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MONITRONICS I keep getting calls to my do not call listed phone number - they act like they are General Electric and say I have won an alarm system etc. Person sounds like they are foreign - calls from Mexico et Columbus, Ohio
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THE tenth anniversary of the US-led war in Afghanistan was marked in Enoggera today with a protest outside the gates of Gallipoli Barracks.
A group of 20 people from across Brisbane waved placards and played guitars in a peaceful protest against the Afghanistan war.
Spokesman Sean O'Reilly said he had been protesting against the war since the US-led invasion in 2001.
"Little did we imagine we would still be fighting this cause 10 years later," he said.
"Our message is the war has gone on 10 years; it started on the premise of a lie and really we're adding to the suffering of the Afghanistan people," he said.
He said too many civilians had died as a result of the presence of international troops and called for the immediate withdrawal of all international forces in Afghanistan.
There are currently 140,000 international troops in Afghanistan, including 100,000 from the United States.
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Allergan's Acquisition Target: It's Unclear
David Pyott, chief executive of Botox-maker Allergan, wants to do a deal, but no one seems to know where he can find it.
Mr. Pyott told the WSJ that he is looking at sizeable acquisitions both inside and outside of the U.S. In theory, a sizeable acquisition could help Mr. Pyott fend off Valeant Pharmaceuticals International $53 billion bid.
With the $14 billion in future free-cash flow that Mr. Pyott touts, Allergan would seem well positioned to go shopping.
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The most clear cut way for Allergan to add more value would be to buy a company located in a low-tax region overseas, one banker said. It's become a popular strategy in the pharmaceutical industry in recent months.
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William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP, who teamed up with Valeant on its bid, holds 9.7% of Allergan's stock. Valeant CEO Michael Pearson has estimated that at least 20% additional shares are in the hands of arbitrage investors and other hedge funds who would be in favor of a deal with Valeant.
The most-cited potential acquisition target – Dublin-based Shire PLC — is currently engaged in its own attempt to rebuff a suitor. Any attempt by Allergan to buy it could launch an expensive bidding war. AbbVie has made four offers for Shire and its latest marks a 48%premium from where Shire traded before AbbVie's first offer.
Allergan's shareholders would have the chance to vote on the deal, as Allergan would be expected to seek to domicile the combined company in Ireland. To do so, U.S. tax law requires the foreign target's shareholders to receive 20% of the stock in the new company.
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The Caloyers (from the Greek kalos ghérôn, "good old men"), also spelled Calogers or Calogeri, were Greek monks who followed the rule of Saint Basil of Caesarea. Both male and female, they inhabited Mount Athos (only men), and disseminated throughout many of the churches of the East. They lived either in monasteries, as at Mount Athos and Meteora or insulated in hermitages, devoted to agriculture and prayer.
There was never any reform among them; they retained their original institution and former habits, with minute exactness. Tavernier observed that they lived an isolated, austere life, eating no meat, and maintained four lents, besides numerous other fasts, with great strictness: they ate no food till they had earned it by the labor of their hands. During their lents, some did not eat more than once in three days, others only twice in seven.
They were divided into three ranks or degrees: the novices, called Archari; the moderately accomplished, called Microschemi (Μικρόσχημοι); and the perfect, called Megaloschemi (μεγαλόσχημοι). This last rank was divided into the following: Coenobites, who spent the day reciting their offices, from midnight to sunset; Anchorites, who left the community to live alone, only going outside on Sundays and holidays to perform devotions at monasteries; and Recluses, who lived alone in grottos and caverns, on the mountains, and survived on alms furnished to them by the monasteries.
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- McClintock, John and James Strong. "Caloyers". Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological & Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Academic. 1982. ISBN 0-8010-6123-7.
- Gardner, James. Faiths of the World. Kessinger Publishing. 2003. ISBN 0-7661-4303-1. Page 248
- Webster, Noah. American Dictionary of the English Language. 1828.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "article name needed". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.


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COMIC LEGEND: Alan Moore was banned from traveling to the United States because of his graphic novel, Brought to Light.
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In 1989, Alan Moore released one of his first independent comic book projects, one half of the graphic novel anthology Brought to Light (the other half was by Harvey Pekar's wife, Joyce Brabner, and artist Thomas Yeates).
Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz tell the story of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the words of a retired agent (represented by an anthropomorphic American Eagle)…
As you can see, the comic was quite critical of the CIA and the whole thing was a controversial release at the time. Anyhow, over the years, a rumor has circulated that the CIA was so pissed off at Moore that they blocked him from ever traveling to the United States.
Moore discussed the story with Frank Beaton, and debunked the story:
"Yeah, I have heard the rumours about how I'm not allowed to visit America because the CIA are still cross with me about BROUGHT TO LIGHT. That's not true. The reason I can't visit America is that I haven't got my passport renewed, and getting one doesn't really sound like something I can see myself doing at the moment.
Apathy is the key to an awful lot of my behaviour. It's the reason I've got this ridiculous beard and haircut. It's just simple laziness. I can't be bothered to shave every morning like ordinary people do. I can't be bothered going to the barbers or places like that. I could be sitting here writing my silly-arse comic books or composing some new incomprehensible magical tract, which is much preferable to me."
Sounds about right to me.
