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- Written by guitarsmashley on Thursday, May 31 2012 and posted in News with Benefits
What did EVS have to say at his Phoenix Comic-Con spotlight panel? We have the exclusive info you want.
The Ethan Van Sciver panel was a lot of fun even though it massively under attended. There were maybe 12 people present in a room that could easily fit more than 50. This made for an amazing intimate experience that those in attendance relished and those that missed it should be jealous. The panel started with a check into what EVS has been working on.
- Just wrapped up work on his last issue of Firestorm. EVS sounded bitter sweet talking about his hopes for the book. He feels like DC fails at exploiting their characters core concepts. Especially with a character like Firestorm. There just isn't enough NUCLEAR when it comes to Firestorm the Nuclear man. Which is why he developed the idea of a Firestorm proliferation program and would build on ideas like if Iran worked on a Firestorm program. EVS was building to a situation where Jason would eventually be the ultimate firestorm villain for Ronnie Raymond.
- Would never consider writing Wonder Woman but did talk to Gail Simone about an idea where they would redesign Dr. Poison to be a super hot lady that works for all the top non-profit groups but is really this crazy mercy killer who goes into a towns that have been exposed to radiation and kills the population before they all die. Wonder Woman would have to come to terms with how to deal with this different kind of threat.
- When it comes to Geoff Johns they used to talk all the time but don't since his responsibilities at DC have grown. They did just finish work on Green Lantern Annual #1. He then took some time to discuss his work on Flash Rebirth and some flashpoint info with enough Flash nerdgasm info that I recorded it and presented here.
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Then it was pretty much time for question and answer which really turned into discussion time.
- On his upcoming super secret project with Gail Simone- It's a really lame embarrassing silver age character that he's working on in an outside the NU52 kind of way and will be a 100 page horror book. EVS then showed the moderator of the panel a photo of the redesigned character which made him very happy and silenced all at once. The book will feature plastic man and hopefully lead to this character entering the Nu52 in some capacity and turn this character into a serious player in the DC universe.
- The topic of the Nu52 and a possible back door out of it was then discussed with EVS questioning the crowd if they really hated it that much. We discussed how only books that were selling didn't change and really we look for it to end because that's what comic stories do and that we've seen a DC universe reboot 3 times in the last decade so why would this be any different. EVS responded that as long as books are selling and yeah there are going to be some great not so great books but they are being replaced with other books constantly...then someone, maybe me said something like, "That would explain the continued hiring of Rob Liefeld." EVS quickly responded with well...Hawk and Dove are Hawk and Dove but Rob is a great guy and really does exactly what you expect him to do.
- Still reeling from the announcement that there would be a gay character introduced into the Nu52 EVS was asked which character it would be. He said he knew who it was but wouldn't tell. He did however think it would be hilarious if it were Shazam...well to have a gay Shazam but a straight Billy Bastion and would make the transformation that much stranger and bring plenty of questions into their relationship.
- This of course brought up regular con whipping boy Wally West. EVS mentioned that Dan Didio has to love this. No matter where he goes it's all anyone asks about and he loves it. Wally will be back someday but he looks at it like he did years ago with NightWing. And how he was going to kill him just so people talked about him. We would see Wally eventually till then Dan just likes seeing people pissed/talking about him.
Lastly EVS left us with this. His full name is Ethan Daniel Van Sciver, when jumbled the result is Evil Enhanced Variant...someday he would like to have an Evil Enhanced Variant comic.
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Current Sheriff Robert Spoden faces a member of his own department, Captain Gary Groelle, in the primary August 12.
At a forum in Janesville, Spoden defended his department's budget.
"Our budget is always going to be a conservative and we are going to make sure that we are responsible to the taxpayers," said Spoden.
Groelle criticized the purchase of an armored vehicle.
"That was an opportunity that the sheriff took and I'm all for safety for our men and women, but at the cost of $40,000 to taxpayers. I think we shared funds, but that money could have been used to purchase something else," said Groelle.
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Police: Minor injuries reported in Route 7 crashBy Brent Curtis
Staff Writer | February 18,2014
PITTSFORD - A head-on crash this afternoon destroyed a car and a tractor trailer on Route 7 north of the village but only minor injuries were reported, according to Vermont State Police.
The two-lane highway remains only partially open after the crash which took place at about 2:40 p.m. In driving snow and slick conditions, a 2007 Toyota Corolla driven by Wayne Holt, 74, of Brandon, and a 2001 Mack tractor trailer with a trailer full of marble rocks in tow collided about a mile north of the intersection with the Florence Truck Route.
Police say a witness saw Holt's car veer into the southbound lane forcing the tractor trailer to cut into the northbound lane in an attempt to avoid a head-on crash.
The Corolla and the tractor and trailer ended up off the road on either side of the highway. The tractor trailer rolled over completely with the back of the trailer blocking the entire northbound lane.
