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One of the great ironies of the 2008 financial crisis is that it was sparked by a product created from a historically safe investment asset: residential mortgages. In the past quarter century, delinquency rates of single-family home mortgages hovered below 3% for the most part except for the time around the Great Recession, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Then Wall Street bundled mortgages of various qualities into complex, opaque securities to be bought and sold, often using debt to turbo-charge the investment. When defaults began on Main Street, the tremors reached all the way around the world.
Today, the financial crisis seems like a footnote in history. But like other crises, it has sparked a period of soul-searching. What signs that a crisis was brewing did experts and regulators miss? Why didn't regulatory reforms in the past prevent it? How could regulators stop another crisis from happening? What are the lessons from this and other meltdowns? These and other questions were the focus of a panel at the "Financial Markets, Volatility, and Crises: A Decade Later" conference held recently in New York by Wharton's Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research.
While this year is generally acknowledged to be the 10th anniversary of the crisis, in actuality there is "no real consensus about when it all began," said Wharton finance professor Richard Herring, who moderated the panel. Some point to 2006 as the start, when home prices peaked, while others think it began with the 2007 collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that bet heavily on subprime mortgages. Perhaps it was when BNP Paribas froze withdrawalsfrom $2.2 billion worth of funds in the same year. Still others have argued that "it was manageable until the Lehman … orderly liquidation," Herring said. That was the start.
Whenever the crisis actually began, panelists said that it bore similarities to other Wall Street meltdowns of the past, such as the 1987 market crash and the 1998 collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Time and again, the chase for a higher investment return, the creation of new, complex securities, the relative inexperience of young traders, the popularity of a new theory to make money and lagging regulations have brought the financial system to the brink.
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Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, said that while the 1987 crash, Long-Term Capital Management and the 2008 credit crisis were different events, they had similarities. "The common theme is that the strategies promised to make investing safe," he said. "There is an expectation of protection and safety and at the same time they were sold on the basis of higher returns. They become irresistible." But these "free lunch strategies" later backfired.
In the 1980s, belief in a trading strategy called portfolio insurance was supposed to take out risk. The strategy called for hedging against market downturns by short-selling stock index futures. Jacobs quoted Nobel laureate Robert Merton — who co-created the famed Black-Scholes-Merton calculation to determine fair pricing for options — as saying that if one literally traded continuously, all the risk would disappear because it is being shifted to someone else all the time. But practically speaking, Jacobs said, one can't trade continuously in practice.
Portfolio insurance also can fail. "We all know what happened in 1987 — there was a major [stock market] crash, the largest one-day decline in the history of the U.S. markets, greater than the decline in 1929," Jacobs said. It's fine to shift risk to someone else, providing there are "counterparties on the other side willing to buy," he said. But as many investors tried to shift risk at the same time, they could not find enough folks to take it off their hands. "The buyers were not there," he said. "The markets became fragile. And the decline was over 20%."

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I know I've posted this song before, though it was a different version, but I honestly could not think of a better song to close out 2014 and bring in 2015. It's the time of year where everyone tries to make promises to themselves or to others but this is all you need to do ever: "Do the right thing, do it all the time."
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Future of coal-to-gas plant rests with Quinn
By Jamey Dunn
A year ago today, Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation meant to clear the way for construction of a plant on the southeast side of Chicago that would convert coal to natural gas. Now, the governor's pen may yet again decide the future of the controversial project.
Under the original plan, four utility companies would have covered construction costs and purchased gas from the plant, which would be owned by Leucadia National Corp. But Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas backed out of the project, leaving only Ameren and Nicor. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) ruled this week that the two remaining companies would not be required to pay for all the costs but only cover a percentage equal to the amount of gas they are each required to buy. "The commission determined that in accordance with the law, Nicor and Ameren Illinois would each be responsible for 42 percent of the capital costs and operational expenses, for a total of 84 percent of the total, since they are required to take 84 percent of the substitute natural gas plant's output," said a written statement from the ICC.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2015, and the plant would be built on the polluted site of the former LTV Steel plant. It is designed to trap most of its emissions underground instead of releasing them into the air.
