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Matrix Punchograph 3005
Matrix Punchograph 3005 is a fixed device located throughout Gnomeregan. There are four models: 3005-A, 3005-B, 3005-C and 3005-D. These devices were used in [30D] Data Rescue (removed in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm) and to train in certain Engineering schematics.
Models and locations
- Matrix Punchograph 3005-A's are located in the Workshop area (the northern room of the Train Depot) outside the Gnomeregan instance. Accessing with a [White Punch Card] in your inventory grants a [Yellow Punch Card]. These are the only Punchographs outside the instance.
- Matrix Punchograph 3005-B's are located in the Dormitory. Accessing with a [Yellow Punch Card] grants a [Blue Punch Card]. The schematic for [Minor Recombobulator] can also be accessed by Engineers with 140 skill.
- Matrix Punchograph 3005-C's are located on the upper-level platform in the Launch Bay with Electrocutioner 6000. Accessing with a [Blue Punch Card] grants a [Red Punch Card].
- Matrix Punchograph 3005-D's are located on the west side of the lower level of the Engineering Labs. Accessing with a [Red Punch Card] grants a [Prismatic Punch Card]. The schematic for [Discombobulator Ray] can also be accessed by Engineers with 160 skill and a [Security DELTA Data Access Card].
Binary translations
Each Matrix Punchograph machine has three different states: without card, with card, dispensing new card. Each state has an amusing phrase of Binary code as well as instructions for use of the Punch Cards. Machines B and D also share a different phrase while dispensing special engineering schematics.
Matrix Punchograph 3005-A
- Without card
- Down with the horde!
- With card
- Tell your friends to play WoW
- Dispensing new card
- Play the Warcarft roleplaying game
Matrix Punchograph 3005-B
- Without card
- Gnomercy!
- With card
- Kiss me, I'm gnomish!
- Dispensing new card
- The Lich King lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Acquiring engineering schematics
- Go go go!!
- Failing to acquire engineering schematics
- Game Over
- Acquired engineering schematics
- Natalie Portman Rocks
Matrix Punchograph 3005-C
- Without card
- Recipe: Mechanical Chicken Soup
- With card
- Gnomeregan forever!
- Dispensing new card
- Play More WoW
Matrix Punchograph 3005-D
- Without card
- Short and sweet
- With card
- How am I driving?
- Dispensing new card
- <insert funny message here>
- Acquiring engineering schematics
- Go go go!!
- Acquired engineering schematics
- Natalie Portman Rocks


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Remember the iriver Mplayers? In addition to their current players, older Disney fans will appreciate that they are back this week debuting in 7 new styles, three of them in camouflage, and four in Swarovski crystal for the fancy few. Like the original, the mini-players hold 1GB (about 240 tunes) and have a playback time of about 9 hours. Prices for the new line are 13,800 ($138.00) and 14,800 Yen (~$148.00) respectively. iRiver is also offering a 1.1W mini-speaker to go with your new musical toy for 2680 Yen (~$27.00.)
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Over the past week there have been a few big stories on iOS apps transmitting users' address books as a convenience feature. Apple has even found themselves on the congressional hot seat this week about their device's address book privacy. AllThingsD reports that Apple, faced with growing criticism that they have given iOS developers far too much access to private data without requiring a user prompt, has pledged that apps dumping address book data will soon require explicit user permission to do so.
Dieter Bohn at The Verge states the problem best: "Any iOS app has complete access to a large amount of data stored on your iPhone, including your address book and calendar. Any iOS app can, without asking for your permission, upload all of the information stored in your address book to its servers. From there, the app developer can either use it to help find your friends, store it in perpetuity, or do any number of other things with it."
Introducing AdiOS
To find out how many of my iPhone apps were dumping the address book, I put together a utility called AdiOS (Addressbook Detector for iOS) that lets Mac users scan the iOS apps in your iTunes directory to see if they have the potential to dump your phone book externally. AdiOS detects apps that access your entire address book, by using a binary grep to look for use of the
ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople API call. AdiOS quickly and easily finds all the apps that have the potential to violate your privacy. It could also be used to see if your apps are complying with the new policies Apple is rolling out around protection of Address book information.
Using AdiOS to Audit Your Privacy
AdiOS allows Mac users to see what apps have potential privacy problems. Using AdiOS is easy. Just download AdiOS, unzip, double click on AdiOS.app, and let it run. If you have a few hundred apps, it'll take a couple minutes to complete. Output will look something like this:
What We Discovered
A few of us in Veracode just tested AdiOS on our own machines. Of the roughly 450 iOS apps on my Mac, 50 of them appear to call
ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople. That by itself doesn't mean the app is transmitting any data, or doing so behind your back, but it does raise questions. Angry Birds does it. Citibank does it. Several Google apps do it. A number of lesser-known games do it, too. Why do all of these apps need to dump my entire address book? The quantity of apps with this ability really caught us off guard. Most apps that have email functionality (e.g. "send this to a friend") wouldn't ever need to use
ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople. They could just use the standard view controller for contact info, the
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController. If they wanted a custom UI for the picker, then they have no choice but to dump the address book. In order to check whether the app is actually transmitting the address book information, you'd need to perform a full static analysis, or a manual test using a tool such as mitmproxy.
Don't Panic!
Lots of apps access your whole contact list for legitimate reasons! Social networking apps do it so you can make connections. Maps/directions/GPS apps do it for convenient access to all of your friends' addresses. Many games do it so that you can "share your highscores", etc. But still, it's interesting to see which apps have the potential to do what with your personal address book data.
Should We Really Be Surprised?
Talking to the Veracode Research team about this iOS address book madness, the consensus was that none of this should come to a surprise to anyone who's been following mobile development or security research for mobile platforms. At Veracode, we've already detected this issue in some of the mobile applications that we've scanned for our customers. More importantly, we can automatically determine if the app is actually transmitting the address book information once it has been retrieved. Obviously that requires much deeper analysis than this quick binary grep tool can provide! The deep static binary analysis service that we offer our customers uses data flow graphs to connect the output of
ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople with downstream network APIs in order to confirm a privacy leak. Along with running AdiOS, consumers of mobile apps should ask their providers to perform binary static analysis on the apps they offer.


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Conrad Bain, known best as TV dad Phillip Drummond on "Diff'rent Strokes," has died, family sources tell TMZ. He was 89 years old.
Bain passed away Monday night in Livermore, California; the cause of death has not yet been released. Bain's daughter Jennifer tells TMZ, "He was a lot like Mr. Drummond, but much more interesting in real life. He was an amazing father."
Born in Alberta, Canada (yes, Mr. Drummond was Canadian), Bain served in the Canadian army during World War II and studied acting in New York City alongside Charles Durning and Don Rickles. He found success as a stage actor and played innkeeper Mr. Wells on the '60s vampire soap "Dark Shadows" before finding his niche in TV sitcoms.
[Related: 'The Jeffersons' Co-Star Ned Wertimer Dead at 89]
Bain played Bea Arthur's sparring partner Dr. Arthur Harmon on "Maude" for six seasons, which led to his best-remembered role: kindly millionaire Phillip Drummond, who took two orphaned African-American boys from Harlem into his Park Avenue home on NBC's "Diff'rent Strokes." Debuting in 1978, "Strokes" ran for eight seasons and made a star out of precocious tyke Gary Coleman. But Bain was the moral center of the show, always there to help Arnold and Willis learn their lesson with some words of wisdom.
These days, "Strokes" may be best known for the tragic lives of its young co-stars. Bain's TV daughter Dana Plato (Kimberly) took her own life in 1999 after years of drug use, Coleman (Arnold) faced serious financial hardship before passing away in 2010, and Todd Bridges (Willis) battled drug addiction and legal troubles for years. Bain told interviewers he had trouble speaking about his TV kids' real-life issues because he cared about them so much. But Bridges has credited Bain with helping him straighten out his life in the 1990s.
When "Strokes" ended in 1986, Bain returned to theater -- although he did reprise his role as Mr. Drummond in the series finale of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1996. Since then, Bain has turned his energies toward screenwriting and enjoying his retirement. He is survived by three sons and one daughter.


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The headline in the Riverside Press-Enterprise couldn't be any stranger: "Riverside Water Board Candidate Believed to Be Nazi."
This isn't a joke, the paper says. There's a Jeff Hall on the ballot -- who appears to be the Jeff Hall who is a well-known head of a neo-Nazi group. Also, someone named Daniel B. Schruender, who is a member of the Aryan Nations, is running for a spot on the Rialto Unified School District board.
This begs all kinds of questions, but the one question that is relevant to a discussion of what's wrong with California government is: Do we have too many local governments?
The answer is yes. There simply are more governments in California -- more than 7,000 -- than voters can reasonably expect to pay attention to. These Nazis appear to be counting on the fact that they can be elected without any real scrutiny.
This isn't a new problem. The Ku Klux Klan secretly managed to elect a majority of the Anaheim City Council in the 1920s. But the decline of local newspapers and media outlets raises the risk that you might end up with a Nazi on your local water or school board. It's another argument (in addition to the obvious fiscal ones) for massive consolidation of local governments.