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1. Update: Released Iranian prisoner thankful for prayers
(Source: VOM contacts)
Mehdi "Petros" Foroutan spent approximately a year in prison in Iran for sharing his faith with Muslims. Thankfully, he was released on June 10 (for more, go to www.persecution.net/ir-2012-06-14a.htm). Since his release, VOM has been helping Petros resettle.
Petros recently shared with VOM that he is very thankful for all who were praying for him while he was imprisoned.
We thank you for praying so faithfully for believers like Petros, and encourage you to remember those in bonds as if bound with them (Hebrews 13:3). Pray that Petros will continue to share his faith with others, despite risk of punishment. Pray that God will use both Petros' time in prison and his new freedom to advance His kingdom in Iran.
For more information on persecution in Iran, go to www.persecution.net/iran.htm.
2. Gospel balloons released into North Korea
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A VOM partner, along with four North Korean defectors now living in South Korea, released 10 gospel balloons into the "Hermit Kingdom" on July 5. The North Korean believers hope the balloons and their cargo will reach their hometowns in North Korea and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ there.
Launching these balloons is a tangible way for North Koreans now living in South Korea to reach out to their homeland. The four North Korean Christians wrote their testimonies and included them among the 45,000 flyers delivered by the balloons. This was the fifth balloon launch by the VOM partner this year.
Pray that the gospel messages carried by the balloons will bring hope to those who read them. Also pray that North Korea's new leader will bring about positive reform and respect the freedoms of North Korean Christians. Pray that Christians in North Korea will remain steadfast in their faith and be a light to those around them.
For more information on North Korea's persecuted Church, visit us at www.persecution.net/northkorea.htm.
3. Update: Pastor's sentence upheld in Vietnam
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An appeals court has upheld the 11-year sentence given to Nguyen Cong Chinh, 43, a Vietnamese believer who pastors a Mennonite church banned by the government.
In March, the pastor was found guilty of giving interviews to foreign media and for posting articles online that "distorted the country's religious and human rights situations" (for more, go to www.persecution.net/vn-2012-04-05.htm).
Vietnam is one of the world's few remaining Communist nations. Though Vietnam's constitution provides for freedom of worship, the government continues to restrict organized activities of many religious groups. Only government-controlled religious organizations are allowed.
Pray that God will grant Nguyen a peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Pray that God will use the time Nguyen spends in prison to further His kingdom. Pray that authorities in Vietnam will respect religious freedom.To learn more about our persecuted family in Vietnam, go to www.persecution.net/vietnam.htm.
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Dane Cook
Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American observational stand-up comedian with dark humor, comedic violence, and excitable, high-energy stage presence.
Harmful If Swallowed (2003)[edit]
- I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy 15 times 'cause they thought he was holding a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR!! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like "AHHHHHH!" *throws pear* "THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!"
- Track 7, " Fireman & Policeman & Miniature Golf Course Security Guard "
- Just go to an airport, stand in front of a person who is waiting for their flight, and stare at them until they notice you are there. When they look at you, just say "Don't get on the flight" and walk away. You know they're sitting there going "I don't think I should get on this fucking flight.. I think an angel just told me not to get on this flight.. Thank you angel wearing jeans!"
- Track 16, "Pranks"
- I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.
- Track 20, "Nightmare"
Retaliation (2005)[edit]
- So I'm hanging out with all my buddies and um... I realized something. Think of the group of people you've known the longest in your life. Think of the group of friends that you've hung out with the most. Maybe you are all here tonight. And this is what I've realized. I had an epiphany and here it is right here. There's one person in every group of friends that nobody fucking likes. You basically keep them there to hate their guts. When that person is not around your little base camp, your hobby is cutting that person down. Example: Karen is always a douchebag. Every group has a Karen and she is always a bag of douche. And when she's not around you just look at each other go: "God Karen, she's such a douchebag. Until she walks up and then you're like: "Hey what's up Karen? Kaaaaren, what's up Karen?" There's always that one person and I'm looking out and some of you guys are like: "Hmmm, I disagree." Well you're the person...you're the person nobody likes."
Tourgasm (2006)[edit]
- When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain... (sigh) "I wasn't invited to this party." But then, once you're IN love, that's like being inside that party, going "Where's my jacket? I wanna get outta here. where's my jacket? I been to this party six years and I wanna see other parties! Where's my jacket. Someone shit on the coats. I think someone shit on, about, or around the coats."
- Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
- I've heard on the news that they are thinking of putting microchips inside babies so that if they ever get kidnapped that you can track them on Google. But what if technology fails? Well here is my solution: next to the microchip, put a fucking detonator. Listen, if I can't have my baby, nobody can!!!
- "You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?" "She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home."
- I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the "Death Star." I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
Vicious Circle (2006)[edit]
- We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.
- By the way, I say God bless you when someone sneezes.. I never say bless you. Do you want to know why? Because I'm not the Lord! I can't do that . . . I'm just a messenger for the big guns up stairs. And I never say gesundheit, who even says that? If I say gesundheit, I'll feel like I'm honoring Hitler or something. GESUNGHEIT!!! ...yes .I'll end up on the History Channel because someone sneezed.
- Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."
- Who doesn't like movies? Who has ever said, "Hey, you wanna go see a movie?" "Fuck that and fuck your movies! It's ridiculous, the whole idea of it! It's just wrong and fake and NO!"
- Now let's fight for three days because I'm bored!
- You know I am glad he is an atheist. Because wouldn't it be great that while he is doing his little tree thing, i know they do a lot of work with breezes, through the woods a huge sweaty guy with an ax comes long, sees him " chop-chop", puts a chain around him, drag him through the mud and the muck, throws him into a sawmill and grinds him up " NEEEEEEEEEEE", then you pound him down into paper, and once he's paper, you print the Bible on him.
"When somebody gives you directions, don't you get so anal about their directions, they give you them and the entire time driving your like cutting down their directions, right? Their like take a left at the red house, thats fucking maroon you idiot! Why is it the street you're looking for always has a tree from the Mesozoic Era growing around the sign, your looking for like Mount Vernon and all you see is like the N for Vernon, and you drive by going, that was probably it. Theres always a point in the directions when it says "if you hit the train tracks, uh you've gone too far" and right then *CUCLUNK*..FUCK!"
Rough Around the Edges (2007)[edit]
- The reason I like to watch stuff about the Civil War is because I believe that I was in the Civil War. I went to a clairvoyant and she told me in a past life, she goes "You were in the Civil War." And I said I feel this. Because when I watch programs about the Civil War, sometimes, I feel like I know people. I'm like "There's James!" "Lloyd! I would know you, you fangle-tooth motherfucker! Go build that railroad."
Isolated Incident (2009)[edit]
- You ever do a little delete game? Do you like to do that? You go through, you take your contact list, sometimes you're just in the doctor's office right? You start scrolling through, you're like...who don't I need? Who don't I need in my life? Where can I get a megabyte of space back right now? And it's kinda fun right? You just scroll through...er Peter, Peter, yeah fuck Peter, BOOM! And you really hit that delete button like you're deleting Peter from existence. Peter is sitting half way around the world eating a steak and the second you hit that button he just turns to vapor: VVVVVVVV!! The fork falls: Tingtingtingelingtingting! The person that's sitting across him is like: "PETER!". Peter is gone. Poof!
- [To girlfriend about the "What you do if" challenge] "What would you do if" I came out of your mother's bedroom, covered in blood, going "We gotta get outta here!"?


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The SPB16.3 release of Allegro PCB Editor now provides the ability to resize line width and gap of differential pairs. Designers are faced with challenges driven by time, cost and quality. A change request can come from the electrical engineers that mandates that differential pair gaps and widths be resized. This can entail hours to hundreds of hours ripping up and rerouting entire sections of the design to the new constraints.New in SPB16.3 is the Resize/Respace Diff Pair command resize_respace_dp (Route — Resize/Respace — Diff Pairs) which is available in the pre-selection and legacy mode. You select the differential nets in the canvas that are targeted for change, and a dialog box appears listing (by layer) the current line width and gap of the selected pairs. Adjacent to each entry are fields for you to enter in the replacement values for width and gap.The process flow assumes that the change of the line width and gap precedes any constraint updates to the database. Once the physical changes are implemented, you should update the constraints in Constraint Manager and then update the DRCs to ensure that the gaps and widths are consistent with the constraints. Read on for more details …Using the command To resize/respace the differential pairs in the design you use the following flow:1. In pre-select mode select the differential pairs you need to change. You can select one or more differential pairs that need to be changed. If you are in the legacy mode you enter the command and then select the differential pairs you want to change. 2. Enter the command resize_respace_dp (Route — Resize/Respace — Diff Pairs).3. The User Interface appears listing all of the respective line widths and gaps of the selection set.
4. Complete any changes needed. If there are multiple entries for a line width and gap -- for example the 3 rows for Current Width and Current Gap with values of 6.00 for the 3 separate layers (Top, Signal_3, Signal_6) as shown above -- and you make a change to one of the parameters, you are able to then copy that new parameter. A prompt will ask if you want to copy the new parameter to all layers that had the old parameter.
5. Select "OK" to accept all of the changes. After the design updates expect to see uncoupling and spacing DRCs. It's the responsibility of the designer to synchronize the constraint system as well as clean up any route violations to other obstacles.Note: The availability of this command will be from the Early Adopter category variable -- resize_respace_dp
Please share your experiences with this new feature!
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Earlier this week there was a public meeting about the future of the Leeds Girls High School site.
The site has now been empty for a couple of years and the community is becoming (rightly) fed up with the inaction of the school and its constant desire to shaft the community and build houses on the playing fields.
There is a good account of the meeting on Bill McKinnon's website, one of the few posts on his website that I've agreed with! Both Greg Mulholland MP and Cllr Martin Hamilton (Lib Dem, Headingley) attended the meeting with Martin chairing part of it. Greg spoke during the meeting and managed to secure a meeting between the High School and the local Leeds Girls High School Action Group (LGHSAG). This should be a step forward in protecting the playing fields and getting the best result for the community.
