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Last night, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show devoted a full 10-minute segment to March, its creators Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, and to Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, the 1958 comic that helped to inspire the civil-rights movement.
While many authors, musicians and politicians have cited increased sales and profiles following their appearances on The Colbert Report — the frequently mentioned, by Stephen Colbert himself, "Colbert Bump" — March seems seems to be the beneficiary of the lesser-known "Maddow Bump": Following last night's episode, the book rocketed to No. 12 on the Amazon Best Seller list, its peak position.
Maddow, an avowed comics fan, recently conducted a one-hour interview with Lewis about March at the Kentucky Author Forum. CBR spoke with the March team in June, and in July at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
As we reported earlier this week, publisher Top Shelf Productions has partnered with Fellowship of Reconciliation to offer Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story in a digital bundle with March. Watch the Maddow segment below.
Over the Wall by Peter Wartman, Uncivilized Books, 80 pages, $14.95.
A young girl ventures into an abandoned, labyrinthine city in order to find her lost brother, despite it's being haunted by malevolent demons. One of the strengths of Wartman's debut graphic novel is that he doesn't vary much from that core story outline. He dabbles in a lot of overly familiar genre and mythological tropes to be sure (there's some business with the demons being named and people entering the city forgetting who they are) but he doesn't play up these elements too strongly or let them overwhelm the story, instead keeping the focus on the girl and her desire to locate her brother. I also liked the relationship between the girl and a somewhat helpful demon who seems so astonished that someone would willingly enter the city that he ends up acting as a benefactor. Again, it's a familiar trope, but paces the story well enough that it never once feels rote or cliched.
Another key to the book's success is the city itself. I can't emphasize enough the need for cartoonists, especially young cartoonists, to set their stories in a well-defined universe. This is especially true in fantasy stories, where the reader needs to get a sense of the physical world the characters inhabit in order to be willing to accept the supernatural and logic-defying events that occur in the story. You can't map out Wartman's city in your head, but the seemingly endless panels of well-detailed corridors, stairs, gardens and passageways give a sense of scale to the story. The city seems so foreboding and ancient, you worry the characters really will lose their way. Overall I just appreciated this well-structured, engrossing adventure tale and hope it's a sign of more good things to come from this particular cartoonist.
Back in April Alan Moore told Padraig O. Mealoid that he was almost finished with the follow-up to Nemo: Heart of Ice. Titled Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, the graphic novel follows the further adventures of Janni Nemo, daughter of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen member Captain Nemo, as she takes over the family business (and submarine).
Thanks to Forbidden Planet, we now have some additional details on Roses of Berlin, including a cover, a release date and solicitation text:
"From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, traveling with her aging lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals, and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany's notorious 'Twilight Heroes', a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse."
I missed out on Pat Grant's debut graphic novel Blue when it was initially released in 2012. But now that Top Shelf has the book back in print, I got in touch with the Australian writer/artist to learn more about the 96-page book, described as "a fascinating blend of autobiography and fiction with a sci-fi twist." The story has an interesting mix of several elements, including teenagers surfing, aliens with tentacles, conflict, bigotry and a quest for a dead body — all of which just scratches the surface of this ambitious work.
The first volume of March, released this week by Top Shelf Productions,just oozes respectability. Its author and protagonist is a well-known and well-respected figure, no less than a venerated U.S. congressman. It's about an important subject – race relations – and set in a iconic and turbulent time period – the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It's the kind of book that both the comics industry and the mainstream media like to trip over themselves in holding aloft as an example of the sort of general interest, literate work that would not only appeal to a non-comics reading public, but can be shown as an example of how the medium is capable of more than mere spandex fisticuffs.
In other words, I absolutely dreaded having to read the thing.
It's not that I think that comics only work best only when they recognize their low-gutter, high-slapstick, overwrought melodrama origins or that cartoonists shouldn't aspire to tackle complex, serious issues. It's more that these sorts of works – biographical dramas where the central character happens to be caught in the midst of a major historical event – tend to simply not be very good, a few notable exceptions aside. All too often it seems as though the authors make the fatal mistake of assuming the subject matter itself is enough to carry the work forward and neglect to focus on things like crafting sharp dialogue, compelling page compositions or an interesting – or even comprehensible – plot. The end result is a lot of boring books with noble intentions.
Thankfully, that's not the case with March. While the comic stays well within its basic, Bildungsroman structure, it's an engaging, well-crafted read nevertheless.
March: Book One debuted Tuesday from Top Shelf Productions, earning high praise and a lot of attention for Congressman John Lewis, co-author Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell. But last night the graphic novel garnered arguably the highest accolade of all: the coveted Colbert Bump.
Lewis, the civil-rights pioneer who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss the book, which chronicles his early life in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery marches.
"I don't see a vast difference [between Comic-Con and political conventions]. Here at Comic-Con, you see people dressed in different ways, but even in some political conventions, you see people with a lot of flags and colors, especially some of the young women, who will put all types of things in their hair, and some of the men. Politicians like to stand out, like people to pay attention to them. Here, I think it's the real world. Comic-Con is the real world and to see people bringing their little children and seeing all the little children all dressed up enjoying themselves — that's a great feeling, seeing them have fun."
