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This week was at least ten times weirder than last week. Maybe even 15. Let's .GIF about it.
This week was at least ten times weirder than last week. Maybe even 15. Let's .GIF about it.
Climate Change-Fueled Droughts Are About to Make Syria Even More Hellish
The world is being called to action on climate change, and Forbes is denying that it is even happening.
VICE News Capsule – Friday, March 7
Today: KKK costumes in Carnival, NATO air strike, Russia's economy and North Korea's elections.
My Girlfriend and I Found the Real Hannibal Lecter for Thomas Harris
Diego Enrique Osorno is a prominent Mexican author and poet. He has written six books, primarily focusing on the country's drug cartels, and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo León, where the real-life Hannibal Lecter was imprisoned.
Last week horror fans discovered that one of the genre's most notorious villains, Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter, was based on a real doctor imprisoned in Mexico, whom the author met while visiting the prison as a young man to interview another inmate named Dykes Askew Simmons. Last spring, through my editor, I received a message from Harris, who wanted me to find and identify someone who had been a prisoner in the Nuevo Leon State Prison during the 50s and 60s. For a few moments I thought I'd wind up sustaining an epistolary exchange with Harris like Hannibal held with some of his patients. As I read the note, however, it became clear that I was only needed as a sort of hired detective. His note read [sic]:
Kings of Cannabis
You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you've probably smoked his weed. Arjan's been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow, Super Silver Haze, and many others—for over 20 years.
In 1992 he opened his first coffee shop in Amsterdam and has since crafted his marijuana-breeding skills into a market-savvy empire known as Green House Seed Company, which rakes in millions of dollars a year.
He's won 38 Cannabis Cups and has dubbed himself the King of Cannabis.
VICE joins Arjan and his crew of strain hunters in Colombia to look for three of the country's rarest types of weed, strains that have remained genetically pure for decades. In grower's terms, these are called landraces. We trudge up mountains and crisscross military checkpoints in the country's still-violent south, and then head north to the breathtaking Caribbean coast. As the dominoes of criminalization fall throughout the world, Arjan is positioned to be at the forefront of the legitimate international seed trade.
Paula Deen Is Exhausted from Being So Racist All the Time
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. With the assistance of my friends at the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, I'll be ranking this and other news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with "1" being the least racist and "RACIST" being the most racist.
-Paula Deen, America's Sweetheart and expert chef of all things deep-fried, finally came clean about her use of the "N-Word" in a court deposition tied to a discrimination lawsuit filed by one of her former employees. Deen claimed that her Southern upbringing made use of the word natural. That's totally true. I've been to the South. They use the "N-Word" like I use semi-colons; liberally and without regret.
Paula's "Sorry for Being Racist" press tour was supposed to start this morning on the Today show, but she chose not to make her scheduled appearance, citing "exhaustion." If I weighed 300 pounds, ate Twinkies for every meal, and had millions of people calling for me to be deported to a desert island for eternity, I'd be "exhausted" too.
Fear not Deeniacs, Paula released a video statement today that will clear up this whole mess. I haven't watched it yet, but I heard that in the video, she hands out free watermelon and fried chicken in Harlem to show her support for the African-American community. Big ups to my girl, Paula, for being so generous to my bruthas and sistas. Also, for calcifying my colon through her delicious "cooking."
What Would You Get Tear Gassed for?
Tear gas seems to be pretty in vogue at the moment. Protesters in Turkey, Brazil, and even Switzerland have been subjected to some of that noxious tear-jerker in the past couple of weeks, leaving the rest of the world back in the demonstration dark ages. Protests featuring tear gas are iD magazine to the rest of the world's Cosmo—we're trailing behind, thinking we're sexy with our batons and shields, when really we're just a bunch of fucking squares.
Unfortunately, US police don't use the stuff too often. But if they did, strangers I spoke to on the street, what do you feel passionate enough about to get tear gassed for?
This Egyptian Lingerie Salesman Is Now an Illegal Weapons Dealer
Rising unemployment combined with rapid inflation has left many Egyptians jobless and desperate. High-profile violence and political instability have tanked Egypt's tourism industry, a major player in the Egyptian economy. During the Mubarak era, before the Arab Spring of 2011, the police were more or less omnipresent: stationed on most street corners and extremely diligent when it came to snuffing out any sign of public dissent, crime, or infraction. Now though, many view the police as inept, undisciplined, corrupt, or simply absent. Their disappearance from the streets is leaving a power vacuum that is being filled by a crime wave.
In this fraught climate, families and business owners have taken to arming themselves. The porous border with Libya, combined with the widespread looting of police stations during the revolution, has flooded the country with a new stock of weapons. I sat down with Sayed—a lingerie salesman turned arms dealer, based in Port Said—to learn more about Egypt's burgeoning private gun market.
Nazis Were Once Tortured in the Heart of Kensington, London
All things considered, the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea are not places for frumpy ironic T-shirt wearing tourists like you. It's for sultans, sheikhs, oligarchs, and people who sit atop other power structures that British people don't really understand. It's a place where the dogs are better fed than you and the cats have their own televisions. It's a place where everyone carries around a thousand in every major currency at all times because they never know which country they're going to go to bed in. But did you know it also used to be home to a gargantuan torture facility?
The London Cage, as it came to be known, was situated inside three buildings that are now used as part of the Russian Embassy, neighboring the current homes of the Sultan of Brunei and Roman Abramovich. Sixty years ago, it served first as one of several British War World II interrogation centers, then as the War Crimes Investigation Unit's post-1945 HQ.
Within the walls of Kensington Palace Gardens, the British paid little regard to the Geneva Convention and treated captured Nazi war criminals to some Gulag-level torment and Guantanamo-style interrogation. That the buildings once held a vast prisoner-of-war facility that you probably didn't know about (mainly because, weirdly, that information has been omitted from its tour itinerary) says a lot about Britain and its secretive practices since the Second World War.


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News flashes: week three
The Yorker's weekly news flashes keep you up to date with all the brief news stories from across campus.
Napping spaces
After the introduction of 24/7 library hours, there has been a suggestion of having 'napping spaces' around campus to make sure students sleep and don't overwork themselves, but the proposal does not look set to go ahead.
Speaking about the idea, YUSU President Tim Ellis said: "I'm sure many students, including myself, would love areas where they can have a quick nap on campus. Unfortunately I don't think is something that is going to be happening in the near future at York."
Award Nominations
The YUSU Awards 2012 are now open and nominations for the 17 awards can be done online.
Students can also nominate their undergraduate academic/personal/pastoral supervisor in the annual supervisor awards as YUSU and the university look to find the supervisors who really make a difference.
Nominations are open online from now until Thursday week 7, June 14.
YUSU Committee Elections
Many of YUSU's committees are holding their elections in the next few weeks: RAG, Racial Equality, Environment and Ethics, Volunteering and Democracy Committee.
Find our more by visiting their pages on the YUSU website or Facebook and nominate yourself here.
Clubbers' Bus
YUSU's Clubbers' Service on official club nights has been updated and the buses on the route now have low flooring, meaning that students with mobility issues can use the buses more easily.
Officer Bob Hughes said: "It's a great service, and it needs your support to remain! It's great to see these changes coming into place! I hope you continue to use the service, and if you have any feedback about the service, or about things you'd like to see the Clubbers' Bus do, please do get in touch at email@example.com and I'll be more than happy to listen!"
The buses run ion Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 2, 2:45 and 3:30am on Rougier Street (outside Salvation) for only £1 you can get back to campus and some of the nearby areas. Find out more on the route map and Facebook page.