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1. Log in to your My Brewers Tickets account.
2. In the "My Ticket Inventory" tab select "Forward Tickets" in the Ticket Action dropdown.
3. On the far left of the game description click the arrow to view active tickets to forward, game by game.
4. Use the checkboxes to select the tickets you wish to forward, individually or "Select All"
5. If you already have friends assigned to your account, they will appear in the "Your Friends" box. If you wish to forward the ticket(s) to an existing friend, skip to step #6. Otherwise, click on the "New Friend" button to assign a new friend to your My Brewers Tickets account. Fill in the required information and click on the "Save Changes" button.
6. After your ticket(s) are selected click the friend to forward your tickets to from the Your Friends column. After all of your tickets are assigned to friends, click the Continue button in the bottom right.
You will see the number of tickets for your friend change to the number of tickets that you are forwarding them, and the tickets in your inventory will change from "Active Tickets" to your friend's name.
7. You can choose to select other tickets to forward to additional friends, or if you are done, click "Continue".
8. On the Review screen you can add a note to your friend(s). To add different notes to different friends, you must forward the tickets in a separate action. On this screen you can also remove individual tickets being forwarded by clicking on the red x under the "Remove" column. After reviewing for accuracy click "Forward Tickets" to complete the forward.
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Now you can Recall previously forwarded tickets meaning you can pull tickets back in to your account to resell, forward to a different friend, or print to enter the game! To Recall a ticket:
1. Click the "My History" tab, choose "Forwards" and click the "Forward ID" that contains the ticket(s) you want to recall.
2. Use the checkboxes to select the tickets you wish to recall.
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Gerald A. HonigmanThe author is an educator who has done extensive doctoral studies in Mid-East Affairs and has conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth. He gives lectures and participates in debates around the U.S. Read his new book to be found at http://q4j-middle-east.com.
The title of the large AP article discussing the recent election in Israel in my local paper on January 24th read, "Rise Of Israeli Centrist Raises Hopes For Peace." It was referring to the surprising good showing of Israel's Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party. No doubt, this Aron Heller and Josef Federman analysis made the rounds in numerous other publications as well.
The title said all you needed to know on this subject--at least according to most mainstream media sources these days.
It was followed by such gems as there now being a renewal of "hopes of a revival of peace talks with Palestinians that have languished for four years under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." Additional and separate end notes went on to describe Netanyahu's Likud party as being "known for opposition to compromise with the Palestinians."
None of this was accidental, nor was it written because the actual facts have been difficult to ascertain.
The article borders on libel and slander and turns truth entirely on its head.
It has become commonplace for many if not most mainstream media writers to promote their own "Progressive" pipedreams. This new reality includes juxtaposing the alleged Palestinian Arab David against an Israeli Jewish Goliath, and this turn of events especially set in after the June 1967 Six Day War.
Prior to that time, people cried crocodile tears of sympathy for dead Jews a la the Holocaust.
But, the message Israel gave to the world after it pulled a major rabbit out of its hat, broke the Arab blockade, and--despite all odds--turned the combined Arab plans for its destruction upside down in 1967 was:
Listen world, we don't want your sympathy for dead Jews anymore. We are tired of being your victims of choice. We demand--yes, demand--empathy for live Jews instead.
And Israel has had a hard time achieving this ever since.
The allegedly "uncompromising Likud," which the authors speak of, forced all Jews living in the Sinai Peninsula after the June '67 war to abandon their homes for the sake of a peace treaty that is now in very real danger of being abandoned or rendered virtually meaningless by the new Muslim Brotherhood rulers of Egypt. Oil wells that Israel developed, sophisticated air bases, and so forth were likewise abandoned by the Likud hawks under Menachem Begin, with Ariel Sharon carrying out the orders. In the process, Israel also gave up the best tank trap and geographical buffer it could ever hope for--the Sinai Peninsula.
To put things into the proper perspective, think about what other nations have acquired--and where--in the name of their own national security interests.
Decades later, it was the Likud, with Arik Sharon at the helm, which unilaterally withdrew from Gaza--despite that strip of land being a prime invasion route into the land of the Jews since the days of the Pharaohs. And despite the likelihood that it would only turn into the nightmare that it indeed did for Israel proper.
There is no doubt that the Associated Press and the mainstream media are aware of all of the above--and much more evidence exposing their allegations as blatant lies as well.
So, what writers like the AP's Heller and Federman Jew stooges are indulging in goes beyond ignorance or innocence.
More recently, since the Likud's Netanyahu has been running the show, he has offered to accept the creation of a 22nd state for Arabs, and second one for Arabs (not their first) within the original April 25, 1920 borders of the Mandate of Palestine. Since 1922, Jordan has sat on almost 80% of that total area.
In contrast, even Mahmoud Abbas and his so-called Arab "moderates" repeatedly state that they will never recognize Israel as the sole State of the Jews--regardless of its size--and that all negotiations with Jews is merely a Trojan Horse. Once again, this is all well-documented--yet the AP and its ilk play deaf, dumb, and blind and continuously point the finger at Israel instead.
The utter truth of the matter is that, contrary to the nefarious claims of the writers, it has been the Likud's Netanyahu who has sought compromise with the Arabs but has found no viable partners to deal with.
The reality is that the Arab definition of compromise involves them doing all the taking while the Jews do all the giving. While that may be understandable given their own subjugating mindset towards all non-Arab peoples in the region, that the mainstream media and others promote this distortion and then pin the blame on the Jews instead is a cowardly disgrace.
What the mainstream media and others preferring Jews as perpetual victims demand - is that Israel cave in to the Arabs' entire wish list.
That's not Webster's definition of compromise.
After June '67, Israel was promised that it would not have to return to the status quo ante--the suicidal armistice lines of 1949 which made it practically invisible on a world globe.
Surely the AP knows about the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242 and its call for the creation of real, more secure borders to replace Israel's former nine to fifteen-mile wide existence, where most of its population and infrastructure are located.
By its very deliberate and careful wording, as explained by architects such as Lord Caradon and Under Secretary of State Eugene Rostow, 242 promoted a territorial compromise over those disputed--not "purely Arab"--territories in the non-apportioned remaining lands of the original 1920 Mandate where all the Mandate's residents were allowed to live.
Yet, when Netanyahu refuses to abandon 242's compromise, he's accused of being the one who won't participate in seeking a fair deal instead.
As I and some others have written about many times, what the settlement issue, building in Jerusalem, and so forth are largely all about is whether Israel gets the territorial compromise the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242 promised or not.
Arabs refuse to recognize a 9-mile wide State of the Jews, let alone anything bigger. So it's no shock that they indeed object to meeting Israel part of the way--what a true "compromise" entails.
But to turn this blatant Arab refusal into a problem laid at the Likud or other allegedly "far-right" Israeli parties' doorsteps instead is nothing less than a disgusting distortion of the truth.


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Oranges are of course the world famous fruit of the Orange Tree. Orange trees are the most cultivated fruit tree in the world and account for the largest percentage of citrus fruit production on the globe. Heavily sprayed with insecticides and anti-fungals, they are certainly one to go organic for.
Orange trees are native to Indian Jungles but are now grown in many countries worldwide where the climate is warm and tropical, the most famous being Spain.
The word orange is actually derived from the Sanskrit 'nagrungo' which much later become translated into the Italian 'arancia' and the Provencal 'orange'.
Whilst oranges were regarded by the Indian and the Chinese as 'Remedies for Immortality' we use the organic essential oil as a flavour trip in Lemon & Mandarin Tea, Elderberry & Echinacea Tea and After Dinner Tea.


