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Blake Edwards, a writer-director who battled depression in his personal life yet was known as a modern master of slapstick and sophisticated wit with hit films such as the "Pink Panther" comedies, "10" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has died. He was 88.
Edwards died of complications of pneumonia Wednesday evening at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said Gene Schwam, Edwards' longtime publicist. His wife, Julie Andrews, and members of the immediate family were at his bedside.
"He was the most unique man I have ever known — and he was my mate," Andrews, who collaborated with Edwards in the 1982 sex farce "Victor/Victoria" and other films, said in a statement Thursday. "He will be missed beyond words and will forever be in my heart."
Film historian Jeanine Basinger, head of the film studies program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., said Edwards is "at the absolute top of comedy filmmaking."
"His movie comedies wed the American traditions of physical slapstick and sophisticated, witty dialogue," Basinger told The Times in 2003. "But he also knows how to be funny cinematically through cutting, camera movement and framing. So he's a consummate comedy film director."
Edwards, who suffered from what he called "monstrous" depression throughout his life and at one point contemplated suicide, found release in making movies.
"My work has been one of the great therapies of my life," he told GQ in 1989. "Being able to express myself and have it validated by laughter is the best of all possible worlds."
During a more than five-decade career, it was as co-writer and director of "The Pink Panther" and "A Shot in the Dark" (both released in 1964), starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling French police inspector, Clouseau, that Edwards earned his reputation for bringing slapstick and sight gags into the modern era.
Writer Maurice Richlin approached Edwards with the idea for a French inspector of police trying to catch a notorious jewel thief, and they collaborated on the script for "The Pink Panther."
A reviewer for Variety called the film "intensely funny" and praised Sellers as Clouseau, saying he was "perfectly suited as a clumsy cop who can hardly move a foot without smashing a vase or open a door without hitting himself on the head."
Sam Wasson, author of the 2009 book "A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards," said Edwards "has as many films that are respected as films that are reviled."
"He hasn't quite made it into the pantheon of great directors," Wasson said. "People don't really know where to place Blake Edwards because so much of his material is outwardly goofy, even though it's sophisticated."
And although Edwards had as many flops as hits, Wasson said, "I position him along the line of Hollywood's greatest directors of comedy, beginning with [ Charlie] Chaplin and continuing with [ Ernst] Lubitsch, [ Preston] Sturges and [ Billy] Wilder.
"He was certainly the last great writer-director of mainstream Hollywood comedy."
A onetime minor movie actor who began writing for films and radio in the late 1940s and a decade later created the TV series "Peter Gunn" and "Mr. Lucky," Edwards launched his big-screen directing career in 1955.
He scored his first box-office hit with "Operation Petticoat," a 1959 comedy about a World War II submarine crew starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. But a turning point in Edwards' film career came in 1961 with "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
The sophisticated romantic comedy- drama based on the Truman Capote novella earned Audrey Hepburn an Academy Award nomination for best actress. Composer Henry Mancini also won an Oscar for his score, and he and Johnny Mercer won Oscars for their memorable song "Moon River."
Edwards tackled darker fare in 1962 by directing the thriller "Experiment in Terror" and "Days of Wine and Roses," a grim drama about a young couple ( Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick) battling alcoholism. But in the '60s he also directed such comedies as "The Great Race," "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" and "The Party."
As a director, Edwards had a career marked by his share of box-office failures, including "Darling Lili," the notoriously over-budget 1970 musical World War I spy film that marked his first collaboration with Andrews, whom he had married in 1969.
Indeed, as much as he is known for the physical comedy in many of his movies and for exploring changing relationships between men and women throughout his career, Edwards is also known for fighting major battles over studio interference on his films — with Paramount's Robert Evans over "Darling Lili" and with MGM's James Aubrey over "Wild Rovers" (1971) and "The Carey Treatment" (1972).
His legendary disputes with studio chiefs inspired Edwards' scathing 1981 Hollywood satire "S.O.B."
"He's always been admired and respected for the way in which he has fought for creative integrity and control for himself as a director," Peter Lehman, director of the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University and coauthor of two books on Edwards' films, told The Times in 2003.
