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Deloitte eDiscovery Consultant in Arlington, Virginia
Are you an analytical, problem solver with a passion for investigating complex business issues? Are you interested in working with a dynamic team that uses market leading technology to identify emerging threats and minimize risk within their client s environment? If so, Deloitte could be the place for you! If you are seeking a role that offers you the opportunity to advise Federal clients through critical issues, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally, consider a career in Deloitte Advisory s Forensics and Investigations practice.
Work you ll do
As a Consultant within our practice you will:
Identify opportunities for efficiencies related to process and develop innovative approaches to completing scope of work
Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues
Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and create reports
Maintain responsibility for completion and accuracy of work products
Assist in proposal development, as requested
Actively expand consulting skills and professional development through training courses, mentoring, and daily interaction with clients
Supportthe eDiscovery needs of the client daily and implement best practices relatedto eDiscovery and data workflow
Work witha variety of litigation support technologies, including Relativity, Nuix, IPROeCapture, and more
Providehands-on file manipulation, loading, and conversion services
Create andmodify load files for upload, typically into Relativity, and perform individualfile conversion in support of electronic file processing
Perform QCon processed data
ProvideRelativity support to client users
Adviseclient regarding tools and workflows generally and regarding specific use cases
Implementconceptual and structured analytics tools, primarily within Relativity
The Team
Transparency, innovation, collaboration, sustainability: these are the hallmark issues shaping government initiatives today. Deloitte s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice is passionate about making an impact with lasting change. Carrying out missions in the GPS practice requires fresh thinking and a creative approach. We collaborate with teams from across our organization in order to bring the full breadth of Deloitte, its commercial and public sector expertise, to best support our clients. Our aspiration is to be the premier integrated solutions provider in helping to transform the GPS marketplace.
Our Forensic and Investigations practice provides investigative expertise to analyze events, people, entities and financial data in order to extract relevant insights for our GPS clients mission-critical needs.
Ability tomaintain the required clearance for this role
Must belegally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employersponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or other Business-related field
0-1 year of Forensic, Investigative, and/or Discovery industry related experience
Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives
Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that appeals to a wide audience
Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation creation tools, as well as Internet research tools
Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills
Experience with Relativity and NUIX
Experience performing eDiscovery roles including, but not limited to, electronic file processing, image and data file conversion, data culling using review tools, creating and exporting productions, quality assurance, and database loads and retrieval
JD or MBA
Experience in automated litigation support
Experience with Relativity, IPRO, Brainspace, Milyli Blackout, MS Office Suite (particularly Excel), and SharePoint
Experience providing technical support to clients (particularly in Relativity)
One or more Relativity specialist certifications including, but not limited to, Relativity Certified Administrator and/or Relativity Analytics
Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
Knowledge of Government s IT environment, including office automation networks, PC and server-based applications
Knowledge of general trends in eDiscovery, including new technology, analytics and artificial intelligence
How you ll grow
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center. at https://zoomforth.com/s/deloitte/du#home
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you. at http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/life-at-deloitte-benefits-and-rewards.html
Deloitte s culture
Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy, happy lives. Learn more about Life at Deloitte.
Corporate citizenship
Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our people and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities. Learn more about Deloitte s impact on the world. at http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/deloitte-corporate-citizenship.html
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We are located in Ningbo, there are 40minutes driving from my company to Ningbo port and 2.5 hours to Shaighai port.
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'I rise in defense of North Dakota'
The state of North Dakota and the movie "Blazing Saddles" played a role in a debate over a bill that would preserve money for tourism. Hey, it was a Friday.
A number of lawmakers went to the microphone in defense of House Bill 1339, which in part involved tourism money. They said money spent on tourism ads helps bring dollars into the state.
Rep. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, mentioned all that Colorado has to offer: fly fishing, skiing, hunting, rafting, tourism, biking and more.
"Maybe if we were in the North Dakota Legislature right now, I wouldn't have as many things to list about the positives," he said. "No offense to members from North Dakota, but I think the point is Colorado has a lot to offer."
That was too much for Rep. Laura Bradford, R-Collbran, who grew up in Minnesota, six miles from North Dakota, and who has family living in North Dakota. She marched to the mic.
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I woke up this morning and asked myself what is the greatest mischief I can get into today? Then it came to me. I could get a whole country pissed off at me. Now you have to admit that is ambitious. How am I going to piss off a whole country you ask? By attacking one of the great mythic shibboleths of the English people: the longbow. First let me say I have never met an Englishman that I didn't like. I think they are delightful people. However, someone has to do this dastardly deed and it might as well be me.
Here is a passage from the book Battle. It was published in 2003 and was written by a major early modern military historian. What I mean to say is it reflects what is currently believed by many military historians today. I say this because I don't want to be charged with creating 'straw dogs' or 'straw men' or 'straw hippos' or whatever straw being one is accused of when creating a false argument.
During the Hundred Year's War, French chivalry fell victim at Crecy (1346) to new English tactics that took advantage of the peasant longbow in defensive positions that supported dismounted knights. A decade later the French responded at Poitiers (1356) not by confronting the problem [p 339] posed by English longbowmen but by mimicking the English knights and dismounting. It was as though they could only interpret their earlier defeat as being wrought by their social equals, the English knights. The result was that the longbowmen enjoyed even better targets. Sixty years later, at Agincourt (1415), the French repeated their aristocratic mistake. [p 340]
Look closely at how our historian describe the combatants. Peasants use longbows and knights don't. Notice the social interpretation of the combatants. What the author is using here is an outworn stereotypic social order and placing it anachronistically over the fourteenth and fifteenth century military order. Were there peasants at this time? Of course. Were there knights? Again, of course. However, these two facts are almost irrelevant. There were knights among the men-at-arms in the English army but they were always a minority. At one point they only made up 5% of the army. One might say the term 'knight' was used in a more generic sense to represent the nobility even the lower nobility. Again, irrelevant. Mounted troops were not raised on the basis of their nobility.
Men-at-arms were raised on the basis of property. It didn't matter if the property owner was noble or not. If he held the requisite amount of property, he was to be armed with the accoutrements of a man-at-arms. The raising of cavalry had little to do with knighthood.
