2/1/2024 0 Comments Dauntless air![]() It began with two essays – one in Air Attack, a New Zealand magazine that profiles innovations in aerial firefighting and a second in FIRELINE, a publication of the National Wildfire Suppression Association, which is run by Debbie Miley, who I have known for about 30 years. Production work on my book was already well underway when I began to see stories in other publications that told me my story was about to charge off in a new and unanticipated direction – like an unplanned ignition gone astray. Lots of very constructive suggestions for where “the story” goes from here. Me, too, given the enormous response to the interview. I interviewed Carroll after he wrote to say he enjoyed reading First, Put Out the Fire! but he wished I had brought the story forward another 20 years to include unplanned ignitions. We have been made aware of several such incidents in Idaho and Montana. ![]() Ignitions that got away from firefighters, incinerating private forest plantations. Carroll and his business partner, Van Elsbernd, advise law firms representing clients who are suing the Forest Service for damages done by unplanned ignitions. The Forest Service has added layers of confusion and suspicion in its failing attempt to achieve “managed fire” goals - by simply allowing “unplanned ignitions” to run their course.īlowtorch Forestry, last week’s post on our website, recounts Frank Carroll’s experience with Forest Service misuse of unplanned ignitions. Landscape and fire ecologists are constantly in the hunt for remote locations where they can safely pre plan and test their assumptions about the natural role that fire plays in ecosystem health and species succession.Įven under ideal conditions, “managed fire” is controversial because of the attendant risks to air and water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and of course, the public’s forest playground. The cacophony of voices questioning Forest Service misuse of “unplanned ignitions” in service to “managed fire.” The meticulously planned use of fire to restore natural resiliency in fire adapted forests that have grown so dense that they invite insects, diseases and, eventually, fire itself. If this craft teaches nothing else, it teaches patience and humility. So, you’d think I’d have all the story-lines down pat…and you would be wrong. Forests and forestry have been my beat – the focus of my writing - for 35 years. I know this because it took me years to realize that the events that form stories often take weeks – and sometimes years - to develop. Sheley, this is how it’s supposed to be.” Patience and humility are uncommon virtues among journalists… L’Esperance and his staff developed it to document their company’s quite successful partnership with the Washington Department of Natural Resources. It’s cover story, “Save a Billion Dollars a Year: The New Fire Triangle,” written by Managing Editor, Chuck Sheley, builds on the Air Attack and FIRELINE essays.Īll three essays add significantly to the body of work contained in First, Put Out the Fire! So, too, does Dauntless Air’s vision paper and a PowerPoint presentation. Within days, we found a second article in FIRELINE, a publication of the National Wildfire Suppression Association, written by L’Esperance and titled “Five Ways to Avoid Wildfire Destruction in 2020.”ĭays later, our copy of SMOKEJUMPER, the National Smokejumper Association’s quarterly magazine arrived. Air Attack, a New Zealand magazine that showcases aerial firefighting technology, published an article by our colleague, Mike Archer titled “Rapid Initial Attack: The Wave of the Future?” L’Esperance appeared on our radar screen last January, about the same time First, Put Out the Fire! went to press. This week, we are featuring an interview with Brett L’Esperance, CEO and one of the owners of Dauntless Air, an aerial firefighting company that recently moved its maintenance facilities to Pappy Boyington Field, about 15 minutes from our home here in Dalton Gardens, Idaho.ĭauntless and Mr. Last week, our article Blowtorch Forestry profiled Frank Carroll’s blistering criticism of current Forest Service firefighting practices. He believes the agency is illegally allowing big wildfires to run in hopes of achieving the same environmental benefits that “managed fire” can deliver when planned well in advance. To that end, we are featuring articles that continue to develop the themes set forward in our book. ![]() Several readers have offered “what comes next” suggestions that add substance and clarity to our book. Editor’s Note: Sales of First, Put Out the Fire! have been brisk.
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Backblaze: Featuresīackblaze doesn’t bother you with the details of your backup plan, just that it is occurring: when you initially install the desktop client, it doesn’t require you to select files and folders, but rather just grabs all the files and folders it considers important and starts transferring them to your Backblaze cloud backup. Backblaze Mobile 6.0, released in December 2022, has a new feel to it with authentication improvements for both platforms plus many tweaks and updates. The almost $200 spent on backing up your files should be seen more as a holding fee for the value of the large hard drive (up to 8TB), as when the restore is complete you can return it by mail and receive a full refund.īackups are limited to PCs and Macs, however alongside the web interface there are iOS and Android apps that allow you to access your data from anywhere. ![]() While it may not do much beyond suck up all the files on a computer and let you restore them, Backblaze does these core jobs very well. In the event of a system failure or loss, files can be downloaded for free, or Backblaze will put them on a USB hard drive for $189 and ship your data to your door. However, it is ultimately a different proposition so this comparison is, perhaps, slightly unfair. Unfortunately, in terms of web functionality, Backblaze falls short of Dropbox, Google Drive, or Apple iCloud when it comes to sharing files. 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It is also provided for some releases on the download site. The Acrobat-Reader bootstrapper is provided as part of the Reader bundle on the CD and the web download. Any setup.exe or any other executable that installs updates and launches the MSI installer is a bootstrapper. 2/1/2024 0 Comments Strangeland streaming![]() The point is, when we were approached to write and direct a sequel to Becky, we said yes without hesitation. Or maybe that’s just us, given we’ve both been in therapy for a considerable portion of our adult lives, and need to find our catharsis somewhere. Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote ( The Open House) wrote and directed Becky 2.