But according to Chicago Clean Energy, a subsidiary of Leucadia, the project is now in jeopardy. The group says the plant cannot be financed unless there is guarantee that all the construction costs are covered. Supporters of the project are calling on Gov. Pat Quinn to sign Senate Bill 3766, which would override the ICC's ruling and require the two utilities to pay all the construction cost.
"The Chicago Clean Energy project is the most significant economic investment that the southeast side has ever seen," Ted Stalnos, president of the Calumet Area Industrial Commission, said during a recent rally in favor of the project. "Let's clean up that site. Sign this bill. Let's put people back to work." Chicago Clean Energy plans to clean up the site before building the plant there. "The southeast side of Chicago is currently a jobs desert, an opportunity desert. We need this investment," said Dan McMahon, business representative for Carpenters Union Local 272. The plant is expected to create an estimated 1,000 construction jobs and 200 permanent jobs after it is built.
But others representing industry throughout the state say the plant would be bad for business because it would increase rates far beyond the current cost of natural gas. "It's not fair for rate payers in the Ameren and Nicor territories to subside 100 percent of the cost," said Mark Denzler, vice president and chief operating officer of the Illinois Manufacturing Association. "Gov. Quinn, who is the founder of [the Citizens Utility Board (CUB)], now solely has the power of whether to sign one of the biggest rate increases in history or not." Jim Chilsen director of communications for CUB, a Chicago-based consumer advocacy group, agrees. "We're not universally opposed to projects like these, but we are concerned that the way that the legislation is structured that it is extremely unfair to suburban, central and southern Illinois consumers who could be forced to pay up to triple costs."
He says the fact that Quinn founded CUB does not necessarily give the group a leg up when it comes to persuading Quinn to veto the bill. "The governor, he has a long history of consumer advocacy. He listens to all sides of an issue. I don't think that we necessarily have an advantage." However, he said that the governor should take notice that business groups, environmental groups and consumer advocacy groups, which are not often unified on an issue, have teamed up to ask Quinn to reject the plan. "I think that's a pretty powerful message. I think that the facts speak for themselves."
A spokeswoman for Quinn said the governor is reviewing the bill.
Proponents say there are no guarantees that natural gas prices will stay low. They argue that having a consistent source of natural gas in the state for the next 30 years would help protect customers from volatility. "Prices fluctuate -- gas station prices, and so do natural gas prices, as well," said Chicago Democratic Sen. Donne Trotter, who sponsored the legislation enabling the project. Trotter argues that the plant would bring desperately needed jobs to the area.
Environmental groups say that the southeast side, which has a history of dangerous pollution, should not have to take an environmental risk to have economic development. (For more on the environmental history of the area, see the current Illinois Issues.) "They are looking for jobs," said Becki Clayborn, a representative of the Illinois chapter of the Sierra Club's Illinois Beyond Coal Campaign. "But because the community has seen it time and time again, they are not buying it." Local environmental groups hope that the area can bolster its economy through renewable energy projects and by becoming a recreation destination.


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WG 11.8: Information Security Education
What does WG 11.8 do?
IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing. This working group, which forms part of Technical Committee 11, focuses on Information Security Education. WG 11.8 is an international group of people from academia, military, government and private organizations who volunteer their time and effort into increasing knowledge in the very broad field of information security education. Click here for more details of our Mission.
For details on current officers please see below on this page.
WG 11.8 has been engaged in advancing the field of Information Assurance Education for almost two decades. Please see the Events link in the navigation menu.
IFIP WG 11.8 News!
It is with pleasure that we share the following IFIP anouncement of awards,
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Matt Bishop (IFIP Silver Core Award)
Lynette Drevin (IFIP Service Award)
Erik Moore (IFIP Service Award)
Marianthi Theocharidou (IFIP Service Award)
These awards are in recognition of many years of hard work, dedication and commitment to IFIP WG11.8.
