It was a great day for fishing today on the Mary B III. The dolphin were snapping in 350-400ft of water today, just a mile and a half off the Fort Lauderdale beach. The morning trip was good, but the afternoon was even better. We started the morning drifting on the reef, picking up a few snappers and some other assorted bottom critters (grunts, triggers, porgies). A few boats just outside of us were catching some scattered mahi-mahi, so we decided to go give that a try. We went out to 350ft of water and set up on a drift. We ended up catching 8 mahi-mahi and one lucky angler caught about a 15 pound wahoo, the pool winning fish. On the afternoon trip, we went directly out to 400ft of water to start the trip. We picked at some mahi-mahi catching a few. Trolling is the best way to cover some territory and find more fish. There weren't many people on the afternoon trip, so we decided to pick up the baits and try some trolling. It was a great call by the captain to do this because we started catching fish instantly. The dolphin were all over the place but scattered. Every few minutes we hooked into one or two. We hit one nice school with about 12 fish in it, where every person on the boat had a dolphin on the line at the same time. One angler had a monster 25 pounder on the line, but ultimately broke him off. That would have been the biggest one of the day. The afternoon catch ended up being 32 keeper dolphin, I don't know how many releases and a few assorted bottom fish that we caught drifting over the reef during the last 1/2 hour of the trip. There's some great dolphin action just offshore Fort Lauderdale beach right now. Last November, we had some incredible dolphin fishing action. It looks like this year is starting to get rolling too. This is a great time to come out on a drift fishing trip in Fort Lauderdale. Let's go fishing!
The one that got away- pic of the 25 pounder we busted off. Picture doesn't do the fish justice.
There's some great action on the Fort Lauderdale reefs this month. The kingfish and bonitos are biting great and are providing non-stop action when trolling the reefs. Mahi-mahi are also out there in abundance and while it does take some time to find them, they are out there to be found. Snapper fishing on the bottom continues to be productive this month. All in all, there's great action fishing the reefs and offshore waters of Fort Lauderdale.
Big muttons are biting this month on the bottom. Our drift boat, the Catch My Drift, is catching a lot of them on the afternoon and night trips. Morning has been okay, but afternoon and night fishing has been unquestionably better. Mutton snappers are biting ballyhoo, sardines and cigar minnows. When you are mutton fishing, there are a lot of other bottom fish you can catch too. Groupers are biting excellent this year and this is a great month to catch them. Reds, blacks, gags, scamps and other types of groupers are biting on the 60-80ft reefs and on the deeper shipwrecks in 200-300ft of water. Cobia follow the mullet run and are biting as well. You never know what you might pull off the bottom this time of year.
Lastly, wahoos are biting better this year than I have ever seen them bite. Maybe we're just getting better at catching them, but lots and lots of big wahoos have been hitting the docks over the past few weeks. Wahoo are the fastest fish in the ocean and traditionally like a fast trolled lure. We have been high speed trolling whenever we move from spot to spot and also on the way back to the inlet at the end of the trip. Doing this, we've caught a lot of big wahoos that we wouldn't have caught otherwise. As my dad always told me, you have to travel that distance to get where you are going anyway, may as well throw a bait out. You might get lucky and make the day. Can't catch a fish if you don't throw out a line. Good luck fishing this week everyone, the fish are snappin'!!!!


