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Repeat the scene in that form. After about doing this three or four times, the director declares the scene a success. Everyone starts to celebrate. The director tells the cameraman he wants the film in his office. The cameraman then relizes that he does not have any film in the camera, cast chases him off stage. |
Variation: In the begining, the cameraman relizes he has run out of batteries. The director is to busy to listen to him, so he tells the audience and then sits in the first row and watches until the end when the director finally realizes he is missing. |
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Need a camera man, director, two actors, doctor, extras could be used. Practice forms so everyone knows how to act. |
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Wind power is stirring up the neighbor isles, where the resource would be captured |
By Vicki Viotti |
LAST UPDATED: 03:52 a.m. HST, Feb 27, 2011 |
Mike Hamnett co-chairs the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, based on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus, a vantage point that gives him an excellent view of the state's many advantages in the renewable energy movement. |
He also sees its handicaps. |
"The problem with Hawaii is that the geography is all wrong," Hamnett said. "We've got all the people on Oahu and all the resources on the other islands." |
In no case is this mismatch so plainly a problem as it is with the Hawaii Interisland Renewable Energy Program (HIREP), a proposal to capture mammoth bursts of wind energy on the western faces of Lanai and Molokai and then transmit them to Oahu over hundreds of miles of undersea cabling, electrical pipes that, state pl... |
The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, is preparing a programmatic environmental impact statement for the system, and has taken the first round of comments in hearings on several islands. |
This type of EIS is a bit of a departure, because it's meant as a survey on the general concept, underscoring what issues would need to be considered by any individual project seeking permits later. So far, two developers have an interest in the enterprise, which would yield a total of 400 megawatts of power between th... |
Some residents, accustomed to commenting on concrete proposals for a specific location, may have found this a little disconcerting. They raised concerns that various cultural and environmental resources, including hunting and fishing, could be affected, although nobody yet knows where the array of mammoth windmills wou... |
But the message the state's green-energy team gleaned so far from the hearings is that the neighbor islanders feel put-upon by a plan that, they fear, will blight their relatively pristine landscape to fill the energy needs of urban Oahu. |
And yet, as Middle Eastern political shocks drive oil prices skyward, everyone agrees that remaining dependent on petroleum would be disastrous in the long term, no matter how high the short-term public relations hurdles appear now. It's shepherding a recalcitrant community toward more energy independence that is the c... |
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This month Rob continues his series on invertebrate zoology with Ribbon worms (Platyhelminthes and Nemertea)Aquarium Net has numerous articles written by the leading authors for the advanced aquarist |
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Flat & Ribbon worms (Platyhelminthes and Nemertea) |
By Rob Toonen |
In the last article I tried to give a quick overview of some of the interesting and I think largely unknown details of Cnidarian biology. |
Notoplana sp. A flatworm about 3 cm long. There are eyespots visible near the anterior end. Photo by Ron Shimek |
This overview was far from comprehensive, but I tried to touch on some of the interesting research I have come across recently that I thought would be of general interest to hobbyists. Even though the article was longer than I intended, I still covered so little of the available information on cnidarians. |
However, I will leave further details on the group to future articles and am instead going to move on to flatworms (Platyhelminthes) and ribbon worms (Nemerteans) in this article. Most people probably do not know much about either group, and I would hazard to guess that the majority of even reef-keepers have not notice... |
The Phylum Platyhelminthes includes about 20,000 species of parasitic and free-living flatworms (in fact the name Platyhelminthes comes from the Greek roots platy , meaning "flat" and helminth , meaning "worm"). They display a wide variety of body forms and are successful inhabitants of an even greater range of environ... |
