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An Interview with Larry Matthews
Tom Glenn
"My great hope for Dave Haggard is that he can provide a few hours of page-turning entertainment…"
Larry Matthews, author of Detonator, the latest Dave Haggard thriller, talks about being a news reporter in Washington, DC, the people he has known, and using the capital of the United States as a character in fiction.
What prompted you to launch the Dave Haggard thriller series?
I suppose Dave is a kind of alter ego. He is a street reporter for a broadcast outlet, and so was I. I covered Washington news for several decades going back to the riots and the anti-war years. The city was at a low point then and was exposed to very interesting and odd people. I also spent time with police officers of all stripes. That gives me material for the series. In addition, I get to insert some "inside baseball" stuff about the news business and the relationship between reporters and their sources.
In the series, you use what you call "cameo appearances" by real people in your stories. How were you able to swing that?
I got to know many men and women in radio and television and I thought it would be fun to bring real people into the stories. No one has turned me down. In Detonator, I have cameos from Wendy Rieger at Channel 4, Dave McConnell at WTOP, Charley Steiner, Vin Scully's relief behind the mike for the L.A. Dodgers, and my old friend and colleague Johnny Holliday, a legendary broadcaster in the Washington area. I've known them all for decades. They were very generous to lend me their names.
One of the factors that makes the Haggard thrillers so engaging is the realistic detail — actual places, real streets, towns we know and recognize — that you weave into the narrative. How do you do it?
I use place as a character. I know Washington and I use locations in the city for meetings and so on. The underlying tale in the Dave Haggard thrillers is the city itself, and I use the monuments, the Capitol, and other spots for meetings and intrigue. No matter how long I've lived here (some 50 years), I never get tired of this place as a major world capital and as the center of our democracy, as flawed as it appears at times. Drive down Constitution or Pennsylvania Avenue at night and you will see what I mean.
It must take time to write the Haggard thrillers, yet they feel current to the moment. For example, the mention in Detonator of the Islamic State's progress in the Middle East. How do you achieve that?
That was serendipity. The I.S. was in the news, and I used it. I want the books to have the feel of the times in which they are published. Detonator is about terrorism and hatred and how those who are protecting us go about their work. Maybe things don't go as planned, but, as we've seen with the Secret Service recently, we have an open system, and the people will know the truth sooner or later. That's where Dave comes in. Gee, maybe I should think about a Secret Service story.
Dave Haggard has now been through two girlfriends. Will he ever settle down and get married?
Actually, he's only been through one (twice), and he seems to have an issue with commitment. I don't know his marital future. Street reporters tend to have checkered personal lives.
The writerly craftsmanship you demonstrate in your fiction is of a very high level. How and where did you learn to write?
I learned to write as a reporter. The old joke about daily journalism is, "You don't have to be good. You have to be fast." We all hope we are good and fast. Deadlines always trump rewrites. I was fortunate in that I witnessed major events of historic importance and I sought ways to honor the drama of the moment. And I spent time with some very odd and interesting characters, the police on the street among them. I had high-level sources in the DC police department, and they gave me insight into how the people in the department functioned and thought outside the press releases coming from Indiana Avenue.
One of the highlights of Detonator is the clipped and cynical dialogue. Do you use some kind of a formula to make it work so well every time?
Well, I hope it works every time. I try to give it the tone of real conversations among the people I write about. Cops, for instance, tend to be as cynical as reporters if they have been on the street for a while. And in a city of politicians who have a very high level of self-esteem that is not always justified, it's easy to feel that everything they say is coated with a bit of self-interest. I have interviewed and been friends with a number of members of Congress and I think I have an ear for what they would say under the circumstances I present in the books.
The characters in the thriller series feel so real that I keep thinking they're based on real people. Are they?
I think most writers would admit that their characters are based, at least in part, on real people or composites of people they know or have met. The characters in Detonator fall into that category. Dave is a bit of me and many other reporters I've known. Sid, his boss, is the old lion of the newsroom. Brad Parks, the bestselling author of many thrillers and a former newspaper reporter, says of Sid, "I know that guy. I've worked for him."
As much as I enjoy your Dave Haggard thrillers, my favorite among your books is Take a Rifle from a Dead Man. Talk about that book.
Take a Rifle from a Dead Man is a fictionalized version of my father's life. He led an extraordinary, if difficult, life. He fought in three wars and spent five years as a Cold War spy. This after a very difficult childhood in the Appalachian South in the 1920s and as a teenager riding the rails during the Great Depression. His service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and as a spy in Europe in the 1950s left him a broken man. His actions were the stuff of movies, but in real life, the things that we as a people ask men like him to do take a horrible toll. He spent the last two decades of his life drinking himself to death. The cost to my mother was terrible. Some military families are enduring such experiences right now. That is the message I want to convey in the book.
You now have published nine books. What's next?
I am writing the fourth Dave Haggard thriller now. It's called Nine Millimeter Afternoon and it's about human trafficking. As in the others, Dave is involved in a story that costs him dearly. The plot involves very high-level members of the government who are buying and using trafficked women.
Your books are all over the map; you write about so many different things. I'm sure more thrillers are in the offing, but what about long-term goals? What books do you hope will be in your future?
I am searching for a nonfiction topic to write about. I'm all over the board about it. I'm an older man, so I've looked into issues of aging and Baby Boomers. That topic seems to be pretty well covered, and I don't know what I could do that others haven't.
As for Dave Haggard, he's got more adventures ahead. I am very fortunate in that I have found that the upper levels of the writing community are very open and welcoming. I have made friends who are mega-selling authors, and they offer advice and counsel. I hope I can make each of my books better than the last one. My great hope for Dave Haggard is that he can provide a few hours of page-turning entertainment for my readers.
[Editor's note: Click here to read Tom Glenn's recent review of Detonator.]
Tom Glenn is the author of Friendly Casualties, No-Accounts, The Trion Syndrome (to be published by Apprentice House of Baltimore in late 2014 or early 2015), and prize-winning short stories. He spent the better part of 13 years in Vietnam and escaped under fire during the fall of Saigon.
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Meyer: USRSB a 21ST Century Trojan Horse
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Vaughn Meyer
Reva, SD
Just when cattle producers were becoming accustomed to those new millennium buzz words," Sound Science," the self-righteous, save the world authorities, have come to our rescue and thrust the term "sustainability" into our everyday vocabularies. For those of us remaining in farming and ranching, sustainability has been a multi-generational daily event propagated through common sense, hard work and seasoned with a dash of good luck. However, recently our sustainable roots have acquired a new perspective with the 2013 incorporation of the United States Round Table for Sustainable Beef (USRSB). USRSB proclaims the mission, "To advance, support and communicate continuous improvement in the sustainability of U.S. beef production by educating and engaging the beef value-chain through a collaborative multi-stakeholder effort."
Webster defines "sustainability" as to uphold and support. The USRSB mission statement appears to be the arrival of the cavalry as working producers, pre-occupied with daily ranch management decisions, have little time for off-farm issues. With this positive frontal assault to sustain our industry, only one question remains, "Who are the collaborative multi-stakeholders?"
Upon closer examination of the multi-stakeholders it becomes apparent that beef producers are facing the enemy disguised as a giant Trojan horse. A giant wooden horse, waiting to be towed inside the castle where under the cover of darkness, the final blow of beef industry vertical integration will be delivered; a collaborative effort to insert the final piece of the vertical integration puzzle for all of U.S. agriculture.
To better understand the odds producers are up against let's examine the missions by which these multi- stakeholders plan to educate and engage producers and our industry.
The USRSB boasts 43 founding members with the majority being members and affiliate organizations of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). However NCBA has a history of anti – producer support for marketing issues. Under their fake producer disguise NCBA and affiliates were successful in persuading Congress to repeal Country of Origen Labeling (COOL). Their "kill COOL" packer-orchestrated charge resulted in a $20 billion loss to cattle producers within the first 9 months. At the same time, packer profits increased from $17 per animal to $194. Since February this year, packers have collaborated to increase their per head margins by 60 percent with a peak profits over $400 per head. Since May 25th packers initiated 3 weeks of reduced supplies of negotiated cash cattle, relying heavily upon their domestic and foreign captive supplies. Their 50 percent decline of purchased cash inventory successfully tanked the cash market at $106.87, culminating an 8 year low costing feeders and producers billions. During this same period retail sales were strong with a .38 percent Activity Index gain and a 1 percent featured rate increase, disputing claims of weak consumer demands.
Since the Jan. 1, 2016 repeal of COOL, it is estimated that producers have lost over $60 billion in revenue due to depressed markets and competition with imported beef being falsely mislabeled as USA beef. These $60 billion producer losses translate into losses of over $420 billion of U.S. true renewable wealth. Armed with their thieving tactics, USRSB's largest fake producer constituent is a pro packer Trojan horse stakeholders, collaborating and conspiring to engage the beef value chain to sustain monopolistic power.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a civil society USRSB stakeholder, is an international fund raising organization with focus on species-related conservation projects and the establishment of nature reserves. WWF, an anti – domesticated animal organization, encourages high income countries, like the United States, to eat less beef.
WWF in conjunction with other conservation groups has its eye on the Northern Great Plains which spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. To conquer the Northern Great Plains, WWF assisted the American Prairie Foundation's acquisition of 31,320 domestic livestock grazing acres in Montana for wildlife restoration. Grants from our U.S. Government along with partnerships from Coca Cola and Walmart enable this Trojan horse participant to remove domestic livestock from beef producing grasslands. Worldwide, WWF is acquiring land at astonishing rates through their "debt-for-nature" swaps. Funding for these swaps is generated through an unprecedented partnership between WWF, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. government.
The Nature Conservancy, another USRSB member, works in cooperation with the National Wildlife Federation and the World Animal Foundation to eliminate domestic livestock grazing on federal, state and private grasslands. The Nature Conservancy coordinates efforts to advance the Dakota Grasslands Conservation Area (DGCA), through the purchasing of perpetual conservation easements from private landowners thereby limiting future landowner activities.
Nature Conservancy is transitioning staff to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service offices in South Dakota to help purchase perpetual conservation easements. Nature Conservancy also works with legislators and other decision-makers to ensure that funding from federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and other federal and state sources flows to the DGCA to fund their anti-domestic livestock programs.
Both the Nature Conservancy and WWF are stealth Trojan horse participants with underlying motives to remove domestic livestock from the grasslands and aiding to the demise of family agriculture. Both organizations have succeeded in removing domestic livestock from 1.1 million acres of grasslands in northeast Montana.
Other USRSB Trojan horse stakeholders include Arby's Restaurant Group, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Mc Donald's Corporation, Target, Taco Bell, Wendy and Walmart. All retail members seeking to improve their financial bottom line through the exploitation of producers burdened with expensive source and age documentation.
The first requirement USRSB stakeholders are seeking, is the establishment of a national animal identification system to monitor producer premise and livestock (personal property) numbers. The USRSB web site proudly proclaims, "USRSB recognizes the necessity of animal identification for the U.S. beef cattle herd to measure success and improvements in sustainability and embraces a nationwide goal of animal identification for purposes of disease traceability, herd security, consumer confidence, quality improvement, international market access, and a means to participate in supply chain programs that can offer value-added benefits." Two of the most alarming points of this statement are "quality improvement and market access" which were the (2) main driving principles for vertical integration in the hog and poultry industries. When processors and retailers dictate quality and market access the ultimate battle of price fixation has been won and beef producers will join the ranks with their swine and poultry colleagues as serfs on their own land.
USRSB and their global predecessor, the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) are two of the largest threats to family agriculture and if left unchecked will result in the extinction of family beef production at the hands of large multi-corporate conglomerates seeking to exploit the industry for their monopolistic control. The stakeholders of these organizations are establishing total industry control through producer intimidation and proclamation of their superior "sustainable" knowledge.
Looking back at past beef industry cycles, this new "sustainable" charge is nothing more than a continuance of past corporate market manipulation which congress attempted to fix with the 1921 Packers and Stockyard Act. The only change this time around is the collusion of stakeholders who not only want to steal your markets but also wish to remove your cattle off state and federal grasslands.
As cattlemen, why would we want to sustain a broken market system in which 35 producers are forced out of business each day and the producer share of the beef dollar is 14.8 cents versus a retail- wholesale share of 85.2 cents? Are we willing to obediently allow USRSB to instill their monopolistic rhetoric and policies upon our industry?
In the past 75 years, cattle producers have received near parity prices for their livestock only 3 years, 2013-2015, resulting from the enforcement of COOL. Are we willing to let the USRSB stakeholders vertically integrate our beef industry and casting us into serfdom without a fight? Will we continue to ignore the packer carnage of our industry or will we take charge of our destiny and replace the USRSB Trojan horse coup with a regenerative producer charge to restore family agriculture?
Ranching and Rodeo: South Dakota Stoddard family has ranched for 100 years, excelled at rodeo
When Herb and Inez Stoddard settled near Norris, South Dakota over a century ago, they had no idea the fifth generation of Stoddards would be still be there, raising cattle, horses, and rodeoing.
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The quotation and trading of stock or bond prices in decimals, as opposed to the quotation of prices in fractions.
Trading in which the price of a security is quoted using decimals rather than fractions to represent divisions of a dollar. That is, a quote in decimal trading would be $10.25 instead of $10 1/4. Decimal trading as become more common with digitalization. See also: Drill Bits.
In fact, they find an average decrease of 13 basis points, or roughly $224 million a month, in savings of institutional trading costs after moving to decimal trading.
By narrowing the spread, decimal trading could save investors money by lowering the ask price.
The NYSE has been gradually phasing in decimal trading since August.
These results suggest that decimal trading is still not broadly accepted among institutional block traders.
While some elements of the markets' operations have always been a point of contention, the advent of decimal trading has highlighted key issues and is pushing the tolerance of the institutional trading community.
While the Millennium ATS model is well positioned, the advent of decimal trading has noticeably fueled the professional community's interest in NYFIX Millennium's unique capability to allow the market exposure of large blocks of shares without causing pre-market impact.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley, House Commerce Finance Subcommittee Chairman Michael Oxley, House Commerce Committee Member Vito Fossella, and House Commerce Telecommunications Ranking Member Edward Markey are scheduled to participate in a demonstration of how decimal trading will work on Island, beginning on July 3, consistent with the U.
It is estimated that, by December 2001, decimal trading will have caused peak message traffic for securities on NASDAQ to increase by 700 percent and peak message traffic for equity and index options to increase by 3,033 percent.
We expect that investors will save hundreds of millions of dollars a year as the industry moves toward decimal trading, and we are proud to be one of the catalysts for this change," said Island ECN President Matthew Andresen.
Recognizing that the June 2000 deadline for industry-wide decimal trading conversion is fast approaching, Primeon Inc.


