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Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood - Short Narrative USA
A man-child sets off to buy a new cage for his beloved hamster, but is enticed into a world of hedonism. He must become resourceful to make ends meet
Director Andrew Bateman
Andrew Bateman is Denver, Colorado based filmmaker, sound designer, and educator. Prior to Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood, Andrew worked in documentary film and multimedia journalism. Currently he teaches for the University of Colorado Denver, Department of Film and Television.
Andrew received a MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a MA in American Studies from the University of New Mexico where he wrote his master's thesis on the prescient and omnipresent artist Sun Ra.
Director Statement
The narrative throughline of Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood is based on my own experience as a kid where I walked an awful long way to a pet store to buy my hamster, Rodent, a new cage. Only to find when I returned home no more rodent. This is not the only element of autobiography in Loose Change, but the most direct. For the most part, Loose Change is a look at my own delayed adolescence of spending money in places and on things that might not have been the wisest, but nonetheless a part of growing up.
Memories of childhood, or at least mine, are a bit obscure and often leading to the dots not connecting, however the structure of feeling remains. This is what I attempted to capture in this film, hence the vivid production design and use of the wide angle lens.
Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood has been over 11 years in the process of making. The script was first developed in graduate school, and then slowly produced as I learned how to be a fiction filmmaker. Along the way I received tremendous support from my former and current students and colleagues at the University of Colorado Denver. In particular, Jaime King, Nasheka Richardson, and Yonas Seltene were the first students to profoundly demonstrate their belief in me and the film, quickly followed by my wickedly talented colleague Jessica McGaugh who signed on to be Director of Photography.
Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood marks my first expression as a fiction filmmaker.
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If someone comes up to you and says that you cant break the rules, show them this post and beg to differ alright? For 16 Centuries, champagne have been known to be the sparkly drink that signals signs of glamour.
If you've ever tried sipping on that bubbly or are a huge fan of it, I'm pretty sure you'd know to follow the NUMBER 1 NOT-TO-DO rule in order to fully enjoy the richness of the drink. NEVER put ice into your champagne, yes? It'll RUIN the fine delicate aromas of the drink, yes?
Thanks to Moet Hennessy Diageo Malaysia, I was lucky enough to be 1 out of the 10 girls, to witness the official launch of the brand new Moet Ice Imperial. The world's first-ever champagne that REQUIRES you to have your drink with a few blocks of ice cubes – without spoiling the exquisite taste of the drink! A perfect choice to rock the summer or just simply to enjoy a nice outdoor gathering with your close ones!
We were taken out to sea for an intimate yacht party and was greeted with a Flyboard & Jetski Stuntmen (which came out of nowhere btw), to reveal Moet's Ice Imperial for the VERY FIRST TIME in Malaysia! Believe me, you wouldn't know how surprised I was when they mentioned we could drop a few icy cubes in! With the help of adding some of my chosen fruits (I picked peach and blueberries), the intense fruity and smooth yet fresh taste of the drink left me speechless at how AMAZING it tasted (still craving for more even till now!).
Along with some snack munching bonding sessions, and a WHOLE lot of picture taking action – the day flew by in a jiff! I really couldn't have asked for more. The Moet Team put in such great effort into making each and every one of the influencers feel like they had the best summer vacay – even if it was just for a couple of hours.


York, the historic walled city, is the traditional county capital of Yorkshire with the most complete medieval streets in Europe (The Shambles), over 360 pubs and the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe – in fact, York Minster also has more stained glass windows than anywhere else in England.
Tourists flock to see the city's Roman heritage and Jorvik Viking Museum, the county's longest town walls and the largest railway museum in the world – which houses the only Japanese bullet train outside of Japan.
Yet York has an industrious side too, its economy was founded on railway manufacturing and chocolate making – Yorkie bar and Terry's Chocolate Oranges were made here. It's even a National Science City, with a science park near the redbrick University of York.
So you'll never be short of skilled local tradesmen.
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Habiba Mahmoud is a girl who lives on the island of Lamu, off the coast of Kenya.
A former Children of Fire volunteer Simon Pike visited the island as a tourist and noticed the girl's burn injuries. He asked if we could help.
We duly liaised with Habiba's father's employer Carol Korschen and also with American surgeon Dr Louis Carter.
She then had successful surgery and returned to the island, her life much improved.
While Children of Fire's policy is to amputate nothing unless there is a pressing need to do so, managing surgery long-distance is hard to do. The little toe on her injured foot was amputated.
But more significantly, Habiba's big toe was realigned into its natural position so that she can wear normal shoes again.
Thanks to Simon for noticing, Carol for facilitating and to Dr Carter and his colleagues for the surgery.
P.O. Box 24, Lamu 80500.
I really did not get a chance to evaluate the girl other than medical exam as it was the very last few days of my 11 week stay in Kenya. She will be followed up at the CURE Mombasa clinic�held once a month.


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Which CEO is Scarier: The Narcissist Liberal or the Extravert Conservative?
CEOs are consequential people. They have a central role in organizing the firm, choosing subordinates, and proposing strategies to their boards and implementing them. We know that (most) CEOs have ideologies and personalities. We don't know much about how these two interact to shape what firms do. Until now. Let's start with a simple fact: a CEO can be anywhere from liberal to conservative in political ideology and can be either low or high on narcissism (self-grandeur and self-indulgence) and extraversion (communication need and ability). So there are narcissist liberals and extravert conservatives, and the other way around, and liberals and conservatives who are neither narcissists nor extraverts.
Does this matter? New research by Abhinav Gupta, Sucheta Nadkarni, and Misha Mariam published in Administrative Science Quarterly shows it does. Their idea was that CEOs' narcissism and extraversion could make their companies act more ideologically. Narcissists think that their view of the world is the right one, and extraverts are good at persuading others. In both cases the result is that the firm becomes more ideological. (A firm doesn't have to be liberal or conservative, of course, and would be ideologically neutral if its CEO were neutral.)
So what did the evidence show? Downsizing the firm is a typically conservative action and was in fact more often done by conservative CEOs – especially if they were extraverted. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a typically liberal action and was more often done by liberal CEOs – especially if they were narcissistic or extraverted.
There was one non-finding in the study's interactions: narcissism does not make conservative CEOs downsize their firms more. There are many possible explanations, one of which is that narcissists think of themselves and everything associated with them as being grand and great. Shrinking the firm likely isn't their first choice of action, even if there are good reasons to do so.
Clearly ideology and CEOs' personalities shape firms. They do so in ways that can make CEOs pretty scary, given the mix of ideology and personality that one can find. CSR is a good thing for society, but if it is done by a narcissistic liberal CEO one has to wonder whether the firm's resources are used well. Downsizing can be necessary, but if done by an extroverted conservative CEO one has to wonder whether others thought differently but were persuaded to reduce the firm's employment more than they should. Both are scary thoughts.
The article can be downloaded for free for a limited time:
Gupta, A., S. Nadkarni, and M. Mariam
2018. "Dispositional Sources of Managerial Discretion: CEO Ideology, CEO Personality, and Firm Strategies." Administrative Science Quarterly, forthcoming.
