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In the past, I've written about what makes a good PPC specialist and what makes a good agency; but today, I want to talk about what makes a good PPC client. Obviously, in the long run, the client is always right, even when they are wrong.
Having worked in agencies for my entire career, I've definitely seen some great clients, and I've also seen some that would have been better off throwing their money into a shredder. Below are some tips for getting the most out of your client-agency relationship.
Know How to Listen
The first thing that makes a great PPC client is knowing how to listen. You hire a PPC agency for their expertise in the field and for the manpower to make sure your campaigns are run correctly. If a client doesn't listen to the advice a PPC agency gives, or worse, won't let the agency do what needs to be done to make the campaign successful, that client would be better off not hiring an agency. They would just be wasting money and everyone's time.
Maintain the Right Tools
A good PPC client also cooperates with the agency to maintain the tools necessary for running a good campaign. At my agency, we are platform agnostic when it comes to analytics and bid management software; however, we are adamant that a client have them. We just don't care which package they use.
The client needs to install these tools on their site in a timely manner for us to do our job. Some client IT teams are too swamped to handle our requests for implementation or won't work with us to get the tools installed correctly. This delays the success of the campaign. Most of the time, the clients that fail to install the tools correctly are the same clients that want fast results and are quick to blame the agency when such results aren't forthcoming. However, the agency can't provide results without the tools it needs.
Have Realistic Expectations
This brings me to my next point. Clients need to have realistic expectations. One of the first questions I get in any engagement is: How much do you think you can get me? Well, the answer to that question is never simple. I know I can bring you value. I know I can improve your marketing. But by how much? That depends on your site, your product, the market, seasonality, and a ton or other variables.
Clients who come in with unrealistic expectations and won't listen when the agency tells them their expectations are unrealistic are in for a rough ride and most likely, a string of agency hirings and firings. I am always wary of the client who has gone through several agencies in the past year. These clients tend to have unrealistic expectations, won't listen, or won't cooperate.
Allow Enough Time for Success
A good client allows its agency enough time to succeed. Many clients erroneously assume that their PPC campaign will start performing optimally right away. While there is almost always some immediate improvement, the real results come down the road after the agency has had time to analyze historic information, test out keyword and landing page strategies, and find the creative that works. It's not an overnight process.
I once had a client fire me less than one week into the campaign. He said I wasn't being aggressive enough. Of course I wasn't. In the first week, being aggressive can be like throwing money away. Until you know the landscape, you don't put your foot on the gas. I subsequently heard that client went through three more agencies with no engagement lasting more than two weeks. He then hired a poor in-house PPC person who lasted two months before quitting. I just checked, and it looks like that client has given up on his site or gone bankrupt. I wonder how much money he lost along the way because he wouldn't listen to his agencies.
Don't Meddle
But the worst thing a client can do is meddle. When I say meddle, I mean clients who log in to their accounts and make changes themselves without contacting the agency. At my agency, any client who does this is likely to be fired (yes, we sometimes fire clients). We can't be responsible for the results without controlling the process.
If you need something changed, which happens, contact your agency and tell them why you want it changed. There are times when we are testing keyword placements or other variables that may not make sense to the client without understanding the test. By changing things, you ruin the test and sometimes weeks worth of work. So don't meddle.
In closing, I have to stress that most clients are great, but some need coaching. Your agency is your partner, and you should treat them with the respect they deserve.
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It's key to focus on one or two tests to ensure you reach statistical significance. Guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, new engines and ad formats.
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I must admit that the look and shape of the Celine bag has such a draw on me in a way that I can't even explain. However, as much as I'd love to splurge and get it, I'm still not quite mentally ready to part with that amount of cash. On the other hand, this lovely less expensive Oasap vintage boat-shaped tote is just as much a fashion classic in a perfect spring color making it a much more sensible purchase. The versatility of this fun carryall is great to sport everywhere - even to the beach this summer without having a conniption if a little sand was to get on it.
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Lance says that when you begin the sport of triathlon, there are so many lessons to learn, because you need to learn three sports - swimming, biking and running. Six-Word Lessons for Successful Triathletes will speed up the learning curve. Triathletes are commonly not aware of the many hard lessons they will learn along the way through trial and error. Reading this book will teach you those lessons in advance - before they are needed!
Pacelli Publishing is a family service company that edits and publishes books through Createspace, kindle and Smashwords, and they are the founders of the Six-Word Lessons series books, which feature 100 short lessons about any topic. They make a great first book for someone who wants to become a published author and get the message out about their business, interest or cause.


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The first genome of Ctenophora has now been sequenced (Ryan et al. 2013), specifically that of Mnemiopsis leidyi. Genomes of most of the 30 or so animal phyla are still unavailable, but this might change in the coming years (Bracken-Grissomet al. 2014). I had great hopes of getting new insights about pinpointing the phylogenetic position of ctenophores. Unfortunately, the Science paper was disappointing and mainly not because the phylogenetic position of Ctenophora remains unsolved, but because the authors want to give the impression that it is. The abstract of the paper is terribly misleading. Of course, it is more attractive to present the results in a way that one of the long standing questions in animal evolution has been solved, rather than admitting that even after sequencing the whole genome, it's still not sure.
Ryan et al. want to make the case, that ctenophores are the sister group to all other animals. This was suggested for the first time in 2008 (Dunn et al.), but it wasn't taken very seriously even by the authors and a year later (Philippe et al. 2009) it was shown that the likely problem causing such a strange placement of ctenophores was their fast molecular evolution. Taking this into account, Philippe et al. found that ctenophores most likely belong to Eumetazoa (animals with true tissues, muscles and nervous system) and the sister group to all other animals is Porifera (sponges, who do not have muscles and nervous system), as always suspected. According to Philippe et al. ctenophores are most closely related to Cnidaria, with whom they superficially resemble, and were traditionally classified together as Coelenterata. The results of Philippe et al. can by no means be considered final, however, and reliably deciphering the relationships between the main lineages of animals (Porifera, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Cnidaria, and Bilateria) is still difficult (Nosenko et al. 2013).
So what evidence Ryan et al. provide for such a surprising phylogenetic placement of ctenophores? The two main lines of evidence were phylogenetic analyses of protein sequences and of genome gene contents (presence/absence of genes).
Despite the impression the authors are giving, their phylogenetic analyses are far from conclusive. They used two methods, maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference, to construct phylogenies based on protein sequences. These methods gave different results, but most likely not because of the methodological differences, but because of different evolutionary models employed.
In the ML framework, they used the standard GTR model, which is a site homogeneous model. This means, that probabilities describing different amino acid (or nucleotide) replacements (termed replacement matrix) do not vary along the sequence. Although the overall rate of replacement among sites can change when gamma rate parameter is introduced in the model, the relative probabilities of amino acid replacements remain the same. In reality, however, different regions of proteins do not only evolve faster or slower, but also qualitatively differently because of various constraints. This means that depending on the position in the protein, only some types of amino acids tend to be allowed (e.g. hydrophobic or aromatic etc). This fact makes it necessary to consider different amino acid replacement probabilities for different positions even when the rate of change is the same (these kinds of models are called site heterogeneous). Fortunately, there is no need to assign to every position in the sequence its own replacement matrix (which would make the analyses computationally intractable), but they can be grouped into fewer categories. The Bayesian CAT model (Lartillot & Philippe 2004) estimates from the data the number of different categories and which kind of amino acid replacements describe these categories the best. As with the GTR model, the site heterogeneous models can be combined with gamma rate parameter to vary the overall rate at sites, adding an additional layer of complexity (but also making analysis computationally more demanding).
The ML analysis using GTR+gamma model favored a tree where ctenophores were the sister group to all other animals. The Bayesian analyses with CAT model favored either a tree were Ctenophores were the sister group to Porifera (105 000 site dataset with little missing data, but small taxon sampling) or positioned within Eumetazoa (88 000 site dataset with lot of missing data, but large taxon sampling).
The GTR model is less realistic and clearly more prone to long-branch attraction artefacts than CAT (Lartillot et al. 2007). Long-branch attraction causes fast evolving (long-branch) taxa to group together regardless of their phylogenetic affinities or pull them towards distant out-group taxa. As ctenophores appear to be at least at molecular level fast evolving (Philippe et al. 2009; Pett et al. 2011; Kohn et al. 2012), it cannot be excluded that the position of ctenophores in the ML analysis is caused by long-branch attraction artefact. Ryan et al. results also show that the ctenophores are among the faster evolving taxa in their dataset, but because the ctenophores were not extremely fast evolving, the authors thought that it is not a problem (unclear to me what gave them this confidence).
