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"No input file specified" or "Primary script unknown" in the error log is one of the most frequently encountered issues in nginx+PHP. People on serverfault and in the #nginx IRC channel asks for help with this so often that this post is mostly to allow me to be lazy and not have to type up the same answer every time.
This is actually an error from PHP and due to display_errors being 0ff people will often just get a blank page with no output. In a typical setup PHP will then send the error to stderr or stdout and nginx will pick up on it and log it in the nginx error log file. Thus people spend a ton of time trying to figure out why nginx isn't working.
The root cause of the error is that PHP cannot find the file nginx is telling it to look for, and there are a few common cases that causes this.
Wrong Path Sent to PHP
The most common reason at the time of writing happens because a user uses a horrible tutorial found via google instead of actually understanding nginx. Reading my nginx primer will equip you to actually solve this on your own but since this post is actually dedicated to the error I'll cheat this once and allow you to be lazy by just giving you the full solution.
Nginx tells PHP about the file to execute via the SCRIPT_FILENAME fastcgi_param value. Most examples in the wiki should define this as $document_root$fastcgi_script_name. The horrible tutorials will often hard code the path value but this is not desirable as we don't want to duplicate information and invite future screw ups. So you've gone with the $document_root$fastcgi_script_name option and suddenly it's no longer working.
This happens because nginx has 3 levels of inheritance commonly referred to as blocks, these being http, server and location, each being a sub-block of the parent. Directives in nginx inherit downwards but never up or across, so if you define something in one location block it will never be applied in any other location block under any circumstance.
Typically users define their index and root directive in location / because a tutorial told them to. So when they then define SCRIPT_FILENAME using $document_root the root directive is not actually defined and thus the SCRIPT_FILENAME value becomes just the URI making PHP look at the root server dir.
The simple solution here is to just define the directive in your server block. (or http block even!) Generally the higher up your can define a directive the less duplicate directives you'll need.
Incorrect File Permissions
Most people don't really believe me when I tell them their file permissions are incorrect. They're looking at the damn permissions and the PHP user can read the file just fine! Sadly, this shows a lack of understanding of Unix user permissions. Being able to read a file is not enough, a user must also be able to traverse to the file.
This effectively means that not only should the file have read permission, but the entire directory structure should have execute permission so that the PHP user can traverse the path. An example of this:
Say you have an index.php file in /var/www. /var/www/index.php must have read permission and both /var and /var/www must have execute permissions.
Using Alias and $document_root
It is fairly common to define SCRIPT_FILENAME as $document_root$fastcgi_script_filename; However, $document_root does not account for the alias directive and will thus result in an incorrect path being sent. It is preferable to define SCRIPT_FILENAME as such:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
This accounts for alias and ensures proper path is sent. One note about this is that $request_filename does not account for fastcgi_index, but you only use this index if you send a request ending in / to PHP. If you use the standard PHP location ~ \.php$ then you will never use the fastcgi_index directive.
Chrooted Environment
If your PHP lives in a chrooted environment that nginx does not, then they basically have 2 different roots and the file path that nginx reports to PHP will not resolve to the actual file. A simple example to make this obvious:
Lets say you request phpinfo.php, nginx looks in your defined root and finds this file in: /home/user/public_html/phpinfo.php
The PHP process for user is chrooted to only have access to his directory for security reasons, so as far as PHP knows the root of the server is at /home/user. Therefore when nginx reports the file path PHP will look in: /home/user/home/user/public_html/phpinfo.php.
Either make sure both nginx and PHP has the same chroot or make sure you rewrite your internal URI before you fastcgi pass to PHP.
Open Basedir Restriction
PHP has the option to limit file access to certain directories defined in your php.ini. Some distributions might preconfigure this option for their packaging system.
SCRIPT_NAME Versus SCRIPT_FILENAME
Fastcgi has two parameters which are quite similiar in name, make sure that you're not confusing the SCRIPT_NAME variable for the SCRIPT_FILENAME one. SCRIPT_FILENAME tells fastcgi the location of the script to execute while SCRIPT_NAME merely tells the name of the script.
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Posted: February 7, 2011
Hey there!
I think you were it who telled me to read this yesterday in nginx-irc.
What i wan't to say is in first line thanks, i'm on the way to understand how nginx work.
But there is one thing i really have to ask.
Do you mean the root-directive should be put from location - block to the server - block?
My english isn't as good in some specific "slangs", so i don't really know.
Chen Yufei
Posted: August 1, 2011
Thanks! Clearly written about the problem and I solve it.
I wish I'd read your Nginx Primer when I first come to nginx, so I don't need to waste my time on solving this problem.
Anyway, I'm reading your Nginx Primer now :)
Posted: August 6, 2011
Hi Martin
Thanks for the explanation.
May I ask you one question though? Why do people use SCRIPT_FILENAME = $document_root$fastcgi_script_name
I've installed Nginx from a package, and this is a default FastCGI param:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
Why would I change it to $document_root$fastcgi_script_name
Many thanks
Posted: August 6, 2011
Thanks for that reply Martin.
One more question: do you think there's a lot of overlap between Nginx, Varnish and the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin?
For example, does the W3 page cache overlap with the Varnish cache? Intuitively, I imagine Varnish cache is quicker because (in my case - with malloc) it's using memory. I'd like to reduce overlap so am wondering if the perfect WordPress solution could do without a cache plugin, maybe just a minify plugin.
Then there's browser caching, Gzip and headers. It seems you can set these from Nginx, Varnish or W3. I imagine a lot of installs out there are duplicating Gzip across Nginx and W3.
I've looked through the nginx.conf that W3 produces and it's quite a mess. To keep things lightweight and simple, I'm thinking about ditching W3. Do you think there's anything really positive that W3 achieves, other than minify, that's not possible with Nginx or Varnish?
Posted: December 11, 2011
Thank you for your explanation!I know your means,But i still have some question.I have two work directory,one is D:\NET,one is E:\NET,i use alias or root in the location block,this two location have the same server block,so the server block have one root,when i vister the php files in D:\NET directory,i get a "No input file specified" error at then when i vister php files in E:NET directory,vice versa,In your means,because the root is in D:\NET,not E:\NET,how can i vister the php file at the same time at all of alias or root of location block?
Adrian Ratnapala
Posted: February 14, 2012
Hi Martin,
I am wondering if there are any other known causes of this error, because I am getting "No input file specified.", even though the paths and permissions seem fine. I am sorry to reward your excellent blogging by treating you like tech support, but I suspect that if I asked this on a PHP mailing list it might get ignored as an "nginx issue".
Why do I think my config is fine? The "root" directive is in the server block; in fact if I use tcpdump to evesdrop on the fastcgi traffic, I see ....SCRIPT_NAME/var/www/index.php...", which looks fine too me. Similarly, the permissions are fine; I can become the same user as the PHP process and "cat" the source file.
So it looks to me like it's an issue with PHP itself, but I can't prove it. Frustratingly, I have made all this work without any trouble at all on other machines!
Adrian Ratnapala
Posted: February 14, 2012
Hi. I just fixed the problem I mentioned abovfe! Mea Culpa I guess, but perhaps this is worth adding to your post: Debian's version of /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params defines SCRIPT_NAME but not SCRIPT_FILENAME. If I define the latter, things start to work.
