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Is asking if you are thinking of or are in the process of creating a new show count as a spoiler?
No. Not if you aren't asking for details.
I read the are Greg's answers etched in stone question in the FAQ and that got me thinking
#1 Are any answers absolutely set in stone
#2 Would you consider Retconing or Altering anything from the series (aside from the Goliath Chronicles)
1. If you mean here at ASK GREG, then no.
2. Anything canon, like the first 65 episodes or the 18 SLG issues, is fixed. Mistakes exist in there, but we try to just incorporate mistakes into the universe. Is Sevarius' name misspelled on his briefcase? Yes. But we assume that mistake happened "In Universe" and that Sevarius got a discount because of the error. Of course, some things that you think you know from watching the episodes may turn out to be not as they seemed. For example, if you thought the Archmage died at the end of "Long Way to Morning" you were wrong. But not because we contradicted what was in the episode, but because when you see "Avalon, Part Two" you are presented with more information that changes what you thought you saw.
A few things happened in this hour, all of which I tried to get done as quickly as possible to make it in time for most of Greg's first panel of the day: "Protofeminists in Shakespeare."
The main thing was picking up my one successful acquisition from the charity auction: a coffee cup that Chris Jones had used at CONvergence 2013, with the caption…well, I'll just let the image speak for itself:
I had, naturally, bid on the thing as a lark - more or less solely for the reason of being able to say I did. But apparently nobody else at the con shared my particular sens d'humour, because I was the only one who bid. So while I lost out on all the posters and plushies and whatnot that I actually WANTED…Chris Jones' residual DNA was mine.
Which should make the reason for my hurrying clear, I think. Because Chris was doing his final signing of the weekend right at that moment…and if I was gonna be known as the guy who paid $5 for his coffee cup, then I figured I might as well MILK it.
So in addition to getting my "Recruits" print signed, I asked Chris to go ahead and personalize the cup; perhaps, with something that'd commemorate just how crazy I was to pay ANY amount of money for a used coffee cup.
And that is how the cup signed to "Krazy Kevin" that can be seen in the Flickr photos I linked in my first post came to be.
Anyway, with all that out of the way and my farewells said to Chris, I headed back into the Edina room for the aforementioned panel. I'd caught the first ten minutes or so while I was waiting for Chris' line to shorten, and overall I managed not to miss more than about 5-6 minutes, thankfully.
The conversation itself was really quite fascinating - an intelligent, scintillating discussion on some of my favorite of the Bard's plays and characters. It reminded me of being back in college, actually…y'know, in a good way.
This was also where I first learned, through Greg's discussion of the strong women in Will's life and the influence that might've had in how he wrote female characters, what the premise of "Doc Shakespeare" would've been. I'd heard the name bandied about on Ask Greg for years, but I never knew what it was ABOUT.
But now I do. And I want it to exist so very badly. Damn you, Greg Weisman.
I asked one question myself, though as it was at the tail-end of the panel there wasn't much time to really go into depth with it. My question was whether the backlash that "The Merchant of Venice" receives - rightfully - in the modern day over issues of race diminishes Portia's status as a "protofeminist" character (seriously, she spends pretty much the entirety of the final act making everyone else in the play her bitch). The answer Greg gave was that being a feminist character is not mutually exclusive with being a terrible person…and considering he's written for Demona, Nerissa, and Queen Bee, he certainly can say he knows what he's talking about.
A fun discussion, overall, that gave me a lot to think about - something that's been increasingly rare for me since I graduated last May, unfortunately.
The last of the numerous, numerous events dedicated to Gargoyles that weekend was this "Gargoyles Fan Panel," composed of a mix of creators, long-time fans, and newer ones.
This one felt a lot more like the Harry Potter "panel" that'd started my weekend than anything else: an intensely, unabashedly geeky outpouring of gushing about how awesome the show was and still is, except with Greg Weisman happening to also be there.
I mean, Jennifer and Karine were up on the panel as well, but it was clearly in more of the capacity of "promoted fans" than as industry professionals. As Karine's epic Hunter cosplay made evident. :)
Favorite moments, episodes, characters; moments that made us laugh, and moments that made us cry; two decades' worth of stories of people discovering, falling in love with, and continuing to enjoy the series, even years after the last piece of canon material was published. All of it was shared, compared, and squeed upon in short order, in a space that felt perfectly safe to fans of all stripes.
Nothing new really came up, but it didn't have to. After a full weekend of bombshells and revelations, it felt good to kick back with the rest of the fandom and just CELEBRATE this show that has meant so much to all of us.
It's been a fantastic 20 years. And this mini-gathering was a great way to welcome many more to come.
This was the last space open for walking around that was really available before the end of the con, and I took advantage of it for one final walk around Artist's Alley and the Dealer's Room. And for the first time since Thursday, I did indeed find some art I felt was worth spending my money on: a couple of prints based on Vinyl Scratch from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," and a collage of various villains from the same.
Heading back upstairs, I wandered over for the final Gargoyles-themed signing to make my last rounds. Ironically, despite getting over a dozen items signed across the course of the con by him, I had nothing left for Greg Weisman (indeed, all I ended up getting at that time were Greg Guler's and Frank Paur's autographs to complete my radio play script).
But I said goodbye to all of them, and wished them well on their flights back home. Though ironically, it actually WOULDN'T end up being my last time speaking with one of them that weekend (but I'll leave that little nugget until the end).
Anyway, most of the rest of this time was spent waiting in line for the next panel, as it was taking place on the Main Stage and we wanted to be sure to grab good seats. Which we definitely did.
I spent most of it chatting with Brainiac, Chip, and Bookwyrm on numerous topics, from Yu-Gi-Oh! to classic video games to various anime.
But eventually, it was time for one last chance to grill the Wise Man for details. And oh, did we take advantage it.
This was the last actual "panel" of the day, but was certainly a great one to go out on: "Young Justice Q&A," with Greg, Chris, and Marina.
There were lots of details big and small dropped here, though there were just as many spoiler requests denied with the now memetic line. This naturally came full-circle when someone asked if Stephanie Brown would be showing up again; I mean c'mon, dude, what'd you EXPECT in response to that question? ;)
Of course, I got largely the same response when asking about the circumstances of Ocean-Master's disgrace, banking - obviously unsuccessfully - that he might be willing to share more about events that occurred during the timeskip by this point.
Still, he did at least share one little tidbit: that the reason Orm never got an episode to himself to be the Big Bad was because the "Under the Surface…Here There Be Monsters" two-parter from the tie-in comics was originally meant to be the A-plot of "Downtime," but the executives nixed it for some reason.
It worked out well enough, since subbing in Black Manta allowed them to build on that appearance in Season 2. But I still would've loved to hear Roger Craig Smith belting out Ocean-Master's great lines from those issues, which remain my favorite story from the comics run.
Other "SPOILER REQUEST; NO COMMENT" earners included Shining Knight (considering that one version in the original comics was married to Firebrand, AKA Red Inferno) and the aforementioned Steph. After a few of these, Chris was quick to re-term the panel "Young Justice Q, no A."
All kidding aside, though, there were a number of interesting details presented. When asked about the process of selecting the members of the Light, for example, Greg noted that he was tired of villain team-ups that essentially "defeated themselves" through infighting. As such, he wanted the Light's leaders to be characters whose temperaments would allow them to genuinely collude and work together toward a singular vision, without the constant mistrust and backstabbing previous comics/adaptations have taught us to expect.
Well…maybe except Klarion. But he can at least be kept in line with shiny new toys, LOL.
Speaking of Klarion, Greg also mentioned - in response to a very nice cosplayer of the Witch-Boy, stuffed Teekl included - that the reason he chose Klarion as a member of the Light was because he felt the main villains of "Young" Justice really should be composed of at least one kid (in appearance and disposition, if not literally.