At this time, many of the landowners in England were non-noble and were known as franklins (yeoman of a latter period). Investigations into several counties showed franklins were on the same financial level as squires. This meant men-at-arms would have been raised from franklin estates as from estates of the squirarchy. As such, men-at-arms were composed of both groups: non-nobles and minor nobles. To equate men-at-arms with knights is an error. To describe them as knights is to falsify reality.
To return to longbowmen, they were peasants only in the sense they were farmers. Specifically, they were property owning franklins. Franklins who owned property but not enough to warrant supplying a man-at-arms had to supply an archer on horseback. Franklins supplied both men-at-arms as well as archers. The only difference is the amount of property owned by a particular franklin. As a result archers and men-at-arms were as likely as not to came from the same property owning group. To superimpose a social order which had no relevance to the military reality is to fail to understand the military social realities of the times.
Our author has posited two ideas. Men-at-arms and bowmen represented two different cultures: knights and peasants. He goes on to assert the problem the French had is that they reacted to their social equals rather than the real danger: the archers. Here he presents the second idea: the longbow was the real danger on the late medieval battlefield.
As time went on, the French came to copy the English system of raising cavalry. Edward III, writing to Sir Thomas Lucy, wrote that when they had arrived at Crecy, the enemy appeared with 12,000 men-at-arms of which 8,000 were gentlemen, knights, and squires. This leaves 4,000 non-noble men-at-arms. Property not nobility became the determining factor. Therefore, it is logical to assume that French cavalry came from the same property owning groups as the English, French men-at-arms probably represented both noble property owners and non-noble property owners. This was hardly a group vastly different from those property owners who were the bowmen. To force a cultural perspective vastly different between archers and men-at-arms is not a functional approach to understanding the military realities of the Hundred Year's War.
Let us now take up the issue of what our author thinks to be the real threat in these wars. Here we come to the beloved myth of the English longbow. The myth of the longbow rests upon the holy trinity. Not that Holy Trinity. It is the holy trinity of Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt." It must be said that the battle of Crecy was won in great measure to the longbow working in conjunction with dismounted men-at-arms. This was the classic infantry versus cavalry engagement. Poitiers was not.
At Poitiers the English fought from an enclosed position difficult for cavalry to fight through. The French dismounted and attacked on foot. They were finally defeated by a small unit of mounted English men-at-arms who outflanked the French. There is the account of archers firing on a French mounted force but they had to be reposition because their firing was ineffective. Other than this event, there is no indication the longbows effected the battle at all. Then we have the classic attack by French cavalry at Agincourt to open the battle. Once the cavalry van was defeated there is no indication that longbow fire contributed at all in defeating the enemy. Some sources say the archers dropped their bows and arrows to join in the fray. Others say the archers had run out of arrows and then joined the fray. Either description highlights the ineffectiveness of the longbow. In the event that both bow and arrows were dropped, such a thing would only have happened because that archers saw the ineffectiveness of their fire. If the archers had run out of arrows, it would have been a clear indication that the archery fire was unable to influence the course of the foot battle.
Viewing all three battles a pattern clearly emerges. Bow fire is effective against mounted attacks but much less so against dismounted attacks. Our author's comments that by slavishly following the example the English men-at-arms, the French, by dismounting, were failing to acknowledge the real threat of the longbow does not bear out. The longbow's failure was in meeting the threat of the dismounted attack. When viewed in this manner, the longbow was not the uber weapon that modern English speaking historian make it out to be.
Then how did the myth of the longbow come to be. I believe this myth gained strength in the first half of the twentieth century. I think in part it was a reflection of historical influences by some Marxist thoughts melding with the early growth of the social sciences of this time. The idea arose that historical change was the product of conflict between the oppressed and their oppressors. It was easy to see the peasants as the oppressed and the knights as the oppressors. Historical change reflected the growth in power of the oppressed. Gradually it was the archers, as representative of the oppressed, that became the heroes. Thus the myth of the longbow was created.


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Welcome to Texas on the Potomac's "The Week Ahead," a preview of events to come on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week. This week's report was written by William K. Moore of ViaNovo.
Congress returns today for its spring session. Guns and immigration are scheduled to be the marquee issues as the impacts of automatic spending cuts are beginning to take effect, putting pressure on lawmakers to work out deficit reduction plans.
President Barack Obama will submit a fiscal 2014 budget plan this week, months late and weeks after the House and Senate completed action on competing budget blueprints. The President's plan would increase taxes while slowing the growth of Social Security, Medicare and other spending, reflecting the President's proposals to Speaker John Boehner last December. Speaker Boehner dismissed the plan before it was proposed and liberal Democrats are angry over Social Security and Medicare cuts. It is unclear whether the President's outreach to congressional Republicans will lead to a multi-year fiscal bargain or merely help him blame Republicans for a failure to compromise on a debt ceiling increase later this summer.
As budget issues brew, other policy debates will be in the spotlight this spring. Gun legislation will dominate the Senate floor in April. Momentum for gun legislation has slowed as negotiations continue on a background checks compromise that could overcome a filibuster. A bipartisan immigration package will be unveiled in the coming weeks that might clear committee consideration in time for floor debate in late May.
The House agenda includes a bill that would retroactively shut down the National Labor Relations Board while courts deliberate on the board's recess appointments. The House-approved 2012 cybersecurity legislation is scheduled for a reprise the week of April 15. May is shaping up to be domestic energy and health care month, while June features higher education and the beginning of appropriations season.
July is set to be debt limit month, framing either a long-term fiscal compromise or Washington assigning blame an inability to govern.


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TEE TALK: Lee has a well-rounded game and excellent touch...he can play well enough to win with consistent play...can adapt his game and play well on a variety of courses...has the potential and ability to emerge as a real team leader...joined the squad as the lone newcomer when he arrived in 2008-09...a local standout who is a very talented golfer with a solid understanding of the game.
2012-13: Lee participated in each of Tech's five fall competitions, playing 15 rounds in all...led the Golden Eagles at the Skyhawk Classic at Paris Landing State Park, shooting a 71-70-74=215, earning him a tenth-place finish among 70 players.
2011-12: Lee played in all five fall tournaments, totaling 14 rounds of golf...carded a season-low round of 72 at the Wasioto Winds Fall Kick-Off in September...bested that in the spring with a 69 at the Grub Mart Intercollegiate, tying for 11th in the tournament...greatly improved his game in the spring, earning four-consecutive top-20 finishes in March/April...finished with a stroke average of 76.9.
