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Tree falls on man in Fox Point
A man was injured Saturday morning in Fox Point when a tree fell on him, authorities said.
A helicopter was sent to help the man who was injured near the intersection of N. Lake Drive and N. Gray Log Lane, according to the North Shore Fire Department. The man was taken to a hospital.
WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) reports the man was out for a morning jog and that he sustained serious injures that were not life threatening.
Stunned friends try to grasp shooting of Glendale brothers
Wesley and Robert Washington Jr. were outside their Glendale home Thursday, playing basketball, when their father came out and wanted to play, too.
The sons were reluctant; the father joined anyway.
After going up for a rebound, he fell to the ground.
Robert Washington Sr. went back inside.
According to Sean Kelly, a family friend: When the father re-emerged, he had a gun. He shot Wesley, 15, twice. Robert, 20, ran over and tried to tackle his father. A bullet pierced the right side of the elder son's chest.» Read Full Article
One killed, one injured in Glendale shooting
Glendale police have arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing one of his sons and injuring another Thursday afternoon.
A 20-year-old was killed and a 15-year-old was injured and called police after the shooting, according to Detective Troy Nitschke. About a dozen police and rescue vehicles were on the scene just after 2:30 p.m.
Police Department spokesman Joel Dhein said the shooting occurred inside a house in the 1000 block of W. Theresa Lane.
When officers arrived, they found the wounded 15-year-old attending to the 20-year-old victim, Dhein said.
Officers pulled the 20-year-old to the driveway of a neighboring home first before administering first-aid because they did not know where the shooter was, Dhein said.» Read Full Article
Homestead baseball team gets help from G'town mistakes in 10-4 win
Sometimes when a team gets beat soundly, its coach will just tip his cap and say "We got beat by a better team".
But in the case of the Homestead baseball team's 10-4 victory over visiting Germantown Thursday night at beautifully refurbished Rennicke Field, winning coach Ernie Millard said he sort of felt sorry for Germantown, because the Warhawks handed the Highlanders opportunity after opportunity courtesy of six errrors.
"They (the Warhawks actually came out and played well at the beginning), but then they had one bad inning (the fifth, with three errors and five Homestead runs) and we took advantage," said Millard. "We were able to score but we didn't exactly tear the cover off the ball."
The win came on the heels of a completion of a suspended game between the two squads that was played at Germantown. In that game, the score was 11-11 in the top of the 11th and Homestead used three hits, including a Bryce Juedes RBI single and a passed ball to score two runs in that frame to pull out a 13-11 win.
Then the two teams boarded their buses and headed down Mequon Road to Rennicke Field for a regularly scheduled game on a rare beautiful June night.» Read Full Article
Updated: Glendale man charged with shooting two sons
(Editor's note: This story was updated at 1 p.m. on July 1 with information from the criminal complaint against Robert C. Washington, Sr.)
New shopping center planned for Grafton
A shopping center featuring Pier 1 Imports, ULTA Beauty and Men's Wearhouse is planned for Highway 60 and Port Washington Road in Grafton.
The Redmond Co. said Thursday it will design and construct the 25,000-square-foot retail shopping center, which is being developed by Rick Schmit Rentals Inc.
Shorewood man charged with 13 counts of voter fraud
A Shorewood man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of illegal voting, accused of casting multiple ballots in four elections in 2011 and 2012, including five in the 2012 gubernatorial recall.
Robert D. Monroe, 50, used addresses in Shorewood, Milwaukee and Indiana, according to the complaint, and cast some votes in the names of his son and his girlfriend's son.
According to the complaint:
Monroe cast two ballots in the April 2011 Supreme Court election, two in the August 2011 Alberta Darling recall election, five in the Scott Walker-Tom Barrett recall, one illegal ballot in an August 2012 primary, and two ballots in the November 2012 presidential election.
In the presidential election, Monroe cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 and drove a rental car to Lebanon, Ind., where he showed his Indiana driver's license to vote in person on election day, Nov. 6, the complaint charges. Monroe owns a house there, according to the complaint.» Read Full Article
Homestead football golf outing on June 30
The 22nd annual Homestead Football Golf Outing will be held Monday, June 30 at Fire Ridge Golf Course in Grafton, starting at 12:30 p.m.
The cost is $100 and that cost covers 18 holes of golf, a power cart, prizes, refreshments and a dinner after the outing. It's an 18-hole event with a shotgun start.
The 2014 season represents the 54th year of Homestead football and every coach and player who has been involved in the program from 1959 to 2008 is being invited back to the event
Proceeds go to help the Highlanders successful football program.
For more information, please call head coach Dave Keel (414) 460-0238 or assistant coaches Fritz Rauch (262) 238-5869, Tom Fugate (262) 238-5941 and Matt Wolf (262) 238-5907.
Free beer offered at opening of Hubbard Park Beer Garden
Hubbard Park Beer Garden will hold a grand opening celebration Tuesday with free beer and music beginning at 5 p.m.The new
The free beer will be available until eight kegs are gone. A $5 deposit is required on glassware. Root beer is free, and wine and other soft drinks are also available.
The new beer garden is located at 3565 N. Morris Blvd. in Hubbard Park in Shorewood along the Oak Leaf Trail bike path just south of Capital Drive.
Parking is limited so biking and walking to the beer garden is encouraged.
The beer garden will feature local and German beers, along with nonalcholic drink options and summer-type food.» Read Full Article
Sprecher considers tap room for new building
Glendale-based Sprecher Brewing Co. has purchased an adjacent building for storage and is considering a possible tap room for part of the space.
Sprecher bought the 65,000-square-foot building, 727 W. Glendale Ave., for $1,865,000, according to brokerage firm Colliers International. Bill Langhoff, of Colliers, brokered the transaction.
Sprecher's main facility covers around 70,000 square feet at 701 W. Glendale Ave. That includes the brewery, its offices and a gift shop.
The craft brewer will use its new building for storage, President Jeff Hamilton said. Parts of the building are leased to tenants, and those businesses will remain at the property, he said.
Hamilton said part of the new building might be converted into a tap room, where people who take the Sprecher brewery tour could buy the company's craft beers and sodas.» Read Full Article
MMSD approves sewer service expansion in Mequon
expansion of the Mequon sewer service area along Donges Bay Road was approved Monday by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District commission.A 360-acre
Vacant land in the block between Wauwatosa and Swan roads is targeted for development of 360 homes on lots of a half-acre or less, Mequon officials said. The lots would be clustered together to preserve common open space.
There is adequate capacity in the regional sewer system to handle additional wastewater from the proposed development, according to MMSD engineers.
The Mequon-Thiensville School District is owner of the largest undeveloped parcel in the block at 111.7 acres. The School Board will ask voting-age residents of the district attending an annual meeting July 21 to authorize sale of the property. The parcel is surplus and will not be needed for construction of a new school due to declining enrollment, district officials said.
Storms force 336 million gallons of sewage into Milwaukee waterways
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District said Friday.Overflows of combined sanitary and storm sewers Wednesday spilled an estimated 336.2 million gallons of untreated wastewater, mostly water with sewage, into local rivers and Lake Michigan, the
Combined sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood overflowed to waterways for 19.5 hours Wednesday after thunderstorms poured 2 inches or more of rain on those neighborhoods in one hour between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., the district says in a report to the state Department of Natural Resources. This was MMSD's second combined sewer overflow of the year.
Overflows began shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when the district's deep tunnel system started filling quickly in the heavy downpour.
More than 100 million gallons of water flowed into the main tunnels in just 12 minutes, between 1:52 and 2:04 a.m. Wednesday, according to flow monitors. The torrent took up 23% of the main tunnels' capacity in those few minutes.
