NDO – Over the past four years, the "People participation in improvement of forest governance and poverty alleviation in Vietnam" (PFG-Vietnam) project has brought about positive changes for local communities, especially in proactively planning forest development and protection in association with promoting the role of local people.
The assessment was made at a seminar to sum up the project, which was jointly funded by the Embassy of Finland in Vietnam and ActionAid Vietnam, after four years of implementation.
The PFG-Vietnam project was implemented in four districts in four different provinces, including Thong Nong (Cao Bang province), Krong Bong (Dak Lak province), Duyen Hai (Tra Vinh province) and Dong Hai (Bac Lieu province), along with a number of national activities during the past four years from November 2014 to October 2018.
The project targets to directly bring positive changes to the lives and livelihoods of 260,000 people, whose livelihoods are closely linked to traditional forest management, helping them to gain improved control over forests through better access to information and institutions.
It also targets to develop a Management Information System for Forestry Sector (FORMIS) with the objective to develop a fully integrated Management Information System (MIS) for forestry decision making in Vietnam, while ensuring forest governance through community-based management models and information technology application, as well as enhancing the use of data from the FORMIS for ethnic minority groups and making recommendations for policy building attached to effective forest management.
Over the past four years, the project has brought about positive results, creating positive changes for local communities, including improving the capacity of the community to use information from the FORMIS system to develop forest management, protection, development plans and market connections.
It helps to develop groups of models and cooperatives for afforestation, which encourage the community to combine afforestation and ensure the sufficient supply of raw materials, in addition to developing livelihoods and improving the environment through the model of reforestation and medicinal plant planting on areas of land that have been planted with industrial or agricultural perennial crops that have caused soil degeneration.
Pham Thi Ha, a member from the community of Cu Kty commune, Krong Bong district, said that the project has helped the local community to develop nearly 200 ha of forest, while helping to establish a cooperative and connect it with local businesses and associations. It also helps local people to have more information, knowledge and confidence to actively realise their goals and dreams in hunger eradication and poverty reduction to enrich themselves on their homeland.
Annika Kaipola, from the Embassy of Finland, said that the project supported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to build the FORMIS system to help facilitate the management and decision-making process of the forestry sector. It also encouraged local people to participate in the FORMIS system, thus helping improve the system, while also providing access to the national forestry information system and enabling them to participate in the national forestry information system and forest governance for better development of local forest-based livelihood models.
The PFG-Vietnam project will be handed over to localities for replication across the country, helping to contribute to increased community participation in forest governance and poverty reduction in Vietnam.


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As the New Year brings us closer to a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME, many labor professionals are wringing their hands at what could be the biggest anti-union judicial pronouncement in 40 years. A ruling in favor of Janus would mean public sector employees could choose to quit their unions and not pay dues, while the unions would still be legally-bound to represent them — a financially draining scenario for the labor movement.
The case of Janus is not a new legal philosophy. In fact, the same issues were previously decided in the 1977 SCOTUS decision Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which found that unionized states' need to maintain labor peace overrides an individual employee's right to freedom of speech and association. The Abood case did change one thing in deference to the First Amendment: It allowed an employee who disagreed with their union's political campaigning to request a partial refund of union dues used for political actions. But Abood also mandated the continued obligation of the employee to pay normal union dues to support all other labor activities including representation for wages and benefits, grievances and disciplinary matters.
This judicial compromise has been followed and worked well for a long time — although the infiltration of non-unionized employees into unionized work environments has steadily eroded the great trade unions in many traditionally pro-labor states. Right now, the general feeling is that the Supreme Court has securely turned to the conservative right — and the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch has been the ultimate score for anti-union organizations footing the legal bills for the plaintiff in Janus. Follow the money and you will easily see that top corporate executives and billionaire contributors to Right-to-Work organizations throughout the country are willing to dig deep to help eliminate the union shop — one of the main protections that helps keep workers' wages above minimum wage. They are joined by the political front groups of the anti-union movement, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which funnels large amounts of money to local, state and federal politicians to advance its anti-union agenda. Recent anti-union successes in Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio have made this group into a juggernaut that has changed the playing field when it comes to employee rights to decent wages and benefits.
Even so, a small part of me believes that Chief Justice John Roberts' concern for his legacy on the bench might help preserve the status quo and uphold the Abood precedent — which should mean victory for AFSCME. Few among us want to become the poster boy for destroying wage growth as the result of a judicial decision. Anyone who looks at the data regarding wages and benefits in unionized states compared to non-unionized states can clearly discern the disparity in income among employees. While many non-union advocates downplay the wage disparity by pointing out the difference is mere single digits, the truth lies in the data. The most recent U.S. Department of Labor reports show that police in unionized states make twice to three times as much as police in right-to-work states. It's unbelievable to me that a state trooper in Florida, Mississippi, Virginia or any right-to-work state can survive on the paltry pay and benefits they are afforded. Most law enforcers in these states are forced to work multiple jobs in security or part-time policing to reach some semblance of a decent living.
But what's at stake here is more than wages and benefits — it's the ability of workers to come together and work effectively for the betterment of their own lives, which in turn, improves the quality of life in their homes and the communities they live in. If SCOTUS does find in favor of Janus, it will greatly impact a union's ability to speak as one unified voice for its members, and as its coffers drain so will its political strength and its overall effectiveness. And as we've already seen in right-to-work states, the end result overall is a profound weakening of workers' abilities to earn salaries and benefits commensurate with the demands of their jobs.
Meanwhile, the erosion of a dues-paying membership could cripple the public-sector labor movement, union advocates say.
District Council 37 — the city's largest public-sector union with roughly 120,000 members — could be among the hardest hit, labor sources said.
"Cops, firefighters, the uniformed unions that earn the higher salaries — they're not really feeling the pinch from paying dues," said one longtime city union member. "But DC 37 members on a lower pay scale do feel it, and likely many will opt out of paying if they can."
On its website, DC 37 had already started sending motivational messages to its troops — touting new innovations like its Member Action Teams, volunteer organizers who do outreach to the union's widespread network of employees, who exist across nearly every city agency.
DC 37 is a charter member of AFSCME, the national union that's being sued by Illinois government employee Mark Janus.
Janus has argued that he doesn't agree with AFSCME's political positions and that he should not be forced to pay fees to support the union — even though it collectively bargains and protects Illinois state employees, including him.
Backed by numerous conservative and right-to-work groups, Janus sued the union for abridging his First Amendment rights.
Underpinning his legal challenge is a 1977 precedent set in the Abood vs. Detroit Board of Education case.
On the merits, it's remarkably similar to the claims made by Janus, and in 1977, the court ruled that unions could require nonmembers to help pay for collective bargaining, in part to ensure "labor peace."
But workers don't have to pay for unions' political work — like doorknocking, leafleting and campaign donations — as that does violate their First Amendment rights, the Abood decision said.
That ruling has stood since — but not without challenges.
Last year, the Supreme Court heard Friedrichs vs. the California Teachers Association, also funded by right-wing groups and also arguing that paying union fees was a First Amendment infringement on workers who were not members.
The justices heard Friedrichs arguments in January 2016 — but the death of Justice Antonin Scalia a month later resulted in a 4-to-4 deadlock. The case reverted to the ruling of the lower court, which found in favor of the teachers union.
But the labor movement's relief was short-lived, because the Janus case now looms.
Scalia's replacement, Justice Neil Gorsuch, is a constitutional originalist, meaning he believes the document should be construed as intended by its initial drafters.
That hasn't given labor leaders much hope that he will uphold Abood — and as Gorsuch will likely be the decisive vote, the expectation is that AFSCME will lose.
At Transport Workers Union Local 100, a union that has experienced firsthand the debilitating effect of losing dues, a plan is already afoot to counteract an unfavorable Janus ruling.
Recently, Local 100 President Tony Utano rolled out his ideas at a labor talk — and put heavy emphasis on ramping up communication to existing and new members, to remind them and convince them why they need to support the union.
Richard Mulvaney is a retired NYPD Lieutenant. For the past 27 years he has worked as a lawyer primarily representing police officers across the country. Mulvaney is a frequent lecturer on union employee rights, collective bargaining and other issues.
"Janus will mean that we will have to make still more effective use of our resources, and double down on communicating with members. We will have to represent our members as well as we ever have, even if we have less money to do it with. How we do this will take forethought, but, even more, it will take adapting to new times as we go along," Utano said.
"The overriding point is this: This is something we can do. We can hold our ranks together. . . . What it takes above all is working with our members and coming through for them," he said.
Local 100's roughly 43,000 New York members also have an example to follow in the national Transport Workers Union of America — which has shops in two states that are already right-to-work, meaning employees there don't have to pay fees to unions even when they benefit from union protections. Twenty-eight states in the U.S. are currently right-to-work.
"We have excellent dues density in those shops in Houston and Miami, even though they are right-to-work states," said John Samuelsen president of the national TWU.
"We brought the presidents in of those locals, which have about 3,000 members each, to form a national committee of public-sector unions to share information and insights," he said.
Samuelsen is well aware of how fast a union's fortunes can sink when the dues-paying membership disappears. In 2005, following a three-day transit strike in New York, Local 100 lost its rights to automatic dues checkoff in members' pay as a punishment for its actions.
Once paying dues become voluntary, many union members put the money in their pockets, not Local 100's coffers.
By the time Samuelsen was elected Local 100 president in 2009, the union had lost roughly $11 million in unpaid dues, he said.
Some workers even refused to pay after the penalty was lifted and automatic dues checkoff was restored, he said.
To get the cash back, Samuelsen had to mount an aggressive outreach campaign to show members what their money did for them via the union — and make sure to deliver real results in contracts and job benefits.
Local 100 has made tremendous strides in getting its former scofflaws back on the books and recouping losses, said the union leader.
"We run that same kind of sophisticated shop in Houston and Miami, and the members realize that their livelihoods are linked to the success of the union," Samuelsen said. "This situation is complicated, but in some ways the answer is simple: We fight. We fight for our members and we fight with them."
As an example, he pointed to Columbus, Ohio, where the TWU is in a protracted battle to stop the automation of bus driver jobs. "This is why the trade union movement is still so relevant — if TWU wasn't in Columbus, those bus operators would be doomed. But we are there, and because of that those jobs will be there for the next 20 years and beyond," Samuelsen said.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Mark Janus, the impact will be felt fairly quickly, said labor lawyer Tim Yeung.
Because the case hinges on a constitutional challenge, if Janus wins, the ruling will supersede all other laws, he said. "It's the Constitution, so that trumps all," Yeung noted.
It's not clear if public-sector unions would have to wait for workers to make a legal challenge to retract agency fees — or if they would have to immediately stop collecting them from nonmembers. Either way, "It's not going to take long to affect the whole country," Yeung noted.
In New York, public-sector unions have some measure of protection in the relatively labor-friendly state Legislature, and with Gov. Cuomo, who frequently expresses his support for union jobs. Already, state Sen. Marisol Alcantara (D-Manhattan), chairwoman of the Senate Labor Committee, has introduced legislation to make it easier to join a public-sector union in New York.
And state Sen. Diane Savino (D-S.I.), a staunch labor backer, has indicated she might be willing to go even further. "It's premature right now to talk about specifics, but the biggest question is about duty of fair representation," she told the Daily News. "Is it fair to force a union to represent someone who doesn't want to be part of the union and isn't paying any dues or fees? I think not. If you don't want to be at the bargaining table and you want to go negotiate your own pay and benefits, go ahead and negotiate your own contract," said Savino. But, "Others don't necessarily see it that way," she added.
Another question would be the right of a union to request a rebate or a payment from a nonmember in exchange for representing them at grievances or providing other job protections, she said. The best solution, the senator noted, is for unions to increase interactions with members and explain the benefits — not just financial — of having a strong voice in the workplace.
"Let's hope for a good decision and be ready for a bad one," Savino said. "But if you think this case really has anything to do with a public employee somewhere worried about First Amendment rights, I have a bridge to sell you."
Richard Mulvaney is a retired NYPD Lieutenant. For the past 27 years he has worked as a lawyer primarily representing police officers across the country. He has worked in the Bronx District Attorney's Office and as a Department Special Prosecutor for the NYPD, and is a frequent lecturer on union employee rights and collective bargaining.


