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The girl has just spent a week learning cycling proficiency at school. She now knows, for example, how to guide her bike through a line of cones. I don't know why – there's no call for slalom on the main arterial roads these days, although the close control can come in handy if you want to buzz a pedestrian.
Cycle-safety training is obviously a good idea although, frankly, nothing can prepare an 11-year-old for the wanton carelessness of motorists. But the lessons do strike me as somewhat outdated, teaching only such basic skills as how not to get yourself killed. That's all well and good but so much more is demanded of the modern cyclist.
Two emotions power city cyclists: fear and anger. Cowardice cannot be taught, though many of us are blessed with it in large quantities. But a new cyclist needs the right kind of rage, and the girl seems to have emerged from her course entirely untrained in how to thump on a car's bodywork at traffic lights and scream obscenities at a driver. You might think that this needs little training but there is a right and wrong way to do this – the latter being any way that the driver can catch up with you. It is no good yelling abuse if you will soon be cowering in fear, muttering "Sorry mate, no offence" when he draws level with you at the next lights.
Similarly, there is no point in provoking a motorist to violence if you don't have your GoPro camera charged and filming. There are enough motorists out there ready to beat up a cyclist just for being in their way; if you are going to get a smack in the face, you need something you can put on YouTube. Many cyclists make this classic schoolboy error.
Today's cyclist also needs advice when choosing lights for night-riding. All the major chains sell a range of lights that flash on and off with atomic intensity but care is needed: not all lights are guaranteed to blind other road users. Don't get palmed off with the merely dazzling. Oh, and there are limits to how many lights you require. The Blackpool Illuminations do not go on tour.
There are, of course, many skills that have nothing to do with road rage. There is Lycra etiquette, for example. There must be people who look good in Lycra – Cara Delevingne, Channing Tatum or anyone who plays a superhero in a Marvel film – but you don't see a lot of them around the Elephant and Castle. If Captain America is cycling to work in London, all I can say is he must be visiting a different Pret for refreshments. The only Lycra-clad heroes on regular display on my commute are the human scarecrow and the Michelin Man.
One can, of course, go for the rolled-up- trouser-leg look, though this may bring you into conflict with the Metropolitan Police, who take a dim view of anyone mocking Freemasons.
Another failure is that no one appears to have taught the girl that look of insouciance you need when you are overtaken by a cyclist twice your age or one decked out in the Laura Ashley spring collection. It takes practice to master the look that says "I'm just enjoying the afternoon"; the knowing smile that says "the A3 really is quite beautiful in the rush hour if you just take the time to look." Oh, and no one told her that Bromptons are not cool. They may be a triumph of engineering but they are very heavy, very expensive and, one day, Big Ears will want them back.
Then there are the advanced modules. I understand that 11-year-olds cannot be taught everything at once but as concerned parents, are we really expected to let her out on the road while she still does not know how to text while cycling? All the best riders can take both hands off the handlebars for double-handed texting. I believe it was this skill that gave us the famous RUBL acronym – short for Rolling Under a Bus Laughing.
And once she's mastered all that, perhaps the final lesson might be to take the train. What with yob drivers, inattentive pedestrians and other cyclists, it's just too dangerous out there.
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Section headingEditWatchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, the Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and the Silk Spectre. These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders[1] and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s. Series writer Alan Moore created the main characters to present six "radically opposing ways" to perceive the world, and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible.[2]
==Main characters==
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The Comedian is Edward Morgan Blake. The Comedian was initially based on the Shield and then on the Charlton Comics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy character Nick Fury and Captain America added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy character, only a much bigger, tougher guy".[3] Gibbons went with a Groucho Marx-style appearance (mustache and cigar) for the Comedian in his design, deciding that the "clown" look had already been appropriated by the DC Comics supervillain the Joker.[4] His costume itself was noted by Gibbons as being particularly problematic; he was initially designed with a more militaristic costume which was later dropped for a black leather outfit with a "rapist mask".[4] He believes that humans are savage in nature, and that civilization can never be more than an idea. He therefore chooses to become a mockery of society, fighting and killing without reservation. Blake's murder, which takes place shortly before the story begins in 1985, sets the plot of Watchmen in motion. The character appears throughout the story in flashbacks and aspects of his personality are revealed by other characters.[5] Richard Reynolds described The Comedian as "ruthless, cynical, and nihilistic, and yet capable of deeper insights than the others into the role of the costumed hero".[5] Nicholas Michael Grant said the Comedian is "the only character in the Watchmen universe who is almost totally unlikeable."[6] In "Before Watchmen: The Minutemen #1", additional details are revealed about Comedian. It is revealed that the Comedian got his start as a costumed adventurer at the young age of 16 and had a prior criminal record for assault. Unlike the rest of the costumed heroes of the Minutemen, he is shown to be driven by greed and a love for violence. In particular, he assaults a bartender after breaking up a bar fight and steals liquor and money from the cash register. The issue also implies Blake may have been a victim of severe child abuse as he claims that a "caseworker" told him that the abuse he suffered was the cause of his violent outbursts.[7] "Before Watchmen: Comedian #1" rewrites the character's back-story further. It is revealed that Blake was close personal friends with Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy as well as Jackie Kennedy. This contradicts the main Watchmen series, which cast Edward Blake as a close personal friend of Richard Nixon (for whom he had worked as an assassin). The mini-series reveals that Blake was responsible for the murder of Marilyn Monroe (ordered by Jackie Kennedy, behind her husband's back) as well as revealing that, despite strong innuendo from both Blake and Ozymandias,[8] that he did not kill John Kennedy and was attempting to confront Moloch when he found the villain watching the live coverage of the assassination, including Kennedy's death.[9] In the Watchmen film, he is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film also places him as John F. Kennedy's assassin, as shown in the opening montage.
