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In September, we examined the impact of the classic "Kingdom Come" story on the DC Universe and the comic industry as a whole. This month we look back with Alex Ross upon the "Thy Kingdom Come" storyline that encompassed the third volume of "Justice Society of America" #1 – 23 along with several one-shots.
The return of Ross to "Kingdom Come" was plotted with Geoff Johns, DC's current writing ace, and mainly illustrated by Dale Eaglesham and Fernando Pasarin. Amongst his co-plots, cover art, and various interior pages, the event would see Ross accomplish his first solo written and illustrated book in "Kingdom Come Special: Superman."
POP!: How long was the Justice Society of America/Kingdom Come storyline supposed to run?
Alex Ross: It changed a lot. The original plan when I first came on the "JSA" book ages ago (in 2005) would have been to introduce Superman relatively soon and then have his storyline last, I don't know, maybe six, seven, maybe eight issues. Basically, it was the build-up before issue #100, and the culmination was going to be issue #100 of the "JSA." Because of "Infinite Crisis" and all the rebooting to the entire DCU, [DC Comics'] redoing of "Justice League of America" as a new #1 put the pressure on that we would be doing a new #1 of "Justice Society," which at the time seemed like, "God, how can you be this close to #100 and then not go for it?" But we were basically told, "You know what? Nobody cares about the numbers except for those first issue sales, and that will be a bump, and you'll get more people paying attention to what you're doing if you do the reboot." Which I guess was true in terms of what numbers were, but it was something I didn't necessarily – I mean, it's not what I would have done, but it's what I went along with.
The story started up in "JSA" when Geoff [Johns] was first building up his own stuff that he had planned for a little while – his storylines related to the "Legion of Superheroes" crossover thing. That thing first starting off was something I had next to nothing to do with. I had a lot more input over the development of the character and background of the new Citizen Steel. That was something I gave the basic bare bones of. Instead of having this guy be another case of a broken body repaired with science to be a bionic man, I thought, "Have it be almost like a metallic disease, and he catches it in battle as a mistake. It's a freak accident that he should wind up like his brother and father." I also tried arguing with Geoff that it should not be a lineage of being another son, or passed on through this father-son kind of dynamic, but he was so hooked into that idea, I couldn't talk him out of it. So I thought, "Have it be someone who's a cousin or a little bit more removed instead of exactly another Heywood." But the whole thing about him being a character who couldn't feel, that was a lot of the stuff that I was trying to throw at Geoff, and he worked well with me on it. We seemed to be all on the same page with the way to develop the physicality of that character, that they had to pretty much just heat the suit up around him – it's poured metal – to create this super-suit that, to get it off, he has to pretty much rip it off.
Well, I was trying to ask about was that the only major public criticism was with the amount of issues it took to tell this story.
Well, the thing that really did it in, I feel, is there was a hell of a lot more time taken with this part of the storyline that I had nothing to do with, which is the dispatching of the original Gog that was created by Mark Waid – which really wasn't even reflecting what he had done with it originally. It just became this weird distortion, because everybody ignored what [Waid] had done with it in the "Kingdom" miniseries. He was used by Chuck Austen in "Action Comics" as just this Superman killer who showed none of the scars of what had happened at the end of the "Kingdom" series. And I'm following all this stuff, thinking, "Is anybody minding the store over there?" Somebody should have noted that the guy looked completely different. In fact, it seemed clear that Mark intended that Gog would become Magog. I didn't get that as a concept because, metaphorically, it was supposed to be two different characters representing these two cities of the Book of Revelation. It's also two giants in mythology, so it should be two separate characters in my way of thinking, but obviously he was going for a different thing.
So, he had that character injured, where he looked like he had the entire left arm of his body all screwed up. Basically, he would get the transformation, ultimately get the gold arm – the Cable arm of the character, as it were – to look like the character in "Kingdom Come," so that he would eventually wind up being that guy. Although, how would he wind up being that guy if he spends his first days being this Superman killer? Magog in "Kingdom Come" is not some mass murderer. He's representative of the modern superhero, the Punisher-era, Cable, gun-toting superhero who shoots first and asks questions later, the guy who will just put the Joker down. He's not somebody that should have had this blood feud with Superman where his whole goal in life is to destroy the legend of Superman. I didn't get that. I didn't connect with that, myself, at all, and so to me the whole thing was kind of lost.
So the Gog that's in the "Justice Society of America" books has the backstory you originally envisioned?
This is what I pitched to them back in 1996, when I pitched a series called "The Kingdom" that would follow up "Kingdom Come," because they didn't want to do just a Superman-specific project, which is what I recommended, initially. They wanted to do a Magog book. I thought, "Ugh. Magog is not the coolest character out of 'Kingdom Come.' Superman is." So I tried to divert them by making it a book that was part of continuity, but it was outside of all the main guys' books. It could evolve, sort of like "Trinity" involves Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, without having to be trapped by any of the writers of those three books. This would have been the same. It would have dipped in and out of the lives of all the DC heroes that we could want to play with, and it would bring about the legend of where Magog came from by first introducing Gog.
The whole idea that Gog was a giant who came from the pre-New Genesis/Apokolips planet was something that I had [come up with] back in '96. Ironically, within, I think, two months of when I first was putting this idea down on paper, not for many people to see, they had launched "Jack Kirby's Fourth World" that John Byrne was drawing. He pretty much offered up that the pre-New Gods gods were, metaphorically, the gods that Kirby left behind at Marvel, the third gods, because he had Thor, a red-bearded version of Thor, show up within the first issues of this "Fourth World" book. And I thought, "Ah, man, there's my idea blown." The only reason I wound up being able to go back to that idea some ten years later is because it didn't seem to become canon. Nobody was really saying, "This is the law. This is definitely what happened on that pre-New Genesis planet."
So this was one of the big attractions of the project for you? To establish Gog as this deity?
Yeah, and I can tell you, I have the absolute lamest motivations for all of my ideas in comics. In fact, I believe this is the third time – I can't remember all my ways of doing this – I think this is the third time I've done a tribute to the movie and musical "Tommy." And I'm sure you can't guess how. [Laughs] The idea that a sort of self-proclaimed messiah is walking around trying to save people by pulling them all together, having them follow him and he'll heal them all and whatever. This is kind of the set-up I had in "Justice," where the villains are setting themselves up as the healers of mankind, who will actually dole out real cures for all illnesses, help people escape from the trappings of modern society by bringing them to these cities in the sky. That was my pulling from "Tommy" the whole bit about Tommy's holiday camp. I kid you not. And so I did it then and there, and that was the same concept with Gog is that, when he shows up in Africa, he's helping people in the world who have the greatest need, and that was something to definitely fight for, to not have it happen in America again. I'm so sick of every Western superhero story taking place on the American continent. It's just seems like, "Really? You can't come up with any other place in the world that we ought to be?"
New York. [Laughs]
Yeah, everything's got to be in New York, huh? So, yeah, that's where this crazy idea came from. I've wanted to make my little minor contribution to what kind of creative hay you can make out of the pieces that Kirby left behind, but I'm sure I've made no great ripple throughout history, and somebody else will come up with another reason why there is something else to be added with the pre-New Genesis planet and whatever. But everything I was doing was kind of a tribute to the Promethean Giant from the "New Gods" run. That was just a two-page spread that was in there of a giant, which showed up on the cartoon show, "Superman," as well.