— Congressman John Lewis, talking with CBR TV about his first experience at Comic-Con International, where he promoted March, the upcoming graphic-novel trilogy from Top Shelf Productions recounting his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
Did we know there's another Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer story in the works? 'Cause I just stumbled across this image on the PVS website with the announcement that it's something creators Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen are working on.
In a throwaway line from Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer, Volume 3, a character mentions a vampire-infested zoo and quips, "Remember the vampire gorilla?" Higgins and Jensen not only remember it, they "have always planned on eventually telling it." It'll be a short story featuring all the vampire-slaying puppets from the graphic novels; the creators just have to work out the details of how it'll be released.
Update: Jensen provides some additional PVS-related info in our comments section: "Also, for those who missed the announcement at Comic-Con, Top Shelf Productions will be publishing an omnibus edition of PVS in 2014. We're thrilled to partner with the Top Shelf folks and to have the entire story in one place. Digital editions will be coming as well. Release dates not set as of yet, but we'll announce all of that soon."
In case you didn't notice, Comic-Con International happened last weekend. As always, it was an epic affair with tons of announcements, stunts and surprises. Amid cannons firing, actors dressing up as themselves, and big movie plans, there were also a good number of genuine surprises from comics.
Usually I end up picking a winner of Comic-Con, but after Dynamite Entertainment flooded the air waves with announcements the days before the event, no one else seemed to stand out as the clear winner. It's not that everyone slacked off, however: They brought a good variety of interesting and exciting projects, and a number of standout announcements made my ears perk up. So instead of declaring a winner, I'm going to run down my Top 6 Comic-Con surprises in comics.
Before I start, though, two publishers deserve a little recognition for serious contenders for the Comic-Con crown. Top Shelf Productions classed up the joint by bringing in Congressman John Lewis for the debut of his graphic novel, March: Book One with artist Nate Powell and co-writer Andrew Aydin. I have little doubt this trilogy will end up being a historic release with profound benefits for schools, libraries and organizations looking for a powerful teaching tool and first=person account of the Civil Rights Movement and non-violent resistance. Plus, come on, photos of Lewis meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lou Ferrigno? Everybody else, just pack it up. Maybe not as much of a milestone, but IDW Publishing also deserves a nod for the pure quantity and variety of good-looking books announced.
OK, on with my list:
I happen to be a person of faith who also has a sense of humor. As a result, the effort by writer Mark Russell and cartoonist Shannon Wheeler to accurately, yet comically, condense the Bible, God Is Disappointed in You, amused the hell out of me. In Catholic high school, I once offended several people by characterizing a newly unveiled statue of Christ (hands outstretched blessing a crowd) as showing the son of God opting for a "basketball zone defense."
Fortunately Russell and Wheeler, are far superior at comedy (and religious scholarship) than I have ever been. The book clicked with me from the opening pages. While it will not be released until August, you can preorder it now from Top Shelf.
Tim O'Shea: First question goes to Shannon, thanks to his part of the book dedication. Just to clarify: In the dedication, in which both you and your mom were glad you were not struck by lightning, you also thank Patricia, who survived a lightning hit. I have to hear the story about that.
Shannon Wheeler: My mom manages to be in the middle of all sorts of zeitgeists. Elvis played at her high school. When I was little we went to see Jim Jones preach (before Guyana). She managed to stop by the Koresh compound mid-standoff (she bought me a novelty Frisbee from a roadside vendor). She seems to be at the right place, or wrong place, at the right, or wrong, time. In college she was hit by lightning. It knocked the shoes off her feet and threw her into a ditch. She couldn't move her legs. A couple of co-eds carried her back to her dorm. The doctor told her to take a warm bath and call back if the feeling didn't return. Over the next couple hours everything returned to normal. She said it was "tingly" — the same as when your foot falls asleep. She had a circular carbon mark on her side for a bit. Some Native Americans believe that being hit by lightning makes you a shaman. She tells the story like it was no big deal.
Comic-Con International continued to reveal the programming schedule for San Diego as they rolled out the panels and events scheduled for Saturday, July 20.
The third day brings panels from Skybound, BOOM!, Archaia, Top Shelf, Fantagraphics, Drawn + Quarterly, Top Cow, Archie, Action Lab Entertainment, IDW and Rebellion, Dark Horse, Image Comics, Valiant and Lion Forge Comics, the makers of those Saved by the Bell and Knight Rider comics that are coming soon. DC has panels dedicated to Green Lantern, Superman's 75th anniversary, Sandman and Batman: Year Zero, while Marvel has panels on Infinity, their video games, animation slate and their movies, which include Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (no doubt they'll have a little more than that). In what is likely his first trip to Comic-Con, Congressman John Lewis will be on hand to talk about his book from Top Shelf, March.
You'll also find spotlight panels on Russ Heath, Sam Kieth, Val Mayerik, Vera Brosgol, John Romita Jr., Jon Bogdanove, Jim Lee, George Perez, Gerry Conway, Frank Brunner, Roy Thomas and Paul Dini, as well as a tribute to Joe Kubert. The day wraps up with the annual CCI Masquerade.
