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TROUT RUN - Tuesday was a sad day for Steve Berger, president of the Wild Game Feeders Association.
"After 52 years ... we have got to the point where we can financially no longer go on," Berger said that evening. "We dissolved the organization tonight."
The game feeders sold memberships to hunting clubs and individuals who were wildlife lovers. In return, each member received up to a bushel-and-a-half of corn that they used to fill feeders in the woods. Hungry deer, turkeys and other animals then had an extra source of food during the snowy winter months.
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A old newspaper clipping show's the founder of the Wild Game Feeders Association.
"What ended us was the price of corn and the economy over the last 10 years," Berger said. "A lack of participation didn't help."
The association was founded by Berger's grandfather, Paul Berger Sr., in the winter of 1959-60. He was spurred to action after he found seven or eight dead turkeys on Steam Valley Mountain.
That first year, a few hundred people joined the group. It grew over the years, at first.
"We went from 1,600 members 10 years ago to just over 600 this past year," Berger said. "That's a drastic drop."
For 15 years, the association has depended on a core group of 15 active members.
"I've been president for 15 years now," Berger said. "I've been involved with it probably since the day I was born. I remember dragging bags of corn up Steam Valley Mountain, following my grandfather. I think I was in kindergarten."
The group held its last corn distribution this past January and February in Trout Run.
"We usually start setting up for next year at this time, buying the corn ..." he said. "I want to thank the public for 52 years. If it wasn't for them, the people who came up there in those nasty ice storms, who waded through 12 inches of snow (to put out corn for animals) ... those are the people that we're gonna miss."
Over the years, the corn distribution turned into a family event.
Berger said he'll miss "the Saturday mornings at Trout Run, the families coming to get their corn. That's the biggest sadness."
Through the 1960s, the association worked with the state Game Commission, helping the agency by doing habitat cutting and aiding with their own corn feeding program.
In recent years, though, the commission has begun establishing new laws that frown upon feeding wildlife, Berger said.
"People started shying away from it.
"But," he emphasized, "that has nothing to do with why we're dissolving."
The primary reason boils down to money - a massive increase in the price of corn coupled with faltering membership fees.
"What really hurt us is, eight or nine years ago, when the price of corn went through the roof. It pretty much wiped us out," he said.
Corn cost about $60 a ton 10 years ago, Berger said.
"Right now, the current market price at the auction in Dewart is between $180 to $225 per ton," he added.
The association bought its corn from local farmers but paid the going market price.
Along with an increase in expenses, the group saw a decrease in members.
"A lot of the sales we lost were people from out-of-state or out-of-town who went to the hunting camps around here. A lot of hunting camps are empty now."
A few years ago, the association sold turkey calls to commemorate its 45th anniversary. A few thousand dollars provided a temporary cushion.
As the seven-member board of directors began to realize how desperate the situation was, "we put the word out to many people and we talked to several gas companies," Berger said. "Nobody wanted to offer any financial donations at all.
"I know the economy's tough," he said. "Last year ... it was a rough year. We got by, by the skin of our teeth. This year, we can't."
The old corn cribs that the association has used either will be destroyed or given to those who own the land on which they sit. A corn elevator used to fill the cribs will be sold.
"We are debt-free," Berger said. "Our remaining money - which is not very much - we are going to donate to the Lycoming Creek Anglers Club. They do a lot of functions for kids. The same people who supported us support that club, so it is a good thing for us to give it to them."
Nevertheless, Berger wishes that things could have been different for the Wild Game Feeders Association.
"It's a sad day. We've been around for a long time," he said. "We hate to see it go, but we did everything we could to keep it going."


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Fundamental economic drivers for Amarillo will improve in 2012, even with the spectre of a continued drought, Amarillo National Bank officials said Wednesday.
"If we can get this drought out of the way, we're really set up for some strong growth," Amarillo National Vice President Patrick Ware said in presenting the bank's annual economic forecast.
That's a big "if," according to meteorologists. Bryce Anderson, a senior meteorologist with agricultural market analysis firm DTN, recently told the Amarillo Globe-News that 2012 will be less harsh than last year, but drought will continue.
Dry weather conditions played havoc with portions of the agricultural economy last year, reducing crop yields, sending cattle to market earlier, and increasing the cost of doing business for farmers and ranchers, said Ware and William Ware, his brother and fellow bank vice president.
Yet the dry weather will be a drag on, but not deter, growth, they said.
"Keep watching the weather, but also keep the confidence up," Patrick Ware said. "Things are OK in this part of the country. We're not expecting any major layoffs. We're actually expecting hiring going on in 2012."
The bank predicts the Amarillo economy will gain 1,700 jobs this year, he said.
A December Bureau of Labor Statistics employers survey that the bank factors into its predictions shows 2,300 more people working in Amarillo than the previous year, with strong gains in utilities, manufacturing and professional and business categories, according to bank information.
A different study, the bureau's survey of households shows 3,200 more people working in December than at the same time in 2010, Amarillo National's analysis shows.
Amarillo Gear Co. expects to be among local employers hiring this year.
"We are actively seeking new position hires as we speak," Amarillo Gear President Steven Chaloupka said.
The company, maker of
specific-application gear boxes for pumping and for cooling fans, saw one of its largest exporting years in 2011, a year during which it hired 20 people. Demand in Asian markets helped push exports, Chaloupka said.
"Manufacturing certainly increased in 2011, and it looks very positive for 2012, as well," he said. "One of our main industries is power generation. Recently, in Las Vegas at the PowerGen show, attendance was up and everybody attending seemed to be upbeat.
"We're starting to see the overall domestic economy beginning to kick in, and that helps our shipments, as well."
Bloomberg News recently reported gains in U.S. manufacturing early this year could come from the need to rebuild depleted inventories rather than spending on business equipment.
U.S. Commerce Department data shows orders for nondefense capital goods, excluding aircraft, dropped 1.2 percent in November — the biggest decline in 10 months. But a recent gauge of factory-customer inventories showed stockpiles at a seven-year low in December, according to Bloomberg.
Key Amarillo manufacturers — Bell Helicopter, Owens Corning, Pantex and Asarco — began hiring again in 2011 or held work forces steady, stemming job loss seen at the height of the recession, Patrick Ware said.
Increased and more efficient, natural gas and oil drilling activity in the eastern Texas Panhandle will bring long-term benefits to the area economy, according to the bank forecast.
"Energy will buoy our economy in 2012," William Ware said.
"It's made a big difference in the eastern Panhandle," said Wayne Hughes, executive vice president of the Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association. "That's probably the most prosperous manufacturing area of the Texas Panhandle right now."
Between 60 and 70 drilling rigs are operating daily in the Texas Panhandle, each working a minimum of nine employees in three shifts a day, Hughes said.
"Those people average $25 an hour, so the gross math will give you an idea of what their income is worth on a yearly basis," Hughes said.
Those dollars turn over in the regional economy as employees buy goods and services, he said.
Hughes estimated 1 in 6 jobs in the Texas Panhandle has some tie to the oil and gas industry, from those actively involved to law and accounting firms.
The commodities sector — products grown by farmers and raised by ranchers — will see a mixed bag in 2012 stirred by drought, the bank forecast shows.
In 2011, "farms and ranches suffered, while feedlots and dairies actually had really good years," William Ware said. "Higher commodity prices sure helped."
This year, crop yields will continue to suffer in drought conditions, and the costs of producing farm and ranch goods will rise, shrinking profit margins, he said.
A lack of pasture cattle now likely will drive up cattle prices in the second half of the year, William Ware said.
Consumers will pay higher prices due to inflation, according to the bank's predictions.
