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- October 26, 2012
A PLAN to fix train doors has not been developed more than a year after the issue was raised, the transport safety regulator says.
Transport Safety Victoria has placed a condition on train operator Metro's accreditation: repair the doors on 96 Comeng trains from 2017 when the first train reaches the 35-year life expectancy or replace them.
It comes after TSV issued a safety notice to the Transport Department in September last year requiring the doors be fixed as they can be opened while the train is moving.
The issue was also highlighted in a scathing Ombudsman's report tabled in Parliament yesterday, which told how the City Loop was a ticking time bomb and blasted Transport Department officials who got seven reports over 11 years but taken "little effective action" to fix problems.
TSV acting director rail safety Andrew Doery said the regulator wanted a "funded, committed plan" to fix the problem, estimated by Metro to cost $12.9 million.
"We've seen no program to rectify the doors," Mr Doery said.
Opposition transport spokeswoman Fiona Richardson said the failure to order the 54 trains called for in Metro's strategic operations plan meant TSV had to force the Government to fix unsafe doors and called on Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder to ensure commuters' safety.
"The Minister was either too weak or too incompetent to ensure that the budget provided for the purchase of additional trains and now commuters are paying the price," she said.
Metro and Mr Mulder said the trains were safe and issues only happened when people boarded as doors closed or forced them open.
"We are currently working closely with TSV and Public Transport Victoria to find a solution," Metro spokesman Daniel Hoare said.
Mr Mulder said: "Passengers must act responsibly and not try to board any train when the train driver is closing the doors, or force open the doors."
PTV spokesman David Stockman said it was not anticipated the life of the Comeng trains would be extended.
Acting ombudsman John Taylor's report came after a whistleblower alleged the Loop's emergency tunnels were in poor condition, it had no anti-terrorism plan, Flinders St Station lacked an effective fire plan, drivers lacked safety skills and under-reported near misses and the rail operator diverted safety funding.
Mr Taylor said PTV had implemented a comprehensive works plan to fix problems highlighted.
Metro chief executive Andrew Lezala said the rail network was safe and most maintenance work was expected to be finished by December.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The board that oversees the health
insurance program for state employees has decided not to raise
rates for active state employees.
But the State Employees Insurance Board did vote Wednesday to
raise monthly rates by $15 for early retirees who aren't 65 and
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Australia Defeats Pakistan by 150 Runs in First Test at Lord's
Australia defeated Pakistan by 150 runs in their first Test at Lord's in London as Marcus North took six wickets today. Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said he would retire from Test cricket when the series finishes.
Pakistan, which was the considered the hosts of the match, were all out for 289 after a collapse that started when Umar Akmal was caught by Michael Clarke on 22 off a ball from North just before lunch. That left Pakistan on 216-4 in the 64th over, and they didn't last another 30.
"It was a good win," Australia captain Ricky Ponting said after the match, according to Cricinfo.com. "We had to look at different ways to get wickets. You have to adapt your game in these conditions."
Australia set Pakistan 440 to win after being bowled out for 334 yesterday. Simon Katich was top scorer with 83. Australia reached 253 in its first innings, while Pakistan was held to 148.
The hosts reached 150-1 in the run chase as Salman Butt and Azhar Ali shared a 102-run partnership for the third wicket, but Butt's dismissal signaled the beginning of a collapse. Marcus North, who is primarily considered a batsman, took six wickets for 55 runs in 18.1 overs, his best figures in test cricket.
"I injured my side in the Asia Cup and I'm still struggling," Afridi said in an interview with Sky Sports. "I can't carry it in Test cricket, where you need to be at full fitness. I'm enjoying one-day and Twenty20 so I'll concentrate on that. It's very difficult playing Tests after four years so it's better to leave this cricket."
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There's a new Google doodle, and it may be the most fun we've had with Google yet.
Google's logo has been transformed into an ice rink – and an entertaining game.
Click the play button on the centre of the logo to begin the game, and then watch as skaters twirl and play hockey on the ice.
Using your arrow keys you then control a machine that cleans the scuffmarks on the ice – but make sure you get it all done before you run out of petrol.
You can collect fuel cans, coffee pots and ice creams to boost your petrol levels and earn bonus points. But avoid the banana peels, which slow you down. There are also mystery objects – who knows what effect they will have?
The doodle marks what would have been the 112th birthday of American inventor and entrepreneur Frank Zamboni.
Zamboni was best known for inventing the ice resurfacing machine in Los Angeles in 1949, the inspiration of today's game. Zamboni died in 1988.
Since the invention of the Zamboni resurfacing machine, used to clean ice rinks, more than 10, 000 machines have been sold.
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Credit is the ultimate double edge sword. On one hand it makes it possible for people to start businesses, invest in new ideas, by houses, etc. One the other hand it makes it possible for people to buy big screen TVs, Cadillacs, and fancy wine.
the trick is to balance interest and availability such that good investment is encouraged while bad investment is minimized. Unfortunately thats not what we have done.
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Perhaps most unfortunately, industry had grown in response to this increased activity. If we were to cut back to more reasonable levels of purchase that would result in a reduction in demand and a therefore a shrinkage of required labor and outlays. The problem with that is that it would result in layoffs and the termination of small business creating unemployment. The people unemployed would then be unable to make the payments on their debts further exacerbating the financial problems.
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Ford EcoSport 2013-2015 1.5 Titanium
Ford EcoSport 2013-2015 1.5 Titanium PriceRs. 8,70,400
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Ford has done it again. The Figo made its world debut in India and the same happened for the all-new EcoSport, a compact urban SUV that will go on sale for the domestic market in a couple of months' time. This new compact SUV will start and give birth to an all-new segment in India and brings along the most advanced level of design, quality and sustainability in its class to attract new generations of customers. The EcoSport was shown at the auto expo and was one of the stars of the show.
