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(a) Amended draft Council Regulation introducing special measures to terminate the service of officials of the Commission of the EC as part of the reform of the Commission.
(b) Draft Council Regulation introducing special measures to terminate the service of officials of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.
(c) Draft Council Regulation introducing special measures to terminate the service of European Parliament officials and temporary staff working in the Political Groups.
(d) Amended draft Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 260/68 laying down the conditions and procedure for applying the tax for the benefit of the European Communities.
(e) Amended draft Council Regulation amending Regulation (Euratom, ECSC, EEC) No 549/69 determining the categories of officials and other servants of the European Communities to whom the provisions of Article 12, the second paragraph of Article 13 and Article 14 of the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the Communities apply.
Legal base:
Article 283 EC; qualified majority voting
Document originated:
20 March 2002
Deposited in Parliament:
15 April 2002
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Basis of consideration:
EM of 25 April 2002
Previous Committee Report:
To be discussed in Council:
Expected to go to COREPER on 8 May and subsequently to Council as 'A' points.
Committee's assessment:
Politically important
Committee's decision:
13.1 The Commission signalled its intention to reallocate officials in order to concentrate on its core policy objectives in its White Paper, Reforming the Commission, of March 2000[9]. An assessment of the Commission's tasks, undertaken by a Peer Group, concluded in July 2000 that there was a shortfall of 1,254 staff assigned to priority activities.
The Commission's proposals
13.2 The first three parts of the document, (a), (b) and (c), set out proposals to authorise the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament to operate schemes that allow a limited number of officials to leave the Institutions before the normal retirement age and make it possible for people with skills that are in short supply to be recruited.
13.3 The purpose of (d) and (e) is to prevent those who avail themselves of the special measures offered from escaping Community tax.
13.4 Introducing the proposal on Commission staff, the Commission says:
"Two thirds of these requirements will be met from further rationalisation efforts (discontinuation or scaling back of activities, productivity gains) or by internal redeployment. Targeted and effective accompanying measures are to be designed to enable redeployed staff to perform other, higher priority activities. These measures are of vital importance to the success of the redeployment exercise.
"Training is one of them. The training requirements for ensuring the most effective possible redeployment of these officials will be identified and the necessary means put in place.
"However, the skills of some of the staff concerned, in particular older ones, may not be in line with the duties to be performed.
"A scheme that allows these officials to leave the Institution before the normal retirement age and makes it possible for people with skills that are in short supply within the Commission to be recruited is another essential accompanying measure. It is justified also by the need for staff with new skill profiles and the need to rebalance the establishment plan to make way for more A/LA[10] and B officials.
"On the basis of an analysis of the specialised profiles and skills required in the Commission, the number of staff to whom the scheme would apply has been estimated at 600 spread over a period of three years. The purpose of this proposal therefore is to authorise a termination-of-service scheme for 600 Commission officials, with 200 departing in 2002, 200 in 2003 and 200 in 2004.
"Provided the impact on the budget is neutral, the savings generated by the scheme (the difference between the cost of total remuneration and the cost of the termination-of-service allowance) should allow around 273 new officials to be recruited."
13.5 Considerably more detail is provided in the proposals themselves, including the annexed financial statements.
13.6 The scheme proposed for the General Secretariat of the Council would terminate the service of 94 officials, to be replaced by 46 new recruits.
13.7 The proposal for the European Parliament (EP) would terminate the service of 100 officials, and 24 temporary staff working in the Political Groups. This should allow around 47 new officials and 11 new temporary staff to be recruited.
Allowance Percentage Schemes
13.8 The three Institutions will all adopt broadly similar schemes. Officials benefiting from the schemes, whose service is terminated, shall be entitled to a monthly allowance set as a percentage of the last basic salary received according to age and length of service at the time of departure.
13.9 Most of the officials concerned will have reached the end of their career bracket. A grid shows the level of allowance depending on age and length of service. The range is from age 55 with 15 to 19 years service, for whom the allowance will be 60% of final basic salary, to those over 63 years with 30 years or more service, for whom the allowance will be 70%.
Calculating the impact on the budget
13.10 The impact on the budget will mainly affect the years 2002 to 2012. Between 2009 and 2012, the number of allowances will decline as officials whose service has been terminated early reach the normal retirement age of 65 and become eligible for the Commission retirement pension scheme. A table illustrates the average costs for an A4/2[11] official and a C1/2 on the scheme and the average cost of a new A7 official and a new B5 official. The termination of service of 600 officials from the Commission will enable 182 A7 officials and 91 B5 officials to be recruited.
