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Drupal 2011 retrospective and 2012 predictions
2011 was a tremendous year of major growth for Drupal, and also a year that kept me very, very busy.
Drupal 7
At the beginning of the year, thanks to the efforts of nearly 1,000 contributors, we released Drupal 7, celebrating the event together as a community with over 250 parties in over 90 countries. An incredible achievement for all of us.
A map of all the Drupal 7 release parties around the world: over 250 parties in more than 90 countries.
With a new release comes a fresh round of evangelism. I traveled 412,000 km (or 256,000 miles) in 2011, up from 300,000 km (190,000 miles) in 2010 and about 100,000 km (62,000 miles) in 2009. Given that the world is about 40,000 km (or 25,400 miles), I flew around the world approximately 10 times, or roughly once a month. Or put differently, I traveled an average of 1100 km a day (or 680 miles a day). Needless to say, that is a lot of evangelizing! And although it may not be visible, I believe this evangelizing to be very effective in promoting Drupal and creating local communities around the globe.
Three of the places I visited that I'm most excited about were Brazil, India, and Singapore. There is a large and growing Drupal following in these places with a lot of opportunity for Drupal.
Today, Drupal 7 is a roaring success. Drupal 7 is being adopted at least twice as fast as Drupal 6 has. Expect to see Drupal's adoption to grow throughout 2012 thanks to Drupal 7.
Drupal 8
Drupal also turned 10 years old in 2011, and we had a big birthday bash at DrupalCon Chicago, where we also kicked off development of Drupal 8, and started work on major core initiatives, to help ensure that Drupal stays relevant in the ever-changing web. At DrupalCon London, I presented the results of a community-wide survey with over 3,000 participants, which both reinforced the strategic importance of the existing initiatives, plus added a few more, which I hope to announce in 2012.
These initiatives are being led by Greg Dunlap (Configuration Management), Larry Garfield (Web Services), Gábor Hojtsy (Multilingual), Jacine Luisi (HTML5), Jeff Burnz (Design), and John Albin (Mobile), and are happening in conjunction with other great community initiatives for Drupal 8. A huge thanks to everyone who's been working hard on improving Drupal 8!
In addition to celebrating our future, we also tried to learn from our past. We held a development process retrospective discussion on Drupal 7's 3-year release cycle and the lessons learned: what went well, what didn't, and what we should hook_process_alter() in Drupal 8. As a result, we implemented numerous core development process tweaks (a hard cap on the number of critical and major issues, worked with the various Drupal core team leads to develop "gates" that document how to review patches for accessibility, performance, usability, testing, and documentation). We also made a number of improvements to the collaboration tools on Drupal.org (e.g. issue summaries, image uploads, and subscriptions).
Due to our community's initial focus during the release cycle on stabilization and bug fixes, Drupal 8 development really only recently came into bloom, around the time of DrupalCon London. However, since then, a number of exciting improvements have gone in, including patches to convert Drupal 8 to HTML5 and clean up Drupal's multilingual system, a new object-oriented entity API and cache system, and numerous documentation and API clean-ups. Additionally, there is some promising prototyping going on for the web services and configuration management initiatives.
Drupal Association
Another aspect of Drupal that took a front seat for me in 2011 was the "rebooting" of the Drupal Association: moving to a US-based 501c3 organization, changing the structure of the organization to one of a policy-making board with supporting committees, and electing a new board of directors.
Understanding the importance of these changes requires some familiarity with the Drupal Association's history, as well as the background of the changes. But the key goals are:
- Move the board away from essentially unpaid "staff" positions (infrastructure manager, event manager, etc.) to a policy-making board. This allows the Drupal Association's activities to scale with the exponential growth of the community and not be hamstrung by what 7-9 individuals are capable of doing.
- Increase the diversity and effectiveness of the board through targeted outreach of new members via a dedicated Nominating Committee.
- Increase direct community representation in board decisions through the inclusion of community-elected, "at-large" board members.
- Empower the community to get directly involved with the Drupal Association's activities through participation in focused committees, such as an Infrastructure Committee and Events Committee.
- Move operations to the US, where most of our income comes from (which can now be tax-deductible donations), and where most of our staff is located, in order to help increase the efficiency of running the organization.
While these changes took a lot of time to implement, and a few are still ongoing, I believe they will set a very strong foundation for the future of the organization.
In fact, the Drupal Association 2012 planning has already kicked off. Our primary goals for 2012 are to make Drupal.org awesome, and to help address Drupal's talent shortage issue.
Despite the growth and opportunity, finding Drupal talent still remains really, really hard. It continues to be Drupal's most important challenge in my opinion. I'm really glad we decided to focus on it with the Drupal Association.
It certainly hasn't all been rosy, though; 2011 was also a year with challenges, particularly within the core development team. We've certainly struggled with morale issues following nearly two years without a development phase in Drupal core, misunderstandings about the relationship between "official" initiatives and community initiatives, concerns about the balance between adding new features and cleaning up existing technical debt, as well as even more existential questions like "Is Drupal a product or framework? Should Drupal be a page generator or a REST server?".
Much of the growing pains are normal. We're now one of the largest Open Source projects in terms of active contributors -- if not the largest. That growth requires us to evolve how we work. We've grown from a 100% volunteer driven model to a model where there is increasingly more corporate participation and influence. This model is not new to the world. There comes a time when a volunteer-based project needs to foster commercial involvement to help the project advance and compete. Linux is our best example. Without Red Hat, IBM and Dell, Linux would not be what it is today. One of our biggest challenges for 2012, is to figure out how we can get more commercial organizations to get involved with Drupal development in a bigger way while respecting the needs and desires of our community.
Although I also want to do a lot of evangelizing in 2012, I feel like the pendulum has to swing back. I want to re-balance how my time is spent and focus more on Drupal 8 and the Drupal community, in order to spend focused time and energy on overcoming these growing pains.
As a community, we shouldn't forget about the evangelizing though, and this is something a lot of people can help with. It sometimes frustrates me that we spent 3 years working on Drupal 7 with almost a thousand people, but don't properly tell the world about all the great things we've done. Especially because over the years, Drupal has built up a reputation of being hard to use compared to some alternatives. A lot of that is changed with Drupal 7, but it isn't necessarily reflected in how people think and talk about Drupal. To change that, we need to continue to educate people about all the great improvements we made to Drupal 7 and encourage those that gave up on Drupal previously, to give Drupal another try. Drupal 7 is a giant step forward compared to Drupal 6.
Overall, I'm confident that we can overcome these challenges. I really believe in the people that make up our community and the core development team, and our ability to collaborate together to get through tough problems. Drupal will be much better in the end, as a result. We'll have different challenges at the end of 2012.
More predictions for 2012
Here are some more prediction in addition to the predictions and plans above:
- As Drupal gains in popularity, the number of developers/shops getting involved will increase, and the Drupal ecosystem on the whole will expand greatly. However, there could be a danger that individual companies who don't invest in marketing may actually see fewer clients as a result. Marketing will be a much larger focus of the business community in 2012.
