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Name : Nushrat Bharucha
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 2006 – present
Nushrat Bharucha Biography
Nushrat Bharucha was born and brought up in Mumbai. Nushrat studied at Lilavati Podar High school where she was very active in theatre.
Nushrat Bharucha is an Indian film actress best acknowledged for her work in Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011).
Nushrat Bharucha Career
Nushrat Bharucha made her debut in Bollywood with the film Jai Santoshi Ma in 2006. Nushrat later acted in Love Sex aur Dhokha directed by Dibakar Banerjee and attained fame with the film Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011) produced by Wide Frame Pictures. The movie was a story of three bachelors who encounter girls whom they fall in love with and the twists and turns of their love stories.
Nushrat Bharucha acts as one of the three girls, Neha, who is in a live-in relationship with her boyfriend, Rajat. Nushrat Bharucha gained popularity as 'Babu', her nickname in the film, as called by Rajat. The film became a hit of the year with newcomers in the lead. It has now achieved a cult status among the youth. Nushrat Bharucha also played in the YRF Television Series, SEVEN. Nushrat also came along in many TV advertisements. She once mentioned in an interview with India Today, "I have never been to an acting school and was trained at auditions." Presently Nushrat is working in Luv Ranjan's next feature film, Akaashvani where she has been paired with her Pyaar Ka Punchnama co-star, Kartik Tiwari. The film is scheduled for release in January, 2013 and is produced by Wide Frame Films.
Nushrat Bharucha Filmography
Year Film Role Other Notes
2006 Jai Santoshi Ma Mahima
2009 Kal Kissne Dekha Riya
2010 Love Sex aur Dhokha Shruti Dahiya
2011 Pyar Ka Punchnama Neha
2013 Akaash Vani Vani
Nushrat Bharucha Television Career
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I'm quite satisfied with my life by now. I'm building my every day happiness piece by piece, with commitment, passion and joy. It's not an easy process, or a smooth one. Some things get in the way, very often indeed, and I try not to get stuck by those pebbles that I face on my path.
Sometimes I can handle it, and sometimes…I learn.
Few days ago I went to the ER. I fainted, in my office. I was back after a very intense exams session and I was literally drained but happy, because of the success in my university career. In the past week, before the exams, I tried to stick with my normal routine schedule (meditation, exercise, house chores and so on), but it was really hard. I gave up on my exercise program because I was literally without energy: the study took all of my strenght. But I was ok, because sometimes you face priorities and insted of being solid rock (too solid rock), I prefer to be water and follow the stream. Just for a few days.
Coming back to work, I thought I would be able to regain my routines, and my life how it was before my finals session. I was so wrong. I'll be clear, I don't love my day job. It's a desk job, but I don't like the business area they're in, and I don't like to collect calls from angry clients all the time. The boss manage the entire office without coordination, communication and clear goals. So it's a mess, and it's a great source of stress for me.
So why I don't quit? Because it's a part time job, so I have time for myself after 14 pm, and because I must pay for my studies (hopefully I will graduate in spring 2017, so there's little time left), but above all I need some money in order to improve my real dreams, and to buy my artist's tools and stuff. I'm working hard in the evening to build a proper job alternative, somewhat that can reflect me and myself honestly.
But for now, I work there. I have this day job, and when I went back to it after the exams session I pretend to be ok. To be fine. To be relaxed. It worked? No. As I say I fainted near the bathroom and hit my head on the door. They took me at the hospital, where doctors did all the necessary tests and (thankfully) they found nothing wrong in my body. But something happened, for sure: it was clearly a stress breakdown.
What's that? It means that your body is talking right to you saying you need to stop and rest. Relax your nerves. Let your mind be steady and calm. But how come it happened to me? I practice yoga and meditation, I (try) to practice mindfulness…how come?
The answer was clear to me: that's ok, but it's not enough. Not for me, not for this situation. Why? Because I try to be happy and to become a better person, to improve myself (and I made huge steps in the last year), while my day work try to take me back to the start. Always. Every day.
Now that I have some time to rest (I'm forced to, actually), some time for myself just to relax and do the things I like, I realized that I need some help. I must develope the right tools in order to continue with my path of self-improving and not be influenced by the nature and the attitude of my day jobs.
So my path is expanding. It's going much wider than I thought in the very beginning. I'm happy and thankful for what happened to me last week, I'm happy of that episode and I'm thankful that it was just that: an episode. I'm thankful for being on, that my health is really good. I'm thankful for all of this because I opened my eyes much more than before.
What I'm trying to say to myself (and to you), it's that sometimes you need to compromise: with yourself, with your daily life. But just don't compromise with your dream. Let your dream guide you, and let that dream ignite your soul. Don't forget it, don't mistreat it. Love it and look at it while you're doing the stuff you must do in order to reach it, or get near to it.
Even if it's just a tiny step.
If you give up, even for a little while (and you know that's never for a little while), you'll get sick. You'll become a shadow of yourself, a pale shade of your real potential. In order to achieve something you must see it, even if it's just a visualization in your mind.
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Abstract: School bullying is a concerning phenomenon to children, families, and educators. The KiVa Antibullying Program (KiVa) reduces school bullying by heightening children's anti-bullying attitudes, empathy toward victims, and self-efficacy to support victims—values that empower children to intervene when they are bystanders to bullying incidents. Little is known about how caregivers' advice to children might promote and/or undermine the values and bystander behaviors targeted by KiVa. Accordingly, the primary aim of the study was to investigate relations between caregivers' advice and children's values about bullying and behavior during bullying situations. Secondary aims were to explore how family economic factors, child sex, and caregivers' advice-giving style moderated relations between caregivers' advice and children's values and behaviors. Participants were 106 4th- and 5th- grade students, their classmates, and their caregivers. Data were collected during classroom and home visits via child self-report, parent-report, peer-report questionnaires, and a coded interaction task in which caregivers advised children about how to respond to bullying situations at school. Results suggested that: a) bystander intervention was positively predicted by caregivers' advice to stop the bully, especially for children whose families have experienced a high or average level of stressful life events, b) bystander passivity was positively predicted by caregivers' advice to not intervene and not tell adults and negatively predicted by caregivers' advice to help/comfort the victim, and c) bystander reinforcement/assistance was positively predicted by caregivers' advice not to intervene and not to tell adults and negatively predicted by advice to stop the bully, especially for girls from average and low income families. Additional moderation results suggested that: a) a directive advice-giving style promoted child behavior that was consistent with parental behavioral advice, and b) a questioning style promoted values about bullying that were consistent with caregivers' value-based advice. Results point to the importance of collaboration between families and schools to reduce school bullying. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Maybe this gigantic violet colored structure is like a magnetic field,but also like the aurora borealis seen hear on earth,only on a super massive scale and size? An aurora is caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere and the charged particles originate in the magnetosphere...
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It's not possible to just have plumes instead of jets. The mechanism responsible for sending particles out into space (the strong magnetic field) is what accelerates them to near the speed of light, which fires them out like a laser.
However... along those lines, this may be evidence that our galaxy used to be a quasar a few billion years ago. Quasars are active galactic nuclei which send out jets of high-energy particles. If the early Milky Way were a quasar, then these jets would long since have stopped, leaving behind these balloon-like regions of high-energy electrons. That's very possible.
