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Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (1994– )
Episode List
Season 1
12 Sep. 1994Amp Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
Amp develops a crush on a teacher and is at odds with the rest of the squad when they disapprove.
13 Sep. 1994An Un-Helping Hand
Sidney gets a "B" in her report card and she believes it's the end of the world. Malcom decides to plant Scorn into her wristwatch where he will control Sidney's hand. Sidney ends up causing trouble for the rest of the gang.
14 Sep. 1994His Master's Voice
Sidney and Tanker make fun of Malcom's voice with Sidney's keyboard recorder. Malcom sends a virus named Scorn into the keyboard for revenge, which causes Sidney and Tanker to switch voices. The worse part, Sidney has to perform at the school talent show that night.
Kilokahn transports himself into Malcom's body and leaves Malcom trapped inside his latest virus monster.
Sam and the gang plan a slumber party in the high school to raise money for the state aquarium. Malcolm and Kilokahn send Plexton, a scorch virus, into the school's heating system cause everyone to suffer from the heat.
1994The Cold Shoulder
Malcom and Kilokahn send a cold virus into the AC systems. The colder it gets the colder everyones' hearts become until they start fighting amongst each other.
1994A Break in the Food Chain
Malcom and Kilokahns' new virus monster shuts down the food factories. As food begins to run out all over the world, Sam and the gang begin to get desperate.
1994Ashes to Ashes Disk to Disk
Malcom wants Jennifer to pose for him. But when she doesn't, Malcom sends a virus into her new technical pom poms, which causes anyone who uses them to vanish into the digital world.
22 Sep. 1994Lights, Camera, Action
Malcolm traps Sam inside a video camera where he is isolated from the outside world.
1994Que Sera Servo
Malcom sends his newest virus monster into the gangs new horoscope toy causing everyone who uses it to change into their opposite personality. Sam: a coward, Tanker: nerdy, Sydney: a bully, Amp: smart, and Jennifer: evil.
1994Sweet and Sour Kilokahn
With Servo taking up all of his time, Sam's grades are starting to decline, and so is his relationship with Jennifer. To help out, Sydney creates a program that traps Kilokahn. With no virus monsters to fight, Sam's schedule is free. But will he miss Servo?
1994To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
Sam keeps having nightmares. Sydney finds out that it's because there's a virus monster in his alarm clock.
1994Water You Doing?
Malcolm recites a poem about dying of thirst for a talent show. When he gets rejected he sends a virus monster to change Earth's entire water supply into hydrochloric acid for revenge.
1994Just Brown and Servo
Jennifer believes that Sam is unromantic. To prove that he is, Sam plans a dinner for two, with Syndey, Tanker, and Amp as servers and Mrs. Starkey as the cook. To mess it up, Malcolm sends a virus into Mrs. Starkey's oven timer, causing her to go insane. When the gang finds out, Tanker believes that it's time to let Jennifer know what they really do with their spare time.
1994Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Amp is in danger of failing his gym test. The gang decides to help train him up for it. Kilokahn takes control of one of Malcolm's new virus monsters and uses it to cause a blackout all over the world. With no computer, how can Servo fight?
Sydney wins a date with TV star Chad Williams. This doesn't sit well with Tanker, who tries his best to stop the date from happening. Meanwhile, Malcolm and Kilokahn send a smog virus to Japan, polluting the sir.
6 Oct. 1994Cheater, Cheater, Megabyte Eater
Amp scores highest on the National Scholastic Placement Test and everyone in the school thinks that he cheated. Jealous Sydney finds out that a virus monster has been sent into the test company's computers and messed up the scores.
1994My Virus Ate My Homework
10 Oct. 1994Rock n' Roll Virucide
Malcolm sends a virus into Mrs. Starkey's headset where he controls her mind.
7 Oct. 1994Romeo and Joule-Watt
Tanker and Jennifer get the parts of Romeo and Juliet for the school play. Sam and Sydney become jealous.
11 Oct. 1994Stiff as a Motherboard
Malcolm and Kilokahn send a new virus into the school water fountain, which causes anyone who uses it to become paralyzed. When Sam uses it, the gang has to find a day to get him into the computer to fight the virus.
17 Oct. 1994Pride Goeth Before a Brawl
Kilokahn and Malcolm have a falling out. Sydney creates a new anti-virus program that Kilokahn tricks her into creating a monster to mess up the phone lines.
18 Oct. 1994Starkey in Syberspace
Mrs. Starkey accidentally plays with Sydney's laptop and gets sucked into the Drago program. Malcolm and Kilokahn set a trap for Servo by luring him into the digital world and cutting off the rest of the squad from helping.
24 Oct. 1994Hair I Stand, Head in Hand
It's picture day. Malcolm upgrades the Plexton virus and sends into Sam's hairdryer to mess up his looks.
31 Oct. 1994The Taunt Heard Round the World
Amp gets Team Samurai a spot on the "Bands on the Road" TV show. But at the last minute, Sam gets cold feet. Kilokahn sends a message of challenge to Servo through the TV and threatens to destroy all TV systems if Servo doesn't accept.
1 Nov. 1994Tanks for the Memories
It's finals week. Malcolm and Kilokahn send Nexor into Tanker's tape player where Kilokahn is able to mess with Tanker's memories.
1 Nov. 1994Love Me Don't
Malcolm sends a virus into his music box so that when Jennifer opens it she'll fall in love with the first person she sees: him. But his plan backfires when Mrs. Starkey gets a hold of it first.
3 Nov. 1994Syberteria Combat
The gang is starting to have disagreements. Malcolm plans to use this to his advantage. He sends a virus monster into the school's new security system which causes the gang to be trapped in after hours.
10 Nov. 1994Beep My, Beep My Baby
Jennifer is elected the new Campus Speaker. Principal Pratchett gives her a new pager to stay in contact with. Malcolm sends a new virus into the pager where he is able to control her mind.
4 Nov. 1994Hide and Servo
Sydney creates a new gadget that helps keep track of Sam's brain functions in the digital world. But Sam accidentally plays with it and scatters his electrons all over the digital world instead.
14 Nov. 1994Loose Lips Sink Microchips
Sam becomes station manager for the school radio. He holds auditions to see who the new radio crew will be and Malcolm tries out. When he doesn't get the job, he sends Skorn into the radio to make anyone who broadcasts spill the truth.
Lucky falls in love with a new girl at school. To impress her, he decides to do magic at the talent show, planning to make Sam disappear, but really Sam goes into the digital world where a new virus monster could mess up the act.
An inspector is coming to investigate Principal Pratchert's work at the school. Pratchert starts to become more strict with the students. To get revenge, Malcolm sends a virus into Pratchert's bullhorn which causes Pratchert to become a teenager again.
17 Nov. 1994Foreign Languages
Tanker needs help with his Spanish test but is afraid to admit it. Malcolm and Kilokahn send a language virus into the digital world, cause all languages to scramble.
1 Sep. 1994To Protect and Servo
Sam Collins and his friends start a rock band so that he can impress his crush, Jennifer. But Malcom Frink also has a crush on her, so when he finds out the Sam has gotten Jennifer's phone number, he makes a deal with an evil computer program called Kilokahn to send a computer virus into the phone lines.
2 Sep. 1994Samurize
Sam and Jennifer go out on their first date. To ruin it, Malcom frames Sam by sending a virus into the police records. But Jennifer gets arrested instead, for knowing Sam.
3 Sep. 1994Samurize, Guys!
To heal his relationship with Jennifer, Sam decides to write a song about her for the school dance. When Malcom hears this, he and Kilokahn send a virus into one the U.S. defensive satellites to cause a barrier to block one half of the earth from the other. This leaves Sam and the others no way to get to the school.
