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Sets new guidelines on vitamin supplements; creates antimicrobial resistance taskforce
11 July 2005, Rome/Geneva -- The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) adopted more than 20 new and amended food standards during its annual meeting, the food standards body announced today. Among the measures adopted were guidelines on vitamin and mineral food supplements and a code of practice to minimize and contain antimicrobial resistance.
Some 120 countries were represented at this year's Codex session, plus the European Community, a member organization. Codex is an international food standards-setting body established by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It has 172 members, all of which are members of FAO or WHO or both.
Vitamin and mineral food supplements guidelines
The CAC adopted global guidelines for vitamin and mineral food supplements as one of its first decisions. The guidelines recommend labeling that contains information on maximum consumption levels of vitamin and mineral food supplements, assisting countries to increase consumer information, which will help consumers use them in a safe and effective way.
According to WHO, the guidelines ensure that consumers receive beneficial health effects from vitamins and minerals.
The guidelines say that people should be encouraged to select a balanced diet to get the sufficient amount of vitamins and minerals. Only in cases where food does not provide sufficient vitamins and minerals should supplements be used.
Antimicrobial resistance task force
Codex tentatively agreed to a task force addressing antimicrobial resistance. A formal decision is set for next year. WHO, FAO and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) have developed guidelines for the prudent use of antimicrobials in treatment of human illnesses and animal production, which the task force will carry forward to ensure food safety.
Antimicrobial resistance had been debated for several years and agreement has been difficult because it involves collaboration from different sectors: animal health and production, human health and drug manufacturing. The new task force will bring all these sectors together and develop a holistic approach to this growing problem.
Resistance to antimicrobial drugs such as antibiotics, is an emerging public heath problem caused by a number of factors, including the inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans; antibiotic treatment of illnesses in animals used for human consumption and, in some cases, to promote faster growth. The use of antimicrobials as pesticides is also a factor in antimicrobial resistance.
Resistant microorganisms developed in animals used for human consumption may be transmitted to humans mainly by contaminated food. For example, resistant strains of salmonella and other food-borne microorganisms are now frequently encountered, limiting the effective treatment of human infections, which in some cases can result in death.
In other decisions, the CAC decided to split the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants into separate committees beginning in 2007, in order to deal more effectively with each issue.
No standard planned on Parmesan cheese
On the issue of intellectual property concerns regarding the labeling and composition of Parmesan cheese, no consensus was reached and the CAC put the issue on hold allowing interested countries to continue consultations among themselves to seek a resolution of the issue. However, no date was set for the Commission to revisit this matter.
Dr Stuart Slorach, the out-going CAC Chairman, said: "This has been an extremely productive session. Even though only one year has passed since the last CAC meeting, we adopted over 20 standards which, when used appropriately, will better protect consumer health and improve their confidence in the products they consume . Moreover, we took important steps this week to involve partner organizations in the setting of these standards and to make the structure of Codex more efficient."
Elections at the 28th session of Codex resulted in the first ever CAC Chairman from an African country. Dr Claude Mosha of Tanzania was elected to the post for a term of one year and is eligible to stand for a second one-year term.
The CAC meeting ran from 4 July through 9 July.
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Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) is the world market leader in the test and measurement (T&M) business. The company's 16,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009. Agilent's closest competitors are Tektronix (TEK) and National Instruments (NATI). Similar to other smaller competitors like Lakeshore and Keithley Instruments (KEI), these two competitors have succeeded by focusing on niche markets.
Agilent, on the other hand, is the broadest and most diversified T&M company. Since it was spun off from parent company Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 1999, Agilent has undergone a period of significant restructuring during which it divested its assets in semiconductor testing and manufacturing, as well as developed a joint venture in LED lighting technology, in order to rededicate itself back on its core scientific and R&D markets. The advantages of this approach are twofold. First, the R&D market is more stable, as it is usually sheltered from macroeconomic trends. Second, the semiconductor test and manufacturing business is highly cyclical, tied mostly to the ups and downs of the IT hardware industry.
Agilent's near-term strategy is to start putting resources toward increasing market share in areas traditionally held by competitors, such as wireless R&D (this includes mobile phones, computer networks, and other wireless communications), oscilloscopes, and low-cost instruments, as well as markets such as IP network convergence, nanotechnology, and surveillance.
Agilent Technologies develops, manufactures, and sells test and measurement (or T&M) equipment for a variety of research, medical, and industrial applications. Customers include those who want to measure some sort of physical variable quantitatively and electronically. Agilent's customers tend to be in the aerospace, defense, communications, computer/networking hardware, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, oil/petroleum, biotechnology, and medical industries.
Agilent sells its products primarily through direct sales, but it also utilizes distributors, resellers, manufacturer's representatives, telesales and electronic commerce. Of Agilent's $4.48 billion in revenue for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2009, the company generated 33 percent in the U.S. and 67 percent outside the U.S.
