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I called them . Asked them why is my bill 200.00 dollars.
They said there is 25% interest rate . I said oh no no. I was to have no interest rate.
They said well if you read our aggrement .You'll see that was just for the first month.
Anyways i asked for this account to be closed. I'm not paying nomore on this bill... Because yopu people lieing.
Then sudden next month . I got bill for 300.00 then for 400.00. etc,,,
Then i got phone calls all hours of the day everyday. asking for money!!!.Then finally I got a bill over 1000.00 dollars. after they said this account is closed. Inter rate went up over 50%... wow ... I change my num . You know now they call me . at my new num lieing saying i gave them this contack number. Liers. Saying it a laywers office .
I told this person. They have wrong person. Not to call my house she dont live here . So they 3 years now still calling me on new phone number .
After i said they have wrong person...
How do I stop this ?.. first of all they lairs .. they said be no interest rate. #2 I payed more than what bill is. #3 they now wont stop calling me 3 years now everyday ... Help me
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Welcome to the two-hundred and forty-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and forty-four.
Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of entertainment and sports, which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I'd especially recommend you check out this installment of Movie Legends Revealed to find out which James Bond film got its name from a typo!
Let's begin!
COMIC LEGEND: Stan Lee once tried to ban exclamation points from Marvel Comics, with bizarre results.
STATUS: True
It's funny, I was meaning to feature this one last week, but plans changed, and then earlier this week, in her column, She Has No Head!, Kelly Thompson spurred a discussion related to this week's topic. Talk about serendipity!
In any event, as you folks all know by now, exclamation points are used a lot in comic books (check out this old Comic Book Legends Revealed for a comic series that was rumored to be pretty much ALL exclamation points!), and in the past they were used even MORE frequently! One good theory as to why they were so plentiful in the early days of comics is proffered by my pal, Jim MacQuarrie, who suggests that it most likely had to do with the printing processes of the time – when comics were not printed on very good paper, periods would not really be too visible, so you would have to put in an exclamation points to make sure the reader knew what you were trying to do. And in addition (and this is something that continued for years, as comics were still a largely "hands on" printing process for decades), a guy getting a comic page ready for print might think that a period was just an accidental spot and then remove it, while the same would not happen for exclamation points.
However, by the early 1970s, exclamation points were mostly used because comic writers wanted them, not because they had to. It was useful in making comics seem dynamic. If everyone is shouting, then some pretty cool stuff must be going on, right (see the TV series 24 for the same basic concept)?
So pretty much every Marvel Comic would be filled with characters using exclamation points.
Here's a page from Fantastic Four #106 to give you an idea…
I don't mean to suggest, however, that Marvel ONLY used exclamation points. They had plenty of dialogue by that time where they used periods, they just used exclamation points a lot (and a book like Fantastic Four was particularly filled with them).
In any event, at one point, Stan Lee decided that exclamation points were too juvenile, so he decreed that no Marvel Comics were to feature exclamation points from then on!
Well, the problem was, most of these issues where he decreed would be without exclamation points were already getting ready to be sent out.
So the solution was to just remove the exclamation points from the issues as they lay. The problem with that is that it only worked with exclamation points at the end of the word balloons (whether that was because they literally couldn't or because they didn't feel like it, I don't know).
So here is the issue of Fantastic Four before the decision (#111)…
Note that, as I mentioned before, Marvel had plenty of sentences without exclamation points- just a lot of sentences with them.
Now here is the issue after it…
See what they did?
They just removed the punctuation entirely!
And not only that, but since it was only from the END of the word balloons, you'd have silly stuff like exclamation points in the middle of a long piece of dialogue but nothing at the end (in addition, obviously, extra-sized marks were kept, like Jameson's shouts here and Johnny's "Flame On!")…
Roy Thomas was against the idea, and he kept using exclamation points in the comics he wrote…
So it was only the comics Stan Lee still wrote (which, in 1971, was basically just Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man).
Interestingly enough, though, the ban of exclamation points was in place for one of the famous "No Comics Code" issues of Amazing Spider-Man (#98)…
Trippy, huh?
In fact, Amazing Spider-Man #100 was caught up in this, as well!
In any event, these issues of Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man also pretty much marked the LAST issues Stan Lee would script of both books, so that likely had something to do with the fact that the exclamation points returned when Archie Goodwin took over as scripter of Fantastic Four (with #115) and Roy Thomas as scripter of Amazing Spider-Man (with #101).
But perhaps Lee just realized it wasn't a great idea. Either way, they were now back for good!
Thanks to Scott Shaw! (a fellow who is no stranger to exclamation points) for bringing this topic up a few years back on his nifty comic book site, Oddball Comics. Scott asked Roy Thomas about it, and Roy delivered the information I just gave you.
So a big hearty thanks to Scott and Roy! And thanks to Jim MacQuarrie, too.
COMIC LEGEND: Marvel could not do a new Champions book because Marvel discovered that someone else now owned the trademark to the name "The Champions."
STATUS: True
As you likely know, Marvel had a comic in the mid-70s called The Champions, starring a disparate group of Marvel heroes.
It lasted about two years before being canceled.
Well, years later, after the events of Civil War, Marvel was going to have a NEW Champions group (as part of the "Fifty State Initiative," where each US State would get their own government-sponsored, government-trained superhero team).
They are mentioned in Civil War #6…
However, when the comic debuted, they were now called The Order….
And all the little C's on their chests (from the initial solicitations) were now O's.
You see, after Marvel's series was over (they did receive a trademark on the name, but it came down after the series was over), a Role Playing Game series called the Champions was started by Dennis Mallonee and Heroic Publishing.
Here's one of their old role playing books…
And in 1986, they did a comic book mini-series at Eclipse featuring the characters…
This was followed by them publishing their OWN Champions comic book series for a little while.
In an interview with Newsarama in 2007, Mallonee stated:
Marvel did seek and was granted registration of the trademark it was using for that title. That registration, however, was not granted until several months after the title had ceased publication. In the mid-80s, on the basis of that registration, Marvel contested registration of the mark Hero Games was using at that time for its Champions role-playing game. The trademark board took notice of Marvel's abandonment of their earlier mark, and cancelled that registration. In the mid-90's, although Marvel had never resumed publication of their Champions comic book, Marvel tried again to register their mark. Once again, their mark was declared abandoned.
Heroic Publishing, on the other hand, has since mid-1987 been using Champions as a trademark in connection with Heroic's small line of superhero comic books, and fully intends to continue to use it. Having resumed publication of their Champions comic book in 2005, Heroic Publishing filed for registration in May of 2006. The patent and trademark office agreed that Heroic's claim to that mark was both legitimate and eligible for registration. The mark was published for opposition. No opposition was received. Accordingly, Heroic's Champions trademark has been registered.
And that was pretty much that.
