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Skip to comments.Rush Limbaugh Doubles Down On The Dumb About Solar
Posted on 03/13/2012 10:15:47 AM PDT by null and void
Wow. Just wow. Just when you thought Rush Limbaugh couldnt possibly be any stupider (as most of you know, his vile, disgusting and misogynistic comments on Sandra Fluke have worked out so well for him), he decided to double down on the dumb.
On his March 5 program, Limbaugh said the following about the wind and solar energy markets (emphasis added):
The problem with the Chevy Volt [the reason Limbaugh started his alternative energy rant in the first place] is just like all of Obamas green energy, theres no business there yet. Theres no solar energy business yet. Theres no wind energy yet. Its not there yet. But we cant have more oil. We cant have cheaper gasoline prices.
Dont believe me? Heres the actual clip of the remarks for your listening pleasure (its only 16 seconds, but youll be gobsmacked at the amount of stupid packed into such a short time):
Now those of us who have listened to Rush practically at the beginning know that he has made his living being mendacious, angry and crude, but the fictional Snerdley should have warned him how ridiculous the above statement was.
Lets start with our personal passion, the solar energy industry.
1. Theres no solar energy business yet.
Really, Rush? Really? Did Snerdley not alert you to this study by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Greentech Media? Or this announcement by Rhone Resch? Or this report from The Solar Foundation, which reports that there were more than 100,000 jobs in the American solar industry as of August 2011? Is that enough evidence for you that not only does the solar industry exist, but that its one of the few bright spots in an otherwise painfully slow recovery?
How about these facts from our friends at SEIA:
The U.S. solar market grew to a $6 billion industry in 2010, up 67% from $3.6 billion in 2009.I dont know about you, but that sure as heck sounds like an industry (and a thriving one at that) to me.
Solar electric capacity installations reached 956 MW in 2010, more than double the installations from 2009.
At year end 2010, the U.S. had 2,593 megawatts (MW) of installed solar electric capacity. This included about 2,086 MW of photovoltaics (PV) and 507 MW of utility-scale concentrating solar power.
Solar water heating capacity grew 5% in 2010, as 2.4 million square feet of solar water heating capacity was installed at homes and businesses throughout the country.
Rush, you should have done some homework so you didnt sound like quite such an idiot.
2. Theres no wind energy yet.
My colleagues over at Windpower Engineering and Development could probably speak to this more effectively than I can, but here are some of the stats on Limbaughs non-industry, courtesy of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA):
The fourth quarter of 2011 saw 3,444 MW of wind power capacity installed, bringing total installations in 2011 to 6,810 MW.
The U.S. wind industry now totals 46,919 MW of cumulative wind capacity through the end of 2011. There are over 8,300 MW currently under construction involving over 100 separate projects spanning 31 states plus Puerto Rico.
The U.S. wind industry has added over 35% of all new generating capacity over the past 4 years, second only to natural gas, and more than nuclear and coal combined.
Today, U.S. wind power capacity represents more than 20% of the worlds installed wind power.
The U.S. wind industry represents not only a large market for wind power capacity installations, but also a growing market for American manufacturing.
More than 400 manufacturing facilities across the United States. make components for wind turbines, and dedicated wind facilities that manufacture major components such as towers, blades and assembled nacelles can be found in every region.
Add to that the nearly 75,000 jobs currently in the wind industry, and you can see that Rush yet again proves to the world that he wont let facts get in the way of a good lie.
3. But we cant have more oil. We cant have cheaper gasoline prices.
This is a common complaint amongst conservatives: If we just opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. coastline (which Obama has, in fact, done) or processed shale oil, we could rid ourselves of the scourge of being dependent of foreign nations for our energy supplies.
This, of course, is a straw man and ignores the central fact of oil production (and, by extension, gas prices). When the United States or any other country extracts oil and puts in on the market, it doesnt stay in the country of origin. So no matter how much oil the United States produces (unless we happened to be sitting on oil reserves like Saudi Arabia or Venezuela the evidence suggests we are not), it wouldnt lower the price of gas one bit.
Our oil would be swept up into the international oil market, where the prices are still controlled (in large part) by OPEC and speculators on the commodities markets. Extracting more oil wouldnt bring down gas prices, no matter how much Limbaugh and his friends want it to and there would be significant environmental dangers instead (as we found out to our own detriment two years ago).
So what have we learned from this, apart from the fact that Senator Al Franken may have been right? Weve learned that we need to be ever-vigilant as the solar industry, and when people lie about us, we need to fight back and fight back hard.
I would request that all of you take a minute of your time to email Rush (his email address is the ever-so-modest firstname.lastname@example.com) or post a comment on his Facebook page, letting him know (rationally and politely, please) that the solar industry not only exists, but is alive and well in this country and we wont take his lies lying down.
Frank Andorka is a slut and prostitute anyway, who cares.
The U.S. solar market grew to a $6 billion industry in 2010, up 67% from $3.6 billion in 2009.
and subtracting billions in government subsidies we have....?
Okay, how about the author of this piece of crap show us how it's done. No oil for you. You live without it. (More for me, and I will be much less inconvenienced and more comfortable than you).
This is why do you should never apologize to a Liberal. It's like blood in the water. They only feel encouraged to attack you more.
Big deal. I'd bet virtually all the growth in the solar industry was due to government(taxpayer) subsidies.
I have a solar array on my roof. It's also good at reducing my PG&E bill. A bit.
Funny how the article never mentions Solyndra, Ener1, Beacan Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, Fiskars.
Of the 12 green companies that have been bankrolled by Obama, six have filed for bankruptcy: Solyndra, Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AEA and Ener1.
And no mention of the failed Chevy Volt.
I'm sure this is all just a mere oversight of the author, right?
If not, these are not industries, they are jobs programs and money laundering operations for big money political donors.
Someone forgot the barf alert.
Writer must be upset that his own investments in Solar have or are in the process of going "bye, bye". And use of the word "stupider" in a published article is the written equivalent of hitting a tire with a baseball bat and having it bounce back into one's forehead. That the word "dork" is part of this fellow's family name is just more evidence that G*d has a truly refined sense of humor.
There was more stupid in that one article that I have seen in a long time. The article is excellent proof of the stupidity of the liberal and the type of ridiculous conclusions they make. No facts, just emotion.
I have a question for this author. If alternative energies are so wonderfully successful; then, how come they are going belly up all over the place?
This man displays a stunning ignorance of the simplest principle in economics - the law of supply and demand.
Of course, he wouldn't know anything about that, since he operates in an imaginary industry where those things are rendered obsolete by a steady influx of money stolen from the taxpayers.
Looks like he takes in the rear, anyway. Why doesn't he just call up Rush and air his case?;)
"and subtracting billions in government subsidies we have....?"
Nothing. Even those "buying" solar get about half back in tax rebates.
Yes, and you got the tax credit, good deal.
I notice he talks about wind capacity as built but
makes no mention of how much is actually produced.
Dead on!
I threw a few fun posts up under the name "BurnMyOwnGarbage". Looks like I'm not alone, though...
Dayum! That there's the sound of an ox being gored squarely in the gut.
Frank Andorka, Solar Power World.
Evidently he's from another planet.
Boy this moron has been out in the sun too long.
I would love to have an on air interview with this clown and just run the simple numbers of Watts per Sq foot, $/Watt BOTH on an AVERAGE day not bright noon time sunlight.
Then ask this ignorant stooge if he could produce a solar cell @100% efficiency (instead of the low double digit efficiency of today's cells) could he produce electricity AND store it overnight and on an average number of cloudy days at anywhere near the levels required to make Solar a viable alternative for the AVERAGE homeowner.
Even at 100% efficiency, the storage issues eat up any possible ROI. In reality with current efficiency realistic 2 watts of electricity for every square foot of actual PV cells are about the best we can obtain and that is not enough to perform any real work.
I find all of these energy nuts to be woefully ignorant on the magnitude of our energy requirements. They rely on government officials, and the mouth droolers watching the alphabet networks also being ignorant.
Solar is about collecting energy, Oil is about compressing that energy in to a reduced time expansion in order to exponentialy scale up the power output.
These solar power people compare apple and oranges when they speak of solar vs. oil. Oil is much better at developping power, solar at collecting energy. They are two different things.
This whole debate is so stupid, but this is what you get when you let liberals in charge of the science they like to debauche in, and then act in knee jerk reaction over the "over consumption" that they themselves indulge in like lusty idiots.