Agilent reported net income of $79 million for the first quarter, with orders totaling $1.22 billion, up 9 percent from the year-ago quarter, and revenue of $1.21 billion, up 4 percent from the year-ago quarter. Restructuring has saved Agilent $525 million. Revenues for 2010 are expected to rise 10 percent from 2009. During the quarter, Agilent announced it had received conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission (EC) for Agilent's proposed acquisition of Varian Inc. Clearance by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is still pending.
Agilent's electronic measurement business provides standard and customized electronic measurement instruments and systems monitoring, management and optimization tools for communications networks and services, software design tools and related services that are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronics equipment and communications networks and services. Related services include start-up assistance, instrument productivity and application services and instrument calibration and repair.
Included in Agilent's electronic measurement segment is the semiconductor and board test business which provides standard and customized measurement instruments and systems which enable customers to develop and test state of the art semiconductors, test and inspect printed circuit boards, perform functional testing, and measure position and distance information to the sub-nanometer level. Agilent's semiconductor and board test business generated $0.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2009, $0.4 billion in revenue in fiscal 2008 and $0.5 billion in revenue in fiscal 2007.
Within chemical analysis, Agilent focuses primarily on the following areas: petrochemical and chemical, environmental, forensics and homeland security, and bioagriculture and food safety.
The Petrochemical and Chemical Market
The natural gas and petroleum refining markets use Agilent's products to measure and control the quality of their finished products and to verify the environmental safety of their operations. Petroleum refiners use Agilent's measurement solutions to analyze crude oil composition, perform raw material analysis, verify and improve refining processes and ensure the overall quality of gasoline, fuels, lubricants and other products. Solutions based on gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry products are also used in the development, manufacturing and quality control of fine chemicals.
The Environmental Market
Agilent's gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry solutions are used by the environmental market for applications such as laboratory and field analysis of chemical pollutants in air, water, soil and solid waste. Environmental industry customers include all levels of government, the industrial and manufacturing sectors, engineering and consulting companies, commercial testing laboratories and colleges and universities.
The Forensics and Homeland Security Market
Agilent's liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and electrophoresis solutions are used by health and forensics laboratories in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in the analysis of evidence associated with crime or with the detection and identification of biological and chemical warfare agents. This instrumentation is either used in static or mobile laboratories. Customers include local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies and health laboratories.
The Bioagriculture and Food Safety Market
Food safety industries apply the same general technologies for chemical analysis as the pharmaceutical and environmental markets, including gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. There is a significant food safety market involved in analyzing food for pathogen contamination, accurate verification of species type and evidence of genetically modified content. This testing is primarily done via PCR amplification of nucleic acid followed by electrophoresis, real time fluorescent or microarray detection. Additionally, bioagriculture industries seek to improve crops and foods by conducting research on these organisms, as well as testing for genetically modified content, using microarray and microfluidics solutions.
The Pharma, Biotech, CRO & CMO Market
This market consists of "for-profit" companies who participate across the pharmaceutical value chain in the areas of therapeutic research, discovery & development, clinical trials, and manufacturing and quality assurance and quality control. One sub-segment of this market is core and emerging pharmaceutical companies, or "Pharma." A second sub-segment includes biotechnology companies, or "biotech", contract research organizations, or "CROs", and contract manufacturing organizations, or "CMOs". Biotech and, to a somewhat lesser extent, CROs and CMOs typically participate in specific points in the Pharma industry value chain.
The Academic and Government Market
This market consists primarily of "not-for-profit" organizations and includes academic institutions, large government institutes and privately funded organizations. The academic and government market plays an influential role in technology adoption and therapeutic developments for Pharma and molecular diagnostics companies. After decades of investment in basic biomedical research, the focus has widened to include translational research — multidisciplinary scientific efforts directed at "accelerating therapy development". Notable are efforts by the National Institute of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the European Organisation for Research and the Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Genomics Institute of Singapore (GIS), the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the National Translational Cancer Research Network (NTRAC). In addition, large donations by private foundations are also fueling growth in this key market segment.
The goal of these divestitures was to reduce Agilent's exposure to the highly cyclical semiconductor business. During the post tech bubble period of 2001-2003, many tech companies suffered from negative operating margins, and the semiconductor business significantly exacerbated this problem for Agilent. With the divestment of the semiconductor business, the break-even point for Agilent's revenue has been reduced significantly.
With no more major restructuring on horizon in the near future, Agilent hopes to achieve higher sustainable and profitable growth by leveraging the new operating model.
Overall, this diversified business model is expected to net gains, and is expected act as a buffer against economic slowdowns or changes in customer industries. However, the T&M industry is relatively mature, with greater than 90% penetration in many of its market segments. Its growth will probably derive mainly from the growth of its end markets, estimated to be 6.5% per year in the long term. While Agilent's diversified model will help the company weather any moderate economic slowdowns, it, like many other companies in any industry, would feel the effects of a significant economic slowdown.
