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Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, what is the secret origin of Wonder Woman's silver bracelets? What is the Simpsons connection to the Runaways? And just who or what is the Mexican Green Lantern?!?!
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COMIC LEGEND: Wonder Woman's special bracelets were based on the bracelets worn by William Moulton Marston's lover.
STATUS: True
Every once in awhile it'll occur to me that while I could have sworn I discussed a topic YEARS ago, I actually had not. The origin of Wonder Woman's silver bracelets is one of those such topics. It is something I figured I would have covered in the first few months, not nearly seven years into the column!
In any event, Wonder Woman creator Willaim Moulton Marston had an interesting arrangement at home. He lived with his wife, Elizabeth Marston as well as his former student, Olive Byrne. The three people were in a polyamorous relationship. Marston had two children with Elizabeth and two with Olive. William and Elizabeth officially adopted William's children with Olive and the seven all lived together. In fact, when Marston died in 1947, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death forty years later. Elizabeth went back to work and Olive stayed at home raising the children. Marston's oldest son Pete recalled it as, "It was a wonderful situation, a win-win deal for everyone."
The reason I bring up the relationship is because of the effect that Olive had on Wonder Woman's appearance. While it was Elizabeth who first suggested to Marston that he create a female superhero, it was Olive who tended to be the visual model for the character.
One of Wonder Woman's most famous trademarks is her silver bracelets that she uses to deflect bullets…
The bracelets were with her in her first appearance in late 1941 in All-Star Comics #8…
They even reference the deflection skills of the bracelets in the issue in question…
As it turns out, though, Olive Byrne actually wore bracelets all the time that were the inspiration for Wonder Woman's bracelets.
Here is Olive in a couple of photos (where she is assisting Marston in the application of his lie-detector test).
In addition, in a 1942 Family Circle interview conducted by Olive Byrne (under the pseudonym "Olive Richard," Marston explicitly credits Olive. The conceit of the interview is odd. Byrne had interviewed Marston (as Olive Richard) back in 1940, so they are playing the interview as a continuation of their earlier interview, but they are trying to pretend as though Marston and Byrne do not have any sort of relationship, let alone that she is LIVING with him.
The Doctor hadn't changed a bit. He was reading a comics magazine, which sport he relinquished with a chuckle and rose gallantly to his feet, a maneuver of major magnitude for this psychological Nero Wolfe. "Hello, hello, my Wonder Woman!" cried the mammoth heartily. "I was just reading about you in this magazine. You're prettier than your prototype in the story strip, and far more intellectual. Sit down and tell me all."
"I came to be told, and what's the idea of calling me Wonder Woman, and I don't feel like listening to any male sarcasm on account of I've heard too much already."
"Your bracelets," said the Doctor, taking up one thing at a time "-they're the original inspiration for Wonder Woman's Amazon chain bands. Wonder Woman's bracelets protect her against bullets in the wicked world of men. Here, see for yourself."
The picture was the same that I had seen at home. In the motorboat were several characters of definitely Teutonic cast shooting rifles and machine guns at the smiling girl. The bullets glanced harmlessly off the fair intruder's twin bracelets, which did closely resemble-astonishing coincidence!-the pair of ancient Arab "protective" bracelets that I have worn for years.
So they are just supposed to be interviewer/interviewee, and yet he designed his comic book character after her? How did that not seem weird to them at the time?
Here is one of H.G. Peter's earliest designs for Wonder Woman (bracelets right there from the start, of course), complete with Marston's notes (click on the image to enlarge)….
Thanks to Charles Lyons' CBR piece on Marston's relationship with Olive for a great deal of information on the topic
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COMIC LEGEND: The Mexican affiliate of Mego produced a Green Lantern figure.
STATUS: False
A reader named Mr. Pete e-mailed me some legends, including:
I've also heard that both a Flash and a Green Lantern were produced exclusively by Lili Ledy, Mego's Mexican affiliate.
One of the major holes in the otherwise remarkable Mego line of action figures during the 1970s is that with all the various Marvel and DC characters that they produced as figures, they never released one for Flash or Green Lantern.
This has led to a number of legends over mysterious sightings of Flash and Green Lantern figures. Never has this been more prevalent than with the Mexican makers of Mego toys, Lili Ledy.
You see, Mexico has (or at least had at the time) a rule against importing foreign toys, so if you wanted to sell a toy in Mexico it had to be PRODUCED in Mexico. So Mego licensed their characters and molds to a Mexican company called Lili Ledy.
Here are a trio of figures produced by Lili Ledy…
However, while each of those characters existed in the United States, there were rumors that Lili Ledy had at least ATTEMPTED to create a Green Lantern figure.
In the early 2000s, a seemingly major break happened. A collector came across in a box of toy parts, a Green Lantern head!
And it was clearly a Lili Ledy produced head! So were all the rumors true? Was there a Green Lantern toy produced in Mexico and not the United States?
Alas, in 2009, it turned out to be a hoax. A dealer confessed that he had made a custom Green Lantern head out of some other Lili Ledy character so as to drive up interest in his auctions. Not cool, dude, not cool!!