"The first places you'll see this will be at the grocery store and the gas pump," Patrick Ware said.
Food costs have increased 5.9 percent compared with the previous 12 months, according to data released in December by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Seafood, pork, beef and dairy products led the rise, but every category followed.
Commercial construction fell off in the fourth quarter of 2011, and home starts and sales remained flat last year.
But retail sales increased more than expected in 2011, according to the bank's figures.
"We were forecasting a 4 percent increase in retail sales," Patrick Ware said. "They're actually (up) 8 percent."
The bank again predicts a rise, but at the more moderate 4 percent this year, he said.
Sales tax revenues collected by governments provide one way for economists to track retail sales.
The city of Amarillo's sales tax revenues for October, November and December amounted to $11.3 million, up almost 7 percent from the $10.6 million the city logged in the same three months of 2010, Assistant City Manager Dean Frigo said.
"It's delightful," he said, noting the increases have been steady. "Since August of 2010, there has been a consecutive increase every month over the previous month.
"You rarely see that. It's usually more erratic. Usually, you're up one month and down the next."
Sales tax revenues going into the city's coffers in a given month actually reflect sales made two months before because retailers send tax collections to the state first. The state keeps its cut and then remits the remaining portions to local governments that levy a sales tax.
A state accounting of sales tax revenues collected on sales made in November should be released in mid-January, Frigo said. State information about December sales tax revenues, a benchmark for gauging holiday sales, is generally released in February.

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The prosecution concluded its case yesterday in the federal racketeering-murder trial of reputed Latin Kings leader William "King Homicide" Sosa and seven codefendants.
During five weeks of testimony, Sosa, 27, has been described as the volatile leader of a criminal enterprise who ordered killings, kidnappings and beatings while heading up the North Philadelphia-based street gang.
The case, which could go to the jury next week, includes charges of murder, murder conspiracy, kidnapping, rape, assault and drug dealing.


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After a lot of months of work, i have been able of polish my CRPG game engine (PORTALEngine) in order to make something playable. Today i have released a new version of my engine with a little alpha playable tech demo (not as astonishing as the first demos of Era, but well, i'm proud of what i have done ;) ).
For me, this is very important, because I have been programming 2D CRPG's since eight years ago (starting in text mode), and finally i have been able to create something who is near my initial dreams.... read more
New version of this (WIP) CRPG engine. Now, the engine can be compiled using FreePascal, and there is a Linux version.


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Arlington Mother Falls Overboard From Cruise ShipThe Coast Guard is searching for a missing passenger from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship after a 33-year-old Arlington mother fell overboard.
CBS Renews 11 Returning SeriesCBS announced last week, 11 shows have been renewed for the 2016-2017 season.
Garland Police Investigating Fatal Family FightGarland police are trying to sort out an altercation that lead to one man's death.
Average Age Of New U.S. Moms At All-Time High, Now Over 26The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S — over 26.
Big Night For HBO At Emmy AwardsHBO claimed the hardware at the annual Emmy Awards. Viola Davis, Jon Hamm and Tracy Morgan captured the hearts.
Mother's Day Gifts For Techy MomsIf your mom loves techy things, chances are she already has an iPad, laptop, Kindle and other devices. But here are five other techy gift ideas for mom this Mother's Day.
Mom Disturbed By Alleged Lewd Behavior Of Fort Worth DriverA driver performing lewd acts while behind the wheel, a Fort Worth mother talks about the disturbing thing she saw while in the middle of traffic.
CBS Renews 'Mom,' 'Mike & Molly' And '2 Broke Girls' For 2015-2016CBS announced this week that "Mom," "Mike & Molly" and "2 Broke Girls" have been renewed for the 2015-2016 broadcast season.
Mom Says Memory Card Purchased At Walmart Contained PornA Kennedale mother says she found pornography on a Secure Digital (SD) card she bought at Walmart for her 9-year-old son.
Anna Faris And Allison Janney To Host 'People's Choice Awards 2015'"Mom" stars Anna Faris and Emmy Award winner Allison Janney to host the "People's Choice Awards 2015," airing live Wednesday, January 7 on CBS.
Updates Coming To CBS Primetime ScheduleCBS is making some updates to its fall primetime schedule.
Creative Arts Emmys Doled Out In HollywoodThe Creative Arts Emmys mix awards for technical disciplines with honors for guest acting, hosting a reality or reality-competition program and narrating.


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The detailed records of a Nuremberg trials prosecutor, quietly removed from his Delaware County home after his death and found languishing, all but forgotten, in upstate New York, have been recovered and are being studied by Holocaust experts in Washington.
The documents are the life's work of Robert M.W. Kempner, who fled the Nazi regime and later returned to seek justice for its architects. One archivist said the materials offer valuable insight into legal strategies employed at the trials.
When he died six years ago at the age of 93, Kempner left behind a collection of about 150,000 pages of notes and letters in his white stucco house in Lansdowne - and a hastily written will.


text: [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/02a8b33805ca9aee1f88826b821f1368.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300:Not your usual FunnyAnimal.[[note]]Notice in the background: [[ComicBook/{{Thor 2014}} Thor]], [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Groot's twig form]], and ComicBook/BlackCat.[[/note]]]] ->[[AC:Trapped in a world he never made!]]-->-- Original {{Tagline}}->[[AC:Trapped in a world he's grown accustomed to.]]-->-- [[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel All-New, All-Different]] Tagline'''Howard The Duck''' is one of the strangest comic book characters ever published by Creator/MarvelComics, [[AdaptationDisplacement best known today because of]] [[Film/HowardTheDuck its movie adaptation]], believed by many to be one of the worst films ever made; this is unfortunate, as the comic was both funny and full of social criticism, and was one of Marvel's best known titles during the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. While not an [[UndergroundComics underground comic]] in of itself, ''Howard the Duck'' is widely cited as an example of the underground comix movement's influence on mainstream media.The character was apparently created as a sight gag; in ''"Adventure into Fear''" #19 (December, 1973), in a ''ComicBook/ManThing'' story involving the "Nexus of All Realities" characters from several [[AnotherDimension universes]] appeared, many of them being obvious homages to fictional characters such as Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian and (in Howard's case) WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. However, writer Creator/SteveGerber, known for both his love of strange characters and playing with reader's expectations, decided to continue using Howard, and convinced Marvel to give the character his own series. Although Marvel [[HilariousInHindsight had to strike a deal with]] Creator/{{Disney}} in order to use the character, including such things as requiring Howard to wear ''pants'', the character proved popular, most likely due to Gerber's writing.Gerber had the "duck" accidentally transported to UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, where the "hairless apes" (humans, as Howard called them) refused to believe he was anything but a midget in a duck costume and treated him as a weirdo. "Trapped in a world he never made" (the series' catchphrase) Howard tried to live a normal life (and got a series of jobs, such as driving a taxi) but [[WeirdnessMagnet kept running into bizarre people and creatures]] and ended up having to confront them. The vast majority of these were just [[SuperZeroes wannabe supervillains with silly names and goals]] such as "Doctor Bong" or humorous menaces like a vampiric cow. More importantly, the series used the short-tempered and sarcastic duck as a way to snark on modern human society. At one point, Howard even runs for President of the United States (!) only to retire after a false accusation of having sex with his friend, a human woman named Beverly Switzler. Howard, despite running into superheroes occasionally, was no superhero himself, and had no superhuman powers (other than the [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands occasional unexpected