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Executive Summary
1. Elon Musk wants to connect your brain to the internet, so you can beat artificial intelligence at its own game. As if Elon Musk didn't have enough on his plate already — three major businesses and five children — he announced the creation of a new company, Neuralink, devoted to the development of brain-computer interfaces. For months, Musk has been cryptically tweeting about "neural lace," which it turns out is his concept of an additional digital layer surgically implanted in humans to give them cognitive super-powers — and hopefully make them able to defeat the intelligent robots Musk fears will make humans obsolete. His anxiety may be the stuff of science fiction, but the technology he's talking about is developing rapidly and will soon be able to provide novel treatments for a host of currently devastating neurological disorders.
2. South Korea shrugs off scandal and fear, and steams ahead. South Korea's current political drama has seen the Prime Minister impeached and arrested in a scandal involving a corrupt cult-leader some have likened to Rasputin. At the same time, the country is facing a diplomatic showdown with China, who is threatening sanctions if South Korea goes ahead with a U.S. anti-missile system to defend itself against a nuclear attack from the North. In spite of all this, the South Korean currency and stock market have posted healthy gains so far in 2017. The tailwind of global reflation and improving economic growth may simply be more powerful than the political worries. The South Korean stock market is cheap compared to its own history and compared to many regional peers, and earnings estimates are rising. We like South Korea as a way to play an inflection in global growth.
3. Market summary. Analysts expect the strongest first-quarter earnings in over five years, with technology and financials leading due to strong growth trends and lessening regulatory costs; energy and materials may do well as a result of benefitting from easy comparisons to last year. We expect the U.S. dollar to gradually return to an appreciating mode as the U.S. economy gradually moves forward. U.S. stocks remain in an uptrend. Technology, finance, and industrials remain our favorite investment areas. Special situations in the consumer sector, such as building-materials retailers, continue to look attractive. European equities remain attractively priced. European stocks should move steadily ahead over the longer term.
In Asia, we recommend that investors look at Korea — technology and industrial manufacturing are our favorite sectors. We also like India, which is benefitting from the reforms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi has boosted the popularity of his party by attacking tax evasion by the rich, and is now working to make the tax code more supportive of commerce and new business formation. The achievements of India over the last seven years in reducing corruption, modernizing the payments system, and reducing tax evasion are revolutionary, and they will set the stage for a more prosperous and fair nation.
Gold continues to move gradually higher. We expect continued steady appreciation as long as the U.S. dollar does not move up too rapidly. Slow and steady appreciation of the U.S. dollar will not hurt gold, but a rapid rise in the dollar could upset all commodity prices.
Elon Musk On Our New Robot Overlords: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Elon Musk is a larger-than-life titan of industry — the modern equivalent of Gilded Age figures such as Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller. The style may have changed, but the essence is the same: bold innovators and visionaries who identify epochal technological and social trends and position their enterprises to ride the wave. While the barons of the Gilded Age were known for industries typical of the first industrial age (e.g., railroads) or the second industrial age (e.g., electrification), entrepreneurs like Elon Musk (and Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates) are known for third industrial revolution technologies — artificial intelligence, the internet, and the other converging components of 21st-century disruption. But what's common between the two eras is technology and the embrace of its mass distribution and application as the driver of business success.
That's why it was so surprising to hear Musk's skepticism about artificial intelligence back in 2014, in a now-famous interview where he stated:
"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence… With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out."
A tech titan expressing such reserve about one of the key technological developments of the era? It was almost as jarring as it would have been to hear Jay Gould meditating on how traditional rural American life would be disrupted and ultimately destroyed by railroads.
In later interviews, Musk has elaborated on his point. He believes that the development of intelligent machines and networks is inexorable and inevitable, and that these machines will be so superior to human beings in the speed and capacity of their "thinking" that they will reduce us to the status of being their "pets" — at best. He views this "human obsolescence" as a problem and a danger.
Therefore, the creator of PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL], Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA], SolarCity [NASDAQ: SCTY], and commercial spaceflight outfit SpaceX has added a new startup to his roster: a company registered in California called Neuralink.
Musk has been teasing his Twitter [NASDAQ: TWTR] followers with talk about something called "neural lace" — a term coined by science-fiction author Iain Banks to describe an interface between humans and computers. In a recent interview, Musk got more explicit. He noted that the human brain has two basic "layers": the limbic system, which is the locus of primal autonomic, instinctive, and emotional function; and the cortex, which is the locus of "higher" mental function, reasoning, logic, speech, and so on. He wants to add a third layer, a digital layer, to augment human brain function so that it can compete in speed and power with artificial intelligence. And the additional layer would be implanted surgically and permanently. That's "neural lace."
Science, or Science Fiction?
Far-fetched? (Not that the far-fetched would faze Musk, who has been doing things that critics initially called impossible for years.) To find out, we looked at some of the recent scientific literature, including a review of the field of neural implants published in Nature earlier this year ("Neural recording and modulation technologies," Nature Reviews Materials, 2017), and a description of one innovative technique for introducing nanoscale electronic components into neural structures in a minimally invasive way ("Syringe-injectable electronics," Nature Nanotechnology, 2015).
The bottom line is that the technology is not as outlandish as you'd think. The main problems have to do with materials. Until recently, the only way to connect electronic components to the brain was through highly invasive and cumbersome devices that essentially cover the head with electrodes. The connections to brain tissue tended to create glial scarring, which interferes with the ability to read neural function or send signals. The focus now is on innovative materials, such as advanced polymer substrates that don't cause a rejection response by the body's immune system, and on nanoscale technologies. New flexible micron-scale meshes are essentially "neurophilic" — intermeshed with neural structures on a cellular level, accepted by the body and not disturbing its normal function. New technologies are also being developed for powering these devices, and for wireless communication, so that no permane nt breach of the blood-brain barrier is required.
In reviewing the literature, we noted that the basic concerns of investigators are not on Musk's grand, existential scale of robotic threats to human supremacy. Rather, they're fundamentally concerned with the treatment of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and the repair of trauma to the brain and nervous system.
With advances in materials technology in particular, the future for the development of neural interfaces for therapeutic purposes is bright. The precision of analytics and of neural stimulation, repair, or prosthesis promised by these new devices is qualitatively different from the clumsy methods pursued so far. Alzheimer's remains one of the most pressing unmet needs in chronic illness, with many researchers believing that drug therapies have reached a dead end, in part because of inadequate understanding of how the disease functions. The development of "neural lace" may provide that understanding — and may also provide effective treatment through neuromodulation. "Neural lace" has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of currently untreatable brain conditions and spinal cord injuries.
