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After fiddling around for a couple of minutes I found the correct incantation to get cgi scripts to work with Windows Apache. It uses the traditional Unix hash-bang line. Here we have a nice little hello world cgi:
#!mzscheme -mqf (define *query-string* (getenv "QUERY_STRING")) (define (header type) (string-append "Content-type: " type "; charset=iso-8859-1~n~n")) (printf (header "text/html")) (printf "Hello World~n") (when *query-string* (printf "[~a]~n" *query-string*)) (exit)
But why bother with CGI when there are all these wonderful frameworks around? Isn't that old-school? Well, I've been inspired by something in Seaside. I'm not thinking of porting the whole framework, no way. If I wanted to, then why not just use Seaside? No, I want to try something much smaller.


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So many home business and internet marketing coaches focus on the freedom gained through that 6-figure income or that million-dollar mark. And I'm not arguing against that. Money is indeed an extraordinary power.
But let's step back a moment . . .
If you really want freedom and a rich life, gaining control over how you use money gives you even more extraordinary powers. Even more than that million dollar mile post. Since it doesn't matter how much how much money you have, you can still enjoy a rich life.
I know what I'm saying from experience. At times we have lived as a family of four on $35,000 a year. However despite all the social economists telling us that we should feel poor, we never felt that way.
We enjoyed good health, perhaps one of the biggest treasures ever. And we enjoyed the simple things of life – good food on the table, safety, being together as a family.
Every evening when I sat on the steps next to my husband and we watched our children run around in the soft glow of evening, I felt like one of the richest people in the world.
And even now, as the money is coming in and our bank account is growing, I know this: If the money dried up tomorrow, we would still be able to enjoy life.
So while I'm not naysaying the luxuries and opportunities of profit, I also want to put a word in for frugality here.
Frugality paired with simple living has freed us from feeling dependent on money for happiness and health.
Now while frugality plays a role in the big picture of enjoying life, it plays a particularly strategic role when it comes to your home business.
Why? Because no matter where you end up financially, frugality will help you get there faster and enjoy the journey as well.
When you make wise financial decisions, you give yourself more options for how you use your money and your time to pursue goals for your business and your relationships.
- It means that you may not have to earn $300,000 a year to take the family vacations you wanted – or cut down to a shorter workday.
- It means you can be more selective about your clients and get both more enjoyment out of your work as well as more strategic about moving your business forward.
- It also may mean that you can hire that virtual assistant or do some advertising sooner than you would have otherwise and build your business faster.
Frugality essentially means you're in control. And that you don't have to sacrifice other goals for the almighty business or financial goals.
Now, I certainly have upped my spending in some areas as my income has grown. And I've spent thousands of dollars to further my business.
And this adamantly DIYer has learned some hard lessons that sometimes it's far better to spend the money and hire someone to do something than to waste time and muddle through a project you don't have the skills for.
But when you put wise spending in the mix . . .When you save money where you can . . .you profit in all areas of your life.
What is your take on this question? Have you used frugality to help your business and enhance your life? What frugal strategies have been particularly helpful to you?
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A new version of the Kiteboarding Competition Rules have been finalized by the ISAF Rules Working Party and will be published in the next days officially on the ISAF website. Follow this link to access the new version of Appendix BB
The new Appendix BB only includes changes to the rules for Course Racing at the moment, additional changes for all other disciplines will be posted in the next weeks until a final new version of the Kiteboarding Competition Rules has been completed.
The changes for course racing are important as they will be used at next weeks Miami OCR regatta, where kiteboarding will be demonstrated along all other Olympic Sailing Classe.


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State steps in to save New Haven Open
HARTFORD -- The state of Connecticut is planning to spend $618,000 to buy the rights to the New Haven Open women's tennis tournament and keep it from moving to North Carolina.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Thursday that the Capital Region Development Authority will vote on purchasing the sanction for the WTA event from the United States Tennis Association at a meeting on Oct. 17. The authority's board has been actively involved in the negotiations.
"Economic development for our urban environments, and the state as a whole, is a fundamental component of the state's agenda and we view the New Haven Open as another chapter in bolstering this effort," Malloy said in a statement. "We know that Connecticut is a great state for women's sports, and this is another fantastic way to ensure that continues to be the case in 2014 and beyond."
Ben Barnes, Malloy's budget director, said the USTA had reached an agreement to sell the tournament and move it to Winston Salem, N.C., where the ATP holds a men's event during the same week in August the women play in New Haven.
Barnes said the ATP rejected the plans for a combined men's and women's tournament in North Carolina and Connecticut was given a short window to buy the WTA sanction and keep the event at the Connecticut Tennis Center, which also was built with state funds.
"In this case, we're making a relatively modest investment, given the size of the economic development return that this brings to the community," he said.
An economic impact study conducted in 2008 found that the tournament generated approximately $26 million in regional economic impact, including almost 300 jobs and $1.1 million in state tax revenue.
The tournament also announced that it has received renewals from its top five sponsors, Aetna, American Express, First Niagara, Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University.
Tournament director Anne Worcester, who will continue in that position, said four of the deals are for three years. Negotiations on the length of Aetna's commitment are ongoing, she said.
The tournament will keep its name, Barnes said. A nonprofit or special-purpose entity likely will be created to take over the operations from Connecticut Professional Tennis, the for-profit organization which had leased the tournament's sanction from the USTA, he said.
A men's, women's or combined tournament has operated in New Haven since 1990. But the tournament has not had a title sponsor since Pilot Pen left in 2010 along with the ATP players.
Worcester and Barnes acknowledged the event has lost money in recent years. The tournament has seen a steady drop in attendance, which led officials last year to close off the upper bowl in the 13,000-seat Connecticut Tennis Center.
Just 45,796 fans attended the August event, down from 76,480 in 2010, the last year that men's players also played there, and 53,004 a year ago.
State House Republican leader Lawrence Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, was among those critical of the deal, which does not require legislative approval.
"What do we know about running a tennis tournament?" he said. "What we do know is that the tournament has been around and run by people far better equipped than we are to run it, and has not been successful. What makes us as state government think that we can now own it and turn it around?"
Worcester has long called for the state to help fund capital improvements to the stadium, such as a permanent scoreboard and new kitchen.
Barnes said the state is open to making a further investment, though the scope of that has not been discussed.
He acknowledged this type of public ownership of a tournament, while not uncommon overseas, will be unique in the United States.
"We are working on creating a management structure under which we are given a commensurate level of control of expenses of the tournament," he said. "We are also working with our other institutional sponsors to come up with an appropriate formula for sharing some of the operating risk, so the state is not alone in carrying that."


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Mayo Sligo Leitrim Education and Training Board is proud to present the National Craft Butcher Apprenticeship. The two-year "earn and learn" programme is designed for those who wish to learn the craft of butchery through both off-the-job training and on-the-job practical experience. Upon successful completion of the programme, apprentices will be awarded the QQI Level 5 Certificate in Craft Butchery Major Award. Apprentices will, by then, have gained the knowledge and skills to cut, prepare, package and present meat and meat products to the standards required to the business and specilaist needs of customers.
The off-the-job training for the Craft Butcher Apprenticeship takes place in Teagasc Ashford Food Research Centre, Co. Dublin. The centre has state of the art cooking, manufacturing and packaging facilities, and boasts its own fully-functioning abbatoir. The apprentices will spend the rest of their programme hours with their approved employer.
This is the first government-funded butchery apprenticeship for the Irish Food Industry and has been designed to train butchers for the 21st century in order to secure and protect the furutre of Irish butchery. Additionally, the course has been structured to expand the skillset of new and existing butchers, so that the future skills needs of the industry can be met.
The training curriculum itself incorporates modules essential for the developing core skills required of the modern butcher, including Food Safety and Hygience, Food Prepartion, and Animal Welfare. The course expands into a number of business areas to encourage apprentice butchers to build up a more versatile skillset, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship central to the course. Marketing Practice, Customer Service and Sales, and Entrepreneurial Skills are some of the other elements of the programme.
To view the Occupational Profile for the Apprentice Butcher, click here.
