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What about Kinder Surprises being illegal? THINK OF THE CHILDREN, AND ALL THE TASTY DELIGHT THEY'RE MISSING OUT ON.
Apparently they're so illegal, we cannot even know of them. Seriously, I had never heard of Kinder Surprises. Google is my friend. And you must know, Americans love to pass laws telling each other how to be safe. Unless it's to do with guns.
They're delicious. Not as delicious as the irony that weapons made to kill and main, guns, are legal, yet a kids' confectionery is not. And, @krtmd - I ain't no R'hllor'back girl, but praise the Red Lord for your avatar.
Um, sorry, but guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns. Gun control isn't the problem, preventing people who have no business possessing a firearm is the problem, not banning people who have respect for firearms from ever owning them.
Alright, it's time for our next subject, @Jedi Ben! (And if one of the many mods could change the thread title, that'd be much appreciated ) 1. Tell us about your username, why you chose it, what it means, etc. And what is the best way to address you? 2. What made you sign up for the Jedi Council Forums? Do you post on any other forums?
OK, let's go. 1. Tell us about your username, why you chose it, what it means, etc. And what is the best way to address you? Hmm, yeah, easy, er.... Nope..... It was a long, long time ago and I really don't recall the details..... Really.... Nah, playing the Reagan card isn't a smart way to start. 1999 and I'd found the internet while finishing off a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, in the process stumbled on both the Force Net Forums and Jedinet. Figured it could be fun so registered as a combination of partly my real name and partly an alias, this being in the time when Jedi were cool. Plus, as a kid at school in 1983, I ended up with the nickname of Obiwan, as Jedi was in the cinemas. Jump forward a few years and an ability to memorise entire levels of video games, Super Star Wars being a case in point, meant I came to merit it! So Jedi Ben seemed a good combination, stuck with it ever since. 2. What made you sign up for the Jedi Council Forums? Do you post on any other forums? At the time I'd been reading EU books since Dark Force Rising and Dark Empire. Dark Empire, more than any other story, is what drew me back and re-ignited my interest in SW as a whole so the idea of talking about the stuff with others was appealing. Then the Vector Prime Wars exploded across Lit.... In terms of Jedi Councils here, I make occasional drop-ins to the Senate and Video Games boards, but my main activity remains in Lit. I'm very much active over at Millarworld - one of the major threads being the Trades thread, which is a few of us seeking out preorder deals on upcoming items. The amount of cash it's led to both being spent and saved has to be quite considerable by now and it's a large part of the reason for my starting the Trades thread here. Comics aren't cheap, so any deals should be shared. I wrote for an online comic magazine, Fractal Matter a few years and am now currently regularly contributing to Eleven Thirty Eight.
@Jedi Ben 3. Tell us specifically how you become a Star Wars fan, and SW lit in particular. 4. Where are you from? What are some of the best parts about where you live?
3. Tell us specifically how you become a Star Wars fan, and SW lit in particular. 1983 - my Dad takes me to see Jedi in the cinema, I emerge a couple of hours later as an excessively hyper 7-year-old! You think the Battle of Endor is awesome now? Just think how it looked to me then! In terms of reading, I was far more hooked on Transformers than Star Wars - blame Simon Furman! Like most things, interest slips away over time. 1992 - I'm in a newsagent and there's this Star Wars mag on the shelves - that's unusual, it also had this image on the cover: With an "Emperor Reborn" tag! OK, that's got my attention! Pick it up and have a flick through, da-amn, looks good so I grab it and then, after reading it go and track down the previous issues, this is a UK format mag, not a US comic. But in the back there's a mention of a Classic Star Wars. That leads me to a trip to the local comic shop in Basildon and I find my first US comic - yep, my US comic buying started with DHC! Explains a lot, eh? So grabbed those and started buying regularly, just SW comics, which were unusual in having a lack of ads, painted covers and excellent art. This is also the time when the first moves to Widescreen format began. What's that? Videos used aformat called pan-and-scan because the cinema image was to large to fit into the 4:3 standard TV screen, from the early nineties onwards Letterbox / Widescreen formats were done. They fitted the image in by compressing it down, hence the two big black bars, but it meant you could see the full cinematography thus in ESB General Veers' AT-AT shoots the generator and you see the shot go from the AT-AT to the generator in one smooth shot on the entire screen. It was little touches like that that the Widescreen format allowed people to see for the first time. So, the OT gets a Widescreen VHS release - my interest regained due to Dark Empire, and yeah, I'd also found Zahn's 2 books as well, I grabbed the trio and ploughed through the entire lot in one Saturday afternoon! Yup, I was hooked again. I really liked how there was a continuation, the idea that the Empire would instantly collapse after Jedi? No way, empires don't do that so that there was further adventures was great. 4. Where are you from? What are some of the best parts about where you live? I'm in the UK and in the south-east of the country. It's quite interesting commuting from Rayleigh to London, the one is quiet and then, 45 minutes later, you're in the big city and all that that entails. I can't say I'm a fan of cities, a small town like Rayleigh suits me fine although it isn't that small in terms of people, about 30,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh,_Essex There's quite a bit of history to the surrounding area too - the site of a Norman Motte & Bailey castle, a hunting lodge frequented by Henry VIII, a church that has sections dating back to the Normans, further afield off the coast of Southend, a little distance from the pier, is the bomb-laden wrck of the SS Richard Montgomery - and no, they can't remove the WW2 ordnance it went down with! Suffice to say, if anything sets that off it'll be quite a show! London's a great place to work and socialise in, but I wouldn't want to live there - it's too frantic, too active, it was good doing so for a few months about a decade back, but it wouldn't work now. Being near the coast is good too, I can hop on the train or bus and be there in about 30minutes.
@Jedi Ben 5. What places have you traveled too? Any favorite locations? 6. Besides SW, what are your passions in life?
