text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marvel_dark_reign_7139.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: NormanOsborn: [[BlatantLies A man you can trust]]]]->''"This is my country."''-->-- '''Norman Osborn''', {{Thunderbolts}} #124MarvelComics' non-{{Crossover}} (read: a [[TheVerse verse]]-wide storyline described by JoeQuesada as [[WordOfGod "it's not a crossover, just what's happening in the]] MarvelUniverse") which follows the aftermath of SecretInvasion. It's a CrisisCrossover-sized event, but is not a crossover in the common meaning of the word - comics were not tied to a strict plot, but were showing multiple heroes dealing with a VillainWithGoodPublicity becoming one of the most powerful men in the United States.After SecretInvasion, the general public blames ComicBook/IronMan, then director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, for not preventing the AlienInvasion. Meanwhile, [[SpiderMan Spider-Man's]] Arch Enemy NormanOsborn, leader of the {{Thunderbolts}}, gains himself some ''huge'' points in the battle of public opinion, as news networks featured him being a leader in the fight against the Skrulls, and eventually ending the entire conflict by blowing the head off the Skrull queen before any of the assembled heroes could kill her. This televised act of heroism (which may have been staged, depending on whether you believe {{Deadpool}} or not) led The President to dismiss Stark and replace him with Osborn. Norman, very happy with how things went, quickly replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. with his own organization, H.A.M.M.E.R., and formed the Cabal - an alliance between him, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Emma Frost]], [[SubMariner Namor]], SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, ComicBook/TheHood, and SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom. He also creates his own, twisted version of the ComicBook/TheAvengers - Dark Avengers, with most of the team members being supervillains in heroes' costumes led by Osborn himself in Iron Man's armor, under the name of ''Iron Patriot''. At the same time, he sets up a plan to replace and kill half of his former {{Thunderbolts}} teammates, as they might have information that would make him look less appealing to the public at large (the other half joined the Dark Avengers). His allies from The Cabal are plotting against him, many heroes and a few villains want to get rid of him, but Osborn doesn't seem to care -- he has a mysterious ally, somebody who can instill fear even in his fellow members of The Cabal.Dark Reign spawned several tie-ins, but some plot points are also being resolved in titles not officially marked as such, like the recent plot arc of [[TheMightyThor Thor]]. Due to this, fans still consider everything which deals with Norman or any other member of Cabal as a part of the event.Dark Reign started right after SecretInvasion and lasted a year before the GrandFinale four-part event ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''. It's followed by ComicBook/HeroicAge.Has nothing to do with the ''VideoGame/DarkReign'' game series.----!!Tropes:* AbusiveParents: While Ares has been GenreSavvy to the point that he let Nick Fury take care of his son (which was what Phobos wanted) because he was afraid he would start to abuse him emotionally or physically, right now his son from ancient times is hellbent on revenge for the merciless neglect ''he'' received.** Hera has a classically dim view of her children/half-children/other relatives, and won't hesitate to chuck one out of a thirtieth story window if they talk back to her (where "talk back" is code for "Hebe not taking Hera's side over that of her husband Hercules").** NormanOsborn attempts to murder his son Harry and frame someone else for it [[KickTheDog because losing a son will win him sympathy points with the public.]] * AllThereInTheManual / GuideDangIt: For many people, [[spoiler:the way the Void was defeated and killed at the end of Siege]] was idiotic. It does make a lot more sense if you had read ComicBook/DarkAvengers... and ''every single'' interview with Creator/BrianMichaelBendis published between the end of SecretInvasion and Siege issue four.* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Does being turned into the big bang to create a new frikkin' ''dimension'' count? [[spoiler:If so, then Wasp.]] While Dan Slott expressing his annoyance with the end of SecretInvasion led to some hints of possible alternate dimension solutions coming into play, pretty much ''nobody'' expected [[spoiler:for her to actually ''be'' the dimension in question.]]* AmericanRobot: Normon's Iron Patriot persona, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy deliberately]] meant to [[{{Expy}} echo]] both ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/IronMan. * AntiHeroSubstitute: Hard to count (or easy -- it's inverted as most of these guys are ''villains'').** ComicBook/DarkAvengers for Avengers*** Bullseye for ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Venom for ComicBook/SpiderMan, Daken for ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Moonstone for ComicBook/MsMarvel, Noh-Varr for ComicBook/CaptainMarVell. Also possibly Iron Patriot (ComicBook/NormanOsborn) for ComicBook/IronMan ''and'' ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. And by proxy, Ares for ComicBook/TheMightyThor (since they're both, you know, gods and all).** The Cabal for The Illuminati** Dark X-Men for ComicBook/{{X-Men}}** ComicBook/TheHood and his "reformed" supervillains for The Initiative** Dark Young Avengers were a little bit of this for The YoungAvengers.** Subverted with SheHulk and Savage She Hulk -- they are very good friends and Jen seems to be a role model for Lyra.* TheAtoner: Subverted. Osborn ''loves'' playing this card in televised interviews whenever somebody attempts to remind the public that he was the fricking ''Green Goblin''.** Also played straight with [[spoiler:Loki at the end of ''Siege''. He deeply regrets having brought such a ferocious battle to Asgard when it reaches its breaking point, and so fetches the Norn Stones back from the Hood and uses them to empower ''the heroes'' as they all attack the Void at once. When Void notices that the heroes' uncanny power is coming from another source, he turns unto Loki, whose last act before being torn asunder is ''apologizing to Thor''.]] Betcha didn't expect that coming from [[spoiler:the Norse god of mischief]] of all people.** Somewhat averted in the main [[TheMightyThor Thor title]] and elsewhere, [[spoiler:Loki planned for his own death to avoid going to Hel, the land of the dead, and was both the source and the solution for the key problems plaguing Asgard after SIEGE. He has hinted to wanting to try and change, so it is yet to know how much is an act and how much may have been genuine.]]* {{Badass}}: Ares* BadassBoast: Quicksilver, while fighting with Mister X, please note that every dash equals Mister X being punched.--> You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to -- anticipate every move I make -- and do absolutely — '''nothing''' about it — because -I-am-the-'''fastest'''-man-on-earth.* BadassBookworm: [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]], after [[DePower losing his powers]], proved himself to have so many levels of [[ScienceHero scientific]] [[{{Chessmaster}} manipulative]] badass that Osborn plotted a scheme to turn him back into Hulk, because a giant green monster would be '''less''' dangerous.* BadassGrandpa: Bor, and how!* BadassInDistress: SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom -- The first mission the Dark Avengers took on was to save him from Morgan Le Fay. Right after that, Doom easily defeated Morgan.* BadassNormal: Zodiac, Nick Fury* BatFamilyCrossover: Three of them are considered as a parts of Dark Reign.** ''{{Thunderbolts}}/ {{Deadpool}}: Magnum Ops'', where Osborn sends his team of killers after Wilson** ComicBook/DarkAvengers / [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Uncanny X-Men]], where Osborn is trying to solve the problem of mutants. [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide Permanently.]]** ''Siege'' - GrandFinale of Dark Reign, where Osborn invades Asgard, forcing the heroes to gather and bring an end to his madness.* BettyAndVeronica: Harry's girlfriend Lilly has been choosing between Harry (Betty) and Norman (Veronica). [[spoiler:She chooses the craziest Osborn.]]* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:During Siege, Captain America (Steve Rogers) leading the New Avengers, the Young Avengers, and the Secret Warriors against Osborn's forces, starting with Steve [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome throwing his shield at Osborn and crying "Avengers Assemble!" for the first time in some three years.]]]]* BossRush: can the ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan "Gauntlet"]]'' storyline count as a comic book example? Given that Spidey has got to fight most of his RoguesGallery ''in a row'', well, yes.* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Mr. Negative can do this to people via touch. The more good - person was, the more crazy he/she becomes.* ButtMonkey: ''Mighty Avengers'' is working hard to rescue Pym from his status as one, by putting him back in his ''West Coast Avengers'' position of a Series/DoctorWho style ScienceHero. The series often lampshades it, too. A lot.* CannonFodder: The Shadow Initiative during the attack on the prison in the Negative Zone. Turned into somewhat of a TearJerker in an issue of ''The Initiative'', as we get to see it all from the point of view of a RedShirt who knows damn well he's going to die, and has taken steps to make sure that his best friend doesn't go down with him, and his family will be taken care of after his death.