Both Tektronix and NI owe a significant portion of their success to their domination of specific niche markets: Tektronix has traditionally led the markets for oscilloscopes and wireless R&D, while NI has led the market for T&M virtual instrumentation software (specifically, LabView) and low-cost instruments. Agilent is currently moving to increase market share in these areas by refocusing its resources.
Competition in the Electronic Measurement Market
The market for electronic measurement equipment is highly competitive. In the communications test market Agilent's primary competitors are Aeroflex (ARXX), Anritsu Corp (TYO:6754), Ansoft (ANST), Applied Wave Research, EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (EXFO), JDS Uniphase (JDSU), Rohde & Schwartz GmbH & Co., Spirent Communications (SPM), and Tektronix. In the general purpose test market, Agilent competes against companies such as Fluke Corporation, Hysitron, Keithley Instruments (KEI), LeCroy (LCRY), National Instruments (NATI), Photon Dynamics (PHTN), SII NanoTechnology, Veeco Instruments (VECO), and Wintest (TYO:6721).

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SALLUM, Egypt, May 21 (UNHCR) – Andrew Mok, computer open in front of him, faced the Sudanese man across the table in a converted freight container and began the interview. "Please do not make any false statements because that could have a negative impact on your application," the 23-year-old from Hong Kong informed the man, who was bidding to be recognized as a refugee. "Everything you tell UNHCR will be strictly confidential," he added, reassuringly. Refugee status determination (RSD) is a vital part of UNHCR's daily protection work and the above scene is replicated every day in UNHCR operations around the world. But there is a difference at Sallum because those being interviewed are stuck at a busy border crossing, unable or unwilling to go home or back to Libya, and not allowed to go further inside Egypt. There are around 2,000 people left from the 40,000 third country nationals who fled to Sallum to escape last year's conflict in Libya, most of whom were allowed to transit Egypt. "All of them want to leave [for resettlement]," Yvan Sturm, head of UNHCR's Sallum team, said of the 2,000. ''The majority have no other option," added Stephen Choka, the RSD supervisor. The best solution for refugees is normally repatriation followed by local integration, but at Sallum everyone registered as a refugee has been referred for resettlement – this does not apply to those who have arrived since a cut-off date last October. Although both the Egyptian border authorities at Sallum and UNHCR want to see the problem resolved soon, the process takes time. Mok was interviewing the Sudanese man for the third time, asking about an inconsistency that could mean the difference between recognition as a refugee and rejection. And resettlement can only be considered for recognized refugees. Today, the work of the refugee agency's RSD team at Sallum, many of whom were seconded from the Danish Refugee Council, is almost finished and Andrew has already left. A total of 1,750 people, mostly from Sudan, have been registered as refugees, of whom 248 have to date departed for resettlement countries or for transit centres in Europe. Sixty cases were rejected for refugee status, even after appeal, while more than 200 people who arrived in Sallum after October 23 have been told they will not be considered for resettlement. The decision to impose a cut-off date was aimed, in part, at deterring people who were neither residents of Libya nor affected by the conflict there from heading to the border. "The people who came after this date are considered as asylum-seekers, but will not be interviewed for RSD," Sturm said. While the RSD process is almost over, it will take many more months before all of those referred for resettlement finally get to leave for their new homes. That's partly because "only six resettlement countries have taken cases from Sallum," said Heidi Boener. "We are heavily dependent on the United States," added the resettlement officer. As Mok continued with his questions, Boener stood in a nearby building and addressed about 30 registered refugees from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia who were due to be interviewed over a two-week period by officials from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She took them through the kinds of questions they would face, including queries about their family history and why they cannot return to their country of origin. Boener said more than 1,400 people had been referred to the US for resettlement and the visiting DHS staff planned to meet a first group of about 250 for a so-called first circuit interview, with plans to return about every three months to talk to a similar number each time. After interviews, and if they are conditionally approved, they will undergo security background checks and medical screening before final approval and authorization to fly to America. "It's going to be a few months for the case to move," Boener said, referring to this first group to be interviewed. "It's not going to happen overnight. They take a long processing time," she noted, while adding: "It would be really great if other resettlement countries would consider coming here to share the responsibility." This was echoed by a senior Egyptian port official, who said the rate of resettlement so far had been slow and he was worried that the problem would linger for years. In addition to the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have all accepted smaller numbers of people from Sallum. Switzerland has accepted a small number of people through family sponsor applications. Meanwhile, those stuck at Sallum are clearly getting
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In 1958 Walter Durrua (Walt), took over his father's gas station at the Jersey Shore in Brick, NJ. As an avid outdoorsman, Walt thought it would be a great idea to rent canoes to area vacationers. Walt then began to sell a few boats and realized he had developed quite a following. His passion for paddling and exploring the outdoors fueled his desire for others to share this experience. With the growing popularity of kayaking and paddle sports, Walt's business began to boom and after 33 years of operation in the same location, it was time to expand.