Thanks to the Mego Museum for the scoop about the fake head and thanks to World Mego for the picture of the Lili Ledy characters WITH their original boxes (which is quite a rare find nowadays)!
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COMIC LEGEND: One of the Gibborim was based on Milhouse from the Simpsons.
STATUS: I'm Going With True
In the first volume of the Runaways, it was unclear as to what exactly was the deal with the parents of the Runaways, teenagers who discovered that their parents were a gang that controlled crime in Los Angeles. All they knew was that their parents were evil and committed a human sacrifice every year.
In Runaways #13 (by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona), we discover who they were sacrificing people to, the Gibborim. Here they are…
If one of the Gibborim looks familiar, it is with good reason. Just in time for our Simpsons Easter Egg Extravaganza, note that the Gibborim on the far right…
looks like Bart Simpson's best friend, Milhouse!
Marvin Law wrote in to let me know that is not a coincidence. He writes:
I was once studio mates with Adrian Alphona during his first run on Runaways for Marvel comics, and I know for certain that the Gibborim that the Pride worshiped and made sacrifices to, one of them was actually based on Mllhouse from the Simpsons.
Thanks, Marvin! Very cool piece of information! Clever stuff by Alphona!
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Marston hitting on Byrne while at the same time pretending not to live with her is definitely an exercise in high humor. He comes off as such a creeper.
"Willaim Moulton Marston had an interesting arrangement at home. He lived with his wife, Elizabeth Marston as well as his former student, Olive Byrne. The three people were in a polyamorous relationship. Marston had two children with Elizabeth and two with Olive. William and Elizabeth officially adopted William's children with Olive and the seven all lived together. In fact, when Marston died in 1947, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death forty years later. Elizabeth went back to work and Olive stayed at home raising the children. Marston's oldest son Pete recalled it as, "It was a wonderful situation, a win-win deal for everyone.""
I truly don't judge this on any front – certainly not on a moral note – if it worked for the three of them, and the kids were raised in a loving home, this is nobody's business but the people involved.
However, whenever I read of this relationship, or hear of others with these kinds of relationships, and then reflect on the utter complications and difficulties of my various relationships, with the 4 women that I have lived with (individually, let's make that clear) over the last 22 years of my life, I can't imagine anything but frustration and increased complications from actually "co-cohabiting" with two women, let alone having kids with both of them.
I mean this in all sincerity, and with much reflection as I enter my 4th decade that this, and the failure of my previous relationships (at least my half of the failures) may say more about me though.
"Marston hitting on Byrne while at the same time pretending not to live with her is definitely an exercise in high humor. He comes off as such a creeper."
But that's not really what was happening, per se.
Of course, they had to keep up that pretense, because public opinion NOW, let alone THEN would have had moral indignation at the way they were choosing to live. Whether it worked for the three of them or not, that wouldn't have stopped people from judging them.
I have no real problem with them hiding their relationship, for the reason you note. He couldn't very well publicly admit to having essentially two wives. The silly part, though, is hiding the relationship but then, as P. Boz notes, flirting with her throughout the article, including modeling his comic book character after her, someone he is not supposed to be familiar with.
That's supposed to be Milhouse? Don't see it.
I have known three multi partner relationships and while they seemed very stable and happy during the time I knew them, they all ended up the way most relationships do. So it seems that failed relationships and not appreciating what you have is more a sign of our times than it was back in Marston's day. I applaud them actually. I think you'r right though Anonymous, it depends on the people in the relationship.
So many of today's society feels the need to judge and push their own moral codes on others but what Marston had worked for their family. I think it would be very interesting to see their family dynamic working together to create the Wonder Woman stories.
And I don't know about the Millhouse lookalike but those couple of pages got me interested in the origins of the Runaways, whom I have never read.
Ger: I'm not normally much interested in teen hero groups, but Runaways is a good series, well worth checking out.
It's interesting that whenever the living arrangements of the Marstons are discussed, it's usually framed in terms of William Marston having a wife and a lover…as if there were something skeevy or adulterous about it on his part. The assumption seems always to be that the man was the dominant figure in the relationship. People need to bear in mind that Elizabeth and Olive were together for longer than the three of them were together — that is to say, the women stayed together for another 40 years after Bill passed away. Rather than saying Bill Marston had a wife and a lover, it might be more apt to say Elizabeth Marston had both a husband and a wife.
Wasn't Alan Moore somewhat of a polygamist too?
It's interesting that whenever the living arrangements of the Marstons are discussed, it's usually framed in terms of William Marston having a wife and a lover
Because he's the famous person/reason we're even discussing this. If Elizabeth Marston created Wonder Woman, we'd talk about it as Elizabeth Marston having a husband and a lover.
The "former student" bit did give me some pause. Hopefully, their relationship started after she was no longer his student.
Of course Mexico has changed its laws since then. You can basically import anything now. I understand there is still some kind of tax (many action figures don't make it here), but nowadays our toy industry has been dimished and Mattel and Hasbro products are everywhere.
Yeah!!!! Referring to the Gibborim, regardless of the active and prosperous Mexican Drug Cartels, of course "the thieves" are black.