Doctor ManhattanEdit
Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Osterman is a physicist who was transformed into a blue-skinned, radiated powerful being after he was disintegrated in an Intrinsic Field Subtractor in 1959. He had returned to the chamber to retrieve his girlfriend's watch (which he had repaired), and was accidentally locked inside when the Subtractor started automatically. Jon was blown into atoms, with nothing left of his body. Within a few months, his disembodied consciousness managed to reconstruct a physical body for itself. Following his reanimation, he is immediately pressed into service by the United States government, which gives him the name Doctor Manhattan, after the Manhattan Project. He is the only character in the story that possesses actual superpowers.[10] Though he dabbles briefly in crime-fighting, his greatest influence is to grant the U.S. a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with his most significant action taking place after he is personally asked by President Richard Nixon to intervene in the Vietnam War, leading to an unqualified victory for the U.S. with the defeat of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, preventing the collapse of the Saigon government. Since he works for the U.S. government, he is exempt from the provisions of the Keene Act, but spends much of his time doing advanced technology research and development, and physics research. He is single-handedly responsible for the shift to electric-powered vehicles (by synthesizing the needed elements and chemicals himself) and Veidt credits him with causing a huge leap forward in myriad areas of science and technology. As a result, the technology of the alternative 1985 of the Watchmen universe is far more advanced. After the death of his father in 1969, he does not conceal his birth name and is referenced as "Jon" or "Dr. Osterman". Doctor Manhattan was partly based on DC Comic's Captain Atom, who in Moore's original proposal was surrounded by the shadow of nuclear threat.Some of Doctor Manhattan's appearence resembles the Silver Surfer. However, the writer found he could do more with Manhattan as a "kind of a quantum super-hero" than he ever could have with Captain Atom.[3] Moore sought to delve into nuclear physics and quantum physics in constructing the character of Dr. Manhattan. The writer believed that a character living in a quantum universe would not perceive time with a linear perspective, which would influence the character's perception of human affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character like Spock from Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" and to grow away from them and humanity in general.[2] Gibbons had created the blue character Rogue Trooper, and explained he reused the blue skin motif for Doctor Manhattan as it resembles skin tonally, but has a different hue. Moore incorporated the color into the story, and Gibbons noted the rest of the comic's color scheme made Manhattan unique.[11] The blue skin color is explained as being a result of Cherenkov radiation.Template:Citation needed Moore recalled that he was unsure if DC would allow the creators to depict the character as fully nude, which partially influenced how they portrayed the character.[12] Gibbons wanted to tastefully depict Manhattan's nudity, selecting carefully when full frontal shots would occur and giving him "understated" genitals — like a classical sculpture — so the reader would not initially notice it.[13] Dr. Manhattan's forehead is marked with the atomic structure of hydrogen, which he put on himself, declining a helmet with the atom symbol. His powers include superhuman strength, telekinesis, teleportation, control over matter at a subatomic level, and near-total clairvoyance (though limited to events that he will directly experience in the future; Manhattan notes in a television interview that he is not omniscient). Template:Anchor He can change the size of his body and duplicate himself at will. He perceives the past, present and future as happening simultaneously, but states that he cannot act on that knowledge since his own actions and reactions to events (as is reality itself) are predetermined; even as a human, his major actions were always influenced by others, such as him training in quantum physics because his father insisted he search for a job that would be more relevant in the future than his own role as a watchmaker. His ability to see the future can be blocked by a surge of tachyons, such as that released when Ozymandias puts the final step of his plan into action. He also admits to withholding his powers to their full potential because he knows it is not his right to abuse them. In the Watchmen film, Doctor Manhattan is a CGI character whose body is modeled after fitness model Greg Plitt, with voice, motion capture, and facial performance provided by Billy Crudup (who also plays Osterman prior to his transformation).
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- Main article: Nite OwlNite Owl II (Daniel Dreiberg) is a superhero who uses owl-themed gadgets, in a manner which led Dave Gibbons to consider him "an obsessive hobbyist... a comics fan, a fanboy."[14] Nite Owl was partly based on the Ted Kord version of the DC Comics superhero Blue Beetle. Just as Ted Kord had a predecessor, Moore also incorporated an earlier adventurer who used the name "Nite Owl" (the retired crime fighter Hollis Mason) into Watchmen.[3] While Moore devised character notes for Gibbons to work from, the artist provided a name and a costume design for Hollis Mason he had created when he was twelve.[13] Richard Reynolds noted in Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology that despite the character's Charlton roots, Nite Owl's modus operandi has more in common with the DC Comics character Batman.[15] According to Geoff Klock, his civilian form "visually suggests an impotent, middle-aged Clark Kent."[16]
The second Nite Owl is another Crimebusters vigilante who has not revealed his identity in the post-Keene Act era throughout the novel. "Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1" establishes that Dan Dreiberg was an abused child whose obsession with the original Nite Owl led him to plant a tracking device on Hollis' vehicle in order to track him down.[17] It also establishes the events of how he was taken in as his apprentice: after Hollis threatened violence if Dan attempted to contact him again (due to him not wanting a sidekick for Dan's own safety), Dan returned home to find all of his prized Nite Owl memorabilia having been destroyed by his father, who was assaulting his mother (who tried to stop him) while demanding that Dan watch him beat his mother. Dan retreated to his now emptied room while his dad died under mysterious circumstances (his mom claims that he suffered a heart attack while beating her and mother and son decided to withhold medical treatment out of anger for what he did). At the funeral, Hollis (having since discovered Dan's abusive childhood via police reports) confronts Dan and agrees to take him on as his sidekick. However, after training him, Hollis announces his retirement and informs Dan that he is giving him the Nite Owl identity rather than creating a sidekick persona for him. It is also revealed that Rorschach met Nite Owl on Dan's very first patrol and offered his assistance as a partner to the young rookie hero.[17] In the Watchmen film, he is played by Patrick Wilson, who put on Template:Convert[18] in between the filming of his flashback scenes and the 1985 scenes, showing the physical decline of his character.
