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Imp is here!
I will change my avatar as soon as Songster is made in MOTUC
I do want Veena! Of course!
But as some other people here, I agree we must get some of the other girls first, at least:
Frosta (oh man I LOVE Frosta!!!)
I'll pass thanks. There's enough sorceresses in the present continuity without having a preternian one as well.
80's sorceress
NA sorceress
Green Goddess
200x sorceress
IT's bad enough we have he-man existing twice thanks to king grayskull.
What's next? preternian Man-at-arms and orko??
Fneh's MOTUC wishlist:
Spikor, MYP Marzo, Snake Armour He-Man, Stinkor
Fneh's MOTUC needed list:
King Grayskull, Beastman, Stratos head
i'd like to see her made.
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I would buy two of VEENA, for sure!
I looked up her current votes on my thread for the "Females In MOTUC" and she has a very respectable middle-of-the-road following against the 30 most popular females in all the series!
Did she appear in the 200X series? Her bio has a picture that looks like it's from that series...
Etherian Rebel JOSH for the MOTUC (see my avatar)!
Duncan is also the latest MAA to serve the royal family, continuing a legacy that has lasted over 200 years.
Plus there IS a Preternian Orko - the Oracle.
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I agree with everyone's who's said something in favor of a Veena figure.
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they're effectively the exact same character from different art directions. King Grayskull IS the 4H initial design for 2002 He-Man. King Grayskull's toy even has all the same weapons as He-man. It's like elseworlds he-man basically.
This entire storyline for preternia is basically rehashing characters we already have once already. If they're going to have ancestors literally hundreds of years prior, there should be significant differences in their appearance.
Veena could get away with it IF MOTUC ignores the 2002 Sorceress all together. That way she WOULD be radically different from the sorceress of He-Man's time.
The oracle in the cartoon was yet another case of mattel blatantly ripping off their own product.
He-Ro makes so much more sense as he-man's ancestor. He's a unique character.
Eldor makes a lot of sense as being the big sorcerer of that time. (who said it HAS to be a woman every time unless it's the same being reincarnated through magical cloning like teela?)
Can you not see that this is just varients of characters we have in disguise??
If this was the 2002 line, veena would be Battle Armour Sorceress and you'd all complain it's another varient. All That's been done here is she's been given a new character's name and you've sucked it all up.
Matty should've released M@A with 1 head and then just released the other head on a renamed card "malcom-at-arms - the FIRST man-at-arms". They could've sold the same figure TWICE!
Next people really will ask for the oracle and pay $30 for the orko figure to get some eyebrows added.
Fneh's MOTUC wishlist:
Spikor, MYP Marzo, Snake Armour He-Man, Stinkor
Fneh's MOTUC needed list:
King Grayskull, Beastman, Stratos head
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Add this old sorcerer to the Veena bandwagon!!
The mythology just gets richer with more characters!!
Absolutely, bring on Veena.
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One MOTUC Sorceress is more than fine and enough for me.
Green Goddess, Veena and the 80's Sorceress are all basically the same character right? And I'm sure we will get MOTUC Sorceress and I can't wait but I'd like to see the other ones first before a Veena figure.
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I wouldn't mind getting Veena, but as far as I'm concerned she can be waaay down the line, preferably after a King Grayskull re-release (Veena doesn't really do much for me if I don't have a KG).
Basically, she'd be cool, but I won't be that surprised or upset if she never shows.
Where they start to push things, however, is with the Oracle, and Battle Lion was just taking the smeg. In limited doses with a clear throughline and clear differences is one thing, but once you start tossing in clear homages to the present day right, left and centre... no. They should have stuck to Greyskull and Veena, and everyone and everything else should have had no present-day counterpart.
I would definitely disagree that He-Ro is a particularly "logical" precursor to He-Man, since they have essentially nothing in common.
I'd love a Veena figure!
I want Veena, Eldor, and Battle Lion.
Also the Oracle had a name, he was unofficialy called Gorpo and may have been Orko's/Uncle Montork's ancestor.
Also a lot of these people look-alike be cause of something call pre-destined reincarnation. Veena and KG were in love but he died before they could get together. Luckily he already had kids and she eventually found a lover. The thing is He-man/Adam and Teela are these two reicarnated so they can finally fall in love and have a family (Like Darius/Future He-ro son of He-man).
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I'm all for expanding the 200x characters in Classics. Having said that, she's a fairly minor character and we have many others, even just from 200x, who are far more important and who deserve a figure before Veena.
So yes, I'd like Veena, but she's too low profile to be thinking about just yet.
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I like Veena. She'd be cool to add to the collection. As a bonus figure, sure.
But theres alot more characters I'd like to see first
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Very well put.
However, that doesn't change the fact that King Grayskull was only used in the first place because mattel thought the 4H concept for he-man was cool and they just wanted to use it somehow.. At the end of the day he's a character that cheapens the mythos and takes a lot away from he-man.
also food for thought: did King grayskull's name change to He-grayskull once he had the sword of He?
TBH, veena makes more sense to me than any of the rest of these rip off characters. it makes sense she would've existed. It's just that in all honesty, how many sorceress toys do you honestly WANT? I listed that we already have an abundance just from present day. Is it really money well spent buying so many of what's effectively the same character from a different era when you could be spending that money on the likes of Spikor and peekablue?
Fneh's MOTUC wishlist:
Spikor, MYP Marzo, Snake Armour He-Man, Stinkor
Fneh's MOTUC needed list:
King Grayskull, Beastman, Stratos head
I do. she is lower on my list of want characters, I would like to see her come out.