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City Manager Kelly Pehrson proposed to the council that Recreation Director Greg Westfall be promoted to Assistant City Manager to replace Ruth Skouson, who held the position before accepting work in Grand County.
The council held a special meeting on August 16 to discuss replacing Skouson. Pehrson presented a list of cost savings that have occurred due to recent attrition in staffing, and a list of grants that have been obtained by Skouson in the position.
Councilman Craig Leavitt questioned the need for an immediate decision, to which Mayor Doug Allen said that the position was essential and many departments count on it.
Councilman Brad Randall asked why the city was dependant on the position, to which Allen responded that the City Manager relies heavily on the Assistant, and there had been citizen complaints previously about projects not moving forward.
Councilman Walter Bird said the position was created to help with code enforcement as well as planning and zoning concerns. After a motion by Councilman Scott Shakespeare to hire a new Assistant City manager and look at a salary reduction, the council passed the motion with a vote of 3-2. Randall and Leavitt voting against the motion.
Pehrson said that Westfall is almost finished with his masters degree in public administration and can learn the system as quickly as a new hire. Pehrson said he is concerned that the reduction in salary would mean a new employee with no experience.
Pehrson said Westfall has a great business mind, wants to be a City Manager, already lives in Monticello and has local ties which may lead to him staying longer.
Pehrson said Westfall would oversee the recreation program, and a summer contractor would work on the programs. The contract would run from June 1 to October 31.
Pehrson recommended starting Westfall at the same salary Skouson started. With the benefits package, the cost to the city would increase $5,500 from Skouson's salary. The summer contract will be offered at $10,000. Removing the remainder of Westfall's recreation salary from the city budget, and taking out the difference in cost for benefits, the savings to the city is estimated at $37,809.
Shakespeare said saving money and still covering all the needs is the objective of the council in regards to staffing.
Pehrson reminded the council that Westfall would still oversee recreation programs and they should not suffer from the change. Westfall said he will continue to promote the triathalon and other city events to help them grow and prosper.
Randall said that since the assistant city manager position had been advertised , the ethical thing would be to complete the process, allow applications to come in, and interview for the position.
Randall said that the job descriptions of both positions need to be completed before hires are made, in order to keep future problems from occurring regarding new job duties that are being assigned. Councilmen Scott Frost and Shakespeare disagreed that it would be unethical to pull the position at this point.
Shakespeare made a motion to fill the position with Greg Westfall and restructure the staff, advertising for a summer contract employee for recreation programs. Council passed the motion 4-1 with Randall voted against the motion, stating he would rather wait two weeks before making a decision.
Westfall updated the council on the swimming pool. He reported that they have been able to keep the pool open on it's current schedule, as they were able to keep two lifeguards on staff.
Westfall stated that the pool was well used during the swimming season, and that there had been many public comments regarding schedule and fees that the recreation board will discuss in the off season.
The city plans to keep the pool open through September and then they will work with Aqua-tech to winterize the pool.
Frost asked about the rental use, and Westfall stated that approximately 3/4 of the available rental times were filled. Frost also asked if pool income was enough to pay more than lifeguards.
Westfall said the pool was covering more than employee costs through the summer, but that the longer they are open, the amount of money coming in decreases. Approximately 25 kids attend the 3:30 to 6:30 session currently, which puts them on the edge of breaking even to pay the lifeguards.
Pehrson said they are finalizing the swimming pool budget to determine funds for landscaping. One bid packet for the project had $18,500 for trees, sod, and sprinkling system, among other things.
Pehrson suggested the council wait until next year to landscape when they have final numbers on the project. He said that remaining Community Impact Board funds could be used at that time and they would hope to get more bidders and a better price.


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Going into the last episode of Survivor, it was all but certain that Rupert and Colby from the Heroes tribe would be the ones going home, but somehow, their fellow cast mates seemed to make very stupid poor decisions, thus leading to their eliminations.
Case in point, Candice Woodcock, who for whatever reason decided to flip to the Villains side 2 weeks ago, when it was absolutely and completely unnecessary. Unfortunately for Candice, the Villains decided they could not trust her and her flippy floppy ways, so they decided to vote her off. And how amazing was Rupert's gameplay of pretending to have an idol in his pocket?
In a new interview with TVGuide, Candice, 27, expresses regret over flipping, voting out Amanda and discuses why she joined Russell in an alliance. Excerpts from her interview below –
TVGuide.com: Did you anticipate that your switching to the Villains alliance would backfire the way that it did?
Candice: I didn't think that that was a good argument — that I would flip back, because once you've already betrayed a group of people, are they really going to want to take you back? But I was worried that some of the girls in the Villains tribe would be threatened by me coming over, so I just tried to keep my head down and be nice to people and just be personable. But in a game for $1 million, it's really not about who's nice and who you like as a person because obviously Russell is not all that cuddly and he's there and I'm not.
