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"Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wond'ring in the night
What were the chances we'd be sharing love
Before the night was through."
Slim and none for an insect pest on the prowl in the night air permeated with sex-attracting scents by sadistic homo sapiens.
Ever since the first insect pheromones were synthesized, entomologists have searched for techniques to use insect sex attractant to disrupt the mating of pests. And, they have been successful.
Pheromone-impregnated fibers and plastic strips and tags have been employed to prevent moth mating and therefore reduce worm damage.
The latest mating disruption technique is using a pheromone suspended in liquid paraffin or wax emulsion that is simply squirted on trees and vines to provide 90 days or more of mating disruption for pests like the Omnivorous leaf roller (OLR), the most common worm pest in California grapevines.
OLR pheromone mating disruption has never been easier, according to Walt Bentley, regional University of California integrated pest management specialist based at the Kearney Ag Center, Parlier, Calif.
It's called Confuse and is marketed by Gowan Co., Yuma, Ariz. It is a biodegradable, food grade product consisting of water, wax, oil (paraffin emulsion) and the specified insect pheromone. The paraffin emulsion developed and patented by the University of California, Davis, provides for a slow, sustained release of the pheromone.
The product comes in one-quart plastic squirt bottles, according to Merced County UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Maxwell Norton.
"All you have to do is squirt a little bit of the milky white material to the top of a cordon or head of older grapevines," said Norton. "For younger vines, we applied it directly to the trunk of the vine. It has to be sprayed on the wood — not the foliage.
Season-long control
"It holds up well on top of the cordon where it has shade to slow any breakdown," said Norton.
Norton and Bentley have been testing the new product in Merced County vineyards for the past two season on Chardonnay and Grenache vineyards, and they say it works great, providing season-long mating disruption with one application at the recommended rate.
Depending on the planting density, Gowan recommends treating every sixth to the 11th vine. This should put 10 grams active ingredient of pheromone per acre. In the Merced County trials the initial pheromone application went on immediately after pheromone traps began catching male OLR moths in the spring. That was mid- to late-April in 1999 and 2000.
Norton tried several different rates. With the label rate of 10 grams per acre a.i., a second pheromone application went on in mid-July 1999. In 2000 trials, one 10 gram-per-acre application held season long, based on trap counts.
Bentley said the beauty of the Confuse delivery system is its ease of application.
"Growers and pest control advisors want a single, season-long mating disruption system, but really none of the products we have now offer that," said Bentley. "This Confuse system is so easy growers and PCAs are much more willing to make that second and third application to not only keep populations down during the season, but to keep late populations down that could cause problems the next season."
Norton said it takes only about a half hour to treat one acre of vines. For trees where the Confuse technology has been tested, Bentley said two acres of trees can be treated in an hour.
Gowan is marketing the Confuse technology for OLR. It is also testing the technology with pheromones for codling moth, oriental fruit moth, peach twig borer, obliquebanded leafroller and tomato pinworm, according to James Brazzle of Gowan.
"It's a wonderful material and in its natural form, cryolite, it is approved for organic production. It has extremely low mammalian toxicity."
"We purchased the Confuse technology in March 1999. UC Davis developed it starting in 1994 and holds the patent on it. However, it was never commercialized before we bought it," said Brazzle. "We had good data on Confuse OLR and felt comfortable making it commercial. We are testing the other products now to make sure we understand fully how they will perform."
Norton said the product is completely nontoxic. "It is slightly viscous in consistency and milky white," he said.
Gowan recommends 2.5 to 2.8 grams of product per squirt on the average with 200 to 400 grams of material per acre.
Norton said Confuse OLR successfully controlled worm damage equal to spray programs and many growers in his area picked up on the idea this year, the first that the product has been registered.
"Where we have used Confuse OLR, we have not had to spray for OLR," Bentley said. However, he said that cannot be expected everywhere.
"OLR can be difficult to control using mating disruption alone because OLR has too many host plants," said Bentley. "Where you have a lot of alternate hosts or riparian areas nearby, a heavy migrating population can overwhelm a mating disruption program. This type of situation also can render a trap monitoring program ineffective."
Nevertheless, Bentley said mating disruption could still be effective used in conjunction with a "relatively soft" pesticide spray program using Bt compounds.
OLR is one of the more troubling vineyard worm pests. While it feeds on leaves, flowers and developing berries, the primary damage it does is that is allows rot organisms to enter fruit at the site where it feeds.
The success of failure of an OLR treatment program is directly related to the level of bunch rot at harvesttime.
There are effective pesticides to control OLR. One of the most widely used is Kroycide.
"It's a wonderful material and in its natural form, cryolite, it is approved for organic production. It has extremely low mammalian toxicity. There is very little disruption of beneficials, and it is highly effective on target pests," added Maxwell.
However, some wineries do not want it used after bloom because of concerns that fluoride may get into wine.
Norton said organophosphates are registered against OLR, but growers are often reluctant to use them because they may disrupt beneficials.
Growth regulator
A new insect growth regulator, Confirm, has been granted an emergency registration and growers are experimenting with it, added Norton.
"We do have alternatives to cryolite and now with the Confuse OLR technology, we have yet another very effective tool," said Norton.
"OLR is not a problem in every vineyard, but where it is we have effective tools to control it," he said.
It cost about $32 per acre to treat with Confuse OLR, according to Brazzle, which is comparable to spray programs. Bentley said it costs $16 per acre just to run a sprayer through a vineyard. That does not include material costs.
Brazzle said some growers are controlling early OLR flights with Bt and then finishing the season with Confuse OLR.
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Fiji Shark Conservation and Awareness Project
As the hands of the clock approach midnight for Sharks, organizations working for their protection have joined forces and declared 2009 The International Year of the Shark.
The motion aims to raise global awareness of their imminent extinction and the oceanic crisis at hand.
Recent findings of the Global Shark Assessment indicate that at current rates of decline, extinction of the most threatened species of Shark is forecast in 10 to 15 years. In large regions, species that were once numerous have virtually disappeared, in a massacre comparable to that of the buffalo on the North American plains 200 years ago, but on a much larger scale. For example, studies of oceanic Sharks estimate 80 to 90% of heavily fished species are gone. Yet these intelligent animals are still fished intensively, and finned, usually while still alive, for shark fin soup.
As part of the International Year of the Shark, Beqa Adventure Divers and Shark Reef Marine Reserve have partnered with local and international organizations to offer you the Fiji Shark Conservation and Awareness Project.

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The day the visions and delusions took over her mind completely was the day Karen Dare decided she needed to die.
She was convinced she was going to be the conduit for the apocalypse, that an evil force was about to unleash itself onto the world through her body.
"I need to kill myself," she thought. "I can't be responsible for the destruction of humanity."
She doesn't remember screaming, but she must have, because suddenly paramedics were in her room shouting questions. She couldn't make sense of what they were saying. She couldn't speak or move.
It was her second psychotic episode, and the first time the doctors spoke the word, schizophrenia. She was 23, but ever since Grade 9, Dare began feeling different and disconnected from the world around her, as if everyone were "fake" or actors, and that nothing was real.
They were symptoms of pre-psychosis, a condition at the crux of a proposed new mental illness that is stirring a storm of controversy within the field of psychiatry.
The first draft of the newest edition of the massive tome used the world over to diagnose mental disorders is recommending the addition of a new diagnosis called "psychosis risk syndrome." The idea is to identify "soft" symptoms of psychosis in people at risk for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders early, before they develop full-fledged delusions and hallucinations.
