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Mike Carey Interview
Mike Carey is one of Liverpool's finest. He's a devoted husband and father who worked as a teacher for 15 years. So, where does he get this massive imagination? With such a seemingly normal life, from what recesses of his mind does he pull these fantastically imaginative tales of the strange and unusual? After all, this is the guy who gave Lucifer a voice and took the reigns of the character after Neil Gaiman -- a tough act to follow -- but Carey's run on Lucifer garnered him a Eisner Award nomination. He also did a phenomenal job on a 40 issue run on John Constantine's Hellblazer series. Currently, he's landed the big gig of writing X-Men: Legacy, which would probably seem like a stressful task, however, Carey has this unique attitude when it comes to writing the "big books". He tends to keep close eye to the the politics of the world while functioning as a total writing machine churning out good quality work that people read and believe in.
It was an honor to be able to sit down with him and shoot the shit about comics, life, death and all sorts of random stuff he's probably never been asked before.
Garrett Faber: What time zone are you in?
Mike Carey: GMT - five hours ahead of New York.
GF: Okay, What's the best way to get into comic book writing?
MC: I came in through comics journalism, and also through reading them voraciously as a kid. Only the second of those two is a requirement, I think. I can't imagine coming to comics from the outside, as it were, and trying to get a handle on their tropes. If they never meant anything to you as a reader, you'll probably do a piss-poor job of writing them. And more generally, the only way to get into any kind of writing is to keep on doing it. Most writers I know are obsessives. They don't stop.
GF: Where do you find your inspiration to write a well known book? How do you push a familiar character into new places?
MC: Depends on the character to a large extent, I guess. If you're in a position to pick and choose your projects, then you can choose characters you feel you understand and are interested in. That's not always going to be the case, though: some jobs you take for other reasons than purely creative ones, especially early on in your career. I've always tried hard NOT to be the guy who comes in and sweeps all the established continuity off the table so he can hammer in a flag with his own name on. With someone like John Constantine, what I was trying to do was restate the core of the character as I saw him - the laughing magician, getting by on ten per cent magic and ninety per cent bullshit. With the X-Men it was different, because there are so many established characters in X-Men continuity that - if you're writing a team book - it's very much like picking out the ingredients for a stew. I built a team out of dysfunctional and damaged individuals who had tangled histories with each other, and I used them as the launch point for some stories in a classic mold: the kind of stories where the team is already falling apart under its own internal pressures and conflicts even before anything bad happens to it from the outside.
GF: What's your writing process, how do you plan out a story arc for something like X-Men versus Constantine versus Faker?
MC: I think the best way of describing what I do is fractal. Maybe everyone does it this way, I don't know. I build an arc around a single big idea, and then I progressively put the details in - writing an overview of the whole storyline and then a beat sheet (scene-by-scene breakdown) for each issue. I do that last part even if the editor doesn't ask for it. I'm like the guy in Shawshank Redemption who can't pee without permission: I can't sit down and rough out a script without costing it out by scenes first.
GF: What time do you get up in the morning? From there, what time would you start writing after you wake up, do you spend like 8 hours writing every day? How much time would you devote to one story a day?
MC: I'm up at about seven. We have kids, so sleeping in is something that happens to other people. Having kids also means that my working day is oddly shaped. I work from about 8.30 through to 4.00, then there's a period when everyone's home and I don't get much done, but often I'll clock on again some time in the evening and put another hour or so in. Generally speaking, I work in blocks of at least one day. It's pretty rare for me to work on one project in the morning and something completely different in the afternoon. The exception to that would be rewrites, which can come in any time and sometimes need to be turned around real fast. It's been pretty hectic for the past two years or so - a comic book script to deliver most weeks, and novel or screenplay work running alongside that. I'm an engine driven by insecurity. I mostly just keep on writing even when I don't have a deadline looming.
GF: What were some of your wildest ideas put into comics?
MC: Probably the single most disturbing and out-there thing I've ever put into a comic was a scene in an early issue of Lucifer in which a character was anally assaulted with a broken bottle. Considering the direction that Lucifer took as a series, it was a very strange note to strike in the first story arc - and just one piece of evidence among many that I was trying too hard.
GF: Why did someone get a bottle up their bum?
MC: It was an attack by a group of skinheads on a teenaged Asian guy living in Hamburg - and it was motivated by homophobia as well as racism.
GF: Was there ever a time when you were censored and told to take some thing out of an issue?
MC: Twice. In the "Bearing Gifts" issue of Lucifer, the main character - Sabah Al-Dabagh - was originally written as a Muslim. In fact, he was based on a Muslim friend of mine who I met during my abortive doctoral studies at London University. But even though he was a broadly sympathetic character, and the story portrayed his faith positively, it was felt - I think - that Islam as a whole was too hot a potato to pick up. And the other occasion is just plain silly. I had a punk rock band in a later issue of Lucifer, and when they were on-stage - in a single panel - I had them sing a song whose lyrics went "George fucking Bush married Tony fucking Blair. The church was built from corpses and the cake was pubic hair." It didn't even make enough sense to have a political message, but the names were censored.
GF: What was it like at Vertigo?
MC: It was great. It still is. I think I've worked with all the Vertigo editors now at one time of another, and many of them I consider as friends. The commissioning process can be somewhat drawn out, but that's my only complaint, really. I've done some of my best work for Vertigo, and that's no accident. Also, I owe the fact that I have a comics career at all to Vertigo, so I'm always going to have a warm, fuzzy glow in my heart for the entire imprint.
GF: Whats your relationship with Neil Gaiman like?
MC: Cordial but fairly distant. We talked a lot on the phone during the early days of Lucifer - he was very generous with his time and advice, beyond anything I could reasonably have asked for - but we've only met in person twice. One of those was at a wedding in Spain, and that was great. We had time to hang out and have some long conversations. The other time was at San Diego Comic-Con, so it was "hey what are you that guy who oh".
GF: What was your favorite part of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
MC: Oral sex shadow puppets - the part where Frankenfurter seduces both Brad and Janet.
GF: How did you get that X-Men gig?
MC: Your guess is as good as mine. I think the X-office always likes to have a wild card in the mix, and I was one of the beneficiaries of that policy.
GF: What were some of your early short stories like? How did you get into writing?
MC: My early short stories were verbose and static. I could always do good description, and I think I always had a reasonable ear for dialogue, but I was lousy at putting story beats together. Working in comics was the best education I could possibly have had, because it focuses your attention on the mechanics of story in a very direct way. It's a side effect of having to work to a fixed episode length and having to intercut effectively within that. I got into writing actual comics scripts through writing reviews and articles for amateur publications - fanzines. But I was always writing huge, unworkable novels off in the background, too. One of them I even submitted to some publishers, but nobody bought it. Then I had the idea of sending out some comics pitches, and I was an overnight success in the space of about eight or nine years.
GF: How do you like the limelight of writing a major book like X-Men?
MC: It's scary at first. Actually it goes on being scary, but it's exciting too. Finding the right level of involvement with fans is important, as is developing a thicker skin. I used to be hugely sensitive to bad reviews and comments, to the point where I'd go away and brood about them. You realise when you do something like X-Men that when you're on a big, mainstream book there's no way out of being both liked and hated. Unless you can get into a position where *everyone* hates you - that's always possible. I've tended to be very lucky in my interactions with fans. The Lucifer board on the old DC/Vertigo site attracted a great crowd - funny, literate, courteous, non-psychotic - and the X-Men fans who post at Mikecarey.net are equally good to talk to. And I can lurk enjoyably on the CBR and UncannyXMen.net boards. Straight to Hell, back when I was doing Hellblazer... I steer clear of the boards that are full of frothing maniacs.
