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Week eight, day one
The word of the day is 'mortifying'!
My new found confidence in my fitness came back to bite me in be behind and I had to hang my head in shame in front of my colleagues at the annual company sports day.
Thinking I was superwoman and that I could take on any sporting fixture they threw at me, I volunteered to be our team representative in the 'sack race'. Yep, you read it correctly, the kind of race where you get into a rather large sack and then proceed to jump down the track, holding the sack round your waist, in an attempt to beat your fellow competitors to the finish line. There is only one word to describe this… mortifying!
Not only did I fail miserably in staying upright (I was laughing so hard that I ended up crawling along the ground in the sack) but the MC decided to make the spectators cheer me on until I made it over the finish line – a full five minutes after the rest of the competitors.
I figure the only way to redeem myself is to actually better my time at the 10K race I am running on Saturday. Part of me is really de-motivated about the run incase my time is worse than it was month ago at the Race For Hunger run, but the competitive side of me is adamant that I will prove to myself that all this training actually does pay off.
Bearing in mind that two months ago you would have had to bribe me onto a treadmill with diamonds and hard cash, I am slightly taken aback by the fact that I have somehow learnt how to push through the mental and physical pain of running. Go figure!
Week eight, day two
So I sent out a couple of emails to some friends of mine who I thought would be able to give me some initial (and honest) insight into how to start the process of writing a book and, equally importantly, how to get it published. My journalism tutor Nick was helpful with advice on how to self-publish if that elusive publishing deal proves to be a hard cookie to crack. Practical, yet conservative, advice which would fit in with my previous 'control freak' self. But I feel that my post-Life Challenge self would settle for nothing less than a signed publishing contract. Which is why I have decided to take the advice of a good friend of mine, who is himself a published author and one of the most inspirational and motivating people I have ever come across. The world needs more people like him! For all you aspiring authors out there, here is his advice.
That's wonderful news!
You're FANTASTIC! And I'm sure doing this is a great decision that will bring you fulfillment, happiness and even more wonderful success in your life.
Yes, you're exactly right in your approach. Write the first few chapters, get them nicely bound and then send them to Publishers and also Literary Agents.
You may want to ask your amazing contacts if they know any Literary Agents and then go meet them, see if you like them and they want to take you on. Publishers sometimes take a bit more notice if you have one, but they're not essential by any means. But then, it's always good to have all the help you can, too.
Make sure your sample chapters are spell-checked and you've proof read them before sending.
I always think meeting people is best, so if you can meet any Publishers, do that and pre-send your chapters so they can read them before the meeting.
In short, I wish you huge success and know you'll do fabulously. You're a vibrant, fiercely bright and glamorous woman! So, I'm sure loads of people and companies would love to work with you.
If the Publishers don't bite, then you can use all your brilliant skills to self-publish and PR your book.
For now, just get the first few chapters down, make sure you're pretty happy with them (they don't have to be perfect) and then get them bound, and start sending away. All the while, write more and try to complete the book. Then you can decide on your next moves, and you'll be empowered, because you'll have the 'product' ready to go...and both you and others can then help you come up with strategies for that product.
Can't wait to see the first copy off the presses!
Otherwise known as the 'Ideas Man', for inspiration, check out his website at www.shedsimove.com.
Week eight, day three
Dreaded BCA
I've agreed to submit myself to another Body Composition Analysis on the 30th of this month as a way of rounding up the Life Challenge. I say 'submit' because my two previous 'weigh-ins' left me feeling rather despondent. Last month my fitness levels seemed to get worse and my muscle mass was decreasing which seemed impossible considering the amount of exercise I am currently doing. I am rather nervous about sharing the results on this blog as the health & fitness side of the Life Challenge has turned out to be more important than I ever realised in the process of discovering a 'better me'. My mental health seems to be directly linked to my physical health, something I wish I had realised a long time ago.
It also goes back to the whole 'control' issue that I have been battling with. My health was always something that I struggled to get my head around as I believed that it was the one thing that was in fact out of my control. I managed to control my emotions, my work, my social life, but at the time I thought that there was no point trying to do anything about my health as ultimately it was God's will that will determine whether I get sick or not. I couldn't have been more wrong if I tried!
Lily says that I have to keep in mind that the BCA is an extremely complex process as it will record even the slightest changes in weight, water retention, minerals levels etc. I think what she is trying to say is that a 200g fluctuation in muscle mass or fat content is actually very minimal in the grand scheme of things and that the whole process needs to be analyzed in the long term, rather than on a weekly or monthly basis.
This concept in its self has been quite hard for me to get my head round as I would usually like to see measured and controlled results that make sense and can be quantified. Not getting bogged down by the details has always been my weak point but I am finally starting to understand the long-term benefits of not being so hard on myself. I am clearing making the right choices in my life as a result of the Life Challenge and ultimately I am starting to really believe that this is the right choice for me. So bring on the BCA; you may have reduced me to a whimpering cry-baby in the past but I am ready for you this time, no matter what the scales throw at me!
Week 8, Day 4
The Old School Bench
Having lived abroad for most of my life, I constantly feel guilty for not having enough time to spend with my family and friends. Rather than feeling guilty for having neglected them over the last few months, I have decided to do something pro-active to help us spend more time together.
With the help of my mother and aunt, we have arranged a massive family reunion in Finland over the summer. Cousins, second cousins, uncles, aunties, grandparents, siblings, step-siblings and parents - you name it - they have been invited. God help the neighbours when 30 of my family member descend upon the otherwise tranquil south-west coast of Finland for a weekend of family fun.
The other reunion I am buzzing about is our 10-year university reunion which we have decided to host in the summer of 2013. With the help of a few of my best-mates from university, we have taken the initiative to put together a Facebook group to promote the gathering on our old campus back in the UK. We've been in touch with the university and they have arrange for us to stay in our old student accommodation and we are even planning an Awards ceremony to celebrate how we have all changed in the past 10 years.
Naturally I am a little nervous about seeing my family and friends after such a long time but if this Life Challenge has taught me anything it is to seize the moment and enjoy it to the full. The next 12 months look very exciting!
Week 8, Day 5
Fierce and Fearless
I am absolutely in awe of my fellow Life Challengers! Having met them for the first time two months ago before this crazy journey began, I am so pleased to see how far they have come with their personal challenges.