* CaptainErsatz: For some people, Zodiac is a little too similar to Film/TheDarkKnight's version of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in his actions. And he looks like [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]].** Many readers think he looks a lot like the witness sketches of the original (there was also a copycat in New York) real life Zodiac Killer. Whether or not he's supposed to ''be'' that Zodiac, ramped up to a higher level of villainy, is never made clear, though for it to be possible, de-aging or other comic book alterations would have to be in play.** And of course Sentry is, as always, an Ersatz Superman.* CallingTheOldManOut: Harry Osborn finally does this to Norman, who is far and wide considered one of the worst fathers in comics.* CardCarryingVillain: Zodiac, right to the point he went against Osborn because he finds his good publicity as an insult to those who commit crimes "for the sake of mischief".* ChekhovsBoomerang: In his own mini-series, Bullseye got a copy of his old costume as a part of the story's villains' plan to manipulate him. Later, when Osborn ordered him to go after Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, Lester dressed in that costume.* TheChessmaster: Zodiac - When he entered the scene, ''everybody'', including the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Osborn, and all of H.A.M.M.E.R. turned into his puppets and remained that way until he got what he wanted.** And he even arranged things like Whirlwind's stint as Osborn's chauffeur and Manslaughter Marsdale's coma before the series started.** Loki is this as well, manipulating Thor, all Asgardians, Norman, Hood, and Mighty Avengers any way he wants to, even after some of them realized that.* CompositeCharacter: Iron Patriot. Or at least, that's the idea Osborn wanted to give.* ContinuityNod: All over the place, but surprisingly, there's a nicely subtle one in the otherwise balls-out Zodiac miniseries. Osborn hires Whirlwind as his chauffeur, with a snide reference to his prior work history. ''Way'' back in the classic ''Avengers'' and ''Marvel Feature'' comics, David Cannon had worked under a false name as Wasp's chauffeur while planning an inheritance heist and kidnapping.* CostumeCopycat: Most of the Dark Avengers members wear the outfits of existing superheroes and Clint had taken Ronin's identity and costume when he resurrected, which was previously used by Echo. -->'''Ronin:''' So that's Bullseye? Bullseye, the crazy assassin?! Dressed like me?!-->'''Spider-Man:''' And you're dressed like Maya.** Of course, Spider-Man isn't too happy himself when he learns who's copying him:-->'''Spider-Man:''' They didn't even get the good Venom!** Taskmaster and {{Deadpool}} in ''Magnum Opus''** Zodiac's gang includes the Clown, famously of the Circus of Crime... except it isn't the real clown; it's his illegitimate half-brother impersonating him due to some identity crisis. The real Clown is currently a member of the Gamma Corps as the avian Griffin. Zodiac was aware of all this from the start.* CreepyChild: Phobos.* CurbStompBattle: SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom vs ComicBook/BlackPanther, where Victor proved that not even a GodModeSue like T'Challa is a match for him.** Quicksilver vs Mr. X.* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Sentry]]* DeathIsCheap: Explained in IncredibleHercules as resurrection having become ''literally'' random chance, represented by casino games, thanks to assorted gods of the dead either having been destroyed or having abandoned their positions. Multiple heroes (including the recently offed Wasp), villains, and civilians are gambling for either an afterlife or a second chance, and in a joke harking back to the GeoffJohns run on the Avengers, and ''Avengers Disassembled'', Jack of Hearts wins his resurrection while Herc and Cho are visiting (though he has yet to actually return).** [[spoiler:Jack of Hearts finally came back to life in Marvel Zombies Supreme.]]* DebateAndSwitch: This storyline was the tool to undo all the changes of Comicbook/CivilWar: a morally gray situation is turned into a full morally black-and-white situation, so that the heroes can easily "win" and return to the previous status quo. And Stamford? [[AngstWhatAngst Fine, thanks]].* DemonicPossession: Hood by Dormammu. Quicksilver by Chthon. Nightmare was trying to do this with Trauma.** Somewhat subverted during Spider-Man's ''Siege'' tie-in, when Ms. Marvel manages to pull Mac Gargan's body out from the Venom symbiote's, and it tries to possess her instead.* DependingOnTheWriter: To a lesser extent than ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', but still there all the same: The ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' series and a few others have Norman Osborn buying into his own hype and genuinely opposing menaces he regards as threats to America and the status quo, while tie-ins like ''Dark X-Men'' and ''Captain America Reborn'' show him PuttingOnTheReich and working hard to put the RedSkull into Captain America's body.** Similarly, in the ''Captain America'' tie-in, KnightTemplar AntiHero Victoria Hand inexplicably seems fine with Norman's willingness to help the Red Skull take over Captain America's body.* {{Depower}}: ComicBook/TheHood after losing to [[spoiler:Doctor Voodoo (and then again towards the end)]]; Bruce Banner.* DepravedBisexual: While he used it only to ''mock'' Venom, Daken has hooked up with people of all stripes, and thinks nothing of manipulating them for something he wants and killing them (directly or indirectly) when he's done with them. He even [[HoYay ''kisses Bullseye in the mouth'']] in his ''Siege'' tie-in. And then readers found out the whole scene was AllJustADream fed into Daken's head to show how screwed over he'd be if he didn't accept help from the fates.** Loki: At the beginning of the storyline, he's [[GenderBender stuck in a female body]], and has no qualms about using his/her attractiveness to his/her advantage.* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Deadpool almost quotes this to Taskmaster in the alternative cover of ''Avengers: The Initiative #33'' ("Dude! You knocked out '''''Thor'''''?"). Too bad [[CoversAlwaysLie it didn't actually happen in that issue, though]].* DiscardAndDraw: Hood, after losing connection with Dormammu, lost all his powers, only to get an entirely new power set when Loki gave him magic Asgardian stones. [[spoiler:Just to be discarded again when Loki got the Norn Stones back to empower ''The Avengers'' so they could stop Asgard from being destroyed any further. And, as a last resort, Madame Masque takes him to see her father, Count Nefaria, so he can empower the Hood again, but he relents when he hears that he'll have to give all his money to Nefaria to be repowered. The New Avengers nab them before anything can be done.]]* DistressBall: Clint Barton breaking Norman's base alone and getting caught because of it.* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Osborn wants to take out the Asgardians in order to make himself look more necessary to the government, but the President won't allow him to do this "without due cause", prompting the need for an "incident" to turn public opinion against the Aesir. It's basically every conspiracy theory about 9/11 with a coating of Norse God.** In-story, it's an intentional evokation of the Stamford Incident that kicked off Comicbook/CivilWar.* DownerEnding: The ''What If?'' has Clint kill Osborn, but Clint is killed shortly afterwards.* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The mortal, Bill, takes out an Asgardian that was about to murder Balder. With his last strength, he warns Balder of Loki and Dr. Doom's treachery. Bill is so {{badass}} that he is given an Asgardian style funeral. In the aftermath of Siege, it is revealed that his bravery has won him a place in Valhalla.]]* EarnYourHappyEnding: Did they ever in ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''.* EldritchAbomination: From the looks of things, [[spoiler:The Sentry/The Void]] is, and always has been this.* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ares pointed out he may be a God of war, pain, and murder. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis But. Not. God. Of. Sadism!]]* EvilMatriarch: Speaking of Hera, she's become this even more than she was in classical mythology. Kind of surprising, when just a couple of decades ago in comics continuity, she actually ''aided'' the Avengers when Zeus accused them of nearly killing Hercules, but justified in that she's lost more than a few screws since gaining control of the entire Greek pantheon.* EvilerThanThou: Mr. Negative (who is a SuperpoweredEvilSide of some guy and believes in a BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil) told ComicBook/TheHood that because he thrown out all what was good in him, he'll fall for sure.* FaceHeelTurn: Subverted by Emma in ''Utopia''. Ares and Sentry joining Dark Avengers can be seen like one (HeelFaceRevolvingDoor in Ares case).* FamousLastWords:-->[[spoiler:Ares to Sentry]]: I thought us friends. My mistake.* FanNickname: Lyra is called ''Thulkdra'' which was lampshaded when they put this nickname on one of her mini's variant covers. Molecule Man's team (despite being a [[spoiler: RedHerring]]) is called "The League Of Ultimate Evil [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Enchantress]]".** Bullseye in Hawkeye's costume is called "Bullhawk"** Daken earned himself the name Trollverine.