@TIRED: On the Runaways stuff, given that everyone shown in that scene is a villain of one type or another (aliens, mutants, time travelers, wizards or in the case of the Wilders, the black couple, L.A. crime bosses), I'm not sure you could accuse Vaughan and Alphona of stereotyping.
I always thought that Vaughan did a reasonably good job in terms of representations of race, gender and orientation in Runaways.
Wonder Woman's creator-SUPER STUD!!!
The "former student" bit did give me some pause. Hopefully, their relationship started after she was no longer his student.
I believe she was his graduate student, so she at least wasn't a teenager when they began working together.
So, if you're a comic creator you're allowed to date two women at the same time. Awesome.
My favorite Milhouse episode is when Bart somehow got Milhouse on the F.B.I's most wanted list and they begin hunting him down.
If both women are okay with it, anyone is allowed to date two women at the same time.
If neither woman finds out about the other, anyone is allowed to date two women at the same time.
Ha! I think there, the term would be "anyone would be able to date two women at the same time."
"Because he's the famous person/reason we're even discussing this. If Elizabeth Marston created Wonder Woman, we'd talk about it as Elizabeth Marston having a husband and a lover."
In many respects she was the uncredited co-creator. His idea was to create a female Tarzan called "Diana, the Huntress." It was her idea to create a character more like Superman. She is considered the model for Wonder Woman's personality and athleticism. He planned to give her a skirt; she nixed that idea as being impractical which is why Wonder Woman wore baggy culottes instead.
As far as "dating two women" goes, that's silly. The three people clearly loved each other. The two women named their children after each other, and they were together longer than either had been with him. It is more accurate to say that Elizabeth had a husband and a wife, because that's the truer story.
Elizabeth Marston did not give Wonder Woman bracelets because of Olive Byrne. William Marston did. Which is the legend being discussed here. Which is why he is the one whose relationship is at issue here. It is the "truest" way of stating the story.
That said, sure, "dating two women" undervalues their relationship. I certainly wouldn't (and didn't) phrase it like that myself. Some commenter did.
With all due respect, there is no resemblance between the Gibborim and Milhouse beyond the fact that they both wear glasses, and even then, the Gib guy's glasses are covered in tape and there's a third lens in the middle. Please explain how that is even remotely a tribute to the Simpsons. Thank you.
To break discussion a bit.
That repainted head is I believe from an Aquaman mold.
I had that figure once,along with both Batmans, Robin, Spider-man, and Human Torch.
Now that I've done a little more looking on a Mego related site it may have been one of the Superman heads repainted as Green Lantern.
Why do you suppose the "silver" bracelets are colored gold in the first two images shown?
This is a nitpick, but: I don't recall Wonder Woman's bracelets being called "Silver Bracelets" or even colored that way, at least not until her Post-Crisis days. In fact I believe their proper name was Amazon Bracelets.
As for the Gibborim: you know, overall I like Runaways, but I feel they are the weakest part of that series. Let's see:
Three giants show up, they claim they will destroy humanity, they claim they needed EXACTLY six couples for their purposes (how convenient) and offer to spare HALF of them if they give them human sacrifices for a few years. Would you BELIEVE them, much less do what they say instead of contacting, say, The Avengers for help?? Not to mention that the Marvel Universe is already full of demonic beings that offer deals (like Mephisto) so why did this series need to invent new ones- especially ones so underwhelming (ironically, Gibborim means "mighty" and "heroic" in Hebrew, which hardly describes Giant Milhouse and company above.)
Well, one of the comments I was going to comment on the other day is no longer showing, so I assume Brian will get into it more later. Excellent.
@Sijo: I don't know about WW's bracelets, but it definitely is odd that they have more of a golden color early on. Although looking again, it appears that it's more of a "Superman's blue hair" deal (coloring it blue because solid black wouldn't have worked), where due to the vagaries of coloring back in the day, a good looking, consistent shade of silver was probably very hard to pull off.
Also, as to the Runaways, the Gibborim are kind of Macguffins, aren't they? It's been a while since I've read it, but it seems BKV wanted to write a "teen kids on the run, both literally and figuratively (escaping their parents' badness)" series, and this "deal with the devil" was a good catalyst. I think BKV used new beings to keep it from being too tied into Marvel continuity both in the original pitch and to allow future multimedia adaptations to be unmired in continuity. (My guess, and I think I actually read this, but I could be wrong, is that BKV created the concept, and then Marvel wanted to use it. If DC had been interested, the Runaways could have been fighting Teen Titans and such.) Also, I think the ironic meaning of Gibborim here is probably intentional.
With regards to the look of that Milhouse-ish Gibborim, the legend is saying only that it was based on Milhouse, not that it was supposed to be a Milhouse twin. As a jumping off point, it works, because you can kinda see that he was the basis, but it's not so close that you can ONLY see it as Milhouse.
Re: those figures: any reason why Robin and Superman have no chest insignia? Also, is it possible that Flash and GL figures weren't made because either their books didn't sell very well, or that they didn't have capes?
Marston is an interesting guy. A Kavalier and Clay-type book, or bio-pic should be done about him and his life. It'd be pretty interesting. And look at that neat lettering in the WW pages! Don't mind me, I'm just nerding out.