I literally squealed with delight when I read that Karin has decided to set up her own business! Seeing firsthand the impact that a stressful career has had on her health and wellbeing, it is a relief to see she has finally found a career path that will let her balance her home-life with work. I am so proud of Paola standing up to all the haters out there. I can really feel her confidence grow day by day and I can't wait to see what this chick is up to in 6-months-time! Noha is not only intelligent and one of the prettiest women I have seen in a while (girl-crush alert!), but it seems like the haze of self-doubt has finally lifted from her life. I am sure we will see her gracing the society-pages of the UAE's glossy magazines for years to come! Accalia is awesome and we are all amazed with how she manages to juggle such a demanding job with home-life, exercise and a social life. More than anything, the Life Challenge seems to have taught her the importance of making time to look after herself. I love the way Bhawna has tackled her fears and phobias head on. I know that taking swimming lesson is a big step for her and it's brilliant that she finally feels confident enough to let go of the fear.
The biggest motivation to keep focused on the Life Challenge has come from the other ladies who have taken part in this journey. I wish them all the success they so dearly deserve and look forward to hearing how this journey of empowerment continues for them beyond the Life Challenge itself.
Week 8, Day 6
Ahmed has gone AWOL
I seem to have offended my Personal Trainer, Ahmed. He went on holiday to Kenya four weeks ago and never came back. I did warn him from the beginning that I was not to be held responsible for any expletives or cursives I used during the course of a training session. Ahmed, I am sorry! Please come back! I only have three days to train for the 10K and a week till the end of the Life Challenge and I need you. If my muscle mass performs poorly in the Body Composition Analysis on the last day I will personally hold you responsible. OK, so I should know by now that the threats don't work with you. How about flattery? You are the strongest most bestest personal trainer I have ever had. You might be the only one that I have ever had but your biceps are much bigger than all the other trainers so I can tell you are the best. Will you come home now?
Week 8, Day 7
Every little helps
For some reason, I can't stop thinking about a conversation I had with my Life Coach Patricia during our first breakthrough session back in March. The gist of it was that I somehow harboured a lot of guilt for having a relatively privileged life while there are so many people out there who suffer from no fault of their own. My 'guilt' was not something I was conscious about; it just all came bubbling to the surface during my breakthrough session.
Patricia and I came up with a question I ask myself over and over again: "How can I make a difference in people's lives?" It may sound a little conceited but I realised that to some extent I actually define myself by the good that I do in my life. Whether this is purely egotistical and self-serving, I am not sure, but all I know is that I find a certain balance in my life when I am devoting some of my time and effort to people or projects that need it more than me.
I have so many incredible friends who have chosen professions that make such an impact in bettering people's lives, and I admire them deeply for doing something that gives back to society rather than just takes. My friend Lauren worked out in Cambodia for years as a project coordinator for MAG which a not-for-profit organisation that clears landmines from war-torn countries (www.maginternational.org). Sarah is a Finnish friend of mine and she works for the United Nations Development Programme in Vientiane, Laos working to ensure that all people in Laos benefit from national development (www.undplao.org). I have visited both Lauren and Sarah at their postings and I always return home full of motivation to do my bit for society.
Spurred on by my selfless friends, in 2009 I joined a group of 18 UAE residents who took on the challenge to climb Africa's highest mountain, the 20,000ft Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, to raise money for a local charity called the Flying Angel Appeal (www.angelappeal.com). We successfully raised AED200,000 for the cause and had the most amazing experience on the 6-day trek to the peak of the mountain.
Since the 2009 charity-trek I always had the niggling feeling that I wasn't doing enough to get involved so I have teamed up with my brother to try and change that. Keeping with the theme that 'charity starts from the home' we have decided to try and find ways to improve the quality of life of some of the expatriate workers out here in Dubai. Combining my writing and music skills with my brothers cooking skills we are looking for ways to offer up free tutorials on these subjects to anyone who is interested. It may not be huge but if there is one thing this Life Challenge has taught me is that the small things matter. There seem to be plenty of organisations that already offer this platform so all we need to do is put a programme together and start devoting our spare time. We are excited about the potential of this project and hope that it brings enjoyment to everyone involved!


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ahhh, yes, the oh-so-revered romeo and juliet.
freshman reading.
would you believe how crude that book is?
i mean, my god, it starts off with a scene about two men joking about raping women.
aGH! and the amount of sexual innuendo is just...
i love shakespeare. i read it and i just cant help it--it totally cracks me up.
course, you know, that would show my age (im 6 and 3/4, yeah, totally).
i still watch sesame street in the morning.
ahhh, i love that show.
i love a lot of things--its good not to hate, i think. if you dont hate, usually people owunt hate back.
which is always pleasant.
ohhh, god i need to sleep.
my eyes droop and droop and shut.
i like this restaurant
because two forks
makes two legs
that can dance and bother
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who can glare and stare and
lodge knives in our backs
and i repeat
i like this restaurant
oh, inspiration, you are a slippery little fellow.
i need sleep so crazy badly.
but ill tell you how im bi. but i still feel like a lesbian.
im dating a guy whos super cool. i mentioned him earlier. how i thought he liked me.
in previous updates, i mean.
yeah, well, thats the guy.
ahhh, yeah, happiness, but i dont think ill ever be completely happy with a guy.
oh *yawn*
no one cares that much so ill take my repose now.
i like shakespeare too. we read romeo and juliet in middle school and i just loved it. or maybe it was how my teacher taught it and my class. lol not sure anymore
don't drink and park; accidents cause people
We're studying Macbeth for our end of year exams. Very hard to follow ( I find all shakespeare hard to follow.. ) but really interesting..
One day we will start to fly and never look back..
You think that Romeo and Juliet is overly sexual? You should see the A-level texts we're doing. I just did a William Golding book about a priests trying tp build a spire, which isin fact a phallic object. A 400ft penis in other words. Constant sex. the first line is "the image of god was exploding over his face". We've now moved on to 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, an Elizabethan play about incest
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ing"
Shakespeare's cool! I like his Macbeth( though it's kinda corny, but I love the plot) and Romeo and Juliet too(yes, the ever classic play). Try reading some of his sonnets too, they're also nice. His sonnets are full of love and passion(but not the erotic passion awryt)!Oh yeah!
you have to take risks...we will only understand the miracle of life fully if we allow the unexpected to happen- paulo coelho
goddamn romeo and juliet.
Julius Caesar was better.
But I'm still pissed I didn't get to be Brutus.
*my whole class was just giggling the whole time 'cause there is DEFINITELY something between Brutus and Cassius.....*
The movie sucked though. They skipped WHO KNOWS how many lines... *lost count*
hahaha..... BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!!!
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Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly, my friend~ Queen
We just finished Lear for AP English, but I think my class made it a bit more sexual than necessary...that may have been my fault as I gave a poetry presentation on "Down, Wanton, Down!" shortly after we began studying it....