I would very much like for Veena to be made in to an action figure!


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David Baker and his wife, Colleen, landed at the Akron-Canton Airport from Newport Beach, Calif., on Saturday night without coats. After his first meeting with the Pro Football Hall of Fame staff, they warmed up to the new boss.
When David Baker hit the ground in Canton, he didn't do it prepared. Baker, who was hired last week as the Pro Football Hall of Fame's new president and executive director, was much better his first day on the job Monday.
Baker and his wife, Colleen, landed at the Akron-Canton Airport from Newport Beach, Calif., on Saturday night without coats. After his first meeting with the Hall of Fame staff, they warmed up to the new boss.
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"Frankly, we should have been paying them," Baker said. "I believe this, because it's central to us being here. (The Duke of) Wellington said the Battle of Waterloo had been won many years before on the playing fields because he believed all his officers earned discipline, work ethic and team work from competitive athletics.
"Douglas MacArthur, long before he in some respects was the new emperor of Japan, he was superintendent at West Point. He could have put his message anywhere. But he chose a plaque on the playing fields at West Point that said, 'Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.'"
Baker's point was what happens on the athletic fields are important messages to deliver not only to staffers, but corporate America as well. One of the reasons Baker, a corporate attorney, was hired was to forge relationships with corporate sponsors and open revenue streams.
He was slightly embarrassed to reveal to the staff that he watched "The Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood, and one of the verses in the song rings true to Baker's philosophy.
"You've heard the 'climb every mountain' part," Baker said. "I never really listen to it until it gets to the next sentence after ''til you find your dream.' ... It says a dream that will need all the love you can give every day of your life for as you live. If you can find that kind of dream and make it your job, that's good work for the rest of your life."
Baker is taking over for Stephen Perry, who led the Hall of Fame through the largest expansion in history. The $27 million project was the largest one-time investment in the Hall's structure.
Baker may be the man to help deliver the Hall's brand beyond football fans. Baker is expecting to close on a $1.5 billion deal in Henderson, Nevada. He is a partner and developer in an integrated health care and mixed-use development there that could create more than 15,000 job.
He isn't coming to Canton to quietly go into retirement.
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Where were you Wednesday? Only about seven people dropped off books on Wednesday.
We got this great collection of World War II history and this great collection of nature books and this nice collection of 18th century French art and it will all look good on the tables in July and I suppose I had ought to be really pleased about it.
Except all that came in in about one hour on Monday. This is what I mean by "a surge". Yes, I KNOW I said we accept books until the third of July. But that doesn't mean everything has to come in the last week of June.
I know the books are really coming in when I sit down to eat my lunch and find the last bites of my lunch from the day before. (This is one of those rules of the universe I don't believe I've covered yet: "All the really important business is handled during lunch.") How the heck am I supposed to price all those World War II books…no, wait. How the heck am I supposed to appraise this secondhand electric toothbrush if books are going to keep piling up on the dock all day long?
On Tuesday, we got that great collection of humor and that nifty set of antique World Book and all those paperback mysteries…between noon and one o'clock. I was leaving the Newberry at 7:10 that evening when the guard called "There's someone unloading books on the dock!"
See, this is why I always say to drop off books "from about eight to four". That's a big stretch of the word "about". That was the night we had the massive downpour, so it's just as well I was there to pull those boxes indoors. Those framed watercolors would have looked much different next morning if they'd sat out all night. It might have added a touch of color to the dock, of course. (By the way, one of the really nice things about this collection was that the original owner—it was an estate—had collected all the right artists. I don't know if their work is worth anything, but almost all of them had signed their names so I can actually read the signatures. In fact, this is almost certainly a sign that they are NOT worth anything. But it saves a lot of time and trouble if I don't have to squint and mutter "Now, does that say Rembrandt or Rembrahan?".)
On Wednesday, as I say, you all seem to have taken the day off, but you made up for it on Thursday: eleven boxes of literature here, nine boxes of business books there, eight boxes of art books at ten, three lettuce boxes of science fiction at ten-fifteen…I tell a lie. It was two lettuce boxes and a spinach box. Is there some app, by the way, so your phone tells you "Someone just dropped off nine boxes at the Newberry: time to drop off your seventeen shopping bags"?
Maybe this is just your way of getting even. We are going to have all these amazing things (we may get a framed page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, with fifteenth century pictures of celebrities of the day, one of whom seems to have a tail that extends off into the margin) and you will have only four days (five, if you donate a hundred bucks to the annual fund in time) to look at them all and buy them.
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Due to the success of our last recovery operation at Harwich UK Diving Services were contracted in again to replace a series of underwater sensors for the survey company EGS Surveys
Our dive team removed 4 hydro-graphic sensors from beneath the vessel at the stern of the ship and replaced them with higher specification models.
UK Diving Services were contacted by EGS Surveys to find and recover a lost magnetometer off of the Harwich coast. The magnetometer was lost whilst EGS were surveying an area to map sunken vessels. Our commercial dive team deployed from the port of Harwich and anticipated diving both the high and low tidal windows to allow optimum chance of success. The magnetometer was found and recovered on the first dive at high tide...a good result for all parties!
UK Diving Services Ltd recently undertook an interesting tank dive for Seaflex Ltd where an inflatable mattress was inflated and placed on the surface of the water inside the tank whilst operatives broke open an opening in the roof of the sprinkler tank. The purpose of the operation was to install new hatches to allow for easier access in the future. The purpose of the inflatable matress was to catch falling debris so there was no risk of any material entering the sprinkler system and causing any blockages. Our divers entered through narrow access channels in the side of the tank.