Check out some of the comics-related highlights below, and visit the Comic-Con website for the full schedule:
Thirty-six questions. Six answers. One random number generator. Welcome to Robot Roulette, where creators roll the virtual dice and answer our questions about their lives, careers, interests and more.
Joining us today is writer Robert Venditti, who you know from X-O Manowar, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps., Demon Knights, the graphic novel adaptations of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Homeland Directive and The Surrogates
Now let's get to it …
Top Shelf Productions has announced the July debut of a series of all-ages graphic novels by veteran cartoonist Rob Harrell, and a "condensed" version of the Bible by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler.
Harrell's Monster on the Hill ($19.95) is set in a fantastical version of 19th century England, where every little town is terrorized by a unique monster, much to the pleasure of the citizens, who view the ferocious creature as a matter of local pride and a magnet for tourism. That is, except for the residents of Stoker-on-Avon, whose monster Rayburn is a little down in the dumps and in need of a makeover from the eccentric Dr. Charles Wilkie and street urchin Timothy.
And then there's God Is Disappointed in You ($19.95), the irreverent yet faithful retelling of the Bible written by Russell and illustrated by Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man). It's billed as "a must-read for anyone who wants to see past the fog of religious agendas and cultural debates to discover what the Bible really says."
It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. We've each picked the five comics we're most anticipating in order to create a list of the best new stuff coming out two months from now.
As usual, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell us what we missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
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Crater XV HC (Top Shelf, $19.95): I've been following (and loving) the serialization of Kevin Cannon's follow-up to Far Arden in the digital pages of Double Barrel, but I know that I'll be picking up this hardcover collection of the further adventures of sea dog Rusty Shanks nonetheless. The Canadian space program deserves no less.
In The Days of the Mob HC (DC Comics, $39.99): To say that Kirby's 1970s take on the organized-crime world of the 1930s is something I've been longing to read since I first discovered its existence would be an understatement, so I'm definitely looking forward to this deluxe reprint, complete with material that wasn't in the original edition.
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse TP (Rebellion/2000AD, $24.99): John Smith's cosmic authorities are one of comics' most secret treasures, I think, especially when he's paired with an artist like Edmund Bagwell, who brings a wonderful Euro-Kirby influence to the stories in this collection. Really looking forward to this one.
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen GN (First Second, $17.99): As a sucker for good autobiographical comics and also good food writing, the idea of Lucy Knisley creating a food-centric memoir — complete with recipes! — is far too good to ignore. I love that publishers like First Second are publishing work like this.
Solo Deluxe Edition HC (DC Comics, $49.99): Even though I own most of these issues from their original appearance, the oversized hardcover format is waaaay too tempting when you consider some of the material this book has up its 500+ page sleeve: Paul Pope covering Kirby! Brendan McCarthy channeling Ditko as only he could! The amazing Darwyn Cooke issue! The only thing that could make this better would be if it included work completed on follow-up issues before the plug had been pulled … But maybe that can appear in a second volume, one day…
After 14 years, and more than 3,500 cartoons, James Kochalka is bringing his diary comic American Elf to an end. Since October 1998, Kochalka has been chronicling small slices of his daily life in short comics, seldom longer than four panels, and if you read the comic, you already know he has mixed feelings about ending it.
Of course, Kochalka has plenty still going on, including the animated version of his comic SuperF*ckers, plus teaching at the Center for Cartoon Studies, playing rock music and being the Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He's going to keep the American Elf site live, and of course, you can get the collected editions from Top Shelf (and digitally via comiXology).
Keeping a diary comic for 14 years is a singular achievement, so we asked Kochalka to talk a bit about the experience of creating — and living — American Elf.


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Dance Central gets new trailer, tracklist
If you do end up getting Kinect next month, and you buy only one game, this is probably the one to buy.
MTV Games has released a new trailer and the tracklist of Harmonix dancer Dance Central.
The tracklist features the already revealed Lady Gaga, No Doubt and Bell Biv DeVoe, as well as Beastie Boys, Kool & The Gang, Dirty Vegas and more.
Full traclist is below, as is the trailer. It shows off how you can hit that, innit.
Dance Central will launch with Kinect on November 4 in the US and November 10 in Europe.
- Audio Push – "Teach Me How To Jerk"
- Lady Gaga – "Just Dance"
- Basement Jaxx – "Rendez-vu"
- Lady Gaga – "Poker Face"
- Beastie Boys – "Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix)"
- Lipps Inc – "Funky Town"
- Beenie Man – "King Of The Dancehall"
- M.I.A. – "Galang '05"
- Bell Biv DeVoe – "Poison"
- Nelly Furtado – "Maneater"
- Benny Benassi – "Satisfaction
- Nina Sky – "Move Ya Body"
- Cascada – "Evacuate the Dancefloor"
- No Doubt – "Hella Good"
- Christina Milian – "Dip It Low"
- Pitbull – "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
- The Commodores – "Brick House"
- Quad City DJ's – "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"
- Craig Mack – "Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)"
- Rihanna – "Pon de Replay"
- Dirty Vegas – "Days Go By"
- Salt-N-Pepa – "Push It"
- Eric B. & Rakim – "Don't Sweat the Technique"
- Snoop Dogg/Pharrell – "Drop It Like It's Hot"
- Fannypack – "Hey Mami"
- Soulja Boy Tell 'Em – "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
- Jay Sean ft. Lil Wayne – "Down"
- Technotronic – "Pump Up the Jam"
- Kool & The Gang – "Jungle Boogie"
- Wreckx-n-Effect – "Rump Shaker"
- Kylie Minogue – "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
- Young MC – "Bust A Move"
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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen show you the analysis of a Bugcheck 0xAB (by C9'er David Grainger). We show Chad's debugging and troubleshooting steps to solve the issue.