* FemmeFatale: Moonstone, Madame Masque* FinalBattle: Siege* FiveBadBand:** ComicBook/DarkAvengers:*** BigBad and EvilGenius: Iron Patriot*** TheLancer: Daken*** CoDragons: Ares and Sentry*** TheBrute: Venom, Bullseye*** TheDarkChick: Moonstone*** TheChick: Noh-Varr (in fact, he jumps ship pretty quickly, as soon as he finds out he's fighting with villains)** Cabal:*** BigBad: Norman Osborn*** TheDragon: ComicBook/TheHood*** TheLancer: Namor*** EvilGenius: DrDoom, Loki*** TheBrute: Namor, but only a little*** TheDarkChick / SixthRangerTraitor: Emma Frost.* ForTheEvulz: Zodiac doesn't have any general reason to be evil, he just likes it.** Same with Bullseye. Even doped up on anti-psychotic medication, he still is completely evil and threatens his own teammates (who know full well that he tends to carry out such threats) with death for ''kicks''.** And Mr. X - he murders people and reads their minds as they're dying, and finds it very entertaining.* FromNobodyToNightmare: Subverted with Norman Osborn. Whilst not a nobody by any stretch of the imagination, he goes from being Spider-Man's ArchEnemy to taking Nick Fury's old job & rubbing shoulders with the villainous elite like Doctor Doom.* GainaxEnding: The ''Dark Avengers'' lead-in to ''Siege'' seems to show that [[spoiler: Sentry/Void]] is basically an aspect of God Himself. Then, in ''Siege'', [[spoiler: his human side decides to stop living, and lets Thor kill him before any of it goes anywhere.]]* GambitPileup: Pretty much possible this will happen in Siege with Norman revealing his secret ally, Loki setting his schemes to the final phase, Daken and Moonstone with Bullseye making their moves against Osborn, Taskmaster looking for a chance to get the hell out of there, [[spoiler: Scourge]] brainwashed by Agents Of Atlas to kill Norman, Pym's and Barton's Avengers with Captain America getting in the middle of it, Tony Stark trying to help, [[spoiler: return of Ultron]], Hela revealing her deal with Dani Moonstar, Thor or Balder's defense plans and Sentry/Void as unpredictable factor.* GenreSavvy: Several characters correctly predict that Norman's new empire will soon fall apart.* GrandFinale: Siege.* GroinAttack:-->'''Sentry:''' Do you really want me to unleash the power of million exploding Suns?-->'''[[IncredibleHercules Hercules]]''': Of course not. I'll do it. (Kicks Sentry in the nuts.)* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Loki, after realizing what he has done, transfers the Norn Stone's powers from Hood gangs to Thor and co. so they can defeat The Void. Void is not pleased and blasts Loki to death.]]* HeroWithBadPublicity: ComicBook/IronMan, who in a subversion of this trope, DID fuck things up big time and pretty much brought all of his troubles upon him. [[SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]], because the Skrulls' [[spoiler: leader was disguised as her, and even some heroes think she might still be the Skrull Queen.]] Not exactly an easy reputation to live down, especially when in the past she's been a member of HYDRA, a terrorist/spying group.** Subverted with Hank Pym, who was able to not only shake the taint of being replaced with a Skrull, but made most of the world fall in love with him and his new Avengers team by stopping several major threats that Norman refused to lift a finger to stop. As of Mighty Avengers #32, apparently, most of the other national governments see ''his'' team as the real Avengers, not Osborn's crew.** [[TheMightyThor Thor]], who has been [[spoiler: exiled from Asgard after Loki's scheme led him to killing his own grandfather]].** Wonder Man - when he went on TV and said that America ''deserved'' Norman Osborn as their top hero, as far as his response to Hawkeye denouncing Norman on live television/outed the Dark Avengers as bad guys, his career was effectively deepsixed by the public backlash and he was denounced as crazy by David Letterman of all people.** Doc Samson, after Osborn used ThePlan to force him into nearly killing UsefulNotes/BarackObama and splashed it all over the news. [[spoiler: Samson has a FaceHeelTurn completely unrelated to this incident, and thus doesn't really give a damn about it anymore.]]* HesBack: [[spoiler: Steve Rogers]]. '''AvengersAssemble!'''* HumansAreBastards: After reading War Machine's files, Ultimo came to that conclusion.* HumiliationConga: Everything that's happened to Iron Man since Dark Reign began.* IdiotBall: Subverted with "Utopia" as the X-Men successfully outplay Norman and humiliate him via exposing his sadistic abuse of mutant prisoners for the whole world to see, then successfully flee to their new island home off the coast of California. Made even worse for Norman, in that Emma Frost also cuts a deal with Namor to get him to betray Norman, effectively robbing Norman of one third of the Cabal and alienating Doom (who doesn't take kindly to Norman's vows of revenge against his friend).** The Spider-Man tie-ins are worse: Norman keeps dropping the ball on Spidey and vice versa. It's made worse when Marvel decided that Norman was affected by the One More Day reality warp, meaning he no longer knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and seemingly doesn't care.** Norman not killing Iron Man when he had him on life support and brain dead in the recent issue also counts, especially Norman had no problem beating Iron Man nearly to death in public prior to taking him into custody.*** For that matter, beating the crap out of him on live camera in the first place. Prior public embarrassments may have been the result of people getting hold of information meant to remain secret, but the fact that Norman ignored Hand's warnings about the camera crew in the vicinity means this one's ''all'' on him.*** The former has a valid explination: Osborn had to get it pulled but didn't have the medical authority and since the H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier was a national embassy, Osborn had no way to overlook it without causing a national incident. The latter, meanwhile, was presumibly deleiberate and his trying to kill tony both times is portrayed as a bad move. * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Spidey delivered it at last twice to Clint Barton and once to [[spoiler: Harry Osborn]]. Clint, however, has the balls to respond by pointing out how much misery Norman's been able to cause because of Peter's moral high horse.** CriticalResearchFailure: The writers seem to have forgotten that Osborn has a HealingFactor and is thus damn hard to kill, particularly since Clint's grand plan seems to have been simply to shoot Norman with an arrow. It also ignores the fact that Clint has historically been more against killing than even Captain America, making him the one who opts to try and kill Norman out of character. Though, Brian Michael Bendis' take on Hawkeye generally tends to be rather kill-happy.* TheIllegal: Now that Gyrich is in charge of S.W.O.R.D., he's declared ''every damn alien on the planet'' illegal, and is taking steps to deport them ''all'', even if they previously had government permission or clearance to live on Earth.* IHaveNoSon: After the American Son story Harry is as good as dead to Norman. A DoubleSubversion since Norman's plan in that story was to have Harry ''murdered'' to garner him public sympathy.** [[spoiler: Pregnant Lilly]] reappears in ''Ms. Marvel'' but mostly because Brian Reed is using this comic in his efforts to join ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' writing staff.* IronicEcho: In-house ads for the event had the tagline "Accept Change", a [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids slightly more pragmatic]] version of Secret Invasion's tagline, "Embrace Change!"* JerkAss: Reed Richards in Mighty Avengers. The yea or nay decision on whether to give Bill Foster's tech to Pym should have been ''Ben's'', since Bill willed it to him, but Reed bulled his way into being the one to make the call, and then had to be a jackass to Pym on top of it and get snide when Sue called him on said jackassery.** Also, Maria Hill sometimes. Maybe it's because she's an ActionGirl who had been drilled on to act fiercely as director of the post-ComicBook/CivilWar S.H.I.E.L.D., but she absolutely '''didn't need''' (and '''didn't have any power''', to boot) to issue a prison order to Speed when he came to deliver a spare armor to a recovering Stark so he could go up to Asgard and fight Norman in the Siege.* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Daken]], he got away scot-free. Mister X also avoided arrest.* KickTheDog: Several villains, especially Norman, has a few. Lampshaded a little when Bullseye tossed a dog right into Venom's eye just to prove he can.* KnightTemplar: Seems to be how Norman Osborn sees himself in the epilogue issue of ''Dark Avengers''.* LaResistance: New Warriors/Avengers Resistance.* LateArrivalSpoiler: Kind of hard for the return of [[CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] to be a surprise, given that it was ''blown all over mainstream news sites months ago''. In terms of the comics themselves, the [[ScheduleSlip delays on]] ''Captain America: Reborn'' mean that he had reappeared in at least three titles ''and a special'' before he was even supposed to be back.* LeeroyJenkins: Ares described himself as one, placing "checking out if you have enough ammo before rushing into the battle" at the list of things that are part of his sister's domain, not his.* LegacyCharacter: Noh-Varr as the new Captain Marvel. Hank Pym as the new Wasp.* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Glorianna, Captain Britain's wife managed to start a revolution in hell and even defeat one of the Hell-Lords before she returned to the world of living.