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working on the
Aion class interviews, I did some research on each of the classes
so I had a lot of time to get to know them before even stepping in game. I tend
to play DPS fighters in MMOGs so I was still very up in the air about whether I
would go full DPS and utility with the scout or stick with my typical play style
and roll up a fighter. I think I made level two with my fighter before starting
my scout, and I never went back!
who enjoy being active in melee combat, exceptionally useful in groups, and
completely viable as a solo player, will enjoy the flexibility and versatility
of a scout. As with
any class in any game, there are pros and cons to playing a scout, most of which
I will try cover straight away.
The Good
You are
playing a scout, so the first thing that'll you will notice is fights are fairly
quick. Even starting out, you do a nice bit of damage. Just don't compare
yourself to the early mage, because they gave me a little bit of damage envy.
You have
the skills to carry a sword or a dagger, and it is your choice which you decide
to equip. I'll get into the differences between these two weapons a little
later on. You also get the dual wield skill as a scout, which made me all sorts
of happy.
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In the
first 10 levels you are granted a hide skill that is very handy, a buff that
boosts your evasion, and another buff that boosts your attack. The buffs saved
my rear repeatedly and you will want to use them often.
Positional attacks are a mainstay of the scout and Aion has them! My favorite
thing about these is that they aren't position conditional. Meaning, you can
use a positional attack from the "wrong" position and still do damage, but you
get a bonus if you do it correctly. After playing EverQuest II for many years,
I can tell you it is nice to not see a positional error notice when attacking!
The Bad
really wasn't much I didn't like about this class but as expected, the leather
wearing scout is a bit delicate. While definitely not as bad as the mage for
survivability in melee combat, that health bar will get a little too low for
comfort's sake quite often. I hear this gets better later on after youve
chosen to specialize as a Ranger or Assassin.
You also
don't get ranged attacks right off the bat. Half the appeal of playing a scout
is being able to do some damage at ranged, but this is something else they have
saved for the specialization levels.
New to the
making your character and popping into the world, you'll find yourself equipped
with a few basic items and skills. You get a dagger, minimal armor, a slash
skill, an avoidance buff, and a bandage skill.
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find that you will really rely on your bandages. I like to make the most of my
gaming in the short free time I have so I'm not terribly big on combat downtime
and the scout ends up with plenty of it. Since you will end fights generally on
the low end of the health bar, using your bandaging skill will get you up and
moving far quicker than waiting for it to tick up on its own. As you progress,
you'll definitely want to make use of edibles for health regeneration and
potions for those in combat "oh crap" moments.
you are bandaging you will probably notice fighters blowing by you and taking
mob after mob without even breathing in between. It's okay. You are better
looking than they are, and someday I promise they will bow before your superior
DPS just not today.
At level
3 you will get a positional attack that will make your heart melt the first time
you use that baby. Luckily enemies at this point are non-aggro so you can
easily position yourself behind the mob and whack away. You don't have the
ability to stun and re-position for a flank attack so it needs to be your
opening skill but you'll be very happy for the additional damage it provides.
Moving on
around level 5, things start getting mildly tougher. You may be playing against
enemies that have that frustrating feature known as social aggro. While the
scout can usually hold his own against a single mob, two are three enemy friends
jumping in to help whatever you are killing tends to be bit much so learning the
art of pulling a single mob is important! You don't have anything you can
distance pull a mob with, so using the tactic of spanking the mob and stepping
back to a safer area is the best way to go. This is also one of those times
when you'll really want to have health potions on hand as you can generally
manage to take on two mobs if you have them available.
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At level
5 you will get one of your main utilities, your hide skill. While it's fun to
play with at this point, it won't be until around level 6+ when you will see why
you really need it! This is when you will start dealing with enemy aggro and
while stealthing through a group of angry creatures is a nice skill to have, it
is not its most useful application. As mentioned before, you will want to use
your positional attacks to open your battle which impossible to do when the
enemy can clearly see you coming and wants to beat you senseless if you get too
close. Having a hide skill allows you to stealth yourself, and then sneak in
behind the mob to unleash your flanking attack. Yes, it takes a little extra
time to set up, but the extra care in using the positional attacks will benefit
you greatly in damage and survivability.
this time you will gain the dual wield passive skill. Passive skills still need
to be purchased from the trainer, so never forget to check back often for these
very important features.
able to dual wield brings up all sorts of questions regarding what a scout
should carry for a weapon. A scout may choose to carry a single sword or a
single dagger when they first start out. Which you choose to equip in the first
few levels doesn't make any real difference, but it will soon and it's a good
thing to start thinking about at this level range. With dual wield you may
equip two daggers, two swords, or even one of each!
Which is
better? I read up on it while I was trying to decide for myself and found many
different schools of thought but there were a few things that made a difference
when I actually tried various weapon combos in game.
It seems
that only the primary weapon slot triggers critical damage. In theory then,
having a dagger that hits more frequently thus giving more chances of a crit
would make sense and would overall allow for more damage. This reasoning is why
I chose to carry a dagger rather than a sword through my first several levels
and it does seem to ring true.
left me with attempting to see which weapon type I needed to use for my
secondary slot. I didn't see a tangible difference when equipping a sword
versus a dagger of equal quality in my secondary slot. This may, of course,
change in later gameplay but at least in early levels you can pretty much put
whatever you'd like in your secondary slot without taking a big DPS penalty.
Aion feature you will want to start paying attention to are the
These nifty little stones that you will likely pick up everywhere add attributes
to your items. Things like accuracy, health, parry, attack, and evasion bonuses
are particularly useful for the scout and you can add one or two stones to each
of your major armor pieces. All you need to do is put the item in your
inventory, right click on the stone and then click on the applicable item.
Adding a second stone gives the possibility of destroying your item, but I
havent had that happen yet.
Closing in
on Level Nine
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scout continues to play along the same lines as it has in the previous levels.
You'll gain some better damage skills, including one with a small stun effect
and by now you will be feeling more comfortable and will be able to take more
risks. You will now have a couple of chain attacks in your arsenal. Don't
ignore these! Being a light armor wearing class means you have to focus on
optimizing your damage output and chain attacks are a great source of damage.
At this
point, I had a whole skills groove going that seemed to work well. Open with
the stealth and flank attack. Cast your evasion buff and the following chain
damage skill. Follow that up with the slash and its chained skill. Continue
using your slash chain throughout the battle and watch your health!
As you
near level 10 and continue to make your way through the dangerous world, the
most important thing you can do for yourself is to keep your armor updated. You
may wear leather or cloth, but obviously you will want to focus on gaining
leather pieces. You can find basic armor pieces on the armor vendors but always
check out the player stores because often better armor comes from mob drops. If
you are the questing sort, Aion's storyline quests give some nice rewards that
include armor pieces. Keeping your defense as strong as possible will greatly
aid in survivability, and make your life as a scout a lot less painful.
Once you've finally reached level nine, you can complete your early adventure an
ascend, thus earning your wings. It is at this time when you will start
your class career as a
Ranger or an
Assassin. Be
sure to check back here at Ten Ton Hammer for future info on those two classes
(I'll be checking out both for sure) and for more
Aion coverage!
To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Aion Game Page.

