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HOKEY-SMOKE & HOO-WEE! ~ReplyDelete
FAE! Well... first of all, you don't need to worry 'bout no stinkin' shutout this time. I've gotcher back on this one!
Not a fan of Janis Joplin, however, I will say that 'Me And Bobby McGee' is the one song of hers I like. Yep. I likes it, and I likes nuttin' else I can think of by that dirty, screeching, Southern-Comfort, breast-displaying hippie. But she did NAIL this song.
Oh, but, But, BUT... I had never heard THIS version by Ol' Waymore before. Yes, I have heard a DIFFERENT version of this song by the founder of Outlaw Country, but it was a shorter, more subdued take. THIS ONE though, has that great thumping bass and the rumbling guitar trademark of Waylon's sound charging through it. Where did you find this? HOW did you find this? How come I never heard it before? I knows mo' Waylon than YOU! Don't I?
Janis used to "own" this song, but the Country Outlaw just stole it from her, the po', dirty li'l hippie. Well, outlaws will be outlaws, eh? And don't cry for Janis - she'll always have Southern Comfort to comfort her and warm her lonely heart.
~ D-FensDogG
'Loyal American Underground'Replies
I'm glad to see you so excited abut this 'Waylon' version here. I found two and I liiked this one better, it seemed a little rougher, more raw, kind of like that 'garage band' sound. The other version was more 'produced'. Somehow this seemed like a better fit for Janis' live 'Woodstock' version, which BTW, I like better than her studio recording of M&BMG.Delete
Never been a real big fan of Janis either, but I always did kind of like her version of this one and her take on 'Summertime', although there are several versions of 'summertime' that I like way better than JJ.
I never thought this BATTLE would be a shut out. I knew I could count on you to vote for Waylon and I figured someone, somewhere, sometime would cast a vote for Janis. I'm a tad bit late getting back to everyone and I haven't counted up the votes or anything controversial like that, but I actually think they are running neck and neck, or at least very close. Course, it's only day 2 in this BATTLE so anything could happen.
Don't place no bets on either Waylon or Janis just yet, don't want you carrying around no mo 'good fiber' in yer wallet.
Hi, dear FAE! Thank you again, my sweet friend, for all the wonderful things you wrote about me in the previous post and in your replies to comments, and for giving me such a warm welcome as I hang out my shingle and open my blog for business as a BOTB affiliate.ReplyDelete
Truth be told I was never that big of a fan of Janis Joplin. She was a bit too incendiary for my taste. I preferred the "controlled burn" that I found in the person of Lydia Pense, front woman of the San Francisco rock/jazz/blue-eyed soul band Cold Blood. Lydia Pense has often been compared to Janis Joplin in voice and style, but her delivery is more refined and I like that.
I like the husky, masculine voice of Waylon Jennings and enjoyed his take on "Me and Bobby McGee." Yet, when all is sung and done, I need to cast my vote for Janis Joplin's version because it's the one I remember, a #1 hit in the spring of 1971.
Yessum, I was 19 when the Woodstock festival was held and I often regret that I didn't go to it. Surely it was for many an incredible, life changing experience.
We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each other's wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
Some came to sing, some came to pray
Some came to keep the dark away
I give thanks every day that I was born at just the right point in time to experience the excitement and wonder that was the Sixties - 14 when the Beatles invaded America - 19 during Woodstock, etc. etc.
Thank you for a great match-up tonight, dear friend FAE. I am eager to see which of these artists collects the most votes.Replies
My what an interesting perspective you present on every piece of music and all related topics.Delete
"I give thanks every day that I was born at just the right point in time to experience the excitement and wonder that was the Sixties..."
You are the first person I have met to express their feelings about that turbulent time in such a way. I truly marvel as your ability to look positively on every aspect of your life. 'The sixties - what a long strange trip that was.' BUT, you can't refute that the musical genius that came out of that time, the collaborations, the pure sound was something to behold.
'Incendiary' what an appropriate word for Janis. I'm not familiar with Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, but when I finish up here I will give her/them a look up. You have yet to steer me in the wrong direction of some really good music.
Thank you so much for the fun 'Blast from the past!" - Melanie, I had forgotten all about that song. I can see that having you as a regular participant in BOTB is going to be a 'barrel of monkeys F-U-N!
A hard choice, I like Waylon's version, but Janis swept my mind back to the first few times I heard that song. . .she wins my vote. That girl could sing the blues, and there were many reasons why. , , No hard feelings, Waylon. . .ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey DG, I'm sure Waylon will let this little slight slide...this time.Delete
That JJ tune seems to be bringing back memories for a lot of people. I wasn't sure how this BATTLE would be received, but I just had to post it. From the looks of it, it's actually working out quite well. I think Janis and Waylon are running pretty close. I really like a close race and a tie wouldn't bother me one little bit.
Thanks for stopping by so soon after finishing up the A to Z Challenge. I did a marvelous job and deserve a little break.
Waylon Jennings version is the second male version of this song I heard. The first was one of the songwriters who penned this song Kris Kristofferson. I love the contrast of the two artists you have pitted against each other. If it was which artist do I like better it would probably be Janis. However, on this song Janis slow start hurts her, she finishes strong. However, in this case Jennings gets my vote.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Mike. Waylon is holding on strong here. I was a little concerned that the familarity vote would go to Janis, but looks like that's not a problem.Delete
Funny you should mention Janis' slow start as hurting her, that's the part I like the best. Just goes to show how different we all feel about these BOTB songs. Guess we'll all just have to wait until the 7th to see who takes this prize.
Vote wisely? Hmmm, so the cat is wise? Too much pressure lolReplyDelete
Janis gets my vote by an inch, both are really good versions thoughReplies
Of course the cat is wise, he's got nine lives doesn't he, all the more time to grow and groom his mind in wisdom. Ha, ha, ha!Delete
So, Janis only gets an inch. That'll teach Waylon...you know that old give an inch and they take a mile. ;-)
Thanks for your vote Pat. I appreciate your continued support of BOTB.
Never liked Joplin's voice, so will go with Waylon.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey Alex, I'm a little surprised to see you give a 'country vote', but then I guess it was pretty much by default.Delete
Thanks for taking the time to stop by. I'm sure you're worn pretty thin after A to Z. I really do appreciate your and everyone's support of BOTB.
- Sheboyganboy SixMay 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM
This is another of those songs that I've never been a fan of. Joplin's famous version was always just OK with me, and Kristofferson's version (as was everything that guy did) absolutely unlistenable. I don't have the gravelly-voice of anti-breast-displaying bias of McCarthy, and I always thought Joplin was able to belt out a song pretty well... I just didn't like many of the songs. And I never came even CLOSE to buying one of her albums.ReplyDelete
Since country music is my second-least favorite genre, I have spent little time listening to Waylon. I will say that he has a very manly voice and dangerous look about him. I was surprised to find that I liked his version of "Me and Bobby McGee." It struck me while listening that this song is really a country song, not the - whatever-the-heck-it-became after the Joplin treatment made it famous.
The Waylon version is WAY better to my ears, so he gets the vote.Replies
Hold yer horses, Buckaroos!Delete
Sheboyganboy Six and I be agreein'? He's voting my way... AGAIN?! Better get yer affairs in order, Peoples, 'cause the end is near!
FAE, I want to correct something I said above. (No, not that part about Janis bein' a dirty, li'l hippie:-) I said that 'Me And Bobby McGee' was the only song she ever recorded that I liked/like. I remembered a second one: She did an excellent version of 'SUMMERTIME', too. ...Alright, now I'm dun yakkin' 'bout Janis and moving on to...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON... and yet again I agree with SBB-6. The guy could write songs but he was no singer! Everything he sang sounded flat and boring to me. No lilt in his voice at all, just this flat... nothingness. Lousy singer and without question the weakest link in The Highwaymen.
Shoot! I was planning to clip my fingernails today, but why bother? This world as we know it is just about done.
~ D-FensDogG
Must be something in the air since I voted the same as these boys did.Delete
Holy carp, folks! The end is definitely near. STMcC, SB6, and Mr. Bird all on the same page musically. Be still my heart. Is that the sound of the earth's roation grinding to a halt, or is it the ice crystals forming as 'hell freezes over'.Delete
Ha, ha, ha! You guys! I knows yer all pretty good friends, who enjoy each others company, at least on the 'screen', so all of the adversarial stuffs, is just a big fat joke.
Sheboyganboy Six - thank you good sir for stopping by and casting a vote, even if it is for 'another' song yer not too fond of. I know you don't like 'country', so I'm as shocked as STMcC by your vote, but real glad you took the time out of your busy schedule to pay me a visit.
Neither this song, nor these artists warrant the speaking of any 'Francais', but if you'll mosey on over to Mr. Bird's space, did manage leave a little note there. Now, I only hope it makes sense in the translation.