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I don't think that Al/Black Widow COULD be told now, Brian, as JMS's THE TWELVE showed what happened to the original Black Widow after the war – she got stuffed into suspended animation and only came out in the present day.
I know Alan Moore won't come to comic conventions in the states after being mobbed by fans at one in the mid-eighties, but to hear him explain why he never travels to the states to just not caring about renewing a passport makes me giggle. For some reason he reminds me of a tall, scary Hobbit just sitting in his Hobbit-hole doing whatever he pleases and not caring one bit about what the outside world thinks…
That was my first thought too, but given the hammer and sickle medallion, I'm not sure she was supposed to be the Golden Age Black Widow, but the first Russian Black Widow. That could totally still happen.
@Chris McFeely I assume they mean the original in the line of Russian spies created in their Black Widow program, not the golden age comics character who had magical powers and a much different schtick…
At first I thought that's who they meant as well, Chris–the "Claire Voyant" version empowered by Satan or whatever to bring justice to evil-doers.
Now I wonder if they meant that she was going to be the first of the Black Widows from the Soviet Union courtesy of the Red Room, a precursor to Natasha. Huh.
I usually hate Mary Sues, but adapting your D&D character into the Marvel Universe is so nerdy that it crosses the line again into awesomeness Kudos to Evan Skolnick.
@Chris McFeely, I think this is a differnt Black Widow, based on the fact that it is a Soviet Medal Steve has, I am guessing the Black Widow being referenced is different than the Black Widow seen in The Twelve. That Black Widow was a mystical being, and Blind Al doesn't seem Mystical. So my guess is this is a Black Widow from the 1940's Black Widow Program that eventually gave us Natasha Romanov. So she is the Golden Age Black Widow in the way Aleksey Lebedev is the Golden Age Red Gaurdian. He is set in that time period even though he wasn't a character in the actual time period known as the Golden Age. So essentially they are suggesting Blind Al is the equivilent of Dottie Underwood from the current Agent Carter series (another Golden Age character not actually from the Golden Age).
I remember the Cap/Al connection Kelly placed (I still think his is the best DP run, and that Spider-Man time travel issue is hysterical); I didn't know about the Black Widow plans, or that Al would have been responsible for Wade's cancer. It certainly explains why she put up with his crap, and endured all of his abuse, though.
Man, I would pay you good money to not show any more overwrought 90's art.
Yeah, I was gonna say, "Oh, you don't mean the actual Golden Age Black Widow. You mean an as yet unknown Soviet Black Widow active in the Golden Age." But it looks like everybody already beat me to that.
Wait, Blind Al and Cap dated in the 40's too? While he was Dating Betsy Ross and Peggy Carter? That guy gets around more than Dobbie Gillis.
I've seen worse ideas, SuperC…. that could be a lot of fun, especially with the way Dottie is being characterized in the current series.
Joe Kelly PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make Blind Al be the elderly comic book version of "Dottie Underwood".
Did the C.I.A. even cared about BROUGHT TO LIGHT at all?
"Did the C.I.A. even cared about BROUGHT TO LIGHT at all?"
Can't imagine that they did.
"Hey, Chief, some hairy giant in England wrote a comic book that criticizes the CIA."
". . . Get back to work, Johnson."
I'm with Rene. Kinda going back to the original article, the chance to "immortalize" your D&D character, and so blatantly (though I can't say it clicked other than as a D&D riff at the time) seems awesome to me.
Yeah, before Sacco and Rall, Ottaviani and Cunningham, there was Alan Moore trying to push the medium, what else is new? But one can't help notice how Brought To Light has been conveniently out of print. Surely a coincidence, just as for that graphic exposé about the CIA's Operation Ajax cancelled by Diamond last year?
Evan Skolnick uses an outdated definition for a "Mary Sue". It did start with an idealized avatar of a female fanfic author, but beyond that it's been used for any obnoxiously perfect or infallible female character. After The Force Awakens, Rey has been called a Mary Sue for this reason.
I had always heard that Blind Al was supposed to be Ms. America or some other established golden age heroine, but this is way more interesting.
Alan Moore's the best. It's amazing to me that he's been giving tongue-in-cheek interviews for over 20 years and some fans/bloggers are still such social misfits that they think everything he says is 100% literal no matter how many times he spells it out right in front of them to not take it so seriously.
I can see Comics Alliance's headline tomorrow: "Alan Moore Says Comic Books 'silly-arse,' Hates the Community, New Creators, and Especially Women."
Other than Moore-not-wanting-to, the most difficult logistic of getting him to travel overseas is more likely to involve the DEA than the CIA.
@Tom Fitzpatrick
The comic community, at large, didn't care about Brought to Light, or even saw it. i doubt the CIA looked at any comic of the period.
Well, maybe Reagan's Raiders.
Be funny if Evan Skolnick wanted to play a game of D&D, then found out he needed Marvel comics permission to use his old character.
Superconnectivity – "Wait, Blind Al and Cap dated in the 40's too? While he was Dating Betsy Ross and Peggy Carter? That guy gets around more than Dobbie Gillis."
I'm now imagining Cap in Pop Tate's sharing a soda with all three gals.
Evan Skolnick uses an outdated definition for a "Mary Sue". It did start with an idealized avatar of a female fanfic author, but beyond that it's been used for any obnoxiously perfect or infallible female character. After The Force Awakens, Rey has been called a Mary Sue for this reason.