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New GPL licence touted as saviour of Linux, Android
The Register - The Free Software Foundation reckons its new version of the General Public Licence removes the problems bedevilling version two, but not everyone is convinced the problem even exists.
The FSF reckons that Linux developers need to move quickly to GPLv3 if they're to avoid Android (and similar Linux-based platforms) getting tied up in legal battles, despite the fact that many are claiming such battles are no more than figments in the eyes of publicity-hungry bloggers.
At issue is the clause in version two of the GPL which states that anyone breaching the restrictions irrevocably surrenders their rights under the licence. As just about every Android licensee has, at some point, failed to provide source code (or written notice of source code provision), then (the argument goes) they are all in breach of the GPLv2 and thus open to copyright suits from every Linux developer.
This was highlighted by IP attorney Edward Naughton, expounded by Florian Mueller, and reported by us. All this attention has prompted the FSF to explain that its latest licence fixes the problem completely.


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A new rumor is circulating online suggesting that EA may be on the verge of losing their licensing agreement for Star Wars games. Shortly after acquiring Lucasfilm in 2012, Disney restructured the company and shuttered its LucasArts division. They were not interested in developing first-party Star Wars games but rather sought to license their property out to already established third-party developers and publishers - and their prime choice was EA.
EA signed an exclusive multi-year licensing agreement with Disney/Lucasfilm in 2013 to develop and publish a variety of AAA Star Wars games for "all interactive platforms." Disney still planned on developing their own mobile/social titles at the time, but that initiative has since fallen by the wayside. On EA's side of things, the publisher has so far released two Battlefront games - Star Wars Battlefront in 2015 and Star Wars: Battlefront II in 2017 - with Respawn Entertainment still working on an action-adventure title and EA Vancouver working on Visceral Games' former Star Wars game. But, it seems all of that may now be in jeopardy according to a new rumor that's surfaced online.
Related: EA Buys Respawn, Developers of Titanfall and New Star Wars Game
Cinelinx reports that Lucasfilm is unhappy with the current arrangement with EA and they are looking at other studios to potentially take over the licensing deal. Lucasfilm is reportedly reaching out to Activision and Ubisoft to possibly replace EA. While none of this has been confirmed, it's not outside the realm of plausibility, although The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red could be a better fit for Star Wars given the developer's aversion to loot boxes in full releases and care for single player stories.
This news comes on the heels of EA suffering widespread backlash for infusing loot boxes with progression in DICE's Star Wars: Battlefront II. Because of the poor progression system and all the pay-to-win mechanics (which were temporarily scaled back in November), Battlefront II suffered in sales over the holiday season. In fact, Nintendo's Super Mario Odyssey outsold Battlefront II despite releasing on only one platform - and a new one at that. While both EA and Disney are maintaining their resolve in spite of all the backlash and calls for change, the aforementioned rumor suggests that a significant shakeup could be on the horizon, one that many consumers would be more than happy with.
The exact terms of EA's deal with Disney are unknown, but it's widely believed that they have an exclusive publishing agreement with Disney/Lucasfilm, not a developing agreement. Any game studio can technically develop a Star Wars game so long as EA publishes it. But since they're unwilling to work with studios that they don't own or, at least, maintain control over, it's unlikely that a third-party studio would be able to make their own Star Wars title. If this rumor turns out to be true, however, that will all change.
More: 20 Video Game Franchises That EA Has Ruined
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Speeding in a Construction Zone
The defense attorneys at The Davis Law Group, P.C. handle a variety of traffic charges including Speeding in a Construction Zone.
Under Illinois law (ILCS 5/11-605.1), there are enhanced penalties for speeding in a construction zone. A first violation of this statute is a petty offense with a minimum fine of $250 (plus an additional $125 paid to a special fund). A second or subsequent violation is a petty offense with a minimum fine of $750 (plus an additional $250 paid to a special fund). A second or subsequent violation within 2 years of the date of the first violation will result in a 90-day suspension of the offender's driver's license by the Illinois Secretary of State.
Automated traffic control systems (photo enforced) are now present in many construction zones throughout Illinois. Tickets issued by these systems are sent by mail and include a photograph of the driver. The State must follow specific requirements in the issuance of these violations. A traffic attorney may be able to fight the ticket based on these technicalities.
Because tickets for speeding in a construction zone can be costly and result in a license suspension, hiring an Illinois traffic attorney is highly recommended. Feel free to contact the lawyers at The Davis Law Group, P.C. if you have received a construction zone violation.


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Thursday, July 30, 2009
I love ya, tomorrow!
I am so excited for tomorrow. After my wedding and the births of my children, tomorrow is basically the next best day of my life. Tomorrow my tibial sesamoid bone will be removed from my right foot. Ahhh. I feel better just thinking about it. I am so happy I am almost giddy w/ anticipation. Thank you to all the people who made this possible. Mom for coming down to help me, Anna for watching my children tomorrow, Jack for financing all the medical bills. It takes a lot of great people for an event like this to be pulled off. Say a prayer for me that all goes well. I am sure it will... my surgeon is a genius. I will have to practice a lot of self-control so I do not kiss him. I can't wait for all of this to be over. And that will be tomorrow... after all... tomorrow is another day. Peace.
2 comments:
- Shirley EAN said...
Good luck Sara. I'll be thinking of you.
love you, Auntie
- July 30, 2009 at 11:37 PM
rofl apparently it picked up my work account which is a gmail blog too!
- July 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM
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Model the Way
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Live.Learn.Lead is made up of four parts:
Students who participate in all of the sessions become Gold Certified. They receive a certificate and a special gift!
What's in it for me?
Students who participate in the Live.Learn.Lead series have the opportunity to learn new leadership skills that can apply to future opportunities. They are able to influence the communities they live in and connect with other campus leaders. Time spent participating in Live.Learn.Lead can also be logged as part of the Leadership Edge for the Superior Edge program.
Many participants have gone on to become Resident Advisers/Community Advisers and Student Leader Fellowship Program members.
What do students think?
"When I began attending Live.Learn.Lead, I really had no direction in my leadership abilities. But, after each workshop I started to feel more confident in the leader that I am and was able to learn how in interact and work with leaders whose styles were very different than my own. Live.Learn.Lead provided me with the necessary skills to become Hall President and then, later, a Resident Adviser. I still find myself using the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership I learned at LLL to achieve goals!"
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|T.E.D. Klein
T.E.D. Klein is one of the great could-have-beens. He wrote some of the best and most memorable horror stories of the seventies and early eighties. Derived from his first published story, "The Events at Poroth Farm", he wrote the masterful, if lengthy, novel, The Ceremonies (1984). His 1985 novella, "Nadelman's God" won the 1986 World Fantasy Award for best novella. It, along with three other novellas, was published in the 1985 collection, Dark Gods. And then he started to fall silent.
According to his entry at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, he only published a few more stories. Wikipedia credits him with co-writing the screenplay for Dario Argento's 1993 Trauma. A second collection of stories, Reassuring Tales, finally appeared in 2006 to little fanfare. Over the years, it was reported he was working on a second novel, but writer's block kept it from ever materializing. Despite considerable acclaim over the years from writers like S.T. Joshi and Thomas Monteleone, he's just faded away, someone known to horror connoisseurs but little beyond their circle.