California--the land of coffee and bagels.
shakespeare is fantastic. totally fantastic.
Totaly rocks. And all his plays have tons of dirty jokes. he was writing for the groundlings, after all.
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch
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Plagiarism, Scanlations, and Copies: Nick Simmons' Incarnate Rips Off Bleach
Posted in Manga News on February 25, 2010 by JohannaToday's schadenfreude opportunity: Nick Simmons, writer/artist of Incarnate from Radical Comics (and son of KISS member Gene Simmons, which might account for some of the glee in watching his downfall), has been caught copying various panels and dialogue from popular manga series, including Bleach by Tite Kubo.
I found out about the plagiarism accusations from Robot6, which includes the news that Radical has "halted further production and distribution of the Incarnate comic book and trade paperback". I assume that includes the hardcover, shown here, that was due out on March 16. Here's a LiveJournal post with a whole bunch of pretty damning (if not very well labeled) art comparisons. (Update: That post has been edited to add more labels for the benefit of those of us not already familiar with the series.)
Radical uses the all-too-common "we're taking this seriously" phrase that means nothing, because every company caught in a difficult situation says that, but they do go on to say that they are attempting to contact the publishers of the original works involved. That gets praise from Simon Jones:
Unlike so many similar cases where the party at fault sticks to their guns, makes bold-faced lies, weasel out of giving real answers with lawyer speak, and basically deny everything until the storm of outrage is exhausted and forgotten, Radical appears to be doing the right thing. … This story isn't over yet, but thus far Radical is handling it with sincerity and honor, which is a rare-enough thing in the industry that we all should, at the very least, highlight this with the same fervor given to the initial scandal. But I also want to point out that this isn't just the moral thing to do, but the smart thing to do. When one finds himself on the wrong end of an issue, admitting fault and fixing the problem is almost always the best course in the long term.
Plagiarism is a huge deal in Japan — look at the example of Flower of Eden, where the series was ended, the artist's other books were pulled from the market, and a planned American translation canceled after the author admitted to copying images from Slam Dunk. I'd also like to call your attention to Radical's Hollywood connections and interest in getting many of their properties optioned for films. They've already been sued once over having cloudy properties, so they know the danger of not having clear rights, especially when you're trying to license works for movies, when the money suddenly becomes big enough to be important.
I'm a little disturbed by the Robot6 comments, where some people seem to think that if it's "only" art swiping, it's not really plagiarism. Perhaps that says something about the comics Photoshop/cut-n-paste creative mentality that supports "artists" like Greg Land. Is the idea that if it's pretty, it doesn't matter if it's original? It's true that similarly blatant examples have had no ill effect on the artist's career in the superhero genre.
Some go on to defend this as sampling, which leads into my next thought. David Welsh twittered in response to this news: "It's nice to see so many people concerned about the rights of Japanese creators to not have their work stolen." He was referring to the perceived hypocrisy of people justifying reading manga scans online for free, I suspect, while getting upset when an American creator copied the work. Deb Aoki is more blatant: "before you get all self-righteous about how you're standing up for Tite Kubo, ask yourself how many Bleach scanlations/fansubs you download."
Isn't there a difference, though, between seeing the internet as a giant library (rightly or wrongly) and presenting someone else's work as your own? The former is a commercial/legal discussion — are free samples necessary to convince a buyer in this over-saturated media world? would all readers buy if they couldn't read for free? how do you convince customers to respect copyright when all it takes is one copy released to be infinitely duplicated? given fan temperament, how do you expect them to wait when desired material is available in other countries already? — while the latter is flat-out misrepresentation.
Daniella at All About Manga tackles that last question with news that Tokyopop is going to be releasing Gakuen Alice more rapidly. It seems that only 10 books of the series are currently available in the U.S., while the Japanese releases are up to volume 21. Thus, it should not be surprising to find out that "Gakuen Alice is the most popular manga on the scanlation conglomeration site Mangafox." That's a statement that its readers like it and want more, and I'm glad to see the publisher attempting to address that need.
However, like the anonymous Alexander Hoffman at Manga Widget, whom I'm quoting here, I don't think they're necessarily going to be successful, given what they're trying to accomplish.
Pirates are not going to buy manga. They've already made their decision to not buy it. Publishers need to look towards current customers and find out their wants, their needs, and supply material that reaches that demographic. … Focus on the community that will pay for your product, not the community that are "fans†of your product. … Be smart about publishing, and publish material and promote it in such a way that it excites your current customer base, not the pirates who steal your content.
Deciding that if you got rid of free copies, all those people would suddenly buy your product is simply incorrect. There will always be people who read things just because they're free, and they're not potential customers. Saying, as Daniella does, "scanlations steal money from the publishers who try to bring you quality manga", is over-simplistic, because no one's lost any money if a fan is reading an online translation of book 15 when you last offered volume 10 for sale. If you want them to buy book 15 from you when you're able to publish it two years later, then make it a better package: a nice reading experience, perhaps with extras like translation notes, good reproduction, solid binding and paper, all at a reasonable price. Give them a reason to buy beyond finding out what happens next.
In short, I find that guilt rarely works as a motivator. It just teaches fans to ignore publishers, and it makes plagiarizers buckle down and lie to cover their tracks (probably a fake; image via Petteri Uusitalo).
Update: Tying it all together, Simon Jones points out in the comments that some of the plagiarized art comes from scanlations, material not yet officially released in the U.S.
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- Nick Simmons Releases Statement, Takes No Responsibility » Manga Worth Reading
03/01/2010 at 2:11 PM[…] Simmons, artist of Incarnate, which contains panels copied from Bleach and other manga, has released the following statement via a representative: "Like most artists I am inspired […]
- Chigi
03/02/2010 at 9:34 AMI buy Japanese tankoubon and magazines, read scanlations, and boycott American releases. Usually, scanlators do a much better job than the official guys.
There are many scanlation groups that drop a project after it is licensed, and tell the readers to support the author and buy the American release, but I would rather support the author without buying it.
A good portion of those who do buy are elitists and weeaboos, too.