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The other thing I wanted to mention was, although it's still quite a way away, I want to do a giveaway when we reach 100 followers. I'm not certain about prizes yet, but I'm thinking of using a site like Book Depositry, so that I can keep it an international contest, and hopefully offer more prizes. There will be extra points if you're already a follower when the contest starts, so if you're reading but not yet a follower, this is maybe the time to press that button!
On to the award!
Tynga at Tynga's Urban Fantasy Reviews gave us the 'Honest Scrap' Award, which is for bloggers who write from the heart. The rules are to list 10 honest things about yourself, and pass it on to 10 other bloggers.
My 10 things:
1) I'm going to the French Alps on December 9th, to spend the ski season working in a small hotel.
2) I'm going to Edinburgh University next September to study Ancient & Medieval History, although I think I'm going to do some English/Literature bits too.
3) I live in the middle of nowhere, my primary school had 20 kids when I started, 50 when I left. The high school is a 20 minute drive away, and has a total of 500 pupils. If you want to get to the city, (& more importantly the nearest big bookshop) it's a two hour drive.
4) I got to be one of the 'cub reporters' at the launch of HP 6, the Half Blood Prince. It was a fantastic experience, and my signed book is kept carefully out of harms way.
5) I always do home made Christmas cards for my friends and family - I'm starting this year's batch this weekend.
6) This winter will be the first time I've lived away from home, as well as my first Christmas and birthday without my family.
7) My two favourite movies are 'I, Robot' and 'National Treasure'.
8) I've got two dogs called Malin & Brodie. Malin is the shipping area closest to where we live. We didn't name Brodie, because he was rehomed to us.
9) I'm useless at tidying my room, but I always know exactly where everything is in the jumble on the floor.
10) I have two main screen names - gapyeargirl is fairly obvious - I'm a girl, on my gap year. The other is Daeonica, which is the name of a play in one of my favourite books, The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I chose that one when I was looking for something unique that no one else on forums would have already.
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Characters | Crowd Funding | Digital Comics | Editors | The Idea | Miscellaneous | Pitches | Plot | Podcasts
Characters and Characterisation by Steven Grant
Developing Characters by Chuck Dixon
Once, Twice, Three Times A Bad Guy by Chuck Dixon
Villains Intro by Chuck Dixon
Crowd Funding
How to: A case study for a first time Kickstarter (Part Two) by Spencer Tomaya
How To Kickstarter by Keith Knight
What I Learned From The Muder Book 3 IndieGoGo Campaign by Ed Brisson
Digital Comics
The Broadcast Of Comics by Warren Ellis
How To Host Your Own Webcomic by D.J Coffman
Thoughts on Digital Comic Formatting, Pace and Flow by Jeremy Rock
Truly Digital Comics by Mark Waid
Writing For Digital by Mark Waid
Breaking Into The Big Two by Tom Brevoort and Johanna Draper Carlson
How To Talk To An Editor and A Little Convention Etiquette by Chuck Dixon
The Job Of The Comic Book Editor by Mark Waid
Pitching At Conventions by John Freeman
What My Job Entails by Kris Simon (Shadowline)
The Idea
Establishing Your Core Idea by Jim Zubkavich
The Idea by Steven Grant
So Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Marv Wolfman
Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Chuck Dixon
Comic Book Grammar by Nate Piekos
DMZ #4 Notes by Brian Wood
Endings by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction
Everything You Wanted To Know About Comic Book Marketing by Justin Jordan
Fill-Ins, One Shots, and Inventory Stories by Chuck Dixon
Grant Morrison Interview Archive
Getting Things Written by Antony Johnston
How To Co-Create Comic Books by Jeff Parker
Just Make It Happen by Joey Esposito
Making Comics: Why I've Failed So Far by Josh Flanagan
Modus Operandi by Ryan Ferrier
On Ongoing Superhero Comic Accessibility by Kieron Gillen
Openings And How To Work Them by Chuck Dixon
Reactive Writing by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction
Scrivening Comics by Antony Johnston
Short Comics by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction
Staying Connected Vs. Getting Lost by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction
Staying In After Breaking In by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction
Stupid Gun Mistakes EVERY Writer Makes by Chuck Dixon
Theme and Setting by Steven Grant
The Working Woes Of a Letterpunk
Writing Action Scenes by John Rogers
Pitches And Proposals
Do, or Do Not; There Is No Try by Larry Young
DV8 Pitch/Proposal by Micah Wright
First Casualty by Jeremy Holt
Getting Your Submission Read by Erik Larsen, et al
Here Comes The Pitch (Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) by Jim Zubkavich
How Do I Submit My Writing to Comic Publishers? by The Spire
Inside Out by Ed Brisson
Original Proposal for Planetary by Warren Ellis
Original Proposal for Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn
The Pitch by Warren Ellis
The Pitch and Black As Pitch by Steven Grant
The pitch that sold Postcards by Jason Rodriguez to Random House
Pitch Document for Feeding Ground by Lapinskin, Lang and Mangu
Pitch Document for Luther Strode by Justin Jordan
Pitch Document for Tumor by Josh Fialkov
Pitch Document for Archenemies by Melbourne
Pitch Document for Hawaiian Dick by B. Clay Moore
Pitch Peek: The Intrepids by Kurtis Wiebe
The Proposal (Part Two) by Mark Waid
Slushpile by Jennifer DeGuzman
Submissions: The 5 Page Trap by Ty Gorton
The Submission Guidelines For Every Comic and Manga Publisher In The Universe
What Editors Look For In A Submission by John Freeman
The Plot
Craft 'Notecard' Story Structure Plotting by Ben Towle
It's Three Acts All The Way Down by Brian Clevinger
The Plot (Part 2) by Steven Grant
The Plot (And How To Hide It) and How To Work A Subplot by Chuck Dixon
Writing The Plot (Part 2, Part 3 ) by Marv Wolfman
Decompressed by Kieron Gillen
iFanboy: Make Comics
The Process
Sample Scripts
Comic Book Script Archive
Dark Horse Script Guide (PDF / Word)
Dark Blue by Warren Ellis
Judge Dredd: Origins Script by John Wagner
Phonogram 2.1: Pull Shapes Script
Various Sample Scripts by Dwayne McDuffie
Writing Samples by Anina Bennett
Anatomy Of A Comic Book Panel by Brian Clevinger
David Lapham's Process Via Comic Book Script Archive
How To Write A Full Script for a Comic Strip and Plot Style by Dave A. Law
The Mechanics Of Writing Comic Books (Part 2, Part 3)
The Page And How To Work It and More On The Page Turn by Chuck Dixon
Paneling, Pacing and Layout in Comics, Part 2 by Rivkah
Plot To Script: This Is How I Do It by Cullen Bunn
The Process by Antony Johnston
Scripting The Light Fantastic by Marv Wolfman
The Ten Commandments Of Comic Book Scriptwriting by Chuck Dixon
Writing Comic Books Marvel Style by John Rozum
ComiXology website for submissions
Creating Comics: Advice for First Time Creators
Graphicly, a former competitor to ComiXology, has changed its strategy to work with self publishers
Writing Columns
The Basement Tapes by Matt Fraction and Joe Casey
Bolts & Nuts by Steven Forbes
Come In Alone by Warren Ellis
Cullen Bunn on Creating Comics by Cullen Bunn
Dixonverse Articles by Chuck Dixon
Newsarama Process Pieces
Points Of Impact by Yannick Morin
The Proving Grounds by Steven Forbes
Strange Love: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Breaking Into Comic Books
Waid Wednesdays by Mark Waid
What Th-? by Marv Wolfman
Where The Hell Am I? by Jason Aaron
Writing for Comics
Advice on Writing Comics and Breaking In by Brian K. Vaughan
Breaking In Without Rules by Kurt Busiek
Breaking Into Comics: Staying In by Colin O'Mahoney
Breaking Into Comics: Pitching Professionally by Colin O'Mahoney
Breaking Into Comics: Getting Started by Colin O'Mahoney
Brutal Tips On Breaking Into Comics by Gail Simone
Comic Storytelling Tips by Lee Sullivan
Comics Storytelling Tips That Work by John Freeman
Creating Your Own Comic 101: Scripting
Finding The Story by Gerard Jones
How 2 Rite Gud by Andy Mangels and Jonathan Clements
How Comics Work: The Fight Scene (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
How I Got Here & Advice You Didn't Ask For by Ed Brisson
How I Start Writing (and eventually finish a story) by Joshua Dysart
How To Break Into Comics? An Answer by JT Krul
How To Survive Writing A Graphic Novel by Grady Klein
No Golden Biscuits (Breaking In) by Chuck Dixon
On Writing For Comics by Kurt Busiek
Rambling About How I Write Comics (Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five)
Script Writing by Jeph Loeb and Alan Moore
So You Want To Be a Writer? by Ron Marz
Survival Tips For The Newbie Writer by Gail Simone
Top 10 Writing Tips For Comic Book Writers by Kris Simon
What A Comics Script Is For by Warren Ellis
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|HAPPY TIMES – In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally at American University in Washington where Kennedy endorsed Obama. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
by Glen Johnson
Associated Press Writer
CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president's personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.
Obama lauded the Massachusetts senator's tireless work for legislation that reshaped the lives of millions of Americans — "including myself," the nation's first black president added in a poignant hint of affection. Also clearly not forgotten as a grieving president took a break from his summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard to mark Kennedy's death from brain cancer late Tuesday night: the great political debt Obama owes Kennedy.
"His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say thank you — and goodbye," Obama said.
Obama owes his ascension to the White House perch that was denied Kennedy in part to the senator's help.
At a crucial moment in the brutal, marathon primary contests, Kennedy endorsed Obama over Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. During his endorsement, Edward Kennedy painted Obama as heir to the legacy of his slain brothers. That connection, to the dynasty of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy, lent the young contender immeasurable credibility with establishment Democrats and cemented a personal friendship.
"I remember another such time, in the 1960s, when I came to the Senate at the age of 30. We had a new president who inspired the nation — especially the young — to seek a new frontier," said Kennedy during the endorsement speech. "I've seen it. I've lived it. And with Barack Obama, we can do it again."
"Your time only comes once, and this is your time," Kennedy had told Obama in urging him to seek the White House in 2006, according to a Kennedy aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to recount a private conversation.
All high praise from a man whose family name, Obama said Wednesday, "is synonymous with the Democratic Party."
White House aides said Obama planned to attend and speak at services for Kennedy, though it was not immediately clear which ones. Kennedy will lie in repose for two days at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, and a memorial service is scheduled there Friday night. Kennedy's funeral was scheduled for Saturday morning at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston, followed by his burial Saturday afternoon with his brothers at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.
Both men had giant personalities and inspired a generation of Americans with similar themes of service and idealism. They became comrades in the Senate over their opposition to the war in Iraq and nurtured a relationship from there.
When Kennedy's brain cancer kept him from delivering his stepdaughter's college commencement address, Obama left the campaign trail and stood in for his then-Senate colleague.
Returning the favor, Kennedy traveled to the Democratic National Committee's nominating convention in Denver a year ago — one year to the day of his death — at great risk to his health. He delivered a heartfelt, seven-minute speech that brought many to their feet and some to tears.
"The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on," Kennedy said, an echo of the concession speech that ended his 1980 presidential bid.
The senator returned to the Capitol in January to see Obama sworn in, suffering a seizure at a celebratory luncheon afterward.
They were bound on a lighter note, too. When Obama was faced with the much-watched choice of a dog for his two daughters, it was Kennedy who gave him "Bo," a Portuguese water dog like the pair of dogs that have been a fixture in Kennedy's Capitol Hill offices.
Since becoming president, Obama has gone out of his way to pay tribute to Kennedy. He invoked him during a joint session of Congress in February, led a "Happy Birthday" sing-along during a tribute at the Kennedy Center and hand-delivered a letter from the senator to Pope Benedict XVI.
Most recently, Obama awarded Kennedy the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Early Wednesday morning, Obama was awakened by a top aide just after 2 a.m. EDT to learn of the death of the man he fondly called "a colleague, a counselor and a friend." The president spoke with the senator's widow, Victoria, soon afterward and ordered flags flown at half-staff on all federal buildings.
"Even though we knew this day was coming, we awaited it with no small amount of dread," Obama said, tieless, coatless and grim-faced at a makeshift lectern outside his rented island compound. "His extraordinary life on this Earth has come to an end. The extraordinary good that he did lives on."


