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Castro naked guys have gone too far
The naked guys in the Castro aren't content with just being nude. They have to be obnoxious, too.
It wasn't enough that the exhibitionists wanted to stroll past sidewalk cafes in the buff and flaunt their shortcomings in the Castro Plaza. Now Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents the area, says there are reports of them engaging in public sex acts and of charging tourists to take a photo of them in the buff.
The principal at Harvey Milk Elementary School in the heart of the Castro has seen naked men while going to and from school. And Mission Station police who patrol the neighborhood report a consistent rise in complaints that range from seeing men who walk around with robes on and flash, to men who use props to call attention to their birthday suits and others who wear genital jewelry that stimulates arousal.
"The more over the top they get, the more public opinion has shifted," Wiener said. The problem is so bad that he said it's the most-raised issue among his constituents - topping homelessness and Muni.
The naked guys may get a giggle out of tourists, but when you live in the neighborhood it gets old in a hurry.
"I would say the overwhelming majority of my neighbors are fed up with it," said gay rights activist Cleve Jones, who has lived in the Castro "on and off" for 40 years.
A year ago Wiener drafted - and the Board of Supervisors passed - what's known as the "skid mark law." The ordinance requires nudists to put a towel or cloth down before using public seating.
I said at the time that the law didn't go far enough and ridiculed Wiener for making the city a national joke. The most recent examples of nudity Wiener cited clearly show there is a need to ban nudity on public streets, and I applaud him for rethinking how the issue should be handled. The skid mark law isn't working. And quite frankly, San Francisco wouldn't be alone in banning the naked guys. Marin County and even Berkeley have nudity laws.
There's a difference between going somewhere where nudists congregate and being confronted on the way to the ATM. C'mon, if you are shocked to see nude people at the Folsom Street Fair, you haven't been paying attention. But increasingly, the Castro is full of families with kids. This isn't a nude beach; it's one of the busiest places in the city.
San Franciscans, and Castro residents, have bent the city's code of tolerance into a pretzel attempting to accommodate the nudies. We wouldn't want to be seen as non-inclusive after all. Or prejudiced to those of a non-clothed belief system.
Wiener has been in office for nearly two years, and he says that during that time, the attitude on the naked guys has shifted.
"There are quite a few people two years ago who would have been against a ban and today they support it," he said. "The guys have taken it to such an extreme. I have to say it's actually sad because I think for many, many years we were totally fine in the city without any kind of ban on public nudity."
Wiener stresses, by the way, that IF he proposes a ban on nudity that it won't include festivals like the Folsom Street Fair or even the nude runners in the Bay to Breakers. This is about naked men taking over the street furniture.
The real laugh is the sense of entitlement that the naked guys have, spouting high-minded nonsense about personal rights and defending free speech. Ridiculous.
And yet, they are given every break. Two weeks ago my family and I were having brunch at Starbelly restaurant at the corner of Market and 16th streets, when the naked parade trooped past. There wasn't a person in the place who cracked a smile.
In fact, as far as I could tell the prevailing response was a single word - yuck.
C.W. Nevius is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. His columns appear Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @cwnevius


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Life continually surprises me.
When I lived in New York, in an old pre-war apartment on the Upper West Side, I devoured The New York Times every Sunday. My dear friend Sharon and I walked up to Absolute Bagels in the late morning, bought two bagels each (one with cream cheese and a generous stack of lox, the other with lox cream cheese spread), and walked back to our place, talking. We made a big pot of tea and sat at the creaky table in the kitchen. Light came through the smudged windows there was no budget at our building for window washers and fell on the sections of the newspaper spread out across the table. We put on good music, Beatles and Bach, mostly. And we sat there, for hours, until the teapot was empty and our fingertips were stained charcoal grey from all the newsprint.
There haven't been any Sunday mornings like that in a long time.
I read every single section of that paper. Okay, I skipped the business section. But I always found myself looking forward most to the magazine. And increasingly, I rushed first to the food columns written by Molly O'Neill.
Take a look at the opening to this piece from January 1998:
"WITH a fixed gaze, Madeleine Kamman watched the gently rolling chicken broth simmer around the endive on the stove. Her ice-blue eyes trained on a single leaf, she was alert for the faint shiver that would signal its softening.
In a flash, she added the dash of sugar that would help the endive caramelize. She shook the pan. She exhaled. "Now it's up to time and the fire," she said. Ms. Kamman wasn't instructing her visitor. She was reminding herself.
In a black beaded sweater, black slacks and tidy black pumps, Ms. Kamman looked like a bourgeoise grand-mere. At 67, the French-born chef, who is famous for her merciless exactitude and her meticulous cookbooks and teaching, is trying to accept that some things are beyond even her control.
A purist with an encyclopedic knowledge of food chemistry and food history, and a harsh judge, Ms. Kamman remains the superego of modern America's food revolution."
I couldn't get enough of Molly O'Neill's writing, her muscular, playful writing. She had command of my brain from the first sentence.
I didn't know then that I wanted to write about food. Looking back, it all seems inevitable. The photos I took on my Kodak disposable camera when Sharon and I ate at Le Pain Quotidien or the Amish pie place. The way I remembered the breakfasts best. The fact that I grabbed the magazine to read Molly O'Neill's columns before anything else, even the wedding announcements. It all seems pretty clear to me now.
But back then, I just wanted to write. Anything. Everything. I wanted to write.