Lehman said Edwards also went to bat for Mancini — with whom he had worked for decades beginning with the TV detective-drama "Peter Gunn" in 1958 — so that Mancini could retain the rights to his music. This set a precedent for other composers as well, Lehman said.
Basinger added that Edwards' comedies such as "10" have "given us icons in our culture."
" Bo Derek with her corn rows coming out of the water is one of the great iconographic images of that decade," Basinger said, adding that the 1979 film "put into the language the rating of a woman as a '10.' "
Those who helped Edwards bring laughter to movie audiences praised his flair for comedy.
While making "10," Derek told The Times on Thursday, she would "watch him, see this wicked, mischievous expression had come across his face and know that he had thought of something hilarious. It was a very nurturing environment, and I've never had that since."
Burt Reynolds, who starred in Edwards' "The Man Who Loved Women," said in a statement Thursday that Edwards "was the most wonderful director that I ever worked with."
"He had a brilliant sense of humor with a great eye and ear for comedy," Reynolds said. "He will be greatly missed and is irreplaceable."
Jack Lemmon, who appeared in three films directed by Edwards, once called him a "gutsy SOB" and a consummate "picture-maker."
"Some people are wonderful directors," Lemmon told GQ magazine in 1989, "but they're not picture-makers. By that I mean they can direct an individual scene and it'll be a real pearl. But when they string the scenes together, the effect isn't worth much.
"With Blake, when he's on his stick, you get a strand of pearls that's just beautiful."
Edwards was born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Okla., on July 26, 1922. His biological father, Donald Crump, left Edwards' mother before their son was born and she reportedly turned Blake over to an aunt and uncle to raise.
Around the time Edwards was 3, his mother remarried and he joined her in Hollywood, where her husband, Jack McEdward, the man Edwards always considered his father, was a studio production manager. McEdward was the son of film pioneer J. Gordon Edwards, who directed silent-screen star Theda Bara in the 1917 version of "Cleopatra."
As an only child of parents who "didn't know how" to love and who had trouble communicating not only with him but with each other, Edwards found escape at the movies.
"I naturally embraced the Laurel and Hardys, the Keatons and the great comics," he told The Times in 1991. "I laughed and made my hours there happy. I could take a certain residual of that home with me."
While growing up, Edwards also spent a lot of time on film sets and earned spending money working as an extra. After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, he landed a bit part in the 1942 film "Ten Gentlemen from West Point." A couple dozen, mostly un-credited, minor film roles followed over the decade.
During World War II, Edwards served in the Coast Guard for 18 months. His last five months were spent at Long Beach Naval Hospital after he was seriously injured in a diving accident in a Beverly Hills swimming pool.
After the service, Edwards teamed with his friend John Champion to co-write and co-produce "Panhandle," a 1948 western that Champion financed with money from his trust fund. The low-budget film starred Rod Cameron, and Edwards played the small part of a gunslinger.
"I was an actor and perhaps I perceive myself as continuing to be one, but I know I wasn't that serious," Edwards said in a 1993 interview for the Directors Guild of America's publication DGA News. "I wasn't that dedicated and I certainly wasn't that successful. And success was important to me."
After teaming with Champion, with whom he also wrote and produced the 1949 western "Stampede," Edwards said he "suddenly realized that there was another world out there where I could be successful, not only by reputation and money. Writing really is the thing that turned me on."
As a writer in the late '40s and early '50s, Edwards created and wrote for the radio series "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," starring Dick Powell; he also directed some of the episodes and wrote for "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" and "The Lineup."
At Columbia Pictures from the early '50s to the early '60s, Edwards frequently worked as a writer with writer-director Richard Quine, including on the films "My Sister Eileen" (1955), "Operation Mad Ball" (1957) and "The Notorious Landlady" (1962). Edwards and Quine also worked together on "The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan," a 1954-55 TV situation comedy.
The heavy workload of writing for films by day and for radio at night in the early '50s landed Edwards in therapy, but the self-analysis proved to be rewarding.