Greg also dropped the bomb that he'd slipped a rather major YJ spoiler into the radio play, which he was EXTREMELY surprised nobody had asked him about to that point. Cue us all jumping to our scripts and flipping through without success…proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am selectively blind.
It wasn't until a few days after I'd returned home and reread the script that it became insanely, excruciatingly obvious; the spoiler was clearly in Tigress' line, "I left Roy at home alone watching Lian and J.W." Which I'd noted as a little odd every single time I read it, and then somehow promptly forgot about (several times in a row!) in the midst of all the action.
Not that it would've helped me much, of course, had I figured it out while I was still there. Because if my theory about the identity of "J.W." is accurate, then there is NO WAY IN HELL Greg would ever comment one way or the other on it.
At least, not without some serious pie-making skillz that I, unfortunately, sorely lack. ;)
Marina was (as always) an enormous hoot at this panel, butting into various topics to note that we were "the quietest and best behaved" audience of fans she'd ever seen…as well as that we tended to ask much more intelligent questions than she is used to. As she put it:
"If I get asked 'What's it like to work with Sir Patrick?' one more time…"
She also mentioned, when asked about her thought process in approaching the character of Queen Bee, that when she was initially cast she looked up the wrong reference image and actually thought she'd be playing a…well, a bee-person. So she asked during recording whether they wanted her to add a buzzing sound to her voice. XD
And finally, at one point she ended up going off on a random tangent involving comparing David Xanatos to Donald Trump (context has long since eluded me, though it didn't take much for Marina to go off-topic in the most delightful way). Greg took mock-offense to that, and she quickly noted:
"Of course not. Xanatos is much smarter. And he has better hair."
Since the topic we'd started at was the Light, I then couldn't help but shout from the crowd:
That got a lot of laughs. It was definitely one of my favorite exchanges of the con, and a great way to move toward finally wrapping it up.
This was it. The final hurrah. One last celebration of everything this weekend had meant to us, with a chance for the "actors" to take their bows before the "curtains" came down.
After we filtered out of the Main Stage, Chip and his brothers elected to return to the hotel room, while Brainiac and I got back in line to await the Closing Ceremonies.
There really wasn't any more reason to walk around - the artists and dealers were packing up, the panels were over and done with, and we'd run all the errands we needed to (such as grabbing a couple items we'd picked up for Station 8's Algernon, who lives in Ireland and as such couldn't be with us that weekend). So we mostly just stood around and continued to chatter on about video games.
Brainiac was the only one of us who'd attended the Opening Ceremonies (I was busy watching Madoka at the time), so he had a bit more of an idea what to expect than I did.
The festivities started with a sort of elaborate skit involving superheroes, hobbits, and Time Lords…little of which I understood, and almost none of which I found particularly interesting. But there were some good lines here and there, and I certainly didn't begrudge the con's organizers the chance to take a victory lap and enjoy the fruits of their hard work.
The guests would each be individually presented and celebrated at a later point, but as Marina had to catch an early flight she came on shortly after the skit to say her goodbyes. And to my surprise, after seeing her in all her frankness and bluntness (meant only in the best possible way, I assure you!) all throughout that weekend, she was…overwhelmed.
With not even the slightest trace of snark, she thanked us from the bottom of her heart for making her feel so welcome. And she made it clear that, while she wouldn't have considered coming to CONvergence without Greg recommending it, she was extremely glad that she did.
Okay…so there was a LITTLE snark. Namely that when saying goodbye to Connie, she actually started to tear up, and blamed our favorite robotic mascot for making her makeup run. But it was all in good humor, and I won't lie - it warmed my own heart to see it unfold.
Speaking of Connie, I really came to fall in love with that cute little gynoid as the Ceremonies unfolded, as she interrupted the ongoing presentation repeatedly to complain about traffic laws and the DMV; it WAS her Sweet Sixteen, after all. Her material was pretty much all pure gold, and it made me kind of regret not attending Opening Ceremonies, if only to see what she might've come up with.
Anyway, while every Guest of Honor got thanked and applauded by name - complete with Chris Jones-created logos for each one - Greg's was a bit more…involved.
One of the con organizers mentioned that Greg had shattered their record for total numbers of panels sat at a single con, with a whopping 26! A clearly exhausted but excited Greg then took the stage to give a great speech about how grateful he was that CONvergence had so graciously opened itself up to the Gargoyles fandom for our little "con within a con"…going so far as to say that, with the Gatherings retired for the foreseeable future, CONvergence was without question his favorite con to attend.
Then, in what can only be described as a grand exercise in good-natured humiliation, said organizer had Greg play a very weird game to guess the total attendance number for the weekend. Various people were holding up signs with various digits, and Greg had to determine which four to use and what order to put them in.
Obviously, the odds were pretty strongly against him getting it with only one shot, and indeed he did not. But it was certainly entertaining - if more than a little bit strange - to watch him make his best attempt.
And for the most part, that was it. There was lots more applause, both for the guests and for the numerous, wonderful volunteers. There were slide shows and videos from the con, including both the rather unfortunate picture of "the role of Lexington will henceforth be played by PILLAR" and the much nicer one of me "on stage" with Marina. There was more Connie, interviewing various congoers in her uniquely cheerful style.
And finally, there was the announcement of CONvergence 2015's theme, which will apparently be run by Connie's totally trustworthy "little sister" Connie Mk. II on account of good behavior. The maniacal laughter and crowd-chanting of "All hail Mk. II!" that followed were only mildly disconcerting.
I haven't yet made up my mind about whether I'm going to try to attend again; I had an unbelievably amazing time, and 2015's "dystopia" theme is right up my alley ("1984" is my favorite book of all time). But scrounging the money for even this year was difficult enough, so I'm not counting anything as a guarantee yet.
Still…I'm thinking about it. And that definitely means they did SOMETHING right.
We were informed during Closing Ceremonies that free pizza would be coming shortly, so Brainiac elected to stick around and wait for that. I, on the other hand, was absolutely starving after four days of eating basically only one meal of substance each, and so decided to return to TGI Friday's and splurge a bit.
This was a mistake.
I'll spare the gory details and just say that I had a wonderful ribeye steak that just so happened to give me severe food poisoning, which took me nearly two weeks to fully recover from.
Not that I realized it at the time, of course. After my dinner, I returned to the con to meet up with the rest of the gang - Chip and Dragonlord having returned due to the promise of pizza. We had a last round of chatting with other congoers and saying goodbye to the Doubletree as we waited, before finally driving back to spend our final evening together.
With all the action over with, we occupied ourselves with more Yu-Gi-Oh!, a few rounds of "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" (all of which I won handily, suck it Brainiac), and general geeking out about our various hauls.
Those still hungry ended up ordering in calzones for delivery, while I headed to the Crowne Plaza's business center so I could check my e-mail and Skype one time before takeoff.
I got most of my packing done once the games were over with - not that I really had all that much to pack - since I would be the one leaving first in the morning. Then at around 1:00 AM, we finally all turned in.
Not that I could fall asleep, myself, given what was beginning to happen with my stomach. Yeah, I'll leave out the details, but…let's just say I didn't end up getting to sleep until a couple hours later.
Unfortunately, since my flight was at 8:48 AM, I needed to get up fairly early to be sure the hotel shuttle would get me there in time to board. Skimping on sleep didn't exactly do wonders for my already precarious health, and by the end I was pretty much limping out of there, hoping my stomach would hold for the journey ahead.
The trip held no surprises - good or bad - until I finally made it to the gate, where I was extremely shocked to run into Susan and Karine. Both proceeded to point out the Wise Man himself, whom they were dropping off there and whom I had somehow utterly failed to notice, despite sitting only a few meters away.
