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I was using XAMPP happily for development until I had to host it somewhere accessible via the Internet for the client to test and use. I have a VPS that only has 384 RAM, and needing to find a way fast, I decided to install XAMPP into the VPS. Because of the low RAM, when MySQL was running, Tomcat failed to start, even though the initial Java heap size was set to 64m. I managed to host the site temporarily in Jelastic, before moving to OpenShift.
I toyed at the idea of combining the database and application server instances in 1 JVM, to reduce RAM usage (compared to running MySQL + Tomcat). After searching the Internet, I came across several articles on running HSQL server instances together with Tomcat. No doubt I have to update my site to be compatible with HSQL first, but as a POC (proof-of-concept) attempt, I decided to explore the feasibility of running the HSQL server instance in a Spring container.
There are several reasons to run the HSQL server just like a bean in Spring:
1. All-in-one configuration. Everything that is needed to be configured is done in Spring. There are examples in the Net to run the HSQL instance alongside Tomcat, but this requires adding stuff to Tomcat (see links below).
2. Application server independence. 'Theoretically' (in quotes as I successfully tested this in Tomcat only), since everything is done in Spring, there's no or little that needs to be configured in the appserver.
The HSQL server 'bean' is also meant to launch an instance in network mode (not in-process e.g. mem or file). Some reasons for this:
1. 'mem' in-process access is the fastest, but is not persistent. There are other means to initiate a 'mem' data source using Spring's spring-jdbc tags, which is a better approach.
2. 'file' in-process access is persistent, but like 'mem', it can only be accessed within the Java process.
3. Network mode (hsql) is both persistent and accessible using external JDBC client tools. This is useful for troubleshooting and verification.
After reading HSQLDB's documentation, here's the code that does the HSQL server instance bean lifecycle management:
package org.gizmo.hsql.spring; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Properties; import org.hsqldb.Server; import org.hsqldb.persist.HsqlProperties; import org.hsqldb.server.ServerAcl.AclFormatException; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import org.springframework.context.SmartLifecycle; public class HyperSqlDbServer implements SmartLifecycle { private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HyperSqlDbServer.class); private HsqlProperties properties; private Server server; private boolean running = false; public HyperSqlDbServer(Properties props) { properties = new HsqlProperties(props); } @Override public boolean isRunning() { if(server != null) server.checkRunning(running); return running; } @Override public void start() { if(server == null) { logger.info('Starting HSQL server...'); server = new Server(); try { server.setProperties(properties); server.start(); running = true; } catch(AclFormatException afe) { logger.error('Error starting HSQL server.', afe); } catch (IOException e) { logger.error('Error starting HSQL server.', e); } } } @Override public void stop() { logger.info('Stopping HSQL server...'); if(server != null) { server.stop(); running = false; } } @Override public int getPhase() { return 0; } @Override public boolean isAutoStartup() { return true; } @Override public void stop(Runnable runnable) { stop(); runnable.run(); } }
The abridged Spring configuration:
server.database.0=file:d:/hsqldb/demobase server.dbname.0=demobase server.remote_open=true hsqldb.reconfig_logging=false
Sample output when starting Spring in Tomcat:
[Server@1e893ae]: [Thread[pool-2-thread-1,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) entered [Server@1e893ae]: [Thread[pool-2-thread-1,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) exited [Server@1e893ae]: Initiating startup sequence... [Server@1e893ae]: Server socket opened successfully in 7 ms. Sep 27, 2012 9:26:23 AM org.hsqldb.persist.Logger logInfoEvent INFO: checkpointClose start Sep 27, 2012 9:26:23 AM org.hsqldb.persist.Logger logInfoEvent INFO: checkpointClose end [Server@1e893ae]: Database [index=0, id=0, db=file:d:/hsqldb/demo base, alias=demobase] opened sucessfully in 442 ms. [Server@1e893ae]: Startup sequence completed in 451 ms. [Server@1e893ae]: 2012-09-27 09:26:23.395 HSQLDB server 2.2.8 is online on port 9001 [Server@1e893ae]: To close normally, connect and execute SHUTDOWN SQL [Server@1e893ae]: From command line, use [Ctrl]+[C] to abort abruptly
Related Links:
- http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/guide/index.html
- http://dkuntze.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/hsql-on-tomcat/
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0508bader/
Reference: Embedding HSQLDB server instance in Spring from our JCG partner Allen Julia at the YK's Workshop blog.
Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions
Get ready to program in a whole new way!
Functional Programming in Java will help you quickly get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. This short, targeted book will help you make the paradigm shift from the old imperative way to a less error-prone, more elegant, and concise coding style that's also a breeze to parallelize. You'll explore the syntax and semantics of lambda expressions, method and constructor references, and functional interfaces. You'll design and write applications better using the new standards in Java 8 and the JDK.


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Unfortunately the ingredients for the 3-Day Red Carpet Diet product are not provided. Therefore it is unknown what core components make this product effective. According to dealers, the Red Carpet Diet encourages a flatter abdomen, less bloating, and heightened energy levels. Put simply, this capsule formula helps flush out the digestive tract. Although Red Carpet Diet is mentioned to contain diuretic herbs, they are not revealed. It is likely that this product contains high levels of caffeine, which is a diuretic. It simply helps users flush waste from their colon or large intestine, which will minimize bloating.
- This weight loss capsule may help flush out the digestive system.
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Overall, there is really no solid reason to choose Red Carpet Diet capsules for shedding unwanted weight. After reviewing the minimal information provided on this product, it is clear that the manufacturer does not want to reveal much. While Red Carpet Diet is said to contain diuretic herbs, these herbal components are not revealed. Also, there are no before and after photos, or a refund option offered for this product. It is certainly a good idea to check into other weight loss products on the current market.

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Collins Middle School claimed two more wins on the soccer pitch last week.
On Wednesday, the Little Devils posted a 5-1 decision over visiting Shady Spring on a night during which the eighth-graders and their parents were recognized in a special ceremony.
Mackenzie Miller and Tanner Harris had two goals each to pace Collins, and teammate Ethan Alderman supplied the other score.
Brooke Daniels had an assist.
In the junior varsity game, Collins won 3-1. River Terry had two goals and Ian Donelow had one goal. Jason Manns recorded an assist.
On Oct. 7, CMS earned a 5-1 triumph over Ansted.
Miller, Daniels, Ian McDonald and Jacob Logan netted a goal apiece, and Ansted had an own goal.
Dylan Massey and Alderman each had an assist.


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So usually I liveblog my initial reactions to The PREVIEWS catalogue — the main ordering catalogue through which most retailers order most of their comics and graphic novels product from Diamond Comics Distributors — on the day before or day that the order that has to be placed from that catalogue is due. It's just the way it goes at the store, a thousand other things going on.
But not this time. You see this time, The Previews is due during the week of The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, a big comics event in Toronto that I happen to be in charge of putting together. And you know what I'm not gonna have time for? 18 hours of going through Previews. So I figured that since I'm supposed to be working anyway today, I'd just do that whole order now. It does take a considerable ammount of the… urgency… out of my responses to do it with basically an open deadline, but I wanna be done this whole thing by midnight, tonight, and that should be incentive enough to tear through… And hey, since I'm actually doing this weeks before the Previews is due, it might actually be of use to someone trying to figure out what to buy…! It's nice to be helpful.
Alright, ready? Let's go through the Previews catalogue.
2:20pm: The front cover image this month is that Green Arrow piece, a character subject to some of the worst writing over the past few months. Awful, implausibly bad stuff. And now the series is getting it's third relaunch in 3 or 4 years…? Terrible. The back cover is for another novel-to-comics adaptation, this time from Dark Horse. Didn't we have one of those last month…? Or is this the same thing…? Either way, it's nice to see something a)not superheroes and b) intended for a female audience on the cover of The Previews… That's a VERY rare thing.
