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P. D. James introduces this edition of Crispin's crime-fiction caper. With lively illustrations by A. Richard Allen.
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The improbable has less weight in the City of Oxford than in any other habitable quarter of the globe.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, a composer and choirmaster who also wrote the scores for numerous films. He had a genius for comedy and the surreal, which finds its finest expression in his stories featuring Gervase Fen. P. D. James named The Moving Toyshop in her top five detective novels, and in this new edition she explores just what makes it so enjoyable a book. The illustrations are by A. Richard Allen, whose style will be familiar from previous Folio editions including Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair. Allen has also drawn a delightful map of Oxford as endpapers to this beautiful edition. For fans of Crispin this will take a treasured place on the shelves; any lovers of detective fiction who have not previously encountered the novels have a treat in store.
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Bored by his comfortable existence in St John's Wood, the poet Richard Cadogan decides to take a short holiday in Oxford. Arriving late at night, he notices a toyshop with an unlocked door, and upstairs he finds an elderly lady who is very clearly dead. He returns with the police – but the toyshop and the body have both vanished.
He turns to the brilliant, if erratic, Gervase Fen, Oxford Professor of English Literature, proud possessor of a dangerous car named Lily Christine III and happy to abandon his undergraduates for an investigation – especially if this can be done in the city's pubs. Crispin introduces us to a parade of English eccentrics; from the lorry driver who reads D. H. Lawrence and worries that he has lost touch with the grand primeval energy of sex, to the elderly don who steals a bicycle to pursue a suspect into a nude bathing area. Drunken chases and riotous encounters are interspersed with glittering dialogue and a liberal sprinkling of puzzles and literary jokes, making The Moving Toyshop the wittiest detective story from the golden age of mystery writing.
It is difficult to reconcile even fictional murder with humour, but The Moving Toyshop is generally admitted to rank among the most consistently amusing light novels of its time or since. Like many of the books of the Golden Age, and Crispin's in particular, it is very well written. Academics at Oxford were among the most successful of the Golden Age writers and it sometimes seems that they were fabricating detective mysteries for their own amusement or the entertainment of their friends. Every page of The Moving Toyshop is a delight, as the two amateur detectives, in Fen's lethal car, hurtle from one adventure to another. One of the funniest moments is when Professor Fen, chasing one of the legatees, a very attractive young woman, insinuates himself into a rehearsal of the University Handel Choir, vigorously conducted by someone who was obviously drawn from life. There Fen hoots loudly but inaccurately among the altos, to the conductor's disgust and the choir's discomfort, until he is ordered out.
Like all Crispin's novels, the plot is complex but the clues to the mystery are provided and the problem can be solved. Above all, The Moving Toyshop is a delight to read and to return to time and time again, and is never likely to lose its place as one of the funniest, most original and entertaining detective novels of the Golden Age and of succeeding generations. The Moving Toyshop remains one of my favourite detective stories.
Edmund Crispin (1921–78) was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery. He wrote the first of nine detective novels, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944), during his Easter vacation while still at university, introducing detective Gervase Fen, who appears in all his novels and many of his short stories. Montgomery was also a composer, of both concert and film music, scoring the early Carry On and Doctor in the House films and composing An Oxford Requiem (1951). In his later years he turned away from writing fiction and instead reviewed crime fiction for the Sunday Times; however, his final novel, The Glimpses of the Moon, appeared in 1976, two years before his death.
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts, and has served as a governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, the United States, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991. From 1997 to 2013 she was President of the Society of Authors.
A. Richard Allen studied Fine Art (Painting) at Central St Martins College in London, receiving a BA and a Masters Degree. He has worked for numerous UK and US clients in editorial, design and advertising, and has won gold medals from the Association of Illustrators in their annual juried awards. He has also won gold and silver awards from 3x3 and the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles and New York, and has been recognised by Communication Arts. For The Folio Society Richard has previously illustrated Brat Farrar (2010) and Lucky Jim (2012). He lives and works in Bournemouth.
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by Gabriel Martínez del Mármol Marín & David Donaire Barroso.
In 2001 were recognized the genera Hemorrhois, Hierophis and Platyceps for some of the species previously assigned to Coluber (Schätti & Utiger, 2001; Schätti et al. 2001).
Four species are nowadays recognized in the genus Hemorrhois Boie, 1826: Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Linneo, 1758), Hemorrhois algirus (Jan, 1863), Hemorrhois nummifer (Reuss, 1834) and Hemorrhois ravergieri (Ménétries, 1832). These snakes are known for their colour pattern variability. The eastern species (H. nummifer and H. ravergieri) can even have designs that mimics the designs of the vipers of their same habitat. In other species is possible the change of the coloration with the age (H. algirus; Arnold & Burton, 1997; Baha el Din, 2006).
Only two species are known to occur in Morocco: H. algirus and H. hippocrepis (Bons & Geniez 1996) and the Maghreb.
H. hippocrepis is a large, thin and strong snake with big eyes, smooth scales and beautiful design based in rounded marks and a typical horseshoe mark in the head. It´s range covers the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, Tunisia and some islands where it has been probably introduced recently (Sardinia, Balearic islands, etc…). It is one of the most common snakes in Morocco and occurs in the areas with Mediterranean clima north of the high Atlas chain, the Souss Valley reaching the south Atlantic coast until 20 Km north of Tan-tan (Bons & Geniez, 1996; Leon Vigara, 2012) and it has been recently found in Tendrara (B. Rebollo Fernandez & G. Martinez del Marmol, unpublished).
H. algirus is smaller and thiner than H. hippocrepis. It occurs in Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt and Malta. In Morocco and Western Sahara is represented by the subspecies intermedius Werner, 1929 (Geniez et al., 2004), characterizated by a design of transversal bars along the body and horseshoe mark on the head following the original description of Werner (1929) but also by individuals with rounded blotches and horseshoe mark and grey-black headed individuals (Bons & Geniez, 1996). It occurs in a restricted distribution in Morocco limited to the Saharan zones (Bons & Geniez, 1996).
Although the specific rank of Hemorrhois algirus and Hemorrhois hippocrepis has been ascertained (Schatti & Utiger, 2001; Nagy et al., 2004; Carranza et al., 2006; Wuster et al., 2007), the number of samples used is very low (Schatti & Utiger used samples from Rabat, Agadir and "Morocco" for hippocrepis and a Tunisian sample for algirus; Nagy et al. used samples of Tantan plage for algirus and a spanish sample for hippocrepis; Carranza et al. used just one algirus sample from Tunisia and many hippocrepis samples but all of them from north of the Atlas Chain so no "intermediate" individuals were compared to "pure" algirus or hippocrepis and Wuster et als samples has no origin known), the distribution of both species it is not totally clear in contact areas between both species. Bons & Geniez (1996) mentioned the difficulty to identify some individuals from the Anti Atlas chain in Morocco.
Along the Atlantic coast of south Morocco, from Tiznit to Tan-Tan some ecological particularities allow that snakes of different biogeographycal origins occur in sympatry: tropical-sahelian snakes (Boaedon fuliginosus, Dasypeltis sahelensis, Bitis arietans, Naja haje), Mediterranean snakes (Macroprotodon brevis, Hemorrhois hippocrepis, Malpolon monspessulanus, Daboia mauritanica, Natrix maura) and Sindo-Saharan snakes (Cerastes cerastes, Cerastes vipera, Hemorrhois algirus, Rhagerhis moilensis, Spalerosophis dolichospilus, Psammophis schokari, Lytorhynchus diadema).
