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If you want to establish yourself politically in an organization and be able to do your job without facing obstacles around every corner, high credibility is what gets people off your back and on your side. It helps you go faster and avoid the many time wasters that come in the form of uneducated questions about what you are doing and why it costs so much.
For any executive, success is as much about managing your credibility as it is about a job well done. But for CIOs, there are some extra credibility challenges built right into the role that your peers in other functions don't have to deal with.
No one outside of IT understands what you do. And they dont really want to. No one outside of IT can possibly understand the millions of moving parts, legacy and dependencies that is IT and they have no real motivation to do so. They want the benefit IT provides, but dont really care to understand the technology or the cost.
Your business counterparts will never make the effort to bridge this gap. Your choice is either to stay misunderstood or to step up to bridge the gap yourself.
Poor perceptions of IT performance even when it is good. Even if you are meeting all of your agreed service levels, its tough to get through a day without someone complaining about IT quality and performance. Even though you perform heroic acts regularly, which avert crisis so no one ever notices or suffers and some services you deliver are best-in-class, its that one short email downtime that gets all the notoriety.
You need to communicate service objectives and performance in a way that the business can relate to, (by letting them help define it) or youll never get out from under this.
Clarity of costs and benefits is missing. Your peers outside of IT wonder Where does all that that money go? They can sense complexity, so they will tend to think that a reduction in budget can be easily absorbed because you are bound to be wasting some money in all that complexity. When there is no clear mapping of costs to business benefits, IT becomes a target of suspicion.
Even if you are confident in your priorities and spending, do all of your peers share that understanding and have confidence in it? Or do they think you should be spending the money better (i.e., either by spending less money so they can have it, or by doing more of their pet projects.)
You spend a lot of money. Period. In the company wide roll-up, the IT Budget is typically shown as a single line item and is often a bigger number than the profit for the company. It sticks out.
Meanwhile your peers in the business units are being squeezed for every last bit of profit through their revenue and expense plans. And they are all looking at that one big number. Why cant we just cut IT? It is from this conversation where the cut 5% of IT budget directives come from.
Ive been in those meetings many times and IT isnt even in the room.
You need to get into those rooms and meetings, and present your plan and budget mapped to the key business initiatives being discussed, instead of as a list of technology costs. You need to be the one to do the clear mapping of IT costs to business priorities and communicate this in a way that the business team can understand it.
No one understands what legacy means to IT. Nothing ever really goes away. Businesses have a way of absorbing the financial benefit of an IT initiative and then forgetting that the IT investment to support it must go on.
For example, you rollout a successful inventory management system, and Wall St. will reward your company for the cost savings and increased profits that result. But after a few quarters, that impact is absorbed into the business model, and it is no longer recognized by anyone. But your cost to keep it running goes on. And no one remembers that part.
By keeping the must aspects of the legacy in clear business view, and also being personally diligent about reducing general legacy costs year-over-year, you can take this issue off the table.


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The Times Public Editor patted his paperon the back for publishing photos of dead soldiers from Iraq- but when it comes topublishing controversial images, the paper'spolitical courage is quite selective.
Sunday's column by Public Editor Clark Hoyt, "The Painful Images of War," defended the paper's recent front-page story on the lack of photos of war dead from Iraq, a story that itself featured photos of dead soldiers.
The same paper which refused to stand in support of press freedom by reprinting the controversial cartoons from a Dutch newspapermocking the prophet Mohammed is suddenly quite brave when it comes to blasting out gruesome images that might provide a graphic boost to the liberal anti-war cause.
Hoyt wrote:
Two hundred twenty-one American soldiers and Marines have been killed in Iraq this year, but until eight days ago, The Times had not published a photo of one of their bodies.
The picture The Times did publish on July 26, of a room full of death after a suicide bombing in June, with a marine in the foreground, his face covered and his uniform riddled with tiny shrapnel holes, accompanied a front-page article about how few such images there are.
The Times reported that the freelance photographer who took the picture, Zoriah Miller, was barred from covering the Marines after he posted it and other graphic pictures of dead Americans and Iraqis on his Web site. A second photo accompanying the article, of a dead Army captain in a pool of blood in 2004, got that photographer in trouble at the time, too.
Jim Looram, a retired West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran, feels strongly that images of dead soldiers should never be published during a war. "I cannot describe to you what it is like to see a dead American soldier," he said. Civilians cannot understand what happens on a battlefield, Looram said, and it dishonors dead soldiers to try to convey through pictures what they went through.
His daughter, Meaghan, is the Times picture editor who handled the photographs that accompanied the article by Kamber and Arango. She loves her dad but disagrees with him on this. "Looking at photographs of the gravely wounded or dead is a profoundly affecting and emotional experience," she said. "However, I do feel that it is my duty as a journalist to see that a truthful account of the consequences of war is given."
Hoyt agreed with his paper, naturally:
Painful as these issues are - C. J. Chivers, a Times reporter and former Marine officer who wrote about Valdez-Castillo, told me he is "pretty tortured" about them - I think The Times has an obligation to pursue stories and photographs that report the entire experience of war, including death.
[Executive Editor Bill] Keller said, "Death and carnage are not the whole story of war - there is also heroism and frustration, success and setback, camaraderie and, on occasion, atrocity - but death and carnage are part of the story, and to launder them out of our account of the war would be a disservice."
Too bad Keller didn't show similar political courage when he had a chance to stand with other media outlets and publish the cartoons of Mohammad. Instead his editorial page punted. From a February 2006 editorial:
The New York Times and much of the rest of the nation's news media have reported on the cartoons but refrained from showing them. That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.

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Trainer Bob Baffert's highly prized 2-year-old Roman Ruler fired a bullet :57 4/5 for five furlongs Monday morning in preparation for Sunday's $150,000 Best Pal (gr. II) at Del Mar.The $500,000 son of Fusaichi Pegasus won his debut impressively at Hollywood Park.Stablemate Actxecutive, a second prospect for the Best Pal, was nearly as flashy. The Hollywood Juvenile Championship (gr. II) runner-up cruised the same distance in :58 4/5, which was the second fastest for the distance. Actxecutive, a son of Noactor, was also being considered for the Aug. 21 Hopeful (gr. I) at Saratoga.
Baffert, who has dominated the 2-year-old ranks at Del Mar for the past 10 years, is heating up. His 2-year-old crop has started to roll when the filly Inspiring was super-impressive in winning Saturday's Sorrento Stakes (gr. III). Another filly, Excessively Nice scored sharply in a maiden special weight Sunday, while another juvenile, Fusaichi Rock Star, won handily Saturday.Baffert found himself without a 2-year-old meet champion last year for the first time since 1995. During that span, he saddled either the winner of the Del Mar Debutante or the Del Mar Futurity, including a stretch of seven straight Futurities from 1996 to 2002.In 2003, the juvenile championships went to trainer Richard Mandella's Siphonizer in the Futurity and Halfbridled in the Debutante. Halfbridled went on to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Eclipse Award as North America's top 2-year-old filly.


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Step into the spotlight and spin the Wheel to experience the enhanced sequel of America`s #1 game show. Pick a consonant or buy a vowel in order to solve word puzzles in Wheel of Fortune 2. Choose one of three enhanced game modes: Road Trip, Group Play, and Puzzle of the Day. Customize your player`s look and earn trophies along with virtual cash. Look out for the dreaded Bankrupt and Lose A Turn wedges as you spin-to-win in this glimmering new Wheel of Fortune edition. * America`s #1 game show * 2,000 puzzles to solve * New game modes
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Fundamental analysis
There has been an increased demand for the American currency - the dollar index basket USDX finished the trading day at around 95.61.
The EUR/USD is in the "red zone" the third day in a row. Traders ignored the positive macroeconomic statistics from the euro area, showing the lack of interest to the euro. Only by the end of the day the pair slightly increased.
The GBP/USD lost some ground against the UK and the US government bonds negative differential expansion.
The USD/JPY ended the day in the "green zone". The new wave of carry trade deals against the demand for risky assets continued to put pressure on the Japanese yen.
There was a faint hope that Greece found a common language with creditors in respect of the country's next financial aid terms. After the Greek Government showed new proposals at the weekend new investors hoped that Greece did sign an agreement with the international lenders. The sources from the EU reported that Greece's new proposal is ambitious, still they need to solve the pensions and VAT issues. As we know Greece could not come to an agreement with creditors. So the optimism that was in the week beginning – vanished.


