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|Oracle® Spatial User's Guide and Reference
Release 9.2
Part No. A96630-01
An extent or region of dimensional space.
Descriptive information characterizing a geographical feature such as a point, line, or area.
Nondimensional data that provides additional descriptive information about multidimensional data, for example a class or feature such as a bridge or a road.
A sphere that has the same surface area as a particular oblate ellipsoid of revolution representing the figure of the Earth.
An operation that simultaneously geocodes many records from one table. See also geocoding.
The lower or upper extent of the range of a dimension, expressed by a numeric value.
The line representing the outline of a polygon.
A coordinate system in which the location of a point in n-dimensional space is defined by distances from the point to the reference plane. Distances are measured parallel to the planes intersecting a given reference plane. See also coordinate system .
To describe a geometric relationship where one object encompasses another and the inner object does not touch any boundaries of the outer. The outer object contains the inner object. See also inside.
A simple convex polygon that completely encloses the associated geometry object.
A set of values uniquely defining a point in an n-dimensional coordinate system.
A reference system for the unique definition for the location of a point in n-dimensional space. Also called a spatial reference system.
To describe a geometric relationship in which one object encompasses another and the inner object touches the boundary of the outer object in one or more places.
A repository of information about data. A data dictionary stores relational information on all the objects in a database.
See transformation.
To separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements, or into simpler compounds.
Data that has one or more dimensional components and is described by multiple values.
The direction of an LRS geometric segment is indicated from the start point of the geometric segment to the end point. Measures of points on a geometric segment always increase along the direction of the geometric segment.
A geometric relationship where two objects do not interact in any way. Two disjoint objects do not share any element or piece of their geometry.
A geometric relationship in which two objects are considered to represent the same geometric figure. The two objects must be composed of the same number of points, however, the ordering of the points defining the two objects' geometries may differ (clockwise or counterclockwise).
A rectangle bounding a map, the size of which is determined by the minimum and maximum map coordinates.
An object with a distinct set of characteristics in a spatial database.
The process of converting tables of address data into standardized address, location, and possibly other data.
Angular coordinates (longitude and latitude), closely related to spherical polar coordinates, and are defined relative to a particular Earth geodetic datum. Also referred to as geographic coordinates.
A means of representing the figure of the Earth, usually as an oblate ellipsoid of revolution, that approximates the surface of the Earth locally or globally, and is the reference for the system of geodetic coordinates.
See geodetic coordinates.
A computerized database management system used for the capture, conversion, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data.
See spatiotemporal data .
The geometric representation of the shape of a spatial feature in some coordinate space.
See spatiotemporal data .
A data structure composed of points located at the nodes of an imaginary grid. The spacing of the nodes is constant in both the horizontal and vertical directions.
A polygon can include subelements that negate sections of its interior. For example, consider a polygon representing a map of buildable land with an inner polygon (a hole) representing where a lake is located.
Spatial data of one feature type such as points, lines, or regions.
In mathematics, any space having more than the three standard x, y, and z dimensions, also referred to as multidimensional data.
Identifier that is not part of a database and used to access stored information.
To describe a geometric relationship where one object is surrounded by a larger object and the inner object does not touch the boundary of the outer. The smaller object is inside the larger. See also contain.
A field in a database used to obtain access to stored information.
Synonym for reserved word.
North/south position of a point on the Earth defined as the angle between the normal to the Earth's surface at that point and the plane of the equator.
A collection of geometries having the same attribute set and stored in a geometry column.
A geometric object represented by a series of points, or inferred as existing between two coordinate points.
Any spatial object that can be treated as a logical set of linear segments.
Cartesian coordinates in a non-Earth (non-georeferenced) coordinate system.
East/west position of a point on the Earth defined as the angle between the plane of a reference meridian and the plane of a meridian passing through an arbitrary point.
The linear distance (in the LRS measure dimension) measured from the start point of the geometric segment.
The measure values at the start and end measures of a geometric segment.
See hyperspatial data.
The perpendicular distance between a point along a geometric segment and the geometric segment. Offsets are positive if points are on the left side along the segment direction and are negative if they are on the right side. Points are on a geometric segment if their offsets to the segment are zero.
A class of spatial objects having a nonzero area and perimeter, and representing a closed boundary region of uniform characteristics.
The operation that permits fast selection of candidate records to pass along to the secondary filter. The primary filter compares geometry approximations to reduce computation complexity and is considered a lower-cost filter. Because the primary filter compares geometric approximations, it returns a superset of the exact result set. See also secondary filter and two-tier query model.
Planar Cartesian coordinates that result from performing a mathematical mapping from a point on the Earth's surface to a plane. There are many such mathematical mappings, each used for a particular purpose.
The point on the LRS geometric segment with the minimum distance to the specified point.
A measure of inter-object distance.
A set of conditions or questions that form the basis for the retrieval of information from a database.
Area within which the retrieval of spatial information and related attributes is performed.
A process, function, or routine that executes continuously until a specified condition is met.
An extent or area of multidimensional space.
A computer program designed to store and retrieve shared data. In a relational system, data is stored in tables consisting of one or more rows, each containing the same set of columns. Oracle9i is an object-relational database management system. Other types of database systems are called hierarchical or network database systems.
The number of subdivision levels of data.
The ratio of the distance on a map, photograph, or image to the corresponding image on the ground, all expressed in the same units.
The operation that applies exact computations to geometries that result from the primary filter. The secondary filter yields an accurate answer to a spatial query. The secondary filter operation is computationally expensive, but it is only applied to the primary filter results, not the entire data set. See also primary filter and two-tier query model.