* LyingCreator: Matt Fraction listed several things in interviews that were supposed to come up in ''Utopia'', like a fight between Colossus and Ares or Sentry, or interaction between Noh-Varr and girls from New X-Men. Yeah, we're still waiting on that. Dan Slott said that return of [[spoiler: Scarlet Witch]] in ''Mighty Avengers'' is the real deal, while it turned out [[spoiler: It's Loki]]. Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' has habit of doing it but currently the solicitations of his comics are a better example. Don't even try to guess plot points based on those, because they're wrong.** [[spoiler: She does come back later, though, and offered to try and undo the Decimation after a CooldownHug with Wiccan.]]* ManipulativeBastard: Again, Norman. But Daken has his moments too.* MayflyDecemberRomance: DrDoom [[LampshadeHanging points this out]] when Kelda comes to get revenge for his part in Bill's death, saying that the guy was mortal and would die anyway, and she'd forget about him eventually.* TheMole: [[spoiler: Grim Reaper]] in Lethal Legion. [[spoiler: Diamondback]] in Osborn's Initiative. Zodiac had Whirlwind feeding him information on Osborn.* MoleInCharge: The premise of the series.* MotiveRant: Norman at the bitter end of Dark Avengers to [[spoiler: the Goblin]], espousing both his surprisingly valid fears and good intentions.* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Loki, who turns out to be manipulating Norman Osborn and the others just so Asgard can reign supreme, not so that Asgard is destroyed by the Void. Once he realizes what happened, he pulled a HeelFaceTurn.]]* NaiveNewcomer:** Noh-Varr, of sorts. He didn't even ''know'' the team he was in (the Dark Avengers) was mostly composed of supervillains until Moonstone let it slip one night after they had sex and were watching Norman on TV. As soon as he did, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he dropped out without leaving a note on the fridge]].** Also Norman Osborn. He has been in the Marvel Universe since TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, but in every comic book he says something like "Who is that man?", "I don't know him", "I never heard about him", "I didn't know you were a mutant", "I didn't know you could do that", and so on. * NeverLiveItDown: {{invoked}} -->'''Norman Osborn:''' Are you still slapping women around?-->'''Henry Pym:''' Are you still dropping them from bridges?* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: WordOfGod says that's why [[spoiler: Ares]]' death was specifically demanded to be "as gory as possible" - as a signal he got KilledOffForReal.* NotSoDifferent: Despite that Ares and War Machine are almost complete {{Foil}}s for each other, the former consider the latter as his champion and believes they are quite similar deep inside.* OnlySaneMan: You know something is ''messed up'' in a group when ''Venom'' looks like the normal one. He even lampshades it in his mini, saying that compared to the nutcases on his team, he looks like Creator/TomHanks.** Ares sometimes has to act like one, both doubting Osborn's actions and calling his teammates out when they act too crazy..** Bullseye in the "Mission Briefing" of the Inititave's attack on Asgard that was included in ''Siege'' #1. He spends the entire thing essentially saying "Yes, BUT THEY ARE LITERALLY AN ARMY OF GODS".* OutGambitted: Dracula by Pete Wisdom.** And Osborn by Cyclops and Emma.** Osborn again by [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who plays the entire Dark X-Men and Dark Avengers like a harp. Unfortunately, Osborn has the last laugh, as Nate makes a fatal miscalculation as regards the Green Goblin persona.* PapaWolf: Ares. When he heard about Phobos being hurt, he rushed to save him and murders a man who was taking care of him, [[LeeroyJenkins without even thinking twice]] about this information having come from ''[[ManipulativeBastard Hera]].''* PersonOfMassDestruction: Sentry and Molecule Man. [[spoiler:Bob proved to be the bigger one.]]* ThePlan: Several** Zodiac managed to pull a big one in his mini.** Osborn pulls dozens of them, some more successful than others.** Emma Frost pulled one in ''Utopia''* PowerFantasy: Right after the first Cabal meeting Doom imagines how he will overthrow Osborn, kill Namor and Hood and turn Emma and Loki into his slaves.-->'''Namor:''' Sometimes I wonder what's up in that head of yours.-->(Doom imagines himself killing Namor)-->'''Doom:''' Doom. ''Always'' Doom.* PowerOfTrust: Inverted - people's lack of trust in Pym gave Chthon more power.* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Ares]]* ReedRichardsIsUseless: And after SecretInvasion he got tired of it, went to look for an AlternateUniverse where he wasn't, and it inspired him to start working to solve ''everything''. Unfortunately, this is still making him useless in a sense, as while he's busy with this, the rest of the team is having to deal with Osborn.* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Subverted - [[spoiler: Kelda]] ''started'' to go on one after [[spoiler: Bill]]'s death, only to be [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead not quite killed]] by Doom]], without doing any harm.** Played straight with Tigra. After what ComicBook/TheHood did to her, she's ''pissed'', and wastes no time starting to hand out the torture to the minions who assisted or were there to witness.* SelfMadeOrphan: Bullseye, who claims to have killed both of his parents [[spoiler: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when his father appears only to be murdered by Lester]].* ShipSinking: Mockingbird, the old love of Hawkeye has returned. The one who died many years ago was a Skrull. But then it was revealed that [[spoiler:when she declined her idea of asking for a divorce, she had already been replaced. Mockingbird has returned... but she's not married to Hawkeye.]]* ShutUpHannibal: As expected, Spider-Man gets the final one on Osborn.* SixthRanger: {{Dracula}} wanted to become one for Cabal and his plan to conquer England was supposed to give him necessary position.* SmugSnake: Osborn.* SoProudOfYou: When Phobos managed to trick Osborn and then used his powers to scare the hell out of him, Ares was ''smiling proudly''.* StrawFeminist: Boudica, Lyra's AI sidekick was programmed as one.* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Pretty much entire point of problems with Sentry.* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end of Siege, Dark Avengers, and the Reign itself, Norman makes his disgust for the insane, unstable world he wanted to help known, fears and anxieties that are surprisingly valid and human.** Though they are undermined by the fact that he is ''NormanOsborn'', and is not exactly the person who should be complaining about other people being unstable or insane. ''Especially'' after this storyline, where his CharacterArc consisted of one long VillainousBreakdown brought on by his denial about how he is, at the end of the day, a psychopathic supervillain, and one who is mentally ill on top of that.* TakeThat: The books read like a snub to all of the readers who thought the ''Stark'' Administration was evil.** One of the last pages of ''[[GrandFinale Siege]]'' shows the skyline of New York, as a digitally written "[[spoiler: Superhero Registration Act thrown out]]" scrolls on a building. It almost seems the panel originally had confetti in it, really. Just add confetti and you'll have evidence that most of the writers had really ''had enough'' of the bucketload of crap JoeQuesada has put the MarvelUniverse through. But since Quesada (as you can see in his comments about ''Siege'' in the pages of the miniseries itself) was so ''proud'' of the whole [[FromACertainPointOfView epic]] saga made up of the various [[StoryArc Story Arcs]] (ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled, ComicBook/CivilWar - and by extension, given it was exactly what Quesada was aiming at, ComicBook/OneMoreDay - SecretInvasion and now this), maybe he himself demanded the confetti to be removed.* TangledFamilyTree: Considering Ultron originally ''created'' Jocasta to be his bride, the fact that they finally marry (albeit a "political marriage", as she still really hates him) isn't too bad. Then you remember that Jocasta's brain is based off his "mother". And that he created her, making himself her "father" in a sense. And she was dating ''his'' "father" at the time...who was her brain-source's ex-husband. Jesus Christ, this family.* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: War Machine provides trope page's image.* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: After pulling off a major GambitRoulette in SecretInvasion, this quickly becomes Norman Osborn's role over the course of the storyline, as every other member of the Cabal betrays him for their own purposes by the end.]] It's rather strongly foreshadowed from the beginning, though, and doesn't really lead to VillainDecay since, as a Spidey villain, even though he's totally out of his league he's still punching above his weight.* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Pym's reaction when Reed Richards said he knows more about Pym Particles than Hank.** [[OhNoYouDidnt Oh, No He Didn't!]]: Amadeus Cho says "Ooh, snap!" in response to this. [[SpitTake Stature's reaction]] can also count.* TooDumbToLive: The whole premise of Dark Reign is the United States government giving [[AxeCrazy Norman Osborn]], who is known to have been the Green Goblin, authority over superhuman affairs, who in turn demonizes and makes outlaws of the superhero community save the Fantastic Four. While the government's stupidity could be accepted, the fact is that the American public actually embraced Osborn and joined in the demonizing of the superheros. It really makes one wonder why the heroes don't just let Galactus eat the planet.