skill]] such as "Quack Fu") though he still did end up helping people, directly or indirectly, mostly because of Beverly.The character's popularity led to his being adapted into the live-action movie, but since other than the Beverly/Howard romance, nothing from the comics made it in, especially not the humor, fans of the character hated it. It was universally poorly-received among critics and fans alike, and was a major flop for Marvel, seemingly killing any chance of more stories involving Howard. Thankfully, time has been kind to him and he makes a cameo appearance in TheStinger of the hit and critically acclaimed film ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', confirming him as a canon part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse continuity. He even got a new ongoing series --his first since TheEighties-- starting in March 2015, with Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones at the helm.Howard was also the cause of a legal dispute between Marvel and Gerber, who claimed to own the character. This caused Gerber to leave the company and led to many years of legal wranglings; in the end, the situation was settled with Marvel keeping ownership of Howard. Howard has appeared occasionally in various Marvel titles since the 1970s, and a few years ago starred in a miniseries (again by Gerber) that made open references to his sexual relationship with Beverly (it was part of Marvel's adult-oriented [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]] line, which may not be a canonical part of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.) He was one of the major parodied characters in the ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse'', merged with Creator/DCComics's Lobo as ''Lobo The Duck''. Seriously. He appeared again as an agent of the dimensional-patrolling agency ARMOR in the "Marvel Zombies" comics, starring alongside various heroes such as Aaron Stack, the Machine Man, and also had an appearance in the ''[[LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Superheroes]]'' game as an unlockable character.----[[AC:Notable Comics]]* ''Howard The Duck:'' ** vol. 1 (1975 -- 1986)** vol. 2 (1979 -- 1981)** vol. 5 (2015)** vol. 6 (2015 -- present)* ''Howard The Duck [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]]'' (2002)[[AC:Film]]* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' (1986)* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (2014)[[AC:Video Games]]* ''[[LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Super Heroes]]'' (2013)* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (2016)----!!Tropes featured in the comic:* AffectionateNickname: Howard is called "Ducky" by Beverly, and "Ducko" by her uncle Lee.* ArchEnemy: Dr. Bong.* AlliterativeName: Winda Wester. Tara Tam in the 2015 series.* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Inverted. He's a human named Howard T. Duck in Earth-65, ComicBook/SpiderGwen's home reality.* ArrogantKungFuGuy: The egotistical and HairTriggerTemper-afflicted Count Macho. * AuthorAvatar: Painter Paul Same, who physically resembled Gerber and was more or less an {{Expy}} from Richard Rory, another Gerber's character that he also used as an alter-ego.* AuthorTract: Lots of stories were devoted to Howard ranting on how stupid, lazy, self-centered, and shallow humanity had become.* BeautifulAllAlong: Winda Wester, whose beauty makes a stark contrast to her speech impediment and general weirdness.* BelatedBackstory: Howard reveals his past to Winda in issue 13, telling his origins and how his life in his original universe was before getting trapped in ours.* BewareTheSillyOnes: Dr. Bong, who, despite his goofy conception, was the most dangerous foe that Howard ever faced. * {{BFG}}: Howard owns an unnamed big gun which he literally [[ICallItVera calls]] it as Big Freaking Gun (BFG)!* BigApplesauce: The fifth run had him moving to the same Brooklyn building as She-Hulk.* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early on Howard would do this on occasion. In one adventure he directly addresses the readers and tell them that he ''knows'' the story took a weird turn, but it beats the initial DrivenToSuicide plot.* BreakoutCharacter: Howard was initially intended as a single-appearance character, but fate (and popular demand) wouldn't have it.* ButtMonkey: In the 2015 series, Spider-Man goes through a series of {{Heroic BSOD}}s thanks to Howard that culminates in issue #5 with Howard "saving" him by pulling his foot out of a tiny amount of rubble. Spidey is so distraught over "owing Howard one" that the end of the issue has him hugging [[TheFantasticFour Johnny Storm]] for emotional support.* UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks * CaptainErsatz: In the 2015-6 series, Biggs the cyborg cat is a blatant take-off of 2 the cat from ''ComicBook/{{WE 3}}''.* CatchPhrase: Howard's whining "Waaaugh!"* CelebrityParadox: As if the franchise didn't have enough PostModernism, the 2016 run features Lea Thompson hiring Howard. While [[Film/HowardTheDuck the 1986 movie doesn't exist]], it's revealed there were moments where X-Men villain Mojo kidnapped Thompson and had her play Bev against someone in a Howard costume, to fill in the gaps where Howard had no adventures (i.e. when he did not have a dedicated title) and "[his] life was the equivalent of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy a post-credits cameo]]".* CharacterTitle* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: Where most of the series takes place.* CloudCuckooLander: Most of the villains appear to be this, particularly the Kidney Lady.* DeadpanSnarker: Howard.* DrivenToMadness: Poor Howard suffers a psychological breakdown after encountering with several weirdos at some point. Fortunately, he gets better with the help of Damon Hellstrom and Dr. Avery (but not before causing a complete chaos while he is [[DemonicPossession accidentally possessed by Hellstrom's demonic soul]]).** It gets subversive, too: the ''real'' cause of Howard's madness is that at a crucial moment he refuses to fight Le Beaver, thus repudiating the entire ethos of Marvel comics at the time, which is that every issue had to have a fight scene. Howard essentially rejects a major trope of the very medium he's a part of. In-universe he says he failed to live by the dictates of his male social conditioning, but read between the lines and it's clear he has a breakdown because, like Dr. Manhattan, he's a puppet who was able to see the strings.* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Winda Wester. Weally cute, though.* {{Expy}}: Dr. Bong is clearly a parody of Doctor Doom, while borrowing a few traces from [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Dr. Moreau]] with his experiments regarding metamorphosis on animals.** Dr. Bong (real name Lester Verde) is also a [[TakeThat Take That]] to Bob Greene, who'd written a column criticizing Marvel's special Music/{{KISS}} issue, which Gerber wrote.* FictionalPoliticalParty: Howard ran for President in 1976 for the All Night Party, as noted in the (former) picture at the top of this page. * FooFu: Howard is a self-proclaimed master of Quack Fu.* FrankensteinsMonster: Created in one issue by a little girl MadScientist. Oh yes, and it's made of gingerbread.* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Howard himself. He knows a fair number of superheroes, but none of them particulaly ''like'' him all that much. Especially ComicBook/SheHulk, who has an office next door to his in the 2015 run. Exception being Beverly and Tara Tam.* GenderBlenderName: Beverly's uncle, who she was named after. He got around it by going by "Lee".* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The comic ran on the tension between the funny-animal kiddie comic it appeared to be and the actual very-for-adults comic it was. As a result, double entendres, cleverly concealed X-rated references ("Phelch" the space turnip) and near-obscenities ("Big clucking deal") were regular features. Not to mention the occasional implication that Howard and Beverly's relationship went beyond the platonic (leading to a particularly uncomfortable moment in the live-action film). ** Averted when the comic was [[{{Revival}} revived]] in 2001. It was published by Marvel's "mature" imprint, MAX Comics, so there was no radar to get past and the content was much more explicit. * GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Happened to Howard during a crossover with ComicBook/SpiderMan in an issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' after he waded naked in a pond to avoid getting attacked by the minions of Status Quo.* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Howard smoked cigars.* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Only in his earliest appearances. A threatened lawsuit from [[Creator/{{Disney}} the creators]] of a similar [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck pantsless duck]] resulted in Howard donning a pair of trousers, becoming a BarefootCartoonAnimal. And now Disney owns Marvel. [[HilariousInHindsight Huh]]. However, Howard was able to get away without wearing pants in his Marvel Zombies appearances.