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Boy Scout Troop 94 of Shiloh, West Manchester Township, has served the community for 70 years.
The troop's first charter is dated June 30, 1944, and a birthday celebration will be held July 1, the night of the regular meeting, committee leader Brian Alpaugh said.
While Alpaugh is a committee member and volunteer with Troop 94, his own Scouting days began as a member of Troop 90 in Shrewsbury.
He began as a Cub Scout, earned his Eagle Scout award and recalls camping events with his father, Nelson Alpaugh, but left Scouting when he went away to college, he said — "until 1996, when my oldest son joined Cub Scouts. When he joined Scouts, I signed up to be a committee member," he added.
That son earned his Eagle Scout award with Troop 94 in 2009, and Alpaugh's younger son is now in the troop and working toward his own Eagle award.
"It was a small troop with about eight or nine boys" at the time his older son advanced from Cub Scout to Boy Scout, Alpaugh said. "Many of the Scouts earned their Eagle Scout awards before they aged out. One of the things that stood out for me in the beginning was that the adult leaders expected all the boys to earn their Eagle awards as part of the program. Statistically, we all know that very few boys nationwide actually complete their Eagle Scout rank. But when the troop leadership sets the expectations, the boys will adopt that mindset and will work on their rank advancement," Alpaugh said.
Although the Shiloh Cub Scout pack has not been around as long as the Boy Scout troop, the two are intertwined and when the Cubs complete their program, a crossover ceremony brings them on board with the scout troop.
"Most of the boys in the troop have come up through the Cub Scout program, but that doesn't mean that a boy has to go through Cub Scouts in order to join Troop 94. We accept youth applications from any boy willing to join the program. However, the closer they are to 18, the more challenging it is to reach Eagle. Older boys can still get a lot of benefit out of Scouting as it teaches life skills and provides opportunities for lifelong careers and hobbies," Alpaugh said.
Community involvement plays a major part in the success of the whole organization, Alpaugh added.
"The Shiloh community has spectacular support for the Scouting program. The fire company has been their charter organization since the beginning. The Shiloh Lions Club charters the Cub Scouts, and the Shiloh United Church of Christ provides a place for the Cub Scouts to meet," he said.
A steady stream of adult leaders, some with more than 20 years of service, continue to be a valuable asset to the life of Troop 94, he said.
"Some of today's troop leaders grew up in the troop all the way through a third generation. Enthusiastic leaders who want to provide positive experiences with today's youth make scouting great," he said.
From hikes to cave exploring and ski trips to deep-sea fishing, from expeditions and rafting and visits to West Point and to the USS New Jersey, adults have always stepped up to make it happen. All of this is in addition to what Alpaugh calls the ordinary Boy Scout experiences of camping and skill-building.
While the troop receives help and support from the community, its members also do their share to give back. That includes renovation projects for several West Manchester Township parks, helping the Lions Club and the Shiloh Fire Company with Christmas tree sales, chicken barbecues and other community activities and service projects, and assisting the Shiloh American Legion Post with its flag-retirement ceremony.
Their reach extends beyond home with projects in Dover Township, Dillsburg borough, a York City alternative school, St. Rose of Lima School and the York County Parks Department, Alpaugh said.
While Scouting takes a lot of time, the boys still find time to participate in high school and community-based sports, marching bands, theater arts and music programs, he said.
"You will also find many of them on the school district's honor rolls," Alpaugh added.
"Scouts from Troop 94 have joined the military, gone on to college and become engineers, school teachers and other community leaders, and we had a Scout graduate from West Point and go on to a military career," he said.
"Several have also taken on adult leadership roles in the troop, continuing the legacy and building scouting for each subsequent generation. This means that boys who join Scouting interact directly with positive adults who provide role models for making ethical choices and living the values of the Scout Oath and Law. Boy Scouts prepares boys to become responsible citizens. Scouting provides boys with many opportunities to learn lifelong skills in a safe environment. For seventy years, Troop 94 has turned that into a reality," Alpaugh said.
What the Scouts say
Derek Harlacher, 13, joined Cub Scouts when he was in first grade and has achieved Star Senior Scout rank.
Currently a student at West York Area Middle School, he said he joined Scouts "because some of my friends were joining."
He lists camping as his favorite activity, adding that he looks forward to summer camp at Camp Tuckahoe.
When asked if he would recommend Scouting to a friend, he said yes. The thing he will most remember about Scouting is "all of the different trips that we get to go on."
His brother, Conner Harlacher, 11, a student at Trimmer Elementary in the West York Area School District, also joined as a Cub Scout when he was in first grade, and is now a Boy Scout.
Conner joined because he thought it looked like fun and heard about all of the fun activities. He likes camping trips best, and if there is one thing he doesn't like about Scouting, he said, it's "sometimes having to wear the Scout uniform."
Memories of hiking and beyond
Steve J. Harlacher was a member of Troop 94 in the early to mid-1980s and earned his Eagle scout award in 1986.
His Eagle Scout project was blazing 18 miles of the Mason-Dixon hiking trail in York and Cumberland counties, he said.
That was a fitting project since his memories include many nights spent hiking and backpacking on the Appalachian Trail. "Troop 94 had a very strong hiking program where the goal was for each Scout to hike the entire Pennsylvania section of the Appalachian Trail, and many of us achieved that," he said. "Troop 94 has resurrected this program in the past few years," Harlacher added.
He joined Scouts because a group of his close friends were involved. That group ended up being most of his close friends from high school, and he said they stay in touch even today. His twin brother, Scot,was also a member of the troop, he said.