24 Nov. 1994Over the River and Through the Grid
Thanksgiving. Malcolm sends a virus monster into Mrs. Starkey's apartment, causing all of her electrical equipment to malfunction and ruining her Thanksgiving plans. The gang tries to cheer her up.
25 Nov. 1994Lucky's Unlucky Adventure
Lucky has his eye on a new surf board, but is short on cash. Sydney and Mrs. Starkey give him a chance at the lunch cash register. Malcolm sends a virus into the register so it'll look like it's short on cash and making everyone believe that Lucky stole it.
29 Nov. 1994Syber-Dunk
Sam and Tanker try to get basketball superstar, Charles "High Jump" Johnson's autograph. Malcolm and Kilokahn send a virus into the school to lock the gang inside with the superstar.
29 Nov. 1994Take a Hike
While Sam is working with Jennifer at school, the rest of the gang goes on a nature hike. Meanwhile, Malcolm and Kilokahn's newest virus monster is sucking up all electricity. With no power, how can the gang enter the digital world? And without Sam, who'll be Servo?
19 Dec. 1994Do Not Reboot 'Til Christmas
20 Dec. 1994Kilokahn Is Coming to Town
Now that Malcolm and Kilokahn know that Servo lives in their area, Malcolm asks everyone in town to put up more Christmas lights so that Kilokahn can secretly move around and find Servo's location.
14 Jul. 1995Little Ditch, Big Glitch
Sam and the gang cut class for band practice. Malcolm and Kilokahn send a virus into the school VCR system and brainwash everyone who was supposed to be watching an educational video.
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どのように and どうやって are both question words used to to ask "how" to do something. But what is the difference between them? Actually, it's rare to see どのように in a written text. Can anyone show me how to use it?
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The only difference between the two phrases is in their formality level.
If you are familiar with the verb やる, you know that it is a casual/conversational verb. やって is a form of やる.
What is the verb that is more formal than やる but has the same meaning? It is する.
Extra: This means that you can say どうして to mean "how" as well, but careful speakers tend to avoid using it because どうして can also mean "why".


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The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community centre and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.
A white man has been arrested on federal hate crimes charges for allegedly shooting video of himself sucker-punching a 79-year-old black man
'People who wish to express their alternative sub-culture identity freely should not have to tolerate hate crime'
Police can't know if the person who dumps bacon at mosques hates Muslims
The Conservative government voted late Wednesday to repeal controversial sections of the Canadian Human Rights Act banning hate speech over the telephone or Internet
After an all-party parliamentary committee heard evidence that over half the British public has a negative view of their body image — with girls as young as five worrying about how they look and plastic surgery rates on the rise — they came back with the type of solutions we've come to expect from Big […]
The clash of civilizations Wesley Wark, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, thinks it "unlikely" that Omar Khadr will "present any kind of national security threat to Canada," on account of the youthful age at which he was indoctrinated into jihad, the death of his father (i.e., the indoctrinator) and the fact that "Al-Qaeda's own lamp […]
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In 2010, a same-sex Vancouver couple came across a man allegedly urinating against the side of their condo building. One half of the same-sex couple claims to have asked the man to stop, and was called a "faggot" and other homophobic slurs for his trouble. The confrontation escalated, and ended with the same-sex couple, David […]


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Gold was removed as director of rugby on Monday even though Bath sit second in the Aviva Premiership.
The South African had already been moved upstairs after being marginalised following the summer arrival of head coach Mike Ford.
"After the last few months it became clear that the club and Gary were not able to agree on how to define the role of director of rugby," read a statement released by Bath.
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Emmy Nomination Preview 2010 - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Jon Cryer returns, but a host of 'Modern Family' men will look to take him down
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Ed O'Neill, "Modern Family"
Nomination Status: Network comedy icon is well-positioned to grab a slot, should one of the established nominees falter.
In His Favor: For months, conventional wisdom has held that Ed O'Neill was the "Modern Family" actor most likely to attract Emmy attention, entirely by virtue of his being Ed O'Neill. This supposition is based on O'Neill being the show's most familiar name and ignores that Ed O'Neill's prior total of Emmy nominations is zero and that he picked up two Golden Globe nominations for "Married with Children," but that's mostly because the Golden Globes are a joke. What's more logical is that while O'Neill's more comedically flamboyant co-stars will split a lot of the votes, O'Neill will capitalize on the frequency with which he's allowed to be the heart of "Modern Family," delivering sentimental, only slightly caustic monologues to end episodes. O'Neill deserves credit for having the world-weary edge necessary to sell those touching speeches and making the little sarcastic punchlines barely sting at all. People surprised O'Neill was capable of this level of subtly are the same people who think his only prior acting experience was "Married with Children."
Working Against Him: Exactly the opposite of the previous paragraph, saying that because O'Neill entered as a known quantity, he's been less of a revelation than Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet or his small screen son Rico Rodriguez.


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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States of America. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. As permitted by the U.S. Constitution, the District is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and is therefore not a part of any U.S. state.
The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the preexisting settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia and created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District in 1871.
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- The Founders were very clear to specify that the District of Columbia wasn't a state, and its citizens had limited rights.
- Scott Bomboy, "District of Columbia statehood supporters push for convention" (11 May 2016), Constitution Daily
- I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
- George W. Bush, Interview with the Associated Press, 18 January 2001.
- We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
- Rufus Choate, "The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels", a lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts (1833).
- We all know Washington is famous for fudging numbers and subjective math.
- Kevin Conlon and Jennifer Gray, CNN (25 January 2016).
- We need to make D.C. listen.
- Ted Cruz, transcript of ObamaCare filibuster, TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz's marathon speech against Obamacare on Sept. 24, Washington Post (September 24, 2013)
- After much menutial search for an elligible situation, prompted I may say from a fear of being prejudiced in favour of a first opinion I could discover no one so advantageously to greet the congressional building as is that on the west end of Jenkins heights which stand as a pedestal waiting for a monument, and I am confident, were all the wood cleared from the ground no situation could stand in competition with this. some might perhaps require less labour to be rendered agreeable but after all assistance of arts none ever would be made so grand and all other would appear but of secondary nature.
- Pierre L'Enfant, letter to George Washington (June 22, 1791); Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1899), vol. 2, p. 35. This letter contained a description of Capitol Hill, then called Jenkins Hill.
- An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.
- Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (1990), Random House.
- Back in about 1753 it took a letter three days to go from New York City to Washington, and today you can go from here to China in less time than that... Man's scientific genius has been amazing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Rediscovering Lost Values, Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954).
- But it is dreaded that the freed people will swarm forth and cover the whole land. Are they not already in the land? Will liberation make them any more numerous? Equally distributed among the whites of the whole country, and there would be but one colored to seven whites. Could the one in any way greatly disturb the seven? There are many communities now having more than one free colored person to seven whites and this without any apparent consciousness of evil from it. The District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Delaware are all in this condition. The District has more than one free colored to six whites, and yet in its frequent petitions to Congress I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored persons as one of its grievances. But why should emancipation South send the free people North? People of any color seldom run unless there be something to run from. Hertofore colored people to some extent have fled North from bondage, and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution.
- Abraham Lincoln, Second State of the Union Address (1 December 1862).
- If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
- Abraham Lincoln, remark to John Eaton of Toledo, Ohio (1863), reported in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (1939), vol. 2, p. 535 (1939). Sandburg notes that Eaton had spoken to Lincoln of "hoisting the statue of Liberty over the Capitol dome, new marble pillars to be installed on the Senate wing, a massive and richly embellished bronze door being made for the main central portal. People were saying it was an extravagance during wartime".