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Ford EcoSport 2013-2015 1.5 Titanium Specifications
Dimension & Weights
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|3999 mm
|Overall Width
|1765 mm
|Overall Height
|1708 mm
|Ground Clearance
|200 mm
|140 Nm @ 4400 rpm
|1499 cc
|No of Cylinders
Fuel Efficiency
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|1.5 Ambiente
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By gurpreet singh Posted on Sep,09,26 2:01 AM
Pros Great Looks,Good Performance,Great Interiors,Fuel Efficiency,Comfort,
Cons CongestedUncomfortable,
I brought home my car. However, better late than never, here it is. I know by now almost all points are covered and discussed elsewhere, but I will put my review anyway. Let me start with quick likes and dislikes Likes Looks. Good ride and handling. Peppy engine, very good acceleration. Equipment in Titanium including the Sync. Good brakes. Dislikes Not a great gear box. Gear ratios could have been better, requires too much downshifting. Too sensitive steering. Tyres are not great (Goodyear). This car does deserve better ones. I took my car from Lathangi Ford. Booking experience at Lathangi Ford was good. I was neither expecting the car to arrive in a week's time of my booking nor was I prepared to take it. But eventually heart ruled over the head and I took my allotment. Overall had good experience with Lathangi. However, on the delivery day I felt the executive who was giving me demo was learning the Sync along with me. I told him to skip it, I'd learn it on my own.
By Harry Posted on Sep,09,24 11:01 AM
Pros Great Looks,Good Performance,Great Interiors,
Cons Average Fuel Efficiency,
Hi Guys, I am using Ford Ecosport from last one Month. I have done 2000 Km till now. Want to share my experience with you guys. I have the Petrol Titanium Model of Ecosport. The Looks of the car is excellent, that attracts the person and the prerformance is excellent along with its look. Steering and Clutch is very light if you compare the car in its segment. Handling is superb. Mileage on Highway is good, i got 15 on Highway, but unfortunately getting 12 in city condition, as my first service is due, so may be it will increase after that. If i overall rate this car by seeing its feature and comfart, driving pleasure, i will give 8 out of 10. No doubt it is value for money. rival are also increasing day by day, as Terrain is about to launch, but that cannot break its market as its prize will be bit higher than its Sibling Duster. So guys donot think twice and go for Ford Ecosport.Its the best in its segment.Real value for money
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HI, I have looked at Showroom and really it is Owesome. price quility and new style..star in this price at present can say.
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Cons Average Fuel Efficiency,
Took test ride on rough roads ,rural area near panvel. Had trip with friends. Car looks great ,mini duster look macho. The extra tyre at back gives robust look.interiors are up to mark. Lot of Space inside, power steering is awesome. Good mileage. Boot space comfy.lot of space for luggage at back. Shock absorbers were great on bumpy roads. Looks sporty and big. Value for money.
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Barclays to Open London Precious Metals Vault on Demand Jump
Barclays Capital will open a precious metals vault in London next year as demand for assets boosted investors' holdings and pushed prices to a record.
The facility may be operational by next summer, the bank confirmed in a statement. It's joining The Brink's Co., which opened a vault in London earlier this year and is considering building another facility.
Gold is set for an 11th straight annual gain, the longest winning streak since at least 1920, as investors have shunned equities and some currencies amid concern about slowing economic growth and debt crises. Investors own 2,145.2 metric tons of the metal in exchange-traded products, more than all but four central banks, who are expanding reserves for the first time in a generation. Silver prices more than tripled since 2008.
"The desire to hold physical gold is on the rise" as bar demand increases and central banks turn net-buyers, said Andrey Kryuchenkov, an analyst at VTB Capital in London. "Increasing demand for physical gold would see demand for storage space as well."
Gold for immediate delivery reached a record $1,921.15 an ounce on Sept. 6 and traded at $1,776.80 by 11:22 a.m. in London, set for a 25 percent gain this year. Silver was at $39.8250 an ounce. It reached a record $49.79 on April 25. Both metals outperformed global equities, commodities and Treasuries this year, sending the value of precious metals held in ETPs to $144.8 billion. Silver ETP assets are at 14,215.1 tons.
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Barclays is building the vault "in response to client demand," it said. "This is part of our long-term commitment to the bullion market."
U.K. gold vaults are traditionally located within the area bounded by the M25 road that orbits London, the London Bullion Market Association website shows. The gold stored in such vaults is typically to the LBMA's so-called good delivery standard, where bars are of 99.5 percent fineness and include serial number, refiner assay and manufacture year marks.
Demand for gold and silver accelerated as the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to a record low and governments and central banks boosted spending to support the economy. The U.S. central bank has taken the unprecedented step of saying it will keep borrowing costs near zero at least through mid-2013, while European policy makers are trying to stop the region's debt crisis from worsening.
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Gold may rise above $2,000 this year as bar purchases jump 24 percent and central banks increase buying this year to 336 tons, up from 77 tons last year, London-based researcher Thomson Reuters GFMS said yesterday. It's not only bar demand that is increasing. The U.S. Mint sold 112,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins last month, the most since January, data on the mint's website show.
The metal's rally shows no signs of a "bubble" as central banks continue to boost money supply and as declining equities and weakening currencies will support demand, Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, said in a Sept. 5 interview from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Speculative buying had pushed the market into a "bubble that is poised to burst," Wells Fargo & Co. analysts said in a report last month.