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DarkSpore - Previews @ G4TV, IGN
by Dhruin, 2010-11-06 22:33:36
G4TV serves up a preview of Darkspore:
While the bulk of Darkspore is a cooperative or single player campaign based around killing a host of monsters and gathering genetic components to modify your heroes (this is a Spore game, after all), its multiplayer looks promising for players who long for a more competitive experience. PvP will focus around teams of one to four players and throw them into arenas where they do a "best of three" style match. Each level has been crafted so each round should only take between two and three minutes, meaning players won't get stuck in a match they're hating (read: losing terribly) for very long. Not that losing is the end of the world, as after each round the loser gets to pick a new set of heroes to take into battle.
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Construction on one of two pavilions to anchor Vilano Road's revitalization will start soon.
A 2,500-square-foot pavilion overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway next to the Vilano Pier will symbolize this coastal community's vision of a better neighborhood. Funding for the first pavilion has been secured and the estimated cost is $145,000, according to Georgia Katz, a county planner.
"Hopefully, by this time next year, we will have a fishing pier pavilion," Katz said.
Eventually, a smaller ocean-side pavilion will be built.
Organizers held meetings with residents for months to get their views on what the pavilions should look like. Eventually, a consensus was reached.
"We think we've come up with something we can all support," said Vivian Browning, from the North Shores Improvement Association.
Tuesday, the St. Johns Board of County Commissioners supported the design, approving it with a unanimous vote.
The pavilion, when built, will stand as a Vilano Beach landmark, visible from St. Augustine.
"It is a place where people can stand and look at the bay front, look at the fort from the 1600s and look across at the Nombre de Dios," Browning said.
In August, the wooden part of the Nature Greenway Boardwalk was completed, according to Sacha Martin of the North Shores Improvement Association.
The path -- extending 860 feet over the marshes of the Intracoastal Waterway and under the Francis and Mary Usina Bridge -- runs from Poplar Avenue to First Street and also connects with the bike and pedestrian path that parallels the bridge.
"People are using it," Martin said. "For example, the owners of the Since 1946 Cafe are using it to get from home to the cafe," Martin said. "One of the purposes is to allow people to enjoy the salt water marsh," she said.
The other, she said, is to connect the residential area on the north side of the bridge with the town center. "That way, they don't have to cross A1A."
The pavilion and boardwalk are the culmination of years of planning. The visioning process was started in 1998, and the neighborhood was designated a Waterfronts Florida community in 1999, Katz said.
The project is expected to cost $207,000: $115,000 from grants, $42,000 from the county and the rest from fund-raising events.
The Waterfronts Florida designation from the state makes it easier for the community to get grant money for these revitalization projects.
Years down the road, the overlay design district created in January will transform the neighborhood as buildings adhere to certain architectural styles. Future plans call for the town center between the two proposed pavilions to bring restaurants, neighborhood stores and activity to the sleepy community.
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MARK AUSTIN THOMAS: The season's big auctions of Impressionist and modern art begins tonight at Sotheby's. Competitor Christie's big night is tomorrow. Prices are eye-poppin. Sales at Christie's alone could reach half a billion dollars. Alisa Roth has more from New York.
ALISA ROTH: Big name artists, wealthy collectors and a sense that art prices are topping out mean this week's auctions are likely to set records.
Christie's is hoping to get as much as $45 million for a Gauguin, and it's expecting as much as $60 million for a Picasso.
Experts keep saying that art prices will drop or at least level off. But that hasn't happened yet, so collectors are anxious to sell while the market is still hot.
David Norman is director of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby's. He says there's a whole new generation of buyers out there.
DAVID NORMAN: Whether it be American hedge fund managers or newly billionaired Russians or people in China and other Asian countries, or India, so there's been a real rise in demand.
He says a lot of the stuff on the block this week is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and today's collectors are ready to jump at it.
In New York, I'm Alisa Roth for Marketplace.