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NBC-Universal is getting ridiculous with its shameless courting of President Obama. On the morning of September 27, NBC's Matt Lauer interviewed Barack Obama for a half-hour with no commercials. But it wasn't just on NBC. Their devotion to El Jefe is so transparent they aired it live on most of their other cable properties, including MSNBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Chiller, Sleuth, Uni HD, and Universal Sports.
The announced topic was education, but Lauer also turned to politics, and that's where the NBC host just regurgitated the current liberal complaint: Obama is apparently too calm and not tough enough toward Republicans. Lauer noted Obama's recent declaration that "The Republicans, they're treating me like a dog." He didn't ask for proof for that bizarre and whiny claim. He underlined it like it was the gospel truth.
Then he begged for ratcheting up the "rigor" in Obama's attacks on opponents: "Former President Clinton said he doesn't think the Democrats, and you included, have been rigorous enough in pushing back against some of the Republican attacks. Over these next five weeks, Mr. President, do you intend to change your tone or your emotion in terms of your pushing back?"
(Try to imagine NBC welcoming Jim DeMint or Newt Gingrich to the studio and Lauer saying suggestively "Some think your tone has been too timid in attacking Democrats. Do you intend to ratchet up your attacks as the election nears?")
The biggest myth in the Obama arsenal is that Obama is some kind of blissfully bipartisan mediator not prone to mean-spirited messaging. It should be obvious to anyone with ears that he was a hardball-throwing liberal throughout the presidential campaign, and he's grown even more partisan since he won and the Democrats took over everything.
The president has to be shocked when he hears this too-wimpy complaint. He gently replied that anyone who's "heard me speak around the country over the last several months" would know he's declared "a very sharp difference with the Republicans" – even as he admits he's hammering them at every turn. In his Saturday radio address two days previous, Obama accused the GOP of wanting to cut taxes for the super-rich and "cut the middle class loose to fend for itself." He called the new Pledge for America document "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive."
Obama's real problem is his atrocious record. Much of that "disastrous decade" featured an unemployment rate between 4 and 6 percent, which right now sounds like a dream. The president unspools crazy anti-GOP lines like this one to Lauer: "They proposed $4 trillion worth of tax cuts and $16 billion in spending cuts." Lauer didn't follow up with any notion that (a) the trillions in "tax cuts" aren't actually "cuts," but keeping the current tax rates the same. Then there's (b), the Republicans propose to peel spending back to Fiscal Year 2008 levels, which is -- if they ever accomplished it -- many multiples of "$16 billion in spending cuts."
Network anchors buy (and sell) every silly thing the Democrats have to say on fiscal issues, including the mind-boggling whopper that adding millions of people to federally-funded health insurance under ObamaCare is going to reduce the deficit.
But that wasn't the only question where Lauer worried out loud to Obama that his mythical status is falling apart. Lauer referred to the other recent NBC hour of free air time to Obama, on CNBC, where the discouraged Barack supporter said she was tired of defending him.
An incredulous Lauer suggested she was feeling "in some way you have lost touch with the struggles of the average person on the street. I say it with some sense of irony, because you began your career in public service as a community organizer. That is all about getting in touch with people on the street. So how can this criticism now be coming up of a guy who started out as a community organizer?"
Obama correctly suggested that this discouraged woman, Velma Hart, is still an enthusiastic supporter, but like many liberals, she's in disbelief that Obama's socialism didn't work. She told Michelle Singletary of The Washington Post: "I guess I started to believe, on some small level, that he had a magic wand. Maybe in that respect my question was somewhat unfair." She also told the Post she would have hugged him if he told her that recovery was coming, but "Right now, you're expecting too much from me."
The liberals at NBC Universal want to hug Obama, too, with all the free air time he wants. But first, they want him to put his every ounce of civility aside and pick up the mud bucket. Liberals can't maintain control of Washington without casting the conservatives as the incoming embodiment of all evil.


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A rise in the number of single-use carrier bags handed out by UK supermarkets has prompted renewed calls for a stricter levy on plastic bags in England.
The number of single-use bags handed out by UK retailers rose for the fourth year in a row in 2013 to more than 8.3 billion, figures show.
In England, the number of single-use bags from supermarkets rose 5% from just over seven billion in 2012 to 7.4 billion in 2013, the statistics from waste reduction body Wrap revealed.
Ministers have pledged to bring in a 5p levy for single-use plastic bags in England, although it will not come in until October 2015 and has prompted criticism because it will not include smaller retailers or paper bags.
The Government was forced to admit plans to also exempt biodegradable bags will not come in when the levy is introduced, because no such bag currently exists.
In the wake of the latest rise campaigners urged new Environment Secretary Liz Truss to drop the exemptions for small retailers and paper bags from the scheme in England.
Dr Sue Kinsey, spokeswoman for the Break the Bag Habit coalition - which includes the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the Marine Conservation Society and Keep Britain Tidy - said: "This further increase in bags given out in England underlines the importance of having a charge.
"However, to be as effective as the schemes in Wales and Northern Ireland, the exemptions for small businesses and paper bags must be removed.
"This increase should not come as a surprise to Government, as we pointed out the inadequacy of voluntary measures at the start of our campaign.
"Frankly, the charge should have been brought in sooner, and the advice of experts, retail organisations and environmental groups to remove exemptions from the charge should now be acted on."
Baroness Kate Parminter, co-chairman of the Lib Dem Defra Parliamentary Party Committee, said: "What these figures show is that there is still a huge number of these single-use plastic bags being needlessly wasted across the UK.
"Lib Dems had to fight tooth and nail to get the Tories to agree to the introduction of a levy, to cut wasteful use, with the excess money given to charity.
"Instead of jumping at the chance to cut the number of bags littering our towns and countryside, the Tories insisted on an exemption for household name convenience stores.
"Our policy will encourage reuse and recycling of plastic bags, curb unnecessary damage to the environment and dramatically cut the numbers that blight our towns, countryside and hedgerows."
Northern Ireland saw the number of bags handed out plummet by 71% as a carrier bag charge was introduced in April 2013, making it the only part of the UK to register a fall, the figures showed.
Wales saw an 18% increase last year, but its use of carrier bags is a fraction of other parts of the UK following the introduction of a 5p charge in the country. The number of bags handed out in Wales has fallen by 79% since 2010, the figures showed.
In Scotland, which is bringing in a levy this year, there was a 6% increase in the number of plastic bags handed out by retailers.
Across the UK as a whole, the number of single-use carrier bags provided to customers by supermarkets rose 3.2% between 2012 and 2013 and has risen more than a tenth (10.1%) since 2010.
But the number of single-use plastic bags handed out has fallen by 29% since the figures were first collated in 2006.
The number of reusable "bags for life" provided by retailers has almost doubled since 2006, up from 245 million that year to 424 million in 2013, the figures showed.
Welsh Minister for Natural Resources, Culture and Sport John Griffiths reminded shoppers in Wales to keep up the good work and to reuse their bags.
"People in Wales have adapted extremely well to our 5p carrier bag charge which was introduced in October 2011 and supermarkets across Wales are full of people reusing shopping bags.
"These latest figures show that consumption of carrier bag use in Wales has reduced by 79% since 2010, and this really is an excellent result. However, there is no room for complacency.
"Our 5p carrier bag charge really has had a significant impact on shopping habits across Wales and it is helping us to become a less wasteful society. I would urge everyone to keep up the good work and reuse bags whenever possible," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Environment Department (Defra) said: "Countries with the 5p charge have seen a dramatic fall in the number of plastic bags taken from supermarkets - that is why we are introducing a charge in England from October 2015.
"Our approach will help us reduce plastic bag usage and the litter they cause, while also protecting small and medium-sized businesses from any regulatory burdens at a time when the Government is supporting new growth in our economy."