2:24pm: Page 1 has a WHAT MAKES A HERO ad featuring the BPRD… Dark Horse has been running these all-purpose BPRD ads for a few months now, I suppose trying to push the (large) superhero audience to read a slightly different sort of Superhero book. By all accounts this is very good stuff, it's one of our best-selling monthly comics at The Beguiling, so I feel like it has a wide crossover…
2:27pm: Who is Previews for? Previews is for people who read Previews. Check this out from page 4′s "Previews Art Gallery" section:
Bad Girls Forever, my friends.
2:38pm: Uh… Adrian Brody and Samuel L. Jackson are in a new PREDATOR movie? And that movie is called PREDATORS? I'm sorry, that's ridiculous, particularly because now all I can think of is To Catch A Predator which turns this whole exercise into a Robot Chicken sketch. Meanwhile, if'n you're looking for a 4 issue prequel mini-series (that will be collected in trade imminently) to all of this, Dark Horse has got you covered on page 27, for $2.99 a pop.
2:42pm: Okay, I'm losing my mind because I swear I ordered Troublemaker Book One (Dark Horse, $17.99, Page 32) last month… Lemmie check this.
Hah! Yeah, I knew I did:
So why is this in here again? Especially with nothing telling folks it's solicited a second time?
It's clearer in the order-form, that we can order it under last month's code if we want to, but… I dunno, I just feel like there should be a slug or burst or something in the actual previews catalog that spells it out, "Hey, this has a final order date of June 10th, order by then!". Common courtesy.
2:48pm: So on page 37 we've got GROO: THE HOGS OF HORDER trade paperback, collecting the recent mini-series rather pricely at 120 pages for $17.99. That's almost IDW pricing. Meanwhile, pages 38-39 have a plethora of Usagi Yojimbo, with new "remastered artwork and new story notes" in brand new editions of Usagi Yojimbo Volume 8, 9, and 10. These are great books… It never occurs to me to really get out there and mention it because Usagi and Stan Sakai are such an industry institution, but these really are fantastic books. If you've never read Usagi pick up a book, you won't be disappointed.
2:53pm: I almost feel like I shouldn't bother mentioning it because it'll probably get cancelled and resolicited again, but Dark Horse has CAGES by Dave McKean in a brand new softcover edition for $29.99, incredibly affordable for a long out-of-print book. It's another classic, and a must read for both its visual and narrative ingenuity. That's on page 40.
Meanwhile, on page 41 comes "MOGWORLD", a novel from Yahtzee, the fella who does those fantastic ZERO PUNCTUATION video game reviews. Normally we stay away from novels at the store, but I'd say that this one has all the makings of a genuine hit, and I'm looking forward to having a copy for myself… $7.99 for 350 pages.
I should point out here that though both of these books are being solicited in The April 2010 Previews Catalog for items beginning to ship in June 2010, they both have August in-store dates. And CAGES has already missed it's first in-store and needed to be resolicited. So… Grain of salt, folks. Grain of salt.
3:14pm: Sinful admission time: I am glad they are being produced, but I generally don't care about classic comic strip reprints. Like… at all. I've even been told (repeatedly) that I would really like a couple of them, but I have no enthusiasm for them at all. I promise one day to at least commit to reading a whole tome of unfunny 70 year old 'gags' just out of spite. But that day is not today.
3:15pm: Check out this cover on from ABE SAPIEN: THE ABYSSAL PLAIN #1 (page 44):
Dave Johnson did that one, it's quite nice. It's also the exact opposite of a BPRD cover, which tend to have very rigid cover treatments, and have for more than 11 volumes of material now. Interesting to see how this one goes over, or if they just cram it into the existing cover style.
3:20pm: Okay, I'm too much of a nerd to let this one go, but: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: CAMPUS APOCALYPSE VOLUME 1 is a shoujo manga (girls' comic) reimagining of the giant robot anime as a boarding school secrets sort of thing, and it all sounds ludicrous and kind of fun, too. Like, way too serious and angsty, but that's the point? Anyway I'm going to have to at least try to read it.
3:55pm: Back! So now we're at page 64 and DC Comics. A tale of two properties here, with Superman #700 weighing in at 56 pages and $4.99 on the left page, and Batman #700 weighing in at 56 pages and $4.99 on the right page. Honestly? Our sales on Batman are roughly FIVE TIMES AS HIGH as they are on Superman, and ordering responsibly (and that means ignoring rounding-up the numbers to get extra variant covers–a 1:25 and 1:75 on each book) means that I wouldn't qualify for any variants at all on the Superman book. I know there are a hundred and one excuses as to why Superman is in the toilet, but the buck stops at Dan DiDio and I kinda wish he'd just step up and say "hey, i totally fucked up. Sorry." because the last 2 years of superman comics have been DOA, sales-wise.
4:03pm: I didn't really talk about the books, there, just bitched, but I'm relatively happy to see Morrison back on the main BATMAN book, and Straczynski taking over Superman will be interesting. I mention that because page 66 has the news that JMS is also taking over Wonder Woman with the anniversary issue #600. I remember the hype and fanfare around the series when Gail Simone took over as writer–"For the first time ever, a woman writing the ongoing Wonder Woman book!" Though that announcement had its caveats, I do think it was a noteworthy event, and Simone is doing some good stuff on the series. Kinda sucks to get bumped off the book like that.
4:15pm: I'm still here, I just don't have a lot to say about the DC stuff so far. "Brightest Day" Flash #3 has a blood-splattered hero on the cover, with a chalk-outline being drawn around him… Like… I wonder if these people even read their own press releases any more? That doesn't seem very Brightest Day to me, you know? Seems like Exactly The Same As The Last 10 Years.
4:21pm: Now that's a pretty nice cover:
That's the cover to Batman Beyond #1, by Dustin Nguyen. Interior art is by Ryan Benjamin, whom I also dig. See, that looks like a sharp, stylish, contemporary comic book. That looks like something I can sell… I have no idea if it will sell.
4:24pm: Page 80. So I know I kind of 'knew' this, but I was surprised flipping the page here to see BATMAN & ROBIN #13, with art by the awesome Frazier Irving and still written by Grant Morrison. That makes 3 Morrison Batman books coming out this month, which… you'd think that's overkill, but really, it's all been selling great. Actually, issues 4-6 of B&R aside, it's been selling great too. But yeah, I had thought that with Morrison's return to the main series, and the Bruce Wayne book, that this was the end of B&R. I'm very glad indeed that it is not. :)
Just below that on page 80 is a Dennis O'Neil done-in-one story with art by Dustin Nguyen in Detective Comics #866, which should help soften the blow of a Rucka-less Detective… at least for a month or so.
4:36pm: So the Legion can't seem to support itself for more than 12 issues at a go before needing a team reboot or a creative team reboot, but now there are two ongoing Legion books? Adventures Comics and The Legion of Superheroes? Both written by Paul Levitz? That seems… well not "Overkill" exactly, as both Marvel and DC have gone way past overkill into a whole new territory of making-the-Lorax-weep-at-the-waste-of-trees, but it seems like throwing money away doesn't it? Why have one Legion book that not-enough people want to read when we can have two?
4:41pm: Hah! Here's how to do a bloody and bruised hero without it seeming grim and stupid:
Left: Booster Gold #32, solicited last month. Right: Booster Gold #33, solicited this month (page 90, $2.99). Art by Kevin Maguire. Click for larger.
So, yeah, there you go, that's kind of amazing actually.
4:49pm: Huh, last issues for the two Archie books… Sorry "The Red Circle" books, the shield and the web. I am… unsurprised. I didn't really see DC needing yet another bunch of superheroes. I only hope they don't waste our time and shelf-space producing trade paperbacks of these awful, pointless, failed series. Page 95 though if you're curious.
4:56pm: Since I did not do this last month, I missed the chance to express shock and amazement that Paul Dini had been allowed to write an ongoing ZATANNA mini-series! That's pretty exciting, actually, as Morrison's Seven Soldiers mini was really great reading (with gorgeous Ryan Sook art…) and Dini has an affection for the character that comes through in the writing, it makes for a fun time. I'm expecting good things out of this one. Zatanna #2 is on page 96, features lovely art by Stephane Roux, and is $2.99.