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The Stanford Student Space Initiative has launched dozens of high altitude balloons. These balloons can go up to 100,000 feet or travel as far as Morocco. Yet these flights would hardly be valuable without the ability to read, parse, and visualize the data streaming back to the ground.
The data comes from sensors on board the balloon, which is then heavily compressed and sent over the Iridium satellite network. Naturally, what exactly that data is varies with each flight, which means that HABMC has to be extremely flexible. In addition to visualizing the telemetry data sent on every flight, HABMC has to be capable of everything from displaying ozone concentrations to detecting voltage spikes -- all in real time.
1 How to get involved
3.2 Maps, Charts, & Graphs
3.3 Raw Data Viewing
3.4 Messages
3.5 Configuration and permissions
3.6 Prediction & Footprint Calculator
3.7 Navigation
3.8 Commands Module
3.9 Livestreaming
3.10 High-bandwidth radio backend
4 Technical Facts
At a balloons meeting, talk to Kai, or just talk to him on slack @{{{display-name}}} . You can also check out our tutorials [1]
If you're logged in as a member of the space initiative or have an access code, you can view the full SSI page, jam-packed with features.
The dashboard provides a quick overview of the flight. Fully customizable for each payload, it displays a series of graphs to understand recent trends, underneath which is a map of the flight and charts detailing remaining quantities such as battery and ballast. Below the map lies a table of the configuration on the payload itself that gives exact numbers about how the payload is set to behave.
Maps, Charts, & Graphs
We often want finer control over how we delve into and analyze the data. To that end, we built the charts utility, capable of graphing an arbitrary number of variables against each other. The user may zoom into the data by time period, or look at the whole mission.
Naturally, to see position data we have maps as well. On most flights we have three redundant positioning systems: a primary GPS baked into the board, an external GPS, and position estimates given by the Iridium satellite network. Each of these systems has their own foibles; for example, HABMC is capable of filtering out erroneous Iridium position estimates and displaying error bounds on the map itself.
Raw Data Viewing
Sometimes charts, maps, and graphs aren't enough and the flight controllers need to read the data directly. To that end, HABMC provides tables of all transmissions, the raw, compressed details, and every other piece of data the suite has access to. To make some of this data more readable, it shows the most recent transmission's data grouped and sorted appropriately; one can also browse through old transmissions in this mode. Finally, should the flight controllers want to access the data directly, HABMC offers a full API.
HABMC can also send messages back to the balloon, in addition to getting data from it. These messages, however, are far from human readable. HABMC builds these messages through a more intuitive interface, then verifies that they're in the correct format before ultimately sending them to our payload. It will also store these messages and notify the flight controllers so as to ensure that everyone stays informed.
Configuration and permissions
From the start, HABMC was designed to handle a wide variety of flight profiles. It's able to understand three different parsing formats; much of the UI is even customizable. HABMC can even be set to notify the flight controllers via Slack or SMS when it detects a suspicious transmission. To safeguard these features, HABMC has a sophisticated user management system to grant select permissions only to those who need them.
Prediction & Footprint Calculator
We almost always want to know where the balloon will go. To that end, we have a full predictor utility. Although it currently relies on the GFS weather model, it's designed to be compatible with the more-accurate ECMWF model should we gain access. The predictor, written from the group up in Rust, takes this data and turns it into real predictions.
Of course, there are a lot of uncertainties when it comes to prediction, such as descent rate and burst altitude. Thus, when we want to know where the payload will land, we use HABMC's footprint calculator. This system generates a probability distribution about where the balloon will ultimately come down.
One of the core features of our novel altitude stabilization platform, ValBal, is that it's capable of flying at whatever altitude we tell it to, and adjusting that altitude mid-flight. Since there are different wind patterns at different altitudes, by strategically adjusting altitudes the balloon can optimize ground distance or even aim for a specific location. For example, the balloon might fly at 13km to travel west, then ascend to 15km briefly to steer north toward its final destination.
In this screenshot, the naive option of flying at the single altitude with the fastest winds is shown in blue; active guidance is shown in green. In the same total flight time, with active guidance the balloon can fly over twice as far.
Commands Module
On the launch site, we often suffer from an unreliable internet connection -- yet we still need to know how our payload is performing. To that end, HABMC also hosts a natural language processing module. While we may not have internet, we almost always have SMS service: the commands module allows us to text commands and queries to HABMC. Example messages include "When was the last transmission?" or "Push the launch time back by 15 minutes", to which HABMC will respond appropriately.
Sending live video down through SSTV can be displayed on HABMC as well. Piping the data through ffmpeg on the client to Youtube Live lets us maintain maximum compatibility with inputs and deliver the video at maximum spee
High-bandwidth radio backend
Capable of storing data and delivering high-bandwidth transmissions as fast as the database can handle, the radio code turns HABMC into a truly real time control suite. With the system in place, it can display the data from multiple transmissions per second.
Technical Facts
HABMC is written with Ruby on Rails and React.js, hosted on Heroku. External services include a prediction and navigation server (written in Rust), an InfluxDB for storing high-bandwidth radio transmissions, a Postgres primary database, writer and followers for radio transmission (written in Node), Newrelic for analytics, and Cloudflare as a CDN.
The release of version 2 involved turning HABMC from a clunky interface to a more elegant bundle of code. To start, we rewrote the entire backend in Ruby on Rails. As GoDaddy does not support Rails apps, we transitioned to hosting HABMC on Heroku. Advantages here included better load monitoring and simpler deploys. The real advantages, though, came from the updated backend: we had a much more MVC oriented architecture, maintenance was easier, and security was stronger. Further, this allowed us to refactor the JavaScript that powered the core of HABMC. Prior to this, all of the JavaScript lived in one behemoth of a file. Taking advantage of the asset pipeline meant that we could separate this out into a couple dozen distinct files, making the codebase as a whole much simpler and understandable. Routing these files through the asset pipeline additionally meant that we could first minify and then gzip them (and all other static assets such as stylesheets), meaning that the end files were about a tenth the size.
A host of new features arrived between Version 1 and Version 2, like a login system and plotting FAA zones on maps. It also included an architectural change to reduce server load: rather than pinging the server constantly, we moved to a model with push notifications, based on websockets. To further reduce the load, we also batched requests when a change was triggered.
The frontend underwent a complete overhaul, getting rewritten from the ground up in React to be as efficient as possible. This made all of HABMC snappier -- and also way more maintainable. While we were at it, we redid the styles, switching to a dark theme.
At this point, the core functionality of HABMC has stabilized, but there's always more to be done. Throughout the pipeline, HABMC can improve; old features need to be made more efficient, and new features need to be built. Many features, like navigation and radio integrations, need to mature to support the rigour of flight.
Above all, going into the future HABMC will continue the relentless cycle of refinement and improvement to build it into an ever more powerful mission control suite.