For in the strange but happy coincidence to end all strange but happy coincidences, we were going to be heading back on the same flight to Los Angeles; only a couple rows apart, in fact.
Despite feeling utterly like death by that point, this one last chance to speak one-on-one with the man gave me the energy to keep going. It was, to be sure, utterly surreal - only a few years ago, meeting Greg Weisman was this mystical, unattainable thing. And now we were just holding a friendly chat as we awaited our (naturally, delayed) plane.
It was, I suppose, one last opportunity to wrangle answers to the countless questions that I hadn't gotten a chance to ask that weekend…though I didn't really take advantage of it. Mostly because I was WAY too out of it to remember any of the questions I still had burning within me, but also because that really wasn't how the encounter "felt."
Instead, we talked about his kids. About his rather grueling con-schedule that summer. About how Rain was doing, with encouragement that I was excited as all hell for Spirits. About "Young Justice: Legacy," Scooby-Doo, and our impressions of how the radio play had gone.
Not nearly for the first time that weekend, I also reiterated my interest in having him as a guest at Kawaii Kon 2015, and he reiterated his interest in coming. So far, not much has come of my attempts to push the organizers I know on the issue, but it's an ongoing process and I hope to have something more concrete to report soon.
It was an extremely low-key conversation, not the least because we were both pretty exhausted (he, Chris, and co. had made a run on Denny's at 3:00 AM the previous night, which "seemed like a good idea at the time, not so much now"). But it was exactly what I needed at the time.
The entire exchange truly underscored what I loved most about that weekend: that Greg and the rest of the Gathering alums had seen fit to really make me feel like one of their own, rewarding all the effort I've tried to put into Ask Greg with kindness and acknowledgement.
I initially volunteered to help out when Todd reached out in the Comment Room because I so appreciated everything that Greg's work, and Ask Greg itself, had done for me over the years. But no matter how grueling dealing with the umpteenth "Where is Season 3?" or angry rant about Wally can be, I absolutely feel that I've gotten ten times more out of it than I've ever put in.
And that means the world to me.
I said as much to Greg, at least to the degree that I had the energy to articulate it. But all good things must come to an end, and eventually the plane arrived and it was time to board.
We wished each other safe travels, and said our farewells.
And with that…CONvergence 2014 truly came to a close.
I'll be brief here, just to give an idea of what the aftermath of the con was like.
I flew to LA feeling like hell. I had an hour layover there, in which I felt like hell. I had another, longer flight back to Honolulu, if anything feeling worse than hell (since I hadn't eaten anything I'd kept down for well over 24 hours).
Eventually, though, I made it back home and was able to get the long rest and digestible foods I needed. I managed to make it back to work by Wednesday, though I'd be at least mildly off my game for the next couple weeks.
I called the Friday's in question to let them know about my situation, and calmly requested a full or partial refund; they called back at 6:00 AM two days later to tell me their investigation into the matter showed that they "did everything right that night" and so they wouldn't be able to accommodate my request.
I was too sick to really be willing to argue the point, but rest assured that I won't be visiting that particular restaurant again, should I ever return to CONvergence. And I urge any fellow attendees to do the same.
On a more positive note, Spirits arrived just a couple days after I got back, so once I was sufficiently recovered I got to reading. Once again, I'll be putting together a detailed review for Amazon/Ask Greg as soon as this report is finished and edited….but suffice to say, I dug the hell out of it.
Algernon got his package soon after as well, and was very happy with what we'd managed to find (a figure of Irish deity Brigid, a signed "Recruits" print, and a cuddly pink plushie of Cthulhu). And everyone else managed to get home with their own hauls without too much issue, thankfully.
Overall, despite the rather crappy end, I have little but positive things to say about the whole experience. I'm very proud of what I got to do, who I got to meet, and what I got to bring home…and it's definitely something I'd love the chance to do again.
It was my first "Gathering," such as it was, and it exceeded each and every one of my expectations.
Here's hoping it won't be anywhere close to the last.
For the record: It was Brandon Vietti who wanted Klarion in the Light. Not that I disagreed, but my initial choice had been Wotan. But Brandon pointed out we needed a "kid" on our villain team, and as usual, Brandon was right.
Md - Thanks for this. And for all the work you do, here, at ASK GREG!
Happy New Year, everyone!
I've taken a bit of a break from ASK GREG, but I'm back. I also started a new job this week. (Can't wait to tell you what it is!) This means my schedule is a bit more regular, so I'm hoping to get back to answering questions here on a daily basis. But it may also mean that things may get a little crazy on occasion as I get acclimated, so I may also miss a few days here and there.
So... business as usual, right?
CTD? check the date?
Um, probably? Maybe?
What are we referencing?
Greg, do you have any plans to post ANY of your scripts online? Your writing is clear, and structurally, they're a fantastic resources for writers trying to break into animation. The way you use sfx as action is a illuminating!
Currently, the ONLY way to see one of your scripts is to go all the way to The Writer's Guild in Los Angeles, and even there, you're not allowed to copy the script. Even if you feel uncomfortable showing the whole script ( just an act or two is all we need), posting it as a media resource on the site - perhaps as a .pdf so it is difficult to copy - would give peace of mind? It doesn't matter if the script is from YJ, Gargoyles, or Spider-Man...
There's no way to post a script here at ASK GREG with the correct formatting. I know. I've tried.
Hey gang,
I'd like to apologize for not getting to many of your questions recently. It's really due to all the travel I've been doing this summer - and the need to fit a LOT of work in between the trips.
Some of you have commented that the same excuses don't seem to apply to my Twitter account, and that's true. But the difference is that I can tweet from my phone at odd times and before bed - AND with little thought.
I've tried doing Ask Greg from my phone, but it's just too difficult. I'd rather give considerable thought and have the option of answering questions in depth. But if you want to make quick contact, by all means follow me on twitter at @Greg_Weisman.
The travel isn't over, either. I leave Monday for Ashland, Oregon, for my family's annual trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For the curious, we're seeing the following eight plays over four days & nights:
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare
RICHARD III by William Shakespeare
THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare
INTO THE WOODS by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
THE GREAT SOCIETY by Robert Schenkkan
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA by William Shakespeare
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle and Tracy Young
FAMILY ALBUM by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
We're really looking forward to it.
Anyway, then I'm back for half a week, before the family takes another trip - this one to (a) drop my daughter off at college for her junior year and (b) take a road trip to look at five different colleges in five different cities with my son before he enters his senior year of high school. The entire trip will take eleven days, bringing me to the end of August.
But in September, my current plan is NO TRAVEL. (Stop #6 on the Gargoyles 20th Anniversary Tour is Long Beach Comic Con, which is driving distance. http://longbeachcomiccon.com ) So I should be back to answering a few questions every weekday regularly. Thank you for your patience.
First, a little background. I'm going to quote a section from the introduction I made to to Station 8 Comment Room, waaaaaay back in July 2010:
"Given that I was three when Season 1 of 'Gargoyles' first began airing, I was obviously quite outside the target audience at that point, and if I watched any of the episodes on first airing I definitely don't remember them. Rather, my first clear memories of 'Gargoyles' were watching it during the late 90s when Toon Disney was first starting up. This produced some interesting experiences; for example, I never saw and indeed never even had a clue that 'Deadly Force' existed until Toon Disney started airing it again in 2002 or so.
At the time that I first was watching this show voraciously it was amongst a litany of dozens of other cartoons, some well-written ('Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Darkwing Duck,' etc.) and some...well, not so much (here's looking at you, 'Captain Planet'). To an eight year-old, there was little differentiation between the relative qualities of these shows, and it was not until a few years on that I really began to appreciate what a true gem 'Gargoyles' was.
