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Liz John Black is the wife of a popular Nigerian Celebrity photographer Yomi Black. Liz is not just Yomi's wife but the C.E.O. at BRIDELY and M.D. at Black Studios. She looks damn HAWT in this little black dress….can you go wrong with a little black dress? 🙂
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Bilal Ibrahim studies a flourishing tradition of theology (kalām), philosophy, science, and Sufism produced from 12th century and after across the Islamicate world. His current projects explore the critical transformations and interactions that develop between the "rational sciences" (al-ʿulūm al-ʿaqliyya) and "religious or scriptural sciences" (al-ʿulūm al-naqliyya), beginning with the pivotal role of the well-known theologian, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. His current book manuscript is entitled, Renovating Islamic Theology: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Expansion of the Rational and Religious Sciences .[ BACK TO FACULTY PROFILES ]


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I'm consumed with workflow this week. So much so that the it's inspired a transformation of the whole iLawPractice enterprise. More on that soon.
In the meantime, some links I like. About workflow and progress:
This post on A List Apart about prototyping workflows goes directly to issues we all have when trying to iterate and improve on our workflows.
One of my newest obsessions: Kanban. I'm a visual thinker and this simply rings lots of bells for me. I can see its application in so many areas apropos to the practice of law.
Turns out that progress is about ebb and flow. Not an orderly ascension. <Imagine this makes a few folks kind of uncomfortable.>
Effective workflow is a very personal thing. This guy spent a year trying different methods of productivity to tweak his workflow. Here are the 10 top things he learned.
Apparently the average working person spends 28% of the day dealing with email. Egads! Perhaps a more disciplined approach to email can help?
How, where, when you work — all part of the many choices we make. I like Seth's advice.
How to get stuff done, and avoid burn out, in three steps.
And what to do if you're already experiencing burn out. Sadly, I know many folks who should read this. Maybe they're reading this post, too.


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Personal trainers and sports coaches can earn a valuable university credential and get needed continuing education credits at the same time.
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Cairo Citadel
The Saladin Citadel of Cairo (Arabic: قلعة صلاح الدين Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn) is a medieval Islamic fortification in Cairo, Egypt. The location, on Mokattam hill near the center of Cairo, was once famous for its fresh breeze and grand views of the city. It is now a preserved historic site, with mosques and museums. In 1976, it was proclaimed by UNESCO as a part of the World Heritage Site Historic Cairo (Islamic Cairo) which was "the new centre of the Islamic world, reaching its golden age in the 14th century."[2]
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|Islamic Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Cairo Citadel and Mosque of Muhammad Ali, seen from Salah El-Deen Street
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Ottoman citadel
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The Citadel was fortified by the Kurdish Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din (Saladin) between 1176 and 1183 CE, to protect it from the Crusaders.[1] Only a few years after defeating the Fatimid Caliphate, Saladin set out to build a wall that would surround both Cairo and Fustat. Saladin is recorded as saying, "With a wall I will make the two [cities of Cairo and Fustat] into a unique whole, so that one army may defend them both; and I believe it is good to encircle them with a single wall from the bank of the Nile to the bank of the Nile." The Citadel would be the centerpiece of the wall. Built on a promontory beneath the Muqattam Hills, a setting that made it difficult to attack, the efficacy of the Citadel's location is further demonstrated by the fact that it remained the heart of Egyptian government until the 19th century.[3] The citadel stopped being the seat of government when Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, moved to his newly built Abdin Palace in the Ismailiya neighborhood in the 1860s. While the Citadel was completed in 1183–1184, the wall Saladin had envisioned was still under construction in 1238, long after his death.
To supply water to the Citadel, Saladin built the 85-metre (280 ft) deep[4] Well of Joseph (so-called because Saladin's birth name, Yūsif, is the Arabic equivalent of Joseph), which can still be seen today. This well is also known as the Well of the Spiral because its entrance consisted of 300 stairs that wound around the inside of the well. Once water was raised from the well to the surface, it traveled to the Citadel on a series of aqueducts. During the reign of al-Nasir Muhammad, the Well of Joseph failed to produce enough water for the numerous animals and humans then living in the Citadel. To increase the volume of water, Nasir built a well system that consisted of a number of water wheels on the Nile, the water from which was then transported to the wall and subsequently to the Citadel, via the aqueducts Saladin had constructed.
The improvements to the Citadel's water supply were not Nasir's only additions to the Citadel, which was subject to a number of different additions during the Mamluk period. Nasir's most notable contribution was the Mosque of Nasir. In 1318 Nasir rebuilt the Ayyubid structure, turning it into a mosque in his name. The structure underwent further additions in 1335. Other contributions to the Citadel during Nasir's reign include the structure's southern enclosure (the northern enclosure was completed by Saladin) and the residential area, which included space for the harem and the courtyard. Prior to Nasir's work on the Citadel, the Baybars constructed the Hall of Justice and the "House of Gold."[3]
The Citadel is sometimes referred to as Mohamed Ali Citadel (Arabic: قلعة محمد علي Qalaʿat Muḥammad ʿAlī), because it contains the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, which was built by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1828 and 1848, perched on the summit of the citadel.[5]
This Ottoman mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's second son who died in 1816. However, it also represents Muhammad Ali's efforts to erase symbols of the Mamluk dynasty that he replaced. When Ottoman ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha took control from the Mamluks in 1805 he altered many of the additions to the Citadel that reflected Cairo's previous leaders. One obvious change that Muhammad Ali enacted pertained to the uses of the Citadel's northern and southern enclosures. During the Mamluk period the southern enclosure was the residential area, but Muhammad Ali claimed the northern enclosure as the royal residence when he took power. He then opened the southern enclosure to the public and effectively established his position as the new leader.[citation needed]
The mosque is the other feature of the Citadel that reflects the reign of Muhammad Ali. This feature, with its large dome and overtly Ottoman influenced architecture, looms over the Citadel to this day. Recently destroyed Mamluk palaces within the Citadel provided space for the formidable mosque, which was the largest structure to be established in the early 19th century. Placing the mosque where the Mamluks had once reigned was an obvious effort to erase the memory of the older rulers and establish the importance of the new leader. The mosque also replaced the mosque of al-Nasir as the official state mosque.[5]
There are three main mosques at the Citadel:
The mosque was built between 1830 and 1848, although not completed until the reign of Said Pasha in 1857. The architect was Yusuf Bushnak from Istanbul and its model was the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in that city.[6][7] Muhammad Ali Pasha was buried in a tomb carved from Carrara marble, in the courtyard of the mosque. His body was transferred here from Hawsh al-Basha in 1857.