"For the first time, I began to see that I had more at stake in writing than just making money — that there was some sort of passion involved," Edwards told GQ in 1989. "Also, I think I saw that for someone who had a need for control of one's life, directing had great appeal."
When Quine was promoted from Columbia's B-film unit to larger-budget features, Edwards, who already had done some directing in television and radio, was given his first chance to direct a film: "Bring Your Smile Along," a 1955 light musical comedy starring Frankie Laine and co-written by Edwards and Quine.
Over the next four decades, Edwards directed several dozen films, the majority of which he wrote or co-wrote and produced. Among them: "The Great Race," "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" "The Party," "Blind Date," "Sunset," "That's Life!" and "The Man Who Loved Women."
Depressed over his battles with Evans and Aubrey in the early 1970s — "I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown," he later told Time magazine — Edwards retreated to Switzerland for five years. Bolstered by his three hit "Pink Panther" sequels with Sellers, however, he returned to Hollywood to make "10."
Edwards' only Academy Award nomination was for the screenplay adaptation of "Victor/Victoria," but in 2004 he received an honorary Oscar for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement."
He collaborated with Andrews on seven movies, a short-lived TV series and a Broadway musical adaptation of "Victor/Victoria."
In addition to his wife, Edwards is survived by his daughter and son from his first marriage, Jennifer and Geoffrey; two adopted Vietnamese daughters, Amy and Joanna; a stepdaughter, Emma; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A public memorial is planned for January.
Times staff writer Valerie J. Nelson contributed to this report.
Blake Edwards, a writer-director who battled depression in his personal life yet was known as a modern master of slapstick and sophisticated wit with hit films such as the "Pink Panther" comedies, "10" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has died. He was 88.


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Styles of the NBA first-rounders
The NBA draft tends to present prospects with two big opportunities: 1) to start a career in professional basketball; and 2) to show off their style game on national television.
Watching David Stern shake hands with well-dressed people a foot taller than him is as much a part of the Draft experience as booing him and changing channels during awkward off-stage interviews.
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mendable needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Chatup.com is a new Online Dating website with a fun and casual atmosphere.
The target audience is equally male/female.
I would like to target daters who are more into casual and fun dating, NOT the serious "only find your perfect soulmate" crowd.
I would like a logo containing a cartoon image and the text "ChatUp.com".
The cartoon image can be of anything you can come up with, but remember the focus of the site is casual dating, more "Fun", less of "The One".
***For an idea of the sort of cartoon STYLE I am looking for, please see the style in these two recent contests***:
1) http://99designs.com/contests/25234/entries/32 (from http://99designs.com/contests/25234)
2) http://99designs.com/contests/24923/entries/41 (from http://99designs.com/contests/24923)
I want something in that style, but for dating, as a logo.
Colors: Light and Fun.
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Courtyard Maui Kahului Airport Offers Comfort and Convenience for Adventurous Guests
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Combining elements of surfing and sailing, windsurfing consists of a board powered by wind on a sail. Kite surfing is similar, but powered by a kite rather than a sail. Both sports attract thousands of enthusiasts to Hawaii each year. Offering a new option for windsurfing vacations, the brand-new Courtyard Maui Kahului Airport gives guests not only a comfortable place to stay, but convenient storage for their gear, as well.
Guests can sit back and relax on the shores of paradise right off the runway at Courtyard Maui Kahului Airport. This spectacular Maui airport hotel features the latest, contemporary Courtyard hotel design and exclusive amenities.
Guests will find easy-to-use technology and plenty of space to work or relax in this Kahului hotel's lobby, inspired dining at The Bistro. This restaurant in Kahului offers a food and beverage destination for refreshing breakfast choices in the morning, and a variety of dinner, beer and wine options in the evening. The Bistro also offers specialty beverages made with Starbucks® coffee to help you get a jump on the day.
In addition, the hotel features 138 relaxing guest rooms including 10 suites, plus surfboard storage after a day at the beach.