Among his favorite memories are camping at Camp Tuckahoe; whitewater rafting and canoeing trips; and trips to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico and the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree.
The trip to Philmont in 1985 included high-adventure backpacking in the Rockies. "I can say without a doubt that the Philmont experience was the best experience of my young adult life and I hope to go back in a few years with my two sons," Harlacher said.
Harlacher remembers the adult leaders who were devoted to the troop, but maybe none more than Richard "Dick" Reiber.
"Mr. Reiber was the Scoutmaster for Troop 94 for decades and had the biggest impact on my young adult life of anyone who wasn't in my immediate family. I can conservatively say that he touched the lives of hundreds of young men, and his sons John and Ben have continued their father's tradition of leading in Troop 94 and Pack 94. I continued to reach out to Mr. Reiber for his advice and guidance until his death in 2011," Harlacher said.
Harlacher currently serves as troop counselor for the hiking merit badge and leads the Appalachian Trail hiking program and provides adult supervision for many activities and campouts as possible, and is a member of the Council Executive Board and has served on several council committees.
"I personally believe that the ideals and life skills taught in Boy Scouts is something that is not available anywhere else to young men. I look at Scouting as a way to provide young men with a blueprint of how they want to live their life, wherever that may lead them. When I meet a fellow Eagle Scout, I know what that person has gone through to achieve the award. I know that he is an extremely well-rounded individual who has a wide array of skills and knowledge and is someone who is willing to work extremely hard toward reaching his goals," Harlacher said.
60 years of leadership
"I could write a book," Gerald Leckrone said when asked to share his memories of Troop 94.
Leckrone, of West Manchester Township, was the Scoutmaster for a few years and assistant scoutmaster for 40 years, and donated his skill as a mechanic to keep the troop bus running. The bus is gone now, but the memories remain.
"We went to Potter County every October and made quite a few trips to Tuckhoe and went to a lot of other places, and that bus was a big help," he said.
"I wasn't a Scout when I was a boy, but I joined as a leader in 1954 and I am still in the troop 60 years later, so I guess you can say I enjoy it. I had a lot of very good experiences," Leckrone said.
The value of values
Eagle Scout Chad Eyler remembers his trip to Philmont in 1987 as one of the highlights as his time as a Boy Scout, and he remembers the people who served as leaders for the troop.
"I can say Boy Scouts made me the man I am today, personally," he said.
As a youngster he discovered an old Boy Scout book that belonged to his father, and he studied it page by page.
"That showed me a world I would not have been introduced to otherwise," said Eyler, a wildlife conservation officer with the Pennsylvania State Game Commission.
Thanks to that book, he joined Troop 94 and was introduced to a whole new world.
"I look back at all the people who worked with us and were our leaders and all the experiences scouting opened up to me and realize I am so lucky because of the values I learned from Boy Scouts. I am a good dad because of Boy Scouts," he said
Eyler, the father of twin daughters, is now a Girl Scout leader using the skills he learned in Boy Scouts, and is looking forward to his daughters bridging from Brownies to Girl Scouts.
A family experience
Jim Bentzel, a member of Troop 94 in the 1970s, said the campouts, Appalachian Trail hikes and the National Scout Jamboree in 1973 are some of his best memories of those days, but reaching Eagle Scout tops the list.
"The skills you learn in Scouting are not always something you consider, but it is amazing how much comes back when called upon to help the younger Scouts today," he said.
His involvement with the troop ended in 1977, when he turned 18, but Bentzel returned to the fold in 1994 when his oldest son crossed over from Cub Pack 94 to Troop 94.
He now serves as troop committee chairman, a job that calls for him to run the monthly committee meetings, prepare the charter packet for re-chartering the Troop every year, and attending as many outings and meetings as possible.
Bentzel had two brothers who were also in Troop 94 and more recently his two sons, both of whom earned their Eagle rank.
"Probably my most enjoyable time in Scouting was hiking at Philmont Scout Ranch with both my sons in 2012," he said.
Learn more about Boy Scouts
Boy Scouting is open to all boys 11 to 17 years old, and Cub Scouting is available for boys 7 to 10 years old.
For details, to find a local troop, and to register online, visit www.BeAScout.org. Click on the appropriate age group and enter your ZIP code.
Locally, the New Birth of Freedom Council is the umbrella organization for southcentral Pennsylvania Boy Scout troops. Visit www.newbirthoffreedom.org for local contact details.
Local Boy Scout camp
Camp Tuckahoe in Franklin Township, northern York County, is considered one of the nation's top Boy Scout camps thanks to renovations during the past 10 years.
Cub World, one of the major additions, has transformed it into one of the best camps for Cub Scouts on the East Coast. Younger scouts have many camping opportunities and can attend summer camp at Tuckahoe as young as first grade. The camp also hosts a number of Cub Scout and Boy Scout events throughout the year.
For details, visit www.newbirthoffreedom.org/tuckahoe.
Troop 94 history
The original charter for Boy Scout Troop 94 of West Manchester Township is dated June 30, 1944, with the Shiloh Fire Company as its sponsor.
Seventy years later, that partnership is still going strong and "continues to create memorable experiences for hundreds of boys, leaders and scouting families in the area," according to the troop's website.
Boy Scouting began in the York area around 1912 and Ray Zaner, the first Scout Commissioner, organized the first official troop, and helped bring Scouting to Shiloh.
In the summer of 1943, he stopped at the Shiloh Garage, owned and operated by Elmer Menges and located on old Route 74.