Built in 1318, during the early Bahri Mamluk period[8], as the royal mosque of the Citadel where the sultans of Cairo performed their Friday prayers, today this hypostyle mosque is still similar to how it looked in the 1300 though many repairs have been made. It is open to the public though infrequently visited by tourists. The parts of the building relying on plastered walls have been reinforced. There have also been attempts to restore the light-blue color of the ceiling.[citation needed]
Built in 1528, it was first of the Citadel's Ottoman-style mosques. It was built on the ruins of an old mosque of Abu Mansur Qusta.
The Citadel also contains museums:
- Al-Gawhara Palace Museum
Also known as Bijou Palace, is a palace and museum commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1814. The palace was designed and constructed by artisans contracted from a variety of countries, including Greeks, Turks, Bulgarians and Albanians.[9] Muhammad Ali's official divan or audience hall, where the pasha received guests, contains a 1000kg chandelier sent to him by Louis-Philippe I of France. The palace also contains the throne of Muhammad Ali Pasha that was a gift from the King of Italy.[9]
Inaugurated in 1983, it houses a collection of unique Royal Carriages attributed to different historical periods, from the reign of Khedive Ismail until the reign of King Farouk, in addition to other collection of unique antiques related to the carriages.
The official museum of the Egyptian Army. The museum was established in 1937 at the old building of the Egyptian Ministry of War in downtown Cairo. It was later moved to a temporary location in the Garden City district of Cairo. In November 1949 the museum was moved to the Haram Palace at the Cairo citadel. It has been renovated several times since, in 1982 and 1993.[10]
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, c. 1872
- ^ a b Ades, Harry (2007). A Traveller's History of Egypt. Arris Publishing Ltd. p. 226. ISBN 1-905214-01-4.
- ^ UNESCO, Decision Text, World Heritage Centre, retrieved 21 July 2017
- ^ a b Raymond, Andre (2001). Cairo. trans. by Willard Wood. Harvard University Press. pp. 85–132.
- ^ Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1873). "Cairo". American Cyclopaedia. D. Appleton And Company.
- ^ a b "The Mosque of Muhammad Ali (history)". Archived from the original on 2006-02-07.
- ^ Blue Guide Egypt - Second Edition, 1988
- ^ Glasssteelandstone.com - Mosque of Muhammad Ali
- ^ Ades, Harry (2007). A Traveller's History of Egypt. Arris Publishing Ltd. p. 237. ISBN 1-905214-01-4.
- ^ a b Johnston, Shirley. Egyptian Palaces and Villas. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-5538-5. Photographs by Sherif Sonbol
- ^ "Egypt Military Museum in the Citadel". Ask-aladdin. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
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pediatrician or plastic surgeon?
had a talk with dr john cassey after the pediatric grand rounds today. small world ~ he was my nugget supervisor last year and a year later, i meet him again in the hospital circles. he looked different today although it's prolly just my failing memory. i did after all meet the man just once. im surprised he even remembers me, even with my reminding him about the nugget thing.
so i did that and asked him how to get into his specialty. he's a pediatric surgeon you see..
now that i have a clearer picture of what paths can be trodden, i'm at a dilemma although this really is a tad early to be presenting myself with such a quandry.
there are basically two paths i can choose:
1) pediatrics ~ be a pediatrician. finito. mebbe express an area of interest in reconstructive surgery...
2) plastic surgery ~ train up, specialize in pediatric reconstructive surgery.
Path 1 is the long and winding path.
Path 2 is the straight and narrow.
Path 1 lets me do what i generally love, but not really love.
Path 2 lets me do what i really love and allows for the capacity to wander over to pediatrics throughout the course of my training.
Path 2 seems to be the better deal ~ short, gives me the freedom to wander all over pediatrics
Path 1 seems to be tugging at my heart. i can't bear the thought of not being a pediatrician even though i know path 2 will get me somewhere close in the end.
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"MORE POOP! YAY!!!" She'd even comment on its freshness, noting if it was dry or still, er, stinky. Crazy kid.
We were following a wide, truck access trail when it started tapering down. Before I knew it we were bushwhacking and since I could see the main trail just ahead, I decided we'd press on; even when I had to pick Lily up and carry her down a slippery slope and under some hanging branches, Anya snoozing peacefully on my back in the Ergo. When we broke through to main trail I looked down at Lily to see ticks crawling all over her shirt and pants. Ticks freak me out. I once threw one at Mark in my eagerness to get it away from me, 'cause I'm mature like that. There were a couple on my pants as well, but I went ahead and concentrated on getting the suckers off my girly first. A trail maintenance guy nearby saw my frantic brushing and came over to check on us, helping by brushing a couple off the sleeping baby on my back. I swear, there had to be a couple dozen on us three.
We finished the trail with me babbling tick warnings to anyone who would listen and Lily YAY-ing for poop. She walked the whole 1.4 mile trail, asking to be carried more than once and being denied by her mean mom every single time. She enjoyed some renewed energy when we met up with another three-year-old and the two raced down the trail together. She even got to pet the resident cat at the Visitors Center and color in their activity center.
Back at the car I stripped the baby down and checked her for rogue ticks and Lily got a hot bath and inspection the minute we got home. Far as I can tell, nobody got bit. But if I get a fever and severe headache in 2-14 days, remind me of this, kay?


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This column originally appeared in the Bendigo Advertiser on Friday 7 July 2017.
Visitors of all ages are creating their own exhibitions these school holidays, as they interact with moveable plinths, frames and faux-collection objects at La Trobe Art Institute.
This fun hands-on program unveils the mechanics of managing and displaying collections in response to La Trobe University's milestone exhibition Revealing Identity at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Visitors are exploring the creative process behind curating and titling their own show as they select and arrange an assortment of two and three-dimensional objects.
Through playful interaction, they discover the careful planning and consideration required in exhibition development.
After installing, our budding curators are encouraged to insert their exhibition title on the entrance wall to the gallery and celebrate their debut exhibition.
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AS well-wishers stood on the sidewalk outside the Washington Square Church, throwing rice at Tony and Tina Nunzio, an elderly passer-by inquired what was going on. Told that it was a show about a wedding, she stared in disbelief and said flatly, ''No, it couldn't be.'' Noticing that the bride and groom were smoking while posing for pictures, another observer said, ''It must be a cigarette commercial.'' Neighbors across the street must have been wondering why this same couple was marrying every Saturday and Sunday afternoon for the last three weeks. Beginning this week, they will also marry on Thursday and Friday evenings.