- The WISE 13 conference this year will be in Maribor, Slovenia, May 26-28 In conjunction with the 35th IFIP International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection SEC 2020 at https://www.ifipsec.org.
- See the WISE 13 Call For Papers in PDF format for more information or go to http://www.ifiptc11.org/wg118-events/wise13
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Ten years ago, Paul Rapacioli and James Savage spotted a niche for an English-language news site in Stockholm, their adopted home. When they launched The Local, the first readers were the 12 students in Rapacioli's Swedish class for ex-pats, who would receive weekly email round-ups of local news stories written by he and Savage.
The Local now has offices in seven countries across Europe – employing 16 journalists across the network and attracting over four million unique visitors a month – and is on the verge of opening its eighth office in Austria.
"What happened early on is we realised that we didn't have any money," Rapacioli told Journalism.co.uk, "but if we can get the global media writing about the stories that we're covering, and citing us, then that's the way to lift our profile."
As the organisation celebrated its 10th birthday on April 9, Rapacioli reflected on how the number of foreign correspondents at large, international news organisations had plummeted.
Cost-cutting to cope with the tectonic shifts in the journalistic landscape has become a regular strategy for media organisations. As a "wide range of pressures undermine the role of the foreign correspondent", according to a 2010 Reuters Institute study asking whether the role is "redundant", organisations like The Local step in to fill the vacuum.
"They [large organisations] use us as their de facto foreign correspondents," Rapacioli said. "And because they use us for the countries we're in already, as soon as we launch a new country that gets plugged into the same network. It's a great position to be in and our readers will transfer from one title to another."
This is not to say that reporters from The Local are the only journalists covering the countries in English, but where other organisations may report from a "parachute perspective", said Rapacioli, the Local has journalists "on the ground in these countries who are there all day, every day, living as part of the community".
"We find the stories that are closest to the ground," he said, "and we do a lot of them – 10 stories a day or more from every country that we're in – and it's when you step back from that that you see the whole story across Europe.
"It's like a pointillist approach, I suppose, to journalism. Painting a picture of Europe through 350 stories a week across the sites."
As the Swedish site is the longest established of the various offices it gets the most traffic – one million unique visitors a month, according to Rapacioli, of which 80 per cent are from outside the country – to be a real source of stories for bigger news organisations.
Two of the biggest stories for the network "of all time" have come from Sweden, he said, the first being the 2011 story of a drunk elk stuck up a tree near Gothenburg after eating too many fermented apples, or this year's story of a 40 centimetre rat caught in Stockholm.
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The latter was initially reported by local news site Aftonbladet. The Local wrote a piece with new photos and interviews in English the next day that was then cited and referenced by the BBC, The Independent and The Huffington Post, among others.
"Generally the things that go nuts outside the country are the kind of quirky stories that would be big in any newspaper," Rapacioli said. "But also the stories that confirm or confound a prejudice that the world might have about that country.
"So for France we had a French academic who wrote about how if the French spoke better English they would be less miserable. She's quite a respected academic so the Telegraph loved it and picked up on it and all the British media just leapt on it."
When The Local reported on Swedish riots last year, world media "leapt on this opportunity to see Sweden falling off its perch", Rapacioli said, to the point where they commissioned a follow-up piece to calm the hysteria that had built up outside the country.
In Germany, The Local reported on the fact that Angela Merkel was denied access to her NSA file before the Guardian, the original source for most NSA-related stories since Snowden, approached Glenn Greenwald last year.
"What we're able to do is have huge economies of scale by having it all in English across all of our sites," he said. "One language, one platform, one international audience, one brand and that's the nub of the business.
"It means we can have one central editorial team here [in Stockholm] to support our journalists all across Europe. What we try to impress upon our journalists and really try to create is that we may have journalists in seven different countries but we still talk about it as a 16-person newsroom where they're constantly communicating through Skype."
From the end of April, Austria will join Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Switzerland as The Local expands across Europe, this time as a franchise.