GF: What's your favorite food?
MC: I'm torn between Thai and Mexican.
GF: Did you ever watch the show Neon Genesis Evangelion?
MC: Nope.
GF: Have you ever gotten into a fist fight?
MC: Not since I was a kid. I'm a huge wimp. I bumped into some guy on the street four days ago - literally bump, thud, stagger - because he wasn't looking where he was going and neither was I. And we did the classic "well who the fuck are you, make my day, call me a bastard" thing, squaring off against each other as though we were going to wade in and get bloody, then just turned around and went on our way. Neither of us really wanted to fight. He was with his girlfriend, too, so maybe he was waiting for her to step in and say "Come away, Jimmy, he's not worth it!" but unfortunately she didn't. So we just skulked off, feeling ridiculous.
GF: What were some ideas you considered for X-Men that you just dropped or thought "this shit is nuts!"
MC: We were going to have a mummudrai from outer space come and impregnate Cassandra Nova, with the litter of young mummudrai gestating in the X-Men's brains. That would have been fun to do, but Joss Whedon got to Cassandra before I did. There's never been anything I fantasised about doing but held back from because it was too crazy.
GF: How do you effectively deal with writers block?
MC: I only have one coping mechanism, which is to hang up and try again later. Fortunately it doesn't happen to me very often.
GF: Do you keep a journal?
MC: I used to. Then I realised that journals can actually be dangerous because they constrain your memory to the things you've bothered to write down. You forget all the stuff in between. That wouldn't be so bad in itself if you were totally honest in the way you record things in a journal. But most of the time you're not. I destroyed all my adult journals about ten years ago, and I've never picked up the habit again.
GF: Who was the last famous person you met?
MC: British fantasy novelist China Mieville.
GF: What was your worst physical injury?
MC: I was almost blinded in one eye when I fell into a stairwell full of broken lumber and my eyelid was pierced by a nail.
GF: If you were to make a music video for a song that had no music video at all, what song would you choose and what would the video be like?
MC: He Tried to Escape, from Midlake's Bamnan and Slivercork album. The video would be done as though it was a scene from an early black and white movie - like something Georges Melies might have made.
GF: How much of yourself is put into your stories, do you have instances where some dialouge is a direct example of of something once said to you?
MC: I've only done that once. The Hellblazer story Exposed, which appeared in one of the 9/11 tribute books, was directly based on a conversation between two guys in a card game I was involved in. They were both accountants working at different insurance companies, and when the talk turned to 9/11, one of them asked the other that question - "Are you exposed?" Meaning, did you have any share of the insured risk, and do you now have to pay out on it, or did you dodge the bullet? It sounded incredibly cold-blooded to me at the time. probably it wasn't, it was just shop-talk, but anyway I made a story out of it and had the guy who said it be an obnoxious, shallow, self-centred son-of-a-bitch. (Sorry, Andrew, no offence). More generally, though, I put a lot of my own experiences into stories - especially into the Castor novels, where most of Castor's backstory is my own childhood and adolescence in Liverpool. I need to watch that, in fact. Some of the conversations between Castor and his older brother in the fourth novel, Thicker Than Water, originally referenced some stuff which - on second thought - I decided to leave out for reasons of self-preservation.
GF: When you first started writing, how did you decide what stories to tell?
MC: I don't want to sound pretentious, but Leonard Cohen was right when he said it's not really a question of what you sing - it's whether or not you'll sing at all. Fantastic literature covers an amazing range, from sci-fi through magic realism, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, horror. That's the territory I'm comfortable in, and when I think of story ideas they always fall somewhere in that domain.
GF: Do you have any kinky turn-ons like humping in public?
MC: Nope. Sorry. I'm British. My turn-ons mostly revolve around stodgy food.
GF: Do you think theirs too much emphasis on superheros in the mainstream comic world? People don't usually read superhero novels do they?
MC: That's what's fascinating about them. The superhero story is one of the few genres that was developed for and in the comic book context and still works best there. Superhero movies and TV shows prove that you can export the aesthetic, but the best superhero stories are still comic books. It is a shame, I guess, that the American market is so very much dominated by superhero books. It would be great to see the best books in other genres getting the same sales as Fantastic Four and Batman. The weird thing is, that's exactly what happens in other countries. Everyone's got their own addictions. The Norwegian comics market is dominated by funny animal books, with Disney titles selling to, like, a third of the households in the entire country. France and Belgium have a big emphasis on what they call "tranche de vie" books, which are kind of like the comics equivalent of "literary" fiction, and so on.
GF: Have you ever hit someone over the head with a barrel or felt the strong urge to?
MC: Felt the urge to? Yes. The biggest fight I ever got into was at a gas station, where a guy swerved in front of me to get to the pump. It was ridiculous. We ended up wrestling at the gas pump and having to be separated by other drivers. Mostly I sublimate my anger into sarcastic comments, because I'm pretty scrawny and don't win fights. I like the Welsh martial art of Llap Goch, though - that's where you take out your enemy before he even knows you exist.
GF: What could each individual do to make the world a better place?
MC: For starters, not do profitable things that leave a lot of other people dead. But the logic of capitalism runs in the other direction.
GF: Do you believe in coincidence or is it some higher power at work?
MC: I don't believe there's any ordering principle in the universe. Or if there is one, I'd love for his lunch break to end some time soon and for him to get on the f*cking case.
GF: Worst nightmare you've ever had?
MC: I was in a huge warehouse with rats jumping up at me, taking bites out of me. I was trying to find the door but I was more or less blind because it was so dark, and I had to keep one hand over my eyes and the other over my throat.
GF: Can you fly?
MC: Yes. But only club class.
GF: If you had to chill out with John Constantine for a week, what things would you do together?
MC: If we ever had to spend a lot of time together, we'd probably drink and play cards - and quietly hate each other.
GF: What about Lucifer?
MC: Lucifer doesn't chill.
GF: What about the Joker?
MC: Torture. Murder. Cookery classes.
GF: What about John McCain?
MC: Torture. Murder. Mmmm. This is starting to work for me.


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FROM THE STREETS OF YOUR NATIONS CAPITOL. Copyright © 2006 Mad Zebra Inc. All rights reserved.
Monday, January 10, 2011
When I came to Diamond, the first black American driver was still there, Mr. Alston, #42.
At one point, Jimmy Heffner, who was the rental manager at Yellow drove for Diamond. He told the story how he desegregated Yellow. It seems that this black driver, a retired D.C. Fireman, came there to rent, as they made you rent for a while at Yellow before they would take you as a private owner. The boss told Heffner to make him sit on the bench and tell him that there were no cabs available. This went on for three days until Heffner told the boss that either Heffner was going to give this guy a cab or the boss was going to tell this Fireman that he was not going to get a cab. The boss backed off and told Heffner to give him a cab, then went around there telling everyone that Heffner had pressured him into letting a black guy drive at Yellow. Heffner said that he took quite a bit of grief for that.
I know for a fact that Heffner is dead. Alston is probably, as well. I remember when he left, because he told me that he was taking off time because his health was failing him, but that he hoped to be back. He always had a buffalo nickel in one ear.
Up until 2007, the driver card file was still in the office. Gloria Sartori, who was front desk Secretary from 1947-1989 maintained it. She typed the race of each driver onto a card and put it into the file. She would type 'Nigerian' for any black African (if you want to make a Ghanaian or a Sierra Leonian angry, call him a 'Nigerian'). She would type 'Arabic' for any middle Easterner, even Persians or Afghans (if you want to make a Persian angry, call him an 'Arab'). Pakistanis and east Indians were 'Hindu', black Americans were 'Negro' and white Americans were 'White' or 'Caucasian' as were some of recent European origin, although some of those were identified by the country of their birth. The file was still there in 2007, although I have no idea if it is still there. The first driver to get the designation 'Nigerian', Mr. Bernard Obi, cab #658, is still at Diamond.