MMSD Executive Director Kevin Shafer ordered Jones Island sewage treatment plant operators to start an emergency measure to reduce volumes in the tunnels. Starting at 2:15 a.m., wastewater was pumped directly out of the tunnels and diverted around some treatment to the final step of disinfection where chlorine was added to kill bacteria and pathogens. There it was mixed with fully treated wastewater and discharged to the lake.» Read Full Article
Milwaukee suburbs Fourth of July 2014 celebrations
- Parade: 9 a.m. July 4, the annual parade begins at Standish Place entrance to Bayside Middle School.
City of Brookfield
- Parade: 10 a.m. July 4. Starting at Gebhardt Rd. to Calhoun Rd. onto North Ave. The parade will be followed by an ice cream social at the Civic Plaza, 2000 North Calhoun Rd.
- Family Fest: 6 to 9 p.m. July 4, family fun with live entertainment, inflatables and food for all to enjoy at Mitchell Park, 19900 River Rd.
- Fireworks: 9:15 p.m. July 4 at Mitchell Park.
6 Milwaukee-area municipalities report sewage overflows
Milwaukee, Brown Deer, Fox Point, Bayside, Mequon and Port Washington joined the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District in reporting sanitary sewer overflows to local waterways after Wednesday's storms poured several inches of rain across the metropolitan area, state environmental officials said Thursday.
The municipalities and the district relieved storm-swollen flows in a small number of sanitary sewers by pumping excess waste directly to streams, or to ditches and storm sewers that are tributaries to waterways. This is done to prevent backups of sewage into basements.
Each sanitary sewer overflow ended Wednesday, according to notices submitted to the state Department of Natural Resources.
Overflows of combined sanitary and storm sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood ended shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to Peter Topczewski, MMSD director of water quality protection. At that time, the district started reopening gates between combined sewers and the deep tunnel system and allowing any continuing overflows to drain to the tunnels, he said.
The combined sewer overflows to waterways started shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when the gates were closed to preserve remaining space in the tunnels for overflows from separate sanitary sewers. No estimate of the volume of untreated wastewater discharged to local rivers and Lake Michigan was available Thursday.» Read Full Article
Woman arrested after throwing pizza on a wall, pouring detergent on bed
A woman was arrested for disorderly conduct and damage to property after she broke a TV and poured detergent on her boyfriend's bed May 28.
According to the Brown Deer police report:
The Brown Deer woman, age not released, broke a TV, threw items around the house and poured detergent on her boyfriend's bed at 7:20 p.m. May 28.
She said he had cheated on her and after she confronted him, he took her clothes outside and poured bleach on them.
When police arrived, they saw what looked like blood on a wall, which turned out to be pizza sauce. She had thrown pizza on that wall.» Read Full Article
Social media photos of the June 18 storms around Southeast Wisconsin
Severe weather, from rain to hail to flooding, arrived in southeastern Wisconsin on Tuesday morning.
Residents shared their views of the storms on social media, and we compiled some of the best photos for you.
View them in the June 18 storms around Southeast Wisconsin Storify story.
Woman reports being scammed by person she met on match.com
A resident reported being the victim of a scam June 4 after sending money to a person she met on match.com May 8.
According to the Shorewood police report:
She and the person, who said he was a contractor working on an oil pipeline, communicated by email, phone and instant messaging.
After a short time, that person on match.com said he needed $5,000 to continue his work and asked her to send that amount via Western Union. She did.
He then said he needed another $4,000. She sent just $2,000 and he immediately asked her where the other $2,000 was.» Read Full Article
DeMuth's home run lifts Bay baseball team to 2-1 win over Germantown
It was a heck of a birthday for Whitefish Bay baseball pitcher Cole Stasiak.
And teammate Turner DeMuth gave him the biggest gift of the night on Monday night as he blew out the candles on upset-minded Germantown's hopes with a laser-beam of a solo home run in the top of the seventh that broke a 1-1 tie.
Stasiak then said "thank you" by putting down Germantown in order in the bottom of the seventh to secure an important 2-1 victory.
"It was a nice day," said Stasiak, who also led the offense with four hits. "It was a kind of game that we've been playing. A lot of close ones. ...It was nice that we could pull it out. That guy (the Warhawks' Danny Knutson) had our number tonight. We definitely didn't do what we normally do (hit the ball), but we found a way."
The win improved the Blue Dukes to 8-1 in North Shore play and 12-2 overall and ran their winning streak to nine games. They sit just ahead of Homestead (6-2) in the league standings. Meanwhile, Germantown fell to 2-4 and 5-7.» Read Full Article
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Like the North Shore NOW Facebook page to receive police news, breaking news, feature stories and more, all from communities north of Milwaukee.
The page will feature updates from the North Shore websites, which focus on Bayside, Brown Deer, Fox Point, Glendale, Mequon, River Hills, Shorewood, Thiensville and Whitefish Bay.
Crews clear crash that shut I-43 in both directions at Brown Deer Road
Crews have cleared a crash on I-43 north of Milwaukee that closed all lanes in both directions.
The crash occurred just before noon Thursday at Brown Deer Road, according to an automated alert from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
North Shore initially reported someone was trapped in the vehicle, though it wasn't immediately clear whether the person had been freed.
Brown Deer police seek man in robbery of Tri City bank
Brown Deer police are searching for the man who robbed a Tri City National Bank.
A man entered the bank at 4295 W. Bradley Road just before 2 p.m. Wednesday and gave a note demanding money to a bank teller, according to a news release.
The man was given money and then fled in southwest direction. No one was injured during the robbery.
Anyone with information is asked to call Brown Deer police at (414) 371-2900.
Whitefish Bay gay couple second in Milwaukee County to attain marriage license
Whitefish Bay — It took 14 years, but the marriage of Andrew Warner and Jay Edmundson was finally recognized by the state of Wisconsin last week.
When U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb declared the state's gay-marriage ban unconstitutional Friday, June 6, the Whitefish Bay couple was second in line at the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a marriage license. Their tears of joy were mixed with the uncertainty of a brand new court ruling and the panic of finding someone to drive their two sons home from lacrosse practice that afternoon.
The legal ceremony went off without a hitch, essentially ratifying the union created at their first wedding ceremony, which was held at a church 14 years ago.
"Friday was deeply moving and important, but it felt like the state was finally catching up to what we did in 2000," said Warner, a pastor at Plymouth Church on the east side of Milwaukee.
Ever since the chaotic Friday ceremony, Warner and Edmundson have been overwhelmed by kind words from their family, friends and neighbors. Although the couple are married, have two adopted sons — ages 14 and 11 — and a house in Whitefish Bay, Warner said he always felt his family has been viewed differently.» Read Full Article
Man reports being victim of fraud after trying to help stranger
A man reported being the victim of a fraud after giving $200 to a stranger May 27.
According to the Shorewood police report:
A man approached another man at a Milwaukee Walmart store and told him a story and asked for money at 4:15 p.m. May 27.
The victim believed the man's story, drove him to the 4500 block of Oakland Avenue in Shorewood.
He gave the man $200, but he had the man sign a note saying the money would be repaid May 28.» Read Full Article
Mequon may be in line for big surge in residential development
Mequon leaders are expecting a surge of home construction on small lots west of Wauwatosa Road if they are able to extend sewer service to 360 undeveloped acres along Donges Bay Road.
Residential developments with houses clustered together to preserve open space around them could be coming to the west side of Mequon, an area of the city where large homes spread across the landscape on 5-acre minimum rural lots are common.