I think Nick Simmons should be sued to the wall, "being inspired" is one thing he damn near copied the pictures (and panels!) changed a persons hair added a scar and called it his own, even the damn words are the same! I have been a fan of anime and manga for as long as i can remember i've got a large selection of manga and anime, on my computer AND off. Let's be honest here for a second, the scanlaters are (normally) a bazillion times better than the "legit" translators, i mean the people who translated Hellsing actually just got the translations for alot of the volumes straight from a fan-site. I support authors by reading and enjoying them the way they were meant to be, not edited to hell and fit to target a teen and up show to the elementary school crowd (naruto and one piece anyone?) this is a load plain and simple, and i'm proud to say yes i have some bleach on my PC and i've got almost the whole series sitting on my bookshelf at home, because I LIKE THE SERIES. Think about that the next time Naruto stabs someone with a Doraemon lunchbox.
- bahamut
03/02/2010 at 12:01 PMHow do you know the translations are better? What, because they use curse words?? The original Japanese wouldn't have the equivalent of the F-bomb in a shonen manga (aimed primarily at kids and adolescents).
The only way you'd know if the translations are better is if you were fluent in Japanese, and if you were fluent in Japanese you'd know that it is a very nuanced language and thus tricky to translate, so there can be more than one acceptable translation. Even if scanlations do have better translations, that doesn't forgive the atrocious grammar and sentence structure. And if you were fluent in Japanese you wouldn't be bothering with reading translations at all.
- lennan
03/02/2010 at 12:29 PM@Bahamut While I respect translators and their work, but also disagree with some of their choices in how to make a work readable, I think that this comment: "The original Japanese wouldn't have the equivalent of the F-bomb in a shonen manga (aimed primarily at kids and adolescents)" might not necessarily be true all the time. For example in Bleach's Memories in the Rain chapters (sorry, I can't remember the chapter numbers off the top of my head), the original Japanese had the character Kon actually use the F-bomb. Literally. And I highly doubt that they don't know what it is.
Granted, this was the one time I've seen it used in this series and I haven't read enough other shounen series to know what the actual statistics of swear word use is, but Kubo's use was blatant enough to shock me when I realized what he wrote. And while it shocked me, I'm not so certain if it did the same to the original audience. I don't necessarily approve of amateur translators throwing curse words left and right as a sign of accuracy, but I thought I'd throw this out there as a thought.
- James Moar
03/02/2010 at 12:51 PM@lennan — I think that falls very much under the "swearing in foreign doesn't count" exemption. Swear words in a different language, if you even know their power in context, rarely make the same impact as in your own, and can be slipped under the radar more easily. One example I can recall of that in English is the occasional use of "merde" by Picard in Star Trek: TNG.
There's a much more notable Japanese example in Shonen Jump — in Eyeshield 21, Hiruma nicknames everyone up to and including his love interest "Fucking " (neatly changed to "Damn " in Viz's translation).
He also stole from Deviantart artist, what can he say about that??
Besides in his blog Nick said once: "if you steal my work, you're going to pay with money" That should also aply to him!! He's just a liar, he has no excuses for stealing, and nobody should even try to excuse him either.- Chris
03/03/2010 at 2:33 AMIn response to David Welsh and Deb Aoki's "referring to the perceived hypocrisy of people justifying reading manga scans online for free…while getting upset when an American creator copied the work. "
That is using an ad hominem, using a lesser (and unrelated) wrong to defend one that has obviously crossed the lines.
The first issue of fansubs is passive: When reading and downloading online, neither readers nor fansubbers earn any money, nor are they taking any tangible credit for their work. Even if publishers lose a fraction of the potential pool of consumers, by observing the late releases of the American versions, it's easy to see the role of fansubbers in establishing and expanding that potential consumer pool to begin with. This was said not to justify fansubbing, but to show that that fact, as well as the lack of moneymaking involved on the fansubbers part, makes it a "lesser" and grayer evil.
However even the positive/negative aspects of fansubbing is not the reason why it's irrelevant to this issue. It's the fact that this is about the plagiarism of this single artist, regardless of whether the original work he ripped off was posted online or not. Someone, especially a "professional", is copying other work and *passing it off as his own intellectual property* and then also *making money off of it*. How is there not a problem here, both moral and monetary?
Whether people read or buy the books at bookstore isn't a part of the issue here. It's about someone ripping and copying ANY work and passing it off as entirely his own.
…Would David and Deb be any more critical if it were an *American* artist that got his work ripped, traced, repackaged and then sold for profit?
- MadPirate
03/04/2010 at 1:21 AMPeople at the comic industry ( specially the Diamond guys ) should learn from the people in the Hollywood movies industry. Lots of Pirate but chasing them in internet doesnt work ? Bring up better quality and technology in 3d … pirates wont feel the need to download something that wont gives them the full real experience. But , then again , that issue requieres reserch , development and INVESTMENT something most people at the comics industry dont want to / cant do.
- James Moar
03/04/2010 at 3:49 AMWhat sort of comic page are you imagining that can't be replicated fairly well by a scanner?
[…] fans talk about Nick Simmons, son of KISS memberGene Simmons, who copied several manga (mostly Bleach) to make his own comic Incarnate. When caught, Simmons issued a […]
So many bloggers either a)self-righteously defend scanlations, which can't be done without distasteful amounts of delusion or b)self-righteously condemn scanlations and everyone who touches them (thus alienating the very people they're trying to convert). This post does neither. Thank you.
[…] Not Steal Manga Jump to Comments There's been a lot of debate going on lately about plagiarism, piracy and scanlations in the manga world. No doubt you've heard of the recent trouble Nick […]
- coderror
03/05/2010 at 6:20 PMThe fact that he apologized simply indicates he knows what he's doing is wrong and that he practically copied Bleach!
true, most characters in anime/manga are similar to one another. However, there is an additional personality trait that differentiates the characters amongst animes and mangas. Unfortunately, his doesn't. Therefore, he copied the character build off from Bleach.
I pity the waste-up wanna-be. He claims to be a fan of Bleach yet he fails to understand the line between inspired and copying. He loves Bleach so much that he wants to create something as of equal. Something as moving as Bleach that it blinded him. Absolutely disgusting, pitiful and just, well trash. He's equivalent to the existence of ticks, he's the lowest form of life in this universe, his name is not even worth mentioning to the point that he should be refereed to with 'it' rather than 'he/him/his'. I seriously just don't see the point in its existence, it's just causing nuisance for everyone else. I feel sorry for it's parents for ever allowing it to exist. Although, I'm sure it's very happy for receiving this much negative attention and creating that burning rage within genuine Bleach fans such as myself. It makes me wonder just how is it able to walk outside under broad daylight with such shame, actually how is it even able to wake up everyday and live? truly, puzzling~
I agree, when it comes to bleach, I might as well have a pro translate. Being mexican, I have seen so many errors in translating the spanish words, i almost laugh and groan at the same time.