- I hope 2012 will be the year of the Drupal entrepreneur. Drupal companies who specialize in one particular aspect, such as Pantheon, Drupal Commerce, and Tag1 Consulting have seen a lot of success or promise in 2011 (specialization is a form of marketing, after all), but there are many more niches to fill, and many niches that have plenty of room for multiple companies -- something we sometimes seem to forget. I'd love to see more entrepreneurial spirit within the Drupal community.
- Another thing I'd love to see is more young people engaging with Drupal in 2012, and have this be a measure of Drupal's success. Some of us old farts are busy raising kids these days. ;-) New, vibrant energy in the community from young people is a hallmark of a great community.
- I predict more distributions will be created than ever before. We still haven't fully cracked the code on business models for distributions though. That is important because they are expensive to build and maintain. We're seeing early traction with the support business model around distributions, but in 2012, I think we'll see people experiment with more of a client/server model. That is, people will use distributions as a way to sell different kinds of hosted services.
- Usability is still the number one reason people choose competing solutions to Drupal. Not because the existing features are hard to use — usability of Drupal was vastly improved in Drupal 7 — but because of lack of out-of-the-box features, such as content workflow and content staging tools, accurate content previews, WYSIWYG, media handling, and scheduling. However, I predict that very little significant work will happen on many of these fronts without multiple companies investing a lot of resources into it. In any case, we will need to make Drupal core bigger, as we try and make it smaller.
- We're going from a pure web world, to a world where there are increasingly more mobile applications. A more diverse world with web sites and web applications. Current website developers will be forced to adapt. Fortunately, Drupal will be well-poised to handle this, both in contrib in Drupal 7 and in core in Drupal 8. I also predict that a number of Drupal shops will re-position themselves to be strong players in the mobile-Drupal world.
- Someone will fly a Druplicon shaped hot air balloon.
To finish things off, I want to end with a sincere, heart-felt "Thank you!" to the many members of our community who work so hard and passionately to make Drupal the great success and fun project that it is. So, let me just say from me to you, for making Drupal what it is today, and for working with me to make it better day by day, you ROCK! Here's to 2012!
Thank you too Dries for a fun 2011! Drupal is our livelihood and it was really cool meeting the founder in Singapore. You rock! On to 2012! Drupal Camp in Manila is on Feb. 25 by the way.
To clarify, when you say, "In any case, we will need to make Drupal core bigger, as we try and make it smaller." under point 5 in "More predictions for 2012", are you suggesting that the set features offered Drupal core needs to get bigger, even as the underlying codebase gets smaller?
This is not much of a clarification. What do you really mean by "we will need to make Drupal core bigger, as we try and make it smaller." ?
Why I have the (sad) feeling that you are determined to take Drupal in the opposite direction of where the Drupal Community wants to take it...
Let's clarify... this is a different direction than you want to take it, not necessarily the community. If you are making that claim then you have to back it up with some numbers and facts. We forget that the community is much larger than the thousand or so core contributors because they are usually the most vocal. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who have a stake in Drupal that might not be part of the day-to-day bickering on Drupal.org. We have to pay attention to this demographic as they are the ones who are really going to drive Drupal towards 10%. That might mean repositioning Drupal by taking out some modules but adding others in. The only way Drupal will fail is if we fail to adapt, and by sticking a flag in the ground and shrinking Drupal for the benefit of a few isn't the best way to grow the community and make the impact we are all hoping for.
I think it is more along the lines of a trade of. For example having a WYSIWYG editor in Drupal out-of-box or handling content migration better; all of these things will make Drupal "bigger" but the goal is for Drupal to be lean and mean, so while certain aspect move into core we should take into account unnecessary modules (overlay module anyone?) at the same time.
I like where Drupal is heading; but making Drupal core bigger while making it smaller is the paradox of situation we are in. The Drupal community is more than just developers and it should reflect the current state of a complex community. That's my take on it.
The model of linux distributions might be useful here. Although then there's the problem of taking someone who doesn't understand Drupal form "Drupal is good" to "this distribution is easy to start with". Maybe a few official distributions could be promoted on the Drupal.org site?
I am looking forward to great things with Drupal for 2012. Can't wait for DrupalCon Denver. See you there.
I really hope your right that "2012 will be the year of the Drupal entrepreneur". I am one of these, in 2010-2011 I specialized myself in Search Engine Optimization for Drupal sites.
I can tell, being an entrepreneur is not an easy as one may think :)
How many frequent flier miles (or kilometers) do you have? :)
Honestly great words Dries.
Thanks a lot for your great work and representing all people who made Drupal what it is today and what it will be tomorrow.
One of the best examples for successful team work and a really great cross border community/project. That's what many things should be like.
Sometimes it seems like ahead of its time, doesn't it?
Brilliant analysis Dries! Really look forward to seeing you again in Melbourne soon :)
Dries, maybe you forget to mention debian in your analogy with linux, if what you want is to get more commercial organizations to get involved with Drupal development in a bigger way (like RedHat) while respecting the needs and desires of our community (like Debian).
I don't want to start a linux flame war, it is just how I see it where linux is greatly developed commercially (RedHat) while still maintaining very stable and awesome free/libre OS (Debian).
Thanks Dries for your decision GPL-ed drupal long ago, and leading its vision and communities now. May you and Drupal communities have another great year in 2012!
Nice article. One question though...am I the only one who cringes at the use of "evangelize"?


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Through experiential and interactive approaches, glucose tolerance tests in the diagnosis of diabetes are introduced. The receiver operating characteristic curve and the use of clinical laboratory reference intervals/values are also discussed.
Practical II: Molecular tools for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer
We use a breast cancer specimen as an example to discuss and compare biochemical and immunological tools for detection of proteins with deregulated expression levels. Through clinical case studies, levels of estrogen and progesterone receptors, and c-ErbB2 are assessed in order to predict response to hormone replacement therapy and tamoxifen. The relationship between over-expression of c-ErbB2, cancer progression, and life expectancy is also discussed.
Workshop: Recombination and gene linkage
The inheritance modes of Mendelian diseases are illustrated with clinical cases. The concept of genetic recombination and gene linkage, and their biological significance are elaborated. The practical use of the Hardy-Weinberg law in prediction of disease allele frequency in the human population, and the relationship between allele and genotype frequency are discussed.

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Fathers across the country will receive their fair share of ties, socks, wallets and mugs this Sunday. But Tell Me More wants to salute fathers with an unconventional gift: wisdom. In the series "Father to Father," dads offer their words of wisdom and advice to other dads. Today's essay comes from Eric Stuart of Van Nuys, California.


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Upside down threads. Is it just me?
Every day I log on this forum the posts seem to have switched to the other way up! One day the latest post is on the first page, the next it's on the last page! Is it just me getting this, or are there lots of other people seeing this and just accepting it without saying anything, as I have done up till this point? Or am I missing something obvious and it's actually me making this happen?
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Go to user CP --> Edit Options ---> Thread Display Options ---> set to: "Linear - Oldest First"
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Last night, MTV hosted its annual Movie Awards. Taylor Lautner was on hand to accept his award for "Best Shirtless Performance" in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Check out photos below of Taylor accepting his award as well as backstage photos:
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In this week's team development feature, legendary basketball coach Bob Knight leads you through three drills instrumental in building mental toughness. Coach Knight has used these same drills throughout his esteemed coaching tenure with great success.
