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There's no question anymore whether or not it's possible to accurately adapt the violent, foul-mouthed, fourth-wall breaking, wise-cracking mercenary known as Deadpool into live-action, complete red and black body costume and all. If the animated Deadpool test footage sequence featuring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Tim Miller didn't make that clear last summer when it leaked online - convincing Twentieth Century Fox to finally give the film a release date - then its panel presentation at San Diego Comic-Con last week sealed the deal.
When the cast of Deadpool took to the stage, preceded by an introductory video by Reynolds in costume as the "Merc with a Mouth," they brought the house down. Then they did again when playing the first teaser trailer for the film, which resulted in the 6000+ attendees responding with a standing ovation and shouting "one more time" so they could watch it again. It was the loudest fan response of the convention.
Of course, anyone in the entertainment business knows that a good showing at Comic-Con does not necessarily translate into success at the box office. Still, somehow Deadpool and its unique development history seems like a surefire success for a lower-budget, hard R action film because there's nothing like it. And because it only exists for the fans in the first place.
And with any superhero film, that means we're already looking ahead to what's next for Deadpool. Will he show up in an X-Men team-up? Will he appear in Deadpool 2? ComicBook.com asked Ryan Reynolds at Comic-Con this very thing when prodding about the idea of sharing the screen with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine again - something Jackman expressed interest in, but could be an issue of scheduling according to Reynolds who said it probably wouldn't happen in a standalone movie.
"I'd also love to see X-Force develop too and turn into something pretty cool."
Where would Deadpool fit in on an X-Force roster?
"I always see Deadpool running against the grain for everything he does. He can't possibly conform to any sort of leadership role. He always has to be the wild card. So you'd have to have someone like Cable running point on a team like X-Force. I'd love for that to be a next step that we take."
Cable and Deadpool have starred together in a great many of stories from Marvel Comics and a team-up of the two is something we suggested back in April of 2009 when Fox was first talking up the idea of another solo character movie after X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where Reynolds first had the chance to play (a version of) Wade Wilson, who becomes Deadpool.
The Challenge of Deadpool
It's not that simple though and Reynolds will be the first to warn you of that. He told us as much a few weeks back while promoting Self/Less, since Deadpool breaks the fourth wall and understands that he's a comic book character. He's also (currently) the only R-rated Marvel hero Fox has. That creates challenges in meshing him into the larger X-Men universe. It also creates some wildly interesting opportunities though.
The fact that Fox did finally pull the trigger on green-lighitng Deadpool last year means they're willing to take risks and see the value in having Deadpool in their expanding cinematic universe. And make no mistake about it, all of these movies will in some way be connected. That's what writer-producer Simon Kinberg signed up with Fox to do and is something he hinted at when I spoke with him last year about Days of Future Past.
Now Just How, But When
How the studio and its creative teams handle the time-period discrepancies between X-Men: Apocalypse (based in the '80s) and their modern-set Deadpool, Fantastic Four, and Wolverine movies remains to be seen, but somehow it all must connect. Perhaps DOFP was just the introduction of time-travel and it'll be back. Perhaps that's how Cable can be brought into the fold. Perhaps that's how they merge characters from the different time periods.
That being said, X-Force - which Reynolds namedropped above - was initially being planned and written by Kick-Ass 2 writer and director Jeff Wadlow but may no longer be in the cards as far as we know - At least, according to Deadpool/Cable co-creator Rob Liefeld who revealed on Twitter that the script for X-Force (which as we understood it, would have included Cable, Deadpool, and Wolverine as three of its five main characters) involved Apocalypse in a big way. Bryan Singer's plan for X-Men: Apocalypse though (which was announced before Days of Future Past even hit theaters) seemingly put a halt into the X-Force movie plans).
As it currently stands, and as re-confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con last week, the Fox Marvel Cinematic Universe includes Fantastic Four next month; Deadpool, Gambit, and X-Men: Apocalypse next year, and Wolverine 3 in 2017. Fox previously set a date for Fantastic Four 2 in 2017 as well but by not even mentioning it last week, they're likely waiting to see how the first performs before figuring out what to do next. Crossover? Go to space? More time-travel? Re-reboot? etc.
That would explain the recent rumors of Fox potentially crossing over the FF and X-Men properties as soon as 2018 with Bryan Singer's help. Fox does after all, have a release date for an unannounced project sitting in 2018 and the only other project in development is New Mutants. Again, we're not sure how that affects X-Force but New Mutants could be a lead-in should the franchise continue to succeed.
If Deadpool works, he could get a sequel which would be a smart place to explore the story of Cable. That would give the core X-Men films more time to establish its new core cast of youngsters set to be introduced in Apocalypse. Then, with Cable and Deadpool, New Mutants and a new X-Men team, perhaps then we'll see more crossovers.
What do you want to see from the franchise next? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Fantastic Four opens August 7th, 2015, Deadpool on February 12th, 2016, X-Men: Apocalypse on May 27th, 2016, Gambit on October 7th, 2016, Wolverine 3 (not the official title) on March 3rd, 2017, Fantastic Four 2 on June 9th, 2017, and some as-yet unspecified X-Men film on July 13th, 2018.
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Sunday's elections in France have produced a May 6 run-off between socialist Francois Hollande and President Sarkozy. In the first round of voting Hollande edged-out Sarkozy for a 28.2% to 27% plurality. Sarkozy's second place finish is the first time that a sitting president was out-polled in the first round. Sarkozy is apparently pegging to the right in an attempt to take some of Marine Le Pen's 19% in the next round.
What might all this mean?
Holland and Sarkozy are quite different on the issues, making France's election much like ours in November — a striking contrast of different visions. If France votes to end their flirtation with austerity and embrace a Keynesian-like socialist spending spree, then their economy will quickly move towards that of Southern Europe, taking the EU with it. If France votes to keep Sarkozy, France will stay above water for a while longer, maybe even weathering the economic shocks Greece, Spain, Italy, etc. are bound to eventually produce. However, the French people seem tired of belt-tightening and may be poised to embrace "change." We know where that leads.