Points that are specified when an LRS segment is constructed, and that are assigned measure information.
The operation of arranging a set of items according to a key that determines the sequence and precedence of items.
A generic term used to reference the mathematical concept of n-dimensional data.
Data that is referenced by its location in n-dimensional space. The position of spatial data is described by multiple values. See also hyperspatial data.
A database containing information indexed by location.
A model of how objects are located on a spatial context.
An extension of the Oracle9i data dictionary. It keeps track of the number of partitions created in a spatial table. The Spatial data dictionary is owned by user MDSYS. The data dictionary is used only by the deprecated partitioned point routines.
A class of data structures designed to store spatial information and facilitate its manipulation.
A query in which each of the geometries in one layer is compared with each of the geometries in the other layer. Comparable to a spatial cross product.
A query that includes criteria for which selected features must meet location conditions.
See coordinate system .
Data that contains time and/or location components as one of its dimensions, also referred to as geographically referenced data or georeferenced data.
A utility to load formatted data into spatial tables.
The process of covering a geometry with rectangular tiles without gaps or overlaps.
See tessellation.
A geometric relationship where two objects share a common point on their boundaries, but their interiors do not intersect.
The conversion of coordinates from one coordinate system to another coordinate system. If the coordinate system is georeferenced, transformation can involve datum transformation: the conversion of geodetic coordinates from one geodetic datum to another geodetic datum, usually involving changes in the shape, orientation, and center position of the reference ellipsoid.
The query model used by Spatial to resolve spatial queries and spatial joins. Two distinct filtering operations (primary and secondary) are performed to resolve queries. The output of both operations yields the exact result set. See also primary filter and secondary filter .
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Forget the loftier tasks of ushering in "the New Boston." On Monday, Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh met with Mayor Thomas M. Menino to delve into a far more bread-and-butter issue: snow removal.
With Walsh at his side, Menino gathered more than a dozen heads of city departments to conduct a mock snow-response strategy session at City Hall, an opportunity for the mayor-elect to gain an inside look at what it takes to respond to a major snow event and the kinds of decisions he will be expected to make after he takes office in January.
It was an important learning opportunity for Walsh, who well knows that no matter what he might accomplish in office, his tenure will also be defined by his ability to manage the city's everyday operations, especially on snow days.
"Why do you think I'm here?" Walsh replied to the suggestion that mayors live and die by their ability to quickly rid the streets of snow.
"I'll tell you," Menino added, "We had a couple mayors who didn't last too long because of snowstorms."
After winning the election, one of the first queries Walsh posed to Menino was "We [have] got to talk snow," Menino recalled Monday.
Walsh said he knows the learning curve will be significant.
"I'm not ready for it yet," Walsh said. "But the mayor's on standby, and I'll be able to call him and say, 'Mr. Mayor, what do I do now?' "
Though the scenario was fake — a morning snowstorm threatened to dump a foot of snow in the Boston area — the strategy meeting felt real.
With grim looks on their faces, about two-dozen city staff members huddled around a black table in a poorly lit basement room, waiting for their turn to be grilled by the mayor on how their department planned to respond to the impending snowfall.
Menino sat at the head of the table, in an ornate wooden chair featuring the city's emblem. Walsh sat on his left, leaning forward with clasped hands as he quietly watched the proceedings.
Interim Police Commissioner William Evans said officers would begin broadcasting public safety announcements starting at 6 a.m., in advance of the 9 a.m. flurries in the forecast.
"You sure three hours gives us enough time?" Menino asked.
Evans worried about waking slumbering residents.
'We had a couple of mayors who didn't last too long because of snow-storms.'
"We could do it the night before," Menino offered.
Public Health Commissioner Barbara Ferrer pointed out the need for more post-storm carbon monoxide poisoning warnings.
Menino wondered if snowplow crews would be dispatched for the whole storm or split into two shifts.
Bryan Glascock, inspectional services commissioner, said his team would be on the lookout for commercial parking lots plowing snowdrifts into streets that had been cleared.
Walsh waited for the end of the simulation before jumping in to ask questions.
When you call a state of emergency, but the snow ends up being less than anticipated, he asked, "How quickly can you call that off?"
The officials around the table chuckled; it was a situation they know all too well. They explained the factors that go into determining a state of emergency, then offered further tips and pointers: Impose and lift parking bans in the early morning or the evening, so people are not stuck at work when they have to move their car. Always make the call on school closures the night before, so parents have enough time to make child-care arrangements.
Walsh nodded and told the room that it was eye-opening to see the amount of planning that goes into the response to one snowstorm and the number of snow-related details Menino was responsible for keeping track of.
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Siebert Elementary School receives Texas Honors Circle Award from Comptroller for Cost-Efficient Spending and Academic Progress Excellence
Siebert Elementary is a recipient of the Texas Comptroller's 2013 Texas Honors Circle Award, which recognizes districts and campuses that achieve academic success through cost-effective operations. Award recipients achieve strong academic performance while spending relatively less compared to their fiscal peers.
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has announced that 55 Texas school districts and 317 school campuses received the Texas Honors Circle Award as a result of their outstanding performance in the 2013 Financial Allocation Study for Texas (FAST).
FAST, mandated by the 2009 Texas Legislature, is an annual study that examines both academic performance and financial efficiency to identify school districts, charter operators and campuses that deliver high-quality education at relatively low costs. Combs created the Texas Honors Circle Award program to recognize districts and schools that receive high marks in the FAST analysis.