Unfortunately their Bayesian analyses are not without problems either. The small taxon analyses (where Mnemiopsis+sponge clade was sister to other animals) were problematic precisely because of poor taxon sampling (15–19 taxa depending on the outgroup size). Large number of taxa are required (Lartillot & Philippe 2004) to reliably estimate parameters of CAT model and decide between ancestral and derived character states. For the large taxon datasets the problem appeared to be the opposite – they were too big to get reliable results even after running analyses on average 200 days. This could perhaps have been solved by excluding some of the taxa (especially among well sampled Bilateria) and analyzing datasets containing for example random 50% of the original positions (44 000 instead of 88 000). PhyloBayes-MPI manual mentions that getting consistent results becomes challenging already beyond 20 000 positions.
Although CAT model is not available in the ML framework, nevertheless there are similar alternatives for ML. For example, structural and empirical mixture models containing 2–6 matrices (instead of just one) implemented in PhyML programs (Le& Gascuel 2010; Le et al. 2012). Some of these models have already been used in studying ancient phylogenetic relationships and shown to affect the results (Lasek-Nesselquist & Gogarten 2013). Pity that Ryan et al. did not explore these models.
The second main evidence Ryan et al. gave regarding phylogenetic position of ctenophores was gene content analyses. It appears that Mnemiopsis lacks many genes that are present in all other animals (including sponges) but not in outgroup species. Although the list of these missing genes for ctenophores as a whole is somewhat smaller (already authors found that few genes that were missing in Mnemiopsis were in fact present in some other ctenophore species), it probably remains quite large as all ctenophores appear to be rather closely related to each other (Podar et al. 2001). As ctenophores evolve fast and the genome of Mnemiopsis is compact and among the smallest in animals (Ryan et al. 2013), it seems likely that the missing genes have been lost secondarily. Two features of ctenophore reproductive biology might explain their fast evolution: inbreeding caused by self-fertilization (almost all ctenophores are hermaphrodites) and capability for rapid and massive reproduction. This can lead to frequent massive die-offs creating genetic bottlenecks, which facilitates the accumulation of deleterious mutations (Pett et al. 2011). It is also evident from Ryan et al's results of ML phylogenetic analyses of gene content that nonsense phylogenetic relationships can be produced: for example Annelida was not monophyletic, because one species was together with a mollusk as a sister group to a cephalochordate.
In summary, Ryan et al's phylogenetic analyses aren't particularly convincing. Claiming that phylogenetic position of ctenophores is now resolved is annoying. Before we rearrange the animal tree of life, let's wait for more thorough analyses. And more data wouldn't hurt either.
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Dunn CW, Hejnol A, Matus DQ, Pang K, Browne WE, Smith S a, Seaver E, Rouse GW, Obst M, Edgecombe GD, Sørensen M V, Haddock SHD, Schmidt-Rhaesa A, Okusu A, Kristensen RM, Wheeler WC, Martindale MQ, Giribet G (2008) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life. Nature 452: 745–749. doi: 10.1038/nature06614
Kohn AB, Citarella MR, Kocot KM, Bobkova Y V, Halanych KM, Moroz LL (2012) Rapid evolution of the compact and unusual mitochondrial genome in the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 63: 203–207. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.009
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Angel Rangel has signed a new contract at Swansea City that will keep him at the club until 2018.
The 33-year-old has been with the Swans since 2007, playing for them in the League One, Championship and Premier League.
Rangel's previous contract was due to expire at the end of the upcoming season, but Swansea confirmed on Monday that he has agreed a one-year extension to ensure he is tied to them for the next two campaigns.
"It was a very easy decision to sign the contract – we did not have to talk for long," the defender told the club's website.
"We all know the relationship we have – me with the club and the club with me.
"Huw Jenkins has always been very supportive in every single way, so I am delighted to have extended my contract for another year and I am looking forward hopefully to having more years at the club.
"This is my home now. This contract will take me to 11 years here and I am so pleased with that.
"I have a Welsh family and I feel as though I know the city and the country now. I am looking forward to staying here to continue playing football and in the future I think I will be here as well.
"I am 33 now but I still feel fresh. That's one of the main reasons why I am still signing contracts."
Rangel made 23 Premier League appearances last season.
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Notes from the Senate
by Halei Lamb | September 12, 2018 3:04 pm
by SENATOR JACK HILL, 4th District
You have probably seen the many job news announcements coming to Georgia and recognized them as a sign of our state's continued prosperity and great economic environment. On August 29th, Dr. Rajeev Dhawan of Georgia State's Economic Forecasting Center presented his quarterly Forecast of Georgia and of Atlanta.
With an expectation of the state to add 78,400 jobs by year end for 2018, the forecast presented a bright picture of the national and Georgia economy continuing to move at a robust pace. The outlook for 2019 is bright with an expectation of 61,700 new jobs to be created with 11,800 of them considered "premium jobs," similar to 2018's "premium" total of 12,500. These job additions are considered unusual for this late-term stage of the expansion and are a good sign for Georgia's economic environment.
Dr. Dhawan examines the recent second quarter 2018 economic performance with a look back to the past twelve months and provides a graded letter score. Civilian employment, came in with a strong A+ mark and self-employment is also noted as growing strongly.
Within categories of jobs added, healthcare and hospitality positions posted good job gains both ranking "A". Coming in at A- were total non-farm jobs and manufacturing positions both exhibiting signs of strength. The areas that were ranked as less than stellar included business services jobs that had surprising job losses and information and technology jobs which appear to continue to struggle. Those jobs did fair better in July of 2018.
Since state personal income tax collections are just under half of total estimated state funds revenues, they are an integral component to review. Personal income in Georgia in calendar year 2017 grew by 3.9% with a forecast of 4.4% in 2018, 5.2% in 2019 and 5.2% in 2020. These strong forecasts are tied to many of the job announcements and news of the strong economy and continued lowering of the unemployment rate.
Some of Governor Deal's recent economic development announcements include: SELIT North America to create 100 jobs in Banks County and Jaguar Land Rover Classic creating 75 jobs in Chatham County; and those are among the announcements since August 15, 2018.
Closer to home, Perdue Foods opened its Southeastern Distribution Center facility in Effingham County this week adding 150 jobs with over 47,000 square feet. It is part of a lease arrangement with Lineage Logistics, a temperature controlled supply chain and logistics provider. Also not long ago, Daniel Defense, in nearby Bryan County, opened its new state of the art facility on I-16.
Despite setbacks brought by the winter storms, the economic forecasting index surged on renewed strength in housing and falling unemployment insurance claims.
In the Fourth Senatorial District, the Georgia Southern University's Economic Monitor of Q1 2018 released in July, which covers Bryan, Chatham and Effingham counties, speaks to the strength of the region. Despite setbacks brought by the winter storms, the economic forecasting index surged on renewed strength in housing and falling unemployment insurance claims. Two sectors with positive area changes noted include construction which added 300 workers and manufacturing which added 200 workers, while overall employment growth in the region remained flat. Manufacturing also contributed as the healthiest growth year-over-year at +4.2%. The coincident economic activity index was boosted by growth in electricity sales and airport boardings, while the previously struggling areas of retail sales, hotel room sales and port activity saw some return to recent gains.
While the high level view looks rosy, the rise of shared creative space and co-working opportunities also is providing new opportunities to business and challenging traditional job openings. In downtown Statesboro, newly opened Divvy Desk provides a shared creative space and individualized work spaces smaller than a full office. In the growing film and digital entertainment industry of the state, more self-employed and freelance workers are using co-working or creative space to launch their businesses. Shared space also offers small businesses opportunities to collaborate and have professional space, without having to incur all of the building costs when they may be working on location.
Whatever the work venue, the economy in Georgia is looking bright.
For more information on Georgia State University's Economic Forecasting Center Conference please visit https://efc.robinson.gsu.edu/. Conferences are held quarterly in Atlanta.
For more information on Georgia Southern University's Economic Monitor Newsletter and the Center for Business Analytics and Economic Research (CBAER), please visit https://cob.georgiasouthern.edu/big/big-programs/cbaer/economic-monitor-newsletter/ .
For more information on Divvy Desk, please visit https://www.divvydesk.com/.