I'm not entirely sure when my perspective changed, though it might have had something to do with the aforementioned first viewing of 'Deadly Force.' By this point I was a pre-teen, and old enough to understand the basics of S+P...so to see one of the protagonists shoot another one in the chest accidentally, nearly causing her to die was an absolute revelation to me. Around this time I began watching the entire series with new eyes, and what I saw astounded me.
The depth, the complexity, the characterization was unlike anything else I had ever seen on the small screen, live-action or animated. The little things that escaped me on the first, second, or even tenth viewing (yes, I watched a LOT of Toon Disney) suddenly rared to life and showed me how amazing this show was, is, and always will be. Everything from the sheer emotion that Tony Shalhoub brought to the show's single greatest cameo role to the little nuances about Lexington that made me think, 'Oh, of course!' when I learned that Greg considered him to be homosexual all became clear to me, and clearer and clearer with each viewing.
'Gargoyles' did much for me over the years. To take a particular example, when I first began really reading Shakespeare during mandatory reading times in high school, I went with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' then 'Macbeth,' and then, after the obvious 'Hamlet,' moving to 'Othello.' It shouldn't take too many guesses to figure out what attracted me to those plays specifically.
I have many obsessions in my life, some that have faded and some that have stayed with me forever. 'Gargoyles' stayed with me forever, and by the time I was about 13 or so it overtook virtually all of my other obsessions to become forefront in my fiction-dominated mind. I began searching around the internet for various little tidbits and behind-the-scenes stuff, and was blown away when I first discovered Greg's Master Plan. That someone could have so intricately designed such a massive and complex fictional universe intrigued me to no end...particularly 'Bad Guys,' since Dingo was at the time my favorite character.
On one of my frequent revisitings of the Master Plan in 2004, I ended up clicking around some links that brought me to the FAQ...and consequently to AskGreg. If the Master Plan had blown me away, then this site caused my mind to spontaneously combust. So many hints and clues to what the future might hold for the series, should Disney allow it to somehow continue...straight from the mouth of the creator himself! In all the years since that I've been up and around the world wide web, never have I again seen such a direct, easy-to-access method of communication to the artist behind such a masterful work.
Over the years, I have read virtually every single post in the AskGreg archives, some of them several dozen times. It is one of the websites that I frequent several times a day without fail, and I have gained an uncountable amount of enrichment from reading it constantly. It was through this site that I first learned of the DVDs and comics, all of which I purchased as soon as I could possibly get my hands on them, and of the Gathering, the scope of which shocked and awed me.
One of my greatest regrets is that I was never able to attend one of these amazing events; convincing your parents to let you fly out of Hawaii to the mainland for a convention on a 90s cartoon isn't the easiest thing in the world. And although I WAS actually in town for the final one, Gathering 2009 happened to fall on the EXACT same weekend as my college orientation. If the Gathering had been just one week later, or my introduction to Pomona College just one week sooner...but I guess it's pointless to deal with hypotheticals.
In any event, my praise goes out to all of you unbelievably dedicated individuals who kept it alive for so long. If ever you are able to arrange some sort of smaller event in the future, you have my word that I will attend.
AskGreg also gave the chance to really get to know Greg Weisman (or at least, as much as this is possible without real-world contact), and he is currently one of my absolute greatest heroes in all of entertainment. I am not using hyperbole when I declare him to be the single most talented writer in animation history, and in my mind absolutely anything he touches turns to solid gold. I avidly watched 'W.I.T.C.H.,' 'The Spectacular Spider-Man,' and the various episodes he freelanced for favorite shows of mine like 'The Batman,' 'Kim Possible,' and 'Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!'...many of which turned out to be some of the best in their respective series. And I wait with bated breath (and fanboyish panting) for 'Young Justice.' Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel superhero and DC is my favorite comic book universe...so to have Greg interpret both with his usual flair for complex, multi-layered story arcs and deeply involved character development has left me positively salivating."
Now, as you can probably tell from these words, this was a moment I've been waiting on for nearly 10 years. So as you might expect, I was...anxious. Despite my personal contact with Greg over the past couple years due to my moderating duties here, as well as friends who had met him previously who assured me that he was a really nice guy in-person, I was still a little worried I'd screw this up somehow.
Thankfully, ASK GREG LIVE! turned out to be a great experience, and truly the highlight of the weekend. There was somewhere between 15-20 guests in attendance, including myself, my girlfriend, and Blaise (whom it was awesome to meet in person). Kudos to Matthew for holding up the event sign for over an hour, and to whoever it was that cosplayed as Batgirl.
We pretty much just jumped straight into an hour-and-a-half of questions, which I hope I didn't hog too many of. A few highlights from the revelations presented therein:
- Following the Season 1 finale, Vandal immediately called up Hugo Strange and told him, "Open all the doors." Which explains a lot. Now, Greg W. ALSO said that by Team Year Five, Belle Reve was fairly full again...but at least it explains why so many imprisoned villains were walking the streets again in Season 2.
- The Joker was originally considered to appear in "Auld Acquaintance," controlling the Justice League. But for a variety of reasons (mainly budgetary; they needed Klarion anyway for the "magic stuff"), they switched him out for Klarion.
- Greg also responded to my question about whether the Joker of Earth-16 knows he's in a cartoon show by saying, "I think he's crazy enough to believe that, even if he's NOT."
- Lieutenant and Sergeant Marvel were originally considered to be on the Team in Season 2. But with only 20 episodes, several intended arcs were cut or reworked to have occurred during the Time Skip: a Marvel Family arc, a Red Tornado arc, and a Zatanna arc. With nothing to do anymore, Mary and Freddy were slotted into the Time Skip.
- He hinted pretty damn strongly that we'll be hearing more about "poor, disgraced Ocean-Master." Presumably in "Legacy," which I am personally excited as all hell for.
- Clone!Roy, post-"Satisfaction," is a stay-at-home-dad. For the most part. He and Cheshire are "trying to make it work," to the degree that people like them can.
- I asked if working on YJ had made him give more thought to who the 16 Sixteens in the Illuminati are. He basically said, "not really," while adding that he's got most of the major players in the Illuminati pretty well figured out, and has for a while. Which isn't to say he doesn't leave a fair few slots open for moments of epiphany.
- Darkseid has been the Light's silent partner since Season 1. Which most of us had assumed, but it's nice to have firm confirmation.
- Victor Cook did a fly-by. No time for questions, just said hi and name-dropped "Mecha-Nation." But still...really cool.
- He described Jason Spisak's last recording with them. Jason came up afterward and said that it was rare for an actor to be able to end his role on such a great, final note, "instead of just flying off into the sunset, with no one having any idea if you survive or not." Having now seen "Dark Matter," Greg believes that may have been coded snark.
- Oh, and surprising no one with a head on their shoulders...Greg disproved the rumor that DC wanted Wally killed off because of the New 52. Though it WAS amusing to hear him call those rumors, and I quote: "Complete horse"...baloney.
- He said he's deliberately keeping mum on "Rain of the Ghosts" until he knows if his publisher is doing any advertising. If they don't, he may start teasing some plot tidbits on Ask Greg.
- He talked a bit about availability issues...about how it came to be that Wentworth, Kittie, and George were replaced toward the end of the season. Just a whole lot of REALLY bad luck regarding other projects. But he also revealed the replacement that almost was...if it wasn't for the fact that no one on Earth could do an impression that did justice to him.
That's right...they once almost lost Tim Curry.
He was shooting something or another toward the middle of the season. They simply could not get him before the episodes had to ship. So what they did...was Greg recorded the lines. Taaaaaaaaalking liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis sooooooooooo thaaaaaaaaat theeeeeeeey cooooooould AAAAAAADR iiiiiiiiiiiit aaaaaaaaafteeeeeeer theeeeeeey reeeeeetuuuuuuurned froooooooom ooooooverseeeeeeeeeeas.