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Envy Motorsports exists today as Tucson's go-to shop for tuning and vehicle installations—especially within the Jeep category.
Bob Southard has spent the majority of his life entrenched in the automotive industry, working primarily as a distributor. A self-professed "Jeep guy" and lover of just about anything with a seven-slot grille, Southard was determined to open a shop capable of providing Arizona customers with excellent service, whether their vehicles were Jeeps or otherwise. Southard specializes in marketing and online work, and he eventually found the missing puzzle pieces he needed to open his business: a master tuner and an installer, both crucial pieces to the shop he always envisioned.
In 2014, Southard and three others took on a Jeep build together. It ended up as a feature vehicle at the SEMA Show and was ultimately the catalyst to open the shop of their own. With the team in place, Envy Motorsports opened its doors for the first time shortly thereafter. We spoke with Southard to find out how he managed to launch a performance shop in the Amazon era.
SEMA News: With the shop now up and running for a few years, what does Envy Motorsports look like today?
Bob Southard: From the beginning, our intention was to be a full-service shop. We often say that anyone can just bolt parts onto a vehicle, but rarely does a shop enhance a vehicle's performance with professional, expert tuning. Evan, our dyno/tuning specialist and co-owner of Envy, can work on just about anything, so installing tunes and upgrading performance is a large majority of what we do. However, we are still equipped to install cosmetic upgrades to a vehicle as well as work on custom graphics.
When we initially opened in early 2015, our dyno was off-site. Now it has made sense to bring everything in-house and make a few other improvements in the process. Our new shop is about 2,500 sq. ft. and includes three installation bays, one mobile dyno—a piece of technology we are currently developing and are very excited about—and an office space.
The shop has three installation bays along with an in-house dyno.
SN: How did the SEMA Show play a role in Envy's founding?
BS: Myself and the other few who founded Envy all have long histories with the SEMA Show. In 2014, we joined forces on a Jeep build that made it to the Show floor that year. One year later, we opened Envy, noting the camaraderie and unique abilities of our work as a team.
Later that year, Envy built an Edelbrock-supercharged Wrangler for the Show. Most recently, in 2017, we had the honor of building a TJ Jeep that was selected as a feature vehicle by the Light Truck Accessory Alliance, so there is a history with SEMA builds and this shop that goes back several years. It is one that we hope continues well into the future.
SN: What products does Envy sell, and how does it go about selling them?
BS: A significant portion of our business is installation and performance tuning, because our shop caters to that so well. In addition to our service capabilities, we run and maintain a parts catalog online. Our roots run deep with the Jeep brand, so you will find many parts and accessories for Jeep, though the parts we sell really do run the gamut from truck and SUV to sport compact.
The products we sell are cultivated through long-term relationships, including a few that actually feature Envy Motorsports branding, because we played an active role in their development and manufacturing. Such is the case with our new tuning solution for the TJ Jeep that we developed in conjunction with Haltech.
Our other Envy-branded products are a line of air intakes and fan shrouds for Magnum Power superchargers—again something we played a role in developing. The other featured products are those from manufacturers that we have long-standing relationships with and whose work we trust immensely. S-Tech and Team Tech Off-Road are great examples of that.
We are not a brick-and-mortar shop, but it is worth noting that this is by design. In past market research, we noted that customers have fast, free shipping at the very top of their priority list when it comes to buying parts. And that is accomplished with the online channels we use to sell, including Amazon, eBay and Walmart. Keeping overhead low and selling solely through online channels has been a great complement to the work we do in the shop.
co-owner/tuning specialist, and Carlos Campas, shop installation head.
SN: Describe your sales breakdown and what markets are the most prominent.
BS: As an Arizona native with an Arizona-based business, we do see a big share of business from local customers, many of whom end up requesting that we install their products after their purchase. That said, because we sell many off-road products, the Mexican market has become something major for Envy. I encourage other retailers to look into Mexico as a viable market to sell products. Mexico is big with Jeeps and is looking to buy quality parts to fit that niche. Such is the case with S-Tech switches, which sell very well for us.
SN: Can you name a few best practices that come to mind with Envy?
BS: If I had to describe our entire philosophy when it comes to existing as a business, it always comes back to communication with our customers. Go to the SEMA Show and network with customers, both old and new. I cannot express just how valuable that resource is to a retailer/shop. Beyond that, we keep communication lines open with customers past the typical shop hours. If I have to answer a text from a customer in the evening to address something in a moment of concern, I will. Keeping communication open and available at all times with customers is paramount. Have phone numbers, both shop and mobile, and be as accessible as possible.
Five employees in a 2,500 sq.-ft. shop.
Specializes in tuning vehicles and Jeep product development/builds.
Sells products online via Amazon, eBay and Walmart.
TJ Jeep selected in 2017 as a Light Truck Accessory Alliance feature vehicle at the SEMA Show.
SN: What does the future look like for Envy Motorsports?
BS: Envy Motorsports is looking forward to building on what we have created. One of the major areas we focus on as a shop is embracing technology in as many ways as possible. We have an in-house 3-D printer, which is used for product fitment and development. In addition to keeping up with this very useful technology, we will continue to build a portfolio of technology that will allow us to best serve our customers.
We feel strongly about staying relevant with shop technology. The moment you fall behind with keeping the shop tech-savvy is the moment that you preclude potential business and efficiency.
Apart from our efforts in keeping the shop technologically advanced, our major shop goal is to start taking on more ground-up bespoke builds. We work frequently with product installations and have a detailed history with SEMA builds. It only seems fitting to start building custom cars from scratch.