13.11 Another table shows the number of departures in 2002, 2003 and 2004, the annual budget cost of an official in active employment, the annual budget cost of an official whose service is terminated, the annual savings arising from termination and the period for which the allowance is payable before the pension scheme takes over.
13.12 The scheme proposed for the Council General Secretariat will involve 94 officials, including 34 in Category A and 44 in Category C. The savings generated will fund 46 new recruits including 12 in Category A, 8 in Category B and 26 in Category C. From the European Parliament the departure of officials and 24 temporary staff will enable 47 new officials and 11 temporary staff to be recruited. The new recruits will include 18 in Category A, 15 in Category B and 25 in Category C.
The Government's view
13.13 The Minister for Europe (Mr Peter Hain) comments:
"These proposals can be seen as part of a wider package of reforms to improve resource management in the European institutions, and the Commission in particular. A limited number of staff will be able to take advantage of a scheme which will streamline the institutions and provide a budget for the recruitment of people with skills that are in short supply amongst current personnel. The Government strongly supports the reform process, which will result in institutions which are more efficient and transparent, with more effective resource management."
13.14 We welcome this initiative to ensure that the skills of the Commission staff more closely fit the tasks they are required to carry out. The terms offered need to be generous if there is to be an incentive for staff to enter the scheme. We make no comment on the details of the schemes proposed but we are concerned at the impact of the reduction in numbers on effectiveness of the Commission's external actions work in particular.
13.15 The International Development Committee, in its Report on The effectiveness of the reforms of European development assistance[12], says that the Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short) and the Department for International Development agreed that the Commission needs to increase its staff, and no longer believed that the issue of staffing was being used solely as an excuse for under-performance. The report also quotes evidence from Action Aid and BOND[13] that the staffing issue at the Commission is about appropriate skills and experience, as well as about adequate numbers.
13.16 We understand that "deconcentration", in which more responsibility for the management of development projects is being devolved to the Delegations abroad, has proved financially more burdensome than anticipated. This has been due in part to difficulty in recruiting appropriately qualified people for Delegations. We hope that the measures proposed in these documents will assist this area of the Commission's work to be better staffed and managed.
13.17 Elsewhere in our Report[14], we comment on the needs of the Institutions for qualified linguists after EU enlargement. We hope that the measures proposed here will assist the recruitment of sufficient interpreters and translators.
13.18 At the same time, we believe that the Commission could be more cost-effective. It continues to produce papers which could be more concise and less repetitive. For our purposes, the balance between practical proposals and arguments, accompanied by lengthy detailed background, is still not always well judged, though there has been an improvement and we do get some admirably succinct papers. We suspect that a substantial percentage of the target readership would say the same. It will be even more important after enlargement to ensure that staff are invariably employed productively and translation resources are used to best advantage.
13.19 We now clear the document.


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Sustainable Housing
The Garden of Eden building plan includes a variety of sustainable structures that range from permanent earthen buildings that last for hundreds of years with little to no maintenance or repair, to semi-permanent dwellings made of recycled or re-purposed materials, to tents that can be put up in an hour.
We currently have a several sheds and a chicken coop built out of pallets salvaged from the landfill.
We fabricate roofs and covers from re-purposed billboard tarps; they provide rain cover as well as additional storage space and shade. This enhances our ability to control the indoor temperature during summer heat.
We have a teeny tiny home village made from scrapped shipping crates. These are hundreds of pounds of wood and countless resources invested in manufacturing and transportation that was forsaken to rot in a trash pile, and we alchemize it into free housing for people in need.
The City of Arlington has made it very difficult for us to thrive and has drained much of our energy, yet this is an important factor in why we are doing what we are doing. We are engaging lawful practices in court to get recognition for our freedom to live a sustainable life - even if it is "not up to code". We have lots of info on this available on youtube.
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We have the resources and know how to expand very quickly with very comfortable buildings at a high degree of sustainability, but have been on hold due to the city's attempts and enforced slavery upon us. We are not scared nor are we backing down.
We are pushing forward without compliance, spending hundreds of hours using the law to prove we are free and can build our own buildings for our own way of life despite that they are not the standard approved by code structures. We of course are aware of how unsustainable these buildings are.
It is very important that conscious and free beings are free to choose for themselves what kind of homes they want to live in and build. The resources and know-how are worthless if a dictator is forcing compliance on the way of life. This is an essential aspect of our purpose not just in building but in every facet of life. So we are taking lawful steps to get recognition of our freedom so that not only we but everyone can live free.
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Sustainable Living Quarters
Human inhabitants at the Garden of Eden have a few options of where to make their own nests.