Nintendo is releasing Nintendo Switch Online next month, their own subscription service for their hybrid console next month, under a 3$.99 price tag. Other than letting you play online and giving you exclusive Nintendo Store deals, Nintendo Switch Online will give you access to a variety of NES retro games, available at launch.
A few of the NES games available for free through Nintendo Switch Online have been revealed over the past weeks. The service will feature 20 NES classic games at launch, including Legend of Zelda Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3.
The latter has been confirmed through Twitter by Nintendo of America, it won't even be the most exciting one as there are ten more titles to be revealed before Nintendo Switch Online releases. Some games will support online play which Nintendo calls "pass the controller mode" for single player games.
This service will allow users to take advantage of online features of any game, as well as the Nintendo Switch smartphone app which is used for voice chat. The voice chat service will also be compatible with most playable titles online.
We can't help but wonder if we'll be able to see more retro titles coming to Nintendo Switch Online from other consoles. Super NES, Nintendo 64 and GameCube had their own libraries of cool games that left their mark in the industry and it would be awesome to be able to play them again without having to plug in our old consoles again.
Undeniably, the Nintendo Switch Online service makes Nintendo's hybrid console the ultimate retro machine. Nintendo Switch already had a big variety of retro games available for purchase in its catalog, however, getting games like Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. for only $20 per year will always be appreciated.


