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Every February around this
time, teams of engineering students from all over the country scramble
to put the final touches on odd-looking, one-of-a-kind machines
that will never be mass-marketed or find their way into America's
living rooms.
The strange contraptions, devilishly complicated and loaded with
whimsical touches—comical or sentimental or both—are
entries in the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, which challenges
students to engineer the most complex device possible to perform
a simple task in 20 steps or more. Simple in this situation can
mean peeling an apple or loading a CD player.
The University of Texas at Austin's Theta Tau engineering
honors fraternity is the defending national champion. Last year
the fraternity's entry, a "Tribute to the Heroes of
September 11," performed the designated task—raising
and waving an American flag—in 70 steps, to claim first prize.
Organized into regional competitions by the national sponsor, Purdue
University, the contest pays homage to an engineer-turned-newspaper
cartoonist of yesteryear who made a career of drawing just such
fanciful contrivances. The local winners earn a berth in the national
finals on April Fool's Day on Purdue's Lafayette, Indiana,
"The Rube Goldberg competition is a lot of fun, and something
I look forward to each year," says Billy Wood, Mechanical
Engineering Department academic adviser and a long-time Rube Goldberg
judge. "Just watching those freshman and sophomore students
busy at work, I know who my senior leaders are going to be."
Each academic year, "Rube's" national sponsor
announces a designated task. The contest is open to all engineering
students through their engineering societies. Those planning to
enter must pre-register.
Then they have to build their machines—no mean feat.
"It took about a thousand hours, all told," says graduating
mechanical engineering senior Kevin Smith, Theta Tau past president
and captain of last year's winning team.
At The University of Texas at Austin, a traditional rivalry has
existed between the mechanical and aerospace engineers. Others can
and do take part: Theta Tau, for example, draws its members from
all departments of the College of Engineering. Although until 2002,
the honor fraternity's performance in the contest hadn't
been strong.
"Our machines had a reputation as sort of jokes," Smith
says, "not very serious or well put together. I said we should
put some real effort into it and do it right."
With initial funds provided by the chapter, a team of three (two
others joined later) purchased lumber and started building their
project in Smith's dining room. The contest's flag-hoisting
task had been assigned prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"We were about two weeks into it when 9/11 happened,"
Smith says. Shaping their design to honor the heroes of that day,
they adopted a tri-fold base that showcased firefighters; the U.S.
military; and national monuments, complete with miniature Statue
of Liberty. After winning the Austin contest, they refined their
machine and took it to Purdue, where they trounced the national
competition with a near-flawless performance.
Smith calls the competition a great team-building exercise.
"There will be conflicts, because you'll all have your
own ideas about how to do things," he says. "You really
learn how to work with other people."
This year's Theta Tau captain, Brody Knudtson, faces a quite
different challenge: to "select, crush and place a 12-ounce
aluminum can into a recycling bin." Knudtson, a mechanical
engineering senior, and Chris Nance, a civil engineering senior,
are the 2003 team's stalwarts, with "a lot of people
helping a little." Their theme is "Under Construction"
and their machine is targeted to accomplish its task in 45 steps
or more.
Two other University of Texas at Austin student organizations are
supporting entries in 2003. They are the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics.
Cathy Befi, an electrical and computer engineering senior, is captain
of the IEEE team. The six to eight members, who work on a rotating
basis, have put more than a thousand hours, collectively, into their
project, which has a carnival theme. They face an obstacle that
has always put electronics types at a disadvantage in Rube: the
judges' clear-cut preference for mechanical energy. Although
not outrightly prohibited, electrically powered components are strongly
"It's a problem," says Befi, who has loved building
things ever since she was a child. "We're electrical
engineers, and our first thought is, 'Hey, we can build a
circuit to do that.' Our machine will still have a few small
items, like a flashlight, to represent electrical engineers, because
that's who we are."
But, by and large, her team will conform to the judges' expectations
of mechanical gadgetry. While their machine will operate in just
over the minimum number of steps permissible—22 or 23—that
doesn't faze her.
"Every one of those steps will work," she promises.
Aerospace team captain Marcin Lenart, an honors senior in aerospace
engineering, has always enjoyed working with wood and tools. His
five-member group's machine was put together in the W.R. Woolrich
Laboratories project room, which is well-equipped with a wide variety
of tools.
Lenart calls the contest, "a wonderful opportunity for people
to get tool and design experience, especially those who might not
have had a chance before." After putting in one day weekly
for most of the first semester, his team has expanded their efforts
to three or four days a week, from 4 to 7 or 8 p.m.—about
60 hours per week total—since the winter break. He likes to
have everybody working at the same time, "so that we can resolve
any problems that come up." The biggest problems have had
to do with design issues.
"It's harder to crush an aluminum can than you might
think," he says.
The machine, which has the theme of an aerospace research and development
facility, will perform its task in about 25 steps.
Lenart's team has seen little of the historic rivalry with
the mechanical engineers, although until the final weeks when forced
to pull their entry the mechanical engineers were feverishly preparing
a worthy contraption.
"I hear that there used to be a lot of spying back and forth,"
he says," but I just concentrate on our project and don't
pay much attention to that."
Why would students make the enormous time and energy commitment
Rube entails, while classes and homework loom and social life beckons?
Those who participate are passionate about their involvement, maintaining
it's well worth the long hours and lost sleep. It pays off,
they say, in a multitude of ways, from new technical skills, to
enduring friendships.
Chris Stambaugh, a 1999 aerospace graduate now employed by NASA
in Houston as a space shuttle flight controller, has vivid memories
of all four Rube projects he worked on. The 80+-step 1996 machine
consumed more than 2,000 collective hours' work from its team
of 30 ("way too many") and performed poorly. The aerospace
engineers learned from that experience. Rube 1997, with just six
official team members, "was the quick and clean machine."
Designed to load and play a CD, it took first place in the nationals,
as did the following year's larger, more complex contrivance
to turn off an alarm clock. The 1999 entry, a golfball/tee setter,
was "the best-looking machine." It placed first locally.
Stambaugh cites among the benefits he gained from Rube: wood-,
metal- and plastic-working skills, knowledge of adhesive agents
and project experience with a core group of five or six team members
who operated by consensus like a board of directors.
"There was no room for big egos except our one big, combined
ego against the Mechanical Engineering Department," he says.
Danny Linehan, a 2000 aerospace graduate and now an engineering
scientist associate in the Signal Physics Division of the university's
Applied Research Laboratories, recalls a once-fierce rivalry between
the aerospace and mechanical engineers.
"We used to spy on one another," he says. He also remembers
the aerospace engineers' ill-fated 1996 machine: "It's
ironic to say this, since we're talking about Rube, but it
was much too complicated!" Linehan values the friends he made
during his years of working on Rube, and keeps in touch with many
of them—including one from mechanical engineering, Chad Bruns.
Brothers Chad (B.S. 2000) and Mike Bruns (B.S. 2002), who captained
winning mechanical engineering teams in different years, both wax
eloquent on the competition's benefits.
"I was one of those mechanical engineering majors who was
all theory and didn't know anything about building things,"
says Chad Bruns, now a product development engineer with Advanced
Micro Devices. "But three years of Rube made me quite proficient
with many aspects of woodworking, construction and creativity."
The brothers also honed their leadership skills.
"You can't imagine what it takes to get 10 people to
come up with a machine where every step works every time and everything
plays nicely together," Chad Bruns says.
The ideas come from "anywhere, everywhere, nowhere,"
he says. " Junk piles become gold mines. Home Depot becomes
the grocery store."