But critics fear that adding risk syndrome to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders would lead to a huge preponderance of false positives and open the door to medicating vast numbers of people who don't need it. The worry is that children and teens who aren't frankly or floridly psychotic would be treated as if they were, and put on antipsychotics that can cause rapid and substantial weight gain - an average of 12 pounds in 12 weeks -_and elevated blood fats, increasing their risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the long-term. Even in the most expert hands, most of those diagnosed with early symptoms of psychosis don't end up developing schizophrenia.
Proponents say the preferred treatment would be cognitive behavioural therapy and other non-drug treatments. But critics say that, practically speaking, with a label like "psychosis" risk syndrome there is every likelihood people would be prescribed antipsychotic medication.
According to the rationale for adding psychosis risk syndrome to the manual of mental illness, early signs and symptoms of schizophrenia are present years before a diagnosis is made.
With psychotic disorders, "you often get a story from parents who say, 'I had kind of a normal teenager and gradually the kid kind of withdrew . . . and they're talking in sentences that don't make sense all the time, and sometimes they'll just stop talking and look around as if they're listening to something that no one else can hear, and yesterday, my son asked me if I put poison in his food, and, doctor, this just isn't right. There's something going on here,'" says Dr. William Narrow, research director for the American Psychiatric Association task force that is in the midst of writing the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM.
"If it was only going on for the past month, this teenager wouldn't meet the criteria for schizophrenia, but clearly there's something going on, and this child would meet the criteria for the psychosis risk syndrome."
A world leader in the study of schizophrenia says making psychosis risk syndrome official enough for the DSM would mark a revolution in the treatment of the onset of psychosis in youth. "Up until now these young people are basically going crazy on their own," says Dr. Thomas McGlashan.
"And when it breaks, they don't know what's happening,"says McGlashan, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. "They go out of control, the family doesn't know what's happening, the kid ends up being taken by force into an emergency room because they've become disorganized or paranoid, and that's their introduction to the treatment system. And it sets up a negative relationship with the treatment system that can last the rest of their life."
But other experts in the field say that the criteria being proposed are far too watered down, would cast too large a net and would falsely diagnose at least three children and teens for every one correctly identified.
"You're setting the bar so low, and making it so simple (to diagnose) that, while it's easy for tens of thousands of clinicians out in the field to use, the threshold to meet criteria for the psychosis risk syndrome is so low that you could create a lot of false positives," says Dr. Paul Roy, director of the Champlain District First Episode Psychosis Program in Ottawa, known also as On Track. Roy doesn't prescribe antipsychotics unless, and until, he sees bona fide psychosis.
"The risk is that they're put on medication, or they're told that they may be at risk for progressing to an illness like schizophrenia when in fact they're not. It's stigmatizing. It's terrifying. It's at least extremely upsetting. And you don't really have any substantial evidence that the majority of these individuals are going to progress. You just have a suggestion." Studies suggest that 20 to 35 per cent of people with early symptoms of psychosis actually convert to frank psychosis within two years.
Teens would meet the criteria if they experienced "attenuated," or low-grade, delusions, hallucinations or disorganized speech that occurred at least once a week for a month. But there can be many reasons for teens to behave strangely, Roy says.
"They could be depressed, they could be smoking pot, they could be just having a phase-of-life problem. It's very hard for clinicians who don't see thousands of these things, like a family doctor or even a psychiatrist in the community, to look at this and say, 'This is a schizophrenia prodrome.'"
"I'm not averse in principle to working toward defining a prodrome . . . but this proposed syndrome may be setting the bar too low."
But families of mentally ill children so sick they think they have telepathic powers, who think that if they take a train to another city they can escape the voices in their heads, often struggle to get help. One mother described how she took her teenage son to the doctor every few months with a new ailment. When he complained he was tired, he was checked for mononucleosis. When he complained he was having vision problems he was referred to an eye doctor. When he said his food tasted strange, he was tested for food allergies. "No one ever asked him any question that would lead us to believe he had a psychiatric disorder." When he finally started having full-blown psychosis, he told his parents one day: "Take me to the emergency room. There's something really wrong with me."
Karen Dare, of Ottawa, who speaks to high school students about her experience with psychosis and schizophrenia, says she was discharged from hospital after her first psychotic episode with no instructions or support for her parents on how to deal "with a freshly discharged psychiatric patient."
Dare always felt a little off, but as the disease took hold she was convinced that people were talking about her in code, that she was being watched, and that her ideas weren't coming from her, but that she was somehow being guided by another being. "I could feel myself losing control," she says. "But I couldn't stop it."
It's been five years since her last psychotic episode. "This is not going to happen again," Karen told herself then. She credits the treatment at On Track and alternative therapies in helping her better deal with the triggers that may produce symptoms, "so that this illness no longer becomes me."


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I am running oracle on aix 4.3.3. I just completed an upgrade from 8.0.6 to 8.1.7 on a production database. I am a little confused, I keep getting the following message everytime I bounce the database. Does anyone know, will I always get this message? Is this ok or is this a problem?
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With Spurs in need of a new manager following the departure of Andre Villas Boas on Monday morning, former player and manager Glenn Hoddle has emerged as one of the candidates for the vacant position at White Hart Lane.
Having suffered their worst home defeat in over 16 years on Sunday evening, many feared that this would be the final twist of the knife for AVB.
Seeing his team dominated and lacklustre against the Reds, Suarez and Co knocked Spurs for five, and it took little time for the news of his departure to appear on Monday morning.
It seems that having spent big in the summer, Daniel Levy expects much more of the squad AVB built up over the summer and the previous season.
The question now is who will be lined up to take over from AVB, and get Spurs back on the right track in the Premier League.
One of the more surprising candidates that has emerged is Glenn Hoddle.
The fan favourite played over 350 games for Spurs during his playing days, and helped the team to the 1984 Uefa Cup, along with two F.A. Cup triumphs.
He returned to White Hart Lane in April 2001 as manager, and during his two year reign he led them to a League Cup final against London rivals Chelsea, along with two consistent Premier League finishes of 9th and 10th.
He left in 2003, and many may worry that he has not been in management for the last 7 years, having left Wolves in 2006. But, despite this, a good relationship with Daniel Levy could help Hoddle in returning to the club.
Other names will be bandied around without a doubt before an appointment is made, and Spurs may opt for a manager who has more recent experience and has not been out of the game, but another former Spurs and England favourite,
Gary Lineker tweeted: "Would love to see Glenn Hoddle given another chance at this level, has a brilliant football mind." And even though he may not have managed for several years, he has not been short of offers, including turning down the chance of a national job with the Ukraine.
Could another stint for a former Lane hero be the answer? And could he get some of the current crop preforming to the standards that they are capable of? Until the decision is made, former players, Tim Sherwood and Les Ferdinand are in temporary charge of the first team, along with Chris Ramsey.
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Apr 29, 2013
Chillingo Announces nine titles from its Android catalog that are compatible with the Samsung Galaxy S4. Players will be able to enjoy Catapult King, Tiny Troopers, Parking Mania, Puzzle Craft, Feed Me Oil, iBomber Defense Pacific, Contre Jour, DrawRace 2, and Robbery Bob.
"Chillingo is proud to have some of our most popular games available on the Samsung Galaxy S4 at launch," explains Ed Rumley, COO, Chillingo. "The device has stunning new features that pushes game development even further and we're working closely with our indie partners to bring more fantastic titles to the platform."


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I'm looking to do some home voice recording again, and I was wondering what might be a good microphone to purchase for my computer. I have an iBook G4, and it comes with a really superior mic, but you can always hear the computer's harddrive and fan. Any suggestions you might have would be most welcome!


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HERKIMER — Investigators scouring cellphone records of a man who fatally shot four people in two upstate New York villages found no calls from family or friends in the seven months before the killings, but show many calls from creditors.