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7th Annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | University Center East, Evansville, IN
Register here (free)
Program and Presentation Abstracts (coming soon)
You are invited to participate in the seventh annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium, planned as an in-person event.
Sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL).
The Symposium showcases works focusing on improving and transforming student learning, academic success, and curriculum in higher education. It provides opportunities to share teaching and learning efforts as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Teaching Practice.
A keynote presentation by Dr. Sushilla Knottenbelt (University of New Mexico) will be presented during the luncheon. The program also includes lightning, standard, and poster presentations.
Share your efforts in supporting student learning and success and advancing your teaching practice.
Gain knowledge of evidence-based strategies and technologies that support student learning and success across settings and disciplines.
Foster reflection on your teaching practice, including improving and measuring student learning.
Interact with participants across disciplines and institutions.
The Symposium will provide you with opportunities to engage with other participants across disciplines and areas of work. Benefits include the opportunity to share and get feedback on your work, spark new ideas, make your teaching scholarship visible, and initiate or strengthen connections.
Keynote Luncheon
We are excited to welcome Dr. Sushilla Knottenbelt from the University of New Mexico as this year's keynote speaker! She will present "Lessons from the Student Experience Project: Low lift strategies to increase student engagement, improve educational outcomes and reduce equity gaps."
View the presentation abstract and Dr. Knottenbelt's bio.
Register to attend the Symposium by February 13 to be entered in the door prize drawing.
Call for Proposals (closed)
View the key dates here.
Presentation abstracts and materials are available through USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR), which is indexed on Google Scholar to provide broader dissemination and additional visibility of our presenters' works.
2023 Symposium Sponsors
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is proud to offer the sixth Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium. We are grateful for the support provided by the Office of the Provost, David L. Rice Library, and Online Learning.
About the Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium series


Podium, an initiative of UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo organized in partnership with IPKO Foundation, is a social advocacy workshop that teaches youth and adolescents of different groups in Kosovo how to advocate for the needs and rights of their community. In the workshop, they build their skills on assessing the needs of their community, by creating campaigns where they can lobby with the duty-bearers, and use the media to make their community issues known to the public.
Get support and build your skills on advocacy for solving the issues of your community?
Build positive relationships with the duty-bearers of your community?
Learn how to implement your campaign?
Be a part of the network of young advocates in Kosovo?
Manage a budget of 500 EUR, as financial support to implement your campaign?
*Eligible to apply are residents of; Ferizaj, Gjilan, Hani i Elezit, Kaçanik, Kamenica or Viti.
All expenses during the three-day workshop (10 May – 13 May) will be covered by IPKO Foundation.
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New Orleans police say a Star Cab driver was shot to death around 9 on Sunday night.
Authorities in New Orleans were investigating three slayings within two hours on Sunday.Police said the first two slayings happened in the 2400 block of St. Andrew about 8 p.m. Investigators said a man and a woman were fatally shot , and a third man was rushed to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and was in surgery.Authorities said they didn't know the relationship between the man and the woman who died.The second homicide happened at Hollygrove and South Claiborne about 9 p.m. Investigators said a man was fatally shot.Anyone with information about either case should call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.
Authorities in New Orleans were investigating three slayings within two hours on Sunday.
Police said the first two slayings happened in the 2400 block of St. Andrew about 8 p.m. Investigators said a man and a woman were fatally shot , and a third man was rushed to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and was in surgery.
Cab driver fatally shot during robbery
Authorities said they didn't know the relationship between the man and the woman who died.
The second homicide happened at Hollygrove and South Claiborne about 9 p.m. Investigators said a man was fatally shot.
Anyone with information about either case should call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.