STMcC - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I already mentioned 'SUMMERTIME' in a comment above.
I do want to credit you with finally telling me what it was I didn't like about Kristoferson. He has that gravelly voice that I do tend to like, but somehow he always fell kind of flat for me too. You are absolutely correct, he's boring no 'lilt' no nothing exciting, he's not really monotone, but almost. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Now I can get some sleep tonight, knowing that Kris is just plain boring, not really bad, but bland. He did write some pretty good ones, though.
Lee, yeah but you came in late, I'll bet your just trying to cash in on that 'end o days' stuff. Ha, ha, ha!
Hi FAE... this is interesting. I've never been a fan of either artists. Both were unique in performance but not enough to hold my attention. Maybe I was too young or more interested in other music. It's even possible that music wasn't a big interest for me, at the time they came out. Waylon's recording here sounds really clear and obviously country. Reminds me of the highwaymen stuff. Janis has a gruffness or growl sound that's grating but I like the music background more. So I'm thinking... such a tiny edge to hang on and vote with... but my vote goes to Janis. (smile).ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Dixie, thanks for your vote. You're the second person ( or maybe the third) to vote by a tiny margin. I'm really likin' that it's that close for some people. To me that makes for a good BATTLE.Delete
You do know that Waylon was one quarter of The Highwaymen, don't you? That would account for him reminding you of their stuff.
So, the lovely (ahem) Ms. Joplin gets another vote.
Shady, I knew that lyric line you posted- from Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) by Melanie! Anyway, I've never got past the gender thing on this song. Gimme Janis.ReplyDeleteReplies
Way to go, Chris! The lyrics to that song and Melanie's passionate vocals always give me goose bumps.Delete
Chris, you're the first one to comment on Mr. Knight's lyrical posting. I was wondering who was gonna pick up on that. The song is haunting and definitely one of the many anthems of the era.Delete
Now, I'm a teeny bit confused as to what yer talkin' 'bout on that gender thing. See the comment STMcC left below. That's what I always thought about Bobby McGee's gender, but with one of them 'transgender' names like 'Bobby', it kinda makes it easy for just about anybody to sing this song with no modifications whatsoever.
Regardless, you're giving yer vote to Janis. Got it.
Never made it to any of the big music festivals. In the summer of '69 I'd just graduated from high school and was working my first 8 hour a day job prior to starting college that fall. I certainly followed Woodstock on the news though.ReplyDelete
Janis Joplin has never been a big favorite for me though I do own a few CD's of her music. After all she's an era classic. I just never cared for when she got into the screaming stuff which was often.
I have to go with Waylon on his must tastier recording of the song. He brings it smooth and the band is tight and crisp while keeping a laid back feel to it all. Over the years I've been Janised out on this song and hearing Waylon is a much fresher experience.
I vote Waylon.
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Join us on May 4 with your post of Reflections about this year's A to Z.
Tossing It OutReplies
If any of my followers were to say they actually attended 'Woodstock', I would have put my money on it being you. What with your love of music, being about the right age, and living in the general area (I think) at the time. Of course, it's said that so many people lie about having been at Woodstock, the attendance numbers would swell to about ten times what they were, if you believed them all. And, who would ever know for sure. I mean between the overall crowds and the mind altering experiences going on, I would bet that at least 75% of the 'real' attendees aren't even sure they were there.Delete
You're the first to admit to having Janis in your CD collection, but like you said she was an icon of the times. It's my opinion that she ruined more songs than those that she made popular by her screaming and screeching, but she had a few good moments.
Once again, the world stands still in amazement, by the fact that you and McCarthy are in musical agreement. Ha, ha, ha!
Thanks for making it here and the rounds in general. You have got to be completely worn out after another successful year of A to Zing through April. Good job, my man!
At the time of Woodstock I was living in East Tennessee which was probably almost 1000 miles away. No one in my circle of friends went to that event. Quite a number of them did go to the big music event in Atlanta in 1970 where they saw Hendrix, the Allmans, and a slew of others. I was on a hitchhiking journey at that time and missed out.Delete
Arlee Bird
A to Z Challenge Co-host
Tossing It Out
Funny, some of the things we pass up thinking; 'no big deal, I'll make the next on', eh? Then we find out it was a once in a lifetime affair. I doubt anybody thought that Woodstock would be such a 'turning point', on so many levels.Delete
I also meant to say, but hit that publish button before I was through thinking ( I'm on my phone, which miraculously is letting me comment on my own blog, because of my new policy 'no computer on Sunday).Delete
I've traveled back and forth across the country so many times, I've lost all special relationship. If you were Rast of the Missisdippi, you were in the general area, in my mind. I mean, what's a thousand miles or so. Ha!
Spacial not special, you dumb persistent auto correct!!!Delete
'ME AND BOBBY McGEE' was written by Kris Kristofferson, which means the "Bobby" in his mind when he wrote it was female. Janis made it a male "Bobby" in order to sing it from her perspective.ReplyDelete
~ D-FensDogGReplies
That's what I thought. Thanks for clearing this up for all of us!Delete
I had never heard Waylon do this one, though I've heard Janis's version about a million times. I definitely like Waylon on this one better, so he gets my vote on this one.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks John. I guess Janis did get the 'over-play' on M&BM. Kristoferson's version is probably next, but I never really thought of the Waylon version as being obscure. Course, I was always a fan of his, so maybe I just sought it out.Delete
I go with Janis all the way. I am not one for country much so I didn't care for the country style of the instruments. I love how Janis makes it her own with that raw voice and blues style toneReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Birgit, glad you made it by to cast a vote.Delete
As I'm sure you know, this song was written by Kris Kristoferson and his version has a decidedly country 'bent'. Waylon expanded that and gave it his own style (and IMO, did a much better version).
Janis on the other hand, turns it into a bluesy tale of love, loss, and regret (hey throw in a dog, pick-up truck, train and yer ma, and you got the perfect country song according to Merle). Can't argue with the fact that Janis does have a raw voice that conveys the emotions sung about here in a very real way. I do like her humming and la de da-ing, in there, but when it reaches the screechy part, well, not so much.
See you on the 7th, when we'll all know who the favorite was in this BATTLE. By my recollections so far, I think their running pretty close, but I don't actually count 'em up until the 7th.
Fae, to me there was no competition here. I'm not a Waylon Jennings fan and I felt his version lacked the emotion of Janis Joplin. I grew up hearing Joplin's recording. I was really young when she died, so every time I heard Bobby McGee I feel a little sad. Give my vote to the incredible Janis Joplin! Nice BoTB addition!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Cathy ( a double thank you for stopping back and another apology for being so late with this post).Delete
If you read through the comments you're not the only one who felt 'there was no competition here'. This song originally written and performed by a country artist, Kris Kristoferson, was just about completely taken over by Janis and turned into a gutsy, blusey, tune strongly associated with her style.
I suppose there is some 'sympathy' factor in her early death, but heck, this woman lived hard and fast and probably crammed more than a lifetime of experiences into those short 27 years. One would have to wonder what drives a person like this. Well do the research on her, no matter what you think, there is denying she had an interesting yet tortured life.
It's no secret that we're both big fans of Waylon. On top of that, I've never cared much for Janis's screeching, but as Stephen mentioned, she did a really good job with this one. More so than I expected. But that still wasn't enough to save her.ReplyDelete
Two very emphatic votes from the beer brothers for some outlaw country. Yeehah!Replies
Well anyone who is a fan of Waylon, is no only a friend of mine, but has simply got to love his rendition of 'Me and Bobby McGee'. It seems that just about everyone who voted here for Waylon, credited Janis with doing a fantastic job, even though they voted WJ.Delete
So, I got you both down and emphatically for that Manly man, Mr, Waylon Jennings. Thanks guys!
Lots of tough battles this go-round. Yours is really tough. Me and Bobby McGee is one JJ song I really like. I'd never heard Waylon sing it. As StMc would say, "Hokey Smoke!" I really like the Waylon version. And then I listened to Janis and I really liked it, too. I could do with a bit less of the screeching, though. I liked the romp her band was making, though.ReplyDelete
In the end, I think that Waylon takes it. His band also does a bang-up job and the vocals are just so much better. Chalk one more for Waylon!Replies
I'm surprised at the number of people who state that they never heard Waylon sing M&BM, I thought it was one of his staples. If you read his comment, even STMc said he had never heard THIS version. Jeez, where have you guys been. Ha, ha, ha!Delete
You are not the only one to state that they really like Janis on this one, even if they are not an 'over-all' fan of hers. I'm glad it was a tough BATTLE. Not because I want to make it hard or make anyone uncomfortable, but because the tougher the BATTLE the better I've done my job.
