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HEY There!! The name's Kristianna E. Osprey! Been a reader of Harry Potter since age 11, fan since age 13, fanatic since age 16, and finally took it to the next level on Sept. 25th, 2009 when I got my Harry Potter tattoo for my first tattoo....first of many.
I made mostly a couple grammatical changes here and there for a couple weeks, then finally decided to join up! Been a member since the start of 2009. My friends like to call me "the human Harry Potter encyclopedia" (all thanks to this site mostly).
please don't mess with my page AT ALL no exceptions. THANKS!!
And please don't send me hate mail via email for having correct proper AMERICAN grammar, or for being a "10 year old girl" because I'm actually more than twice that age.
More About My Wizarding Avatar...(because I'm that nerdy)
...and my nerd-ness supplies one with numbers of links to pages on Harry Potter Wiki.
Just if you all were wondering, an Osprey is a kind of bird also known as a Sea Hawk typically found in areas near mass bodies of water. You pronounce my name like this: Kris-tee-on-uh As-prey (or Oz-pree).
She was born in Washington State, U.S.A. before moving to Ireland when she was seven. Her father is a Pure-blood Irish wizard and her mother is a Veela. She and her father moved to Ireland because her father wanted her to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he attended school. He was biased against the Salem Witches Institute thinking American education is not as good as one from Hogwarts.
She was sorted into Ravenclaw house, like her father. She especially loves the subjects Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Care of Magical Creatures, and Herbology. She achieved O.W.L.s in each subject, with O's in Charms, Potions, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. She followed up in all five subjects in N.E.W.T. level classes.
After graduation, she wanted to become an Auror, but the Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt asked her to work in the Department of Mysteries as an Unspeakable because they required a witch with her special gifts and talents. Kristianna was the only one available at the right time. She accepted promptly, and is currently doing top secret work for the Ministry of Magic.
Quick Facts
- She is good friends with Hermione Granger via work at the Ministry of Magic.
- Attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They were Six years when she came.
- Unbeknown to Professor Flitwick, she lured a couple Death Eaters near the Astronomy Tower to be hit by several students' jinxs and plants before retreating to safety during the Second Wizarding War.
- She married her boyfriend, who was in Hufflepuff, they started dating her Fifth Year.
- Her husband is also an Unspeakable.
- Has three children
- The smell of Amortentia to her smells like: fresh fruit, the open sea, and her husband's hair.
- She cannot see Thestrals.
- She has a Magical familiar that's an Osprey (Sea Hawk).
- Distantly related to the House of Black.
- Supports the Kenmare Kestrels and the Irish National Quidditch team.
- Played Chaser for her last two years on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.
- Speaks the languages: Mermish, English and Gaelic (Irish language).
- Not a member of the Order of the Phoenix, but supports them.
- Goblins scare her more than any other magical being.
- She owns a Nimbus 2001, a gift from her Dad.
- Her mother fled after seven months of her birth, leaving her with her father.
Favorite Pages
Here are a list of my favorite pages, most of which I believe are the most helpful or most interesting.
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- Albus Dumbledore
- Blood purity and all sub-titles within it
- Dark Arts
- Department of Mysteries
- Godric Gryffindor and Gryffindor house
- Harry Potter
- Helga Hufflepuff and Hufflepuffhouse
- Hermione Granger
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Hogwarts Castle
- House of Black
- List of spells
- Lord Voldemort
- Love Potion but most specifically Amortentia
- Luna Lovegood
- Magic
- Ministry of Magic
- Neville Longbottom
- Quidditch
- Ron Weasley
- Rowena Ravenclaw and Ravenclaw house
- Salazar Slytherin and Slytherin house
- Seven
- Severus Snape
- Wandlore
- Wizarding currency
Pages I've made, major edits, and other contributions
- Hogwarts Kitchens
- House-elf magic
- Phoenix feathers
- Unicorn hair
- Dragon heartstring
- Philosopher's Stone Chambers
- a bunch of tiny edits here and there
- "Did You Know" Fact: ...the Ministry of Magic visitor's code to get in through the phone booth was the combination 6-2-4-4-2 which can spell out "magic"?
- "Did You Know" Fact:......that Squibs cannot see Dementors?
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The title track on Scotty McCreery's debut album is called "Clear as Day." It's about teenagers drinking and driving. Over the weekend, I asked McCreery, 18, how he avoided the pressure to go down that wrong path in high school.
"I could never get over wanting to have control over my body. Not having control was just never my thing," he told me. "And so I just stayed away from it. If you're away from it, you can't get caught into it. If you have your mind made up before you get into those situations, it's pretty easy to say no."
That's sage advice from a man so young. But I think surrounding himself with like-minded teenagers was also key to his smart decision-making.
"I had friends who were in that lifestyle, I guess. But not my close friends. The friends I hung out with the most and spend most of my time with, we are just not into that stuff. We don't have any interest," he said.
Written by Casey Beathard, Phil O'Donnell and Adam Wheeler, the song is one of my favorites on the album. Because of McCreery's spin on it, yes, but also because the message that one wrong choice ("I walked you to your brother's Silverado/When he climbed behind the wheel he seemed OK") is all it takes to turn a post-game party into a tragedy.

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How do you cope with aging?
I've been thinking about that question since first exploring it two years ago on Next Avenue. This time, I was prompted to add to my list after a rather unusual conversation with my doctor.
Below are seven of my self-care "do's." What are yours?
Saying "No" to the doctor is a powerful way to step off the medical merry-go-round when you're sick of the ride, sick of the appointments, sick of the tests and all the follow-up conversations — and sick of thinking of yourself as a patient instead of as a whole person.
Of course, I would have agreed to the tests if I thought I was putting my health in danger. But after I rebelled, even the doctor agreed that "waiting and seeing" would do no harm.
Due to an antibiotic that never should have been prescribed for me, I have a troubled Achilles tendon. Every day, I have to remember to protect it from further injury. (No more hopping over flower boxes.)
I do all the exercises that strengthen the tendon, and I sometimes play cheerleader. "The Achilles tendon," I tell mine, "is the longest and the strongest tendon in the body. You will get better."
Leslie Davenport, a psychotherapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, is all for staying educated and informed. But, she adds, "The dramatic and distressing aspects of the news — whatever one's affiliations — have many people obsessing, going far beyond what is useful or healthy."
Turn away from the news from time to time, she says. Hey, the circus will continue without you while you go for a walk.
Also, it's important to educate yourself beyond any brochures provided by your therapist or doctor. You may want to read Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, a science journalist with her own back pain. Spoiler alert: What finally worked for her was a multidisciplinary therapy program. Inspired by her experience, I've enrolled in a pain management clinic.
At 69, I need other lotions, potions, creams, unguents, oils and balms to moisturize crepey skin, soften thinning lips and hydrate brittle nails. I'm not picky; I tend to buy whatever is on sale. Plus, one circle of friends willingly shares recommendations for inexpensive skin care products. Sometimes, on holidays, we even give each other tubes of favorite hand creams as gifts.
If this advice comes a little late for you, Aaranson cautions against what podiatrists call "bathroom surgery with filthy tools." See a doctor instead.
If your feet hurt, that's another reason to visit a podiatrist. "Feet are not supposed to hurt," Aaranson says. "Ever." Plus, when you adjust your gait to protect sore feet, you can throw your hips and spine out of alignment. Remember: Everything is connected.
"I suddenly understood that my job and the tension I carried all the time was not good for my cells," he said. He ended that phone call and proceeded to quit his job, effective immediately. That story affects me deeply to this day, and I often make decisions based on what's good for my cells.
That's why I spoke up at the doctor's office when she recommended additional tests. I'm already managing a couple of health conditions, and I don't have any interest in taking on more. At this point in my life, no matter what hurts or isn't working quite right, it's important to make time for joy.
