then they got back in the taxi, back to the helicopter, back to the other side where the taxi was waiting for them, which took them all the way back to Fort Liard.
So that is an Elder who has had to hold their pee and had to get in the vehicle and had to be in there because there's no restroom facility at the ferry crossing. There's no restroom facility along the way. And it's just basic human dignity that I'm asking for with the hospital in Fort Simpson.
And here's another thing that I just found, a report, it's called 139 Years of Doctors in Fort Simpson. And it is a report that was done to highlight the fact that doctor recruitment was never a problem in Fort Simpson. Doctors liked living here. And so using basically an argument of facts I think I can make a strong case for for health services in this region.
If you ask people in Liard, you know, what does our region need? They don't start telling you about what Fort Liard needs and this and that. No, no, no, they say there should be a bridge and there should be a hospital because it's an ongoing struggle for those people in outlying communities.
A final question, what's your pitch? Why should people vote for you?
Vote Randy Sibbeston and unite Nahendeh.
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import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
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import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

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import com.google.android.gms.location.places.Places;

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Germs aren't exactly enjoyable anywhere you encounter them. However, if you're dealing with germy microbes hundreds of kilometers above Earth, you might fear them even more. The risk of contamination is a big threat to astronauts living in tight quarters. NASA is now changing how they figure out exactly what that weird fuzzy mold is.
The International Space Station is no stranger to weird fungal growth. Previously, teams have had to collect samples and ship them back down to earth in order to be tested.
Kate Rubins conducting the first DNA analysis in space [Image Source: NASA]
"We have had contamination in parts of the station where fungi was seen growing or biomaterial has been pulled out of a clogged waterline, but we have no idea what it is until the sample gets back down to the lab," said Sarah Wallace, NASA microbiologist and the project's principal investigator at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The longer it takes to get the results back from the lab, the more the team risks putting themselves in danger. While astronauts disinfect frequently, there are some moments in a rotation where restocking up on disinfectants just can't happen.
To save the team time and safety, NASA is developing a way for astronauts to sequence and identify unknown microbes right on the ISS. The project is called Genes in Space-3. For the first time ever, it combines existing space technology to allow teams to identify a sample in orbit.
Last year, molecular biologist Kate Rubins became the first person to ever sequence DNA in space. She used MinION, and that technology analyzes DNA and RNA in real time. Similar gadgets frequently help remote doctors track diseases like Ebola while in the field. In order to make sure the tests worked, ground teams sent up mouse, viral and bacterial DNA. They then compared Rubins's results with theirs to determine how accurate the analysis would be.
The second gadget used was developed by 17-year-old student Anna-Sophia Boguraev for the Genes in Space competition. Boguraev developed a minature PCR (polymerase chain reaction), a device crucial to DNA analysis. PCRs make copies of DNA regions in vitro, allowing for thorough studying and cataloging.
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So why did this take so long? Why didn't the ISS try this earlier? No one knew whether DNA could be analyzed in microgravity. But it's a task that feels like it should already exist. Think about the countless science fiction movies where a team of astronauts has to analyze an organism while in space. Being able to identify strange organisms without having to ship it back to earth for analysis will save both time and energy.
It also makes the ISS and other ships considerably safer. The International Space Station has to be kept in pristine condition. The consequences of letting bacteria grow sound like a combination of an outer-space thriller and a zombie movie. Superbugs -- those resilient to antibiotics -- continually get stronger. Should one like MRSA appear onboard, astronauts would need to know immediately.
"The ISS is very clean," said Sarah Stahl, microbiologist and project scientist. "We find a lot of human-associated microorganisms - a lot of common bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Bacillus and different types of familiar fungi like Aspergillus and Penicillium."
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Masters 2018: What are the chances of a firefighter making the cut at the Masters? Not bad, actually
By Ryan Herrington
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AUGUSTA, Ga — A friend asked me what I was going to write about in my annual "Amateurs at the Masters" story now that "The Jinx"™ is over.
Yes, I trademarked "The Jinx"™, or at least thought long and hard about it before coming to the conclusion that Augusta National is armed with a finely skilled legal department and I have only Google and spotty Internet service at my disposal. Not really a fair fight.