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To provide written material and lesson plans for both children and adults which explains salvation and how to live victoriously.
To reach one million children!
In 1998 Keith Parks designed and wrote a series of books for adults called "Seeds". This series was designed to help new believers understand the gospel and what had occurred when they came to the Lord. Between 1998 and 2000, Heather Card wrote a course for children, based on the Seeds course. This book is called Seedlings. The first part of these books teaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while the second set of lessons are based on Peter 1: 7-11, with the concept that if a person continues to do these things, they will never fall.
In 2000, Seeds Publications International was formed with the goal providing these written materials to people around the world.
Seedlings is presently written in English and Spanish with plans to also produce a French, Romanian and Khmer version. The Seedlings course had been taught in Europe, Central America, Africa, Asia and Northern Canada. Rather than just being a Sunday School curriculum, Seeds attempts to get into the public schools and the course is taught to grade four students, as part of their regular classroom.
Presently, Seedlings is taught in about 600 classrooms around the world and reached 15,030 children in 2015. Since 2000, there have been 328,500 grade four children who have taken the Seedlings program, and over 750,000 that have seen our assembly programs. Some of these children have grown up and are teaching the program in their respective countries. Seeds is presently operating, or has operated, in 13 countries and have sent over 25 teams.
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$12.00 will train one child for a year. $30.00 will provide training for one classroom for a month. $360.00 will provide training for the classroom for the year, reaching thirty grade four children.
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Our current economic system requires urgent change. But how can that be done? We need change that takes account of how living systems function, and how they can be changed without "interrupting service." That is systemic change.
Systemic change, like a concert performance requires many instruments. A piano or a violin alone are not enough. It is also not good enough if everybody simply starts playing or thinks that his instrument is more important than all the others. It is vital that people play together.
A functioning economy of abundance of life requires many instruments – but it must not be defined or directed by any one of its instruments.
For example, the "market" is a category of instruments that can play a useful role to support the abundance of life, provided they are appropriately designed. Therefore, an economy of abundance of life would be an economy with markets, but not a market economy. Likewise, an economy of abundance of life would recognize the important role of self-provisioning, but it would not be a subsistence or self-provisioning economy.
improved democratic procedures in economy and politics.
Some of these change require a long time to be implemented. In the short to medium term, a social-ecological full employment initiative could set us on a good path.
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A beautiful landscape can be achieved by properly pruning, edging and mulching, installing a new walkway or starting from scratch to design a space that is perfect for you. When you choose Scapeway Gardeners from West Bridgewater, MA, you are working with a fully licensed and insured landscape company. It is the owner Jim Nolan who will return your call or e-mail, as well as meet with you for a free property analysis to see how Scapeway Gardeners may assist with your landscape needs.
Scapeway Gardeners knows that every property is unique and each client has their own set of expectations. Scapeway Gardeners will look at how we may be limited or helped by the natural landscape.
A new walkway makes a great impression upon entering a home. Need more space to gather or entertain? There are so many different, materials, colors, shapes and patterns to choose from.
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Trial / Dominic Ongwen & Thomas Kwoyelo
February 21, 2019 May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti
Witness Tells ICC Ongwen Struggled during His Early Days in the LRA
Dominic Ongwen, Dominic Ongwen & Thomas Kwoyelo, Summary
Operation Iron Fist, Witness D-32, promotion
A witness told the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he first met Dominic Ongwen in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) about 29 years ago Ongwen was young, but later Ongwen would be promoted to dissuade him from leaving the group.
Witness D-32 told the court on Thursday, February 21, he first met Ongwen in 1990, and, at the time, Ongwen struggled with many things in the LRA that adults were able to do. He estimated Ongwen was 13 or 14 years old at the time. Witness D-32 began testifying at the ICC on Tuesday.
"What makes me believe he was young was because at that time when we are on the move, for instance when we are crossing a big water [river] that had burst its banks he could not cross on his own, so he had to be carried. He could not move over long distances," said Witness D-32.
When speaking of moving over long distances Witness D-32 was referring to the fact LRA members generally trekked to their destinations in different parts of northern Uganda.
Witness D-32 is testifying for the defense in the trial of Ongwen, a former LRA commander, who has been charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ongwen is alleged to have had a role in those crimes, which the prosecution has said occurred in northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005.
On Thursday, Thomas Obhof, one of Ongwen's lawyers, asked Witness D-32 what he knew about some of the promotions Ongwen received in the LRA. Witness D-32 said Ongwen was promoted to cadet officer in 1996, and it was common for someone of Ongwen's age to be promoted to that rank.
"Would you know why Mr. Ongwen was promoted to a cadet officer?" asked Obhof.
"Mr. Ongwen was promoted, first they considered the year he was abducted, the training and how he became a soldier, and when he became a soldier he also trained others and they were put in his care and they stayed with him … They found that he was very knowledgeable and experienced as a soldier. Secondly, he was promoted to be encouraged to stay in the bush," answered Witness D-32.
"How common was it for people to be promoted in the bush to encourage people to stay in the bush?" asked Obhof.
"It was not very common at the time, but they would promote according to the lot or the group of people, depending on how long they have stayed in the bush," replied Witness D-32.
The witness also told the court that during the time of Operation Iron Fist many people, including Ongwen, were promoted. Witness D-32 said this happened because some commanders were killed during that period, and they needed to be replaced. He testified that LRA leader Joseph Kony said people were being promoted to increase the number of commanders in the LRA and make it easier to manage their fighters.
Operation Iron Fist is what the Ugandan military called its offensive on LRA bases in then neighboring Sudan (now South Sudan), which began in 2002 and continued for some years. Operation Iron Fist also involved the Ugandan military attacking LRA positions in northern Uganda.
Witness D-32 said another reason for the rise in promotions in the LRA during the period of Operation Iron Fist was Kony anticipated there would be peace talks.
He said the senior commanders were given higher ranks, "To make the negotiators believe that those who came for the peace talks are high ranking officers."
Part of the testimony of Witness D-32 was closed to the public as part of in-court measures to protect his identity. His face was also distorted in public broadcasts of the hearing. The witness also did not name any person or places that could easily lead to him being identified by the public.
Obhof also asked Witness D-32 what he knew about LRA attacks on the Pajule and Odek camps for internally displaced people (IDP). Obhof asked him about an October 2003 attack on Pajule and an April 2004 attack on Odek. Ongwen has been charged for his alleged role in those attacks.
Witness D-32 said he did not take part in either attack nor did he sit with those who planned the attacks. He said he heard about the Pajule attack from a woman who was not named in open court. He said she told him Tolbert Yadin Nyeko and Raska Lukwiya were the two senior commanders in charge of the Pajule attack. He said she told him Tolbert was reporting the attack's progress on radio to Vincent Otti, the then deputy LRA leader. He said Onen Unita is another commander she told him took part in the attack.
The witness also told the court that he heard about the Pajule attack on radio when Otti was reporting to Kony about what happened.
"Do you remember if he [Otti] mentioned [that] Mr. Ongwen fought in the Pajule attack?" asked Obhof.
"Well, I do not recall that, and also I did not hear him mention that Ongwen was in the attack," replied Witness D-32.
On the Odek attack, Witness D-32 said he heard Kony on radio speaking to all his commanders and complaining about the people of Odek. He said Kony referred to Odek residents as "my people" during the transmission because Kony is from Odek.
"They [Odek residents] were stubborn, and they needed to be punished some day," said Witness D-32, quoting what he heard Kony say over the radio. "I think he was talking to all the commanders. I did not hear him give a specific instruction to a commander to go and do this or that."
The prosecution will cross-examine Witness D-32 on Friday.
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La Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Ciudad Real (ETSICCP) es un centro universitario de enseñanza de ingeniería civil perteneciente a la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
Sus titulaciones de Grado en Ingeniería Civil y Máster en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos cuentan con el reconocimiento internacional del Sello EUR-ACE.