Moreover the extreme variability of design in both species in Morocco snakes makes indentification impossible based on current published keys alone and thus the relations between both species continue unclear (Bons, 1962; Bons & Geniez, 1996). Following Schleich et al. (1996) the main differences between both species are:
|H. hippocrepis
|H. algirus
|dorsal design
|rounded marks
|trasversal bars
|horseshoe mark
|supralabial scales in contact with the eye
|Always 1 or 2
|scales at midbody
|ventral scales
|subcaudal scales
|anal scale
|usually is divided
|sometimes divided
However this information contrast with Werner (1929), Bons & Geniez (1996) and Geniez (2004) who include some Hemorrhois individuals with horseshoe mark in H. algirus. In contrast, Sochurek (1979) described these specimens as a subspecies of H. hippocrepis and suggested the possibility of being a full species or a hybrid between H. algirus and H. hippocrepis. In fact, the Schleich et al.'s description agrees with the eastern form, H. a. algirus, but not with the western form, H. a. intermedius (including "Coluber algirus villiersi" Bons, 1962; Geniez et al., 2004) which can exhibit a horshoe mark and rounded blotches on the dorsum, and has rarely a dark headed colouration. Even in the eastern form, has been published the possibility of 27 rows of dorsal scales at midbody (in most Malta specimens; Bons in Joger, 1997). Le Berre (1989) published that Coluber florulentus (includying H. algirus) has between 21-25 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, whereas to Gruber (1993) and Baha el Din (2006) all specimens of Hemorrhois algirus have 25 rows.
In Morocco (including Atlantic Sahara), western Algeria and Mauritania, some specimens can have a horseshoe-mark and can have a design of transverse bars (fitting with the Werner´s description of Coluber algirus intermedius). But it is also possible to find Hemorrhois sp. with unicolour head and unbranded horseshoe mark but with circular markings similar to H. hippocrepis. Schatti (1986) argued that the distinction of two subspecies of the Algerian whip snake (algirus and intermedius) is not conclusive because reliable characters are lacking.
About head pholidosis, it is common to find specimens with one side of the head with a supralabial scale in contact with the eye, but on the other side there is a row of scales between the eye and supralabials, in other cases on both head sides one or two supralabials scales are in contact with the eye, and sometimes on both sides of the head there is a row of scales between the eye and supralabials so the supralabial scales and their contact with the eyes is not a reliable characteristic to distinguish both species. Such individuals sometimes have a typical H. hippocrepis design but too pale and in the H. algirus typical habitat (pers. obs. in Tata, Igherm, Aouinet Lahna, Plage Blanche, Ouarzazate surroundings). Even in Tata we have seen individuals with 23 and 25 rows of mid-dorsal scales very close.
The extreme variability of individuals suggests some questions:
– Is it possible to group all these odd individuals in a subspecies of H. hippocrepis or H. algirus as it has been done historically with the subspecies "intermedius"?
– Would it be possible that in large areas of contact between both species hybridization has occurred and the so called subspecies "intermedius" is simply the product of a continuum hybridization zone of both Hemorrhois?
Against this latter hypothesis points out that following the distribution maps of Bons & Geniez (1996) most specimens of H. algirus with circular markings have been found outside the contact area with H. hippocrepis. It is precisely in the contact area with H. hippocrepis where more specimens were found with transversal bars design.
Although this could also be because most specimens with rounded blothches of the contact area could be automatically assigned to H. hippocrepis. But it seems very rare that Hemorrhois algirus has evolved with the horseshoe mark without any gene flow of H. hippocrepis although the presence of sympatric areas and "intermediate" individuals.
A genetic analysis with wide sampling (mostly "intermediate" and "strange" individuals) is madatory to clarify the taxonomical situation of this genus in Morocco.
Thanks to Philippe Geniez for his information and photos. To Mario Schweiger for his information and helping in the german translations. To Michel Aymerich, Tomas Mazuch and Fernando Martinez-Freiria, for their photos.
To cite this page:
Gabriel Martínez del Mármol Marín & David Donaire Barroso: Taxonomic troubles in the Hemorrhois genus in Morocco.
Published on October 03, 2012. Updated on October 18, 2012. Available from http://blog.moroccoherps.com/taxonomic-troubles-in-the-hemorrhois-genus-in-morocco/. Accessed August 20, 2018.
To cite www.moroccoherps.com as a whole:
Amphibians & Reptiles of Morocco and Western Sahara.
Available from www.moroccoherps.com. Accessed August 20, 2018.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Select photos are also featured on ZEIT Online, under a headline that Google translates quite charmingly to "Art is through his stomach.") Find the interview in its entirety, here.
here. Photographs by Brandon Schulman.
More FvF interviews:
-Huy Bui
-Dez'Mon Omega Fair
-Elizabeth Beer and Brian Janusiak of Project No. 8.
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Love this! Thanks for the intro.
- May 20, 2015 at 5:24 PM
sweet site! sweet words!
- May 21, 2015 at 1:02 AM
Interesting! I need to adopt the if it sucks, it sucks attitude
- May 21, 2015 at 10:52 AM
- Camila Faria said...
I love his coffee cup project! That Coffee Cup print in his apartament is really amazing. Great interview!
- May 21, 2015 at 10:58 AM
- Shoko said...
Natalie, I could use a little of that from time to time, too...
Camila, you can find them here!
- May 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM
- DK said...
Great interview! Thanks for highlighting this artist.
- May 21, 2015 at 12:59 PM
Really enjoyed reading this interview. I had many "Ha!" moments going through his projects. Creative minds and inspiring words. Great interview.
- May 21, 2015 at 1:18 PM
- Kathy said...
Such a good interview! I love his attitude towards his work and his thoughts on food.
I was just thinking over the weekend that I didn't want to throw away one of my coffee cups because it was so nice (there was a woolly mammoth on it from a place called Dinosaur in LA), but then didn't really know what to do with it if I kept it. I'm so glad he is documenting it all! I'll have to remember to take photos of the next interesting cup I get to send in.
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loved the interview and love the photos, especially NO SECONDS and the music series and on and on.
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Kathy, you should submit one!
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The Heinous Growth of Variants
A couple of weeks ago there was a bit of a kerfuffle in a private retailer bulletin boards over a variant edition of a comic book. One group of retailers accused another group of retailers of taking illegal and/or unethical actions with regards to the creation of this variant. More than that is, largely, a waste of your time, and would be giving attention to some fairly absurd conspiracy theories, but at the time I was directly asked about what I thought of the situation and I made a statement that I thought maybe I should share; and since I told Rich Johnston that he could not run it since I would use it for a "Tilting," well, here you go:
What I have to say about the "situation" is that people who want to stir the pot just for the sake of stirring the pot should probably find a more productive hobby. And be deeply deeply embarrassed that they've lost their very humanity in this process.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to think, assume, believe or imagine that absolutely anything illegal in any way shape or form went down based upon the forthright testimony that's in this very thread…. and if I was a mod, that's exactly where I would lock this thread, as a result. Any assertion as to identity or motivation past what participants have posted here is complete nonsense, and should be shunned as such.
I personally, as an individual with an individual opinion, have no respect whatsoever for anyone, anywhere, who charges, under any circumstances whatsoever, more than cover price for any comic that is less than 30 days old. We shouldn't shit where we eat.