"The Jinx" of course refers to the streak of 28 straight years that the U.S. Mid-Amateur champion had been invited to compete in the Masters only to fail to make the 36-hole cut. Another way to say 28 years is every year since Augusta National first guaranteed a spot to the Mid-Am champ. But 12 months ago, Stewart Hagestad, a 25-year-old future hedge-fund manager, stared "The Jinx" in the face and "The Jinx" blinked.
Never fear, however. "The Jinx" might have ended, but "the hopeful story of a U.S. Mid-Amateur champion trying to make the patrons at Augusta National and golf fans everywhere proud" remains very much alive in the form of Matt Parziale.
The 30-year-old Parziale is a former mini-tour pro turned firefighter from Brockton, Mass. A firefighter … playing the Masters (!?!). Yep, that doesn't happen very often. Generally speaking, U.S. Mid-Amateur champs tend to be future hedge-fund-manager types, or at least white-collar office guys with flexibility hours.
Parziale's story has garnered plenty of attention, including from our own John Strege. On Monday, Parziale came into the press building to talk more to the media. He answered questions about his job, humbly downplaying the danger aspect he faces every day. Turns out, Parziale did apparently make a concession to his occupation, taking a leave of absence from Brockton Ladder Company 1 in recent weeks so that he could make sure that an on-the-job injury didn't cause him to go on the DL for the biggest tournament of his life.
Safe to say no future head-fund-manager type had to ask for a leave of absence from his job for fearing of tearing a cuticle with a binder clip.
The question now, of course, is whether Parziale takes inspiration from Hagestad (a friend of his on the mid-amateur circuit) and plays his way to the weekend at Augusta. If he doesn't there's a decent chance one of the other five amateurs in the field does. Seven times in the last eight years a player has made the cut and taken home the low amateur trophy on Sunday.
Who then is the most likely to join Fred Ridley and the new Masters champ in Butler Cabin? Here's a peek, in alphabetical order, at the six candidates.
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Harry Ellis, 22, England
__How he qualified: British Amateur champion
Odds of making the cut: 3 to 1
Skinny: While "The Jinx" has always been associated with the U.S. Mid-Amateur winner, past British Amateur champs have struggled to make the Masters cut, too. Only three have managed the trick in the last 30 years (Sergio Garcia in 1999, Matteo Manassero in 2010 and Romain Langasque in 2016, with Manassero's T-36 being the best finish). Ellis, a senior at Florida State, admits that he's played distracted this season, but he's still managed a career-best 71.35 average and a share of two individual titles. It's a hunch, but says here his form can help him buck history and having him sticking around for the weekend.
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Doug Ghim, 21, Arlington Heights, Ill.
How he qualified: U.S. Amateur runner-up
Skinny: Ghim was the hard-luck runner-up last August at Riviera Country Club to Doc Redman, but University of Texas senior's consolation prizes included a spot on the U.S. Walker Cup team and this invite to Augusta. He's played Augusta National a few times this year in preparation for the event, writing copious notes in a yardage book. When the book went missing earlier this week (it accidentally fell out of caddie/dad Jeff's caddie bib), there was a mild panic in the Ghim camp. It was thankfully found, though, on Tuesday. With it in hand, Ghim has a good shot of using it through Sunday.
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Lin Yuxin, 17, China
How he qualified: Asia Pacific Amateur champion
Skinny: The left-hander became the third golfer from China to win the Asia Pacific Am, and he did it in pretty amazing fashion, going birdie-eagle on the last two holes to post a closing 65 and take the title. Lin has lots of experience playing in professional events in Asia as an amateur, which should help his nerves. He says he hopes to use the week as a learning process as he prepares to come to the U.S. and play college golf at USC in the fall, but you get the feeling he's not here just to soak up the experience. His sneaky length and laid-back demeanor give you reason to believe he could claim low amateur honors.
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Joaquin Niemann, 19, Chile
How he qualified: Latin America Amateur champion
__Skinny:__The current No. 1 ranked amateur in the world is a raw talent, emphasis in the short term on raw, the long term on talent. Niemann was going polish his game by playing college golf at South Florida, but a academic testing snafu short-circuited his enrollment. Rather than retake the test, Niemann decided he'd turn pro … until he had to delay that plan when he won the Latin America Amateur title in January (he'll make his debut at the Valero Texas Open next month). He's already got experience playing in a major, missing the cut after playing his way into the U.S. Open at Erin Hills. The biggest question now is whether distractions of turning pro and the bright lights of playing at Augusta conspire against him this week.