5. What places have you traveled too? Any favorite locations? Not much of a traveller, never really been bitten by the bug and rarely had the money to do so in any case. That said, gone to a handful of places - Scotland, Belgium, Italy. Brussels is great for anyone interested in chocolate or beer, so I qualify. Could happily go back to Venice and would be fun exploring more of Italy, the food is something else over there. As for Scotland, Edinburgh and the Trossachs are great places to visit and there's always the whiskey and shortbread to hit. 6. Besides SW, what are your passions in life? The biggest is likely a fascination with stories and how they're told - books, comics, TV, movies, audio plays - I'm hooked on the lot and how the medium affects the telling. At the same time, criss-crossing the mediums are an array of genres, which can also be combined in numerous ways. The result is a field of creativity that is exceedingly, perhaps even infinitely, complex and incredible to explore. At the same time I'd be lying if there wasn't a consistent interest in moral and political philosophy running along side this interest and seeing how various ideas and concepts turn up in fiction, particularly fantasy and SF, never gets boring. Add in the thinking on representation and there's another angle to consider too. Philosophy I haven't read much of in a long time and I need to return to it at some point - similarly history and politics, despite the latter's tendency to depress the life out of me. I would maintain to anyone wanting to understand how Nazi Germany came to be, operated and fell to seek out the work of Ian Kershaw, with the 2-volume Hitler "biography" being particularly recommended. It's not really a biography of Hitler though, more the effect he had on Germany, nor is it an easy read, Volume 2 took me about a year. TV and movies are a great field of entertainment, with the latter offering cinematography and soundtracks. Williams' ise of leitmotifs in his SW work is excellent and I'd see Vader's theme as being one of the all-time greats, but there's a wonderful eerie aspect to the Emperor's theme too. The Battle of Yavin is an extended cinematographic piece of brilliance that Lucas is never topping and he needs to get over that he hit gold there. But there's so many other great sequences. In use of pop music, Scorsese is unsurpassed. The way that man uses musical cues is streets ahead of anyone else. I'm a huge fan of Michael Mann's Heat, the car chase before the coffee scene with Pacino and De Niro is... perfect, it ends so damn well: Cue one hell of an electrifying exchange and it's all just verbal. Comics remain one of my favourite mediums. For anyone who thinks, mistakenly, that they are only superheroes, that person is missing out big time. Comics span the entire range of genres and are produced across the continents - I've US, UK, Franco-Belgian and Japanese material across every type of story imaginable and then some. From time to time people will bring up that comics are inferior to books because they can't do X, but by the same measure then books are surely inferior to comics because they can't do X and ditto movies. Don't really have much time for snobbery of any kind, especially in entertainment - I may not understand why someone wishes to own the complete Wrestlemania but hey, their money, their time. Video games have become more of a love/hate relationship due to my seeing through the artifice of it all more easily, yet at the same time, when they're on form they can be superb. It had its moments of irritating me considerably, but when it was on form, the Mass Effect games were incredibly good. Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader I bought the GameCube specifically to play and, to this day, I don't think it's been topped as a SW game. It is also bastard hard and I don't think I'll ever complete the Battle of Endor / Strike at the Core levels! But hey, I've blown up the Yavin Death Star many times and done over the Razor Renevous level where you take on a Star Destroyer. What draws me back to games again and again now are the possibilities being opened up by new technology. The idea that squadmates for instance will be smarter, like how FF13 has party members remember enemy weaknesses, is intriguing. The notion of having worlds to explore both larger and more intricate than the likes of Skyrim is another draw. The whole point of gaming is to do that which you could never do in real life without around a 90% chance of death! SSX3 was a demonstration of this - you did things in that game that were utterly over-the-top and impossible and it was all the better for it.
Dude, Strike At the Core was a mission from hell. I think I only ever beat it once, compared to beating the other missions dozens of times. But yeah, great game. 7. What are your favorite non-SW TV shows/movies? 8. What non-SW books/comics do you like?
If only those TIE bombers at Endor didn't endure so many shot and were so maneuverable... Hmm, how long have you got? Might have to be a multi-part answer! 7. What are your favorite non-SW TV shows/movies? Firefly / Serenity has to be in the mix, but Babylon 5 has it topped. B5 did all the things I was looking for - ambitious stories, inspired ship design - the Shadow dreadnoughts remain the creepiest ships I've ever seen! At the same time it proved you could have an absolutely overwhelming enemy and still have heroes actively opposing it the whole time. Add in some very substantial enemy wins - the obliteration of Narn being an example, but then a series later there's the first major battle of the new alliance and it is one hell of a scrap! One that involves a Shadow fleet - that's where I started from! For sheer creativity and the best villain since Vader in the form of Scorpius, Farscape has to be present. It never really topped the last eps of series 3, where they take out Scorpius' command carrier - that was a truly epic story. But it did some excellent follow-ups and the Henson creature shop supplied all manner of weird and wonderful aliens. It being Aussie SF gave it a distinctly different feel to US / UK SF TV. Deep Space Nine is another big favourite, a large part of that being Benjamin Sisko, the other part being the Defiant and the final aspect being the combination of both kicking large amounts of arse. DSN is the Trek that showed why the Klingons, Romulans and anyone else hadn't simply defeated the