"We needed to establish ourselves in the core countries and then thought if we can find the right people around Europe to start with – but then outside of it understand exactly what we're trying to achieve to follow the methodology that we've established – then this could be a really good way to expand," Rapacioli said.
"Austria is the first franchise edition and we've got a few other discussions going on that is a really exciting way for us to expand."
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I'll write a more detailed post on the workshop later, but today has been a good day.
I enjoyed the meditation workshop and enjoyed the meditations that we did. I then went to see a show that various friends were performing in. After the show while playing with a friends daughter, I did some handstands. Nothing particularly great or held for any length of time but there were the first ones since I got injured. They didn't hurt and I managed them.
In all today was a good day.


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Everyone knows that I was SO EXCITED for the new season of Storage Wars but as it began to air it was apparent that there were obvious pros and cons to the changes they make during the off season. Damn those interns!
They have some cool commercials promoting the new season which makes the crew out to be a bunch of soldiers of fortune with some exploding pyrotechnics in the back but having Jarrod and Brandy come out of an Aston Martin might be a bit too much. But it was nice of you to lend them your car Barry. Hahaha. Apparently it's the most money that A&E has ever spent on a commercial for one of their shows. The commercial led me to believe that this season would be better than ever but I was just a little disappointed.
We watched the two new episodes of Storage Wars and the one part that I absolutely loved was the whole Barry getting ready for the auction bit. THAT was pretty funny.
And RIGHT after this Barry cracks open 3 eggs into a glass and then drinks it! AHH! I didn't think he would actually do it. Watching Barry shadow bid just cracks me up so much!
The main reason why I was so let down with the new season was because of the changes they had made to the graphics on the screen. They changed the font for when they introduce everyone and they also revamped the graphics for the bids. The new designs kind of really suck, to be honest. They're really hard to read and they are in constant motion. They even changed the storage locker front that they show right before commercials too.
It also kind of made me sad that Dave wasn't bidding on as much stuff because he doesn't have the space. And yes I noticed that Jarrod and Brandy either traded in/ sold/ or put aside their Chrysler 300 for a Cadillac CTS. Didn't think I would notice?
I couldn't find any screenshots of the changes that I'm talking about though. Lame. I am going to find them! Even if I have to do it myself!
Let's see…the old bid screen would look like this:
And here are the new graphics (and like I mentioned earlier, the graphics are in constant motion and kind of make you sick if you look too hard).
They made all the letters look like how they would if they were ACTUALLY painted on a locker front. Gay.
And this is what the new bidding system looks like. It'll give you a headache.
BUT Darrell says some pretty funny shit. He got really angry at his son Brandon and said that Brandon either has to "ship up or shape out". Hahaha. And if he can't get along with Brandon that they are going to be "ka poop…I mean kaput!" Hahaha. Priceless.
I hope they can do something about the fonts…please! The old design was perfectly fine! Meh.
A girl can dream…


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I hope you all are having a good weekend. The bugs are back at the playground and sports field. Please start putting those stickers on the children's clothing or make sure that they know they need to spray before they go out for recesses. If there are particular instructions for your child, please let me know. This week kicks off Book Week at SIS and we have quite a few fun reading activities planned. Our assembly is this Friday and…it's gonna be great!!! Please come if you can. We'll start right at 2:10 in the SPAH. I asked those children who didn't speak at the winter concert if they wanted to speak at this assembly, and all who answered "yes" were able to take on a part. The rest of the children are involved too. We've been working hard on our songs and chants that will help others learn how important communication is to all of us. Maybe you've heard a little singing at home too? Third trimester ASAs start Monday. Curriculum notes can be found on this week's homework calendar. That's all for now. Lisa 🙂


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City academic elected to leading position on European engineering body
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Dr Sumsun Naher, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the European Scientific Association of Materials Forming (ESAFORM) during the International ESAFORM 2018 conference in Palermo, Italy.
The conference was held at the University of Palermo from 23rd to 25th April.
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Dr Naher has been elected for a six-year term.
She is one of only two new members elected out of 17 candidates vying for the Board position.