The drills focus on ball handling, rebounding, and passing fundamentals – all while under pressure. After picking up each drill, look for ways to incorporate them into your practices this season.
This is a great drill to start off practice with and really get some energy going. While it's primarily about dribbling the basketball, it also hones defensive footwork and positioning on the ball. Look for the defensive man to see if he can keep his head on the ball at all times without using his hands.
Start at one end of the floor and get into a 1-on-1 scenario. Have the defenders put their hands behind their backs and concentrate on footwork. Make sure that they get their butt down and head up. They key is to keep moving those feet and get quicker. Offensively, have players work with both hands. Once they make it to the other end of the floor, have them come right back.
Use this drill for 3-5 minutes in practice. This is one example of a drill that makes kids work and forces them to pay attention.
It's important for kids to get after the basketball. Simply, we don't want them to be afraid of mixing things up when going after a rebound. This is a terrific drill for reinforcing those principles.
Start off with three rebounders. The coach should put the ball up on the backboard and the kids will go after it. After a rebound, you either want a good shot or a pass back to the coach. Keep them going and see how hard they work over a two minute period. This drill is a great way to keep your players active and it forces them to get tough. As for the coaches, don't call many fouls in the drill, either.
Players often forget important information from a time out to a play. There's too much game slippage or time out slippage. Therefore, use this drill to force them to be active, quick, and remembering key information in pressure situations.
Use three balls for this drill. Players have three tasks when they have the ball: Pass, return, and hand off (and go to the inside). Using four lines (in a box formation), just keep going right around the square. When you catch the pass, you return the feed and move on. Start with one ball and then work in two more balls for three total at once. Make good passes and good catches and don't forget to go inside. Also, call out the name of the teammate you are passing to.
Next, to develop a sense of teamwork (or a reliance on each other), if you mess up (let's say you go to the outside), everyone must do 50 pushups. That's a way for the coaches to get you to do what you are told to do.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "Bob Knight: Practice Planning and Drills for Mental Toughness." To check out more drills in our Bob Knight catalog, click here.
In this week's edition of All Access, we take you Williamstown, Massachusetts for a behind-the-scenes look at a Williams College men's basketball practice. First, watch as head coach Mike Maker starts off practice with a motivating speech about the importance of being a good teammate. Eventually, the squad moves into high intensity warm-up drills, including "40 in 4″ and "Alley Shots."
After recently wrapping up his fourth season as head men's basketball coach at Williams, Maker has certainly made his presence felt at the Division III level. A longtime Div. I assistant for programs like West Virginia and Creighton, Maker has already led the program to a pair of Final Four appearances, earning NESCAC Coach of the Year honors in 2010. The Ephs finished 17-8 overall in 2011-12.
We begin practice inside the huddle as Coach Maker stresses the importance of being a good teammate. Says Maker, "It's easy when everything is going your way. But it's very difficult to be a good teammate when things don't go your way. It's a hard thing to do, but it's important to be supportive of your teammates. Put your team first and the program. Chemistry is everything."
This is one of Williams' most important shooting drills and a drill the team performs every day. It's a combined drill where you must make 20 baskets in two minutes on each side of the floor. If the players don't make 40 shots in four minutes, there's a consequence for not hitting their number.
Encourage the players to be good teammates, so it's not just a shooting drill, it's also a conditioning drill. Have a rebounder at each basket and make sure they are constantly encouraging teammates and delivering effective passes at the same time.
Switch the shooter after one minute and change the shot depth during the drill. While some players will shoot three-pointers, others will shoot a longer two. The goal is to get warmed up and to create various game-like shots. If they don't make their number, they have a sprint consequence. At Williams, the players get a lot of shooting in practices. According to Coach Maker, the program hangs its hat on this skill and it's something they feel really needs to be developed.
Get everyone with a ball. Basically, there are two lines, one at each basket, and with one player behind the other. Players go one at a time and dribble the ball at the top of the key. Players go hard to the rim and absorb contact while knocking down the layup. Williams believes against denile defense to drive the ball and shoot layups. That's the team's first option against denile.
Tips: Make sure that players are going at full speed. Get into a lean position where your head is in front of your feet and the ball is in front of your head. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Throw the ball out in front of yourself when driving to the hoop.
Next, players work on the left hand dribble with a dominant hand finish. Move to the left side of the court and go hard at the rim while absorbing contact. Next, move to the left slot area. Start with a pivot and full rotation, then dribble hard into the lane, and finish on the right side with your dominant hand.
Note: Coach Maker believes in using the dominant pivot foot. If you are right-handed, your right foot is off the floor and your left foot is on the floor. He also firmly believes in dominant side layups, no matter what side of the rim you are on.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "All Access Williams Basketball Practice with Mike Maker." To check out more videos in our All Access catalog, click here.
Add some exciting new elements to your playbook this season with these proven under-the-basket inbounds plays. The following sets — designed to counter and surprise any defensive scheme — will give your team a crucial edge during pressure situations. Be sure to read through each play description before watching them simulated live on the basketball court.
Submitted by Greg Siesel, Monroeville HS, Monroeville, OH
The Set-up: 3 inbounds the ball. 5 starts on the ballside low block. 4 starts on the weakside low block. 2 begins at the ballside elbow and 1 is in the near corner on the ballside (just beyond the three-point arc).
The Action: 5 sets a cross screen for 4, who breaks towards the ball and posts up on the ballside block. 1 sets a screen for 2, who breaks to the nearside corner behind the three-point arc. 3 passes to 2.
Next, 4 and 1 set a double screen across the lane for 5, who pops up near the top of the key on the ballside and 2 passes to 5. 3 ducks in behind 4's screen on the ballside lane. 5 then passes to 3. 4 and 1 curl from their screens and roll towards the basket.
The Finish: 3 can take the shot or kick it out to 2 for an open jumper. 4 and 1 should box out for a rebound on any shot.
Submitted by Mike Burris, Olney Central College, Olney, IL
The Set-up: This play works well against a zone defense. 3 is the inbounder. 5 and 4 are on the low blocks with 5 being on the ballside. 1 and 2 are at the elbows, with 1 on the ballside.
The Action: 5 cuts to the ballside corner and 3 hits 5 with a pass. 1 slides across the foulline and sets a cross screen for 2, who cuts across and heads to the ballside wing area. 5 throws a quick pass to 2.
Next, 1 breaks down and sets a down screen on 3's defender. 3 uses the screen and breaks to the top, hopefully bringing the bottom defender out to the top with him/her. 5 slides across the baseline and sets a cross screen for 1, who curls around the screen and fades into the ballside corner.
The Finish: 2 first looks to hit 3 for a three-pointer at the top of the key, and then looks to 5 slipping to the hoop after setting the screen. He/she can also hit 1 in the corner for a three-point shot.