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SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.
The decision, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, trumped a lower court judge's order that would have allowed county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Wednesday.
Lawyers for the two gay couples that challenged the ban said Monday they would not appeal the panel's decision on the stay to the U.S. Supreme Court. They said they were satisfied the appeals court had agreed to expedite its consideration of the Proposition 8 case by scheduling oral arguments for the week of Dec. 6.
Attorneys for sponsors of the voter-approved measure applauded the decision. In seeking the emergency stay, they had argued that sanctioning same-sex unions while the case was on appeal would create legal chaos if the ban eventually is upheld.
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To your left you see an image from a better age of Mark Millar, captured in Image's excellent recent edition of Tales from Beyond Science. The year was 1992, and Millar had pitched a thorough revision of the Tharg's Future Shocks line of short stories to 2000 AD assistant editor Alan McKenzie; the "[s]hocks," it was agreed, had become anything but. What resulted was among the first of the 22-year old writer's many revisions of comics properties deemed insufficiently thrill-laden, though it's rarely Millar who comes to mind when you think Tales from Beyond Science; surely, instead, it's Rian Hughes, the feature's one and only artist, and the commanding design presence behind the current bookshelf edition.
That said, I suspect many will find the young writer's stories to be intriguingly uncharacteristic. Elliptical and eerie — largely unconcerned with the strictures of plot drama — Millar's four tales seem plunked down from an alternate dimension where, instead of longtime mentor Grant Morrison, it was famed British comics enigmista John Smith (himself author of two of the series' installments) who served as the lad's compositional role model. Yet as we can see, Millar cannot help but wink toward a beloved favorite from a dominant genre across the ocean: "This is an IMAGINARY STORY… Aren't they all?"
Millar, as you may be aware, has taken a lot of heat lately for certain statements made to the New Republic as to the facility of sexual violence in his work, specifically that rape functions identically to decapitation in establishing a villain's maleficence. The piece is titled "'You're Done Banging Superheroes, Baby,'" quoting with glee from a juicy bit of misogyny in Millar's & John Romita, Jr.'s Kick-Ass 2; this, in turn, inspired one of the better responses to the article, as Journal contributor Tim O'Neil examined how a subsequent line of dialogue from that very sequence — "…it's time to see what evil dick tastes like" — was appropriated from fellow 2000 AD veteran Garth Ennis' signature series Preacher. The trick is, Ennis, by contextualizing the line in a fevered dream sequence suffered by his protagonist, plainly intended the line as a condemnation of the hero's possessive, Manichean capacity, while Millar (much in the spirit of the Alan Moore line snatched above) merely employs it for lazy, surface characterization as a veritable excited utterance.
Inevitably, my mind soon wandered to earlier travails in violence and context.
You may not recognize the image above, but I assure you it's a watershed moment in international comic book relations. The writer is Lee Marrs, veteran of late- and post-underground comics such as Wimmen's Comix and Star*Reach, while the artist is one Keizo Miyanishi, making his English-language publishing debut. The forum was a Heavy Metal-styled perfect bound anthology titled simply Manga, a one-off effort from a consortium of American-interested Japanese comics professionals so obscure today that no consensus has even been reached on the book's year of publication – maybe 1980, '81, '82.
What is certain, however, is that Manga was carefully tailored to flatter majority American impressions of how comics were 'supposed' to look. Katsuhiro Otomo made his English-language debut in that book, though he had probably not even begun his name-making Akira serial in Japan; his occidental influences would nonetheless prove valuable. It goes without saying that no female mangaka were included, despite the magnificent popularity of shojo manga art in the prior Japanese decade. Marrs, ironically, appears to be the only woman involved in any capacity with the project whatsoever.
And Miyanishi — who is also credited on-page with the story's "concept" — perhaps was selected for the almost stereotypically 'Japanese' quality of his drawings, vaguely approximating the bodily contours of Yamato-e painting: the original narrative pictures. Titled "Midsummer's Night Dream" and pregnant with allusion, Marrs' & Miyanishi's story plunks Hikaru Genji into a spicy (yet tasteful) encounter with two spirits who concoct a verily faerie-tamper'd romance with a mystic woman whose passion unlocks the icy man's soul to "the wonder of sharing."
Yet looking at the above images — the pursed lips, the obsessive, ovular shade beneath the eyes — the attentive reader might wonder how much was really being shared.
Keizo Miyanishi was a porn artist. Maybe he still is. In the 2010 Top Shelf anthology AX: Alternative Manga — the only other English-language book to publish a story of his, a similarly international takeoff on Dostoyevsky titled "Les Reskolnikovs" — Ryan Holmberg notes that Miyanishi followed an apprenticeship under Mamoru Misaki with a number of works informed by the 1970s boom in erotic comics, though by the time Manga rolled around he had apparently shifted his energies into standalone illustration, as well as the irregular musical project Onna, for which he serves as lyricist, vocalist and guitarist.
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As it happens, I have since come into possession of Lyrica, a 1994 Japanese-language compilation of Miyanishi's ero works. It is from there I have taken the above image, which succinctly essays the artist's fascination with male and female anatomies, delicious confinement and vulgar poetics, as evidenced by the rightward vision of proud Mt. Pepe. Sequence, however, is required for a fuller view:
I especially appreciate panel 7 in the first page, depicting the male character's arousal as all but tearing through his fancy satin briefs. There is pragmatism here, yes — obscenity busts still occur in Japan today, as they did in the '70s, mandating assiduous (if often nominal) obscuring of the genital region — but from that, like so many Japanese porn artists, Miyanishi coaxes fine effect from textural sensations; it is never so much the blunt details of congress with him, but the prospect of fabric peeled down ready flesh, of captured glances and unreal, metaphoric depictions of intense arousal: hair standing on end, warmth flowing like spilled syrup, and rocky emotional terrain blinking to and from existence in the heat of excitement.
Do not fuck with me, gentle reader. I know of the superiority of this aesthetic. I saw what happened when the first hentai specimens were released into the Eros Comix ecosystem; it was like Days of goddamned Future Past, with the cast of Super Taboo tracking and killing the weird, mutant strains of NA smut theretofore active as agents of social release.
And so, we return to violence.
There are several 'period' tales in Lyrica, which we might compare with Miyanishi's Manga outing from around the same time. While the American-aimed story lingered on the healing properties of Good Sex, however, the artist's domestic output — no doubt subject to whims of editors mindful of their magazines' ecchi audience, granted — is filled with erotic images of annihilation. See the blood just above; no plasma I've encountered behaves like that, but its special viscosity denotes a certain mania to Miyanishi's drawing, eager to draw spindly globules of gel from any orifice, a sticky mess prompted by the thin, phallic arrow protruding from the downed samurai's belly in panel 3, and juxtaposed against the more outrageously penile form of a busy snake.
Soon after, in this one, a woman is depicted laying upon the ground, spread-eagle in parted robes, with a curious bird absently pecking at her bloodied vagina. She picks herself up, and maneuvers over to what I presume is her murdered lover. She tends to the dead man's prick, which cannot rise, and then, with some skin-on-metal pomp, draws his katana and thrusts it upward between her legs, joining him in oblivion.
My therapist insists that my desire to 'read' comics in a language I cannot understand is indicative of a conflict-adverse pattern: if I can never *completely* read something, I can evade the disagreements that arise from adopting a firm position on matters of taste, thus avoiding pain. Likewise, the act of composing a dubious metaphoric 'response' to the week's Mark Millar controversy allows me to benefit from the cheap heat generated by a goofy-ass New Republic profile — one not concerned with (or cognizant of) Millar's forebears enough to note that a SIICKKKK idea like "What if the U.S. government started giving away superpowers as a recruitment tool?" was straight-lifted from the likes of Marshal Law — while foreclosing on the complexities of direct confrontation with touchy emotional and political issues, thus avoiding pain.
In the end, though, Millar is like Nickelodeon Gak – if I concentrate, and bunch up my fist, I can hold him in my hand, but the second I relax, the whole slippery mess falls through my fingers and stains the rug. Fundamentally, I agree with Sarah Horrocks that Millar is just too fucking banal to raise my blood pressure; I understand the offense he causes, and I can appreciate the restorative effect some of his works might have on canards re: depictions of women in the greater media sphere, but by god is Kick-Ass some training wheels shit compared to half the images in Lyrica, which traffic in blood-spattered, rape-tinged depictions as the very core of their being. And because I'm a lifelong conformist and An Uncreative Person, I'm attracted to the extremes of art, which allow me to siphon off some vaporous transgression, intoxicating me with visions of a off-center existence I lack the fortitude to pursue.
Or, alternately, as I reply to my therapist, MA'AM, by gazing toward the personalized, marginal, outer limits of otherwise lucrative offense, I hope to isolate something empathetic and communal and Real in the commercial sphere, much in the way that, conceptually, a column juxtaposing summaries of upcoming issues of Buck Rogers with personalized depictions of rare gunge disinterred from the funnybook cemetery is meant to spark some willful recognition of commercial context as a transient aspect of the autobiography that is a soul's interface with creative works. "My god, you're a pretentious git!" she blurts, running a fingernail across my leg. "Through the use metaphor, I hope to demonstrate intuitive connections between works otherwise presumed several in the post-monocultural period," I murmur. Then we kiss, forever.
With Keizo Miyanishi, what I think is Real about his work is the grotesque artifice through which he communicates desire's burn, stretching 'erotic' characteristics until they are faintly horrible, while still carrying the signal of pleasure. In this way, tantalizing images of a young girl's sampling of unfamiliar bodily fluids become commingled with a woman having an eye pecked out whilst being impregnated by a randy gamecock, afterward laying an egg for an obese housemate to devour. I wonder if knowing what the dialogue says would aid in my understanding of these direct-yet-elusive drawings, or if the desirous meaning afforded to them by Miyanishi's creeper line would supersede logic entirely, relegating a decapitation, yes, to an orgasm's burst.
PLEASE NOTE: What follows is not a series of capsule reviews but an annotated selection of items listed by Diamond Comic Distributors for release to comic book retailers in North America on the particular Wednesday, or, in the event of a holiday or occurrence necessitating the close of UPS in a manner that would impact deliveries, Thursday, identified in the column title above. Not every listed item will necessarily arrive at every comic book retailer, in that some items may be delayed and ordered quantities will vary. I have in all likelihood not read any of the comics listed below, in that they are not yet released as of the writing of this column, nor will I necessarily read or purchase every item identified; THIS WEEK IN COMICS! reflects only what I find to be potentially interesting.
March Book 1 (of 3): MAINSTREAM COMICS. That's the real super taboo here at the Comics Journal, but while many will undoubtedly be chattering about Infinity — the new Marvel tentpole series from Jonathan Hickman and various (Jim Cheung this time) (it's got Thanos) — I have nonetheless elected this comic book debut of United States Representative John Lewis (D-GA 5th District), detailing a tumultuous life in pursuit of civil rights over 128 b&w pages drawn by the always-interesting Nate Powell. Co-written by Andrew Aydin, published by Top Shelf. I think this is the first comic I've seen with a Bill Clinton pull quote since Double Impact Hellina in '96! Preview; $14.95.
Amazing Facts & Beyond! with Leon Beyond: There's been a few minicomic collections of this funny fake trivia strip by Dan Zettwoch & Kevin Huizenga (and occasionally Ted May) — an honest-to-gawd local weekly print comic that ran from 2008 to 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri's Riverfront Times — but I'm glad to see a proper Best Of arriving from Uncivilized Books in the form of a 9″ x 8.5″ landscape-format hardcover, packing in 240 pages of extremely useful tidbits. Everybody involved in this is crazy-talented. Samples; $24.95.
Holy shit, did I really make a Bill Clinton joke up there?
Bad Break: Being another of Humanoids' all-in-one editions of French genre comics, this time a 216-page hardcover collecting a 2003-04 crime series by Philippe Riche (whose The Alliance of The Curious was released late last year), in which assorted parties are on a dead man's trail. Note that the publisher also has vol. 4 (of 6) in its line of giant-sized standalone albums for Moebius' and Jodorowsky's The Incal this week, if you are so inclined. Samples; $29.95.
Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales Artist's Edition: People really love these IDW Artist's Editions. I know folks who seem to visit comic book stores exclusively to hunt 'em down, especially the older stuff. Nonetheless, because the publisher remains committed to exploring all avenues of lavish comic book drawing for its patented (not really) 'original art, original size, b&w-reproduced-as-color-to-pick-up-every-hint-of-process' presentation, here is a collection of the final six issues (#9-14) of Schultz's well-remembered 1987-96 dinosaur adventure throwback series, which begat the short-lived children's media franchise Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, but is best recalled as a haven for old-timey adventure strip rendering; $95.00.
The One Trick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts: I've mentioned this 288-page Paul Pope compilation before, when Image first released it back in January, but I think a new softcover edition is apropos to today's subject matter, given that some of the collected material pertains to Pope's days as a struggling mangaka at Kodansha in the 1990s. Plus, a newly-colored crime serial from Dark Horse Presents, and lots of shorts; $19.99.
Knights Of Sidonia Vol. 4: Plenty of manga-by-Japanese due this week too, and while I'd also be interested in Viz's release of Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro vol. 10 and the Neon Genesis Evangelion 3-in-1 Edition vol. 4 (of 5), my heart would still belong to Vertical's new Tsutomu Nihei joint, a truly curious and beguiling fusion of anime space opera tropes with globs of the artist's very particular interest in bio-horror spectacle; $12.95.
Otto's Backwards Day: There's also more than one 6″ x 9″ kids' hardcovers out tomorrow from the redoubtable Toon Books, and while Geoffrey Hayes will probably bring the thunder with Patrick Eats His Peas and Other Stories (what other stories *are* there?!), I must draw some attention to this 40-page Frank Cammuso story, created in collaboration with underground comics great Jay Lynch, following up on 2008's release of Otto's Orange Day. Sample; $12.95.
It Came! #1 (of 4): New British pick #1, from writer/artist Dan Boultwood (I've seen him in the high-quality kids' anthology the Phoenix), in which a giant robot threatens England, and the author guarantees lampoon. From Titan Publishing, which has really ramped up these comic book releases. Preview; $3.99.
Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde #0 (of 3): New British #2, seeing Peter Hogan & Steve Parkhouse resume their spaceman-on-Earth mystery series at Dark Horse, an amiable bit of entertainment from what I've read so far; $3.99.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century #1 (Of 4): Told ya. Actually, a number of shops (mine included) somehow got this in last week, but don't let not being first (loser) dissuade you from this new project by writer/artist Howard Chaykin, in which the Philip Francis Nowlan creation is re-imagined as a leftist agitator warped to a post-class war America and pulled into battle against the Chinese power elite. Published by Hermes Press. Preview; $3.99.
Savage Dragon #190: And finally, when I saw the issue number I went and looked up the solicitation text, figuring that Erik Larsen might be doing a 'countdown to issue #200' kind of deal – AND BY GOD HE IS. That alone is worth a mention on this rather light August week; $3.99.
That's right, it's a light week! THAT'S why I posted all those dirty pictures up above! You guessed it! Ha ha ha, now the column is done! My editor is blowing me kisses. I DECLARE MYSELF THE MARK MILLAR OF THIS COLUMN, SEE YOU AT THE BANK MOTHERFUCKERS!!