* TookALevelInBadass: Brother Voodoo. Rhodey did as well for a while. Becoming a walking , talking instrument of War that could add any arsenal to his body and unleash new levels of destruction. Impressing even Ares and earning the title Champion of War.** Osborn doing this is the premise of the series; its also his second in just over a decade, the first being when he came BackFromTheDead and, firmly established himself once and for all as Spidermans ArchEnemy, as well as becoming a purer and more powerful CorruptCorporateExecutive than he was in the 60's and 70's.* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Norman stars in this story arc. Also, thanks to him, Henry Gyrich has one with S.W.O.R.D., and Taskmaster and Hood with The Initiative. But considering the wild parties he likes to throw and all, Taskmaster's story is perhaps more BaitAndSwitchTyrant.** It's worth nothing that Gyring managed then to be pain even in Osborn's butt, making him possibly biggest tyrant of them all.* UnexplainedRecovery: Sentry. [[spoiler: ''Four times.'']]* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Norman of course.* VillainousBreakdown: Recent comics have depicted Norman as being a hop, skip and a jump away from one of these, and his constant need to be a VillainWithGoodPublicity appears to be taking its toll. Perfectly in-character, though, as he was always portrayed as being mentally ill, more so than most.** And it doesn't help that Loki's making a good attempt at kicking him over the edge by manipulating him into increasingly risky plans. Like [[spoiler: Having the U-Foes take on the Warriors Three in such a way that it ''might'' get the Asgardians blamed for the destruction of Chicago's Soldier Field and the deaths of everyone there, thus giving Osborn the right to invade Latveria to get at them. Key word on that: ''might''.]]** [[spoiler: Siege #3. As everyone expected he eventually would, he's lost it. Though, frankly, it wasn't nearly as impressive as some of the breakdowns he's had previously.]]** Osborn's breakdown in response to {{Deadpool}} was particularly indignant, and his instability is made all the more all the more apparent as he [[spoiler:stops piloting the plane he's in just to stomp a mudhole in Deadpool. While the autopilot is ''OFF''.]]---> '''Osborn''': ''I'' owe (you)...? After all I've ''done'' for you people?! Do you have ''any'' idea who I ''am?'' All you people ever do is ''take, take, take!'' And it's ''never enough!'' ''I'm NormanOsborn!'' I saved this ''miserable planet'' and ''everyone on it!'' '''''You owe me your lives! Every worthless last one of you!'''''* VillainRespect: Bullseye, when Deadpool dodges a rocket he fired at him, causing it to travel through the entire truck he is in.-->'''Bullseye:''' ...okay, ''yeah'', I admit it. That was [[SoundEffectsBleep #@$%]]in' ''awesome''.* TheVirus: Ultimo Virus, which turns all carriers berserk and gives them eye beams.* WellIntentionedExtremist: War Machine can be seen as this, because he acts like one-man version of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority''. Osborn ''thinks'' he's one of these, but unsurprisingly, he isn't.** Loki just wanted the Soldier Field incident to happen because he thought it would send Asgard back where it belonged, away from mortal eyes. Instead, Osborn decides to go gung-ho and bring it down.* WhatTheHellHero: Rather amusingly, Norman pulls this on Luke Cage after he retrieves Cage's daughter from her Skrull kidnappers only for Cage to immediately break his word to him by refusing to join the Dark Avengers.* WildMassGuessing: Marvel encouraged this when it came to the identity of Osborn's mysterious and scary friend. One popular EpilepticTree was that it was the newly-acquired Marvelman/Miracleman.* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: It's been awhile since we've seen Molecule Man, but considering that he [[spoiler: made imaginary friend duplicates of some of the most powerful figures in the Marvelverse, created his own pocket dimension to live in, and is vanishing anyone who gets too close to it]], the years clearly have not been kind to his brain. Also, Sentry. In spades. Even once the Void's [[spoiler: no longer in his head (and is off wrecking hell on the X-Men)]], he's still a walking ball of about a billion neuroses.** [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility Fittingly enough]], this is also what happens to Osborn, as while he's always been batshit crazy, the pressures of his new job as the top dog cause him to slowly break, after years of more or less managing to keep his Goblin side under control.* TheWorfEffect: Sentry suffers from it sooo much. Being all powerful doesn't really help much when you're too neurotic to use it effectively in a fight.** It happens so often that it's really scary when he becomes serious in ''Siege''.** The ''entire'' Zodiac supervillain team is murdered mostly off panel (we see their bodies afterward) by the new Zodiac, who thought the name was cool and didn't want to deal with copyright issues. He also carried their heads around in a bag for awhile.** Ares is even more of a Worf than the Sentry. When the writes want to take out the Dark Avengers' big guns to show how dire their situation is, the Sentry usually just has a HeroicBSOD and runs off, while Ares gets beaten down, blown up, turned to stone, torn in half, etc.* WreckedWeapon: Mjolnir, after delivering a deadly hit to [[spoiler: Bor]].* XanatosSpeedChess: Loki managed to play one of greatest {{Evil Plan}}s in his career [[spoiler: by manipulating Thor into killing Bor, thus getting him exiled, and convincing Balder to have the Asgardians move to Latveria]]. But just in case something could go wrong and restore status quo, he's got several other plans prepared, and apparently has backup plans for his backup plans.** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] pulls this off fairly effectively in ''Dark X-Men'' and, were it not for one miscalculation, would have ended ''Dark Reign'' all by himself.* YourMindMakesItReal: Sort of. Erebus has always existed in the Marvelverse, but now that Hades/Pluto is no longer interested in maintaining the souls of the dead, it altered itself to become an arena of games of chance. Which, in modern minds, equals casino. It's also been relocated to Atlantic City.


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Performance considerations for Windows 95 using jdk 1.4 or 1.5
Hello, are there any technical considerations related on Swing / Awt applications running on Windows 95 platform we should consider at the moment of selecting the JRE Version (either 1.4.2 or 1.5.0) and the JVM options to optimize de performance in the application?.
Well, yes.
As far as I know the latest java version which (officially) supported Win95 was java-1.3 which did all its rendering in software and is a lot slower compared to 1.4.2 or 1.5 when it comes down to Swing performance.
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October 13, 2015 | Broken clouds, 71 °F
Sisters Eve and Leonora Epstein — one from Generation X, the other from Generation Y — compare their lives through the lens of TV, music, technology and pop culture in their new book, "X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story" (Abrams Books). Seen through the eyes of siblings 14 years apart in age, "X vs. Y" is a smart, funny and visually driven anthology that compiles and compares their two generational cultures.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney spent this past Sunday, March 9, visiting Ukrainian churches in the Brooklyn and Queens portions of her district. Congresswoman Maloney has sizable Ukrainian populations in all three boroughs that she represents. Many of them attend the Ukrainian churches in northwest Brooklyn, Manhattan's Lower East Side and Astoria, Queens.
The Brooklyn Eagle has a swell home high in the sky on Court Street, but sometimes we miss our old digs at 30 Henry St.Tuesday we checked up on the sleek Brooklyn Heights condo building that's being constructed where our old Henry Street offices stood.The scaffolding is gone, so you can get a good sense of the new building's presence on the street.Before you know it, workers will be finished with sidewalk construction.
At last!
It's rehab time.
Gowanus' lonely little landmark, the Coignet Building, is getting the long-awaited fix-up its giant neighbor, Whole Foods, has promised.
Scaffolding just went up on the distinctive 1870s-vintage city landmark at the corner of Third Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus – which is flanked by the upscale supermarket that opened to great fanfare in December.
On Saturday, hundreds of high school students and an army of rolling robots filled the gym at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering in Downtown Brooklyn to participate in NYC FIRST's robotics competition.
As supporters cheered them on, thirty six teams from the city and Long Island put their shopping-cart-sized mechanisms through a series of challenges in the FIRST Tech Challenge Regional Championship. The teams have been developing their robots, with the guidance of adult mentors, for months.
New York state, as an employer, is not responsible for a security guard who punched a wooden bench, injuring a bystander, the Brooklyn appellate court ruled.
The owners of this lovable pink elephant, which temporarily graced DUMBO's Archway plaza under the Manhattan Bridge, are bidding a fond goodbye to their floppy-eared creation.
Here's the good part: If you can pick up this wooden sculpture yourself, it's free to keep.
The elephant's owners add, "Plus, wouldn't it be cool to take this elephant out on a joy ride all the way home?"