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Why 2019 is Rowan baseball's year
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Senior pitcher Danny Serreino gets set against New Paltz on April 2, 2019. Multimedia Editor/Miguel Martinez
The 2018 season didn't end the way many thought it would for the Rowan baseball program. Entering the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament, the Profs were coming off winning the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), were ranked second in the nation by D3baseball.com, the American Baseball Coaches Association and entered the tournament as the top seed.
Being shocked by the fifth seed in the second game of the tournament was not something anyone saw coming.
"We were 1-0 in regionals and we were in our second game against Misericordia [University] who ended up being the World Series team from that regional," said senior captain Dillon Mendel. "We were beating them, we were up by one, we were one strike away from closing the deal…but they ended up squeaking a hit though the six hole and ended up beating us in extras. That was the loss that hurt the most."
The team bounced back with a win but ended up being knocked out of the tournament. Mendel says they weren't able to recover after Virginia Wesleyan University's bats came it life.
It's almost impossible to blame a game, let alone an entire season on one person or play. Now a senior captain, Danny Serreino just so happened to be the one that delivered the pitch that resulted in that game tying hit.
"I was the one that pitched in that game against Misericordia," Serreino said. "I was already exhausted pitching a complete game. But that was definitely the game that hurt the most."
But, like baseball great Greg Maddux said, "The best pitchers have a short-term memory and bullet proof confidence."
Junior captain Alex Kokos talked about how after the loss, there was the immediate disappointment that was quickly replaced with the realization that they were going to be good enough this season. He and fellow captain Andrew Cartier know that keeping that feeling in the back of their heads will only help this year.
"That hunger and desire ever since how last year ended," Cartier said. "Everyone has been working really hard, ready to get back to that same spot and show that we can win it and I just think everyone working toward that one common goal has really made a difference."
That hunger and desire amounts to a hill of beans if it isn't used the correct way, and the Brown and Gold have found that correct way. With an entire off-season to get better and all of this season to work out any bugs, the captains think they're a better team than they were before.
"Over the offseason, like every year, I train hard but I saw a lot of other guys on the team also training this year," Serreino said. "Everyone training and getting into it just makes everyone come together and play better."
Whether it's working on defense like Mendel, getting stronger between the ears like Kokos, or moving to the bullpen like Cartier, the players are making sure they're doing their part to make the team that much better.
Even head coach Mike Dickson took part in bettering himself for the benefit of the team.
"Every year I self-evaluate where I am from a coaching standpoint. What I can do differently, how I can teach it a little bit differently to help develop our guys into the best players they can be," Dickson said.
Dickson and his staff made an even bigger contribution to the team. They brought in new guys to replace what they lost last season.
Eric Schorr, Matt Woods and Mitch Walker have added defensive capability and offensive prowess to a lineup that was already a dangerous one.
"We brought in the right guys in the off-season and we kept a lot of core guys from last year that had a big impact last year and got that experience from going to regional," Kokos said.
Possibly the biggest reason that 2019 is the Profs year, is the experience those "core" players bring to the table. Kokos is just a junior and has already been to the regional tournament twice which he called "unheard of."
"A lot of people shy away from the big moment, but being there twice makes it easier to be around that big at bat or those big innings where you really need to lock down and focus," Kokos said.
They've already seen teams this year that will do nothing other than help prepare them for the next big moment. Bradley University, who the team lost to 0-3 at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational, is a Division I school and probably the strongest opponent they'll see all season.
In that game, Serreino tossed seven scoreless innings striking out 12. That's an accomplishment that will, without a doubt, help build the confidence that Mendel thinks will carry the team far.
2018 didn't end the way they wanted but the Profs have every reason to believe that 2019 will be their year.
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Q: Optimizing my godot game's size (Mono version) Does anyone here know how I can optimize my game's export size in godot 3.3 mono version?
I tried building godot mono from source as mentioned in the docs:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/compiling_with_mono.html
it works fine but when I add the optimization commands as mentioned in the docs (but for mono version):
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/optimizing_for_size.html
I ran into a problem when I used this command:

    scons platform=x11 target=release_debug tools=yes optimize=speed mono_glue=no mono_prefix=/opt/mono/ module_gridmap_enabled=no module_hdr_enabled=no module_jpg_enabled=no module_jsonrpc_enabled=no module_mobile_vr_enabled=no module_mono_enabled=yes module_ogg_enabled=no module_opensimplex_enabled=no module_opus_enabled=no module_regex_enabled=yes module_stb_vorbis_enabled=no module_tga_enabled=no module_theora_enabled=no module_tinyexr_enabled=no module_upnp_enabled=no module_visual_script_enabled=no module_vorbis_enabled=no module_webm_enabled=no module_webp_enabled=no no_editor_splash=yes -j3

it compiled well but when it's finished, I needed to generate the glue using:

    bin/godot.x11.opt.tools.64.mono --generate-mono-glue modules/mono/glue

I get this error: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libmonosgen-2.0.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZTIPi
but when I build with this command only:
scons platform=x11 target=release_debug tools=yes mono_glue=no mono_prefix=/opt/mono/

Everything works just fine, but I don't need to build the engine from source if I am not getting any size optimization.
Any body Can help me with this?

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Chicago Principals' Group Votes To Cancel After-School Activities
By Sally K. Gifford
Chicago high school principals last week canceled all winter and spring extracurricular activities in response to a 43 percent cut in the budget for after-school programs by the city's school board.
Citing lack of funds, the 75 principals voted unanimously to suspend both athletic and academic activities after the board cut $1.2 million from this year's extracurricular budget of $3.6 million.
While students in fall sports will be allowed to complete their seasons, all other sports and year-round activities--including marching band, honor society, and other academic clubs--will be suspended in January. Nearly 25,000 high school students participate in extracurricular activities each year, district officials said.
Some observers voiced concern about the move's potential effect on students at risk of dropping out.
"Sports keep students in school,'' said Herschel Tolson, the district's director of recreational activities. "This will definitely affect their future.''
The canceled season may also jeopardize the college-going plans of the approximately 200 students who win athletic scholarships each year.
The board made the cut to help offset a projected $185 million deficit in this school year's $2.6 billion budget. The other hardest-hit area was the central administration, which lost 20 percent of its $57 million budget, along with 250 positions.
Bruce Bernt, president of the Chicago Principals Association, asserted that canceling the activities was the most equitable method of dealing with the reduced budget.
"How can you tell one kid that the basketball team is more important than the chess club?'' Mr. Bernt asked. He hoped the cancellation would have a "positive effect'' on the district's obtaining funding, and added that his group would lobby state and local agencies for more funds. cw-1 cw-1 cw-1
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Spokesmen for the city's professional-sports teams said last week they were reviewing the situation.
Rob Gallas, the senior vice president of the White Sox baseball team, said that while the club was not "ruling anything out'' concerning a possible donation to the athletic program, it had already committed $100,000 to a reading program at 10 city schools.
A spokeswoman for a local education watchdog group last week questioned how the decision was made.
Joan Jeeter-Slay of Designs for Change said the local school councils, which, under the landmark state reform law governing the city schools are to be the key unit of school governance, should have decided on any after-school cutbacks.
She also faulted the board for approving the cut under the mistaken impression that funds could be transferred from playground-maintenance money.
Lauri Sanders, a board spokeswoman, maintained that the principals had the authority to cut the after-school programs.
In response to the principals' announcement, the board late last week voted to raise a minimum of $800,000 from foundations and corporations to offset the budget cut, Ms. Sanders said. She added that unnamed individuals have already pledged donations.
"We admit it's a Band-Aid fix, but we believe after-school clubs are as much a part of school as reading and writing,'' Ms. Sanders said.
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He specialises in Green Building, Environmental and Sustainable Design, and Urban Climatology for City Planning. As an environmental consultant to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Professor Ng developed the performance-based daylight design practice note, the Air Ventilation Assessment Technical Guidelines and the Urban Climatic Maps for City Planning. He has also worked with governments and agencies in Singapore and Macau, as well as a number of Chinese cities, on Urban Climatic Maps. Recently, he has focused on designing for the elderly, taking climate change into account.
In early 2014, noting the cultural and socio-economical needs of remote villagers in South West China, Professor Ng established the One University One Village Project Initiative (1U1V) to continue his humanitarian work with his students. Professor Ng has published over 500 papers and 3 books. He has twice received the International Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Recently, his village rebuilding demonstration project in Yunnan, China, won the World Building of the Year Award at the 2017 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin. The Earth Building Research and Development Centre (also known as the Terra Centre) won the TERRAFIBRA Award 2021 in the category of Public Cultural Equipment. The 1U1V initiative also won the 2021 International Green Gown Award under the Benefitting Society category.
Trends, topics, and lessons learnt from real case studies using mesoscale atmospheric models for urban climate applications in 2000–2019, Y.T. Kwok and E.Y.Y. Ng, Urban Clim 36, 100785 (2021)
Use of Innovative Rammed Earth Construction Technology in Rural Areas of Southwest China – with Post-earthquake Reconstruction Project in Guangming Village as a Demonstration, Li WAN, Xinan CHI, Edward NG and Wenfeng BAI, CIC Innovation in Construction Research Journal, November 2018, 32-39 (2018)
Urban tree design approaches for mitigating daytime urban heat island effects in a high-density urban environment, Z. Tan, K. K. L. Lau and E. Ng, Energy Build. 114, 265-274 (2016)
A study on the cooling effects of greening in a high-density city: An experience from Hong Kong, E. Ng, L. Chen, Y. Wang and C. Yuan, Build. Environ. 47, 256-271 (2012)
Outdoor thermal comfort and outdoor activities: A review of research in the past decade, L. Chen and E. Ng, Cities, 29(2), 118-125 (2012)
Sky view factor analysis of street canyons and its implications for daytime intra‐urban air temperature differentials in high‐rise, high‐density urban areas of Hong Kong: a GIS‐based simulation approach, L. Chen, E. Ng, X. An, C. Ren, M. Lee, U. Wang and Z. He, Int. J. Climatol. 32(1), 121-136 (2012)
Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: a study in Hong Kong, E. Ng, C. Yuan, L. Chen, C. Ren and J.C. Fung, Landsc. Urban Plan. 101(1), 59-74 (2011).
Policies and technical guidelines for urban planning of high-density cities–air ventilation assessment (AVA) of Hong Kong, Ng, E, Build. Environ. 44(7), 1478-1488 (2009)
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Ma'anqiao Village, Sichuan, China, UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards (Jury Commendation for Innovation), 2011
Maosi Ecological School, RIBA International Awards, 2009
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A Quest For Murder: A New Z Story
January 4, 2017 Sean Sullivan	Comments
The New Z, and every one of its iterative predecessors, has held a special spot on my shelf labeled 'nostalgia.' Back in the day War Z was the poor man's DayZ, the free alternative, the choice that didn't involve Arma II or finding out just how unoptimized your computer was. While we had our fun—camping behind a dumpster, firing bullets at unexpecting scavengers, and server-hopping to repeat the process—the original War Z ended up a mess, a shitshow thanks to easy-to-find-and-use hack programs; I was guilty of using the same tools as everyone else.
But then War Z rebranded as Infestation, because of a copyright claim filed by Hollywood to support a film with as much life as its subject matter. Forced rebranding was an opportunity to recreate the zombie-apocalypse-clone survivalists were hungry for. It didn't work. And successive rebrandings also became successive failures, with condemning media coverage throwing dirt on a casket commentators thought long buried.
But, it came back one more time, and I think this is the last because it's finally under new management: developer Fredaikis AB, who has no connection—so they claim—to the previous development team, and touts an MLG anticheat that I can say from experience works, and works really well.
"Infestation" as a title has a sordid history, but in this case the past shouldn't be the filter through which we judge The New Z. It ought to be judged alone, without bias so happily devoured by community reviewers. And if you want an in-your-face score, I give it a fun/10. It's the redemption project War Z should have been when it first released: no more hackers hiding on every hill, no hidden pay-to-win in the cash shop, and no significant disadvantage for fresh spawns thanks to an overabundance of gear stashed in every corner of every building.
What makes any survival game fun could be technically identified as "emergent gameplay," but what is that saying? It's a term that should be reserved for gaming's version of a TED talk, when a guy gets up on stage and tells you how you should be thinking. What "emergent gameplay" really means is that what makes The New Z fun is the stories created through gameplay, the ones that kept us hungry for more, the reasons why even after playing for eight hours we logged in at midnight despite 8AM shifts the next morning.
It's not just the thrill of the hunt, though that certainly is inertia in the most dangerous game. We play for the bullshit, "Remember that time Pasta got killed trying to get in the car? POP POP." They're the moments we laugh at or revel in for the adrenaline rush. They're the ones that make any survival game worth your time.