Federation, because they're not that easy to defeat! DSN had the nerve, while lacking the budget, to do fleet engagements! It looked at all B5 had done and was doing and then responded to that gauntlet in the only way possible: It sought to top it! In what it did with the Dominion War, it succeeded in that respect. The Wire is truly brilliant, as is its predecessor Homicide - both are unflinching in how they look at real and very hard to solve problems, but avoid being depressing. Mentalist is one I'm currently mid-way through season 4 on the DVDs and I shouldn't really perhaps recognise quite as much as I do in Patrick Jane. While it failed to land, Battlestar was still, at times, quite brilliant, only going off the rails in season 3 and it never fully recovered. I enjoyed that Olmos' Adama was this mostly quiet, spectacle-wearing older fellow who, when it all goes down, is then who everyone looks to and it's: You do this; you do that, you..... He doesn't need to yell at anyone, he knows they'll do he tells them to. It was a great portrait of confidence in authority and being at ease in being the figure of it. Of course, he wasn't quite that at ease, but he wasn't going to let on either. Inspector Montalbano is a delight. Brought to the UK by the BBC, this Italian series is set in Sicily and details all manner of murder mysteries - it's easy-going brilliance. Castle is also easy going fun, mostly due to Fillion and a razor-sharp script, The Sharpe series starring Sean Bean is highly recommended, just the idea sounds great - give an NCO, a sergeant no less, a battlefield commission and watch the flak fly, but the cast is top-notch too. Fringe has been the best SF series of the last few years showing exactly how you can do all kinds of ambiguity but smartly - is Walter Bishop hero or villain? He's really, like most of the characters, beyond such a simple, binary definition. I'm a huge fan of the Marvel movies because they've gone contra-flow to the received movie wisdom that says audiences are dumb and won't follow a complex story - Marvel has spun theirs over 7 films, with at least 3-4 more to come and they're very popular! It's great to see. Heat and Casino are in the top movies list, as is Gladiator and The Usual Suspects. Lord of the Rings was excellent entertainment and stunning to watch. Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Casino Royale. Red and Kick-Ass were fun off-beat films, with some of Kick-Ass's lines being in such bad taste but so very funny. Star Wars the OT has to be in here too, especially the first one. 8. What non-SW books/comics do you like? First, comics: Hmm, OK let's do this by region: UK: Charley's War is a UK classic and incredibly good, no oe has an excuse not to check this out as it's been collected into 10 volumes over the last decade. Dan Dare is another classic that was done in the 50s-60s and remains a fascinating window into that era, with some incredible art. The Dynamite mini-series by Ennis and ERskine is well worth a look too. Judge Dredd is often great to read, covering a surprising range of stories from the entertaining to the satirical to the deadly series, with the last being exemplified by the America story. Dredd ranges from being the hero of a story to a villain or even absent. Nikolai Dante is an awesome epic, but sadly not all volumes are available - it is mind-blowingly ambitious, with a story that crosses continents and decades, covering war and peace and war, in the world of Nikolai Dante, is very vicious indeed. The work of Bryan Talbot is frequently brilliant - One Bad Rat, Luther Arkwright, Alice in Sunderland and the Grandville series are all highly recommended. Japan: Akira by Otomo - this really deserves its rep, with Otomo doing story and art across 2000 pages! Lone Wolf & Cub - The joy of these stories is watching a super-hard bastard ex-Samurai executioner kill numerous even worse bastards. That's how the story works, but due to the variation, it never gets dull. Blade of the Immortal - Kill 1000 evil men and the anti-hero at the centre of the story can die, but there's far more to it than just this. Franco-Belgian: The Scorpion: Set in Renaissance Europe, this swashbuckler is gorgeously illustrated and an utter hoot to read, it's absolutely superb i every respect. XIII: While it drags in its middle act, this 18-album conspiracy epic deserves its rep. Largo Winch: Utter fun, as you find yourself backing a corporate overlord against evil would-be corporate overlords! Hugely entertaining. Blacksad: Truly brilliant, with the ingenious concept of matching personality types to animals. Wondrous visuals too. US: Best to do this by creators, rather than companies, top names being: Garth Ennis Greg Rucka Mark Waid Stejpan Sejic Matt Wagner Walt Simonson Neil Gaiman Mike Carey Warren Ellis Kieron Gillen Kurt Busiek Gail Simone Grant Morrison Alan Moore Jonathan Hickman Jeff Smith As to books, I'm currently working my way through the Dresden Files. Other series that I'm a big fan of are: Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive by Sanderson Malazan by Erikson and Esselmont Riftwar by Feist Shannara by Brooks Gentlemen Bastards by Lynch The Laundry books - by Stross Farseer / Liveship Traders - by Hobb Night's Dawn / Confederation Saga - by Hamilton Polity - Asher Honorverse / Safehold - Weber Select Culture books - Banks Discworld - Pratchett Of these, while I enjoy them all, Discworld is likely my favourite for the sheer variety and warmth in the stories, you can always find something new in them and the world actually develops! That's rare - the next one, out very soon, sees the Disc get its first steam engine. Will anything bad happen? YES. At best, this is but a quick snapshot! So might add to it tomorrow night or expand further!
Egad, this interview is going at breakneck speed. Also, I'd love it if you expanded, Ben. Your love of storytelling is infectious.
@Jedi Ben Very nice comic creator list there. I bet you didn't know Neil Gaiman has a SW planet named after him, did ya? 9. What are your favorite videogames, in and out of Star Wars? 10. How would you rank the 6 Star Wars films?
First, I'll need to finish off Qs 7-8 Todd! Ran out of time last night! Read comics for more than 20 years and then see how many rack you up, hmm? Sadly, I never have cracked PC gaming! Part 2 to Qs 7-8 to follow, it's not going to be short! Oh and Coop? I'd agree with adding Vaughan to my list, but not Fraction.