Klein's "Children of the Kingdom" (1980), is a tale of urban fear and subterranean terrors. It appeared first in Kirby McCauley's important anthology, Dark Forces. In it, the gnostic gospel of St. Thomas, lost races, secret histories, and urban despair are woven together into a dark and terrible tale, that can still disturb after nearly forty years.
In the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam still stalked couples and the Bronx was burning, a massive blackout hit the city on July 13th. Unlike earlier blackouts, this one led to massive looting and destruction. Watching the chaos unfold from the sanctuary of his apartment balcony, Klein wondered what it would be like there were terrible things lurking in the hidden places of the city and they used the cover of the blackout to their own ends.
The tone of the story is set at the very beginning when, as the unnamed narrator travels home to Manhattan by bus from Boston, he passes through one half-deserted rotting town after another. What he sees, the "crumbling rows of tenements, an ugly red-brick housing project, some darkened and filthy-looking shops," reminds him of "those great Mayan cities standing silent and abandoned...with no clue to where the inhabitants had gone."
The people he does see on the streets, disgust him. Their actions unnerve him.
"Except for my reflection, I saw not one white face. A pair of little children threw stones at us from behind a fortress made of trash; a grown man stood pissing in the street like an animal, and watched us with amusement as we passed."
When the narrator's grandfather has a stroke, he is forced to find him a place to convalesce. Despite his fear and hatred of so much of the city and its non-white citizens and their alien cooking and music, the closest and most affordable facility is located uptown in a heavily black and Puerto Rican neighborhood.
His grandfather has none of the narrator's fears and prejudices. Bored with his fellow residents dreary conversations, he makes friends with a pair of people he meets while wandering the neighborhood. The first is a middle-aged black woman named Coralette. The other is an aged Costan Rican man called Father Pistachio for the white clerical collar he wears and the ever-present bag of red pistachios. He is also a man with novel theories on the origins of mankind and its subsequent dispersal across the planet. Quoting Henry James, the narrator sees the old priest as someone who clearly "followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods."
Slowly, odd events begin to happen around the rest home. A washing machine in the basement is mysteriously moved, exposing an old drain into the sewers. A young girl is nearly raped in her apartment by a prowler who somehow escaped through a window, even though it has bars on it. As the summer starts, strange, worse things occur. Increasingly scared by "white boys" smashing the lights in her apartment's halls, Coralette flees the city for the South. A Daily News article gives details about one of these worse things.
The article - "Watery Grave for Infant Quints" - was little more than an extended caption. It spoke of the "five tiny bodies...shrunken and foul-smelling" that had been discovered in a flooded area of the hotel basement by Con Ed men investigating a broken power line. All five had displayed the same evidence of "albinism and massive birth defects,"
While the narrator doesn't make the obvious connections, the reader can tell something awful is coming. When the blackout strikes, it does as well.
To the narrator, Father Pistachio's theories seem cut of the same outlandish material as Von Daniken's and Velikovsky's. Like their theories, the old priest's is composed of fragments of facts swaddled in blankets of the unbelievable. As stranger and stranger things happen, though, he begins to wonder if maybe the priest is right after all.
"Children of the Kingdom" is a slow burning story. The accretion of details slowly builds a vision of New York City from a time when it was literally falling apart, relations between the races were terrible, and no one believed it was safe to walk the streets. Almost until the end, it's never quite clear which creepy event is real or created. It is the dark portrait of a battered city, teetering on the precipice's edge, that's so viscerally real and terrible, that it becomes only too believable that something wicked lurks awaiting its moment.
Klein is a scholar of horror as well as a writer. He wrote his honors thesis on Lovecraft and The Ceremonies is a tribute to Machen and numerous classic Gothic novels. He brought much of that knowledge to bear in "Children," drawing on it to craft a supremely chilling story.
I absolutely love this story. It takes hold of the reader and slowly pulls him under the waves of growing fear and, ultimately, pure terror. Klein took himself out of the picture way too soon. I cannot recommend this story enough. Even used paperbacks of Dark Gods sell for nearly ten dollars. For half that price you can get it by buying the e-book of Dark Forces. While that's a book every horror reader should own, it deprives them of three more of Klein's exquisitely crafted tales.
Fletcher Vredenburgh: A lifelong Staten Islander, I read my very first Lovecraft story, "The Festival," on the night of the Great Blackout of 1977. It wasn't the first horror story I read, or the best, but it remains one that affected me the most, making me a life long fan of the Old Gent from Providence.
Several years ago, I started a blog titled: Swords & Sorcery: A Blog. As my interests have drifted about over the past few years, I've renamed it Stuff I Like.
Most of my writing, though, is done for Black Gate. Most of it is about swords & sorcery and historical adventure stories, especially the older and forgotten works. You can find a new article there each Tuesday morning.


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LAS VEGAS, NV – It took 22 hours of surgery but Gomerblog is thrilled to report that the twin Kings of Hearts, who were born joined at the waist and have continued to live that way for decades, have finally and successfully been separated.
"It was an exhausting surgery, but we are pleased to report that both Kings of Hearts are doing well and recovering in the SICU (surgical intensive care unit)," reported Deck of Cards Medical Center (DCMC) general surgeon Dr. Brian Blackjack, who bet on himself to succeed and won. "This is a huge day for face cards everywhere."
According to Blackjack, the toughest part of the operation was evacuation of the massive fecalith in the twin Kings of Hearts' large intestine before they were able to complete the separation surgery. "For 50 years, neither has had a bowel movement since their intestines were conjoined," Blackjack explained. "That's right, no rectum."
The twin Kings of Hearts are the first of the face cards to undergo this separation surgery. Both the twin Queens and twin Jacks of Hearts were nervously watching as were the twin Kings, Queens, and Jacks of the other suits. When Blackjack and his assistant Dr. Patricia Poker-Chips delivered the good news to the Hearts, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds families in the waiting room, there was nothing but relief and joy.
"I'm so excited, I mean, look at me, I'm flushed!" said the Queen of Spades, huddled in an embrace with fellow family members Ace, King, Jack, and 10. "I'm like royally flushed!"
Blackjack and team has requested that this particular deck of cards, now 53 in number, be allowed to rest for the next 24-48 hours before starting with physical and occupational therapy and undergoing ostomy care with nurses.
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Summit County's best bloody mary: Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
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While Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, or The Legend as it affectionately known, is a prime destination to ski or ride some of the best powder and most intense runs in the Rocky Mountains, it has also garnered a reputation as a great place to kick back and relax. This year, A-Basin was again named the best place to have a Bloody Mary. Make sure to sample their Bacon Bloody Mary the next time you get a chance.
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When it comes to the already fringe element of literary magazines, a strictly poetry review is a bit of an outsider, hidden in the tall grasses, mixed in with the thorns and thistles of the terrestrial realm. One such lone wolf is the Hiram Poetry Review. In the exercise of gauging the territory of poetry and evaluating the submission pile, however, this Review is no greenhorn. In fact, some might argue that concerning those magazines that stick strictly to the modes of poetry and poetry review, HPR is the finest citizen working. Though perhaps little-known, HPR thrives on a high standard and discovers some of America's finest poets.
The annual offering of the Review, Issue Seventy-Three, released in April, offers a nod to the tenure one of its prior editors, shares "eclectic poetry from new voices," and provides four interesting reviews on poets who, at least for me, would go unnoticed without the attention of HPR.