Brink's' above-ground vault that it opened this year took almost two years to build, according to the LBMA, which visited the facility in April. The bullion carrier services banks, trading houses, institutions and retail investors, governments and ETP sponsors.
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Dunedin business director Cleave Hay was appointed by the
ministry in January as limited statutory manager for the
school after a breakdown in board of trustees' relationships
late last year.
Former board chairman Richard Cubie resigned from the role in
December, citing the school's handling of parent complaints
as the reason, but remained as a board member.
Local policeman Mike Thomas was appointed the new chairman
last month.
In the latest school newsletter, Mr Hay said that after
completing the scoping period of his appointment and sending
his first report to the ministry, he wanted to share with the
school community part of the report's executive summary.
''Wanaka Primary School has long been recognised as a
high-performing school with very strong leadership, staff and
programmes; a safe and effective learning environment for its
500-plus students and staff,'' Mr Hay wrote.
''This, in my opinion and observations, is still the case and
I see no immediate risk to student engagement, progress and
achievement outcomes. The board of trustees, principal and
all staff are focused on the students and ensuring they are
well equipped for their future.''
He said recent breakdowns in relationships at governance
level needed all parties to work together to re-establish an
environment of trust.
''There are issues at the board table but I do not consider
them irreconcilable if all persons commit to correct process
and relationships with their shared vision for the
Mr Hay told the Otago Daily Times his work at the
school to date had been predominantly with the board and
principal Wendy Bamford.
He reiterated his belief that the issues identified should
not have ''any effect on the classrooms''.
Disaffected parents at the school were a minority, he said.
''There are some disgruntled people, but the majority of
people aren't. So it's really looking at what issues are
there amongst the smaller numbers and are they of any major
consequence or not?"
At a school the size of Wanaka Primary School, it would be
impossible to keep everyone happy, ''but that doesn't mean we
don't address matters'', he said.
Mr Hay would now spend up to 20 hours a month implementing an
action plan to help resolve the issues.
Providing ''everyone pulls together'', his involvement would
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We are trying to set up some virtual Fibre Channel HBA's in Solaris. This seems to be possible with NPIV. Creating NPIV's in a Solaris global zone works fine, but passing that NPIV to a zone didn't work at all. We tried to pass the NPIV as following:
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Skip to comments.Plane Bomber Was Anti-War Activist in London (Freeper Research Thread)
Posted on 12/29/2009 5:44:58 PM PST by kristinn
Keying off an article in the UK Times Online about Northwest Airlines flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab organizing an antiwar seminar called "War on Terror Week", I did some quick research before the links get scrubbed.
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According to isocnews.com, an online magazine for Muslim students, War on Terror Week at University College London was one of the events of the year in 2007. There was a slick video advertisement for the event, an eye-catching poster and packed lecture theatres for five days of discussions about Guantánamo Bay, allegations of torture and the subject of Jihad v Terrorism.
The website reported the week of talks as informative, relevant and always entertaining the audience got involved with a good mixture of Muslim and non-Muslim attendees asking tough questions of the speakers. In a corner of the poster, the event is declared to have been approved by Umar Farook, president of UCLU Islamic Society. The speakers advertised included George Galloway, the Respect MP; Geoffrey Bindman, the human rights lawyer; and former Guantánamo Bay detainees.
The Nigerian student who organised War on Terror Week in January 2007 is now better known as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be suicide bomber who tried to blow up a transatlantic airliner last week.
Mr Galloway said last night that he did not attend any of the events in War on Terror Week and had no record in his parliamentary diary of any contact with UCL Islamic Society. Mr Bindman, a visiting professor at UCL, said that he could not recall the event or meeting Mr Abdulmutallab.
Little Green Footballs ran a thread about it back then and saved the promo poster:
In the lower left hand corner one can see "approved by Umar Farouk..."
Here's a larger version hosted at imageshack.us from the Ummah.com thread about War on Terror Week:
Umar and his pals at UCL Islamic Society were savvy enough to put a video up on YouTube at the UCLU channel promoting the event.
Click here to view video.
The Islamic Society's partner in War on Terror Week, UCL Union Stop the War Society, posted six pictures at their Web site from the event. Here are two:
The UCL Islamic Society was pretty excited about the event. They posted at their Web site about a big pre-WOTW night out on the town:
Night out 2 Pandoos!
Well before the intensity of the War on Terror hits us, we felt the need to organise a night out and what better way to relax and enjoy yourselves than to, chill, sit back and enjoy some good halal food! Add to that the fact that it will be discounted heavily and your in for a right treat! For £5, you'll get half a chicken, chips and a drink, and this isn't just any old chicken, it's a Pandoos chicken!
To join us as we chill ISoc style, be sure to meet us at 5pm outside Bloomsbury Theatre (Gordon Street) and we'll make our way to the infamous Brick Lane.
Date: Friday 26th January (i.e. Tonight)
Time: 5:00pm
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Restaurant: Pandoos (Brick Lane)
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That a terrorist would emerge from the antiwar movement is no surprise to those who are paying attention. Obama's pal Bill Ayers went from anti-war activist to terrorist in a short time.
The modern antiwar movement in America works hand in hand with Islamic terrorists and, like the Stop the War Society, works with radical 'Islamic Societies.'
The antiwar movement has one other tie to Umar the bomber. He claims he went to Yemen to study Arabic. Funny, so did this character with Iraq Veterans Against the War:
From the Yemen Times, 2008
A former U.S. Navy lieutenant has been living in Sanaa for seven months, having resigned in protest from serving in Iraq. Harvey Tharp was a full lieutenant in the U.S. Navy when he was called to serve in Iraq due to his knowledge of the Arabic language. Upon his departure from Yemen, he spoke to The Yemen Times about the moral challenges he faced, which led to the ending of his military career, and what he learned from his time spent with Yemeni people.