"In these challenging times where schools are under pressure to do more with less, it is more important than ever to shine a spotlight on those that are achieving strong student performance with cost-effective spending," Combs said. "Your efforts to help our state and local governments wisely manage educational spending while preparing students for success in college or the work force is crucial to the future of Texas."
The Texas Honors Circle program awards certificates based on FAST results. Districts and charters receiving the Texas Honors Circle Award have achieved a Five-Star FAST rating. Elementary campuses receiving the award achieved a five-star FAST rating, while middle and high-school campuses tapped for the honor achieved at least a 4.5-Star FAST rating. (Middle and high schools have a slightly lower threshold because they are less likely than elementary schools to achieve high academic progress scores.)
To view FAST's results and to see the list of all Texas Honors Circle award recipients, go to www.FASTexas.org.


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Wiping a disk is done by writing new data over every single bit.
- 1 Common use cases
- 2 Select a data source for overwriting
- 3 Select a program
- 4 Select a target
- 5 Overwrite the disk
- 6 Data remanence
- 7 See also
Common use cases
Wipe all data left on the device
There may be (unencrypted) data left on the device and you want to protect against simple Forensic Investigation that is mere child's play with for example File Recovery Software.
If you want to quickly wipe everything from the disk /dev/zero or simple patterns allow maximum performance while adequate randomness can be advantageous in some cases that should be covered up in #Data remanence.
Every overwritten bit means to provide a level of data erasure not allowing recovery with normal system functions (like standard ATA/SCSI commands) and hardware interfaces. Any File Recovery Software mentioned above then would need to be specialized on proprietary storage-hardware features.
In case of a HDD data recreation will not be possible without at least undocumented drive commands or fiddling about the device's controller or firmware to make them read out for example reallocated sectors (bad blocks that S.M.A.R.T. retired from use).
There are different wiping issues with different physical storage technologys, most notably all Flash memory based devices and older magnetic storage (old HDD's, Floppys, Tape).
Preparations for block device encryption
If you want to prepare your drive to securely set up Disk Encryption#Block device encryption inside the wiped area afterwards you really should use random data generated by a trusted cryptographically strong random number generator. (Referred to as RNG in this article from now on.)
Select a data source for overwriting
As just said If you want to wipe sensitive data you can use anything matching your needs.
If you want to setup block device encryption afterwards you should always wipe at least with Pseudorandom data.
For Data that is not truely random your disk's writing speed should be the only limiting factor. If you need random data performance may extremely depend on what you choose as source of entropy.
Unrandom data
Overwriting with
/dev/zero or simple patterns is considered secure in most resources. In the case of current HDD's it should be sufficient for fast disk wipes.
Pattern write test
#Badblocks can write simple patterns to every block of a device and then read and check them searching for damaged areas. (Just like memtest86* does with RAM.)
As the pattern is written to every accesible block this effectively wipes the device.
Random data
Kernel built-in RNG
man random command will misdirect to the library function manpage random(3)
while for information about the /dev/random device files you should run
man 4 random to read random(4).
The Kernel built-in RNG /dev/random provides you the same quality random data you would use for keygeneration, but can be nearly impractical to use at least for wiping current HDD capacitys. What makes disk wiping take so long with is to wait for it to gather enough true entropy. In an entropy starved situation (e.g. remote server) this might never end while doing search operations on large directories or moving the mouse in X can slowly refill the entropy pool.
You can always compare
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail against
/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize to keep an eye on your entropy pool.
The Kernels poolsize is
4096 bit. (512 Byte)
While Linux kernel 2.4 did have writable
/proc-entries for controlling the entropy-poolsize in newer kernels only
read_wakeup_threshold and
write_wakeup_threshold are writable.
The pool size is now hardcoded in kernel line 275 of
/* * Configuration information */ #define INPUT_POOL_WORDS 128 #define OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS 32 #define SEC_XFER_SIZE 512 #[...]
where poolsize is
/dev/random uses the kernel entropy pool and will halt overwriting until more input entropy once this pool has been exhausted. This can make it impractical for overwriting large hard disks.
/dev/urandom in contrast will reuse entropy when low on it so you won't get stuck. Nevertheless it might still take a long time to bottle-feed the neverending surge of large drives with data.
The output may contain less entropy than the corresponding read from /dev/random. However it is still intended as a pseudorandom number generator suitable for most cryptographic purposes,
Pseudorandom Data
A Good Compromise between Performance and Security might be the use of a pseudorandom number generator (like Frandom).
There are also cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators like Yarrow (FreeBSD/OS-X) or Fortuna (the intended successor of Yarrow).
Select a program
/dev/<drive> is the drive to be encrypted.
Official documentation for dd and shred is linked to under #See also.
Checking progress of dd while running
By default, there is no output of dd until the task has finished. With kill and the "USR1"-Signal you can force status output without actually killing the program. Open up a 2nd root terminal and issue the following command:
# killall -USR1 dd
# kill -USR1 <PID_OF_dd_COMMAND>
For example:
# kill -USR1 $(pidof dd)
This causes the terminal in which dd is running to output the progress at the time the command was run. For example:
605+0 records in 605+0 records out 634388480 bytes (634 MB) copied, 8.17097 s, 77.6 MB/s
Dd spin-offs
Other dd alike programs feature periodical status output like i.e. a simple progress bar.
dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. It accepts most of dd's parameters and includes status output. The last stable version of dcfldd was released on December 19, 2006.[1]
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It's capable of ignoring read errors what is a useless feature for disk wiping in almost any case. GNU ddrescue Manual
Shred uses three passes, writing pseudo-random data to the harddrive each pass. This can be reduced or increased.