So Marvel changed it to The Order, and all was well…until The Order ended after just ten issues.
But that's another story (quickly, thanks to Matt Brady for the cool interview with Mallonee)…
COMIC LEGEND: The Order, was canceled by Marvel
STATUS: False Enough for a False
The Order, by Matt Fraction and Barry Kitson, was a very cool comic book series.
And it ended after just ten issues.
The book was seen by many as a symbol of the plight of critically acclaimed, low-selling new titles at Marvel and DC. Heck, just recently, here at Comics Should Be Good, it was cited by more than a few people as a book Marvel canceled when Marvel announced the cancellation of their new title, SWORD.
Hell, I am pretty sure that I referred to it as canceled when it ended.
Matt Fraction, however, disputed this back in 2008, again, in an interview at Newsarama…
Newsarama: Do you have anything you'd like to say about the book's cancellation or future plans for the characters?
Fraction: That the book wasn't cancelled: I chose to end it. Marvel allowed me to choose to leave the stage, rather than to continue on in a state in which I felt was compromised and decidedly unawesome.
I don't think I was too clear about that on Word Balloon: it wasn't cancelled. I killed it. And if you're looking for the man that killed The Order, it was me.
Now watch, nobody's gonna read that and nobody's gonna care, because it's way more fun the other way. Oh well.
Now, I don't know exactly what he's referring to by "compromised and decidedly unawesome," and you might very well make the argument that while Fraction was the one who said "let's end it now," it was perhaps close to being ended by Marvel ANYways (it was still in the Top 100 at the time of its cancellation), but still, I think Fraction's point is strong.
Whether the book WOULD have been canceled or not, the fact remains that it was NOT canceled.
Fraction notably brought over a character he had invented in The Order over to his new series, Invincible Iron Man…
The character, Ezekiel Stane, became a major antagonist in the book.
Thanks to Newsarama and Fraction for the info!
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I hit refresh to see that you fixed it, but it was far more trippy – and somehow appropriate – when the "No Comics Code" Spider-Man starred Captain Marvel. A hint of a future legend?
(or the Captain Marvel stuff is now Roy Thomas's Avengers)
Yep, the Avengers pages were swapped with the Spider-Man pages by mistake. Fixed now!
"Note that, as I mentioned before, Marvel had plenty of sentences without exclamation points- just a lot of sentences with them."
You keep using the word sentence, but I think you mean "text", or maybe "word balloon".
Anyhow, fun entry.
I'm pretty sure the reason Fraction said the book was "compromised" is because Barry Kitson would be leaving the book, partly to work on the Spider-Man Brand New Day relaunch and partly because at the title's current sales levels, Marvel couldn't afford having both of them working on the title. It was similar to situation Warren Ellis ran into with NextWave. He could've continued the title but only by replacing Stuart Immonen with a less expensive artist.
Oops, I quoted the wrong line.
"The problem with that is that it only worked with exclamation points at the end of a sentence (whether that was because they literally couldn't or because they didn't feel like it, I don't know)."
'Exclamation points at the end of a word balloon' is what you meant, I assume.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Oops, I quoted the wrong line.
Phew, because I had no idea what you were trying to say there originally.
Now that you quoted the other line, I gotcha. Sure, I can clarify that in the piece. Thanks.
I have a suspicion that what Fraction is referring too is more what his workload was going to be coming up – he had a number of projects – in the case of Iron Man, a title that had been his dream for sometime.
I would venture that he simple prioritized for the sake of quality, and that The Order didn't make the cut. I'm sure the titles sales may have played a factor if they were low-ish, but I bet it was more a case of workload, and he didn't want the quality of his work to suffer.
The other thing that he may be eluding too is some kind of editorial mandate. Some kind of choice he may have had between following an edict or canceling the title.
Both of these are mere speculation on my part.
I love Fraction's writing though. I find his work – particularly on Iron Man – to be of an exceptional quality.
Weren't there 10 issues of The Order?
Weren't there 10 issues of The Order?
I thought it was ten, as well, but the Grand Comic Book Database said nine, so I deferred to them. But yeah, after double-checking just now, it was, indeed, ten (it was silly of me not to double-check sooner). Thanks!
Good old Roy Thomas. Perhaps the one man who, when it came to being old school comic book hokey-and-proud-of-it, out Stan Lees Stan Lee himself.
Man, I HATE exclamation points. Almost as much as I hate Europeans.
I also think the less awesome bit was the departure of Barry Kitson
The Order being "cancelled" by Marvel is a "comic book legend — REVEALED?" Stretch much?
The Order being "cancelled" by Marvel is a "comic book legend — REVEALED?" Stretch much?
I'm just glad I no longer have the "urban" part in the title anymore. The pissy whining about whether something belonged in the column was so much more prevalent then.
Funny that The Order is still called The Champions in some of the copy on the Marvel Digital site.
Guess it was pretty close to the deadline when they made the switch.
So, was the Marvel lack of punctuation era the inspiration for Grant Morrison's punctuation-less word balloons during his Batman run?
Using two "l"s in the word "canceled" is chiefly British, fyi.
…In reference to Matt Brady's article, that is…..
Wow, TEN pages of comic book images just to make the point of odd exclamation point use in old comics? Isn't that a little excessive? One or two would've sufficed.
As for The Champions, the existence of the superhero-based game of the same name has been well-known among fans for decades. In fact, all Marvel had to do was google the words "champions"and "superheroes" together and they would've found out that their trademark was still active. Pretty shoddy work on their part.
I have to disagree with Fraction that, if you're writing characters for someone else, and you don't feel like writing the title anymore for whatever reason, you should ask for the comic to be cancelled. It gives writers a sense of entitlement that shouldn't be there. Who says that a later writer couldn't have made it the hit that he couldn't make it be? Now, wrapping up plotlines you set up, that is Ok, because it's good work ethic. But basically saying, "I don't want it to continue without me?" No. Not that Order would likely have last long anyway, but that's not the point.
Hey Brian, I'm not sure why you italicized the word "particularly" in the first article. The adverb is supposed to let the reader know something is out of the ordinary and doesn't really need the extra emphasis. Other than that and the other comments already made, the article would be flawless.
Thanks for putting up with the nitpicking comments. It's hilarious what some people get hung up on.
Guess it was pretty close to the deadline when they made the switch.
Indeed. As Brian mentioned, I remember seeing the cover of the first issue and some promo art that featured the "C" on the costumes instead of the "O". It definitely seemed like an eleventh hour change.
Oh, and despite our similar avatars, don't think that I also minded that you included the info about the Order not getting cancelled, Brian. Personally, I don't care WHAT you call the column; just keep 'em coming!
Man I was wondering why there were all those Spider-Man issues I was reading that had no ending punctuation at all… it totally made me feel like I was floating randomly in space.