* HearingVoices: Howard is haunted by them during his temporary state of insanity.* HeroesWantRedheads: Beverly Switzler was a redhead and it was occasionally implied that she and Howard regarded one another as more than friends.* HerrDoktor[=/=]ThoseWackyNazis: Dr. Reich* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Howard has WhiteGloves on human-like hands, but has webbed feet.* InfantImmortality: Averted with [[spoiler:the little girl who creates the Gingerbread Monster in issue 06.]]* InterspeciesRomance: Sometimes implied between Howard and Beverly, but nothing is made clear.** Until the MAX series, at least.* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: One of the people who Howard befriends in New York after a disastrous escape from Dr. Bong's castle happens to be Beverly's uncle, Lee.* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Howard is arrogant, opinionated and selfish and doesn't hesitate in insulting people or throwing snarky comments on them... but he also helps those that have been wronged and is very loyal to his friends. ** JerkassWoobie: As Howard himself is quick to point out, he was plucked from his home and thrown into a world where he does not belong, doesn't understand, and more often than not, isn't ''wanted.'' Anyone would be cranky in that situation* KilledOffForReal: Dr. Bong's French duck maid Fifi and nearly every antagonist aside from Dr. Bong and the Kidney Lady.* KnightInSourArmor: Howard due of his jaded attitude and total lack of interest in involving with supernatural affairs.* KnightTemplar: The underground organization S.O.O.F.I. ('''S'''ave '''O'''ur '''O'''ffspring '''F'''rom '''I'''ndecency)* MonsterOfTheWeek: Before Dr. Bong came along, Howard fought one-shot adversaries that often got killed by the end of the story,* MsFanservice: Beverly, who particularly in the B&W illustrated magazine version of ''Howard the Duck'' was often shown in skimpy clothing. In addition, the character's backstory included time working as a nude model. Then there's the fact that she wore a literal ChainmailBikini in her first appearance (a nerdy evil magician with a Conan complex put her into it).* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Supreme SOOFI is a never-named Anita Bryant (a singer who became a HeteronormativeCrusader) -- she even mentions having her epiphany in Dade County, where the real Bryant then lived -- while Donny and Marie Dearth are based on the Osmonds who share their first names. See also TakeThat* OnlySaneMan: Howard is usually this.* PhraseCatcher: "You're a talking duck!" Sometimes it was just "You're a duck!"** Played with in an issue of ''Sensational She-Hulk'' - when one of the characters says this, he replies "That ain't the half of it, toots," as he pulls out a cigar. "I'm also a smoker."* PostModernism: Issue 16, the infamous "Dreaded Deadline Doom" issue, which included Steve Gerber soliloquizing for the whole issue about writing on top of surreal illustrations, as well as an "obligatory fight scene" between a showgirl, an ostrich, and a killer [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]].) ** Gerber would later use the Showgirl/ostrich concept in his VertigoComics miniseries ''Nevada''.* PsychicPowers: Winda.* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In a small arc where Howard and Winda end up in a BedlamHouse-like asylum, Dr. Morton Avery was the only character who wanted to help them.* RichBitch: Iris Raritan.* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Dr. Bong is arguably Howard's archnemesis, but in recent years he seems to be slowly transferring to being part of SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'s supporting cast. * ShoutOut: In the ''ComicBook/UnbeatableSquirrelGirl'' crossover of the 2015-6 series, the villainous Mrs. Sugarbaker calls Kraven a "[[TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} commie traitor]]".* StealthPun: [[http://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Howard-the-Duck-2.jpg This picture]] has ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy selfie with '''duck'''face. Also, notice [[LiteralMinded Drax]] in the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]].* TakeThat:** Steve Gerber wasn't afraid to use ol' Howard as a mouthpiece.** "Count Macho" is an extremely hostile parody of the real-world martial arts charlatan and frequent comic-book advertiser Count Dante.** A 90s miniseries called ''Daydreamers'' has Howard travel to an alternate universe where he is revered as a hero. What really floors him though is that [[Film/HowardTheDuck a movie was made about him]]...and it was a hit!** Howard's MAX series was almost never published due to Disney once again complaining about his visual similarity to Donald Duck. Gerber responded in the first issue by transforming Howard into...a mouse. ** The cover of issue 6 of the short-lived B&W illustrated magazine version of ''Howard the Duck'', which came out after Disney legal action forced Howard to don pants, features a number of duck characters, including one seen from the back that unambiguously resembles Donald (complete with sailor's hat), and another that resembles Daisy Duck.* TalkingAnimal: Howard.* ToothyBird: Howard is sometimes drawn with teeth.* UnexpectedCharacter: Of the highest degree in [[spoiler:''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', and even the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse franchise]] altogether.]]** In the original comic series, it's highly unlikely that anyone expected that the people that helped out Howard with his mental breakdown would be [[spoiler: Music/{{KISS}}]]!* UnfazedEveryman: Beverly pretty much fills this role, if you consider that her friends includes a sleepwalking painter with a vigilante alter-ego, a psychic with a speech impediment and, of course... Howard. * UnPerson: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes.* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:Tara Tam gained Skrull shapeshifting powers after eating the meat of a Skrull that had been turned into a duck.]]* WeirdnessMagnet: Howard thinks he's one. He might be right, as the talking duck is more often than not the ''least'' ridiculous thing about the stuff that goes on around him.* {{Yandere}}: Bong for Beverly.----


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Laurence Povey's aide, John, takes on 'Bella's training. She's forced to crawl on all fours, sleep in a cage and relieve herself in the straw, just like a common dog. She's flogged for any transgression, suffering brutal punishments, then is quickly introduced to the pleasures of the flesh, culminating in the loss of her virginity. Now the master's pet, she serves at his command, offering up her body for both sexual pleasure and the hard abuse from her sadistic master. She becomes nothing but a play toy for Povey and his band of fellow sadists. Though repeatedly shamed and humiliated, strong urges to surrender herself to the defilement rise up unbidden in the once innocent Isabel, as each new twist in her tainted life propels her deeper into submission.
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Soon the whole area of my bottom would be suffused with pain and I would sink into the sublime state I craved. In this state I was no longer Isabel Dance. I became a nameless thing existing only so that John had a female body to punish. It was the only purpose I served and it was sufficient. I counted myself fortunate that of all the women John could have used he chose my pale flesh on which to practise the potent alchemy of the flagellant's art.


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So Kelly and Luke broke-up. Seems like he cheated on her. She was soo frustrated at him on Twitter... No wonder he is so HOT but looks kind of like a big fat jerk to me.
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Summary of possible reasons why Java applets failed to catch on, dispite heavy initial momentum:
Microsoft's luckluster browser support
Didn't have a native OS GUI look-and-feel
Were difficult to partition such that they often required long load times
Optional "click-me" loading & starting should be the default for embedded applets (arguably for any bulky content, not just applets).
That's what I do with my
s: I disable Java. Why? Because every time I get the little message that says "Starting Java" I know that I'm going to have to sit a wait for a long time while the
invokes itself in order to run whatever cute application I wasn't interested in seeing anyway. As a side bonus, when I quit the browser I have to sit around and wait for Java to tidy itself up before it dies. It's just not worth it. Sometimes I disable
too because those little pop-up advertising boxes are just soooo damn annoying. Anyone else do this? --
No (I actually like seeing what some of the people who write applets are up to), but I edit /etc/hosts to have any domain names from which ads are served redirected to localhost, where my lil' server has a nice blank image ready to answer any request with. TechnicalDisobedience
, man. ;)
First thing I do is disable Java.
I have automatic download of .gif files disabled as well.