TVGuide.com: Had you known your switch to the Villains side was going to backfire like this, would you have voted differently on the night Amanda went home?
Candice: I knew going into it that I should not be voting for Amanda. I don't know what got into me. I totally just messed up. I knew right afterward that it was the wrong decision to have made. I felt really bad about it. I think I just freaked out because I had been miserable the entire time with the Heroes. They didn't want to listen to me. They didn't want to play with me. I was just kind of there and they were tolerating me and I was just so tired of that. I just wanted to do something different, be able to talk to somebody different and have new people to maybe play with. Although I did end up getting along with Amanda in the end, I caught her lying to me that day and Sandra had been going back and forth about whether she was going to vote with the Heroes. … But, it was a mistake and I knew it right away.
TVGuide.com: Part of the reason you switched to the Villains side was because of Russell, so what are your thoughts on Russell looking back?
Candice: I know that I said I didn't trust Russell 100 percent, but that wasn't the whole story. He did show me the idol and I didn't tell anybody else about it because he was so aggressive. If he saw you go to talk to somebody, he'd go right up to them after that and ask, "What did you say?" So that they didn't have time to make up a story or you didn't have enough time to agree on the story you were going to say. It was really difficult, I felt, to get around him, so I just agreed with everything he said to his face and didn't really go off and tell other people what he said because I knew that would be dangerous for me. I thought he would have that idol for a little bit and that that was a good piece of information for me to have because he was telling me he wanted to use that idol to vote Parvati off. I thought, OK, good, I can use that piece of information and tell Parvati and then we can vote Russell off.
TVGuide.com: Do you think you will play Survivor again?
Candice: When they first asked me, I thought "No, I'm not going to do it again." But then it just kind of kept eating away at me. So I could say no right now and if they asked me again, I would probably do the same thing and I'd have to just go and do it.


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|Jul 24th, 2008 01:28 PM
|the Platinum Poppy
Haven't read this book, but I immediately want to. :-) I did enjoy the storylines by Ennis where the Punisher fights the Russian, Daredevil, Wolverine and Spiderman, with some aid of Hulk...
When it comes to the whole Ennis discussion: Ennis has stressed in the comic several times that the Punisher is very much aware of the fact that he can't extinguish crime by killing people off... Frank said so explicitly in the human-trafficking story, that when he's killed these guys there'll just come others to take their place and human trafficking will continue just like before. There's also been stories where revenge starts to "spiral", so one revenge leads to another revenge etc. I think this goes to show that Ennis has a brain, because the idea that one could extinguish violence by murder is plain stupid.
I've only read a couple or so of pre-Ennis Punisher comics, and that was a long time ago.. But I think I recall that he had a more typical hero personality back then... But that's pretty hard to reconcile with the fact that he's a mass murderer of incredible proportions who goes around killing gallons of people all the time, so to that personality I say good riddance.
It's odd though that Ennis' Punisher was clearly part of the regular Marvel Universe to start with, but now it seems like he slid off into his own little pocket universe where no other supercreatures exist.
|Jul 3rd, 2008 10:09 PM
Okay, I've been wanting to post on here for a while and I've finally taken the time to register, hooray!
Now, I've been a Punisher fan for quite some time now and while I enjoyed his pre-Ennis life, I really think that Ennis' version of the character is the one to beat. The Punisher was travelling down a pretty crappy road before Ennis took over the reins. Remember the ectoplasmic gun-toting Heaven's hitman angle that was beyond shitty and almost universally despised? And that was after most of the Punisher titles were canned due to sagging sales. That was Marvel's attempt at revitalizing the character initially.
Then Ennis came along. Ennis focused the character, cut the fat off and started almost carte blanche with his "Marvel Knights" series. His run on that was pretty good, not great and I only say this in comparison to his MAX series. Finally the Punisher got the series he deserved, the treatment he needed after years of beating around the bush.
This is the best Punisher book ever. Well, it was. It makes me cringe now when I read the latest War Journal series or see him get flatten by little girls (albeit super-powered ones)in the 616. Frank just doesn't have a home there anymore in my opinion.
|Jul 3rd, 2008 01:43 PM
|Dr. Boogie
Let me say this, though: In regards to Ennis' "Born" series,
That bit I would call Ennis missing the point of the Punisher. And there maybe more examples, but I'm just getting into Ennis' work on the Punisher now.
|Jul 3rd, 2008 01:57 AM
|I read it. I didn't care for it at all.
|Jul 3rd, 2008 01:57 AM
|Dr. Boogie
And I really don't see anything that would suggest that Ennis has missed any part of the Punisher (at this point, I'm no longer referring to this odd storyline where he kills the Marvel universe). The most basic definition of the Punisher's character is what I posted from wikipedia: that he became a vigilante who kills criminals to get back at the ones that killed his family. From there, as long as the Punisher is portrayed as an ex-military type who uses questionable methods in his war on crime, you've pretty much nailed the character. You can tweak his motivation a little bit and still have virtually the same Punisher.