This year, Derwent College's annual Big D event will see Derwent and Langwith colleges transformed into five different areas inspired by the world of Neverland and Peter Pan for their NeverlanD event.
Tickets are on sale this year for £25 and in the past have sold out within 24 hours of going online. Tickets can be bought from 9am on Wednesday week 3 (May 9) from the YUSU Shop, at D Bar or at the event's Launch Party.
Find out more on the Facebook page or follow @2012BigD on Twitter.
Small Ads
The university's Small Ads service closed in April due to lack of staff to run the facility, which offered free adverts for students.
However, we've been told that Smalll Ads will not be disbanded completely but instead a new and improved version will be launched imminently after the current testing period.

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46 U.S. Code § 11202 - Qualified service
For purposes of this chapter, a person shall be considered to have engaged in qualified service if, between August 16, 1945, and December 31, 1946, the person—
(1) was a member of the United States merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) serving as a crewmember of a vessel that was—
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(B) operated in waters other than inland waters, the Great Lakes, and other lakes, bays, and harbors of the United States;
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Home » Career Services » Recruiting Options
Recruiting Options
On Campus Interviews and Presentations
On campus interviews can be scheduled by the Career Center to assist in your recruitment needs. We have a conference room for available for interviews. Additional space may be allocated if the university facilities can accommodate the desired time frame. A minimum of two weeks notice is encouraged to allow ample time to promote the employer's opening and secure a strong interviewing schedule. It is suggested that employers use a resume search from the ASU Career Center first to select candidates for on campus interviews. Once candidates from ASU are identified, the Career Center can arrange the appointments or the employer can arrange them based on times that are mutually convenient for both parties.
Presentations can be used to educate groups of students on your company's hiring needs and culture. Classroom space is booked frequently, so as much advanced notice as possible is desired to secure a presentation location.
Campus Visits/ Information Tables
Employers can register to have a table in a student traffic area during peak class times to promote current, specific employment opportunities. Reservations must be made with the Career Center two weeks in advance of the designated day. The office will promote the booth location and time on their job postings website and distribute announcements to the campus.
Dates not available for campus visit and information tables:
Booths cannot be reserved for the first two weeks of class, due to high activity of on-campus programs and services. Booths are also not available in spring semester prior to the February campus job fair. This is for the sole purpose of focusing the students and our campus marketing for employer connections solely to this annual event.
Information Table Arrangements:
A six-foot table and chair will be reserved and set up for your designated area via the Career Center staff. To be fair to other employer needs and campus agencies needing promotional space, an employer cannot recruit using the booth promotion service more than twice in one semester . While staffing a booth, employers are limited to promote their recruiting opportunities at their table only. No solicitation of products or services outside of a company's jobs available is allowed.
For positions offered are commission only, base plus commission, or require start-up costs to the employeethere must be signage at the table clearly indicating this at all times. Sales positions also must have signage at the table that fully discloses the type of product the recruit will be selling. Failure to follow these policies will prevent the employer from future use of our services.
Employers wishing to secure an information table should review our policies and procedures
for coordinating a visit.
Policies & Procedures for Employer Recruiting when reserving a table in a student traffic area to promote job opportunities:
Reserving a table through the ASU Career Center to staff a booth in a student traffic area on campus is one of many ways to promote hiring opportunities with your organization to ASU students. There are certain procedures in place to protect the students on campus and their safety while pursuing their educational endeavors. Please refer to the policies below for how to make the most of your event within the guidelines of Augusta State University. Any infringement on these policies can result in restrictions on recruiting via the Career Center, as well as removal of your organization via Public Safety and possible future ban from the campus.
1. A 6 foot table with two chairs can be reserved for the purpose of recruiting for specific job openings with your organization and is to be coordinated with the ASU Career Center as your sponsor. Please provide at least 1-2 weeks notice of your requests to come on site to allow the office ample time to secure space and promote your needs. The earlier, the better! You can obtain a parking pass in our office the day of your event.
2. In fairness to all employers using our services and campus organizations also requesting booth space, employers cannot recruit on campus via a booth more than two times in one semester. Booths cannot be reserved for the first two weeks of class, due to high activity of on-campus programs and services. Booths are also not available in spring semester prior to the February campus job fair. This is for the sole purpose of focusing the students and our campus marketing for employer connections solely to this annual event.
3. The office will promote the booth location and time on their job postings website and distribute announcements to the campus. When your visit is sponsored by the Career Center , you can only use your table for the recruiting of specific hiring needs . No solicitation for goods or services will be allowed. Those infringing on this campus policy will be removed from the campus and any future recruiting conducted by your organization on this campus is at the discretion of the Career Center and the University.
4. Please do not "market" your opportunities outside of the confines of your table/recruiting area. Give-aways and displays to make your area attractive to students are always welcome. Students are encouraged to report anyone that approaches them outside of the booth area on campus to be removed by Public Safety. This includes wandering into other parts of the campus or the building you are in and addressing students without them seeking your table for information.
5. Any company recruiting on campus that has a start-up cost, commission only or base+ commission component(s) as part of the job they are targeting ASU students for is required to post a sign at their campus booth clearly detailing these facts. Sales positions also must have signage at the table that fully discloses the type of product the recruit will be selling. Your sign must be approved by the ASU Career Center and posted at your table at all times. Failure to adhere to these principles jeopardizes your organization's ability to recruit here.
6. Outside organizations are not allowed to post flyers around campus for recruitment or direct sale purposes. This is monitored closely and unauthorized flyers are removed. For information on the campus posting policy, refer to the Student Activities office (706-737-1609) or their webpage http://www.aug.edu/student_activities/
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Wed's Child today introduces you to a pair of brothers. They're bonded as one, but that doesn't make a family. That's why we're hoping someone watching has a place for them at home
"We're back at Clay Arts Vegas where we met Elijah last week.
At the same table -- playing with the soft gray clay -- are brothers Joshua and Caleb. We had to pry away Caleb's cell phone at first, but once he got his hands in the soft stuff, he took off with his own creation.
"Yes he is technology savvy he loves technology and one of the things I wanted to say is he loves those cell phones, loves music, dance I'm going to believe that he's going to have an interest in music," says Gina, who is one of the adoption recruiters at DFS.
Caleb is 8, and his 11-yr-old brother is more quiet and thoughtful.
"He's very reserved. He enjoys video games which allows him to be reserved! it takes him a while to warm up to you when he trusts you and were about to you he's just a sweet but he really is very cautious of people that he's interacting with," adds Gina.
These two have been in foster care too long -- about six years -- time for them to find the security of a real family.
"Yes a two parent home will be needed. One, is because we do need to people with the energy, so a two parent home is needed for these children… now we will take anything we can get, but if we do have a two parent home out there that feels that they have to love for children, that they can help get them to their potential," admits Gina.
And Joshua 'n' Caleb have tons of potential, with a family that can give them loads of love.
"Is way overdue. We definitely want them to have a family," says Gina.
Caleb and Joshua are free and clear for adoption.
If their story touches you, and there's room in your heart and home for this pair of brothers, please call the Las Vegas office of the Adoption Exchange at 436-6335.


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Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820)
Daniel Boone is one of the most famous frontiersmen in U.S. history. He was a skilled hunter, trapper, and trailblazer. During the early days of westward expansion, Boone's explorations helped open the frontier to new settlements. In 1799, he led his family and other settlers across the Mississippi River into land populated by Native Americans but claimed by Spain. Boone spent the last twenty years of his life in what is now Missouri.