Musk's Future
Whether Musk is right about the dangers of artificial intelligence or not, we're glad that he's thinking about the problem, because we believe that a byproduct of his concern will be the development of technologies that improve human lives. Indeed, when we look at the "solution" he envisions for avoiding the rule of super-intelligent robots, we're not sure that this solution — making us all into cyborgs — is without its own existential dangers. As we wrote early last year when discussing the economic impacts of artificial intelligence:
"There will always be a need for humans; computers will never render us obsolete. Within any discipline, profession, or entrepreneurial activity, there will be aspects of the work where brute-force calculation processes are most significant, and where the assistance of mechanical thinking will enable humans to work more quickly and effectively. But there will also be aspects of the work where human flexibility, intuition, and non-rational insight are critical — and these capabilities are likely, in the end, to be decisive."
With all that said, however, investors would be foolish to overlook the technology Musk wants to develop — because even if it isn't needed to defeat some future robot overlords, it will provide excellent opportunities for investors.
Investment implications: As with any emergent technology, the time frame for these technologies to become operative is unknown but it may take many years. Nanoscale neural interfaces will present opportunities to both speculative and more conservative investors. Speculative investors should begin by familiarizing themselves with the current scientific literature and making a list of prominent scientists in the field, and then finding companies that those scientists have founded or whose boards they sit on.
The very long-term conservative investor might want to begin to look at the stocks of chemical companies, particularly those who develop advanced polymers (companies such as Eastman Chemical [NYSE: EMN], Celanese [NYSE: CE], Chemours [NYSE: CC], Dow [NYSE: DOW], or BASF [Germany: BAS]; the stocks of technologically innovative medical device companies (companies such as Becton Dickinson [NYSE: BDX], Thermo Fisher [NYSE: TMO], Edwards Lifesciences [NYSE: EW], Boston Scientific [NYSE: BSX], or Medtronic [NYSE: MDT]; and the stocks of technology companies with life sciences emphasis (companies such as Alphabet [NASDAQ: GOOG] through its Calico division). We are not recommending any of these today, but over the long term some of the above may become participants in this new trend.
South Korea Steams Ahead
As the global reflation trade has proceeded since last year, South Korea's stock market has performed strongly, up more than 14% year-to-date in U.S. dollar terms as of this writing (about half that return was due to the appreciation of the Korean won against the U.S. dollar).
We've made the case over the past months that the post-election rally in the United States ultimately had more to do with improving economic fundamentals, the end of the U.S. "corporate profits recession," and relief at the conclusion of a closely fought election — and less to do with optimism about new policy directions from a new presidential administration. Still, political turbulence in the U.S. has been challenging. It hasn't quashed the fresh optimism of markets, consumers, and businesspeople, but it hasn't been constructive.
If we think we've had political turbulence in the U.S., though, South Korea makes our situation look like a cakewalk. Their Prime Minister, Park Gyun-hye, was impeached and arrested in a bizarre corruption scandal that allegedly saw money funneled to the administration from big corporate conglomerates, or "chaebols" — through a cult leader's daughter who some observers have likened to Rasputin. The process was accompanied by mass demonstrations against Park's administration attended by millions of South Koreans.
At the same time, tensions have been rising with China over the deployment of a THAAD anti-missile system by the U.S. With years of provocation from the North and little effective pressure put on the Hermit Kingdom by their Chinese patrons, the existential threat felt by the South finally gave them no choice but to implement some defense against a nuclear strike. And of course, China is threatening sanctions on a broad swath of South Korean companies.
Yet the Korean market remains basically unfazed. Perhaps the same dynamic is at work here as in the U.S. — the political and geopolitical turbulence is a side-show, and the real story is about reflation, profits, and valuations.
Some points for consideration:
(1) The threat of Chinese sanctions is likely more bark than bite. The South Korean industries most exposed to Chinese sanctions will be travel and personal care. These industries are relatively insignificant parts of the Korean market (contributing about 2% of earnings).
(2) South Korea, as a manufacturing economy, is one of the best-positioned Asian markets to benefit from an ongoing reflation trade and uptick in global economic growth — especially because the economy is weighted so heavily towards technology.
(3) Even after this year's good performance, the KOSPI is trading at a significant discount (a full standard deviation) to its ten-year average valuation of 9.8 times forward 12-month earnings, and at a similar discount to regional peers. In part, this is because of ongoing upward earnings revisions — a trend that's more robust in South Korea than in many other of the region's economies.
We like South Korea and view it favorably as a good way to play the global reflation trade.
Investment implications: Retail investors can easily gain exposure to South Korea through a variety of exchange-traded funds. Although there are currency-hedged South Korean ETFs, we think the Korean won could appreciate further and would not hedge it at this time.
The U.S. Market
Analysts expect the strongest first-quarter earnings in over five years, with technology and financials leading due to strong growth trends and lessening regulatory costs; energy and materials may do well as a result of benefitting from easy comparisons to last year. We expect the U.S. dollar to gradually return to an appreciating mode as the U.S. economy gradually moves forward. U.S. stocks remain in an uptrend. Technology, finance, and industrials remain our favorite investment areas. Special situations in the consumer sector, such as building-materials retailers, continue to look attractive.
We remain convinced that the Trump administration will continue to try to stop drug price gouging, and pressure drug manufacturers to keep prices down. Pharmaceutical wholesalers and pharmacy benefit managers could be heavily scrutinized.
European equities remain attractively priced, as we explained in these pages last week. We do not expect chaos as a result of the French election. European stocks should move steadily ahead over the longer term. The big longer-term risk remains the poor financial condition of European banks and the unwillingness of the governments of Europe to make them raise capital. Investors could consider owning European stock ETFs; remember to hedge the currency if you are a U.S. holder.
Our two favorite countries for investment are India and Korea. The situation in Korea is described above. We recommend that investors look at Korea — technology and industrial manufacturing are our favorite sectors.
India is benefitting from the popularity of Prime Minister Modi, who has recently worked to stop tax evasion by the rich. This made his party popular and allowed him to gain a stronger foothold in parliament. He is now attempting to reform the tax code, which is currently destructive to new business formation and all types of commerce, and very hard to administer.
India is growing very rapidly (official GDP growth of 6.5%); interest rates and inflation are falling as he dismantles social welfare schemes which are subject to corruption and abuse, and substitutes a more modern electronic welfare distribution arrangement.
The achievements of India over the last seven years in bringing bank accounts to hundreds of millions, using technology to allow government transfer payments to be sent without theft and corruption, and slowing tax evasion and fraud are revolutionary, and they will set the stage for a more prosperous and fair nation.