Rather than write a typical point-by-point review I've written some stories from my own misadventures, labeled individually in big bold text, and they can be read in any order. A standard critique would only create a superfluous picture that looks like any other game within the genre, and that's fair for some people. And boring for me. Games aren't solely X/10 scores to be quantified in a loosely defined objective measurement—whatever objective criticism means. Games, especially multiplayer games, earn their players by acting as catalysts for the stories we share long after we've finished playing. And The New Z has given me more stories in my limited playtime than most titles out there.
The Run Over
We crawled in the Tank, a max speed of 18 mph, about as fast as bureaucratic approval for an execution, making our way towards White Stone, a formerly quaint suburb of Boulder that now serves as the final choke point for looters, and the perfect place for us to perch sniper rifles from atop an apartment building. POP POP: My favorite sound as the message "X [one of us] killed [ScrubConstable33]." But this was a special moment. Not because as soon as we parked we stashed the Tank and had a bandit bonanza. No, no.
I'm writing this down because as we approached I spotted a wavering backpack pillaging items off the hood of a humvee. He was all alone. A guy who just installed the game because his favorite Twitch streamer happened to mention it as a fun free-to-play title now that Sergey and crew no longer owned the IP.
So he logs in, binds push-to-talk to caps-lock so he can easily make friends, and sets about on an Adventure in a brand new and exciting world, brimming with not just the undead but mystery and exploration, danger and excitement. Naive? Yes. But who hasn't been naive? Who hasn't been giddily unaware of the consequences, of what lurks within the fortification colloquially known as Grandpa's Farm? We ought to help the young, shift them into adulthood with forgiving grace.
I knew what I had to do.
The New Z's tanks are not the most elegant vehicles, they groan with every vector change that isn't arrow-shot straight, ticking and clicking like the countdown of a clock tied to dynamite, ready to explode should you run over too many zombies or clip a tree as you cut around a turn. We could have all been killed and the newbie would never been exalted by our presence. Luckily, I'm an expert.
Unbeknownst to him, a zombie horde was quickly approaching his location, stupidly hungry, stupidly chasing the sound of feet brushing against rocky asphalt. I slammed my foot on the accelerator—legend holds I even pushed the bulky HEMI engine to 19 MPH, a sign from developer divinity I was about to do the right thing.
SPLAT.
The message read "GUMBLEONI has killed FUNKYFRANK." I got em'. I got em so good. He even tried to dodge me at the last minute by cutting to the right but I felt it coming, a New Z spidey-sense to know how to shift to always snag my guy. That was one more civilian kill badge on my belt, one step closer to the revered status of being an Outlaw. And one new lesson for one new player.
Welcome to The New Z Funky. Don't ever cross the road if you hear my engine coming.
"Look Up"
Campos City may once have been a center of commerce, a place where fat guys in slick suits smoked cigars and the everyday man slept in a hastily erected shanty town waiting for the next meal. It may have been a beacon of the American midwest, a center of culture: fine wine and cheese guzzled down against the backdrop of an orange sunset. May have been. I don't know what Campos was like before the fall, before it all went to shit. It don't matter. All I know is, only thing people trade now is bullets.
I spawned in outside the city limits, a bit nervous, a bit anxious, a bit trigger happy. First movement that didn't shuffle was going to be my practice dummy, how I learned to handle the MA41 bound to 1, how high to hold my crosshair to create a half-moon curve that says goodnight. "Yo, where you at?" "I'm by tents, come over here." "Alright, make a group so I don't shoot you." You don't roll alone in any survival game, unless your ears' sensitive enough to always know where the head is that made the sound—to not know what it is to shoot anything below the neck. I don't
There were four of us that night, a night I still think about and laugh before I can go back to doing what it was I was doing before reliving the memory. I was with Banana and Gibran and we had to pick up our friend Oats stuck in the middle of Campos.
Oats was a freshie, first time in the world. He was waiting for us so we could gallivant across the map, discover a place to call home. Waiting, waiting, waiting. The three of us just finished defending ourselves against two gunman hiding between dusk's trees, near a diner connected to a gas station, a place that would be a Subway if you got off any exit on I-95. Meanwhile, Oats must have been creeping between blown out towers, keeping his eyes peeled for hungry players, with no one to watch his back. It's not a great feeling to feel eyes lining you up no matter what direction you face. And we left him alone for nearly 45 minutes.
But, not without reason.
We had just found, and defended, a Stryker Spawner, a piggish ATV that can fit nine players and because of its size is best served on a paved road, where barricades, shattered laths, mountainous rubble, and refugee camps don't form a maze with one too many dead ends. But Oats was stuck in the middle of the city, where all the aforementioned are scattered. We had to roll right in, making a chuggish r-r-rumbling sound, letting every night-time stalker know we were there. Not the best tactics, not even tactics really. You don't go into a war-for-all kicking ass and chewing bubble gum but what choice did we have? We had to pick up our friend and dip before another gang got the jump on us.
When you're in a party you can see each other's names, marked on the map like a cautiously moving X. Naturally, we headed right for him, the fastest way between two points is a straight line. Unfortunately that straight line was cut off by a barbed wire fence next to pine green military tents, and we couldn't tell if the way ahead was clear. And you don't have time to think, the roaring motor congregates the undead, trying to touch the truck with rotting hands, a prophet bearing food for his starving people. "Make a right" Oh shit, it's a dead end.
"Back up, back up!" The zombies of The New Z aren't the classic Romero's, they're not slushies in plastic bags that pop at the slightest touch. These zombies are made of brick and mortar, hit one moving too slow and your tires stop spinning, trapping you next a horde high-fiving the hull, depleting its HP faster and faster until it's a wreck like everything else surrounding it. We had to get out and shoot. But we were backed up against the apartments as well, a popular spot for players to scavenge and peer out at the landscape from seven floors up; every window is a giant cutout, perfect for firing in, or out. It was not ideal.
Oats ran toward us, we could see him just beyond the grates, in between unloading clips at the zeds, but there were too many. And then we heard the shot. A distinct firing that can only scream from the muzzle of an M107, a .50 calibre sniper rifle able to summon a "You're Dead" screen from 1000 meters. Shit. We had to get out of there. Making way too much noise between clearing a way for the zombies and the Tank's idling.Then there were more shots, coming from down the road. Campos was on fire that night, about to become a clash of self-interested players, each gunning down the first person they saw. "Get in, get in, get in!"
Something to note about The New Z's vehicles: their interaction UI is not great. To get in you have to look towards its roof and hold E. Why? I don't know, seems like a design-oversight. Should be able to look at any portion of its body, the portion where the doors are located. But once you realize the trick it's easy enough to pop-in and out. But if you've never been in a Tank before it takes a moment to get your bearings.
Back to the action.
The Stryker started to smoke, we had to dip, and dip quick. We were all in but Oats, and the path in front of us was quickly closing, the sea of zombies collapsing back on top of us. "How do I get in this thing. What the fuck, it's not working." "Look up, Oats, look up!" "What are you guys talking about, this shit's not…" Pprrrat Pprrrat. Oats' head looked up and met the bullet; his body crippled next to the truck. Somebody was throwing down bullets from the apartment building and Oats was DEAD. DEAD.Rrrrrtttttt. We zipped out of there, the car sloshing back and forth in between zombies as fumes gave away our position, bullets denting the tank's body.
Oats was silent, dead silent. He had waited, waited, waited for us to come pick him up, and we told him again and again we were on our way. We had such grand plans to explore and see the world in our sparkling ATV, to sneak up on unsuspecting snipers with coordinate tactics, plant our flag in a village somewhere and call it our own, defend it from any player who tried to loot from OUR spot, but we ended up seeing one alley, a horde, a fire, and a whole lot of smoke, before crawling back to where we came from. Poor Oats. He logged off, and we laughed all the way back to the gas station.
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Sean Sullivan
From Mega Man II to Ape Escape, I've been playing games for as long as I can remember. I've spent months killing porings in Ragnarok Online and more recently lived a second life in Eve Online. I usually play as gUMBY, gUMBLEoni, or gUMBLes in-game.
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One of Chicago's biggest gems has been a major part of the House seen for years, Milty Evans AKA Uncle Milty is flat out a beast on the decks. Learning the art of djing and working the decks to rock the party came second nature. Working his way up the local scene in Chicago with djs like derrick carter, diz,and even mark farina.Milty has been a mainstay at the hottest clubs chicago has to offer from shelter, elixer,karma to crobar, crecendo,spy bar,to becoming a resident at the famed mondays boom boom room at green dolphin. Milty has stepped his game up starting WHITEBEARD RECORDS were he is doing his own production and putting out some of chicago's hidden talent,along with doing remixes for other labels LOOK AT YOU(DENVER),Clean and Dirty, Farris Wheel recordings Ospina digital to name a few.