Interestingly although the Labour Leeds North West Parliamentary candidate and Labour's ccouncil candidate for Headingley were present, neither of them decided to speak.
With thanks to Mexico75 for the photo
Friday, 11 December 2009
Leeds Girls High School Meeting
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Is the Internet Bad News? The Online News Era and the Market for High-Quality News
AbstractWe review and model the impact of the internet on the production and uptake of high- quality news. Our review of trends in the market for news suggests 3 stylized facts: i) particular quality news markets are dominated by merely a few providers, ii) demand for quality news appears stable, but provision of news has become specialized; mainstream news is decoupled from quality news, and iii) the dominant business model of internet news mirrors that of radio, television, and newspapers in that costs of news production are recouped via advertising. We build a stylized model that rationalizes these facts. Our model captures three conflicting effects: (1) economies of scale in the production of news lead to monopolies on particular markets, (2) easy access to information on the internet makes it cheaper to provide high-quality news and to disseminate it via the web, which increases the production of such news; and (3) the existence of bloggers and news aggregators who recycle the stories of news-providers reduces the effective property rights of high-quality news producers, thus forcing the business model of the internet to be advertising-based. For the most likely cases, our model would imply that the internet does not constitute bad news for the provision and uptake of quality news.
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- Frijters Paul & Velamuri Malathi, 2010. "Is the Internet Bad News? The Online News Era and the Market for High-Quality News," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 1-33, June.
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- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
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Loki puts an ad on Craigslist looking for a roommate (to help pay for rent) and Tom is the only one who answered. They end up as roommates and wacky shenanigans ensue.
((I make no claim to know Tom Hiddleston or how he would act as a roommate. This is just a silly web comic, don't take it too seriously.))
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What is Stitch up to while Loki's on Tumblr...?
Ehehe, oh him. He's actually behaving himself for once.
It might have something to do with all the candy he ate…


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Credit due. He's a pckin machine!!!
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Miggy is doing a pretty good Robin Ventura impersonation with the glove lately.
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Miggy is doing a pretty good Robin Ventura impersonation with the glove lately.
Ill tip my cap to him.
........yep, he has Bette Davis eyes....and Michael Young range.
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Scott Brown's daughter Ayla has released her first video, "Pick It Up". I'm not particularly a fan of this type of music, but she has a nice voice. [Ed Note: Look out for the strategic use of the "Cross Dissolve" every five seconds to indicate time passing. This video was clearly made by an iMovie genius.] View Media ›


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Summer Nights. White porches. Sweet Tea. The 30's. Dancing. Love.
All I can think of when I hear this song is a couple from the 30's, him with the button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up and her with the dress, strapped heels, and curly pinned back hair, home from a dinner party with the sun setting, glasses of sweet tea sweating in the late summer heat, dancing slowly around the parlor just so happy to finally be home alone in the comfort and safety of each others arms…and she'll look up at him and smile with those deep, painted lips and it's the kind of thing that makes you believe that there's a playful aspect of love that we all still hope enough to believe in.
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T.J. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and got the winner in the eighth round, leading the United States past Russia 3-2 Saturday in the thrilling revival of an Olympic hockey rivalry.
Cam Fowler and Joe Pavelski scored in regulation for the Americans in the marquee game of the preliminary round. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves and stopped five attempts in the shootout.
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me encanta el video y la cancion
I still feel bad. Fuck. Therese said I'm bonkers for thinking that picture looked like William but it TOTALLY did.
This is lovely. Now that we all know Beckett isn't the pretty girl in the video..
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Why don't we try "economic survival" as a national view?
If it looks Republican, smells Republican, and walks like a Republican, it is Republican legislation, even if it was passed by a Democrat. We do not have a two-party system of "checks and balances" in Washington. We have chameleons that change colors, but all are under control of Republicans. This explains why the rich now have between $21 and $32 Trillion stashed in offshore accounts (follow the money trail).
This is a book review: "Dean Baker a PhD. Economist and co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) provides a brilliant, evidence-based, iconoclastic deconstruction of the myth that liberals like "Big Government" and conservatives favor the "Free Market". He documents the importance of government intervention on behalf of the rich and powerful in most of the important sectors of the economy. Covering such diverse areas as immigration policy(1), patient (monopoly) law, "Free" trade agreements, bankruptcy law, and Federal Reserve policy(2), Baker clearly demonstrates how these policies operate in the background (below the radar of public perception) to decidedly advance the class interests of the already powerful."
(1)This is from NumbersUSA: The immigration tidal wave of the last three decades has made it impossible for Baby Boomers to ever enjoy the 1970s dream of a stabilized country — even if all immigration were stopped tomorrow. The Census Bureau states that if immigration were reduced to replacement level, the United States population would still be growing at the end of the century because of the momentum created by the last three decades of immigration.