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LA HABRA, Calif. -- When Max Igoe was 5 years old, breast cancer claimed the life of his mother's best friend, 37-year-old Beth Rorman. The little boy found himself expressing his pain with the kind of idea only a kindergartner might conceive: a lemonade stand.
"It's just the first thing that popped into my head," said Max, now 14.
Nicki Igoe, Max's mother, said her son was aware her friend was sick.
"He knew that she had something called cancer," she recalled. Rorman battled the illness for some 10 years.
Max told his mom he would set up a lemonade stand near their La Habra home, and raise money for breast cancer research. Maybe even help them discover a cure.
"I explained to him that it wasn't the olden days. That people don't buy lemonade from peoples' driveways like they used to," Nicki said.
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This weekend, they will set up Max's stand for the ninth year in a row after years full of hundreds of gallons of pink sweet liquid, numerous raffles, "casino-night" fundraisers and days of labor.
Max has exceeded his wildest dreams: "We've raised over $80,000."
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Samehada (鮫肌, Literally meaning: Shark Skin) is a large sentient sword, comparable in size to the Kubikiribōchō. It is described as "the most terrifying of all the Seven Swordsmen's blades"[1] and even earned the title of "greatsword" (大刀, daitō), further adding to its fearsome reputation.
Mangetsu Hōzuki was said to have been able to use all seven blades, including Samehada. However, Fuguki Suikazan was the primary wielder of this blade at the time. Later on, after Kisame Hoshigaki killed Fuguki, the blade came into his possession.[2] The two had a long history together and during this period, confronted various renowned shinobi on several occasions, with their pairing leading Kisame to become regarded as a "Tailed Beast without a Tail" (尾を持たない尾獣, O o Motanai Bijū, English TV: Tailless Tailed Beast).[3][4] They were together for so long, in fact, that their chakra signatures eventually became identical, which Kisame could use to his advantage by concealing himself within Samehada in order to avoid detection by sensors. When Kisame defected from Kirigakure, he took Samehada with him, thus leading the village to lose another of their seven blades.
During Kisame's initial fight with Killer B, Samehada grew fond of the taste of B's particular chakra and ultimately betrayed Kisame, although being one of Zetsu's clone in disguise, returning some of the chakra it had previously absorbed from B during their battle and even shielding him from his attacks. Despite this, Kisame was still able to force Samehada to comply to his commands, allowing him to hide within it and infiltrate Kumogakure as a spy, before forcefully using it to absorb B's chakra when his presence was exposed.
After Kisame's death, Samehada actually cries for him, not only bestowing the blade with even more life-like characteristics but also standing as a testament to the bond shared between the two. Now in B's possession, Samehada kept five of his Supervibrato Lightning Release Swords within it, to better assist him during the events of the Fourth Shinobi World War.[5]
Though mostly wrapped in bandages, Samehada's construction is atypical in that its actual blade is comprised from a series of downward facing scales running along the entirety of its length until its hilt, at the base of which is a small skull. Samehada grows larger in proportion to the amount of chakra it absorbs, causing its scales to become so long that they ultimately resemble shark fins and its mouth, located at the tip of the blade, to become even more pronounced. Keeping Samehada wrapped in bandages apparently helps to inhibit this growth to a certain extent.
Samehada is unique for being a sentient weapon that gains nourishment from the chakra of others and as such, the blade is at its happiest when engorged with chakra that possesses both a distinctive and pleasant flavour. It apparently greatly enjoys Killer B's chakra since, according to Kisame, it tastes like octopus. However, it has shown displeasure towards fire-natured chakra, stating that — according to B — it's far too hot. Being capable of conscious thought, Samehada chooses its own user, an exclusive process that has often resulted in it being thought of as notoriously picky. If someone it disapproves of attempts to wield it, spikes protrude from the handle in order to force them to release their grasp, at which point Samehada will make efforts to return to its chosen owner. Even if it did betray its former owner for a more powerful wielder like Killer B, the blade was at least close enough to Kisame to mourn his death.
As the blade is made up of scales, it inflicts injuries through shredding or shaving what it comes into contact with, rather than just cutting the object in question. This flaying effect is similar to a shark's skin, hence the sword's name. While it ordinarily remains rigid, Samehada's hilt is able to stretch and bend to great extent, allowing the weapon to be used like a flail.[6] To supplement the blade's offensive capabilities, it is able to extend its scales to spikes. It is also able to protrude spikes from its handle.
Samehada shares a symbiotic relationship with its wielder, similar to that of the kikaichū. Although it continually consumes the chakra of its owner, its largest meals come from fights, wherein it absorbs the chakra of the opposition instead. Such an ability allows Samehada to literally slice through an opponent's techniques, in spite of whether the chakra has been transformed or not,[7] and even prevent them from being performed by absorbing all of the necessary chakra, before preparations can be completed.[8][9] This is particularly useful when fighting jinchūriki, as Samehada can quickly deplete their large chakra supplies as well as remove their chakra cloaks, illustrated when Killer B was reduced back to Version 1 after initially being in Version 2. B noted that it can near instantly absorb up to six of his tails at once.[10] In fact, although B came into contact with the blade several times in his battle against Kisame, the sword drained nearly all of his chakra, causing the latter to resort solely on Gyūki's.[11] In the anime it was even capable of "eating" a "Version Two" Tailed Beast Ball.[12] However, it seems to be unable to automatically absorb ambient chakra, as in all instances where it has absorbed chakra are when either the opponent had a visible aura around them or when direct physical contact had already been established.[8][9] The more chakra it absorbs, the larger it can become. Due to its voracious appetite, Samehada is drawn to those with large chakra supplies, allowing it to be used as a quasi-sensor.
While the ability to absorb chakra is useful in defeating opponents, it is also beneficial to the user as well. Samehada has the ability to transfer the chakra it has absorbed to the wielder by partially fusing with them, so it can be used to either revitalise the wielders chakra and stamina or instantly heal even fatal injuries. This makes the user of this sword extremely difficult to defeat conventionally. A wielder such as Kisame can take this fusion one step further, by completely merging with Samehada. Doing so causes him to become much more shark-like in appearance, growing fins and webbed hands that allow him to move through water with considerable ease. Kisame also receives some of Samehada's abilities while in this form, such as being able to extend spikes from his body for offence, and absorbing chakra when others come into direct contact with him, as well as the ability to track chakra and avoid sensors.[13]
- Suigetsu Hōzuki noted that he wanted to acquire Samehada (along with the other five blades lost to missing-nin) for himself, something he planned to accomplish by defeating Kisame.[14]
- ↑ Chapter 468, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 507, page 12
- ↑ Chapter 468, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 471, page 15
- ↑ Chapter 549, page 16
- ↑ Chapter 470, page 12
- ↑ Chapter 468, page 5
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 146, pages 16-17
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 506, page 4
- ↑ Chapter 471, page 13
- ↑ Chapter 471, page 9
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 318
- ↑ Chapter 472, pages 8-11
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Friday, August 03, 2007
Happy Mee
Happy Mee (noodles) refers to this prawn noodles which really made my day. Hey, it doesn't take a $XXXX 3-Michelin-starred haute dinner to make my day ok... Although that could possibly make my year! But I digress.
The prawn noodles here at Beach Road Prawn Mee Eating House (Note, it's in East Coast Road and not Beach Road despite the name.) are really good.
For the Prawn Noodles in Soup ($4), I opted for chor bee hoon (thick vermicelli). The soup was nicely prawny and the hours of boiling with pork bones really showed. But it somehow got 'diluted' by the chor bee hoon I guess. The soup that came with the dry version was much more robust. A good thing that it didn't have that strong rock sugar sweetness that most stalls tend to over do, by a lot. The dish was beautifully enhanced by the shallot and pork oil that was drizzled over it.