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La Escuela de Caminos de Ciudad Real fue fundada en 1998 por José María de Ureña, profesor de la Escuela de Caminos de Santander y Rector de la Universidad de Cantabria entre 1986 y 1992; y contó con el impulso de figuras como Enrique Castillo Ron, prestigioso ingeniero y matemático, y futuro profesor de la Escuela.

Ureña, que se convertiría en el primer Director de la Escuela, había realizado varias estancias en instituciones educativas de Estados Unidos y decidió diseñar e implantar una metodología de aprendizaje basado en proyectos (PBL) innovadora y única en las escuelas de ingeniería españolas.

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Actualmente, la Escuela de Caminos de Ciudad Real ofrece las siguientes titulaciones:

 Grado en Ingeniería Civil Y Territorial (especialidades en Hidrología e Hidráulica y Transportes y Servicios Urbanos)
 Grado en Matemáticas
 Máster en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
 Máster en BIM en Diseño y Dirección de Proyectos
 Doble Máster en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos + BIM en Diseño y Dirección de Proyectos
 Máster en Urbanismo, Dinamización y Desarrollo Sostenible de Municipios y Ciudades Pequeños (UCLM-JCCM)
 Programa Académico en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (PARS)
 Doctorado en Territorio, Infraestructuras y Medio Ambiente

Métodología PBL

Una de las principales características de la Escuela de Ciudad Real que la diferencia de otras escuelas de España es su singular Plan de Estudios, que además de asignaturas tradicionales incluye también los denominados "Trabajos Proyectuales", materias en las que se plantea una problemática real y los estudiantes deben desarrollar una solución y presentar un proyecto en grupo.

Estas asignaturas se basan en la metodología Project Based Learning (PBL) en la que los conocimientos se adquieren haciendo, orientando la docencia de la Escuela a los casos reales y las formas de trabajo que los estudiantes se encontrarán cuando finalicen sus estudios.

Algunos ejemplos de estos Trabajos Proyectuales son:

 TP: Ingeniería y Territorio
 TP: Proyecto y Ordenación de las Vías de Comunicación y Territorio
 TP: Modelización y Gestión de Recursos Hídricos
 TP: Diseño y Dimensionamiento de una Estructura

Instalaciones

La Escuela desarrolla la práctica totalidad de sus actividades en el Edificio Politécnico del Campus de Ciudad Real, edificio que comparte con la Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial. Cuenta con aulas, salas de estudio para cada curso y un espacio de ocio para el disfrute de todos los estudiantes.

Dispone de laboratorios de Materiales, Mecánica de Suelos y Ecología, y otro de Hidráulica, este último de especial relevancia internacional, que se ubica en un edificio propio y separado de la sede principal.

Desde 2022 guarda y expone algunas de las piezas que iban a destinarse al fallido Museo del Ferrocarril de Ciudad Real.