Police are still trying to determine why 64-year-old Kurt Myers opened fire last month in a barber shop in Mohawk and a car care business in neighboring Herkimer. Two others were wounded in the March 13 shootings.
The Observer-Dispatch of Utica reports that most of the 150 to 200 phone calls Myers received on his TracFone since September were from creditors seeking to collect on more than $21,000 in credit card debt. One call came an hour before the rampage.
Myers died in a police shootout the next day.


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Public Housing Agencies Push to Impose Time Limits, Work Requirements for Aid Recipients
Deep in the president's new budget is a plan that could transform public housing in the nation by allowing housing authorities to increasingly set time limits or work requirements for participants.
Currently, government housing benefits are generally open ended. Unlike welfare—which has a five-year limit—federal housing programs allow low-income Americans to receive rent vouchers or live in government complexes for decades.


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Job Corps is the nation's largest FREE education and job training program for young adults.
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In addition to career training, Charleston Job Corps Center also provides academic training, including basic reading and math. Courses in independent living, employability skills, and career success skills are offered to help students transition into the workplace. We also have several academic programs to help our students achieve their full potential.
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In addition to career training, Charleston Job Corps Center also provides academic training, including basic reading and math. Courses in independent living, employability skills, and career success skills are offered to help students transition into the workplace. We also have several academic programs to help our students achieve their full potential.
Academic Programs
Job Corps provides a very structured environment that will prepare you for the workplace.
One of our top goals at Charleston Job Corps is to ensure that every qualified student obtains his or her high school equivalency prior to leaving the center. Students who don't already have a high school diploma upon their arrival at Charleston are automatically enrolled into our high school equivalency program. Students who complete this program's core classes may participate in an online high school equivalency program which is paid for by the center.
Students needing to learn English can enter our English Language Learning (ELL) program. Students in the ELL program are tested regularly to determine their language proficiency levels.
Tutoring programs are available where students are tutored in math, reading, social studies, and writing by instructors or by fellow students (Peer Student Tutors). Students interested in getting into a tutoring program may contact their instructors or the Academic Manager.
Driver's Education is available to all students needing their driver's license.
The College Program is an advanced training program. To qualify for this program, a student must have a high school diploma or GED (from our center or another educational facility) and have successfully completed a vocational trade at Job Corps.
Benefits of the College Program include:
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Letting children under 13 on Facebook could make them safer
Two years ago — long before there was much public discussion about Facebook admitting children under 13 — I had the opportunity to interview Mark Zuckerberg. But, before I did, I asked a group of educators, Internet safety advocates and youth risk experts to suggest questions. Two experts suggested I ask him about whether Facebook would consider creating a safe environment for kids under 13, not because they had any vested interest in helping Facebook open a new market, but because they knew that millions of young children were already on Facebook and they wanted to see if there could be a way for Facebook to create a service that could safely serve younger children.
In the interview, Zuckerberg said "It's something we've talked about a little bit, but the restriction and regulation around it make it very difficult so it's just never been one of the top-of-the-list of things we've wanted to do." (Click here for that segment or the entire interview from May 27, 2010).
More than a year later, in July 2011, Zuckerberg told an audience at the NewSchools Venture Fund's Summit that he would like to see kids under 13 on Facebook, because "my philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age." He said it would "be a fight we take on at some point," but neither he nor anyone else at Facebook ever revealed specific plans to change the rule that requires people be at least 13 to get a Facebook account.
But in Monday's edition, the Wall Street Journal reported that "Facebook is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 to use the social-networking site under parental supervision.
The Journal called Facebook's move "a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame privacy concerns" and shortly after the article went live on the web, Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer, who was quoted in the story, issued a statement that Facebook "appears to be doing whatever it takes to identify new revenue streams and short-term corporate profits to impress spooked shareholders." He added that "there is absolutely no proof of any meaningful social or educational value of Facebook for children under 13," and that "there are very legitimate concerns about privacy as well as the impact on the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children." He likened Facebook to "Big Tobacco in appealing to young people – try to hook kids early, build your brand, and you have a customer for life."
But the Journal also quoted Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler who said "We would like to see Facebook create a safe space for kids," with "the extra protections needed to ensure a safe, healthy, and age appropriate environment." General Gansler echoed my own sentiments from a year ago when I argued that Facebook "should offer special privacy settings, educational tools and parental controls to assure an appropriate environment for younger children."
What the law says
Legally, it has always been possible for Facebook to allow children under 13, but to do so it would have to comply with provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that requires commercial sites to "obtain verifiable parental consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from children." But complying with COPPA is difficult and expensive. Although some child centered sites, operated by Disney and other companies, do go through the hoops to be COPPA compliant, most social networking sites, including Facebook, simply ban anyone who's stated date of birth indicates they're under 13. But because it's based on what people enter, it's easy to lie and there is no generally accepted way to verify the information.
Parents help kids lie about their age
Not only do millions of kids lie to get on Facebook, but most are doing so with the knowledge and help of their parents. Last May, Consumer Reports found that "of the 20 million minors who actively use Facebook," 7.5 million were younger than 13 and more than 5 million were younger than 10. A 2010 study by McAfee that found 37 percent of 10 to 12 year olds are on Facebook and a study (PDF) released last April from the London School of Economics' EU Kids Online project that found that 38 percent of 9- to 12-year-old European children used social-networking sites, with one in five using Facebook, "rising to over 4 in 10 in some countries."
Last fall, a group of researchers from Harvard, University of California, Northwestern University and Microsoft Research published a paper, Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, that pointed out that, for kids who were under 13 at the time they signed up, 68 percent of the parents "indicated that they helped their child create the account." Among 10-year-olds on Facebook, 95 percent of parents were aware their kids were using the service while 78 percent helped create the account.
In an interview, the study's lead author, Dr. danah boyd, told me that parents "want their kids to have access to public life and, today, what public life means is participating even in commercial social media sites." These parents, boyd added, "are not saying get on the sites and then walk away. These are parents who have their computers in the living room, are having conversations with their kids, they often helping them create their accounts to talk to grandma."
FTC Chairman calls it a "complicated issue"
Even the head of the Federal Trade Commission acknowledges that parents should have a role in determining whether their kids should be on the service. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz spoke at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital Conference in Palos Verdes, California last week and, during the question and answer session, I asked him about the negative unintended consequences of COPPA, including the fact that parents are helping kids lie to get on Facebook. He acknowledged that "sometimes the parents are actually permitting their children to go on Facebook." But, calling it a "complicated issue," he added "at least they're having a conversation with their parents and at some level the parents have to be the gate keepers of their young children's Internet access." He said that he doesn't "think the obligations of COPPA are very difficult to follow" and pointed out that COPPA is currently under review by the FTC. In response to my follow up question, he said "yes it concerns me, absolutely" when I commented that millions of children are being encouraged or condoned to lie, often by their own parents.
Memo to Zuckerberg: Do it right
I think Facebook should allow children under 13 but, as I said last year, it has to be done carefully and thoughtfully with extra precautions. There needs to be parental involvement and control and Facebook needs to provide extra privacy protections for young children that would include more secure defaults than it has for teens and adults. There are already additional privacy protections for users under 18, but the company needs to be even more careful for younger children. Ideally, I would like to see children under 13 have an ad-free experience and Facebook certainly must avoid collecting and storing personal information about children other than what is needed to provide them the service.
Do it for the children
Whether we like it or not, millions of children are using Facebook, and since there doesn't seem to be a universally effective way to get them off the service, the best and safest strategy would be to provide younger children with a safe, secure and private experience that allows them to interact with verified friends and family members without having to lie about their age.