# shred -v /dev/<drive>
This invokes shred with default settings, displaying the progress to stdout.
# shred --verbose --random-source=/dev/urandom -n1 /dev/<drive>
Invokes shred telling it to only do one pass, with entropy from /dev/urandom.
For letting badblocks perform a disk wipe a destructive read-write test has to be done.
# badblocks -c 10240 -wsv /dev/<drive>
Select a target
Use fdisk to locate all read/write devices the user has read acess to.
Check the output for lines that start with devices such as
This is an example for a HDD formatted to boot a linux system:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00ff784a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux /dev/sda2 206848 488397167 244095160 83 Linux
Or the Arch Install Medium written to a 4GB USB thumb drive:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 4075 MB, 4075290624 bytes, 7959552 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x526e236e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 0 802815 401408 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
Block size
If you have a Advanced Format hard drive it is recommended that you specify a block size larger than the default 512 bytes. To speed up the overwriting process choose a block size matching your drive's physical geometry by appending the block size option to the dd command (i.e.
bs=4096 for 4KB).
Fdisk prints physical and logical sector size for every disk.
Alternatively sysfs does expose information:
/sys/block/sdX/queue/physical_block_size /sys/block/sdX/queue/logical_block_size /sys/block/sdX/alignment_offset
Overwrite the disk
of=... option points to the target drive and not to a system disk.
Zero-fill the disk by writing a zero byte to every addressable location on the disk using the /dev/zero stream.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4096
or the /dev/random stream:
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4096
The process is finished when dd reports,
No space left on device:
dd: writing to '/dev/sdb': No space left on device 7959553+0 records in 7959552+0 records out 4075290624 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 1247.7 s, 3.3 MB/s
Data remanence
Template:Wikipedia The residual representation of data may remain even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data.
Residual data may get wiped by writing (random) data to the disk with a single or even more than one iteration. However, more than one iteration may not significantly decrease the possibility to reconstruct the data of hard disk drives. For more information see Secure deletion: a single overwrite will do it - The H Security.
Random data
If the data can get exactly located on the disk and was never copied anywhere else, wiping with random data can be thoroughgoing and impressively quick as long there is enough entropy in the pool.
A good example is cryptsetup using /dev/urandom for wiping the LUKS keyslots.
Hardware specific issues
Flash memory
Wikipedia:Write amplification and other characteristics make Flash memory a stubborn target for reliable wiping. As there is a lot of transparent abstraction in between data as seen by a device's controller chip and the operating system sight data is never overwritten in place and wiping particular blocks or files is not reliable.
Other "features" like transparent compression (all SandForce SSD's) can compress your /dev/zero or pattern stream so if wiping is fast beyond belief this might be the case.
Disassembling Flash memory devices, unsoldering the chips and analyzing data content without the controller in between is feasible without difficulty using simple hardware. Data recovery companys do it for cheap money.
For more information see: Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives.
Residual magnetism
Wiped hard disk drives and other magnetic storage can get disassembled in a cleanroom and then analyzed with equipment like a magnetic force microscope. This may allow the overwritten data to be reconstructed by analyzing the measured residual magnetics.
This method of data recovery for current HDD's is largely theoretical and would require substantial financial resources. Nevertheless degaussing is still a practiced countermeasure.
Old magnetic storage
Securely wiping old magnetic storage (e.g. floppy disks, magnetic tape) is much harder due to much lower memory storage density. Many iterations with random data might be needed to wipe any sensitive data. To ensure that data has been completely erased most resources advise physical destruction.
Operating system, programs and filesystem
The operating system, executed programs or journaling file systems may copy your unencrypted data throughout the block device. When writing to plain disks this should only be relevant in conjunction with one of the above.
See also
- GNU Coreutils Manpage on Basic operations. Official documentation for dd and shred.
- Learn the DD command. - linuxquestions.org


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Not only did Rihanna give us an insight into her hotly anticipated River Island collection today, but the singer also posted a nearly topless photo from a "top secret" ad campaign on Instagram. There's no confirmation about what brand the shoot is for, but RiRi is seen holding a jacket up to cover her modesty and wearing a Chanel necklace in the snap which was accompanied by the caption: "And that's a #wrap on my shoot for my new #topsecret add campaign!!! #2013." Watch this space!
It looks like Cara Delevingne might be thinking of dabbling in design too after the model tweeted a page from Grazia where we referenced the fact that she has boosted the popularity of the onesie. Cara said "I think I should have my own line of onesies!" which we wholeheartedly agree with as she is the queen of the comfortable loungewear.
Meanwhile Taylor Swift revealed that she had a lovely time in Pareee with her friend, True Grit actress Hailee Seinfeld, posting a montage of their day trip and Amanda Seyfried shared a super cute snap of herself goofing around with fellow actors Adam Brody and Peter Sarsgaard at a photocall for their new flick Lovelace at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I Buy Frazer Irving
So, yes, I'll be buying "Azrael: Death's Dark Knight" just for Irving's art.
I told him as much when I bumped into him at the New York Comic-Con last month, and we got talking about his work on "Klarion" and he said he owed his career in American comics to Grant Morrison because Morrison had to fight really hard to get DC to hire him for the four issue series about the Witch Boy. His style didn't look mainstream enough, apparently, and without Morrison standing his ground, we never would have gotten to see Irving's "Klarion" at all.