Concentration, Vision, Practice: Essential for Tennis Players – and New Ventures
I just saw research on how to successfully start a new venture that made me think about the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Here's why: some of the things that are obvious sources of strength in tennis are widely thought to be weaknesses in business – but if current research is any guide, they are strengths. Concentration, vision, and practice through endless repetition are how champions are built in tennis, a sport where the average serve speed is 180 km/h for men and 155 km/h for women. But how is that related to new ventures?
Research recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly by Susan Cohen, Christopher Bingham, and Benjamin Hallen looks at how new ventures perform in accelerators, which are training and development programs for new ventures. They looked at many accelerators to find out exactly what activities accelerate and improve a venture more, because some accelerators have been successful in helping launch new ventures but others have not. Before they started, we knew very little. Their findings were clear – and completely the opposite of some common beliefs about forming and improving new ventures.
Belief 1: New ventures should start with a solid business plan and be given information and introductions to potential mentors gradually over time to develop their ventures. This is not true. Ventures should be given concentrated consultation and advice early in the founding, because that is when the value of new information is highest. The venture may be most flexible and uncommitted at this stage, but even if it isn't, Cohen, Bingham, and Hallen found that the concentration of feedback was key: it helped venture founders overcome their own biases and assumptions, connect with potential customers, rethink what would be best for the business, and act on the new information.
Belief 2: Entrepreneurs should avoid divulging information about their activities to other entrepreneurs, who might steal their ideas. This is not true. Yes, we've all learned since childhood that secrets are valuable, but in business, quality trumps secrecy. New ventures in accelerators were able to understand their own business much better and improve faster when they had a clear vision of what other ventures were doing. That was only possible when they also shared information about their activities.
Belief 3: New ventures should have development plans customized to their needs. This is not true. The problems faced by new ventures are very similar, so using a standard process that lets ventures practice how to overcome these problems is best. New venture founders don't know what they don't know, so by customizing – seeking input and knowledge from only the people they assume will be most useful to them – they create blind spots.
How can we be so wrong about the factors that create successful new ventures? All venture founders, advisors, financiers, and researchers have incomplete information and bounded rationality. Ventures are typically not visible until they have reached a certain size and become full organizations, so there is not enough knowledge about the crucial founding phase. And we humans learn from what we see in very limited ways, strongly shaped by prior beliefs and selective use of examples. The secrecy belief is a good example, because it is such an old myth that people rarely challenge it.
The best accelerators go against these three beliefs and foster concentration, vision, and practice. Their ventures are much more successful than those of accelerators that follow the conventional beliefs. Entrepreneurs should take note, even if they are not part of an accelerator. I think Serena Williams would approve.
Cohen,Susan L., ChristopherB. Bingham, and Benjamin L. Hallen. 2018. The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures. Administrative Science Quarterly, forthcoming.
How Good Is Competition? Pretty Bad, Actually
In many areas of life, we enjoy competition. Right now, there is lots of excitement in Wimbledon. There is even more in the World Cup, where entire nations seem to believe that they are in matches with each other – not 22 selected players, most of whom play professional football outside their home country. The excitement extends to management practices too, where various prizes and rewards are distributed along with pay adjustments, all as a function of how well each employee is thought to perform compared with others. "Competition cures laziness," is the belief.
What could possibly go wrong? The answer is found in a paper by Henning Piezunka, Wonjae Lee, Richard Haynes, and Matthew Bothner in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. They look at Formula 1 racing, which is a place where one can find drivers who enjoy competing and are used to competing. After all, who would drive a car at such crazy speeds very close to other cars if they didn't think competition was a great thing to do? But even in Formula 1, there are costs to competing.
The cost is a simple and important one: close competitors collide more often. In F1 driving, colliding is never a good thing: minor collisions damage the cars and slow them down, intermediate ones make cars useless, major ones kill drivers. Yet collisions occur, and it turns out that they happen more often between drivers with similar accomplishments during the season. That's interesting because it means that the most perilous situation is when two people are near each other in two ways – similar social status, and capable of giving each other trouble.
But wait, it gets worse. The intensified competition is seen even more clearly if the drivers are also similar in other ways. Similar-age drivers collide especially often if they have similar status. The same is true when the stakes are high, such as when the drivers are high in the tournament ranks and the season end is drawing near. These conditions sound a lot like those facing employees in firms that motivate by tournament.
This gives a good account of when we can expect F1 drivers to collide, but it also means more. Many of the modern ideas of management and motivation rely on the idea that tournaments are good and should be encouraged through various rewards and prizes. They don't take into account the conflict that results. If they did, would these practices still be as popular as they are now?
Piezunka,H., Lee, W., Haynes, R., & Bothner, M. S. 2018. Escalation of competition into conflict in competitive networks of Formula One drivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Liberals Like to Talk: How Police Officer Ideology Shapes Law Enforcement
Misunderstandings are common in the workplace. An important one is between customers who are confident they know how employees are supposed to do their jobs and the employees who are equally confident that the customers are clueless. Sometimes this is amusing, as when patients go to a doctor convinced that they will get exactly the medical leave and medicine they have in mind. Sometimes this has serious consequences, as when those in public service occupations like the police see the general public as ignorant, hard to control, and potentially dangerous, and resort to using tactics that are effective but harmful. Two natural questions are how to improve understanding and what happens when understanding is poor.
A recent article in Administrative Science Quarterly by Shefali Patil looks at the second of these questions and finds surprising effects of police officers' political ideology on what happens when they feel misunderstood by the public. We might expect that feeling misunderstood would lead to a decline in performance, but that is not true for all officers – it is true only for liberal-leaning police officers. Conservative-leaning police function the same whether they feel more or less understood – they seem immune to any ill effects of feeling misunderstood.
What is going on? Patil points out that community understanding is an important part of liberal ideology: liberal officers expect the public to understand them. When that understanding is missing, the liberal police officer experiences doubt about the social order and about the best way to interact with the public to promote community understanding. Conservative ideology is different because it celebrates authority, and an important part of belief in authority is that those holding authority do not need to be understood by others. Not being understood means having less information, but it also reinforces the beliefs of a conservative police officer about how best to interact with the public in doing their job.
The effects of ideology run even deeper than this. Further study of the extent to which police officers felt they were understood by the public showed that this, too, was split along ideological lines. Conservative officers were more likely than liberal officers to believe that the public did not understand them. The picture painted by these studies is one of police officers shaping their understanding of the world, including whether the public understands their work, according to their political ideology. They then interact according to this belief, and if they believe that the public does not understand them and does not need to, as conservative officers do, they can function well even when public understanding is low. Facing the same circumstances, liberal officers tend to be more uncertain in their actions and perform less effectively.
You might think this is not a problem, because the findings seem to show that everything is well as long as officers' political ideology aligns with public understanding. But things are not that simple. There have been cases of suspects dying in police custody because of the way they were restrained, and many of these involved the suspect or bystanders warning the police that their actions were dangerous. A police officer who believes that the public understands will listen to such warnings; one who does not will see them as misinformed and will ignore them. Ideology matching beliefs of public understanding may work well much of the time, but sometimes it has tragic consequences.