Chad Bruns led the 2000 mechanical engineering team to national
victory with a time capsule themed "Rube Goldberg's
Entertainment Machine" containing such classics of 20th-century
entertainment as a stuffed Mickey Mouse, a baseball and a C3P0 robot.
Mike Bruns' 2001 team met their challenge of peeling an apple
in a uniquely Rube way. They used a sandblaster.
"That obviously changed the scope of the project,"
he says. "We were going to have to work a lot harder to get
a working sandblaster in addition to a working machine."
He estimates the large team of 15-20 people, which adopted a James
Bond theme, put in well over a thousand hours, collectively, over
five months.
"We tried to pick a theme that would require nice colors
and décor as well as offer many ideas to work into the machine,"
he says. Moonraker, a golden gun, Oddjob and more were represented,
and several team members appeared costumed as Bond characters. The
machine placed first in the Austin competition.
The project had many rewards for Bruns.
"We all definitely learned how to work with various personalities,
in high stress situations, and respect other people's ideas
and working styles," he says. "I learned how to apply
what I learned in school and refined my communications skills. And
I made many lifelong friends."
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) team,
captained by Catherine Befi, took first place in Monday night's
(Feb. 17) Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, winning $500 and a chance
to compete in the national championships at Purdue University in
Their creation, which depicted a theme park called "Liability
Land," accomplished the task of crushing an aluminum can for
recycling in 44 steps and a time of 30 seconds. It began with a
miniature Batman hurtling down a zipline to initiate a series of
mechanical actions which turned a ferris wheel, a carousel and a
swing ride—among other things—and ended with the can
crushed by a heavy tool box droppd from a height. The tool box was
housed inside a replica of the university's Tower. Mousetraps
and bicycle parts were among the household items used in its construction.
The electrical engineers were helped along by the presence of a
mechanical engineer, freshman Jonathan Yates, on their team.
"We recruited him before the American Society for Mechanical
Engineers could," Befi says.
Theta Tau's elaborate frame machine, "Under Construction,"
was voted People's Choice.
Rae Nadler-Olenick
Banner image from Rube Goldberg's
"Keep the Boss from Knowing You're Late"
Rube Goldberg and Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
® © Rube
Goldberg Inc.


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Bangladesh will be looking to wrap up another ODI series victory over New Zealand when the two sides clash in the second ODI on Thursday. Rubel Hossain was the man of the moment for the hosts, taking a hat-trick after the rain break to ensure the Kiwis had no chance of staging a comeback. New Zealand were further jolted when Kane Williamson had to return home in the middle of the series, leaving an already week batting line-up far more vulnerable. The bowling (except Tim Southee in the first ODI, which they lost by 43 runs, looked ordinary and Brendon McCullum will expect a much better show on Thursday. Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim, who led from the front with a splendid 90, did suggest that the ODI whitewash of 2010 would play on the visitors' minds and judging by the way they caved in on Tuesday, it looks like the Black Caps are still haunted by those defeats. Inexperienced as it may be, New Zealand still have serious firepower in their batting line-up with the likes of McCullum and Ross Taylor. If these two can get going, Bangladesh could be staring down the barrel. The hosts have done well to draw the Tests and win the first game, thanks to some brilliant individual shows. They are clicking well as a unit at least in their own conditions and now look favourites in the series. With a lot at stake today, both teams would be expected to go hard at each other.
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church ban on the practice of homosexuality when they express their opposition to allowing homosexuals to teach in the schools. They may not view this as a civil rights issue, as many bishops do.
Nevertheless, on most other issues, Catholics who attend church regularly are closer to their bishops' political views than are Catholics in general.
It would seem that the official church social teaching and the teaching of American bishops does trickle down to the parish level. Catholics by large margins support the reforms of Vatican II and are generally receptive to the political activism of their bishops, so long as that action remains nonpartisan. If this is the case, the message of Vatican II can be expected to continue to influence American Catholics and may work to move Catholics toward more liberal politics.
To the extent that conservative leaders within the Church seek to slow the reforms of Vatican II and return to more authoritarian practices, however, the implementation of Vatican II may be slowed. 80 But most signs continue to indicate a Catholic backlash to such efforts, particularly when the authoritarian tactics are used in the area of sexual ethics and abortion. It is in these areas that Catholics are least receptive to church authority. Nevertheless, the more progressive political and economic message of Vatican II and American bishops is getting through.
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(a.k.a. The Microsoft Word Alphabet Song)
Hit CTRL + N for a blank new .doc(x),
Let's get this party started;
Or CTRL + O to open and carry on
From where you last departed.
CTRL + D to choose and edit fonts:
They come in every shape and size;
Comic Sans may try to tempt you,
But Arial is far more wise.
Why not try CTRL + B, I or U
To makeover your typeface?
CTRL + F, G, H are a loyal team:
They'll find, go to and replace.
Fancy a match of Word tennis?
CTRL + L, E, R, J will set the stage
For you to rally your lines of text
Back and forth across the page.
CTRL + A's the secret to selecting all:
It'll highlight everything,
While CTRL + Q does the job of clearing
Your paragraph formatting.
CTRL + C and X are copy and cut;
CTRL + V will then duly paste;
CTRL + T and M are for tabs and indents
Don't let that space just go to waste.
CTRL + K rules the hyperlinks
If you're wired to the net;
But first it's F7 for a quick spell-check
You're sure not to regret!
Wish I had CTRL + Z to undo
Mistakes I've made in real life,
And CTRL + Y to ferry words to and from
The BACKSPACE afterlife.
Press CTRL + P to print off your work
Instead of putting it in the trash,
And remember to CTRL + S frequently
Before the inevitable crash!
Now I've done the whole alphabet
And I think that should cover it
But wait, I've forgotten just one letter:
I wonder what CTRL + W———————
CTRL + by GraphiteColoursWatch
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...Or the Command button for Mac users.
Written just for laughs, and the last line is a four-letter word that rhymes with "it".
Written just for laughs, and the last line is a four-letter word that rhymes with "it".
r the command button for mac users." Brilliant! Kinda funny, and actually very informative!
I love this!
The universal name for that button is Super key, or at least that's what us Linux users call it...
Now go make a YouTube video of you singing this.
Now go make a YouTube video of you singing this.
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This is helpful, funny and brilliant.
Well done.
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For the ending, double well d———————
Well done.
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I'm adding this to my favorites just for the ending.
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"Beer Garden is Not Our Term."
More on the beer garden proposed near National's Stadium in D.C.
Andrew J. Kline, representing Robert "Bo" Blair, said at a March 25 meeting of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board that his client wants to create a "festival site with amenities" near National's Stadium, but that "beer garden is not our term, I don't know where that came from."
Blair, who is on four licenses in the city, according to Kline, plans to hire private security staff, and there will be one main entrance to the festival site. There will be no cover for admittance, and there will be a separate tent where alcohol is served where staff will check IDs. Their preliminary proposal indicates a trailer will be used to lock up liquor when there's no game.
ABRA Commissioner Nick Alberti suggested the venue also be used for family oriented events and perhaps even farmer's markets on non-game days.
The proposal will be discussed at the April 13 ANC 6D meeting, according to JDLand.
Commissioner Donald C. Brooks said he hopes the owners, "no pun intended, knock it out of the park."


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2481 Views Previous 1 2 Next 19 Replies Latest reply: Aug 25, 2007 8:13 AM by John boy
Cander Aug 14, 2007 9:19 AM
in response to peavey5150Because the SIM card can be used in other phones.
peavey5150 Aug 14, 2007 9:21 AM
in response to Candernow who would buy iphone just to use the sim card in a
different phone?