It was interesting to read how desperately these superheroes were looking for saviors to their problems.
Well, the one thing that I had to give up on was the idea that it would be a more complicating separation of details later, that the Gog character is here offering exactly what he promised, and that there's no catch to it. What Geoff fought for is that there has to be a catch, and the catch is that, if he's not declared as our God, and if he's not somehow savaging the planet by being here and offering what he's offering, if there's not some sort of thing where he's somehow hooking us, hooking the planet, in effect, then…
Geoff wanted him to be a salesman, it was all some sort of pitch.
Well, so did I. At heart, he's a drug pusher. If he can come around and say, "Hey, I'll fix everything for you guys," which is what you hope that superheroes could do, but if they do it, then we'd just get fat and lazy if we never do anything for ourselves. So it's playing with that idea. But within the course of the storyline, it has to go dark, and so we had a debate about that point, about when it has to really turn, and you get your big battle at the end. So it's bittersweet, because, in a way, you could appreciate that the character of Gog is, in a weird way, a petulant child, and when he's taken out, he's taken out because you have to get him off Earth so he can no longer do this to mankind and cause nobody else harm in the universe. But it also puts in Superman's heart a sense of failure at having to dispatch somebody who was really offering something. He understands the morality of it, but he has to feel like a dick, basically, getting rid of this guy. There's just this anger in him that's boiling up, and that's where it ultimately blows up by the time we return him to the world of "Kingdom Come."
By the end of the "JSA" storyline, we're left with the Magog that will be in "Kingdom Come."
Absolutely. It's meant to link up in a very organic way, that if you reread "Kingdom Come," you'll see the way the character is represented; he's not a character without a soul. He's a character that's part of the rough-housing quality of the modern superhero. He's also military. I always thought that part of his design would sort of [imply] he was military. I gave him a gun holster on his belt because I was imitating the look of Cable. I was mostly swiping Rob Liefeld's work, and Rob Liefeld knew that I was swiping his work when he saw the character. He actually realized the character was kind of a metaphor for all the things that Rob had designed in comics. [Laughs] But I was throwing these bits together. I didn't mean for the character to come off looking at all like a supervillain, because that's not what he is. He's not supposed to be the bad-ass villain that you go after, who's siding with the Joker. This is the guy who killed the Joker, and at the first outset of the series, he's kind of the leader of the modern Justice League. I mean, I think it's even acknowledged as the Justice Battalion, isn't it?
Given that he's leading the Justice Battalion, which is made up, visually, of new versions I came up with for the Charlton characters, which was not just a nod to them. I thought it would be kind of fun that, in a way, you're beginning with the characters that are the same archetypes that Alan Moore reworked for the sake of "Watchmen." So you've got Peacemaker, Thunderbolt, Captain Atom, Nightshade – God, who else? Judo Master. I didn't throw in the Question here, although, if you can see at the point where Superman is looking at all these TV screens of the damage that was done, one of the TV screens shows a lineup of these Justice Battalion guys, and you see the version of Peacemaker I designed next to the very Golden Age Daredevil version of Thunderbolt that I reworked, standing next to Blue Beetle and the Question. Of course Magog is not a Charlton character, or even a stand-in for one. But it was meant to show that this character is just simply the leader of the "now," the tougher, more go-in-and-kill-them kind of base of superheroes. The pitfall of that was a poorly managed disaster, where a low-level villain like the Parasite is able to siphon off of a nuclear-powered hero and that creates a nuclear devastation.
Did you volunteer right away to illustrate segments throughout all those "Justice Society" issues?
Oh, yeah. They were generally my idea, but Geoff came up with a lot of the key opportunities, deciding where they would be placed. I really wanted to do the one that, I don't know what issue it is, but the one that recreates that first page of "New Gods" #1.
I think the first time your interior art shows up is when Starman's thinking about the "Kingdom Come" universe.
Well, actually, the very first painted piece I did is in issue #1 of the new "Justice Society" book. You can see at the end of that issue there's a sliver of Kingdom Come's Superman, acknowledging the storyline to come. It was a real early thing that we were trying to plan. Of course, by the end of issue #2 you see Starman saying where he came from was blown to kingdom come, and then, of course, behind him, behind the figure that Dale Eaglesham drew, I painted a war pastiche of all this fighting going on that's basically meant to confound the viewer a little bit because I wasn't throwing any of the recognizable superheroes at you, yet. I wanted to save that up.
What about doing your own book, "Kingdom Come Special: Superman," when you had to write and illustrate it alone. Was it planned ahead of time that you were going to do this special, or did it just come about during the development of the storyline?
I knew I wanted to do interior pages to address a lot of these things I had pent up in me. I knew I wanted to retell what happened to Lois in the exact detail that it appears in my special, and I knew that I wanted to be the one to draw Superman looking up my dad [Norman McCay]. I was realizing as the writing of the book was going on that very, very little of the main "JSA" book was ever dealing with the fact that you've got this monumental Superman character here. He's really just a passive participant in most of whatever was going on with the main "JSA" book. My feeling was that Superman has to have his story told in great detail. That's why my special came into existence, because I was going to have to ultimately take the reins of that.
Surprisingly, Geoff responded to that with a lot of ambition, saying, "Why don't we create three specials? One will be focused on Magog, and then the third one was to be determined." I pitched the third one actually kind of reclaim the title "The Kingdom" from the project that they originally did without me. So I kind of retook my legacy. Which is, of course, what this is all about, in some way. It falls into the perception of, "Oh, well, this is what Alex would have done without Mark." Which is a sucky thing to have to be caught in the middle of, because it really is simply just a shame that myself and the co-creator of "Kingdom Come" didn't work well together. It sucks. I didn't want to be involved in any kind of drama like that, but here was this story that seemed like it was cool to tell, and I don't believe – aside from what we just said about the bad guy, Gog – that we really did such a grand disservice to his work, especially when it comes to the work of "Kingdom Come," the series itself.
When we ultimately lead up to our conclusion, the link to "Kingdom Come" keeps that work largely pristine. This work itself is somewhat meant to be a repudiation of the sequel to "Dark Knight," where the original author continues a tale that I believe was meant to be the last great adventure of that hero. What I wanted to make sure I did not do, when you see the pages that follow up at the end of the entire series in issue #22, we jump ahead into the future. I show you that, in the years to come, there wasn't any getting back in costume for Superman, or Batman, or Wonder Woman. They had a family. They didn't just have one kid, like they did in "The Kingdom." They had a whole slew of kids. You get the acknowledgement of life just going on. The shot in issue #22 that shows the funeral of Batman is meant to show all the survivors of "Kingdom Come." They're all people who were left alive at the end of that series, and you can see, twenty years later, they got twenty years older. Batman has, at that point, grandchildren. There's a sense that life went on, and it went on in a very normal way.
I wanted to jump ahead into the far future by showing with hundreds of years, then a thousand years passing, that what was key to me about "Kingdom Come" is that it really was the end of this age of superheroes. The next age would be the age of the Legion. So it would happen again, just not within a couple years of the end of "Kingdom Come," which is ultimately the series that I think many people would have wanted me to create – another painted miniseries that just continued with more of the same. This work, this entire thing in "JSA," is kind of an elaboration on why that wasn't appropriate.