2010-11: Lee played in nine tournaments and posted a stroke average of 76.7...scored his lowest round of the season with a 69 on October 4 during the first round of the Murray State Invitational where he finished tied for 13th...his best finish of the season came at the Ohio Valley Conference Championship on April 25-27, where he shot one-under par (73-70=143) and finished in a tie for 9th place.
2009-10: Lee made appearances in three tournaments for Tech...posted a 77.7 stroke average through nine rounds of play...his low round of 70 came in the first round at the TSU Big Blue Intercollegiate (4/5).
2008-09: Did not compete in any tournaments for
the Golden Eagles.
HIGH SCHOOL: A standout player at Cookeville High School standout... a four-year letterman, playing at the No. 1 spot for coach Bob Cumby as a senior...also lettered one season on the basketball team...in his final season, he helped CHS capture the district and regional championships and finish as runnerup in the TSSAA Class AAA state tournament...individually, he shot 71 both days and placed fourth in the state tournament, earning all-state honors...named the team MVP... also in 2007, he was named to the Myrtle Beach Palmetto High School Championship all-tournament team, and he was the Pinehurst Winternational Series runner-up...finished third in the Tennessean Schooldays Tournament with a 67, and he was the White Plains Open runner-up...as a junior, he was medalist of the Schooldays Tournament, shooting a 65 to win the event.
PERSONAL: Lee comes from a family that has numerous ties to Tennessee Tech athletics...the son of Gary and Lucretia Maxwell, and follows in the footsteps of his father who was a standout golfer for the Golden Eagles in the mid 1980s....his mother played basketball and volleyball at Tech, and his aunt, Elizabeth Maxwell, is also a former TTU basketball player...majoring in business.


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A major problem I've found with learning scheme in isolation is that it is quite easy to pick up the syntax and then start programming in with a heavy C++ accent. Although this demonstrates the flexibility of scheme, it is not what I'm really after. The question is, how to learn to write in a good style. I can think of a number of possibilities:
- Keep writing programs in scheme and hope my style will improve
- Read books that specifically teach good scheme style
- Read real world code written in scheme
I've been inspired to work through some of the exercises in HTDP from various posts I've read on Lambda the Ultimate. So far, the book advises a similar approach to designing programs as I have seen before: decide on your data structures before writing the code and define the data structures using (define-struct …). I've found it a useful exercise to write functions that convert the data structures into lists that could be evaluated to re-create the original data. Here is an example, more or less from chapter 17.
(define-struct expr (op a1 a2)) (define-struct f-app (name expr)) (define-struct fn (name arg body)) (define f (make-fn 'f 'x (make-expr '+ 3 'x))) (define i (make-fn 'i 'v (make-expr '+ (make-expr '* 'v 'v) (make-expr '* 'v 'v)))) ;;; Convert expressions to lists (define (add-quote s) (string->symbol (string-append "'" (symbol->string s)))) (define (expr->list e) (cond ((expr? e) (list 'make-expr (add-quote (expr-op e)) (expr->list (expr-a1 e)) (expr->list (expr-a2 e)))) ((f-app? e) (list 'make-f-app (add-quote (f-app-name e)) (expr->list (f-app-expr e)))) ((symbol? e) (add-quote e)) ((number? e) e) (else (raise (format "Error: invalid type ~a" e))))) (define (fn->list f) (list 'make-fn (add-quote (fn-name f)) (add-quote (fn-arg f)) (expr->list (fn-body f)))) (for-each (lambda (x) (display (format "~a~%" (fn->list x)))) (list f i))


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1. Soul Patches
The soul patch is, arguably, the most illogical of all 90's trends. The chin strap beard, while stupid, clearly said, "I do too have a chin. I outlined it in my face hair. See?" The goatee wordlessly declared, "I'm an assh*le!" So what did a soul patch say? "The only thing I follow more religiously than minor league baseball is trends involving confused displays of masculinity." If you ever had a soul patch, please take a moment to stew in your shame. If you still have a soul patch, you've got a little barbecue sauce in there.
2. JNCOs
Perhaps it was because of all of the Skip-It related chafing wounds, or just a general fondness for the feel of perpetually filthy shreds of fabric flopping against your calves, but, in the 90's, nothing was cooler than going to Kohl's with your mom to buy a fly new pair of JNCOs. WAS, being the operative word. We can all agree now that the circumference of your "pipes" should not exceed the length of your inseam. It just looks stupid. It doesn't matter how many yo-yo's you had stashed in there; no one needs that much room in their pants.
3. Leather Pants
No one who was over the age of 11 at any point in the 90's made it through the decade without wondering, "Could I pull off leather pants?" The answer, ubiquitously, was, "No," but Ricky Martin, Crazy Spice, and the actresses on Charmed were unrelenting in their desire to make leather pants last. In the end, the insane dry cleaning bills and the fact that you can't take anyone in leather pants seriously defeated this terrible trend. Just in case: no. You can't pull off leather pants. Don't try to bring them back. No.
4. Thug Looney Tunes Shirts
Nothing proves the collective idiocy of the 90's more than the fact that a group of businessmen thought, "People will probably buy T-shirts with Looney Tunes characters dressed in 'urban' attire," and then people actually bought them. This fad predated the safety mechanism of ironic fashion. If you wore an oversized T-shirt with a picture of Bugs Bunny wearing baggy, backwards jeans, you genuinely thought it was cool. At some point in the 90's, at least one person was probably held at gun point by someone in a gangster Tasmanian Devil T-shirt. Just think about that and vow to never let this fashion trend return.
5. Backwards Jeans
Why was Bugs Bunny dressed in backwards jeans? Oh yeah. Because that was a thing people did. Specifically "Mac Daddy" and "Daddy Mac" of the hip-hop group Kris Kross. They are to blame for countless misplaced beepers and chaos at junior high urinals. This is the kind of trend that can only be discussed by using the phrase "youth culture" in the most crotchety tone of distanced disparagement, but, come on, you tried your jeans on backwards. Just don't try it again.


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This application makes the user get the experience of feeling drunk!
It is a great educational tool to show people what it is like to be drunk and how vision becomes impaired while intoxicated.
- Drunkness Scale: Change the amount of alcohol that you have had
- Take a snapshot: Now you CAN take a picture of what you see when your drunk
- Experience being blackout
- You can even make yourself feel sick!