Later, at the wedding reception (at Carmelita's hall, one flight up from Disco Donuts), I danced with Sister Albert Maria and asked her exactly how many times this marriage had taken place. Keeping in sisterly character, she responded, ''Just this once, I hope.''
The show is ''Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding,'' and, as the tongue-in-cheek creation of the Artificial Intelligence comedy troupe, it is a live-in cartoon, a walk-around wedding in which the audience helps the actors do their work.
A cast of more than 20 is involved in the nuptials, although one cannot always tell the actors from the theatergoers - the actors are more formally attired. At the center of the bridal party are Tony (Mark Nassar) and Tina (Nancy Cassaro) and Tina's gum-chewing bridesmaids. The maid of honor is pregnant, which is the first of many complications.
The ceremony itself is conducted by Father Mark, an amiably sanctimonious young priest who acts as master of ceremonies, introducing the guests to Sister Albert Maria, who is, of course, a singing nun; the decrepit Grandma Nunzio (a triumph of make-up) and the groom's slick, womanizing father. After Father Mark unites the couple, they are whisked off to Carmelita's, on 14th Street, in a car with New Jersey plates. After a honeymoon in the Poconos, the couple will set up housekeeping in Queens. But first they have to survive the reception.Continue reading the main story
Having attended weddings of the Corleone and Prizzi families, one is prepared for this tacky version of those more excessive festivities. There is dancing to the tune of Donny Dulce and Fusion, a congenially mediocre combo specializing in theme music (from ''Rocky'' and ''Starlight Express'').
At ''Oil City Symphony,'' theatergoers are invited to do the hokeypokey. Here, for the $40 admission price, they can do the alley cat and join hands for ''Hava Nagilah.'' The music may be ecumenical, but this is, by definition, an Italian-American affair, with all stereotypes reinforced. As we watch la famiglia, at odd moments drama erupts. Elderly relatives suddenly pass out, the priest drinks too much, one of the bridesmaids begins to do a striptease and the bride and groom have an argument that can be heard all the way to the Poconos.
Depending on the acting ability of the audience, the story may vary from performance to performance. At Saturday's matinee, a number of young female theatergoers seemed to have a crush on Tony, who responded with artfully arched eyebrows. Mr. Nassar and Ms. Cassaro are convincing as Tony and Tina and they and others in the company could conceivably move on to potentially more dramatic situations, such as Tony and Tina's Divorce.
One's enjoyment of the show will be based on what might be called the participatory factor. Eagerness equals entertainment. If you want to have a good time, you will. On the other hand, the entire event lasts three and one half hours, and, as in any wedding and in many shows, there are doldrums. Audiences may leave the reception feeling theatrically undernourished. Food, however, is provided - baked ziti from the steam table. After that, one can move uptown and have supper at ''Tamara,'' completing a full day of theater-dinner. Nuptial Merriment TONY 'N' TINA'S WEDDING, by Artifical Intelligence; directed by Larry Pelligrini; conception, Nancy Casssaro; choreography, Hal Simons; costume, hair and make-up design, Juan DeArmas. Presented by Joseph Corcoran, Daniel Corcoran and Mark Campbell. At Washington Square Church, 135 West Fourth Street; reception at Carmelita's Restaurant, 150 East 14th Street.
Valentina Lynne Vitale Nunzio...Nancy Cassaro
Anthony Angelo Nunzio...Mark Nassar
WITH: Moira Wilson, Mark Campbell, Elizabeth Dennehy, James Altuner, Patricia Cregan, Eli Ganias, Susan Varon, Thomas Michael Allen, Jacob Harran, Jennifer Heftler, Elizabeth Herring, Chris Fracchiolla, Jennie Moreau, Denise Moses, Jack Fris, Phil Rosenthal, Kevin A. Leonidas, Joanna Cocca, Mickey Abbate, Tom Hogan, Vincent Floriani, Michael Winther, Kia Colton, Charlie Terrat and Towner Gallaher.Continue reading the main story


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In honor of April Fools' Day and in light of this post about this post, let's discuss the longest running April Fools' joke to date: the continued employment of CA "Ubertrout" Pinkham at Gawker Media.
Ubertrout is a true success story from GT, provided that you define "success" as running a Jezebel subblog dedicated to endlessly rehashing the same tired subjects using unsustainable amounts of superlative and hyperbolic language. If the Dow Jones escalated in proportion to Ubertrout seeing "literally the stupidest comment ever," it would easily be topping 100,000 by the close of business today.
The blog's formula for success requires that every click is generated from a place of hate, with the exception of about 10 people who inexplicably seem to enjoy the subject matter. The upshot of this formula is that it basically guarantees that Kitchenette will be the crown jewel in Ubertrout's writing crown, since no one wants to hire a one trick pony who crowd sources all their content and shows no discernible creative development. Thus, in about a year, when the 600th iteration of Behind Closed Ovens makes it debut ("You won't believe how many times this chef shit down a turkey's neck before he cooked it") the collective internet will have lost their taste for this particular brand of outrage and Ubertrout will return to filling up our water glasses.
P.S. If you disagree with this post, fuck you and fuck everything you stand for.
Edit: Defenseofamadman has some interesting info regarding a long derelict Livejournal kept by Uber:
This thread has some very thoughtful debate about how GT creates a culture of enabling and other issues (outrageously off topic):
Luck Frog relates an anecdote about Uber driving off an actual thoughtful person:
Zhandi went after Kirov on twitter in an unhinged way:
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Hello my crafting friends, thank you so much for all your kind comments yesterday, it is great to be back.
Just to remind all you Sheena fans out there she has two shows today at 4pm and 7pm on Create and Craft then one show tomorrow at 11am. I do hope you can join us and watch some fabulous demos with a great set of stamps.
A double dose for you today featuring the cottage and the tree scene.
This was the cottage stamped onto Hammer card and painted using Aquatints Landscape and Pastel sets then painted over with drawing gum, once this has dried stamp over again with the tree scene
and paint this with the same set of Aquatints, when dry rub off the drawing gum to reveal the cottage once more in front of the trees.
This was stamped with Versamark then heat embossed with White embossing powder before painting over the top with three colours from Aquatints Bright & Beautiful blending each one together as you go.