The other elected Board member was Professor Markus Bambach, from Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany.
Commenting on her new appointment, Dr Naher said:
I am delighted to have been elected to the ESAFORM Board of Directors for six years. I have participated in it's conferences for a decade, co-organising a semi-solid mini-symposium since 2008. I co-chaired the ESAFORM2017 Conference last year with Professor Dermot Brabazon from Dublin City University. This year there were 350 participants from 28 countries attending the conference. The Board of Directors meets twice a year to discuss different aspect of the development of the Association and I am looking forward to this new role.
ESAFORM is a non-profit scientific association.
It was founded in January 1997 to propagate an interest in all types of materials and all topics connected to Material Forming. The Association is run by a Board of Directors.
The Association organises an annual International ESAFORM conference, and publishes the International Journal of Material Forming (impact factor 1.978) and a Q1 journal.
ESAFORM's goal is the promotion of scientific information and applied research about the material forming process domain in university laboratories, public organisations and industrial companies.
Professor Livan Fratini of the University of Palermo, Italy, is ESAFORM's President, and the Association's Vice-President is Professor Ton Van den Boogaard of the University of Twente in The Netherlands.


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This Surprising Trick Can Teach Your Child to Calm Down
You can teach your child to calm down with this easy and relaxing trick. It's a great way to ease their anxiety and the perfect moment for some parent-child bonding.
As parents, we are always on the lookout for ways to calm our active kids down. It's important how to teach your child to calm down at an early age so they can deal with anxiety better as they get older.
The good news is you can teach your child to calm down with this surprisingly effective trick.
How to teach your child to calm down
The teddy bear trick
Though they call this trick the "teddy bear trick," you don't have to necessarily use a teddy bear. Actually, any object will do. But most kids prefer stuffed toys.
- Have your child lie down and put the bear on their tummy. If you are in public, they can do it standing. Make sure you are at eye level so your child knows you care that they are doing their breathing exercise.
- While you count to three, have them breathe in through their nose and watch the bear rise as they inhale.
- Then count to three while they exhale. Let them watch the bear lower as the air leaves their lungs.
- Repeat at least five times. Keep repeating until you feel like they have really calmed down.
Tell your child that they can call the stuff toy their "breathing buddy." The next time they freak out, get upset, or have an anxiety attack, ask them if they need their breathing buddy. If they do, give them their bear and do the exercise so they can calm down.
Teach your child to calm down with breathing
A breathing exercise like the teddy bear trick is a great way to teach your child to calm down when they're stressed. What's more, it's easy, and they can take it with them for the rest of their life.
It's great for adults too, as deep breaths and breathing exercises can relieve anxiety. And they have their benefits as well.
You can actually do the breathing exercise with your child so you can both get the benefits of healthy breathing exercises. After all, your toddler's not the only one who's stressed when he has a meltdown!
The benefits of breathing exercises
There are five benefits to breathing deeply, according to The Nourished Life. It relaxes your muscles, improves oxygen delivery to your body, lowers blood pressure, releases endorphins, and "detoxifies" your body.
The best part of doing the breathing exercise together is it also lets you comfort your child and strengthen your parent-child bond. Together, you can relieve yourselves of anxiety and become healthier individuals.
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An intra-GOP feud played out in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.
The dispute is between Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist insists – and many Republican politicans have agreed – that policy makers sign a "no new taxes" pledge. But Norquist's definition of taxes is broad. For instance, he says eliminating the multi-billion dollar subsidy for ethanol is a tax increase, something Coburn has publicly said is absurb, especially if Republicans are going to be effective in cutting the federal deficit.
There was a complicated procedural vote in the Senate in which 43 Republicans sided with Coburn and against Norquist. (Check out Ezra Klein's post on the subject if you want to go deeper into the weeds). The practical upshot is Coburn took a big chink out of Norquists's armor.
Speaking later Tuesday on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on MSNBC, Coburn said: "Grover's old news, it doesn't matter what he says."


