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By Chris Goldberg
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 8/8/17
Goucester Catholic (NJ) 2018 midfielder Michael Zelinski has committed to play Division III lacrosse at Neumann University.
Michael Zelinski profile:
High school: Gloucester Catholic (NJ)
Grad year: 2018
Position: Midfield
College committed to: Neumann University
Club team: South Jersey Shamrocks
Academic honors: National Honor Society
Expected major: Pre-Physical Therapy
Why did you choose Neumann? "Neumann is a great fit for me. The school offers many opportunities for learning and interning while having the smaller school setting I was looking for. I am excited about the additions to the Health Sciences Department. Coach (Kyle) Gardner, Coach (Evan) Zielinski, and staff are all great people who are really involved in the program, and made me want to be part of the team. I am looking forward to being a Knight!"
HS team's 2017 highlights: "Our team finished 12-5 in the 2017 season, which was an improvement on our records in the past. We had a strong run in the playoffs, but we were eliminated in the second round. I am looking forward to my Senior season."
Thank You: "I would like to thank my parents, who have always supported me every step of the way. I would also like to thank my high school coach, Bill Keane. I started playing lacrosse as a Freshman and he has taught me what I needed to know to improve my game and develop as a player. I would also like to thank my Shamrocks coach, Joe LaTorre, for coaching me through my tournament seasons. Lastly, I would like to thank my teammates throughout the years for helping me become a better player and person on and off the field."
Other schools considered: Immaculata, Arcadia
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Turtle Limited unveiled their Festive Collection 2016 in the august presence of the cast of Eagoler Chokh (director Arindam Sil, Riya Banik, Saswata Chatterjee, Subhrojit Dutta) at the store in Acropolis Mall.
The collection of this year consists of crossovers for the young generation. The young generation loves to wear sporty micro checks in wrinkle free finish in various colors. A blend of formal cuts and party vibes will surely appeal to the intended young customers.
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From 07 to 09 April 2017 in Astana on the site of "Nazarbayev University" a workshop "Preparation of national assessors for project appraisal" will be held, which will result in the formation of a national team of the assessors for the Kazakhstan contest "Best Project of the Year".
The workshop is organized for the purpose of teaching the Project Excellence methodology used by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) to evaluate projects. This methodology will also be used to evaluate projects taking part in the Kazakhstan contest "The Best Project of the Year".
Professionals in the field of project management, certified for levels A (IPMA Level A®), B (IPMA Level B®), C (IPMA Level C®) and D (IPMA Level D®) are invited to participate in the seminar.
Training is carried out by business trainers - project management gurus: Michael Boxheimer, Pau Lian, Staal-Ong, Olena Sharovara. The cost of participation is 300 euros.
The competition for the best project of the year in Kazakhstan is being held for the first time. The organizers of this event are the Kazakhstan Project Management Association and Nazarbayev University. Awarding of winners will take place at the 30th World Congress on Project Management IPMA, which will be held from 5 to 7 September 2017 in Astana.
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text: This paper demonstrates the application of a generalized layered linear viscoelastic (LVE) analysis for estimating flexible pavements' structural response. The procedure is based on the Multi-Layered Elastic Theory (MLET) and the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle using a numerical inverse Laplace transform. A comparison of the direct layered viscoelastic responses with approximate solutions based on the elastic collocation method was also carried out. Furthermore, it is proposed to use the collocation method using LVE solutions at selected time durations in order to improve the accuracy of the elastic collocation method. The LVE collocation method was further extended for analysis of moving loads. The method was illustrated by analysing a pavement structure subjected to moving wheel loads of 30, 50, 60 and 80 kN using a Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS). The various responses (stresses and strains) in the pavement, at different pavement temperatures, were measured using various types of sensors installed in the structure. The LVE calculations agreed very well with the measurements.


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"My husband has begun to practice your "7 Ways to Discipline Your Wife" plan on me because I will not participate in the BDSM activities that he desires. I want to have sex with him! Just not with BDSM." – This is part of an email I received from a Christian wife who calls herself Olivia.
So is refusal to participate in BDSM activities as a form of sexual foreplay the same as sexually denying one's spouse?
What is BDSM?
This is the definition of BDSM according to Wikipedia:
"The term BDSM is first recorded in a Usenet posting from 1991, and is interpreted as a combination of the abbreviations B/D (Bondage and Discipline), D/s (Dominance and submission), and S/M (Sadism and Masochism)."
This is another definition of Bondage from Wikipedia:
"Bondage is the practice of consentually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, and/or somatosensory stimulation. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhering bandage, or other restraints may be used for this purpose.
Bondage itself does not necessarily imply sadomasochism. Bondage may be used as an end into itself, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage. It may also be used as a part of sex or in conjunction with other BDSM activities. The letter "B" in the acronym "BDSM" comes from the word "bondage". Sexuality and erotica are an important aspect in bondage, but are often not the end in itself. Aesthetics also plays an important role in bondage.
A common reason for the active partner to tie up their partner is so both may gain pleasure from the restrained partner's submission and the feeling of the temporary transfer of control and power. For sadomasochistic people, bondage is often used as a means to an end, where the restrained partner is more accessible to other sadomasochistic behaviour. However, bondage can also be used for its own sake. The restrained partner can derive tactile pleasure from the feeling of helplessness and immobility, and the active partner can derive visual pleasure and satisfaction from seeing their partner tied up."
So in summary BDSM is when one person consensually allows themselves to be tied up and possibly punished by another person and may even endure physical pain either for their own pleasure or for someone else's pleasure. BDSM may or may not be used as foreplay for sex.
Before I give my response to Olivia's dilemma here is her full statement to me.
Olivia's Story
My husband has begun to practice your "7 Ways to Discipline Your Wife" plan on me because I will not participate in the BDSM activities that he desires. I want to have sex with him! Just not with BDSM. He says my unwillingness to submit to BDSM practices is a form of sexual denial and I'm not fulfilling my Christian duty if I don't do this for him. We have been married for 18 years. I have followed his desires and tried to even initiate sex for all our 18 years of marriage. I even tried the BDSM stuff a few times to see if I could do it. I hate it! Every possible scenario. Sex doesn't happen until he has finished "the game". I'm done!
I want a normal (whatever that is) sex life. No more "games". Just us in the bedroom with nothing but skin. Mad passionate sex! Yank each other's clothes off, can't wait to touch you, sex – which has never happened. I'm going through menopause, he says I don't have any sexual desires right now. I do, it's just not what he wants. I have prayed, cried out to God for wisdom, we went to marriage counseling, nothing has changed. And now he sends me links to your site and gives me the ultimatum.
He says his "needs" aren't being met and I'm sexually unavailable for him. I've already gone through the steps you have given on what to do. Talked with our pastor (with him), counseling, confront him, pray. I'm not an outspoken kind of person, just someone who is trying to save" her marriage. He is a good man, he has some control issues, but most of his actions are from a Godly heart. Any help would be great."
My Response to Olivia and the issue of BDSM as it relates to Christians
Requests for BDSM come not only from some husbands as is the case in Olivia's story, but sometimes they actually come from Christian wives too. I know of a Christian man whose wife left if him for another man because he refused to practice BDSM as sexual foreplay. She wanted to be tied up and gagged with a ball in her mouth and she wanted to act out rape fantasies with him. She wanted him to be rough with her and choke her during sex. He thought this was disgusting and refused to act out these fantasies with her. So she found another man who would and eventually left her husband for that man.
So how should a Christian husband or wife respond to requests for BDSM from their spouse? I believe the answers are clear when we understand the Biblical associations of bondage and pain.