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|Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard video
Just two days after his Chief Adminstrative Officer Tim Whitmer stepped down in a hail of controversy, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, a lifetime politician with a career three-plus decades old, abruptly resigned from his office yesterday. In a shocking turn of events, precipitated by a months-long federal investigation in alleged improprieties in parish government, Broussard did by himself what thousands of angry homeowners had hoped he would do right after Hurricane Katrina. It was Broussard who decided he wanted to not imperil the lives of parish employees who worked the drainage pumps in Jefferson Parish. Fearing the housing complexes where they worked would not stand up to the pummeling from the hurricane's winds, Broussard ordered the men to leave their posts and evacuate the area. Many of them resisted, wanting to man the pumps despite the risk to their lives and limbs. When the drainage canals overspilled from excessive water backed up from the storm and from breaks in levees leading to Lake Pontchartrain, Jefferson Parish suffered extensive damage to homes and businesses. Broussard took the brunt of the criticism, but defended his actions as having potentially saved lives. Angry homeowners saw things differently. They surmised that had pumps been working during and after the storm, much of the billions of dollars in damages to personal and public properties would have been lessened. Broussard survived a recall petition launched against him in 2005 after the storm, but his criticism of the federal government's response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina helped him regain favor in some voters' eyes. Broussard was featured on two segments of Meet the Press with Tim Russert in the weeks after the flooding had occurred in September of 2005. On his first appearance on September 4 he made emotional statements about the death of one of his employee's mother in a St. Bernard Parish nursing home and the lack of a response to save her before she died. Broussard was challenged about the accuracy of his earlier statement on a later show on September of 25 by Russert when it was determined that statement contained glaring inaccuracies. While never disputing the discrepancies, Broussard claimed he was only repeating the story told to him by his staffers. It took Broussard two years to climb in popularity again and he narrowly escaped having to be in a runnoff against one of his more outspoken detractors only two years ago. If ever there were an example of an entrenched politician, Broussard was it. It was such a surprise to everyone in the news media that special local reports broke into regular programming throughout the day. Speculation now is rampant over whether Broussard resigned in the face of an impending federal indictment for malfeasance in office or other impropriety. Tim Coulon, a Jefferson Parish mainstay and a close confidante of Broussard, was forced to resign his position with the Louisiana Superdome Commission at the behest of Governor Bobby Jindal over allegations of wrongdoing - or the appearance of the same - not that long ago. Following Whitmer's resignation under fire and Broussard's decision to follow him, political observers are now wondering if the veritable straw that broke the camel's back wasn't a story that leaked to the news media a day after Whitmer stepped down. The story dealt with the possibly improper leasing of a Nova Scotian lodge owned by Broussard to vendors who had done extensive work with the parish government. The Metropolitan Crime Commission questioned the practice and Broussard was on the defensive just the day before he decided to quit, telling reporters he was innocent of any wrong-doing. At the time that Broussard was making his decision to resign Friday, Jefferson Parish officials were busy handing over documents to federal investigators related to the 25-year River Birch garbage disposal contract with the parish that experts suggested could be worth $160 million over the life of the contract. Between allegations of improper awarding of parish contracts and other finger pointing by critics, Broussard was in a no-win situation. He probably did himself and the parish government a great service by stepping down. Now the question is who will fill his very large shoes? Only five days ago Jose Gonzales was a middle management employee, who assisted CAO Whitmer. By Tuesday he was the CAO and with Broussard's departure is now the defacto parish president. An interim president will be named by the parish government soon and by law he or she cannot run for the permanent office. Sources suggest the election for a permanent parish president will be next February, but that will only be for the final two year's of Broussard's existing term. For the pundits it could be a very interesting race. For the voters of Jefferson Parish, it's either an embarrassment or a blessing. With the ongoing investigation ramping up, it shouldn't be long before we hear from the federal prosecutors if Broussard is in their sites for more attention. Many of us will recall Broussard as a district councilman and school board member prior to his entry into the Kenner mayor's race in 1982. That bitterly fought race against two other established politicians - Raoul "Skip" Galan and Kernan "Skip" Hand - cost Broussard dearly. It took him nearly a decade to pay off his gargantuan campaign debt. Only days after taking the oath of office, Broussard became a national celebrity when a tragic Delta plane crash occurred just outside the boundaries of the New Orleans International Airport. Beside the 146 on board the plane, eight residents in their homes or on the ground were killed in the explosion and fire that raced through the Kenner neighborhood. Broussard was given high marks for his take charge attitude and the baseball cap he wore with the "K" for the city of Kenner became an overnight best seller. Following two more successive terms as mayor, Broussard decided to venture into more powerful positions in Jefferson Parish politics. He won election to the Jefferson Parish Council and was selected as chairman from 1995 to 2003. Voters gave him the parish presidency in 2003 and he last ran for office in 2007, winning re-election without having to enter into a runoff by 1.5% of the vote. There is little doubt that he leaves behind a formidable legacy. Whether he is fortunate to stay retired and not become the target of the federal probe remains to be seen. Lips are pretty tight down on Camp Street at the Hale Boggs Federal Building, where the prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Jim Letten have been quietly pressing forward, interviewing witnesses and pouring over large caches of documents. Who will follow Broussard as interim president and who will run for what's left of his term is anybody's guess right now. It all shapes up to be more local politics as usual, but how history will recall Broussard - as hapless victim or corrupt politician - no one can say.