What will you do when you return to the U.S.?
Im a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. As the only officer who has joined, Im the highest ranked. When I was in military school, I was taught that if you find yourself completely alone in your stance, youre probably wrong. This time, though, I dont think Im wrong.
Im going to Washington, D.C. for the winter soldier hearings from March 13-16. Fifty members from the Iraq Veterans Against the War will testify to war crimes they witnessed or even participated in and Ill be there in support.
Why did you come to Yemen?
Due to my time in Iraq, I developed post-traumatic stress disorder, so Im unable to work and I have some spare time. I wanted to improve my Arabic to see if I could get back into translating and I heard that the Yemeni dialect is very close to standard Arabic, as well as that it seemed like a very interesting place to visit.
Who are you going to vote for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election?
Im disappointed that Barack Obama who campaigned against the war from the start hasnt committed to pulling troops out of Iraq immediately. However, hes the best anti-war candidate, so Ill vote for him.
Let me be clear, I'm not accusing Harvey Tharp of being a terrorist. I'm just pointing out that he went to Yemen, of all places, to study Arabic just like Umar the bomber. Just a coincidence that two antiwar activists go to Yemen, that's all.
P.S., here is the You Tube video by the UCL Islamic Society for Justice Week 2008. Nice of them to do it in English for us.
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Antiwar protests are a dime a dozen, but that title raises my eyebrows. "War On Terror Week"?!?
No worries, the CIA has been on it since August.
Good God. It's just like the 60's. Mirror image.
Thank you for the information!!!!
Once again, I just want to say I want to be you when i grow up. Excellent work!
I wonder what his DU name was.
Thank you, Kristinn. Great find! Someone should alert Drudge to this.
We've seen this crap before from John "Hanoi Boi" Kerry's "winter soldiers". Every one was proven to be a liar and a fraud. I imagine this will be the same all over again. If they do testify to committing "war crimes", they should immediately be arrested and handed over to their pals in the World Kangaroo Court. They can have them.
Fifth Column to the Core! Definite National Security risks.
Seems it's always the "anti-war" and "social justice" types that are always the first to resort to violence and infringing on the rights of others. You see this constantly, whether it's the underpants bomber or in the U.S. on campus or in the media.
Thanks for the heads up. Save to disk.
Only VC sappers weren't shoving explosives up their rectums and boarding commercial airliners....... It took the muslims to combine an 8th century mentality with 20th century technology to give us these results....
Now if only we could use American ingenuity to combine Robespierre's guillotine with Henry Ford's (dis)assembly line.
Excellent thread, kristinn.
A FReeper on another thread wondered how Abdulmutallab was able to obtain the particular seat he got on the flight. (Sorry, I can't remember who or what thread.)
That is a very interesting question I think, considering he paid cash for a last-minute booking. Was it "luck" for him to get a seat right over the gas tank or did a co-conspirator book that seat and then cancel at the last minute to make it possible for Abdulmutallab to then occupy that seat?
They have a different definition of tolerance than people who desire true peace and justice.
"No worries, the CIA has been on it since August".
An officer in the U.S. Navy? He looks like a grade school girl.
Great find! Umar has been actively anti-U.S. for at least three years.
And he was left off the no-fly list?
The INSANITY of the TERRORIST ATTACKS we are now experiencing and will cost many, many more American civilian lives — can be laid at the feet of earlier DEMOCRATS! Does any sane person think these NEW Democrats will solve the problem, especially a party headed by a president born of a muslim father and raised in muslim cultures?
Heres the story.
Back around 1975, DEMOCRAT (who woulda guessed?) Idaho Senator Frank Church held hearings on the operation of the CIA and found that — HORRORS — taxpayer money was being paid to foreign citizen snitches with CRIMINAL RECORDS for vital human, on-the-ground intel on the activities of those who were planning the destruction of this country. Church commented at one session that "Gentlemen do not read other gentlemens mail." Interesting how Church and his fellow Dimocraps viewed men who would destroy America gentlemen. Glad that a**hole didn't serve during the run-up to WWII. (Although he may have handled the "delayed" communication to Pearl Harbor that the Japanese were on the way!)
When he became president, Jimmy Carter fully supported and enforced the Church Amendment.
The sorts of people who consort with — and, more importantly, get cozy with — the leaders of terrorist organizations are not normally choir boys. Church moved the legislature to PROHIBIT any US funds going to these potential informants. Since it can take upwards of 20 years for these guys to move close enough to the top to be seriously valuable, we had virtually NO humintel on bin Laden's plans for 9-11!
While there are still Church-like imbeciles (Reid, Pelosi, et al come to mind) at the levers of power here, I THINK the law has been changed.
While the NSA wiretaps and eavesdrops on US citizens HERE, isn't it comforting to know that while the TSA is inspecting grandmas bloomers — in just 15 or 20 years we may be able to thwart a plan hatched THERE for some future 9-11 with information gathered THERE.
Now our guys are required to MERANDIZE enemy combatants NOT wearing uniforms and displaying NO recognizable military patches, etc., etc., all of which, de facto, removes them from the protections afforded under the Geneva Convention. In past conflicts, the Geneva Convention permits the capturing forces to shoot these guys on the spot. Of course, any trooper caught doing that would be up on charges in the morning.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
The morons now leading (and I use that term very loosely) the United States have finally achieved something I thought impossible: Theyve tied BOTH our hands behind our backs. They will get MILLIONS of us KILLED before they are removed from office hopefully in 2010 and 12.
Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.
The MADNESS continues. Surely, our destruction awaits.
Am I alone in believing that that is PRECISELY what Obama and his radical leftist Chicago thugs want?
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What the hell could that Navy LT have possibly done in Iraq to get PTSD? It looks more to me like he got caught up in the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy re homos on "Man-Love Thursday" in that part of the world.
You're absolutely right. I was a teen during the 60's. Hated what was happening to the country then and here we are once again. History DOES repeat itself when the wrong people are in charge.
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Excellent work. The left-wing has continually forged a war campaign against America on three flanks:
1.) Wage a continual campaign against the moral argument for any action taken by the United States to defend itself for it's enemies. (The anti-war movement, and anti-Bush movement.)
2.) Wage a continual campaign in support of the rights of the enemy. ( Close Gimto, give terrorist's Consitutional rights, protect enemy communications across our borders, and too many more to list )
3.) Actively support the enemy. (The human shields, Code Pink, democrat members of Congress standing side by side with Saddam, liberal lawyers defending terrorists and even getting arrested for suppoting them, and this list is now growing as well)
Years and years ago I thought of writing a book called "The Sleeper Cell Party" about the democrats. Every year the book could be growing the more we learn. In every way the left-wing never ceases to show their hatred of America.
Entertaining??? Words are really failing me at this point. Is it too much for me to ask our government to keep us safe?
These are not anti-war activists like Quackers. They are activists for Militant Islam. They are members of the enemy camp. They are not against war. They are against the US from winning this war.
And the democrats are for America winning this war?
What rock have you been hiding under?
Excellent work Kristinn, thank you.
And deeper!
I wonder if they have pictures of him with Bill Clinton burning the American flag?
When is America going to learn that you don't put someone in the Whitehouse who hates our country and freedoms!
The article was about our enemy in the UK. In regards to the Democrat Party in the US we agree. I believe the main reason the insurgency lasted so long in Iraq is that Democrat hacks in Congress gave the enemy hope that they might win. If jerks like Durbin had stood at Pres. Bush's side instead of undermining him at every opportunity, the enemy in Iraq would have been finished by 2005.
I wonder what the State controlled media would be saying if a couple of liberal Senators had been on that plane..
I am aware of this and they correspond with VVAW and VVAW&AI who still exis and are quite active. The black guy you see heading up the demonstrations in Europe is a guy named Darnell Summers. He attempts to be active with the troops but they just laugh at him. He spent his Vietnam tour in the stockade at Long Binh Jail. Drop them all a line and give them a piece of your mind. It makes a difference when you do that. THEY DO NOT LIKE IT. 13 posted on 12/26/2004 3:27:21 AM PST by U S Army EOD
The crotch bomber Abdulmutallab's & Ft Hood shooter major Hasan's & and 9/11 hijackers' helper, Imam al Awlaki / al Aulaqi, is a protege of Yemeni Imam al Zindani, who founded a university in Yemen.
al Zindani also was on the board of a front organization that funds both Hamas and the families of palestinian suicide bombers that is called the "Union of Good."
The head of the "Union of Good" is al Qaradawi, a Hamas supporter who was barred from the USA in 1999 but who was, along with Abdurahman Alamoudi [of Hillary's AMC fundraiding fame], involved with the Islamic Society of Boston and the big mosque they wanted to build which received a good deal of help in land deals with the city of Boston.
"Union of Good" is also financed by a charity called "Interpal" in the UK, designated as a terrorist group supporting Hamas back in 2003.
FReepin' FANTASTIC! Thanks, kristinn. Bump-To-The-Truth!
Glad we 100% agree.
Sorry about my second comment then. I should post a little more respectful and make sure I know another posters position.
It is amazing how the democrats (and their left-wing base) are able to get way with outright treason.
I am sure that the MSM or that any left-wing politicians will not address any of the close ties between the anti-war left and terrorism.
Saddam Hussein even thanked the anti-war left in his final letter before hanging.
I rooted in DU for awhile, and most of them sure hate what Ridge said about how to treat this guy. No wonder!! He's so much one of them.
A true antiwar movement would condemn the actions of all parties in the war, not just the West.
It was an antiAmerican war protest.
I don't question their patriotism, I just point out that their allegiance is to the nation of theocratic-political Islam, not whatever Western nation they may reside in.
PS it is decidedly a PRO-war act to wage jihad against 300 civilian on a jet airliner on Christmas day.
Syria, Iraq and Yemen are all bases for the socialist Baath Party most people just associate with Saddam Hussein. In Yemen the Baath Party motto is, no surprise: "Medical Treatment for All", and "Education for All."
The way I am reading the Poster..it is meant to mean we are the terror.
After being born and living in the UK, George Galoway needs to have his MP rights revoked. It is a shame how my old country allows promotion of terror in Universities where tax payers help pay the wages of both the speakers and building. Liberal heaven!
Thread bump and thank you Kristinn.
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Thank you for the ping mojo114.
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I spend a lot of time skipping around publishers' websites, and lately I have been surprised at how difficult it can be to find even basic information about a comic. As a comics blogger, I naturally use these sites a lot, but it also seems to me that comics readers are an independent lot and providing them with as much information as possible would be an excellent way to market your book. And yet…
So for the benefit of any publishers (or would-be publishers) that are out there, here is what I really, really want to see on your website. And I'll finish on a positive note, I promise, with an examples of websites that get it right.