- In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said.
- Thomas Sowell, "Out of Context", Jewish World Review (2 June 2009).
- [George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.
- William Howard Taft, address at a banquet given in his honor by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C. (May 8, 1909); Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft (1910), vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82-83.
- Now, I am opposed to the franchise in the District [of Columbia]; I am opposed, and not because I yield to any one in my support and belief in the principles of self-government; but principles are applicable generally, and then, unless you make exceptions to the application of these principles, you will find that they will carry you to very illogical and absurd results. This was taken out of the application of the principle of self-government in the very Constitution that was intended to put that in force in every other part of the country, and it was done because it was intended to have the representatives of all the people in the country control this one city, and to prevent its being controlled by the parochial spirit that would necessarily govern men who did not look beyond the city to the grandeur of the nation, and this as the representative of that nation.
- William Howard Taft, address at a banquet given in his honor by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C. (May 8, 1909); Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft (1910), vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 83.
- I spent most of my childhood playing video games. Mom said, "You're wasting your time with those video games." I work in Washington, D.C.; I use my Frogger skills every time I cross the street.
- Basil White, "Peeing on Stonehenge".
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- Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.
- Anne M. Burford, characterizing the District of Columbia, remarks to a Colorado state convention of wool growers, Vail, Colorado, July 27, 1984, as reported by The Washington Post, July 29, 1984, p. 1. Burford was a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her remark is reminiscent of one reportedly made by James L. Petigru during Christmas week, 1860, in Charleston, South Carolina, when he was asked by Robert Barnwell Rhett, a leader of the secessionists, if he were with them: "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum".—Earl Schenck Miers, The Great Rebellion, p. 50 (1958).
- If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.
- Irwin S. Cobb. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
- Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young.
- Fanny Dixwell Holmes, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903.—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944).
- Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
- John F. Kennedy, remarks to the trustees and advisory committee of the national cultural center, November 14, 1961. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 719.
- So I came to Washington, where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore; not that I do not respect this as a good part of America but in its general routine the heart of America is felt less here than at any place I have ever been.
- Huey Long, remarks in the Senate, May 17, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10393.


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Amazing body, sexy, 90% of Darcy's have abs, Beautiful, hot, babe magnet, lovable, amazing kisser
Wow, look it's Darcy! She's amazing!
by NameMeanings October 25, 2012
Some one who looses in ping pong...but then lies and tells everyone they won :P
Man, that kid just pulled a Darcy! I totally beat him and he said he won
by yowasssup May 16, 2011
To give someone a rather foppish,flappy and unconvincing beating to a foe.To speak confidently about one's abilities but not actually be able to back it up with any conviction.
He spoke of giving the fellow a damn good thrashing,but in the end could only succeed in giving him a Darcy!
by The Scotty Dog February 08, 2010
A monkey.
Yesterday I went to the zoo and saw some funny Darcys hanging from a tree.
by pennylane91 August 01, 2011
to pull off a Darcy is quite funny and sometimes difficult. A Darcy is caused after smoking marijuana (Pot) and afterwards you only get one bloodshot red eye.
clayton-Lol look at his eye
harbir - omg it looks like he pulled off a darcy
harbir - omg it looks like he pulled off a darcy
by shamanspwn777 June 06, 2011
1. the bassist for the smashing pumpkins for many years (with the exception of the years when she was kicked out fostering her crack addict, and replaced by melissa auf der maur). likes to wear see-thru shirts, but was pretty good at what she did (besides the crack...)
2. a crack whore
2. a crack whore
1. D'arcy was a good bassist, but Melissa is better.
2. Damn it! why must you be such a D'arcy?
2. Damn it! why must you be such a D'arcy?
by arwen July 22, 2004
The epitome of flustration; rage at its finest.
Darcy kicked the door in again
I know, he's so flustered.
I know, he's so flustered.
by D1SN October 13, 2008


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I've managed to set WP up, I'm working on personalising a theme. My base is the Kubrick theme that came with Wp 1.5.
All is working out well (I even managed to switch the PHP code in the header to be able to have a normal and a 'wide' footer)... but...
I used a GIF with an alpha channel for my header and footer. The #page background is going under it.
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How can I keep the #page background from repeating under the header and footer?
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Working at Home Isn't The Day at the Beach Office Mates Imagine
John Higgins's workday is filled with constant interruptions. That's because the packaging-company executive usually works from a home office, where his "co-workers" include his wife, Kelly, his four-year-old son, Jack, and his five-month-old black Labrador, Plato.
One recent morning, the pup got hold of a roll of toilet paper and minced it into many, many pieces. Mr. Higgins, who is his own workplace janitorial service, had to clean up the mess.
But that wasn't the last diversion during our 40-minute phone conversation. Mr. Higgins was interrupted a total of four times if you count the time he heard his son's voice coming closer and feared the boy would barge in, as he usually does, with his latest action figure. "Uh-oh, here we go," said Mr. Higgins in a hushed tone. "Here he comes." (False alarm: The boy went into the garage.)
His wife did come in several times, though, first to chat, then to ask who was on the phone, and then again because Mr. Higgins was supposed to be watching Plato, who had subsequently shredded a bag of sheet moss. Ms. Higgins was apparently as unhappy about her husband not supervising the dog as she was the day before when he had to stop stringing Christmas lights because a client phoned.
"My wife thinks I'm retired," Mr. Higgins, 44 years old, complained.
Many people seem to think that jobs that can be done at home aren't real jobs. Never mind that home-office dwellers are their own cafeteria staff, shipping-and-receiving clerks and janitors. They never get credit for cutting an employer's costs, or saving commuting time to do more work. Instead, managers believe that if they aren't there to witness someone working, it can't be happening. They envision homebound workers getting away with something, like lounging in their bathrobes and watching "General Hospital."
It's as if they believe that the people working under their noses don't waste a tremendous amount of time talking about last night's college basketball game, making bids on eBay, or reading only like-minded blogs while on company time. The misconceptions are yet another indication that vacuous symbols of productivity, rather than productivity itself, are all that really count.
But the greater irony for home-office workers is that their homebound colleagues don't always welcome them either. Would Ms. Higgins, for example, prefer to have her husband working at home or the office?
"Definitely not here," she says, laughing.
Chris Goldschmidt's marketing-consultant job has been so devalued since working at home that he gets new responsibilities that aren't in his job description. His neighbor, for example, once figured that because he was home, he could take her to the airport. Even worse, the whole time he was driving her, "She'd be on the phone to other people," he says.
His family doesn't show much more respect. "Just now my mother called wanting to know if we were going to draw names for Christmas presents," he says, noting that she would never call him at a corporate office with that kind of question. His wife's cousin even hinted to her how strange it is that her husband works from home. "If you work out of the house," says Mr. Goldschmidt, "I won't say it's morally suspect, but it's darn near close."
Conditions at home can be more dungeon than castle, and in contrast to turf wars at the office, you can't escape the enemy at night. Contract manager Bill Hall started working from home in mid-August, setting up shop in his basement, which has two small casement windows stingy with light. His son, a high-school senior, gets frustrated that he can't blast his music or the enemies in his videogames the way he used to. And while Mr. Hall squeezes in tasks like doing the laundry, loading the dishwasher and reorganizing the refrigerator, that 110% effort isn't always appreciated.
"The kitchen has been my area for so long that I don't want him playing around up there," says his wife, Patty Feher. She cites some of the same afflictions the rest of us suffer working at an office building: encroachments on privacy and lunch theft. "There's a leftover you're planning on having for lunch, and he's already had it," she says.
