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This adorable Dora the Explorer Toddler Bed with Canopy will have the little explorer in your life excited about getting her beauty rest. The Dora toddler bed with sheer canopy is not only adorable its functional. The bed is built low to the ground for easy child access and comes with side rails for safe and secure sleeping. Your child's favorite Dora characters adorn the headboard and footboard and the sheer canopy completes the look. The bed uses a standard crib mattress (not included) and requires some assembly. Meets all JPMA safety standards.The Dora the Explorer Toddler Bed with Canopy features:
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By Lily's Mommy
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Comments about DELTA Dora the Explorer Toddler Bed with Canopy:
This bed is great and my daughter loves it! The only problem is if you have a curious child who likes to hang on things, the canopy is NOT STURDY!! My daughter broke all four poles in less than a month and we cannot find replacement sticks anywhere. Ended up just taking the canopy off. She was really sad! Also, make sure you read the directions all the way through before starting or you could end up having to take things apart and go back a few steps! Took a little while.
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By Steph
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Totally a great bed! Our little girl loves it and loved "helping" her daddy put it together. She has slept very comfortably in it every night, and it is adorable!!! Would recomend this to anyone's little girl that likes Dora and is ready for a toddler bed. :-)
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Way cuter in person than in the picture
By Kitty
from Austin Tx.
The Dora bed is really, really cute, reasonably easy to set up, and my granddaughter loves it. I am a little concerned about the fragility of the canopy but only time will tell if this is a legitimate concern or not.
Great Product!!
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This bed works great for my 4 year old sister because it has Dora on it and she loves the canopy and just the fact that she has her own bed. It makes her feel like a princess! I have no complaints about this product. It is great for little girls!
OMG...this bed is sooo adorable!!!!
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I just got done putting together the bed (about 2 hrs for assemble)in my living room and my daughter loves it. She thinks that its going to stay there so she can play in it all day! It is even more adorable than it looks on here and i think it was well worth the price. Seems to be pretty sturdy...time will tell how well it holds up. Overall great product!!!
My grand-daughter loves this bed!
By Ama-nee (grama-granny)
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About Me Budget Shopper
The bed is just great, the only thing that I would have to complain about on this bed is that curtains weren't long enough on the sides.My grand-daughter likes to feel like she is in a tent,so we had to redo the curtain part to surround the sides of the bed,other than that she so loves her new bed!
By Mari
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We bought this but w/out the canopy at Toys r us store [$] for our 2 yr old daughter and she LOVES IT!!! we also got the bedding to go with it.. she nows calls it her dora bed. Bright colors and inviting. my husband and i assembled it together didnt take too long.. easy instructions to understand. very sturdy and easy to clean. We can move it to diff rooms without taking it apart. great deal for the price..
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great bed my kid loves it
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We love the bed, my 21 month old can't get off it.. it has nice colors and paired with the dora bedding its awesome'
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adorable bed
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Well the assembly was very difficult its very easy to put parts either on backwards or upside down an not know it till your almost finished an u have to take it back apart to put it back together the correct way it literally took me all day but after it was put together it was fabulous although the canopy party dont seem that sturdy w/thebars if you have patience putting things together i recommend it
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The Greater Boston Business Council (GBBC), Massachusetts gay and lesbian chamber of commerce, was host to two prominent National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) events from May 2 - 4, 2012. The events began at the TD Garden with the NGLCC Roadshow, which focused on their Supplier Diversity Initiative (SDI). The Roadshow was followed by an opening reception for the NGLCC Northeast Regional Summit held at the Top of the Hub surrounded by panoramic views of the Boston skyline.
The NGLCC Roadshow presented the Supplier Diversity Initiative (SDI), which certifies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender owned Business Enterprises (LGBTBEs) and works to provide opportunities for LGBTBEs to gain exposure within the corporate procurement processes. The Roadshow offered many opportunities for businesses to increase their revenue, apply for the SDI certification with a waived $399 application fee and to network and meet fellow gay owned businesses in the Greater Boston area.
"The GBBC partnership with the NGLCC Certification Program continues to strengthen our commitment to our Community, which will increase gay business visibility, consequently increasing the success of our members," said Valerie Clark, GBBC Secretary.