Art Clokey, the animator of Gumby and Pokey, first premiered on the "Howdy Doody Show," passed away yesterday at the age of 88. Clokey resisted putting replicas of the green bendable figurine on store shelves because he didn't want critics to suggest he was only in the animation field to reap retail sales. Despite his late entry into the marketplace, Gumby and Pokey figures eventually rang up millions of dollars in sales, but not before two television series were aired 20 years apart starring the green figure with the slanting head and his horse friend. Clokey figured it took him 40 years to make substantial money from TV receipts and merchandising. Eddie Murphy's "Saturday Night Live" depiction of Gumby was well regarded by Clokey, who said Gumby needed to laugh at himself. Now that Clokey is gone, one wonders what will become of the green animation figure? I've heard of one report that says a distraught Gumby and Pokey have both gone on a bender. (Ouch.)


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N2H2, a global Internet content filtering company, has released version 2.0 of the company's Sentian and Bess lines of filtering products for Red Hat Linux.
The new Red Hat Linux version, the company says, "offers a number of powerful features and a simple Web-based interface, and is designed to integrate with many popular caching and firewall devices."
The new release includes:
- Virtual Reviewer - This opt-in feature allows customers to automatically forward sites added to local block and allow lists to N2H2 each night for review and categorization, keeping customized block and allow lists compact and efficient.
- Delegated Administration Enhancements - Enables one network "super administrator" to delegate certain administrative tasks to other administrators within the network. The new release allows sub-administrators to create local block/allow lists and customized message screens.
- Monitor Only and Soft Block - Because many organizations want to better understand their Internet use without adversely impacting users, administrators can choose to monitor traffic, or to be alerted when a particular user accesses a specified category.
Other major enhancements, says a N2H2 spokeman, include flexible user definable keyword and file type blocking, support for iPlanet (Sun ONE) and Novell Directory Services.
"The new Red Hat Linux version is designed to integrate with many popular caching and firewall devices, including the Cisco Content Engine, Cisco PIX Firewall, Novell BorderManager, SonicWALL, Stratacache, and 3Com SuperStack. For the first time, N2H2 for Red Hat Linux will offer support for the popular Check Point FireWall-1, as well as the Squid Proxy and the Novell Volera Excelerator," he added.


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This blog contains posts and comments written by students in Dr. Tufte's economics classes at Southern Utah University.
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10 comments:
- Aaliyah said...
One problem I see with a worldwide currency is its governing mechanism. We have other world wide organizations, such as the UN, which are notorious taking a long time to make decisions, which in turn are then hotly debated by the rest of the world. A world wide orgaization that would control our money would have to report to a worldwide government to adjust interest rates, buy and sell bonds, etc. Another problem with a world wide currency is that it would take away the advanatage some countries have in the export and import markets. Those countries such as India that have a cheap, but well educated labor market would suddenly be worth as much as everyone else. They would loose their attractiveness for outsourced labor. In short exchange rates can be an advantage, and is a small price to pay for autonomy in our own currency.
- Dr. Tufte said...
-1 on Aaliyah for multiple spelling errors.
I think Aaliyah's criticism should not be taken lightly - the history of multinational organizations is not good.
On the other hand, principles of macroeconomics tells us that most money is created inside the financial system, not by government measures outside of the financial system. So, it seems reasonable that the damage that could be done by a multinational body would be smaller in this arena than in some others.
Having said that, Friedman's point that national currencies are more trouble than they are worth is largely correct.
One legitimate reason for their existence in the past is the debasement of metallic currencies by new mineral discoveries. However, this can be avoided by the use of paper currency, with some sort of tight control of printing.
A tougher nut to crack is plain old ego. Most countries have a currency because their government officials have been told it is something they are supposed to have. Once it is in place, it becomes a source of pride for them.
A further concern is that one of the reasons to have a single currency is to limit the ability of governments to indirectly tax their citizens wealth by devaluing their currency (the technical term for this is seigneurage). The problem is that most governments would be unwilling to give up this ability without a fight.
For the curious, we actually have had some very widespread international monies in the past. The best example is the Maria Theresa thaler. These were silver coins minted in Austria in the 18th century. They were used throughout the Middle East, and into other parts of Asia and Africa until the 1960s. We've all also heard of "spanish" doubloons and pieces of eight - both of which refer to gold coins minted by Spain that were in wide circulation from the 16th to the 19th century. Both of these examples show the willingness of the financial system to adopt a uniform international currency on their own, and should highlight that the big problem with the issue is the conceit of government officials.
- mason said...
I don't see how this could be possible. There are still too many countries who strive for a socialized system where the government has full power. Take China for instance, the government is in control of the country by telling the population what is best for them. They have the power, and I would bet that sharing a currency would take that threat of that power away.
Other reasons that I can't see a world wide currency, is that many third world countries are just too far behind. Two years ago I had an oppurtunity to spend two weeks in Ethiopia on a medical expedition. Back then the majority of the people would only bring home 1 to 2 birr a month. 8 birr would be equivalent to 1 American dollar. Our poorest in the states can't even be compared to the poorest there. It is very sad. How could a world wide currency work in a situation like this? It is almost like the Great Depression, but it doesn't ever seem to end in Ethiopia.
- Dr. Tufte said...
1) Your point about government control is well-taken. But the type of control in this case is to devalue the currency to devalue privately held wealth.
- Dr. Tufte said...
Ethiopia (and other places) aren't "like the great depression". Rather, they are far, far, worse.
This is not exclusively due to bad monetary policy choices - like printing money to indirectly tax away private wealth. But, it can be, and often is.
- mason said...
Your right, Ethiopia (and other places) are far far worse than the Great Depression ever was. I was trying to make a comparison of hard times when money is so important for survival.
There are so many countries on different scales, especially compared to the U.S.. Can currency/money be devalued when there is such a wide range of wealth and poor with not alot in between? I just don't see how it could. It goes back to who has power and who doesn't. Could you tell Wal-Mart to stop and let someone else have a chance?
- Jackson said...