Even though the city does not expect to receive approval until later this month for adding the land to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's service area, Community Development Director Kim Tollefson said she had met with more than half a dozen developers and home builders in the last three weeks who wanted to know the possibilities.
And several property owners in the block of Donges Bay Road between Wauwatosa Road and Swan Road are willing to sell their parcels once sewer service is assured, Tollefson said. The opportunity to connect to sewers boosts property values.
One of the willing sellers is the Mequon-Thiensville School District, owner of the largest undeveloped parcel in the block at 111.7 acres.» Read Full Article
Germantown softball team rallies to beat Homestead, 10-7
The finger is feeling fine said Germantown senior softball pitcher Kim Soderberg.
And that finger, broken about a month ago in a fielding accident, along with Soderberg's skill and her teammate's will, allowed the Warhawks to rally from a 6-0 first inning deficit and beat archrival Homestead, 10-7, in a WIAA sectional semifinal game Tuesday night in Germantown.
"Four weeks tommorrow, actually" said Soderberg, after pitching six-plus innings of two-run relief ball. "This was my first real game back. I was a little nervous coming in, but I hit my spots with my pitches. ...and we never got down. We just kept encouraging each other and helping each other get the job done."
Soderberg said the game was very similar to the two teams' first meeting in North Shore play earlier this season when Homestead jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second before Germantown rallied for a 14-10 victory.
With the win, the Warhawks (16-8) hopes of a third straight WIAA state tournament berth stay intact. They will host Greater Metro Coinference runner-up Brookfield Central in the sectional final on Thursday at 7 p.m. for the right to advance to the WIAA State Toiurnament in Madison, June 12-14.» Read Full Article


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This is a subjective question and what is useful would depend on from which domain of cognitive science the article originated. In general, I prefer when the PDF looks like the journal article (i.e., no formatting to indicate links).
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House Passes Bill to Cut Food-Stamp Spending
Measure Would Cut Nearly $40 Billion Over a Decade, Sets Up Battle With Senate
WASHINGTON—The House on Thursday narrowly passed a bill curtailing spending on food stamps, setting up a battle with the Senate, which backs far smaller cuts. The vote was 217-210.
The bill would cut nearly $40 billion over a decade, or about 5% in expected spending, from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs.
The Senate has called for a cut of about $4 billion to the programs. About 48 million Americans received food-stamp benefits last year.
Passage of the bill paves the way for negotiators from the House and Senate to start hashing out a deal to extend nutrition programs and farm programs that expire at month's end.
The bill's passage marks a victory for House Republican leaders, who were forced to regroup after an attempt to cut funding more modestly for food-stamp programs failed earlier this summer when paired with the broader farm bill. The House later passed a stand-alone farm bill in July.
Senate Democrats have made clear they won't agree to cuts of the magnitude passed by the House.
"Not only does this House bill represent a shameful attempt to kick millions of families in need off of food assistance, it's also a monumental waste of time," Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) said in a statement after Thursday's vote.
To craft the House bill, a working group led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) cobbled together support from conservative lawmakers who had balked at the smaller cut proposed in June and more centrist Republicans, reaching a deal after three meetings, according to House GOP aides.
About half of the bill's $39 billion in savings comes from a measure ending states' ability to waive a federal requirement that "able-bodied" people without dependents work at least 20 hours a week or be in job training in order to receive food stamps. Currently, states with a jobless rate above 10% can exempt some people.
"This is not about taking food away from anyone who needs help," said Rep. Marlin Stutzman, an Indiana Republican who was part of the House group that crafted the bill.
If the House and Senate cannot reach agreement, many nutrition programs would likely continue at current spending levels under other bills aimed at keeping federal agencies funded into the new fiscal year, which starts on Oct. 1. The two chambers are working on a short-term measure that would fund agencies through mid-December at current levels, giving lawmakers time to negotiate spending levels for the remainder of the year.
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The 5 Most Insane Acts of Fan Dedication Ever
As the Internet seems to have been created solely to remind us, people really love the things they love to a degree that can safely be called "teeth-gnashingly defensive." But as the timeless Robert De Niro/Wesley Snipes fable The Fan has taught us, sometimes people love things too much and it crosses the line from unchecked enthusiasm into unsettling, or even terrifying, obsession. So please heed the following cautionary tales ...
#5. Man Gets Decades of Plastic Surgery to Look Like Superman
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Here's what sucks about being so into Superman that you want to dress up as him: He doesn't wear a mask. Any dude can be, say, Batman, as long as he doesn't have any facial hair or a deformed mouth or something. But when you put on the Superman tights, you're still stuck with your regular ol' head, which by the way looks nothing like Superman's. For a Philippines native named Herbert Chavez, there was only one answer: surgery.
Yes, Chavez decided that he loved Superman so much that he would dedicate years of his life to expensive plastic surgeries designed to make him look more like his favorite alien vigilante, because he apparently only watched the first half of Single White Female and thought it was a buddy comedy. Here's what he looked like back in 1995, before he embarked on his epic face-butchering crusade:
Barcroft India via The Daily Mail
Well, he seems like a decent enough looking dude, surely it won't take that much to-
And here's what he looks like now. Cue the music!
Barcroft India via The Daily Mail
What you are looking at is the result of nearly two decades of cosmetic surgery, including nose resculpting, silicone lip injections, carving a butt crack into his chin with an angle grinder (we assume), and thigh implants. There are almost certainly more ingredients to this batshit cocktail, but those are the only ones Chavez will admit to.
The fruit of his labors looks more like a life-size action figure than Superman, although we admit that that might have been what he was going for.
Barcroft India via The Daily Mail
Thank God his parents didn't get him the Ninja Turtles pajamas he originally asked for.
Source articles indicate that he is a pageant trainer, which we assume is some kind of beauty pageant coach. If that's the case, it's entirely appropriate, considering that Chavez obviously inhabits a world of crippling insecurity. It's good to stick to what you know.
#4. Fans Lined Up Seven Weeks in Advance to See Revenge of the Sith ... at a Theater That Wasn't Playing It
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It probably won't surprise you much to learn that eager Star Wars fans began lining up outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre to see Episode III: Revenge of the Sith seven weeks prior to the film's opening night, because Star Wars is a series that demands optimistic dedication bordering on self-endangerment. Heck, Star Wars fans practically invented waiting in line for movies weeks ahead of time. The problem was, Grauman's Chinese Theatre wasn't scheduled to show Revenge of the Sith and had absolutely no intention of doing so, regardless of how many people in XXL Darth Vader costumes lined up in front of their box office.
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Employees of Grauman's explained this helpful bit of news to the gathering crowd several times, but the stubborn fans simply refused to believe it. Since every previous Star Wars film had opened at Grauman's, they reasoned that the final film in the series would do the same and that the theater's employees were merely trying to shoo them away with the misinformation (because a throng of people in homemade Jedi costumes leaning against the side of your building for two months just kind of looks like an army of homeless people).
Even though 20th Century Fox executives released a statement officially declaring that the film would be playing a mile across town at the ArcLight and not at Grauman's, the suspicious Star Wars fans refused to back up their banthas and move on, presumably because by this point in the prequel trilogy they expected to feel the sting of betrayal at every turn.
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This is also known as the Walter Fielding strategy.
Finally, on the day of the film's release, a group of volunteers from ArcLight put on Stormtrooper costumes and literally herded the poor Grauman's refugees over to the correct theater so they could actually watch the movie.