He used the correct definition. The Force Awakens critics are using the term incorrectly. And are wrong in general about Rey besides that, but especially wrong about using the term "Mary Sue" as part of their wrong critiques. I'm all for the growth of language and the evolution of terms (and when things are close, it's just douchey to quibble), but "Mary Sue" is such a specific term that it seems bizarre to try to expand it in such a manner. It's like calling Felix Hernandez a southpaw and when told that no, King Felix is a right-handed pitcher, saying, "Oh yeah, no, southpaw is now used to describe pitchers in general, so the term still applies." It seems like a pointless expansion that just makes the term useless.
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I remember when the 1993 issue of Marvel: The Year In Review did a criticism of the characters from the annuals, the comment for Khaos was something like "You know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when some D&D nerd insists on telling you all about his character? Khaos gives you that in spades."
I wonder if the writer of that article knew how accurate they were.
(As a D&D player, I found the comment mildly insulting, but I know better than to babble about the game in normal conversation to random people.)
That and some people 'Mary Sue' for any new character they do not like. I know I have seen Aztek referred to as a 'Mary Sue' because he got JLA membership, every new X-Man is called a 'Mary Sue'. If the correct definition has been abandoned, then 'Mary Sue' is just a slur for 'new character I hate'.
My last post was in response to Brian's, not Armitage's.
On point, on the Brought to Life segment; I think Eclipse hoped it would be more controversial than it was. It got a little coverage in the comic press, because it was Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz. The subject matter tended to get glossed over, in the articles I read, at the time. I don't recall any non-comic coverage. These types of projects, at Eclipse, tended to be cat yronwode's babies and she seemed to come across as a relic of the 60s. As such, books like this and Real War Stories tended to be met with indifference, especially in the Reagan 80s. Eclipse's big sellers were action/adventure stuff, like Scout and prestige works, like Miracleman. Had Moore and Siekiewicz not been involved, I doubt you would have seen any coverage other than Eclipse's house ads, which they also placed in CBG. The Comics Journal might have run an article, sandwhiched between their latest rant against the mainstream and the interview with a mainstream creator.
The only time I can recall Eclipse ever really generating controversy was when they released their crime trading cards and had threats of lawsuits and some attention from a few conservative attorney generals, who were looking to score political points. However, it blew over quickly and their chronic cash flow problems finally caught up with them and put an end to the company.
And, from what I read about Alan Moore, he admitted one time he's no good traveler due to his near-sighted eyes. Speaking of Moore, can you dug up why his BIG NUMBERS never ever completed? Was there conflict between him and his artist then? Thanks.
"Surely a coincidence, just as for that graphic exposé about the CIA's Operation Ajax cancelled by Diamond last year?"
That particular printing was cancelled; it has since come out in both physical and digital formats:
"And are wrong in general about Rey besides that"
Not to drag this thing into an OT flame, but name one thing that she wasn't good at, or didn't master without any prior experience or knowledge, or wasn't indulged in without any good reason.
On the original topic… holy crap that CIA topic is terrifying. If half of the things in it have any truth, it's a wonder we're all not radioactive ash, or a swimming-pool statistic, by now.
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@Warren B
how about "Knowing to switch off the safety on a gun before shooting someone with it"?
as to what she did do
she was a skilled pilot and mechanic before the film
in the Lightsaber duel at the end she fought off (but did not defeat) Rey with a Force-inspired moment like Like had when he destroyed the Death star, and Ren was already injured and suffering from internal conflict which damaged his connection to the Force
Anonymous –
Mary Sues can be of any gender. I know there are people who prefer Gary Stu or Marty Stu for the male version, though.
I'm afraid one of the real reasons for Brought to Light to have been overlooked, besides being from a small publisher and such like Jeff Netterton said, is that it's an earlier instance of Alan Moore being all didactic.
But I also think Brought to Light is pretty good, The shitty things the CIA has pulled never got enough exposure in American fiction and pop culture, sadly. Also, the plethora of right-wing dictatorships the CIA has helped out in Latin America is under-represented in fiction and entertainment. Yeah, not all authoritarian societies in the 20th century have been communist, islamic or otherwise anti-American.
The CIA really bugs me!
The Marvel Super Heroes RPG was published in 1984. I wonder how many "rolled up" characters eventually made it into actual comics?
Whenever I see a bunch of new characters in a comic (complete with splash page and ID labels) I think to myself "this writer is just plugging some sorry-ass characters he rolled up when he was a kid."
@Robert G:
For example, Exodus and various other characters (mostly mutants) who had random laundry lists of powers with absolutely no common theme.
The CIA got some heavy scrutiny, coming out of Vietnam and had their fangs dulled, during the Carter Administration, though they still had fingers in pies. The gloves came off again, in the Reagan years, especially in relation to Latin America (especially Nicaragua). The School of the Americas, a military counter-guerilla training center, is the alma mater of many of the world's worst torturers. Yep, the CIA was involved in some nasty stuff. However, so were most of the intelligence and counter-intelligence organizations of our allies and enemies. That world tends to breed nastiness, no matter what culture. Victor Ostrovsky's expose of the MOSSAD revealed all kinds of schenanigans, especially industrial espionage of the US and other friendly nations. James Bond it ain't! MI-5 and MI-6 have all kinds of skeletons in their closet, as do the French security services (including attacks on Greenpeace, in conjunction with their nuclear testing, in the Pacific).