Now, here I am writing.
And next month, I will be part of an extraordinary gathering of writers, organized by Molly O'Neill, here on Vashon Island.
And I'd like you to be here, if you can.
The Longhouse Writers Revival will be a day-long gathering in a big red barn, here on Vashon. It's a conversation about the false divide between old-school writers and new media writers. (Hint: we're all writers.) It's bound to be spirited and funny, a little contentious and mostly amazing. That day-long seminar on August 12th will also be followed by a pig roast we're finding just the right cooks for it now and a gathering of berry desserts. If you come to the Revival, bring a dessert made with Washington berries. There will be a contest for best-in-show, with that recipe published on One Big Table for all to see. (Personally, I want to see a gluten-free dessert win!)
A warm August day. Vashon. A big red barn. Great conversation. Pig roast. Berry desserts. How could you not want to be there?
And if you're on the east coast, there will be another of these in the middle of September, in upstate New York. I am honored to be part of this too.
Along with this, there are writing classes.
On August 13th and 14th, Molly and I are team-teaching a two-day seminar called Essentials of Food Writing Day Camp.
"This 2-day intensive explores the elements of food writing as a genre. It presents its basic forms — the recipe-driven service piece, news article, and personal essay as well as food blogging, opinion and food policy and advocacy stories. After each form is introduced, students write a sample that is presented for group discussion. The balance of brief lectures, writing, work-shopping, and on-site editing of each piece allows students to experience each form and to identify their strengths and weaknesses as writers. The two-day intensive culminates in a pitch-a-thon in which each student is given three minutes to present a story, post, or book they'd like to write for comment and suggestions about how to structure the piece and where to sell it."
Class is limited to 15 people, so sign up soon.
And on August 15th, we're teaching an advanced seminar called Food Writing Masters Class Day Camp.
"This intimate, one-day intensive is designed for experienced food writers seeking to hone skills and to create (or to continue) long form work in books, documentary, or a brand-creating body of blog work. In addition to exercises for professional writers, each writer's work will be presented and discussed with an eye to technical aspects of creating winning book or project proposals. Each participant is also offered a one-on-one session to discuss their work or ideas with one of the facilitators."
This seminar will be limited to 8 people, so if you think this might be right for you, submit some writing samples and register here.
(Lunch and lovely foods will be provided at both seminars. Of course, there will be gluten-free food for those of you who need it.)
Life continually surprises me.
You could not have told me, when I sat at that kitchen table in an apartment in New York, that one day I could no longer eat those bagels. That Sharon would live far away. That I'd move back to Vashon, after leaving it for New York. That there would be years with a darling child where reading the Sunday paper seemed like a decadent luxury.
Mostly, you could not have told me that, one day, I'd be teaching writing with Molly O'Neill. The woman who worked with Lillian Hellman, Julia Child, and MFK Fisher? Wanting to work with me?
I'm very grateful. And kind of giggling at the same time.
I hope to see some of you there.

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On 5/4/08, Ben Boyle <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > We already have (at least) two key paths for "conformance": HTML > conformance + WCAG conformance. That is (part of) the problem. WCAG conformance is always an add-on that might or might not be remembered, or checked. In practice, it seems to be checked less often than CSS conformance. Part of the reason is that CSS conformance is more easily checked by an automated tool. On the other hand, even many pages that don't worry about accessibility in general will often have reasonable alt text -- because that was checked by the same tool used to check their HTML. (This tool was often just their browser, which is why using alt as tooltips made such a big difference.) Changing the specification to say "Don't worry about accessibility, not even the easily checked stuff, check that somewhere else" is a step backwards. > Markup that follows HTML guidelines (and therefore results in the > desired DOM) is compliant. > Markup that doesn't follow the guidelines invokes the error handling > defined by HTML5 (which results in a usable DOM) is NOT compliant. Including the HTML accessibility guidelines. So why remove remove the existing HTML accessibility guidelines, without first specifying a replacement? (Deferring entirely to WCAG isn't really an option -- there are things HTML itself would still have to specify, such as whether or not legend can replace alt.) > On the omission of @alt ... It does not prevent the creation of a > usable DOM (in the way mismatched or unexpected tags or unknown syntax > does). Yes, it does -- as much as unexpected tags do.

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<gargantua><motorcade> are unexpected, but not totally unusable. Imperfect -- but so (currently) is an alt-less image. > I'm of the opinion we should give authors/developers some credit to > make decisions about what level of compliance checking they need to > undertake, and what they do with the results. > ... Keep html compliance tightly focussed on > ensuring source markup follows the guidelines ... > That's what I need as an author. *When* I want > to check accessibility (emphasis added) Economists talk about negative externalities -- the best I can do is make some analogies. I know a guy who is Deaf. Why should he have to worry about how loud his car is? It still gets him places just as fast. But there are laws limiting noise, and he has to comply, even though it doesn't provide *him* any direct benefit. I know some aggressive drivers, who don't see any personal benefit from several of the traffic laws. Given the choice, they would go a bit faster and not worry about stop signs, etc. They certainly wouldn't pay fines. And yet ... the average road speed and safety for everyone is much higher because of those laws. And this leads in to the tragedy of the commons. It is almost always cheaper for any individual herder on any single day to overgraze the commons. The community as a whole does better if the commons is not overgrazed. The problem is that the (relatively small) benefit accrues entirely to the individual making the decision, while the (large) cost is spread out over the whole community. It is almost always cheaper (easier) for an individual author to skimp on accessibility. (or building codes, for that matter) It is better for the web (or town) as a whole if that doesn't happen. So the standard says "Do it right", even if you don't *personally* care. We can argue about whether alt actually provides enough community benefit to justify the cost. We can argue about whether there are better solutions. But saying "Leave it to individual authors" is a vicious cycle. -jJReceived on Monday, 5 May 2008 15:07:37 UTC
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October 11, 2017
An East Lothian-based landlord says he has taken bold steps to re-launch his office suites in order to meet renewed demand from businesses seeking affordable premises on the east side of Edinburgh.