I'm pretty sure the reason Fraction said the book was "compromised" is because Barry Kitson would be leaving the book, partly to work on the Spider-Man Brand New Day relaunch and partly because at the title's current sales levels, Marvel couldn't afford having both of them working on the title. It was similar to situation Warren Ellis ran into with NextWave. He could've continued the title but only by replacing Stuart Immonen with a less expensive artist.
Yeah, I remember Kitson's availability being a key issue, as well. He also seemed to be struggling to maintain with the monthly grind; Khari Evans and Javier Saltares were both tapped to do pencilling assists, while a whole spate of inkers was needed throughout the book's run. Amazing Spider-Man's rotating arc set-up is probably a much better fit for Kitson.
What everybody seems to be overlooking is the fact that Fantastic Four vol.1 #111, is part of one of the best FF sagas ever–Thing can transform into Ben Grim, becomes evil, saves Reed from the Negative Zone, fights Johnny, Hulk vs. the Thing, where Hulk actually KILLS the Thing with ONE PUNCH!!!!!! Lee and Buscema at their very BEST!!! This was in my TOP FIVE greatest storylines EVER!!!!! Thanx Brian!!!!!
Exclamation points, bah.
Someone once said: "Using exclamation points is like laughing at your own jokes."
F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of my favorite authors.
I'm still sad that no one from The Order has been seen since. I wish that Fraction had used Necrosha as an excuse to bring back that girl with the hammer whose name escapes me and hook her up with Xian.
The odd thing is when Dennis Mallonee did his third Champions series (from the third publisher) in the late '80s or thereabouts, the title was changed to 'League Of Champions'. The reason given in the first issue was because of potential trademark problems with Marvel and others who had also used the title. (I don't remember what the others were that he mentioned.) The game continued to be called Champions, though. So for a while there, they gave Marvel the opportunity to reclaim the trademark, but Marvel didn't take it.
There's another Marve/Champions connection that you failed to mention. The "Champions Online" Superhero MMORPG game was originally supposed to be a Marvel MMORPG. When Marvel dropped out, Cryptic Studios hooked up with the makers of the Champions RPG to make the new MMORPG.
That's not entirely true – Anthem's turned up a couple times in Invincible Iron Man, and most of the surviving team members had a brief bit during Secret Invasion in Avengers: The Initiative.
Regarding the cancelation of The Order, it's likely that Fraction didn't so much have it canceled as cause it to be canceled. Steven Grant once explained how he "canceled" the 90s version of Manhunter: publishers assume that the loss of either a regular artist or regular writer will result in a drop of X number of books sold (I forget how many, and the number would probably be different now.) When the artist on Manhunter left it could have survived that drop, but Grant's departure pushed it below the survival line. I expect something similar happened to The Order — its sales were such that it could have survived either Kitson or Fraction leaving, but not both.
As for Champions/The Champions — the ironic thing is that it's Marvel/DC's joint trademark of the word "superhero" that led all of the superhero RPGs to adopt words like Vigilantes, Golden Heroes, Supers and, of course, Champions. Kind of nice to see it coming back to bite them in a small way…
I think books like 'The ORder' examplifies one of the problems with Marvel for the past few years, the come up with a concept and assume that it will make a good story. A '50 State Initiative' is not a good story idea. There's nothing unique about having 50 of the same thing. Every book had 'The Initiative' above it's title, yet I couldn't find why that was so important. The Fantastic Four had Reed Richards has his fine and dandy old self despite being portrayed as a mad scientist in Civil War. How can Marvel have stuff change then ignore it at the same time. Everythings different yet it's not.
Spider-man is the best/worst example of this. He was magic, now he's not. His identity is revealed to the world, yet at the same time nobody seems to notice. Biggest lie in comics by the way. We're going to have these big stories where everythingchanges, now he's single and nothing is going to change. He studied chemistry, yet doesn't have a thought in his head. Now the character is pretty much done.
The Order might of been a great book, but it's cursed by that title above the title. It doesn't seem to mean anything. Plus, I guess 'The Order' doesn't have as much impact as the 'Champions'.
Stan Lee might have a point, those exclamation marks were too many. I would of lessened them if anything. It loses it's impact, it's like having an action shot on every page.
"Almost as much as I hate Europeans."
Kelly Thompson…bringing the hate in two thousand ten.
Josh said:
"Using two "l"s in the word "canceled" is chiefly British, fyi."
No, it isn't. I'm in the US, and I've always used cancelled. Some spell check programs use the single 'l', some the double. Same with most any word ending in an 'l'.
I have found that no spell check recognizes penciller or penciler, of which only penciller looks correct.
The Order series was called Los Campeones in Spain (which is spanish translation for The Champions). So weird that all the little O's on their chests were not changed.
HEY! PUSSIES! GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA YOUR ASSES! Who cares about one"l" or two, or the connections of the name Champion?!?! Go out right now and get FF vol1 #107 to #113. They are all that is RIGHT with Marvel books!!!! (I apologize for the "Pussies" comment, just really like this story.)
Not a huge note, but I thought I'd throw out that the "exclamation points are used instead of periods for printing purposes" idea is at least as old as the original Lee-Ditko run of Spider-Man (I know this as I just finished reading the omnibus a couple weeks ago which, interestingly, reprints all the old letter pages, and Lee/Lee-fill-in answered a letter about this very issue).
Sijo: Or they could have asked George Perez who did the cover for Champions 4th ed. (the big blue book).
I hope Fraction didn't kill the book just because Marvel wanted to put Avengers characters in the book. They were part of the concept of the 52 states Avengers teams afterall.
Looking at Black Widow, it reminds me that she never had full read hair until the 80s. She had mostly dark hair with redish shades.
I seem to remember that the Widow's hair was pretty red in some '70s stories, but it was pretty dark in a lot of stories. But then, so was Mary Jane's, wasn't it. It was just the '70s inking style. There were dark shadows everywhere. (I kind of like that style, actually. But I guess there's no demand for it now, since most shadows are provided by the colouring.)
My understanding of what Fraction meant by "compromised" and "unawesome" was two fold. One, the book wasn't doing well enough to gurantee it would avoid cancelation down the line. And who wants to start seeding plot points, building characters, without the freedom to know you will be able to tie these plot points up?
Second, and perhaps more important in the decision to end the book when they did was the conclusion that the book's sales were not enough to continue to justify an artistic talent like Barry Kitson. So while the book would have continued, it would have been with another, lower tier artist.
(If I'm remembering right, you can probably find comments on why he decided to end the book in the recent Q&A thread he did for Warren Ellis' message board. Though you'll have to scroll through about a hundred pages or so.)
Marvel didn't know about Champions RPG? Whaaaa? All my hobby shops back in the day had the Champions games about 2 ft from the comics racks.
Next from Marvel…..