I was pretty into the indies, by this point; but, I did not encounter Brought to Light, or A Small Killing in a comic book store, when they were released. I only saw one issue of Big Numbers turn up in my local. I got the second issue of Real War Stories at my local comic shop; but, have never come across a copy of the first issue, in the wild. That could be the frustrating thing with comic shops and independent companies. I saw more Love & Rockets in record shops than comic shops. Eclipse could be especially hard to find (Fantagraphics moreso). For years, they made their money off of their mail order business, filling the gaps in collections of people who discovered their books (usually in progress). However, a major flood destroyed a very large chunk of their inventory and their cash flow never really recovered. One of the reasons that some of their books were delayed was that they had trouble finding printers who would print their books, without payment up front; or at least, that's what Mike Grell said held up the 2nd and 3rd issues of his James Bond: Permission to Die mini-series.
I remember when the 1993 issue of Marvel: The Year In Review did a criticism of the characters from the annuals, the comment for Khaos was something like "You know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when some D&D nerd insists on telling you all about his character? Khaos gives you that in spades."
I wonder if the writer of that article knew how accurate they were.
Khaos creator Evan Skolnick himself edited the 1993 issue of Marvel: The Year in Review, so I presume the writers of that article (Tom Brevoort was one of them) knew very well what the deal was.
I've been reading I, Mage lately, and it actually has the characters' d6 stats published as an extra in the back.
I'm all for the growth of language and the evolution of terms (and when things are close, it's just douchey to quibble), but "Mary Sue" is such a specific term that it seems bizarre to try to expand it in such a manner. It's like calling Felix Hernandez a southpaw and when told that no, King Felix is a right-handed pitcher, saying, "Oh yeah, no, southpaw is now used to describe pitchers in general, so the term still applies." It seems like a pointless expansion that just makes the term useless.
I agree! It's like calling a Russian agent the first Black Widow, and when told that the first Black Widow was an American named Claire who killed people for Satan, saying, "Oh yeah, first is now used to describe a hypothetical retro version of the second, so the term still applies."
Brian is quite correct! In fact I'm pretty sure I wrote that Khaos hit piece myself.
As the editor of the satirical versions of MYIR ('92 and '93) I was determined to make sure that my own stuff was skewered at least as viciously as anyone else's.
— Evan
And are wrong in general about Rey besides that, but especially wrong about using the term "Mary Sue" as part of their wrong critiques.
Care to expand on that? I think I agree with you, but I'm not entirely sure how you mean it.
For example, Exodus and various other characters (mostly mutants) who had random laundry lists of powers with absolutely no common theme.
OMG, that would make so much sense. Somewhere along the line we lost the "theme" for a hero…he has the powers that are like a spider, or he has eye beams, or whatever, and everyone started returning to the Superman mish-mash of powers. Which particularly made little sense if you were a mutant. "Yeah, you mutated into a guy who can…have superpowers." It was all so lazy and generic.
And as much as I loved the D&D character before, I love even more that Evan skewered the character for that himself. Khaos needs to be brought back just for all that.
Care to expand on that? I think I agree with you, but I'm not entirely sure how you mean it.
Mary Sue? I mean Rey is not an author-insertion character, so Mary Sue doesn't apply to describe her.
I think I mean more on the "in general beside that" part. Because I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I think I'd side with you on that. Your first point that she doesn't fit the definition of Mary Sue without bending the definition to the point it has no meaning was clear and obviously correct.
Aha, gotcha. Sure, the folks trying to work "Mary Sue" into their arguments are the ones whose main criticism is "Rey is good at too many things." "Character X is bad because Character X is good at too many things" is a cuckoo bananas criticism. There's not even any need to rattle off the long, long list of characters who are good at a bunch of things that no one ever said were bad characters because of it because it doesn't even need to go that far – it's a silly criticism on its face.
"Good at too many things" is an intensifier. If you already likes the character, then it makes them even cooler. If you already dislikes the character, it turns dislike into hatred.
That's what I was going for. And yes, I agree wholeheartedly. And what you say Rene is true too. But the question is what about the character is it that makes one dislike her? From my posting history I don't think anyone sees me as someone who sees this type of thing around every corner, but I'd have to say the only thing I see that people object to her having this characteristic is that it's a "her."
It's funny coming from the sci fi/geek crowd, because as Brian says, there's no limit to characters like that. No one has a problem with Batman or James Bond. (And really, up till Batman Begins, it's never been "earned" for those guys).
If someone has a reason they don't like her that doesn't involve "she's too good at things" I'd be open to hear it. I'm definitely on the "even cooler" side, because she was already ridiculously charming and well acted for a newbie actress, and basically stole the show for me. Which was not anything I expected or planned on going into the movie. The fact that the characters aren't diminished on the same screen as Han frickin' Solo says a lot of JJ's strengths as a filmmaker, as opposed to the flaws he has that he regularly gets raked over the coals for on the web.
At risk of losing all my nerd cred, I have to admit that I still didn't watch the new Star Wars movie, so I can't really say anything about the characters.
But the question is what about the character is it that makes one dislike her? From my posting history I don't think anyone sees me as someone who sees this type of thing around every corner, but I'd have to say the only thing I see that people object to her having this characteristic is that it's a "her."