The two decently-sized prawns were succulent and thankfully not overcooked. They also did not have the 'super alkaline treatment' which would have transformed them to 'super alkaline prawns' with super crunchiness. Super (artificial) crunchiness is some thing that I don't quite favour. A little may be alright but any more and it's a turn-off. The prawns here are a bit more 'natural' in that sense i guess.
For $1 more, you can have pork ribs added to your prawn mee, but at the sacrifice of a prawn I must say. I found the servings of small, scrawny pork ribs unsatisfying, especially at the cost of $1 and a prawn.
I wish that they had added more kang kong and bean sprouts.
But the dry version of the noodles was delicious. It evoked memories of myself as a primary school boy eating at the tuckshop in the old Saint Andrews Junior. It must have been that same mix of pork oil, fried shallots, ketchup and chilli in the yellow egg noodles. And here I present to you the 6th taste after sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami.... Nostalgia! It's a powerful taste that is so very personal. Food that evokes memories of yesteryear are indeed powerful and most often flavoursome. Food taste better with memories added to it. Don't you agree?
School starts next Monday, bringing an end to the long holidays. Now what a spoiler.
Beach Road Prawn Mee Eating House
370 East Coast Road
Opens: 8am - 3pm daily
Closed on Tuesdays.
Chew On This: According to this stall, prawn mee originated from Xiamen and was first introduced to Singapore by the Lee family who learnt the secret recipe from the Xiamen immigrants. The stall is currently run by the 3rd generation of Lee's.
4 comments:
- Jazon said...
Saint Andrew's Prawn Noodle!! So wanna try it now.. :P
- 1:08 am
- Yi Ling said...
I only have a vague impression of the beach road prawn mee, but ur entry suddenly gave me a craving to eat it. haha.. oh man, it's been so long since i've eaten good prawn mee! =p anyway, school's starting, and it's so super sian
-_-" oh well, faster start faster end right? see u in school!
- 8:50 pm
- Bottomless Pit said...
What a coincidence!I just had the same prawn noodle on fri!!! hahaha yeah i loved it really good but i have to agree that i wasn't a fan of the tiny weeny pork ribs which was mostly bones. Have you tried the "chilli noodles" from beach road food centre? (where the army market is) It kinda of fit your description of the saint andrew's prawn noodle ..but don't expect large prawns but u get pork ribs and prawns for $2!
- 1:42 am
- The Hungry Cow said...
jazon: It's a taste that has been lost together with the really old, before face-lift, SAJS school building.
yiling: Yes, it's food like this that makes us strong to weather the new term. Haha.
bottomless pit: Yea, scrawny pork ribs are not enticing at all. I've heard about that sarawak mee stall that you have brought up but have yet to try it. But I'll sure to give it a try the next time I'm there. Thanks!
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Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services. In this guest blog post, Scott writes about finding old newspapers articles about a foreign-study program called "World Campus Afloat" that he once participated in—the same program, it turns out, that a family member had attended years earlier.
As a genealogical historian I often include what some people might call the "back story" on many of my ancestors. I, however, much prefer to call it the "front story." I take great enjoyment and pride in being able to add more to my family members' profiles on my family tree than just facts, figures, and dates. I think of each person's profile as a quilt. As a result, I need to find and attach as many of the unique squares—the stories—that represent their lives. I believe a terrific place to find such ancestor stories is in the historical newspapers of the time.
So it was that I found myself using GenealogyBank.com while I was working on stitching up the "quilt" for one of our family members. I had made the discovery that they, too, had attended "Semester at Sea," the same foreign-study program that I had, although they had done it many years before I attended. Not being familiar with this program's roots, I decided to take a look for what was originally named the "University of the Seven Seas." Not expecting much, I was amazed to find that my search provided me with over 240 results!
The first article I read was a terrific find from the Springfield Union. It featured an article that covered more than half a page of newsprint and told a detailed story about the very first voyage ever undertaken by the University of the Seven Seas program, and featured the first Academic Dean and a local student as well.
The next article I read was published in the Boston Herald. Again I found that the wonderful focus on detail provided by good newspaper reporting paid dividends: the news article listed dates of sailing, duration of the voyages, and ports of call. It also gave a bit of history, talked about the partners in the program at that time, and gave some personal insights by students.
My next discovery led me to the fact that the program officially changed names from the "University of the Seven Seas" to "World Campus Afloat." Thanks to another capable newspaperwoman or man, this fact was nicely showcased in an old article published in the Trenton Evening Times and provided me with yet more detailed information.
From a report in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from the "Historical Documents" portion of the GenealogyBank.com database, I learned that a member of the program's faculty testified on United States policy toward Asia in front of a subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee in 1966. It was interesting to read the biography of this individual, Dr. C. Y. Pan, and then to follow along and read his actual testimony.
At this point I had lost all track of time and must have read more than 50 historical articles and scanned many more, but another one caught my eye and I had to keep going. It was published in the Greensboro Daily News, and when I opened the article—there was an old classmate of mine looking back at me from the newspaper photograph showing up on my computer screen!
I was about to conclude my searching for the evening when I found one more article of interest. Sadly, it was an obituary for the actor Jeff Corey. Jeff had been our Actor-in-Residence, drama professor, and a wonderfully friendly, open, and approachable member of our shipboard faculty. This was certainly a bittersweet find.
So not only did I find enough material to more fully tell the story about my family member as I had set out to do, but I also found out a great deal more about an educational organization we both attended. In doing so, I rekindled old memories of my own. What a tremendous side benefit to my family tree research!
Do you have anything like this in common with your ancestors? If so, please share with us in the comments. We love to hear your family stories.


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Men's Lacrosse back at Liberty
February 23, 2011 | Lynchburg, VA
Kyle McQuillan remembers the chaos. He remembers the pain. He remembers the tragedy.
McQuillan was a member of the 2006 Liberty University men's lacrosse team that was involved in a horrific car accident returning from a game in Alabama.
"It was difficult right away because we lost seven guys to injury," McQuillan said.
Liberty University's club lacrosse team has been in and out of competition almost from the beginning of the school's existence. After the accident, it has taken years to rebuild.
With student interest in mind, McQuillan, who graduated in 2007, was asked to be the head coach for the new men's lacrosse club team.
"It was awesome to be considered and bring lacrosse back," McQuillan said.
The tryouts brought more than 40 students fighting to make the team back in September.
Everyone on the team has played lacrosse either in high school or club, but the skill level still is different among the players.
"Right now we are getting the rust off, especially (for) me because it has been so long," McQuillan said.
Although the team is not playoff eligible this year, they are looking forward to competing during the regular season.
"Elon, in North Carolina, is and always has been a rival to us," McQuillan said. "Because we aren't playoff contenders, I consider this our little Super Bowl."
With a 23-man roster, and players from Pennsylvania to California to Canada, McQuillan is excited to have a diverse team.
"At this point, they are a good bunch of guys, and they have taken this team and made it their own," McQuillan said. "We are just trying to find out what kind of team we are going to be."
This is Liberty's first year back with men's lacrosse, and the team has a rookie year mentality.
"After a couple games they should grow out of the excuse of it being their first year," McQuillan said.
The Flames played their first home match on Feb. 12, defeating Costal Carolina, 9-8. The team defeated UNC Charlotte, 13-12 Saturday and looks to take on the University of Richmond March 2 in Richmond.


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Rabbi Chanina remarked, "I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and the most from my students" (Ta'anis 7a). If we open ourselves up to the possibilities, then almost every interaction is an opportunity to learn. We learn something unique from our teachers, from our peers, and from our students. Ethics of the Fathers advises us that a wise man learns from everyone. Our Torah sages were referring to opportunities for growth or wisdom and not just the acquisition of information, which is most easily satisfied online these days.
Yet sometimes the information is a key to wisdom. Sometimes it unlocks doors, opens our eyes, reveals insights or is a cautionary tale. Last Friday was all of the above. We "learned" about a destructive phenomenon occurring in American high schools involving the popular drug Ritalin. While Ritalin calms down children with ADHD, it has the opposite effect on those who don't have this diagnosis. It is an amphetamine, colloquially an upper.