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In a statement, UNOCI described the storming and ransacking of the headquarters by yet unknown people - which left two persons injured - as ''regrettable'', especially since the acts occurred when the Ivorian nation needs all assistance to kick-start a long-awaited dialogue to achieve genuine reconciliation.
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I removed 145 spam threads using one of my websites today. Luckily I have moderate responses switched on so that they never actually get placed. That makes the spammers poor, but thats the worst trouble spammers have caused me.
However those that apparently are our Spam saviors. Those who say they're fighting spam have caused me more problems as opposed to spammers...
Sometimes I don't know which folks are the worst. Those that spam or those that say they're seeking spammers.
I wiped 145 junk posts using one of my blogs today. Fortuitously I've moderate responses switched on so they never really get placed. Which makes the spammers bad, but thats the worst inconvenience spammers have caused me.
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Twice today blogger.com has caused me spamconvenience. They have locked me from one of my own sites and one I control to get a consumer because their spambot said it could be spam. In addition it says that when you are a reading this message then of-course I'm not likely a spambot and they'll correct the situation.
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Syria: UN aid chief calls for urgent ceasefire in Muadhamiya
The UN's humanitarian chief has called for an "immediate pause in hostilities" in Muadhamiya, a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Valerie Amos said 3,000 people were evacuated last Sunday, but that the same number were trapped in the town amid continuing shelling and fighting.
Thousands of people were in a similar situations in towns across the country, she said.
The army has previously said rebel-held areas must surrender or starve.
Also on Saturday, activists said at least 16 soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing and fighting at a checkpoint near the mainly-Christian area of Jaramana.
State media blamed "terrorists" for the explosion but did not give details.
Rebels control much of the countryside around Damascus but Jaramana - a Christian and Druze area mostly loyal to President Bashar al-Assad - is still held by the government.
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In a statement, Baroness Amos said was "extremely worried by the situation unfolding across Syria where ordinary women, children and men are facing horrific violence and brutality from all sides of the conflict".
She said relief workers had been unable to access Muadhamiya for months, and that the ongoing conflict was preventing any rescue mission from going ahead.
"I call on all parties to agree an immediate pause in hostilities in Muadhamiya to allow humanitarian agencies unhindered access to evacuate the remaining civilians and deliver life-saving treatment and supplies in areas where fighting and shelling is ongoing," she said.
But she said this was not the only area of concern, citing Nubil, Zahra, old Aleppo town, old Homs town and Hassaka as other places where people were in danger.
"Civilians must be allowed to move to safer areas without the fear of attack," she added.
"It is vital that all parties to the conflict respect their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian laws to protect civilians and to allow neutral, impartial humanitarian organizations safe access to all people in need, wherever they are in Syria."
Muadhamiya and at least two other Damascus's suburbs - Yarmouk and Eastern Ghouta - have been besieged by government forces for several months.
The situation has become so desperate that earlier this week Muslim clerics issued a religious ruling allowing people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys just to survive.
Those animals are usually considered unfit for human consumption in Islam.
Syrian activists say they are now starting to record the first deaths of complications caused by malnutrition.
On Friday, the US urged the Syrian government to allow relief convoys to reach starving civilians.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki warned that "those who are responsible for atrocities in the Damascus suburbs and across Syria must be identified and held accountable".
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, now in its third year. The unrest began in the midst of the Arab Spring regional uprisings, with protests against President Bashar Assad, before degenerating into civil war.
A British surgeon who volunteered in a hospital in northern Syria for five weeks told the BBC on Friday that he had treated pregnant women deliberately targeted by snipers.
David Nott said there "was definitely a game going on between the snipers".
"One day we would receive patients who had purely groin wounds, another day purely chest wounds or purely abdominal wounds. Then another day full-term pregnant ladies were coming in having been shot."
Most of the unborn babies and many of the women did not survive, he said.
International efforts to halt the violence have consistently faltered, but last month the UN Security Council broke its deadlock, voting unanimously to adopt a binding resolution on ridding the country of chemical weapons.
The move followed international outrage at a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August.
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Ask Travis Emick what he loves most about his job, and he responds without hesitation: "I love serendipitous discovery."
As the primary architect of the library's online Scholarship Repository, Emick and his colleagues Joseph Ferrer, Lisa Taylor, and James Bradley have had multiple opportunities to uncover hidden gems in the library's vast archives and make them available to the public.
SHARELINE: "I love serendipitous discovery." - Travis Emick, @UCHastingsLaw Digital Projects & Archives Reference Librarian. http://ctt.ec/6074Y+
The Scholarship Repository is a treasure trove of approximately 6,000 documents spread over five collections: Faculty Scholarship, Law Journals, the Honorable Roger J. Traynor Collection, UC Hastings Archive & History, and California Ballot Initiatives & Ballot Propositions. The Traynor collection is one of the most important, Emick said. "He served as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and was also a UC Hastings professor. His opinions are greatly respected in the legal community." Emick also said that the California ballot archive is one of the largest collections. With initiatives dating back to 1912, it provides a comprehensive picture of the history of citizen government in California.
Prior to joining the UC Hastings library two years ago, Emick spent seven years working in Boston College's library where he started compiling a repository in 2006-2007. "At the time there was a movement to make things free and available to everyone. Today, online repositories are quite common and most major law schools and universities have them," he said.
Emick explained that the documents in the repository have reached people who wouldn't otherwise have access to them, such as high school and college debate teams, local branches of city government and even federal agencies. The repository attracts visitors from around the world. "Part of Dean Wu's vision was to make all of UC Hastings' content more widely available. You have information that doesn't look like it would be immediately useful to anyone, but once it's online you find that people are interested in it." For example, the different documents in the Traynor archives have been downloaded more than 13,000 times over the past year, Emick said. He also recounted getting a call from a former law student who had won a Maserati in a raffle in the 1970s and wanted to find out more about who had donated the car. "There are lots of stories of people coming across UC Hastings-related information through the repository, which opens up a window for us to communicate with them."
Now that the core collections are available online, Emick has turned his attention to improving the repository's web interface and search functionality. He's also spent a good amount of time preparing the school's physical archives for off-site storage while the library undergoes renovation. "I've had to go through every single box and document in the archives," Emick said.
He described finding an object in one of the boxes that didn't fit with the rest. When Emick and his colleagues finally succeeded in opening the object, they discovered an old Bellows camera that had been manufactured in Austria. The library team believes that Justice Traynor either received it as a gift or purchased it when he visited Salzburg for a conference in 1956. They have since reunited it with the rest of the Traynor object collection. "It's nice to find such long-forgotten memories and bring their stories to life. I really enjoy that part of the process."


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AUSTIN, Texas - The Central Missouri Jennies soccer team fell 3-2 to St. Edwards in the third round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Austin, Texas. It is the farthest a UCM soccer program has ever gone in the postseason tournament.
The Jennies (19-1, 16-0 MIAA) tied an MIAA record with the two goals scored in the game, collecting a conference-high 57 goals in the season.
After Central Missouri had two shot attempts, the Hilltoppers ran down the field and took a shot to the far side of the net just out of the reach of freshman Brooke Cooley and into the far side of the net.
With about nine minutes to go, St. Edwards took a corner kick that Cooley could not handle and was knocked into the back of the net.