Is this a Debian bug? Or is it something else?
Posted: February 17, 2012
my wordpress website does not seem to work with ur solution.. i have defined the complete root in the location block..
I still get the error "No Input file specified " for this case
but I dont get the same error for the below case
- just the forward slash is missing and nothing else.. what do you think might be the problem....
Posted: February 23, 2012
I tried to follow this closely, but am having several problems. I continue to get the "No input file specified" error for valid files, and on top of that, nothing is redirecting properly. I've fiddled endlessly, and looked for help on IRC, with no luck.
Would be extremely grateful for a pointer. Relevant config and brief discussion is at
Thank you.
Posted: February 24, 2012
Hmm. I had previously looked at that doc very closely, in another context, but I didn't really get it until now.
But I'm afraid making this change still hasn't fixed it. I changed the root to /usr/local/www/data, and also tried changing location to "/blog/" (with closing slash), and I'm still getting 404's on bogus pages, and "No input file specified" for existing pages.
Is there a way I can see exactly what file nginx is looking for? I tried changing the error_log to "info", but these things aren't showing up as errors in the logs.
Posted: April 12, 2012
Thanks for the informative post. Unfortunately I still have the problem even though I believe everything mentioned in your post is set correctly. I posted the full details in the nginx forum here
but I didn't receive a reply. I'm pretty new to linux and assume it's a simple mistake but I have no idea what it is.
Peter M Dodge
Posted: June 4, 2012
Is there a way to redirect the "no input file specified" to a 404 page? This page is the only real relevant page turned up by google.
The best I can think of is using httpd to serve up php which then can serve up error pages, but that eliminates the advantage of using nginx at all.
Peter M Dodge
Posted: November 21, 2012
Thankyou so much,
I couldn't find out what the issue was and this tutorial helped me understand unix and nginx so much better, that i worked out the problem myself (allowed directories in php.ini, something i would normally need to ask of a forum)
Posted: November 24, 2012
I'm ashamed to say that your tuto saved my ass.
I understood nginx and what I was doing in the config much better and solved my problem in 2 seconds (after searching the web for an hour).
Adam Colwell
Posted: March 15, 2013
I was having similar issues, and even tried all your steps.
One extra thing to try which helped me was to check you have cgi.force_redirect = 0 set in php.ini
Hope that helps!
Posted: July 24, 2013
I cannot run info.php file in my webserver. I dont know what else to do. This is my sites-available/default
jack meow
Posted: September 13, 2013
Nice post!
I really forgot about permission stuff.
Posted: October 10, 2013
I tried to follow your advice with my wordpress installation, but somehow without luck. The nginx-config is on http://pastebin.com/4yTMbvCz and the nginx-debug-level is on http://pastebin.com/8qUELibz. The file in the SCRIPT_FILENAME says:
[email protected]:/var/log/nginx# ll /usr/share/nginx/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 10447 Jun 30 13:18 /usr/share/nginx/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php*
So I guess the permissions are proper resp. more then sufficient. Would you mind to give a helping hand?
Nick S
Posted: January 4, 2014
Thanks for sharing those tips! I can't believe it, I had to spend a whole day trying to figure out why I was getting the "No file specified". Turned out that it was the latter -
open_basdirrestrictions. Commenting it out in the php.ini fixed the issue for me.
Thanks again!
Posted: February 17, 2014
[email protected]:~ # grep SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf | grep -v #
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
[email protected]:~ # grep ^open_basedir /usr/local/etc/php.ini
[email protected]:~ # su -m www
[email protected]:~ % file /usr/local/www/nginx/php/phpinfo.php
/usr/local/www/nginx/php/phpinfo.php: PHP script, ASCII text
[email protected]:~ %
and yet still "No input file specified."
Posted: February 17, 2014
turns out the problem was in "root" being specified in almost every "location" while it was only suppose to be defined once in "server" block.
Posted: March 15, 2014
Saved my time today ... thanks. SS
Manel Monguilod
Posted: October 22, 2014
Thank you!!! Afeter looking for 2 hours I've found your web. Very clear explanation.
P.D.: I'm guilty of a "copypasting" tutorials. That was my error :-)
Ed Schroedinger
Posted: March 31, 2015
now, thanx a lot for the 'lazy walk' ;) ...it indeed solved my initial trouble getting php to work via fcgi :)
... moreover, finally migrating from apache, your primer on nginx configuration as well pre-answered some imminent questions before actually stepping over the tripwires
bigup for the nice job, really helped a lot! :)
Posted: April 7, 2015
Thanks _A LOT_ for this usefull information about "Using Alias and $document_root". Two days lost troubleshooting nginx configuration, changing parameters and trying to understand what was going on.
Now it's running like a charm.
Best regards,
Posted: May 11, 2015
Hey! i have problem with my page too. After php version update i got error like this "502 Bad Gateway
Posted: June 4, 2015
Thx. The open_basedire fix my question.
Posted: June 28, 2015
Martin, at first i want to thank you for this great information on your blod *thumbs-up*
I didn't find the culprit and noone on #nginx channel was able to help me either, yet. You pointed at least to the right direction by explaining the difference of fastcgi.conf and fastcgi_params. My issue and configuration is explained here ==> http://p.ngx.cc/f414b76106e81c21
You said, that only "fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;" will take the use of "alias" into consideration so it can executed by fastcgi, is that correct? How do I modify my configuration to take also into account ...
which suggest NOT to use "try_files" but instead use "if" even then where nginx says that IfIsEvil ?
I'm kinda confused and cannot get this stuff to work and my goal is:
- I want to access all three webapps, and https://example.tld/webapp3/remote.php/webdav should also work (webapp3 is owncloud in my example).
- I want to have the best security context possible so attackers cannot upload and execute malicious code as explained here https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/04/setting-up-php-fastcgi-and-nginx-dont-trust-the-tutorials-check-your-configuration/
- When I remember correctly I should use "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0" in php.ini, right? that's my actual setting.
- I was also told to use the "split_path" configuration as shown in my actual nginx configuration.
I would be very glad to hear your comments on that and how you suggest me to solve that. Any help appreciated.
Thank you so much in advance.
Zaheer Ahmad Khan
Posted: September 12, 2015
Martin awesome info and explanation, you mad my day. Thanks a lot.
Posted: January 20, 2016
- I am very new in Nginx...
- I am trying to create multi site using Drupal 7, Nginx on ubuntu 14.4.
- I am applying settings for multi site in given path: "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default"
- I saved my drupal setup in: "/var/www/drupal"
- given below is the code, which i am using in "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default" file
server {
#listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=off;
root /var/www/drupal;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;
location ~ '\.php$|^/update.php' {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(|/.*)$;
#NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
- I am trying this URL http://mydomain.com/site1, but it redirecting me to http://mydomain.com/install.php
- I need to create URL like: http://mydomain.com/site1.
Thank you so much in advance. Reply please


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Fortune Magazine ranks the "100 best companies to work for" every year. The magazine analyzes factors such as health coverage, telecommuting, job sharing, onsite childcare, compressed work-weeks, paid sabbaticals, onsite fitness center and many others to determine its rankings.