Oh, DC! If you can't appreciate the greatness that is Frazer Irving on your own, then maybe you should be publishing something other than comic books.
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- David Uzumeri said...
DC's initial reticence to hire artists who aren't A) in the house style or B) already major names is baffling. I'm convinced if people didn't already know who they were, J.H. Williams III or Frank Quitely wouldn't be able to get a project there.
- Greg said...
Did you ask him where Gutsville was? DID YOU?!?!?!?!?
I thought I was the only person in the world who had read Fort. Good call, sir!
I think DC's inability to both appreciate and hire good artists is one of - if not the - reason they've been trailing increasingly far behind Marvel. They just don't seem to understand the need for comics to look good or recognize good art when they see it. Maybe it's the fact that Marvel's EIC is an artist that makes the difference.
- Kris Krause said...
Irving's art is awesome, and I'll be picking up Azrael for both his art and Nicieza's writing.
Damn, I didn't realize Irving's artwork would be in one of the BftC tie-ins since I wasn't planning one picking anything up related to this event. I want to buy this now even though I shouldn't...
- Matt said...
Irving is one of the three artists whose books I buy regardless of story (and another on of those, Quitely, also owes much of his American career to Grant Morrison). I hope someone at DC reads your post and decides that it would be best to release a word-balloon-less variant, however; I'm kinda dreading reading a story about Azrael. And I would argue that DC exclusively employs the two best artists in the superhero business (Williams and Quitely) and regularly publishes the third- and fourth-best (Irving and Cliff Chiang). Now that Omega is over I can't think of anyone at Marvel besides David Aja who I actually think draws good comics, though I'm willing to concede Marvel seem to have a much better coloring/production staff. (Wait -- is Weston at Marvel anymore?)
- Timothy Callahan said...
I think Quitely, Williams, Irving, and Chiang would be my Top Four Working Superhero Artists too.
Marvel does have Weston (in theory, if "The Twelve" ever concludes), Aja, Lark, JR Jr., Acuna, Bianchi, and the average level of quality is higher overall, with guys like Paquette, Dodson, Coipel, Cheung, etc.
But, yeah, all my Top Four are at DC.
- Bill Reed said...
Yeah, I'm a story guy too, but I have a few artists whose work I will buy regardless of the writer. Luckily, Quitely always works with Morrison. And then there's JH Williams and Cameron Stewart. So.
Irving is quite awesome, yes. I wish we could get some more Klarion. Or Gutsville.
My top working artists would be Michael Lark, Frank Quitely, JH Williams and I think David Aja would be up there now, too.
DC has some of the best artists, but they also have a lot of very bland and unexciting artists.
Marvel also has, in addition to those Tim mentioned, Marcos Martin, Mike Deodato, Chris Bachalo, Clayton Crain (I don't suppose I'll get a lot of support on him), Steve Epting, Butch Guice, Stuart Immonen, Lee Weeks and Alan Davis.
Even people like Igor Kordey and Scott Eaton are a cut above DC's standard fare.
By the way, speaking of american audiences having a hard time appreciating british styles - has everyone seen D'Israeli's amazing art on Stickleback? You should do a column on british, Callahan.
- David Uzumeri said...
The artistic quality spectrum at DC mirrors the major difference between the two companies IMO - I'd argue the heights reached by a really ambitious, high-production DC title are higher than those reached by Marvel's best books, but the average quality of a Marvel title is higher, and this applies to final products, writers, and artists. Marvel may not have a Grant Morrison, but they also don't have the Kountdown Krew.
- Timothy Callahan said...
That's a good point David. DC does have higher highs than Marvel (and always has, I think), but Marvel has a more consistent across-the-line quality. Why is that?
Do you think it's because Marvel is really a Stan-and-Jack-and-Steve creation, and so it's a tighter thing, while DC has always been a hodgepodge?
Or do you think it's the Len Wein and Karen Berger effect? If you look at the great DC stuff, the two of them were responsible for most of it either directly or indirectly.
- Bruce Castle said...
Yeah, the art in Seven Soldiers was fantastic all around. That's why it was so great. Well, that and Morrison, but you know he's great, right Tim?
What did you think of this first (Azrael) issue?
- Timothy Callahan said...
Oh, I thought Azrael #1 looked wonderful, but this Lane is supposed to be the Third Policeman from the Morrison run? He acts completely differently.
As I said: I'm buying it just for the art.
- Matt said...
Aaargh, I always forget the good Marvel guys because they (Lark excepted) work on books that I just think are so mediocre! I think the Marvel books generally look better across the board because of that kind of 'standard of mediocrity' the company has -- they never put out anything as truly terrible as Countdown or Titans but that company will never produce a Watchmen or an All Star Superman. DC, being the more art-oriented company, occasionally reaches astronomical highs on its prestige, top-quality books, but the books that aren't meant to be anything but 'product' come out worse than the Marvel books (which are produced by the more profit-oriented company, and are intended as nothing more than 'product'). Marvel's bottom line comes from producing slick-looking mediocrity every week; DC's comes from selling trades of the good stuff, and their mediocre books seem to be produced by people who care a lot less about what something that isn't supposed to be 'good' comes out looking like. This is a huge generalization, of course...
- Web Behrens said...
As big a fan as I am of Frazer Irving, I can't bring myself to buy any "Battle of the Cowl" comics. Ah well. I'll read it some day while sitting in a local megabookstore. (They're good for using as libraries.)