Patil, S. V. 2018. "The Public Doesn't Understand": The Self-reinforcing Interplay of Image Discrepancies and Political Ideologies in Law Enforcement. Administrative Science Quarterly: forthcoming.

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The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) is a longstanding nonprofit organization working for the conservation of California's fisheries and their aquatic habitat. In so doing, we seek administrative remedies to restore degraded fisheries and their riverine habitat and we guard against further threats to these extremely valuable public resources.
California has many laws protecting fisheries and their habitat but a poor track record of enforcing them. CSPA continuously monitors the water rights process to protect the public's aquatic environment upon which our fisheries are so dependent.
Over the past twenty years we have filed several hundred protests with the State Water Resources Control Board against detrimental water quality conditions as well as deleterious water rights applications and decisions, to assure that adequate amounts of good quality water stay in our rivers, streams, and estuaries. These efforts have directly benefited more than a hundred rivers, streams, and watersheds in California and have resulted in substantial improvements in flow and better in-stream habitat for fish and wildlife.
The organization continuously monitors the activities of the federal and state resource agencies, including the California Department of Fish and Game, Department of Water Resources, the California Fish and Game Commission, the State of California Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the federal National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. EPA, and the Bureau of Reclamation. No other sport fishing group maintains such a steady presence with these important agencies that have management responsibility for the public's fishery resources.
We participate in the re-licensing of hydroelectric projects and, when necessary, file comments, complaints and petitions of intervention with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure that hydroelectric project licenses are amended to provide sufficient flows for fish. We actively participate in the California Hydropower Reform Coalition as a steering committee member, and work with our coalition allies to improve the environmental condition of watersheds, rivers and fisheries that are dramatically impacted by the way that hydroelectric projects are licensed and operated.
We have filed, often in conjunction with other groups, legal actions against a number of state and federal agencies, in order to enforce the laws established to protect fish and their habitat. When necessary, we have also filed legal actions to compel those that violate their waste discharge permits, issued under the Clean Water Act, to comply with the laws intended to restore the integrity of California's waterways. These legal actions seek compliance with environmental laws and with fishery management regulations to encourage our government to be a proper steward of the public's natural resources.
The organization is currently participating in the Governor's Delta Vision Process. Our Conservation Director was appointed to this effort to help reestablish the sustainability of the Delta ecosystem and its fishery resources including salmon, steelhead, striped bass and sturgeon. We developed and presented the Fishery Recovery and Restoration Plan to the Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force. Some forty members of the Allied Fishing Groups, an entity that we helped to establish to make a stand for saving the Bay-Delta estuary, endorsed this plan.
We work with state and federal fishery agency leadership to formulate CALFED estuarine and fishery restoration policies and programs. To this end, CSPA, along with several other conservation and environmental groups, participated in a series of meetings with Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt during the Clinton Administration. These meetings developed critical policy vital to the establishment of equitable fishery restoration programs in California.
CSPA works closely with the Environmental Water Caucus and the Allied Fishing Groups to secure a responsible water future for California's public and its fishery resources. We play important leadership role in these critical undertakings.
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Some elements, such as gold, silver and iron, have been known since ancient times, so it is impossible to credit a single person for their discovery. Other elements were discovered around the same time by two or more scientists who were working independently of each other.
The first use of silver dates back to around 5,000 BC and the ancient Greeks and Egyptians are credited with the discovery of this element. We take you through the history of silver and tell you more about who discovered it and when.
Silver is a soft, white metal with chemical symbol Ag. But who discovered silver? This post will attempt to answer that question and will then look at a few interesting facts about silver. Who Discovered Silver? Unfortunately, no one know who discovered silver.
The element Silver has been known to ancient civilizations, predating written history. The person or people who discovered silver is unknown.
Silver has a special place in the history of the elements because it is one of the first five metals discovered and used by humans. The others were gold , copper , lead and iron . Silver objects dating from before 4000 BC have been found in Greece and from slightly later in Anatolia (in modern Turkey).


Chloe Kim is no dummy. She proved that with her witty banter during the Olympics on social media. And she backed that up when she recently announced that she was enrolling at Princeton this fall. Kim will be part of the class of 2023 when she begins class.
The Olympic champion is obviously an excellent student and says she will major in a science–possibly chemistry or biology. She'll try to balance her class load at the Ivy League school with training on snow, which won't be an easy task.
She doesn't seem to mind. "Life has been pretty good," she said.


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The 2019 Governor's Art Awards
The governor honors some of our state's most devoted creatives.
Updated Oct. 29, 2021
By Alicia Inez Guzmán
Above: Last Supper by Nicolas Otero. Photograph by Nicolas Otero.
Every year since 1974, the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts has celebrated a handful of visionary New Mexicans who consistently pump their lifeblood into making the state a more beautiful and culturally vibrant place. And what better way to celebrate creativity than a massive party in the state's capital city? Held at 5:30 p.m. on September 20, in the New Mexico Museum of Art's St. Francis Auditorium, the awards ceremony will honor five people and one organization with documentary tributes, tear-jerking words of support, and many, many standing ovations. Be there at the free event to applaud the best of the best. And check out the awardees' work, which will be exhibited in the Governor's Gallery at the State Capitol through December.
HONORING EXCELLENCE
This year's recipients make New Mexico proud.
Victor di Suvero
Poet, community organizer, publisher at Pennywhistle Press, former director of the National Poetry Association.
Marc Neikrug
Pianist, composer, artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1998.
Nicolas Otero
Los Lunas–based santero, award-winning participant in Traditional Spanish Market.
Roxanne Swentzell
Outstanding sculptor from Santa Clara Pueblo, founder of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute and Poeh Cultural Center.
2019 Major Contributors to the Arts New Mexico
PBS/KNME ¡COLORES!
Weekly art series on the public television airwaves since 1989.
Lee Gruber
Longtime owner of Syzygy Tile, in Silver City, founder of the Clay Festival, now in its eighth year.


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Tiny 6GB Passport Drive fits in pocket
Macworld	 Mar 28, 2006 4:00 pm PST
Hard disk manufacturer Western Digital on Wednesday announced its USB 2.0 WD Passport Pocket Drive. Measuring as small as a matchbox, the Passport Pocket Drive stores up to 6GB of data. The drive costs $129.
The drive connects to a Mac or PC using a rotating flip-out USB 2.0 connector, and draws power directly from the USB interface. The chassis measures 0.37 x 2.41 x 1.8 inches — inside is a one-inch Western Digital-made hard drive.
An activity light shows you when the drive is connected; the light flashes when data is being transferred. Western Digital also includes a rubberized sleeve to protect the drive when you're transporting it.
System requirements call for Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X v10.1.5 or later, and an available USB port.


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The car DOES NOT have to be insured in it's own right, this is another myth. The reason companies may not allow you to drive un-insured cars is that the moment you step out of the vehicle, the car is un-insured and on a public highway which can lead to points for the owner of the said vehicle.
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This is where I'm going on Saturday night. Queen of the Sun is Taggart Siegel's soon-to-be new movie (he last directed the film The Real Dirt on Farmer John) and there's a sneak peek screening in Portland this Saturday night at 8pm at Sunnyside Methodist Church. The film has been in the works for three years and the screening honors the film's main character Gunther Hauk who's visiting Portland for it as well as some beekeeping workshops -- see details below.