Matt Parziale, 30, Brockton, Mass.
How he qualified: U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
Skinny: It's not his game you should be worried about, Parziale is a talented enough golfer. It's the stage. Playing in the Masters is heady stuff for any amateur, let alone one who's been on a five-plus-month joy ride since his Mid-Am triumph. More than any of the other amateurs, Parziale had been inundated with media requests prior to coming to Augusta. The weight of the moment may well become an issue. Then again, the guy fights fires for a living. There's no greater pressure than that.
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Doc Redman, 20, Raleigh, N.C.
How he qualified: U.S. Amateur champion
Odds of making the cut: 10 to 1
Skinny: Redman's comeback victory in the final of the U.S. Amateur at Riviera last August was an instance classic—2 down with two holes to play, he went eagle-birdie-birdie. Following up on the triumph, however, has been tough for the Clemson sophomore. He's played just four college events and only has one top-15 finish to show for it (that coming last fall). Redman had to be encouraged with making the cut at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last month, and his attitude is a good one too. "No matter how I play, it's not going to change anything. It's going to be a success no matter what, if I make the cut or come in dead last. I'm just going to go out and enjoy myself and try to learn as much as possible." His ace in the hole is his putting; Clemson coach Larry Penley says he's the best to ever come through the school. He's going to need to show that if he wants to play four rounds this week at Augusta.
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Russian central bank to seek ban on investment in cryptocurrencies – Reuters
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MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The Russian central bank wants to ban investments in cryptocurrencies in Russia, seeing risks to financial stability in the rising number of crypto transactions, two financial market sources close to the bank said.
Leading cryptocurrency bitcoin fell after the report to $48,656 from levels around $49,144 seen shortly before.
Russia has argued for years against cryptocurrencies, saying they could be used in money laundering or to finance terrorism. It eventually gave them legal status in 2020 but banned their use as a means of payment.
The central bank is now in talks with market players and experts about a possible ban. If approved by lawmakers, it could apply to new purchases of crypto assets but not to those bought in the past, said one of the financial market sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Another source close to the Bank of Russia said the central bank's current position was a "complete rejection" of all cryptocurrencies.
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Reversing a decision he made in June to seek reelection, state Rep. Ray Pilon now says he will not run for a final term in his House seat and instead join a crowded GOP state Senate primary.
State Rep. Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota
Pilon, R-Sarasota, said the incoming House leadership and the fact that the Senate district he will run in still includes all of Sarasota County played into his decision to reverse course.
"During this session things have changed, the leadership is going to change and I no longer feel I could be as productive in the House seat," he said.
Pilon, 71, said he did not expect to have a leadership role under incoming House Speaker Richard Corcoran.
"He has probably got in his mind who his leadership team is going to be for two years and what he wants to do and he hasn't had that conversation with me," he said, adding: "I felt I could be more effective now in the Senate."
The outcome of the Senate redistricting battle also made Pilon take another look at the seat being vacated by Venice Republican Sen. Nancy Detert. The Senate district lines had been uncertain until recently and some maps would have split Sarasota County into two districts.
The final map keeps the current district configuration, which includes all of Sarasota County and part of Charlotte County. That benefits Pilon, who has a long history of winning votes in Sarasota County, first as a county commissioner and recently representing the northern half of the county in the state House.
Pilon's decision further jumbles a Senate race that already includes four GOP candidates. He'll go up against Sarasota state Rep. Greg Steube, former Sarasota state Rep. Doug Holder, former Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson and Sarasota businessman Rick Levine.
The $74,692 in Pilon's House campaign account can be used for his Senate bid, but he still is far behind the current money leader in the race. Steube and a committee backing his campaign have $274,980 in cash on hand.
"Of course we're going to do the financial part of it and hit it very, very hard," Pilon said.
Pilon had faced a tough reelection fight in the District 72 House seat against Sarasota Democrat Edward James III. James and a committee backing his campaign currently have $213,350 in cash on hand, a large sum for any state House candidate to raise but especially a Democrat challenging a GOP incumbent in the Republican-majority Legislature.