Early Years
Daniel Boone was born November 2, 1734, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Sometimes, an alternate birth date is listed because the Boone family used an outdated calendar system and recorded Daniel's birth on October 22. Daniel was the sixth of eleven children born to Squire and Sarah Boone, both Quakers. Boone's father had grown up in England but had immigrated to the New World as a teenager.
As a child, Daniel was responsible for taking the family's cattle into the woods to graze each day. Daniel loved wandering the woods with the cows. The outdoors fascinated him, and he spent his days studying small birds and game, which he hunted with a homemade "herdsman's club." Daniel begged for a rifle and became an expert marksman. At thirteen, he provided a steady supply of fresh game for the family's meals.
Daniel Boone did not attend school. His older brother's wife taught him to read and write. Though he mastered the basics, Boone's grammar and spelling remained poor. Boone could sign his name, though, which set him apart from most frontiersmen, who used an "X" for their signature.
Around 1750 the Boones moved to North Carolina and settled in the Yadkin River valley. The Native Americans who lived and hunted there did not like sharing their land with the settlers. Fights frequently broke out between the two groups, and Boone joined the county militia to help defend the settlements.


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Optitaunt is also a great addon for tanks that need to communicate. Sure, the addon originally was for telling when taunts missed, but it also announced cd's.
Only thing that tidy plates doesn't do, but wished it did was tell me if the mobs I don't have threat on are focussing on the other tank, or a raid member. I just have to wait to see health pools drop to tell if the other tank has it or not.
To tell who's being attacked, I use Grid, and set both the border and health bar to turn bright red if someone has aggro. When the only boxes that color are the tanks, I know everything's golden; if someone else has threat, I can easily select them to see what they're targeting (which is probably what's targeting them), throw an Intervene on them, etc.
Get Grid or some other raid frame and set it to highlight people with aggro.
My Grid frames gain a white border around anyone with aggro.
Combined with TidyPlates - I know if there is a mob I'm not holding, and I know who is holding mobs. Logic can fill in the blanks.
With my warrior I've also got clique set up to let me intervene on anyone who's frame I middle click. Which is usually enough to recapture a mob - at least in trash pulls where I can be more sloppy about position.
I do run grid with threat warnings on it, but it only changes color once they overtake threat, and it also means that the mob has started beating on them, hence the reason I said what I said. It's only the overzealous melee that pull usually, so it's fine if they pull a lil.
Gonna have to go play with the enhanced options and see if that works.
MrJackSauce said...
You may have noted that "person has been set to tank" message. I'm pretty sure that threat-plates uses that to ascertain who is a taak.
I'm pretty sure this is native to WoWs functionality, and threat-plates has an option to "ignore the other tank" (not quite that but it's close) based on who has been set.


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Little Italy Festa
When: October 13, 2013
Time: 10am to 6pm
Where: India Street between
Ash and Grape Streets
Little Italy, San Diego, CA (map)
Phone: (619) 233-3898
More info: Event website
Little Italy Festa Highlights
Fall travelers seeking a culturally rich destination are encouraged to plan a trip to the hip and historic Little Italy district of San Diego. Experience Italian culture, food and fun as the Little Italy
Attracting over 120,000 people, Little Italy's FESTA! features tasty Italian cuisine, traditional and modern Italian music, arts and activities for all ages, and many other event features. With over 150 food, art and retail vendors, the Little Italy community transforms into a cultural Italian escape for both locals and visitors.
Festa highlights include:
- Italian food served al fresco throughout the neighborhood reflecting a wide variety of specialties
- Music on 3 stages featuring the familiar and the new
- Cooking demonstrations/contests
- Historical installation highlighting Italian-American culture in San Diego's Little Italy
- Gesso Italiano chalk art painting before your eyes
- Chalk art for kids
- Kids Fun Zone with inflatables, face painting, balloon art
- Italian Motor Sports Exhibit featuring cars and motorbikes
Attendees of this year's FESTA! will find themselves completely immersed in Italian culture. There will be a host of Italian food choices including popular restaurants and vendor booths, as well as tastes from the festival's "Italian Table" stage which will feature chef demonstrations on how to prepare classic and contemporary Italian dishes. Three stages of entertainment will set the tone with an array of ethnic music. For those 21 and up, LIA will present a beer and wine garden featuring Italian and local favorite brews.
One of the most highly anticipated elements of event is the chalk art at "Gesso Italiano." Gesso Italiano brings more than 160 artists and teams together from across the nation to create colorful works of art using chalk as their medium and the city streets as their canvas. This year's theme for these amazing chalk paintings is "Regions of Italy". This special art experience is authentically based on the traditional art form originating in Italy. The artwork takes two days to complete, and it's available for viewing only during the FESTA! weekend, as the city streets will be washed at the end of the event.
Guests are also encouraged to take a seat and cheer on the Italian stickball exhibition game, where players show off their skill and pride for the classic sport. A bocce ball tournament, a game with roots dating all the way back to the Roman Empire, will take place throughout the day. An interactive children's area filled with hands-on activities for kids makes Little Italy FESTA! a true family event.
"The heritage of Little Italy FESTA! means a great deal to all," said Steven Galasso, president of LIA. "Whether it's your first visit to experience FESTA! or you haven't missed it since its beginnings 18 years ago, get ready to fall in love with the spirit of Italy!"
1) Check out the creation of the Gesso Italian chalk drawing as the artists get started on their works of art on Saturday, Oct. 13, the day before the big event. The eve of the event brings enthusiasm to the whole neighborhood and creates an opportunity to get a feel for the community from a local's perspective.
2) Visit the chef's demonstration table for a chance to learn how to cook Italian dishes by some of the top Italian chefs.
3) Bring cash. Many of the vendor booths have reasonably priced Italian food such as calamari, arancini, meatballs, panini, pasta, pizza and more. These booths are typically cash-only.
4) Take a seat. Take some time to rest in-between visits to all the event destinations. Areas for seating are spread throughout the event and make a terrific place to dine, sip espresso, enjoy gelato and listen to any one of the variety of musical venues.
5) All of the local restaurants will be open and overflowing. Attendees are encouraged to make reservations early to secure a table during the event.
Little Italy FESTA! serves as a fundraiser for the continued beautification, safety and development of the community. There will be chances for attendees to bid on exciting raffle items with donations supporting the LIA.


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Stallion players notch top UFL Cup awards
After winning the United Football Cup title, Penson Stallion Giligan's players dominated the competition's top individual awards Monday night.
Stallion skipper Ruben Doctora won the Golden Ball award, the tournament's equivalent to the Most Valuable Player award, while Wilson Muñoz bagged the Golden Glove trophy as the best goalkeeper in the competition.
Doctora and Muñoz were vital cogs in Stallion's Cup title run this season, helping their team upset League titlist Global in the final.
Meanwhile, Loyola Meralco Sparks star striker Phil Younghusband hoisted the Golden Boot trophy after leading the tournament with 10 goals.
Younghusband, who also won the award in the League competition last season, helped the Sparks to a third place finish in the Cup.
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Mickey Mouse and Friends
#294 (November 2006).