David Fratus, Professor Emeritus, of the Hiram College English Department, graces the cover of the issue in the form of archival photo from, as it appears, his teaching days. Dr. Fratus would take over primary editorship from the Review's founder in the fall of 1974, and hold that position (later sharing the job with another Hiram professor, Carol Donley), until the Spring of 1984. For those interested in the history of the Review, seeing a new poem (he contributed several over the years) by Dr. Fratus is satisfying. That it is a good poem makes it all the more so.
HPR's current editor, Dr. Willard Greenwood, has put out many satisfying issues since he took over in 2002, making number seventy-three a bit of milestone for him. He seems to truly be committed to both publishing interesting work, a kind of "know it when I see it" attitude, and finding good writers for the poetry reviews at the end of each issue. The background of poets in this newest publication range from a Lithuanian high school senior, to the founding member of a surfing club, to an unauthorized biographer of Sylvia Plath, while not limiting itself wholly to the rare and exotic by featuring several more widely published writers.
Under Greenwood's tenure, one never knows exactly what she or he might get from a poem in HPR.
Most impressive is the rooted commitment to the "review" part of the Review. At a recent poetry reading at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, a winner of a poetry contest expressed a poignant line concerning the contemporary world of poetry authorship, "Poets talk about audience like they actually expect there to be one." Authors, Bruce Dethlefsen, Kristina Marie Darling, David Hernandez, and Jack Gilbert can rest assured that anyone who reads the aptly written reviews in HPR will be interested in getting a copy of their books.
The Hiram Poetry Review has sharpened my senses with regard to poetry in the present day — its appearance in times contemporary. Once a year, it is a chance to observe the fashion and manners of today's emerging writers. Without reservation, I suggest contacting Dr. Greenwood to purchase the most recent HPR, Issue Seventy-Three. You'll also be happy to find that nearly all past issues are archived at HPR's website.


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How can this be happening?
How can it even be possible that we wake up on a Monday morning to discover that Lehman Brothers, a firm founded in 1850, a firm that has survived the Great Depression and every market trauma before and since, is suddenly bankrupt? That Merrill Lynch, the "Thundering Herd," is sold to Bank of America the same weekend?
Just months ago, Lehman assured investors that it had enough liquidity to weather the crisis, while Merrill raised some $15 billion over the last year to shore up its balance sheet. Now they're both as good as gone.
Last week, it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that needed a government bailout. This week, it looks as though American International Group and Washington Mutual will be on the hot seat. We have actually reached the point where there are now only two independent investment banks left: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. It boggles the mind.
But it really shouldn't. Because after you get past the mind-numbing complexity of the derivatives that are at the heart of the current crisis, what's going on is something we are all familiar with: denial.
Indeed, it is not all that different from what is going on in neighborhoods all over the country. Just as homeowners took out big loans and stretched themselves on the assumption that their chief asset — their home — could only go up, so did Wall Street firms borrow tens of billions of dollars to make subprime mortgage bets on the assumption that they were a sure thing.Continue reading the main story
But housing prices did drop eventually. And when people tried to sell their homes in this newly depressed market, many of them had a hard time admitting that their home wasn't worth what they had thought it was. Their judgment has been naturally clouded by their love for their house, how much money they put into it and how much more it was worth a year ago. And even when they did drop their selling price, it never quite matched the reality of the marketplace. They've been in denial.
That is exactly what is happening on Wall Street. Ever since the crisis took hold last summer, most of the big firms have been a day late and dollar short in admitting that their once triple-A rated mortgage-backed securities just weren't worth very much. And, one by one, it is killing them.
Take Richard Fuld, the chief executive of Lehman Brothers. Last summer, as the credit crisis first gripped Wall Street, Mr. Fuld's firm, which was fundamentally a bond-trading firm, concluded that the problems would be short-lived — and that those firms willing to take big risks would be the ones that would reap the big rewards once things calmed down. So Lehman doubled down on mortgage-backed derivatives — not unlike a Florida condo owner buying a second one to flip 18 months ago.
Big mistake. Ever since then, Lehman has had a terrible time admitting the magnitude of its mistake — or properly pricing its securities. As mortgage derivatives became increasingly toxic, they also became increasingly illiquid. So firms were left to set their own "mark-to-market" price. And just like so many homeowners, they kept pricing their securities higher than they should have.
Earlier this year, for instance, when the hedge fund manager David Einhorn was making his public case against Lehman (he now refuses to talk about the firm), he stressed his belief that Lehman was valuing its securities too high. He turned out to be exactly right.
Every time the market was roiled — especially after the Bear Stearns collapse — every firm on Wall Street had to re-mark their securities to reflect the new reality. That's why you saw firms taking billion-dollar write-off after billion-dollar write-off, long after they thought they had taken care of the problem. And it is also why the write-offs will continue now that Lehman is bankrupt.
"Selling begets more selling," said Sean Egan of the independent bond-rating firm Egan-Jones. And yet, even as they lowered the value of their mortgage-backed securities, firms like Lehman had still priced them too high. Back when he was talking publicly about Lehman, Mr. Einhorn used to cast Lehman's mark-to-market pricing as an act of dishonesty. I tend to think it was more like wishful thinking. Either way, the result was the same.
A week ago, even as the government was bailing out Fannie and Freddie, Mr. Fuld went off to seek new capital — something Lehman desperately needed to shore up its decimated balance sheet — from the Korea Development Bank. Why did those talks break down? Because Mr. Fuld wanted more for Lehman than the Koreans thought it was worth. He simply couldn't face the reality that his firm wasn't worth what he thought it was.
Now look at his next-door neighbor, John Thain at Merrill Lynch. To be sure, Mr. Thain owned a better house — although Merrill Lynch also had billions in toxic securities, its bread-and-butter is its brokerage arm. It is fundamentally a gatherer of assets, not a bond-trader.
But there is another big difference between the firms. Unlike Mr. Fuld, who had run Lehman since 1993 and is the architect of the modern Lehman, Mr. Thain had been at Merrill Lynch just since December, when he was brought in to stanch the bleeding. He didn't have the same pride of ownership in Merrill that Mr. Fuld had in Lehman. That is why he was willing to sell $31 billion worth of mortgage-backed derivatives for 22 cents on the dollar in late July — far lower than many firms had been pricing those securities.
And that is also why, seeing what had happened to Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie, and Lehman Brothers, he took the pre-emptive step of selling Merrill Lynch to Bank of America. In the process, he got $50 billion for Merrill's shareholders. True, that was half of what Merrill was worth a year ago, and a once-proud name is about to be swallowed up by a commercial bank. But he also got $50 billion more than Mr. Fuld got for his shareholders — and being sold is a lot better than being liquidated.
It is unlikely that the worst is over. The market Monday dropped more than 500 points, and the government is now trying to keep A.I.G. from going the way of Lehman Brothers, even asking Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to make some $75 billion in loans available to the struggling insurance giant. And then there's Washington Mutual. And then ... well, who knows where it will end?
Clearly the government is no longer willing to put the taxpayers' money at risk to save firms that took on too much risk buying securities that they didn't understand. As painful as it is to see Lehman employees lose their jobs, that is probably a good thing. That is the final parallel that exists between the housing market and Wall Street: the issue of moral hazard.
