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Dr.Mario raises his fist and punches the ground, damaging players close to him by pressing A+down.
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It is easy to have grand ideas about how incredible the customer experience could be.
These ideas can be quickly brought to ground by legacy IT issues that plague so many enterprises.
When Econsultancy released the Integrated Customer Experience report, I took the opportunity to analyse the data further to discover what behaviours had created the greatest benefits to the customer experience.
From this research I identified seven behaviours and attributes that were published as a whitepaper.
Of these habits, the one that has resonated with readers is the need to have a unified technology platform.
The reason for this connection with readers is that for many organisations the customer experience is being held back by legacy IT systems. The complaints I commonly hear centre around integration, data access, adaptability, performance and resource availability.
In some organisations these legacy platforms were implemented 10 to 20 years ago and can only be accessed via a text prompt in a secure bunker.
Another common issue is that these legacy systems sit right at the heart of the organisation where they are responsible for core operational processes. Like a heart transplant, removing these systems requires expertise, expense and comes with a degree of risk.
Let me elaborate with an example based on a real story.
The requirement was relatively simple; when a prospective customer requests a quote and then doesn't accept it, the marketing team want to send an email with a personalised offer to encourage conversion.
Marketing make a strong start by procuring an industry leading Email Service Provider (ESP) capable of sending a personalised, triggered message.
Now all they need to do is feed the ESP with customer and quote data. It's at this that things get complicated.
Regardless of the source, all quotes are generated and stored in the Quote Management System (QMS). QMS was cobbled together by an IT contractor some 10 years ago using several off the shelf industry components.
Documentation is scant and the contractor is no longer on the scene. After all this solution was only meant to be a temporary solution until investment for a new system became available. Unsurprisingly the investment never arrived.
While the QMS holds details of every quote generated by the company, it doesn't hold customer data. That's in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution.
The CRM was built recently using an industry standard platform. As an operational system, data held in the CRM is copied across to data warehouses for reporting and analysis. We'll call this the Marketing Database (MDB).
As you'll have worked out; the ESP is going to require quote information from the QMS and customer data from the MDB. Getting these two sources into the ESP requires the union and analysis of data from both systems. This can't be run during business hours as it may have a negative affect on the QMS.
Diagram showing the data transfer process that takes two days.
The net result is a process that takes two whole days for data to be passed between systems, processed out of hours and then handed to the ESP. Two days is far too long and in many cases customers have already gone on to use a competitor.
Sound familiar? It certainly is for the CMOs and Marketing Directors I speak with. Whether it's retail, financial services, B2B or utilities the problems remain.
Overcoming the legacy system headache
When faced with these issues there is a temptation to accept the problem and carry on. After all customers return to the business despite the lack of a joined up customer experience right?
That's the wrong answer. Let me assume that because you follow and read Econsultancy you know that a multichannel customer experience is critical to business success.
In which case the right answer is to not give in. To find a way to change the status quo and create an incredible, integrated, multichannel customer experience.
From the seven habits research and my anecdotal experience as a consultant I'd recommend three approaches to take.
1. Focus on the multichannel customer journey
Focus on building the idea and concept of the ideal customer experience.
With the customer experience sketched out, begin to share and improve it. Include others in the design process and gain their buy in. Map organisational silos against the journey to understand who does what.
Identify where the customer experiences pain and pleasure in their journey and how the business creates value for the customer. Seek to understand which IT systems are involved in each phase.
Specifically work out when and where customer data is captured and stored.
Whilst this may not address the specific issue of legacy system issues, it will give you a shared vision of where you're trying to get to. Having a simple to understand vision will be vital in the next stage...
2. Break down the marketing vs IT silo
Our analysis of data found that companies that were successfully delivering an integrated customer experience had built multi-disciplinary teams.
Depending on the make up of the company this could include people with backgrounds in IT, marketing, operations or finance.
Despite the importance of these relationships, the marketing vs IT relationship is often under serious strain. Having worked in both camps, I can understand the clash of personality types and working practices that leads to poor collaboration.
The priorities and objectives of each team are often different. IT has to ensure the lights remain on for critical business systems and ensuring a level of operational efficiency. Marketing carries a responsibility for lead generation and top line sales.
I appreciate that many CIOs are realigning their departments with overall business objectives but this may create further blurring of responsibilities. Similarly CMOs are making greater technology investments to reach and connect with customers.
Again this selection of technology by non-technicians can build a level of conflict between the parties.
Whatever the cause of the contention, both parties need to unite around the shared vision of the customer experience. The benefit of this is ability to find solutions to legacy system challenges.
Whether the system needs fully replacing or extending, the case that marketing and IT can make together is so much stronger than a single business case.
3. Find value fast
Swapping out a legacy system is likely to be expensive and difficult. As I stated previously, this type of work is fraught with risk and disruption to the core business. Because of this it's preferable in the first instance to prove that their is value in changing the system.
In the example above a new piece of integration software could have improved processing time. Alternatively some on page Javascript that scrapes form fields and completion status could offer near real time marketing.
It is likely that creating such workarounds will require some trade-off with the original requirements. However having achieved the workaround you can prove that the approach can create value.
Use this evidence to build the case for further investment in replacing or at least improving legacy systems.
Your experience with legacy systems
What's been your experience of integrating legacy systems into the customer experience? I'd love to hear your anecdotes, successes and war stories. Please share in the comments below.
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Re: "The requirement was relatively simple; when a prospective customer requests a quote and then doesn't accept it, the marketing team want to send an email with a personalised offer to encourage conversion."
This is a just an example of form abandonment. The job should be cheap and simple if done today, because technology has caught up.
My company, Triggered Messaging solves the same issue for several customers, cheaply and without the custom integration issues mentioned here. If the subject of this story is still having problems we'd be delighted to help: http://www.triggeredmessaging.com/contact
Other real-time marketing systems which do form abandonment are also available.
Thanks Pete. I've worked with your competitors in the past and will take a butchers at your product too.