And even though pets often make better colleagues than humans, no boss walks all over you more than a cat. Tom Seaton, chief creative officer at the interactive media company Bandalong Entertainment, had his laptop completely messed up recently when his cat, Jesse, hit buttons indiscriminately as she slept on it.
Because his day starts at 7 a.m. and continues until the wee hours, Mr. Seaton also often finds himself stuck in a rut at home, forgoing human contact and good hygiene. "For me to get out of my boxers by noon is a good thing," he says.
Meanwhile, his two mutts, Hannah and Max, variously stare at him, demand a little belly rubbing, or engage, just like your office colleagues, in belly-aching. "You have to type with one hand and pay attention while they're whining," he says.
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As much as a home tie against the Tunisians, to be played in March, was a good draw for Britain, it was also a reminder of how far one of the co-founders of this competition are from winning the Davis Cup again.
First the British must get back to where the Kazakhstanis are now, rather than scrabbling around in the zonal divisions. It is almost certain that Andy Murray will not play against Tunisia, in a tie that comes just before the hard-court tournaments in California and Florida, but Britain should still beat the north Africans easily.
The greatest difficulty for the Lawn Tennis Association could be figuring out a way to sell tickets for this, as it is unlikely that the box office lines are going to be jammed with people overcome with excitement about seeing Malek Jaziri, the Tunisian No 1 and the world No 420. Jaziri plays most of his tennis on the Futures tour, two levels below the main circuit.
Britain are in what is effectively division three of the Davis Cup, drawn to play third-rate opponents, and are on course to meet Ireland or Luxembourg in the next round. A match against the Irish would be fun, although potentially problematic for the LTA, since Ireland have a couple of half-decent players in Conor Niland, the world No 145, and Louk Sorensen, the world No 274, who qualified for the main draw of January's Australian Open.
Still, the LTA is not going to get ahead of itself. Britain's defeat in March by a team of Lithuanian teenagers showed that there are no certainties anymore in international men's tennis. It was only by beating Turkey on a grass court in July that Britain kept their place at this level, and avoided dropping down into Group Three, the lowest division.
"We won't take anything for granted and we won't leave anything to chance," said Leon Smith, Britain's captain. If Smith's team are to get out of this division and gain promotion into Group One, they must beat Tunisia, then Ireland or the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and win a third tie.


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The Xbox One store lists the Dead Rising re-release as coming 13 September, which probably means the same for PC.
System Shock Remastered RPG goals outlined by Nightdive
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Its too late now for you, but I am very glad that I saw the first season on HBO before cracking the books. Just for the visual experience of the first big shocker. I think that is a superior way to set your expectations for what it possible in GRRMartin's world.
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Interpol announced as headliners for NME Awards Tour
Interpol have been announced as headliners for this year's NME Awards Tour.
The New York indie band will be supported by emerging bands Temples, Royal Blood and Circa Waves.
The tour takes place in eight venues around the UK starting in Glasgow on 18 March and ending at Brixton Academy in London on 27 March.
Interpol are working on new material for their fifth album, which is due out later this year.
Psychedelic rockers Temples (above), who hail from Kettering in Northamptonshire, have had an impressive 12 months.
They supported the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park last year and have been praised by Noel Gallagher as the best new band in the UK.
Temples' debut album Sun Structures is due to be released in February.
Royal Blood were the only rock act to make it on to the BBC's Sound of 2014 longlist.
The duo come from Brighton and have been compared to Queens of The Stone Age and The White Stripes.
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Mistaken or miscast, the Alex Cross film fails to live up to its novel
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TYLER Perry has made a mountain of cash writing, directing and starring in comedies for the African-American market.
So successful is Perry, Forbes magazine last year rated him the highest-paid man in entertainment.
Now the actor more used to wearing a dress to portray the incorrigible pensioner Madea Simmons bravely steps into the shoes of Morgan Freeman to play Dr Alex Cross, the brilliant detective from the novels of James Patterson.
Freeman played Cross in two competent thrillers, Along Came A Spider and Kiss The Girls.
In Alex Cross, Perry plays a younger version of the character prior to his joining the FBI.
The setting is Detroit, Motor City, which is apt, as the film is a car crash of monumental proportions.
Perry has a pleasant, bearish, soft-spoken presence, but he's hopelessly miscast as a detective with such miraculous powers of deduction that his partner Tommy Kane (Ed Burns) calls him Gandalf.
The Alex Cross novels were part of the 1990s mania for serial killer fiction that emerged in the wake of The Silence Of The Lambs and has since diffused into a million different CSIs.
The psychopath here is nicknamed Picasso (Matthew Fox) for his habit of leaving behind elaborate charcoal sketches near his victims' bodies. He likes to torture women.
This is pretty heavy stuff and it shouldn't be soft-pedalled.
By quick cutting and using little actual blood, the film somehow scrapes an M rating. It's shocking but gutless, which makes it offensive.
Material like this needs actors with gravitas.
You need Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. You need, well, you need Morgan Freeman.
What you don't need is a lightweight TV actor like Fox (Lost) as your villain and a cross-dressing comedian way out of his depth as the brooding star.
You certainly don't need a hack director like Rob Cohen with his uncanny ability to turn extreme violence into high camp.
Alex Cross gets one and a half stars simply for the fact that it will probably become a bit of a cult favourite.
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Walter Simonson has worked on a number of famous characters along with his own creations in his legendary comic book career, but he's likely still best remembered for his legendary time on "Thor" at Marvel Comics. That's something that's clearly not lost on his next-door neighbor, who according to Twitter, surprised Simonson with a new addition to the writer/artist's mailbox: Mjolnir.
Mythology is the intellectual gateway that's gotten many readers interested in becoming a writer or artist. But few are as passionate about the subject as George O'Connor, creator of Olympians, the 12-book series from First Second recounting the Greek myths. This month, he releases one of the volumes he's clearly looked forward to since first embarking on the project: Ares: Bringer of War.
Ahead of the book's release, O'Connor spoke with ROBOT 6 on what appeals to him about mythology and these characters in particular, and the challenges of adaptation. He also recounts how became friends with Age of Bronze creator Eric Shanower not through their shared fondness for classical mythology, but rather a mutual appreciation of Oz.
Having covered comics for a number of years, I always appreciate encountering a storyteller excited about pursuing what they hope is a major milestones in a long, successful career. That's the impression I got while interviewing Ireland-based artist Will Sliney about his big break as the regular artist on the new ongoing Spider-Man 2099.
I was so focused on discussing his new series, I neglected to congratulate and him on being named Cork Person of the Month in July (Sliney hails from Ballycotton in East Cork).
Conventions | A reported 86,500 people attended the third annual Denver Comic Con over the weekend, up from 61,000 in 2013. The event is undergoing some growing pains, however, with organizers quickly rescinding an announced cart-service fee for next year's convention following complaints from vendors. Even without that additional charge, some exhibitors remain unhappy about the proposed increase in booth fees. [The Denver Post]
Long before we worked together, I respected Kevin Melrose's instincts on picking creators to watch. So when he advised the Robot 6 audience to read Victor Santos' webcomic Polar, I was intrigued. That interest only grew when Jim Gibbons (one of the best editors working in comics) told me Dark Horse was collecting Polar's first season in Polar: Came from the Cold (which ROBOT 6 previewed in late September); I knew I wanted to interview the Bilbao, Spain-based artist.
In addition to discussing the 160-page Polar hardcover, set for release on Dec. 11, we also touched upon the upcoming Furious, a Dark Horse miniseries with his Mice Templar collaborator Bryan J.L. Glass, set to launch on Jan. 29. (For additional Furious information, please read Albert Ching's September interview with Glass.)