But there is a dark undertone to their posting on Craigslist: "It'd be sad to see our pink friend go out a different way."
Uh oh.
Traffic safety advocates have called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to target busy Jay Street as part of his ambitious "Vision Zero" plan to eliminate traffic-related deaths in the city.
So, on Monday night, dozens of Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO residents flocked to a community planning meeting - – dubbed "Reimagine Jay Street" – to demand safety measures. These measures ranged from a protected cycling lane to better enforcement of existing regulations to off-street police parking.
A new lawsuit has been filed by 1,500 Haitian plaintiffs against the United Nations over a cholera outbreak that has killed thousands in the Caribbean nation.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court, seeks compensations for deaths and illnesses and funding for clean water in Haiti, which was devastated by a 2010 earthquake.
Scientific studies have shown that cholera was likely introduced in Haiti by U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, where the disease is endemic.
The new suit also asks the court to declare that the U.N. has no immunity.
Recently, Brooklyn-raised filmmaker Spike Lee made waves when he complained about the gentrification of his former neighborhood, Fort Greene, which has a large African-American community.


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Loader Issues: Specifically VRML
Hello Board,
I am looking to load a 3D model of an airplane. The original is in IV format, but I was looking into using the TGS 3SpaceAssistant (www.tgs.com) to convert the files to VRML. During a trial period on their I attempted to load the converted VRML files into Java3D using the three loaders listed on the J3D site (http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders.html). None of them worked for me, each with different problems. Has anyone used the 3SpaceAsistant program before/know if its worth its salt? Is there a better file conversion tool (free or pay)?
Is there a good reason that both the CyberX3D and J3D-VRML97 loaders do not follow the interface laid out by Java? Their code makes it difficult to swap out loaders easily, and very difficult to get the model back from the loader.
The Xj3D preview loader would not accept my model at all, so I did not attempt to integrate it into my code.
Overall I am very frustrated with this all. I started looking into different file formats and loaders to go with them. The Lightwave loader included in the J3D code failed to load several models I passed it, both .lwo and .lws files. I had some success with the 3DS loader by Aaron Mulder (http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders/3ds/mulder.html), however it still failed on some models.
I am willing to look into a variety of file formats, but need a reliable loader. The models I am loading are simple, purely geometry: I can add lights in J3D, and there will be no animation or complex things like fog or shadows.
Any advice on this subject would be much appreciated.
The question is which VRML format did it convert to? If you're coming from
IV, then it's most likely to have converted to VRML 1.0, which no loaders
support that I'm aware of. WHat error messages did the various loaders
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The 3SpaceAssistant allowed conversion to VRML 2.0 (VRML97).
The Xj3D demo browser fails to load the file with an error of:
Unexpected Exception:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3
at org.web3d.vrml.renderer.common.nodes.geom3d.BaseIndexedFaceSet.rebuildFaceLists(BaseIndexedFaceSet.java:1176)
at xj3d.browser.Xj3DBrowser.load(Xj3DBrowser.java:663)
I will put the other loaders back into my code, however the problem with the J3D-VRML97 loader was trying to interface with it. When you do a load it returns a Scene object written by them, and from there I can not easily pull off a SceneGroup according to instructions with the standard loader interface.
Give me a second on the CyberX3D to recreate the error, I will post in a minute.
Thanks for the fast response Justin ^_^.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 email@example.com wrote:
> The 3SpaceAssistant allowed conversion to VRML 2.0 (VRML97).
Ok. That makes things easier to track down :)
> The Xj3D demo browser fails to load the file with an error of:
> Unexpected Exception:
> 3
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3
> at org.web3d.vrml.renderer.common.nodes.geom3d.BaseIndexedFaceSet.rebuildFaceLists(BaseIndexedFaceSet.java:1176)
That's an odd one as it's a blank line of code in my copy here. Would you
mind sending me a test file that's generating this error and I'll take a
look at it next week when I get back to the office. I have some paid time
to go through the IFS code right now to do some performance improvements,
so I'll debug it while in the area.
One possible problem with the other loaders is that the file conversion
may not have been perfect. That's something that we encounter reasonably
regularly, unfortunately. At least having a look at the test file will
reveal anything dodgy going on in that area too.
> however the problem with the J3D-VRML97 loader was trying to interface
> with it. When you do a load it returns a Scene object written by them,
> and from there I can not easily pull off a SceneGroup according to
> instructions with the standard loader interface.
Considering that it was one of the first loaders written by Sun to their
own interface, and I'm very familiar with the codebase (that's where Xj3D
descended from) then that seems quite an interesting statement. The
interface did correspond to the stock requirements of the Scene, which
allows access to the root node. What's changed then - or are you making
the invalid assumption that everything should return an instance of
SceneBase and not Scene?
> Give me a second on the CyberX3D to recreate the error, I will post in
a minute.
I'll be online for about another hour before heading off again. Won't be
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What does IFS stand for?
I am using the Xj3D demo browser that is created after installing the Xj3D code set. From there I am just attempting to open the VRML model, and then the error occurs.
On the J3D-VRML97 loader, I am looking at the API for the Loader class. Using the returned Scene object from the load() method, I thought you could then call getSceneGroup() on the Scene object. This is what I used for the Sun supported Lw3dLoader and the 3DS loader by Aaron Mulder. The J3D-VRML97 API does not say their Loader class implements the Loader interface.
I looked in the CyberX3D, their code does not follow the Java interfaces either. It seems their code is built around traversing the node structure till you find the specific nodes you want to grab off. I do now know enough about the file format attempt this.
I will be out of the office until early next week also, but will be looking for responses then. Good travels to you.
Hello Justin,
Any chance to look into this matter? I still have had no luck with the loaders.
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> Hello Justin,
> Any chance to look into this matter? I still have had no luck with the loaders.
Sorry. Completely slipped my mind. We're in heads-down-bums-up mode
trying to get ready for I/ITSEC next week, thus my attention has been
heavily focussed trying to get some demos working.
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Swamp Buggy Parade's future in question as Naples leaders look for budget cuts POLL
NAPLES - They love a parade.
But facing a tight budget, Naples officials next week are expected to discuss whether to continue underwriting costs of the decades-old Swamp Buggy Parade that runs through the heart of Naples the last weekend in October.
Without the city's financial support, there won't be a Swamp Buggy Parade down U.S. 41, said Chuck McMahon, vice president of events for the Swamp Buggy race.
"We would not be able to have it down U.S. 41 without the city's help," he said. "We would have to move it. It's the largest, most exciting parade they have. That's a big loss for the city of Naples … I can't imagine they want to lose it."
The city has been underwriting the costs of public safety personnel, including police officers and firefighters, for decades, said David Lykins, community services director for the city of Naples.
Eliminating that underwriting, or sponsorship, would save the city about $9,000 annually in police and fire overtime costs, Lykins said in a Feb. 1 memo to City Council.
The city paid 46 police officers and one beach specialist a combined $8,023 in overtime to work at the 2010 parade. In 2009, that cost was $10,121 for 49 officers, one beach specialist, one sergeant and one lieutenant.
The cost savings may be discussed Monday when the Naples City Council also considers cuts to several city-sponsored recreation programs.
All of the proposed cuts have the potential to save the city up to $209,000 in fiscal 2012, and include eliminating traditional summer camp programs, staff-run events such as Bunnymania at Fleischmann Park and special performances at Cambier Park.
The Swamp Buggy Parade kicks off the fall swamp buggy competition at the Florida Sports Park east of Naples. It historically has made its way down U.S. 41 beginning at Fleischmann Boulevard before ending at Third Avenue South.
Councilman Gary Price said that with the amount of emergency personnel deployed to cover the parade each year, the city needs to look at its options.
"At some point these types of events get to be more than we can do," Price said. "It's a huge impact on the community. It's a huge financial impact."
Lykins suggested in his Feb. 1 memo that the parade "if deemed a benefit to the Naples community, may be along the same route but sponsored by Collier County and supported by the Sheriff's Office'' should those agencies agree.
Lykins said county government hasn't been contacted about it and a sheriff's spokeswoman said Thursday no one was immediately available to comment.
"In the past we have talked about whether to continue to pay for the cost of certain events, and the Swamp Buggy Parade was viewed as one we had a long history with," City Manager Bill Moss said. "It's the only parade on U.S. 41, and it seemed it was natural for the parade to continue (but to be) supported by Collier County than the city itself."
Price agreed, and said he didn't want to see the parade disappear — he just wanted to see other ways it could be supported.