Submitted by Jimmy Brown, former HC at Georgia Southern, Statesboro, GA
The Set-up: 1 is the inbounder. 2 is at the top of the key. 3 is on the ballside wing area. 4 and 5 are stacked just outside the ballside lane line, between the elbow and low block.
The Action: First, 3 cuts ahead of 2 and breaks for the basket. 4 and 5 set a double screen (towards the middle of the lane) for 2, who comes off the screen and receives the pass from 1 in the near corner for an open jumper. 1 looks for 3 first, and then 2.
The Finish: If 2 gets the ball but doesn't have a clear shot, 4 and 5 roll towards the basket and set a double screen for 1, who breaks inbounds and heads for the top of the key. 2 quickly swings the ball to 1 for an open shot at the top of the key.
As a counter, line up the ball the same way as before. When the ball is handed to 1, 3 fakes going over top of the double screen and breaks back to the ballside wing. 2 fakes going over top of the screen and V-cuts back towards the basket. The second option remains the same.
As a second counter, from the same original alignment, 4 breaks to the opposite block and 5 breaks to the ballside block. 1 looks for either 4 or 5 down low. If the defense is used to 4 and 5 being screeners from this alignment, it may catch them off guard.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "Over 70 Baseline and Under the Basket Inbounds Plays" produced by Winning Hoops. To check out more plays in the Winning Hoops collection, visit our basketball library.
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On Saturday July 22nd, Jason Witty would put on an amazing show at the head of the late model field as he would hold Chris Morrow off the entire 30 lap feature to pick up his third points night victory of the year and fourth victory overall.
"That was awesome," Witty said afterwards. "No 4. Car has been really stout the last three runs. We made some changes tonight and it worked and we're happy. To get a win at Sunset Speedway in this division with this much talent is great. It's great to get the 19 to victory lane."
Witty started the feature on the front row alongside Morrow and the pair battled back and forth a couple times with the cautions that flew with Witty able to hold on.
"Always fun racing with Chris," Witty commented. "He's been racing for years, won a lot of those races so there's a few guys you like to be in those situations with – he's one of them. Happy we both had a good finish and happy we were able to hold him off."
There were high hopes coming into the year for the Witty racing team after buying a new McColl Racing Enterprises chassis over the off-season. However, those high hopes were dashed in the first month of racing. In the first four weeks of the year, Witty managed only one top 10 finish –a third. The other three nights – two wrecks and a blown motor on the first lap of the first heat.
"The beginning of the year wasn't so easy," Witty said. "We seem to kind of got over the hump now and that's the fourth trophy in the case for 2013. So these ones definitely help you get over those ones. When you're winning, it helps you get over the DNFs, the wrecks and the misfortunes. We'll keep on trucking and hopefully we'll have a few more. It's not over yet."
Heading into the second half of the year, the driver of the No. 19 Matco Tools/Queensville SOD Farms/Carrott Express/LaRue Haulage/Speedy Auto Machine Late Model finds himself out of the championship picture, currently sitting 16th in points. So with that said, it's all about the wins now.
"Unfortunately after week three we've just been out here for trophies so the points aren't something that we're even close to now," he said. "So trophies and just enjoying it. Just get a few more wins – I think we can. Obviously aim for a couple of those big ones at the end of the year. The 75 lapper, the Velocity and obviously Autumn Colors. Autumn Colors is the big one – I want that one."
With the way the year started, it takes a dedicated group to get a team back up front in the thick of the battle and for that, Witty would like to thank both his crew and sponsors.
"The crew – they're an awesome group," Witty said. "Without them we wouldn't be able to get this car out here and get it running like that so a big thanks to the 19 crew.
"Sponsors…Matco Tools are helping us out so much with wrenches and stuff. It's making it so much easier to have the right stuff. Queensville SOD – he's been awesome. Carrot Express – they've been with me since I've been here, same with Larue Haulage. Matt at Speedy Auto in Newmarket. Without him keeping us together, we wouldn't be able to keep it out front. Big thanks to all of them."


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By Jim Rouse, Agronomy Department
Final results of the 2011 Iowa Crop Performance Tests for corn and soybeans are now available online at the Iowa State University Crop Testing website and as downloadable publications from the ISU Extension Online Store. All single-location and district data are available for online viewing and can also be downloaded as Excel files from the crop testing site.
A website redesign currently in progress has improved the corn and soybean participant pages. Users can now view all entrants, the hybrids and varieties entered, and the districts and tests in which the entries were placed. Users can also filter the entry information by district, GMO traits, and/or maturity.
The corn menu has a new item labeled "Interactive Data" which provides a different view of the district and single-location data. The page makes it easier for users to select and view data, to navigate from one test to another, and to filter the results for viewing specific subsets of data. These features will be added soon to the soybean menu.
The Iowa Crop Performance Tests are the top-ranked provider of unbiased performance data among all Midwestern, self-supporting public testing programs for both corn and soybeans. The testing program continues to provide growers information they need to make informed variety selection decisions. Immediate and streamlined access to harvest data is commonly cited as the most appreciated enhancement. Data reports also include two-year averages when applicable.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. and SEOUL – The Korea Photovoltaic Industry Association (KOPIA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) (U.S.) today announced their formal partnership in an effort to strengthen the solar energy industries of both countries and boost the competitiveness of solar energy globally.
Walmart, Costco among top solar-using companies
A number of major US companies are taking energy into their own hands, harnessing solar power to cut costs and improve the bottom line. Iconic brands are now being equated with the power of the sun, and retail giants are leading the trend.
Solyndra Has No Impact on US Public Support for Solar
The media feeding frenzy over government support for now-bankrupt Solyndra has had no apparent impact on public impressions of solar energy or even of government support for solar, says a new poll from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Hart Research.
Who Supports Solar? Latest Survey Defies Political Stereotypes
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, U.S. voters are being bombarded with anti-solar ads, courtesy of super-PACs backed by fossil-fuel industries. Last month at Solar Power International, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President and CEO Rhone Resch told attendees that 80% of negative campaign ads target clean energy.
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While airlines are experimenting with biofuels to make the skies greener, the Chattanooga airport in Tennessee is focusing on greening operations on the ground.
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House Bill No. 2417 (HB 2417) will limit the availability of the Hawaii Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit from one credit per system to one credit per property for both residential and commercial projects.
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This is the only known citation. The type of cloth is unknown. The three other examples in the same text refer to cloth made from various plants, so this could be the original meaning. Otherwise it may be identified as hata ("woven"). The pronunciation may have even been /hada/ since voicing is not always explicitly marked.
はた (romaji hata)
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- 絁衣 波太衣
- c. 800: Shibunritsu Ongi (page 47)
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はた (romaji hata)
- 1979 [c. 800], Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 2: Shibunritsu Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3089-X:


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BALTIMORE – After a day out of the lineup, Chris Davis is back playing first base for the Orioles.
Davis was given Thursday night off because of a sore right foot, just the second game he's missed this season.
A night before, manager Buck Showalter ended Adam Jones' consecutive games streak at two years and 322 games.
"I think it was more just a break. I was a little envious of Adam getting the day off, having a great time on the bench, yukking it up. I'm out there grinding and sweating," Davis joked.
