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Karina Longworth interviews Savage Steve Holland at LA Weekly, timed to this weekend's double feature of his cult classics "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer" at the Cinefamily theater. The filmmaker turned kid-show producer claims those movies couldn't be made today, but I have to disagree. I think if any movie proves him wrong, in fact, it's this weekend's hot release, "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Before I explain, here's Holland's statement from the interview:Read More »
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2-D lives! The Illusionist, the latest animated feature from the French animator behind The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet, didn't make it to Cannes after it scored big in Berlin in February. Sony Pictures Classics scooped up the film, which is based on an unproduced screenplay by the late great writer-director-star Jacques Tati about a "dying breed of entertainer." Chomet drew a tall, gangly, elegant character much like Tati's 50s persona in such films as Les Vacances de Mr. Hulot.Read More »
I don't think one should have to read a novel in order to enjoy its screen adaptation, but if you have read a particular book, chances are you're going to get more out of the film than someone who hasn't. You'll remember the experience you had as a reader and fill in some of the details the movie has skipped. Several female friends who've seen Eat Pray Love told me how much they loved Elizabeth Gilbert's book and the movie (adapted by director Ryan Murphy in collaboration with Jennifer Salt). I can't help but feel they had an advantage over me.Read More »
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Normally I would wait for closer proximity to the film's release date to do a "Before There Was" posting, but this was just too weird to wait on. During a Q&A following the New York premiere of "Enter the Void" at Lincoln Center Wednesday night, filmmaker Gaspar Noé was asked by an audience member how he got such a great performance out of child actress Emily Alyn Lind (who you may have seen as the younger version of Dakota Fanning's character in "The Secret Life of Bees"), especially during one frighteningly traumatic scene. First of all, Noé admitted he did not direct anybody in the movie and that the girl's mother, actress Barbara Ann Woods (the mom from TV's "One Tree Hill"), deserves credit for getting the performance out of her. Second, he revealed that he did at least provide Woods and Lind with a copy of a certain other child star's acting debut. Here's exactly what he told the crowd last night (blame him for the spoiler):Read More »
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WWAY's Thursday night sports - August 15Submitted by John Rendleman on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 11:56pm.READ MORE:
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Art by Ed Benes.
|Publication information
|DC Comics
|First appearance
|DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980)
|Created by
|Marv Wolfman
George Pérez
|In-story information
|Alter ego
|Rachel Roth
|Half-demon and Half-human
|Team affiliations
|Teen Titans
Sentinels of Magic
|Demonic Transformation
Astral projection
Dimension Traveling
Psionic abilities
Energy Manipulation
Time Manipulation
Emotion Manipulation
Darkness Manipulation
Memory Alteration
Inducing and amplifying the Seven Deadly Sins
Experienced Hand-to-Hand Combatant
Expert Martial Artist
Art by Ed Benes.
|Publication information
|DC Comics
|First appearance
|DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980)
|Created by
|Marv Wolfman
George Pérez
|In-story information
|Alter ego
|Rachel Roth
|Half-demon and Half-human
|Team affiliations
|Teen Titans
Sentinels of Magic
|Demonic Transformation
Astral projection
Dimension Traveling
Psionic abilities
Energy Manipulation
Time Manipulation
Emotion Manipulation
Darkness Manipulation
Memory Alteration
Inducing and amplifying the Seven Deadly Sins
Experienced Hand-to-Hand Combatant
Expert Martial Artist
Raven is a fictional comic book superheroine who appears in stories published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980), and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. Raven is an empath who can teleport and control her "soul-self," which can fight physically, as well as act as Raven's eyes and ears away from her physical body.
Raven is the half-human and half-demon daughter of an Azarathian human mother named Arella and the interdimensional demon Trigon. Raven was conceived as the result of Trigon's rape of Arella. Raven grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, with pacifistic inhabitants whose spiritual leader was the mystic Azar. She was taught to "control her emotions" by Azar, in order to suppress her inherited demonic powers. Initially it was feared that if Raven were ever to feel any strong emotion, she could then become possessed by her father's evil demonic energy inside of her.
During this time, Raven rarely saw her mother and grew detached from her. Upon Azar's death, Arella began the task of raising and teaching Raven. Around this same time, she met her father face to face for the first time. Soon after her 16th birthday, Raven learned that Trigon planned to come to her dimension; she vowed to stop him.
Raven initially approached the Justice League for help, but they refused her on the advice of Zatanna, who sensed her demonic parentage.[1] In desperation, she reformed the Titans as the New Teen Titans to fight her father. The team consisted of Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy. Raven and her new friends later came to think of one another as family.
Trigon soon kidnapped Raven to his home dimension. The team defeated Trigon and sealed him in an interdimensional prison with the help of Arella, who stayed at the interdimensional door as Trigon's Guardian.[2] However, Raven continued to fight her father's influence, as he was not completely destroyed. For a period of time, Raven lost control several times in stressful situations, but managed to regain control before Trigon could assert himself.