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We like to think that if we are honest and our hearts are true - when the bow of creativity is bent back and our eyes are fixed on the prize.... That goodness will spring forth like a deer bounding through the woods and the sky will smile down on our creations. And heaven will dance in the embrace of love.
Or you might say
Into every box of cereal you reach, we hope you find a prize.
Often life is a puzzle and you must struggle to find the gem of day. So hard to do. Why couldn't it be easier?
Today we hope that we can make it a little easier for you - with a few pieces of paper you
(we) can be clever enough to put a little zip in your zing.
That's it!!! Tell me more chippie!
3 posters that merge in to one. Three parts that make a whole! Bird into man, man on paper, birds made from space. Space defining matter.....One becomes all.....
Pleasing both in a cosmological sense AND reading high on the gee whiz scale.
14th century technology living it up with the best of the 21st century
Electric lights
Rock and roll
Movie stars
That's some crazy stuff!!!!
but wait check this out
Each part (poster) was conceived to thrive on its own when necessary but like a lot things in life it only gets better when you find a few friends to share the party with......
Someday perhaps we'll lay down the microscopic biopic details of how this puzzle got from here to yonder but until then check out this lovely short film by Leigh Jurecka that does a stellar job of telling the tale In moving pictures. Which I do hear the kids love these days.
A few final thoughts:
#1 Yes each black print was letterpressed twice with silver and silver blue ink
#1a. Everything went through a press and was touched at least once probably 50 times!
#2 Two of the three prints were cut only by a laser (a laser!) connected to a computer which was
connected to my paper sketch pad!!!!
#3 This was a collaboration between Matthew Jacobson and Bryce McCloud at Isle of Printing. It was a lot of fun - (try it sometime!)
#4 All stunts were performed by the actors (and Bryce IS available as a hand model)
#5 150 of each poster will be available over two days and nights at 3rd man records and the Ryman Auditorium (which means 75 of each design today)
#6 Though inferred from reality no poster presented claims to really be a peacock, vulture, or musician
#6a. It takes a tough man to give a tender forecast......
#7 Time is short - be good to those around you and choose love over greed whenever life gives you the choice.
more info here at Jack White's website
Many thanks to Jack White, Matthew Jacobson (co designer), the fine folks at Third Man Records, and everyone else in this world who actively support bringing novelty into our lives as a testament that the simple joys available in art and music CAN make our lives 1000 times better than they were before.(*)
Enjoy the show
Your humble servant
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How much work space do I need?/
As a general rule of thumb, for the type and size of business that tends to occupy our buildings, you should allow 150 sq ft (14 sq m) for the first person and 100 sq ft (9.2 sq m) for each subsequent person.
This assumes that you don't need large meeting rooms, storage areas, kitchens, bathrooms or showers, and that most people in your company are working at a standard desk. Here's an at-a-glance reckoner for up to 20 people:
2 people 250
sq ft (23.2 sq m)
3 people 350 sq ft (42 sq m)
5 people 550 sq ft (51 sq m)
10 people 1050 sq ft (97.5 sq m)
15 people 1550 sq ft (144 sq m)
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Britain, EU, buy into banks to save them
PARIS – British and European leaders took unprecedented steps here late Sunday to try to halt a galloping financial crisis in its tracks, announcing aggressive action to take big stakes in banks and guarantee lending between banks.
European Union members announced they planned to guarantee loans between banks, called inter-bank lending, for up to five years. And they intend to allow member countries to take equity stakes worth billions of dollars in troubled financial institutions. The action follows by a bit more than a week a historic $700 billion U.S. rescue package for the banking system Both efforts aim to stop a widening crisis that the International Monetary Fund warned over the weekend had brought the world to the brink of financial collapse.
The leaders of European nations presented their plan, adopted one sketched earlier in the week by Britain, as a "tool kit" that each country could decide how best to put to use. France, Germany and Italy are all expected to take up the plan formally on Monday morning.
"This is a worldwide crisis and, rather than tearing Europe apart, it has in fact brought us closer together," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "This is no easy task." Legislation is required in France, and Sarkozy expected to enact changes by week's end.
While bold, the European plan has a drawback. There were no figures to indicate how much each country will spend on bank rescues. Those numbers won't be available before Wenesday at the earliest, officials acknowledged.
German newspapers reported on their websites Sunday that Chancellor Angela Merkel will announce a $536 billion plan to rescue Germany's banking system. A week earlier, Merkel resisted calls for a Europe-wide approach.
Otto Fricke, chairman of the budget committee in Germany's parliament, told the Cologne Stadt-Anzeiger that the plan involves $134 billion for injecting capital into troubled banks and another $402 billion to guarantee loans between banks.
As in the United States, the rescue of banks is hardly a popular notion, and Sarkozy echoed statements of recent weeks made by President Bush and others. "We are not handing out gifts to banks," Sarkozy said. "We are enabling banks to operate, because our economy depends on it."
The action represents a bold move as markets reopen following what in many nations across the globe was the worst week on stock exchanges since the Great Depression.
President Bush is expected to comment on the plan Monday morning when he and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi make a statement at the White House Rose Garden.
The plan was announced hours before Asian markets resumed Monday's trading. It showed that after small and often divisive steps in their respective countries, EU members had set aside differences in a bid to boost confidence in the global banking system.
The hasty emergency action is also EU leaders' first such coordinated aggressive move since they adopted a common currency, the Euro, now used by 15 nations. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, himself a former finance minister, informed his European counterparts that on Monday morning Britain would be taking large equity stakes in at least four banks, according to the Times of London. He hopes to inject $85 billion or more into the shaky institutions.
According to the Times of London, the British government intends to become the leading shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland, or RBS, and the Halifax Bank of Scotland. The British government would take smaller positions in Lloyds and Barclay's, two of the most prestigious English banks.
After meeting with Sarkozy, Brown voiced confidence that the financial markets would react positively to the plans.
"I believe that in the next few days confidence in the banking system will be restored," said Brown.
The EU also reached a tentative agreement Sunday on a French and German plan to guarantee loans between banks for periods as long as five years. This move aims to thaw the credit markets, which have frozen up as banks hoard what little capital they have and refuse to lend to each other or even brand-name corporations.
The European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have worked furiously in recent months to provide emergency short-term loans to banks to prevent a complete halt to inter-bank lending. And last week they announced joint half-point cuts in interest rates. But these efforts have met with limited success as banks continue to lend to each other with only very high rates, meaning they aren't confident in each other.
The European and British approach differs greatly from the controversial $700 billion rescue package approved with great difficulty last month by the U.S. Congress. That plan, pushed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, sought to use taxpayer money to purchase distressed assets from banks to help boost their balance sheets. Most of these assets would be mortgage bonds at the root of the widening financial crisis. Although the Paulson plan is called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, Paulson said late Friday that he was also looking to follow Britain's lead in injecting money into troubled banks. Paulson and colleagues have said virtually nothing about how they would do this. The Treasury official recently tapped to head the bank rescue effort, Neel Kashkari, is slated to give his first speech on the matter Monday morning. Among the questions are how Treasury might take a stake in U.S. banks, or even which ones. One frequently rumored to be at the front of the line is Morgan Stanley. It was providing advice to Treasury until late last week when it fell victim to waning confidence and saw its share prices plunge 60 percent.
Morgan, along with Goldman Sachs, the only investment banks left standing after a turbulent summer, last month changed their status to bank holding companies. That makes them subject to the same regulation as commercial banks and, presumably, eligible for government cash injections to prevent their collapse.
In a sign of how global the problem has become, the government of Norway announced Sunday it would lend $55 billion to Norwegian commercial banks, taking distressed mortgage assets as collateral for periods up to three years. The government will issue bonds to cover the cost of lending to the banks. As in Europe and the United States, Norway saw home prices soar and is now suffering under a painful price correction.
Australia and New Zealand also announced plans Sunday to guarantee bank deposits. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said his country was facing "the economic equivalent of a national security crisis."
The World Bank said Sunday that a new $1.2 billion fund to provide emergency short-term lending to developing countries was already up and running, with $850 million worth of requests already approved or in the pipeline.
Developing and transition countries (DTCs) - many of them already hit hard by current high prices for energy and essential foodstuffs - risk very serious setbacks to their efforts to improve the lives of their populations from any prolonged tightening of credit or sustained global slowdown," the bank said in a statement. "The poorest and most vulnerable groups risk the most serious – and in some cases permanent – damage."