Tim O'Shea: You are very clear at your website in terms of the influences that inform Polar: Came from the Cold. "The story uses a minimalistic and direct style inspired by movies like Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967), Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1965) or Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) and novels like The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson, 1952) or The Eiger Sanction (Trevanian, 1979). Polar is also a tribute to artists like Jim Steranko, Jose Muñoz, Alberto Breccia, Alex Toth and Frank Miller." I would love to discuss each and every element of those sentences, but I will just focus on two elements. How did you first find out about films like Le Samurai? When did you read your first Steranko story, and what was it?
Victor Santos: The first Steranko book I read was the Outland adaptation. I was studying fine arts, and I hadn't really had a great deal of exposure to U.S. comics. I'd read a lot of superheroes books in my childhood, but the manga explosion of the '80 and '90s caught me just in my teenage years. Actually, it was during my university years when I discovered the great U.S. artists like Eisner, Ditko, Crumb, Toth, Caniff and dozens more (thanks to friends I met there, never the professors). I discovered an old Spanish edition of Outland in a street market. Wow, that stuff blew me away! The big panels contrasting the little panels, as well as that "heavy black lighting" … This edition was a big, European album size, so the double-page spreads are gigantic. I began to research. These were very intense years for me; I was absorbing all the American history of comics at the same time.
Walter Simonson, renowned for his redefining run on Marvel's Thor in the 1980s, will return to the world of Norse mythology in a new creator-owned series from IDW Publishing in 2014.
Announced this afternoon at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Ragnarök will feature "iconic deities and classic" tales written and drawn by Simonson. In addition, IDW will release re-mastered collections of Star Slammers, his classic sci-fi tale about intergalactic mercenaries who became the most successful businessmen of all time, and a special Artist's Edition of the series.
The publisher debuted Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor: Artist's Edition in 2011.
"Scott Dunbier and I first talked about me working on a creator-owned book involving the Norse gods 15 years ago, but as many of my former editors can tell you, I've always regarded deadlines as useful fictions," Simonson said in a statement. "So here we are … finally! All I can say is that I've loved the stories of the Viking gods since I was eight. I am thrilled that with IDW's help and support, I'm launching an ongoing series of stories built around a new vision of some old friends. And enemies."
With the end of Geoff Johns' tenure on Green Lantern and Grant Morrison's upcoming farewell to Batman, a fan's thoughts turn naturally to other extended runs. Marv Wolfman wrote almost every issue of New (Teen) Titans from the title's 1980 preview through its final issue in 1995. Cary Bates wrote The Flash fairly steadily from May 1971's Issue 206 through October 1985's first farewell to Barry Allen (Issue 350). Gerry Conway was Justice League of America's regular writer for over seven years, taking only a few breaks from February 1978's Issue 151 through October 1986's Issue 255.
However, in these days of shorter stays, I wanted to examine some of the runs that, despite their abbreviated nature, left lasting impressions. At first this might sound rather simple. After all, there are plenty of influential miniseries-within-series, like "Batman: Year One" or "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?," where a special creative team comes in to tell a particular story. Instead, sometimes a series' regular creative team will burn brightly, but just too quickly, leaving behind a longing for what might have been.
A good example of this is found in Detective Comics #469-76, written by Steve Englehart, penciled by Marshall Rogers and inked by Terry Austin (after Walt Simonson penciled and Al Milgrom inked issues 469-70). Reprinted in the out-of-print Batman: Strange Apparitions paperback, and more recently (sans Simonson/Milgrom) in the hardcover Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers, these issues introduced Silver St. Cloud, Rupert Thorne, Dr. Phosphorus and the "Laughing Fish," featured classic interpretations of Hugo Strange, the Penguin and the Joker, and revamped Deadshot into the high-tech assassin he remains today. Tying all these threads together is Bruce Wayne's romance with Silver, which for my money is the Bat-books' version of Casablanca. It's the kind of much-discussed run that seems like it should have been longer. Indeed, I suspect it's one of the shorter runs in CSBG's Top 100 list.
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Another day, another gallery opening an exhibition of loosely-themed pop culture-derived art. This time it's "The Gang's All Here" at the Bottleneck Gallery, Brooklyn, beginning Friday and continuing through Dec. 7 (my birthday, fact fans!), 2012. Above is Chris "Raid 71″ Thornley's contribution. Chris (creator of that much blogged Hellboy/Peanuts mash-up "Hellnuts" a while back) is also a major contributor to the charity Art V Cancer, well worth supporting. That's one e-commerce site you can feel good about using. More comics-quoting work below from the fields of illustration and design, including work by Butcher Billy, Walter Simonson, Wally Wood, McBess and others — including one very famous NSFW image re-contextualized!
We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the New 52, and I anticipate doing the usual examinations of what worked and what didn't. Until then, however, this preliminary post will try to organize my general impressions.
I have tried to keep an open mind about the various changes, but apparently I keep coming back to the New 52-niverse's lack of meaningful fictional history. Much of this comes from the five-year timeline, but a good bit of it is due to storytelling styles. While origin stories can generate a nominal setting, including a regular supporting cast, many of the New-52 books held off for various reasons — like readers pretty much knowing the origins at the outset — and with today's practical concerns, many books spent their first 12 issues on extended arcs.
For the past couple of weeks I've been talking about this as a function of "idea generation," but I think it is a more elemental concept. Specifically, it seems like I have been conditioned to expect a certain amount of continuity in a modern shared universe. Furthermore (and more troubling), I suspect the simple acknowledgment of preexisting continuity helps mitigate whatever weaknesses may exist in the stories themselves.
Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson's "Manhunter" was the story of Paul Kirk, a big-game hunter, ex-superhero and retired covert operative who was killed by a rampaging elephant and revived by the mysterious Council. Dedicated to world domination, the Council also created enforcers out of Kirk's clones, and trained them all to be unstoppable assassins. Kirk rebelled, of course, earning the Council's wrath; and that's where the main story picks up.
The seven-part serial ran in Detective Comics #437-443 (October/November 1973-October/November 1974). Appearing initially as an eight-page backup feature, its final chapter was a full 20 pages, not coincidentally because it guest-starred Batman. As such, the whole thing would fit in an 80-Page Giant with room to spare, but it is full of tight, dense storytelling that encourages multiple readings. Among other things, it received a total of six Shazam awards from the Academy of Comic Book Arts: Best Short Story ("The Himalayan Incident," 1973; "Cathedral Perilous," 1974), Best Writer (Goodwin, 1973-74), Outstanding New Talent (Simonson, 1973), and Best Feature-Length Story ("Götterdämmerung," 1974). It was one of Simonson's first big projects, and his early work combines a raw, organic quality with energetic, propulsive layouts. Each short chapter packs a full issue's worth of plot, character, and action into its eight pages, and the finale makes a regular-length issue feel like an annual. Even Batman's potentially-distracting involvement helps distinguish Kirk from DC's garden-variety masked men. You'll want to read it slowly to catch all the details, but it'll keep you turning pages to find out what happens next.
Good grief, it's the eleventh month of the New-52! The forty-six books left from the original class are just about ready to wrap up their first year, and in some cases their second collection. Where does the time go? (And when can we stop calling it the "New" 52?)
In fact, both Batman #11 and Animal Man #11 promise "stunning conclusions" to their inaugural arcs. Of course, the Owls storyline looks more like a traditional multi-title crossover (even if most of it takes place in the main Batman book), whereas Animal Man's storyline only involves an Annual and a little bit of Swamp Thing. Usually I am frustrated with the very idea of looking ahead three-plus months, because it's the serialized-comics equivalent of being forced to check your watch halfway through a movie. Here, though, knowing that these two series are headed for big finishes in July helps adjust my expectations about where they are now.
