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Statement by Mr Alberic Kacou, UN Resident Coordinator& UNDP Resident Representative at the launch of the Human Development Report 2013
Launching of Human Development Report 2013
Distinguished Guest of Honor, Mr. Peniel Lyimo, Permanent Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, Honorable Government Representatives, Excellencies, Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Heads of Development Cooperation,
Distinguished guests, Civil Society representatives, Members of the Media,
Dear UN Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good morning and welcome to the launch of UNDP's 2013 Human Development Report. It is a great honor for me to have such distinguished guests gracing the launch.
Recognizing evolving geopolitics, emerging issues and the shift in global economic power that is shaping the development landscape, this year's Human Development Report focuses on "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World". It is a fitting tribute to the role that the South is increasingly playing in the striking economic, political and social transformation we are witnessing globally. As well, it is in recognition of the "South's" significant impact on human development progress. It is against this backdrop that the 2013 HDR aims to contribute to development thinking by describing the drivers of development transformation and by suggesting future policy priorities that could help sustain such momentum.
Let me highlight three such drivers in the current development scenario that the report highlights:
- The first is a proactive developmental state, or a state that actively develops policies for both the public and private sector based on long-term vision and leadership, shared norms and values, and rules and institutions that build trust and cohesion. Priorities need to be people- centered and promote opportunities, while protecting individuals against downside risks.
- The second driver of development transformation is successful tapping of global markets. Global markets have played an important role in advancing progress in the South. But without investing in people, returns from global markets tend to be limited. This is an area where Tanzania could focus effortinvesting in its people as it could pay hefty dividends in the years to come.
- The third driver is social policy innovation. Few countries have sustained rapid growth without impressive levels of public investment, not just in infrastructure, but also in health and education.
Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen
We have seen the rise of the South at an unprecedented speed and scale in recent years. This ascent is driven by these three fundamental pillars. China and India – each with populations of about one billion— doubled output per capita in less than 20 years. This has had significant spillover effects on other countries, especially in the South, with particular impact on poverty reduction, wealth creation and human development. For example, Brazil, China and India reduced poverty by 65, 78 and 33 per cent, respectively since 1990. Tanzania has also done rather well, with a three-fold increase in per capita income since 1990. It must be said, however, its impact on poverty remains low
The economic force generated in this process is far greater than that of the Industrial Revolution as it impacts billions of people, albeit in different ways. Today the South as a whole produces nearly half of the world's output, up by a third from 1990. It accounts for nearly half of world merchandize trade, doubling from a mere quarter three decades ago. By 2050, Brazil, China and India will account for 40 per cent of world output. The robust growth in emerging economies in the South has benefitted countries such as Tanzania, enabling them to grow at a faster rate than ever seen before. Emerging economies in the South are also sharing their development models with other countries in the South fostering South-South cooperation and smart partnership. One such example is Tanzania's recent initiative to adopt the Big Results Now (BRN) approach based on the Malaysian model for faster growth.
Southern economies are a force to be reckoned with. Together they have bolstered the global economy during difficult times such as the recent economic and financial crisis. Their domestic markets have increasingly become the main engine of growth. This demonstrates both their individual and collective power. For its part, the Tanzanian economy continued to show resilience to shocks growing at around 6-7 per cent per annum during the financial crisis.
During the past three decades, South–South trade as a share of world trade has more than tripled from 8 to 27 per cent, while its share of global foreign direct investment has increased from 20 to 50 per cent. Tanzania's economy and development have increasingly benefitted from such FDI flows from the South.
Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen
One lesson we can learn from the rise of the South is that it has not resulted from adhering to a fixed set of policy prescriptions but from applying pragmatic policies that respond to local circumstances and opportunities. Thus, the approach to development in the South has always been experimental. More importantly, it has been centered on human development. But this is not a mechanical process
The HDR 2013 suggests that there are four steps for the South to take to facilitate human development.
(i) First is enhancing equity. One of the most powerful instruments for this purpose is education.
(ii) The second is enabling voice and participation. Unless people participate meaningfully in the events and processes that shape their lives, national human development will be neither desirable nor sustainable.
(iii) Third, an important emerging issue is confronting environmental challenges. Environmental threats such as climate change are real and affect everyone. But they hurt poor countries and poor communities most as their coping strategies are limited. This is an area where we cannot wait to take action. The cost is likely to be high – and the longer the inaction, the higher the cost.
(iv) The forth area is managing demographic change. Tanzania could benefit from a demographic dividend soon as the share of the working-age population rises. But this would happen only if there is strong policy to make the working-age population a productive force. Quality education and skills development, particularly for girls, would be critical to realize the democratic dividend. Both must be addressed without delay
Countries like Tanzania have made serious efforts to adopt these policies at different scales and speed. Tanzania's achievements in human development, especially since 2000, are notable. Human Development Index growth has averaged 2.36 per cent annually. Its rank in the 2012 Index – 152nd out of 187 countries – is one place higher than last year. That said, there is lot more catching up to do as progress before 2000 was very slow. Moreover, as the HDR indicates, Tanzania is lagging behind in improving multi-dimensional poverty.
Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen
Tanzania could make enormous gains in human development with little additional effort: by making its policies more people centered, making growth more inclusive, and putting in place appropriate social safety nets to protect the most vulnerable from shocks.
Let me conclude with a quote from John Maynard Keynes. I quote: "The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty". These are the very fundamental norms that we, the United Nations, advocate every day, everywhere and to every body. What's more important, however, is to make these a reality.
Thank you and Asanteni Sana!


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2017 dates are 1st & 2nd July.