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When Big Comic proved so successful in its fortnightly guise Fleetway decided not to change it to a weekly title but instead released another reprint comic. With the same amount of pages for the same price it'd come out in the weeks in-between issues of Big Comic Fortnightly, meaning we'd have a weekly dose of classic strips to enjoy. But it was also more than that, as Funny Fortnightly pulled series from the archive which weren't being used in the other title, giving it a different feel altogether.
The strips chosen seemed aimed at a slightly younger audience, there were also more little random strips (appreciated by this Oink! reader), more competitions and mini-quizzes (which were also reprints) and altogether it felt like a more youthful and fresher version of the same basic idea. It was quite clever actually and proved these weren't randomly chosen reprints shoved into a new comic:
While some characters such as X-Ray Specs, Buster (albeit in the form of Buster's Dream-World) and Frankie Stein could be found in both, the majority were kept as unique ingredients, either pulling them from comics not yet mined for content or just those strips not yet covered by Big Comic.
Some examples of the strips throughout included Kid Kong, Bonehead, Bad Penny, Mummy's Boy, Spy School, Clever Dick, Son of Sir, Bertie Bumpkin and Fun-Fear.
As a child the different characters were a delight to begin with, the way it was put together felt more Oink!-like (some strips were even shrunk to be different sizes and to fit more in) and it had brand new covers drawn especially for it while Big Comic used panels of reprints (or so I thought). It all pulled me straight in and for a little while it was my preferred comic out of the two. For this post I couldn't wait to get my hands on some issues again but, just like online information, actual copies of Funny Fortnightly are rare. But I was able to purchase three of the very earliest issues on eBay to pull some of my favourite strips out of and here are the other two issues' covers:
This is where I have to say I came to a crushingly disappointing realisation while researching for the blog. What I'd thought all those years ago were original covers drawn up specifically for this new comic collection of mine were actually reprints themselves! Not only that but they were all reprints of covers from one comic - Krazy. That first issue's cover above had me believing it was a special premiere issue cover but in actual fact it was the front page of #33 of Krazy, which you can see for yourself at the following page of Peter Gray's excellent Comics and Art blog which shows the entire run of Krazy covers in one post:
The two covers above for the third and fifth issues are from Krazy #42 and #70 and while you're there have a look at #67's, which was a personal favourite and it's heartbreaking to think the cover which had my friends and I in such kinks with its "Friends, Romans, Countrymen - lend me your Funny Fortnightlies, the newsagent's has sold out!" was a hasty edit of one from thirteen years earlier. Of course that's not to take away from the original covers (mainly drawn by Mike Lacey) but it shows a lack of imagination to not even pull them from a variety of titles.
But enough of that, we're here to read some comics! That's exactly what I'll be concentrating on as the origin story of these two comics has already been covered in the aforementioned third part of this series. So below are some of the strips which were instant favourites when the comic launched, all taken from these recently-purchased early issues.
There's quite a lot where two characters who are complete opposites are brought together in a strip with a lengthy title highlighting their differences. Some examples are Tough Nutt and Softy Centre, The Upper Crusts and the Lazy Loafers, Clever Dick and Dozy Mick, The Swots and the Blots and The Toffs and the Toughs. IPC (who published these first time around) must've liked the idea somewhat.
It's not exactly difficult to work out who would come a cropper every week in the above strips and the same can be said of what was definitely the best of the bunch in my opinion and the one strip of the genre which would appear the most. Most likely drawn by Jim Crocker ghosting the style of Reg Parlett, Ivor Lott and Tony Broke (I've a lot/stone broke) are just as enjoyable today as they were in the late 80s for me and before that in the 70s in COR! and don't feel like they've aged at all. Here's their debut as far as my comics reading history goes, from the premiere issue of Funny Fortnightly:
Ken Reid's art is a particular highlight of these classic collections and he was a favourite contributor of mine to these comics I have to say. One of his which had been selected to be reprinted for fresh young eyes was the rather gruesome-at-times Face Ache. First appearing in Jet comic in the early 70s his rubber-like face and the amazing transformations he could make it undergo were always fun and Ken seemed to take great pleasure in giving us the most horrific monster faces he could dream up.