Apparently children with ADHD are selling their Ritalin to their classmates who believe the extra energy and focus helps them do better on their exams (and you thought steroids in baseball were only hurting the players).
Our mouths dropped open. There are so many things wrong with this story – the kids who need the drug that aren't taking it, the drive to make a quick buck no matter the consequences to either party, and the unbelievable pressure to "succeed" that seems to compel these children to seek "help". When The Rolling Stones sang about "Mother's Little Helper," at least they were talking about adults. These are our children at risk.
How much pressure are we putting on them that drugs have become the path to success?
How much pressure are we putting on them that drugs have become the path to success? And how have we defined success? Is it only about acceptance and attendance at an Ivy League school? That's certainly a very narrow and limiting definition.
Are any of us focusing our children on just doing their best, even if they get a B average, even if they (horror of horrors) go to a state school? Are any of us rewarding them and praising them for demonstrations of good character instead of good grades? Are they becoming who we really want them to be? And are they equipped with the tools they'll need to successfully navigate adulthood? (The non-pharmaceutical tools that is!)
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, of blessed memory, a prominent American rabbi of the last generation, was once addressing the issue of cheating in high school. He said that if the cheating led to better grades which in turn led to college acceptance and then to a job then all the money earned was considered stolen. All the "success" was due to cheating and thereby nullified.
I can't help but think the same about success earned through artificial (or possibly illegal) stimulants.
Not only is it an ill-gotten gain but it's hard to imagine the havoc this wreaks on a child's self-esteem. The accomplishment is perceived to be due to the drugs and not to their own effort or talents. They believe themselves dependent on the medication and unable to achieve without this assistance. That is perhaps the biggest cost of all. (To be clear, I'm discussing kids who are not prescribed the medication. I realize some children who have ADD benefit from Ritalin, even though there is much discussion that it is overly prescribed.)
It's time for parents to look below the surface of the good grades and determine what price is too high. It's time to ease up the pressure so children can feel a sense of accomplishment without help. It's time to regain perspective on what success is and to communicate a healthy message to our children.
It wasn't pearls of wisdom that were shared with us Friday night. But it was important. And it was a wake-up call. It forced all of us to re-examine our perspective and priorities and energized us to help others do the same.
There was definitely something to learn. I just hope we internalized the lesson.


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HAHAHAHAHA tree of life !"!!!1
HAHAHAHAHA tree of life !"!!!1
So am I the only one disappointed by the uselessness that in-game power auras brings to ELE sham, as in no lava surge/rolling thunder (LvB reset/ lightning shield charges), any ideas on a nice alternative? Couldn't figure out how to get needtoknow working with either (something besides NTK is fine to me if simpler, msbt might work?).
EU Maintenance extended, now scheduled to end at 04:00PM CST as well, instead of 12:00PM
And when the fuck is that?
Actually your terribly wrong. There was an article my friend told me about in the English Times. Blizzard have made a total of 2.5Billion Sterling and yet only spent 240million, on everything from blizzcons - expansions - salaries - Servers and so on. Now 250million may seem like a lot but compared to a 2.5billion worth its nothing at all. Blizzard are renowned for their capitalist scumming. They'd sell you toilet paper for 500% its value if they could. They dont give a shit about me or you and certainly not about their gamers. All they care about and i quote one of them saying "We are aware that since the wotlk expansion players have been getting more and more turned off. All we can do is ride out the rest of the storm and hope to make as much as we can until the boat sinks". Does that not disgust you as a gamer of one of their products? How about if i told you the spirit healers have been found out to be using subliminal messages? Check youtube if you dont believe it.
Cataclysm imo will be the end of wow as we old members, know it. I'm a wpvper since 5 years ago and ive seen the drastic changes to pvp. From the disastrous battleground designs to the player balance wank. Now their attacking everything on a grander scale. So for me once the first few weeks of ganking questers is over i'll prolly take my guild and friends with me to Guild Wars2 or one of the Battlefield Series.
The most of these changes are going to have such an effect on player vs player that the game will be unplayable and un-enjoyable!
New tree of life looks nice. I'm guess they are (in order from right side to left) night elf, troll, worgen, tauren respectively.
Anyone else has water engine bugging if you adjust it higher than "Fair" while using DX9? If I do that I see only gray spots and lines where water should be, and if I adjust it on "Fair" it looks even worse than before patch.
My GPU is Radeon HD 4830 and I'm using WinXP with Dx9 (ofc).
Hello m8s!
I can't even log in...when it finishes downloading the patch(or checking the files) and the loading patch screen is on it keeps asking me for cataclysm cd...
anyone had this prob or knows what to do?
Hey look the new Abomination Form.
(Though I'll admit the colours are pretty.)
Caster DPS is crazy! Very much crazy.
What is the realmlist?????


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These books describe the rise and development of kingship in Israel. Samuel is a pivotal figure. He bridges the gap between the period of the Judges and the monarchy, and guides Israel's transition to kingship. A Deuteronomistic editor presents both positive and negative traditions about the monarchy, portraying it both as evidence of Israel's rejection of the Lord as their sovereign (1 Sm 8:6–22; 12:1–25) and as part of God's plan to deliver the people (1 Sm 9:16; 10:17–27; 2 Sm 7:8–17). Samuel's misgivings about abuse of royal power foreshadow the failures and misdeeds of Saul and David and the failures of subsequent Israelite kings.
Although the events described in 1 and 2 Samuel move from the last of the judges to the decline of David's reign and the beginning of a legendary "Golden Age" under Solomon's rule, this material does not present either a continuous history or a systematic account of this period. The author/editor developed a narrative timeline around freely composed speeches, delivered by prophets like Samuel (e.g., 1 Sm 15:10–31; 28:15–19) and Nathan (2 Sm 12:1–12), who endorse Deuteronomistic perspectives regarding the establishment of the monarchy, the relationship between worship and obedience, and the divine covenant established with the house of David.
These books include independent blocks (e.g., the Ark Narrative [1 Sm 4:1–7:1], Saul's rise to power [1 Sm 9:1–11:15], David's ascendancy over Saul [1 Sm 16–31], the Succession Narrative [2 Sm 9–20; 1 Kgs 1–2]), which the editor shaped into three narrative cycles, the last two marked by transitional passages in 1 Sm 13:1 and 2 Sm 1:1. Each section focuses on a major figure in the development of the monarchy: Samuel, the reluctant king maker (1 Sm 1–12); Saul, the king whom the Lord rejects (1 Sm 13–31); David, the king after the Lord's own heart (2 Sm 1–24). A common theme unites these narratives: Israel's God acts justly, prospering those who remain faithful and destroying those who reject his ways (1 Sm 2:9). Along with the rest of the Deuteronomistic History, the Books of Samuel become an object lesson for biblical Israel as it tries to re-establish its religious identity after the destruction of Jerusalem and the loss of its homeland (587/586 B.C.).
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Michael Scannell - Justin Upton: Oh Really?
Upton rejected a trade to the Mariners that would have sent Nick Franklin, Taijuan Walker, and 2 relievers to Arizona. There are a lot of data points we can pull from this deal:
- Upton is available
- AZ is still looking for a SS in a trade for him
- An acquiring team will have to include a pitching prospect to get him
- While the Mariners deal was accepted, it wasn't necessarily the minimum to get Upton, just the best offered.
- Meaning - Another team could conceivably come in with a similar but slightly lesser offer and acquire Upton.
Off the bat, a comparable deal for the Mets would be Zach Wheeler, Wilmer Flores, Bobby Parnell, and Josh Edgin. As much as I like Upton, if that were a price I'd be willing to meet, I'd improve that offer and then shop it to Miami for Stanton. From that standpoint, it's a non-starter.