In terms of your product, do you see it as being a long-term solution? The reason I ask is that (crudely) you are bolting on a product to the side of the IT architecture to overcome an integration issue.
This came up at an event I spoke at recently and it'd be interesting to hear your view.
David - a great example and one which rings true with many brands I have worked with. I actually think this client is lucky it only takes 2 days to get the info through the process - often it is a week or more.
Pete - you are of course right that often there is another more creative way to intercept the journey and get at the data more directly. Of course this becomes harder when any one customer can use multiple channels including call centre and mobile.
Great post. Thanks
Great point Chris. In one of the worst cases I saw in a major public institution, marketing had to manually request an extract of customer data from IT.
The SLA for turning these types of requests around was 8 working days.
Far too slow.
@David: That's pretty much true.
Real-time marketing systems, like ours and our competitors, connect the various parts of a client's marketing, such as their marketing Website and their ESP. This is done almost entirely "out-of-the-box" to avoid the integration nightmares that you described.
Real-time marketing systems collect colossal amounts of data on customer behavior and make it available for scheduling and personalizing multi-channel marketing, such as real-time emails (e.g. form abandonment), and product recommendations for bulk email, web pages and social. Also for loading into your CRM system.
The integration is done in the most appropriate way for each channel. For eCommerce sites (shopping carts or forms) it's typically done by screen scraping; for ESPs by using their APIs; for CRM by FTP and so on.
So, is this a bolt-on product?
If you *only* use it for form or cart abandonment, then the answer is probably yes. The justification for this business case is that you can get form abandonment up-and-running in a couple of weeks, with almost no effort by your IT team and no technical risk, so the ROI is much higher and no need to re-engineer back-end systems.
But we find that, although companies may start in this way to address a single pain-point, they then find other uses for their RTM system. For example adding personalized product suggestions, event announcements and count-down timers into their other marketing. So the real-time marketing system becomes a marketing hub.
The border between what you do with a CRM system and what you do with a real-time marketing system is an interesting issue. I see it like the "no-SQL" revolution. Until recently, everything was done with SQL databases which were fine for some tasks but poor for high-volume, real-time (I founded an ESP which used SQL). Then along came no-SQL so companies can use the right technology for each task (we use MongoDB for most jobs and our TCO is about 1% of what it would have been).
I think the same will happen with CRM vs RTM systems - CRM systems will do the basic account management stuff, while RTM systems will do agile, responsive marketing at very low cost. But we'll see in a couple of years.
Great post David and you touch on a point which isn't mentioned often enough. Folks responsible for UX and CX can't confine their attentions to the interface. I've a few thoughts on it here if you've time to have a read.


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16 seconds before the final buzzer, FCBB chief executive Marko Pesic began to hug parents of the players and fans in the stands as the tears began to flow. They were tears of joy as FC Bayern Basketball Under-19s secured a historic final victory. In front of more than 2,000 spectators in Hagen, Oliver Kostic's side beat Eintracht/Skyliners Frankfurt 69-59 in the final of the Youth Basketball Bundesliga (NBBL) to win the German title in their first year in the competition.
A key figure in the title-winning squad, who were without injured captain Sebastian Schmitt, was 16-year-old Richard Freudenberg, who scored 24 points in the game and was voted the MVP of the playoffs after the game in Hagengekürt. The victory is the first time FCBB has won a youth title in Germany. The last championship-winning team to come from Munich was DJK Sportbund München's Under-18s back in 1974. The emotions were high for head of department Andreas Minges and chief executives Pesic and Volker Stix.
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Warhammer FRP 3rd editon was supposed to be an interlude on this blog. But since then, our GM has promised us an extra advance for writing about the events at the Grunwald Lodge. Well, for experience I am up to almost anything...
Our heroes at the Grunwald Lodge still have some small amount of time to kill before dinner. Volcifar, the wizard's apprentice, was planning on burning a book, but got side-tracked by an open door. The room belonging to our host, Lord Aschaffenberg, was accessible and deserted. So, Volcifar decided to take a sneak peak. He shouldn't have. Inside the room, he found a secret passage leading to a small torture chamber. I'll spare the reader the gorey details. Suffice to say, that Volcifar found a dead witch hunter. Obviously tortured to am agonizing death. After overcoming his revulsion, Volcifar searched the pockets of the witch hunter. There, he found a small book with a coded page. He tore the coded page out of the book, and also took the badge of office of the witch hunter. Then he went looking for his friends, the chaotic book still with him.
Lutz and Finubaryel meanwhile went to the hospital to see if they could do anything for the injured guards. They couldn't, Dr. Sieger turned them away.
Athelas went into the garden to do some fancy sword training stuff. Afterwards, she went to the kitchen and talked to the cook. From her she learned that tonight goose and venison would be served as the main dish, with a surprise for desert.
On her way back to her room, Finubaryel observed two guards conversing and found a small piece paper. The piece of paper warned to eat the venison. Only the goose would be good. Apparently, someone was planning on poisoning our food. But who? The group still thought Lord Aschaffenberg was behind all this.
Again, the group gathered and brought forth their evidence. As they talked, discussed and tried to decode the page, the servants came calling for dinner. With some serious misgivings, they decided to go downstairs. But before Volcifar left, he deposited the chaotic book about summoning beast men under the bed of Athelas. He had noticed earlier that Lutz' and his room had been searched.
At the dinner table, Volcifar got a good look at Gregor Pierceson. Something about him was odd. Maybe his eyepatch hid a mutation. He noticed that Volcifar was looking at him and tried to intimidate him. But Volcifar gave him a mean look and he shut up.
After that stare-down, the main dish was served. It was (unsurprisingly) goose and venison. Lord Aschaffenberg ate the vension, which screwed all the theories the group had. Volcifar pretended not to be hungry, while the others ate goose.
Volcifar inspected the dinner and the room using Magic Sight. Behind a curtain, he noticed a strong glow of magic. Pretending to be ill, he asked Finubaryel to accompany him outside of the room. There they talked. He told her about the strong magic, and they went back to dinner
Finubaryel decided to look behind the tapestry. What she saw there, drove her nearly mad. She reeled, and ran outside the main hall. There she composed herself. But before going back, she noticed beastmen shapes in the garden. It
looked like an attack. But how did they get into the compound? She resolutely went back into the hall and warned about the impending attack.