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Mahindra & Mahindra has launched Mahindra XUV500 Sportz Limited Edition variant at priced Rs. 13.85 lakhs, ex-Showroom Delhi. This variant is the advance version of the top-end variant W8 (FWD) and company made only 1,000 units of the Sportz XUV500.
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We've raised £500 to help raise funds for Simba, Sands and The Miscarriage Association in memory of our sleeping angel Seren.
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For those who were not aware, earlier this year Dan & I were expecting a little girl, who sadly became our sleeping little angel on 7th May. Our little Seren was not for this world, and we became another statistic.
Thanks to the support from Sands, Simba and The Miscarriage Association we have been able to start to make sense of what has happened to us.
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He was actually an athlete who aspired to be an athletic trainer. Before he was bitten by the acting bug, Josh Tower played varsity wrestling and football at Upper Dublin High School.
But the 1988 graduate also loved to sing, and found himself, along with the rest of the football team, happily in chorus, which boasted a certain cool long before "Glee" made high school choirs hip, he says.
"That was kind of the way I stretched myself throughout high school," says the North Dakota native, who grew up in Ambler. "I had friends in band and chorus and on the math team. It made for a well-rounded experience."
It perhaps isn't surprising that Tower, who is part of the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Clybourne Park," beginning in previews today at the Arden Theatre Company, has built his career on the stage.
He auditioned for "South Pacific" as a sophomore � another stretch that earned him the role of Sailor No. 15, he recalls � and became hooked on theater.
Still, he flirted with becoming a radio broadcaster while at Temple University before focusing exclusively on acting.
"It was just about doing something that I loved," he says. "I couldn't imagine myself locked in a nine-to-five, in that suburban drone life."
As soon as he received his graduate degree in acting from the University of North Carolina, Tower, also a U.S. Army veteran, headed to New York. He wasn't there for long, however, landing a role in the ensemble for the Chicago premiere of "Ragtime" at the Oriental Theatre, after which he joined the Broadway company.
But his big Broadway break came in 2001 when years of persistent auditioning for "The Lion King" paid off. Tower, after understudying the role of Simba, would play the prodigal lion cub on Broadway and as part of the first national tour. He was with the show for six years.
Other credits include "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Langston In Harlem," "Miss Saigon," "Dreamgirls" and "As You Like It."
Despite his ties to the Philadelphia area, his role in "Clybourne Park," which is being helmed by the Arden's associate artistic director Edward Sobel, marks his first time back in the city in 15 years.
"It's great to ...do a play and not a musical. That's been healthy and good, and a great way to come home," says Tower, who admits to having been pigeon-holed as "a black guy who does musicals" for most of his career.
Besides affording him the opportunity to work in Philadelphia, the play also took him back to his early days in theater. Playwright Bruce Norris has a long history of collaboration with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where several of his plays have premiered, and Frank Galati, who directed Tower in the Chicago premiere of "Ragtime" all those years ago, also is a member of Steppenwolf.
"There were lots of little things that kept saying, 'Josh, you have to do this,'" says Tower, who plays two characters in "Clybourne Park," which sets Acts I and II in separate eras, using the same actors in completely different roles. "These are really cool roles, and definitely working in Philadelphia�� it's just nice to be home."
Clybourne Park runs in previews today through Sunday and Tuesday, opens Wednesday and runs through March 25 at the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
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Heart of Poetry: Abubakar Othman's Wordsworth Lied by Ismail Bala
Wordsworth Lied
Wordsworth1 lied
That poetry is emotion recollected
In tranquility
When words drop from my pen
Like arrows from the quiver
Does it matter how they fall on paper
It is the pain they paint
That creates the emotion for poetry.
I wrote a poem I cannot edit
There is no anagram2 for pain
No recollection reduces pain
No tranquility reduces pain.
Poetry is a recurrent emotion
That shatters tranquility
Like the bewildering death
Of an innocent child.
From The Palm of Time (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd, 2002, p.56)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) one of the great Romantic poets; while Romanticism is a term used to describe the philosophical and literary movement dating from 1789, the French Revolution, to about 1830. It upheld the central importance of the imagination, the individual and nature as a source of moral knowledge.
- Literally, a phrase or word made simply by changing the ordering of the letters of another phrase or word, for example, "Listen" can be changed to "Silent". But here it is used to denote substitution or an alternative.
A lyrical, metapoem (or a poem about the art of poetry) that seeks to repudiate the famous, commonplace definition of poetry given by William Wordsworth. It tries to give a "new" definition, which like the one it attempts to deny relies too on emotion.
A consummate stylist and an accomplished poet, Dr Abubakar Othman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. He is currently on a leave of absence at his native Adamawa State where he is a commissioner. In addition to numerous academic articles in journals and chapters in books, Dr Othman has been publishing his poetry in different outlets for quite a long time. His poetry is collected in The Palm of Time (2002) from which "Wordsworth Lied" is excerpted. This debut collection is easily the most accomplished to come out in recent time from Northern Nigeria.
Spoken in the voice of the poet, Wordsworth Lied is an ambitious poem that also assumes too much, not only as it attempts to give a new definition of poetry and what it entails, but as it introduces the reader into a commonplace definition of poetry given by William Wordsworth. In his famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth repeatedly but polemically stated that 'good' poetry is the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" which is recollected in tranquility. Accordingly, poetry is not simply a mirror of people in action; rather its essence is the poet's own feelings. The buzzword here is "imagination". Since this definition is well known, Dr Othman deems it fit to start with a repetition of the title of his poem Wordsworth Lied and goes on to supply the said definition word for word without any indication that the two lines preceding the first are actually Wordsworth's words quoted verbatim (now in the public domain by virtue of their popularity or notoriety).
The second stanza describes the actual process of poetic composition from the point of view of the poet. This constitutes the beginning of his repudiation (or subversion) of Wordsworth's poetic manifesto, (and technically the actual beginning of Dr Othman's poem). And in this regard the word "drop" is important. It sharply contrasts with Wordsworthian calmness: the art of poetic composition is supposedly violent, with words literally dropping from pen "like arrows from the quiver". The apt simile completes the contrast; while a rhetorical question heightens the repudiation: since poetry is never a tranquil process, it does not matter how the process takes place. The concluding lines provide a sort of prologue to a definition: it is the (painful) experience poetry vividly and linguistically captures that is the emotion inherent in it, and not how the experience is recollected.