#3. Woman Goes into Labor During Playoff Hockey Game and Refuses to Leave
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Earlier this year, the very-pregnant-and-due-any-day-now Donna Lebano was attending Game 5 of an NHL playoff series between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild when she began to have contractions during the game's second period, as if the baby was so bored by the sport that he wanted to get the hell out of the arena.
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They've used the same gate re-entry stamp since 1976.
However, rather than alert her three sisters to the impending miracle about to tiger uppercut its way out of her lady parts and allow them to take her to the hospital, she decided to ignore the child-bearing rumblings in her abdomen and finish watching the game, because her dedication and responsibility to the Chicago Blackhawks was infinitely more important to her than her dedication and responsibility to her unborn child.
Keep in mind that each period in the NHL lasts 20 minutes, and intermissions between periods are 17 minutes long, meaning that Lebano sat in her seat surrounded by screaming, drunken Chicagoans and pretended she wasn't giving birth for about an hour. Only when the game finally ended and the Blackhawks were victorious did she allow herself to be taken to the hospital and grant life to the infant frantically trying to crawl its way out of her womb before it drowned and/or suffocated.
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Confirmed: Geoff Johns Is the New President of DC Entertainment
Comic Books, Film, TV
In the days since Tokyopop announced it would stop publishing manga, a few pundits have responded what struck me as a disturbing note of glee, a sort of satisfaction that that manga thing is finally over with. Doug Wolk has a piece at Time Magazine with the headline Manga Revolution Apparently Over: Tokyopop to Shut Down. And here's Tim Hodler at The Comics Journal:
Tokyopop is closing down its manga line. Not long ago, this company and others like it were sometimes pointed to as the future of comics publishing. I suppose they still might be.
I'm a little mystified by that last bit. Is he saying that the future of comics publishing is that everyone will go out of business? Well, everyone dies. But Tim and Doug seem to have missed an important point, which is that Tokyopop (and the other manga publishers) did in fact change comics publishing; Tokyopop may be no more, but ten years ago, it was the future. Graphic novel sales quadrupled between 2001 and 2007, and at the ICv2 graphic novel conference in February 2007, ICv2 editor in chief Milton Greipp singled out manga as the reason for that increase:
I think the biggest factor was Tokyopop's expansion of their authentic manga line and bringing in original material for girls. Suddenly there was huge growth in a business that was usually flat, and it opened up new opportunities for other categories as well.
The emphasis is mine. That was at the peak of the manga boom, and sales have declined since then, but that surge of new readers has changed comics in many ways, all of them for the better.
Ten years ago, "comics" meant superheroes, newspaper strips, and a handful of artsy graphic novels. Comics were a niche medium, and they were hard to find outside comics stores. Manga brought about two structural changes that have affected the market in a lasting way. One is bringing girls and women to comics en masse—there have always been women who read comics, don't get me wrong, but in the 1990s the vast majority of comics were made by and marketed to men. No one was wooing girls and women as a distinct market, or setting out to publish comics that would appeal to them. Say what you like about Stu Levy (and I have!), he knows what girls like.
The second factor was bringing comics into bookstores, where casual readers could find them. Would that have happened anyway? Maybe, but probably not. Bookstores only give shelf space to books that sell, and manga sold by the boatload (some of it still does). Superhero trades don't look good in bookstores, where they are usually shelved spine-out; art-comix are expensive and have a small readership. But manga? Just a few years ago, my daughter's idea of a grand Saturday night was going to Barnes & Noble with her friends, buying five or six volumes of InuYasha, then staying up all night reading them. And she was not unusual; individual manga volumes often made the USA Today bestseller list, holding their own against Tuesdays with Morrie and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Furthermore, manga are like Harlequin romances—if you buy one, you will probably buy more. Bookstores started carrying them in bulk because the numbers were there.
There's more. Librarians quickly realized that manga brought in the teens (both boys and girls), and they became avid supporters of graphic novels as a medium. This in turn led to more acceptance by educators and parents. Again, without the manga phenomenon, this might not have happened; graphic novels would still be shelved in the art section and only a handful of people would know they were there.
By bringing comics to young people, manga opened up more possibilities for publishers. Sometimes it's hard to imagine something until you actually see it, but once publishers saw teens and tweens lining up for graphic novels, marketing to that demographic became an easier sell. Would First Second Books exist in a world without manga? Would Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet and Raina Telegemeier's Smile be the successes they are? Again, maybe, but I think the Manga Revolution helped grease the skids. Stylistically, those graphic novels owe no obvious debt to manga, but manga helped build the market for them, got kids reading comics and got teachers, librarians, and parents on board with the medium.
Finally, take a look at the young creators that Tokyopop signed to their global manga program and you will see the face of comics today. Amy Reeder (Madame Xanadu, Batwoman), Svetlana Chmakova (Nightschool), Queenie Chan (Odd Thomas), Amy Mebberson (The Muppets, Strawberry Shortcake)—all got their start with Tokyopop and went on from there. More are waiting in the wings. Pick up the Fraggle Rock anthology or one of the Pixar comics produced by BOOM! Studios; both are chock full of fine work by Tokyopop alums. And that's not to mention creators like Faith Erin Hicks who don't make global manga but were first drawn to comics by manga.
It's not just that those creators started reading comics because of manga, it's that they started making comics as well. The superhero comics establishment isn't particularly welcoming to new creators, but Tokyopop encouraged them through its Rising Stars of Manga program. There were flaws in the program, no doubt, but they got a lot of young artists and writers to think seriously about making comics at a professional level. It helps that manga is a medium that fans talk back to—it's part of the culture to make comics and write stories about the characters. That gets readers into a deeper level of involvement with the medium and encourages them to create original comics.
Some of these changes might have happened anyway. There were certainly worthwhile, female-friendly comics being made in the 1990s, but there was no mass market for them. There have always been aspiring comics artists, but they didn't have places that would accept their work or much of a community in which to discuss it. Webcomics, DeviantArt, the internet in general, all have opened up the comics world to new readers and creators alike, but manga gave the comics market an organizing principle for a while. It encouraged bookstores to stock graphic novels, young people (and adults) to read them, and artists to create them.
Here's the thing about revolutions: They change the world, but they seldom achieve the revolutionaries' original vision. Who knows what Stu Levy had in mind when he coined the phrase "manga revolution"; most likely, he was just being facetious. But manga did transform the comics world. It took comics out of the hands of fanboys, collectors, and hipsters and made them a truly mass medium.
No one, not even Stu Levy, expected that we would all throw over our American comics for Japanese ones. Japanese manga were significant in their own right, sure, but they were also a catalyst, bringing a new way of reading, creating, and marketing comics to the U.S. If every publisher dropped manga tomorrow (not likely, by the way—there are plenty of manga that continue to sell well, and niche markets are better served than ever), the comics landscape would still be forever changed—for the better. Viva la revolution!
I find it funny that the Techland article said "looks like manga won't be taking over American comics after all." Which is hilarious, because go to any bookstore and look at the shelf space dedicated to American Comics vs. Manga. Or read the sales figures. Manga has ALREADY taken over American comics. It's a done deal.
TOKYOPOP failed. Not manga. It's just that new players took over the field. What Techland is saying is as dumb as if an article said "Friendster and Myspace went under. Looks like social media failed." while conveniently ignoring Facebook.
I think this glee comes from the fact that quite a few people criticized manga's distribution and, indeed, very existence in the past, and now they feel vindicated. As early as 2000 I talked to comic book store owners who were insistent that manga was a fad, and one even said manga as a whole would last no more than 5 years in the US. So a large part of it is looking at results in the light of what they want to be true.
It's interesting that you mention Faith Erin Hicks. I read Demonology 101 back when it was still coming out, but it never occurred to me that this might be considered the future of comics in general. Webcomics always seemed like a niche within a niche.