Scott Fairgrieve of Newhailes Commercial is behind the latest venture at Newhailes Business Park, a commercial development featuring both office and retail businesses on the fringe of Musselburgh town centre.
Existing occupiers include Vets 4 Pets, Home Bargains, Enable Scotland and Insureness with Newhailes Commercial now providing a range of office suites, available on a leasehold or freehold basis, to interested parties.
"With improved connectivity to Edinburgh from the east side and a squeeze on office supply in the city centre, businesses are looking further afield and Musselburgh is a viable option for many," explains Mr Fairgrieve.
"What we are offering is mix of accommodation from small starter units of 300 sq ft to larger suites of 1,300 sq ft in order to cater for both flexible and longer term needs."
Five offices are available across the development with quoting rents ranging between £12 per sq ft and £20 per sq ft with modest estate charges on top. Each suite boasts a good quality specificationincluding lift access, perimeter data trunking, kitchen facilities and full DDA compliancy.
"One of the attractions of being located here is not only the access to local amenities but there is plenty free car parking on site making this ideal for East Lothian-based commuters and those travelling out of Edinburgh."
The accommodation is being jointly marketed by IME Property and Burns & Shaw. Iain Mercer, managing director of IME, says the accommodation has plenty of benefits:
"The full package is on offer here: good quality space, affordable rents, free parking and only 5 miles from the centre of Edinburgh. We anticipate this will appeal to a number of occupiers."
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Welcome to the Inverrary Association
"The Family of Associations at Inverrary"
The Inverrary Association is a master association of multiple condominium and home owner associations that include both senior adult as well as family-oriented communities. The neighborhoods expand across 1,000 acres of land within the city of Lauderhill inside Broward county Florida. The Inverrary Association is comprised of 7,500 apartments and homes or 18,000 members. The homes vary in styles from lakefront villas, golf course apartments, townhouses, and homes on larger lots to multi-family unit buildings.
Our beautiful waterfall graces the Oakland Park entrance into the center of the communities. The Inverrary Association communities surround the Inverrary Country Club, two outstanding Robert Trent Jones, Sr. golf courses where the history and tradition of 15 PGA and LPGA tournaments live on. Also included is the Environ Cultural Center, a resource for social, cultural and recreational activities including a theater, library, tennis, swimming, shuffleboard, billiards, bowling, exercise, meeting rooms, arts and crafts.
The Inverray Association neighborhood is located approximately the geographical center of Broward County and within minutes of the Ft Lauderdale beaches, the Ft Lauderdale International Airport, the Sawgrass Mills Mall (Florida's largest outlet, value retail and entertainment destination), and the Bank Atlantic Sports Arena.
The purpose of the Inverrary Association is to assist the owners and associations in owning, managing and operating the properties, amenities, and facilities, not within a particular residential parcel of Inverrary, but for the use and benefit of all residents of Inverrary. It is also the purpose of this Association to carry out, implement and enforce the objectives and provisions of its Declarations and Articles.
The Association Board consists of one representative from each membership association. The Board annually elects the Association's Officers consisting of a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, all comprised of volunteers who are homeowners themselves.


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Adapting characters from comic books into film or television is always a tricky endeavor, as there's a need to streamline years worth of lore, please long-time fans, and attract a new audience. Last year's debut of Supergirl wasn't TV's first, but it showed that Greg Berlanti and Co. were willing to stick close to the source material while leaving themselves enough room to allow their version of Kara Zor-El to thrive on her own terms.
Like Arrow and The Flash before it, Supergirl took the hallmarks of the DC Comics character and introduced her to a new generation of fans. We've already shown how a number of heroes and villains from the show compare to their comic book counterparts, so we thought it was time to put the spotlight directly on the Last Daughter of Krypton. As we await the return of Supergirl to our lives next month, here are the 15 Biggest Differences Between Her TV Show And The Comics.
15 Kara Wasn't the First Supergirl
Before the cousin of Superman made her comic book debut in 1959, DC made a few different attempts to create a female version of their hit hero. There was Lois Lane's brief tenue as Superwoman, and that time Superboy got turned into a girl named Super-Sister after he was a jerk to an alien woman. The first person to adopt the name 'Supergirl' (alternately stylized as 'Super-Girl') was a bit of a cheat. In the misleadingly titled "Superboy Meets Supergirl," the young Kryptonian encounters Lucy, the queen of a fictional Latin nation. To impress her, he stages a bizarre performance where he tricks people into thinking she has powers and gives her a matching name and outfit. This idea naturally only lasted one issue. DC, however, wasn't quite done yet.