As I understand it, Alan Moore did have a similar living situation for a time. Too bad we never got much WW stuff out of him. Glory and Promethea had similarities, but a different focus, so they aren't exactly analogous. Although I suppose you could say they WERE his take on the concept then….
Yes, they were actually a kind of blue-black on Wonder Woman and were intended to represent the manicles ( a negative thing) which Hercules and his army used to enslave the Amazons after he stole Hypolitta's Magic Belt which protected the Amazons from ever being conquored.
HyppolitA prayed to her Goddesses and they granted freedom to the enslaved Amazons, who had their chains broken (symbolic for Marston) and they turned a negative into a posative with the new skill of deflecting bullets and other objects with these.
An Amazon recieved her bracelets in a ceremat age 15, kind of like a right of passage into womanhood.
Myself, I've always found it strange that Paradise Island was supposed to have been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, and yet they had firearms. Mind you, I also have to question the wisdom of holding a contest which involves using metal bracelets to deflect live bullets.
Linda Carter's Wonder Woman had golden bracelets which may have had enough of a cultural impact for Wonder Woman #0 to have been mistakenly colored that way.
As far as All-Star #8, well, Golden Age comics weren't the best at consistency when it came to coloring (as only a few panels later, the bracelets are blue-black). Notice how the white stripes on her boots are colored yellow too.
The Amazons had all sorts of advanced technology (such as the purple healing ray) despite being isolated. I attribute much of this to the Magic Sphere that let Hippolyta see through time and space, so she could always just copy the inventions of other people in the future.
Wasn't adultery illegal? L.A. Noire said it was. That's probably why Marston and his mistress there kept it on the down-low. That being said: Gross.
"A dealer confessed that he had made a custom Green Lantern head out of some other Lili Ledy character so as to drive up interest in his auctions"
That's not "some other" character. That's blatantly Superman. Look at the curl!
Miken – yes, Alan Moore was in a poly relationship (with two women, one of whom he was officially married to, just like Marsten)…then the ladies decided they'd rather be a couple than a triad and left him (at least, if I'm remembering correctly).
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William had 2 children with Elizabeth and 2 with Olive, so he had "two wives". Beyond it was a happy household we really don't know what Elizabeth and Olive's relationship was. Maybe they were lovers, maybe they weren't. I don't think it matters. The focus of the piece was William and Olive's relationship and Elizabeth is in there by way of explanation.
I think Olive and Elizabeth are secretly lesbians, but at that time, gays and lesbians were strongly opposed (still are in some countries), so they both married the same guy.
Anyway, Wonder Woman ROCKS!
Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Marston were pretty clearly both bi. And William Marston was definitely entertained by bondage. One's suspicion is that he and Olive were submissive and Elizabeth was dominant….
It's no *wonder* they did their best to hide their relationship; it was not only socially unacceptable at the time, but actually illegal. But it seems to have been an extremely healthy triad.
"The Amazons had all sorts of advanced technology (such as the purple healing ray) despite being isolated."
Yeah, but the Purple Ray is like nothing we have in Man's World, so it's perfectly congruant with their isolation. I think he meant it was weird that they just happen to have invented and developed guns that are exactly the same as ours, which I always thought was weird as well.
Was it the TV show or Perez's run that had Polly explain that one other man besides Steve had landed on the island once, and they'd kept his gun?
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Direct, Indirect Contact to the Head Penalties in High School Ice Hockey Continue Focus on Risk Minimization
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Schuster
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (May 19, 2016) — In continuing efforts to minimize the risk of injury and spread concussion awareness in high school ice hockey, specific definitions for direct contact and indirect contact to the head, along with specific penalties for each, have been added to provide clarity.
These revisions and seven other rules changes were recommended by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Ice Hockey Rules Committee at its April 25-26 meeting in Indianapolis. All 2016-17 ice hockey rules changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
In its ongoing attempt to minimize the risk of injury in the sport, the Ice Hockey Rules Committee added two new articles to Rule 7-6 to clarify between direct contact and indirect contact to the head. Previously, the rule stated: "No player shall make contact from any direction with an opposing player's head or neck area in any manner, including, but not limited to, with the shoulder, stick, elbow, etc."
Now, Rule 7-6-2 defines direct contact to the head as when the initial force of the contact occurs to the head or neck area, resulting in a flagrant foul. Direct contact carries a major or game disqualification penalty. According to Rule 7-6-3, indirect contact to the head occurs when the initial force of the contact begins below the neck and progresses upward to the head or neck area. Indirect contact carries a minor penalty, unless the contact is flagrant, in which case, a major or game disqualification is assessed.
"The change is consistent with the committee's goal to spread awareness of head injury and concussions," said Dan Schuster, NFHS director of educational services and liaison to the Ice Hockey Rules Committee. "This change appropriately penalizes players for hits to the head. This will certainly provide clarity for officials, but it will also be a positive for high school hockey and help create a safe playing environment for participants."
Language regarding penalty shots in Rule 4-7-3 was revised to include language to address the designation of a replacement player due to injury. The revised rule states if the fouled player is injured, the shot may be taken by any player of the non-offending side who is on the ice when play is stopped.
