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Hannibal Rising begins in Lithuania, 1941, as the Nazis are making their push into the Soviet Union. We find 8-year-old Hannibal Lecter and his sister, Mischa, playing by a lake near their family's estate, Lecter Castle. They see German aircraft flying overhead, and they're called back to the castle. The Lecter family, Hannibal's parents and servants, are making preparations to flee the fighting. Hannibal sees his mother packing her jewelry, and notices her leave behind a bundle of letters in her bureau drawer.
All packed, the family moves to their dacha (summer house) in the woods. The family unpacks and Hannibal's parents act, for their children's sake, like there's nothing dangerous going on. Hannibal acts very protective of Mischa. While Hannibal's mother bathes Mischa, she playfully puts some of her jewelry into the mouth of a mounted boar's head, on the wall. "Pearls before swine," she says.
Back at Lecter Castle, a group of Nazi SS are preparing to claim it as their headquarters. The Nazis are being helped by some local scoundrels acting as mercenaries. These are the film's primary villians: Grutas (their leader), Kolnas, Dortlich, Milko, Grentz, and Pot Watcher. The SS officers say if they'd like to join the need to prove their loyalty by killing the Lecter's Jewish cook, who had stayed behind. The six of them happily comply.
Soon a Soviet tank crew happens on the dacha, where the Lecters are staying. They order the adults out, but say Hannibal and Mischa can stay inside, where it's warm. They act very cordial, and say they only need to pump water from the dacha's well to cool their tank. While the water's pumping, a flight of German fighter jets fly over and take notice. They dive towards the tank and a firefight ensues. The jet ends up crashing into the tank, and all are killed, except for Hannibal and Mischa, who see their parents shot down before their eyes.
Now the six mercenaries are making their way across a battlefield, looting from the dead. They come across their wounded SS commander, whom they kill and loot. They hear on their radio that all looters are to be shot on-sight, so they decide to hide in the woods, and wait-out the fighting. Following the Soviet tank tracks, they soon come across the Lecters' dacha.
Bursting inside, they chain-up Hannibal and Mischa. They loot from the dacha, missing the jewels Hannibal's mother put in the boar's mouth, but taking a bracelet from little Mischa. It's terribly cold out, and there's little wildlife for the mercenaries to eat. They make do with small game, but soon that isn't enough. Disgustingly munching on the carcass of a small bird, Grutas announces, "We eat or we die." All six mercenaries look up towards the balcony at Hannibal and Mischa, who stare back, terrified...
Eight years later, the war is over. We find Hannibal back at Lecter Castle, which the Soviets have turned into an orphanage. He is one of hundreds of young men there. As they sing a Soviet anthem, one of the youth commanders notices Hannibal isn't singing, and begins to reprimand him. He goes to strike Hannibal, but Hannibal stabs the youth commander in the hand with a fork. Hannibal is summoned to the headmaster's office, which used to be his parent's bedroom. He's scolded and sent to bed. In bed he has a dream, a disjointed flash of black-and-white. All you can clearly see is the six mercenaries hauling Mischa, who is screaming, out from the dacha. Hannibal screams Mischa's name in the darkness (the only word he's said until that point).
Angry at being woken up, the youth commander locks Hannibal in the castle's dungeon. Hannibal knows a secret exit from the dungeon. He quietly collects his things and sneaks into his parent's bedroom/headmaster's office and opens his mother's bureau. Inside he finds the bundled stack of letters she left behind. They are from his uncle, living in Paris. There is a photo of his uncle and a beautiful Japanese woman. He escapes the orphanage and makes a daring trip to France.
Once in Paris he finds his uncle's mansion. A guard dog starts barking, and the groundskeeper discovers him. After showing the letters, Hannibal is ushered into the house. Inside he's introduced to the Japanese woman from the pictures: his uncle's wife, Lady Murasaki Shikibu. Hannibal doesn't speak, but she understands that his family has been killed. She tells Hannibal that his uncle died during the war, and that she's the only family he has left.
There's a montage scene of Hannibal learning to feel at-home with Lady Murasaki at the mansion. He learns kendo (a type of Japanese swordplay with bamboo training swords) from Lady Murasaki, cooking from the family chef, gardening from the gardener, etc. At one point Hannibal cuts his finger and she stitches it up for him. His first spoken words are, "thank you." We also see more flashes of Hannibal's dream sequences, with the mercenaries taking away his sister. At this point, it's clear that she'd been eaten and young Hannibal watched. Hannibal explains these dreams to Murasaki.
One day, Hannibal happens upon Lady Murasaki in her family shrine, in the mansion's attic. Inside are ancestral masks, an altar, a full suit of samurai armor, and three traditional swords: a katana (longsword), a wakizashi (medium sword) and a tanto (dagger). There are scrolls showing her family's history, including paintings of severed heads being placed as offerings upon an altar. He is clearly fascinated. She explains to him how the armor must be carefully polished with oil of cloves.
The next scene is at an open air food market in Paris. While Hannibal and Lady Murasaki are browsing around, a fat fishmonger starts making racial slurs at her. "Hey Japonais!" he calls, "does your pussy run sideways?!" Infuriated, Hannibal attacks the man. Gendarmes (French police) are called in to break up the fight. Back at the mansion, Hannibal goes to the attic and approaches the samurai armor. He removes the faceplate from the helmet and holds it up to his own face. It eerily foreshadows the mask that an older Hannibal later wears in prison. Then he draws the katana from its sheath...
Next we see the fat fishmonger in a small rowboat on a lake. He's pulling the guts from a fish with his bare hands. Coming ashore he hears someone playing a tune on a mondolin. It's Hannibal, who's sitting next to a motorcycle. The fishmonger recognizes Hannibal and starts to taunt him. "You said Japanese pussy runs... sideways?" Lecter asks. The fishmonger just laughs at him. Lecter whips out the katana and cuts a large swath across the fat man's belly. "Sideways like that?" he asks. Lecter proceeds to slice the man up, finishing by decapitating him.
He places the man's head as an offering to Lady Murasaki's samurai ancestors at the shrine. Lady Murasaki discovers this, and accepts Hannibal's justification for the murder. We are introduced to Inspector Pascal Popil, who is investigating the fishmonger's death, though his official responsibility is investigating war criminals. He learns of the Hannibal's fight with the fishmonger at the market, and brings him in for questioning. Lecter takes a polygraph test, passes, and leaves. Inspector Popil notes that Lecter's results show he reacts to nothing.
Hannibal is accepted to a medical school, in Paris. He is the youngest medical student in the history of France. He finances his education by working nights in the medical laboratory and collecting cadavers. Lady Murasaki sells his uncle's mansion, and moves to an apartment in Paris. Hannibal asks to stay with her, but she says he ought to stay in the dormitories. While collecting cadavers from the death row of a Paris prison, he meets Inspector Popil, who is questioning a war criminal before his execution. Hannibal sees Popil inject the man with sodium thiopental to make him talk. Afterwards, Popil and Lecter acknowledge each other, and Hannibal explains how he's working at the medical school.
Later Lecter injects himself with sodium thiopental and sleeps in an effort to remember the events of his sister's death. He recalls the faces of the mercenaries, which he sketches on paper, and remembers how Pot Watcher left their dog tags in the dacha, before a mortar hit the house, killing him. Lecter must return to Lithuania.
Crossing the border into the Soviet Union, he's recognized by Dortlich, now working for the Soviet police. Lecter finds a horse at his family's castle and goes to the dacha. The Dortlich follows him there. Inside the dacha, Hannibal finds his mother's jewels, the dog tags (so now he knows the mercenaries' names), and the metal bathtub that they used to boil Mischa. Her bones are still inside. Dortlich bursts in, but Lecter gets the drop on him. Then we see Lecter burying Mischa's bones in the forest.
In the next scene Lecter has Dortlich bound to a tree, with one end of the rope attached to the horse. Hannibal forces the man to give him the locations of his former comrades. Dortlich reveals Grentz is in a small town in Canada, the others are working with Grutas in a small town outside Paris. Dortlich pleads for his life, saying they could tell from her coughing that Mischa had pneumonia, and wouldn't live long anyway. Hannibal finds little sympathy, and whistles for the horse to move forward, drawing the rope taut. There's a snap and a pop, and suddenly Lecter's face is splattered with blood. Hannibal wipes the blood from his face and licks it off. Soviet soldiers eventually happen on the scene and only find Dortlich's head, rotten, with both cheeks missing. One of the soldiers theorizes that his cheeks had apparently been made into a brochette (skewered). The dead man's dogtag is in his mouth.
