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C2E2: Diggle Leads Daredevil into "Shadowland"
When you're one of the Marvel Universe's premier street level heroes, a dedication to making your world a better place and the ability to laser-focus on that goal are helpful tools. But can they also be weapons that your enemy uses against you? Writer Andy Diggle is currently exploring that question in his ongoing story in Marvel Comics' monthly "Daredevil" series. Recently, Daredevil, AKA Matt Murdock, took control of the secret society of ninjas known as the Hand, and is trying to turn the shadowy clan of killers into a force for good. In order to do this, though, Murdock has had to make a number of morally questionable decisions.
This July, Daredevil's business with the Hand comes to a head in "Shadowland," a five issue miniseries by Diggle and artist Billy Tan that finds a number of Daredevil's costumed colleagues becoming alarmed by the Man Without Fear's currently uncompromising actions. CBR News spoke with Diggle about his plans for Matt Murdock and "Shadowland," which ties into the ongoing "Daredevil" series that Diggle co-writes with Antony Johnston and was announced Friday at the Mondo Marvel panel at the Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo.
The current "Left Hand Path" arc in "Daredevil," which comes to a conclusion in June with issue #507, sets the stage for "Shadowland." Matt Murdock has traveled to Japan for a top-level summit to help him consolidate his control over the Hand. But that control may only be an illusion.
"With 'Daredevil,' there's been a tradition of the writer leaving Matt Murdock in a very sticky situation when he passes the title on to the next writer. When Brian Bendis passed it over to Ed Brubaker, he left Matt Murdock in prison with his secret identity exposed; and when Ed passed it on to me, Daredevil had just taken over leadership of the Hand, who had previously been his arch enemies. So that's inherently an exciting place to start my run, because the story's already up to full speed. I get to grab that ball and run with it. Dramatically, I have to deal with the repercussions of Matt's decision. What is he going to do now and how did this happen?" Diggle told CBR News. "My first year of 'Daredevil' is about addressing this fundamental question – why did the Hand choose Matt? Because on the surface, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Matt Murdock doesn't kill, and the Hand are assassins. That's kind of a conflict of interest!"
"Matt has been driven to extremes by the relentless burden of what he's been put through over the past year," Diggle continued. "But certain elements within the Hand have their own agenda, which Matt is not yet fully aware of. Seeing these intrigues interweave and play out will lead us into 'Shadowland' – which is the point where all the various plot threads converge… and explode!"
Thematically, "Shadowland" is about the battle for Matt Murdock's soul. "I read this great interview with Frank Miller where he said, 'With all the hardship Matt Murdock has been through in his life, why didn't he end up a bad guy?' And I think that question really gets to the core of Matt Murdock as a human being. Why didn't he become a bad guy? So I thought it would be really interesting to explore that question, and see what would happen if you pushed him. Tempted him." Diggle remarked. "The Hand aren't trying to break him or beat him down like he was in 'Born Again.' Instead, the question is whether he'll be corrupted by the temptation of power. He's never really wanted power before. That's not part of his nature. Power has always just been a means to an end. But the situations he's been through recently have been so extreme, his moral compass has gotten a little bent out of shape."
While Matt Murdock has been completely wrapped up in his own emotionally-draining personal life, the wider Marvel Universe has gone to hell in a handbasket under Norman Osborn's Dark Reign. Now Murdock feels that it's time for Daredevil to step up and make a stand. "Daredevil's saying, 'Okay, fine. If this is what it takes to do the right thing now, I'm going to take it as far as circumstance requires.' Rather than letting the Hand turn him to the dark side, he thinks he can turn them to the light side. Which was, of course, Master Izo's plan all along," Diggle explained. "Daredevil is one of the few iconic characters where you can make this kind of moral dilemma really work. With most characters, you know which way they'd jump in any given situation, but Daredevil still has the capacity to surprise you, because he's poised on the borderline between light and dark, good and evil, justice and vengeance. And that makes him a great character to play out these grand, operatic morality plays."
The lead up to "Shadowland" occurred during the "Dark Reign" era of the Marvel Universe, when Norman Osborn held power. In order to "protect" the people of Hell's Kitchen from the corrupting influence of Norman Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R., Daredevil made a number of morally dubious decisions, the most extreme of which was his declaration of martial law in Hell's Kitchen, enforced by his army of Hand ninjas. When "Shadowland" begins Norman Osborn is no longer in power, and the new "Heroic Age" of the Marvel Universe will have dawned – but it seems Daredevil didn't get the memo.
"All the other heroes are looking at Matt Murdock carrying out this very extreme, dark, militaristic operation, and they're saying, 'Hey, you can chill out now. Everything's cool. The good guys won!' And when Matt doesn't chill out, they start to get seriously worried about him," Diggle said. "So his friends Danny Rand and Luke Cage decide that they need to have a quiet word with him to de-escalate the situation."
Daredevil does something in the first issue of 'Shadowland' that causes events to spiral out of control, and a conflict erupts that pits him against many of the Marvel Universe's other street level heroes. "I could give you a list of characters, but some of them are supposed to be surprises and I don't want to spoil it. But I can reveal that you will see Moon Knight, Punisher, Colleen Wing, Misty Knight and Spider-Man – who's been a lot of fun to write. You always want to have a joker in the pack. Like, 'The Losers' was very dark and gritty, but there was always Jensen in there to lighten the tone a bit. Here, Spidey is my Jensen. When you want to put a grin on the reader's face, Spidey's a great character for that. He's also a voice of reason. He's such a grounded, decent guy. With all these huge egos running amok and Daredevil wrestling with the weight of the world on his shoulders, sometimes you just want a regular Joe like Spidey to come along and give you a little bit of perspective."
Matt Murdock didn't attempt to take control of the Hand alone, having the costumed heroes Black Tarantula and White Tiger working alongside him, and both characters continue to have pivotal roles to play in "Shadowland." "Black Tarantula is kind of the voice of Matt's conscience while Matt's becoming more and more uncompromising. But, of course, there is the whole thing about the road to hell being paved with good intentions," Diggle explained. "So Black Tarantula and White Tiger are the kind of grounded human characters who are there to ask him, 'Are you sure that's a good idea? Are you sure you really know what you're doing?' Also, they're there to watch his back, keep an eye on the Hand and to be his intermediaries and emissaries. They'll start to have serious misgivings about the directions he's taking. They won't say so publicly, but privately they'll ask him if he's sure he knows what he's doing."
"Shadowland" isn't just a story of heroes. Wilson Fisk, the villainous Kingpin of Crime, and his ally Lady Bullseye will also have parts to play in the story. "In recent issues of 'Daredevil' we've seen that the Kingpin is quietly taking over other New York gangs. He's been freeing prisoners and having them work for him, but they think they're working for people like the Owl or the Hood. He wants the street to think that the Kingpin is a spent force, while actually he's quietly consolidating power behind the scenes," Diggle stated. "He's patiently playing the long game, rather than trying to make a grab for power right now. Occasionally he will step out of the shadows to topple a domino, then step back and watch the effect ripple out across the city."
The Kingpin's machinations will result in some unusual alliances taking shape in "Shadowland." "Because the Kingpin seems to be going straight while Daredevil seems to be going dark, it's going to create some very strange bedfellows, so to speak. Kingpin steps up and says, 'You know, somebody is really going to have to take this Daredevil guy down.' And the heroes are kind of reluctantly forced to agree with him," Diggle remarked. "So it puts people into very unexpected and uncomfortable alliances. There's a certain amount of friction that will be generated by that."