In addition, a new article was added to Rule 4-6 regarding major penalties and suspensions. The current wording only refers to players, when the intent of the disqualification penalty is to have the same consequence apply for all participants. The new addition states: "All provisions of Rule 4-6, including the major penalty and suspension, shall apply for a game disqualification assessed to a coach or other team personnel."
In order to create consistency regarding the penalty structure within Rule 2-3, the committee added a penalty to both Article 1 and Article 2 to create a consequence for noncompliance regarding players in uniform.
Addressing warm-ups, previously players were allowed to skate the entire ice surface until a team assumed its own end. The rules committee removed that language from Rule 9-10-3 and replaced it with "each team shall proceed to its end of the ice and continue activity to its own end of the rink for the duration of the warm-up." This change was made to avoid unnecessary interaction between teams during the warm-up.
Language regarding participant conduct in Rule 6-1-6 was added to reinforce the zero tolerance policy for insensitive language. The rules committee added that no gender slurs shall be used by players, coaches or other team personnel.
Previously, Article 5 of Rule 9-1 described the location of where players and sticks should be during a faceoff. Now it states: "Excluding goalkeepers, players shall take a stationary position on all faceoffs before the puck is dropped," which will help clarify the process of a faceoff and eliminate motion prior to faceoffs.
"Motion prior to the faceoff can certainly serve as an advantage for a team. This rule change will eliminate the advantage and level the playing field for faceoffs," Schuster said.
The final rules change addresses when a puck is grasped by hand and play is stopped. The rules committee moved 9-1-8j to 9-1-11j to make this infraction consistent with similar infractions, such as high-sticking and hand passes. The resulting faceoff will now take place in the defending zone of the offending team, not the nearest faceoff spot.
A complete listing of the ice hockey rules changes will be available on the NFHS website at www.nfhs.org. Click on "Activities & Sports" at the top of the home page, and select "Ice Hockey."
According to the 2014-15 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, there are 35,875 boys participating in ice hockey in 1,603 schools across the country, and 9,418 girls playing the sport in 615 schools.
This press release was written by Maddie Koss, a 2016 summer intern in the NFHS Publications/Communications Department. She is a senior sports media major at Butler University.
To help ensure all coaches understand the new "unlimited" non-school contact rules, listed below is a checklist and a detailed explanation with examples on how to proceed to ensure that you are not violating or circumventing any of the rules.
NOTE: Coaches still have five(5) days of unrestricted school coaching contact. The head coach can communicate directly with your team on what those dates are. You can utilize school funds and utilize school transportation for these five(5) days of unrestricted coaching contact.
Checklist for UNLIMITED NONSCHOOL COACHING CONTACT
1. Find a non-school organization to work with to set up your unlimited summer contact schedule. This is important as point 2 will detail all the work required of the non-school organization to ensure you as the coach are not circumventing the "unlimited non-school coaching contact" rule requirement.
a. Most people will use their booster club. It does NOT have to be your booster club. If you have differences with the people on your booster club, find another non-school organization to work with. It is highly encouraged, and most likely will be required by your local school district, that the non-school organization that you work with must have liability insurance to book your facilities.
b. If you own a non-school entity that has liability insurance and files tax returns, you can act as an agent of your own a non-school entity and do everything outlined in letter a. But we highly recommend you use your non-school entity email, documents, phone line, etc. to communicate the following items.
Example: An individual owns a business that has liability insurance and is the current head coach. They can act as the agent of their business to complete the items in point 2. We encourage you to avoid using a personal business if possible to eliminate unnecessary questions from your community or school district.
2. Once you have located your non-school organization, we strongly recommend the coach find an individual(s) (not required) in the organization that will do the following tasks:
a. Reserve facilities for your program events.
b. Set your summer schedule and communicate to your program members and community.
c. Set summer team tryout dates.
i. Communicate that being a part of this team has no bearing on students making a school team or on team status next season.
ii. All players in your community and non-community are allowed to try out.
d. Name you as the coach of the summer team.
i. Once you are named as the summer team coach, you can then run the tryouts and select your team.
1. We strongly encourage that you have a tryout procedure in place. An example is enclosed.
e. Submit entries for all summer events with payment.
i. If you have been using high school activity accounts and are not comfortable handling money, please work with your school district and the organization you are going to work with to figure how to transfer the money to the non-school entity to pay for those events.
ii. Have all money collected from families be made payable to the non-school organization you will be working with.
f. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO ANY OF THE NON-SCHOOL EVENTS.
3. Items to make sure you do when organizing workout sessions.
a. The organization you are working with must do the following:
i. Post the dates
ii. Again, reserve the facility
iii. DO NOT LABEL THEM AS OPEN GYMS
iv. Identify you or members of your staff as the instructors
b. Coaches can now coach their players on AAU/club teams but cannot start coaching them until the school year ends.
c. ABSOLUTELY NO COACHING DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR OUT OF SEASON.
Can a booster group or individual purchase ice to run "practices" for a high school team all summer long?