Not having to take on an incumbent is a boost for James. But Sarasota GOP Chairman Joe Gruters said he expects the party to field a strong candidate.
"It's game on," Gruters said.
One potential candidate is Osprey Republican Bob Wyatt, who had filed for Pilon's House seat last year when the lawmaker was flirting with a state Senate bid. A number of other local Republicans also are weighing getting into the contest, Gruters said.
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Mal Sanders exploded onto the ITV wrestling scene on Fireworks Day 1977, when his opponent in Aylesbury was Steve Grey. His yellow trunks and blond hair combined with youthful good looks immediately to capture the public's imagination - but make no mistake, appearance was backed up by a full arsenal of slick wrestling skills.
Less than a year later Superstar Sanders was doing the unimaginable, not only winning the European Middleweight title but in so doing bringing to an end the seven-year reign of the redoubtable Mick McManus.
Victory was admittedly gained via the controversial disqualification route, but a week later in Huddersfield Sanders once again beat McManus two falls to one to cement his status as European kingpin and to claim one of only two falls victories ever over McManus in his 170+ television appearances, as well as becoming and remaining the only wrestler ever to have defeated McManus on television twice.
The burdens of fame and glory could have unsettled many a youngster, but Sanders, a self-confessed addict to tv wrestling in his teens, went on to enjoy a glittering career in which he filled every role in the game.
In terms of titles, he was a televised championship contender at all weights from Heavy Middleweight downwards.
He put his European Middleweight title on the line on wrestling's day of the year, as centrepiece of the FA Cup Final spectacular. At the famous Wembley Arena showdown in 1981 between Mighty John Quinn and Big Daddy, remember it was Sanders who, on the same bill, successfully defended his European title against visiting Spaniard, Chato Pastor.
At welterweight, he feuded for national and European honours with Bristol's Danny Collins. And a career-long feud with Steve Grey (left) continued into the eighties as the British Lightweight title became their bone of contention.
In terms of opponents, Superstar Sanders faced them all. As well as appearing on the same bill as Big Daddy on numerous other occasions, including at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, Sanders would often share a tag rope alongside the Halifax giant. This alliance would bring him into in-ring confrontation with many of the super-heavyweight villains – and none were bigger than Giant Haystacks himself.
Even in solo action, Sanders would frequently face opponents far heavier than himsel f such as Butcher Bond and Super Destroyer Pete Roberts, but his most regular opponents were in the lighter divisions. He perhaps faced rule-breakers Syd Cooper and Zoltan Boscik too often, as it wasn't long before the golden boy from Morden, South London, was emulating their style and becoming a rule-breaker in his own right, chalking up an uncomfortable number of disqualification verdicts.
Mal Sanders continued to be a regular on ITV's weekly wrestling right up until the final televised bouts in 1988, and his career has continued well beyond into the New Age.
However, one honour from Sanders' outstanding career sticks out in the minds of wrestling fans. When British and World Mid-Heavyweight Champion Mike Marino, the Anglo Italian ring stylist of the fifties, sixties and seventies, met with a tragic roadside death on the way home one 1981 summer evening, he had been accompanied by Mal Sanders. Dale Martin promotions quickly arranged the inaugural Mike Marino Memorial Shield trophy and on 29th September 1981 at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Mal Sanders battled Judo Pat Patton, Golden Ace John Naylor and Cyanide Syd Cooper to emerge victorious.


SAN DIEGO — With millions of newly insured patients expected to tax an already short supply of primary care physicians, retail clinics may play a significant role in California's new health care landscape, according to health care experts.
The growth of retail clinics is fostering new partnerships and in some cases new forms of cooperation rather than — or in addition to — competition.
San Diego's Sharp HealthCare and MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of drug store chain CVS Caremark, have teamed up to expand primary care access around San Diego.
The move is partly in anticipation of full implementation of the Affordable Care Act on Jan. 1, 2014.
"The reason we have things like MinuteClinic coming up is that it's filling a need," said Steven Green, who is on the board of directors for Sharp Rees-Stealy, one of Sharp HealthCare's medical group affiliates. Green coordinates medical directors providing clinical oversight of the San Diego-based MinuteClinics. "Maintaining good access is always one of our challenges and a priority. There's no question if there is a big influx of patients there will be a challenge [to meet the need]," he said.