Prime Minister Modi is a friend of growth and modernization, as we have seen from his industrial initiatives which are, among others: to improve India's infrastructure, improve the liquidity of the banking system, and create a strong manufacturing base. Indian stocks are reasonably valued, and we expect them to appreciate over the next several years as Modi's initiatives are implemented.
Gold continues to move gradually higher. It has stabilized around the $1,250 level and its next technical target is the $1,270/ounce range. We expect continued steady appreciation as long as the U.S. dollar does not move up too rapidly. Slow and steady appreciation of the U.S. dollar will not hurt gold, but a rapid rise in the dollar could upset all commodity prices.
Thanks for listening; we welcome your calls and questions.
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Archegyral Stories
Archegyral Stories are a process that help you as an individual, or as part of a larger group, to work with the symbolic connections that you make, consciously and unconsciously, between your inner and outer worlds as you share stories and create conversations. Human beings have always been storytellers and you share your stories as a way of making sense of your inner and outer worlds and the connections that you make between them. The stories that you tell enable you to imagine your life in a wider context that goes beyond a merely sequential narrative and allow you to see your situation not just as it is, but how it could be. It can be easy to stay in known and familiar stories where you are always talking about what could be, but the most powerful stories that you can tell and live out are those where you engage with the tensions that emerge as you put your imagination into action.
Tension and Drama
The most powerful connections that you can make between your inner and outer worlds are those that involve the most tension along the boundaries between them. In our stories, we describe these tensions, knowingly or unknowingly, as dramas. The more dramatic that a story is, the more potential that it has for helping us to powerfully resolve a fundamental tension between our inner and outer worlds. The purpose of all the stories that we share and tell is to help us make sense of these dramatic tensions so that we can healthily resolve them, however big or small the dramas seem to us. We naturally engage with the dramatic tension of a story because it helps us to understand how to work with our own tensions when we encounter the unknown and unfamiliar. The most powerful stories are not just those that keep us on the edge of our seats but also take us to the edge of our experience
The stories that we tell are brought to life by a range of characters that we use to symbolically reflect our own spoken and unspoken characteristics. By understanding the qualities that we ascribe to the different characters, we can understand more about the tensions around who we feel we are in our stories and who we would like to become. Although you may feel that you have a single corporate identity in the workplace, you are constantly playing out a range of characters, consciously and unconsciously. These characters symbolically connect you to your characteristic behaviours and by understanding more about the characters and the tensions between them, you can understand more about how to resolve any tensions that may emerge from your characteristic behaviour patterns.
The characters that you use to symbolically connect your inner world characteristics to your characteristic behaviour in the outer world are often identified by the actions that you take. In an Archegyral Story, the actions that you take to connect your imaginal inner world to the reality of the outer world are described as deeds. Your characters are known by their deeds, and when we work with the tensions between our inner and outer worlds, however minor or hugely dramatic they may seem, our deeds tend to follow a natural human pattern as we resolve the tension., This pattern of deeds usually begins with an emerging tension that calls us out of our comfort zone and move us towards making a difficult decision that will enable us to rise to the challenge of resolving that tension so we can move beyond it. This pattern forms the basis of our most powerful stories, both inside and outside the workplace.
You use the characters in the stories that you tell to symbolically connect your inner and outer worlds, and the deeds that they do to resolve the tensions that you encounter between your worlds. Your characters and their deeds are always located in contexts that resonate with meaningful aspects of your inner landscape. These locations provide you with a contextual awareness that help you to understand where you currently are in your story and how you can make progress towards where you need to be. As you become more aware of how you locate yourself in your inner landscape and show up in your outer landscape, you give yourself the ability to healthily change your perspective, so that you can work with any tensions that emerge from your characteristic behaviours and habitual actions.
As you naturally work to resolve any tensions that you may encounter along the boundaries between your inner and outer worlds, the symbolic connections that may be most familiar to you are often the tools and physical resources that you use. The objects that you use to navigate tension often have a deeper significance that goes beyond ordinary utility and you may often imbue them with meaning beyond the physical qualities, so that they become artefacts that give your work a deeper significance. The artefacts that your characters use in your stories, to perform their deeds and progress from location to location, don't actually contain any innate meaning or purpose. What makes an artefact significant to you is how it reflects your inner resourcefulness and enables you to functionally connect your inner and outer worlds, so you can healthily resolve any tension between them.
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As we naturally connect our inner and outer worlds, we instinctively build up the symbolic connections that we use into more complex patterns. These patterns are one of the fundamental processes that we employ to explain our world and understand ourselves, and we call them stories. The stories that you tell yourself in your inner world will naturally emerge into the stories that you live out in your outer world. By understanding more about the stories that you create and how you use them to navigate tensions between your inner and outer worlds, you can create better and more powerful stories for yourself and the people that you connect to. Instead of just imagining the stories in your inner world and thinking about what could happen, working with an Archegyral Story helps you to naturally understand patterns that may be difficult to make sense of rationally, and encourages you to step into the unknown and unfamiliar, connecting beyond the boundaries of what you know and are familiar with. What happens inside, happens outside.


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Higher Blackley Demographics (Manchester, England)
Higher Blackley is a ward in Manchester of North West, England and includes areas of Pike Fold, Blackley, Barnes Green, Boothroydon, Harphurey Business Centre and Higher Blackley.
In the 2011 census the population of Higher Blackley was 13,686 and is made up of approximately 53% females and 47% males.
The average age of people in Higher Blackley is 37, while the median age is lower at 36.
84.6% of people living in Higher Blackley were born in England. Other top answers for country of birth were 2.0% Ireland, 1.2% Scotland, 1.2% Nigeria, 1.1% Pakistan, 0.7% Zimbabwe, 0.7% Northern Ireland, 0.5% China, 0.4% Wales, 0.3% India.
92.7% of people living in Higher Blackley speak English. The other top languages spoken are 1.0% Polish, 0.7% Urdu, 0.6% French, 0.6% All other Chinese, 0.4% Arabic, 0.4% Portuguese, 0.3% Panjabi, 0.3% Shona, 0.2% Persian/Farsi.
The religious make up of Higher Blackley is 67.8% Christian, 19.1% No religion, 5.0% Muslim, 0.7% Jewish, 0.4% Sikh, 0.4% Buddhist, 0.2% Hindu. 813 people did not state a religion. 29 people identified as a Jedi Knight and 4 people said they believe in Heavy Metal.
31.7% of people are married, 12.5% cohabit with a member of the opposite sex, 1.2% live with a partner of the same sex, 34.5% are single and have never married or been in a registered same sex partnership, 11.5% are separated or divorced. There are 851 widowed people living in Higher Blackley.