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Daily Rewind: Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks + More
Today, we found out that Tom Petty is giving away concert tickets, Stevie Nicks will appear on 'American Idol' tonight (March 28) and Kiss want to hire a military veteran on their upcoming tour with Motley Crue.
We also learned that the governor of New Jersey wants Bruce Springsteen to perform at a new Atlantic City casino, a Queen tribute act endorsed by the band will tour North America this summer and an important spot in British rock history was marked.
Today's Stories from Ultimate Classic Rock:
Tom Petty Hosts One Million Facebook Fans Giveaway
Stevie Nicks to Appear On 'American Idol,' Adds More Tour Dates
Kiss Looking to Hire a Military Veteran as Roadie for Summer Tour
New Jersey Governor Wants Bruce Springsteen To Perform At New Atlantic City Casino
Queen Announce "Queen Extravaganza" Summer 2012 North American Tour
Plaque Unveiled at Historic David Bowie Site
Foreigner, Paul Rodgers + 50 Sets of Music Featured on Rock Legends Cruise
Kiss's Famous Comic Book Blood Trick Copied by Flaming Lips
Sony Seeks To Dismiss Toto Lawsuit
Motley Crue's Mick Mars Talks: Kiss, New Music And His Love Of Touring
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Garbage Debut New Single, 'Battle in Me'
The Best Backwards Messages in Music History
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The code base for Ext.selection.RowModel has changed significantly between 18.104.22.1683 and 220.127.116.113 and is causing problems with multi-select drag/drop trees.
For example, if you have a single node selected in the tree and then click/drag a different node, the correct behavior is to automatically deselect the current node, select the new node and begin dragging the new node only.
The recent code base change now causes both nodes to become selected and they are both dragged even though I did not hold down the CTRL or SHIFT key to multi-select the additional node.
Our tree is configured similar to the following:
In my project I was able to restore the correct drag/drop multi-select behavior by creating an override for Ext.selection.RowModel which restores the 126.96.36.1993 implementation.Code:var tree = Ext.create('Ext.tree.TreePanel', { selModel: { mode: 'MULTI' }, viewConfig: { plugins: { ptype: 'treeviewdragdrop', enableDrop: true, enableDrag: true, ... } ... } });


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Junior Andrew Morris (Melbourne, Australia) scored a team high 18 points, including hitting 4-of-5 from long range in the Cobra men's basketball team's 75-63 loss to Barton College. The loss, Coker's second in a row, drops them to 6-5 overall and 0-2 in Conference Carolinas play, while Barton improves to 9-3 on the season and is 1-1 in the conference.
Barton took the lead early and held it throughout the first half, heading into the intermission with a 36-31 advantage. Coker did close out the half with a 5-0 run and then extended their run into the second half with another five unanswered points in the opening minute of the half, tying the game at 36.
After several minutes of back and forth play, the Cobras held their final lead of the game at 45-44 before the Bulldogs surged ahead with a 14-2 run, taking the lead for good.
Coker kept in striking distance by shooting 53-percent compared to 46-percent by the Bulldogs.
Along with Morris, a trio of Cobras scored in double figures with junior Austin Harper (Chesnee, S.C.) scoring 12 points, sophomore Julian Nelson (Irmo, S.C.) added 11 points and junior Sharod Williams (Miami, Fla.) had 10 points and eight rebounds.
Gerald Boston led Barton with a game high 22 points, while Jaren Haley had 15 points and Jon Hart added 11 points.
The Cobras will return to action on Saturday on the road against Erskine College. The Conference Carolinas game tips-off at 4:00 p.m.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Andrew Morris
Morris scored a team high 18 points, including hitting 4-of-5 three-pointers.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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A friend of mine and myself are starting a new beginners' Greek group that will follow J. Gresham Machen's, New Testament Greek for Beginners. I have the second edition of this work but my colleague, Kat Doe, has both the first and second editions. There is a photostatic copy of this book available online, which would prove useful, as this old edition I have cost me $50. Kat or myself might be able to scan our editions and send copies of each lesson to any who might be interested.
The format of the group would be as follows: we will each of us read a chapter a week (the lessons are short, but we might make it a chapter every 2 weeks if you would like). After each chapter there are usually 2 sets of exercises: one asking for the translation of words from the Greek to English; and the other one asking for compositions from English to Greek. Kat has an answer key for the first edition. We will settle on which edition to use once we have some response from all of the interested parties.
Once we have prepared our lessons we will meet for an online conference on Yahoo Messenger once a week or every two weeks. (This will require downloading Yahoo Messenger and the fonts that we will use, SPIonic and Palatino Linotype, all of which are free and available online.)
We will then go over each question, one by one: first pasting the question on the screen then, one person at a time, seeing everyone's answers. All questions will be addressed at this time. The session shouldn't take more than an hour or so.
Kat and myself have used this method for learning Greek while we studied a free, online Greek course offered by University of Houston professor emerita, Dora C. Pozzi. It works very well and helps us get help and encouragement while learning a new langauge.
Kat and myself also know of a number of freeware programs that we have downloaded over the years and which we will be glad to share with all who want them. Anyone who is interested can contact myself, Christopher Shelton, or Kat Doe at the following addresses:
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Skip to comments.Cheney: Romney the 'Only' Choice for Handling Foreign Policy Crisis
Posted on 07/13/2012 12:44:44 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
WILSON, Wyo. Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Republican fundraisers Thursday night that Mitt Romney is the "only" man who can make the right decisions in unexpected foreign policy crises. The presumptive 2012 Republican presidential nominee called Cheney a "great American leader" -- and didn't mention former President George W. Bush in a 20-minute speech to a country club reception.
Cheney said serving under four presidents taught him that a surprising international crisis is inevitable. "When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis, who has to make those key decisions, some of them life-and-death decisions, some of them decisions as commander-in-chief, who has the responsibility for sending some of our young men and women into harm's way, that man is Mitt Romney," Cheney said to applause.
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This is true if the only other alternative is Obama.
Newt would have been much better than Romney though.
Where is the barf alert. Seriously, I wonder if he even knows the names of all the leaders of the World. Romney should be replaced by a conservative. Why more FREEPERS and other conservatives aren't demanding someone else. Whatever happened to picking someone at the convention? Was that all just BS talk and now that Romney is the guy everyone wants (apparently) we will settle for him? This is the worst election ever. Yep worse than 2008.
Who do you want? Michelle Bachmann is not going to get the nomination.
Let's open up the floor and get Jeb Bush, mkay?
Let's make it our goal to get rid of 0bama, 0bama is the issue.
My drean ticket is Santorum/Bachmann....too bad I am the only a small amount of conservatives in the United States and on Free Republic. Most of Free Republic is made up with "go with the flow" types who vote for whoever they put up for President. Not a great way to live if you ask me. I would HATE to be a follower like most on here.
Of course that cannot be known since Romney has never been 'tested' as CIC. But since Cheney says so I guess we're supposed to trust his crystal ball and accept it as fact.
BTW, Mr. Cheney, how about the impending DOMESTIC crisis? Any thoughts on how - or even if - Mitt will rise to the occasion on that front? Or is he 'da man' all the way around?
Cheney should offer the pick Romney's staff and pick himself again for VP to make sure Romney bombs Iran and Halliburton gets the contracts to rebuild.
Cheney is so good, and he is right about Romney.
"My drean ticket is Santorum/Bachmann"
All well and good. Both would have made fine candidates. Problem is it ain't going to happen. Time to move on.
We are running out of leaders!
Dick Cheney
George W
Rick Perry
Rick Santorum
Michelle Bachmann
Herman Cain
National Right to Life
Susan B Anthony
The vast majority of FReepers did not vote for Romney. It's very pompous of you to sound the way you do.