Similarly, we've seen three months' worth of solicitations (and more than that in hype) on the two Earth-2 titles, but for me that's built up anticipation. Despite the concept's radical reworking, I'm eager to see how it all comes together.
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Over the past few years numerous artists have banded together to form blogs with creative challenges, allowing them quick creative exercises as a break from their day-to-day work. And a recent challenge by the artists over at the What Not blog has really kicked it up a notch and shown tribute to their fellow comics creators.
The challenge? Draw your favorite comic book artist.
Among the entries so far have been some amazing ones, from Francesco Francavilla's Moebius, Mark Chiarello's Alex Toth, Dave Johnson's Brian Azzarello, Jock's Dom Reardon, Cameron Stewart's Naoki Urasawa and Andrew Robinson's stunning Walt Simonson portrait seen at right.
"So many artists to choose from," says Robinson in his blog post," but there's one comic book artist I've loved since I was a kid and I have never outgrown his work. In 1983 Walt Simonson defined graphic novels for me with Star Slammers. It's a Marvel Graphic Novel, #6. If you haven't seen it you must check it out. It's incredible. Walt has such an energy to his drawings and such a great sense of design. I've been learning from him for years. So here's to you Walt Simonson. Thanks."
Click over to the blog to see each artist's thoughts about their portraits and the people they depict, and stay tuned for possibly more artists entering their drawings.
Walter Simonson has been posting lots of pirate art lately on the Official Walter Simonson Page at Facebook. In one post, he describes the project as "one story in a set of stories I'm working on for a single project. So, basically, it's a one-off of a character I drew in another one-off 30 years ago." One reader guesses that's a reference to Captain Fear, an early-'70s DC character from Adventure Comics whom Simonson drew some back-up stories about for Unknown Soldier in 1981.
Rich Johnston concurs and offers an old quote from Simonson referring to the Golden Age stories as "beautifully drawn," but "an historical rat's nest" with ships, uniforms, and weapons from many different time-periods (or no recognizable time-period at all) appearing in the 1850s.
Captain Fear later appeared in John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake's Spectre series in the '90s as well as Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's Doctor 13 story in Tales of the Unexpected. Most recently he's shown up in last year's The Outsiders #26 and Peter Tomasi and Gene Ha's story from Superman/Batman #75. There's no telling exactly what Simonson's working on, but I'd love to hear guesses in the comments.
Comic-Con International in San Diego hasn't officially started yet—tonight was Preview Night—but the news has been rolling in. So let's take a look at today's announcements
• Dark Horse announced three new projects earlier this evening. They will publish a comics adaptation of The Strain, the sci-fi/vampire trilogy by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. The comic will be written by David Lapham with art by Mike Huddleston.
• They also announced a series written by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello with art by Scott Hepburn. Orchid is about a 16-year-old prostitute in a dystopian future "becoming the Spartacus of whores." Each issue will come with a music track by Morello.
• And finally on the Dark Horse front, they will publish comics set in the young vampire world of P.C. Cast's House of Night novel series. It will be co-written by Kent Dallan with art by Joëlle Jones. You can see a trailer promoting all three new books on YouTube.
Publishing | Arune Singh, Marvel's director of communications, addresses how Marvel works with media outlets to break major storyline news and in many cases spoil the story, like Ultimate Spider-Man dying. Their goal is to hopefully bring lapsed or non-fans into stores: "When we line up this kind of mainstream media coverage, it's offering the promise of breaking this big news to the outlet. It's with the knowledge that they'll be the ones making the headlines, being referenced by other sites and getting the attention. But if we wait till the story breaks or the Wednesday books go on-sale, someone else is going to buy the issue early in the morning and break the news. Is it possible that mainstream outlets will still pick up on the news then? Yes, it's possible. But the only way to guarantee that big, sweeping placement worldwide — as you've seen with the Death of Spider-Man — is to break it before anyone has a chance. And that kind of placement is, as I mentioned above, what will get us attention from outside the industry." [ComicsAlliance]
Retailing | Toronto retailer Chris Butcher worries about how well the two late Green Lantern movie prequel comics — one shipping this week, one shipping in August — will sell so long after the film's release. He also discusses the lateness of the final issue of the War of the Green Lanterns crossover, which won't come out until after the epilogue story in this week's Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #11. [Comics212]


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Horace Greasley
|Horace Greasley
|Joseph Horace Greasley
25 December 1918
Ibstock, Leicestershire
|3 February 2010 (aged 91)
L'Alfàs del Pi, Alicante, Spain- Costa Blanca
|Other names
|Jack Greasley
|Known for
|Claims to have escaped and returned to his POW camp over 200 times to meet with his love interest
Joseph Horace "Jim" Greasley (25 December 1918 – 4 February 2010) was a British soldier in the Second World War who was captured in May 1940 by the German Wehrmacht and later became famous for claiming that he escaped from his camp over 200 times in the conduct of a clandestine love affair, returning into captivity each time.[1] He was the subject of a best-selling[2] autobiography which has been criticised for sensationalism.[3] He was also the subject of controversy for having claimed that he was the prisoner of war shown in a photograph staring at Heinrich Himmler, when the prisoner in question is identified elsewhere as a Soviet soldier.[4][5]
In Spring of 2008, ghostwriter Ken Scott was introduced to Horace Greasley, aged 89, so he could finally have his World War II memoirs recorded. Scott stated that he only acted as Horace's fingers to type the book as Horace suffered from extreme arthritis.[6] The book was finished and published by the end of 2008 by Libros International, and gives Greasley's account of his decision to go to war, his capture, struggles, near-death experiences, brutality of the SS, the unique love of Rosa Rauchbach, the escapes, and his liberation.[6]
Guy Walters has criticised the book for exaggerating the dangers which Greasley faced stating, "Working camps for NCOs such as Greasley were not the tightly-guarded places conjured up by our collective imagination, which is weaned on images from Colditz and The Great Escape. In fact, bunking out of one's camp to fraternise with local girls was hardly unusual, and certainly not 'escaping' in the sense most of us understand it."[3]
Himmler photograph[edit]
|The February 2010 Telegraph obituary[1] published a photograph[4][7] captioned "Greasley confronting Heinrich Himmler (wearing the spectacles) in the PoW camp".[8] The photograph and its description was republished by other news sources.[9][10] Guy Walters asserted categorically that the soldier in the picture was not Greasley, stating that the picture is held by the US National Archives and the caption details show it was taken in Minsk (in Belarus) in mid-1941, that it was taken by a photographer for a propaganda film and identifies the soldier as Soviet from his cap, and that the officers in the picture are the same officers who appear in the film with Himmler.[7]
- ^ a b "Horace Greasley - Telegraph". London: The Daily Telegraph. 12 February 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
- ^ Scott, Ken (28 November 2013). "The Ghost-writers Lament". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ a b Walters, Guy (21 June 2013). "Could there be anything more twisted than these Holocaust fantasists? How more and more people are making up memoirs about witnessing Nazi crimes". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ a b Walters, Guy (20 January 2013). "Blood, tears, sweat and tall tales". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 21 December 2014. (subscription required)
- ^ "1939-1941 — Timeline of Events". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ a b Greasley, Horace (2008). Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?. Libros International. pp. Synopsis. ISBN 978-1905988808.