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Since it was established the Stratford River Festival has grown to become one of the region's leading free festivals. 2015 was a record breaking year bringing nearly 60,000 revellers into the beautiful town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
The 2015 Stratford River Festival is also the proud winner of the Pride of Stratford - Tourism Initiative of the Year Award 2016!
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"Revolution" Ends, "TMNT/Batman:TAS" Begins in IDW's November 2016 Solicitations
Comic Books
Legal | Despite a joint appeal from Spider-Man and The Joker, New York City Council passed legislation Thursday to allow the Department of Transportation to regulate public plazas and place new restrictions on the costumed characters who now roam Times Square. The move comes in response to repeated complaints, and some arrests, involving fights between the characters and the solicitation of tips from tourists. Keith Albahae attended last week's City Council meeting dressed as The Joker, and Abdelamine Elkhezzani was there as Spider-Man, to tell their side of the story. "I agree with The Joker, even though he's a villain and I'm a superhero," Elkhezzani said. "We're there to entertain people, we put a big smile on people's faces and we work on tips. This has opened up a lot of opportunities for people to support their families." Last year, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called on Disney and Marvel to crack down on unlicensed costumed characters, but to no avail. [CNN, The New York Times]
Retailing | Publishers Weekly's annual comics retailer survey yields some interesting commentary, although the sample size is small (just 10 stores): Sales are up, retailers are optimistic, and Saga is the hot book right now. Also, booksellers who underestimated the demand for Chris Ware's Building Stories lost out to direct-market retailers who didn't, making for some nice extra sales during the holiday season. And while readers seem to be getting tired of the Big Two and their event comics, they are more enthusiastic than ever before about creator-owned comics, and Image is doing quite well. [Publishers Weekly]
Awards | Ladies Making Comics presents the complete list of women Eisner nominees for this year, noting that women have been nominated in almost every category. [Ladies Making Comics]
Cartoonists | A campaign to raise money to erect a 9-feet-tall bronze statute of Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane in his hometown of Paradise Valley, Arizona, is trailing about $23,000 short its goal ahead of an April 30 deadline. Alan Gardner points out that amount is reachable on Kickstarter. [The Arizona Republic]
Publishing | Kevin Roose has a brief chat with Bluewater CEO Darren G. Davis, who says that the company's bestseller, the Michelle Obama bio-comic, sold about 150,000 copies; the CEO biographies do about half that number. [New York Magazine]
Passings | Dr. Michael J. Vassallo notes the passing of Marion Sitton, who drew romance, crime and Western comics for Timely and Atlas (earlier incarnations of Marvel) as well as Fawcett, Quality and other publishers. He was 92. [Timely-Atlas-Comics]
Publishing | Heidi MacDonald interviews Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson, who was selected by readers of The Beat as the Comics Industry Person of the Year. [The Beat]
Organizations | Babymouse creator Jennifer L. Holm has joined the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund board of directors. [CBLDF]
Awards | Although the website for the 40th Angoulême International Comics Festival is down, several outlets managed to pick up on the official selections for the 2013 festival, to be held Jan. 31-Feb. 3. Contenders for book of the year include Big Questions by Anders Nilsen, Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Fables by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges and others, The Hive by Charles Burns, The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon, Paying For It by Chester Brown, and The Walking Dead Vol. 16 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. Fatale Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, and The Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case were among those named in the crime comic category. [BoDoi]
Publishing | Bluewater Productions Publisher Darren G. Davis isn't afraid to talk about real numbers: Bluewater's income is about $2 million a year, and the most popular titles sell 5,000 to 10,000 copies apiece, although others never make it out of the triple digits. And while he admits he doesn't have a thick skin, Davis says he has gotten used to criticism: "I've learned that I'm not my company. When they attack my company, they are not attacking me personally." [The Columbian]
Bluewater Productions, the publisher largely known for its biographical comics about political and showbiz personalities, has announced a complete break with Diamond Comic Distributors. Bluewater comics will now be distributed, and printed, by Comic Flea Market.
Bluewater had already announced a distribution partnership with CFM for some of its titles, so the news piece here is that the publisher is making a complete break with Diamond. Bluewater comics are also available digitally through the usual channels.
Give Bluewater President Darren G. Davis credit for putting a bold front on it and saying in the press release that Diamond "abruptly" canceled several Bluewater comics because they didn't make their sales benchmarks. In an interview with MTV Geek in March, Davis presented Bluewater's problems with Diamond as a clash of business models.
"It's really difficult, because according to these benchmarks your comics have to make a certain amount of money, or they won't issue you a purchase order," he said. "I get it — they're a bigger company. And if we have a book that only sold 500 copies, there's no reason why they should distribute it. But it just doesn't help me as a publisher. But I don't condemn them for it."
Davis emphasized today that this move does not mean Bluewater is abandoning the direct market; on the contrary, he pledged to continue to offer Bluewater comics to retailers at about the same discount they were receiving from Diamond.
"My experience has shown me that if your name is not DC or Marvel, it is very difficult to get support from Diamond," Davis said in the press release. "As an independent producer, I felt it was time to take our titles to the next level."
Comic Book Resources reached out to Diamond and Davis for comment but has yet to receive a response.
Legal | Danny Bradbury takes a look at the financial and copyright aspects of online comics in an insightful article spurred by the recent dust-up between The Oatmeal and FunnyJunk. Among other things, he parses out how The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman makes $500,000 a year from his comic, why Inman and other creators object to their work being published elsewhere without attribution (and why they sometimes don't care), the legal protections they can use (and how they sometimes fail), and how sites like Pinterest avoid the problem. There's also an explanation of why FunnyJunk attorney Charles Carreon is suing Inman et al. on his own behalf, rather than FunnyJunk's: "Carreon has now effectively abandoned the threat of a FunnyJunk lawsuit, stating that he was misinformed by his client. His letter claimed that all the comics had been removed from FunnyJunk, but Inman pointed out dozens that were still there." [The Guardian]


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Police Misconduct
NEW: Special Prosecutor Sought to Investigate Police Misconduct in Aftermath of Shooting Death of Laquan McDonald. Read our news release and complaint.