At the same time "Shadowland" is unfolding Diggle, his co-writer Antony Johnston, and artist Roberto De la Torre will be spinning a parallel story in "Daredevil" #508-511, adding to "Shadowland" while standing on its own. "The two stories are designed to stand alone, but it also works if you read them together," Diggle explained. "Antony and I have plotted the arc so you can zig-zag between the titles if you want, or you can read either title on its own, and the story still makes sense – which is ultimately kind of a plotting challenge. The plots run parallel without crossing over too much, which makes life a lot easier."
In "Shadowland," readers will be treated to huge superheroic battles, while in "Daredevil," Diggle and Johnston will examine the smaller and more intimate aspects of the conflict. "'Daredevil" will be more focused on the ground level characters like Dakota North, Foggy Nelson and Detective Kurtz," Diggle revealed. "Also, you'll get to see a lot more of what's going on in Matt's life within the walls of Shadowland. The high concept of 'Shadowland' is 'Daredevil Is The Bad Guy,' but within the pages of the 'Daredevil' title, we get to see a little more of how things look from his point of view."
Another important character in the "Daredevil" story is the community of Hell's Kitchen. "We get a sense of how the presence of the Hand and their Shadowland fortress is affecting the ordinary guy on the street. It's a pretty crazy, extreme thing that's going on. There's a giant Japanese castle right in the middle of their neighborhood, and the streets are being patrolled by ninjas," Diggle said. "For ordinary people, that's kind of weird and scary. They'd already got their heads around the fact that they had a local guardian in this Daredevil character, and that was kind of weird and scary, but they knew he was a good guy. But this is a whole other order of magnitude. It's gotten weirder and scarier, and frankly, they're not crazy about it. They want the cops back."
"Shadowland" comes to a conclusion in November, and Diggle is currently hard at work planning out where "Daredevil" is going beyond the epic storyline, which will leave Matt Murdock in a dramatically different place, both physically and emotionally. "I'm currently mapping out the arc after 'Shadowland,' and it's very much focused on Matt as a person. We get back inside his head in a way that we haven't done for a while now," Diggle said. "You'll notice that in my run I haven't been using an interior monologue for Matt, except when he dreams. So the only time you see his interior monologue is when we see into his subconscious. And there's a very specific reason for that, which will become apparent during the course of 'Shadowland.'"
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Our football match prediction:
There will be fireworks when Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund face each other in the German Cup final on Saturday evening. The mighty Bavarians are eager to win the DFB Pokal trophy after failing to do so last season, but the clash against the Millionaires will be anything but a walk in the park for Pep Guardiola's men. Mats Hummels will play his last match for Borussia Dortmund before joining Bayern Munich, but, no doubt, he will give his best to help Thomas Tuchel's team win the German Cup title. Both coaches can count on their key attackers for Saturday's football game and there is every chance we will see goals galore at Olympiastadion Berlin. Last time out Borussia Dortmund eliminated Bayern Munich in the DFB Pokal semis and seeing that the Millionaires are desperate to save the season by winning the trophy, we predict that history is going to repeat itself.
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David Alaba started his youth career at SV Aspern and in 2002 he joined Austria Wien. Bayern Munich chiefs decided to sign him and he was promoted to the reserve team for the 2009/2010 campaign. He made 33 appearances for Bayern Munich II and he has been playing for the first team since 2010. At the age of 17 Alaba made his Champions League debut on 9 March, 2010 against Fiorentina. The Austrian international is a full back, but he is capable of playing as a left midfielder as well. He represented Austria at the 2016 European Championship finals in France, but das Team failed to impress at the showpiece tournament, suffering elimination in the group stages. David Alaba won his fifth Bundesliga title with Bayern in the 2015/2016 season and he clinched the Champions League trophy with FCB in 2013. Speaking of his individual honours, he was named Austrian Footballer of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Alaba was born in Wien on 24 June, 1992.
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1909 by eighteen footballers from Dortmund. Die Schwarzgelben (The Black and Yellows) play their home games at Signal Iduna Park, but the stadium's original name is Westfalenstadion. The capacity of Borussia's home ground is 81,539 and it has to be noted that the stadium was opened in 1974. BVB have the highest average attendance in the world of football. Borussia Dortmund have won eight Bundesliga trophies, while clinching the German Cup title three times. However, the club's biggest success came in 1997 when they outplayed Juventus in the Champions League final. Karl-Heinz Riedle scored a brace for BVB in the 3-1 win over Juve, with Lars Ricken finding the net in the title game as well. Borussia's biggest rivals are Schalke 04 and the two teams square off against each other in the Revierderby.

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DEPOT was a devised piece performed by The Mercury Theatre Company in Colchester, England, after a year-and-a-half of devising work. I participated in the first weeklong international artist workshop in July of 2008, which led to several devising weekends in Colchester in the year following. During the sold out run, off-site in two enormous abandoned tram sheds in Colchester, I played a role I had researched – John Wilbye, fused from two famous cases of homicide in Colchester's history, and the Renaissance madrigalist William Wilbye. The company assembled a DEPOT choir of community members to sing the six part madrigal Draw On, Sweet Night during the performance, which I conducted in character. Below are several videos showing the many one-of-a-kind nooks and crannies in this original play-cum-installation. At the bottom is a run through of the madrigal before one of the performances. DEPOT was written and directed by Gari Jones.
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(One Direction are not famous) He left us, my Dad. Mom made me move several times to many different towns and cities, Montana seemed like a perfect place to live. But of course, we move again to London and I meet him. He teaches me to have fun, to live more, and to forget about my Dad. He becomes my world, until something happens to us and I wish for him to forgive me.
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The Simpsons Parody Game of Thrones Intro
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In what might be the coolest thing we've seen, possibly ever- the masters of comedy at The Simpsons have parodied the intro for HBO's Game of Thrones series! There are several levels of awesomeness going on here so we'll leave you to find them and report them for yourself. Here is a link to the only place with a working video we could find just yet. We'll post one here soon (probably tomorrow if I know the internet!) Until then here are a few screen caps of some of my favorite shots from The Simpsons intro:
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The Simpsons already parodied Game of Thrones once back in the day but this has taken it to a whole 'nother level! Great work, guys! We can't stop watching it.
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On Feb. 12 and 13, 1951, elements of the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division, including 38th Infantry Regiment, suffered severe losses in combat with superior Chinese forces, near Hoengsong,during the Korean War. Photos shot three weeks later show the carnage on a frozen battleground. Remnants of a destroyed U.S. field piece are surrounded by fallen U.S. Army soldiers frozen on snow-covered ground. A severely damaged U.S. halftrack sits in the dirt. An unidentified jumble of burned out war machinery. Damaged 20mm dual mount anti-aircraft guns. U.S. Marines, of the 7th Regiment, in full field gear, entering the area for the first time since the February battle. They march over a snow-covered road, past remnants of the U.S. Army convoy that was fighting its way out of the area besieged by Chinese forces on all sides. A destroyed U.S. Army truck. Sign next to wreckage reads:"38th I.FL Co CP." A fallen American soldier frozen in a rice paddy. Smoke rising from Korean village buildings burning in background, above terraced landscape. More views of wrecked equipment and fallen soldiers. A mountain pass in the background. A destroyed truck. Suddenly black smoke starts rising in the background. A U.S. Marine standing near an M46 Patton tank. More debris and destroyed trucks.