Honestly some people just get a kick out of writing smug statements that drip with "I told you so" sentiments even if everything isn't even done and over with yet. I think it's a pathetic way for individuals to get their jollies in life. Even though these events with Tokyopop are certainly undeniably it's not the end of this hobby by a long shot. Regardless of what happens from here on out manga has had a huge impact on my life and the lives of others in the US. Even if I (for some reason) stop reading manga right now, there is no denying the huge influence it had on my life these past 13 years. I got part-time jobs to afford manga as a kid, and I challenged myself to be better at school so I could have the type of life where I could best afford my hobbies. Someone who probably never would have touched a comic in her entire life now has an entire room filled with manga, manhwa, and comics. I'm a much more open minded person since I've gotten into this hobby. "Viva la revolution!"
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If you go to Chapters, there is often an entire wall for "Manga." The domestic comics? One shelf, maybe half a shelf. The last time I went into chapters, there was one 6′ shelf right beside Manga, 8 shelves to the side of it with Manga, and then half a shelf nearby with the sunday-funnies type of comics. That's it. that's a more than 4:1 ratio of shelf space to manga over ALL other comics.
Stu Levy is the new Jim Shooter. He made a huge difference getting new readers reading comics, but professionally, he's disliked by many.
Female readers were enticed, but alsoyounger readers as well. Pokemon appeals to kids, and there are boys who enjoy manga who wouldn't have gotten hooked on superhero comics.
Tokyopop helped, but it was Viz which had the first big success. They started back in the days of the black-and-white implosion, when most manga/anime fans were found in science fiction fandom, not comics. They had bookstore distribution via Publishers Group West, and hit the ground running when Pokemon arrived on our shores like a giant yellow Godzilla, blazing a path for hundreds of other properties. (In 1994, comics in bookstores consisted of: Marvel, DC, Viz, Dark Horse, the remnants of First, Cartoon Books, and WaRP.) Tokyopop may have had the first mass market manga with Sailor Moon, but good luck finding it in bookstores; the only SM title in stores back then was a 16-page guidebook offered by Kodansha.
I am a Seducer of the Innocent. I want everyone to read and enjoy comics, and I don't care what you read or buy so long as you enjoy it. You don't want to sell manga? Fine. Someone else will, and those FANS will gladly give your competitor(s) money. My local comics shop in Omaha sold manga back when they were periodicals (Lum and Ranma 1/2 and Appleseed and…) and is still in business.
But then, back in the 1980s, there were people who thought black-and-white comic books were a fad, that only color would sell. Of course, they ignored the comic strip collections making the New York Times bestseller lists… and some stores still marginalize comic strip collections, although millions still read them daily.
Yeah, I'm sorry to see Tokyopop close up shop. But you know what? Twenty years ago, I noticed that "the Random House of Japan" (Kodansha) published comics in Japan. Why, I wondered, didn't they distribute those titles in the U.S.? Now they do. So one door closes, and another opens up.
Brigid, thank you once again. This had to be said. "The revolution" is a process, not a single event. If anything – cuisine, art, language – is alive, it evolves and changes. Comics are not the same as when I was collecting in 1972, and that's a good thing. Manga is not the same as it was in 2000 and that too, is a good thing.
The next generation of manga publishers are already stepping up to the plate – Yen, Vertical, Kodansha USA and some of the older ones continue their mission. The next few years will bring other revolutions in comics and manga. I look forward to them all.
This is a well written and well thought out article. I just wish I could get over the feeling that I am left holding an "empty bag". I have more than a few TP manga I was reading, and I will probably never have the closure of an ending.
Thank you, Erica! And you're right—Tokyopop may be gone, but there are plenty of other manga publishers that are making it work. I'm not giving up on it anytime soon.
I honsetly can't imagine what comics would look like right now if it weren't for Tokyopop doing what they did over the years, although I'm fairly certain "comics" would be a lot smaller, a lot less exciting and a lot more narrowly focused, in terms of content, the people that create it, the people that consume it, and the places you can find it. Great piece, Brigid.
I was thinking of Viz vs. Tokyopop, and I can remember reading Viz manga that was published serially as comics before being released in the more familiar trade digest format…did Viz initiate the big switch from that model, or was it Tokyopop, or, like, everyone at once? (Maybe it had more to do with American comics focusing on trade-generation as a goal…?)
The teens who came to the Texas Library Association Conference in Austin last week love comics in general, and manga in particular. They swarmed over the Great Graphic Novel Library Giveaway display shelves, and they happily talked with anyone at the booth who would listen to them. And what they said was they want MORE manga! The fact that Tokyopop is leaving the market is sad, but other manga publishers are still around, and there is definitely still a market for manga. I don't see manga disappearing from the US anytime soon.
BTW, the librarians (who also swarmed over the shelves) also said the same thing – they need more comics, and particularly more manga, for the kids and teens who love them.
Caleb, both Viz and Tokyopop switched around the same time, but the version I have heard is that Tokyopop tried it first. Viz was doing flipped manga in larger-format trades that were more expensive, and they ended up republishing many of those same books in the smaller, unflipped format a few years later.
@Torsten — I just wanted to say, I'm happy you were able to proudly say "I am a Seducer of the Innocent". (Yes, I got the Frederic Wertham reference…)
Tokyopop definitely were like a comet hitting the earth of the comics industry, one that many comic traditionalists disliked, because their favourite comfort bubble had been breached, by something unknown to them. Now while Viz and Dark Horse had been publishing manga in the 80's and 90s, their efforts were indeed large and expensive.
Price and cost were the Tokyopop sword that built their fortune. They helped bring Viz and other publishers into their line of thinking. A manga GN for $6-7, over what we used to get for $20 or so, and with much less editing too = awesome.The Rising Stars of Manga program, was a certainly a diamond in the rough, and many inspire creators will continue to find their way from it.
Manga, and manwha is far from over in the west. I'd say that Tokyopop's biggest and most important decision, recently was them shopping the film rights to the Priest manwha around Hollywood. This wonderful korean manwha is perfect fodder for Hollywood, and I really hope that it pans out well for all involved. Comic based films make good bank of late, so its nice to get something unusual. We may yet see more manga/manwha based series, hitting the big screens, if Stu Levy gets his way.
There will now be a lot of manga series left unfinished by TP, but hopefully, they will get picked up by other publishers. I pray this doesn't turn fans of those books off of manga, as its never fun to have half a series, with no end in sight. However, there's much more variety of manga out there to try and that's a huge bonus, condering we still get a droplet of what out in Japan. Whoever you are, go read and enjoy some manga, as there's something for everyone.
So, who will be the great pioneer of FRENCH comics?
I just spotted some PR about the French BD/GN of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", and then visited the Delcourt site for more info. WOW! Some great titles I'd love to read in English! True stories about a young Inuit who was kept at the American Museum of Natural History, about a Hasidic Jew in Germany who developed both chemical warfare and fertilizer and won a Nobel Prize…
And that's just ONE publisher!
Brigid: Tokyopop was first out the gate with inexpensive, unflipped manga; I recall Cowboy Bebop and Chobits being two of the initial offerings, and those old volumes even had obi on them, advertising the whole line. Also, it seems no one remembers this now, but Viz did publish some unflipped manga in GN format long before Tokyopop (Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was also available flipped), but those books were as expensive as the other old ones.
Great article! Comic conventions are booming even as sales of individual books drop, and the big cons are beginning to lean heavily toward Manga/Anime. I'd say 75% of fans under 25 are more into Manga than American comics. The comic book stores who dismissed Manga as a fad are gone, and the ones who embraced it are among the few still remaining. As someone who sells mostly superhero comics, I'd love for the 80s and 90s to return, but I can see the writing on the walls.