Eventually, Trigon escaped his prison, came to Earth, and took control of Raven, destroying Azarath in the process. The Titans were manipulated to kill Raven, thereby allowing the souls of Azarath contained inside the ring of Azar to possess her and use her as a channel to kill Trigon. After this battle, Raven rose from the ashes, purged of Trigon's evil, and vanished.[3]
After Raven's disappearance, Arella went around the world in search of Raven. She tracked her down but both of them were kidnapped by Brother Blood. The minions of Brother Blood used Raven to control Nightwing (Formally Robin) as part of Blood's plans. The Titans rescued them both and prevented Brother Blood from returning to power.[4]
As a result of the defeat of Trigon, Raven was free to experience emotions for the first time in her life. Raven found she was able to not only sense, but control others' emotions.[5] She learned to handle this power only after unintentionally making Nightwing believe that he loved her when she thought that she was in love with him. Raven also fostered a relationship with technopath Eric Forrester, who was using the life force of women he seduced to regain some of his lost humanity. Forrester knew that Raven's soul-self could help him to permanently retain his humanity. This attempt was cut short by the intervention of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), who helped Raven overcome her love for Forrester by destroying Forrester and saving Raven.[6]
Raven was later kidnapped by the Wildebeest Society during the "Titans Hunt" storyline.[7] The Wildbeest, led by the Trigon-possessed souls of Azarath, were going to use several Titans to bring about the return of Trigon. During a massive battle, Raven was possessed by the evil souls and once again became the evil doppelgänger of her father. Arella, along with Danny Chase, used the power of Azar's soul to cleanse Raven; in the result, her body was destroyed, and Arella and Danny sacrificed themselves and joined the cleansed souls of Azarath to become Phantasm.[8]
Raven appeared possessed by her evil conscience and attempted to implant Trigon's seed into new bodies. She interrupted Nightwing and Starfire's wedding, and implanted a seed of Trigon into Starfire. Instead of corrupting her, she actually implanted the soul of the good Raven. This caused Starfire to leave Earth in order to escape from the evil Raven. The Titans were able to defeat her only because of the help they received from Phantasm.[9]
Raven later returned, still evil, in order to destroy the good version of herself implanted in Starfire. With the help of the Titans, Evil Raven was reduced to ashes, and the good part of Raven was given a new, golden spirit body, which was completely free of her father's demonic influence. In New Tamaran, Starfire and the golden spirit form of Raven revealed that implanting Raven's soul in Starfire was actually her plan to get rid of her demonic soul. [10]
In her bodiless spirit form Raven returned to earth to help extract Cyborg's soul and consciousness from the Technis planet's computer mind.[11] Still later, she was instrumental in defeating Imperiex by aiding Wonder Woman and Tempest in re-powering Darkseid. [12] As a spirit, Raven wandered the earth, looking for her place in the world.
While the spirit of Raven was looking for her place in the world, Brother Blood came to claim her. Her spirit was instilled into the body of a teenage girl by the Church of Blood. The Teen Titans (reformed again), discovered that the Church of Blood were worshipers of Raven's father, Trigon. They also found a prophecy which told of the marriage between Brother Blood and Raven that would result in Armageddon. The new team interrupted the wedding, and Raven forced the cult to escape. She then joined the new Teen Titans and enrolled at a high school as Rachel Roth, using her mother Arella's original last name.[volume & issue needed]
After her rebirth, Raven began developing romantic feelings for her teammate, Garfield Logan (a.k.a. Beast Boy), and the two became romantically attached.
In 52, after the death of Superboy, the Titans are beginning to fall apart. Robin joins Batman and Wonder Girl leaves the team. Beast Boy struggles to maintain the team, but new members join who are only interested in seeking fame and honor through joining the team, rather than actually looking to fulfill justice. So when Beast Boy decides to help Steel on a mission, most of the members leave, leaving only Raven and Zatara. Later, Beast Boy, Raven, Offspring and Aquagirl aid Steel in launching an attack on Lexcorp. Raven also participated in World War III. Eventually, Robin, Wonder Girl, and a few new members join the Titans, making the team whole again. Beast Boy and Raven are among the only members that remained in the team during this period.
Raven quits the team after she and Beast Boy end their relationship.[13] Letting the others think she is leaving because of Garfield, Raven actually leaves because she has uncovered a secret of one of the other Titans.
Raven takes advantage of this power with a book of unclear significance.[14] Raven has a diskette containing Jericho's soul. She performs a cleansing ritual over his soul and transfers it into a new body[15] before returning to the team as a full member.[16]
Without warning, the Titans are captured by the villainous Titans East and transported to the original Titans Island in New York, where Raven is placed in the "care" of Enigma and Duela Dent, who took to torturing her psychologically. Raven manages her escape. After beating the Titans East, she gives hints that she still loves Garfield, but he refuses to dwell on the matter, leaving their relationship uncertain.[17]
Following the death of Bart Allen, Raven, along with the other adult Titans, decides to leave the team. Raven decides to pursue her chance at attending high school, having never had the opportunity before.[volume & issue needed]
Raven stars in a five-issue miniseries written by Marv Wolfman, with art by Damion Scott. It takes place during the missing year, following Raven's attempts at living as a normal teenage girl and attending high school. Unfortunately, she gets inadvertently drawn into a mystical fight involving the Medusa Mask and has to battle for the lives of her classmates. In the Wizard #177 magazine, Wolfman briefly described the series, saying, "She needs to be on her own and in charge of herself for the first time in her life. This is more than just a 'tale of Raven'; it sets up her new life."
Raven discovers that Trigon had more than one child, and that a trio of children devoted to her father are behind the attacks. She is affected along with many of the other Titans by these three beings. Raven's three half-brothers use her and Beast Boy as keys to open a portal to Trigon's realm. Raven uses her own power to influence greed in others to make her half-brothers steal what little power Trigon had left. The portal is closed and Trigon's sons, believing they have gained great power, leave.
Raven's half-brothers later return and provoke her demonic side, causing her to leave the Titans and join them. However, the team was able to track them down and convince Raven to join the side of good once more. She later provided a number of other artifacts, all capable of killing her, to the Titans as terms for her staying with the team.[18]
With the Titans in a state of disarray in the wake of Justice League: Cry For Justice, Raven left the team and was promptly attacked by a demonic being calling itself Wyld.[19] Battered and dazed, Raven arrived at Titans Tower, where she was rescued by the newest roster of Teen Titans. While she was recovering, Beast Boy stated that he was still in love with her and would remain so, despite whatever difficulties were involved.[20]
Raven decided to stay with the Teen Titans, now acting as a mentor to the younger members. When the Teen Titans attempted to return home, Raven was kidnapped and taken to another dimension by Wyld.[21] Wyld reveals that Raven was the one who created him. When Raven was traveling dimensions looking for her father, her soul self caused all of the animals she visited to merge into one being: The Wyld. The Titans enter the Wyld World to rescue Raven. The Wyld is eventually destroyed by Static.
