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Located in Kamata, this hotel is 2.6 mi (4.1 km) from Shinagawa Aquarium and within 6 mi (10 km) of Kawasaki Daishi and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Tokyo Tower and Tsukiji Fish Market are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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Chisun Inn Kamata features complimentary newspapers in the lobby and laundry facilities. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
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- Total number of rooms - 70
- Number of floors - 12
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
In this article a scheme for image transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with an adaptive compression factor is introduced. The proposed control architecture affects the quality of the transmitted images according to: (a) the traffic load within the network and (b) the level of details contained in an image frame. Given an approximate transmission period, the adaptive compression mechanism applies Quad Tree Decomposition (QTD) with a varying decomposition compression factor based on a gradient adaptive approach. For the initialization of the proposed control scheme, the desired a priori maximum bound for the transmission time delay is being set, while a tradeoff among the quality of the decomposed image frame and the time needed for completing the transmission of the frame should be taken under consideration. Based on the proposed control mechanism, the quality of the slowly varying transmitted image frames is adaptively deviated based on the measured time delay in the transmission. The efficacy of the adaptive compression control scheme is validated through extended experimental results.
The high disposability of sensors capable of capturing video/audio streams, stand still images and scalar sensor data enhanced the development of the so-called Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), which are networks of wirelessly interconnected sensor nodes able to retrieve and handle multimedia content. Their operation can be considered as the convergence between the classical wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and distributed multimedia acquisition devices (e.g., cameras, microphones,
Classical features of WSNs such as: (a) the easiness of the
However, the current capabilities of wireless
Many of the numerous applications of WMSNs are image-based. In such applications, sensor nodes have to capture, process and transmit huge amounts of optical data. However, the transmission of high volumes of data over a network increases the network traffic load and thus obstructs the prompt transmission of new image data and decelerates their refresh rate. In order to prevent these problems, the reduction of transmission rates could probably help. However, the prompt reception of image data is critical for most image-based applications of WMSNs. Thus, the reduction of transmission rates could make such applications be practically useless. An alternative solution is to reduce, via compression, the volume of the image data which are to be transmitted and maintain the transmission rates. However, this may considerably reduce the quality of the received images. Therefore, the image processing has to be efficient enough in order to make the best possible trade-off between the size of the images transmitted and their quality. Moreover, optical coding should have as little computational cost as possible for energy and time saving purposes.
The novel control scheme proposed in this article may be utilized in applications in which it is essential to retain the transmission of sequential image frames over a WMSN communication link, within soft bounded transmission delays, independently of the quality of the received images. The aforementioned demand of retaining the visual feedback, while penalizing the quality of the received image, is of paramount importance especially in semi-autonomous navigation functions in non-explored terrains based on communication links over wireless sensor networks. Moreover, the establishment of a control framework that provides soft-bounded time delays allows for the development of decentralized visual feedback serving applications in networked controlled systems, as the timing synchronization and the a priori bounds on the delays are of paramount importance [
More specifically, this article presents a novel congestion aware control scheme for the sequential transmission of image frames, through a WMSN. The implementation of the proposed congestion aware control scheme relies on: (a) the application of the Quad-Tree Decomposition (QTD) method [
The remainder of this article is organized as follows. In Section 2, the QTD method is presented, while in Section 3, the proposed adaptive QoS mechanism for the image transmission is being introduced. The efficacy of the proposed control scheme is experimentally evaluated presented in Section 4, while in Section 5 the conclusions are drawn.
Typically, a natural image consists of some regions that locally have certain similarities and many other ones that have extensively varying content. Therefore, when coding such an image it is wise to allocate less data in order to decompose homogeneous neighborhoods and more data for areas containing edges and texture. In the scheme proposed in this work, a QTD scheme is utilized. QTD is an image segmentation method generally used for hierarchical decomposition. The main idea of hierarchical decomposition is to divide an image into sufficiently homogeneous areas, the levels of which can be compactly encoded. In the relevant bibliography, there are several image compression algorithms, with the most popular being the Discrete Cosine Transform, the Fractal compression, and the Wavelet Transform. The aforementioned techniques tend to be mathematically complex, except from the QTD algorithm. QTD has been widely utilized not only due to its low-complexity but because it is as well a powerful compression method [
These remarks make the QTD an ideal candidate for application in image based compression applications over WMSNs. In these applications most images are stored in raster format. Hence, any access to a raster image is sequential, starting from the top left-most pixel and ending at the bottom right-most pixel. The QTD can be performed in two alternative ways [
The image compression performed in this work, is based on the Top-Down QTD method. Thus, each image can be divided in half along both axes, all the way down to pixel level. This recursive subdividing of blocks allows the image data to be organized into groups, in accordance with the neighboring blocks. More specifically, every subdivision exists as one of four neighboring blocks. Actually, this is comparable to having a tree-like structure, where the root of the tree is the entire image, which recursively divaricates into four branches, until its leaves are pixels. In this manner, a quad tree is a tree having nodes which either are leaves (pixels) or have four children. As a result, each block is either completely a single color block or consists of four smaller sub-blocks. An example of a product of a QTD process is presented in
The tree-like evaluation of an image enables the removal of the unnecessary leaves and branches out of the tree, which result in the reduction of the QTD representation size. This could be achieved by checking every individual block whether it meets a criterion of homogeneity. If the former criterion is satisfied, the corresponding block is not divided any further. However, if the homogeneity criterion is not satisfied the block is further divided into another four blocks. The process is executed iteratively until each block satisfies the homogeneity criterion [
The effect of decomposition factor on the quality of a QT-decomposed image is illustrated in
Based on the homogeneity criterion in
The decomposition factor
The decrease of the block partitioning directly decreases the data needed for the reconstruction of an image, and this is why by applying a varying decomposition approach in the transmitted images it is possible to control the corresponding time delays for transmitting a single image frame. This effect on the size of the resulting QTD image, is illustrated in
The increase of the decomposition factor
The proposed scheme, is an adaptive image compression algorithm, that regulates the quality of the transmitted images according to: (a) the traffic load within the network, and (b) the level of data contained in an image frame. The proposed image transmission scheme is based on the application of the QTD with a varying decomposition compression factor within a gradient adaptive approach, while the overall proposed architecture is depicted in
Initially, the images captured through a camera are QT-decomposed. Next, the resulting QTD partitioning of each single image is transformed in a batch
The total transmission time needed, to complete the transmission of a single image frame, is considered as the summation of Δ
It is assumed that each data packet batch
Before the initialization of transmitting sequential image frames, an a priori bound
The overall algorithm is summarized in
It should be noted that the proposed scheme addresses only the cases where there is a small variation of the captured image content, such as applications of surveillance and security. This limitation is mandatory for allowing the convergence of the proposed adaptation scheme. In the cases of fast content variations, even if a larger adaptation factor has been adopted, the proposed algorithm will not converge, the obtaining QTD-images will have a very poor quality, and the a priori soft time bounds will not be possible to be met. This limitation is not only a problem for the proposed adaptation scheme but it is a common problem in adaptive control and mainly in system identification that until now only partial solutions have been proposed for the cases of systems of slow varying dynamics [
In order to highlight the effects of the proposed adaptation scheme, the same image of Lenna has been utilized in all the experimental results depicted. This approach is providing more comprehensive and straight forward results to the reader, as the differences in the quality of the received QTD-images,
The overall proposed QoS control mechanism has been applied in extensive experimental test cases. More analytically for the experimental test-bend, a video camera from Logitech, through a PC-104 Embedded module from AxiomTek has been connected to a MaxStream XBee XB24B Zigbee Modem, based on a XBEE USB connector board from Sparkfun. The video camera has been set in an 8-bit gray scale resolution, producing captured images images with an analysis of 256 × 256 pixels. This image has been also utilized to produce sequential transmitted images, in order to simplify the comprehension of the reader towards the variations in the quality of the sequentially received images, based on different decomposition factors
The established Zigbee-WMSN consists of one coordinator node, three routers and one end device. The coordinator is responsible for maintaining the WMSN network and transmitting the decomposed images as data packets to the Zigbee network [
The overall programming environment is NI's LabView, while the XBee modems for the coordinator, the routers and the end device, as set up using the provided XBee API communication framework. The communication between the XBee modem and the computer are setup to a Baudrate of 9600 kbps using hardware flow control for the serial port. The selection of this data rate has been made again without loss of generality, as the presented experimental results can be also straight forward being extended to higher Baudrates. The parameters that have been utilized in the WMSN during the experiments performed are outlined in
To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in the first test case, sequential frames containing the 256 × 256 pixels gray scale and with a depth of 8-bit image of Lenna have been transmitted over the WMSN. The QT-decomposition factor is set to
The selected initial value of
In the second test case, the QT-decomposition factor was set as
The initial value of
Finally in the third experiment case, the QT-decomposition factor was set as
The initial selection of
In what follows, the performance of the proposed scheme is demonstrated under the existence of congestion and packet losses. In this case, the distance among the nodes has been increased to 20 m and congestion has been considered in the transmission loop, as two other nodes transmit randomly data packets to the same receiver node. For the case of a 10% congested network, with an initial QT-decomposition factor of
As it can be observed in
As it can be observed in
As it has been shown through the experimental results, the presented adaptation scheme has the advantage of being completely scalable. This means that addition of multiple image senders and multiple image receivers respectively would not alter the functionality of the proposed scheme, except from the levels of congestion and packet losses. In the case of multiple image sender nodes and one image receiver node the proposed scheme will result in: (a) a significant increase of congestion and packet losses, (b) increase of the round trip times for a complete transmission of an image frame, (c) increase of the overhead in the data packets due to the need of tagging the data packets with respect to the image that belong, and this is why such an approach is not recommended.