That challenge has begun to shift hospital and primary care perceptions of retail clinics from rivals to possible partners who can help extend the care continuum and manage patient volume. Benefits of arrangements like the one forged between Sharp and CVS, which was signed in April and scheduled to start this summer, cuts both ways, said Jill Dailey, a managing director with the consulting firm Accenture.
"As the retail clinics have expanded in terms of their geographic footprint, they want to drive up their volumes, and a great way to do that is to forge relationships with local hospital systems or with physician practices that might want to send patients for lower-acuity issues to the retail clinics," she said.
Dailey said some hospitals around the U.S. — particularly those at or beyond capacity — also are proactively looking to establish new relationships to better serve people who are newly insured because of the ACA, as well as to meet the needs of a growing aging population. "They're interested in looking at other models to move some of the lower-acuity, lower-reimbursement level services into a retail clinic," Dailey said.
Few health care professionals argue that increased access to care is a problem, but the relationship forged between these two health care giants has left some in the San Diego medical community a bit uneasy.
Theodore Mazer, communications director for the San Diego County Medical Society, said he's concerned about consumer awareness for retail clinic patients.
"Are they being properly educated that they have an option of where to go and that they're not being brought into a network that they are unwittingly participating in?" Mazer asked.
According to Nancy Gagliano, MinuteClinic's chief medical officer, the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes.
"Our affiliations are important, but we believe that we are an important component of access in the entire community and we make sure patients who come to see us who are not Sharp members get the exact same care and coordination back to their primary care physician. Anyone who comes to our practice with a primary care physician always gets a visit summary with patient approval," she said.
According to Gagliano, 50% of current MinuteClinic patients don't have a primary care physician. Upon leaving a clinic in San Diego, each unaffiliated patient will be given a list of doctors accepting new patients in the area regardless of the physician's affiliation. Sharp HealthCare providers, she said, will not get preferential treatment when it comes to referrals.
Mazer said there are also concerns about how this partnership plays into the debate taking place in California over the ability of non-physician clinicians to practice independently. A set of bills (SB 491, SB 492 and SB 493) authored by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) would expand the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to address the physician shortage.
The bills were approved by the state Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee and sent on to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
"There's a tremendous battle right now in the state of California over independent practice of non-physicians doing primary care medicine," Mazer said. "The Minute Clinics, the retail clinics in general, are lending more credence as a screen that says, well, we don't have a doctor here, we have nurse practitioners, and we practice primary care medicine. In California they're still doing that under the supervision of the physician. The fact that Sharp is giving sort of credence to this, I think they need to tread very carefully," Mazer said.
Both Green and Gagliano contend, however, that there's no veiled attempt to push the issue of independent practice by non-physicians.
The fact is, she said, "one of the underlying problems is that there is a primary care shortage, and I think as a country we have to have solutions to make sure we have enough access for patients.
Rapid growth is expected in retail health clinics located in pharmacies and retail chains. That was the conclusion of a recent report by Accenture that anticipates expansion at a rate of 25% to 30% per year between now and 2015, thereby doubling the number of retail clinics to a total of 2,868 nationwide.
Staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants, retail clinics offer expanded hours of operation compared with typical primary care physician' offices and can treat a range of health issues from strep throat to common infections, minor wounds, abrasions and joint sprains. They administer common vaccinations and screen for and monitor diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, among other conditions.
And patients appreciate what retail clinics have to offer. A 2012 study by the Santa Monica-based Rand Corporation found a fourfold increase in visits to retail clinics nationally between 2007 and 2009, largely due to their convenience, accessible hours and low cost, which averages about $78 per visit.
Impact of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and 2011.
"There are a lot of people out there who either want the convenience [of a clinic] that they can easily get to in their own neighborhood or those without a doctor where a clinic like this will make it easier for them to get certain common conditions cared for," Green said.
The Accenture report predicted the growing number of retail health clinics would create $800 million savings annually in overall healthcare expenditures by 2015 and add capacity for 10.8 million patient visits per year nationally.