In the final issue of this incarnation of the Titans, Superboy-Prime and his Legion of Doom attack Titan's Tower. Raven stops Kid Flash just before he can kill Inertia. Then she reveals her soul-self to Headcase, terrifying and in so defeating him. After the Legion of Doom is defeated and Superboy-Prime is bound to the Source Wall, Beast Boy and Raven have a talk about her difficulty in reading Solstice's emotions, and their encounter with Headcase. Eventually, Raven starts to open up about her true feelings. While it was her inner darkness that scarred her entire life, she was even more frightened of what her love for Beast Boy might cause her to do. Beast Boy makes it clear he doesn't want to escape from any part of her. Touched, Raven decides that she needs to embrace the positive feelings inside her rather than just her negative ones. Beast Boy assures her this is part of being human, and points out, "I think you've worried enough about the bad....so why don't we focus on the good for a change?" With that, they share a heartfelt kiss to renew their relationship and ultimately embrace their love for each other.[22]
After the events of Flashpoint, the history of the DC Universe was altered, resulting in The New 52. Raven makes her New 52 debut in the first issue of the Phantom Stranger. There she is shown as a girl in a black and white striped sweater freaking out in a funeral over the level of overwhelming emotion that is emanating from the people there. The Phantom Stranger takes Raven to Stonehenge, the portal between Earth and the realm of Trigon. Being told by a "higher power" what must be done, the reluctant Stranger unwillingly hands her over to Trigon.
Raven makes her first Teen Titans appearance in Teen Titans #16. Raven, sporting a new costume, is introduced by Trigon as his "Black Bird of Terror" to his minions. It is strongly suggested that Raven has been controlling Red Robin's emotions. During Trigon's invasion on Earth, she approaches a near dead Beast Boy who had been assaulted by Deathstroke earlier in the remains of the Ravagers facility.[23] After being touched by Raven, Beast Boy awakens and when he asks if Harvest has sent her, she apologizes stating that she brought him into the fray much sooner than she expected and says: "Hush. We are birds of a feather now... You are mine to control" as Raven mind-controls him and teleports them to New York where Trigon and the Teen Titans are in battle.[24]
Trigon reveals more of Raven's origins. He has a son from each world he's conquered, but Raven is his only daughter. Trigon let Raven's mother, Arella, live because he considered that Raven needed to be raised by humans so she could recreate the seven under realms in her own image. Arella fled with her daughter to Azarath where the monks taught her how to control her dark side and avoid Trigon's influence on her. Years later, she escaped from Azarath in order to protect her mentors and planet from Trigon and fled to the Earth where Phantom Stranger captured her for Trigon.[volume & issue needed]
Raven spent time in the under-realms where time flows faster or was compressed. Trigon thought he only needed to liberate her and not control her to make Raven have her own image. Apparently impressed, Trigon handed her the Throne of the Under-realms to rule the place as Queen.[volume & issue needed]
Back in New York, Trigon's three sons, Belial, Ruskoff, and Suge, assault the Teen Titans to take Raven back. Raven, Beast Boy, and the Titans defeat them, but Trigon himself appears again and takes control of the Titans save for Red Robin, Raven and Beast Boy. The manipulated Titans attack, and while Raven and Beast Boy distract them and Trigon, Tim cuts through Trigon's eyes with his inertrite wings. Trigon, pulling out the wings from his eyes, compliments Tim before suddenly disappearing. Soon after, a woman and a group of suited men come through a portal, informing that they will take Psimon into custody and make the incident appear as if it had never happened. When questioned about the police officers Psimon has killed, the woman reveals it has been an hallucination by Trigon, so therefore it has never happened.
Raven and Beast Boy are re-accepted into the Teen Titans. Raven brings controversy to the team by revealing the flirtatious relationships Tim had when under Trigon's control. Raven goes into her room, leaving the awkward situation behind. There, she summons her father, saying, "Father, I am one of them. Your plan worked perfectly," leaving questions on what side she is really playing for.
Meanwhile, Tim calls Raven aside, telling that if something happens to him, the team will look up to her to lead them.
After the events of "Trinity War", the Earth's greatest heroes are gone and the Crime Syndicate has taken over the world. The Teen Titans challenge the Crime Syndicate, but are easily overpowered by Johnny Quick and Atomica and then flung into the time stream. While the Titans are constantly flung through time', Raven is sent a few thousand years back in time. There she is challenged by Etrigan, who recognizes her as Trigon's daughter and tries to kill her. Raven is saved by Wonder Girl, who suggests that the way to stop Raven's powers, since she was born and raised in a world between worlds, is to manipulate the energy within the time stream. Raven succeeds in anchoring the Titans with her soul-self, teleporting them through time.
The Titans arrive 20 years into the future, where the Son of Superman has massacred most of Earth's superheroes, leaving only a few including Animal Man(Gar Logan) and Rose Wilson. Superboy Kon-El and Jon battle, and Kon triumphs. But Kon is sent elsewhere by an unknown power, and a severely injured Jon is swapped unknowingly as Superboy by Logan and Wilson. The Titans depart again, now to an alien planet the 31st century, where Kid Flash is actually a rebel leader and war criminal, Bar Torr. While the Titans stay to witness the Trial of Kid Flash, Raven deduces Superboy is actually Jon, and helps send him back to the present time so that he can find a cure for his deteriorating body condition.
Leaving Kid Flash and Solstice in the future, the Titans return to their original time and is united with Bunker, Beast Boy, and Skitter. Raven finds out that their journey has severed Trigon's control over her. Followed by an attack by the villain Grimm, the Titans plan a final attack on Harvest's new colony. Raven is reluctant to join because of her past actions, but Bunker tells her that everybody deserves a second chance, and Raven changes her mind. In the colony, they are surprised to find that everyone is returned to normal, and even the victims of the Culling has been restored to life. Raven plays a crucial role by finding out Harvest's scheme to extract all the metagenes to create a massive DNA strand for his usage. This is destroyed by Raven's soul self and Harvest is finally defeated. After this event, Raven is shown living with Cassie.