A coalition of elected leaders, community activists and prominent attorneys filed a petition Tuesday asking the Cook County Circuit Court to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the prosecution of Chicago Police Officer Jason D. Van Dyke for the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and to investigate whether Chicago police officers intentionally covered up the truth about the shooting.
The petition, which was filed Feb. 16, 2016, argues Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's political alliance with the police union creates a conflict of interest and disqualifies her from prosecuting Van Dyke and maintains her "track record has undermined her credibility, created a crisis of confidence in her and her office, and created the appearance that this State's Attorney cannot be trusted to zealously and effectively prosecute Office Van Dyke."
The petitioners argue Alvarez should be disqualified from any involvement in ongoing or future investigation and prosecution of Chicago police officers engaged in possible misconduct in the aftermath of the McDonald shooting on Oct. 20, 2014.
Complaint asks U.S. Department of Justice to focus its investigation of the Chicago Police Department on the Independent Police Review Authority. Read our news release and complaint.
The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center is committed to addressing problems of police misconduct through systemic litigation. The Justice Center has been at the forefront of the nationally publicized cases of torture by former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his men. Under the leadership of Center Director Locke Bowman, the Justice Center has tirelessly represented men who confessed to crimes after being tortured by Burge and other officers at the infamous Area 2 Chicago Police headquarters, led the charge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate these cases, and continues to fight for justice for the still-imprisoned Burge victims.The Justice Center fights for the rights of persons in police custody to have access to counsel and to be free of physical and psychological coercion to speak, in derogation of the rights secured by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.


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Marvin Nathaniel Webster (The Human Eraser, Marvin the Magnificent)
Position: Center ▪ Shoots: Right
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Born: April 13, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland
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High School: Edmondson in Baltimore, Maryland
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Draft: Atlanta Hawks, 1st round (3rd pick, 3rd overall), 1975 NBA Draft
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Business Insider: Go Ahead, Bring Your iPad To Work—That's Why Citrix is Buying Zenprise
Business Insider covers the announcement of the intent to acquire Zenprise, and evaluates the BYO trend.
The addition of MDM, mobile device management, enables Citrix to offer the industry's most comprehensive product line for managing mobile devices, apps and data. Business Insider reviews what Zenprise brings to the table and the growing BYOD trend in a post-PC, cloud-centric world.
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Below (from New York Times) should read "none…was" instead of "none …were" since none takes the singular. (And yes, of course I make mistakes…spelling and grammar. We all do.)
"…..The Omaha World-Herald reported that Mr. Sheehy resigned after the newspaper raised questions about improper cellphone calls to four women, none of whom were his wife, during the last four years…."


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Time for another Web Wednesday. And this time, I thought I'd share some of my colourful web finds…
- Colour Lovers – This site is seriously addictive. You can create colours, palettes, and patterns galore. You can also view and rate others' creations. So very cool.
- Interactive Colour Wall Guide – Here's one to help you come up with a colour scheme for your walls. This is a section of Bunnings Warehouse, sponsored by Dulux.
- Color Quiz – This is the online version of a popular projective test called… well, the Color Test. I've been using this for many years and I still think it's great.
- Anais Gallery – View the colourful world of this French artist who primarily creates cute artworks that are designed primarily for kids.
- Color Schemer – If you're thinking of different colour schemes for your blog or site, this online colour schemer is a good tool to try.
- Car Colors and Psyche – An article on what your car's colour reveals about your psyche. Hmmm… I think I missed pink there.
- List of Colors – A Wikipedia List.
- Colors and their meanings in branding – An interesting read on the topic.
- Color Psychology – All about colours and their meanings.
By the way, just a quick reminder: I'll be closing 52WoC#40 in the next few days. So, last chance to join in and be counted.


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
Every week, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.
Today, based on a suggestion by Stephane S, we look at the complicated history of whether Hal Jordan is actually "without fear" or not.
When John Broome introduced Hal Jordan in Showcase #22, the dying Abin Sur told his ring to find someone who is "entirely without fear"…
For nearly thirty years, that was Hal Jordan's bit. He was without fear. No one really gave it a ton of thought. After all, Daredevil is also "The Man Without Fear." It is sort of just a cool-sounding thing, ya know?
However, after he took over as the writer of the Green Lantern feature in Action Comics Weekly, Peter David decided to explore the concept of someone being "without fear." He had people react oddly to Hal's suggestion that he was without fear.
Later, in Action #612, Hal fights a bad guy who can mess with your emotions…
When he got to FEAR, though, nada…
Hal, as you might imagine, was confused by this. How could he literally be without fear?
So he asks the ring…
The next issue, the ring explains what happened…
Hal has the ring remove the change it made to his psyche and suddenly he was scared of lots of stuff as all of that residual fear came pouring in. He eventually learned to deal with it and by the time Peter David left the title, it was no longer a major plot point.
Writer James Owsley (who launched the Green Lantern feature in Action Comics) returned and the whole "fear lobotomy" plot was never referred to again. However, after the Action Comics Weekly experiment came to an end and Green Lantern got his own title, Owsley wrote a Hal Jordan origin story in Secret Origins #36 that made a point to abandon and forsake the Peter David change to Hal's origin (it also served as a sort of after the fact introduction to the supporting characters Owsley used during his Green Lantern run in Action – that's one of them flying with Hal as Hal explains his origin)…
(Mark Waid, editor of Secret Origins at the time, confirmed to me that the above sequence was meant to overwrite the "fear lobotomy" change to the origin).