I do not know from where Mr. Obi comes.
P.S Mr Obi is from Ghana.
This post is written by Phil the Dispatcher,
copy and pasted (stolen) by Mad Cabbie.
Thanks Phil, and don't forget the homeless,
Mad Cabbie.
8 comments:
- Mad Cabbie said...
What year did you com to Diamond Phil?
I came January, 1983. Gloria tried to keep me out. She did not like my long hair. What is funny is that she was a lesbian, although she was in the closet.
The story goes that she walked up to the old Diamond Yard in June, 1942, fresh out of high school looking for a job. As many of the men has marched off to war at that point, they snapped her up. She had been there for so long and knew her job so well that Management tolerated her many flaws. It got to the point where she even pushed around presidents of the Company--until she came up against Bob Waller, that is.
Bob Waller was not about to let anyone push him around, especially not a crusty old dike. She lasted less than a year under his administration. She tried to tell Bob Waller what she was and was not going to do. When Bob Waller was in charge, you did not tell him what you were or were not going to do; it was the other way around. He told her that she could either do what he told her to do, or hit the street. She chose the latter. Diamond was the only job that Gloria Sartori had ever held.
There was a major slaughter at Diamond in the Kramer and first days of the first Waller administration. They sacked Jones and Red Cap from the cage, Roxie and Jerry Dong from the Office, Red Harris from midnight dispatching, Jack Loewy as Chief Dispatcher and kicked Billy Brennan out of the Company.
Billy had been Vice President for years and was often the real power behind the throne. He also ran the card and crap games at the old Diamond yard and had a loan sharking operation so that drivers did not have to hit the street after they had lost all of their money. Jones had started on the tyre line when he was fifteen and Diamond was the only job that he had ever held. He was in his late forties when Kramer gave him his walking papers.
It was the biggest blood letting at Diamond that I remember. I kicked out a few drivers here and there and fired a dispatcher or operator here and there, and was the field ring leader in the stockholder revolt of 1995, but I never spilled as much blood in my tenure as, Acting Secretary, Acting Chief Dispatcher or Secretary/Treasurer as was spillled in that period.
I did succeed Gloria as the Wizard, though.
hey cabbie - can you work on fixing your RSS feed???
you da man!
A funny story about Jim Crow and segregation:
I was a small child in Massachusetts. In the early 1960s, my father took a job interview in Huntsville, Alabama. He took the train down there and thought that since it was summer and I was out of school, I might like to make the train trip with him.
Anyhow, we got down there, he took his interview, we were wandering around, it was hot as all who knows what. He was looking at something in a store when I spied a drinking fountain. There was the normal fountain and lower one. I had seen drinking fountains like this in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine. I wandered up to the lower fountain, turned it on and began to get a drink.
From nowhere, came this older man with a straw Fedora, khaki pants a white shirt and horn rimmed glasses. He started hollering "Cheese an' Crackers, thunner an' lahtnin', boah, kain't you read? If you need halp, whah doan che' jes' ask fer it?"
A bit puzzled, I looked at him funny. As soon as I opened my mouth to ask what I had done wrong, he knew what was what.
"Now y'all Yankees may not do things that way up thar, but yer in Alabama now, boah. Whaht folks doan drink frum no kellered fountain down hyayuh. If ye' need some halp, jes' ask fer it, boah." At that point, my father came over, said something to the guy and hastily took me away. I asked my father what I had done wrong, he told me that I had done nothing wrong, but that in certain parts of the country they treat Negros (this is the early 1960s, remember)differently. I told him that I had thought that the lower fountain was for the children and the higher one was for grown-ups. He told me that while that was true in Massachusetts, it was not true in Alabama. I told him that I thought Alabama was a wierd place and that we should not move there.
I remember back in the 60's when I was just a kid, a friend of my uncle who drove a cab for yellow, left yellow and joined diamond after yellow start letting blacks to drive for yellow. As a matter of fact bunch of racist yellow cabbies left for diamond because diamond was still all white.
Phew! I am so glad for Gloria that she never got to call an Eritrean a Nigerian, she would have gotten one of their famous headbutts, like the one Zidane gave Materazzi during the world cup, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone let alone an elderly woman.
- Mad Cabbie said...
Diamond had some dark history regarding race issues, the old fossils who run that joint maybe wish it staid all white. The problem is they are all dead, Diamond has the last few white cab drivers in DC....I say less than twenty including Phil the dispatcher.! When I started driving they were about 50 or so, and the old gizzers started to drop like flies.
I didn't know that Eritreans are well known for their headbutts. I will ask Abebe the dispatcher if he is good at headbutting. By the way when Abebe once told me he was from Eritrea, I told him he has more of a west African look, he wasn't too happy at all.
The white American drivers left at Diamond are:
#35, #54, #63, #113, #143, #185, #424, #597, #833.
Doug McGregor is still alive, but he let go of his DC face.
I may have omitted one or two. Of those, there are five dispatchers, although only two are working regullarly.
Yellow and Schaeffer do have some white American drivers, the other companies might have one or two, but there [i] ain't [/i] many of us left. Even if you add in the black Americans, there are not many Americans left in this business.
Oh, and Mr. Abebe is now Chief Dispatcher.


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1/2 cup cocoa nibs
1/3 cup cocoa
3 oz 75% dark chocolate, chopped
4 egg yolks
1/4 teaspoon salt
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Devil May Cry 4 – Bloody Palace Guide
Bloody Palace Guide by Excruciatix
Version: 1.00 | Updated: 02/20/08
Secret Mission Cross-Console Guide v1.10 (Feb 20, 2008)
By Excruciatix
Ver. History
1.00 <02/20/08> FAQ Submitted
0.80 <02/20/08> Started FAQ
Quite possibly the hardest "Mode" of DMC4 is the Bloody Palace. Taking you
through 90 levels of pure and utter chaos without your mommy to hold your
hand and comfort you, your only hope for survival is to hack and slash
with both style and speed on your trek to become the King of the Palace.
I myself am not very good at the Bloody Palace, but I will post an
in depth-guide based on various information that I've found (with credit)
on various message boards and forums into one place, to hopefully ease your
pain while traversing this bloody palace. (Hah pun) Moving on...
I don't normally put a table of contents in my FAQ's but for this one, I'm
pretty sure it will be lengthy so I will make one for this as I go along.
(Use Ctrl-F with the code to jump sections.)
Bloody Palace Explained..............[BPEXX]
Timing is Everything.................[TIEXX]
Demon Time Bonus List...........[DTBXX]
Style/Stage Bonus List..........[SBLXX]
The Stage is Set for Demons!.........[TSSXX]
Stage to Demon Guide............[STDXX]
Ultimate Monster Guide...............[UMGXX]
XBOX Achievements....................[360XX]
Credits and Other Junk...............[CREXX]
Bloody Palace Explained [BPEXX]
The Bloody Palace is basically a times survival mode that
consists of 101 levels, each increasing with difficulty. The difficulty
increase can either be through more mobs, higher health, or a boss fight.
Boss fights occur every 20 levels, plus the 101st level where you have to
fight Dante (Dante vs. Dante?!?! IMPOSTER!).
In order to unlock Bloody Palace, you must first beat Devil Hunter mode. By
no means however does this mean you are CAPABLE of doing well in Bloody
Palace once you have unlocked it.