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State Supreme Court to hear early nuclear cost recovery challenge
Marcia Heroux Pounds
Sun Sentinel
Florida's Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday about whether Florida Power & Light Co. and other utility customers should be forced to pay for nuclear power plant costs before they go into operation.
At stake is whether Florida consumers will continue to be charged for nuclear power plants that have not been built or may never be, said state legislators who seek repeal of the law.
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy sued FPL, Progress Energy and the Florida Public Service Commission. The Tennessee-based environmental group claims the utilities have failed to demonstrate they intend to build the nuclear plants, which is required for cost recovery under the law. The group also challenges the constitutionality of the law, arguing it fails to give adequate standards to Florida's Public Service Commission to make cost recovery decisions.
The law "begs to be taken out of book as being unconstitutional because it is so open-ended," said Florida State Representative Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee, at a press conference Wednesday. Florida's law doesn't limit the amount utilities can collect as long as they are justified.
Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, said he voted for the legislation because he thought it would help solve the state's energy problems in the future. But it was "nothing but a lie," he said, pointing to how Progress Energy's nuclear power plant construction costs have soared from $6 billion to $24 billion.
The actual estimated cost is $19 billion to $24 billion, said Progress spokewoman Suzanne Grant, who said Southern Alliance's appeal of lower court decisions has no merit.
Vasilinda and Fasano have twice proposed legislation to repeal the law and say they plan to do so again in 2013.
Charles Milsted, associate state director for AARP Florida, said requiring older consumers to pay in advance for facilities that may never be built is "fundamentally unfair" because many won't live long enough to see the benefits.
FPL spokesman Michael Waldron said currently its customers are only paying for licensing costs. The impact to the typical 1,000-kilowatt residential bill would be $1.65 in 2013 compared with $2.20 in 2012, the utility said, with 90 percent going to upgrades to existing nuclear plants near Homestead and on Hutchinson Island. Only 10 percent is going to the new reactor projects, he said.
"It is only after the plant is in operation that customers would pay for the charges incurred during construction," Waldron said.
Florida's Public Service Commission has approved more than $1 billion in nuclear cost recovery over the past three years for new nuclear reactors proposed by FPL and Progress Energy.
FPL is seeking cost recovery for another $152 million in 2013, according to the PSC, which would bring its cumulative nuclear cost recovery since 2009 to $662.6 million.
The state's largest utility has proposed two additional reactors at its existing Turkey Point nuclear plant near Miami with an estimated cost of between $12.8 billion and $18.7 billion, according to FPL.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Mayor Roseann Minnet who chairs the Broward League of Cities Sustainability Committee said the group opposes the early cost recovery law.
"Cost estimates from nuclear plants have been skyrocketing. Why not invest in new energy, sustainable and cleaner and more affordable energy options? We should not use nuclear as a short-term fix to our long-term energy goals," she said.
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Cover: (11/1968) picture sleeve front and back. No NBC text on front cover. On the back, reads "Watch for the M-G-M movie"
Cover: (1/1969) picture sleeve front and back. Reads "As Featured On His NBC-TV Special". On the back, reads "Now Playing - the M-G-M movie"
Disc: Orange label. On the EDGE OF REALITY side, credits on separate line. BMI on own line.
Disc: Orange label. On the EDGE OF REALITY side, credits on shared line. BMI on shared line.
Re-released by RCA Records on 45 RPM as If I Can Dream / Edge of Reality on the Gold Standard Series label.


If you have a fairly old home and you are bored with the way your home looks or more importantly, you are stressed because your home is cluttered and needs work, there are quite a few things that you can get done to make your home and also your overall lifestyle a lot better by investing some money in renovation. You will have to invest in getting your home fixed and then on adding in facilities to your home.
If you are a full time working person, the chances are that most of your life consists of going to work early in the morning and coming home late at night which means that a majority of the time you spend at home is time that you spend in your bedroom sleeping or in your bathroom cleaning up. As such, if you are looking to invest some money in your home, you should focus on the areas of your home that you spend the most time in. Anyone would like to have a bed room where they can relax after a tired day at the work place and a bathroom where they can enjoy a relaxing shower and therefore, if you are looking to renovate, this is what you should focus on.
You can look for a company that does professional bathroom renovations so that they can add in some nicer facilities and aspects to your bathroom and also make it more spacious because having a minimalist spacious bathroom is a wonderful thing.If you look for new bathroom designs online, you will see that many off them focus on space in your bathroom and a lot of light. Older bathrooms have a lot of things in them such as cupboards and other things where as newer bathrooms are designed in a minimalist way.
For your bed room, you can again focus on space by getting rid of all of the clutter and the rubbish lying around your room and possibly building some hidden storage units for all of the things that you cannot get rid of. Get rid of the old ugly picture frames, ornaments and other things so that you can create blank spaces in order to increase the space in your home. Having fewer things in a room creates the illusion of a lot of extra space in your bed room which will make it look beautiful and you will also be able to relax.