Q7-8: Special Edition….. Part 1: COMICS (Part 2: BOOKS will be tomorrow) Charley's War is a UK classic and incredibly good, no one has an excuse not to check this out as it's been collected into 10 volumes over the last decade. Pat Mills was on excellent form but Joe Colquhuon's art was something else: Don't believe me? Here's just 3 panels from it: Joe Colquhuon also worked on the WW2 story set on the eastern front in Russia, Johnny Red: Dan Dare is another classic that was done in the 50s-60s and remains a fascinating window into that era, with some incredible art by Frank Hampson and later Frank Bellamy. The Dynamite mini-series by Ennis and Erskine is well worth a look too. Major Eazy is a recently restored 70s creation with art by Carlos Ezquerra, later to find fame on Judge Dredd: Judge Dredd is often great to read, covering a surprising range of stories from the entertaining to the satirical to the deadly series, with the last being exemplified by the America story. Dredd ranges from being the hero of a story to a villain or even absent. There have been many images of the character over the years, ranging from the grim America: To the truly iconic: Nikolai Dante is an awesome epic, but sadly not all volumes are available - it is mind-blowingly ambitious, with a story that crosses continents and decades, covering war and peace and war, in the world of Nikolai Dante, is very vicious indeed. The work of Bryan Talbot is frequently brilliant - One Bad Rat, Luther Arkwright, Alice in Sunderland and the Grandville series are all highly recommended. Grandville in particular: Japan: Akira by Otomo - this really deserves its rep, with Otomo doing story and art across 2000 pages! Lone Wolf & Cub - The joy of these stories is watching a super-hard bastard ex-Samurai executioner kill numerous even worse bastards. That's how the story works, but due to the variation, it never gets dull. Blade of the Immortal - Kill 1000 evil men and the anti-hero at the centre of the story can die, but there's far more to it than just this. Franco-Belgian: The Scorpion: Set in Renaissance Europe, this swashbuckler is gorgeously illustrated and an utter hoot to read, it's absolutely superb i every respect. XIII: While it drags in its middle act, this 18-album conspiracy epic deserves its rep. Largo Winch: Utter fun, as you find yourself backing a corporate overlord against evil would-be corporate overlords! Hugely entertaining. Blacksad: Truly brilliant, with the ingenious concept of matching personality types to animals. Wondrous visuals too. US: Best to do this by creators, rather than companies, top names being: Garth Ennis There are various versions of Garth Ennis, there's the sick inventive humour displayed in the likes of Preacher and The Boys. There's the hard-core atheist side that gets displayed in the aforementioned and sees some truly insane stuff go on in the Chronicles of Wormwood. And then there's the serious Ennis who excels at war stories and can be found in War Stories and Battlefields. His recent series Fury: My War Gone By is a devastating and utterly remorseless deconstruction of the alpha male outlook that Nick Fury represents, it's brilliant work with one of his best collaborators, Goran Pavlov. Greg Rucka While his DC and Marvel work is very good – his Checkmate series being especially recommended, his best work is found outside of the Big Two. Queen & Country details British espionage while Stumptown is a noir / detective fusion. Mark Waid Best known for his Big Two work and runs on Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Superman: Birthright and Kingdom Come, Waid's lesser known works are the villain tale Empire and Potter's Field which are quite different. Stejpan Sejic Best known for his work with Marz on Top Cow's superhero line, Sejic has recently begun a high fantasy graphic novel series Ravine. Matt Wagner Numerous works, but the ones I'd recommend are the Batman: Dark Moon Rising, where he's writer-artist, which comprises Batman & The Monster Men and Batman & The Mad Monk. His Zorro run for Dynamite is also excellent, along with Madame Xanadu for Vertigo. Walt Simonson His Thor run is legendary and deservedly so! Neil Gaiman There's the brilliance of Sandman, but so many others too: Stardust, Marvel 1602 to name but two. Mike Carey Carey actually dared to take on the story of Lucifer, a sort of sequel to Gaiman's Sandman. Not only that but he pulled it off, his Hellblazer run is well worth a look, as is his most recent epic, The Unwritten. Warren Ellis Sure, there's The Authority, which set up all manner of ideas that would prove highly influential but there's other, equally sharp stories too. Ellis' weakness is a tendency to abandon series if they don't sell, so ideas don't get followed through on. Freakangels is a notable exception, set in a dystopic flooded London in the near future and charts a very interesting course, collected in 6 volumes, it's also available online, in its entirety, for free! Oh and anyone who knows anything of superheroes should read Nextwave. Kieron Gillen His best work remains Journey Into Mystery for Marvel, where he brought some wry observations to Marvel's world. Very recently started, Uber, looks like it'll be very good too. I'm also collecting his Young Avengers, with frequent collaborator Jamie McKelvie. Kurt Busiek Marvels was brilliant, but trust me, Astro City¸ is far, far better still. One of the few titles I've followed from the start in 1995 and it's still going nearly 15 years later! Gail Simone Well-known for her work on Barbara Gordon and others in Birds of Prey, her Wildstorm series Welcome to Tranquility is every bit as good as it asks where do superheroes retire to? And what happens when they're there? Grant Morrison His best work, for me, is for DC, as DC tends to restrain Morrison's trippy tendencies! From JLA to Batman Incorporated, Morrison's inventiveness serves him well when he's working with DC's truly rich and convoluted continuity. Alan Moore In case anyone wonders, no, his best work isn't Watchmen, it's Top Ten – set in a city of superpowers, it's a police story, but so very creative and inventive in how it does it. Incredibly good art too. Jonathan Hickman If you haven't read The Nightly News or Pax Romana¸go away and do so then come back here. Also highly recommended are his Fantastic Four and (what I've read of it so far in trade) Avengers. I've the Infinity OHC pre-ordered and am now very much looking forward to it as it may well be the first great Marvel event in ages. Jeff Smith Bone is superb – a fantasy comedy that slowly becomes more serious over time with Smith as writer-artist across some 60-70 issues. But so too, in an utterly different fashion, is Rasl. Finally, Shazam And The Monster Society of Evil is, aside from being very smart, a very sharp demonstration of why the forever grim 'n' gritty DC can't do anything lasting with the Captain Marvel character today. Ed Brubaker With his regular collaborators, Sean Phillips and Steve Epting, Brubaker has done numerous cool stories, all recommended: Sleeper, Criminal, Incognito, Fatale – and it looks like Velvet will soon be added to this list! Brian K Vaughan Saga, you're not reading it? Go buy it! But it's not just that… Y The Last Man is a decidedly risky look at the gender relations by removing men from the picture, save for 1! Pia Guera's art is great too. Ex Machina's mix of superheroics and politics makes for an inspired fusion and it has Toby Harris art as well! His Ultimate X-Men run is often overlooked but is very good. Brian Bendis He gets a lot of flak and a lot of it is deserved but Bendis has two great runs to his name that he deserves full credit for: Powers and Ultimate Spider-Man. These two series arguably embody all the aspects that makes him great, talky characters, wry observations, smart action sequences. Robert Kirkman Only 2 series? Yeah but when those two are The Walking Dead and Invincible, what more do you need? An infinitely running zombie tale, where the biggest adversary is humanity and a superhero saga that really does change over time! Stan Sakai I don't know how you can have a rabbit samurai, armed with a katana, slicing up a load of anthropomorphic bandits and render it as cute, yet somehow Sakai does this on a regular basis! If you've not ever read Usagi Yojimbo, consider doing so. Paul Dini Dini is very smart at getting to the core of superheroes but he also did the very disturbing yet brilliant Batman: Mad Love. His DC work, when it turs up, is always well worth a read, as was his Top Cow miniseries Madame Mirage. The latter plays a very clever game with the reader. Mark Millar Infamous for his marketing hyperbole, which he likely learnt from watching Stan Lee, Millar nonetheless has more hits than misses for me. He can talk up anything but his delivery tends to match the talk. He followed Ellis on Authority, that was followed by Ultimates, more recent works are Superior and Supercrooks. Finally, favourite comic superhero character? There's really only one: And no, the above list should not be considered exhaustive or comprehensive!