Which they would NEVER do otherwise. For no one but Tim Curry. Greg had to do a bunch of takes, because Jamie kept having to stop him and shout, "SLOWER!" Needed the mouth movements SO exaggerated that no one would notice it was ADR'ed. Which I don't think anyone did.
- I think those are all the big revelations, but there was lots of real fun little stuff on Greg's writing process, the backroom thinking that went into Darkseid's cameo, and Greg's hopes for the future. As he said at one point, "I still haven't given up on Gargoyles, and that's going on 20 years at this point! Why would I give up on a series that ended THIS month?"
Beyond that, it was just an incredible experience to be in the presence of the guy - to hear him speak, to ask questions (even utterly silly ones) directly answered to our faces, to shake hands, and to be personally thanked for my years of hard work on Ask Greg...which, needless to say, was incredibly gratifying.
The atmosphere was great - casual, friendly, and with no pressure on either the askers or on Greg. We chatted, we laughed, and we got to hear Greg at his absolute "frankest." Which is to say, a little...off-color. And oh it was glorious.
At my request, we also did an impromptu signing at the end; I got my Clan-Building Volume 1 trade, my SpecSpidey Season 1 DVD, my Young Justice Volume 1 trade, a Captain Atom comic, and the essay I wrote for Contemporary Political Theory last semester (and submitted to Ask Greg afterward) signed, and pretty much geekgasmed into the floor. SOOOOO utterly wonderful.
[If you want to see pics of said signed stuff and/or other stuff I snagged at the Con, you can go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/94547312@N04/sets/72157633137324644/with/8608204054/].
We also got to chat a bit privately, which was of course very good fun. And he even indulged my stupid, silly, obsessive request...to pose with my Fluttershy toy and say, "Fluttershy is best pony." His response was golden, too.
Greg: I have no idea what that means.
Me: I didn't expect you to.
Greg: Nah, what I mean is, am I saying something that will get a thousand angry bronies coming after me?
Me: No, most bronies tend to agree that Fluttershy is best pony, anyway.
Unfortunately, my girlfriend's phone appears to have recorded only the first second of the line. But I still posted it to YouTube because the image is gold:
Overall, my first in-person meeting with Greg Weisman proved to be everything I was hoping for it to be, and more. He's a massively cool guy who doesn't operate on any pretense; he is what he is, and what he is is a genius at writing/interpreting fiction.
It was truly an honor to spend that time with him, and I very much hope it won't be the last.
Greg Weisman, you rock (woo-hoo!). Don't let anybody tell you different. Because this kind of treatment of your fans makes me truly proud to be involved with helping out here.
Thank you for ASK GREG LIVE!
Thank you for all the wonderful shows you've brought us over the years.
And thank you for never giving up hope. I await "Rain of the Ghosts" with bated breath, and I can't wait to here the announcement when you get your next television gig.
Because it's coming. And I look forward to watching the hell out of that show, whenever it comes.
Wow. Dude, do you really want to stoke my ego THAT MUCH?
Anyway, it was great meeting you too. You're contribution to Ask Greg has been invaluable.
I hope you're thinking about coming to ConVergence this July for the Gargoyles Reunion convention within a convention. More details on that should be forthcoming this month.
Terribly sorry to ask a few more questions Greg...
1. In the Arctic was it an oversight that the Team, particularly Artemis and Nightwing, were not wearing warmer clothes than their regular costumes? Even for a short time it must have been freezing I think, and they were in warmer costumes in the simulated mission in Failsafe.
2. At the beginning of the Season 2 we learned Superboy did not change externally but internally, however we never heard about it again toward the end. Does he still age in this fashion? Was it just mentioned to add some info or is there something else?
3. Does Superboy not like mirrors because it reminded him too much of how he is yet isn't like Superman, and does he use mirrors in Season2 or eventually?
4. Before you answer the oldest posts do you on occasion look at the latest questions of askGreg? I ask because I understand everyone is expressing their love for Wally, or wants to know
about Darkseid, or some other stuff, but they don't follow the
guidlines to not repeat questions. Do you ever plan onn giving a single post to just stop these ongoinv qustion into one?
1. There wasn't time to change.
2. Why would it have changed?
3a. Pretty much. Though I don't think he would have articulated it that way.
3b. Don't think he cares much about mirrors one way or another.
4. I don't. I have moderators for a reason, i.e. to protect me legally. It would defeat the purpose if I went ahead and read unmoderated posts.
I loved the show; thanks to all of you for doing a great job- I'm going to miss it(and GL)allot.
1. Do you have any irons in the fire for any more older-audience DC superhero animated shows,like GL and/or YJ?
2.How do you deal with the fan-crazy and headcanonry without popping a blood vessel in your brain? I admire your tolerance, sir!
To the next project(raises glass)!
1. Not me. (Though I did write one episode of Beware the Batman.) Not that I wouldn't love to, but it's not my sandbox and no one at DC or WB seems too interested in having me work on these characters right now.
2. I do pop the occasional vessel, but mostly it's rewarding and worth the time.
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However he came out and specifically said he's all for homosexual "marriage." This came as a surprise to me for good reason. President Obama's reelection strategy has been to just write off white working men and focus on minorities and women. If he can win those, he can win, by a tight margin. To do so, he has to attract them to his side in large numbers.
Right now, hispanic voting registration is lower than its been in years, and blacks are pretty upset at the president as well. You can guess why, unemployment among American blacks is almost 50% and while many thought he'd pay for their car and mortgage, instead things have gotten significantly worse.
Now, President Obama can rely on the percentage of voting blacks to be around 90% in his favor, but what he can't rely on is them showing up to vote in very large numbers. And its an open secret, as I wrote about a few weeks ago, that blacks are significantly more socially conservative than the Democratic Party is. In North Carolina, blacks voted by a huge margin to support the marriage amendment. They voted the same way in California.
Hispanics are the same way, both they and blacks think very poorly of homosexuals and any such marriage isn't just weird but disgusting to them. Black preachers may basically preach socialism from the pulpit but when it comes to issues like this, they're as conservative as any Southern Baptist.
Now I have a theory that President Obama and the various hard left activists who regularly visit the White House and call him for conferences have set up fast response events to things that take place in the news: the Zimmerman/Martin case, for example. They're ready for specific events and have a reaction prepared, coordinated with activists and media contacts. The North Carolina vote was, I believe, another one of those prepared packages.
So out comes Biden to say his thing, then President Obama runs to a camera and talks about himself some more, mentioning homosexual "marriage." I suppose he figures its a win, because this might tip some independents his way, but then Romney had already come out with the same position long ago, so how this helps him isn't clear. Perhaps he's hoping for the left to smear Republicans in general and hurt Romney in the process by association, which would be a lie, but when has that stopped them in the past?
The problem here is that this may very likely have the result of suppressing black voter participation. They may want him to win reelection, but annoying them even further on the issue will push at least some, if not many, to just stay home. Many black voters have a tendency to do so anyway, as they've been told their whole lives that the system is totally stacked against them and voting does no good. White men rig it anyway, what's the point, everyone who wins is the same, on and on.
Here's the only thing that really seems to have decided the matter for President Obama: a group of very wealthy homosexuals (and there are quite a few in Hollywood) were withholding cash to try to pressure the president into this position. Fundraising isn't great this time around for the president and he is relying on that mountain of cash to win over voters who are basically tired of him and want a new guy in the job. He figures he can buy votes if he has enough money, and his strategy probably relies on that cash.