Located in Kahului, the commercial air hub of Maui OGG airport, and four miles from Wailuku, this hotel near Maui airport puts guests in the center of everywhere they need to be. With Upcountry Maui, Paia and the many pristine beaches of the island close by, guests will spend less time commuting and more time enjoying a productive business trip, vacation, or Maui hotel deals.
Of course, every guest of the Courtyard should take a moment to soak in the sun at the hotel's outdoor pool or relax under one of its cabanas. Just more than a mile from Kahului Airport (OGG), all guests are looking for is right at the finest Maui airport hotel.
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Hermès Reveals New Women's Designer
French luxury-goods house Hermès International named Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski as its new women's fashion designer on Thursday, betting on an unknown name who will be dedicated to the house full-time. WSJ's Christina Passariello joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: AP
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A 25-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning on allegations he ran naked through traffic after crashing on Highway 101 in Petaluma.
Alexander Jon Leonard, whom police described as a resident of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County, was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and refusing police commands. His bail was set at $10,000.
The incident occurred at about 9 a.m. on northbound Highway 101 near East Washington Street, the California Highway Patrol said. The CHP said a Chevy pickup was seen weaving in traffic and blocking other cars from passing before it crashed into a guard rail at a low speed.
The driver emerged from the truck, took off all his clothes and started running around in the traffic lanes, said CHP Officer Marcus Hawkins. The driver resisted efforts to arrest him, so police used stun guns to subdue him, Hawkins said.
The driver, identified as Leonard, was taken to Petaluma Valley Hospital for medical evaluation before being booked into jail.
The northbound lanes of Highway 101 were blocked for about 10 to 15 minutes during the incident, the CHP said.
Police determined that the truck was a rental.
Leonard remained in custody Sunday evening. An initial court appearance was tentatively scheduled for Tuesday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court. —— (c)2014 The Marin Independent Journal (Novato, Calif.) Visit The Marin Independent Journal (Novato, Calif.) at www.marinij.com


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Steven Nickels necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
StealzIt.com is a new penny auction site that will compete with current sites such as Swoopo.com, Beezid.com, Bidrodeo.com, etc.
Penny auctions are fun, competitive and somewhat addictive.
We are a site that offers the opportunity to get amazing deals (stealz!) and win items up to 99% off of retail. That new laptop or tv you always wanted might now be affordable. The level of fun and competitiveness involved leads to a loyal customer - the 'stealz' are important and become the reward.
We do want our logo and identity to appeal to a wide demographic so that we can capture the business of those looking specifically for 'stealz', who will then have fun and enjoy the penny auction experience.
Fun while also being trustworthy and professional, not silly.
Our logo should use a font that can be read easily and should distinguish the words easily (Stealz and It) - it should NOT read steal zit, etc. It should also include .com in the name.
I have attached two PDF files with samples of our original ideas, as well as a few logos that were developed for us by a graphic designer. We don't like any of the logos that were developed, however, we do like the possible combination of blue/silver. We haven't completely decided on colors so you can use your imagination.
Also, you'll notice in the attached files that we have a couple ideas for a 'character' to go along with the logo. This could be a guy in a black and white striped prison jumpsuit - but he has to have a super friendly face to have the right connotation. (maybe Bob's Big Boy type face?) Maybe he's making off with a barrel full of stealz? Again, we're excited to see your imagination!
We're looking to convey, at a glance, good deals and fun.
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The last two years I've done two different pairs of pants with UV-LEDs. Not on par with junglesmacks, but still a bunch of LEDs per pair.cherryblossom73 wrote:Your tutu is awesome!!! I am so happy to hear that as an "LED noob" you are having such amazing success. I am currently working on a 'little black light dress' in the same vein as Junglesmacks' pants. I'm constructing my own dress base and light panels (LEDs are not here yet, so I'm doing all the prep work) and just got the mini-controller in the mail on Saturday. This will be my first venture into soldering and electronics. I'm a little nervous, but *so* excited to get started! Can't wait to see what else you come up with!
I found, that "UV-LED" is thrown around a lot. Especially on ebay. I've ordered UV LEDs from a couple different places, and so far, no two orders have had the same color light. JS actually sent me some in 2011 that were a faint purple, that were a different sort of UV reactive. Rather than makes things sort of 'day glow' bright, they made reactive colors sort of Pastel or Easter colors.