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[00:00] - Bugcheck 0xAB by C9'er David Grainger
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[01:48] - Changed to Complete Dump (Win-X | System)
[02:47] - Open the dump in the Debugger
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[04:36] - Back to the dump... pool tag Gh1?
[06:53] - Windows GDI - we were all wrong, it's "graphics device interface"
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this is called Quick Link menu
thanks for the link to the fix. I saw this bugcheck some time ago with a Surface pro user. I'll tell him to install the update.
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington say they've created the fiber-optic equivalent of the world's smallest wrench. The team claims this virtual tool can precisely twist and turn the tiniest of particles, giving scientists the ability to skillfully manipulate single cells for cancer research, twist and untwist individual strands of DNA, and perform many other functions where microscopic precision is essential.
The technique can spin or twist microscale objects in any direction and along any axis without moving any optical component, according to the scientists. It's able to do this because it uses flexible optical fibers rather than stationary lasers to do the work. The optical fibers can be positioned inside the human body, where they can manipulate and help study specific cells or potentially guide neurons in the spinal cord.
This fiber-optic spanner, as the team is calling it (spanner is the British term for wrench), is created when two beams of laser light—emitted by a pair of optical fibers—strike opposite sides of a microscopic object. Individual photons impart a virtually imperceptible bit of force when they strike an object, but an intense beam of laser light can create just enough power to gently rotate microscopic particles.
"When photons of light strike and then get reflected back from an object, they give it a small push from an effect called scattering forces," explains Samarendra Mohanty, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Arlington and lead author of the study. This technique is already used to perform optical "tweezing", which can move an object forward and backward along a straight line. "Optical tweezing is useful for biomedical and microfluidic research," said Mohanty. "But it lacks the control and versatility of our fiber optic spanner, especially when it comes to working deep inside."
In the team's new optical spanner, the optical fibers use laser beams to first trap an object and then hold it in place. By slightly offsetting the optical fibers, the beams are able to impart a small twisting force, which causes the object to rotate in place. Depending on the positioning of the fibers, it is possible to create rotation along any axis and in any direction. This can greatly enhance researchers' ability to study and image cells and groups of cells for biological research and medical analysis.
In their research, Mohanty and graduate student Bryan Black used their new technique to rotate and shift human smooth muscle cells without damaging them. The spanner could rotate cells in a microfluidic analysis, image them with tomography, and then move them aside to allow the analysis of subsequent cells in the flow.
The team sees much potential in their new technique. They say it could be used to rotate single cells to determine by their spin if they are normal or cancerous. It could also help examine embryos to aid in in vitro fertilization. It could mix or pump the fluids in lab-on-a-chip devices, or move and rotate microspheres attached to the opposite ends of a DNA strand to stretch and uncoil the molecule, allowing it to be sequenced more efficiently.
The authors describe their new technique in a paper called "Fiber-Optic Spanner", published online in the December 15 issue of Optics Letters.
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Team USA soccer struggled in the 1st half with a tough Turkey team but put it together in the 2nd to take the 2-1 win. Landon Donovan served a pretty pass across the box to Jozy Altidore who put the Americans on the board. Later Clint Dempsey made a run behind the defense before pushing a shot past the keeper, giving the United States the lead. The team travels to South Africa tomorrow before playing one final friendly against Australia on June 5th. The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts June 12th on ESPN.
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Indians starter David Huff is ok after a line drive off the bat of Alex Rodriguez hit him just above his left ear. Huff remained on the ground for several minutes while trainers and EMTs checked on him. He was placed on a backboard and carted off the field while giving a thumbs-up sign to the fans. A CT scan at New York-Presbyterian Hospital was negative and doctors say Huff never lost consciousness or suffered memory loss.
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Flyers goalie Brian Boucher is available for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals but that doesn't mean he'll get his job back. Boucher is expected to backup Michael Leighton who has been the hottest goalie in the playoffs since replacing Boucher in Game 5 of the Bruins series. Leighton turned in three shutouts in the Eastern Conference Finals as Philadelphia beat Montreal in five games.


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This is one of my entries for the 2009 AZ State Fair. Consession stand covered in MMF.(marshmallow fondant) All foods and signs made of mmf except real cotton candy. Update- I won 1st place in the "most outrageous" category and Best of Show!!
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Over the summer, many teens across Texoma have passed away due to illness, car accidents and more. Dr. Paulette Pitt has a few tips for parents to help their kids deal with the loss of a friend.