Christians should not seek pleasure through bondage and pain
The Bible associates bondage and pain with this world that has been corrupted with sin.
"Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."
Romans 8:21 (KJV)
"But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?"
Galatians 4:9 (KJV)
"To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:16 (NASB)
No Christian ought to take pleasure from being bound or binding someone else. No Christian out to take pleasure from causing themselves pain or causing pain to others.
Christians should embrace liberty and healing
Rather than seeking enjoyment through bondage and pain, Christians should seek freedom and healing both for themselves and those around them.
"18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
Luke 4:18-19 (KJV)
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
Revelation 21:4 (KJV)
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Galatians 5:21 (KJV)
What about fluffy handcuffs and silk ties?
When I talk about Christians not submitting themselves to bondage for sexual pleasure I am not talking about a wife playfully taking some clothes and tying her own hands around the bedpost or using fluffy handcuffs that she can easily get out of it. These are playful things. Just check out those links above and you will see the disgusting types of bondage activities I am talking about (warning some images on Wikipedia regarding BDSM are graphic).
What if my spouse refuses to have sex with me without BDSM?
I am not sure but I believe this may be the case with Olivia. If your spouse refuses to have sex unless you engage in BDSM foreplay then it is they who are in fact sexually denying you. If this is the case and you are a husband I suggest you follow the steps outlined in my article "8 Steps to confront your wife's sexual refusal". If you are a wife and this is the case then I suggest you follow the steps outlined in my article "4 Steps to confronting your husband's sexual refusal".
Get counseling for people who have BDSM fetishes
If your spouse is willing to –encourage them to seek out a good Biblical Christian counselor who can help them overcome these sinful desires. In many ways people who have BDSM desires are really no different than those who have homosexual or bisexual desires. These desires are all sinful corruptions of the natures that God gave us.
"If you don't think wife's can refuse sex to their husbands you must be into BDSM!"
I can't tell you how many times I have been accused in emails of being a person who enjoys BDSM with my wife because of my view that a wife cannot sexually refuse her husband. Let me be perfectly clear. I have never nor will I ever engage in BDSM practices with my wife.
People write me on almost a daily basis with statements like "Why would any man want to have sex with a woman who does not want to have sex with him?" My answer to them is simple – no normal man wants his wife to be refusing him for sex. No normal man enjoys sex with his wife when she does it grudgingly in the way he enjoys it when she gives herself freely to him. But he realizes that sex must occur in marriage for many reasons even when his wife may not be in the mood. This is not the optimal situation and this is not what a loving husband wants.
But let me be clear that a husband accepting his wife's grudging and reluctant consent to sex and then engaging in sex with her under those conditions is not the same as a man who takes pleasure in forcing BDSM activities on his wife.
In the first case – the husband gets no pleasure from acting against his wife's will, in the second case the majority of the husband's pleasure actually comes from acting against his wife's will.
And just for all the rape accusers out there. When I say a husband "acting against his wife's will" I am talking about her mood and desire for sex. I have said it repeatedly on this site that while I do not believe that Biblically speaking there is such a thing as "marital rape" I do believe that a husband who physically forces himself sexually on his wife is engaging in physical abuse and he is abusing the authority God have given him over his wife. When I say a husband is "acting against his wife's will" in the first case – it is where she reluctantly or grudgingly gives CONSENT to sexual relations, but make no mistake consent is given.
And sorry rape accusers – consent does not have to be "enthusiastic consent" or its rape as you like to say. Grownups realize that whether it is comes to sex, or going to our jobs or doing many other things in life – sometimes we consent do doing things unenthusiastically because we know we should even though we don't feel like it.
If your spouse tries to do what Oliva's husband has done and attempts to say you are sexually denying them because you refuse to participate in BDSM activities as foreplay to sex you need to let them know your conviction that these acts violate your conscious and you feel that God would not want you as a Christian participating in them. Be sure to be loving when you do this. Especially if you are a wife you need to really do this with a great deal of respect and reference for your husband.
What Olivia so longs for with her husband – "Just us in the bedroom with nothing but skin. Mad passionate sex! Yank each other's clothes off, can't wait to touch you, sex" is a desire that has been given to her by God and she should feel no shame in that. Her husband on the other hand, needs to realize that his desires for BDSM foreplay with his wife are not desires that God gave him. They are a corruption of the original nature God gave him and he needs to recognize them as such and repent. He most likely needs to seek out a Biblical Christian counselor to help him to deal with these sinful desires to cultivate a natural sexual desire for his wife as she has natural sexual desire for him.
If her husband refuses to have sex with her until she agrees to BDSM as foreplay to sex then she practice the steps outlined in my article "4 Steps to confronting your husband's sexual refusal".
And just a closing note to husbands like Olivia's. Never on this site have I ever told men they can divorce their wives for sexual performance issues – only sexual denial. Those are completely different things. I have men all the time writing me asking me things like "If my wife won't perform oral sex on me can I divorce her for sexual refusal" and I always answer them with a resounding NO!
Many men and women may lack in the sexual performance area but just because your spouse won't perform sexual acts (outside of intercourse) does not mean you can leave them. You need to first examine if what you are asking for is Biblically acceptable sexual behavior. If it is then speak with them gently about it. If they refuse then pray for them.
In other words as Christian husbands we should NOT punish our wives because they won't do certain things like wear lingerie, act in sexy ways toward us or perform oral sex on us.
However I do believe that we can use positive reinforcement to encourage our wives to act outside their comfort zones in the area of sexual performance. Basically you let your wife see by your actions (not your words) that when she "steps it up" in the bedroom by doing things outside her comfort zone that in response you "step it up" outside the bedroom by doing extra nice things for her.


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If you've never tried painting before (walls don't count), but would like to try it, there are several things to consider in advance that will make your first painting encounter less intimidating. To begin with, don't assume that you need to possess an inherent talent to learn how to paint. All you really need are a creative spirit, an interest in learning, a willingness to try new things and a few essential art supplies.
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What is a Collage and How Do I Make One?
A collage is a work of art that is composed by gluing objects such as pieces of torn paper, photographs, fabric or metal onto a surface. The term collage stems from the French word coller, which means to glue or paste. Collage as an art form emerged early in the 20th century when Synthetic Cubist artists Picasso and Braque first began creating artwork by gluing material such as wallpaper and cloth onto canvas. Many people are familiar with Matisse's bold, colorful collages.
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Jurgen Klinsmann: U.S. aiming for semifinal in 2018 World Cup
U.S. men's national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann told NBC Sports Wednesday that his goal for the team at the 2018 World Cup in Russia is to reach the semifinal.
The United States has never reached a World Cup semifinal. The farthest the team has reached was an appearance in the quarterfinals in 2002.
Klinsmann 'fine' with Landon Donovan's post-WC remarks
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the U.S. lost to Belgium in the Round of 16 after advancing out of a group stage that many considered to be the toughest in the tournament.
"I was left kind of with that feeling that once you get out of the most difficult group in the World Cup, you should go further than just the Round of 16," Klinsmann told NBC.
A New Start: USA vs. Czech Republic
Klinsmann said he thought a semifinal berth was possible for his team in Brazil, which is why it will be the goal for 2018. He said he knows it will take "a lot of work" and competition, but that the team has four years to prepare.
The USA is playing in its first match since the World Cup on Wednesday with a friendly versus the Czech Republic.
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GRANT MORRISON on MULTIVERSITY: It's Going to 'F' People Up
Don't say he didn't warn you.
During Comic Con International in San Diego, superstar comics writer Grant Morrison admitted that his August-debuting miniseries Multiversity is really going to "f*ck people up."