The top occupations listed by people in Higher Blackley are Elementary 15.6%, Elementary administration and service 14.0%, Caring, leisure and other service 14.0%, Administrative and secretarial 12.4%, Skilled trades 12.2%, Sales and customer service 11.7%, Caring personal service 11.0%, Professional 10.4%, Administrative 9.1%, Associate professional and technical 9.1%.
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Amazing Things in Tanzania Tanzania is known to be among the greatest world tourist destination that you should leave this world having visited. It is for the reason that you will first be able to learn a lot about the early man here. The early man's remains were found in this country. Other attractions that you can find here include many wild animals and bird species. Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa is located here. You can never run short of attractions when you are in Tanzania. If you are planning that your next holiday will be here, there are a number of things you need to ensure so that your safari will be a success. It is good for you to have the knowledge of the many attractions that are in this country. When you want to have your safari here, you can never run short of attractions to visit. One of these attractions is mount Kilimanjaro which is an inactive volcanic mountain. You will be able to do mountain climbing if it happens to be your thing. You can also visit the Serengeti national park. There are a lot of wild animals that you will be able to see including the famous wild beasts. Pemba and Bongoyo Islands, Lake Manyara national park, Ngorongoro conservation area are among other famous places that you can visit. A perfect package and a tour guide are also important issues that you should ensure that you get. There are several tour companies in Tanzania who provide different tour packages for their visitors. It is important that you go through them and identify the best package that you will find suitable. In case you are not pleased with any of them, you can plan with a tour company of your choice to make you a more personalized package. If you are a first time visitor, it is critical that you look for an excellent tour guide. You will be able to explore the different places in a better way also and get a better understanding of the local language when you use the help of a tour guide.
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Consider coming for your holiday in Tanzania during the right season. Tour package elements in most cases depend on seasonality. You will notice that most of the time Tanzania is dry and moist. The seasons affect the growth of native vegetation such as the grass. During the rainy seasons, the grass is able to grow well and animals are in plenty to graze. You will be able to see the many wild animals. You will also be able to view the wild beasts as they cross over from Kenya. What you want to experience should guide the season you visit the country.Smart Ideas: Vacations Revisited


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TELL CITY – The Tell City Kiwanis Club is selling discounted Coke products and barbecue for a fundraiser, just in time for Memorial Day and graduation celebrations.
Orders are being taken for Boston butts prepared by Bill and Dave's Smokin' Pit at the cost of $30. It feeds between 20 and 25 people. Half orders are also available at $15; these orders feed 10 to 12 people.
SALEM – Friends and family are invited to help Opal Foertsch celebrate her 90th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. EDT Saturday, May 11 at the Salem-Washington County Senior Center, 1705 North Shelby St., Salem.
Opal's daughters, Jackie and Suzanne, will host the open house birthday party and invite everyone to stop by and wish Opal a happy birthday. She has requested no gifts.
TELL CITY – The Perry County Convention and Visitors Bureau will host grand-opening and open house for its new office and gift shop May 11. Activities will take place at the CVB offices, located in the Tell City Depot, located at 333 Seventh St. in Tell City.
The grant opening will include food, artist's demonstrations, face painting, live music and photo opportunities with a local train. The evening will close with a large fireworks show. "Bring your lawn chair and enjoy the music and all of the other activities," CVB Director Bev Minto said.
Rebecca Young and Brandon Hanks of Tell City announce their engagement and approaching marriage.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Glen and Lori Young. Mr. Hanks is the son of Kenny and Anissa Hanks.
The wedding is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Patesville Baptist Church in Hawesville, Ky.
Katelyn Hoesli, daughter of Steven and Casey Hoesli of Tell City, won the title first runner up in the Indiana 2013 Supreme Queen baby division. Hoesli's picture, seen in the first picture below and taken by Debra's Studio in Tell City, was also the winner of Indiana's 2013 Supreme Queen most photogenic.
PERRY COUNTY – The GED Testing Service would like to inform test-takers who need to finish the GED test by the end of 2013 some critical facts. The current version of the test – the 2002 Series GED Test – will expire at the end of 2013, along with incomplete test scores.
Safe-sitter classes at PCMH in June
TELL CITY – Safe Sitter babysitting classes will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 6 and June 10 at the Perry County EMS building in Tell City.
Nancy Etienne, community sales representative with Medi Home Care, met with the residents at Oakwood Health Campus to share health tips and new products on the market to better assist them when they return home.
Health News With Nancy is offered monthly as part of the Lifelong Learning Program held for the residents on the Transitional Care neighborhood at Oakwood Health Campus.
Trilogy Health Services holds a quarterly theme dinner for residents in each of its campuses through the year. Recently, the mystery theme dinner unfolded clues throughout the week and ended with a dinner and the arrest of the jewel thief responsible for stealing the Oakwood Jewels.
TELL CITY—Cassie Bryant was Tell City's only winner in a 4-1 PAC girls tennis loss to South Spencer Monday.
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Hello there! It's almost the weekend and we could all see the rainbow at the end of the tunnel. *big wide smile* How about picking up a tips or two for home manicure / pedicure pampering?
We were supplied with a basic start-up kit as above which consist of;
- Nail Clipper
- Cuticle Nipper
- Cuticle Pusher Double Ended
- Orange Woodstick
- Nail Files / Buffers
- Fake Nail Display (for practice)
It is important to at least understand the basics about how to take care of our hand and nails before beautify them with nail lacquers.
First step is to remove any current nail polish if there is any. It makes it easier to remove when you place a piece of cotton pad soaked with nail polish on top of your nails for a few seconds before rubbing it to remove.
Second step is to soak in warm water / salt soak for a short while, say about 1-2 minutes to sanitize and also soften the skin, cuticles and nail for easy cutting and clean up later. Once soaked, just gently pat your hand on the towel to dry it up.
Next, clip your nails with nail clipper into the shapes that you desire. We were introduced to about 10 shapes (oval / squared oval / rounded rectangle / square / round / flat top / edge / diamond / point / almond) and the most popular ones are almond and point fingernails as they portray an elegant image. My favourite all the time is the rounded rectangle because I can never keep them really long as they keep chipping. Once done with cutting, file them nails with nail files / buffer. The coarser surface followed by the finer surface, from inwards to outwards at about 45 degree and in one direction all the time.
Fourth step is to apply on the cuticle softener so that we can remove them easily. Shape and clean up the corner of the nails by pushing it with the Orange Woodstick / Cuticle Pusher Double Ended.
People whose hands are in constant contact with soaps and harsh chemicals like me will tend to have sidewall hangnail and visible cuticles by the edges on our nails and skin. It is not hard to clean up the hangnails and visible cuticles with the cuticle nipper.