Pardon me while I shed a tear or two at the keyboard. Gemstone has just
officially announced (through the medium of a missive to the Disney
Comics Mailing List) that this title, along with Donald Duck and
Friends and the two pocket-books (Donald Duck Adventures and
Mickey Mouse Adventures) is being discontinued "for the time
being." These "temporary" cancellations have a nasty habit of becoming
permanent. The Gemstone folks are planning to increase their rate of
release of such "Prestige Format" projects as Walt Disney Treasures
and the quarterlies, but with the derricking of the …and Friends
books, I think it's safe to say that any pretense that Gemstone comics
can be sold in the traditional newsstand format has been rudely
clobbered, and that's not a good thing. "Trick or Treat for Halloween,"
At least MM&F
managed to slip this issue's book-length reprint of "The Red Wasp
Mystery," a much-loved serial from the late-60s Walt Disney's
Comics and Stories, through its vanishing "window of opportunity."
Though this adventure, written by Cecil Beard and drawn by the
inevitable Paul Murry, is a bit on the childish side compared to the
best Floyd Gottfredson continuities, it represents Disney comics' one
real effort to spin a story off the "superhero boom" that followed the
success of the Batman TV show. (No, I'm not forgetting Super
Goof, but that character was created, and his long-running title
launched, before Adam West's quarter-hour of fame arrived.)
Mickey acts on Chief O'Hara's behalf to locate the missing Red Wasp,
Mouseton's crimson-clad human (!) "crusader against the forces of evil,"
during a massive crime wave. Mickey locates the hero's cloud-bound lair
(with the help of Goofy, whom the Wasp had hired as a gardener), and,
donning a spare cape and cowl which ever-so-conveniently fit him, he
"buzzes off" to fill in as best he can. Having kidnapped the Wasp and
sent him on a one-way rocket trip to Mars, villains Dangerous Dan McBoo
and Idgit the Midget attempt to do the same to "impostor" Mickey,
eventually succeeding. On Mars, Mickey and the wayward Wasp join forces
to cobble together a workable space vehicle (see what I mean about all
this being "childish"?) and finally return to Earth in time to stop
McBoo and Idgit from reducing Mouseton to rubble with missile attacks.
The death traps and high-tech gimcrackery (courtesy of McBoo and Idget,
normally conventional bank-robbers and such) remove any doubt as to
what's being parodied. Indeed, this story was, as David Gerstein
comments in his editorial remarks, "a seismic rethinking of [Mickey's]
traditional world." Alas, it was just as "successful" as the earlier
Mickey Mouse: Super Secret Agent, in the sense that it left no
traces (except in Brazil, where the Wasp ultimately inspired a whole
regiment of Disney-character superheroes).
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Donald Duck Adventures
#20 (September 2006).
This issue's front cover spotlights the last story in the volume:
John Blair Moore and Flemming Andersen's Uncle $crooge tale,
"Crash Course". While it's not the best thing in this particular
package, "Crash" merits the distinction if only because of what it
teaches American readers about one of Scrooge's less appreciated
recurring foes, the free-spending John D. Rockerduck. Well-known to
European readers, JDR has only appeared a handful of times in this
country. In this caper, he and Scrooge race along "the most dangerous
road in the state" (you may now commence with the humming of the
Speed Racer theme song) to determine which mogul can manufacture the
safer car. The wild and wacky proceedings, illustrated by Andersen at
his most slapdash, are reasonably funny in and of themselves, but to me,
the real highlight is a brief exchange between Donald and Scrooge along
the way. Donald, while needling his uncle for paying him, Gyro
Gearloose, and the other crew members the usual pittance in wages,
responds to Scrooge's comeback "What [read: how little] you spend can
make a difference!" by noting, "[Rockerduck's] not the world's richest
duck, he doesn't care about that! But he does care about
showing you up!" I can't think of a better way to explain the
difference between JDR and the more familiar figure of Flintheart
Glomgold. It is easy for the casual reader to regard Rockerduck as
simply a Glomgold clone. All praise to Moore for making the distinction
crystal clear.
The lead story,
Michael T. Gilbert and Toni Bancells' "Lotsa Luck," likewise
tries to "enlighten" the masses as to the underlying realities of the
Duck "universe," but in a far clumsier manner. Gilbert floats the idea
that Gladstone's luck may depend upon a "Lucky Buck" that Scrooge gave
him while he was a child. Donald certainly buys the theory; after he
goes overboard with the "Lucky Buck" in tow and lands on a remote
island, he insists to the isle's alternately genial and dyspeptic chief
that the greenback gives him good vibes galore. This works about as
well as one might expect… but with Gladstone's cruise ship lost at sea
and menaced by bad weather, might there be something to the fanciful
story? The storyline is cluttered and confused, not up to Gilbert's
usual standards, and the connection to a Fu Manchu-type villain who
wields black magic (up to and including animating giant stone statues)
is pretty unconvincing. For once, however, Bancells' artwork is fairly
The Mickey
interregnum adventure, Stefan Petrucha and Xavier Vives Mateu's "The
Letter Mouse Trap," is the best story of the trio. Acting on a
request from Goofy – or so he thinks – Mickey finds himself traveling
the globe, collecting a number of packages from post offices while
dodging a gang of "clone" villains who resemble the Spy vs. Spy
title characters (if the latter wore scarves and spoke broken English,
anyway). Remarkably enough, this extended chase sequence blends
smoothly into a plot by a sophisticated but "megalomaniacal" robot to
"retrofit" Earth to make it inhabitable for an alien race. Petrucha's
"alien-themed" Mickey stories have traditionally been
hit-or-miss, to put it charitably, but this one's denouement
legitimately took me by surprise. Petrucha's experiences in writing
mystery stories for the comic-book adaptations of X-Files and
Kolchak: the Night Stalker definitely served The Mouse well here.
Donald Duck and Friends
#345 (November 2006). The dear,
departed Daniel Branca returns to the pages (as opposed to the cover) of
Gemstone Comics in this issue's lead story, "Guard Duty." The
script, by Jeff Hamill – I'll always remember him as the guy who wrote
the backup story in the issue of Uncle $crooge containing
the long tale I dialogued – puts Don's Nephews in the highly unusual
position of trying to keep their desperate uncle from finding his way
into Scrooge's money bin to see the old miser. Unbeknownst to Donald,
HD&L are trying to earn some money to help their uncle take Daisy to the
Thanksgiving Day dance – the very same money that Don is trying to
borrow from Scrooge! The art is a glorious example of "late-period"
Branca, wherein the artist loosened up his pen line and doted a bit more
on distortions and extreme poses. Some people prefer Branca's earlier
style, but hey, his Nephews are still as cute as ever and the action
still flows wonderfully.
The Stefan Petrucha/Jorge
David Goofy story "Fish Face" would have rated four
"starfishes" (hyuck) had Petrucha not tried to cram the "twist" ending
into a single, dialogue-heavy final panel. Until that point, the story
is a classic showcase for Goofy as "the thinking man's crackpot"
(thanks, David, for the inspiration). Glimpsing a fish at the aquarium
with a face that looks just like his, the Goof is soon obsessed with the
idea of getting another look at the critter; he's even willing to take a
24-hours-a-day job as "staffer by day, watchman by night" so he can
"wait for [his] fishy all the time." As I said, the payoff doesn't
measure up to the buildup, but this is a Goofy story worthy of
Sarah Kinney (and yes, that's meant as a complement, in case you were
A Carl Barks
reprint from 1945, "The Tramp Steamer," fills out the book.
Unemployed yet again – or perhaps, this early on in Barks' career, I
should say, "unemployed for one of the very first times"? – Donald
enlists the Nephews' help in trying to make a go of a cargo-hauling
business, using the title craft. Disaster duly follows disaster --
though, to be fair, very few of the bad things are directly attributable
to Donald himself. With his steamer in ruins, Don is left to pick up
the pieces and hope he can locate "a good corner to sell pencils!"