If you remember, at the very beginning of my post, I stated that this was not the planned BATTLE for 5-1, but an outside experience had this song creeping through my brain until I just threw my hands up in the air in surrender.
Thanks for coming by and casting your vote.
I came close to going to Woodstock but... didn't make it. (I guess THAT dates me!) I've heard both these versions and I gotta tell you, I'm still going with Janis.ReplyDeleteReplies
All the shouda, woulda, coulda's in the world. Do you ever wonder if that would have been a life altering event for you? Of course, it could have been life altering for the worse, YIKES! Admitting that you came close to going to Woodstock might 'date you', but in a good way, right?Delete
You seem to be one of the few who HAD heard both of these versions. glad to hear it. got you down as a vote for Janis.
Thanks for stopping by and casting a vote.
I love that country twang! This song is suited for both the country and the blues. I grew up listening to this song by Janis, and she really wails it out. Probably the only thing I like by her.ReplyDelete
I consider the 4 Horsemen my boyfriends. Can't just pick one, ya know. Love anything that is a Waylon and Willie duo. Even though his partners are missing in this song, Waylon gets my vote. Love his husky bit of bro love.Replies
I agree with you that the song works well either way; country/blues, depending on the singer/interpretation. I also like this one by Janis and I think she did a good interpretation on 'Summertime' other than that, it's pretty much all a lot of screeching.Delete
I LOLed at the 4 Horsemen being your boyfriends. Lucky Goil! I too love the Four Horsemen, but Waylon and Willie as a duo or alone are definitely my fav's.n Love your description of Waylon's rendition as 'his husky bit of bro love', I may have to steal that one and use it sometime.
Thanks for stopping by Donna. I look forward to you joining us on the fifteenth with your own BATTLE.


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Chris Blake: Solid chapter in this continuing story, with contributions from all members. I'm not sure why Ben continues to harp on Reed's seeming overconfidence in Luke's loyalty; Reed mentions more than once that Cage's irrational, destructive behavior seems to be due to the influence of some other force, and isn't willful or deceitful. Nice bit of mystery as we wonder who might be pulling the strings; also, coming up, we should find out what happened to the cannister that blinked out once it hit the time platform – right (right! ->)? Mysteries within mysteries!
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Conan and a group of Watambi warriors march off into the jungle on the trail of the Riders of the River-Dragons who have kidnapped Bêlit. Miles away, the Riders glide down a fetid river on the backs of their crocodiles, the Queen of the Black Coast on their leader's mount, hands tied. The chieftain tells Bêlit that she will become the bride of Amra, the pale-skinned warrior who has been terrorizing tribes with his pack of man-eating lions. But she frays the ropes on the aquatic reptile's sharp scales, jumps into the water and races into the thick brush. The Riders search frantically for their former captive but she has completely disappeared — they camp for the night and argue about how they will deal with Amra's wrath. Conan and the Watambis come across the Riders' roaring fire: the Cimmerian silently circles the camp, pouring one of N'Yaga's "magic" powders along the way. When the barbarian lights the chemical, the Riders and their crocodiles are encircled by flames: many die by fire or the Watambis' accurate arrows. Only the chieftain survives and he tells Conan that his lover has escaped. Bêlit, meanwhile, is sleeping on a high pinnacle when a grotesque moth-demon attacks, spraying her with a sticky liquid. Suddenly, muscular arms grasp the huge bug's antennae and slices off its head. Bêlit thinks it's Conan, but when she turns, the woman finds herself towered over by a bare-chested brute and his snarling lion companion. The mighty man bellows "Amra! I am Amra!!" -Thomas Flynn
Chris: I'd wander into a dense, unknown jungle in an effort to rescue Bêlit – wouldn't you? Still, it's a fair question Conan poses to himself: what is it about Bêlit that sets her apart from all the other women he's known? Conan doesn't seem like a bedroom slippers kinda guy, so it'll be interesting to see where this relationship leads.
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Scott McIntyre: Captain America, by definition, and by virtue of being a man well out of his time, is corny. He has outdated attitudes, but ones that serve him well in his fight on the side of righteousness. For the last two issues, Kirby was able to keep a lot of this in check. This issue, Cap himself takes a turn into massive corn. He spouts phrases like "great day in the morning!" Amazingly, he needs Falcon to point out his shield is missing, even though it's made clear in the dialog that it's strange that it's not hanging off Cap's arm. When Cap does realize it, he freaks and becomes crestfallen. The last time he was this upset and defeated was when Bucky was killed. Luckily, Sam rouses him with a feel-good speech. Incredibly, Cap says, "you can certainly make a bleak situation look brighter!" Since when? Falcon was the original Buzz Killington and just an issue or two ago, he was bitching about how Steve's ancestors owned slaves. Falcon was always the cranky bring-down guy of the team and I never got the impression "Snap" Wilson was any better. What makes this really cheesy is that these people are fighting and killing for a literal pot of gold. Not a million dollars in untraceable unmarked bills, but an actual pot filled with gold coins. I want to see the issue where they killed the Leprechaun who was guarding this pot.
We are reminded of the Madbomb once or twice, but mostly this feels like a lot of padding with no
forward motion. A huge fight issue and Cap doesn't even get his shield back at the end. General Argyle Fist (seriously) is just some anonymous tin idol in a uniform, standing in for any one of the army guys Marvel has used in the past. But since Jack is keeping this title out of the mainstream continuity, there's no T-Bolt Ross, who would be a logical character to use. On the other hand, maybe it's more realistic to not constantly reuse the same people over and over. That does have a tendency to make the Marvel Universe much smaller.
This Cheer Chadwick girl is still kind of a weird mystery woman who keeps dropping vague references to her father as "one of the big wheels!" It took me until this issue to realize Tinkerbelle is a woman. Granted, the name should have clued me in, but Jack's art make her look like a big black dude, not some butch chick. The energy is still here, but it's all so damned strange. Amazingly bizarre fun, but Kirby was off his nut if he thought this was actually "good."
Matthew: You don't suppose Jolly Jack ever saw Rollerball, do you? Nah… I've never shaken a childhood suspicion of some significance to the fact that the letters of Kirby's last name are contained within his title, "Kill-Derby." At any rate, the Kirberry team winds it up as Cap goes the Kansas City Bomber route, but he's no Raquel Welch (and, as I recall, even she was unable to salvage that lame picture, whose director, coincidentally, later became a novelist I publicized at Viking). While I find Berry's lettering decidedly uneven, I have no quarrel with his inking, and the story, as one might expect, is nothing if not fast-paced, with the concept of Cap having to battle to reclaim his shield a compelling one, unusual if probably not unique to this ish.
"Bullseye Rules Supreme!"
Story by Marv Wolfman
Art by Bob Brown and Klaus Janson
Colors by Michele Wolfman
Letters by Joe Rosen and Gaspar Saladino
Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins
Chris: Marv clears up a few things early on; it seemed at the end of the previous issue that Bullseye had somehow drawn a crowd to Madison Square Garden, but now we learn that BE has commandeered a circus. The big-top battling is well-done, but the conclusion comes too soon; we had been sold a fight-to-the-death, but instead BE grows bored of his prey. It's a bit much to expect that a sudden steam-cloud would be sufficient to cause a crowd to panic; since BE doesn't know DD is blind, couldn't he have simply turned out the lights? Also, the earlier suggestion that there are machine-gun toting henchmen in the audience is completely forgotten; if it was simply a ruse by BE, then tell us so, Marv – otherwise, you're fabricating drama by having us believe, as DD does, that the audience is under threat, with DD unable to protect them as long as he has to watch out for BE.
The Defenders 34
"I Think We're All Bozos in This Book!"
Story by Steve Gerber
Art by Sal Buscema and Jim Mooney
Colors by Irene Vartanoff
Letters by Irving Watanabe
Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins
Nebulon the Celestial Man explains to Nighthawk his purpose for bringing him, and the other random sampling of humanity, to his headquarters. After their previous encounter, he had been thrust into the dimension of the beings known as Ludberdites. Their philosophy was to help races whose science was inferior to their own and, under their tutelage, he adopted the same philosophy. He has picked a random sampling of humanity to find in their minds what peace really means to humans and make it come true. Meanwhile, the Defenders have freed themselves from the "goo" that imprisoned them, and return to Stephen's home to try and find the whereabouts of their friends, to no avail. Nebulon makes an impressive landing on Earth... as a meek bespectacled man walking out of a meteorite! When the Hulk is the first to come and investigate, or attack, the man becomes Nebulon. He puts the Hulk in a force bubble and sends him skyward, resuming the human form and handing out sheets of a meeting place where he will teach humans tricks of mind control. When Hulk breaks free and falls to Earth, the crowds have departed, but he finds one of the sheets and takes it to his fellows. Nighthawk and the captive humans collapse, apparently drained by the Ludberdites' machines. Stephen, Val and the Hulk dress up as humans and arrive at the performance of the human/Nebulon. His method of saving humanity is odd; blasting everyone as bozos and demanding they wear clown masks to appear as such. He calls Dr. Strange on stage, and when Stephen takes off his mask, Nebulon recognizes him, assumes his true form and attacks. They see Nighthawk and the others when the curtain is drawn, but soon both the Celestial Man and Chondu the mystic, in the body of the deer, vanish. -Jim Barwise
Jim Barwise: Quite unlike the straightforward adventure in Stephen's own mag, Steve Gerber here gives us an entertaining but rather baffling turn of events. The goofy human form Nebulon takes when he appears and his subsequent "bozo" tactics are bizarre to say the least. The discrepancy between Nebulon's noble claims and his somewhat harsher actions makes his true intentions unclear. Our heroes attending in human garb is a nice touch; humor abounds. The Hulk threatening to smash the workers in Stephen's house or shattering George Teekle's home earlier, for example. Really not sure what to expect from here...