Great question. It'd be interesting to hear others explain why they don't like her.
As far as I can tell, the people complaining about Rey are saying the film should have been at least twice as long with the pace slowed down with lots of clips of the backgound of all of the characters showing everything significant from the characters lives to date and not leave anything to the viewer's imagination or later books, comics, etc.
A more likely explanation is they are objecting to her being female, not being overshadowed by a man and not wearing an outfit they find sufficiently sexy…
(though a lot of them are probably just echoing opinions of other people rather as thinking for themselves is too much like hard work).
@ John King
So now any criticism of a female character is to be simply handwaved away as being sexist? Yeah, sounds about rght these days.
So now any criticism of a female character is to be simply handwaved away as being sexist? Yeah, sounds about rght these days.
In this specific instance, the "she's good at too many things!" criticism is so stupid that I agree that it almost detracts from the stupidity by labeling it as sexist, as then people could say stuff like, "You're just handwaving the criticism as being sexist" to distract from just how moronic the criticism is.
Jim Harris-
"So now any criticism of a female character is to be simply handwaved away as being sexist? "
So now any defense of a female character is to be simply handwaved away as being "because she's female"?
Rene- I haven't seen it yet, either. I even had to stop reading one of the webcomics I follow to avoid too many spoilers.
Jim –
Not necessarily sexism. To me, it looks more a matter of partisanship. Like, "those darned SJW folks are in favor of these diversity-driven characters? Then I must be against!" The cultural war seems so heated in the Internet these days that I can see some Conservatives spitting out the chocolate they've been eating after reading that SJWs have adopted pro-chocolate positions.
Jim, not any. But we're trying to think of any in this case. Do you have any examples of what was wrong with the character? That's what I asked. If you don't have any examples, then you're kinda proving the point you're decrying.
any criticism of a character which is dumb or arbitarily assigned to one character should be handwaved away regardless of the gender of the character.
In the case of Rey, the main criticism I am hearing is that the story doesn't explain how she acquires her skills.
Luke Skywalker becoming a top fighter-pilot overnight is regarded as okay because of supplementary material created after the film to explain it. Maybe, new material expanding on Rey's back story explaining when and why she learned to understand Wookies, etc will make her more acceptable though I suspect such criticisms are just an excuse.
Personally, I can accept that the majority of her life was not shown in the film and have no problems with her acquiring skills in scenes not shown (and I believe the film would be worse if it was filled with such flashbacks).
The film as is:
"How'd Rey learn to speak Wookiee/fly a ship/do anything well? That's ridiculous!"
The film with a scene detailing a past event which explains how she learned the language/to fly/to do anything well:
"That was unnecessary and pandering! What is this, the Prequels? We don't need every detail of every character's backstory spelled out!"
There's just no pleasing some people.
Rey is a boring character to begin with, with practically no personality and only a flimsy attempt at mystery to her backstory giving the audience any reason to give her a second thought. She shows up, saves the day, but doesn't give us any reason to care about her besides that. She's not a badass like Han Solo, she doesn't (yet) have an intriguing backstory (since they hid all of it until the sequel). People seem to figure she's closest to giving us a hero's journey story, like Luke did, but her journey to hero felt much less earned than Luke's. The comparison's are obvious, since they're both young people from desert planets who head into space with elderly mentors who teach them how to battle the empire before getting killed by a guy in a black mask with a funny voice. But is anyone going to sit here and tell me Rey's story is as well done as Luke's? She effectively fills his role in the movie, but doesn't do it as well.
In the original Star Wars, Luke was the nothing farm boy who became a top fighter pilot and destroyed the Death Star, becoming a hero.
Rey starts off more skilled due to a rougher life requiring more self-dependence and, at the end of the film, is still on the road to hero-hood (to be continued in later films). The destruction of Starkiller Base is more a team effort, though her contribution to this is roughly comparable to C3PO's contribution to the destruction of the Death Star.
I'm with John King- I think anyone (and there are many, though not a majority) who complain about "they didn't explain enough about x, y, and z in the Force Awakens" can't really have been any sort of Star Wars fan until long after the movies came out. Not only was there stuff in the original movies they didn't explain till later movies, there was all sorts of stuff they NEVER explained, until there was expanded universe stuff and prequels. Darth Vader was the Dark Lord of the Sith. What the heck was that? We made up all sorts of fan theories, and there were articles in fanzines speculating. But he's not even really called that in the movies, and they certainly don't tell us what a Sith might be (until Phantom Menace in official continuity). The whole structure of the galaxy, the senate being ended, and that there was an "emperor" is a throw away line in a Death Star scene. They don't explain hardly anything. It's deepens that it's a world that already exists, not one that needs to be explained away.
And I like 'em both, but Luke was a whiny kid who "seemed strong with the Force" so he could do these things. There wasn't any explanation at all why he was or what it meant. Rey has a personality; it just doesn't have an "edge." She's earnest, charming, unsure of herself in thought, but capable in action. One of JJ's major successes of the films (and his work) is that he found leads who were immediately likable on screen, or convincing at least, as with Kylo Ren. That was one of the weaknesses of the prequels…who do the films get you to root for, even if you're supposed to? Can you imagine Driver as Anakin? Now do I think the character was a big stretch for Daisy Ridley? No, it's not the hardest acting work. Because I think she is that likable and charming. It's more a movie star turn. I mean, Harrison Ford isn't really stretching by playing Han Solo, but damn if he isn't awesome. And that's what I want, it's Star Wars; characters who are awesome to guide me on this thrill ride. Rey and Finn did that for me.