Yeah? Well, I only use telnet, and only on an actual VT100 terminal. None of this GUI crap for me. And I smoke unfiltered Camels and drive a stick and pump my own water from a well I dug myself with my bare hands. ...GIF files my achin' butt.
Me, I look at all my GIF files through a text editor...
Heck, I use morse code.
Silly jokes notwithstanding, I'm with Andy. I have seen perhaps five examples of client-side Java that I thought were useful or genuinely cool. Comparing that to the literally hundreds of worthless
s out there, the odds of finding a good applet are too slim to go through the hassle.
Of course, this is less of a problem today than it used to be ... Now all the flashy resource-wasting goes to
instead of Java. Which proves either that Flash will replace Java client-side, or that client-side Java really was worthless all along. Can't decide which. --
Flash has replaced client-side java for fluff. Java remains useful for things like in-page
assuming that an in-page IRC client was a good idea...
The difference is that Flash-style fluff is used in a manner that makes content accessibility difficult. (Less so with Flash than with applets, but the complaint is still valid.) An in-page IRC client is a service, by contrast -- it
the content.
I often disable Java as well. But I'm sure there are
The problem with Java is that it isn't particularly good at interacting with a webpage, so it's not very easy find a good
. It's just so inappropriate. Compare your favourite text editor's macro language, like elisp (
). elisp happens to be good at manipulating emacs (
), so you can found loads of useful elisp. You can similarly find useful
for some definition of useful. But Java just doesn't belong on a webpage. Similarly, it doesn't belong on handhelds because it's a bloated hunk of unportable crap. People now claim it belongs on the server, but that's another question.
The biggest problem with
s is that they seem difficult to modularize so that one gets
client-side loading. Usually bunches of classes have to be loaded on the client before anything happens, perhaps the entire app. It would be nice if it only loaded what was used. A form-based approach, for example, would only have to load forms that the user actually goes to instead of all
Perhaps Java applets
be partitioned such a way, I don't know, but almost no writer seems to do it. They are all a big ball of all-or-nothing. Some have tried to split apps into multiple applets, but the communication and caching between them was not very good, they reported.
: Rename topic to WhyAppletsFailed
, which is more diplomatic.
: Diplomacy without advesary is vacuous.
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March 11, 2012 West Carroll Parish Tornado
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The tornado touched down along Bar K Road, where multiple trees were snapped or uprooted, and one manufactured home was damaged by a fallen tree. The tornado then continued northeast, passing through the Fiske Union community near the junction of Louisiana Highways 585 and 879. Along Highway 585, several trees were snapped or uprooted. In addition, there was shingle damage to homes, an outbuilding was damaged, and part of the facing was removed from a mobile home. The tornado paralleled Highway 585 for a short distance, snapping a few trees in a cemetery before lifting.
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Nicky says
We once spent a week walking around our house naked. Not so bizzare – but when you factor in the fact we have no curtains…. it's bizzare, especially for the neighbours
Mummahh says
Does skinny dipping with the kids count…?
(they were little of course) it was when we lived in sydney out west it was so hot one night, we threw huge ice cubes in the pool as it was like bath water. the kids had no clothes on and dared mummy to take of her bikini, so i did for a little over 5 minutes! they thought it was hilarious! me not so much! i covered up quick smart.
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ps love the pics of your little man, i used to sit my kids outside in their high chair on summer nights eating icy poles.
Jussie says
We often freeze massive loads of Ice! Even brought loads of ice from the servo and threw it all into our In-ground Pool!! So we're talking Massive loads of ICE. We clean the freezer and throw the freezer Ice at each other and then jump in the pool. we live in north QLD so often we Put ice on everyone :D
Amy says
Last summer when I was heavily pregnant, we pulled out our blow up pool, got a tarp, and filled it up with water in our lounge room! I think I sat in it for about five hours, including a nice, long, cool nap!
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Victoria {Victoria's Secrets} says
He is so cute eating watermelon.
When I was little my mum use to let little towels with cold water place them in the freezer then put it on our head so we could fall asleep.
Jogirl says
um, okay this may be slightly illegal..but last summer we were sooooooooooooo hot and all sooooooooooooo cranky that we just had to do something..so my husband reminded me about some friends of ours who's house had just settled in a sale but the new owners were not moving in until a week or so later…so we went up to their place, snuck in the back yard and spent the rest of the day quietly getting cool whilst having a couple of nice cold beers from the esky! Naughty I know, nice yes!
Kylie says
What great photos of your little man with his watermelon:)
When we first moved to Darwin I thought I was going to go mad. Completly with the heat and it was not long before I found out that it did not take link to 'GO TROPO'
I recall being so hot and thinking – "wonder if I like the top of my hands if that will keep me cooler" Like the kangaroo's do – dont think it did – but kept me amused for a while and I stopped thinking of the heat:)
Anonymous says
Similiar to Victoria's. When we lived in Brisbane I used to soak a whole towel in tepid water (cold was too cold), wring it out and then go to bed with it on me! It was the only way to actually get to sleep. I was naked, of course, and had another couple of towels under me. My husband used to think I was nuts but I woke up refreshed without that headachy feeling!
Now I just put the a/c on!!!
Sarah says
I've slept on the bathroom floor to try and escape the heat when I was pregnant, the tiles were nice and cool. Only lasted about an hour because it was so uncomfortable. Ended up wetting towels and using them to wrap myself. Oh how I would love an air conditioner in our bedroom!!
Talia says
I once covered my body in small, wet, face washers to try to keep cool. It was mildly successful but not enough to warrant the discomfort of having to stay so still!!
Emily says
Well, the most bizarre thing I have done to keep cool, is put my quilt and pillow in the box freezer! They would come out nice and cold…It worked great for about ten minutes, then I had to repeat the process! ha ha
Great comp. Good luck everyone! :D
carly says
oh. so many.
i get down to a bikini or go nekkid in summer. though have to stay confined to the bedroom as it would just be scary if the boyfriend's dad walked in!
when my sister was younger we used to put up a tarp over the clothesline and put the pool underneath and just lay there.
when i was working this time last year, i would randomly hose the children… and myself. the children thought it was hilarious and always wanted to get a hold of the hose when it was their turn to hose me.
but my favourite is that when i first moved to sydney, the boyfriend and i used to pull our mattress out to the loungeroom and sleep in our undies. mind you morning when everyone was awake was a little embarrassing.
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i love those pictures by the way. too cute. x
Little Munchkins says
Fill a wading pool with water and put in ice. Desperate times calls for desperate measures!
Melissa @Suger Coat It says
I put on wet clothes. It sounds silly but even if they are a little damp it cools the body temp down. Crazy but effective.
How cute is Aidan in this photo!? Love.
Belinda says
It was really hot, Miss L and I slept down stairs and we prayed for rain.
I kid you not. I had just fallen a sleep and woke suddenly saturated, sat up and it was raining so heavy it leaked through and we were completely flooded.
Other than late we've all put our swimmers on and jumped in the bath then drive around in the airconditioner car.
Anonymous says
Do you remember that stinking hot New Years Day a few years back?
I worked at a food chain at the time,and it got to 50 degrees in the kitchen. So as the manager, I allowed my staff to take coolroom and freezer breaks.
I went and bought spray bottles, and each staff member would spray themselves down and jump into the freezer or coolroom (their choice), while sipping on cooled water.
Honestly the best thing I have ever done to cool down!
Lia Wrigley email@example.com
Kevin says
Great !the French version is binalrlit, full of interesting techniques.Laurent also released some SketchUp classes on DVD (French sound track) that worth the money too, look for it on Elephorm's website.