The ability to become a certified LGBTBE presents an unprecedented opportunity for the LGBT business owner to work with NGLCC corporate partners who are committed to creating a diverse supply chain that is inclusive of LGBT businesses, and have targeted amounts for spending with diverse business enterprises.
The well-attended Roadshow provided the opportunity to learn how to begin the certification process followed by a lively Q&A session.
"The NGLCC Supplier Diversity LGBT Certification Program is a powerful tool to increase revenues for those businesses that qualify for the certification. The GBBC is extremely proud to be delivering these opportunities to members of our Community right here in Greater Boston," said Ed Travers II, GBBC President.
The third annual NGLCC Northeast Regional Summit (NRS) was the largest and most successful to date. The NGLCC-NRS started in 2010 when it was hosted by the Philadelphia, PA chapter, Independence Business Alliance (IBA). The 2011 NRS was hosted by the Connecticut chapter, Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO).
This year the GBBC took the Summit to new heights for the delegates with opportunities for knowledge sharing and local entertainment. The delegates were welcomed with a reception at the Top of the Hub. The entertainment continued through the week with a Boston Duck Tour one evening and dinner and entertainment at Club Café Restaurant. The 2 ½ day Summit consisted of workshops covering topics related to corporate partnerships; community partnerships; LGBT certification; board member recruitment; Chamber contributions to the community; and business communication.
"The Northeast Regional Summit was the best yet. To have affiliate chambers work so closely to enhance all of our members is quite exciting and crucial to all of our success," said Vivian Meranda, GBBC Vice President.
The GBBC feels very fortunate to have such strong support from their corporate sponsors. TD Bank and their dedicated staff worked closely with the GBBC to produce the Diversity Roadshow. The great success of the Summit was due to the contributions from GBBC Corporate Partners including TD Bank; the Sheraton Boston Back Bay; the Top of the Hub Restaurant; Club Café Restaurant and Lounge; and Boston Duck Tours.
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The "Sh*t My Dad Says" novelty has died down in the wake of a moderately successful book and a
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Don't overextend your brand.
Some (like Halpern) would look at what became of his Twitter feed and deem it an unmitigated success. He's now a published author, and he helmed a sitcom based on his father starring William Shatner. At 31, he has a career most writers would envy.
But if you view Sh*t My Dad Says as its own brand, the picture isn't as sweet. Comedy spawned from a one-joke premise rarely works well. As marketers, we should know our brands well enough to know when to say, "when."
There's a reason ESPN-themed restaurants—once ubiquitous in major cities—are down to just a scant few. It's called overextending the brand, and it's quite common.
Shareability is the new gold standard.
Sh*t My Dad Says went from being an obscure dude tweeting his dad's rants to national phenomenon thanks to one word: retweet.
It was perfect and original. The handle was something no one had heard. The content was hysterical. Of course people would retweet it, and keep on retweeting it.
It was such a simple and shareable concept that it spawned—albeit indirectly and years later—a whole genre of grassroots content around shit that different people commonly say.
So what makes something shareable? With Sh*t My Dad Says, shareable means short, funny, and relatable. It's something you can get behind.
Keep 'em wanting more.
Once the account gained some notoriety, Halpern was in high demand. Journalists wanted to talk to him to find out whether his dad knew about the account. His followers (which top out now at more than 3 million) anxiously awaited the next tweet.
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Social should be forethought in campaigns.
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Start learning to build everything with the LEGO Duplo Build and Play Box (4629) that's got 150 colorful elements and tons of special pieces! With 150 LEGO DUPLO bricks in a wide range of colors, the DUPLO Build & Play Box is the perfect addition to any DUPLO collection. Featuring a variety of classic bricks, rounded shapes and other inspirational bricks, this fantastic set also includes an inspirational idea booklet to start your child off on the building adventure of a lifetime! Comes in a sturdy reusable storage box.The LEGO Duplo Build and Play Box (4629) features:
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By Kimberly a stay at home mom
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Comments about LEGO Duplo Build and Play Box (4629):
My children love legos. They can build for hours, and watching their imagination run wild ia an awesome feeling. There are plenty of legos in the box for them to build together wirhout fighting.