The Swamp Buggy Parade has been a Naples tradition since 1949, according to minutes from an April 2009 City Council meeting.
"It's part of Naples' culture," said Doris Reynolds, a Naples historian and Daily News contributor. "They don't say anything about St. Patrick's Day Parade (or other parades). Why are they suddenly picking on the Swamp Buggy Parade?"
Naples City Council meets at 8:30 a.m. Monday at Naples City Hall, Eighth Street South.
"They don't say anything about St. Patrick's Day Parade (or other parades). Why are they suddenly picking on the Swamp Buggy Parade?" asked Doris Reynolds, a Naples historian.
Lykins said no one is picking on the Swamp Buggy Parade, but that there is a direct effect on Naples businesses during events such as the annual Christmas parade or the St. Patrick's Day parade on Fifth Avenue South, compared to the Swamp Buggy Parade.
The bulk of the other parades in Naples start on Third Street South and go up Fifth Avenue South before ending in Cambier Park.
While Lykins said this is the first time the city's involvement with the Swamp Buggy Parade has been on the chopping block, a Daily News records search shows that City Council broached the idea in 2009 when discussing ways to balance the fiscal 2010 budget. Canceling the parade, as well as cutting costs associated with employees working for the Great Dock Canoe Race, were targeted as potential ways to save money, according to minutes from an April 13, 2009 meeting.
Naples Mayor Bill Barnett said Thursday he's anticipating the discussion, but isn't willing to say he supports the idea.
"I realize … money is tight and we're looking under rocks and tree stumps (for it)," he said. "But there are some that are almost a sacred cow, and I would say this one would be one of them."
Underwriting the parade isn't the only cut up for consideration Monday. Naples City Council also will be asked to consider eliminating the traditional summer camp at Lake Park Elementary School, an after-school program at Fleischmann Park and several city-run events.
Lykins said city staff "just needs to get some type of directive for support or non-support" as soon as possible.
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Gael is gathering 10 signatures to
Stop The Senseless Killing Of Staten Island Turkeys
I do not think we have the right to kill these turkeys because a few people have decided they don't want them there. They have been encouraged to come there for food. Humans have trained them to come there for food and now-wham-now they are going to be killed because of human actions. Not everyone wants the turkeys to be caught and killed.Please let them live. If they can be caught to be killed then they can be caught and relocated.


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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, September 20th the Washington Redskins along with their heath and wellness partner GlaxoSmithKline, and Men's Health Network (MHN), will recognize Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by distributing 10,000 blue prostate cancer awareness ribbons and disease awareness information cards to fans prior to the start of the Redskins vs. Rams game at FedExField. Led by MHN staff, volunteers from GlaxoSmithKline, Sigma Phi Epsilon (DC Gamma - Georgetown University) fraternity, the Hogettes, cheerleaders, alumni cheerleaders and others from the Redskins family will hand out the ribbons at stadium entry gates from 11:00 a.m. until the 1:00 p.m. kick-off.
Over the past two years the Washington Redskins and GlaxoSmithKline have teamed up to boost health awareness in the Washington DC community with a goal of encouraging people to do more, feel better, and live longer. Over the past two years they have also partnered with other Washington DC area healthcare partners to host several free health screenings for the community in the Redskins locker room at FedExField. Sunday's event marks the fifth event partnership between the Washington Redskins, GlaxoSmithKline, and MHN promoting prostate health and overall health & wellness.
One in six American men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes. Prostate Cancer is also the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in American men.
"Teaming up with the Redskins and GlaxoSmithKline for this event will bring awareness to a disease that is taking the lives of thousands of men each year and having a significant impact on families. Men over 40 should speak to their healthcare provider to discuss prostate health exams that include both a PSA and DRE test," remarks Scott Williams, VP, Men's Health Network.
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GERMANTOWN, Md., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Psyadon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its Phase 2 study of ecopipam in patients with Tourette Syndrome was stopped early when a planned interim analysis revealed a statistically significant reduction in the severity of the patients' tic symptoms. This decision was supported by both the independent Drug Safety and Monitoring Committee overseeing the study and by the external Research Committee established as part of Psyadon's partnership with the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) - the nation's largest patient advocacy group for this disorder.
"Stopping this study early because of positive results is an important development for Psyadon and hopefully for patients with Tourette Syndrome," said Richard Chipkin, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Psyadon. "We are eager to move ecopipam into the next stages of clinical development."
Donald Gilbert, M.D., the study's principal investigator and professor and director of the Movement Disorder and Tourette Syndrome clinics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center said "I am encouraged by the results of this study. I believe a lot of families are looking for new treatment options and current therapies have serious side effects. Although more investigation is needed, ecopipam may represent a safer, more effective choice."
Kevin McNaught, Ph.D., vice president for medical and scientific programs at the TSA added "The TSA is proud to have helped fund this study. There haven't been any new treatments for Tourette Syndrome approved by the FDA in over twenty years. Should ecopipam's efficacy be confirmed in future trials, it would be a welcome addition to the resources available to these patients."
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This Phase 2 study called 'Ecopipam Treatment of Tourette's Syndrome (PSY301)', was a multicenter, open-label, nonrandomized study conducted to assess the ac
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In a few short weeks, Americans will go to the polls to cast their ballot. During this period politicians will be making their final push to convince an engaged electorate why they are the best choice. Unfortunately for Democrats, increased scrutiny does not bode well for their electoral chances. Simply put, America stands at the precipice of an economic abyss and the failed policies of liberalism are not the answer.
Policies such as taxing hard working Americans will not stimulate the economy. Such tactics further harm our economy, making growth much more difficult. Yet, the next generation of left-wingers that national Democrats are trying to elect, including Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Jeff Merkley of Oregon have a history of opposing pro-growth policies at the state level. While on the federal level, Boulder Liberal Mark Udall (D-CO) has aggressively advocated for economy choking taxes to fund bigger government.
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Morning Report: More local police sent to SB as fire evacuations expand
Police and Fire: Law enforcement agencies across Ventura County sent additional resources to Santa Barbara late last night as the Jesusita Fire moved dangerously close to heavily populated areas and officials expanded evacuation orders.
Local authorities received an emergency request for additional police at 10:35 p.m. Thursday night, said Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Mike De Los Santos.
Santa Barbara authorities asked local agencies to send resources as fast as possible, using lights and sirens on their vehicles if necessary, De Los Santos said. They asked local agencies to double the number of personnel assigned to help with evacuations, traffic control and security in the area affected by the fire.
As of this morning, Ventura County law enforcement agencies have dispatched about 100 police to Santa Barbara, De Los Santos said.
County agencies sent some officers and deputies late last night and sent additional personnel north early this morning.
Firefighters struggled early today to get ahead of the raging wildfire, which has so far forced the evacuation of an estimated 30,000 residents, the Associated Press reported.
Officials expanded evacuation orders late Thursday night and early Friday morning as gusty winds pushed the flames down from the steep canyons above this affluent coastal city and threatened residential flatlands.
Traffic: At 6:48 a.m., the California Highway Patrol was reporting a large sinkhole causing a traffic hazard on Collins Street just east of Alvarado Street in El Rio. The sinkhole was first reported at 6:30 a.m.
Weather: Sunny and warm weather is expected throughout the county today, the National Weather Service reported.
Forecasters predict high temperatures in the 70s at county beaches, and into the 90s in local valleys and parts of local mountains.
A high wind warning is in effect through 9 a.m. today for local mountains, where gusts up to 75 mph are expected in some areas.
Gusts up to 25 mph are expected in local valleys this morning.
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WASHINGTON -- On Thursday night, Rick Santorum told a debate audience that he does his own taxes. He's not as diligent when it comes to bar dues: The former senator's license to practice law is under "administrative suspension," according to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Such a suspension would typically come about not for serious malfeasance but for failing to pay an annual $70 fee required to stay current.
"There's no indication that Santorum has violated any rules of conduct," Tim McNair, a Pennsylvania attorney and HuffPost Hill reader who spotted the suspension and flagged it to us. But, he said, it does speak to basic organizational abilities.
"If you want to be responsible, you have to take care of business, and for whatever reason, Rick hasn't done it," said McNair, a Democrat who has volunteered for three Santorum opponents in Pennsylvania.
Santorum's suspension was for non-payment of a fee that would have allowed him to stay inactive, his campaign told HuffPost. He's been inactive since 1994 and was finally suspended on April 2, 2010, board records show. The fee itself was nominal.
Senior Political Adviser J. Hogan Gidley says Santorum is aware of his suspension. "Rick says he was never disciplined," Gidley confirmed. "He just didn't renew it."