There is one large bedroom inside the main house that is set up as a dormitory for short term inhabitants. With bunks made of pallets and a curtain divider, it is efficiently and tastefully decorated to serve its purpose of sheltering Eden's helpers.
Outside, there is a geodesic dome structure, made of wood and tarps, that was brought and built by former GOE inhabitant Christian in 2011. About 16 feet in diameter and height, it provides an open and unique dwelling space inside.
In 2012 a 30 foot RV was donated to the Garden of Eden and set towards the rear of the lot in the shade of a mature pecan tree. The trailer has since been gutted, bits at a time, and the interior has been resurfaced with lovely weathered fence panels and wood flooring all received through free, sustainable, second hand channels.
Further back on the lot there is a 1985 Chevy Suburban frame that in 2013 was gutted and buried underground up to its windows. The windows are framed in tires and the top of the frame was buried with another foot of earth. The interior has been refurbished to accommodate a queen size bed in the former seating area, with the original deck of the rear left open and carpeted. Above and around the rear end there is a pallet structure that extends back another ten feet or so creating a little room for entry and storage for the vehicle's inhabitants.
In the spring of 2014 we erected a lovely cottage of cob, reused pallets, salvaged tin roofing and donated carpet remnants. It essentially cost us no money, only the energy it took to build it. With our own bare hands and feet, we mixed literally a ton of cob and applied it, one big muddy glob at a time. About six pallets wide and four deep, it is a cozy and earthy. It offers a more private feeling as it is nestled in a dome of branches of a large mature tree at the edge of the plot, hidden away from the sight of most angles on the lot.
In 2015 we are creating a tent villa, a cluster of well appointed glamping space for visitors who come to Eden during warm seasons. Again alchemizing waste into resource, we will utilize a rich score of free tents salvaged from the wreckage of a music and camping festival, along with our favorites- more pallets and carpet remnants, to create this simple and functional space.

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ATSU: Kirksville's Partner since 1892
With three of its six schools located on the Missouri Campus, including the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM) and, as of 2013, Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health (MOSDOH), ATSU has been Kirksville's partner since 1892.
Contributions from friends and alumni have been helping students since 1894 when the people of Kirksville, Missouri, donated $2,500 to help Dr. Andrew Taylor Still expand the founding school of osteopathic medicine.
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- be among the businesses the students of ATSU will be encouraged to patronize
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Special thanks to those who have made generous investments in our students in the past.
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The Kirksville Preferred Merchants Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 1989 by Kirksville and Northeast Missouri area merchants and professionals. The scholarship assists local students with tuition payments, which lessens their need for educational loans.
Since 1989, KPMs have awarded more than $85,000 in scholarships. As preferred merchants of our students and staff, members of the local business and professional community have provided generous support to our University community. You now have the opportunity to continue your investment in the future of cutting-edge medicine.
ATSU-KCOM KPM Scholarship Recipients 2014-2015
Daryl Grigsby
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It was wonderful being recognized and feeling like the merchants in the City of Kirksville cared enough to support the students in this way. It was extremely helpful in a time of need, and I would like to thank the merchants that donated for this award. –Daryl Grigsby
I am truly grateful to the businesses that give to this scholarship because it has made a positive impact on my time here at KCOM. Thank you for everyone's continued support of our local Kirksville medical students. – Stacy Reichel
As part of the Kirksville community since 1892, A.T. Still University is a major employer with a vested interested in strengthening the relationship between it's students, faculty, and staff and the local merchants.
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~ 106 part-time faculty/staff
Turning Our Words into Action -- ATSU Gives Back to the Kirksville Community
~ 2014 United Way contributions -- $10,686
~ 2014 Faculty / Staff Campaign -- $74,771
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Your gift can impact our students by helping to off-set the costs they will incur to attend KCOM or MOSDOH.
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Zendaya has a romantic attachment to Spider-Man - her first proper date was a cinema trip to see Andrew Garfield as the web-slinging superhero.
The rising star has landed a key part in the latest Spider-Man franchise installment, but at the moment, it is unknown whether she will be playing Spider-Man's classic love interest, Mary Jane, or one of his classmates named Michelle.
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IGH Cochrane CornerSystematic reviews analyze findings from a number of individual studies on a given topic in order to draw conclusions. We rely on systematic reviews for information about what interventions work, when, and with whom. However, if the primary studies included in a review used only male samples, can the review conclusions be applied to all men or to women?