The expanded access and lower cost associated with care delivered at retail clinics has gotten the attention of insurers, too. Increasingly, health plans are including retail and other walk-in clinics in their networks.
More than 60 health insurers contract with CVS MinuteClinics in California. "Eighty five percent of the patients we see are seen under insurance," Gagliano said.
In addition, the company contracts with six Medicaid plans in Southern California. "We're committed to working with Medicaid in every state," Gagliano said, responding to concerns about access for the growing Medicaid population expected in California once the health reform law takes full effect.
Despite predictions, no one yet knows how health reform and the increase in the insured population will affect access to care. Policymakers, insurers, providers and consumers agree that with a rapidly changing health care environment everyone must be open to new models. Health care experts generally agree that retail clinics are among a number of alternatives for dealing with increased demand for primary care.
"Most physicians who just don't lambast the idea of retail clinics as encroachment would much rather see an organized means of dealing with those clinics and doing the right thing for the patient. I think they would be fine with that," Mazer said.
Friction with the provider community; Aneed to fine-tune retail clinic staffing models and uncertainty over the future: Impact of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and 2011.


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Dustin Pratt Memorial Fund supports St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation
A donation has been made on behalf of the Dustin Pratt Memorial Fund to support children at St. Joseph's Hospital.
The fund has awarded the St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation a cheque for $15,000. The donation will be designated towards renovations in the emergency room children's waiting area and developing a child care package program in the Unit A and obstetrics departments.
The new youth program at the hospital, Project Tomorrow: Youth Ambassadors will be a huge asset to the planning and execution of these projects.
"We are so grateful for this donation as we celebrate Dustin's legacy in our hospital," said St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation executive director Breanne Van De Woestyne.
"The funds will be used to help children when they are at the hospital either for medical reasons or visiting a loved one. With the help of this donation, we are able to improve the children's area in our ER department and also develop a program that allows us to deliver care packages to children that are admitted.
"The packages will include teddy bears, kids' hospital gowns, activity books and more."
Dustin Pratt died tragically in a workplace accident in August 2016. His family and friends then created the Dustin Pratt Memorial Fund in his memory.
"Anyone who got the opportunity to know Dustin had the privilege of enduring the most contagious laugh, and Dustin's huge heart," the hospital foundation wrote in a news release. "Dustin was always willing to give anyone a helping hand when he could. Dustin's heart and personality were one of a kind."
The mission with the Dustin Pratt Memorial Fund is to help local families in need and to be able to give back to help children and youth.
Renovations and care packages will start in early 2020.
Next week's edition of the Mercury will have more on this story.
Pride Flag once again raised in Stoughton
Highways remain busy in the southeast
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Taking care of your car is one of the most essentials things that you have to do. This machine gets you to work, to friends, and your favorite restaurants. You want to make sure that your car can reliably get you to and from these locations. To do that, the Auto Maintenance Chart can help you keep track of the parts and services recommended to you by a professional. Not only will you be able to monitor the oil changes and regular maintenance of your vehicle, but you can also store helpful recommendations from mechanics that you couldn't get to right away. Read more about this amazing template below, to take better care of your vehicle.
You will need to click the link at the bottom of this page to download the free template file to your computer.
The next step is simply to enter your recent services. You can either keep this document on your computer or you can print out a few pages to write these things down by hand, it's completely up to you.
To print your new template just Click "File" then "Print" at the top of your screen.
There are a few columns in which to enter your information. The first is the date in which you had your car serviced. The next column lets you list any notes on that service, such as a small description.
You will then notice a selection of services and mileages across the top of the page. These are recommended services that your vehicle should have done after they reach the designated mileage.
Once you receive one of these services, just enter your current mileage under the corresponding column to indicate that particular service has already been rendered.
When you go through the entire selection of services, you can start a new row and begin the cycle over again.
Keeping your car like new has never been easier with the Auto Maintenance Chart.


Osmosis – the blistering of the gel coat or structural laminate below the waterline as a result of water absorption – used to be the biggest long-term fear of many boat owners, as well as a source of considerable revenue for boat repair businesses.
Over time osmosis has not proved to be the big issue it was once heralded as. This is partly because boats built since the 1990s tend to use isopthalic resins that are not prone to blistering and they employ much better construction techniques that all but eliminate the flaws in the mouldings that were once commonplace in the boat building industry.