The third stanza is a revelation from the poet: the realisation that pain (whether experienced or imagined) cannot just be substituted in the name of poetry. The fact that Dr Othman cannot edit (or rather 'excise') bad memories from one of his poems, and by extension his entire poetic oeuvre means pain would always remain a painful thing to deal with in poetry and ironically central to it: there would be no anagram, no substitution or an alternative. The last two lines of the stanza are powerful affirmation of the poet's firm belief in the painful but necessary nature of poetic composition. Each of the lines start with the word "no" followed by clever use of words ("recollection", "tranquility") borrowed from Wordsworth's definition, but serving a different purpose here.
The definition that Dr Othman hinted at the beginning is given at the last stanza. As such the preceding stanzas are merely preambles to a definition. The definition, when it comes is the stark opposite to that of Wordsworth as expected: Dr Othman sees poetry as a series of repeated emotions that disturbs one's tranquility. Even though the word that is used in the previous stanza to suggest this is conspicuously missing, the word "pain" is subtly but powerfully hinted at through another concise simile, "like the bewildering death of an innocent child"—a reference to the death of the poet's daughter which is the subject matter of another beautiful poem, "I am Now Strong Enough".
In the end, Dr Othman's definition turns out to be a very personal one, just as the art of poetry is: the death of his daughter, a painful, recurrent emotion, is what poetry is all about; and it is what would generally inform his poetry just as happy memories informed and entailed the Wordsworthian definition.
Therefore, Wordsworth lying is ironically Othman's crying. Wordsworth Lied is a poem that is composed to ignite compassion and excite benevolence to the kind of experience that we daily encounter. I guess the 'subversive' definition outlined is not a difficult one to grasp as it removes the mystique of the imagination and emotion in poetry which Wordsworth's definition endowed (or is it stained?) it with.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) one of the great Romantic poets; while Romanticism is a term used to describe the philosophical and literary movement dating from 1789, the French Revolution, to about 1830. It upheld the central importance of the imagination, the individual and nature as a source of moral knowledge.
Literally, a phrase or word made simply by changing the ordering of the letters of another phrase or word, for example, "Listen" can be changed to "Silent". But here it is used to denote substitution or an alternative.
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beautifull poem,,,,
why not try to make a song ???


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The issue of whether to allow the disposal of hazardous waste by incineration is timely and controversial on a global scale. People are lined up on both sides of the issue, ready to persuade others to accept their position, some using arguments such as the one informing us that dioxins and furans, byproducts of hazardous waste incineration, "become more concentrated as they move up the food chain...causing cancer and birth defects, among other afflictions."1 Literature on the subject of hazardous waste burning contains a myriad of scientific and technical language, information on why it is safe or unsafe, what the consequences will be if burning is permitted, and the consequences if burning is not allowed. Decision makers must place a great deal of importance on scientific and technical facts when deciding whether to allow the incineration of hazardous waste. Because the decision may have implications for public health and the economic viability of a community, this issue has become highly controversial and at times emotional. Although hazardous waste burning is a global issue, this thesis will focus on incineration of hazardous waste in one particular state, Montana.
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Ryan Kreck received his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas in 2008. Prior to law school, Ryan graduated from Baylor University with a degree in Political Science. Ryan was involved in mock trials both in college and in law school and was recognized for his trail advocacy skills.
Justin Wilson
Justin Wilson served as an Assistant District Attorney in Collin County for three years before joining Rosenthal & Wadas. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a chief misdemeanor prosecutor and then a member of the felony trial team. As a former prosecutor, Justin has extensive experience evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a case, and he uses his insight into the DA's Office to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients. He is able to analyze criminal defense cases from both sides, and figure out how best to fight the state's case.
Vanita Budhrani Parker
Vanita Budhrani Parker has been practicing criminal law for over 20 years. She is a first- generation Indian attorney that handles cases in Collin and Dallas County. Since leaving the Dallas District Attorney's office in 2009, Vanita has spent her time defending clients charged with crimes ranging from misdemeanors to Capital Murder. She specializes in defending clients diagnosed with mental illnesses and works with mental health providers and doctors to ensure that her clients are getting the treatment they need.


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The molecular heterogeneity of clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) makes prediction of disease progression and therapeutic response difficult. Thus, this report investigates the functional significance, mechanisms of action, and clinical utility of miR-182-5p and metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1/NEAT2), a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), in the regulation of kidney cancer using human kidney cancer tissues as well as in vitro and in vivo model systems. Profiling of miR-182-5p and MALAT-1 in human renal cancer cells and clinical specimens was done by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR). The biological significance was determined by series of in vitro and in vivo experiments. The interaction between miR-182-5p and MALAT-1 was investigated using luciferase reporter assays. In addition, the effects of miR-182-5p overexpression and MALAT-1 downregulation on cell-cycle progression were assessed in ccRCC cells. The data indicate that miR-182-5p is downregulated in ccRCC; the mechanism being CpG hypermethylation as observed from 5-Aza CdR treatment that decreased promoter methylation and expression of key methylation regulatory genes like DNMT1, DNMT3a, and DNMT3b. Overexpression of miR-182-5p–inhibited cell proliferation, colony formation, apoptosis, and led to G2–M-phase cell-cycle arrest by directly targeting MALAT-1. Downregulation of MALAT-1 led to upregulation of p53, downregulation of CDC20, AURKA, drivers of the cell-cycle mitotic phase. Transient knockdown of MALAT-1 mimicked the effects of miR-182-5p overexpression. Finally, overexpression of miR-182-5p decreased tumor growth in mice, compared with controls; thus, demonstrating its antitumor effect in vivo.
Implications: This is the first study that offers new insight into role of miR-182-5p/MALAT-1 interaction on inhibition of ccRCC progression. Mol Cancer Res; 16(11); 1750–60. ©2018 AACR.
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Molecular Cancer Research Online (http://mcr.aacrjournals.org/).
- Received December 14, 2017.
- Revision received May 3, 2018.
- Accepted July 3, 2018.
- Published first July 23, 2018.
- ©2018 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Redmond Chiropractor Explains: Everyday Activities That Are Destroying Your Neck
Redmond Chiropractor Explains: A New Series to Keep You Pain-Free
Modern life can be hell on your posture, especially your neck. Since our chiropractic office is located right next to Microsoft's Redmond Campus we often see patients who are suffering from pain induced by sitting in front of a screen for hours at a stretch.
We know you aren't going to give up using technology, but raising your awareness can help a lot. So, here are the most common lifestyle-related activities we see that torpedo your neck, and a few tips for combating them.