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DETROIT — Bob Seger, Kid Rock and Eminem were among the winners at the 21st annual Detroit Music Awards, presented at an evening celebration Friday at the Fillmore.
The night's big winner was the local band the Howling Diablos, taking home five trophies — mostly for its 2011 album "Ultra Sonic Gas Can" — while frontman Martin "Tino" Gross won three individual awards, including Outstanding Producer.
Seger received the Outstanding Anthology/Compilation/Reissue award for a new, remastered version of his 1975 "Live Bullet" album. Eminem shared the Outstanding National Major Label Album prize with fellow rapper Royce da 5' 9" for "Hell: The Sequel," their collaboration performing as Bad Meets Evil.
Rock, meanwhile, won Outstanding Video/Major Budget for the clip of his single "Care," which was filmed in Detroit.
Also receiving awards were Mayer Hawthorne, whose "The Walk" was named Outstanding National Single; and Dennis Coffey, Outstanding National Small/Independent Label Album for his self-titled 2011 release.
Other multiple Detroit Music Awards winners included Ty Stone and Jill Jack with three each, and Thornetta Davis, Jim McCarty, Cybertribe, Luis Resto, Billy Brandt and drummer Skeeto Valdez with two each. Rapper Hush also received a pair of trophies along with a Special Achievement Award for founding and operating Detroit Dog Rescue.
The '60s and early '70s all-female rock groups the Pleasure Seekers and Cradle — featuring Suzi Quatro and her sisters — received a Distinguished Achievement Award on Friday, as did Detroit's Saint Andrew's Hall in honor of its 30th anniversary. Quatro, who became famous in the U.S. playing the role of Pinky Tuscadero on "Happy Days," now lives in England. She was originally scheduled to perform, but was unable to attend because of an accident that injured her knee and wrist.
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Sunil, who was once a star comedian, has recently been venturing into hero roles. He is now bagged in for the main lead in his upcoming flick Vedantham Raghavaiah. It has also been reported that celebrity anchor and actress Anasuya Bharadwaj has signed up for Vedantham Raghavaiah to co-star opposite Sunil probably as his love interest. An absolute announcement concerning this data is yet to be declared by the makers.
This film will be produced by the collaboration of Ram Achanta and Gopi Achanta under the banner of 14 Reels Plus and will be directed by C Chandra Mohan who has also written the storyline of this film. As of now, Sunil is performing an antagonist role of Ramaraju, a menacing cop in the upcoming film 'Colour Photo' starring Suhas and Chandini Chowdary.


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Giorgio Armani (Placência, 11 de julho de 1934) é um dos mais conceituados estilistas italianos. Fundou a sua companhia, a Giorgio Armani S.p.A., em 1974, e já foi o designer de moda independente mais bem-sucedido do mundo, com uma fortuna pessoal de cerca de 9,5 bilhões de dólares.

Biografia
Nascido na Emília-Romanha, norte da Itália (ao sul de Milão), Giorgio Armani estabeleceu um novo padrão na moda feminina. Inspirou sua linha feminina em trajes comumente masculinos, no entanto, desenvolvendo acabamentos, tecidos e corte que privilegiavam as formas femininas.

Freqüentou a faculdade de medicina por dois anos. Após completar suas obrigações militares, em 1957, trabalhou em uma loja de departamentos chamada La Rinascente, como um decorador de vitrines, iniciando-se, então, no mundo da moda.

História no mundo da moda
De 1961 a 1970, estabeleceu uma união com Nino Cerruti construindo a sua carreira como designer (estilista). Encorajado pelo seu amigo, Sergio Galeotti, lançou em 1974, sua primeira coleção masculina, elevando o seu nome. Gradativamente começou a adaptar as suas criações para a linha feminina, lançando a sua primeira coleção, em 1975, em parceria com Galeotti.
A modelo oficial da Giorgio Armani é a atriz e cantora Michelle Pfeiffer, inclusive o estilista, está com um desfile especial desde 2007 com o tema de Super-Heróis e a principal personagem é a vilã de Batman em 1992 a Mulher-Gato interpretada pela atriz. Como é de se imaginar assim como no filme, a Mulher-Gato da Armani rouba a cena nas passarelas.

Vida Pessoal
É conhecido por ser um viciado em trabalho e várias vezes arrogante ou rude em situações delicadas. Suas desavenças com outros diversos estilistas italianos, (por exemplo, Gianni Versace), são bastante conhecidas.

Entre as brasileiras, Armani é amigo pessoal da modelo Gisele Bündchen e da socialite Val Marchiori.

Empório Armani
Empório Armani tem uma linha de alta qualidade em roupas de luxo de moda e de discussão sobre as tendências e características modernas. Em janeiro de 2010, o famoso jogador de futebol, Cristiano Ronaldo, e a estrela de cinema de Hollywood, Megan Fox, se tornaram o rosto masculino e feminino da Empório Armani, que se uniu com a Reebok para criar sapatos da moda sob o rótulo chamado EA7. Esta coleção de outono contará com a estrela do pop, Rihanna. É a única linha de Giorgio Armani que é projetado principalmente por Giorgio Armani, e tem uma cena na semana de moda de Milão a cada ano, enquanto Armani Collezioni, Armani Jeans e Armani Exchange não.

Armani Jeans
Armani Jeans é uma coleção relacionada com roupas criadas em 1981 por Giorgio Armani. Armani Jeans é principalmente vendida em lojas de departamento, embora tenha 15 lojas Armani Jeans independentes no mundo, além de um Jeans Armani Café em Milão. Alguns itens Armani Jeans são vendidos em lojas Empório Armani.

Produções
Suas produções são dividas em diversas linhas:
 Armani Casa;
 Armani Privé;
 Borgonuovo 21;
 Giorgio Armani;
 Le Collezioni;
 Mani;
 Emporio Armani (público jovem);
 A/X Armani Exchange (moda básica);
 Giorgio Armani U.S.A. (preços mais acessíveis);
 Armani Jeans;
 Armani Neve (linha esportiva, inverno);
 Armani Golf (linha esportiva);
 Clássico.

Curiosidades
 Recentemente os futebolistas europeus David Beckham e Cristiano Ronaldo, posaram seminus, apenas de cuecas, para fotos da linha Emporio Armani.
 Armani anunciou um celular de sua autoria, que segundo ele, foi inspirado nas "luzes de Tóquio".
 Em 2010, o fundador da Armani anunciou que irá inaugurar um hotel no Burj Khalifa, o prédio mais alto do mundo.
Em 2020, doou 1,25 milhão de euros para pesquisas contra o surto de corona vírus.