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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
When Someone You Care About is in Harm's Way
By Carol Lippert Gray
The statistics surrounding domestic abuse are shocking. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, in the United States alone, over 12 million people a year - that's 24 per minute - are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner. From 1994 to 2010, about four out of five victims were female, and most were previously victimized by the same offender. Statistics also show that 96 percent of domestic abuse victims who are employed experience problems at work because of abuse.
Given the numbers, it's likely that someone you care about - a friend, relative, colleague, or neighbor - will become a victim of domestic violence.
What should you do if you suspect a friend or loved one is being abused? If you see something, should you say something? The answer: It's complicated. Every situation is different.
It's important to realize that confronting a suspected abuser is never a good idea because it puts both you and the victim in harm's way. But should you reach out to the person you suspect is being harmed?
"Yes," says Jamie Bernard, executive director of DASI (Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Intervention Services) in Newton, NJ. "However, it's with the understanding that the intervention could be dangerous for you and the victim," she adds. So tread gingerly.
Bernard suggests you learn more about domestic violence before you even broach the subject (see sidebar for resources). Additionally, even though the victim has to remove herself* from the situation, leaving at that moment might not be the safest option. Bernard says victims are often murdered while trying to leave.
What you can do is voice your concern gently and in private, by saying "I've seen this" or "I've noticed that." Ask if the victim would like to talk to you about it. However, be prudent about how you make contact. It's not necessarily safe to text or email information, since many abusers control their victim's contacts and flow of communication.
After broaching the subject, you may not hear from the victim for a long time. She might not be ready to accept what you're offering, or the abuser might cut off contact. Be patient, be there, and check in periodically, tactfully and privately.
As a friend, you can listen and believe what you're hearing. "A lot of people don't because the stories sound so crazy," Bernard says. Remember that leaving is a process, not an event. The victim can go back and forth many times. Some victims want to give their relationship as many chances to succeed as they can. So be patient, and move forward on her timetable, not yours.
If She Decides to Leave
Since the victim is the expert on her relationship and knows what her partner is capable of, only she can gauge when it might be safe to leave and when she's psychologically and/or financially ready to do so. In addition to being terrified of the potential consequences of leaving, many women stay for cultural or religious reasons.
If she does decide to leave the relationship, she'll need a safety plan first. This includes, but isn't limited to, having a place to go, finding local resources and discussing timing. You also have to brainstorm what might happen if there's an incident. The victim will have to gather keys, money, important papers, and other crucial items in a safe place. She'll have to consider timing if children are involved. Someone should be available to call the police if it comes to that. You have to weigh the likelihood that she or other family members will be harmed. Another thing to consider: Does she have an external support system left? Abusers notoriously undermine those.
"In a time of crisis, a victim needs to depend on someone," Bernard says.
As a friend, you can be that person. Be patient and nonjudgmental. Help the victim identify her strengths because this will build her confidence. Help her to find a physically safe place to go. No matter how badly you may want to, don't speak negatively about her partner - only she's allowed to do that. Respect her choices. She'll take action when she's ready. Don't address her partner in any way. And don't automatically expect gratitude. The victim may be ashamed of her situation, or she may feel that help was forced on her.
"Learning more is so important," Bernard says. "The more you know, the more you know how to respond and not shut the door. It's really complicated."
*Use of female pronoun throughout is because disproportionate numbers of women are victims.
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Since it was organized in 1994, the NRCDV has provided operational support to the Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN), which currently includes two national resource centers, four special issue resource centers, three culturally-specific resource centers, three new capacity centers, and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The DVRN is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to inform and strengthen domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community, and societal levels. nrcdv.org
800-799-SAFE (7233)
thehotline.org
State Government websites: Search for local agencies that can help in your area.
Carol Lippert Gray is an award-winning public relations professional and longtime freelance writer and editor. She has been published in fields as diverse as crafts and corporate finance, parenting and philanthropy. She is also a regular contributor for Sanctuary.


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LMS vs LCMS vs CMS…changing one letter makes a big difference.
What are the differences between LMS, LCMS, and CMS? This question often elicits confusion among those shopping for the right software tools for their organization. Not to worry—we know the difference and we are going to share our knowledge.
First, let's define our abbreviations. "LMS" is an acronym for "Learning Management System", a software platform used to deliver and track training courses. "LCMS" stands for "Learning Content Management System", or software used to author and manage learning content. Finally, a "CMS" is a "Content Management System", or software used to organize content comprising a website.
Commonly used in corporate training and higher education settings, learning management systems are software platforms that store and deliver training content and then track participation in training. Most LMS enable learning managers to upload online training content created by a variety of authoring tools, as long as the content is compliant with SCORM, the industry standard file format. An LMS then allows companies to assign training to their employees, track their participation, and produce documentation of employee training activity and results. In sectors where companies are legally required to provide certain types of safety or compliance training, an LMS is an essential tool to keep track of the company's compliance.
Finally, using an LMS enables companies to create different tracks of training courses to deliver to different groups of employees in order to fulfill their specific training objectives—creating a customized learning program for each employee, as needed. In addition to delivering and tracking online training courses, many LMS enable training managers to keep track of employees' participation in other types of training programs, such as in-person classes.
Bluevolt, Litmos, and Topyx are examples of a few learning management systems.
What is a Learning Content Management System?
In contrast to an LMS, learning content management systems are primarily used to create, store and organize elearning content. Instructional designers use this software to develop, manage and publish training content. Rather than creating course catalogs for wide audiences, LCMS platforms allow single courses to be modified for individual learners.
An LCMS system usually allows multiple collaborators to work together to create content that can then be published in a variety of formats. The key difference between an LMS and an LCMS is the target user. The LMS user is the learner, while the LCMS user is the learning content creator.
Many LCMS also have the ability to store and deliver older versions of courses. Companies that want customized courses delivered to their employees generally use an LCMS. When designing training materials to deliver through an LCMS, learning and development personnel should research quality authors and publishers. Xyleme and Kenexa are two examples of learning content management systems.
Content management systems create the framework in which content is stored and displayed on a website. These systems manage various content forms, including files, images, electronic documents, audio files, and many more.
CMS functions allow distributors to decide which content is displayed privately or publicly. Content can be easily tagged using metadata, which is best for searching and using content quickly and efficiently. Drupal and WordPress are popular content management systems used to create all kinds of websites. As opposed to a CMS, a learning CMS is specialized for the creation and management of learning content.
You have the ability to manage and deliver content on all three management systems. While these management systems have several similarities, they ultimately have different functions.
Take some time to study these similarities and differences to avoid using the wrong acronym in professional discussions. As soon as you start using these acronyms in discussions…you're going to sound like an elearning pro.
Which management system do you use for your team? Share with us in the comments.


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Various 1500 and 2500 and 2554 Phones
1500 - Aqua
Default Title 23721 - Sold out - $199.95
Decrease quantity for 1500 - Aqua
Increase quantity for 1500 - Aqua
A cool aqua blue 1500 made by Western Electric
The beginning of the end for the rotary dial came in 1963. Tone dialing had been in use within the Bell System's switching network for a number of years. Now, a new standard desk set, the Model 1500, was introduced and tone dialing was made available to the general public.
The 1500 had the same footprint and familiar G1 handset as the venerable 500 set, but where there had been a dial, the redesigned shell now accommodated a 10-button Touch-Tone TM key pad. (The 1500 had no # and * buttons. These special feature keys were introduced in 1968 with the Model 2500).
We have not touched the finish on this phone to keep its originality. Like many aqua phones, the finish shows UV discoloration. It is fully functional and a modular plug has been added to the original line cord to facilitate an easy connection to your phone line. It comes with our standard one year warranty.