All hell broke loose. Everybody was running around, and at least half of the common folk seemed to have some sort of plan in mind. Something sinister. Various members of the group chased the suspected cultists through the manor and down into a secret passage the group had discovered earlier. There seemed to be some sort of summoning chamber. Gregor Pierceson took the demonic picture from behind the tapestry and carried it into the summoning chamber. He was followed and attacked by Lutz, yet no attacks seemed to harm Gregor.
During the fight, it turned out that he had indeed chaos mutations. One was a hungry mouth behind his eye patch and another big claws he could grow. (Why do the NPCs always end up with the useful mutations?) It all soon became a big jumbled battle between the group, the beastmen, the chaos cultists and the loyal servants of Lord Aschaffenberg.
Sometime during that battle, Finubaryel literally vanished into the demonic picture. There she was assaulted by voices from the past, and shadows that wanted to tear her from the path into the warp. But suddenly, a glowing elf in flowing white garments told her to hold steady (maybe Teclis, the grand elven wizard). In the end, she emerged from the picture and onto the roof, where Volcifar, Athelas and Lutz stood. They were still entranced by the illusion spell that Gregor had cast. Now, the evil cultmaster was performing a dark ritual to summon forth a demon from the picture.
Finubaryel tried to tackle Gregor from the roof, but failed miserably. Still, it was enough to free the others from their trance.
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Today I'm here with a quick review on Gerard Cosmetics lipsticks. They are $20 a lipstick but please note there are hundreds of coupon codes that youtuber beauty vloggers provide and also Gerard Cosmetics themselves always have tons of deals going on. I have pretty much only ever paid $10 at most for each lipstick which is honestly the price of most drugstore lipsticks nowadays.
They are packaged so gorgeous in these gold bullet style lipstick packaging. For the price I got them, its a great deal!
So these are the shades I purchased. I personally love the formula of these lipsticks so much! Some are satin and most are matte. The shades in order here are Rodeo Drive, Berry Smoothie, Fire Engine, Cherry Cordial, 1995 and Tequila Sunrise.
As you can see the first shade Rodeo Drive is kind of a slightly sheer satin finish. It looks very similar to Berry Smoothie but it is ever so slightly more pink than mauve. Berry Smoothie is also a satin shade but it is more opaque. The rest of the shades are matte. They apply smooth onto the lips. My only issue with these lipsticks is that their wear time is not as long as I would like a matte lipstick to last. They still last a good 3-4 hours without touching up though so its pretty good!
Let me know if you have tried any of these lipsticks or any other Gerard Cosmetics products!
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This character has inflicted his share of emotional and psychological harm. Physically absent for much of the main character's life and suffering from chronic constipation, he is seen as a failure.
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Scarlett Johansson is a serious person, says Vogue in a traditional fawning profile. She has thoughts! She has feelings! She's not just a pretty face. Just ask Stella McCartney. "We started sipping dirty martinis with some friends of hers," McCartney says, "and she opened a debate, which was 'Are you born a killer, or are you made into a killer?' I thought, Wow, she's not just a pretty blonde actor." Johansson is so wonderful, in fact, that she even sang "Rocky Raccoon" once at an open mike with the Avengers cast — while in Ohio. World's bravest human?


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How Psy Really Feels about Britney Spears Gangnam Dance
During Psy's interview with TIME, he was asked how he felt Britney Spears performed the 'Gangnam Style' horse dance. Well he basically said she needed a do over. Her outfit was all wrong, too tight, the heels too high, just impossible for her to be great at the dance. Psy does have a point. I mean yes, her outfit was way to tight for epic horse movements but lets be honest; When was the last time Britney danced her own choreography correctly? What do you guys think? Do over? Or Britney, just sit back down? KrisE! @K_Kisses_KrisE


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Gary police believe the killer of an elderly woman and her daughter knew the victims and that their slayings were not random acts of violence, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
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Police questioned a person of interest Saturday, but no one has been charged in the slayings of Lillie Miller, 79, and her daughter, Doressa Miller, 52, King said.
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There's a lot that goes into a great cigar, but homogenized tobacco shouldn't be one of those things. One of the main points that sets Avanti apart from the competition is that we offer only all natural cigars. Many other cigar makers use something in their cigars known by the industry as homogenized tobacco, also called scrap tobacco. (Not exactly a very palatable name.)
Homogenized Tobacco
But what exactly is homogenized tobacco, you may ask? Simply put, it isn't pure, natural tobacco. Homogenized tobacco is made by taking scrap tobacco and mixing it with a cellulose adhesive which is then pressed into a sheet and turned into wrappers. Before the 1950's, the scraps were parts of the tobacco, including the stems, that would normally be tossed in the trash. In order to make these parts usable, scientists came up with the means to make homogenized tobacco. This allowed them to utilize the lesser quality cigar materials in mass quantities. Many machine made cigars are created using homogenized tobacco components instead of natural tobacco.
Does Avanti Use Homogenized Tobacco?
Avanti never uses homogenized tobacco when making their all natural cigars. So how do you know if a cigar is all-tobacco? One way is to look at the package. If it says, "non-tobacco ingredients added," it's definitely not all-tobacco. You can also take a close look at the cigar itself. If there are no visible veins and the wrapper is unnaturally smooth, chances are the cigar is not all natural. Of course, even if the wrapper is natural, the binder might still be made from homogenized tobacco.
Why Are All Natural Cigars More Desirable?
Simple. They don't contain scrap tobacco. At Avanti we pride ourselves in creating only all natural cigars made with American hand-picked tobacco. And most importantly, we do not sacrifice quality by using homogenized tobacco. All of our cigars are all American. And all tobacco.