In 1992 my husband and his entire family voted for Ross Perot. I still remind him occasionally that he helped put Bill Clinton in the White House. He has since learned his lesson. Today we both vote our preferred candidate in the primary, but we vote party in the general — whoever that may be. An imperfect Republican is still miles better than a Democrat.
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54 Youth and Adult Teams Receive Subsidies; Total Includes Tournament Entry Fees
June 11, 2013 (Fullerton, CA) - The Cal South Board of Directors has announced that the organization will provide $218,700 in subsidies and entry fee payments to its Affiliate Member teams, youth and adult, advancing to regional competition series this summer.
Cal South will donate subsidies to 54 teams attending several regional competitions taking place in June, including the US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup in Boise, Idaho (June 12-16), the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii (June 17-23), the United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) Region IV National Cup (held in Seattle last weekend, June 7-9) and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (ongoing in numerous locations).
The breakdown of the subsidies per team is as follows:
In addition to the team subsidies, Cal South will pay the total of $32,200 in entry fees for its teams attending these regional events. This amount brings the total amount of donations from Cal South up to $218,700.
"We are proud of the hard work and effort these talented teams have shown in reaching the regional championships," said Cal South President, John Mullen. "On behalf of our Board of Directors and our entire Cal South family, we wish them continued success in their pursuit of a national championship title."
The annual Cal South team subsidies are discretionary in nature and based upon the success and affiliate member support of Cal South's State Cup and National Cup events. Teams that successfully advance from these regional events will earn their spots at either the 2013 US Youth Soccer National Championships in Overland Park, Kansas, the 2013 US Youth Soccer National Presidents Cup in Auburndale, Florida, and the 2013 USASA National Cups Finals in San Antonio, Texas. All
three championship events will be held in July.
For more about the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships or the US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup, please visit http://regioniv.usyouthsoccer.org/.
For more about the United States Adult Soccer Association's National Cups competitions, please visit www.usasa.com.
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Over the past few years Webroot's Spy Sweeper product has established itself as one of the leaders in the battle to keep PCs free and clear of spyware threats.
The product has performed amazingly well when we've looked at it in the past. So we had high hopes when we decided to pit it against our infected PC.
The most obvious new feature in Spy Sweeper 5.3 is its support for Windows Vista, but subtle improvements have also been made to the user interface, ensuring that the program is a good fit for advanced and less-experienced users alike.
Ease of use has always been a Webroot trademark, so it's no surprise that the clean and effective interface leaves nothing to user guesswork - seek and ye shall find, so to speak.
The installation on our infected test system was problem-free, and Spy Sweeper 5.3 took the time to update its definitions during the process. After launching into the full scan, our test system slowed considerably.
Spy Sweeper may be a slick-looking product, but a fast and efficient scanner it's not. We literally had no choice but to walk away, as the scan took considerably longer than any competing product.
This is more than likely on account of how resource-hungry Spy Sweeper becomes while scanning; it wasn't unusual for memory consumption to peak at more than 100MB during the process. That said, we're always willing to wait a little while extra if a product gets the job done.
Detection woes
Unfortunately, the results of our scan with Spy Sweeper were disappointing. While it detected and removed two-thirds of the threats present on our test system, it missed some critical items.
First, it only detected and removed one of the two keyloggers we had installed. It also missed the browser hijack, failing to remove it completely. The same can be said of the DNS Trojan, which was still doing its dirty work even after a restart and second scan. To be honest, we were disappointed by the detection and removal results, having come to expect better.
To its credit, Spy Sweeper's real-time protection facilities - provided by way of its 16 built-in shields - proved as powerful, informative and protective as always. Warning messages are always clear and to the point, leaving virtually no chance that you'll be unsure what to do should a threat present itself.
Webroot does offer its users an above-average helping hand by way of its included phone support, with a UK number clearly provided on the website. When we called there were only six people before us in the queue.
While the real-time protection offered by Spy Sweeper 5.3 is top-notch, the program's detection capabilities were a disappointment. A new release is due out soon, lending hope to the idea that these latest results were no more than an anomaly.


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Quote of the Day.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Oil prices are drifting lower ahead of this morning's EIA oil inventory report and after the API reported a much larger than expected build in crude oil but partially offset by a larger than expected draw in gasoline stocks. At the moment the market is mostly focused on the potential of the surplus of crude oil in the U.S. starting to once again increase. In addition the market is still digesting the impact the shutdown the Pegasus pipeline may have on the supply and demand balances in the Midwest and U.S. Gulf Coast as well as in Canada.
The externals have been mixed with U.S. equities hitting yet another new all-time high and thus very supportive for oil and the broader commodity complex while equity markets in other locations did not fare as well sending a mixed signal for the macro traders. The currency markets were also sending mixed signals with the euro settling into a trading range while the U.S. Dollar Index seems to be struggling to remain at the current high levels. The U.S. Dollar Index has been in a strong uptrend since bottoming in early February. A rising U.S. dollar is generally a negative for oil and the broader commodity complex.
In Asia the latest data released showed that China's services industries grew strongly in February suggesting that the main economic growth engine of the world may be starting to pick up steam. That said the services sector is a very important part of the Chinese economy but China's economy remains mostly driven by the manufacturing sector which supports its extensive global export business. In addition, it is the manufacturing sector that is primarily responsible for the growth rates in oil consumption.
Once again China is calling out Japan on the declining yen and the possibility that it could result in other Asian countries weakening their currencies to stay competitive in the export market. These comments are coming at a time when Japan is looking to increase the magnitude of their quantitative easing program, which will likely result in the yen declining even further from current levels.
The yen has already declined about 8% for the year-to-date putting Japan's export oriented economy in a much more competitive position then it was in just last year. All of the G-20 leaders officially acknowledge that there is not a currency war nor an exposure to one. That said the comments coming from the other major export oriented economies in Asia are certainly sounding the alarm.
Global equities have continued to send a mixed picture as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below. The Index has continued to lose ground on the week declining by about 0.5% over the last twenty four hours even as the US Dow hit another new all-time record high. The rally in equity markets is not a global rally rather a selective rally in some markets. The U.S. has been strong based on the view that the U.S. economy is still continuing to grow. Japan's bourses have remained strong all year on the weakening yen, which is a strong positive for this export oriented economy. On the other hand, Brazil has continued to weaken as the government fights inflation and growth issues. On a macro basis the global equity market is a negative price driver for oil, however, on a selected equity market basis there are signs of support coming from places like the U.S.
On the fundamental side of the equation, the shut-down of the Pegasus pipeline in the U.S. Midwest is still the main story line. The pipeline was shut last Friday afternoon and has remained down since then. Reports indicate that about 4,000 barrels of heavy Canadian oil has leaked. If those reports of the size of the leak are accurate it suggests to me that leak should be able to be fixed relatively quickly. However, even if the break is repaired quickly it does not mean the line will be started very quickly as the authorities are likely to place new restriction on Exxon before giving permission to restart operations. For example the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an order yesterday citing hazards to life, property and the environment if the pipeline were to continue operating without corrective measures. Exxon indicated they are studying the order but did not offer any further comments on what actions will need to be taken.
The short term direction of the Brent/WTI spread as well as many other crude oil relative relationships from Canadian crudes all the way down to the crude consumed on the U.S. Gulf Coast will be dependent on how long this line remains down. Many of the spreads initially widened strongly on Monday and into Tuesday (Brent/WTI spread for example) only to retrace modestly by the end of yesterday's trading session. At the moment there is no word from Exxon on when they are anticipating a restart. Certainly the longer the line remains down, the greater the potential for oil backing up in the Midwest as well as in Canada.