Raven can empathically absorb the pain of injured people to ease their suffering, and induce rapid healing. She has the ability to heal herself and others. This power is limited, since she cannot heal grave injuries. She almost died trying to accomplish such a feat. Her most prominent ability is to manifest her soul-self through a form of astral projection. Through the use of her soul-self, Raven can project her consciousness into the mind, for therapeutic purposes. It also serves as a way to travel into other dimensions. In many instances, her soul-self has also functioned as a shield and as a method of attack, by absorbing objects and energy and regurgitating them moments later. Using her soul-self, she can convert her physical body into her soul-self and carry or teleport herself and others over vast distances in form of a giant black raven. Her soul-self can stay outside her body for five minutes, without risking any psychic pain.[volume & issue needed]
Raven has also displayed the ability to control, manipulate and or generate pure shadows and darkness. Raven can also manipulate energy, time, and emotions. This latter ability manifests in different variations, from causing supremely destructive pain, inducing tension, fear-based illusions, and stealing emotions from others. In a number of instances, Raven has also displayed sorcerous abilities, such as inducing unconsciousness on Tim Drake with a touch, releasing balls of fire "within the folds of her cloak" (as in The New Teen Titans Annual #4 (1988)), or hurling electric blasts strong enough to take down all her brothers and all of the adult Titans. Recently, she was seen to completely annihilate the demon army of Rankor numbering more than three thousand individuals and which contained powerful individual demons that had taken the Titans down in ambushes previously. In her third body, Raven has acquired the ability to fly. Raven is shown to be able to fly unaided in space.[volume & issue needed]
Raven has very powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities which are fueled by her emotions. She tries to keep her emotions contained because of their destructive potential. Raven has shown in a number of instances that exercising her emotions increases her power dramatically, which also tends to cause her to assume a semi-demonic form.[volume & issue needed]
Like her brothers, Raven can induce and amplify one of the seven deadly sins (in her case, pride) in any living being, however doing so will cause her to suffer spells of nausea and vomiting for several days afterward as side effects.[volume & issue needed]
Raven also has limited precognition, which allows her to predict future events that are about to happen, although this happens involuntarily and infrequently. She has also been shown to be an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, despite the fact that she rarely uses these abilities.[volume & issue needed]
A teenage version of Raven appears in the Teen Titans animated series, voiced by Tara Strong. One of the program's breakout characters, her costume is relatively the same as her comic counterpart but her blue dress is replaced with a blue, hooded cloak and a black leotard in order to avoid several animation complications. Raven is depicted with light gray skin, violet-blue eyes, and shoulder-length violet-blue, bobcut-styled hair. Her origin as the daughter of human Arella and interdimensional demon Trigon is the same as in the comics. This version chiefly employs powers which resemble telekinesis/psychokinesis encased in dark-colored mystical energy. Raven's power is displayed under various forms. She accomplishes this by putting a little piece of her spirit/soul into everything she telekinetically controls. She often chants the incantation "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" to focus her abilities even further, allowing her to perform much greater feats; she also uses this phrase as a mantra while meditating. She has the ability to fly. Raven has also been seen as a fairly good hand-to-hand combatant, although she only occasionally uses this skill during battle. Another of Raven's chief abilities is her "Soul-Self" which allows her to detach her soul and spirit from her body in the form of a dark-energy raven. This ability can be used to enter the minds of others, teleport herself and others across great distances, pass through solid matter or through fire, and even alter her own appearance. Raven has displayed a number of seldom-used abilities. She can heal herself and others (to an extent), stop time, and manifest her fears as monsters unintentionally. She keeps a library of numerous spellbooks in her room on the occult, as well as a number of immensely powerful items, charms and talismans. Raven's powers are entirely tied to her emotions, becoming more powerful and more unstable with the intensity of the emotions fueling them. Raven is often giving sage advice to the others about various subjects, and generally stays calm even in desperate situations. She is also the most emotionally-restrained of the Titans, appearing secretive and distant. The reason for her emotional restraint is due to the adverse effects her emotions have on her supernatural abilities. However, she eventually warms up to her teammates and comes to see them as her family. The fourth season serves as an adaptation of the "Terror of Trigon" arc in the Teen Titans comics, and has five episodes that focus heavily on Raven. Over the course of the season, Raven tries to avoid her destiny of becoming the portal that will release Trigon into their dimension. However, with Slade having been empowered by Trigon, Raven loses hope and resigns to her fate. She leaves her teammates with a small fraction of her powers to protect them from Trigon's petrification blast when he emerges. Raven regresses into a small five-year-old child, and is rescued from the depths of Trigon's prison by Robin. Robin and the other Titans decide to fight anyway, though they are ultimately incapable of defeating Trigon. Their efforts convince Raven to step out of her father's shadow, and she vaporizes Trigon with a pure-white version of her Soul-Self, returning the world to normal in the process. In the fifth season of the show, she starts to become more open and friendly, although her disposition to Beast Boy does not change. However it is also clearly shown through the entire series that Raven shares an odd "love/hate" relationship with teammate Beast Boy, as they are always fighting despite caring a lot for each other, although, unlike in the comics, a romantic interest between the two is never implied. Raven's only definitive romantic love interest within the television series was with the evil dragon Malchior (who was posing as the warrior-wizard Rorek) in the episode "Spellbound", but that relationship ended that same episode when it was revealed that Malchior had been deceiving Raven the whole time in order to use her powers to free himself from the magical book in which he had been trapped by Rorek. She had shown attraction towards Aqualad in the episode "Deep Six", though this was mainly for comedic effect. In the episode "How Long Is Forever?", Starfire travels to the future via a museum artifact. During Starfire's attempt to return home, Raven is seen in her white robed version.
Raven returns in the New Teen Titans shorts, with Tara Strong reprising her role. In one short, she goes on a date with the Goth Boy.
Raven reappears in Teen Titans Go!, with Tara Strong reprising her role. While her appearance remains mostly unchanged from the original Teen Titans series, it is later shown that her short hair is now black with purple streaks instead of violet purple. Also, in the episode "Hey Pizza" her leotard is jokingly referred to as a 'bathing suit'. In "Legendary Sandwich", it is revealed that she loves the show Pretty Pretty Pegasus (a parody of My Little Pony, for which Strong voices Twilight Sparkle) but is afraid of any other girly thing (flowers, hearts, chocolates, and rabbits). In the episode "Terra-ized" Raven is the only Titan suspicious of Terra's real intentions with Beast Boy, managing to spoil her plan of using Beast Boy to get access to the Titans secrets. In this episode Raven shows some signs of jealousy towards Beast Boy and his interactions with Terra. Later it is confirmed as, like in the comics, Raven has romantic feelings for Beast Boy, however she keeps it as a secret from all the other Titans. In "Matched", Cyborg builds a computer program that matches any superhero or superheroine to their one true love. Raven questions why he would waste his time building that and he states it's because Robin wants to prove he's a "perfect match for Star[fire]". It matches Starfire to Aquaman and Beast Boy to Raven. All of the Titans are left in shock; especially Raven, who nervously claims it must be a mistake. Cyborg then states that computers never lie, causing Beast Boy to try to get Raven to fall in love with him. After several failed attempts, Raven eventually tells Beast Boy she wants to make things work and accepts his proposal for marriage. At their wedding, they are about to romantically kiss as Cyborg comes down, informing them that there was a glitch in his computer program and that Starfire and Beast Boy's true love matches were both a scratching post. Starfire and Beast Boy fight over the scratching post as Raven stands unemotionally, stating "Why do I even try?" However, it is shown that she stills harbors hidden romantic feelings for him throughout the series. As her father, Trigon, is a supremely powerful interdimensional demon, her paternal uncle is Death himself, and her paternal grandmother is a succubus who eats the souls and spirits of others.