In 1958, just one year before Kara's introduction, DC crafted another Super-Girl. In Superman #123, Jimmy Olsen somehow gets his hands on a magic idol and uses it to wish for a female Superman to give the Man of Steel a sidekick (sure, Jimmy). The pairing proved fatal as the new hero quickly suffered a life-threatening injury, asking Jimmy to magic her back out of existence. Mechad Brooks' transformation into the Guardian has been awkward enough, so here's hoping he never finds a magical totem and this story remains a comic curiosity.
14 Supergirl Isn't Exactly From Krypton
Following Jimmy's creepy wish, DC decided to finally introduce a proper version of Supergirl. Premiering in Action Comics #252, the adventures of Kara Zor-El proved to be a massive hit for the publisher. Her origin as we know it from many of her adaptations, however, isn't at all the same. When Krypton exploded, Kandor wasn't the only piece of it that survived. Thanks to the work of Kal-El's scientist uncle, Zor-El, Argo City was able to protect itself from the explosion and move through space separate from the destroyed planet. In the years that followed, Zor-El met his future wife Alura, and together they had Kara.
The happiness soon came to an end, however, as an unbalanced resident of Argo City sabotaged the land-mass and sent it into a meteor field. The result saw the Kryptonite at the base of Argo sent into the city's containment bubble, slowly poisoning the citizens. Like Kal's before them, Kara's parents sent her towards Earth on a rocket in an effort to save her life.
13 Kara and Kal Didn't Originally Know Each Other
Supergirl has had a number of tweaks to her origin over the years, and her early connection to Superman wasn't always part of it. Since baby Kal was sent off to Earth just before Krypton exploded, the Kara of the comics didn't originally know her cousin. As noted above, Kara was born years after the planet's destruction, with only stories of her connection to Jor-El and his family. On the show, Kara is shown living alongside her aunt and uncle and their new child on Krypton. These flashbacks give us a sense of how she cared for her cousin, and provide a nice contrast to their interaction on Earth where he's much older than her.
The show also stresses that Kara's mission was to help raise and protect her infant cousin. In the comics, however, it was the other way around. Kara's parents sent her to Earth so that Kal could watch over her. And since they'd never even met, the child was given a uniform similar to Kal's so that he'd recognize her as friendly when she arrive on the blue planet. Eventually, this whole backstory would be significantly altered, with Kara's origin more closely resembling the one we're familiar with.
12 Her Early Years On Earth Were Spent In An Orphanage
Supergirl the show simplified Kara's arrival on Earth by having her cousin intercept her and bestow her upon a kindly family. In the comics, things went a little differently. Adopting the alliterative name Linda Lee (this was the Silver Age of comics after all), Kara spent the first few years on her new planet living in the Midvale Orphanage. Kal even made her put on a brunette wig, because hiding your secret identity with a pair of glasses was already his thing. Luckily, Kara, er Linda, was eventually adopted by the kindly Danvers family.
While at least one of them is still a scientist in the comics, DC decided to keep things as Superman-adjacent as possible by giving Kara's new family the farm-friendly names Fred and Edna. Now going by Linda Lee Danvers -- despite both Kara and Kal being completely normal Earth names -- Superman finally deems Kara to be mature enough to start fighting crime as Supergirl. This marks another departure from the TV show, where the two Kryptonians don't seem to have many interactions during Kara's formative years. The irony being that the comics needed to keep their big star front and center, whereas Warner Bros. took some convincing before a new Man of Steel could properly appear on TV.
11 Reactron Killed Kara's Parents
In the Arrowverse, Kara's parents perished along with Kal's during the destruction of Krypton. The choice simplifies things and emotionally aligns our protagonist with her cousin in a way most of us are familiar with. Meanwhile, in the comics, Kara's parents survive their brush with death and prove that perhaps jettisoning their daughter into space was a bit of a premature gambit.
Okay, everyone but Zor-El and Alura dies from the Kryptonite poisoning, so maybe it was a good call. Mirroring Kara's detour into the Phantom Zone from the series, her parents wind up in the fortuitously named Survival Zone. Kara eventually finds them and brings them to Kandor, the Kryptonian city that exists in a bottle (if you're thinking that idea seems too crazy for TV, Smallville already had the guts to try). Sadly, the radioactive villain Reactron ends up killing them both, forcing Kara to suffer the loss of her family twice.
Even though most of these details were excised from her Arrowverse origin, it would have been nice to see Reactron given a weightier role in Supergirl as one of Kara's key antagonists. Instead, he's relegated to Fort Rozz Escapee of the Week in the third episode of the show. We'd feel bad for him if he didn't, you know, murder Kara's parents.
10 Alex Danvers Didn't Exist In The Comics
Speaking of Kara's family, one of her most important loved ones was created just for the show. Though Supergirl's main focus is on Kara, her adoptive sister Alex Danvers has received equal amounts of praise from critics. Season 1 was lauded for the realistic portrayal of not only the sisterhood between Kara and Alex, but of the real world implications of an adopted sibling. The relationship is the heart of the series, and it's enhanced thanks to the chemistry that stars Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh have together.
Season 2's biggest buzz also centers around Alex, as her coming out story has been celebrated for its honesty and is literally saving lives. With Superman's absence during the first season of the show, it helped to provide the young Kara with a familial role model that she could regularly interact with. When you add in the fact that Alex is also an ass-kicking, alien-hunting secret agent, we have to wonder how long it'll be until she's drafted into the comics.