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
In latest bold step, Treasury will buy bank stakes
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AAM Member Profile - Zac East - Associate Member
Your Name:
Zac East
Membership category:
Northern Territory
Current artists on your management roster:
At the Dakota, self-managed (solo artist)
Company name:
How did you get into management?
I got into management by just being involved in my local music scene. I've always been the spearhead of my projects and bands (with the exception of At the Dakota up until the start of 2015), and never really gave it a label until I realised what being an Artist Manager really entails.
What do you see as the biggest challenge in 2015 for artist managers and/or their artists?
I'm not sure if its year-specific, and my experience in comparison to the rest of the country may be limited and influence my opinion, but to me, it's about creating new, exciting ways to engage your audience through social media. Trying to keep the sincerity and genuine connection between the band and the crowd while setting yourself apart from everyone else. In the era of 'Liking' and 'Favouriting' and 'Sharing', it can be a fine line between an emotional, connecting post and a perceived 'corporate' hard sell.
What is your hot tip for getting started in artist management:
Find a band or artist you're passionate about. Or join a band/be involved with an artist you're passionate about. Once you've found one – figure out what they/you all would like to do and write a plan! Include all the things everyone dreams of doing and achieve, and put dates on them. Be realistic. It's surprisingly easy, and soon you'll start to recognise & capitalise on the opportunities that are created or present themselves along the way.
What is your hot tip for helping/sustaining your artist management business:
In my limited experience thus far, it's more about not stopping with the plans and the planning process. Be open to change, so long as it doesn't compromise your values and integrity. If you or the band need to take a break to catch your breath or general downtime, use that time to write out more things you want to achieve. Put in place the stepping stones to keep moving forward.
That, and don't forget where you came from, and give back any time you can.
Name 2 people within the music industry who have helped you get where you are:
Amy Hetherington from MusicNT – she's been a great support and believer in what we're doing, and is great at encouraging me to continue challenging the status quos.
and Steve Palfreyman from Winter York/Marketing Strategist – it's awesome to have someone who backs me 100% and can let me braindump without fear of judgement or ridicule. Top bloke.


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Roz and Pat Merritt / For the Chronicle
'Night Runner' will be among the prized hibiscus available at Sunday's Hibiscus Society Show and Sale.
Brenda Beust Smith photo
'El Capitolio' hibiscus.
Hibiscus on Bolivar Peninsula are so spectacular this year, I contacted Pat and Roz Merritt to see why. The former American Hibiscus Society presidents said they're seeing the same incredible bloom displays all over.
Pat reports they have an 'El Capitolio' with more 100 blooms at their Meyerland home. "Cars are stopping for people to get out and look closer," she reports.
She hopes the beautiful shrubs will encourage more attendance at the Hibiscus Society Show and Sale.
The mild, short winter meant very little dieback, she explains. This leads to more and earlier blooms. Hibiscus prefer stable, 60- to 90-degree days with little temperature fluctuation.
If it suddenly gets hotter, drier, wetter or colder, they will stop blooming and take a while to regroup before flowering again. This also can happen with major environmental changes, such as transplanting them from a nursery into your yard.
An established hibiscus will grow faster and bloom better if you water and fertilize. But it will perform almost as well if ignored and never pruned.
If you do want to fertilize, it's best to use hibiscus food. Unlike most flowering plants, hibiscus do not like a high phosphorus (high middle number) fertilizer.
The biggest problem we're having with hibiscus now is unexpected horizontal and vertical growth due to our shorter, warmer winters. Hibiscus bloom on new growth; and if it's warm enough, they'll bloom year-round.
They can be pruned any time to keep them in bounds or to promote more lush internal growth. However, if you want to save as many buds as possible, the best months to prune are August/September and November/December.
A general rule: Prune back one-third of the plant. Wait three weeks, Pat says, and prune back another third. Continue this schedule until you reach the right size. Root the cuttings.
The society is asking home gardeners to keep an eye out for the pink hibiscus mealybug. This pink fuzzy mealybug is moving up from the Rio Grande Valley. The bug juice is pink when it is squashed. If you spot this pest, call your county agricultural agent. Predator wasps will eradicate it.
Experts will provide information on this and other aspects of hibiscus cultivation during Sunday's show and sale, 1-4 p.m. at the Bellaire Civic Center, 7008 South Rice Avenue in Bellaire.
More information is available at 713-723-5858 or www.lonestarahs.org.


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We will begin our biggest show of the year starting Saturday. It will be our 14th year to work the Big Tent. My how time flies! It is a huge circus tent full of vendors selling everything from soup to insurance (me). For those of you that have never "experienced" Quartzsite in January, I highly recommend that every RVer go there at least once. I have told people for years...you will either love it or hate it! There is no other place like it. The little, desert town of 3643, balloons to several hundred thousand during January! There are many smaller shows mainly focusing on rocks, gems and minerals. But you will find ALL things RV too, from T-shirts to sewer caps! Oh, and you can buy a new or used RV of any type, kind, size or budget. Windshield broken? Need solar panels? You name it, it is there. Plus it is fun to park in an RV park or boondock out in the desert for free or almost free. Sitting around the campfire, visiting the shows and flea markets, potlucks and rallies are all there for the taking. You will get to know other friendly RVers and enjoy the nice, winter weather and daily dose of sunshine!
For us it is work, work work but we also squeeze in a little fun! We will arrive early on Wednesday and set up our motorhome on the show grounds after standing in a LONG line to check in.. We will then go see our friends Carol and Jerry Dale who winter in Q and we will all head over to the annual Escapees Happy Hour out in the desert. There will be music, food and lots of RVers giving hugs all around! A great place to see your friends and make new ones. And lots of fun! From there we will go to Silly Al's for pizza and beer.
Thursday we will be heading into the tent to get our booth all set up. Of course my work on these days and the following 11 days does not stop, so I will still be helping customers via phone and email. Email is best because unfortunately I must make phone calls at night. Just impossible in the tent! I usually work until midnight or later every day of the show. Crazy!
We usually are able to take a couple of hours on an evening or 2 to see our friends for a quick visit or meal out. They don't call Q "The Gathering Place" for no reason! The Show starts on Saturday, Jan. 21st and goes through Sunday the 29th. But there is plenty to do before and after those dates too.
Hope to see you there!
Monday, January 16, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Alaska Trip Planning 2017 and Stubby 2
It hardly seems possible that it has been 2 years and 4 months since we were last in Alaska! We are literally chomping at the bit to return, and started our preliminary planning about a year ago. Where do we want to go? Who do we want to go with (if anyone)? What do we want to travel in? What do we want to see? Lot of things to think about and discuss. In our discussions, we decided we really wanted to go in a smaller rig again. We sold Stubby, our 05 Itasca Cambria when we returned to Texas in Oct. '14. We loved it, BUT...The quality of workmanship was outstanding and it served us well for 6 months of travel (and 3 shows!) but we both agreed that 23 ft, 1 slide and "NO BED" was just too small for us and my running a business to boot! The "no beds" part was the deal breaker. Sleeping on a sofa (Charles) and a dinette (me and 2 dogs) just didn't do our backs or other achy, old parts any good! Plus making them up and down daily and removing all my business stuff daily made for too many chores. So we started looking in June 2016, for a longer Stubby when we were in upper NY state in. We found RVTrader to be a great resource. We decided we wanted to find one on the east coast so logistically it would be much easier for us to pick it up and store it on our FL Lot. And find it we did! In fact we are still pinching ourselves over "THE DEAL" we got! We found a 2014 Itasca Cambria, 30J !! Much newer and fancier than what we were looking for but could not pass it up! Used twice; 3100 miles (most from factory to FL) and every option not even imaginable on a Class C! It was located in central Fl. After many emails and phone calls we struck a deal and told the owner we would be there in 9 days. We were doing the Escapees NYC HOP with friends Lynn and Mickey Waite the next week. (We had a blast!) Then the week after that we had to head to VT to work Escapade! How were we going to do this?? It's called... store the big motorhome at our campground in NY, jump in the SUV with the dogs,and an overnight bag, and in one and a half days we were in central FL! Whew! The owners were so gracious and had Stubby 2's frig stocked with breakfast! We spent the weekend in their backyard! We loved it! Monday a.m. we got all paperwork finalized and Charles drove Stubby to our south FL Lot with me following behind. Our wonderful friends, Jim and Michael, took us for a special Mexican dinner. It was so wonderful seeing them!
Empire State Bldg.