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Poster promoting mass x-ray screening, England, 1945-1959
'He's onto a good thing, you too can have this opportunity' states this poster. It advertises mass miniature radiography. It features an image of a cartoon man 'driving' a block of text. Advertising posters such as this promoted mobile X-ray screening programmes used to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in large groups of people. Early diagnosis meant lower risk of infection to others such as co-workers or family. It also meant a higher chance of recovery. Mass miniature radiography only became possible with pre-war technological developments. These included extremely small, fast camera lenses that were applied to X-ray work. Mobile X-ray services played a large role in public health campaigns against tuberculosis in the 1940s and 1950s. Mobile X-ray services were very successful. They were phased out in the UK in the 1960s. However, they are still used in other parts of the world.
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Journalists open wallets
Reporters for Romney? Editors for Obama?
Numerous journalists — self-identified reporters, editors and photographers affiliated with established news organizations — contributed money in September and October to the campaigns of President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.
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Some equate their contributions to free speech or cite the right to act on personal political views during an increasingly tight election's most critical stage. Others say they're driven by history, or offer no explanation at all.
Longtime Wall Street Journal arts reporter Paul Levy is unapologetic for his contributions to Obama's campaign.
"It's very simple: I think Romney is a dangerous religious freak whose election will cripple America," said Levy, who has donated $225 to Obama this year. Levy says his political donations don't pose a conflict of interest because he doesn't write about politics.
The Wall Street Journal's political and civic activities policy states that "all news personnel … should refrain from partisan political activity," including "making a financial contribution to a candidate's campaign." Journal spokeswoman Ashley Huston described Levy as a "freelance contributor," not a salaried staff member, and declined to discuss his political contribution.
Gersh Kuntzman, the New York Daily News' deputy managing editor for news, gave the Obama Victory Fund joint fundraising committee $250 on Sept. 27. Kuntzman declined to comment for this story.
Matt Walsh, editor and chief executive of The Observer Media Group, which owns Florida newspapers such as Sarasota Observer, Longboat Observer and East County Observer, contributed to the Romney Victory Fund. Walsh said it was not a conflict of interest because he was expressing his right to free speech.
"I don't cover any of the races," Walsh said. "Everybody who reads our papers knows that our philosophical point of view is libertarian in our editorials. We don't hide anything. It would be different if a reporter covering the race was making a contribution."
ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott also doesn't cover politics directly; he gave $25,000 to Obama's joint fundraising committee in September.
ESPN spokesman Bill Hofheimer wouldn't comment on Scott specifically, referring POLITICO instead to the network's policy on political activity. The policy offers on-air staffers wide berth, only discouraging, but not prohibiting "those involved in the newsgathering process" from engaging in "matters of political advocacy or controversy." It also states that staff who "nonetheless involve themselves in political advocacy may be reassigned to avoid their handling of news, coverage or other topics" that "could be impacted by such advocacy."
Within the news industry, the act of journalists engaging in checkbook politics remains a deeply contentious ethical issue — a potentially fireable offense at some organizations, but accepted elsewhere.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC senior runner Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) lowered his own school record in the 800m run by clocking in at 1:49.15 as the Retrievers competed on the second day of the Penn State Nationals, Saturday at the Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track.
Meanwhile, at the Patriot Games at George Mason, sophomore Caitlyn Davis (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) bettered her personal-best in the pole vault by clearing 3.22m (10'6.75").
Smith, who has already qualified for the IC4A Championships in March, led a host of Retrievers to set new personal-bests at the competition at Penn State. Classmate Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) recorded a new top time of 4:08.97 in the mile race, down almost two seconds from his IC4A qualifying time of 4:10.23 from last weekend's NYU Team Challenge.
Over the course of the two-day heptathlon, sophomore Vincent Rentzsch (Oranienburg, Germany) finished second with a personal-best score of 4,814 points. The sophomore won the shot put (13.52m; 44'4.25") and placed second in the long jump (6.31m; 20'8.50") on Friday evening and then finished second in both the 60m hurdles (8.68 secs.) and pole vault (4.10m; 13'5.25") on Saturday.
In the 1,000m run, three Retrievers set new personal-bests. Sophomore Nick Johnson (Olney, Md./Sherwood) and junior Charles Bolinger (Bowie, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) each set new bests in the men's race while finishing fourth (2:30.57) and fifth (2:30.83), respectively. For the women, sophomore Angelina Oputa (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) lowered her top mark down to 3:03.02.
After advancing to the finals in the 60m dash last night, junior Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) captured the top spot in Saturday's 200m dash. Jackson crossed the line with a top season time of 24.50, while senior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K Magnet) placed sixth with an ECAC-qualifying time of 24.87. Jones also placed third in the 400m event with a time of 56.44.
In the 500m run, senior Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) posted a new personal-best by clocking in at 1:14.96. Freshman Erick Soetje (Clarksburg, Md.) matched Adelola by recording a personal-best of 1:05.40 in the men's race, a time which ranks eighth in the UMBC record book.
Senior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll), who set a new school record in the 1,000m run earlier in the year at Penn State, recorded a new personal top time while placing ninth (2:14.71) in the 800m against a national field.
Both the men's and women's 4x400 relay teams also set season-bests at Penn State. The men's squad of Smith, freshman Darius Oxley (Silver Spring, Md./Blake), Asanke Ekanayake (Clarksburg, Md.), and Soetje combined to place 13th with a time of 3:19.92. The women's squad of Jones and juniors Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara), Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel), and Briana Young (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) paced the field with a time of 3:46.18.
In Northern Virginia, Davis and others followed along the same path in posting career-bests.
In the men's pole vault competition, senior Liam Stott (Carrboro, N.C./Chapel Hill) equaled his career-best by clearing 4.45m (14'7.25"), finishing tied for second overall.
Freshman Mercedes Tillman (Waldorf, Md./North Point) broke the one-minute mark in the 400m dash with a personal-best of 59.49. In the 500m run, classmate Marie Yuille (Bowie, Md.) placed fourth by crossing the line at 1:19.20.
Sophomore Ehab Abutaleb (Silver Spring, Md.) advanced to the finals in both the 60m dash and the 60m hurdles. Senior Sean Cooper (Waldorf, Md./North Point/Delaware State) and freshman Tyler Ford (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) also reached the finals in the 60m dash.
UMBC continues its preparations for the America East Championships by competing at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational next weekend in New York City.


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ICON Venue previously partnered with the City of Sacramento and former Kings owners, the Maloof family, two years ago to plan an arena at the Railyards in Sacramento. The Maloofs claim to never have had a finalized agreement and walked away from the project, before unsuccessfully trying to sell the team to a group of Seattle investors.
In a statement today, Kings President Chris Granger said: "We now have a world-class team in place and we look forward to developing what we believe will be an important civic space, and the loudest building in sports, right here in the heart of downtown Sacramento."
Turner had already been selected as builder.
AECOM has served as lead architect of 11 NBA arenas, including the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and Aggies Stadium at the University of California, Davis.
The company says it will have conceptual renderings ready before the end of the year and that a final design for the project should be ready by the middle part of next year.


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A writer friend of mine named Harley May has a contest on her blog to win a copy of Sean Ferrell's new book, Numb. (Want to compete? There's still time to enter. But if you win and I don't, I will be very put out.)
Anyhow, on her blog, Harley re-enacts three scenes in the book: a man engaged in a lion fight, a man hammering a nail through himself for profit, and a man on fire. Her reenactments are gripping, to be sure, but no one (to my knowledge) has yet re-re-enacted these scenes in Excite-O-Vision™, which requires a camera, and the collaboration of young boys, as well as a great many of their toys.
The first re-enactment, lion fight, was dramatically enhanced as a cage fight. While the ultimate results were not available as we went to press, the man does not seem to be faring well:
Check out this exclusive lion-on-man close-up, which shows the simulated blood in even more graphic Excite-O-Vision™ detail:
Despite danger aplenty, the man lives through this ordeal, only to have a nail hammered into him. Harley's blog says "someone hammering a nail through their body for profit," but wouldn't it be so much more dramatic, my kids didn't say, if someone else hammered in the nail? You know, like "The Passion of the Christ" meets The Golden Spike?
But the man — he must be invincible — survives this too, only to encounter the most dangerous, conflagrational denouement ever invented: being set on fire!