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In a nutshell, the hostile response centers around the DRM (Digital Rights Management) mechanisms built into the framework of the game, which means that users can only sign up for one account per serial key and that users can only activate the game on a maximum of three PCs. After three activations users are denied further activations and have to phone up EA to beg for another activation.
[Editors note: as of September 19, EA has announced that it has expanded the installation limit to five machines. Additionally, EA is moving forward with a system that will enable users to deauthorize PCs and move Spore to a different computer without calling EA.]
The attack on Spore in the review pages on Amazon.com was swift and savage. A game that had been widely talked about for two years plummeted to a single star rating within hours of release.
Recently it had 2,713 reviews on Amazon.com, out of which 2,368 give the game the lowest rating possible. Spore Galaxy Edition is also suffering from negative feedback, though nowhere near as many as the standard edition of the game.
The complaints all revolve around the same issues restrictive DRM, restrictive policy on accounts (even the manual mistakenly told users that they could have multiple accounts for a single CD key) and the feeling that for $50 you're really just renting the game until the DRM decides that you've had your fifty bucks worth and locks you out of the game.
To be honest though, sinking Spore because of DRM isnt really fair. Plenty of games prior to Spore have had restrictive DRM models (BioShock springs to mind) and I feel that Will Wrights Spore bore the brunt of years of gamer frustration.
Certainly, after reading most of the user comments I get the feeling that users are venting over more than just the DRM on Spore. As a gamer myself, I've grown tired of DRM on games and run into several difficulties in getting games to run properly that were down due to the DRM, in particular issues such as system instabilities and even not being able to play the game at all. (I've always managed to fix these issues, but time fussing over problems is lost game time.) I still buy games, but not as many as I used to.
Now, the idea behind DRM is to stop people pirating the game, but many people mistakenly believe that this mechanism is in place to prevent widescale piracy. It isnt. In fact, despite being kitted out with draconian DRM, Spore was leaked onto the Internet several days before the official launch, complete with a way around the DRM.
Given that, youd think that EA would label DRM an epic failure and remove it. Thats not going to happen, and the reason is that the DRM is there to prevent average users (those who are law-abiding, honest or who dont know that you can get pretty much anything thats in digital form for free if you know where to look) from being able to casually pirate the game.
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Wallace Goes Cosmic With "Mister Terrific"
In September, the third smartest man in the world, Michael Holt AKA Mr. Terrific, received his own ongoing series courtesy of DC Comics, writer Eric Wallace and artist Gianluca Gugliotta. With the initial story arc wrapping in this month's issue #3, the series has yet to unveil whom the number one and two smartest men in the world are, but it has delved into everything else, from Mr. Terrific's Los Angeles lair to the death of his wife at the hands of the villain Brainstorm. And that's not even getting into the love triangle developing with his employee Aleeka Okafur and fellow CEO Karen Starr, whose identity as Power Girl is yet to be revealed in the newly relaunched DCU.
A writer for SyFy's original television series "Eureka," prior to launching his most recent ongoing comic book series, Wallace told CBR he had big plans to make "Mister Terrific" a "cosmic" comic. Starting in December, he will make good on that vow, introducing a new alien menace to threaten Michael Holt and the rest of the DCU.
Taking time out of his hectic writing schedule, an enthusiastic Wallace spoke with CBR once again about his series, detailing how he creates obstacles for the brainy hero and how Jack Kirby influences his take on Mr. Terrific.
CBR News: Eric, we saw Mr. Terrific take on the villain Brainstorm in the first three issues of his series, and in this next story arc we'll have Mr. Terrific tackling an alien menace known as the Kryl. While Brainstorm was a villain who used Mr. Terrific's brain against him, will the Kryl be a more physical threat to Mr. Terrific? Or are there psychological aspects of Michael Holt you are exploring with the Kryl as well?
Eric Wallace: The Kryl will definitely challenge Mister Terrific on a physical level. They are a very brutal warrior race, bent on ruling the Ninth Dimension. However, they are not above using psychological methods to learn pertinent details about their opponents. Which is bad for Mister Terrific, because he is definitely their most formidable opponent yet!
But there's also another reason to have The Kryl as the book's second storyline. In the first storyline — the battle with Brainstorm — Mister Terrific learned a disturbing truth about himself; that he is a man divided, one whose intellect can't solve every problem. And when he turned to violence to solve things, matters only got worse. Now, with The Kryl storyline, Mister Terrific faces the exact opposite scenario: fighting powerful alien foes for which violence may be the only answer. What will he do? How will he cope? And most importantly, how will it affect him on an emotional level? Especially since he's already questioning everything he thought was right and sane about himself (as a result of the events in issues #1 to #3).
So yes, there is a continued exploration of Mister Terrific's psyche in issues #4 and #5. And just as with Brainstorm's revelation, the battle with the Kryl — and an encounter with some very unexpected allies — will also give Mister Terrific even more insight into himself and how he fits into the fantastic world he has created for himself.
Going along with that, you've mentioned that you want to build Mr. Terrific's rogues gallery. How do you approach creating a villain for the world's third smartest man — are the scariest villains for him to face bad guys that can exploit or undermine his intelligence?
Every great superhero has great and memorable villains, but the best villains don't just provide a great battle; they also teach the hero something important about themselves. Brainstorm taught Mister Terrific a badly needed lesson in hubris. Mister Terrific's encounter with The Kryl will teach him about the importance of belief in our lives, that sometimes you need more just scientific facts to get the job done. Sometimes you also have to believe that you can do the job in the first place. How this plays out exactly, I won't reveal — sorry, no spoilers here. But I will say that a very special young person whom he meets plays a key role in Mister Terrific's encounter with The Kryl. Her name is Harmony, and yes, she's a young person we'll hopefully be seeing more of as the "Mister Terrific" series goes on.

You've also said that you intend "Mister Terrific" to be a very cosmic comic. Outside of Michael literally tackling extraterrestrial threats, is your idea that Terrific is a character that exists and operates on a different cosmic plane than the rest of the DCU due to his genius, adventures, etc.?