- Main article: Ozymandias (comics)Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt) was a former superhero who draws inspiration from his hero Alexander the Great and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, for whom he is named. A child prodigy,something akinn to Doc Savage he graduated from high school and college before he was 18 and learned the art of lying as he hid the full scope of his brilliance for most of his childhood after being accused of cheating. When he inherited his family's fortune upon his parents' death in a car accident, Adrian gave it away to see if he could be a success by himself. Veidt traced Alexander the Great's path himself across the globe and ultimately returned to the United States, where he became a successful businessman. However, when his business partner and would-be love interest overdosed on drugs (purchased with funds given to her by Adrian as a gift to allow her to have fun in New York City one night), Veidt decided to avenge her death as a superhero. His costume was conceived as a Halloween costume but he quickly developed a name for himself as a hero.[19] Two years before the Keene Act passed, Veidt went public with his secret identity and began merchandising his alter ego as he became one of the most important businessmen in America. However, his fear of a nuclear war between Russia and America, plus a rivalry with Comedian (who unknowingly planted the idea of stopping the inevitable nuclear holocaust into Veidt's head), led to him engaging in the vast conspiracy at the heart of the Watchmen series. Ozymandias was directly based on Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, whom Moore had admired for using his full brain capacity as well as possessing full physical and mental control.[3] Veidt is believed to be the smartest man on the planet, even capable of outsmarting Dr. Manhattan. His combination of intelligence and highly advanced fighting skills makes him perhaps the most feared and dangerous of the mortal vigilantes. He was even able to catch a bullet fired at him. He is often accompanied by his genetically-engineered lynx, Bubastis. Richard Reynolds noted that by taking initiative to "help the world", Veidt displays a trait normally attributed to villains in superhero stories, and in a sense he is the "villain" of the series; however, he purposely acts for an objective greater good, thus avoiding the traditional "villain" classification, which is typically self-serving, delusional or evil.[20] Gibbons noted "One of the worst of his sins [is] kind of looking down on the rest of humanity, scorning the rest of humanity."[21] In 2008, he was ranked number 10 on the Forbes Fictional 15.[22] Wizard magazine also ranked Ozymandias as 25th Greatest Villain of All Time and IGN ranked him as 21st Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[23] In the Watchmen film, Veidt is played by Matthew Goode. His costume was designed to parody the rubber suits featuring nipples in the film Batman & Robin. This incarnation of Veidt uses a German accent when speaking with friends and an American accent when speaking publicly. Instead of breeding a giant monster and placing it in New York to massacre half the city as in the comics, Veidt destroys New York with an energy blast designed to look as though Doctor Manhattan caused it, bringing the world to peace.
- Main article: Rorschach (comics)Rorschach is a noir private detective-themed vigilante who wears a white mask with constantly shifting ink blots. Rorschach continues to fight crime in spite of his outlaw status, eventually making the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. He was born Walter Joseph Kovacs, the son of a prostitute by a man whose last name his mother never bothered to learn, and spent much of his childhood in a home for troubled youth, after which he began working in a garment factory. After reading about the murder of Kitty Genovese and the reported complete indifference of the witnesses of the crime, he modified a special fabric that she had ordered, according to him, to create a mask and became a vigilante, eventually forming a productive partnership with Nite Owl II. In 1975, after failing to rescue a young girl, he lost all faith in humanity and began to embrace extremist right-wing ideology. When the story begins, a man is seen walking around New York carrying a sign that reads "The End Is Nigh," but it is not until several chapters later that the reader learns that this man is Kovacs/Rorschach. Moore based Rorschach on the Steve Ditko creations The Question and Mr. A. Moore said he was trying to "come up with this quintessential Steve Ditko character — someone who's got a funny name, whose surname begins with a 'K,' who's got an oddly designed mask".[24] As a result, Rorschach's real name is given as Walter Kovacs. Ditko's Charlton character The Question also served as a template for creating Rorschach.[3] Comics historian Bradford W. Wright described the character's world view as "a set of black-and-white values that take many shapes but never mix into shades of gray, similar to the ink blot tests of his namesake". Rorschach sees existence as random and, according to Wright, this viewpoint leaves the character "free to 'scrawl [his] own design' on a 'morally blank world'".[25] Moore said he did not foresee the death of Rorschach until the fourth issue when he realized that his refusal to compromise would result in him not surviving the story.[2].Rorschach was a bit of elements of Spider-Man-a vigilante hero,who mask has an odd eye shaped look. Rorschach is close friends with the second Nite Owl. He is the first hero Rorschach meets with when Comedian is killed[26] and Nite Owl organizes a rescue mission to free Rorschach from jail when he is arrested.[27] Before Watchmen reveals that Rorschach was active as a hero before Nite Owl made his debut and on the latter's first night out as a hero, Rorschach sneaks into his owl ship and offers his services to Nite Owl as a partner.[17] In the Watchmen film, he is played by Jackie Earle Haley.
Silk SpectreEdit
Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II) is the daughter of Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre. Laurie's mother apparently wanted her to follow in her footsteps and so she fought crime for ten years before the Keene Act banned vigilantes. Unlike the other protagonists, Silk Spectre was not based on a particular Charlton character, although her relationship with Dr. Manhattan is similar to that between Captain Atom and the heroine Nightshade. Moore felt he needed a female hero in the cast and drew inspiration from comic book heroines such as Black Canary and Phantom Lady.[3] "Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1" revealed that Laurie got her start as a super-hero being trained by her mother to continue the family legacy, before running away from home at the age of 16[28] and relocating to San Francisco with her boyfriend.[29] Laurie is kept on retainer by the government because of her relationship with Doctor Manhattan and lives on a government base at the beginning of the comic. When Doctor Manhattan leaves Earth, the government has her removed from the base and suspends her expense account, forcing her to move in with Dan, with whom she starts a romantic relationship.