He shared his enthusiasm for scouting with Menges, Peter Julius and Frances "Tiny" Jones, who were in the process of organizing the new Shiloh Fire Company. That group agreed to organize a Scout troop with the fire company as its sponsor and Jones as Scoutmaster.
Jones enlisted his neighbor William Litsinger as Assistant Scoutmaster, and meetings were held at Shiloh Elementary School.
The original charter listed the following Scouts as members: Franklin Arndt, Gerald Baker, Ronald Becker, John Botts, Robert Hake, David Harris, Fred Hunter, Vincent Law, Donald Litsinger, Roland Nichols, Robert Nogle, Charles Nonemaker, Richard Reiber, Donald Seitz and Henry Stover.
"Troop 94's success and longevity is directly attributed to the long line of very strong and dedicated adult leaders and the support of the Shiloh Fire Company. When I was in the troop as a Scout, the leadership was tremendous and it still is today. The adult leaders had a profound impact on the person that I became and I specifically recall conversations I had with certain individuals telling me expectations they had for me as I grew into an adult," said Steve J. Harlacher.
Parents also play a huge role in the success of the troop. They are the "unsung heroes" who provide transportation, take off from work to go camping with the boys and encourage their son's rank advancement, said troop committee member Brian Alpaugh.
"The Scout leader can make opportunities for the boys, but it is the parents who get them there, help them work on merit badges, or lend themselves to the experience. Recently, we went on an outing and had 11 boys and six parents. This makes for good Scouting and great family memories," he said.
Alpaugh, who also serves as an Assistant District Commissioner with the Boy Scout district, also is tasked with tracking the troop's progress through the Journey to Excellence or JTE program.
The JTE is the National Boy Scouts of America's tool to measure how well local troops are meeting the national organization's goals. "Since it came out three years ago, Troop 94 has been a gold-level troop for all three years," Alpaugh said.


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Volunteers sought for inventory of North Park animals, plants
About 2 acres in the northern corner of North Park might seem quiet, overgrown and unused, but with a closer look, they are teeming with activity that park officials hope to capture during an inventory event this weekend.
The Latodami Nature Center staff in North Park is looking for volunteers to don boots and arm themselves with clipboards, digital cameras and butterfly nets to explore the Wahdo:Gwas Wetlands ecosystem on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the annual "bioblitz," a research activity designed to identify and record all living species in the wetlands.
The Wahdo:Gwas Wetlands — the name means "rising or coming from the waters" in the Seneca language — are relatively young wetlands that were developed in North Park to meet a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission wetland-mitigation requirement in 2010. The commission was required to replace the wetlands it disturbed during a reconstruction project between mileposts 31 and 38 at an equal-to or greater-than ratio.
The area now is home to several wetland plant and animal species, and the Latodami Nature Center staff hopes to find more this weekend.
"The idea being when the Turnpike Commission redeveloped this wetland, we wanted to monitor it over a long time period in order to see the health and vitality and to document plants that were there and to see what new plants are coming in," said Meg Scanlon, naturalist at the nature center. "We're looking to see how it changes through time."
The North Park wetlands have been home to aquatic insects, bullfrogs, green frogs, minks, muskrats, foxes, coyotes, kingfishers, yellow warblers, killdeer, red-winged blackbirds, wood ducks, mallards, herons and snakes and turtles. But, Scanlon said, she always hopes to find a species that hasn't been found before.
"We're looking to see what new things come into the area now that we have a more suitable environment there," Scanlon said.
Elliott Bartels, who will be a junior biology major at Allegheny College in the fall, said the events always are fun.
"You learn a lot of stuff in one day," said Bartels, of Cranberry, who also works at the nature center. "I like the research aspect … it's something fun to do, (I) drag my friends down with me."
Individuals, organizations such as clubs or Scout groups and families are invited to attend. Volunteers will be divided into teams with experienced volunteers and sent to collect data of the plants and animals present in the wetlands. Scanlon said field books are available to identify species, and digital photographs or samples also can be taken to identify species.
"You can arm a child with a camera and they can take as many pictures as they want or be given a bug net and bug jar," she said.
The annual inventories provide valuable data for the nature center to use when looking at the ecosystems in North Park, Scanlon said. Results from the previous inventory days are available on the center's website at sites.google.com/site/latodaminaturecenter.
"I think there is a need to document and monitor the species diversity in the location," Scanlon said. "It might help us decide how to … maintain the health and quality of that ecosystem. We want it to function well, and the inventory helps us see how well it's functioning."
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Swiss financial regulators join Heinz trading probe
Financial regulators in Switzerland confirmed on Friday that they joined an expanding investigation of alleged insider trading ahead of a $28 billion deal for H.J. Heinz Co.
Authorities have been unable to identify the person or persons who made suspicious trades from a Goldman Sachs account in Zurich the day before Heinz announced its acquisition deal.
In federal court in Manhattan on Friday no one challenged a temporary freeze on the account that the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained last week. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff granted the SEC's request for a permanent freeze.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, known as Finma, is helping the SEC investigate who placed a big bet on the Pittsburgh food company's stock.
"Finma always cooperates within its legal mandate with the Securities Exchange Commission on insider investigations," spokeswoman Christina Bürgi told the Tribune-Review in an email. "We confirm that we received a request for administrative assistance from the SEC in the alleged insider trading case involving the Heinz transaction."
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The SEC obtained a court order to freeze assets of the Zurich account on Feb. 15, the day after Heinz said Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital would acquire it. On Tuesday, the FBI said it was looking at the case. The agencies would not comment.