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It's here! It's the day you've finallyreached your goal weight after months and months of hard work, good eating habits and consistent exercise.
And, it's just in time for you to shine and show-off to your friends and relatives that you haven't seen in eons just how good you look.
For several weeks, you look amazing and feel even better. You celebrate by going out almost every night showing off your new sexy body: dinner at fancy restaurants, dancing at the club, parties wherever and whenever you can find them.
But pretty soon, those new clothes you just bought start to fit a bit to snug than you'd like them to, and don't really compliment your body very well (in fact, they're starting really be unflattering).
Then you think to yourself:
"Maybe I shouldn't have gone out so much, and skipped so many workouts in favor for cocktails with the girls. Maybe I shouldn't have had those extra glasses of wine and spent too many nights with too little sleep."
Maybe so… but, you can't change that now!
So what can you do?
All you want to do is get back to how you looked and felt, and not have that amazing feeling disappear again.
What were all those sacrifices worth if you can't keep the weight off?
Interestingly, the secret to keeping your body from regaining all your weight, is really not such a secret.
Honestly, it's just as simple as getting back into your regular exercise routine and sticking to it! (And yes, a night of dancing will count!)
In fact, researchers have recently shown through meticulous experiments that EXERCISE can and will prevent your body from regaining weight loss after months and months of serious dieting, (as long as you're not blowing off healthy eating habits completely).
The Negative Effects of Dieting
When you lose weight through strict dieting, your body tries to fight it in many ways:
– First, your brain starts telling your body that you're starving, and that you need to eat more food.
– The brain also tries to slow down your metabolism so that your body returns to its "comfort weight."
– Your fat and muscle cells become more insulin sensitive, which although is mostly good for overall health, it makes the body more efficient at storing any excess energy (in fat cells) instead of burning it off (in muscle cells).
– Finally, weight loss and dieting initially suppresses your ability to burn fat while sending extra energy to fat storage.
This is why thousands and thousands of people (particularly women) have such a hard time both losing weight and keeping it off. It also explains why most people need all the help they can get physiologically, psychologically and biologically when it comes to attaining the body they deserve.
However, once you reach your goal weight, how can you stop your body from gaining it all back? That's a legitimate fear most people have, and sometimes stops them from even trying.
Exercise to the Rescue!
Exercise is really a "magic pill" that most people forget to take.
Yet, it's one of the most effective ways to prevent weight re-gain known to man:
– Regular exercise leads to decreased appetite and increased caloric expenditure, helping you keep the weight off longer
– It also changes the body into a fat-burning machine and helps it store more carbohydrates in muscle where they can be used to fuel further exercise sessions
– Finally, it can increase muscle tissue and keep fat tissue at bay, which helps you look better with and without your clothes.
Weight loss researchers from the University of Colorado, Denver, also recently showed that regular exercise after weight regain stopped the body from gaining weight and storing extra fat even during a situation of excess calorie intake!
We all know that we want to eat more food than our body really needs, especially after we've dieted for a long time, but this research shows us that even if we have a few higher-calorie days, or eat at weight maintenance (rather than for weight loss), we won't regain our weight as long as we continue to keep moving every day.
Exercise, in this research study, helped the body burn off any excess calories ingested, and helped the muscles use more calories to create energy for more movement.
Regular exercise, both during weight loss and while in active weight-loss maintenance, also helped prevent some of the compensatory mechanisms that the body undergoes while dieting that thwart fat loss efforts.
Overall, if you want to lose weight and keep it off forever, don't forget the importance of regular exercise.
So what's best?
For most women, depending on their schedule and preferences, 3 lifting sessions, 1-2 HIIT sessions, and 1-2 MIC (moderate intensity cardio) sessions is perfect. These can be combined in different ways to allow 2-3 full days off from the gym every week (but still aim to be active on those days — housework, yard work, walking the dogs — it all counts!)
Not only will you feel better with renewed energy and vigor, but you'll help your body look better for longer, too and isn't that what we all want? To feel healthy, attractive, and strong?
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Exercise reduces appetite and traffics excess nutrients away from energetically efficient pathways of lipid deposition during the early stages of weight regain.
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I have the pleasure of introducing you to Susan Donaldson, better known as "ScotSue," and her blog Family History Fun. Susan has the family history bug for researching both her own family history and that of friends, in particular the families of Fylde in Lancashire, her Weston ancestors from Staffordshire and Shropshire, and her Scottish Donaldson connections.
A Little About Susan
"I come from Poulton-le-Fylde, near the popular seaside resort of Blackpool, in Lancashire in north west England. We moved with my father's work to Edinburgh where I finished my education studying history, followed by the Diploma in Librarianship and Information Work. My first proper job was on a USA exchange scheme, working in the Radcliffe College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I loved Boston and New England but also took advantage of enjoying the Greyhound bus offer of '99 dollars for 99 days of travel' around the States – a great experience.
"On marriage I moved to the Scottish Borders, south of Edinburgh. It is a beautiful rural region with a very distinctive history reflected in ruined castles and abbeys, and tales of Border Reivers and Border ballads.