It was different. That was the main thing. After Oink! had helped form (or corrupt, depending on your point of view) my sense of humour for life a lot of 'funny' comics felt very samey and while I did read Big Comic Fortnightly and Funny Fortnightly from cover-to-cover and enjoyed them for the most part, I was instantly drawn to strips which stood out as something unique. Face Ache fell into that category perfectly and Ken's artwork was a large part of that. Just take a look at this:
In fact this strip must've impressed the editor so much he felt one reprinting wasn't enough, as it was placed on two different pages within the same issue (#5), the above on the glossy inside back cover.
Back in the Big Comic Fortnightly post I mentioned a strip by the name of Mustapha Mi££ion about a child millionaire and how having the burden of a huge inheritance didn't mean he couldn't still be a child. At first glance you'd be forgiven for mistaking a Whizzer and Chips character called Tiny Tycoon was another example of IPC taking a winning formula and creating (or rather re-creating) it again and again. However Tiny wasn't a millionaire, he just had aspirations to be.
Think Alan Sugar as a very, very young boy and you'd be on your way to understanding the premise. Tiny was a budding businessman with lots of crazy ideas to make money and move his way up the corporate ladder. His ideas may not have always been entirely successful but they were, just like the comedy itself, always inventive. Drawn by Tom Williams here's a rather delightful double-page spread getting a rather unique recycling message across:
Also worth noting (if you note such things) is how Tiny was a unique character for another reason. He started off in one half of Whizzer and Chips (Whizzer) and ended up in the centre 'comic' Chips after a hiatus. Not that the comic was really 'two-in-one' of course, but fans will know what I mean.
The next character reminded me a bit of Charlie Brooker's Transmogrifying Tracey from Oink!, although obviously the following young lady came first. Disappearing Trix was drawn by Reg Parlett (who else?) between 1979 and 1982 and featured a simple premise which Buster comic milked for all its worth during those few years she appeared in the weekly. Quite simply she could disappear and reappear in the 'blink' of an eye as-and-when she saw fit. This could surely open up a whole world of mischief but Trix was a good girl for the most part and would often use her power to get her own back on bullies and pranksters.
But that'd get quite boring for young fans so of course she had to get into trouble, when using her invisibility for reasons which we readers may also have been more inclined to use it for:
Whizzer and Chips saw potential comedy in areas we may not have previously considered and if you needed any proof of that look no further than Timothy Tester, another strip which initially drew me in thanks to its artwork being of a significantly different style in comparison to the majority of the other pages. Drawn by Cliff Brown who wrote Scream Inn which also appeared in the first issue, Timothy would test new products by companies who'd send him their prototypes through the post. We've all heard of such sidelines before, a way of making a few extra pounds by trying out new goods and writing up in-depth reviews for the companies behind them, but it's not something which jumps out as comics material. Timothy proved us wrong.
Sometimes he'd test the items in ways they weren't originally meant to be used and these were always the best strips, where he'd go way beyond the remit of the testing needed. Such as using special binocular glasses as a replacement for regular sight ones for example. How could that possibly fail?:
Alongside Ken and Reg above another legend in the IPC comics line was Sid Burgon and in these few issues he's as prolific as ever. I've included a couple of samples here, the first being The Haunted Wood from Knockout comic, a different take on the tried-and-tested story formula of a ghostly forest. The original spin here is that it's very much a wood full of character, it's no urban legend as these trees are very much alive, and the forest itself has made a friend in a local boy.
He's not its protector or anything as the wood can take care of itself as you'll see, he seems to genuinely hang out there although this does seem to be a solitary pastime having trees as actual friends so I can't help but wonder what kind of inadequate social circle he had! But it did make for an entertaining romp every other week, especially when the wood needed to protect itself from us humans going about our usual human ways, i.e. looking for natural resources to exploit. As per our race's usual ways this man below probably thought nobody would miss some bits of wood and he'd just take what he wanted from nature:
It's a nice way of getting an environmental message across too but I'm not sure how far it went with that as I've only these few issues, but I'd like to think over time the strip would've carried on. It's a clever way of instilling this sensibility into kids without it being too obvious, and comedy is always the best way to get such messages to sink in!