It's not as if Ennis pulled some stunt where he retconned a big portion of the Punisher's history like with the Spiderman "One More Day" debacle. If he came in and wrote that the Punisher was against the use of firearms, then I would say that he hasn't grasped the character.
|Jul 2nd, 2008 05:59 PM
|Wow! Thats a lot of debate about the Punisher. While I have never been big in reading punisher comics I do have to say he is one of the more kick ass Marvel heroes. Just the idea of him going around assassinating the x-men and other marvel heroes is pretty cool. But like Kybo Ren said it should probably have a "what if" in front of it.
|Jul 2nd, 2008 11:47 AM
|Hey, no one said your opinion was invalid Brunbb, I was just tossing that out there. You've got a pretty fair point, cause I will admit to not being a fan of pre-Ennis Punisher (remember when he killed himself and became like the fallen angel Punisher? Ugh). I think we could have this debate about just about any comic book character, since different writers have such different takes; I mean, for example, how many times has Magneto gone from megalomaniac to okay guy just worried about the mutant race and back again?
|Jul 2nd, 2008 12:32 AM
You didn't mention that. I was simply talking the shear basics of it and not taking that part in to it.
Okay, I had forgotten things. It's been a while. In Marvel Super Action #2, when Frank takes on the Costa's (the mob family that killed his family), at the end he finds
So, yes, he is partially is still killing for his family. However, in latter issues (and I can't remember exactly which one), he also states that he is killing to help protect other people and make sure they don't have to go through what he does. That is why he gets so upset at other vigilantes. He doesn't think anyone else should do what he does.
I was partially wrong, yes, but that doesn't mean what I said was invalid. From what I can tell simply from these postings, is that you do not have a lot of experience with The Punisher, or at least with non-Ennis stuff. I'm not trying to say there is anything wrong with that, because I can kind of relate (I love the new Thor series but don't care for old Thor stuff), but Ennis doesn't really have a good grasp on the character and the old issues really build up a different character than what he portrays.
|Jul 1st, 2008 11:08 PM
|Just to clarify, Castle did kill the guys responsible for his family's death in The Cell, as Brunbb mentioned. But Castle clearly states at the end of the story that he's not gonna stop his literal war on crime just cause those guys are dead. I also think it's worth noting that Ennis sorta tweaked Castle's origin a bit. Originally, his family was deliberatly murdered when they stumbled on a mob execution. In The Cell, they were caught in the crossfire during a mob hit, so they were pretty much in the wrong place at the wrong time and were never intentional targets.
|Jul 1st, 2008 08:23 PM
|Dr. Boogie
I have not read that mini-series, no.
And you wouldn't have a web-swinging Batman with addition of uncle Ben because the story was about Peter shrugging off responsibility, not having his uncle killed when he was a kid.
And if wikipedia is to be believed, this is the backstory given to the Punisher for many a year: "When mobsters slew his family, Frank Castle vowed to spend the rest of his life avenging them. Trained as a marine and equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry, he now wages a one-man war against crime as the Punisher."
|Jul 1st, 2008 07:30 PM
Man, I sure wish I could find the interview with Ennis where he says that Frank never killed the guys who killed his family. I remember he was writing a story about it. It might have been The Cell. I know my word probably isn't enough for you to believe me, but it did happen.
If you were to know that Peter was upset over the death of his uncle, lived in New York, and shot web, you would just have a web shooting Batman.
Have you ever read Circle of Blood? It was the original 5 issue mini-series about Frank. It's hands-down the best Punisher story of all time.
|Jul 1st, 2008 05:52 PM
|Dr. Boogie
He's operating on the assumption that the Punisher got those guys, so I don't see any problem with it.
|Jul 1st, 2008 04:56 PM
So you can write a perfect Spider-Man because you know he's from New York and shoots web? That is a very basic part of the character that says nothing about the way he should act or why he does what he does.
I really liked Carl Potts on War Journal.
Ennis doesn't really know if Frank killed the guys that did it. He says it probably happened. He would know for sure it happened if he did basic research.
|Jul 1st, 2008 04:05 PM
|Dr. Boogie
That interview has him saying that he understands the basics of the character: he's a homicidal vigilante with a military background. In all the different interpretations of the Punisher, that much appears to remain constant, so I'd saying knowing that much gives you a pretty good understanding of the character, as well as where to take him.
Which writer's interpretation of the Punisher do you believe to be most accurate?
Edit: Also, Ennis says right in the article that the Punisher already got his revenge on the people who killed his family. He says it in a bit of a wishy-washy fashion, but he still acknowledges it.
|Jul 1st, 2008 03:43 PM
Clearly, you have never read anything not written by Ennis.