Unfortunately, Ochwat Studios spent all its production budget on Excite-O-Vision™, leaving nothing left over for pyrotechnics. But those crazy innovative kids insisted that they had a solution, and insisted viewers wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Look how excited the crowd is. There are always challenges with filmic adaptations. Why Boba Fett and Yoda? Why a man with gelled hair holding a gun? What is the man doing with shackles, and why is the rat so close to the flame? Is he a flame-proof rat?
So many questions. I guess we'll have to read Numb to find the answers.


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In the dining room, contemporary seating surrounds a traditional dining table. The mix of influences, including a jaguar clay pot, keeps this dining room interesting, even with a muted color palette.
A Bath Built for Two
In the bathroom, Ana Claudia shows off her unique talent for picking just the right tile for a space. White subway tile looks uber-cool laid both vertically and horizontally for maximum whimsy. Warm brick adds sophistication to the bathroom design. And modern brass his-and-her mirrors finish off the space, giving it a modern feel. The mix of aesthetics works perfectly in this forever family home.
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The living room can easily seat 10-15 guests. To one side, a large sectional provides an inviting view of the great outdoors. The streamlined sofa is featured alongside a vintage coffee table. Ana Claudia loves sourcing vintage finds in neighborhood stores. The living area also brings the outdoors in with sculptural plants in the corner.
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Often, luxe materials are also durable and easy to clean. Case in point: this sitting room's green velvet sectional and simple-to-wipe-down, marble-topped coffee table.
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A decorative window provides privacy without offending your neighbors or blocking out natural light the way a full-blown wall would. This stylish DIY idea from Lowe's costs less than $100, and you can customize the glass with any stencil design you like.
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Soothing beige walls contribute to this living room's calming ambiance. The color coral is put to good use here via the throw pillows and armchair, keeping the room from feeling too neutral. A chevron rug adds a quirky final touch to the space.
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A neutral palette is used throughout this Texas ranch home to create a warm, welcoming environment. To create a space that is visually interesting, a mix of natural textures, from the rustic woods to the knubby fabrics, is used.
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The home sits on just over half an acre of land on Carmel's Quail Lodge and Golf Course and overlooks the fourth fairway.
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Dr. Jennifer Young of the Hope College English faculty has been presented the 44th "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award by the graduating Class of 2008.
She was named the recipient during the college's Commencement ceremony, held at Holland Municipal Stadium on Sunday, May 4, at 3 p.m.
The award, first given in 1965, is presented by the graduating class to the professor who they feel epitomizes the best qualities of the HopeCollege educator.
Young, who is an assistant professor of English, was one of the first faculty members that the members of the class encountered when they arrived on campus as freshmen in August of 2004. She and colleague Dr. Stephen Hemenway co-delivered the address during that year's Opening Convocation, which marked the formal beginning of the academic year.
Young has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2002. She was a Preparing Future Faculty pre-doctoral teaching fellow during the 2002-03 school year, a program in which Hope participates with Howard University of Washington, D.C. She became an assistant professor in 2003. Her service to the college included serving as co-advisor to the Black Student Union student organization from 2002 to 2005.
Her interests include early writers of the African Diaspora (pre-1865); African-American literature; jazz and hip-hop as literature; and creative writing. Her dissertation, which she completed in 2004, focused on the marketing from 1767 to 1865 of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, who was kidnapped from Africa as a child and wrote as a slave in Boston, Mass.
Prior to coming to Hope, Young was a multicultural summer teaching fellow at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She had also taught at Howard, as well as at TouroCollege and the Center for Worker Education in New York City, and has made a variety of presentations during professional conferences.
In addition to her Ph.D. from Howard University, Young holds a bachelor's degree from Douglass College of Rutgers University and a master's from City College of CUNY of New York City.


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Mitch Daniels and ObamaCare, Round Two
In a March 4 article for National Review Online titled, "Mitch Daniels's Obamacare Problem," I explain how Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is undermining the effort to repeal ObamaCare, and how he might do even more damage to that movement as the Republican nominee for president. My article came under fire from Daniels' policy director Lawren Mills (in the comments section of my article), Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, and Bob Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Today, NRO runs my response. An excerpt:
In brief, the trio believes that Daniels's expansion of government-run health care is a conservative triumph. I can't believe we're even having this conversation...
Daniels has an ObamaCare problem that could hurt the repeal movement if he doesn't deal with it. Turner is creating more ObamaCare problems. This isn't the first time conservatives have danced with the devil on health-care questions (see Massachusetts), but with health-care freedom now at its moment of maximum peril, that needs to stop. It will probably, however, take more than just the usual voices of protest to stop it. Tea Party and traditional conservative groups should perhaps spend less time attacking congressional Republicans over relatively minor tactical disagreements, and more time educating the governors, state legislators, and (yes) policy wonks who are actively implementing ObamaCare in their own backyards.
I'll be speaking tonight at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by the Galen Institute (among others).


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George H.W. Bush remains in Houston hospital, listed as stable and making progress
HOUSTON (AP) � Doctors for former President George H.W. Bush say he's improved after weeks of treatment for a bronchitis-related cough, though he's not going home yet.
A spokesman at Methodist Hospital in Houston said Tuesday that Bush's status hasn't changed and he remains in stable condition. George Kovacik (koh-VAH'-chik) says the 88-year-old Bush continues "to make positive progress" in his recovery.
No release date has been set for Bush. He's been hospitalized since Nov. 23.
Bush also spent about a week in the hospital in early November. He was discharged, but he had a flare-up around Thanksgiving and was readmitted.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA. – Competing for the first time in 2012, the UMBC track and field team set multiple records Saturday at the Penn State Relays.
Junior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) picked up his first win of the season, claiming gold in the 60m hurdles. His time of 8.03 ranks second on UMBC's all-time list and qualifies him for the IC4A Championships in March.
Also qualifying for the regional meet, the men's 4x800 relay ran a 7:50.16 to earn a bid to Boston. In the field events, junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) set a new personal best in the weight throw, finishing second in the event with a throw of 17.47m (57'3.75") to earn a trip as well.
Freshman Mercedes Jackson (Huntington, Md./Huntington) continued to impress early on in her college career, running a 7.50 60m dash, lowering her own school record. Jackson set the school record in her first collegiate meet back in December at the Bucknell Opener.
Jackson was also part of a duo of Retrievers to write their name on the 200m list. Leading the way with a time of 24.88, the freshman ranks third on the school's all-time list while fellow freshman Briana Young (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) sits at eighth (25.48).
In addition, sophomore Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) won her heat and finished seventh overall, setting a new personal-best in the 500m with a time of 1:16.55.
Meanwhile in the distance events, freshman Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) wrote her name in the record book as well, finishing fourth at Penn State in the 1000m. Finishing in a time of 3:07.44, Kulp places her name at No. 8 on UMBC's list.
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Environmental Protection Agency Director John Kim has announced that
the agency will accept applications through March 11 for the 2013
Governor's Environmental Corps summer internship program.
"Since 1991, the GEC program has provided a true hands-on
learning experience for hundreds of college undergraduate and
graduate students," said Kim. "I encourage students in such fields
as engineering, geology, chemistry and biology to apply. Many GEC
interns have gone on to careers in the environmental field, and
their contributions also energize our own staff mentors each
The majority of selected students will be matched with staff
mentors in Springfield, where Illinois EPA's headquarters,
laboratory and central regional office are located. However, limited
positions will also be available in regional offices in Des Plaines,
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Students are assigned agency mentors in their chosen
environmental area and are able to make meaningful contributions to
the regulatory and compliance assistance operations of Illinois EPA.
In addition to their work experience in a professional office
setting or in field operations, GEC interns also participate in
field trips and workshops to gain firsthand knowledge of current
environmental challenges and solutions.
Interns stationed in the Springfield area who enjoy working
children can also serve as volunteer instructors in the Junior
Governor's Environmental Corps, an environmental awareness and
education program that reaches hundreds of 6- to 12-year-olds in
central Illinois each summer at camps and other venues.
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I have the perfect solution…Why not give the current homeowner a "short sale" price modification and call it a happy ending to all? Buyers are too wise nowadays.