Picking up from the last post…. Of course, why Cable? Because I love the idea of someone with immense ability that is crippled by a virus and he still doesn't let it stop doing whatever he needs to. Part 2: BOOKS As to books, I'm currently working my way through the Dresden Files. Other series that I'm a big fan of are: Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive by Sanderson Sanderson I only found by the announcement he was finishing Wheel of Time, which in turn led me to Mistborn and its, for now, sequel. I really liked the thought Sandedrson applied to his world-building and as for allowing to progress and develop, that's unusual. Allomancy was great to read about in Mistborn, but the sequel set three centuries on has allomantic gunfights! Stormlight Archive is very new and very epic, but one of the other unusual aspects of Sanderson is he's prolific. Fantasy authors are notorious for hitting success with a series and then splitting volumes in two or taking a long time to do the next one or both! Sanderson has a frequency of new books 1-2 years, often not small ones either – so that gets him serious credit from me. In short, the man has serious plans and is very good at executing them! Malazan by Erikson and Esselmont I shouldn't like this mega-epic, it does a lot I don't care for like killing off characters with abandon, being utterly brutal quite often and can be exceedingly dark. But its ace card is the sheer scale of the world-building. Most fantasies will do things over a few millennia, this pair ramp that up to a few hundred millennia! Entire civilizations have arose and fallen long before the story kicks off, yet all the legacies from those civilizations remain, some active, some not. It's other ace card is, despite my tending to not over-invest in any particular individual, the characters. There are some stunning creations here that just command attention – Whiskeyjack, Rake, Cotillion, Kellanved, Hedge – to name 6 in a cast of thousands. Finally, it has a great attitude to magic – mages can be one-man walking holocausts and they get treated accordingly, the idea of anti-mage military tactics is great – though not unique, the Black Company books also had it. Then there's the warren systems, which throw another level of complexity into an already volatile mix. Malazan is a series which always feels too big, that there's aspects not quite able to be seen all at once and that's why I like it so much. Riftwar by Feist Perhaps the polar opposite to Malazan, Feist is offering straight-forward fantasy fare with the story running across the generations, with the same archetypes cropping up. It's that familiarity that makes the story work, the lack of surprises in some respects, yet the gradual upping of the threat each time also works. There's no doubt that good beats evil, but there will be times when that takes quite a bit of doing. Feist was also canny enough to do an apocalyptic epic, where the Kingdom gets pretty much decked, and then follow-up a few years later with the story of how it survived and rebuilt, that brought me back to it in fact. The real success here is in the start and end. Magician was a stunning start and, some 3 decades on, Magician's End is a worthy conclusion that brings together the plots of some 25 volumes to a finish. Shannara by Brooks Very similar to Feist, in that you probably always know what you'll get with Brooks, his work has never been as cuddly as might be thought with characters regularly getting offed, it just isn't anywhere near Martin-level brutality. In Walker Boh he also created one of my favourite characters too. Gentlemen Bastards by Lynch Lynch's fantasy is pretty brutal but its leveled out by wonderful characters and more than a bit of well-placed humour. Just the idea of a medieval bunch of crooks running scams and jobs across a fantastical city is inspired and Lynch executes it well. The Laundry books - by Stross If you haven't worked in an office and aren't interested in fantasy / SF, this quirky series ain't for you. If you have, you ought to give it a go as it mixes office politics and IT with ungodly monsters and other dimensions, all just waiting for the wrong line of code to be written on a PC. Plus the idea of the Official Secrets Act having a section 3 which, if you come to know about, you sign the Act so no one knows is quite plausible. And that's before the CIA enter the picture…. Farseer / Liveship Traders - by Hobb Farseer is a tale of kings and politics, of grudges and history and a very unsentimental depiction of the medieval world. Liveship Trades and its sequel is set in the same world, but a different region. Both deal with history, legacies and what happens if something nastier than humans turns up, namely dragons. What makes these books is the immersion in the world and the characters. Night's Dawn / Confederation Saga - by Hamilton Night's Dawn is an SF-horrir hybrid that is surprisingly effective – you thought NJO was vicious? Pah, not compared to this it ain't. At the same time Hamilton uses the source of the horror to ask questions of humanity and its attitude to things and how it shifts from person to person. His hero, Calvert, goes from being a freewheeling shag-happy freighter captain to someone a bit more responsible in the process too. At the same time, like Asher, Hamilton enjoys creating all manner of future guns and tech. Confederation is a different setting and separate tale, the first 2-book series I found superb, the sequel Void trilogy fell apart in its final act. Those first 2 books are very good as it envisions a corporate future for humanity, with companies being ran by immortal oligarchs. What happens when one generation gets to run things forever? 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One of China's best-known artists and a constant thorn in the government's side, Ai Weiwei, says he had been put under house arrest for the weekend.