Clearly some people don't understand that last bit. And those people should also be deeply deeply embarrassed for their actions. Not just from now, but for yesterday and tomorrow both.
And now that 99% of the people who read this feel I'm talking about them… well, yes, actually, I am. Think about the providence of your actions you greedy, horrible people.
This started a few fights, as you might imagine.
I'm not a fan of variant covers, you see: of the way they create opportunities for greed, or the way they deform sales patterns, sending incorrect messages about how and why comics sell. I don't like the ways in which they've actually changed publisher behavior, and I certainly don't like the lies, or even "sins of omission," that they encourage in salesmanship at the store level. I loathe the way they inflate our database, making it harder to do our actual job of selling comics to people by making them more time consuming to order, by making it more difficult to find items on a search, by creating extra hours of purely unnecessary work for me each and every month. I don't like the way they create literal waves of physical revulsion in my body every time I have to receive or order virtually every comic book from Boom, or Dynamite, or IDW, where those publishers are forcing me to get variant covers that I not only affirmatively don't want, but that I believe actually harm sales by creating customer confusion and messy display options. I don't like the mess they make of the racks, or the consumer confusion they engender.
I really don't like multiple, variant comics.
Barring some silliness with different barcodes, or the kind of "news stand/Direct Market edition" split (Like, say, "Man of Steel" #1 had), the first impactful variant that I can think of in the modern market is 1989's "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight" #1. You have to think back to what the world was like then — it wasn't like today where there are nine different Batman comics on the market at any given moment, there was only "Batman" and "Detective" then (No, "Batman Family" doesn't count, that was about Robin and Batgirl, not Batman himself.) — "LDK" was, therefore, the first new solo Batman comic book in fifty years, and the market got a little excited.
How excited? Well, the story goes that then VP of Marketing, Bruce Bristow, saw the numbers and got scared that there wasn't any way the market could "possibly" absorb that number of copies. So, it was decided, after the orders were in, that DC would add four different outer covers to the books (literally just different colored outer covers that didn't even feature art or anything). And what did the consumers do? Yeah, a lot of them took that as the invitation to buy four copies.
That did it, within a year Marvel whipped out multiple cover DM variants for Todd McFarlane's "Spider-Man" #1, and it set a modern sales record (at the time, 2.5 million copies), and we were off to the races.
Since then, things have gotten out of hand. How out of hand? Well, I counted up all of the comics being offered to me by the "Premier" publishers (Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, IDW) to sell in October of 2012, and a full forty percent of them had at least one variant. Variant covers have taken over the comics industry like a particularly pestilent strain of kudzu.
Who is responsible for this heinous growth? Well, the problem is that it is everyone; we're all complicit.
On the retailer side, I frequently hear statements like "Incentive variants allow me the ability to find the ceiling on books that I would have otherwise had to guess lower on." Now it might be one thing if this kind of statement was coming from newbie retailers, or stores that otherwise didn't understand how to properly order comics, but it's largely coming from well-established stores with large purchasing budgets who have been in business for decades. You seriously expect me to believe that these stores can't properly gauge their customer bases' desire for most works with a pretty high level of accuracy? Because, I got to tell you, as a working retailer, if you don't have that basic skill, you really can't stay in business very long. It is, in fact, the key skill in running a non-returnable purchasing decision.
In fact, I'll go absolutely the other way: I strongly suspect that the total number of unsold comics purchased because "They're effectively free, once I sell this variant" is statistically likely to be significantly greater than the number of copies that were sold because retailers had more room to find the sales ceiling. Why do I believe this? Because of the actions of the greater market as revealed by the monthly sales charts.
What do these sales charts show? That in almost every single circumstance a comic goes from having a 1:10 variant, to not having one, orders immediately drop by around 8% — almost exactly what the 1:10 variant adds to sales in the first place (as Diamond combines the parent title and the variants when they report orders).
Conversely, I think the tops of the charts disproves any theory that the bulk of retailers reach the sales ceiling for comics, as a result of variants — a successful title like Marvel's "Avengers Vs. X-Men" #1 has gone through what I believe is now eight printings, despite having a soul-crushing number of variants from the start and on every issue. If variants are a "ceiling-finding tool", then they are one that clearly doesn't work well at all.
(In fact, one of the reasons that we have eight printings of "AvX" #1 is that there's a significant number of retailers who are bringing in more copies of each printing just for customers who want to have "complete" collections. They can generate a couple of thousand more unit sales with each printing that way.)
I find the entire idea of "finding the ceiling" to be preposterous, anyway — flipping the order form to a random page, and finding the first variant there showed me a 1:10 for "American Vampire" #22. Find me the retailer who doesn't know how to order the 22nd issue of a monthly ongoing comic book, and you've found the retailer who should no longer be in business, because they don't understand how to be in business.
Variant covers are a pestilence — the only reason that DC is doing that variant on "AV" #22 is because they're trying to get you to buy more copies than you have a natural market for. Too many retailers will blindly mark off the line for the variant edition simply because it is there, and publishers get that 7-9% bump just from having that 1:10 due to this. This is gross and manipulative of the market, and I think it is the most terrifying indictment of the modern comics market that this is SOP at the major publishers, rather than them putting the same resources into doing things that might actually grow the market to new customers.
I totally appreciate that many retailers like variants, but let's at least be honest about it and admit that it's actually because they like selling a comic that cost them $1.50 for a crisp $20 bill.
"Well, that's capitalism!" someone is going to bluster; "People should be able to make money in whatever legal way they can!"
People should be free to make money in whatever ethical way they can. Laws can never keep up with the devious minds of greedy humans. The financial meltdown in high finance that plunged most working Americans into recession these last four years was mostly comprised of legal actions, and where people did illegal stuff, it was because there was so much legal-but-unethical stuff going down that people weren't able to, I guess, tell the difference between right and wrong.
But there are reasons that markets need controls — and that's because, unchecked, all markets eventually tend towards irrational exuberance. The thing is, we in comics should really know better — we've been through this again and again over the decades. Are we incapable of learning from our past mistakes?
I often think we are, because it isn't like I haven't been talking about this subject since the very first time I put pen to paper on "Industry topics." (Don't click that link, I was really an appallingly bad writer back then) (Then?) But, even all of these years later, the core issue is still the same: it is a moral failing, a pure degradation of the human spirit, to rook the guileless for material that you know is ultimately worthless.
What's that? Yes, variant covers are ultimately worthless. Past the first quarter on sale (and usually the first week or two at that), there's seldom any demand of any significance for the overwhelming majority variant covers. Even very "rare" ones. And retailers know this, because we're the primary people buying and selling them.
The other thing you hear all of the time from retailers trying desperately to justify their moral thuggishness is "Well, if I refuse to take their money, then those customers will just go shop elsewhere, putting me out of business!" And I neither believe that, nor believe that such customers are ultimately so incredibly important to the bottom line — I'm coming up on my 24th year in business, and we've always and consistently had an anti-speculation position and policy in place, and if it's done the slightest thing to harm my business or to impede the free flow of commerce, I can't even begin to detect it.
Certainly what I've found over the decades is that the overwhelming majority of customers only care about "hot" comics, variant covers, or speculation, if you promote that as your store's value to those customers. In a natural state, I don't think that most customers care in the slightest about multiple covers, of collecting for monetary value, or any of that — in the absence of racking them, the vast majority of customers wouldn't even be aware of variant covers in the first place. Why would they be?