In the 39th minute Central Missouri got on the board with a free kick by junior Alyssa Rhodes from about 25 yards out. It was Rhodes seventh goal of the season
About three minutes later the Jennies tied the game with another goal, this one by sophomore Aaryn Burke. She took a quick shot that was right over the Hilltopper goalies hands and into the top of the net. It was Burkes fourth goal of the season.
Going into halftime, Central Missouri took three shots to the Hilltoppers two. The Jennies also had a 3-1 advantage in corner kicks.
After a slow start to the second half, freshman Carly Stanley took an open shot from 20 yards out at the 65th minute that hit the near post and ricochet to the far side of the field.
Late in the game, in the 79th minute, the Hilltoppers recorded their game winner.
In the game, Central Missouri outshot St. Edwards 8-3 and also had an 8-3 advantage in corner kicks.
Cooley suffered the loss in net, ending her first season as a Jenny with a 17-1 record.
The Jennies end their season breaking many program and league records, including the 19 wins along the way.


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Valencia are set to complete the signing of Club Brugge shot-stopper Mat Ryan.
Australia and Club Brugge goalkeeper Mat Ryan will move to La Liga outfit Valencia, pending a medical.
Ryan, 23, has starred since his move to Europe in 2013, twice named the Belgian Pro League Goalkeeper of the Year.
The 21-time Socceroo, who has been linked to the likes of Real Madrid and Liverpool, was also the 2015 Asian Cup goalkeeper of the tournament.
Ryan said he turned down a move away from Brugge last season, but it was time to move on.
"If I pass my medical tests, I will indeed leave Club Brugge. It's been a joy to be in this warm and amical club," he told the club's website.
"They have done everything they could to keep me another year which made it even harder for me to make this choice. I've had a wonderful time at the club but now it's time to take this next step.
"Last season I already declined a nice offer, but this time I couldn't. I'm very grateful that club gave me this chance in Europe.
"For a young lad there's no better club to develop. I have faith that The Blues will add more silverware soon and I'm their number one fan from now on. And last but not least: a big thank you for the best fans of Belgium."
Valencia, who finished fourth in La Liga last season, are reportedly paying £5million for the Australian.
Ryan is set to get his chance as first choice to start 2015-16 at least, with Diego Alves recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Club Brugge general manager Vincent Mannaert backed Ryan to shine in Spain, but said he would have loved to keep the shot-stopper for another season.
"We hate to see Mat go, but we realise that this is a logical step in his career. We've tried to keep him at Club for at least one year but he had made his mind up," he said.
"We're nevertheless very grateful for what he's done the past two seasons. He's a top player and just like Carlos Bacca he will deliver in the Primera Division.
"This goodbye doesn't change our ambitions for our next season. We're already in contact with the possible replacer of Maty."


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Shay Mitchell Covers 'Seventeen' August 2012
Shay Mitchell takes over the August 2012 cover of Seventeen magazine.
The 25-year-old actress chatted with the glossy about Pretty Little Liars, inspiration and more. Check it:
On her PLL costars: "I'm so close with each of the girls for different things. Troian is my go-to when I want advice on something. She's literally like her character�so smart. Lucy is so cute and southern. We joke around a lot on-set. And Ashley is like the fun, carefree little sister who I never had."
On inspiring others: "When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I've been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we're only here for one life."
What she wishes she knew when she was 17: "Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get."
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The conclusion of Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth latest STUMPTOWN mystery! Stupid skinheads, angry DEA agents, and extremely irritated Portland Police are all focused on "Baby"–rockstar Mim Bracca's most precious guitar! Can Dex navigate the politics, egos, and attitude to get the axe back without producing even more tabloid fodder?


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The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program was created by what is commonly referred to as "welfare reform" in 1996. It replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as the program through which some low-income families are able to receive cash assistance.
With TANF authorization expiring at the end of March and needing to be renewed (and hopefully improved)—and over 46 million people still living below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four—these are ten things you should know about the program.
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Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum carried Shelby County and the state of Tennessee in the Tuesday, March 6, Republican Presidential primary.
When the steamboat Sultana exploded and sank north of Memphis on the Mississippi River in April 1865, it went down near the Arkansas side of the river.
Local home sales posted a 36 percent increase in February, but many of those sales were executed by banks and investors.
A $3 million grant from the Delta Regional Authority will be used to widen a road near the site where Electrolux is building its new Memphis plant, according to plans approved by a subcommittee of the city-county Industrial Development Board.
A roughly $3.2 million mixed-use development anchored by loft-style apartments – Printer's Alley Lofts – in the works for Downtown at the northwest corner of Front Street and Talbot Ave.
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Cannon Wright Blount certified public accounting firm will continue its series of seminars about QuickBooks accounting software Wednesday, March 7, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the firm, 756 Ridge Lake Blvd. Each two-hour class costs $75. Seating is limited. To reserve a place, visit www.cannonwrightblount.com/resources, and for more information, call Debbie Bossé or Cathy Russell at 685-7500.
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Downtown businesses have the space. Now all they need are the artists to fill what will essentially be pop-up galleries around the city's core.
Southern College of Optometry – an independent, nonprofit college founded in 1932 – soon will break ground on a $9.4 million expansion that will provide its students with new classroom facilities and state-of-the-art instructional space.
For three weeks, federal prosecutors in the Craig Petties drug organization trial have told a jury the wide-ranging story of the organization and dozens of the leaders and other players in it.
Early vote totals in Shelby County confirmed what happened across the state in the Republican presidential primary Tuesday, March 6.
Holly Pruitt is office manager of The Centre Group, a human resources consulting firm. Pruitt handles accounting and administrative duties and works closely with the company's marketing firm.
With the explosion of social media, the sheer volume of marketing messaging vying for the attention of your customers is astounding. In fact, buying behaviors have fundamentally changed as a result.
NASHVILLE (AP) – An increasing number of people in Tennessee are requesting that their criminal records be cleared.
NASHVILLE (AP) – The National Rifle Association is pressuring Republican lawmakers to abandon proposed limitations to a measure that would let workers store firearms in vehicles parked on their employers' lots.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi legislators want to improve the incentives offered to film productions.
HOUSTON (AP) – Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was convicted Tuesday on all but one of the 14 counts he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in massive Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.
NEW YORK (AP) – Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that failed at the depths of the financial crisis, says it will sell the last of its assets starting in April.
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Councillor Anthony Perruzza represents Ward 8, but lives in Ward 7, so his city councillor is Giorgio Mammoliti. Mr. Mammoliti, meanwhile, represents Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue, but lives closer to Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue.
Councillor Shelley Carroll lives in Denzil Minnan-Wong's ward; Councillor Paula Fletcher lives in Sandra Bussin territory. Councillor David Shiner has Karen Stintz for a city councillor. Ward 44 at the every eastern end of Scarborough, is home to three city councillors: Ron Moeser, who actually represents the area, as well as councillors Paul Ainslie (Ward 43) and Norm Kelly (Ward 40).
Altogether, of 35 incumbent city councillors seeking re-election on Oct. 25, more than one third, or 13 councillors, do not live in the ward that they represent.Candidates' home addresses are not published on the city's web site; voters can find out where candidates for City Council live by consulting a big black binder behind the reception desk at Election Services, at the back of of the ground floor at City Hall. The binder contains the forms that hundreds of council candidates filled in when they registered for the election, including their "qualifying address." Rules do not require council candidates to live in Toronto, let alone their ward.