5:01pm: I know that it's a clever writers' trick to say, ask DC not to publish an unsellable piece of trash and then see that piece of trash 5 pages later in the catalogue, but I swear I did not employ that here. I am _genuinely mystified_ as to why DC would publish THE SHIELD: KICKING DOWN THE DOOR containing the relaunch of the character, on page 99. $14.99 for 160 pages that could have been better served by just donating money to the homeless. Seriously, the series isn't that bad, it's not a crime against humanity or anything, but it's an abject and undeniable sales and creative failure. Why is DC committing that material to a 'permanent' edition, when it's pretty clear that there's NO audience for it? Why are they wasting my time as a retailer asking me to order this, when 5 pages earlier they cancelled the series and told me 'no one wants this'. Is tricking JMS' fanbase into buying bad comics in the book-trade their new sales tactic?
Mind-boggling. Seriously.
Oh and that Red Tornado trade paperback on the same page ain't no prize either.
5:11pm: Superman: Secret Origin Deluxe Edition HC. Well, this is just-about the last time I'm going to have to see the creepy-child-with-Christopher-Reeve-Death-Mask drawn by Gary Frank and Jonathan Sibal, so that's good. This is a pretty enjoyable series (plagued with delays… I think the last issue is still-to-come) but man, drawing a young Clark Kent like an adult Christopher Reeve? I cannot stress how bad an idea that is, that should have occurred to everyone early on. Page 101 for the $30, 240 page HC.
5:31pm: A highly-demanded reprint volume, though the cover price of $40 for the 80-page "facsimile edition" is out to lunch… DC's last round of Treasury-sized books were the Dini/Ross collaborations and they were 10 bucks a pop! The smaller "Deluxe" edition is a slightly more reasonable $20, and 96 pages with a bunch of extra material and a new cover by Neal Adams.
I'm not trying to talk anyone in-to or out-of a purchasing decision here, if you want this in the big size then that's how you want it, no problems. I just wish DC could've been a bit more reasonable with the pricing.
5:40pm: Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom #1, featuring the return of Alan Moore's pulp-novel pastiche character in a story by Peter Hogan, whose writing I've been pretty ambivalent about, and Chris Sprouse and Karl Story, who I'm very excited to see return to the character…! Honestly I'm pretty surprised to see any new ABC comics at all… Though they could hardly fare worse than the red circle stuff. Page 107, six issue mini-series at $3.99 a pop, from Wildstorm.
6:11pm: Sorry, got a little distracted there.
So! Andersen Gabrych and Brad Rader, two out gay comics creators who've done work for DC in the past, are the newest creative team to tackle one of the Vertigo Crime graphic novels. According to our official reader of these books, Jason Azzopardi, "Milligan's is the first one that was readable," referring to Peter Milligan's Bronx Kill released a month-or-so back, and the fifth or sixth in the line…! This is not a line that has been getting good reviews. So when I hear that two out gay comics creators are going to tell a story about a deeply-closted private investigator in 1950s San Francisco, my feelings switch back and forth between anticipation and apprehension so fast it'd make other, weaker men a little dizzy. I want this one to be good, but I don't have high hopes given its contemporaries. Still, come August 4th I will be checking out Fogtown, 176 pages, $19.99, Page 114. I've got my fingers crossed…
Actually, here's something. In the Previews, Fogtown is listed as a hard cover. But at the DC/Vertigo site it's listed as a softcover. Here's hoping that it's the 'official' site that's in error, because dropping this down to a sc (the only one in the line) with no reduction in price would be pretty lame.
6:22pm: And speaking of original Vertigo hard covers, the facing page (115) has DARK RAIN: A NEW ORLEANS STORY. Seems like a straight-ahead crime/caper story set in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, by the creative team of Incognegro. Except this one is full-size, and $24.99 instead of being smaller and $19.99. Doesn't make much sense to me…
6:25pm: Huh, well I lost that bet.
Fables: Covers by James Jean – New Printing HC
Written by JAMES JEAN • Afterword by BILL WILLINGHAM • Art and cover by JAMES JEAN
Due to popular demand, this collection of James Jean's FABLES covers is back in print! The deluxe, oversized hardcover includes 10 vellum sleeve inserts, an embossed case and commentary from Jean, making it as elegantly unique as the FABLES covers themselves.
Vertigo 208pg. Color Oversized Hardcover $49.99 US Mature Readers
On Sale October 6, 2010
So, I know it's only their job to make this clear and easy to understand in the solicitations, but it would have been nice if they could have actually done that. As far as I can piece together, the "new printing" of this book actually isn't just a new printing. It's now going to come with a slipcase (which the first one did not have), and 10 vellum inserts (which the first one did not have), and it's going to cost $10 more. Considering the market for this book is collectors, it would have been nice if the solicits in Previews, the catalog for collectors, were presented in such a way as to imply DC gives a shit about this book, because currently, it is not presented in that way. The new information is just sort of lain there on the page with no extra info.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that the new 'vellum inserts' will contain the FABLES cover images that were not collected in the book, thereby wrapping up all of Jean's work on the series. I would also hazard a guess that the slipcase & images will be made available separately at some point in the future, for the thousands of people who bought the book the first time it came out and didn't get the bonus material.
All in all though, an EXCEPTIONALLY poorly written solicitation. Shameful, really.
I don't generally mention series that are still ongoing, but I did want to give a nod to Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy's Joe The Barbarian, which I am really enjoying. The 6th issue hits in June, and I liked this cover. I think the final colours will be nice too. That's all :) Page 121, $2.99.
6:53pm: And that takes us to Im… no, it takes us to IDW! That's right, April 2010 is the first month that IDW books gets to sit at the grown-up table at the front of the catalogue. Congrats to everyone there for their hard work.
Unfortunately for retailers, literally nothing changes for us. Same discount (lower than the rest of the premier publishers), same reorder penalty, same everything. Kinda disappointing, as I think whatever benefits that IDW would have gained by the move will be somewhat tempered by the similar terms… Here's hoping I'm wrong though.
Meanwhile, IDW starts their move off with… a licensed book based on a movie. Not personally thrilling, but the writer is Bob Schreck in his first post-DC outing, and it comes witha variant cover by Frank Miller? That's kind of a big deal. The interior art shown on the page honestly doesn't thrill me, but with Jurassic Park being one of the best-selling books and movies of all time, and this being a direct sequel to the first film, Jurassic Park: Redemption #1 (it's official title) will definitely have its fans. Page 140, $3.99.
7:02pm: James Patterson continues to sell very well in the states while remaining virtually unknown in Canada, it's kind of amazing. This month debuts another of his many comics projects, The Murder of King Tut #1, $3.99, page 148. Nice Darwyn Cooke cover there, working in a style similar to his Shuster Awards poster from a couple years back.
7:13pm: Going through the catalogue here, it ocurrs to me that a) there are a _lot_ of second issues in here, for series' whose launches would've been better served in this catalogue than in the last, and b) there are no relists/offered agains for a lot of this product, where something like Love & Capes Volume 2: Going to the Chapel (p.159, 192 pages, $19.99) is probably being seen by a LOT of retailers for the very first time (yes, despite FCBD and everything else), and being able to conveniently order v1 at the same time would've been a boon… Seems like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Meanwhile, TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS ($24.99, 200 pages, page 159) looks like the sort of weird/neat sci fi graphic novel we'd get if we lived in France or something, about a world where adults have been wiped out and only tribes of kids remain in a sort of bloody series of battles. It also sounds exactly like the late-90s tv series THE TRIBE, about exactly the same thing, though the solicit info doesn't mention anything to do with any of that. I certainly hope this is a licensed product, or there'll be one hell of a lawsuit coming down the pipe…
7:22pm: it's been quite a while since there've been Felix The Cat comics in print, and it looks like IDW will be bringing bat the classic Otto Messmer Dell/Harvey stories in Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails (p164, $34.99, 224 pages, hardcover). Edited by Craig Yoe.