I seem to recall most of the "Seven Soldier" artists getting quickly snatched up into exclusives by Marvel; it seemed especially foolish at the time for DC to let them go.
Whom do they still have? Cameron Stewart, who works on excellent Vertigo series (The Other Side, Seaguy) (does he do any Marvel stuff?). And Doug Mahnke, who actually i would put into the top tier on my list (which of course also includes Williams and Quitely). I loved "Frankenstein"! That and "Klarion" were my two faves of the series, and I'd buy an ongoing of either in a heartbeat.
I'm actually very excited that Mahnke will be on "Green Lantern," not least because I am loving the whole "War of Light" mega-storyline. And it's about time he gets a high-profile series. I'm also a big fan of Patrick Gleason, who draws "Green Lantern Corps" with tons of energy and a unique flair. Good times to be a GL reader.


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I was wondering whether Mousepad has been dropped by Xfce and/or its development has been discontinued...
I don't see it mentioned in the Xfce or Xfce-goodies websites and it has also been replaced by Leafpad in Xubuntu, so I'm not sure if it's still alive or not.
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It seems discontinued, anyway you'll better way a developer to confirm my idea, I'm not sure about this.
Honestly, I just use geany and don't need other gui editors, but maybe some users will prefer simpler editors...
On OpenSuse, a package maintainer said that it was discontinued (back in release of Opensuse 12.1, meaning Nov 2011). They suggested me Leafpad that for it's a clone, except for the logo :-)
Xfce is NOT Xubuntu. Bugs in Xubuntu don't mean that Xfce is buggy ...
It's been dropped from the official Arch Linux repos, but is still available from the AUR and builds and works fine.
The 0.2 release is dead (the old leafpad clone, therefore leafpad is advised), but there is ongoing work for a better version, however that's been ongoing for 2 years now I think.


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The SWPC was dissolved after the war, and its lending and contract powers were handed over to the RFC. At this time, the Office of Small Business (OSB) in the Department of Commerce also assumed some responsibilities that would later become characteristic duties of SBA. Its services were primarily educational. Believing that a lack of information and expertise was the main cause of small business failure, the OSB produced brochures and conducted management counseling for individual entrepreneurs.
Congress created another wartime organization to handle small business concerns during the Korean War, this time called the Small Defense Plants Administration (SDPA). Its functions were similar to those of the SWPC, except that ultimate lending authority was retained by the RFC. The SDPA certified small businesses to the RFC when it had determined the businesses to be competent to perform the work of government contracts.
By 1952, a move was on to abolish the RFC. To continue the important functions of the earlier agencies, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed creation of a new small business agency -- Small Business Administration (SBA).
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By 1954, SBA already was making direct business loans and guaranteeing bank loans to small businesses, as well as making loans to victims of natural disasters, working to get government procurement contracts for small businesses and helping business owners with management and technical assistance and business training.
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Brits abroad - Mark McGhee
Continuing our Brits abroad series in which we speak to players and coaches to get the lowdown on their time overseas, Adam Bate talks to former Aberdeen and Newcastle forward Mark McGhee about his time at Hamburg.
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Scotland international forward Mark McGhee was part of Sir Alex Ferguson's famous Aberdeen team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in the 1980s. His success with the Dons earned him a glamour move to recent European champions Hamburg in 1985. Adam Bate caught up with McGhee to find out how things went in Germany.
So how did the move to Hamburg come about? You'd played and scored against them in the UEFA Super Cup hadn't you - was that the catalyst?
Yeah, we'd also played them in the UEFA Cup as well. We'd been in Europe for those three or four years and we'd played a lot of rounds. In the year they'd won the European Cup against Juventus, Aberdeen had won the Cup Winners' Cup so we were two of the dominant teams in Europe at that time.
What really happened was that a couple of other German clubs had approached me already and the possibility of going to Europe became more and more exciting. I had interest from Italy too.
And the overriding thing that swung me in Hamburg's direction, I have to say, was that I got a call telling me that Gunter Netzer (ex-Real Madrid player and World Cup winner with Germany, who was then Hamburg general manager) was flying in on a private jet to Aberdeen and coming to my house to persuade me to go to Hamburg. That did it for me. Gunter Netzer was having a sandwich in my village. It was unbelievable!
Was it a difficult decision to leave Aberdeen?
No, I think everyone felt it was changing. They also felt there was an inevitability about Alec (Sir Alex Ferguson) leaving. I think we felt that if he wasn't going to go then, then he was going to go a year later which he basically did. We certainly didn't think there was any chance he was going to be there much longer.
At that time, perhaps our thoughts had him leaning towards Rangers rather than go to Manchester United but we were right in the end. As the team started to break up, I wanted to take advantage of the success that we'd had because Aberdeen wasn't a place where any of us were going to benefit other than while Ferguson was there winning trophies.
As well as Netzer, you had Ernst Happel as your coach too - a man who had led both Feyenoord and Hamburg to European Cup triumph. How was that experience?
Yeah the set-up was a typical continental one with Ernst Happel as the coach and Gunter Netzer as the general manager. Happel was world-renowned as a coach of the Dutch national team (at the 1978 World Cup) and a hero in Austria where they named the national stadium after him.
He was an old man and a cantankerous sort of type. He was more interested in the games than the preparations in training although he was always there. He was fairly grumpy and he didn't have a lot of patience for the likes of myself who arrived without any German whatsoever.
He always insisted on speaking to me through a translator. Even when I could speak German he was still speaking through her! He was fairly set in his ways but he was a fantastic coach and when it came to the games he had it sussed.