Not only is the collaboration of choosing a common currency a massive and impossible undertaking it would be a huge step toward socialism.
A major criticism with socialism is that it puts all the power in the hands of big brother and society loses its ability to control their own social welfare. Forcing a single monetary system would only lessen the monetary freedom of every country. Granted, some countries would be better off, but as a whole we'd all be held in check.
Not that this matters anyway, because there is no possible way that the world would be able to combine currency.
- carter said...
Dr. Tufte said that a big problem would be countries egos. This is true I think that there is no way that America would let another country control its currency. We have a huge debt and the cost of printing could increase. I don't think that this would really help the government financially or any other way.
- carter said...
Dr. Tufte said that a big problem would be countries egos. This is true I think that there is no way that America would let another country control its currency. We have a huge debt and the cost of printing could increase. I don't think that this would really help the government financially or any other way.
- Dr. Tufte said...
-2 on Carter: one for a misspelling, and the other for a repeated comment that I already gave credit for.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by President Donald Trump to scuttle a hostile takeover by Singapore's Broadcom of the U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm caught some on Wall Street off guard.
Shares of Qualcomm slid 3 percent in early trading Tuesday.
Industry analysts speculate that Qualcomm's advanced work on 5G technology, which is expected to provide speeds needed to fuel the "internet of things," was the reason.
Trump said a takeover of Qualcomm would imperil national security, ending Broadcom's $117 billion buyout bid.
Kevin Cassidy, an industry analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said Qualcomm is well ahead of foreign and domestic competitors in 5G technology.
Broadcom's attempted takeover came at a time when countries around the world are gearing up to build ultra-fast mobile networks that could tip the balance of power in technology.


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Lee Pace is all over the place these days.
Although some of us have been fans since spotting him in Tarsem Singh's sobfest "The Fall" or TV's "Pushing Daisies," Pace is taking it to the next level (and leaving "Marmaduke" in the dust) with bigger and better roles all the time. As we know, he's vamping it up in "Breaking Dawn" as Garrett and traveling to Middle Earth to rule over the Elves as Thranduil.
But that's not all! He's just signed on for a role in Steven Spielberg's star-studded "Lincoln," where he'll play pro-Confederate NYC Mayor Fernando Wood.
Not cool, dude. Not. Cool. No doubt Lincoln, aka Daniel Day-Lewis, will have something to say about that!
"Lincoln," which is not to be confused with "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," has a crazy cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sally Field, David Strathairn, John Hawkes, James Spader, and basically every noteworthy actor currently alive and kicking.
As if that wasn't Oscar-baity enough, it's based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," and boasts a screenplay by another Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tony Kushner.
According to Deadline, the folks behind the hefty chunk of Hollywood are aiming for the 2012 Oscar season. I guess they're counting on the Maya being wrong about that whole end-of-the-world deal on December 21, 2012. And now, we have yet another reason to hope they are -- if only to stare into Lee Pace's piercing peepers one last time.
In the meantime, you can also catch Lee Pace as a hilariously wanky director in the loveable indie "Ceremony," directed by Max Winkler. That's right, Henry's son is all grown up and made himself a damn fine romantic comedy drama that you should rent ASAP!


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Obscurity is a threat to Michael Wolff no longer.
"Trump ended with: ".to President of the United States (on my first try).
Author Michael Wolff's sensational book on President Donald Trump's administration is the top seller online.
Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the release of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" was advanced for Friday, after attempts by President Trump's team to prevent it. The US head of state denounces indeed charges "phony" and points machinations against him.
President Donald Trump was mocked for an on-screen press conference on Jan. 4 (video below). Earlier, he had tweeted: "Thank you, Mr. President".
"Many of our greatest politicians have had psychiatric vulnerabilities", including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Abraham Lincoln, says Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist and medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "Losing was winning", the book says. According to the president, he never even gave him a quote.
"It was right in the middle of Trump making these statements and Bannon was gleeful".
"I intend to be here for the whole year", he said. Whether he realized it was an interview or not I don't know. With others, where it looks like someone else is achieving that first, "he attacks the messenger".
Wolff reiterated his belief that it is becoming a widespread view that Trump is unfit for presidency, telling BBC Radio in an interview overnight that it's a "very clear emperor-has-no-clothes effect". It would seem their marriage is based solely on appearances, not a real partnership of any kind. He says he "settled on a version of events I believe to be true". The book also alleges that Chief of Staff John Kelly admitted that he accepted the job of working for Trump, despite the president's uncontrollable nature, so that he could prevent the man from causing a catastrophe. Sanders disputes that, pointing to public photos that show the golf enthusiasts had hit the links over the years.
Trump, in a series of morning tweets, said his Democratic critics and the US news media were bringing up the "old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence" since they have not been able to bring him down in other ways. The book isn't even in the warehouse yet.
President Trump continues to provide late night hosts with hilarious material. Now he'd probably just order the Department of Justice to get dirt on the guy. Demand for the book has been insatiable since reports of its contents emerged Wednesday. Imagine if we put them in a small box in a small corner of the newspaper or only at the end of a newscast as a minor throwaway. Sometimes, he critiqued the media.
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In spring 2011 graduate students examined the history of American Youth Activism from 1945-1975 while producing digital stories and documentaries. Young Americans were important participants in the social, economic, and political changes that took place across society during the most intense years of the Cold War. The class emphasized skills in writing, oral history, and traditional research as well as digital storytelling computer technologies. Student first produced digital stories exploring the roots of their own political awareness. HIST 495 - 710 was held in the spring of 2011. The course was taught by Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, Chair of the UMBC History Department and Dr. Bill Shewbridge, Director of the New Media Studio.