(2)The Republican Greenspan was appointed by the Republican Reagan in 1987 to head the Federal Reserve Bank. The Republican Bernanke was appointed by the Republican Bush in 2002 to head the Federal Reserve Bank. This means the Fed has been under continuous Republican control since 1987. This explains why, regardless of election outcome (D or R), we always get Republican government intervention on behalf of the rich and powerful, and explains why Greenspan allowed the housing bubble to expand.
Google: Tax havens: Super-Rich 'Hiding' at Least $21tn, July 22, 2012: The three private banks handling the most assets offshore are UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs; Less than 100,000 people worldwide own about $9.8tn of the wealth held offshore.
"The great fortunes of the world were all created by doing something immoral, before it became illegal." -Kurt Vonnegut.
Ken, you need to go out and get a job or do something for others.
Get a life and eat your lasagna.
12:34 Yeah, you've got to silence your opposition. Don't you brown-shirt?
Did YOU pay any taxes in 2009?
You aren't taking your meds on a regular basis are you?
Can't afford another Iraq, although it looks like Mittens is dead-set on getting us into Iran as soon as possible.
Can't afford another Afghanistan dopey. If Bill Clinton had not left a world in turmoil with people killing Americans at will maybe 3,000 would be alive in NYC and at the Pentagon.
…has a brown shirt. He was in a hurry to leave after he received a Cleveland Steamer.
holdover neocon needs a new job
romney's his pusssie
So you didn't pay any taxes did you freeloader? And don't pretend you're several people sunshine. It's pretty clear who and what you are.
8.2% unemployment, anemic 1.5% growth of GDP, negative job growth, highest recorded levels of poverty and poverty growth in America's history, over 200,000 businesses closed since 2009, credit rating dropped from AAA to AA, over $30 billion of additional taxes on small businesses (with more to come), over $500 billion taken from Medicare and not replaced, 27 taxes levied on the middle class, buying power reduced by over 20%, vetoing the Excel gas line, more taxes promised by the Democrats next year, EPA working to shut down natural gas and causing Wayne County, PA, into bankruptcy, and on, and on, and on, and on….the worse record for economic stewardship of any President in the history of the Republic, he has shown himself to be completely incompetent to be President…It is the economy stupid.
Bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, TARP, jobs to communist China, runaway illegal Mexican immigration, stupid Iraq war left 4,500 dead in the desert based on a lie, "Deficits Don't Matter" Dick Cheney, Bush Tax Cuts cause ANNUAL $1 Trillion deficits, middle class evaporating — the GOP record of governance.
Yes, wife and I did pay taxes. Over $180 thousand in Federal, you estimate our combined income. I also believe that we who make over $250 K should pay a little more if it will allow to keep the lower rates for the majority and if it will help with needed social programs and reinvigoration aggregate demand.
Also, the world view of the neoconservatives that advise Romney is dangerous for our country. That is why that warmed up regurgitations should be stuffed back into their dying carcasses.
Thank goodness I saved up for many many rainy days with this miserable economy. Worthless Democrats and Republican leeches look out for themselves and could give a damn about you or your families! That's quite clear now! What has Congress done for us lately other than helping themselves? They are the new Welfare and our tax dollars are being wasted on their bloated salaries! Save whatever you have now because it appears to be getting worse. Buckle down Americans!
"Different world view"….huh..???
DOH-Bama doesn't even know how many states are i his OWN country..!!!
Mr. Williamson asserted: "President Obama has a different world view…where we depend on multilateralism and where we defer to international law. It's a different fundamental approach."
Either this guy is not all that bright or, closer to reality; he is counting on the folks who listen to him not being all that bright.
First off, let's dissect his multilateralism point: has he forgotten the coalition his old boss, Bush 41, put together during the first, and justified, Iraq war or does he hope we forgot? Secondly, does he remember the "Coalition of the Willing" Bush 43, Cheney and Rumsfeld put together for their ginned up, unjustified, Iraqi invasion based on false information?
President Obama went in to Pakistan with out any assistance or permission to kill Osama Bin Laden. This was certainly done unilaterally and I am sure broke a number of International Laws. Williamson may have forgotten, but I haven't, when Senator McCain, during the 2008 presidential debates, said that doing such a thing would be a great mistake and a violation of International Law. And that's really saying something from a man who will send our troops and spend our treasure to go to war at a drop of a hat.
Additionally, whether you approve or not, President Obama has significantly escalated the use of drones to kill our enemies to an all time high. These drone missions cross international boarders regularly into countries that we have not declared war against. This as well seams to being done unilaterally and in violation of International Law.
Just because his does not wanted to put boots on the ground in civil war situations like Libya, Egypt, and Syria doesn't make him weak or un-American. Actually it's quite the contrary. He is showing great restraint and letting other countries expend the blood of their military and spend their treasure. Off topic for a moment: Let's be honest, no republican president would have gone into Egypt anyway, because it has no oil.
The more I listen to Romney and his minions, it is becoming clear they really can't find something real that is so bad about what President Obama has or hasn't done they are making stuff up, creating new contexts or trying to rewrite history.