"I think it was more about letting me catch my breath. Obviously at this point of the year, everybody's sore, everybody's beaten up a little bit."
Last year, Davis played in 139 games. He missed a game in May with a foot injury, so he could play 160.
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Davis now owns the Orioles' single-season home run record with 52, and he'd like to add to it. He has 137 RBIs, fourth most in team history. While Miguel Tejada's 150 are out of reach, Rafael Palmeiro (142 in 1996) and Jim Gentile (141 in 1961) are possible with a strong final weekend.
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Recently, Frank Ocean very nearly became the spokes-singer for Chipotle, but pulled out of the deal before he recorded the tune. Honestly, we had kind of a hard time imagining the rapper shilling for a burrito chain (although we love the guac, don't get us wrong). Although we guess it wouldn't have been any weirder than these 15 OTHER megastars who turned jingle-singers…
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The White Stripes frontman ditched his garage rock edge for the lush "What Goes Around Comes Around" track that he penned and performed for a global Cola ad. The move struck some as surprising, because he had previously rejected an offer to appear in a spot for The Gap. Considering his trademark red, black and white wardrobe color scheme, maybe he felt a special kinship with Coke? Or maybe he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Cola-friendly rock legends, The Who.
14. David Bowie and Tina Turner for Pepsi (1987)
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Fans of Microsoft's "Halo" video games will have to wait longer than expected to see Master Chief on a movie screen. After losing the backing of Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox two weeks ago, amid reports of an oversized budget, Microsoft said today that it's postponing production of the film. [Read More]
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Microsoft announced deals with two companies in China today as part of an expansion of its IP Ventures initiative, which licenses technology from the company's research labs to entrepreneurs, start-up companies and other tech firms. See this story for more details. [Read More]
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Microsoft has unveiled the packaging for Windows Vista and Office 2007. See details and images on the Windows Vista team blog. Paul Thurrott notes that it's reminiscent of the package design used for Microsoft's Office for Mac software, and he reports that it goes along with a "new high resolution icon style" that will debut in the final Windows Vista version. [Read More]
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Microsoft's latest Xbox 360 software update, announced Monday and available for download starting today, includes the console's first connections to the company's upcoming Zune products. This page on Xbox.com explains that the update will let the Xbox 360 stream music, pictures and video from a Zune device, and from the Zune software on a Windows PC. The Xbox 360 will also stream content from the new Windows Media Player 11 PC software, released Monday. [Read More]
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Match #17
No. 8 UCLA Bruins (9-9, 4-8 MPSF) at Northridge Matadors (4-12, 3-8 MPSF)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 7 p.m. PST
The Matadome - Northridge, Calif.
Live Stats: Gametracker (GoMatadors.com)
Live Audio: GoMatadors.com (Mark Schuermann - PBP)
Match #18
Northridge Matadors (4-12, 3-8 MPSF) at No. 4 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (10-7, 8-6 MPSF)
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 7 p.m. PST
The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Looking to wrap up a three-match homestand on a winning note, Cal State Northridge (4-12, 3-8 MPSF) hosts the eighth-ranked UCLA Bruins (9-9, 4-8 MPSF) Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Matadors, winless on the homestand after falling to No. 1 USC and No. 9 Pepperdine last week, close the week with a match Friday at fourth-ranked UC Santa Barbara (10-7, 8-6 MPSF). CSUN has now dropped two straight matches after winning two of their previous three.
Jeff Campbell is in his 14th season as head coach with 216 career wins, the most in Northridge men's volleyball history. With the Matadors' 3-0 win at Long Beach State on Jan. 15, 2010, Campbell won his 195th match became the winningest coach in CSUN men's volleyball history surpassing John Price (194-158) who coached the Matador men for 12 seasons. Campbell has averaged over 23 wins per season over the last three seasons and has led the Matadors to at least 18 wins every season since 2003.
Follow Matador volleyball online at the official online home of Cal State Northridge athletics, www.GoMatadors.com. All Matador home matches and a majority of road matches will be broadcast live via Gametracker. In addition, select home and road matches will feature live audio. Fans can also follow the Matadors at Twitter.com/gomatadors and YouTube.com/northridgeathletics. Fans can also view and print the Matadors 2011 media guide online at GoMatadors.com. The guide features player information, photos, statistics and a complete men's volleyball history.
After posting double figures in kills once in the first nine matches of the season, senior opposite Tanner Nua (Palmdale, Calif.) has now reached double figures four times in his last six matches. With 13 kills against Pepperdine on Saturday, Nua matched his season-high for kills and came within one swing of matching his season-high in attacks. In his final season, the senior has taken over as the team leader in kills per game (2.55) and is second with 107 kills. Nua, who also owns the team lead in aces with 13 after serving a pair last week, is now just six aces away from the Northridge career top-10. With 84 aces in his Matador career, six more will forge a tie with Chad Strickland and Tom Ribarich who currently share ninth place with 90.
Home losses to top-ranked USC and ninth-ranked Pepperdine last week dropped the Matadors to 1-5 on The Matadome floor this season. To make matters worse, CSUN has been swept five times, while the Matadors have won just three sets and have been outscored in points 364.5 to 276.0. Northridge is typically a strong hitting team at home but the Matadors are hitting just .207 at home compared to .214 on the road. Northridge had lost a total of six home matches in the last three seasons combined (three in 2010, two in 2009 and one in 2008).
The team numbers in the four Matador wins vs. the 12 losses are fairly staggering. When CSUN wins, the team averages 11.61 kills per game while hitting .247. Setter Matt Stork is averaging 10.28 assists per game in the four wins but that number drops to 8.76 in the 12 defeats. The team hitting percentage drops to .204 and the Matadors average 10.71 kills per game. Blocking is also a factor as CSUN averages 2.53 blocks per game (13 solo blocks) in four wins and 1.74 (13 solo blocks) in 12 losses. In the four match wins, Nua is averaging a team-high 3.30 kills per game while Brandon Lebrock averages a team-best 2.34 kills per game in 12 losses.
Junior setter Matt Stork continues his ascent up the Cal State Northridge career assists list moving within 145 assists of Travis Bluemling and fourth place. Stork, who surpassed 3,500 career assists with 24 helpers at No. 8 Penn State on Feb. 5, now has 3,688 career assists in 286 sets, an career average of 12.90 assists per game. Stork, who had his streak of 70 consecutive starts as the Matador setter snapped against UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 21, set a personal season-best with 1,626 assists (13.22 apg) as a sophomore in 2010. He had 1,588 assists (14.18) as a freshman. Stork posted Northridge's first double-double this season as he recorded 42 assists and 10 digs at UC San Diego. The double-double was the sixth of Stork's career and his first since Feb. 3, 2010 when he had 56 assists and 12 digs in the Matadors' 3-2 win over No. 2 USC.
The growing pains the Matadors are experiencing this season are a direct result of the teams' lack of experience. Losing five senior starters has resulted in Jeff Campbell going primarily with a lineup consisting of three true freshmen, one sophomore, one junior, one second-year senior and one four-year senior. That group came into the 2011 season with a combined 176 matches of experience and 127 career starts with 126 of those starts coming from two players (Stork - 64, Nua - 62).