The integration of sex and gender in systematic reviews is important for understanding the applicability of research evidence. It involves reporting whether interventions have differential effects in men or women, boys or girls, or among groups of the same sex or gender. It also involves reporting whether or not there is sufficient evidence to extend the conclusions of a review to certain groups.
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sophiesman was written on August 19, 1999
Great topless/buns scene
I stumbled across this little known Dutch film on German TV, but I do not know for sure whether the German title of the film will the same as for the European/American market. This film shows the everbeautiful Lysette in some of her best topless/nude scenes. There is a long bedroom scene, with close up, long lingering views of her great nipples/pert breasts. Also get a get view of herporcelain, white buns. A must see film if you are a fan


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Friday, 8 November 2013
Have you ever woken up and not felt yourself. I stood before the shaving mirror shaking every so slightly on the chilly bathroom tiles. Something was not right, I felt - strange. It was not that I felt ill, it was different, I seemed fuller. I was feeling things where their were never feelings before. I ran the cold tap and splashed my face, the bite of the water flushed the feeling out of my mind.
Later on the bus ride to work the feeling came back, but stronger this time. It is hard to describe how your body feels, mostly you don't feel it at all, and when you do it is rarely good news. I felt a tightness down my right hand side spreading up my neck. I could feel the blood as it moved, my head ached as if my brain was pushing against the inside of my skull. This all felt uncomfortable but somehow normal. Then between my ribs I felt the touch of the passenger seated next to me. I turned my head but there was a good foot of space between me and the young woman looking out the misted bus window. I felt it again but this time the pressure was outwards not inwards. I could see nothing touched me. Running the fingers of my left hand under my coat I felt the feeling one more time, the tiny bulge pressed back against my fingers.
Once off the bus I ran the last few hundred yards to my office building, dashing into the toilets I locked myself into a cubical stripping off my jacket jumper and shirt. For an age I explored my side with eye and finger, I could see nothing that should not be there and more important I could not feel it inside any more. I dressed and went to my desk where I was less than useless for the day as I compulsively caressed my side.
That night I again examined myself, this time in a full length mirror and completely naked. Lights on full with extra lamps plugged in and shining on the my torso I searched in vain for the mystery lump. I had just satisfied myself there was nothing to be found when I felt the pressure again, deep under the muscle. Standing with my right arm ramrod straight in the air, naked as the day I was born, I saw the skin push out ever so slightly in a rounded hump for a second before sinking back. My fingers now frantic searched rubbing the skin to a raw red as they dug and kneaded to find what could not have been there.
No sleep came that night, I lay awake searching for an answer that would not come. The pressure came several times, each time stronger than the last. I spend the whole night with my left hand resting on my ribs. I was just dozing off when the pressure shot up to a piercing pain. My hand clamped down on my ribs the lump reared up with a vengeance. A tiny sliver wiggled free under my fingers and with nerves inside and outside my body I felt the tiny thing wriggle and crawl over the crest of my rib before diving deep into the flesh on the far side with a ripping like shards of glass under my skin. I bolted up in the bed, soaked in cold sweat and sick to my core. I could still feel it moving, burrowing deep where the nerves could not reach. I was not alone, there was something inside.
The following day I was waiting at the doctors office hours before it even opened. There was no sleep going to come until I got an explanation for what was happening. The feeling was not only growing but it was spreading, tendrils of tickling movement pin pricked my skin spreading from side to shoulder and along my arm. As I sat in the waiting room I felt the sensation reach my hand. I watched as the skin twitched with the passing of ghastly fingers through my flesh. Tiny lumps hurdling the tendons and bones before vanishing into the thick flesh of the palm once more. I tried to explain all this to my doctor who could not keep his eyes free of worry. He examined my skin, probed my flesh, took my fluids and measured every vital statistic know. He settled in his chair saying it was going to take some time for the tests to come back. Then he fondled an organ more responsive to the touch of logic, he delved into the far reaches of my brain. I nearly wished for him to call the men with white coats and cart me off, that would at least mean that what I felt could not have been felt. He declared me sane and blew my mind.
That was two days ago, I have not slept, I have not eaten, I have only felt. What exists within is eating now, I can feel its tiny teeth tearing at my organs. I feel it writhe and squirm as the swarm becomes one before dividing once more. An hour ago a white hot needle pierced the back of my eye. A huge shadow swam for a second in the depths of my eye before a flick of its rat like tale shot it out of sight beginning the searing pain once more. When the screeches began I knew I could not continue.
Standing on the edge of the cliff I looked out across the waves as they marched from the horizon. In my pocket my phone rang.