"My career has spanned working in a College of Education, citizen's advice bureau, tourist information centres, the local studies department of my local library service and finally the Heritage Hub – home of the Scottish Borders Archive, Local History & Family History Service – where I specialised in family history enquirers. How many people can say they are in a job connected with their hobby? I am now enjoying retirement."
How Susan Got Started in Genealogy
"It all began with a shoebox of old photographs kept in a cupboard in my grandfather's house. It was a special treat if I was allowed to look through them. There were photographs of my grandfather's family (he was one of eight brothers and one sister), pictures of the brothers in First World War uniform, beautifully embroidered cards with penciled messages sent back from Flanders by Grandad to his wife and children, and childhood photographs of my mother and aunt. These are my family treasures.
"But it was the photograph of my great grandmother Maria Rawcliffe which had the most impact. Her name was an evocative mixture of down-to-earth northern Lancashire grit (Rawcliffe) and echoes of a more flamboyant Latin nature (Maria). She looked a formidable lady from this one photograph I had initially of her. To give additional colour there was, no doubt, an apocryphal story that granny's dark looks came from Spanish descent, after an Armada ship had been wrecked off the Fylde coast of Lancashire and the sailors married local girls. So you see I was soon weaving stories about her and wanted to find out more, which proved equally fascinating.
"From primary school days, history was my favourite subject. I still have the penciled family tree I drew up when I was around 12 years old after seeing the old family photographs mentioned above. I did not return to it until many years later. In the 1980's I joined the Lancashire Family History Society and also the Borders Family History Society, not because of any Border family connections but to go along to their talks and improve my knowledge of sources and research.
"Then of course along came the Internet. I became a silver surfer and my research and contacts took off. I had a major boost in 2001 when I regained contact with my mother's cousin to find she had in her loft a large collection of family photographs, including the only one of my great grandfather.
"Working at the Scottish Borders Heritage Hub (my final job) was invaluable in widening my knowledge of Scottish archive resources and improving my research skills. I have written several family history narratives, and besides my own family history, I am working on my husband's Scottish connections and have done a number of projects for local history organizations, friends and extended family. My 'to do' list is long."
Susan's Thoughts About Blogging
"At work I had compiled information sheets and enjoyed creating a style of presentation that made facts easy to absorb. I also had an interest in journalism and have written press releases etc. for various activities I have been involved in. My work had just started a blog which I contributed to, and the magazine article style appealed to me. Then I was reading Woman & Home magazine (aimed at the mature, enquiring woman) and an article said if you enjoyed writing, had time to write regularly and had something you felt strongly about, set up a blog. So I did and have never looked back. That was in August 2010.
"I am not particularly IT savvy but managed to set up my blog using Blogger. My title of Family History Fun is rather unoriginal, but I wanted to convey the enjoyment that can be gained from family history and also have family history in the title from the point of view of search engines. I used the name ScotSue, as I thought the Scottish aspect might appeal to readers. Using it in my blog address was a mistake when setting it up, as I thought I had to include my user name – hence the address came out rather longer than I would have liked.
"I wanted to have a medium for my writing, to show my collection of family photographs and memorabilia to a wider audience, and to meet fellow enthusiasts (I don't count my immediate family amongst them!). Past experience on message boards etc. means I am under no illusion that my family names (Danson, Rawcliffe, Weston and Donaldson) evoke much interest, so I was hoping a blog might produce better results. It did and resulted in contact from two unknown third cousins (one in the USA) who gave me a wealth of information and photographs on their own extended family, and more material for blog posts.
"I used Google to search for other British family history bloggers and a contact pointed me to Geneabloggers, a major stepping stone in building up followers and giving ideas for posts."
Susan's Advice to New Bloggers
"In terms of setting up a blog, aim for a clean, unfussy, uncluttered look and play around with backgrounds and colours. In time, I set up Pages and moved 'Blog Favourites' and 'Blog Awards' from the side bar to a page each which works well. I also like my other Page headings, in giving a long term overview of my activities, e.g. 'People & Places' and 'Timeline.'
"Join Geneabloggers and make use of their blog prompts to develop not only your writing but also a readership. Build up your followers by making comments on posts. Learn from other bloggers – they are a very supportive community and there are lots of good examples and tips out there.
"Just start writing. Think carefully about the title of your post, as it is crucial in encouraging readers to open your post. Make sure your first sentence/paragraph is full of interest to attract the reader and ensure a high search optimization. Break up heavy blocks of text. Make use of images where you can to add interest. Use the Blogger Drafts folder to jot down ideas for future posts. In many instances it may be no more than a comment, a photograph, or a title to act as a prompt to develop later on."
Susan's Favorite Blog Post
"I am most proud of the posts relating to my ten known ancestors (including my father and grandfather) who served in two world wars, notably A Stretcher Bearer in the Field about my great uncle who was killed on the Somme in 1916, a week after his 22nd birthday.
"Blogging in particular has helped me to appreciate more the lives of my parents and I am proud to pay tribute to them though my posts. For my mother Happiness is Stitching, and for my father several posts based on his wartime experiences such as A Wartime Traveller's Tale.
"I have also touched on topics not purely family history related, e.g. on local history, on featuring photographs of where I live. I am keen to promote my own area of the Scottish Borders which is often a forgotten corner of Scotland, and this was my theme for the last April A-Z Challenge."
Susan's Time With Ancestors
"Nowadays not enough and it is largely internet based, as I am dependent on public transport to reach archive centres. Writing is my main preoccupation and I have a long 'to do' list to finish writing up my Danson and Donaldson narratives, compile 'I Remember when…' memories of my childhood and other local and family history projects."
Susan's Favorite Ancestor
"It has to be Maria Rawcliffe, my great grandmother who I mentioned earlier. Maria's life is at the heart of my family history, and it was the first I turned into a family history narrative. She was the inspiration for my ancestral trail, and research unearthed so many stories on her life which has given me rich material for my blog. Plus there was the discovery that she was born on the same date as my daughter114 years later, which seemed a wonderful coincidence."