Have you run the ROI on that? It's been a while since I did one of these analysis with a customer. But, if I remember correctly, I'm 0 - 5 trying to sell "green" energy sources for private commercial companies.
Why? Because the ROI (Return on Investment) is always longer than the expected manufacturer's stated useful life. In other words...the monthly savings that your realize will finally pay for the initial investment for the technology 5 to 15 years after the technology quits working. It will never pay for itself.
Money matters in the real world.
Without subsidies all of these businesses fold overnight as opposed to oil which is at war with the gummit.
Pray for America
and subtracting billions in government subsidies we have....?
You beat me to it. GWB has some responsibility in getting these subsidies going. But like you say above, it is costing us $7 billion per year to keep a $6 billion a year industry afloat.
Economic brilliance at work here.
The growth in the solar industry is from federal funding, and that funding is going down a rat hole.
Nahhh, with that title I figured it didn't need one!
It's an oil redistribution scheme. Oil is already energy paid for, and, so, now lawyers like Edwards or Obama want to extort favors in exchange for it, and, that, in the end, means abuse and distrust and drugs and no machinery. Just a one time kill for your wallet for the rest of your life type scam.
Indeed, these people do not seem to tie economy with ecology, because if something pollutes, it sure is economic moronics of the government "solar tax payer collectors", so to speak.
Fortunately, a non-biased source shows where our energy comes from:
Of the 98 quadrillion BTUs ("quads") of energy produced in 2010, solar made up all of 0.1%, up 0% from 2009 and up 22% from 2008. So when you contribute negligible amounts of power, who cares that it is up 22% in 2 years!
Wind power produced a whopping 0.94% in 2010, up from 0.74% in 2009 and up from 0.51% in 2008. So wind generation has gone up 83% in 2 years. However, it still generates less than 1% of all our power, again, a negligible amount.
Exit question - what has been the cost to taxpayers to increase the amount of wind and solar power generation? What is the cost per BTU generated?
Yes. My array is fully paid off in terms of reduced energy bills. It is still functioning. Not much bang for the buck, and there would have been better investments, but it's pure (minuscule) profit from here on.
Copyrighted cartoon, I guess.
It was funny and spot on, though...
If only the internet was run on solar power... then the comments would stop.
This article:
this report from The Solar Foundation, which reports that there were more than 100,000 jobs in the American solar industry as of August 2011?
This from google:
The oil and natural gas industry supports more than 9.2 million U.S. jobs.
Yea .....Rush is an idiot (sarc)
Copyrighted cartoon at #8, I guess.
It was funny and spot on, though...
Get the straight jacket. Oh, I also believe that there are over 10,000 windmills that have been abandoned. Solar only works in limited ways, ie there are sizable constraints.
it is not self sustaining.
Solar is just a taxpayer leech.
if they want to be viable then they need to BE VIABLE.
VERY sizable constraints. Still one can buy a LOT of solar for the cost of stringing a mile of power lines...
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Due to popular demand, here's a guide to my recent pic.
A few things I should mention:
-People griping about this omission or that are kinda missing the point of the title "infinite". This is just a sliver of the various forms of the Doctor out there. It's more a celebration of what he (or she) could be (at least so far) than any individual fan's idea of what the Doctor "is".
-For the sake of my own sanity, I downplayed spoof versions except for the most famous ones, and mostly stayed away from fan creations (like the "Devious" Doctor), alternate timeline versions ("Jubilee", "Blood Heat", etc), clones ("Project: Lazarus", "Survivors in Space"), androids ("The Android Invasion", "The Chase", "The Wedding of River Song"), dopplegangers ("The Enemy of the World", "The Massacre"), just-gangers ("The Rebel Flesh"), false Doctors ("The Next Doctor"), impostors ("The One Doctor"), disguises (Mr. Popplewick from "The Ultimate Foe"), brain-swaps (Amy Pond in IDW Comics) and "analogue" versions (Dr. Whooves, Inspector Spacetime, Professor Gamble, the Stranger, the Foot Doctor, etc, etc...).
So with that in mind, here's what did make it in...
1) Richard Griffiths- series producer John Nathan-Turner's hypothetical choice for the 8th Doctor, as illustrated by the late Phil Bevan in Doctor Who Magazine #255.
2) The imposing and mysterious version of the First Doctor from Japanese publisher Hayakawa Bunko's translated edition of the book "Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks", as depicted in numerous illustrations by Michiaki Sato: www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6… Not pictured here is another Hayakawa Doctor who appeared in four translations of the Third Doctor's adventures. His look was more similar to his respective Doctor (though, interestingly, he sometimes wore a Holmesian deerstalker cap).
3) David Banks, a.k.a. "The Greenpeace Doctor" (named for his t-shirt). The former Cyberleader was Jon Pertwee's co-star and understudy in the stage play "The Ultimate Adventure" and had to fill in for a few performances when Pertwee fell ill. images.wikia.com/tardis/images…
4) Graeme Harper (future director of many Classic and New Series episodes) as one of the faces glimpsed during the mind-bending battle from "The Brain of Morbius": youtu.be/7y8uNMPJfwQ Though they were pretty much retconned down the road, these were almost certainly intended as previously-unknown past lives of the Doctor. Fans generally deride the idea of these Doctors now, as the notion of pulling some secret past incarnation out of nowhere is a very dirty trick and should never, ever happen again.
5) Arabella Weir as the alternative Doctor from "Exile", part of the Big Finish audio series "Doctor Who: Unbound". Made to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the show, each play dealt with a different "What if" scenario. All are available from Big Finish (at pretty reasonable prices) here: bigfinish.com/ranges/released/…
6) "Unbound" Doctor Ian Brooker, who appears very, very briefly at the end of the story "Full Fathom Five".
7) Most of the obscured Doctors in the picture shouldn't be read into too much, but that's Paul McGann's chin, so if it makes you feel better, you can believe that this is the McGann-ish Doctor from Lance Parkin's novel "The Infinity Doctors": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infi…
8) Alternative 4th Doctor Trevor Martin, from the stage play "Doctor Who and the Seven Keys to Doomsday": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Ke…
9) The Other- a mysterious and complicated figure from the Doctor's past. Vaguely hinted at in the 7th Doctor's TV stories, the idea was expanded on in the novelization of "Remembrance of the Daleks" and several of the 90s novels released by Virgin Publishing. tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Othe…
10) "Morbius Doctor" (and legendary show author/ script editor) Robert Holmes. Smoking a pipe, of course.
11) The 42nd Doctor (based on actor Ian Richardson), who appeared in "Valeyard of the Daleks" a scrapped epilogue from Lance Parkin's novel "The Dying Days": lanceparkin.wordpress.com/2013… It depicted a well-adjusted and married Doctor enjoying semi-retirement. It was probably cut because meeting a far-off future retired Doctor, and especially a married Doctor, would never, ever happen in the actual TV series.
12) The Watcher- a peculiar manifestation of the Doctor encountered in the 4th Doctor's final story, "Logopolis"
13) Derek Jacobi as the troubled and semi-delusional author from the "Doctor Who: Unbound" story "Deadline".
14) "Morbius Battle Doctor" George Gallacio.
15) Jon Culshaw's famous send-up of the 4th Doctor from various episodes of the radio & TV series "Dead Ringers": youtu.be/Q88kt_Vtyl4 Culshaw eventually voiced the 4th Doctor somewhat more canonically in the audio play "The Kingmaker": bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-k…
16) My own fan-fabrication, the 12th Doctor as played by actress Ruth WIlson: fav.me/d67rw8g (Hey, you got a problem with it, go draw your own picture.)
17) Revered show producer Philip Hinchcliffe as one of the Morbius Battle Doctors.
18) Show director Christopher Barry (R.I.P.) as one of the Morbius Doctors.
19) "Unbound" Doctor Geoffrey Bayldon- an alternative First Doctor from the stories "Auld Mortality" and "A Storm of Angels".
20) Richard Hurndall as the First Doctor ("The Five Doctors").
21) Again, the obscured faces shouldn't be read into too much- but that's the chin of alternative "Doctor" Alex McQueen, from the excellent audio series "UNIT: Dominion": bigfinish.com/releases/v/docto…
22) Barbara Benedetti as the alternative 7th Doctor from various fan-films made by Seattle International Films from 1984-1988: youtu.be/23Y53bgZyhE
23) Muldwych, an elderly Time Lord hermit from the 90s novels "Birthright" and "Happy Endings". Heavily implied to be the Doctor from a far-off future.