Honestly, I think that as far as the average direct market American comic shop goes, the manga stuff was kind of a fad. All the comic shops I shop at got manga sections about eight years ago. Now none of them have manga sections anymore. Maybe this didn't happen everywhere, but those books seemed to go from hot to dead in the comic shops I frequent. This, of course isn't a reflection of how well manga sells in barnes and noble or anything. I know they still have a giant shelf full of the stuff at those stores. And I don't know if the LCS people were just ordering the wrong stuff or maybe they were mean to the little girls who came in or something. They gave me the impression that the average superhero comic shopper wasn't really into the manga stuff and the manga people just went to the big box stores instead of a local comic shop.
This It's too bad Joe Mad stopped his Battlechasers comic. It was one of the best things Image ever put out. I recently read the whole nine issues after finally finding the last installment. I read from the preview issue of where it really begins to the cliffhanger ending of issue 9 and I think it was a great book. I found myself wondering what happened to that Aramus guy and what was the story behind Red Monika and those guys that worked for her. Who exactly was August and why was he buried in the ground all those years ago by that Wizard and his friends. It was done in Joe Mad's manga style. Not being a Manga fan, really, I was sometimes irked by Joe Mad's style. But overall it was a fantastic ride. I'm not sure I 'get' manga, but I understand it. Mostly.
There's still a manga shelf at my local comic shop. For some reason, that troubled me. I'm not sure why. I don't know why we shun these things sometimes. It really makes no sense.


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The only reason why Graham came under his "tutelage" was because St Denis considered her completely untalented and pawned her off on her husband, while she kept Doris Humphrey for herself. And I did say to Shawn's credit he recognised her burgeoning talent.
Shawn forbade her saying it was totally inappropriate and Graham responded "who'll ever know?"
Yes, I remember from the McDonagh how interesting that St. Denis was so dismissive of Graham, and he often pointed out how Graham idolized her. Finally, St. Denis grudgingly said something on the order of 'well, Martha Graham does have a real technique, I'll say that for her." (I don't have the book at hand, that's close enough unless rg has time to make it perfect. So Shawn was very important in terms of Graham. I didn't read the entire thread that carefully, but it wasn't that long ago I watched the snipped of St. Denis's own dancing, very brief, maybe what you linked up there, and maybe 12 or so St. Denis pieces, which I think Simon characterizes well as being 'superficial-Oriental'. I think most 'western orientalisms of the time were like that, weren't they, in all of the arts? Don't know whether you mentioned the Javanese and Balinese in the Graham Notebooks, Simon, maybe so, just adding to what you said about flexed foot of American Indians, although I can't remember if that's especially featured in 'El Pentitente' or not.
But it's also true that Shawn was the love of her life, which is sad as he most certainly could never love her sexually or romantically, and ultimately her downfall. Shawn isn't remembered with anything like the reverance or importance or St Denis.
No, that's not sad, it was her business. People love people for all sorts of ill-shaped reasons. His exhibitionism is of no importance, except it it CAUSED him to be an inferior artist. Nureyev was certainly an exhitionist (okay, I don't want to argue this, so STRAVINSKY referred to him that way). But what you said about his being of importance to Martha by default still holds, although obviously true St. Denis was lightweight in terms of that she was important more as a presursor to what came from her school.
Moreover, he wasn't the only one who made a legitimate career out of homosexual desire within the dance world. Dance, with its perceived looser morals has always been a magnet for sexual opportunists; but really what's so wrong with that? George Platt Lynes, probably one of the greatest dance photographers of all time was drawn to dance because he was gay, liked photographing naked men and dancers were more sexually liberated than laymen and more willing to get their kit off in the name of art. Ditto Lincoln Kirstein the greatest impresario since Diaghilev, sure he was educated, intellecutal and had an undoubted, profound love of ballet, but he also like sex and the dance and art worlds were a surefire way of having access to gay or sexually ambivalent young men.
Agree with you there, and you can't really understand Shawn without this material, it could be things like 'get their kit off'. you know. Okay, if you can use 'their kit', I guess I can use 'my kit' too. Although I do not want to use 'your kit'. Never heard THAT till now, you CORRUPTOR! Anyway, it IS silly season, a term I also never heard used till I came to Ballet Talk. But leonid probably just tired of hearing about endless 'hand relief' stories, you know what I mean? We've heard a LOT of things like that recently here.
I don't see why you're so tetchy about discussing the seedier side of people's motivations especially when like in the case of Ted Shawn, those sexual desires were indeed instrumental for the path their careers took. The DenisShawn school was a magnet for gay men, and Shawn famously took advantage of that, it makes his achievements or life no less than they were, but to suggest otherwise or that he was morally pure and devoted to St Denis is as false as Ruth's notion of spirtual enlightenment and the prefix of St before her surname.
It's not just the seedier side number, Simon, it's that you're VULGAR in the way you describe it, as in the Gold Rains Episode. (just kidding, of course, I don't mind it personally, but it's also true, you know you love to say these racy, screamy things.


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5 Mind-Blowing Ways Animals Display Human Emotions
#2. Fruit Flies Drink Away Their Bitterness
For many of us, failed relationships and alcohol go together like New Year's Eve and also alcohol. That's one of the pressures of being human; we have our big brains and big emotions, and we need big containers of liquor to forget the bad feelings they churn up. But surprisingly, humans aren't the only creatures that do this.
Since fruit flies are very sexual beings in the first place, researchers wanted to find out what would happen when they were sexually rejected. This happens often with them, because female fruit flies are prudish things, as they don't like having sex a second time after they've recently mated. If a second male tries to mount her, she'll kick and run away, as you can see in the video below. Because hey, Mama fruit fly didn't raise no ho.
After the flies had their time with the female, the researchers gave both males who had been rejected and those who'd gotten lucky the option of eating normal food or food spiked with alcohol. While the happy fruit flies had no preference for either option, the rejected fruit flies were significantly more likely to eat the alcohol-infused food.
And yes, at a basic level, it's for the same reason you do it. Alcohol triggers reward chemicals in fruit fly brains, and when they don't get that satisfaction from sex, they'll get it from a bottle. Or a huge meal of alcohol-soaked food, in this case. And, with that, we're going to estimate that it will be 48 hours before some depressed college kid tries to eat a pizza he has soaked in gin.
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#1. Pigeons Are Superstitious
If there's any type of thought that most would probably agree is purely human, that would be superstition, because intelligence goes two ways, right? The only animal smart enough to build a computer is probably also the only animal dumb enough to believe that wearing a lucky pair of socks will increase his chances of winning the lottery. But there actually is another animal capable of superstitious beliefs, and it doesn't take a lifetime of conditioning to train them. We introduce you to your favorite car ruiner ... the pigeon.
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B.F. Skinner, the famous psychologist a lot of you probably know as "that guy with the box," didn't just put rats in his boxes, but pigeons, too. At regular intervals, Skinner had a mechanism that would release food inside, and the pigeons would gobble it up like there was no tomorrow. The pigeons really liked the food, and they couldn't understand how to make more of it come out.
But because they couldn't wrap their minds around the concept of random food, they started to believe that by doing certain actions, they could make the Pigeon Food God spit out pigeon food. For instance, one pigeon was spinning in a circle right as the food happened to arrive, and thus decided that spinning was what made the food appear.
"Quickly! Cover the child to evoke the food from within!"