I ordered some that were a royal purple and VERY UV reactive, 2011.
I tried to order more from the same seller, 2012, and the ones that arrived were sort of Blue/Purple and kind of UV reactive. I also order some 'flat top' LEDs that were royal purple, but not very UV Reactive.
At $.05 - $.10 a piece, I'd suggest ordering 50 from a few different sellers.
FWIW, I recently learned, the hard way, that if you try and switch your hot glue gun back to regular glue, you need to run about 2 or 3 of the long sticks of the regular glue through your gun to get all the white-ish fabric glue out. When the two glues come out together and sorta mixed they dry/cure with different flexibility and adhesiveness.Machina wrote:The fabric glue is THE BEST. Ever. I had planned to sew the tulle over the LEDs, but it was too crazy. The fabric glue literally saved/made the whole project possible. THANK YOU again for telling me about it! So glad I ordered 5 baggies of it!junglesmacks wrote:Isn't that fabric glue cool, too? Illy Dilly was the first to show it to me last year on playa and it literally saved my whole outfit.
FWIW#2, the fabric glue does not stick to Aluminum very well. Other wise I'd always leave the fabric glue in.


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The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 19, 1874
The 1874 election campaign was particularly brutal. African Americans throughout the South were threatened, harassed, and brutalized; many were wounded or killed. Democrats found ways to prevent them from voting, using fraud, intimidation, poll tax requirements, suffrage disqualification, and other schemes.


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The amorphous sound of Back When belies the band's very name.
That ever-changing spirit is alive on the band's forthcoming release Champion Hologram.
The experimental metal band has grown through hardcore roots and noisier phases, emerging as a heavy band that bookends those pounding moments with deft touches of delicate, intricate melodies.
This is Back When circa 2011-2012. The four-piece Omaha band is Aaron Broveak, Chris Kelley, Joe Mickeliunas and Jon Tvrdik.
The band is coming off a two-year hiatus, which ended in late 2009, Kelley says. Shortly after regrouping the band released We Sang As Ghosts.
By Thanksgiving 2010, the band started writing for a new album to follow that one.
They entered Enamel Studio near downtown Omaha and recorded with Clark Baechle. The band did 14 songs, which they narrowed down to 12 for the album.
Kelley says when the band got back together, all of them were eager to play music together. They also knew new albums would be part of the plan.
"It's pretty much been full steam ahead," Kelley says.
The hiatus helped the band members realize that they still wanted to make music together. Kelley says this go-around of Back When feels different than it did before the hiatus.
Now Back When seems much more willing to stray from the expectations that both band members and the band's fans have. Kelley says
"Everyone felt much more open to new things," he says.
Kelley says the evolution has felt natural. Even with change, the core soul of the band still lies in those metal and hardcore roots.
"We like heavy music and we are a heavy band," Kelley says.
Mickeliunas says he still sees defining elements in the music Back When makes.
The band has always relied on big dynamics in the songs, but now those songs are more structured, Mickeliunas says.
Mickeliunas goes as far as to call Back When's current music "heavy pop songs."
The band's earlier incarnations did longer, heavier songs, but those dynamics have carried over. Even in that earlier wallop, there were quieter movements tucked into the heavier whole.
Mickeliunas says the vocals are one of the things that have changed alot. The band's hardcore beginnings meant a ton more screamed vocals.
Now there's more singing parts, Mickeliunas says. Mickeliunas and Tvrdik split the vocal duties.
There's vocals you can understand, so you can follow the story. Chalk it up to maturity, Mickeliunas says.
"As Jon and I gotten older, we've gotten less to scream about," he says.
As Back When settled into their concise four-man line-up, that also allowed them to change. On Champion Hologram, the four members handle all the instrumentation.
The band had an easy choice in working with Clark Baechle. The Faint had the space to record other bands since opening Enamel and Back When and Baechle had been longtime friends.
The band wanted to work locally and with someone who cared about the album.