5:35am: Well hello there! So right around 7:30 I went for dinner, came home, had a nap, and woke up about 20 minutes ago. So, hopefully you weren't waiting up all night for me. Or if you were: I'm starting to update again, you can head to bed now if you want. :)
So we're on page 167, which is the announcement of creator-owned book HACK/SLASH debuting at Image. To announce this, the lead character has a baseball bat pointing directly at her vajayjay, and one of her combat boots improbably pointed inwards and upwards to do the same. Also "Kiss It" is written ON the bat, which is hovering over her vajayjay. Don't believe me?
Now the question becomes: Did the artist do that on purpose, or is it all subconscious?
5:45am: That's the thing about Image, the first page is… well, the above… and then you flip the page and it's like you're in a whole 'nother publisher's section. The Bulletproof Coffin #1 has a sort of a lovely Geoff Darrow, late-80s/early 90s alternative comics thing going on, courtesy of David Hine and Shaky Kane. I'm not familiar with Mr. Kane's ouevre of alt-brit comics, but he certainly seems to be well regarded on the net and the whole thing owes a debt to utterly bizarre… well, Wikipedia says Silver Age but the whole thing has a sort of an anything-goes Golden Age quality to it, at least from the description. Here's the solicit:
ALL NEW SIX-ISSUE SERIES! Relive the Golden Age of comics! The Legendary Kane and Hine return to their greatest creations! SEE! Coffin Fly Vs. Zombie Nam Vets! The Shield of Justice walks the Dead Beat! The Unforgiving Eye sees all, forgives nothing! Red Wraith: He's red! He's dead! Ramona: Buxom, Beautiful and Bound! Big 2 Publishing, eat your heart out!
See, sounds like fun, right? And it looks like Geof Darrow! Win-win. And it comes on page 168, for $3.99, just after HackSlash. America, what a country!
5:59am: I don't want to make this the month where Chris Talks About Sexism In The Previews Catalogue, and I know mags like Heavy Metal have a long and proud history of doing exactly, this, but… The bad-ass chick with a gun that is otherwise heavily clothed for a cold, outdoor mission, has her flight suit unzipped to her ribcage to show off her tits, and a come-hither look.
I get it, I get it, sex sells, etc., but does stupidity also sell? This book takes place on the equivalent of the ice planet of Hoth, according to the preview pages… All of the dudes are covered head-to-toes, and it is freezing and snowy with steam rising out of their wounds… And this chick is like "Hey boys, look at this!"
It's just fucking dumb.
That's Dust Wars #1 (Seriously, I think it was supposed to be like Dust: Wars but yeah, even the title is dumb) on page 176. $2.99, 1 of 3.
6:05am: And again, washing the unplesant taste out of my mouth, page 178 has META 4, a brand new 5 issue series from Ted McKeever for $3.50 an issue. It sounds really, really Ted McKeevery. But the preview art looks lovely, I gotta say. There's a page with a Ferris Wheel on fire. Nifty.
Oh, and then on page 181 is SEA BEAR AND GRIZZLY SHARK by Ryan Ottley and Jason Howard, which I feel is some sort of in-joke that I heard about and cannot remember, but it's about a shark who stalks his prey on land and a bear who roams the seas, what else do you really need to know? $4.99 for 48 b&w pages.
6:12am: It looks like Image is comitted to keeping Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner, and Jimmy Palmiotti's THE PRO in print, as that book gets another edition on page 182, 72 pages for $7.99. Speaking of new editions, Doug Tenapel's CREATURE TECH gets its first Image edition (produced many moons ago by Top Shelf) for $17.99 on page 183.
6:17am: The Walking Dead Volume 12 is solicited on page 185, due out on June 2nd. That's good news. :)
6:33am: Ah, the Marvel section of the catalogue. I have to say that I'm actually getting a little sleepy here, I'm not normally up at 6:34am and my post-dinner sleep could best be described as 'restless'. I think maybe I'll finish off this section and then go back for a nap before it's time to go to work… in 4 hours. :-/
So whaddawegot? p4 Marvelman Primer, a stop-gap nothing of a release, 26 pages of text, 6 illustrations, almost no creative costs and they're charging 4 bucks for it. ARE people so desperate to get Marvelman/Miracleman anything that they're willing to pay $4 for advertising material? Or no. I'm betting on no, orders-wise.
p13. At least when that pale vampire dude in Anita Blake unbuttons his shirt to show off his tits, he's safely indoors where they won't get frostbitten. Also, he's a vampire so he probably doesn't feel cold.
p.16. X-Campus is… a reimagining of the X-Men mythos as if they were all in highschool at the same time. It's a neat idea, one I've had myself, a bit like the movies too actually. It's Marvel's version of the European graphic album, but for some reason they stuck a Todd Nauck cover on it… Anyway, looks interesting. 2 issues, 28 pages and $4.99 each.
… sorry, was reading. Kinda lost interest in the Marvel section. It's all a bit rote, isn't it? Anyway, thanks for reading! I'll be back with part two –the back of the catalogue — at some point soon.
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The fourth year on the Malone deal with Sacramento is a team option, sources tell Y! Sports.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) May 31, 2013
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 8m Golden State's Mike Malone has reached an agreement in principle on a four-year deal to coach the Sacramento Kings, sources tell Y! Sports. I'm sorry guys I am totally new to this so I know my formal sucks but this is what I saw on twitter today! :/...If the mods or someone else can make a better fanshot of this feel free!


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The Montreal Canadiens beat the Ottawa Senators by a narrow margin on Sunday, 2-1, in a game marred by perhaps one of the worst calls we're likely to see this season from the NHL. The Senators appeared to have netted the game-tying goal early in the third period, when Jakob Silfverberg provided a perfect screen on a shot from distance that somehow found its way past goaltender Carey Price.
The officials immediately waved off the goal, however, due to goaltender interference, and then called a two-minute minor on Silfverberg for the infraction. Going to the tape, however, it certainly appears as if this was one hell of a blown call by the on-ice officials.
The called penalty ended what had been a fairly raucous celebration by Silfverberg and the Senators, who rightly looked extraordinarily perplexed that such a call was being allowed to be made. It's clear on replay that not only was Silfverberg nowhere near the crease when the shot came through but that Carey Price appears to have been the one to initiate contact; certainly not anything resembling actual goaltender interference occurred and certainly nothing warranting a penalty that only added insult to injury.
The issue at hand is the interpretation of yet another fairly subjective rule in the NHL Rule book. From Rule 69.1 on
"Interference on the Goalkeeper":
69.1 Interference on the Goalkeeper - This rule is based on the premise that an attacking player's position, whether inside or outside the crease, should not, by itself, determine whether a goal should be allowed or disallowed. In other words, goals scored while attacking players are standing in the crease may, in appropriate circumstances be allowed. Goals should be disallowed only if: (1) an attacking player, either by his positioning or by contact, impairs the goalkeeper's ability to move freely within his crease or defend his goal; or (2) an attacking player initiates intentional or deliberate contact with a goalkeeper, inside or outside of his goal crease. Incidental contact with a goalkeeper will be permitted, and resulting goals allowed, when such contact is initiated outside of the goal crease, provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact. The rule will be enforced exclusively in accordance with the on-ice judgment of the Referee(s), and not by means of video replay or review.
Emphasis mine.
In this case, Brian Pochmara determined that Silfverberg -- apparently -- not only committed enough contact to impede Price but that it must have been intentional contact to call off the goal, since the contact occurred well outside the crease. Either that, or Pochmara believed the contact happened in the crease, which would be an entirely alternate altogether.
This blown call will also once again raise the debate of expanded video review, as this call is not available to be looked at by off-ice officials. The NHL has stated that the league could look into expanded video review, although sweeping chances aren't likely coming anytime soon.