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The best tool for a childs creativity
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About Me Collector, Education Oriented, Parent, Thrifty
My children have used these since they were little and now my grandchildren are using them. Sometimes my older children pull them out when they are bored! Its amazing how a little plastic brick can inspire someone to build things. My child loved these so much he became an engineer!
Decent duplo set
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from Nebraska
This set is a decent size for the price if you can get it on sale. The box is cardboard...not as sturdy as the plastic bins, but it is bigger. My 18 mont
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Bought these for my 3 year old and she loves them. But the great thing is that so does my 5 year old and my 18 month old. Great size that isn't too big for inside play and also big enough to not have to worry about anyone swallowing them (at least not in my family). Brought them to family holiday get together and my kids didn't play with them--but they were a great hit with my 10 and 7 year old nieces. Only thing I'd like is a few more building ideas in the little booklet that comes with it. Overall, great toys!
wonderful set!! worth money!
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Very good. It's Lego and my boys love Lego!
150 pieces! My grandon will love it!
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The Duplo's are a Christmas gift for my 3.5 grandson. He loves them already and this will add to his collection!
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This was an add on set, to go with other Lego products.
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I gave it as a gift to my grandchild.He loved it.
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Releasing her annual report to Parliament, Suzanne Legault slammed the government for a deteriorating record in providing information to the general public, explaining that it was now the responsibility of Treasury Board President Tony Clement to clean up the mess.
Without a quick fix, she said the situation was threatening the health of Canada's democracy. "I think it's really time to actually (attribute) accountability where it lies," Legault said at a news conference.
Legault said she spoke to Clement in recent days to warn him about her report's findings. She also dismissed his previous claims that the government could tout its record on transparency, simply because it was dealing with an increasing number of requests for information.
Her report registered a nine per cent increase in the number of new complaints for 2012-13, adding up to a total of 1,596 cases for the year, including a 42 per cent jump in complaints related to basic requirements such as meeting deadlines or following the proper procedure for an extension.
"The minister (Clement) cannot say that this is the most transparent government, simply based on the fact that we have more access requests, if we're simply not responding to them or not responding to them before a year has elapsed," Legault told reporters. "That's not transparency. That's simply breaching the law and I think that's what the minister has to respond to."
But speaking outside of the House of Commons, Clement repeated his previous arguments about an increase in the volume of documents released, noting that he was also encouraged to see more requests for information from the general public. "I'm very proud of our record," Clement said. "If there are some staffing issues that we can deal with, we can deal with those, but the fact of the matter is, given the exponential nature of inquisitiveness of both the media and ordinary citizens, we are doing more than pulling our weight."
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Many fans wonder if the stress of this situation affected Te'o's performance in the national championship game with Alabama.
"No, I didn't sense it really," Kelly assessed. "Manti's a young man that continues to lead, and you don't really see him, cause obviously he went through a tough time. I just didn't see it in practice and leading up to the game"
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The Fayetteville Regional Chamber compares sequestration to an impending hurricane bearing down on Fayetteville. But I suspect what is looming on the horizon is more comparable to a long, bleak winter.
I doubt that as fractured and dysfunctional as Congress is, it would be stupid enough to drive over the fiscal cliff. Rumors of back-room dealing to raise the ceiling on the debt are already surfacing. And recent legislation passed to assure Department of Defense contractors that they would be held harmless from lawsuits resulting from noncompliance with the required 90-day pink slip notice requirement hints that even our elected officials get it that they are playing with economic suicide.
The Chamber is rightly sounding the alarm and hustling to get the business community prepared for the perfect storm - a local economy dependent on military spending facing the certainty of defense budget cuts over the next five years.
Slower and as a result more painful, a 10 percent cut in defense spending to deal with the national debt would hit this Fort-Bragg-dependent retail and service economy like the blizzard that slowly freezes and kills small businesses.
The Chamber has been trying to alert its members to the implications of sequestration but has not faced long-term reductions in the federal budget. It's just human nature to hear the warning that we will all share the downsizing pain, feel overwhelmed and hope that government will figure out a rescue plan. And when there is no rescue, everyone freaks out.