Now that you've revisited these characters, you don't plan to do so again for a while, right?
Well, yeah, I should have put this to rest, that's for sure. At the end of the day, despite the fact that this "Kingdom Come" storyline is being collected in these standard, small hardcovers, this is not going to rival the readability and success or the legacy of "Kingdom Come." If anything, it's a footnote. For my part, I have put a fair amount of work into this, especially with the one-shot I did. It's probably going to prove to be a thing of its time, because the next people who take on doing the "JSA" will overhaul the characters, and God knows who they'll kill next, but it'll be completely unrecognizable, I'm sure, within just a couple of years. One might look at this storyline as being something a lot like a lot of DC continuity from the Nineties, which is so reworked now, compared to what it is today, that it's unrecognizable. What we did here was more of an entertaining fantasy of the moment. For those who have been curious to see me re-approach this material, I hope this was an interesting answer.
Well, I thought you were successful in fleshing out Superman more.
God knows, it would be easy to spend a lot more time with this version of the character. I really like Superman. I like Superman in all his different forms, but I particularly like the sense of his having the weight of the world on his shoulders. I like drawing his face and not having to hold back.
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First off, I've reached over 3000 views! It's amazing how that managed to happen despite my absence. It just goes to show that I have some dedicated fans that never fail to make me smile! Thanks to you all poppets (yeah I'm in one of "those" moods) for sticking with me despite my lazy fingers.
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I really struggled with what to say for this review because of my mixed personality. From the side of a reviewer I could see some flaws in this film (many steaming from it's trailer that aimed the plot of the movie in a far different direction than where is actually went), but from the view of a fangirl with both a passion for video games and cute, sugary concoctions (I promise I'll elaborate on that later) I was sucked into this game like all of us zombified gamers have been known to do when a new Diablo game drops (Minus, perhaps the nerd rage at errors).
|No disrespect meant, my man.
I freak out when my Amateur Surgeon 2 App does't work on my Iphone
Let's start with the flaws of this movie to get all the negative energy out of the way. Well, maybe it's not fair for me to say this is going to be a negative critisim. Perhaps we are looking for the word frustrated. Having watched the trailer for this movie, I though Wreck-it Ralph was going to be about Ralph, a video game villain wanting more out of life (in true Disney fashion) and deciding to go to the game Heroes Duty (Every pun IS intended) and proving he can save the day. (SPOILERS AHEAD) Well that is exactly what this movie does, for about 10 minutes of it's runtime.
No, Ralph quickly overcomes the challenges of Heroes Duty (which really makes me question it's true difficulty for a game advertised to be a Super Meat Boy style grinder....my pun intended) and accidentally ends up in the almost sickeningly sweet racer game, Sugar Rush. It is in this game that we spend the majority of the movie. This is where my conflict comes in. I'm sure plenty of hardcore gamers went to this game expecting a solid tribute to video game nostalgia and were met with wacky worlds of original creation. Don't get me wrong, Sugar Rush certainly gave me the feel of Snowboard Kids if it was dipped in bubblegum and sprinkles. Still, I worried that some of the guys out there would be turned off by it's candy coated sentiment. I honestly would love to hear my male fan base's opinion on this setting choice. Ralph's main companion through the movie is an overly adorable little girl/glitch name Vanellope.
Okay...with all that said....my inner fangirl needs to come out and say this very clearly. This movie isn't perfect. It has a pretty predictable story and we all know exactly how it's going to end, but you know what? I LOVED it. Call me a girly girl if you need, but I adored Sugar Rush and would play it in a heart beat if it was a real game and/or if I had any skills in racer games. I loved Vanellope even when she could be a little annoying with her banter. I genuinely felt for her, a humble little glitch looking to belong, much like Ralph.
I also appreciated the subtle nods to the greats of games. I won't spoil them all for you (But please post all the cameos you noticed!) but it tickled me pink how much love and knowledge of games went into the background of this film. I'm sure that Sugar Rush was the better setting vs. Heroes Duty because parents would find it nonthreatening (less video game violence) and this movie would appeal to girls just as much as it does to boys.
If there is one thing I can really appreciate about this movie is that it could possible turn more girls on to video games. And in a society where more of us girls are slowly working over to the dark side, I couldn't be happier.
So over all, if you are looking to have simple, sugary fun this movie with hug your at your gamer core, if you are looking for a lot of deep substance with a fresh plot or non-stop video game intensity, this movie might not be your cup of tea.
Now for a change of pace, something ridiculously girly/warped to balance me out ^_^
(Would you love me any other way?)
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This month, Simon has helped promote causes she feels strongly about by attending two Chicago events. This is a mortgage relief project.
Simon, other officials, and state agencies helped homeowners who are behind in payments obtain a 90-day grace period. They also provided information on refinancing, credit counseling, and homeowners' rights.
Two days later, Simon was on-stage at an equal pay rally on April 12. That date is significant because experts say women on average earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn. So women must work all of 2010, plus through April 12 this year, to earn what men earned last year.
The lieutenant governor is a former assistant state's attorney, Carbondale City Council member, and Southern Illinois University law professor. She's married and has two daughters.
Simon is the daughter of the late congressman and US Senator Paul Simon. And, as he was, she's a longtime friend of Pat Quinn. The governor named her to his Illinois Reform Commission before choosing her as his running mate.


text: My friend Richard Murphy posed this question to me. He quotes me at the end of his piece, but in short, I do not think New York and London will be that easily displaced. People around the world are addicted to making a quick buck which can be anathema to economic development. It's hard for me to see the Chinese authorities inviting such speculative activity into their economy, at least not for a while. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101773977


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Former London cancer doc sought in corruption probe
His name sparks both praise and anger in London.
In the 1990s, Dr. Arthur Porter led the fight against cancer in the city as the chief of radiation oncology at the London Regional Cancer Centre and head of oncology at Victoria Hospital.
But then he moved to Montreal's McGill hospital and led that city's controversial and successful battle against London's bid to land a Shriner Hospital for children.
Now Porter, also former head of Canada's spy watchdog and a member of the Privy Council, is facing arrest for alleged kickbacks involving the McGill super hospital that is supposed to house the Shriner facility.
Quebec's permanent anti-corruption squad says Porter and four other suspects face charges, including fraud against the government, conspiracy and recycling proceeds of crime.
The charges relate to the investigation of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. The company is building the $2.3-billion McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), a massive complex that Porter oversaw until his resignation early last year.
Besides Porter, shown at right, Quebec's anticorruption unit is looking for Pierre Duhaime and Riadh Ben Aissa, both fired last year by SNC-Lavalin.
The arrest warrant also says Duhaime and Ben Aissa are believed to have paid a substantial amount of money "to obtain contracts with respect to the . . . MUHC."
Reports say the alleged bribe was $22 million. It was not immediately clear whether Canada would seek Porter's extradition from the Bahamas, where the 56-year-old is believed to be undergoing cancer treatment.
Originally from Sierra Leone, Porter was chief of radiation oncology at the London Regional Cancer Centre from 1988-91. After leaving London, he served as chair of Detroit Medical Centre and as a professor at Wayne State University.