This marks the 13th straight year that Quicken Loans has ranked in the top 30 of Fortune's workplace study.
"Our team members know their opinion isn't only welcome, but expected. From providing input on how to improve our existing business, to pitching a completely new company idea, our commitment to a culture of empowerment and innovation creates an atmosphere where hardworking, passionate team members can thrive," said Bill Emerson, Quicken Loans chief executive officer.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
When Your University Is Out to Get You.
Wayne State University is one of three research universities in Michigan. It has a student body exceeding 30, 000. It has a medical school, a law school, a business school and all the rest of the accoutrements of a major university. It educates many first-generation college students. With its urban mission, it is never going to have the graduation rates of U of Michigan, but tap anyone in southeast Michigan on the shoulder and it is likely they or their family members got a degree of some kind at WSU.
At the same time, the administration has always been at odds with the faculty-dating back to the eighties and a particularly contentious President. The administration sees faculty as employees, not as the bedrock of a university. Not what a university is about.
There are more administrators than faculty and the number continues to grow. As faculty take flat salary increases, the administration averages 9%.
Most, not all, of the faculty is productive. My husband, for example, has written 14 books, over fifty articles (each over 20 pages and in major journals) dozens of book reviews, presented more than a hundred conference papers. He has won awards for his teaching and research, been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright award and so on. Many faculty members have similar records.
Now the university has turned its contract negotiations over to a law firm known for an intolerance of unions. Negotiations have begun with the strong suggestion that the administration intends to possibly eliminate tenure, reduce health, eye and dental care, cut salaries, fire faculty and staff at will. The elimination of tenure would be a first in the country. It is hard to explain tenure to people outside the profession, but if you can be fired without cause, you cannot just go down the street and find another job. Universities don't work like that.
Why not fire professors making high salaries and replace them with recent Ph.Ds? Or how about going to an all online institution? Or use adjuncts to teach every course?
Can you imagine what the chances are that this university will be now be able to attract any quality professors or researchers in the coming years. Detroit is a hard sell anyway. This will make it an impossible one. And all of this comes with a strong union in place although the state's attempts to make this a "right to work" state may abolish it.
Even if this is just a negotiating ploy, the damage to the university's reputation and its ability to recruit top-notch people is permanent.
I always thought that a university had a soul that a corporation didn't share. That educating students was its primary mission. Obviously that is no longer true at Wayne State. I used to be proud of my state and the university where we worked. All of it is gone.
Wayne State's motto, on billboards everywhere, is AIM HIGHER.
A clarification from a better informed source.
While striking out the Board Of Governors Statutes on de-tenuring, which include peer review and due process, the administration team did not strike out Academic-freedom Statute, even though the very statute (Appointments, Tenure, Employment Security Status, Termination and Dismissal Policies and Procedures) they want eliminated states, "Tenure is a means to certain ends, specifically 1. "Academic freedom."
The most important thing about universities is academic freedom. Without the freedom to explore alternative modes of thinking about the world, whether in politics, philosophy, literature, or science, we stagnate and ultimately wither as a society, as a species. To put people on a regime of quantified "production" as if they were turning out cars destroys the intellectual enterprise of a university and damages our students and our future. Not that for a moment we're arguing that people making cars should make less than a living wage with benefits that allow them to live a middle-class life.
15 comments:
- Joe Barone said...
A few years ago, our local University (thanks to the state legislature) hired a businessman, not an educator to be president. The whole environment changed. Recently they did away with the University Press and replaced it with staff they can control. Even upper level courses might well be taught by part-time professors now.
I am sad for what is happening in many U.S. universities today.
That really sucks, Patti. Any chance Phil can retire any time soon?
Jeff M.
- Chris said...
We've had all kinds of problems at out local university as well in the last few years, though not of this kind. Very unfortunate. I'm sorry to hear about what is going on at WSU, Patti.
- Chad said...
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- Chad said...
I wish I could say that your's is an anomaly. It's not. Last year, in the midst of budget cuts and salary freezes, our University President gave himself a $100K raise. I've said before and I'll say it again, if you really wanted to cut tuition costs then you would elimate some of the bloated administration that pulls in huge amounts of cash for doing very very little and has next to no idea what it's like to deal with students on a daily basis.
I only see our state getting worse. This is the last year for our Governor, a man who has gutted education across the board. However, at the end of his term, he already has a new job lined up as President of the other major university in our state. How'd he get that job? Well, he was elected by the Board of Trustees--after appointing 8 of the 10 members to that position
It is difficult to explain the necessity of tenure, but unfortunately, the people who are working to eliminate it understand it perfectly well. They know the contribution that tenure makes to free speech and scholarly independence, and that's why they are so hostile to it.
- Prashant C. Trikannad said...
In India, a lot of schools, colleges and hospitals are increasingly being owned and run by major corporate houses with businesses as diversified as mining and natural gas or power and steel. So far they are doing a fairly decent job, mainly because higher education is still largely under State control, or at least partially so. Most of our universities are affiliated to governments, both at the central (federal) and state levels.
- Charles Gramlich said...
Thanks for the heads up. I will never recommend this university to anyone, ever, and if this goes through I will look at any of their graduates who apply for positions where I'm part of the equation with suspicion. without good faculty you aren't going to graduate a lot of top candidates for any kind of job.
It's not just at the university level. Our governor (Bobby Jindal, rumored to be on Romney's short list for VP) just railroaded through a slew of so-called "reforms" that amount to nothing more than an evisceration of the teachers' union and a massive giveaway of public funds to private/charter schools. How did we ever get to this point? I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's just insane what's going on.
- Jerry House said...
It had to happen, I'm afraid. The virus of stupidity has now spread to higher education.
- George said...
We're dealing with the same issues at my College: higher healthcare deductibles, larger class sizes, more part-time teachers, etc. Higher education is still one of the things the U.S. still does well. But budget cuts and give-backs are going to reduce colleges and universities here to mediocrity.
- Charlieopera said...
Third world, we are there ... unfortunately, none of this surprises me. It's a damn shame and one I suspect will get worse ... and worse.
Capitalism just doesn't work anymore and it's time we had a political party that told the truth about it.
- George said...
There are plenty of types of capitalism, Charlie. The type we have right now where hedge fund managers get to make billions of dollars (and pay little or no taxes) while teachers and police and firefighters get laid off is a dysfunctional model. The billion dollar bonus could fund 27,000 teachers for a year.
- Ron Scheer said...
Patti, your post refreshes for me every grievance I've had about higher education dating from the 1970s when I was a new teacher and the state of Pennsylvania began cutting budgets in the state college system. It's an old story...And it is a relief to be retired.


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BRISTON, Tenn. - Kurt Busch took the lead on a restart with 23 laps to go, held off pole-sitter Kyle Larson over the final 13 laps and drove to his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win of the season on Saturday night, Aug. 18, at the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol.
The win ended a 58-race winless streak for the Stewart-Haas Racing driver and gave him his sixth victory at the high-banked BMS short track.
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Chase Elliott of Hendrick Motorsports was third.
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Ryan Blaney captured Stage 1. Logano won the second stage.
Nothing went smoothly for Cup's "Big Three" of Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr.