Unlike the previous groups we have discussed, the flatworms have three tissue layers, similar to the rest of the groups we will discuss, right through vertebrates. They are cephalized (have an identifiable head region), with a central nervous system. The central nervous system is typically composed of a pair of longitu... |
These animals control their osmotic water balance with specialized structures called protonephridia , which function in much the same way as our own kidneys. Although many parasitic forms lack a gut (e.g., the tapeworms do not require a gut because they live within the digestive material of the host and directly absorb... |
In general, there is far more concern with the parasitic and/or predatory flatworms than there is interest about the care and maintenance of the free-living forms. Many flukes are parasitic on fishes and invertebrates, and many can infect mammals. There are a number of flatworms which commonly infect human hosts (e.g.,... |
The free-living turbellarians typically have a less complicated reproductive cycle. They are still generally hermaphroditic and copulate to engage in mutual cross-fertilization, but most of these forms simply produce a few eggs which are either brooded or laid in protective egg capsules and develop directly into tiny t... |
A common flatworm in the shallow subtidal of the N. E. Pacific Photo by Ron Shimek |
Unlike their cousins I mentioned above, the turbellarians are generally not parasitic. Some species are initially herbivorous, but become carnivorous as they mature. Others are herbivorous or detritivorous scavengers all their lives, living off microalgae and detritus found on the ocean floor. Most, however, are carniv... |
[an error occurred while processing this directive] The other group I wanted to discuss this month are the ribbon worms: Phylum Nemertea. There are only about 900 species of described nemerteans, which range in length from only about 1 cm to several meters when contracted. These animals have an amazing ability to stret... |
Although nemerteans generally use their proboscis to capture prey, some are scavengers and others are commensal (live within the mantle cavity of bivalve molluscs and scoop collected particles from the feeding groove of their host) or feed on plant material. Most species are active predators on various small invertebra... |
The pinkish structure within this small shrimp (Heptacarpus kincaidi ) is a female of the parasitic turbellarian flatworm, Kronborgia pugettensis . Photo Ron Shimek |
Some species are actually capable of sensing and tracking prey over long distances, whereas others seem to wander aimlessly until they physically contact a prey item. The species that actually hunt and track prey can recognize (most likely by some chemical cue) the trail left by their prey, and often fire their probosc... |
As with the flatworms above, polychaete worms and small crustaceans seem to be the favorite prey items for many predatory nemerteans. Even active predators, however, also seem to spend a fair bit of time scavenging. Scavenging behavior is generally different from active predation because the proboscis is only rarely us... |
As with the flat worms above, most nemerteans show remarkable powers of regeneration, and nearly all species can regenerate at least the posterior portions of the body. Those with the most amazing powers of regeneration are certain species of Lineus which regularly undergo transverse fission (body splits into several p... |
Again, as in the flat worms above, some of these animals can be brilliantly colored and relatively benign additions to reef aquaria. Of course, there are also some species that are voracious predators which may cause damage to other species in a reef tank, but many tropical species appear happy to simply scavenge the d... |
In most invertebrate zoology classes, a number of other small, wormlike phyla (such as gnathostomulids , gastrotrichs , kinorhynchs , priapulans , loriciferans , and acanthocephalans ) would be covered following flat and ribbon worms. Although these animals are common in live rock and especially in live sand, they are ... |
Literature Cited: |
Delbeek, J.C. & J. Sprung. 1994. The Reef Aquarium: a comprehensive guide to the identification and care of tropical marine invertebrates. , Ricordea Publishing: Coconut Grove, FL. |
Moe, M.A., Jr., 1993. The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates. Green Turtle Publications, Plantation Florida, 512 pp. |
Ruppert, E. E. & R. D. Barnes. 1994. Invertebrate Zoology. Saunders College Publishing. Philadelphia, 1056 pp. |
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Review: TAKEN by Robert Crais (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel) |
Some writers get better and better with age and experience, some start out great and just get greater. That's Robert Crais. |
TAKEN is the 12th Elvis and Joe book, though I notice that fantasticfiction has it as a Joe Pike book. I beg to differ. But, either/or, it's all in the family. Numbers are irrelevant. Let's face it, Elvis and Joe are family - their remarkably close-knit friendship going back many years - each having saved the life of t... |