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Building on the success of the past was the theme for the inaugural State of Orchard Park address by town and village officials last Wednesday.
The board room in the municipal building was filled to capacity for the combined address.
"We are a unique community that continues to grow, prides itself on its commitment to education and public safety, and is devoted to protecting its charm, its diverse environments and its tax dollars," said Supervisor Patrick Keem.
The town plans to implement annual performance evaluations for all department heads, Keem said. Councilmen Eugene Majchrzak and Michael Sherry said the town also plans to initiate the accreditation process for the Police Department, and develop strategic plans at the department and committee levels.
In the village, Mayor John Wilson has asked his fellow board members to endorse the creation of a comprehensive plan to guide future development.
He said the village continues to grapple with the tax cap and proposed property tax freeze, as well as unfunded mandates, health care, inflation, employee raises and the economy.
The new storm water collection and storage cistern at the Public Works facility on West Highland Avenue will be operational this spring. It will be used for watering hanging baskets and plantings, washing trucks and for other utility work throughout the summer, Wilson said.
He said the Village Board also wants to revisit properties split by the town-village boundary and examine the re-use of buildings in the business district. Enhancing walkability in the village also is a goal.
Also this week:
• The Town Board will hold a work session at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a regular meeting at 7, in the Municipal Center, 4295 S. Buffalo St.
• A meeting of the village Zoning Board of Appeals begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the municipal center.


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Florida dropped a 4-1 decision at Turner Field on Wednesday as Atlanta legged out a win behind winning pitcher Eric O'Flaherty.
Atlanta was favored by -167 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 8.5.
Atlanta got 5 innings from Randall Delgado, who gave up 1 earned run on 4 hits, while striking out 4. Eric O'Flaherty earned the victory, while the Braves got 3 RBIs from Alex Gonzalez in the win.
Florida's starting pitcher Ricky Nolasco worked 7 innings, giving up 5 hits and 4 earned runs while striking out 5 in the loss. They got 1 hit from Omar Infante in a losing cause.
The battle of the bats favored Atlanta as they had 5 hits, while Florida only had 4.
The game was closed out by Craig Kimbrel who got the final outs in the victory. He allowed 0 hits, 0 walks and fanned 2 batters to earn the save.
Next game, Atlanta takes its act home to face New York looking for another win. For Florida, they head on the road to face Philadelphia.


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I know there are hundres of questions about this topic, but I still can't find a solution for my problem.
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We are the other people
You're the other people too
"Mother People" – Frank Zappa
So just who is it that messes up great security plans and policies? You know those folks who's boneheaded stunts compromise even the best security efforts? The people who use webmail accounts for company business. The people who write their login credentials on little yellow stickies taped to their displays. After extensive research I have found incontrovertible evidence that it's the other people.
That's right. The other people. But here's the bad news, pilgrim. Frank Zappa had it exactly right – we are the other people and you're the other people too.
Sometimes the other people are those pesky end users, such as the guy described in this article from Nicholson Security who logs on to his company's VPN remotely from Starbucks and then proceeds to the rest room for 15 minutes leaving his laptop unattended and unsecured. Sure, it's easy to conclude that the guy in question is an idiot who should spanked. But consider this – he's just a guy trying to get his job (in this case a realtor) done. Like all other people. Like you. Like me.
My goodness, we're being mighty understanding here. Does this herald a kinder, gentler Security for all? You wish! Seriously, why would you expect a realtor to understand why it's important to not leave the company LAN wide open to anyone including roving security pros? Okay so this is a particularly bad example since the guy left his laptop completely unattended in a Starbucks, so in all likelihood he is an idiot. But forgetting that for a second, didn't he get the standard education about his company's security policy? I'm guessing that what he got was a quick "this is how you access Outlook from the new Citrix system" either from the office admin or from the IT guy who installed the new Citrix system. And armed with that information set out to sell some houses.
Sure it's easy to find numerous examples of ignorant end users who bypass security policy just so they can get their jobs done as efficiently as possible. But what about the guys who create and enforce those policies. Sorry to say, they are other people too. Other people tend to take too much for granted with respect to the skill level and "tech savviness" of their constituent users. For the next example, I submit my own experience. In fact the very experience that prompted me to write this.
My brother is developmentally delayed. That's the currently PC version of mentally handicapped. For his birthday this year I got him an iMac. I set it up, got him on the internet, signed him up for a webmail account and showed him how to get started. Since all he wanted to do is take pictures with his digital camera, load them into iPhoto, send them to our Mom and surf the web, it wasn't a very difficult training session. After about a week, he discovered that his email wasn't working. Turns out I hadn't set up his outgoing SMTP server correctly and consequently no one was responding to his emails since he wasn't able to send them. So I went over to fix it and discovered a number of unsent messages responding to phishing sites that were attempting to steal his information. Yikes! But all he knew was that these sites had some cute picture or swell program that he wanted, and he had to join so he could get it. My epiphany happened at this point. It had not even occurred to me to warn him about these kind of sites, since I just automatically assumed that everybody knew about that. Bad assumption. We are the other people.