That might have been the last that London, or the rest of Canada, heard from Porter.
But in 2004, MUHC lured him to Montreal, and Porter found himself in a bitter battle with his former city, London.
The Shriners had intended to replace their aging children's hospital in Montreal with a $100-million facility next to the proposed "super-hospital" in Montreal.
But because the Quebec government delayed approving the super-hospital, the Shriners decided to look in Ottawa, Toronto and London.
A Shriners selection committee unanimously recommended London's Victoria Hospital site.
That changed when Porter personally called the chair of the Shriners board of trustees to plead Montreal's case.
An ensuing year-long war of words had Porter and then-London hospital executive Tony Dagnone trading insults and accusations about each other's tactics.
At one point, Porter suggested Montreal's medical staff was better trained than London's.
Dagnone in turn suggested Montreal's supporters were trying to keep secret that their the site was filled with contaminants.
Dagnone also suggested Montreal would use the news a London doctor had sexually assaulted a patient in their bid, an accusation hotly denied by Porter.
Porter became a Shriner and was part of a high-profile Quebec delegation, which included the mayor of Montreal and Premier Jean Charest, that travelled to the 2005 Shriners Convention in Baltimore, Md., where the final vote was held.
The Montreal delegation flew more than 200 patients and their parents to the convention, where their emotional pleas to keep their hospital open played on the heartstrings of Shriners.
The children, some in wheelchairs or on crutches, lined the route during the Shriners massive Fourth of July parade in Baltimore, asking the Shriners not to close the Montreal facility in favour of London.
London lost the vote 608 to 605.
Dagnone retired that same year. Porter eventually added to his resume the chairmanship of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which oversees Canada's spy agency, CSIS, but quit in 2011 in a separate conflict-of-interest scandal. Porter's alleged dealings called into question the spy watchdog's screening process.
The MUHC super-hospital project will unite most of Montreal's aging English-language hospitals under one massive roof.
It was once a source of pride for the city's English-language community, but became dogged by questions about Porter's mysterious international dealings.
A report published in 2011 said Porter gave $200,000 to Montreal lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe as part of a $120-million housing project in his native Sierra Leone. The project never saw the light of day.
Porter's one-time boss, MUHC board chairperson David Angus, also said Porter once offered him a job as consul general to Sierra Leone. Angus, a Conservative senator, said he declined because he was concerned such a job would put him in conflict of interest.
The MUHC's former operations chief, Yanai Elbaz, is also wanted by police.
Sources told QMI Agency that Elbaz allegedly had a house paid for by an MUHC contractor and that another contractor gave his wife a $65,000-a-year job.
Ben Aissa, the former SNC executive, is being held in Switzerland and faces extradition.
The RCMP claims he paid $160 million in kickbacks to the former Gadhafiregime in Libya, where SNC has extensive dealings.
The fifth suspect sought by Quebec police is Jeremy Morris, whom news reports have identified as an official with Sierra Asset Management.


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Have a thrill at camping Amfora !
Feel like experiencing new adventures during your next vacation? Your body and mind are craving for thrills to help you escape your everyday routine? You've come to the right place: Camping Amfora is THE perfect campsite for extreme sports on the Costa Brava!
Start with the Mediterranean sea. The campsite has direct access to the large sand beach. It enables you to choose between the many water activities proposed - kitesurfing, windsurfing, flyboarding, snorkeling… There's something for everyone! Right next to Amfora, Impulse offers various types of classes, whether you are a newbie or a seasoned sportsman - practicing extreme sports on the Costa Brava means first and foremost water activities for each and everyone!
Outside of the campsite area, many opportunities await you also. Natural park of Aiguamolls, cape Norfeu are fantastic sceneries to practice outdoor activities. Feel like reaching new heights? Then just have a go and go on a day out paragliding, hang gliding or flying in a hot air balloon! The bravest among you can even have a go at bungee jumping, parachute jumping of freefall simulator! Practicing extreme sports on the Costa Brava during your vacation at camping Amfora is a fantastic opportunity to see Catalonia from a totally different perspective... and get a rush of adrenaline!


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President Barack Obama again urges Congress to take action on middle-class tax cuts in a speech Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
"As dysfunctional as Washington can be, this fight is far from hopeless. We saw that last week when Republicans and Democrats in the Senate agreed to allow a vote on extending the middle-class tax cuts, and the legislation passed. Now the House needs to follow the Senate's lead and vote to ensure taxes don't go up on the middle class," Politico reported that Obama senior adviser David Plouffe wrote in an email to reporters this week.
The speech comes on the heels of Friday's release of July jobs numbers, which found slightly greater than expected job growth, but also a slight bump up in unemployment.
Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on Aug. 3.
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Display links: customizing the appearance of links in your ads
Yandex.Direct now gives you the option of customizing the appearance of the link to the advertized site in text & graphic campaigns. You might wonder why this is significant. The truth is that by showing potential customers more than just the domain name, you can attract their attention to your specific landing page. And the feature that helps to do so is the display link. In experiments, display links were able to increase CTR by 3-7% on average.
Here's an example of how it looks:
Previously, ads only showed the domain name of the redirect page.
This meant that an ad would show yandex.com instead of yandex.com/support/direct/mobile/mobile-ads.xml.
You can now add on to the domain name, using words relevant to the content of the landing page. This can be a keyword, the name of a product or service, a shortened version of the name of the landing site — anything that can attract additional attention to your site and help customers understand just what they'll see when they click on the ad for your site.
In our example the display link would look something like this:
yandex.com/mobile-ads or yandex.com/мобильная-реклама.
The display link is shown in Yandex search results on desktops in all ad blocks and in any position. You can add or edit display links in the Direct interface — including multiple amendments — using XLS/XLSX files or the API. This function will be available in Direct Commander in the near future. To create display links specially for every keyword, you can use templates.
Display links can can be used in dynamic ads too: display links are generated by the system itself, which also makes decision about displays.
Detailed information about working with display links can be found in the help section.


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You know the feeling you get when you discover something new? That sense of excitement which draws you in? It's a bit of a thrill... This was my experience last weekend when I wandered past the newly opened doors of Will Bees Bespoke on Island Street in Salcombe.
Island street has long been associated with marine chandleries and boat houses, the rear of the premises back onto the estuary. I remember buying bait along here when I was a child but, Salcombe like so many of our traditional maritime haunts isn't immune to change. Over the years it's become well known as a prime location for serious yachties and many long time residents simply shake their heads at the number of second-home owners who dart down from London for the weekend in high season, squeezing along Fore Street in their oversized 4x4s. I suspect there is a fear that the village will loose it's unique character, that what is cherished will be replaced by corporate mediocrity as the masses move in.
You get a real sense that Will Bees understands this when you walk into the shop. In fact it was immediately clear to me that whoever had repurposed the old boat house at 1 Island Street has an affinity not just for blending the old with the new but also for preserving and appreciating the heritage contained within; there's sentiment in the layout and character in the oversized display cabinets. This is an artisanal space. Then, there's the bags themselves.