Magic: The Get Together and War Of Worldcraft
I love this Column you should make it a coffee table book or something.
Re: Black Widow, she was shown as a brunette in her earlier appearances, but that's when she was a Russian Femme Fatale, before they reinvented her as a Sexy Superspy. Of course being a spy she might've been dying her hair or using a wig. AFAIK her real hair color is red.
Movies and novels can have the same titles with different plots and characters, but comics cannot. Interesting.
The CSBG spell-checker used to insist that I spell "dialogue" as "dialog", but now it's decided to accept both. Maybe it's abandoned its aggressive Americanization campaign.
Just curious, but how long does it usually take for a trademark to be abandoned before the board finds it as such? There's probably no such a number but with the Champions here and with Marvel scooping up Captain Marvel years and years ago, I can't help but wonder how long it would take before someone like DC scoops up the trademark name of Prime and somesuch.
Thanks for the shout-out!
There's one point you neglected; the reason it was difficult to recognize what's a period and what's a speck is that the film is touched up from the back. The setup guy (called a stripper, because he strips away masks to expose the parts that will print) is looking at big negatives in reverse, often also upside-down, and he doesn't have time to read the page anyway, let alone backwards and inverted. Also, in the old days, the art boards would have a lot of pasted-in stuff, a lot of white out and blue-lines and such, and the film would need a lot of touch-up; shadows and cut-lines would show up on the negative and have to be touched up. "When in doubt, opaque it out," was the motto.
Also remember that for the first 50 years or so, comics were a marginal industry at best; Charlton Comics were printed on a press usually used for printing cereal boxes, and several comic companies only existed to keep the presses occupied between "real" jobs. Production values were negligible and quality control a luxury. Even Marvel and DC were limited in terms of what they could expect from their printer; time is money, and quality takes time.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that all the sentences in the pages you posted were lettered with periods, which were erroneously taken out in the darkroom. That's also most likely why they gave up on the practice.
"Movies and novels can have the same titles with different plots and characters, but comics cannot. Interesting."
Copyright law does not protect names or titles. Trademark law can, if there is a product involved. Movies that have a lot of ancillary marketing, such as Star Wars/Trek, Indiana Jones, and Transformers, have trademarked names. Ordinary movies that are one-off standalone projects, like any of the half-dozen different films called "Saving Grace," for example, are not eligible for trademark protection.
One other interesting quesiton in terms of trademark abandonment is in terms of whether using the trademark in a Marvel Handbook (or DC Who's Who) is enough to keep the trademark alive or not. They did did have an entry in the first Handbook series, quite a few years after the series giot cancelled.
Another question. For the Champions Classic trades, do they need to make an arrangement with Hero?
It's not enough. In order to be valid, a trademark has to be actively in use as an identifier of a particular product, a "mark of trade", identifiying the source or manufacturer of an item. If there's no product or service, there's no trademark.
I know a guy who has registered a couple of defunct trademarks and now sells reproductions of the original items those marks represent. He has absolutely zero connection to the original companies, but he is today the "official" vendor for those items, because he owns the trademarks.
Having the trademark used inside a comic is probably not sufficient (I say probably because trademark law really comes down to "my lawyer can beat up your lawyer;" whoever can afford to pursue the case longest wins regardless of merit, all that's necessary is to bury the opposition under so many legal bills that they surrender); witness "Captain Marvel": Fawcett abandoned the trademark, Marvel snapped it up, and now DC owns the character but can't use the name in the title or advertising of the comic.
As to the second question, "Champions Classic" is a different name/mark than "The Champions." They probably didn't make an arrangement with Heroic Publishing (the current version of Mallonee's company), and probably couldn't, since such an arrangement would undercut the validity of the trademark. It's not really that complicated a subject, but the interpretations and nuances are extremely byzantine.Basically, if one company's use of a mark is likely to cause confusion for the customer; implies a nonexistent association, relationship or endorsement; dilutes the value of another mark; deceives the customer as to the source or origin of a product; or denigrates or disparages the other mark, it's actionable. None of these seem to be the case with "Champions Classic," or at least Heroic hasn't asserted the claim that it is.
Thanks for the clarificaiton, Jim. Glad that Marvel can at least reprint old Champions material as long as it's not seen as a grab at the trademark (and to be sure it would probably hurt Heroic's rep if they went after the use of the name in historical material, so even if it's a grey area I can see them not wanting to go there; they probably wouldn't want to be seen as the people who prevented people from reading 25-year-old material).
I wonder then if the retitling of the new series The Order is a case of Marvel learning from it's mistakes. Assuming they have a trademark for The Order resulting from a Defenders-related mini-series, if they couldn't use the name they wanted for trademark reasons, it makes sense they'd look to other trademarks at risk of abandonment.
>>> No, it isn't. I'm in the US, and I've always used cancelled. Some spell check programs use the single 'l', some the double. Same with most any word ending in an 'l'.
No, Josh was right. Using two "l"s in the word "canceled" (and the word "traveller", for instance) IS considered to be the "British" version of the spelling, and is more common to see from British writers than American ones. It's similar to how "gray" is considered to be more of an American variant while "grey" is more British, or how you're more likely to see "judgment" from an American writer and "judgement" from a British writer.
That being said, it's not as if using the British variant as an American is wrong. It's not even really that blatant, like it would be if you went around spelling "color" like "colour". I'm American, and I ALWAYS use "grey" unless I'm dealing with a personal noun (like "Dorian Gray"). I also tend to use the double-L in words, just because it looks more "correct" to me.
The only real issue with it is that you may have trouble with spell-checkers (like the one that is currently telling me grey, traveller, and judgement are all spelled wrong). Or, if you're still in school, you may have trouble with pedantic English teachers who insist the British spelling isn't acceptable in an American context (or vice-versa).
I use "cancelled," but I wasn't talking about spelling.
Legend #3 was just about the lamest Legend I've read. The worst part is that it's all in the phrasing; calling it "Marvel didn't want to cancel the Order," or "Matt Fraction killed The Order" makes it seem like there's something intriguing happening. Saying "Marvel cancelled The Order" is the boring, hum-drum, thing that ultimately is what the public assumed already — and since it was such a simple, innocuous thing, there was no reason to ever question it.
Hence my "bit of a stretch" comment.
From Scott Shaw's Facebook Page:
"People often refer to the Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm AKA "The Thing" as "the orange guy made out of rocks". (The FF's Human Torch once described Ben as "a walking pile of peach pits" — then promptly got clobbered!) But according to Ben's co-creator, the late, great Jack Kirby, he's NEITHER! Joltin' Jack once told my friend Pete Von Sholly that the Thing is "a super-strong gorilla covered with dinosaur hide"! Cool!"
Is this true?