UK Diving Services Ltd are providing on going safety and rescue boat hire services for Skanska Balfour Beatty JV whilst operatives are assembling scaffold to the underside of the M25 carriageway crossing the river Lee. Our company with its extensive background in underwater and marine services is providing water safety and boat traffic marshaling throughout the duration of the project.
UK Diving Services Ltd provide commercial boat master and survey boat hire on the river Thames and river Cherwell for GC Surveys
UK Diving Services Ltd are providing safety boats and rescue boat hire services for operatives painting a bridge spanning the river Lune. Our commercial safety boats and crew are well placed to provide safety cover on this demanding inshore waterway. Our vessels go through rigorous testing and our crews highly are trained.
UK Diving Services Ltd were instructed to survey a large fire water storage tank near Liverpool which had a faulty pump. Our professional divers found the sprinkler tank had small amounts of debris inside and concluded they were sucked into the pumps impeller causing pump failure...as proven upon isolation and removal. Our teams have extensive experience in accessing a variety of water and chemical tanks.
UK Diving Services Ltd have recently been engaged on river bed survey operations by providing licensed survey boats for surveyors to access waterways as part of Network Rail scheduled rail bridge inspections. Our survey boats also second as safety vessels.
UK Diving Services Ltd undertook a diving scour survey of the piers at Wilford Bridge, Nottingham. The survey was part of the Nottingham Tram Project which involved sending divers to determine if the bridge footings were structurally sound thus allowing the original bridge to take the additional weight of the new wider bridge and carriageway to accommodate the new trams.
UK Diving Services Ltd provided PLA licensed safety boats and rescue boat cover during night time operations whilst operatives were working from an up and over cherry picker on the underside of the bridge arches at Reading. This operation was very short notice...our team was deployed and on site providing water safety services within 2 hours of instruction.
UK Diving Services Ltd were involved in the filming of a floating hot water spa on the river Thames navigation at Staines. Our company providing a film boat with qualified skipper for the camera and sound crew to film the Hot Tug and its designer whilst afloat.
UK Diving Services Ltd were recently invited by UMC International to provide a dive team and equipment to undertake the ABS hull survey of the offshore supply vessel MV North Truck. The underwater hull inspection was recorded in real time with digital cctv playback at Lowestoft docks in the presence of an approved ABS surveyor allowing the ship to continue its offshore operations in the North Sea on time.
UK Diving Services Ltd provided waterside safety and rescue boat cover for operatives and engineers from CCL International Ltd whilst undertaking inspections to the support bearings of Rochester Bridge. Our Port Of London Authority registered safety boats with trained commercial skippers and crew provided safety support whilst operatives were working above this tidal waterway.
Thorpe Park Underwater Inspection
Our commercial dive teams provided specialist underwater inspection services for this well known national attraction.
UK Diving Services Ltd undertook several underwater inspections within the theme park including ....underwater survey to the underside hull of one of the theme parks floating barges and an underwater examination of a faulty submersible pump which provides water to the rides.
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Due to the success of our last recovery operation at Harwich UK Diving Services were contracted in again to replace a series of underwater sensors for the survey company EGS Surveys
Our dive team removed 4 hydro-graphic sensors from beneath the vessel at the stern of the ship and replaced them with higher specification models.


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Huskers Advance to Kick Off Championship
Lincoln, Neb. - The first day of the ITA Kick Off weekend at the Nebraska Tennis Center provided some intense action for the spectators who came to see your 17th-ranked Nebraska Huskers host No. 22 Georgia Tech, No. 23 Tennessee, and No. 18 Notre Dame. The Huskers (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) faced a tough challenge Saturday against the Volunteers. Nebraska cruised through doubles play heading into a suspenseful group of singles matches leading to a narrow victory for the Huskers over Tennessee.
The Huskers and the Volunteers began the match with doubles. In the No. 1 position, Huskers Mary Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova sealed the first doubles match at 8-3 against Tennessee's Brynn Boren and Kata Szekely, who are ranked No. 12 as a pair in the ITA doubles rankings. Nebraska sealed the doubles point at the No. 2 position where Stefanie Weinstein and Janine Weinreich defeated Volunteers Caitlyn Williams and Joanna Henderson 8-3. The No. 3 doubles match facing Huskers Maike Zeppernick and Maggy Lehmicke against Tennessee's Tiffany Tavares and Sarah Toti went unfinished and the Huskers took the lead 1-0.
Going into singles on a 1-0 lead, the Huskers pushed the lead to 2-0 on a victory provided by Maggy Lehmicke at the No. 5 spot when her opponent Mimi Fotopoulos retired due to injury at a score of 6-4, 2-1. Tennessee sliced the margin in half at the No. 6 position when Huskers Maike Zeppernick fell to Volunteer Tiffany Tavares 4-6, 4-2.
Mary Weatherholt ousted 58th ranked Brynn Boren 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the No. 1 position to make the score 3-1. Tennessee grabbed two victories at the to tie the score when the Volunteers' Joanna Henderson defeated Nebraska's Janine Weinreich at the No. 4 position 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 followed by Tennesee's Kata Szekely edging Patricia Veresova at the No. 2 position 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
With the score tied at three, the last match had the crowd on their feet being in the third set with the victory on the line. Nebraska's Stefanie Weinstein put together a solid performance down the stretch to dismiss Tennessee's Caitlyn Williams 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and seal the victory for the Huskers. Having the victory in the bag, Nebraska advances to the championship match to be played Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. against No. 18 Notre Dame.