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Cybill & Bruce
During filming of "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"
During the dance of "Big Man on Mulberry Street"
Interview conducted by Cindy Klauss & Diane Hopkins, All Rights Reserved
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Cindy: When did you first know that Moonlighting was going to be a hit?
Glenn: I didn't. In fact, I truly believed I was doing it purely to amuse myself. I vividly remember a phone call from a guy named Gus Lucas, who was a Vice President of ABC at the time. We'd done four or five episodes and he called and he said, "Listen. I just want to tell you I love the show. I think you're doing an amazing job. The show is 64th in the ratings." I'm making up the number cause I don't remember the real number. He said, "I don't think it's going to get much higher." And I said, "Yeah, I know, " cause I didn't think it was gonna get much higher either. I mean, frankly, people didn't understand the show initially, when it first premiered, I want to say his name is Howard Rosenberg. Who's the chief critic for The LA Times...who wrote a scathing review called Beauty and the Beast? Three weeks later, Rosenberg wrote another review, where he basically said, "I'm sorry, I didn't get it." But it took people a while to understand what it was we were doing. And it really wasn't until the second time around, when the shows reran in the summer, the show began to go somewhere.
Cindy: I really think you have to watch them several times to catch a lot of the stuff.
Glenn: Yes, it does go by very quickly. It's sort of like a Marx Brothers movie in that sense, you know. When did I know? I didn't. I really didn't until, and even when it was happening. I was in the middle of it and you're working ridiculous hours. And I didn't really get it until I flew to Rochester, New York, with my wife to do something at the college I went to. And when I got off the plane there at the Rochester Airport, there were a lot of reporters waiting. I had not had that experience before. I got off the plane and there were all these reporters. And it took me a second to understand that they were there because they wanted to talk to me. And the reason they wanted to talk to me was they wanted to know is it Sam's baby or is it Dave's. And that was really the first time that I consciously went, "Ooh, this is big," you know.
The other time when it really hit me was I went on a vacation, which was a really unusual thing. And we went to Hawaii. We went to this island called Maui, at this resort, and my little boy was with me. He must have been all of three or four and we went to the gift shop and in the gift shop they had a magazine rack. And on the magazine rack, was Mad Magazine. And on the cover of Mad Magazine, were Bruce and Cybill, and they were trumpeting the fact that they were doing a parody of Moonlighting. That, for me, was like, WOW, that's big! That was a big moment. As a kid, I had read MAD magazine, and so that was really neat. A couple of things like that.
"Moonlighting" was poked fun at several times in both "Mad" and "Cracked" Magazines. This cover shot is from October 1986 in a send up on TV in general. The full show parody was done in the July 1986 edition of "Mad" and was called "Moon-Fighting." Click here to read it.
Cindy: There are several shows that stand alone as unique achievements in television: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice; Big Man on Mulberry Street; and Atomic Shakespeare. And in hindsight they are some of the best hours in television, ever. But what kind of risk were you as the Executive Producer/Creator and the studio taking in attempting these shows?
Glenn: Oh, I have no idea. I'm not aware that I was...I mean I know I was taking a risk, in a sense that, but I didn't...it's not like, what's was somebody going to do, shoot me? You know, take away my driver's license? It's not a risk, and they pay you a lot of money. So it's not like, it's not a risk; the worse that would happen is somebody would come along and go, "You're fired." And I didn't believe they would do that. So, but no risk. The risk was if you didn't do consistently interesting shows, people would stop watching, and I was constantly afraid of that. There was a tremendous amount of pressure to do 22 a year, which is what a normal television show does. But to do those kinds of shows, frankly, we couldn't do 22 a year. It took longer to write them, it took longer to edit them; it took longer to mix them. That was the risk; was how long could I keep that sort of charade going on with it and the network would accept not getting a new show every week. You know. At a certain point the combination of that and the tensions on the set and all, you know, at a certain point obviously I left. HAHAHA. And the way of doing things changed. And I think you can see that in the shows.
Diane: You sure can.
Glenn: But, risk is the wrong word; it wasn't a risk. It was an opportunity. And, I took the opportunity. And it continues to pay dividends in my life. I mean, people still invite me to work with them, I think, on some level based on their enthusiasm for that work, you know, so...
Diane: Is it harder to do drama or comedy? You had some really excellent moments of both in Moonlighting. And I guess, which ones are you most proud of: the dramatic moments or the comedic moments?
Glenn: Oh, I'm proud of all of it. And it's not harder, you know. It's harder to bring up your kids. I mean, this stuff is mostly fun. The hard part is the pressure, but that's part of every profession. That's what makes you professional. Somebody says, not only do you have to do this, but you have to do it by this day, at this time, and you know, you have to be ready for Christmas; you know, all that stuff. But no, they're both... look, Bruce is an amazing actor, so you know, it's not hard to write drama, it's not hard to write comedy. And the great thing was, he was there and he could act all of it. Cybill has tremendous gifts, and you know. She could, she would surprise us and do wonderful things. You know, that's not hard. To me, you know what would be hard is doing 22 episodes of the same thing every week. I'd blow my brains out. I just have no interest in doing that. To me that was always the great trap of television. So I thought if I was going to do television, how can I keep it interesting? I swear to God, so much of the energy was really about how do I stay awake? How do I keep myself interested? How do I continue to care? And if I care, then maybe Bruce and Cybill will care. And if Bruce and Cybill care, maybe the audience will care. And that occupied my thoughts really more than anything. And that's the reason you reach out and you get people like Orson Welles, or Eva Marie Saint, or Stanley Donen or Billy Joel or...because you're trying to keep everybody interested.
Because television implicitly is a manufacturing business, and series television for an actor, for a writer, for a director, for a designer, for anyone who's trying to make a living in the Arts, most people who will gravitate to that are fundamentally itinerant. They get into it because they really don't want to do the same thing every day. Now, the irony of that is that you get into a successful series and one day you wake up and say, "Oh, my God, I'm doing the same thing every day." So part of my mission was not to let anybody feel that way. So literally, one week we'd do a musical; the next week we'd do Shakespeare. The next week we'd do boxing; the next week we'd do, you know, period pieces, and it was really about keeping everybody interested. And, um, it was completely self-serving, and it just tickles me that the audience likes it too.
Diane: Is that where breaking the fourth wall came from?
Glenn: Yeah, it just tickled the hell out of me. I just thought it was funny and it wasn't terribly original. I was very surprised that people reacted the way they did, you know? Because they seemed to react so strongly to it. And they seemed to think it was this stroke of genius. And I ripped it off from the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movies.
George Burns used to turn to the audience on The Burns and Allen show. I guess they hadn't seen it in twenty years or so. It's so funny and it just cracks me up. And it would seem consistent stylistically with everything else we were doing. I remember, I think it was in the fifth episode, we were doing a scene. I mean, here was my problem, and it was a constant problem. You're doing a detective show; and detective shows are just stupid. And because as I say, they involve false jeopardy. They're just filled with it. You get to a scene where the two detectives have to go to somebody's house and the somebody isn't home. And they have to get inside, because they have to find a clue. So now you have the big scene where somebody picks a lock. And it's like, " My God, who cares, we know you're going to get in there, because you've got to get in there, because you've got to find a clue, because you've got to go to commercial, so you can come back, catch the crook, and what a bunch of malarkey." And literally, like the second show, I had them going to this disc jockey's house. And they had to get inside; and they didn't have the key. And I wanted the audience to know that I thought this was as stupid as they thought it was. And so, I remember...but Bruce has to pick the lock. So I wrote that he takes this bobby pin from her hair, and he sticks it in the lock, and she says, "What are you doing?" He says, I still remember, "you put the straight pin in, you pull the straight pin out, you put straight pin in, and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey, and you turn yourself around, that's what it's all about." And I thought, "Kinda audacious, can we get away with that?" And, obviously, we could.
On the pilot, I remember the scene was...where we had the same sort of thing was when Bruce initially meets Cybill. Cybill's brought in by Allyce Beasley whose playing Agnes Dipesto; Bruce is playing basketball. He's got a basket propped up above the door. As Allyce walks into his office, she opens the door and the basket falls on her head. And the whole scene, she plays the whole scene with the basket on her head. He walks over and says, "Hey, Miss Dipesto, how are you; you're looking a little pale today. And she says, "Mmmph mmmphhh". And the scene just plays. No one comments in an obvious way about the fact that this is a woman with a pail on her head. We staged the scene, and Jay Daniel, who is the line producer, and Bob Butler, who is the director, and a fabulous director, both looked at me and went, "Glenn," like, "You're not serious." And I just thought it was the funniest damn thing. And I didn't care...you know, they said what about the suspension of disbelief, and I said, "What suspension of disbelief? It's a television show. Let's entertain people. He said, "Well, the network will never go for this." And so I was always scared when we came to these bobby pin moments, and I thought...and the climax was, as I was going to say before, on the fifth episode, they have to get into this ballroom. And they have to find this man, this is prior to the pie fight, they have to find a man with a mole on his nose, and I'm sitting there writing the scene and it just started to come out in Dr. Seuss speak. And I just thought it was the funniest thing where the guy standing there is talking about the mole on his nose, so we wrote the scene and we filmed the scene.
Cindy: All of the outtakes, though. That poor guy.
Glenn: That poor guy. He was in such pain. And then I literally had Bruce say Dr. Seuss, literally sort of tip his hat. And then at one point they walk into the kitchen and these swinging doors in their clothes and walk out a second later and they've got uniforms on. This is right out of a Hard Days Night or Help, or whatever the hell it is. And, which is right out of The Marx Brothers; which is right out of...there is not an original idea here, folks. But I remember the network calling and saying, "You can't do that, people. You can't do that." And I said, "Well, that's what I'm doing," and the show was delivered so late there was really...and nobody thought the show was a hit anyway, so it didn't matter. And you know, the rest, as they say, is history. But was it a risk? It's not a risk.
It was great fun, and here's the key to it. And people don't realize this, verbally the show was extraordinarily difficult. And most of that fell on Bruce. I'd write him these huge monologues, with all kinds of verbal curlicues in them and stuff, and he has a facility. You could hand him a page of dialogue and 20 minutes later he had it memorized, and he could do it. He could do it while he moved. I'll tell you something else. In many ways, he was sort of the guardian of that style. He would call me. I'd be in the office either cutting or casting or writing. And he would call me and go, "You'd better come down here." I'd say, "What's the matter?" He'd say, "They're changing something." He understood that it was all musical; cause it really is musical, if you go back and watch the shows...and not everyone understood that. And certainly guest stars didn't always understand it. And, so we had a rule: no one could change anything without calling me and asking me to come down. But, Bruce was really the guardian of that, you know, because he was there.
Cindy: He knew how it felt coming out of his mouth.
Glenn: Yeah, he knew how it was supposed to work. He got it really quickly.
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McDonnell, Angela [1], Loke, Elena [2], Moore, Michael [3], Sakai, Ann [4], Weller, Stephen [5], Wagner, Warren [6], Skogen, Krissa [7], Weisenberger, Lauren [8], Wickett, Norman [9].
New perspectives on the evolution of plant breeding systems in the radiation of Hawaiian Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae).
The evolution of island lineages provides outstanding opportunities to understand evolutionary processes affecting the diversification of species, plant reproductive systems, and pollination systems. Using Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae), the fifth-largest plant radiation in the Hawaiian Islands, our team has investigated genetic and ecological factors promoting separate sexes or autogamy and changes in pollination systems as species radiated into a variety of habitats. Hybridization and gene flow may also promote the evolution of separate sexes through introgression of male-sterility genes from gynodioecious or dioecious species into hermaphroditic species. We report on a custom probe kit for targeted sequencing of nuclear loci in the genus, and twelve transcriptomes that span the earliest estimated splits in the genus. These will help us resolve not only the phylogeny of Schiedea but also the number and relative timing of independent transitions to dioecy, the inference of which may be impacted by historical introgression, incomplete lineage sorting, and genome duplication throughout the genus. Complete genome sequences for three species will be used to support the inference of these processes, particularly the history of whole-genome duplication, and to estimate levels of genome-wide genetic diversity in a conservation context.
1 - Chicago Botanic Garden, Science Dept., 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
2 - Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, Illinois, 60022-1168, United States
3 - Oberlin College, Biology, Science Center K111, Oberlin, OH, 44074, USA
4 - Univ. California, Irvine, Dept Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
5 - University Of California, Department Of Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, 20 Gibbs Ct, Irvine, CA, 92617, United States
6 - Botany, MRC-166 National Museum Of Natural History, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC, 20013, United States
7 - 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
8 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, 300 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI, 96850, USA
9 - Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd., Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
Genome Assembly
Genome Duplication
Targeted enrichment
Probe design
Breeding system.
Session: PHYLOIV, Phylogenomics IV
Date: Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM(EDT)
Number: PHYLOIV003