And Hamburg had some great players and some strong characters in the likes of Ditmar Jakobs, Felix Magath and Manfred Kaltz. What was it like walking into that dressing room?
It was difficult on a personal level at first as there wasn't a lot of English [spoken] in the dressing room. There were only two guys - Erik Soler who was a Norwegian and Gerard Plessers who was a Belgian - who really spoke English. But yeah there were plenty of characters there.
What differences were there on the training ground - you often hear about how things were more advanced on the continent but on the other hand you'd been working under Ferguson...
The actual routines and programmes that we would do were fairly similar. Football is football. But what was different was the regime. For instance, we would train twice a day at Aberdeen a lot of the time during pre-season. But at Hamburg it went to another level for 17 days. We trained twice a day but most days we were training three times - it was really intensive.
During the season we mostly trained twice a day with sessions early in the morning and late in the afternoon. As much as I could understand it, I found it physically challenging because a big part of my routine was sleeping. So I was having to go home to try and get a sleep in between sessions which I found a little bit different. But you have to adapt.
What about life off the field? Did you enjoy the city of Hamburg?
I absolutely loved it. We lived on the outskirts and the locals were really hospitable, friendly people. That really helped us locally find our way around. My son was only three at the time and he was speaking German so we were really rocking and rolling. The city itself was really good. People like Manny Kaltz were prepared to take the time to show you around so it was great. It's just a fantastic city.
Hamburg finished fifth in the Bundesliga that season and went out of the UEFA Cup at the last 16 stage. What are your memories of that year on the field?
I felt that right through the European campaign up until when we lost to Inter Milan, my own performance was improving steadily. I was getting used to it, I was getting fitter and I was getting better. We beat Southampton that year but went out to Inter on away goals. They were a good team with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Liam Brady.
I then came back after the break in January and struggled with my hernia. I battle on trying to play with it, having injections and all that sort of thing. Up to that point in my life I'd never been injured in my whole time at Aberdeen. Then I got a bad ankle injury the day before we played Bayern Munich and I insisted on playing with heavy strapping around it. We won 1-0 and I scored the goal but I had to come off.
But then I didn't play again until the following season. By the time I made my comeback, things had changed a little bit for me and for the club. Celtic came in for me and I decided to come back home.
It wasn't the end of your foreign adventures though as there was a brief move to Sweden later in your career. What was the story there?
That was when I was finishing at Newcastle. I had a double-hip operation towards the end of the season at Newcastle. I was still prepared to carry on. I was 34 and felt as though I needed games so I went to Sweden but while I was out there I got offered the opportunity to take the Reading job. So after six or seven weeks in Sweden I came back, got the Reading job and have never been back since.
Do you think those experiences abroad influenced your approach to management?
Any manager is the sum of the experiences he's had under every manager he's worked with, whether it's Fergie or Billy McNeill (at Celtic) or whoever. And certainly the European experiences were influential in my style. Regards to the way players come or go from clubs, regards to the way players are treated when they are injured and regards to training twice a day when appropriate. I think I definitely got that from Hamburg.
So you would recommend the experience?
Oh absolutely. I think language is a big thing. You've got to be prepared to try and learn the language and really make yourself a part of it. My experience in Germany was brilliant.


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On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
Parenting Beyond Belief is a book for loving and thoughtful parents who wish to raise their children without religion. There are scores of books available for religious parents. Now there's one for the rest of us.
Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and children.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Parenting Beyond Belief the first book for nonreligious parents?
There have been some excellent shorter books and booklets on parenting without religion, with more limited scope and by smaller presses. Parenting Beyond Belief is the first comprehensive parenting book by a major publisher on raising children without religion. And fortunately not the last! Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief is now available at Amazon.com.
How large is the audience for such books?
Enormous—and growing. In 1990, 8 percent of Americans identified themselves as nonreligious. By 2008 that sector had grown to 15 percent. A minimum of seven million nonreligious parents are raising children in the U.S. today, and doing so with limited resources. It is estimated that over 10 million "nominally religious" parents in the U.S. attend church for social and structural benefits and would welcome a secular parenting book.
How is Raising Freethinkers different from the first book?
Parenting Beyond Belief articulates a general philosophy of nonreligious parenting. Raising Freethinkers offers more specific, practical advice, including answers to the 100 most common questions nonreligious parents ask, over 100 family activities and over 200 recommended books, DVDs, organizations and websites to continue finding ideas and answers.
Why do nonreligious parents need resources specifically for them?
Religion has much to offer parents: an established community, a pre-defined set of values, rites of passage, a means of engendering wonder, comforting answers to the big questions, and consoling explanations to ease experiences of hardship and loss. Parenting Beyond Belief demonstrates the many ways in which these undeniable benefits can be had without the harmful effects of religion. It is also intended to show secular parents, who often feel isolated in their disbelief, that they are far from alone.
I don't believe in the existence of a supernatural God, but I consider myself religious in a liberal sense. Is this book for me?
"Without religion" in the subtitle refers to the more commonly understood definition of religion as "belief in a divine or superhuman power to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe" (Webster's New 20th Century). In short, it refers to theistic religion. The broader definition preferred by some denominations (including Unitarian Universalism) of religion as a set of strongly-held beliefs, values, and attitudes is obviously not what we are parenting without. So if you are a parent raising children without ideas of a supernatural god, divine revelations, or holy scriptures, this book is indeed written with you in mind.
You mention "the harmful effects of religion." What harmful effects?