Besides most future homeowners will have a defective title or will have an F in the past!
Here's an example why it makes sense to work with the current owner:
LPS using their MN address purchased my home at auction for 75% discount put it on the market for about 80% and made a few grand from the highest contract that was accepted. It benefited no one!
Now if they use my solution not only will the investors save on the fees they payout to the foreclosure mills but also on the late fees the homeowner accrues…see isn't this economic sense for everyone?
By John Gittelsohn and Kathleen M. Howley – Sep 15, 2010 12:14 PM ET
The slide in U.S. home prices may have another three years to go as sellers add as many as 12 million more properties to the market.
Shadow inventory — the supply of homes in default or foreclosure that may be offered for sale — is preventing prices from bottoming after a 28 percent plunge from 2006, according to analysts from Moody's Analytics Inc., Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley and Barclays Plc. Those properties are in addition to houses that are vacant or that may soon be put on the market by owners.
"Whether it's the sidelined, shadow or current inventory, the issue is there's more supply than demand," said Oliver Chang, a U.S. housing strategist with Morgan Stanley in San Francisco. "Once you reach a bottom, it will take three or four years for prices to begin to rise 1 or 2 percent a year."
Rising supply threatens to undermine government efforts to boost the housing market as homebuyers wait for better deals. Further price declines are necessary for a sustainable rebound as a stimulus-driven recovery falters, said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist of Maria Fiorini Ramirez Inc., a New York economic forecasting firm.
Sales of new and existing homes fell to the lowest levels on record in July as a federal tax credit for buyers expired and U.S. unemployment remained near a 26-year high. The median price of a previously owned home in the month was $182,600, about the level it was in 2003, the National Association of Realtors said.
Fannie Mae Forecast
Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. mortgage finance company, today lowered its forecast for home sales this year, projecting a 7 percent decline from 2009. A drop in demand after the April 30 tax credit expiration "suggests weakening home prices" in the third quarter, according to the report.
There were 4 million homes listed with brokers for sale as of July. It would take a record 12.5 months for those properties to be sold at that month's sales pace, according to the Chicago- based Realtors group.
"The best thing that could happen is for prices to get to a level that clears the market," said Shapiro, who predicts prices may fall another 10 percent to 15 percent. "Right now, buyers know it hasn't hit bottom, so they're sitting on the sidelines."
About 2 million houses will be seized by lenders by the end of next year, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He estimates prices will drop 5 percent by 2013.
'Lost Decade'
After reaching bottom, prices will gain at the historic annual pace of 3 percent, requiring more than 10 years to return to their peak, he said.
"A long if not lost decade," Zandi said.
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When I was a boy, I had a religious-school teacher named Mr. Spector, whose job was to confront us with the peril we presented to ourselves. Jewish Ethics was the name of the class. We must have been eight or nine.
Mr. Spector used a workbook to guide the discussion; every Sunday, we began by reading a kind of modern parable or cautionary tale, and then contended with a series of imponderable questions. One day, for example, we discussed the temptations of shoplifting; another class was devoted to all the harm to oneself and to others that could be caused by the telling of lies. Mr. Spector was a gently acerbic young man with a black beard and black Roentgen-ray eyes. He seemed to take our moral failings for granted and, perhaps as a result, favored lively argument over reproach or condemnation. I enjoyed our discussions, while remaining perfectly aloof at my core from the issues they raised. I was, at the time, an awful liar, and quite a few times had stolen chewing gum and baseball cards from the neighborhood Wawa. None of that seemed to have anything to do with Mr. Spector or the cases we studied in Jewish Ethics. All nine-year-olds are sophists and hypocrites; I found it no more difficult than any other kid to withhold my own conduct from consideration in passing measured judgment on the human race.
The one time I felt my soul to be in danger was the Sunday Mr. Spector raised the ethical problem of escapism, particularly as it was experienced in the form of comic books. That day, we started off with a fine story about a boy who loved Superman so much that he tied a red towel around his neck, climbed up to the roof of his house, and, with a cry of "Up, up, and away," leaped to his death. There was known to have been such a boy, Mr. Spector informed us—at least one verifiable boy, so enraptured and so betrayed by the false dream of Superman that it killed him.
The explicit lesson of the story was that what was found between the covers of a comic book was fantasy, and "fantasy" meant pretty lies, the consumption of which failed to prepare you for what lay outside those covers. Fantasy rendered you unfit to face "reality" and its hard pavement. Fantasy betrayed you, and thus, by implication, your wishes, your dreams and longings, everything you carried around inside your head that only you and Superman and Elliot S! Maggin (exclamation point and all, the principal Superman writer circa 1971) could understand—all these would betray you, too. There were ancillary arguments to be made as well, about the culpability of those who produced such fare, sold it to minors, or permitted their children to bring it into the house.
These arguments were mostly lost on me, a boy who consumed a dozen comic books a week, all of them cheerfully provided to him by his (apparently iniquitous) father. Sure, I might not be prepared for reality—point granted—but, on the other hand, if I ever found myself in the Bottle City of Kandor, under the bell jar in the Fortress of Solitude, I would know not to confuse Superman's Kryptonian double (Van-Zee) with Clark Kent's (Vol-Don). Rather, what struck me, with the force of a blow, was recognition, a profound moral recognition of the implicit, indeed the secret, premise of the behavior of the boy on the roof. For that fool of a boy had not been doomed by the deceitful power of comic books, which after all were only bundles of paper, staples, and ink, and couldn't hurt anybody. That boy had been killed by the irresistible syllogism of Superman's cape.
One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.
I, too, had climbed to a dangerous height, with my face to the breeze, and felt magically alone of my kind. I had imagined the streak of my passage like a red-and-blue smear on the windowpane of vision. I had been Batman, too, and the Mighty Thor. I had stood cloaked in the existential agonies of the Vision, son of a robot and grandson of a lord of the ants. A few years after that Sunday in Mr. Spector's class, at the pinnacle of my career as a hero of the imagination, I briefly transformed myself (more about this later) into a superpowered warrior-knight known as Aztec. And all that I needed to effect the change was to fasten a terry-cloth beach towel around my neck.
It was not about escape, I wanted to tell Mr. Spector, thus unwittingly plagiarizing in advance the well-known formula of a (fictitious) pioneer and theorist of superhero comics, Sam Clay. It was about transformation.
The American comic book preëxisted the superhero, but just barely, and with so little distinction that in the cultural mind the medium has always seemed indistinguishable from its first stroke of brilliance. There were costumed crime-fighters before Superman (the Phantom, Zorro), but only as there were pop quartets before the Beatles. Superman invented and exhausted his genre in a single bound. All the tropes, all the clichés and conventions, all the possibilities, all the longings and wishes and neuroses that have driven and fed and burdened the superhero comic during the past seventy years were implied by and contained within that little red rocket ship hurtling toward Earth. That moment—Krypton exploding, Action Comics No. 1—is generally seen to be Minute Zero of the superhero idea.
About the reasons for the arrival of Superman at that zero moment there is less agreement. In the theories of origin put forward by fans, critics, and other origin-obsessives, the idea of Superman has been accounted the offspring or recapitulation, in no particular order, of Friedrich Nietzsche; of Philip Wylie (in his novel "Gladiator"); of the strengths, frailties, and neuroses of his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, of Cleveland, Ohio; of the aching wishfulness of the Great Depression; of the (Jewish) immigrant experience; of the mastermind stratagems of popular texts in their sinister quest for reader domination; of repressed Oedipal fantasies and homoerotic wishes; of fascism; of capitalism; of the production modes of mass culture (and not in a good way); of celebrated strongmen and proponents of physical culture like Eugen Sandow; and of a host of literary not-quite-Superman precursors, chief among them Doc Savage.