Texting – Literally a pain in the neck
This one is a doozer, so it's no surprise that now there is even a term for it: Text neck. What can you do short of giving up your favorite form of communication? First, look up. Try to keep your phone in front of you as much as possible, like this guy below:
Make your smartphone habit easier on your neck by looking straight at it, rather than down.
Next, make sure you have texts set up to work on your computer. As bad as your posture is typing at your desk, it's even worse when you are hunched over your phone. So use your computer to send and read texts whenever you can. If you've got your desk set up ergonomically, this is going to be way gentler on your neck than looking down at your smartphone.
Looks familiar? Put your phone down while you're walking – so you can keep your head up.
There are also some great home exercises you can do to reduce the effects of text neck including the chin tuck. Simply push your chin down and back into your neck until you feel you can't go back any farther. This isn't the prettiest stretch, because you make a double chin doing it, but it effectively relieves pressure off of the joints in your neck and relaxes tight shoulder muscles.
The more you focus on preventing text neck, the fewer visits to the chiropractor you will need to make to fix it after the fact.
Sitting down – Is the new smoking
Whether you are in front of a computer, playing video games or watching TV, sitting is the new smoking. So find ways to get up at least every 45 minutes to an hour. If you are watching TV, pick one or more triggers to get you to stand up and stretch for a few minutes. For example, you can try placing the snacks (or beer) across the room so you at least have to get up to get them. When you do get up, try stretching one arm out against a door jam or wall to open up your short and tight shoulder and neck muscles as pictured in the photo below.
This type of open chest stretch supports overall chiropractic health
In addition, keep a foam roller in the TV room and use it while you watch. You'll be tuning up your muscles and preventing yourself from sitting for too long at the same time. Your neck, hips and glutes will all feel better, and you can still catch that football game guilt-free. (Go Hawks!)
Commuting by car – The modern neck cruncher
Sitting in your car in traffic for hours is a sure-fire way to make your back and neck angry. Here in our area, the Seattle-to-Redmond commute can easily stretch to an hour or more. As chiropractors and health care practitioners, sure we encourage you to bike to work, but we know that for many people that is simply impractical. So since most of us are stuck driving, try setting yourself up for success in the car as best you can. Sit upright, shoulder back and down, chest up, no resting over to one side on the window frame or center console.


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The Music is Alive at Princeton Boychoir
By Michael Mancuso
For NJ.com
Read the original article and view the photo gallery here
Fred Meads wasn't going to let August 15, 2017 be the day the music died for young boys who wanted to sing.
When the world-famous American Boychoir School, founded in 1937, closed its doors last year, former staff member Meads didn't miss a beat.
The lifelong musician and experienced choral director immediately thought of his other employer, the Princeton Girchoir.
Perhaps they could help.
Two months later the newly-formed Princeton Boychoir held its first rehearsal in an upstairs room in Nassau Presbyterian Church.
The choir has grown.
"We had 40 boys to start the (first) year. We're starting our second year now with almost 60 boys in the entire program," Meads said. "We've gained a lot of interest in the community for the boys to come out and sing."
The Princeton Boychoir consists of three ensembles: the apprentice choir, treble choir and the young men's ensemble.
After spending time with the choir at their very first rehearsal in 2017, we caught up with them again at the second rehearsal of their now second season, at Westrick Music Academy, in Princeton Junction.
Even in a generic rehearsal room, the young voices resonate angelically. And no less than while sharply and succinctly executing exercise phrases, like "lips, teeth, tip of the tongue," in descending notes.
Meads added: "For some of them it's all brand new. For some of them, they are already pros and they feel very confident."
Michael Mancuso may be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @michaelmancuso


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People in business
2 doctors join staff
UPMC Susquehanna welcomes gynecologic oncologists Dr. John T. Comerci and Dr. Brian C. Orr to the OB/GYN team.
Fully trained as OB/GYNs, gynecologic oncologists receive an additional three to four years of highly specialized surgical training as well as training in radiation and medical oncology to provide comprehensive treatment of female reproductive cancers. Using resources already in place, Comerci and Orr are creating a formal women's cancer program for UPMC Susquehanna through which they are providing surgical treatment, sometimes in conjunction with other specialists, as well as coordinating care when appropriate with radiation and medical oncology, a news release said.
"UPMC Susquehanna has excellent resources. We have experts in radiation and chemotherapy using state of the art equipment," says Comerci. "What we're adding, with our expertise in women's cancer, is the ability to diagnose, propose an appropriate treatment plan, perform surgeries as needed and coordinate care for women with gynecological cancers."
UPMC has a long history of community outreach programs, which are effective at providing the appropriate level of care to populations in more rural communities. During the first several months, as the program is being refined, some cases may need to be referred outside of the region, but Comerci says the goal is to treat the majority of cases in Williamsport.
"I think it's always better to receive care where you live when it's possible because that's where your support system is," says Comerci. "For women who often, if not always, put other family members needs before their own, it's not realistic to assume that they would want to spend hours on the road to get the subspecialty care they need, nor do we want them to. This program meets them where they live with the best care available."
Comerci and Orr will see patients at UPMC Susquehanna OB/GYN, Health Innovation Center, 740 High St., Suite 1004, Williamsport.
UPMC Susquehanna is an affiliate of UPMC and a northcentral Pennsylvania based health system that includes Divine Providence Hospital, Lock Haven Hospital, Muncy Valley Hospital, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital, Sunbury Community Hospital, and Williamsport Regional Medical Center.
Manufacturers' group
selects board officers
The Innovative Manufacturers' Center, a public-private partnership dedicated to increasing Central Pennsylvania manufacturers' innovation, productivity and profitable growth, has named Shannon Munro, vice president for workforce development at Pennsylvania College of Technology to its board of directors, a news release said. Munro joined the Innovative Manufacturers Center's board of directors in July and will serve a three-year term. Munro has been with the college since 2012 where she oversees workforce training and consulting offerings and operations.
At its annual meeting in September, IMC's board of directors elected officers for its 2017-18 fiscal year, the news release said. Keith Atherholt will service as chairman; Vince Matteo as vice chairman; and Terri Fry as secretary/treasurer. Atherholt is president of Lewis Lumber Products located in Picture Rocks, Matteo is president/CEO of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce and Fry is vice president of strategic planning and fabrication with Jersey Shore Steel Co. headquartered in Jersey Shore.