Hannibal returns to Paris with the new knowledge of where the remaining four mercenaries are. Once there, he is approached by Inspector Popil, who has a photo sent by the Soviets of the dead Dortlich. He's done some research, and suspects what's going on with Hannibal and these men. He sits down with Lecter and asks him to tell him what happened. Lecter does, and we see a flashback of young Hannibal collapsing in a field after fleeing from the dacha, being found by Soviet troops. Popil implores Lecter not to take matters into his own hands, and to let Popil bring these men to justice. Hannibal says he will, but it's clear he has other things on his mind. Afterwards, Popil confides to an assistant that, "Lecter's heart died with his sister and his humanity died in the field that day. All that's left is a monster."
Hannibal and Lady Murasaki travel to the small town near Paris, where three of the remaining mercs are hiding. Kolnas, they discover, owns a restaurant in the town. He also has a family, now. At the restaurant, Hannibal calls over the Kolnas' young daughter. He slips the Kolnas' dogtag into her pocket, and notices she's wearing Mischa's bracelet. Later on, Kolnas is looking through his daughter's pockets and finds the dogtag, terrified. He looks to the table in the restaurant where Lecter and Murasaki were sitting, but they're gone.
Kolnas meets with Grutas and Milko aboard Grutas' ship, docked in a river. It's clear Grutas is working as a pimp, keeping women in cages onboard. He shows Grutas the dogtag, and tells him what he'd heard about Dortlich, who was found, eaten, in Lithuania. Grutas dispatches Milko to find and kill Hannibal, in Paris.
It's nighttime, and Hannibal is alone in the school's anatomy lab, working on cadavers. Milko sees him inside, and climbs through a window to get in. Hannibal feels the cool breeze from outside and figures he's suddenly not alone. He leaves his desk and moves to a cadaver, and we hear the noise of a power saw. All the while, Milko is sneaking up on him. Milko watches through a doorway, and sees Hannibal go from the cadaver back to his desk. Now partially obscured by a doorway, Milko can only see Hannibal's hand resting on the desk, and figures now is the time to take his shot. He moves in to pull the trigger, but suddenly Lecter comes up behind him, and injects his neck with something that forces him to pass out. It turns out the hand Milko saw on the desk was one that Hannibal had sawed off the cadaver as a distraction.
In the next scene, Hannibal has Milko stripped, tied up, and hanging from a metal frame, partially-submerged in a huge tank of formaldehyde, along with the other med school cadavers. Milko comes-to and starts screaming. Hannibal forces him to reveal where Grutas is. Hannibal continues to toy with him until he hears footsteps along the hallway and sees that it's Inspector Popil. Lecter quickly dunks Milko in the tank with the other corpses, closes the trap door to the tank, and pushes the switch to fill the tank. The last thing Milko sees before drowning is Lecter smiling and waving at him. Lecter meets Popil in the anatomy lab, they talk and again, Popil is forced to leave for lack of any real evidence against him.
Lecter is now alone in the lab, preparing a chemical mixture that causes a timed explosion. He goes by motorcycle to Grutas' estate outside the small town, near Paris. He gets in through a downstairs window, and sets up the explosives in the basement. Then he goes upstairs to confront Grutas, who's getting his chest shaven in a bathtub by one of his whores. Hannibal bursts in to surprise him, but Grutas expects this, and his henchmen tackle Lecter to the floor. As Grutas is gloating over his cleverness, the explosive ignites, and gives Hannibal a distraction to escape.
I don't exactly recall how this next scene goes, but Hannibal eventually returns to Paris to Lady Murasaki's apartment. It's been ransacked, and she's missing. He finds a note, and calls the phone number on it. Grutas picks up on the other end, says he's kidnapped Murasaki, and he'll trade Hannibal's life for hers. He tells Hannibal where to meet him. Hannibal takes him motorbike back to the small town where Grutas is, but instead of going to the rendezvous point to meet Grutas, he goes to Kolnas' restaurant.
Kolnas is inside and Hannibal surprises him. Kolnas tries to reason with Hannibal, like Dorlich tried to do. Hannibal pulls a bracelet from his pocket, the one Kolnas had stolen from Mischa and given to his own daughter. Hannibal tells a terrified Kolnas that he has his daughter hostage, and will return her if he tells him where Grutas is holding Murasaki. Kolnas does, and then demands proof that his daughter is safe. Hannibal tells him to call his own house, where Kolnas' wife tells him that the children are both asleep in their beds...Hannibal only took the bracelet, he was bluffing about kidnapping the girl. Angry at being duped, Kolnas goes to attack Hannibal as he's leaving, but Hannibal pulls out the wakizashi he'd taken from Lady Murasaki's samurai set, and stabs Kolnas through the chin, up through his head...two to go.
He takes is bike to the river where Grutas' boat is docked. The boat is traveling downriver, and Hannibal jumps onboad when it passes under a bridge. Inside, we see Grutas taunting Lady Murasaki, who's tied up. He's telling her how she'll become one of his whores. Hannibal kills Grutas' henchmen, throwing them overboard, they are crushed between the boat and the stone wall along the river. Hannibal goes below deck and confronts Grutas. They fight and Grutas eventually pulls out a pistol and shoots Lecter in the back. We hear a snap and Hannibal collapses. Murasaki starts to sob. Grutas is (again) gloating over his victory, when Lecter draws the wakizashi (now broken by the bullet) and slices the achilles' tendons in the back of Grutas' legs. His pistol goes skipping beyond his reach.
Lecter stands, and we see that the broken wakizashi took the full force of the bullet and he is uninjured. Immobilized on the floor, Grutas offers to give up Grentz' location in Canada, in exchange for a quick death. Murasaki pleads for Grutas' life, telling Hannibal to give up this pursuit and allow Popil to take them into custody. Hannibal refuses. Grutas says how he and the other five aren't the only ones who ate little Mischa. He tells Lecter that, half-unconscious, he was fed some of the broth, as well. Enraged at the truth about eating his own sister, Hannibal goes mad, and carves an 'M' (for Mischa) into Grutas' chest. Disgusted (and now untied), Murasaki leaves the cabin. We see Hannibal lean over and take a bite from one of Grutas cheeks, as the man screams. Looking over her shoulder, Murasaki sees Hannibal climb on top of Grutas and (while it looks like they're kissing from this angle) we know that Hannibal is eating Grutas' face, while Grutas screams.
It's still night, and Murasaki is now standing on a bridge next to Inspector Popil, and a troop of gendarmes. They're all searching for Lecter. Grutas' boat is in the distance, and it suddenly explodes. Everyone is shocked, but Murasaki catches a glimpse of Hannibal running along the riverbank, escaping into the woods.
In the final scene we see a car driving along a road in the forest. Eventually it stops in a small Canadian town, parking in front of a taxidermy shop. A man walks into the shop, and we see the animal heads mounted on the walls. The shopkeeper comes to the counter, and we can tell it's Grentz. Grentz looks at Hannibal, who stands before him. Hannibal pulls Grentz' dogtag from his pocket...the final one. "Hello, Mr. Grentz..." Hannibal says, "I've come to collect a head."
The last shot is Lecter's car driving away from the Canadian town, as the credits roll.
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I am proud to announce that Takoda has won the New Jersey Veterinary Animal Hall of Fame Award for his Therapy Dog work. My vet nominated him and both of us had to do a write-up why Takoda deserved the award. I'm am so very proud of him. He loves every visit and looks forward to them. He was born to be a therapy dog. Here's is the write-up that I wrote....
Takoda is a 5 year old Shiloh Shepherd, who is a loving, and smart, with a great personality and a stable temperament. He is a big dog with an even bigger heart. His name "Takoda" is Native American and it means "Friend to Everyone". He lives up to that name everyday. He loves everyone he meets, adults, kids, and other animals. I was blessed the day Takoda came into my life at 8 weeks of age. He is my friend, my soulmate and constant companion.