Fifth step is to exfoliate your hand with mild scrubs and apply mask to improve the condition of your skin and nails. Rinse after.
For ease of the steps above, there are also Mani/Pedi spa packs available. Voesh New York Pedi ina Box Deluxe available for purchase at The Touch. The 4 steps in the pack are; Sea Salt Soak + Sugar Scrub + Mud Masque + Massage Cream.
It provides you with safer skincare with no parabens, no phthalates, no mineral oil, no synthetic Sulfate, no triethanolamine and no gluten.
Now all nails are clean and neat and all it's left is to beautify them the way we like it.
Sixth step is to apply the nail polish base coat, followed by 2 layers of colour nail polish and lastly the top coat.
Once it is dried up, clean up any unwanted stained edges. To keep your hands and nails in good condition, always remember to moisturize your hands and apply cuticle oils.
For nail colour application, it is important to first apply a base coat to keep our nail paint / design stay longer and also protects our nail from other less favourable ingredients of nail lacquer paints.
We were taught 2 nail art designs; Shattered Glass and Ombre / Gradient which looks like they need to be done at nail salons but in actual fact, can be done easily at home.
The shattered glass nail designs look best with dark shades as background. I have chosen a dark Maroon as base colour and it looks as if black from some angle. Once left to dry for a few minutes, we will apply on a top coat and sticking on the cut out triangle shattered paper (iridescent paper) on top randomly while the coat is still wet. Mix the placings with two different colour shades to make it more interesting.
As for Ombre / Gradient Nail Art Design, Choose 2 or 3 colours which can pair well with each other. Either in the same range such as warm colours / cold colours or colours with different shade. Being less ambitious, I tried it on with a different shade of green. One really light as a base and the other really dark for the ombre pattern.
First up, paint the nail with the lightest colour. Wait to let it dry before the next step; paint the make-up-sponge with both shades on it accordingly as to how you want the design to be. Make sure it is not too wet on the sponge. Place the side of the sponge with the nail lacquer on the nail pressing it rolling from one side to the other to create the pattern on the finger. Roll it a few times to create a nice gradient and walla, we're done!
Nature Inspired which was founded by Tam Chia Li and Elle Chin carries these two brands of nail lacquers which are Sheswai Lacquer and Lacc Laquer.
Sheswai Lacquer is not only formulated free from formaldehyde, toluene and dbp's, making it less toxic but it is also a brand close to the community at heart. Sheswai has their caps made from sustainable woods by volunteers at a non-profit organization which provide jobs to adults with development disabilities, do not test on animals and donates a portion of its profits to organization that helps to sustain our planet.
Lacc Laquer on the other hand is 10-free, skipping 10 common chemicals as ingredients which are;
- Toluene
- Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)
- Formadehyde
- Formadehyde Resin
- Campor
- Xylene
- Phthalates
- Paraben
- Fragrance
- Animal Ingredients
I have personally tested these two brands on my nails as your can see and I absolutely love them! They are amazingly smooth and also fast drying in comparison to the conventional nail lacquers which are mostly available at drug stores locally.
Thank you Nature Inspired and The Touch for hosting this working! I have definitely learned a lot more about the proper ways to take care of my nails and also prepping up my nails right at home for any events!
The Touch
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The eggskelter is a novel way to store your fresh eggs in date order. The egg skelter is handmade from powder coated steel and is optionally available with two handmade solid hardwood eggs - handy for marking the weeks if you are storing eggs from your own chickens.
Eggskelters hold approximately 24 chicken eggs, depending on egg size.
The pearl / silver finish would go well with chrome or stainless steel kitchen applicances and will match any kitchen colour scheme.
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J.P. Minaudier will receive a big translation award from francophones called Les mots d'Or de la francophonie for his translation of the novel by Andrus Kivirähk "The Man Who Spoke Snakish" from Estonian into French.
The translation was first published in France by the publishing house Attila (now Tripode) in 2013 under the heading "L'homme qui savait la langue des serpents" and has sold 10 000 copies since. With the same translation Jean-Pierre Minaudier already won the Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Prize for best translation into foreign language.


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Me And My Quirky Quarks.
Not so much of a quantum spin as a sub-atomic saunter.
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It's a kids toy, where dora floats around like a fish in the mini "aquarium". There is a whole line of aquapet toys.


text: since apple is no longer making black macbooks at all, does anyone think that the price to sell your used blackbook will increase a little? There are bound to be people that loved the black macbook and are sad that it's gone. Perhaps the less tech-savvy care more about the black appearance than whats inside (even though my blackbook has almost the exact same specs as the high end new macbook, save for the screen, multitouch, and the graphics which most consumers wouldn't care about) Not to mention the blackbook has firewire!. So what are everyones thoughts on this....could I get more money for my blackbook now that the new macbooks are out?


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FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth made it two victories in a row Sunday, holding off a late challenge from Jeff Gordon to win the Auto Club 500.
FONTANA, Calif. � Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth made it two victories in a row Sunday, holding off a late challenge from Jeff Gordon to win the Auto Club 500.
Kenseth took the lead from Gordon in the pits with 38 laps to go in the 250-lap race and stayed ahead in a battle of former NASCAR Sprint Cup champions, pulling away over the last 20 laps.
It is the first time a Cup driver has won the first two races of the season since Gordon did it in 1997 on the way to the second of his four championships.
�It�s such a great team,� Kenseth said. �I just thank these guys (on the crew). They gave me a great stop and got me in clean air and that�s just a huge difference.�
Kenseth and Gordon were much faster than the rest of the field at the end, both of them pulling away from the pack. But Gordon, like Kenseth winless last year, was unable to get to Kenseth�s rear bumper and get a real run on the No. 17 Roush Fenway Ford.
�It was a lot of fun,� Gordon said. �This is a new team and they showed it tonight. We�ve still got a little bit of work to do. I�m so excited on one side because we ran so well and we started out the season so great, but I�m still mad on the other side because I felt like we had what it took to win tonight.�
It was Kenseth�s third victory on the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway oval and the fifth straight February victory for team co-owner Jack Roush.
Kyle Busch, who made NASCAR history by winning both the truck and Nationwide races on Saturday, came up short of weekend sweep.
�It�s never been done before, so you know it�s a challenge,� Busch said after finishing third. �The last one�s always the hard one to get. It�s on Sunday and it�s the biggest show. Maybe one day.�


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I am trying to trace a relative for my mother's 80th birthday at the end of October. She is her only niece and she has not seen her for many years and I know she would dearly love to see her and meet her family.