This special screening will raise money for Hauk's Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary as well as for the world premier and national release of Queen of the Sun later this year.
March 19th-21st beekeeping workshop from biodynamic expert and teacher Gunther Hauk. All workshop activities will take place at Portland Waldorf School in Milwaukie.
Cost: $90-$125 -- lunch and snacks included.
I'm a big fan of Oregon Food Bank. I began volunteering for Oregon Food Bank after I took the Organic Gardening Certification Program in fall of 2008. There's a volunteer component for that program and for mine I volunteered at Oregon Food Bank's Eastside Learning Garden as well as planted a row of veggies in my backyard for its Plant a Row for the Hungry program.
Now, thanks to Tami Parr of Pacific Northwest Cheese Project I'm participating in the annual event that Parr founded -- Blog For Food! -- a big, beautiful blog project geared toward raising money for OFB.
From February 15th until March 15th Oregon bloggers are blogging it up in an effort to raise dough for OFB.
The reality is that the economy has tanked over the past few months. That's not news. And as I'm sure you're already aware, joblessness is increasing rapidly. Unemployment rates all over the country are skyrocketing. What that means is that there are a lot of people in need...the Oregon Food Bank set a record for food distribution in 2008-09; according to CEO Rachel Bristol, OFB distributed more food last year than it ever has in its history. That's pretty incredible. (see the full news release here).
If you're able to donate go here and/or click the link on the logo at the top of this post. When donating be sure to add the note "blog for food" in the "In Honor of" section on the Food Bank donation page, so that the totals can be tracked.
If you're a blogger and want to participate head here.
A friend's wife just started a new position at Oregon Food Bank and I'm looking forward to keeping up with the organization more through her. A little trivia: guess where Portland Farmers Market executive director Ann Forsthoefel first worked when she moved to Portland? You got it -- Oregon Food Bank.
The containers might be small but the flavor and heat is fierce.
I've never had huge success growing chiles. And although the Pacific Northwest isn't exactly the best place to grow them I often see friends and neighbors' chile plants often grow two, three and four times the size of mine. I know that our yard isn't the best spot in Portland to grow chiles since the arc of the summer sun is so often interrupted but I keep trying anyway. Heat is a big factor and some people in cooler climes surround their chiles with heat holding stones or cover the surrounding soil in black landscape plastic to keep the soil temperature up. I've thought of doing both but never have.
Just like bay leaves -- don't forget to remove the habaneros before serving like I did.
Anthony and Deb's habanero, cayenne and tomato powder.
This year Anthony even gave me a bunch of rare chile seeds and starts -- most of which he got here. I did my best with them and although none took off like theirs I've been making all kinds of tasty hot sauces and salsas with them as they ripen. And if I hadn't lost my copy of The Spicy Food Lover's Bible I'd be tapping into that for hot recipes too. At least I finally found my lost recipe satchel (recipes from old restaurants I've worked at, family recipes, old neighbors' recipes) which is much more important than a still in print book.
Left to right: white bullet habanero hot sauce, jamaican hot chocolate habanero salsa and kung pao chile hot sauce.
Here are some shots that I took today of my front and backyard chiles. It's amazing how many colors some of them go through as they ripen.
These Jamaican hot chocolate habaneros are going into hot sauce this weekend.
According to my friend Anthony the best thing he ever did with Jamaican hot chocolate habeneros was sautee orange marmalade with some dried pieces of them and a little brandy for about 15 minutes. He said it was an amazing cooking glaze.
Wrinkled old man chiles are sweet and flavorful.
Just beginning to ripen hot cherry peppers.
How are your chiles growing? Any great recipes? I can never have too much hot sauce or salsa but some new fiery recipes would be great.
I think now's as good of a time as any to let the cat out of the bag. I have a new job working for Hawthorne Books -- my favorite Portland publishers. I've been slowly phasing in the past few weeks for an early October start date just in time to help out with two very exciting upcoming spring and summer 2010 titles. AND just in time for Wordstock -- a delicious and more food writing focused Wordstock to boot.
For the two of you that don't know -- Wordstock is Portland's annual fall weekend-long literary festival with stages for all kinds of author readings, a book fair of mostly regional publishers and presses and lots of writing workshops. It takes place next weekend -- October 10th and 11th all day at the Oregon Convention Center.
This year's festival includes more than a dozen food writers including The Accidental Hedonist herself Kate Hopkins; Veganomicon and Vegan with a Vengeance author Isa Chandra Moskowitz; Piper Davis and Ellen Jackson will present their hot-off-the-presses The Grand Central Baking Book; Julie Richardson and Cory Schreiber will read from their new title Rustic Fruit Desserts; and Ivy Manning will present her The Farm to Table Cookbook and The Adaptable Feast.
Seasons of Change: How much should people be encouraged to eat seasonal food? Hear three authors discuss the challenges of providing a seasonal menu, the impacts of rising demand on farmers and others aspects of eating seasonally.
Wordstock's Book Fair. I think this man just asked, So people still, you know, read?
Not only does this year's Wordstock include more food writers than ever it's also promoting the new November event Livestock -- a series of Portland farm-to-fork events designed to explore the literary and literal aspects of killing our dinner.
Watershed Culinary Productions in partnership with Camas Davis, food writer and founder of the soon-to-be-launched Portland Meat Collective, presents the first ever Livestock which will be held on two consecutive Wednesdays, November 4th and 11th, from 6pm to 8pm at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland. Tickets are $25 each with $10 from every ticket sold going to Friends of Family Farmers. Space is limited so please call (503) 827-6564 between 9:00am and 5:30pm to reserve your place. Pay by Visa, MasterCard, American Express or cash. Sorry no checks.
Cathy Whims of Nostrana and Adam Sappington of The Country Cat will display their butchery craft as ranchers discuss their bond to the land, and writers present short stories exploring the food politics and emotions embedded in eating meat. The evenings will wrap up with a flight of beef or pork from three local farms cooked by the evening's featured chef.
What: The Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar Chef Adam Sappington and Sweet Briar Farms, with readings & butchery demonstration. Chef Sappington will prepare three cuts from three different farms, and guests will be invited to compare and contrast flavors. When: November 4, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Where: The International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland 34 NW 8th Ave Portland, OR 97209 (503) 228-6528 Cost: Tickets are $25 each. Please call (503) 827-6564 to reserve your seat.
What: Nostrana Chef Cathy Whims and Laughing Stock Farm, with readings & butchery demonstration. Chef Whims will prepare a flight of meat and invite guests to compare and contrast flavors. When: November 11, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Where: The International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland 34 NW 8th Ave Portland, OR 97209 (503) 228-6528 Cost: Tickets are $25 each. Please call (503) 827-6564 to reserve your seat.
Jon Bansen of Double J Jersey in Monmouth speaks at an April InFARMation about transitioning from a conventional dairy to an organic dairy.
Although you won't find InFARMation in the dictionary it's a local agricultural event that takes place every second Tuesday of the month at Roots Organic Brewery in Southeast Portland where you can eat, drink and learn about all sorts of interesting local farm issues.