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SI.com's Jon Heyman reports that Mookie Wilson of the 1986 World Series fame will land as first-base coach opposite incumbent third-base coach Chip Hale. Wilson has minor-league managing experience but has served as baserunning coach in recent seasons.
Rounding out the staff that will appear on the field along with Hale and Wilson is bullpen coach Jon Debus who seems to be a Collins-related hire. Debus played in the Dodgers' minor league system from the 1970s-80s before coaching and managing in the farm system before serving as bullpen catcher in 2005. He then moved to Japan where he was on the coaching staff of the Orix Buffaloes.
In the dugout, Collins will be backed up by bench coach Ken Oberkfell, who skippered Triple-A in New York over the past few seasons. Alongside him will be hitting coach Dave Hudgens, who appeared in the majors briefly for the Athletics in 1983. He has served a variety of jobs, including as the Indians' minor-league field coordinator the last five seasons along with a previous gig in Oakland as a minor-league manager.
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Not a very shopbound week this week, so mostly library fodder. Go to the library: as we'll see, they have some amazing free comics there.
On the shopfront though, there was…
The Phoenix #48 by Various, David Fickling Comics
There was the mighty 'Nix, highlight being a particularly dynamic Troy Trailblazer episode.
TT's masterfulmind Robert Deas is ploughing quite a unique furrow among the burning feathery pages of the galaxy's finest, with a heavy emphasis on pure visual dynamism, a pure propellant narrative language that contrasts beautifully with the sight gags and wordplay that it shares paper with. Some episodes are over in seconds but you never feel like you've been short-changed. Jessica Jetrider (not Jennie, as I mistakenly had it last week) kicks ass, and when I say that, I mean she really does kick someone's ass.
In Pilotwatch this week, he's forced to have a shower: the sheer mortification across every strand of fur is a treat. The next panel has him all bedraggled and stripped of dignity like cats get when they're caught in the rain or fall in the toilet. And that's it for Pilotwatch this week. Come back for more next week – if he hasn't been turned into a flan by the Nano-Chefs in the interim.
Fury MAX My War Gone By #7 by Garth Ennis & Goran Parlov, Marvel Comics
Reading Fury MAX this week was handy because it minded me of the previous issue – that would be #6. Its depiction of the sexy evil Cuban baddie forms an I think quite necessary supplement absent from this, one of the ones what I got from the library:
Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez, Verso Books
It's pretty wonderful in its own way of course – calmly historical, with no more romance and bias than you should have in a biography of one of the Twentieth Century's genuine secular saints, but with a definite and surprising libidinal lack. Its subject's subjectivity, the internal pressures that turned the comfortable medical student into the world's most potent avatar of revolutionary justice, go unexplained.
Enter Ennis and Parlov's proud revolutionary soldier: vanity, triumphalism, the military addiction to violence and self-erasure – as essential to the revolutionary firebrand as Fury's imperialist pig.
Presumably to Rodriguez – quite the righteous dude himself by all accounts – the imperative of resistance didn't need explaining. His pencil softens the leonine warrior, the world-famous Korda portrait Guevara (and its post-mortem proliferation, surely a perfect topic for a book like this, is relegated to a dry afterword) into a soulful, rounded cherub. The noise and the fire are gone – we get just the facts, not the legend, when in this, as in so few genuine cases, the legend is the reality. I was hoping more for Trashman in a beret.
Lint by Chris Ware, Drawn & Quarterly
Where everything in the universe entire is dots in circles, and dots in circles are horrorfying because…?
'Lint' is an American wording meaning, roughly, 'fluff'. As in, 'there was nothing in his pockets but knives and fluff'. As a title for a clothbound hardback study (gots to milk that commodity fetish) in the vanishing banality of Evil, it immediately embeds itself in such a pit of irony that it indicates all too clearly how unfair it's going to play with the reader: just what kind of hoopsa boyaboys it's going to ask you to jump through. In brief, Mister Lint is a shudderingly loathsome individual, as thorough a rendering – cradle to grave – of such as the medium (running at approx 50% villainy at the best of times) has yet to achieve. This is effectively the sole point (within a circle) the book makes. It does so with as many a literary and theoretical a nod as you would need to be convinced that Evil is real and it teased you at school, and if it makes you feel any better (no to that, btw) Evil is unhappy too, and such a coward it has probably repressed the memory of all those children it raped. It won't even admit how Evil it is.
But fluff is easily blown away, and was too inconsequential a thing to begin with – it didn't even care that it was killing you, and itself, from the inside. It was just traveling on currents too big and chaotic and very, very terrifying to even know what kind of damage it could do. Except, these currents aren't potty training related, or abuse-abandonment linked, or coherent in any of the ways them thinker mans have tried to establish. The only currents at work here are those invented, arbitrarily, reasonlessly, as vengeance against the bully perhaps, by the author of the piece.* He picks and chooses the Evil at work as befits his meticulous scheme. Gestures towards reality remain exactly that – gestures, intricate and dazzling and formalistic to the WOW, to be sure: but shapes drawn on the air all the same. It's not a description of Evil – it's just a fiction: There's nothing about the world to be learnt here, though it's trying really hard to make you think otherwise.
(*This is a good lesson for life, that this book won't give you: man made things are man made, and can be unmade. Anyone who tells you 'it's too big and chaotic to work out', or 'that's unrealistic', or 'that's not how things are', just doesn't want you to try. Lint cops out with 'Evil's just Evil, don't trouble with the why – analysis is fraud…'. I can't afford to live like that.)