Mister Terrific exists in the DCU just like all the other characters re-introduced in the New 52 relaunch. As we've already seen in issue #2, Michael Holt knows people like Oliver Queen, whose Q-Tech division is a rival of Holt Industries. But there are other billionaires in the DCU — Bruce Wayne & Lex Luthor among them — and Michael Holt knows them all. And just what do these extremely wealthy people think of each other? We'll be finding out in upcoming issues of "Mister Terrific."
As for the "cosmic" nature, that refers to the scope of the series. "Mister Terrific" is a book about science gone mad. As such, it's going to take our hero beyond the confines of our planet. But that doesn't mean that, beginning with The Kryl (again, issues #4 and #5), Mister Terrific will be dealing exclusively with cosmic threats. Far from it. There are many other threats worst than Brainstorm hiding right here in Los Angeles. One of them, the biomechanical monstrosity known as Digitus, will make his presence known in issue #7.
Also, this series will continue to contrast Mister Terrific's battles against mad science with the troubles in his personal life. As we learned in issue #3, Brainstorm revealed Mister Terrific's key weakness: that the hero who knows everything about science and technology conversely knows very little about his own heart and emotions. "Mister Terrific" is very much a series about one scientist's journey of self-discovery into the most mysterious realm of all: the human psyche.
Talking about that mad science, from the look of Mr. Terrific's T-Spheres and his other advanced technology, I get a very Kirby-esque vibe. Did the Fourth World material or any of his cosmic work influence you as far as tone and feel for "Mister Terrific?"
Jack Kirby is a huge influence on this series, but not because of his Fourth World work. The biggest influence on "Mister Terrific" as a series is Kirby and Stan Lee's incredible run on "Fantastic Four." The balance that run achieved between epic cosmic stories and smaller family drama is what we're aspiring towards in this book.
As far as Michael's tech goes, when we spoke briefly at NYCC you said that you wanted to base the comic in science — that while the gadgets are futuristic you could see how you extrapolated it from existing technology. Is this something you are continuing to play with as Mr. Terrific is pulled into space to fight the Kryl?
Yes, I'm continuing to draw from real science theories and solutions in The Kryl saga. In fact, we'll see late in issue #4 how Mister Terrific again uses his "MacGyver"-esque gifts towards genius-level science problems to help save the day.
Now, does that mean some situations in "Mister Terrific" won't be straight out of science fiction or science fantasy? Of course not. The Kryl themselves are a perfect example of this. Technically, until extraterrestrial life is actually discovered in any way, shape, or form stories with aliens can be — at best — speculative fiction. And in the case of The Kryl, I certainly hope they're science fiction, because I wouldn't want these folks invading Earth — we wouldn't stand a chance.
But aside from the occasional uber-concessions to the fantastic, this series will always strive to present conflicts, villains, extrapolated technology and other threats that could — in some way, however theoretical or futuristic — occur within the next century.
Turning to the characters, in these first three issues, you've set up not only Mr. Terrific but also Aleeka and Karen, his two love interests and allies. What can you say about Aleeka, Terrific's second in command?
Aleeka is one sharp lady. Brilliant and a consummate leader, she's been playing second fiddle to Michael Holt for a number of years. But what Michael doesn't realize is that she's tired of being Number Two. It's more than just ambition. It's the fact that Aleeka has the kind of intellect and talents that need to be constantly challenged. And guess what? Running Holt Industries after all this time is becoming routine. This yearning for something more in her career is going to take Aleeka into a very unexpected direction, one that will change her relationship with Michael Holt forever.
So, there's a huge future in store for Aleeka. Again, no spoilers here, but this transition in Aleeka's life begins in issues #7 through #9, during the battle with Digitus. The goal is that by Year Two of "Mister Terrific," Aleeka Okafur will be the most "powerful" person in Michael Holt's universe, and an even bigger player on the DCU stage. Of course, whether or not she uses her newfound status to help or hurt Michael Holt will be a surprise.
We've also got Karen Starr AKA Power Girl involved in these issues, though so far we've only seen her operating sans superhuman abilities. Is Power Girl de-powered? Is she going to continue to be a supporting character for Michael Holt rather than a superhero ally for Mr. Terrific?
Sorry, but because of the no spoilers policy, I can't exactly say what's in store for Karen Starr. But I can say this: Karen's relationship with Michael Holt has already begun to sour, and there's a reason for this, one that is the beginning of something much bigger in both their worlds. This conflict will eventually lead to a major revelation about one of the biggest mysteries in Mister Terrific's life. So stay tuned.
To go back and talk about the art on the book, what is it like working with artist Gianluca Gugliotta?
Gianluca is an absolute delight to work with! Not only is his artwork incredible, but his designs for the cosmic elements of this book are just amazing. Readers will get to see Gianluca's imagination unleashed during The Kryl storyline in issues #4 and #5. It's wonderful stuff that is just gorgeous to look at.
Gugliotta's style has a dream-like element to it, with lots of swirls of energy and massive buildings and unusual angles on action. How much of that comes from Gugliotta and how much is it things you two have discussed for the way the comic should look?
I put some seriously crazy descriptions into the "Mister Terrific" scripts, but I give Gianluca plenty of space to do "his thing." And, as you've already seen, his thing is pretty darn incredible! So yes, most of that strange, ethereal quality comes from Gianluca, not my writing. What's amazing is that readers still haven't seen Gianluca's best stuff. Those incredible T-Sanctuary designs? They're nothing compared to the cosmic grandeur of The Kryl designs, especially in issue #5. I can't wait for everyone to see it. It's science fantasy designing with an edge, but also with a fragile, realistic beauty that is wonderfully unique.
Finally, now that we've read inaugural story arc defining the world, how would you sum up Michael Holt/Mr. Terrific as a character?
Simply put, Michael Holt is a scientist, which means curiosity rules his countenance. For better or for worse! This is true whether he's in a suit or in his T-mask. But the key difference between Michael and Mister Terrific is that Michael is a man. Men can be slandered, corrupted or torn down. However, "Mister Terrific" is an ideal. It cannot be destroyed. And if it is defeated, that ideal will rise up again. That's the whole point of the motto "Fair Play, Win the Day!" That no matter how great the darkness might become in our lives, the resilient positivity of the human spirit will eventually triumph. This is the true definition of heroism, in my opinion, and it's what I'm trying to get across — especially to young readers — in every issue of "Mister Terrific."