Basic Prerequisites:
-A Full Health Bar
This is a quintessential part of being in Bloody Palace. Unless you
have no life at all, are some sort of gaming genius, or just very,
very, very, very lucky; A full health bar is reccomended before
getting in here.
-A Full Devil Trigger Guage
This helps you out 3 ways. Firstly it helps you get style points faster.
Second, it helps you kill things a lot faster than normal, thereby
helping you progress faster. Most importantly (!!!!) however, is this is
your secondary source of health. The only mobs that give health orbs
in bloody palace are Scarecrows (Very rarely), Chimeras (Rarely), and
Gladiuses (Commonly). And even then, these only give you one or 2 bars
of health per mob that drops, so having DT is VERY important.
-Skill sets
The skills you use directly impact your style points, and therefore
your chances of survival and beating the clock. The skills that you
know and want to learn are entirely up to you. The only thing that
I would absolutely reccomend is having a full Style Skillset for Dante
(Which you should easily get, only about 50k orbs), and the MAX-Act
Skill for Nero which is very important to have and master for BP since
this affects your style points as well.
This being a timed survival mode, time is a crucial part of being able to
progress through the very end. You get time bonuses for various things
in the game anywhere from what moster you kill, how high of a style rank you
had when you killed them, wether you got hit or not, and various other things
I will outline in the Timing is Everything section.
Now onto the meat and potatoes! (Or fish if you prefer.)
This section will explain the time mechanics of the game, how to get better
time bonuses and other various hints.
When you first get in the stage, you will start off with 2'00'00 (2 mins)
on the clock. This immediately starts counting down as the first set of
demons are summoned. You get time bonuses as you progress depending on style
and what moster you've killed. The following is a list of time bonuses that
each monster gives you (In order of appearance).
Demon Time Bonus List ---------------------------[DTBXX]
Scarecrow +5 Seconds
Frost +10 Seconds
Bianco Angelo +10 seconds (White Angel)
Mephisto +10 seconds
Gladius +2 seconds
Chimera (Un-attached) +2 Seconds
Chimera (Attached) +XX Seconds (Depends on host)
Assault +10 seconds
Mega Scarecrow +15 Seconds
Faust +20 seconds
Alto Angelo +20 seconds (Gold Angel)
Basilisk +5 seconds
Blitz +30 seconds (LoL @ Bonus)
Now, that you have a general Idea of how you are timed for each demon,
just take that into account with how you kill each mob (I played WoW so
I call demons either monsters, mobs, or demons). I would suggest going
through Son of Sparda mode or even Dante Must Die mode to see if you can
achieve kill times LESS than the bonus given. This is essential to beating
BP, now granted, you will be in situations sometimes where you are thrown
on the ground, or grabbed or whatnot, wasting valuable time. But in general,
you should be able to kill each mob, on a 1v1 scenario, under the bonus time
that they give. If you can do this, a third of the battle is done.
Secondly you get bonuses for your style and speed and survivability aspects
of gameplay. You get these after every kill (Style bonuses) and at the end
of each level. The following are the bonuses you get for each aspect:
Style/Stage Bonus List --------------------------[SBLXX]
Style Ranks:
SSS - B Rank Bonus +3 Seconds (Per Kill)
C Rank Bonus +2 Seconds (Per Kill)
B Rank Bonus +1 Second (Per Kill)
Stage Bonuses:
Stage Clear
Stage 1-19 +15 Seconds (At last kill)
Stage 21-101 +10 Seconds (At last kill)
No Damage 2x Stage Clear Bonus
As you can see, it is not essential to get higher than a B rank style, however
it is still reccommended as if you get hit, you will have leeway to rank down
instead of ranking from B to D. The ranking bonuses may seem small, but they
definitely help with the mass killing missions (e.g. 9x Chimera Seeds or 44
Bianco Angelos O.O). The No Damage bonus is exactly like the regular game
where ANY hit that deals damage (Royal Block is the only exception) will
forfeit the bonus.
[Note: You ARE allowed to use Super Nero or Super Dante to clear the BP. This
is by no means a bad way to go if you want to see the whole Palace
as a whole. However score wise, you only receive 1/5th of your normal
score. IE. if you were to get 100,000 as a score, you would only get
20,000 instead. It is a BIG deduction so keep that in mind when
choosing who to use.]
Now to the fun part...
The Stage is Set for Demons!! [TSSXX]
General overview for this section. Out of the 101 stages, the breakdown in
difficulty is essentially from each set of 20 to the next, difficulty going
up after every boss. Without further ado, here is the list:
Stage to Demon Guide-----------------------------------------[STDXX]
Stage (Amount) Demon Secondary Tertiary
1............3x Scarecrow
2............4x Scarecrow
3............6x Scarecrow
4............2x Frost
5............2x Bianco Angelo
6............3x Mephisto
7............6x Gladius
8............9x Chimera Seed
9............9x Chimera Seed, 3x Scarecrow
10...........12x Scarecrow
11...........2x Assault
12...........2x Mega Scarecrow
13...........2x Assault, 2x Bianco Angelo
14...........1x Faust
15...........2x Bianco Angelo, 1x Alto Angelo
16...........6x Scarecrow, 1x Mega Scarecrow
17...........2x Alto Angelo
18...........1x Blitz
19...........4x Basilisk
20...........[BOSS] Berial
21...........2x Mephisto, 1x Frost
22...........2x Frost, 1x Faust
23...........3x Assault, 2x Frost
24...........3x Assault, 4x Basilisk
25...........3x Assault, 1x Blitz
26...........1x Blitz, 4x Basilisk
27...........2x Frost, 2x Bianco Angelo
28...........2x Assault, 8x Gladius
29...........1x Blitz, 5x Gladius
30...........4x Frost, 6x Assault, 1x Blitz
31...........6x Chimera Seed, 3x Mephisto
32...........3x Scarecrow, 1x Faust
33...........2x Mephisto, 1x Mega Scarecrow
34...........6x Mephisto
35...........3x Mephisto, 1x Frost
36...........2x Scarecrow, 1x Faust
37...........2x Mephisto, 3x Assault
38...........2x Mephisto, 1x Blitz
39...........9x Chimera Seed, 1x Faust
40...........[Boss] Bael
41...........9x Chimera Seed
42...........5x Chimera, 5x Chimera Seed
43...........4x Chimera
44...........6x Chimera Seed, 6x Gladius
45...........2x Chimera, 1x Blitz
46...........2x Basilisk, 4x Chimera Seed
47...........5x Chimera Seed, 2x Bianco Angelo, 1x Alto Angelo
48...........1x Scarecrow, 6x Chimera Seed
49...........3x Chimera, 1x Faust
50...........6x Scarecrow, 12x Chimera Seed, 4x Assault
51...........6x Scarecrow
52...........3x Scarecrow, 8x Gladius
53...........3x Mega Scarecrow, 2x Frost
54...........5x Scarecrow, 1x Alto Angelo
55...........1x Mega Scarecrow, 1x Faust
56...........1x Mega Scarecrow, 2x Alto Angelo
57...........4x Scarecrow, 3x Mephisto
58...........1x Mega Scarecrow, 5x Basilisk
59...........2x Chimera, 1x Mega Scarecrow, 4x Chimera Seed
60...........[Boss] Echidna
61...........4x Bianco Angelo
62...........2x Cutlass, 3x Bianco Angelo
63...........1x Blitz, 2x Bianco Angelo
64...........1x Bianco Angelo, 6x Gladius
65...........7x Bianco Angelo, 1x Alto Angelo x1
66...........1x Alto Angelo, 4x Basilisk
67...........1x Blitz, 2x Alto Angelo
68...........2x Bianco Angelo, 6x Scarecrow
69...........1x Alto Angelo, 2x Frost
70...........10x Bianco Angelo, 2x Alto Angelo
71...........16x Gladius
72...........1x Mega Scarecrow, 9x Gladius
73...........8x Gladius, 1x Frost
74...........2x Cutlass, 4x Basilisk
75...........1x Alto Angelo, 3x Cutlass
76...........4x Cutlass, 8x Gladius
77...........10x Basilisk
78...........2x Frost, 4x Basilisk
79...........2x Cutlass, 2x Basilisk, 4x Gladius
80...........[Boss] Angelo Credo
81...........1x Mega Scarecrow, 5x Scarecrow
82...........4x Mephisto, 1x Faust
83...........3x Frost
84...........4x Chimera, 10x Chimera Seed
85...........2x Blitz, 3x Chimera Seed
86...........2x Bianco Angelo, 1x Alto Angelo
87...........4x Basilisk, 7x Gladius