Matthew: Already anticipating the naysayers—of whom I'm sure there were plenty in '76 as well—I'll readily admit this may not be for everyone, but for me it means we've begun the absolute pinnacle of Gerber's run, unparalleled in its progressive weirdness, and I've loved every panel for 39 years. With Kyle's brain still in a bowl, we're down to three complete members, yet even though two have their own mags, I think Steve has nailed all their characters as thoroughly as anyone ever has. The Bozo/Celestial Mind Control stuff (presumably a spoof of est and other examples of the Human Potential Movement that were over my 12-year-old head) will be central to the Headmen/Nebulon saga that culminates in Defenders Annual #1, Gerber's penultimate ish.
Mark: Credit (blame?) my esteemed colleague Professor Matthew for sucking me in. An advance peek at his lesson plan reveals Matthew calling this issue "unparalleled in its progressive weirdness." When one's talking about Steve Gerber, the weirdness bar is already set at Guinness record book levels, so how could I resist?
Doctor Strange 13
"Planet Earth is No More!"
Story by Steve Englehart
Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer
Colors by Tom Palmer
Letters by John Costanza
Cover by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer
The planet Earth is utterly destroyed, Dr. Strange spared only by the grace of the Ancient One. Mordo dead, Eternity vanished, Stephen momentarily despairs, then steels himself to search for anything that might help. He recalls seeing his foe Nightmare in Mordo's dream, something that makes no sense. He uses the Eye Of Agamotto to transport himself to Nightmare's realm of dreams. The demon finds him and unleashes some fearsome spells, but also underestimates Strange, whose skill has increased since last they met; the mage triumphs. Nightmare's comment of surprise at Stephen retaining his power convinces Stephen there is more than coincidence to the play of events. He sees a formerly hidden sphere, which he enters despite his foe's pleas. It seems that Nightmare has captured the mighty Eternity, who lies dormant. Strange frees him from the demon's spell and, as Eternity awakens, he explains. He created life in the Universe, including on Earth. As that life became more advanced and explored its mental capabilities, it allowed other dimensions--such as Nightmare's--access even to Eternity's dreams. From within, the creature of darkness attacked and controlled Eternity, achieving Earth's destruction. Stephen's shock at Eternity's unwillingness to undo the events of his dream brings wrath not gratitude. The Ancient One, one with the Universe, appears, sparing Stephen who witnesses a conflict beyond comprehension. The Ancient One triumphs, and Eternity recreates life on Earth, if only because its time for destruction was not yet here. The inevitability of death, the hope for life; two lessons learned, Stephen is returned to his study on this "new" and identical Earth, with much to ponder. -Jim Barwise
Jim: Despite the brilliant twists Steve Englehart manages to pull off, getting us out of each seemingly unsolvable scenario, I'm struck by the wonderful simplicity of his stories. Here, it flows smoothly, keeping us on the edge without confounding the plot with an irrelevant host of characters or details that don't relate. Stephen vows not to get lost in his grief and so finds an answer that he otherwise couldn't. Seeing the titanic battle between Eternity and the Ancient One is a glimpse into something even Stephen can hardly comprehend, as his lengthy contemplation in his study attests to. Much still to learn, more surprises for us.
Mark: Thanks to Dean Peter, for the extra effort expended to get a copy of DS #13 into my hands. Would that his effort had been worth it.
Chris: So, if ever Eternity and the Ancient One are on the same fight card, the smart money would be on the Ancient One; Eternity has no martial arts training – strictly a street brawler. I liked Steve E's explanation that Nightmare's increased power is due to there being so many people, all feeding their dreams to him every night. Eternity's reversal is a bit of a cop out, as he says he will not undo the earth-destroying disaster, but then proceeds to explain that, instead, he's willing to grow a whole new earth from scratch; well, thanks Big E, but how is a re-do different from an undo? Semantics.
Mark: Gene and Tom are innocent bystanders to this train wreck. Colan isn't a co-plotter like Brunner; they just drew the pretty pictures. The turgid tale is all on Englehart, from the dubious notion that Eternity has a corporeal form and so must "rise slowly to his phantom feet," to giving the Big E a split-second split-personality, to wit, Eternity tells Strange, "I am above such petty emotions as gratitude," then indulges in petty annoyance by turning the Doctor into a green gnome (great graphic, Gene; loved the red fright wig!) the very next instant. Add the silliness of a giant Ancient One, duking it out with Eternity, and Englehart's gotta-wrap-this-up last minute assertion that while Mordo destroyed the real earth, it happened during "an artificial time," and so Big E can abracadabra-up a new Earth after just telling us that he couldn't because "the stress on the fabric of reality would be too great!"
Ghost Rider 17
"Prelude to a Private Armageddon!"
Story by Tony Isabella
Art by Frank Robbins and Vince Colletta
Colors by Janice Cohen
Letters by Ray Holloway
Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins
Chris: Decent team-up by this likely duo. Very satisfying, and more than a little surprising, that Tony thought enough to spare us a MARMIS; instead, these two are in concert from the beginning, with the double-fire fight with the helldemons a clear highlight. The early visuals of Katy's possession are lifted straight from The Exorcist, until we get the thankfully inspired "redecoration" scene (p 22), as George + Vinnie bring some of their own take to the possession story. The arrival of the Challenger from somewhere beyond left field feels like a mistake; I would've preferred to see Daimon and Johnny continue to work together to see this story to its conclusion, rather than have it settled next issue by a (yee-aawn) road race.
"The Shangri'La Syndrome!"
Story by Len Wein
Art by Sal Buscema and Joe Staton
Colors by Glynis Wein
Letters by John Costanza
Cover by Gil Kane and John Romita
The Collector has his group of pirates load up the Hulk onto his magnificent ship. Along with the Man-Thing and the Glob, the Hulk is put into a swamp exhibit alongside all of the other beings who are being held captive by the Collector. The pirates are rewarded for their hard work by being shrunken and stuffed inside a bottle with their ship. When the Hulkster turns back into Bruce Banner, he is able to slip out of the leg bracelet that keeps him in his exhibit cage. Bruce is then begged by all the exhibit beings to set them free. Before he can help them, the Collector finds Bruce and offers to cure him, if he will spend time with him to discuss things, since the Collector is a lonely elder. At first, Banner agrees, but then changes his mind when he realizes how heartless the Collector is, looking at his living captives as nothing more then museum pieces. When Bruce tries to attack him, the Collector's giant bodyguard punches him into some machinery. This causes the weak scientist to turn into his monstrous alter-ego. While all this is transpiring, the Man-Thing and the Glob escape. After knocking out the Collector's bodyguard, the Hulk wrecks the ship's control panel and all the captive beings escape their confinements. It's an all-out melee as Civil War soldiers, Greek monsters, cavemen, aliens, and all other sorts of creatures try to escape. Roman gladiators try to help out the Collector, but they are easily disposed of. Under the Hulk's command, the former slaves all escape from the ship into the Florida everglades. All except for the Glob, who tracks down the Collector and apparently kills him. Once all of the exhibit beings are off the ship, they age rapidly and turn to dust without the Collector's powers to preserve them. The story ends with the Man-Thing lumbering away as the saddened Hulk looks upon the empty swamp. -Tom McMillion
Matthew: Reading an issue like this, which goes down like a cold drink on a hot day with very few hiccups (e.g., the trouble taken to set up the obvious but unidentified Scheherazade with no payoff; Banner's abrupt volte-face), it's hard to remember how uneven the early part of Len's run on this book was. Both he and the reliable Bustaton team do a fine job on Man-Thing—must run in the Buscema family—while the resolution of the related Glob subplot from Giant-Size Man-Thing #1 is satisfying, although one obviously shouldn't count the Collector out so soon. Last issue's "Game Warden," EIC Marv is now billed as "Museum Piece" here, "Prime Suspect" in the concurrent issue of Amazing Spider-Man and "Rebel with a Lost Cause" in Thor.