Ennis stated before he took over the book that he didn't know much about the character, and it's shown(http://www.thepunishercomics.com/art...arth_ennis.htm).
Frank got his revenge long, long ago (one of his earliest appearances, also something Ennis ignored). He doesn't kill for that anymore. He kills so no one else has to suffer like he did. It's what the character is about. Read Essential Punisher 1. His biggest rule has always been to never hurt innocent people, and he kills to protect them. He doesn't have any powers. He doesn't have the money or technology of Batman or Iron Man. He kills because it's the only thing he can do in such a world.
|Jul 1st, 2008 03:13 PM
Brunbb has never read a Punisher comic in his entire life, The Punisher doesn't kill bad guys because he's trying to save the innocent, he's killing them BECAUSE HE FUCKING HATES THEM.
"Why do you kill them?"
"Bad people, I mean."
"Because I hate them."
"Oh...I thought it might be because you wanted to make the world safe for good people"
|Jul 1st, 2008 01:33 PM
|Lobo Tommy
|I heard about this comic once like 7 years ago. My dad was talking to one of his art students and the kid was talking about it. I thought it was the coolest idea in existence but never found out the name. Thanks I-Mockery!
|Jul 1st, 2008 12:35 PM
|Dr. Boogie
My view on the Punisher is the same as Huh's. It seemed to me that the Punisher was borne of revenge, and he just decided to keep that going, rather than settle into some kind of "protect the innocent" type hero. He hates criminals, but innocents being protected is purely incidental.
At the very least, it's just an extrapolation of that line, "it's not justice, it's punishment."
|Jul 1st, 2008 11:54 AM
|I bought this comic in a two pack with the first collected edition of Ennis's Marvel Knights version of the ongoing Punisher series, and it quickly cemented itself a place on my repeat reading pile. It reminds me of an old issue of What If? (I think it was "What If The X-Men Hadn't Killed Dracula", and what a title THAT is) in which most of the Marvel Heroes are turned into vampires by a vamped out Storm, and Frank is called in to take them down. There's a great fight scene near the end where he takes on a large crowd of vampy ex-heroes in a cathedral.
|Jul 1st, 2008 05:20 AM
|Purple Man
|Not surprised this review got such divided comments. I got this when it came out, as a guilty pleasure, seeing as I normally avoided all things Punisher. But I think this comic does create a better, more three-dimensional, view of Mr Castle than we see in some other appearances. And all those awesome death scenes! CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-SQUISH!
|Jul 1st, 2008 03:59 AM
|This is probably the best premise for an American comic book ever made. Besides the one where Sonic Jr. asks Antoine's dad where babies come from.
|Jul 1st, 2008 02:12 AM
|Gotta love that Punisher's satire called Big Shot that appeared on The Tick. The line "Seek professional help..." that The Tick says to him when he blasts his way into the lair of the Idea Men (first episode) doing nothing more than shooting carelessly and taking the shit out of the criminals is pure classic.
|Jul 1st, 2008 12:36 AM
Hey, long time listener...uh, viewer, I guess, first time poster. I'm a huge fan of Garth Ennis' run on Punisher, which is unfortunatly coming to an end. Now I'm not denying that this is a bit out there at points, but it's a pretty entertaining read (how he kills the Hulk... why hasn't anyone in the mainstream comics thought of that?). And with all due respect, to anyone who thinks Castle kills criminals to protect the innocent, they're kinda missing the point of the comic. It's not about defending others, he kills criminals because he hates them. Just my opinion though.
And I've gotta recommend Ennis' "The End" one-shot for Punisher. Great story, and nice artwork by Richard Corben, which manages to be cartoonish but still pretty graphic.
|Jul 1st, 2008 12:13 AM
JJ, I personally liked the captain america style thing simply because it showed that even Frank has someone as a hero and someone to emulate.
I thought he also looked interesting with the bullets as skull teeth and all.
|Jun 30th, 2008 10:18 PM
|Kybo Ren
It's a great read and probally should've been sporting a "What if", but it's definately not the worst Punisher story.
If you don't like it, just go back to watching your Dolph Lundgren dvd.
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Her late father's baptismal certificate was washed out of Joanne McClenin's backyard shed when Sandy came to Staten Island, carried off by the rapids that wove through the low-lying streets. But days after the storm, the document reappeared on her doorstep. Discovered by a Good Samaritan who recognized her father's name, the precious piece of paper made its way back home.
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Three top administrators of the Massachusetts pharmacy board learned in 2006 that a company monitoring a troubled Framingham pharmacy was led by a man convicted of fraud involving a product blamed for blinding people, according to newly released documents. But the officials apparently did not tell board members.