Each bag is a unique creation. The materials (after being hand picked by you) are hand cut, hand sewn and embossed by hand, if you so please. I spoke with Will's dad while I cooed over the totes and he told me that all of the suppliers are UK-based and the bags themselves are handcrafted in England. There are over 500 fabrics to choose from including linens, tweeds, plaid, striped, checked and plain textiles as well as individually sourced Liberty prints. The choice continues with four different types of leather to coordinate with the fabric, all of it tanned using natural vegetable pigments.
The inspiration for the collection is clear; if you take the time to wander the streets or take the little ferry over to East Portlemouth you'll see candy coloured houses, soft golden beaches, light green sea, dark grey stone walls and all of it framed by rolling hillsides, fields and the tide. The business card says it's 'a concept that prides itself on being the antithesis of mass production' and I have to say that if this showcase of raw talent, clear love of British craftsmanship and heritage is the future of development in Salcombe, I'm on board.
Discovered: Will Bees Bespoke Leather Tote Bags
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LIC India Recruitment 2014 - Insurance Agent cum Advisor posts
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India issued recruitment notification for filling up of the 200 vacancies of LIC Insurance Agent cum Advisor ( Thane District) posts. Interested Candidates can apply through Offline mode i.e send their application form before 31st May, 2014. More details are mentioned below.
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Topsy Turvy
high definition video with sound, sculpture, historical collection, 2006
"Turn me up, then turn me back; first I'm white, and then I'm black."
In this site-specific installation, McCallum and Tarry appropriate the popular "twinning" or topsy-turvy dolls of the nineteenth century to examine the duality between white and black, male and female, and father-mother. While exploring the legacy of slavery, much of the performance builds upon their personal experiences as a mixed race couple.
Topsy Turvy is on show at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore through July 17th, 2010 as part of McCallum Tarry's first mid-career solo show, Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry. For more information regarding this installation and the show's multiple venues, please visit the Featured page.


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Amazon Fire TV - Streaming 1080p media player with voice search, Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, games, and more
This box is a GAME CHANGER for on demand content! Amazon knocked it out of the park. Refreshed & UPDATED with Tips!
I am not a casual user of on-demand content and devices. Having tried smart tv's from 3 brands, smart dvd/bluray players, Apple TV, WDTV, HTPC, Chromecast and too many other competing products to mention--for streaming content, before this box you really had two options (for a simple to use box that doesn't require additional items or tweaking):
First is Apple TV which is easy to use (interface) but Apple limits the content you can get greatly (including no Prime Streaming built in) and it lacks a lot in features as well and is slow. The reason for selecting Apple TV is if you have other apple products that unlock features (like Amazon's content).
The second option you could consider was Roku--which really means a Roku 3 box since it is heads and tails better than past Roku boxes in terms of remote and speed. Now Roku stands out with the most content and the most features of any box with the Roku 3. It is for that reason you will see me address the Roku 3 so often in this review.
I have added quick summaries of other options to make sure everyone knows about the other options out there.
WDTV: Are great for streaming your own content but not very user friendly.
Chromecast: Is very cheap at $35 but requires other items to use (no remote included!), is limited to 16 channels according to their own site with other content broadcast via Chrome's browser not at the same quality level. This does allow you to browse the internet on your tv and is amazing for the cost but is more of a niche market than FireTV/Roku/Apple TV. But if you can live with the short comings, it is worth a look at 1/3 the price of these devices.
Smart TVs: Most of these are FINE for occasional use but not nearly as pleasant to use daily like separate boxes. Normally you pay $150-$400+ extra for features that are found in these $100 boxes. I have not found a smart tv that is decent and is also a good value for what you are getting. The advantage is that you can use your TV remote to access the content. (and that is about it!)
HTPC: These are desktop computers or Mac Minis or Android Sticks that you load software on to stream video to your TV. These can add content that no normal streaming box can access, without giving up quality but they are only recommended for something comfortable with technology that doesn't mind fixing the issues that come up from time to time.
Video Game Consoles: Xbox/Playstations can access some of the content that streaming boxes do and have plenty of power to deliver the streams. The downside is the cost (unless you already have one) and the interfaces. These consoles are not designed to stream video exclusively so the interfaces are decent but can be clunky.
(You can use other options but frankly they aren't worth the hassle for the amount of hair pulling you would do.)
Now this Amazon product has changed everything. It might not be the box for you...but honestly there is a good chance that it SHOULD BE. This is a brand new category for Amazon and they got a lot right, but there are a few shortcomings (at least at launch) as well so read all of this to see what those are.
Amazon's Fire TV box
+ Nothing else is this fast. While Roku 3 impressed the world, this raises the bar dramatically. With a quad core processor and 4 times the memory of any other streaming product, it speeds through menus, boots quicker, starts videos quicker and honestly has the muscle to not struggle with higher end resolutions and surround sound like other boxes can do at times. The best way I can explain it, you will have extra hours at the end of the year because this box is THAT much faster.
+ Voice search is amazing. It really works. Less using a four directional keypad to enter in titles is a real time saver and makes you wonder why this wasn't done before but it is only for Amazon content and VEVO (music videos) (at least for now). You can not use the voice search with Netflix for example.
+ Ready for gaming, well at least once you spend another $40. The $40 gaming controller feels a bit pricy for this type of gaming and really should be $25 or less in my opinion. That being said, this box has real games you would actually want to play instead of a VERY limited selection on Roku 3 but it is not a "REAL" console at $100 and honestly shouldn't be compared to them.
+ Better image quality? I know you are thinking I am imagining things or have changed my setup but both myself and my wife have noticed that generally (in different apps) the video is slightly sharper and clearer. We are using the exact same tv, settings, even the same HDMI cable that we used with the Roku 3 until we switched it for the Fire TV box. We have noticed that especially on poor quality feeds that the image quality is noticeably better than under the same feeds with Roku 3. Now I don't know if there is better graphic chips or if the bigger processor can do more tweaking while streaming but it seems to be something. As image quality is a huge deal for most folks (and normally us streamers have to suffer with "decent" quality) this is certainly worth noting. So far we have noticed this under Netflix, VEVO and Plex.
- It lacks soul. Yes, soul. The Fire TV box and remote are built like a dvd player or appliance--cold, fast, efficient. Unlike Roku 3 where the box seems to have a bit of the personally of TiVo--it feels warmer, more inviting. Everything about this box is business like, including the interface and the lack of options to change it.
- The interface is more than merely "cold". It is simply less flashy/pretty than the Roku 3 interface. While fast, I am less tempted to wander around like I do on Roku 3. It seems like they are being pretty dependent on the voice search function which is great but it leaves you missing out on the random items you find along the way with the Roku 3 interface. I will update this more upon extended use.
- The voice search only works for Amazon's own content (and VEVO) and not most 3rd party channels like Netflix.
- The remote is not ready for gaming use, compared to the Roku 3 remote with gaming buttons when you turn the remote sideways and more sensors for detecting movements/motion.
- Another feature about the remote I don't care for is the use of Bluetooth instead of WIFI. Roku used to use Bluetooth on their former high end box but instead replaced it with wifi to increase battery life and to add the headphone jack in the remote. It will likely take a few weeks of use to report battery life but this has me concerned.
- No headphone jack function like Roku 3. Now to be honest, if you use that on the Roku 3 it can be a battery drain but it is a cool feature.