A two-part response to this question:
First, yes, any non-school organization can purchase ice time. NO school monies or resources can be used and schools cannot sponsor the events/activities. A booster club is considered to be a non-school organization. **Note—Schools can use school funds for use of facilities during the five-day unrestricted summertime period beginning with the first day of summer and ending July 31.
Secondly, regarding practice during this rented ice time. The period when this can occur must be between the first and last day of summer vacation. The sessions must be open to any and all interested students in the community and other communities and be voluntary.
Can the coach of that high school team coach the kids outside of the 5 contact days?
If the high school coach is employed by the non-school organization, that coach is allowed to coach/instruct students participating in that rented ice session. These sessions cannot be mandated for participation by a coach, nor can a coach determine who may or may not participate in the non-school activity.
Can the practices be exclusively for members of the high school team or high school co-op team?
No, sessions must be open to any and all interested students in the community and other communities, be voluntary, and may not be mandated for participation by a coach, nor can a coach determine who may or may not participate in the non-school activity.
Can a coach compete with and against players from a team he/she will be playing against during a non-school summertime hockey league?
Coaches can continue to compete against players they will be coaching in the next WIAA high school hockey season. However, they are not allowed to play "with" a player they will be coaching during the next season, nor provide instruction to a player as a competitor.
Coaches are only able to provide instruction to players they will be coaching in the next WIAA high school season by being a coach hired to coach by a non-school organization. Coaches are not able to provide instruction as a competitor playing on a different team during the summertime period.
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Rules Book Reformat: Rule 6 is now Participant Conduct. Rules 7, 8, and 9 were added. Rule 7 is Physical and Stick Fouls, Rule 8 is Other Fouls, and Rule 9 is Game Flow. Rules 1-5 are not affected.
Rules Book Reformat Penalty Changes: Cross-Checking, Elbowing, Goalkeeper Contact, Kneeing, Slashing, Tripping, and Roughing all had options for a 2-minute minor or a 5-minute Major penalty. All of these fouls now ADD an option for Game Disqualification for when an action of a player calls for it.
Grabbing the Facemask and Head Butting had options for a 5-minute Major penalty or a Game Disqualification. These fouls now ADD an option to call a 5-minute Major + 10-minute Misconduct.
Holding, Hooking, Interference/Obstruction, and Body-Checking (Girls Teams) had the option of a 2-minute minor penalty. These fouls now ADD the option for a 5-minute Major or a Game Disqualification.
3-4-1, 2: ART. 1 . . . Each player is personally responsible for wearing protective equipment for all games. Recommended equipment includes: padded hockey pants/hockey pants, shin pads, thigh pads, hip pads, protective cup, elbow pads, shoulder pads, stick and throat/neck protector. Shin, elbow, shoulder, thigh and hip pads must be worn under outer clothing.
a. Equipment shall not be modified from its original manufactured state and shall be worn in the manner the manufacturer intended it to be worn.
PENALTY: First offense, TEAM WARNING; Further offense, MISCONDUCT.
ART. 2 . . . Required equipment for players, other than goalkeepers, shall include an ice hockey helmet with chin straps which are securely fastened to the head, gloves, skates, full face mask, padded hockey pants/hip pads, shin pads, protective cup or pelvic protector, elbow pads, shoulder pads, stick and tooth and mouth protector. Shin, elbow, and shoulder pads must be worn under outer clothing. Recommended equipment includes a throat/neck protector.
PENALTY: First offense, MISCONDUCT. Returning to the game without correcting equipment, GAME MISCONDUCT.
Electronic devices shall not be used by team personnel or spectators to communicate with on-ice players or goalkeepers during play.
PENALTY: First offense, MISCONDUCT. Returning to the game with illegal equipment, GAME MISCONDUCT.
6-1-6(NEW) (formerly 6-1-11): Insert new Article 6. Renumber current Articles 6 and 7 to 7 and 8.
ART. 5… No player, coach or other team personnel shall use any obscene gestures or racial/ethnic slurs directed at officials or others during the warm-up, during the progress of the game, or during an intermission or after the game.
PENALTY: MINOR and GAME MISCONDUCT to the offending player. If coach or other personnel, MINOR (captain's choice of players) and GAME MISCONDUCT. If further continued or if after the game, GAME DISQUALIFICATION.
ART. 6 … No player, coach or bench personnel shall use any racial/ethnic slurs directed at officials or others during the warm-up, during the progress of the game, or during the intermission or after the game.
8-1-3 (Formerly 6-5-3): No A player or goalkeeper shall not shall deliberately leave or discard a stick or other equipment on the ice in such a way as to prevent a goal.
Penalty: Minor. If it prevents a goal or if it occurs with less than two minutes in the game or anytime during overtime, PENALTY SHOT.
Penalty: Penalty shot/optional minor. If this illegal act prevents an obvious and imminent goal, the goal shall be awarded.
Publisher's Note: The National Federation of State High School Associations is the only source of official high school interpretations. They do not set aside nor modify any rule. They are made and published by the NFHS in response to situations presented.
SITUATION 1: The game is being played at a facility where a warning track-type area is painted into the ice. Is it permissible to play the game?
RULING: Yes. (1-1)
SITUATION 2: A team has two extra players on the ice for warm-ups. Is this permissible?