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A police report says things got violent after Swanagan's daughter used a derogatory word and now supporters wonder what their next move will be.
A street where kids play basketball could now be the downfall for a school board hopeful.
"I want to hear his side of the story," said Sallie Thomas, the President of the Richmond County Bus Drivers Union.
Thomas says even though James Swanagan was arrested that doesn't mean her group will stop backing him.
"The officers and I will get with our people and we will talk over our endorsement of Rev. Swanagan," she said.
Fairington Drive is where deputies say they found the candidate, holding his 29 year old daughter by the hair, and beating her with a belt Saturday night. Swanagan told investigators his daughter's use of a derogatory word towards his fiancee is how things got started.
"I have never seen him be aggressive, but I do know that he requires his family to give him respect," said Thomas.
The union leader says even if the charges stick voters shouldn't hold it against him, because his opponent has baggage too.
"Venus Cain has a record of her own," she said
The current school board president was arrested on disorderly conduct after a domestic dispute with her husband in 1995. When reached by News 12 to comment on Swanagan's situation she declined
"At this time I still stand behind him until all the facts come out," said Monique Braswell.
Braswell is also running for the school board and was recently endorsed by the same group and says age is nothing but a number.
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Something the bus drivers union president agrees with.
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MEINEKE CAR CARE CENTER DO NOT BRING YOUR CAR THERE! ripoff SOUTH PORTLAND Maine
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Last month I brought my car to that location for service, and those guys made a fool out of me. I am not upset with the $600 plus amount that I spent, but I am upset with the service and their unprofessionalism, and how clueless they are about everything. When I brought my car there, this look-alike Steve Austin took my car for a ride, and he came back a few minutes later, and he said that my car needed a bunch of stuff, and he quoted me $1500.
First of all that is a lot of money, and second of all, I was in shock because he did not even run a diagnostic on the vehicle. Well, dumb me I assumed that he knew what he was doing; after all it is the car care center. Well, I paused, and I told him that lets do the major things first, and I would take care of the rest later. He did a tune up and an engine flush, and I was charged for a V8 rather than a V6, which they claimed it was their mistake. I dont remember when Nissan started making V8 Maximas. I brought my car there because it had been shaking severely, and I had no clue what was going on. Once that tuned up was done they claimed that it was all set.
As soon as I got inside the car, I knew something was wrong because the vehicle was continuously shaking. I called back the following day, and I told the person that my vehicle is still shaking, and he said that I should put gas in it. I did put gas in it, and it didnt do anything. I called back, and they said that I needed to run it for a little while.
I couldnt take it anymore so I brought it back to the shop. They finally ran a diagnostic and the mechanic said that I am getting multiple misfire, and it could be my computer. It would cost me $2000 to replace according to the expert. It could also be my coil pack, and they may have to replace all of them, and that is $900 because each one is $150 and I have six.
To be fair, he did say that he would try to figure out what the problem was, but I doubt that he did because my car was sitting there for two days, and he said that he would call. I had to go there to get my car. That was a whole different story compared to what they had told me in the beginning.
To make a long story short, they basically couldnt fix my car because they couldnt figure what was exactly wrong with it. They made me pay for a service that I did not even need. According to the Nissan dealer my vehicle only needed coil pack: number 2 & 4 which only cost $421 including labor. I think those guys are incompetent and everyone needs to know about it. I will make sure that everyone checks them out on Angiess List.
South Portland, Maine
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Cancer Genetics Risk Assessment and Counseling (PDQ®): Genetics - Health Professional Information [NCI] - Components of the Risk Assessment Process
- Introduction
- Cancer Risk Assessment and Counseling
- Components of the Risk Assessment Process
- Education and Counseling About Risk / Risk Communication
- The Option of Genetic Testing
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
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One study has shown that the addition of a colored ecogenetic relationship map (CEGRM) to the psychosocial assessment is feasible for assessing the social milieu in which an individual resides.[9] The CEGRM is a psychosocial assessment tool that expands the family pedigree to include a family systems genogram and ecomap.[10]
Assessing the concept of personal cancer risk and its relationship to genetics is complex and not completely understood. However, the evidence continues to accumulate that a set of evolving factors influences a person's concept of his or her risk, which may not be congruent with evidence-based quantitative calculations. This assessment includes the following:
- Experiential and empathetic knowledge.
- People's beliefs regarding the basis for the occurrence of cancer in themselves and/or their relatives.
- Sources of information and inaccuracies and/or misperceptions.
- Literacy level, including health and numeracy.[11,12]
- Personal theories of inheritance.
- Patterns of decision making (deliberate vs. experiential).[13,14]
A thorough understanding of these issues can greatly inform genetic education and counseling. These factors influence the processing of risk information and subsequent health behaviors.[14]
Risk perception
The communication of risk involves the delivery of quantitative information regarding what the data indicate about the likelihood of developing illness given various preventive actions. More broadly, however, risk communication is an interactive process regarding the individual's knowledge, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors associated with risk and the risk message conveyed. Accordingly, the goal of risk communication may be to impact the individual's knowledge of risk factors, risk likelihoods, potential consequences of risk, and the benefits and drawbacks of preventive actions.