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Bengaluru, May 17 (IANS) BJP legislature party leader B.S. Yeddyurappa took oath as the Karnataka Chief Minister here on Thursday hours after the Supreme Court declined to stay his swearing-in ceremony.
Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to Yeddyurappa at 9 a.m. at the Raj Bhavan amid tight security.
Clad in all-white and sporting a green shawl over his shoulders, Yeddyurappa, 75, took the oath in Kannada in the name of god and farmers.
Among the party's national and state leaders present at the simple ceremony were Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, J.P. Nadda, D.V. Sadanda Gowda and Ananth Kumar and Lok Sabha lawmakers from the state Prahlad Joshi and Shobha Karandlaje and other senior officials.
Earlier, a three-judge bench of the apex court rejected at a special pre-dawn hearing, a joint writ petition filed by the Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) on Wednesday night, to stall Yeddyurappa's swearing-in.
The top court, however, said the swearing-in was subject to the final outcome of the matter before it and posted the case for further hearing at 10.30 a.m. on Friday.
The bench, headed by Justice A.K. Sikri, also sought the letter Yeddyurappa wrote to the Governor on Wednesday informing him his election as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) legislature party leader in Karnataka.
Vala on Wednesday night invited Yeddyurappa to form the government and prove within 15 days that he had a majority in the legislative assembly.
"I may also direct you to seek a vote of confidence on the floor of the House showing that you command the confidence of the House within 15 days from the date of assuming office as the Chief Minister of the state," said Vala in his letter to Yeddyurappa.
Although the BJP emerged as the single-largest party winning 104 seats, it fell short of eight seats from the 112-half-way mark in the lower House, in which the Congress trailed with 78 wins and the regional outfit Janata Dal-S (JD-S) with 37 seats.
Yeddyurappa was elected for the eighth time from the Shikaripura assembly segment in Shivamogga district of the Malnad region on May 12 when polling was held in 222 constituencies across the state and results were declared on Tuesday.
This is the third time Yeddyurappa took oath as the state Chief Minister, a decade after he became the BJP's first Chief Minister in south India in May 2008 when the party came to power for the first time in the southern state.
Yeddyurappa became Chief Minister for the first time in October 2007 after serving 20 months from February 2006 to September 2007 as Deputy Chief Minister in the state's first JD-S-BJP coalition government that fell after the former withdrew support a month later, leading to a six-month spell of President's rule and mid-term assembly election in May 2008.
The dominant Lingayat leader, however, was forced to resign three years later in July 2011 by the party's high command after the state's anti-graft watchdog Lokayukta's investigation report named him in the multi-crore mining scam that rocked the state for over a decade from 2001-2010.


More royal nuptials could help accelerate road repair work, resulting in smoother surfaces across the UK, an MP has joked.
Conservative Greg Knight said more royal weddings should be conducted in order to help fix the country's potholed roads.
Ahead of Prince William and Kate Middleton tying the knot on April 29, road surfaces on the procession route between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace were repaired.
Speaking during discussions on future Parliamentary business, the Tory called on Leader of the House Sir George Young to allow time for a talk on royal weddings.
Mr Knight said: "Early last week potholes in Parliament Square were filled in and areas of damaged Tarmac in and around the square were resurfaced.
"Can we have a debate to see what we can do to encourage more royal weddings to take place, preferably to be held around the country, including East Yorkshire, so the rest of us can have an adequate road surface to drive on?"
Another royal wedding between the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and England rugby star Mike Tindall is due to take place this summer in Edinburgh.
Sir George, a keen cyclist often spotted riding around Parliament Square, said: "I'm sure Buckingham Palace will have taken note."


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Who is saying what at the World Cup
A collection of quotes from former players and legends of the game during the ongoing World Cup.
Action during the Croatia vs Argentina match. | Photo Credit: Getty Images
Here is what the legends and players have to say about the FIFA World Cup.
"I believe Argentina will play against England in the final."
-- David Beckham, who captained England to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002 and 2006, makes a big call on the the back of England's 2-1 win over Tunisia.
"Let us just say that I did not see anything to make me think England can become world champions."
-- Marcel Desailly, a World Cup winner with France in 1998, isn't buying into the hype about Gareth Southgate's men.
"Neymar gave off the impression he was playing by himself. He might be the greatest player but he has to think of the collective. He has to think of his teammates and play with them."
-- Desailly again, offering a withering assessment of how the most expensive player in the world performed during Brazil's 1-1 draw with Switzerland.
"We are calm. Five matches is the minimum you need to be fully fit and he has already sped up the process."
-- Brazil coach Tite is unconcerned over Neymar's path back to full fitness after injury.
"I dined with Mr Putin. You have to congratulate Russia for the organisation of the World Cup, and naturally the head of state himself."
-- Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter looking up to an old friend in Moscow despite being banned from the game for alleged corruption during his 17 years at the head of world football.
"I throw on two or three sprays of perfume. It gives me a feeling of happiness. Sometimes my teammates ask me if I'm not right in the head!"
-- Germany's Julian Draxler on his fragrant pre-match ritual.
-- "We are all with him."
Argentina forward Paulo Dybala on supporting Lionel Messi after his lowkey performance in the 1-1 draw with Iceland which has made Thursday's second group game against Croatia a must-win affair.
"Football Is not For Arabs".
-- The new meaning of FIFA according to a joke doing the rounds on social media after Wednesday's disastrous day for Arab football with Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia all crashing out of the World Cup.
"We apologise for our statement. It turned out to be too offensive."
-- Red-faced Burger King on pulling a provocative online advertising camapaign in Russia offering burgers to Russian women who get impregnated by football players during the World Cup. The ad appeared to be ineptly trying to poke fun at an inflammatory statement by a lawmakers who urged women not to have sex with foreign fans.
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Q: Strange error on Android Studio after changing phone targets or building bundle I can be using Android Studio (4.1.1) fine with one phone as the target to run the code on for hours, then as soon as I switch to a different phone I'll get errors like this:

Entry name 'file path' collided

I then do a clean and it all works fine again.
This will also happen after using the build signed bundle menu. Clean will fix it as well.
Anyone have any idea why this might happen?

A: Please delete app>build and build folders in the project path on your computer...
This issue is resolved by deleting APKs generated by previous build which existing in release and debug folders.
Invalidating cache and rebuild would not help if you have not deleted previously generated APKs
Just delete the apk generated by the previous compilation.