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A group of motherboard enthusiasts working for GIGABYTE, sharing their insider knowledge and general ramblings of the motherboard business, the tech industry, latest technologies and trends, and other random odds and ends.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Backblaze reports their HD failure rates
Backblaze, a cloud backup provider with 67,642 drives in operation (as of Q3 2016) has reported their HD failure rates. The data they present could be useful for consumers looking to purchase a new hard disk drive.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
TeamAU breaks world frequency record for Intel Core i7 6950X live at PAX Australia 2016
TeamAU was able to break a world frequency record while on stage at PAX Australia 2016! They were using a GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion, built especially for extreme overclocking and setting world records. With the Intel Core i7 6950X they were able to achieve a staggering 5.74Ghz validation.
Friday, November 4, 2016
TEAM AU Breaks 3DMARK2001 SE World Record Using GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force LN2
Team AU today broke the world 3DMARK 2001 SE just ahead of PAX AU with a GIGABYTE Z179X-SOC Force LN2 and an Intel Core i7 6700K OCed to a staggering 6.7GHz! For details click here.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
GIGABYTE Enables Support for Intel® Next-Gen CPUs
GIGABYTE Enables Support for Intel® Next-Gen CPUs
GIGABYTE's 100 Series Motherboards Compatible with a BIOS Update
Taipei, Taiwan, October 28th, 2016 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is proud to announce support for Intel's next-generation LGA 1151 socket processors. Compatibility for the entire line-up of Z170, H170, B150 and H110 series motherboards are available with a simple BIOS update.
With multiple ways to update a GIGABYTE Motherboard users can rest at ease knowing that this update can be completed with little to no effort. One popular method for users to flash the BIOS would be to leverage the world renowned Q-Flash, this feature directly in the BIOS allows users to flash the firmware from a USB drive after they've downloaded the most updated BIOS into the flash drive.
GIGABYTE engineers have tested and validated all GIGABYTE 100 series motherboards to ensure users will have optimal performance and compatibility for the latest Intel® Core™ Processors.
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Oke doke, We're going to need some form of virtual notepad and a browser [Anything modern, Highly discourage using IE for anything...]
Ok, If you've never done any Javascript before then this is kind of confusing but bear with me even though it looks messy first you'll get the hang of it and before you know it you'll be having little Javascript babies running around.
Events in JS and jQuery are very simple, You can use two types, HTML markup to call methods, Or make the event in JS which is a lot neater and easier to do really...
So, This is how we're going to go, Lets make a click event for an element, here is a sample:
$("#result").click(function () { });
Ok, Here we are identifying that when the HTML element which as an ID or Name of "result" and then providing a handler for the .Click event. After this we are declaring what is going to happen when the event triggers, for example
$("#result").click(function () { $(this).hide("slow"); // Hide it slowly! });
Ok, You may have noticed a strange word in the code, "this". The "this" is basically referring to the result element that we defined in the method, it is a much better way of referring to elements within a function, as it saves you time from re-writing all the element names over and over again and wearing out your keyboard...
But remember!
The keyword for "this" will change depending on where you are using it, so whenever you use it make sure that you use it in the right context.
Anyway, here, We used the jQuery library to call the hide method. So when the element for result is clicked, it will hide slowly! Easy!.
Kay.... So what if I want to make preloaded content but... easy....
Well using jQuery it is very easy, Lets say we have three tabs. These tabs are called tab1, tab2 and tab3. we also have the divs for the content and these are called one, two and three.
I know they aren't very imaginative but bare with me
Right, Before we do ANYTHING lets plan and think about this logically, Using the simplist way possible, we just want when tab1 is clicked, we want to hide the other two and show the right content for the tab.
But... when the page is loaded it will all be visible! So we'll be needing to use the document.Ready
event to hide them on start up.
Ok so lets set about getting this code done, We won't use internal JS because that's just like rolling around in mud and looks very ugly...
So lets make a file called navigation.js
But wait!
We need to link the jQuery library if we're going to do anything with it right? so lets add this to our HTML inbetween the <head> </head>tags
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.min.js" type="text/javascript">
Ok now we've done that, We can set about our jQuery code, lets make our document.Ready event first like so:
$(document).ready(function(){ });
What document.Ready means is similar to the name: "When the Document (Meaning our Webpage) is ready, Do this!".
The document.ready function is one of the most important parts in jQuery and Javascript because it gives us the basis for the rest of our code, because all of our code goes between the method, it means that our code is loaded whenever the page including the images are loaded.
So basically, Without this it means we can't do much without it for example, using a click function with jQuery would be pointless without document.ready it wouldn't work!
Great.. we have an empty load function hooray! so lets hide our two other peices of content first like so
$(document).ready(function(){ $("#two, #three").hide(); // Hide the other two tabs on load of the page });
Ok that's all good, But now we want to be able to see those too right? lets add a click event inside it, Like so:
$("#tab1").click(function () { // Click event for the Navigation Tab 1 $("#two, #three").hide("slow"); // Hide tabs 2 and 3 $("#one").show("slow"); // Show the corresponding content for Tab 1 }); // End Tab One Click
See? It is very simple, and all you have to do is repeat it for the different tabs, hiding and showing the correct content!
Done it? Then don't forget to link in your navigation.js file to your html, again between the head tags, you would put something like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="navigation.js"></script>
Useful jQuery Syntax
Here are a few examples of the syntax that jQuery uses, They are quite straight forward:
$("#element")will address an element
and the Syntax for a method would be like this:
an if statement would look like this:
if(something is true){ // do something }
I will explain the
For you, First, We need to have a closing curvey bracket for the one we opened so that goes first
Next, we need to close the "(function()" part, so we put a ) after that.
Then to end the line, we put a semi colon.
Declaring Variables
Naturally, In..pretty much all programming languages, variables play a big role and in javascript it's easier than others in some ways.. For example everything is a var in Javascript easily to be able to declare it like so:
var Egg = "broken";
And there you have it, The egg is broken.
Now we've broken the egg, That's actually pretty much it for variables in Javascript for now atleast
Easy huh? That's all for this tutorial! Here are some useful links to find out some more information:
jQuery Documentation: http://api.jquery.com/
Google: http://www.google.com
jQuery help forum: http://www.dreaminco...rum/105-jquery/
I hope you learnt something today, and that now you know basic syntax and functions you can get to grips with this brilliant library.