Since January 2009 Friends of Family Farmers has been hosting InFARMations in Roots' events space attached to the brewery. Folks arrive, order food and drink if they want (Tuesday is $2.50 brew night at Root's) and then usually by 6:30pm a farmer stands up front to talk about a pressing agricultural issue. Scot Callaway spoke at the first InFARMation I went to in mid-July. Callaway lives in Canby, Oregon and talked about how his community fought and organized against a Foster Farms CAFO setting up shop in their area. The fight isn't over. I learned a lot.
Before the event I got to talk with Michele Knaus about Friends of Family Farmers and its mission. The organization was founded in 2005 by co-president Kendra Kimbirauskas and received 501(c)3 status in May of 2007. In just four years FOFF has become a leading voice for Oregon's independent family farmers. The organization provides resources to help farmers and community members resist and retaliate against factory farms and support socially responsible sustainable farming.
Knaus is really happy with Portland's InFARMations. She says, "Bringing the farmers here and bringing the issues in from a different angle has been really helpful. It helps people connect with others in the community doing the same work. At an InFARMation I'll see a CSA urban farmer that I know talking to some old grizzly farmer who drove two hours to get here. I'll also see young urban people listening and taking it all in. I get really excited about that stuff."
I'm a big fan of InFARMations too. In college I attended all sorts of readings and lectures from visiting professors, writers, thinkers and I'm happy to live in a city where this kind of perpetual and diverse free schooling is available -- especially in relation to farms and farmers. Added InFARMation bonuses: delicious beer, decent food and a low-key communal feel with picnic tables and an informal Q&A. The Roots space isn't a quiet auditorium where you have to climb over ten people to get out. In other words feel free to stop by or take off beginning, middle or end.
According to Knaus October's InFARMation focus will be -- Eating Local: Thanksgiving, Winter, & Planning Ahead. November's InFARMation will be co-presented by the Oregon Food Bank. OFB will report on listening sessions and focus groups they've held around the state, specifically focused on food insecurity and fresh produce/farmers markets. In December Knaus hopes to get a lot of farmers in the room to talk about apprenticeships and how they're dealing with labor opportunities and training the next generation of farmers.
FOFF is always looking for volunteers and donations. Check out their website for more information.
Last week I met up with Amanda Peden chair of Slow Food Portland. We met at Ecotrust so I got to have a cup of tea from Citizen Coffee which I'd been wanting to check out ever since Laughing Planet Cafe owner Richard Satnick told me about it. I showed up three hours early for my meeting with Amanda when I was supposed to be on the other side of town meeting with the folks at Nossa Familia Coffee. Lucky for me it all worked out and I blamed my calendar. Stupid calendar.
Even though Slow Food Portland is the oldest Slow Food chapter in the country (it precedes the national Slow Food USA in New York) and even though I've been in Portland now for seven years I've never been to a local Slow Food event. Many have piqued my interest though especially in the past few months.
Slow Food has the reputation in some parts as being a foodie wine and cheese club but it isn't in Portland and not so much in any of the worldwide chapters. The Portland chapter has 450-plus members and hosts mostly low dough and sometimes no dough events. Within the last couple years more young people have gotten involved -- half of Slow Food Portland's steering committee is now 35 years old and younger.
Glen Andresen is one of many who talked at Slow Food Portland's bicycle tour of urban homesteaders this June.
Music at a Slow Food Portland hosted Farmworker Housing Development Corporation tour this May.
In March Slow Food Portland hosted Bryant Terry author of Vegan Soul Kitchen at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center for a book event and cooking demo.
Slow Food Portland members pay dues that go to the national office -- $60 a year per individual, $75 per couple, $30 for students. Since the national office doesn't financially support its US chapters each one does its own fund raising. Slow Food Portland is volunteer-run.
On July 21st Slow Food Portland will host another of its well attended happy hours from 5:30pm to 7pm at the North Mississippi Pastaworks. Cory Schreiber, former chef-owner of Wildwood will speak about Oregon Department of Agriculture's Farm to School program for a bit and then folks can ask questions and hang out. The happy hour is free and food and drinks can be purchased. At Slow Food Portland's last happy hour at Castagna Lisa Weasel spoke and about 70 people attended.
Another big Slow Food Portland event will be on Labor Day, September 1st -- in conjunction with Portland's TBA. Have you ever been to an Eat In? Read more about it here.
I've been volunteering now and again this spring at the Oregon Food Bank'sEastside Learning Garden. Along the way I've helped plant bush beans and calendula, lay garden paths, harvest collards and more. To sign up for Eastside Dig In! shifts go here and fill out a quick form. There's also an OFB Westside Learning Garden in need of volunteers. The last time I was on the OFB site I came across Plant a Row for the Hungry. The gist: plant a row of vegetables and donate all of the food it produces throughout the season to local hunger relief agencies.
Oregon Food Bank has made this national campaign easy with various online Portland maps with Plant a Row drop-off points, contacts and times. There are three drop-off spots in North Portland close to my home so that makes it easy.
I planted my Row for the Hungry this weekend -- well really my small mound -- and I think it'll be make for a nice and diverse mini harvest. I started everything from seed during the past few weeks except the eggplants which a friend gave me.
Food pantries and soup kitchens need produce that stores and transports well.
If you have any additional questions contact Eric Sopkin at 503-282-0555, Ext. 260, or esopkin@oregonfoodbank.org.
Last fall my boyfriend and I decided to finally make good use of the apples from the ancient apple tree in our backyard. I'd heard that F.H. Steinbart Co. rented out one of their cider mill/presses every weekend in the fall for $20. I called as soon as I found out last summer when our apple tree was set with loads of good looking fruit. I thought it would probably ripen around late October just as it had the previous fall so I reserved the press for the first weekend of November. That happened to be a very busy weekend -- Wordstock, my first face-to-face with my publisher, an all-day rain garden/stormwater management class for the Organic Gardening Certification Program, and cider making 101.
Two things happened that had a huge effect on the latter. First, we lost a major limb of the apple tree mid-summer, which completely obstructed the street behind our house and sent tennis-ball-looking, unripe apples all the way up and down the street. Because of that we had to do some major emergency pruning to save the tree. The next impediment to our home cidery: the slim-pickings apples that remained ripened early. Very early. Most were good to go by early September. Although apples keep well -- two months was pushing it and to be honest there just weren't that many still on the tree. Our cider press reservation was firm, however, and no other weekends were available. I started hunting for apples.
After milling we put the apple pomace (the resulting bits and chunks) into the press and then started hand cranking the juice. That took the most time.
As you can see a lot of bits made it into the cider. That didn't matter because before pouring the cider into the carboy, with a packet of champagne yeast, we filtered it through cheesecloth. Apple Bits was a nickname my friend Mary Ellen gave me in grade school. If only she could see me now.
80-plus pounds of apples became a mere 3 gallons of cider. Our how-to book Cider Hard & Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own by Ben Watson for The Countryman Press doesn't suggest an apple to juice ratio but surfing around online it seems like the consensus is that roughly 15 pounds of apples usually translates to about a gallon of cider. Either we need to do some push-ups in prep. for this fall or our apples weren't exactly up-to-snuff juice wise.