It had been speculated that teams interested in Upton earlier this winter were looking to first acquire Asdrubal Cabrera from Cleveland and then flip him to Arizona for the slugger. A couple of three-team deals had been rumored been never materialized. I think the Mets should revisit this strategy for their own concerns. What would the cost for Cabrera be? It's not possible to be certain, however we can also look at the Phillies' failed attempt to acquire the SS in November. Their offer was said to be what they dealt for Ben Revere - Vance Worley and Trevor May. The offer was close, but couldn't sway Cleveland.
By using the Philly offer as a baseline, the Mets could offer Dillon Gee and Lucas Duda. Gee is a comparable pitcher to Worley and Duda is a solid upgrade to May. Although May has a live arm, he was 23 in AA and did not perform very well at all. Duda already has some major league seasoning, carries 20-25 HR power, and would give the Indians their best DH option and a young replacement for Travis Hafner.
How would this affect a trade package in comparison to Seattle's offer? Cabrera brings more value than Frankin does. Although I believe Franklin has the talent to eventually be better than Cabrera, Asdrubal has already been to two All-Star games and earned a Silver Slugger. Because Cabrera is an established MLB star player, the Mets would likely not have to include a TOR pitching prospect (Wheeler, Harvey, Syndergaard) as well. I think someone like Fulmer would be an attractive trade piece. If not for the recent acquisition of Noah Syndergaard, I would think of Fulmer as untouchable. Now, the organization has increased depth and I wouldn't be against moving him for someone like Upton. To cover the remaining 2 relievers, I would offer only Bobby Parnell to start. Why? The Seattle offer didn't go through and other offers might not be a strong. No need to set the market....start with this and see what AZ's counter is.
To sum up, the three-team deal would look like this:
METS - Justin Upton
DIAMONDBACKS - Asdrubal Cabrera, Michael Fulmer, Bobby Parnell
INDIANS - Dillon Gee, Lucas Duda
This does not include any additional players that might be requested by Cleveland or Arizona, nor does it include any additional players coming to the Mets to balance out the trade. In total, the Mets would be trading Dillon Gee, Lucas Duda, Michael Fulmer, and Bobby Parnell for Justin Upton. Would you make this deal? I certainly would.
Dillon Gee can be replaced in the rotation by Jenrry Mejia. Gee was slated to fill the #5 spot in the rotation anyway (with the Mets looking to sign a FA to go with Santana, Harvey, and Niese) so I don't think that allowing Mejia the chance to prove himself would be awful. In fact, I think he can replicate Gee's 4.10 2012 ERA as well as add more K's. Duda's lineup spot is taken by Upton, so there is no organizational subtraction there. As mentioned above, Syndergaard's arrival makes Fulmer expendable, and the Mets' organizational pitching depth and/or salary flexibility should make replacing Parnell relatively easy. The Mets might have to add one of their other live-arm talents (Cory Mazzoni?) or athletes (Jordanny Valdespin?) to either side of this deal, but I'd still make the trade. Getting Upton without including any core prospects is a steal any way you look at it.
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- The Closer said...
Michael, exactly the type of thinking that would potentially get a guy like Upton in Flushing. I'm all in favor for a deal like this or similar to this.
I was thinking of a deal like this myself, just not a 3 way deal, but Dillon Gee and Bobby Parnell were in the deal, as well as Wilmer Flores and basically anyone else not named Wheeler, Harvey, Syndergard, D'arnaud. I would basically give them a list of 10 players, tell them to pick 3 and we pick 1 and see where that takes us. I don't see any other teams blowing them away with trade offers for him and frankly I don't think anyone else will.
If Kevin Towers is demanding anyone of our big 4, well then pass, but if he's willing to take quantity of quality players, then we certainly can match up well with them to make a reasonable deal. We have a lot of extra guys we can throw in as a 5th player as well if needed, Satin, Lutz, Valdespin, McHugh, etc that are ML ready, but not part of our future to sweeten the pot if needed.
- January 15, 2013 at 2:55 PM
- Charles said...
I would Not do that deal and the reason is the cost of starting pitching.
Even mediocre pitchers are getting a lot of money, so why would the Mets hand over three pitchers with multiple years of control left for a outfielder that is average at best away from his hitter friendly home ballpark?
Gee, Parnell are both solid major leaguers. The cost of both of them on today's market is A LOT more then Upton's next three years. Now, you'd have to replace them with at least the same quality to make this trade even improve the club. The Mets starting rotation and bullpen are already short and now you'd be really killing it.
I could see parting with Fulmer, Flores, Duda, and another player that isn't on the ML roster or one of the Mets other top prospects.
For Stanton? Yes I make that deal. He's a proven commodity. Upton just has not lived up to his potential. I'm not depleting my rotation and bullpen for a guy I am hoping reaches his potential. With that type of deal, both parties must take that chance. That's why Seattle's package was centered on prospects. Arizona also had to hope it worked out. Check out the splits, Upton is not the same player away from Arizona.
- January 15, 2013 at 3:30 PM
- Mack Ade said...
We probably need to put this subject down.
Heyman reports that any deal HAS to have Zack Wheeler in it and the Mets are not going to do that.
It's not worth discussing because they have decided that they will build their future on a 1-2 of Harvey and Wheeler.
- January 15, 2013 at 4:02 PM
- Hobie said...
I guess I'm just not that confident on what Upton nrimgs. His 2010 & 2012 were very Duda-like, and that's the composite Duda. Upton's 2009/11 were clearly superior to the better Duda, and there's the defense of course. Duda could be Dunn-lite or a LH Swoboda; I think the jury is still out but certainly there's a gap between the expected value of Duda v. Upton.
But remember we're not adding JU to a Duda + Gowgill + whatever OF, we'd be replacing. So the question is: what is the value of the delta? Is it Gee + Parnell + Fulmer? Tough question, but I have my doubts.
- January 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM
- Hobie said...
That's actually a relief, Mack.
Sign Hairston an continue to explore any number of your Target OF'ers.
- January 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- Charles said...
I agree, put a fork in it.
- January 15, 2013 at 4:30 PM
- Herb G said...
You guys who are ready to bury the Upton trade talks, don't be too hasty to buy a headstone. One dark night soon, Justin could come crawling up out of the grave, brought to life by DR. Frankensandy and his henchman Igor Towers. How many times did we hear that the Dickey talks with this team were going nowhere, and with that team were going nowhere, and . . . suddenly he was wearing a Blue Jays cap.
With due respect, I won't talk down the idea of an Upton trade anymore, at least until the rumors of renewed talks surface once again.
- January 15, 2013 at 10:16 PM
- Mack Ade said...
Guys, I'm going to take the morning report in a more generic direction up to Spring Training.
As I much I hate to admit it, denying me press passes after having them for the years of 2007-2010 just huts so much. The short version is actually a long one.
I was a legitimate beat reporter for Morris New Services that owned the Savannah Morning News in Savannah. I was assigned to write a full pahe feature on the Sand Gnats for thee years (2007-2010). I filed with Jay and he supplied full press passed for ST because I was a beat report. (sorry for spelling... meds have kicked in).
The problem began when I arrived and the beat reporters didn't know I was a newspaper reporter. They thought I had violated the No blogger in the clubohuse" policy that was in affect at the time,
Jay became very hostile and made considerable inquiries asking if I was "broadcasting live in the clubhouse. I had no idea what he was talking about.
Anyway, I was poisoned to Jay and pained as a bloogger not a reporter. I thin one of them was Rubin. Another could have been Tobi Stoner. And lastly, possibly Joe DeCarlo. I really don't know but Jay refuses to give me any explanation, removed me from the daily press release, doesn't include me in the blogger teleconference and and breaks my heart one a year.
Many have asked if they could stand uo for me but, for their sake, Iask they that stay out of this.
It's just sad. I' sure I did something, but I just don't remember what it is and wish I had an explanation.