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This was my contribution to munch & mingle tonight and I wanted to share. I found the original recipe on allrecipes.com, but changed it up just a touch to suit my neurosis. If you like apple pie than this is the trifle for you!
Caramel Apple Trifle
1 yellow cake mix (and the ingredients to make it)
3 cups cold milk
1 & 1/2 pkgs. vanilla instant pudding mix
1/2 tsp. apple pie spice
1 jar caramel ice cream topping
3/4 cup toasted pecans
1 can apple pie filling
1 (16 oz.) container cool whip
1. Prepare cake according to directions in a 9 x 13 inch pan. Allow to cool completely and then cut into 1 inch cubes. In a large bowl, whisk milk, pudding (save the extra half package for another time) and apple pie spice for 2 minutes. Allow to stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set.
2. Put a layer of cooled cake squares in the bottom of a 4 qt. trifle bowl. Pour about 3 ounces of caramel topping over cake layer. Sprinkle with 1/3 of the nuts, and then half of the pudding mixture. Spoon half the can of pie filling on top of pudding. Spread half carton of cool whip on top. Repeat all layers, ending with layer of cool whip. Drizzle with caramel topping and top with remaining nuts.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
9 comments:
- Ashlee said...
I want to eat it RIGHT NOW. It looks so good!
- July 15, 2008 at 11:04 PM
- Kyndra said...
For yum! I need an excuse to make this now....
- July 16, 2008 at 12:00 AM
- Cheri @ Blog This Mom!® said...
I just gained a pound reading the recipe. And then I printed it so I can make one too.
- July 16, 2008 at 12:26 AM
- The Brough Family said...
sounds delish! Hope it went well last night!
- July 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Jeni said...
What a name this dish has! Wish I was at your munch and mingle.
- July 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM
That looks heavenly. I'm going to have to try it.
- July 16, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Rosanne said...
Yum - this sounds good, I'll have to try it. :)
- July 17, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- just jamie said...
Holy delicious...
- July 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM
- Sonja said...
- July 21, 2008 at 10:16 PM
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kill (one) with kindness
kill (one) with kindness
To harm, inconvenience, or bother one by treating them with excessive favor or kindness. The phrase originated as the expression "kill with kindness as fond apes do their young," referring to the notion that such animals sometimes crushed their offspring by hugging them too hard. I love talking to Grandma, but she calls me twice a day to see how I'm doing—right now she's killing me with kindness.
kill someone with kindness
Fig. to be enormously kind to someone. You are just killing me with kindness. Why? Don't kill them with kindness.
kill with kindness
Overwhelm or harm someone with mistaken or excessive benevolence. For example, Aunt Mary constantly sends Jane chocolates and cake and other goodies, even though she's been told Jane's on a diet-nothing like killing with kindness . This expression originated as kill with kindness as fond apes do their young (presumably crushing them to death in a hug) and was a proverb by the mid-1500s.
kill someone with kindness
If you kill someone with kindness, you treat them too kindly when this is not what they need or want. `He is killing me with kindness,' Sallie says. `He's just too attentive.'
kill someone with (or by) kindnessspoil someone by overindulging them.
This expression dates back to the mid 16th century; it famously appears in the title of Thomas Heywood's play A Woman Killed with Kindness ( 1607 ).


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The Secrets of a Long Life
Antiviral, Antitumor
The SeaHealth project was recently launched in France to demonstrate the benefits of seaweeds' antioxidant substances to prevent atherosclerosis and cancer. Antioxidant properties have been reported from Grateloupia filicina, an edible red alga called limu in Hawaiian culture that is widely eaten in Hawaii, Japan, Korea, and other countries. Sulphated polysaccharides from red algae inhibit viral action. Both the Herpes virus (containing DNA) and HIV (containing RNA) are inhibited by sulphated polysaccharides. Aqueous extracts of many red seaweeds are active against retroviruses. Carrageenan is cointernalized into infected cells with Herpes Simplex Virus, thus inhibiting the growth of the virus. Many marine algae have shown antitumor activities. Significant activity against E. coli was found in the brown algae Scytosiphon Iomentaria (69.8% inhibition), Lessonia nigrescens (60%), Laminaria japonica (57.6%), and Sargassum ringgoldainum (46.5%). Five brown and four red algae have shown appreciable antitumor properties against meth-A-fibrosarcoma.
Other Uses
Polysaccharides from brown and red seaweeds have several other uses. Earlier, alginates were used mainly to increase the viscosity of liquids and for dental filling. Today, alginates are being tailor-made by chemical selection or enzymatic treatment. Alginates require calcium, potassium, or sodium for gelation and have limited ranges of textures. Propylene glycol alginate solutions suspend particulates and are used as secondary emulsifiers and flow modifiers for salad dressings and fruit beverages.
Alginates are also used to encapsulate chemical, microbial, plant, and animal cells that are subsequently used as desired metabolite producers. Consumption of sodium alginates and low-molecular sodium alginates reduces cholesterol levels. Brown algal polysaccharides have anticoagulant, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory actions. In clinical trials, simple extracts of Undaria pinnatifida have been potent inhibitors of HIV.
Culture Continues
A few companies have successfully demonstrated tank cultivation of Porphyra for the production of specific nutraceuticals Canada-based Ocean Nutrition and Nori Tech, an Israeli company, are developing tailor- made Porphyra to meet specific requirements. In India, Pepsico started large-scale cultivation of carrageenophyte seaweed. With uses for seaweed continuing to expand, the demand for various seaweeds and their products will likely increase in the near future, thereby supporting the need for wider development of pharmacological aquaculture.


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Sheriff Clarke turns up heat on drunken drivers
Milwaukee County's sheriff said he's doubling -- in some cases tripling, the number of deputies on the freeway system on the weekends.
"It's been said we can't arrest this way out of this problem, but I'm going to sure as hell try," Sheriff David Clarke said.
Clarke said he's rolling out a new phase of drunken driving enforcement.
In the past, he's put 10 deputies on the freeway during weekend overnight shifts.
But Friday, he had 24 squad cars on patrol. On Saturday, he had 35.
Most of the drunken drivers they pulled over had blood-alcohol content levels well over the legal limit.
"We're not talking about people who just had a couple. I know that's the standard line, 'I just had a couple.' No they didn't, because with a couple you wouldn't have a PAC of 0.14, 0.16. We're getting people in the 20s, and they just had a couple drinks? You might have had a couple bottles. And I don't mean of beer, either," Clarke said.
The sheriff said he recognizes increased enforcement on the freeway might send drivers to side streets.
That's where Brookfield police Capt. Phil Horter comes in, as part of the Southeast Wisconsin OWI Task Force.
"There really is not an avenue for them to get home without them having to go past or through law enforcement," Horter said.
For portions of this past weekend, 10 area police department doubled their on-duty officers. They made 10 OWI arrests during that time and hope their presence sends a message.
"If we can deter people, great. But if we can't deter them, we will arrest them," Horter said.
On or off the freeway, law enforcement officers said they're looking for better decision-making.
"I don't advocate for absolutely sobriety. We're asking people to use their head because this is dangerous behavior," Clarke said.
Local departments will do those so-called "high-visibility enforcements" at least several times a month.
The sheriff said he will keep larger numbers of deputies on the freeway every weekend indefinitely. He said the money to do that comes from state grants.