From the experiments and the relevant analysis presented it is derived that the proposed control scheme is ideal for transmitting sequential images with provided soft bounds on the transmission time delays, specifically in the cases where the sequential frames are containing images without extreme changes in their data content.
In this article a sequential image transmission scheme over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with soft bounded transmission time delays has been presented. The proposed control architecture, was a Quality of Service (QoS) algorithm, that adapts the quality of the transmitted images, in a gradient based adaptive approach, in order to provide soft bounds for the image transmission time delays (end to end). The bounding of the transmission time, needed for a single frame, has been achieved by applying Quad Tree Decomposition (QTD) with a varying decomposition compression factor. For the initialization of the proposed control scheme, the desired a priori maximum bound for the transmission time delay is being set, while a trade-off among the quality of the decomposed image frame and the time needed for completing the transmission of the frame should be taken under consideration. The efficacy of the proposed QoS control scheme was evaluated through extended experimental results.
QTD example in the form of a multilayer set of blocks and a corresponding tree structure.
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Architecture of the Image Transmission Scheme over a WMSN.
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It taught us those kindly sentiments between nations which warm the heart, liberalize the mind, and animate the courage.
One is the desire to liberalize Christianity and make it more inclusive.
To liberalize is to make free, as to free from narrow views or prejudices.
So anything that tends to liberalize the family, to exorcise the ghost of the old patriarch, is agreeable.
At present the study of logic can hardly be said to liberalize and broaden the mind or to improve the temper.
He thought more of those branches of knowledge which tended to liberalize the mind than of Latin and Greek.
The Dominicans and Jesuits set their faces like flint against all education tending to liberalize the mind.
"Tell me about this primary," said Peter, concluding that abstract political philosophy was not the way to liberalize Dennis.
Perhaps, also, it may sometimes have a contrary effect, and elevate and liberalize the feelings.
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To explore the use of prescribed fire as a management tool.
Native American oral history is rich with stories about fire and how fire came to humans. European settlers to North America noted indigenous peoples' use of fire for clearing lands, hunting and gathering activities, and in warfare. The eastern migration of bison has been attributed in part to the opening of grazing areas by the burning practices of Native Americans. During his travels in Florida in the 1700s, noted naturalist William Bartrum reported fires burning somewhere everyday. In addition to human-caused fires, naturally occurring fires are started by lightening or volcanoes. While Native Americans had fire firmly rooted in their way of life, European immigrants in the new world sought a new order which did not embrace fire as a natural process. Suppression became the call.
Fire in some form appears in almost all natural environments. Wildland fires typically are classified as either natural or human-caused. In the United States, 80% of all remote wildland fires are ignited by lightning or other natural sources. Some natural fires may be allowed to burn as prescribed fires, which are monitored and managed, or as wildland fires, those that we seek to suppress.
Prescribed fire is used as a management tool in certain ecosystems. These are fires that are ignited by wildland fire managers or lightning and are permitted to burn within a predetermined set of specific guidelines (a "burn plan") that protects people, their property, and highly valued natural and cultural resources. When wildland fire managers prescribe fire, they must consider all potential fire behavior to assure a desirable outcome. Such fires are ignited using a prescription that defines the actions to be taken within a specific set of environmental conditions. The prescription is analogous to what the doctor writes and the pharmacist fills. The likelihood of a prescribed fire getting out of control under those conditions is a possibility. Careful planning, therefore, is required before scheduling a prescribed fire.
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Project Learning Tree-Activity #81 "Living with Fire" Project Learning Tree materials can only be obtained by taking a training workshop. For more information on how to contact your state coordinator go the the PLT web site at: http://www.plt.org/
Prescribed fire is a worldwide practice. In Africa one can see rangers burning portions of the Serengeti Plains using prescribed methods. Fire is used extensively to aid agro-forestry in India. In the agricultural industry, prescribed fire is used to clean fields of stubble after harvest of wheat, rice, cane, oats, and straw.
Stephen J. Pyne, in World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth (1995, University of Washington Press) reports that during the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union when burning was forbidden; fire ecologists secretly and illegally conducted prescribed burns as a means of effectively managing the forest. So great was the need that these scientists and resource managers risked legal action to practice wise conservation techniques.
Prescribed fires are often carried out during the cooler, moist seasons so that they may be controlled more easily. Daily weather variations are taken into consideration when planning a prescribed fire. Morning hours when dew is still present are conducive to controlling prescribed fires. Managers must also consider smoke management and smoke dispersal to ensure that transportation, agriculture, and human health are not adversely impacted.
A carefully planned prescribed fire program can provide many benefits that enhance the health of an ecosystem. The most common objective is to reduce and manage the amount of ground fuels, thereby lowering the likelihood of potentially large and unmanageable wildland fires. Fuel reduction can help prevent the possibility of crown fires that burn to the tops of trees at high intensity and are capable of causing unacceptable change. When future wildland fires do occur, these fires will be less intense, will tend to be surface fires, and will be easier to manage. However, it is important that a regular, planned prescribed fire program is followed rather than scheduling a single fire event.
Among the other benefits of prescribed fire are:
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Project Learning Tree-Activity #80 "Nothing Succeeds Like Succession" Project Learning Tree materials can only be obtained by taking a training workshop. For more information on how to contact your state coordinator go the the PLT web site at: http://www.plt.org/
The benefits of a properly prescribed fire outweigh the potential negatives. Modern fire policy permits some natural fires to burn and recognizes the use of prescribed fire as a management tool. Unmanaged wildland fires which threaten life and property, however, are fought vigorously in developed areas where high fuel levels create a potential for intense (extreme) fire capable of destroying the natural (plant and animal) communities, houses and other buildings, and cultural resources.
Writing the Correct Prescription
Wildland fire managers are called on to write very detailed prescriptions or burn plans. A poorly written prescription can be very dangerous, just as receiving the incorrect medicine can endanger your health. Incorrectly prescribed fires can cause damage such as soil destruction, loss of nutrients, water and air pollution, and removal of litter needed to protect seedlings.
The wildland fire manager's task is to provide guidelines detailing where and when to burn, under what conditions, the benefits to be gained, the acceptable level of negative impacts, the chain of command (authority), and how impacts will be measured (evaluation).
For each prescribed fire, the manager must address the following:
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Penis Dunking Is The Weirdest Post-Sex Cleanup Method We've Ever Heard Of
Sex messes can be kind of a pain to clean up, but I think most people get the hang of it after a while. Soap, water, baby wipes, tissues and maybe a towel and some hydrogen peroxide if period sex has been had. One Mumsnet user has come up with a method far more unorthodox for post-sex clean up. She calls it "penis dunking":
"We have a dedicated post-sex cleanup area on the bedside table. A box of tissues, a small bin, and a beaker of clean water for temporary cleaning/dunking while the bathroom is occupied by me. Apparently our penis beaker is strange and not the done thing. Does everyone else just lay there in a sticky post coital glow until morning? Really?"