LisaAbe says
When I was pregnant I put those plastic covered icicle sticks for kids down my bra !
Capricorn Link says
When I was living at my mums as a kid I would freeze facewashers and sit in an empty bath reading…the bathroom usually ended up being the coolest place in the house, so I would put frozen washcloths all over my body and lie in the bath. Looked pretty weird but at least I was cooler than the others!
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Oops, didn't realise I was logged in with work profile…the above was posted by Kylez…aka…Mrs.P
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Rafael Perez has seen a further delay in his comeback as he sprained his ankle. It is very unlikely he will make another appearance on the Indians roster this year.
Grady Sizemore has had his rehab stopped indefinately after yet another set back. He is extremely unlikely to ever play another game in Cleveland and possibly in the Major Leagues.
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Casey Kotchman knocked in the only Indians runs and had two singles, therefore he is the default Player of the Game. Congratulations Casey, in a gave filled with losers, you were the least bad.
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The Indians' Hernandez matched up surprisingly well against the Mariners'. Through the first four innings the game was scoreless and Roberto Hernandez hadn't given up a single hit, while Felix had given up four. In the end Roberto didn't deserve his fate as Esmil Rogers came in for him in the seventh after just 72 pitches and only two runs allowed. Rogers immediately gave up a home run off the upper deck facing to seal the game for Felix.
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Just under 40,000 yellow-shirted Mariners fans showed up for tonight's game in recognition of Felix Hernandez's perfect game. This is great for a team that has trouble drawing a crowd on a regular night, but it really shows how awful attendance is in Cleveland. This year the Indians have had one game over 30,000 that wasn't a weekend game or Opening Day.
Manny Acta let Esmil Rogers lose what was a close game before he came in. When you're 15 games under .500 and in a six game losing streak for the second time in a month, you have to play any game within 3 runs like you are winning. Since Hernandez pitched into the 7th, there is no reason that Acta couldn't have gone with Joe Smith, Vinnie Pestano (who hasn't pitched in three games) and Chris Perez (if needed) like he would have had they been winning. Between that decision and a botched suicide squeeze, this was one of those losses that can actually be pinned on the manager.
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During an on-the-record lunch with journalists at the Sony Building, in Midtown Manhattan, 'Anonymous' director Roland Emmerich said he agreed with the decision to scale back the movie's theatrical release from thousands of theaters to just a few hundred for a simple reason: "It was my idea."
"If this had been a different studio, the idea probably would have come up sooner," he said, adding that he consulted with Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, the heads of Sony's art-house division, Sony Classics, before recommending the change. Their suggestion: open the movie in 10 theaters.""I said, 'Well, it's a nice idea but we've spent too much on advertising,'" Emmerich recalled. In the end, Sony decided to open the movie in 250 movies next Friday and expand the run to 500 the following week.
Emmerich also revealed the strategy he used to persuade Sony to let him release an arty film about Shakespeare instead of another big-budget alien blockbuster: "I said, 'I deserve it,'" noting that his 2009 apocalyptic thriller, '2012,' earned more than $700 million worldwide for the studio. Still, don't expect him to steer of the multiplex going forward: his next film, he said, will be a sci-fi with the working title 'Singularity,' about the melding of men and machines.
At the lunch, Rhys Ifans, who stars in 'Anonymous' as the mysterious and well-connected aristocrat Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, said he had no qualms about undercutting the slacker image he's earned in movies like 'Greenberg': "It's not a leap for me, it's a relief." Also a relief for Ifans: working in Germany, where Emmerich's ultra-efficient crew completed the demanding 61-day shoot with four hours to spare.
But perhaps the most amusing nuggets came from Joely Richardson, who plays a young Queen Elizabeth I to the older version portrayed by her mother, Vanessa Redgrave. Since her character was supposed to be in her 20s or 30s, Richardson, who is 47 years old, was subjected to a series of age-defying devices. "There were tricks going on under my wig, and there was actually a neck thing," pulling back her skin, she said. "It was actually really fun, and the only sad thing was when they took it off."
Richardson also informed Emmerich that her mother had perpetrated a minor act of insubordination during one scene, when she insisted on affixing a Tudor rose to her dress in a manner that Richardson felt was over-the-top. "I saw that and thought, 'You naughty, naughty girl.' It looks wrong. It's a real Vanessa-ism." Emmerich just laughed in response.
"I like her at her simplest," Richardson said. "Then she has this quality that I call 'the soul of an age.'"
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Smokey Hogg
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|Smokey Hogg
|Birth name
|Andrew Hogg
January 27, 1914
Westconnie, Texas, United States
|May 1, 1960
(aged 46)
McKinney, Texas, United States
|Texas blues, country blues
|Years active
|Decca, Modern
Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (January 27, 1914 - May 1, 1960)[1] was an American post-war Texas and country blues musician.
Life and career[edit]
Hogg was born near Westconnie, Texas, United States and grew up on the farm and was taught to play guitar by his father Frank Hogg. While still in his teens he teamed up with the slide guitarist and vocalist, B.K. Turner aka Black Ace and the pair travelled together playing the turpentine and logging camp circuit of country dance halls and juke joints that surrounded Kilgore, Tyler, Greenville and Palestine in East Texas.
In 1937 Smokey and Black Ace were brought to Chicago, Illinois by Decca Records to record, and Smokey had his first gramophone record ("Family Trouble Blues"/"Kind Hearted Blues") released, as by Andrew Hogg. It was an isolated occurrence - he did not make it back into a recording studio for over a decade.[1] By the early 1940s Hogg was married and making a good living busking around the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas.
Hogg was drafted in the mid-1940s and after a brief spell with the U.S. military, he continued working in the Dallas area where he was becoming well known. In 1947 he came to the attention of Herbert T. Rippa Sr, boss of the Dallas-based record label, Bluebonnet Records, who recorded several sides with him and leased the masters to Modern Records.
The first release on Modern was the Big Bill Broonzy song "Too Many Drivers", and this racked up sufficient sales to encourage Modern Records to bring Hogg out to Los Angeles, California to cut more sides with their team of studio musicians. These songs included his two biggest hits, "Long Tall Mama" in 1949 and another Broonzy tune "Little School Girl" (#9 U.S. R&B chart) in 1950.
His two-part "Penitentiary Blues" (1952) was a remake of the prison song, "Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos".[2]
Hogg's country blues style, influenced by Broonzy, Peetie Wheatstraw and Black Ace was popular with record buyers in the South during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He continued to work and record until the end of the 1950s, but died of cancer, or possibly a ruptured ulcer, in McKinney, Texas in 1960.[3]
Relations and confusion[edit]
Smokey's cousin, John Hogg, also played the blues, recording for Mercury in 1951.
Smokey was reputed to be a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, and distantly related to Alger "Texas" Alexander, although both claims are ambiguous.[4]
He is not to be confused with Willie "Smokey" Hogg, a New York based musician of the 1960s with a similar name.[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Bill Dahl. "Andrew "Smokey" Hogg | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ^ Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books Limited. pp. 117–18. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.
- ^ Doc Rock. "The 1960s". The Dead Rock Stars Club. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ^ "Smokey Hogg". Thebluestrail.com. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
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Iron Geek
could combine to make a really cool TV gameshow just like
We have two groups of ten geeks. One group does an
, the other does a RupHour
The "special ingredient" here is the project vision. And we could take bets - if we could convince the
to pony up some of their ill booten gotty, we'd make a mint!
Well, we finally went and did this at the
conference. The slides are at
, pictures are on
, and here's some observations:
Things that worked:
Scoring & structure based on
plus the 7 ten minute periods from the XH.