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Siebel Institute would like to share the upcoming protocols for opening our campus in a safe and secure manner, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
It is with great pleasure that Siebel Institute would like to announce the appointment of our Advisory Board. The Board has been selected to provide input towards designing and creating courses and programs that will continue to meet the needs of breweries and brewing-related companies of all sizes and locations through the years to come. Please join us in welcoming this esteemed panel of brewing experts.
Mary Bauer is the Head Brewer at the Lagunitas Brewery in Chicago, IL. The Chicago facility is capable of producing over 500,000 bbls of beer a year and growing.
Mary began her brewing career at Anheuser Busch InBev, in their research pilot brewery, and also spent 3-years at their Cartersville, GA, brewery. More recently, Mary worked for Pepsi in the warehouse and quality departments but wanted to get back to her true passion, that being beer. Mary was named to the Crain's Chicago Business 2014 Top 40 under 40 List.
Chris Boggess has been the Head Brewer at 3 Floyd's Brewing Co. since December 2006, and is a partner at WarPigs Brew Pub in Copenhagen, Denmark.
From 1995 to 2006 he worked for Rock Bottom Brewing Company as Head Brewer/Senior Brewer of the Houston, Long Beach and Lombard locations.
Pete Crowley, co-owner and brewer of Haymarket Pub & Brewery, is a highly decorated brewer that has won over 50 local, national and international awards for his brewing creations including medals from the World Beer Cup, Great American Beer Festival and Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer.
With over 20 years in craft brewing, Pete has become especially known for pioneering work in creating specialty beers aged in bourbon barrels, a brewing technique that has evolved into a defining style range in the Midwest and increasingly throughout the US.
Josh Deth is Chairman of the Party at Revolution Brewing in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Revolution Brewing operates two facilities, an award-winning brewpub and a 90,000 square foot production brewery that is rapidly expanding.
Previously he owned Handlebar, a small vegetarian bar and grill with a cozy beer garden and plenty of bike parking out back. After landing his first brewery job cleaning kegs at age 20, Josh later spent three years at Goose Island Beer Company. He also spent time as a community organizer, running the neighborhood chamber of commerce and growing the local farmers market.
Florian Kuplent has worked in a diverse range of environments over nearly 2 decades in the brewing industry. Starting as an apprentice in a small German brewery and a graduate of Weihenstephan University in Freising, Germany, Florian built his brewing knowledge working with such companies as Meantime Brewing Co. (UK), Brauerei Beck's (Bremen, Germany), Brouwerij Moortgat (Breendonk, Belgium), and Mash (London, England).
Over several years with Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, MO, Florian was given free rein to experiment with new ingredients and different recipes at the brewery's experimental microbrewery, where he created a series of award-winning craft beers under the Michelob label. Florian is now brewmaster and part owner of a brew pub and packaging brewery in St. Louis, MO, and a brewery in Wolnzach, Bavaria, in the Hallertau, all named Urban Chestnut.
John Mallett manages operations and beer production at Bell's Brewery Inc., in Kalamazoo MI. John has served in numerous capacities over his brewing career; as head brewer of Boston's Commonwealth Brewery, brewmaster for Old Dominion Brewing Co., in Ashburn, VA., and founder and President of SAAZ, an equipment and service provider for large and small breweries.
John has lectured and written extensively about the brewing industry, serves on many technical committees, is a widely known consulting resource, and is a recipient of the Institute for Brewing Studies Russell Schehrer Award for brewing innovation.
Siebel Institute of Technology is approved by the Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
For further information, please visit the official IBHE website at http://ibhe.org/


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Coffee Lovers
Robino Ntila was born 1953 in Ndanda, Tanzania. At the age of 23 he joined Nyumba ya Sanaa (House of Art) in Dar Es Salaam. Later on he started working there as an artists and chief coordinator. His art brought him more then 10 times to Austria where he specialized in etching techniques.
He was originator of the idea of Wasanii Art Centre. He introduced the idea and art to American and Italian Embassy which then sponsored a selling exhibition.
Robino has been known by his art in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe as well as in Switzerland and Finland. Ntila has conducted several workshops on print etching. His etching arts illustrate traditional and contemporary life in Africa.
Artist: ROBINO M NTILA
Dimensions: 15" x 22"
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April 25, 2012 -- The number of American adults with high cholesterol is on the decline, according to the latest data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Slightly more than 13% of U.S. adults had high cholesterol in 2009-2010 -- a 27% drop from the 18% with high cholesterol a decade earlier, the CDC says.
High cholesterol -- levels of 240 milligrams per deciliter of blood or higher -- is a major risk factor for heart attacks.
The CDC researchers didn't examine reasons for the decline. But experts who reviewed the findings for WebMD credit the increased use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and healthier diets.
Previous research in people aged 65 and older showed that "the drop in bad LDL cholesterol levels from 2001 to 2006 paralleled an increase in statin use," says American Heart Association President Gordon Tomaselli, MD, head of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.
"As the CDC researchers delve further into this data, they will likely find the same thing is going on," he says.
More than 255 million prescriptions for statins were filled in 2010, up from 210 million in 2006, according to IMS Health.
Meanwhile, more people are eating heart-healthy diets, says Robert Eckel, MD, a heart specialist at the University of Colorado in Denver. "Data show that people are eating fewer of the bad, artery-clogging types of fat -- trans fats and saturated fats," he says.
The big question, Tomaselli says, is whether the gains in cholesterol will translate into fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"What we really need is long-term data that tells us if people are living longer and having fewer cardiovascular events," he says.
Understanding Cholesterol
There are two major types of cholesterol. "Bad" LDL cholesterol can build up on the walls inside your arteries and increase your chances of getting heart disease. The lower your LDL cholesterol number, the lower your risk.
When it comes to HDL cholesterol -- "good" cholesterol -- the higher the number, the lower your risk. This is because HDL cholesterol protects against heart disease by taking the "bad" cholesterol out of your blood and keeping it from building up in your arteries.
Both high total cholesterol and high LDL cholesterol levels or low HDL levels can increase risk of heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the U.S.
While the CDC report was generally positive, some groups fared better than others. Among adults aged 40 to 59, total cholesterol levels fell in men but not in women. Women in that age group mostly likely buck the trend because LDL levels rise at menopause, Eckel says.
Also, about 12% of women and 31% of men had low HDL in 2009-2010, the report says.
The new findings are based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2010.


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I turned away from the risen sun now hanging blood red before me and thought of a time--it now hardly seemed to have been my life--when I was waiting at a train station. A different desert. A different country. She arrived late that night and we nearly ran from the platform to the hotel, her bag banging against my thigh as I clutched it tight. I didn't feel it then, but my leg stayed black and blue for a week. When we stepped out of the hotel and into a blue-grey dawn three days later it was only to get bread and another bottle of wine. Six months later we were married. I loved her so much that sometimes, watching her come toward me down a crowded city sidewalk, I felt like I'd been stabbed in the stomach. Almost unendurably painful and beautiful beyond words.
Five years later things were different. I'd say that I somehow loved her even more but something had risen up between us. Secrets will do that. Lies. Deception. Anger and tears. Finally, silence, worst of all weapons. We had been apart for three months and I was waiting for her in another city, another country. The train pulled away from the platform and she had not been on it. I tried to reach her by phone but there was no answer. Another train arrived and departed. And another. I doubted her and in all this that is the one thing for which I cannot forgive myself. I found a rundown hotel and stayed drunk in my room for three days, in honor of a time long ago. When I emerged, wrecked, into a bright summer afternoon I could hardly catch my breath. Everything was gone. I believed she had betrayed me, finally, but what I did not know was that I'd betrayed her. If only I'd been able to trust in her love for me, a love that I know now could never have been extinguished, no matter to what wretched depths I succumbed. If only I'd believed that she still loved me I would not be here in this endless desert waiting to die. I would be with her.
Photos are of the 16th St. Station, West Oakland, CA.


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Friday, October 8, 2010
Water Dragons Galore!
5 comments:
- NAK and The Residents of The Khottage said...
Your mom's new pal must have wanted to follow her home and meet all of WOO!
Thanks fur sharing these great pikhs!
- Friday, October 08, 2010
- Angel, Kirby and Max said...
THose are great new friends! It looks like one wanted to help Mom with her bags!
- Friday, October 08, 2010
- Teddy Bear said...
Wowza is right! The water dragons are ginormous!!! Your Mom sure is brave. My Mommy saw two tiny lizards at church last week and screamed like she'd seen a monster. Girls! The Sea Lion looks so cute.
Teddy Bear
- Friday, October 08, 2010
- myonlyphoto said...
Yeah wow mom great report!
Images are stunning, surreal, super, and I can keep going.
Anna :)
- Saturday, October 16, 2010
- Prints the Cat said...
The marine iguanas look prehistoric. Do you by chance know why they were piled up together? Is it to keep warm?
The last photo of the sea lion is very cute!
My Mom has got to visit the Galapagos Island one day. She's a good reporter!
- Wednesday, November 24, 2010


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ANTHONY BARTON lectured at Dalhousie University from 1974 to 1998. He was Professor of Education from 1995 to 1998. He is the author of On the Methods of Famous Teachers and On the Structure of Didactic Tales. During his career he taught ten thousand students from various parts of the world, lectured on the radio, and published papers in professional journals. He retired in the summer of 1998 and now lives in Newfoundland with his wife in a house perched on a cliff top. Children and grandchildren come to visit. He spends his time painting pictures, writing, and exchanging e-mails with past students and with readers of his books.