Most of these rationales of origin depend, to some extent, on history; they index the advent of Superman, in mid-1938, to various intellectual, social, and economic trends of the Depression years, to the influence or aura of contemporary celebrities and authors, to the structure and demands of magazine publishing and distribution, et cetera. To suit my purpose here, I might construct a similar etiology of the superhero costume, making due reference, say, to professional-wrestling and circus attire of the early twentieth century, to the boots-cloak-and-tights ensembles worn by swashbucklers and cavaliers in stage plays and Hollywood films, to contemporary men's athletic wear, with its unitard construction and belted trunks, to the designs of Alex Raymond and Hal Foster and the amazing pulp-magazine cover artist Frank R. Paul. I could cite the influence of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne aesthetics, with their roots in fantasies of power, speed, and flight, or posit the costume as a kind of fashion alter ego of the heavy, boxy profile of men's clothing at the time. When in fact the point of origin is not a date or a theory or a conjunction of cultural trends but a story, the intersection of a wish and the tip of a pencil.
Now the time has come to propose, or confront, a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist.
One may easily find suggestive evidence for this assertion at any large comic-book convention by studying the spectacle of the brave and bold convention attendees, those members of the general comics-fan public who show up in costume and go shpatziring around the ballrooms and exhibition halls dressed as Wolverine, say, or the Joker's main squeeze, Harley Quinn. Without exception, even the most splendid of these getups is at best a disappointment. Every seam, every cobweb strand of duct-tape gum, every laddered fish-net stocking or visible ridge of underpants elastic—every stray mark, pulled thread, speck of dust—acts to spoil what is instantly revealed to have been, all along, an illusion.
The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle, into a ballroom of the Overland Park Marriott. This disappointing air of saggy trouser seats, bunchy underarms, and wobbly shoulder vanes may be the result of imaginative indolence, the sort that would permit a grown man to tell himself he will find gratification in walking the exhibition floor wearing a pair of Dockers, a Jägermeister hoodie, and a rubber Venom mask complete with punched-out eyeholes and flopping rubber bockwurst of a tongue.
But realism is not, in fact, merely difficult; it is hopeless. A plausibly heroic physique is of no avail in this regard, nor is even the most fervent willingness to believe in oneself as the man or woman in the cape. Even those costumed conventioneers who go all out, working year-round to amass, scrounge, or counterfeit cleverly the materials required to put together, with glue gun, soldering iron, makeup, and needle and thread, a faithful and accurate Black Canary or Ant-Man costume, find themselves prey to forces, implacable as gravity, of tawdriness, gimcrackery, and unwitting self-ridicule. And in the end they look no more like Black Canary or Ant-Man than does the poor zhlub in the Venom mask with a three-day pass hanging around his neck on a lanyard.
This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has an obvious, an unavoidable, explanation: a superhero's costume is constructed not of fabric, foam rubber, or adamantium but of halftone dots, Pantone color values, inked containment lines, and all the cartoonist's sleight of hand. The superhero costume as drawn disdains the customary relationship in the fashion world between sketch and garment. It makes no suggestions. It has no agenda. Above all, it is not waiting to find fulfillment as cloth draped on a body. A constructed superhero costume is a replica with no original, a model built on a scale of x:1. However accurate and detailed, such a work has the tidy airlessness of a model-train layout but none of the gravitas that such little railyards and townscapes derive from making faithful reference to homely things. The graphic purity of the superhero costume means that the more effort and money you lavish on fine textiles, metal grommets, and leather trim the deeper your costume will be sucked into the silliness singularity that swallowed, for example, Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin and their four nipples.
In fact, the most reliable proof of the preposterousness of superhero attire whenever it is translated, as if by a Kugelmass device, from the pages of comics to the so-called real world can be found in film and television adaptations of superhero characters. George Reeves's stodgy pajamas-like affair in the old "Superman" TV series and Adam West's mod doll clothes in "Batman" have lately given way to purportedly more "realistic" versions, in rubber, leather, and plastic, pseudo-utilitarian coveralls that draw inspiration in equal measure from spacesuits, catsuits, and scuba suits, and from (one presumes) regard for the dignity of actors who have seen the old George Reeves and Adam West shows, and would not be caught dead in those glorified Underoos. In its attempts to slip the confines of the panelled page, the superhero costume betrays its nonexistence, like one of those deep-sea creatures which evolved to thrive in the crushing darkness of the seabed, so that when you haul them up to the dazzling surface they burst.
One might go farther and argue not only that the superhero costume has (and needs) no referent in the world of textiles and latex but also that, even within its own proper comic-book context, it can be said not to exist, not to want to exist—can be said to advertise, even to revel in, its own notional status. This illusionary quality of the drawn costume can readily be seen if we attempt to delimit the elements of the superhero wardrobe, to inventory its minimum or requisite components.
We can start by throwing away our masks. Superman, arguably the first and the greatest of all costumed heroes, has never bothered with one, nor have Captain Marvel, Luke Cage, Wonder Woman, Valkyrie, and Supergirl. All those individuals, like many of their peers (Hawkman, Giant-Man), also go around barehanded, which suggests that we can safely dispense with our gauntlets (whether finned, rolled, or worn with a jaunty slash at the cuff). Capes have been an object of scorn among discerning superheroes at least since 1974, when Captain America, having abandoned his old career in protest over Watergate, briefly took on the nom de guerre Nomad, dressed himself in a piratical ensemble of midnight blue and gold, and brought his first exploit as a stateless hero to an inglorious end by tripping over his own flowing cloak.
So let's lose the cape. As for the boots—we are not married to the boots. After all, Iron Fist sports a pair of kung-fu slippers, the Spirit wears brown brogues, Zatanna works her magic in stiletto heels, and Beast, Ka-Zar, and Mantis wear no shoes at all. Perhaps, though, we had better hold on to our unitards, crafted of some nameless but readily available fabric that, like a thin matte layer, at once coats and divulges the splendor of our musculature. Assemble the collective, all-time memberships of the Justice League of America, the Justice Society of America, the Avengers, the Defenders, the Invaders, the X-Men, and the Legion of Super-Heroes (and let us not forget the Legion of Substitute Heroes), and you will probably find that almost all of them, from Nighthawk to the Chlorophyll Kid, arrive wearing some version of the classic leotard-tights ensemble. And yet—not everyone. Not Wonder Woman, in her star-spangled hot pants and eagle bustier; not the Incredible Hulk or Martian Manhunter or the Sub-Mariner.
Consideration of the last named leads us to cast a critical eye, finally, on our little swim trunks, typically worn with a belt, pioneered by Kit Walker (for the Ghost Who Walks), the Phantom of the old newspaper strip, and popularized by the super-trendsetter of Metropolis. The Sub-Mariner wears nothing but a Eurotrashy green Speedo, suggesting that, at least by the decency standards of the old Comics Code, this minimal garment marks the zero degree of superheroic attire. And yet, of course, the Flash, Green Lantern, and many others make do without trunks over their tights; the forgoing of trunks in favor of a continuous flow of fabric from legs to torso is frequently employed to lend a suggestion of speed, sleekness, a kind of uncluttered modernism. And the Hulk never goes around in anything but those tattered purple trousers.
So we are left with, literally, nothing at all: the human form, unadorned, smooth, muscled, and ready, let's say, to sail the starry ocean of the cosmos on the deck of a gleaming surfboard. A naked spacefarer, sheathed in a silvery pseudoskin that affords all the protection one needs from radiation and cosmic dust while meeting Code standards by neatly neutering one, the shining void between the legs serving to signify that one is not (as one often appears to be when seen from behind) naked as an interstellar jaybird.
Here is a central paradox of superhero attire: from panther black to lantern green, from the faintly Hapsburg pomp of the fifties-era Legion of Super-Heroes costumes to the "Mad Max" space grunge of Lobo, from sexy fish-net to vibranium—for all the mad recombinant play of color, style, and materials that the superhero costume makes with its limited number of standard components, it ultimately takes its deepest meaning and serves its primary function in the depiction of the naked human form, unfettered, perfect, and free. The superheroic wardrobe resembles a wildly permutated alphabet of ideograms conceived only to express the eloquent power of silence.
A public amnesia, an avowed lack of history, is the standard pretense of the costumed superhero. From the point of view of the man or woman or child in the street, gaping up at the sky and skyscrapers, the appearance of a new hero over Metropolis or New York or Astro City is always a matter of perfect astonishment. There have been no portents or warnings, and afterward one never learns anything new or gains any explanations.