24) "Morbius Doctor" Chris Baker.
25) The Valeyard (Michael Jayston), the Doctor's evil future incarnation first encountered in "The Trial of a Time Lord" (and later numerous books, audio plays, etc): youtu.be/Y2INBe_qZFo Fans frequently misattribute him as being a Watcher-like "half" incarnation that had to occur between the 12th and 13th lives, due to the Master's statement that he originates from a point somewhere between the Doctor's "12th and final incarnation". Given recent developments in the Doctor's life, that makes the Valeyard's exact nature (and estimated time of arrival) more nebulous than ever. But his recent name-drop by the Great Intelligence at Trenzalore indicates he's still very much on the way...
26) The first of the two Doctors portrayed in various trading cards produced by Cadet Sweets in 1964 (making this the great-granddaddy of all alternative Doctors): www.scififx.com/2012/09/doctor…
27) The Dream Lord, from "Amy's Choice"- a hallucinatory manifestation of the Eleventh Doctor's dark side.
28) The Curator of the Undergallery ("The Day of the Doctor"). An enigmatic figure who resembled the 4th Doctor and might possibly be a retired Doctor from the very distant future wearing an "old favorite" face.
29) The pragmatic and callous (and gun-toting!) "Unbound" Doctor from "Full Fathom Five", as played by David Collings.
30) Nicholas Briggs, the Lon Chaney of Alternative Doctors, here as the "Nth" version from various Audio Visuals fan productions and the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Party Animals", where he appeared to be a far future Doctor. The latter appearance may or may not have been the Gallifreyan agent Shayde, who adopted an identical disguise later during the 8th Doctor's comic strip tenure. Briggs also played other alternative Doctors in "Doctor Who Unbound", various stage plays, the audio version of "Seven Keys to Doomsday" and, sort of, in the 8th Doctor audio "Minuet in Hell". He's also the current official voice of the Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, and Ice Warriors- so maybe it's more accurate to say he's Doctor Who's equivalent of Mel Blanc.
31) Jim Broadbent as one of the Doctors from the epic 1999 Comic Relief sketch "The Curse of Fatal Death", penned by a young Steven Moffat: youtu.be/Do-wDPoC6GM
32) "Morbius Doctor" (and legendary series director) Douglas Camfield. He looks like he would've been a fun Doctor, doesn't he?
33) The Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston.
34) The great David Warner as the "Unbound" Third Doctor from "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Masters of War". He's also encountered ("off-camera") by the 6th Doctor in the audio story "100", which implies that the Unbound Doctors all exist in alternative universes running parallel to the show's "real" one.
35) The second "Cadet Sweets" Doctor.
36) The Doctor from a proposed 1980s cartoon by animation studio Nelvana. The idea never developed past some (really interesting) concept art: megomuseum.com/community/showt…
37) "Fatal Death" Doctor Richard E. Grant, who would play another version of the Doctor 4 years later (see #52).
38) Lenny Henry as the Doctor from this 1985 sketch that charmingly sent up mid-80s Doctor Who (as well as Thatcher-era politics): youtu.be/EdfwXiVyE8I
39) The Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker- here wearing his costume from the stage play "The Ultimate Adventure": youtu.be/8MLLoDczX5U
40) The Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee.
41) The Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.
42) The Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.
43) The Tenth Doctor, David Tennant.
44) Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), transformed into "The DoctorDonna" as the result of an accidental human/ Time Lord "metacrisis" ("Journey's End").
45) The other half of the "Metacrisis"- a human copy of the Tenth Doctor grown from his severed hand.
46) The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith.
47) The Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
48) The Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy- dressed in his costume from the 90s "New Adventures" novels.
49) The Doctor (Mark Gatiss) from the 1999 Doctor Who Night sketch "The Web of Caves": youtu.be/xETlYacSCHE
50) Dr. Who (Peter Cushing) the human inventor of T.A.R.D.I.S.. He appeared in the two 1960s Dalek films, as well as a long-lost radio show pilot: youtu.be/hkC2JgC9CR4
51) "Fatal Death" Doctor Hugh Grant. "Result!"
52) The briefly-canonical original Ninth Doctor (Richard E. Grant, again) from the 2003 BBC webcast "The Scream of the Shalka". Further adventures were planned, but scrapped when the BBC decided to bring the show back to television. It's still available free (and legal) here: www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classi…
53) The First Doctor, William Hartnell.
54) The Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann.
55) "Fatal Death" Doctor Joanna Lumley.
56) The Doctor's nameless past incarnation who fought in the Time war, played by John Hurt (in "The Name of the Doctor", "The Night of the Doctor", and "The Day of the Doctor"). Generally known for branding purposes as "The War Doctor" or "Other Doctor".
57) "Fatal Death" Doctor Rowan Atkinson.
58) The Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
59) "Morbius Doctor" (and series writer) Robert Banks Stewart .
Perhaps we should actually just start calling the War Doctor "The Warrior." It's not like it doesn't fit. There is some evidence to back it up, plus we know he wasn't called the Doctor in the Time War except by everybody, which would lead to some funny moments.
"I'm the Warrior."
"You will not escape Doctor!"
"I'm not the Doctor, stop calling me that."
"I'm the Warrior."
"You will not escape Doctor!"
"I'm not the Doctor, stop calling me that."
Totally. I'm nitpicking, but it really is a missed opportunity that they didn't just give him a different title like the Warrior, Exile, Renegade, Colonel, etc, etc. It would've reinforced how he was something different (at least in his own opinion of himself) and made it more of a big deal when he earned the title of the Doctor again from 11 & 10 (and yes... it would've neatly sidestepped the whole "messed up numbering" aspect, which I know some fans care about, though I couldn't give a hoot in Hell about it).
It'd also be a subtle nod to the possibility that there might only be 12 (acknowledged) Doctors, but other incarnations of the same being who didn't call himself (or herself) that. Whether or not people buy into "The Other", we know the Valeyard's still on the way...
It'd also be a subtle nod to the possibility that there might only be 12 (acknowledged) Doctors, but other incarnations of the same being who didn't call himself (or herself) that. Whether or not people buy into "The Other", we know the Valeyard's still on the way...
I'm so happy I found this.
And yes the doctor has more then
Just 13 incarnations XD
And yes the doctor has more then
Just 13 incarnations XD
Very nice.
yes i have been searching forever for someone anyone who can pull out BArbarba Benedetti and put her in with all of the other doctor's and also include Rowan Atkinson in his doctor but have yet to find anyone at all who will just sketch this and not charge a thousand dollar's for a sketch!
come on!
come on!
Well, if this one had been a commission, that's probably about what I would've charged too, so...
This might be irrelevant to this picture, but I've noticed that you've designed "your own" the Other. There are two unknown future incarnations featured in some short stories ( tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doct… and tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doct… ). I would love to see your interpretations of these two as well. Is that something that is likely to ever happen?
Excellent stuff again there.
Hidden by Owner
Yes, thus the quotes around the name. I was trying not to spoil a brilliant plot twist for the few people out there who might not have caught it.
There were two spoof Doctors in the short-lived sketch show "End of Part One" (a TV version of "The Burkiss Way") - the Doctor regenerated when a ray gun destroyed his BBC contract. Victoria Wood's show also had a Doctor Who send-up in which the companion (sending up Jo Grant) famously said "I'm not very bright and I don't have my glasses". Not sure who played the Doctor in that one.
Nice that you put Bill Nighy in above 3 and between 2 and 4....who's the feminine-looking chin between 23 and 24, though?
And in case I haven't said it already: This pic is, to quote the Ninth Doctor, FANTASTIC!
And in case I haven't said it already: This pic is, to quote the Ninth Doctor, FANTASTIC!
Alternatively, "the other McGann" at 7 could be Dr Johann Schmidt from "Colditz" and "Klein's Story".
Alternatively, "the other McGann" at 7 could be Dr Johann Schmidt from "Colditz" and "Klein's Story".
That is just amazing. Very, very well done!
AWESOME! Curious question, there are a few that I love the parts I can see: Did you draw all of these independently? I know the chance is slim, and the work would be murder, but a guy can dream. x3
Sense a lot of these are actors who didn't make the cut, or even some fanmade Doctors, please don't chew on me for this, but dose Doctor Whooves count? BBC did announce it on the telle (tv).