At the end of the eighth issue, Doctor Manhattan appears and takes her to Mars because he knows she wants to convince him to save the world. On Mars, she realizes that The Comedian was her biological father. After the final encounter with Veidt at the end of the series, she assumes the identity of Sandra Hollis and continues her relationship with Dan. An offhand comment to Dan, in which she claims to want a better costume, with leather and a sidearm, implies she's thinking about taking over her late father's identity, thus becoming the second Comedian. In the Watchmen film, she is played by Malin Åkerman. In a 2003 draft script by David Hayter, which was reviewed by IGN, Laurie uses the name, Jupiter, and the alter ego name "Slingshot".[30] The former detail seems to have been retained in the final version of the film (though the Nite Owl's goggles gave her last name as her mother's maiden name, Juspeczyk). The film gives her date of birth as December 2, 1949. Silk Spectre was ranked 24th in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[31] ==Minor characters==Key to the success of Watchmen is the wide range of characters it features beyond the 'main' stars. Moore stated in 1988 that, in Watchmen, "we spend a good deal of time with the people on the street. We wanted to spend as much time detailing these characters and making them believable as we did the main characters."[32] Moore and Gibbons deliberately wanted all their characters "to have a place in this vast organic mechanism that we call the world."[32] The fleshing-out of the world was, in Moore's words, to demonstrate that "all the way through the entire series human life is going on with all of its petty entanglements and minor difficulties and all the rest of it."[33] Moore adds that it is possible to see the story as being as much about the supporting as the main characters: Template:Quote
- Hollis Mason - The first Nite Owl who is retired in 1962 and author of the autobiography "Under The Hood" which appears in excerpts throughout the story. Hollis was the only member of the Minutemen who did not have any social problems and mainly enjoyed being a costumed adventurer. On Halloween, The Knot-Tops led by Derf assault Hollis in retaliation for the release of Rorschach, which was caused by The Nite Owl II (Daniel Dreiberg) and The Silk Spectre II (Laurie Juspeczyk). Derf hits Hollis on the head with Hollis' Nite Owl trophy killing the former superhero (this event is only depicted in the director's cut version of the film). In the film, he is played by Stephen McHattie, while his younger self is played by Clint Carleton. * Sally Jupiter (real name Sally Juspeczyk) - The first Silk Spectre and founding member of the Minutemen who is now retired. She is later the domineering "stage mom" of Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II). Sally married her manager, Laurence Schexnayder, shortly after retiring. She narrowly avoided being raped by the Comedian, although she later forgave him, and ultimately bore his child. Sally adores the attention she receives from fans of "The Silk Spectre", though Laurie is repulsed at her mother's sexually explicit exploits in promoting herself.
In the film, she is played by Carla Gugino. * Captain Metropolis (real name Nelson "Nelly" Gardner) - A former Marine Lieutenant. He was one of the more active members of the Minutemen, having organized its formation. Metropolis was involved in a sexual relationship with Hooded Justice, which in various supplemental material was abusive, with Hooded Justice abusing and cheating on Metropolis until H. J.'s death in the early 1950s, when the Comedian framed Hooded Justice as a child murderer. In the 1960s, he also unsuccessfully attempted to recruit the second generation of superheroes into a new group called the Crimebusters. He ultimately dies in a car wreck in 1974 that left him decapitated and the accident considered a form of suicide. He was played by Darryl Scheelar.
- Hooded Justice - The first masked vigilante, often initialled "H. J." by his teammates. His real identity is never conclusively revealed but in Hollis' book it he is suggested to be circus strongman Rolf Müller. In Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6, we learn that he is not Rolf Muller (a character that sexually abused and killed children), but it is strongly implied that in fact he is Muller's son or ward. Assuming he, himself, was abused and tortured by Muller, it explains a great deal his violent persona, costume, and mask. A violent vigilante, Hooded Justice shared a romantic relationship with Captain Metropolis and a deep-seated rivalry with Comedian, after he prevented Blake from sexually assaulting Silk Spectre. Hooded Justice's relationship with Metropolis was a fractured one; Justice repeatedly cheated on his boyfriend with male prostitutes, physically abusing them in sadomasochist sexual encounters. This resulted in bribery of his lovers and the usage of Silk Spectre as his public girlfriend.
He ultimately disappeared in the 1950s. In Minutemen #6 we learn that Hollis, mistakingly believing that Hooded Justice killed and tortured the children (that were killed and tortured by his apparent father), attacked Hooded Justice and snapped his neck, killing him. He was never actually unmasked, and Metropolis burned down the headquarters with his former lover's body inside; Ozymandias (who investigated his disappearance) assumes Comedian murdered him as payback for him voting him out of the Minutemen, while in fact Comedian orchestrated the events that led Hollis to mistake Hooded Justice for the actual child killer (thereby helping set up the circumstances leading to H.J.'s death).
In the film he was played by Glenn Ennis. * Dollar Bill (real name William Benjamin "Bill" Brady) - A bank-sponsored member of the Minutemen who was created for publicity purposes. Socially conservative, he is portrayed as homophobic in Before Watchmen and close friends with Comedian, ultimately siding with him when the group vote him out. He died during a bank robbery in 1947 when his cloak was caught in the bank's revolving doors, allowing the robbers to shoot him at point-blank range. In the film, he is portrayed by Dan Payne. * Mothman (real name Byron Lewis) - A former member of the Minutemen who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness later in life. Lewis had a privileged upbringing and sought to help the less fortunate and fight oppression and corruption as a crimefighter. To this end Lewis created a costume with special wings that helped him glide, dubbing himself "Mothman". However, a series of near death experiences in perfecting his wings left Lewis in constant pain and a drug addict and an alcoholic, with him requiring a drink each time before he flew for "courage". Lewis's mental stability ultimately deteriorated after he was called before HUAC, leading to him being forcibly brought to a mental asylum in Maine, but was briefly released for the Minutemen's reunion. In the film, he is portrayed by Niall Matter.