Mr. Ai earned wide international recognition as a co-designer of the "Bird's Nest" stadium used at the Beijing Olympics. He has become an increasingly vocal and active critic of the Chinese government in recent years.
In what he describes as a farcical series of visits by the police, Ai was told he would not be allowed to host a mass party he had planned to hold in Shanghai on Sunday as a protest against the authorities.
"They came at half past midnight and told me they did not wish me to go to Shanghai," Ai said by telephone from his walled compound home on the outskirts of Beijing. "I said that I had already announced the party and that I could not not go.
"They suggested I should announce that I was under house arrest," Ai says. "I told them I could not say that unless I was under house arrest."
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Not wrong. Reported on web-sites that her study was the reason for the change in the DSM, yet Spitzer, the patron saint of the homosexual movement, makes no reference to her or her study in 2013. He, Spitzer, said in 2013, why the change was made, as I have stated can be found in Book of Woe. Also, keep in mind that science, if true, has to answer the question of reproducable results. Her study, published in the 50's, was the only study cited beginning in the 70's and all the way through a 2003 court case concerning sodomy. No others? With that in mind: "While teaching at UCLA in the late 1940's, Hooker fell in with a group of homosexuals and the newly formed activist organization, the Mattachine Society. Founded by leading thinker and member of the US communist party, Harry Hay, the Mattachine Society members convinced Hooker to embark on a research study of homosexuality on their behalf in order to advance the movement.
The study's subjects were selected entirely by the Mattachine Society, a group that Hooker herself admitted in the report had "as its stated purpose the development of a homosexual ethic…". In the same section she concedes the possibility that homosexuals are indeed pathological. The inadequacy of her methodology was acknowledged by the Journal of Projective Techniques that published it.
In the study, "The adjustment of the male overt homosexual", Hooker administered three standard personality tests to two groups of 30 men, one homosexual and screened by the Mattachine Society and the other heterosexual. Despite the fact that the purpose of the study was ostensibly to examine the possibility of mental instability in homosexuals, individuals who showed signs of mental instability were removed from the groups, which further predetermined the study's conclusion." You can believe this, or not.
He admitted he was instructed to bring DSM into harmony with the World Health Organization's stance. He says he was instructed to promote the bureaucratic reliability between DSM and WHO for the sake of psychiatrists. In fact, he says he was never instructed to address the validity of removing homosexuality from the DSM. That's the point! This watershed moment in the history of "normalizing" homosexuality was based not on science, but on bureaucracy.
His stance on reparative therapy has nothing to do with his stance on the validity of deleting homosexuality from the DSM. He goes so far to say that those who believe in an evolutionary viewpoint, you know, all atheist scientists, would argue that the human species is hardwired for heterosexual attraction. Homosexuality can't get a break. God abhors it, and evolution would undercut its supposed scientific, immutable cause.
Well, you better tell Andrew Sullivan to shut-up, then, as he boasts about the open sexual relationships in the homosexual community, and goes so far as to instruct married heterosexual couples to do the same.
Even Robert Spitzer, who crafted the deal to delete homosexuality in DSM III isn't sure, to this day, that homosexuality is not a valid disorder. Book of Woe, 2013.
My employer doesn't know me by my NYH moniker. Though the hearing in this case is set for 11/5, places of employment already suppress freedom of speech. Just look at the DOJ, not a private company btw.
So sorry. AFFECT. The effects of people like you affect people like me very badly(see story). Otherwise, nice argument.
Forget asking me how homosexual marriage effects my marriage, ask me how it effects my free speech.
I'm not as big of a fan Krauthammer's as you may be; I find him elitist at times, this being one of those times. However, I couldn't agree with you more. Well said, charityseeker2, along with your 12:29 comment.
Not a Ramsey fan. He touts his faithfulness to Christ, yet gives an idiotic "perspective" example. Hey, Dave, it may be perspective in your eyes, you're a financially wealthy man, and good for you. But as a Christophile, you should know about stewardship. 400 grand for 1 auto? I know you say it's a guy you know, who may not have your faith-claim, yet saying it's okay for those whom have been given much to blow that much on a car....come on Christian! Be known by your faith, not by your worldly economic theory. Hey how about this Dave, individuals do not buy the books you peddle, but instead visit their local libraries and utilize their copies? We can argue what the Word says about wealth and its proper uses, but usually what separates the factions is the amount one has, not what He says. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This means actions trump intentions and words. Peace.
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I only provide the programmer Vince. The extras he's providing are the value-added items that he's decided to bundle together. He's taken my programmer, HK's backlight, his own thumb sticks, etc etc and made a package out of it. If you want those items then its a clear choice!
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I just installed a smartieparts board in my 9x and goofed up. I didnt check that the switches were seated allright and broke the switch under the menu button. does anyone know where I can get another one, or can you atleast tell my what kind of switch (momentery, on, on-off, ect) I should ask for? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me! I started to look at DigiKey, but there are like 10,000 different ones.
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Thanks for the replys guys, I was able to find the part using the search function on this site, seems I'm not the only one to break that switch. Have one coming from DigiKey. It was kind of tricky unsoldering those 4 legs without messing up the traces on the board, but was able to manage. Thanks again!
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Keebler Announces Decision to Close Lake Bluff, Illinois Bakery.