Cander Aug 14, 2007 9:22 AM
in response to peavey5150-They may decide to dump the iPhone
-Some people use more than 1 phone for different situations and switch out SIMs
peavey5150 Aug 14, 2007 9:27 AM
in response to Canderokay i think that might be the dumbs thing to do
so you would then have a 600 dollar sim card in a diffent phone.
but thx for your help
Cander Aug 14, 2007 9:30 AM
in response to peavey5150Nothing dumb about it. iPhone isn't the end all be all of phones and some people need funcions that other phones provide for their work or other reasons.
peavey5150 Aug 14, 2007 9:34 AM
in response to Canderokay I know that can be done
I thought there may be a 3g upgrade coming out.
thx for your help
kennyboy3 Aug 14, 2007 9:43 AM
in response to peavey5150I think it's been confirmed on the websites where they take the iPhone apart completely and indentify all the parts that there is NOT a 3G chipset "hidden" in the iPhone awaiting future activation.
Bummer. :o(
Allan Sampson Aug 14, 2007 9:44 AM
in response to peavey5150The current iPhone models - 4GB and 8GB are not 3G phones and will never be. This requires a 3G radio and a firmware update or software update cannot turn a non-3G phone into a a 3G phone - regardless if a non-3G phone includes a SIM card that has a 3G stamp.
axis360 Aug 14, 2007 9:45 AM
in response to peavey5150From all that I have read that will not happen with this phone.
It does not have the right chips to make use of 3G, something about if they had used them on this model of the iPhone it would have caused the phone to have an over heating problem and the biggest issue was battery life. The 3G chip would have been far to much of battery drain. There is hope in future models as a phone that does not have 3G will not sell in Orient and or Europe.
Only us ginny pigs get that privilege? LOL
homertime33 Aug 25, 2007 8:59 AM
in response to peavey5150Peavey, I don't think you're understanding concept here.
Most new AT&T sims support 3G technology, despite their usage of the 3G network. This allows users to easily upgrade from phones without re-issuing a sim, as well as buy new, or second phones and just "swap" the sims.
The sim card is dirt cheap, is not $600, the phone is $600. AT&T will generally give a customer a new sim card free, for others it's up to $25.
The reason why an iPhone user MAY want to switch the sim out into another phone is as follows:
Say your iPhone user wants to go out on a boat, on vacation, or just in general somewhere where they don't need all the bells and whistles. Instead of bringing the $600 iPhone to an amusement park, water park, boating, hiking, etc, they buy a cheap 2nd phone to throw the sim into so that they have a basic cell phone for emergency use. That way, if the phone is damaged, they at least have the sim to put back into the iPhone to work flawlessly. If the phone is lost, they can just be re-issued a new sim, and won't lose their $600 iPhone.
It's not a dumb thing to do, nor a "dumbs" thing to do as you indicate. It's called risk management.
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Paul Judd Aug 14, 2007 9:47 AM
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peavey5150 wrote:
why does the i phone have a 3G sims card if it does not support 3G?
Its a branding thing mostly. It indicates that its the current version of AT&T's sim card series.
4n6doc Aug 14, 2007 9:49 AM
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okay i think that might be the dumbs thing to do
Actually, it is sometimes the smart thing to do.
I have an inexpensive unlocked GSM phone sitting around. If I am going to be doing something outdoors and don't want to expose my iPhone to the risk of getting damaged, I just pop my SIM into the spare phone and off I go.
For those occasions when I want to run the battery all the way down and do a full recharge (which Apple recommends you do about once a month to keep the battery in good shape), I move the SIM card to my spare phone so I can still make and receive calls while my iPhone battery is dead.
If my iPhone should ever break or if I should ever need to send it in for service, I can move the SIM into my spare phone and have uninterrupted phone service.
If I am traveling overseas and don't want to risk incurring expensive data roaming charges, I can put my SIM into my spare phone and use my iPhone as a WiFi device and video iPod.
In other words, it isn't dumb at all.
AllanDC Aug 14, 2007 11:24 AM
in response to peavey5150From a manufacturing standpoint, it is cheaper for them to make all sims 3G rather than to set up a seperate process for making one without 3G. Also, when Apple does come out with a 3G iPhone, it will make it easier for existing iPhone users to upgrade since they will be able to move their existing sim card to the new phone.
RonAnnArbor Aug 14, 2007 12:22 PM
in response to AllanDCAll SIm cards for Cingular/ATT have had the 3G logo on them since November of 2006. They work in regular and 3g GSM phones. The iPhone itself is NOT 3G and this version never will be. The 3G symbol is market branding/advertising. In Europe they print pictures of movies and sports teams on the SIM cards - it doesn't mean either one of them is inside the phone.


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The Catheters are one of many bands helping the Sunset celebrate its tenth anniversary this weekend -- the band broke up six years ago and have since moved on to other projects -- all members are currently also in either Black Whales (Dave Brozowski), Idle Times (Brian Standeford), the Girls (Derek Mason), the Spits (Mason again), or Unnatural Helpers (Leo Gebhardt). But tomorrow night they're regrouping to play the Sunset with the also reunited Cops, as well as the Tripwires, the Basements, and DJ Danger Nun. Bobby McHugh caught the band at a SoDo practice space:
Click here to see more photos, and here to read more about the Catheters' reunion in Sara Brickner's feature on the Sunset's big birthday.
But beyond the show tomorrow night, don't get your hopes up too high -- Brozowski just told me:
It is our first show together since calling it quits and likely the second last show for the band. No plans or talks of reforming since everyone has moved onto to other projects.


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Decided to throw in another Spider/Man for good measure
This uniform with hood (and Spider-man height) seems more Miles Morales than Peter Parker. But is awesome!
Hey bro, I'm making a Spiderman fanfic and I was wondering if you would let me use this costume in it? I thought I'd ask instead of just taking it because I'm nice that way.
Brilliant design. Love it.
Kind of a mix of Spider-Gwen and a Spider-Man or two. Love the design.
Dude I love your spidey!
How much will you charge me to have you draw more of this guy! Name your price! I really want more drawings of this guy, he's so cool!
hey I made my own hooded spiderman design, could you take a look and give me your opinion please?
Nice design. A little bit of black suit, with some classic pattern on the side, and some scarlet hoodie thrown in for good measure.
Wow, I just made it sound like a recipe. Anyways, great job!
I really do like this design my self and i'm a massive fan of Spider-man
Wow... Altiar can suck it (but not all of it)!
This is one of my favorite Spidey redesigns! I think it should have placed towards the top!
Very cool take on the character. I really like the way that the edge of the hood works as the front legs.
I love this look, but wouldn't a hood be a problem while swinging through the air?
Hmmm, true. But if he's about to run into a building hopefully his spider-sense will kick in and he can avoid it. That's the price to pay for style haha
The hood w/ the spider design really sells it!