Addendum: By the time I reviewed June's Iron Man Annual #3, I'd already forgotten that Sal had previously drawn Manny here. Sigh...
Chris: I love the smell of Man-Thing in the morning. It smells like . . . smells . . . eeyugh . . . whoa – could somebody open a window, or something -?
Iron Fist 4
Story by Chris Claremont
Art by John Byrne and Frank Chiaramonte
Colors by Janice Cohen
Letters by John Costanza
Cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia
Chris: Early fans of this character had expressed concerns that every story might require Danny to pull out the iron fist in order to vanquish his opponent. Claremont's approach proves the possibility of not only judicious use of the iron fist, but also variations on this power.
Claremont's clever use of the iron fist as a healing device is inventive, and should open up other avenues for Danny's use of this power, but I don't recall seeing these variations in Iron Fist and PM/IF stories that follow; I'll have to keep an eye out for that (I'll go on the record right now, and say that I don't want to see the iron fist used as GPS, or to re-heat leftover pasta).
Matthew: Oh, you're gonna hate the notorious "linguine scene" in Iron Fist #16.
Matthew: God, this was a great time to be a Marvel reader; so much great stuff was coming out, although so much of it was short-lived, I feel like yelling to my 12-year-old self, "Enjoy it while you can!" A case in point is this book in general and this issue in particular, where except for a few spots in which I might raise my eyebrows at Chiaramonte's inks, I am virtually unable to find fault. Regarding Radion's origin—a little too conveniently revealed to Danny, but what the hell—I doubt Claremont was thinking that many moves ahead in the aforementioned Marvel Two-in-One #9, predating Chris's IF involvement by three months as it did, yet in my opinion he really pulls it off, and I'll never forget that skeletal shot of Radion from the last panel of page 30.
The Invincible Iron Man 85
"...And the Freak Shall Inherit the Earth!"
Story by Len Wein and Roger Slifer
Art by Herb Trimpe and Marie Severin
Colors by Marie Severin
Letters by Gaspar Saladino and Irving Watanabe
Cover by Rich Buckler and Klaus Janson
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The Amazing Spider-Man 155
Story by Len Wein
Art by Sal Buscema, Mike Esposito, and Dave Hunt
Colors by Glynis Wein
Letters by Gaspar Saladino and Irving Watanabe
Cover by John Romita
Peter and JJJ head to D.A. Tower's press conference at Police HQ, to visit Dr. Armstrong Smith, who was working with the late Bradley Bolton on a specialized computer designed to catalog all Worldwide Habitual Offenders, a computer that could help deter crime in NYC. They find the door to the lab is locked, and when it's broken down, Dr. Smith is found dead! He was killed by a small caliber weapon, but no bullet was found and the police are baffled. Spider-Man owes Dr. Bolton a debt, and he starts investigating on his own by getting a list of three suspects from the super-computer. Getting addresses from informer "Weasel" Jack, Spidey heads for the Lower East Side in search of Jason Sledge. After a hilarious tussle with some thugs at a local bar, Sledge turns out to be a former hired gun, now sweeping up at the tavern. The second lead is safecracker Leroy Tallon, known for being caught in his own nitro-blast, holed up in an abandoned warehouse. Spidey tracks him and battles his goons, before almost getting defeated by Tallon and his steel hands. But Tallon was on a jewel heist all along, so it's down to the third suspect, Conrad Fox, who Spidey is able to find through dogged determination…in a cemetery, having been hit by a bus three days ago! Turns out our hero was lied to…by the super-computer! Now fully operational, the sinister circuitry killed Dr. Smith to preserve its own newly sentient life and become ruler of the underworld (I kid you not!). Spidey is able to evade the laser attack, but is locked in the lab, and webbing is no use. So he clogs up the cooling vents, forces the computer to work extra hard, and it overheats! It seems the solution to this whodunit was W.H.O. (computer code: Worldwide Habitual Offenders) done it! --Joe Tura
Joe: Man, oh man, it's hard to top John Romita as a Spider-Man cover artist. Even after all the years of working on Spidey, the Jazzy One can still craft a classic first look on the spinner rack. Maybe Todd McFarlane comes close, but we're way far away from that run. For the guts of the mag, we get guest artist Sal B. again, teamed with Mike Esposito and the results are excellent. Too bad they're drawing such a goofy story. Yeah, it's clever and all that, but to a fault. "W.H.O. dunit"? Yeesh, a bit of a stretch there Len, but I guess that's where the ideas come from, maybe just a single word. A complete one-shot, too, with no supporting cast other than JJJ and no personal life drama for the star of the show. So maybe that's a plus for Mr. Parker!
Favorite sound effect for this offbeat outing: There are a couple of good ones, but I'll go with page 11's "KROOM!", where Spidey tosses a tavern thug "like a whiffle-ball" into a table. Fun stuff, that!
Matthew: Mighty Mike has his off days, just like anybody else, but this isn't one of them, and Sal ("still guest artist") is lucky to have his frequent MTU colleague rendering his pencils razor-sharp, especially on Tallon. In such stories, I'm less concerned with how hard it is to figure out who—or, in this case, W.H.O.—dunit than with how much fun we have along the way, amply provided here by Spidey's barroom brawl and his tussle with the conveniently named Leroy Tallon, although in his dealings with Weasel, he's kind of, well, a douche. I wonder if Len had this in mind all along when he introduced Armstrong Smith and Blake Tower way back in Daredevil #124; he certainly has fun with his puns, e.g., "IBM-becile," "Loonivac."
Mark: Ah, the vagaries of an art form with a rigid production schedule. Two months ago, I praised ASM #153 as the best single issue story in recent memory, and now "Whodunit!" is one of the worst.
Chris: Hold on – you say there's a room-sized computer behind that door? And, it's killing people? No big deal – okay, so where will I find the fuse box? Right here -? Problem solved.
The Avengers 146
"The Assassin Never Fails!
Story by Tony Isabella
Art by Keith Pollard and John Tartaglione
Colors by Petra Goldberg
Letters by Dave Hunt
Cover by Gil Kane and Al Milgrom
This follow-up to the previous issue, where the Assassin put Captain America in the hospital and then planned to wipe out the rest of the Avengers, is a somewhat disappointing finale to what promised to be an above-average filler story.
Our story opens with the Avengers — that is, Yellowjacket, Wasp, Scarlet Witch, and the Beast along with guest-star the Falcon — in the mansion, worrying about Cap's fate. They are so distraught that they are completely unaware that the Assassin's cronies are busy putting sight targets on them from afar, waiting for the order to pull their triggers.
Meanwhile, in part two, Don Blake operates on Cap, using delicate surgical procedures to save Cap's life and reduce the lethal radiation that the Assassin shot Cap with last issue. Iron Man, Hawkeye, and the Vision guard his room on the outside, and a nurse brings some coffee to them. Here the action starts. Why is the nurse being so insistent with that coffee? We soon find out when the Avengers are drugged as a result (except the Vision, who doesn't need to drink). More henchmen of the Assassin appear, out of nowhere, all in nice masks and costumes (no wonder the Assassin needed a billion dollars to pull off this job!).
With Hawkeye and Iron Man down, the Vision nevertheless easily handles these lightweights until the Assassin returns and throws some sort of oddball doodad that disconnects Vision's body from his brain, and which also has the double effect of increasing the Vision's solar energy until it will eventually blow him, and everyone around him, up. The Assassin also discovers that Thor is secretly Donald Blake. Anyone with any lengthy experience with Marvel up until this point knows what that means (as I'll discuss in the commentary).
The Assassin threatens to kill Thor/Blake, but an arrow from Hawkeye stops that from happening. The Assassin yells "I left you for dead!" — a bad thing to do, for, as explained in his character development in the last issue, the Assassin leaves nothing to chance, except, of course, the most crucial part of his mission!
Anyway, the Assassin is defeated and revealed to be that evil nurse with her drugged coffee. She escapes and runs down the street, but without her costume, the henchmen don't recognize her, and she is killed. The person who hired the Assassin is revealed at the end, and he shoots his own son — the Assassin, it turns out, was his daughter — and then he prepares to kill himself on the last page of the issue. -Jerad Walters
Jerad Walters: The artwork here is pretty routine, as is this story. The one surprise is that the Assassin is a woman. What I mentioned earlier is that the Assassin's fate seems foretold when it's revealed he knows Thor's secret identity. I'm not saying this happens all the time, but when it does happen, it seems like the villains are killed soon after. It seems odd that villains who murder and cause destruction return issue after issue, but if they know a secret identity, the only fitting punishment is death.