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The 2015 analysis of over half a million mortgages found approximately 16,000 could save over €1,000 in the first 12 months, and around 27,000 switchers have the potential to save in excess of €10,000 over the lifetime of the mortgage.
Most people who have a mortgage never switch to a cheaper offer and the Central Bank is hoping this will change under this new regime.
The measures were announced by the Central Bank last year, a year of much discussion around the culture of Irish banks and their treatment of customers. It emerged over the course of 2018 that more than 38,000 customers had been overcharged by their banks in what is now known as the tracker mortgage scandal.
Some people lost their homes as a direct result of their bank's actions.
The five Irish retail banks are now establishing a "new, independent Irish Banking Culture Board" which they hope will rebuild trust in the sector.
The new banking board will be required to publish regular summary reports to measure progress made in its aims of "promoting the highest ethical business conduct in banking" and "driving continuous improvement in culture across the Irish banking industry". Staff at the five banks will also participate in two UCD-accredited culture programmes.
The Central Bank is hoping that the new requirements in relation to mortgage switching will bring increased competitiveness to the market, with better rate offers from banks who will not want customers to switch to another lender.
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Health care–associated harm can be physical, financial, or emotional. Advocating for increased focus on emotional harm resulting from insufficient respect for patients, this commentary reviews a conceptual framework developed by a multidisciplinary panel and recommends that institutions promote voluntary reporting of these harms, work to understand the severity of harm, and determine accountability when these events occur. The authors encourage health professionals to address emotional harms with the same rigor that has been applied to physical harms. Patient-centered care has been proposed as a strategy for reducing preventable harms.
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Beer commercials have long been the bastion of juxtaposition. Hot bodies playing volleyball or mountain biking and then popping open a cold one… this despite the fact that beer is not conducive to a hot body. Well Michelob Ultra has taken it a step further… a big enough step to earn a "Stupid Commercial" Award.
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Okay, as I stated earlier, we are all used to the dichotomy between visuals and actual life in beer commercials, but come on. Now they are actually saying that their beer is not one-dimensional. What is so darned multi-facted about beer? Its not even good beer.
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Lord of the Rings III: "The Taste of Strawberries" – The Return of The King
By Jokermatt on December 14, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )
"I know my place"
In this week of all things Hobbit (part 1), the third set of complete Tweetnotes on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Extended edition, but DVD – not Blu-ray-masochistically so… Three's a big, bloody, brutal dream…
DO YOU REMEMBER THE TASTE OF STRAWBERRIES? DO YOU FRODO? NO. BASICALLY, NO… THIS IS BLEAK, FAR BLEAKER THAN IT SEEMS.
Tolkien stated that his war experiences had a limited impact on his writing, but the writer of the account of the War of the Ring, rife with description of a land of evil, had not only survived the Great War, but Somme. By the time of Return of the King, after The Two Towers has split the Fellowship but reduced the fronts, the story is little more than one large and brutal battle. The scale is on a whole new level and the first prize in this raised game is not a trusted keep, scattered villages or ruins, but Minas Tirith: The White City that represents all of Man's promise, while containing all his weaknesses.
Return is as huge as an oliphaunt, but the majority of the tale takes place in a small corner of Middle Earth, already stacked (literally) with the ghosts of the dead from millennia of previous battles. Much of the tale is bleak – until the ring is returned, allies of Middle Earth's victory is not guaranteed – and would remain pointless if Frodo failed. It's so bleak, a series of hopeful and much commented codas can surely be forgiven. After quests and countless battles that could prove Pyrrhic, Return shows the fight to be worth it.
With such a focus on war craft, some war logic inevitably fails to hold up. Strategy and movement may be difficult to track on a map when it comes to live action, but certain scenes such as the confusion over the direction of attack on Osgiliath seems strange when it's been under siege for months. In other ways, the battles' hectic approach carry things along at a pelt. There are no timing doubts as there were when the Rohirrim arrived at Helm's Deep. Much as I liked it, I couldn't help thinking they'd been standing around looking at their wrist-dials for a few hours beforehand.
A certain degree of momentum comes with the introduction of two new lieutenants of evil; not a new thing in the films – they have previously come and gone like Sith apprentices. Gothmog is a fantastically and twistedly rounded creation in his brief appearances (see the way he resists help to dismount his warg); his accent is also refreshingly mean when surrounded by Aussie/cockney orcs. In the air, the Witch-King entrance seems a little sudden – even if we do get to see his walk-in wardrobe. Fine, we've met him before – but why didn't he have a crown, or demonstrate any leadership skills then? – bar skewering a hobbit. If there are any faults with Return, it's that this Nazgul could have been built up a little more, especially as he's a presumed ancestor of Aragorn's.
Returns is of course more than just a war analogy. The trilogy draws on many sources from the Nordic sagas, to Arthurian legend to Christianity. Many of these had cross-pollinated long before Lord of the Rings was written – the paganism that fed into Christianity was in turn and itself retconned into Arthurian legend. But combined, the effect is more than complementary, especially as Jackson adds his own cinematic nods. He pays tribute to many conventions and classics of film. From score to shooting, there are contemporaneous reactions to Harry Potter as well as ribs on The Godfather and Star Wars – the latter, particularly, and pleasingly in the multi-partite climax. When scenes turn to Mordor and its Black gate, things even go a little – and unavoidably – Labyrinth. The reference is cyclical and reassuring: many of these films had been heavily influenced by Tolkien's story before. One key part of Returns is Aragorn's flight to the land of the dead. The make-up and imagery don't even attempt to hide the neat throwback to Peter Jackson's early horror film roots.
Whilst in zombie-land, Aragorn's prolonged absence gifts a chance for other humans to seize their moment, but it's a mixed-bag. Théoden gets his rightful martyrdom/punishment as a conflicted man, albeit via the Klingon school of motivation. Of his kin, Eomer remains a peripheral figure while Eowyn picks up the mantle of strong female character. Her compassion drives much of the development of Merry and Pippin, but her resounding success in battle – albeit a rather odd semantic get out – also neatly signifies 'man's' further development.
It's as easy to pick holes in Return as it is to lavish it with a trilogy's worth of Oscars. Even with multiple codas some strands remain undeveloped, particularly those relating to those 'other' men. Faramir and Eowyn's romance is vague and considering what she achieved, let alone how bloody little he did (bar remove a White Wizard from the front line!) it may have been better to see some of that rather than that overlong long hobbit bed hopping sequence. Still, as their names aren't in the title, maybe we'll just have to wait for a spin-off soap opera.
There is another major player whose name bestrides the whole trilogy. The final moments of the One Ring, its volcanic fate one drop away, are wonderfully done. Jackson increases visual echoes and references to Isildur that were always simmering in Frodo's scenes. Even at the end he struggles with his insurmountable task, and Sam proves to be the strength carrier. It's only Gollum's single minded and unique desire of the ring that really saves Middle Earth. When he finally regains his precioussss after 80 years, His pleasure before realising they've lot each other forever is brilliantly captured and a fitting sign-off. In fact, after some dietetic and non-diegetic stumbles on the way, the end to the Hobbit's linear tale is wholly satisfactory. Even the arrival of the Eagles serves to reinforce the point that they couldn't have just flown there in the first place. Sacrifice is key and not just for Frodo. In Return, Hobbits are seen sacrificing their nature, men their lives and Aragorn realises he must sacrifice himself regally for Middle Earth. Perhaps a key change in tightening the story is Aragorn's resistance to this; in the book, his simply waiting for the right moment has its point, but increased reluctance ensures that the spring is coiled tighter.