Do you ever remember wearing beer goggles in your high school health class? Well today you can relive that experience.
Feel what it is like to walk around drunk anytime, without any liquor!
As you walk around, be careful because you will walk like you just had a few to many.
This application makes adaptations to the video from the camera on the back of the iPhone to make users feel drunk!
Just be careful and make sure you are in an open space with someone there to make sure you don't hurt yourself. Objects may appear closer or farther than they actually are (and blurrier), so be careful.
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Meet the soft-spoken and shy Gates, a second year wide receiver who last year played 15 games in Miami. Gates is one of the unheralded names in a Jets locker room filled with stars and superstars but like so many of the lesser known players on this team, his story is intriguing. Prior to college, he played just one year of high school football and saw no future in it.
The story goes that Abilene Christian football head coach Chris Thomsen came to visit Bernard Scott, the Bengals running back, at home one evening and Gates was there along with his brother. Thomsen offered Scott the chance to play college football and Scott encouraged his cousin to go to college with him.
"He was like 'Clyde' I want you to come with me and I was like 'Cool, I'll just try out for the basketball team at Abilene Christian," Gates told The Jets Blog. "I tried out and made the basketball team in the spring of 2007."
But hoops wasn't in his future.
That summer, Gates worked out with Scott and members of the football team and Thomsen, who met Gates on his recruiting visit with Scott, got a good look at his athleticism. Gates had only played football during his sophomore year of high school and "I didn't like it." But he gave college football a shot and planned to play basketball that winter after the football season was over.
"He saw something in me that summer and I had to give it a shot; he was so encouraging about it. After the first season of football, my coach said I'm not to play basketball - that's what I came here for but he saw a future for me. He was an honest guy and I appreciate that," Gates said.
"Basketball is a thing that I like to do. I love it but football is my life now."
Attention would follow and eventually Gates would be drafted, taken in the fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. His future is coming along and he admits that while he likely could have played basketball overseas, that "I just love football so much right now."
His athleticism is unquestioned, with head coach Rex Ryan this week calling Gates the fastest player on the Jets.
"The thing I learned is that you can play any sport, this is my personal opinion, and can transition to play football. But you can't be a football player and transition to any other sport. I feel like I'm an athlete and a football player now," Gates said. "But when I first started at Abilene Christian, I was an athlete trying to play football. Before, I was just relying on being an athlete."
And he won't agree with Ryan and say that he's the fastest player on the Jets but Gates did call DeSean Jackson the fastest player he's seen in the NFL. Gates never ran track but he thinks it could be a great race between Jackson and himself.
"The question is if he can hang with me, not if I can hang with him," Gates said with a laugh.
Kristian R. Dyer covers the Jets for Metro New York and contributes to Yahoo!Sports. He can be followed for Jets news @KristianRDyer.


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A new development in cloud computing is the emergence of cloud brokers, services that let organizations choose cloud providers by the job and change providers on the fly depending on prices or services.
They can help government agencies purchase those cloud services and facilitate cross-platform integration and communication, industry experts who provide those services told an audience at the FOSE Conference and Exposition. Cloud service brokers will have portals to allow government users to go to a URL, create virtual data centers, test applications on those different virtual data centers, and compare costs between different cloud providers, said Kevin Jackson, manager of cloud services with NJVC, a provider of cloud broker services for the defense and intelligence communities.
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They will deploy those applications with one cloud service provider and, if the price changes, they can take their business to a different cloud service provider, Jackson said April 3 at a FOSE panel session on optimizing control and security in the cloud. FOSE is being held by GCN's parent company, 1105 Media, at the Washington Convention Center.
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Q Can you tell me why these documents haven't been produced prior to today?
April 18th, 1996, letter from Law Offices of Mr.
Stern to Vanessa Chernick, assistant general counsel
Fannie Mae, you didn't maintain a copy of this document
in your Fannie Mae file and therefore, you didn't
locate it when we asked you to produce these
MR. GEYER: Object to the form
A Repeat the question, please
(Thereupon, the portion was read by the reporter)
A At the time I was asked to produce the
documents, it was not in the file
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Q Where did you find this document?
A In a Fannie Mae file
Q Whose Fannie Mae file?
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Q Within the last few days, last few months,
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Hollywood Goes Hometown
The movie receiving all the hype locally is entitled The Valley Inn. The Plot is a romantic comedy based around a big city Yankee who takes a summer job to sell books in Madison County. It showcases how small town America is still alive, Director Blake Elder said.
What better place to find talent for the movie but in a small town community. The Valley Inn production team has had open casting calls from Springdale to Fayetteville to search for talent, Producer Kenn Woodard said. "I have to say I'm impressed with the raw talent we found in Northwest Arkansas, said Woodard. The idea for the movie was inspired by Valley Inn director Blake Elder's Aunt.
"She would always eat at the Valley Inn Café in Hindsville and order biscuits and gravy. One day she was eating with my Mom and looked around and said this place is a movie, Director Blake Elder said. The Valley Inn team is still making the final decisions on who will play what role in the cast.
They have, however casted Kevin Flynn and Colley Bailey Arkansas Natives to Play some of the leading roles, Woodard said. The Valley Inn Production team is holding a mixer at the UARK BOWL this Thursday, February 28 it starts at 6:30pm. It features music, comedy and chance for aspiring film makers to network with people in the movie industry, Elder said. Production for The Valley Inn should kick off sometime this summer, Woodard said.


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Star Chefs Teach at New York Culinary Experience
Enticing a group of Westerners to chow down on duck liver and heart might be a tall order, but for Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker, it's all in a day's work. At the sixth annual New York Culinary Experience held at the International Culinary Center in SoHo this past weekend, the James Beard award-winning chef taught participants how to make Isaan minced duck salad along with other northern Thai dishes.
"This is not fine dining," Ricker told the class, as he shared anecdotes from his travels throughout Southeast Asia, a region he has visited regularly since 1987. The chef took a studious approach to his class, with detailed explanations on herbs and the different regions of Thailand. He sprinkled Thai and Vietnamese words and phrases throughout.
"If you want to learn the flavor, you have to travel," he said. For those who can only travel for two weeks, he told Speakeasy, don't try to see a whole country and taste everything. "There's no way to get it in one shot," he said. "There's no way to get it in two shots. It's going to take a long time."