Joe: After I whined a little two issues ago about how much I missed reading this run of Avengers, our Dean of Deans was nice enough to provide me with the research materials to be able to comment on this title. And proving timing is everything, I started off with this two-issue time-killer. I remember the covers very well, but the insides are average at best. Luckily, we're back on track next month, but meantime, it's too bad Pollard didn't have time to do the whole issue. I had forgotten about the Thor LMD, which is hilarious and way too practical at the same time. Almost as hilarious as Hawkeye letting us know he survived by yakking, thanks to his "glass stomach." The ending is as heartbreakingly out of left field as it was 39 years ago, and wraps up this tale with a big bullet-strewn bow.
Peter Enfantino: Best line of the month, Professor Chris. You'll be getting an invoice for the new computer monitor I had to buy after spitting coffee onto the old one. Thanks a lot, pal.
"The Doom Called Shatterstar!"
Story by Doug Moench
Art by George Perez and Vince Colletta
Colors by Glynis Wein
Letters by Irving Watanabe
Cover by Rich Buckler and Frank Giacoia
Lockjaw arrives to stop Shatterstar from killing Falzon and Black Bolt, allowing the Inhumans to regroup, but the battle goes badly until Black Bolt has Karnak effect entrance to Shatterstar's skycraft and uses its weapon to fell the Kree. An anguished Falzon identifies him as his son, Arides, chosen as a prototype super-soldier who converted light to energy; he was so thoroughly indoctrinated that he killed his mother, Murius, when the couple tried to leave Hala, but Falzon's "rehabilitation" was unsuccessful. Arides still lives, so the Inhumans depart to help him—Triton's apology for the damage forcing the bigoted humans to reconsider—but when they arrive at Attilan, they see Iridia shot down by the forces of Shatterstar's ally…Maximus the Mad. -Matthew Bradley


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enXco will develop, build and own the wind project, which will consist of 134 1.5 MW GE wind turbines, while IPL will purchase the power generated under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The project, expected to be operational by the end of 2010, will be operated and maintained by enXco Service Corp.
'This agreement between enXco and IPL builds on the experience our two companies attained through the development of the 106 MW Hoosier Wind Project in Benton County, Ind., which is currently under construction,' says Tristan Grimbert, president and CEO of enXco.
The Lakefield Wind Project, which is subject to the approval of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, as well as the Minnesota Public Utility Commission, is the result of an requests for propoals issued by IPL in December 2008.
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Thanksgiving is upon us and I, like many of you, have SO much to be thankful for this year. I have the honor of hosting the Thanksgiving meal at our home this year and I have found numerous ideas to share with you on how to make it a stress-free and beautiful day.
Country Living if full of great ideas for decorating your Thanksgiving table. The "Giving Thanks" candles above are simplistic yet classic. All you need are pillar candles, felt and glue.
This rustic approach to the harvest table is very warm and welcoming. This would be perfect for an intimate Thanksgiving meal.
Place cards are always nice. Especially when you have a large group of people coming to dinner. This is a place card that can double as a take home gift as well.


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In the last several days, I have read a news article and a blog post that raise questions about Kaiser Permanente's privacy and security policies regarding the medical records of its patients — including the records of about 450 veterans participating in a Kaiser/Veterans Affairs Department health data exchange pilot program in San Diego.
The articles suggest that Kaiser handles patient data security differently, and possibly more daringly, than other health plans.
I spoke with Dr. John Mattison, chief medical information officer for Kaiser Permanente Southern California, about the situation. He told me Kaiser uses a comprehensive system of privacy and security based on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and all applicable laws. The system includes using role-based access privileges like most other health systems, and Kaiser has been performing algorithmic surveillance of the systems to detect anomalies that could indicate unauthorized access, he said.
"We do not allow everyone to see everything," Mattison said today. "We allow access based on roles — which include receptionist, medical assistant, quality assurance officer, coding or billing officers. We have security profiles, and you can only see what is allowed for that role."
Typically, health systems have about 40 to 2,000 different user profiles and corresponding levels of access in their systems, Mattison said. Kaiser's number of roles "is in the middle of that range."
"We are using the same restrictions as the rest of the industry, and we are pretty much in the middle of the industry for integrated organizations," Mattison said. Also, Kaiser is forging ahead in deploying its surveillance software to better detect anomalies, he added.
As for suggestions that Kaiser's security is more "daring" than other health plans, Mattison disagreed with that assessment. "There are some false assumptions underlying that premise," Mattison said.
The veterans who are sharing data with Kaiser through the Nationwide Information Health Network (NHIN) should be confident that their data is secure, Mattison said. That is because all of the NHIN's stringent security and privacy protocols are being followed, he said. He noted that Kaiser and veterans health facilities have been exchanging records for many years in a paper format by mail. The paper records pass from mail room to mail room, with numerous clerks involved.
"Your records are more secure in being exchanged through the NHIN than through the U.S. mail," Mattison said.
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The VA needs to re-evaluate their data sharing agreement with Kaiser Permanente.
Two of Kaiser Permanente's top doctors were quoted by reporters making undeniably contradictory statements about how Kaiser Permanente manages user access to sensitive information that Kaiser Permanente is required to safeguard. Kaiser's renowned public relations area then quickly stepped in (assigning a VP whose title includes "Incident and Brand Management") who quickly claimed there was no contradiction and nothing to worry about.
Yeah, right.
I believe it is imperative the VA use this information gleaned during this data sharing "pilot" and demand a complete audit showing the actual security practices at Kaiser Permanente.
Wow... this is a completely different from what Eric Liederman, MD, Kaiser Permanente's director of medical informatics said at HIMSS earlier this week. Just a few days ago Dr. Liederman was quoted by journal Health Data Management about the very risky approach that Kaiser was taking. Here's a link to that article:
So, which one of these two "spokesmen" for Kaiser is telling the truth?
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This is, indeed a strange, cute little bonnet-y hat :-) As written, this hat will fit a smallish-to-medium women's head. To make it deeper from front to back, you can work more rows before the decreases. To make it larger or smaller overall, I recommend working it at a different gauge (heavier yarn/bigger needles for larger, lighter yarn/smaller needles for smaller).
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In this black comedy from director Kris McManus, a hitman is temporarily forced to put off thoughts of retirement. Posh, but socially inept, hitman Charles (Brian Levine) just wants to give up the killing and settle down on easy street with a nice woman he can share his life with. Living in Cannes, and with a tidy little sum stashed away for a rainy day, he's all set for a life of leisure, when ex-pat wide boys Simon (Lee Cheney) and Raymond (James Privett) decide to relieve him of his hard-earned cash. Needless to say, Charles doesn't take kindly to their actions, and is soon on their trail, violently despatching anyone who gets in his way.


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Have you noticed that you can now let people know what you're listening to while using Google Mail of Chat ? It's called Google Music Trends, a service that actually tracks your music taste. It's similar to the YM functionality that allows you to show others the Yahoo radio station you're tuned in. But Google Music Trends is a nifty application within Google Talk that shows my iTunes or MP3 tracks currently playing. Cool.
Is this leading to something else? Well, I've been a user of last.fm, which allows you to share your music taste with the rest of the world. Well, I did some searching and found this:apparently Google Music Trends is tracking people's music tastes, just like last.fm.
Here's a link to a more detailed explanation. But here's an excerpt:
Music Trends is a snapshot of the music that's popular right now among Google Talk listeners. Every Talk user who has opted in to Music Trends will cast their vote automatically, each time they listen to music on their computer. We'll gather this information and display the trends by genre, listing the favorite songs and artists in each category.
You can click through from the trends results to information pages about the artist or album, courtesy of Google's Music Search. Another click and you could be at one of a number of online stores from which to buy the music, either as a digital download or on physical media.
Currently it supports the following MP3 players.
- iTunes
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GNOME at LinuxWorld Expo
Ximian's booth took a turn from the staid look it had at COMDEX in November by providing faux zebra seats and (plush) monkeys hanging from a simulated jungle canopy. Within, the Ximian folks on hand were demonstrating the e-mail client/PIM Evolution (which recently began a daily release cycle) and Red Carpet, a package management and installation tool slated for its first public release on Monday. I spoke to Red Carpet developers Ian Peters, Joe Shaw, and Vladimir Vukicevic about what we should expect to see. I got a hands-on demonstration of the software, which adds some nice usability touches for end users, and if all goes well with Monday's release it will be featured here next week. It looks like it will be a good download bet, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Ximian is also gearing up for release 0.9 of Evolution, and daily builds were recently introduced. The last time I took a look it had come a long way but I wasn't quite ready to use it as my primary mail client, preferring to stick to tried-and-true Mutt. It's come even further since, and going into LinuxWorld I began to use it daily for mail, despite a few stability issues and some come-and-go features (like gnome-pilot integration).