The Hive, by Charles Burns, Jonathan Cape
Much better than the last issue. That one was an autopilot greatest hits set, or one of those meticulous live replays of the classic album beginning to end, even the shit tracks you skipped, where you realise all the influences that made them what they were, that you tracked down in the interim, 80s Cronenburroughs plus Herge for that Nazi frisson in this case, were yep a lot better actually than the pasticheur. Except for Tintin, fucking always, always boring.
While Lint and Ware mine Freudism for an effective touch of authenticity and sheer screaming development horror, early on before abandoning the conclusions you might be forced to reach if you were brave enough to take these things seriously, with The Hive Burns hips himself up a bit by taking that psychoanalysis schtick on a generation or two, adopting Jock Lacan's Real-Imaginary-Symbolic triad. On Tuesday night, in the midnight time, much addled after watching Japan's premier doomgaze band, Troll#1 and I couldn't for the life of us work out what level lined up with what… Doug and Sarah, they're Real, right? But comics, comics, though Imaginoid, are more real than the people in them, god knows, so the comics, (still not clear whether that means The Hive I hold in my hand or those insanely wonderful, naughty, lush Swan-looking romance things Doug and Sarah like reading) maybe they're The Real? And the lizard affect-factory that they toil in, that's kind of everything right there too, but that's got to be Symbolic right?
It's a crazy mixed up world. We well couldn't work it out. Help in the comments section please, even if it's help of the 'I hate you because you're idiot' variety.
Bardin The Superrealist by Max, Fantagraphics
This was rather wonderful too in its way, warm as cognac and the Catalan summer, thick clear lines a reassuring sense of structure and boundary on the journey inwards… Charming and smooth then, but somehow altogether too elegant and poised to convince as dream gnosis.
It looks real good in those off-the-peg Dali-worship rags, and cosily codifies the baroque Tibetan iconography so beloved of the Andalusian dog-botherers into pocket-sized impieties that you'd be happy to carry around, but it doesn't ever threaten to go far or wild enough beyond the hand me down cultural structures already available to reach a state of divine madness itself.
It's not the kind of book you want to criticise, but the sweetly sozzled states it describes just aren't quite paranoid enough, so maybe doing so would help.
Glitz-2-Go by Diane Noomin, Fantagraphics
The word I keep wanting to use is 'retchro'. This is stuffed with – or, sort wants to give you the impression that it is stuffed with, when in fact much more of its strength comes from simple touches like the way the characters talk to each other in such casually abrasive, finely heard cadences, and kind of open up so the barrier between the reader, the character on the page, and the life behind the inky figures there collapses so you feel as if you are part of the family, long and wearily acquainted with those friends of Noomin who she's granted through the sharp magic of her line this extra dimension of on-page existence… You already know them, know what they're going to say before they do. It's a rich and soft book, for such a sharp and sassy purple little package.
Where was I yes stuffed with that spikey gogo exotica beach blanket early 60s through a mid-seventies filter, draggy, druggy, bad girl bad taste John Waters surf vibe, like a Cramps song or something…
It's not like that at all, but if that helps cool it up a little, then fine.
I haven't finished this one yet, so can't reasonably write much more about it, in fact I've probably already said far too much, and wrong at that. I think I'm going to review a book I haven't read Every! Week!
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Cartoon County interview #13: Glenn Fabry
September 23rd, 2012
So Glenn "AMAZING!" Fabry came to Cartoon County back in April. It was almost literally like this:
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July 13th, 2012
Welcome then, gentle listen-folk, to the Twilight Zone….where anything can happen. Such as Gary Lactus NOT appearing on this week's edition of the internet's favourite aural-comics affairs-cast SILENCE! Fear not though, stepping into his large cosmic brogues comes sprightly upstart BOBSY! He and tired old deck-hand The Beast Must Die just couldn't bare to think of a week without pointless comics frippery, so they've teamed up to bring you SILENCE no.21!!
And what a fist they make of it. In a whopping two and a quarter hours they cause merry havoc discussing 2000AD, Judge Dredd, middle-class Quantam Leap, Rocketeer Adventures, Superman 3 (ie the best one), Fury MAX, Earth 2, Robert Downey Jr's gradual transformation into David Gest, Ron Perlman (aka the Monster Don), Thief of Thieves, The Reckoning, Marvel NOW!, Ozymandias (aka Between Watchmen), AVX, Haunt, Dial H, Action Comics, Castle Waiting…plus a typically rambling digression into Steve Gerber's wonderful Infernal Man-Thing. Oh god but that's just the tip of the iceberg…well, actually it's more like the main part of the iceberg, but the real cream of the iceberg (what?) is the sparkling interraction between two broken mammals who can't think of anything better to do than talk about comics (while Rome burns)!
Phew! Just when you thought 2012 couldn't get any HOTTTERRRR!!!!???
May 23rd, 2012
Ayo, weary traveller, pull up a stool and bathe your stinkin' dogs in a hot bubbly bath…it's time for the 15th edition of SILENCE!, the podcast that is no longer taking prisoners but rather is executing them, Miller's Crossing-style in the middle of the woods, with just a hat blowing in the breeze for company…
In this very special episode we have a guest appearance from none other than BOBSY MINDLESS who swings by Lactus' Cosmic Loungeship for a cup of tea and some heavy duty 2000ad chat (including the best Dredd analysis you'll find on the intywebosphere, and a wholehearted spunking over Zaucer of Zilk and Flesh). But I'm getting ahead of myself! Before that Beast debuts his deeply sensual deep house ballad 'SATANUS! (Human Flesh)' and Lactus gives us a taste of his LIVE acoustic singer-songwriter powers with 'Crossover Classix'. The SILENCE! News comes next in the way that night follows day and vomiting follows Cinzano, with an exciting announcement about SILENCECON 2012!