88...........3x Cutlass, 2x Bianco Angelo
89...........3x Mega Scarecrow, 1x Blitz
90...........20x Scarecrow, 3x Mega scarecrow, 3x Chimera Seed
91...........3x Faust
92...........3x Alto Angelo, 4x Bianco Angelo
93...........8x Assault
94...........3x Chimera, 6x Chimera Seed, 2x Bianco Angelo
95...........16x Basilisk, 4x Chimera Seed
96...........8x Gladius, 3x Cutlass, 3x Bianco Angelo
97...........6x Mephisto, 2x Mega Scarecrow
98...........4x Chimera, 3x Chimera Seed
99...........2x Alto Angelo, 44x Bianco Angelo (O_O)
100..........[Boss] Angelo Agnus
101..........[Boss] Dante
Well that took forever to compile and organize. Now a few notes on several of
the stages. By any means any stage is beatable, never think otherwise. All you
need is the right technique and a little bit of luck. Also keep in mind the
order you kill the monsters. For example, towards the beginning, you're faced
with 9x Chimera Seeds as well as 3x Scarecrows. Although you have less
Scarecrows to kill, it would be wiser to take care and immobilize the Seeds
quickly so that you don't end up with a harder full grown chimera to deal with
and thereby giving you less time bonus (1 kill instead of 2). Going through
each stage is laborious and doesn't really work for everyone, so just look at
the Mob Listing for each stage and figure out a tactic that works well with
your style of play.
One of the biggest thing is to use your DT wisely. Keep in mind that you gain
DT by hitting mobs, so unused DT is wasted DT. Wasted DT is wasted health.
As you play BP, the more and more you play it, the more you know when you
need to use DT to gain health, get speed kills, in relation to when you have
an easy time killing things without getting hit. This is probobly the biggest
part of succeeding in BP and is brought on solely by intuition and experience.
One thing that might benefit you is some tips and tricks on beating
certain monsters quickly and efficiently, to get the most out of your time.
The next section will cover exactly that :D
XBOX 360 Achievements
Complete 10 Stages.................The First Circle (10G)
Complete 20 Stages................The Second Circle (10G)
Complete 30 Stages.................The Third Circle (10G)
Complete 40 Stages................The Fourth Circle (10G)
Complete 50 Stages.................The Fifth Circle (10G)
Complete 60 Stages.................The Sixth Circle (10G)
Complete 70 Stages...............The Seventh Circle (10G)
Complete 80 Stages................The Eighth Circle (10G)
Complete 90 Stages.................The Ninth Circle (10G)
Complete The Bloody Palace.........Covered In Blood (40G)
S Rank The Bloody Palace.........King of the Palace (50G)
All these achievemtns take is a little perseverance. After a few times in
the bloody palace, going further and further, you will eventually get
these achievements unlocked. Easy way to get these done is to finish
the stages with a Super Charachter. Once you finish all the missions,
redo them with a normal character so now you have a feel for the flow of
the stages.
Just keep on truckin' guys. Beat those japs on the leaderboards!!
Joe Guevara || email@example.com || GT - Excruciatix
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comments, or suggestions about this guide. Just make sure that you put
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is spam if you don't.
Your input will make this guide great!!! If you have any tips & tricks
you would like to share in beating the Bloody Palace, please e-mail
me with the info and what you would like to be referred to in the credits.
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If you update your LDAP directory schema manually and then later upgrade Calendar Server, you must manually update the LDAP server schema again. Calendar Server cannot automatically update the schema after the it has previously been updated manually.
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Stop Directory Server, if it is running.
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Shelf Energy, LLC (Shelf), is an independent oil and gas exploration and development company based in Lafayette, LA. Shelf's principals created this Company with the purpose of identifying and participating in good quality, low-risk oil and gas projects. Shelf is comprised of a group of seasoned professionals with disciplines in geology, geophysics, engineering, drilling, landwork, acquisitions, completion and production, as well as considerable exploration expertise in the Gulf of Mexico and South Louisiana. The group has work experience with energy majors and independents such as UNOCAL, Flores & Rucks, Ocean Energy, Triangle Oil & Gas, St. Mary Land & Exploration, Conoco, Crown Central Petroleum, Amerada Hess, Medco Energi, Placid Oil, and Stone Energy Corporation.
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17 May 2006
Just What is SQL Developer?
I remember sitting at a brown bag lunch at a user conference a few years back. The point of the gathering was that anyone with questions could come along and ask questions and other with experience in the product would help and answer. The intentions were well meaning, the idea being to grow a community of sharing experience. As I sat in the back listening, I realised the experts were so far advanced and so skilled in the subject area, that they couldn't (or didn't) answer the basic questions. They were so used to dipping into the API and their own additional code, they'd got beyond the basic product! They were so used to responding to deep technical problems, that they didn't really hear the question. The answer to "Mum, where do I come from?" might just be "Cape Town" !
I fall into the same trap too. When asked to write an article for a magazine recently, I said "What would I write about?" The response was that we need articles for entry level. I accept it's true we need to have advanced material and more technical articles both at conferences and in our journals, but we should not forget that there are so many levels in our knowledge and expertise. More often than not, when submitting a collection of abstracts to a conference, it's my introductory talks that are accepted from the selection.
I've only been involved with Oracle SQL Developer for a few months now and already I assume that everyone who uses an Oracle Database should have heard about it. But why should they? There is so much news and information coming from Oracle and other companies all the time, that we're all getting quite good at filtering spam. (Basically, just deleting messages which appear to be spam). I should also remember that even after 2 years of presenting on the Database support Oracle JDeveloper offers, I was still encountering significant percentages of folk in the audience who had no idea JDeveloper had this capability. So this kind of news takes time to filter into the general community. As with other information, it's only useful or relevant when you need it!
We've just added a brief "What is SQL Developer" article onto our site on OTN. If you've not heard of the tool, or are afraid to ask, because, like me, you might assume the rest of the world already knows, then check it out.
Of course if you know about SQL Developer, it doesn't harm to take a look and see if it does something you weren't aware of!
By the way, we released a patch to our production release, Oracle SQL Developer 1.0, so you can Check For Updates. If you are going to be using the check for updates capabilities, then do be sure you are on the production release. (See the FAQ if you're uncertain)
10 comments:
- Mike O said...
Gee, Sue; I hope that brown bag wasn't one of our old WSG sessions (but probably was). I've started kicking around SQL Developer in what little spare time I have and I promise to not be as nearly as mean as I'de been in the past on Designer. So far, it looks like a great start: I have confidence- with you in charge- that SQL Developer will gain additional useful functionality as quickly as the resources you've got can provide.