[…] the last month or so, spinning out of the Nick Simmons plagiarism mess, various smart people online have been bemoaning scanlation sites like One Manga and MangaFox. […]
- Saisuki
03/31/2010 at 9:23 PMSome of you guys are just ridiculous. Yes, it's fair to point out that we fans use scanlations to catch up, but just because we use them doesn't mean we won't buy the manga. My sister reads the manga week by week on the internet, but she has bought almost all of the US-released Bleach volumes, fighting my mother to get it all the way. I do the same for Naruto, though I read Bleach I have not bought it, as it's pointless to buy two copies of everything. I have bought a box set of Naruto myself, though not all, as my mother has gotten fed up with us buying so many manga.
And the scanlations being better sometimes is a lot better. The official translations have a way of dulling the classic shipping moments.
i hate to say this but nick has learned this from his parents whom both have stolen photographs and artwork in the past. i know as my work is still being stolen, used and abused since 1997. the kiss group has just put out a fan club book where all my images are credited to gene simmons/kiss organization. if you have the book you'll also notice my fan club… the first in america (detroit) was not included in the book… i wonder why. simmons has been stealing my artwork and images for years. his comment was anything with kiss on it or having to do with kiss is fair game. shannon has also been held up by a photographer who claims she used images in her book without his permission. this out right copyright theft is something the simmons clan is used to and has taught their children it's ok to do.
- 2010: The year in piracy | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
01/03/2011 at 1:01 PM[…] talking about the relationship between the two issues, especially when some folks noticed that Simmons was copying from volumes that haven't been published in the U.S. yet. In the wake of that controversy, Melinda Beasi confessed her own sordid past as a reader of […]
i agree. why blame nick for plagerism when reading and download manga online for free is just as bad? everyone who reads manga does it.
and incarnate seems like a great story set aside the copied art style- Saisuki
02/17/2011 at 6:46 PM@Jaron: "why blame nick for plagerism when reading and download manga online for free is just as bad? everyone who reads manga does it."
Because Nick makes money off of seriously copyright infringement which he made no disclaimer about before this came up. Many if not most pay the ridiculously high priced books in the stores despite the not so great translations that sort of ruin the magic of manga and read online. Moreover, honestly, how much does translation groups make? They are constantly dropping series and also that, they make a big disclaimer about it (obviously) not being their own which our special Nick does not do. Your statement about everybody who reads manga does it is false. I have plenty of friends who do not read scanlations at all.
Basic economic principle, people!!
- Saisuki
02/17/2011 at 6:49 PMBesides, you should be reading what Ryan said:
"He also stole from Deviantart artist, what can he say about that??
Besides in his blog Nick said once: "if you steal my work, you're going to pay with money" That should also aply to him!! He's just a liar, he has no excuses for stealing, and nobody should even try to excuse him either."Okay, so the person was not actually a deviant but the point is he did steal from essentially a nobody.
- Victor
10/16/2011 at 12:47 AMAll of you guys make me sick. Scanlations are stealing someone else's artwork and translating it and putting it online for free where the original creator does make a profit off of it. All of you don't even know how to translate and calling the official mangas not good translation at all, you guys are really ignorant. Anyone who supports these scanlations are just as bad. Inacurate translation and they don't even translate the sound effects and half translate words. All of you who support scanlations are not fans at all. I will tell straight up you don't even got support from the original artist doing this. You are leeches all of you. When you be a professional translator you have to go through a series of steps and not just to one person rushing translation to get online fast. Flame me all you want I don't care. I know I speak the truth. When you leeches start having common sense in those brains of your you will realize what your doing is wrong.
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Cindy Wade, 37, filed the lawsuit Monday nearly a month after the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office closed an investigation finding her allegations unfounded. Gladys LaForge, Wade's attorney, said Wade's complaints from February 2011 to December 2011 went ignored by Society managers, who then decided to fire her for being a whistleblower by speaking to the media.
Wade was fired in December, after going to police with allegations in November.
"I did see these things happen and I believe they need to be rectified," Wade said. "The people in charge of that organization need to look inward and take charge and do their own inside investigation ... I just want something done. It's fallen on deaf ears for so long."
Attorney Stephen Navaretta, representing the Humane Society, had not reviewed the suit and had no comment.
LaForge said Wade is seeking more than $15,000 in damages, as well as her job reinstated. The suit also requests a court order prohibiting the Society from firing Wade in the future for a similar cause. If there's a monetary settlement, Wade said she'd consider making a donation to an animal organization.
LaForge said she believes they have a good chance of winning the case, despite the Sheriff's Office findings.
"Unfounded means they didn't find enough evidence in the limited investigation to support the charges to bring a criminal complaint, it doesn't mean it didn't happen," LaForge said.
According to the sheriff's report, Wade said she witnessed one employee punch a dog in the chest as it was being euthanized and an incident where another employee hung a dog by its leash "almost to the point of death."
In support of Wade was former Humane Society veterinarian Sara Matthews, who was the first to speak out against the shelter's high euthanasia rates at a St. Lucie County Commission meeting in November. Matthews said she made several complaints to Shelter Director Frank Andrews and Shelter Operations Manager David Robertson about how euthanasias were done at the shelter, and was fired after speaking to Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky.
Matthews has not filed suit against the shelter and said she doesn't know why. She has since opened her own Vero practice and has hired Wade.
Wade said the decision to file a suit is not about clearing her name, but about ensuring care for the animals.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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- Gaia Gardener: said...
The wild bergamot is looking great! Mama plant is in full bloom here too, but here it's the bees luxuriating in the blossoms.
What is the goldenrod that is blooming so gorgeously? I have a few blooms on one of my aromatic asters, but none on any of my various goldenrods.... - June 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- ~Gardener on Sherlock Street said...
Nice to see you're connected out there in the wild. :-)
Your black eyed susans sure are putting on a show and that red sunflower is great!
Those cosmos are nice. They'd fit right in.
So cool that you have a rasp berry bush with fruit even.
The primrose is looking nice. I have a few blooms again on mine. I like to trim it back some after the first bloom but this year, the foliage has red streaks. It looks really cool especially since from the kitchen table, it is behind the red bed. It all just "goes together." Gaia said hers has red too. A new feature?
I'll bet you'll be amazed at the changes in your garden after your camp week. - June 12, 2012 at 8:44 PM
- Becky said...
I kind of thought the Goldenrod would be a "boring" addition to my beds, but, well, its definitely NOT! I love it!! And I love all the winged little creatures that love it as well!!