Interestingly enough, less than a year after writing that Secret Origins story, Owsley wrote a NEW origin for Hal Jordan in Emerald Dawn #1. Here, "without fear" is removed and in its place is the ability to overcome fear…
That's the way it has been ever since.
At the action-packed conclusion to the Sinestro Corps War in Green Lantern #25, Geoff Johns reiterates this…
And in his popular Secret Origin storyline (specifically issue #30), Johns has that as Hal's origin, as well (and naturally, that was what made it into the film adaptation of Green Lantern, as well)…
So there ya go!
Thanks again to Stephane for the suggestion!
The flight simulator Hal is in when the ring contacts him looks goofily small in Action #613. No way could he fit there, unless his lower body is significantly smaller than his upper body.
Peter David wrote Green Lantern? Why hasn't this run been collected? I love how Hal goes all Michael Fleisher Spectre on his Rogues' Gallery. Nasty stuff and very ironic given Hal's later history…
I suppose it makes more sense to "overcome" great fear rather than not feel it at all, but I grew up with the Broome origin and it never bothered me. Hal is, after all, a fictional character. But I like how Peter handled it here. Wish he'd done more work on GL at the time as he did on Aquaman.
Wow, this brain rearrangement promoted by the ring is scary, glad it was ignored, that would make the Ring all too powerful. If this was the case, the Guardians would just have to lobotomize the entire universe.
Have you done a column on Lord Malvolio yet?
Clutch, I wasn't bothered by "born without fear" either. It's not as if fearlessness is an alien concept for adventure heroes–Hal's just emphasized it a little more (and in the DCU I have even less trouble with the idea of people born without fear). The "power to overcome fear" works well if there has to be a retcon of it. David's version was clunky to the extreme (generally I thought the entire Action run of GL was a mess)
While I'd count it more an error than a retcon, Denny O'Neill did at least two stories where Hal has to face fear (World's Finest 201) and a Bronze Age story after GL's book got revived.
Darwyn Cooke in New Frontier implied Hal had repressed all fear after his experiences in the Korean War IIRC.
Interestingly, there are some people who become fearless due to damage to their amygdala.
Malvolio? I'm guessing not the pompous steward from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night?
The ring detects Hal Jordan is a stalwart fellow who isn't yellow…which is a good thing, considering…
It occurs to me that Hal's had a few of these. This, the drunk driving from EMERALD DAWN, Even the gray hair that Gerard Jones & Pat Broderick gave him in the 90s was retconned away (After John Byrne attempted to give it an explanation in GANTHET'S TALE).
Personally, I like the "Overcome Fear" version better. It's simpler and less convoluted than David's change, and for comic book superheroes, "less convoluted" is almost always a good way to go.
Ooh, just thought of another – Geoff Johns made a couple more explict changes to the GL mythos — That only certain people are able to generate enough willpower to use the ring and that it can really HURT to do it (As Ollie Queen discovered). Before, pretty much anyone could use a GL ring (I believe Gerard Jones did a story where two truckers stole Hal & Guy Gardner's rings).
I notice Geoff Johns seems to have retconned away the flight simulator as well.
Even though the ultimate result was a little convoluted, that Peter David story on its own does seem like a pretty god read.
Is the "ring picked Hal over Guy because he was closer" point still in canon?
John, that would be a big Forsaken indeed–they established as far back as the early Silver Age that the ring was accessible to someone besides the wielder (hobo Bill Baggett was the first, I think).
I think the worst attempt to abandon-and-forsake was a Jones story that showed the yellow weakness is arbitrarily instilled by the Guardians to limit the GL's powers. And that Alan Scott's ring was a regular power ring that had been altered by the Guardians to be vulnerable to wood instead of yellow.
I have to admit that I prefer the ability to overcome fear better. Remember the part where Hal was on a talk show and babbled about being without fear, and they all laughed at him?
Now…if he could just overcome the total lack of common sense, he'd be a much happier man.
Making the conflict between fear and will explicit and literal in Green Lantern is probably Geoff Johns finest hour. It is a smart change that draws on what had gone before in a clever way.
That said, the Peter David GL run was (like a lot of ACW) a lot of fun and unjustly uncollected. The lobotomy by power ring arc actually fits better with Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neil's "Tyger, Tyger" than any of the retcons that borrowed directly from it. Fear betrays Abin Sur, so he assumes that is the problem. It also makes the ring a mind blessing in a way that connects the Silver Age Green Lantern to his Golden Age predecessor. If the damn thing will change the brain of th new ring-bearer to meet the specifications of the old, then what won't it do?
Wow, Peter David's GL run in Action Comics Weekly was just awful. and most of it had some bad art too. I am glad they never collected that mess!
Well, the problem with the idea of being "fearless" is that it was taken kind of literally. What they meant was that it had to be someone who was brave which is more often defined these days as "able to overcome fear" or "able to proceed despite fear".
@Sallyp If I remember right the "talk show" was Oprah, complete with a poorly drawn Oprah leading questioning about Hal and fear. When I opened this article I expected to see a shot from that be ause it was so strange.
So strange that it might very well appear in a "Strange" feature at this very comic book blog, hence it not appearing here.
@Dean- the problem is that Hal seemed to think that ALL Green Lanterns were supposed to be without fear. PAD's retcon made it seem like that was just what Abin Sur wanted. It's hard to believe that Hal spent all these years among the corps without realizing the truth.