"It plays into stuff I'm interested in," Morrison said during the Multiversity panel in San Diego, "breaking down the barriers of what's real and what's not. We developed this hypnotic induction technique to really f*ck people up. It has mental effects and psychic effects that I think are quite bizarre."
Writing comics that can be called "bizarre" is nothing new for Morrison, yet his mind-bending storytelling has made him a darling of critics and a favorite among fans — particularly at DC, where he just finished a seven-year run on Batman and will next release Earth One: Wonder Woman.
But the San Diego release of Morrison's trippy map of the Multiverse made it clear that this time, the writer is not only being given an outlet where he can create a slew of new concepts and characters, but readers will be given details behind Morrison's ideas and canonical information about the entire DC Multiverse.
In San Diego, Morrison also filled in some details about the map, the series and the characters that readers will meet. Newsarama takes a look at what we've learned so far:
The Map
Perhaps the most important thing to note the graphic depiction of the Multiverse is that DC Group Editor Eddie Berganza said he'll be using Morrison's map to guide the storytelling directions of other creators in the future.
So this isn't just a one-time thing.
As we've noted before, the map (drawn by artist Rian Hughes) features familiar concepts like the Speed Force and the Bleed.
Morrison said the map has a light and dark side — one side includes light-hearted universes, and the other features grim and gritty worlds. The Sphere of the Gods, which surrounds the Earths, also skews light and dark, with Apokolips in the middle of the dark side, and New Genesis in the middle of the light.
In a straight line from Apokolips is Earth-6, which Morrison said is the Stan Lee "Just Imagine" Universe, and the writer told the audience in San Diego that Stan Lee's world lies directly opposite the Jack Kirby Universe (presumably, Earth 51, the highest numbered Earth, which lies in the same line as New Genesis).
There are seven "unknown worlds," which Morrison said used to be a DC theme. By Newsarama count (of the Earths with question marks on them), the "unknown" worlds are Earths 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 46 and 49.
Some of the numbered Earths have obvious symbols on them, such as Earth 30's Soviet emblem, which relates to it being the universe of Superman: Red Son (where Kal-El's rocket landed in Soviet Russia instead of the American midwest).
There's also a red "X" on Earth-10, which Morrison has described in past interviews as a Nazi version of the DCU. On this Earth, the Mastermen are fascist versions of DC heroes, and the Freedom Fighters are represented by people targeted by the Nazis.
It's also interesting to notice that Earth-1, which may be the Earth represented in DC's "Earth One" graphic novels, is an oddly bright shade of yellow. And Earth-3, which was supposed to have been destroyed by the Anti-Monitor during the past year, shown as a dark shade of red.
Earth-3's placement as a direct opposite of Earth-16 might also be noteworthy — on Earth-3, the evil versions of DC heroes eliminated threats to their control of the world, while Morrison has said that on Earth-16, threats have also been eliminated — but by the good guy heroes.
The Threat
Morrison hasn't clarified yet what the great threat in Multiversity will be, but he's described it in the past as "a gigantic cosmic threat which is the most terrifying thing I think anyone's ever created in a comic." And the threat is so significant in scope that heroes from across the Multiverse must unite to combat it.
Multiversity will be nine total issues, with two bookends (numbered as issues #1 and #2), and seven #1 issues in between that depict various Earths in the Multiverse. According to Morrison, each issue tells an individual story while being part of the larger story.
The first character to defend against the threat will be Nix Uotan, whom readers last saw in Morrison's 2008 miniseries Final Crisis. The character is the last of the Monitors, Morrison said, and he's "set in place to protect the Multiverse," so he's "kind of my author's character."
The Monitor will pull together heroes from other Earths to form a team, including the President Superman from Earth-23 (seen in Action Comics) and Captain Carrot, as well as other characters.
In fact, every character in the DC universe will make an appearance, according to Berganza, who made the promise during the San Diego panel.
Characters within the story will contact each other by publishing comic books that others can read, Morrison said. "In each parallel reality you'll see one of them is reading the comic that you just read the month before and finding out what happened to the good guys, giving them a chance to defeat the bad guys in the next one. They are kind of passing on, in a chain, their own adventures," Morrison said.
So characters in issue 3 will be literally be reading Multiversity #2, Morrison said. And characters in issue #4 will be reading #3.
The Worlds
After the introduction, the story will visit various locations in the Multiverse, including:
Society of Super-Heroes: Earth-20 will be the focus of the issue that hits in September with art by Chris Sprouse. The story will feature the Society of Super-Heroes, or "S.O.S." for short. It's an Earth that contains a pulp version of the DC characters — one where a major world war has taken place, depleting the Earth's population to only 2 billion people.
Readers will see heroes on this world like Doc Fate (a sort of combination of Doctor Fate and Doc Savage), Mighty Atom, the Immortal Man, Lady Blackhawk and her Blackhawks and Abin Sur, the Green Lantern.
Plus, Morrison announced in San Diego, there will be zombie paratroopers.
The Just: The next world is Earth-16, where the world has young celebrity superheroes. Drawn by Ben Oliver, it will focus on the famous children of superheroes, who now have nothing to do but be famous, because they've defeated all the villains.
Morrison said in San Diego that the kids re-enact battles for fun, and there will be trouble between the son of Batman – Damian Wayne, a character Morrison co-created — and the son of Superman when the Damian dates Alexis Luthor, daughter of the man who killed Superman.
Besides Damian, readers will see Green Arrow Connor Hawke's daughter Arrowette (a "Miley Cyrus-type") a version of The Atom who turns 18 and never grows up, and Offspring, Plastic Man's son.
Pax Americana: The fourth world depicted will be Pax Americana, drawn by Frank Quitely — Morrison's take on the Charlton characters (named after the company bought by DC in 1983). The characters are known for being an influence on the creation of the historic DC comic Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Morrison's version of this world will modernize the Charlton characters while keeping the theme of the Watchmen in mind. Morrison has previously said that the comic would include his versions of Blue Beetle, The Question and Captain Atom.
The story starts off with the president being executed, Morrison said, then readers find out what happened in reverse. Instead of the smiley face with blood (from Watchmen), this story will start with a peace sign on fire, the writer said.
And the art in this issue will be laid out in an eight-panel grid system, similar to Watchmen. Morrison has said "it's not trying to be Watchmen. It's more of an echo of a storytelling technique of Watchmen."
Thunderworld: The fifth book is Thunderworld, on Earth 5, drawn by Cameron Stewart. Morrison describes the story as an "all ages, Pixar-movie version of Shazam," that features classic Shazam foe Doctor Sivana, who's duplicating magic via technology.
Morrison has said in the past that the story would be titled, "Captain Marvel and the Day That Never Was!," saying "[it's] my definitive take on the Marvel family."
Early artwork that's been released for the issue shows what appears to be the wizard Shazam sitting within what looks like the Rock of Eternity, with the seven deadly sins nearby.
Home Sweet Home: Morrison has previously said that the seventh issue of the series will be called "Ultra Comics", and will be based on Earth Prime — now known as Earth-33.
In Morrison's announcement of Multiversity, he said this issue would feature the "latest, greatest superhero of Earth Prime — you!"
As long-time DC fans know, the idea behind Earth Prime is that the world where readers live is, in fact, a part of the DC Universe — but on Earth Prime, the heroes from other worlds exist only in comic books. In the past, the heroes of the DCU have even traveled within the comics to visit the writers and editors in person on Earth Prime.