Then, and only then, the two-time twannies get onto vital topic of COMICS…thank god. They do talk about:
Peter Bagge's Reset, Saga, Scalped, Fantastic Four (Nazis Win!), Shade, Fury, Hellblazer, and more…
Then Lactus grits his teeth and prepares to receive the soul-punishment that is 'Crossover Classix with Gary Lactussssss' and tries gamely to read all the various AVX and Owlfight shit that is being pumped his way. Including discussions of Nightwing, Red Hood and The Outlaws, Catwoman, Avengers Academy, AVX VS…so nothing good basically.
Then The Beast brings back the purple prose with an appreciation of Don McGregor's Black Panther: 'Panther's Rage' in Beast's Bargain Basement, and drops in a word about Michel Fiffe's awesome looking Suicide Squad comic.
All this and a whole hot mess more in the love letter from us that means you're fucked forever…SILENCE!
April 25th, 2012
and SILOOOOOOOOOOOOOKI….
In this 12th anxiety inducing episode of the World's* Favourite* Podcast* Gary Lactus continues to sit at the table (verily) and The Beast is saddened by the imminent Geoff Johns revamp of his life. There will be blood…
After Lactus reveals his theme for America's Got Powers, a strongly ethical SILENCE! news follows, before the pugnacious pairsome get all frisky with the latest comics fillies. Under the merciless eye of scrutiny this week…Peter Bagge's Reset, Matt Kindt's 3 Story, Garth Ennis' Shadow (he knows, by the way), the truly exceptional Prophet (with added Dalrymple), King City, and Wonder Woman. But! Then! Gary Lactus reveals that he is the bravest man(god) on earth as he tackles EVERY SINGLE AVX and BATMAN: OWLS crossover issue released last week. And he plans to continue with this foolhardy plan until his eyeballs pop like cherry tomatoes on a griddle… what a guy! There follows a bit of discussion of Wolverine and the X-Men, and crossovers in general, and Lactus rounds things off with a mention of Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's Resident Alien.
That is not all, tough you lucky little piglets! The tenacious twofers then spend way too long discussing what kind of music superheroes listen to, before they head off into the sunset like Clint Eastwood and that orangutan in that film about Clint Eastwood and the Orangutan (and wasn't it weird in that movie the way that when Clint hooked up with a lady, and then they'd go home and bump uglies and then there'd be a fucking orangutan in the mix…how fucking gross would that be having a post coital glow interrupted by a six foot ape wearing denim?????)
So dig yourself in, and await the heavy shelling that is….SILENCE!
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Talking bollocks – Garth Ennis's John Constantine part 2
July 10th, 2011
Part 1 here
Back to this, then.
Maybe I was too hard on Geofferson Aerojohns in my first post. Maybe "Bollocks" was an appropriate response to a room covered in blood and the stink of the supernatural. Bollocks might often carry with it a low level sense of levity, but then John Constantine has had to weather some pretty terrible things in his time. Things worse than a few pints of the red stuff and a black magic chaser. Perhaps, for Constantine, a bit of sardonic humour helps him manage his emotions. Perhaps he just doesn't respond to scenes of hideous violence in the way that you and I would, his emotional responses deadened after one too many trips to Hell.
What is magic, treacle? Find out over the jump
2011 Mindless Podcast #6 Any other business?
February 22nd, 2011
Yes, there is! We talk about Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library # 20, also known as Lint.
Then there's some rambling chat about Mark Millar, Marvel Ultimate stuff, The Authority, Bryan Hitch, Warren Ellis, Freak Angels, The Boys, Garth Ennis, Unknown Soldier, Jesse Custer's hair and white jeans, Peter Milligan and Hellblazer. Then the battery ran out and we all went home to bed and it was all a dream. Or was it? Of course it wasn't, you can hear it here:
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2010 Mindless Podcast #5 Preacher
December 15th, 2010
…And by this point in our recording session that's what we've done. I for one was pretty drunk by this point. Amy Poodle brought along Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher for us all to talk about. I can't remember much more than that other than we digressed heavily into Mark Millar and other stuff. Why not listen with me as I refresh my memory.
And that's it for our 2010 podcasts. Thanks for listening and hopefully we'll all get together in the new year for more of the same.