Tuesday's API report was bearish for crude oil but supportive for refined products. There was a surprisingly larger than expected build in crude oil stocks (for the second week in a row) but offset by a larger than expected draw in gasoline and distillate fuel inventories. Total crude oil stocks increased by 4.7 million barrels versus an expectation for a smaller build. Gasoline showed a draw in inventory as did distillate fuel stocks. The API reported a 4.7 million barrel draw in crude oil stocks versus an industry expectation for a modest build of around 2 million barrels as crude oil imports increased modestly while refinery run rates also increased by 0.9%. The API reported a modest draw in distillate fuel inventories and in large decline in gasoline stocks.
The API report was mixed. The entire oil complex is in negative territory so far this morning heading into the EIA oil inventory report to be released at 10:30 AM EST today. The market is usually cautious on trading on the API report and prefers to wait for the more widely watched EIA report due out this morning. The API reported PADD 2 stocks built by around 815,000 barrels while Cushing stock decreased by 0.3 million barrels. On the week gasoline stocks decreased by about 5 million barrels while distillate fuel stocks decreased by about 1.9 million barrels.
My projections for this week's inventory report are summarized in the following table. I am expecting a modest build in crude oil inventories, a modest decline in distillate fuel... as the weather was winter-like over the east coast... and a small draw in gasoline stocks during the report period as refinery runs remain at below normal levels during the maintenance season.
I am expecting crude oil stocks to increase by about 2 million barrels. If the actual numbers are in sync with my projections the year over year comparison for crude oil will now show a surplus of 22.7 million barrels while the overhang versus the five year average for the same week will come in around 36.7 million barrels.
I am expecting a modest build in crude oil stocks in Cushing, Ok and in PADD 2 as the Seaway pipeline has been has been running at constrained levels for most of the report period. The impact of the Pegasus pipeline shut down will not impact this week's report as the line was shut on Friday afternoon or after the EIA inventory snapshot. It will impact next week's report and likely result in another build in crude oil in the region. This will be bullish for the Brent/WTI spread and will serve as a catalyst to keep the short covering rally going.
With refinery runs expected to increase by 0.2% I am expecting a draw in gasoline stocks. Gasoline stocks are expected to decrease by 0.5 million barrels which would result in the gasoline year over year returning to a surplus of around 3.1 million barrels while the surplus versus the five year average for the same week will widen to around 1.6 million barrels.
Distillate fuel is projected to decrease by 1 million barrels. If the actual EIA data is in sync with my distillate fuel projection inventories versus last year will likely now be about 17.6 million barrels below last year while the deficit versus the five year average will come in around 21.3 million barrels.
The following table compares my projections for this week's report (for the categories I am making projections with the change in inventories for the same period last year. As you can see from the table last year's inventories are in directional sync but with some large differences compared to last year's changes. As such if the actual data is in line with the projections there will be large changes in the year over year inventory comparisons for most everything in the complex.
I am maintaining my view of the entire complex at neutral but with a cautiously bullish bias as the oil complex appears to have formed a short term technical bottom. HO and RBOB have been trending higher but within the confines of a trading range. They are both currently trading near the upper end of their respective trading ranges. WTI has now breached its range resistance level with Brent hovering very near its range breakout level. The complex is showing signs that the next move could be a move to the upside.
I am maintaining my view at neutral for Nat Gas as the forecasted weather pattern still appears to be a negative for heating related Nat Gas demand. I do not expect prices to collapse but I view the moderating temperatures to result in the Nat Gas price rally likely topping out at this time as the lower demand shoulder season finally arrives.
Markets are mostly lower ahead of the U.S. trading session as shown in the following table.
Best Regards,
Dominick A. Chirichella


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Obama is the first major presidential candidate in memory to assert that taxation's principal purpose should be redistribution.
The proposition that government should take one group's lawfully earned profits and hand them to another group -- not a collection of destitute or impaired Americans, mind you, but a still-vibrant middle class -- is the foundational premise of Obama's fiscal policy.
It was Joe Biden who said (not long ago, when he still was permitted to speak in public), "We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people." The only entity that "takes" money from the middle class -- or any class for that matter -- is the Internal Revenue Service. Other than that, there is nothing to give back.
And who knew we needed such a drastic renovation of an economic philosophy we've adhered to these past 25 years (yes, counting Bill Clinton's comparatively fiscally conservative record)? Despite a recent downturn and with all the serious tribulations we face, Americans have just lived through perhaps the most prosperous and peaceful era human beings ever have enjoyed.
From 1982 until now, every arrow on nearly every economic growth chart -- every health care chart, every chart that matters -- points in one general direction, and that's up.
Obama, who, it seems, is running not only for president but also for national baby sitter/accountant/daddy/icon, ignores this success and claims he can "invest" (will that euphemism ever go away?) and disperse your money more efficiently, smartly and fairly than you can. How could any American accept the absurdity of that position?
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Officials accused of cover-up on detainee abuses
In recent months newspapers have exposed the deplorable conditions in immigration detention centers, reporting that detainees were being denied legal rights and medical assistance. The death of immigrants because of neglect had moved the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to investigate and promise changes in policies.
But recently the New York Times reported that the abuses were longstanding and even led to officials covering up. The paper denounced it in an editorial: "Americans have long known that the government has been running secretive immigration prisons into which detainees have frequently disappeared, their grave illnesses and injuries untreated, their fates undisclosed until well after early and unnecessary deaths. " (See NY Times.)
The original article by Nina Bernstein reviewed a number of cases -- one of a young Salvadoran man with a broken leg who was denied his prescribed medication. This contributed to his taking his own life and a subsequent cover-up by officials. There also were investigations that uncovered the neglect and abuse and a paper/electronic trail documenting the cover-up. Still ICE neglected to inform family or rebuffed inquiries. Documents were only released to the public after the NY Times and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition under the Freedom of Information Act. Some of the officials involved in the cover-up are still with the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigrant Youth Push Back
The activism of immigrant youth for comprehensive immigration reform is nothing new -- nor is the fact that many of them marching in the big rallies of two years ago were undocumented. Lately, the undocumented youth are beginning to come out of the shadows and publicly press for reform. Three youth from Miami are walking to Washington to call attention to the fact that reform is long overdue. In Chicago, the Rigo Padilla case – previously mentioned in this blog – occasioned the organization of the Immigrant Youth Justice League . Coming out into the open entails some peril for the students, but not much. ICE admits that they are a low priority. Still they were nervous, and it was a courageous act.


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May 12th, 2017
This post has a lot of big announcements in it!
In the last post about all my new stickers and pins, I teased that there would be more new products coming to the store soon. THAT DAY HAS COME.
In the studio, we've been making coasters out of cork! (Click the image for a closer look.)
These are some of 15 different coaster designs to choose from.
If you've visited any of my convention tables recently, you've probably seen these!
The surface is laser-darkened cork, bonded with a central layer of acrylic for stiffness, then backed with a sheet of soft felt made out of recycled soda bottles.
I now have a selection of them in my store, along with some wooden magnets made using the very same laser.
[ Coasters at Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods ]
Patreon is a subscription site that lets you get bonus content from folks like me for just a couple bucks a month. Here's some of the stuff I've been posting to my own Patreon page lately:
I've started a new podcast, and you're invited!
It's called "Malki on the Mark", and it's all about the making of the next Wondermark strip collection.
Not only am I making a new Wondermark book—I'm recording a podcast along the way, all about the making of the book: https://t.co/nzhI1GyzG0 pic.twitter.com/TWXdrHtJCM
— David Malki ! (@malki) June 11, 2018
In this post I explain a bit more about what it's all about:
The podcast will be a sort of journal related specifically to the design, production, Kickstarting, printing, and fulfillment of this particular project.