Morrison has indicated in the past that the "Prime" tale would be "the world's first haunted comic book." He's also previously said that it will feature a new version of the superhero Ultraa. (In DC's Silver Age stories, Ultraa was an alien that was rocketed to Earth Prime from another planet, similar to Superman. However, Ultraa decided our Earth wasn't ready for superheroes and went with the Justice League back to the main DCU Earth.)
Although Morrison hasn't mentioned Ultraa since, the writer referred to Earth-33 in San Diego, so we can probably expect our home world to show up as planned.
Other Worlds: Morrison also mentioned in San Diego an Earth that is home to the Justice Riders, which will be tied into the history of DC's Western characters, with Johnny Thunder as a Shazam, and Tomahawk as Tomahawkman — all riding steampunk horses.
Morrison has also talked about the "Nazi New Reichsmen of Earth 10." The issue will see the Nazi version of the Superman going up against enemies he realizes are right, and he faces the fact that the principles on which he was raised are wrong.
"Imagine you're Superman and for the first 25 of your life you were working for Hitler," Morrison said, "And then you realize, 'Oh my god, it's Hitler!' … Not only is he a Nazi Superman, he's a Nazi Superman that knows his entire society, though it looks utopian, was built on the bones of the dead. Ultimately, it's wrong and it must be destroyed."
Readers will also see a Vampire Batman, the Vampire Justice League of Earth 43, the Justice Riders of Earth 18, Superdemon, the rampaging Retaliators of Earth 8, the Atomic Knights of Justice, Dino-Cop, Sister Miracle, and Lady Quark.
The writer also talked in San Diego about the Aboriginal version of Thor, which he'd mentioned in interviews of the past. "There will be a couple of new [characters]," Morrison told iFanboy. "Because what we've done also is, we've not only got all the multiverse versions of DC characters, but we also have multiverse versions of every other comic book company in existence. So we have multiverse versions of Image characters and Marvel characters… you know back in the day, DC would do their own kind of take on The Avengers where they would do those heroes from "that other place" with a Thor who was kind of an Aboriginal Thor. So we've kind of taken that aspect, the stuff that DC and Marvel used to do, the Squadron Supreme type stuff, and I've kind of done an update on that thinking as well. So yeah, it's got everything. It's got multiple versions of everybody, including us."
Canon Details
Midway through the series, readers will get a guidebook that has a concordance of every Earth, with who lives there and which superhero teams are there. The guidebook will feature the Morrison-written, Ryan Hughes-drawn map showing each of the 52 worlds.
"There is a big story there too with Kamandi and Batman," Morrison said.
It's a unique move in the post-reboot, New 52 landscape, a timeframe that hasn't been rigidly defined and origins that are only now being described in DC's ongoing Secret Origins title.
As far as the book being canon, as Berganza indicated, Morrison said he's brought the story into line with the New 52 universe, even though he's been working on Multiversity for many years.
And while he said there's nothing that specifically represents a "pre-52" universe, Morrison said there is a section of the Guidebook that addresses Flashpoint, and "all of the history becomes true." Morrison said he also tried to keep on top of what's happening with Darkseid and the build up that's going on in Justice League — including, presumably, the appearance of the Anti-Monitor at the end of Forever Evil.
Readers may be looking for signs that Morrison's book is connected to the expected April 2015 event that will presumably be tied to the 30th anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths, but Morrison specifically said "these characters aren't cannon fodder for the next crisis."


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Visiting Snow Monkeys at Yudanaka, Japan
One of the highlights of our trip to Japan was a visit to the snow monkey park in Yudanaka. We absolutely loved getting up close and personal with these darling little monkeys. That's not to say that we didn't make mistakes in planning this portion of the trip. If we were to do it again we would definitely make some changes. The monkeys, however, are not to be missed and we lucked out on a few details that I'll share.
Getting There
We made a large loop around central Japan. From Takayama we headed north, past Nagano, to Yudanaka where the snow monkey park is located. Our first mistake was to only schedule one day in the area. The trip from Takayama to Yudanaka is beautiful, but takes nearly five hours and requires switching trains in Nagano. We left mid morning and did not arrive at our ryokan until mid afternoon. This left a very short window of time to get to the park, enjoy the monkeys and head back to town.
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Fortunately, we were very lucky in our choice of ryokans! Purely by chance, we chose to stay at Yudanaka seifuso, a very traditional Japanese onsen inn just a few hundred yards from the Yudanaka train station. The ryokan was built in the Meiji era (1868-1912) and is owned and operated by possibly the cutest, elderly couple in Japan. They greeted us very warmly and immediately offered to drive us to the entrance of the monkey park. The owner explained in halting English that we needed to hurry so we scrambled to load into their car for a 10 to 15 minute drive. He pointed out the famous local ski areas on the way and advised us that the park closes at 5 o'clock and we would need to be down the mountain in time catch the last bus back to town by 5:53. He dropped us off and we were on our way.
The Hike
There is a small gift store at the base of the hike where the owners speak English and can answer any questions you may have. The hike to the park takes about a half an hour and is mostly a gradual incline through an amazingly beautiful and peaceful forest. We visited in May and the ground was dry and the temperature perfect. There is one large set of stairs but the hike was easily managed by this out of shape 57-year-old. Entrance to the park cost ¥500 (approximately five dollars) per person.
The Onsen Experience
When we returned we really enjoyed our ryokan and it's four separate baths each with a different atmosphere. The sheltered, outdoor spring fed pool soothed us after our hike and prepared us for our night's sleep on futons and tatami mats. Look for separate posted times for males and females at each bath. I will write a detailed post about onsen etiquette and culture, but it is helpful to do a bit of research before heading off to the baths.
If we were to go again,we would definitely spend more time exploring the local area. We missed some sites like the nine public baths that are located on the street of Shibu Onsen, Sake breweries and local culture since we needed to hurry back to Tokyo first thing in the morning. The monkeys are the main attraction, but there are plenty of other activities to keep you busy for two days.
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Van @ Snow in Tromso
Monkeys are so fascinating, aren't they? I could watch them for hours! Thanks for linking up with us!
Yes! We really loved seeing the babies.
Lauren Bonheim
I LOVE monkeys! These guys are so adorable! Thanks for linking up 😀
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I'm very fortunate to celebrate on the same day the United States observes the "Feast of the North American Martyrs." On this day, we celebrate the witness of Saint John De Brebeuf, Saint Isaac Jogues, and their companions. For these men, death did not bring about their martyrdom. It was the consequence of their lives lived as witnesses to the Gospel.
In 1979, I had four great-grandparents and four grandparents. Today, only my Grandma Hagan is alive. I'm blessed that my godparents - Jack Duns and Kelly King - are still alive, as is my Confirmation Jack Barret. Nevertheless, it's hard not to think back and miss those people who have passed from my life as I celebrate it's start. Likewise is it hard not to think upon the wonderful people who have entered my life, who have played a role in it, who have helped to make me who I am today.
I am a fortunate man. I have a family I love very much - although my sister Hagan apparently is afraid of me! (and this for the one who taught her to eat sushi) - and I am uncle to the two best kids (Emma and Quinn) in the world. I have taught music to countless women and men thanks to the internet, I have played for Irish dancers across the world, and although I will forever be a Wildcat of Saint Ignatius, I must claim that my happiest experience of high school came from my privilege of serving at the finest Jesuit high school imaginable: The University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy.
If I were to mention by name each person to whom I owed a debt of gratitude, I'd write for days. My life is blessed.
I have never made a secret that I am a man sorely tempted by doubt. Yet, with Karl Rahner, I will aver: I believe because I pray. I believe in the goodness and mercy of God because I look at my life and I cannot help but to feel it is more than any one person could ever deserve. I am son, brother, and uncle. To some I am a tin whistle teacher, to others a nameless feis musician. To a good number of high school students I am Abba Duns. To the worldwide Society of Jesus, I am a brother Jesuit, a co-laborer in the Lord's Vineyard.