Because here's the thing, as a general statement (though, of course, I'm sure we can find some exceptions), no one "wants" a variant in the sense of "I want the next person to walk past my vision to be a pretty, smiling girl" — they want it generally because they've been programmed to do so by your retail environment, or that they're OCD and "can't help themselves." By this I mean, if the magical fairy god of moral justice waved its wand tomorrow and said "No! More! Variants!", I don't believe that any customer would stop enjoying their hobby, would stop buying comics, or would in any way, shape or form feel a "Variant-sized hole" in their lives.
Variants are a disease. What was once kinda cool as a curiosity has become a raging plague upon the body of the Direct Market, encouraging retailers to buy more "normal" product than they actually can sell in the hope of a "big" (or at least even) payout on the variant. This distorts the sales charts, this sends false messages about what people want to buy and how, and that distorts the very products that are actually produced because the metrics are all wrong. This is all the "retailer's fault."
Of course, the publishers are to blame as well.
In a way, I guess you can't blame them, sort of — who wants to turn down a 7-9% bump just from adding another cover? But the problem is that the total number of people buying periodical comics appears to be drastically down from a decade before, which is down from the decade before that, which is down from the decade before that, and I, for one, don't think there's any reason to not think that at least some of the reason for that is the increasing focus on the manufactured collectible of the variant cover.
I counted (manually) everything from the five "Premier" (Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, IDW) publishers on the October 2012-shipping order form, and I came up with 264 individual titles of comic books (i.e. the 12 covers on "Uncanny Avengers" count as just "1" comic) being solicited. How many of those have a variant cover of some kind? A staggering 102. That's almost 40%!
But it gets worse. Because lots of comics have more than one variant, it took an unbelievable four hundred and nineteen lines to solicit those 264 comics. And, understand, that's just for five publishers — it doesn't even consider companies that are really considered variant-heavy like Avatar, BOOM! or Dynamite.
Man, talk about wasting time and effort, of creating confusion within databases, and more things to unnecessarily track to no real positive end. It costs real costs in time, money, employee hours to produce and market, to order and track, to pick and rack, to ship and manage all of those variant covers — and just how are we better off for all of that? Just exactly how does this bring in new customers? Or does it end up chasing readers from the hobby when they're inundated with a bunch of overpriced nonsense that doesn't increase their true enjoyment of the entertainment package one iota?
The problem is that it deforms publishing and weakens our understanding of the actual size and shape of our market. It creates artificial expectations of how and why and, really, what is "a marketing plan," and, in the end, every variant that comes out weakens the market a little more for the ones that come after it.
On the smaller publisher end, I think the path is even more insidious. We've even got a publisher (BOOM!) who now labels the "real" (non-"collectible") version of his comics as "Main Covers" with an "s" there at the end. Gross! I love a lot of what BOOM! publishes, and I really like owner Ross Richie personally, but ordering their comics for sale each month? My soul dies a little bit every time I have to wade through their section of the order form.
The same goes for Avatar and Dynamite and IDW. And, increasingly, Marvel and DC…
And if you ask Ross, or other publishers in the same boat as him, why in God's name they engage in the Franklin Mint-ing of an artistic medium that they truly love, of why they're actually debasing the thing they are the most passionate about in the name of Mammon, of greed and foolishness, they'll tell you, quite earnestly, that many of the largest retailers have indicated that they'll cut their orders by half or more if there are not 50/50 variant covers (or 50/25/25, or whatever other permutation you can think of) on every launch. And, thus, the publisher's business plan effectively becomes "We hope enough people will buy two (or more) copies of our comic."
And we wonder why the market seems shaky?
Meanwhile, in my corner of the world, those 50/50 (or whatever) covers make my racks messier, creates customer confusion, and therefore, I firmly believe, ends up yielding less copies sold for everyone.
Further, all of those variant covers create more work for me, as a retailer. Those 419 lines to solicit 264 titles? Those stay in my database forever. There's no easy or trivial way to get rid of them that doesn't simply cause more busy-work. And it means, ten years from now, if I'm trying to ping the database on a common term like "Batman," I have to wade through the four different entries for each issue this past year. 2-400% expansions of search results is seldom a positive goal.
This is all the publisher's fault.
Well, except, really, it is the consumer's fault, isn't it?
"If people didn't want them, they wouldn't produce it!"
But does that make it right? I mean, plenty of people want plenty of things that aren't any good for themselves or for society — and as a society we limit (or at least try to) access to these things because they aren't good for you. Some people want heroin, and some people want armor-piercing bullets, but we don't pretend that these are things that are good for people.
Yes, comics are different in that they obviously aren't doing direct harm to people (except, y'know, paper cuts or something) — but it seems equally clear to me that they harm the greater marketplace in a whole myriad of ways.
But it also seems entirely clear that unless you, the consumer, stop buying the things, the ethical midgets will continue to happily fleece you like sheep.
Look, I really do understand the why of it: it isn't like I'm not sometimes one of you as well — when I collect something, there's that little buzz from knowing you have a cool collection, and an even bigger one from having a "complete" collection. I get that, I really and truly do.
But I also get that we are, in fact, thinking and reasoning people, and that we should be able to distinguish the difference between collecting things because we truly enjoy and admire the subject of our collecting, and collecting things that are solely being manufactured because they know you collect things. The first is a virtue; the second is being a sucker.
So, let's be real here: you're usually being ripped off if you pay more than cover price for new comics in the first month. There are, very occasionally, legitimately "hot" comics where the real demand radically outstrips real supply, and the short-term cost rises as a function of the legitimate market — but these are truly few and far between in the modern comics industry because virtually no publisher isn't instantly going back to press to meet any demand they possibly can. And most people (honestly) don't give a damn what printing they have, they simply want to be entertained.
Are you dumb? I mean, I'm hoping you're not, but let's talk the truth here: the retailer doesn't pay any more for any variant cover than they do for the regular version. The comic has a $2.99 cover price? Your retailer is paying something on the order of $1.50 for it. The 1:10 they're charging $15 for? They paid about $1.50 for it. Oh, the 1:200 they're charging $200 for? Yes, they paid about $1.50.
Now, if you want to pay a 1000% markup, that's clearly your own business, but I have to ask you: what's the liquidity of your investment? How easy would it be for you to sell back your copy if you needed to? Because, of course, few retailers would even pay you back even a quarter of what you just paid for that variant if you came back in 30 days, let alone a year.
Ultimately, publishers produce these things because you buy them — if you were to stop, if you were to collectively say, "No, I'm no longer willing to be ripped off!", the entire process would go away overnight.
So, it's all the consumers fault.
There, so you see that it is actually everyone's fault — publisher, retailer, consumer.
Actually, you know whose fault it probably isn't? The distributor's fault.
I mean, distribution is hard enough to make money from on those thin margins, anyway, and all of the cost-of-labor is front-loaded into the very first copy packed and picked. It doesn't help any distributor to have 40% of the items they're distributing be primarily single- and double-copy pulls that don't have a larger cover price and that are disproportionately susceptible to damages.
So I don't blame distribution.
But the rest of you? Oh yes, this is your fault.
Here's the thing, though: I think this could all go away within months if only the retailers would look deeply at their actions, and how any slender benefit they might gain isn't worth all of the business they've chased off over the years. If you consumers would firmly plant a flag and declare "No, actually, I'm not OK with you making 1000%+ markup on a new item," boom, the whole thing would collapse overnight.