United States 7th Marine Regiment at Hoengsong in Korea. Marines set 50 MM recoilless rifle on the hillside. Several Marines crawl around in the foreground wearing parkas. The rifle fired. Marines run across an open field in full combat gear with weapons ready. Other Marines in the foreground cover them. Mountains near Hoeng Song in the background.
United States 7th Marine Regiment at Hoengsong in Korea. Marines run across an open field in full combat gear with weapons ready. Other Marines in the foreground cover them. Mountains in the background. U.S. fighter aircraft dives and fires rockets on the mountains. Smoke rises due to the explosion.
H Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th U.S. Marine Regiment at Hoengsong in Korea. Two Marine F4U Corsair fighter aircraft attack enemy targets in the mountains. Smoke rises due to explosion. U.S. Marine in a parka fires M1919A4 Browning 30 Caliber air cooled machine gun.
Ambush and atrocity victims at Hoengsong in Korea. Two American soldiers lie dead on the ground. One man's legs tied with ropes at ankle. Mutilated hand of one man. Bodies of dead men scattered on the fields. Mutilated faces and bodies of atrocity victims. Legs of some bodies tied together. Most of the dead bodies half naked.
Wreckage of trailer jeep lay along side of road in Hoengsong Korea. Some wrecked jeeps and trucks. Man in the background examines a jeep. Ammunition belts lay along side of road near wrecked trucks. Several Marines come down the road. Wrecked U.S. military vehicles on side.


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LONDON — Record pirates are making millions of dollars from selling illegal tapes of the Live Aid concert, depriving African famine relief of some of the income it should have received, a producers` group said Friday.
The International Federation of Phonograph and Video Producers estimated that well over 1 million illicit Live Aid cassettes have been sold.
Manufactured in Indonesia, the tapes are on sale throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia, investigators for the producers` organization said. In Saudi Arabia, they are best sellers on at least six separate labels.
The investigators said some versions include most of the musicians and groups who took part in the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia in July. Some are sold in sets of eight cassettes.
The investigators said this is not the first time pirates have raided famine relief. A year ago, its investigators in Singapore discovered the piracy of the Band Aid recording, Do They Know It`s Christmas?
Following the success of USA for AFRICA`s We Are the World album, the producers` organization received reports of at least 30 illegal versions of the recording circulating in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Among the countries involved, investigators said, were Turkey, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and Portugal.


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"Chemical reactions that release oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, known as oxygen-evolution reactions, are a crucial part of chemical energy storage processes, including water splitting, electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, and ammonia production. The kinetics of this type of reaction are generally slow, but compounds called metal oxides can have catalytic activities that vary over several orders of magnitude, with some exhibiting the highest such rates reported to date. The physical origins of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood.
"Now, a team at MIT has shown that in some of these catalysts oxygen doesn't come only from the water molecules surrounding the catalyst material; some of it comes from within the crystal lattice of the catalyst material itself. The new findings are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Binghong Han PhD '16, postdoc Alexis Grimaud, Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, and six others." - MIT News


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Qandeel's brother sent on three-day police remand
The law enforcement agencies, who had arrested internet celebrity Qandeel Baloch's brother Waseem from Dera Ghazi Khan on charges of murdering his own sister, produced the suspect before a local magistrate in Multan.
The police had asked for physical judicial and their plea was accepted by the magistrate.
Internet celebrity Qandeel Baloch was strangulated to death by her brother named Waseem in Multan on Saturday.
Qandeel Baloch, was known for posting videos on social media websites, was also married to a person named Aashiq Hussain, a native of Kot Addu, but got divorced. She had a son during the marriage.
Earlier, he confessed to killing her and expressed no remorse for the crime. "I have no regret on what I did," he said.
"We are respected people of Baloch cast. Qandeel's videos making rounds on social media could not be tolerated, hence I myself decided to kill her. I am not ashamed of my act," he said.
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Congressman Al Green played a pivotal role in getting Locke and Hall to talk through their potential candidacies.
Both men are former city attorneys, and experts have said they could split the crucial African-American vote if both remained on the ballot.
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"It is in the best interest in the city that we both not compete for the same constituency," said Hall Monday morning. "And so with that, I gladly and freely withdraw my name and support Gene Locke."
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Coleman Evanston Screened 8 Tent - 15' x 12'
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Artist Juan Medina blends fruit with fun illustrations in this awesome series entitled 'Playing with Food.' This creative fruit baring series is equal parts drawing and produce.
One of these cute food-inspired artworks replaces hair with fresh blackberries. Another uses sliced kiwis in place of drawing wheels on a bike. There's one funny illustration of an unpleasantly plump gentleman in which the body has been made using half of a pomegranate. These charming fruity captures blend food and art in a clever way.
The title of the series seems fitting, considering that the food is used to represent inedible objects. This series looks good enough to eat and pairs people and produce in a way that makes you want to smile.
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The "Essay" explores the hypothesis that the key concept in the search for historical certainty should be "mapping" in a literal, not a metaphoric, sense. Readers can follow this essay as they would a traditional printed article, using menu bars and annotation to jump into the other media of the site. Readers can also encounter the concepts in that essay piecemeal, through links to its subsections in the "Concepts" page. But readers can also disregard the Essay altogether, because it is not essential to the site--only one of its elements.
The best analogy to "reading" this site is that of a newspaper: the reader's eye wanders between articles and images, relatively free from linear narrative. Readers should feel free to skip around from any starting point, using the omnipresent menu buttons on the top and left-hand side of each page. The most basic purpose of the site is to give readers an opportunity to explore Los Angeles in both overview and richness of detail, within the theme of the ultimate unknowability of any metropolis. How do we make sense of something so vast and historically mutable as a metropolis? Given the frequent claims that Rome, or Los Angeles, or São Paulo, or Paris, or New York, or Hong Kong represent(ed) important global trends, or that they stand/stood out as unique, how can we begin to sort out the certain and comparable knowledge assumed by these claims?
This web site is also an experiment in pursuing some empirical and interpretive strategies, in the hopes that we will soon move to a more productive stage of comparative urban historical scholarship. The unifying goal of this site is to exemplify the profound difficulties of performing urban history, given the daunting obstacles of scale, complexity, historical erasure, and postmodern skepticism--much of which has taken the urban condition as its touchstone. Without reading anything but this preface, readers should understand the following theme in all of the "locations" throughout the site: historical evidence in and about cities is inherently unstable, oscillating between the certainty that inheres in its mappability--its location--and the way specific evidence always raises consciousness of alternatives that were not identified or mapped.
The author believes that historians have a major responsibility in the contemporary crisis of knowledge to probe the claims made not only about specific cities but also about the possibility of certain knowledge. "It is scarcely possible to give a coherent historical account of an incoherent presence," E. P. Thompson wrote in another context, "but some attempt must be made."[3]


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So, uh, I didn't post this last week. Uh oh. Let me just say, blah blah, work, blah blah, all the corporate staff in town, blah blah…
OOH! Look! Star Wars kitten videos!
…so, yeah. That just happened.
Anyway, I'll have a post up in a couple of days to wrap up the Wishlist series. Sorry for the delay.


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It was common practice in the school.