And so, the Elves, and couple of Hobbits set sale for the Grey havens, the Dwarves mine further and deeper under mountains, the Maiar wizards are forgotten in the minds of men, who multiply on the plains of Rohan and the towers of Gondor in peace and prosperity. Over in the East, during the Fourth Age the Hobbits fade away too – though not cleansed, not in these films; that would have been too severe. They could keep themselves to themselves safe in the knowledge that one day a few of them went on a trip to the publisher.
Jackson's main trick may be overcoming the fact that we know the fate of so many of The Hobbits' characters before that trilogy has commences… But I'm sure he has some tricks up his long wizard sleeves.
Lord-of-the-Rings-athon Tweetnotes for The Two Towers live Storified in this Crack of Doom
Lord-of-the-Rings-athon concluded: 682 mins (11.37hrs)
Also consumed during part of this pre-Hobbit marathon: Shore's magnificent full trilogy score, X-box resurgent 'Lord of the Rings: the Third Age' (VG), Wii add-on 'Aragorn's Quest' (VG), Brian Sibley's 'The Making of The Lord of the Rings', Virgin's sorry missed film companions – and heir guide to 'Lord of the Rings', the draw-dropping illustrations of Lee and Howe… All of which simply wouldn't exist without JRR himself.
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Lord of the Rings II: "Let's Hunt Some Orc" – The Two Towers
"I look down on him because he is lower class…"
In this week of all things Hobbit (part 1), the second set of complete Tweetnotes on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Extended edition, but DVD – not Blu-ray-masochistically so… On to the Two…
'LET'S HUNT SOME ORC'. It's a phrase that is not going to pass for Tolkien's own no matter how good Viggo Mortensen's portrayal of Aragorn is. But then, not much of the dialogue in Peter Jackson's trilogy is lifted from the tome itself; its trick is capturing the gist so it appears faithful. But then, with those rather combative words, Fellowship made way for The Two Towers; a different kind of film.
The generally linear plot of the first part is replaced with multiple strands following three distinct parties of the original fellowship continuing their quest; but that is too is a bit of an illusion. While Merry and Pippin remain, rather importantly, stationery for the majority of the film, any urgency that Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli's haste to save them injects into proceedings is ultimately rather pointless. Most of The Two Tower's journey follows a loop wider than the turning circle of a Rohirrim. Of course, this fatalistic treading of water is a pretty heavy handed metaphor for man's general weakness. That said, that and the analogy do provide a pretty solid build-up for one of the most gripping parts of the trilogy (Set-piece Mark VI, below…).
In the book, despite years of suggestive front covers, the identity of the titular two towers is rather vague. The film chooses to explicitly draw the link between Sauron's Barad-dûr and Saruman's Isengard, an invisible line that cuts right across Rohan, land of the Rohirrim, and threatens all Middle Earth. Rohan is an interesting place. A kind of sub‑kingdom of men it's broad Anglo-Saxon set-up a rather stark counter point to the lost and now mythical kingdoms of Aragorn's north and the more majestic, decadent and dare I say Aspirational Norman Gondor. It's effective in presenting 'man en masse' for the first time and Théoden's rural kingdom also administers a sharp shot of Shakespearean tragedy and intrigue into proceedings that was lacking from the Arthurian mix of Fellowship – before administering a fine keg of history at the end.
Split into three 'journeys', The Two Towers makes ideal use of its 'middle' status. But it is really is the beginning that sells it. Jackson wisely kickoffs off at the very heart of the climax of Fellowship's main highlight. It's a fine catch-up, a great action sequence at the front once again and also a neat conveyance of depth. Gandalf and his demonic foe battle while Aragorn leads the Fellowship to Galadriel and their inevitable breaking. It's a soft and effective arm around the shoulder, leading us away from Fellowship's simpler narrative to a world of parallel concerns. Even if Gandalf the White's initial impression of Saruman is rather mean/irresponsible/inexplicable (depending on your perspective).
In those same woods, the Ent scenes seem rather frivolous when you think of Tom Bombadil's fate in Fellowship – but their ultimate contribution to the plot is considerable.
In Gondor, by contrast, Gollum is an addition that keeps the rather cloying twosome of Sam and Frodo bearable. The technology and performance are rightly lauded, but it also shows how good Fellowship is; anticipation for the small grey one should have been far greater.
The extended version of The Two Towers really highlights how staccato the theatrical releases of the films could be. Additional runtime creates room for Denother's first appearance and a brief cross-over with Boromir which does much to bridge the trilogy. It even adds a little more to (a still quite insipid) Faramir. It is there in Osgiliath, the ruins of Gondor's old capital, that the heart of The Lord of the Rings really lies. Man's time is coming, the Elves are leaving them to it while the corrupted Elves (Orcs) stop at nothing to halt it. Here is the despair, retreat pride and hubris ripe for the Return of the (still reluctant) King. Of course, Lord of the Rings is a totally faithful historical account of a few thousand years ago, but remembering that would rather spoil the danger (nudge, nudge).
The 'historical' elements of the book really hits home in the last and greatest set-piece of The Two Towers. Before that, the wizard and Balrog's battle with gravity is neat and stylish for the service it provides the film. Gollum's little chat with Smeagol is the highlight of performance in the film, and certainly ranks as a set-piece. Later on the warg attacks on the fields of Rohan are well realised, another great example of another action piece finding its own voice. Rohan's more familiar Viking imagery of settlements amidst the vistas is a long way from either the mines of Gandalf's or the woods of Boromir's demise. Even against the decade old CGI, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has a lot to take on when it confronts a similar set-piece
But it is in the beautifully built up siege of the last act that something special happens. Set-piece Mark VI: Helm's Deep. The threat carefully grows while Saruman's 'magic' in mixing gunpowder adds a new and real military aspect; the mighty Helm's Deep itself draws on countless sieges against impossible odds, not least Rorke's Drift or the Battle of Thermopylae. In its build up, every crumb is placed delicately: The weakness of man, the retreat into that 'unsinkable ship', the noble last-minute sacrifice of elves. After tour-de-force brutal action, Gandalf's arrival is a new invention, but provides a far more satisfactory conclusion than the book's. Meanwhile, many miles away, Saruman finds himself similarly besieged in his One Tower: an odd, comic and bleak assault all in one.
The Two Towers, despite its wildly loose structure and rather illusory narrative is but a Hobbit hair, the best of the bunch. It lacks the focus of Fellowship and the Bombast of Return but perfectly nails the sterling work that any middle film should do while also failing to show it like good special effect. It kicks off with an audacious opening and on an emotional level it seldom gives up. By the time Helm's Deep appears on screen, the worry of whole species is palpable; far from the individual crises and burdens of Fellowship – not that this aspect ever really leaves).
And so by the end of the film, while little land has been gained, the focus of the story has completely changed. With Isengard paralysed, the two-front war is over (The Hobbit looks to play up the idea that the third front was eliminated in anticipation some 80 years before); and Return of the King is set up to cover the simple slog of Man versus Mordor. If there is a weakness in the piece, it's Frodo, Sam and their bloody elf bread – it drags, but there's little way around that; it seems to be in a Hobbit's nature. This frailty is almost completely is lost behind the impressive Gollum. Still, it seems strange that, with the ring bearer so dislocated, their conclusion of the film hangs on the suspense of Gollum's luring Frodo into a rather inconsequential trap. By pushing that Shelob sequence back to Return of the King, Sam and Frodo's journey lacks that clinical punch it really needs here, but ultimately it's for the greater good. A new story has finally, properly arrived: It's no longer so much about the one ring, but the future king.
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