Look: anyone can do whatever they like, of course, but it is my firm, and unshakable belief built over four different decades of retailing comics that those people who choose to sell any new comic for more than cover price, in any circumstance (well, OK, maybe not if there's a charity involved, when I think about it…) are lowdown moral reprobates, and greedy, horrible people. I have given strong (I think) arguments as to exactly why I think this is, and for the concrete harm that it does to the marketplace, and we can watch how the market has changed since the '80s to show that, yes, most of the concerns I've expressed have sharply come true. And in the 23 years I've been saying this, crazy-eyed, in front of my peers, I do not believe that anyone has ever successfully won even an inch of territory on the "pro" variant side except for "who are you to tell me…?"
Me? I am no one to tell you.
But if you're a retailer, and you feel even a scintilla of guilt or shame over my personal belief that you're disgusting pieces of filth for rooking the guileless, then you really should look more carefully at your actions, and the ramifications that they actually have.
I like to believe that I have been a consistent moral voice on this issue, and that thus I have the moral high ground, but maybe not. Maybe there's not even such a thing, I don't know — I'm a comics retailer, not a Philosopher King. Either way, if you don't ascribe to my morality on this topic, then what could you possibly care what I think?
The only reason any retailer is going to argue with me on this subject, I think, is because they don't want me to think that they're scum on this topic. Well, the reality is I am going to think that, just as I always have thought that, and always will think that. If anything, my belief has gotten nothing but stronger over the years because we can witness just how comics has changed (in my opinion: for the worse) over the decades because of this moral leprosy.
This is the simplest possible lesson that our market can finally learn — and it is the base lesson that has nearly destroyed the very market itself on no less than two different occasions within my lifetime, and that, even today, chips away at the confidence of the readership every week, every month that passes. We are smarter than that, we are better than that, and I really wish that the market would finally realize this and grow up to have moral relationships with a customer base that, in too many ways, simply doesn't know any better.
I think we can build a better and more ethical future, I really do, and the first step is just not to take the laziest, greediest of all possible courses of action.
Brian Hibbs has owned and operated Comix Experience in San Francisco since 1989, and is one of the founders of , the Comics Professional Retailer Organization (even if this column and every other one is purely and entirely his individual viewpoint as an individual retailer!) Feel free to e-mail him with any comments. You can purchase two collections of the first Tilting at Windmills (originally serialized in Comics Retailer magazine) published by IDW Publishing, as well as find an archive of pre-CBR installments right here.
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Purchasing a management rights complex is as exciting as it is challenging for those who wish to become part of this industry.
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After more than 15 years specialising in providing finance to the management rights industry, it's clear that some prospective purchasers are better prepared than others. So I've provided some tips below to help you make a more informed decision, after all this could be one of the biggest decisions you make!
- Use professionals with industry experience, this means your financier, the accountant for the verification report and your solicitor. A good way to define industry experience is that dealings with the management rights industry are a core activity for the professional you intend to use. The completion of one or two transactions is not enough and we've seen some costly mistakes made.
- While your specialist agent (one that only deals with buying and selling management rights) is an invaluable source of information, you'll still need to undertake you own research, such as talking to existing management rights operators – you will find they're usually more than willing to discuss their industry.
- Attend seminars about the management rights industry. Apart from the knowledge you will gain, they also increase your network of people who are going into this industry and they'll be going through the same issues that you're experiencing.
- Ascertain your purchasing capacity before you start looking at complexes, this will save you a lot of time and money. Your specialist financier will be able to assist to work out this affordability.
- Your financier will also be able to help with getting your finances in order so you can be ready to purchase. If you're thinking about retaining a property to use as equity you need to be realistic as to the value of that property and a current valuation will help your financier. Alternatively, if your equity is cash, your financier will ask how much is available for equity as you'll need something to live on between now and up to your first income payment from the new business.
- Your financiers will need the details of the location of the complex, what type of complex it is and whether or not it is new or existing, as they may have certain exclusions. This will often apply to financiers who don't specialise in the management rights industry and if there are any exclusions, you need to know early on before you have wasted your time.
- Ask your financier to provide you with a likely borrowing scenario(s), as no two complexes are the same and these scenarios will help you make an informed decision.
- If you have a business partner, discuss your roles prior to settlement as you need to both have clear expectations so the partnership can run smoothly.
- Advise your agent of any special needs such as pets. If you have a pet and are looking at a complex that doesn't allow pets and, if there's resistance to having that by-law changed, reconsider if that's the complex you should be spending your energy on!
- Ask the agent if the net operating profit of a particular complex is the vendor's best guess or if they have had their figures verified by an industry specialist accountant. The more accurate the vendor's figures, the less chance there is of disappointment if there's a variance.
- Work out what type of complex will suit you. Different styles of complexes suit different people and holiday complexes have different features and benefits to permanent complexes. Ask yourself what your specific needs are and write down the pros and cons for each style and discuss these with your specialist agent. Another way to assess the proposed business is to look at the pros and cons as if you were selling the complex and not buying, doing this will give you a different perspective.
- Compromise. The perfect complex that ticks all the boxes probably doesn't exist! You may be more focused on the income being generated rather than the size of the manager's unit or the size of the manager's unit may be your priority to accommodate a larger family. Compromise is a part of the purchase process and deciding what complex best suits you and your particular circumstances.
- Keep notes. No one should be concerned that you are keeping records of what is being said.
- When your loans are approved make sure that you read the entire financier's conditions; there may be some onerous reporting requirements that can unnecessarily take a lot of your time and cost you money to comply. Ask your financier upfront with regards to what reporting requirements they will condition into the loan.
- Join the industry body ARAMA
- Don't be afraid to ask questions.
The material and information in this article contains general advice. This material and information has been prepared without taking account of your objectives, financial situation or needs. You should consider the appropriateness of any general advice before acting on it and obtain your own specific legal advice.
Tim O'Donnell has over 35 years experience in the financial industry with the last 15 years specialising in lending to the management rights industry and being an active participant within the industry.
Tim and Jocelyn Codd are owner-managers of BOQ Burleigh Heads and their customers often refer to the branch as being "management rights friendly".
At BOQ Burleigh Heads we acknowledge that no two complexes are the same and each one needs to be individually assessed, together with taking into account the client's individual financial position and future requirements.


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Amid hopes of a stable and reform-oriented government after the general elections, foreign investors pumped in Rs 9,600 crore in Indian stocks in April, the eighth consecutive month of inflows. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought shares worth Rs 74,985 crore and sold stocks to the tune of Rs 65,383 crore, resulting in a net inflow of Rs 9,602 crore ($1.6 billion), according to data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.This was the eighth consecutive month of net inflows by foreign investors after they pulled out Rs 5,923 crore from the stock market in August. FIIs withdrew Rs 9,185 crore ($1.51 billion) from the debt market last month. According to market analysts, FIIs are bullish on India and expect a stable government to be formed after the Lok Sabha elections.
Corporate earnings, FIIs to remain in focus this week: Experts
With no major data due this week, stock market investors are expected to focus on the ongoing quarterly earnings and foreign fund inflows for further cues, analysts said. Major earning announcements this week are of companies such as HDFC, Lupin, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Union Bank of India, GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare and Ranbaxy Laboratories. "Currently, participants are keeping a cautious approach due to the prevailing earnings season and the ongoing general elections. We expect this mood to continue in the coming week as well. As of now, broader bias is still on the positive side," said Jayant Manglik, president retail distribution, Religare Securities Limited.