"We wanted to record somewhere where we didn't have to rush through the record," Tvrdik says.
Back When worked for ten days recording songs, with a few days off in-between the course of the sessions. The short break helped add clarity for the band, as they were able to look at what they were doing fresh after working on it day after day.
"It allowed us to come back and listen to things critically," Tvrdik says.
The album also contains a few guest appearances. Cursive's Ted Stevens sings on "Sugar Devils" and "Whiskey Thieves", Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn sings on "The Sloth" and "Motorcycles" and Jonathan Purcell guests on "Good Evening, Captain".
Mickeliunas says the solid four-person line-up changed the mood in the way that they wrote. The possibilities multiplied because the band was working in town and playing everything themselves.
"All four of us were able to experiment more on this record," Mickeliunas says.
Tvrdik says the band's process is very much just writing what sounds interesting to them. After building something, they work down to the skeleton of the song.
They then discuss what makes sense in determining what the finished song will sound like.
Tvrdik says he knows people are going to expect Back When to play big, loud and heavy songs, but he says he hopes they are catching how detailed the new songs are, as well.
Tvrdik says once Back When completes an album, they are immediately ready to turn over a new leaf for the next batch of songs.
"Once we write a record and a group of songs, we definitely like to explore something new," Tvrdik says.
Back When w/ Conduits, Noah's Ark Was a Spaceship and Honey & Darling plays the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7. For more information, visit onepercentproductions.com.


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Have you heard of Schrödinger's cat? Possibly on a funny shirt or a internet cartoon that you didn't understand?
It's a quantum mechanics thing, but basically it involves a kitty in a box with some radioactive material and poison gas. It's just a thought experiment–no one's actually putting cats in boxes with such things–but it basically shows that if you put the cat in a box it is both alive and dead at the same time. As long as you never look in the box to know, it will always exist in both states: as both happy, living kitty playing in a box and as dead, poisoned, radioactive kitty.
My wife is carrying Schrödinger's Amoeba.
Well, it's my Amoeba, but in the way we're doing our pregnancy, it could be called Schrödinger's Amoeba. Mrs AmoebaMike and I are not finding out the biological sex of AmoebaJr before delivery. Friends and relatives find this highly annoying. They want to know.
Of course, they all have their suspicions/predictions as well.
But there's no way for them to know. We don't know. Not even our doctor knows!
So until AmoebaJr arrives next month, AmoebaJr is both a boy and a girl at the same time. It is only by observing its sex that we force the universe into a single answer.
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Regarding Normal Weaponry
-"Antennae" turrets are small, with 1d6 damage and 4d6 accuracy
-Medium turrets are any other turret designs, that do not qualify as large. For example, I've decided to bump down the tri-barreled Praetorian turrets to medium. Claws and cones are typically indicative of this size. 2d6+2 damage and 3d6 accuracy
-Large turrets must be at least an inch. 3d6 damage and 2d6 accuracy
-Mega-class turrets have a 1d6 accuracy and 4d6 damage. Must be at least 2 inches.
-Superweapons are special weapons that are too big to fit in the typical framework of Brikspace. Superweapons must be at least 3 inches or longer- for every inch past 2 inches, the superweapon gains another die of damage. All superweapons share the same accuracy rating to accommodate their vast variety of sizes- they have 1d6 accuracy, and are restricted to either other battleships and dreadnoughts (or other entities of that scale, such as orbital colonies and Elder Gods) or smaller objects that have been stationary for at least one turn. I.E a superweapon is useless against swarming fighters or even destroyers and cruisers, but if say their engines are taken out and they become stationary, then that gives the superweapon enough time to aim and fire at them. There may be exceptions to this, such as superweapons that by virtue of their design act as burst cannons or explosives, but at that point I will expect that the person in charge of that faction homebrew their own stats and provide them to the gamemaster.
Example superweapons in this battle include the USA frigates, and of course the USA dreadnought's deadly turrets.
-The antimatter projectors on the Emperor will be considered equivalent to light missiles in terms of damage (that is, 4d6 damage and 2 inch blast radius), except as turrets they reach their targets instantaneously instead of having the missile slog through the intervening space over the course of several turns.