Some of the teachers were supplementing their income by doing part-time teaching in nearby schools.
I was feeling the pain of working for a miserly salary.
And so I followed suit in order to bail myself from the shame of being unableto cater to the needs of my family.
So, I took on part-time teaching in-between my periods and after school, at a nearby school- a few metres away.
Perhaps, it was because I did not know how to work the system or, to put it more bluntly ,I did not grease the palm of the Principal that made me an unfortunate victim.
The principal gave me two warning letters to desist from my illegal activities but I did not take it seriously other teachers were doing what he said I was doing wrong without any reprimand.
He was determined to teach me a hard lesson.
He sacked me in December 2002 and withheld my salary for that month.
I tried to reason with him but he was resolute.
Quietly, I vacated his office to face a future without my usual mothly salary which when it was available could not take me half way through the month.
And now I was condemned to subsist without a penny!
When I passed the news to my wife, she was speechless. The shock was visible.But she had ideas.
She frequented the homes of relatives in the town to fetch a living for our family of four.
And the school where I went for the kangaroo teaching was supportive too. It took me on board full-time. However, the salary was not immediate. I had to anchor till the end of the month.
I trekked to school daily on an empty stomach.
My enthusiasm was not evaporated by the experience.I resolved to continue to work as usual with the firm belief that somebody somewhere will one day reward me for my industry.
I was punctual and regular as always.
Soon, I gained the attention of the Principal and the proprietors of the school.
Advertisements for the positions of Principal and Vice Principal were floated in the papers.
I applied.
I was interviewed.
Iwas told I excelled.
And I was catapulted to the post of Acting Principal of not only the senior school where I was teaching but the other two schools under their management- the juniour school and the madrasat.
That happened in July 2003.
The development was too sudden to be true.
But that was how I was stampeded into administration at the age of 37.I put every atom of my energy and every bit of my wisdom to please my grey-beard employers.
I spent days preparing time-tables for the schools and writing minutes of our fortnightly management committee meetings.
The students were happy about the change and everybody( except my detractors) felt that the schools were on the right track.
I motivated students and even chased them right into their classrooms to ensure they were to learn.
I reprimanded teachers for laziness and argued their case for increased salary before management. And this was achieved.
But my employers had other thoughts.
Rather than promote me for my hardwork which was acknowledged by all,I was superceded by a Principal and I was made substantive Vice Principal.Really, this was elevation though it was short of what I had expected!
But they say half a loaf is better than nothing.
I redoubled my effort.
The irregularity of the Bursar as well as the Principal converted me for better or for worse into an accountant receiving moniies from parents and students on their behalf. I had it but was compelled to do it to avoid accusations of inefficiency which would have blemised all of us.
Receipts that surfaced at the Principal's office exposed my action.
I met the Principal and explained the reason for my action. I was collecting the partial payments from indigent parents moost failed to come back to complete the payment.
The Proprietors and managers turned up in the school one morning to raise the matter.
As I BELIEVE IN TELLING THE TRUTH NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE, I made a clean breast of the matter.
They accused me of breaching established procedure.
I pleaded with the the grey-beards but they were uncharitable.
I must pay back the 26,000 dalasis immediately or risk the sack.
They withhold my salary for that May month in 2005 and sacked me despite my pleas for mer cy.
I was frog-marched to the police and detained until I was bailed by a student I had taught in the first school I worked in this country.
Later the ex-students in that school congregated, raised the money and paid it on my behalf before I regained my freedom.
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If you try drawing the locations of sunrise and sunset near your house over the course of a year, you will see that the Sun rises and sets and takes different paths across the sky in different seasons.
Some people have the misconception that different seasons happen because sometimes the Earth is farther from the Sun and sometimes it is closer. It makes sense -- when you are close to the Sun, it should be warm and summery, and when you are far away, it should be icy winter -- but this is not true. The Earth travels around the Sun in an almost perfect circle (it is only slightly eliptical -- the most accurate way to draw the earth's path around the Sun is as a circle). So it really doesn't change by much how far away we are from the Sun. Besides, we have summer in North America when it is winter in South America, so something else must cause the seasons.
The earth's axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees, so the Earth is never straight up and down compared to the Sun. When it is summer in North America, that is because the North Pole and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere are pointing toward the Sun. The Sun appears to stay in the sky longer each day (really, we are just pointed toward the Sun for longer each day). Because we spend more time in the sunshine and less in the shadow of night, our part of the Earth gets warmer, and we experience summer.
During the summer, the Sun is high in the sky. Therefore, rays of light from the Sun hit us more directly during summer, making the sunlight more intense and warmer. In winter, the Sun is low in the sky. The rays of light are spread more thinly, and they do not warm us as much.
Summer light Winter light
You can observe this with a small flashlight: hold it straight above a piece of paper and trace the edges of the lighted area. Then hold the light the same distance from the paper, but at an angle, as if it were the Sun low in the sky. The lighted area is much bigger, even though the light itself has not changed! A larger area of the paper is having to "share" the light and heat, so no part of the paper will get as hot as if the flashlight were overhead.
Even if you do not chart the locations of sunrise and sunset for a year, you can see an change in the sky during different seasons: the constellations seem to move. This is because we on Earth look out toward different part of the Universe as we orbit the Sun.
The hunter, Orion, appears tall in the winter evening sky. On summer evenings, Orion is hidden but the summer Triangle (the brightest stars in Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila) shines above us. The stars that make up these constellations haven't really moved -- we are just looking at them from a different place in our orbit around the Sun, so they appear in the sky at different times. In July, Orion is high in the sky mid-day. Then, the light from the Sun is so bright that we cannot see any of the stars in Orion.
During school hours, viewing any star other than our Sun is impossible. You can prepare students for nighttime observing by punching out or drawing the shapes of the constellations and telling the mythological stories from which the names of many stars and constellations are derived.
Familiarize older students with a star wheel, teaching them how to set the date and time to portray the sky above them. Alan MacRobert's article on Star-Finding With a Planisphere, adapted from Sky & Telescope Magazine, will help you get started.
These tips, adapted from NOVA, will also help young astronomers get started observing the night sky with the unaided eye:
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm A book-on-the-web about a wide range of advanced astronomy topics including stargazing, Earth's seasons, and the Moon.
www.skypub.com/tips/skycharts/planisphere.html Familiarize students with a star wheel, teaching them how to set the date and time to portray the sky above them with Alan MacRobert's article on Star-Finding With a Planisphere, adapted from Sky & Telescope Magazine.
www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/mythology/mythology.html Mythology of celestial objects including constellations, planets, stars, and the Moon.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worlds/stargazer.html Tips to help young astronomers start observing the night sky with the unaided eye.
© 2001 Challe Hudson
This web page was produced for Morehead Planetarium during a North Carolina State University astronomy class taken in pursuit of a Masters in Science Education.


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Want To Work At The Zombie Cafe?
Capcom is getting smart. Facebook game smart. Zombie Cafe is free to download for the iPad or iPhone, but you can speed up and make your game easier buy making in game purchases with real money. Just like Facebook games. Smart! Because those games are making billions and billions of dollars.
So, Zombie Cafe, in the game you are a restaurant owner who through the help of a biotech company has a staff of zombies. You get your staff to infect some unsuspecting patrons and use them as more staff, then the cooking begins. You can also send your zombies out to raid other cafes and steal their recipes. Screens and features past the break, game is out now on the portable apple devices.