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At the first annual Brooklyn Zinefest, a defense of all things quirky, oddball, and most of all, handmade
The scene at Public Assembly this past Sunday may, to some curious, unaware onlooker, have resembled a "Portlandia" sketch.
In the large Williamsburg space—which, by virtue of the idyllic spring day unspooling outside, seemed positively cavernous—people manned tables piled with paper products in various stages of color and glossiness, perused by throngs of admirers and aficionados. This bustling marketplace, which, judging from overheard offers of trades issued and accepted was very much a barter economy, redolent with the scent of beer (provided by "beer sponsor" Brooklyn Brewery) and food brought over from Cubana Social, was the Brooklyn Zine Fest, the first of what its organizers envision as an annual event.
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"We make zines, and wanted a good venue for ourselves in New York," Kseniya Yarosh, one of the festival organizers, said when I met with her and her two co-organizers, Matt Carman and Eric Nelson at a Union Square bar in mid-February.
A gathering of some sixty exhibitors—zine-makers of myriad backgrounds, interests, experience, and origins—B.Z.F. was somehow a simultaneously backward- and forward-looking enterprise. It was a bit "the dream of the '90s," a little post-capitalist world order in which no one seemed to be, at least in the moment, the slightest bit alienated, and just a touch au courant—Brooklyn! D.I.Y.! (The fact that, just two days earlier, Courtney Love had joined the other members of Hole in the same space to play and impromptu set helped heighten the '90s atmosphere.)
The idea for the Brooklyn Zine Fest was conceived in Richmond, Virginia, at the Richmond Zine Fest, to be exact. That is where the organizers first came to the realization that Brooklyn needed a zine-gathering all its own. Carman explained that he and Yarosh (pictured below), co-editors of the I Love Bad Movies zine and a longtime couple, had frequently seen Nelson at various zine-related events. In Richmond, they finally had the chance to talk.
"And we realized," Carman said, "We just traveled six-and-a-half hours to go to a great zine fest, and we want to have one in Brooklyn."
"The last zine festival [in Brooklyn] was in the Slope at the Lyceum three years ago," Nelson recalled noting at the time. "And with D.I.Y. culture blowing up [in Brooklyn], it seemed like the perfect time" for a new event. The tentative planning began then and there.
But of course the history of the zine itself goes back much further. Zines came out of the sci-fi fan community in the 1930s, most scholars of the form agree. (Oh yes, there are zine scholars, most notably, perhaps, Stephen Duncombe, author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (1997), an academic study named for Duncombe's old zine. And several university libraries have begun collecting and archiving zines, most notably the collection maintained at Barnard College and the acquisition of the Riot Grrrl archives by the Fales Collection at N.Y.U.) Disgruntled by what they saw as the implausibilities of popular science fiction stories and disappointed by the established genre magazines' refusal to take heed of their complaints, science-fiction fans increasingly began creating their own newsletters, self-distributed to a network of fellow enthusiasts. These Ur-zines gave their writers and readers the chance to discuss the work on their own terms; at the same time, they could contemplate the nature of fandom itself, to personalize the experience of love-hate.
With the advent of punk and the D.I.Y. ethos in the '70s, zines acquired a political spirit, an edge and a perspective all rolled into one messily-assembled, snarling artifact—a love-letter-to-music turned into a hurled explosive. The '90s brought the two aspects together: the zine of the era is characterized by the personal-as-political, assuming the aspect of an idiosyncratic and doggedly revealing manifesto. '90s zines often came with an intangible but unmistakable soundtrack—Riot Grrrl, hardcore—and an agenda—revolution and the dismantling of a social order that had marginalized groups that now turned to zine publishing as a breeding ground for a more equitable world. But they also increasingly trafficked in the minutiae of daily life and pop culture, presaging our own era's blogs.
As examined in Capital some two years ago, today's zines—resurgent despite the existential threat posed by the Internet—are more insistently particular and peculiar, devoting themselves to the sincere exploration, at varying levels of commitment, of specialized interests. But this new iteration of zines (Zines2.0?) has had to contend with questions about how to justify their cost—even if they rarely exceed $10—given the generational feelings of entitlement to free, web-based entertainment, information, and opinion.
"I really like zines because they are great for people who have a lot of interests and short attention spans," Carman said. "It's very specific: It's about this person's life or a trip they took or liking bad movies. And you read it, and you get something, and it's not too much of a commitment. You read something, and you can pass it on, you can give it to a friend, you can put it on a bookshelf, take it down once in a while." Moments before, Yarosh had revealed that he pronounced the word "zines" as though it rhymed with "dines" when they first met, a notion Carman halfheartedly disputed.
Yarosh confirmed the satisfactions of working quickly but permanently: "I mean, we make an effort to proofread and edit," she said, belying the clear care that goes into an issue of I Love Bad Movies, a paean to the wonderful pleasures of terrible movies. But, she stressed, once the zine was done, it was done, and she embraced this endpoint in the way of a zen master: the end of striving as the end of suffering. (For the record: Carman's favorite bad movie: Gigli, the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez vehicle mock-extolled in ILBM2. Yarosh, for her part, singled out the wonders of The Room, the 2003 film described by ILBM2 contributor Alan Gamboa as being "akin to being hit in the face by a bag of what-the-fuck and liking it.")
Not all zines are created quickly of course: Yarosh mentioned a recent discovery, a zine about the singer Prince, which took its creator over two years to put together. (That would be The Prince Zine, a 60-page exploration of the nooks and crannies of Prince's life, loves, and discography.)
In putting together the Brooklyn Zine Fest lineup, the organizers were keenly aware of the need for a balanced slate and the possibility that visitors might come upon something unexpectedly intriguing.
"We wanted a good mix of literary and comics and there are a couple of food ones," Yarosh counted off. "We wanted to have variety, a little of everything."
"We wanted mostly Brooklyn, and it's about two thirds Brooklyn, but we also wanted some variety," Carman chimed in. (The two tend to talk in complementary conversational volleys.) "We sort of collected our favorite zine-makers."
Carman, Yarosh, and Nelson were passionate about the role zines had played in their own lives.
"I grew up in the suburbs, in Maryland," Yarosh said, "and I discovered zines at a Tower Records, and I didn't even know it was possible, until I found some zines on a corner shelf, to write your own thing."