The last time the Matadors dropped as many as five home matches was in 2005 when CSUN finished 10-5. The Matadors' worst home record in the 35 seasons of men's volleyball was 1999 when CSUN finished 2-11 ... With losses to USC and Pepperdine last week, the Matadors finished 2-5 in February after posting a 2-7 record in January ... Brandon Lebrock missed his first match of the season against USC. The freshman, who had started all 14 matches prior to USC, came off the bench for the Matadors against Pepperdine ... Drew Staker tied his season-high with one ace against Pepperdine, the sixth different team he has an ace against this season ... As a team, the Matadors hit .256 against USC and .153 vs. Pepperdine which dropped their team hitting percentage this season to .218. CSUN has committed 57 more hitting errors that its opponents and have 131 fewer kills.
The Matadors and eighth-ranked Bruins will meet for the second time this season and 72nd time in their history on Wednesday with UCLA holding a commanding 58-12-1 lead in the all-time series. The Bruins won this season's first meeting in four sets on Jan. 19 and have now won three straight after CSUN won five straight during the 2008-2009 seasons. The Matadors are 4-26 all-time against UCLA in The Matadome. The Bruins split a pair of road matches at Stanford and Pacific last week falling to the Cardinal in four before sweeping the Tigers. Junior Weston Dunlap leads UCLA in kills averaging 2.61 kpg while hitting .490 which ranks second in the MPSF. Gonzalo Quiroga adds 2.44 kpg as the Bruins are hitting .304 as a team.
Friday's match between the Matadors and fourth-ranked Gauchos will be the third meeting between the two teams this season and 81st overall. UCSB leads 44-36 in the all-time series which dates back to 1978. The Gauchos topped the Matadors in straight sets in the season-opener on Jan. 7 and then swept CSUN in its home opener on Jan, 21. The Matadors are 14-26 all-time against the Gauchos in Santa Barbara. Senior Cullen Irons leads UCSB in kills averaging 3.93 which ranks seventh in the MPSF. Fellow senior Jeff Menzel adds 3.82 kpg while the Gauchos are hitting .337 as a team.
Senior Tanner Nua knocked down a match-high 13 kills but Cal State Northridge fell at home for the fifth time in six matches as ninth-ranked Pepperdine swept the Matadors 25-21, 25-22, 25-21 Friday at The Matadome. Nua, who nearly matched his season-high with 40 swings, had a match-high 13 kills but was held to a .150 hitting clip. The senior also had one of CSUN's three aces and had a hand in three blocks. Sophomore Dillon Auxier was also effective for the Matadors as he put down eight kills while hitting .333 in 15 attacks. Auxier also contributed a pair of blocks including his third solo stuff of the season.
Following Friday's match at UC Santa Barbara, the Matadors return home to begin a season-long four-match homestand Mar. 9 against Loyola-Chicago. Another non-conference match against Harvard on Mar. 12 precedes a two-match series with second-ranked BYU on Mar. 18-19.


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In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges.
Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.
A collection that suggests a new agenda for research and teaching in writing centers, The Center Will Hold signals a turn toward the future in writing center scholarship. It belongs on the bookshelf of every writing center and will be used with graduate students and in tutor training seminars for years to come.
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DENVER - Denver police say they have arrested a carjacking suspect who was holed up in a house near West Third Avenue and Federal Boulevard on Thursday afternoon.
The suspect was arrested before 3 p.m. after SWAT officers using an armored car surrounded the home, said Denver Police spokesman Detective John White. Police had sent telephone alerts to area residents warning them about the situation.
Police had closed Federal Boulevard in the area during the standoff, backing up traffic, but Federal reopened at 3:22 p.m.
The carjacking was reported on West Mississippi Avenue at about 1:15 p.m., White said. Police spotted two men standing by the parked stolen vehicle near Third and Federal. Both men ran into a home as officers approached.
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It never crossed my mind that they could also license Eurohorror in addition to US films. It's a good thing, I suppose, but there have been so many of those already released that I'm sort of burned out on them. We need a US label that'll focus on US and Canadian slasher films - something we never had. BU, Synapse, Severin, AB, and, yes, Mya and all those guys specialized in Eurohorror. Eurohorror done correctly is a new concept, though. Midnight Legacy tried and failed miserably but maybe Slasher Video could have a go at it.
I think it's good that companies are broad in their horror releases. Synapse is tackling a few CA horrors with Curtains and Prom Night and BU recently gave us the Maniac Cop sequels. Plus Scream Factory has been releasing tons of American horror.
Midnight Legacy did an incredible job with Alien 2. It's one of the best looking transfers I've seen and it's of an old, low budget, pretty much unheard of title. I wish they were still doing stuff because they at least knew how to release quality in terms of picture and sound.
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Gates: Crimea is 'gone'
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts that Russia will continue to control Crimea for the foreseeable future.
"I do not believe that Crimea will slip out of Russia's hand," he said in an interview aired on "Fox News Sunday."
"You think Crimea's gone?" host Chris Wallace asked.
"I do," Gates replied.
Russia has bloodlessly seized control of Crimea over the past week and has moved to formally annex it. The Crimean parliament has scheduled a vote on whether to join Russia for next week.
"I think it's part of a long-term strategy on Putin's part to create a Russian sphere of influence, a Russian bloc," Gates said, adding later: "I don't think he will stop in Ukraine until there is essentially a pro-Russian government in Ukraine, in Kiev."
Gates said he supported efforts by Congress and the administration to increase sanctions on Russia.
(POLITICO's full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine)
"What we need to do is show Russia there are long-term consequences for their actions," he said. "Our tactical options are pretty limited."
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Winter is here, and many folks love to make snow angels in the great outdoors. But what if those angels were created for a good cause.
Well that is what the Duluth Rotary Club and the Proctor High School DECA are doing on Saturday morning at the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Malosky Stadium.
Crystal Taylor of the Duluth Rotary Club and T.J. Lind of Proctor DECA stopped by Good Morning Northland Tuesday to talk about the "Make Your Mark: Angels for a Cause" event.
Taylor said the money donated at the event will go toward the Global Team for Local Initiatives, an organization that supports the indigenous people in Ethiopia affected by climate change.
Back in May 2012, Lind said a DECA group he was involved with took second place working a project raising money for the Global Team for Local Initiatives. The students were drawn to the project because of a video they saw, Lind said.
To be one of the 9,000 people needed to break the world record, head to Malosky Stadium on the UMD campus starting at 9:30 a.m. Snow angels will be made starting at 11 a.m.
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December 11th 2008 23:11
Another Roger Corman produced movie makes its way onto Filthy Fridays, this time taking the B-movie into an apocalyptic future, where civilization has been reduced to isolated cities and groups of nomads that wander the barren plains.
As with many movies that feature on Filthy Fridays, "Deathsport" is a terrible, terrible movie, made for a shoestring budget, to capitalize on some of the popular trends of the day: the first Star Wars film, "Rollerball" and the surprising success of "Death Race 2000".