See you later, Aggro Gator
August 27th, 2009
- Oh I know he doesn' t need any more praise but Bryan Lee O'malley's Scott Pilgrim site rocks as hard as do all things SP related. You've gotta admire the fact that he's turned himself into a one man franchise without sacrificing any ofthe comics inherent yumminess. If you haven't read SP yet I presume you have no eyes, in which case you can't read this which means you can't see me sticking my fingers up at you. (tbmd)
- I've really been enjoying Hip Hop Isn't Dead recently. Max's dedication to slogging through the entire Wu-related back catalogue is particularly rewarding (see: U-God and Cappadonna aka The Cab Driver). I don't agree with him a lot of the time, but it's a good site from a man with generally excellent taste in Hip Hop. (tbmd)
- Bit of a 2000AD flavour to my online reading this week – starting with Garth Ennis' first contribution to Rich Johnson's Bleeding Cool, When 2000AD was the Future. It's an unabashedly nostalgic birthday tribute to the Galaxy's Greatest, and although it feels a bit hacked-out, if you don't get a lump in the throat or pants upon reading his list of standout moments, then, brother, you must have no pants. It's also interesting for several other reasons – Bleeding Cool has been a bit of lame replacement for the much-missed Lying in the Gutters, having somehow managed to bring out a heretofore unimagined boring streak in Warren Ellis' online columns, so if it's giving us regular bulletins from Ennis now (the first time he'll have done this kind of regular editorialising since, what, the Preacher letters page?) then all to the good. Secondly, funny to note the unfortunate truism '2000AD was better when I were a lad' can be heard coming from even the most level headed industry professionals. Thirdly, the revealing detail that Ennis does not count 2000AD as a significant influence on his career-best Punisher MAX run, although he does with nearly all of his other, far less essential US work. And finally, the general public acknowledgement of the debt he owes to Tharg, which will seem ironic to anyone who read Wagner's Dredd story last week and noticed how much Jay Doubleyou appears to have been reciprocally influenced by Ennis in recent years. Five pages of unbelievable tension and gravitas balanced effortlessly across three simultaneous scenes, no action but lots of quiet political violence, in an episode of sheer comics storytelling perfection that displays the kind of tough yet elegant narrative engineering that Ennis has lately made his own.
- This has been up for ages but I've only just stumbled across it: Cradlegrave, John Smith and Edmund Bagwell's recently-concluded tale of alien body-horror and kitchen-sink drama on a Northern housing estate is being hailed by some Squaxx as the best story The Mighty One has put out since Halo Jones. A full Mindless report to follow soon, but in a rare move the excellent 2000AD Review site has put Smith's script for an entire episode up for your perusal. Bloody brilliant.
- Further happy proof that the world you live in is becoming more like Judge Joseph Dredd's every day! (b)
- Look, 5 posts for the price of one! Andrew Hickey's hyperpost continues apace. The topics, which he's attacking from multiple and diverse angles, are canon and continuity and other stuff that concerns those of us of a fannish bent. So far Andrew's posts have focussed on Morrison's concept of Hypertime, Cerebus via Oscar Wilde (or should that be the other way round?), and an 'imaginary' (in the Alan Moore sense) Dr Who audio story which doesn't feature too much Dr Who but does feature a dying man. This kind of multi-pronged oblique criticism is exactly the kind of thing we try to do round here, and exactly what Andrew Rilstone did so fantastically in his recent fanzine Who Sent the Sentinels?. Looking forward to seeing what else Andrew can come up with.
- Ah, its been ages since we've given some love to the boys at Funnybook Babylon. If you don't listen to their podcasts you really should as they're some of best pop-critics out there, and really don't get the credit they deserve nearly often enough. The standout moment in the latest edition has to be Chris Ekert's disembowelling of Ultimatum – to call it criticism would be to give Loeb's writing too much credit, but it sure is funny as shit.


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Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Dan Lopez provided this photograph of the scene of an accident near Dayton that killed three.
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Three people were killed in a head-on collision on July 10 on U.S. Highway 50 approximately five miles south of Dayton near the Six Mile Canyon Road.
Ellis Lee Erwin, 73, Louise Erwin, 72, and Michelle Marie Stratton, 43, all of Dayton, were each pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, troopers were dispatched to the scene at approximately 3:31 p.m. ...


text: Obama Turns Army Loose on Chicago's WGN Supporters protest radio airtime for campaign critic By Ambreen Ali, Newser User Posted Aug 28, 2008 1:09 PM CDT STORY COMMENTS (0) (Newser) – Barack Obama's camp deployed its devoted followers to flood the phone lines of Chicago's WGN-AM last night during an appearance by writer Stanley Kurtz, an Obama critic. A WGN producer tells the Tribune the campaign's push generated "the biggest response we've ever got" during the 2-hour segment with Kurtz, who recently penned a story linking Obama to a radical professor at the University of Illinois. The campaign's email blamed WGN for giving "a slimy character assassin" the chance to "rant on our public airwaves," and asked for a chance to rebut—though the show's producer claims the Obama campaign refused just such a request. The Obama camp has used similar tactics in the past, the Tribune notes, against stations running campaign ads the Democrat found distasteful. Obama supporters flooded the phone lines at his campaign's request when Stanley Kurtz appeared on WGN-AM in Chicago. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama greets Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on stage at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 in Denver. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., applauds as democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks in Denver, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Patti Solis Doyle, chief of staff to Joe Biden, poses in the hallway of the downtown Chicago headquarters of Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) The Obama camp has relied on supporters before to confront radio stations that run ads they don't like. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Chicago Tribune (Source Grid ») Inside Obama's Acorn National Review Barack Obama's lost years Weekly Standard Politics Barack Obama • campaign advertising • Barack Obama supporters • campaign staff • campaign etiquette • Stanley Kurtz • WGN To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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1. Re: OL6.3 on HyperVDude! Oct 23, 2012 1:29 PM (in response to 970214)You can boot the system into the original RHEL 6 kernel, which might answer if your problem is only with the Oracle UEK kernel or compatibility with the installed Linux Integration Components for Windows. However, if this does not resolve your problem you may have to examine your Hyper-V installation, which is beyond the scope of this forum. If you search the web for "Hyper-V Server 2008 disk performance issues" you will find plenty of related posts and possible solutions. The solution is usually Microsoft Hyper-V related and not Linux specific.