Here you can view a few select final projects along with their final scripts and annotated bibliographies.
|Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Patriots for Peace
|Leroy Blades
|Another Side of the Sixties
|Kenneth Sabel
|"Jim Crow Must Go":Stories of Freedom Summer Volunteers
|Allison Seyler
|"Organize to Smash Discrimination!": the 1948 Druid Hill parkTennis Game
|Sara Paternaude-Schuster
|Before Stonewall
|Victoria Stott
|The Youth and RFK
|Tony Martinez
The course had a unique first session. Dr. Lindenmeyer's lecturewas recorded by C-SPAN as part of it's"Lectures in Public History" program. You can view the program online here. The lecture covered the genesis of political activism among young people following World War II, a movement that continued through the Vietnam era. The class was recorded in the facilities of UMBC's New Media Studio.


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Many in the world agree, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did his life's work well. Stories of his uncompromising commitment to unconditional love are well documented for posterity as are the pivotal moments of his extraordinary life.
And yet, "He was an average and ordinary man, called by a God, in whom he had deep and abiding faith, to perform extraordinary deeds," his oldest and only surviving sibling, Christine King Ferris, told Ebony Magazine during a 1986 interview.
There are facts, experiences, little known details in the Civil Rights leader's life that serve as testaments to his sister's comment beginning with the civil rights leader's iconic name.
Born January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was in fact named Michael at birth after his father; however, when the elder King travelled to Germany in 1934, he was greatly impressed by the mission of the Protestant Reformation leader, Martin Luther. As a result, when King returned to America he changed his name as well as the name of his five year old son to Martin Luther, in honor of the protestant activist. There are some reports, however, that at times, the elder King claimed his son's name was listed as Michael on his birth certificate in error. Regardless, throughout King's life, members of the King family continued to call him Mike or ML.
Probably one of the early and little known events that helped shape King's life occurred in 1941. Reportedly, he attended a parade without his parent's permission and while he was there, his maternal grandmother had a massive heart attack and died. King was devastated and blamed himself for her death.
According to many, he was heavily overwhelmed with guilt. Shortly after her death, the future civil rights leader purportedly fell from the second story window of their home—some believed it was an attempt at suicide. Although family members insisted it was an accident; years later when speaking about the incident his father said, "He cried off and on for several days afterward and was unable to sleep at night."
In later years, King continued to struggle with bouts of depression usually the result of issues related to the civil rights movement. Once, reflecting on his grandmother's death he said, "It was after this incident for the first time that I talked at any length on the doctrine of immortality. My parents attempted to explain it to me and I was assured that my grandmother still lived."
Although King's early years were marked with this episode of grief, he was a gifted and talented student. As a result, he skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades and entered Morehouse College at the early age of 15 years.
Although Martin was a gifted high school student most will be surprised to learn that during his educational career at Morehouse College he earned only one A. He primarily earned Bs or passed classes that only gave pass/fail grades.
What might be even more surprising about his college years is while earning his divinity degree King actually received a C in public speaking-an average grade for someone destined to become one of the greatest orators in the history of the world.
Another interesting fact about his seminary years focused around his time at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. There, he fell in love with a German cafeteria employee. His classmates talked him out of pursuing her for two main reasons—firstly, because his father would have disapproved of an interracial relationship and also because he expected the younger King to marry someone of status. It was reported the elder King was not even enthusiastic about his son's marriage to Coretta Scott.
King has been called the Prince of Peace and yet during the 1950's as his life, the life of his wife and new born daughter were continuously threatened because of his work in relation to bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, he applied for a gun permit. King realized, however, he could not advocate non violence and at the same time, prepare for armed self-defense. Interestingly, Alabama refused his application.
King appeared to live his life in a hurry, as if he knew his stay on earth would be brief. Beginning in 1957 until his untimely demise in 1968, he gave over 2,500 speeches, travelled more than six million miles, was arrested at least 30 times, wrote five books and published numerous articles. Yes, King appeared to live his life in a hurry like the marked man he truly was.
After delivering his historic and memorable "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington, the FBI wrote, "In the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday, he stands head and shoulders above all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future . . . from the standpoint of Communism, the Negro and national security."
Although he was marked by the FBI as the most dangerous Negro in the nation, he was a preacher with three degrees who maintained the common touch and managed to also establish quite a reputation as a pool shark. Playing pool was one of the ways he reached out to some members of the Black community—using pool to reach those who did not come to church to hear his messages.
Despite his enduring impact on America and the world both then and now, King died with barely any financial assets. His family was left with hardly any benefits from his books, speaking engagements, or ministry. He never set anything aside for his children's education. He had even donated the 54 plus thousand dollars in Nobel Prize award money to the movement.
King gave everything to the movement including his health and longevity. When he was murdered at the age of 39 his autopsy report revealed the heart of a 60 year old–doctors believed it was the result of ongoing stress.
At least 40 American states have streets named in honor of King—there are over 900 streets named in his honor world-wide.
Fortunate for the world, King left hundreds of thousands of documents about his life and legacy in sermons, letters, speeches and sadly, federal surveillance.
Although much is known about King the man, the visionary, the activist, the drum major for peace, there are still a good number of FBI surveillance documents that will remain sealed in the National Archives until 2027.
Some records of his life may be sealed from view but his legacy lives openly in the hearts and minds of those whose lives he changed, even among the many who were yet to be born when King walked the earth. This is clearly evidenced in the passionate movement of Black Lives Matter and other organizations that continue to work for peace and justice here in America and around the world in 2016. Yes, despite set-backs and disappointments, the movement continues .
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If you're not into silent PCs, then the AcoustiCase 340 probably isn't for you. If that comment piques your interest, read on and find out why this case is a good choice for those who have the goal of reducing the noise output of their PC. We put it to the test, both thermally and sonically.
To test the AcoustiCase's ability to 'silence' components, we didn't select any silent cooling components to build the test system. Instead, we simply swapped in a test system based around some components we had on hand, among them a Gigabyte Micro ATX motherboard and an AMD Athlon BE-2300 with its stock heatsink/fan.