- The Silhouette (real name Ursula Zandt) - A former member of the Minutemen. A gun-toting vigilante, Ursula was motivated by the murder of her parents at the hands of the Nazis and her sister's death as the two fled Nazi occupied Europe. According to the first Nite Owl, Silhouette was the first member of the Minutemen who went public with her career as a super-hero, when she busted a child pornography ring in New York. She had a close working relationship with Nite Owl and after being forced out of the Minutemen (upon being publicly outed as a lesbian) she continued to work with Nite Owl investigating a string of child murders until she and her lover were killed by a former super-villain she had fought years earlier. She is portrayed by Apollonia Vanova in the film.
- Moloch The Mystic (real name Edgar William Jacobi, also known as Edgar William Vaughn, and William Edgar Bright ) - A former supervillain.
Moloch was jailed for a time during the 1970s. He is dying of cancer which he received from Adrian Veidt. Moloch was later murdered by Adrian who frames Rorschach. In the film, he is played by Matt Frewer.
- Big Figure - A jailed dwarfish crime boss and former adversary of Nite Owl and Rorschach. He tries to get revenge when Rorschach is imprisoned in the same jail as he is. In the film, he is played by Danny Woodburn.
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- Doug Roth - A reporter for Nova Express. He is present at Dr. Manhattan's interview with Ted Koppel and reveals that several of his coworkers died of cancer, presumably from Manhattan. This leads to Manhattan's self-imposed exile on Mars. Roth was played by John Shaw in the film.
- Janey Slater - The first girlfriend of Dr. Jon Osterman. She leaves him in 1966 after she perceives a relationship building between Osterman and Laurie. Veidt gives Janey cancer as part of his scheme to exile Dr. Manhattan; Janey erroneously believes that Jon Osterman gave it to her. In the film, she is played by Laura Mennell.
- Bernard - A newsdealer who appears periodically on the central New York street corner. Bernard is amongst the many characters who dies when Veidt's monster appears in New York, and he dies trying to protect his young namesake. Moore has stated that he "is in some ways every man, because he's a complete prat and doesn't know what's going on... [h]e is like a lot of people, he is a function of the news... [regurgitating news headlines] think[ing] that's an opinion."[34]
- Dr. Malcolm Long - The psychiatrist who is assigned to evaluate Rorschach after he is apprehended. He is initially very hopeful of curing Rorschach, even though his utter lack of emotion makes Long's psychiatric evaluation techniques useless. Rorschach's unveiling of events that shaped his uncompromising mindset greatly affects Dr. Long's own outlook and marriage. Malcolm and his wife die when Veidt's monster appears in New York. In the film, he's played by William S. Taylor.
- Detective Steven Fine - The police officer that investigates Edward Blake's murder, and captures Rorschach. He deduces that Dan Dreiberg is Nite Owl II, and hints at this to Dreiberg in an effort to warn him away from further activity. Fine dies when Veidt's monster appears in New York. He is portrayed by Jerry Wasserman in the film.
- Detective Joe Bourquin - The partner to Detective Steven Fine. Bourquin dies when Veidt's monster appears in New York. In the film, he is Detective Gallagher and is portrayed by Don Thompson.
- Seymour - A junior worker at the New Frontiersman magazine offices, designed by Moore to be "the ordinary common slob".[32] He is the final character in Watchmen, playing a pivotal role in the final pages, whom Moore describes as "the most low-life, worthless, nerdy sort of character in the entire book who finally has the fate of the world resting in his pudging fingers".[32] In the film, Seymour is played by Chris Gauthier.
- Klock, Geoff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. Continuum, 2002. ISBN 0-8264-1419-2* Reynolds, Richard. Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology. B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1992. ISBN 0-7134-6560-3
- Wright, Bradford W. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Johns Hopkins, 2001. ISBN 0-8018-7450-5
- Gibbons, Dave. "Watching the Watchmen: The Definitive Companion to the Graphic Novel". Titan Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84856-041-3 ==Notes==
- ↑ Khoury, George (December 2008). The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore (Indispensable ed.). TwoMorrows. p. 109.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eno, Vincent; El Csawza. "Vincent Eno and El Csawza meet comics megastar Alan Moore". Strange Things Are Happening. May/June 1988.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Cooke, Jon B. "Alan Moore discusses the Charlton-Watchmen Connection". Comic Book Artist. August 2000. Retrieved on October 8, 2008.
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- ↑ "Watchmen Secrets Revealed". WatchmenComicMovie.com. November 3, 2008. Retrieved on November 5, 2008.
- ↑ "A Portal to Another Dimension". The Comics Journal. July 1987.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Kallies, Christy. "Under the Hood: Dave Gibbons". SequentialTart.com. July 1999. Retrieved on October 12, 2008
- ↑ Gibbons, "Watchmen Round Table: Moore & Gibbons" in David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview (1988), p. 47
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- ↑ Ewalt, David M. "The Forbes Fictional 15 No. 10 Veidt, Adrian". Forbes.com. December 18, 2008. Retrieved on January 17, 2009.
- ↑ Ozymandias is number 21, IGN.
- ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "Synchronicity and Symmetry". The Comics Journal. July 1987.
- ↑ Wright, p. 272–73
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Subtitles and translations for ESO videos
Followers of the ESOcast can now watch episodes subtitled in multiple languages. The addition of multiple languages reflects the international nature of ESO and astronomy, and makes it easier for astronomy fans around the world to keep up with the latest news from the world's most productive observatory.