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David Healy will attempt to win his first trophy as a manager when Linfield take on Glenavon in the Irish Cup final.BBC Sport » 13h
David Healy will attempt to win his first trophy as a manager when Linfield take on Glenavon in the Irish Cup final.BBC Sport » 13h
Kevin Braniff gives Glenavon a boost ahead of Saturday's Irish Cup final by agreeing a one-year contract extension.BBC Sport » 1d
Glentoran take on Coleraine for the right to face Cliftonville in Tuesday's Europa League play-off final.BBC Sport » 1d
Ross Redman announces that he is to leave Portadown after turning down the offer of a new one-year deal.BBC Sport » 2d
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Portadown have their fine for undisclosed player payments halved to £5,000 on appeal but a signing ban remains in place.BBC Sport » 7d
Pat McGibbon is appointed Portadown manager on a two-year deal despite winning just one game from eight as interim boss.BBC Sport » 7d
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Merch Hunter #10: Mickey Sparrow, Darth Vader Sneakers, and a Nightmare of a Romper Suit
- By Simon Gallagher
- September 29, 2011
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Merch Hunter #9: Wayne's Fender, Marty's Hover Board and THAT Scorpion Jacket
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- September 21, 2011
Lately my dreams have been haunted by a man of few words who wears shades and driving gloves, chews a tooth pick and looks at least 85% cooler than I could ever, thanks to the beautifully cut cloth on his back. It might be blood spattered and adrenaline soaked, but...
Merch Hunter #8: Stay Puft Lawn Monster, A Lickable Bond and The Worst Masters of the Universe Costume
- By Simon Gallagher
- September 14, 2011
I'm a great big fan of Christmas, and I'm already compiling a long-list of festive goodies that will make my Christmas Merch Hunter Bumper Annual Special 2011 the column-based event of the year. And since the holiday season is now creeping upon us, with branded chocolate boxes and cookies already...
Merch Hunter #7: The Strangest 'Star Wars' Stuff
- By Simon Gallagher
- September 7, 2011
In honor of the hugely anticipated release of the Star Wars George Lucas Pays No Attention To His Fans Special Edition Blu-Ray Collection, this week was always going to have a definite Star Wars flavor about it. But rather than simply go with a conventional approach, and proffer my thoughts...
Merch Hunter #6: Burton's Batman, The Ladies of 'Firefly' and Kevin McCallister's Greatest Legacy
- By Simon Gallagher
- August 31, 2011
Having just watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I'm in the mood for something slightly more uplifting than watching small children being murdered at the hands of their own fathers in an ironic twist of fate that I may have just spoiled for anyone who hasn't yet seen it....
Merch Hunter #5: A Treasure Trove of 'Jurassic Park' Must-Have Merchandise
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- August 24, 2011
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Merch Hunter #4: Death Eater Masks, Sloth and Must-Have 'Star Wars' Coins
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- August 17, 2011
Salutations from the seedy underworld of merch collecting, where myths are debunked, the fabrics of the finest secrets unfurled for discerning eyes, and the most glorious curios from lands far and exotic are offered as sacrifices to the Rejects' lascivious hareem of readers. Well, not really, but that opening was...
The Merch-Hunter #3: Lego Batman, DC Posters and A Tautaun You Can Sleep In
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- August 10, 2011
As the whole world (or England at least) goes absolutely Goddamn batshit and falls to pieces in front of my eyes, it's time to declare an age-old addage, cast forth historically from some of the greatest minds of human history… "And now for something completely different." Socio-cultural insurrection is a...
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- August 3, 2011
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- July 28, 2011
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United States of America
Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased, entry for the United States of America
Rape on the Job in America
Rape in the Fields is a Frontline documentary that explores the persistent allegations that female agricultural workers in the U.S. are frequently sexually assaulted and harassed by supervisors who exploit their (often undocumented) immigrant status. Victims typically do not seek help from US law enforcement, either out of fear that they will be fired, deported or worse, or from a lack of understanding of U.S. law. Reviews: Popmatters. NY Times [more inside]
How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense
How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense: Report looks at methods of corporate abuse, suggests steps toward reform [Full Report (PDF)] [Executive Summary (PDF)] [more inside]
An Inconvenient Hoof
Opening this Friday in L.A, New York, and San Francisco, Food, Inc. is a documentary about the modern food industry that features Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Joe Salatin of Polyface Farm, and Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Yogurt. Here's the trailer. And here's a New York Times article about the film. [more inside]
Get your damn fruits and vegetables off my lawn.
I've discovered that typically, a farmer who grows the forbidden fruits and vegetables on corn acreage not only has to give up his subsidy for the year on that acreage, he is also penalized the market value of the illicit crop, and runs the risk that those acres will be permanently ineligible for any subsidies in the future. (The penalties apply only to fruits and vegetables — if the farmer decides to grow another commodity crop, or even nothing at all, there's no problem.) If you can't stop demand, curtail production. One farmer's view on the power of commodity crops. [more inside]
Diesel-Driven Bee Slums and Impotent Turkeys
The Case for Resilience. How Efficiency Maximizes Catastrophe.
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Do having multiples of the same skillbook stack? otherwise I have no idea what to do with gold... raids are extremely difficult (need guys around lvl 50 or so) and I have reached what appears to be the final farming stage... But exp is so darn slow compared to how much gold I am getting.
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would love to see some change made to population increase, because the only realistic way to get more ppl is to chose a diety that has an ability that gives you population. Buying the minimum number of population buildings to get full discounts always leaves me with a few 100s in gap between current population and max. A hut costs me about 600 wood, but there is no point in buying more if my current population is 426/774... My next person costs 80 billion food but I only get about 17m/s
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a bit of a bug/mislabel with markeeth's 3rd spell (resolute): it says "gives u a random production building", but can give huts manors etc.
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Feels like shitty game design when you keep losing 2nd level because there aren't any markers to where you need to keep enemy out... (and they just run past you so standing on the side means you lose)
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Jun. 04, 2014
OK what am i missing, mission 10 seems way harder than 11 and 12. No matter what I do I die to the pools that form in the back
Royal Offense
Oct. 17, 2013
Rating: 3
Weird Freezing issue/ glitch on spider level, after beating all the enemies my units proceeded to continue walking off the map. Pausing cannot get unpaused after this happens
Endless Evil
Aug. 16, 2013
Weird bug that ruins the game: slashing sometimes you take dmg before the enemy is considered "dead"... and its happened enough times that it isnt because its a cloud or spiky in their dmg stage (happened on a lime cat)
Cursed Treasure: Don't Touch My Gems!
Jun. 20, 2013
Rating: 5
Have the Hp's on the ninja champions been changed? the 2nd to last mission it is literally impossible to get untouched gem. Ninja has 2,500 hp, each fireball does 400 dmg, so that leaves 500 dmg that must be done in 1 hit (5s invisibility is enough for him to reach the end). I realize this is a very old game so probably people play newer versions, but that 2nd to last stage is poor design.
Giants and Dwarves TD
May. 14, 2013
how the heck are we expected to kill mammoths? If I am lucky, I manage to kill them just before they reach the end, but then a 2nd one spawns and takes out 10 pts...
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Cold Crush Colfax set to open this summer
The ink is finally dry on the paperwork for the new Cold Crush location. 3014 East Colfax Avenue, the space formerly inhabited by Beetle Bar, Odelay Tacos and Sengers, is now officially Cold Crush Colfax.
The ink is finally dry on the paperwork for the new Cold Crush location. 3014 East Colfax Avenue, the space formerly inhabited by Beetle Bar, Odelay Tacos and Sengers, is now officially Cold Crush Colfax.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lonely Island, the trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, has technically already made the leap to the big screen in 2007's wannabe daredevil comedy "Hot Rod." But it won't be until "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" hits theaters that the full experience of Lonely Island — in all their seductively wrapped male anatomy glory and seafaring glee — lands at the movies.
Chris Stapleton, Wild Nothing and Behemoth are our picks for the best shows around Colorado this week. See you there, and if you don't make it out, follow our music musings on Twitter and our selfies on Instagram.