A catalog page for every comic you produce: That seems obvious, doesn't it? You would be surprised how many websites don't provide that, though. Just working on this week's Food or Comics post, I looked for and couldn't find pages for individual comics from Archie, IDW, and Top Cow—in some cases there was a page for a series but not an individual issue. A catalog page doesn't have to be an elaborate thing—just a cover image, basic information like authors, price, and ISBN, and the blurb from the back cover. It's enormously helpful to journalists like me, who like to check their facts, as well as to readers who want to know what they are buying. Also—this is another simple thing that lots of publishers overlook—the catalog page for a single issue or volume should include links to all the others in a series.
A way to find that catalog page: That means having an index or a search engine on your site, preferably both. I'm going to call out Image Comics on this one, but in a nice way, because I have talked to their people and I know they are working on improving their site. At the moment, they have neither an index nor a search box, so some of their comics are simply invisible to the reader. There's no point in putting up those catalog pages if no one can find them.
Related: If I Google the title of your comic, your site should show up on the first page of results. It almost never does.
A straightforward home page and easy navigation: Fine, put up a big ol' banner image of your latest zombie space aliens epic, but keep it confined to one area, please. Put links and navigation in decent-sized type and make them easy to find. Tokyopop, despite some improvements in this area, still wins the prize for busiest publisher site. Admittedly, they are aiming for teenagers, who apparently like information overload, but I wish they had a site for grownups as well that didn't have the Flash and polls and social media links.
Information on next week's comics: Don't hide them! Some of us like to plan ahead.
Links that work: If I click on the cover of a comic, send me to the catalog page for that comic, not back to the home page or off into 404 limbo.
Tidy URLs: Fantagraphics, D&Q, I'm looking at you. A URL should not be a paragraph long and contain long strings of apparently random letters and numbers.
Flash intros: The Oatmeal sums this up nicely:
Don't. Just don't.
A decent-sized cover image that I can grab: I want to write about your comics, and readers want to see what they look like. I want to take the image from your site, so I know it's correct. (It's an occupational hazard with manga that an image search on a book turns up all sorts of foreign and bootleg editions, and it's easy to put up the wrong picture.) Don't put the cover up in some Flash interface that won't let me grab it, and don't tilt it at a funny angle. Sometimes simplest is best.
A working "Contact Us" form: Because you know what really pisses people off? Taking the trouble to fill out a form like that and getting an error message when you hit "submit." And it's nice to be able to find address and phone information on a website as well.
Regular updates: The most recent comics on the First Second site are from Spring 2009. More recent books appear on the MacMillan website. I know that because I'm a comics blogger, but most people wouldn't think to look there. Not updating the website is usually the first sign that collapse is imminent, although I don't think that's the case here.
Some nice extras: Previews, character and background information, links to reviews and articles about creators, all add richness of content and make the site more interesting. I'm more likely to visit and more likely to stay.
OK, who gets it right? Dark Horse provides a lot of information on past and upcoming books, along with plenty of bonus content, including previews and a well written blog. That's the gold standard for comics sites. Tokyopop's main site may induce seizures, but the website for their yaoi line Blu Manga, has a lovely design and straightforward navigation. Boom! Studios also has a lot of content on their site, although the design is a little busier and sometimes I have to resort to the search engine to find a comic. The manga publisher Vertical has good information and previews as well. And indy publishers Oni Press and Top Shelf both do a beautiful job of presenting all the information with minimal fuss, and in the case of Top Shelf, a pretty impressive slate of webcomics as well.
OK, my rant is over. Readers, do you have any complaints or compliments to add?
Yes, yes, yes!
Marvel's search engine is absolutely horrible for their catalog. Try to do a search for "X-men" and it stops working. At least they have refined it a bit recently, since it used to be even worse. You would do a search for "Hulk", and the first ten results would not be "Hulk" books.
How about, instead of a "contact us" form, access to an email address that actually works, with a person's name attached to it?
Yea, I know there's spam to worry about, but it seems like 10 times out of 10 those "contact us" forms never get responded to, and therefor never read.
Moonstone is another one that has a hard-to-navigate website with little to no information on their individual books and only the most general of listings for their titles. Their books are usually running late and I can never seem to find any updated shipping dates anywhere. If I'm missing them, someone please point them out to me…
Thanks for this commentary. I experience many of the same frustrations when doing research or looking for covers to add to Library Thing. Publishers who make it difficult to find basic information and images about their books are losing opportunities to have their titles brought to the attention of a wider public, or are discouraging potential readers. Much of the advice here seems like it should go without saying, but clearly that isn't the case.
Correct on all points. It's good somebody's saying this.
I love Dark Horse's website. I'm always impressed by the amount of detail they give you for each title and that they keep back catalog items still listed. It makes doing research on new and oop books so easy.
Yeah I hear you.
I noticed DCBS had an art book incentive for Darwyn Cooke's new The Outfit book from IDW. Damned if I could find out what it was though as there's no information on IDW's site. (And the solicitation text is the exact same as the regular copy on DCBS which hardly makes sense when one is $4.00 and the other $16.)
This book is in previews right now and there's no info on their site. Not to mention the solicitations are nowhere to be found either and had to go thru google.
And on the search function — if you type in Outfit on IDW's site it takes you to a google search which just has articles and such pertaining to the book.
Is it so hard to have a page on the site that is just about the book??? Ala Dark Horse.
The most frustrating thing about the Tokyopop website are the labels on the navigation bar; they seem willfully idiosyncratic, making it very hard to find press releases, contact information, or basic publication information for books. I'm guessing a marketing consultant thought those labels (e.g., "Stars," "Revolutionaries") would appeal to a teenager, but to an old fogey like me, they're confounding.