Sorry for the spelling. I'm really shot up at this point in the night
- January 15, 2013 at 10:43 PM
- Michael S. said...
Closer - Thanks! If the Mets were to deal for Upton, it would have to be for lesser players than their top prospects. He's a talented player who fits a position of need (Power-hitting RH OF) and there are only a few who might be available, but moving anyone of consequence wouldn't be getting good value.
Charles - I think you're greatly overvaluing Gee at this point. He's a solid #5 starter, maybe a #4 on a second-tier team. Hardly a player you'd hold onto rather than acquire a potential MVP player. This is also considering that if he has a future here, it's likely going to be as a back-end starter (easily replaceable) or in the bullpen (ditto). Parnell is talented but the Mets could very easily sell high. With the organization building up its pitching depth, moving a bullpen arm won't kill them in the long run. I'm not concerned about the 2013 bullpen if it gets the team another foundation piece going forward. Removing Gee and Parnell to acquire a power-hitting OF makes the overall team better, we wouldn't be trading anyone irreplaceable like Matt Harvey or Jon Niese.
Gee and Parnell are worth more over the next 3 years than Upton? Then Sandy should shop the two of them on the open market and see if he can bring back a Nick Franklin and Tajuan Wagner. I understand that starting pitching is valuable, but the Mets have to give to get and this way they'd be able to hold onto their really valuable assets.
I'm not worried about Upton's splits. The same was said of Matt Holliday and he adjusted fine once he left Coors. Upton was a #1 overall pick and performed at a high level in the minors (Top 10 overall for 2 years). I can't see him coming here and being just an average player.
He's only 25 and already has a silver slugger, a top-25 MVP finish and a top-5 MVP finish. He isn't the best (Stanton) but he's damn good and would be a solid improvement to the lineup.
Fulmer, Flores, Duda, + would also be an acceptable trade package and still be a steal. I would hope to hold onto Flores for another trade though. I just think he'll have more trade value than Gee. A lot of teams will be looking for a young 3B and he could be their answer.
Hobie - Upton is decidedly better than Duda and he's the much better bet going forward. This is as much a 2014-15 move as a 2013 move. I don't see Duda playing a significant role on the team by then.
If the Mets decided that they wanted to go into 2013 with an OF of Valdespin-Nieuwenhuis-Upton, I could happily live with that.
SS Tejada
LF Valdespin
3B Wright
1B Davis
RF Upton
2B Murphy
Ca d'Arnaud
CF Nieuwenhuis
...would be good enough for this year. The Mets will still have to add 2 more OF anyway, might as well get one of the 3 needed when the opportunity presents itself.
You're right, there are questions about Upton, but based on all other players that could fit the bill, it's a gamble worth taking especially given his age and upside.
Mack - Okay, noted. I wrote this before Heyman's tweet. I'm doubtful as to whether it's "impossible" without Wheeler, but the Mets aren't desperate for Upton so the Dbacks can pound sand if that's what they require.
Herb - Never say never...
- January 16, 2013 at 12:43 AM
- The Closer said...
Upton's trade value will come down, especially of Bourn resigns with Atlanta or Texas. Remember the Johan trade? In this case, wheeler = F-Mart and Of course Towers would ask for our best prospects. Towers knows that Upton will not be a happy camper come ST, so getting the most value for him now, might be something hes interested in. I think the biggest point I'd like to mention is the Justin Upton is only 25 years old!!! He already has 108 Hrs to hit record.
Most prospects arejust breaking into the bigs and hes been around for a few years. I remember seeing an age chart about when players hit their peak performance and if I remember correctly, the best years were 26-29, which is what Upton is entering this season. We don't exactly have anyone like him coming up (Courtney Hawkins would have been nice lol) and I'm of the opinion that Dillon Gee and Bobby Parnell are very expendable considering how I value Upton and knowing starting pitching is where we have some depth in the minor leagues and can replace. Dillon Gee is nothing more than #4 or #5 starter at best and Bobby Parnell hasn't exactly flourished to this point. It's much easier to replace a mid rotation starter and a bullpen arm than a guy that can hit .280/25/85 in an average season.
I guess we'll just need to agree to disagree since we all value Upton very differently. I think his trade value will come down and he can potentially be had without giving up our future core guys, but if not then we move on, but just remember Stanton will potentially cost a whole LOT more than Upton will and he will have many suitors for his services, which will drive his value sky high.
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Lindsay Lohan, who brought sequined pasties to Paris Fashion Week, said her fashions flat-lined because she's, well, clueless.
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The 23-year-old starlet was the creative consultant behind the Ungaro collection that was widely panned as an "an embarrassment," the clothes "cheesy" and the work done "very quickly."
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No job is too big and no mission too dangerous for the Wreckers! The Autobots' elite commando unit are the bots Prime turns to when the going gets really tough, and they've been kicking ass ever since their explosive debut in the 1986 Marvel classic Target 2006. Some 24 years on the team is all set to Wreck n' Rule again, as they undertake their most suicidal mission to date - breaking into the Garrus 9 space prison!
At the helm for this hugely anticipated five-comic series is the much respected Nick Roche and James Roberts, in their first professional collaboration. Both are proud that their story, which launches in January 2010 from IDW publishing, will be the first Transformers #1 of the new decade... and what a ride it promises to be. Not all your favourite characters will make it back from this one - you've been warned! OneShallStand.com finds out what Nick and James have in store... (contains teasers not spoilers).
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All great questions. I'll try to give them great answers.
Here's the thing - Shane literally blew up the world in his last storyline. That is a really, really tough act to follow. I mean, I can't really blow up the world again. So rather than try to top that with spectacle - I guess I'd have to blow up the galaxy or something - I'm going to start small again, and then gradually expand the canvas. That's not to say that there won't be big events - there will be. They'll just be big character-events at first. No less status-quo changing, but we're staying Earth-centric in the beginning. You're going to find out why Earth is such an important place for the Transformers - and it's probably not the reason you think it is.
We'll definitely be building to events that, currently, are pretty far-off in the future. But the template I'm trying to follow is the one set by Bill Willingham in his Vertigo book FABLES. What that book does so well is juggle big storylines with smaller one, two or three-issue vingettes in between. With a cast as vast as Transformers, I feel like that's the best way to give as many characters the opportunity to shine as possible. But every issue will build on the next, even if it doesn't seem to at first. There's no guarantee how long I'll be on the book, of course (so... please, tell everyone to buy it and write glowing reviews online!) but hopefully I'll get to do all the things I have planned. That'll take quite a while.
I hope so. But the fact is, it's not a total reboot, like GI Joe was. These are still the same characters in the same continuity we've been seeing at IDW, so obviously there are many differences from the movie. I think we've struck a good balance though, between honoring previous continuity and being new-reader friendly. It would be great if fans of the movie jumped on. I think they'd really like what they'd see.
AHM was planned quite a while before we consolidated our ideas for this new ongoing, so rather than start monkeying with Shane's story and forcing him to change his ending to better dovetail into our series, we created the CODA series to tie up the loose ends that the ongoing wouldn't have time to get to in the first few issues, and to work as a bridge between the two series'. Obviously all the issues are out now, so you guys can tell us how successful we've been in doing that.
The cast will definitely have it's core characters whom the major storylines follow, but we will break away from them occasionally to focus on other characters in the universe. Also, the core cast will definitely be evolving, expanding and contracting. It's not going to be "Optimus Prime and the Same Five Other Autobots" every month, but you'll definitely be able to tell who the important characters are by the end of the first arc.
Most of those "core" characters will come as no surprise to Transformers fans, but I'm definitely throwing some curve-balls in there as well. One of the major characters of my run will be someone I've had my eye on for quite a while. Shane in particular gave him some really interesting development in AHM. His inclusion in my cast will be the logical extension of what happened to him there.
As for the Japanese characters. Hm. Not a bad idea...