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Manning was placed on administrative leave and Coffey, who succeeded Young as the board's director, was fired last week for allegedly taking too long to address a complaint in July of this year that New England Compounding was distributing bulk shipments of drugs to hospitals in Colorado, in violation of its state licenses.
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If, like me, you have long wondered why many thousands of Palestinians continue to live in "refugee camps" more than sixty years after the events that ostensibly made them refugees, Daniel Pipes explains:
The origins of this unique case, notes Nitza Nachmias of Tel Aviv University, go back to Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Security Council's mediator. Referring to those Arabs who fled the British mandate of Palestine, he argued in 1948 that the UN had a "responsibility for their relief" because it was a UN decision, the establishment of Israel, that had made them refugees. However inaccurate his view, it still remains alive and potent and helps explain why the UN devotes unique attention to Palestine refugees pending their own state. …
True to Bernadotte's legacy, the UN set up a range of special institutions exclusively for Palestine refugees. Of these, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, founded in 1949, stands out as the most important. It is both the only refugee organization to deal with a specific people (the United Nations High Commission for Refugees takes care of all non-Palestinian refugees) and the largest UN organization (in terms of staff).
That last is a remarkable fact, especially when you consider that, as Pipes notes, there can't be more than 150,000 1948 refugees still alive. How can the UN's bureaucracy continue to grow while the number of refugees declines? Simple: the number of "refugees" isn't declining, it has exploded:
UNRWA's staff has taken three major steps over the years to expand the definition of Palestine refugees. First, and contrary to universal practice, it continued the refugee status of those who became citizens of an Arab state (Jordan in particular). Second, it made a little-noticed decision in 1965 that extended the definition of "Palestine refugee" to the descendants of those refugees who are male, a shift that permits Palestine refugees uniquely to pass their refugee status on to subsequent generations. The U.S. government, the agency's largest donor, only mildly protested this momentous change. The UN General Assembly endorsed it in 1982, so that now the definition of a Palestine refugee officially includes "descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children." Third, UNRWA in 1967 added refugees from the Six-Day War to its rolls; today they constitute about a fifth of the Palestine refugee total.
These changes had dramatic results. In contrast to all other refugee populations, which diminish in number as people settle down or die, the Palestine refugee population has grown over time. UNRWA acknowledges this bizarre phenomenon: "When the Agency started working in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, 5 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services."
So, in the UN's lexicon, once a refugee always a refugee, to the last generation. Even as the last survivors of the 1948 war die off, the number of pseudo-refugees proliferates, and will continue to do so, endlessly. It is instructive to compare the UN's program of permanent dependency in the Middle East with what happened after the infinitely greater conflagration of World War II. That war produced millions of displaced persons or refugees; according to Wikipedia, estimates range up to 20 million. Many found their way to refugee or DP camps. By 1952, however, all but one of those camps had closed, and the last one discharged the last refugees in 1957.
What is different about the Palestinian case? In the 1940s, no one had any interest in supporting Europe's refugees indefinitely, or in mobilizing them for a political purpose. The refugees themselves had no desire, for obvious reasons, to retain that status any longer than necessary. In the Middle East, however, incentives are perverse in all directions. Large amounts of money have been spent–much of it ours–to keep the Palestinians in a decades-long state of dependence and resentment so that they can serve as a political battering ram on behalf of other Middle Eastern countries. Pipes concludes:
Were the Palestine refugee status a healthy one, this infinite expansion would hardly matter. But the status has destructive implications for two parties: Israel, which suffers from the depredations of a category of persons whose lives are truncated and distorted by an impossible dream of return to their great-grandparents' houses; and the "refugees" themselves, whose status implies a culture of dependency, grievance, rage, and futility.


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So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, "We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty." —Luke 17:10
Although we don't deserve it, there is God's promise to us in our showing gratitude. Gratitude shown, even keeping our vows, contains great promise! God does not have to promise us anything for our showing thankfulness. We ought to be thankful to Him for His goodness. Period. End of story. But I can tell you that He delights in rewarding those who show that they are grateful to Him. God does not have to promise us blessing if we tithe, but He does. (See Malachi 3:10.) God does not have to promise us blessing for forgiveness, for not judging, and for giving to others, but He does. (See Luke 6:37-38.)
In other words, our obedience to show gratitude is required of us. "So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty'" (Luke 17:10). Obedience is duty. But God is so good, so kind, so merciful! We cannot out-praise the Lord, out-give the Lord, or out-thank the Lord!
He has chosen to show His pleasure when we get it right and do it right. For those strong enough in themselves that they need no further affirmation from God or recompense, I say, "Good for you." But I, for one, am not that strong. I need affirmation and all the encouragement I can get. I sometimes come to tears when I read those words of David: "For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust" (Ps. 103:14). I am so weak that I need all the motivation I can get to press on with any kind of obedience, and that includes the obedience of gratitude.
Excerpted from Just Say Thanks! (Charisma House, 2005).
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