Even before the provision of risk information, the provider may anticipate that the individual already has some sense of his or her own risk of cancer. The individual may have derived this information from multiple sources, including physicians, family members, and the media.[15] This information may be more salient or emotional if a family member has recently died from cancer or if there is a new family diagnosis.[16,17] Additionally, individuals may have beliefs about how genetic susceptibility works in their family.[18,19] For example, in a family where only females have been affected with an autosomal dominant cancer susceptibility syndrome thus far, it may be difficult to convince the consultand that her sons have a 50% risk of inheriting the disease-related mutation. The social-ecological context through which risk beliefs develop and are maintained are important as potential moderators of individuals' receptivity to the cancer risk communication process and also represent the context in which individuals will return to continue ongoing decision making about how to manage their risk.[20,21] As such, individuals' beliefs, and the social context of risk, are important to discuss in education and genetic risk counseling.
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- Exploring common device ownership models
- Using iPads with a learning management system (LMS)
- Downloading apps
- Setting up the master sync
- Projecting from an iPad
- Printing with AirPrint
- Sharing content with Dropbox
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Skill Level Appropriate for all
Although I don't recommend using the iPad for typing term papers, or thesis. There are times in class where you will use the keyboard, and will want to type, particularly for taking notes. So let's tap on the app Notes, and see some of the features of the keyboard. As soon as you tap in the document, the keyboard slides up. If you tap on a Return key and start a new line, any new line will start with a capitalized letter.
If you want to insert a capitalized letter later, you simply tap the Shift key and the letter that you want to be capitalized. If you want a whole word to be capitalized Double tap on the Shift key and begin typing. To undo this feature simply tap on the Shift key. A cool super user trick for capitalizing letters is to tap on the Shift key and slide to the letter that you want to capitalize.
To insert a period, double tap on the space bar. One of the most interesting and amazing features of this keyboard is that you can switch from keyboard to keyboard. From country keyboard to country keyboard, and there are also special keyboards with emoticons that are particularly attractive to students. If you tap once on the Home button to go back to your multitasking bar, then tap on the Settings app, then tap on Keyboards.
Then tap on Add New Keyboard, look at all of the different keyboards that you have available. This is fantastic for foreign students, for doing things in different countries and for students who have English as a second language. They appear in alphabetical order. We're going to experiment with the Emoji keyboard by tapping on the word Emoji. And now we have it added into our keyboards. If I double tap on the Home key, that brings up my multitasking bar, then I'll tap on notes. Then tap anywhere in the page, and now when I look at the keyboard in the bottom left I see a new key with the globe on it.
If I tap on that key, that brings up my new keyboard which is my emoticons, and tapping on those images has now replaced my standard keyboard. Now I'm sure a lot of the teachers are groaning as I explain how to this. You can also delete these keyboards. In order to delete these keyboards you go back to Settings. And tap on the Edit button in the upper right corner. And tap on the red minus sign, and then tap the Delete key. Back in Notes, tap anywhere in the document.
And now if we look at the keyboard, you'll notice that the key with the globe icon is missing. There are also some special hidden things in the keys. If you tap on the E and pull up, you'll see all the different ways in which you can use the E key, even in foreign languages. You may try tapping on some of the other letters, like O. But the most important ones to me are the ones that show when you tap on the exclamation and comma, there's your apostrophe.
And the question mark and period, there's your quotation marks. And that keeps you from having to switch back and forth between two different keyboards. There will be times when you'll want to Copy and Cut and Paste things. Just tap twice on a word and that selects the word, and a pop up menu shows. That gives you a number of choices to Cut, Copy, Paste, suggest other ways of spelling the word, or even defining a word in the dictionary.
If you want to select more, you can tap on any of the blue dots and pull them left or right. As you pull left and right, you'll see a magnifying glass come up. And if I tap on Copy right now, and insert my (UNKNOWN) in a different part of the document and hit return, and then, tap again. I can Paste that selection where the I beam is. And as you're typing, if any of the words appear with a red dotted underline, that means you've misspelled them.
If you tap on those words, it will give you a suggestion, and if you want that suggestion, just tap on it. To hide the keyboard, there is a button in the bottom right that you may tap on. And that will slide the keyboard down. And anytime you want to bring the keyboard back in to any of the apps where you're typing, simply tap on the document. And last, a really fun trick to do is there are different kinds of ways you can set up your keyboard. If you put your two fingers together and split them apart with one gesture, you now have split the keyboard and this gives you a lot more visible space so you can see what you're doing on the screen.
And if you take those two pointer fingers and push them back to the center, you rejoin your keyboard. There's an unusual key on this keyboard, there's a microphone. If you tap on this icon, you can dictate words into an audio recording, and iPad will do its best to type whatever you say. This key is particularly effective with young students learning how to read they can speak their thoughts then see them typed.
If you have students with special needs, this can be a very effective tool. Those of them who do not have the ability to type with their hands or do not have good, small motor skills or who lean towards being more auditory. This key will give you a way for them to express themselves through text. So these are some of the fun features that are designed into and hidden and built for you to have a great time typing in iPad even though you can't feel the keys.