The story of a superhero's origin must be kept secret, occulted as rigorously from public knowledge as the alter ego, as if it were a source of shame. Superman conceals, archived in the Fortress of Solitude and accessible only to him, not only his own history—the facts and tokens of his birth and arrival on Earth, of his Smallville childhood, of his exploits and adventures—but the history of his Kryptonian family and, indeed, of his entire race. Batman similarly hides his story and its proofs in the trophy chambers of the Batcave.
In theory, the costume forms part of the strategy of concealment. But in fact the superhero's costume often functions as a kind of magic screen onto which the repressed narrative may be projected. No matter how well he or she hides its traces, the secret narrative of transformation, of rebirth, is given up by the costume. Sometimes this secret is betrayed through the allusion of style or form: Robin's gaudy uniform hints at the murder of his circus-acrobat parents, Iron Man's at the flawed heart that requires a life-support device, which is the primary function of his armor.
More often, the secret narrative is hinted at with a kind of enigmatic, dreamlike obviousness right on the hero's chest or belt buckle, in the form of the requisite insignia. Superman's "S," we have been told, only coincidentally stands for Superman: in fact, the emblem is the coat of arms of the ancient Kryptonian House of El, from which he descends. A stylized bat alludes to the animal whose chance flight through a window sealed Bruce Wayne's fate; a lightning bolt encapsulates the secret history of Captain Marvel; an eight-legged glyph immortalizes the bug whose bite doomed Peter Parker to his glorious and woebegone career.
We say "secret identity," and adopt a series of cloaking strategies to preserve it, but what we are actually trying to conceal is a narrative: not who we are but the story of how we got that way—and, by implication, of all that we lacked, and all that we were not, before the spider bit us. Yet our costume conceals nothing, reveals everything: it is our secret skin, exposed and exposing us for all the world to see. Superheroism is a kind of transvestism; our superdrag serves at once to obscure the exterior self that no longer defines us while betraying, with half-unconscious panache, the truth of the story we carry in our hearts, the story of our transformation, of our story's recommencement, of our rebirth into the world of adventure, of story itself.
I became Aztec in the summer of 1973, in Columbia, Maryland, a planned suburban utopia halfway between Smallville and Metropolis. It happened one summer day as I was walking to the swimming pool with a friend. He wore a pair of midnight-blue bathing trunks; my trunks were loud, with patches of pink, orange, gold, and brown overprinted with abstract patterns that we took for Aztec (though they were probably Polynesian). In those days, a pair of bathing trunks did not in the least resemble the baggy board shorts that boys and men wear swimming today. Ours were made of stretchy polyester doubleknit that came down the thigh just past the level of the crotch, and fashion fitted them with a sewn-on, false belt of elastic webbing that buckled at the front with a metal clasp. They looked, in other words, just like the trunks favored by costumed heroes ever since the last son of Krypton came voguing down the super-catwalk, back in 1938. Around our throats we knotted our beach towels (his was blue, mine a fine 1973 shade of burnt orange), those enchanted cloaks whose power Mr. Spector had failed to understand or to recall from his own childhood. They fluttered out behind us, catching the breeze from our imaginations, as Darklord and Aztec walked along.
Darklord carried a sword, and wore a Barbuta helmet, with a flowing crusader cloak and invulnerable chain mail of "lunar steel." Aztec wore tights and a feathered cloak and wielded a magic staff tipped with obsidian. We had begun the journey that day, through the street-melting, shimmering green Maryland summer morning, as a pair of lonely boys with nothing in common but that loneliness, which we shared with Superman and Batman, who shared it with each other—a fundamental loneliness and a wild aptitude for transformation. But with every step we became Darklord and Aztec a little more surely, a little more irrevocably, transformed by the green-lantern rays of fancy, by the spider bite of inspiration, by the story we were telling each other and ourselves about two costumed superheroes, about the new selves that had been revealed by our secret skin.
Talking, retying the knots of our capes, flip-flops slapping against the soles of our feet, we transformed not only ourselves. In the space of that walk to the pool we also transformed the world, shaping it into a place in which such things were possible: the reincarnation of an Arthurian knight could find solace and partnership in the company of a latter-day Mesoamerican wizard. An entire world of superheroic adventure could be dreamed up by a couple of boys from Columbia, or Cleveland. And the self you knew you contained, the story you knew you had inside you, might find its way like an emblem onto the spot right over your heart. All we needed to do was accept the standing invitation that superhero comics extended to us by means of a towel. It was an invitation to enter into the world of story, to join in the ongoing business of comic books, and, with the knotting of a magical beach towel, to begin to wear what we knew to be hidden inside us. ♦


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In Texas, education concessions
Critics often tie No Child Left Behind waivers to the Common Core and equate them with operating in the pocket of the federal government.
Some say Texas crushed that theory. Others say the state's recently won waiver reinforced it.
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"For those who think the Obama administration is using the waivers to drive the Common Core, this drives a Texas-sized hole through that logic, pardon the bad pun," said Chad Aldeman, associate partner at Bellwether Education Partners. "It's just not true, yet I see it misreported all the time. Texas has no intention of participating in the Common Core, yet there it is with a waiver."
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan even pointed out Texas during a Common Core event at the University of Chicago late last week. Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute said he wanted the department to promise it won't require states to adopt Common Core assessments in order to get waivers.
Duncan pointed to Texas, Minnesota and Virginia, which have waivers but not Common Core, just like Alaska. Minnesota has adopted the standards but only in English/ language arts, not math. The federal government can't interfere with local control over curricula, he said, or "I go to jail."
Hess said the Education Department's move to grant Texas a waiver is just Common Core damage control.
"When there's enough backlash, the administration will quiet the critics," he said in an interview. "After months of pressure, the administration was probably pretty desperate to get a waiver just to get some of the critics off its back."
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Texas has arguably been one of the loudest critics of the standards, Aldeman said.
The state's refusal to explore the Common Core was at the heart of why Texas didn't apply for Race to the Top funds in 2010. Texas has its own college- and career-ready expectations for its students. Republican Gov. Rick Perry has been defiant in communicating with Duncan, saying he will not adopt "unproven, cost-prohibitive national curriculum standards and tests."
"In the interest of preserving our state sovereignty over matters concerning education and shielding local schools from unwarranted federal intrusion into local district decision-making, Texas will not be submitting an application for RTTT funds," Perry wrote in January 2010.
Common Core aside, from the first draft of the state's waiver application earlier this year to the final product approved by the Education Department in late September, Texas made big changes to accommodate the government's wishes. It set some very ambitious goals it most likely wouldn't have outside its quest for a waiver.
Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, said Texas buckled before the federal government in applying for the waiver at all.
"These are promises on paper," he said. "If you're the state of Texas, and you want this flexibility, then you just have to feed the beast. … It's fascinating to see [Gov.] Rick Perry of Texas cave while [Gov.] Jerry Brown of California has stood strong. … Texas has decided to give into political coercion."
California adopted the Common Core but doesn't have a waiver with the exception of eight districts. The Education Department denied the state a waiver in December — to no one's surprise — because it didn't meet basic requirements. For example, the application didn't include a teacher evaluation system based on student growth measured by standardized testing — a provision that many waiver states have struggled with. All other states without waivers, except Nebraska, have adopted the Common Core.
Despite initial concerns that waivers are tied to the Common Core, the Texas Education Agency applied because it was right for the state, said Kalese Hammonds, chief adviser for policy and operations at TEA.
But Texas definitely made concessions to get its waiver, said Anne Hyslop, policy analyst at the New America Foundation.
"When I first read their request, I said 'There is no way this is going to happen,'" she said. "A lot of details were missing. … I was surprised that they made as many changes as they did given Texas's relationship with the federal government."
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When a portion of County Road 30A fell in at Redfish Lake Aug. 18 due to excessively large amounts of rainfall, businesses and residents were told that the county would try to have the stretch open to traffic again by Spring Break 2014.
The inconvenience to residents and visitors aside, business owners in that area soon realized they could not survive without easy access for their customers.