I have no plans to kill Drift. But... I have no plans to use him right away either. So, everybody wins. Also, I can't speak for Zander or Nick, who are both doing auxiliary books, my intention is to exclusively use currently existing G1 Transformers. Of course I'll be creating supporting cast members, but the core cast will be recognizable faces for the time being.
Every writer is going to have his or her own interpenetration of a character, and now you've seen mine of Starscream. I can tell you guys he's my favorite character, and that's why I was very excited to make him the star of my first-ever Transformers story in CODA #1. (Clever readers with an eye for pretentious writer-gags might even have noticed that I made sure his name was the first word written on the first page.) I'll agree there are some differences in how the character has been portrayed, but in a hugely collaborative medium like comics, those core character attributes are all you really need for a character. Brian Bendis doesn't write exactly the same Spider-Man as Stan Lee, or Gerry Conway, or David Michelinie. But he'll always be smart, guilt-ridden, wise-cracking and heroic. And Starscream's core attributes are always the same - he's ambitious, treacherous, manipulative and often cowardly. Anything after that is just an artifact of the medium.
Guys... that first question isn't fair. I'm going to be working with a lot of great artists on this title (and I have already in CODA) and I can't make that call. I will, however, say that working with Don on my first stroyline is like getting Spider-Man and having John Romita draw it. And the man does not disappoint. When I saw the art he turned in for the first issue, my mind was blown. I'd really never seen anything like it on a book I've written. I couldn't be more thrilled about it.
As for my favorite Transformers storyline... that's hard. Recently, I really did like AHM a lot. It had a lot of really great, fan-pleasing bring-the-house down moments. From the older, original marvel run, it's probably issue #13, written by the legendary Bob Budiansky, where Megatron temporarily loses his memory and is found by a criminal who uses him on a crime spree. That was over 20 years ago but the story - and the cover image - have stayed with me even though I was probably 7 when I first read it.
And from the original cartoon - not counting the movie, which is actually the first movie I ever saw in theaters - it was probably The Return of Optimus Prime. That Hate Plague really scared me as a kid.
Here's the thing: There are two legends in the Transformers comic book canon. One is Bob Budiansky. The other is Simon Furman. For the past five years, Furman has basically been the driving force behind IDW's Transformers universe (not counting Shane's AHM of course.) I think anything he did for us here is pretty equal to what he did for Marvel back in the day.
At the risk of bouncing myself out of later work opportunities, I'm going to be honest and say that, though I actually do think some of the ideas underpinning the Movie-verse are good ones, I much prefer the continuity I'm in. More characters to play with, really. And I like our Spike better than Sam (sorry Shia!)
This is a lame answer, but I enjoy them both in different ways. COBRA is a really dark espionage tale that I get a certain kind of evil satisfaction from. Writing about the bad guys is not only fun, but cathartic. They do stuff the good guys would never do, and finding motivations for chaos and mahem is a really rewarding challenge. But Transformers was always my first love, and the satisfaction I get from that is on a totally different level.
Back when I was in college, Wizard broke the news that Dreamwave had gotten the license for Transformers after Marvel lost it. I sat down at my job at the college library, and over two days I typed up a full pitch for a new ongoing Transformers series, planned up until about issue 60. It was the first comic book proposal I'd ever written. Of course, I never heard anything back about it. Obviously they already had their plans made before the announcement, even if I wasn't some totally unknown 19-year-old punk.
But to think that now, less than ten years alter I am actually writing a Transformers ongoing, starting at issue 1... well, that couldn't be more of a dream-come-true type situation.
Humans will be getting squished and robots definitely get atomized, but this is not going to turn into a dark, gritty book like COBRA. COBRA is a very specific tone for a very specific book - if I was given the chance to write the G.I. JOE ongoing, I wouldn't use COBRA's tone there either. That tone works in that franchise specifically because we're only looking at a small corner of it, and the main book exists to give it context. Now I'm handling the flagship of Transformers, and my job is to keep that ship steady so creators like Zander, Chee, and Nick Roche can party below decks if they want.
I'm very lucky to have spent the last year watching how Chuck Dixon handles those kind of flagship responsibilities on G.I. JOE, and I have learned a lot from him - specifically how generous he is to creators like me, who handle the smaller books. I hope I can do as good a job as he does of both writing the main book, and staying involved with the smaller ones.
As long as they don't make me look bad by being better than the comic, they can do whatever they want.
(But seriously, I think it would be great if they aimed at a slightly younger audience than Resolute did. I discovered the Transformers cartoon at age 6. It would be nice to have something that could be enjoyed for people that age again, now that the previous series is over.)
It's a difficult line to walk. Sure, the hard-core fans want to see robot action, but for your average reader, they're going to pick up the book and say "who cares about all these robots? I have no idea what's going on." In my opinion, having human characters is a way of grounding the story in a familiar world, and having an instantly relatable character.
That's why the Transformers movies make sure they have a major plot line involving Sam Witwicky trying to get with the hottest girl on Earth - because that's a lot more relatable to audiences than an interstellar war between talking cars. Whether you think those subplots are brilliant or terrible, I can guarantee you those movies would not have been as successful worldwide if they didn't have a kid, his car, and his girlfriend along with Optimus and Megatron.
That said, my stories are definitely going to err on the side of more robots rather than more humans. But humans are definitely major characters, on par with the Autobots, and we will definitely be seeing some stories through their eyes. Just not as many.
I have not met a die-hard fan that doesn't credit Simon as having written some classic storyline that established these characters in comics for them. He is a living legend, and he really did set a template for how to write Transformers comics, the way that Chris Claremont defined X-Men comics for a generation. The pressure to follow that is huge, certainly. I really hope I don't blow it.
My favorite Autobot is Blurr, and I make sure I gave him at least one scene in the first storyarc. My favorite Decepticon, as I mentioned above, is Starscream, all the way. And though Starscream and most of the other big Decepticons are going to be benched for a little while, they will be back in a big way.
But this is the way the story is working out. I don't want to shoehorn in tons of scenes with Blurr or Starscream just because I like them. I don't even think about it, really. When they're needed, they'll show up. And luckily, Hasbro has not questioned this at all. So far, they're happy with what I've been doing, and have been very supportive and helpful.
To write, it's Tomax, Xamot and Hawk. As a fan, it's Flint. Back in the old cartoons, I was always wondering why he wasn't kicking Duke's butt.
You guys are just intent on getting me in some kind of trouble. The honest answer is, I have not yet seen GI JOE, so I can't say. But a friend of mine just got it (and REVENGE OF THE FALLEN) for me on Blu Ray, so definitely own both.
If the right idea struck me, I'm definitely interested. But even though (or maybe because) I write for both sets of characters, their universes feel totally different to me. It would be like crossing Mickey Mouse over into the JLA. I'm not a good enough writer to make that work. We definitely have people out there who are though, so I suppose it is always a possibility.
I never kiss and tell. I'm a gentleman of the old school
Gender definitely does exist. And where I stand on the fembot issue is this: A Cybertronian robot should have the right to marry anyone he or she desires, provided that they are consensual beings.
Other than the book I'm working on (duh)... I'm going to say that the ultimate Transformers comic book would be anything that Nick Roche is working on. I first met him at BotCon this year, and I have learned so much from him, not just about who these characters are, but how to tell stories with them. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there is no writer/artist double-threat working right now who knows and cares as much about Transformers as Nick. I will follow that guy anywhere. I am really, really lucky to have him as support on this book.
I've known Supreme Convoy for probably two years now. He's a cool guy and part of the very cool circle of the writer/comic book fan friends I've made since moving out here to the Los Angeles. As for what our "geeking out" entails... once again, a gentleman never tells.
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A friend of mine recently explained to me a little bit about using Lie groups and symmetries to obtain solutions of PDEs. I was interested and wanted to learn a bit more about it. He's been using Olver's "Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations" but I found it a bit out of my reach.