Overall, I should like to think that I might be known simply as a friend.
Overall, I should like to think that I might be known simply as a friend.
Let me be crude for a moment: sometimes, it really sucks to be a Catholic. It can feel even worse to be clergy. It has been my grace, however, that I've never regretted getting out of bed in the morning and I've never gone to bed with a heavy heart. Life is not always easy, but it is joyful. I don't know how many of my peers can say this...
When I set off for college, I thought I'd be a doctor. "Ryan Duns, MD" looked pretty good to me. To this day, however, I get a thrill of astonishment when I sign the 30th letter of college recommendation "Ryan Duns, SJ". It's not where my earliest daydreams led me, to be sure, but never in my wildest dreams could I have have anticipated such joy in a life.
In 1998, a line from today's Gospel was harder to imagine:
In 1998, a line from today's Gospel was harder to imagine:
"Even the hairs of your head have all been counted."15 years later, the Lord has a much job.
It is true that I am balder now and that it's harder to keep off the pounds. Still, I am happier today than I could ever have imagined and I'm far happier than I should ever deserve.
I wrote this two months ago, but it stands true and rings in the depths of my heart. It has become a daily prayer and on my 33rd birthday, I should only hope to have another 33 years of life lived in the same way:
For all that has been, I say: Thank You.
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Goblin are out for blood. They're gonna gut you, and string your entrails from the rafters.
Guts will explode, heads will crack, leg bones will snap under the weight of their monstrous sound.
They started in Italy in 1975, scored some of the scariest horror movies of all time, and have never been to Miami ... Till now.
Here's what keyboardist Maurizio Guarini had to say about death, film, and zombies.
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Crossfade: Favorite American horror film?
Maurizio Guarini: That's a question that's really complicated. It depends on the moment. Alien was scary. Exorcist was scary. I saw that one in Italy about 40 years ago. I think it has to do with influences on the brain, whatever we see, hear, the fear is not specifically from the movie, but what happens when we experience watching it.
What are you scared of?
My age. I don't know. I don't think we know what we're scared of. It's whatever we don't expect.
How do use music to manufacture fear?
I think, in order to drive the emotions of the audience, you have to force yourself to get the same fear you want the audience to have. You force yourself. In scoring, the exact frame or second where you put a sound is going to change the evolution of the emotion of the audience. You have to be scared in order to scare other people.
If you could be killed in a movie, how and why?
If I had to choose to get killed in a movie, it would be crashing to the ground from the top of a high building. That would be a bad way to get killed. I've been scared of the height of the high-rise buildings.
How do you feel about the rise of zombie culture?
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Just the right place, the right time, and now I'm part of this sort of history, and playing in a band made that happen. I didn't search for it. I feel glad to create something with my sound that, after 40 years, people still appreciate. I didn't participate in the first Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, though. I wasn't in Goblin at that time. But it's just a scary movie that by some magic pushes this fear of the living dead. Through the art of music and movies you can create this kind of magic.
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Biggest musical influences?
Prog rock from England is more influence to me than every other sound. Everything from that island is always very interesting. Fusion, progressive, but Weather Report is my favorite band of all.
Any relationship to South Florida?
No, this is actually the very first time to step foot in Florida. Last year, we did two tours in the U.S., mostly in the north and the Midwest. The only stop in the South was Austin, Texas. Yesterday was the first time in my life that I saw nice, warm Florida.
Any film work coming up?
We have some offers that we are evaluating because we are not really convinced. It's been a long time since we did something like that, and we want it to be really big if we do. We're also working on another album and almost finished. Movies may happen, but we are not closing any deal.
How did the name for the band come about?
I wasn't in the band when they formed in 1975, I joined later. But according to Massimo who is in front of me right now, it was part of research in an encyclopedia.
Any words for the people of Miami?
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Arrived safely in The Alamo City for some Dallas Cowboys training camp Sunday afternoon after a brisk 4:37:00 drive that included exactly zero stops.
10. There is no easy way to get onto I35 south from 75. On Woodall Rogers there is down-to-one-lane construction and falling walls. And I've been jammed too many times by the 75-to-I30 three-lanes-merging-into-one cluster-eff. Suggestions?
9. As soon as you cross the Trinity River heading south, things, um, change. Driving habits. Types of cars. Vibe. It's almost like crossing a state line. (And this coming from a boy who grew up in Duncanville.)
8. Carl's Corner used to be cool. Now it's Willie's Place. Haven't heard a lot about BioFuels lately.
7. I've been to the famous Czech Stop in West before. One of the most overrated places on Earth. Everything they serve is basically really fattening bread with different types of icing in, on or around the bread. What am I missing?
6. Don't remember exactly where it was, but I saw a billboard of George Dubya Bush with the headline "Do you miss me yet?" I rolled down my window, yelled "Hell no!" and continued driving.
5. I've been to those Natural Bridge Caverns, but never stopped by the snake farm. Anyone?
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4. Rarely use my cruise control, but Sunday I was the only one around for miles and miles when I took the 130 Toll Road "shortcut" around Austin. It's a longer route and you miss seeing the university, capitol, etc., but Austin traffic can bite you at any time. Day or night.
3. There's a place along 35 that looks like a giant statue flea market. There's a big gorilla statue and, yes, of course, a giant cock. I'm sure you've seen it.
2. Michael Irvin once claimed he made the drive from Dallas to Austin for Cowboys' camp in two hours. Still don't believe him.
1. San Antonio's interesting and all, but of all the Cowboys' campsites give me Austin. The St. Edward's University camps were all outside and at night, well, you're in Austin. Last on the list: Wichita Falls.


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The day after tomorrow you will be able to buy the next issue of MBUK which you really ought to see for the Wall Riding feature alone. The sheer courage and skill of the riders doing batsarse things on this mother of a wall is one of the best set of pictures we've put together for a while. A Seb Rogers spectacular, which gives you a definite feeling of just how awesome these riders were up there.
The odd reader (and we have a loose handful of odd readers believe me) has had the stupidity to complain we're taking too much interest in Chris Smith. Wrong. Chris is developing into a huge talent before our very eyes. He gets stupidly better every time we shoot him.
Chris is not alone, Jim Davage is in the action along with Ollie and Chopper. Not so shabby a crew.
The Wall is not the only reason to buy this month's MBUK, there's so much good stuff in this issue it'll make your nose bleed.
All the riding action you need to compensate you for the shock of seeing a young woman's breasts unveiled, a gratuitous use of nudity with very little relevance to mountain biking for which My Excellency would be thoroughly ashamed if I had a decent bone in my body. But I can't really do the 'ashamed' thing. Red doesn't suit me.


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Fairfax's Sunday Life magazine decided to kick off with a special music issue this year and wanted input from lots of different people who work in the music industry. So, voila, as a music PR, I was super excited to be asked to submit my eating diary for 'My Day on a Plate'. I'm a big fan of this section and always read it (especially because Michelle Bridges' awesome training tips are right next to it).
Having recovered from an eating disorder, I was especially proud to not only see that I'd eaten well, but that it was written in print for millions of readers to see. And to top it off, Nutritionist and Naturopath Julie Maree Wood gave me the thumbs up (phew!)