Also, the idea that the ring will Mind Rape people unless the wielder words his commands exactly is not usually how the rings are written.
never liked the man with out fear concept of hal for one if he was able to be without fear then sinistro would not have gotten him infected with paralax who is the enity of fear. and surprised to find peter david did a run on green lantern changing it to the ring lobotomizing hal and making him without fear
If only I could decipher that cryptic comment from Brian…..
God, I miss the days when Green Lanterns (including Hal) didn't kill people. Sigh…
Thanks for this Brian – except for showing the David GL feature in Action Comics. That was a baaaaad run!
@ Michael:
I am not arguing that the PAD run on Green Lantern was a lost masterpiece, or anything. The art was below average to poor. His decision to bump off Katma Tui was a poor one.
However, PAD had some really interesting ideas that were outside the classic Green Lantern box. Like the Hulk, GL is a franchise that needs some unconventional thinking from time-to-time.
Only version of Hal's origin I accept is the John Broome story. He's fearless, and that's it. If I can accept jewelry making someone almost invincible I can accept some people can't be scared.
I've just always assumed "without fear" meant "doesn't have a panic reaction", but sounded cooler. Mentally reedited it that way in the past, and I will continue to do so.
Peter David's run on GL may not have been perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than the current mess.
I remember a scene from Grant Morrison's run on JLA where Daniel, the son of Dream(in a rare DC/Vertigo crossover) told Kyle Rayner that he would make a better Green Lantern than Hal ever was, "because you know fear."
Actually, the Star Sapphire storyline which had the death of Katma Tui was written by James Owsley, not PAD. Denny O'Neil was the editor, so let the speculation begin on whose idea it was…
Yet another example of an original throwaway idea being taken and trampled on with club-footed literalism by people who thought they were being clever.
Good to see Hal Jordan before the 'Johnsification' of the character.
Geoff Johns also explained why Kyle's ring didn't have the yellow weakness…because Parallax (once explained as the fear entity and not just a Hal Jordan persona) was no longer in the central battery. When it was returned to the battery, it became the idea of knowing your fear and overcoming it would allow a GL ring to affect yellow. Nowadays there shouldn't be a yellow weakness again, since Parallax isn't trapped (after War of the GLs).
Along the same lines of taking the expression "fearless" way too literally, there was a storyline in the earliest issues of "Marvel Comics Presents" that featured an invisible alien parasite that fed on the emotion of fear. Over the course of four stories, it attempted to feed off several different heroes (Silver Surfer, Captain America, the Thing, and Thor) by making them see their greatest fears, but it failed each time the hero overcame his fear. Finally, weakened from "starvation," it latched on to another potential victim, only to discover it literally had no fears to feed on…that's right, it just happened to be Daredevil, the Man Without Fear!
It's just that "ability to overcome fear" seems more human and credible than someone who is just "without fear"…plus as the old proverb says…"the brave is not without fear…the brave knows how to conquer it"
I remember reading those Peter David stories. Ouch. Great comics writer – just not on Green Lantern. Forgotten storylines for a reason? Probably.
Really, the 80s were a bad time for Green Lantern writers, outside of maybe Marv Wolfman. The 90s too, for that matter; Gerard Jones started stong focusing on rebuidling the GL Corps, but he (and/or DC) lost the plot halfway through. To the point they blew up the whole concept to make it Spider-Man lite. Which worked pretty well for several years, surprisingly.
But Johns has done a saintly job of rebuilding again over the last 10 years.
I've just always assumed "without fear" meant "doesn't have a panic reaction", but sounded cooler. Mentally reedited it that way in the past, and I will continue to do so.
This reminds me of one of my all-time favorite GL moments from circa GL 192: Star Sapphire hurled a powerless Hal Jordan to Earth from a great height, and Hal didn't scream or panic at all. He just stayed calm & looked for a way out while he was plummeting to certain death. A striking bit from Steve Englehart and Joe Staton.
I loved Englehart's run on the title. And on Green Lantern Corps. The "Well Green Lantern is only interesting if he's the only one" argument for eliminating the Corps still infuriates me.
I haven't started on the Johns stuff yet, but I thought that Action Comics Weekly run was the best Green Lantern I'd ever read. I really enjoyed it – I didn't realise it was Peter David.
Though they cocked up the cover by showing the Hall getting scared mid-flight beet a few weeks before it actually happened.
Back in the late 1950s no one would have taken "without fear" that literally. Sensibilities changed a lot since.
Was anyone REALLY wondering about the whole "without fear" thing when Peter David wrote the story? Probably not. It probably just bugged him personally and he made a story out of it, like how someone in the Silver Age decided that there needed to be a "reason" for Jimmy to have been picked as "Superman's Pal" (SPOILER ALERT: He was his babysitter on Krypton, and Superman remembered him!) and thus made a story out of THAT. It's such a silly thing that comics do, but it's also one of my FAVORITE silly things that they do. Worse comes to worst, you can always just IGNORE the silly things, after all.
Except for the Jimmy Olsen babysitter story, anyway. If THAT'S not canon, I'm no longer a fan. You hear me, DC? Either Jimmy once spanked a pre-Superbaby Kal-el or I WALK.
Luis, as someone who started reading in the early sixties, I had no trouble taking it literally with Hal. Not with DD, where it was obviously more a catchphrase.
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Roger Beasley Audi - David Stein Roger Beasley Audi, Volvo, Mazda, Porsche, Saab of Austin Texas Volvo of Georgetown Misleads Consumer Austin, Georgetown Texas
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When asked, Suzanne acknowledged that the manufacturers warranty would cover my vehicle within Canada, the US, and Mexico. (North America) After purchasing and picking up the vehicle and having my first set of problems, I found that the manufacturer's warranty would not cover the vehicle in within Mexico and I would have to either pay all repair costs out of pocket, or return the vehicle to the US if I needed any repairs under warranty. Furthermore, the dealership sold this vehicle without a window sticker in attempt to hide these warranty restrictions. Selling a vehicle without a window sticker is against the law within the state of Texas.