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John Hasenau has joined the University of Nevada, Reno as director of laboratory animal medicine. This role is responsible for the oversight of animal care, welfare and facilities at the University. Hasenau is also the attending veterinarian for the Nevada System of Higher Education and provides services to several of Nevada's public, higher education institutions.
"Dr. Hasenau was selected for the position because he has had extensive background in federally funded animal facilities and is intimately familiar with the laws, regulations and guidelines that govern the ethical treatment of animals," Marsha Read, interim vice president of research, said. "But most important, he operates as a team member to help University of Nevada researchers achieve their goals and remain in full compliance with these laws, regulations and guidelines."
Hasenau has more than 40 years of experience working with animals. He has inspected facilities with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Federal Department of Agriculture. Hasenau began his veterinary career in a private animal practice working predominately with horses and cattle. He has directed safety programs and animal rights awareness programs at major companies and other universities.
"As the director of laboratory animal medicine I look forward to enhancing the research programs by facilitating researchers' needs and partnering with them in continuous development of ethically based, quality programs," Hasenau said. "Recent infrastructure development through the Center for Molecular Medicine has allowed newer approaches of animal quality care and biosecurity that were not able to occur at this institution historically. This major, new development will translate into leading edge science and data results; truly an exciting and wonderful opportunity for everyone in the laboratory animal community."
Hasenau has many professional affiliations including the American Association of laboratory Animal Science, Nevada Veterinary Medical Association, American Committee on Laboratory Animal Diseases and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his bachelor's degree in natural sciences and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree at Michigan State University.


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Originally Posted by chrisg Oh, thanks, Crit. I still get Haagen Dazs, though, right? :winkgrin
And great show analysis, I thought you might have abandoned us for TV parts unknown. :) No. Carrot sticks for you. Valliant effort but transparent. :up
Originally Posted by I'm here I agree with you about the snoozefest. I wasn't impressed with most of the dancers. My three favorites were... Apolo, Gilles and Drew. Though, I was mostly liking Anna's outfit. That girl looked amazing last night. Even my all time favorite let me down. While I knew I wasn't going to like Kirstie... I was less impressed with Maks. I think Maks was making up for the umm lack of dancing by his partner.:ohno Watching it again, he over-danced and pranced.