"Hello," I answered
"This is Doctor Casey, we have got your blood work back and we need you to come in for a second test," said the man on the other end. His words were insignificant. I knew they would poke and point, calling it names that even they did not fully understand. In the end they might label it cancer. He felt the tiny hoard munch on with glee. I coughed a splatter of blood on the screen before I could at last answer.
"Thanks Doc, I will be on my way now," I said, turning off the phone and popping it back in my pocket. As I watched the razor sharp rocks and breaking waves hurtle towards me I could feel the thing in side beat and push to be free of this meat coffin. I wrapped my self tight as the lights went out.
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Successful novels quite often have sequels. Since I had so many great shots with my model, I couldn't resist. The composite is a mix of photo realistic and mosaic art. When I do covers I quite often do the full jacket just in case the author decides to go to print. I've found it's worth it in the long run, and authors usually appreciate seeing the potential of going that route.
Here is a model that also is a singer. Perhaps she has no aspirations to be on a world tour, but doing an album cover was fun nevertheless. Here was one of those hair tosses that you say oh yes, and as you can see, the lighting had red and blue gels. This is a thousand dollar shoot for $2.98. So when you have one success, you always try for two. I'm not as crazy about the second cover, but […]
This July the Fort Collins Digital Camera Club had its annual portraiture shoot. I'm not a portrait photographer, nor do I have the equipment, but I have a good friend in the club that shares his setup, which helps. While he's shooting with a D810 Nikon, I'm still shooting with a D200, so there's no way I can compete in quality of images. Still, the D200 is plenty good enough for the Internet. Above is a Vogue mockup, just […]
This is one of those jobs that I thought was neat and I never heard back. Yes, some of book cover design is a big waste of time. This was also a photoshop challenge in that the ship wasn't wrecked in this particular photo. The ocean scape is one of mine, but the derelict ship had to be distorted to fit the space, and then there was the reflection. Lots of work for nothing. So, if you're an author and […]
This is one of the most challenging covers I've ever done, not because of the difficulty, but because the author oversaw every detail. I mocked up more than 20 fonts for the title, all very time consuming, which made it go way over budget. I don't deal with the money since I sub-contract with Brian Schwartz at ePub Conversions. With all of the hassle, the end result was actually very pleasing.
Hikes in the mountains here in Colorado often afford such shots, although once again this has been composited in Photoshop. The path was the main attraction. This is one of those covers that went quite easily, but it not what I call eye catching. In design, more often than not it's just satisfying the client.
Here is a case where the author paid good money for a shot of the milky way and was adamant about using it. I prefer my own renditions of the sky, but that's because I create space art. The foreground image was one of mine. The overall effect is stunning, however I wasn't fond of the title font, but these aren't always a choice the designer gets to make.
This was a setting in the everglades. Since I'd never been there I didn't have any images, but they types of trees were easy enough to find, and then I did some photoshop magic with a favorite sunset. I then used a filter, watercolor I think, and thus I created my scene. Since it wasn't a wrap around, I just took one of the colors from the sky to create the rest of the jacket.
This is a winter scene I concocted by compositing a frozen lake, some frosty trees, a background, and a wintery sky. The author and his dog were added, and the shadow was painted in. Thus another one of my images being used for a book cover.
I have to admit saints are a big thing with me, but St. Malo's was a favorite shot of mine while conducting a fieldtrip south of Estes Park, Colorado. It's always nice when your photography pays off and you can actually put an image to use.


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Bolivia's Day of the Sea – Bolivia
It's hard to imagine a situation where a country's president, a crowd of school children and war veterans, and a group of people dressed in zebra costumes would all be reverently listening to the recorded sound of a sea gull squawking. But that's what I witnessed in La Paz.
If you spend any time in Bolivia, you'll discover that Bolivia and Chile aren't the most friendly of neighbors. The countries have not had diplomatic relations for more than twenty years and it is not unusual for Bolivian businesses to discriminate against Chileans. A Bolivian telephone company recently offered a deal with discounted international rates available for all countries except Chile. Much of this animosity dates back to the War of the Pacific when Chile occupied Bolivia's only stretch of coastline. Bolivians weren't exactly overjoyed about becoming a land-locked nation and have ever since been demanding the return of their coast.
March 23rd is observed as el Dia del Mar (The Day of the Sea) in Bolivia. On this day in 1879, a small force of Bolivians died defending the port of Calama from invading Chilean forces. Bolivia has lost territory in several wars (the country is now less than half the size it was when it declared independence in 1825), but the loss of sea hurts the most. Bolivia still maintains a navy and La Paz has a museum dedicated to Bolivia's former coast.