As you might imagine, the comment chain was legendary with responses like, "That must be sexy. You do it then spring apart, you rush to the bathroom and he plunges his knob into a bucket." Turns out, she's right, the penis dunking method is strange. God forbid one of them should wake up thirsty in the middle of the night and drink from the penis beaker. [Mumsnet via Buzzfeed]
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This week of All My Children continued some very interesting developing stories.
Greenlee continues to be very jealous of Madison, whereas Madison has fallen in love with Scott Chandler. Ryan's daughter Emma tried to run away from school and see her mother Annie, but was returned to Infusion to wait for Greenlee. In the meantime, Madison consoled Emma and Greenlee became very jealous. Later in the week, Greenlee and Ryan were going to renew their vows and Greenlee has decided to tell Ryan that she knew about Madison being pregnant with Ryan's baby before Ryan found out. Instead, the word leaked out by mistake through a nurse and when Ryan questioned Madison, she reluctantly gave a little of the truth. When Ryan showed up for his celebration with Greenlee, he confronted her and refused to renew their vows at this moment.
In the mean time, Erica Kane is still kept in captivity from her stalker. Who can it be? We have been given a clue…the stalker behind the camera has female hands and fingernails! This brings a new twist.
Now, how can we forget the hunt for Reverend Ricky Torres who is in love with Kendall, but seems to be feeling a little unsure of Kendal's loyalty after she has developed a suspicion that Ricky has killed her husband Zach.
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If florals aren't what you a looking for in a particular room, be sure and check in the second collection of stencils in our series. The Corona stencil and the como run have some lovely lines to them, being both of a curvature nature and/or straight in lineage. Almost fret like in design. One of the most wonderful things about stenciling is that it is a look that you have created all your own. From choosing the design and colors to deciding where it will go, you are being of a creative nature, just like they were during the Victorian Era. Enjoying the complements that you receive for a job well done is a wonderful feeling of accomplishment also. Much more economical that wall papering, it can add just as much panache to a room. So get started on this fun and rewarding project today.


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By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO After struggling just to pay his $300 monthly rent and send money to his wife and two children back in Honduras, Dionisio Urbina has given up. The day laborer is saving for a one-way plane ticket home.
"I lost hope about finding work," the 54-year-old illegal immigrant said outside a Home Depot store as he entered his fourth straight week without a job. "I'm homesick. It's best to leave."
Thousands of Latin American immigrants both legal and illegal are going back home as the economic crisis in the U.S. causes jobs to dry up in the construction, landscaping and restaurant industries.
The flow of immigrants back across the border tends to be cyclical, with many people going back home for the Christmas holidays. But some authorities say they are seeing a bigger-than-usual reverse-immigration effect this year.
Mexico City's municipal government predicts between 20,000 and 30,000 immigrants above the usual number will return from the U.S. in the next few months because they cannot find work.
Mexican consulates in California and Chicago report that around 4,000 more Mexican immigrants than usual have already left for Mexico City because of the economic crisis.
There are other signs the U.S. is no longer the magnet it was a few years ago, when the economy was thriving and the housing boom produced plenty of work:
_ Fewer immigrants are getting caught crossing U.S. borders illegally. The Border Patrol said it made 723,825 apprehensions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, down 18 percent from last year and down 39 percent from nearly 1.2 million in 2005.
_ Immigrants are sending less money home. Remittances by Mexicans living in the United States registered their biggest drop in August since record-keeping began 12 years ago. Mexico's central bank said they fell 12 percent from August 2007.
With an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., the number returning home is relatively small.
The vast majority of Mexican immigrants who have lived in the U.S. a few years will stay put because the job prospects are far worse back home and they have family in this country, said Wayne Cornelius, director of the University of California, San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
"They would be condemning themselves to a lower standard of living," Cornelius said.
Karina Corona, who came to the U.S. on a fake passport in 1995, is struggling to make ends meet but said she won't go home to Culiacan, Mexico, because there is no work there and her hometown is a hotbed of drug violence.
The single mother had to quit a second job as a seamstress to care for her children, leaving her to live on about $1,500 a month as a delicatessen cashier. She stopped taking graphic design classes at a San Diego community college and fell behind on rent.
But Mexico "would be even worse than here," said Corona, 34. "We're going to stick it out."
At a day laborer site in Laguna Beach, south of Los Angeles, Juan Pacheco, 48, said he planned to return to Oaxaca, Mexico, in January, about two years after he came north to work construction. On an earlier stint in the U.S., he sent home $200 a week to his wife and children and bought a house in Mexico, where his family grows corn and beans.
Pacheco has worked only one or two days a week in the past year, barely enough for food and the $200 monthly rent. His voice cracks when he talks about phone calls to his 5-year-old daughter.
"She says she doesn't remember me, that she wants me to go home so she can meet me," he said.
Ramon Lopez has lived north of the border for 36 years, working in hotels and restaurants. But he recently returned to Mexico with his wife and mother-in-law because he could not find work or pay his bills.
"I had my lows, I had my highs, but ultimately, things have become critical," he said in Tijuana. "There's too much pressure for the rent, for food, for transportation."
Associated Press writers Maria Gallucci in Mexico City and Amy Taxin in Laguna Beach contributed to this report.
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Shoni Field: B.C.'s STV referendum is about voters
By Shoni Field
If a referendum on electoral systems sounds a little dry to you, think about it this way: On May 12, we are being asked to decide what type of voters we want to be.
It's a choice between being strong voters who can hold governments accountable or being content with politics as usual with little room for input.
As voters, we have a lot of questions of our current system.
If we, the voters, give a party 40 percent of our votes, how come first past the post gives them 60 percent of the seats?
How come 50 percent to 60 percent of us don't get an MLA we voted for? Isn't democracy supposed to work for the majority?
And what happens when we gamble on the right candidate and get lucky enough to elect somebody?
Our MLA will help us with an ICBC complaint or grant request, but on the important issues such as the carbon tax, fish farms, taxation, et cetera, MLAs do as they are told. Our vote might have counted, but we don't have a voice—this is wrong.
Governments don't have to work in the best interests of the majority—they only need about 40 percent to win a "majority" government. And even that minority isn't always well represented.
We often scratch our heads as the party we vote for does something completely at odds with what they stand for. Realizing that they are targeting a small percentage of swing voters that they need next time round doesn't make us feel well represented.
If our governments don't represent us, if our representatives can't work for us, then how can we expect good government?
We can't. And that is why we need BC-STV.
In the 2005 referendum, nearly 58 percent of British Columbians chose BC-STV. This clear majority fell just short of the unprecedented 60 percent threshold.
British Columbians of every political stripe are coming together for BC-STV because we believe that we can't have good government unless we have an electoral system that gives us what we voted for.
With BC-STV, voters will have viable alternatives: If an MLA doesn't represent their community well, voters can choose another candidate, without even having to switch parties. The smart MLAs will serve their constituents well.
And, in choosing one candidate over another, voters are sending an important message to political parties about what is important to them. The smart parties will pay attention.
BC-STV will give 80 percent to 90 percent of us an MLA we voted for. An MLA with a strong incentive to serve us.
MLAs will have some leverage to champion the issues that matter to their constituents.
Knowing that popular independents that champion local issues can get elected, MLAs can push back against excessive party discipline on critical local issues.
We will get the governments we voted for. And, with that direct and accurate link between our ballot and government, we can hold them accountable to the majority.
Single transferable vote is a popular, well-tested system, which the citizens of Ireland, Australia, Scotland, and New Zealand have found easy to use.
It was recommended for B.C. not by politicians but by our fellow citizens. The Citizens' Assembly was 160 randomly chosen voters who spent 11 months studying electoral systems and talking to British Columbians. The assembly researched STV exhaustively before recommending it—every criticism and benefit was examined for accuracy and merit. They had no partisan interests; they were guided simply by what would work best for their fellow citizens.
BC-STV will deliver fair results for voters. But more importantly, it will give voters real power for the first time in our province's history—the power to hold our governments accountable. Politicians hate it; voters like it. On May 12, power up your vote! Support BC-STV.