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Record companies file legal proceedings against vKontakte for deliberately facilitating piracy on a large scale
vKontakte should be licensed, respect copyright and pay artists
Legal proceedings have been filed by the recording industry today against vKontakte (VK), the Russian social network that operates a music service deliberately facilitating copyright piracy on a large scale.
The action is taken to protect the rights of record companies investing in Russia and to help develop a thriving licensed music business. The litigation comes after months of preparation, during which repeated attempts have been made to persuade VK to tackle its copyright infringements.
The claims, filed in the Saint Petersburg & Leningradsky Region Arbitration Court, charge VK with creating a service aimed at large-scale infringement of the rights of copyright holders. The company operates an unlicensed music service involving a huge library of copyright-infringing tracks that are stored on its website. The service provides unlimited access to this repertoire, enabling its tens of millions of users to search and stream music.
Three separate cases have been filed by three record companies: Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia & Warner Music UK. The actions are supported by the organisation representing record labels in Russia, the National Federation of the Music Industry (NFMI), and coordinated by IFPI, the organisation representing the recording industry worldwide.
The cases involve a sample of artists, for which the recording industry seeks court orders requiring VK to remove the infringing repertoire from its service. The record companies also seek a court order requiring VK to implement effective industry-standard measures, such as audio fingerprinting, to prevent unauthorised re-upload of that specific repertoire and to prevent unauthorised uploading of the companies' catalogues generally. The legal action also includes a claim for compensation of just over RUB 50 million (US$1.4 million) in respect of the infringing repertoire.
IFPI Chief Executive Frances Moore said:
"For the music industry to grow and prosper, it needs digital partners that are licensed, that respect copyright and which pay artists and producers for their work and investment. VK's music service, unlike others in Russia, is an unlicensed file-sharing service that is designed for copyright infringement on a large scale.
"We have repeatedly highlighted this problem over a long period of time. We have encouraged VK to cease its infringements and negotiate with record companies to become a licensed service. To date the company has taken no meaningful steps to tackle the problem, so today legal proceedings are being commenced."
Leonid Agronov, CEO of NFMI, said: "Music companies in Russia need a secure environment where they can invest in artists, offer new music to consumers and develop a viable business. Today this is extremely difficult due to the unlicensed service of vKontakte, which is earning revenues from music without respecting the rights of those who created and produced it. This is why NFMI has supported the efforts of the international industry to persuade vKontakte to stop its infringements and why we support the legal proceedings filed today. This is an action which can benefit the whole music industry in Russia, and an opportunity to improve the business environment for those who depend on copyright and other rights for their livelihood."
VK is the most popular social network in Russia, with more than 88 million registered users from Russia and 143 million worldwide. Its music service has a vast amount of infringing material stored on its music service, with thousands of copies of most of the tracks in the Russian and US Top 20 Charts. The social network generates revenue from targeted advertising, and the company is reported to have made USD $172 million in revenue in 2012. VK has never paid the claimant companies for the use of their recordings.
Developing a licensed music business in Russia
Record companies are committed to developing a thriving licensed music business by making music available to consumers via different licensed channels and formats. A number of digital music services are licensed in Russia: consumers can choose from free, ad-supported, subscription and download services, including Yandex, Trava and several mobile operators, as well as global music brands iTunes and Deezer.
However, despite its potential to be a top 10 world market, the licensed Russian digital music business remains marginal, ranking the country outside the top 20 among music markets internationally.
As the largest social network in Russia, vKontakte's unlicensed service is a significant factor in this under-performance. Russian recorded music revenues in 2013 totalled RUB 2.2 billion (US$69.4 million). By contrast, record companies globally have developed a fast-growing digital music business worth US$5.9 billion globally, licensing hundreds of digital partners in over 100 countries, ranging from paid-for downloads to free streaming services.
"Notorious" market for fourth year running
There has been extensive public comment and media coverage, in Russia and internationally, about VK's record on copyright infringement. In February 2014, the US Trade Representative's annual report listing "notorious markets" for piracy named VK for the fourth year running.
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vKontakte - IFPI Media Backgrounder
VK, formerly known as 'vKontakte' and still often referred to in Russia as BKOHTAKTE ('in touch' or 'in contact'), is the most popular social network in Russia with more than 88 million registered users from Russia and 143 million worldwide. Web monitoring companies report that 49 million unique Russian users visit the site each month. In January 2014, the founder of VK reported that the site registered 60 million visits in a single day .
The VK site looks and functions in a similar fashion to Facebook. However, unlike Facebook, VK operates an unrestricted music file sharing service. It offers users the ability to upload and store music and video files which then become available for all other users of the service to search and stream. Any music file stored on VK can be added with a single-click to the user's own music library. Music and video files uploaded by a user can be found by all other users regardless of the uploader's privacy settings, and the site's functionality does not enable the uploader to prevent them from being shared further, nor remove them from the service once uploaded.
VK Music offers a site-wide search function and the amount of unlicensed material stored on the VK music service is vast. Thousands of search results are shown for popular titles. For instance, a search in February 2014 the track 'Young and Beautiful' by Lana Del Rey showed 69,211 results and a search for the track 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons found 84,857 results. Searches for the Top 20 Billboard singles from the US Billboard chart, the Top 20 UK singles, and the Top 20 Russian singles for a week in February 2014 found thousands of copies of most tracks. On average, 21,386 links to each track in the Russian Top 20 were located on VK Music and 20,302 links to each track in the US Top 20. Technical analysis found that all music content uploaded by users is stored on and accessed from VK's own servers.
VK offers copyright owners a process to request the blocking or removal of infringing content from the site. However, the process is heavily weighted towards the individual who uploaded the infringing material and can require the copyright owner to request a court order before the content is removed. The process is time-consuming and the document published by VK outlining the process requires individual requests to be issued and pursued for each single instance of infringement.
VK generates revenue from targeted advertising, a virtual token system known as 'votes' that can be purchased by users to pay for gifts, and in-app purchases. The site is reported to have made USD $172 million in revenue in 2012 from these activities with most revenue generated by advertising.
The Russian Music Market - IFPI Media Backgrounder
Despite a growing choice of licensed digital services, including advertising-supported services that are free to the consumer, Russia's digital music business is highly undeveloped by international standards.
Recorded music revenues in 2013 totalled RUB 2.2 billion (US$ 69.4 million), making Russia the world's 23rd music market by size. Based data published in IFPI's Recording Industry in Numbers in 2014, music revenues per capita in Russia total US$0.5 compared to a European average of US$8.4 per user.
New services, established in the last two years are already illustrating the massive potential for a licensed digital music business, helping the overall recorded music revenues in Russia to increase by 12.5% in 2013.
Digital revenues account for a growing share of the Russian music market overall (56% in 2013), the majority of which comes from downloads, mobile products such as ringtones and subscription streams. In 2013, digital revenues were boosted by the arrival of iTunes which has seen a sharp increase in download revenues from a small base. This helps illustrate that consumer demand exists for legitimate paid-for services, and that the potential is high to build a sustainable and diverse digital music sector within Russia.
Yandex, the free-to-user streaming services is licensed by local and international record companies. Deezer, the international subscription service, established in Russian in 2012.
Widespread copyright infringement means that artists receive little revenue from the exploitation of recorded music in Russia. Artists attempting to make a career from music are therefore denied investment from record companies and forced to rely on whatever income they can make from live performance.
IFPI's Pro-music website provides a comprehensive directory of licensed digital services for over 100 countries. A number of digital music services are licensed in Russia, with consumers able to choose between free ad-supported, paid-for subscription, and download services. The site lists the following licensed services in Russia:
Key Free/ Ad-Supported services
IVI Music
Megafon (Trava)
Yandex Music
Key Subscription Services
Google Play
Nokia MixRadio
Key Download Services
Megafon (Trava)
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Healthy Hamilton eager for ALDS
By Todd Wills / MLB.com
Ailing Murphy coming around
ARLINGTON -- Rangers outfielder David Murphy, who is trying to recover quickly from a strained left groin, said on Saturday he has improved mightily over the past 24 hours.He took 35-40 swings on Saturday, splitting between hitting off a tee and soft toss. He threw for about 10 minutes from 120 feet. He rode an elliptical machine for 10 minutes. Murphy said the ultimate test will be running, and he hopes to ramp things up on Sunday. But he probably won't test his groin full speed until Tuesday, the day before the Rangers' American League Division Series opener. "I'm more optimistic, yes," Murphy said. "Like I said, running is going to be the ultimate test. I don't know if I'll do that full speed until Tuesday, but so far, so good." Murphy was asked if he could play Saturday if he absolutely had to. "I don't know if I could run full speed today," Murphy said.
Bullpen spots still up for grabs
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers went into Saturday's contest with the Angels with four locks for their postseason bullpen and three spots still in play.Manager Ron Washington said Neftali Feliz, Darren Oliver, Darren O'Day and Alexi Ogando are in the 'pen for the American League Division Series and will be protected the next two days. Feliz will get a chance for his 40th save if the Rangers are in a close game in the ninth inning. "We're protecting right now, going down the stretch, Oliver, O'Day, Ogando, Feliz," Washington said. "So, we'll let these [other candidates] have these innings from now on." Right-hander Dustin Nippert is a front-runner to make the ALDS bullpen because Washington wants two long relievers for the final three spots. Left-hander Michael Kirkman has been consistent and is an option as a situational left-hander, along with Clay Rapada. Derek Holland, who has come on strong in the past week, has moved up the pecking order because he's left-handed and can throw multiple innings. The Rangers will give Spring Training-like looks to a list of other candidates. Kirkman, left-hander Matt Harrison and right-hander Mark Lowe all gave up runs in Friday's loss to the Angels.
Rangers meet to go over signs
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers had a meeting with their position players before Saturday's game to go over signs to make sure everyone was up to speed heading into the American League Division Series.The Rangers had a snafu in Friday's game and that alerted manager Ron Washington five days away from the playoff opener. "We need to make sure everything is tightened up," Washington said.
Worth noting
Chris Davis was the only Rangers player still sick on Saturday after a couple of illnesses made their way through the clubhouse. First baseman Jorge Cantu and outfielder Jeff Francoeur had both recovered and were available off the bench. ... Outfielder David Murphy was the unanimous selection as Rangers Player of the Month in voting by the club's traveling writers and broadcasters.
Todd Wills is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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MOLLE, Sweden, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A Swedish teenager says she shelled-out about $650 to buy a 10-pound lobster for New Year's dinner.
The lobster, which measured nearly 3 feet in length, was pulled in the week before Christmas by a fisherman outside Kullaberg on the southwest coast of Sweden.
The crustacean, estimated to be more than 30 years old, was offered up for auction and 19-year-old Sofia Sandgren of Molle said she knew she had to have it -- at any price, Sveriges Radio reported.
"I love everything about seafood and really wanted to buy it as a special treat for my family on New Year's Eve," Sandgren told The Local.
Their plans to devour the lobster New Year's Eve were thwarted when they discovered they didn't have tools strong enough to the crack the thick shell. They took a saw to it the next day, however, and enjoyed a lobster feast for six that left them all stuffed, the Web site said Tuesday.
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Consuming Culture in Victorian and Edwardian English Literature (SAMLA 87)
From the proliferation and commodification of print culture in the 18th century to the Forster's Education Act of 1870, those who consumed - and the way people consumed – the arts and culture at large changed irrevocably in England. These factors - among numerous others- culminate Leonard Bast's feeble attempts to fit Ruskin's depictions of Venice to his basement hovel in E.M. Forster's classic Howards End. Bast's story, pushed to the margins of the novel, is primarily that of a working class individual attempting to better his position in life through the arts and culture.