The reaction to this call by Pochmara can be summed up with one word -- dumbfounding -- but we'll let Sens coach Paul MacLean provide the best reaction to the no-goal call:


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Let me start off by admitting that I biased. I graduated from Indiana University and I am a huge fan of all Hoosier sports. Over the past two seasons, I became one of the biggest fans of Cody Latimer, a Wide Reciever for the high flying Hoosier offense.
Cody Latimer is forgoing his senior season to enter the NFL Draft. A combine invite and a Mid-Round Projected player, some think he should have possible stayed one more year to bolster his stock. As a Hoosier fan, I selfishly agree. However, he is more than NFL ready and he is exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs need. My hope is that KC finds a WR in FA like Maclin, drafts a FS in Round 1 (Calvin Pryor/Haha-Clinton-Dix), and than adds Cody Latimer in Round 3-5. Get your popcorn out b/c as a dyslexic guy, I like videos... so I got some for you.
Cody Latimer, Indiana University, Wide Receiver
Height: 6'3''
Weight: 220lbs
Projected 40: 4.40-4.50
Projected Round: 4-6th Round
2nd Team All-Big Ten (2012 and 2013), ESPN All-American Player of the Week (vs. Illinois), Biletnikoff Award Watch List
2013: 1,096yds, 9TDs
2012: 805yds, 6TDs
Latimer has exceptional hands. I am not talking great, I am talking elite. One of the major issues with the Chiefs wideouts is a big issue. They can't catch! Cody is your go to guy. Cody is the one on a 3rd and 6th you can trust to pull it in for the first down.
Latimer is exceptionally sure-handed. Johns said that in three years of practices and games, the coach has witnessed Latimer drop a pass two or three times. Wynn said Latimer wins most of the drills in which receivers catch the football with one hand. "He just doesn't drop the ball. Unlike anything I've ever seen before," Johns said (OC/WR/QB Coach, Indiana University)
Latimer flashes soft hands and good coordination when asked to extend and pluck the ball off his frame, and positions his body nicely when adjusting to balls thrown off stride." NFLDraftScout.com's Derek Stephens
Latimer's hands are very good. He consistently makes receptions on catchable passes, whether in traffic, tight coverage or after contact. And can make some very difficult receptions with cornerbacks breathing on his neck. His hands were one of the areas where I gave Latimer a perfect score when grading him. So there is no reason to think they will be an issue at the next level.Overall, he is one of the best in this class in terms of concentration on 50-50 balls. James Cobern - allprofootballsource.com
The Chiefs need a 50/50 guy. A red zone guy. A guy that Smith can just throw in the general direction and know that he will win that battle. His size, his leaping ability, and his amazing hands is why Latimer is a perfect goal line WR. He wins 50/50 battles, plain and simple.
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Latimer has Victor Oladipo like ups, you guys:
I love physical wideouts. Ones that can block. Ones that DBs fear tackling.
"He flashes the physicality and initial quickness to develop into a receiver who could beat press coverage at the next level, and is a willing blocker in the running game with room to improve his technique there." NFLDraftScout.com's Derek Stephens
Understanding of blocking assignments and cut blocks are positives about Latimer's game." James Cobern
Route Running
Indiana WRs just know how to run routes. Latimer is a prime example. Head Coach Kevin Wilson is a offensive guru and requires his WRs to be able to run expectional routes.
"Latimer possesses a thick, athletic-looking frame and an impressive speed/agility combination that enable him to separate consistently as a route-runner, and extend plays after the catch both in space and on contact," NFLDraftScout.com's Derek Stephens
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Latimer was also a starting Special Teamer for the Hoosiers. Excellent speed mixed with phsyicality made him an All-Star on Special Teams. He was his High Schools leading tackler at defensive back with 95 tackles. If you get drafted in the mid-rounds, you better be able to play Special Teams too. Latimer is perfect for that.
Against Elite DBs
Here is a fun video link of Latimer challenging top defensive prospect Darqueze Dennard (Michigan State). Even top DBs struggle with his frame/hands/leaping.
Well there you go. I will let you judge for yourself, but if KC is on the clock in round 3-5 and Cody Latimer is still on the board -- DRAFT HIM. I love athletes and that is exactly what Latimer is. Multiple star athlete in high school, he has that multiple skill set I love in a TRUE athlete. While you come to a conclusion on Latimer, he will be busy training in Florida with Brandon Marshall to get ready for this combine and life in the NFL. Go Chiefs! Go Hoosiers!
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Peace Through War
Posted on Dec 10, 2009
President Barack Obama struggled to balance "man of peace" with "man of war" in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, in which he demanded we uphold moral standards in "necessary" war and insisted that war could bring peace. —JCL
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By Wendell Bibby, December 11, 2009 at 4:04 pm Link to this comment
To: OUTRAGED;
The EXAMPLE of the Roman Empire was more than 'entertained' during the founding of this country.
Does the word SENATE ring a bell?
By Jim Yell, December 11, 2009 at 9:32 am Link to this comment
I couldn't take much of his speech. Here he was speaking Republican Talking Points as if he had invented them to excuse this continued surrender to militarism in this country.
Except for WWII no war has been fought except from the direction of businesses. We are over charged for weapons systems that do not work and others that have no claim of being so precious that they deserve outrageous cost. Rifles that are "state of the art", but break down in the middle of battles. Body Armor that is faulty, No bid contracts for politically well placed corporations. No accountability except for the poor sucker who follows orders and then is thrown out to take the blame for what the upper ranks wanted to do, but do not want to take the blame for.
This is not what Obama was elected for. He has morphed into George Bush, the national idiot.
By joel kabakov PhD, December 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm Link to this comment
He approached the lectern with the same grace and confidence as at his inaugural address more than ten months before. An historical wind at his back that had swept the first African american into office with more first time participants in the electoral process than the country had yet seen now stood poised to address the very issue that established his predecessor as a candidate for worst president ever: the interminable wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
Like most liberal politicians, Obama and his advisors knew that despite the fact that any escalation now would stretch this popular president to the limits of his credibility, he would none the less successfully "thread the needle" and emerge on the other side unscathed with an even broader base of support than ever, a base that would now include some centrists and even a few northern republicans.
In all of U.S. history, the one great equal opportunity employer of presidents had been war and nothing but war. Even when the LBJs, the JFKs, the Wilsons and Lincolns delivering great rhetoric for peace, the wars went on practically uninterrupted. And Obama's supporters knew their history and were paying close attention when the Bush propaganda machine rolled out its lies, demeaning what little was left of American legitimacy in the international community, stealing from the treasury, spreading terror beyond all proportion to what the real threats were, jimmying elections and so on.
But what the Obama administration failed to realize was that any speech no matter how brilliantly delivered, advocating war as the path to peace, would be his last as recognized leader of the progressive movement in America and as the standard bearer for international change in an economically and environmentally imperiled world. This Nobel Prize will be regretted throughout history.
By jean Gerard, December 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm Link to this comment
Amazing how an intelligent person can say—without evidence but with pure
"Could not have been" is a defensive statement used to justify war as if to
At this point we should all be asking ourselves "What are we now doing in
Language again pops into our heads and tells us: "War is the opposite of
But—Just think of all the things that might be in between, which could be
Oh, can't do that. Means change. Means new ideas. Means ... well we don't
By Wendell Bibby, December 10, 2009 at 2:58 pm Link to this comment
The only differance between Bush and Obama is that Obama does not sound like a stupid idiot when he speaks.
By Tim Kelly, December 10, 2009 at 1:27 pm Link to this comment
The full speech is at
Obama fails to acknowledge that Prescott Bush sold the Nazis the steel to make the weapons of war an later laundered money for them. Ronald Reagan provided arms to the Mujahadeen, which later became al-Qaeda.
"America has never fought a war against a democracy,"
However, America has removed several democracies, and has gone to war with at least one later (Iraq, which was a constitutional monarchy before the CIA helped the Ba'ath Party take over).