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Chrome Locust
Tee Pee/MIA
All I can say is… So far it's a great year for heavy music. Heavy, fuzzy, and psychedelic. Chrome Locust, the brainchild of Todd Youth and Michael Wildwood, that is, a combination of Murphy's Law and D-Generation, seems to be about putting a dark and psychedelic spin to the "stoner rock" phenomenon that I sure hope grips the nation this summer. Of course the recipe is pretty simple: take two parts Black Sabbath, a spoonful of MC5, and plenty of leftover punk angst, shake hard, and that's Chrome Locust.
Their songs appear to be about tuning out of this insane world, with its bombs, greed, and poorly-aimed hate. "Drop," fitting this mold, is a dark tune about a best friend — a best friend who just happens to be inside the mind of a human powder keg about to burst… Sort of a more maleficent "Whiskey Man." "New World Disorder," with the line "Just remember you're never alone," is along the same line, only the demons aren't inside your head, they're really out there… "The Cycle of Birth and Death" is, well, it's mostly a dark, heavy, hypnotic instrumental that I guess builds on the whole theme of futility and life…
Now dig this line from "Teen Dream": "…what happened to that girl I knew/ ripped up jeans and powder blue/ PLAY ASTEROIDS TO PARANOID…" That's paying tribute to the lonely video game outlaws of days past, and to the music we, er, "they" had going through our heads as the destruction of computer-generate rocks took our minds off just how pathetic things were.
But, I don't want to give the impression that one should be depressed at all, quite the contrary! The album does, in fact, quake!
MIA Records, P.O. Box 1236, Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013
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Mass Romantic (Mint). Review by James Mann.
Mephisto Odyssey
With enough body-shaking twists and testosterone-filled turns, California-bas…
401 is the area code for Providence, Rhode Island, where the Agents ar…
Tortoise, with Autechre, Russell Haswell, Nobakazu Takemura, Prefuse 73, and DJ Rob Hall at The Club at Firestone in Orlando, FL on May 22, 2001. Concert review by Nirav Soni. Photos by Natalie Arroyo.
They Might Be Giants with OK Go at Hard Rock Live in Orlando, FL on March 23, 2002. Concert review and photos by Julio Diaz.
The Deep End: Volume One (ATO). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Brit-pop smash Starsailor is working on a foothold in America. Chris Catania sat down with James Walsh to find out about breaking in a new country, Bright Eyes and why American crowds giggle during "Alcoholic."
Bill MacKay
Esker (Drag City). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Very Beast of Dio Vol. 2 (Niji Entertainment Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Jail House Bound
Jail House Bound: John Lomax's First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933 (Global Jukebox / West Virginia University Press). Review by Carl F Gauze.
No, it's not a grown up version of TV's Smallville, it's director Rintaro's anime version of Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga, loosely based on the Fritz Lang classic of the same name. Carl F. Gauze reads the subtitles.
The Life and Art of Murphy Anderson
Comics legend Murphy Anderson finally gets his own biography, an event big enough to draw in reformed comic geek Aaron Shaul, who actually learns a thing or two along the way.