Fantastic Four vol1 #107- #113
Re; THE ORDER
Ahh….. BUT, you MISSED mentioning that the FIRST Marvel series that was entitled, "THE ORDER" (the DEFENDERS spin-off) was only named as such because their FIRST choice of names: WARLORDS, was also owned by someone else.
So, Marvel instead dubbed them; "The ORDER".
So, TWO teams were named "THE ORDER" because comic companies owned the original intended titles.
Oi – Where did my post go?
I had a reprint of those Spider-Man issues and at the time I was wondering WTF? Sure, Lee's rationale for the use of exclamation marks etc was fine, but did he have to use 2 or 3!! ???
Man, that Gil Kane Spidey art is gorgeous.
Oops… I meant to type "OVERLORDS", not "WARLORDS.
The Defenders were going to be called the OVERLORDS, until it was discovered that the name was taken and then Marvel used "The Order" instead.
My bad.
In case anyone wanted to read about the original pitch of
'Overlords: Defenders Against the Earth'
here's the link to a Kurt Busiek article:
Busiek's series was doomed from the start because the artwork was so subpar
Heh. "General Forbush" on the statue.
@Matt Bird:
I think that's more your browser's spell checker rather than the spell checker of any one particular web site.
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Well, the order sucked whatever you call it. good riddance. all of marvel's output sucks. their writers all want to be alan moore but lack his wit, and most of the fan-favorite artists are glorified lightbox tracers. yuck. same goes for dc. in fact dc might even be worse.
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History of the Royal Malaysian Police
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The history of Malaysian police traces their existence since the law of Malacca Sultanate in the 1400, then subsequently developed through the history of the nation through administration by the Portuguese, the Dutch, modernisation by the British beginning in the early 1800s, and into the era of Malaysian independence.
- 1 First police force in Malacca Sultanate
- 2 Police force during Portuguese and Dutch Archipelago
- 3 Police force under British
- 4 Police force in Malaya (Penang)
- 5 Straits Settlements Police Forces
- 6 Federated Malay States police forces
- 7 Malayan Police under by Imperial Japanese Armed Force
- 8 Malayan Union Police
- 9 Police in Malayan Emergency
- 10 Royal Honored
- 11 References
- 12 Websites
First police force in Malacca Sultanate[edit]
The police system started since the days of Malay Sultanate of Malacca. Currently, the role, task and police responsibility are combined with military duties. The Sultan has the absolute authorities. He is also the Judge, Religious Chief and High Command of Military and powerful legislate of the law. Most important rules in the time was Undang-Undang Melaka.
The Prime Minister or Bendahara was the second authorities after the King. He is the Sultan's Advisor, Chief Administrator and may act as Warlord. Tun Perak, titled Bendahara Paduka Raja have led Malaccan soldiers for battle.
Through quotation of Malay Annals, page 142–143:
|After day, then Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah even out be faced the peoples. Then Bendahara and all ministers nob and shelf, eunuchs, herald, all warriors present to facing. Then Sultan speech to Seri Maharaja, conscript it Temenggung, "Did you control yesterday?"
Then worship Seri Maharaja, "Be, sire." Then Sultan speech, "We heard the peoples killed by the someones, above the hill, under the hill, the end of the bridge, if that the peoples, did you kill them?" Then worship Seri Maharaja, "Not I know, sire." Then Sultan speech, "Your controls is vain, three deads is not leak. Now, we listen the thieves too terrors in this country." Then Sultan even order to call Hang Isap, it even come, the box even brought in its. Then Sultan Alauddin speech to Hang Isap and Hang Siak, "What's your view yesterday?" Then Hang Isap and Hang Siak even talk will all about affairs yesterday, all is said its.......
"Since then Seri Maharaja control is flinty. If converge with people to go, killed them, not more caught. One day, during the Seri Maharaja guarding, converge with a thieves. Then were slaves by Seri Maharaja with squirell machete, cutting in his shoulder......."
From an above, Temenggung was call the safeguarding security and peace statewide, including palace grounds. His tasks were to arrest the criminals, build prisons and implement sentences. Nowadays, the Temenggung's authority is similar to current Inspector-General of Police.
Villager chiefs shelf is representative Sultan, have rather respective control team. This team main task are tax collections, law enforcement and care his safeguarding the village.
This traditional police systems were changed when Malacca was conquered by the Portuguese on 10 August 1511, led by Afonso de Albuquerque.
Police force during Portuguese and Dutch Archipelago[edit]
In the year 1511, Malacca became a cosmopolitan society. The Portuguese ruled Malacca by using "Capitan" system.
On 14 January 1641, the Portuguese Empire in Malacca ended when the Dutch fleets successfully conquered Malacca with the help from Johore state military forces, during the Portuguese was battle with Acheh. The Dutch ruled Malacca using military system as well as the Capitan system introduced by the Portuguese. A Dutch police force in Malacca is known as "Burgher Guard" was formed up when the European population was increased and it was necessary to set up a constabulary. Burgher Guard constituted of the Dutch people who are living in Malacca at that time. The lower rank officers were made up of the local Malacca people. Head villagers continued their duties such as in the days of Malay Sultanate Of Malacca under Dutch rule.
Police force under British[edit]
When British took over Malacca in 1795 while the Bangkahulu in Sumatera to Dutch, Captain William Farquhar was elected as the British Military Governor and the Dutch officers remained with their former positions. Allow Malacca Justice Council explains the function as a magistrate at the same time continue police duties "Burgher Guard" have formed at the time.
Police force in Malaya (Penang)[edit]
On 11 August 1786, Francis Light came to Penang and named the island as Prince of Wales Island. The population in Penang at that time was small and Malay fishermen made up most of the population. Three years later, the population increased to 10,000 peoples as more immigrants came to Penang. Francis Light found the need to set up a police force to safeguard the security in Penang. He pleaded his case to his superiors in India but it was not well received.
Later, his superiors promoted to the rank of Superintendent and was instructed to work alone.
In 1787, several riots occurred in Penang. Several European sailors were involved and 2 Siamese were killed. Francis Light wrote a letter to the Governor of General East Indian Company, Sir Lord Cornwallis in India to form new laws and form a single police force in the island but the case was also rejected.
However, with his wisdom, in 1792, Francis Light appointed a community leader, named "Capitan" for each race, Malay, Chinese and Chulia (people from South India). They act as a magistrate in small cases. Certain cases will be carried forward to the Superintendent. Each Capitan is in charge to govern some districts, facilitated with 5 "peons". These peons could be regarded as maiden police constables similar to today lower rank police officers.
Their tasks and responsibilities of the police at that time included a variety of administration control such as water supply, registration of births, fire prevention and jail duties. However, their primary designated job function is executor of the law.