I showed Takoda for 3 years, and he earned many championships and titles, but I knew this special dog had more to offer the world, than being in the show ring. I wanted him to touch other people's life, like he touched mine. With his kind and loving personality, I just knew the thing I had to do was get him therapy dog certified. He passed the test with flying colors 2 years ago, and we've been doing 2-4 therapy visits a week, and loving every moment of every visit. He just lights up when we enter a nursing home/rehab center/assisted living facility. He is a natural and was born to do this job. The patients just love when he visits, and the smiles on their faces, make me proud and happy that I'm able to share my special dog with all of them. Even though he's a very large dog (120 lbs.) he is gentle and caring with each patient. Some visits he'll perform some of his "freestyle" dog dancing moves to the joy of all the patients. He also likes to share his goofy side, by making funny noises and "talking" to them. One of his favorite things to do is pose for individual pictures with the patients on special holidays. One Christmas he posed for 25 pictures. He was "smiling" happily throughout the photo session. Through our 2 years of therapy visits, we have made many special friends. We know the patients by name, and celebrate birthdays and milestones with them. On one memorable visit at a nursing home, an older gentleman was sitting in his wheelchair and was bent over sobbing. I said "Mike, look who's here?" Takoda gently placed his head on Mike's lap and licked his face. Mike picked up his head and a smile quickly spread across his face. Takoda sat patiently while Mike stroked his head, with that smile still on his face. Most of our visits are once or twice a month, but we go once a week to a rehab center for the developmentally challenged/severely handicapped. There are all age levels and many different injuries. We love visiting all our friends there, but one particular young man formed a special bond with Takoda. This young man (24) was seriously hurt in a snow boarding accident. He spends most of his time in a wheelchair, and could only walk with the assistance of a physical therapist. One day when he was walking with his PT, he asked if he could "walk" Takoda. I handed him the leash, but held on to the collar, because Takoda never did anything like this before. Well, once again, Takoda seemed to know what to do, he walked slowly while the young man walked behind. We made it around the PT room 2 times and he was thrilled. We did this every week for a month, then the PT gave the young man a cane, and Takoda and he walked again. Even though I stay near Takoda, I don't have to hold on to his collar anymore. He knows exactly what to do. He walks slowly while the young man walks, when Takoda feels a tug he stops till Danny catches up. When he feels the slack, Takoda starts walking again. This young man is so happy and so are the PT's that Takoda has helped him walk almost on his own. These are only two of the many special therapy visits Takoda and I have been on and will continue to do. I am very proud of Takoda and the lives that he's touched.
Takoda has another job. He volunteers as the "geese police" in our town. It happened by accident one morning in April while we were walking past a football field. There was about 30 geese on the field, and I remembered the town complaining how the geese dirty up the field, so I unleashed him and he ran full speed at the geese. When they saw him coming, they flew away. We did that every morning, and slowly the 30 geese dwindled down to 6. The field was geese free for the summer concert series this summer. The town was thrilled that they didn't have to "clean" the field anymore before games or the concerts. Takoda also saved the town hundreds of dollars. We continue checking on the field every morning to keep the field geese free.
Takoda and I also participate in many charity walks to raise money for animal shelters and human causes. He also has filmed a television commercial for a new doggie product that is scheduled to air on QVC.
Takoda also loves to go for long walks/hikes, play ball and Frisbee, play with his dog friends, and spend time with me. He is a well-rounded, well socialized dog, that I'm very, very proud of. I was truly blessed when he came into my life, and I'm thankful for him everyday.
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Admit guaranteed pensions are unsustainable
July 18, 2014
Detroit, Vallejo, San Bernardino, Stockton – all felled by one common denominator – public employee defined benefit pension plans.
They are not alone.
While each of these cities sought Chapter 9 bankruptcy as a solution to their fiscal woes, the state of California, every city, county and special district that grants its employees and retirees a guaranteed pension is beset with unfunded liabilities that threaten their very existence.
The state of California has anywhere from $200-$500 billion in unfunded liabilities despite record investment returns in recent years; Nevada County close to $100 million; the City of Grass Valley almost $7 million; Nevada County Consolidated Fire District anywhere from $3 to $4 million depending on calculation methods.
Why our elected officials believe that they can freely subject taxpayers to this same risk is astounding.
And, if any of these entities wanted to withdraw its plan from the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), you could triple the unfunded liabilities, since CalPERS utilizes a much lower discount rate for plans terminating than it uses to estimate annual required contributions.
Even public entities that are in relative fiscal health are incurring large increases in annual contributions and face "service insolvency" — they cannot provide adequate levels of public services due to onerous employee pay and pension costs.
So, what's the answer? It's long past the time for our elected officials to acknowledge what private sector employers have known for decades.
Guaranteed pensions are unsustainable — they subject owners/stockholders to unlimited liability, but without unlimited revenue — an untenable risk.
Why our elected officials believe that they can freely subject taxpayers to this same risk is astounding. Until our elected officials stop this insanity by terminating all defined benefit pension plans, we'll continue to see declining public services, reduced police and fire protection, and bankrupt public entities.
So, how do we do it? We freeze all current plans as of a given date — say Jan. 1, 2016. Every employee vested in a defined benefit plan on that date is guaranteed the pension they have earned at that point in time — but they are not guaranteed benefits yet to be earned.
For example, a 20-year county employee earning $70,000 on Jan.1, 2016 with a defined pension benefit of 2.5 percent at age 55 would be guaranteed a pension of $35,000 at age 55, regardless of when he or she retires and regardless of the salary on the date of retirement. After Jan. 1, 2016, all employees would receive employer contributions and may make employee contributions to a defined contribution plan, like a 401K. These could be self-directed, managed by professionals or even be managed by CalPERS, if the employee desires.
Employer contributions would be meaningful, but still far less than current and future costs to support defined benefit plans.
Public entities would still be required to make contributions to CalPERS to fund the vested/earned pensions, but the unfunded liabilities and resultant pension costs would drop precipitously.
The 401K contributions would be predictable and under the control of our elected officials/taxpayers. In the long run, public employees will also benefit by having a retirement plan that they control, and more importantly, own the principal. They would be able to pass on their retirement funds to heirs should they die early in retirement or before retirement, a right unavailable under defined benefit pension plans (except for contingent annuity options for a spouse).
To those critics who abhor the thought of subjecting public employees' retirements to the risks of Wall Street, they face no greater risk than does CalPERS, which is subject to the same market risks in the funds it manages. They wouldn't have the security of a taxpayer guarantee, but please convince me why taxpayers should bear the risk of guaranteed investment returns when their own retirements have no such guarantees.
These changes can be secured through the collective bargaining process, and they don't involve a withdrawal from CalPERS. The changes would require our elected officials to address the problem decisively. They all recognize the crisis, but have been content to make trivial changes by tinkering with lower tiers for new employees or slightly raising retirement ages. In the meantime, unfunded taxpayer liabilities continue to soar.
These necessary changes will also require concessions on the part of public employee unions to recognize the unsustainability of current public employee pension plans, the risks to present and future retirees of bankruptcy and default, and the unfairness of taxpayer guarantees.
It's time for all elected officials, state and local, to act boldly and finally restore fiscal common sense — to the benefit of taxpayers for a change.
Rich Ulery is past chairman of the Nevada County Republican Party.
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Dynasties: 2014 BMW 3- and 4-series / Honda Accord
In some families, greatness is inherited.
Alistair Cooke would have called it a quintessentially American success story: Two foreigners land on our shores from nations once defeated and destitute to seek fortunes in the land of their conqueror. Lofted to unimaginable heights by the updraft of postwar prosperity, they become business empires unto themselves.
How much should we read into the common narratives of Honda and BMW? Both are smaller firms relative to the giants of the industry, yet they have remained steadfastly independent as others have buddied up into global conglomerates. Both companies have an inordinately strong sense of identity, rooted in engineering and nurtured at some point in their histories by a single patron or family. Both make motorcycles. And after nearly four decades of continuous success in America, the BMW 3-series and the Honda Accord are themselves automotive dynasties.
The Honda Accord is perfectly named, the result of a timely accord between Japan's burgeoning industrial might and America's rapidly changing post-OPEC market. The first Accord in 1976 was a huge stride from the series of mostly obscure subcompacts that preceded it. Building on the Civic CVCC, the Accord was a polished and precision Japanese instrument in the mold of a contemporary Sony tape recorder or a Nikon camera, and it threw Detroit's complacency into glaringly sharp relief.
Even so, the Accord is America's Honda. We own it, and it is ours. It was the first Japanese car to be assembled here—indeed, in the middle of America, in Rust-Belt Ohio—and it grew and morphed with the needs of its prime constituency, the baby-boom generation. It even contributed to an American-style scandal in the 1980s when the demand for Hondas far outstripped the supply and the company's U.S. sales managers skimmed millions in bribes and kickbacks from dealers desperate for stock.