Non-life insurance premium rises by 10% in March
Total premium income of non-life insurance companies, including four PSU insurers, increased by 10.6 per cent to Rs 7,904.83 crore in March. The gross premium collection of four PSU insurers — National Insurance, New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance and United India Insurance — rose by 7.3 per cent year-on-year to Rs 4,422.32 crore in March. The four PSUs accounted for about 56 per cent of the total premium collected by 28 general insurance companies in March.
Indiabulls Housing Finance to raise R4,500 cr via bonds in FY15
Mortgage lender Indiabulls Housing Finance (IBHF) is aiming to raise Rs 4,500 crore through bond issues in 2014-15, a top company official has said. "We will raise Rs 4,500 crore in this fiscal through bond issues and on a net basis, excluding repayment of earlier bond issues, the same will be Rs 3,500 crore," the company's managing director and chief executive Gagan Banga sad. In 2013-14, it raised Rs 10,525 crore through the bond issuance route, which contributed to 26 per cent of the incremental borrowing done by the company.
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Documenting a Family History
Finding your roots requires being somewhat of a detective. You start by asking questions. Sometimes, the answers you get are completely wrong. Sometimes they lead you to documentation that gives you some clues about where you came from. That documentation forms the basis for further family history research, and serves as proof that your information is correct.
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Application Forms 2017 - 2018 (2017-03-31) (2017-04-30)
By Ken Brooke - Chief Executive
Please find attached an application form for season 2017 - 2018. Clubs are asked to complete the application form in full. TBA answers will see the form returned. The closing date for applications is 30th April 2017.
Any new clubs applying must forward a cheque for £250.00 (per team) and any existing club wishing to add an extra team must also forward the same amount (£250). All current clubs and teams have NOTHING to pay until the AGM in June for the season's fees.
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Any new clubs wishing to apply will be subject to an interview with the Management Committee and these meetings will take place early in May so that you will have an early indication of whether you have been successful.
Any queries pleas use the League office phone 0208 460 6779, Thank you.
We look forward to receiving your applications.
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Eddie Redmayne has become a father for the first time, welcoming a daughter.
The British actor, 34, and wife Hannah Bagshawe placed an announcement in Britain's The Times newspaper on Saturday (18Jun16) stating they had become parents to a baby girl, Iris Mary.
The announcement gave Iris Mary's date of birth as Wednesday (15Jun16), and their spokesperson confirmed the news to British newspaper The Sun, saying, "Yes, I can confirm it's true."
Eddie and Hannah, who married in 2014, revealed they were expecting a child together at the Golden Globe Awards in January this year (16), with the couple confirming to E! Live From the Red Carpet host Ryan Seacrest that Hannah was pregnant.
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529 News
Recent Federal News
President Trump signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law
(December 17, 2017) - The GOP tax reform expands 529 plan benefits to allow qualified withdrawals for K-12 private school expenses. The new law also allows a person living with a disability to rollover a traditional 529 plan to an 529 ABLE account without tax consequences.
New bills announced that would enhance ABLE Act
(March 18, 2016) - A new package of bills intended to strengthen the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act were recently introduced. These include the ABLE to Work Act, which will allow working people with disabilities to save a portion of their income in a 529 ABLE account, the ABLE Financial Planning Act, which will allow rollovers from a 529 college savings account to an 529 ABLE account, and the ABLE Age Adjustment Act, which will raise the age limit for ABLE accounts from 26 to 46.
President Obama signed the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act
(December 21, 2015) - President Obama signed the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act on December 18, 2015 which makes several changes affecting 529 plans, RETROACTIVE TO THE BEGINNING OF 2015.
1) Qualified higher education expenses (QHEE) includes expenses for the purchase of (1) computers and certain peripheral equipment under the control of the computer (e.g. printers); (2) Internet access and related services; and (3) computer software. Such purchases are only qualified if the items are to be used primarily by the beneficiary during any of the years the beneficiary is enrolled at an eligible education institution. Expenses for computer software that is designed for sports, games, or hobbies is generally excluded, unless the software is predominantly educational in nature.
2) A refund by an eligible educational institution of qualified higher education expenses paid with funds from a 529 plan can be recontributed to a 529 plan for which the student is the beneficiary in order for distributions to avoid inclusion in income. A recontribution must be made no more than 60 days after the date of the refund, and the recontributed amount cannot exceed the amount of the refund. A special transition rule provides that refunds received after December 31, 2014, and before December 18, 2015, may be recontributed not later than 60 days after the date of enactment.
3) Multiple accounts in a 529 program with the same owner and beneficiary no longer must be aggregated for purposes of computing the earnings portion of a distribution. Instead, the earnings portion of a distribution will be computed by each 529 program on an account-by-account basis.
Also under the PATH Act, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which was scheduled to revert to the old HOPE Scholarship credit at the end of 2017, is now permanent. The above-the-line deduction for qualified tuition and fees is extended through 2016.
A point of confusion concerns Section 529A ABLE accounts. The Joint Committee on Taxation description of the PATH Act refers to a provision that would permit limited rollovers from a 529 account to a 529A account without penalty. However, the rollover change does not appear to be part of the final PATH Act. The law does remove the requirement that ABLE accounts be established only in the state of residence of the ABLE designated beneficiary or a contracting state.