Nevertheless it's still prudent to take moisture meter readings every few years, as well as checking for any sign of blistering. If a thick layer of antifouling has built up over the years, the latter will involve removing this in patches as the paint film can easily obscure small blisters.
Treatments will vary depending on the severity of the problem and there's certainly no reason to panic if you discover a few blisters on the underside of the hull. It's an easy job to treat them individually, providing the hull is dried thoroughly first. For a hull that's covered in multiple blisters, then more extensive work, including a full gel coat strip, followed by drying with infra-red lamps and epoxy treatment, may be needed to restore it to top condition.
While these professional treatments are only a small percentage of the value of larger and expensive yachts, they can add up to a substantial proportion of the value of some smaller older vessels. As a result some owners choose to live with the problem and simply monitor the progress over time – in many cases they will get many years, or even decades, of extra use from a boat that might otherwise be uneconomic to repair.
If you're buying a second hand boat that's had full epoxy treatment in the past don't automatically assume it will be immune from further problems. In some cases the standard of work done was poor, or the hull insufficiently dried out in advance.
It you're treating a few blisters on an individual basis, the process is to grind away the affected gel coat and any damaged laminate underneath, then allow it to dry out thoroughly, before filling and fairing the gel coat to reinstate the hull's finish. Although a lot of time – usually measured in months – is needed for the drying process, a hull with a dozen or so blisters can be sorted in this manner with only a few hours of labour.


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In The Hall of the Mountain King
Territory denial. Cascading production. Magic & muscle. An innovative game for 2-5 trolls that is easy to learn but hides rich depths.
Burnt Island Games
4,393 backers pledged CA$ 379,848 to help bring this project to life.
Toronto, Canada Tabletop Games
CA$ 379,848
pledged of CA$ 40,000 goal
The war was generations ago. Driven from our ancestral home beneath the mountain, we have been wandering the wilderness, scratching out survival in the cold and the dirt. But now something has happened. We feel it in our bones. Without the soul of our people to sustain it, the mountain has collapsed, taking our revenge for us. Our enemies have fled, and the rubble of our ancient halls calls out for we trolls to come home. So we shall go. By claw and by hammer and by sweat and by song we will return to our home and our home will return to us.
As a respected leader, gather a following of trolls from the Mud, Fire, Ice, and Moon clans. Dig tunnels clad in stone, iron and heartstone. Carve out spacious galleries as great halls. Unearth the statues of the ancients, and with the help of the clans return them to places of glory near the mountain's heart. The surging cascade of trolls returning home will grow ever mightier as our kingdom is rebuilt, rising and crashing forward until one leader rises above the rest to be crowned the Mountain King!
We are trolls, returning to our ruined ancient mountain home. We compete to excavate out the mountain, earn honour, and become the Mountain King! Honour is earned for digging tunnels and great halls, for building pedestals for statues, and for raising the lost statues of our ancestors back to places of glory close to the mountain's heart.
Rules are simple. Turns are:
1. (optional) Cast 1 spell and/or activate 1 Workshop
Place a rune crystal onto a spell to unleash an awesome magical power! After three castings, the spell disintegrates and a new one comes into play. Use workshops to transform the things you have into the things you need... but only the quickest miners will get access to the best shops!
2. Recruit 1 Troll or Dig 1 Tunnel.
Recruit 1 Troll:
Pick any troll from the horde... but you'll have to bribe EVERY troll beneath it for it to join you! When you add your new recruit to your own trollsmoot, it will generate its own resources AND the effect CASCADES downward, so every troll beneath it ALSO gains the resources it isn't already holding. Time your recruitments wisely!
Dig 1 Tunnel:
Spend minerals to dig tunnels on the map... the tunnels help you reach buried resources and statues, connect to workshops, and forge into the heart of the mountain!
3. (optional) Dedicate a great hall.
If you've assembled a region of tunnels big enough to hold a great hall, you can lay it over top to open up big scoring opportunities.
4. (optional) Move statues.
Spend carts of the correct clan to move those statues from tunnel to tunnel. The closer to the heart, the better... especially if you get them onto pedestals!