Corman got David Carradine, lead from "Death Race 2000", to star in this sci-fi flick, gave director Allan Arkush a tiny budget and told him to put some Playboy Playmates in the film. Claudia Jennings was cast as one of the female rangers, capable of bringing the pain to the film's equivalent of Stormtroopers.
Part of the pain in watching this film is the monotonous footage of motorcycle racing - the film uses the idea of "deathsport", a gladatorial arena where prisoners are forced to fight against citizens driving motorcycles armed with disintegrator rays.
There's little point in describing more of the film, though you can fill in the blanks yourself. Carradine and Jennings are desert guides, who speak in awful pseudo-spiritual dialogue and then get freaky and couple in soft-lighting to the soundtrack of electronic dischordia.
If you can stand it:
Why would I review a movie that appears to be this awful? Well, despite the failings of the film, I'm still amazed that someone would put this much effort into a production of this obvious failing. Carradine was a rather big name and Jennings would go on to star in a number of B-movies - even the soundtrack has a big name attached to it: Jerry Garcia!
If any movie is begging to be remade, it's this - the concept isn't bad, but the execution was flawed from conception. There's enough fake history given in the film to create an interesting futuristic film, one that could examine the path that humanity took to get to this apocalypse. Not an original plot, but one that could be refashioned into something interesting, instead of dulling the viewer's senses with more motorcycle footage.
"Deathsport" is part of the double disc set from Umbrella Entertainment, packaged with "Death Race 2000".
I say: Only for B-movie lovers!
See it for: Filthy Friday readers will love the natural look of the women - it's almost hard to imagine a time when Playboy didn't feature models that had nearly identical figures and faces. Jennings is surprisingly good in front of the camera, and there's a notorious dance scene in the film that raises eyebrows.
*this image is from a lengthy, detailed review on Jabootu
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The Vampire Diaries Cast on Extra at Comic-Con 2012: Would Ian and Nina Star in Fifty Shades of Grey?
The Vampire Diaries stars are their usual charming — and hilarious! — selves in this Extra interview from Comic-Con 2012. Our favorite part: Paul Wesley doing his best Blue Steel! Ian also addresses the calls for him and Nina to star in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie.
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Updated at: 08/06/2013 1:59 PM
By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Albuquerque's mayor is ordering an official inquiry into a strange incident on an airport shuttle bus involving a driver who ordered a gay couple to sit in the back of the bus. The story is getting national attention.
The couple's offense? They were holding hands. Now the two men, from Portland, Oregon, are considering legal action.
It happened June 28 aboard a Standard Parking shuttle bus at the Sunport. The driver told the Alibi weekly newspaper that he didn't want women and children to see the couple's "inappropriate" behavior.
Mayor Richard Berry says the driver was the one who was inappropriate.
"We're out there aggressively making sure this never happens again because this does not belong in Albuquerque, New Mexico," Berry said. "This does not reflect Albuquerque, New Mexico, and as the mayor I'm upset about it and we want to make sure we get to the bottom of it."
Standard Parking is a private business working under a vendor contract with the city. The company has issued a public apology to the gay couple. The driver has been suspended since early July.


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Aging Along With John: 20 Years of Hellblazer, Part 2
By David DelGrosso
Warren Ellis: A Turn Through Darkest London, Interrupted (H. #134-143, 1999)
After Jenkins, Garth Ennis returns for one last Constantine story, "The Son of Man" (H. #129-133), with artist John Higgins and returning cover artist Glenn Fabry. John and Chas face a demon that John recklessly cast into the body of a mob boss's dying son years ago. Cheeky and high-action, it is a much less serious story than those of the prior Ennis era, and it provides an entertaining fill-in before the beginning of the next era.
When Essex-born British writer Warren Ellis takes over Hellblazer in the beginning of 1999, it is announced as the next major era of the title, a run expected to last the next three or four years. Where prior Hellblazer writers were largely introducing themselves to American readers, Ellis had already established himself with consistent work for Marvel Comics on titles like Excalibur, Hellstorm, and Doom 2099, and DV8 and Stormwatch at WildStorm. Most prominently, he had launched his own series, Transmetropolitan, in 1997 as part of DC Comics Helix, a short-lived science-fiction imprint. The title was later folded into Vertigo, helping to make him even more of a known name to Hellblazer readers. Expectations were very high when Ellis began his run. This era also adds new cover artist Tim Bradstreet, an American, whose photorealistic, painted covers portray a worn-looking Constantine who is showing his middle-age. The gritty, urban backdrop to Bradstreet's portrait images of John Constantine is apt for this dark new era of Hellblazer.
It is clear from Ellis' first story, "Haunted" (H. #134-139), that he is taking the title in a sharply different direction from Jenkins. The fantasy and mythical locations of the prior era are replaced by the grisly reality of a crime scene. John learns that Isabel, an old girlfriend, has been brutally murdered. He investigates her death, all the while seeing her spirit in the place they first met, and eventually he takes revenge.
This six-part story is underscored by generous amounts of narration. In prosaic monologues John reflects on his city of London and the things he has witnessed by looking into the darkest corners the city. In one issue (H. #137), John recalls a litany of horrors and then comes to this thought: "I've seen Hell blaze through these streets. I don't have the usual map of London in my head, not the one everyone else has. London's got a different geography for me. Drying blood and the last shit before dying mark it all out, dark wet borders. And I see no one giving a toss about it, no one at all." Ellis' London feels darker and colder than it has ever been in Hellblazer, and this world-weary Constantine reads like the hardboiled detectives of film noir.
John succeeds in finding and punishing Isabel's killer, but there is only so much satisfaction that may be taken in this revenge, no matter how inspired the means. Isabel is still dead, though now, at least, her spirit is at rest. The end of "Haunted" is not as flashy as many of the Hellblazer conclusions that have come before. There is very little magic involved, no demonic bargain or daring bluff. Ellis, in an almost metatextual moment, seems to acknowledge that he is subverting the expectations of his readers, as John reflects, "Sometimes, this is just the way it happens. No last twists of the tail, no one sticking their hand out of the grave to grope your ankle, no funny-looking bastard popping out of the woodwork to laugh like Orson Welles and say, 'Well, Mister Constantine, you might think you've won but actually your left testicle is now possessed by Azaroth, Demon King of Dodgy Pension Policies...." At the end of this soliloquy, John admits that he, too, has been a bad influence on Isabel's wasted life. That she would have been better off if she never met him. But, he concludes, "My name's John Constantine. I'm not the nicest bloke you've ever met. But I do me best."
With this first story, Ellis establishes the tone for his era--grim situations, often with a crime fiction edge, and John getting involved in the attempt to do his best. In the stories that follow, John is sometimes summoned, like a Sherlock Holmes figure, to dark places when the police are out of their depth. John enters these places because he knows that no one else is coming. That no one else "gives a toss." These are rooms where terrible things have happened, where men have done monstrous things because of magic, madness, or something that lies in-between.
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Rickie Lee Hoyle Jr.
GREENEVILLE — Rickie Lee Hoyle Jr., the Johnson City man accused of attempting to solicit sex from an underage male in a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation sting, is now federal custody.