Nelson was a high school fan of punk rock: "But I didn't play, so I made zines." He has since heeded the call of the literary zine, a direction in which he generally sees the world of contemporary zines heading. "I feel like there are a lot more literary zines right now, and that is probably coinciding with the explosion of D.I.Y. publishing," he mused.
They also emphasized the notion of "community," which came up again and again, and the Fest was clearly both the catalyst for and the product of this communal good-feeling.
Yarosh said that when she came to New York, she met a lot of people through zines. "And I would give them this thing I wrote," she recalled, suggesting one way zines foster bonding. Of course, blogs build communities, of a sort, too. Yet Yarosh contended that handing over a zine to someone is "just so much more intimate," giving something "that wasn't online or anywhere else," was an act of goodwill. "I mean, I could send them a URL, but this is so much more personal to hold this thing, have it be limited to paper."
The matter of zine vs. blog is one many of the Fest participants were also aware of, though it has been largely settled, with the two ruled, in the court of zinester opinion, compatible. Many blogs, Capital reported, have been appropriating the zine model, eschewing reader-bait titles and other appeals to the lowest common denominator in order to free their writers to write about things they were genuinely interested in. But, truth be told, most zine makers have websites devoted to their zines, especially ones producing regularly-scheduled issues. And, Yarosh said, she has lately noticed more and more people "are converting their blogs into zines."
Jenna Freedman, the zine librarian at Barnard College and Fest exhibitor with her zine, Lower East Side Librarian & Friends Menstruate, helpfully quotes two posts from a 2005 discussion on the Zinegeeks Yahoo Group in "Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis:
[A friend of my neighbor] asked what a zine was and I gave her a description that was worthy of Webster's and then started showing her various zines. … She looked at [my current masterpiece] briefly and said "So a zine is like a photocopied blog.
Well, in the simplest of terms she's probably right, but in the simplest of terms I could say "A cat is like a dog except cats meow, shit in a box and don't hump your leg," and be equally correct.
In an email message, Freedman also noted that "the Internet has helped zine production more than it has hurt it," a sentiment echoed by several other Fest participants.
"The Internet is a wonderful, free way to promote zines and share information about how to produce, distribute, and promote zines," Ayun Halliday, the creator of The East Village Inky, suggested in an email. "Facebook allows those of who create personal zines to get a glimpse of our readers' personal lives too, tit for tat." But Halliday, who has been making quarterly installments of her zine since 1998, also admitted that "the seductive, addictive qualities of the Internet take a massive bite out of my actual hands-on time with the zine … I spend way too much time dicking around in front of the screen, convincing myself that I'm doing something worthwhile."
At the Fest, Halliday wore a New Year's Eve-style tiara, spelling out ZINES, and she happily interacted with people stopping by her table, piled high with issues of Inky and displaying her books, including the Zinester's Guide to NYC (2010). She traded copies of her zine for work thrust at her, a tacit acknowledgement of something she had said in an email in anticipation of the event:
"Zines have the thumbprint of actual human labor. Somebody cared enough to staple this up, go to the copy shop, maybe stitch it together or glue in a surprise."
The lure of the physical artifact—its feel, weight, relative permanence, the sense of completion that accompanies something that cannot, unlike a blog post, say, be altered once distributed, its intimation of intimacy, with many zines making use of handwriting—informed the decision of many Fest participants to keep zine-ing, despite the ostensible ease of electronic publishing.
"After I moved to New York in 2006," Marc Calvary of the carbon based mistake confessed in an email, "I considered switching to eZines to save on printing costs since all my money seemed to go to rent and just being able to stay here. But I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I love print too much…. There is nothing in the world so great as when you finish a project and it's there in your hand, something that did not exist until you brought it out of your head and made it real."
The notion of the real permeated the Brooklyn Zine Fest. By 3 p.m. (the fest had begun at 11) some of the exhibitors seemed a little tired, a little dazed, but also genuinely excited. Several sketched in black-covered notebooks, and it was tempting to imagine that new zines were being born right then and there.
"Anything can become a zine," Calvary said in his email, hypothesizing one "entirely comprised of photographs of the insides of people's medicine cabinets or a diatribe against religion or a children's story with curse words."
And this seemed very true on this Sunday afternoon, as people exhibited and traded and bought zines about nothing and everything. No one here was looking for fame or fortune. Fame and fortune were elsewhere, most likely drinking bottomless Bloody Marys at brunch. Instead, there was the sense that everyone involved was doing their small part to be part of some larger whole, a compendium of quirks and grievances and memories and curiosities and objects lost and found.
Maybe this was a zine-version of a blog comments section, the chance for writer and readers to interact, exchange ideas. But it was also something largely and satisfyingly itself.
And what was that?
Tom Blunt of Meet The Lady, a zine that began life as a variety show, put it well: "Some zines evolve into bigger, better projects, but when you start out, it's usually just you, your friends, and some pirated office supplies."
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It's never easy to hear that a major scientific endeavor did not produce the results it was hoping to produce. Last week the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced it would stop administering injections in its HVTN 505 clinical trial of an investigational HIV vaccine regimen. An independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) found during a scheduled interim review that the vaccine being tested did not prevent HIV infection, nor did it reduce the amount of HIV in the blood of those participants who became infected with HIV. While the early closure of a trial is always a hard experience, we do go forward from here. This result opens a conversation -- a place to discuss where we are in the development of a vaccine and what we understand about the science of HIV prevention. It helps to remind us that in the thirty years we have known HIV, nothing about this virus has been easy. Yet, we are stronger for the struggle. Our experience as gay men throughout the history of HIV/AIDS has proven that we surge forward after setbacks.
Although we did not find a vaccine from this trial, we did learn. And because of that learning I remain hopeful about our search for a vaccine. From this trial we took away victories that can help change the face of research and its relationship to our community. This trial showed us how researchers and communities can work together to recruit under-represented populations that have not been engaged in HIV vaccine research. The trial offered a model for how research can be more reflective of the communities that carry the highest burden of HIV and could most benefit from an effective vaccine. We learned how to work with a disengaged population to help them see (again) why an HIV vaccine matters to them.