At the end of the game, you'll score honour points for your tunnels, for your great halls, for the pedestals and statues you've placed, and for leftover resources. Highest score wins!
Gameplay Explained in Detail
Man vs Meeple give us a detailed look at how the game works!
Want to watch a playthrough?
Rahdo takes us through a 2-player session, below!
Full play through recorded live!
Derek & Lizzy Funkhouser of Board Game Spotlight deliver a full fun play through with their usual enthusiasm and inevitable destruction of Derek.
Want to take an even deeper look?
Check out the draft rulebook below, to learn the game in detail! This is still being developed and has none of the illustrations, diagrams, or examples that will be included in the final.
Rahdo shares some enthusiastic Final Thoughts!
Undead Viking's tremendous preview!
Full written preview from The Daily Worker Placement:
Some quotes from people who have played and enjoyed the game:
A Note About Fulfillment
We are always transparent about fulfillment. Shipping games is expensive, so it is an expense that we are going to share with you. For the In the Hall of the Mountain King campaign, we will be subsidizing the shipping costs so that it is more affordable for everyone. We will be using various fulfillment companies from around the world to further lower the costs so that you won't have to pay import taxes/VAT (US, Canada, Australia, UK and EU backers only).
Every campaign comes with its own challenges. In the Hall of the Mountain King is a big game with many components that must be manufactured just right. We promise you a deluxe version you'll be proud to play AND proudly display on your game shelf.
The art and mechanics for In the Hall of the Mountain King are nearly complete, so once this campaign ends, we'll be almost ready to submit print files.
It is always possible that delays may occur because of manufacturing issues, shipping, and even importing to the various regions of the world. Although we have budgeted 10 months (more than enough time) to bring this game to your doorstep, we also know that these delays can change our timeline at various stages. We are working to do everything we can to meet our goal of getting In the Hall of the Mountain King to you by December 2019.
We will be using fulfillment partners from around the world so that we can ensure a fast and smooth operation. We have worked with each partner before, so we are optimistic that everything will go as planned. We have full faith that your games will be delivered to you safe and in a timely fashion.
A note on our track record:
• Successful and timely fulfillment of 4 projects over 3 years (between our sibling company Kids Table Board Gaming and Burnt Island Games), including the following games: Foodfighters, Problem Picnic, Haunt the House, and Endeavor: Age of Sail.
• Wide praise for production quality and gameplay development, as quality products is of the utmost importance to us.
• Our designers and artists came to In the Hall of the Mountain King with many years of experience.
We want you to be happy! We promise to keep you in the loop every step of the way. If you have any questions, send us a message, email us at info@burntislandgames.com, or simply comment on the campaign. We will get back to you as soon as we can.
Pledge CA$ 64 or more About $49
ItHotMK Retail Game
Retail value: $65CAD, $49USD, £37.77, €43.27
You will receive 1 (one) In the Hall of the Mountain King RETAIL version of the game and all Kickstarter stretch goals pertaining to this pledge level.
Shipping will be charged through BackerKit after the campaign. For information on shipping prices please see the chart at the bottom of the campaign page.
**For each additional game, please add the cost of the game ($64CAD) to your pledge. THERE WILL BE NO EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES FOR ADDITIONAL GAMES.
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You will receive 1 (one) DELUXE version of In the Hall of the Mountain King and all Kickstarter stretch goals pertaining to this pledge level.
ItHotMK for Brick and Mortar Retailers
You will receive 7 (seven) DELUXE versions of In the Hall of the Mountain King PLUS 1 (one) deluxe demo copy for your store for FREE. You will also receive all Kickstarter stretch goals pertaining to the deluxe pledge level for each game.
This pledge is for verified BRICK AND MORTAR retailers only! Before the end of this campaign, you will be contacted for verification (photos of your B&M store as well as your TAX ID number).
The money you pledge through Kickstarter is a deposit and will count toward your final pledge that will be collected through BackerKit.
Shipping will also be charged through BackerKit after the campaign. For information on shipping prices please see the chart at the bottom of the campaign page.
Feb 5, 2019 - Feb 28, 2019 (23 days)


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We have a large Probate and Estate Administration team, led by five partners who can offer advice on a wide range of estates.