The test system originally lived in an Antec SLK3700, but right away we noticed the striking similarity with the AcoustiCase. The hard drive cage from the Antec SLK3700 fit directly into the AcoustiCase 340, and the stamped fan grilles looked virtually identical. The only differences appear to be that the AcoustiCase uses thinner steel (0.6mm instead of 0.8mm) and doesn't have the same cross-brace that the Antec case has. Later on, we'll compare the thermal performance of the AcoustiCase 340 to that of the same system in the SLK3700, to see what the effect of all that foam really is. For now, however, let's take a look at the process of building a system in the AcoustiCase.
QuietPC USA also sent along an AcoustiFan "Dustproof" case fan. "Dustproof" refers to the way that this sleeve-bearing fan features additional internal seals to keep dust from mixing with the lubricant and congealing, which would otherwise shorten the fan's life span. (In an upcoming article on silent PCs, we'll take a look at why sleeve bearings are making a comeback.) The fan itself is based on a Globe Fan 120mm chassis (merely re-branded "AcoustiFan") with a 3-pin power connector, and moves 56.3 CFM at 1500 RPM and 24.7 dBa.
The AcoustiFan package included a set of four elastomer fan mounts, which enable the fan to be mounted without transferring its vibration to the chassis. Installing these grommets was a delicate operation, yet no tools were required. First, each grommet had to be individually threaded through the fan mounting holes in the case. Then, each grommet had to be individually pulled through the fan frame. While we worried we might stretch the grommets too far and break them, they held up to the strain.
Next, we set about transferring the hard drives from the SLK's drive cage to the 340's. Now, as you'll recall, hard drives produce heat, so it's not so simple as sticking the hard drives into any open slot. One side of each drive will be adjacent to a block of foam – so it's important to make sure each drive will receive some airflow, at least. We elected to go with the placement shown in the photo – with a tunnel through the center to conduct airflow between the two drives. We wish we could have mounted the top drive upside down, so the airflow could still be passing over the 'top' of each drive, but such luck was not to be had.
While we typically discard front filters because they restrict airflow and hurt more than they help when it comes to thermal performance, the filter on the AcoustiCase appears to be a legit wire mesh, instead of the perforated plastic we've seen on other cases (like Antec's SOLO.) In order for a front filter to work well, there must be no other paths of air intake – but here, the entire front panel is perforated. We threw up our hands in disgust and left it the way it was.
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Finally, with everything in place, we routed the cables – an easy task thanks to the AcoustiCase's copious amounts of internal space. With everything in and wired up, we closed up the case and admired our handiwork. Rapping on the side, we noticed that the sound was dull and greatly attenuated, a promising sign for the case's acoustic performance.
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Newcastle Unite have once again cracked the top 20 list of football clubs based on revenue earned in a season, and Newcastle revenue for last season – 2011-2012 – was £93.3M, but that is still around £7M down on what it was back in the early 2000s – when Freddy Shepherd was still running the club, and we were in Europe almost every season under Bobby Robson.
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It's also not the highest revenue under Mike Ashley because in 2007-2008 we had £99.4M in revenues – just beating last season's total.
Deloitte produces these figures around this time of year every year for the previous season, and our revenue was a 5.4% increase on the previous year's revenue figure of £88.4M.
Here's how Newcastle revenues have been over the last few seasons.
You can see how the revenues were hit when we were in the Championship in 2009-2010 and this season's revenues should be boosted by the Europa a League, but next season's will probably drop because we will not be in the Europa league – but hope to be in the Premier League.
Newcastle are in 20th place in the revenue charts, and once again Real Madrid are the top club in terms of generating revenues. The Spaniards had a 7% increase and hit £414.7M in revenues – over five times Newcastle's figure.
Here are the top 20 clubs in revenue:
1. Real Madrid (ESP) £414.7M
2. Barcelona (ESP) £390.8M
3. Manchester United (ENG) £230.3M
4. Bayern Munich (GER) £298.1M
5. Chelsea (ENG) £261M
6. Arsenal (ENG) £234.9M
7. Manchester City (ENG) £231.1M
8. AC Milan (ITA) £207.9M
9. Liverpool (ENG) £188.7M
10. Juventus (ITA) £158.1M
11. Borussia Dortmund (GER) £153M
12. Inter Milan (ITA) £150.4M
13. Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) £144.2M
14. Schalke 04 (GER) £141.2M
15. Napoli (ITA) £120.1M
16. Marseille (FRA) £109.8M
17. Lyon (FRA) £106.7M
18. Hamburg (GER) £98M
19. Roma (ITA) £93.8M
20. Newcastle United (ENG) £93.3M
The highest we ever were in this "league" was back around 2004 – when we were in 13th place.
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TS…okay we can continue here 🙂
…De Gea has potential (but he is not ready). At the moment I rate Lindegaard higher, cause he is much more calm and better for the shaky defense.
Plus if SAF would only stick with him he'll be first choice for the Danish National team very quickly (will only make him better)
So we should be minimum 7th in the prem on a consistent basis. Time to move up the league Pards.
Some fella on twitter says he just spoke to Colo and he stays till Summer for defo. Really hope that's true and we see the real Colo.
Also quotes on Sissoko suggest he is in the bag on a pre contract. But that can still change as an agreement with Toulouse and an interim contract can supersede that.
I still think that if Colo stays we will get Sissoko now. Him stuck at his club but not playing is no good for anyone, including us as we need him fit when he comes.
Does anyone think our business is finished or do you think Ashley is still shopping??
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Ibiza – No pressure no??? On this blog – pressure is an every day occurrence!