Hope things are going well for you otherwise; hopefully, no one else has needed to be shoved in the shark tank lately ;-)
- Thu May 18, 03:59:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
Hey Mike,
Nice to hear from you.I'm sure it's been awhile. As for the brown bag...not sure it was WSG, but it was one of those conferences... :-)
I'd be happy to hear any of your feedback and thoughts on SQL Developer and of course I'll be at ODTUG this year.
- Thu May 18, 05:34:00 pm GMT
I've started playing with SqlD recently, for such a little package it packs a real punch! I am now trying hard to get my DBA colleagues to drop SqlNav5 in favour of this multi-platform marval!
- Thu May 18, 08:56:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
Thanks for the feedback, anonymous. Good luck withthose DBA coleagues and don't forget, we have a very active forum on OTN: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=260
- Fri May 19, 07:44:00 am GMT
- Dimitri Gielis said...
Hi Sue,
I know SQL Developer and find it great! I promote it when I'm at a customer (and yes, sometimes they never heard about it). SQL Developer also became "the standard tool" in my team.
Maybe some suggestions (or maybe I just don't know it?) to really kill you know who ;-)
- create a plugin alà "CodeXpert" –(A stored procedure advisor to both analyze PL/SQL and advise users on how to optimize code, only in Toad Professional)
- Find something to kill McAfee virusscanner - it's a pain (performance drop) when it begins to scan the java of SQL D.
See you at ODTUG,
- Sat May 20, 02:48:00 pm GMT
I think one of the things that doesn't help people in the oracle world is how often products are renamed.
Raptor was announced last year at Open World right? ( Or shortly before ). If the name was good enough to be announced at that time why didn't it stick?
Similar situation with HTML DB which now has a different name.
Help us out oracle and when you come up with a name let it stick!
Or maybe another way of saying it is why don't the marketing people get on the same page with the development people before you roll out ( and then change ) product names.
Just an idea!
- Mon May 22, 01:58:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
Of course, you are right. We do get beaten up a little about our names and the renaming that happens. HTML DB was a fine name, until we found that people were saying things like "oh that's the HTML interface to the database" and the product is so much more than that. Also products grow and evolve, based on requirements from the users. HTMLDB is a tool that helps users build applications, often extensive applications, quickly and easily. So yes, it is an HTML interface to the database and it also helps you build applications easily. "Application Express" then is a more fitting name.
As for Raptor, we all love the name. As with many development shops, we typically start with project names and when projects become products, we move to the official branding. You're right, perhaps we should have changed the project name before we announced it, but having a project name is fun and exciting for all involved, customers and developers. I suspect this practice will not change.
- Mon May 22, 02:46:00 pm GMT
- Eddie May said...
Hi Sue,
I'm a contractor at a local authority in the UK, & introduced Raptor (as was) to one of the SQL developers. He loved it, said it did the 80/20 thing perfectly & could save the authority licence fees re:TOAD. Most developers don't need the full TOAD toolset - they just want to write/test sql scripts, etc..
Recently he asked me if I'd heard of SQL Developer, said it was even better then Raptor & that we should use that instead!
On a related, more cynical note, many suspect that the marketing dept is in control at Oracle HQ & that what appears to be the constant rebranding of products is just a way of selling us something we already have. We're currently invesitgating the E-Biz Suite + Fusion: A lot of the components appear to exist as is in earlier product catalogues & the non-tech audience (who actually buy the stuff) are confused and suspicious.
Hmm, feels better for getting that off my chest!
Eddie May.
- Wed May 24, 08:02:00 am GMT
- Daniel Fink said...
Would you care to comment about the support process for SQL Developer?
Now...the reason I'm asking... (no, it is not to find out when you will have a command line version).
The first reason is that SQL Developer is being given away, so it is reasonable that some users will not be covered under a valid support contract and thus will not have access to Metalink (which is another issue all together), the usual path to research issues, log tars, I mean service requests, follow up with an analyst, etc.
I just found a minor issue in creating a new user that I would like to report. So I go onto Technet and finally locate the SQL Developer forum (why is it not under Development Tools?) and read the "Before you post an issue" message. I follow the instructions like a good little DBA (okay...so I'm really neither good nor little...but I am a DBA) and put in all the information. Now, the nice thing is that this is much easier than creating an iTAR, oops, there I go again...I mean an online service request. However, I'm not certain about how the tracking, analyst communication, etc. will be using this kind of forum.
There are some huge positives to this type of approach, with issues being very visible, fellow users being able to trade knowledge, etc. On the whole I think that these outweigh the negatives of issue tracking and analyst communication.
And I'd love to hear your $0.02 (not sure what this is in Pounds these days).
Verification word - jglnaghw (jiggle nag hardware?)
- Wed May 24, 08:35:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
Hey Dan,
Good points/questions/comments. I took the liberty of answering your comment in a new post to the blog spot.
- Thu May 25, 03:30:00 pm GMT


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According to a new study at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, LinkedIn is currently the most used social media tool among the fastest-growing private companies.
In this study for the Center of Marketing Research, 81% of companies listed on the 2012 Inc. 500 (the fastest growing companies) use LinkedIn, up from 73% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the number of these companies using Facebook has actually declined to 67%. Twitter use is currently tied with Facebook, up from 64% in 2011. Foursquare, YouTube, and Pinterest lag behind, with a stalwart group of 8% who still refuse to get on the internet, dammit.
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Searching for ethnic food on the Northern
By Tom Isern, professor of history at North Dakota State University, Fargo
The crossover of foodways from an ethnic culture into mainstream society is highly selective. Certain foods are selected by entrepreneurs and by the popular culture to cross the cultural line, whereas the main body of ethnic foodways remains confined to the original group.
It's a mystery to me, for instance, just who decided the taco should become the Mexican fast food of American pop culture. If you go back to the early 1900s in towns on the plains, it wasn't the taco Anglos wanted, it was the tamale. in every town that had a population of Mexican immigrants--mostly railroad section hands--you find some old guy operating a tamale wagon, wheeling it downtown daily from the colonia (Mexican neighborhood).
From Italian cuisine American society selected pizza. Key figures in that selection were the Carney boys of Wichita, Kansas, founders of Pizza Hut.
In Nebraska, Runza drive-ins of America have attempted to introduce the Runza to American pop culture. The Runza, also known as the Bierock, is a baked bun stuffed with cabbage, meat, and onions, one of those portable ethnic foods. It's a German-Russian item most commonly associated with the Volga Germans. Although Runza restaurants are prospering on the central plains, and Runzas are served at Husker games in Lincoln, this is an ethnic specialty that has'nt yet broken out of its region.
Most Germans from Russia on the northern plains are not Volga Germans, but rather Black Sea Germans, and they have their own characteristic foods. None of these have crossed over into mainstream American pop culture, but three of them have reached the threshold of regional recognition. These are Knoephla soup (spelling varies), Fleischkuechle (again, spelling varies) and Kuchen. I don't know just why these three items have emerged as signatures of German-Russian cuisine, but they are the ones that appear frequently on cafe menus and are known to non-German-Russians.
Knoephla soup is a variant of cream-of-potato soup that has fluffy dumplings floating around in it. This is the ultimate comfort food of the German-Russian heartland in the Dakotas. Fleischkuechle are patties and fried in fat. These are a main dish. Kuchen look like pies, but they aren't. The crust is a yeast dough, and the filling is a cheesy custard with some kind of fruit in it. prune is traditional; I like rhubarb.
These three foods are, of course, firmly grounded in the traditional cookery of Germans from Russia. Users of the World Wide Web can explore references and recipes via Mike Miller's "Culture, Customs, & Foodways" site at NDSU. Those who prefer print sources can consult two wonderful publications of the Germans from Russia heritage Society: "Food and Folklore" and "Food and Customs: Recipes of the Black Sea Germans."