Earlier in the day for the first match, the No. 18 Notre Dame team were able to narrowly defeat No. 22 Georgia Tech on a 4-3 score to move into the championship match on Sunday against No. 17 Nebraska. The Yellow Jackets will face No. 23 Tennessee in the consolation match Sunday morning.
The match started with an exciting round of doubles where Georgia Tech got the lead on the doubles point to go ahead early 1-0. The singles matches saw some extremely close finishes with a few tie breakers and the concluding match going to three sets. Georgia Tech extended their lead with the first singles match pushing the score to 2-0 before Notre Dame grabbed their first tally and cut the margin back to 2-1.
Georgia Tech quickly extended the lead again to 3-1 by securing the third match. Notre Dame was trailing in its remaining three matches but fought hard to bring it back and tie the match at 3-3. In a nail-biting finish, the final match went to a third set and ended on a tie break that saw Notre Dame grab the final point and decide the results to secure their victory at 4-3.
Nebraska will return to the courts tomorrow for the second half of the ITA Kick Off weekend before heading to Ohio State next Saturday, Feb. 2 at 11 a.m. to face their first Big Ten opponent of the season.
No. 17 Nebraska - 4
No. 23 Tennessee - 3
Nebraska Tennis Center
Lincoln, Neb.
1. Mary Weatherholt (NU) def. Brynn Boren (UT) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
2. Kata Szekely (UT) def. Patricia Veresova (NU) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5)
3. Stefanie Weinstein (NU) def. Caitlyn Williams (UT) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
4. Joanna Henderson (UT) def. Janine Weinreich (NU) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
5. Maggy Lehmicke (NU) def. Mimi Fotopoulos (UT) 6-4, 2-1 (retirement)
6. Tiffany Tavares (UT) def. Maike Zeppernick (NU) 6-4, 6-2
Order of finish (5, 6, 1, 4, 2, 3)
1. Patricia Veresova/Mary Weatherholt (NU) def.Brynn Boren/Kata Szekely (UT) 8-3
2. Janine Weinreich/Stefanie Weinstein (NU) def. Caitlyn Williams/Joanna Henderson (UT) 8-5
3. Maggy Lehmicke/Maike Zeppernick (NU) led Tiffany Tavares/Sarah Toti (UT) 7-5 (unfinished)
Order of finish (1, 2, 3)


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By Jeremy Costello
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MULVANE—Maybe the Orioles remembered the sting of losing a 9-0 lead to Mulvane in last season's epic 16-15 extra-inning loss.
Or maybe the Orioles simply were highly motivated to beat their rival from the start.
Either way, Augusta's softball team made it clear it meant business Tuesday at Mulvane. The Orioles already had jumped out to a fast start and built a 3-0 lead after two innings and a 7-0 lead after five. In the sixth inning, the Orioles buried any chance of another miraculous comeback with a seven-run sixth inning on way to a 14-0 run-rule win.
The Orioles put up four runs in the second inning for another fast start in Game 2 and held on for a 6-3 win to get a big road sweep of the Wildcats Tuesday in damp, cold, windy conditions.
Not even standout pitcher Destynee Donaldson had a chance to slow down the Orioles' offensive attack on this day. All nine Oriole starters had at least one base hit in the opening game. The Orioles hit to the opposite field, down the lines and even one over the fence.
Not bad for a team that hadn't played in nearly two weeks.
"For them to come out the way they came out today is showing what our practice is doing for us," coach Shane Steinkamp. said. "You put up 14 runs against Destynee Donaldson, it's a pretty good game."
Destiny Williams started the day with a base hit to right field, and the barrage was on. Katy Nordman hit a 2-RBI single to start the scoring in the first inning. After Courtney Phillips hit a double, Morgan Kirk hit an opposite-field RBI single for a 3-0 lead in the second.
The Orioles had five base hits the opposite way in all, something Steinkamp said the team had been working on.
Brooke Eberhardt all but silenced Mulvane's bats all game. The Wildcats only managed four hits off her, and all of them came with two outs, anyway. Eberhardt had four strikeouts and two walks.
In the fifth, the Orioles broke open the game with four runs. Kalie Robinson scored on a throwing error, and Casady Marlnee later hit an RBI single, which turned into an inside-the-park home run after Mulvane made a throwing error.
Abby Tipton then blasted a solo home run to dead centerfield, her first home run of her career.
"I was really excited," Tipton said. "It seemed like everyone really wanted to play today because Mulvane is one of the top teams we wanted to beat."
The Orioles still weren't done. Augusta rattled off six straight hits against Donaldson, five of which drove in runs as the Orioles put away the game in convincing fashion.
Nordman finished 3-for-3 with a double and four RBIs. Marlnee and Kirk were 2-for-4 with two RBIs apiece. Tipton was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Jenna Lynch added a pair of hits.
"I try not to think about what's going to happen. You just go up there and have confidence and know what you want to do," Nordman said about her approach at the plate.
The Orioles wasted no time getting on a roll in Game 2. They hit three singles and scored a run the first inning before taking control in the second. Kylie Wesbrooks hit a single and later scored on an RBI single by Kirk.
Mulvane didn't help itself. The Wildcats committed two errors and had two passed balls in the inning.