- ^ a b Elvin, Laura (10 January 2013). "'Of course that's my Horace in photo of Himmler'". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ https://www.google.ru/search?q=horace+greasley+himmler&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qcqcUva3FYHl4gSQzIHIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=501#newwindow=1&q=horace+greasley+himmler+telegraph&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=ORtoGTP8C15ooM%3A%3Bmcx3Ipo9YKcVdM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.telegraph.co.uk%252Fmultimedia%252Farchive%252F02376%252Fhorace_2376454b.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%252Fculture%252Ffilm%252F9627322%252FBritish-PoW-escaped-200-times-to-meet-German-lover.html%3B620%3B387
- ^ Fricker, Martin (23 October 2012). "The great escapist: Film to celebrate British prisoner of war who broke out of Nazi camp 200 times.. to meet girl". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ Cook, William (23 October 2012). "The greatest escapist: British prisoner of war fled Nazi camp 200 times to meet his German sweetheart". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 21 December 2014.


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Home Zone Park Assist is another baby step on the road to autonomous cars.
AddPagani Huayra BC looks even cooler on ice
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- May 10, 2016
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If you thought the new Pagani Huayra BC looked cool in normal circumstances, just wait until you watch it drifting through the snow at Bosch's test center in northern Sweden.
36A smarter gas pedal may help drivers save money at the pump
- Pete Bigelow
- Feb 1, 2016
- 36
For all the weight automakers are shedding on their vehicles, all the hybrid offerings they're putting on the road and all the cylinders they're removing from their engines, the push to improve fuel economy amid stricter government standards omits one key element from the equation – drivers.
15Singing roadkill hawks Bosch wiper blades in bizarre ad [UPDATE]
- Chris Bruce
- Dec 9, 2015
- 15
The bizarre commercial stars a band of zombified roadkill puppets that rise from the dead each night to sing to drivers about the dangers of old wiper blades.
13Feds investigating Bosch over TDI scandal
- Brandon Turkus
- Nov 24, 2015
- 13
The US Department of Justice is in the early stages of an investigation into supplier Bosch over its potential role in VW's diesel emissions scandal.
7Bosch: Diesel demand still strong, despite VW scandal
- Danny King
- Oct 16, 2015
- 7
Future demand depends on 'campaign' VW plans for diesels, auto supplier says
1Bosch and TomTom partner to improve autonomous tech
- Chris Bruce
- Jul 24, 2015
- 1
Bosch and TomTom are partnering to create improved autonomous vehicle tech. They want to have all of the freeways in Germany ready for driverless cars by the end of 2015 with high-definition maps.
25Bosch fuel pumps spark recall of 2015 Golf, GTI and Audi A3
- Chris Bruce
- Apr 27, 2015
- 25
The 2015 VW GTI, Golf and Audi A3 are being recalled to replace faulty fuel pumps that can fail due to flaking nickel plating. There are 6,204 vehicles in need of repair.
2Bosch finds a way to autodrive the Tesla Model S
12Bosch fined $57.8 million by DOJ for price fixing and bid rigging
- Chris Bruce
- Mar 31, 2015
- 12
Auto parts supplier Bosch has agreed to pay a $57.8 million criminal fine to the Department of Justice for bid rigging and price fixing of spark plugs, oxygen sensors and starter motors.
54Plug In 2014: BMW i DC Fast Charger is poised to change the EV game
- Sebastian Blanco
- Aug 7, 2014
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It looks like it's just a blue box on a pole, but BMW's new i DC Fast Charger represents a much bigger deal than just the lowest-cost SAE Combo Charger on the market. BMW sees it as the key to getting more drivers into electric vehicles. As Robert Healey, the EV infrastructure manager for BMW of North America told us, "For [BMW], the future is clear. DC charging really is the future."
6Recharge Wrap-up: Mercedes gets F1 efficiency, EV charging in Vermont, VW e-Golf to use Bosch
- John Beltz Snyder
- Jul 14, 2014
- 6
Efficiency equals performance, especially in the case of Formula 1 racing. The Mercedes AMC Petronas team points to several key efficiency technologies it uses to get the most out of its cars. And if their utter dominance so far this season is testament to this relationship, perhaps we should pay attention. Mercedes highlights hybrid tech, turbocharging, aerodynamics, lightweight construction, tribology (both in making internal components and lubricants more slippery) and simulation as crucial t
11NHTSA investigating Bosch Power Xpress 240V EV chargers for fire risk
AddEvatran, Bosch will sell wireless home charger for as low as $1,998*
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- Jan 6, 2014
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, the big news for plug in vehicles is that they can now start to ditch the plug. As expected, the system costs around $3,000 and is available for both the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt. For the first 250 customers, though, Evatran is offering $1,000 off the standard price, a 30 percent discount. Deliveries start next month and Evatran says it expects the discounted units to all be snatched up in the first half of the year.
18Bosch says new stop/start coasting hybrid tech can cut fuel use by 10%
- Danny King
- Dec 20, 2013
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Turns out, your car's engine is useless about a third of the time when you're driving. Bosch is using that math to estimate that the newest generation of its stop-start system could cut a car's overall fuel use by about 10 percent.
AddBosch has big plans for better, cheaper li-ion batteries in 2020
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- Dec 12, 2013
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Robert Bosch GmbH and GS Yuasa Corp. think they can solve the cost and range limitation quandaries faced by lithium ion batteries and the electric vehicles they go into. By 2020, German automotive supplier Bosch and Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa plan to deliver a li-ion battery that costs half as much to produce and offers twice the energy density of today's batteries. During last month's Tokyo Motor Show, Wolf-Henning Scheider, a Bosch management board member in charge of its global automotiv
192New US survey says diesel cost of ownership lower than gas
- Jeremy Korzeniewski
- Jun 30, 2013
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It's cheaper to drive a diesel-powered vehicle than a gas-powered vehicle over the course of three to five years, according to a new study commissioned by Robert Bosch LLC – a company that makes plenty of diesel engine parts – using data compiled by The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. The savings stem not just from improved fuel efficiency but also overall fuel costs and better retention of value, and take into account the added purchase price of a diesel en
48Bosch will install wireless charging stations for $3k a pop for Leaf, Volt owners
- Danny King
- Jun 13, 2013
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Germany-based Bosch will install wireless charging stations at the homes of Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt drivers for about $3,000 each, implying that a wireless system is worth about $2,500 in convenience compared to cord systems, Plug In Cars says.
AddBosch sees 180-mile EVs as 'minimum' by 2020
- Danny King
- May 31, 2013
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While less than expected electric-vehicle sales in many parts of the world have many industry watchers pooh-poohing the growth prospects for plug-in cars, German component maker Bosch sees a bright future.
33Bosch Power Max becomes cheapest Level 2 home EV charger at just $450
- Jon LeSage
- May 10, 2013
- 33
Consumers now have some real choices for deals on electric vehicle chargers, whether exploring options through Home Depot, setting up an all-in-one package when buying their EV or going with Bosch for the cheapest Level 2 home charging station on the market.
33Bosch turns off light on money-losing solar power unit
- Jon LeSage
- Mar 26, 2013
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Major automotive supplier Bosch is stepping out of the solar power business after having lost 2.4 billion euros (nearly $3.1 billion US) since starting up its solar energy subsidiary in 2008.
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Right to my itunes library, I want to hear one of your original mixes. Does anyone else seem to have more respect for original mixes than remixes?
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holy shit man! this is so awesome!
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This Trance mix was just absolutely wonderful.
The beat and speed was a good pace for somebody to listen to, as well as everything else in this Mix.
I have no more words than this that I know how to respond to this with.
The rest are unexplainable complements.