What better vehicle to try to accomplish the spreading of this misinformation than through a Rupert Murdoch owned paper?
Obama lives in real world in the fairytale land where people who believe that a vulture capitalist pursuing the failed policies supply siders which have landed us where we are. Romney used Jobs and Gates they ecploited technology.neither invented the integrated circuit, nor the apple operating system they were done by others. Small talk a Xerox developed interface is the progenitor of all the windowing interfaces of today. Developed to run on technology paid for by taxpayers, the internet made Apple and Microsoft successes as well as google. The moronic egotistic vision that I did all myself is typical of the right. Their egos get in the way of reality. Here is dose of reality, the Wall Street Journal hardly a friend to Obama just published the following. I will not elaborate: This is why Obama proposed the American Jobs Act in September. This would have strengthened the economy through job-creating and growth-enhancing public investments in education and transportation infrastructure, and by providing support for those most vulnerable and hit hardest by economic pressures. The forecasting consultancy Macroeconomic Advisors and economists at Goldman Sachs estimated last September that the American Jobs Act would increase GDP by an additional 1.5% and create an additional 2.1 million jobs. Moody's economist Mark Zandi warned, "If policy makers do nothing, the odds are very high we'll go into recession next year."
Did you notice how devoid of specifics the Romney camp is when complaining about Obama? "He's a multilateralist" (read socialist). He has a "different world view" (read one-world government).
The one specific is that Romney wants to spend much more on the military. Romney really has very little specific that he can complain about: Libya went OK, OBL is dead, our troops aren't being killed in Iraq, Obama tried the "good" strategy in Afghanistan, but it's failing, and therefore he's cutting our losses.
So instead of specifics, it's scary pronouncements that Obama is …oooh… outside the mainstream. Well, no, he isn't. It's a bunch of thin propaganda for the weak-minded. Romney isn't really running on much in the way of issues, is he? http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/2012/07/boxed-into-corner.html
Cost lies on ObamaCare designed to win the day (only)
Grant and loan lies on Solyndra and many many others with pretend due diligence
Target enemies list with IRS and Labor audits
Ignore laws as needed on immigration and many other areas as needed
Spend at slightly reduced rate from temporary stimulus spike level and call it restraint or savings
Ignore annual $1T deficits and keep it off the talking list and blogs
…..and spoon feed words for libs to spout and spread at all times because they really don't think for themselves except when in attack chaos mode when the voters make mistakes and let someone else in the door of power
8.2% unemployment, anemic 1.5% growth of GDP, negative job growth, highest recorded levels of poverty and poverty growth in America's history, over 200,000 businesses closed since 2009, credit rating dropped from AAA to AA, over $30 billion of additional taxes on small businesses (with more to come), over $500 billion taken from Medicare and not replaced, 27 taxes levied on the middle class, buying power reduced by over 20%, vetoing the Excel gas line, more taxes promised by the Democrats next year, EPA working to shut down natural gas and causing Wayne County, PA, into bankruptcy, and on, and on, and on, and on….the worse record for economic stewardship of any President in the history of the Republic, he has shown himself to be completely incompetent to be President…It is all about the economy stupid.
This guy's words are just electioneering, trying to scare enough people to make them run to the 'safety' of Mitt's 'worldview' – whatever that is. Russia is our greatest enemy, followed by Hugo Chavez – until Mitt changes his mind, that is. This all smacks of Cheneyesque fear-mongering. There is nothing wrong with using multilateral organizations – we have to get out of Bushian mindset that going it alone is the only way. We saw how that ended up. The US deals with multilateral orgs every day; to make that suddenly seen foreboding is pure election-season nonsense.
These guys are totally unaware I guess that we had a financial crisis in 2008 that turned the world economy upside down where the G20 met to come up with a coordinated plan to try to deal with it. What bubble do they live in? The emperor (US) was revealed to be naked at that moment. The rest of the world is in on the big lie. Get outside of your bubbles and read blogs from countries all over the world. Time to grow up and behave like a citizen of the world — not bully.
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Darn, I tried to watch that Williamson video. Boring, poor analysis, empty words and lifeless ideas. I literally fell asleep and I am have an International Politics Ph.D. Dreadful!
If that is Romney's chief advisor on security and foreign relations, they are in real trouble.
Excuse me, 451, but your adjectives also describe the candidate himself. Surprised?
Bipartisan? Republican congress has outlawed that kind of thing.
Mitt Romney is more qualified for this job http://ow.ly/cyF2A
John, that is funny but wicked! Is there a glow in the dark one for the "not a steer " Ken from Austin,TX ?
Obama is Charismatic & likable and always seeks the spotlight but is corrupt to the bone. He always says what people want to hear and we Americans were proud to elect a black man as our president because it shows the world what we are all about. But while Obama preaches to the poor, he is owned by the rich. The only president to hide his past history at the cost of millions. He even surrendered his law license to avoid investigation. So what could be so bad that millions was spent to hide? Maybe a few drug busts & arrest records? We Americans will never know (probably far worse) because our news-media is closed & controlled and refuse to print anything about Obama's past history or his IN-ELIGIBILITY to be president. Obama leads America into a new unprecedented era of corruption.