Points leader and six-time 2018 winner Kyle Busch damaged his car in hopes for an eighth overall win at Bristol and a third-straight win on the BMS high banks when he got caught up in a wreck on the second lap. His Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was badly damage but fixable. By the time he returned to the track, he was two laps down.
Also caught up in the Lap 2 12-car wreck was defending series champion and four-race winner on the season, Truex.
Both Kyle Busch and Truex stayed in the race after their crews made repairs, and each worked their way into top five late. But with 69 laps to go, Truex was tapped from behind by Kyle Busch while they were running second and third, respectively. Truex slammed the wall, and his shot for a first career short-track win was over.
Harvick, who led eight laps, had to pit for tires while running second midway through Stage 2. That put the eight-race winner in 2018 a lap down.
Only two races - at Darlington Raceway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway - remain before the 10-race Playoff starts in Las Vegas.


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Chaotic Sword God - Chapter 1185
Chapter 1185: Poison of Heaven's End
"What? Even the artifact spirit isn't enough to purge it? How can there be such an unbelievably powerful poison on the continent?" Jian Chen was shocked by what Hei Yu had said. Disbelief flooded his face.
"We've looked through all our inherited memories, and we have no records regarding Hei Yu's poison, which is why we're helpless against the poison as well," growled Rui Jin. He was extremely good friends with Hei Yu, so he felt rather horrible with Hei Yu in so much danger.
The room fell silent for a while. None of them said anything as they all felt very heavy inside. The poison's potency had far exceeded everyone's imagination since Rui Jin and Hong Lian had no idea what it was, and even the Radiant Saint Force origin energy of the artifact spirit was not enough to nullify it.
Hong Lian silently pondered and said, "I can vaguely remember that it was a few Saint Kings who poisoned Hei Yu. They were likely members of a protector clan.
"A protector clan," Jian Chen softly mumbled. A gleam of light flashed through his eyes and he said, "I'll go invite great-grandfather Changyang Zu Xiao. He's also a member of a protector clan, and he's knowledgeable. He may be able to help out."
Jian Chen immediately went to invite Changyang Zu Xiao. Without much longer, Jian Chen returned to where the three of them rested with a haggard Changyang Zu Xiao.
Changyang Zu Xiao stared at Hei Yu for a while before he gradually frowned. He heavily said, "I know this poison. It's the special technique of the Heaven's Incense School, the Poison of Heaven's End!"
"The Poison of Heaven's End? How do we get rid of it?" Rui Jin paced over to Changyang Zu Xiao's side and nervously asked. He was extremely worried.
"It's rumored that the poison can even claim the lives of Saint Emperors. Other than finding the antidote, there is no other way to purge it," replied Changyang Zu Xiao.
"If that's the case, let's kill our way into the Heaven's Incense School right now." Powerful battle intent radiated from Rui Jin. He was willing to venture into the most dangerous place in order to save Hei Yu.
"No, you can't act recklessly with this. I admire your strength very much and outside the independent realm the protector clans are not your opponent unless they use their Emperor Armaments. However, that's not outside, but the lair of a protector clan. You definitely won't be able to get anything from attack them like that because even a Saint Emperor can't penetrate through the defenses. If it weren't for the fact that something so big happened between us in the Changyang clan, the Bright Moon divine Hall would not have been able to get in so easily and then leave without any difficulty," explained Changyang Zu Xiao.
"Senior Rui Jin, we have to go to the Heaven's Incense School, but we need to make all preparations beforehand. After all, it's different from fighting against the people of the protector clans outside. It's their territory. They have the advantage," said Jian Chen.
Although Rui Jin had gotten carried away, he was not a reckless person. He found it rather reasonable after listening to what Jian Chen and Changyang Zu Xiao had said, so he responded, "Alright, let's make the preparations as quickly as possible in the next few days. We need to set off as soon as possible. Hei Yu can't last much longer."
Changyang Zu Xiao nodded, "Only you can go deal with this matter now. Although Yunxiao and I have broken away from the Changyang clan, we still can't assist you openly." Changyang Zu Xiao paused there. He stared at Jian Chen weirdly before continuing, "And you better quickly find a way to deal with your friend's problem. Once the news of the war god makes it out onto the continent, they will never let him go. At that time, it won't just be the Tian Yuan Continent. Probably even the experts of the Beast God Continent will come to hunt him down. After all, both the Tian Yuan Continent and Beast God Continent have a very deep enmity toward the war god from the ancient times."
"Changyang Qing Yun has already sent a message to me. He wants me to use the Saints' Fruit to exchange for keeping Tie Ta's identity a secret," said Jian Chen.
Changyang Zu Xiao silently pondered that, and only after pondering did he speak, "Looks like Changyang Qing Yun won't be leaking the identity of the war god soon. We need to stop him in the meantime. I'll immediately send someone over to tell him that if he wants the Saints' Fruit, he better keep it a secret for the time being."
"That's enough to stop him temporarily, but it's not a long-term plan. Actually, I've already got a plan to keep Tie Ta safe. All he needs to do is hide in the Bright Moon divine Hall when the time comes and he'll be completely fine. Even if Saint Emperors come personally, they won't be able to threaten him," replied Jian Chen. Now, there were only two places that were extremely safe for Tie Ta. One was Mercenary City while the other was the Bright Moon divine Hall.
However, Jian Chen knew even better that Tie Ta could only hide in Mercenary City before his identity had been leaked. Mercenary City would be a forbidden land once it was leaked. Even if the authoritative elders of the city agreed to shelter him, they would be looked down upon by the entire continent and lose their superior status.
Jian Chen had never considered sending Tie Ta back to the Hundred Races since it would be like sending Tie Ta to his death in his eyes. He had never been to the Wasteland Continent and had no idea about the exact strength of the Hundred Races, but he knew they were not as powerful at the Tian Yuan Continent. They would not even be able to fend off the Tian Yuan Continent, let alone when the Tian Yuan Continent worked together with the Beast God Continent to attack them.
All in all, the people of the two continents would never allow Tie Ta to successfully mature. Once Tie Ta's strength surpassed Saint Emperor, no one would be able to contend against him other than the young Winged Tiger God.
"Fairy Hao Yue, who created the Bright Moon divine Hall, was the strongest Saint Emperor in her age. The records say that she had already arrived at the border of surpassing Saint Emperor, except she still failed in the end. On the other hand, her divine hall created from the special materials of the moon is very extraordinary where even Saint Emperors cannot destroy it, so sheltering him in the divine hall is indeed a good idea. However, when the time comes, you need to shelter the entire clan in it as well along with all the people you care about. Otherwise, I worry that they'll use these people to come threaten you," Changyang Zu Xiao said rather sternly.
Jian Chen's expression changed slightly. He heavily replied, "The Flame Mercenaries will become rather troublesome. With their current scale, they've probably exceeded a million people in size, and there are many of them dispersed everywhere. Sheltering so many people in the divine hall will be very difficul. At the same time, fairy Hao Yue is still alive. Her soul remains, and she possesses full control over the divine hall. Just in case she doesn't agree, it'll be…"
"You might as well just let me seal up the protector clan," Rui Jin suddenly piped up.
"What!? You can seal up the protector clan?" Changyang Zu Xiao was astounded. He stared at Rui Jin in disbelief.