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To celebrate Halloween, Greg Aronowitz from BarnyardFX took an ordinary pumpkin and carved it out and added some candy fixtures to make it look like R2-D2. Even better is that he added some motors to it so that it would have moving parts! Check out the creation of this newest droid, named OCT-3.1, below! Enjoy!
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The membership of the Post-Op Women UK Group
have concern that they are either not being represented, or are
being misrepresented on crucial Human Rights issues.
The Post-Op Women UK Group exists to ensure
that post-operative M2F (Male to Female) and I2F (Intersex to
Female) women have a private place to discuss issues of relevance
to post-op women. Mainly concerned with surgical recovery, further
surgery and hormonal regimes, the forum has also provided a safe
environment for the discussion of the Draft Gender Recognition
Bill (excerpts of which are included in the appendices)[36]
The membership of Post-Op Women UK Group is
made up exclusively of postoperative M2F and 12F women without
Note. For ease of comprehension, the headers
in this overview correspond directly with the headers in the Draft
Gender Identity Bill.
Post-Op Women UK members are and have always
been certain of their gender and would point out that it is the
current "sex" of the individual that requires recognition.
1. Applications
(1) "A person of either gender"gender?
Sex is the appropriate determination, not gender.
(1) "who is aged at least 18"Age
discrimination? Post-Operative Women of younger age will be unable
to apply for a "gender recognition certificate"
(2) "the acquired gender"Sex
is the appropriate determination.
(2)(a) "gender in which the person
is living" and (b) "gender to which the person is recognised
as having changed"There is no change of gender, the
change is that of sex.
(3) "An application under subsection
(1) is to be determined by a Gender Recognition Panel"why?
A post-operative M2F will have either an affidavit from their
surgeon, or, a medical certificate can easily be sought from a
GP stating their primary phenotypical sex from an observation
of the external genitalia.
(4)(a) "has or has had gender dysphoria"gender
dysphoria is a wide term once used to describe a range of conditions,
only one of which was termed "transsexualism". In 1994
the terminology was changed to use the term "gender identity
disorder" which is again subdivided, one of the terms being
the replacement for the term "transsexualism". Also,
"gender dysphoria" would be hard to prove for long term
post-operative women as the original diagnoses and the psychiatrists
who made them are often no longer available.
(4)(b) "has lived in the acquired gender"gender?
Sex is the appropriate term.
(4)(b) "two years" many
post-operative M2Fs are post-operative before the "two years"
the generally accepted period is one year except by the NHS, and
some countries allow no period to live in the acquired sex (countries
with laws that expressly forbid this eg Iran) whereas others require
only months of this RLE, eg Thailand.
(4)(c) "intends to continue to live
in the acquired gender until death"Gender once again
is the incorrect term, sex is appropriate. Also, being postoperative
should be proof enough of any commitment.
(4)(d) "complies with the requirements
imposed by"Post-operative M2F women feel that the
requirements are vague and meaningless, the documentation that
is needed is that the person making the application is post-operative
(5)(b) "requirements imposed by"Another
exercise in paper chasing and further discrimination, all that
is required from a post-operative M2F woman is a statement from
a medical practitioner that she is postoperative.
2. Evidence
(l) (a) and (b) these requirements are irrelevant,
a post-operative M2F woman should only be required to provide
documentation from a medical practitioner to the effect that she
is post-operative.
(2) "gender dysphoria"again,
this wide term is being applied.
(2) "report required"this
will be difficult for any long term post-operative M2F woman to
produce, and is seen as irrelevant.
(3) "If the applicant has undergone"This
section is irrelevant for a postoperative M2F woman and should
not be required other than a medical report stating that she is
(4)(a) "that the applicant meets the
conditions"the only condition needing to be met is
that a post-operative M2F woman is post-operative.
(4)(b) "as to whether or not the applicant
is married"possible breach of Article 12. The UK Government
having encouraged post-operative M2F women to marry other women,
using financial advantages such as tax benefits etc, is in a difficult
position to now require that an existing marriage is dissolved
so that a basic human right can be conferred to the post-operative
M2F woman. Existing family ties will be broken, and the partners
and children of the post-operative M2F women may be financially
(5)(a) "if the applicant is not married,
a statutory declaration by the applicant that this is the case"Why,
this is irrelevant. However, post-operative M2F women who are
not married (the majority) will be able to comply with this requirement.
(5)(a) "genders"Marriage
certificates don't record the gender of the individuals, however,
the sex at the time of the marriage is implied.
(6) "Any application under section
1(1) must include
(6)(a) the applicant's birth certificate"This
is difficult for post-operative M2F women to provide, either for
psychological reasons in that it would be a reminder of "transsexualism"
once suffered, thus causing distress, or, for the simple reason
that most post-operative M2F women do not have a copy of their
birth certificate and would never acquire one for reasons of safety
if found with that birth certificate.
(9)(a) "must supply any other evidence
which the Gender Recognition Panel which is to determine the application
may require"This is an open ended method of further
requiring the post-operative M2F woman to undergo unnecessary
and humiliating scrutiny that may cause further psychological
3. Certificates
The production of these gender recognition certificates
is seen as an irrelevancy by post-operative M2F women as all that
is required is a corrected birth certificate, entry in the register
of births, and the changing of all records held by all government
departments, together with a requirement for non-governmental
organisations to change their records.
(3) "because of the applicant's marriage,
a full gender recognition certificate has not been issued"Breach
of Article 12?
(5) "the applicant may make an application
for a full gender recognition certificate at any time within the
period of six months"why six months? This is irrelevant.
The rest of this section maybe in breach of Article 12.
(6) "An application under subsection
(5) must include evidence of the annulment or dissolution of marriage
. . . "Possible breach of article 12.