Still would LOVE to get some blueberries, but we just haven't been successful with any of the bushes we've had. I think we finally found a spot in our garden where one WOULD thrive, but the bush we put there was murdered by Summer 2011. Didn't even try one this year. Should have!!
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Animated Atrocities: 15 (Mostly) Ridiculous Cartoons Based on '80s Movies
Over the last few years we've seen a lot of classic '80s cartoons being brought to the big screen in order to cash in on nostalgia such as Transformers, G.I. Joe and Alvin and the Chipmunks. While the resulting movies have often been questionable, recently, I got to thinking about the reverse scenario: movies that have been turned into cartoons. This doesn't happen that often nowadays, but back in the '80s they would make a cartoon out of just about anything, and the results were equally as questionable.
With that in mind, let's take a wacky little trip down memory lane and examine 15 movies and/or movie stars from the 1980s that were "fortunate" enough to receive their very own animated adaptations. While some of these movies were pretty kid-friendly to begin with, a surprisingly large number of the cartoons listed here were actually based on R-rated films. Some were quite successful, but I bet even children of the '80s will be shocked to learn that many of these ever existed.
The Real Ghostbusters (1986)
This animated version of Ghostbusters was pretty popular and surprisingly well-made, although as many people will remember they turned Slimer into a cute sidekick and arguably the star of the show (later the series was renamed to Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters). It was called The Real Ghostbusters because of the unrelated Filmation cartoon that came out around the same time that was also called Ghostbusters. In the late '90s, they launched a forgettable spin-off called Extreme Ghostbusters.
Droids and Ewoks (1985)
These two Star Wars-themed Saturday morning cartoons go hand in hand as I seem to remember them airing back to back once upon a time. I always thought Droids was the cooler cartoon (partially because Anthony Daniels actually voiced C-3PO) but clearly Ewoks had the catchier theme song. I'm guessing that's why it lasted one season longer.
The Karate Kid (1989)
A few months after the release of The Karate Kid, Part III, Sony also put out a short-lived animated series based on the movie franchise. If it wasn't foolish enough to launch a cartoon just as the movie franchise was on its way out, the show also had them chasing a stolen Japanese talisman with mystical healing powers.
Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandos (1986)
Speaking of karate, here's a cartoon that wasn't based on a specific movie, but rather a movie star. Before Chuck Norris was known as Walker, Texas Ranger, he was leading a team of "radically diverse" warriors against The Claw and Super Ninja in this five-episode series. Much like the Mr. T animated series, each episode started with live action footage of Chuck Norris himself offering valuable life lessons. Pretty classic stuff.
Rambo: Force of Freedom (1986)
It may seem hard to believe that an R-rated action hero like Rambo could be turned into a family-friendly cartoon, but back in the '80s, anything was possible! Riding on the popularity of G.I. Joe, John Rambo was part of a team that fought a neo-Nazi organization called S.A.V.A.G.E. (Secret Administrators of Vengeance, Anarchy and Global Extortion). No one ever died in this cartoon, nor was there ever any mention of Vietnam, although in one episode apparently Rambo breaks his arm.
RoboCop: The Animated Series (1988)
Well I guess if they can do a Rambo cartoon, there's no reason why Robocop should be any more surprising. Yes, one of the most violent movies of all time was indeed sanitized and made safe for youngsters in RoboCop: The Animated Series, a show produced by Marvel. In order to avoid gunshot wounds, the guns were upgraded to laser weapons. In the late '90s they also attempted a second animated series called RoboCop: Alpha Commando, which was even less connected to the source material, and gave him a number of useful upgrades including roller blades!
Teen Wolf (1986)
With Teen Wolf currently about to get a live action remake courtesy of MTV, it's worth taking a trip back to see what Teen Wolf looked like on TV back in 1986. In this instance, it wasn't just Michael J. Fox who could transform into a werewolf, it was his entire family! Yes, even grandpa. Strangely, the town they lived in was also called Wolverton… coincidence?
Back to the Future: The Animated Series (1991)
The second Michael J. Fox movie to be honoured with a cartoon, Back to the Future: The Animated Series didn't come until one year after Back to the Future: Part III hit theatres. Despite the fact that I was a huge fan of the movies, I remember almost nothing about this cartoon. It revolved around Marty, Doc Brown, his wife Clara, and their two sons Jules and Verne, with Biff Tannen as the recurring villain. The DeLorean could now fold up into a suitcase a la Jetsons, and the episodes concluded with live-action segments starring Bill Nye The Science Guy. Weird.
Beetlejuice (1989)
This adaptation of the 1988 Tim Burton movie was actually a pretty decent show and surprisingly successful too. It ran for three seasons on Saturday mornings on ABC before moving to weekdays on Fox Kids. They managed to capture the zany humour and the gruesome imagery of the film and create something that appealed to both kids and adults alike. Although the cartoon has never been released on DVD, they did include three episodes on the 20th Anniversary Edition release of the movie.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
Clearly this is a movie that provided the perfect premise for an animated series, and in the first season they even managed to recruit Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, and Bernie Casey to provide the voices of their characters. In the second season, however, the cast was replaced with the stars of the short-lived Fox live action series. After struggling to come up with story ideas, they introduced a phone booth that could also transport the characters into literature, TV shows and inside the human body.
Toxic Crusaders (1991)
No, we're not making this up. In the early '90s, Troma's cult classic film The Toxic Avenger was actually tamed down and turned into an animated series called Toxic Crusaders, with Toxie and his mutant buddies NoZone, Junkyard, Headbanger and Major Disaster fighting baddies from the planet Smogula. It came out at a time when environmental heroes like Captain Planet were in vogue, but it was more of a thinly veiled attempt to recreate the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Conan The Adventurer (1992)
Here's another violent action movie that was turned into a cartoon, although I suppose this series drew inspiration from the Robert E. Howard stories and comics more than the movie franchise. I remember at the time thinking it was pretty lame that Conan had this bad ass sword but all he ever used it for was to banish Serpent Men to the Abyss by touching them with it. Some of the stories were decent, but the character came off as more of a He-Man clone than anything else.
Police Academy: The Series (1997)
After the death of the popular R-rated movie franchise with Police Academy: Mission to Moscow in 1994, Police Academy was re-invented as a fairly successful Saturday morning cartoon. Although the cartoon featured a lot less T&A (okay, none at all), most of the main characters were well represented. They also introduced a group of talking police dogs called the K-9 Corps, and the theme song was written and performed by The Fat Boys (who also appear as recurring characters).