Shoni Field is a spokesperson for British Columbians for BC-STV, and a former member of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
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Wilf Day
Apr 20, 2009 at 8:38pm
Another point to keep in mind is that, on the positive side, many people do like the present government. If enough voters feel that way, BC-STV will re-elect it. In the last 52 years, Ireland has elected three one-party majority governments. It's up to the voters. But even then, they had a choice of which government candidate to vote for.
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Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor
Review by FreezinIceKirby
"Boring and no Excitement... a bad tribute to the cartoons we all know and love."
So I decided to give this game a chance because I loved Elite Beat Agents, and I mostly liked Osu! Takakae Ouendan. I didn't want to be biased towards this game though, since I had played those other two... but the more I played Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor, the more I wanted to go back and play Elite Beat Agents.
Basically, the game plays somewhat similar to the games it cheaply rips off... I mean the games that inspired it. The only difference is that not all the beats are circle now, sliders (sliding the ball from one point to the other) are replaced with normal beats that you have to slide your "Baton" to (which is the worst thing they could of done), and falling notes that you just have to tap when they get into the small circle at the bottom of the screen. It allows you to choose the different songs (all classical songs from those like Beethoven), though when I played it, there was no fun to any of the songs... it was like they were just there for the ride and nothing else.
Like EBA and Ouendan, there are things going on at top of the screen, but unfortunately they are incredibly boring. For example, "Hyde and Go Tweet" just shows "Hyde Tweety" chasing Sylvester, then Tweety transforms back to normal and Sylvester gives chase to him, until he turns back into his Hyde form and chases him again... that's it. That's all they keep showing for that specific stage. Only the beginning and the ending are different. Top it off with the bottom screen rarely changing, and it just makes the stages more boring.
The graphics are pretty bad as well. In EBA and Ouendan, you had these nice colorful 2D graphics, and even the 3D graphics were nice for a Nintendo DS game. This game? Bland looking backgrounds, terrible 3D models of the characters (dear god, you should see how huge Bugs Bunny's hands are), and the interaction between the backgrounds and the 3D model characters are poor. There was no care when making this game.
The music is really good though, to say the least. I thought the music was quite clear (granted I was using headphones), and the voices for the characters are nice and clear... though that doesn't help the fact that the lines that the Looney Tunes characters are given are also bland and unfunny.
Overall, if you are an Elite Beat Agents or Ouendan fan, you might like it, but most likely you probably won't. The game just feels like some cheap rip-off of the more famous games, with nothing exciting or inspiration to actually finish or go back to the game. This is just another Looney Tunes game that tries to mooch off of the (though dying) name of the classic Looney Tunes show that we all watched as we were growing up. They take episode idea's and completely ruin them with this half-ass of a game. I think I prefer the ill-fated and short lived Loonatics Unleashed show over this and the other Looney Tunes games anyday.
Overall, I would avoid it. Pay tribute to the classical cartoons by watching the shows that made it famous in the first place... because this surely does it absolutely NO justice.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.0 - Poor
Originally Posted: 05/29/09, Updated 06/01/09
Game Release: Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor (US, 06/10/08)
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The Association of Southwestern University Alumni is pleased to announce its newly redesigned Web site, www.sualumni.net. The Web site offers a more comprehensive source of information and services available to alumni. Connect with alumni groups, post your own class note, register for events, volunteer your time, offer ideas, participate in lifelong learning activities and utilize the online alumni directory. If you have not already done so, register to use the redesigned Web site by Oct. 30 to enter your name in a drawing for a Southwestern ring. Visit The Associations Web site today to see what is available for you!
Homecoming and Reunion Weekend is a special time to celebrate cherished memories and friendships formed at Southwestern. This years Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, Nov. 6-8, marks the 100th anniversary of Southwesterns first Homecoming held in 1909. The Association of Southwestern University Alumni is planning a number of activities and events to commemorate this historic event. All are encouraged to attend. Class reunions will be celebrated, local associations will gather for receptions, alumni connection groups will meet and a panoramic photo will be taken in honor of this historic occasion. More information can be found by visiting www.sualumni.net. You may also contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at email@example.com or 800-960-6363. Of course you are coming. You cannot think of missing it.
If you have an interest in planning your class reunion, helping with a local association, forming an alumni connection group, recruiting prospective students or assisting the University with fundraising initiatives, you will not want to miss this informative and fun weekend. It will provide an opportunity for volunteers to meet one another, share ideas and get a head start on planning for the year. The 2010 Volunteer Leadership Weekend is scheduled for Jan. 29-30. Contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at firstname.lastname@example.com or 800-960-6363 for more information.
Motivated by the sentiment that Southwestern played a sacred role in their lives, a committee of alumni have proposed building a columbarium next to the Lois Perkins Chapel on Southwesterns campus. A columbarium is a structure with niches that serve as a burial vault for the containment of urns holding cremated remains. Many churches have built columbaria on their grounds. Southwesterns architectural firm drafted some conceptual drawings so that the committee could share the idea of a columbarium with alumni and measure interest. Should they determine that there is enough interest to garner the necessary early commitments, they will ask the Board of Trustees to consider the columbarium as one of Southwesterns building projects. Niches in the columbarium would cost $5,000, which would include the cost of construction, maintenance for perpetuity and a scholarship contribution to the University Endowment. In order to proceed, 125 initial commitments are needed. Contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at email@example.com or 800-960-6363 for more information.
I just received, and read, the latest issue of Southwestern. The first class note listed was from the class of 1952. It seems to me that we older alumni have more to offer than is represented in Class Notes. Members of my class and those before had fought in WWII, returned home and started families all before the members of 52 got sized for their mortarboards. At any rate, my wife, Catherine LaVerne Walden Melbert 43 and I are celebrating our 65th wedding anniversary this year.
LaVerne and I attended Southwestern from 1939 to 1943. Old history, but she was Miss Southwestern and queen of the Golden Bowl in 1943. Those were two of Mrs. Ruth Fergusons (dean of women) most important achievements for the Ladies of the Laura Kuykendall Hall. (We unappreciative men always called them the gracious and lovely girls of LK Hall.)
We didnt have a golf team, but LaVerne did enjoy the game as part of her physical education classes. During the war years, there were no intercollegiate sports except football, so students golfed the former 9-hole course on the Southwestern campus, as well as the three holes located in front of LK Hall. Really, it was mainly used for courting in the evenings.
I havent been to the SU campus since our 50th reunion in 1993. But I do remember how it was back in the good ole days.
The Centenary College Board of Trustees announced the appointment of B. David Rowe, Ph.D., as the next president of Centenary College of Louisiana, beginning August 1, 2009.
A Texas native and an ordained United Methodist minister, Rowe served for the past nine years as the Vice President for Advancement at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Ga.
The Board of Trustees and I are excited that Dr. Rowe will be assuming leadership at Centenary College, says William Anderson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. David brings substantial experience in institutional advancement as well as a deep passion for higher education and expanding opportunities for the college and our students. We are very fortunate to have someone with his background in college development, experience and vision to assist the College in continued success and progress.
Rowe received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Southwestern, his Master of Divinity from Emory University and his Ph.D. in higher education from Georgia State University. Prior to assuming his position at LaGrange College, he held administrative posts at Wesleyan College (Ga.), Oxford College of Emory University and Candler School of Theology at Emory.
He and his wife, Jodi, have two sons, Carter and Philip.
Long before Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, Class Notes kept alumni informed about marriages, births, job promotions, cross-country moves, first marathons, books authored, Ph.D.s earned, gatherings held, fun had and more.
Tried and true, Class Notes is still a great way to share your good news, promote your business, update classmates and friends, and celebrate the lifelong Southwestern Experience.
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Moon House Ruins require a short hike and minor scrambling. The route is rated 2A II using the Canyon Rating System. A good route description and a GPS are helpful. Navigation for this route is moderate. You will not find many surface artifacts like pottery shards at Moon House because of a 1974 surface collection by archaeologists which recovered all small visible artifacts.
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Ask Chris #100: The One Hundred Question Spectacular
Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of Internet readers have to say. That's why every week, Senior Writer Chris Sims puts his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions!
This week, we reach a milestone. With this column, I've written One Hundred Installments of Ask Chris — plus the occasional fill-in or terrifying gypsy curse. So to celebrate, I'm doing away with my usual longwinded format and going the distance and answering One Hundred Reader Questions in a single column!