Rui Jin nodded, "My Dragon clan has many paramount legacy secret techniques. There's one that can seal up a region of space. The protector clan may inhabit an independent space, but its connection to the outside world cannot change. I can use the secret technique to seal up the entrance, and they can't leave like that, nor can they leak any information."
"Fantastic. That way, we don't have to worry about Tie Ta's identity being leaked. Senior Rui Jin, when will we seal up the entrance of the Changyang clan?" Jian Chen said rather impatiently.
"I'll need to visit Dragon's Island and retrieve some million-year Dragon's Saliva from the necropolis. I'll use the essence of the herbs to complete the seal, but the seal can't last for too long. It might be a century, it might be a few decades, or it might even be just a few years before it's broken through by them," said Rui Jin.
"We'll drag it out if we can drag it out. Even if it's just a few years, it'll be enough." Jian Chen immediately became confident. He thought about uncle Xiu who had entered seclusion with the Empyrean Demon Orb and the grand elder of Mercenary City, Tian Jian, again.
Now that uncle Xiu had the Empyrean Demon Orb, reaching Saint Emperor was no problem. If Tian Jian consumed the Saints' Fruit, reaching Saint Emperor would just be a matter of a few years.
At this moment, an extremely pleasant melody rang out. It was very gentle and seemed to originate from everywhere. It made it impossible to find its origins.
The moment the melody appeared, the people in the room all stopped talking. Other than Jian Chen, the four of their souls started to shake. Their souls were actually affected by the melody.
"An attack of the soul. What a great method of attack, to fuse such a powerful attack into the melody," Changyang Zu Xiao heavily commented. Attacks of the soul were the hardest to guard against. The only method would be to forcefully resist it, which was why these attacks were the most terrifying.
"It's that girl. Why do I feel like her strength has increased a lot since we last met her in the City of God?" Hei Yu asked on the bed. His voice was filled with evident surprise.
"Her attacks of the soul are becoming more and more powerful," Rui Jin sternly added. At the same time, he was completely confused after much thought as well. He had no idea how her strength could undergo such great changes.
"Why has she come?" Jian Chen gently murmured before bidding farewell to them. He left the room by himself.


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Bradley Manning has become the new poster child for the liberal and LGBT community who hail him as a political icon. A former U.S. Army private who sold out his brothers in arms by giving tens of thousands of classified documents to the whistleblower organization Wikileaks.
Manning was convicted of a capital offense, "aiding the enemy." Imprisoned in 2010 at Leavenworth, he served only seven of his 35-year sentence before Barack Obama commuted the traitor's sentence on his way out of the White House.
Manning dumped some 700,000 military documents to Wikileaks while he was serving in the United States Military as an intelligence analyst. As The Daily Wire previously reported, Manning's dump likely got Americans killed:
It remains unclear how many, if any Americans were killed due to the leaks. But Arizona Senator John McCain said in January of 2017 that he's confident the Taliban used the information and retaliated against those named. McCain told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly he felt "sorrow for the families of those individuals who identified in these leaks in Afghanistan that the Taliban went after and murdered. And rage because this president is basically endorsing a proposal that allows someone to go free who is responsible for the needless deaths of those people who are allies. … Let me be specific. The information I received when I was there was that the Taliban went after these people. I assume, killed them."
Manning announced that he was a transgender on the same day that he was sentenced, which made him a hero to the Left. He's been celebrated for posting "bold" selfies on social media, protesting President Donald Trump's Military transgender ban, and, now, he's being celebrated on the pages of Vogue.advertisement - story continues below
The article in Vogue describes Manning as if he/she were a sex symbol and reads more like the pages out of a romance novel – it's nauseating:
"[Manning is] standing, greeting new faces from all sides, thanking, thanking some more. Her left arm is crossed over her belly, cradling her opposite elbow, which is straight. When Beyonce's "Love on Top" begins its climbing modulations, she uncrosses her arms and begins — mindlessly, flirtatiously — with the charm on her gold necklace, drawing it back and forth between her thumb and forefinger. She sways. She lets herself lean forward, laughing at a joke. When her newest friend wanders away, she turns around and smiles."
As reported by Yahoo, Manning was photographed by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for the spread, in addition to his lengthy profile.
"It's not like I'm living in fear or anything," Manning told Vogue. "I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around."
"Manning said she's not quite sure how she'll harness her power yet, and the Vogue story notes she had been interested in running for political office before transitioning," notes Yahoo.
"I'm certainly not going to say no, and I'm certainly not going to say yes," said Manning when asked about running for office in the future. "My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go."
Manning said he's currently learning Rust, a programming language, and working on his memoir, The Daily Wire reports.advertisement - story continues below
And he also wants to start dating. "I'm not planning to be single!" he said.
Astoundingly, Manning said he really connects with the values of "responsibility" and "compassion."
"I have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion," he said. "Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally."
While Vouge' spouts accolades for Manning and praises him for leaking "the so-called Collateral Murder video, showing a U.S. helicopter killing a group of Baghdad pedestrians that included children and press."advertisement - story continues below
The video in question does not show the killing of "Baghdad pedestrians" as Vogue purports. It actually shows the lawful targeting of insurgents armed with rifles and a grenade launcher. These so-called "Baghdad pedestrians" actually threatened a U.S. Army unit that suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any unit in Iraq. Vogue perpetuates the myths like so many American enemies and misrepresents the truth for propaganda effect, AFF reports.
The Left has their hypocrisy on in full regalia as they in one breath attack Russian intelligence operations against the U.S. yet in the next breath completely forget just who it was that Manning leaked information to in the first place.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
RIP Tree
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Oh my! Such a beautiful tree and hard for me to understand that in some areas one cannot touch a tree because of ordinances, yet this one must come down. :( I can never figure out this state. ;)ReplyDelete
...that's really so sad.... trees, like humans, have spirits too.... they shouldn't be treated that way... and you should have take some actions... i am very much in love with nature and i just hate seein' and readin' things like this... very rude....i'm sorry... i'm very much affected... look at that tree... isn't he amazing having reach that long and tall and handsome??? :(ReplyDelete
That is very sad, though at least the landlord has sense enough to plant a new sapling.ReplyDelete
This is so sad, yet there is hope for the future. Across the street from us a delivery truck backed into one of the four matching trees in front of that apartment building--ruined the tree. It was sawed off at the street and eventually dug out. Finally another one was planted in its place. It didn't change colors with the rest of them this year. We'll see next year.ReplyDelete
I appreciate everyone that stops by to check out the Mt Hood to Portland, Oregon area through my photos ... Have a wonderful day!


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As some of you may know—or might have guessed—I've been thinking a lot about "success," purpose, and happiness. I've been shifting the focus of my career to have my time not just be focused on me-me-me and promoting my books and writing as fast as I can just to have another book out in the world. I've realized I don't want to be a full-time author. I don't want to race to write as many books as I can to keep myself afloat—I want to choose carefully what I publish, and write only what speaks to me deeply in my heart. I want balance. To do something that feels more rewarding… My move to Algonquin was the first step. And in addition to that, through all my searching and attempts at reinvention, I discovered a real love for teaching. I realized this could be the answer. I've written about my shifting vision for career and success before here and here and here.