After all that, which took the better part of a day, we had three gallons of cider in a carboy with a purge tube stoppered to the top leading to a half-full bottle of water. This way nothing noxious or foreign could travel into the cider but if the fermentation got particularly feisty and bubbly the cider would overflow into the bottle of water. We kept it in the utility room and checked on it every few hours at first and then every few days. Once the initial fermentation was over, about a week or two I think, we removed the tubing and topped the carboy with a regular fermentation lock. Then we left the cider largely unattended until January.
She's giving a free and open-to-the-public talk tonight about genetically modified food at 6:30pm at People's Food Co-op.
And urge you to go. Did you know that the Willamette Valley produces roughly 90 percent of the nation's beet sugar seeds and that Monsanto wants to introduce GM sugar beets to our region? Lisa H. Weasel knows all about this and so much more concerning the biotech industry and its affects on food and food security. I really wish I could go. Anyone who does please let me know how it went.


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Q: Trisecting a semicircle gives a trisection of a line segment A semicircle is constructed outwards on side $BC$ of an equilateral triangle $ABC$ as an diameter. Given points $K$ and $L$ which divide the semicircle in $3$ equal arcs. Prove that lines $AK$ and $AL$ divide $BC$ in $3$ equal parts.

A: Let AK, AL cuts BC at M and N respectively.

The pink triangle is similar to the green triangle and they are in the ratio 2 : 1.
Therefore, CN : NO = 2 :1.

A: Let AB=BC=AC=2.  Let M be the midpoint of BC.  Then MBK,MKL, and MLC are equilateral triangles with sides of length 1.
Let AK cut BC at D  and AL
cut BC at E.  Let P be the midpoint of KL.
Triangle ADE and AKL are similar.  So DE/KL = AM/AP.
KL=1.  AM = $\sqrt {3}.$ MP = $\sqrt {3}/2$.  So AP = $\sqrt {3}(1+1/2) $
Solving DE = 2/3. Or 1/3 of BC.
ADE is clearly isoceles.  So DE is central to BC.
So AD=DE=EC=2/3= 1/3 of BC.

A: Extend $BK$ and $CL$ until they intersect at their common point of intersection $A^*$. Since the three arcs are equal, $\angle \, BCA^* = \angle \, BCL = \angle \, CBL = \angle \, CBA^* = \frac{2}{3} \big(\frac{1}{2}\text{arc}(BKLC) \big) = \frac{2}{3} 90^{\circ} = 60^{\circ}$. Therefore triangle $A^*BC$ is equilateral and congruent to $ABC$.  Furthermore, $C\angle \, CLB = \angle \, BKC = 90^{\circ}$ because $BC$ is the diameter of the arc $\text{arc}(BKLC)$, which means that $L$ and $K$ are midpoints of $CA^*$ and $BA^*$ respectively. Let $M$ be the intersection point of $AA^*$ and $Bc$. Then since $ABC$ and $A^*BC$ are congruent equilateral triangles sharing a common edge $BC$, the quadrilateral $ABA^*C$ is a rhombus, so $M$ is the midpoint of both $AA^*$ and $BC$  and $AA^*$ is perpendicular to $BC$. Consequently, $AA^*B$ and $AA^*C$ are congruent isosceles triangles. Since $BM$ and $AK$ are medians in $AA^*B$, their intersection point $G_B$ is the centroid of $AA^*B$. Since $CM$ and $AL$ are medians in $AA^*C$, their intersection point $G_C$ is the centroid of $AA^*C$. By congruence of $AA^*B$ and $AA^*C$, segments $BG_B = CG_C$ and $G_BM = \frac{1}{2}BG_B = \frac{1}{2}CG_C = G_CM$ and thus $G_BG_C = BG_B =CG_C$.

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Our teachers need more than high ATARs
Our teachers need more than high ATARs: top principal
ATAR results are "not everything" when selecting future teachers, Australia's best non-government primary school principal has cautioned.
Principal Brad Gaynor of Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School in Canberra recently won the impressive title from a competitive field at the Australian Education Awards.
Mr Gaynor has a graduate certificate, two diplomas, one degree and one masters' qualification from Australian Catholic University but despite his own strong academic credentials, he believes a balanced approach is the key to getting into teaching and staying there.
Mr Gaynor said concern about ATARS needed to be matched with understanding of the emotional and social qualities that teachers need.
"You need to have good relational skills and you need to be well-rounded. A high ATAR does not mean you will definitely be a good teacher."
"I know people with poor ATARs who are exceptional teachers and I know people with a high ATAR who are not suited to teaching.
"You need a balance of academic capability, emotional intelligence; you must be organised, dedicated, enthusiastic and conscientious; morally and ethically principled; and respectful of, and communicate well with, both children and adults."
Future teachers also need to be able to cope with high workloads. Australian primary teachers worked 865 hours in 2017, compared to the OECD average of 778 hours. Workloads were even greater for upper secondary teachers, who clocked up 797 teaching hours compared to the OECD average of 655.
"In the first five years, around 40 per cent of teachers leave the profession and they don't come back," Mr Gaynor said.
"I was warned to slow down in my first year of teaching, but I didn't and a few years later I was burning out."
"After four years, I actually left the school classroom environment to find that balance and I worked as a teacher in a school camp setting. I returned to classroom teaching after two years.
"Today I still get the same buzz I did 28 years ago," he said. "I'm very committed to Catholic education and I cannot see myself doing anything other than being a school principal. I love it."
Brad Gaynor is also President of the Australian Catholic Primary Principals' Association. In his spare time, he enjoys finding a balance by sitting on a beach, reading crime thrillers, horse-riding and spending time with his family.


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This attraction was reviewed on October 27, 2018 by Team Giraffic Shark.
How Do We Get These Scores?
UPDATE FOR 2022: Our former "Atmosphere" and "Theme" categories have now been combined and renamed "Immersion." Our intent with this is to give more appropriate credit to attractions that have shown a clear focus on achieving and maintaining better customer experiences (both inside and outside the attractions) and developing creative storylines.
Each of the category scores in this review are calculated using a weighted average of several questions that we rate on a scale of 1 to 10.
The following breakdown explains what these scores typically mean. All of our Teams use this as a reference for providing accurate ratings:
10: "Peak Performance"
This score is treated as if it has a chastity belt on it. "10's" are reserved for the best of the best; those that we feel could not possibly improve on what they're doing.
9: "Innovative and Groundbreaking"
It rocked! Nearly everything seemed to go as planned and it was one of the best we've ever seen! These guys are leaders in the industry, and attractions like this are truly hard to come by.
8: "Solid"
A high score on our scale. They had a good handle on it and, overall, they knew how to use it well. Most attractions can learn from what these guys are doing.
6 to 7: "Good"
We could tell that a good effort was made. However, we've seen this done much better at other places, or can detect areas where significant improvements can be made. This is about the top end of what we'd call "Family Friendly."
5: "Average / Fair"
Compared to the competition, they weren't the best, but definitely not the worst. Scares and Special Effects in this range are usually considered "Family Friendly."