RULING: Yes. NFHS rules do not specify how many players may be on the ice for warmups. (2-3-1)
SITUATION 3: The referee notices that a player is injured in such a manner that he cannot readily skate to his players' bench. When should the referee stop play?
RULING: Immediately, regardless of which team is then in possession of the puck (2-6-2)
SITUATION 4: The Team A goalkeeper breaks his stick. A teammate is bringing a replacement stick to the goalkeeper and proceeds to play the puck. The puck goes directly to an opponent who is in a scoring position.
RULING: Play must be stopped as soon as the Team A player touches the puck. In addition, a minor penalty must be assessed. (3-1-9)
SITUATION 5: A Team A player body-checks a Team B player in the chest area and the force of the check drives the contact to Team B's head area.
RULING: Minor penalty may be assessed for this infraction. If the contact was directly to the head area, a Major penalty may be initially assessed. (7-6)
SITUATION 6: Team A goalkeeper leaves his stick in front of the net an goes to the bench being substituted for by a Team A player.
RULING: Minor penalty for leaving stick in front of the net. If the stick prevents a goal prior to stoppage of play awarded goal. (8-1-3)
SITUATION 7: During a delayed penalty to Team A, a player on Team B inadvertently shoots the puck directly into his own goal cage.
RULING: Goal is allowed. (9-3-3)
SITUATION 8: During a delayed penalty to Team A, a player on Team B passes the puck, but it deflects off of a Team A player and goes into the Team B goal cage.
RULING: Goal is not allowed. (9-3-3)
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It'll surely keep you away from sin
Those of us who aren't used to continuous Dhikr should be really, really worried as people who keep away from Allah Almighty's remembrance are more liable to being attacked by Satan, just like a house that is left unprotected, unlocked, and without any alarm.
This is because Satan likes to play with a heart that is away from Allah's remembrance. In fact, in chapter 114, verse 4, we find that Allah Almighty refers to Satan as "Al-Khannaas," which means 'the one who withdraws' as he is the one who whispers in the hearts and then retreats. The Prophet's Companion, Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said,
"The devil is squatting (perched) upon the heart of the Son of Adam. So when he becomes absent-minded and heedless he whispers…" (Ibn Katheer in his Tafseer of Surah An-Naas)
Some of us may think that the best Dhikr is to say Allah Almighty's names continuously, which is true, but in reality the whole Qur'aan is the best Remembrance (Dhikr) in its totality, which includes the Names, Mention and Words of Allah in the best possible way. For, it contains much more than Allah's Names; for example, it contains the mention of the Prophets, pious examples, paradise, the story of creation, and so it is a complete guide, a beacon of light, the very Words of the Lord of the heavens and the earth. That's why Satan runs far, far away when it is recited with contemplation, deliberation, and conviction. Bearing this in mind, it makes sense why the Ruqyah (Exorcism) of certain individuals (*and Allah Knows best) is more effective against black magic and evil Jinn (such as the Ruqyah of Bro. Abu Muhammad, as is clear from his videos which can be viewed here) even if he, and others like him may not know the whole Qur'aan by heart, in comparison to the Ruqyah of others that may. This is not something minor as usually the scholars write that a requirement of being a Exorcist to such a level is to have memorized the whole Qur'aan by heart. And all Power and Might is indeed in Allah's Hands alone.
Therefore, reading, understanding, reflecting and pondering WITH FAITH in Allah's words is the most effective way of remembering Him and protecting oneself from Satan's influence.
NOW we come to see why one of the names by which the Qur'aan is mentioned is: 'Adh-Dhikr' i.e. 'The Remembrance' or 'The Reminder'. In fact, this name for the Qur'aan has been mentioned 55 times in the Qur'aan! In Surah Saad, Verse 1: "By the Quran, full of Dhikr." And in verse 49: "This (the Quran) is no less than a Dhikr for all the worlds."
In this way, due to it being the best of Remembrances, the Qur'aan cleans and clears the heart from the filthy remnants and dark lurking debris which sin leaves behind, as does asking the forgiveness of Allah Almighty. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "If the believer commits a sin, a black spot appears on his heart. If he repents, gives it up and seeks forgiveness, his heart is cleansed, but if he does more, then (that spot) increases until it covers his heart. That is the raan (covering of sin) which Allah mentioned in the Qur'aan: {Nay! But on their hearts is the Raan (covering of sins and evil deeds) which they used to earn}." (al-Mutaffifeen [83]:14, Ahmad, 8792 and al-Tirmidhi, 3334)
As Muslim women who believe that the words of the Prophet (peace be upon him) are inspired, as indicated in the following verse: {It is only an inspiration that is inspired} (Surah An-Najm [53]:4), we must firmly believe that the majority of the inhabitants of the hellfire will be women. This is because the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women." (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3241 and Muslim, 2737)
We must believe this without (Allah forbid) thinking that this is patriarchal and misogynistic, or an attack against women, their capability and their rights. Indeed, there is a reason for the Prophet's (peace be upon him) statement, which he clearly mentioned in the following narration, which proves how gracious he was as he could have left us in the dark, wondering as to why he had said such a thing.