Before politics, Santorum had worked for the respected Pittsburgh law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart in the '80s. His career highlight -- or at least the one drawing the most attention -- may have been representing the World Wrestling Federation. He lobbied state legislators in Harrisburg on the league's behalf, arguing that the oiled-up musclemen should be excused from federal steroid regulations. He may have disappointed young fans everywhere by pointing out that wrestling was more like theater than real sport.
Of that case, Santorum boasted to the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010: "I was at the center of that. Pennsylvania was the most pernicious of states when it came to regulation. They made you pay all this money to the boxing [athletic] commission. They used to just rape these guys. You'd have to pay a certain percentage of the gate receipts to have these officials just stand around and watch the match. It was ridiculous."
Santorum -- who spends much of his time in Virginia and has property there -- still lists a Pennsylvania address with the disciplinary board. If the presidential campaign doesn't work out and he wants to jump back into a legal career in Pennsylvania, he'll have to hit the books.
According to the disciplinary board, in order to get readmitted, Santorum would have to take "a minimum of thirty-six (36) hours of accredited PA CLE courses with a minimum twelve (12) of those hours in the area of Ethics."
"It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." Think Progress, 2011
"Marriage is what marriage is. Marriage was around before government said what it was. It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage." "It's like handing up this and saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well you can call it a glass of beer, it's not a glass of beer, it's a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is." "I can call this napkin a paper towel, but it is a napkin. Why? Because it is, what it is." Iowa Independant, 2011 Think Progress, 2011 MSNBC, 2011
"I -- I would say, any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military. And the fact that they're making a point to include it as a provision within the military that we are going to recognize a group of people and give them a special privilege to -- to -- and removing 'don't ask, don't tell' I think tries to inject social policy into the military. And the military's job is to do one thing, and that is to defend our country." Fox News, 2011
"The problem is that sexual activity with people who you are in close quarters with who happen to be of the same sex is different than being open about your sexuality ... They're in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people." HuffPost, 2011
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." Associated Press, 2003
"You are black by the color of your skin. You are not homosexual, necessarily -- obviously, by the color of your skin. [...] The idea that being black and being gay is the same is simply not true." Fox News, 2011
"When you look at someone to determine whether they'd be the right person for public office, look at who they lay down with at night and what they believe in." Talking Points Memo, 2011
"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing." Associated Press, 2003
"Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family." Associated Press, 2003
"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions -- I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society." Associated Press, 2003
"This is an issue just like 9/11 ... We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when?" "The battle we're engaged in right now on same-sex marriage, ultimately that is the very foundation of our country, the family, what the family structure is going to look like. I'll die on that hill fighting." The Morning Call, 2004 Think Progress, 2011
"You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father. ... Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?" Pittsburg Post Gazette, 2011
"So the gay community said, 'He's comparing gay sex to incest and polygamy, how dare he do this,' and they have gone out on a, I would argue, jihad against Rick Santorum since then." The Hill, 2011


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Treatment of HT1080 cells with H2O2 rapidly induced the formation of phosphorylated H2AX and 53BP1 foci (Figure 1 ). There is a marked increase in the number and intensity of foci in H202 treated cells compared to control cells. The two foci shared a high degree of co-localization within nuclei as observed in the merged images.
Preliminary results had shown that the nuclear foci were not evenly distributed in the same focal plane ( Figure 2 ). We used the ability of the BD Pathway Bioimager to acquire 9 sections separated by 1.5 μm steps in confocal mode. To achieve the required spatial resolution, we used a 40 (NA 0.90) objective. Using the novel collapsed-stack acquisition feature, images were then automatically projected into a single focal plane with all objects appearing in focus.
This allowed segmentation and identification of objects within the nucleus using a customized image analysis routine written in BD IPLab for Pathway. The collapsed stack images were compared to images acquired in non-confocal mode ( Figure 2 shows part of an image containing a single nucleus). The analysis tool generated specific parameters such as foci count, foci area as percent nuclear area, average foci intensity and average foci size. On the cellular level, the response appeared highly heterogeneous and cells could be found that sh


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It seems self-explanatory that every woman needs a good cache of shorts in her closet for summer—what's a bit more challenging is figuring out how to style those shorts in creative ways, so that they're appropriate for multiple occasions.
Below, celebrity stylists Emily Current and Meritt Elliott share their top five tips for how to dress up your favorite shorts this summer. Scroll down for a serious education in making the summer staples elegant enough for pretty much any event you've got this season!


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Alex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers' Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing and is the co-founder of the Bloody Scotland international crime writing festival. Married with a son and daughter, she lives in Scotland and is currently writing the next book in the Detective Lorimer series. www.alex-gray.com
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer's patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that enzyme in mice, the researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms.
The finding suggests that drugs targeting the enzyme, known as HDAC2, could be a promising new approach to treating the disease, which affects 5.4 million Americans. The number of Alzheimer's victims worldwide is expected to double every 20 years, and President Barack Obama recently set a target date of 2025 to find an effective treatment.
Li-Huei Tsai, leader of the research team, says that HDAC2 inhibitors could help achieve that goal, though it would likely take at least 10 years to develop and test such drugs.
"I would really strongly advocate for an active program to develop agents that can contain HDAC2 activity," says Tsai, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. "The disease is so devastating and affects so many people, so I would encourage more people to think about this."
Tsai and her colleagues report the findings in the Feb. 29 online edition of Nature. Lead author of the paper is Johannes Grff, a postdoc at the Picower Institute.
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Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are a family of 11 enzymes that control gene regulation by modifying histones proteins around which DNA is spooled, forming a structure called chromatin. When HDACs alter a histone through a process called deacetylation, chromatin becomes more tightly packaged, making genes in that region less likely to be expressed.
HDAC inhibitors can reverse this effect, opening up the DNA and allowing it to be transcribed.
In previous studies, Tsai had shown that HDAC2 is a key regulator of learning and memory. In the new study, her team discovered that inhibiting HDAC2 can reverse A
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Andover, Massachusetts (PRWEB) June 24, 2013
According to a recent medical study released by the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (June 18, 2013), child safety restraint systems have been found to be increasingly effective at preventing serious injury and deaths amongst children between the ages of four to eight years old. Tom Kiley Sr., Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, comments on the increasing role that child restraint systems have as more injury studies continue to be released.
According to the study, children deaths between the ages of one and three years old have fallen by more than 50% in the past three decades, but motor-vehicle collisions are still the leading cause of death amongst those between the ages of one and seventeen. The study found child safety restraint systems, such as booster seats, to significantly decrease the mortality rate when properly utilized.
Rather than creating programs directed towards decreasing costs for financially struggling parents, the doctors involved in the study suggested increasing awareness campaigns to highlight the life-saving potential of restraint systems for growing kids.
Tom Kiley Sr., Massachusetts Car Accident Lawyer, has assisted several people who have been involved in collisions that injured themselves and their families. "Having worked with several families that have suffered injuries from motor-vehicle collisions I believe the general public is aware of the importance of car seats. What is particularly interesting about this study are the age groups for which car and booster seats were fou
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(Nairobi, Kenya) Today the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, together with the Department of Family Health (Division of Child and Adolescent Health), unveiled a renewed set of national policy guidelines to redouble diarrhoeal disease management and control efforts by putting proven interventions to work within the country's health system. This announcement comes at a time when global progress against diarrhoea has stalled. Contrary to what many Kenyans believe, diarrhoea is dangerous and not a normal part of childhood development. When left untreated, diarrhoea kills─and is the third-leading cause of death of children under five years old in Kenya.
"Kenya has reduced diarrhoea-related deaths before, but recent data indicates that we have work to do to improve the use of basic treatments like oral rehydration therapy," offered Beth Mugo, MP, Minister for Public Health and Sanitation. "While many Kenyans have gained access to safe drinking water, the majority still lack access to proper sanitation. This updated policy to combat diarrhoeal disease builds on our achievements and lessons learned during the implementation of the previous policy formulated in the 1990s."
As part of its new diarrhoeal disease control policy, the government, through the Ministry of Public Heath and Sanitation and with help from partners including the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), PATH, Population Services International (PSI), and Micronutrient Initiative, will distribute a new chart with the latest diarrhoeal disease control information to all health workers throughout the country this year. This chart will help health workers educate caregivers on how to care for their children at home and when to bring them into the clinic for additional treatment.
"Diarrhoea can be treated in the home with over-the-counter oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation," noted Dr. Olivia Yambi of UNICEF. "Toge
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