Donald's state of mind would have been far serener had he maintained
this stoic attitude throughout Barks' career… but then, how many of you
have ever heard of a funny Stoic?
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
#673 (October 2006).
Here's yet another "quasi-Halloween" fun-fest, headlined by a reprint of
a 1991 William Van Horn tale, "Kid Stuff." Recall the early-50s
Carl Barks story in which the Nephews tried to queer realtor Donald's
sale of their decrepit "kids' hideout"? Consider this opus a sort of
"distant cousin" of that tale. As Donald prepares to paint a supposedly
"haunted" house, HD&L try to hassle him with "ghostly" gimmickry. The
boys are definitely in "brat" mode in this case, as there's no reason
whatsoever to make trouble, so you suspect right away that some real
phantoms will arrive to set things right (in a cosmic sense), as indeed
they do. Despite the predictability of the outcome, this is a most
entertaining and well-written tale, a worthy representative of Van
Horn's famed "hot streak" in the pre-"Implosion" Disney Comics'
Donald Duck Adventures. The splash panel of HD&L being confronted
by a cellarful of levitated junk is very nicely done.
Portrayed as a
dogged (and ultimately successful!) entrepreneur in "Kid Stuff," Donald
also "represents" admirably in Janet Gilbert and Wanda Gattino's
"Hotel Transylvania." After surviving a rugged training course to
earn his spurs as a hotel concierge -- strangely, he wears a
bellboy's uniform during his trial – Don is assigned the duty of
pleasing a hostel full of Transylvanian monsters. (Think the
DuckTales episode "Ducky Horror Picture Show," in which Uncle
Scrooge and the crew of McDuck
Mansion were forced to serve a gang of ghastlies on Scrooge's own turf.) Don
does quite well until the hotel chain manager comes to inspect his
efforts and a couple of bad breaks "break" at the same time. The hotel
winds up wrecked, but the monsters prevent the angry boss from firing
Donald because (1) he really has tried to "solve any
problem" for them, and (2) they like that "lived-in" look!
Remembering Donald's painful (and unlucky) demise in a similar Barks
story set in a backwater town, I'm sure he appreciated the customer
"Dimes are
Forever" and "A Kidnapping
in Yubet," the first two parts of "The Orb Saga" – Pat and Carol
McGreal's second stab at a multipart crossover epic, on the heels of
"Mythos Island" – have nothing to do with Halloween, but they sure qualify as something
of a mystery. Little truly happens in these two unrelated
adventures, the first (drawn by Vicar) pitting Scrooge and Donald
against Magica De Spell and the second (drawn by Cesar Ferioli) matching
Mickey and Goofy against the Phantom Blot, other than the fact that
before the end, each "hero duo" comes into possession of a mysterious
orb. The Magica story was so uninspired that I could almost imagine Pat
and Carol checking off "Aspects of Generic Magica Story" as they went
along – "Scrooge's spies, check; amulet, check; Old #1 Dime, check; foof
bombs, check; Vesuvius, check…". In the Mickey tale, meanwhile, the
Blot kidnaps young La Dee Dama, the spiritual ruler of mountainous Yubet,
because the latter can levitate and the Blot plans to use that power to
aid his "criminal conquests." Unless Dama's abilities extend to
levitating bank safes and such, I can't honestly see what the
Blot is gaining from this gambit. Dama's annoying repetition of the
fatalistic catchphrase "What will be, will be!" adds little to the
proceedings apart from awakening memories of a Doris Day hit. The
McGreals usually have a higher "batting average" than this, so hopefully
they'll get the "real" saga moving next issue.
The issue's
"fillers" are reprints of a pair of late-50s stories. The Scamp
tale "Boo to You, Too" is one of the earliest Al Hubbard-drawn
pup-tales and still features the supporting characters in a distinct
Lady and the Tramp mode. Scamp and Speedy the dachshund (was that
his name in the movie?) team up to test the veracity of bloodhound
Trusty's long-winded tales of long-ago bravery by scaring him inside an
old abandoned house. The obvious similarity to "Kid Stuff" makes it all
the odder that this story immediately follows the Van Horn
reprint. In "The Broom Boom," drawn by Jack Bradbury, the Three
Little Pigs outwit the Disney Witch (or whatever the "official" name of
the Snow White character has become) in a rather contrived story
that starts with the Pigs inheriting a broom factory.
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Uncle $crooge
#358 (October 2006).
It'd be nice to pretend that this issue's lead story reflects some sort
of "Halloween" theme, but, in truth, the scariest things about Carl
Barks' 1966 tale "House of Haunts" are (1) the Beagle Boys'
grammar, which slips out of subject-verb "phase" more often than is
usual for them, and (2) the very idea of Duckburg possessing a
vaguely medieval castle built by a "mad Duke." A creaky, old, legendary
haunted house I would have been able to accept, but this notion is even
further "out there" than the "Cathedral of Notre Duck" Barks
created for his earlier story "The Phantom of Notre Duck." The Duke's
peril-filled pile is the site of Scrooge's latest attempt to sidestep
"the terrible menace of R-Day!", the day when the "rehabilitated"
Beagle Boys are once more released from durance not-so-vile. This time
around, the Beagles plan to use the degrees they've earned in "Studious
Hours School" to help them rob
Scrooge's money bin. Scrooge sticks his money in the mad Duke's
dungeons for safekeeping, but his craving to take a swim in it and
relieve his "banker's eczema" proves too much to control. The Beagles
use glowing paint to track Scrooge to his hideaway, then give Scrooge a
sort of localized amnesia. Covered with the ghastly puke-green paint, a
freed Scrooge jumps to the conclusion that he's a ghost – and, yes, it
really is as contrived and unfunny as it sounds. Even with
Donald and the Nephews' help, will Scrooge ever recover his memory? And
why will doing so ultimately help save the Beagles' behinds, as
well? Barks does what he can with these unpromising raw materials, but
it's hard not to classify this as one of his less successful late-period
"Let Sleeping
Bones Lie," another Daan
Jippes redrawing of a Barks script from Junior Woodchucks, is, by
contrast, one of the funnier and cleverer entries from that series,
though it relies a bit too much on the repeated sight gag of the
"Woodchuck walla" (the JWs running about aimlessly, bumping noggins and
weeping and wailing) for my taste. Not exactly an "environmental
morality play" of the sort this series is famous for, this is more of a
story of the Woodchucks thwarting Scrooge's effort to profit from an
existing natural find – in this case, a gigantic preserved skeleton of a
hitherto unclassified dinosaur. Denied in his desire to grind the bones
into roadbed fodder, Scrooge switches gears and seeks to turn the
skeleton into a themed roadside restaurant. With key assistance from
their Official Hound (Pluto in the original John Carey-drawn
story), who slips some "vision weed" into Scrooge's tea and causes him
to hallucinate that the long-dead "colossosaurus" has come alive for
revenge, the Woodchucks succeed in preserving the debris' dignity, or
some semblance thereof. I love the gag in which the Woodchucks' mentor
d'histoire, the "Great J.A.W.B.O.N.E.," can't spit out his
elongated name and title fast enough to prevent Scrooge from
winning a race to the land office to lay claim to the "colosso"'s
The book's
concluding story, "The Terror of Outer Space," purports to be the
introduction of a new adversary for Scrooge: Tachyon Farflung, an
ambitious alien villain who dreams of having his name added to the
"Annals of Villainy" by stealing "the single hugest fortune in the
universe!" As written by Stefan and Ulm Printz-Pahlsson and Donald
Markstein and drawn by Vicar, however, Farflung more closely resembles a
constipated green monkey with an attitude. The villain's grand scheme
of shrinking the money bin to portable size isn't exactly new, and a
subsequent fight between Donald, Scrooge, and Farflung on a "living
planet" lacks any real punch, mostly because Vicar's artwork is far too
prosaic (in this particular story, at least) for such exotic
doings. When Farflung bellows the inevitable "I'll be back!" on his way
back to the Galactic Gulag, suffice it to say that I wasn't shaking in
my size 11½'s. A regularly-scheduled off-planet offender wouldn't be a
bad addition to Scrooge's rogue's gallery, but I have my doubts that
Farflung is a true "keeper," of the Michael Rennie (Lost in Space)
variety or otherwise.