Directores

La lista de personas que han dirigido la Escuela desde su creación es la que sigue:

 José María de Ureña Francés (1998 - 2005)
 José María Menéndez Martínez (2005 - 2009)
 Gonzalo Ruiz López (2009 - 2013)
 José María Coronado Tordesillas (2013 - 2017)
 Ana María Rivas Álvarez (2017 - actualidad)

Asociaciones y cultura

Cada año se celebra en primavera el "Día de la Escuela" en el que se realizan diversas actividades deportivas, gastronómicas y de entretenimiento destinadas a la convivencia y relación de todos los miembros de la comunidad de Caminos Ciudad Real.

Entre sus asociaciones se encuentran el Club Deportivo y el Coro.

La televisión autonómica de Castilla-La Mancha, CMM, le dedicó en 2019 un reportaje especial a la Escuela.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de la ETSICCP | UCLM
 Página oficial de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

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Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Brian Selznick, Georges Méliès, Hugo, Hugo Cabret, Martin Scorsese, Montparnasse on November 28, 2011| 4 Comments »
The New York Times review called it a movie one might expect from the celebrated director. Well, it's not what I expected.
When my friend Dave Darrow recommends a film, I generally take notice. Hugo jumped to the top of my list. He also included a spoiler alert. "The less you know about this one, the more you'll enjoy it," he said.
So, in that spirit, I will suggest here that you stop reading until you've seen it – except to add that you ought to buy a 3D ticket. It's worth the extra couple of bucks. OK. Stop here.
Unless, like me, the more you know, the more you see. These days, serious movies pack significance into every frame. A casual run-through means you probably missed a lot. Another friend, Brandon Cesmat, professor of cinema at the State University in San Marcos, advises his students that any film worth watching at all is worth watching twice. He recommends that the first time you include sub-titles, then watch it again without. (Sadly, this can't be done in the theater.)
The first surprise, that Martin Scorsese would make a film suitable for children (PG) is followed by the second – that it would have a happy ending (there's the first spoiler – more to come). For me, great films are not about the surprises, the twists or the sudden shocks that trigger an adrenaline burst. Great films are not predictable either – but are, instead, soul food. They speak to human longing. They capture emotion. They articulate our questions. Our fears. Our hopes and dreams. Our tragedies. Our triumphs. They teach. They lead to discoveries; reveal secrets; bring insight. That silver screen transports us to worlds we would otherwise never know. Some imagined. Some real. Great movies are a process; from beginning to end. Keats said it in poetry: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Some films are just plain beautiful.
Hugo is Scorsese's tribute to the birth of cinema. Both adults and kids will get it. As the director's career has matured, he has devoted considerable time and resource to the restoration of otherwise lost film. No surprise, then, that he took special note of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a 2007 book by Brian Selznick (cousin to David O., who directed Gone with the Wind in 1939). It is a sort of historical novel that traces the evolution of film making all the way back to one of the most notable cinematic pioneers, Georges Méliès. A Parisian magician, Méliès, fascinated by one of the first projectors invented in 1895, employed his own silent movie creations in his magic act. He developed some of the first "special effects." You may recall the grainy, jerky, quirky space flight sequence. A missile (that resembles a man-sized bullet) containing a half dozen science wizards is launched from a giant cannon aimed directly at a full moon. As a stunned audience watches from earth, the spacecraft strikes the smiling man in the moon in the eye – a direct hit. It is a lunar landing imagined over a hundred years ago. Some call it the first sci-fi flick. That was Georges Méliès, 1902.
The Great War (WWI) decimated a good portion of Europe, but also Méliès' entertainment business. Weary of the bloodshed and the devastating ruins, Parisian crowds had little interest in magicians or comedy, much less the shadowy, farcical images projected on a screen in a darkened room. George went bust. His back lot, which once was the scene of wild imagination and intrigue, costuming and outrageous adventure, demons and dragons, mermaids and Greek mythology all went the way of the rubble still smoldering in the battlefield. Demoralized and broke, Méliès set the place ablaze, all the props and costumes and sets lit the night sky in a bonfire that sent his life's work up in smoke. In the searing heat of the flames, in a tragic moment of deep despair, with the dramatic flair he had once captured on film, he tossed in those old celluloid reels, too.
With what remaining resources he had left, he purchased a little toyshop at the fabled train station at Montparnasse in the heart of Paris. There, he repaired and sold little mechanical toys until, one fateful day, he encountered young Hugo Cabret, whom he recognized immediately as a no-good little thief – a street urchin who, if in London, would have been a main character in a Dickens novel. Hugo, a boy orphaned by his father's accidental death, worked all the mechanical clocks in the huge turn-of-the-century station, where steam engines transported Parisians all over France and beyond.
Accusing him of theft, and at the same time recognizing his mechanical gift, he forces the boy to work in his shop in exchange for the value of the stolen goods. There, he meets George's adopted daughter, young Isabelle. She is smart, too. Hugo, street wise, loves to fix things, complicated things. He has an eye for gears and wheels and springs and pulleys and weights and chains, large and small. He finds adventure in the tunnels and on catwalks and the secret hideaways of the train station, watching the world through slots in the clock faces. Isabelle, a couple of years older, is book smart. She finds her adventures in the library and the piled up books that line the shelves – Charles Dickens and John Burrows (The Adventures of Robin Hood). She employs unlikely words like "reprobate" and "clandestine" and "your covert lair." Too charming.
Their adventure becomes ours. There are chases and train wrecks and nightmares and an ever-foreboding gendarme (the Inspector) who, in spite of his knee brace, must be avoided at every turn. But the centerpiece of the story is an automaton, a mechanical human with a metal face whose innards are a complex combination of music box and clockworks. The steel manikin plays a role, too. He writes with a fountain pen.
The heart-shaped key will be all the explanation you need.