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School salutes mom's return from Iraq
Melanie Banton took off her sunglasses and wiped away tears from her eyes. She thought her visit to her daughter's school Monday morning was going to be a simple lunch with 5-year-old Destyn.
Instead, Banton - an Air Force technical sergeant who just days ago returned from a six-month deployment in Iraq - was greeted in the Belaire Elementary School courtyard by more than 350 students wearing red, white and blue striped hats and waving American flags, welcoming Banton home.
Banton, her husband Dave and Destyn walked around the courtyard, greeting the students and gathering welcome home cards and pictures as the children chanted "welcome home" while "Proud to be an American" played in the background.
"This is all so overwhelming," Banton said. "I thought I was just going to have lunch with Destyn."
Cheers erupted as she cut a yellow ribbon off a tree in the middle of the courtyard and waved it around. Banton, who spent her deployment at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, said it was hard being away from her family since August, but the time passed more quickly than she expected.
"I was able to get on the computer and talk to my husband every day," she said. "My time over there went by fast except when the holidays came around, and that's when the time just dragged on."
She said she missed milestones in her children's lives, being overseas for Destyn's first day of kindergarten and the first day of high school for her son, Dylan Estrada.
Kindergarten teacher Leslie O'Brien said the welcome-home rally started off small with just Destyn's kindergarten class making cards, then she said she thought all the kindergartners could make cards, then she sent out an e-mail seeing if the school would be interested in participating. "It just kind of snowballed from there," O'Brien said.
"Every day last week, Destyn would say 'My mom is coming home,' " O'Brien said.
Destyn said it was hard to keep it a secret that her whole school was going to welcome her home.
Dave Banton said Destyn almost let it slip a couple of times since Saturday.
"It was difficult being away from my wife for so long" he said. "I never realized all the things she did until about two weeks after she left."
Dave Banton, like his wife, had also been deployed to Iraq. His tour took place in 2007.
Melanie and Dave agreed it was a lot easier keeping in contact this deployment than the previous deployments, although in one case the immediacy was somewhat nerve-wracking.
"I got a phone call a few days into my deployment saying that I needed to come home because my son was in the hospital," Melanie said. "Then I got another call 45 minutes later letting me know it was appendicitis and he was going to be OK."
Destyn said the first thing that she wanted to do with her mom is to go buy a bike and go bike riding with her mom. Her mother, however, said they were going to go get pedicures.
The family had already been out to the rodeo and to the mall.
"I'm trying to catch up on what I missed out on while I was gone," Banton said. "It was just so touching that they would do something like this to show their appreciation."
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In response to a request from the state's cattle industry, the New Mexico Livestock Board voted at its April meeting to move forward on a proposal to start working with other brand states to use brands as official identification under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new Animal Disease Traceability rule.
Under the new ADT rule, most cattle that are moved interstate currently must have individual identification and be accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection, greatly increasing the time and cost involved in shipping a load of cattle.
In most cases, feeder cattle can move without restrictions.
However, those regulations also provide for the option of using brands as identification, as long as an agreement has been reached between the states involved.
The NMLB and New Mexico Cattle Growers Association have started work by reaching out to bordering states like Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona to work on an agreement.
Currently, the proposal would require:
Prior entry permit numbers could be part of the brand inspection or other official documents if receiving states so desire.
Prior entry permit numbers could be part of the brand inspection or other official documents if receiving states so desire.
The NMLB has strong ties with other brand states, and will continue to follow that tradition as much as possible, depending on those states' policies, according to Ray Baca, NMLB interim director.
"We are here to protect and serve the integrity of the industry. We can't just be a regulatory agency, we need input from producers on these issues up front, because they are the ones who will be affected," he said.
"We are hopeful that between the industry and the state veterinarians, we can reach an agreement with the other brand states," said Caren Cowan, executive director of the NMCGA.
Speed of commerce is the big concern for Charlie Rogers, who owns the Clovis Livestock Market and represented New Mexico at the Western States' Animal Health Meeting earlier this year where this issue was discussed between states.
"There is a certain time of year - between Sept. 15 and Nov. 15 - when there are a lot of calves and yearlings moving out of New Mexico. If you had to have a health certificate on every delivery, you could not find enough veterinarians in the state who would be willing to leave their practice for that time to write health certificate for those cattle. It becomes almost an impossibility.
"The ADT rule allows states to make their own agreements," he continued. "We hope to get the brand law states to band together and use what we have - our brands - which has been successful in the past, especially on cattle under 18 months of age."
"This is a work in progress, and we are asking for industry input," Baca said.
"I encourage anyone with questions, ideas, concerns or suggestions to contact me at 505-841-6161 or firstname.lastname@example.com."


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5 Essential GIFs of Katy and John Riding a Bull in 'Who You Love'
Love is a wild ride, according to John Mayer and Katy Perry.
In the duo's new video for their duet, "Who You Love," a multitude of couples are shown riding a bull in slow-motion as Katy and John sing the track, which is on his new album Paradise Valley. Towards the end of the video, the two are on the bull laughing and clinging to each other as fireworks and confetti rain down around them.
The video exclusively premiered on Good Morning America on Tuesday morning. Check out these amazing GIFs:
Katy tells On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how she and her boyfriend decided to collaborate. "It was John's idea initially, he had most of the song already done. I kind of just tailored my verse so it could come from my perspective. He showed me the song awhile before we got in the studio and I just thought it was so beautiful, the melody [and] the message of the song is so important."
Katy and John also sat down on GMA — their first interview as a couple! — to dish on their collabo:
What do you think of the video for "Who You Love"?


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