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blackpool: feels like 1970.
the sun was shining on our visit to the west coast at blackpool. id never been before & it was a lovely day ( : walking along the pier with the old cuddled up couples, colourful bunting, and 1970s classic cheesy tunes blaring through the speakers made it feel like we had gone back 40 years ( : there was even a 20 ft disco ball! happy holidaying ( :
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<3 miu miu a/w 2005.
can someone please find and buy me this beautiful coat? the colour, shape, and detailing seems like it was made for me! nearly time for it too.. summer seems to have officially gone ) : .. although i hope this is not true as im still to go on my holidays to the south of sweden and paris.
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from dutch designer group t&nok who are theme bannenberg & nok snel. their collection for saatchi came together with an obessesion for office equipment.i love the unusualness of it all and the way in which the whole room is coated in computer keys not just a small part..must have taken them aaages!
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To facilitate innovation in Qualitative Research, IIeX has created the Qual Hackathon, an all day, interactive, co-creation session where participants will be challenged to create new solutions to real business problems. The event is being run as part of IIeX Europe, and will take place 19 February in Amsterdam.
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Comment #1 Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:44 PM
Amazing......I live about 5 miles away from where this photo was taken. Is that the new light rail bridge in the background or Pena Blvd?
Comment #2 Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:12 PM
That is actually I70 in the background. This was taken behind the shopping center where Wallmart and Petco are on Tower road.I believe it is called Gateway Park Center. I am 10 miles to the east of here.
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The Power of Chook
The chook. More exotic than you know – they are the domesticated descendants of wild junglefowl from Asia.
More powerful than you know – they are perhaps the most successful species of bird, by numbers, that have ever lived. There are now an estimated 24 billion of them.
Why is the chicken so popular? And what can they do for our backyard? It's not just about producing better tasting and cheaper eggs than you can possibly buy (but they do that too). Even if you already have chooks, it's good to think about all the benefits they provide.
Why chooks?
There are lots of reasons to bring some chooks into your life.
- They eat your food scraps to make delicious eggs
- They provide you with rich manure for your food garden
- These animal 'tractors' are great at preparing your vegie patch for planting – they love to scratch
- They help to control insect pests in your garden
- Chooks have personalities – they make great pets, kids love them and learn from them
- You can reduce demand for the inhumane treatment of factory and barn raised chickens and give some chooks a long, happy and healthy life
House, Strawyard and Run
Chook House
Chooks need some protection from predators and the elements. A chook house must:
- Be fox proof
- Be weatherproof (yet be well ventilated)
- Have a perch (Chooks like to perch off the ground at night. These perches should be 30cm or more off the ground, allowing 30cm space per bird)
- Have nesting boxes where the chooks can lay their eggs in private. (Old lawn mower leaf-catchers or wooden boxes are good. Add straw to the laying boxes. Allow 1 nesting box for every 3 chooks)
- Be easy to access (you'll visit it at least once per day)
- Have some kind of system for dealing with the manure (chook do at least half their pooping at night)
While optional, we strongly recommend a strawyard, which is a fox-proof fully enclosed area adjoining the house.
To fox-proof, dig the chicken wire 10cm into the ground then angle it 90 degrees outward before extending it another 40cm away from the fence.
Cover the floor of the straw yard with a deep layer of leaves, straw, woodchips or something else high in carbon. Top up occasionally and maybe twice a year harvest as beautiful finished compost for your garden.
Ensure that your chooks have plenty of shade for the hot months. Chooks love mulberries and fruit, so why not plant a mulberry tree right next to your strawyard and they'll eat the fallen berries.
Chooks need room to move about, and ideally need a large run broken up into several separately gated sections. Fences should be at least 1.4m high. This area usually doesn't need to be fox proof, as the chooks are only out in their run during the day. At night your job is to shut them into the fox-proof house and strawyard areas. VEG offers tried and tested chook runs here.
Chook Tractors
Consider a chook 'tractor', ie. a mobile pen without a floor. This can be moved around the garden allowing the chooks to scratch the ground and eat weeds or left-over veggies, while spreading their droppings. This should be done about two weeks before you want to plant out this area. You can make your own chook tractor with guidance from books like Harvey Ussery's excellent "The Small Scale Poultry Flock."
Chook Behaviour
- Chooks are very territorial and will put themself to bed at dusk in the same place every night.
- Chooks are social animals and should never be kept on their own.
- When introducing new hens, add at least two at a time, otherwise the new hen will be picked on. A new group of hens may fight quite viciously until they work out their pecking order.
Various grain or pellet mixes can be purchased from farm suppliers. A balanced diet should include:
- Kitchen scraps
- Layer pellets, mash or grain mix. To lay well, chooks need approximately 18% protein in their diet
- A calcium source – shell grit, cuttlefish, crushed roasted eggshells (shell grit or sand is also important for their gizzard, to help them crush their food)
- Insects and earthworms
- Greens – grass, spinach, parsley, carrot tops, cabbage leaves (tie up in bunch and fasten to the side of the chook run). Or grow a 'green manure crop' that will condition your soil + provide green pick for your chooks.
Don't feed them: rhubarb leaves
For recipes to make your own chook food see Alanna Moore's book "Backyard Poultry – Naturally."
Water: Always have fresh water available.
Some breeds are excellent egg layers, others are bred for their meat, others are ornamental and some breeds are dual/general purpose (ie good for both egg laying and meat). If you want to breed chickens, buy pure-breed chooks. Otherwise, there are a good range of hybrid and pure-breed chooks for each purpose.
Good egg layers that are friendly and suitable to a backyard:
Australorp – Australian, dual purpose. Large, handsome, black bird.
Rhode Island Red – U.S. dual purpose.
Isa Brown – Cross between Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White breeds.
Good dual purpose chooks that are suitable for a backyard (moderate egg layers and table birds)
Sussex – U.K. breed. Dual purpose. Suited to cool climates.
Wyandotte – U.S. dual purpose. Friendly and cuddly looking.
… there are many more great breeds out there.
Maintaining Chook Health – Naturally
Think about planting herbs and flowers next to your chicken run that the chickens can selectively eat to keep themselves healthy. A great idea is to plant them on the other (chook-free) side of the chook-run fence so they grow through and can be pecked out without being totally decimated. Some recommended plants are:
Comfrey – Wonderful herb for your organic garden. Perennial, large green leaves, grows in sun or partial shade, plant from a root cutting. Chop up and feed to chooks regularly. It is also a compost activator (see VEG compost worksheet). Comfrey has a vigorous root system, so grow it away from your veggie patch.
Nasturtium – Great for your chooks general health and it repels insect pests.
Nettles – Helps increase egg production and is fattening for your chickens – a great winter food. Nettle is also a compost activator.
Rue – Good chook medicine and insect repellent. Dry and scatter through chook house to repel pests. Wear gloves when handling this herb as it can cause some skin irritation.
Southernwood and Wormwood – Insect repellents and medicinal. Grow wormwood away from other plants as its roots inhibit growth. Good to dry and scatter through chook house.
Tansy – Attractive fern-like leaves with yellow flowers. Tansy is a vigorous grower that repels pest insects. Dry and scatter leaves through chookhouse. Tansy is also a compost activator.
Rosemary – Insect repellent. Chop and scatter in chookhouse.
Worming your chooks
Regular garlic treatment is the most popular natural method.
Place 1-2 cloves (per bird) of crushed garlic into your chooks drinking water, for several days in a row.
Other methods – add a little apple cider vinegar to the drinking water or any of the following – nasturtium seeds, grated carrot, wormwood tips, mustard or pumpkin seeds. If your chicken has worms and needs urgent attention please visit a pet supplies centre to buy worming liquid.
See also:
The Small Scale Poultry Flock, Harvey Ussery – By a far the best chook book we have seen and totally consistent with VEG's approach to, and philosophy about, keeping chooks.
Backyard Poultry – Naturally 2nd Ed, Alanna Moore, Python Press
The Chook Book, Jackie French, Aird Books
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Climb the smooth face on the right passing the Africa-shaped flake with difficulty.
This is a nice route, an average small lightweight single stemmed peg scar rock protects the bottom part of the thin crack and a much worse slightly bigger one goes in higher up. Faith in friction to get your right foot up after a long reach to the flake, the jugs aren't as big as they look but will do and the top is excellent. Only 2 5c moves and a ledge to psyche up on but I'd give it a star!
The crux is leaving the ledge, the rest is steady but protection is poor.
Crux is leaving the ledge, but there are no further 5c moves - I made the first hold on the Africa flake and then raced to the top without stopping. Really nice, compact route - easy E2, easy 5c, 2*.
first E grade was quite dissapointed with the beggining but as i am short pulled off a nice dyno to "west coast" on "africa" then topped out with ease thinking the flake was going to drop off any minute
This route should be re-named Africa. Is this a lead or a boulder problem?