So the president goes on TV, gives these homosexual money men what they want, and voila, the cash filled dump truck backs up to he White House:
Already, gay donors, mostly men, reportedly constitute 1 in 6 of Obama's top fundraisers known as bundlers. And in the first 90 minutes after the news broke Wednesday, the campaign received $1 million in spontaneous contributions, a Democrat told BuzzFeed.Spontaneous. Yeah. More like extortion money. Do this or you don't get paid, Mister President. I suspect President Obama would rather not endorse homosexual "marriage" but felt he had no choice. Overall its going to hurt him, I think, given 32 out of 32 states have had a referendum on the issue, and every single one, usually by a huge margin, votes for traditional marriage. Its just not a winner in America, even in states like California.
So that's what I think has gone on behind the scenes. And its probably all I'll write about the issue, because as important as I think it is (although its one of those wisdom things that is difficult to prove in tangible, specific pragmatic terms but in the long term will become painfully obvious), this time around the economy is more important.
All the focus on North Carolina and marriage is to distract from the economy, which is lousy and the president knows it. He cannot run on things getting better, they're worse than 4 years ago. He cannot run on success, he's failed. He suffers if people look at their wallet, so he's trying to get them to look at just about anything else, waving his arms around like Kermit the Frog announcing the Muppet Show.
Too bad. People feel the economy every single moment of their waking lives. They notice your distractions a few minutes on TV.
*UPDATE: Even Politico has an article noting that this probably cost President Obama several battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida - states he absolutely needs to win for reelection.


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LIBURAN BALI!! at BANGLI.Tirta Sudamala
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So that it gives a spiritual nuance and is right to be used for a place of reflection and holy baths.The pure water that comes out between these bunut trees never runs out even in the dry season.
Sudamala Holy Shower has a number of showers with different sizes and heights of approximately 11 holy showers.
With 9 showers the presence is higher and the other 2 are lower
- This is believed to mean the number of castings found in Tirta Sudamala reaches 9 shower which distinguishes the Nawa Sanga Gods
- Two shafts that are about 2 meters high are believed to be angelic holy water which is usually reserved for people who have just finished a religious sacred ceremony.
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OSG – Overseas ShipholdingJuly 29th, 2011 by Potato
I've seen OSG mentioned twice on BNN now as a value play and decided to have a look myself.
Briefly, it's a tanker company transporting largely oil and LNG. There's currently an over-supply of tankers in the world, with still more in the process of being built (due to orders placed years ago), so the rates tankers can charge are way down. OSG lost a lot of money last year as a result.
They continue to pay a high dividend (despite losing money) indicating either that management believes things will turn around, or that management is not being conservative. In reading commentary I have seen that this is supposed to be a cyclical industry, but looking back 10 years I only see one (small) negative year, so I don't know what to expect in terms of the earnings improving. Assuming that it is cyclical and will return to something like their 10-year average EPS/CFPS then it's pretty attractively priced.
The book value is quite high (I get $46, when its trading at $25). My big question there is how realistic is the balance sheet? If they could sell the ships for what they're carried on the balance sheet then it looks like there's a lot of margin-of-safety here. But if a glut of ships means that the ships should be marked down in valuing the company then that situation changes quickly. If they're paying dividends while losing money then that means they're having to borrow money from somewhere, and if the lenders turn pessimistic on the value of the assets, then that could be a negative catalyst.
I wasn't sure how to go about looking up what the current value of the ships would be, so I turned to the security analysis group on reddit and was pointed to a helpful source on the prices of recent transactions for ships. I haven't had the time yet to go through and try to value each ship, or if it's even worth trying, but I can say that the ships are carried at about $3B, with an average tonnage of 100k, and an average age of 7 years. Looking up what that "average ship" would sell for it looks like the figure is $27M, which multiplied out by the number of ships
does come below (but close to) well below the book value. However, that figure looks like it's heading down even just over the last few months. So to be conservative I'd reduce that by some more, and once you put in another ~20% fudge factor it doesn't look like the safety of that book value is there after all. Edit: I made a mistake and multiplied by the total number of ships in the fleet. But, if I understand correctly (and I may well not since I got this wrong once already) many of those ships are chartered from other owners. If I just multiply the average ship value by the number of owned ships, I get a figure that's about half the current book value.
I am being terribly inexact with that single "average ship" value, since seven 40 kT ships aren't the same value as one 280 kT ship. If it came out closer I'd probably take the time to go through the exercise of trying to value each of the ships (or at least binning them into 5 or so more representative bins). Since the earnings will be released in just a few days, I'll wait to see what happens there. If the stock slips more, it may be worth looking at in more detail.
Oh, and since most of this post was about determining just what the reality is from the numbers on the balance sheet, check out this thread on CMF on that very topic!


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Rupee Vs Dollar: Where this war is heading?
|Date Added: November 09, 2013 02:08:52 AM
|Author: Sachin Kumar
|Category: Business & Economy: Finance and Investment
|One of the biggest factors that affect s the Indian economy is the relation of rupee to dollar. In this article, Shareway team will provide with all the possible reasons affecting the economy. In recent times, the rupee plunged to a new record low against the dollar over fears that foreign capital could flow back to the US as the American economy improves. Rupee's Journey so far In 1947, at the time of independence t he Indian rupee was at par with the American dollar, this means that the Indian currency has depreciated manifold against the green back in the past 66 years. There was no foreign borrowing on India's balance sheet at that time. Let's look at the journey of few years: Year 1947: Rupee and dollar was equal = Rs.1, by 1966 Rupee depreciated too Rs. 6.35 against 1 dollar. Till 1990 dollar has become much stronger as rupee was touching a level of Rs. 18. Rupee took a steep jump by end of millennium by touching Rs. 43. By mid 2013 it was touching Rs. 69. Reasons: The value of a country's currency is linked with its economic conditions and policies like: 1. Increased imports and less of exports 2. Inflation 3. Interest rates 4. Growth rate 5. Trade deficit 6. Foreign exchange reserves 7. Foreign investment inflows 8. Performance of equity market 9. Balance of payment (trade balance between net inflow or outflow of money) Now look at some of the reasons how rupee appreciates against dollar: In 1991, Indian government started liberalization policy to invite foreign investment in India which boosted the economic growth to a large extent. Some of the other factors include: 1. Controlling the supply of money in the market 2. Change in interest rates 3. Relaxation or tightening of rules for fund flows 4. Tweaking the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) 5. Fix statutory liquidity ratio (proportion of money banks have to invest in government bonds) and repo rate (at which it lends to banks) - (It increases or decreases the quantity of money available) 6. Deregulate the interest rates on savings, deposits and fixed deposits held by NRIs. 7. Curb on Indian firms investing abroad and on outward remittances by resident Indian. 8. Government has also raised import taxes on Gold and Silver in an attempt to narrow the current account deficit. Effects: 1. Inflation – Increase in price of any goods or services decreases the money value and thereby, decreases the purchasing power of an individual. 2. Imports get costlier 3. RBI can't print money without the economy growing at the same pace, mismatch between the economic growth and money supply will result in catastrophe. If it happens economy will face deflation or negative inflation, purchasing power of money will increase and if you think deflation will help you consume more and enjoy life more, you are wrong. In modern economy, government based on their assessment of future economic growth and demand. The purchasing power of currency remains constant if increase in money supply is equal to rise in GDP and other factors influencing currency remains unchanged. 4. Loan repayment will be lesser burden if interest rates are fixed as you will pay the same amount but with the lower valuation For Stock investors, rupee is a key factor to watch out for, a weakening rupee in India's market which is highly sensitive to FIIs flows. Reason for this is simple; FIIs hold 24% of BSE. 500 companies, and any fall in the rupee lowers their return since they earn less in dollar, this leads them to exit door and weakens the rupee further as they sell their India's investment and exchange rupees for dollars to invest somewhere else. If you need some foreign currency in the future such as for the education of your child abroad or any vacation abroad, plan right now and hedge your risks with the help of currency futures, consider the basics of currency movements and their likely impact before taking your next investment decisions.