Each pigeon they tested developed its own belief system. One pigeon decided that turning around two to three times in a counterclockwise direction made food appear; other pigeons thought they had to do pendulum movements with their head, or regular nodding movements. Skinner made sure that all of the pigeons were already well-fed, meaning they didn't have to eat. So it's not like desperation drove them insane -- they were willing to believe anything as long as it gave them more ammo to poop on your car.
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It was just one of those Sunday
mornings where what happened in "big church"
seemed to shed light on something that had happened in the
children's ministry earlier. The pastor said that so many adults
deal with shame in their relationship with God and it takes years
to peel back those layers to help them see God as the gracious,
loving God that he is. "What causes this?" he wondered.
And in my heart, I knew. At least, I knew where part of the shame
comes from. Sadly, well-meaning folks in children's ministry say
things that negatively shape a child's view of God. Shaming
statements that are meant to direct kids' behavior may lay a
foundation of shame in the child's theology that takes years to
A case in point: In our 2-year-olds class that morning, one of the
volunteers had said to the children who were fussing over a toy:
"Jesus loves it when you share."
The message to these sweet little ones who are learning about
Jesus for the first time? Then he must not love it-or me-when I
don't share!
If we truly believe that we're on the front end of developing
children's faith and that the first three years of their lives are
the most formative, we must recognize and avoid words that move
them away from-rather than toward-our loving God.
There's no children's minister out there who intentionally
attempts to evoke shame in kids. But when our words or
communication is misguided or careless, shame is often the precise
result. And sadly, many kids who experience something like
this-especially when it's a repeated or typical experience-walk
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If I have a Battle.Net account with a StarCraft 2 license that is extra (I don't play it) is it legal to let my friends use it? (Only one at any given time though.)
Technically, no. That would require that they log in under your Battle.net account, and that's against the Terms of Use.
Emphasis mine:
It does appear, however, that you could transfer the license, although it is not guaranteed:
More specifically, the StarCraft 2 EULA, mentions that transfers are generally prohibited. However, if you're in a jurisdiction where transfer is allowed, they do have a process for it:


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I have a Silverlight client that densifies a user drawn polyline. The returned vertices from the polyline are then sent to esri elevation sample server for each vertex to find an elevation value. The user defines how dense the line should be.
My question is how could I have my python GP Service make the rest calls to the ESRI elevation sample server once it receives, from the silverlight client, all the densified vertices?
EDIT: Would there have to be a python client or perhaps have a slave silverlight client make the calls and return them to python and then back to the master silverlight client. The master silverlight client would message to the user that their variables requires this to be a long running process. Makes no sense? Thanks.


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I saw this decal and thought it would look really good on the bicycle stand in my apartment. When the sticker arrived I was saddened to find that it was designed to go inside of a window. The decal would be perfect if I had a car; however, since I am car free the decal currently has no where to adhere. The quality of the sticker is great though; therefore, when I do find a window I know it will look nice.


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salutations from the sauna
Those darn felted hearts seem to to be all over the house! Actually, they are all over the apartment. While my house (and true home) is in New Hampshire, three nights a week I knit and sleep in apartment in Providence, which is much closer to work. It's fun to photograph with my landlady's lovely props.
P.S. I hope all of you made it through Valentines's day unscathed.
The painting in my apartment reminds me of the sauna that John (of boyfriend sweater fame) built last summer. Isn't it beautiful? Sure is sweater weather in New Hampshire now.
This setting makes me want to have wool in my hands – Pure Merino, Ultra Alpaca, Jasper, or my current yarn of choice Ultra Alpaca Light. I took some swatching to the sauna last week – not IN the sauna, but I knit a bit on the porch and in the changing room/dining room. I'm looking forward to a return visit this weekend. I should try designing after sitting in the heat, during the blissful calm period. I don't know though, maybe designing goes hand in hand with this hyper, bouncing off the wall feeling I'm experiencing right NOW!
Maxine #
I'm missing out on sauna at my aunt's this weekend, and seeing that new one makes me miss it even more. I wouldn't even mind hauling the buckets of water over the boatloads of snow to fill the barrels…February 15, 2008
Marilyn #
I'm jealous, and I don't even enjoy saunas! Although a steam room….. that's another story..
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I used to make something like this with chicken back in the day. Today, as I stood in front of the open fridge looking at the last of the chicken seitan and a crisper full of apples (destined to be apple sauce in the near future), this recipe began forming in my mind. I decided to serve it over quinoa, just to boost the protein for those three growing boys tearing around the house. They all liked it (Son #3 had thirds) which is good since this recipe makes enough for plenty of leftovers.
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Get To Know General-elect Commissioner Linda Bond
Monday, February 7, 2011
[General-elect Linda Bond]
Salvation Army General-elect Linda Bond
The following is an excerpt of an interview with The Salvation Army's General-elect Commissioner Linda Bond. Commissioner Bond will serve as our organization's world leader beginning in April of this year. To read the full interview, click here.
1. Please tell us about yourself and your background.
I was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, as the youngest of 13 children. My mother was British, migrating to Canada with her parents when she was 17-years-old. My Canadian father was a coal miner.
The coal mining town and political environment in which I was raised also affected the way I view life and I thank the Lord for this. The marginalized, the poor and the addicted were part of the community landscape, and my parents were committed to seeing things change for the hurting. This was consistent with what I later learned to be the Lord's mission – and the Army's.
2. Can you please describe your thoughts and feelings when you were nominated for and then elected as General of The Salvation Army?
When I was nominated I felt it was an affirmation from my peers. My overall feeling was that 'this is of the Lord'. He had been speaking to my heart through Scripture, and although I had not intended to, I accepted nomination in obedience to the Lord. I felt that I had to wait to see what he wanted to do. When I was elected I was humbled, but I had a real sense that this was the Lord's doing. To me it was a miracle – it was a work of grace.
3. How is the election of a Salvation Army General different from the election of a political leader?
Well, there is no lobbying, for one thing! The major difference is that it is bathed in prayer. Unlike a political election, only a certain group have a vote yet all the Salvationists are praying for the High Council members to be granted wisdom by the Spirit.
4. Please describe spiritual leadership in a Salvation Army context.
I have very deep convictions about spiritual leadership, and for many years I taught classes on spiritual authority. To me the first point of spiritual authority is that power belongs to God. The power that he delegates to us has to be a power of love, the power to die to self, the power to live for others, the power for people and not over people.
5. Please outline the Army's mission and explain how it is relevant and valid around the world today.
Well, everybody seems to quote Retired General John Gowans and I, too, think he captured the mission of The Salvation Army in his phrase 'Save souls, grow saints and serve suffering humanity'.
Salvationists seem to know instinctively that the Army was raised up by God to connect people to Jesus. They also know that we believe that people can be holy now, that they can be Christlike. It's in our DNA to serve. So that is the mission of the Army and those are the guideposts for us.
How is it relevant? Well, the world needs Jesus – that's pretty relevant, isn't it? The ills of mankind are not going to be addressed by any other means, except through the Cross of Christ. When we talk about the relevance of holiness, this world needs to see that the people of God make holiness believable. It needs to see authentic, deep Christians who live out the life of Jesus and do not just talk about it.
There is suffering humanity – all we have to do is watch television on any given night or look around our communities and say 'We need Christians with their sleeves rolled up'.
6. What are some of the strengths of the Army worldwide?
Our name, because we are known in most places and are found trustworthy. Trustworthiness is a huge part of what makes us effective. People trust us and we never want to lose that.
Another strength of the Army, I believe, is its mission, which is so clearly defined. You would be hard pressed to find a Salvationist who did not know the mission. There is something about being very clear about our purpose that makes The Salvation Army as effective as it is.