The subtitles also make it easier for science centres, astronomy educators, communicators and anyone interested in public outreach to share the videos with the public. Whether it is during a class, accompanying an astronomy exhibition, or at a video screening session, the ESOcasts are an easy-to-use, free-of-charge way to inspire people to discover the Universe.
Watching our videos with subtitles
Where they are available, you can select subtitles directly in our embeddable web player, for example on the ESOcast pages on our website. Simply click on the icon labelled CC (Closed Captioning), which appears in the bottom right corner of a video when subtitles are available. By clicking on the "settings" icon, you can also see which languages are available. If your language is not available yet, you have the chance to contribute and add it (see below how to proceed).
Known issues:
- In QuickTime Player on Windows, the subtitles do not display properly (either play the episode within iTunes, or download the free VLC media player and play the file in that program).
Translating a video into your language
Would you like to see our astronomy outreach videos, such as the ESOcast video podcasts, subtitled in your own language? We are now uploading our videos to YouTube, where members of the public can contribute subtitle translations. We want to bring the excitement of ESO astronomy to an even wider international audience, and we'd like your help!
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- Create (or have) a YouTube account, and be logged in.
- Access the link we will provide once the video is uploaded.
- On the video page, click on "···More" and then on "Add translations"
- You will then find the option of translating the "Title & Descrition", or the "Subtitles"
If you want to help us by translating the subtitles into your language, you just need to create a (free) account at YouTube and join our Volunteer Translators list in order to receive our notifications.
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- To join our team of volunteer translators and get advance notice of translation opportunities, please fill out the form at: Volunteer Translators
- We ask that translators should be fluent in both English and the language into which you are translating, and that you have a good understanding of the scientific and technical terms used in the videos.
- Write your translation clearly and accurately, using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. While your translation must as accurate as possible to reflect the meaning of the original text, it does not have to be a word-for-word literal translation. You may, for example, translate idioms into equivalent idioms in your language.
- We ask that you check your translation with a friend or colleague for style and accuracy.
- Please translate all of the lines in the transcript, including the credits and information at the end. This information is usually the same (or very similar) from episode to episode, so it should not be too much extra work.
- Acronyms and abbreviations such as ESO, ESA, VLT, ELT must not be translated. Expansions such as "European Southern Observatory" or "European Space Agency" may be translated, if appropriate, but the original abbreviation ("ESO" or "ESA") should also appear.
- Video product names such as "ESOcast", "Eyes on the Skies" and "Hubblecast", must always be written like this and not translated.
- No additional information should be added to the subtitles, no URLs given in the subtitles (such as www.eso.org, www.spacetelescope.org) should be altered, and no additional URLs added, except with the approval of ESO.
- If you have specific questions about the English transcript text, please contact email@example.com.
- If you believe that someone has written something deceptive or offensive in a translation, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
- ESO may choose to prevent editing of a translation, restrict it to specified users, or edit or delete a translation. We may export subtitles and make them available either as separate files or embedded in video files, which will be licensed under the same Creative Commons Attribution licence as the original videos.
- If you have contributed a translation, you may add your name in place of the "—" (or to the names of other translators) in the translation of the subtitle line "Transcription by ESO; translation by —".


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A review of Topaz Adjust...
Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop exposure plug-in that offers a combination of 22 different actions, each one customizable. You can go from gritty to painted with a bunch of stops inbetween.
The interface is clean, intuitive, and has a nice hover help system, simply mouse over any of the buttons and you will get a popup bubble with an informative description of how that button works.
Within the interface you are able to take different "snapshots" of the image you are working on and then apply/customize different actions on each snapshot to determine which one you like best and want to use.
I can ramble on about the things I like about it, but Topaz Adjust is one of those tools that people can use very differently, how I use it may not be how you use it. So check it out, you can view the online manual to learn more about it, and download it for a free 30 day test run. Get the Windows version here, and the MAC version here.
To see it in action you can watch one of the three video tutorials, an overview, general functions, and noise reduction. One of the cool things about these videos is that Topaz Labs allows you to download the original image and "play along".
In closing I simply want to say that this is a plug-in I am very happy to have added to my toolbox and I think you will be too.
Because there are so many variables, I could not show you all the image possibilities, but here are some images I tweaked with Topaz Adjust.
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- Jason Anderson said...
It does seem to give a bit more attention the the subdued browns and oranges from where I can see it. The effect is subtle, and not easy to tell. If you like the orange-ish leanings in your browns (which I do), then this could definitely be useful!
- April 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Nice blog, This is my first time visiting here.
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- October 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- montreal florist said...
It's good technique in photoshop software. It's better than before.
- January 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Scott, Topaz Adjust 5 is out now, and it's great. They addressed issues I had with version 4, and now it's really cool. Lots more presets, a BRUSH to remove, dodge, burn, smooth effects, apply multiple adjustments, global transparency slider to tone down any effect, borders, vignettes and lots more stuff. I think it's a great addition to any photographer's set of processing tools. And no, I don't work for Topaz. I just like this software, which works in both Lightroom and Photoshop. Aperture too, I think. It's a keeper for me.
- December 4, 2011 at 12:49 AM
- Miguel Palaviccini said...
I wonder how this compares to Nik software. I've never used Topaz, but have only heard great things. The brush tool seems like it would come in really useful.
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To best use WMV files on Mac OS X you need to download the WMV codecs for QuickTime from Microsoft's web site. They are called "Windows Media® Components for QuickTime" and are made by Flip4Mac and includes most WMV codecs. The free download handles most codecs, but to handle WMV Professional you need to buy their pro upgrade. The MSS2 codec used for Windows screen recordings is not yet supported.