- Missing some popular channels at launch. There is no HBO-Go, no M-Go and no Vudu. In addition, the channel count is much less than Roku's at launch.
- Channels operate differently on FireTV than the do on Roku 3. See my notes below for more information.
This Fire TV box took so much from other company's products with only a few missing items. They focused on delivering smooth, fast performance with less frills than Roku 3 for the same price. While there are missing channels and features, the biggest failure for me PERSONALLY is the cost of the gaming controller. Without it, this box isn't ready for gaming but adding 40% more for the ability to try out the functionality seems pretty steep. Had Amazon included it with every Fire TV box, they would have sold a lot more games and had everyone calling the Roku 3 a poor value.
If you do not have any streaming box yet, I would HIGHLY recommend this box over every other product on the market right now. I don't make this endorsement lightly. I currently own 3 Roku 3 boxes because I liked them so much, until I used this Fire TV box. This box means Roku will have to really work on improving their product for Roku 4 or they will lose the high end market. (An update, my wife officially asked to replace the Roku 3 boxes with more Fire TV boxes tonight. Yes, these things are that good folks!)
If you have a Roku 3 box, really look at the missing channels and features--are they something you could give up for faster performance? (Also look at my notes on the features of the various common apps.) If the answer is yes, then grab one of these and try it. If no, wait to see if Amazon adds features/channels. At the very least, consider an Fire TV box for your next box.
I do not personally recommend Apple TV as they are still too slow and lack too many features and functions. Apple keeps promising something amazing but delivering minor improvements.
If you are on a budget and have an Android based tablet, consider Chromecast. It is a good value for the price but you do give up features and content to save on the cost compared to Roku 3 & Fire TV.
I am giving this box a 4.8 rating, compared to a 4.2 for Roku 3.
I will update this review regularly for a while, so check back for more information! Also if you have questions or comments, please feel free to ask them in the comments section. Either myself or other helpful people will do our best to respond to them.
Based on comments, I wanted to add a few points.
Regarding comments that I received the item free or are paid by Amazon to write this review, etc.
I paid the full list price and local sales tax for this box (grrr). Nothing was provided to me nor was I paid anything to write about this device. I do not work for Amazon, I own my own company. For this item, I am just a customer. In fact, I didn't expect to even purchase a Fire TV prior to it being announced because I figured it would only deal with Amazon's own content which I feel is much weaker than Netflix. In fact, I have talked two different family members into getting Netflix over Amazon's Prime Streaming service in the past month alone.
HBO Go:
This has been repeated over and over in the comments but HBO Go support for me is not something I am interested in as I do not have cable service anymore nor do I feel that HBO is a better value than Netflix. I would not go without Netflix support at all but I personally think HBO Go is more niche for many people and honestly I bet this device will get that channel before too long. Clearly the HBO Go people seem to be pushing the issue but I know 11 streaming box users and none use HBO Go so while I noted the missing feature above, people still seem to want to beat me up over it.
It needs to be said that some channels require cable/satellite subscriptions (to those channels) like HBO Go (not currently on this box), Showtime, ESPN, etc. Even if you have HBO, it does not mean that your provider allows the HBO Go, so look into that before purchasing any box with that in mind. I do like the Bloomberg TV (not available on Roku 3) App which actually features a LIVE TV feature.
NETFLIX APP: Is the "older" style with the tall covers (like VHS boxes) instead of the "new" Netflix interface that uses short wide covers (like on Roku 3). Netflix has said they are moving everything to the new software but the Fire TV box doesn't have it yet. That makes comparing performance harder from Roku 3 to Fire TV. On my ISP provider Comcast (Netflix recently agreed to pay Comcast so they have faster streams to customers) I do not see a HUGE improvement in performance in buffing like you see on other channels. What it does seem to do is start in better quality and/or speed the improvement in quality. My guess is that the Netflix app needs to be tweaked to maximize the performance of this hardware. One positive with the FireTV app is that it plays the entire TV episode BEFORE switching to a small window with the countdown starting for the next episode. I can't tell you how many times I had to click, click, click and click just to see the end of an episode under Roku 3.
Also, the FireTV Netflix app has two features that were removed from the updated Roku app. Before going into a TV show, FireTV tells you how many total episodes that Netflix has. On the Roku it shows you the number of seasons instead. I personally prefer the number of episodes but clearly that is a personal preference. Another point worth mentioning is that the FireTV Netflix App shows you how many items you have in your list and what item number you are on. That information is missing from the Roku 3 Netflix app.
AMAZON PRIME CONTENT: Does not loop--a "feature" they should add (and likely will). This means once you get to the end, it just stops instead of keeping going.
Voice search DOES cover some 3rd party content, despite everyone reporting it works on Amazon's content only. I have repeated confirmed it supports the VEVO app and will find music videos in that app. That may mean that other 3rd party apps are covered as well, or certainly might be able to be in the future. If you search for something that has PRIME content and VEVO content, it will default to the option with the most options. To switch to the other, simply arrow up and either left or right to see the music videos or PRIME search results.
I noticed this box featured an optical out port but normally run everything through my LG TV (via HDMI) and then use an optical out to my receiver (so I never have to change the receiver's settings) so I wasn't excited about this addition to the Fire TV box over my Roku 3 boxes. I stand corrected. I decided to run my audio via the optical cable into the receiver directly from this Fire TV box (something that I can not do with Roku 3) and it fixed all random lip-sync issues I have from time to time on the Roku 3 box (and the same with the HDMI output on this box).
Now I know this is not a typical setup for many people but I do know that tons of people have lip-sync issues with HDMI connections so being able to bypass the HDMI minefield is much more important than I expected.
This app works better than the Roku 3 app performance wise...one quick example is that some content simply fails on the Roku 3 app--try watching Britney Spears's Work B**CH (don't make fun of me!). Vevo can play this video fine on YouTube and on the Fire TV app but struggles on Roku 3's app. SOME of VEVO's content is also available via VOICE SEARCH too.
I do miss the jump back button on the remote that Roku 3 features. It is a tiny thing but it once you are used to jumping back to see that painting in the background or catch that line that you didn't hear because the phone rang, or someone was talking, you feel lost without it. UPDATE! They did include this feature but hid it abit. You simply double click the reward button to skip back. I haven't seen anyone else mention this tip so you saw it here first people!
I do like that the "enter" button is back in the center of the directional keys. This is the way it used to be on Roku boxes before someone at Roku decided to move it below the directional keys, so you have to move your thumb oddly to press it.
What multitasking you ask? Since you haven't seen this advertised or mentioned elsewhere, I can understand your confusion but try this: Load a Pandora stream...then click on the HOME button and browse for movies/tv you want to watch. As long as you are in the Home/Amazon Prime content, you can browse WHILE Pandora continues playing. Now Pandora dies when you enter another APP like Netflix but it shows you that Multitasking is built into the operating system and may be utilized in future features. (Again, this TIP is only found here!)
Another update: This tip also works when browsing PLEX content before you play something. So even when utilizing a 3rd party app, it can keep going. When it changes to a new song, a small window pops up on the lower right hand side of the screen to tell you know the new song title and artist.