3 to 4: "Below Average"
We could see that a clear attempt was made, but most other professional attractions are doing a much better job at this.
1 to 2: "Poor"
It appeared that very little time, thought or effort was contributed to this aspect.
0 (Zero): "Non-Existent"
No apparent effort was made to make this a significant contributor to the attraction.
Afterword:
This rating system is standardized across all of The Scare Factor's official haunt review teams. However, keep in mind there will always be minor differences between Teams, as we all have varying levels of experience. Regardless, we do our best to remain true to our core values, which is to promote all haunted attractions!
Perhaps the biggest thing to remember is: sometimes the score – in and of itself – doesn't tell the whole story about an attraction's merits. This is why we provide detailed explanations for each category… to help you better understand how and why we chose the score/s that we did.
We do our best to not let feelings or emotions rule our judgement, while also viewing the attraction through the lens of the typical haunt-goer. But, because all reviews with ratings are inherently subjective, this is nearly impossible to completely prevent. Though, when in doubt, we tend to give slightly lower scores than our original "gut feelings" to account for this, and also give the attraction more room to improve over time.
We also do our best to be fair and consistent across all of the haunts that we review. We know that you'll be looking at these scores and comparing them to other attractions, so we hope this review helps you out in that aspect.
Do you have some feedback about our review system? Contact Us Here to let us know what you think!
Final Score: 8.02
How Did We Get This Score?
Final Scores:
(15% of Final Score) Cast: 7.93
(15% of Final Score) Costuming: 8.35
(10% of Final Score) Customer Service: 8.99
(10% of Final Score) Atmosphere: 7.7
(15% of Final Score) Special Effects: 7.7
(5% of Final Score) Theme: 8.03
(15% of Final Score) Scare Factor: 7.76
(5% of Final Score) Entertainment & Value: 7.94
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION opens its doors for the first time this year at the Lee Civic Center in Fort Myers, Florida. Wayne Anderson is a special effects artist known for his makeup and special effects in several films, TV shows, as well as the SyFy reality show, FaceOff. He took the huge (and daunting) challenge of opening a full scale haunted house with help from family and friends, having only a few months to create all scenic and makeup, with only a few weeks to install on location.
Especially considering the conditions presented, Wayne and team pulled off a massive feat, creating an original, scary, creative attraction showcasing Wayne's phenomenal makeup and special effects. We can't wait to see LEGENDS OF OBLIVION grow over the coming years as the team develops more experience and has more time to develop details each year.
Cast: 7.93
Cast Scores (15% of Final Score):
(20% of Cast Score) Did it seem like there were enough actors?: 8
(30% of Cast Score) How creative, believable and convincing were the actors?: 7.75
(20% of Cast Score) How interactive were the actors (verbally and physically)?: 8
(15% of Cast Score) How creatively & appropriately did they use dialogue?: 7.75
(15% of Cast Score) Was there a good variety of characters?: 8.25
The Cast for LEGENDS OF OBLIVION hosts quite a range of talent levels, from clearly experienced performers to those just getting their toes wet in scare acting. Some great acts were experienced, especially by the actor on microphone about halfway through the attraction, those in the opening corridors, the creepy lurking of the iconic character in a lot of the online marketing (who seems to have been recently slimed), as well as other performers peppered through the attraction.
Some rely on the standard screams, generic phrasing and scare tactics, and interactions that lack the same depth as the more experienced performers. We feel that further attention to storytelling detail and scare training would really help convey the story and characters, and keep Guests anchored in the world that the creative team has worked so hard to manifest.
Costuming: 8.35
Costuming Scores (15% of Final Score):
(15% of Costuming Score) How complete / finished did the costumes appear to be?: 8
(25% of Costuming Score) How creative / detailed were the costumes?: 8
(20% of Costuming Score) Was their makeup creative? Detailed? Realistic?: 8.5
(15% of Costuming Score) How effectively did they use masks (if used)?: 9.25
(25% of Costuming Score) How appropriate were the costumes for their scene/s & theme/s?: 8.25
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION's extensive special effects makeup and masks is the true flagship of this attraction. Featuring Wayne Anderson's incredibly-detailed makeup and mask work, original characters come to life throughout the attraction.
Most effective are the large-scale prosthetics and masks as, unfortunately, some of the more subtle (though incredibly beautiful and detailed, as seen on social media, including some VERY impressive vein work) paint jobs get lost in the very low light of the attraction.
Costumes are similarly well done, and an effort is made to carry the detail and texture from the incredible makeup down through the costuming without becoming too busy overall. In some places, where there is more light and performer visibility, we feel that additional details could be added to the costuming to create more complete looks. However, for the most part, the detail of the costumes is well matched to the amount of visibility that Guests have.
Customer Service: 8.99
Customer Service Scores (10% of Final Score):
(25% of CS Score) How easy was it to locate the attraction, park, and navigate the premises?: 8
(30% of CS Score) How safe was the attraction?: 9.5
(25% of CS Score) How professional, helpful and friendly were the staff members?: 9.75
(20% of CS Score) How easy was it to find their information before* arrival?: 8.5
All employees at LEGENDS OF OBLIVION were extremely helpful and friendly, including the general venue hosts, helping to point Guests in the right direction of the haunt, driving guests via tram to the attraction building, and assisting in returning Guests to their cars at the end of the night.
Haunt-specific employees were also very friendly and engaging, discussing the haunt and plans for the future; it was great to see all of Wayne's family and friends eager to help him bring his dream to life and support his passion behind this, even though some of them definitely don't want anything to do with all things scary. The attraction is a very safe walk through and, although very dark at times, never feels unsafe or as though Guests are truly lost.
Atmosphere Scores (10% of Final Score):
(60% of Atmosphere Score) How obvious was it that you were at a haunted house before entering?: 7.5
(40% of Atmosphere Score) How well did the atmosphere prepare you for what you experienced inside?: 8
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION calls a civic center home, being built under an open-air pavilion. The creative team has done some work to create a few atmospheric elements to designate the attraction as a haunted one, though they have spent their time on the details and scenes inside the attraction moreso than developing an immersive atmosphere… which, for this location, would be an enormous feat.
The attraction is still very clearly a haunted one with creepy characters roaming, a themed pumpkin patch nearby, screams and sounds echoing from the building, and fog pouring out of the dark oblivion.
Special Effects: 7.7
Special Effects Scores (15% of Final Score):
(20% of SFX Score) How effective were the sound effects?: 8
(20% of SFX Score) How creative / original were the scenes & props?: 8.5
(20% of SFX Score) How well were the scenes detailed?: 7.25
(25% of SFX Score) How well did they achieve & maintain the suspension of disbelief?: 7
(15% of SFX Score) How effective were the SFX at providing scares / entertainment?: 8
As a first year haunt, LEGENDS OF OBLIVION has done a great job developing a strong layout (which in and of itself takes an incredible amount of time and work, just building the framework and walls going into a haunt this size) with special effects and scenic details peppered throughout. It seems as though these details have been added right up and until opening (and, in some cases, even after opening).
With more time to focus on finessing details, it is expected that the overall scenic designs will be more detailed and perfected, which is a very time consuming and often tedious process that's nearly impossible to master in the first year of a haunt this size (with the build and install timeline they had to work with).