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Conversion to QuickTime is the most popular need for WMV files. Since File Juicer 4.7 it can now convert WMV files to QuickTime and it will use QuickTimes built in encoder and the WMV codec to make a QuickTime move which is as close to the original as possible.
File Juicers other features are to search and extract files from within files without conversion. It preserves the original format which was used when the image or video clip was first put into a file. If a WMV is placed in a Word document, or a PowerPoint slide show, File Juicer will extract it again as a WMV. If a JPEG was put into a PDF file, it will be extracted as a JPEG (because PDF's store JPEG files unchanged).If you put a JPEG-2000 file into an MP3 file as album art with iTunes, iTunes will convert it to PNG when storing it in the MP3. You will get PNG out if you drop the MP3 onto File Juicer.
AVISome AVI files can be played by QuickTime Player, others may require a codec for playback. One example of an extra codec is:3ivxD4 at VersionTracker.
AVI and ASF are wrapper formats which contain the the actual data, which may be WMV data or Divx which QuickTime does not support as default.
Screen RecordersSnapz Pro can record what's on your screen. Play your file in the media player needed, and record it as QuickTime format.
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It will not work with the newer WMV3 encoded WMV files (for Microsoft Media Player 8 or newer). File Juicer will identify wmv3 files with giving them a ".3.wmv" extension.
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There are 25 slots available for this UFC 144 tournament, but if more people want to get in we should be able to open more slots up(which would also make the money pot larger).
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Fruit Ninja, a seriously addictive game that has has taken the App Store by storm, has finally arrived on the iPad. Having sold more than a million copies for the iPhone in just 74 days, the new HD version arrives to the delight of veggie chopping enthusiasts around the world. Though the gameplay remains unchanged, the iPad version now supports eight finger swipes and multiplayer game modes.
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Statement of the NEA on Medicare
August 14, 2013
Submitted to House Ways and Means Committee
Subcommittee on Health
The President's and Other Bipartisan Proposals to Reform Medicare: Modernizing Beneficiary Cost-Sharing
The National Education Association represents more than 3 million educators who work throughout the U.S. education system, from pre-K through graduate levels, and health care workers in the public and private sectors. On behalf of our members, we appreciate the opportunity to provide comments to the bipartisan cost sharing proposals to reform Medicare, in particular, those included in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget and the Bipartisan Policy Center Health Care Cost Containment Initiative.
President Obama's budget included the following cost sharing proposals:
- Increasing the income-related premiums for Medicare Part B and Part D,
- Increasing the annual Medicare Part B deductible for new enrollees, and
- Introducing a copayment for certain home health services.
The Bipartisan Policy Center included proposal #1 above and also recommended:
- Setting an annual beneficiary cost-sharing limit
- Streamlining the Medicare Part A and Part B deductibles into a single deductible
- Replacing varying coinsurance amounts with more predictable copayments
- Reforming Medicare supplemental insurance, and
- Increasing and improving support for low-income Medicare beneficiaries
The President's and the Bipartisan Policy Center's proposals are intended to promote greater health care cost awareness on the part of Medicare beneficiaries in order to control federal government spending on the Medicare program. However, most of these proposals will instead, shift more costs to lower and middle income elderly and disabled people. Health care providers and insurance companies are the main drivers behind the increase in costs and utilization of services in the Medicare program. Providers prescribe and render the services, procedures, prescription drugs and other health related benefits. Private health insurance plans provide Medicare supplemental policies, Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans to millions of beneficiaries at a much higher cost than traditional Medicare but at a great profit to the insurance industry. Proposals to reform the Medicare program should focus, instead, on the costs of physician and hospital services and prohibit private health plans from shifting more of the financial burden to elderly and disabled people on fixed incomes.
The Medicare program requires comprehensive and systemic reforms that will increase revenue for the program and control spending in a reasonable and cost effective way that does not hurt Medicare enrollees financially, improves the quality of health care services provided to beneficiaries, controls the flow of federal dollars to health care providers and insurers, and reduces the fraud and abuse in the program.
The following are NEA's comments on the above Medicare reform proposals:
- NEA opposes further means-testing of Medicare Part B and Part D premiums. Further means-testing could affect people with incomes equivalent to $47,000 for an individual and $94,000 for a couple, according to Kaiser Family Foundation estimates. This would shift more health care costs to lower and middle income educators once they become eligible for Medicare. NEA active and retired members are already struggling to make ends meet.
- NEA opposes increasing the annual Part B deductible for new enrollees. Increasing the annual Part B deductible would also shift more health care costs to lower and middle income people. In addition, it could result in confusion amongst beneficiaries since there would be multiple levels of deductibles not to mention the new administrative costs to the program. Increasing the deductible will cause beneficiaries to skip or delay necessary doctor visits and other outpatient services in order to avoid having to pay the deductible. This delay could result in the need for more expensive hospital or nursing home care. State and local employer budget and benefit cuts in recent years have threatened NEA members' retirement income and financial stability.
- NEA opposes the establishment of a home health care copayment for those who receive home health care that is not preceded by a hospital or nursing home stay. Generally, the people who need this type of care have long term disabilities and/or chronic conditions. NEA believes a new copayment will only create an incentive to admit patients to the more expensive hospital or nursing home settings as opposed to letting disabled and chronically ill individuals remain in their own homes. This copayment will also place an additional financial burden on long-term disabled and chronically ill beneficiaries, many of whom already struggle financially due to their disability.
- NEA supports a Medicare annual beneficiary cost sharing limit. Medicare's benefit design has needed an out-of-pocket limit since it was signed into law in 1965. An out-of-pocket limit would help to protect beneficiaries from incurring catastrophic costs that could wipe out retirement savings. Capping out-of-pocket expenditures may also reduce the number of beneficiaries who purchase expensive private Medicare supplemental policies that do not always cover needed services.