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Her grandparents (Fred and Kate) lived in Mardell Road, Croydon, and her great aunts Mag and Nell lived in Pawsons Road. She would know my mother as Auntie Olive. She last saw my mother in Eastbourne many years ago and mentioned she was living in St Leonards.
I have tried using the internet to find her but had no luck but found some of the above information.
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I like this phone very much.
So cool!
Too many kinds of functions can be used and the sound is very clear.
That's why I like it so much.
its durable . . . . i dont no wat that means but other people say that in their comments
Alcatel needs to sell more of their phones here in the UK.... the variety of phones on sale here is very limited....
this phone is nice my sister has one i think i want to buy one. i hope i benefit alot from it though
I have only seen it once and put my hands on to have a try ...I think again the software is too slow and not quick to respond as we edit SMS etc...
I think that the battery of the phone is not good.Can somebody tell me how long the telephone can be used after one recharge?When i use my ALCATEL in 50 hours the phone switch off because of the battery.Is this normal-I dont think so.I try not to use the phone and it switch off after 120 hours.I read in ALCATEL website that if the phone is not in use,the battery will work about 245 hours.Tell me what to do.
Thank you for the information.
But how clear is the mirror?
Does it have other advantages besides the features described here?
to Marius:I have one and i also used 853 the software and functions is different, it is good and i like it so much for the mirror effect.
Can anyone who already bought it, tell us something about it? Does it have problems like the 853?
this phone is so good ,very nice..& it is available here in france for 179 sim free ,without contract!
you can buy it at this website adress:
It comes from space! I'm waiting to see it!
It's not a problem that there isn't so many features ... first of all it's a PHONE and it's a GOD DAMN PREATY GOOD LOOKING PHONE :)
The mirror effect is not something new. The phone feature is a bit low-tect though. The camera is only VGA camera, screen color is only 65K, when the market is saturated with mega pixel camera phone with 300K color display, but still in reasonable price. And the phone is bulky too.
Can anyone please tell me is there a authorized dealer for Alcatel mibiles in UAE?
I doubt the screen is scratch proof, and like all phones would will be vulnerable to scratches if not handled with care. If you want to protect the screen, maybe invest in a screen protector. But, that would be at the expense of the look of the phone, since the sheet of plastic may be an eyesore.
contrary to all your thinking, the mirror effect lcd is VERY CLEAR.
price is 1900 rmb or around 230 US$
Does anyone know whether the screen gets scracthed easily? The screen on my current Alcatel mobile was scratched pretty easily and badly, the material was not the best. However, I admit I always held prejudice against Alcaltel phones, but having used one (a gift) for the past 2 years with no problems whatsoever, I have changed my opinion.
like the c750, the dummy phone was shown to us by our supplier. And really the phone is very uniquely styled! a beautiful basic phone indeed! although we have to consider the visibility of the screen under the mirror too. and you have to carry a cotton cloth or something to wipe out the smudge every now and then. Truly a very nice looking phone, but we have to wait for the actual unit to be tested. again, watch out for this model at the avsurfer shores soon!


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Saturday, August 9, 2008
For The Colorado Bound Sam Henry Team and anyone else interested In Saving This NationPosted by Ed Dickau at 4:35 PM
For The Colorado Bound Sam Henry Team and anyone else interested: The final Computer System Set Up and Video Preparations.
Well here goes. It's been a great day. We've had supper and now the test to the "outside world". We have no doubts.
In answer to a question raised a few days ago. The Vehicle Group (most of it) will be on the scene in Minneapolis also, and what becomes of all of this beyond that is an unknown. It is the property of our benefactor/patron and will be returned to his possession for what future use; we do not know. Maybe it will become another road travel representative for peace, change and the reclamation of America in the vein of The Yellow Rose of Texas Peace Bus. Only time will tell.
Note: A good number of today's workers favor SpyBot Search And Destroy as a defensive tool thus it was installed as a (*) on the wireless remote external drive. I have used the program in the past without problem, though I would make this Comment: It is a ruthless performer and should not be used by the novice, and never should one automatically clear its findings without examining the files suggested for deletion. I was unaware that it was now Vistas compatible and we had no difficulty with installation and a first test run.
A delightful surprise upon arrival; some devoted clever members have supplied a neat generator and wired it in unobtrusively to supply the needs of our growing electrical demands. Thinking people are wonderful. What a set up…WoW! And yes all has been accomplished with minimal loss of space in the vehicle. Great planning and execution.
The only problem we had today was with some not too clear WiFi installation instructions. They were overcome and the only thing we are doing now, (for those familiar with the phenomenon) is dealing with all the pop up questions from three programs which have to be answered to tailor the system, so we sit, chat, wait and answer them. We should be done with all this after a couple of computer restarts…no real problem just time consuming, but we have done it! (Ed.)
I'm back, typing this as we go. I just got a yell to make sure I tell all you folks that as much of this installation as possible is wireless and that we are not working in a spaghetti mess of wire in this vehicle. One helluva an installation job has been done and there are damn few wires showing. I think they have had ½ the panels off and run everything neatly out of sight. I am impressed. What a bunch of dumb inept citizens we are. Candidly, everyone is as pleased as punch with their craftsmanship, especially since everything looks great, and it all works!
Late development worth noting for all Vistas Users: It's been a good number of hours and all the process of the machines and programs loaded in have pretty much settled down in the learning curve of compatibility. There may a few stragglers tomorrow and that would be normal with the heavy load we did today and with all of the fiddling that goes with registration Vistas builds up a terrific load of registry junk which has been cleared away already. But a bit surprising was the fact that we encountered a problem not normally seen for some time, usually only after a series of Vistas' updates and a pile up Vistas rubble…the message "Vistas cannot down load updates" and the equivalent of the same problem on less husky laptop where the installation of updates just simply fails.
The first problem when this occurs is that the error code leads to a dead end in Microsoft solutions and Internet suggestions are impossible for most owners to safely implement.
The "simplest solution" which I employ all the time and did so again here today is:
1) Click on the big Windows Icon in the bottom left corner.
2) Click on "Computer".
3) Click on "Local Drive [C]".
4) Click on "The Windows" Folder…It won't bite!
5) WOW look at all that stuff…Find the "SoftwareDistribution Folder" and click on it; really.
6) Find the "DataStore" Folder and click on it.
7) You will see a "Logs Folder" and below it a file [DataStore.ebd] and some unreasonable number like 19,564 KB.
8) Delete it! Garbage file!
9) Click on and open "the Logs Folder". Typically it will contain 5 files beginning with the gear wheeled Icon File ebd.chk, which if you place your mouse cursor on it, you will see "Recovered File Fragment-etc.".