Let's get to it!1. If you could have 100 of any one thing other than wishes or Batmen, what would you want 100 of? —@tobascodagama
A: I'd say "winning lottery tickets," but I've read enough stories with ironic twist endings to know that they'd probably end up getting me into a hundred Shirley Jackson's The Lotterys or something, and unless this year's Hunger Games are being competed via Super Smash Bros. Melee, I'm not really suited for it. So I'll just go ahead and go with "hundred dollar bills."
2. Best Punisher artist? — 616Earth
A: I'm a huge Steve Dillon fan, especially with the way he draws Frank's permanent scowl, but Mike Zeck's definitely up there too, particularly the covers where he went with a huge, over-the-top Men's Adventure style. They both draw a Frank Castle who looks like he will just destroy you and not think twice about it.
3. What comic book character do you think represents the biggest waste of potential? — spudsfan
A: Hands down, Nyssa al-Ghul, the daughter of Ra's al-Ghul that was introduced by Greg Rucka and Klaus Janson in Batman: Death and the Maidens. The idea of Ra's dying and being replaced by someone even more sinister who was motivated not by twisted altruism but by pure hate and a desire for revenge, and who lacked Ra's's respect for Batman was a great setup, but nobody ever did anything with her. She was introduced, she took over for Ra's when he died, and then she died off-panel as the result of a car bomb — a car bomb! — in an issue of Robin to explain why Cassandra Cain was leading the League of Assassins.
4. How did Reed Richards become such a dick? — bojak90
A: Considering that literally everyone in the entire world is significantly dumber than he is, I think Reed is remarkably patient.
5. The Terminator, Deathstroke the Terminator, or Terminator X? — Noah, via email
A: Neither Deathstroke nor the T-800 can yell with his hands.
6. Why on Earth isn't Untold Legend of the Batman still in print, being given away on Free Comic Book Day, air-dropped over elementary schools like propaganda leaflets, anything to get it into the hands of kids? If it's not the official textbook of Intro to Batmanology 101, it ought to be. — Jeff, via email
A: I agree with you 100%.
I love Untold Legend of the Batman. In fact, if you look back at any of the Ask Chris columns where I talk about Batman's origin — which would be, you know, most of them — the panels I use to illustrate it usually come from that comic. I had it in a few different formats as a kid — including the first issue that came with an awesomely melodramatic audio version on cassette tape — and even though it dabbles in wierd Silver Age continuity like Bruce being raised by Joe Chill's mother and wearing the Robin costume as a kid, it's one of the major reasons why I learned to love both Batman himself and learning things about Batman.
I had the Mass Market Paperback version pictured above, too, and while I know it was in print as recently as a few years ago, I'll never be able to figure out why Untold Legend — and Elliot S! Maggin's Superman novels, for that matter — isn't one of the books DC keeps around just to give kids a cheap way to get hooked on Batman. It certainly worked on me.
7. If you had free range to make the next Batman cartoon, for kids, what would it be like? Style, villains, friends etc? — thenoirguy
A: Honestly, I'd like to see something along the lines of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Inc., or even Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not in terms of wacky plots or talking animals, but in the way that it's structured so that the individual episodes are adventures that build a larger, season-long mystery. I'd love to see something with the aesthetics and sophistication of Batman: The Animated Series and the willingness to draw from continuity and introduce new characters that you got with Brave and the Bold, used in a setting where Batman would be uncovering a massive plot by Ra's al-Ghul or Rupert Thorne or the Joker for an entire season.
8. Who has more followers on the DCU equivalent of Twitter: Batman, Superman, Joker, or Luthor? — asrivkin
A: I'm going to go with the Joker on this one, but I feel like his account would be a lot like @Horse_ebooks, in that you'd mostly just see retweets from people letting you know to stay the hell away from Downtown Gotham tonight.
9. What is the most ridiculous example of a guest star in comic history? — ubertenorman
10. What do you consider the best of the titles Kirby created for Marvel in the 1970s upon his return to the company? I read the whole Machine Man recently and was mightily impressed; I had to switch my vote from Eternals. — Fred Van Lente, via email
11. Has any superhero ever popped a boner during a fight? — kthorjensen
A: As much as I hate to admit it, Tarot's Boy Friend Jon Webb (alias the Skeleton Man) actually does qualify as a super-hero, and I'm not even kidding when I say that popping boners at inappropriate times is basically that dude's signature move.
12. Which was better: ROM or Micronauts, and why? — adampknave
A: I've actually never been that into the Micronauts, but I have no hesitation in going to ROM. I love that Bill Mantlo was able to take a toy that had so little backstory that even its ads were like "uh, you can pretend he's from space?" and managed to craft 80 issues of pretty solid comics that ended up adding a lot to the Marvel Universe.
13. If you could travel through the internet to punch people, would you use that power? — Koltreg
A: Constantly.
14. Do you think today's readership would be into a comics crossover based somewhat on the film classic Point Break with say a Hulk or one of the Thunderbolts in the Johnny Utah role? Asking for a friend. — Jeff Parker, via email
A: I can think of one reader who would definitely be into that, especially if the Ex-Presidents were actually the Continui-Teens.
15. In light of hitting the century mark yourself, which comic has had the best run, solely on issues #1-#100? — yusaku777
16. Since you're hitting the milestone of 100 Ask Chris articles, what is your favorite thing to come out of Milestone Media? —
A: The fact that there's a character named "Nun of the Above." That is genius.
17. Which movie that Laura Hudson forced you to review do you resent her most for? — blackwelloab
A: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Don't get me wrong, Breaking Dawn was no picnic, but I knew I could at least have fun writing about it. Transformers, on the other hand, was just soul-crushing in how stupid, awful, and downright insulting it was.
18. In the trend of Marvel Apes and Zombies, what should the next alternate universe consist of? — Koltreg
A: I've said it before: I would write Marvel Dinosaurs for one dollar.
19. What is the best single issue you've ever read? — XEYeti
20. Favorite voice of Batman: Adam West, Olan Soule, Kevin Conroy, Bruce Greenwood, Rino Romano, Diedrich Bader, Jeremy Sisto, Billy Baldwin, or Ben McKenzie. (I picked only the major voices, not Gary Owens or Michael Ironside from Tales of the Dark Knight or other smaller appearances) — Thom Zahler, via email
A: Kevin Conroy, without a doubt. We're best friends, you know.
21. Given that his is your unique field of expertise: which superhero has the life most suited to a porn parody? —
A: It's tempting to say Daredevil, but since most pornographic films I've seen don't end with someone being stabbed with a sai or hauled off to a mental institution, I'm going to go with Nightwing.
22. What comics are your comfort reads? — RaeBeta
A: Surprising no one, I tend to read a lot of Archies when I'm feeling down, or head back through the Achewood archives. Ray buying Airwolf is surprisingly inspiring.
23. Who is your favorite comic character who is regularly written with an accent and why? — dbed
For obvious reasons.
24. I'm a teen librarian at a very small library, and I'm trying to build a semi-decent graphic novel collection. I've been buying some of the obvious choices but I only recently realized we have absolutelyzero books featuring the Caped Crusader. Now, I'd love to go out and buy every collection of Batman ever printed, but being at a small library, I've got a similarly small budget. So I ask you: I can only buy, let's say, three print collections of Batman comics. Which three do I buy? — Ted, via email
A: Year One and Dark Knight Returns are probably the two most obvious must-haves, but that third slot is a little trickier. Assuming that the aforementioned Untold Legend isn't available, it might be nice to go in a completely different direction with something like the DC Comics Classics Library collection of the Silver Age Batman Annuals, just to cover the whole spectrum.
25. Which major crossover event did the best job of legitimately making its host comics universe better? — jaygarmon
A: Invasion! is probably my favorite event book of all time. It's Bill Mantlo's only major work for DC, and that thing gets knocked out in three eighty-page giant issues, with some great tie-ins in books like Animal Man, Suicide Squad and Justice League International. It really helped to solidify some of the cosmic aspects of the DCU that had only really been seen in Legion of Super-Heroes, and the Gene Bomb gave them a convenient way to drop metahumans into their stories in the same way that mutants made things convenient for Marvel.
26. Okay, which pony is who in the JLA is obvious, but which is which of the Metal Men? — paulsmoffett
A: Twilight Sparkle is Gold, Rarity is Platinum, Rainbow Dash is Mercury, Applejack is Iron, Pinkie Pie is Lead, and Fluttershy is Tin. Obviously.