It was certainly different from other times of my life. My 'Day on a Plate' at various stages between the age of 14 – 25 would have either consisted of:
* 7am – can of diet coke and a grapefruit
* 12pm – a can tuna (no oil) and large glass diet cordial
* 2pm – apple
* 6pm – three grapefruits and a large cup of tea with skim milk
* 12pm – carrot
* 6pm – four vodka, lime and sodas, three glasses of champagne, two mango daiquiris and half a bottle of white wine
* 10pm – Large pizza or kebab, hot chips, a packet of lollies, a block of chocolate
Funnily enough, my weight constantly fluctuated by a 10kgs and I was frequently sick and I felt tired all the time. Not particularly great for productivity, relationships or a happy, healthy life.
It was only through getting some valuable education on nutrition, a lot of counselling on why I was eating that way and a few big lessons on the value of mindfullness that I started to eat in a way that both nourished, fuelled and protected me AND was also a delicious joy.
Needless to say, being human, I slip up sometimes.
The day after this article came out, my first day of a two week holiday, my man was shaking his head and laughing at me. "Just as well today wasn't the day you submitted", he chortled.
I was ever so slightly hungover after indulging in a few too many "yay-I'm-on-holidays" wines the evening before and subsequently ate a bacon and egg croissant for breakfast, three apricots and half a packet of mint m&m's for lunch and dinner was several slices of pizza and two pints of cider.
So I tried not to beat myself up over it and moved on and the next day I was back to eating my more regular, clean diet.
And you know why? Not because I was worried about putting on weight or the fact that my skin looked spotty and felt greasy… Because I felt terrible!
I was tired and headachy… and I was supposed to be enjoying my holidays.
Bugger that.
I really do think that there's some merit in writing down what you eat sometimes. Not in a crazy, obsessed, 'I-must-document-everything-that-goes-in-my-mouth' kind of way, but just to serve as a gentle reminder on what you're feeding your body. Then you can assess whether that style of eating is going to serve you and your beautiful body (temple?!) well.
So I'm still on holidays (and getting plenty of beach action if anyone was wondering) and the timing of the Sunday Life magazine article certainly couldn't have been better. It reminded me that when I eat well, I feel awesome. Hardly rocket science but a fact that I seem to have to be reminded of repeatedly.
And when the time comes for me to hit the office, I'm going to be feeling fit and healthy and ready to take on the world. Or at least be ready for a huge month of exciting promo and concert tours from Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl and Mojca Erdmann, just to name a few. But more of that in a few weeks time.
For now, it's 6pm, boiling hot and I'm off to pour myself one perfect, refreshing glass of cold, sweet red that I picked up from the Margaret River last week. I bought a bottle from the Evans & Tate cellar door. Evans & Tate are now owned by McMilliams and also in the McWilliams stable of wineries is the 'Catching Thieves' label. Called 'Dolce', it's a fresh, blackberry tasting drop that leaves a soft, lingering taste in your mouth, like you've just been eating a teeny piece of cherry-infused blackforest cake. It's also lower alcohol than your standard rose wine so it won't go straight to your head.
Here's to good, gratified eating and drinking all, cheers.


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Lest everyone think I'm a total Google Fanboy, I'd like to suggest a really, really simple tactic folks like Cyanogen can take to continue Android innovations while complying 100% with the licensing of Google's "experience" apps.
The crux of the issue is that, without the proper license, it is illegal for Android ROM developers to distribute these apps as part of their ROMs. It'd also be illegal for someone like me to host them myself so that people can simply install them after installing a custom ROM. "Ok," you might say. "Then how am I supposed to get these applications if it's not legal for anyone to give them to me?"
Ah, but there's the catch. There are organizations that are licensed to distribute them. T-Mobile, for instance, is probably the most widely-known, as all our phones will download updates containing the apps whenever a new Android release comes out. Usually there's a bit of detective work involved, though, in determining the URL for these updates. But you know who else is licensed to distribute them, and makes them extremely easy to find/download? HTC.
What would need to happen is that the user could themselves download the relevant firmware update file from HTC's website and save it on their SD card -- which is perfectly legal. The user could then update to a Google-free firmware from someone like Cyanogen. If this Google-free firmware update happened to check for the existence of the official Google-app-including firmware image as part of its setup procedure, and extracted the Google bits out of it, everyone could have the best of both worlds.
The ROM developer would not be distributing the apps. The organization that is distributing the apps is licensed to do so. Everyone wins.
I've noticed a new trend on Twitter lately, one which bothers me a great deal. I'd like to share my thoughts about it now so that you all can help nip it in the bud.
People have been 'retweet'ing pretty much since Twitter's inception; that is, they post something on their stream that they saw someone else post. The defacto standard format for doing this is to say 'rewteet' (or, more commonly, 'RT') followed by the username of the person who originated the message, then followed by the message. Like this:
RT @TeddTheodorLogan Remember the time I asked Missy to the prom?
Lately, however, people have been trying to popularize a new format for retweeting -- one which has been largely employed in the blogging world. This new method is to just post the message, followed by (via username). Like this:
The only thing I know for sure is that Joan of Arc is NOT Noah's wife...(via BillSPrestonEsq)
See, what "(via so-and-so)" actually means, is "I heard about this content by way of so-and-so," and has been used for years to denote that the link I'm blogging about came to my attention because someone else blogged about it, and is designed to sort of give the person who found the content the credit. This is only used when you're linking to a story that's written by someone other than the person you heard about it from -- to give sort of 'scoop' credit to someone who found it before you did.
When you retweet, in almost every case, you are simply quoting the person who said something. You didn't hear it 'via' them. Your readers are hearing it 'via' YOU. (Granted, if you are retweeting a retweet, then 'via' could be properly used -- but you'd have to say it's 'via' the person who originally REtweeted it, rather than the person who tweeted it -- which is of no information to the reader.)
If you really don't like the 'RT username: message' format -- and for this I don't blame you; it's clumsy and non-intuitive -- I suggest you do it the same way people have been attributing quotes since the dawn of written language. Like this:
"Four score and seven BEERS ago..." -abrahamlincoln
With your help, perhaps this gross misunderstanding of the Latin language can be wiped from the face of twitter.
Know what bugs the crap out of me? The skateboard on the cover of INXS's album "Kick":
Pretty much everything about that skateboard bugs me. From the terrible comp job to the yellow Greg Proops face on it, it's just plain bad -- not to mention the fact that it's meant to look as if someone is actually riding it, somehow jumping to that position despite the fact that there's clearly no understanding of the mechanics of making a skateboard jump on the part of the artist.
Actually, now that I'm getting worked up, it ALSO bugs me that the logo text in the center of the cover is clearly pasted over-top of Michael Hutchence's hair, yet it's BEHIND The Hamburgler's hair, rubble rubble.
This cover is a travesty, and it offends me that someone actually got paid to make it.
So, rather than simply complain about it, I've decided to rectify the problems with it. From now on, please use this as the cover for INXS's Kick:
As you can see I've replaced the terrible skateboard with an actual action shot of a skater executing a kick-flip -- my little addition to making it relevant to the album's title -- and put the logo/title over-top of EVERYONE's hair. The design is still really awful, but at least the specific problems with it have been addressed.
If there's any work of art you'd like to see fixed, drop me a line and I'll see about fixing it for you.
I think I've stumbled across the solution to our problem of addiction to fuel of foreign origin and am going to share it with you now.
One of the most promising forms of alternate fuel is biodiesel, in that it requires no significant investment to run in many of today's cars. There's one little problem with biodiesel, though: we can't possibly grow enough plant matter to supply all of our cars' consumptive needs. Even if we all became vegetarians and stopped farming cattle -- instead using all the plant matter we feed to them now to make biodiesel instead -- we wouldn't have enough. In addition, if we all stopped eating PLANTS as well as cattle, all the crops we grow now wouldn't be enough to power our cars either.