For over a year now, many Wall Streeters have complained about government efforts to forestall foreclosures, saying that it would create the expectation that everyone should be bailed out, and that consequently no one would learn important lessons about the dangers of taking more risk than they could handle. Besides, they added, the housing market was never going to improve until housing prices found their natural bottom. And that wouldn't happen until the government stopped trying to prop up housing prices.
But in truth, you can say the same of Wall Street — it won't learn any lessons, either, until firms that took foolhardy risks start to fail. One reason Lehman could not find a buyer over the weekend is because potential buyers were insisting on the same kind of taxpayer guarantees that the government had given JPMorgan when it bought Bear Stearns, or when it took over Fannie and Freddie. That's the essence of moral hazard. When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson refused to do so, the potential buyers went away.
With the government refusing to prop up Wall Street anymore, maybe now mortgage-backed derivatives will find their natural bottom. Something to look forward to, I guess.Continue reading the main story


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Was trying to get to inbox zero - a never-ending task, no less - in doing so, I stumbled across an email from my friend who always has such lovely things to say and his words always leave me feeling at ease ... I want to share with you what he shared with me, and upon asking he said I could use and disperse as needed.
For some context - earlier we had met for a bulk blueberry exchange and a walk - a pretty standard occurrence - our talk reminded me of a quote from the book I'd been reading which I later shared with him via email once home.
//The present suggests, but doesn't predict because we can't see all the factors in play.
A lot can change between measurement and outcome.
Saying you don't know doesn't deny the data, but it does allow you to release your convictions, widen your frame, see more options, head in a better direction, or slow down.
Understanding that even if my facts are correct my interpretations are not certainties liberated me to hope in a very new and invigorating way.
I don't know how things will turn out. I don't know if what I'm doing will make much of a difference.
But I know that life hopes, and if I chose to hope, to stand in hope, to BE hope, then I am headed where life naturally wants to go.//
And here was his response, among our other musings via email, and it makes me smile inside, so I wanted to share it with you :)
I was thinking about this on my walk this morning.
12 hours ago, it was dark and 15'C.
Now, it's sunny and 25'C.
At this rate, in 10 days, it will will so bright and hot,
it will cook everything and everyone.
But alas, nature adjusts and changes,
and night falls again.
The day after the Hiroshima bomb, one could have said:
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population in 50 years."
But we learned, we grew, we evolved.
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is unstoppable in the human species.
My grandparents saved and re-used everything.
My parents threw it all in the landfill.
And I have gone back to re-using, fixing and simplifying.
My children will probably improve on it again.
Everything we do, as individuals, as nations,
has something to do with ensuring our survival ...
From eating a salad to international energy conferences.
And every day, we are tweaking, and adjusting our survival plan.
It's a good reminder that we must not judge so harshly what we are doing for we simply can only do our best and we can't underestimate the ripple effects, and natures (including us) ability and drive to thrive. Let's see where we go.


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So, I was in charge of caramel apples, pizza muffin-lets and drinks. As it was only the four of us, we didn't want to prepare too much food (like we always do) and stuff ourselves silly trying to finish the food. So it's mini everything! At least in my case. I decided to make a little extra pumpkin tartlets (more on it when I post about the party pictures!) and some mini chocolate muffins I happened to bake the day before.
I'm going to talk about the exciting part in this post - caramel apples! And this is actually a post-on-the-actual-day-I-bake entry (what a rare case ;) indeed.)
I made the caramels last night, when my girlfriend was over for a chill out/dinner session. I cooked Korean food for her (another entry? depends. Photos were bad as night lighting was used boo.) and after our dinner, I started work on the candies, while she scuttled to the comp, partly helping me with the recipe steps. The recipe for most caramel apples I saw online used store bought caramel candies. Guess what. I went to several places (Candy Empire, Hershey's Chocolate Store, NTUC Finest, ToTT, Carrefour) and none had the soft chewy caramel candies. I was like what!!!
I started work on the caramel apples this morning. I saw something I really liked here and followed the steps roughly. First I cut the caramel into squares (messy ones cos they were just so sticky!), then I dumped like roughly slightly more than half of it into a saucepan, add around 2 tbs of water and I turned on the heat. I had pre roasted almonds the day before so I chopped them up, and also melted some chocolate in the microwave. When the caramel was all melted, I took the apples I had prepped the day before (washed clean, stuck the sticks in and refridgerate) and started dipping them one by one in the hot caramel.
Be sure to swipe of excess caramel at the bottom of the apple as the caramel will continue to slide downwards and pool at the bottom as they cool. Quickly roll the caramel apple into the plate of chopped almonds (or any other add ons you want, think chocolate sprinkles, chopped coloured candies, other nuts like pecans or walnuts etc). Place the finished apple on baking paper to dry. Repeat with remaining apples. When completed, place the melted chocolate into a piping bag, and start drizzling a star shape pattern at the top of the apples.
Reduce heat and continue stirring till mixture reach 245 degrees Fahrenheit. (It'll take like forever, be patient. Gradually, the caramel will thicken and bubble vigourously and the mixture quantity will be reduced to a thicker darker coloured mass than when you first started stirring.)
Remove pan from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour the caramel mixture into the buttered pan and set aside to cool.
Cut into slices and wrap individually to store.
I love the taste of the caramels. Girlfriend tried a small piece before she went home and also pronounced it yummy. BUT. Though the above pictures show pretty caramel apples, what happened after that is certainly not pretty! As they cooled, the caramel all began to slide down and pool at the bottom, resulting in a sticky messy situation where I kept having to overturn the apples and pat the caramel upwards. And the chocolate wouldn't harden! It kept dripping downwards, seperating itself into squiggly lines. :(
Oh well, I stuck them in the fridge with fingers crossed the caramel and chocolate will stop moving downwards and firm up. I wonder how they taste though. Hope it's passable! Will try them later at the party! Hope my friends will be forgiving towards their sad looking outer appearance heh.
On the bright side, I can at least say I've attempted homemade caramel apples. Not too sure whether I'll be making them sometime soon though. Boo.


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The Fashion For Men – Mens's leather gloves is rarely item in modern era, but centuries ago it was a gentleman classy symbol. In the medieval age, men wore this more often than women, but it begin to reduces in 1960's and only wore in some special events. Here are TFFM tips to wear men's leather gloves.
The History
– Anglo Saxon begin the term "glof" in medieval age, which meant "palm"
– Before medieval age, gloves did not part of fashion style in Egypt, Greek, and Rome
– Napoleon Bonaparte, the French legendary was a gloves lover. He had 240 pairs in his wardrobe!
– Gloves trend reduce 1960's and by the 1970's were seldom use for social events until now
How To Wear
1. Fit
To find the size that fit your glove size, measure the hand width and middle finger. We have chart that help you to measure them:
2. On and Off
Coax leather gloves by sliding them, pull the tips of fingers. Remember gentleman, not to pull men's leather gloves by the cuff, it will stretch them.
3. Condition
Never wear gloves that made from suede in the rainy season, get it dry as soon as possible if your gloves is wet or your hand would be stink.
4. Care
Check the label for instructions, you can know the material and how to treat them. To maintain leather dress gloves, you can bring them to special dry cleaners for leather material. Just clean them when necessary.