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31 weeks!!
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Me too!
IT FEELS SO CLOSE!!! We are almost there.
Married my love 08.07.10 Angel baby 07.2011
Met our cleft cutie 03.13.13 Fell in love with a new smile 06.26.13
31 weeks on friday - woooohhhhooooo!!
First-time Mommy to baby boy, David
Born March 14, 2013 at 2:33am
Weighing 8 lbs. 14 ozs & measuring 21 in.
Me too me too!!! YAY!!! Ready to have my LO
Chi hullo a hushi tomi,a hullosi. "I love my sunshine, my baby"
Chahta Sia, "I Am Choctaw"
Me too!!!! :) Congrats! Getting really excited! I saw my doctor 2 days ago and the baby looked great, the Dr said that anytime after 34 weeks, if i went into labor, they wouldnt try to stop it! Also, he said that we would know when im in labor when the contractions actually hurt, That if im still smiling then im not in labor. I thought that was interesting to know! And no i dont know why i thought it wouldnt be that painful at first... Anywho! Cant wait for everyone to start having their babies!!!
I will be 31 weeks on Tuesday!!! My doctor told me that they would induce me at 39 weeks (if I made it that far). I cant wait to meet my daughter!!! I'm in tears just thinking about getting to hold her. <3


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I love listening to storytellers. As much as I like listening to personal stories, though, I often find it far more interesting to listen to someone tell a story that is not from their own experience because the stories chosen and how they are told can tell you so much more about the type of person they are. Stories are magic windows into the world around us and they let us see both beyond and inside of ourselves.
My husband would tell you that I collect books, but I don't think of it that way. I think that I collect stories and some of them just happen to be in book form.
I wanted to share this Ted Talk because I think it does a great job of talking about the magic of stories and the importance of telling and listening to stories beyond our own experiences.]]>
I'm twenty episodes in (just over half of what has been posted so far) and I'm not actually sure how I feel about it yet. Like the previous adaptations from this group, it's a modern vlog retelling of the classic novel. Unlike the previous shows, I'm not as convinced by their modern updates to this particular story. I like the series, but it doesn't feel like Little Women to me.
Since I think Meg has gone through the most change from book to show, I'm going to start with and sort of focus on her. Meg is the oldest sister and perhaps the one I identified most with in the books. She was very well-rounded there. Alcott's Meg is a responsible woman who is clearly capable of all the things a proper woman did (running a frugal, yet inviting household, caring for a family, coping in a crisis, etc.), but also a young woman able to dream of what she wants and enjoy the little pleasures around her. She clearly feels their poverty in ways the younger sisters don't and isn't happy about it, but she still manages to appreciate the ways they are lucky.
The Meg portrayed in "The March Family Letters" is rather different. She is clearly still a highly responsible woman, but at times it's almost too her detriment in ways I never felt it was in the book. She feels older and almost bitter in some ways and when she talks about girlish pleasures (parties and fashion), it always seems to have a sarcastic quality instead of being genuine pleasure. I like that she is both working towards a career (although I question if any of the March girls would work so hard towards a career she doesn't actually want) and wanting the family and kids future where she can be a stay-at-home mom. I'm just not so sure I see Meg in this young woman who is paranoid about poverty enough to study something she doesn't care much about and who seems to not see the point in things that exist only for pleasure.
In the series, John Brooks (Meg's eventual husband) is transformed in Joan Brooks. I am not sure about this change yet, although I very much like Joan's character. The problem is that she doesn't feel that much like John Brooks to me. I'm also not sure what it means for Meg's future in the story. I love the idea of them having a relationship and getting married and all, but part of Meg's story was that she was the conventional sister. She led the life she was expected to lead and was happy in it – she was the proof that you could absolutely be happy in that role, which I think was a really important element of the feminist message of Alcott's book. She clearly shows through Meg that you can be feminist and conventional at the same time – it doesn't have to be a contradiction. The point is to be able to choose whatever you want, and that means conventional choices are allowed too. So what does this change do for Meg's conventionality? On the one hand, if done well it could go a long way to giving a normalizing image of a lesbian relationship, but on the other hand it is unconventional in the world we live in today and so the very change in and of itself changes the quality of Meg's conventionality. I suppose I'll have to wait and see.
Jo is definitely different in the series from in the book. Instead of being a tomboy, she's a hardcore feminist. I think that Alcott would absolutely have approved of this and it definitely makes sense. The only issue I have with it is that the change (so far, at least) sort of erases Jo's personal struggles with the very fact that she is unconventional. I found those struggles to be a particularly fascinating part of the book and hope they aren't gone entirely. There's presumably a lot of show left, so perhaps we simply haven't seen it yet.
Beth is still the sweet, quiet, shy girl from the books. Because of this, we don't see her that much except when she is singing and playing her guitar. For the fiction of the vlog, that makes a lot of sense. I have little idea, however, if the rest of her personality and character are there to be found or not. In the books, she cares for kittens and dolls, is too shy for school and stays entirely at home, and is happy simply surrounded by her family. Elements of this are here, but the character is older and I think that changes some of these things. We don't see the kittens or dolls and I have no reason to believe so far that she did not go all the way through regular schooling, but we don't know. I'm also not sure how they'll handle her later. I think I need to wait and see more of Beth to really have much opinion on her, but I think she's a particularly interesting challenge for a project like this.
They've done a great job with Amy. We've seen precious little of her physical vanity, but her flamboyant and artistic nature as well as her inability to compromise have absolutely come out. Overall, she definitely "feels" like a modern Amy. I'll be interested to see how they handle her character development, but so far I think she's probably the one who feels the most accurate to me.
Obviously, I fully intend to watch more of this series. I don't feel like it is as close an adaptation as some of their previous series' were, but I think that they are doing some really interesting things and I want to see how they end up working out. One of the virtues of the show is definitely that if you don't know the source material, it is still fully watchable. And for me, the very fact that it does have me thinking so much about the changes and similarities is one of the biggest draws for this kind of project. The analysis itself is one of my favorite parts of the experience.
If you are interested in watching this show or any of their previous adaptations (they've so far done Pride and Prejudice, Sanditon (one of Jane Austen's unfinished works), Emma, Frankenstein, and Little Women), check out Pemberley Digital on YouTube.]]>
You know what, though? I'm ok with it. It doesn't ruin my life. Do I do things differently than I might if it wasn't a factor? Definitely. But it's the reality of my life and there is no changing that. Even if it stopped tomorrow and I could eat spicy food every day and start listening to metal bands and whatever else I've been missing, it wouldn't change that this has been the reality of my life for fifteen years.
While I would like it to stop, I've long since given up waiting for it to do so. It will stop in its own good time and not before, no matter how much I might want it to do otherwise. Fretting and raging and pouting won't help. All I can do, is cope with it the best I can and keep going.
The hardest lesson was that I can't wait for it to stop. Not in the sense that I'm eager for it to do so (although that is true as well), but in the sense that not doing things in the expectation that I can do them when it goes away is pointless. I can't put my life on hold because I have a headache. Believe me, it's tempting to do so a lot of the time. But it's the reality I live with – the reality of my life – and if I wait for it to stop, I'll have missed my life without really having lived it. And that seems much, much worse to me than any amount of pain.
This does not mean that I ignore it. That would be just as bad as waiting for it to go away. This is the reality I live with, so I have to actually live with it. That means that it affects choices I make, and that's ok. Everyone has things that affect choices they make. I may choose not to eat spicy Thai food because it makes my headache worse just as my mother may choose not to eat crab because it makes it difficult for her to breathe. This is simply the way it is. Everyone makes choices based on factors in their life and this is simply one of mine.