I contacted Audi in Mexico whom is not willing to transfer the warranty to their Country. I have also spoken with the owner (and multi-millionaire) of all of the Dealerships, David Stein on several occasions, but he has refused to provide any guarantee for this new vehicle, refused to try to sell the vehicle on consignment, and refused to buy this vehicle back from me. In fact he offered me a low-ball value to purchase the vehicle back from me in order to try to resell it for a profit.
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Were you born stupid or do you just work at it?
SUBMITTED: Sunday, October 16, 2011POSTED: Sunday, October 16, 2011
I have been in the automobile business for over 20 yrs, and find your claims to be nonsense. Simple common sense would tell even an uneducated layman that Audi USA and AUDI Mexico are two different company's. Any moron who can read would (before purchase AND WITH $70,000 ON THE LINE) read the warranty manual or call the manufacture to find out what is and is not covered.
How some one with the means to purchase a $70,000 vehicle could pretend to be so innocent in claiming a Texas address when you clearly work or live or both in Mexico shows you to be a not very smart scammer.
Go back to Mexico and play your games with your fellow countrymen and seee how fast and far they can throw you out.
The Dealer owes you nothing. You owe him an apoligy for wasting his time. Audi USA owes you nothing as you are trying to scam then and Audi Mexico owes you nothing as you bought the vehicle out side of their deale network and have no reason to warrant anything for you based on your fraudulent address game. Auto dealeships have a hard enough time with real problems, your complaint only shows your ignorance. What kind of a job could you possiably have to afford this type of vehicle and be so ignorant. I hope you boss has not read this as he would have to question how he could pay someone so much money that is so stupid.
Do the Automobile Dealership world a favor and take the bus to work everyday! You clearly do not deserve a new car.
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AUTHOR: David Stein - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 01, 2010POSTED: Wednesday, December 01, 2010
I recently had one of my good customers call me in fear, stating that someone was trying to slander you on the internet. My response was, "So what's New"? Many people try to hide behind the internet hoping to damage the personal and professional status of individuals with slanderous stories. I will tell you being in the car business for over 26 years, that this one top them all.
First of all David, who has no last name made many false statements in his story. Honestly, the only truth in his statement was that he bought a car from us. He was told prior to buying the vehicle the the Car WOULD NOT be warrantied in Mexico. His response to me personally was he had owned a Mercedes and that the Mexican dealers honored his warranty. When I called Mercedes to find out if this is true, I was told, "no, an American Spec Mercedes cannot be covered in Mexico by a US warranty. As far as selling vehicles to people that Live in Laredo, Texas, if someone wants to purchase a car from me that lives in Laredo, I'll happily sell them one. All proper and legal disclosures were made to David when he purchased the vehicle to include the fact that if he took the car out of the Country it was his responsibility to notify the Manufacturer that the car would be operated in a Foreign Country. People that know me personally and professionally in Austin would look at this story and laugh. Not one sentence in the RIPOFF REPORT is true except the fact that he bought the car from us.
No low ball offer was ever made. David was told to bring the car by the dealership and we would give him a fair return based on miles and condition. (We don't know if the vehicle was involved in an accident or not so we needed to see the car) He never brought the car to us for appraisal.
Secondly, I never had any conversations with David of Laredo until after he purchased the vehicle claiming that my people at Audi deceived and lied to him. Susanne and her Sales manager Joe, both told him the car was not covered in Mexico prior to purchasing this vehicle. I have never met David of Laredo and I do not want to meet David of Laredo, he has not been honest in this situation and honesty is company policy.
The only reason that I'm responding to his story is because one of my customers told me I should have it taken off but in some cases maybe buyers can also be liars so I would rather leave in it on and let the consumers read both stories and form their own opinion. It's easy to hide behind a computer but I have a last name and it's Stein.
Of the current 78,000 customers we have in our database I'm sure we have not been perfect all the time from a customer satisfaction standpoint but as far as my salespeople being deceptive in the sales process, I know for a fact they are the best people in the industry and we don't have to lie to sell Audi's or lie about a car going into a foreign country. It's a standard disclosure. American Spec cars are only warrantied in the country they were purchased, unless they are purchased as an overseas delivery.
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programs, and Multi Pack and individual tickets are not eligible.
tickets are exchangeable for another performance of the same opera
(subject to availability) up to and no later than one full COC Ticket
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Tickets may be exchanged through COC Ticket Services by phone or e-mail or by completing the online form.
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London's Mr Housing: An interview with Richard Blakeway
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Richard Blakeway
Just for the record, Richard Blakeway was "probably misquoted" on poodles but "definitely not misquoted" on chickens. In a wide ranging interview, London's deputy mayor for housing, land and property looks back on a lively four years before outlining his hopes for the capital during Boris' second coming. Brian Church asks the questions.
Richard Blakeway still mildly disputes that in 2009 he claimed 46 percent of social tenants on estates "love their dog more than their neighbour".
The comment triggered angry reactions outside the Labrador community but now, with 2013 approaching, Blakeway is now focusing his outrage on the continued lack of protection for children compared to the welfare of chickens.
"I tell you, the chicken one, I think it is a scandal that there are more space standards for chickens than there are for children," he says at his cooped up office in City Hall.
Does he buy free-range eggs? "I do. I don't buy free-range children but I do buy free-range eggs or free-range badgers." To be fair, Blakeway is responding to my flippant request to include a topical reference to badger culls. It's clear from the get-go that the playful Blakeway enjoys verbal jousting, just like his boss Boris who lives only two office doors away at City Hall.