27. Which G.I. Joe is the most bad ass among those who are not either a Ninja or a Pro Wrestler? — mikepankowski
28. If Batman was sent forward in time to a grim future where there is only war, what would he do? — Kieron Gillen, via email
A: From what I've seen of Warhammer 40K, it appears that he'd immediately start hot-gluing skulls to every available surface.
29. What flowers would Batman give to someone on a date? — Maxy_Barnard
A: Fun Fact: Flowers have all kinds of different meanings, and while there aren't any that mean "justice," Rhododendrons apparently mean "beware." Given his flair for the dramatic — and his luck with women — I'm pretty sure Batman would be handing out all kinds of warning bouquets.
30. who is the best at robot — Benito Cereno, via email
31. Best Magical Girl? — HydrogenGuy
A: Despite the fact that this I think this is the first time it's come up in this column, I don't think it will surprise anyone to learn that there was a time in my life where I was a pretty huge fan of Sailor Moon. A reincarnated future space princess who was also way into sleeping in, eating a lot, and making questionable hairstyle decisions? That's a heroine I can identify with.
32. Ditko or Romita Sr.? franzferdinand2
A: Romita.
33. What is the most mainstream character you care the absolute least about? — malpertuis
34. Have you ever gotten bored with Batman? — kellytindall
A: I've definitely been bored with Batman stories before, but never with the character. I've never thought that there wasn't something new or interesting that you could do with him.
35. What was up with Nocturna and the balloon? — Kelly Sue DeConnick, via email.
Ah, Nocturna.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Nocturna, she was the central figure in a (way-too-)long-running story known as the Pre-Crisis Jason Todd Custody Battle. She can be pretty accurately described as "a hot-air balloon enthusiast and alleged vampire," and honestly? That is probably the most baller description anyone in a Batman comic has ever had — and when you consider that it stars a billionaire ninja vigilante, that's saying something.
As to why Nocturna was so into balloons, to the point where she essentially floated straight out of continuity in 1985, I'd guess that it probably just boils down to the fact that owning a custom hot-air balloon is one of the raddest things you can do. Just ask Team Rocket.
36. What are your feelings toward Moon Knight? — tjones0928
A: I've never really been all that into him. No particularly strong feelings one way or the othe.
37. If you had a time machine, what would you tell Young Chris Sims as he prepares to start up his blog? — MagicLoveHose
A: "Dude, get in. We're gonna go punch Hitler."
38. Are there any vegans in comics and are they as over as Daniel Bryan? Yes Yes Yes! or No No No? — Team_Hellions
39. They say every writer has a Batman story in him, and I doubt you're the exception, so, what's YOUR Batman story? — Vonice
A: I actually do have one — surprise! — but while I've pretty much given up on ever working for DC, I still plan on keeping it to myself just in case. Find me at a con
where I will definitely be drunk, though, and you'll probably hear it before long.
40. Which Street Fighter character is your "World Warrior Spirit Totem" and why? — Jim Zub, via email.
41. Mark Hamill as Crybaby Clown in Mystery Inc., greatest role ever? —
A: I'd say that's probably Hamill's second-greatest role. The first, of course, is Skips from Regular Show.
42. If Alfred threw a pizza party the nights the Waynes died, would there be no batman and as a result no criminals he made? — rusty_shackles
A: Wait, do you mean if he'd thrown a pizza party so that the Waynes could hang out at the Manor rather than going to the movie and getting shot, or do you mean that Bruce comes home having just witnessed his parents' murder, and Alfred's all "Cheer up, Master Bruce! I've got pepperoooooniiiiii!" Because, and I am 100% certain that this is the first time in my life I have ever said this, that is not the appropriate time for a pizza party.
43. Which would win in a race, the Batcopter or Moon Knight's Mooncopter? — joshua_hough
A: Airwolf.
44. Would you rather live eternally as a Muppet or live for 5 years with the powers of Superman? — Koltreg
A: Just so If it's the choice between eternity as a literal puppet or five years of being bulletproof, flying and shooting lasers out of my eyes at anyone who sasses me, I'll take the latter every time.
45. You have one game to play for the rest of your life, which would you chose of the following: Banjo Kazooie or Donkey Kong Country?
A: Believe it or not, I've never actually played either of those games. I'd go with Donkey Kong Country, purely on the basis of really liking that one song from Super Smash Bros.
46. Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter?
A: Street Fighter with no hesitation. I've always hated Mortal Kombat for its cheap gimmickry, goofy photo-based graphics and reliance on spectacle to mask inferior gameplay. Yeah, that's right, I said it. Suck on that, 1994.
47. Twisted Metal or Mario Kart? — Jarrett Williams, via email
All right, now we're getting somewhere. These are two games I've had a lot of fun with over the years, and I like them both a lot. Mario Kart is probablymore fun, but Twisted Metal has a bit more depth to it that might give it a little more longevity if it's the only game I can ever play. If it's the original versions of each game, though — not, say, Mario Kart DS or Twisted Metal Black — I think I'd have to go with Mario Kart.
48. Tarot /Power Pack teamup – Good idea, bad idea, worst idea ever? —
A: To be honest, I can think of no more appropriate crossover subject for everyone's favorite Witch of the Black Rose than a bunch of kids who were given their super-powers by a magic talking pony from space.
Well. Maybe "appropriate" is the wrong word, but I'd definitely read it.
49. What is the secret to destroying Curt and Chris once and for all? — Koltreg
A: Curt is weak to Bubble Lead, Chris is weak to Leaf Shield.
50. Who had the best 100th issue? Punisher, Batman, and Spider-Man? — sequentialmatt
A: Let's check here… Punisher #100 is a Chuck Dixon joint that involves Big Frank making some pretty dubious choices regarding shooting a gangster because — gasp — she's a pretty lady! So that one's out. Amazing Spider-Man #100 is pretty solid, but it's also a book where the last-page cliffhanger is Peter Parker moping because he's suddenly grown four new arms, so that one gets knocked down to a B-.
Batman #100, however, features this:
I want to go to there.
51. You've been asked to create a Marvel version of Composite Superman. Which two heroes, & which team's powers? — JHeaton416
A: Well, Marvel already has the Composite Hulk, and that was pretty amazing. But if I was going to do something more along the lines of the bright green half-Superman/half-Batman who had the powers of the entire Legion of Super-Heroes, I'd probably go with half Spider-Man, half Daredevil, with the powers of all of the X-Men. That'd be about as ridiculous as giving someone five different versions of invulnerability, right?
52. Who could Batman never beat? Who would always theoretically have his number? — MatthewElmslie
A: As much as people love to see it because they loved it so much when they read Dark Knight Returns when they were 15, I never want to see Batman beat up Superman again. It's happened so often at this point that it's lost all of its impact, and it's just ridiculous. And the weird thing is, the people who love seeing it are often the same people who say that what they really like about Batman is that he "doesn't have super-powers" and he's "just a normal guy." So yeah, I would be perfectly fine if we spent the next twenty-five years reminding everyone that Superman can move at the speed of light and smack you across the room with his eyelashes, even if you have a butler and a basement with a dinosaur in it.
53. What erotic film parody would you rather watch/review: Justice League Detroit or Great Lakes Avengers? — LenSnark
A: Man, that is tough. On the one hand, Lexi Belle as Squirrel Girl is a casting decision I've wanted to see since they started making those things. On the other, Vibe is way more suited for pornography than he is for super-heroism. I think I'd have to go with the GLA, if only because Evan Stone would make a truly fantastic Mr. Immortal.
54. You have to wear any superhero costume for rest of your life. Which do you choose, considering comfort and social embarrassment? — SchnoodleLad
55: If you had to nominate five series for the Eisners; Best New Series category, which five books would you nominate? — Joe Keatinge, via email
A: If I'm drawing from the list of potential nominees that the Eisner Awards passed on — which, Aquaman excepted, I actually thought was a really strong crop of new comics — I would've gone with Daredevil, La Mano Del Destino, Wolverine and the X-Men, Snarked and Skullkickers. My vote would'dve gone to that last one — there are six pages in #6 that really put it over the top.