Hoyle, 40, appeared in U.S. District in Greeneville on Friday morning for an initial appearance hearing. He was arrested on May 24 following an investigation by the Erwin Police Department and the TBI.
The TBI charged Hoyle with attempted aggravated statutory rape, attempted sexual battery by an authority figure and attempted solicitation of a person under 18 years of age. Erwin Police also charged Hoyle with aggravated statutory rape, sexual battery by an authority figure and solicitation of a person under 18 years of age, based on allegations that he had prior sexual contact with the same boy.
At Friday's brief hearing, Hoyle told U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis H. Inman that he could not afford to hire an attorney, and Inman appointed the federal defender's office to represent Hoyle.
A complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday charges Hoyle with one count on inducing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, using interstate commerce - a cell phone - to do so.
Read the full complaint. Warning: Contains strong language.
Inman advised Hoyle that he faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and lifetime supervised release if convicted on this charge. However, Inman said the criminal complaint acts only as a temporary charging document. The judge advised Hoyle that if he is indicted by a federal grand jury, the charge or charges on which he is indicted is what he will be tried on.
Inman told Hoyle that he has the right to a preliminary hearing as long as the criminal complaint remains in effect, but if he is indicted, he would lose the right to this hearing. Nikki Pierce with the federal defender's office requested a preliminary hearing for Hoyle, and the hearing was set for June 12 at 9 a.m. in U.S. District Court.
The federal grand jury is set to next convene on June 11. If Hoyle is indicted prior to the preliminary hearing, the scheduled June 12 hearing would become an arraignment hearing. Pierce told Inman that Hoyle wished to waive his detention hearing, but a motion to proceed with this hearing may be filed after she discusses the matter with Hoyle.
At Friday's hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Smith made a motion that Hoyle be remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal, a request that was granted.
Hoyle appeared in Unicoi County General Sessions Court on Thursday, were he was denied representation by the public defender's office and his bond was set at $150,000. He was set to again appear in Unicoi County Sessions Court on June 6.
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Following Friday's hearing, Smith said Hoyle's appearance in Sessions Court will likely be canceled and that she expects his Unicoi County charges to be dismissed.
"I will send them all my documents, and I do expect them to dismiss their charges," Smith said.
Smith also said she expects that Hoyle will be federally indicted.
With Hoyle now in federal custody, Smith said he will likely be detained at a facility in either Washington County or Claiborne County.
According to the complaint filed Wednesday, Hoyle first began contacting the victim last June, which eventually led to a personal meeting in January in which Hoyle "inappropriately touched" the juvenile.
In May, Hoyle offered the victim $200 "with certain circumstances" to help the victim with car repairs. When the victim asked the circumstances, Hoyle responded that he wanted to perform oral sex on the juvenile, according to the complaint.
"On May 21, 2013, Hoyle drove to the home of (the victim), who allowed Hoyle to perform oral sex on him for $200. Hoyle did not provide $200 to (the victim)," the complaint states.
After contacting the local authorities, the victim received text messages from Hoyle on May 23 in which Hoyle expressed interest in sexual activity with the boy, according to the complaint. The Erwin Police Department contacted the TBI for its assistance and, on May 24, when Hoyle arrived at the Unicoi Walmart to meet the boy, he was immediately arrested, authorities said.
Following Hoyle's arrest, a search of his cell phones revealed "thousands" of text messages between Hoyle and victim, according to the complaint.comments powered by Disqus


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any funds generated should be placed in an international interest bearing account at 7.5 % interest annually. It is time to wake up and smell the coco beans. The interest alone not the principal should be be used and borrowed against, here in the US, to fund any new or existing development or projects (and/or programs i.e human/capital. There are several huge New York Banks that have international banks that operate over seas that the US government needs to begin to tap into for the financial stability of our region. Let us start going regional not only mental but financial it is easy to talk the talk but harder to walk the walk. I have my hiking stick where is yours?
what a jackass!!!! so why stop at those groups, let us focus on America as well, and say in the 1800 prior to the passage of the slave act, if African-Americans were armed they would never have become slaves. They would have remained free men or have died fighting for their freedom,because black Africans came to the USA as free men prior to the congress passed slave act. What a jackass. You can say that about any group that was abused or is currently abused by another regime or government to try to make a point about the right to own a gun.
McCafferty was Assistant Director for years this guy knew everything!!!!!!
Very sad how we would think that one guy would be a scapegoat for a failed system of checks and balances. Many elected and non-elected Officials abused the system for their own benefits for friends and relatives going unchecked for years and to this day still continuing. The issue was with Dimora was that if they wanted to get elected on the D ticket they had to go to Jimmy and kiss his ring. Dimora controlled the Party and Russo the Properties. The tax values and revenues of this great community have been so adversely effected that I have been calling it economic genocide for 10 years now prior to the FBI investigation.
i just hope that biased and division does not plague his tenure as the head procecutor of the most diverse County in Ohio. To change the mind set and realize that incarceration is not an end, but a beginning to a path toward a solution to a big problem. Honorable Judge McGnity has the experience and knowledge to lead, but if he is easily manipulated by a system and not steadfast to follow the true coarse of justice as outlined by statuary guidelines then what good is his skills to the families and children and souls that need leaders. Change will only occur if a proven leader strikes the flint together just right so igniting a flame. It takes patients, timing and experience but once complete the fire burns forever and the results are breath taking. Gods Speed Honorable Judge McGinty... We all support you as the most qualifies candidate and hope you transform Cuyahoga County into a safer community.
All these women he was ready to take a bullet...lol
welcome folks, as your first elected horse, I am going to hire 12 educated white maybe 1 or 2 female individuals at $ 100,000.00 since they rode me so good as a youngster...hehehheehheb...bbbbbbebebbee.. and then reduce the wages of 89 others that make an average of $39,000.00 not so white individuals based on a study by this company I hired from S. C. which cost $350,000.00 to complete. Anyone have an apple or some sugar....wink wink...
Welcome to the Mr. Ed show, the talking horse.
There were several mistakes in the article, first they purchased the house in 1971, it was paid off. The house is only worth $59,000.00, why did they want to refinance for $80,000.00 to fix the stairs. Some thing smells like a Nixon!!!!! They got suckered. Because like everyone else they got greedy...pie is not the only thing mama likes..they wanted to get money to take advantage of the economy. But maintaining your home is also a must. The City of Cleveland must also be placed under the microscope, Why is it not? You have hundreds of homes that have unresolved building violation costing the City millions of dollars. The City has a Senior program but no one assisted this people until it was to late. Also the County receives funds to assist Senior Citizens??? An Attorney General!!! Listen, If any citizen receives a violation, then the county and city needs to educate and not police. Housing court Judge Rybka, always is willing to educate and give extensions for repairs. Will Cordary play Sherif to all lenders? We need to educate our 1.5Million citizens no matter the age and press our elected officials at the County and City levels to provide the services that they are receiving funding to provide. If this money is not utilized it is sent back to the state, believe it or not, then the following year we receive less money based on the previous years funding period. Then we can all eat pie together. But only when there is enough pie for everyone.