I mention Whooves (and why he didn't make it in) in the description above. Like most of the notable no-shows, it's mostly a case of priorities and space.
OMG,i really love how you added Lenny XD
who's the guy between 51 and 57?
The Ruth Wilson Doctor is brilliant! When I first saw it on the Doctor Who TV site I changed my view about a female Doctor. I think Ms Wilson could pull it off if the producers do choose to one day go down that track. What the naysayers seem to forget is the Doctor is non-sexual irrespective which gender he/she might be. I strongly suspect that the next incarnation will be played by a woman. Here's hoping it might be Ruth Wilson, but I am sure there are plenty of fine actresses who can fill the role. I think another Luther alumni Indira Varma would be a good choice. Although I think Idris Alba would make a good Doctor too. Any chance of portraying either in your art?
Glad ya like her! Pretty much the whole reason I created her was to convince people that a female Doctor could "work". The two semi-official ones (Lumley and Weir), while brilliant casting, weren't exactly written in a way that'd sell folks on making the Doctor a woman "for real". I think part of why a lot of people don't think of actresses for the Doctor is that there just aren't as many great parts for women out there as there should be, and they rarely get the sort of eccentric and fun lead role that'd put them "on the radar". Wilson's a rare exception thanks to Alice Morgan, who pretty much IS the Doctor in some ways (and completely opposite in others). If you've seen all 3 seasons of Luther, you just KNOW she could own the part.
Varma, I can't say for sure- but again, that's because I mostly know her from Luther and Rome- two shows where she was relegated to being the troubled wife who's mostly there to cause the male lead heartbreak (and comes to a bad end in both- classic "girlfriend in the refrigerator" stuff). That said- she's always been really good in anything I've ever seen her in, and she gives off the vibe of being someone who could do a lot more if she had the chance (and hey, it's not like Tom Baker and Matt Smith had any big Doctor-y parts before getting the role).
And Elba- who DOESN'T love that guy? He'd be amazing- though the Daleks and Cybermen would REALLY have to up their game to stay a credible threat.
Portrayals of either in art- probably not, just because I'm so busy lately. Really if anything, I'd like to do some more art (and maybe even some stories) with the Wilson version someday. Is it weird and vain for me to say she's one of my favorite Doctors?
Varma, I can't say for sure- but again, that's because I mostly know her from Luther and Rome- two shows where she was relegated to being the troubled wife who's mostly there to cause the male lead heartbreak (and comes to a bad end in both- classic "girlfriend in the refrigerator" stuff). That said- she's always been really good in anything I've ever seen her in, and she gives off the vibe of being someone who could do a lot more if she had the chance (and hey, it's not like Tom Baker and Matt Smith had any big Doctor-y parts before getting the role).
And Elba- who DOESN'T love that guy? He'd be amazing- though the Daleks and Cybermen would REALLY have to up their game to stay a credible threat.
Portrayals of either in art- probably not, just because I'm so busy lately. Really if anything, I'd like to do some more art (and maybe even some stories) with the Wilson version someday. Is it weird and vain for me to say she's one of my favorite Doctors?
There's also the Second-and-a-Halfth Doctor played by Tony Garner in the fan film "Devious".
I mentioned him right in the description above! But to say it again- fan Doctors generally weren't included, with him being the most prominent example.
There actually a fan-theory about the Morbius Doctors. In the book Lungbarrow (a novelization of the intended conclusion of the Cartmel Masterplan), it turns out that the Other, a founding member of Time Lord society, entered the looms from which Time Lords are made fully-grown and the Doctor is his reincarnation. This would make the Morbius Doctors incarnations of the Other - negative-numbered Doctors. Of course, looms are no longer a thing (perhaps the Warrior destroyed them in their past to alter Time Lord history and only succeeded in giving himself and his Prydon Academy friends childhoods). As they'd say in Latin, Wibblus Wobblus Tempus Wempus.
He actually almost went in!!! I'm sure it would've driven some fans up the wall, but y'know what? Screw those guys. Though I'm not an MLP fan myself, I certainly don't take any issue with it- it seems like a fun enough (and well-crafted) show, and my girlfriend's a huge fan (I even did some Whooves art for her for Valentine's). And one of my best friends is a "brony" too- so I'm sure they would've been thrilled if I added Dr. Whooves to the lineup.
In the end, he got cut because, best I can tell, he's more of an analogue to the Doctor than something meant in some way to be the Doctor- which puts him in that category of characters like Inspector Spacetime and Marvel Comics' Professor Gamble. Still, he almost made it, b/c I wanted to show just how far the idea of the Doctor can stretch- and he's about as far an example as you can get.
So it was a "humans only" thing?
No, not at all. I just explained it in the comment you're replying to.
But seriously- his non-humanoid-ness wasn't the factor in cutting him. If anything, that was a huge plus for leaving him in. Besides, technically speaking... almost no one in the picture is human.
I knew ALMOST all of these.
Boy, do I feel like a nerd.
Boy, do I feel like a nerd.
Just a little background info. The Morbius Doctors did seem to be originally intended to be earlier incarnations of the Doctor. However, the same writers later instituted the "13 only" rule, with Tom Baker as the 4th. They definitely abandoned the concept, and the faces seem to have been redesigned as Morbius' past incarnations. They still count as much as some of the other obscure "Doctors", though, so kudos for including them.
Since there's only 8 Morbius Doctors, Deadly Assassin doesn't retcon anything. I've heard speculation more than once that maybe they were even deliberately setting up a plotline with Baker being the penultimate Doctor (though this sounds a bit grand for Hinchcliffe and Homes, who kept things pretty episodic). As far as I know, they never commented on the matter (but if someone can attribute otherwise, I'm really curious to know).
I've never understood why fans seize on the idea of them being Morbius's past incarnations, when that just doesn't make sense in the context of the scene, with Morbius winning and taunting, "Back to your beginning!" (and do they look like his past lives, based on what we know about the guy?). A slicker explanation would be that the Doctor just projected a lot of false information to fend him off (Rule #1: The Doctor Lies).
Anyway, estimations of how much they may or may not "count" sort of misses the point of the pic, I think.
Lol! When I first saw this with all the red in the thumbnail, I thought it was River lipstick kisses on each of the Doctors.
Great annotation though. I didn't even know about some of these!
Great annotation though. I didn't even know about some of these!
As the Doctor(s) would say: Fantastic, cool and brilliant artwork!
It's a refreshing novelty to find someone so au fait concerning the expanded Whoniverse. I got most of them myself, it took some of them longer to identify, not realising who they were until the eleventh hour. I think by the end, the only ones that completely stumped me were those Cadet sweet Doctors, and that 'mysterious' Japanese Doctor, which I'd never heard of. Despite hearing his stage play audio, I didn't recognise Trevor Martin either.
Great work, I'd like to see how you can top this!
The Cadet Sweet ones really are crazy obscure. I almost forgot them myself, but I'd saved a few pic of them to my hard drive years ago and noticed them again as I was prepping the pic)- it wasn't till I really sat down and gave the images a hard look that I realized there were clearly two different versions too! Of course, one could argue they're both bad likenesses of Hartnell. I think some fans have gone that route with it with their expanded Universe theories- that it's adventures that happened in the days before he broke ranks with the Time Lords. Those theories need an awful lot of explaining to make work though. I think it's more fun if they're just off in some alternate universe somewhere.
And I'd love to do more art for the Japanese Doctor(s) one day. That's such a cool (and fully imagined) parallel version of the series, with probably something like 70 or so illustrations between the five books that were published. There's a red phone booth TARDIS, sexy Autons, egg-shaped Daleks, Triceraton-esque Silurians, tentacle porn Nestenes... it's such a hallucinatory and wild take on it all.
As for topping this, well... it HAS crossed my mind to do something like this for the companions. If I can ever find the time!
You know far too much minutiae
Guilty as charged. I can only take comfort in knowing there are others who could kick my ass on the subject. After seeing this, Lance Parkin pointed out a few I'd never heard of- like the alternate Third Doctor illustrations from the "Monster of Peladon" excerpts reprinted in the anthology "Beyond the Stars"!
Correction: RJon Culshaw actually voiced the 1st Doctor in The Day of the Doctor.