The Wildcats got their first runs of the day in the third when Ashley Wilson hit a 2-RBI single to score Haley Hays and Amanda Hively. During the inning, Augusta pitcher Megan Hayes had a hit come straight back at her and hit her. But she showed toughness and resolve by finishing the inning and the game.
"It's a mental and physical toughness. I told her we could bring Brooke in. She said no we can't," Steinkamp said with a laugh.
Hayes allowed six hits, struck out three and walked just one batter.
The Orioles now are 4-0 on the season and dropped Mulvane to 4-4. Augusta hosts Circle Thursday afternoon.


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Todd thinks Kickstarter.com must have had a killer crowdfunding campaign.
They say sales is a numbers game: Theres's always a core group out there willing to buy whatever you're selling. You just have to talk to enough people to find them.
And while raising money for a few of my own projects over the years, I have often dreamt of casting a wide enough net to grab just a few bucks from each of them. A few dollars each from several thousand people is better than you'll get panhandling on the Chicago streets.
So the moment I heard about Kickstarter, I started kicking myself for not thinking of it myself and promptly dropped a couple hundred bucks on various projects (so far). I've even put it to good use for me. And humanity, of course. I always try to toss humanity a bone now and then.
Here's how it works:
Say you want to make a movie or start your own taco cart. You set a fundraising goal & deadline and post a video pitch of your idea to let the world know why your tacos would be better than anybody else's. Perhaps you're infusing the shells with bacon fat. You also establish a series of tiered rewards (based on how much people contribute) to encourage folks to pitch in higher dollar amounts.
Then you promote the heck out of your project, emailing it to your friends, posting it to Facebook, and holding your neighbor's cat ransom. They can pledge any dollar amount to support your project and, if the project meets its fundraising goal by the deadline, everyone's card is charged and the money is handed over to you.
If you come up short then nobody's card is charged and you retreat back to your chemical dependencies.
Or you can peruse the site for interesting projects that you'd like to support. There's no guarantee it will actually deliver and no real recourse if they don't. So it's exactly like investing, with all the risk, thrill and potential reward. But at least you know that, if they don't reach their goal at all by the allotted deadline, you're not out any cash.
You do have to be creating something tangible. You can't use it to raise money to pay down your mortgage or fund a vacation to Uruguay. That's what white-collar crime is for. And you can't use it to raise money for a cause, like cancer research or your uncle's foreskin restoration surgery. But you CAN use it to kick off production of that foreskin restoration device you patented, the Double Dangler.
But ne'er fear, for if it a cause ye be lookin' to fund, there are a slew of crowd-funding sites for that too, such as Human Tribe Project, FundRazr, GoFundMe, and GiveForward.
I've personally supported 12 projects so far with no signs of stopping. None of them are complete yet, but they're all on-track and I'm pleased to keep up with the updates. I won't post a handy link to my public profile page here - if you wish to uncover yet more proof of my nerdiness, you''ll have to do your own digging. But even if you're only pitching in a few dollars, you'll still get special backer-only updates from the project manager and have a real feeling of doing something worthwhile.
I also used it to successfully fund my latest film project, Movie On A Stick, which we'll be premiering in Des Moines sometime in May. We even exceeded our own modest goal, which means more drug money for me.
I think we're on the cusp of something big here because we've finally discovered the Internet's killer app: Getting people to give money to each other. Sure beats forking it over to The Man, because we all know The Man has no taste.
Here are some of the cooler projects that likely wouldn't be happening otherwise:
Oculus Rift - John Carmack, the legendary programmer who brought us Doom, threw his weight behind this effort to fast forward virtual reality headgear to the technical and affordable level we all thought they would be at by now.
Magnet Comic - Brainchild of a high school art teacher, this simple but clever idea raised ten times his original goal.
Impossible Instant Lab - In case you thought Instagram filters hadn't regressed digital photography enough, you will soon be able to convert your iPhone photos into real life polaroid-style instant prints.
Veronica Mars Movie Project - Wanna see a Veronica Mars movie in the theaters? Yeah, me neither. But about least 60,000 people apparently do, which is causing Warner Brothers to sit up and take notice.
Forklift Danceworks - A grand civic spectacle featuring Austin's public power workers—50+ linemen, bucket trucks, 20+ utility poles, and a live orchestra.
Movie On A Stick - Premiering in May at the Fleur Cinema Cafe in Des Moines, IA, because this is my blog and this film ain't gonna promote itself.


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The income gap is receiving much attention lately as more Americans are isolating themselves around "people like us."
More accurately, they surround themselves with people who earn similar incomes, and it is now fueling a rise in residential segregation. One recent study suggests the income gap might be greater today than even during colonial times – even when you account for slavery.
"Thirty years ago, about 9 percent of all upper-income people lived in predominantly upper-income neighborhoods," says Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center. "That share has now doubled to 18 percent."
Taylor recently co-authored a study that tracked this income gap increase between 1980 and 2010.
He tells Jacki Lyden, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered, that this is a national trend. But, he adds, locally several factors can contribute to residential segregation by income, including in-migration, the nature of the local economy, housing discrimination and even a city's physical layout.
Although it might seem self-evident that people of similar incomes would gravitate toward one another, Taylor says the problem is that it creates an increasingly polarized electorate.
"We are in a political moment where the sense of the middle, the sense of the cohesion, isn't feeling particularly robust," he says. "One outcome of that is a sense that the political process is ossified ... [and] that Washington doesn't work."
Residential segregation also makes it easier when it comes to gerrymandering, or redrawing district boundaries. Taylor says that increasingly the people who draw those lines do so in order to create "safe" districts, whether for Republicans or Democrats.