Īngel and Coote said in a statement, “There’s nothing like a good revenge film. Lulu Wilson stars alongside Seann William Scott, Matt Angel, Courtney Gains, Aaron Dalla Villa, Michael Sirow, Denise Burse-Fernandez, Jill Larson, and Kate Siegel. But when a group known as the “Noble Men” break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog, Diego, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.” In the film, “Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman – a kindred spirit named Elena. The Wrath of Becky will release exclusively in theaters on May 26, 2023.Ĭheck out the exclusive clip below, wherein star Lulu Wilson brutally dispatches Courtney Gains ( Children of the Corn, The ‘Burbs, Rob Zombie’s Halloween)! Quiver Distribution has provided Bloody Disgusting with an exclusive clip from sequel The Wrath of Beckytoday, and it spotlights a bloody kill from the upcoming movie. Start screaming now with SCREAMBOX on iOS, Android, Prime Video, Roku, YouTube TV, Samsung, Comcast, Cox, and. These titles join SCREAMBOX’s growing library of unique horror content, including The Outwaters, Terrifier 2, Pennywise: The Story of IT, 13 Nights of Elvira, Re-Animator, Body Snatchers, Hell House LLC, History of the Occult, and Toxic Crusaders. March is a huge month on SCREAMBOX as we’ll also be releasing the second season of “The Island” from Pandorum director Christian Alvart, the Easter-themed thriller Family Dinner, and the splatter horror comedy Holy Shit! Here’s a full list. ![]() Now, you can judge for yourself as FeardotCom is streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX today, alongside Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, the 1990 sequel starring Viggo Mortensen ( The Lord of the Rings) and Ken Foree ( Dawn of the Dead)! The film has been making a bit of a resurgence and maybe even having a renaissance with horror fans newly appreciating the much-maligned techy horror film that followed Dorff as a New York City detective who investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto feardotcom. The film’s most amusing flourish is definitely the casting of Robert Englund as a concerned parent of a teenager, a clever bit of meta-irony if there ever was one.William Malone, a Master of Horror behind such films as Creature, House on Haunted Hill, and Parasomnia, once took a stab at mixing early internet tech with horror in FeardotCom, which starred Stephen Dorff and was released in theaters by Warner Bros. Strangeland is no classic, but it’s smarter than it has any right to be director John Pieplow also knows how to work the industrial-gothic atmosphere, and Snider delivers a not-bad performance as the killer (though you kind of keep expecting - and hoping - that he’ll suddenly burst into singing “Burn in Hell,” the Twisted Sister song performed briefly in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure). However, years later, the bad Captain is released from a mental institution‚Ķ and proves to be rather dangerous when he doesn’t take his pills. The father of his latest victim (Linda Cardellini, pre- Scooby-Doo) happens to be a cop (Kevin Gage), who manages to bust the freak and put him behind bars. The scope of this brutal fable (which is oh so much tamer than the “torture porn” films that would be all the rage in the next decade) is rather epic, covering several years in the legacy of Captain Howdy (Snider himself), a body modification fetishist who lures young victims to his dungeon (via the aforementioned Internet chat rooms) and proceeds to do very bad things to them. Dee Snider’s Strangeland īefore Rob Zombie started making movies, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider penned this ahead-of-its-time tale of the dangers of Internet chat rooms. ![]() I won't be able to keep my game, unfortunately, because the cartridge will have to be sent back to Natsume ultimatel, but it helps me enormously because I will have my guides written by the time the game is released on 25 March. I am playing the English version of 'Cute'. No, unfortunately, I don't read Japanese. If I think of more differences between the two, I'll post them. This was possible in the original HM DS for boys as well. This allows your sheep to gain hearts very quickly. ![]() You can shear one sheep 6 times in Cute using the Touchglove and afterwards, each time you shear your sheep without the Touchglove, you can shear it six times using only the shears. I am going to add ALL events from both games to my Characters Guide and note in each case whether the event is in both girl and boy games or only in one or the other.ġ0. but it means that it is worth playing BOTH games. A few events that were in the original English HM DS for boys have been left out of Cute, unfortunately. There are MANY events in Cute that were in the original Japanese HM DS (boy) but which were eliminated from the English version of the game. A tie now is a 'push', neither win nor lose.ĩ. You only have high or low bets, no 'even' bet, which means that you win more often when you play. The casino rules have changed, for the better I think. You can unlock the third mine simply by reaching the 255th floor of the 2nd and defeating all the Dark Creatures, but you won't be able to take the sword if you don't have all your tools at mystrile.Ĩ. I don't recall if I confirmed that personally in one of my games or not, but I have proven the contrary in Cute. In the original HM DS, some players claimed that it was sufficient to have one tool at mystrile level. You cannot take the Legendary Sword in Cute UNTIL all tools are mystrile. (Again, in later versions of the original HM DS, I believe this was true as well, but in the early versions, the milker could increase rapidly and the level of the shears NEVER increased!)ħ. You can level up your milker and your shears but VERY slowly. The bachelors wear different colours of clothing each day.Ħ. You will have a 'Clothing Box' at the start of the game and changing your clothes daily will increase ALL bachelors' AP by 200 points and FP by 1 point.ĥ. You cannot perform the ranch bonus trick in Cute (again, later versions of the original HM DS eliminated THAT glitch as well, and it did not exist in the U.K. ![]() Your horse, dog and cat will increase in heart level unlike the original version of HM DS (apparently, later versions DID allow the cat and horse to increase in heart level but in the oldest versions, it was impossible)ģ. Obviously, you court the bachelors in Cute but you still can 'court' the 4 magical girls (Harvest Goddess, Witch Princess, Keira and Leia) as 'Best Friends' with the Blue Feather AND there is one new character, SkyeĢ. So far, in the English versions of Harvest Moon DS for boys (the original) and the new Harvest Moon Cute DS for girls, I have noticed the following similarities and differences:ġ. |
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