These are lessons that will help inform the science of HIV prevention as it moves forward. More importantly, these lessons reassure highly affected communities that the research landscape is trying to do better and address past wrongs that have contributed to a culture of mistrust and disengagement from research. If a solution to the HIV puzzle is to be found, it must come from community members and researchers working together. Preconceived notions that each of these groups may have about the other serves to only stifle an essential dialogue. To truly build momentum that will lead to the end of the epidemic will require both sides to be open to understanding each other, and to appreciate what they each bring to the work. It is through the collective actions that synergy happens. Ultimately, success means a vaccine for all of us.
The gay community must work to maintain the engagement that this trial has started. We need to build upon our unique knowledge and experience of HIV and bring that expertise to the table.
At the end of the day, these results do not change the fundamental truth that an HIV vaccine remains critical to any long-term strategy to end the AIDS epidemic in our community and around the world. Although it's a bit of a cliché, we have to remember that it's not how many times you fall down; it's how many times you get back up, something our community has always done.
Matthew Rose is a long-time HIV/AIDS advocate. For the last three years he has been a member of Prevention Research, Outreach, Advocacy and Representation (PxROAR), a domestic program created by AVAC to offer training for advocates in biomedical HIV prevention research education. Previously Matthew spent two and a half years with the National Coalition for LGBT Health overseeing its HIV/AIDS policy work. Matthew is a member of the Capital Area AIDS Prevention Effort; sits on the ethics working group for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network; serves on the national steering committee of the Black Treatment Advocates Network; and is chair of the policy committee and a member of the organizing committee of the Young Black Gay Men's Initiative.


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Federal authorities investigating whether Lance Armstrong and other top cyclists engaged in doping are considering expanding their probe to include other charges involving fraud, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Investigators are particularly interested in whether money from the United States Postal Service, which sponsored Armstrong's team for nine years, was used to buy performance-enhancing drugs, the paper reported, citing two people briefed on the investigation who were granted anonymity "because they did not want to jeopardize their access to delicate information."
Armstrong has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
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Armstrong was accused of doping by former teammate Floyd Landis last week. In a series of e-mails sent to sponsors and sports officials, Landis also alleged Armstrong taught others how to beat the system and paid the former president of the International Cycling Union to keep a failed test quiet.
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BRIAN AZZARELLO Talks BEFORE WATCHMEN, After the Controversy
This past weekend at Chicago's C2E2 comic convention, Brian Azzarello was somewhat of a hometown hero.
Not only did the Chicago-based writer just turn Wonder Woman into a Top 20 title again after years of mediocre sales, but he's a key player in this summer's highly anticipated Before Watchmen event. Add that to his reunion with 100 Bullets collaborator Eduardo Risso in the current mini-series Spaceman, and Azzarello is having one of the more high-profile years of his career.
Of course, that high profile is coming with plenty of vocal reaction from long-time fans, who don't always respond positively to a writer like Azzarello who likes to do the "unexpected." This year, Azz made some big changes to Wonder Woman's iconic mythology, and he's not even hesitating to tackle two prequels to Watchmen, despite some fans believing those characters shouldn't be touched.
But having your work at the center of conversation among hoards of fanboys and fangirls isn't necessarily a bad thing. When Before Watchmen kicks off in June with a series of weekly comics by several different creative teams, Azzarello will surely get more people talking with his collaboration with J.G. Jones on Comedian and Lee Bermejo on Rorschach.
We caught up with Azzarello during C2E2, and in this first installment of a two-part interview, Newsarama talked to him about his work on Before Watchmen and the reasons behind his decision to work on the event.
Newsarama: Brian, I know this is a little weird. But I'm going to do a Before Watchmen interview without talking about the so-called "controversy," because I think we've covered that pretty well, don't you?
Brain Azzarello: Yeah, and you know, everyone talked about this controversy, but there really hasn't been much of one. I mean, I don't read everything that people are saying.
Nrama: Obviously, the project's moving forward no matter where the discussion goes. So let's talk about the project instead. And to start, let me admit that I'm one of those people who read Watchmen years after it was published. A newcomer, I suppose.
Azzarello: I read it when it originally came out.
Nrama: Yeah, and a lot of comic fans did. But to be honest, by the time I got to the comic, while it was obviously brilliant and moving, it did feel somewhat dated.It was definitely a story of its time, you know?
Azzarello: Oh, yeah.
Nrama: Is part of the challenge for Before Watchmen to update this world and write these characters for a more modern audience?
Azzarello: Well, sure. I mean the lens that we look through now is different than it was 30 years ago. You know? The concerns that we have globally are different. I mean, one of the big conceits of the original series was saving humanity from itself, which in essence is nuclear war. But in the world today, nuclear war is no longer part of the landscape the way it was then. That threat has been replaced by terrorism.
Nrama: So from a storytelling standpoint, to be true to the world Alan Moore created, can you still portray that world faithfully, yet in a way that is going to have the same kind of resonance with today's audience?
Azzarello: Well, that's the challenge, isn't it? And I can't answer that now. Really, that's not even for me to answer. That's for readers to answer when the books are out, you know?
Nrama: But you've clearly thought about it. You're the one who admitted the lens has completely changed since the Cold War.
Azzarello: Well, yeah, that's one of the reasons I'm doing it, is because it's a challenge. And it's like, what is the approach to take on these characters now? We're telling stories that happened in the past, but you don't want those stories to seem too dated.
There's 30 years of cultural change that I'm looking at bringing to these two books that I'm doing.
Just like Watchmen is a product of the time it was written, these are going to be the same. I hope.
Again, the approach I'm taking, whether or not I succeed or fail, that's not for me to say.
Nrama: Have you guys sat down and talked about this challenge and discussed what approach you're taking in these various mini-series?
Azzarello: We did sit down and talk about this. Back in October, I believe it was, we had a meeting. And it went surprisingly smooth. It was a meeting that was scheduled for two days. We didn't meet all two days to hash out these ideas.
We came with pretty solid takes on these characters, with really strong arguments to why they should be approached in a certain way.
Nrama: That's interesting, because I would imagine some differences of mind. Do you think that's because the original had such a clear idea of where these characters came from and what the world was like?
Azzarello: Yeah, I think so, but there are all kinds of different places you can go within that framework.
Len [Wein]'s take, for example, on Ozymandias is not the take that I would have had on that character, however it's really strong. And I can totally agree with what he's doing and the approach he's taking.