ELMHURST, Ill., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Keebler Foods Company (NYSE: KBL) today announced its decision to close its manufacturing facility in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Located at 1400 Skokie Highway in Lake Bluff, the bakery has 194 employees. The anticipated closing date is January 28, 2000.James T. Willard, Senior Vice President - Operations, said, "The decision to close the Lake Bluff bakery was a difficult one due to its impact on our employees and their families. We are committed to make every reasonable effort to lessen the impact on affected employees by providing a package of severance benefits that includes career counseling, a Job Fair and assistance in finding other employment."
Mr. Willard said the reason for the Lake Bluff closing is excess capacity within Keebler's 17-plant manufacturing network. "This decision will increase the utilization of Keebler's existing baking assets and increase system-wide efficiency as Lake Bluff production is transferred to other production facilities," he said.
The Lake Bluff closing is a result of an on-going system-wide operations analysis that began in September 1998, in conjunction with the acquisition of President International, Inc. ("President"). As part of this operations review process, Keebler also announced in May 1999 the closing of its Sayreville, New Jersey bakery.
The Lake Bluff facility, which was built in 1967, is one of eight bakeries that were part of President Baking Company. Over the past year, President facilities have been integrated within Keebler's production and distribution network. Products and brands produced at the Lake Bluff facility include Olde New England brownies and Plantation cookies.
Lake Bluff Bakery Director James M. Mulholland said, "We regret the circumstances that have led to this decision and appreciate the contributions that Lake Bluff employees have made over the years. We are hopeful that our career assistance programs, coupled with a low local unemployment rate, will enable most employees to return to the workforce quickly."
The costs associated with this closure were recognized in the accounting for the acquisition of President. Savings are anticipated at $4.2 million on an annualized basis.
Keebler, founded in 1853, is the second largest cookie and cracker manufacturer in the United States with the last trailing twelve-month net sales of $2.7 billion. Keebler markets its products under well-recognized brands such as Keebler, Cheez-It, Carr's, Ready Crust, Famous Amos, Murray, and Plantation. Keebler is also a leading manufacturer for both the private label and foodservice markets. Through its Little Brownie Baker subsidiary, Keebler is also a leading licensed supplier of Girl Scout Cookies. Keebler Foods Company is headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois. For additional information, please visit the Keebler Web site at http://www.keebler.com.
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This is not a game of sophisticated espionage but it is a clever, innovative game that will entertain anyone who has an EyeToy when they're not being frustrated to death by its limited technology.
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Location | Cumbernauld, Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°56′41.19″N 4°02′13.51″W / 55.9447750°N 4.0370861°W |
Owner | Broadwood Stadium Company (owned by North Lanarkshire Council)[1] |
Capacity | 7,936[2] |
Field size | 112 x 76 yards (pitch) |
Surface | 3G artificial pitch[3] |
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Opened | 1994 |
Construction cost | £8 million |
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Clyde F.C. (1994 - Present) Airdrieonians (1994 -1998) Cumbernauld Colts (2012 - Present) |
Broadwood Stadium, also referred to as simply Broadwood, is a football stadium and multi-use community sports complex situated in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The stadium was opened in 1994 and since then has been the home venue of Clyde F.C. It has staged the final of the Scottish Challenge Cup on four occasions and has been chosen to host numerous representative fixtures.
Clyde previously played in Glasgow at Barrowfield Park, from their creation in 1877 until 1898, and then Shawfield Stadium from 1898 until they were evicted in 1986. Clyde shared Firhill with fierce rivals Partick Thistle from 1986 until 1991, and then Douglas Park with Hamilton Academical until moving to the purpose built Broadwood in 1994.[1] The move to Broadwood, 10 miles outside Glasgow,[1] meant that the club would lose some fans in the move, but hoped to gain some new supporters in the new town of Cumbernauld, which had never hosted senior football before.
This historic relocation was the first of several that have taken place in British football since, seeing a club move to a more viable location for attracting support. Some 18 months after Clyde relocated to Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld, Meadowbank Thistle relocated from Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh to the Almondvale Stadium in Livingston (also a new town) and to reflect their new location changed their name to Livingston F.C.. Several years later, Airdrie United, formed after the collapse of the old Airdrieonians club, took over Clydebank Airdrie and its place in the Scottish league.
A much more high profile relocation of this kind took place in England in 2003, when Wimbledon F.C. relocated to Milton Keynes (some 70 miles from their historic South London home) in search of a location that would attract more support, and the following year were rebranded as Milton Keynes Dons. Like Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes was a new town which had never previously hosted senior football.
The stadium opened to the public in February 1994 to a full house at that time, of 6000 fans. Clyde lost the game 2–0 against Hamilton Academical. At the time of opening, only two stands, the Main Stand and the West Stand, had been completed, giving the stadium a capacity of 6,000. The third, South Stand was completed in 1997 to bring the overall capacity to just over 8,000. Plans to complete the stadium, and bring the overall capacity to 10,000 were shelved after Clyde failed to win promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2004.
It also previously hosted another Scottish League club, Airdrieonians, between 1994 and 1998. Broadwood also formerly hosted Rangers reserve team matches on a regular basis. Broadwood has hosted many Scotland U-21 matches. Broadwood was the scene of a giant Scottish Cup shock in 2006, when Clyde beat holders Celtic 2–1. Broadwood has also hosted four Scottish Challenge Cup finals.
Broadwoad has been used for one off games by Cumbernauld RFC.[4]
It was chosen to host the 2014 RBS Finals Day.[5]
Structure and facilities[edit]
Broadwood has three all seated stands with a capacity of 7,936.[2] It is equipped with a full size astroturf pitch, which the Clyde first team uses to train, and where the Clyde youth teams play their home fixtures. It also has 4 5 a side pitches for public use, changing rooms, and a gymnasium, the latter being located to the north side of the pitch.
For the 2012-13 season, Clyde will play their football on a new 3rd generation synthetic pitch.[3][6] Broadwood will hence become a multi-purpose stadium.