Highlander: The Animated Series (1994)
With its low quality animation and a story that is only vaguely connected to the film franchise, Highlander: The Animated Series is seen by many fans as being just as bad, if not worse, than most of the sequels to the original film — which is really saying something. The main character is Quentin MacLeod, the descendant of Connor MacLeod, and the story is set 700 years in the future. After a meteorite nearly wipes out the planet, the Immortals agree to call off The Game and focus on rebuilding and gathering knowledge — except for one guy named Kortan. What an ass. The one thing people seem to appreciate about the show is that it did have a bit of violence in it, even though it was still aimed at kids.
Camp Candy (1989)
Perhaps the weirdest of all the titles on this list, the late John Candy starred in his own Saturday morning cartoon where he ran a summer camp for kids. Candy narrated the episodes and voiced his own character in addition to singing the theme song. He also did live action segments that were added to the episodes in 1990, usually explaining some sort of environmental lesson. The show's villains included Rex DeForest III, a greedy developer trying to tear down the camp so he can build condos, and Hob Nayles, the disciplinarian leader of a rival camp.


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Collard greens, kale, tomatoes, swiss chard and okra spring from a swath of asphalt amid a bustling sidewalk on Chicago's North Side. The incongruous site is the Cabrini-Green Chicago Avenue Community Garden, a vegetable and flower garden that was home to basketball and tennis courts more than six years ago.
Enclosed by a chain-link fence, gardeners plant on compost beds shaped like crude graves. It is part of a community garden project conducted by Growing Power, a national non-profit organization, dedicated to helping urban families gain access to healthy food systems. Growing Power, headquartered in Milwaukee, also provides training and oversight for volunteers who participate in the project.
Erika Allen, a mother who uses her art therapy major in her work, is project manager of the Chicago urban garden. She also appears in the critically acclaimed documentary Food Fight, which is about the importance of sustainably produced or locally grown food. She also is the daughter of Will Allen, founder and chief executive officer of Growing Power, who last year was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award for his work in the delivery of healthy food systems in urban areas.
"There are very few of us that do this work in our communities," Allen said recently, taking a break from her work. She speaks with ease as teens and members of the community chatter among themselves and till their garden beds. Only the occasional vehicle horn disrupts the serenity.
"There are a lot of people who do work in communities of color, but who aren't from the community," said Allen, who is of African American and European descent. "That puts us in a unique position to also tackle racism. The people who support power and privilege are also those who support industrial food systems. We believe if you develop a community based food system, you have to deal with the social justice issues as well. To a degree, we dismantle the systems that oppress people."
Allen enjoys interacting with residents. Many of them reside in what is left of the notorious Cabrini-Green housing projects for which the garden is named. The projects, whose high-rises are in the midst of being torn down and replaced by mixed-used housing, were once known as some of the nation's most violent.
Allen said she has seen Growing Power help the lives of some residents in terms of the delivery of fresh food in an area where it is sorely needed. The project is comprised of 68 plots and assigned based on a first-come, first-served basis each year. The first round of plots go to people who have gardened in the past. If gardeners fail to reapply within a certain period of time, the plots are reassigned. New gardeners must sign up for an orientation session.
On a warm July afternoon, Allen sat at a picnic table alongside youngsters working on art projects. She interacted with passers-by as she stressed the importance of community based food systems. Brian Ellis, 18, who has lived in the projects for much of his life, was one of them.
Ellis obtained a job at Growing Power four years ago through Youth Corps. He has learned about composting and the value of fresh produce by selling vegetables on market day, he said.
"I've been doing composting since last summer," he said. "I didn't know about it. You can use it to grow all of this stuff if you break it down until you get a rich soil. I like market days, too because I can take some of the vegetables home to my mom to cook."
Besides Cabrini-Green, Growing Power has community projects at Grant Park in downtown Chicago and Jackson Park on the South Side.
"Our foundation here is our youth training," Allen said. "We help build life skills, character development and an understanding of food systems as a job-training component. A lot of our Youth Corps members are recruited from this garden. We have kids who started with us who were 10 and are now 15. Some have recruited friends. "
Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church on the Gold Coast owns the land, about 2,000-square-feet, on which the urban garden sits, according to Natasha Holbert, garden program manager for the church. She praised Allen's work in a telephone interview, saying she has been instrumental in helping to build community.
"She's a wonderful resource to us," Holbert said. "The great thing about the project is that it's recreational, too. It's about building community. We have cookouts every month and play games. There's also a labyrinth on the recreation side of the land. The entire space is not used for gardening. We try to use it for other things. You don't have to garden or grow vegetables. You could do a book group. It's a model program. There aren't too many gardens that are like it."
Chris Taylor, the Food Fight documentarian, agrees about it being a model program. He learned of Allen while interviewing Tom Philpott, co-founder of the North Carolina-based Maverick Farms, for the documentary.
"She's is amazing," he said of Allen in a telephone interview. "I enjoyed interviewing her for the film. Chicago is at the cutting edge of the urban garden movement."
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When you're riding the subway in a strange town, you just need to know which line will take you to which station. Further detail is just a distraction. So metro route maps around the world have evolved into clear, simple diagrams, where the messy crags and bulges of geography are reduced to rational angles and clean lines. But their heritage shows in their station names, their design sense, their alphabets. Can you see the city behind the diagram?
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I've ridden on three of them. Coincidentally, those are the only three I got right. Odd, innit?
My Guesses: 1.- Chicago 2.- Barcelona 3.- Shanghai 4.- Rio 5.- Montreal 6.- Boston 7.- 8.- Oslo
3 is Hong Kong 7 is Dallas.
#1 is pretty obvious if you've been to any sort of trade show there. I once met Miss Yvonne from Pee-wee's Playhouse at McCormick Place during CES. And King Kong Bundy, and Harry Anderson. Anderson was introducing the Sega Genesis (yes, I am old), and Lynn Stewart was working the Casio booth.
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Same here (Chicago, Boston, Montreal)
#1 was the only one I actually knew. Also guessed right on 3, 4 and 8.
1. Chicago 2. Barcelona 3. Hong Kong 4. Rio 5. Montreal 6. Boston 7. Minneapolis(?) 8. Stockholm
#7 is easy if you are familiar with Dallas at all as that is pretty much the entire DART rail system.
#7 is Dallas, absolutely. Southwwest Medical Center/Parkland. Where JFK was pronounced.
I got 1 Chicago,4 Rio,6 Boston,and 7 Dallas. Boston is the only one I'm *sure* I've ridden, although I took a commuter train from somewhere downtown in Chicago to Lake Forest to visit my cousin. Notable because the Monday thru Friday I was in Chicago, the temperature only got UP to Zero (0) Friday mid-afternoon while I was headed to the airport! Brrr!