I like to picture my headache as a person. He's tiny (he has to fit in my head, after all). I'm not sure why my headache is a man, but it always has been to me. He has long reddish blond hair and a long, thick braided beard (something like the dwarves in every Tolkien-esque fantasy world). I think of him as a tiny Viking warrior. He's very muscular and sort of stocky, but he has a nice smile. That's always struck me as odd, but maybe it's not so much. He's part of me, after all, and smiles are incredibly important to me. He's also not malicious. He doesn't mean to hurt me, it's simply the only way he knows to try and escape from being trapped in my skull. He's trapped in this miserable situation and just wants to escape. I always sort of see him in pain as well. The more pain he is in, the more he needs to escape, and so the more he hurts me in the process of trying to do so.
I'm not sure why I started picturing this little man trapped in my head, but it helps to do so. It gives me a focus for my feelings about my pain. Sometimes I get really angry with him for hurting me so much. Sometimes I hate him. Other times I feel really bad for him. I feel like if I could make his pain go away, mine would as well. A lot of times I just want to give him a hug. I think a big part of the value of him as a image for me is that he gives me someone to share my experience with in a way that I can with very few others. He knows what it feels like too, what it's like to be in pain you have no control over for years and years at a time. He reflects not only the physical experience for me, but also the emotional one.
Maybe that lack of any control is the hardest part of the whole experience of having a headache for so long. I can affect it in small ways – I can take the sharp edge off sometimes with peppermints, I can choose to avoid certain types of music because I know pounding rhythms will make it worse – but when it comes down to it, I can't control it. I can't make it go away, even temporarily, and I can't even control how bad it is most of the time. It simply exists, regardless of whatever small changes I may be able to predict or cause.
While I don't like my headache and I do wish that it would go away, I am largely ok with the reality of it. For both good and ill, it has been a factor in shaping who I am. It is the reality that I live with and part of the lens through which I see the world. There are a thousand factors like that in anybody's life. This one may loom large in mine, but it isn't all there is and it doesn't define me. It does affect me and my choices, though, and there is no escaping that. For almost half of my life, this has been a big part of my reality.
And you know what? I like a lot of what my life has been for the past fifteen years. There are definitely things that I want to change moving forward (headache among them, although that isn't a change I can control), but overall I think it's been a pretty good fifteen years. I have had a lot of time when I was happy and, overall, I think my impact on the world has been more good than not. My life isn't perfect and I have a lot of things I'd like to do and things I'd like to change, but if that wasn't the case, I guess I have to wonder what the point would be.
Life is about struggle. It's what makes it interesting and worthwhile. Stories without struggle aren't interesting and we are all living stories. When we don't have something to struggle with, people tend to get bored and start struggling with the very lack of challenge. We constantly find or invent new problems because that's what life is about. My headache is simply another struggle in my life and the lives of the people who care about me. I think that I'm stronger for having had such a challenge. That doesn't mean that I'm exactly grateful for it or anything, but it does mean that I've made a sort of peace with it.
I expect that my headache will continue to be a challenge in my life. And that when it does stop, learning to live without it will probably be a challenge as well (as odd as that sounds), because suddenly a lot of things will change all at once. I hope I get to face that challenge someday. Even if I don't, though, I know that my life is worth living and that it's ok both to flounder and to hate the pain, as long as I keep living and learning through it all.]]>
It seems to make so much sense that a prospective patient should be able to meet or speak to a doctor before deciding to become an actual patient and be examined by them, doesn't it? So why is it not the way our medical community works?
Call up your doctor's receptionist and ask for an appointment to meet the doctor, just to talk. Such an appointment would probably only need something like a fifteen minute slot (you can say a lot in fifteen minutes) and no nurse or exam room at all – simply a few minutes with the doctor in their office or over the phone. Most likely you will be met with confusion at such a request and an "our office/Dr. Smith doesn't do that kind of thing" response.
Why is that? A doctor is someone who you'll need to share your most intimate secrets with. Who is really only going to be able to do their job well if you are comfortable with them and who you are only going to go see if you have no ambivalent feelings about. How are we, as patients, expected to form that kind of trust relationship so quickly with someone we aren't even really given the chance to meet?
Whenever I need a new doctor (which has been frequently in the last five years, as I have moved twice to new states and have a chronic condition that requires me to have a set of doctors at all times), I do research first and find a list of people who might be the right fit for me.
I have a pretty good idea at the point about what I'm looking for in each type of doctor that I need. My regular doctor has to be able to explain things clearly and simply to me, they have to respect me and my unusual issues (ideally, they will have heard of my condition before I walk into their office and mention it), and they have to be willing to work with my other doctors. On the other hand, my neurologist doesn't have to be able to explain things so well, but he or she does have to make me feel confident in the treatment I'm receiving, like they understand my specific condition and like they do not consider me a fascinating science experiment.
Once I've found a few possible candidates, I start making phone calls. I ask every receptionist if there is some time that I can call and speak to the doctor or if the doctor can give me a call back. Never has this question been answered in the affirmative. I'm starting to believe that doctors simply do not have telephones.
After that, I ask for an appointment to meet the doctor – one that will only consist of talking and will have no examination as part of the appointment. I have only once ever been told this was possible, and it still required me to go through the whole weighing/blood pressure/pulse/temperature thing as well as spend ten minutes discussing my medical history with a nurse. If I was only there to meet the doctor, why do I have to share every intimate detail of my life with some nurse I may never see again if I decide not to return to this office?
For nearly every doctor I have ever had I have had to start by making an exam appointment. While examining someone may be a perfectly amiable way to meet a person from the doctor's point of view, sitting there going through the "who are you and why should I trust you?" questions in my underwear is not a particularly good way to make me feel comfortable or inclined to return.
I don't feel like I'm crazy in wanting to get to have more agency and comfort when it comes to meeting and choosing a new doctor, either. A doctor is someone that I am expected to share every single intimate detail with, especially when something is going wrong, and someone that I am expected to be comfortable with looking at and touching every inch of my body, no matter how private or sensitive.
Is it so much to ask that I be able to speak to such a person before committing to this kind of relationship with them to make sure that I believe that I can trust them and feel respected by them, even when spread nearly naked on a table in front of them? I don't think that it is and I find the fact that our current medical establishment treats patients like such a thing is insane absolutely disgraceful. If there is anything that indicates a disrespect for the patient, it's this attitude that the patient doesn't even have the right to speak to a doctor and decide if they are comfortable before being expected to strip down and submit to whatever exam is recommended.]]>
*Please* can we get some books about scrappy poor girls with lots of character instead of an endless string of books about debutants and girls "suddenly thrown into the lap of luxury" and the like? They're fine once in a while, but I'm more than a little tired of a constant parade of "poor little rich girl" stories and photo covers with tacky prom dress-clad models (including many who are trying pretty pathetically to look historical in their tacky mall prom dresses).
Please, somebody go back and remember that some of the best stories have been about overcoming challenges that have nothing to do with pretentious boarding schools or arranged marriages to Venician dukes or not being able to get this season's "It" bag because your mother has decided to cancel your sixteen credit cards in a cruel and completely unwarranted bout of insanity.
Some of the best stories have had to do with overcoming hardships like finding ways to afford necessities, escaping enslavement or crushing prejudice, and coping with the basic and universal truths of growing up (achieving greater independence; increasing responsibilities; changing relationships with parents, siblings, friends and romantic interests; etc.). There are so many great stories that have *nothing* to do with being pretty and rich and privileged and some of those stories are so incredibly valuable.