This is horrifying. The largest arms manufacturer and seller in the world has introduced the concept of "just wars." This is not irony. It is violence.


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Katy Johnson – International Model, Actress, and Star of the Reality Show "The Shores" Ponders Her Future
Interview by Michael Dykstra – Muze Editor
Katy, really happy we could feature you in Muze! Your career is taking off with your appearance on the reality show "The Shores" here in the US which had it's finale a couple weeks ago. But I'm curious how you got started modeling and acting. Fill us in a little about how things got started for you.
Growing up I really never wanted to be a model, I didn't even think about it. I grew up as a serious Tomboy. My uncle raced cars professionally and my Grandpa is a mechanic so I spent a lot of time in the garage. My first passion was cars and to be a mechanic. I loved getting dirty, then later in High School I decided I wanted to be a police officer so I went to college with a Criminal Justice Major. When I got my SR photos taken the photographer asked me if I ever thought of modeling, I laughed it off. A year later at 18 I went to LA and met Keith Lander (Photographer) at a convention I was at with a friend and that's where it all began. He shot me for the Cover of Maxim in the Czech Republic, I got an agency while out in LA and went back to Iowa, packed my bags and headed to LA to pursue modeling and acting came a bit later as kind of a mistake as well. Again, I never had ambitions of being an actress but luckily opportunities arose and I took them and I'm very glad I have!
You've also been lucky enough to be living in France for some time. What brought you overseas?
Yes, I live in France currently with my boyfriend Max Evans who is a professional rugby player. He plays for a French team and then he plays Nationally for Scotland so that's why I travel to Scotland quite often, plus I also do various jobs while in the UK like photoshoots and presenting. I have to say I'm pretty new at the whole presenting thing but I absolutely love it!
So let's talk a little about "The Shores." How did you get cast for the show? Is that something you pursued?
My best friend at the time had been cast and told me about it. I was very happy for her but a "Reality show" wasn't really my forte. I again, just happened to be in the right place at the right time. They had their cast party at the club I was working at and I met the producers. They were great and really liked my attitude and personality, they invited me for a meeting the next day to just have maybe a cameo so I could promote my suicide awareness group. Later it ended up that they wanted me as a full time character as explained that it was an "unscripted drama" not a "reality" show and yes I guess there is a difference. I am very happy I went. It was such an experience I'm truly thankful for!
Sounds like quite a journey in more ways than one to re-locate to South Africa and live and shoot for weeks on end with a bunch of new people. What was that whole experience like?
It was exciting, there was always stuff going on for us and we were always meeting people however, It got really difficult as well. We shot long long hours each day and we didnt have much time to make friends. I really missed my family and boyfriend and I was the meany in the show so I was kind of excluded and left out a lot for production purposes so it got difficult. I was busy but also lonely. Thank Heavens for skype as my boyfriend literally skyped me every single day while I was there! He also came and saw me twice in the 3 months I was there so I lucked out with having such a great boyfriend!
How do you feel about how you have been portrayed in the show? As everyone knows reality show directors look to tell a story and create characters. How did you feel about what was essentially your character in the show?
I mean I don't mind some things as I'm a very straight up, honest person. I feel I was very real in the show as far as who I was in ways that I wasn't fake and I certainly didn't suck up for my position or to get ahead like some people. I think towards the end people will have a serious misconception of me as story lines were really pushed and manipulated and editing doesn't help so I look kinda crazy, haha, and I'm not crazy at all! End of day It's a show and you need that drama and shock factor and I was happy to stir it, it was fun. As far as who you see on the show though, that's just one side of me. My friends will tell you I can be a very down to earth, silly, very caring person. I would do anything for my friends and the people I love.
Did you come away from the show with any new great friends or, shall we say, not such great friends?
I met some really lovely girls! The South African girls were absolutely lovely! What a great bunch of women. Raquelle was one of my closest friends on the show following Jamillette who is an American girl I went with. I still speak to those two regularly. There are also girls that I didn't get on with so well, I think it was just a personality clash. End of day not everyone can be friends. All in all it was a positive experience and one I'm thankful for!
Where to now? Are you relocating or returning to Europe? What new
adventures await?
Like I said, I'm currently in France. I've been relaxing until my next move. I have a lot of things brewing plus possibly a season 2. Right now, I just call this time "The calm before the Storm" A good storm of course! I will be back in action and possibly coming back to LA for a few months at a time to really get on the work again! I miss acting as it's such a great job, you get to be different people all the time, It's amazing!
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I know the 52nd pick isn't sexy, but depending on if we keep it and how things go in Round 1, I am throwing out a name - Henk Norel from Europe. He is big and could possibly be the next Jeff Foster once Jeff Foster (MY FAV!!) is gone. Take a look.
Another name out there is Meeks. Look, I hate Meeks with a passion (I hate UK with a passion.). But he is a known commodity. I could see him as a shooter off the bench. I am not really for us taking him, but perhaps I have to put my NCAA preferences aside and admit that he might not be a bad late 2nd Round pick for the Pacers.


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7. Final assembly.
The sequencer and driver both run off the same 12V
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Texans love to dance, and
for many outsiders, square dancing is a stereotypical dance all Texans do.
One group is trying to
make that stereotype a fun experience for all.
Tidal wave and pass the
ocean may be strange code to any outsider but to members of the Pinesquares
they all makes sense.
The Pinesqaures have been
mastering the square dance in Lufkin for well over 30 years.
"It sounds old
fashioned but it's not, and it's a worldwide thing," said Pinesquares president
Deanna Lee. It's not just Texas."
The Pinesqaures meet twice
a month, developing friendships and dance moves.
The group varies in age, trying
to break the stereotype that square dancing is for older people.
"I've done a lot of
dancing before; country western and stuff like that," said 18 year old Joshua
Lee. "I heard about square dancing and wanted to try it. I got out there and
just had a blast."
"I really didn't want to start," said 21
year old Caleb Phillips. "I had some friends
that were doing it, so I came out and danced once and it was so much fun that I
have stuck with it."
They are even confident
they can teach anyone.
"If you can walk, you can
square dance," said Lee. "It's friendship set to music, as long as you can move
your feet and walk. You don't even have to have rhythm."
"We teach them the
lessons, we teach them the definition's and we teach them the moves, and we
take it one step at a time," said Caller and square dance teacher Mike Mayeux.
The group is planning on
starting beginner lessons in September. To learn more about the group and their
schedule of events, you can visit their website.
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How do you get going again after pregnancy?
Camlo, that sounds scary, Aidan is having attacks when he gets a chest infection however we are on round 4 this year, I did control the last bout of wheezing with Ventolin though so I could get to the doc the next morning but it does feel like something hanging over us especially as his underlying cough never seems to go.
I thought tuition fee loans were for everyone? What if your parents won't give you the money despite having it? Hardly a fair system!
My kids are all good asthma wise now we are on the clenil every day. Sophie was wheezing badly last week, but extra doses of clenil and some ventolin sorted that out.
Tuition fees, well we just don't have the money at the mo to worry. So we struggle now or we struggle then. I think then is the answer for now. We need the money now!! I understand your concerns CM, but surely T will have to pay half too. Is he saving? Would he really deny his kids an education if you couldn't pay half? He really is a shit if thats the case!!
Sick bugs I let them decide when they want to eat really. Hunger is usually as sign the bug has gone. Then they have toast or crackers or dry stuff and water only. Usually works ...Hard with babies so yes clear liquids only or BF??
Bit tiddley after half bottle of chardonnay. Oh well. Much needed! Have been to pilates also! Hope you got your choc CM...!
Love your FB post sonya. Did make me chuckle lots!!
Kinsey - you are right, any student is eligible to apply for a tuition fee loan up to the max value of £9K. No the most attractive of prospects to rack up £27K of debt - but does offer the buy now pay later option. CM - different rules for tuition fees apply to those who started uni in September 2012 or earlier which might be the problem for the woman you work beside.