- NEA opposes streamlining the Medicare Part A and Part B deductibles into a single deductible. A single deductible that would decrease the Part A deductible and increase the Part B deductible which would result in higher out-of-pocket spending for Medicare beneficiaries who do not use the in-patient benefits that are covered under Part A. A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis showed that setting a single deductible of $550, for example, would increase out-of-pocket costs for 71% of beneficiaries compared with 5% who would have lower costs. This would also place a heavy financial burden on lower income beneficiaries and could result in delayed or skipped necessary medical treatment.
- NEA supports replacing the varying coinsurance amounts in the Medicare program with more consistent and predictable copayments. Since copayments are set dollar amounts as opposed to a percentage of an unknown bill, they are easier to budget for and understand. Paying the percentage of an unknown medical or hospital bill is a source of anxiety for all patients.
- NEA supports reform of the Medicare supplemental insurance industry. Many Medicare beneficiaries buy supplemental insurance plans (Medigap) to help fill Medicare's many coverage gaps. Many beneficiaries spend large amounts of their fixed incomes on Medigap premiums and should rest assured that the plan they purchase is the best value for them. While Medigap plans are subject to their own separate medical loss ratio requirements (MLR), of 65% in the individual market and 75% in the group market, the MLRs should coincide more closely to the loss ratios of 80% and 85%, respectively, for coverage for people not yet eligible for Medicare, as included in the health reform law.
- NEA supports increasing and improving assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries. A federal program that would expand cost sharing assistance to beneficiaries with incomes near the poverty level is greatly needed. There are millions of low-income elderly and disabled people who delay or skip services and necessary prescription drugs because they cannot afford the out of pocket costs.
In addition to supporting the proposals that would impose an annual beneficiary cost sharing limit, remove coinsurance amounts, reform the Medicare supplemental policies, and increase and improve assistance to low-income beneficiaries, NEA recommends the following:
Congress must pass comprehensive immigration reform. As Congress considers comprehensive immigration reform to offer a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., it is important for them to remember the contributions that immigrants make to their communities and society, including the Medicare and Social Security programs. Comprehensive immigration reform will result in increased revenue for the Medicare Trust Fund. According to a study published in the June 2013 issue of Health Affairs, immigrant workers in the United States disproportionately contribute to the Medicare Program and help ensure its financial solvency and strength. The study's authors found that between 2002 and 2009, $115 billion in the Medicare Trust Fund was generated solely by immigrants. In 2009 alone, immigrants contributed $33 billion to the Trust Fund, nearly 15% of total contributions that year.
In addition, the researchers found that Medicare expenditures for care for immigrants were lower than those for U.S. born employees. Some of these differences were partly explained by demographic differences – there are currently 6.5 immigrants of working age for every one elderly immigrant, but only 4.7 working-age native citizens for every one retiree. The Census Bureau projects that the proportion of immigrants in the United States will increase even further for the next 18 years.
Stop Overpaying Medicare Advantage Plans. Although the health reform law included provisions to control overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, there is still a long way to go. MA plans received at least $3.2 billion in overpayments from CMS between 2010 and 2012, because the agency inadequately adjusted "risk scores" for beneficiaries in the private plans compared with beneficiaries in traditional fee-for-service plans, according to a 2013 Government Accountability Office report.
Restore Medicare drug rebates for beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Since Medicare pays for the cost of drugs for dually eligible people, Medicare should receive the same discounts for these prescription drugs that the Medicaid program receives. Unfortunately, as a result of a 2003 law, Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices. As a result, the program pays excessive amounts for prescription drugs for dually eligible individuals.
Offer a prescription drug benefit in traditional Medicare. Medicare currently does not have a prescription drug benefit. Studies have shown that a Medicare prescription drug program could save up to $20 billion a year.
NEA appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the Medicare reform proposals. Cost shifting to current and future Medicare beneficiaries is not the answer and could cost the program more money in the long run. We urge the committee to strongly consider proposals that hold health care providers, the health insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies and other health related profit-making stakeholders accountable for providing high quality services to Medicare beneficiaries.


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Body Control Pilates Matwork Teacher Training Course - next course starts in November 2020!
Body Control Pilates is a world-leading training provider and, by taking this course, you will get the perfect start to your Pilates teaching career. This is also an ideal qualification as, if you are an expatriate based in Qatar, Body Control Pilates is one of the most recognised and transportable Pilates qualifications available anywhere in the world.
We are proud to partner with Yama Yoga in Doha.
Our next matwork teacher training course begins in November 2020 with students having the opportunity to gain their certification by May 2021 after attending four tuition blocks and undertaking their teaching practice ('supervised teaching').
Course tuition dates are (Thursday to Saturday):
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Student 'supervised teaching' weekends are planned in March 2021 and April 2021 (15th & 16th). Final teaching assessments are planned for May 2021.
Please click here to view the Course Information Pack (currently showing the 2019 pack - this will be updated shortly) with more details and here for an electronic version of the Enrolment Form.
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Lynne Robinson with some of the graduates from a previous Doha course:
An Introductory Workshop was offered in Doha by Philippa Satchwell, a senior tutor for the Body Control Pilates education programme. More than 20 people attended, all interested in learning more about the Body Control Pilates method – whether as a Pilates enthusiast or as someone interested in joining the Body Control Pilates teacher training programme.
The workshop reviewed the eight principles of Body Control Pilates; discussed how to master the fundamentals of alignment, breathing, centring (core stability); and took participants through a range of beginners and intermediate matwork exercises. We will look at what sets Body Control Pilates apart as a training provider and Pilates membership body.
A group shot from a meeting with some of the the Body Control Pilates teachers and students based in Doha. It was attended by Leigh Robinson, Body Control Pilates Group MD and Philippa Satchwell, Programme Director.


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