Just another "big lie" that if it is outrageous enough and repeated often it is true from Goeebels pr book, All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach, which I guess is you.
Hey I got a good one for you Bill O'Reilly is really Hitler's grandson and left him secret documents on how to rule the world without every using a weapon other than your mouth and how to get away with sexual harrassment.
Harry: you are off your meds again. You need to take your meds, quit watching FOX "news" immediately, and try to get a life.
HarryOrielly is correct. Obama is a manipulator who will say what he has to say and do what he has to do in order to get what he wants. He doesn't know what the word eithcal means because it's not in his dictionary. The end justifies the means. That's all he needs to know. Just ask him, "What's the capital of Israel?"
Stop whining, Mitt & Company. Mitt Romney has ZERO credentials in foreign policy and it shows. There's no need to regurgitate the mindless and empty criticisms from the GOP. If you want to run, SHOW us your tax returns. The fact that you declared a $78K LOSS in your 2010 tax return for the care of your show horse is outrageous as the total income of the majority of tax-payers will hardly match that!
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Obama had zero credentials in anything and it didn't stop left wing zelaots from getting him in did it? You want the rules for everyone except yourselves.
This is a very good statement made in the article. "President Obama is governing as if he believes the decline of America is inevitable." This is exactly what has been happening. This is why Obama is acting like a whipped puppy everywhere he goes and to everyone he meets. And I wonder why…he's the one running us into decline.
How may of you scoffed at the mention of a Che Chavez poster in the background of an Obama campaign in Houston in 2008? How many of you said it was incidental and just a conspiracy theory of the right wing? Well it turns out that is exactly what's happening in the U.S. meaning Che Chavez would be an inspiration and idol of Obama's philosophy.
We need to get back on course and govern like we had for the many years of stability up to the point of Obama throwing everything out of control. Left wingers think it's good that you get rid of dictators in other countries but who are they replacing them with – terrorist backed groups ! And you think this is all just a coincidence that this happened on Obama's watch do you? No, this is exactly what he wants.
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icon tutorial: Administrator icon using Illustrator
Hello.! In this tutorial we will pursuit 2 main goals: first, we will make an administrator icon in Clean Web 2.0 style, having as a tool Adobe Illustrator CS4. Second, we will experience the process of mixing a daily reality of the corporate world with some of the concepts of what we call Web 2.0 The man with a tie comes from a very complex world, now you will translate it to a cleansed, catching and easy to understand point of view.
Step 1.
Open a new document in Illustrator CS4. Set the size to 500 x 500 pixels (later you can resize it to fit your needs).
Step 2.
Draw a circle and remove the stroke. Fill it using a gradient, radial type; see image below for RGB values.
Step 3.
Now select the bright sun you just created, copy and paste in the same place (Ctrl/Command+C, Ctrl/Command+F) Then resize it to be slightly smaller than the original. Fill it with a single color as shown below.
Step 4.
Copy and paste in place this smaller circle again (Ctrl/Command+C, Ctrl/Command+F). Give it a radial gradient as shown below. Note that both sliders have the same color, but one of them has been set to 0% opacity. This way we add inner light to the gorgeous head.
Step 5.
Now it's time to put some reflections. Do the shape by copying and pasting in front once again the smaller circle, then making an oval and selecting both figures in order to divide them using Divide tool on the Pathfinder panel. After the path operation is done, press Shift+Crtl/Command+G to ungroup all the pieces and delete those that won't be used.
Step 6.
Now add a radial gradient to this shape. See the image below. Note again that one of the handlers has 0% opacity.
Step 7.
One more time use the small circle (select, copy and paste in front). Leave it without fill and put a bold white stroke (5 pt will be fine). Open the transparency panel and set opacity to 73%.
Step 8.
Next, do the neck. This is just as easy as drawing a rectangle wide enough, filling it with the color specified below and cutting the corners (later we will put the shirt over this zone). Send the neck backwards (Object – Arrange – Send to back). If you started with a big head, like in this tutorial, you may want to group all the elements and scale to a smaller size. If so, don't forget to check the Scale Strokes and Effects option at the Transform panel.
Good job. There is now a brilliant clean head full of ideas. Let's now give it a noble office portrayal.
Step 9.
The body is simple to make but it needs however a bit of fine adjusting in order to give a correct look. The following image shows that the basic shape comes from a circle. Then you just drag the upper and bottom nodes as needed. Finally apply a light gray fill.
Step 10.
As in step 4, use a smaller version of the body to give inner light.
Step 11.
Like in step 6, make a new copy of the small shape, remove fill and add a white bold stroke to a new copy . See the settings below:
Step 12.
Use an oval for reflections. In this case you may want to add a couple of points to better adjust that shape. Apply a radial gradient as in step 6.