The Etiquette
– Match gloves color with pea coat, shoes, or belt. Typically its color is black, brown, chestnut, and mahogany. Read also: The Reason Of Having Navy Blue Suit For Men In Wardrobe
– Gentleman always removed gloves when shaking hands, except you wear at the wedding party.
– Formal material for dress gloves is skin, deerskin can be your best choice
"A gentleman on the street never shakes hands with a lady without first removing his right glove. But at the opera, or at a ball, or if he is usher at a wedding, he keeps his glove on." — Emily Post (1873–1960)


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After my post this past Friday on rukristin.com I wanted to also share a regular scrapbooking layout I made using the card. I love making these kinds of pages and to look back at older ones. I used strips of paper to add a little more color to an otherwise white page.
I made the little circle accent by punching white cardstock with my 1" punch and stamped the same stamp over and over.
Ps. Have you read The fault in our stars? Oh it is so good!


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When a parent is unable to care for her child due to imprisonment, extended travel or another circumstance, temporary guardianship ensures the care and upbringing of a child during the absence. A temporary guardianship arrangement is a legal transfer of responsibilities from a parent or guardian to another caregiver. Temporary guardianship arrangements can also guarantee the care of a vulnerable adult who is unable to make decisions for himself. Each state has its own laws for granting temporary guardianship.
Secure the cooperation of the individual who has legal custody of the child or vulnerable adult. In most cases, temporary guardianship of a child cannot be obtained without the consent of both parents, unless those parents have surrendered their parental rights. With regard to vulnerable adults, the permission of the legal guardian or conservator will be necessary.
Determine the period of time that the temporary guardianship will last. Because temporary guardianship is not a permanent transfer of custodianship, you must indicate the dates for which the guardianship will be in effect.
Petition temporary guardianship in the court of the county where the ward lives. You can obtain the guardianship petition from the clerk of the court. Submit the petition with the filing fee.
Wait for a hearing date. The court will summons you to a hearing and will also notify the legal guardians of the child or vulnerable adult. Attend the hearing and present your reasons for taking temporary guardianship.
Wait for the disposition of the court. The judge will issue a written order granting temporary guardianship to you, if she rules in your favor. You will become responsible for all aspects of the child or vulnerable adult's life, including education, property and daily living needs.
- Courts can give temporary guardianship over the objections of a legal guardian or parent if it is in the best interests of the child or vulnerable adult. In such circumstances, the court will advise the legal guardian or parent of the proceedings to grant temporary guardianship, but her lack of consent to the arrangement will not impede the court from granting temporary guardianship to another individual.
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LONDON: Britain's big six energy firms lost a record number of customers in September to smaller challengers, data from industry group Energy UK showed.
A total of 163,274 customers switched from the Big Six, the data published this week showed, ramping up pressure on energy companies already facing the introduction of a price cap on their most common tariffs.
Britain's energy market is dominated by the so-called big six including Centrica's , British Gas, SSE, Iberdrola's Scottish Power, Innogy's npower, E.ON and EDF Energy, which account for about 85 percent of the retail electricity market.
The data did not detail which companies lost the most customers.
Britain's biggest supplier, British Gas increased prices by 12.5 percent for millions of its customers in the middle of September.
"Competition between the independents and the Big Six is likely to remain fierce, even with the... price cap, as the smaller suppliers are likely to continue to offer the cheapest deals in the market," analysts at Jefferies said in a research note on Friday.


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"I can listen to the early records except the first record…it's just the sound of the record. It was kind of mixed in a way that was…it was kind of produced."
That's how Eddie Vedder feels about Pearl Jam's breakthrough 1991 album, Ten.
The album was written and recorded in the band's native Seattle, but the final mix was made in Surrey, England by Tim Palmer. At the time, Palmer was unfamiliar with the emerging grunge sound that would dominate the early 90s, and he later admitted the band may have wanted a more "honest" production.
The band eventually got what they wanted when they commissioned a new mix of the now classic album in 2009. But there's a lesson here for any budding musicians – key your eye on every step of the production process.
It's also a lesson video conferencing can help bands heed.
Video Saves the Radio Star
When it comes to collaborating on music through video conferencing, timing is everything.
A lag of just a half second between musicians on either end of a video call makes it difficult to create art through music. It's a problem so persistent that even those lucky enough to enjoy the gift of Internet2 – a private consortium of more than 200 universities linked by a network thousands of times faster than household broadband – still face delays.
The Manhattan School of Music developed a one-of-a-kind video conferencing system with Polycom that it claims as the gold standard for distance education in music. However, the School's teachers' still work with a half- to three-quarter-second delay when teaching students.
Those delays may soon be over thanks to technology with a very rock and roll name – LOLA.
The LOw LAtency Audio Visual Streaming System, developed by the G. Tartini Conservatory in Italy, allows for perfectly synchronised music performance by crushing the latency period down to 40 milliseconds. It's dependent on a dedicated end-to-end connection, it operates on an enormous bandwidth of 800 megabits per second, and it's not compatible with any commercial cameras or audio cards, but it does work.
Edinburgh Napier University and the Royal College of Music proved as much when they staged a joint performance across hundreds of miles.
As impressive as that is, the days of creating and recording wholly online way be just a few seconds too many ahead of us. In the meantime, video conferencing is of more value in 'finishing touches' mode.
The Sight of Sound
What current video conferencing is good at is relaying high fidelity sound. Acoustic echo cancellation uses algorithms to filter out unwanted noises like reverberations, audio reflections, and other grumbling repeated sound waves, such as moaning air conditioning units.
Other features, such as automatic gain control in conjunction with the right microphone and speakers, let video callers broadcast across the whole range of human hearing, essentially 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
It's that ability to cater for the full range of human hearing that's integral to the success of music by video conference. Most telephone services top out at around 3500 Hz. Check the EQ on your stereo, and you're going to find higher numbers on that as well.
As always, there's a trade-off between fidelity and frame rate when sending video through the internet. However, as there's nothing essential to be seen when collaborating on an audio project, the average U.S. internet speed of 11 Mbps is plenty to maintain a smooth 60 frames per second speed while listening online.
All this clarity means the musicians of today can comfortably share their works with engineers and mixers the world over.
And keep an ear on the final mix at all times.
Your Ears in Our Hands
Once a band has finished recording their album with a studio producer, it's shipped off to be mastered by yet more maestros. Describing music in words and speech is best left to the romantic poets, so it's not always easy to convey a musical vision to that final producer by email or phone call.
In fact, often the next a band will hear of it is when a final product lands in their in-tray.
However, through video conferencing a band could put a call in at the end of each mixing session to hear just what has become of their baby. It's a means of instantly tracking whether the bass is too low, the snare drum too dry, or the vocal too prominent.
It's not a stretch to suggest that the shared desktop features of many video conferencing providers would let the band take control of any digital mixing board and make real-time decisions on their own sound. It's still a debate between creators and refiners, but this way could allow the creators more direct input.
And, of course, opening up this video conversation means bands can work with experts from all over the globe without the time and expense of travel. A band in Chicago with a crush on a producer in Japan could comfortably collaborate online.
With a little digital to-and-fro, the bands of today need never have to wait 20 years to hear their own music as they intended.