A Changing Neighborhood
The Shaw neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is one rich in history, but whose fortunes have not always been so stable. Home to Duke Ellington, the area has historically been at the center of black culture in the city, and was once a gathering place for black artists and professionals.
In the 1960s, the neighborhood was severely affected by the damage caused by riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
"[That] was sort of the beginning of a long decline," says Peter Tatian, a researcher at the Urban Institute.
That decline, however, is now reversing. Over the past 20 years, about 1,000 new people have moved in to the neighborhood. Many of those new people are high-income residents. Adjusted for inflation, the average family incomes in and around Shaw in 1979 was less than $50,000. Today, it has more than doubled.
"The question is whether that is a sustainable mix, or whether this will take time and we're [just] going to see all upper-income people," Tatian says.
While the mix today is economically diverse, Tatian says that if you look at the trend, it's hard not to be pessimistic about what the future might hold.
Resident Mechelle Baylor has lived through many of these changes in Ledroit Park, a historic enclave within Shaw. Baylor and her family have been in the same house there for nearly a century; her grandfather paid cash for it in 1929.
The house has so much history for Baylor that she says she wouldn't think of budging even as she's seen some of her old neighbors go.
"A lot of people who did not own these houses could not afford to keep them because they were going up; these are million dollars homes around here," Baylor says.
When her mother died, Baylor says she received many offers for her home. She refused because she didn't want to see her family's house turned into condos.
"That's what they've done to a lot of houses on the block," she says.
The Story In Texas
The Shaw neighborhood is just one example of where residential segregation by income is taking place, but the Pew study also shows that this trend happens to be most extreme in one place: Texas.
In Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, about a quarter of upper-income households are in majority upper-income areas. Rice University sociologist Stephen Klineberg had studied income disparity and how it affects the way we live for 30 years. He says it mostly comes down to one thing: land.
"Houston was built on a bayou 50 miles from any natural barrier in any direction," Klineberg says tells NPR's Lyden. "People have the option here, that they have more difficulty elsewhere, to live in ... communities with 'people like us.'"
Klineberg says we tend to be uncomfortable when large numbers of people have much more money or less money than we do, and people in Houston have better opportunities to express that desire to live among people of similar means.
Klineberg says what we're losing with this segregation by income is the social capital you gain by living in a mixed neighborhoods.
"Social capital connects you to the opportunities that are out there," he says. "When you're segregated by income, it means that there's an isolation of the rich ... with no real sense of how the other half of American is living and struggling today."
Likewise, Klineberg says that if you're isolated as a poor person, you have no access to the opportunities, networks and information systems that occur when people are part of a single community.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden, in for Guy Raz.
The income gap is receiving a lot of attention lately. It may be greater today than during colonial times, even when you account for slavery. That's what a new study coming out of the University of California at Harvard suggests. More Americans today are isolating themselves around PLU, people like us, people who earn like us in this case.
Residential segregation by income is on the rise. Those are the findings of a recent Pew study, and we'll get to that in a bit. But first, let's look at a neighborhood here in Washington, D.C., on the cusp of change. Our cover story today: Money, the new neighborhood segregator.
It's not so much keeping up with the Joneses as living next door to them. Shaw is a neighborhood rich in history whose fortunes haven't always been so stable.
PETER TATIAN: It's historically been the center of African-American culture. Duke Ellington was from here. In its heyday, Shaw was a Mecca for all kinds of African-American artists and professionals.
LYDEN: I met up with Peter Tatian, a researcher at the Urban Institute, for a walking tour around Shaw. Change is in the air here. Construction sounds clatter and bang as a new supermarket goes up. But the residential street we walked down is something of an oasis.
TATIAN: This is a hot part of town.
LYDEN: This is just a really charming street. I mean, the architectural details. No two houses are alike. You know, parquet brick for the sidewalks and beautiful, tall, mature trees. And, you know, pretty desirable. And on the lower floors, bars on the window.
TATIAN: Right.
LYDEN: Those window bars are the legacy of a less stable time in Shaw's past.
TATIAN: In the 1960s during the riots that happened after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, this neighborhood, along with a lot of other inner-city neighborhoods, was severely affected by the damage that was caused by rioters. That was sort of the beginning of a long decline.
LYDEN: But that decline is reversing. Over the past 20 years, 1,000 new people have moved into the neighborhood where Peter Tatian and I strolled. Many of these newcomers are high-income residents. The average family income in and around Shaw in 1979 was less than $50,000. That's adjusted for inflation. Today, it's more than doubled.
TATIAN: The question is whether that's a sustainable mix or whether this is just, you know, going to take a little more time and then we're just going to see all upper-income people.
LYDEN: And while the mix today is a diverse one economically...
TATIAN: If you look at the trend, one maybe is going to be pessimistic about what the future might hold.
MECHELLE BAYLOR: My name is Mechelle P. Baylor.
LYDEN: Mechelle Baylor has lived through many of these changes in Ledroit Park, a historic enclave within Shaw. Mechelle and her family have been in the same house there for nearly a century. She points to a framed photo on her living room table.
BAYLOR: This is my grandfather. He's the one that got the house in 1929. My mom, she got married in 1950 right there.
LYDEN: She got married standing right in front of this window?
BAYLOR: Her and my dad.
LYDEN: Really?
BAYLOR: Mm-hmm.
LYDEN: Wow. This house has so much history for you.
BAYLOR: Yeah.