The setting is Southern California, Elvis and Joe's preferred stomping grounds. Robert Crais knows this area of the world better than just about anyone. He writes about it with comfortable familiarity and style. But he knows the danger, he knows how the bad guys operate, he knows about the vile human trafficking taking... |
Krista Morales and her boyfriend, Jack Berman have disappeared, though her mother believes it's more likely a prank of some sort - maybe an elopement. She's not happy with Berman as a boyfriend for her daughter, a college grad who is headed for a great job in Washington - destined for big things. Not bad for the daught... |
But Nita Morales has gotten a disturbing phone call demanding ransom for her daughter and decides to call in the World's Greatest Detective. Elvis Cole always says he's joking when he calls himself the world's greatest, but we know he really is the greatest. |
Sure enough, Krista and Jack are in serious trouble. They've witnessed an execution out in the desert and been mistakenly scooped up with a truck load of illegals - held captive by a band of cold-blooded cut-throats known as bajadores. These are bandits who prey on other bandits, stealing and selling human cargo as if ... |
Poverty stricken illegals are caught in the middle - siphoned in from other countries (not just Mexico) by competing cartels who charge exorbitant fees with no guarantees. This is such a tragic situation and I can only imagine that the reality of it is just as sad and dramatic as Robert Crais makes it out to be. |
Elvis Cole finds signs out in the desert that show him Krista and Jack have been taken. He also discovers a body dump nearby and recognizes this as the work of the bajadores. He breaks the bad news to Nita Morales. |
Cole realizes he's going to need help and calls in Joe Pike. Pike calls in Jon Stone, another 'independent contractor' - a quirky (very quirky) mercenary with a photographic memory and an ability to speak several languages. Jon can be off-putting, but he and Pike work very well together having essentially received the ... |
When Elvis Cole is, himself, taken by the bad guys - you almost role your eyes. Boy did they pick the wrong person. Pike is intent on getting Elvis back but, as Jon Stone tells Nancy Stendahl - Jack Berman's aunt who also happens to be a federal agent: "When we find these people, if Cole's dead, they aren't walking ou... |
They know that Elvis has been taken by a guy the Mexicans call the Syrian, a merciless killer whose business is stealing and selling human beings, replenishing his cargo from other bajadores then getting rid of the detritus of murder as he moves from 'safe house' to safe house. |
The Syrian and his henchmen do not play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. The violence in TAKEN can be hard to deal with, but these are people who have no conscience - Robert Crais understands this. |
As for the 'how-to', Crais has divided the book into sections, some which count back in time, some which separate the points of view of Krista and Jack, Elvis, Pike, Jon Stone and even Nancy Stendahl who enters the story in the latter part of the book. This works well in the telling of the story, acting as a kind of ke... |
The book is handily designed in way that makes everything clear as you go along. |
An amazing book written by an author at the very top of his game. A guy unafraid to try something new. |
1. Well, Yvette - this will be going on my next TBR list! (still struggling to find time to whittle down the current one!) |
I have read Robert Crais in the past but not recently.....will have to rectify that! :-) |
2. Oh Sue, his books are excellent. He is such a terrific writer. AND a helluva nice guy to boot. |
3. Hi Yvette. |
I am looking forward to this one. As eagerly as I await all new Robert Crais novels. An interesting comment you made, about it being either one of a Joe Pike/Elvis Cole novel.I think this is a good thing. As the two characters are now taking more of centre stage in the story and equally. |
4. Dave, I think what Robert has done is turned Joe Pike into a complete character. I wonder if he'll do the same for Jon Stone who seems kind of a loose cannon. |
A terrific book. Don't forget to let me know what you think of it. |
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COUNTY: Bottineau County |
CLIMATE: snow in winter, hot and dry summer |
BEST TIME TO VISIT: summer when it's dry or spring when it's cool |
COMMENTS: Town is about 10 miles S of Bottineau, ND. I've often joked about getting enough money to buy the town and making various things out of it. |
REMAINS: There's still several buildings standing and a nice playground there. |
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