I mean, I don't think the original Watchmen book itself dictates too strongly how these characters can be handled if you're kind of pulling them out of that story and creating something else for them to operate in.
Nrama: There are years and years to cover in their history. How did you narrow down where you wanted to pick up the story of each character?
Azzarello: The Comedian is set in the '60s, and Rorshach's in the '70s.I think the strongest aspect of those characters are echoed in the decade that I'm putting them in. Rorschach in late '70s New York just works for me. New York back then was a very different place than it is now.
The Comedian in the '60s, I mean, what a tumultuous decade that was for America. It just makes sense to me to explore that particular time with that character, and how affected it, or was affected by it.
Nrama: Vietnam defined him somewhat, didn't it?
Azzarello: Vietnam definitely — I don't know if it defined him, but it underlines him.
Nrama: So he was already there, in a way?
Azzarello: Well, yeah, I think he was already there.
Nrama: You were originally offered Rorschach first, right? Only that one at first?
Azzarello: Yeah.
Nrama: You know, when I was thinking about your decision to work on this comic, I remembered something you told me about Wonder Woman. You said that DC was originally talking to you about their approach to Diana, and you decided to write the comic because you thought you could come up with something better. Am I remembering that right?
Azzarello: Yeah, but that came about because I thought what they were going to do was so wrong.
Nrama: Yeah, you wanted to kind of protect the character. Or is that too strong of a word? Protect?
Azzarello: I guess I was trying to protect her. Oh. [Laughs.]
Nrama: I can't help wondering, when you were offered Rorschach, was the idea of protecting the character involved in your decision? Or would you call it selfish, wanting the character for yourself?
Azzarello: Well, I don't think I'd call it selfish. But you know, I haven't thought about it as being "protective" either.
But now that you mention it, Lee and I were discussing it — whether or not we were going to take on Rorschach — and the discussion went along the lines of, "You know they're going to do it anyway, whether you say yes or no."
And then it went to, "Well, then we'd better do it, because at least if we do it, we know it's going to be good."So yeah, there is some ego in it, I suppose. There's definitely an element of ego in it.
And I guess I was being protective. Lee and I just figured, it was like, "We'll kill on this project!"
Nrama: I think most fans would agree. I mean, you obviously do more than just grim and gritty stuff nowadays, as evidenced by your work on Wonder Woman and Spaceman. But if we challenged fans to put together a short list of people to write Rorschach, I bet your name would be there, probably even at the top.
Azzarello: [Laughs.] What's that say about me?
Nrama: I don't know. You fit the Comedian too, so maybe it's that they have more of a dark, gritty edge to them.
Azzarello: Yeah, probably.
Nrama: It sounds like you were already talking to Lee Bermejo about this project before you even accepted it. Did you always have him in mind for Rorschach? And why did you think he was the right person?
Azzarello: He's the right person. Yeah, he popped to mind immediately, after I hung up with Dan [DiDio], after he offered the character — actually, I think even prior to that. When he just said "Rorschach," I'm thinking, "OK, if I do this, who would I do... — Lee." It was that fast. It was just there. Done.
Nrama: Lee's got a lot of realism in his art.
Azzarello: Yeah, and sometimes the stuff he does is difficult to look at. You know?
Nrama: Yeah. It's got the ugly details.
Azzarello: Yeah, he can do warts and the whole nine yards.
Nrama: So I take it this world you guys are exploring in New York of the '70s is not pretty.
Azzarello: No, it's not. It's why they had to clean up that city, I guess.
Nrama: Will you explore the ramifications of the Keane Act? Because that happened in the '70s, right?
Azzarello: Right, Rorschach takes place after the Keane Act.
Nrama: Is this is a formative story for him, or for the world of Watchmen?
Azzarello: I don't want to get too much into the details. Let's just say it's a Rorschach story. It's not world-breaking or world-affecting or anything like that. It's Rorschach doing what Rorschach does.
Nrama: Was he the same guy at that point that we knew from the original story?
Azzarello: Yeah, he's the same guy.
Nrama: I didn't know if you were showing him a little different, as if he evolved since then.
Azzarello: No. It's the Rorschach people want to see. Do you want to read about Rorschach before he went crazy? I don't think so.
Nrama: And you don't want to write him?
Azzarello: Well, that's not what makes the character compelling. Certainly, there are elements to his past that are interesting. And I'll touch on that kind of stuff. But I put him in the late '70s because he belongs there.
Rorschach is a product of his environment. And his environment is not pretty.
Nrama: When you talk about touching on his past, does that mean you're going to include a retelling of what made him the way he is?
Azzarello: No, I don't think we need to do that. That was done in the first book. We know what made Rorschach what he is. He's probably the most fully formed character in the original series. People who have read that book know who Rorschach is, where he came from, what his past is, and why he's the way he is.
Nrama: Let's talk about J.G. Jones. I know that you guys wanted to work together for awhile, right?
Azzarello: Yeah, we wanted to work together, and this project just seemed to be the right one. And DC wanted J.G. involved in this. So it just fit. The dominoes fell into place.
Nrama: J.G. can do all kinds of things, so without having seen the art, it's hard to know what this is going to look like. Can you give any indication of what you're seeing and how he's interpreted the world of Comedian?
Azzarello: It's great. And it's been great working with him. He's nailing the '60s, I'll tell you that. It's got a great vibe. He brings, like, a real — there's this masculine realism, I think, in J.G.'s artwork. And that's exactly what the Comedian needs.
Nrama: Yeah, masculine is a good adjective for Comedian.
Azzarello: Yeah. [Laughs.] He's a man's man.
Nrama: You mentioned that Rorschach's origin was covered in Watchmen. But is this written for people who have already read that book? Or are you writing it more from the perspective that people start with this and then read Watchmen?
Azzarello: I'm writing to make a cohesive story on its own. If you're read Watchmen, great. If you haven't, you should. And I don't really think that anybody's going to come to these books that aren't familiar with Watchmen, you know? But we'll see. As usual, I'm sure I'll be proven wrong. I'll probably have someone come up to me and say, "You got me into Watchmen." And that's fine. But the only way I'm going to accomplish anything like that is to write a solid story about these characters and make them compelling, and make people want to read more about that character.
Check back soon with Newsarama when we talk to Azzarello about his work on Wonder Woman and Spaceman.
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