The better of the
book's two crack-fillers is the Beagle Boys shortie "Hive Been
Better." By controlling the movements of a beehive's queen, the
B-Boys hope to enlist some airborne assistance in a "stinging" operation
on a local bank. David Gerstein's "bee" puns flow as copiously as honey
from the comb, and I'm not thrilled by Esteban's art in this particular
story, but the execution is decent enough. Fethry Duck has a harder
time manufacturing something worthwhile out of Ferioli, Manrique, and
Gerstein's "Dance of the Cuckoos," a trite tale in which the
eternal faddist – an "efficiency expert" this time around -- runs afoul
of a Teutonic-accented witch and her Frankenstein-monster-ish
maidservant while toting a load of cuckoo clocks to a mountain lodge.
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Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds are coming to Musikfest on August 7, when they'll open up the evening at the Sands Steel Stage at PNC Plaza for the evening's concert with The Avett Brothers.
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is an eight-piece powerhouse that puts a modern spin on classic soul. The band is led by Arleigh Kincheloe (Sister Sparrow), whose astoundingly powerful voice and sly demeanor make for a spellbinding presence onstage. She is backed by the mighty force of The Dirty Birds, a flock of seven men who masterfully lay down thundering grooves and soaring melodies.
The band has been aptly described as what you get when "you cross Amy Winehouse and Tina Turner with Mick Jagger…" by Glamour magazine and The Wall Street Journal proclaims them as "…stick-to-your-ribs style rock…"
The band has previously wowed audiences at Musikfest 2012 and at the Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling at SteelStacks.


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Mamas & Papas All Mine Passport Holder and Tag
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We love this because. This beautiful set comes complete with a passport holder for your little one's passport and their very own luggage tag to help identify their bag. There is a card insert on the luggage tag for their contact details. Comes complete with a keepsake gift box. Makes a great gift for any little traveller. Other important details. Passport: H 14, W 10.5 cm. Tag: Lgth12, W 7 cm approx.Colours: Blue, Pink.
We love this because, this beautiful imprint kit and frame can be used for baby's hands or feet. The imprint kit comes complete with a solid wood frame and fun, eye catching mounting cards. Keep the memory of little hand and little foot prints treasured for all to see. Also space for 2 photos. The kit includes a pouch of soft clay, double sided adhesive foam pads, a rolling pin and ruler for the clay. H 9, W 20 cm approx.Colours: Blue, Pink.
We love this because. This stunning case is a lovely way to store your little one's keepsakes. Contains 2 little boxes for treasures and memories. Space on the front to add name and photo. Makes the perfect gift for little ones of all ages. Other important details. H 16, W 20 cm. Mini boxes: 6 x 6 cm approx.Colours: Blue, Pink.
We love this because. The perfect way to display your little one's tiny hand and foot prints, that can be treasured for years to come. Includes themed canvas, paint brush and a little tube of paint. Perfect gift to help preserve precious memories. Other important details. H 28, W 25 cm approx.Colours: Blue, Pink.
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We love this because. Our beautiful musical snow globe plays a lovely lullaby when the dial underneath is turned. This globe contains sparkly glitter that twinkles around the glass when shaken. Perfect keepsake gift that comes complete with a beautiful gift box. Other important details. H12, W 7.5 cm approx.
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I'm honestly kind of flabbergasted by the amount of 'What happened to my country' 'When did American become this…?' on my dash.
Whose land do you think we're on?
Who do you think built it?
This is not new, this is typical. This is expected. This is recurring.
We are just the new generation now dealing with the monster that is America. It is new to us, but it is not new to history.
I would have to disagree. fullten is THE best person on this website (or really any website, I'd imagine).
fullten is probably one of the best people on this website
Aww you're sweet <3
Look, I see it over and over and over again. Girls lower their standards, end up with assholes, over and over and over again, and then Mr Luke Warm Decent Guy comes along and they treat him like he's the fucking holy grail, when in reality, he is the most mediocre motherfucker to walk the planet, but because he's not an asshole constantly, just sometimes, he seems sooo amazing. NO. Don't do that to yourself. Keep your standards high, don't touch the peasants.
And relationships, is all communication, that's all it is. It's not hard work, people just act like it is, and if it is really hard work to stay together, then maybe these people shouldn't be together. That's all there is too it. The person you are with should make you, not just happy, but amazed. They should push you to be a better person, they should be happy when you accomplish something, they should know all your demons and not be scared by them, their should be passion, and this person should set you on fire. Don't settle for luke warm dude.
This woman is an absolute genius who tolerates no crap. I wish there were a lot more people like her in the world. I really do.
Linking back to this simply because nobody listens to Scarce, and so very few know/remember them. And to not have heard Obviously Midnight at least once in one's life would be a definite loss.
I absolutely love Scarce! I'm so glad you posted this, but I agree with what you said. I not only got to see Scarce play in Chicago a few times in the early to mid-90's, but I got to see them play at the (since closed) Luminaire in London a few years ago, where they debuted a documentary about the band, which is love to remake, since it wasn't shot or recorded very well at all (it was amateur fan-created) and they deserve the best-looking (and sounding!) documentary possible!


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Trend Watch: Chenille Bedspreads
These old-fashioned, colorful, girly, sorta kitchsy, fluffy bedspreads (which, honestly, our grandmother had on on her bed when we were little) seem to be heading back onto the scene - popping up here and there as we peruse the design mags and sites. We found a great source for them earlier today...
...while checking in at Jessica's blog, How About Orange. She linked to the modern looking orange and white spread shown above ($175.), leading us to Catnap Cottage, an Etsy seller of vintage textiles. Located in "Chenille Row" in Northwest Georgia, Catnap Cottage has quite a few vintage chenille spreads available now:
Pink Arts & Crafts - $195.
White Wedding Rings with Pom Pom Trim - $125.
Pink and White Wedding Rings, $250.
Double Peacocks , $225.
All bedspreads shown available from: Catnap Cottage on Etsy
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Several years ago I bought a chenille bedspread with a geometric, square pattern on it. I loved it until, about two months after purchasing it, the chenille started to collect lint. There was nothing I could do to get it out. So instead of a white bedspread with white chenille squares, I had off-white/bluish chenille squares (and I didn't even have cats then which would have added to the problem). It was horrible. I ended up using it upside-down for another year or so then donated it. I'll never buy chenille again.
Doesn't sound like you had lint - That would have washed out in the laundry.
Sounds like you had "Crocking" - That's what happens when a fabric which the dyes haven't set (like a new pair of jeans) rubs against another fabric, imparting its dye as a stain on the lighter fabric.
Did you lie on your bed in dark jeans or use the bedspread on darker sheets?