* Transform customers into zombie waiters using toxin and have them do your bidding… but be careful! If you work a zombie too hard they'll get tired and will try and eat customers
* Raid neighboring cafes to steal recipes and toxin
* Decorate your cafe with more than 100 items from the store
* Collect and prepare more than 50 zombie-inspired recipes
* Connect with your Facebook friends to form a franchise: order food, collect fees, and share recipes
* Keep playing even when you don't have an network signal, or cook while you're online every day to earn special "Frequent Fryer" bonuses
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If you don't know The Suffers yet, be warned—the days when you can say "I knew them before they were big" are numbered. The second album of the eight-member "Gulf Coast Soul" band, Everything Here, leaves little doubt that they are the best group to come out of Houston in recent memory. Not only that, they … Continue reading Album Review: The Suffers, "Everything Here"
Time to Resurrect the Houston Oilers
On the heels of a disastrous 2017 season, the Houston Texans are at a crossroads in more ways than one. The team is reportedly negotiating a contract extension with coach Bill O'Brien, despite a 4–12 season and a 31–33 career record. Brian Gaine, the former vice president of player personnel for the Buffalo Bills, appears … Continue reading Time to Resurrect the Houston Oilers
"Sprawl" is Not a Four-Letter Word
Some words are hard to say without an involuntary sneer: Cockroach. Moist. Dallas. Given its modern pejorative usage, the word sprawl certainly belongs on this list. It conjures up images of massive freeways, unsightly strip malls, and low, spaced out single-family homes. When people describe Houston as the epitome of sprawl, they are using the term … Continue reading "Sprawl" is Not a Four-Letter Word
Texas High-Speed Rail Chugs Along
Texas Central Railway has reached a major milestone in its quest to connect Houston and Dallas with an all-electric, privately funded high-speed rail line. After four years of analysis, the Federal Railroad Administration ("FRA") just released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (the "DEIS"), a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act any time a project or … Continue reading Texas High-Speed Rail Chugs Along
How to Name a Houston Hockey Team
Houston hockey fans have reason to be cautiously optimistic about the chances of the NHL coming to town. New Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta has been outspoken about his desire to see professional hockey return to the Bayou City, even going so far as to meet with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in New York to discuss … Continue reading How to Name a Houston Hockey Team
The Inner-Inner Loop
Earlier this month, Downtown officials and partner organizations released a comprehensive plan for the continual revitalization of Houston's urban core. "Plan Downtown" provides a road map for improving the city center over the next twenty years and projects a bold vision for what Downtown could look like when the Bayou City celebrates its bicentennial on August … Continue reading The Inner-Inner Loop
JFK in Houston
On the fifty-fourth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is there anything left to say? With the exception of Jesus Christ, surely no single man's death has been the subject of more scrutiny, scholarship, and debate in the history of the world. And yet, the ongoing release of declassified documents related to … Continue reading JFK in Houston
One of the many things Hurricane Harvey revealed about Houston is how little the country knows about its fourth largest city. Apart from obvious word associations like "oil," "NASA," and "Beyoncé," few outsiders have more than a vague notion of what distinguishes the Bayou City from any other. The temptation is to equate this unfamiliarity … Continue reading Welcome


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Dear Heavenly Father,
I confess to You, Father, that I have lived as if I was an atheist for far too long. I know Your desire is for me to be in your family of faith, and I have not been willing to act like I am in that role for a really long time. Erase the desire to live like an atheist from my heart completely. I repent of my attitude of living like an atheist when I am not one at all. I confess also that I have become really good at being extremely judgmental about the way that other people live their lives. While I recognize that knowing right from wrong is a good thing, in terms of lifestyle choices, but I ask You to totally delete this judgmental attitude in my mind and heart currently. It's hateful, and if it's not from You then I don't want it, Father. I repent of having a judgmental attitude. I confess to You, dear Father, that I am an overly angry girl. I get mad about the most simple things, and I completely blow up over them. I don't blow up outwardly, Father. I self-mutilate by cutting myself over and over again as a way to transfer my emotional pain to physical pain. Physical pain has always been easier for me to deal with, Father, so I prefer it. I repent of my anger turned inwards, my rage filled heart, and the way I treat the body You knit together when I was in my mother's womb.
Thank You for waking me up today so that I could use this day to recharge and rejuvenate! I loved the perk of warm weather in my area today, and I liked that it was so warm that I didn't need a coat. Thank You also for the gift of a shower not interrupted by a fire alarm. Father, my dorm building is notorious for fire alarms, and there is always someone left behind in the shower or other awkward moments at those times. Thank You for not letting that happen to me. Thank You also, Father, for the food options on campus today. I love pasta, and tonight as You know, there was bowtie pasta with delicious marinara sauce at dinner, which I greatly appreciated and enjoyed.
Father, as You know, my brother is a two-time survivor of cancer and is under the age of 21 years old. I ask you to send a fleet of angel armies to protect him, watch over him, and keep him healthy and safe from harm or danger. I don't know what I'd do without this younger brother of mine in my life, and moreover I don't know what I did to deserve such a loving and loyal brother as him. I feel honored that You gifted me with him. Thank You. I'd also like to bring up a not as pleasant topic, Father. My boss has a nephew who just lost his mom and is really angry at the world. His idea of playing video games until 1 am and then going to high school during the day doesn't meet the standards of what others who care about him think. Protect this young man and guard his heart from the Evil One. Anger sometimes triggers the Evil One to act violently and try to take over these kinds of people, but let the power of the Holy Spirit bleed through every pore of this young man's body and ooze out from every inch of his soul. Let him know that it's okay to be sad but also not to live like he's dead just because his mom is. Let him feel Your holy presence in every aspect of his life. Help him. Also Father I would like to ask your blessing on the Phil's Friends Walk for Hope at the end of April. I would like to ask that You open the hearts of those we reach out to as students, so that we can reap the prayerfully considered financial harvest that Phil's Friends needs to operate as a nonprofit. I know the impact of Phil's Friends on cancer patients and their families, since they send cards to my brother all the time as a way to support him through his journey. It is a wonderful organization and I would love to support them any way I can.
I would like to ask at this time for Your blessing to pursue a career with Disney by starting out in the fall and applying to the Disney College Program. I know I've done this program before, but this time I want it to be different. I want to succeed at what I do, and I want to create the magic for so many other Guests like it was always created for me. I would like you to help me be patient with myself in finding new jar crafts to learn for the campus craft fair. I am a really huge perfectionist, and that tends to get in the way of things, especially when I'm expected to be patient. I also would love to have You help me be actively involved in making a laundry schedule and sticking to it. If I'm going to live in Florida for the Disney College Program, I'm going to need to do laundry. I need to practice, Father, so please nudge me along in the right path to do so.
In Your Son's holy name, I pray,


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Red Chief's bold, scarlet blooms are offset by blue/green foliage. This annual variety creates a splash of dramatic color in the spring/summer months.
About California PoppiesThis famous flower, the state flower of California, (a very similar sub-species is called Mexican Gold Poppy) carpets whole coastal hillsides up and down the Pacific coast, creating one of the most famous natural wildflower displays in the world, usually in April. Viewing this spectacle from their ships, Spanish explorers thought the "golden display" meant that there was in fact, gold to be found in the flowery hills.