On the showroom floor, the Accord displayed engineering elegance that anybody could appreciate, from the perfectly placed cabin controls and the painstakingly efficient packaging to the meticulously routed hoses and cables under the hood. In motion, an Accord was light, thrifty, fun, practical, and incredibly durable. Honda sealed its reputation with the Accord, and the car has consistently adhered to its core values through nine generations.
There isn't a bad apple in the bushel, but the 1994–1997 fifth-gen is a particularly warm memory. The sheetmetal was wrapped tightly, the hoodline sloping down to two illuminated slits for headlights. It was the first Accord with a V-6 and the first with panache as well as purpose. It drove like it, immediately rendering all other cars in its class contenders for second place. Since then, the Accord has grown and matured—undoubtedly too much in the just-retired eighth generation. But the redesigned 2013 Accord returned to form as a slightly smaller but still unapologetically practical vehicle with acres of glass for visibility, a capacious cabin, and that same spry lightness to its controls and movements. Once again, the Accord became the standard by which the largest and most competitive class of passenger cars is judged.
As with Honda, BMW is, at heart, a small-car company—an ingrained idiosyncrasy that is perhaps the reason it nearly collapsed in the 1950s when it tried to produce a series of expensive, handmade sedans and coupes. The ensuing boardroom turmoil and threat of takeover by Daimler-Benz is what allowed Herbert Quandt and his brother Harald to wrest control of the company in 1959 and steer BMW toward its destiny as the purveyor of small and boxy ultimate driving machines. It's the reason that the 3-series has always been better than the 5 and the 7.
From the start, the 1977 BMW E21 3er and its successors have been built the way common-sense enthusiasts would build their cars. The axle loads are nearly equal on a trim and tidy rear-drive platform with exactly enough room to serve practical needs. No inches or pounds are wasted, and nothing but an inline engine will do. Even as others have yielded to the temptations of a V-6 or front-drive, with their inherent packaging benefits, BMW has stuck to its formula.
As each new 3-series debuted, from E30 to E36, and E46 to E90, there was never a question of whether there would be a manual transmission offered, never a doubt that a sport package or an M version would cure whatever plushness BMW had conceded for wider market acceptance. Unquestionably, BMW benefited from the floundering of its competitors; Mercedes-Benz answered with a dynamic also-ran, and then its quality went into a decade-long spiral before climbing back out, and it took Audi 20 years to recover from unintended acceleration. The Japanese and American brands were off the radar.
Even people whose car passions flow elsewhere have a favorite 3-series generation, but we couldn't develop a consensus in the office. Was it the elemental E30; the fully flowered, do-it-all E90; or one in between? At one time the 3-series was half of BMW's volume in the U.S., but the best-selling luxury brand in America has lately borne a lot of kittens, and the lineup is diluted. Even at around 37 percent of BMW's U.S. sales for the first nine months of 2013, the 3 remains both a profit fountain for BMW as well as the ideological center of its brand.
Today, the 3 wears a bull's-eye on its back as every luxury maker now takes aim at the fat, lower end of the luxury-car segment, which is the $35,000–$45,000 (or $399–$499/month) compact sports sedan. The current F30, which in its initial 320i, 328i, and 335i form, or 428i/435i as per the coupe's new designation, is softer than ever and suffers from imperfect electrified steering.
But it still bears the burdens of its leadership with understated, everyday excellence. Anchoring to the road with a balletic balance and a satisfying exactness to its controls, the 3 also delivers the premium experience—of powertrain isolation, switch feel, and ride quality—expected of its premium price.
In some ways, the 3-series feels like an expensive Accord, which feels like an economy 3-series. Which is exactly what has ensured both such long tenures on our 10Best list.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 2-door coupe or 4-door sedan
ENGINES: DOHC 16-valve 2.4-liter inline-4, 185 or 189 hp, 181 or 182 lb-ft; SOHC 24-valve 3.5-liter V-6, 278 hp, 252 lb-ft
TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed manual, 6-speed automatic, continuously variable automatic
CURB WEIGHT: 3250–3550 lb
18–27/28–36 mpg
A six-speed Accord Sport sedan for $24,505 rates as the best all-around value for a new car, period.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine; rear- or 4-wheel-drive; 4–5-passenger; 2-door coupe, 4-door sedan, or 5-door wagon
ENGINES: turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter inline-4, 180 hp, 200 lb-ft; turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter inline-4, 240 or 241 hp, 255 or 258 lb-ft; twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve 3.0-liter inline-6, 300 or 302 hp, 295 or 300 lb-ft
TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed manual, 8-speed automatic with manual shifting mode
CURB WEIGHT: 3350–3750 lb
20–24/28–36 mpg
The best 3 is now the 4, and while we love the twin-turbo six, we're going with the four-cylinder to keep the price reasonable. The Sport Line is only $2100, which is actually cheap for sport seats, wheels, tires, trim, and the M Sport suspension. A six-speed manual is an even better deal: free. Add the following and you're out the door for $45,725:
Cold Weather package because all cars must have heated seats ($700)
Driver Assistance package with rear camera and parking sensors. Scrape one bumper and it's worth the price ($950)
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Investors might be interested to know why Australian Ethical Investments recently sold out of Origin Energy.
A hint is that it wasn't related to the company's profits.
Origin, alongside BG Group (British Gas) and Santos, is involved in the $50 billion worth of coal seam gas projects based in Gladstone, Queensland.
They are mostly located in the Surat Basin, which is part of the Great Artesian Basin, and will enable liquid natural gas (LNG) production from 2014 onwards. Shell's Arrow CSG project is also slated for a few years' time, and could be worth another $30 billion.
What's a billion here or a billion there, you might ask. After all, CSG produces LNG, which is less harmful to the environment than petrol (although fugitive emissions may put that general claim in doubt).
Australian Ethical is concerned that the four operators use excessive water in their fracking or de-watering operations, which is how they suck the gas out of porous coal. Interestingly, the team doesn't have a problem with the chemicals used in the process.
"We expect that during the ramp up, CSG will take up more water from the Great Artesian Basin than is used in agriculture, so as a precautionary measure have sold our Origin shares" says Andy Gracey, the small cap fund manager with Australian Ethical.
In case you didn't know, with an area of over 1.7 million square kilometres, the Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest artesian groundwater basins in the world. It stores a huge volume of water that is estimated (by the Queensland Government) to be 64,900 million megalitres, which is enough water to fill Sydney Harbour 130,000 times.
Three of these big projects have the green light from the Government and their financiers, so they will happen. But there have been significant delays and there is a groundswell of opposition from the public. Government has clearly been caught out, approving projects one after the other, and not envisaging what happens when you get four giant projects operating in the one (albeit big) area.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the small cap front…
At the smaller end of the spectrum, there are some interesting opportunities for investors.
Metgasco (ASX code MEL) could be a takeover target with two corporates moving onto its share register over the past two months.
LNG Limited (LNG) went over 10 per cent earlier this month; and ERM Power announced this week that it has just over 7 per cent.
One analyst said that Metgasco has a "large resource of CSG" in the Clarence Moreton Basin in NSW, which means if it goes into production it will be high cost. It has also been frustrated, like other bigger producers, with the slow approval process of the NSW Government.
Molopo Energy (ASX code MPO) on the other hand, is trading at levels below its asset backing. The company has CSG assets located near Gladstone, which it is selling. One estimate is that it could get about $50 million for this, plus it has about $130 million in cash. At 71.5 cents as of yesterday it has a market cap of $174 million.
Molopo is shifting its focus towards North America where it figures it can make money more easily from extracting oil and gas from shale rock.
Westside Corp (ASX code WCL) is far from a musical, also operating CSG assets close to Gladstone. It's not a huge asset, but it's up and running and producing a fair amount of cash. If there is corporate activity in the sector, this company, whose market cap is $71 million, could be a target.
Richard Hemming (email@example.com) is an independent analyst who edits a fortnightly newsletter: www.undertheradarreport.com.au. He has written columns on small caps for the Financial Times and for the Australian Financial Review.


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Location: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology ResearchTitle: Komagataella populi sp. nov. and Komagataella ulmi sp. nov., two new methanol assimilating yeasts from exudates of deciduous trees. Author
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/17/2012
Publication Date: 5/1/2012
Citation: Kurtzman, C.P. 2012. Komagataella populi sp. nov. and Komagataella ulmi sp. nov., two new methanol assimilating yeasts from exudates of deciduous trees. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 101(4):859-868. Interpretive Summary: The discovery of new microbial species provides an opportunity to find novel physiological and genetic properties of interest to science and technology. In this study, two new species of the yeast genus Komagataella are described. The first described species of the genus, Komagataella (Pichia) pastoris, is used worldwide in biotechnology to express genes that code for scientifically and economically important proteins. The discovery of two additional species of Komagataella offers the possibility for further advances in biotechnology using species with somewhat different genetic properties. Consequently, this work will be of particular interest to biotechnologists, but molecular geneticists with an interest in the speciation process will also find these new species of value.