We spent the night and headed back to NY at 5 a.m. the next morning. WOW, what a crazy but fun trip! Of course there is more to the story.....
Empire State Bldg.
We spent the night and headed back to NY at 5 a.m. the next morning. WOW, what a crazy but fun trip! Of course there is more to the story.....
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In some other instances, accusations have been made but proof has not yet been heard; and each Judaism and American law insist on a presumption of innocence. College students are also invited to guest speaker occasions at the Faculty including the latest presentation from Olio about their food sharing programme. This month on the Geneva Business Insider , James and David preview subsequent week's Scottish independence vote and the various political forces that are clashing because the Scottish people go to the polls. Or perhaps your mentor condones greedy conduct and has ethics that battle with your own.
So BPM, BAM and captured enterprise events are the hinges between enterprise and IT: all of them have a enterprise relevance and at the identical time an IT relevance. Something comparable occurred on a considerably smaller scale between 2012 and 2013, where the overall number of enterprise jets made in the USA fell by 10%. This analysis has been also printed in Month-to-month Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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I thought that this was very cute - it's the card that Colly made for us at school. Now I am passing on good wishes to everyone. I haven't been sewing much, although in the last 24 hours I have cut out two quilts. I find it hard because I don't have my sewing machine set up so if I am going to get it out I need to be well prepared. By having two ready to go I can hopefully make some advances.
I am also messing about looking for a suitable hand project to do as I am going away for a few days. I have lots of things started but I want to do something that doesn't require a lot of thought, maybe some hand quilting or some redwork where I don't have to change the colours. Hopefully I will have something to show when I get back. I'm off to Byron Bay - which is the most easterly point in Australia and where the Blues and Roots Festival is being held. It has already been on for three days but there are still two days left. My husband and one son are already there. On Monday I'll get to see an old favourite of mine, Bonnie Raitt as well as lots of other acts. Then we are going to stay on for a few days.
And this is a totally silly photo showing an event which clocked up (literally) recently. We reached 100,000 kilometres in our Tarago.


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From: Carl W. Conrad (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Date: Wed Jan 29 1997 - 11:57:30 EST
At 10:05 AM -0600 1/29/97, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>At 10:37 AM 1/29/97 -0500, Paul Zellmer wrote:
>>I assume that you are trying to connect the POIWN with the prepositional
>>(EIS) phrase. Try letting the EIS phrase be the result of KTISHi and
>>picture a minor break, a comma, if you will, before a parallel clause,
>>POIWN EIRHNHN. Does this make more sense now?
>Boing! Yes, it makes perfect sense now.
>>I guess Paul could have written: hINA POIWN EIRHNHN TOUS DUO KTISHi EN
>>AUTWi EIS hENA KAINON ANQRWPON. This probably would have meant the
>>same, at least on the surface. My guess is the relative importance of
>>the parts would have changed, but that's another can of worms.
>I *like* this can of worms. What is the difference in emphasis between the
>two formulations:
>1. hINA POIWN EIRHNHN TOUS DUO KTISHi EN AUTWi EIS hENA KAINON ANQRWPON
>2. hINA TOUS DUW KTISHi EN AUTWi EIS hENA KAINON ANQRWPON POIWN EIRHNHN
>Any takers?
I do think the LOGIC would be clearer with the word-order of 1, but I don't
think there'd be a fundamental difference of sense.
Would the following formulation muddle things still further, or is it any
easier to grasp the author's intent in 2:14-15? Of course it's still not
complete, since the thought continues on into 16.
AUTOS GAR ESTIN hH EIRHNH hHMWN, TO MEN MESOTOICON TOU FRAGMOU LUSAS hWSTE
TA AMFOTERA hEN POIHSAI, EN DE THi SARKI AUTOU THN TE ECQRAN KAI TON NOMON
TWN EN DOGMASIN ENTOLWN KATARGHSAS hWSTE THN EIHRHNHN POIEIN, TOUS DUO EIS
hENA KAINON ANQRWPON EN AUTWi KTIZWN ...
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, USA 63130
(314) 935-4018
firstname.lastname@example.com OR firstname.lastname@example.com
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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Films by and about the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
The National Archives collection includes more than 200 surveillance and training films created or collected by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
ASIO began recording the surveillance films for different purposes in 1949. The films include surveillance footage of events such as:
- national congresses and committee meetings of the Communist Party of Australia
- meetings of the Eureka Youth League and the New Theatre League
- May Day and Labour Day marches
- demonstrations such as the Hands Off Cuba demonstration in 1962
- Australia Soviet Friendship Society congresses
- trade union meetings
- funerals
- the founding conference of the Revolutionary Socialist Alliance
- meetings of the Waterside Workers Federation
The films also include surveillance of individuals at various locations.
Most of the surveillance films date from the 1950s and early 1960s. However, there are also some surveillance films from the late 1960s and early 1970s of anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
The training films are British government productions dating from the 1960s, and were provided to assist with the security education and training of the public services. These films deal with subjects such as protective security, physical and document security, the social approach to the recruitment of spies and blackmail attempts.
The original records are mostly 16mm motion picture film components. There are also some VHS videotapes.
Accessing these records
The following table identifies the series containing ASIO surveillance films. The links in the table will take you to the National Archives collection database RecordSearch for more information.
In RecordSearch you can browse a list of films in each series by clicking on the 'Find items in this series' button. To see the films themselves you will need to visit the relevant National Archives office.
You can search for specific film titles or topics in RecordSearch by using keywords, or by using a combination of keywords and reference numbers. For example, a search for the keyword 'communist' together with the reference number 'A8703' will return 28 surveillance films relating to the Australian Communist Party.
ASIO film series
|Title or description of record
|Date range
|Series number
|Film and sound recordings, multiple number series. (Film and videos recorded or collected by ASIO)
|Miscellaneous and unregistered material relating to the Royal Commission on Espionage (Film components and video copies of 3 surveillance films relating to the Royal Commission on Espionage)


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""The 13 Stories of Halloween"": ==Halloween at Arkham Opening==
Appearing in "The 13 Stories of Halloween"
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Destiny
- The Joker
- Killer Croc
- Lady Flash
- The Mad Hatter
- Phobia
- Poison Ivy
- The Riddler
- Scarecrow
- Shockwave
- Two-Face
- Zsasz
Supporting Characters:
- Arthur Joseph Curry (New Earth)
- Batzarro
- Blue Devil
- Deadman
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- Ira West
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- Lobo
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- Robin
- Superman
- Wally West
- Zatanna
Other Characters:
Synopsis for "The 13 Stories of Halloween"
Halloween at Arkham Opening
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: It's Halloween Night, and the inmates at Arkham Asylum are preparing to break out. They have already escaped from their cells and killed several guards, and the Joker tells them that they have to wait until midnight for the guard change if they want the outer doors of the asylum to be open when they leave. To kill time, he has them all sit around and tell scary stories. The following are a collection of short scary stories told by the inmates.
Kcirt ro Taert
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: On Halloween night, a group of teenagers decide to imitate Scarecrow's M.O., creating their own fear toxin and putting it in the candy that they give to trick or treaters. After a young boy eats a piece of their candy, he hallucinates violently and is taken to the local hospital in a near comatose state. Zatanna, who is performing a magic show in the hospital's Children's Ward cures the child, and in a rage visits all of the effects of the fear drug instead on the offending teenagers at their party. The party erupts with violence as the teens try to fight off their personal demons, and when the police burst in to stop it and calm down the party they arrest the teens for their "stash of illicit narcotics." After the trial, where the offenders are found guilty, Zatanna is seen continuing to torment them with their personal fears even as they lie in their hospital beds.
The Watchdogs
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: A group of 6 werewolf vigilantes (The Watchdogs), able to transform at will, are stalking Gotham City, hunting down rogue werewolf criminals, eating them alive, and pinning their human wanted posters on their corpses with silver pins. By the time the bodies are found, they have usually reverted back to human form. Robin (Tim Drake) is investigating the murders, despite a lack of cooperation from the Detective on the case, who assume the killings as another case of scum killing other scum. Eventually, Robin finds The Watchdogs closing in on a rapist, and tries to fight them off. He is able to beat two of them, but is quickly pinned down by their leader. He is very confused as to why he keeps on hearing the wolves talk, and eventually arrives at the conclusion that he has been fighting werewolves. He convinces them to let him take the rapist into custody, and the wolves stalk off. As Robin is helping force the rapist into a police car, he warns the Detective that the man is a werewolf, which the Detective scoffs at, and tells Robin he's "been reading too many comic books." As the car drives away, it is revealed that the Detective was actually the leader of The Watchdogs, and he kills the rapist himself.