Well son of a gun- allow me to correct BOTH of us, b/c it looks like we might both be wrong! I'd seen it erroneously reported in a few forums that Culshaw did Hartnell, but Hartnell was definitely voiced by John Guilor, who also voiced him for the reconstruction of the 3rd and 4th episodes of "Planet of the Giants" for DVD: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/John_Gui…
Meanwhile, it's definitely a voice-over artist standing in for Tom Baker with that "Commencing calculations!" line during the 13 Doctors sequence. Strange move that they didn't get Tom himself to provide that, but I guess they were being extra-cagey about hiding his involvement till the very end. I assumed it was Culshaw, b/c it REALLY sounds like his famous impression- but he doesn't seem to be credited at all, whereas Guilor's ambiguously credited as "voice-over artist". Apparently he does a Tom Baker impression as well, so he may have done both (it would explain the non-specific credit).
Culshaw did definitely do Tom's voice for "The Five-ish Doctors (Reboot)" though.
I'm sure the first Doctor was the one who said "Commencing calculations", because the voice sounded just like his when he said "Calling the war council of Gallifrey, this is the Doctor!"
They sound different to me (one seems a lot deeper), but fair enough. I'm bored way past the point of caring, if ya know what I mean.
You didn't include Sylvester Mccoy as The Dominie and Nick Scovell incarnation from the stage plays and fan film, great pic though!
You did read my comments right under the picture, right?
I've only just read it, ok, i'll shut up now!
If it makes ya feel any better, that's a re-used alternative McCoy costume in the far top right corner, so maybe that's the Dominie. Or the Foot Doctor. Or the Death Comes to Time 7th Doctor. Or the 7th Doctor doppleganger from "Head Games". Or the Lollipop Man. Etc, etc...


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Although itâs easy to understand why Marvel felt the need to relaunch âX-Forceâ, given the line-up and creative changes, itâs also a fairly sad indictment of the industryâs attitude towards ongoing titles. The premise of the book -- a black-ops X-Men team -- is exactly the same as its previous incarnation with the only difference being that this time, theyâre secret from even Cyclops, instead operating under Wolverineâs direction. Is support really so hard to drum up that this couldnât have been âX-Force #26â?
That aside, thereâs almost nothing about this book which could turn me off it. The cast -- Wolverine, Archangel, Psylocke, Fantomex and Deadpool -- is almost too cool for its own good. The villain, Apocalypse, is one of the X-Menâs all-time greats, and the final page offers a fantastic didnât-see-it-coming twist on his status quo that has me straining to read more. We might be drowning in ongoing X-books that lack much identity right now, but âUncanny X-Forceâ proves that a solid premise and well-defined cast can go a long way towards ensnaring an audience.
Remenderâs story is nice and quick. Lesser writers could have stretched out the assembly of a new team for issuesâ worth of story, but here aracters is, Remender has found reasons for each of them to be in the cast. Psylocke and Archangelâs itâs dealt with in one scene, and the story hits the ground running. As cool as the mix of ch rekindled relationship also serves as a way for Warren to exert some control over his wilder, more violent âhorsemanâ side, and as the lynchpin for the bookâs first story. Itâs almost strange to find a team book that even tries to tell a story about an individual, particularly since this was one of the bigger flaws about X-Forceâs previous incarnation. Remenderâs work has been good in the past, but given some of the bigger toys to play with, heâs turned out one of the most immediate launch issues the X-books have seen for some time.
Openaâs artwork is appropriate dramatic, and the artist has a unique eye for dynamic angles and layouts. Itâs a shame that Dean Whiteâs normally-dependable coloring renders it in all kinds of strange hues. Thereâs one panel where Wolverine, diving at Archangel, has turned teal and orange. Even the presence of Psylocke canât account for this much hot pink. Itâs a strange misstep, but luckily one that isnât too overpowering.
From the first issue, it looks like âUncanny X-Forceâ might be a success, and it certainly deserves at least as long a run as its immediate predecessor. Despite the presence of Wolverine and Deadpool, Marvelâs most over-exposed duo, this book feels like something you donât get elsewhere: an ensemble team book with strong fundamentals and a clear idea of where itâs going. Letâs hope the next issue keeps up this level of quality.


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U.S. Officers Display the Rat Hole Where Hussein Hid
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: December 15, 2003
AD DWAR, Iraq, Dec. 15 — After the gilded palaces and the tyrant's life of luxury, it came down to this for Saddam Hussein: a final hiding place beneath a scrappy peasant farmer's courtyard that was as small and dark and dank as a coffin, and a trembling decision to surrender that saved him from an almost certain death at the hands of American troops.
The 43-year-old Chicago-born officer who led the raid, Col. James B. Hickey of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division, stood near what he called "the rathole" on Monday. He described to reporters how soldiers peering down into the shaft with weapons and bright lights, with orders to kill Mr. Hussein if he put up a fight, held back when they saw he carried no body belt bomb or gun and appeared to be pleading for his life.
Then they hauled the man they had sought relentlessly for eight months into the chilly night air, restrained him with white plastic handcuffs that held his hands behind his back and placed a plastic hood over his head, just as they have done with thousands of other Iraqi detainees.
One of the surprises of a visit to the site of Mr. Hussein's capture was the size of the underground hiding place where he was found.
It was more cramped and airless than it appeared in photographs released by the Army on Sunday. Its concrete entrance at ground level was barely large enough for a burly man like Mr. Hussein, who is close to 6 feet tall and was believed to have weighed about 200 pounds before he went on the run, to squeeze through.
A reporter of about the former Iraqi ruler's size went down into the hole and discovered that Mr. Hussein would have had to lower himself awkwardly down the shaft of what amounted to an inverted T. He then would have had to twist and slide until he was lying flat in the cramped concrete-walled, wood beam-roofed tunnel. It was about 8 feet long, 30 inches high and 30 inches wide. It was there that he was lying when the American raid broke over him.
Even a few minutes in the tunnel, in daylight, was enough to foster claustrophobia.
Those who built it — possibly the two men captured along with Mr. Hussein, whom the Army has not identified — had installed a small, six-inch-high ventilation fan above where Mr. Hussein appeared to have placed his feet, a jutting steel pipe for further ventilation and a small light that appeared not to work.
The only traces of its former inhabitant that remained after an American military sweep were several used cotton swabs and an empty black plastic bag.
From this last miserable redoubt, at 8.26 p.m. on Saturday, Iraq time, the man who sent hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to their deaths at the battlefront and the torture chambers and the gallows made a decisive choice for life, his own.
From the bottom of the shoulder-wide shaft, the 66-year-old former dictator thrust both hands skyward, signaling to Special Operations forces soldiers that he would offer no resistance.
Colonel Hickey said the Americans learned from an interrogation of one of Mr. Hussein's relatives barely three hours earlier that he could be found in the area near the peasant's house, among flat, silted lands along the Tigris River rich with citrus orchards and palm groves.
But to preserve secrecy, and perhaps to keep the 600 American soldiers on the raid as cool-headed as possible, they avoided using the former Iraqi ruler's name. They referred to him in the jargon of the raid as "HVT One," meaning High-Value Target No. 1.
Mr. Hussein, straggly bearded, unkempt and, Colonel Hickey said, "nervous" and "disoriented" after months on the run, did not try to hide his identity.
As he emerged from the shaft, he addressed the Special Operations forces soldiers with a directness, and at least a hint of delusion about his altered status, that could stand as a epigram for a man so used to dictating terms that he thought, even at the end, that he could haggle over conditions for his surrender.
"I am Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq, and I am willing to negotiate," he said, in halting English, as recounted by Colonel Hickey on the basis of what he was told later by the Special Operations forces. The Army has declined to identify the soldiers beyond saying that they were members of Task Force 121, a Special Operations unit that includes Central Intelligence Agency officers.
The Americans, Colonel Hickey said, were ready with an ironic riposte of their own that may still have Mr. Hussein puzzling in the unidentified "high security detention facility," probably near Baghdad, to which he was moved by helicopter some time on Sunday.
"President Bush sends his regards," they said.
Colonel Hickey said that none of the procedures used in handling Mr. Hussein differed in any way from those applied to the lowliest of his followers, and that they included an authorization to "kill or capture" Mr. Hussein as judged necessary.
Asked if the Special Operations troops had been standing over the bunker with unpinned hand grenades, ready to stop anybody in the shaft from attacking his would-be captors, Colonel Hickey smiled.