Life is too short and the tuition fee system will be something entirely different by the time all our kids get there - and it is anybodys guess what it will be! So would agree with the others CM to use the money now when you need it.
Just about keeping up with reading all on here. Hope Archie has a better night tonight Camio. Hubby back from Japan but between jet lag and thinking he might be about to be ill, I'm beginning to wish he was still in Japan
have done no pilates for me yet this week! that'll be tomorrows job after my run and while the mincemeat is doing it's thing!!
We'll definitely still be paying a mortgage off then too, totally agree with MMs philosophy.
I've been on clenil every day since I was given it back in May, tried a few days away from it and difference was noticable pretty promptly so I haven't bothered NOT taking it again since, currently finding that the cold really seems to hit the lungs when I head out to run so making sure I take the blue inhaler in the warmth before I set off ... and it's going to get colder ...
Hee hee MR, can't remember if I said, but good news about him and new job
Tough situation CM. In NZ student loans have existed pretty much forever so I left uni with $33,000 in debt and that was fairly standard amongst my friends. I then paid off by saving hard once I was working. I have several friends who intend to live out of NZ permenently so they don't have to pay it back - but they are now chasing the money with the Auz govt so that plan has backfired whilst one friends loan in particular has mounted up massively. We have just set up a savings account for Matilda which currently gets $10 a week - I figure a tiny amount will still add up.
My sister somehow racked up HUGE student debts despite living at home during uni - she only finally payed them off a couple of years ago ... she's now 36!!
CM - I do totally get how it must feel being that individually responsible for so much. I just think that sometimes things are just so darn scary and impossible that you almost can't think about it, especially if there is very little that you can currently do about it, as the worry just eats you up. Yes, I agree I have a husband who earns a decent wage and we are in it together but you just never do know whats round the corner... do you? ...
Speaking of which, one of my very good friends up here is having at time I can't even comprehend tbh, I may have mentioned before ... her eldest child (son, aged 15 has cancer, again,). I have no idea what the long-term prognosis is - can't bear to ask her, but I don't think good and he's really not well at the moment at all. Unbelievably focussed lad - in town panto, grade 5 cello plus studies. They are such a lovely upbeat family - how oh how do they manage that ... and the husband works away all week down in London ... made me think a lot this week for sure
I'm slightly worse for wear too, two friends just left having come over to have some vino to keep me company whilst hubby is away - nice to catch up, but 2 bottles between 3 and I'm a bit tispy and tired so best be off to bed.
I remember my first job in America and meeting my colleague, an American vet, who owed some amazing amount of money from her studies (4 yrs under grad, then 4 yrs vet school), I'm sure it was over $100k. And I could say to her that my tuition cost me nothing........and for some bizzarre reason us vet studnts got paid several hundred pounds per term from the vet school, because we had to spend basically all our spare time in the holidays doing 'extra mural studies' (basicall seeing practice at vets, unpaid) so couldn't get a job, so the vet school gave us money instead. No more......
We save £20 per month per child and it goes into M's CTF and E has a similar thing as CTF's didn't exist anymore. Plus we gave E £500 to start off with as M got £500 from the govt so it was only fair.
Well we have been having a financial moral dilemma here, my brother has managed to get himself into huge debt by just living beyond his means and approached us for help. He did say he didn't expect us to cough up and that he needed advice but as he has basically been enjoying life rather than struggling to make ends meet I think its time he sorted out his own problem but I feel incredibly guilty at the same time that we aren't handing over our hard earned wedge to bail him out. Does that make any sense?? Anyway I'm alternating between wanting to call him an idiot or send him a red cross parcel. He also thinks sharing his problem has made it easier for him however its now making me worry a lot. Grrr! Anyway, got that off my chest. I think the bit that really got my goat was that he leased a Harley Davidson a little while ago which he blatantly didn't need and now it turns out definitely couldn't afford!!!
Must look up Clenil, we have Modulite which Aidan is taking am and pm. His cough is a lot better today.
Right, up way too early here but I need to get our act together before the school run!
Grrrr to brother Kinsey - a problem shared is a problem halved for one and a problem gained for another huh! Don't feel guilty - a handout would not help him to learn value of money or how to manage with less etc.
Matilda is defiitely getting a toothbrush in her stocking - she will be thrilled!
Wow CC that is so tough - definitely puts a different perspective on things!
i could have had an extra hour in bed this morning! got up at 6 for the drive to Hemel but forgot it doesn't take as long as Warrington. D'oh!
sorry to hear you are all poorly Sonya. fortunately, J's tummy thing hasn't come to anything. my stomach is awful tho - was putting it down to TOTM but it's still ongoing this morning so no idea what it is. see on FB that MM is poorly too. so much going around at the moment.
i am afraid i can't live 'in the moment' when it comes to money. i have to know that i am secure, and at the moment, i don't feel like i am. i guess the threat of redundancy recently has brought home to me how vulnerable i am. i don't have a support network at all either, so any help i need has to be paid for. anyway, i know a lot of you don't agree with my view on this, but i have to do what it takes to feel like i am safe, otherwise i am living in constant fear. i would rather have things a bit hard for a while and be sure that i have enough to cope for a while if i lose my job or get sick. or if one of the kids gets sick. most of you have someone who can help in some way - or can help you pay for additional help if you need it. i don't have that at all, so i can't just say 'sod it' and live for now.
anyway - enough of all that. in hemel today for 4 hours of auditing. hoping to make it back in time for club tonight but it will depend on the traffic. chilly brr here today, but it makes a lovely change from all the rain!
Kinsey - that's definitely a tough one, but I'm guessing he needs some 'tough love'; easier said than done sometimes though I know.
Boo to all the sickiness ... various people in Js class have succumbed so you do feel like you are sitting on a timebomb, although I think I'd rather have it now than during the Christmas hols.
Hope you make it back for club CM. Brrrrr chilly here too but sunny so very pleasant.
Had major panic this morning, guy turned up at 8.30am to fill our oil tank, just as I am howling at kids to get shoes on etc the alarm on it goes off (the one that indicates your oil is leaking everywhere or being nicked!!!). Despite having the darn alarm there is no info who you call when it goes off!!! Lady at oil company panicked me even more with talk of burst oil tanks etc etc. Anyway after dropping kids off late and switching it off and on again a couple of times, it seems to have stopped and the tank is still full - phew! That'll be a nice bill 1000 litres of oil at about 69p a litre, best get some more logs ordered for the stove then - two truck loads £150 lasts us all year virtually
wow - scary thing this morning CC! i don't miss the LPG bills from when i lived with T... and my house now is so little in comparison that a little bit of heating goes much further!
kinsey - have you suggested your brother talks to an advice line about money help rather than (or possibly as well as - if he thinks it's helping) you? if he has had a sort of epiphany about it, there are people and services out there that can help. i have suggested this to N, who has major debt, but he won't do it because he wants to sort it out himself. hmmm... i have realised talking to you lot that i do probably have a bit of an issue with debt / money, and i think the situation with N and his debt / financial settlement is standing in the way of our relationship in a major way. perhaps i do need some perspective on it - but i feel so vulnerable. i have written my will recently and i haven't mentioned him in it at all. if T dies first and then i die, the kids go to my friend, S. if the kids and T and I all die together, all my money goes to my cousin. and the reason i have distanced myself from him is to do with his debt and ongoing refusal to sort his financial situation... hmmm...
He talked to the debt helpline but as he is somehow making his monthly payments they cant do anything. He also tried to consolidate his debt with one loan from the bank but had a 'computer says no' situation.