Glory glory hallelujah, ditto, ditto, ditto.
And am so glad to hear Image is working on improving their site; it's been quite a bummer that my #1 favorite comics company has my #1 least-favorite comics website.
Heartily agreed.
Dark Horse's site is excellent. DC's is actually very good as well.
IDW is really frustrating because they've got a Catalog section and a Shop pages. Seems redundant and yet both are incomplete.
Haha, yeah, that reminds of how cumbersome it can be to search for older articles on Robot6.
Oh wait…
I never go to publisher's sites looking for covers. Simply go to google –> images.
Image — a search feature isn't hard to add. You can use google's and just add the code they supply.
Marvel.com is by far the best site out there. I never had a problem using their search engine.
What kinds of issues are you having searching for older articles, Gnubeutel?
Yeah, i'm curious about that too. We've got a search bar and dated archives over on your right…
Too damn right — I do an in-store newsletter and it, frankly, shocks me how often publishers don't have ANY art up for products in the current solicitation cycle… which ultimately yields lower orders…
This is a subject that's come up often over the years at CBR HQ with the various editors who've worked for us. We've seen some improvements, but the majority of publisher sites are still quite a mess. Marvel.com HAS the info you want, but it can be hard to find. DCComics.com is useful and it's easy to find the info you want, but it has only the bare minimum of info needed. I'd love to see it expanded. Dark Horse's web site is easily the best publisher site out there and the one other publishers should be looking at when the put together their redesigns. OniPress.com is also another good one, but for the most part the rest are either unusable or useless. Just having a bunch of static pages or only a blog doesn't cut it anymore.
Investing in your online infrastructure will pay off, but you have to think big — it's not JUST about the web site or your publisher forums anymore.
1) Separate BOOKS from COMICS. Go ahead and link the pages, but allow users to limit searches before the search is made.
1.5) Create a special section for booksellers, librarians, teachers, and parents. Make it publicly accessible, but feature only books, reviews, lesson plans. Websites have "kids only" sections, so why not an "authority figure" section? Remove all the clutter, the flash, the hype and hyperbole. Links can lead back to the main site.
2) ISBN/EAN searching should be coded so that hyphens are filtered out, and both numbers are indexed. While EAN-13 is the standard, make your index backwards-compatible with ISBN-10.
3) Do NOT list contributors as "various" or "and others". This is lazy, insults creators, and makes your company look like a bunch of corporate schmucks who don't value the work the creators produce. If you publish it, then they must have worth, right? Also, if you don't list the name, then websites can't index that name, and someone might not realize that Big Name Author worked for you back in the day. Which means that customer doesn't know that book exists, which means a LOST SALE. What good is advertising–your website–if it doesn't advertise? And since that data is sent to retailers and websites, it creates more access points which generate sales.
4) If it's in Previews, it should be on your site. ESPECIALLY if it's a book, because books usually are scheduled six months out. ESPECIALLY when titles in Previews are due to ship in TWO months time. Heck, if it's in Books In Print, put it on your website! Let people drool over a forthcoming book! Sure, do your marketing closer to publication date, but why not start the buzz early? Again… once it's posted to your website, Google and everyone else can LINK to your website, which generates page views and advertising rates and revenue.
5) Keep the front page of each section clean, simple, and uncluttered. Marvel's homepage reminds me of those "Android Dungeon" stores with the windows covered in posters. DC, on the other hand, is elegant and easy to navigate. DC is the Apple Store of comics websites.
6) If you have a search function which allows for filtering, make sure it works. And allow searches to be filtered. Over at Marvel's catalog, I can click on the "Spider-Man" family tab, but I can't filter by paperback or hardcover or date or … and they organize the results, but I can't display just "comics" or "collections".
7) Comics is a visual medium. "Image Not Available" is EPIC failure when you list a comic, but don't show the cover. If it's old, and not accessed that often, then make it a thumbnail.
8) Put the text behind the scenes. For results, just show the cover and title. It's easier to scan, more titles can be placed on the screen, and the design is uncluttered.
9) If resources allow, keep everything on the site. The long tail also applies to searching… someone might be interested in the first graphic novels a company published, and come looking for information… which helps ad revenue. Or there might be an old column by an editor. Or a chatroom discussion.
I've found it easier to navigate from a google search to a specific comic on Marvel rather than search for it on their site. Most websites are guilty of shitty design and there's no excuse.
Good comments.
Years ago, before DSL for the masses, one company's site had so much noise (flash, graphics, useless HTML tags etc) that it took about 5 minutes to load on my state of the art machine. I email them a polite note with a detailed set of suggestions on how to clean things up to speed up the loading and still have the same look.
Luckily a month later I ran into a staff member of the company at a con, complained to him, turned out he was an assistant to the web master and had also been complaining about the same things. He got a corporate VP to talk to me, a week later the site loaded in seconds, and they had a new web master.
Publishers, please give priority to your titles, we want to easily find information. It does help us not only write about your work it helps us buy it.
I only go to the DC site, and its a joke. Completely useless for anyone not new to comics.
I'm embracing my Brooklyn and shooting celebratory gunshots in the air.
Thank you x 8,000.
Also, I would push your suggetion and insist that each published and upcoming comic MUST have some sort of "preview." Even if a person is not at the website looking to shop, having that info at the ready makes it a lot more likely that someone will be influenced to purchse.
I mean, really. What are comic publishers THINKING?!
I appreciate the previews of new releases on websites like Comic Book Resources, but let's be reality: those previews NEED to be on your own website, and they need to stay there too! One to three pages, it's not hard. Think of it like this: most people will flip through a few pages in the comic shop before they decide to purchase a title that they haven't read before. Now that your reach extends beyond the physical-only domain, you have to extend the same sensibility to your website.