(8)(b) "otherwise must reject it"Possible
breach of Article 12.
4. Supplementary
(2) "The applicant must pay to the
Secretary of State'shuman rights in exchange for payment?
Post-operative M2F women have long suffered from the failure of
successive governments to implement adequate legislation, at great
financial cost. Requirement to further pay for basic human rights
is insulting.
5. General
(1) "Where a full gender recognition
certificate is issues to a person, the person's gender becomes
for all purposes the acquired gender"This section
sound ridiculous, however, if sex is substituted for gender the
section makes sense.
6. Registration
Dealt with under Schedule 2.
7. Marriage
Dealt with under Schedule 3.
8. Parenthood
(1) "The fact that a person's gender
has become the acquired gender"incorrect use of gender
when meaning sex.
(1) "under this Act does not affect
the status of the person as the father or mother of a child"This
is a confused statement which could be better expressed by the
addition of "existing" before "father", otherwise,
children adopted after the recognition of the acquired sex, or
those born by method of medical intervention (eg womb transplant),
will have two parents of the same sex as parents on their birth
9. Discrimination
No inclusion of a section preventing the discrimination
with regard to goods and services relating to post-operative M2F
women. This is a serious error.
10. Succession etc
There are no problems foreseen with this section.
11. Peerages etc
(a) "does not affect the descent of
any peerage or dignity or title of honourThis section provides
for the continuing discrimination of women by the government and
will in time be resolved in the European Courts if ever a case
12. Trustees and personal representatives
13. Orders where expectation defeated
14. Prohibition on disclosure of information
(4) This section highlights when disclosure
is permitted, post-operative M2F women challenge the requirement
for any disclosure under any conditions.
(5) This section allows a Secretary of State
to allow disclosure to anyone at some future date. It is unacceptable.
15. Orders and regulations
16. Money
(2) Fees provided for the acquisition of
human rights?
17. Interpretation
"the acquired gender"Acquired
"gender dysphoria"unacceptable
definition, gender dysphoria is an old term used to denote many
disorders, only one of which is transsexualism. By using the term
gender dysphoria, anyone will be able to apply.
18. Commencement
19. Applications within six months of commencement
(2)(a) and (b) Why both? (a) or (b) would
be better else this will lead to discrimination against post-operative
M2F women in favour of "non-op" M2F women and transvestites.
(2)(b) "six years"Age discrimination
against those who have only just reached an age at which they
were permitted to obtain a change of sex by surgical means.
If this section had only applied to post-operative
M2F women and postoperative F2M men, the six year rule need not
be relevant.
(3)(l)(a) and (b) These reports are expensive
and difficult to obtain. The only documentation needed should
be the report from a medical practitioner stating that the post-operative
M2F woman is post-operative.
(3)(2) It is not always possible to obtain
such a report so long after the initial diagnosis was made.
(3)(3) Only a report from a medical practitioner
stating that the applicant is post-operative should be required
for post-operative M2F women.
20. Short Title
"This Act may be cited as the Gender Recognition
Act 2003"
The problem with this is that post-operative
M2F women are expecting a "Sex Reassignment Recognition Act"
and hence many have not been consulted or are even aware of the
implications the "Gender Recognition Act 2003".
Post-operative M2F women are concerned that
they are being misrepresented by people who are not post-operative
M2F women, or have not fully adjusted to their acquired sex.
Gender Recognition Panels
Many post-operative M2F women have questioned
the need for gender recognition panels, when a simple check that
a person has documentary evidence of a change of sex is all that
is required.
Post-operative M2F women also question the inclusion
of medical members of the gender recognition panel as the medical
member may have been responsible for the medical care of the applicant
as a former patient.
Transsexual Persons Register
The "transsexual persons register"
is a concept that is offensive to post-operative M2F women and
will lead to many not registering for fear that the register could
be used against them at some future date.
Of particular concern is the access to such
a register when organisations such as the Evangelical Alliance
have over a million members and would no doubt have members who
would be able to access the information. Post-operative women
fear for their safety.
The fear that cross-indexing of new databases
may lead to the identity of post-operative M2F women is also of
grave concern and we feel that this is another contravention of
Article 8.
Section 5 (g) and (h)Many post-operative
M2F women will not disclose information on their struggles to
be recognised as a member of their corrected sex to anyone. Other
than a requirement to tell a prospective husband that the person
is sterile, there is no need for further disclosure.
Also, this section could mean that even though
a disclosure is made as to the gender recognition of an individual,
the phenotypical sex of the person could be hidden until after
a marriage, at which point the phenotypical sex would be discovered
to be opposite to that desired by the husband and he would have
no recourse.
Areas of concern to Post-Operative M2F Women
(1) Gender?
Recognition of Sex and a birth certificate indicating
the corrected sex, not Gender.
(2) Gender Recognition Panel
Concerns over who will be on this panel.
(3) Under 18s
Concerns that under 18s cannot have their birth
certificates amended.
Concerns that when someone reaches 18 they will
not be able to have changed their name legally until they are
18, and this could be taken as not living in role.
(4) Fathers
M2F transsexuals who take up womb implant and
bear children will still be classified as fathers rather than
Adoption, M2F transsexuals would be treated
as fathers, and if they were married then the child would have
two fathers.
(5) Statutory Declarations
Why is medical evidence alone not acceptable?
(6) Register of Transsexual People
Concerns over the very existence of such as
register and who will have access.
(7) Qualifying period of two years in "role"
Post-ops who have lived in role for less than
two years will be treated as members of their original birth sex,
in direct contravention to the ECHR judgements in Goodwin and
(8) Pre-existing marriage
Forced dissolution of marriage.
(9) Existing copies of registers in circulation
Prevention of cross-indexing needed.
(10) Identity theft of birth certificate
left in circulation
The old birth certificate needs to be struck
from the register to prevent identity theft.
(11) National Insurance Numbers.
Of special interest to computer contractors
who come under 1R35 as agencies keep NlN record.