My active goal for quite some time has been to build up my c.v. and take on as many teaching opportunities as I could to gain experience and become a better teacher. So I taught courses online. I taught workshops and retreats in person. I joined the Your Novel Year program as a mentor and an online instructor. I taught a course at Columbia University this summer. I just co-taught a workshop at Highlights. And in November I'll be teaching a workshop at the Writing Barn. I did all this with a solid goal in mind: to find a regular, more stable teaching position at a university.
I had my sights set on teaching in a low-residency MFA program.
I had my sights set on one particular program, in fact: the MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA).
For years, I've been watching VCFA from afar, admiring the program, its faculty, its graduates, and asking many questions about how the low-residency model works and specifics about the program. I got my own MFA years and years ago, in a full-time program, and have since found myself envying VCFA's hold on its alumni. Writers clearly love this program. They go back for post-graduate semesters and to be graduate assistants. They talk about it with such passion. I went to a VCFA gathering at the Boston AWP conference (a friend of mine is a graduate and I tagged along) and was struck by the community that night, impressed by how the program bonds everyone together and seems to live on far from Vermont, even after graduation. I found myself wishing I'd been part of a community like that, but my own MFA had nothing of the sort. I've read books from graduates of VCFA and admired the range, and the skill, and the voices.
VCFA is doing something right, I've been thinking. Lucky students. Lucky faculty.
So when I had more experience teaching and wanted to pursue a position at an MFA program, of course VCFA was the first to come to mind.
Well, my goal turned real sooner than I expected, and I am beyond thrilled to say:
I am joining the faculty of the low-res MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at VCFA starting with the January residency!
For those wondering, just to get this out of the way since I've been asked: No, this does not mean I'm moving to Vermont! (Too bad, right?) VCFA's program involves two ten-day residencies per year, in January and July; for the rest of the time, as usual, unless something happens, I will be as usual in New York City.
If you find yourself interested in this wonderful program, and are seeking a flexible but rigorous MFA, apply! It looks like there are two deadlines per year: September 30 and March 15, depending on when you'd prefer to have your first residency.
I'm feeling like this is a new chapter for me. I've been wanting more solid ground and a place to teach more regularly, a way to balance my writing career that feels right, and I am very hopeful that VCFA will be that place for me long-term.
As for my other teaching, this means a few things: I won't be able to continue on with the Your Novel Year program at the Piper Center in 2016, and I'm working with my last mentee there now. It's been a wonderful experience, and I've been honored to be a part of it. I also expect to be teaching fewer private workshops in 2016 while I get my bearings…
…though my YA Novel Workshop-Retreat at the Djerassi Program in March 2016 is still going strong, and you can apply to join me! Now accepting applications and getting a jump on reviewing them while I have time.
In 2016 I also will be stopping the private manuscript critiques and private mentoring I've enjoyed so much, at least for my first semester so I can focus my time on my VCFA students. However, if you are a former student of mine and we've already discussed something for 2016, you are welcome to contact me to see if we can make our schedules meld.
I don't know all of what January will hold. I'm excited. Nervous. Thrilled. We'll see how the first semester goes!
If you're a VCFA student in the WCYA program, please feel free to say hello! I'll see you on campus in January!


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Huevos Rancheros has ALWAYS and will be one of my top favorite breakfast dishes EVER.
The spinach and corn mixed with salsa and refried beans?! Then the egg on top..this is hands down, the best part.
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- 1 CUP Good quality store-bought salsa
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- Spread the refried beans on the bottom of the pan.
- Combine salsa, corn, and greens and poor on top of beans.
- Create 3 slight depressions with the back of a spoon.
- Crack eggs on top of salsa into each depression.
- Bake until whites are just set and yolks are still runny, about 20 minutes.
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Seemed a good time to update the blog now that the "ice age" has passed, for the moment at least, with practically all of the ice at the lakes gone today. I've had interest expressed in a birdwatching walk around the lakes, so if anyone else is interested please send me an email.
I was gutted to learn that a Shelduck was seen on the ice at Engine Pool on New Year's Day by at least three people, one of whom has shown me a photo of it on his camera. I didn't think there'd be much at Earlswood that day because of all the people that tend to be there on bank holidays, plus I had a headache and the flu, so chickened out - best bird of the year so far and I missed it! As far as I'm aware, this is the 12th record for the lakes, the last in 2007.
As you can imagine, I was at the lakes early on the 2nd but the Shelduck had gone. Engine Pool was good though with 4 Teals, a male Shoveler and the Water Rail. 7 Siskins were seen at Windmill Pool. In the vicinity of the lakes, 2 Ravens (over), up to 3 Rooks (over) and 11 Greenfinches were notable, with a pair of Common Pheasants and 2 Stock Doves in a field along Gypsy Lane. Springbrook Scrubland was pretty good, with 118 Fieldfares (trees along Earlswood Common), 3 Bullfinches, 2 Reed Buntings, a Skylark (over) and a Lesser Redpoll (over) noted. I moved on to Earlswood Train Station, where the decent-sized Bullfinch flock was still present nearby, with 8+ counted, as well a Goldcrest and a Coal Tit. In Little Clowes Wood I saw another Goldcrest but the numerous dog-walkers in there put me off exploring the rest of the woodland. It was quite a good visit to Earlswood, and I managed 52 species for the year list - not a bad start.
A brief visit to the lakes on 3rd produced 25 Siskins and the Water Rail at Engine Pool; I was joined by the recently elusive Kevin Bates who got to see the latter bird.
I then moved on away from Earlswood to an area of farmland near Studley called Morton Bagot where I joined John Yardley and Chris Lane, and not long into the visit we found a Corn Bunting - a rarity in this part of Warwickshire and a lifer for me! Richard Harbird joined us near one of the pools there, and we subsequently saw 2 Mandarin Ducks, a Little Egret, 79 Wigeons, a Goosander (unusual there), 3 Great Black-backed Gulls (over), 6+ Bramblings and a Marsh Tit - another really good day, but a pity we don't have farmland or wetland habitat anything like that at Earlswood...
Subsequent visits to the lakes produced little, but notable birds (mainly additions to the patch year list) were:
04/01/2011: a male Kestrel over the Malthouse Lane causeway.
05/01/2011: a Green Woodpecker near Gypsy Lane, and a Tawny Owl (heard) near Reservoir pub.
06/01/2011: a Kingfisher (finally, but heard only) at Terry's Pool, and 2 Greylag Geese over Springbrook Scrubland. 135+ Fieldfares at fallen apples in an Earlswood Common garden viewable from Windmill Pool.
08/01/2011: 2 Mistle Thrushes low over Engine Pool, but highlight was the Water Rail taking Lynda's thrown bread!!!
10/01/2011: a Great Crested Grebe at Engine Pool was great to see at long last! Also 21 Lesser Redpolls at Springbrook Scrubland. Total of 16+ Bullfinches noted in Earlswood area (good winter for them it seems).
11/01/2011: A Sparrowhawk (over), the Great Crested Grebe and the Water Rail all seen at Engine Pool. A Kestrel distant over Malthouse Lane gardens (nice garden tick if anyone saw it!).
Other sightings included a Mink along the Spring Brook beside Windmill Pool on 9th. Rob Field saw a Kingfisher along the brook beside Clowes Wood on 9th - a good record for that area.