There were many areas where black walls with simple painting or 'plant-on' d������cor was used (i.e. spider webs, foam spray, etc.) was used to create an atmosphere, and it was clear that some of these details were rushed in comparison to some of the other areas with great detail and thought made evident. It will be great to see what this creative team is capable of with more time in 2019.
Some commonly-used effects were implemented in the attraction in creative and original ways, unlike the ways we've seen them used in many other attractions. For example, lasers, in addition to a unique laser swamp application, were used vertically to create portals that rendered Guests blind to what was on the other side when walking through.
The attraction also very effectively used misdirection to its benefit, featuring several 'choose your own path' moments, some of which led to dead ends, and some disorienting hairpin turns in near darkness. With further Cast training and script development, these moments could be even more effective, with appropriate, themed dialogue to point Guests in the right (or wrong) direction.
Theme: 8.03
Theme Scores (5% of Final Score):
(30% of Theme Score) Could you tell what the theme was?: 8
(50% of Theme Score) How well was the theme carried throughout the attraction/s?: 8.25
(20% of Theme Score) How well does their location authenticate the theme?: 7.5
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION has a very defined theme and story. However, unfortunately, we were not privy to the storyline prior to going through the attraction, and a simple blurb to read (whether online or posted in the queue) would have made the theme infinitely more clear. There is a short video in the opening room of the attraction, but the audio is nearly impossible to hear with all the other cacophony of the haunt echoing in the pavilion. The theme presents itself and it's not exceptionally difficult to figure out the general picture, but we feel it would be great to have more details as far as the specific story that the creative team worked so hard to produce.
Scare Factor: 7.76
Scare Factor Scores (15% of Final Score):
(30% of Scare Factor Score) How scary was it?: 8
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How well did they provide scares to the entire group?: 7.5
(25% of Scare Factor Score) How predictable were the scares?: 7.5
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How well did they provide a wide variety of scares?: 8
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How strong was the ending / finale?: 7.75
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION packs in some good scares, including actors hiding in the darkness, or among foggy rooms and dark corners (including aggressive plague mask performers in a white out room).
It seemed to us that scare opportunities will continue to improve as the scenic treatment gets more and more detailed over the coming years, along with the continued addition and adjustment of special effects.
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION has laid a solid foundation as a first year haunt, and it will be exciting to watch them ramp up their scare game in years to come.
Entertainment & Value: 7.94
Entertainment & Value Factor Scores (15% of Final Score):
(30% of E&V Score) How satisfied were you with the entertainment received during the main attraction/s?: 8
(25% of E&V Score) How satisfied were you with the entertainment that's available with* the ticket price, excluding the main attraction/s?: 7.75
(30% of E&V Score) How appropriate is/are the ticket price/s?: 7.5
(15% of E&V Score) Have they effectively used their available space?: 9
LEGENDS OF OBLIVION has a few ticket options, including a Fast Pass upgrade, along with access to its nearby escape room and pumpkin patch (with children under 12 free to the pumpkin patch).
As a brand new attraction of its walkthrough length (see Score Sheet below for more details), we find the ticket price to be a bit high for the main attraction, though not completely beyond reason. Once the attraction develops and, perhaps, as the experience lengthens with a more-complex maze and more 'show rooms,' this ticket price should end up right on par with other attractions of its type.
Overall, Team Giraffic Shark enjoyed their visit to LEGENDS OF OBLIVION and found it well worth the drive from Orlando. This attraction will certainly be one to watch, as we expect exponential growth from this creative team in the coming years.
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Rezoning permit sparks discussion about housing need near Sunset
Riverton City Hall (County 10)
(Riverton, WY) – During the city council meeting yesterday a rezoning effort passed its first reading. The ordinance will go through two more readings.
The property is Buffalo subdivision 1892 W Sunset Blvd, located at the west part of Sunset next to Jaycee Park, Riverton High and Middle schools. During public comment, council members debated the implications of rezoning the area for potential housing development in Riverton.
"We are asking just for a simple rezone request, we own the land," Patricia Fitzpatrick said during public comment. Fitzpatrick also cited Governor Gordon's plan to address housing shortages all over Wyoming, and asserted that the land she owns could be developed into housing units.
In the only dissenting vote, Councilman Larsen cited the capacity of Sunset Blvd as well as crime in affordable housing apartment complexes such as College Hill.
"Looking at that, the road on Sunset, it's a two-lane highway… And you're going to have more traffic than that physically can handle," Larsen said.
Mayor Gard also commented that the capacity of the Police Department is a potential concern and again cited the College Hill apartments.
The apartment complex receives 400 calls a year according to the Riverton Police Department.
Bethany Baldes is on the planning committee for the city of Riverton and also made public comments citing the need for more housing to grow the community. She said, as a real estate agent, there are only 20 houses for sale in the Riverton community right now under $200,000 and that apartments are needed.
"How much are we holding ourselves back in Riverton and stifling ourselves by just worrying about the what-ifs?" Baldes said.
Councilman Bailey said in response to the discussion that there needs to be a stepping stone of apartments to owning a house and right now there are few affordable housing options.
"I would agree that I think you know, we need more property like this so that we can have you know, our housing in Riverton, we're missing that piece of the puzzle."
Before the vote, Mayor Gard offered to put a bond on potential housing properties in the future to make sure that if a property were built on Sunset in the future there would be recourse for the City Council to act.
"And so I think we got to work together and we got to get in front of these things," Mayor Gard said.
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Ordinances, public hearings and more in Riverton on Tuesday
Unclaimed remains of Riverton man reported Thursday
SunRhodes case bound over to District Court
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Hopkins, M. J., D. W. Bapst, C. Simpson, and R. C. M. Warnock. 2018. The inseparability of sampling and time and its influence on attempts to unify the molecular and fossil records. Paleobiology. 44(4):561-574.
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Lloyd, G. T., D. W. Bapst, M. Friedman, and K. E. Davis. 2016. Probabilistic divergence time estimation without branch lengths: dating the origins of dinosaurs, avian flight and crown birds. Biology Letters. 12(11). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0609 (Open Access)
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9-16 1st couple with 3rd couple and 2nd couple with 4th couple dance rights and lefts, commencing by giving right hand on the sides. At the end, 3rd and 2nd couple remain in the centre facing partners and join both hands.
17-24 3rd and 2nd couples dance a poussette. Finish in original places.
25-28 2nd and 3rd couples dance half figures of eight round 1st and 4th couples respectively. Finish in the order1,2,3,4 with 3rd and 4th couples on opposite sides.
29-32 All turn partners once round with the right hand to finish in the middle with 1st and 2nd couples facing up on own sides and 3rd and 4th couple facing down on opposite sides.
33-40 1st couple with 2nd couple and 3rd couple with 4th couple dance an allemande. On bar 36, 1st and 4th couples dance along the sides to 3rd and 2nd places respectively to interlock the allemandes. On bar 38, when all couples dance into the centre, the order is 2,4,1,3.
Finish in the order 2,4,1,3 with 4th and 3rd couples on opposite sides.
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