However, the Europeans became increasingly arrogant as they were independent from the local laws. In 1793, when a European got involved in a murder case, Francis Light cannot act because he had no authority to act against the Europeans. He sent another appeal to the English East India Company Director to form an official single police force but to no avail. On 21 October 1794, he died and was replaced by Major Forbes Ross Macdonald in 1796. Later, Col. Arthur Wellesley stopped at Penang during his journey to Manila. He noted the matters in connection with the safety of Penang and urged the Europeans to appoint a magistrate.
On 19 April 1800, Sir George Leith arrived in Penang to hold the new position as Lieutenant-General. Four months later, John Dicken was appointed as Magistrate and the maiden Magistrate in Penang.
In early 1804, Sir William Farquhar arrived in Penang to replace Sir George Leith as the Lieutenant-General. However, the police force at the time was still weak. In the year 1805, all Penang administration was reshuffled again and the island status was enhanced. A Governor was appointed and Council Hall was established.
On 25 March 1807, a "Charter" was accepted. Hereby Penang was able to form a Court Of Justice and form a better police force based on the Charter of Justice.
Straits Settlements Police Forces[edit]
British East Indies Company control of Singapore in 1819 changed the history of Malaya. The island progressed rapidly and Malacca and Penang were left behind. The development also involved the police force. In 1826, the three British colonies in Malaya were united with Penang as the administration centre. In 1830, the Straits Settlements administrations were reduced to residents and were placed under the Bengal Resident when Robert Fullerton became the Resident. Each province is governed by a Deputy Resident. 2 years later, the Straits Settlements were united,this time the administration was headed by a Governor. The administration centre changed to Singapore. The Deputy Residents were appointed as Resident Counselors.
The power exchange of Straits Settlements from India to the British Government in the year 1867, though important to the history of Malaya, did not affect the constitution of Straits Settlements Police Forces immediately. Four years later, Police Force Ordinance 1871 were amended. This ordinance was operative in 1872 and used until the arrival of the Japanese. With effect, all police forces in the Straits settlements were under the control of a chief police headquartered in Singapore. Penang and Malacca were led by a Superintendent who act as the Chief Police officer. The first Police Chief of the Straits was Colonel Samuel Dunlop.
Federated Malay States police forces[edit]
In 1874, the British Resident system was established in the Malaya states, first pioneered by the Perak state. In 1895, four federated Malay states were merged into a federation.
The federation united all the Federated Malay States police forces. The police forces are concurrent with the formation Federated Malay States, effective on 1 July 1896. According to the Federated Malay States Constitution, the police force, Customs, Department Of Survey, Labour and Defence departments are placed under government jurisdiction headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Federated Malay States Police Force is headed by the Police Commissioner. Perak, Pahang, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan made up the Police Contingent and is headed by a State Chief Police (Chief Police Officers). Although Malay Federated States Police Commissioner is responsible for the upper administration and surveillance of the police force but it is still under the control and directive of Malay Associate States Chief Secretary. Section 3, Police Force Enactment (1924) mentioned that,
|The Superintendent and administration of the Police Force shall be in the hands of the Commissioner and subject to the orders and control of the Chief Secretary.
The first person to be promoted as Federated States Police Commissioner was Captain H.C. Syers, the Superintendent of Selangor State. Syers moved State Police Headquarters from Klang to Kuala Lumpur (Now Bukit Aman) and maintained Bluff Road Hill as Federated Malay States Police Administrations. He was later replaced by Christian Wagner.
Under Captain H.C. Syers, Federated Malay States Police underwent some changes. To raise union sense, the blue colour uniform was introduced. Every state uniform is differentiated by the shape of the button and badge. Syers made the initiative to reform police administration in Perak. Perak contingent at that time had as many as 842 members, 15 European officers, 472 officers, Sikh and Pathan officers, 14 orderlies and 302 low rank officers and Malay constables. In Selangor Contingent, there were 6 European police officers, 32 Pathans and 500 low-rank officer and Malay constables. With the establishment of Malay States Guides under Colonel R.S.F Walker in 1896, the strength of the police force was increased to six infantry companies and two artillery companies (900 members).[1]
The Pahang Police Chief was Duff and the team had 245 members. F.W. Talbot also led the Negeri Sembilan Contingent. There were two inspectors, 56 Sikhs officers and 250 low ranks and Malay constables. Around the year 1902, police force had 2160 people, three Deputy Commissioners, two assistant commissioners, 25 inspectors, 2 Bumiputera officers, 1961 low rank officers and constables, 93 detectives and 14 orderlies. Meanwhile, the members of the Selangor and Pahang Police Contingent were armed with Martini-Enfield Converted Carbines. Other states also armed with Martini rifles and carbines.
Following the year in 1903, Federated Malay States Police was truly under the command of the police commissioner. These efforts were drawn up by H.L. Talbot who strived to redirect power of the state level to the central through the Police Force Enactment 1903.
One problem faced by the Federated Malay States Police was to get trained members. Before that, police members usually are recruited from the Indian army. To tackle the problem, a training centre or Depot was established at the compound Bluff Road in October 1903.
To change the view of police and to encourage the Malays to serve with the police force, the British used loyalist values to King that the Malays had. For that, Sultan Alang lskandar, prince of Sultan Idris from Perak graduated from Oxford, who worked in Taiping Secretariat was appointed as Assistant Commissioner on 1 August 1905 with the consent of Paduka Sultan Perak. Sultan Alang Iskandar was the first Malay to be given the highest rank by the British. He was then placed in Police Depot and given the responsibility to recruiting the Malay police officers. Sultan Alang Iskandar made a lot of effort to attract the Malays to serve in the police force. 37 years later, the training centre was moved to Rifle Range Road at St Pride, currently known as PULAPOL (Police Training Centre) at Semarak Road.
When Talbot died on 31 August 1909, Douglas remained as the police commissioner. Douglas was Perak's Police Chief since 1897.
In 1911, Federated Malay States Police had increased. Within a decade, the membership increased from 2,138 to 3,241 officers. Europeans official number also increased and 41 peoples become 72 peoples. The problem faced by the police at the time was gambling within the Chinese community which was also connected with candhu.
On 9 January 1924, Police Force Enactment was enforced. This enactment was more organised and clearly stated the roles and responsibilities of the Federated Malay States Police.
With eruption of World War II and Malaya conquered by the Japanese, the Federated Malay States Police was liquidated. The last Police Chief, E. Bagot, absconded to Singapore after British defence forces failed to detain Japanese army advancement. When Singapore fell to the Japanese, E Bagot was captured.[2]
Malayan Police under by Imperial Japanese Armed Force[edit]
The World War II exploded in the year 1939 and conditions in Malaya worsened when Japan conquered Indo-Chinese area. Minimum measures were taken by the British Government to uphold Malaya. A.H. Dickinson, the Straits Settlement Police Chief was appointed to be Civil Security Officer in Malaya. He was responsible in arranging Malayan defence to confront against Imperial Japanese Army threats.
In Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, Special Constable and Extra Police Constable was established, additional constables were recruited to strengthen the police force. Police forces in Kedah, Perak and Kelantan were ordered to patrol in the border areas of Malaya / Thailand. At the same time, anti-British groups had stepped up their subversive activities. Anti-British campaigns were carried out especially through two newspapers those owned by Malayan Communist Party such as, EMANCIPATION NEWS and VANGUARD NEWS.
On 9 December 1941, an Imperial Japanese forces successfully landed in Kelantan and Terengganu. Japanese forces advanced successfully into Malayan soil as the police forces were not united as Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.
Japanese occupation period was the dark time in the development of police institution in Malaya. The Japanese had built a military administration in Malaya. Police force continued to function but it was used as a device system by the Japanese to oppress the people.
Malayan Union Police[edit]
By year end 1945 and early 1946, the British side tried to set up a constitution of "Malayan Union" that has been planned in London. Although there were violent oppositions for this plan considered as efforts exchange Malay states position to a country home, this plan discharged at 1 April 1946. In accordance with this development, on the same date name "Civil Affairs Police Force, Malay Peninsula" was converted to Malayan Union Police Force. Staff, policy and organisation it make follow-up from what were founded under CAPE HB Longworthy appointed as Police Chief and his deputy is DP MacNamara.
Police in Malayan Emergency[edit]
When the withdrawal of Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II left the Malayan economy disrupted. Problems included unemployment, low wages, and scarce and expensive food. There was considerable labour unrest, and a large number of strikes occurred in 1946 through 1948. The British administration was attempting to repair Malaya's economy quickly, especially as revenue from Malaya's tin and rubber industries was important to Britain's own post-war recovery. As a result, protesters were dealt with harshly, by measures including arrests and deportations. In turn, protesters became increasingly militant. On 16 June 1948, the first overt act of the war took place when three European plantation managers were killed at Sungai Siput, Perak.[3]
The British brought emergency measures into law, first in Perak in response to the Sungai Siput incident and then, in July, country-wide. Under the measures, the MCP and other leftist parties were outlawed, and the police were given the power to imprison without trial communists and those suspected of assisting communists. The initial government strategy was primarily to guard important economic targets such as mines and plantation estates. Subsequently, General Sir Harold Briggs, the British Army's Director of Operations in Malaya, developed an overall strategy known as the Briggs Plan. Its central tenet was that the best way to defeat an insurgency such as the government was facing was to cut the insurgents off from their supporters amongst the population.
At the start of the Emergency, the British had a total of 13 infantry battalions in Malaya, including seven partly formed Gurkha battalions, three British battalions, two battalions of the Royal Malay Regiment and a British Royal Artillery Regiment being utilised as infantry.[4] At all levels of government (national, state, and district levels), the military and civil authority was assumed by a committee of military, police and civilian administration officials. This allowed intelligence from all sources to be rapidly evaluated and disseminated, and also allowed all anti-guerrilla measures to be coordinated.
Royal Honored[edit]
On 24 July 1958, DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhamad already design to bestow title "Royal" to the Federal Malaya Police Force. From the second police force; is known with the name "Royal Federation Of Malayan Police".
Willing royal command by DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong, investiture "Royal" that make a distinction to good service and loyalty evinced by all policemans, in officiate protect peace and state peace since create the police force year 1807 in Penang.
Investiture "Royal" also is an appreciation Government and people this country on central role and whose interests played by a police team to suppress communists during rebellion first emergency first (1948–1960). The conferment by the then Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Rahman Tuanku Muhamad to the police force 50 years ago was to recognise the people and country's appreciation of the police for their loyalty, determination, struggle and sacrifice during the 12 years of communist insurgency between 1948 and 1960.
During the conferment, the King declared the change of name of the police from the Federation Police Force to the Royal Malayan Federation Police. Among those present during the conferment parade by 700 police officers and men held at the Police Training Centre in Jalan Gurney were then Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Dato' Abdul Razak Hussin, Police Commissioner, W.L.R. Carbonell, Deputy Commissioner, C.H. Fenner and Singapore Police Commissioner, A.E.G. Bladers.
It was a proud moment for the police force as the title was considered a great honour at that time, as there were only three other police forces in the Commonwealth that had been conferred the "Royal" title.
The others were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Ulster Police Force and the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.
The spirit to defend till their last breath for the safety and sovereignty of the country from the communist was quite remarkable even though most of them were from rural areas.
Police records show a total of 1,346 policemens were killed in the line of duty while 10,698 communist members were killed, of which 5,972 were killed by the police force. The police, being the main law enforcement agency in the country were tasked during the Emergency period to combat and foil attempts by the communist party wanting to set up a communist state via the use of force and firearms.[5]
The concept of "Bersedia Berkhidmat" (English: Ready To Serve) are introduced by Federations of Malay State Police Commissioner, Sir Arthur Young on 15 December 1952. Through his directive, Police Commissioner Directive No.36, year 1952: "Operation Service", A E YOUNG stresses police approach towards people and create understanding on both sides. He also hoped by concept "Ready To Serve" this, team negative views can be scraped vice versa honoured.
- ^ "The Malay States Guides - a Brief History". Ipoh World. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ Federated Malay States Police history
- ^ Andaya, Barbara Watson; Leonard Y. Andaya (2001). A History of Malaysia. Palgrave. p. 271.
- ^ Karl Hack, Defense & Decolonization in South-East Asia, p. 113.
- ^ "Royal' day for police force". thestar.com.my. The Star. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2009.


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More-advanced users will like the instant messenger support (AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo), GPS with VZ Navigator support, USB mass storage, the wireless Web browser, and voice command dialing. It also supports a full range of Bluetooth profiles, like hands-free, stereo, dial-up networking, basic printing, file transfer, and more. You also get a variety of e-mail options: mobile e-mail, mobile Web e-mail, and corporate e-mail. Mobile e-mail is a $5 application with which you can get your mail delivered directly to you from a variety of service providers, while mobile Web e-mail is a free service that simply gives you shortcut access to Web e-mail sites like Windows Live and Yahoo Mail. The corporate e-mail option requires a $9.99 monthly subscription to RemoSync, which works with Microsoft ActiveSync to sync your e-mail and your work address book as well.
The Motorola Rival comes with EV-DO, and along with that is Verizon's array of broadband services like V Cast Video, with which you can watch streaming-video content from providers like CBS (Editors' note: CNET Reviews is published by CBS Interactive, a unit of CBS ) and CNN, and V Cast Music with Rhapsody, where you can purchase and download music over the air. Each song costs $1.99, which includes a download to your PC.
The music player itself is housed within the V Cast Music interface, so it feels a little clunky. You can create and edit your own playlists and you can set the songs on repeat or shuffle. You can also sync your songs from your PC with a USB cable using the V Cast Music with Rhapsody software. If you have a Rhapsody subscription, you can load your subscribed tracks to the Rival. The Rival supports up to 8GB of removable memory via a microSD card.