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"My daddy is my hero!" – Priyanka Chandel
Meet Priyanka Chandel: the confident and pretty model and television artist from Dehradun Tell us about the influence of your city on your upbringing? The city of Dehradun (Uttarakhand) has moral values instilled in me and I feel that these values are the key to my professional growth. How did you end up in the MTV Splitsvilla? Honestly, I never thought of participating … Continue reading "My daddy is my hero!" – Priyanka Chandel


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Q: My girlfriend of six months finds it inappropriate that I purchased Christmas gifts for my daughters at Victoria's Secret. I only purchased perfume and lotions. She feels that as a dad, I shouldn't be shopping for my girls there because they sell bras and underwear along with lingerie.
My girlfriend comes from a broken home where, to this day, she does not speak to her dad or brother. Her mom remarried when she was 17, and she was asked to leave the home by her stepfather. She also has found it inappropriate that my daughter wanted me and her mom to be with her during the birth of my grandson.
I get very uncomfortable, as she makes it seem like I am inappropriate with my kids. I love my girls and would never do anything to hurt them. I don't find it inappropriate to buy perfume and hand lotion. But, obviously, I'm wrong, or am I missing something?
-- F.L., Buffalo
A: I don't think there is anything wrong with lotion or perfume, regardless of where it comes from. Lots of stores sell these things along with more intimate apparel. It is irrational and inappropriate for your girlfriend to challenge you on this. Obviously it would be inappropriate if you were buying your girls sexy lingerie, but that clearly isn't the case.
The birth of a child or grandchild is a sacred moment in a family's life, and I think it is sweet that your daughter wanted you to be a part of the experience. There may be some families who find it odd for the grandfather to be present, but this was your daughter's choice. It is really none of your girlfriend's business -- especially after only six months together.
It sounds to me, from the background you have given about your girlfriend, that she might have some underlying issues going on that she is not sharing with you. Perhaps events from her past and the lack of contact with her male family members have something to do with her strange reaction.
You need to talk to her about this if you want the relationship to take a healthier path. Encourage her to open up to you about anything that may have happened to her in the past. If there is something she is struggling to deal with, suggest that she seek professional help.
It's nobody's business
Q: I am 42, single, never married. I consider myself to be a very upstanding citizen. I am always getting compliments on my beauty, brains and disposition. I have been told many times that I am a kind, warm-hearted person -- and yet I haven't met the right man. I do want to find love.
A lot of my friends have been married and divorced. I am not at all complaining about that. I just want to know why people are so shocked and inquisitive when I tell them I have never been married.
-- S.W., Amherst
A: Not everyone can so easily find that one person she wants to spend her life with. It is rude and invasive for anyone to interrogate you about your situation, and you are not obligated to explain yourself. I always tell my clients it is better to have not been married than to marry the wrong person and end up unhappy or divorced.
However, you mention that you want to meet that special someone, so you need to be proactive about it. Mr. Right isn't going to magically appear at your door. Get out with friends and mingle with new people. Take up a new hobby or a class where you can interact with strangers. If you match the description you give of yourself, attracting men shouldn't be too hard once you get yourself out there. Avoid making a list of criteria you expect in a man, though. Being open-minded will improve your chances tenfold. And feel free to contact my agency if you would like personalized and professional help with dating.
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Main Characters
El Santos
Voiced by: Jose Trinidad Camacho (aka Trino) (original animated shorts) and Daniel Gimenez Cacho (movie and promotional shorts)The titular hero... if you can call him like that. A Masked Luchador, he fights against Tetona Mendoza and many of his rivals and enemies, inside and outside the ring, including zombies, aliens, demons and many other scum, when the plot asks for it.
- Author Avatar: For his creator, Trino.
- Bi the Way: Not only he also had sex with females, but also with males, especially with his best friend, Corporal Valdivia. And this is also Played for Laughs.
- Designated Hero: Depending of the plot, he can be Not So Different from the rest of the villains. In fact, one of the stories has him, Corporal Valdivia and El Diablo Zepeda robbing a bank together.
- Dung Fu: Used continuosly in the comics and also in the movie when he tries to escape from prison from Maruca and her cronies. It didn't work.
- Fartillery: And he goes beyond of that.
- Gonk: Seriously, he barely looks human and he resembles more like a fat monkey with a wrestler mask instead (in fact, one strip has him reveal at the end that he's not wearing a mask; his face really looks like that).
- Kavorka Man: While mostly his relationship is with Tetona, he's also had his rounds with La Rata Maruca, a harem of mermaids, Las Poquianchis del Espacio (who, to be fair, bang anything that moves) and a brief marriage with La Kikis Cocuera.
- Jerkass: To the core.
- Masked Luchador
- Mr. Vice Guy: Not only he is a Jerkass with capital "J", he can indulge in any kind of vice, including getting drugged if the plot demands it for some laughs.
- Lazy Bum: Sometimes
- Parody: Of El Santo or more exactly, of his non-wrestling persona, since in Real Life, he had a really thick and exaggerated Mexico City accent in his voice, and he sounded like a hick. This was hidden is his movies, because his voice was dubbed by professional voice actors and he never used his real voice in-film. Ironically, both Trino in the original shorts and Daniel Gimenez in the film are from the state of Jalisco, and they use a notable Guadalajara accent in their voice.
- The Stoner: Just like his author.
La Tetona Mendoza
Voiced by: Sara Valenzuela (original shorts), Regina Orozco (movie and promotional shorts)El Santos' former (When the plot asks for it) wife and rival. She's the only one who can kick his butt at daily basis and also the main villain in the animated movie.
- Author Avatar: Of her co-creator, Jis (who is male).
- Babies Ever After: At the end of the film with El Santos.
- Big Bad: In many stories from the comic book, and in the animated movie.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Other than giving orders to her cronies and Peyote, and maybe punching Santos, she doesn't do too much to fight back at the end, since she was too drunk.
- Brawnhilda
- Full-Frontal Assault: Many times, in the comic books, she will fight naked against El Santos or anyone who stands in her way. And even when she's dressed, she still has her boobs hanging out, including when wearing a wedding dress.
- Gag Boobs: Heck, her name means Big-titted in Spanish.
- High-Class Call Girl: She's a prostitute and the owner of a brothel named Tetona's Palace.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Invoken sometimes in the comic books.
- Karma Houdini: In the film: At the end, she is never punished for everything she did a as president, since El Santos marries her at the end. Though, as a consolation, she doesn't seem very pleased with the married life..
- Kavorka Woman: A rare female example: She's supposed to be a Ms. Fanservice in-universe, but outside of it, she's pretty digusting and ugly. The fact she's a prostitute helps. Her looks can be a reference over the Mexican stereotype that many prostitutes are butt-ugly.
- The Lad-ette: She's as vulgar, disgusting and loudier as the rest of the male characters
- No Badass To Her Valet: She's the only one who can face Santos face-to-face in a fight and win, not to mention being the only one whose Santos is really afraid.
- Parody/Meaningful Name: Her name is a composite name from two famous Mexican wrestlers: Ray Mendoza and La Tonina Jackson.
- Too Hot for TV: There's a good reason why we can't show a full image of her, if her name already gives you a hint.