Little Women has been a classic almost since the day it was published and the girls in that story have almost nothing. The book *starts* with a comment about there being no money for Christmas gifts and one of the most memorable moments in the book is Jo selling her hair to have money to pay for her mother's trip to nurse her sick father who has been away fighting in the Civil War. No riches here – just character building through family and life experience.
Today it seems like YA shelves are filled with series books about private academies with cute uniforms and too much money to spend on dances and teas, flouncy historical fictions about second daughters who need to marry rich men for vague reasons that are never fully explained and (inexplicably) normal girls who are suddenly thrown into lives of lavish wealth and excess for reasons that are somewhat unclear and probably don't matter anyway. Many of the books feel more like excuses to drop the names of designer labels or describe fancy parties with corseted women and dashing Darcy-clones than like actually interesting stories.
Most of us do not wear Chanel dresses to drink too much with our dreamy boyfriends and historical fiction tends to be more interesting when there's more to it than a couple of bratty girls in corsets flirting too much and trying to get proposed to fastest. Story matters and for a good story, you need conflict. I'm absolutely not saying that a rich girl can't have conflict enough in her life for a good story, but I'm afraid you're going to have to work a little harder to show it to me. A poor girl has conflict built into her daily life, even when her family and friends are as loving as can be.
Besides, I really want stories that illustrate that there's more to life than Dior dresses and making sure you have the handsomest guy on your arm for the party. I want characters with depth and personality, characters I can relate to and sometimes even aspire to be like, characters who I can learn from. I want more than fan fiction and ads for Vogue and everything in it.
There is so much possibility out there, please tell a more varied set of stories! I am tired of every cover having a fancy gown and every description including the words "incredible wealth" or "exclusive boarding school". Give me some public school girls, some scrappy inner city kids, some farm girls, maybe even some soldier girls and characters with *gasp* jobs at retail and food-service places. Give me stories about the kinds of people I see every day and the kinds of girl I might have been had I lived in another era.
From an avid reader]]>
Now, I don't have anything against Christian books or anything, but I liked that it was a more or less secular series that any kid could read and relate to. Now new titles are all about finding the Christian version of God, learning to pray and going to Sunday School.
I thought there were a few issues with the series before (the book where Momma decides to get a job is a particularly problematic title), but most of the time it did a good job of keeping Brother and Sister on equal footing without making them the same person and of respecting the feelings and troubles of children without vilifying their parents or teachers. That's (sadly) not something that I find nearly enough. I simply want to continue to be able to recommend and count on this series for those great qualities.
True, all those good titles are still there, but now almost every new title coming out (and new titles are often the ones that monopolize the shelves in bookstores) are these super religious ones. That's simply kind of disappointing. And I guess that's what I wanted to say about it today.]]>
Geeks are a somewhat insulated community and while they often trot out the "I've been persecuted" thing (and it's often something very real that they've experienced elsewhere), it's not something they are generally dealing with inside of that insulated community.
Geeks may have been picked on in high school, looked at funny or laughed at in college, etc., but when they are together as geeks they can appreciate each other's geekiness and generally don't pick on each other for it. Walk around GenCon and you'll see that for the most part, even strangers are sharing their love of whatever game or anime or science fiction series with each other, not laughing at each other for those very things.
Female geeks, however, are not afforded that same respect. They get treated like they don't understand the most basic of things, like they couldn't possibly appreciate the awesomeness or complexities of whatever it is they are passionate about and, often, like what they like is "cute" or somehow lesser than what "real" geeks like. Even when it isn't so explicit, there is a distinct feeling of being a second-class citizen within the community.
Female geeks often experience the very kinds of prejudice and outsiderness inside the community that the geek community so reviles when someone outside the community does it to one of them.
How is the pillar effect that girl geeks experience substantially different than when the popular crowd is nice to the nerd in high school in order to get homework help, but never really invites him to the parties or lets him sit at their lunch table?]]>
"But we don't have to vote for him."
Robinson said "Do you mean to say that you are not going to vote for him?"
"Yes," I said, "that is what I mean to say. I am not going to vote for him."
The others began to find their voices. They sang the same note. They said that when a party's representatives choose a man, that ends it. If they choose unwisely it is a misfortune, but no loyal member of the party has any right to withhold his vote. He has a plain duty before him and he can't shirk it. He must vote for that nominee.
I said that no party held the privilege of dictating to me how I should vote. That if party loyalty was a form of patriotism, I was no patriot, and that I didn't think I was much of a patriot anyway, for oftener than otherwise what the general body of Americans regarded as the patriotic course was not in accordance with my views; that if there was any valuable difference between being an American and a monarchist it lay in the theory that the American could decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't; whereas the king could dictate the monarchist's patriotism for him—a decision which was final and must be accepted by the victim; that in my belief I was the only person in the sixty millions—with Congress and the Administration back of the sixty millions—who was privileged to construct my patriotism for me.
They said "Suppose the country is entering upon a war—where do you stand then? Do you arrogate to yourself the privilege of going your own way in the matter, in the face of the nation?"
"Yes," I said, "that is my position. If I thought it an unrighteous war I would say so. If I were invited to shoulder a musket in that cause and march under that flag, I would decline. I would not voluntarily march under this country's flag, nor any other, when it was my private judgment that the country was in the wrong. If the country obliged me to shoulder the musket I could not help myself, but I would never volunteer. To volunteer would be the act of a traitor to myself, and consequently traitor to my country. If I refused to volunteer, I should be called a traitor, I am well aware of that—but that would not make me a traitor. The unanimous vote of the sixty millions could not make me a traitor. I should still be a patriot, and, in my opinion, the only one in the whole country."
Twain's autobiography is fantastic and I highly recommend it (although it's also heavy, so be careful not to drop it on yourself, it could probably break a foot without too much trouble!). This passage is one of the most brilliant ones I've come across and I simply had to share it.]]>
There have already been some great illustrations of this with Starfire (this article and this comic, for example) and others. I think that DC has forgotten that there are more readers in the world than the ones they have been writing for over the last several decades. The comics world is constantly in need of more money, more sales, more readers. And those readers are out there – the appeal of their characters is far more widespread than the sales of their comics would suggest. The numbers of viewers of the animated shows and the big-budget movies and the popularity of the videogames based on their properties are orders of magnitude higher than the numbers of readers of their comics. It doesn't take a business genius to see that the customers are there, they simply aren't being reached through the comic book medium.
And those cartoon and movie viewers, those videogamers are all kinds of people – some fall into that white, male pool that the average comic book readers fall into, but there are so much more than that. There are women and people of both genders who are not white and kids and more. And those consumers represent a huge amount of revenue. Comic book shops are always struggling, right? Well, if they could get some of that revenue that they have not attracted before maybe they wouldn't be struggling so much. Women represent half the population, but only a small fraction of the comic-book buying population. But as a woman I can tell you that when I pick up a comic book, even as a life-long comic book reader, I'm frequently stunned by how violently I feel the message "THIS IS NOT FOR YOU". That's the message that Starfire gives to women. She always has had that problem, but is doing so even more in this new incarnation.
For me, the character that drew me to superhero comics the most as a kid was Batgirl because she was a strong girl who chose to be a heroine and then worked to become one, sans superpowers. But what kept me reading superhero comics, as opposed to completely giving them up in favor of other types of stories that were not as likely to scream "THIS IS NOT FOR YOU" at me from the covers and nearly every page, was Oracle.