Read the full feature from the December edition of 24housing magazine here.
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Chevrolet's redesigned 2014 Corvette sports car has been in the news since its unveiling a week ago at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. But the old car isn't going out quietly.
Corvette fans are buzzing about a souped-up ZR1 model that landed a strong supporting role in the new Arnold Schwarzenegger shoot-'em-up film "The Last Stand." Apparently the brawny two-seater is about the only thing worth watching in the movie, which fared poorly with critics and at the box office.
"The Last Stand," from Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., took in $6.3 million to come in 10th place at the weekend box office in its opening weekend.
While both Schwarzenegger and the Corvette nameplate are now in their 60s (the first Corvettes rolled out in 1953), the car has aged better and is an old dog still open to tackling new tricks. At one point it does a skateboard-style slide on a railing.
Even with the 2014 model around the corner, the current ZR1 is still the ultimate expression of the Corvette. With 638 horsepower and a zero-to-60 acceleration time of 3.4 seconds, it is the fastest, most powerful production 'Vette yet. It is also the most expensive, starting at $112,600.
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In his first start since signing a lucrative contract extension, Madison Bumgarner felt a foreign feeling.
"I was a little amped up for some reason," Bumgarner said. "I felt like everything was moving faster than normal."
Bumgarner was yelling after clutch defensive plays Tuesday night and pumping his fist after getting big strikeouts, but he never lost his cool in a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies at AT&T Park. Not even after the first two Phillies reached on errors in the top of the first inning.
Shortstop Brandon Crawford made the first error and couldn't handle Bumgarner's low throw on the second one, but Bumgarner settled down, getting out of the inning unscathed.
"He pitched out of jams that we kind of got him into," Crawford said.
The Giants rewarded that resilience, scoring two runs in the bottom of the frame.
Angel Pagan singled and scored on a triple by Melky Cabrera, who had been hitless in his previous 12 at-bats. Cabrera scored a batter later on Pablo Sandoval's groundout.
Hunter Pence cut the lead in half with a fourth-inning home run, but the Giants tacked on two more runs in the fifth. Sandoval doubled, and after a Buster Posey single, Nate Schierholtz made it 3-1 with a single through the right side.
Then Posey did something that many thought he would never do again: He stole third base. A nifty slide beat Placido Polanco's tag attempt, and Posey scored on Crawford's groundout.
"He surprised all of us," manager Bruce Bochy said of the steal. "I think he thought he was running faster than he was."
Posey wasn't bad at the plate, either. He had three hits for the second straight game, the first time he has accomplished that feat since May 29-30 of 2010. Those were his first two games after being called up to the majors for good.
"He's only going to get better," Bochy said.
The Giants are long past a time where they worry about Posey's ankle. But injuries are still a factor on this club, none bigger than the elbow problem that likely will cause Brian Wilson to undergo season-ending surgery.
But Tuesday, the Giants showed that the back end of the bullpen remains as solid as ever.
Clay Hensley and Sergio Romo combined for two hitless innings after Bumgarner departed, and Santiago Casilla pitched a smooth ninth inning for his first save. Casilla picked up six saves when Wilson was hurt last season, and he had little trouble shutting down the Phillies in the ninth.
"Bochy said from the get-go that everything he did would be by committee," Romo said. "Our staff is well-armed to get through this. Tonight was an example of how this bullpen meshes and blends well.
"Each one of us can get the job done in any situation."
Casilla's situation got hairier when he gave up a two-out hit to Juan Pierre, but Crawford made a diving stop and strong throw to first on Shane Victorino's liner to end the game. For the Giants, the night had come full circle. For Crawford, it had reached an emotional ending.
"It was kind of a long one for me today," he said with a smile. "Definitely an emotional roller coaster."
Burrell, now a scout for the Giants, will sign a one-day contract with the Phillies in May to retire with the organization. He is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on May 19.
"It's a special deal," Burrell said of the twin ceremonies. "It's something I'll never forget."
Burrell was drafted first overall by the Phillies in 1998 and is fourth in team history with 251 home runs. He helped the Phillies win the World Series in 2008, but it was his 2010 Giants World Series ring that he was wearing Tuesday when he lobbed the first pitch to Aubrey Huff.
Burrell was a crucial midseason pickup in 2010, hitting 18 homers in the regular season and providing leadership in the clubhouse.
"For whatever reason we found a way to come together," he said of that team. "We had some character, had a lot of fun ... but we had a job to do."
Burrell, who went to Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose, said he still roots for the Giants above all others.
"I'm working for them," he said, "So it makes it an easier decision."
Whenever Sanchez embarks on a minor league rehab assignment, it is expected to last two weeks.


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He is a big Beatles fan and does Origami in his free time.
Though it is often said that he was perfect for the role of Frohike in The X-Files and later The Lone Gunmen, his being cast in it was completely accidental. The producers had already seen several actors for the part but found casting it difficult. They were discussing the matter outside of a bathroom when Braidwood, who was already working as first assistant director on The X-Files, emerged and they realized he was right for the role.
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This year, for the first time ever, Mercedes-Benz designers participated at the Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge, and the results were pretty crazy. The company fielded three different concepts, including a two-wheeled electric Maybach and a carbon fiber Smart car literally knit together by high tech robots.
But Mercedes' most unique contribution was the Biome concept: a vehicle that's grown from seeds. The seeds are genetically engineered so that they can be tailored to each customers individual preferences, and are nurtured at Mercedes run nurseries until they become fully grown vehicles. You can check out a gallery of some of these futuristic designs, from Mercedes and others, over at Wired's Autopia blog.