Several councillors said their deep roots more than make up for not actually living in the ward they represent at City Hall. Often, a councillor will grow out of the home they initially bought in their ward, and then find that it is more convenient to move to a larger home in another part of town. Family break-ups are also a factor.
"I grew up in northwest Scarborough," says Councillor Norm Kelly, who represents that area, though he now lives in southeast Scarborough. "When I was riding my bike along Sheppard Avenue when I was 12 years old, it was a horse farm. A place where I skated on a pond is now a Tim Hortons. I probably know more about these communities collectively than any one individual person. I'm like a kid who's never left home."
Councillor David Shiner, whose ward is Willowdale, now lives west of Yonge Street and south of Highway 401, in faraway Ward 16.
"I moved into the ward and raised my family there for 25 years," says Mr. Shiner, first elected to North York council in 1991. His political roots go back to his mother, Esther Shiner, a former deputy mayor of North York. He says he moved away in 2005, noting, "family issues do arise from time to time. I recently settled some family issues and am looking to purchase a home back in the ward."
Perhaps the most creative spin on not living in one's ward goes to Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (York West), who represents the city's northwest, ranging to the north border of Toronto on Steeles Avenue, but lives near Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue West. He said his centrally-located home allows quicker access to City Hall than the more remote Ward 7.
"It's easier for me to get to City Hall," he says. "It takes me 20 minutes to get to City Hall by car and 10 minutes to get to my ward. Leaving York West to go to City Hall takes 45 minutes by car."
He explains his move from the ward saying, "I got married. We had an opportunity to take over Monica's grandparents' home."
Councillor Marwia Augimeri, whose ward is north of Highway 401, says she moved south of the highway because, "I had another child and we moved to another house. It's important to have roots in the ward. We worship in the ward, we shop in the ward."
Councillor Adam Vaughan notes that he lives just one streetcar stop west of his ward, Trinity-Spadina. He notes that, when he and his second wife were expecting a child, he was living in a condo in the ward, and searched for a three-bedroom condo, but could find none. From this came his attempts to use the city's zoning clout to require more developers to offer bigger units in new towers downtown. He adds, "Not living in the ward means never having to declare a conflict of interest over a development project."
Councillors who do live in their own wards see it as quite important. Councillor Doug Holiday (Etobicoke Centre), who lives near Kipling Avenue and Princes Margaret Street, first won election to Etobicoke Council in 1982.
"In 1992 I put an addition on my house," he recalls. "The kids were becoming teens, my mother in law was coming to live with us. I weighed that against moving. I would have had to move east across Kipling. From a financial standpoint it wasn't the best thing to have done. I stayed in my ward."
Similarly, longtime downtown councillor Pam Mc-Connell recently moved from her longtime Cabbagetown home to a new home in the condos that Daniels Corp. is building in the redeveloped Regent Park. She noted the move in July by making a revision to her nomination paper. Her new home remains in her ward.
Some star candidates for City Council, such as Doug Ford (brother of mayoral contender Rob Ford) and Jane Pitfield, the former councillor, do not live in the wards they seek to represent. But perhaps the prize for living furthest from one's intended political home goes to Nick Dominelli, who lives in the City of Vaughan, and seeks the council seat in Ward 12.
When registering to run for council, Mr. Dominelli used 127 Strachan Avenue, off King Street West, as his "qualifying address." His family owns that building; Mr. Dominelli owns a restaurant, Politica Resto Bar, at that address. He said he has purchased a home in Ward 12, on Bicknell Avenue, near Keele Street and Rogers Road, which is presently under renovation, and which he says he will occupy once elected.
"I've been in talks with my wife," he says. "My wife is close to her family [who live in Vaughan]. It's a difficult challenge."
Incumbent councillors who do not live in their wards
- Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West) lives in Ward 15
- Councillor Anthony Perruzza (Ward 8, York West) lives in Ward 7
- Councillor Maria Augimeri (Ward 9, York Centre) lives in Ward 12
- Councillor Gord Perks (Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park) lives in Ward 18
- Councillor Cesar Palacio (Ward 17, Davenport) lives in Ward 13
- Councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina) lives in Ward 19
- Councillor David Shiner (Ward 24, Willowdale) lives in Ward 16
- Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) lives in Ward 32
- Councillor Shelley Carroll (Ward 33, Don Valley East) lives in Ward 34
- Councillor Adrian Heaps (Ward 35, Scarborough Southwest) lives in Ward 36
- Councillor Norm Kelly (Ward 40 Scarborough-Agincourt) lives in Ward 44
- Councillor Raymond Cho (Ward 42, Scarborough-Rouge River) in Ward 41
- Councillor Paul Ainslie (Ward 43, Scarborough East) in Ward 43
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German to be assistant boss.
According to the chat-room/message board buzz Tottenham Hotspur are set to appoint former midfielder Steffen Freund as Andre Villas-Boas' assistant at White Hart Lane.
The German played for Spurs between 1998 and 2003, winning the League Cup in 1999 and earning cult status for his work-rate, commitment and failure to score a single goal in over 100 league appearances.
Freund, now 42, is currently the manager of the German under-16 team but enjoyed a spell as Nigeria's assistant manager under compatriot Berti Vogts in 2007.
Freund, who has 21 caps for Germany and had a brief spell at Leicester City, has held discussions with Villas-Boas and Tottenham about returning as the Portuguese's number two.
Both Villas-Boas' previous assistants, Vitor Pereira and Roberto Di Matteo, have gone on to replace him at Porto and Chelsea respectively.
The club considered offering the role to Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho but the former Chelsea centre-half has indicated that he is eager to carry on playing for at least one more year.
Freund still follows Tottenham's progress and added to the club's hall of fame in 2010. He is thought to be interested in returning to White Hart Lane on a permanent basis.
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I remember when Leeds United were a top Premiership team, a contender in Europe and a stadium that rocked every week. Although the crowds have dwindled the passion amongst fans still remains and too many that's why they are still a big club and worthy of investment.
Elland Road is what you call a cantilevers stadium meaning that the main stand stands proud and dwarf those around it. The upper tier within the cantilevers stand does not get used that much these days following the demise of the club though some were sat within the stand during both games.
The ground seats in excess of 44,000 people though Leeds United today usually have an attendance just over 20,000 spectators.
The ground itself is vibrant, especially as you approach the ground from the neighbouring motorway. The modern facade of the main stand dwarfs over the M621 that runs alongside it. The rest of the ground has to be said shows its age, the ground is no shiny, glitzy stadia like that of the Emirates. The appearance – especially once close up is probably not a number one priority for the club as efforts are focused on keeping the club going than looking fancy – the pot holes outside around the ground are shocking
The ground itself is certainly not poor, far from it. I'd say that the age adds to the beauty. The ground oozes character and history – something newer modern grounds lack. There was certainly nothing out of place – weather damaged, dirty or disappointing when I visited. All catering and hospitality facilities were spot on although very expensive and the wooden seats in the west stand were certainly more comfortable than the plastic ones in the east stand. Of course new development was evident to see, the facade of the main stand, new club shops etc – they are of course going to be in a different architectural style to that of a ground build many, many moons ago.