There are a few tips you can use to begin to work Evolution into your e-mail regimen, especially if you aren't quite ready to begin the work of translating all the sweat equity you've built up in your existing client or labyrithine procmail setup.
For my own setup, which is built around procmail and imap, I added a simple recipe at the top of my first recipe file that looks like this:
This is a simple "clone" recipe that puts a copy of each mail you receive into a backup mbox file. You can use this collection point to either keep all your mail safe from potential problems (though I've never lost a message to Evolution), or provide a single mail source for Evolution, in which case you can continue to use your old client as you begin the process of translating recipes to filters at your leisure.
Combined with procmail and imap, Evolution is nicely organized out of the box, too, since messages are pre-sorted into their folders and displayed under Evolution. My current setup is using this "hybrid approach", and Evolution's solid virtual folders (which allows for all sorts of organization of messages without moving them out of their original folders) provide added sorting tweaks. My own favorite is one that shows all the messages from my most-watched folders that arrived in the last 30 minutes.
Some have also expressed confusion over how to get rid of unwanted folders in Evolution, since the developers have left a "delete folder" option out for the moment. If you want to remove a folder and don't mind losing all the mail in it forever, visit
~/evolution/local, look for the directory named after the folder you want to remove, and delete it. Keep in mind that you'll lose all the mail in that folder, though, and that Evolution currently removes all mail from the source file or directory. In other words, don't delete anything thinking you can get it back from its source later on. You can't.
Despite the stability hangups Evolution still faces, it should work well for most with simple to moderate needs, or even patient users with advanced setups. I'm happy to use it with a mail volume that approaches and sometimes exceeds 500 messages a day.
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Site will require backend control panel where user can add, update & delete products, and also add more pages to the site which will include adding more links to the menu.
Change in spec, the site will be ecommerce enabled. It will accept credit card payment, so i would like it to contain full shopping cart and checkout from start to finish. I will increase budget to €460 for complete project, please don't bid any more than this, i will not pay any more than this price, any lower is very welcome.


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This may explain why more deaths aren't prevented by breast cancer screening
Thus the LA Times titles an article based on an essay by three cancer scientists, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"The article starts: "the incidence of metastatic breast cancer — the kind that has already spread to another organ by the time it is found — has remained essentially unchanged since 1975."
"The idea, of course is to catch cancer before it can spread." As we read on, we may want to say instead, ..the idea has been to catch it before it spreads. Not working so well for us.
The article's surprise is a comparison of our BC non-success story with the success, believe it or not, of the prostate cancer screening situation. Catching prostate cancer early has improved amazingly since discovery of a blood test for an antigen specific to the prostate – PSA. Metastatic prostate cancer has been basically halved.
So far it seems there is no similar antigen for breast cancer. We have been screening, and screening, and our numbers don't change.
The essay suggests two possible reasons why our BC situation fails to succeed.
I'm going to copy their reasons direct from the LA Times:
"The first is that mammograms just aren't good enough to find metastatic breast cancers before they spread. If there were a breast cancer equivalent of PSA — a biomarker that could be found in blood — perhaps screening outcomes would be different.
A more likely explanation is that breast cancer doesn't necessarily start in one place and then spread to others. Indeed, breast cancer researcher extraordinaire Dr. Bernard Fisher argues that by the time the cancer can be detected, it has already become a systemic disease.
To me, Dr. Fisher, seems to be agreeing with the first explanation, seems to say the starting cells are too little to find, and they're on the move early.
But breast cancer may not start in just one place?!
I know our major hospitals basically seem to agree with Dana-Farber, the one I've quoted recently. D-F states "All breast cancers initially form inside the milk duct near the area where the duct meets the milk gland, or lobule..."
Yet the essayists are not alone in thinking it's how the cells start and how they act. Their "more likely explanation" has been hinted at before.
Let's go back to another article:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_154216.htmlTHURSDAY, Aug. 20, 2015 (HealthDay News) Early Stage Breast Cancer Far From a Death Sentence: Study
See HEN BACKTALK post "... AND MAMMOGRAM WARS" October 7, 2015
"… Narod (study author) explained.:
" 'In all, 956 women in the study ultimately died of breast cancer. Of those, 517 never had invasive cancer in the breast after treatment seemed to cure their DCIS. That means that the cancerous breast cells from their DCIS had escaped at some point and survived in the lungs or bone, later developing into a deadly cancer' " (Bolding mine)
"...seemed to cure their DCIS." That stopped me in my tracks the first time I read it.
But Dr. Narod's explanation is right on point with the essayists from Times/NEJM article. He,insists that
DCIS cells escaped, probably before or during the original treatment,
and "survived in the lungs or bone."
DCIS cells escaped, probably before or during the original treatment,
and "survived in the lungs or bone."
Perhaps these two reports are only a tip of the iceberg. But their bottom line for us is this: that we've been mammogrammed, perhaps repeatedly, but perhaps...
AFTER the DCIS cell train had already left the station, bound for the rest of our bodies.
More later on possible cancer cells in the blood
I wish you health.


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You may have noticed if you're following me on Instagram, that I'm working on building up some stock for the Thorndon Fair in December. My goal is to try and use yarn only from my stash. I've got quite a haul of wool now, the 45 balls I won at Spotlight, and also a HUGE box of mixed yarns gifted to me from an old work colleague. I can't really justify buying new stuff when my yarn storage box is literally bursting at the seams! (Although I confess I did have to get extra white yarn to finish joining and the border!)
|Giant stash yarns, not including yarns I bought myself!
Since my Spotlight win, I haven't been able to get this golden yellow yarn out of my head. When I was a teenager, my favourite colours were yellow and blue, and I had a feature wall in my bedroom this exact colour! Something about it is so warm and cheery! Another of my favourite colour combos is yellow and grey. Digging around in my stash, I found these yarns and the idea for an Ombre-style granny blanket came about.
The original inspiration for a blanket was actually from this book:
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I got it out from our local library, and it's
got some really lovely patterns in it. I was really struck by the design for this blanket, and thought it would be an easy project to do.
I didn't have the colours used in the book, but I liked the idea of solid squares with a plain border, along with a rainbow type colour scheme. I played around with the colours I did have, but couldn't really get it to work until I decided to stick to the yellows and grey. I went with a five by five block blanket which along with a wide border is a great size for a baby blanket or lap blanket. I joined the squares using single crochet in the back loops only. There's a quick tutorial on how I joined them below. This method works well when you want a solid background look, or you want to have your squares defined or outlined really well. It also is easy to do, uses minimal yarn and is super quick.
If you wondered how I joined my granny squares, I wrote up a quick tutorial below. It's a very simple variation on a single crochet join. If my instructions don't make sense, I'm sure you could find another tutorial somewhere. Just google "single crochet join"! I made up my own border, as I often do, with a mixture of single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet stitches. I just play around until I get something I like!
Once you've made enough granny squares for the size of blanket you want, arrange them in the pattern or order you want the finished blanket to look like. I joined mine in the order of the colours I wanted.
To join the first squares, put them WRONG sides together, and insert your hook into the inside loops of the corner edge of both squares.
You want to try and get as close to the very corner stitch as you can. Join your yarn by yarn over and pulling through. You should have one loop on your hook.
For the next step, again put your hook through the inside loops of both squares. You should have three loops on your hook. Yarn over, and pull through the first two loops only. Now you will have two loops on your hook. Yarn over and pull through both loops, leaving one loop left on the hook.
Continue like this until you get to the end of the squares. If your squares aren't quite even in size like mine were, you may need to skip a few loops on one side or the other so that once you get to the other corner, your squares match up. This is important as otherwise you won't get a neat, straight row of squares.
If you've done it like me, you should end up with a nice slight ridge joining your two squares together.
Hopefully the pictures make more sense that my directions! Now that you have 5 strips of squares, you join the strips in exactly the same way. Again, it helps to try and jimmy your squares so that that all match up neatly corner to corner. The main reason why my squares were not even was because I was using a lot of different weights of yarn. If you're using the same weight yarn for every square, it should be no problem!
It was quite tricky to photograph the blanket to show the lovely yellows, but it's really gorgeous in person!
If you love this blanket, and you're a local Wellingtonian, make sure you head down to the Thorndon Fair on December 7 and visit the stall to snap it up! I'll also have these sweet little baby boots for sale too!
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Robert Hansen's crimes in Alaska stretch back to at least 1971 — and perhaps earlier. We've talked about some of them. The homicide involving Celia "Beth" van Zanten. The disappearance of Megan Emerick in Seward. The disappearance of Mary Thill, also in Seward. All these crimes and disappearances were south of Anchorage, in what were some of his earliest stomping grounds. So it was that, in 1975, an anonymous woman came forward, telling of a crime that took her south, from the Kit Kat Club to Chugach State Park.