Everything old is new again, Princess Fi. At least, that's what my dogs think...just yesterday I finished a "fake chenille" pillowcase cum doggy bed:
I doubt I'd put chenille on my bed but I definitely plan on making more dog beds out of it!
Lint on everything you own no thanks, my Grandmother had several chenille bedspreads and the look great but what a mess.
Chenille, like wood-grain vinyl, must remain in the museum of decor that taste forgot.
We inherited a couple of chenille (or chenille-like?) bedspreads from my father-in-law. Honestly, they give me the willies--I can't even use them as dog blankets! They are stored away, to be used for wrapping furniture during moves, and pretty much nothing else.
I love chenille, actually. When I became acquainted with matelasse (through Martha Stewart, actually) I loved it because it reminded me of the patterns in chenille.
I'm not sure why, looking at the above examples, now. But I do like it.
Wood-grain vinyl? Not so much.
Yes, most of the vintage chenille bedpsreads out there have seen their better day, that is what makes these so special and desirable to vintage textile collectors. I have never seen a lint problem in my experience with vintage chenille, I have some 75 vintage chenilles as well as some matelasse and other beautiful vintage spreads made by makers....Morgan Jones, Bates, Cabin Crafts....all famous for making high quality spreads back in the day. They are easy to care for, just wash and dry on lower temps....the drying makes the chenille so fluffy. One thing for sure, they are truly unique!Thanks for featuring me on the blog
I love the thought of what your cheek would look like if you fell asleep face down on these bedspreads...
The people with the lint problems must have had low-quality chenille. I grew up with vintage chenille bedspreads, then later bought one of my own from linensource.com. When I got married, I thought I'd like some color and registered for a moss green chenille duvet cover from Bed Bath and Beyond, and experienced the lint problem described above.
I threw it away a couple months ago and bought a matelasse bedspread from linensource, with a modern "deco squares" pattern. Like Alana in Canada, I find the matelasse reminds me of chenille - it has the same weight, feel and breathability that I liked about my old chenille bedspreads.
I am an unabashed fan of chenille. I own four different bedspreads, two of which were purchased on Ebay. They go perfectly with my country cottage bedroom and are practical. They go in the wash along with everything else, unlike the comforters I've had in the past. I have warm ones for cold weather and summer weight for the warm months.
It's all a matter of taste.
a pink, red and green peacock one of these hangs behind my kitchen table,until it is painted
They're much cheaper on e-bay. Cabin Crafts are my favoprites


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Far-Flung Thanksgiving Dinners
One-Ninety, Four Seasons Singapore
One-Ninety's executive chef Giovanni Speciale has been offering Thanksgiving service to its patrons for a few years now. And with a menu that features mouthwatering plates of sweet-corn-and-king-crab croquettes, braised beef cheek, oven-roasted turkey and pumpkin pie with cinnamon ice cream, it is no surprise that this hotel restaurant is such a hit on the third Thursday of November. This year One-Ninety is rolling out a second menu, for vegetarians, with options like chestnut soup with brioche breadcrumbs and crispy chestnuts, plus a main course of roasted vegetable timbale. Rooms, from $380; dinner, from $70; 190 Orchard Blvd., Singapore; 65/6734-1110; fourseasons.com.


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Star Apocalypse is the reinvention of the 4X genre. The game is a real time game of intergalactic civilization, using the computation power of modern computers to run advanced simulations on cultural, technological and societal interaction and development.
This is a very early impression on what the game would look like. Using some quickly slapped together artwork.
This is just to give an impression, nothing else :)
PS: The battle will be far bigger. Expect to be able to zoom out to a big overview like Supreme Commander.


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Although I'm not naturally a social media maven (I can admit it - bad blogger!), I have to give credit where credit is due. So Facebook, thank you for connecting me with long lost relatives, far flung friends, regular updates from Runza (seriously, open one in MN please!) and reconnecting with high school classmates. It was through one of those high school classmate connections that I came to own this super cute tunic*:
Here's a close up of the fabric. The bright colors and cheery pattern are impossible to wear without a big smile on your face.
The tunic was custom made for me by Carrie Vincent Babbitt of By C: Creative Creations. Carrie and I are both from York, Nebraska. She's based out of Kansas City, MO now and keeps herself very busy with her family and her creative business. Carrie asked for just a few measurements and then whipped up this tunic for me. It has an elasticized top and comes with a matching belt...and she even threw in a very cute barrette made of the same material. Adorable. My tunic is a longer version, though she can customize the length to fit your proportions.
A lot of people might expect to pay quite a few $$ to have custom-made clothing. But Carrie's prices are incredibly affordable - depending on the fabric that she uses, her tunics are typically under $20.
I threw on a little bolero jacket and leggings with my tunic to run some errands. But I can also envision wearing it tucked into my high-waisted skirt; with jeans, boots and a cardigan come winter...lots of options for creating outfits around this piece. If you'd like to get in touch with Carrie about your own custom tunic, you can reach her through (what else?) her By C: Creative Creations Facebook page. Tell her I say hi!
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Watching Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), I cried out loud when Yuen Qiu, a toothbrush dangling from her foaming lips, pushes open the window and shouts: 'Who stopped the water downstairs?' Her Landlady is nothing less than the reincarnation of the landlady, played by Tan Yuzhen, in Those 72 Tenants (1963). I was compelled to borrow a line from the girlfriend of McDull, Prince de la Bun: cool! Here I don't mean the 1973 Shaw Brothers film The House of 72 Tenants, directed by Chor Yuen, but the original one directed by Wang Weiyi in 1963 for Pearl River Film Studio. Originally a burlesque on the Shanghai stage, it was adapted for the screen with leftwing money and a studio under the banner of socialist ideology. The setting was changed to 1940s Guangzhou. In the 1970s, Shaw Brothers repackaged it, and the film resuscitated Cantonese cinema. More than three decades later, Stephen Chow went to Shanghai with American money to make Kung Fu Hustle and set up Pig Sty Alley in the former metropolis on the banks of the Yangtze. When the Axe Gang have the head of the Crocodile Gang (Feng Xiaogang) cornered, its boss remarks, 'While you were in the police station beating up the cops, your men had gone to learn Cantonese.' Typical Stephen Chow black humour, it reminds me of Hong Kong cinema in its early days.
In the 1920s and 30s, there were no 'Hong Kong films', only 'Chinese films'. But when Sit Kok-sin made the first Cantonese film Platinum Dragon (1933) for Unique Film Company of Shanghai and took Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia and even the America market by storm, Cantonese was here to stay on the screen. Even the controversial attempt to ban Cantonese filmmaking in the 1930s failed to stifle it. It was once reported that Ruan Lingyu was going to part with United Photoplay Service and join Unique to star in a film recorded with the Movietone system (Guangzhou Ling Sing, No 31, 13th April 1932). The authenticity of the news cannot be confirmed, and Yuan had stayed in United Photoplay till the very end. If it had taken place, we could have heard her on the screen. She was Cantonese, and Unique would likely ask her to make Cantonese films. If we look carefully, film advertisements of early talkies of the 1930s were splattered with words like 'Cantonese' or 'Cantonese theatrical sector', and the term 'Hong Kong' was rarely seen, indicating the close relationship between Hong Kong and Guangdong. On the civilian level, the two places were almost one and the same. The 'Hong Kong identity' we frequently talk about today had yet to be born.