You'll get to follow along through the entire process as I explain all the things that are happening behind the scenes with the production of the book, and the decisions being made along the way, that I normally wouldn't bother to share (but that end up making up most of the actual process).
If you're interested in book design, or crowdfunding, or project management generally, or just want to listen as I (SURELY) encounter unexpected problems and have to figure out how to deal with them, this will be the show for you…
My hope is that you'll find it interesting to follow along as I embark upon a project that will be sure to have lots of twists and turns!
Every time I do a big project like this I think, "If only I had been keeping a journal, or doing recordings along the way, to keep track of all the minutiae that readers and customers will never see, but that are a necessary and inevitable part of any project, and that I personally find fascinating."
Well, this time I'm doing it.
As I explain at greater length in the post I've quoted above, the podcast will be a reward for folks who support Wondermark by becoming monthly patrons.
I've posted six episodes so far.
Sometimes it's just me talking in EXCRUCIATING DETAIL about book design, and other times it's me talking with a comics-making pal!
To give you a sense of it, I've made Episode 4 (featuring a discussion on Kickstarter reward strategy with Sam & Fuzzy's Sam Logan) free for everyone. It's 43 minutes long.
[ Malki on the Mark Episode 4, feat. Sam Logan ]
Patrons also have access to other behind-the-scenes series:
• 2 Minutes to Wondermark — timelapsed screen recordings (with after-the-fact commentary added) of me making each Wondermark strip.
Back in January, I started screen-recording the making of (almost) every comic, and with these commentary videos, I'm showing you the process.
Here's one that I posted recently:
• Archive Dive — in which I look back at various individual comics from the past 15+ years and explore common themes at absurd length, such as "Five Wondermarks Based on True Events" and "Five Wondermarks that Foresaw the Future".
• From the Roll-a-Sketch Vault — basically the same thing, but talking about what went into some of my favorite Roll-a-Sketch drawings, rather than comics!
These series are irregular and will be added to as time allows.
Of course you can also still get in on the final few months of Patreon-exclusive Wondermark Cast Cards — 2018 will be the last year the Cast Cards are offered.
Here are a few that went out to our monthly Cast Card subscribers earlier this summer!
[ Subscribe to Wondermark on Patreon ]
In a couple days, I will be having surgery to remove a marble-sized mass from my right wrist/forearm.
It is (supposedly) minimally invasive surgery, but in advance I don't have a good indication of how much it will affect my ability to work. It's possible that my dominant hand will be immobilized for a period of some weeks.
I'm sure I will still be able to fill orders from the store, and I expect to figure out a way to make and post comics on something like a regular schedule, but just in case, I ask for your understanding in case the typical posting schedule ends up suffering somewhat.
I am a bit nervous about the upcoming recovery period (and the upcoming absurd medical bill, because we live in America), but the truth is I won't know anything definitive until it goes however it's going to go!
But don't worry — I'm confident we will be able to follow the Sick Elephant Saga of 2018 to its upcoming dramatic conclusion. (Or will it ever end????)
Anyway, friends, let's be real, this is a definitely a good time to pick up something from the store, or the other store, or to become a patron. Thanks for reading down this far!!
I've been teasing these for a while, but the day has come — the new crop of Hyperbolic Upgrade Stickers is now available!
[ Stickers on Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods. ]
Previously, stickers of this type were only available in preselected packs.
UNTIL TODAY. Now you can order any of my stickers (there are actually 38 different designs in total) à la carte.
I'll put just one sticker in an envelope and mail it to you! I don't even care. I'LL DO IT ALL DAY.
Oh — and I now have enamel pins too!!
[ Pins on Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods. ]
I am only an amateur pin collector myself. But I've been watching other artists make pins for a few years now, and it seemed like SO MUCH FUN from a design perspective.
And it is! I have a ton more ideas that I think could make for good pins. This first batch is (largely) adaptations of slogans that are also on stickers.
But there are some other design ideas I have that I think would work BETTER as pins than stickers, and I would very much like to make some of those. Maybe an animal set with a sea lion, a piranhamoose, an elephant on a penny-farthing…
That can come in time, though! First I have to see if people like these pins. Pins are REALLY fun to make, but they're a bit expensive to make a ton of just on a whim.
I hope to add to the Wondermark pin collection over time, if folks are into pins!
A lot of times, when I have new store stuff to post, I find myself holding off, because I think "But I've got OTHER stuff to post before much longer, so I should wait a bit, and post it all together."
This is a BAD STRATEGY because then months go by and things come up and I never make the post. I am trying to break the habit of being shy about stuff I'm making that you might enjoy.
So, yeah, fair warning, I'll have other, different stuff to post about before long! Other stuff from this same store, even. But who can say when that will be?
In the meantime, the pins and stickers are available right this second! (You can also get books and puzzles and drink coasters and whatever else, too… Everything that used to be in the store is still there.)
Inspector Gadget costume available from HalloweenCostumes.co.uk.
Last week at Gen Con I had the pleasure of learning a bunch of dumb stuff I didn't know about Inspector Gadget! And now I will share it all with you.
Like everyone in the world, I watched the television program as a kid, and chuckled along to the antics of the terrible lawman and his orphan ward and cryptid dog. I knew about the two live-action movies as well, though I've never actually watched them all the way through. And I vaguely knew that there were some various other Gadget adaptations out there.
NOW, however, I know all that AND these six other things, which I will share with you now:
THING ONE: Inspector Gadget had a moustache in the original pilot, but DiC (the production company) was sued by MGM because he too closely resembled their own Inspector Clouseau.
Rather than re-animating the pilot, a line of dialogue was added to later showings, in which Penny comments on the moustache and Gadget says: "It's so that nobody will recognize me. I'm on vacation, absolutely, totally and completely off duty."
Here's the original version of the opening theme with the moustache present: [On YouTube]
THING TWO: In the 1999 live-action movie, there is a scene in which Inspector Gadget covers a lady with 100 gallons of toothpaste. It's just as terrible as it sounds:
I agree with one of the YouTube commenters: "Why would they even put that much toothpaste in him anyway? How often is he gonna come across a situation that requires a crap load of toothpaste like that?"
THING THREE: There have been THREE spinoff television shows since the original:
• Gadget & the Gadgetinis (2002–2003), in which the Inspector has been promoted to Lieutenant and Penny has built him two miniature robot sidekicks. [On YouTube]
• Gadget Boy & Heather (1995–1998), in which the brain of an adult policeman has been placed into the body of a child for some reason, and the child given all the typical crimefighting gadgets. The villain is an 8-armed spider-lady named Spydra. [On YouTube]
• A current CGI version of Inspector Gadget (2015–present), a "sequel" to the original, presently available on Netflix in the US. In this version, Dr. Claw has a teenaged nephew, whom Penny has a crush on. [On YouTube]
There have also been two animated movies: 2002's Inspector Gadget's Last Case [wiki/YouTube], which features Jaleel White (Urkel) as Gadget's car, and 2005's Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever [wiki/YouTube], which features Bernie Mac as Gadget's car.
THING FOUR: Inspector Gadget once met the Mario Brothers:
For this live-action segment, Gadget was played by Maurice LaMarche, who would go on to voice Gadget in several of his other animated incarnations once Don Adams had retired from the character (and from this world).
If anyone can make it through the entire thing, let me know what happens.
THING FIVE: There are, surprisingly, not that many interesting covers of the Inspector Gadget theme song on YouTube, but this one done in Mario Paint is rather charming:
I particularly like its judicious use of the Yoshi sound effect.