The future of the stadium is unclear. Clyde have announced their intention to leave Broadwood for a site elsewhere.[7] On October 2011, they revealed that East Kilbride was one of the possible locations that they were exploring. In addition, on September 2012, they were hinting at the possibility of a move back to Rutherglen for the first time in nearly 30 years to develop the Clyde Gateway Stadium in a ground-sharing agreement with current tenants Rutherglen Glencairn, who approved the proposal.[8]
It was announced that along with the introduction of a 3G surface, the club would also be sharing the ground with local team Cumbernauld Colts FC.[3][9]
In April 2013, an EGM took place at Broadwood stadium which gave the clyde owners (CIC members)a chance to vote on a proposed move to East Kilbride, this motion was carried and the directors can now officially pursue and if possible complete a move to East Kilbride, with the team being renamed EK Clyde, casting further doubt on the future of the stadium.[10]
- ^ a b c Council company to sue Clyde FC, BBC Sport, 2 April 2009.
- ^ a b "Clyde Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- ^ a b c Club Statement: Stadium Update
- ^ http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby/latest/cumbernauld-host-first-rugby-match-on-3g-turf-pitch-1-2876001
- ^ http://www.scottishrugby.org/news/14/03/06/rbs-finals-day-moves-venue
- ^ "Rangers: Life in Scottish Division Three beckons". BBC Sport (BBC). 14 July 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Clyde planning to leave Broadwood Stadium
- ^ Rutherglen Approve Proposal
- ^ Cumbernauld Colts F.C. Official Website
- ^ Clyde approve move to East Kilbride and name change
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I have a co-worker named Kelia (kell-ee-a), which is a nice alternative. I agree that "Jo" as part of a first name does tend to have a sort of "hillbilly" sound but I knew a Sarah Jo and never thought that about her name (though I'm not a fan of Sarah). I prefer Josephine, nn Jo/ JoJo personally, or a "Jo" middle name (i.e. Ella Josephine nn Ellie Jo).
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St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is a Mohawk Indian reservation in Franklin County, New York, United States. It is also known by its Mohawk name, Akwesasne. The population was 3,288 at the 2010 census. The reservation is adjacent to the Akwesasne reserve in Ontario and Quebec. The Mohawk consider the entire community to be one unit. The reservation contains the village of St. Regis and borders the village of Hogansburg in the Town of Bombay.[1]
Under the terms of the Jay Treaty (1794), the Mohawk people may pass freely across the Canada–United States border. The two parts of the reservation are separated by the St. Lawrence River and the 45th parallel.
The Mohawk are one of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois, historically based in present-day New York, and the "Keepers of the Eastern Door".
The reservation adopted gambling in the 1980s. It has caused deep controversy. Broadly speaking, the elected chiefs and the Warrior Society have supported gambling, while the traditional chiefs have opposed it. Today, the reservation is home to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino and the Mohawk Bingo Palace.
The elected tribal governments on the New York and Canadian sides and the traditional chiefs of Akwesasne often work together as a "Tri-Council" concerning areas of shared interest, for example to negotiate land claims settlements.
The Mohawk Tribe views the reservation as a "sovereign nation," but shares jurisdiction with the State of New York, the United States, and the Town of Bombay, in which it is located.
The reservation is at the international border of Canada and the United States along the St. Lawrence River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Indian reservation has a total area of 21.0 mi² (54.3 km²). 19.0 mi² (49.2 km²) of it is land and 2.0 mi² (5.1 km²) of it (9.45%) is water. It is bordered by the Towns of Fort Covington, Bombay, Brasher, and Massena, and by the Akwesasne Indian Reserve. The nearest city is Cornwall, Ontario, which lies a short distance to the northwest, across the Akwesasne Reserve.
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 2,699 people, 904 households, and 668 families residing in the Indian reservation within the US boundary. The population density was 142.2/mi² (54.9/km²). There were 977 housing units at an average density of 51.5/mi² (19.9/km²). The racial makeup of the Indian reservation was 97.41% Native American, 2.07% White, 0.07% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.74% of the population.
There were 904 households out of which 44.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.9% were married couples living together, 23.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.0% were non-families. 22.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.97 and the average family size was 3.44.
In the Indian reservation, the population was spread out with 34.1% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 7.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.2 males.
The median income for a household in the Indian reservation was $32,664, and the median income for a family was $34,336. Males had a median income of $27,742 versus $21,774 for females. The per capita income for the Indian reservation was $12,017. About 19.4% of families and 22.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.3% of those under age 18 and 14.9% of those age 65 or over.
This reservation has allegedly become a center for smuggling of many items, including liquor, cigarettes and drugs.[3] Federal agencies of the United States and Canada and those of the New York State government are collaborating to stop this activity. These allegations have been hotly contested by Akwesasne police and government spokespersons. The chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk police has suggested that Akwesasne has been singled out for criticism when the smuggling problems stretch across the entire US-Canada border.
New York state has threatened to collect sales tax from sales of gasoline and cigarettes on the reservations but has not done so. The legislature often passes such a resolution.[4] New York state citizens fail to report their applicable Use Taxes; this has become a problem both here and at areas surrounding other Indian reservations across New York. Merchants near the reservations complain that the tax-free sales constitute an unfair advantage for Indian-owned businesses. People on the reservation tend to respond that this is the only advantage they have.[5] While the government officials argue, a Zogby poll commissioned in 2006 for the Mohawks' allies, the Seneca, showed that 79% of New York residents did not think sales taxes should be collected from reservation sales.[6]
The original settlement was known as Saint Régis, presumably after the Catholic saint of the same name and was founded by Catholic Native American Iroquois from Caughnawaga Quebec in about 1755.[7]


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Steel Panther Vs. Korn Ft. Skrillex – Cockfight
Steel Panther massacred RHCP last night in The Cockfight, now they will really be tested. The "Fanthers" have really put up some votes this week, but will they be able to outnumber Korn fans tonight. '17 Girls in a Row' will face the new Korn and Skrillex track 'Narcisstic Cannibal'.