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Sondologics, a manufacturer of video, audio, and gaming accessories products, was experiencing pricing and distribution problems in its channels. Numerous retailers were complaining about unfair price competition from unauthorized retailers, i.e., gray marketers, on standalone websites or Amazon's Marketplace, offering discounts of up to 30% off list price.
The company estimated that about 10% of its retail volume in the United States was being generated by unauthorized retailers. Compounding the problem, gray marketers and authorized retailers alike were selling at below-list prices, which violated the Sondologics MAP (minimum advertised pricing) policy.
Sondologics was considering numerous initiatives to address the MAP and gray-market problems, including retaining a third-party service to monitor pricing and distribution in the channel. Students are asked to develop recommendations that would promote sales while protecting the name-brand image and price points of Sondologics' products.
After reading and analyzing the case, students will be able to: understand and explain the impact of gray marketing and MAP violations on various channel members; calculate the economic incentives for channel partners to engage in gray marketing; identify and classify channel constraints that lead to gray marketing; pinpoint sources of power and conflict in the channel system; and develop and justify recommendations to manage and mitigate gray marketing and MAP violations.
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We've been running the The-Nexus.TV website for two weeks or so. And a little bit before that, I had the hosting of the podcast audio files being handled by Amazon Web Services – S3. S3 is really great. I found a simplified non-detailed usage log in the AWS developer panel, so here's the results of hosting the podcast files for about three weeks.
- $0.000 per GB – storage under the monthly global free tier » 0.164 GB-Mo
- $0.00 per request – PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests under the monthly global free tier » 67 Requests
- $0.00 per request – GET and all other requests under the monthly global free tier » 451 Requests
So this means over three weeks, there were nearly 70 administrative actions like uploading, setting permissions and so on, and nearly 500 GET requests. We're using a minimal amount of storage, since we're only saving the ready to go audio files on S3, though this would increase drastically if I included the raw audio. I also have details about the bandwidth.
- $0.000 per GB – data transfer out under the monthly global free tier » 4.281 GB
- $0.000 per GB – data transfer in per month » 0.325 GB
In just a few weeks, we've already used nearly 5GB of bandwidth. That sounds low, but remember most smartphones have a limit to 2GB per month. With that transfer out
value, we can guess the average usage per file by GET request.
4281 / 451 = 9.49. 10 MB is relatively tiny for the average download, which leads me to believe that there have been many partial downloads.
So this is all free. How? You get a year for free with some minimal (yet quite generous) amount of transfer, storage and GET allowances. And even if this were not free, I think our usage is fair and will be priced accordingly. This was definitely the right way to go, versus hosting the audio files myself.


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Theodore M. Porter
On his book Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human HeredityCover Interview of June 17, 2018
The wide angle
When I began graduate school in 1977, the history of science was mainly about theories. I had been drawn to the field by the work of Thomas Kuhn, whose famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions gave us such concepts as "paradigm shift." By then, history of science had become a recognized field of historical investigation. Serious historians were expected to leave textbooks behind and examine the real work of science, including its concrete aims and resources. I worked on my dissertation and first book in this spirit. My topic was the origin of basic statistical tools and understandings articulated by mathematicians and natural scientists in the nineteenth century. This led me to social numbers by way of the Belgian astronomer and social statistician Adolphe Quetelet. He was part of my original plan, but I had not understood that the work would lead me into moral and administrative discussion stimulated by political and industrial revolutions. New ideas and understandings remained central, but I now linked them to bureaucratic tallies and debates tied to prison reform, trade policy, public health, and poor law administration.
Nowadays, my colleagues often speak of a material turn, meaning that there is a new focus in the field of history of science on the stuff that scientists work with such as instruments, reagents, biological collections, filing cabinets, and calculating machines. I have welcomed this move, not least because a focus on material reality opens a still wider perspective on science and its technologies, calling attention to concrete circumstances of labor and administration that extend beyond these now-fetishized material objects. In my book on asylums and heredity I have given close attention to admission registers, patient case books, census cards, and the diverse tabular arrangements by which the data were structured. In this sense, the statistics of madness may also be spoken of as "materialized." But it is more than that. This research required close attention to the roles of numbers and statistics in medical administration and public persuasion. Data provided a basis for accountability and lent credence to hopes for a reasoned perspective on madness. Such deeply mundane tools can play a fundamental role in ordering the world.
In short, this book embodies an emerging scholarly focus on mundane realities that extend well beyond basic science. More specifically, the book got its start after I was invited to write a paper for an edited volume on the multifarious sites and sources of heredity. This request inspired me to look into the statistician Karl Pearson's sources for statistical data on human heredity. It was a lucky choice; many in-principle good ideas lead to dead ends but this one opened up wonderfully.


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Today, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge hosted its second biennial awards ceremony in Washington, DC where select higher education institutions, educators, and students were recognized for excellence in student voter engagement during the 2018 midterm elections. Award winners were selected for their exemplary leadership in supporting students form the habits of active and informed citizenship. Greenfield Community College was honored with a Best in Class for Overall Most Improved and Best in Class for Highest Voting Rates. More than 60 institutions enrolling 6 million students are participating in the ALL IN Challenge.
"Ensuring that our students are aware of issues impacted by political decision making is important to us at GCC. In addition to hosting voter registration drives, we offer co-curricular programming on topics such as the border wall, opioid epidemic, hunger, homelessness, Veterans' issues, and immigration. We are extremely proud of the level of civic engagement demonstrated by our students in the most recent election," offers Associate Dean of Community Engagement, Judy Raper, Ed.D.
From 2014 to 2018 student voter participation more than doubled. Dubbed as a "remarkable midterm election" by the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, a research study of the Institute for Democracy in Higher Education (IDHE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. The 2018 average institutional voting rate of 39.1% is far closer to those of the last two presidential elections (47.6% in 2012, 50.9% in 2016) than to the previous midterm (19.7% in 2014) according to the school's recent study. Data provided by IDHE shows Greenfield Community College's voting rate increased by 47.1% in 2018 from a rate of 25.6% in 2014. GCC's 2018 voting rate of 47.1% is also higher than the 2018 voting rate of 39.1% for all institutions. Registration rates and voting rates of registered students also increased in the same timeframe.
"We couldn't be more proud of the outstanding recipients of this year's ALL IN Challenge awards for their contributions to improving democratic engagement," said Jen Domagal-Goldman, Executive Director of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. "The rise in voter participation and engagement on college campuses in last year's midterms and what's sure to be a high turnout in 2020 can and will undoubtedly be tied to the hard work of the dedicated students, faculty, administrators, and partner organizations that are part of the ALL IN Challenge network.
The ALL IN Challenge strives to grow civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities and programs on college campuses, making them a defining feature of campus life. The Challenge, in collaboration with higher education, seeks to:
- Make participation in local, state, and federal elections a social norm.
- Substantially increase the number of college students who are democratically engaged on an ongoing basis, during and between elections, and not just at the polls.
- Make educating for nonpartisan civic learning, political engagement, and voter participation on college campuses an accepted and expected part of the culture and curriculum so that students graduate with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and values needed to be informed and active citizens.
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(PolitiFact)- Republicans muscled a budget through the House of Representatives in April that they said would take an important step toward reducing the federal deficit. Introduced by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the plan kept Medicare intact for people 55 or older, but dramatically changed the program for everyone else by privatizing it and providing government subsidies.
Democrats pounced. Just four days after the party-line vote, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a Web ad that said seniors will have to pay $12,500 more for health care "because Republicans voted to end Medicare."[...]
PolitiFact debunked the Medicare charge in nine separate fact-checks rated False or Pants on Fire, most often in attacks leveled against Republican House members.