The Rival has a 2.0-megapixel camera, which can take pictures in five resolutions (1,600x1,200, 1,280x960, 640x480, 320x240, and a picture ID mode). Other settings include brightness, white balance, color effects, fun frames, self-timer, three shutter sounds, and a silent option. Photo quality was quite disappointing. Pictures looked very dark and overcast, though they weren't too blurry. There's also a built-in camcorder with settings similar to the still camera's. It can take videos in short, medium, MMS, or maximum storage durations in either 320x240 or 176x144 resolution.
You have a few personalization options with the Motorola Rival. You can change the wallpaper, display themes, and alert tones, and you can get more via the wireless Web browser. It also comes with a few games like 5th Grader 2009 and Pac-Man, and you can get more of those via the Verizon store.
We tested the dual-band (CDMA 800/1900; EV-DO) Motorola Rival in San Francisco using Verizon Wireless. We were impressed with the call quality. Callers heard us without any static or interference, and we could hear them loud and clear. They said our voices sounded natural. Even when we activated the speakerphone, they couldn't tell the difference. On our end, the speakerphone had plenty of volume, though it sounded a little muffled and tinny at times.
The audio quality of songs from the Motorola Rival's speakers wasn't so great. It's loud enough, but the overall quality was tinny, lacking in bass, and weak. We would recommend using a wired or stereo Bluetooth headset for better music quality. Since the Rival comes with a 3.5 millimeter headset jack, you can use your regular headphones to listen to tunes.
We were pleased with the EV-DO speeds on the Rival. We downloaded a 1.5MB song in around 50 seconds, and loading simple WAP pages took only a few seconds. V Cast videos had little to no buffering. The quality wasn't that great, though: streaming video had a lot of pixelation, especially in action sequences. The low color resolution on the display didn't help, either.The Motorola Rival has a rated battery life of 5.3 hours talk time and 21.25 days standby time. The tested talk time wasn't too different at 5 hours and 54 minutes. According to FCC radiation tests, the Rival has a digital SAR rating of 1.59 watts per kilogram.


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Surelock Self Storage8335 Senoia Rd Fairburn, Georgia United States of America
Surelock Self Storage Storage Unit was broken into. Manager said some of their surveillance cameras don't work, False sense of security for tenants. Fairburn, Georgia
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Someone from the storage facility had called me to tell me that the lock was missing from the unit. When I went to see what had happened it was clear that someone had broken into the unit and they stole a 42" Panasonic flat screen TV. The manager at the facility claims to have watched the surveillance tapes and claims to not have seen anything. It wasn't until I filed a police report that she mentioned that some of the surveillance cameras don't even work. So the whole time she pretended to review surveillance tapes when in fact the cameras near my unit she reports to not have been working. How convenient for them.
I asked her if there was insurance coverage on my unit and she told me well you didnt buy that and I told her it was never offered to me. She pointed to a tiny display that was positioned away from the main desk and in the far right hand corner which talks about the insurance they offered. So the average person would never even look at that tiny sign, let alone inquire about it when they sign up for storage.
When I asked if I could at least have a month's storage free for all the inconvenience I have gone thru, she scoffed. She basically acted like my loss was of no concern to her. When I asked who else I could speak to she said her son owns the storage facility so basically don't bother.
This place is a total ripoff. I paid for what I though would be secure storage. But now I know that their surveillance cameras don't work. They don't even have any onsite security whatsoever. Now I have no way of knowing who stole my television set because of the lack of security that was provided for my item.
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Yes, I do work in the self-storage industry, but not for this particular company, and always advise my customers to purchase insurance if their homeowner's insurance policy does not cover items stored outside the home. Before I started working for a self-storage company, when I had used self-storage myself, I always purchased the insurance to cover my belongings -- this is just common sense.
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Bottle feeding to get home then ebf when home?
When you get your LO home gradually switch to breast for I tried to do it immediately and while he gained weight it was not enough for dr:-( I never supplemented but went back to daddy giving a bottle in evening and one wek later he had gained an ounce a day!
It is sooo nice though being able to breastfeed and bottle in emergencies with no hassle or drama of will he take it?
Thoughts and prayers!
P.s. I use playtex nurser bottles slow flow
I switched to EBF w/o a shield. I just supplemented a bit of formula after the breast at first, because she wasn't getting a hang of it. But now she is almost 2 months and it's going great :)
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How old is your LO? Have you tried nursing? For me, I was able to bring my LO home pretty early (almost 36 weeks, born at 31) and he was EBF at discharge. The keys to my success were using a nipple shield, being there for 3 feeds a day, and just being crazy about it (LOL). So, I personally dont recommend bottle feeding to get home faster, as it doesn't have to work that way, and also it can be very difficult to make that transition.
I bottlefed my LO in NICU for the exact same reason and he was home within 2 weeks!! He just got too tired with the boobies at first :( Once we got home I started off slow so he would gain his weight but still want the breast(still pumping and bottle feeding). It was all about timing to get him when he was hungry but not starving. It took about 2 months of hard work and tears from both of us but it feels like were old pros now. He is 6 months today and 27" and 22 lbs. I also stopped supplementing after 2 weeks at home because he lost sleep over a hurting tummy from the similac, I think my milk compensated for him anyway as he gained weight just fine. If your LO is on vitamins try just giving them with the droppper my boy didn't mind the flavor and it was over quickly :)
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My little guy latched great his first day with a nipple shield. He came at 34+2 and was in the NICU for only 2 weeks for feeding/growing. I would be there for at least 3 feeds a day and he would spend roughly 20 minutes at the breast and the nurses still wanted him to take a 35 mL bottle after that, which he could rarely finish. I was told he could go home in two days, even though he wasn't finishing his 35 mLs and then a day later they would change their mind bc he wasn't finishing his bottles (while I was there and obviously bc he was nursing good). I think he ate less when I wasn't there and was bottle fed by the nurses bc he really really liked nursing. They did this to us twice. After the second time this happened we decided to exclusively bottle feeding so they could see how much he was really eating. (He started doing better being bottle fed when I completely took away the breast) After just one day of this, they started the discharge process.
When we got home we immidiately picked it up again. We didn't have a time limit for how long he could eat for so he just munched all day. And if he seemed like he was getting hungrier while he was nursing we would just supplement while I would pump. I did have to use the nipple shield until he was about two months. He weaned himself from it. We stopped having to supplement when he was about two months also. So giving him the bottle definitely worked in our favor
He's almost 8 months now and we've been ebf every since 2 months.
If you pump religiously and when he gets home put every ounce of effort into getting it right, it can happen!! Good luck to you and your little man!
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