The Water Rail along the north side of Engine Pool has been seen a few times this month; today (13th) I saw it and also managed to see the second more-elusive bird at Terry's Pool for the first time this year. There was no sign of the grebe.
My 2011 Earlswood bird list now stands at a modest 60. I haven't seen anything particularly unusual yet, and there's still some common-ish species to be added before things kick off in the spring.
Addendum for 2010:
Tony Philp had 2 Shovelers at Engine Pool on December 31st.
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
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Monday August 5, 2013
In harmony with yesterday's post we have a passage from No. 16 that continues to admonish us to walk in the strait and narrow path, in the light God is pleased to give us. Great is this responsibility!!!
The Spirit, wisdom, and goodness of God, revealed in his word, are to be exemplified through the disciples of Christ, and will condemn the world. God requires of his people according to the grace and truth given them. All his righteous demands must be fully met. Accountable beings must walk in the light that shines upon them. If they fail to do this, their light becomes darkness, and their darkness is great according to the degree that their light was abundant. Accumulated light has shone upon God's people. Many have neglected to follow the light, and for this reason are in a state of great spiritual weakness. p. 14, Para. 1, [16OT].
It is not for lack of knowledge that God's people are now perishing. They will not be condemned because they do not know the way, the truth, and the life. The truth that has reached their understanding, the light which has shone on the soul, that has not been cherished, and which they have neglected, or refused to be led by, will condemn them. Those who never had the light to reject, will not be in condemnation. What more could have been done for God's vineyard than has been done? Light, precious light, shines upon them; but the light will not save them, unless they consent to be saved by it, and fully live up to the light, and transmit their light to others in darkness. God calls upon his people to act. It is an individual work of confessing and forsaking of sins and returning unto the Lord, which is needed. One cannot do this work for another. Religious knowledge has accumulated, which has increased corresponding obligations. Great light has been shining upon the church, and they are condemned by the light, because they refuse to walk in it. If they were blind, they would be without sin. But they have seen light, and have heard much truth, yet are not wise and holy. Many have not advanced in knowledge and true holiness from what they were years since. They are spiritual dwarfs. Instead of going forward to perfection, they are taking back tracks to the darkness and bondage of Egypt. Their minds are not exercised unto godliness and true holiness. p. 14, Para. 2, [16OT].
Will the Israel of God awake? Will every one who professes godliness seek to put away from them every wrong, confess to God every secret sin, and afflict the soul before him? Will they, with great humility, investigate the motives of every action, and know that the eye of God reads all– searches out every hidden thing. Let the work be thorough, the consecration to God be entire. He calls for a full surrender of all that we have and are. Ministers and people need a new conversion–a transformation of the mind, without which we are not savors of life unto life, but of death unto death. Great privileges belong to the people of God. Great light has been given them, that they may attain to their high calling in Christ Jesus; yet they are not what God would have them to be, and what he designs they shall be. p. 15, Para. 1, [16OT].
We encourage all to read this entire portion, from pages 8 to 15, as they are filled with important counsel about obedience to every requirement of God. And what a beautiful thing to go about collecting up all the small, mere suggestions God gives us about the many aspects of living life to fullest in his joy! We have an opportunity to actually cheer Heaven with our ways, if we choose.
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Annual Fall Luncheon
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Halloween House: "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 all day
Labs, Mustangs
Thriller Dance
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Book Fair/Family Night
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 6:30pm
The Parish Choir
Preschool Program: "Peace Around the World"
Tuesday and Wednesday, December 6 and 7, 2011 at 11:00am
Dragonflies, All-Stars, Kangaroos
Winter Sing-A-Long
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:30am
Busy-Bees, Fireflies, Ants, Wranglers, The Parish Choir
Mighty Oak Bash
Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 2:30pm
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Elementary School Musical
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:00pm
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Chicago's "X-Force" panel got off to an interesting start. Following a singing scheduling conflict, the team of Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost and Mike Choi arrived a few minutes late, followed by a line of fans still wanting books signed. After a few unruly minutes, Wizard's Mike Cotton addressed the situation, which was resolved by the creators continuing to sign comics from throughout the discussion.
After about 15 minutes, the line started to thin out and become manageable. It was then the panel began to answer questions, starting with a discussion about the creation of Wolverine's female clone, X-23. Kyle explained that he and Yost got together to write the origin story of X-23 for the animated series "X-Men: Evolution." There was a call for a teenage version of Wolverine and the writers decided X-23 was the best way to accomplish a younger take on Wolverine's abilities without affecting what made Wolverine himself work. The team agreed that the basic concept of a "teenage female clone of Wolverine" sounds stupid when you say it out loud, but they've grown to love the character as it's been developed beyond her animated origins as part of the mainstream Marvel universe.
"Fortunately [bringing X-23 into the main universe] did work out and she's been very good to us ever since," said Kyle.
The panel then transitioned to discussing the origins of their careers, specifically Mike Choi, who along with Sonia Oback illustrates "X-Force." "I told this story yesterday, and I'm afraid I'm going to contradict myself by making something up," said Choi, prefacing his origin story by saying he didn't really get into comics until late in college, starting with Kevin Smith's run on "Daredevil." Choi explained that after graduating, he worked for several years at IBM but sought work in comics and worked his way from a Top Cow staffer to a full-fledged artist on "Witchblade." Eventually through Top Cow's partnership with Marvel, Choi was offered work.
"Editorial asked me if I'd like to do work for Marvel and I said 'I want to work on Witchblade' and they gave me a Marvel book anyway," joked Choi. "And I said, 'Oh yeah, the girl Wolverine, that's going to be awesome. Now X-23 is my favorite Marvel character - I'm just saying that because [Kyle and Yost] are here."
Moving on to the subject of creativity, a fan asked the panel how they got into the mood to write. Yost said that he had time to think while he drove, and that there was nothing worse than staring at a blank screen."Think about what you love - about the stuff you love, not just comics, just stories in general, books, TV, movies, everything you love and think about what you want to say," said Yost. "Think about the kinds of characters you like and how that character can propel a story - I won't lie, it's tricky. Getting into comics is incredibly hard, so the best thing you can do is come out with your own original idea and try to get it out there. Unfortunately there's just no easy way."
The next fan asked about the villain Selene and her role in the upcoming "Necrosha" story arc, which will see the resurrection of dead mutants. "It's kind of Selene's big play," said Yost. "There's definitely a reason, it's not resurrecting for resurrection's sake. She's got a plan behind it."
Kyle added that their goal with the "Necrosha" storyline is to elevate Selene the way Grant Morrison elevated Emma during his time on "New X-Men."
Other than their comics work, a fan wanted clarification on the animated projects Kyle and Yost were each working on. Yost explained that he was working on the upcoming "Avengers" animated series, which will star its original lineup of Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man and The Wasp, with others to be announced as the series develops and finds a network home.
"As a fan, I love this show," said Yost.
Kyle has begun to transition out of animation, but will continue to work on Marvel's multimedia properties - namely as a producer on 2011's live-action Thor film, which he said he can't talk about, but was willing to characterize. "It's going to kick all kinds of ass and we're very proud of it," said Kyle.