"He was wise not to waste much time," the colonel said.
In a similar vein, when asked how American troops confirmed Mr. Hussein's identity, the colonel replied, "The fact that he announced himself as Saddam Hussein helped."


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I loved that movie...:)
Looks like Jake has something going in his butt in THAT movie too
Yes. Dogs like to chew on cold things. Toss your dog an ice cube from time to time.
Damn straight they're more noticeable.
50 years ago there were fewer Americans, by definition fewer wierdo Americans.
50 years ago a wierdo was local or state news. Today he is national news on the 24 hour news cycle, desperate for something to talk about.
There is a definite perception that there are more wierdos preying on kids than there used to be. As stated, I have seen no actual evidence that the perception reflects reality.
I guess so! :-)
Good point!
Had snow ice-cream toady. Very good. We got 12 inches here in Arkansas. It was beautiful. It piled up 4 foot when it slid off the roof. Yea.
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text: Hello Smogon! I've been a member for a good bit on this site, but just recently started actually battling. My favorite tier is definitely OU (just like almost everybody else lol) and I also like sand, so that's where this team came from. Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Team Building Process Like I said, I wanted to base this team around sand, and Tyranitar is strictly a beast compared to the hippo if you can overlook all of his weaknesses. Since I wanted this team to be fairly balanced, I wanted to find good special and physical attackers. I chose these two because of their stellar offenses and immunity to sandstorm damage. Going back to the balanced thing, I wanted to find a good special wall and a good defensive wall. Skarmory is the epitome of physical defense, and if played right, Gastrodon is a great special wall that is awesome against rain teams. As you can probably see, this team was extremely lacking in speed. I chose scarfed Mamoswine to patch up this weakness. I played with the team for awhile for a little bit of success, but improvements needed to be made. Lucario just wasn't cutting it with this team, so I replaced him with Chomp because he's just a beast. I was also having trouble with steel types, and Reuniclus wasn't doing well, so I replaced him with magnezone. The "improved" team produced a lot more wins, but I could still see it hadn't reached its full potential. Magnezone couldn't take on faster Scizor, so I scarfed him beacause the thing would decimate my team. Mamoswine being choice locked into moves was a pain as well, so I decided Sandslash would be better for even more speed, not being locked into moves, and his ability to spin away hazards that were a problem for my team. In Detail: Tyranitar @ Leftovers Trait: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 100 Def / 156 SpD Sassy Nature (+ SpD, - Spe) - Stealth Rock - Fire Blast - Pursuit - Thunder Wave Tyranitar has been the cornerstone of this team ever since its inception, and for good reason. He has titanic special defense in the sand and I put a few extra EVs into defense to allow him to tank some of the plentiful physical hits across the metagame, specifically the omnipresent earthquake. Stealth rock is for hazard damage and I usually lead with it, but I may thunder wave the opponent if the situation calls for it. Fire Blast is for somewhat of a surprise factor on ferro and forre and scizor coming in, and pursuit is for those fleeing psychic and ghost foes. Garchomp @ Leftovers Trait: Rough Skin EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature (+ Spe, - SpA) - Substitute - Swords Dance - Outrage - Earthquake I am SO GLAD this guy came back down to OU. This set absolutely wreaks havoc if given the chance to set up, although admittedly it can be hard to sometimes. The leftovers are for recovery with substitute, and the EVs are fairly standard for just about any Chomp. I bring him in on something he can set up on and either SD or substitute, depending on what I see fit. Then I proceed to spam with outrage if Magnezone has taken out opposing steels or predict accordingly if he hasn't. Magnezone @ Choice Scarf Trait: Magnet Pull EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature (+ Spe, - Atk) - Volt Switch - Thunderbolt - Hidden Power Fire - Flash Cannon An essential member of the team, Magnezone is vital to taking out the steel types that hinder Garchomp's sweeping prowess. He is also valuable against rain teams with fast threats like starmie and unscarfed keldeo. The EVs are once again standard on a Scarf Magnezone, and timid is for all the speed he can get. Volt Switch is the crux of this set, and is what I use 75% of the time. Thunderbolt is if I need more power and hidden power fire of course is to kill steel types, specifically ferrothorn, forretress, and scizor. Flash Cannon is really just a filler, I wish I knew something better that could go there. Skarmory @ Leftovers Trait: Sturdy EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe Impish Nature (+ Def, - SpA) - Spikes - Roost - Whirlwind - Brave Bird Skarmory hasn't changed one bit since I made this team. She is nearly impossible to take down from the physical side, which is great because it gives her multiple oppurtunities to spike the opponent. The EVs and impish nature give her maximum physical bulk and the speed EVs let her outpace other noninvested base 70s. Her only real job is to get the coveted three-layer spikes down, and check certain threats like Conkeldurr, who is a real problem for my team, and others like Breloom and Garchomp. Once she gets spikes down, I proceed to phaze the opponent with whirlwind until she is finally brought down, unless there is still someone she will need to check later. Gastrodon @ Leftovers Trait: Storm Drain EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD Calm Nature: (+ SpD, - Atk) - Toxic - Recover - Earth Power - Ice Beam Another original and unchanged member of the team, Gastrodon's main niche in the current metagame is to check rain teams. She does this extremely well with this team, handling plenty of threats like Starmie, SpecsToed, Torn-T to an extent, and even threats out of rain like the Lati twins. The EVs give her maximum special bulk, which is a lot of special bulk, and a little boost in special attack for when I predict correctly and get that storm drain boost. Toxic is to wear down enemies, while recover heals off tons of damage. Earth Power is a powerful stab with the special attack boost, and ice beam kills dragons. Gastrodon is certainly an important part of this team, but if someone needed to be replaced, she would be the first one to leave. Sandslash @ Leftovers Trait: Sand Rush EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature (+ Spe, - Atk) - Swords Dance - Stone Edge - Earthquake - Rapid Spin Sandslash is almost never seen in the current metagame, but he is invaluable to this team and could probably function well on just about any sand team. My previous teams were extremely vulnerable to hazards, and Sandslash took on the roll of spinner and ran away with it. When any opposing weather inducer is removed, and sand is permanent, this guy is hard to stop. Especially if he gets a Swords Dance. This EV spread gives him over 500 speed in the sand, and makes him an awesome revenge killer or deadly sweeper with the SD boost. And once again, I can't overstate how important Rapid Spin is. This guy really was the final piece to the team, I believe. So that's it! This is my first RMT, and like I said I haven't been battling competitively very long, so please, suggestions are more than welcome!


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Sandra (I) (Romanian), Tomas Lee, Ashley Robins, Zoe (I), Victoria Rose, Tarra White, Kia, Neeo, Natalli Di Angelo, Tomas Hyka, Jörg Jopke, Stacey Silver, Wein Levis, Daria Glower, Roland (I), Justin Corner
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
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Also, the voiceover introducing each vignette lacks imagination. Meant to be enactments of sex stories shared among a group of friends at a cocktail bar, the talk-ups come off like the narration to those bad late-night phone sex ads on T.V., with a girl breathily uttering things like, "It's a hot summer afternoon … no prizes for guessing what she's dreaming about."
That said, the sex is, again, rather hot, and offers plenty of variety, from d.p.'s to a four-way to g/g.
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NORMAN, Okla. (July 4, 2013)--A concert to benefit Oklahoma tornado victims includes some of the biggest names in country music, but because the proceeds are intended for charity, it isn't attracting scalpers.
Oklahoma natives Toby Keith and Garth Brooks are among the performers in the star-studded lineup for Saturday's Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert at the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
Several independent concert promoters not associated with the concert said that although scalping may technically be legal, making a profit off the misfortune of others is certainly in poor taste.
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I am using the theme called "Crafty Cart" which originally has 840px body width then I adjusted it to 960 px. Everything works fine except that when I copied pictures from my other site, the theme would always squeeze my picture unproportionately to make it within the original 840px.
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Fremont-Mills recorded a season-high 14 aces in a 25-7, 25-13, 25-5 sweep of Clarinda Academy in Corner Conference volleyball Thursday.
We had an overall good night," said Fremont-Mills coach Tracy Malcom. "We really wanted to focus on speeding up our offense and concentrate on a perfect free ball pass every time. Our serving was strong and we had some girls really step up.".