- Wild Hair
El Peyote Asesino (The Killer Peyote)
Voiced by: Juan Romo (original shorts), José María Yazpik (movie and promotional shorts)He is (aside from Tetona) one of the biggest rivals El Santos ever had. An anthropomorphic peyote plant, he's El Santos' archrival and also Tetona's former lover (when the plot ask for it).
- A God Am I: Downplayed and Played for Laughs in his backstory, as being a peyote plant, he's worshipped as a god by many Native Mexicans, but he never talks about the topic anywhere.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: He's a green, walking peyote (or mescaline) plant
- Berserk Button: In the film: Don't call him a hillbilly and telling him his glasses are fake.
- Biggus Dickus: According with his backstory, and you don't really want to know about the rest of the topic.
- Cool Shades
- The Dragon: For Tetona in the film.
- Dragon Ascendant: Becomes the main villain at the final stage of the film after Tetona was too drunk to fight back against El Santos.
- A Fate Worse Than Death: After slipping with a avocado peel that Santos left in the ground, he crashes his back against the floor, breaking his spine and left him quadraplegic for life.
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- The Mole: He faked joining forces with Santos and both characters went to Sahuayo, Michoacan trying to find the Zombie virus for bringing back the Sahuayo Zombies back again, only for betraying Santos and Valdivia, bringing them to Tetona, and destroying the virus.
- Parody/Meaningful Name: He's named after another classic Mexican wrestler, El Medico Asesino (The Killer Doc)
- Poisonous Friend: Both figuratively and literally, as he drugs out a kid in the film when filming a commercial break against drugs.
- Sophisticated as Hell: He's elegant, intelligent... and also as foul-mouthed like everyone else.
- The Rival: of El Santos
- You Are Who You Eat: Literally, as he continuosly eats parts of himself without ill-effects.
Corporal Valdivia
Voiced by: Juan Romo (original shorts), Hector Jimenez (movie and promotional shorts)El Santos' No.1 fan, and his biggest (and only friend). Valdivia is a cop who works in the same wrestling arena Santos fights and he's the one who always warns him when there's some kind of crime or problem around.
- And Then Corporal Valdivia was a Zombie: In the film, he later reveals he's half-zombie.
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: He's pretty useless as a cop, as he always asks help from El Santos for everything.
- Biggus Dickus: Implied, since he's half-zombie.
- Butt-Monkey
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is rarely used outside of the movie. Most people just reffer to him as "Cabo" (Corporal).
- Meaningful Name: Named after the former soccer player, Javier "El Cabo" Valdivia, (who played for Club Chivas Guadalajara) being El Cabo translated as The Corporal.
- Muggle Best Friend: He's the only character who is not a wrestler or fights in any way.
- Nice Guy: He's the only person in both the comics and the movie who is not a jerk. There's a good reason for that. He's half-zombie.
- Undying Loyalty: Towards El Santos, a fact frequently mocked by everyone against him or El Santos.
Other Characters
Los Zombis de Sahuayo (The Sahuayo Zombies)
The regular zombie mooks El Santos fights continuosly in the original comic books and also in the movie, albeit their role are expanded considerably in the film.
- Biggus Dickus: According with some documents El Santos and Valdivia found in Sahuayo in the film.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies
- Good All Along: Unfortunately for them, being a Nice Guy in El Santos universe is a symbol of being a nuisance.
- Our Zombies Are Different: In the film, despise being zombies, they're much smarter and kinder than our heroes.
- Zombie Mooks
La Rata Maruca (Maruca The Rat)
Voiced by: Irene AzuelaA regular character from the comics, Maruca is half-human half-rat girl who was a Butt-Monkey of sorts there, but in the film, she gets a more extended role and became into one of the most annoying enemies El Santos has to face.
- Ascended Extra: From being bullied by El Santos in the comic books to being a big pain in El Santos' ass later on in the film.
- The Baroness: In the film.
- Breast Expansion: She was flatter as a table in the comics, but in the film she gets a pair of bigger assets, due to Tetona being now her boss.
- Butt-Monkey: In the comic books, but NOT in the film.
- Expy: While Maruca preceds her by 20 years, she looks a bit like Nazrin, especially in the movie, except she's a Jerkass.
- During the Animesque sequences during the prison soccer match, she looks like Topo Gigio instead.
- The Fake Cutie: She's somewhat cute, but she's a bigger Jerkass like everyone in the comic book and the film.
- Grumpy Bear: Especially in the film.
- Purple Prose: Parodied like hell in the comic books and in the promotional movie shorts: She speaks using a very rigid, formal version of the Mexican Spanish dialect, who is normally used in formal backgrounds, like law firms, companies, etc., but is NOT recommended to speak in Real Life in Mexico for everyday use, since it sounds extremely distant and borderline arrogant for everyone else there. She drops this in the film and she speaks normally like everyone else.
El Charro Negro (The Dark Charro)
Voiced by: Cheech MarinA charro dressed in black and surrounded in myth. He ends helping Santos later on the film while escaping from prison.
- Ascended Extra: From being just another background character in the comic books to helping El Santos to escape from Tetona and Maruca's clutches.
- Meaningful Name: Named after a character from the same name from a series of Mexican films from the 1950s, who is, in turn, named after an old mexican urban legend about a ghost dressed as a charro who tempts unwary travelers with gold.
- Mexicans are Charros
- Narrator All Along: At the end of the film, it turns out he's the one narrating his adventures all this time.
- Surprisingly Good Spanish: Meta-example: Despite being Hispanic, Cheech Marin does NOT speak Spanish natively, so his lines had to be written phonetically, but not only he manages to speak the language very well, albeit in a slight odd way, but also speak with a Mexican accent.


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I was checking my favorite design blogs this morning, as usual. Much to my surprise Design is Mine and The Small Object both featured my Flossy the Pony Bobbin on their blogs! Thanks so much, Summer and Sarah!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Flossy Says Thank You
Posted by Church of Craft Athens at 10:25 PM
4 comments:
- Summer (designismine) said...
You're welcome dear- you rock!
- July 8, 2009 at 2:10 AM
- Church of Craft Athens said...
Thanks, Summer! You're the best!
- July 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
- Sarah said...
you're welcome, they're awesome!!
- July 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM
- Church of Craft Athens said...
Thanks, Sarah! We missed seeing you at ICE this year, and I thought you were gonna be there and looked all over for you. haha.
- July 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM
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You punish those who fail to press their attack.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved Shield Bash, Upsetting Shield Style, Upsetting Strike, proficiency with bucklers.
Benefit(s): While using Upsetting Shield Style, the penalty on attack rolls foes take for being hit by your shield bash attack applies to their attacks against any target. If an adjacent foe taking this penalty makes an attack roll against any target and misses the target's AC by 5 or more, that foe provokes an attack of opportunity from you. You can only make one attack of opportunity against an opponent as a result of this feat or Upsetting Strike each round.
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A Colorado attorney suspected of stealing up to $1 million from his clients has been arrested in San Diego nearly five years after he disappeared.
Royal "Scoop" Daniel was last seen in Colorado in April 2007.
On Thursday, police officers in Breckenridge, Colo. announced Daniel was in jail in San Diego after being arrested while entering the U.S. from Mexico.
After an initial search by friends and police, authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, alleging he never returned clients' money from real estate transactions.
Check back for details on this developing story.
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