A fan next brought up the contrast between many of the X-Men's cuter characters and the deadly X-Force they join - namely Wolfsbane, who has gone into much darker territory during her time on the team. "The way we look at it, being on X-force is the worst possible thing for a person," said Yost to audience laughter.
Yost assured fans that Wolfsbane's recent troubles in the title's storyline would be looked at more closely in upcoming issues and that the entire team would be undergoing some roster changes soon.
Now that "X-Men: Evolution" can be streamed for free on the video site Hulu, one fan wanted to know if Yost and Kyle felt proud to have their work archived as an on-demand program for potential new audiences. Kyle and Yost said they were proud of their work on the show, especially because they had a lot of creative control on the series. Now that they've expanded to work on multiple direct-to-DVD projects as well as other series like "Iron Man: Armored Adventures," their philosophy on writing for television remains the same. "It's about making new fans and entertaining the ones who are out there now," said Kyle.
The next fan expressed his appreciation for "Iron Man: Armored Adventures," which he initially expected to hate given its differences from the Iron Man comic book and films with a teenage cast. Yost and Kyle admitted that they came into the project with concerns of their own, noting that de-aging Tony Stark presented major challenges. The team said they worked to find a way to make the transformation without making people go insane, eventually accepting that, "there's more to Tony Stark than women and booze and boardrooms."
"It was making sure we focused on all the things that make Tony Stark Tony Stark that we can show," said Yost, noting that bringing in other elements of the Marvel universe like SHIELD and Hydra helped define the characters.
The next fan brought up the live-action Thor movie again, in an attempt to get more information from Kyle. While reluctant to reveal any details for fear of being fired, Kyle did sum up his experience on the project so far: "It's an amazing group of people we're putting together. It's an honor to be on the project but that's about all I can say about it."
Returning to the subject of "X-Force," a fan asked the panelists which comics influenced their current work. "Without Claremont I wouldn't be a comic writer. For me, that era is what defines the X-Men," said Kyle, who listed Neal Adams' artwork as another major influence. Yost agreed with Kyle's picks, but also noted 'The New Mutants' was a personal favorite and that his favorite X-Men storyline was "Morlock Massacre."
One fan wanted to know how the "X-Force" team, known for being the darkest book in the X-Universe, approached the tone of the book and its inherent violence. Choi noted that his last piece of submitted artwork actually had too much blood in it and his co-artist Oback had to stay home from the convention to wrap up editorial corrections for the art to get printed on time, which the team joked was due in part to their newest editor, who had previously worked on Marvel's more kid-friendly Marvel Adventures line.
"We only make our stories as dark as they need to be," said Kyle. "We take this stuff real seriously, we don't screw around. When we put people in the crosshairs you know people could die"
"We try to think about [the violence in the book] as realistically as possible," said Choi. "Craig and Chris might have a reputation for killing kids, but they don't do it in real life."
The next fan asked if the "X-Force" team would ever bring Nightcrawler into its ranks, specifically to use his teleportation powers to kill enemies in interesting ways. Yost said that the team already had a teleporter in the character of Vanisher and that he was more likely to do those kinds of things than Nightcrawler, but didn't rule out using the character at some point.
Given both Yost and Kyle's writing pedigrees, a fan wanted to pick their brains for insights into breaking into writing. Yost and Kyle agreed that there was no easy way and kept the message simple. "Have an amazing writing sample," said Yost. "Work on that writing sample and make it shine because you're going to get one shot. It's gotta freakin' shine."
Kyle emphasized that writers should prepare as much as possible before considering having people look at their work, because the people hiring are not willing to take risks on those they don't feel are ready and that opportunity only matters if a writer is prepared. "It's important, you need to be ready, read samples, read animation scripts, watch shows, scrutinize what's on the page vs. what's on the show," said Kyle. "You've just got to blow them away when the opportunity happens."
Yost also emphasized that those wanting to become television writers need to understand that it's a work-for-hire situation and a job like any other. "Make [your writing sample] sound like the show [you're trying to write for], if you're going to write a script for 'Buffy,' make it sound like Joss Whedon wrote it," said Yost.
In addition to his "X-Force" and animation chores, Yost also wrote the Marvel adaptation of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game," which an attending fan asked about. Yost said that his collaboration with the author was limited, and his understanding of the source material resulted in a comic he thought was pretty faithful to the book, especially since he said he didn't want to change anything, but rather show what was in the novel.
After several questions specifically for Yost and Kyle, the next fan wanted to know which character's that Choi enjoyed drawing the most.
While trying not to suck up in front of his writing tem, Choi said X-23 was his favorite character to draw because he could do it instinctually.
"While X-23 is my favorite character, I probably wouldn't want to draw her if anyone else was writing her," said Choi, who noted that writing affected his ability to feel characters in the same way - especially when characters like Wolverine appear out of costume "For me it's all about what the writing is."
The last fan to ask a question targeted Yost and Kyle for an update on upcoming Marvel animated projects. Kyle pinpointed the upcoming "Planet Hulk," which will be released in early 2010, praising the efforts of Madhouse Studios for their animation. Additionally, Kyle mentioned "Thor: Tales of Asgard," saying that even though it will be a few years before it's released that "beginning to end it's one of the strongest stories we've ever done [in direct-to-DVD format]."
The panel concluded with the "X-Force" team thanking their fans and wrapping up a few autographs.


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notthat I'm conflating. but I know for a fact that odas used English words in onepiece before, and I cant read japenese so idfk what hes said in English or what hes said in japenese.
You're conflating translations, in Japanese, Hawkeye is 鷹の目, "Taka no Me".
id have to read raws to know that.
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"I Feel Like I'm Having A Conversation With God" - Thundercat On His Craft & Love Of The Bass
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A former graffiti vandal has given up spray- painting the streets to create a portrait of Charles Darwin.
Josh Peacock's painting of the scientist Charles Darwin, who came fourth this week in a nationwide BBC television poll to find the nation's greatest citizen, is being unveiled in Cambridge on Wednesday.
The style of the work may have taken Darwin by surprise, but and he would almost certainly have approved of the position.
The new work is in the reception lobby of the United Nations' World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
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Darwin had strong links with Cambridge. He developed his interest in natural history while studying in the city.
For the 24-year-old artist, it has been a chance to concentrate on his spray painting without keeping a look out for the police.
"I stick to doing pieces where I can actually spend time on it.
"It isn't fun running around having to leave things half-finished and never getting back to it.
"I like to complete my work. It's worth spending time on it."
He was chosen for the work after the centre's director Mark Collins spotted one of his paintings in a Cambridge hairdressing salon.
Painting the portrait has inspired Josh to set up his own art business.
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Exetel's chief executive, John Linton, has flagged major changes, including dropping Vodafone's retail mobile plans in favour of Optus, aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the internet service provider (ISP).
In a blog post, Linton wrote that the ISP would shortly begin promoting Optus' mobile retail plans to its current ADSL customers and shortly after that to its new ADSL customer.
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Exetel would also look to expand its business network beyond Australia to New Zealand, the USA and to the UK/EU.
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As reported by Computerworld Australia in September the telecommunications industry ombudsman (TIO) could soon contest a legal action initiated by telco Exetel, which has alleged fines were wrongly issued in response to customer complaints.
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