Red Rain: Blood Lust
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: A family much like the Waynes exits the Gotham Opera House after watching the Pirates of Penzance, and wanders into a dark alley on their way home. The vampire Batman kills both of the parents, draining them of their blood and decapitating them, leaving the young son alone and sobbing on the alley floor next to his dead parents.
What Can Scare the Main Man?
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: While Phobia is attempting to break into S.T.A.R. Labs, her crew is stopped by Lobo, who easily kills or cripples most of her henchman. Phobia struggles to find something she can use to scare Lobo, finding that the most terrifying and fearsome demons she can produce have no effect on him. As he is about to grab her, she finally fills him with screaming terror using a gigantic cute puppy in a wicker basket.
Children of the Deep
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: The Morgan Sisters, three girls who have lived alone in their father's house, in Portsmouth by the seaside, since his death at sea are attempting to court the new Aquaman, whom they believe perfect as "A true man of the sea." The girls are exceedingly beautiful, and former objects of much gossip around town amongst the menfolk. Though they used to have many suitors, some who even reportedly "knew their embrace," getting older they seem destined to become spinsters. After days of trying to coax him out of the water, they finally seduce Aquaman into their house for an evening of "entertainment." Once inside, showing themselves to be Kelpie witches, they attempt to sacrifice Aquaman to summon some evil creature. It is revealed that their father, Donald Morgan the sailor, had been seduced by a Kelpie while at sea one year and had been left with the three infant girls, as Kelpies produce overnight. Despite their hypnotic hold on him, Aquaman punches through the floor and breaks into an underground well that he had already known was there. Inside are hundreds of tiny skeletons, from the babies the girls had borne over the years with their suitors. It seems the girls had conceived with nearly every man who came to visit, and drowned their ugly children in the well so they wouldnt have to put up with them. Aquaman grabs the three women and drowns them in the same cavern they had been using to kill their children.
...In Stitches
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: After being ripped apart by Black Adam in Greece, Young Frankenstein's pieces are being transported by helicopter, guarded by a group of Greek soldiers. The helicopter is struck by lightning, granting him new life, and his pieces are scattered over an unnamed Greek city. The pieces struggle to find each other, killing several people, good and bad in the process. At least an innocent woman, a mugger, a couple in a car, and a bunker of Albanian soldiers are all killed. The story ends with Young Frankenstein, who seems to have no memory of his previous life, stumbling along the ocean floor, knowing nothing other than that his purpose was destruction.
World's Shoddiest: The Light Kday Returns
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: On Halloween, the Riddler is attempting a robbery in Metropolis, attempting to get away from the Gotham City "freak show" for a night. One of his thugs captures Lois Lane, and asks the Riddler if they're allowed to "have fun" with her, which the Riddler angrily insists that they do not do. Batzarro bursts through the ceiling light and slams into the floor, then gets up and begins to attack the Riddler's band of thugs. The Riddler tries to escape in the chaos, but is tazered unconscious by Lois Lane. Soon, Bizarro arrives and joins the fray, meanwhile having a backwards argument about ideals with Batzarro. Lois, unphased, calls Superman on the phone to alert him, assures him she's okay, asks him to bring Chinese Food while he's coming, and tells him he "may want to call Bruce."
Strange Cargo
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: Jimmy and Lois are investigating a tip Jimmy got that Luthor is bringing something dangerous into the city, that is docked in the harbor. They pick the lock on a container with his insignia, and find a horde or ravenous zombies inside, who immediately chase after them. Superman hears them from space, and comes to their rescue. He finds they have a property he can't identify, either Kryptonite or Magic, that is causing him to weaken and his skin to become more susceptible as they pile onto him and try to eat him. Jimmy shouts out that the creatures are already dead, so Superman doesn't have to hold back, and unrestrained he shoves them all back into the crate, breaking many of them, and dumps the crate on the moon. The story ends with the zombies wandering around the moon looking for prey.
Small Evil
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: Young Clark Kent, Lana Lang and Pete Ross are visiting the house of a new kid in Smallville, having been told by Ma Kent to make sure to include him in their Halloween dance. They find the boy in a pool of blood, mumbling about a Manticore having attacked him. Clark quickly notices that the blood is not human, and the boy gets up saying "Gotcha," having been trying to scare them with Rat's blood. Although the boy admits that he wasn't attacked by one, he insists on their way out that his dad has seen a Manticore. Passing a field as they walk, they see a pile of what looks like human remains. The boy again insists that it must've been a Manticore attack, but Clark deduces that the Skull is in fact from their high school biology classroom, and the rest of it is cow remains. Naturally, the whole group is fed up with the boy. He ditches them in the field to go pranking on his own, calling them a bunch of nerds. After Clark, Lana and Pete leave, the boy is attacked by an actual Manticore. He screams for help, and is heard, but the three assume it's just another dumb prank. The boy is presumably killed.
The Speed of Life
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: Wally comes home to find his grandfather, Ira, entertaining Wally's kids on Halloween night. Wally gets the kids free and calmly discusses with a clearly confused Ira the last time he saw him - Ira had invented a tachyon collider which malfunctioned. Wally helped shut it down before it could destroy the city but he wasn't fast enough to save Ira. He had died and Wally has blamed himself. But Ira reminds him it was a tachyon device that tachyons move faster than light and can "punch through time." Ira didn't die, he's been temporarly displaced. But he wanted to make sure Wally knew that he was happy and that Wally was not to blame. Ira then disappears in a flash of light.
The Pumpkin Sinister
Cast of Characters
- Blue Devil
- Enchantress
- The Pumpkin Sinister
Synopsis: In a pumpkin field, two middle-aged men, clearly a pastiche of Charlie Brown and Linus are attempting to perform a bizarre ritual. They have just sacrificed one of their dogs (what appears to be Snoopy), and are talking about revenge against the man who humiliated one of them, and continuously mocked the other one for spending his Halloween's sitting in a pumpkin patch. Finally, they raise their giant monster from the ground, a pumpkin-headed creature called "The Pumpkin Sinister," who is apparently bound to obey their every command. They command it to kill their tormentor, Daniel Cassidy (The Blue Devil). The monster finds him, and nearly kills Blue Devil before he is able to get hold of his trident. A trident blast, combined with a destructive spell from Enchantress, is able to blow up The Pumpkin Sinister's head, spattering Pumpkin goop everywhere. Enchantress finds the two men from before lurking in the nearby brush, who Blue Devil names as Harley and Dennis, asking them what the whole thing was about. Harley angrily accuses Blue Devil of stealing his true love, the Red-Headed Girl, who based on a story Blue Devil told earlier appears to have been his first kiss. Blue Devil pushes the enraged man down, and walks off with Enchantress.
Sometimes They Come Back
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: Killer Croc is in South Carolina on a killing spree, and meets Resurrection Man, who is unnamed during the story, in a swamp. Resurrection Man, appearing to have lightning powers in this incarnation is savagely electrocuting Croc, until Croc finally manages to run him through with a sharp stick, killing him, and then eating him. While stalking off, Croc is hit by a massive amount of indigestion, and throws up. Resurrection Man begins to rematerialize, and fights Croc in his unrefined state, where he can still shift however he wants to. Resurrection Man actually eats Croc at one point, although Croc is able to escape. He runs to an isolated Gas Station, rushes straight into the gas tanks and blows the entire place up. News reports say that after this he is finally apprehended, and authorities have stated to their confusion that he was found not only burned, but also partially digested. Resurrection Man, after watching this report on the news from a bar, tells the bartender he has to be going. When the man asks him about the food he has just ordered, Resurrection Man cryptically says "Don't Worry. I'll be coming back."
Halloween at Arkham Ending
Cast of Characters
Synopsis: The Joker expresses his approval for the stories, then turns arounds and shows the rest of his inmates that his eyes are smoking. Everyone is so scared, that they run back to their cells. As a SWAT team pours in to the building, Deadman, who has apparently just been stalling the inmates, exits the Joker's body. The Joker tells Deadman he thinks he's clever, and Deadman is extremely surprised that the Joker can see him. The Joker tells Deadman that he is mad, but not stupid, and wishes him a Happy Halloween.
- This book was first published on October 31, 2007.