So how do Fayetteville and the surrounding area begin the quick preparation to brace for stinging cuts in the long term?
Do we become a community with job opportunities for young families and a quality of life that persuades retiring baby boomers to stay put?
Or do we become a ghetto of vacant apartment and condo complexes that breeds crime and leaves kids on the streets with no place to go or play?
Starting in May 2013, Fort Bragg will begin to transition 1,000 troopers a month, according to defense contractor Brian Kent. Many of these young people will go home. Others will choose to stay (at least temporarily) to take advantage of enough training and income offered by the GI Bill to bridge the unemployment void. This could mean a surge of applicants to local educational institutions and a real sweet spot if short-course training programs and skills training are offered that are meaningful to local employers.
North Carolina is moving back to promotion of manufacturing, signaled by the annual Emerging Issues program: Manufacturing Works. The Chamber's economic strategy plan completed by Garner Economics last May targeted certain industries that would be a good fit for Fayetteville and included DOD critical contract support. It's probably no longer as attractive in this new climate of austerity but worth mining for privatization opportunities.
The two manufacturing recommendations were electrical equipment and specialized chemical and plastics - echoes from the days when Black & Decker, Fasco Industries, Rohm & Haas and Monsanto were major employers and had significant impact on the local tax base.
The secret to dealing with a shrinking base is growing jobs locally: Employers that are headquartered here and that do not require incentives other than those that revolve around good infrastructure and utilities, a trained labor force, a fair tax code and regulations and that have "ownership" in the success of the community.
Manufacturing presents a challenge. Our Chamber's economic team has never worked a day in manufacturing and the lack of manufacturing fluency among the political leadership was evident in the dumping of the shell building and an industrial park that still stands empty.
There are, however, several retired CEOs here who managed those big plants and who have the experience and ability to advise the Chamber's economic team. Perhaps it is time to tap these managerial resources to organize a Chamber advisory group.
Pull together the necessary players who understand manufacturing, entrepreneurial enterprises, small business and finance. Use local expertise to leverage assets the Chamber has already put in place (i.e. angel investors, investment capital, business networking, etc.).
Don't wait for the implications of "death by a thousand cuts" as it trickles down over five years.
Get started with an action plan and with careful organization whose team members will have no dog in the fight. That allows a stressed Chamber board to concentrate on fighting the immediate fiscal cliff fires.
You get what you reward and deserve what you tolerate. So let's get going and reward some action - and not tolerate whining when local business temperatures start falling in an austere economic winter.
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Dove Creek volleyball continues to roll
Bulldogs stretch winning streak to 5 following 3-set victory over Ignacio
Riding a four-match winning streak, including victories over two Class 4A schools, the Class 1A Dove Creek Bulldogs entered San Juan Basin League play brimming with confidence.
Competing in Dove Creek against the Ignacio Bobcats on Sept. 10, the Bulldogs were in control at the beginning and dominant at the end, winning in three sets, 25-15, 25-4, 25-7 to stretch their opening season winning streak to five games.
Jumping out to a quick 13-5 first-set lead after a spike by senior Jessica Guynes, the Bulldogs looked strong early on. A series of Dove Creek miscues allowed the Bobcats to climb back into the set, however, and following a spike by Ignacio hitter Cheyenne Cook, the score stood at 18-14 in favor of the Bulldogs.
The Bobcats were unable to pull closer, and following a five-point run on serves by Bulldogs' junior Ana Lee and a nice offensive tip by Bulldogs' senior Corissa Guynes, Dove Creek took the first set 25-15.
"(The team) was kind of slow at first," said Bulldogs' head coach Scott Knuckles, describing the first set. "It seemed like it took us a little bit to get warmed up and talking."
Fully warmed up and ready to roll after their first set victory, the Bulldogs quickly seized control in the second set, and once they did, the team never looked back. After jumping ahead 7-0 early on the strength of strong team play and solid spikes by senior Shelbie Knuckles, Dove Creek built a commanding lead, pulling ahead 17-1, before winning the set 25-4.