Scorsese may well identify with Méliès who arrives at his latter years – when one reflects on a lifetime of work and wonders, what did it all mean? Who cares? What is really important, after all?
The answer is in Hugo's eyes. And the brass key in the shape of a heart.
Copyright Kenneth E Kemp 2011
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Apocalypse Now, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, The Prodigal, The Way, Wizard of Oz on November 7, 2011| 3 Comments »
I was twenty-eight years of age when I first explored Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus, Apocalypse Now. Intrigued by the filmmaker's attempt to elucidate the dark nuances emanating from the nightmare many of my contemporaries knew from personal experience, the Vietnam War, I studied the writer/director's retelling of Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness. Martin Sheen was thirty-six then, only eight years my senior. Great actors morph themselves into their characters, Sheen so effectively that when the cameras rolled, he became the deeply disturbed Captain Benjamin L. Willard. The complete emotional, psychological breakdown written into the script took down the actor, too, in real life, complete with cardiac arrest. It nearly killed him, right there on the set in Southeast Asia back in the late seventies. That celebrated performance set a standard for actors to come. But mainly, it underscored the terror, no, the horror of a war that leaves its imprint to this very day.
Sheen remains eight years my senior. But Apocalypse Now was a long time ago. This weekend, I was introduced to a very different version of Martin Sheen. We have all changed since those turbulent pre-Reagan days.
There have been lots of roles for Sheen since. Many of us think of him as President Josiah Bartlett, of The West Wing. Most recently, Sheen appears as Dr. Tom Avery, a California ophthalmologist in a film written and directed by the other son, Emilio Estevez (who did not take his father's screen name, as did Charlie). Charlie had no role in this project. He's been busy.
If Martin Sheen is the Prodigal Father who had two sons, one would be Charlie, the other Emilio. While Charlie may readily seem the younger profligate brother in the biblical parable, Emilio doesn't really fit as the indignant older brother, mainly because of the complete absence of resentment. On the contrary, Emilio is the good son who has presented his dad with a priceless gift: a role consistent with the father Martin Sheen has been in real life. (Martin Sheen's birth name is Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez.) When Henry Fonda took his final bow as an actor in On Golden Pond, he and Jane reconciled as father and daughter on the big screen for us all to see. Here, Emilio handed a script and a storyline to his dad, one that would cement his legacy in our minds. Perhaps it would put that bedroom scene from Apocalypse Now (in which he breaks a Freudian mirror and collapses in a heap of existential angst) in some sort of distant, thespian context. Here, he might emerge as the curmudgeonly but likeable, distant dad who, after all, really does care about his family.
At age fourteen, back in Vietnam, Emilio was there on location along with the Sheen family. The boy battled his alcohol and drug drenched father, as his mother and three siblings watched. Not long afterwards, Martin, terrified by his capacity to self-destruct, sought out treatment, and cleaned up his life. He and Janet not only stayed together (they were married in 1961). They built a life. This year, they celebrate their fiftieth anniversary.
Now a seasoned actor and director himself, Emilio produced a film that stars his father in the leading role. He calls it The Way. For a thousand years, pilgrims have trekked the five hundred mile route from France through northern Spain to the Cathedral at Santiago de Compostela near the rocky Atlantic seacoast – the Camino de Santiago. In the new film, Dr. Tom Avery (Martin Sheen) drives his son Daniel to the airport. As they drive, Daniel describes his plan to trace the ancient pilgrimage. Tom clearly considers the exercise a waste of time and money. Daniel pleads with his overworked, distracted father to join him. Tom turns down the offer. The son grows impatient. He lectures his father, berating him for his truncated, predictable, comfortable ways.
"That's life," says Tom with a shrug.
Daniel replies, "There's the life we live, and then there is the life we choose." It's a line that will come to haunt the good doctor.
On the golf course, Tom gets an unexpected call from France. "It's your son, Daniel. He was caught in a terrible storm in the Pyrenees on the most treacherous stretch of the Camino de Santiago. He was found dead, too late," a voice reports with a heavy French accent.
Tom, a recent widower, flies to France to identify and recover his son's body. As an uncharacteristically impulsive move to honor his dead son, he determines to complete the impossible trek on his own. And thus, he proceeds on The Way, toting his boy's backpack and a silver box containing Daniel's ashes.
Engulfed by his grief and regret, he has no interest in the others who crowd the ancient pathway. But something like the Wizard of Oz, three others eventually join him and form an unlikely pack. It is said that everyone who chooses to leave home and country to pursue pilgrimage has a reason – each unique. So it is with Tom's three improbable companions. One, a gregarious Dutchman named Joost, who just wants to loose weight. An emotionally wounded Canadian woman, Sarah, joins them, too, claiming that the pilgrimage is her way to quit smoking. A philosopher, historian, novelist, and Irishman named Jack hopes this journey will cure writer's block and provide grist for a new book.
We watched a screening of the film on a college campus that overlooks the Getty Museum in Brentwood and then listened in as Martin Sheen, his son Emilio Estevez and several others, including my friend Scott Young, discussed the filming and the script that took us all on that Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Scott sees this as a coming of age for the man who came undone in the making of Apocalypse Now and now emerges with some semblance of wholeness in The Way. We learn that this transcendent journey means much more than losing weight, quitting bad habits like smoking, curing writers block or, for that matter, bringing a lost loved one back.
It is about something else. Something much more profound.
Don't take my word for it. Check it out.
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A: In the dictionary it's drop-down: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop-down
Also "drop-down" prevails on tech websites like apple.com or microsoft.com.
I think that this is the best indicator: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=drop-down%2C+drop+down&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