And, a person having transitioned in childhood
will end up having two years or more of contributions in the incorrect
name until they can legally change their birth certificate.
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The case concerns patents for processes for encapsulation by gelatin-free polymeric materials, invented by BioProgress Technology Limited in 1998, according BioProgress. BioProgress has asked the court to issue an order to have BioProgress registered as the rightful owner of the patents and patent applications in question.
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Are you looking for bookkeeping training in Northern California? Through our Accounting Essentials program, you can learn fundamental accounting skills, word and data processing, and office procedures as a student at Empire College. Graduates of Empire College's Accounting program should be prepared to assume a wide range of bookkeeping and assistant accounting responsibilities, including payroll, general ledger, payables and receivables.
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Home Heating Tips
December 29, 2016
Everyone knows that it costs money to heat a home – sometimes lots of money depending upon the size of your home. Energy bills can actually go up by about 50% in the winter depending upon just how severe the weather is. Below are 5 simple tips for you to consider to help you save money on heating your home this winter.
- Turn down your thermostat to 68 degrees. For every degree you lower your heat in the 60-degree to 70-degree range, you'll save up to 5 percent on heating costs. Wear warm clothing like a sweater and set your thermostat to 68 degrees or lower during the day and evening, health permitting. Set the thermostat back to 55 degrees or off at night or when leaving home for an extended time, saving 5-20 percent of your heating costs (heat pumps should only be set back 2 degrees to prevent unneeded use of backup strip heating).
- Replace or clean furnace filters as recommended. Dirty filters restrict airflow and increase energy use. Now is also the time for a furnace "tune-up." Keeping your furnace clean, lubricated and properly adjusted will reduce energy use, saving up to 5 percent of heating costs.
- Reduce hot water temperature. Set your water heater to the "normal" setting or 120-degrees Fahrenheit, unless the owner's manual for your dishwasher requires a higher setting. Savings are 7-11 percent of water heating costs.
- Seal up the leaks. This is a big one! Caulk leaks or use weather stripping around windows and doors. Look for places where you have pipes, vents or electrical conduits that go through the wall, ceiling or floor. Check the bathroom, underneath the kitchen sink, pipes inside a closet, etc. If you find a gap at the point where the pipe or vents goes through the wall, seal it up. Caulk works best on small gaps. Your hardware store should have products to close the larger gaps.
- Consider replacing your old gas appliances with an ENERGY STAR® water heater or furnace.
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Sept. 15, 2013
Nathan Isao "Nate" Nakai, 56, of Kaneohe, a former electrician at E.I.N. Electrical and American Electric, and an Army veteran, died in Castle Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Cheryl R.M.; daughters Chelsea C., Kaitlin S. and Megan M.; brother Craig M.; and sister Nadine A. Shibata. Visitation: 5 p.m. Wednesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Services: 6 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
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Put the ears of corn on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 45 minutes. Remove and let cool. When the corn has cooled shuck it and stand it on end. Using a sharp knife, run the blade down the cob to cut the kernels off. Rotate the cob and repeat until all the kernels have been cut off.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KMOV) – Man confesses to brutally beating his parents at their Poplar Bluff home Tuesday evening.
Officers with the Poplar Bluff Police Department were called to the scene at 12 p.m. after a they received a call from a man who said he arrived at the home in the 1900 block of Wilson Street and found two people inside had been beaten.
The victims, Carl and Vickie Jenkins, were both transported to area hospitals in critical condition. Both were stabilized.
The victim's son, Matthew Jenkins placed the original call to police about the beating. He later confessed to the Butler County Major Case Squad that he hit his parents. Jenkins told investigators that he repeatedly struck the victims in the head with an aluminum baseball bat.
Matthew Jenkins was charged with two counts of first degree domestic assault and booked at the Butler County Jail.
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Food Service Trends : 2015
As we slowly work our way through January we turn our thoughts turn to what's going to be the next big thing in food service and catering in 2015. How have the trends of 2014 faired and will they continue into 2015? What's bubbling up under the surface on how we eat that's ready to be picked up en masse?
Just like the fashion industry, food trends come and go, some staying for the long haul. We take a look at what's piqued back in 2014, what's sticking around and what's new for this year:
Cronuts and Bruffins. 2014 was the year of the cronut – a mix between a croissant and a donut. And now we're being treated to bruffin. Yep, you've got it…. a brioche muffin. These culinary mashups, and their blended names, look set to get more popular over the coming months, with more hybrids popping up and taking the limelight.
Cider. Hot on heels of the 'craft beer' movement comes cider. Thanks to the popularity of flavoured ciders over and above pre-mixed, ready-to-drink options such as vodka mixes, sales of cider continue to rise. The UK and Swedish cider markets are taking the lead and it's expected new
Veggies. Vegetables are having a bit of a moment thanks to chef's like Ottolenghi and it's not just vegetarians who're getting in on the action. Plant based and organic food takes the fore on our menus and continues to do so into 2015.
Nostalgia and tradition. Baby boomers continue to be a growth market for dining, whilst millenials have taken a dip in recent times. The nostalgia and British traditions is a trend we're seeing more and more popping up in UK dining. From traditional tea and the classic G&T to childhood favourites of ice cream, pineapple and even (dare we say it) smash.
Solo Dining. Reports show that almost 50% of dining occasions are of a single diner eating alone. This rise in solo dining is set to see more establishments introducing communal tables and single seats, and finding innovative ways to accommodate them without losing out on covers.
Integrating Tech. Diners are digital. They're on their smart phones and tablets and expect free wifi when they eat out. They're also expecting more and more tech in the dining experience – from interactive menus, digital displays or even digital tables which take their order. There is a rise in digital-free-dining but if that's not your USP or mission, then it's better to move with the times and keep abreast of what diners expect digitally, as well as everything else.
Mission marketing. It's no good just leading on price, cuisine, experience or quality theses days. You have to stand for something and have a mission. Whether that's being sustainable or having social responsibility, you need to be positioning yourself as caring and standing for something more than just the food.
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REVOLUTION is over-but the danger to Earth is just beginning.
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