10) Delete all files in that folder, close out, and if you had the "can't download updates" message popping up from your icon tray; in about five minutes you get the regular update pop up and all will be well. If your laptop does not give you that response and you have go to the Windows Update panel where your earlier "evil" failed message was seen, all will look well and you can update now. BUT….
11) You may be surprised that your machine really did update and the message was a false negative…forget about it; your machine is now ready for the next round of updates. Laptop with smaller memory capacity and hard drive capacities may experience this problem every time. Ain't Vistas Fun?
12) Don't worry about the deleted files in "Logs". The log file recreates every time you update, and that is part of the systemic problem with Vistas. Enough!
System Test From The Sam Henry And A Test Of A New To Me Clippings Service.
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It's a damn good thing that the platform is ignored by most candidates 60 seconds after its adoption, but the media will have fun with it!
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1. Conservative heroes
[1.1] Why won't superheroes save us? The people of Gotham or Metropolis should wonder. After nearly a century of superhero comics, humans remain largely unsaved within these fictional worlds. They should be asking their saviors why their worlds are still so dangerous, chaotic, even hellish.
[1.2] Yet superheroes do work for justice. Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2013) make it clear that we cannot discount the good that the heroes do to work toward an end to social ills. Superman's early opposition to domestic violence (1938) and opposition to the Ku Klux Klan (in a 1947 radio play) are evidence that even from the start, superheroes are interested in making the world better. But domestic violence still exists in Superman's world and likely always will. Racism still exists there, as here. Human trafficking continues. One way to read the contradiction is to simply acknowledge that "comic book readers long for utopia-in-progress rather than utopia achieved" (Wolf-Meyer 2003, 510), and that for the sake of drama, story, and sales, real-world problems cannot be ultimately solved in fictional worlds without robbing fictional worlds of all conflict and credibility. But removing considerations of metafiction and questions about our real world's relationship to fictional worlds, the problem remains that in these worlds, heroes do allow serious problems to persist—problems that seem solvable by those with superpowers.
[1.3] Superheroes are conservative. We must be careful with our terms here. Surely we can roll out many examples of comic book superheroes being liberal. After all, superheroes have supported feminism, civil rights, gay marriage, and many other socially liberal causes. Beginning in the 1970s, we even see "a shift in comic-book content from oblique narrative metaphors for social problems toward direct representations of racism and sexism, urban blight, and political corruption" (Fawaz 2011, 356). Our heroes stand for protecting the weak and giving agency to the powerless. So here I don't mean to say that superheroes exist on one end of a conservative/liberal spectrum, but rather that they live on the conservative end of a progressive spectrum.
[1.4] Conservatism in this sense means conserving what is good. "Politically, philosophical conservatives are cautious in tampering with forms of political behavior and institutions and they are especially skeptical of whole scale reforms" (Fieser n.d.). For conservatives, a first focus is on the good in a given state as it currently exists. We can almost imagine Edmund Burke (1791) speaking directly to posthuman or superhuman concerns with the following words:
[1.5] Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those who by an obligation above them, and infinitely superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. (144)
[1.6] If Burke (1791) is correct in defining society as a natural contract between the past, the present, and those who might live in the future, then it would seem that the disruption of such a contract pits the disruptor against the very laws of an inherited cosmic order. Even superheroes don't want that kind of drama. There is, then, hardly a better way to understand the lack of action of superheroes when it comes to large-scale, permanent, and global changes in their fictional worlds. The X-Men have the power to put down corrupt rulers of human societies, from Western presidents to Eastern sheikhs. Superman could destroy our planet and therefore obviously has the power to save the whales or end human trafficking. Yet dictatorships, slavery, environmental degradation, and civil disenfranchisement persist in the worlds of superheroes. Benton (2013) points out that although Superman fights for the American way, he is fact an (undocumented) alien. Indeed, the fact of his failure to use his godlike powers to make a structurally or permanently better world suggests such a deep and aberrant conservatism that we are forced into the permanent remembrance of his essential alienness.
[1.7] Consider Grant Morrison's take on the reaction of Marvel heroes to the attacks of September 11, 2001, as an example. We see "the superheroes aimlessly assembled at Ground Zero. They were compelled to acknowledge the event as if it had occurred in their own simulated universe, but they hadn't been there to prevent it, which negated their entire raison d'être. If al-Qaeda could do to Marvel Universe New York what Doctor Doom, Magneto, and Kang the Conqueror had failed to do, surely that meant the Marvel heroes were ineffectual" (2012, 346–47).
[1.8] Morrison is making a point about the role of heroes in popular culture and about their stories' relevance to the reader's experience of the world: "September 11 was the biggest challenge yet to the relevance of superhero comics" (2012, 347). However, the bigger lesson is perfectly obvious. Superheroes have the powers to stop terror attacks, but they did not stop 9/11. It is almost as if reality had inserted itself into these fictional worlds as a Situationist détournement, twisting the spectacle of the in-world reality into a commentary on its absurdities. Within their worlds, superheroes had the power to stop the invasion of Iraq by the United States, but instead they allowed it; they had the power to put Saddam Hussein in a prison or end the US sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s that caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children to starve to death, but they did not. Imagine what Marvel's Cyclops could do in 10 minutes to a naval blockade, especially with support from a few of his friends. Superheroes could end the genocide in Darfur or starvation in Yemen. They could stop corporate militias from terrorizing anti-oil activists in Nigeria for good. Their versions of the war in Vietnam could have been over in a day. Yet they allow much evil to endure. Why?
[1.9] Superheroes may be understood as deeply (even pathologically) small-c conservative; although they are gods among men, they do not cause large-scale disruptions to human institutions, even when those institutions are widely considered to be unjust or even evil. Those we call supervillains, however, do.
2. Progressive villains
[2.1] Supervillains can be understood to be progressive in the sense that they wish to push an agenda that is more likely to fundamentally reorder society—but usually in some formulation that ends with said supervillain at the top. Some of them push progress for good reasons, but good intentions often lead to, as is popularly said, "by any means necessary," and disaster is a usual consequence (which is when the superheroes get cued).
[2.2] Progressivism, if we are to use it on a spectrum as the other end of a more static conservatism, arises from the observation that big problems exist and that "something needs to be done" (Nugent 2009, 3). In American political history, examples of various progressivisms abound. The progressives of Colorado railed against unfair treatment of workers and the deceit of political party bosses (Laugen 2010). In Jim Crow–era Alabama, progressives focused on "good government, white supremacy, and honest elections" (Hackney 2010, 231). By the 1920s, Coloradan progressives would also be split by the increasing influence of the Ku Klux Klan (Laugen 2010). In Alabama, progressives who wanted to overturn crooked politicians and to help the rural farm economies allied themselves with poor whites afraid of empowered blacks; ironically, poor whites may have lost more voters than did blacks because of progressive poll taxes and literacy tests (Hackney 210; Feldman 2004).