This case is notable for its consistency with Hansen's emerging M.O. More than that, the appearance of Chugach State Park is remarkable. Beth van Zanten was killed at McHugh Creek — just down the road. Whether this woman knew that is unknown. What is known is that, out of fear, she preferred to remain anonymous.
On October 5, 1975, Sheryl Messer of the Anchorage Rape and Assault Center reported to Investigator Sam Barnard that a female adult had reported to Messer that she had been abducted and raped by a caucasian male on September 28, 1975, in Anchorage.
Messer stated that the woman victim had sworn Messer to secrecy concerning her name, and that the victim would not talk to police herself out of fear for her life. Messer stated the woman was a caucasian female, approximately 28 years of age, who was a dancer at an unnamed Anchorage night club. [Later identified as the Kit Kat Club]
Kit Kat Club, 1977 (courtesy Lynn McConnell photographs and papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage — 1977)
The woman told Messer that she had met her assailant at the club one evening, and had given him her telephone number. The woman further told Messer that the man called her home at approximately 4:00 am, on Sunday, September 28, 1975, and arranged to meet her at the Fork & Spoon Restaurant. When the woman arrived there, she met the man, but he pulled a gun, which she described as a large semi-automatic pistol. [The man] forced the woman into his vehicle, which the woman described as a 1974 or 75 foreign station wagon, deep red in color, with a black interior, having Alaska license number AY261.
The woman told Messer that the man then drove her to Chugiak State Park and raped her, performed cunnilingus on her, and forced her to perform fellatio on him.
Ptarmigan Trail, Chugiak State Park
The woman told Messer that the man stated that if she did not do as she was told, he would kill her. The man also said he worked on the pipeline, and he was raping women in the Anchorage area and he had a friend who also worked on the pipeline who was also raping women. The man also said that he knew that the woman would not be able to be a good witness against him because she was a nude dancer and a prostitute.
Source: Affidavit for Search Warrant of Robert Hansen's Property, Sgt. Glenn Flothe, Alaska State Troopers
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text: UK-based group Cowtown, along with having a truly great band name, have a jerky, frenetic sound that is equal parts Talking Heads and Oingo Boingo with just enough pop hooks to recall a band like the Knack. Their latest, "Paranormal Romance," takes the sound that's been hinted at in earlier records to chaotically perfect new heights. Continue reading "Cowtown – Paranormal Romance [12"] (Vinyl LP)"


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The news that one of Girvan's biggest employers, if not the biggest, has backed the plans for the new swimming pool and leisure facility is terrific for the Gazette to report on this week.
William Grant and Sons' donation of £50,000 towards the construction costs is hugely generous and a huge boost for South Carrick Community Leisure, the community group behind the new facility.
Having listened to the support from the employees at their Girvan site, Grants got in touch with SCCL and were hugely impressed.
For a worldwide brand to be impressed by the plan highlights once again the amount of work and effort that SCCL have put in to ensure that this will become a reality.
The Gazette understands how it is easy to be cynical about these plans but Andrew Sinclair and the others of the SCCL board have put their heads above the parapets to deliver Girvan and South Carrick a new swimming pool and leisure facility.
With the backing of one of the area's biggest employers, it is full steam ahead on the plans which will see building work start down the harbour later this year.
Coupled with the new facilities that are currently being built at Girvan Harbour, this will be a significant boost to the regeneration of the town.
Grants have well and truly delivered a great boost for the project here and hopefully other major companies might have a think about what they could do to help with the capital and revenue costs of the building.
The business plans put in place by SCCL have ensured a number of funders have come on board over the last year and they should be commended for that.
Now the first stages of the design process are almost complete, locals should be able to see full design plans in the next few months.
It is a classic 'I won't believe it until the first brick is laid project' but it is one the whole area should be supportive of and £50,000 funding from Grants should be applauded.


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I made this quiet book for Elijah – the first baby of my dear friend Tess. Tess and I have been friends since 1996, so I wanted to give her first born something special at his baptism. Elijah is insanely cute. His default expression is a huge smile and it warms my heart to be near him.
This quiet book is quite different from my first quiet book as it a gift to a baby (rather than a toddler). I included more sensory materials in this book and avoided adding parts that could come out and be eaten.
I used Elijah's name as inspiration for the book. Each letter of his name is on each page. It was too difficult creating interesting pages starting with each letter, so instead I just used words for pages that included the letter.
Here is the plan I made for the quiet book.
Similar to the previous quiet book, I cut out all the felt pieces and then more backgrounds.
And then came the fun part – putting it all together.
This was a modified page from my original quiet book. Instead of the shapes being removable, I sewed one side of the shapes down and fastened a sensory bead of a matching colour underneath.
I didn't sew the flowers down around the edges so they can be touched and manipulated. Buttons create the flower centres.
I loved the camping page so much the first time that I put it in this book too.
I created loops of the yarn underneath the jellyfish blobs and sewed it really well so there's no chance of the yarn coming loose.
Another cutie cat. This time the fur was cut in the opposite direction. Because of this, it will feel much more furry when it is stroked.
There has always been a fascination between children and phones. I found it interesting that an iPhone is more recognisable with having little coloured squares than it is with numbers on it! The denim is an off-cut from some pants I hemmed for my father.
Much like the tent, the box can open but does not have anything inside. I am sure Elijah will find a little keep sake to store in the box.
I love this page! The rocket can move along the cord to the moon. I also discovered a sewing function on my machine where I could make little 'craters' on the moon.
I was originally going to create vegetables, but instead I made the last minute decision to make a glove. I'm very happy with the glove and am interested to see if Elijah is willing to put his hand in it…
I have been crocheting since 2006. Over the years I have made many projects and collected many yarns. I remember one day in high school driving 30 minutes out of town to spend $50 on yarn (a lot of money when you're only earning $8.20 an hour at McDonalds!). It's difficult to see in the photos, but I used decorative stitches to fasten the yarns. This was for two reasons; 1 – because the complex stitches would be really secure and 2 – because they are pretty. I sewed one of the clouds down only partially so it could reveal the gold at the end of the rainbow.
I can't decide whether this baby face is cute or scary. I gave him a huge mouth because then his teeth would be much easier to brush. Hopefully the big eyes attract Elijah and gets proactive in dental hygiene.
As this was my second attempt at a quiet book, I started trusting myself to create my own patterns. I think these animals are adorable. They also have the potential to encourage discussions about whether it is ethical to have animals in a circus (it's never to early to learn, right?!). Let's just call it future planning…
I have had these beads since I was a very young girl. I remember never wanting to use them because I thought they were so beautiful and couldn't be wasted. FINALLY they have a purpose! I fastened the strings down really well by winding the cotton into little balls and sewing them down from all directions. The only way those beads are coming off is if the string is cut.
I added some fun sensory strings to these balloons to make them more interesting.
This page will hopefully be used in conjunction with a little toy car.
On a side note, I feel as though this page has some political energy as I was listening to an interview with the ambassador of Canada, Ken Taylor, telling the story of what really happened inside the Canadian Embassy during the 1979 Iranian revolution. If Argo got your attention, I strongly recommend this interview.
For the final page I created cute little chickens to go in eggs.
After completing all the pages I need to create the cover. I wanted to highlight the focus of Elijah's name, so I sewed it to the cover. I love the way hand sewing looks on letters.
I had to add all the tricky bits to the cover before sewing the two pieces of fabric together. I carefully measured out the positions of the inner loops and fastened them in place.
I also created a little message to put on the back cover. Below are some photos of my machine programmed to sew the date onto the fabric.
Finally I could complete the cover and my masterpiece was done.
I am just as happy to pass this book on to its new home. I look forward to exploring this book with Elijah and seeing his happiness grow.


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The One With the CDs
here and order, or you can go here to listen to the songs and get all excited for your CDs to arrive. They are Christ-centered, but non-denominational, so they make a great stocking stuffer or gift for anyone on your list. In fact, last night for an activity, we took them by to firehouses and the homes of people who are ill or have suffered a loss, and we were going to just skip the home of our Jewish friends who recently lost a young son... but when they saw the CDs, they were so excited to have one. So hey... you just never know. I would love to send you some. So quick! Order!
Posted by Victoria at 6:58 PM
Labels: cd ordering, Jewish friends, merry Christmas
2 comments:
- Loralee and the gang... said...
I always try to buy a new Christmas CD every year. I am very interested in hearing it, but I couldn't get the link to work. Nonetheless, if I can, this will be the one!
- December 15, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Victoria said...
Hey Loralee... the links are working for me, but if you still can't get them to work, go to the link just to the left where it says "My Christmas Blog" and there is a link there for ordering. Thanks!
- December 15, 2010 at 11:38 PM
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