Oracle was something special. Something beyond capes and tights. She still didn't have any superpowers (most superpowers would have allowed her to get up out of that chair, whether it was to stand on her feet or fly in the air or something else), but she still managed to be a hero from her wheelchair. And how many disabled heroes are there in the comic book world? The only other one I can think of is Professor X from the X-Men, although it seems like there must have been others over the last century.
Oracle was able to become a powerful character in her own right, completely without borrowing from the mantle of one of the more famous (male) characters, with only her intelligence and willpower. Being paralyzed let her character develop in new and interesting ways that few comic book characters ever get to. She worked hard to overcome the pain and loss (although, realistically, that pain was never completely gone), mastering a new fighting form she could do from her wheelchair, but even more importantly, she found a whole new way to fight the good fight without needing a costume at all.
To me, she was a woman who was able to be powerful and heroic without having to also be a sexy pin-up and by being smart instead of having to have the ability to kick her heels up over her head. The idea of a woman who could be heroic without having to be able to show off her breasts and her butt at the same time was very appealing and the image of a woman who was saving the world by being really smart and doing research was even more appealing. I also found the idea that even in a world with invulnerable people and shapeshifters, some pain and some injuries could not be healed to make the DC Universe something that I am more able to relate to. If everyone is invulnerable and no injury is permanent, then what's the point?
Apparently DC doesn't see it that way, though. They have gotten rid of Oracle. That and other changes make me, a life-long reader of DC comics (seriously, I have boxes full of comic books dating back to when I was a kid and even some scavenged from my dad's childhood collection), ready to give up. I give in. DC Comics, you win. I got the message. Maybe it took nearly 30 years for me to get it, but I finally got it. DC Comics are not for me. And as sad as it makes me that you don't want my readership and my money, or, apparently, women readers and their money in general, I've been trying too hard for too long to get past all of the "NOT FOR YOU" messages. All of the T and A pin-ups. All of the stories with powerless women needing saving or women being destroyed so that male characters would have motivation for a few issues until they forgot all about the women who died for them. I give up. Apparently even in 2011, there is room for a boy's club and I guess it's time for me to read that "No Girls Allowed" sign posted out front.
Related Articles:
- The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality'
- Oracle is Stronger than Batgirl will Ever Be
- No More Mutants: 52 Problems
- A Response from a Female Comic Book Fan
- Dear DC Comics
- Comics Should Be For Everyone
- Lois Lane, Girl Reporter (Read this one and think about what DC gave up by rejecting this amazing idea!)
Chapter 16: The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Next morning the Scarecrow said to her friends:
"Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I return I shall be as other women are."
"I have always liked you as you were," said Donald simply.
"It is kind of you to like a Scarecrow," she replied. "But surely you will think more of me when you hear the splendid thoughts my new brain is going to turn out." Then she said good-bye to them all in a cheerful voice and went to the Throne Room, where she rapped upon the door.
"Come in," said Oz.
The Scarecrow went in and found the little woman sitting down by the window, engaged in deep thought.
"I have come for my brains," remarked the Scarecrow, a little uneasily.
"Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please," replied Oz. "You must excuse me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their proper place."
"That's all right," said the Scarecrow. "You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again."
So the Wizard unfastened her head and emptied out the straw. Then she entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which she mixed with a great many pins and needles. Having shaken them together thoroughly, she filled the top of the Scarecrow's head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.
When she had fastened the Scarecrow's head on her body again she said to her, "Hereafter you will be a great woman, for I have given you a lot of bran-new brains."
The Scarecrow was both pleased and proud at the fulfillment of her greatest wish, and having thanked Oz warmly she went back to her friends.
Donald looked at her curiously. Her head was quite bulged out at the top with brains.
"How do you feel?" he asked.
"I feel wise indeed," she answered earnestly. "When I get used to my brains I shall know everything."
"Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?" asked the Tin Woodwoman.
"That is proof that she is sharp," remarked the Lion.
"Well, I must go to Oz and get my heart," said the Woodwoman. So she walked to the Throne Room and knocked at the door.
"Come in," called Oz, and the Woodwoman entered and said, "I have come for my heart."
"Very well," answered the little woman. "But I shall have to cut a hole in your breast, so I can put your heart in the right place. I hope it won't hurt you."
"Oh, no," answered the Woodwoman. "I shall not feel it at all."
So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith's shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodwoman's breast. Then, going to a chest of drawers, she took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
"Isn't it a beauty?" she asked.
"It is, indeed!" replied the Woodwoman, who was greatly pleased. "But is it a kind heart?"
"Oh, very!" answered Oz. She put the heart in the Woodwoman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.
"There," said she; "now you have a heart that any woman might be proud of. I'm sorry I had to put a patch on your breast, but it really couldn't be helped."
"Never mind the patch," exclaimed the happy Woodwoman. "I am very grateful to you, and shall never forget your kindness."
"Don't speak of it," replied Oz.
Then the Tin Woodwoman went back to her friends, who wished her every joy on account of her good fortune.
The Lion now walked to the Throne Room and knocked at the door.
"Come in," said Oz.
"I have come for my courage," announced the Lion, entering the room.
"Very well," answered the little woman; "I will get it for you."
She went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which she poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved. Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if she did not like it, the Wizard said:
"What is it?" asked the Lion.
"Well," answered Oz, "if it were inside of you, it would be courage. You know, of course, that courage is always inside one; so that this really cannot be called courage until you have swallowed it. Therefore I advise you to drink it as soon as possible."
The Lion hesitated no longer, but drank till the dish was empty.
"How do you feel now?" asked Oz.
"Full of courage," replied the Lion, who went joyfully back to her friends to tell them of her good fortune.
Oz, left to herself, smiled to think of her success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodwoman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted. "How can I help being a humbug," she said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done? It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodwoman happy, because they imagined I could do anything. But it will take more than imagination to carry Donald back to Kansas, and I'm sure I don't know how it can be done."]]>


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Dixie: DEALS FOR CRUISERS!
Check this page often for incredible deals on Dixie edibles throughout the 2015 Cruisers Season at your favorite local centers. All centers are within close proximity to the official start locations, making it easy for you to pick up our handcrafted treats prior each bike party! A little about Dixie
6/17 Ride brought to you by NORTHERN LIGHTS
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Ride Bikes to Lodo Bites?
LoDo Bites: June 16, 2015 • 5-9pm A great opportunity to skip the car, and eat your heart out through Denver's oldest neighborhood! LoDo Bites gives guests the opportunity to try over 20 restaurants. Grab a bite, have some conversation, repeat! This is the perfect way for folks to try new restaurants or see
Welcome Two-Wheel Feel
We're super excited to see the old Collins Bicycle on Colfax become Two-Wheel Feel! Locally-owned and operated, this new bike shop is hosting their Grand Opening on June 6th @ 6p! Hope you can make it! check out their Facebook page here: TWO-WHEEL FEEL 3217 E. Colfax 303.284.9921


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A photographic story of the formidable Mc Donnell Douglas Phantom II in USAF service.
Aviation enthusiast always around air bases and air show to take great pictures.
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oxcart says
Thanks for comment.About a WW book,maybe this will be a future project.Currently I am working on a Century Series book.
posted at 09:48AM Apr 18 PST
rhino561 says I wish you would do a book of F-4 wild weasel phantoms . That would be outstanding
posted at 11:26AM Apr 14 PST
rhino561 says Outstanding photos of the phantom.
posted at 11:16AM Apr 14 PST
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