Technical Abstract: Two new species of the methanol assimilating ascosporic yeast genus Komagataella are described. Komagataella populi sp. nov. (NRRL YB-455, CBS 12362, type strain) was isolated from an exudate on a cottonwood tree (Populus deltoides), Peoria, Illinois, USA, and Komagataella ulmi sp. nov. (NRRL YB-407, CBS 12361, type strain) was isolated from the exudate on an elm tree (Ulmus americana), also growing in Peoria, Illinois. The species were resolved from divergence in gene sequences for domains D1/D2 LSU rRNA, mitochondrial small subunit rRNA, RNA polymerase 1 and translation elongation factor-1a. Species of Komagataella assimilate few carbon compounds and are unlikely to be resolved from differences in standard growth and fermentation tests. For this reason, separation of species is dependent on gene sequence analysis.


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Discover the foods of Portugal with Portuguese Cooking: The Traditional Cuisine of Portugal by Carol Robertson, with recipes like Piri-piri, Caldeirada (Portuguese Fish Soup), and Almond Cake with Ovos Moles.
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Portuguese desserts tend to be found in one of three broad categories. The first is fresh or preserved fruits, used alone or with soft cheeses. The second includes baked egg and cream custards, and flans (sometimes combined with almonds or port), and the third category utilizes endless combinations of sugar and eggs.
Sugar and egg yolks alone are used to create this rich sauce called "ovos moles." It can be served by itself as a dessert, over fruit, or as an icing for a sponge cake or torte.
In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, dissolve the sugar in the water. Allow to cool. In the meantime, separate the eggs, reserving the whites for another use. With an electric or hand-beater, beat the yolks until they are thick and light yellow. Continuing to beat them, slowly pour in the sugar syrup. Return the egg and sugar mix to the saucepan, and stirring constantly, heat over low heat until thickened enough to coat the spoon.
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- Fri, Apr 22-23, 2016
7th Annual International Conference on Islamophobia
- Mon, Feb 1, 2016
CFP: Islamophobia: Has a tipping point been reached?
- Dec 11, 2015
Islamophobia & Eroding Civil Society
- Dec 1, 2015
CFP: Institutionalizing Islamophobia: Critiquing the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Framework and Emerging Programs
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CFP: Islamophobia and Eroding Civil Society
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The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community
This benchmark study, the first of its kind on the Bay Area's Muslim community, serves many purposes including providing groundbreaking data on its demographics, sense of identity, economic well being, political and civic engagement, and the challenges that it faces. The resulting data is useful for academics and practitioners wishing to pursue further research, as well as for the community and its leaders, philanthropists and foundations, policymakers, and the general public. As a source of information, it will serve as an important tool for advocacy and media purposes, given that data about the community has often been misrepresented. Finally, the report will add to and complement the growing body of empirical data on local Muslim communities and the national portrait. Report authors are Farid Senzai, Santa Clara University and Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley, Zaytuna College Co-Founder, and Director of the CRG Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project.
More info: http://www.ispu.org/portal/82/ourpage.aspx
Paris, France International Islamophobia Conference
The Epistemic, Racial, Cultural and Structural Exclusionary Measures in France and Europe
CFP Deadline: September 2, 2013
Conference Date: December 13-14, 2013
Details: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/cfp-paris
Fourth Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia:
April 19-20, 2013
Call for Papers Submission Deadline: January 10, 2013
New Publication: Islamophobia in the Netherlands
by Ineke van der Valk
published by Amsterdam University Press
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More info: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-netherlands
Anti-Islam Ads on San Francisco Buses Put Muslims at Risk
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Silicon Valley Mercury News
September 8, 2012
April 20-21, 2012
Booth Auditorium
UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
This conference will be livestreamed here:
Fear, Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America (8/26/11)
The Center for American Progress released an exposé on how 7 funders have given $43 million over 10 years to a small, inter-connected group of individuals and organizations responsible for mainstreaming fear, bigotry and hate against Muslims and Islam in America. Wajahat Ali, a speaker at our April 2011 conference on Islamophobia and a UC Berkeley alum, is the lead researcher on this report. Check out his summary of this important research.
CAIR, CRG Release First Annual Islamophobia Report
On Thursday, June 23, 2011, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender (CRG) held a news conference on Capitol Hill to release "Same Hate, New Target," the first-of-its-kind annual report outlining the disturbing growth of Islamophobia in the United States during 2009-2010.
More info: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-report-0910
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Opening Remarks: Hatem Bazian, IRDP Director & Conference Convener:
'Ground Zero Mosque' or Zero Mosques in America:
Islamophobia & Critical Race Theory
October 12, 2010
UC Berkeley
Speakers included Dina Ibrahim, San Francisco State University; Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union; Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University; Basim Elkarra, CAIR Sacramento; Imam Zaid Shakir, Zaytuna College; Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley & Zaytuna College; & Ramon Grosfoguel, UC Berkeley.
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Knowing Palestine: Islamophobia, Imagination, & Critical Solidarities
March 11, 2010
UC Berkeley
Forum presentations included Dr. Hatem Bazian's talk, "Islamophobia Production in the Palestine-Israel Conflict," and Prof. Keith Feldman's talk, "June Jordan's Palestine."
Listen to the audio recording of this forum.
Read a summary of the forum in the Spring 2010 issue of Faultlines.
Why? Questioning America's Response to Fort Hood:
Islamophobia, Media, & Civil Rights
December 2, 2009
UC Berkeley
A forum sponsored by Asian Law Caucus, Arab Resource & Organizing Center, CAIR-California, UC Berkeley Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, & the Muslim Student Association
Deconstructing Islamophobia:
Immigration, Globalization, & Constructing the Other
April 26-28, 2008
UC Berkeley
In 2008, CRG organized an international conference, "Deconstructing Islamophobia: Immigration, Globalization, & Constructing the Other." Please contact us for conference video.
Download the Fall 2008 Faultlines issue spotlighting this conference, or see the following articles:
- Islamophobia & Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, Nelson Maldonado Torres, UC Berkeley
- Strategies for Decentering Islamophobia, Khaldoun Samman, Sociology, Macalester College
- The Geo-Politics of Cartoons, Dina al-Kassim, English & Comparative Literature, UC Irvin; Peter Gottschalk, Religion, Wesleyan University
- The Qur'an and the U.S. Constitution, Kathleen Moore, Law and Society, UC Santa Barbara
- What Islamophobia Means in Britain, Tariq Modood, Sociology, University of Bristol, UK
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Buerhle keeping options open
For all the talk about left-hander C.J. Wilson in free agency, another lefty might hold even greater appeal.
Mark Buerhle, coming off his 11th straight 200-inning season, is "wide-open" to any team, according to his agent, Jeff Berry.
Buerhle, 32, has spent his entire career with the White Sox, and has spoken in the past about joining the Cardinals, the team closest to his home in St. Charles, Mo.
But Berry repeated Wednesday what he said in September – that Buehrle was not wedded to any club.
In fact, Berry said, Buehrle might find the National League especially attractive; he is 24-6 with a 3.32 ERA lifetime against NL teams.
"Mark is not going to eliminate any team from free-agent consideration," Berry said. "But having pitched 12 years in the American League, the National League certainly will have some appeal to him.
"There is no DH. It's obviously less of a hitter's league. And Mark has had great success in his career against the National League."
Buehrle, of course, has been pretty good in the AL, too – he went 13-9 with a 3.59 ERA for the White Sox last season and also won his third straight Gold Glove.
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Nominations sought for 2014 California Peace Awards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - State Assemblyman Luis Alejo announced that nominations are open for the 2014 California Peace Awards.
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July 24th Games
AAA Toledo Mud Hens - Durham 2, Toledo 1
46-57, 4th in West Division
Despite another strong start from Fu-Te Ni, the Hens lost to Durham 2-1. Ni got the loss, his first of the year, but gave up just two runs in seven innings of work. He also walked two and struck out six. Jose Ortega pitched the final two innings, not allowing a run and striking out three. Toledo went just 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Danny Worth went 2-for-3 with a double and scored the team's only run. Scott Thorman also added a double and Max St. Pierre had two hits in the loss.