Pillars in a stand is a bug bare of mine especially when you pay £36.00 for a ticket. But what do you expect when the ground and more accurately the stand you sit in is of certain age?
Getting to the ground is no problem. Located to the south of the city along the M621 enables easy access from the motor way and the ground is a short bus ride from the city centre. Travelling by bus was certainly no chore, buses were plentiful and supporters were not waiting an age for a bus once the match had finished. Additional buses were also laid on to nearby Morley as well.
In respect to catering they were plenty of outlets throughout the ground. As a captive audience prices were expensive though efforts were made to promote packages (chocolate bar, drink and a pack of crisps). Patrons had a selection of refreshments though be warned beer is served extremely cold.
From a stadium used in Euro 1996 and housing one of the largest fan bases in England Elland Road is home to a sleeping giant. I hope the ground now owned by Leeds City Council can be used for more than Leeds United games so that Leeds don't get into a situation like Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers who make an annual loss on their home. Once off the field battles are won I'm sure Leeds United and Elland Road will be back in the top tier of English football and Elland Road will be restored as a leading football ground.
Chances are you've seen Skyfall but have you wondered where did he get that jacket, which brand shoes are they or who makes that? Well after a little research I can now tell you what James Bond has in his wardrobe and what he wore in Skyfall.
That Leather Jacket
The jacket is part of Levi's Vintage clothing line and will be produced in limited quantities, only 30 pieces have be allocated to North America according to http://www.underfinishedman.com
The 1930's James Bond Skyfall distressed leather jackets are made out of sheep skin and are produced in Italy. The jackets have a worn look to them and feature adjustable waist tabs and two front slash pockets. If you want to look like James Bond, it's going to cost you; the jackets are priced at $900 each. Funny really because I was told in the Levi's shop on Bond street London that the people who select the clothes for films actually picked it up in an end of season shop complex in the home counties.
Very crisp and very sharp, the match of Ford and Bond strikes for the second time. No matter what the scene or what the danger the perfectly fitting suit is a winner all round.
Tom Ford shirt, with a tab collar, where the points are fastened together by a strip of material underneath the tie knot. First popular in the Twenties and favoured by the Duke of Windsor, the tab enjoyed its last revival in the Sixties before collar stiffeners became the norm for formal shirts. They say Selfridges in London is worth a look. But at £320 per shirt they doesn't come cheap
Barbour Beacon Heritage Sports Jacket
Bond's Barbour Beacon Heritage Sports Jacket – the result of a collaboration between the British brand and Japanese designer Tokihito Yoshida. Made from 6oz sylkoil wax and featuring a removable hood and Barbour signature tartan lining, the jacket is sure to have you covered whether you're being roughed up by the weather in town or by Javier Bardem in the Scottish Highlands. Probably about £400
The Watch
That's right Omega supports Bond once again with this limited edition OMEGA Co-Axial calibre 8507! The OMEGA Seamaster Planet Ocean
To be truthful I could go on and on about what Bond wears though the best coverage I found was on James Bond Lifestyle – so why reinvent the wheel, take a look for yourselves
Chrismarsdenonlne the home of Chris Marsden who has specific interest in football stadiums, football stadia, and mens fashion brands.
Wembley Stadium – a stadium review. It's big, it's proud but tricks missed and that's why it's not perfect!
There aren't many that would disagree that Wembley stadium is one of the biggest and finest football stadiums in the world. The home of English football has seen countless international matches, domestic and European finals, concerts and even American football matches however after visiting it a couple of times now ticks have been missed and to be honest I would have done things differently – mull this article over and tell me what you think?
First, like many I was very sad to see the old Wembley Stadium and the Twin towers being demolished, looking back at the old Wembley stadium it was very tired and needed serious tender loving care. I know the purpose of the towers would have been decretive but they were the icon of 'Wembley Stadium' and that of the home of football. Yes, the arc is bold and fresh but as a traditionalist I truly feel that the twin towers were something that should have retained. It's like a moral step backwards, the decommissioning of Concorde and hopefully something we won't rue to miss.
Having never visited the old Wembley stadium no one can tell me that access from the ground to the tube (Wembley Park) was worse than what I experienced walking down Millennium Way when England play Republic of Ireland especially now as Wembley stadiums capacity has been increased. There were simply far too many people walking down the road. I think it took me over one hour to walk two kilometres – joke!
Moreover, when travelling by bus the roads to the official car park are just too narrow and poky – just not fit for such an important national venue. It's hard to believe that this was not sorted out prior to the redevelopment of the stadium. When travelling for the Montenegro game we all had to jump off the bus and run to the stadium due to the volume of traffic to the ground.
The first time I visited Wembley stadium I sat on the lower tier with no challenges what so ever to get to my seat. But ever since I've sat in the gods' right up on tier 5 – entering through blocks L and M. Reaching such a vantage point was by one escalator travelling upwards whilst steps were the principle routine down. There were unnecessary cues and gatherings en route as you'd expect going up I just can't get my head round why the use of spiral ramps similar to that of the San Siro and Edihad are not used. Access up and down is far easier and quicker especially in times of emergency.
My final grip about the stadium is centred on the shops and refreshment outlets dotted around the inside of the ground. It takes the whole of half time to get served, a classic case of either operating too slow or having too few outlets to feed the demand even though many of the England games were no means a sell out. Outside wasn't much joy either £4.00 for a portion of chips or £20 to park your car in a neighbouring car park.
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He's back, celebrating his fiftieth year. Skyfall is slick, it's neat and it is very, very British and said to be the best Bond movie ever. For me finally the movie that explains the previous two which features Daniel Craig as the secret agent with license to kill. Skyfall introduces some of the characters that we all love and know with Bond. Maybe we forget that the Daniel Craig three are all suppose to be set before that of the infamous first Bond, Dr No.
For me Javier Bardem was not that chilling as a Bond villain even though his character was incredible tapped. The villain had to be one of MI6's own. All the major conflicts and scenarios have been covered in the previous 21 Bonds films, what else is there to cover apart from the war on terror? I'm sure Daniel Craig will cover this in his next two films.
It was merely a question of time when computers and the grey side of the internet was to influence a Bond movie, shades of Die Hard 4 for me, a nut case having the power to pull the strings of world destruction at his finger tips and as I left the cinema one fellow viewer likened the finally to Home Alone. I do see where he was coming from though I think he was missing the point really.
If you're a purist like me you would have never have dreamt that there would be yet another Bourne movie to grace the big screen. Like me you'd have scratched your head and thought how on earth are they going to do this? Would Matt Damon come back after jumping of a bridge after being mysteriously shot as he entered the Hudson river? Probably not, even this would be too farfetched. The only possible and plausible story would be that of a prequel and a youngster, maybe an unknown taking the lead.
I was shocked as it all became clear after reading the films tag line 'you didn't think there was only going to be one did you' – it was explained! After thinking about it, of course there was going to be more than one super hot shot assassin that could do everything.
The movie was slow to get going, yes – the scene did need to be set and the story told how Aaron Cross is a more advance version of an efficient every day looking assassin. But for me the story has been spoilt and it's as if the writers have opened up pandoras box of having yet more Bourne films just like the James Bond franchise where new more advance agents are on the quest to fulfil their remit and the CIA's hidden agenda.