The employee of the month is about to be ready for work. Put the final details on place.
Step 13.
This time you will have to use the Pen Tool. Drawing the tie isn't difficult at all. Just click some 5 points, and pay attention to the Stroke settings: round cap and round join. Fill and stroke colors are the same.
Step 14.
Use the same tie shape again (copy and paste in front) to give light. The linear gradient used here has both handlers set to the same blue but one of them is 100% transparent.
Step 15.
It's 7:20 a.m. Time to finish placing the shirt. Use the Pen Tool to make a 4 points shape. Use white fill, bold gray stroke as shown below. Once made, select it, copy and paste in front. Use Transform – Reflect to make a mirrored shape and put them around the tie.
Step 16.
A convenient shadow can be made by using the body and tie shapes. Use the Unite operation at the Pathfinder panel to make a single shape, use a dark fill, and then apply some blur (Effect – Blur – Gaussian Blur). Send the shape to back.
Now you have created a proactive administrator with the style of Web 2.0 – Well done! It should look great on your screen. If possible, make some variations and then go spread your inner magic outside the computer.
Got any question? Any obscure step you cannot deal with? Drop a comment. One solution might arise.
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12 Responses to "icon tutorial: Administrator icon using Illustrator"
Sherwood August 3rd
Awesome….as soon as I get my program running, I'll be trying this! Thanks for showing us how to make an icon…:) Sweet
Sherwood August 4th
Awesome….as soon as I get my program running, I'll be trying this! Thanks for showing us how to make an icon…:) Sweet
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
Jjay August 5th
I dream of CS4 but its still useful for illustrator, very nicely detailed n illustrated. Gj team IS
iconoclast August 6th
G – I tried this tutorial with Pse and with Visio… am a bit handicapped without Illustrator… but had success, nonetheless. Really cool!
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Lame tutorial. Yuck!
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Kol Nidre Showed Me What It Means To Truly Belong in the Jewish Community
The Yom Kippur prayer unites everyone who hears it. Twenty-five years after I converted, it still gives me goose bumps.Read more ›
In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement
Isolation didn't help Jonah find redemption inside the whale. It isn't helping thousands of American prisoners today, either.Read more ›
Worshippers, a Love Story: Understanding the Jewish People's Relationship to God
As we contemplate our connection to the Divine on the High Holidays, we should recall the reciprocal love at the heart of JudaismRead more ›
A Great Thinker Rediscovers His Judaism on the Day of Atonement
Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was set to convert to Christianity a century ago. Yom Kippur services changed his mind.Read more ›
The Serenaders of Yom Kippur
Who volunteers to sing in the synagogue choir for Kol Nidre? This year, I joined and found out.Read more ›
Susan Feniger's Break-Fast
Forget bagels and cream cheese. Break the Yom Kippur fast in a new way with recipes from a Top Chef master.Read more ›
Sacred Remake
We may talk of its eternal qualities, but the music of Kol Nidre is forever being made anewRead more ›
Sixty years ago, I committed a small act of injustice against someone whose name I never knew. This Yom Kippur, I can finally set the record straight.Read more ›
Pardon Me
My childhood bullying, and an attempt to atone for itRead more ›
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Atonement in Lower Manhattan
An incredible Occupy Wall Street Kol Nidrei draws hundreds
Fast Talk
Diplomat Dennis Ross and Times columnist Tom Friedman give an annual Yom Kippur seminar at Kol Shalom in Rockville, Md., a synagogue they helped start
Sundown: Occupy Yom Kippur
Plus some reading for when you're not eating
Who by What? Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, and U'netaneh Tokef
Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, U'netaneh Tokef: On Yom Kippur, finding redemption is a matter of laying down the right soundtrack
Sorry God
It's the time of year for apologies, but not everyone has forgiveness on their mind. An argument for not saying sorry until God does.
Yizkor, Book: On Yom Kippur, Offering a Blessing for the Life and Death of Books
On Yom Kippur, a day of remembrance, offering a blessing for the life and death of books
Take It Back
A late-night mistake, a ruptured college friendship, and a Yom Kippur apology. Atonement can make things better, if not quite fix them.
Sixty years ago, I committed a small act of injustice against someone whose name I never knew. This Yom Kippur, I can finally set the record straight.
Stormy Weather
When an old frenemy gets back in touch, it raises the point crucial to Yom Kippur: Forgiveness doesn't always fix everything, and that's fine.
Yoshie Fruchter and his band, Pitom, delve into repentance on the new album Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, a jazz-metal take on confession
Talking Points
After the Arab Spring, a summer of Israeli protests, and the Palestinian bid for statehood, what will rabbis say in their High Holiday sermons?
Ramadan Promises a Not-So-Easy Fast
For Muslims, a summer month is a longer month
The Shabbat of Shabbats, on Shabbat
Gaming out this year's Yom Kippur
Seeing Things
When fast-food-induced hallucinations of Chelsea Clinton precede Yom Kippur, extreme measures must be taken