Its come to a head as he has met a girl and wants to settle down but if I was her I would not want to be taking on that kind of issue. CM my Mum is crap with money and spectacularly managed to go from owning her own property to having it repossessed by remortgaging and splashing the cash when she wasn't earning money. It really frustrates me that banks and credit card companies make it SO easy for people to spend so much more than they earn. Might stop now before I go into full rant mode, anyway I know where you are coming from, being solvent is something I too think is very important!
vixo - i too have critical illness cover and life insurance, plus death in service. and sick pay cover through work too. i have done what i can to cover those bases, and it has all been reviewed since my divorce, so it is all current etc. i know i have done what i can really, but it doesn't stop me stressing about the 'what ifs'. i think that was the major benefit for me of being married, tbh. there was someone else 'in it' with me. whatever the 'it' may be. a sort of security blanket. now i just feel totally alone and very vulnerable. and of course, one of my worries is that, if for whatever reason i end up not being able to cope financially, T will just sweep the kids away from me. if i got sick and couldn't afford to pay for someone to help me look after them when they were with me, he would just have them and i wouldn't get to see them at all. i even worry about things like - what would happen if i broke my ankle or needed an operation or something. like my friend, S, whose appendix ruptured and she was in hospital for a week and couldn't then drive for about 4 weeks after. in that situation, i would be absolutely stuffed as i would then have to pay for someone to come in and look after the kids for me / drive them around on the days they were with me etc. or else just not see them because T would have them.
the whole thing just makes me panic and want to cry.
argh. i think i need more chocolate.
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It's been more than three years now since an exasperating state parole board wrongly set free a convicted armed robber who was serving three concurrent life terms, then would use his freedom to kill a Woburn police officer, sparking a series of board changes and reforms.
Now, there is another clear sign that the new board is working.
The state parole panel last week shot down a parole bid from a Gloucester woman who brutally murdered the local woman and mother with whom she was temporarily staying, stabbing her 108 times in her Mansfield Street home in 1998.
Barbara Goucher, who pleaded guilty to slaying Florence "Bunny" Munroe, made what she and her attorney thought might be a good case for release in her first parole hearing; Goucher told the board she had focused her time on occupational and educational classes, and she was featured in a 2007 Boston Globe article about a program that connects military veterans with assistance dogs trained in jails.
That's nice — but Essex County District Attorney Elin Graydon rightfully noted that Goucher had not been part of that program now since 2007, and the board found that Groucher failed to show sufficient remorse and showed no history of participating in drug rehabilitation programs despite drugs fueling her actions at the time of the vicious murder.
With that, the parole board said no in the name of public safety. That, indeed, is how the system is supposed to work.


text: Western PA Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh are looking to the skies this Friday. Earth is looking at a close call from an asteroid; but this is a time for excitement, not fear. asteroid 2012 DA14 is half the size of a football field, and later this week it will be traveling very close to the Earth.


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News: Game Cops Another 50 Cent Plea, "I'm Always Open To Chopping It Up"
Monday, Jan 31, 2011 11:30AM
Former G-Unit member Game is not done with his attempts to mend his estranged relationship with 50 Cent, as witnessed on his new Purp & Patron mixtape single, "Dead".
With rhymes such as "What up 50, let's talk it out" on the record, Game said his calling out to the G-Unit leader was heartfelt.
Turns out, the West Coast MC is prepared to make peace with just about everyone--including his nemesis. "Man, I'll have a sit-down with anybody. I'm not opposed to anything," Game told Rap-Up.com. "That was just a lyric in a song that breeded maybe hope for some fans out there. Not necessarily saying that'll ever happen, but I'm always open to chopping it up and letting bygones be bygones to any situation in life pretty much--unless it persists to piss me off or rub me uneasy. But other than that, I'm game." (Rap-Up)
In mid-2010, Game said he was open to reunion talks with the Unit.
"It's a new day and it's really time to get money you know what I'm saying -- So all I'm saying is why not get out here wing it like Voltron and sh*t," Game said in an interview. "Bring it back full circle and make some motherf*ckin' money...I wasn't opposed to it...He got an ego. I got an ego. Ain't nobody apologizing. Ain't nobody saying that they was wrong, but you ain't gotta do that to make amends. You just gotta get together, do the sh*t, and you can do it for the sake of money. We don't gotta break no peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in half and do the sh*t. Come to an agreement as men, get the sh*t done like men." (Hip Hop DX)
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50 Cent later addressed Game's interest in re-linking and shared his opinion on the real reason behind a reunion attempt.
"I heard that," Fif said when told about Game wanting to re-join G-Unit. "It was six songs, they put out six joints and ain't nothing buzzing. They thought anti-50 as opposed to pro-50. You know what I think? I think once I stopped arguing, the interest dropped. Because as long as there's an argument, you're as interesting as the people you're actually arguing with. So even with Rick Ross and all the people I went back and forth with, that was good for them on the other level. I'm really not interested in working with him because I don't understand exactly why that happened. If I did something wrong, like, [Lloyd] Banks had a legitimate reason to be upset with me at one point. His pops passed away and his moms was in a car accident, he shut down because he didn't see the response he was looking for from the Rotten Apple record and I was a little insensitive in those areas because I didn't know my father and I lost my mother when I was eight. So I don't see a reason why I should stop pushing. If your pops passes away -- depression is a luxury I can't afford." (Hot 97)
Game and 50 Cent parted ways in early 2005 due to internal conflicts.
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Jim Irsay watched his Indianapolis Colts roll through regular season after regular season behind Peyton Manning. Then came all those disappointing playoff stumbles.
So when Indy's team owner started rebuilding last season, he changed the plan. Instead of relying on a high-flying, high-scoring offense to beat opponents, Irsay decided the way to get more frequent February celebrations was with a more balanced offense and more of a money balance between offensive and defensive players.
With the Colts ready to report to training camp Saturday, Irsay is about to find out if this will work.
He spent tens of millions of dollars in free agency, the bulk of it to give Andrew Luck something Manning rarely had - an equally good defense and a upgraded special teams unit.
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As of Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Albany ALBANY, Ga. — The mother of a 5-year-old girl who was struck in the foot by a bullet has been charged with reckless conduct.
Albany Police Department spokesman Phyllis Banks said the charge has been filed against Shondrique Mallory, 21. Her daughter, Shontisa Mallory, was taken to an Albany hospital Wednesday after being shot in the foot.
Also charged are Mallory's boyfriend, Kebin Jones, 25, and his sister, Dinah Hosley. They have each been charged with tampering with evidence.
Banks said an investigation by the Family protection Unit determined that the weapon had been under a couch at the 1505-B Avalon Ave. home and, "at some point, one shot was fired and the child was struck in the right foot. Family members transported the child to the hospital for treatment. The child was treated and released. The weapon was not recovered."
Charles Hayes, who identified himself as an uncle, told The Albany Herald on Wednesday that the gun was fired accidentally and that he did not know whose gun it was.
waltspecht 3 years ago
Convienant that no one knows whose gun it was, or where it got to. Does anyone really believe that? I just hope the DA does all he can to get the gun produced, and the right people headed to jail. Could a convicted Felon be involved, and that's why the gun disappeared? Isn't the charge of contributing, aiding and abedding after a crime applicable here?
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A Siouxland group that collects shoes and sends them to those in need around the world has hit a major milestone. On Thursday, the folks at Village Northwest Unlimited in Sheldon, Iowa processed their one-millionth pair of shoes through the Soles4Souls program.
Soles4Souls is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Through the program, new and used shoes are collected and sent to 128 countries. Village Northwest has been a program partner since 2009.
Village Northwest Unlimited is a work center for people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. Residents of the Village pair up and rubber band the shoes together. The shoes are then sorted by grading them into designated boxes based on their overall condition: New, High Grade Used and other. Shoes given an "other" designation are typically shoes like winter boots or lower grade shoes.
Stacie Jorgensen, Director of Advancement at Village Northwest Unlimited said, "The Soles4Souls Processing Center at the Village provides valuable work opportunities for the people we serve and gives them the dignity of having a job and the reward of earning a paycheck. It is also a great way for the people we serve to help other people in need throughout the world."


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- 2 cans (18oz) sweet potatoes, drained and mashed
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
Combine pecans, brown sugar, flour, and 2 tablespoons butter. Spread
evenly over the top of the sweet potatoes. Cover and cook on high for 3
to 4 hours.
Serves about 6.
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