More Federal News
- New FAFSA timing rules may affect 529 plans (09/16/2015)
- House Committee approves HR 529 (02/12/2015)
- President Obama drops proposal to tax withdrawals from 529 plans (01/28/2015)
- HR 529 would provide 529 improvements (01/27/2015)
- President Obama proposes reduction in 529 tax benefits (01/20/2015)
- Twice-yearly investment changes in 529 accounts gets House okay (12/05/2014)
- Inflation adjustment affecting college savers (10/31/2014)
- Student loan interest rates headed upward (05/23/2014)
- Congress to consider bill improving 529 plans (03/31/2014)
- IRS says bonus paid to open a 529 is a 1099 event (03/15/2013)
- Congress votes to keep higher-education tax incentives (01/02/2013)
- House bill would extend 529 use for K-12 expenses (06/21/2012)
- NextGen Select to add Savings Portfolio (02/01/2012)
- Court: Failed 529 rollover triggers tax, no penalty (11/11/2011)
- New tax law extends Coverdell ESA benefits (12/22/2010)
- Court case rules on Sec. 529 room and board (12/01/2009)
- IRS announces 2010 inflation adjustments (10/16/2009)
- Treasury issues report calling for 529 improvements (09/09/2009)
- Senate bill would provide consistent definition of education expenses (06/23/2009)
- White House asks Treasury for 529-plan improvements (04/20/2009)
- House bill would make 529 contributions eligible for saver's credit (03/12/2009)
- Economic stimulus bill adds computer expenses as 529-eligible (02/17/2009)
- Oregon pushes idea for using 529s to pay back student loans (02/03/2009)
- IRS to allow two 529 investment changes in 2009 (12/23/2008)
- Gift-tax annual exclusion to increase to $13,000 (09/17/2008)
- Section 529 regulations still an IRS priority (09/10/2008)
- President Bush signs higher-education reauthorization bill (08/15/2008)
- Military survivor benefits may be contributed to Coverdell ESA (06/18/2008)
- Supreme Court upholds Kentucky tax discrimination (05/19/2008)
- New law eases student-loan pressures (05/08/2008)
- House subcommittee to hold hearing on tax benefits for college (04/25/2008)
- Bush FY 2009 budget proposals similar to 2008 (02/04/2008)
- IRS to propose 529 anti-abuse rules (01/18/2008)
- Higher education bill introduced in the House (11/12/2007)
- IRS: Unchecked box does not spoil 5-year election (10/29/2007)
- IRS announces inflation adjustments for 2008 (10/19/2007)
- President Bush signs student financial aid bill (09/28/2007)
- Congress passes bill that will change financial aid treatment of 529s (09/08/2007)
- IRS lists 529 regulations as 2007-2008 priority (08/13/2007)
- U.S. Senate approves student aid bill affecting 529 treatment (07/20/2007)
- House bill would eliminate aid exemption for student-owned 529s (07/12/2007)
- Upward interest adjustment on some student loans (06/03/2007)
- Congress passes new kiddie tax on college students (05/25/2007)
- Bush FY 2008 budget includes watered-down LSA proposal (02/05/2007)
- 2007 tax inflation adjustments announced (11/10/2006)
- Congress passes 529 tax permanency (08/05/2006)
- Most Senators support 529 tax permanency (03/20/2006)
- New law makes changes to financial aid treatment of 529s (02/09/2006)
- Bush budget would impact 529 plans (02/07/2006)
- 60-day rollover deadline extended for hurricane victims (12/01/2005)
- Federal Tax Reform Panel to propose new family savings accounts (10/20/2005)
- GAO issues report detailing complexity of higher education incentives (08/30/2005)
- IRS keeps 529 regulations on priority list (08/12/2005)
- 529 permanency bill to be introduced in U.S. Senate (05/24/2005)
- 529 tax permanency bill is introduced in Congress (05/17/2005)
- Bush budget advances LSAs and 529 reforms (02/07/2005)
- Tax bill includes AMT relief for college students (09/24/2004)
- Section 529 regs are IRS priority (07/27/2004)
- 529 plans take center stage at Senate hearing (07/22/2004)
- House subcommittee conducts hearing on 529 plans (06/07/2004)
- Lifetime Savings Accounts bill introduced in Congress (03/31/2004)
- SEC seeking investor comments on proposed broker disclosure forms (03/16/2004)
- Bush tax proposals unveiled for fiscal 2005 (02/02/2004)
- Coverdell ESAs now share advantageous financial aid treatment (01/26/2004)
- Military Tax Act eliminates 10% penalty for academy students (11/15/2003)
- Congress recognizes importance of college savings (10/15/2003)
- Final 529 regulations remain a priority in 2003 (07/25/2003)
- Bush signs new tax cuts into law (05/28/2003)
- Technical correction provides a break from penalty (03/09/2002)
- IRS eases restriction investment direction (09/07/2001)
- Congress approves changing name of Education IRAs (07/23/2001)
- Tax Incentives for Education After the 2001 Tax Relief Act (06/07/2001)


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Premier League
Southampton 0-2 Crystal Palace
(McArthur 69', Milivojevic 80')
Swansea City 0-2 Tottenham
(Llorente 12', Alli 89')
West Ham United 2-1 West Bromwich Albion
(Carroll 59', 90+4')-(McClean 30')
Manchester City 3-1 Watford
(Sterling 1', Kabasele OG 13', Aguero 63')-(Gray 82')
European League Tables
Coppa Italia- Quarterfinals
Napoli 1-2 Atalanta
(Mertens 84')-(Castagne 50', Gomez 81')
Sacha Kljestan is on his way to Orlando City, as the New York Red Bulls sent the midfielder down south in exchange for forward Carlos Rivas and defender Tommy Redding. Going with Kljestan is $150,000 of TAM. He signed a new two year deal with the club and figures to fill the void left by the retired Kaka in the attacking midfield.
There were a handful of other MLS moves yesterday as well:
- The Portland Timbers acquired defender Julio Cascante from Deportivo Saprissa in Costa Rica. He's 24 years old and comes with over 100 pro appearances in Costa Rica
- FC Dallas signed Swiss defender Reto Ziegler from FC Luzern in the Swiss Super League. The 31-year-old also spend time with Tottenham and Wigan Athletic in England.
- D.C. United brought in Venezuelan international midfielder Junior Moreno. He was the captain at Zulia FC before coming to the states.
- The New England Revolution signed Isaac Angking to a homegrown contract. The 17-year-old midfielder is from Providence, Rhode Island and spent the last four years in the Revs Academy.
Today's Matches
Premier League
Arsenal v. Chelsea- 2:45pm- NBCSN
Copa del Rey- Round of 16 First Leg
Formentera v. Alaves- 1pm- beIN
Lleda v. Atletico Madrid- 1pm
Cadiz v. Sevilla- 3pm- beIN
Las Palmas v. Valencia- 3pm- beIN
Coppa Italia- Quarterfinals
Juventus v. Torino- 2:45pm


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Yakult Swallows: February 28, 2010
by Gen on Feb.28, 2010 @ 6:51 pm, under NPB, Spring Camp
...Masato Nakazawa threw 172 pitches in a bullpen session on Sunday. He told reporters that he's now throwing his fastball at about 80%. He and Takahiro Araki will be returning to Tokyo on Monday for a rookie seminar on 3/2.
...According to Shigeru Takada's quote from Saturday, Masanori Ishikawa, Kyohei Muranaka, and Yoshinori Sato are the team's three main starters.
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Found Grocery List #3
Some years ago I came across a collection of found grocery lists. I thought this was a swell idear. Ever since I've been keeping an eye out for discarded lists (Grocery List #1, Grocery List #2).
Today I found a forsaken list over at the Glenmont Walmart (shudder, I hate that place but necessity called). Usually I fancy coming up with a bit of a backstory for the lists but this one stands on its own. It has a sort of artistic quality, doesn't it? What with the mixed media composition, the bold flourish of the script, and the sturdy card stock canvass....
Almost a poem really.
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The Situation In Ukraine Deteriorates
Though peace talks continue in Syria, the situation in Ukraine is worsening. This week's Batchelor-Cohen update is, therefore, a must listen.
Again, it is extremely important that you stay on top of this situation. Nowhere in western media will you find a similarly comprehensive and objective update on this New Cold War. As long as Mr. Batchelor and Professor Cohen continue to record these discussions, we will continue to post them and urge you to listen each week.
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The situation is deteriorating everywhere.
That's why it's called a global collapse.
Well I'm Prepared
For The Global Collapse. Keep Stacking
LMAO Call Granger He'll Get It Done. Get It? Lol
Collapse? Collapse? What Collapse?
I saw a unicorn jumping over a rainbow today. It was also reported by the MSM as an actual event...
No mention of any crises in the world, just the unicorn jumping over the rainbow...
Is this a new season of Ukraine?
i thought it was canceled.
The music . . .
Totally creeps me out. But these guys know their ish.
SHTF soon? Seems like it might.
I'm sure that Mr. Putin...
...is making a grave mistake trusting the US Administration. IMO the US and NATO are very probably planning from the get go to renege on this cease fire agreement in Syria and do some sort of media campaign to explain all.
According to P. C. Roberts the US has reneged of every treaty it has ever agreed to even back to the days of the treaties made with the American Indian nations. Already Turkey has said they will not participate in any agreement.