Today I'm interested in how these foods are offered to the public, German-Russian and otherwise, by cafes. The Fleischkuechle situation in particular has me worried. I know of no cafe that makes its own; all seem to be serving the manufactured, shrink-wrapped, frozen kind. Knoephla soup is the real thing, though. That of Kroll's Kitchen in Bismarck is probably the best-known, but there are lots of wonderful variations in lots of cafes. As for kuchen--now you're talking. My favorite is still that of the Prairie Oasis, in Cleveland, N.D.
All right, the floor is open for nomination. Where can you get a real Fleischkuechle? Where is the best Knoephla soup in all the land? And where can we find the finest Kuchen you ever put a fork into (or snatched up in your fingers)?
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Tell Tale Heart Essay Assignment
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a famous short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. He first published the story in January 1843, in the short-lived Pioneer magazine. "Tell-Tale" is about a nameless man who kills an old man for a really strange reason, which we won't give away here. The nameless man tells the story of the murder to prove he is not insane.
Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to actors Elizabeth and David Poe, both of whom died before Poe's second birthday. Shortly thereafter, Poe moved to Virginia to live with the childless couple John and Frances Allan.
His biography has fascinated scholars and readers for a long time, and nobody can quite pin him down. Many scholars agree that he was a heavy drinker and was addicted to the drug laudanum. There is much gossip, speculation, and fabrication regarding the man's death, but he probably passed away as a result of drug and alcohol-related complications. He died October 13, 1849, at Church Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (source).
Poe believed that a perfect story should be readable in one sitting, that it should be a tightly controlled, highly compressed narrative that hit on topics to which everybody can relate. Weighing in at ten precise paragraphs, "Tell-Tale" is an excellent example of Poe's theory of writing. For more, check out his essay "Philosophy of Composition."
If you like stories that test and sharpen your analytical skills, while scaring you with portrayals of the extremes of human behavior, this is the tale for you. It's also only ten paragraphs long, so you can read it in one sitting, which is what Edgar Allan Poe had in mind. He believed that if a story isn't read through in one sitting, much of the impact is lost (source).
This story is an attempt to create an extremely brief piece packed with as much information as possible, though perhaps not the kind of information we get in many stories. No names. No locations. It's as if the narrator meets you, by chance, in a dark café and tells you his darkest secrets, knowing he will never see you again. The information we get is secret information, the kind of things we don't hear everyday.
Since it's fiction, you can look at it objectively and, in doing so, learn more about your own feelings concerning murder, confession, and related topics. If you have to think about these things, why not use a guy like Poe, who thought about them most of the time, it would appear, to help get you thinking?
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Since nearly the time of the talkies, there has been no bigger champion of authentication than Hollywood writers and directors. Whether its speakeasy bouncers looking for the right password at the door or some crazy villain or hero ripping out appendages or eyes to fool a biometric scanner, authentication systems prove to be useful tools for writers moving the plot along and injecting a little verisimilitude into the story. However they're used and however wildly inaccurate they may be, these fictional authentication scenes are great fun to watch for security pros who use authentication in real life. And sometimes the scenes in older movies that seemed silly in a bygone era have proven more than a little prescient, sometimes prophesying innovations and other times perhaps even inspiring tech innovators who brought fiction into the realm of reality.
In this spy romp, CIA agent Miles Kendig, played by Walter Matthau starts his campaign to get out of the spy game and upset the bureaucratic apple cart with a tell-all book by committing a classic insider attack. He uses his current ID badge in video system that matches his face with his picture in front of a door guard to enter a CIA records repository and steal a file on himself.
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On 12 September 2018, on the occasion of his State of the Union Address, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC, proposed a new 'Africa – Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs' to focus investment where it matters most: in skills and job creation. To achieve this, a more effective governance model and greater collaboration between multilateral and national development actors in Europe is needed. The European Commission is thus today setting out a number of ways to address the investment challenges and opportunities in Africa, the EU's Neighbourhood and the wider world. These include calls for joint initiatives between multilateral and national development actors and a reinforced European financial architecture able to meet the ambition of the newly proposed Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument.


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Michael Buble
Background: I have been very, VERY critical of Michael Buble especially while he was dating Emily Blunt who is, as many of you know, in my estimation, as close to perfect as it gets in Hollywood... with the exception of Marion Cotillard. But this is another discussion. There were allegations of infidelity, of douchey behaviour, and I wrote about it extensively. And he knew.
Last fall, Buble was interviewed by Elle Canada. Click here to read the original article. Here's the excerpt:
"The truth is," says Buble, "I've made my share of mistakes, and I've done things that were really classy and things that were not." It's the latter upon which some of his critics pounce -- like, for example a local gossip columnist who has described him in very unflattering terms. "Lainey doesn't like me very much," understates Buble. "You know, I've talked to people who know her; they say she's a really nice girl. If I got to know her, I'd probably like her. And I'd like to say that if she got to know me, I would hope she'd like me."
To me this sounded like a challenge. So our showdown would have to be during the Olympics.
Michael Buble is friends with my friend and colleague Ben Mulroney. Ben and I worked on Olympic Morning on CTV during the Games and he was scheduled to interview Buble that morning. When I'm not on the air, I usually hide in a cubicle to focus on my column. I told Ben however that I would make myself visible when Buble was around. Ben loves this sh-t. He was all over it. He couldn't wait to watch me meeting Buble. Our producer seemed nervous.
It was a busy morning. I fell behind on my blog after filing my Globe & Mail article so I missed Buble when he arrived and was caught up on some article, probably about John Mayer, when he was in studio, and my next memory is seeing the side of his head as he walked past my work station on the way out. Ben parked himself next to me a few minutes later – where the hell were you?
This is when we had to pull out the high school styles.
I told Ben to text Buble and tell him that "Lainey wanted to meet you". Buble replied half a second later: I want to meet her! I'm at the cauldron!
It's the modern version of passing notes in class. I kinda love it.
There's a long corridor we had to walk down to get to the stairs that took us to the cauldron behind the International Broadcast Centre. The walk is made longer by the fact that everyone stops to say hello. So we took our sweet ass time getting there and once again, me and Buble were not meant to be.
I went back to work. Ben was picked up to go to another shoot. When I saw him that night (at the Michael Phelps party) he told me that Buble had texted him later on to ask why I didn't show up at the cauldron. I got all pouty about it, so Ben decided to take matters into his own hands, texting Buble back to set up a dinner for us on Saturday night. Buble wrote back right away and agreed.
Obviously we are both still in grade 10. And Ben our chaperone.
Saturday night. Joe Fortes. 8pm.
Ben and I get there first. Buble is still on his way. I wonder who he's coming with. I half expect him to text Ben and bail, especially since he's late. Ben left the table to call his wife. I'm alone... waiting...
And there he is. Michael Buble threw open the glass doors and entered alone. No assistant, no publicist, no manager, no sidekick, no wingman, no bodyguard. Just Buble and his arms open...
So we hug. And then 3 women surround him and want autographs. Which is what happened every few minutes or so throughout the entire night. And he welcomes it. Buble would be the first to tell you as he told me:
"I've wanted to be famous my whole life. So now that I'm famous, I'm not going to f-cking complain about it."
There are those who pretend that it's not what they live for. And they get all put out when their fame gets in the way of a dinner and a movie. This is not Michael Buble. But Michael Buble did come alone to have dinner with a gossip blogger. If you know celebrities, you know this is pretty extraordinary. Because they never do anything alone. Partly because they're not confident enought to be alone and mostly because they can't take care of their own sh-t.