"It says a lot about the servers that they can keep it in that many points in a row," said Scott Knuckles, describing his team's long run to start the second set.
"It's a great accomplishment for us to be up that early," added Corissa Guynes. "The way we do it is to keep our intensity up and try not to play down to the other team's level and keep on playing our game."
Looking to close out the match in three sets, the Bulldogs maintained their intensity, leading 4-0 after two consecutive aces by senior Jennifer Fury, 7-0 following a block by freshman Kris Johnson and 12-0 following a spike by Shelbie Knuckles.
After finally allowing Ignacio a point, the Bulldogs lowered the boom, continuing to dominate points in route to a 25-7 third set victory.
"You never like too easy of a win, but the girls came ready," said Scott Knuckles. "The girls were on their game."
Fury added, "We were talking and moving our feet. We really work well together. We've been practicing all week really hard."
Leading the Bulldogs with nine kills was Shelbie Knuckles. Lee led the team in aces with five while Knuckles led the team in digs with 11.
Next up for the Bulldogs will be a Sept. 13 road matchup against Ouray and a Sept. 14 matchup on the road against Grand County.
"We still need to limit errors," said Scott Knuckles, discussing improvements he hopes his team can make in upcoming matches. "We need to be in the right position on defense and taking care of the ball on the net."


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The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law Chapter 5 - The Parable of the Herbs
This chapter opens with the Buddha's commendation of Maha-Kashyapa for relating the parable that formed the heart of the preceding chapter on faith discernment - a parable that aptly explained the true merit of the tathagata, one who has earned the highest epithet of a buddha. The Buddha then proceeds, in the parable of the herbs, to explain the relationship between the teaching and receptive humanity.
He affirms Maha-Kashyapa's statement that the tathagata has infinite merit, full knowledge of the truth, and full freedom in presenting it, so that it serves all people equally, leading them at last to perfect knowledge of the Buddha. By way of illustrating this, the Buddha describes the plants that grow over the earth, of which there is every size, shape, and description, all alike thirsting for moisture-giving rain. A great cloud covers the sky, and rain falls. The rain falls everywhere upon the earth, and all the plants are wet evenly and abundantly. Herbs, grasses, bushes, saplings, and great trees all take in the life-giving moisture and grow. And though the rain falls upon all alike, each grows, takes its shape, blossoms, and bears fruit according to its own nature.
Just so, the Buddha tells Maha-Kashyapa, is the tathagata. He is the cloud covering the sky. His teaching is the rain falling everywhere upon the earth, and humanity and all living beings are the infinite variety of vegetation.
The tathagata's teaching is the truth of the universe. This truth at root is but one, which is void. This teaching, like the moisture-giving rain, is of but one form, one taste. But all people differ in their makeup and nature, in birth and upbringing, in health, in surroundings, in trade. These differences, despite the fact that all people are absolutely alike in their basic buddha-nature, give rise to differences in receptivity to the rain of truth.
But however great these differences in receptivity, all receive the rain of the truth suited to themselves, and all alike, according to their heaven-given nature, grow, flower, and bear fruit. A plant has no knowledge of whether it is superior, indifferent, or lowly; it merely grows after its given nature.
A human being, in the eyes of the Buddha, is like a plant. What is one's place or position? What is one's value in the universe? Perhaps no person can really know. Only the Buddha can know. The Buddha rightly sees the place and state in which every person is and the shape of his or her spiritual being. And the Buddha further knows that one and all are absolutely equal in the springs of their being.
On the basis of this certain knowledge, the Buddha presents the teaching in a fashion suited to every individual, thus delivering all from the toils of life and setting everyone upon the right road of spiritual progress. Salvation appears to take various forms, but at root the teaching is only one, and it falls like the rain upon all alike. It is on this account that the form of teaching, of salvation, varies with the nature, character, and circumstances of each person, to the end that every person may be enabled to accept it. This is a supreme quality of the Buddha's Law.
The lesson of the parable is thus the formal variety and essential identity of Buddhist salvation, but we may also glean the lesson that right wisdom is awareness of the fundamental identity of humankind in the presence of apparent difference.