Founded in 1988, the Innovative Manufacturers' Center works with Central PA manufacturers to help them innovate, grow and prosper. The organization is supported through the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program and the state Department of Community and Economic Development's Manufacturing PA program.
Company recognizes
sales representative
Richard Ogurcak, of Williamsport, was recognized by his employer, Select Security, Lancaster, as grand champion in the category of best new sales representative for 2016.
Ogurcak is a member of the company's Williamsport branch. He joined the Select Security team in February 2016 and focuses on both commercial and residential sales in the Williamsport area. Ogurcak earned the recognition by exceeding his expectations by 228 percent in recurring monthly revenue and 231 percent in installation revenue.
"From the moment I interviewed Richard, I knew he was going to excel in the account executive position," Mike Drawbaugh, area sales manager for the Williamsport branch, said, according to a news release. "What surprised me was how quickly he exceeded his expectations in his first year. He also has become recognized in the Williamsport community as a security and life safety systems expert."
The announcement was made at the 2017 annual sales meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.
Select Security was founded in 2003 and has quickly grown to be one of the largest and most respected security and life safety solution providers in the markets it serves with a focus on being a Compelling Place to Work, Shop and Invest.
With multiple offices serving nearly 60,000 customers across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and North and South Carolina, Select Security offers integrated security and fire alarms, video surveillance, access control along with home security, life safety and convenient home automation systems. The company has earned the coveted 5-Diamond certification from the Central Station Alarm Association.
The company also has been named a finalist for three consecutive years for the coveted "Installer of the Year" award from Security, Sales and Integration Magazine, winning the honor in 2014. The company has been included three times on the INC 5000 list of fastest growing companies and is a recurring member of Security Distributing and Marketing's annual list of the top 100 largest security systems companies.


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We've been talking about making some signage for the communal beds to let people know what's what, what to pick and what to leave. Thanks to Susan who has been trying to get this done. Today, one of our new members got in touch today with a brilliant idea.
Sophie is a potter and also teaches hand-building and throwing. She was thinking we could make these signs out of clay, she'll then take them home, glaze and fire them for us and then we can write on the glazed surface in texta and then rub it off when you want to change the sign! Like I said - brilliant. Oh and fun.
Sophie will be coming along this Sunday to the Garden & Gather with clay, tools, a work table and we'll have a go. Everyone is welcome, kids too.
Oh and the correction I mentioned in the subject.
When I listed the different sessions we have organised over the course of each month, I made a couple of grammatical errors. It should have read:
- Midweek meetups - every Tuesday and every Friday 10am-12pm
- Sunday sessions - every Sunday (except 4th Sunday) 9am-12pm
- Communal Crew sessions - 2nd Sunday of every month -10am & 3rd Tuesday of every month - 7pm-8.30pm (Summer only)
- Friends of the Food Forest - 2nd Sunday of every month - 10am-12pm
- Garden & Gather - 4th Sunday of every month 11am-3pm


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Video Poker
There are many types of video poker available to the gamblers. These include full play games, jacks or better, Bally's All American, tens or better, bonus poker, deuces wild, double bonus, double double bonus, low pay video poker and progressive online video poker. We shall now go ahead and define these different types of video poker.
Full play video games usually return the maximum variant for a particular game but they are only discernible to keen and experienced players. Jacks or better has payoffs that start with a par of jacks. The Bally's All American is just but a variation of jacks or better. Tens or better is a modification of the 6/5 jacks or better. Bonus poker is also based on jacks or better though it has a higher payout. Double bonus offers a payout of four aces while double double bonus pays for different four of a kind. In deuces wild, the twos are wild and the theoretical return is 100.8 percent.
Low pay video poker games are those with lower payout to increase the casino's income. Progressive jackpot games are designed to encourage the gamer to play more because of their low pay though the jackpot is usually theoretical. In casinos, the most common types of video poker are the progressive jackpot and low pay poker games.


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Thank you for your interest in Quinsigamond Community College's Adult Community Learning Center (ACLC). All of our classes are free and non-credit.
We offer adult community education classes. These include: HiSET/GED preparation, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and Adult Career Pathways.
For more information on classes, please choose from the following locations:
ACLC – Downtown Worcester at Healthcare and Workforce Development Center
Morning, afternoon and evening classes
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ACLC – Worcester Housing Authority at Great Brook Valley
Morning classes only
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ACLC Online/Blended Learning
This program combines face-to-face and online learning.
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A great way to remove mildew from clothes and other fabrics without the need to expensive chemical cleaners is to use lemon juice and ordinary household salt. All you need to do to remove the mildew naturally is to pour some lemon juice over the affected garment, then rub salt onto it and put it in the sun for 2 hours before washing the garment normally.Have you tried this tip? Then why not Rate It
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Petroecuador Plans to Solicit Bids on Oil-Field Concessions
Ecuador's state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced plans Tuesday to solicit bids on operating concessions on marginal fields.
Jorge Pareja Cucalon, executive president of Petroecuador, said the fields have a total production of 200,000 barrels a day of light crude.
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This summer a delegation of 15 Members of the European Parliament* went on a tour of Silicon Valley (18-21/07/16) organised by the European Internet Forum (EIF) and EU40 under the title 'ICT Innovation & Entrepreneurship: the Road to the Valley'.
In this video MEPs share the key learning points they are bringing back to Europe.
*Lambert van Nistelrooij (NL) - head of delegation
Michal Boni (PL)
Franc Bogovic (SI)
Krzysztof Hetman (PL)
Cătălin-Sorin Ivan (RO)
Ivana Maletic (HR)
Miroslav Mikolášik (SK)
Sorin Moisa (RO)
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (NL)
Andrey Novakov (BG)
Jan Olbrycht (PL)
Ivan Štefanec (SK)
Ana-Claudia Tapardel (RO)
Tomáš Zdechovský (CZ)
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Getting Back to Bendis…
So while I was off talking about Books With Words In Them, big news hit the funnybook world: Brian Michael Bendis has announced that he's leaving Marvel Comics for DC. Now, this is not the sort of thing we talk much about here on the nerd farm, but it's big enough news that I can't help but speculate on it a little. So let's start with the one Bendis book I'm still reading, and use that as a guideline to talk about where he might be going next…
Jessica Jones 13 & 14
by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos
So here's the thing about this book: I often think that I'm reading it mostly out of my love for Alias, the series that introduced Jessica Jones, by the same creative team, back before Bendis burned out.