Many would argue this is a good thing, giving Bond a run for his money but unlike four Die Hard movies and three or four Missions that were supposed to be impossible Bond is in a league of his own, the motto here quite whilst you're ahead. There's only going to be three true Jason Bourne thrillers.
The movie is very good – excellent in it's own right and standing on its own two feet but trying to pass it off as a Bourne film is just like the third and fourth terminator and the re make of the Italian Job – it just doesn't work.
Chris Marsden's stadium review on the new home of Sweden national football – the Friends Arena.
The first thing I thought when I heard that Sweden was to host England as their inarguable match to open their new state of the art stadium was – why England? Surely Spain, being World and European Champions, then why not Brazil and what about a neighbouring Scandinavia country; it does not make sense?
Located in the Solna region of Stockholm the new 50'100 all seated home of the Swedish national football team now rests. Sponsored by Swedbank (until 2013), the multipurpose venue modelled heavily on the Amsterdam arena with a blend of the Allianaz Arena (Munich) in terms a of a light weight lattice style shell that can change colour to reflect those of that perform their consists of 20'000 seats on the lower tier, 10'000 on the middle tier and a further 20'000 on the upper tier. The three tiered stadiums capacity can be further increased to 65'000 for concerts. Construction on Sweden's own super stadium commenced in December 2009 to a cost of 300 million Euros which every local I spoke with moaned about being too expensive, (they should see the bill for the new Wembley stadium) was open by a concert consisting of a brace of Sweden's very own premium artists.
The lattice constructed shell is reminiscent of the Allianz Arena in Munich and like the home of Bayern Munich the colour of the stadium can be changed to reflect those that perform their.
The origins of the name stems from the initial stadium name Swedbank Arena which was subsequently change to promote a not for profit organisation that campaigns against bullying. The non smoking and alcohol free stadium has four giant screens situated above the pitch and boasts 724 toilets in conjunction its own wifi network and plenty of fast food outlets around the concourse of the stadium which is the entry level to the ground.
The multipurpose venue houses four huge screens suspended above the pitch, a roof that can be closed given two hours notice and within 20 minute if it's raining (unlike the one in Warsaw, Poland).
The Friends arena is the new home to the Swedish national football team relieving the old Rasunda stadium of the duty prior to it being demolished. From 2013 it will also be the new home to Stockholm based football team AIK. Hopefully the transportation to and from the ground will then be sorted as the mission for both sets of supported was all pretty stupid for the opening of a new national stadium. Those like me ended up walking a further 5 miles or so to Solna Centrum station. As a result signage needs to be drastically improved and throughout my walk I did not come across a designated car park in the heavily residential region of the capital.
So back to my first thoughts – only the English would travel to the opening of a new stadium. Premier and English football is celebrated in Scandinavia unlike other European leagues. Ireland by far the most extravagant national followers would have lead to a pointless and purely ceremonial match which did little to test and prepare either nation in the run up to the world cup in Brazil. In essence England was a safe bet.
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Getting close up and personal with Poland's national stadium was definitely an experience to savor after watching Poland's second game against Russia in the city's fan camp joined by what seemed like in excess of over 1 million people and then getting lost with a crazy local taxi driver aloud a close up drive past an amazing futuristic stadium that has landed along the river in the capital. People say it looks like a flying saucer and they are definitely not wrong.
It's stunning – amazing a giant lattice encapsulating the huge 50'000 capacity stadium (up to 72,900 during concerts and other events) in the colours of the nation's national flag which many and I agree does look like a crown – fitting a national stadium that looks like a crown. Others including the official Euro 2012 programme describe the facade of the stadium like a waving Polish national flag which in a way embraces the history of the site of the stadium that of the former 10th-Anniversary Stadium.
As we all know this stadium played host to the opening game of Euro 2012 which was one of the six that the stadium hosted during the tournament including the tournament's first semi final. My conclusion, a stadium definitely worthy of national stadium status!
Did you know –
The stadium took three years to construct between 2008 and November 2011?


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Former Beauty Queen Arrested In Galax
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Renee Cole Charged With Assault
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A former Miss Maryland is facing assault charges.
Authorities in Galax, Va., said Renee Cole is facing charges of simple assault against her 13-year-old son and his father, Roanoke NBC affiliate WSLS reported. The incident happened on Monday.
Authorities said Cole was issued a protective order in 2002 after her sister filed charges against her, claiming domestic violence.
Cole told the station that in the 2002 case, she didn't assault her sister. She said that she was merely disciplining her child in the most recent case and that the assault charges would be dropped.
Cole was Miss Maryland 18 years ago and ran on a platform of family values.
Her next court appearance is May 6.


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"Small classes allowed me to speak with my professors and really get to know the people in my major."
Rubie Nelson of Shrewsbury, PA, 2017 graduate with a bachelor's degree in early level education
"Small classes allowed me to speak with my professors and really get to know the people in my major."
Rubie Nelson of Shrewsbury, PA, 2017 graduate with a bachelor's degree in early level education
Program Contact: Dr. Donna Dombek
Visit our Teacher Education Website
Were you the kid who always wanted to play school? You'd pretend to be the teacher while your friends were your students? You're not alone. You're one of the reasons we offer an elementary education major.
In our elementary education program, you'll observe classrooms. You'll study learning styles. You'll learn how to manage a classroom. You'll host elementary schoolchildren at events on campus. You'll explore the needs of exceptional children. And, before you graduate, you'll student teach. Yes, you'll be the teacher.
Then, with your degree in elementary education and your teaching certificate, you'll be ready to be an elementary school teacher. Only this time, it will be for real.
See what you can do with a major in Early Level Education. Suggested 4-year plan of study.
Course Requirements in the Major
Total Credits for Major: 127-129
You need to formally apply to be admitted to the teacher certification program after you complete 48 credits.
Requirements for admission include successfully passing the appropriate basic skills assessments, maintaining a 3.0 overall GPA and receiving no lower than a C- in any course required in the major. Three letters of recommendation as well as a Career Goals Statement are part of the application process. Admission to the program does not guarantee certification but the program is designed to help teacher candidates meet the Pennsylvania Department of Education teacher certification requirements.
For more information about admission requirements, please see the Teacher Education website
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Here's my day today. The kids went back to school after 5 weeks of holidays, and I was overwhelmed by sadness. I still had my two beautiful little men at home, but for some reason I took it hard this time. I'm well aware that they are growing up way too fast. They had a lovely first day back, and now I must get back into being a taxi service for cricket, soccer, swimming, school, tennis, pre school and playgroup. Craft will be squeezed in there somewhere. Most likely at the expense of sleep. :-)
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Special Issue on Satellite Soil Moisture - part 1 published
EOWAVE member Wouter Dorigo is guest editor of a special issue on "The advances in the validation and application of remotely sensed soil moisture" in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. The aim of this special issue is to give a comprehensive state-of-the-art on the potential and limitations of various new satellite products, in particular with respect to the various application fields. The Special Issue consists of two parts:
- Part 1 primarily focuses on single sensor soil moisture retrievals and product validation and is now available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03032434/45/part/PB
- Part 2 (expected by mid 2016) will mainly focus on long-term soil moisture records from multi-sensor observations (e.g. soil moisture records from the ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (CCI)) and satellite soil moisture applications.