Mr. Putin
Agreed J. Seifert. And the Russians know full well not to trust us. Our word is worth shyte. I remember reading over a year ago some where a Russian General saying we've been preparing for WWIIII ( Russia considers the Cold War as WWIII ) for three years now - that was two years ago -. I give this peace deal about a week before it blows. And one thing I noted was Mr. Cohen's comment that Vlad's face seemed deeply disturbed during his 10 minute presentation to the Russian people. If the settlement fails, and I believe it will as the Neo-Cons have no desire to see peace succeed, even the neo-cons may be wishing they hadn't gotten what they hoped for. This is an existential threat to Russia and China and Iran. They're survival may be only achieved with total victory. Which is defeat of NATO, Europe, and America and her allies. And a complete capitulation with War Crime trials for the Neo-Cons and there ilk.
Desert paint schemes
While the Russian and Norwegian front is scary.
Jim Willie predicted (about two years ago I think) that Putin will most likely create stalemate in Urkraine and let it implode. Which it appears to be doing. They have run out of other peoples money in Kiev. Even the IMF have said stop.
I also notice the machines are in Desert paint schemes.
Insular we are
Nothing in our MSM rags about these issues...
They must be trivial or too far away to affect us, at least as far as our lumpen heads are concerned...
Meanwhile our psychopaths are fighting to get better troughs by campaigning for the ultimate consular and UN jobs - pathetic!
IMF have stopped ?
Last I checked the IMF gave Ukraine the OK to default on it's Russian Gas Bill. Three billion dollars was owed. Is the Ukraine and Kieve exploding ? Yes. But the IMF is one of the big players behind all of this tragedy.


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Vocabulary Word
Word: pathological
Definition: pertaining to disease; N. pathology: study of disease
Definition: pertaining to disease; N. pathology: study of disease
Sentences Containing 'pathological'
The diagnosis can be made on pathological examination.
In 1875 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Zurich, where, as a student, he was an assistant to Karl Joseph Eberth in pathological anatomy.
Otto Haab made contributions involving pathological anatomy of the eye, as well as in treatment of eye-related lesions.
He presented a series of 32 cases, including autopsies in 29 instances, to correlate the clinical and pathological features.
The New York Pathological Society is a professional organization for pathologists in New York State.
It published the journal "Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society" at various times from 1875 until 1955.
The Babinski sign can indicate upper motor neuron lesion constituting damage to the corticospinal tract. Occasionally, a pathological plantar reflex is the first and only indication of a serious disease process and a clearly abnormal plantar reflex often prompts detailed neurological investigations, including CT scanning of the brain or MRI of the spine, as well as lumbar puncture for the study of cerebrospinal fluid.
She made pathological drawings of war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons.
The left squamosal in the frill side of the holotype shows a pathological opening, perhaps the result of a wound.
Audism is the notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or to behave in the manner of one who hears, or that life without hearing is futile and miserable, or an attitude based on pathological thinking which results in a negative stigma toward anyone who does not hear.
Other scholars claim that, by presenting their perversion as supernatural, or at least pathological, horror films precisely contribute to perpetuating those institutions.
The following is his prose paraphrase of the first two quatrains in order to better understand Shakespeare's language: "My love is like a fever; it keeps longing for the thing that strokes it and only makes it worse; it feeds on what makes it sick in order to gratify a volatile, pathological appetite.
Therefore, Appelbaum concludes that these quatrains "develop the idea of a man who, having contracted a pathological condition, has spun out of control, in the course of which a truth that is not truth at all begins to form in his mind: "desire is death" Next, he examines the idea of the divided self.
Along with a team of other scientists, Brothwell conducted a pathological examination of a Guanche mummy.
He was therefore able to correlate sounds captured by his new instruments with specific pathological changes in the chest, in effect pioneering a new non-invasive diagnostic tool.
Ketoacidosis is a pathological metabolic state marked by extreme and uncontrolled ketosis.
It is vital to systematically explain a gross appearance of a pathological state, for example, a malignant tumor.
In contrast to Charcot, Meige asserted that disturbances of the extrapyramidal system were manifestations of pathological changes outside the pyramidal system.
From 1861 to 1879 Dr. Shrady was secretary of the New York Pathological Society, and president of that organization in 1883–84.
It is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands near the city center in the Old West neighborhood in a building that used to be the Pathological Anatomical Laboratory.
Since 2008, SMART has permanently settled in the former Pathological Anatomical Laboratory (PAL) in the Old West neighborhood of Amsterdam which is known for its diverse and eclectic ethnic and artistic community.
In order for formula_58 to be single-valued in configuration space, formula_56 has to be analytic and in order for formula_56 to be analytic (excluding the pathological points), the components of the vector matrix, formula_49, have to satisfy the following equation: where formula_66 is a tensor field.
The line integral yields meaningful results if and only if the corresponding (previously derived) Curl-equation is zero for every point in the region of interest (ignoring the pathological points).
The term "disease" is applied because the inherited abnormality causes a pathological condition that can lead to death and severe complications.
There are two types of referred itch: normal and acquired (pathological).
Acquired or pathological mitempfindung is the effect of damage to the central nervous system and only lasts for a short period of time.
The cause of referred itch in healthy individuals is still not known for certain, but there are a multiple recorded cases of referred itch being triggered by certain pathological stimuli.
In 1866 he became "médecin des hôpitaux" in Lyon, and from 1884 to 1908 was chair of pathological anatomy to the Faculté de Médecine.
Another principal work of his was a treatise on pathological anatomy titled "Traité d'Anatomie Pathologique Générale" (1904).
In 1919, he undertook a pathological study of the then-ongoing influenza pandemic.
Some people are born able to control their expressions (such as pathological liars), while others are trained, for example actors.
The prevalence of pathological, dominating hierarchies throughout history has given hierarchy a bad name.
Wilber describes vision-logic, a non-dominating, global awareness of holistic hierarchy, in which the pathological dissociations of Nature from Self, interiority from exteriority, and creativity from compassion are transformed into healthy differentiations.
Plotinus' attack on Gnosticism is described in order to trace differences between healthy and pathological approaches to ascent.
The result was the rise of "Thanatos" (Freud's death drive), and "Phobos" (existential fear), which are the respective pathological versions of "Agape" and "Eros".
He conducted research in almost all fields of morphology, making contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the nasal cavity, the anatomy of the facial skeleton, blood vessels, the brain, chromaffin system, et al. He was married to the Galician-Austrian writer, journalist and critic Bert(h)a Szeps.
Clinical Chemistry and Nuclear Medicine, Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Microbiology, Pathological anatomy, Radiology Adult and Children Psychiatry, Adult Habilitation
Ó Glacáin was a pioneer in pathological anatomy, with his work predateing that of Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) by several decades.
Exploiting the naive cop's pathological "hero-worship" complex, Jigsaw and his new psychiatrist girlfriend turn the young man into a new version of the Punisher.
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More Vocab Wordssubstantive - substantial; essential; pertaining to the substance; substantial; considerable; Ex. substantive issues
inane - silly; senseless; Ex. inane remarks; N. inanity
pigment - coloring matter (usually powder to be mixed with water or oil)
perverse - purposely continuing to do something wrong; stubbornly wrongheaded; perverted; directed away from what is right; wicked and unacceptable; Ex. perverse satisfaction; Ex. Hannibal Lecter in a perverse mood; N. perversity
gerrymander - change voting district lines in order to favor a political party; N. CF. Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander
holster - leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist)
retinue - following; attendants
balk - stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil; stop or get in the way of; frustrate
apologist - one who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia
draught - current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time