Re: Flash animation on landing pages…
to paraphrase the musical group Queen…
Oh, one more thing:
dccomics.com has this feature called "Heroes & Villains" that provides a non-knowing pedestrian (Potential Reader) a little comic strip about the basic backstory/origin of their major franchise characters. That's pretty darn smart!
Comment as someone who edit Wikipedia manga articles.
1. Death to Flash ! Can't hotlink to a sub-section of a flash page.
2. Need release date. Tokyopop please replace the "Added MM.DD.YYYY" ambiguous wording for your release with "Release date MM.DD.YYYY"
3. Need ISBN either 10 or 13 both would be ideal.
4. Don't remove the old out of print stuffs or previous print editions informations.
I'm a big fan of the Yen Press site. It's extremely easy to find their series, and the New Releases category offers a nice, visual summation of what's going to come out in any given month.
I also thought CMX's site, back when it actually existed, was very easy to use and was kept up-to-date. Just another reason to miss them!
As someone who spent perhaps a little more time than necessary piecing together a blog banner from cover art, I agree with the need for decent-sized images. The point of the banner was to showcase the variety in the industry, which is hard to do when some publishers only have inch-tall previews!
Tokyopop's messy site is extra sad when you remember the design they had before their MySpace-for-otaku makeover. Appealing! Professional! Easy to navigate! I don't remember if it had previews of their manga, but they definitely didn't stuff them into weird little video-viewer things.
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It might have changed recently but, while DC's site is easy to use, the information on the individual comic books appear to get deleted after a certain time although the trades and graphic novels aren't. See, for example, Azrael (which only goes back to May – which seems the general cut-off for most titles I checked):
Which itself could do with a search friendly URL which would bump the section right up the Google results, something like (as DCComics.com doesn't show up anywhere on the first few pages of results when looking for the character):
Of course, it'd be great to have a hub for titles/characters (or at least characters with titles) – this is done by Marvel and DC and really helps their search engine rankings (#2 and #4 for the examples below), but coverage is patchy, when this could almost be done automatically with the right set-up:
Also it'd be great if everyone could use the long form for their release dates (as DC and Marvel do) as the date format might be MM.DD.YYYY in the US but that isn't a universal standard and it can leave some people unsure of what the date might be, without checking to see where a company is located and possibly looking up the date format for the country. It should be no hassle to transform timestamps into a human readable format.
I'm late to this, but I whole-heartedly agree. The best site for me is Richard Starkings' site for his series, ELEPHANTMEN. http://www.hipflask.com/ His site looks to be done by his company, Comicraft. I wish others would follow suit!
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Today, I gave a group presentation. Because I didn't know the last names of my group members, I'd put fake ones in, intending to replace them later. I forgot to change them and I ended up giving a presentation alongside a very angry Greg Penishead and Josh Acne. FML
by friendless1004 / 11/12/2015 at 11:55am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, I asked a guy out. He told me no. Well, his exact words were "I would never go out with a whale, sorry." Then he went on to make whale noises. FML
by Anonymous / 11/02/2015 at 2:05pm / United States (Arkansas) / Love
Today, I got into a minor argument with my fiancé. Deciding it wasn't worth fighting over, I shrugged and said, "Really, what are we even doing this for?" To which he replied, "Honestly, I don't know. I haven't loved you in years… Oh, you meant about the fight." And just like that, I'm now single. FML
by Anonymous / 10/14/2015 at 8:41am / Canada (Ontario) / Love
Today, my little sister thought it would be funny to send my girlfriend a text saying I cheated on her and wanted to break up. Her response was "lol whatever I've been fucking Steve for like a month anyway". Steve is my brother, and he won't admit or deny it. FML
by Anonymous / 10/02/2015 at 6:22am / Australia / Love
Today, I was with my girlfriend at lunch when a group of guys came over. They started calling her a whore and a bunch of other shit, so I cussed them out. Turns out she was not only cheating on me, but all the other guys too. FML
by Jgfenix / 09/21/2015 at 8:24pm / United States (Colorado) / Love


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Isn't this just another type of task killer?
Of course I voted for you, Pete. I just hope when you win the droid x, you don't ignore the original droid. I can't upgrade my phone until march,...
I'm probably too late to the party for anyone to want to use mine, but just in case:
I use goggles to scan QRcodes
Any chance of an all-stock theme?
Really? Because we have an itunes-style music interface (btunes) available. I don't see why mimicking the zune music interface would be somehow...
Is there any way to get Pandora back to stock theme?
Any music player that's going to replace the stock one for me absolutely has to have hardware controls. I'm not in love with the stock player by...
I'd also be pretty interested in this. Would most definitely buy.
I tried Zenonia but couldn't get into it because it didn't support the D-pad. This is more of the same. Come on, guys.
I saw the poll. I'm not sure, but is it implied that if he released 0.95 that 1.0 will not be completed?
I don't see the down side to releasing...
No Home button?
Design-wise, it looks a lot like my last phone, the Samsung Delve.


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505 to publish Payday 2, says Overkill
Overkill has announced 505 Games will publish the firm's Payday 2. Here's word straight from the firm's website: "Players will be psyched to know that publisher 505 Games have joined the PAYDAY crew! We know we found the best partner period. This new co-operation lets us be OVERKILL and lets us develop the PAYDAY franchise in new fantastic directions long term. With the support and skill of 505 Games we are going to pull off heists on a scale never seen before." A release date and platforms are TBA.
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