California poppy performs well almost everywhere with its dusty dark green ferny foliage and brilliant golden orange cup shaped flowers. A blooming plant is somewhat frost-resistant, and often reblooms nicely in fall meadows.
Flowers close in cloudy weather. The name "Eschscholzia" is after the Russian botanist, J. F. Eschscholtz, who visited the California coast in the early 1800's.
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2011 Nissan Leaf SL: Easier Being Green
June 03, 2011
What you see above is the badge on our Leaf. No, the color balance is not out of whack on my camera, the badge is actually tinted blue. Blue? Why blue? I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the blue treatment. To me, it looks like somebody left the protective film on it -- the film that keeps shiny bits from getting scratched up in transit.
As a former designer, this is a minor annoyance. I get the whole "blue skies" association, but for me, green is where it's at. If it were up to me, I would've proposed something as subtle as green lettering.
Lexus uses blue inserts on their hybrids and it seems to work just fine. Here's the Nissan logo with green inserts added. I think it's a bit too much.
Since I thought I had already gone too far, I decided to push it even more. Maybe some nice glittery leaves. To my surprise, I quite liked it.
What do you think?
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Throughout The Car Industry
Haunted Highways: A Series Exploring The Ghosts of Cars Gone By (Quickly)
In the course of automotive history, there have been thousands of cars that have elicited almost as many emotions from us. Some cars like the Edsel or the Pontiac Aztek make us cringe and wonder if the best thing those designers ever created was their resume. Then, on the opposite end of the spectrum are the cars that we simply love instantly like the Tri-Five Chevrolets or the first generation Thunderbird. Then there are cars that simply blow out minds with their combination of speed and beauty. Cars that blend the perfect mix of power, and esthetic appeal are few and far between, but when they do come along, they ingrain their images in our memories forever. One of the best examples of these cars was the very first McLaren F1 created by Ameritech.
The F1 debuted in 1992 and continued production until 1998; it was created with one purpose in mind: To be the greatest car in the history of cars. Ameritech commissioned BMW's M-Division to hand-build a 6.1-liter, all-aluminum naturally aspirated V12 that would wind all the way up to 7500 rpm. Due to the extensive use of carbon fiber, heat insulation from the engine compartment had to be top priority, so designers used the best heat reflector they could get their hands on: Gold foil. The engine produced a massive 627 horsepower at 7400 rpm and 480 lb-ft of torque—thanks to an incredibly high 11:1 compression ratio—and variable valve timing—thanks to a version of BMW's VANOS valve timing system.
Aside from the gold foil-lined engine compartment and its butterfly-style doors, the F1 had yet another signature design aspect that put it on the map—a center-mounted single driver's seat with two passenger seats on either side and set slightly back of the operator's seat. Designers felt that this obviously would help maintain the car's balance. Designers were beyond meticulous when it came to the F1 in order to achieve their goal of building the best car of all time, and it paid off in spades when it came to performance.
Most 600 horsepower cars of the mid-late 1990s were nothing short of Pro-Stock cars. But the F1 was a car that could be driven daily, if one were so inclined. Although piloting a car that was capable of a 0-60mph sprint of 3.2 seconds, 0-100 mph in 6.3 seconds seems like more temptation than most of us could handle day-to-day. The F1 rocketed through the quarter-mile in 11.1 seconds at 138 mph on its way to setting the land speed record for a production car at 231 miles per hour that would not be broken until the quad-turbo, 1001 horsepower Bugatti Veyron came around in 2005. Thanks to big unassisted vented, and cross-drilled custom Brembo brakes shod in 235/45/ZR17 front and massive 315/45/ZR17 rear tires, the F1 could stop from 60 mph in 127 feet, and from 80 mph in 215 feet, both figures were almost exactly the same as a Lamborghini Diablo.
Of course all of this performance came at a hefty price. As tested the McLaren F1 would require a cool $1,131,120. The first-million dollar production car was also the first car that seemed to almost justify its cost with its scarcity, performance, and attention to detail. Only 106 examples were built, 64 of which were the street version, five LM models were made (the LM was a slightly more race-ready version), three were longtail GT models, five were street-model prototypes deemed XP, one LM prototype, and 28 were the GTR race cars.
So with just over 100 examples built over the course of six years and a price tag of over a million dollars, did Ameritech succeed in creating the best car of all time? Yes, and no. Yes, because quite honestly at the time of its production, the McLaren F1 was simply the ultimate expression of automotive dominance on just about every level imaginable. It had the acceleration, the speed, the comfort, and the exotic yet classic good looks of a car on a mission. The only down side and argument of why the F1 was not the best car of all time was with just 106 examples at over a million bucks a piece, it was essentially unattainable to just about everyone on the planet. And while some may argue that its scarcity is one of the factors that makes it such a wonderful car, yours truly would argue, that the car I can drive is always better than the car I can't.
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Top 10: SHARK MOVIES… THAT AREN'T JAWS
As this week has seen the Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK get under way once more, we here at Starburst are fonder than most of the films and features that highlight one of the planet's apex predators. And so with that, we've taken a moment to look at the best shark movies out there. Well, we say the best movies out there but there is a twist, for this is Starburst's look at THE TOP 10 SHARK MOVIES… THAT AREN'T JAWS.
There is no doubt that Steven Spielberg's JAWS is hands down the best shark movie of all time - hell, it often goes down as one of the best movies of all time, period – so we thought we'd take away the obvious choice and give some time in the spotlight to the other shark flicks out there. Whilst we're fully aware of some of the truly awful shark movies out there - most of which seem to involve Brooke Hogan, brother - we're doing our best to look at this always-interesting subgenre with our light-hearted glasses on, as we delve into the murky depths of, in some cases, straight-to-video hell in order to bring to you THE TOP 10 SHARK MOVIES… THAT AREN'T JAWS.
Whilst Spielberg's 1975 JAWS is exempt from this list, that doesn't mean that the rest of the series isn't fair game. This 1987 effort from director Joseph Sargent was the final nail in the already-sinking coffin of the JAWS franchise, with the action moving to more tropical climates than just Amity Island.
Plot-wise, we pick up with the now-widowed Ellen Brody (the returning Lorraine Gary) and sons Michael (Lance Guest) and Sean (Mitchell Anderson). When Sean is killed by a great white, Ellen is convinced to go and stay with Michael in The Bahamas. Once in the sun-drenched land, it becomes apparent that a shark with a grudge is hunting down the Brody clan, forcing Ellen to face the monster once and for all. Dun, dun, dun, dun!
Hokey, ridiculous, illogical, this fourth JAWS movie just about scrapes into the list for the fact of it being a massive guilty pleasure of certain of us here at Starburst HQ. Ellen Brody quoting and flashing back to her husband's fight with the shark of the first movie? The shark growling and devouring an airplane? Michael Caine falling in the ocean yet still managing to have a pristine, immaculately-dry suit? Mario Van Peebles' awful accent? Yes, despite all of these problems, if we happen upon JAWS: THE REVENGE on TV late one night, we can't help but give it one more chance.
This 'based on true events' tale is the telling of the very real New Jersey man-eater attacks of 1916 which inspired Peter Benchley's JAWS novel. As a result, this 2005 movie often comes off as JAWS-lite in the way that a lot of the story, even a lot of the characters, come across as extremely familiar. Hell, there's even John Rhys Davies doing his best Quint impression.