A: In the Merriam Webster dictionary, it is drop-down, but it also shows dropdown. —
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop-down "drop-down or dropdown noun, plural drop-downs or dropdowns "

A: If it's just the compound adjective, use drop-down list.
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Bradner & Kezia Curtis Part II
The final resting place of Bradner & Kezia Curtis is an impressive vault in the IOOF Cemetery. It overshadows the gravesite of Melvin Belli, the famous San Francisco attorney, only 25 ft. away.
Before I started my research I presumed that the Curtis family was quite wealthy and well known in the community. To my surprised I learned that Bradner Curtis was a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley and the family never lived in Sonora. How was his family able to construct a remarkable crypt, made from Sierra Nevada granite? The new information I received would answer this question.
The Curtis family moved permanently to Stockton, from Tuolumne County in 1854. Mr. Curtis made sufficient money mining to purchase 320 acres of land just north of the city at the cost of $12.00 per acre. In 1885 30 acres of this tract sold for $333 dollars per acre.
As Stockton continued to grow, so did the value of the Curtis property. Selling her land allowed Mrs. Curtis and her family to live quite comfortably. Kezia was also able to honor her husband's request and build a family vault per his instructions.
Mr. Curtis also bought a block of land in Stockton on Vine, and Rose Streets. At the time of purchase it was a grain field. Mr. Curtis built a house on this property and made it his home until his death, March 4 1881. Later Mrs. Curtis moved a house from the ranch and these two houses are still standing on the property at 1245 N. Center Street in Stockton, Mrs. Curtis lived in one of the houses with her daughter, Belle Kate, and next door to her son Fornia, on Center Street until her death at the age of 101, Kezia died. Pictures of the house(s) are , see the pictures of the house(s) in the left hand column.
Note: It is believed that the young couple named their youngest boy Fornia Stockton Curtis after their newly adopted home state and city, Fornia, being derived from Cali-FORNIA, and the middle name for Stockton, California.
Below is a picture taken of the Curtis house in 2015.
1245 N. Center Street, Stockton CA
The photo above is of Kezia's handwritten recipe book open to recipes for a
"Floating Island," graham cake, and hair dye.
Kezia Curtis –
The Gold Rush presented many opportunities for women, and Kezia did a lucrative business selling pies and pastries to the miners. Like cooks through the ages, Kezia Benton Curtis collected recipes worth remembering. She kept a little brown booklet filled with them. On the inside cover, she wrote the title "Kezia's Receipt Book." Receipt was the way recipe was spelled in her day.
Kezia's receipt book reveals just how self-reliant and resourceful a wife and mother in mid-nineteenth century, rural America had to be to ensure the health and wellbeing of her family. Alongside recipes for coconut pudding and fig marmalade are instructions for preparing medicines, brewing beer, and manufacturing cleaning solutions, cosmetics, and other useful products. When there was no professional medical help nearby, the pioneer homemaker had to cope the best she could when a family member was injured or fell ill. Kezia's receipt book contains remedies for some of most dreaded diseases of the era: diphtheria, smallpox, and scarlet fever. The following is one example of these therapies:
It is believed that Kezia's receipt book was compiled and used in the mid-19th century. The only date in the booklet is "5 month 23rd day. 1881" Kezia's receipt book may be the oldest in the State Library's sizable California cookbook collection. It may also be unique within the collection in that it is a personal, handwritten collection of recipes.
Written By Denine Urquhart
California State Library Foundation – Bulletin Number 81
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Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro
Catherine A. Vandevoort, Namdori R. Mtango, Young S. Lee, George W. Smith, Keith E. Latham
There is a vital need to identify factors that enhance human and nonhuman primate in vitro embryo culture and outcome, and to identify the factors that facilitate that objective. Granulosa and cumulus cells were obtained from rhesus monkeys that had either been FSH-primed (in vitro maturation [IVM]) or FSH and hCG-primed (in vivo maturation [VVM]) and compared for the expression of mRNAs encoding follistatin (FST), inhibin, and activin receptors. The FST mRNA displayed marginally decreased expression (P = 0.05) in association with IVM in the granulosa cells. The ACVR1B mRNA was more highly expressed in cumulus cells with IVM compared with VVM. Cumulus-oocyte complexes from FSH-primed monkeys exposed to exogenous FST during the 24-h IVM period exhibited no differences in the percentage of oocytes