9 Kara Joined The Legion Of Super-Heroes As A Teen
Like the bottle city of Kandor, the Legion of Super-Heroes is another somewhat far-out element of DC Comics lore that still managed to make it onto Smallville. Though the 30th-century superhero team could find their way into the Arrowverse eventually, many of Kara's early adventures with the group from the comics will probably be significantly altered. Debuting one year before Kara in Action Comics #247, the Legion was created by the same creative team behind Supergirl, Otto Binder and Pastino.
Operating with the group while still a teenager, Supergirl was joined by fellow Kryptonian Superboy and a young Daxamite named Mon-El. Given that the latter appears on Supergirl, there's even more reason to suspect that the Legion of Super-Heroes is only a season or two away from popping up and giving the Arrowverse another set of time-traveling crime fighters.
Though Kara's not likely to be a full-fledged member of the futuristic team like in the comics, we could see her occasionally join forces with them to take on threats. Perhaps next year's crossover would be a good place to start.
8 Kara Was A TV Reporter And Actor In The Comics—And Snapper Carr Was A Superhero
When we first encounter Kara Danvers on Supergirl, she's the personal assistant to media mogul Cat Grant at her company CatCo Media. Season 1 ended with her vacating that position and being offered her dream job by Cat—just as soon as she figured out what it was. After some debating in the premiere of Season 2, Kara finally decided she wanted to be a journalist like her cousin. She encountered some friction during the transition thanks to her new boss, Snapper Carr, but eventually settled into the role.
Snapper himself is quite different from the comics. Debuting a year after Kara, he's actually a "hip" teen member of the Justice League who can teleport by, you guessed it, snapping his fingers. The show, instead, makes him a curmudgeonly news editor (a role he's held in other incarnations), but it's entirely possible that he's keeping those powers stashed away for a rainy day.
For Kara, the comics saw her dance around a similar position following her time at Midvale High School and Stanhope College. Once it's time to find a career, she spends her non-superhero hours as an actor in soap operas and a TV reporter. The show's decision to give her a bit more know-how and agency and tackle hard-nosed journalism allows Kara to remain in the action like Clark has for years. The choice also provides the CatCo sections of the series with more weight, as we get to watch our protagonist battle for justice both in and out of costume.
7 Cat Grant Originally Hated Supergirl
While on the subject of CatCo, Cat Grant had a very different opinion of Supergirl in the comics. We've detailed a number of the differences already, but the gist of their relationship bears repeating. When Supergirl was once again updated for a self-titled 2008 series, Cat Grant was brought in as a supporting character. As it turns out, Grant was no fan of the Girl of Steel, and regularly wrote disparaging pieces about her. The show, meanwhile, had the complete opposite happen. In the series, Cat is a huge supporter of Supergirl, and uses CatCo to hail the hero's exploits and even bestows her with her heroic moniker.
Eventually, the two get caught up in a scheme by Dollman where he tries to kill Supergirl and have Cat adopt him. Luckily, Cat and Kara soon foil the creepy scheme, and the reporter warms to the superhero. DC's Rebirth brought the character even more in line with Calista Flockhart's portrayal, while still retaining her somewhat aggressive attitude towards Supergirl.
6 One Of Kara's Arch-Rivals Was Nasty Luthor
Season 2 of Supergirl introduced a version of the character Lena Luthor. The adopted sister of Lex connects with both Supergirl and Kara over their similar situations and desire to form a unique identity apart from their more famous family members. While Kara is still proud of her cousin, Lena wants nothing to do with her villainous brother and mother, who's revealed to be the head of Cadmus. It's likely there's more to her than it seems, however, as the character has popped up in comics and on Smallville as much more sympathetic to Lex's mission of eradicating Kryptonians.
In the comics, Kara spends more time interacting with another Luthor, though. During the '70s, one of her chief antagonists is Lex's niece, Nasthalthia Luthor. In case you weren't sure of her alignment, she chooses to go by the nickname of Nasty. (Oh, comics, never change.) Nasty spent years trying to prove that Linda/Kara and Supergirl were one in the same, something that Lena is sure to figure out soon enough on the show. Given the Luthors growing presence on the show, here's hoping Nasty eventually pops up on her own, just so we can see Kara react to her name.
5 Martian Manhunter Doesn't Play A Role In Supergirl's Origin
Considering they're two of DC's biggest heroes, Supergirl and Martian Manhunter have had their share of adventures together. On the comics side of things, however, they have nowhere near the same emotional connections as they do on the TV series. Despite both of Kara's adoptive parents appearing on the show, her second closest relationship after her sister is with the head of the DEO, Hank Henshaw.
The show's take on Henshaw is probably the most egregious example of the comic lore getting all twisted up. In the comics, Henshaw is Cyborg Superman—a storyline the show recently tried to awkwardly reinsert. The series, however, has established that guise as a cover for J'onn J'onnz, aka the Martian Manhunter. Eventually, both Kara and Alex break through the fake Henshaw personality, and the Martian not only becomes one of Supergirl's most powerful allies, but a surrogate father for both Kara and Alex. Like Joe West on The Flash, J'onn allows the show to explore some wonderful themes about adoptive parents, which is only slightly confusing, as Kara actually has a set of those already. Make any excuse you need to get more screentime for David Harewood, CW Network. You won't hear any complaints out of us.