Whilst many often just accuse 12 DAYS OF TERROR as simply being a JAWS rip-off, in the defence of the Jack Sholder-directed feature, it is itself actually based on factual events and it upholds the true elements of the story impressively well. A minimalistic, atmospheric tale that is a refreshing change in a time when every shark feature seems to be an over-the-top atrocity that is trying to outdo its competitors in how bad it can be, 12 DAYS OF TERROR is one of the better less-known shark movies out there.
Another entry for the JAWS series, this is a film that certainly divides opinion. Released in 1983 amidst the 1980s 3D "boom", Joe Alves' movie is often unwatchable yet surprisingly engaging – it's a unique beast.
Featuring Louis Gossett Jr. as the head of the Sea World theme park, the film's central premise of a huge shark terrorising the park is an intriguing plot device. Throw in Dennis Quaid's brilliantly-coiffed Michael Brody and some truly memorable moments, such as a group of water-skiers getting stalked by the shark, and there's a lot of potential in the film. It's just a shame that some terribly-dated, horrible SFX work and a few stinkers of performances, most notably from P.H. Moriarty, take away a lot of the good work that JAWS 3 tries to do. It's also a massive shame that the notion of keeping the shark out of sight for large parts of the film was starting to become left behind by this stage in the franchise; something that would only get worse with JAWS: THE REVENGE several years later.
Now a lot of the more recent shark features have had some insane plots and stories at their core, but 2011's SHARK NIGHT had one of the more interesting premises out there. In a world where reality TV and social media seems to be the be-all and end-all, David R. Ellis' film focussed on shark attacks designed purposely for entertainment purposes and to garner online hits.
With a wide variety of sharks on offer, SHARK NIGHT has a lot going for it. Sadly, the film suffers at times, particularly coming across as more style than substance more often than not. Still, in a time of mega sharks, sharks with two-heads, sand-dwelling sharks and the like, this is one of the more appealing films around, particularly in this world where big brother is always watching you. Plus it's got Donal Logue. That's always a good thing. That said, clichés and illogicality are loitered throughout the film.
TINTORERA is one of those rare shark films that came out in the aftermath of JAWS – it was released in 1977 – that wasn't a direct rip-off of Spielberg's classic. Based on Ramon Bravo's novel of the same name, the titular killer is a tiger shark this time out. Away from the shark element of the movie, there's also some bizarre love-triangle going on with STRAW DOGS' Susan George the sausage in the middle of this particular hotdog.
A movie that oozes enough '70s machismo to make Ron Burgundy's moustache green with envy, TINTORERA is cheese-tastic yet often vicious (when not bordering on soft porn) movie. If you take away the far-too-frequent unnecessary shots of pale white arses, this is quite the decent film when viewed through 1970s' eyes.
This 2012 Australian effort initially sounds like yet another ridiculous premise - sharks in a supermarket – but it actually turned out to be one of the better shark movies in recent memory.
Tied together by THE LOVED ONES' Xander Samuel, the main story here sees a tsunami strike a coastal town, flooding the local supermarket with plenty of water and a rather hungry great white shark. Whereas other film's with potentially-ludicrous plots play to the audience and poke fun at themselves, BAIT plays it straight and is all the more better for doing so. There are still some elements of humour with certain characters, but the tone, pacing, atmosphere and charm of this Kimble Rendall film are all as good as we've seen in many a year when it comes to the shark movie subgenre.
As far as sequels go, Jeannot Szwarc's 1978 JAWS 2 isn't actually anywhere near as bad as the third and fourth instalments in the JAWS series. In fact, it's often massively overlooked by many. Yes, it's not as good as JAWS, but that's a hell of a lot to live up to.
Picking up with Roy Scheider's returning Martin Brody and his family, Amity Island is again in the midst of a shark frenzy. This time including Chief Brody's sons in more prominent roles, you can't help but feel that if the exact same film was made by Spielberg then it would've gotten a lot more praise. As it stands, the relatively-unknown Szwarc ended up with the directing gig for this sequel. And in fairness to him, he does a decent job of having Brody revisiting the water to face his fears once more. If for nothing else, JAWS 2 gets props for another great turn from Scheider, another memorable climax, and for having one of the greatest taglines of all time: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water."
In terms of grim, depressing atmosphere, OPEN WATER is unrivalled in the shark movie world. Based on the true events of two divers left stranded in the middle of the ocean, waiting for the elements and what lurks beneath the murky depths to engulf them, this is a film that lacks any ray of sunshine or any happy ending.
Starring Daniel Travis and Blanchard Ryan, this is a film that threw its lead pair in actual shark-infested water throughout the shooting process. This alone drew massive attention and hype to Chris Kentis' movie, although the film ultimately failed to hit the highs that it had promised. Viewers were still treated to a bleak, relentless story of a couple isolated, at their wit's end, in and out of consciousness, and waiting for their inevitable fate to gulp them down. In terms of happy endings, OPEN WATER is THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK of shark movies.
After what seemed like an eternity waiting for a good shark film to come along, up stepped Renny Harlin's DEEP BLUE SEA, complete with a cinema release. With an impressive cast that included the likes of Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard, Aida Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson and, err, LL Cool J, Harlin's movie had a nice mixture of practical animatronics and CGI.
Plot-wise, the film centres on a group of scientists stationed in an isolated research centre out at sea whilst they try to find a cure for Alzheimer's by carrying out tests on sharks. Unfortunately, this research work leads the sharks to experience increased intelligence and to team up to attack the humans. Logic is at times stretched, such as a shark turning on an oven, but DEEP BLUE SEA is one of the more enjoyable shark movies and it does still conjure up several moments of terror, putting it right near the top of this list.
Coming in at the peak of this list looking at some of the best shark-based films of all-time is the 2010 Australian movie, THE REEF. Another 'based on true events' shark tale, the crew of a ship capsized in the Great Barrier Reef decide that their best bet is to make a swim for it whilst they still have the strength to do so. Attempting to make it to an island safe haven, it soon becomes apparent that the group are being stalked by a menacing shark.
Andrew Traucki's film showcases its central killer as a true calculating predator and the result is a deeply-atmospheric, gripping, traumatic story of humans as the hunted prey that are completely out of their element. Played straight and with some great performances at its core, THE REEF is a hugely refreshing film in the often murky 'bad is better' subgenre of the shark movie, placing it as the king of the ocean that is our TOP 10 SHARK MOVIES… THAT AREN'T JAWS.
And there we have it, our completed list. Agree? Disagree? Did we miss one? Chime in with your thoughts below.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joset B. Wright, president of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc. ® (NMSDC®), will be among the speakers at the Institute for Supply Management's 5th Annual Women Executive Supply Management Summit on Wednesday, February 6, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ms. Wright will participate in a session titled Your Secret Weapon from 9:30 – 11 a.m. The session will highlight the benefits of NMSDC certification and the value NMSDC-certified Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American-owned minority businesses (MBEs) bring to the global corporate supply chain. Nina Vaca, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Pinnacle Technical Resources, an Hispanic-owned firm certified by NMSDC, will join in the session and share her perspective on the role NMSDC and its corporate members have played in building her company into a $160 million enterprise.
Ms. Wright will also participate in the Executive Roundtable Networking session from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. The session features women executives as well as executives participating in ISM's Black Executive Supply Management Summit, being held concurrently with the women's summit. The roundtable session will give attendees an opportunity to interact with supply management executives in a question-and-answer format.