I've taken a PDE course that followed Fritz John's "Partial Differential Equations" pretty closely, and a basic differential geometry course (curves and surfaces). I also have limited knowledge of group theory, but he said he didn't have any when he started learning the theory.
So my question is: should I study PDEs or group theory a bit more before attempting to tackle Olver's book, or should I try an easier text first?
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I've just given my talk at the Moving Secularism Forward conference - the talk for which I actually came all the way to the US. It seemed to go well at my end, though I am the last person to judge the quality of the performance! (I now await the searching, sceptical reviews on the internet.)
I put the case that there is a philosophically principled basis for secular government, and that much of it can be found back in the work of John Locke, though it needs to be updated and adapted to twenty-first-century circumstances. Even many (perhaps most) religious people can understand and accept this case, though they may not be willing to follow it all to its logical conclusion.
I'll be speaking on the same topic at CFI headquarters in Amherst (Buffalo), NY, next Friday night. Meanwhile, I will be talking next week on rather different issues (largely bioethical ones) at Yale and at Trinity College, Hartford.
Looking forward to tonight's conference banquet! Must check what I am missing this afternoon on the conference program (needed a beer or two after my talk, so I am afraid I am probably missing something important and wonderful, dammit).
About Me
- Russell Blackford
- Australian philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and professional writer. Based in Newcastle, NSW. Author of FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (2012), HUMANITY ENHANCED (2014), and THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (2016).
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Ah haz spoken!
Posted by Russell Blackford at 7:36 am
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- Steven Paul Leiva said...
Congrats, Russell -- wish I could have been there! I assum it was video taped?
- 04 March, 2012 08:08
- Russell Blackford said...
It was audiotaped, so I guess it will be available on the CFI or CSH site a bit down the track.
- 04 March, 2012 08:10
- Eamon Knight said...
Amherst? Gosh, almost in spittin' distance of us. You wouldn't be dropping in on Udo in Kingston, would you?
- 05 March, 2012 02:53
- Russell Blackford said...
Fraid not - just one night in Amherst to speak at the CFI headquarters.
- 05 March, 2012 07:04
- Ophelia Benson said...
You missed Pat Schroeder - former Congressional Rep and VP candidate (with...Mondale? 1988?). I have her NAME TAG. #toocool
- 05 March, 2012 08:00
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DETROIT – According to one of the first family members to arrive at the west Detroit house on Coyle Street, the 5-year-old daughter of one of the three victims was in the house. She apparently had been with the bodies for several hours.
"Now I think she is going to be traumatized for the rest of her life because she saw her mom get killed," said Kenyetta Hunt, the victim's cousin.
Read more: 3 found dead in west Detroit house
The woman's sister and a man who was a friend also were killed. All three were in their 20s. Another woman says she was at the home with the three of them Wednesday night until she left about 8:30 p.m. She said all was well at that time. But it wasn't a couple of hours later.
"There was some noise, some shots heard mid-evening yesterday. And apparently I think some family members were notified and they came to check on them and discovered them," said Detroit police inspector Dwayne Blackmon.
That wasn't until about 9 p.m. Thursday. Family members say one of the victims is 24-year-old Curtis Clements.
"He was just over here partying with some friends. " said friend Mark McSwine, who does not believe Clements was targeted.
Neighbors say the home had been vacant for a couple of days. They believe people were squatting there. Relatives say a baby girl was in the house when the murders happened, along with the 5-year-old girl.
"To me, pretty much she was holding up, but she knows what happened," said Hunt. "I thank God that none of the kids were killed."


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JazzFest 2nd Stage Lineup Announced
JazzFest in Sioux Falls is set for July 17-19 in Yankton Trail Park and like the main stage acts announced a month ago, the second stage is going to offer a diverse experience for attendees to the festival.
The lineup also highlights the incredibly talented people who make their home in our region as many performers call Sioux Falls home while several others will be coming in from Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska including Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers who will be pulling double duty as both a main stage AND second stage performer at JazzFest!
Here's the lineup:
Thursday, July 17, 2014
6:30PM Hometown Glow
8:00PM Union Grove Pickers
Friday, July 18, 2014
6:00PM "Jazzed" with Bobby Gripp
7:30PM Brian Masek & Friends
9:00PM Mat D and the Profane Saints
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Noon JazzFest Jazz Camp
1:15PM Last Call Band
2:45PM Aberdeen Jazz Quintet
5:45PM Mark Cameron
7:15PM Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers
9:00PM Nikko McFadden
Mark your calendars now for one of the premiere festivals in the country, Sioux Falls JazzFest, July 17-19 in Yankton Trail Park. Get more details on the festival here.


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Once every great while, I notive that my Xreceive plugin will become "locked up/non working". When I view the plugin tab from the alt-F2 screen, the plugin status says something like "plugin error". The other plugins and Xlobby itself are still working and appear stable.
My question is: Is there anyway to restart the plugin without having to restart all of Xlobby?
The Xrecieve (Xsend) plugin is THE essential communication link in keeping my Xlobby system in synch with the rest of my home autommation. I hope that this plugin gets "brought into the fold" with the other supported Xlobby plugins.


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Once again, a movie claiming to cast doubt on the deity of Christ resorts to outright fabrications to make its case. Gordan Franz, guest columnist and archaeologist, explains.
Gordon Franz, a Bible teacher, recently visited the large new Darwin exhibition on the third floor of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City.
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Saturday, June 7, 2008
The 2007-2008 Pittsburgh Penguins
Posted by Pat at 1:03 PM
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- Dave Wannstache said...
Pat, fantastic work on this.
And they did make me into a fan. I started watching them quite a bit last season, but this season I found myself tuning into games right from the get-go, even as the Steelers were playing. I won't make the claim that I'm a die hard Penguins fan, but as the season went on and the playoff run began, I found myself caring about the Penguins more than I ever thought I would.
I truly enjoyed watching them play this season. It doesn't hurt that all of the players seem like genuinely good guys, which makes it easy to root for them. That's what makes it tough when you see Hossa slumping against the boards and a teary-eyed Malone and Crosby facing the media after Game 6. You knew these guys gave it their all, so you couldn't help feeling bad for them.
All in all, though, it was a fantastic season that I enjoyed very much. I'm looking forward to next season, as well as what Shero does this offseason.
- June 7, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- Stanley said...
Best recap of the Penguins season that I've seen anywhere. I love looking at old articles on blogs to recapture the fan reaction during a certain time in the season.
Nice work boys
- June 7, 2008 at 4:47 PM
gettin dusty in here...
- June 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Unknown said...
wow wasnt gonna read this cause of how long it was but man did this team overcome some things. thanks for the trip down memory lane. and stellar job overall this season.
- June 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- Unknown said...
Jesus, this must have taken forever. Great freaking article.
btw, Big Brown just choked worse than Geno
- June 7, 2008 at 6:48 PM
- Unknown said...
I actually listened to Walk On while reading this article. Great song, great article.
That post from back in November about "short term fixes" is hilarious. talk about overreacting. I'd say things turned out pretty well, all things considered.
- June 8, 2008 at 8:48 PM
I was just looking up pictures for my desktop background when I came across this article, and I must say, I really enjoyed it. I am a huge Crosby fan and I almost cried when he went down. But I am more of a Penguins fan, and I found it inspiring how they played following Crosby's injury. Malkin stepped up so well, and he's playing really well this season too.
Well, I just wanted to say your blog is awesome and keep up the good work!
p.s. I miss Army! :(
- December 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM


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The Politics of Civil Society Building: European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America
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How to understand the process of incipient democratization in societies without democratic traditions, in which civil society was highly exclusive and external forces extremely dominant? This is the first empirical analysis of private aid impact in Central America, as well as the first effort to provide a theoretical understanding of the politics of civil society building with external aid resources.
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