The Bolivian President, Carlos Mesa
The Bolivian president made an appearance and said reclaiming Bolivia's coast was a priority of his government. The crowd was very stirred up by all of these displays of patriotism. There were calls of "Long Live Bolivia. Death to Chile" and dummies wrapped in Chilean flags were dragged through the streets. Then the Chilean flag was burned. Perhaps not the best way to ensure better relations in the future.
At midday the crowd observed five minutes of silence while the sounds of the sea were played over loudspeakers. It was a strange experience watching thousands of people listening to the recorded sounds of seagulls squawking and a ship's horn tooting.
Not everyone took the anniversary so seriously though. Standing near me on a ledge overlooking the crowd were a group of young men who were having a contest to see who could be the first to call out the color of the bras of girls who walked below them.
Veterans of the Chaco War
After the parades were finished and the day of remembrance had passed, there were other reminders of how much Bolivians want their sea back. When Bolivia played Chile in a soccer World Cup qualifying match, some of the crowd wore little plastic boats on their head to remind the Chilean players about their claim.
La Paz's main post office also featured a ship made from plastic bottles. And to ensure future generations don't forget about the grudge, Bolivian school children were involved in a project to create the longest letter in the world. Thousands of children's letters were stapled together to create a letter more than 130km long. The letters were addressed to Kofi Annan, asking him and the United Nations to intervene to return Bolivia's coastline.
It is unlikely Bolivia will reclaim its territory in the near future. Chile settled the region and after 125 years it would be difficult to change this. But that doesn't stop Bolivians from hoping that one day they'll be able to gaze out at a beach they can call their own.
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Amazing Heroes: Black Terror
This is the second in a series of essays on the classic characters that are being made into action figures via the Amazing Heroes Kickstarter campaign by Fresh Monkey Fiction. The figures are Stardust, Captain Action, Black Terror, the Golden Age Dare-Devil, Champion of Mars, and Silver Streak. Historian Christopher Irving (Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics and Graphic NYC) kicks it off with a look at Fletcher Hanks' surreal hero Stardust the Super-Wizard. – BC
It's 1942. Superman is huge, having already gone to the big screen in the Fleischer Brothers cartoons and dominating the airwaves with the Bud Collyer radio show.
And then, there's Batman—the dark avenger fighting crime with his colorful kid sidekick.
And then, there's Black Terror, who falls in between the two of them. While he never took off quite like the Man of Steel or Dark Knight, he still keeps turning up as the superhero who can never die.
When we first meet Black Terror, it's the cover of Exciting Comics #9.
His right hand, clad in a gold-trimmed black arrow glove, is swatting a train off like it's a giant metal fly, the steel crumpling against his palm. His black costume, graced with a skull and crossbones, gold-trimmed boots and trunks with a blue cape with red lining and domino mask balances being both scary and sexy at the same time. His left arm cocked by his side, The Black Terror is looking at a gun-brandishing thug while his kid sidekick unties a brunette tied on the tracks.
It's like Terror's saying "Go ahead. I haven't even broken a sweat yet."
Inside, it's a usual Clark Kent scene: timid drug store owner Bob Benton is being leaned on by goons seeking protection money, stammering and shaking because he doesn't have it. When the thugs kick a neighborhood kid off their car, Bob flies to action—and is soon given the smackdown in front of Jean Starr, the mayor's secretary, and her asshole boyfriend Rodney Clark, the City Comptroller.
"Why can't that weak kneed pill-maker take care of himself? Let's go!" he says before finally beating up the bad guys and leaving the bespectacled Bob (who, oddly enough, looks exactly like Clark Kent in his blue suit) to get chided at by Jean for not being manly enough.
Even though Bob's "not the fighting type," the boy, Tim admires him because, even unable to defend himself, Bob stepped in. "That's why it took REAL nerve…" he proclaims before getting a job offer to work for Bob.
And because he wears glasses and owns an apothecary shop, Bob is working on a tonic for run-down people—which Tim promptly screws up by adding Formic Acid, or does he? Bob, inspired by the strength of the red ants Formic Acid is derived from, plays around with the mixture until he accidentally takes a whiff of it and instantly gains super-strength.
Tim picks up two costumes at a costume shop, on Bob's orders, and Bob changes into the Black Terror when the heavies come to collect the protection money. But he's more Superman than Batman, taking punches to the jaw without effort and stopping a train without breaking a sweat. Tim even shows up in his own costume, having snuck a whiff of the vapors in secret.
And so it starts.
The writer is Richard Hughes and the artist on the debut story was a Gabrielson, his first name might have been Dave, might've been Don.