Now, PolitiFact has chosen the Democrats' claim as the 2011 Lie of the Year.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
PolitiFact Lie of the Year 2011: 'Republicans voted to end Medicare'
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When is Fifty Shades Darker out? Cast details, release date, storyline and soundtrack – all you need to know
Blindfolds off! Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are back as hot couple Christian Grey and Ana Steele
IF THE first Fifty Shades film got you a little hot under the collar, the sequel might just send you rushing for a cold shower.
The trailer and teaser clips have got temperatures soaring ahead of the release of Fifty Shades Darker.
The film premiered in London on Feburary 9, however the red carpet event was thwarted by protesters.
What's the plot of Fifty Shades Darker?
The story picks up at the end of Fifty Shades of Grey, which saw sexually inexperienced Anastasia walk away from billionaire and BDSM loving boyfriend Christian Grey.
As Ana attempts to leave her love behind, he continues to pursue her until he wins her back.
The cracks in their relationship really begin to show in Fifty Shades Darker, as Mr Grey battles with his jealousy when another man shows an interest in Ana.
To make matters even more awkward, Anastasia meets Elena Lincoln, the very woman who opened Christian's eyes to the world of kink.
In a Sun exclusive, we revealed that the duo get down and dirty within the first sixteen minutes of the movie starting.
When is Fifty Shades Darker out and is there a trailer?
The new film, which again is based on a novel by E.L. James, is set for release on Valentine's Day.
As Fifty Shades of Grey was launched at around the same time in 2015, making an impressive £433million worldwide at the box office, the movie moguls are aiming to achieve similar success.
The full, 2-minute trailer shows Christian undressing Anastasia as she tells him: "This time, no rules, no punishments and no more secrets."
Who is in Fifty Shades Darker?
Returning cast-members Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson play the two leading characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.
The Newsroom actress Marcia Gay Harden is making another appearance as Christian Grey's mum, as well as Rita Ora and Luke Grimes, who play his siblings Mia and Elliot.
Max Martini will be returning as Christian's bodyguard and Victor Razuk and Eloise Mumford resume their roles as Ana's friends.
Hannibal actor Hugh Dancy will play Mr Grey's psychiatrist and Smallville actor Eric Johnson and Teen Wolf heartthrob Tyler Hoechlin are also set to join the cast.
Rita Ora makes an appearance as Christian's sister Mia, but is only in a 'blink and you'll miss it' capacity.
She was mocked for having just four lines in the first movie. She told fans her role would grow, yet is seen in only five scenes.
Who's on the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack?
I Don't Wanna Live Forever - the collaboration between Zayn Malik and Taylor Swift - is the leading song on the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack. .
Nick Jonas & Nicki Minaj have also collaborated, on a track called Bom Bidi Bom, and there are contributions from the likes of Sia and John Legend.
The full soundtrack is now available to buy both in-store and online.
The full tracklist is:
- I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)- Zayn and Taylor Swift
- Not Afraid Anymore - Halsey
- Pray - JRY (feat. Rooty)
- Lies in the Dark - Tove Lo
- No Running From Me - Toulouse
- One Woman Man - John Legend
- Code Blue - The-Dream
- Bom Bidi Bom - Nick Jonas & Nicki Minaj
- Helium - Sia
- Cruise - Kygo (feat. Andrew Jackson)
- The Scientist - Corinne Baily Rae
- They Can't Take That Away From Me - Jose James
- Birthday - JP Cooper
- I Need a Good One - The Avener (feat. Mark Asari)
- Empty Pack Of Cigarettes - Joseph Angel
- What Would It Take - Anderson East
- What Is Love? - Frances
- On His Knees - Danny Elfman
- Making It Real - Danny Elfman
Dakota Johnson shows off incredible figure sunbathing topless while filming sequel, Fifty Shades Darker
Jamie Dornan rules out return to Fifty Shades series as erotic hunk Christian Grey
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan's awkward encounter on 50 Shades set as they film love scene in front of his wife


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Germany's Studio 100 Media and Spanish entertainment company Planeta Junior are expanding their partnership with a distribution and co-production agreement. The deal will see the companies collaborate on five new productions for Studio 100/m4e, as well as two productions for Planeta Junior, including certain co-production and distribution rights for all companies.
Planeta Junior will obtain exclusive distribution rights to m4e series Mia and me (pictured) in a number of European territories. m4e acquired 100% of the rights to the animated show from its co-production partner Gerhard Hahn and his studio Hahn Film earlier this month. Moving forward, Planeta Junior will handle all media and merchandising rights to the show in Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, as well as distribution of all merchandising rights in Eastern Europe (excluding CIS- and Baltic territories).
Studio 100 Media/m4e, meanwhile, will take over distribution rights to the action/comedy series Gormiti in Benelux, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, Africa and the Middle East. Based on the toy property of the same name, the show is currently in production and set for delivery later this year with Planeta Junior as co-producer.
Additionally, Studio 100 Media/m4e will also be responsible for distributing another upcoming Planeta Junior production in its territories. As of early last year, Studio 100 owns a 68% stake in m4e.


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Florence Foster Jenkins
D: Stephen Frears
Paramount/BBC/Pathé/Qwerty (Michael Kuhn & Tracey Seaward)
UK/France 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 2016
110 mins
W: Nicholas Martin
DP: Danny Cohen
Ed: Valerio Bonelli
Mus: Alexandre Desplat
PD: Alan MacDonald
Cos: Consolata Boyle
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins), Hugh Grant (St. Clair Bayfield), Simon Helberg (Cosmé McMoon), Rebecca Ferguson (Kathleen Weatherley), Nina Arianda (Agnes Stark)
Proof that Meryl Streep can do no wrong, and even when she's lousy, she can nab herself an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
In this biopic, played-for-laughs, she stars as 1940's socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, who spent much of her vast fortune attempting to launch a career as an opera singer, despite a lack of basic talent.
Although Meryl Streep won her 20th Academy Award nomination for her performance, it's Hugh Grant, as her husband and manager, who deserves the plaudits for this one.
A good film, sure, but nowhere near an Oscar-worthy one.


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I have the following ideas for helping change some of the life conditions in south Stockton:
I have the following ideas for helping change some of the life conditions in south Stockton:
� Have volunteers teach English to non-English-speaking parents. When I worked for Lodi Unified, one wonderful idea the district implemented many years ago was to offer free English classes to interested parents at their children's schools after the school day was over. The parent English classes I observed were at Wagner-Holt Elementary School.
� Have a medi-van to provide health services to help patients who have transportation issues. When I started working at a continuation high school, many of the students had trouble keeping up with their health needs. At that time, we had a medi-van that came once a month to help them. Funding was cut for this service when the recession hit in 2007.
� Form a group of volunteers who grew up in south Stockton. Tell them they can help by being role models, giving back by sharing their survival stories. See what ways they have of improving things.
� A major problem that you mentioned that exists in the schools and contributes to low achievement is that residents are overwhelmed by the challenges in their lives. Have PTAs do outreach to find out what these specifically are and see what organizations can help.
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In January 1921, the US Army Air Corps awarded a contract to Dr. George de Bothezat and Ivan Jerome to develop a vertical take off and landing machine. Their idea was a four-rotor configuration where the four rotors sat up high in for corners of a diamond shape, or X shape. The rotors each sat at the end of a 7 foot long arm. Each of the rotors was controlled individually with pitch and speed and feathering.
The de Bothezat Helicopter was quite a stable platform, but it was very operose. The workload with four individually controlled rotors was too much for most pilots.
Hundreds of verticle flights were made at Wright Patterson airfield in Dayton, Ohio. But the de Bothezat did not have the altitude Army planners were looking for.
Sources: P. Lambermont "Helicopters and Autogyros of the world".