There are many different forms of local, renewable non-oil fuel that have been discussed, be they electric, solar, smug, hydrogen or a multitude of others. The problem with those is that there's no easy way to quickly convert existing cars to this new, untested fuel.
This means that if we're going to adopt one of these fuels for use in all our Escalades and Hummers, it's probably going to involve quitting oil "cold turkey," buying new alternate-energy-powered Escalades and Hummers. This is a significant hassle. A "deal-breaker," if I may. Americans are simply not going to want to get rid of their old Escalades and Hummers before their leases are up. This means that a hypothetical switchover will take years and years to complete in a best-case scenario, and more likely will never even begin at all.
It was while thinking of this problem that I stumbled suddenly upon my solution: cold turkey. Every Thanksgiving, billions of American households cook copious amounts of turkey, much of which never even gets eaten. I propose legislation both mandating a minimum size for Thanksgiving turkeys and limits on how much each person can consume, ensuring the maximum amount of leftovers.
Suddenly we have billions of pounds of turkey which can be rendered down into biodiesel to fuel our existing Hummers. You're welcome, America.
I recently learned that underground coal fires -- as depicted in the film "Silent Hill" -- release as much carbon into the atmosphere world-wide as do all the cars and light trucks in the United States. Since we know that all the cars and light trucks (SUVs) in the United States release DANGEROUS amounts into the atmosphere, threatening catastrophe like the one depicted in the film "The Day After Tomorrow," this is clearly a bad thing.
Firefighters in China recently put out one such coal fire (that had been burning for more than 50 years) at great expense and risk to the men involved, and several new ones have sprung up here in the States. This brings up an important issue: how much money, energy and manpower are we willing to commit to these efforts? Sure, we need to do whatever we can to stop Global Climate Change, but at what cost?
Like usual, I've come up with a solution to this problem. My plan will cost nothing, require no man-power, and will require literally no change in policy, behavior, or freedoms on the part of individuals. The plan is simple: we use water to put out the fires. The beauty of my plan is that as Earth's temperature increases the icecaps melt, raising sea levels, and thus bringing nearly endless supplies of saltwater to the coal fires where they'll be put out naturally. Then, because the fires are no longer emitting CO2, the water level will slowly raise back down, leaving us with mines containing both coal AND salt ripe for the taking.
A new process to harvest the carbon dioxide from smokestacks and convert it into baking soda is exciting the scientific world. By equipping industrial plants with this technology, we can prevent these large amounts of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. It probably won't solve our climate change problems, but it's sure a step in the right direction.
This got me thinking, though. If it's possible to convert the CO2 emissions from industrial plants into baking soda, what's to stop the same process from converting the exhaust from the millions of vehicles on America's roads as well?
Remember when I suggested that we should be paving our roads white instead of black, so as to reflect more of the suns rays back out of the atmosphere? Well, having every car on the road leaving a fine dusting of white baking soda everywhere it goes seems like a pretty simple solution for the short term. This does cause a few problems, however: 1) the frequent overturned-vinegar-tanker incidents we have will suddenly be a lot more catastrophic, and 2) the amassing white powder might reflect TOO MUCH of the suns rays, putting us into a permanent winter. Hopefully these two problems will simply cancel each other out; when too much baking powder piles up, it will increase the frequency of vinegar tanker crashes, turning the baking powder back into CO2 where it can enter the atmosphere and encourage global warming. It's win/win, really.
This sudden abundance of baking soda could also provide one major missing piece of another plan I've been trying to get off the ground for some time: controlling the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
We truly are living in an amazing technological time.
I was thinking about global warming the other day, when I came up with what I believe to be an easy (but expensive) solution to our problems.
First, some background:
It is believed that ice ages are more likely to start as a result of cool summers than overly-cold winters. The theory being that snow falls in winter, then melts in summer/spring. If summer and spring are both cooler than normal, then the snow takes longer to melt, meaning more of the sun's rays are reflected off of it rather than helping to warm the ground. This results in continued cooler temperatures, which in turn encourages more snow fall. This sort of thing can snowball rather quickly resulting in year-round snow, meaning you'll have to bundle up.
If you take a peek at satellite photos of inhabited areas, you'll quickly notice that a very large percentage of the land-mass is covered by black heat-absorbing asphalt. I'm not going to claim that rampant asphalt use is responsible for our climate warming, but it certainly isn't helping. I was thinking that if we were to paint all the asphalt white it would reflect more sunlight away from the earth, thus lowering temperatures and fixing global warming once and for all. The only problem with this, though, is that if the 'snowball' theory actually works, this could result in another ice age pretty quickly.
So, my refined solution is to pave all our roads not with inexpensive asphalt, but with some sort of heat-responsive color change substance, meaning that while it is warm, the color will lighten, and when it's cold the color will darken. Perhaps something like this hyper-color shower tile?
I'm really upset at the state of our government, our society, and our citizens in general. People just can't seem to get along, meaning we get more stupid laws, which in turn cause more stupid problems.
After much thought on the subject, I've decided to take a page out of Alan Moore's playbook and do something about it. What would Alan Moore do? He'd create a supervillain who causes enough senseless loss of life to restore us to that "Sept. 12th" level of empathy, and then push us further, making us truly understand how our actions affect one another. Everyone won't be able to not love one another and treat eachother fairly, thus creating the perfect utopian dream we should all strive for.
With that in mind, I've formulated a plan to amass the country's honey bees and make them do my bidding. Soon the "epi pen" manufacturers will no longer be able to keep up with demand, meaning millions (billions??) will die at the sudden onslaught of bee attacks by this nefarious genius. (That's me.)
America (the world??) will once again unite under the banner of "we can't afford to fight amongst ourselves... let's join forces," working together to systematically eradicate the bees. They'll then realize that once all the bees are dead, we won't be able to grow much food. This will cause everyone to have to work together creating new innovative ways of pollinating crops (genetically-modified dragonflies??) in order to survive. This will of course come with its own set of problems (no "epi pen" for dragonfly venom??), requiring yet more cooperation, making the world even better.
As you can see, my plan is very well thought-out -- and, might I say, flawless. I'll finally be able to make a difference once and for all.
I'm off to go get some bees. Wish me luck.
The latest problem to grace the Bush administration's war plans is that no one is willing to take the job of "War Czar."
This is quite the unexpected blow, but I submit that Americans have a long-standing tradition of being unwilling to take certain jobs, and that this should have been expected. One might say that this country is founded on the idea that all men should be free to choose the jobs they don't want to do.
Unlike everyone else that's complaining about this issue, though, I have a solution. Instead of a single "War Czar," we just need to create a "Bureau of War" and staff it with the one group of people who have a long-standing tradition of accepting the jobs the rest of us Americans don't want to do: illegal Mexican immigrants.
This solves both the Czar problem and the immigration/amnesty problem, because all so-called "illegal" Mexican immigrants will now be government employees, entitling them to benefits like healthcare, taxation, and the always popular "not getting kicked out of the country." Having seven million "War Czars" ought to get things in Iraq nailed down at least seven million times faster than the single "War Czar" that we're currently unable to find, so this proposition wins all around.
Also: taking into account the popular sterotypes of both Mexicans and government workers, this pairing seems like a pretty good match to me.
Phil points out a problem with the plan to launch Star Trek star "Scotty's" ashes into space -- namely that he won't get high enough to avoid earth's gravity1.
Cant get high enough, eh? I say let Keith Richards snort him with some blow. That ought to do it.
All this "Peak Oil" hoopla lately has once again got me thinking a lot about alternate fuel sources. Whether or not civilization as we know it is about to radically shift, using less of our non-renewable resources just seems like a good idea, so I've been racking my brain to come up with viable alternatives.