I was actually thinking that the song was a little fast (I made it faster than the original). I'm really happy to see that someone else doesn't think that the song is too fast. If you really like this song, then you may also like "Avast your Fly" that I did a year ago in the same genre. It is actually my most popular song of 2012 ^^
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Now, I'm trying to work out if this is simply inexperience or an innocent misunderstanding of how the web works or, on the other hand, an attempt to leverage Google's strong brand name as some authentication of their product?
Or, am I missing something?
The common user does not understand web technology, and probably never will. But users do know brand names. So I'd say your last guess is the right one - it's "an attempt to leverage Google's strong brand name as some authentication.
...simply inexperience or an innocent misunderstanding of how the web works...
That will NEVER catch on ... we need a "trendy name for Bing searching" thread.
My vote is for B-Dogging ... ;)
I have heard several people tell someone to "Bing it..."
Easy to say, clever, and what impressed me most was the person they were speaking to knew what they meant. Bing is catching on, and with Google's latest transgressions, the other SEs might find themselves with a bit more traffic.
Webmasters helped establish Google as the #1 search engine. I would imagine what webmasters giveth, they can also taketh away. No company is immune to change.


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Fire Emblem
- Released on Nov 3, 2003
- By Intelligent Systems for GBA
Fire Emblem User Reviews
A Legend in the Gaming IndustryThe good:
-masterfully developed characters and storyline
-interesting lore
-addicting and dynamic gameplay
-fresh take on combat
-immeasurable replayability
-stellar soundtrack
-terrible multiplayer.Summary:
Fire Emblem 7: Rekka no Ken (or just Fire emblem here in the States) is the first Fire Emblem game released in North America; Nintendo decided to release this game to us after Roy and Marth's popularity in the hit game Super Smash Brothers: Melee. It follows the stories of three lords: Hector, Eliwood, and Lyn, and is a prequel to Fire Emblem 6: Fuuin No Tsurugi (the one with Roy). It is part of the popular Fire Emblem franchise, a tactical strategy RPG series that is renowned for its well-developed plotlines and characters as well as the prominent feature of permanent character death.
In t...
One of Gameboy Advance's greatest gamesThe good:
Great sprites
Story is pretty good
Battle system is fairly simple
Control an army
Long length
Nothing new or interesting
Gets a bit boring after a while
If you lose a unit in 1 battle, he/she is gone forever
Fire Emblem, for those who are new to the series, may find this to be a fair bit like Heroes of Might and Magic. Well, yes...it is a lot like that.
You are playing on a square-like grid, with many units ready to kill some enemies. You start with 1 unit, and as you progress, you gain more units. Soon, you get a big army. There are 3 good guys who lead their own platoons of medievil soldiers, and they end up joining forces in order to kill the evil emporer (not spoiling...I also forgot his name).
The game starts off with Lyn having to save her grandfather from death against his rival. However, ...
A Good RPGThe good:
- Many characters.
- A great storyline.
- Good battle graphics.
- If you loved Advance Wars you will love this.
- Promotions to choose from.
- Alot of items and weapons.
- Game is easy to get into right away.
- Support conversations that make the story more interesting.
- A sound system.
- The multiplayer could have been better.
- The green neutral units could have been smarter.
- You have to be a certain color.
- Enemy difficulty.
- If you lose the main character the story is over.
I liked the game, even though it could of had a choice of your colors, a create your own character option, and a better multi-player. Other than that if you want a good game that will rid you of boredom for 6 hours this is the game. (Only good if your a big fan of strategy games.)
Best Game I've Ever PlayedThe good:
Ummm... Ummm... *Trys to think of something* The multiplayer is kind of bad.Summary:
This is the best game I have ever played. I have played it more than any other game... The storyline is quite good, and the music is good... For a video game... The gameplay is similar to the Advance Wars series, as it's made by the same people. However, The multiplayer is not as good as it was in AW. The game is also rather challenging, and it took me over 24 hours to beat.-_- And it has almost infinite replay value. And it has a large cast of characters (Somewhere around 43) that can "support" each other and, in some cases, have special endings together. It runs with a random number gener...
One of the GreatsThe good:
1. Gripping storyline.
2. Great turn based RPG.
3. Weapons triangle
4. Characters you grow to love.
1. Left me wanting more.(not nescessarily a bad thing)Summary:
Fire Emblem is one of the must buys of GBA games. It's gripping storyline, turnbased system, and unique system of weapons, makes it an all-around awesome game. A couple other great things about it is its different levels of difficulty, with increase from easy to hard. And the characters. I was greatly impressed by the range of characters. The goods far outway the bad sides, which they themselves are few and far between. One bad thing is, it ended, and I felt like I just needed more. Another is that some points of the game are slower than the rest, and make me lose a bit of interest. Anywho,...
Fire EmblemThe good:
-A Great Stategy Game
-A Long Game (Can Be Good and Bad)
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-The Music: It's Some of The Best I've Heard
-The Amount of Characters
-The Amount of Weapons
-The Many Different Types of Characters
-A Complete Tutorial
-Over 30 Chapters
-3 Different Charater Stories
-At Least 100 Support Conversations
-Multi-Player Battle Arena
-One of the Best Games, If You're Into Turn-Based Strategy Games
-Countless Hours of Gameplay
-Weapon's Triangle
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-This Game is Incredibly Long and Requires Patience
-Once You Lose a Character, he's gone forever, unless you restart the chapter
-Some Characters May Be Nearly Impossible to Train
-Inability to stop your characters from attacking
-Enemy Difficultly
-N.P.C A.I(Non-Playable Character's Artificial Intelligence)
-If Your Main Lord Dies, It's Game Over
-The most a unit's level can go to is 20 until you upgrade them, but even then it can only go up another 20 levels until they are at their peak strength
Ok, this Game was made by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems as part of their Fire Emblem Series. In Japan, this is actually the fifth or sixth game in Japan called "Rekka no Ken", or "The Flaming Sword", but it's the first here, in the U.S. Anyway, in this game you play a tactician. You name yourself and you wake up in a small house with a girl named Lyn who was taking care of you after she found you. You end up being attacked by Bandits and since you are the "Veteran" Tactician, you lead Lyn and this starts the first ten chapters, which are a tutorial. Yet you are not actually on the field,...
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Released: Mar 01st, 1998
Running Time: 84
Director: George Picasso
Company: Tight Ends Productions
Cast: Tyler (I), Rob (I), Byron Long, Yumiko, Dee (I), Guy DiSilva, Mark Anthony (I), Amythiest, Shawna Valentina
Critical Rating: AA
Genre: All-Sex
There are a couple of great lookers here - Amythiest, with her perky nipples and slim butt, and the luminous biracial Dee. The sex, though, ranges from merely workmanlike to totally soporific. Blame the girls, especially Yumiko, who probably wouldn't even feel your ire. The studs, notably Byron Long, are exemplary, but the lights are glaring and the editing has the chop-chop feel of a deadline filler.


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In Windows 7, when should "page faults" become concern for investigation?
I'm referencing the "Page Faults" column in Windows' Task Manager. Sorting by "Page Faults", there are a number of applications that have endlessly climbing page fault counts.
Is there a metric for determining whether page faults (or particular amount of) should be cause for concern and/or troubleshooting?
I'm concerned that rogue programs are possibly "thrashing" away at the disks with firehoses of page faults.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 12GB RAM, rarely ever filled past half capacity (while page faults continue to soar) SSD main drive
For reference, the seeming large "culprits" on a cursory overview of Task Manager are (in descending order): Firefox, CCC (Catalyst Control Center), WinVNC, AfterBurner, and Everything Search.


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