4 Kara Was Killed During Crisis On Infinite Earths
Granted, the death of Supergirl could still happen on the TV show. The Flash has long teased a "Crisis" after all. Still, with her name being the title of the series, this likely wouldn't last long. Just like Superman in Batman v Superman, a Kryptonian's death is rarely permanent. Along with Barry Allen and a number of other heroes, Supergirl was killed during the universe-rebooting events of DC's Crisis On Infinite Earths storyline during the '80s. Her death even led to one of comic's most iconic covers, featuring a hysterical Superman cradling her dead body. It's proved so enduring, the show even paid homage to the image in a recent episode (glimpsed above).
When the dust settled on Crisis, DC reintroduced most of their superheroes and villains, but just like Barry, Kara was left out for two decades. The reasoning was that the publisher wanted to move back to Superman being the lone Kryptonian in the comics. The move, of course, gives Kal back the emotional weight of being the sole survivor of his planet's destruction, but comic book companies just can't resist making infinite versions of their most popular heroes.
3 Her Death Saw The Creation Of Other Supergirls
In classic semantic fashion, DC dismissed the idea of having two Kryptonians while simultaneously ensuring that the popular 'Supergirl' name continued. Mirroring the alternate versions of Supergirl that existed before Kara came along, the publisher pumped out a number of new Supergirls unrelated to Kara following her death.
First, there was Matrix. Unlike Kara, she was a synthetic being created by Lex Luthor. With the power of flight and strength, she could also shape-shift and become invisible. Naturally, she adopted a look quite similar to the Kara that never existed and donned a skimpy version of Superman's costume. She even lived with the Kents for a time. Eventually, DC rebooted the character with the 1996 Supergirl title. In the book, she's merged with a human and brought even more in line with the previous Girl of Steel. Using the name Linda Danvers, an homage to Kara's alter ego, she served as DC's Supergirl for a number of years. It wasn't long, however, until DC started itching to bring back the proper version of Kara
2 Kara's Post-Crisis Debut Gave Us A Similar Origin To The TV show
Just like Barry Allen eventually came back in the early 2000s to reclaim his place as the Flash, 2004 saw Kara Zor-El finally returned to her post as DC's Supergirl. Re-appearing in Superman/Batman #8, Kara is given a post-Crisis origin that TV viewers will find more familiar. Instead of floating along in a separate city for years, Kara is sent from a dying Krypton by her parents. It's here that the older Kara is tasked with protecting her young cousin Kal on Earth. Instead, a meteor shower waylays her so that when she finally comes to our planet, Superman has been operating for years and is a good deal older than her.
DC's New 52 reboot saw the broad strokes of this story kept for Kara's new origin. She doesn't remember the destruction of Krypton, however, and her grief upon accepting the reality of her situation factors into her characterization in the series. Both the post-Crisis DC and the New 52 reboot were designed to streamline character's stories, so it makes sense that the books and the show would keep Kara's backstory closer to Kal's in an effort to simplify things for the majority of audiences and provide a thematic through line.
1 Kara Had A Super-Powered Horse In The Comics
There's no way we could end this article with anything from the comics other than Kara's bizarre pets. The '60s were a simpler and cornier time in comics, and they saw many super-pets introduced in an effort to win over young readers. Like Superman's dog Krypto, Supergirl started out with a pet sidekick. Named Streaky, Kara's cat is given Kryptonian powers thanks to a failed experiment by Supergirl to neutralize the effects of Kryptonite. As if that wasn't bizarre enough, DC then decided a super-horse was a good call.
Created by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and debuting in Action Comics #293 in 1962, Comet the Super-Horse served for a number of years as the Steed of Steel. Once your run-of-the-mill centaur back in the day, Comet is accidentally transformed into a horse with telepathic powers. We've all been there. He's then granted immortality and eventually joins up with Kara so she can ride on his back and take advantage of his ability to fly in case maybe she gets tired of flying herself. It's best not to think about it too hard. Either way, it's time we start petitioning the CW to introduce both Streaky and Comet to the Arrowverse immediately.
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Chapter 55: Zhao Yaya's ballbusting Kick
The corners of Zhao Yaya's mouth raised, being such a busybody was indeed a part of this brat, Song Shuhang's character.
"Alright then, it seems like you're speaking the truth. Even if you are hiding things from me, as long as you weren't planning on taking this medicinal formula, then it's of no consequence." Zhao Yaya s.h.i.+fted her long legs to a different posture, and said dully.
"How could I possibly hide something from Yaya-jie?" Song Shuhang boot-licked.
"That's a lie, it sounded too fake." Zhao Yaya stood up, and gave Shuhang's head a karate chop, "However, in a blink of an eye you're already a university student. Having secrets of your own at this age is very normal, I'm also too lazy to pursue what you're hiding. Well then, that's it for the matter regarding the medicinal formula, you can just inform the people in that group not to arbitrarily take Chinese medicine. Even though they are nouris.h.i.+ng ingredients, with so many of them mixed together they could kill a person."
"Hehe, understood." Song Shuhang laughed.
Understood… but his current self wouldn't advise them not to arbitrarily take medicine, because he already became a member of that doping army.
"By the way, your face was deathly pale and your breathing was weak a moment ago, what was that all about?" Zhao Yaya quickly changed topics.
"It wasn't deathly pale! The main reason is because I have been lacking exercise for the past year, so my physique has deteriorated a lot. Even a cough from flu doesn't recover after ten days have pa.s.sed. So I've been undergoing recovery training, earlier I had just returned from vigorous training. Look at me now, haven't I totally recovered? Furthermore, my body is much fitter now, there aren't any problems." Song Shuhang quickly explained, with the rest he had earlier, the weakness from the 《True Self Meditation Scripture》 had already receded. At this moment, his face was rosy, and his heartbeat was strong! He couldn't be any healthier.