To lean entirely to awareness of the void that is this essential identity is to be like those Chinese "immortals" of old so remote from the world that they subsisted on air, and the attitude is scarcely suitable to real life. But it is equally wrong to be seized entirely by the infinite variety in apparent forms, for feelings of superiority and inferiority give rise to the snares of pride, arrogance, insulting haughtiness, envy, hatred, and conflict, while desire entails struggle and pain, and there is no hope for the salvation of human society.
Whatever differences there may be in superficial form, the true nature that is central to all people is, as such, one substance with the great life-force of the universe. Whoever has a firm grasp and awareness of this truth is enabled to live rightly, to make his or her own life and the lives of others truly meaningful. It is in this way that we may apply the lesson of this chapter to our lives today.


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Washington, DC Friday, February 17, 2012
On March 20 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the oral argument in "Miller v. Alabama"---a case about whether a sentence of life without parole for someone convicted of murder as a minor violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
And Saturday February 18 on C-SPAN Radio's Historic Supreme Court Oral argument: A case cited in "Miller v. Alabama". From 2005: "Donald Roper , Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Petitioner v. Christopher Simmons, Respondent".
Christopher Simmons was sentenced to death in 1993, when he was only 17. A series of appeals to state and federal courts lasted until 2002, but each appeal was rejected. Then, in 2002, the Missouri Supreme Court stayed Christopher Simmon's execution while the U.S. Supreme Court decided "Atkins v. Virginia," a case that dealt with the execution of the mentally ill. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing the mentally ill violated the 8th and 14th amendment prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment, the Missouri Supreme Court decided to reconsider the Simmons' case.
Using the reasoning from the Atkins case, the Missouri court decided, 6-to-3, that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Stanford v. Kentucky, which held that executing minors was not unconstitutional, was no longer valid.
On appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the government argued that allowing a state court to overturn a Supreme Court decision by looking at "evolving standards" would be dangerous, because state courts could just as easily decide that executions prohibited by the Supreme Court---such as the execution of the mentally ill in the case "Atkins v. Virginia"--- were now permissible due to a change in the beliefs of the American people. The state of Missouri appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case.
The audio and information in this program are courtesy of the Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Updated: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 9:17am (ET)
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Max Zing Debuts at Drunk Duck
May 1st, 2012
I've put up the comic strip sequel to Warlord of Io over at Drunk Duck.
Updated five days a week and in full colour, you can check it out here.
Go ahead. Click that link. You know you want to.
I'll also be appearing once again at TCAF (The Toronto Comics and Arts Festival) at the Metro Toronto Reference Library on May 5th and 6th. Drop by!
John Carter: SPOILER Laden Review
March 10th, 2012
I'd rather not damn John Carter with faint praise. Being a fan of the original books I very much wanted to like it, but while the film has many fun scenes, taken together they don't exceed their sum.
The film begins with the mystical Therns, blue-hued, shape-shifting beings, introducing themselves to Sab Than (Dominic West). They bestow upon him a powerful Ninth Ray weapon, and as long as he follows their instructions, they'll see to it he 'rules' Barsoom.
The film then cuts to earth, where we're introduced to John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), prospecting in the Old West; in short order it's ten years later, we're back in New York, where we meet Edgar Rice Burroughs (Daryl Sabara), who inherits Carter's estate and diary. He promptly begins to read it, delivering us back ten years to John Carter's tale.
It's a bit of a roundabout beginning, and much of the film is like that: fun but overly complex, slowed down thanks to a surfeit of material. A sin I'm familiar with.
There are great action sequences and moments of laugh out loud comic relief along the way. The creatures are believable, the sets superb, and the floating ships magnificent. Yet John Carter lacks epic sweep and, to my mind, the convoluted plot doesn't effectively build to a satisfying climax. The ending seems rushed, almost an afterthought, especially after how well earlier sequences with the Tharks played out. Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) is awesome.
Director Stanton makes a noble effort, but by remaining so faithful to the source material he may have hamstrung himself. He tries to cram too much in, so rather than barrel along at a mile a minute, the ride is slowed down, if not derailed. Even without the Atmosphere Factory.