Two magnificent teams - kudos to all 18 - and two great coaches,
Great courage on the part of
to let us do this without a precedent.
Wonderful running commentary from Jutta, Don & Ralph. Excellent gags from
, & Beck himself, who staged a 4 minute "vacation" for his whole team right in the middle of the event, brought food and coffee, and got into a dust-kicking argument with the umpire when his rather - um, liberal - interpretation of the rules was questioned.
A very interesting innovation from Beck's team. Rather than have the testers work independently of the developers, per the original
, the testers and developers worked together from the outset. To do this right, of course, you'd have to have some independent team actually run the tests. Maybe the panelists could do this as an analogy for the
Things that didn't work:
At the last minute the hotel couldn't supply
whiteboards, so we had to make use of projectors and flip charts. This made it a great deal harder for the audience to figure out what was going on.
Having customers and programmers on the same team. The customers got very conservative because they didn't want to give their own programmers anything very hard to draw, so the stories weren't really challenging enough. To address this, LeahStriker
, a member of Frank's team, suggested that next time we have the customers from one team give their stories to the other team.
Inadequate production staff. Having the 4 panelists was great, but we really needed another 2 or 3 folk to run around directing and coordinating. As it was, Ralph and myself sometimes left "dead air", which wasn't helped by the lack of white-boards.
Focusing too much on coaches. The teams needed names, colors, themes & costumes. Perhaps also different colored hats so it's easy for the audience to identify the roles being played.
One of the judges, not to name names but you know who you are, didn't judge entirely based on deliverables. Impartiality is important if this event is to gain popularity - no one enjoys a
. This isn't to say
's team didn't deserve the win - they did great! But Beck's team deserved to be judged based on their performance, not their associations.
In general, as far as I could tell, a wonderful time was had by all. In addition to the 24 participants, by the end of the 100 minute presentation we had a full house in the audience - about 200 people. Brilliant performances from all, I really hope we can make this a regular event. Maybe next time we can give every conference participant an opportunity to participate. --
It was great to see the two teams compete, no matter which won. As a spectator it was probably not as much fun as a participant, but it was still good to see how it worked. I will certainly try it out.
I talked with Kent afterward and he didn't think that the first category of score, which was coolness of features, was really an appropriate one to grade a team on. Upon reflection, I agree. I would even go one step farther and say that the second category is not a good one as well. The second category was simply that the judges think the machine as designed would work. (Think about it...we're talking about machines made out of transparencies and ink.) The important thing to judge here is the team's usage of the XP process and not the finished product. I was thinking that seeing important XP behavior emerging would be scored. There was the point when Kent's team began to
before development was finished. There was also the time when a developer on Frank's team solo programmed a piece of the machine, but then threw it out and started over pair programming it. We should refactor our scoring mechanism to emphasize that kind of behavior.
Also as
pointed out (I think it was AC) it is the team that wins and not the coach, perhaps in the future we should have teams created in advance and compete together instead of specific coach. The coach would simply be one more member of a team.
Another useful thing would be to hand out clipboards with score sheets to audience members. This would get a larger portion of the audience more into the game I believe.
More space. The teams could have benefited from removing the first 4 rows of chairs from the room.
Kent had run an extreme hour many times before and Frank had never run one. Generally speaking, the idea behind the extreme hour is to teach people what XP is about. If we look at it from that point of view Frank learned a whole lot more from the experience than Kent did. Unless of course maybe Kent learned
never get involved in a coaching war in western Italy.
I myself liked the animations and interchangeability of parts given by the overhead slide format, but I have not seen the event run with white boards.
Now to answer Peter's claim that it was a
, I did try to judge fairly. But I was watching the Beck team exclusively during the competition because I was their reporter. Having audience members score would fix that problem.
I agree with the idea of customers from one team being the customers of the opponent's team. This sets up an adversarial role not unlike the real world in some ways. The team needs to then be scored on their ability to negotiate with the customers. However the customers must be reasonable during such negotiations, clearly a referee must watch the negotiations for fouls since it is at this point that the two teams interact. --
Agreed Don, and apologies if you felt implicated in the
fixing scandal. Speaking as umpire and confederate, I take full responsibility for it. If there were a tribunal I ought to get banned from the sport. Heck, first person banned from the world
championships, now there's a dishonor I'd put on the rezoomee.
If memory serves me right (Ralph has the slides), the categories were originality/coolness, suitability to vision, quality of testing, quality of factoring/integration, and team integrity/fun. I wanted the first one because I thought it would inspire the customers to try to do interesting things. In my mind the second one wasn't so much that the machine would work - ensuring that is the tester's job - but that the stories were suitable to the vision.
I want to make it clear publicly that I feel very much in debt to Don for the fun we had in this event. If it weren't for his staunch support and exceptional diligence, it never would have happened. Don was also behind the SSQ
, and deserves kudos from me, not brickbats.
Speaking as one of the customers, I don't think we were conservative at all. For example, we threw in an off-centre requirement in the second iteration, just to liven things up. If we hadn't done so, our team might have shipped more (also, we didn't have suitable overhead pens!!!). Don't forget, we also broke the rules by calling in
as a
to bring the team back on track.
An interesting innovation would be to have developers and testers separate in the first round, then integrated in the second, so they could experience the speed-up.
I'm not convinced about making customers adversarial. At root, most people want to ship - they get adversarial when things don't work out as they thought. When I've been running
s, I've had the customers do the presentation at the end - it makes them concentrate on what they're getting and whether they really want to put their name to it in public.
In London, we've been moving more towards making the drawings a storyboard. It shows more detail (can't just draw another knob on the front) and is easier to estimate (count the frames).
Talking about involving more people (and inspired by the fact that it took place during the EuropeanCup
) we could run it as a league table, where teams are involved in takeovers at each round. The
has always been run with everyone participating, rather than as a show. --
As a Beck Team customer, I'm afraid we probably took the task too literally and actually tried to come up with requirements for a fishing robot (we even put a beer cooler on it in the second iteration). I like the idea of someone throwing a curve ball in half way through (some kind of unexpected regulatory requirement for example).
Generally, for an event like this, I suspect some more pre-game preparation would be helpful. This is not a criticism of
at all, I had a great time and really did learn some lessons about XP from it (Specifically that the team were great, working that way is fun and that a highly motivated and involved functional testing team makes a HUGE difference (thanks guys).
If I had time to prepare I would like to put more role play elements in there. Like pulling a team member out at some point, switching a customer out with someone else, maybe producing some joke background and 'pre-marketing' material to try and set the tone.
It would be really great to run it early in the conference, as an ice-breaker it was second to none! Steve's (or was it Peter's?) idea of a series sounds like fun. The scenario would be that the teams were different companies trying to fill a market niche, at the end of each session one 'company' would go under until we had our new monopolist by the end of the conference :-). --
If you want role-playing, develop a set of actuarial tables, then roll dragon dice at fixed intervals to introduce random events! -- PCP
As the other one of
's customers, (the one who recommended
) and someone who's run a few
s, I felt that an hour (or so) wasn't enough time for an
works well in a short time with a few people, but adding so many extras to it (2 teams, inexperienced coach, the extra role-playing that Tom suggests, etc.) the fact that the teams were made up on the spot, and the complexity of the task (RobotFisherman
vs MouseTrap
) I think that I wouldn't run an
except in an ExtremeWorkshop
where I had half a day or so. Longer iteration time, maybe three iterations, more time to present the findings at the end etc etc etc etc.
is quick, dirty and to the point. I think the added benefit of
needs extra time. (but I loved it :-)
Sounds like you need three teams, each of which has customers and geeks. You pair up Team A's customers with Team B's geeks, Team B's customers with team C's geeks etc.
pointed out, it's a team effort. In this spirit, I'd like to give credit to the brilliant people on the team. The
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The Grant County Landes Art Center features a variety of fine arts including concerts, plays and pageants in the county seat.