So let's kick it up to a different level. What about the software project manager who cuts the QA time in order to get the product out the door in the (unrealistic) timeframe imposed by senior management in response to marketing intel with respect to market windows. It's easy to say that the project manager is wrong because scrimping on QA will certainly lead to a lower quality product which translates to more bugs and vulnerabilities in the product. But the schedule was imposed by senior management, so it's their fault. But senior management has reason to believe that if this schedule isn't met, the product's revenue will be substantially negatively affected because the marketing window will be missed. And then the shareholders will not be happy (read heads will roll). Yep, other people just trying to do their jobs.
So the premise in the Nicholson Security article is borne out: people will always be the weakest link in security. I suspect that this sad fact comes from everyone trying to do too much with too little time and resources to do it correctly. Because that's what it takes to compete in a global economy. We are the other people. You're the other people too.


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Earlier today I went to save a file in Firefox, using the keyboard to switch to the desired folder, when the explorer save box almost became totally unresponsive (The help button, near the close button would change the cursor, but clicking any other control in the dialog didn't produce the usual behaviour).
I then realised that my Firefox windows, with probably ~100 tabs (Only 10-20 loaded), had stopped responding also. The process has been consuming the above resources and no script timeout warning has been displayed in the last several hours of me researching ways to deal with this.
This isn't the first time something similar to this has happened, as I usually leave tabs up until the info in them is no longer useful, which leads to many being loaded at any one time, and more still that are in the tabs list, but left unloaded.
I presume that the symptoms indicate a process is stuck in a endless loop, or is stuck not being able to swap out memory to complete an operation, no?
What I am mainly wondering is - Is there a way of closing a tab, or something, while Firefox is in this state, to resume some resemblance of normal operation. Perhaps some sort of memory manipulation technique / tool, so in future instances I don't have to start a large non-resumable downloaded again, or this time save some information in a form Lazarus isn't likely to have saved?
Also, I once read about a limitation of the XUL platform, that was related to maximum RAM size of a instance (or similar), but cannot find any info through google about this now. Would be great if someone could point me to this information again.


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Egads! Canadian diva Celine Dion gave birth to healthy twin boys at St. Mary's Medical Center in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday morning.
The boys — who were conceived after rigorous rounds of in vitro fertlization (IVF) — made their big debut at 11:11 and 11:12 AM, spokesfolks for Dion, 43, and hubby Rene report. One of the boys weighed in at 5 lbs., 4 oz., while the other is a hefty 5 lbs., 10 oz. The little guys arrived just a few days after their superstar mom was admitted to St. Mary's for observation. They're still waiting to be named and — like most premature babies — will spend a few days days building their strength in matching incubators.
Dion's boys join big brother Rene-Charles, who was also conceived through IVF treatments in 2001.
"Celine is resting now and they plan to discuss what to name the boys when she wakes up," a rep for Dion and Family tells PEOPLE. "René-Charles has been to the hospital to visit his brothers and is just so excited they are here."
We're so happy for Celine! She's such an icon. Can't wait to see the newest additions to her family.


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FARMINGTON,N.M. (September 27, 2013)—Eric Kenneth, 31, of Shiprock, N.M., has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former Texas beauty queen while posing as a police officer.
A jury found Kenneth guilty of kidnapping, aggravated battery and criminal sexual contact at trial last month.
Kenneth flashed the lights of his vehicle and stopped the woman as she drove toward Texas in a remote part of northern New Mexico, authorities said.
He told her to get out so he could perform sobriety tests and then assaulted her at knifepoint, authorities said.
The woman told a judge that Kenneth had taken her innocence and deserved the maximum sentence.
The woman told the Farmington Daily Times she hopes people learn from her experience and should only stop for red and blue flashing lights.


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I am having problems seeing the visual editor once I upgraded to WP 3.5. For the record, I disabled all plug-ins, changed to the basic theme from my Genesis theme, etc, and it still didn't work. At any rate, I added the following to my wp-config file using Notepad++: define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true); .
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Your story is very encouraging. My BF has defaulted on his 4 loans (was $12k and now up to $24K). He received a notice about the garnishments this week and we'll be calling them tomorrow.
I noticed that you said they removed late fees. After a year of ontime payments, did they automatically drop them or did you call? Do you have any other advice that I can pass onto him?
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Narrator this is a story of how wise heart had discovered the cubs and brought them together one unusual morning not like any other in the forest of feelings two new care cousins moved there they didn't have any homes of their own, the cousins were called wise heart owl, and special heart seal wise heart had always cared for his wife special heart she meant everything to him and she felt the same way for him.
We should go to care lot! Wise heart maybe we can get help from special heart. So the two decided to go to care lot to see if anyone there could help them.