AA Erie Seawolves - Erie 4, Akron 3
47-54, 5th in Western Division
Deik Scram belted a walk-off two run homer as Erie beat Akron. Ramon Garcia got the start, giving up no runs in five innings of work with three strikeouts. Robbie Weinhardt also tossed a pair of scoreless innings. Austin Wood picked up both a blown save and a win for allowing three Akron runs after coming in with the lead, but being the pitcher of record when Scram belted his walk-off shot. Audy Ciriaco also added a hit, a run and an RBI and Ben Guez drove in a run.
A+ Lakeland Flying Tigers – Jupiter 4, Lakeland 0
12-16, 6th in North Division
A losing skid has suddenly dropped Lakeland into last place in the FSL North as they lost to Jupiter again 4-0. Jared Wesson took the loss, giving up three runs in five innings. Tyler White tossed two scoreless innings, while Luke Putkonen allowed a run in an inning. The offense managed eight hits but couldn't get a run across the plate; Corey Jones went 3-for-4 with a double while Wade Gaynor added a pair of hits.
A West Michigan Whitecaps - West Michigan 6, Clinton 4
16-13, t-4th in Eastern division
Victor Larez got the start and the win for the Whitecaps, giving up two runs in six innings with four strikeouts. Melvin Mercedes did allow a pair of runs in an inning, but Nate Newman tossed two shutout innings to close the game out and pick up the save. Nick Castellanos went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI. Luis Sanz also went 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI, and Luis Castillo added three hits, scoring a run and driving in another.
SS-A Connecticut Tigers - Williamsport 5, Connecticut 3
16-19, 2nd in Stedler Division
Connecticut fell to Williamsport 5-3. Matt Crouse got the start, giving up two runs in three innings with four strikeouts. Scott Green took the loss, allowing a pair of runs in his one inning of relief. Dean Green had two hits and drove in two runs, while Chad Wright added a double, a run and an RBI.
R GCL Tigers - Off Day
12-18, 5th in North Division
R DSL Tigers - Off Day
16-29, 3rd in DSL SPM Division
R VSL Tigers - Off Day
22-35, 6th in VSL
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Title: The Lotus Eaters (1/1)
Author: Allaine
Rating: PG-13
Feedback: Please, reviews are nice, emails are even nicer.
Disclaimers: DC Comics, Cartoon Network, Bruce Timm, the JL animated series, etc, etc. No profit intended from my infringement.
Spoilers: Up to the JL episode "A Better World".
Summary: Lex Luthor would only be the first of many villains whose lives were changed forever by the Justice Lords. This is the story of how Poison Ivy became the woman the Flash saw on the grounds of Arkham.
Ivy attempted to concentrate on her work, but that proved as difficult as sleeping.
Giving up, she pulled her glasses off and tossed them onto the desk, grumbling. She was too distracted. There had been strange rumors floating around the underworld. People were saying that Killer Croc had gone up against the Bat the other night, and no one had heard from him since.
Personally, Ivy wasn't worried - Croc was known to disappear for a week at a time into the sewers he preferred. And she didn't care - he was a big, dumb brute, and beneath all the scales and muscles he was just a typical male.
Still, the rumors bothered her nonetheless. Some were saying the Bat had taken the gloves off. That people were going to Arkham in body bags. If the Batman was more like the Rogues of Gotham - it galled her to admit it, but he could have killed her a half-dozen times by now.
Ever since President Luthor had died trying to blow hundreds of millions of people sky-high . . .
Her musings were cut short by a frantic banging on the door to her hideout. Languidly the red-haired beauty rose from her chair, knowing it could be only one person. Undoubtedly Harley's "relationship" with the mongrel the Joker had hit yet another bump.
"Come on in - Harley?"
Ivy stared at the shaking woman in front of her as her head turned left and right, eyes impossibly wide. Harley was prone to becoming emotional, and the Joker had put the fear of God into her more than once, but this was different. Harley appeared to have lost her wits completely.
"Red," she whispered pitifully, cheeks still running with tears, "can you hide me?"
Poison Ivy wasted no time in taking Harley by the shoulder and pulling her inside, casting a wary eye into the alley before closing the door. She coaxed Harley over to the bed, unnerved when Harley curled into a fetal position and began rocking. "Harley? What - what did he do this time?"
"The Joker."
Harley burst into fresh hiccoughs of tears, and Ivy rolled her eyes. This was more like it. "Oh, Red, he's gone, my Puddin's gone!"
Until he crooked his finger in three days and Harley came running, Ivy thought wearily. "He threw you out again?"
The blonde girl startled Ivy by bursting into frightened laughter.
"Harley?" Ivy asked, growing alarmed again.
"He did something to him," Harley whispered, "and Mistah J won't ever be the same."
"Did - who? Harley, who? The Bat?"
Harley slowly shook her head. "Not the Bat, but he was there too. No, it was . . . the big blue Boy Scout."
"Superman? He's in Gotham?!"
"He - he grabbed Puddin by the shoulders and his eyes got all red, and then - he did something to Puddin's forehead, and then Puddin wasn't laughing any more," Harley whispered, evidently still horrified by the memory. "Then he was just standing there."
Ivy stared for a moment before she grabbed Harley by the arms, scaring her. "Wait a minute. You're saying that Superman used his heat rays on the Joker's head?"
Harley nodded.
"But - but that would - " Kill him were the next words that came to her lips, but Ivy couldn't say them. The Bat never killed. Superman NEVER killed.
"What, kill him?" Harley asked, trembling in Ivy's arms. "He's not dead, Ivy. Not exactly."
"What do you mean 'not exactly'?"
"I mean I went to school, Ivy. I took the classes. Superman was doing something to Puddin's brain, and I know what it was." Harley looked utterly hopeless. "I think it was a l-l-l-lob - "
"A lobotomy," Ivy finished for her, seeing that Harley was too upset to even get the word out. Gaia. This wasn't possible. "How did you get away?"
"They weren't looking at me anymore. They were looking at - at whatever it was they turned Mistah J into. I snuck out, and I ran." Harley's eyes brimmed with fresh tears, and she wrapped her arms around Ivy. "Oh, Red, they took my Puddin away!" She sobbed like her heart was broken, which it probably was.
Ivy thought she would have taken pleasure at news of the Joker's demise. True, he wasn't actually dead, but he might as well be. The Joker they knew had ceased to exist. And if this had been any other situation, she would have exulted in his defeat.
But if this had happened to the Joker - if Batman had let it happen - then what might happen to the rest of them? Could they escape Superman AND Batman - Goddess, perhaps even all the Justice Lords - if jail was no longer considered good enough for their kind?
And there was another thought that chilled Ivy's bones. Superman had super speed and hearing. Batman was frequently impossible to surprise. How likely was it really that Harley could have given them the slip?
How likely was it that they had known Harley would lead them right to Ivy's door?
Suddenly it was Ivy's turn to tremble. They would be here any minute. There was no way she could escape. They would come for her, come for them both, and . . .
"No," Ivy whispered.
Harley looked up. "Red?"
"They're not going to get you," Ivy decided.
"Harley, any minute now, those two caped morons are going to come crashing through my door," Ivy said.
Harley looked at her blankly for a moment before stricken realization entered her eyes. "Oh no, Red, they wanted me to run to you!" she gasped, horrified.
"It's not your fault, Harley," Ivy said gently. "You were frightened out of your mind. You didn't know where else to turn. I'm - I'm glad I mean that much to you." She looked away. "I'm going to make sure they don't do to you what they did to the Joker."
"But how?"
Ivy began rummaging through her stores of plant extracts. "I have something here that I'm going to inject you with. It will put you into a deathlike state. You won't be dead, just unconscious, but the Bat won't be able to find a heart rate or a pulse. You'll come to in a couple hours. Hopefully, by then you'll have been taken somewhere that you can escape from."
Harley just stared at her, transfixed. "But what about you?"
"Harley, if you wake up, forget about me. Just run like hell, and don't look back," Ivy said quietly. "Got it?"
"Red, no," Harley whispered. "I can't lose you too. You're my best friend."
Ivy sighed and nodded. "You were my friend too, Harley."
Before Harley could protest further, Ivy swiveled around in her chair and stabbed Harley in the neck with a syringe, injecting the chemical into her body. The pitiful smaller woman stiffened, then tried to reach a hand up to Ivy's face.
But her hand fell back down, and gently Ivy lowered her to the floor.
Ivy looked sorrowfully down at Harley. "I never got to tell you how much I love you," she whispered.