The publisher is Better Publications, one of the comic book lines (along with Nedor) as part of pulp magazine publisher Standard Comics. It was typical back in the waning days of the Depression for pulp publishers to hop on the comics bandwagon. Black Terror will be the biggest of the Standard/Better/Nedor superheroes.
The Black Terror gets more inconsistently super by his second appearance: a bullet knocks him out and a fall from a few stories up may—just may—make a dead blob of black clad superhero on the sidewalk below. Of course, he's still strong enough to swing a car, single-handed, by its fender.
He still subscribes to the Superman/Clark Kent formula in his Bob Benton identity, playing the wimp in the face of mobsters and thugs and using the Black Terror to get back at Rodney Clark—giving him a black eye for each of his first two appearances. Then, Benton does something Clark Kent never would do as Superman, that a normal person would.
Clad in his Black Terror costume, he goes to Rodney's house to beat the crap out of him after getting his fill of him as Bob. Rodney just stops appearing, yet Jean sticks around, still mooning after Black Terror with Benton an unrequited milksop, but even she disappears. By wartime, Tim goes from brunette to blonde, changes from boy to teen, and the pair switch from fighting mobsters to Nazis and the Japanese.
The art, no longer by Gabrielson or Albert Wexler, goes downhill. Black Terror starts to look less barrel chested and more pudgy; the figures cram into the panels less proportionately and far more awkward.
Then, beautiful things happen to The Black Terror. Artists like Sheldon Moldoff, from Hawkman (and later Batman), and Mort Lawrence take over the art chores. In 1948, artists Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin take over the art chores on some of the Terror Twins' adventures—perhaps the most iconic run of any creative team on the book.
By this point, the Terrors are mostly daytime adventurers, but even when they run around in broad daylight, the blacks of their costumes work with present shadows to give a sense of danger. Their Terror is lithe, acrobatic, and swashbuckling. They're no longer powerhouses like in the earlier adventures, but more grounded urban crimefighters (in a city that feels like a small town).
Robinson and Meskin were genius on their individual merits: together, they were the creative team that—sadly—mostly die hard comics history fans are aware of. They're what happens when you throw two geniuses together.
Jerry got recruited into comics when he was a kid ready to start college the next fall, when Batman co-creator Bob Kane spied his cartoons on a painter's jacket he was wearing, and asked him to join his bullpen. Using Batman as an impetus to choose Columbia, Robinson joined Kane and writer Bill Finger on the early adventures of the Dark Knight, bringing inky shadows to Gotham, taking the crudeness of Kane's early pseudo-Gould style and giving a touch more grace and a ton more atmosphere. With Finger, Robinson brought icons like The Joker and Robin the Boy Wonder to life.
Not too shabby for a kid trying to juggle drawing comics with going to one of New York's greatest universities.
Along the way, Jerry became pal with boxer turned comic book artist Bernie Klein, who then introduced him to Mort Meskin. The apartment they shared became the hangout for the artists of the '40s, from Superman's Shuster and Siegel to the no less talented smaller fry. This brotherhood came to play when Jerry, Bernie, Mort, and other cartoonists spent a snowed-in weekend cranking out a 64-page comic book of Daredevil for publisher Lev Gleason.
But that's a story for another time…
Meskin made his mark at DC Comics on both the super-speedster Johnny Quick and the gun-slinging modern-day cowboy The Vigilante. To say his work was more dynamic than Robinson's would be entirely unfair—but to say Meskin had a stronger eye for action and negative space in his design would not be. When the two came together it was the joining of two masters of the art form, both with a penchant for shadow and light.
The Black Terror and Tim hung up their capes in 1949 but, since entering the realm of public domain, have made several comebacks in tons of iterations—the striking black and gold costume maintaining its mystique and appeal through more than a few generations.
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Demo files for "Computer Vision with MATLAB" held on March 2012.Demo files for "Computer Vision with MATLAB" held on March 2012.The demos presented in the webinar, in order, are:1. Feature-based Registration (ImageRegistrationSURF3.m)2. Object Recognition (MatchCard.m and ReplaceCard.m)3. Face...
Platforms: Matlab
|License: Shareware
|Cost: $0.00 USD
|Size: 6.16 MB
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Roaming Cursor script displays a second, "roaming" cursor on your page. An image resembling the mouse cursor wonders around the screen, rendering an amusing spectacle.The image is customizable, so a cursor is certainly not the only thing you can instruct to roam.The script allows DHTML...