ISM's Women Executive Supply Management Summit is designed for women executives, their direct reports and those interested in building a career in supply management. The event is being held February 5-7 at the Doubletree Hilton New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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In the US, one major crisis facing the public is the dying of newspapers. As the Web becomes more prevalent and more important, newspapers are struggling to figure out how to make the Internet functional as a business model, and create a website as a destination similar to what a newspaper has been for so long.
Here's a problem, though: most newspapers' websites are terrible. They're ugly, difficult to navigate, and not at all places you want to visit over and over.
Thankfully, though, there are a few news sources that are light years ahead of the others in figuring out what people want, and how to give it to them. Here are five examples of how news can, and should, work on the Web. In addition to models for other news sources, these are all gorgeous sites with great news, some original and most aggregated, and are excellent destinations for anyone who reads the news online.
Daily Beast
My personal favorite news site, the Daily Beast has a number of brilliant news features. Primarily an aggregator of news from around the Web, both newspaper sources and elsewhere, (but also featuring a number of famous, and brilliant, columnists) the Daily Beast pulls it all together in an easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate way. In addition, the Daily Beast offers a couple of unique features: The Cheat Sheet gives you a look at that day's news, all the most important stories in one place. Then there's the Big Fat Story, which brings together a bunch of different stories and perspectives, all about the same issue. If you've only got a minute, and want to find out what's going on in the world, the Daily Beast is the perfect place.
Newser is pure aggregation of news – all it does it take stories that exist, and make them easier to find and read. It's very image-based, with larger stories garnering larger images that make them easier to find at a glance. There are links a the top of the page to some of the day's biggest stories and memes, currently including "Britain's Got Talent" sensation Susan Boyle. The sources for the site are the most reputable papers from around the US and world, which means you're getting the best information – just in a much better, and more readable, way. The lifeblood of news is images, and Newser knows that well.
Times Extra
"Old media" has one entrant into the ring of smart Web-news features, and it's the New York Times. When you first visit the website, in the middle, underneath the headline, there's a button that says "Times Extra." Times Extra brings in content from other websites and blogs, right onto the NYT homepage. That way, if you want more information about a particular topic, but not necessarily from the Times, you can easily click around the Web from the NYT page. For a long time, news organizations have been afraid to link to each other, essentially seeing it as freely promoting competitors, but it appears that trend may be changing – to everyone's benefit.
Huffington Post
If blogs and newspapers had a lovechild, it would be the Huffington Post. HuffPo brings a lot of news aggregation to the mix, but is also a major source for blogs and bloggers – Robert Redford and Sean Penn are two you'll find writing on the Huffington Post blogs. HuffPo is great with social media, too – stories can easily be shared, liked or disliked (in Digg-style), and conversation is encouraged on every story, whether originally HuffPo's or not – many of the articles garner a huge number of comments. Every article also has a "Quick Read" that lets you read a headline, a summary sentence, and see an image – great if you need to know what's going on, but only have a second to check the news.
Google News Timeline
The newest entrant into the news field (though Google News has been around a while), the News Timeline is a fascinating way to see what's going on in the world. A new entrant into Google Labs, the New Timeline lays out the top stories from Google News (which aggregates news from a ton of different sources) every day. You can sort by hour or minute, or year or decade. The Timeline can also be filtered to news, videos, blogs, magazines, newspapers, Wikipedia entries, and others. It's a great way to find out answers to the "on this day in history" questions, as well as the "on this second right now" queries.
Newspapers may still control the news right now, but reading their content is better done in any number of other places. I use all these sources regularly, and have forever left reading the poorly-designed, text-heavy, old-media style newspaper websites.
Where do you get your news?
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What about http://www.thedailykos.org(com) ????
I usually read BBC News and Xinhua. American news web sites tend to be too comercial, US-centric or biased. For multi-sourced news I use the UK's NewsNow or Yahoo News. On my mobile phone I sometimes use onenewspage.com.
Uh…one big problem I see is that there is no Times Extra link on the NYT site. It doesn't matter whether you select the default edition or the global edition, it's just not there, so it would be very difficult to select it.
Maybe it was there in December of 2008, since your screen shot is from that date, but it's not there now.
Great one, I need to do more of those :) Sheri
Far and away my favorite!!
HuffPo unbiased?? Gotta be kidding me. What a joke. Look at the list of columnists on DR and they are far more diverse.
I would Aljazeera English and BBC News to give an international flavour
I will check Google News Timeline, i think it will be great.
Very interesting. I'm discovering all five.
So, what's wrong with the Drudge report?? You got some kind of grudge with Drudge that you didn't list him?
Drudge totally rules.
Another vote for DR


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by Gabrielle Lee (Summer Associate)
"Any individual may become an adopting parent." This statement, cited from Pennsylvania's Adoption Act now rings true for same-sex married individuals seeking to adopt their spouse's children through what is called a "second-parent adoption." The Adoption Act provides that, unless the court determines otherwise, the consenting parent of an adoptee (the child to be adopted) must permanently relinquish all parental rights to his or her child unless the adopter is the consenting parent's spouse.
Prior to Pennsylvania's Whitewood decision, which struck down Pennsylvania's law refusing to recognize same-sex marriages, this "spousal exception" did not apply to same-sex couples, whether lawfully married outside of Pennsylvania or not. Although the Adoption Act did not explicitly prohibit same-sex couples from adopting, it imposed additional hurdles not faced by opposite-sex married couples. Same-sex couples wanting to adopt had two options: either the consenting parent could temporarily relinquish all rights to the child and subsequently file for a joint adoption with the spouse, or the consenting parent could attempt to persuade the court that the adopting partner should be permitted to adopt while the parent retained custody. For the latter option, the court had the discretion to determine if the adoption was in the best interest of the child.
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Love the clock and the spoon, those are awesome! xxReplyDeleteReplies
I love that spoon too!!Delete
LOL That shark one made me giggle! These are such cute idea's for home! I wish I could be that creative with decor for anything! Love it!!! :)))ReplyDeleteReplies
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Haha what you gonna do sharky??!!! You crack me up!ReplyDelete
Haha, it's true though!!Delete
That wall clock is amazing! Love the table too!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Savanna!!Delete
Love the table, looks so unique.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree Lily!!Delete
The wall clock is beautiful! And the embroidery is the perfect funny gift for a firend! hahaReplyDelete
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It totally is, haha.Delete
I was just browsing and came upon your blog - had to follow you on GFC! Lovely blog with interesting posts :)ReplyDelete
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Thanks Benish!! I follow you too.Delete
I like the spoon! :)ReplyDelete
BTW, would you like to follow each other? Followed you on GFC and Bloglovin'. :)
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I'd love to, now follow you on both as well. <3
These are some fun pieces! I always love nautically inspired things, so I'm all about the anchor pillow.ReplyDelete
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I don't know what it is about nautically inspired things that brings comfort.Delete
I love the spoon and the bookends. They are so unique!ReplyDelete
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I'm obsessed with the engraved spoons lately, and those bookends sure do have my heart too!!Delete
I love the anchor pillow and I'm pretty sure my husband would go nuts over that poop emoticon embroidery! XDReplyDeleteReplies
Haha, you should get it for him!!Delete
I've always loved coffee tables, especially round ones! And that one up there is super cute!!ReplyDeleteReplies
When I have my own place, I'm definitely getting a round one!!Delete