Before she could even turn away and put the syringe down, there was an earth-shattering crack, and her front door was smashed to splinters. Ivy raised her hands defensively in front of her face and took two steps back. Cautiously she looked to see who had made such a mess.
The ultimate symbol of truth, goodness, and justice, sickening as it was, was not twelve inches from her face. A red S on a yellow triangle in a blue background. Superman's face loomed over her, expressionless.
A dark, shadowy figure filled the space behind him. Funny. Superman had never seemed scarier than the Bat before.
Ivy glared at Superman. "You frightened Harley half to death tonight," she said.
He blinked, then frowned. "You villains never do grasp the consequences of your actions, do you?"
She certainly grasped what she'd done for Harley tonight. "You're just noticing this now?"
"What happened to Quinn?" Batman growled.
"As I was saying, the Boy Scout scared her half to death. I just finished the job for him."
"You're lying," Superman said.
"She told me what you did to the Joker," Ivy hissed back. "I saved her. Death is better than what you did to Laughing Boy. What's the matter? Did he shoot your dog? Kill your precious reporter?"
Superman had his hand around her throat before she saw it move. "It's the threat you pose to people like Lois that forces me to do this." He looked at Batman. "Is she dead?"
The Dark Knight was already pressing a finger to her neck. "No pulse," he said. "No heartbeat either."
"She could be lying."
"Giving her the treatment won't get you an answer."
"Better just to be sure," Superman replied. "After all, some appear to think that she'd be happier dead."
He let go of Ivy, reached down, and with a quick and efficient motion, he snapped Harley's neck cleanly.
The sight of Harley's death hit Ivy like a physical blow. She swayed for a moment, disbelieving what she'd seen - not possible, he didn't, it couldn't, they didn't kill - before her legs became utterly unable to support her and she collapsed. "Harley," she whispered, extending a hand.
"She was lying."
"Apparently," Batman said, perhaps a bit uneasily. "Maybe we've gone far enough for tonight. The police won't accept a dead body as easily as they'll accept the Joker. Perhaps we should just deliver Ivy to Arkham the way she is."
"Really," Superman replied, amused. "You don't think she won't escape?"
"Maybe she's learned her lesson. Finally."
Ivy lay on the floor, clutching her stomach. The normally prepossessed woman had completely lost it, not caring that she was crying her eyes out in front of the Batman, much as Harley had been sobbing in this room not five minutes ago. Her heart felt like it had disintegrated. She'd always feared that she wouldn't be able to save Harley from the Joker.
As it turned out, Harley met her end at the hands of someone unexpected, but that made her failure no less agonizing.
I never told you how much I loved you.
Despairingly she looked up at Superman. "What?"
"Have you learned your lesson?" Superman asked. "Has it finally sunk in that you can't win? That your only choice is to submit?"
Ivy vaguely realized they were offering her the chance to be taken into custody without the "treatment" the Joker had received. She could keep her mind. Evidently she would be staying at Arkham for the rest of her life, but . . .
She looked again at Harley, and she realized how empty and lonely the rest of her life would be.
Then Ivy somehow managed to pull herself up. "Do me," she said, her voice raw with tears.
"Excuse me?"
"I want you - to do to me - what you did to the Joker," she said slowly.
Superman and Batman both appeared surprised. "What?"
"Do it," Ivy said. "Or I'm warning you, I'll escape, and I'll kill again." A shaking hand went up to her temple, and she saluted Superman. "To the first person to murder someone in Gotham, and get away with it, I salute you," she added grimly. "Who knew Superman would be the greatest Rogue of all?"
Batman looked away and gathered Harley up in his arms. He stood up and carefully walked out of the room.
Ivy watched Harley go, her head lolling about at an unnatural angle. She felt like her chest would explode.
Superman took her by the shoulders and looked her in the eyes briefly. "This is for everyone's good. Including your own."
"I know," she said.
Ivy saw a brief flash of red in his eyes.
"I'll never forgive myself," she thought.
But in a moment, it wouldn't matter.
Then there was great pain, and her world went black.
The End.
Author's Note - Some of you are no doubt wondering, "WTF?!" This story was inspired by a Merlin Missy piece titled "To Every Woman a Happy Ending", which dealt with the Justice Lords universe. Anyone who saw "A Better World" may remember how changed the Arkham inmates were, thanks to Superman. Such as Poison Ivy, calmly cutting the blossoms off rosebushes.
I guess this story was intended to be an answer to two questions - how did Ivy get that way, and where was Harley? A very dark story, to be sure, but the Justice Lords' world was a pretty dark place. Most people focus on how the Lords deprived Earth of its freedom. I decided to focus on those perhaps least deserving of sympathy - the criminals - and the fate they suffered. Personified, of course, by my two favorite characters in the DC universe.
"Lotus Eaters" is a reference to the people in the Odyssey who ate the lotus blossoms and lost all interest in home and family, wanting only to go on eating for the rest of their lives.


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The day has finally arrived! The Soul of Athens "Our Dreams Are Different" iPad App is here!
Although the content for the iPad was decided upon during week 5 of our 10-week quarter it took another 5 weeks to layout, design, build, test and edit content! The hard work paid off, however, and now Soul of Athens can proudly show off this great accomplishment!
The download includes selected pieces from the 2011 Soul of Athens website with a few new interactive features that only the iPad can offer! Swipe your way through each piece, all the while interacting with photos, maps and images. The best part…It's ONLY 99¢!!!
"This year, the new challenge was to extend the brand of "Soul of Athens" to a theme and dual platforms," said Terry Eiler, Director of the School of Visual Communication.
"Our interactive designers and producers have continued to refine their ability to produce quality story telling and exceptional visual journalism," he added.
At the head of the project was Senior Producer and first year Graduate Student, Tristan Wyatt.
"One word, Hectic! I believe that the SOA group as a whole came to the same conclusion that we maybe aren't as good of writers as we originally thought. The majority of the last minute work consisted of copyediting. Unlike the web, the iPad app process involves an approval process that can take up to couple weeks. If any mistakes slipped by, we wouldn't have had the opportunity to fix them until much later. For that reason, we put in a very strong effort into polishing and refining the content as best as possible. I truly believe that the care and effort invested shows in the app and the website," said Wyatt.
Wyatt added, "I'm very excited to break new ground for the department. This was our first app, and was definitely a learning process. Even with the learning curve, I'm extremely impressed with the content that we produced this year, and how the SOA group pulled together to help build an app that we can be proud of. It was definitely a group effort. Now that we have this app under our belt, I'm excited to see how our future digital publications progress and evolve."
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This Month
The Months Of A Year And The Beauty Of Each Season
As time passes, we find that each month presents us with new delights, celebrations, and moments for reflection and appreciation.
The seasons of our lives are shared with those who are dear to our heart, and each new day brings us opportunities to renew relationships that we treasure.
From family members to friends of old, each month provides new ways to stay in touch with those we value most.
While some months bring with them greater anticipation and excitement than others, each month holds it's own unique allure and provides many opportunities for cherishing and celebrating love and friendship.
Each month brings a new opportunity to reflect upon memories of family and friends as well as to create new ones. Take full advantage of each new day to cherish those who matter most in your life.
This Month ~ January
January is bursting with the excitement of innovation and novelty, with the pledge of new beginnings. It is a time for recommitment's and restoring lost relationships, and is also National Letter Writing month. Though quickly becoming a lost practice, receiving a letter from a dear friend helps us hold close those whom we care about. January is the perfect month for restoring friendships through letter writing.
January Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Garnet
Modern Birthstone ~ Garnet
Mystical Birthstone ~ Emerald
January Flower
Carnation or Snowdrop
This Month February
February celebrates romantic love and fervor combined with being National Friendship month. Continue implementing the art of letter writing from January into February. February also serves as Bake for Family Fun month, and is the perfect opportunity for gathering with friends and family members and sharing precious moments together through baking.
February Birthstone
Traditional Birthstone ~ Amethyst
Modern Birthstone ~ Amethyst
Mystical Birthstone ~ Bloodstone
February Flower
Violet or Primrose
Valentines Day
Valentines Food Gift
Use food to make a Valentines gift that will impress, ideas for breakfast food, appetizers, elegant entrees, and decadent desserts
This Month ~ March
March celebrates Women's History, is National Feminine Empowerment Month and is also Gardening Books Month. Show the women in your life how important they are to you by sharing your favorite book on gardening or even a book that features friendship, floral, and poetry.