As he spoke, he raised his right arm, and adopted the posture of a bodybuilder showing off his muscles. He contracted his muscles, and the shape of his muscles changed, it gave the feeling that they were full of explosive power.
Zhao Yaya blinked, and carefully sized up Song Shuhang. She was truly caught off guard. Previously, she was just paying attention to Song Shuhang's complexion and breathing, she didn't even notice that this brat's body had become so much more robust!
It wasn't just the muscles on his arms, there was also the muscles on his chest and stomach which were faintly visible because of the sweat causing his s.h.i.+rt to stick to his body.
His physique has become really good. Zhao Yaya inwardly said.
She emotionally spat, then pinched her nose, and waved her hand saying, "You stink all over, go take a shower."
"Hehe." Song Shuhang laughed, but he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
This obstacle named Zhao Yaya has been cleared temporarily.
She was a close relative who he really cared for, and she had taken good care of him since he was a child. She was also one of the relatives he had first thought of sharing the 'Body Tempering Liquid' with when he first got hold of it.
Even if there was no way to give her any 'Body Tempering Liquid' right now, Song Shuhang was still thinking of finding some medicinal liquids that ordinary people could safely consume for her, Mama Song, and Papa Song.
Song Shuhang retrieved some clothes to change into, then went to the bathroom to take a shower.
"Yaya-jie, why have you come to Jiangnan University City? It can't be that you came all the way down here just for the matter regarding the medicinal formula, right?" He asked while in the bathroom.
"I'm not that free." Zhao Yaya rested her chin on her hand, and answered, "I came to Jiangnan University City for field work, on the day after, which is the June the 7th, 8th and 9th, there will be a three-day sports compet.i.tion here in Jiangnan University City. I came here with my teacher as healthcare doctors. After another half a year, my apprentices.h.i.+p will be completed."
The 7th of June every year is Huaxia's high school finals.
Yet, right at the same time high schoolers were bitterly taking their finals, Jiangnan University City would squeeze out some time to happily conduct a sports compet.i.tion, with a celebratory att.i.tude.
There was a deep feeling of taking joy in others' calamity shown in Jiangnan University City's upper echelons towards these high schoolers. It was unknown which headmaster had started this. It just kept repeating till today.
"Sports event?" Song Shuhang was stunned. Why haven't I received a single word about this?
Could it be because I played truant too much over the past two days?
"Speaking of this, what event did you join? The sports event is a great chance to act cool and woo girls. By the way, the second semester of your freshman year is nearing its end, have you gotten a girlfriend yet?" Zhao Yaya piled more questions on him.
This feels like a meddling relative chasing him for results. When Yaya-jie grows older, she'll definitely become a great combatant amongst the meddling relatives.
"As for what event I'm partic.i.p.ating in, I haven't decided, but I should be partic.i.p.ating in one or two events. I've been rather confident in terms of running recently." Song Shuhang casually said, "Also, I'm just a freshman, how could it be that easy to woo a girl?"
"Then you should just put in more effort in the sports event, perhaps there may be a senior or junior who actually confesses to you on the spot. If you could find a girlfriend, Aunty would definitely be very happy." Zhao Yaya giggled.
In the bathroom, Song Shuhang grinned: Apologies, jie. I just want to put in effort in cultivating for now, I don't have the spare time for something like a love story temporarily.
After taking the shower, Song Shuhang came out while wiping his hair, and asked, "Jiejie, I'm going to have dinner with Tubo and the others, do you want to join us?"
Zhao Yaya shook her head and said, "I won't join you guys, so as to avoid making those three scoundrels feel uncomfortable. I came here with quite a few cla.s.smates, after coming to see you, I'll go back to join them."
"That's fine, shall I send you off?" Song Shuhang asked. It was about time, he was going to go out to meet Tubo and the others.
"Let's go." Zhao Yaya picked up her small bag, then followed behind Shuhang out of the dormitory.
At the dormitory's entrance.
Coincidentally, the two male students who met Shuhang and Soft Feather leaving together b.u.mped into Shuhang again.
Because Zhao Yaya was walking slowly, and was in the midst of turning through the corner of the staircase, these two hadn't noticed Zhao Yaya yet.
After noticing Shuhang, one of them waved his hand, and greeted him by teasing, "Yo, my friend Shuhang, where are you going to play? By the way, when are you going to introduce me to your elder sister! That sister of yours is too pretty, especially those long legs, ever since I met her, I've thought of her as the G.o.ddess of my heart, and have had no appet.i.te. I've even seen her in my dreams in the past few days. Haha, give me her number please, I promise you that I'll be a good brother-in-law to you."
The corner of Song Shuhang's mouth violently twitched, he knew that this chap was referring to Soft Feather whom they met a few days back. The problem was, the one following behind him right now was his authentic sister.
If he said such words, would Zhao Yaya misunderstand?
Sure enough, just as this student's words were spoken, they noticed a great beauty who wore a white medical robe behind Song Shuhang.
Another long-legged beauty, moreover one who dresses as a female doctor!
Zhao Yaya glanced at that dear friend, then released an unrestrained kick, her leg wasn't just long, it was also ballbusting.