Tender heart noticed two strange figures coming to him, they looked like an owl and a seal they must be new around here. Harmony! Oh harmony! Come quickly we have 2 new guests in care lot lets make them feel welcome. Tender heart said, who are you? Tender heart asked I'm wise heart owl, and this is my wife special heart seal. Pleased to meet you, special heart said I'm tender heart, and this is my girlfriend harmony bear. Welcome to care lot, they both said. Now tell us what brings you to care lot? Tender heart said, well we are looking for a place to settle down and start a family! Wise heart said, oh that sounds wonderful harmony bear said yes, but the sad part is we don't have any place to stay! Don't worry said tender heart; you can stay in the caring mansion the best place in all of care lot. Tender heart said, sound's wonderful hooray we finally got a home! Wise heart and special heart said, you two seem to care and love. Harmony bear said we do, wise heart and special heart said at the same time, well there's some people I'D like you to meet If you will follow me to the palace of hearts. Tender heart and harmony bear said, well here we are. Wow so this is the palace of hearts special heart said. Yes tender heart said, and allow me to introduce noble heart and true heart. Tender heart said so these are the new cousins in care lot, true heart said.
For showing your love is greater than any fire you will be named wise heart owl, and your wife special heart seal noble heart said your tummy symbols will show and prove others just how much you care now I have also heard you wanted to start your own family right true heart said yes we would want a big family special heart said well theres a certain cat who can show you the way to the great wishing star he will help you he lives not to far form here come I will show you said tender heart well here we are tender heart said wow he lives here wise heart said yes amazing isn't it tender heart said you can say that again special heart said he should be home well I'll be seeing you goodbye tender heart and thank you wise heart and special heart said together knock, knock, knock yes who is it blaze heart said well we heard that you know the way to the great wishing star so we were hoping you could take us to him special heart said well I'd be happy to blaze heart said the name's blaze heart panther and this is my wife Rosalina pleased to meet you Rosalyn said the pleasure's all ours said wise heart and special heart together well shall we be off there's no time like the present that's what I always say blaze heart said so how are going to get there anyway wise heart said that's easy well use my cloud car blaze heart said are we there yet said wise heart yep we are finally here said blaze heart so you two are the care cousins who want start a family great wishing star said how did you know special heart said that's easy I see everything that's going on down on earth and to care a lot to prove that your love and caring is so great. I will assign you to find 9 cubs great wishing star said here take these star communicators they will help you find the cubs each day I will mark the location of the cubs down on earth you will see a dot on your star communicator if its glowing blue you are far away if it is glowing pink you are very close you will have a large journey ahead of you tomorrow blaze heart you will assist them and train them to use and control their tummy symbols the great wishing star said yes It shall be done but It's late tonight we should rest blaze heart said and tomorrow marks the beginning of your great journey the great wishing star said.
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Aww that soo cute!!
Babies are always cute though..
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ohhh hinna
nice club
yous were born in match and mine is june
so cnt reli join dis lub
buh dnt matter
il make my own seksy june CC
yea rite i cnt even be bothered
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of cos im kidding
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The Community College System - About Ohlone College
Joliet Junior College in Illinois was founded in 1901, making it the oldest public junior college in the nation. In 2001 community colleges in the United States celebrated 100 years of serving students.
According to the American Association of Community Colleges, in 2015 there are 1123 community colleges in the United States, with 992 of those institutions being publicly controlled. In Fall 2013 there were 12.4 million students attending community colleges in the United States, representing 46% of all undergraduate students in the United States and 41% of all firsttime freshmen in the United States. In 2012-2013 community colleges awarded more than 750,399 associate degrees and 459,073 certificates.
The California Community College system of two-year public institutions is composed of 112 colleges statewide organized into 72 districts. During the 2013-2014 academic year the California Community College system enrolled more than 2.09 million students; 95,633 students earned an associate degree; 11,839 students earned an associate degree for transfer; and more than 44,660 students earned a certificate. Additionally, almost 16,000 students transferred from a California Community College to a University of California campus; more than 56,500 students transferred from a California Community College to a California State University campus; and 11,000 California Community College students transferred to a private college or university within California. The California Community College System represents the largest system of higher education in the world.
Ohlone College is a part of the Ohlone Community College District with campuses in Fremont and Newark, as well as the virtual campus of online course offerings. During 2014-2015 the Ohlone Community College District served six high schools, two continuation high schools, two adult schools, and the Regional Occupational Programs, and over 16,000 students. Ohlone is proud of its role in the community college system—both in the United States and California—and honored to be able to provide its students with a quality educational experience.
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This is my first lbp game, and have created a very basic level so will try and fire that on. It'd nothing special though, just so I can try and get a feel for creation. The options are immense and a bit overwhelming though
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Bought this used and was told it had Bluetooth well it only works for phone calls and I am having issues with getting the phone book to pull my contacts. Went by the dealer they told me they had a software update for it. I didn't have time to stay so hopefully that fixes the second issue. But I am stuck using a aux? My Firs rental has Bluetooth audio but not my MB?? Outside of that the car rides smooth over bumps and has great handling. Gas is okay but wish it was better. Quality materials and nice metal accents.
Great so far. Ride is smooth, quiet and acceleration in Sport Mode is excellent. I would like to refute a few negative points that I read prior to buying. 1)the backseat- yes it is small and most times a tall driver will have to put his seat up for someone to even sit behind him. However, unless you have a family, realistically how many times do you really have people in the back? If you do have a family there are plenty of other options(ML, GL etc)2) Fuel Economy- It's not terrible. about 22 highway/15 city for me so far I laugh when people spend 40,000 on a car and then complain about gas. If you have 40K to spend you shouldn't be sweating gas. if you are, get a Honda CRV or Civic.