Barbie's Birthday ~ March 9, 1959
March Birthstone
Traditional Birthstone ~ Bloodstone
Modern Birthstone ~ Aquamarine
Mystical Birthstone ~ Jade
March Flower
Daffodil or Jonquil
March Events, Inventions, And Discoveries
Girl Scouts founded in 1912. march 12
March Inventions
The Barbie Doll was introduced on March 9, 1959
This Month ~ April
April follows with National Garden Month as well as Poetry month. April provides the perfect opportunity to expand upon the seeds you planted in March. National Humor Month also takes place in April so be sure to find funny, witty, and humorous quotes, quips, and notes to share with friends and family members.
April Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Diamond
Modern Birthstone ~ Diamond
Mystical Birthstone ~ Opal
April Flower
Daisy or Sweet Pea
This Month ~ May
May is Older American Month as well as the month where we celebrate Mother's Day. During May, we remember our mothers and the impact that she had upon our lives, but we might also recognize older women who have also served as inspirational role models.
Celebrating Mother's Day
Mother's Day At The Spa
A Mother's Day Spa is an excellent way to treat mom to a day of relaxation and tranquility. One of the great advantages of a Mother's Day Spa is that you can easily fit a spa into your budget. If you are looking for affordable solutions, you can create your own Mother's Day gift basket by filling it with spa goodies.
Mothers Day At The Spa
Flowers, A Perfect Way To Say Happy Mother's Day
Mother's Day flowers are undoubtedly the most popular way that many choose to let their mother know that she is loved, admired, and appreciated. When choosing Mother's Day flowers it is important to consider the likes, characteristics, and personality traits of the woman who will receive them.
Mothers Day Flowers
Common Questions About Mothers Day
Plant Instead Of Flowers?
Q. Instead of buying my mother flowers for Mother's Day, I thought I'd get her a plant. What would you recommend that's pretty but easy to care for?
May Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Emerald
Modern Birthstone ~ Emerald
Mystical Birthstone ~ Sapphire
May Flower
Lily of the Valley or Hawthorn
May Holidays
Mother's Day
This Month ~ June
June is National Candy Month and National Rose Month, in addition to being the month in which we recognize Father's Day. When thinking about our friends and family members throughout the month of June, try sending candy, roses, or rose scented gifts such as candles or fragrance.
June Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Alexandrite
Modern Birthstone ~ Pearl ~ Moonstone
Mystical Birthstone ~ Moonstone
June Flower
Rose or Honeysuckle
This Month ~ July
The Fourth of July is the most celebrated day throughout the month, but there are several other monthly observances that take place. Perfect for cookouts and barbecues, July is National Hot Dog Month, National Baked Beans Month, National Blueberry Month, and National Ice Cream Month. July 21st celebrates National Hot Dog day and is the perfect time for an outdoor get-together with friends and family members.
July Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Ruby
Modern Birthstone ~ Ruby
Mystical Birthstone ~ Ruby
July Flower
Larkspur or Water Lily
This Month ~ August
The first Sunday in the month of August is National Forgiveness Day as well as International Friendship Day; and the third week of August is National Friendship Week. Celebrate and honor your friends on this day while extending forgiveness to someone who has wronged you.
August Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Sardonyx
Modern Birthstone ~ Peridot
Mystical Birthstone ~ Diamond
August Flower
Gladiolas or Poppy
This Month ~ September
September is Self-Improvement month and the perfect time for quiet reflection and commitment to improving your character. It is also the perfect time to take a class or develop a new hobby that you've always dreamt of.
September Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Sapphire
Modern Birthstone ~ Sapphire
Mystical Birthstone ~ Agate
September Flower
Aster or Morning Glory
This Month ~ October
October is best known for Halloween, but it is also Family History Month. This is a wonderful opportunity to research your family's genealogy, to begin a family scrapbook, and to interview older family members and hear their life stories.
October Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Tourmaline
Modern Birthstone ~ Opal ~ Tourmaline
Mystical Birthstone ~ Jasper
October Flower
Calendula or Cosmos
This Month ~ November
November is associated with Thanksgiving and will set the scene for many family gatherings, however, November 13th is World Kindness Day and World Kindness Week begins on the second Monday of November until the following Sunday. Celebrate World Kindness Day and World Kindness Week with charitable, random acts of kindness.
November Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Citrine
Modern Birthstone ~ Yellow Topaz ~ Citrine
Mystical Birthstone ~ Pearl
November Flower
This Month ~ December
December is a time for people of all faiths to celebrate family, friendship, and love. It is also National Stress Free Family Holiday Month. During December, make a point to remember that the true meaning of the holiday spirit is to celebrate the people who surround you. Stay focused; and take steps to prevent stress during December.
December Birthstones
Traditional Birthstone ~ Zircon ~ Turquoise ~ Lapis Lazuli
Modern Birthstone ~ Blue Topaz ~ Turquoise
Mystical Birthstone ~ Black Onyx
December Flower
Narcissus or Holly
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The Premiership's top two sides endured contrasting fortunes in the Heineken Cup.
Harlequins maintained their 100 per cent record in this season's competition as they recorded eight tries in a 57-14 win at Italian side Zebre which kept them six points clear at the top of Pool 3.
Sam Smith scored twice and there were tries for Nick Easter, Matt Hopper, Rob Buchanan and Ben Botica as well as two penalty tries.
Saracens, meanwhile, fared less well on their trip to Limerick, the stuttering boot of Owen Farrell proving costly in a 15-9 defeat by Munster.
Farrell, one of the England stars along with Chris Ashton and Brad Barritt returning to club action after the autumn internationals, missed four penalty kicks.
There was some consolation in that his third successful effort six minutes from time gave Sarries a bonus point that leaves them top of Pool 1 but level on 10 points with Munster ahead of the return match against the Irish side this weekend.
In the Amlin Challenge Cup, Wasps overcame a 10-0 first-half deficit to draw 13-13 at Bayonne. Christian Wade crossed the line for Wasps before Phil Swainston's late try levelled the scores.
In their all-English tie, London Irish lost 29-22 against Gloucester at the Madejski Stadium.
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Saint Laurent Brings Lips to Fashion–The summer line from Saint Laurent features lip prints inspired by the fashion house's designs in the 1970s. Updated for today in a mini crossover dress, from covers to editorials, the print has been seen everywhere this season. Check out our roundup of Saint Laurent's lip print in fashion glossies and on the runway.
Saint Laurent Lip Print Silk Georgette Crossover Long-Sleeve Dress available at Luisa Via Roma for $3,490.00
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Smith's Food & Drug Stores has launched a project that is expected to generate an additional 360,000 pounds of food to the Utah Food Bank, while creating jobs for those with disabilities.
The Utah grocer has partnered with Columbus Community Center, a local nonprofit that serves people with disabilities, to operate a centralized reclamation center where unsold nonperishable products are scanned, sorted and prepared to distribute to the food bank and other statewide food pantries. At the center's Salt Lake County warehouse, workers scan each product to determine if it should be returned to the original vendor, discarded or packaged for distribution. The goods are then prepared for pick up by local food banks.
Since the program was launched in March, Smith's has provided 129,000 more meals for food pantries, with a donation value of $561,102.
"For years, Smith's sent its unsold products to third-party companies that would discard damaged foods and send the rest back to the manufacturer or sell the goods to discount operations," said Marsha Gilford, Smith's vice president of public affairs. "With this innovative approach, high-quality, nonperishable foods are getting into the hands of people who need them, while actively employing people with disabilities in our community."
Last year, Smith's donated 2 million pounds of food to the Utah Food Bank, which includes donations from the Grocery Rescue program, where unsaleable but still nutritious foods are given to the pantry.
Since 1968, Columbus Community Center at 3495 S. West Temple has worked with clients with developmental and physical disabilities. Columbus serves about 400 people a year through training and employment services, residential services and a day activity program.
Workers provide assembly work, order fulfillment, packaging, reclamation, labeling and kitting, a process in which separate but related items are packaged together as one unit.
Utah Food Bank provides food to a statewide network of 130 emergency food pantries and agencies. Last fiscal year, Utah Food Bank distributed about 36.3 million pounds of food and goods, the equivalent of over 28.4 million meals for families and individuals in need. Utah Food Bank also served nearly 221,000 Kids Cafe meals, delivered almost 42,000 food boxes and filled more than 62,000 kids' backpacks for weekends and school holidays.
Smith's, a division of the Kroger Co., operates 131 stores in seven Western states, including 47 stores in Utah. Smith's charitable giving, in partnership with 15,600 employees, customers and suppliers, totaled $10 million in cash and food products to local Utah organizations in 2012.