And he IS burned out, I think. DEEPLY burned out. SO burned out that I'm not even sure he himself realizes it. A lot of what I read from him these days (and I do sample most of his new stuff) is pretty half-assed. His dialogue gets lost in its own cleverness. He doesn't plot so much as he just makes things happen in a sequence. Those things might make sense in relation to each other, or they might not. He introduces themes and big ideas that seem to be going somewhere, then either doesn't return to them, or (worse) tosses them over in favor of something less interesting. I don't know if he's gotten careless, or if he's just so distracted by the sheer volume of stuff he's writing that he can't keep up with it all anymore. But whatever the root cause is, it makes his work extremely frustrating.
That's less true of Jessica Jones than it is of anything else I've read from him in recent memory, which is why I'm still with it 14 issues in. It's still far from prime Bendis, but in spite of the disjointed plotting and not-as-clever-as-it-used-to-be dialogue, I feel like he actually cares about this book. It's just ever-so-slightly less tossed-off, and that is enough to carry it. So when he hits the stunning reveal (and he's still great at the stunning reveal), it has punch, and that punch reminds me of how great he used to be.
That's what happens in the cliffhanger between issues 13 and 14, where we learn that the Purple Man has taken control of Jessica's daughter…
…and it is fucking devastating.
Never mind that his powers don't really work like that. He can make people do what he wants them to do. He can't remote control them, and speak through their mouths in real time. But that doesn't matter. The FREAKING Purple Man… the guy who had Jessica Jones under his control for YEARS… …making her LOVE him but REFUSING TO TOUCH her… the guy who's the cause of all her INSECURITIES and TRUST ISSUES and whatever else is wrong with this VERY MESSED UP woman… has taken over her baby daughter! And that is TERRIFYING. That is the kind of holy shit moment that made Powers so very good in its heyday. That is why I used to love Brian Bendis so damn much. And it's great to be reminded of it.
So what does that say about his future plans at DC? Potentially, it says something good. The change of scenery may re-energize him. Suddenly, he's got a whole different universe of characters to write, characters he's never gotten a shot at before. And he's got a whole different editorial culture to adapt to. He may have to change how he does things, and that in turn may break him out of the storytelling rut he's fallen into.
Now, ideally… He'd take some time off first. Six months, maybe, or (even better) a year. Really recharge his batteries. But I doubt that's going to happen. He's a working funnybook writer, with a vested interest in keeping his name in front of the audience. So I'm sure he'll finish up his Marvel deal, and launch head-first into the DC one without too much of a break. He might surprise me, but… We'll see. Of course, that leads us to the really fun question:
What's he gonna be writing?
The natural first thought is Batman.
Bendis is at his best as a writer of street-level crime stuff, and that's a take on Batman we haven't really gotten much of in recent years. Plus, he's already said, over and over again, that Batman is a character he really wants to write. So it's a no-brainer. Except that Batman is currently in the middle of a long and, from all accounts, quite successful run from Tom King, and I'd be surprised to see DC boot him off the book before he's done with it.
So maybe Batman's more of a back-burner project for Bendis. Something he can take some time to plan, and wait his turn. What does he do in the meantime? Some have suggested that he might do a great turn on Nightwing, and I have to agree. In Bendis' hands, that book could be equal parts Spider-Man and Daredevil. And if he really got into the idea, he could give Dick Grayson something no one's quite been able to give him before: a real identity separate from Batman.
Alternately, Bendis could helm one hell of a Gotham Central revival. I mean, the police procedural in a super hero universe is kind of his original stock in trade. Hell, when Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker launched the original series, they gave Bendis a heads-up that they were going to be playing in the field he plowed. And while I doubt a Bendis-scripted Gotham Central could ever quite reach the heights of Powers…
…I do think it's something he could have a lot of fun with.
But all of that's still Batman-adjacent. And they might want to keep him away from Gotham until he takes it over completely. Likewise, characters like Green Arrow or The Question might seem a good fit, but they're also a bit… Batmanny? …and thus something they want to keep him away from for the time being. Considering his love of funky 1970s characters, Black Lightning might work. But they might not want to start Bendis off with a character that (in spite of how cool he is) has always been a C-Lister. So what else seems like a good fit? Well… Considering his success on Avengers…
I suppose it might make sense to put him on Justice League. It would give him a chance to put his roots down deep, writing all the DC flagship characters and charting the course of a book that maybe should, but seldom has, been at the center of DC continuity. I really hope they don't do that, though. For one thing, it's too obvious. But more importantly, Bendis is not at his best on team books. There's too many characters to do much in the way of real development, so it turns into a series of conversations taking place around boring super-fights that go nowhere. I can only see his take on the JLA being a train wreck.
So what does he do, then? You want to start him with an A-Lister, I'd think, to justify the salary he'll no doubt be commanding. But he's not great at writing clever super-power-based stuff, so I'd say that the Flash was probably out. Green Lantern calls for a certain level of interest in playing with the hero's powers, too, so he's probably not a good fit there, either (though I would laugh my ass off if a Bendis-written Green Lantern went full Silver Age, and just started hitting people over the head with giant green fists again). He also seems like a bad fit for Wonder Woman, and all the grand mythological stuff that comes with her.
That leaves us with just one real DC A-Lister, I suppose:
I know, I know… But think about it for a minute. Every great adaptation of Superman has gotten one thing right that the comics seldom if ever do: the life of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent at that great metropolitan newspaper The Daily Planet. And what does Bendis write almost as well as police departments? Newspaper offices. He's also pretty great at writing fast-talking city slickers with an outer edge of cynicism and a steadfast inner dedication to truth and/or justice. And, in 17 years of Spider-Man stories, he's also proven himself adept at writing regular guys who just want to do the right thing.
All of those qualities, I think, would make him a good Superman writer. One of the problems people always say they have with the character is how hard he is to relate to. But Bendis, taking a very grounded approach based around the reporting life, might be able to fix that.
The super-heroic side of things might be a good fit for Bendis, as well. The Superman power set, while vastly powerful, is actually kind of simple. He's real strong and real tough, he can fly and see through walls, and he shoots lasers out of his eyes. Those are the basics, and since (let's face it) Bendis super-fights usually come down to people punching things or shooting lasers at them… That kinda works.
So… yeah. If Bendis were to set his mind to it, I'd love to see him tackle Superman. If he cares about it. And if he can shed some of the bad habits he's picked up in recent years. I'm not holding my breath for that, mind you. But I am hopeful, and my fingers remain crossed.