maturing to the metaphase II stage of meiosis compared to controls. However, embryos from these oocytes had significantly decreased development to the blastocyst stage. The effect of FST on early embryo culture was determined by exposing fertilized VVM oocytes to exogenous FST from 12 to 60 h postinsemination. FST significantly improved time to first cleavage and embryo development to the blastocyst stage compared with controls. The differential effects of exogenous FST on embryo development, when administered before and after oocyte maturation, may depend on the endogenous concentration in cumulus cells and oocytes. These results reveal evolutionary conservation of a positive effect of FST on embryogenesis that may be broadly applicable to enhance in vitro embryogenesis, with potential application to human clinical outcome and livestock and conservation biology.
Biology of Reproduction
https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198
Granulosa cells
Oocyte development
Rhesus macaque
10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198
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Vandevoort, C. A., Mtango, N. R., Lee, Y. S., Smith, G. W., & Latham, K. E. (2009). Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro. Biology of Reproduction, 81(6), 1139-1146. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198
Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro. / Vandevoort, Catherine A.; Mtango, Namdori R.; Lee, Young S.; Smith, George W.; Latham, Keith E.
In: Biology of Reproduction, Vol. 81, No. 6, 2009, p. 1139-1146.
Vandevoort, CA, Mtango, NR, Lee, YS, Smith, GW & Latham, KE 2009, 'Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro', Biology of Reproduction, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1139-1146. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198
Vandevoort CA, Mtango NR, Lee YS, Smith GW, Latham KE. Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro. Biology of Reproduction. 2009;81(6):1139-1146. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198
Vandevoort, Catherine A. ; Mtango, Namdori R. ; Lee, Young S. ; Smith, George W. ; Latham, Keith E. / Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro. In: Biology of Reproduction. 2009 ; Vol. 81, No. 6. pp. 1139-1146.
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Acclaimed author to visit campus
The university Honors Program will host the internationally acclaimed author Julia Alvarez on April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Otto Budig Theater. Alvarez has written 19 books for a wide variety of audiences ranging from adults to children. As both a writer and activist, Alvarez has established a global reputation for her work. Alvarez is coming to NKU to discuss her latest work, "A Wedding in Haiti." For more information or to RSVP for the event, contact Stephanie Churchill at honors@nku.edu or 859-572-1373. The event is open to the public.
Business professor named to Cincy Magazine's Outstanding Educators List
Rodney D'Souza, a professor at the Haile/US Bank College, has been named to Cincy Magazine's Outstanding Educators Class of 2013. This list features professors who are among many nominees received from students and colleagues. These professors are nominated based on various factors including spending extra time with students, displaying innovation in the classroom and excellence in academic research. D'Souza is the director of the INKUBATOR, an accelerator that aims to increase the competitive advantage for students by providing applied education, mentoring, financing, facilities and other related resources necessary for a successful startup process. D'Souza's research interests are in the area of opportunity recognition, new venture teams and new venture investment. D'Souza has been published in various academic journals and presented papers at several national conferences. D'Souza was one of eight professors at NKU who earned this designation.
Student earns first place at neuroscience poster competition
Senior biological sciences major Amy Ashworth was recently recognized for her work in quantifying the levels of different metabolic enzymes in parts of mice brains. Ashworth won first place in the Neuroscience Day Poster Competition, Undergraduate/High School Category. While the enzymes particular to her research are best known for their function in the liver, other research has reported that these enzymes are expressed in the brain as well, although their function has not yet been determined. Ashworth has worked in the laboratory of NKU professor Christine Curran for three years. Ashworth was aided by researchers at the University of Cincinnati as well as David Thompson of NKU. Ashworth also received first place for Best Undergraduate Poster at the Ohio Valley Society of Toxicology meeting in September 2012 and was one of five students to receive a Pfizer Undergraduate Research Travel Award to the National Society of Toxicology meeting in March.
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