Part 1 features the following contributions with EOWAVE member participation:
- De Jeu, R., Dorigo, W. (2016). On the importance of satellite-observed soil moisture. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B,107-109, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.007
- Griesfeller, A., Lahoz, W. A., de Jeu, R. A. M, Dorigo, W., Haugen, L. E., Svendby, T. M., Wagner, W. (2016). Evaluation of satellite soil moisture products over Norway using ground-based observations. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B, 155 - 164, doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.04.016
- Gruber, A., Su, C.-H., Zwieback, S., Crow, W., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W. (2016). Recent advances in (soil moisture) triple collocation analysis. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45, part B, 200-211. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.09.002


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Official Random X-Men One-Shots and Specials Thread
Sometimes, when it comes to the solicitations, there are ones that don't fall under any existing title or character thread, so there's really no where for them to fit, so I created this lil bugger to do just that. First up...
Written by C.B. CEBULSKI & CHRISTOPHER YOST
Penciled by DAVID AJA, NIKO
Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
At long last, Magik is returning to the Marvel Universe! But in what form will she return, and to whom will she owe her allegiance? In a touching tale of death and acceptance originally presented in X-MEN UNLIMITED #13, the X-Man Colossus continues to mourn the loss of his beloved sister, the telepathic mutant mystic known as Magik. Meanwhile, in a story from NEW X-MEN #37, Magik's origin is explored -- and her former master, the demon-lord Belasco returns! Fighting his way through hostile terrain and vicious demon hordes, Belasco will stop at nothing to wrest control of Limbo. But the evil sorceress standing in his way bears a striking resemblance to his former protégé. And finally, from X-MEN: DIVIDED WE STAND #2, Magik has indeed returned -- but she's trapped in Limbo, a slave to Belasco! Illyana yearns for her freedom and family, but she must find the lost pieces of her soul, the bloodstones, if she is to escape and defeat Belasco once and for all!
40 PGS./Must Have One-Shot/Rated T+ …$3.99
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X-MEN: MAGNETO -- TESTAMENT #1 (of 5)
Written by GREG PAK
Penciled by CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankind has ever seen. But in 1935, he was just another schoolboy -- who happened to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons begins with a silver chain and a crush on a girl -- and quickly turns into a harrowing struggle for
survival against the inexorable machinery of Hitler's Final Solution. From "X-Men: Phoenix--Endsong" writer Greg Pak and
award-winning artist Carmine Di Giandomenico.
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99
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Written by Mike Carey
Painted Interiors and Cover by J.K. Woodward
Hank McCoy never wanted to be different - and for a young mutant with a genius-level brain, camouflage comes easy. But only until a psychopathic terrorist with a god delusion kidnaps his father, and his life is brought into irrevocable confrontation with Charles Xavier and the X-Men in this X-citing one-shot.
32 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ …$3.99
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I'm buyin all that **** :up::o
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Yessssssssss Magik!!!
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So that Magik one shot is just a collection of her most recent Marvel appearances? I thought it was going to be new stuff
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It looks like old stories AND a new story.
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Marvel should just do a new New Mutants ongoing with Cannonball, Sunspot, Moonstar, Magik, Magma, Wolfsbane and Warpath
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It'd need a new name other than New Mutants though, since they aren't exactly "new" anymore. Any thoughts on what else they could use?
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Even if Marvel doesnt give them a new ongoing, they have to at least do another reunion, especially with Illyana back. Her former teammates need to meet up with her again
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how bout X-Force
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Looks splendid :up:
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oh this is sooo great illyana has always been one of my favorites!
and im glad it includes some of her old stuff, cuz i dont have them.
gaw im so excited!
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I get too many titles to pick up all of these, but I think I will bend the rules and get the Magneto one. That looks to be the best of the bunch. :D
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I LOVE the cover for the Magneto one. Just, WOW!!!
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In July, the Marvel Comics is going a little old school with the release of X-Men: Odd Men Out, which features two never-before-seen stories starring a bevy of X-Men and the New Mutants. The first story featuring Professor Xavier and SHIELD Agent Fred Duncan was written by Roger Stern close to 20 years ago; the second story, penned by Michael Higgins, features a post-Inferno cast of New Mutants facing off against The Mad Thinker. Artwork for both stories has been provided by industry legend, the late Dave Cockrum.
Newsarama was fortunate enough to get a hold of Roger Stern to talk about his past involvement with this piece; about changes in the industry; and possible future projects he'd like to write.
Newsarama: X-Men: Odd Men Out has an...older story written by you and drawn by the late Dave Cockrum -- Xavier and Fred Duncan play key roles. What else can you tell us about the story?
Roger Stern: "Older?" You might say that. Even though it's seeing print for the first time, I wrote "Odd Men Out" sixteen ... no, nearly seventeen years ago. Except for one page.
Yeah, lost story might be a better description. A page of my original script was misplaced during the intervening years, and Marvel's Mark Beazley had me re-write that page just a few weeks ago. (Let's see if readers can guess which page it is.)
"Odd Men Out" is a brief history of the X-Men and Professor Xavier up until that point in time. But at heart, it's a story about two old friends -- Xavier and former FBI Agent Duncan -- who haven't talked in years, catching up with one another.
NRAMA: How did you get involved in this project originally?
RS: Oh, that's a story in itself! It all began back in 1991, shortly after the second X-Men title was launched. John Byrne had briefly wound up scripting both X-Men and Uncanny –Men, over stories plotted and penciled by Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio. And around that time, John and I were talking over the phone about this and that -- as we often did in the days before email was commonplace -- and he mentioned that both of the books were running a bit behind schedule. Well, more than just a bit, and he talked me into offering my services to the then X-Men editors. So, I made a call, suggested a story, and was assigned to write it.
And when the pages showed up for me to script, I was jazzed to discover that the penciler was Dave Cockrum. I only wish I'd known in advance that Dave was going to draw the story; I would have figured out some way to include scenes of Nightcrawler having a sword fight ... Dave always loved stuff like that.
Anyway, I scripted Dave's pencils, turned the story in, and was paid. And that was the last I heard of it.
I should have followed up on that. But not long afterward, I became very busy with The Death of Superman. (You might have heard about that. It was in all the papers.)
NRAMA: You really made your mark on the Avengers and Amazing Spider-Man when Chris Claremont was doing his thing on the Uncanny X-Men--how much different would the world be today if the two of you had changed roles?
RS: I can't imagine that ever would have happened. When I left my editorial job and started writing Spider-Man, Chris had already been writing the uncanny X-Men for -- what? -- about five years. Granted, I'd been his editor for two of those years, but if you a have a popular, moderately successful title -- which Uncanny was at the time -- what are you going to do? Stick with the writer who's been building momentum for half-a-decade, or bring in the new kid? Not too hard to decide, is it?
NRAMA: Are there characters in today's sandbox at Marvel that you'd like to sink your teeth into?
RS: But of course! Spider-Man, especially, is currently more accessible that he's been in decades. Which makes writing a new story for him even more fun.
NRAMA: Do you prefer encapsulated one-offs or epic multi-issue stories when you're scripting?