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Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland
I received my ex husbands tax refund. I wanted to know if he filed jointly with his new wife, could she contest it? If so, is there a time frame to claim a hardship? Also are state and federal refunds garnished for back child support?
I live in Maryland & he lives in Georgia.
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If the check is made out to him it is his to negotiate. If they had filed a joint return it would have been payable to both. If you are owed child support you need to file court papers in MD if that is where the support order was issued. If it came from GA or another state and your minor child is in your custody you need to have the out of state order "localized" to be able to get a court order, or you can do it in the other state. Tax refunds can be garnished for child support but first you have to have a judgment and then file it with IRS or the appropriate state tax agency before they issue a refund, so it's too late to do it for the check you received. However, you could use it as a negotiating tool to try to get some support money from him. He might find that easier than trying to get a reissued check.


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It's that time of week. Time to man up and make your pick for Sunday's game. Get it right, and you'll be able to gloat about it to anyone within earshot. Get it wrong, and you'll disavow it within seven seconds, pretending you made the pick just as a goof when, in reality, you put 16 hours of thought into making it. Here are our picks, plus picks from across the rest of the media.
Scott Crisp: 17-10, Cowboys.
Josh Alper: "I'd say Cowboys 24-20, six points too much for me on the road in week one."
Bill Simmons: Cowboys. "In Week 1, you always go against a team that fired its offensive coordinator within the past 10 days. It's just the rule."
Peter King: Cowboys 30, Bucs 27. "I'm shocked too to see the Bucs put up 27 on anyone." And there you have it. Peter King is shocked by the idiocy of his own prediction.
87% Of SI Users: Dallas.
All Ten ESPN Experts:Cowboys. Seriously, look at the conformity of picks on this chart. It's insane. It's as if they're all begging to be proven wrong.
Michael Silver: Cowboys.
86% Of Yahoo! Users: Cowboys.
Pete Prisco (CBS): Bucs.
Andy (Cowboys fan I know): Cowboys 345, Bucs 000.
FanHouse: Cowboys, 31-13. "The bad matchup for Tampa is DeMarcus Ware vs. Byron Leftwich, immobile with a slow delivery. If this was in Dallas, the Bucs would punt so many times they'd be sure to hit the video board."
Me: It's tempting to go with the Bucs since the entire universe seems to be taking the Cowboys. But, like Alper, I'll hedge my bets like a little girl and say Dallas wins but fails to cover the spread. Cowboys 14, Bucs 10. I just don't see the Bucs scoring more than 10 points against anyone ever this year. I'd rather stick my head in a lobster pot than have a Buc on my fantasy team.
Yours in the comments. Get ready, folks. Cowboys season is just about upon us.


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There were ugly scenes at London's iconic 100 Club last night as LawRocks debutante Squire Sanders snatched an unexpected, and in certain quarters highly unpopular, victory from hot favourites Landmark Chambers and the Practical Law Company.
A packed crowd was divided along partisan lines between the wild cheers for the band from the US firm, and unprecedented boos from an increasingly rowdy element supporting the technically superior metallers from PLC, Big Ghost.
The latter had kicked off their set with a Muse song, Hysteria, showcasing the bass player's lightning fingers and the lead guitarist's ability to widdle with the best of them. Many heads were banged and much hair, or at least what there was of it in the audience, was thrown around during the five-song set.
But even before the Squire Sanders band, Earth, Wind and Squires, took to the stage it was clear the newbies meant business. A lackey, most likely a trainee from one of the firm's regional offices, distributed specially made flags for the audience to wave while the group itself were decked out in a plethora of hats. Notably, for a note-perfect version of The Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian, the band all wore fez's except for the singers, who sported gold lame Cleopatra wigs. A four-song Monkees medley proved that this lot had been putting in the hours and knew their way around a segue.
The judging panel of Bob Kidby from Welbeck Land, Robert Anderson QC from Blackstone Chambers and Matt Byrne, features editor at The Lawyer came under intense pressure to bow to mob rule and give Big Ghost the nod. However, after much deliberation the trio bravely faced down the hostility by first announcing a play-off between Landmark's Infinite Jest, a band consisting entirely of barristers and led by a singer with a voice that did Adele proud on Rolling in the Deep, and Squire Sanders. The judges eventually revealed Earth, Wind and Squires as the winner by dint of the band's tightness and superior entertainment value. Cue outrage and a near stampede. To the bar.
"My, wasn't that close," said the organiser of Law Rocks, Keating Chambers' senior clerk Nick Child. "What can I say that the audience on the night didn't already? So many people have written to say this was one of the best yet. The standard really does just keep on getting better."
Law Rocks, which has raised thousands of pounds for a variety of charities, began in 2009 (27 April 2009). Last night's show was the tenth event in the UK, while earlier this year Child and numerous UK musicians travelled to Los Angeles for LawRocks LA.
Three more events are set for next year along with another Six Of The Best event in November, when previous winners compete for the title of overall winner.
Earlier this year bands from Mishcon de Reya and Berwin Leighton Paisner, both previous winners of LawRocks, won the right to entertain 1,500 lawyers at The Lawyer awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel (9 July 2012).