The close link between Guangzhou and Hong Kong cinemas is given a concise description in Zhou Chengren's 'The Interplay Between Guangzhou and Hong Kong Cinemas'. Lee Pui-tak, Stephanie Chung Po-yin and Han Yanli, on the other hand, explore early Cantonese cinema through the political, economic and cultural aspects of the relationships between Shanghai and Hong Kong, Mandarin and Cantonese, nationalism and language unification. They invariably mention the ban on Cantonese cinema in the 1930s, a controversial campaign with tangled strands of intrigues and complexities behind it. Many early filmmakers hailed from Guangdong and the Lai brothers Man-wai and Buk-hoi played a pivotal role in the development of both Chinese and Hong Kong cinemas. Many studies had been done on Lai Man-wai and this time we took the opportunity to interview his descendents on his education background and social life, which would be of interest to researchers. As for Lai Buk-hoi, his role in the reconstruction of Hong Kong cinema after the Great Guangzhou-Hong Kong Strike was acknowledged by Li Yizhuang, filling in a blank in the history of local cinema. Lo Ming-yau, who co-founded United Photography with the Lai brothers, was also a Cantonese. Born in Hong Kong, his film career took off in Beijing and reached its peak in Shanghai. However, it was largely their Guangzhou-Hong Kong connection that made United Photography possible, and Lo, in the end, also returned to his birthplace Hong Kong. Poshek Fu tries to rewrite Lo Ming-yau's career and Zhou Chengren examines the structure of United Photoplay, in the process investigating Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai on the larger map of Chinese cinema.
Located at the southern tip of the province, Hong Kong is a part of the Guangdong family. Even in the early years of the colonial era, there was hardly any difference in the way of life between Hong Kong and Guangdong. More coverage and more prominent space were given to Guangdong news than local happenings in Hong Kong newspapers of the 1920s and 30s. From their advertisements, we can see Cantonese opera stars and their troupes shuttling between Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou. Cantonese opera played a pivotal role in the development of Hong Kong cinema, its influence seen in subject matters, genres, as well as cast and crew. The Sit [Kok-sin]–Ma [Si-tsang] Rivalry went from stage to cinema, from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, and both returned to China after 1949. Unlike his rival Ma Si-tsang, Sit Kok-sin left too few films for study. From Ma's classic The Judge Goes to Pieces (1948), we are certain of his influence on Stephen Chow. His other classic The Encounter Between the Prince of Thieves and the Lovelorn Monk (aka Bumbling Father-in-law) put us of the Film Archive in stitches. He and Lau Hark-suen play an odd couple, the latter in a gender-bending turn. Perhaps only actors of their generation, with opera clown training in their background, can do comedy with such skilled abandon. Koo Siu-sun gives a detail analysis on how Ma Si-tsang enriched local cinema with his operatic art. Law Kar also sets his eyes on a colourful figure, Yam Wu-fa. 1930s Guangzhou, Yam was a journalist, pulp-fiction author and filmmaker. Landing in Hong Kong, he continued his discipline-crossing way as tabloid publisher, pop novelist, film critic and filmmaker, a truly multi-talented wizard of popular culture. Airwave novelist Li Ngaw was born in Guangzhou and educated in Hong Kong. He suffered during the war but took Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou by storm with his radio plays after the war. His own life story was stranger than the tales he told and conducting an oral history interview with him was like being treated to a reality show. Linda Lai compares the films adapted from his novels to his interview, and it makes interesting reading. Wang Weiyi was one of the southbound literati from Shanghai, and with the support of leftist filmmaker Cai Chosang, he made Tears of the Pearl River (1950), a classic of Hong Kong cinema. Later he went back to the mainland and took part in the establishment of Pearl River Film Studio. He was one of the key figures in South China cinema. Donna Chu visited him in Guangzhou and filled in a part of our missing memory with valuable first-hand sources.
Memory is like water, shaped by its holder. Our Guangzhou impressions are the present in the films of the 1940s, just like yesterday in 1950s films and begin to get murky in 1960s works. Further down the decades and it would take a dose of imagination. Such is the way with Guangzhou the city; such is also the way for Guangdong legends. In the rooftop amusement parks of the 1930s and 40s, the beauty of Songs of the Peach Blossom River and the heroine Mu Guiying co-existed peacefully. Chan Mung-kat, in his many reincarnations, had long ago found his way from Guangzhou into our collective consciousness, but recently, draped in fashionable mo lay tau, he had again found himself back in his former stomping ground, the mainland. Wong Fei-hung started out with a touch of thug-in-the-hood, but quickly assumed the sternness of a master. Given a new lease on life in the 1970s, he had gone global of late. Cinephiles Grace Ng, Sam Ho and Po Fung lead the charge to rummage through the fictional world of cinema to unearth things we had long forgotten. With Hong Kong geographically part of the South China region often referred to as Lingnan, Reeve Wong, who has gone to work in Beijing for years, minces no word in declaring: there is zero distance between our cinema and Lingnan culture, a controversial proposition bound to draw responses from all sides. Ching May-bo, on the other hand, talks about language, not cinema. She has not submitted her study to the wrong volume, for what made Hong Kong cinema stands out in the history of Chinese cinema was the marginalisation, openness and ever-changing colourfulness of its tongue.
In past studies of Hong Kong cinema, we only focused on the influence of Shanghai and overlooked the close ties we had with our very own Guangzhou. Thanks to Law Kar for coming up with the programme Pearl River Delta: Movie. Culture. Life, jumpstarting the study in this area. Our work has been immensely helped by research done on the early filmmakers by Yu Mo-wan for the Film Archive last year. First hand reminiscences of cinema predecessors are the most valuable material for researchers. I had no training in history researches and I learned much from talks with the historians involved in this project. I am especially grateful for their participation, despite their full schedules. It is always fun talking and writing about films with fellow film lovers. Last but not the least, my thanks to my colleagues, full time and part time, for their total commitment and frequent reminders of what I missed or overlooked. Thank you.
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Maury (Mars for short) is slowly but surely redoing her guest room to make it an inviting place for friends and family to visit. Since she is working with a budget, she is reusing furniture from her childhood- furniture she loves but that looks well-loved in return. Using some familiar products, Mars managed to transform the look of her childhood bed for this new adult space.
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By Jawad Hussain KARACHI, Pakistan (The Sports Encounter) May 12, 2014: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Monday former leg-spin bowler Mushtaq Ahmed as the country's bowling consultant. 1,158 total views, 6 views today Read More »
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PCB to hire English fielding coach
By Bipin Dani MUMBAI, India (The Sports Encounter) May 12, 2014: Richard Halsall is most likely to be the next fielding coach of the Pakistan cricket team, The Sports Encounter has learnt. 1,159 total views, 4 views today Read More »


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If you get in Josh Smith's way, he's going to destroy you — well most of the time anyway. Smith destroys his opponents far less than fans in Detroit would like but when he's firing on all cylinders, he's a spectacle to watch.
We saw some of this on Wednesday night when Smith destroyed the entire Magic defense by blowing past everyone for a wide open dunk.
Smith hasn't been nearly as good with the Pistons as fans thought he would, but the flashes he shows are at least something to cheer about.
Smith destroying the Magic on one dunk is a bit of a tease though, as fans know that for every monster dunk, there's slew of bad plays to erase it.
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Canon EOS 30D review
Canon may appear to have missed a trick by not announcing something totally new in the same price bracket as the Nikon D200 that matches its pixel count. But Canon is canny, and it's rare that any opportunity is missed, so I suspect there's something else up Canon's sleeve.
The 30D is a good camera but, in the grand scheme of things, perhaps not an important one.