LYDEN: Enough history that Mechelle wouldn't think of budging even as she's seen some of her old neighbors go.
BAYLOR: A lot of people who did not own these houses, they could not afford to keep them because they were going up. These are million-dollar homes around here. When my mom died, I got so many letters of people wanting this house because this is a gold mine.
LYDEN: Mm-hmm.
BAYLOR: I just tore it right up. They would have turned this house around, probably made it a condo.
LYDEN: Mm-hmm.
BAYLOR: That's what they have done to a lot of these houses on the block.
LYDEN: In the 1950s, Mechelle's grandfather was something of a neighborhood watchman. He worked for the public school system where he got Mechelle's father a job.
BAYLOR: Everybody in this neighborhood, they worked. And my grandfather, he was the type of person he looked out for people and he found jobs for people because that's just what was in his heart.
LYDEN: A relative newcomer to Ledroit Park is Myla Moss, who bought her home in 1999 for about $150,000. Today, it's worth half a million. She went to school at nearby Howard University, but back then, she wouldn't walk through the neighborhood she now calls home due to the crime and drugs. Now, as advisory neighborhood commissioner, she's working to preserve Ledroit Park history, including the renovation of the historic Howard Theatre.
MYLA MOSS: This was the first African-American theater in the country that allowed black performances, allowed black audiences. And this was the start of amateur night with Ella Fitzgerald. And when I purchased my home, I began to be educated by many in the community about the history.
LYDEN: We're looking at income disparity in neighborhoods, income segregation. Are you worried as someone who's obviously in love with this neighborhood just generally about this notion of poorer people being segregated? And for that matter, more affluent people segregated and not even seeing the problems of poorer people?
MOSS: I am worried about that. Economic disparity is growing, unfortunately. And it's cost-prohibitive to move into this community anymore. And I think that the affluent residents want the non-affluent residents to be here.
LYDEN: You do? You think they want them here?
MOSS: Yeah, I do. I don't think that they are acting in malice and trying to move people out. I really don't. I think everybody on the planet wants a nice neighborhood, a good school, a good hospital to go to, a grocer. Young people who come to Washington to work on the Hill and to do policy and find a way to buy a home are not seeking to change the community. They're thinking to be a part of it.
LYDEN: Paul Taylor has studied the shift in neighborhood income segregation. He's with the Pew Research Center and co-author of the recent study tracking its rise.
PAUL TAYLOR: Thirty years ago, about 9 percent of all upper-income people lived in predominantly upper-income neighborhoods. That share has now doubled to 18 percent. The share of lower income living in predominantly lower-income neighborhoods has also grown. Thirty years ago, it was 23 percent. Now, it's 28 percent.
LYDEN: So you are seeing people basically living with people whose income levels are a lot like theirs.
TAYLOR: We're seeing a trend in that direction. It remains the case that the heavy majority of people or households are in census tracks that are predominantly either middle class or mixed, but it's a little bit less so than in the past. Thirty years ago, something like 86 percent of all households lived in such either majority middle or majority mixed neighborhoods. Now, it's down to 75 percent.
LYDEN: Why is this happening?
TAYLOR: This was a broad trend. We looked at all the major metropolitan areas in the country. The same trend I have described has played out in 27 of the top 30. So this is pretty much a national trend. The local variance probably goes to lots of factors. And I think in-migration has been a major factor in some of these cities. Just the layout of the cities, the physical geographic/topographical layout may be a factor. Historical settlement patterns, the nature of the local economy, the nature of the local workforce, housing discrimination, real estate practices. On and on it goes.
LYDEN: So, Paul Taylor, a lot of people would say, well, this is self-evident. Of course, this is going to happen. What's the big deal?
TAYLOR: Right. Well, yeah. Listen, like tends to attract like. What's the big deal? One of the things we say to ourselves as a country right from the beginning is E pluribus unum - out of many, one. And that's been part of the magic of America throughout our entire history. We are a place that lots of different people come, and they have different income levels, wealth levels. They have different racial and ethnic backgrounds, immigrant backgrounds and all the rest. And yet, somehow, we do make it work. There is a common America.
You know, we are in a political moment where the sense of the middle, the sense of the cohesion isn't feeling particularly robust. There is a profound polarization of the electorate, and one outcome of that is a sense that the political process is ossified, polarized, Washington doesn't work. The public feels that way.
So frankly, part of the reason for the political ossification has to do with gerrymandering, has to do with the way that we draw lines. And increasingly, folks who draw the lines in state after state do so to create safe districts, whether for Republicans or Democrats.
LYDEN: Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, thank you very much for joining us.
TAYLOR: My pleasure to be with you.
LYDEN: Now, here's something else that caught our eye in this Pew study that we've been talking about - the top three cities where residential segregation by income is most extreme are all in Texas: Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. There, about a quarter of upper-income households are in majority upper-income areas. So to find out why Texas seems to be ground zero for this trend, I spoke to sociologist Stephen Klineberg. I asked him, what's going on in Texas?
STEPHEN KLINEBERG: There is land in this region of the country. There is open spaces. Houston was built on a crummy little bayou 50 miles from any natural barrier in any direction - no mountains, no big streams or lakes. And people have the option here that they have more difficulty elsewhere to live in what we were calling the PLUs - living in communities made up of people like us.
We tend to be uncomfortable when large numbers of people have much more money or much less money than each of us living in these communities. And people in Houston have better opportunities to express that because we've got all these subdivisions and gated communities and so on all around the region.