Honest questioning is too often disallowed in monotheistic religion, the word "values" turned on its head, and an "us-vs.-them" mentality reinforced. Many feel that fear—of God, sin, doubt, and difference—is more prevalent with religion than without, and that children often learn to obey authority rather than develop their own judgment.
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Not at all. The books are resources to help parents who have already decided to raise their children without religion to do it well. Many religious readers have praised the tone of the books, which encourage co-existence, not conflict. Anything that helps parents to be better parents, regardless of their beliefs, is a good thing.
How can you not believe in God when…[fill in the blank]?
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Aren't these books just encouraging indoctrination in a different direction?
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Parenting Beyond Belief begins with personal essays by such secular parents as Julia Sweeney, Penn Jillette and Richard Dawkins, followed by chapters titled Living with Religion, Holidays and Celebrations, Being and Doing Good, Meaning and Purpose, Dealing with Death, Questioning, the Wonder of Science, and Seeking Community. Raising Freethinkers follows a simiar topical framework but offers a more practical approach, centered around 100 common questions, 100 activities, and over 200 resource reviews for nonreligious parents.
How can children be moral without religion?
Both books have chapters devoted to this very topic. Behaving morally makes sense, and most people behave well for sensible reasons—even if they think they are relying on commandments. Psychologist Dr. Jean Mercer contributed an essay in PBB describing the six stages of moral development. Children are more likely to move to the higher levels of development and to retain a more nuanced and reliable moral sense if they learn the reasonable principles of ethical behavior than if they rely on parental or scriptural authority.
Dealing with death must be a challenge.
It always is, isn't it? Even those who believe in an afterlife tend to cry at funerals and try hard to delay their own passing. There's no greater challenge for a human being than knowing life will end. But an increasing number of people have come to believe that real maturity requires us to come to terms peacefully with mortality rather than pretending we don't die after all. That life ends has rightly been recognized as the single fact that lends life genuine preciousness. Several consoling insights from philosophy are included in Parenting Beyond Belief.
What could possibly replace Heaven as a consolation in the face of death?
Don't forget that along with hope of Heaven comes fear of Hell. The naturalistic view dispenses with both. Our remaining fear of death has a lot to do with our failure to really grasp nonexistence—something we already "experienced" before birth, after all. We weren't afraid then. Why fear a return to that fearless condition? The Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons has written a marvelous, practical essay for the book on how to talk to children about death without recourse to supernatural illusions.
What's a minister doing in a book about raising kids without religion?
Two, in fact. Kendyl Gibbons is a minister in the Unitarian Universalist denomination. Many people aren't aware that most UUs describe themselves as either humanists (46 percent) or atheists (19 percent) but still want the other benefits of belonging to a church fellowship. Kendyl's experience of taking secular families through grief and loss is powerfully evident in her writing. She is joined in the book by the Rev. Dr. Roberta Nelson, who writes about the need for religious literacy. And Raising Freethinkers is co-authored by Jan Devor, a Unitarian humanist religious educator.
Isn't it important for kids to feel part of something larger than themselves?
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So religion isn't all bad?
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More Peking Duck at Beijing's Quanjude!
November 18, 2012 in China, Food, Reviews, Travel by pacejmiller
On this night, after spending most of the day working on two lengthy articles, I caught up with a friend of a colleague who has been living in Beijing for more than 20 years.
He recommended either lamb hotpot or Peking duck, and even though I've had it before I decided to go with the duck again, as I've never been all that fond of lamb or hotpots.
This particular Peking duck place we visited was another famous one, and probably the most famous of them all. It's a franchise called Quanjude (全聚德), and it has a history of almost 150 years. You gotta be pretty good to be able to last that long, right?
The Quanjude we met at is located near Shuangjing subway station. I originally wanted to catch a cab there but it was damn near impossible around rush hour, so I decided to catch the subway instead. I thought the subway was crowded before, but rush hour is a whole different ball game. You don't really move voluntarily — you simply get carried by the crowds. You really have to experience it personally to understand what I mean.
Quanjude is regarded as fairly expensive, with half a duck costing around 200 yuan (AU$31). Like the other place I went to, you start off with the crispy duck skin (with dippable sugar), followed by duck meat wrapped in thin, hot pancakes plus hoisin sauce, cucumber and so forth.
We also got a bunch of other duck related dishes, such as sliced duck feet with a spicy and tangy Chinese mustard and duck gizzards, which and looked and tasted surprisingly similar to BBQ pork. I wouldn't usually get those things but they were better than I expected.
The better duck side dishes were the soup, which was made with duck bones and was thick and full of natural flavour, as well as the fried duck meat on skewers. There was also a stir fry duck served in a crispy nest inside a lettuce (similar to a san choy bau) which was exquisite. To even out the food groups we added a stir fry broccoli, which was nothing special but got the job done.
While I didn't pay for the meal I believe it cost around 370 yuan, which included a couple of beverages, one of which was a beer. Compared to the 60-80 yuan per head at Liu Zhai Shi Fu (刘宅食府), Quanjude is notably more expensive. But was it also notably better? I can't say that it was. Definitely on about the same level, but all things considered Liu Zhai Shi Fu is better value for money.
Quanjude (全聚德)
Website: http://www.quanjude.com.cn/
http://www.quanjude-sj.com/ (Shuangjing store website)
Address: 8 Guangqumenwai Dajie, Shuangjing, Beijing
(There are plenty of franchises, including at Wangfujing, and the Hepingmen store is supposedly the largest Peking duck restaurant in the world)
Price: 150-200 yuan (AU$23-31) per head


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