How Genealogy Has Improved Susan's Life
"It has been wonderful opener to a fulfilling life. It was the basis for a very satisfying last ten years of my work. I have developed my research and writing skills, presented workshops on 'First Steps in Family History,' and have taken part in a Hobbies Show. Family history can take you in so many diverse directions, e.g. the study of names, local history, and social history, so it keeps your brain active. Travelling to places connected with my family is a great excuse for a holiday. From the start of blogging, I was amazed how well photographs showed up on screen and this stimulated my interest in photography to better illustrate my posts. Above all I have met online so many interesting people whose comments I very much appreciate. The computer of course has been essential to this and I cannot conceive of a life without it. I recommend family history to anyone."
What Susan Loves Most About Genealogy
"Difficult to say which is uppermost – the detective story element in hunting for information and corroborating it with evidence, (I do not like to be defeated), the satisfaction of finding key facts, and writing up the information in an interesting way. I love all these aspects."
Susan's Genealogy Bucket List
"Easy – to find information on the early life of my maternal grandmother Alice English who is my proverbial brick wall. I haven't even been able to trace a birth certificate to find out the name of her mother. She died when I was a baby and I failed (or somehow was reluctant) to ask the right questions of my mother at the right time. I was always told we shared the same birthday and her marriage certificate and death certificate confirm her birth year as 1884. I have her father's name from her marriage certificate but am no nearer finding out her mother's name, despite lots of different efforts, including using a professional researcher."
Susan's Time Capsule Message
"Be proud of your past – of the feisty females in our family, and the men who served their country. They were individuals from ordinary backgrounds who sought to make the best of their lives.
"A time capsule would have to be big! I would include a family tree with copies of favourite family photographs and most valued family documents, e.g. correspondence from both the First and Second World Wars, plus artifacts such as an example of my mother's stitching, my aunt's paintings, my father's writing, and mementoes representing myself, my husband, daughter and granddaughter."
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Please take a moment to visit Susan at Family History Fun and leave her a comment letting her know you stopped by. Thank-you, Susan, for letting us inside your blogging world.
© 2014, copyright Wendy Mathias. All rights reserved.
Wendy Mathias is a retired teacher who divides her time between her home in Chesapeake, Virginia and Smith Mountain Lake. She enjoys researching her family and digging for the story behind old family photos for her blog Jollett Etc. Are you a genealogy blogger who would like to be interviewed for the "May I Introduce To You . . ." series? If so, contact Wendy via email email@example.com.


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The President of the United States regularly referred to the fact that he was a constitutional lawyer during both of his political campaigns. He was quite fond of references to the fact that he taught constitutional law. What is clear is that either this President was absent from his own classes when he addressed the First Amendment's Freedoms of Press, Association, Speech and the Free Exercise of Religion, or he simply has no respect for them.
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Keywords: Benghazi, Justice Department, IRS, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party, Conservative groups, Obama Administration, house of cards, Jay Carney, Rule of Law, Eric Holder, Subpoena, Keith A Fournier
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - I write as a private citizen, a constitutional lawyer and a deeply concerned American. I love this Nation. I still believe in its promise of liberty. Like most of you I have been watching the unfolding scandals which are engulfing this Administration with growing alarm.
Like most of you, I insist upon knowing what really happened on that fateful evening in Benghazi, Libya - and what really happened afterward. People died and someone lied. The only question is who lied and when. No-one is happy to make such an assertion. I certainly am not.
This evil terrorist act had nothing to do with a You Tube Video. It was perpetrated by Jihadists and we know it. This Administration knew it, early on, and concocted the entire story as a deflection. The question is why - and the American people have a right to an answer.
Like most of you, I insist upon a full explanation concerning the abuse of office committed by agents of the Internal Revenue Service. They engaged in a systematic and widespread pattern of viewpoint discrimination. There is no doubt that they singled out applicants for denial or delay of non-profit status based solely upon their political positions. That kind of action is unconstitutional and threatens our political order.
As someone who obtained many such exemptions for legal clients over the years I know what is involved in the process. I also led several exempt organizations and know how it all works. There has always been a political side to the process. That is not the issue. This is about much more than an underling in the IRS denying an exemption. This is about a systemic abuse of power by the Internal Revenue Service. It strains credibility for representatives of the Obama Administration to claim they were unaware of it.
Attorney General Holder's announcement on Tuesday that the Justice Department is undertaking an investigation of the IRS based upon this pattern and practice does not give me confidence. My doubts concerning their capacity to do so are enhanced by the news that the same Justice Department abused its own power in recent actions taken against reporters for the Associated Press.
We must insist upon a full accounting from Eric Holder and his Justice Department. His announcement on Tuesday that he had recused himself from the underlying matter is insufficient. The execution of a secret subpoena to obtain the phone records of AP reporters without any notification constitutes an unconstitutional abuse of power. It smacks of the tactics of a police state and not a democratic republic.
If there is any silver lining in the cloud in these scandals, it is the fact that the Press has awakened to the serious nature of the tactics being used by this Administration. The questions posed to Presidential spokesman Jay Carney from reporters on both Monday and Tuesday, from media sources across the political spectrum, demonstrates that the sleeping giant has finally awakened.
I watched Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney do a horrible job on Monday May 13, 2013 and Tuesday, May 14, 2013, as he tried to defend the Administration's handling of these scandals. It would have been pitiful to watch, if the stakes were not so high. But they are and it was more than pitiful. It was offensive.
The President of the United States - whom Carney represents in these briefings - regularly referred to the fact that he was a constitutional lawyer during both of his political campaigns. He was quite fond of references to the fact that he taught constitutional law.
What is clear is that either this President was absent from his own classes when he addressed the First Amendment's Freedoms of Press, Association, Speech and the Free Exercise of Religion, or he simply has no respect for them.
His administration does not abide by the safeguards to liberty required of all elected officials. It is not enough for the President to say he was not aware of any of it. He either was, and he is not telling us the truth, or he was not, and he is doing a very poor job of leading the Nation.
Now, let me be clear - as President Obama likes to say so often. The issues at stake in the behavior of the State Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department are serious and consequential. They may be criminal. That is not something I am happy to write. My concerns do not come from the fact that I disagree with this Administration over many fundamental issues. I do.
Rather, they come from the reality that we are talking about the United States Constitution. No President, no United States Administration is above the Rule of Law. Among the numerous idiomatic phrases we use in common speech is the phrase "a house of cards". It refers to a structure, organization or enterprise which is weak and can easily come undone. Is the Scandal Ridden Obama Administration Becoming a House of Cards?