Certainly Buble trusts Ben and Ben probably gave him some assurance that all would be civilised but still... Michael Buble has sold 25 million albums worldwide, his tour stops at Madison Square Garden next week, and he's repped by Liz Rosenberg who also reps Madonna. I doubt very much coming along to dinner with an internet bitch who's ripped him several holes was on her list of recommended activities.
Buble's opening line?
Why do you hate me so much!?!?
It was cute.
What happens when you tell a douchebag he's been a douchebag and he agrees that he was a douchebag and says he's not a douchebag anymore? Where does the conversation go from there? If you keep telling him he's a douchebag after he acknowledges he's a douchebag, YOU become the douchebag.
Buble has very publicly, across many platforms, with many other members of the media, owned up to being a douchebag. It was the same with me. He told me, just as he told Jian Ghomeshi and George Stroumboulopoulos and even Oprah, that he was insecure and jealous and controlling, that he did indeed really suck, that he thought he could get away with his bullsh-t, and that ultimately when it ended with Emily Blunt he had to work on himself. He says he has and that he's better.
So either you believe him or you don't. But you can't keep calling him a douchebag.
Did I buy Buble's contrition? Do I buy his transformation?
I believe it more than I don't believe it. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that I didn't appreciate the effort, because I did. Am I prepared to make an editorial declaration that Michael Buble will never f-ck up again? Of course not. And if he does I'll start ripping those holes again. Do I think he's trying very hard? Yes. Do I want him to succeed? Actually...yes. Because I'm vain enough to want him to have been sincere and also because, cynical as I may be, even I don't think there's really a point to anything if you can't believe in change.
So what's he like?
Well, he's kind of ... goofy. Funny too. In between dorky jokes, he also has a twisted, perverted sense of humour. And he gets a little bit defensive when people (like me) think he sings corny songs and therefore might not be as much of a real man as the next man. Buble's attitude is – I don't have to smash things together to prove I'm not a pussy.
Then Michael Peca came and sat down next to him. Like divine intervention. This is the part of the story when Jacek gets really jealous. There's nothing more dude affirming for Canadian men than an audience with NHL players. And Buble knows almost all the NHL players.
As for the fiancée – she was in Australia working during the Olympics. Luisana Lopilato is hot. A huge star in Latin America and Spain. He's really, really into her. She's also 22. When I made a face about how young she is (Buble is 34) he told me she's super mature and has been taking care of her own sh-t since she was a child. He also said she was the adult in their relationship. Being around him for a few hours, it's easy to assume the adult role in any relationship with Michael Buble.
I was supposed to hit up Club Bud at the Commodore later that night. Buble said he would come. But he refused to get in a car. Vancouver was a f-cking mob scene during the Games. Especially on Granville Street. And the party was on Granville. I did not want to be responsible for getting Michael Buble trampled. But traffic was horrible. Buble didn't want to sit in a cab for half an hour to travel 3 blocks. He insisted on walking. He loves being famous. I was stressed about him getting attacked. So I had to call ahead for security and they met us two blocks away and they led us through the crazy crowd up to Club Bud and once inside he found out Jon Hamm was there so he introduced me to Jon Hamm like this:
I want you to meet Lainey. She writes a GOSSIP BLOG LaineyGossip.com and she has a big crush on you and put you on her free to f-ck list.
Wanted to DIE.
Anyway, Buble was quickly surrounded at the party by hockey players and athletes and other celebrities and, aside from an equally awkward introduction to Kristi Yamaguchi, we didn't see much of each other until he left. He made a point of coming over to say thanks, and we hugged, and he was gone. We didn't exchange information, I haven't heard from him since. But he gave an interview to the New York Post this weekend and somehow I made it in there. Click here to read.
As mentioned earlier, Michael Buble is currently touring. I still can't say I'm a fan of the music. It's just... not my style. They say however that he's much better live. So I think I'll check it out live especially after reading this hilarious review of his show in the Miami Herald the other day.
And heads up Canada – Buble has been nominated for 6 Juno Awards this year and is scheduled to perform at the Junos on April 18th in St John's, NFLD. Drake too!
Photo attached of Buble with Mark Salling from Glee who joined us midway through dinner with Matthew Morrison. They talked about what an episode with Buble would be like on Glee and I can't remember the details because that was when my food came.


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The Dilemma of Psychology: A Psychologist Looks at His Troubled Profession
Allworth, 2002 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 224 pages
Featuring a new introduction by Dr. Stanley Krippner—coeditor of the best-selling Broken Images, Broken Selves—this expanded edition of The Dilemma of Psychology reveals why more than 100 years of psychology and armies of psychotherapists have not helped to solve humanity's most pressing issues. Uncompromising, yet with a deep passion for his field, Lawrence LeShan talks about the expectations that rose with the birth of psychology, how the new science started off on the wrong foot, and why it might still be the only tool to solve the deepest issues of our time: war, pollution, and overpopulation. In order to improve the human condition, LeShan argues, psychology has to make humanity and human life its focus. Witty and full of imaginative examples.
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This unit consists of four activities. Students begin by examining temperature cycles (current, recent and historical) then add in factors such as carbon dioxide, precipitation and cloud cover to discover regional and global differences in the... (View More) effects of climate change. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This textbook chapter outlines the historical development of the Theory of Natural Selection, presenting classic evidence including Darwin's study of finch beak variation in the Galapagos Islands and Kettlewell's investigation of the pepper moth... (View More) in England. A simulation activity depicting the process of natural selection is included. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide with additional investigations and student research project ideas. This is the third chapter in the unit, Losing Biodiversity, examining the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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What a busy month, we have had birthdays, UCC Circle, UMW Circle, music, book club, Janet's devotions, Good Friday Worship, service with Pastors Terry, Joel & Mike, day care kids and of course cards, bingo, exercises, St. Patricks Day and Easter.
For birthday it was Harry Cheeseman on the 5th, Ann Wieben on the 12th, Marlys Boege on the 17th, Dick Ohrt on the 21st and of course we had a party for each one. We had cake and ice cream, homemade pecan and cinnamon rolls, more delicious cinnamon rolls and great turnovers. Happy Birthday to everyone of you and many more fun parties.
The circles met here so that some of the Westview people could attend so thank you for thinking of us.
Our music was Jeanne Conrad, Neal Allen and Ken Burdick on the 8th, that is always fun to have them here. Sugar & Spice came at 4 p.m. on the 25th and supper is always served after they play which is always a fun time. We love to have music.
Book Club always has a good turn out.
Janet Schildroth always has good ideas for her monthly devotions.
We had fun with the day care kids when they were here on the 29th.
Since St. Patrick's Day was on a Sunday our celebrating was pretty low keyed.
Lots of Westview people got to spend Easter with family and friends.
This is sort of short and sweet for information this month. But be sure and stop in to visit us at Westview. We are doing some redecorating and changing a few things around.
The coffee pot is always on and we love to visit.


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Google is the most valuable technology company in the world -- yes, more than Apple -- at least by one measure, according to a report.
The metric used isn't market capitalization, where Apple still reigns at $378 billion (Google has $286 billion), but the enterprise value, the Wall Street Journal reported. The method used is the enterprise value, or the value of the company's operations -- basically subtracting each company's cash hoard. For Google, this number is $241 billion, and only $233 billion for Apple.
Essentially, Apple is worth so much because it has $145 billion in cash, while Google's actual company is worth more.
Shocking? Not entirely if you have been reading recent news about Apple, including its Wall Street woes.
However, this is just one way to measure a company's value, and Apple still beats Google at market capitalization.


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