The Therns and their shape shifting, planet hopping, Machiavellian games just diminish Sab Than into a hapless puppet rather than an effective villain. The marriage subplot seems almost extraneous, given that Helium is already at the mercy of Zodanga. Of course, like much else, Sab Than's pushed into it by the Therns. And after the wedding he's to assassinate her to put an end to Ninth Ray research. His men are posed to plunder Helium right after the wedding. Why bother with the whole charade then?
There's a scene where Sab Than (convincingly) puts his life at the mercy of Dejah Thoriss (Lynn Collins), who's quite likely to take him up on the offer. It seems completely out of character for Sabby; obviously, the Therns put him up to it. Again, we have a shallow villain being pushed about by the whims of these enigmatic, blue-hued fellows in robes who look like refugees from Beneath the Planet of the Apes. I kept expecting them to peel their false faces off.
At one point the nameless Thern leader (Mark Strong) takes Carter prisoner, and like other great villains before him, can't resist explaining his entire nefarious plan to our seemingly helpless hero, who promptly escapes. Such is the price of hubris.
What on Mars was Strong's character going to do with Carter? An obvious threat, a wrench in their plans, yet for utterly inexplicable reasons the Therns don't bother to dispose of him when they have the chance. I guess they haven't watched Goldfinger.
Star Wars liberally pillaged Edgar Rice Burroughs books for ideas, yet A New Hope has a very clear storyline that builds to a planet shattering crescendo, something that John Carter lacks. There is a battle at the end, true, but it feels more rushed than epic.
Events happen at a bewildering rate. The final battle in Star Wars is well staged and beautifully paced in order to build suspense to the highest level possible. Here, everything happens in a big jumble. No build up. No elegant pacing. Just borderline chaos, albeit with well played comic relief.
To top that off, there's no real spark between Kitsch and the Princess, which is a pity. They're both appealing actors. This isn't Hamlet, and for an action flick I thought there performances were fine. But they couldn't fake a romantic spark for the cameras and their romance, such as it was, remained undeveloped and unconvincing. Given the target audience (young males), they may have decided to skip this aspect, but it's to the films detriment.
After saying all that, you might think I hated John Carter. On the contrary, I didn't dislike the film. I wasn't bored, even during the extended middle, which is something I can't say of numerous other aspiring blockbusters. And I stayed to the end, something I can't say of the wretched monstrosity that was the first Transformer movie. If I were ten, I'd surely have loved it (admittedly I'd probably have loved Transformers at ten, too).
As it is, I've seen too many movies with epic pretensions, and after seeing dozens of them, you get a little jaded. John Carter's playground has been pillaged for decades, making his film debut feel derivative, which is hardly fair.
I'd recommend John Carter for what it is: a fun action adventure flick that reintroduces the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic books to a new generation. And that's something worthwhile.
Sadly, the film looks to be on track to lose the studio $200 million, making it one of the most catastrophic money losers ever made. We won't be seeing a sequel anytime soon, but you can read the original ERB books at Project Gutenberg.
I should avoid making bets. See previous post.
John Carter: Box office boom or bust?
March 10th, 2012
As a fan of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs series, I've been awaiting the big budget Disney adaptation. I know what you're thinking: he's crazy! Au contraire, dear reader. It's taken a long and painful trip to the silver screen, true. They've been trying to make a version since the 1930's. But I have my reasons for being hopeful, which I'll get to in a moment.
The comics biz has been cashing in on the impending release, with both Dynamite and Marvel fielding series based on the original books, now in public domain. I took a look at the Dynamite adaptation, and while I enjoyed it overall, I don't think Deja Thoris has ever been so well endowed. Her metal nipple pasties must be equipped with anti-gravity devices to prevent her from toppling forward. Then again, Mars does have lighter gravity.
A Princess in distress, a powerful hero, menacing villains, an alien world and swashbuckling adventure are all to be found in the books; they're pitched directly at the adolescent male market. Burroughs had the recipe down a long time ago: he began writing the first in 1911. It predates Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and while the books are more fantasy than science fiction, he did include wonderful ideas like atmosphere factories and memetic beings in the series. He developed a complex backstory, elements of Martian languages, measurements, and more, decades before Tolkien would do the same thing with Lord of the Rings.