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I'm moving content from a non-WP blog to a new WP installation.
I manually added dozens of photos into the media library.
I did a search and replace of the image paths of the old blog's html to the path of the new location where images reside from the media library upload on my new WP install.
I then moved the HTML of individual pages that contained image tags to new WP posts.
The path is exactly correct. But the images are not showing. If I use WP dashboard to add an image to a particular post, the image then shows up. It's the same path!!! Why won't the manually added HTML tags show images?


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Kurzweil responds: Don't underestimate the Singularity
October 20, 2011 by Ray Kurzweil
Last week, Paul Allen and a colleague challenged the prediction that computers will soon exceed human intelligence. Now Ray Kurzweil, the leading proponent of the "Singularity," offers a rebuttal. — Technology Review, Oct. 10, 2011.
Although Paul Allen paraphrases my 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near, in the title of his essay (cowritten with his colleague Mark Greaves), it appears that… read more


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Spring in Fialta
by Vladimir Nabokov
Character Analysis
Nina is an absolutely fascinating character. Like Victor, we struggle to understand just what she's thinking. She's married to Ferdinand, but carries on casual affairs with no thought to consequences. She doesn't read her husband's writing, but picks up enough from overheard conversations to quote it just the same.
A big part of Nina is her transience. As Victor says, she's always either coming or going. He's used to "her hesitations, second thoughts, third thoughts mirroring first ones, ephemeral worries between trains," and even imagines her as residing permanently in a train station, leaning over the counter, pondering a timetable. When he dreams about Nina, he sees her as a refugee in a train station. She even dies while in motion, traveling from one place to the next. Her presence in Victor's life is always brief, intense, and forgotten immediately. She seems to offer her affection to anyone, willingly, completely, only to ignore them without feeling after the fact. What do you do with a woman like that?
The question is, what does Victor do with a woman like that? In his mind, in his memory, Victor has made Nina into something other than human. She seems to appear from nowhere, magically, like the bouquet of flowers in her hands at the end of the text. She defies time, appears "twenty at least" when she was seventeen, but looks far younger than her age at thirty-two. He sees her everywhere, even in magazines and fictional characters. He even characterizes her in series of set, fixed Nina-poses: leaning against a counter, sitting in the shape of a Z, holding a cigarette. She is always angular, slight, cavalier, at ease, and the focus of male attention. (Did you notice that men are always looking at Nina, starting with the Englishman whose blue eye draws Victor's (and our) attention to her?) Of course, this is all rather unrealistic, and can only be the result of contrived artifice on the part of Victor. It's unlikely that Nina lives forever in a series of angular poses, yet this is how she exists in "Spring in Fialta" because this is how she exists in Victor's mind.
So, expectedly, we watch Nina break out of this cozy corner of Victor's imagination. If he's been treating her as an ideal, it is at the end of "Spring in Fialta" that the real Nina shows up. Unfortunately, the only way Nina can prove herself real is by dying. As it turns out, she's not magic. She's not immortal. She's not a "salamander of fate" or an "invulnerable rogue;" she's simply a woman who can die like anyone else. And that's the real tragedy of "Spring in Fialta" – not that Nina died, but that Nina, as Victor imagined her, never existed in the first place.


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Complaint Review: Luminous Brites
Luminous BritesLuminousBrites.com Glendale, California U.S.A.
Luminous Brites EXPENSIVE "TRIAL OFFER"---offer is really "try AND PAY BIG next month" Glendale California
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On CHRISTMAS EVE day I received a second kit that I DID NOT order. I contacted the company by telephone that day (in the middle of a big family Christmas reunion in our home). I was told my account would be cancelled that day. I have discovered that my credit card was charged $88+ on DECEMBER 15th.
I feel this is an unfair SCHEME by Luminous Brites. I am contacting the company at their e-mail address immediately and will be following up by telephone beginning tomorrow (Dec. 26th) in pursuit of a refund that I believe any reputable company would honor.
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Last week, the Instytut Ksiazki announced that this year's Transatlantyk Award was to Vlasta Dvořáčková, who translates Polish literature into Czech.
Vlasta Dvořáčková is the most important Czech translator of Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz, Wisława Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Ever since having studied Polish Literature at Charles University in Prague – in the complex circumstances of a communist state and widespread censorship – she has promoted Polish literature and culture, including authors that were blacklisted. She has performed an invaluable service in her publishing and popularizing of modern Polish poetry, both before and after 1989. Her contribution to the popularization of the classics of Polish literature is also inestimable, as her translations include Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Adam Mickiewicz. Dvořáčková has won the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland. In 2009 she received the translation of the year award from the Czech Translators' Association for her rendering of recent volumes by Wisława Szymborska (Moment, Colon, and Here). She also translates from German and English.
The Transatlantyk is an annual Book Institute award presented for outstanding achievement in the promotion of Polish literature in the world. The Award Chapter selects the winner; it is made up of Ireneusz Kania, Xenia Staroshyelska, Beata Stasińska and Olga Tokarczuk. The head is the Director of the Book Institute. The award includes 10,000 euro and a statue. The winners to date have been: Henryk Bereska (2005), Anders Bodegård (2006), Albrecht Lempp (2007), Xenia Staroshyelska (2008), Biserka Rajčić (2009), and Pietro Marchesani (2010).
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