Our visibility is also a strength. People recognize our uniforms and logos.
We have a long history yet we are known in society as an organization that is able to change its methods to relate to each generation while holding true to its essential principles. We must continue to do this, to be adaptable and flexible but principled.
7. What will be the main challenges facing you as General?
It is a challenge to serve in a very complex world without losing sight of our mission. We must also serve in a secular world and never be ashamed of Jesus. Both will take courage, wisdom and grace.
8. How do you hope to use the latest technology in communicating with the worldwide Army? A question has been asked already: Are we going to have a blog?
I like using technology actually – I just love it! We need to explore every means to use technology to best advantage in order to fulfill our mission to the world.
As for a blog – again, for me it would be a matter of finding the time. But more importantly, I hope to visit and travel frequently, and I know from experience that in many parts of the Army world, it can be extremely difficult if not impossible to get on-line. But the Office of the General will require me to communicate by every means possible. I will do that. For many, they will expect to hear of these travels through a blog. Others will welcome regular electronic letters. But best of all is face-to-face contact and travelling will give lots of opportunity for this.
9. Is there anything else you would like to add?
I have to thank The Salvation Army. I've had hundreds of messages from all over the world and I am a bit overwhelmed by it all. I want to thank people who offered Scripture – people keep sending me Scripture. People offer congratulations but they also promise prayer support. There is no greater gift that someone can give to me. I need prayer.
I would love to be strong and energetic and healthy and totally committed to what the Lord called me into this position for. I just want to do what he has called me to do.


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1. Welker burned bridges on his way out. He's a dbag.
2. We have an excellent slot receiver.
"Ryan Tannehill out-Brady'ed Brady"- DanPatrick
No. We need a strong outside reciever. We have the inside guys already.
We have bess we do not need welker.
"Five yards is my life!" - Don Shula to a referee who had told Shula to quit arguing, that the penalty he just called was only five yards
If you think he could get shut down in our offense, then you must just think he is some scrub, because as much as I love davone bess, welker blows him out of the water, even now at his "old age".
I don't think we should bring him in at all, feel like he burned his bridges and that ship has sailed a long time ago, but if you watched NE play since 2007... one guy is the focal point of that offense that makes it move up and down the field..... and thats been Wes
Just say no to Welker.
We both agree he is not a prototypical number 1.
I would much rather have wallace and bowe... but just because of age vs bowe. i think bowe is beyond a waste of money... terrible hands. and only produces in garbage time
No way I want that brown nosed snobby dip**** on this team.


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5 Well-Known Tips for Healthy Eating (That Don't Work)
#2. Eating a Bunch of Mini-Meals Boosts Your Metabolism
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The Myth:
Metabolism is the Magic Word in the diet world. You can't flip past two pages of Men's Health without seeing the M-word mentioned at least three dozen times, and according to approximately 98 percent of guys in gyms with perpetual sweaty pits, eating mini-meals is the only way to go. By eating five or six small meals instead of three big ones, your body's metabolism will be revved up, therefore burning off calories more efficiently. Picture your body as a fireplace: Add small batches of wood more frequently and the fireplace burns brighter; stuff in too much wood at once and suddenly its eyes are stinging from its own bacon-sweat while Jillian Michaels yells at it.
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She will goddamn anger your fat off.
The Reality:
Brace yourself, because what we're about to tell you might come as a shock. You know that meathead at the gym, the one who's constantly espousing the virtues of mini-meals? Yeah, it turns out he's no mathematician.
We can't place all the blame on Meathead for perpetuating this idea, though. After all, besides the fact that our entire concept of metabolism is flawed from the get-go, studies from as early as the 1950s have praised mini-meals as the ultimate weight-loss tool. But just as our concept of metabolism is flawed, so too were those studies. How so? Because they didn't control for total calorie intake. And when it comes to fat loss, the total number of calories you take in is what truly matters, not when or how often you intake them.
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"That looks great. Now bring me one of these every 15 minutes until it's time for bed."
So the people who did lose weight with a bunch of smaller meals did it because, for whatever reason, eating more often made them eat less. And if eating more but smaller meals happens to make you less hungry for food, then go for it -- managing hunger is what successful diets are all about. But studies show that for the average person, it makes no difference.
#1. The Food Pyramid Is the Bible of Healthy Eating Habits
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The Myth:
Some diet myths are easy to spot. No, eating oysters won't boost your sexual performance; no, putting a banana in the refrigerator won't make it poisonous. But then there are the facts drilled into us by The Man, like the USDA's Food Pyramid, which no one questioned because it came in an official-looking government diagram. You've seen this, right? Grains at the bottom, milk, cheese, and meat higher up:
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Wanton desire for inflicting misery somewhere in the middle.
You probably remember it best as a poster plastered all over schools and your doctor's office, but it was much more than that -- for many years, the Food Pyramid dictated how school lunches were put together, and heavily influenced other government-sponsored nutrition programs. So what's wrong with that?
The Reality:
Some of you younger kids know that the Food Pyramid has already been replaced by Michelle Obama's "healthy plate." But unless you're younger than the Obama administration or a time traveler (far more likely), the old Food Pyramid probably had more impact on your dietary habits than you realize. And with good reason -- without a handy guide to tell you exactly how much to eat of each type of food, how else would you know not to sustain yourself on Almond Joys dipped in tubs of lard?
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"I make every food on the pyramid, just to be safe."
The problem was that the pyramid wasn't based on scientific evidence or research -- it was more about which lobbyists whined loud enough to get their particular product shuffled to a more prominent spot on the chart.
According to the pyramid, fat is bad, so you should eat something else. Like carbs. The extra stupid part of this is that in 1992 (when the pyramid was released), we'd known for 30 to 40 years that it's not fat itself that's bad -- it's that some fats are bad. Yet the Food Pyramid asks you to eat 11 servings a day of carbohydrates so that you can avoid fat at all costs. The kicker is that they counted potatoes as vegetables, so add in up to five servings of those bad boys and you're up to 16 servings a day of starchy, carby deliciousness.
But it wasn't just the wheat and potato farmers who wanted in on this. The dairy industry wanted their cut, even though dairy isn't a dietary requirement. Beef? Sure, there's a nice T-bone in there, right alongside other protein sources such as legumes, assuring you that three servings of steak a day is perfectly (awesomely?) healthy. So avoid all fats, but a cheeseburger is the perfect meal.
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We're honestly surprised that fast food restaurants haven't started this marketing strategy.
But now that the USDA has woken up to research from the 1950s with Michelle Obama's healthy initiative, they've instead started emphasizing eating more vegetables, less carbs, and healthy fats. Of course, the healthy vegetable lobby probably had a huge hand in this, so take it with a grain of salt. Not literally, though! Salt is bad. Or at least until someone tells us otherwise.
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According to this link: here, nmap 5.2 onwards is now supposed to detect android smartphones. I am using nmap 6.01 but it only identifies android devices as running a linux kernel.
I've used nmap extensively and while I've found it's in general pretty good at discovering the OS on server and desktop/laptop hardware it's pretty poor at detecting embedded and handheld kernels.
This is because quite frequently these systems are not listening on any ports, and it's the responses to TCP handshake process that gives the most OS detection information.
Without an open port all nmap has to work on is the response to closed ports and ICMP echo replies.
From the nmap docs,
Nmap gets as close as it can from the ports it can see - so here it can see enough to know it is a Linux, but not enough to pin it down to a particular OS.
Have a read of this chapter to see all the identifiers nmap uses when trying to ascertain OS.


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