Command Nav, Pano Sunroof, Lighting package. Sport mode transmission. Quiet Ride, smooth ride over harsh bumps. Build Quality
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Fast, fun-to-drive, small and VERY comfortable.09 X3 was practically falling apart at 58,000 miles, but GLK is essentially a tall C-Class, which are extremely reliable.X3 also had mediocre front seats, while GLK uses C Class seats, which are outstanding for even long distance.The car is also smooth and quiet, with handling that again feels more like a C Class sedan than an SUV.
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I had a Volvo XC60. Within 2 years, it was a rattletrap. I have gone back to MB with the GLK350 4Matic and love it. Solid - go over bumps and no rattles, just a solid thump. Command launch package gives you everything in Multi-media except for rear-view camera for 2K less. Ride is great. The car fits like a glove and is comfortable for hours
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I purchased this SUV new expecting to get a quality vehilcle. I am a high mileage driver and this is what you should expectAir conditioning: Stops working after 2 hours of driving. Brought it to the dealer who said nothing was wrong. Took a vacation from MA to South Carolina. It Stopped..stopped at a SC dealer who left a long VM for my dealer saying it doesn't work. Brought it to the dealer. They tested it and said it was fine. It is not.Alternator: Broke at 49000 miles. Brought it to the dealer and they actually fixed under warrantee. They were not very happy to do it.Heater fan: The dreaded squeak as I have read on line. Almost constant. Cost about $500.00 to fix.So sorry I bought
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Hello, I am doing some tests of cassandra clsuter behavior on several failure scenarios. And i am stuck with the very 1st test - what happens, if 1 node of cluster becomes unavailable. I have 4 4gb nodes loaded with write mostly test. Replication Factor is 2. Normally it works at the rate about 12000 ops/second. After a while, I shutdown node 4. And whole cluster's performance drops down to 60 (yes, two hundred times slower!) ops per second. I checked this on both 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 versions. This is my ring after shutdown: Address Status Load Range Ring 1276058875953 18.104.22.168 Up 119.03 MB 0 |<--| 22.214.171.124 Up 118.76 MB 4253529586511 | | 126.96.36.199 Up 103.95 MB 8507059173023 | | 188.8.131.52 Down 0 bytes 1276058875953 |-->| After doing a bit of investigation, i found, that 22.214.171.124 and 220.127.116.11 started to starve in row mutation stage: 46: ROW-MUTATION-STAGE 32 313 1875089 47: ROW-MUTATION-STAGE 32 3042 1872123 but 48 is not: ROW-MUTATION-STAGE 0 0 1668532 All these mutations go to HintsColumnFamily - cfstats shows actility in this CF only for 46 and 47 nodes: Keyspace: system Read Count: 0 Read Latency: NaN ms. Write Count: 4953 Write Latency: 386.766 ms. Pending Tasks: 0 Column Family: LocationInfo Memtable Columns Count: 0 Memtable Data Size: 0 Memtable Switch Count: 1 Read Count: 0 Read Latency: NaN ms. Write Count: 0 Write Latency: NaN ms. Pending Tasks: 0 Column Family: HintsColumnFamily Memtable Columns Count: 173506 Memtable Data Size: 1648344 Memtable Switch Count: 1 Read Count: 0 Read Latency: NaN ms. Write Count: 4954 Write Latency: 387.473 ms. Pending Tasks: 0 please note enormously slow write latency. Interesting, that issuing "nodeprobe flush system" command to 46 and 47 nodes speedup processing for a short period of time, but then it quickly returns back to 66 ops/second. I suspect, that these nodes create very much subcolumns in supercolumn of CF HintsColumnFamily in memory table. Investigating further,I found that when number of subcolumns becomes large in single supercolumn, memory additions to it become very slow, probably because of ConcurrentSkipListMap.size() -inspecting jstack outpunt I found, that ROW-MUTATION threads are all waiting for a single thread with the following stack trace: java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap.size(ConcurrentSkipListMap.java:1715) at org.apache.cassandra.db.SuperColumn.getObjectCount(SuperColumn.java:230) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamily.getColumnCount(ColumnFamily.java:148) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.resolve(Memtable.java:159) - locked <0x00002aaabe52fc98> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.put(Memtable.java:143) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.apply(ColumnFamilyStore.java:478) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.apply(Table.java:438) at org.apache.cassandra.db.RowMutation.apply(RowMutation.java:203) at org.apache.cassandra.db.RowMutationVerbHandler.doVerb( RowMutationVerbHandler.java:58) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:38) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask( ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run( ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Can I do something to have cassandra cluster to tolerate single node failure better ?
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I suspect few war-mongers come here, so I don't want to alarm anyone, but.... Secretary of Defense Robert Gate's "exit" interview with Jim Lehrer on the PBS Newshour (June 23) was impressive. The man is sane and even balanced! He spoke of the troops' exhaustion; he seemed a little exhausted himself--time to become the dispensable nation?There is a transcript posted here [1]. Dare I say, far more impressive than his predecessor--what's his name.
Links[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/gates_06-23.html
[2] https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300


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