When their cries for help went seemingly unanswered, some business owners appealed to a higher power � former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
"I doubt I did much, but I'd rather think that people in government are starting to realize that a project like this CAN be done lickety-split when government decides that people and their livelihoods are the highest priority � far above protecting the process of slow-walked paperwork," he told The Sun by email.
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Huckabee is a resident of Blue Mountain Beach and has been known to frequent businesses up and down 30A. One of his regular dining spots is Marie's Bistro in Blue Mountain, located maybe a football field's length away from the piece of road that fell in.
Marie's owner Hanie Nasri has become friendly with the former presidential hopeful and bemoaned to him what the road closure and detour was doing to his business and income for him and his employees.
"We used to have a lot of business coming over from Grayton for lunch. Now they tell us they will wait until the road is fixed," said Nasri. "This has been very devastating to us. We have lost a tremendous amount of business. We struggled through Labor Day. We are down 80 percent for lunch and 85 percent for dinner.�
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�We didn't want to give up,� Nasri said. �We will work harder, but we needed help. I thank God for his help."
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"So, I'd give all the credit to the local government folks realizing that 30A is the lifeblood of South Walton economic activity and to the business owners along 30A who don't need roadblocks to business, but pathways," Huckabee said.
Nasri said he believes Huckabee bypassed the county and made calls to Gov. Rick Scott and Rep. Steve Southerland to get the road repaired sooner rather than later.
"If this had happened at Seaside or WaterColor it would not have taken but a couple of days to figure something out," said Nasri. "We didn't want to waste time. We needed the road fixed in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.�
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I got an ION iCade a few days ago. This post is about my thoughts on the iCade, and also on how to use it with Flash games.
The iCade
So the basic idea with the iCade is that it's meant to give you physical controls for iPad games. First of all, the physical build quality of the device is fantastic. I've heard some people say that it looks small after seeing photos of it, but it's definitely not small in real life; it's actually quite big compared to the iPad, and it's very sturdy. The joystick and the buttons feel solid and substantial, and they're very responsive. The idea of the iCade may seem like a gimmick or a joke, but the actual execution of it is anything but.
The iCade runs on two AA batteries. It acts like a Bluetooth keyboard, so setting it up is really easy. The only issue is that because the iPad thinks it has a real keyboard attached, it doesn't show the normal virtual touch keyboard when the iCade is synced, which can be a big pain. This is compounded by the fact that the iCade doesn't have a power off button (it just turns off after a few minutes of being unused), so you either have to wait for a while or un-sync it just to type text. This is annoying but most of the time it doesn't really matter, because you're using it to play games, not type stuff.
Some people have asked if it has speakers: it doesn't, but the shape of the cabinet amplifies the iPad's sound a lot, which it really does make it seem louder.
The games
Most iPad games are built for touch controls, not keyboard controls, so there aren't very many games that support the iCade. Luckily, ION convinced Atari to build iCade support into every game in their Atari's Greatest Hits iPad app, so for $14.99 you can have 99 retro games to play. I really enjoyed playing through a bunch of classic arcade games on the iCade, it is definitely much more fun than playing them on a touch screen.
If you're worried you're gonna get bored of retro games, there are also a few indie devs that have built iCade support into their apps. Compression HD from Little White Bear is a great puzzle game that supports the iCade, and Retro Dreamer just announced that the next Velocispider update will have iCade support. I'm really excited for that one. For a list of other games with iCade support, you can check out the wikipedia page. The list is pretty short, but I have no doubt it'll get longer over time.
Implementing iCade support into iOS games
So how do you add iCade support on iOS? Luckily someone made a library that makes it super easy: https://github.com/scarnie/iCade-iOS/ – basically you just add a special view to your main view controller which listens to keyboard events, and that view then sends messages to a delegate when buttons are pushed. There's really not much more to it. The one big catch is that for some reason Apple won't let you mention the word "iCade" anywhere. You can't put "iCade" in your app's name or description, and you can't even mention the word iCade *in your app*. That's crazy.
Ok, but how does the iCade actually work?
Alright, so when I said the iCade acts like a Bluetooth keyboard, that was true, but it's not quite that simple. Rather than just emulating keys, the iCade actually emulates two keys for each control. Each button fires one key when it's pressed down, and a different key when it's released. For example, the red button in the top left fires a Y when pressed, and a T when released. The joystick does the same for each of the 4 directions. The image below is a diagram from the iCade Developer PDF that shows exact which keys are fired by which control.
The magic of Bluetooth
When I realized that the iCade was acting like a normal Bluetooth keyboard, I decided to do some tests; sure enough, it can connect to any device that works with Bluetooth keyboards: an iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, or even a Playbook (more on that later). Being able to connect it to a device other than an iPad is cool, but it's not much use if there are no games that support it, so I set out to do what I could to change that.
Flash games are awesome. They're constantly pushing the envelope, especially when it comes to game design, and they run on pretty much everything except iOS devices. There's also a huge Flash development community. Before I started doing iOS work, I worked for 5 years as a Flash developer, so the Flash world still holds a warm place in my heart.
I decided to create a library to make it really easy for Flash developers to add iCade support to their games. Even calling it a library is a bit of a stretch, it's really just a single class, and it only takes a couple lines of code to implement:
iCadeManager.start(stage); iCadeManager.mapControl(Keyboard["SPACE"],"A");
The iCadeManager API is super simple, but getting it to work correctly was pretty tricky. The main issue I had to overcome was that the iCade uses 24 different keys to send its messages, but most Flash games already use the keyboard, so there could be tons of conflicts. In Flash, you can't tell which keyboard a key press comes from, so it's impossible to tell whether a key press is a real key being pressed or one of the many keys the iCade uses.
My solution was to implement a special "iCade" toggle to turn on and off iCade mode in Flash games. You activate it by holding the top four buttons of the iCade at the same time. When the game is in iCade mode, it swallows up every incoming key event and converts it into the key event you've assigned for that iCade input. Check it out in the video below:
The Playbook
My final challenge was getting the iCade working with the Playbook. Unlike the iPad, the Playbook supports Flash in the browser, but unfortunately a huge number of Flash games are still left unplayable because they're built for use with a keyboard. Luckily, the Flash Player in the Playbook's browser still gets keyboard events from any synced Bluetooth keyboard, so iCadeManager worked perfectly, which you can see in the video below.
Get the code
All the code for iCadeManager is on Github, and like I said before, it's literally a single file, so you have no excuse not to use it! https://github.com/MattRix/iCadeManager
If you want to see a demo of it in action, I retrofitted the Flixel EZPlatformer tutorial with iCadeManager: try it out here (remember to hold the top 4 buttons to turn on iCade mode).
Parting thoughts
So to wrap up, the iCade is awesome, and being able to use it with Flash games is pretty sweet. Now all we need is a bunch of Flash devs to add iCade support to their games
If you have any questions or issues, please post a comment on this post or send a message @MattRix. I'm tempted to start curating a list of Flash and iPad games that support iCade, so if you think that'd be cool, let me know. Oh, and if you make any games using iCadeManager, I'd love to hear about them. Cheers.


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Welcome back mate!
Your opinion on this thread would be particularly appreciated as Orthodox is probably one of the Christian branches I know least about:
If you get the time to post in it, or even link me some stuff/books on my profile page so I can get some idea and offer an Orthodox voice if you don't have the time to post properly I should be ever so grateful.
You're assuming he doesn't need to parse his words. I'm not willing to make that assumption.
Your PM file is full, so I'll answer you here. Stossel's interview of Cain is not much of a problem in a stand alone position (although it's definitely not a Cain home run either!). However, when one looks carefully at the Piers Morgan interview (at around 2:05-2:25 on this clip) and then the Stossel interview, in my humble opinion Cain has a real problem; the kind he's not going to be able to fix with clarifications, because the "dilemma" is either he's not paying attention when his interviewers are being very clear in their questions to him (Morgan makes it very clear in his condescendingly annoying British fashion), or he has an internally contradictory position on abortion; i.e., "abortion under no circumstance" and "in the case of rape and incest the families should decide".
I made some room.
Thanks much for the rep.
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