56. You've mentioned comics learning the wrong lesson from Watchmen. What do you think is the right lesson? — MagicLoveHose
A: The right lesson from Watchmen is that you can do a sophisticated, complex story involving super-heroes without having to simplify or dumb down the concepts. You can do a compelling narrative that deals with those familiar themes that doesn't come down to one guy punching another and calling it a day. You can take what you like about existing elements and change them to do something new. You can do it with a definite ending, in a way that you don't get from titles that, by their very nature as serialized stories, have to continue. And you can do it all with a high level of artistic consistency and craft.
57. Are there any big two German characters that are neither nazis nor terrorists? —
58. Please explain Kang the Conqueror to me. — tjones0928
A: He's a time-traveling super-villain from the future descended from both Dr. Doom and Reed Richards who is also occasionally a pharaoh in ancient Egypt, and the pharaoh and the conqueror have met and hate each other, and he is a member of The Council of Cross-Time Kangs, a collection of interdimensional versions of himself, one of which is a sexy lady who once destroyed the Avengers by seducing Dr. Druid. Pretty simple stuff, really.
59. Who is more worthless and why- The Vision or Red Tornado? — adamrjones24
A: The Vision is just a character that I don't particularly care for. Red Tornado is quite posisbly the worst thing that has ever happened to DC Comics. Even Batman: The Brave and the Bold couldn't make that dude not be awful.
60. What comic were you most surprised you liked? — Christopher Hastings, via email
A: Planet Hulk. I remember going into that thing thinking it was just another boring retread and that it was insane that they were spending over a year on it, but it turned out to be both a great story in its own right, and led to a lot of other great stuff, too.
61. Which super team is David Bowie most likely to join? — Koltreg
A: The X-Men, of course. You gotta make way for the homo superior.
62. What's the best/worst memory you have of the Ultraverse? — pbarb
63. If there was a comic book version of an E! reality show, who would it star and what would be the concept? — Team_Hellions
A: I'm honestly surprised that this hasn't already been done as a Booster Gold story. I can already see Kevin Maguire drawing the "confessional" scenes with the rest of the JLI.
64. Favorite Batman utility belt item? — ASaltzberg
A: Batarangs! I will always love that, even at his darkest / most grim / most "realistic," Batman still carries around little metal boomerangs shaped like his own logo that he uses to bonk crooks upside the head. The more you think about it — and I have thought about Batarangs a lot — the more amazing it gets.
65. Dear Friend Chris, If you were a cartoon character, what would your one set of clothing look like, and what would your catchphrase(s) be? — Ming Doyle, via email
A: Whenever my friend Catie Donnelly draws me, she almost always puts me in jeans and a Batman shirt, which is pretty accurate.
The only exception was when she drew in a shirt with a dinosaur on it that said "DINOS!", which was equally accurate. As for a catchphrase, I'd probably go with saying that things are not very good.
66. Are you going to do an interview with the Route 29 Batman? — drmagnificent
A: Only if he's willing to tell me that I am Batman's best friend.
67. When cats?— talestoenrage
A: No, werewolves.
68. Best villain hideout in comics? — Drew4484
69. Who has the best facial hair: the wizard Shazam or Jack Knight Starman? —
A: Man, Jack Knight's little '90s hipster goatee is nowhere near as awesome as the flowing face-forest grown over meticulous centuries at the Rock of Eternity. In fact, the original meaning of the Z in "SHAZAM" was for the beard of Zeus rather than the "power."
70. Hey, Sims. Does this taste weird to you? — Chris Roberson, via email
A: Apparently Chris Roberson's well-documented fear of spoiled food has gotten so bad that he's asking people hundreds of miles away for confirmation before he has a snack. The three-day-old salsa is fine, Chris.
71. Who's your favorite third string Batman villain? KGBeast is first tier. — MK2Fac3
A: You're goddamn right he is. Anyway, I don't know if this guy is even good enough to qualify for third string, but I love the hell out of Johnny Karaoke:
Created by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake in the otherwise pretty awful Batman #660 to be Laura Hudson's new favorite Character, Johnny Karaoke was an assassin who killed his targets with a sword that was also a cane that was also a microphone, while singing. Despite holding an MBA from UCLA, he pretended to not speak English that well because he thought it was hilarious, and led a team of lady kung fu assassins called the Geisha Grrls.
He died literally one issue later. He is the best, you guys.
72. You've arrived in Video Game Land. You do the only sensible thing and introduce the people to pro wrestling. Who do you book? — id0ru
73. if batman was gay for a dude… would it be superman? — curtofranklin
A: According to an overwhelming amount of evidence presented on Fanfiction.net, it would be Miles "Tails" Prower. I'm… I'm not sure how accurate that information is.
74. Would you rather dress up as Witchblade, Tarot or Starfire? — Maxy_Barnard
A: Assuming that I wouldn't be held responsible for anyone who was traumatized by actually seeing me in it, I'd totally go for Tarot. Seriously, have you seen that thing?
It'd be worth dealing with whatwould definitely be the most uncomfortable experience in my life just to figure out how those boots were supposed to work. And sometimes you need the support that only a pentagram bra strap can provide.
75. Clowns or Sharks? — Greg Rucka, via email
A: Sharks.
76. Would you cosplay as Aquaman if Laura Hudson went as Mera & the other CA staffers went as sea creatures? — LenSnark
A: If Laura dressed as Mera? Probably not. If, however, Caleb dressed as Mera and Laura had to walk around a convention dressed as Aquaman's octopus pal Topo, however, I would definitely do it.
77. Who is your favorite Intercontinental champion who's never won the World title? — Neiliocentric
78. How much does Batman know about magic (across all media)? — CUnderkoffler
A: I get the feeling that Batman would be a lot like Conan the Barbarian in this respect. He'd know a lot about it because he lives in a world where magic actually exists as an undeniable fact, but that he doesn't have the natural talent that he'd need to actually use it. As a result, the fact that it's one of the very few things he can't do, as well as the fact that it can literaly change reality and cause the otherwise impossible to happen would lead him to mistrust it as a general rule.
79. Favorite webcomic (that you don't help create)? — DukeSquiggles
A: Achewood, Dr. McNinja and Order of the Stick are too close to call.
80. do you like pizza — Benito Cereno, via email
81. do you like cantaloupe or do you agree that it is terrible — Benito Cereno, via email
A: It is basically the worst. It is the reason that I will never order a fruit salad, because I don't even want to run the risk of having it ruin a perfectly good slice of apple.
82. Who is the best businessman, Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor, or Norman Osborn? —
83. Best Bioware romance? — MagicLoveHose
A: Not gonna lie, I'm a pretty big sucker for Shepard and Liara in Mass Effect.
84. Best Bioware bromance? — MagicLoveHose
A: Garrus is, of course, the winner — spoiler warning, but shooting outer space beer bottles on the overpass in Mass Effect 3 was one of my favorite video game moments ever — but Varric from Dragon Age 2 comes pretty close, if only for his amazing Scarface-esque solo mission.
85. Joker the Batman villain v. Joker the pilot: who wins? — catiemonster
I'm pretty sure that the super-villain who has fought Batman and killed like a million people could take a guy who can get his arm broken by a stiff breeze.
86. That new Batman – Birth of the Demon TPB: worth reading? — PaulFORegan
A: Definitely. That's a great story, and the hardcover's been out of print for years.
87. Did you know that Hunter Clark is, like, the coolest guy ever? — Jarrett Williams, via email
A: I did, because I own a copy of this print that he drew:
88. please discuss why Stacy X was an awesome character — david_wolkin
A: No.
89. If you talk about Lexi belle then YOU CAN TALK ABOUT STACY X — david_wolkin
A: All right, fine! What do you want to know?
90. everything — david_wolkin
A: Stacy X was, as you might expect from the initial, an X-Man — But not the Wolverine / Cyclops / Nightcrawler kind of X-Man. She was more on the level with guys like Maggot and Marrow. She was introduced by Joe Casey and Tom Raney in Uncanny around the same time that Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were on New X-Men, and her deal was that before she joined the team, she was a prostitute who worked at a mutant brothel called the X-Ranch (hilarious) but never actually had sex with her clients, she just used her mutant pheromone powers to send people into spasms of — wait for it — ecstacy.