- The continuity of all of these stories is questionable, as they are all stories told by the inmates of a mad house. None of them should be assumed as in continuity, although none of them are explicitly out of continuity either.
- "Red Rain: Blood Lust" is reprinted in the Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer collection.
- No trivia.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Infinite Halloween Special Vol 1 1 on the forums
- Images from Infinite Halloween Special Vol 1 1


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(color wheel by Moses Harris–1766)
Did you know that if you stare at a yellow circle for a minute or two and then close your eyes, you will see a purple circle floating around on the back of your eyelids? And that if you stare at a blue circle and then close your eyes you'll see an orange circle floating? As a matter of fact, if you stare at any color on the color wheel long enough and then close your eyes, you will experience the color directly opposite on the color wheel (it doesn't work on the computer screen, possibly because of back lighting. You have to use paint or something non-opaque).
Goethe (the German philosopher, scientist and writer) said that when we see colors, something inside of us "reciprocally evokes" the colours diametrically opposed to [them] in this diagram." (Goethe's Theory of Colour) (ps. the "diagram" refers to the above color circle). When we see a color, its complementary color arises inside of us, and we unconsciously experience the whole of the chromatic scale at once.
In my last post I posed a question. If everything physical in the world can be continuously reduced and reduced until it is no more than nothing, does the physical world hold any meaning?
During a particularly depressing period in his life (he had been helping a prostitute raise her children but it didn't work out), Vincent van Gogh moved to a city called Nuenen to live with his parents. Nuenen was a city of weavers and van Gogh spent a lot of time during the year he lived there watching the weavers work. It was during this time that he decided that weaving was much like painting, and he began to develop his method of using paints as a weaver uses threads.
When the weavers weave that cloth…the peculiar Scottish plaids, then you know their aim is…for the multicolored checkered cloth to make the most vivid colors balance each other. But for the weaver, or rather the designer of the pattern or combination of colors, it is not always easy to determine his estimation of the number of threads and their direction, no more than it is easy to blend the strokes of the brush into a harmonious whole. (Vincent van Gogh quoted in Van Gogh and Gaugin: The Search for Sacred Art by Debora Silverman)
Van Gogh carried a little lacquered Chinese tea box full of yarn with his painting supplies. While he was painting, van Gogh would take out different colors and twist them together to maximize the balance and luminosity that is experienced by the viewer. The colors, weaving together like so many threads, evoke the feeling of balanced contrast in the world.
On observation, all those swirling, seemingly disparate particles collapse like threads into a moment of balance, creating meaning in a formless world.


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Offering a barbecue and views of the sea, Hillside Haven is situated in Tahilla, 31 km from Killarney. Free WiFi is featured and free private parking is available on site. You will find a kettle in the room. A flat-screen TV is available.
Note: Map is an approximate indication ONLY. Please contact Hillside Haven for directions and precise location prior to your visit.


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So today I played with OTV and managed to get it going on the new Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR 1000V)
In this blog post I am going to show you the receipe I used to get this going :).
You will need:
- An ESX Server to run virtual images on
- Two guests on that VM running Windows or Linux (doesn't really matter)
- Two Cisco Cloud Services Router VM Guests
- Nexus 1000V and a VMWare DvSwitch, if no Nexus 1000V is available you can get away with just two DV-Switches :)
Basically, your going to have a topology that looks a little something like this:
Now if you haven't got the Cisco Cloud Services Router or you haven't set that up, which is really the first step you should check out the blog post from INE that explains how to configure it in VMWARE here.
OK, now that's set up. Let's quickly look at our topology.
So basically as you can see from the topology diagram our goal is to get the server 172.28.0.11 talking to 172.28.0.20 even though they are not in the same Layer 2 domain by using the CSR Routers to perform OTV for us :).
Let's quickly look at the initial configuration on the CSR Routers:
interface GigabitEthernet1
ip address 172.27.0.1 255.255.255.252
interface GigabitEthernet1
ip address 172.27.0.2 255.255.255.252
Can we ping across these hosts?
CSR1#ping 172.27.0.2
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.27.0.2, timeout is 2 seconds:
Yes we can, so now we get onto the next stage.
The next stage involves configuring our dvSwitch and our Nexus 1000V, if we are using the Nexus 1000V basically I create a port profile that trunks up the VLAN to my CSR:
port-profile type vethernet EXTEND_SITE_TRUNK
vmware port-group
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 499-501
no shutdown
state enabled
VLAN 499 is my VLAN that the server will sit on, so I have created a port profile for that:
port-profile type vethernet EXTEND_VLAN_SERVER_1
vmware port-group
switchport access vlan 499
switchport mode access
no shutdown
state enabled
Now my server and my CSR #1 Router can see each other once I assign the port profiles to the appropriate VM's.
Ok now we have to duplicate the same sort of thing on the dvSwitch, because in this example we are trying to make the two hosts be on totally seperate switches that are not connected in any way. To do this I created a DVSwitch with No Uplinks and assigned from there:
As you can see I set the server to use the untagged port group and the Router to use the Trunk Port Group, the reasoning for this will become clear later.
Ok now I have all the basic infrastructure setup, let's get onto the OTV Config.
First thing I need to do on both CSR's is specify a site identifier and a site VLAN (Or in the case of CSR, which is not like configuring OTV on a nexus 7000, I specify a Bridge-domain)
CSR1(config)#otv site bridge-domain 1
CSR1(config)#otv site-identifier 0x2
And then the same on CSR2 but with a diffirent site Identifier
CSR2(config)#otv site bridge-domain 1
CSR2(config)#otv site-identifier 0x1
Now we need to configure the actual OTV Interfaces, the first thing to do is go to our join interfaces (which are the 172.27.0.0/30 links we setup previously) and specify IGMP Version 3 to support SSM multicast
CSR1(config)#interface GigabitEthernet1
CSR1(config-if)# ip igmp version 3
Now we repeat the above on CSR2 and then we are ready to configure the OTV Interface:
interface Overlay1
no ip address
otv join-interface GigabitEthernet1
otv use-adjacency-server 172.27.0.1 unicast-only
otv adjacency-server unicast-only
interface Overlay1
no ip address
otv join-interface GigabitEthernet1
otv use-adjacency-server 172.27.0.1 unicast-only
In the above example I have used an adjacency server that lives on CSR, by default OTV wants to use multicast but I had trouble getting this going with multicast, I believe the issue is related to the way I have the CSR's join interfaces connected to each other, so I did this to make life easier for myself for now.
As you can see one router (CSR1) is the adjacency server and I have configured CSR2 to point to this, you can have multiple adjacency servers specified for redundancy if you like.
OK now we need to configure the "extend" interface on our inside of our CSR, which is the interface on VLAN 499 on each switch respectively that heads down towards our end host servers.
Here is the configuration there:
interface GigabitEthernet2
no ip address
negotiation auto
service instance 2 ethernet
encapsulation dot1q 499
bridge-domain 200
I believe that the CSR has the same restriction that a Nexus 7000 has in terms of you can't have IP addresses assigned to interfaces that your trying to extend over the OTV. If anyone knows for sure if this is possible/not possible please post in the comments section :).
So the most important part of this configuration is where we specify a service instance, this will be how we map our OTV VLAN, as you can see the VLAN number is set here as well as a bridge domain.
If we now go back to our OTV interface:
interface Overlay1
no ip address
otv join-interface GigabitEthernet1
otv use-adjacency-server 172.27.0.1 unicast-only
service instance 2 ethernet
encapsulation dot1q 499
bridge-domain 200
no shutdown
Here we are actually mapping that service instance we created, now when we perform a no shut we should see the OTV tunnel come up, here are some useful troubleshooting commands to verify:
CSR1#show otv detail
Overlay Interface Overlay1
VPN name : None
State : UP
AED Capable : Yes
Join interface(s) : GigabitEthernet1
Join IPv4 address : 172.27.0.1
Tunnel interface(s) : Tunnel0
Encapsulation format : GRE/IPv4
Site Bridge-Domain : 1
Capability : Unicast-only
Is Adjacency Server : Yes
Adj Server Configured : Yes
Prim/Sec Adj Svr(s) : 172.27.0.1
OTV instance(s) : 0
FHRP Filtering Enabled : Yes
ARP Suppression Enabled : Yes
ARP Cache Timeout : 600 seconds
This first command shows us that the AED has been elected (it's us), that our join interface is Gi1 and that our bridge ID is 1, also that we are using an adjacency server and that we ourselves are configured as an adjacency server. If you have errors in here you should revisit your config and make sure your not missing any of the critical commands such as the site bridge domain.