Rotonda – I've not heard much about Thauvin to be honest. Bits and bobs but nothing that I would stick my neck out and post on here. I'm at valenciennes tomorrow for their game with Lyon and Saturday I'm off to work again with Sochaux (who play Montpellier) so will try and find out what I can about any possible business. Bastia play on Sunday this weekend – not sure I'm going to be able to get to it but as they play St. Ettienne, and a friend is in with the club – so at the very least will get him to do some digging for me!
TADS – I've lost a lot of respect for Toulouse FC over how they have treated Moussa, he is a player who wears his heart on his sleeve, battles for everything and is one of the hardest working players in Ligue 1, you'd think that would carry some weight – but it seems not. Shame.
Numba9 – Whilst i agree you are right, I think we l agree that he is new to this football club running thing – but is hopefully learning his lesson.
I agree lindergaard seems much calmer….which is good.
Man utd are lucky that player like rio, vidic, evra…all don't need calming. Obviously it helps if they have a calm keeper but I think they can get by with de gea.
I'd have de gea first choice every week if I was them and I'd think he will grow into it by next season.
doesn't matter what you're revenue is, what matter is how much you have to spend to get that revenue. Chelsea spent £80m on players in the summer but won about £80m for CL. which is why they broken about even this year. if they hadn't won the CL they would be showing another massive lose.
Sure i just saw Collo walking up Monkseaton drive in Whitley pushing a pram. could be mistaken though. Isn't he supposed to be going back to Argentina on International duty anyhow??
This is all well and good but as they say in the business world it is all about the bottom line – Barcelona may bring in the most revenue but what are their costs? What is the impact of transfer fee's (not included in these figures by the way)….. Revenue is nothing if you spend it all i would prefer to see how profitable these clubs are i am pretty sure Mancity spent all theirs on a couple of signings!!! and don't get me started on Liverfools!!
Interesting to see the figures on loss of revenue when we went in to the championship.
We were discussing transfers under Ashley the other day and the famous argument of the AC money. From memory, there have been three windows where Ashley has "made money" on transfers. One was for about £2.5m and the other two around the £24m mark, given that one of them was from selling AC, the other being the relegation season where it seems we lost out on about £34m of revenue…picture starts to become a little clearer, no?
Still wont remove the argument of fans wanting Ashley to put his own money in every year to fund new transfers, however, as a stand alone business it adds up…I think.
Jesper…I really don't know enough about outgoing costs at the club, but I do get the feeling many underestimate that aspect.
As for a supporters trust I do struggle to see how that could ever work, I mean, just look at this blog as an example…it would be anarchy…probably make a good TV show mind 🙂
Speaking of which, just about to finish season 4 of It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Watched the first season of Workaholics, didn't grab me, but will persevere.


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I don't intend to offend anyone but as pp stated what's wrong with teaching kids that this is what some people choose to believe but this family dosnt? I don't believe in christianity myself but I wouldn't have any problems with my DD learning about it. Just as I wouldn't have any problems with her learning about different cultures. My mum is a teacher and it has come to the point that schools are no longer being allowed to sing Christmas carols or do christmas activities at school anymore.
I do think it's wrong of them to put your children back in the room when you have said you didn't want them in there.
I would speak to the teacher and ask why your wishes are being disregarded.
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22-05-2012 19:19 #13
I have no problem with my child being taught different cultures. We actively seek out ways of exploring other cultures and learning about them.
But religious education in primary school is not learning about other cultures. It is learning Christianity as fact.
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22-05-2012 19:26 #14
..but this isn't teaching 'this is what some people believe in'. It's blatant indoctrination.
The whole 'follow me' thing.
My kids DO get told everyone has different beleifs (christianity being one of them) and they'll hear about them when I think it is relevant or at a cultural celebration day etc...but I am opposed to them being taught this myth [as I personally see it] as truth in a school setting. Hence why I have taken the steps to have them taken out of the class.
I'd like to talk to teh volunteer to get a vibe to see if she did it intentionally or without much thought.
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22-05-2012 19:33 #15
I really feel that if you want your child to Learn about religion then you need to send them to a religious school or do it yourself.
It's not fair that your son is having this forced on him, whilst he is young it's your choice what he does and doesn't know.
22-05-2012 19:34 #16
I see your point about it being taught as fact in a school setting. To be honest it seems strange that it is even being taught anymore in public schools anymore.
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22-05-2012 19:44 #17
We have just moved from Melbourne where Access Ministries have made it their mission to evanglelise as many children as possible, despite the religious beliefs of their parents. It get pretty full on
22-05-2012 19:50 #18
Why is it still taught at public schools? Had there been any one trying to stop it? I am the same as pp, you want your child to learn your religion, send them to a religious school or teach them yourself
22-05-2012 19:51 #19
I would be furious too.
I wrote a note to the school ages ago requesting DD not be including in RE... but so far she's said nothing about having to leave her class for some other class, but she hasn't mentioned RE either... so I'm wondering if they even do it. A letter suggested they did... but hmmm... you've got me wondering now!
Anyway, I would absolutely go and complain. Again. From memory, you've been dealing with this crap for a while, right?
22-05-2012 19:51 #20
How infuriating! As for the teacher, that is just not acceptable.. sh!t for brains.
My son recently had a sleep over at a new friends place. I'd met his mother through another friend of mine-(I'll call her V,) they both attend the same church and home school their children. We are not are religious family, DS has not been baptised. But I'm more than happy to befriend those who are, each to their own, I say. V has never pushed her opinions on my my son, actually, even though I'm aware that they happen to be a very religious family, she has never even mentioned it besides references to having been to church when we chat about our weekends etc..
Anyway, V gave this new mum (lets call her N) my number as her son had befriended my DS at V's son's birthday party.. she asked if he could come for a slumber party. I'd met her a number of times, figured if she was friend of V's that was a good indication. So we dropped DS off at their place for the party. Lovely woman, great children.