RS: No preference. I like 'em both. It's good to have some variety in your writing ... and your reading. To paraphrase Len Wein, you can't run off on galactic quests forever ... every once in a while, you have to come home, check the mail, water the plants, and have your head handed to you by the Absorbing Man.
NRAMA: Do you think the nature of today's market caters to one type of storytelling more than the other?
RS: Somewhat. But it doesn't have to be that way. Longer story arcs have become more of the norm, mostly because they can easily be collected into trade paperbacks. But publishers can just as easily collect a series of single-issue stories into a trade. Prose publishers do that with short stories all the time.
NRAMA: Back to X-Men: Odd Men Out - how does it feel to have something you worked on with the legendary Dave Cockrum get its due?
RS: Surprised and delighted. The X-Men wouldn't exist in their current form, if not for Dave. I just wish he were still around to see this issue. I miss him always.
I do hope that readers will take note of when my story was written. It was designed to fit into either of the X-Men comics during their 1992 runs. That's why Scott and Jean are dressed the way they are, and why the overview of the X-Men's history doesn't cover anything that's happened since then.
Despite the fact that it was written in an earlier decade, the story still has plenty to say to today's audience. It should remind readers of a lot of things they may have forgotten. And there's an important subtext -- of the government trampling the Constitution in the name of national security -- that is even more relevant today than it was then ... unfortunately.
NRAMA: Wrapping things up, what other projects do you have on the horizon?
RS: I've plotted an issue of Amazing Spider-Man that Lee Weeks is currently penciling. And I'm talking to editors about the possibility of more projects.
NRAMA: If you could return to a monthly project at Marvel -- that no one is doing at the moment -- what would it be?
RS: Oh, there are so many characters that would be fun to write. Just off the top of my head...Machine Man...Ulysses Bloodstone...and Doctor Strange is currently without a title of his own, isn't he? Of course, for all we know, they may already be spoken for.
We'll just have to wait and see
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X-Men: Original Sin #1
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Who the hell is Daken?:csad:
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Uzo Aduba & Josh Groban's Facial Expressions Make Us Laugh at US Open!
Uzo Aduba shows off her silly side while having some fun in the Moet & Chandon VIP suite during day 7 of the 2014 U.S. Open Championships on Sunday (August 31) in Queens, New York.
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No reason for it
I wish to respond to the article regarding the proposed resolution of making Brookings an "all inclusive city" (Pilot, Oct. 11). In my opinion, it already is, and there is no reason to pass a resolution to make it so.
I've had numerous dealings with Ms. Michael during my 10 years as a resident and respect what she has contributed to the community. However, I do feel that she is way off base on this issue.
It seems to me that she is violating the very proposal she is advocating. She is being divisive; using race and gender politics and not promoting kindness.
She seems to assume that having this resolution approved by the city counsel would have somehow prevented the breaking of the window at the Democrat Headquarters or stopped the breaking of windows of a car because it had an Obama sticker on it! Come on, get real!
Look no further than Portland to see what being "all inclusive" has brought them! People can call the POTUS a racist, Nazi and bigot but someone doesn't have the right to say the "n" word or express their views in a public place. I guess they believe that freedom of speech applies only to the speech and actions they approve.
I also believe in the rule of law. I don't feel that a city, county or state can pick and choose which laws they chose to enforce. There is the "law of the land" and like it or not, it is the law. If we don't have laws, chaos and anarchy is the result.
I think that Ms. Michel and the Indivisible 97415 group are still upset that Donald Trump won the election and their candidate lost. Instead of trying to regroup and come up with programs, they just want to "resist" and block and programs of the Republican Party.
Allan W. Stewart
A welcoming idea
Might I suggest a different title for the article, written by Jane Stebbins: "Brookings City Council shoots down naming Brookings as a Welcoming and Inclusive City."
That is what the criticism is about. We all love Brookings, else why would we live here? When the resolution was first submitted by Councilman Triglia, I spoke in favor of it. I saw it as an opportunity to highlight what a welcoming and inclusive city Brookings can be.
I suggested that it would be attractive to be so named given upcoming ventures to other cities in an effort to promote Brookings.
Instead, what happened at the last city council meeting was the mayor and three of the four councilmen chose to not even let the resolution come to a vote, citing it as unnecessary.
We can argue about how inclusive Brookings is perceived or not; that was not the intent of the resolution discussion. Instead it was an opportunity for aspiration, to name the city as welcoming and inclusive; a name we can live up to, or not.
The intent behind the resolution is goodwill. Instead we have what will end up being divisive. It doesn't have to be that way. Civil Discourse is at the heart of Indivisible 97415; let's engage in highlighting what makes us Brookings and work to make it even better.
Also, it would be helpful if the Pilot would print the resolution in its entirety; people can then look at a primary source and make up their own minds.
Maria Sudduth
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City won't be bullied
I'm writing to thank the city council for having the necessary clarity and spine to reject Councilor Dennis Triglia's resolution regarding "Brookings and inclusiveness."
I'm weary of the destructiveness of such classic, boring, divisive and guilt-laden playbook rhetoric, supported by Indivisible Member Candice Michel. To assert that Brookings and its people are not inclusive is absurd.
I also am offended by her demeaning non-inclusive comment regarding "white men." Thank you city council for not being bullied into "progressive ideology" to use city services and funding to support non-citizens, including the suggestion to disregard federal immigration laws.
The citizens of Brookings are well aware of our lean budget, but that's not the point. Forcing taxpayers to support non-citizens is not charity! Charity is an individual's decision and comes from the heart. I'm also glad the "in your face politics" regarding sanctuary city status did not slither past the filters of our council.
In a nutshell, Brookings is my sanctuary from such political cancer.
Thank you.
Lance Buckley
The city got it Right
The city council got it right when it decided not to pass a resolution calling Brookings a welcoming and inclusive city that respects all its citizens. It's not and it doesn't.
I was told when I moved here about two years ago that "We take our Second Amendment seriously here" and "We like California money but we don't like Californians in our town." My welcoming message? Veiled threats saying "We don't want you or your kind here." I can't repeat what I was called when I held a Hillary for President sign at the corner of Oak Street and Chetco Avenue. I was pushed, threatened, vehicles deliberately swerved toward me, and I was screamed at by drivers. The First Amendment is clearly not valued here as much as the Second is.
So I was heartened when I heard of Councilor Triglia's resolution calling Brookings a welcoming and inclusive community, and was at the Sept. 25 meeting. But council members refused even to give the resolution an up or down vote. Why? They said they didn't want to appear political. They didn't want to look too liberal in a conservative town. I've heard Californians who come to Brookings leave within a couple of years because of the weather. It's not the weather. It's the small-town suspicion and wariness, ugliness and fear. So kudos to the city council for its non-vote!
Brookings is not a safe, welcoming community for all its residents. Why pretend it is?
Lori Gallo-Stoddard
A veiled attempt
Thanks to the Brookings City Council for rejecting the "Welcome and Inclusive Community" resolution.
The council realized that the proposed resolution was a veiled attempt to make Brookings a sanctuary for illegal aliens. The resolution, for the most part, sounded warm, fuzzy and inviting, but kindness, understanding and acceptance are not mandated by resolution, they come from the mind and heart.
To the person (Ms. Michel) who doesn't like the gender and racial makeup of the city council, I suggest that you run for a seat and I will be sure not to vote for you.
James Brock