The Glenwood boys cross country team placed fifth at the Council Bluffs Lewis Central Invitational Saturday at Iowa Western Community College.
Plattsmouth took home the team title with 38 points led by top medal winner Corey Kress. Kress bested the field with a time of 16:44.06, nine seconds better than second place Brendon O'Brien of Lewis Central.
The Rams' 127 points trailed fourth place Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson by two points.
Freshman Parson Convington led Glenwood with an 11th place finish time of 17:37.93.
The Glenwood volleyball team won four of its five matches to win the team title at the Atlantic Invitational Volleyball Tournament Saturday.
In the round robin tourney, the Rams (10-6) swept the host Trojans 21-4, 21-19, Council Bluffs St. Albert 21-14, 24-22 and Underwood 21-15, 23-21 and rallied in the final two sets to down Winterset 19-21, 21-15, 15-6 before falling to Treynor 14-21, 22-24 in the capper.
HAMBURG - Josh Hopkins ran for a career-high 237 yards and five touchdowns and the East Mills defense limited Nishnabotna to 148 total yards in 44-13 victory in the Eight Man, District 8 opener for both teams Friday in Hamburg.
A week after bulldozing West Harrison for 389 yards, 298 coming on the ground, in a 52-16 victory, East Mills and Hopkins were even better against the Blue Devils. The Wolverines racked up a season-high 501 yards Friday with 346 coming on the ground.
ATLANTIC - It's hard to imagine a better offensive night for the Glenwood football team.
A season-high 546 yards, including 288 rushing and 258 passing. A 28 point second quarter. A 10-year high 56 points.
Oh, and the Rams just happened to move to 3-0 with their dominating 56-6 victory over Atlantic in the Class 3A, District 8 opener for both teams Friday in Atlantic.
Newcomer Curt Becker and incumbent Theresa Romens were elected to fill a pair of at-large seats on the Glenwood Board of Education Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Becker was the clear-cut winner, receiving 437 votes. Romens, the longtime president of the board, defeated former school board member Henry Clark by 14 votes, 342-328, to claim the second seat.
In the East Mills School Board race, Tim Jackson was elected to the DD2 seat with 361 votes. Matthew Urban received 267 votes and Michael Irvin tallied 38. Janet Zanders was unopposed for the DD1 seat and received 541 votes.
Dirt is being moved at the construction site for the Glenwood Aquatic Center.
Electrical lines are also being relocated as the preliminary work begins on building the 8,700-square foot, $5 million outdoor swimming center projected to open July 1, 2016.
Last week, as construction workers were moving dirt and doing some concrete work at the site adjacent to the new Glenwood Community High School gymnasium, a crew from Mid American Energy was relocating electrical lines.
PACIFIC JUNCTION - Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad last visited Mills County just over 11 months ago. The event that day was the ribbon cutting for the Highway 34 Bridge connecting U.S. Interstate 29 in Mills County and to Sarpy County and Highway 75 in Nebraska.
Last Tuesday, Sept. 8, Branstad was back in Pacific Junction for a stop at the Loess Hills Harley Davidson with some words on economic development and the power of infrastructure improvements on rural businesses.
Last Tuesday, Branstad was back in Pacific Junction for a stop at the Loess Hills Harley Davidson with some words on economic development and the power of infrastructure improvements on rural businesses.
Glenwood Community High School senior Jessica Arnold has been named a semifinalist in the distinguished National Merit Scholarship program.
Arnold, the daughter of Gary and Kim Arnold, is among 16,000 national semifinalists who will have the opportunity to compete for 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million. The scholarships will be awarded next spring.
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iPad Air 3 drawing hints at a smaller iPad Pro
You'll get quad speakers and Smart Keyboard support, but in a marginally thicker and wider body.
Princeton researchers find security flaws in IoT devices
Nest thermostats were leaking zip codes on the internet, for example.
Facebook is reportedly making a Messenger app for Mac
Desktop instant messaging apps could be back in vogue.
Faraday Future's insane 1,000-horsepower concept car leaks
A super-quick car that probably doesn't exist.
Botched database leaks records for 191 million voters
If you've voted in the US since 2000, there's a chance your personal info is out in the wild.
Feds arrest hacker for stealing scripts, celeb identities and sex tapes
The man was caught when he tried to sell stolen data to an undercover agent.
Leaked Apple support app could save you a trip to the store
Apple's rumored support app would not only speed up your Genius Bar visit, but save you from making some trips.
BlackBerry might have leaked the Priv's specs and release date (update: confirmed)
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In a lengthy give and take at the May 7 board of aldermen meeting, Mayor Herb Adams and funeral director Jeff Palmore debated the city's response to his request for a meeting to discuss city cemetery records.
Palmore and the city have been at odds for months over two grave spaces that Palmore said he owns, but were listed in city records in someone else's name.
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Itâs been almost two years since Sony Online Entertainment and DC unveiled âDC Universe Onlineâ at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). When Jim Lee came onstage during Sonyâs presentation and the very first trailer was shown, it was clear that DC and Sony had a very strong vision for their Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO)âallow players to create their own heroes (or villains) and fight alongside the icons of the DC Universe. With Lee and WildStormâs work on the design side, and Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman helping shape the story and world of âDCUO,â thereâs a veritable dream team of creative talent contributing to the game.
About a year and a half ago, CBR spoke with Wes Yanagi, the Senior Producer on âDC Universe Online,â and we caught up again with him this week as the âDCUOâ team is getting ready for E3 2010. This time around we talked about how the development of âDCUOâ is coming along, and how the MMO landscape has changed since the game was first announced.
CBR News: Since development started on âDC Universe Onlineâ the MMO landscape has undergone some changes. Free-to-play games have become more prevalent, and some existing games like âD&D Online,â âEverquest IIâ and âAge of Conanâ have altered their business models and the way they think about content delivery. How do you see the changing MMO landscape and how has that affected the development of âDCUO?â
Wes Yanagi: The most important thing is to build a fun and entertaining game. Without a compelling product capable of attracting an audience, business models are meaningless. If anything, the current landscape has reinforced our first priority of creating a fun experience that exceeds consumerâs expectations.
Weâve also seen the launch of âChampions Onlineâ this year. Does seeing the successes and challenges that game has dealt with help inform what youâre doing?
From the very start of the project we set out to build a game that would allow thousands of people to play together in a huge online world that also featured fast action combat reflective of the type of experience that players love in console action gamesâbut in a massively multiplayer environment. This set us on a totally different path, and we faced different challenges as well, based on our choice of platforms. A better example in terms of inspiration for our decisions would come from games like âPrototypeâ or âArkham Asylum,â specifically in terms of the style of combat action weâre targeting.
At some of last yearâs conventions (CCI, E3, NYCC) you let people get some hands-on time with an early version of the combat system. Have the combat mechanics changed dramatically from what people saw?
At the core level, not really. Weâre still all about delivering an action combat experience where you feel very connected to your character. If you push attack, your character throws a punch. If you push jump, your character springs into the air. We have evolved combat in many ways over the past year, by adding a lot of refinements to tactics and powers. Now you can swoop into a group, stun an enemy, vault backwards to create space, and pull another enemy towards you with a grappling hook. Not only do we have standard combat attacks like ranged and melee, but we also have combo and finishing moves as well. Plus, there are super power abilities along with super movement combat moves that a player can use as well. Our goal is to make sure combat is always fun and that tactics are constantly evolving/expanding/advancing as you progress through the game.
As you continue to develop for the PC and PS3 simultaneously, what have been the biggest challenges to balancing the game for both platforms?
Fortunately, weâve had the game working on the PS3 and PC for so long that we havenât run into any major balancing issues between the two platforms. Most of our cross platform work right now is focused on tackling the technical differences between the two.
Is cross-platform play between the PC and PS3 still a planned feature of the game?
Internally our development process is completely cross-platform, but we still havenât made a final decision yet.
Just bringing an MMO to a console in the first place is a huge challenge, as evidenced by the sparse history of console MMOs. What do you think that youâre doing with âDCUOâ that solves the riddle no one else has really been able to?
Visceral action. Console players expect it and weâre delivering on it. When you grab the controller and jump into combat, you instantly realize this game is something completely different from your preconceived notions of MMO combat. Itâs immersive, fast paced, intense, and most of all FUN.
It seems like most games that allow you to play as a hero or a villain struggle to make the villain side as fulfilling to play. How are you approaching that challenge with âDCUOâ?