She later quit the team, leaving behind, if memory serves, a video of herself doing jumping jacks in the nude while taunting Iceman. Then she lost her powers, then she joined the New Warriors, then she died, then she apparently came back last year in a scene where she was having a three-way with Chamber's ex-girlfriend in an effort to, I don't know, trap Magneto or something? Believe it or not, Wikipedia's tendency for alarming specificity in these matters isn't really a help here.
So there you go: Two paragraphs of information on Stacy X, which is about three more paragraphs than anyone actually needs.
91. Explain and explore the dynamics of modern myth and the hero's journey, the "mono-myth" in the writings of Joseph Campbell, as a cross-cultural phenomenon that today stems primarily from comic writers, with emphasis on reflections of the American world view. Please do this in seven words or less. — Paul Tobin, via email
A: Just read The Great Outdoor Fight already.
92. Where would you rather go to school, Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, or Xavier's school for gifted youngsters? — EamonnGlenn
A: Hogwarts. Not only does the Xavier School have a mortality rate slightly higher than setting yourself on fire, you also get to be yelled at by Alan Rickman, and that's a lifelong dream of mine.
93. What is Ric Flair's kissing technique? — bad_dog_smell
94. Apart from the obvious answer, who is the best and/or most versatile character of the Silver Age? — Benito Cereno, via email
95. Which of the Riverdale Gang would you take into the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2? — kenlowery
A: Dilton to handle the tech, Sabrina to reinforce the force fields. Jughead, of course, would lead the B-squad, and Moose would guard the survivors on the way back to the ship.
96. Ben Grimm wrestling…awesome? — franzferdinand2
97. What's been your happiest or most satisfying moment at ComicsAlliance? — Laura Hudson
A. Finishing this column. Second to that, talking to Adam West about how much I love Victor Buono as King Tut was pretty awesome, and getting an email from Al Milgrom about how much I loved U.S. 1 was great too, because I'm sure that doesn't happen every day. Running into Dwayne McDuffie at San Diego and having him tell me he enjoyed a column I wrote about race in comics was probably the biggest highlight, though.
98. You have to assemble a super team consisting solely of grotesque stereotypes, preferably racial, but gender-based stereotypes will be acceptable IF and only if they are particularly egregious and backwards-looking. Are you a bad enough dude to assemble a team of super-racists? GO. — Matt Fraction, via email
A: Hoo boy.
Hoo boy.
Okay. I can do this. Chop Chop from the Blackhawks, the witch doctor who sent Bombi the Zombie after Scrooge McDuck, uh… Ebony from The Spirit… Egg Fu… No, I can't. I give. I'm tapping out. Thanks for ruining everything, Fraction.
99. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a great idea and ten is a pit of despair, how good an idea was Ask Chris 100? — Maxy_Barnard
A: After that last question? Probably like a 9, 9.5.
100. After 100 Ask Chris articles are there any questions you were really hoping we would ask you but they just didn't come up? —
A: A few weeks ago, I was talking on Twitter about how, contrary to popular belief, the Riddler is one of the best and most underrated Batman villains of all time, but nobody ever asked why.
Oh well. There's always next week!
That's all we have for this week, but if you've got a question you'd like to see Chris tackle in a future column, just send it to @theisb on Twitter with the hashtag #AskChris, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with [Ask Chris] in the subject line!


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Emergency First Aid for Your Pet
No question is too trivial when it comes to keeping our pets safe and healthy.
Of course, prevention is what we need to strive for. Hopefully you will never have to encounter any of these situations.
Here are a few of the more common situations that may arise. Treat them as best you can, and then call or visit your vet. Please remember that injured animals may be afraid and in pain, and they may bite. Please be careful!
- Cuts, bite marks, puncture wounds, etc. Gently clean the area with warm water.
- Heat stroke. Watch for symptoms like uncontrollable panting, collapse, a blank or "fixed" stare, or even unconsciousness. Move your pet to a cool, quiet area and offer him or her some water.
- Car accidents. Your pet is likely to be in shock; try to keep her quiet and warm, and try to stop any bleeding. Take your pet to the vet immediately - use a blanket or a board to get her there. Be very careful ... your gentle sweet pet may bite if she is frightened or hurting.
- Bee or wasp stings. If you can see the stinger, take it out. Then wrap the affected area in a cool damp cloth. Watch for severe reactions - most pets should recover fairly quickly, but call your vet if yours does not.
- Burns. Apply cold water to the affected area and call your vet.
- Poison. If you suspect your pet has been poisoned, call your vet immediately. Do NOT attempt to make your pet vomit. Your vet may be able to coach you over the phone, or may ask that you bring the pet to the clinic. Provide all the information you can. For example, if you know your pet has ingested a poison, tell the vet what it was, how much, and when it occurred.
- Eye problems. If your pet is squinting and seems unable to open his eye, consult with your vet. The sooner, the better - eyes are a delicate organ and you don't want your beloved pet going blind or losing his eye!
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Systolic heart murmur :S give a hand?
So i went to the docs the other day, and apparently he found i have a systolic heart murmur- anyone know what this is?
I'm booked contained by for some kind of heart 'echo' at the hospital in a few days. But just wondering if someone could afford me an idea?
btw, i'm 19, BMI of 20, no one in my kinfolk has a history of heart disease or anything.
Thanks in advance!
Generally nothing to verbs about so they do an ECG to make sure, the Dr. Will probably send you home and put in the picture you to come back in 6 weeks. Probably will tell you to walk back to a normal life, and to achieve plenty of exercise and reduce your salt intake. Not Sex is not considered exercise but will lower your BP.
Systolic murmurs: A systolic murmur occurs between the first and second heart sounds. Systolic murmurs may be normal or abnormal. They may be precipitate, mid, or late systolic, or holosystolic (pansystolic). Systolic murmurs may be divided into ejection, regurgitant, and shunt murmurs.
Ejection murmurs are due to turbulent forward flow through narrowed or irregular valves or outflow tracts (eg, due to aortic or pulmonic stenosis).
Regurgitant murmurs represent retrograde or abnormal flow (eg, due to mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, or ventricular septal defects) into chamber that are at lower resistance.
Shunt murmurs may originate at the site of the shunt (eg, patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defects) or result from altered hemodynamics remote from the shunt (eg, pulmonic systolic flow murmur due to an atrial septal defect beside left-to-right shunt).
Systolic click-murmur syndrome relates to mitral valve prolapse.
Echocardiography will reveal the exact cause of heart murmur. Source(s): http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec07/ch069/ch…
my daughter has a heart mummer and not ever had a problem .... keep on and see wot your results say
To make the diagnosis you will entail to wait for the result of your diagnostic test,(er which is why it is being done!)
Many murmurs are simple benign flow murmurs and the scan may be regular. Source(s): GP for more years than I care to remember
Thank you for the put somebody through the mill. And a very good question at that.
In my practice, I see several infantile patients like you who tell me during the interview that "I've been told I enjoy a heart murmur". Conversely, I've detected many subtle systolic murmurs in young patients for the first time, which may come across some as somewhat as a worrisome surprise to the lenient.
The incidental finding of a systolic murmur is common. I'm assuming that is how your physician had detected your murmur -- from a routine nouns of your heart and not from his/her concern about active symptoms (shortness of breath, chest pain, etc.).
Not adjectives systolic murmurs are pathologic, meaning they do not all have a sinister underlying inflict. In young otherwise healthy young associates, a majority of these murmurs turn out to be "innocent flow murmurs" that have no clinical significance. A common scenario is a young athlete who is physically stirring. Personally, I've had this type of murmur ever since I was your age, and I've been an avid jogger who's run several marathons. Certainly, if you've have no heart/lung symptoms, then the underlying murmur is likely benign.
However, having said that, within are two underlying disorders that I always keep in mind when I see a childlike woman with a systolic murmur -- anemia and mitral valve prolapse. Anemia can be inferred clinically and confirmed on blood testing. Mitral spigot prolapse can be detected on an echocardiogram.
Further, under the appropriate clinical suspicion in young patients, a disease of the heart valve called endocarditis (i.e., an infectious disease from intravenous drug abuse) or an autoimmune cause such as Libman-Sacks endocarditis (lupus, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome) may be considered.
Otherwise, other valvular diseases of the heart are unlikely in a fine person of your age..
I wish you well. Please hang on to us updated. Source(s): My remote medical training.
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