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How radical can the game of tennis get? Head is asking tennis fans around the world to weigh in with a new "How Radical Are You?" promotion that coincides with the launch of the new MicroGel Radical racquet.
Head wants fans to submit one- to two-minute videos showing how their tennis game has "evolved into an individual, spontaneous, and adventurous sport." Participants will compete for a chance to win an afternoon on the court with Andre Agassi.
Fans can submit their videos on head.com through July 8.
In addition to court time with Agassi, the Grand Prize winner will receive round-trip airfare for two and a two-night stay in Las Vegas. The runner up will receive a new MicroGel Radical racquet signed by Agassi.
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Incumbents not running in Districts 12, 15
After many last-day entries for one of the 10 aldermanic seats on the ballot in the City of Waukesha, the campaign period is officially under way.
Nine of 10 districts on the ballot are for three-year terms. District 6 is a one-year term due to the death of the previous alderman.
Four aldermen have no challengers, while Alderman Roger Patton has the most challengers in District 11, which serves downtown.
And with District 12 Alderman Richard Hastings and District 15 Alderman Duane Paulson filing for noncandidacy last month, there will be at least two new aldermen on the 15-member Common Council.
The primary is Feb. 19, and the general election is April 2.
Below is a look at those who filed for candidacy.
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Terry Thieme (inc.),1712 Stardust Drive
Mark Myers, 1922 Ruben Drive
John Holst, 2051 Highland Ave.
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Joe Pieper (inc.), 1011 W. Glenn Drive
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Paul Ybarra (inc.), 2610 Keri Court
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Adam Jankowski (inc.), 114 Hinman Ave.
Marga Krumins, 321 Harrison Ave.
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Vance Skinner (inc.), 200 McCall St.
Emanuele Vitale, 807 E. Broadway
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Kathleen Cummings (inc.), 1325 E. Roberta Ave.
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Roger Patton (inc.), 222 Park Place
Lenny Miller, 126 Central Ave.
James Cowee,325 W. Main St.
Kyle Villarreal Sr., 406 Wisconsin Ave.
Tyler Hoffman, 408 N. West Ave.
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Aaron Perry, 912 Valley Hill Drive
Gary Krivos, 1058 River Place Blvd.
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Joan Francoeur (inc.), 201 N. Comanche Lane
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Russel Stewart. 1800 Kensington Drive
Cory Payne, 450 Kimberly Drive
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Everyone thought the sewer smell plaguing a West Allis office building would go away when two neighboring companies stopped loading up the sewer with wastewater, but the smell has only gotten worse.
For the last four or five years, employees at an office building housing We Energies, 500 S. 116th St., have felt ill and some have gone home sick, said Brian Manthey, We Energies spokesman.
Sewer fumes have emanated from restrooms but other fumes have come through the building's ventilation system.
The city has stepped in because of a possible health hazard. It notified the newer of the wastewater companies that the discharge limit was lower than it was pouring into the sewers and flows were reduced to the proper limit, Development Director John Stibal reported Tuesday to the Common Council Safety and Development Committee.
Another possible source of the smell is a plumbing leak and city officials had hoped that smoke testing would find one. Testing was done last week, but the plumbing proved tight, Stibal said.
City officials will seek a solution when they meet down with representatives of We Energies, the two wastewater companies, Elite Environmental and Central Waste Treatment of Wisconsin, both of 360 S. Curtis Road, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and other companies that also are on the sewer line.
The meeting is intended to happen before the end of March. If the fix doesn't work, officials will be back before the committee to decide where to go from there.
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This book takes a very complex subject and makes it accessible and easily digestible. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how data and analytics can improve their business. But it's also an invaluable guide for data experts who struggle to communicate their knowledge to colleagues in the boardroom.[read more]
Beyond the Bottomline: ERP Tools Are Meant for Ensuring Customer Satisfaction
Beyond being a mere data analysis tool, another perspective on ERP is that it ultimately serves as a tool for ensuring customer satisfaction. The bottom line in all of these is effective and efficient data management. Better handling of business data to make these more useful in managing business operations will ultimately result in better products or services and improved handling of customer concerns.[read more]
Winning Strategies for Enterprise Mobile App Development
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"Hi Doug,Many thanks for that.Unfortunately, at this time I am not a client of Gartner, although many of my own clients are.What I think is missing, at least for me, are more detailed success stories that highlight Big Data use in more traditional lines of business, not just advertising channels and service brokers (Google, Facebook, Uber, Netflix, etc.) although I am seeing a lot of ..."
"Hi Martyn,At Gartner, I have compiled a library of several hundred real-world Big Data related examples from organizations in every industry--most with quantified business benefits. I continue to add strories each week. Gartner clients can request a sample of these use cases related to their business, or any type of data (e.g. social media, IoT, etc.) or business function (e.g., finance, ..."
"Oh, and it's great to see others catching on to Gartner's "3Vs" of Big Data, that we first introduced over 15 years ago (albeit most often without the professional courtesy of a citation). To see the original piece I wrote back then: http://goo.gl/wH3qG.Cheers, Doug"
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The Australian stocks lose around $25 billion in value, as the local market followed overseas bourses lower on a slump in oil prices.
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The first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has left Gladstone in Queensland bound for Asia.
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The price of oil has fallen to financial crisis levels, hurting producers but boosting consumer economies.
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Australian petrol prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than four years, but analysts warn they are unlikely to go much lower.
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A slow down in the Chinese economy means South Australian miners are looking at a year of minimal growth, according to an economist.
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By now everyone has learned that the biggest objective with my blog is education and outreach. I say it over and over… knowledge is power!
The 2008 State of the Evidence report is a comprehensive report on the link between the environment and increased breast cancer risk, and was released by The Breast Cancer Fund. This organization is a little different than other breast cancer organizations in that the Breast Cancer Fund identifies – and advocates for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. They fully agree with the inherited genetic connection and the other more discussed risk factors. However, they focus on the environmental impact and risk factors created by contaminants we come in contact with on a daily basis.
In the report the evidence is divided into three categories: chemical carcinogens, hormones and endocrine disrupting compounds and radiation. It has some interesting and thought provoking information. Click here to read the report.