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Looks like magic, but it's just a piece of well-thought amazingly well engineered software. I love this industry. Of course, there's no free lunch. To be able to provide you with all this, mobile devices (and not just mobile phones — tablets, laptops, gaming consoles, e-readers, they're all partners in this crime) need to use resources; like bandwidth. According to Cisco's report mobile data traffic will grow up to 1.3EB per month during this year. In 2016, Cisco predicts a total of 10.8EB of traffic every month. That's 11.324.620TB. You read it right: over 11 million Terabytes of information flowing around the world. And that's on mobile devices only. Every new mobile device we buy nowadays comes with some sort of connectivity (be it WLAN, 3G, etc.) and almost all of them perform some sort of back or foreground communication. Every time your mobile device is getting your email, publishing a tweet, getting the status of your friends on Facebook or checking you in on Foursquare, you are using bandwidth. And the more devices are out there, the less bandwidth you will have available. We need to keep in mind that bandwidth is not growing as fast as its users. We will start suffering from slower access to websites and data, which may not be very noticeable at first. Eventually, websites and web applications will start to offer a worse experience to their users. It's quite a paradox: the increase in data traffic means that we have more people connected to services quite longer and it gives companies the means to reach a broader audience, or improve engagement with their current users; all this while slowly decreasing quality of service over time. More data traffic doesn't just mean more bandwidth use If mobile devices are using more data, bandwidth is not the only problem. That data comes from and gets into servers. Servers hold, manipulate and distribute data. Your website and its data is hosted on a server (or several if you have a big website), which need to respond to request in a timely manner. You cannot afford it to be any different. Fail to successfully respond to your visitors' request and desires and they'll just go find an alternative. That's bad for your business and may actually get you to lose money — very fast. With so many devices having such a huge amount of data moving back and forth, your servers will eventually start to respond to an increasing amount of users trying to use your website or service. The more users you have, the more bandwidth and processing power you will need. It will come to a point where you will have to start considering about a) upgrading your connection and b) upgrading your servers. All this means more money being invested on your structure. Now, while this may not be all bad news (you are getting more people to use your services), companies enjoy reducing costs, not increasing them. That's economics 101 — in order to have a bigger profit (and increase the stability of your company's wealth) you need to spend less and make more money. And that's not all. While not connected through a WLAN, mobile devices suffer from lower bandwidth availability (through 3G or other mobile communication protocol), weak signal or service interruptions. The market we are seeing grow the most is the one that has the most severe conditions and, therefore, requires special attention and new strategies. Being able to sending and receiving information fast and using the less amount of bandwidth possible is going to be even more important than today, if not vital. The solution A big challenge lies ahead: how can you continue to provide a good service, have your website or web application running and providing your users the information they need while maintaining — or better yet, reducing — costs? The Realtime® Framework already allows you to face this challenge today. Not when you're starting to lose performance, not when you need to throw in more money to avoid losing money, but now, before you even start having those problems. Realtime® uses the latest protocols to communicate between your users and your servers, through a browser or a mobile app. Through websockets (with browser-adapted fallbacks), you are allowed to keep a full-duplex, persistent connection between your servers and your users. One could think that keeping a "persistent" connection would mean you are using more resources. That's not true and you are actually saving them by being able to: Push content — since we can establish a persistent, bidirectional connection, you don't need to wait for the client to make a request and you can eliminate the AJAX requests every few seconds. The client only needs to sit there waiting for data. You are not wasting bandwidth and processing power by doing HTTP requests that, most of the time, will probably bring you no new data at all. Reduce the size of the requests — HTTP requests are haunted by large overheads. Even if your user or server is sending a blank page, you will have an average of 4Kb per request. While 4Kb may seem negligible, start multiplying that by the number of users on your website and requests being made and you may reach a very large (and frightening) number. Check out page 6 of our Technology Whitepaper for an example. At the same time, you are also able to provide a better service to your users. You are not only able to serve content faster with less resources, but you are actually serving content when it matters and not on a set interval. Events and information can take place at any time and you may lose the window of opportunity to provide it to your users in a timely manner. Learn more about this matter in one of my previous post "Is not AJAX!" Conclusion When the growth of mobile devices and the traffic they generate is increasing exponentially, the Realtime® Framework can help you pave your future and show you a brighter tomorrow. By providing the means to reduce bandwidth and processing power while allowing you to offer at least the same — and, more often than not, a much better — level of service, the Realtime® Framework helps you reduce costs, improve the interactivity with your visitors and gets you ready for the amazingly shining future that lays ahead. 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Opportunities to direct undergraduates in research projects abound at Dartmouth. Many are based in departments and programs, especially independent study arrangements and honors theses. You can find out more about these opportunities from your department and program websites. Some of the most rewarding experiences in teaching emerge from mentoring undergraduates doing research.
The Dean of the Faculty maintains an office that oversees some of the most prestigious, university funded, opportunities for undergraduate research: Presidential Scholarships, E.E. Just Internships, Research Grants, and Senior Fellowships. For detailed information, see the Dean of Faculties Undergraduate Research page (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ugar/).
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The switch to digital isn't the biggest change in the TV landscape – it's The Golden Girls' move from Lifetime to Hallmark. We're breathing easier now that we've seen Hallmark's schedule: It'll fete the Girls' arrival with an 18-hour marathon, starting March 1 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Then, the show will air weekdays from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., and midnight to 2 a.m. (so we can still fall asleep to it, whew!). It'll be on Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Hmmm. I would've moved those weekend start times back two or three hours. How will the new schedule work for you? (Editor's note: We haven't seen such enthusiasm from Mandikins since her last ¡GaleHarold! post! –Annie)

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