Platforms: JavaScript
|License: Freeware
|Size: 102.4 KB
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VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) is a collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation. It was created from TargetJr and the IUE with the aim of making a light, fast and consistent system. VXL is written in ANSI/ISO C++ and is designed to be portable over...
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 34.31 MB
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The Computer Emulation Framework (CEF) is a common application framework for computer hardware emulation. It is flexible enough to emulate any hardware produced to date. CEF is used to create computer emulators.
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 52.56 MB
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Software for computer club, game hall, internet cafe. This software will allow youto control your computer club, game hall, internet cafe. It allow also protection and statisticsover the club.
|License: Demo
|Cost: $15.00 USD
|Size: 2.33 MB
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Software for computer club, game hall, internet cafe. This software will allow youto control your computer club, game hall, internet cafe. It allow also protection and statisticsover the club.
Platforms: Windows
|License: Demo
|Cost: $15.00 USD
|Size: 2.33 MB
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AlertMobile is a special software for computer security incidents response. It monitors all attempts of unauthorized computer activity, sends SMS alerts to mobile device, receives and handles response commands.
- Recording of user logon name, date, time and computer name
Platforms: Windows
|License: Shareware
|Cost: $89.95 USD
|Size: 593 KB
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Web based repair tracking application for computer and console repair shops of any size. Multiple sites can be managed with complete invoicing, workflow, parts inventory etc. The system is highly configurable and can be tweaked to suit your business. TrailBlazer has many great features such as...
Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows
|License: Demo
|Cost: $250.00 USD
|Size: 12.4 MB
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zCI is freeware for computer inventory. It is free but contains a lot of corporate feature. zCI has 100% web-based user interface, including its automatic data gathering mechanism. Also, zCI has peripheral inventory capability and facilities to manage device ownerships. zCI provides client...
Platforms: Windows, *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 1.83 MB
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RemoteSysInfo collects comprehensive system hardware and software information from a local or remote computer. RemoteSysInfo can be used for computer inventory, auditing and diagnostic purposes. It can list out all the hardware devices and software that are installed in a computer with the very...
Platforms: Windows, Other
|License: Shareware
|Cost: $29.00 USD
|Size: 2.01 MB
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GiNaC is an iterated and recursive acronym for GiNaC is Not a CAS, where CAS stands for Computer Algebra System. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation- intense numeric...
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 778.24 KB
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theosim project is used for simulation and compilation for computer scientists. theosim is a simulation and compilation package of several languages which are of theoretical relevance only (PASCALLI, PASCALLINO and RAM). I am PARTICIPATING in this project! For further information about it,...
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 368.64 KB
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TESA project is a strategy editor for computer games. It allows the user to add team members to squads and edit actions they will perform in a squad-based game. It comes with all the map information needed for 32 player Battlefield 2 maps and is fully customizable to work with other games..
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
|Size: 122.88 KB
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An Aperture Edit Plug-In for computer generated tilt-shift photography. The software allows you to create fake miniature versions of regular photos, simulating the effect of expensive tilt-shift lenses.
You can define an arbitrary position for the virtual focal plane and setup its properties...
Platforms: Mac
|License: Freeware
|Size: 471.04 KB
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Hardware Inspector Client/Server is an advanced tool for computer hardware and software management. Single database for all branch offices can be accessed via the Internet. It doesn't require servers like MS SQL or MySQL. The program is known for high data safety and efficiency.
Access to the...
Platforms: Windows
|License: Shareware
|Cost: $199.00 USD
|Size: 39.99 MB
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Preparation Test for Computer Certificates (ECDL, Key-CERT, Cambridge IT Skills). Included Test: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows XP, Theory.
Platforms: Windows
|License: Demo
|Cost: $111.00 USD
|Size: 585 KB
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The Tactics Editor for Squad Actions (TESA) is a strategy editor for computer games. It is fully customizable and not fixed for use on one particular game.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
|License: Freeware
|Size: 124.92 KB
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C++ library that implements basic data structures and algorithms for computer vision and image processing applications
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
|License: Freeware
|Size: 534.88 KB
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MYIT CRM is a total CRM project designed for Computer Servicing and Repairs.This project has Invoicing, Work Order management,Customers Details (CRM),Payment processing (Paypal, Paymate, etc),Job Scheduling and Calendar,PDF Invoices and lots more.
Platforms: PHP
|License: Freeware
|Size: 1.94 MB
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A SoundFont editor and other software for editing, managing and sharing sample based MIDI instrument files for computer music composition. Support for other formats is planned.
Platforms: *nix
|License: Shareware
|Cost: $0.00 USD
|Size: 1.21 MB
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