That aspect is mainly tackled by the storyline, which is a lot easier when youâre working with folks like Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, and Marv Wolfman. A good story provides the framework for your goals and makes it rewarding when you accomplish them. After all, how dull can aligning yourself with the machinations of a high powered super villain be?
In January the weekly âDC Universe Legendsâ comic series was announced, which will tie directly into the game. What can you tell us about the upcoming series?
I definitely donât want to spoil anything for anyone, but what I can say is that the series will help us introduce some of the exciting back-story events and establish the state of the world from a story perspective. Things like⦠why are all these super powered people suddenly appearing everywhere?
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is coming in June, and âDCUOâ is sure to be one of the highlights of Sonyâs presentation. What parts of the game are you guys planning on showing off at the event?
This year weâre showing a high level Player versus Player (PvP) battle where youâve saved the day dozens of times and acquired some "special" gear. Now itâs time to put it to use. Oh⦠and a small peek at a city we havenât shown publicly yet.
You havenât announced the subscription model for âDCUOâ as of yet. Has there been a decision made regarding subscriptions, or are you still exploring different options?
Nope, no new updates on this front yet. Weâre still focused on producing the game.
Can we expect some news on the pricing model or perhaps a public beta at E3?
Possibly⦠ask me again in about a month.
Finally, will fans get to play another piece of the game at shows like E3, Comic-Con International and New York Comic Con this year?
Absolutely! Our mantra is âprove through play.â So, weâre looking forward to seeing fans get some quality hands-on time this summer⦠weâll have a particularly cool unveiling at Comic-Con.
CBR would like to thank Wes Yanagi again for giving us an update on âDC Universe Online.â The game is currently scheduled for a November 2010 release on the PC and PlayStation 3. For more on the game, check out www.dcuo.station.sony.com. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is happening June 15-17 in Los Angeles, and you visit the official site at www.e3expo.com.


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Released: Jan 23rd, 2009
Running Time: 151 Min.
Director: Uncredited
Company: Girlfriends Films, Inc.
DVD Extras: Trailer(s)
Cast: Celeste Star, Charlotte Vale, Julia Ann, Dia Zerva, Aiden Starr, Natalia Rossi, Elexis Monroe, Jana Cova, Prinzzess Felicity Jade
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
Restless hearts searching for that one perfect woman!
Elexis Monroe walks past real life horsies and into a big ol' house in the country, complete with skinny little Natalia barely fitting into a wedding dress and needing help with the zipper. Drat the luck, huh? Soon the two are naturally in one another's laps, with Natalia definitely playing the do-me queen.
Cheerleader Prinzzess apparently has a problem remembering whose clothes belong to whom when she puts away the laundry. Fortunately, Dia Zerva and Aiden Starr know exactly how to deal with that kind of nonsense: a bare bottom spanking and lots of oral sex.
Charlotte Vale definitely hits a TMI point when step-mom Julia Ann confides that dad ain't exactly taking care of her in the sex department. It only gets weirder when not-technically-related Ann further confesses that maybe some mother-daughter quality time could solve the problem.
Jana Cova doesn't seem too impressed by dykish looking lesbians, but she's more than willing to let Celeste Star wake her up for some girly-girl sex before they head out for Chinese food.


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It has become a tradition of sorts that every January wave of LEGO brings a new pair of Star Wars battle packs. This year, We got Phase 1 clones (8014), and Assassin droids (duh, this set). Both of these sets contain characters inspired by the recent CW Star Wars show. Most people liked 8014 but scoffed at this one, as the figures in it were unrecognizable to anyone who doesn't watch the CW. Some, however, liked the set for the simple but sleek speeder, and the various battle droid parts in rare colours. Well, if you are one of the people still standing squarely on the fence about whether or not to get this set, read on!
Set Name: Assassin Droids Battle Pack
Set Number: 8015
Theme: Star Wars
Subtheme: The Clone Wars
Released: 2009
Pieces: 94
Minifigs: Five
Price: 9.99 USD, 9.79 GBP, 12.99 CDN, Price in Euros varies from 13.95 to 18.95.
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Unleash an army of destructive droids!
Programmed for stealth and destruction, assassin droids are used by gangsters, smugglers and crooks on every planet from Coruscant to Tatooine. Build up your own army of these silent, skilled and sneaky droids and send them out with their flick-missile-firing speeder on secret missions all across the galaxy!
* Includes 3 Assassin Droid™ and 2 Elite Assassin Droid™ minifigures and 2 flick fire missiles!
* Build your army and add #8014 Clone Walker™ Battle Pack for even more fun!
* Measures 8" (20cm) long!
Box Front
This is just a standard CW box, with a nice little "Build Your Army" logo in the bottom left corner. It shows the included speeder swooshing along with some Assassin Droids running alongside it, fighting an unseen enemy. The boxes lately seem glossier than they used to be. Perhaps they changed the cardboard they're made of, or the paint they used on them.
Box Back
The box shows the included figures as well as a battle scene that can be made if you combine this set with the 8014 Clone Walker battle Pack. It looks kind of bare, most likely because this set really doesn't have any features that can be showed off here. Oh, except the amazing flick-fire missiles.
Instruction Book-Front
This is the same picture as the front of the box. The instructions had no errors.
Instruction Book-Back
The back of the instructions advertises a contest to win some free LEGO. I believe the same advertisement has been on the back of almost all of my instruction books since I started collecting LEGO again in late 2007.
These are the real attraction of this set, and are the reason why most people bought it. Here we have two new types of figures, 3 "assassin droids" and 2 "Elite Assassin droids". I'm not a big fan of the CW, so I'm not sure whether these look anything like their respective characters in the show. The best part of these figs, for me at least, is the variety of battle droid parts in two unusual colours: black, and, much more importantly: Metallic silver! I honestly would have prefered a new B1 battle droid pack with a new vehicle, and B2 battle droids with that new "gun-arm". However, my enthusiasm for these figures is greatly increased by the lovely colours.
Weapons/Extra Parts
For weapons, we are given one long, and four short blasters. We get quite a volume of spare parts as well: Two clips, one in Mettallic silver, one in black, three 1x1 round plates in black, metallic silver, and trans-orange, a bley technic connector, 2 straight battle droid arms, one in metallic silver, and one in black, as well as two curved battle droid arms, and a 1/2 technic pin.
The Speeder
Overall View
This is one of my favourite battle pack vehicles. It has a very nice colour scheme of dark bley and dark blue, as well as a very nice shape and quite sleek lines considering how few parts it uses. The two wing-like parts that stick out the back are quite interesting. The part that is dark bley is clearly just standard ABS, but the the bley part is bendible and rubbery, kind of like Kit Fisto's head. While I'm not sure why they did this, its cool nonetheless. This neat little speeder also makes great use of these slopes, which I find quite useful for MOCing.
Front View
This is basically what a clone trooper sees right before he dies in a painful, anonymous death.
Side View
Heres a great shot of those awesome Flick-missiles.
Back View
Here you can see the two dark bley jumper plates that two of the droids can put their blasters into.
Top View
Here you see where two of the droids can sit.
Entire Set
While two droids man their guns and prepare to swoosh off in their small speeder, three others are ready to take down some clone trooper scum with their good old-fashioned High-powered-liquid-cooled-atomsmashing-ionizing-dishwashing-super-duper-blasters-of-death.
The Ratings:
Build: 7/10 - There were no troubles here, but there weren't exactly any interesting design techniques either.
Design: 8/10 - My favourite battle pack vehicle, it looks very sleek and fast.
Playability: 7/10 - It holds up well, but there aren't any interesting play features that draw you in.
Minifigures: 7/10 - I'm not big on the CW, so these figs don't mean much to me, but they do come in some great colours.
Price: 9/10 This is on par with the other battle packs, and is certainly worth it.
Total: 38/50
All in all, I really like this set. It has a solid ship, alright minifigures, and a very affordable price tag. If you are a fan of the CW, I highly recommend picking this up. If not, it makes a nice complement to a clone BP, and is a very nice parts pack, as well as having some cool-coloured BD parts. Although, with me being an OT/PT guy, I can't see the appeal of making an army of these, a CW fan definitely would. I bought two for the excellent parts and OK minifigures in good colours.
Thank you for reading my review! C&C is definitely welcome.
Edited by KimT, 18 June 2009 - 08:35 PM.
indexed and poll added