Of course I am still soliciting suggestions for microspace-melee stats.
Missiles gain 4d6 damage and 2" extra blast radius per extra inch of length.
Nukes double damage and blast radius per extra inch of length (so exponentially). Starts at 4d8 damage and 6" blast radius as base (one inch or less)


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U.S. stocks rose, extending the biggest rally in four weeks for the S&P 500 Index. Fed policy makers will probably begin reducing $85 billion in monthly bond buying at the Dec. 17-18 meeting, according to 34% of economists surveyed on Dec. 6 by Bloomberg. The S&P 500 has gained 27% in 2013. Data today from China showed the country's trade surplus widened last month to the largest in more than four years. German industrial production unexpectedly dropped for a second month in October.
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Bonds: The MAR14 U.S. 30-year bonds (CBOT:ZBH14) are up 24 ticks today to 129'20. It is interesting to see this recent move higher in bonds. It seems to us as though last Friday's jobs report wasn't strong enough to convince the bond market the higher rates were coming sooner than the Fed has communicated. The bonds are seeing steady buying above the 128 level, and may rally to the 130'16 area from here. The next key data for the bonds would be retail sales and PPI data later this week, and of course the FOMC policy decision later this month.
Currencies: The DEC13 Euro continues its bull run against the USD, trading up 28 ticks to 137.24. We would not be surprised to see this contract approach the 1.40 level over the next 3 months. The DEC13 Yen continues going down, trading down 18 ticks to 96.99. We believe the Yen could approach 96.50 and possibly head to 95. The DEC13 U.S. Dollar Index (NYBOT:DXZ13) is down 8 ticks to 80.23. The USD has defied bulls' predictions of a rally recently, as the taper has not come as soon as some had expected. We believe the USD looks weak and could find a longer term home below the 80 level.
Commodities: The high flier on the commodities board is still JAN14 natural gas (NYMEX:NGF14), today trading up $.07 to $4.18. $4.24 is our next technical upside target. FEB14 gold (COMEX:GCG14) is up $7 to $1,236, and we could see this market trending higher to at least $1,255. JAN14 WTI crude oil (NYMEX:CLF14) is down slightly today after trading higher 6 days in a row. This contract is down $.07 to $97.58. $96.30 is a key support level below here. This oil market awaits the key EIA supply data which gets released Wednesday morning. We believe the $99/100 area could serve as a short term ceiling level for JAN14 WTI crude oil. We also believe we could be in the early stages of a longer term copper rally.


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Don't Kiss Me
The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
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Best known for riveting photographic self-portraits that seem eerily ahead of their time, Claude Cahun (1894-1954) has attracted an almost cultlike following. Acting out diverse identities—both male and female—in scenes ranging from severely simple to elaborately staged, Cahun was a pioneer of the gender-bending role-playing now seen in works by artists such as Cindy Sherman (born the year Cahun died), Nikki S. Lee, and many others. Don't Kiss Me, the first comprehensive volume on Cahun, features many previously unpublished photographs and drawings, illuminating not only Cahun's work but also that of partner, Marcel Moore (1892-1972), and their intense forty-year collaboration. In Don't Kiss Me, seven authors examine Cahun and Moore's lives and art-making; their relationship with the Surrealist movement; and give the first thorough account of the Resistance operations, trial, imprisonment, and attempted suicides of the two artists during the German Occupation of Jersey, in the Channel Islands, during World War II. The wealth of new material in this compelling survey makes it essential for all those with an interest in Cahun and Moore, photography, gender studies, or Surrealism.
Born in France, Lucy Schwob (pseudonym Claude Cahun) and Suzanne Malherbe (pseudonym Marcel Moore) met at school in their teens and became both lovers and collaborators, inseparable until Lucy's death in 1954. Cahun is by far the better known of the two; this book establishes for the first time the extent of Moore's contributions to the self-portraits. Their photographs, books, and documents were acquired by The Jersey Heritage Trust acquired the largest collection of their work in the world in the 1990s; this book is the first catalog of the collection.