Well..... when DS came home the next day, he had some interesting stories to tell. N had basically not left the kids alone all night. She spent the night preaching and brainwashing this group of 12 year old boys. My son was asked if he had "ever lied to mum or dad".. embarrassed, DS said yes. N told him he was going to Hell for breaking a commandment. (DS didn't even know what a commandment was.) They also had "prayer time". Sitting in a circle, each child had to say a prayer. Again, DS has never done this before and was very uncomfortable, he said "I didn't know what to say when it was my turn, mum, so I just said 'thank you Jesus for having us' and put my head down".
Now, DS has listened to V's family say grace at the dinner table before.. fine by me. If he is a guest in their home and that is what they do, DS can listen politely before sharing a meal.
But this N woman practically forced her beliefs on my son! To say i was livid would be an understatment. I don't have her kids over and preach Atheism and would expect the same amount of respect.
Oh yeah, I'd go down to the school and whack that teacher over the head with her work page.
Well, no, I wouldn't, though I'd love to! Would definitely set things straight, though. As if she didn't know what she was doing. Grrrrr!!
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King's team was trying to make an ionic liquid that behaved like a ferrofluid when they learned about a research team at the University of Sydney that was already making these substances. The Sydney team was using magnetic nanoparticles made by the life-sciences company Sirtex, which are used to treat liver cancer. "They sent us a sample, and we've used it to develop a thruster," King said. "Now we have a nice collaboration going. It's amazing that the same technology used to treat cancer can also function as a micro rocket for spacecraft."
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Goto Considered Appropriate In Some Cases
One of the most referenced papers in software development has to be Dijkstra's seminal paper titled "Goto Statement Considered Harmful".
Dijkstra didn't actually author the title, but instead it was the creation of an editor en route to being printed in an ACM publication. It was changed from its original title of "A case against the goto statement".
While the core essence of the essay is indeed that the goto statement can be harmful, Djikstra wasn't making an absolute statement (as is commonly claimed, and which is an absolutism tendency of far too many in this industry), but instead was commenting on the abuse of goto that was occurring in the industry, calling for a sober evaluation of where it is appropriate, but more importantly where it is not.
Nonetheless, the meme was created and has been reused and abused in innumerable {$X} Considered Harmful declarations since.
So…how does a C# 3.0 implementation of Fibonacci
differ from a C# 2.0 version?
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Weekly Source Code 13 – Fibonacci Edition". This was particularly common in the .NET community, with many linkers describing it as an elucidating example of the many advantages of .NET 3.5 / C# 3.0.
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Then this morning I opened up Visual Studio and happened to notice a link to his entry on the Start page.
Maybe it's been there for a while (the last date is pretty old) and I just didn't notice it before, but the title used on the Start page pushed me over the edge, coercing me to comment.
Recursion Considered Harmful
There are several issues I have with Scott's Fibonacci entry.
First, the C# 2.0 (henceforth I'm dumping the subversion precision on the language versions) version is oddly dumbed down: C# 2 also has ternary comparisons, and it even has anonymous functions (including closure functionality). Yet the demonstrations
given contrast the simplest possible C# 2 implementation with the most obtuse C# 3 example.
Basically the only novel difference with the C# 3 example is that it uses a lambda, though of course it would be an absolutely terrible thing to use a lambda for.
It's not a very good example of the implementation differences between the versions, which is the claim made by the Visual Studio start page, and was the description often used during the dissemination of this piece.
I like C# 3, but this isn't a good demonstration of any advantage of the language.
Worse yet, the only place you'll ever see recursion used to calculate Fibonacci numbers is in "Recursion for Dummies"type examples. To understand why that is, consider Scott's C# 3 example, which he leads into with the statement "Now, here's a
great way using C# 3.0".
Here's a logarithmic-scaled chart of the number of function calls necessary to calculate Fibonacci numbers in the C# 3 example Scott gave.
Obviously it gets unusable pretty quickly. Try calculating the 90th Fibonacci number using recursive algorithms…
In the same way that Goto can be harmful, the use of recursion is often a sign of badness, and this is no exception. Epic inefficiency is used instead of the obviously simple approach.
long CalcFibonacciNumber(long n) { long current = 1, previous = 0, swapholder; while (n-- > 1) { swapholder = previous; previous = current; current += swapholder; } return current; }
(Ignoring mathematical shortcuts)
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A lot of readers will be rolling their eyes right about now, muttering something along the lines of "Awww, come on…you didn't seriously think anyone thought that recursion was a good way to calculate Fibonacci numbers, did you This is beginner's stuff, and no one really thinks that's the right way to do it!"
I'm optimistic about the profession, so no, I didn't really think it was a serious example (though I do think it nonetheless deserves some serious warnings to ensure no one becomes misled).
Instead it's a sample of "here's a demonstration of how to do something absolutely terrible — almost felony worthy — in a variety of programming languages….".
This is still a serious problem.
The example given is so very wrong — even if it is what's used in Recursion for Dummies books — that it makes it close to impossible to focus on the actual point being made, even if it had used comparable features of each language to demonstrate how the same task could be accomplished in each.
It reminds me of many early web service tutorials and advocacy pieces: Many used absurd examples like "a web service to add two numbers" (and amazing variations such as subtract two numbers, multiply two numbers, divide two numbers, compute the Log10 of a number, and so on. You get my point — things for which a web service would be entirely unsuited).
Stop it!
Stop with the ridiculous no-one-would-(or rather should)-ever-do-it-this-way examples. It completely undermines the value of the examples.
Surely there are realistic examples that would be more appropriate for demonstrating the advantages of lambdas (recursion {is recursion}; [goto {is recursion}], so there isn't much
enlightenment provided there). How about "how to build a rudimentary regular expression parser in a variety of languages", or for a web service "pulling weather data from a remote weather station".
Something that a developer isn't going to have to slog through with their brain fighting them on every line, demanding an explanation for the terrible design or algorithm they're supposed to accept at face value.