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women." They said, "Why, O Messenger of Allah?" He said, "Because of their ingratitude (kufr)." It was said, "Are they ungrateful to Allah?" He said, "They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, 'I have never had anything good from you.'" (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1052)
Jaabir ibn 'Abd-Allah said: "I attended Eid prayers with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He started with the prayer before the khutbah, with no adhaan or iqaamah. Then he stood up, leaning on Bilaal, speaking of fear and consciousness of Allah (Taqwa) and urging us to obey Him. He preached to the people and reminded them. Then he went over to the women and preached to them and reminded them. Then he said, 'Give in charity, for you are the majority of the fuel of Hell.' A woman with dark cheeks stood up in the midst of the women and said, 'Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?' He said, 'Because you complain too much and are ungrateful to your husbands.' Then they started to give their jewellery in charity, throwing their earrings and rings into Bilaal's cloak." (Narrated by Muslim, 885)
Dear sisters, the question must be asked: how can we save ourselves from such a tremendous sin? How can we ensure that we are not from the majority of the women of the hellfire, Allah forbid? Surely, the answer is to live under the shade of the Qur'aan (which includes the mention of charity therein), to live it day-in day-out. To apply it, even when it's hard, to understand it, learn it, and what I intend to highlight here: to try and even memorize it. For, once our hearts shine by its words, our heart will be attached to it, and then we'll want to be in the company of our Lord's Words as much as possible: at every moment, every second, every hour, and every day of our life. And the only way to truly actualize this is to memorize it. Then our limbs will obey its commands, and the whispers of Satan will as a consequence subside. We will become women of the Qur'aan, the Haafidhaat, those who run away from sin….right into the shade of the Quraan, the very Words of the Lord Himself.
Let's become like those Sahaabiyaat, who didn't start debating, arguing, vehemently screaming or aggressively retaliating when they heard that the majority of the inhabitants of the hellfire are women. For, as believing women they accepted the Prophet's statement without questioning and accepted what he said to be a fact, something unquestionable. And how could they question the man that they knew with conviction and surety that he was the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). A man who never lied, who always kept people's promises and trusts; a man who was so caring, loving and gracious; a man who always wanted good for all, even if that meant that he'd have to suffer as a result…They just couldn't argue. And they didn't argue. So what makes us so apprehensive? Why is our testimony of faith and conviction in it so shaky? Why don't we work hard to protect ourselves from the hellfire, just as the Sahaabiyaat did? It's because they were women who had a proactive attitude, an attitude that guaranteed them paradise. It was easy for them because they truly believed that Jannah awaited those who do righteous deeds, as they read so many times over in the Qur'aan and heard from the noble lips of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). So they threw their jewellery, something that is usually so precious to women... they threw it into Bilaal's cloak (may Allah be pleased with them all) and away from themselves. Why? Because they wanted to thereby ransom themselves from the possibility of being one of the women of the hellfire as they were Women Bearers of the Qur'aan, women who cherished and implemented whatever they learnt.
So Sisters!
How many a battle did Satan win,
As he made you trip,
Away from Allah's remembrance... he did make you slip.
It wasn't all of a sudden; rather he watched and planned, bit by bit.
Then he took his chance and sat,
As he began to whisper on your very heart.
He threw his evil darts,
That you thought were ideas from you, from your very own heart.
Yes! He was there with his sneer,
Oh yes, he did dare!
But Sister, don't consciously allow him to attack again,
For that's not the way of the spiritually sane,
In fact it's the way of those who merely feign.
Who stand not in guard with Allah's remembrance,
Which is difficult for satan as it's THE spiritual cane.
Open the Qur'aan, move your lips,
And then take the dark remnants of sin away from your heart.
Bit by bit, by Allah's permission, your heart will surely be lit.
Continue on in this way, to save yourself in the future,
For then you may slip even deeper.
Hold on to the Qur'aan, take it as your guide,
For it was revealed by the Lord of the mighty heavens so wide.
Even if it takes your time, try and take a step further then you'll realize,
The great blessing of inscribing it on your heart, so begin the journey NOW as you begin to memorize.
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- The Hafidh's Journey 26 Nov 2012
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- Giving Priority to the Qur'an 25 Apr 2012
- Why YOU Should Become a Haafidhah (4) 26 Feb 2012
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- Glad Tidings To The Women Who Have Memorized the Qur'aan! 28 May 2011
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Does the jmap heap dump include only the old generation, or also the young generation ?
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I have 2 heap dump (
jmap -heap:format=b 9999) :
- one of my server with no load (no HTTP request)
- one while working 50% CPU, a high load (benchmarking)
Now, the first dump shows a heap size bigger than the second (which I thought was weird).
Could that be because the Young generation (at high load) is changing often because the Garbage collector is running often (yes, the JVM is almost full) ? Old generation is full at 99%, I've noticed the young generation space usage vary a lot.
So that would mean that I made the second dump right after the GC did his job, this is why its size is smaller. Am I right ?
Additionnal informations :
Java args :
-XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+AggressiveHeap
-Xms2048m -Xmx4096m -XX:NewSize=64m
-XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m


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