THING SIX: Speaking of the Inspector Gadget theme song, it turns out that the one we in the English-speaking world all know so well is merely a VASTLY INFERIOR ITERATION when you learn that in other languages, IT HAS MORE LYRICS.
It doesn't have the "Go, Gadget, go" breakdown in the middle, but oh là là, DOES IT EVER HAVE LYRICS.
Our friendly local Francophone at Gen Con broke them down for us. There is a lot of repetition, but in summary and with some idiomatic translation, it goes something like this:
Eh la qui va là // Hey there who is that
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
Eh la ça va pas // It's not going well
Ouh Ouh! // Ooh ooh!
Oh la je suis là // Hey there I am here
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
C'est moi que voilà // It's me, I am here
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
Ca va être la joie // It's going to be fun
Ouh Ouh! // Ooh ooh!
Au nom de la loi // In the name of the law
Moi je vous arrête // I will arrest you
Je vous arrête là! // I'm gonna stop you there!
Go Go, Gadget à main // Go Go Gadget hand
Flash, Gadget au chapeau // Flash! Gadget in hat
Hé ho, Gadget au poing // Hey ho, Gadget fist
Oh la, Elastico-Gadget // Oh that's Elastico-Gadget
Les bandits sont là // There the villains are
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
Ils n'échapperont pas // They will not escape
Ouh Ouh! // Ooh ooh!
Si l'inspecteur fait gaffe // If the Inspector watches out
Fait gaffe aux gadgets // Watches out for his gadgets
Qui marchent ou marchent pas // Which may or may not work
Go Go, Gadget à main // Go Go Gadget hand
Là-haut, Gadget au chapeau // Up there, Gadget in hat
Go Go, Gadget au poing // Go Go Gadget fist
Qui c'est? // Who is that?
C'est Elastico-Gadget // That's Elastico-Gadget
Et puis patatrac // And then, bang!
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
Voilà le chef qu'est là // Look, here is the Chief
Ouh Ouh! // Ooh ooh!
Salut chef c'est moi // Hello, Chief, it's me
Inspecteur Gadget // Inspector Gadget
Ça n'en finit pas // It just never ends!
I'm super charmed by the mention of both Gadget "hand" and "fist" (they're different?), and then the mysterious "Elastico-Gadget." It sounds like it could be his springy legs, but the video shows his helicopter hat at that point! WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON.
If anyone can advise if either the Spanish version or German version communicates any new insight, please leave a comment on this post…
Until then, I'll be humming "C'est moi que voilà, Inspecteur Gadget" for the foreseeable future.
Edited to add: Lots of good comments on the Twitter thread for this post, too!


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Is that Lt Childsen or maybe Pol Treidum?
And the Stormtrooper is TK-421
There's a way to tell if the trooper is TK-421... Does he have a holster, and does he have the bomb or the grappling hook?
It's the guy Luke or Han or Chewbacca murdered!
Finally something to get me Interested again.
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Pioneer DJM400 DJ Mixer Blue (Limited Edition)
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This limited edition black on black mixer (DJM-400-K) gives you all the functionality of the DJM-400 with an edge. The collector edition version of this popular mixer will stand out with its unique cobalt blue illumination.
In-Loop Sampler
An intelligent 24bit/96kHz sampler automatically detects the tempo of a song during playback, sampling it for a length of 4 beats then loops the sample. Since the sampled sound is in sync with the beat of the tune being played, no matter the tempo, it enables live remixing like never before.
Samples are automatically stretched and compressed to match the beat. The DJM-400-K will store five samples onboard for a total of 12 seconds of sample time.
Each channel has 3-band isolator EQ with full cut capability. The EQ ranges from +9dB to -∞ (infinity) for total control of the sound.
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Onboard effects automatically detect the beats per minute of the music and sync to the beats. The DJM-400-K includes seven onboard effects: Delay, Echo, Filter, Flanger, Phaser, Robot and Roll. All effects are processed at 24bits for the highest quality sound. A new Beat Select button allows more intuitive and aggressive DJ playing and remixing.
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The bad news? Jackson County fell handily Friday at North Oconee. The good news? The Panthers have a week off to rehabilitate.
Jackson County quarterback Kyle Daniel throws down field Friday in the Panthers' loss to North Oconee. Jackson County has this week off before facing Jefferson Oct. 21. Photo by Ben Munro
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's main opposition party on Saturday issued a statement saying they had "noted with utter dismay" the election results recently announced by the country's election commission, giving victory to incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma.
The Sierra Leone People's Party, or SLPP, added that they planned to meet to discuss a possible appeal, a move which could destabilize this nation recovering from one of Africa's most brutal civil wars. The Nov. 17 poll is only the third since the end of Sierra Leone's 11-year conflict, and the opposition's acceptance of the results is considered key to maintaining national cohesion.
Koroma was sworn in for a second term late Friday, after provisional results published by the National Electoral Commission showed he had won with 58.7 percent of the vote. The SLPP candidate, retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio, came in second with 37.4 percent.
In the statement released Saturday, the SLPP said the party had documented "systematic and widespread irregularities, malpractices and injustices that occurred on polling day," and which undermine the credibility of the results. The statement added that if appropriate remedial action was not taken by the electoral body, the party would be inclined to not accept the results of the poll.
The SLPP has convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday to determine what further action they will take. In the meantime, the SLPP said it is calling upon its supporters to remain calm and refrain from violence.
Sierra Leone's civil war, which ended in 2002, was dramatized in the Hollywood blockbuster "Blood Diamond," starring Leonardo di Caprio. Rebels financed themselves by plundering Sierra Leone's diamond wealth. They left behind a nation that includes several amputee soccer teams, the result of a policy of amputating the hands of victims, including toddlers and babies.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement that "any grievances related to the election must be resolved through Sierra Leone's judiciary, in accordance with the rule of law. We urge all party leaders to refrain from actions that incite violence or encourage acts of retribution."


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I am looking with some help to modify or create a program like eCoach that is able to track your path/position on a map. I want to use it for off road mountain biking, I am very curious to see what my path looks like on a map and to see how far/fast and how long it took.
I think eCoach already has all that built in, but with one major problem. It seems the program only works if you have an always on data connection. I do not have 3g service avalible for my N900 and wont pay $15 a month for 2g service that I will never use (99% of the time for me I am in a wifi zone).
So I think all that really needs to be done is one of two things.
Option 1 - have an application that can download your map data ahead of time and pull it off the phone memory rather than download it.
Option 2 - let the program run all the gps data for tracking/time/distance/speed and not have it overlay on a map. This gets recorded to the phone and later when you are in a internet enabled spot you can open that data and apply it to a map.
Even better if you can export the final product, with the image and data to some kind of file and save it on a computer.


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Add Dust Collection and a Handy Shelf to Your Contractor Saw
Here is a simple solution to two issues: the need for a convenient place to put the rip fence and miter gauge when not being used (as well as push sticks, featherboards, etc.), and a way to close off the underside of a contractor-style table saw to provide a surface to mount a dust port. I used a piece of 3⁄4″ medium-density fiberboard (MDF) cut to 32″ x 24″. Unbolt the saw from the stand and raise it about 1″ using sawhorses and shims. Slide the MDF between the saw and the stand, and mark the location of the mounting holes through the stand. Remove the MDF and drill slightly oversized mounting holes at the marked locations. Cut a hole for the dust collection port at this time. Now slide the MDF in place and bolt the saw to the stand. Longer mounting bolts may be necessary. Fasten 1⁄4″ x 1″ strips to the edge of the MDF to provide a lip to help prevent items from sliding off. Finally, screw the dust collection port to the underside of the MDF.
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