The historic 305-seat theater, located on Mt. View Street in Petersburg, serves as an auditorium hall for a range of groups and nonprofit organizations. The Petersburg High School theater program utilizes the center to present its theatrical productions, said Louis Alt, the director of the Landes Arts Center.
The center contains a state-of-the-art light and sound system and a large projection screen. It holds two art gallery areas, dressing rooms and a "green room" for performers.
Upcoming events at the Landes Art Center include The Fabulous Hubcabs, an oldies show band, at 7 p.m. July 3; the West Virginia Poultry Association Teen and Queen Pageant at 7 p.m. July 22; the County Store Opry at 7 p.m. Sept. 8; and a Robert E. Lee re-enactor at 7 p.m. Sept. 27.
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MARTINSBURG - While sitting outside of Mountaineer at the Moose on a large picnic table, the smell of homemade favorites attract patrons like a Sunday afternoon at grandma's.
On Woodbury Avenue, a quiet road adjacent to Queen Street, sits the Moose lodge. Inside is a quaint carry-out restaurant that offers a call-ahead feature that is a plus for those who are on-the-go but still would like a hot, delicious meal.
A good appetizer to start with at the Mountaineer at the Moose is a fried food lover's paradise on a plate. The sample platter offers a hearty amount of fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers that ooze with cheese, crispy onion rings and mozzarella sticks. This platter is just one of 19 appetizers the restaurant offers.
Fried green beans, which recently have become a huge hit at chain restaurants, get an A+. The beans were lightly breaded to perfection and the green beans were bursting with flavor. Creamy ranch dressing was provided as a side dipping sauce.
The restaurant offers other fried dishes: large onion peels, chicken livers, a personal all-time favorite: deep fried pickles, crab balls, etc.
Decadent sandwiches, overstuffed subs and a soup-of-the-day selection line the carry-out menu.
There are numerous options to choose from, but one sub is guaranteed to catch the customer's eye - chicken cordon bleu sub.
When ordering this sub, patrons are in for a real treat. Instead of any old meat, the Mountaineer at the Moose workers pile at least 12 slices of cooked ham on a skillet and heat them to perfection before filling up the sandwich. The overstuffed sub makes the taste buds tingle.
The restaurant provided a friendly, family-like atmosphere.
Customers will be quite surprised by the amount of home-cooked food they receive and the hearty portions of appetizers. The mountaineer spirit carries across to everyone who visits this restaurant.
In addition to the Mountaineer at the Moose's carry-out menu, the eatery also provides a full banquet menu. It's available by stopping by the restaurant, which is located at 201 Woodbury Ave., Martinsburg.
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holy roman empire
defenders of christian church in the west
mutual recognition of abassid empire at their height
greek orthodoxy
alexios I is frustrated because people are pushing his boarders, so he writes a letter to the west asking for help.
sejuk turks sack baghdad to scare the caliph
many of the franks don't know how segmented the middle east is.
alexios' letter to enemy
gets them on his side
mutual feelings toward group
scare them into what will happen
gets romans on his side
call for the crusades
automatic ticket to heaven
"armed pilgrimage"
gets people out of jail to fight for the holy land
protection of family, women, and children
conquest of jerusalem: abraham
abraham is offstage
all of his family is on the coast being captured
crusades aren't affecting arabian sea or egypt
he is immune
order of events in the crusades
1095- call for crusades
1096- franks on the move to middle east
1099- franks conquer jerusalem
1150- new caliphate called ayyubids
1204- 4th crusade
1241- attack by mongols
frankish conquer of jerusalem
alexiad writes account of the conquer
doesn't involve byzantines
franks divide areas up into crusader states (antioch, tripoli, edessa, jerusalem)
alexiad's book
similar to the iliad
in the end- tells of pressure of turks and how crusaders are on their own
4th crusade
another major push by the franks to reconquer jerusalem (failed)
franks got stuck at constantinople (sack byzantine)
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Macy Martin hit two home runs, a double and a single while driving in seven runs to lead the Harrison County Fillies to a 22-5 rout of Nicholas County Monday in Carlisle.
The 38th District match up finalized the district tournament pairings for Sunday's battle in Falmouth.
Like they did during the Charger Classic over the weekend, the Fillies jumped out to an early lead and just piled on for the five-inning verdict.
The Cynthiana-Harrison County Baseball Alumni Association has announced the fourth annual Hall of Fame inductees for 2016.
The induction ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 25, at the Elks Lodge. Tickets to this year's event will be $20 per adult or $10 for children under the age of 10. Tickets may be purchased from Terry Jones at A Action Pest Control in Harrison Square Shopping Center, Jim Fuller at the Cynthiana Country Club Pro Shop or Ron England by calling 859 588-2460.
The Harrison County Middle School soccer Fillies played last Tuesday in the finals of the Bluegrass Conference against Royal Springs.
The Fillies defeated Royal Springs 1-0 in the regular season but it was a real battle.
The championship game was again a battle and much more as the two teams fought to a second round of penalty kicks to decide the winner.
On Tuesday, May 3, the Harrison County track team performed in the Scott County All Comers and came home to host the Harrison County All Comers last Thursday. In both meets, the teams performed well with some excellent individual and relay efforts.
I am writing this on Mother's Day, which I believe to be the most important holiday of the year next to Christmas.
Mothers are the strength of most families that I know about and that was certainly the case in mine. I will not write about Patti because she told me not to but most of you know where the strength and moral fiber come from in our family.
I have two brothers and a sister and both of my parents worked after my sister, who is seven years younger than my older brother, was about four years old.
May 11- May 18
Saturday, May 14 HC Strongman Competition Ingles Stadium 10 AM
Wednesday, May 11 vs. Bracken Co. (H) V/JV 6 PM
Saturday, May 14 at Jeffersontown Charger Classic
Pool Play Fillies vs. Jeffersontown 9 AM
Pool Play Fillies vs. Marion Co. 10:45 AM
Tournament Play begins at 12:30 PM
Tuesday, May 17 vs. Paris (H) V/JV 5:30 PM
Wednesday, May 18 at Tates Creek JV/V 6 PM
Wednesday, May 11 at Bourbon Co. 5:30 PM
While they did not advance anyone to the state, the Harrison County Fillies and Thorobreds played admirably in the 10th Region Tournament held on the courts on the Hilltop last weekend.
The tournament will wrap up by Wednesday or before but the girls and boys have made it to the semi final round in singles and doubles.
The Fillies did very well especially in the doubles where Gracie Roberts and Alexis Lanza advanced to the quarter finals.
The Harrison County Fillies and the Bryan Station Lady Defenders treated the fans at Shirley Field with a run-scoring spree as the Fillies outlasted the visitors from Lexington, 10-8, last Thursday night.
Harrison County scored three times in the first and fourth and single runs in the second and third to take a comfortable lead of 8-4 into the top of the sixth inning.
Bryan Station struck for three in the inning to reduce the Fillies' lead to one at 8-7.
Harrison County's baseball Thorobreds' hitting problems continued Monday evening as they traveled to Mt. Sterling to face region rival Montgomery County.
Senior Gus Garrison pitched another masterpiece allowing two hits in seven innings. However, the Indians scored in the bottom of the eighth off C.J. Claypool for the win.
Claypool walked the lead off batter in the eighth but catcher Luke Slucher threw him out trying to steal.
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