[2.3] However, progressivism was also a force for truly positive social change. The muckraking journalists called attention to slum conditions, dangerous work, disease, and misery of all kinds—with some successes at cleaning things up (Nellie Bly's exposé of a New York asylum comes to mind). Changing ill aspects of society for the common good at the expense of special interests is the main concern of progressivism at its best.
[2.4] Supervillains have, at their most audacious, been concerned with exactly that: upending a miserable world for a higher purpose, a greater good, and shared prosperity. To be fair, progressivism is not usually understood to be as radical a political force as would be represented by scheming supervillains. In our world, progressivism is about progress through reform rather than revolution; the work of the Chicago School sociologists demonstrates a progressive agenda pursued with all the attention to reason and methodology necessary in science (Fitzpatrick 1994). However, its ethos of fostering changes that could be relatively radical, even if arrived at through slow and methodical means, is surely reflected in some of the greatest conflicts between supervillains and their antagonists—only supervillains don't often do either gradual or reform. In the Marvel universe, the High Evolutionary provides a good example in his attempt to alter life on Earth with his Evolution Bomb in "The Evolution War" story arc of 1988. Marvel's online wiki summarizes the story: "The High Evolutionary intends to help humanity reach the next stage of its evolution, regardless of the consequences, and embarks on a series of plans to attain his goal" ("Evolutionary War" 2013). The Evolutionary Bomb would have ended human life on Earth as we know it and would have mutated or evolved all humans into what the High Evolutionary intended as a higher state of being. This would have been very radical progress in a short time, had the Avengers not stopped him. The High Evolutionary saw his intentions as good because he wanted to ready the people of Earth to face the threat of the Beyonders. However, to bring on such sudden and drastic changes without the permission of humans themselves is certainly unethical.
[2.5] Consider Grant Morrison's treatment of DC's Lex Luthor. In Morrison's All Star Superman (2011), Luthor is undeniably a bad guy who wants to rule the world. He summarizes his struggle with Superman very simply: "If it wasn't for Superman, I'd be in charge on this planet!" (124). But there is another element to Luthor's opposition to the superhero, and it's a progressivist one. Luthor is transforming his prison into "a new model of society…a blueprint for utopian living!" and his fellow inmates "can feel the coming of a change, the wings of a new human renaissance" to come with the destruction of Superman (113). Superman is "an alien invader" that Luthor refuses to kneel to (118). This resistance to a powerful invader and the reforming and revolutionary strain in Luthor is also expressed at his final defeat by Superman. "I saw how to save the world!" Luthor says. "I could have made everyone see. I could have saved the world if it wasn't for you!" (288). Superman replies, "You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor" (288).
[2.6] Is Superman accusing himself there too? Surely saving the world is supposed to matter to Superman, and Superman is demonstrably (ad infinitum) more powerful, able, and goodwilled than Luthor; indeed, Superman levies this criticism of Luthor after punching him out and winning the day. So Superman saved the world, maybe, from Luthor, just like he had so many times before. Are we really meant to believe that after a good rest, a hot bath, and a stroll in Central Park with Lois (or a leisurely flight with her above it), Superman couldn't, starting as soon as tomorrow, save the world for good?
[2.7] This pattern repeats. Magneto has noble intentions at times, such as protecting mutants from the bigotry and violence of humans. Alan Moore's Ozymandias (Watchmen, 1987) is another progressive villain. The horror he brings down on innocent civilians is meant to bring about a greater peace and to keep the cold war from ever getting hot. Again and again, supervillains threaten to totally upset and upend the world as we know it in their efforts to improve it. Perhaps progressive motives move their hearts but become warped by their twisted minds.
3. We are not like them
[3.1] Superheroes are exasperating. Why don't they just fix everything? Why won't they save us from our worst and most chronic ills? Why don't they effect permanent changes for the better and remake the world as a utopia? Of many possible answers, we've seen two that are closely related. First, superheroes are conservative. They let the normal, worldly affairs of folks click on just as they always have—even the bad stuff. Second, if they did try to reshape our world into an eternal utopia, they wouldn't be superheroes; they would be supervillains. Remaking the world is the work of the progressive, and sometimes well-meaning, superbaddie.
[3.2] The genre has matured, and superhero navel-gazing, particularly about civil and geopolitical concerns, should perhaps be expected after Watchmen (1987) and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) (Dubose 2007). A generation later, an outright concern exists within superhero comics over this very question of making the world a better place, or as Warren Ellis (1999) expresses it in The Authority, creating "a better world." The Authority is explicitly concerned with these pedestrian horrors at first. They want to make a better world—a world without hunger or tyranny—but they get distracted. Sadly, "in the degree of danger that is posed to the Earth, quickly escalating to cosmic proportions, there is clearly no time for earthly political concerns" (Wolf-Meyer 2003, 509). These extremely progressive superheroes who really do want a finer world for all…well, they just don't get around to it. In Ellis's Planetary (1998–2009), it should be noted, there is a reversal of roles and an exception to this rule. The good guys are fighting hard to win world-changing technology from conservative and despotic supervillains. Spoiler warning: the story ends with the progressive heroes finally positioned to create a finer world. The superheroes (if we can call them that) of the Planetary Organization win, and their story is over: they do the right thing by the rest of us, and once the bad guys are dusted, they set to making a better world. Contrast these heroes with traditional superheroes in "continuing corporate stories" who can "never cause lasting political change" or "effect lasting popular change of any sort" (Darius 2013).
[3.3] As our own world moves steadily into increasing technological wonder, sweeping the diseased and impoverished along into better days, we should reflect on the progressivism and conservatism of our heroes and their enemies. Even as we become our own heroes through the advanced technologies that so inspire transhumanists and technoprogressives, we might wonder which tendency will guide us: to conserve the good (while risking continued evil) or to push for the better (even if our means are imperfect). We have no dramatic tension preventing us from saving ourselves and progressing into finer worlds to come. Neither are we beholden to any Burkean cosmic orders that may prevent us from rewriting ourselves or our experience of the universe for the good of all. Like John Byrne's She-Hulk or Grant Morrison's Animal Man, we may soon find that authorization is a natural effect of the realization of our own powers (Kripal 2011). In so doing, it will be vital to remain vigilant in the examination of our own intentions.
4. Acknowledgments
[4.1] Thanks especially to Jared Hegwood and Cliff Garner.