LYDEN: Now, at the top of this show, we went to neighborhoods in D.C. - Shaw and Ledroit Park - in Washington and heard a lot about what a tight-knit, middle-class community meant historically and how people could talk to and help each other. And that's often called social capital. Are we losing that?
KLINEBERG: Well, social capital is critical. We tend to think of resources as human capital, education and financial capital, money in the bank. But social capital, it connects you to the opportunities that are out there that provide support systems when you're having difficulty. When you're segregated by income, it means that there's an isolation of the rich just around other rich people with no real sense of how the other half of America is living and struggling today.
And if you're isolated as a poor person in poor communities, you have no access to the opportunities that emerge when people have good jobs that are connected to new opportunities that are out there. And the networks and the information systems and the opening of doors occurs much less in these isolated worlds than when we are all part of a single community.
LYDEN: That's sociologist Stephen Klineberg, co-director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in Houston. Here's a stat from the Economic Policy Institute that speaks to the way we live now. In the 1960s, a typical CEO earned about 20 times what a typical worker would. Today, that number is close to 400 times as much. E pluribus unum. It may be the American ideal, but perhaps not really the way we live now.
This is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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COLDWATER � Jason Kinyon grew up not knowing his biological father.
He never wanted for anything materially and he was always taken care of, but he always wondered about his paternal roots.
He didn't mention it often when he was younger � he didn't want to upset anyone in his family.
But eventually he decided he really wanted to know.
"I always wondered," he said. "The older I got, it got to the point where I was going to ask about it and I didn't care who I made mad."
A year ago, through the diligence of his wife Melissa Wing and with help from Facebook, Jason finally met his father, Terry "Kim" Clark.
"It's like � you know when you're working on a puzzle, and you're done with it but you're missing one piece, and then you find that one piece under the table and you're so excited," Jason said. "That's what meeting my dad was like."
Jason, 38, was born on March 22, 1974 to unmarried parents who were teenagers. Circumstances led to Jason and Terry's separation, and although they lived in the same town much of the time Jason never knew Terry was his father.
A little over a year ago, Melissa found out a family member of hers was dating a man she knew was Jason's biological father's brother. She asked the family member to do her a favor and see if her boyfriend's brother still lived in the area.
Eventually, Melissa ended up in contact with Deb Clark � Terry's wife. Terry and Jason were both living in Coldwater.
Their wives began communicating.
Terry and Deb have been together for 16 years, and Deb said on their first date Terry told her about Jason.
"I told Melissa I had heard Jason was wanting to find his dad, but I didn't want to say anything to Terry until I knew that for sure," Deb said. "I wasn't going to break his heart. I knew he'd always wanted to reach out to Jason, but he was afraid. Every Father's Day had been terrible for him � my daughter and my grandkids acknowledged it for him, but it wasn't the same."
On Feb. 2, 2012 Jason and Terry met at Denny's in Battle Creek.
"I wanted it to be on neutral ground so Jason felt comfortable," Terry, 57, said. "I told him if he had questions, I'd tell him anything � all he had to do was ask."
As it turned out, Terry and Jason knew one another � and Terry was aware of his connection to Jason, but he never said anything.
The two often fished in bass tournaments together.
"I would be standing 5 feet in front of him, and I couldn't say anything about who I was," Terry said. "I had been told over and over that Jason had had a good, happy life, and I figured, who was I to wreck that for him? Who was I to turn his world upside down?"
Over the past year, Jason and Terry have celebrated many milestones � their first Christmas, Father's Day and birthdays together; the first bass tournament in which they were a team instead of competitors.
Deb has a very large family and Jason, Melissa and Melissa's children have all become a part of birthday and holiday celebrations.
"The family time has been awesome," Deb said. "Jason has this huge extended family he didn't even know he had."
Aside from being avid fishermen, Terry and Jason have discovered they have many other things in common � for instance, they both enjoy cooking.
"Terry's one heck of a pie maker," Melissa said.
One of Terry's specialties is lemon meringue pie � which, coincidentally, is Jason's favorite.
"They have a lot of the same mannerisms," Deb said. "It's strange how two people who have never really been around each other can be so much the same. They were so blessed to have found each other and to be able to make up for lost time."
Terry and Jason are now in regular contact, talking several times a week.
"It's been good," Jason said with a smile. "Real good."
Terry agreed.
"I wouldn't trade it for anything," he said. "We've had good times together over the past year and there are good times ahead."
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Todd Heatherton had groped students, according to allegations, and was facing termination.
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For the second consecutive year, Longmont's two craft breweries, Oskar Blues and Left Hand Brewing, both made it onto the Brewers Association's annual list of top 50 craft brewers.
The Boulder-based nonprofit formulates its list based on 2012 volume. Oskar Blues, which sold 85,750 barrels of beer in 2012, a 46 percent increase from the previous year, landed at No. 27 this year, up two slots from a year ago. Left Hand, which made the list for the first time last year, was at No. 43, up from No. 49. Left Hand produced 49,549 barrels in 2012, a 34.5 percent increase from 2011.
Other Colorado craft brewers making the list included Fort Collins-based New Belgium, which finished No. 3, and Odell's, also in Fort Collins, which was No. 33. Denver-based Breckenridge Brewing finished No. 41.
Three of those Colorado breweries also made it onto the BA's overall top 50 list, which includes global giants Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller: New Belgium was No. 8, Oskar Blues No. 36, and Odell's at No. 44.
In a press release, Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, said that craft beers in 2012 surpassed 6 percent of the total U.S. beer market and that volume and dollar sales hit record levels.