Furthermore, as a doctor, she could control her strength perfectly, this kick would definitely be painful, but it could also be guaranteed that it won't truly turn one infertile.
The opposite party received the kick in a daze, and immediately knelt on the ground.
"My elder sister, Zhao Yaya." Song Shuhang grinned.
On the side, the other male student took joy in witnessing his friend's calamity and laughed out loud.
The moment he laughed, Zhao Yaya swept him a glance.
That student immediately covered his mouth, then waved at Shuhang, "Hi Student Shuhang, h.e.l.lo to you too, Shuhang's elder sister. I'm only a harmless pa.s.serby!"
Song Shuhang giggled, "I'll be leaving with my elder sister first, bye-bye."
Then he quickly dragged Zhao Yaya away from the scene.
"Bye-bye." The student who covered his mouth happily said.
After Shuhang and Zhao Yaya left, the student who suffered through the kick stood up from his kneeling position with great difficulty with tears in his eyes, "It hurts, it's the unbearable kind of pain."
"Yep." The student at the side felt the same as well. When he had watched that kick happen, he too, felt a faint pain in his b.a.l.l.s.
"However, the genes in Song Shuhang's family are really great. The elder sister from the last time was so pretty, and had such long legs. The sister this time round wasn't far off either, add in the points from the uniform, how great. I like lady doctors the most, and wish I could receive an injection from her everyday. Then, I wish I could be Song Shuhang's brother-in-law, which would be fine!" As he said that, he raised his thumb.
He was a truly brave warrior, because he had the guts to face his miserable life, and had the guts to take the b.l.o.o.d.y path.


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WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who had not yet seen the document.
After a yearlong investigation, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway announced Monday that the committee has finished interviewing witnesses and will share the report with Democrats for the first time Tuesday. Conaway is the Republican leading the House probe, one of several investigations on Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.
"We found no evidence of collusion," Conaway told reporters, suggesting that those who believe there was collusion are reading too many spy novels. "We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings, inappropriate judgment in taking meetings. But only Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn or someone else like that could take this series of inadvertent contacts with each other, or meetings or whatever, and weave that into sort of a fiction page-turner, spy thriller."
Hours later, Trump tweeted his own headline of the report in excited capital letters: "THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION."
Conaway previewed some of the conclusions, but said the public will not see the report until Democrats have reviewed it and the intelligence community has decided what information can become public, a process that could take weeks. Democrats are expected to issue a separate report with far different conclusions.
In addition to the statement on coordination with Russians, the draft challenges an assessment made after the 2016 election that Russian meddling was an effort to help Trump. The January 2017 assessment revealed that the FBI, CIA and NSA had concluded that the Russian government, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, waged a covert influence campaign to interfere in the election with the goal of hurting Democrat Hillary Clinton's candidacy and helping Trump's campaign.
House Intelligence Committee officials said they spent hundreds of hours reviewing raw source material used by the intelligence services in the assessment and that it did not meet the appropriate standards to make the claim about helping Trump. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the intelligence material.
Conaway said there will be a second report just dealing with the intelligence assessment and its credibility.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement soon after the GOP announcement, saying it stood by the intelligence community's findings. DNI spokesman Brian Hale said the office will review the findings of the committee's report.
According to Conaway, the report will agree with the intelligence assessment on most other details, including that Russians did meddle in the election. It will detail Russian cyberattacks on U.S. institutions during the election and the use of social media to sow discord. It will also show a pattern of Russian attacks on European allies — information that could be redacted in the final report. And it will blame officials in President Barack Obama's administration for a "lackluster" response and look at leaks from the intelligence community to the media.
It will include at least 25 recommendations, including how to improve election security, respond to cyberattacks and improve counterintelligence efforts.
Democrats have criticized Republicans on the committee for shortening the investigation, pointing to multiple contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia and saying they have seen far too few witnesses to make any judgment on collusion. The Democrats and Republicans have openly fought throughout the investigation, with Democrats suggesting a cover-up for a Republican president and one GOP member of the panel calling the probe "poison" for the previously bipartisan panel.
The top Democrat on the intelligence panel, California Rep. Adam Schiff, suggested that by wrapping up the probe the Republicans were protecting Trump. He called the development a "tragic milestone" and said history would judge them harshly.
Republicans "proved unwilling to subpoena documents like phone records, text messages, bank records and other key records so that we might determine the truth about the most significant attack on our democratic institutions in history," Schiff said.
The report is also expected to turn the subject of collusion toward the Clinton campaign, saying an anti-Trump dossier compiled by a former British spy and paid for by Democrats was one way that Russians tried to influence the election. Conaway did not suggest that Clinton knowingly coordinated with the Russians, but said the dossier clearly "would have hurt him and helped her."
He also said there was no evidence that anything "untoward" happened at a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between members of the Trump campaign and Russians, though he called it ill-advised. Despite a promise of dirt on Clinton ahead of the meeting, there's no evidence that such material was exchanged, he said.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating the Russian intervention, is expected to have a bipartisan report out in the coming weeks dealing with election security. The Senate panel is expected to issue findings on the more controversial issue of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia at a later date.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, also investigating the meddling, is expected to release transcripts soon of closed-door interviews with several people who attended the 2016 meeting between the Trump campaign and Russians. It's unclear if the Judiciary panel will produce a final report.
The congressional investigations are completely separate from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which is likely to take much longer. It has already resulted in charges against several people linked to Trump's campaign.
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