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San Joaquin County Ranks #1 For Youth Homicide Victimization In California, New Study Reveals
Annual Study Compares Rates of Homicide Victimization for Californians Ages 10 to 24 by County, Race, Ethnicity, Weapon Used, Circumstance, and Location
Study Also Identifies Local Youth Violence Prevention Programs That are Working to Reduce California's Youth Homicide Victimization Rate
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- San Joaquin County's young people suffer a murder rate that leads all other California counties according to "Lost Youth: A County-by-County Analysis of 2011 California Homicide Victims Ages 10 to 24," an annual study analyzing unpublished California Department of Justice Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data released today by the Violence Policy Center (VPC). The study, available at http://www.vpc.org/studies/cayouth2013.pdf and funded by The California Wellness Foundation, uses the most recent data available to rank California counties by their homicide victimization rates for youth and young adults ages 10 to 24. This is the third year that the study has been issued by the VPC and for the first time it includes a new "What Works" section detailing the need for prevention over "suppression" strategies in reducing youth violence and looking at three successful youth violence prevention programs in Salinas, Oakland, and Los Angeles as well as proposed federal initiatives such as the "Youth PROMISE Act."
San Joaquin County's homicide victimization rate for 10- to 24-year-olds of 21.29 per 100,000 was nearly three times the state's overall rate of 7.87 per 100,000 for this age group. Monterey County, which had ranked first in youth homicide victimization in 2009 and 2010, dropped to third as the result of a significant and continuing decrease in its homicide rate for this age group: from 31.24 per 100,000 in 2009 to 16.96 per 100,000 in 2011. Second Chance Family and Youth Services, located in Salinas in Monterey County, is one of the three youth violence prevention programs detailed in the VPC report (the others are Los Angeles' Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) Program and programs conducted by Oakland's Youth Alive!).
Statewide, the homicide victimization rate for Californians ages 10 to 24 continued to drop--from 10.48 per 100,000 in 2009, to 8.48 per 100,000 in 2010, down to 7.87 per 100,000 in 2011. The appendix from the study comparing California counties' 2009, 2010, and 2011 rankings can be found separately at http://www.vpc.org/studies/cayouth2013ap4.pdf. The study finds overwhelmingly that firearms, usually handguns, are the weapon of choice in the homicides of youth and young adults. The study also shows that there are vast demographic disparities: in California, young African-Americans are more than 18 times more likely to be murdered than young whites; young Hispanics are more than four times more likely to be murdered than young whites. Josh Sugarmann, VPC executive director and one of the study's authors states, "Homicide rates for youth and young adults across California have shown a steady decline. Yet homicide, and gun homicide in particular, continues to exact an unacceptable toll on California youth. Effective violence-prevention strategies in California that stress tailored, localized approaches that engage local leaders and community stakeholders are leading the way in reducing this lethal toll. The strategies that are working to reduce youth violence in California can and should serve as a model for other states and the nation." TOP 10 COUNTIES BY YOUTH HOMICIDE VICTIMIZATION RATE The top 10 counties with each county's corresponding homicide victimization rate for its population of Californians ages 10 to 24 are:- San Joaquin County, 21.29 per 100,000
- San Francisco County, 18.04 per 100,000
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Dr. is rushed and appears not to want to take the time to field questions or help the patient understand his condition and treatment. He lacks a positive bedside manner and displays an arrogant demeanor.
I was very disappointed in how he interacted with my Mom and me. Several comments he made were either inaccurate and/or irrelevant to her situation. I'm now researching other retinal specialists for my Mom because our overall experience has caused my Mom and me to wonder about his priorities because of the following:
Medicare paid over $2000 for the eye injection he administered to my Mom. That makes one wonder if the decision to provide this treatment is done out of the patient's best interest or the doctor's, especially since this treatment may call for injections every 4 - 5 weeks for up to 2 years, with the primary goal of maintaining current 20/50 vision level, and a small of improvement in that vision level. For approximately 5 minutes of patient/MD interaction per visit, Dr. would pocket over $48,000 over 2 years of treatments, while the patient has no guarantee that the treatment regimen will have any positive effect on his current vision level.
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This weekend's Macau Grand Prix, the annual Formula 3 event held on the Guia street circuit, could provide a glimpse of the Formula One stars of the future. Among the past winners of the prestigious race are Michael and Ralf Schumacher, David Coulthard and Ralph Firman.
The Macau event, which this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, hosted its first F3 race in 1983, when the winner was a young Ayrton Senna. Since then it has become recognised as something as a proving ground for up-and-coming motorsport talent, bringing together the best drivers from the world's premier F3 competitions.
Michael Schumacher took victory in 1990, but only after losing the first of the race's two heats to future Formula One adversary Mika Hakkinen, and then controversially colliding with the Finn in the second. Second place went to future Ferrari and Toyota star Mika Salo, while Schumacher's future team mate Eddie Irvine was third.
David Coulthard was victorious the following year, while the 1992 race saw Jacques Villeneuve finish third. In 1995 all three podium spots were again filled by future Grand Prix stars, with Ralf Schumacher winning from Jarno Trulli and Pedro de la Rosa.
Jordan's Ralph Firman, who will be completing demonstration runs in his EJ13 at Macau this year, crossed the line first in 1996, seeing off the likes of Trulli, who came home third, Nick Heidfeld and Juan Pablo Montoya. Jenson Button was runner-up in 1999, while his BAR team mate for next season, Takuma Sato, won in 2001.
Among the field for the 2003 Macau Grand Prix are several drivers who have already tested with Formula One teams. Australian Ryan Briscoe, an occasional Toyota tester, is one of the favourites for the race, having finished second in Friday's final qualifying session.
Fellow Australian James Courtney, who has tested for Jaguar in the past, is also among the contenders, as is Narain Karthikeyan. The Indian driver, who tested with Jaguar and Jordan in 2001, crashed out of the lead of the Macau race in 2000, shortly after then team mate Takuma Sato had done the same.
The 2003 event will also feature some rather more familiar names - Piquet and Rosberg. Nelson Piquet Junior (pictured), son of the Brazilian triple Formula One world champion, has been a front runner in this season's British Formula 3 series, while Nico Rosberg, son of 1982 champion Keke, was the second best rookie in this year's F3 Euro series.
Formula One race director Charlie Whiting is in charge of proceedings at Macau this weekend, but chances are the eyes of many a Formula One team boss will also be focussed on the event, just in case a new Senna or Schumacher should emerge.
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