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Voters are in an anti-tax mood -- even in San Jose, in the center of Silicon Valley, an area that is enjoying a burst in employment.
That doesn't bode well for the long-term well-being of any part of the Golden State.
Like many California cities in recent years, San Jose has had its share of budget setbacks.
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The city has had to deal with eleven straight years of budget shortfalls, and experts already see a twelfth deficit next July 1 to the tune of $78 million.
Fewer dollars from the state to urban governments have only exacerbated the revenue problem.
San Jose has been forced to make drastic cuts particularly in all service areas, including public safety. Hundreds of police and fire fighters have been laid off. At the same time, the city faces the highest number of homicides in years.
Against this backdrop, the city commissioned a poll recently to learn voter attitudes on a possible tax increase in a November 2011 election.
The results were anything but promising.
Of the several possible alternatives, a general sales tax uptick scored highest, with 57 percent of the voters supporting collection of an additional quarter percent for nine years in an election requiring majority approval.
But support was tepid at best. Only about half of that number firmly backed the tax, making voter approval highly unlikely.
What makes this so interesting is that San Jose is one of the more robust cities in the state. Yes, unemployment remains high at 9.9 percent, but it's down almost a full point from January.
Moreover, the city's economic health is good compared to the rest of the state, where unemployment sits at 11.8 percent.
Even with an improving economy, however, San Jose voters are skeptical with a capital S.
The survey shows that by better than a two-to-one margin, residents would rather reduce city employees' compensation than raise taxes, even though serious concessions have already been made and compensation is only a small portion of the deficit.
It also shows that only four out of ten voters would raise taxes to avoid further deterioration of services.
All this sheds a good deal of light on the trade-offs voters are willing to make. At least for now, they are willing to risk less protection in basic public safety than pay more taxes to insure basic services.
If voters feel that way in a relatively healthy part of the state, we can expect that and more everywhere else.


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Alhamdulillah! Master of the Jinn is one of the 400,000+ Ebooks available on Amazon.com's new Kindle book reader for only $3.99. If you have already purchased one, or are planning to, and buy Master of the Jinn to read on it, please let me know how it works. Also, if you ordered the Ebook through Mobipocket for $4.99, let me know how it looks.
I love the idea of book readers, and am told that Amazon's Kindle is really good at what it does. You can order a book and get it in less than one minute anywhere in the world. And you can preview the first chapter to see if you want to buy it beforehand. Wow! This will also be really great for schoolchildren, if they include textbooks on it, so they don't have to lug heavy backpacks filled with books.
Now a lot of us old timers may be ambivalent to the idea, but modern kids grow up using a computer so it will be second nature to them. And when the price goes down, as it inevitably will, book readers like the Kindle, and others that are on the market, will soon have a larger and larger share of the book buying public. (And you can also read newspapers and magazines on it).
Of course, holding a book you love in your hands is a pleasure, but how many books do you reread? I can only name a dozen or so.
And I love the idea of not having to cut down trees to make books and newspapers, so welcome Kindle :) To see what all the shouting is about, click HERE:
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UNIONTOWN, Pa. –The fourth annual Blues and White Gala scholarship fundraising event hosted by Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus May 12 raised nearly $40,000 for student scholarships. This brings the total of Blues and White scholarship funds to $138,000 over the four years the gala has been held.
The theme of this year's gala was "Blues and White with a Tuscan Twist." More than 100 people attended the event held at Horizon Point in Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. Emcee for the gala was Larry Richert, host of the KDKA News Radio Morning News, and featured musical entertainment was vocalist Angelo Babbaro, performing in the style of Frank Sinatra. Both silent and live auctions were successful and gala attendees went home with some noteworthy items, including sports memorabilia, travel, shopping and dining packages, and much more.
The gala is significant because all of the proceeds raised provide scholarships to students who may not otherwise afford a Penn State education. Currently, 90 percent of Penn State Fayette students qualify for student aid, and approximately 25 students benefited from last year's gala proceeds.
Lori Omatick, gala planning chair and director of development at the Fayette campus, said, "The significance in this effort is that 100 percent of the proceeds raised in the spring are distributed to students in the following academic year, as opposed to the various endowed scholarships, which disburse only a percentage of the principal fund balance each year."
The gala also provided the Fayette campus an opportunity to recognize the Swimmer family as "Friends of Penn State Fayette." This special honor was created to recognize an individual or organization that has been exceptionally supportive of Penn State Fayette throughout the years through scholarships, awards, and activities.
Some of the gala's key sponsors this year included: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort; Joshua and Maria Swimmer; Lenore Swimmer; Gerald and Carolyn Blaney; the Penn State Fayette Advisory Board; and many others.


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Develop Your Communication Skills Through Speaking And Listeningfrom: Marie Kearney Gordon - Guest Writer
Initiating a conversation is a good first step in developing good communication skills, but effective communication skills however, cannot be acquired overnight, hence ythe reason why it is called a skill. It needs to be learned, practiced and developed through time.
For project managers, journalists, public media spokespeople, broadcasters, and an extensive list of other career professionals, effective communication skills are of prime importance in carrying out their day to day activities.
To develop your communication skills, you have to learn to speak effectively and listen attentively, and these two are the most important skills you have to attain. Listed below are some pointers on how best to achieve this:-
Public Speaking
For one to develop good public speaking abilities, speaking skills have to be learned, practiced and evaluated over a period of time, and the first rule of thumb to be able to speak effectively is, planning what to say.
Focus initially on what the main idea that you are trying to convey will be, and organize your thoughts in such a way that they lead to the main thrust of the message you are trying to send across.
Once you have arrived at your main idea, take a short break, and ask your audience if they are still following you clearly, and by doing this, you will be able to know if you are off tangent on what you are saying, or still on the right path.
Ask your listeners if they understood what you were saying so that you are both on the same wavelength, and keep makeing sure that you keep your conversation focused and direct to the point.
Another important point to remember when speaking, is the style you use in expressing yourself. The speaking style you use has a considerable impact on the audience you are speaking to, especially if you want to be convincing.
When speaking, strive to be warm and enthusiastic, and your audience will be responsive, and good interaction can be formed with them.
It is also normal to expect questions during a conversation, and you should always be prepared to answer them.
When answering, take your time by paraphrasing the question, in order to be sure that you are certain of what it means, and in situations where you do not know the answer to the question, do not make up an answer, but instead be frank, and say that you do not know the answer.
Strive to be an effective listener by listening attentively to what the speaker is saying. To be an effective listener, you should be able to hear the words as the speaker communicates, so that you can understand the entire message. Effective listening in developing communication skills is by looking at the speaker when he is communicating, maintain eye contact and nodding during brief pauses.
Watch the facial expression of the speaker, to be able to completely understand the tone of the message he is conveying, and also show a responsive attitude to the speaker through your body language and your attentiveness.
To be an effective listener, you must be composed when relating to the speaker, as in this way, they will feel more accepted when they are with you. Do not fidget or frown when looking at the speaker, because he is trying to get a response from you, so giving a negative attitude will make him feel defensive, insecure and not confident.
As part of developing good communication skills, it is important to ask questions during a conversation, and when asking questions, use open ended questions, so that it is easier for the listener to know how best to answer your questions.
Hopefully the above tips will serve to give some guidelines in your quest in perfecting your communication skills.


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Washington fans watched, horrified, as wunderkind quarterback Robert Griffin III limped and struggled through the Redskins tough loss against the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, only to ultimately leave the game with his knee injury reaggravated.
RGIII went down on a bad snap midway through the fourth quarter, and it was immediately clear to everyone watching his game was over. The replay showed his right knee twisting in gruesome fashion and the accusations against coach Mike Shanahan began before Griffin was able to walk--assisted--off the field.
Griffin's knee hadn't looked good from the start, and 'Skins fans cried foul over allegations that Shanahan had allowed Griffin to play against medical advice. Dr. James Andrews, who had been treating Griffin's knee injury, said he never cleared the quarterback for play in Sunday's game.
Shanahan is an idiot. RG3 should have been out of this game 45 minutes ago. #Redskins just lost this game because he would not make a change— NFL Rants & Raves (@NFLRandR) January 7, 2013
Sickening to watch what happened 2 #RGIII.Team doctors need to be allowed as impartial party to protect players from themselves. #Redskins— robert smith (@ESPNRobertSmith) January 7, 2013
RG3 was gonna keep playing. That is what players do. It's on Mike Shanahan, the head coach, to take his QB out and not hurt his #Redskins.— Newy Scruggs (@newyscruggs) January 7, 2013
Fox Sports Radio host Peter Burns tweeted out an image from Forest Gump, along with the caption, "Shanahan would have kept Lieutenant Dan in the game."
On Monday morning, Griffin defended himself on Twitter as well.
Many may question, criticize & think they have all the right answers. But few have been in the line of fire in battle.— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 7, 2013
Others ragged on ownership for deciding not to re-sod the playing surface at FedEx field, and plenty of people made comparisons to the equally heartbreaking end to the National's season, who also made it to the first round of the playoffs after an historic year, only to give up a lead and lose the chance to move onto the National League Championships.
Naturally, several memes began working their way around the web mourning RGIII's injury.
If you can stomach it, watch the moment when Griffin reinjured his knee during Sunday's game.