The next useful troubleshooting command is to establish if an ISIS adjacency exists between the hosts:
CSR1#show otv isis neighbors
Tag Overlay1:
System Id Type Interface IP Address State Holdtime Circuit Id
CSR2 L1 Ov1 172.27.0.2 UP 25 CSR1.01
If the OTV is successful the only state for this should be UP, you will also notice that you can see the hostname of your peer.
CSR1#show otv adjacency
Overlay 1 Adjacency Database
Hostname System-ID Dest Addr Up Time State
CSR2 001e.4925.fc00 172.27.0.2 00:20:11 UP
Here is another helpful command that just helps you verify the connectivity.
So far, it looks like everything is up and we should be good to go, let's do a ping from our host!
Success! Our OTV Tunnel is carrying the traffic, we can do some verification here too (this will also be helpful to you when troubleshooting if it does not work)
CSR1#show otv route
Codes: BD - Bridge-Domain, AD - Admin-Distance,
SI - Service Instance, * - Backup Route
OTV Unicast MAC Routing Table for Overlay1
Inst VLAN BD MAC Address AD Owner Next Hops(s)
0 499 200 0050.5601.face 50 ISIS CSR2
0 499 200 0050.56a0.1aad 40 BD Eng Gi2:SI2
As you can see this shows some very useful information, you can see that the above routes are in the ISIS routing table, and what bridge-domain and VLAN they are attached to, also the owner helps you know if its local to you or over the OTV tunnel.
You can also see that it knows that one of the Mac's is actually pointed out interface Gi2:SI2 (Gigabit 2, Service Instance 2)
So this is quite a helpful command. Another useful command is:
CSR1#show otv arp-nd-cache
Overlay1 ARP/ND L3->L2 Address Mapping Cache
BD MAC Layer-3 Address Age (HH:MM:SS) Local/Remote
200 0050.5601.face 172.28.0.11 00:02:46 Remote
This will show you the ARP cache that the router will respond with whenever it see's an ARP request, this is part of the proxy-arp function that OTV performs to ensure that ARP flooding is not occuring too often, this would be a good place to look if you had recently changed IP address or recently changed a host on the OTV and where wondering why you couldn't see it, it could be that the ARP cache is out of date.
Finally, if your using the Nexus 1000V you can also use the following helpful troubleshooting command:
DCNexus1000V# show mac address-table vlan 499
VLAN MAC Address Type Age Port Mod
499 0050.56a0.115e static 0 Veth11 3
499 0050.56a0.1aad static 0 Veth2 3
499 001e.bd93.82bc dynamic 15 Veth11 3
499 0050.5601.face dynamic 248 Veth11 3
So Veth11 is the interface on my Nexus 1000V that goes towards my CSR router, so the fact that I have learnt the mac 0050.5601.face via this interface shows that the traffic is coming over the OTV.
I hope this helps someone out there, especially my fellow CCIE DC candidates.


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Softest Molasses Cookies/
Wyatt has a book nook under the stairs. Lately, I've had fantasies of holing up in there. With People magazine, episodes of The Good Wife, and these cookies. Lots of them.
It's been a roller coaster beginning to 2014 in my neighborhood. A beautiful, bright, loving high schooler died in a car accident between her house and the grocery store where she worked. Last week, a single mother opened her door for a teenager in distress and was beaten within an inch of her life. I didn't know them, but lots of folks in my world did, and I can't stop being sad.
Of course I'm not going to stop driving, and I can't do anything about being home alone at night while Yancey's working. I don't feel scared, but I'm on notice--aware of mortality, alert to the very thin line between life and death, between happiness and extreme suffering. A wise teacher said to me lately, "We know we're close to the holy when we bump up against paradox--the both/and."
So this town has been been mourning and I've been praying, but still there have been moments of beauty, grace, deliciousness.
Jordan came up and we went to an Enneagram retreat together at Stillpoint. The best part was the 36 hours afterward when we consulted all our books and analyzed one another. Is that friendship or what?
Loretta, as usual, had several make-out sessions with our dog Padré, made me lots of love notes, and reminds me every day of all the love in the world that's waiting to be shared.
My clients asked if they could appreciate me at the end of a retreat I facilitated. They said the kind of things you might hear at a retirement party, the kind of things you might wait your whole life to hear. I soaked it up and I'm still soaking it up.
Today, MLK Day, I feel a tsunami of gratitude for MLK, Ghandi, Dorothy Day, Jesus, Oscar Romero, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and countless others who have turned the paradigm of domination on its head and paid dearly for it. I know I fail mightily some days, but I hope I can honor their prophetic voices, living in love instead of fear.
Our family went for a hike today and we were treated to brilliant sunshine and breathtaking views of Puget Sound at the summit. I'll feast off it for a long time. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the message I heard was, "The universe is good. It's supporting you, supporting life, rooting for you. Breathe it in." So I am.
Molasses Cookies
Good old Bon Appetit comes through again. My aim is to have the cookie jar full during the week since my kids have come to expect a treat in their lunch and I prefer to know what's in the treat and be able to pronounce it. I made a double batch of these (enough for some after-school snacks, too) and enjoyed Wyatt's groans of pleasure. He's fun to cook for. One big difference between the recipe and my method: REFRIGERATE YOUR DOUGH FOR A COUPLE HOURS. This means a little planning ahead, but it's worth it.


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I just
fell asleep during watched the French Presidential debate; it is the only one between the two final candidates before election day next Sunday. Hey, I'm entitled. I'm coming down with a cold, it's raining and chilly, and, besides, trying to understand all that political rhetoric in French is épuisant (exhausting).
So, to wake me up, I just had to look at these beautiful creatures I photographed the other (sunny) day at Pain de Sucre.
I was in such a rush as I walked by, I only had time to take the pictures. What an odd priority, I know. And, then again, I have to admit, I hadn't yet been tempted to try a Parisian guimauve (marshmallow) until I saw those.
There's no debate that I have to go back and try them. At least I don't have to choose between them (or, in fact, between the Presidential candidates here).


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FireFox3 Cache Check Frequency
It seems there is no way to set the frequency of when FireFox3 checks for new files on the server. If you are a web developer and are testing your code, you really want the browser to check for changes "every time" you refresh the page. You can always force the clean refresh by holding down the Command key (aka Apple key) on Macs or Shift on Windows.
There is a less painful way to do this in the advanced settings of FF3. Just open up about:config and look for browser.cache.checkdocfrequency. The value can be:
0 once per session
1 everytime
2 never
3 when out of date (default)
I recommend changing this value to 1 if you are developing and testing code.
You will then see lots of 304 not modified messages, and get 200s for your changed files.


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Raypak 266A/267A Outdoor Stack kit (Includes Inner Adapter Panel)
Outdoor Stacks are used in wet or windy situations or to exhaust heaters through a deck or roof above. These are not used for Indoor heater installation. This Stack Kit Fits Only heaters made after 2004, Digital Atmospheric 266A and Low Nox 267A models. Does Not Fit earlier RP2100 models R265 A/B. 009835 can also be found on Repack Digital schematic diagram pages


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Jocasta's Reading Room / First Look: Imperial Commando: 501st« on: March 23, 2009, 10:30 PM »
So the RC in TFU game was a hint of how they would look like Nice!!! I thought it was going to be like the IC Scout hehe perhaps later.
Cant wait to have the book or action figures are made....PS: of course another Game
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RC in TFU Game
Cant wait to have the book or action figures are made....PS: of course another Game
The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun....The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos -- the galaxy's finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett -- find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalore with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata's ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others -- including men from Delta and Omega squads -- now serve as Imperial Commandos, a black ops unit within Vader's own 501st Legion, tasked to hunt down fugitive Jedi and clone deserters.
For Darman, grieving for his Jedi wife and separated from his son, it's an agonizing test of loyalty. But he's not the only one who'll be forced to test the ties of brotherhood. On Mandalore, clone deserters and the planet's own natives, who have no love for the Jedi, will have their most cherished beliefs challenged. In the savage new galactic order, old feuds may have to be set aside to unite against a far bigger threat, and nobody can take old loyalties for granted.
Find out more in Imperial Commando: 501st, the sequel to Order 66, by bestselling author Karen Traviss. It is due out in paperback from Del Rey Books in October. Here's a first look at the cover art by Greg Knight.
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RC in TFU Game