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Issue No. 05 - May (2002 vol. 24)
pp: 707-711
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.1000244

Nonlinear Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are investigated for appearance-based gender classification with low-resolution thumbnail faces processed from 1,755 images from the FERET face database. The performance of SVMs (3.4 percent error) is shown to be superior to traditional pattern classifiers (linear, quadratic, Fisher linear discriminant, nearest-neighbor) as well as more modern techniques such as Radial Basis Function (RBF) classifiers and large ensemble-RBF networks. Furthermore, the difference in classification performance with low-resolution thumbnails (21-by-12 pixels) and the corresponding higher resolution images (84-by-48 pixels) was found to be only 1 percent, thus demonstrating robustness and stability with respect to scale and degree of facial detail.

Support vector machines, gender classification, linear, quadratic, Fisher linear discriminant, RBF classifiers, face recognition
B. Moghaddam, M.H. Yang, "Learning Gender with Support Faces", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. , pp. 707-711, May 2002, doi:10.1109/34.1000244


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Sabres notebook: NHL confirms no-goal call was correct
LOS ANGELES — The Sabres not only got away with one, the NHL says it's justice that they did.
San Jose feels it beat Buffalo in overtime Tuesday night, but the standings and the league tell a different story. The Sharks did indeed push the puck over the goal line during their 5-4 shootout loss to Buffalo, but referee Mike Leggo didn't see it and officials in Toronto didn't have time to review the play.
With that, Buffalo enters tonight's game in Los Angeles with a victory over one of the NHL's elite teams in the previous game.
The play in question came with three minutes left in OT. San Jose's Tyler Kennedy pinged the post, and Tommy Wingels pushed the rebound under goaltender Ryan Miller and over the goal line.
Defenseman Tyler Myers quickly kicked it back out. Leggo blew the whistle and signaled no goal. Officials in Toronto didn't notice the puck went in until after play had resumed, which was too late to change anything, so there was no call to the refs.
The NHL told Elliotte Friedman of CBC that the goal didn't count because of Rule 78.5, which in part reads a goal is disallowed "when the referee deems the play has been stopped, even if he had not physically had the opportunity to stop play by blowing his whistle."
"Had we called a goal against Buffalo it would have been wrong because it shouldn't have been a goal," Mike Murphy, NHL senior vice president of hockey operations, told Friedman. "We should have done the headsets because any controversy would have died. This type of play is not a rarity.
"The optics would have been better if we got him to put on the headset and asked what he was seeing."
It appears the Sabres won't miss Teemu Selanne's farewell season after all.
The Anaheim Ducks' legend needed oral surgery after taking a high-stick to the mouth Oct. 29. The 43-year-old, who said over the summer that he was coming back for one final season, was scheduled to miss at least two weeks. Buffalo hosted the Ducks on Saturday and will visit Anaheim on Friday, with both games falling in the absence window.
Selanne accelerated his return date, though, and came back for Wednesday's home game against Phoenix.
The Sabres will get their first look at old friend Robyn Regehr since trading him to Los Angeles last season. Buffalo acquired two second-round draft picks for the veteran defenseman.
Regehr has found a home in L.A. and re-signed for two years at $3 million per season. The 33-year-old is fifth on the Kings in ice time at 19:33 per game. He has two assists in 15 outings.
The sun was shining in Southern California, and the Sabres got to enjoy it thanks to the collective bargaining agreement. Each team needs to schedule four days off, with up to two on the road, for every full calendar month.
"There's rules, and we haven't really had a day off," coach Ron Rolston said. "You can't count a travel day as a day off. We have to do what we have to do.
"You'd like to practice, but also with the schedule in an Olympic year, you've got to make sure your guys are physically ready to play. You're in the double-edged sword of you've got to prepare, but you've also got to make sure they have the energy to play another three in four nights."
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Booting with Windows 7 instead of 8 after installation.
I have just installed Windows 8.1 and would like to know how I can boot with Windows 7. I have Windows 7 when I installed Windows 8. Is there a way to go back to Windows 7 with no re install?
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Windows 7 Ult. x64
How did you install 8.1? To a different partition?
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Unless you booted the 8.1 installer and installed to another partition, or ran the Sources>Setup file from the 8.1 installer from Windows 7, then it overwrote Windows 7. You should have been warned about this before you pulled the trigger.
If you think you might have Windows 7 in a partition still on the HD, post back a screenshot of Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image .
Otherwise you'll need to Clean Install Windows 7 either as a Dual Boot with Windows 8.1 or deleting all partitions if you dont' want Windows 8 after backing up all of your files.
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Alright, thanks for the reply. Yes Windows 7 has been overwrote but thanks anyway. Will do a re install
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Always delete all partitions during install to get it cleanest, using the Drive Options pictured in Steps 7 and 8 of Clean Install Windows 7.
Other tips to get and maintain a perfect install are the same as for Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7
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So I'm told - as you are - that backpacks are in. Been around that block before, though, so here is my caveat. Whatever you do, do not attempt to put in a backpack:
-- Any sandwich containing salami or peanut butter. The former will reek, the latter will leak. These lessons have been gleaned from years of packing school lunches.
-- Any child more than 2 years old can walk. Buy him some of those sneakers that blink on and off and tell him that big boys walk. If he refuses, bribe him with a cookie.
-- Your wallet. Carry it in your cleavage, carry it in your sock. But put it in your pack only if it is in the mouth of a vicious cur that will bite the hand of a Muni pickpocket.
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-- Similarly, the weight of the glossy pages of a fashion magazine (like Vogue) will result in Quasimodo-like posture. Feel free, however, to carry a newspaper (the Style section, especially).
-- Hanging the thing off one shoulder, often done - like peekaboo bangs - to indicate insouciance, will pull down that shoulder, leading inevitably to the heartbreak of bra strap slippage.
-- Tissues. Oh, they're clean and snowy when you put them in. But when you reach for one in an emergency, you discover it's been a magnet for lint and unidentified specks of debris. It'd look tidier to blow your nose into your hand.
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Old-fashioned wagons on display this weekend in Farmington
If last year was about making the Prairie Home Carriage Festival work, then this year is about making it grow.
For the second year of the festival, which features old-fashioned, horse-drawn carriages, lots of horses and people in period-appropriate clothing, events are expanding from one day to two and there will be a whole lot more going on. This year's festival, scheduled to take place May 1 and 2 at Dakota City Heritage Village, will offer classes in driving carriages, parades and displays. There will be a tack swap and plenty of chances to see how people got around 100 or more years ago.
Mary Block, one of the event's organizers, said the event attracted a lot of interested spectators last year.
"It's quite a draw," Block said. "It's a perfect marriage with the little village that puts on the displays and their history thing, and here comes the carriages through as it would have been back then."
The people who are involved in the festival take their hobby seriously. Block and her husband, John, have been involved in carriage collecting since the early 1970s, when they bought a pony for their child. If you've got one animal, Mary Block said, you can have one rider. But if you hitch that animal to a wagon, you can take the whole family.
The couple's interest grew from there. Now they've wagons and sleighs that have appeared in films and in print ads. They also have a team of reindeer to pull sleighs at Christmas.
There will be carriages of all types at this weekend's events, from single-passenger carts to covered wagons. There will be wagons pulled by giant draft horses and wagons pulled by ponies.
"I even plan to bring a team of miniature donkeys," Block said.
Many of the carriages that are on display are original equipment. Others have been restored.
"I really like the preservation," Block said. "If I can find an original vehicle that hasn't been restored ... that's my favorite. But it's great to see the restored ones, too."
The costumes are also a lot of fun. Many of the people who will bring their carriages to the festival dress in clothing appropriate to the vehicle they're driving and some take on characters to go along with those costumes.
Carriage displays will begin at 10 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. There will be educational talks and parades. Classes for beginning and intermediate drivers will take place at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. There will also be an opportunity to take private classes with the trainer.
Anyone is welcome to bring a wagon, but only members of Minnesota Whips and Wheels will be allowed to participate in the parade.


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