Last June (on my birthday, apparently) I posted my first idea for a renewable fuel source, but it alone wasn't enough to make much of a dent and thus didn't get the attention I feel it deserved. I still stand by the idea -- I just feel it needs to be supplemented with additional renewable sources.
With that in mind, I'm now about to rock the world by combining three existing renewable fuel technologies into one super hybrid, using only one readily available renewable resource.
The main source of this hybrid power scheme is an extremely prevalent substance found nearly everywhere humans are present, one which we take great pains to eliminate from our daily lives. Yes, I'm talking about excrement -- or "poop," if scientific terms aren't your cup of tea.
"Sure," you might say, "there are people already generating methane from animal excrement and people generating steam power -- and, by extension, electricity -- from burning dried animal waste, so what's so 'world-rocking?'"
Well, my new technique allows for ethanol extraction as well as the aforementioned steam and methane. To see how wonderful a fuel source ethanol is, one needs only to take a look at the readily available, attractively priced fuel in Brazil.
Sure, opponents of ethanol-as-fuel tout the fact that even if we used all the corn we currently eat -- and therefore would no longer be able to consume -- for fuel production, we wouldn't be able to power all our cars. That's very true; growing additional corn would actually have a negative impact on the problem.
However, I've overcome this hurdle; my plan requires no additional corn to be grown, nor a reduction in the amount we eat. Wondering where the ethanol is coming from? Well, my new process extracts all the undigested kernels of corn you see nestled in your excrement for ethanol processing, allowing us to generate ethanol from it after we have eaten it.
Sure, your excrement alone might not have much impact, but imagine if it was mixed in with that of all the people in your town. All that poop would have quite an impact indeed. With only minor changes to our municipal sewage treatment plants, we'd be able to start generating methane, steam-powered electricity, and ethanol from our excrement.
Rather than simply flushing this valuable resource into our nation's rivers, we could be generating surplus energy to supplement my already proposed reclamation system to push us even closer to total independence from petroleum.
Come on, America; let's "get our shit together" while we still can.
It's time for an update on a few things I posted about in the past.
First up, way back in December of '05, I posted about the state of Stephen Colbert's TVs, demanding they be fixed. I'm happy to report that Stephen listened, making sure his TVs were correctly formatted within a month of me posting that missive. There was no apology. Hey Stephen, I'm glad you took the required action, but an apology would have been nice. I'm putting you on notice until you do apologize.
Next up, we'll take a trip back to February '06, when I posted about how I just didn't see the big deal about the potential hubbub over Pluto's planetary status. Well, as you undoubtedly know, the demands I made in my post were eventually met -- like they almost always are -- and everything turned out OK. Except for the little detail about how everyone is completely freaked out. You'd think this was the end of the world or something, what with all the bloggers trying to come up with new Johnny Mneumonic devices ("Nestea™!! My Very Elderly Mother Served Us Nestea™.. How hard was that?") and generally lashing themselves over the pain and tribulations today's schoolchildren surely must be going through.
To that I say, "It isn't a big deal! Children in today's schools learn new things at least once a week; one more new thing to learn isn't going to cause them any troubles."
"Sure," you might reply. "That's all fine and dandy, but what about the books?? We'll have to make new ones! We can't have books with outdated info in them."
Well, my solution to that is simple. All we have to do is print up some of these stickers:
Then we just slap that puppy into any book that talks about the solar system. Problem solved.
Thinking about the cost of purchasing water yesterday got my mind heading into directions it hasn't gone before. Like a cartoon lightbulb blinking alight above my head, an idea suddenly illuminated the dark empty parts of my brain as things suddenly became clear. (There are lots of those empty places, and they require lots of light, so this doesn't happen very frequently.)
Here was what my idea sounded like:
"I bet if there were some way to remove shipping costs from the equation -- like, for instance, with a network of pressurized tubes running to each home -- it would be possible to get the cost of water much, much lower than $0.89 for 20 ounces, while completely eliminating the need to lug heavy cases of water from the grocery store.
In addition to a lower cost, the 'cool factor' of having a receptacle that dispenses 20oz bottles of water from your sink would be a real benefit. I mean, it's not like the sink is doing anything for me now. How come nobody has thought of this before?"
In addition to a lower cost, the 'cool factor' of having a receptacle that dispenses 20oz bottles of water from your sink would be a real benefit. I mean, it's not like the sink is doing anything for me now. How come nobody has thought of this before?"
At first I was thinking that using air to move the bottles along the pipes would be the way to go (you've seen this system in action at your bank's drive-thru), but the more I thought about it, I decided that water might be a more efficient medium to move the bottles from place to place.
I'm not sure who to talk to to get this to happen, but I think a network of pressurized, water-filled tubes to whoosh bottles of water from place to place really needs to become reality, if only to help those of us with bad backs drink more while suffering less pain.
Hey! Now that I think about it, I think there are currently pressurized water-filled tubes running to my house that are sitting there unused! That seems like a good place to start, so I'm going to call around to see who is in charge of them and what would be involved in modifying them.
As an adult male raised both in the relatively puritanical United States and by Hollywood, I find myself thinking frequently of breasts.
(I must say, it's quite tempting to just stop there, but I do have a point so I guess I'll soldier on.)
Anyway, the other day I was thinking of breasts and came up with an ingenius idea that I hope will make me lots and lots of money.
So what's the problem with breast implants? I'd say it's the invasive and destructive method of insertion; you've got this big object outside the breast that you want to move inside the breast, so there's going to be scarring and pain and recovery time. Oh and everyone will notice that yesterday your boobs were much smaller.
So my idea came about by thinking of Luxy, an elderly rat who has a large mammary tumor. She looked for a while very much like she just suddenly sprouted a Dolly Parton sized boob on one side which had a very natural look and feel.
So my idea is to intentionally cultivate a tumor at a precise location inside of any breasts you want to make bigger; this will allow the breasts to grow "naturally" over time and not require any surgery. Worst case scenario is an injection of a "starter" cell, best case would just be some sort of "Boob Enhancing Ray" that gets waved over the boobs in question.
The only part I haven't been able to figure out yet is how to get them to stop growing. Really though, once you decide you want bigger boobs, do you really think you're going to suddenly be happy with them? No, I think people who get implants want progressively larger ones over time, so this will just save everyone a load of hassle.
At first I was doubtful whether anyone would intentionally put something scary and harmful into their body just to "improve" their appearance, but then I remembered that millions of surprised looking people use Botox. Once you've injected deadly food poisoning into your face, what's a little cancer in your boobs?
(18:10:39) me: know how they're planning a mission to Mars?
(18:10:44) rob: yeh..
(18:10:54) me: that seems like such a total waste of time and money to me.
(18:11:03) me: going to some other planet isn't going to help any of the problems we have here on Earth, most importantly being the coming energy crisis.
(18:11:19) me: I came up with a way we can harvest some energy by making a much more useful trip to a different heavenly body.
(18:11:26) rob: oh?
(18:11:33) me: we should send a mission to land on the SUN.
(18:11:48) rob: But, you can't land on the sun..
(18:11:55) me: well, of course not...
(18:11:59) me: but you CAN if you wait until it is NIGHT.
(18:12:11) rob: lol
(18:12:33) me: I figure, the astronauts can just pop some solar panels in with some nice long fireproof poles and run the cords back to earth.
(18:12:42) me: unlimited free energy.
(18:12:46) me: one thing though, they have to keep an eye on the alarm clock, make sure they're nowhere near that puppy when it comes up.
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