The books aren't well known now, but they've inspired thousands, from George Lucas to Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan. I even patterned the title of my graphic novel, Warlord of Io, after Warlord of Mars, one of the Carter books.
It's not the only pulp sci-fi source that influenced Lucas: Star Wars only exists because Lucas couldn't get the rights to Flash Gordon, so he had to come up with his own property. I'm glad he did. He reinvented space opera.
Each generation takes the stories of the previous and rebuilds them. The blocks are the same. It's new combinations, inventive patterns, that make them new again. The Star Wars mythos is imprinted with subjects that preoccupied the Boomer generation, Vietnam being one example. Having a low tech force (Ewoks) defeat a highly advanced military (The Empire) is a theme that you'll find in the work of James Cameron as well. He's dipped into this idea dish twice, first with the gritty Aliens and then with the spectacular Avatar (Smurfs in Space).
It'll be interesting to see what angle they take with John Carter. I'm looking forward to it, in spite of all the nay saying. Industry pundits wrote off Titanic as a bloated, over budget monstrosity. It then went on to break box office records. Mind you, the Titanic probably has better name recognition than Carter. But it is Pixar, and I love their films. They're tight, well plotted, beautifully realized creations.
I'm betting John Carter will be too. I'll be back with a review.
Hell Lost now live!
February 1st, 2012
The online comic is now up and running. You can check it out here.
It'll be updated Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Hell Lost
January 10th, 2012
Announcing my next comic, Hell Lost, about the inevitable counter-revolution in, you guessed it: Hell. It'll detail what's gone down in the Infernal Realm since Milton's Paradise Lost.
Yeah, that's right, I haven't stopped.
So. Why a counter-revolution in Hell?
Are you kidding?
Hell sucks.
And, sooner or later, some Fallen Angels are going to wise up and ask, "What were we thinking?"
More to come soon.
End of 2010 orbit round up
January 5th, 2011
The year end lists are in, and Warlord of Io is on them, so if you're looking for fun, sci-fantasy retro-pulp adventure comedy, well, look no further.
It made CBR's Top 100 Comics of 2010, Michael May's top 10 ten (you'll have to scroll down), as well as James Fulton's top ten.
WIRED Magazine's Geek Dad column has a great review by Jason Cranford Teague, as does CBR's Greg Burgas and Pop Dose's Comic Shop Junkie.
To top it all off, CBR has 3 exclusive single page Warlord of Io shorts that can be seen nowhere else.
Not bad for a book that got cancelled in serial format.
It's out!
August 4th, 2010
Warlord of Io has hit the store shelves and garnered positive reviews, of all things. Check some of them out here and here. The mighty Michael May at CBR also presents Warlord of Io vs. Science Fiction, and asks some intereting questions.
I'm interviewed in The Frontiersman No. 7, which you can download here.
Aaaaand I did a podcast with the great crew over at Comixology, which you can listen to here.
Warlord of Io available now!
August 4th, 2010
Venture into the orbit of power politics on Jupiter's moons in the 25th Century. Can newly crowned teen Emperor Zing keep his throne with the help of his friend, Moxy Comet? Will he be able to reform an unjust Imperial system, or will it consume both him and his allies?
And what about his music career?
And the revolt of the equatorial steam swamp mud men?
Find out the answers to these questions and more in the astonishing new series Warlord of Io by James Turner!
SLG has it available here.
Or you can order a copy from Amazon here.
Hope you'll check it out. It's a fun sci-fi rollercoaster. At least, I think it is.
New Warlord of Io promo video
May 3rd, 2010
Another promo video for Warlord of Io
April 29th, 2009
Check it out. This one has the rock score.
The first Warlord of Io promo video
April 27th, 2009
Check out our exciting video promo for the comic.
October 20th, 2009
Behold the robo!
I almost forgot I had this up. It's a build your own robot app, which allows you to print out the result of your tinkering. Combine heads, chassis, and locomotors. Check it out here.