Compared to the Roku app, PLEX for FireTV is totally different. There are some cool features, like the backgrounds, the screensaver using your photos and the MUCH faster menuing (night and day from Roku 3) but I do miss the channels not requiring a couple clicks to switch to ONLINE to see. I do miss that clicking the play button doesn't play a clip, instead you select it (click) and then play it (second click).
FireTV has a screensaver that is honestly pretty cool in my opinion. I am not saying you can't do this with other boxes but no other box comes set up to display random photos (and includes a decent amount of beautiful photos as well.) This functionality covers 3rd party apps like Netflix and Plex too so you have a seamless slideshow no matter what you are using when it starts. This is the sort of thing you see on PCs not streaming boxes and it is a nice touch.
Many commenters have argued that this device is not gaming changing and many have rating my review not helpful because of that title.
I said "Nothing else is this fast" to which one commenter said, "Nobody cares how fast an streaming box is. That's not a game changer"
Actually using it you will see what I mean. This is the first time a company has put so much $$ into creating a very solidly made hardware device. Like a fast computer (which this basically is), it will depend on software that is written for it to fully show off its abilities.
When AMD created their first processor that competed directly with Intel's higher end processors, it was a game changer, correct?, because it changed the landscape of personal computers forever, lowered pricing, etc.
People will look back in 5 years at this moment and say Amazon's FireTV changed how consumer streaming video boxes were made (instead of barely enough processing power to stream, they became able to compete with HTPCs and Mac Minis). This is the beginning of a new generation of streaming boxes.
I said "Voice search is amazing." and they said "Not unique, by any means. My xbox, ps3, tablets, all have this, and all work amazingly."
Find one person who owns this that doesn't say this voice search works better than anything from Google, Apple or Microsoft. The fact that little old Amazon could out deliver those tech giants is SHOCKING. The fact this works via a tiny remote makes it very easy to get use to. There is no other product in this price range that does this and no other streaming box even offers it at any cost.
I said "Ready for gaming, well at least once you spend another $40" to which they said: "And stick to basic android games. No thanks. I have a REAL console (or a couple of them) that can play REAL games..."
This isn't meant to compete with more expensive game consoles. It is meant to bring gaming to streaming boxes, just like tablets/cellphones have brought gaming to millions. They have not replaced gaming consoles (and likely never will) just like this box will not have you ditch your gaming console either but instead it opens you up to tons of games you CAN'T play on that same console. Just imagine all the cheap under $5/free games you can enjoy on your FireTV box. As I said above in my main review, I think Amazon really should have thrown in the controller to really get peopling playing the games but I can understand why they needed to limit their losses.
Again, this is a best in class hardware device with real gaming and the best voice search on any tech device (and the only one for a streaming video box). Every future streaming box will be measured against this one. Tell me how that isn't game changing?
Please understand that everyone has different priorities and requirements so no one box is going to be perfect for everyone. I am attempting to do my best to address most of the many options and provide a decently balanced opinion of them.
Hopefully this review has been helpful to you. If so, please let me know by clicking the button below. Remember you don't have to agree with everything I said to think it was helpful! ;)


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How is Application Insights loaded into an ASP.NET Core 2.0 application and how you can do the same
The sample code is here on GitHub. The
AwesomeHostingStartupLib is the library that we want to inject. The
AspNetCoreApplication_InjectionTarget is just a plain ASP.NET Core application serving as the target.
In ASP.NET Core 1.x Application Insights (AI) was basically a library, so you added it to your application and then you initialized it with a few lines like this:
public static void Main(string[] args)
var host = new WebHostBuilder()
.UseApplicationInsights() //<--- here!
This changed in ASP.NET Core 2.0: you basically don't have to do anything: the application does not have a dependency on Application Insights, still you have the usual AI telemetry in Visual Studio when you debug and you can turn on AI on Azure with a single switch without redeploying the application.
In this post, I will show how this works and we will implement our own stuff to do something similar.
In ASP.NET Core 2.0 there are basically 3 things, which make this possible:
- With ASP.NET Core 2.0 there is a new interface called IHostingStartup. It has only 1 method, and you can basically influence the process of building the web host
- Then the DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS environment variable points the dotnet host to an additional .deps.json file. This .deps.json file will be merged with the application's and the shared framework's deps file. This is basically how the CoreCLR finds all the dlls necessary to run the application (...plus with DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS also some additional dlls)
- The ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES environment variable, which points to an assembly with a class that implements IHostingStartup.
With this setup you can basically inject a DLL into an ASP.NET Core application. Again: in this scenario, the application has zero knowledge about the DLL we load with this setup.
Implementing IHostingStartup
The Interface is defined in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions package, so first let's reference it:
The second dependency (Microsoft.Extensions.DiagnosticAdapter) is needed, because we will use DiagnosticSource in the sample.
Since the deps.json file will be generated based on this .csproj file it is important that the versions match. I reference preview1-final and that is what I have on my system, so when the .deps file will be merged it will match with the application's dependencies.
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions"
Version="2.0.0-preview1-final" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DiagnosticAdapter"
Version="2.0.0-preview1-final" />
Now let's implement the interface:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using AwesomeHostingStartupLib;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
[assembly: HostingStartup(typeof(AwesomeHostingStartup))]
namespace AwesomeHostingStartupLib
internal class Program { public static void Main() { } }
public class AwesomeHostingStartup : IHostingStartup
public void Configure(IWebHostBuilder builder)
var _diagnosticsListenersSubscription =
DiagnosticListener.AllListeners.Subscribe(new DummyObserver<DiagnosticListener>((listener)
=> {
var _handledExceptionSubscription =
listener.Subscribe(new DummyObserver<KeyValuePair<string, object>>((diagnosticEvent) => {
Console.WriteLine($"DiagnosticSource Event: {diagnosticEvent.Key}");
private class DummyObserver<T> : IObserver<T>
public DummyObserver(Action<T> callback) { _callback = callback; }
public void OnCompleted() { }
public void OnError(Exception error) { }
public void OnNext(T value) { _callback(value); }
private Action<T> _callback;
This IHostingStartup implementation does 2 things: 1) Prints the text when it is loaded (good for demonstrating that it is really loaded) 2) prints the key of every DiagnosticSource event the application sends. This is obviously just a dummy implementation, I guess you can imagine what you can do here. Btw. there is no way to mess around with the Middleware setup in this stage! (see Resources below - ASP.NET Community Standup).
A few other points:
[assembly: HostingStartup(typeof(AwesomeHostingStartup))]tells which class implements the IHostingStartup. If you add this, it always works... There was some discussion about auto discovery when the IHostingStartup is contained in the application. Well, that did not work for me, maybe I did something wrong... but I guess when you do this via environment variables you need that always.
- As you see there is a main method: the reason for that is that Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions can only be referenced from a console application, not from a library. Again, no idea why, I just accepted it. Btw. the Azure and Application Insights integration stuff also has a main method, so I was fine with that.
DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS and ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES
Now I followed the setup used by Application Insights. When you start the ASP.NET Core app from VS and look into it with Process Explorer you see a few interesting things:
- DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS C:\Program Files\dotnet\additionalDeps\Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApplicationInsights.HostingStartup
- ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApplicationInsights.HostingStartup
- And then the dll, which is loaded because of these settings is this: C:\Program Files\dotnet\store\x64\netcoreapp2.0\microsoft.aspnetcore.applicationinsights.hostingstartup\2.0.0-preview1-final\lib\netcoreapp2.0\Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApplicationInsights.HostingStartup.dll
AwesomeHostingStartupLib project. Then grab the
AwesomeHostingStartupLib.dll and copy it under
C:\Program Files\dotnet\store\x64\netcoreapp2.0\AwesomeHostingStartupLib\1.0.0\lib\netcoreapp2.0.
Then we have to adapt the deps.json file. I did not figure out how to generate deps.json files that do not reference the dll which it belongs to from the same folder, so I modified the file manually, which is sure terrible, so if someone reading this knows how to do this properly then please comment below.
So let's search for this part in the
AwesomeHostingStartupLib.deps.json file:
and change it to
"runtime": {
"AwesomeHostingStartupLib.dll": {}
Then copy the modified
"runtime": {
"lib/netcoreapp2.0/AwesomeHostingStartupLib.dll": {}
AwesomeHostingStartupLib.deps.json file to
C:\Program Files\dotnet\additionalDeps\AwesomeHostingStartupLib\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App\2.0.0-preview1-002111-00.
Now you have the files in place. You basically can set the environment variables and then EVERY application that get these settings will automatically load our AwesomeHostingStartupLib.
Let's try this out! Go to the
AspNetCoreApplication_InjectionTarget project from the sample repo and set the environment variables:
set DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS=C:\Program Files\dotnet\additionalDeps\AwesomeHostingStartupLib
set ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES=AwesomeHostingStartupLib
And then run it with
dotnet run.
Here is what you should see:
As you see our AwesomeHostingStartupLib was loaded by the application. Again, the point here is that the app itself has no idea about AwesomeHostingStartupLib!
Final thoughts
According to my knowledge currently Azure, the IIS integration, and Application Insights already take advantage of this feature (see Azure integration repo below).
Now this stuff is super undocumented and I'm sure there is a better way to reference IHostingStartup implementation than the way I did it by just copying the files. I tried to store everything on a custom location and it did not work, the application just did not pick up my IHostingSturtup library, so I ended up replicating the setup of AI. If you know about a "proper way" of doing this feel free to comment below.
- ASP.NET Community Standup: Damian talked a little bit about this, and that initiated my whole research on this.
- The part in WebHostBuilder.cs, which processes IHostingStartups
- The commit adding (part of) this feature on the ASP.NET Core side
- A github discussion about a similar feature waaay before this feature was implemented
- Dynamically lightup of injected packages as part of application closure
- Azure Integration repo


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Family Development - A Caregiver's Guide
Coping with Crisis
Big changes in everyday family life can be difficult—for both adults and children. Natural disasters, layoffs, serious accidents and other conditions beyond our control can leave us feeling powerless. Don't lose hope. Other people have overcome these challenges and you can too.
How to stay strong and flexible during times of crisis.
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Using all the resources available to you will help you move toward a strong, stable future for you and your family.
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You have what it takes to get through this! We all learn ways of overcoming challenges in life. Experiences like traffic jams, arguments with neighbors or coworkers, or making the necessary arrangements to take care of a suddenly sick child have helped us learn healthy ways to cope with the unexpected. Our children are learning these skills too when they struggle through a difficult math lesson, figure out a way to get home when they miss the bus, or receive bad news from a friend or parent. When a major life crisis hits, people draw upon their coping skills in a much bigger way.
Think about challenges you and your family have faced in the past and ask yourself, "How have we done as well as we have? What resources or skills did we use then? How can what we've learned from those experiences help us now?"
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- Flexibility – accepting and adjusting to change in a positive way.
- Love of Learning – asking questions and gathering information to help you solve problems as well as learn more about things that interest you.
- Self-motivation – setting goals and working toward them because you want to accomplish them, not because of what someone else expects or demands of you.
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- Contact your utility providers (gas, electric, phone, water) and ask if they have any programs to help people in need keep their services turned on. Find out how to apply.
- Call your church or community food banks. While government funded programs can offer help to those who meet eligibility criteria, more immediate help for families in crisis is often available through churches and local nonprofit organizations.
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Parenting Tips for Families in Crisis
Uncertain and chaotic environments place children at increased risk for developmental delays affecting their reasoning, speech, movement and social skills.
Children watch adults to see how we respond to crisis. If parents stay positive and hopeful, the crisis will have less of an impact on child development. In order to keep your cool during crisis, you must take care of yourself. Listening to uplifting music, spending some time in nature, or reading and inspiring book can help you find the peace and strength you need to guide your family through this challenging time.
5 C's for Coping with Family Crisis
- Communication. Talking to your children about what is happening is the first step to helping them find healthy ways to adjust to changes. Encourage them to talk about their feelings and express their opinions respectfully. Listen to what they have to say and make sure they know what has happened is NOT their fault. Children may have a lot of questions you can't answer right now, and that's okay. Be honest and assure them that some things, like your love for each other, will never change. Be patient with younger children who will ask the same questions over and over; try to answer them consistently. Older children may know more about what is going on. Tell them what they need to know to understand the situation and allow them to ask questions, but be careful not to burden them with too much information. Help them understand that you are still working to support and protect them and that you do not expect them to solve adult problems.
- Consistency. Setting clear and consistent boundaries and family rules is always a good idea, but it is especially important for families in crisis. Structure and limits help children feel safe because they know what to expect. Continue existing routines as much as possible and create new ones as needed. For example, if you are no longer able to tuck your children in at night due to your new work schedule, try to talk with them over breakfast every morning instead.
- Connection. People who are connected to others through a network of family, friends, clubs or organizations are healthier and happier. Taking time to play together as a family helps raise everyone's spirits and relieves some of the stress of daily life. It doesn't take a lot of time or money to connect. As little as 10 minutes of family play a day can make a big difference in how you and your children cope with challenges. Try playing a game, singing a song, or taking a walk together.
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During an interview with Univision, Axelrod dismissed the idea that President Barack Obama could lose the Latino vote if Romney picks Rubio, the Cuban-born lawmaker, as his vice president.
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Axelrod knocked Romney for vetoing the DREAM Act when he was Massachusetts governor and pointed out that anti-illegal immigration activist Kris Kobach is part of Romney's campaign team. He also criticized Romney for wanting to roll back Obama's health care law, which provides nine million uninsured Latinos with insurance.
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Of the many notable remarks Pope Francis made in the interview that startled the world last week, the sentence above was one of my favorites.
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When the pope spoke those words, in a long interview with an Italian Jesuit journal, he was talking specifically about the evolution of his leadership, how he'd moved from the authoritarian manner he displayed as a young priest to a more collaborative style now.


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According to a Linkedin profile update first noticed by Semi Accurate, former AMD system engineer John Bruno — who is seen to be one of the 'fathers' of Trinity — has turned up at Apple.
Mr. Bruno joined AMD when it acquired graphics manufacturer ATI, but was laid off in November 2011 as part of AMD's money saving job cuts.
As per Linkedin, Mr. Bruno has joined Apple to be a "System Architect". Exactly what his responsibilities will entail is unclear at this time.
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