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Once the Registrar has the required information and documents, they will issue the following certificates which enable you to start arranging the funeral and sorting out the affairs of the person who has died:
Certificate for Burial or Cremation – also known as the 'green form'
This certificate is free of charge and needs to be given to the funeral director as soon as possible, as it gives permission for the person who has died to be buried or cremated. In cases where the coroner is involved, this certificate may not be issued. Instead a separate certificate will be issued directly to the funeral director.
Certificate of Registration of Death BD8 – also known as the 'white form'
Another free certificate. This is used where the person who has died was in receipt of any state pensions or benefits. This form is used in all cases and should be sent to the address on the back of the form, along with any relevant pension books.
Death Certificate
A Certified Copy of an entry of death (more commonly known as a death certificate) is issued as legal proof of the death and is required to settle the affairs and estate of the person who has died.
This is the only form you will have to pay for. You might want to consider purchasing several copies, as you will need a separate one each time you deal with a bank, pension company, insurer or any other organisation.
Companies such as these will always require an original and not a photocopy. However, they will almost certainly return it if you prefer to pay for a single copy and use it more than once.


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I'm brand new here and I'd like to start off by asking about WP frameworks. I've seen quite a bit out there, so I'm confused about what to choose for my site.
So here are a few questions:
What is the advantage of a framework in the first place? Specifically, what are the advantages of installing frameworks such as Woo, Thesis, Genesis over designing something for a Wordpress base install directly?
Are there are any frameworks that are not recommended? I've seen a lot of Genesis bashing in other forums, but I don't understand why this is the case. So I'd like to know what you use and why.
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It's not even the end of the day and we're already reading a lot about how lonely everyone presumably is.
Thankfully, if you find you're in need of a pick-me-up, there are a few cures of the non-vinyl baby variety:
Scientists analyzed the bathing habits of 51 people. And had them record how they felt before and after bathing. The researchers found that higher scores on a measure of chronic loneliness were associated with an increase in warmer baths or showers. In a separate study, to test the link between physical temperature and emotional state, scientists had subjects hold cold and hot packs and recorded levels of perceived loneliness. They confirmed the correlation between cold packs and high loneliness scores.


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Jimmy Vasser: One Word – Solid
When I watch the silver, blue and orange car of KV Racing Technology on the track this season, I always watch it with mixed emotions. On one hand, I'm not a fan of Mario Moraes. I'm not sure that he'll ever grow on me, either. On the other hand, I've always been a big fan of Jimmy Vasser who co-owns the team with Kevin Kalkhoven. It really makes me feel old to say that I have watched Jimmy Vasser come up as a young kid, win a championship and retire as an owner. It seems like he was a rookie just last year.
Actually, it was 1992 when Jimmy Vasser made his CART debut in a year-old Lola-Chevy owned by Jim Hayhoe with Kodalux and STP sponsorship. He started modestly enough, finishing a quiet fifteenth at Surfers Paradise, before bowing out with electrical problems. The next race at Phoenix saw him crash on lap 166 to finish fifteenth again. His shining moment came the following week at the streets of Long Beach, where he started thirteenth and finished seventh. This gave him and his small team momentum heading into the Indianapolis 500.
Unfortunately, Vasser was one of the many that crashed in the 1992 Indy 500 and broke his leg. He only missed one race though, and returned at Portland although a fuel pump sidelined him after thirty-two laps and he settled for twenty-third place. This was a pretty typical race for Vasser and Hayhoe/Cole racing. Their budget caused them to miss several races in that second half of 1992 and Vasser finished twenty-second in points.
1993 showed more promise although lack of funding still caused Vasser to miss three races that year. Still, when on the track, Vasser performed very well and finished sixteenth is points despite missing three races that year. The following year showed even more potential for the struggling team. Hayhoe/Cole had secured sponsorship from Conseco to go along with the STP sponsorship. Plus, the team had secured the new Reynard chassis for 1994.
The 1994 season started strong as Vasser scored top-five finishes in three of the first four races including a fourth place at Indy. The third year driver was opening a lot of eyes in the paddock. But reality caught up at the halfway point as several careless accidents and equipment failures caused five DNF's in a row. All in all, there were seven DNF's for Vasser in the final eleven races of 1994. Hayhoe/Cole Racing folded just before the start of the 1995 season.
Chip Ganassi had already hired Bryan Herta to replace Michael Andretti in the Target-Scotch Video car for 1995. When Vasser became available bringing his STP sponsorship with him prior to the season, Ganassi decided to expand to a full-time two-car team. It was a rocky start as Vasser followed up an eighth place finish at the opener in Miami with another streak of five DNF's. Included in that stretch was a twenty-second finish at Indy when he crashed while leading on lap 170.
The following year saw Vasser team with Alex Zanardi as Ganassi made the move to Honda engines and Firestone tires. The Reynard-Honda-Firestone combination would prove to be THE winning trio for years to come. Vasser stormed out of the gate in 1996, winning four of the first six races and remaining consistent enough in the final half of the season to win the CART championship.
One of those wins was the ill-advised US 500 run at Michigan directly opposite the 1996 Indianapolis 500 in one of the darkest days in racing that I can remember. Vasser did not help his popularity with open-wheel fans as he popped out of the car in victory lane and exclaimed, "Who needs milk?" At that time, I was fully in CART's corner for a number of reasons, but I didn't care for the same-day running of the US 500 and I certainly didn't like Vasser's comment. It would later come back to haunt him when he returned to Indy in 2000.
Zanardi came into his own with the team the following year when he won the championship in 1997 & 1998. He went on to drive for Williams in Formula One and was replaced by Juan Montoya, who won the championship as a rookie in 1999 giving Ganassi four straight CART championships. Vasser had become the consistent yet unspectacular number two driver on the team. He left Ganassi after the 2000 season.
Vasser joined Pat Patrick's operation for 2001 and had a disappointing year finishing twelfth in points. For 2002, he moved to Team Rahal and rebounded by finishing sixth in points and winning the race at Fontana, which would end up being the final race win of his career. He closed out his career driving for PK Racing, which became PKV when he eventually bought into the team. His last full season to drive was in 2005, although he did drive in the Champ Car finale in Long Beach in 2008, finishing in tenth place.
Probably the biggest travesty of Jimmy Vasser's career was that he missed driving in the Indianapolis 500 in the peak of his career. Everyone mentions those that were robbed the most from the split being Bobby Rahal, Paul Tracy, Al Unser, Jr. and Michael Andretti. I would submit that no one felt the effects of the split more in their career more than Jimmy Vasser. He was just coming into his prime as the split occurred. By the time he returned in 2000, his best days were already behind him; as he watched his teammate Juan Montoya, completely dominate that race.
Other than his infamous "milk" comment, Jimmy Vasser has always been a class guy. The best way to describe his long career was one word – solid. He is not a mouthpiece and will always let you know what is on his mind, but he does so with integrity. He is a throwback to the image of the racer from the sixties – a nice looking guy who always seems to have a drink in one hand and a good-looking blonde in the other. But when it comes time to race, he knows it is time to get serious and he's all business..
Now he is forty-three years old and a car-owner. He flirted with the idea of racing at Indy this year, but decided against it. He may or may not race an IndyCar again. He now calls the races for his friend and former competitor Paul Tracy, in the few races when Tracy is racing. Otherwise, he is calling the shots for Mario Moraes. Jimmy Vasser is the only reason I would ever pull for the #5 Azul Tequila car.
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Unser and Rahal robbed from the split? I don't see why anyone would say that. Neither of them won in CART after 1995, and the Penske and Rahal teams struggled mostly throughout the '90s. Little Al won a few IRL races later but he was no longer a threat at Indy.
Actual drivers who may have been "robbed"? Michael Andretti, Greg Moore, Paul Tracy, Jimmy Vasser, Alex Zanardi. I can't think of anyone else really because those were the guys who did the best on ovals. Little Al and Rahal were done. Moore is more overlooked than Vasser even…even though he was pretty much as good as anyone at ovals in that era of CART.
J.V. is a 'class act,' I've always said. Totally cool. Always gracious. Even when he was punted out of a race or let down by his car he never pitched his helmet or gloves or gestured in anger or frustration or expressed angst on camera. I would've pitched fits when suffering misfortunes year after year, team after team. I've always liked his demeanor and attitude. Never a sour-puss, pouty or temperamental, like some spectacular drivers (JPM) and also-rans (Danica).
I didn't notice him in 1994 at Laguna Seca nor March '95 in Miami, but only started following him in 1996. I'm very glad he has a second career and a means to keep his hand in the game, with a team that wins sporadically. I had hopes for Katherine Legge after she showed promise in Atlantics, and I was always a fan of Cristiano and Oriol …