One character who appeared across both comics was Monster Fun's Frankie Stein but he appeared in two very different guises. In Big Comic Fortnightly we'd see his full-page or double-page strips while here we were treated to his little quarter-page ones which delivered one quick gag. Even though they were created for the same comic originally these smaller tales suited Funny Fortnightly perfectly rather than the longer strips. These were another reason why my initial reaction to the comic was that it was just so much fun!:
It's great to see Frankie in this other format as I'd completely forgotten about it in the intervening years and having a look at some of the others I actually prefer these smaller strips. They put him in very ordinary situations which then descend into madness through some way in which Frankie deemed completely logical, all told with no speech whatsoever. They're miniature classics in their own right and highlight just how funny these classic comics could be even for new generations.
I've a great treat in store to end this post with but first I just want to wrap up my thoughts about the comic, because you may have noticed I've made more than one reference to how I felt about it at the beginning of its run. Did my opinion change? Well kind of.
With Big Comic Fortnightly and Funny Fortnightly running side-by-side it was originally a thrill to get a new comic and to have it feel so fresh and different by comparison. But as the months drew on I found myself engrossed in the former title more than its little brother. In hindsight I think there was just more meat on the bones with Big Comic. While Funny Fortnightly was daft and full of silliness it lacked staying power and the initial reaction soon gave way to wanting something more to sink my teeth into (just to complete the metaphor).
While Oink! had a lovely, random selection of strips of various sizes it was all very well balanced but Funny Fortnightly was like taking the lightest, quickest gags and stuffing a comic full of them - worthy of a giggle but you'd be left missing the bigger belly laughs. I'm not sure how long I stayed with the comic, definitely for a year or so I'd say and I also had the first annual, but I'd stopped my order with the newsagents' before a big change took place, I know that much.
As I said there's next-to-no information on the title online so trying to find out how long it lasted and for how many issues has been impossible so far. What I do know is there were only two annuals compared to Big Comic's eight books so it wasn't as successful, that much is certain. Also at some stage it changed to Funny Monthly, meaning long-term readers had lost that weekly dose of classic IPC and not long after that it was cancelled completely. Sound familiar?
To dismiss it completely as the internet appears to have done is criminal and I whole-heartedly recommend you pick up a handful of issues to enjoy a different take on the idea, but whether you stretch to the full collection is another matter. But for some quick laughs, plenty of slapstick and some hugely memorable characters who have been otherwise forgotten it's a sound investment!
To finish with here's that treat I promised you:
Leo Baxendale.
Tom Paterson appeared in a handful of Oink!s and on the blog three times before this post (in the premiere issue, #15 and The Oink! Book 1988) and to say he's a fan favourite of British comics readers is to undersell him and the joy he's brought to more than one generation of readers. Always intricately detailed and packed to the rafters with sight gags galore, Tom's work always entranced and entertained in equal measure.
But where does this all fit in with this final strip? It's said Tom's early work was heavily inspired by that of fellow IPC cartoonist Leo Baxendale, a true giant in the world of UK-originated comics and you can see an example of his work below with Nellyphant from Oink!'s stablemate Buster. Leo worked heavily with IPC/Fleetway as well as DC Thomson, the latter of which he famously took to court to get recognition as creator of the strips he made for them. Artists weren't allowed to sign their strips back then with the Beano/Dandy publisher and with IPC it was also very rare. Us pig pals were very lucky as Oink! made a big deal out of us kids knowing who the contributors were - the strips were creator-owned after all.
The case was settled out of court and in the late 90s Leo left British comics for good but his work is treasured to this day and includes such fondly-remembered strips as Clever Dick, Bad Penny, Sweeney Toddler, Little Plum and The Bash Street Kids.
So I'll wrap up my look back at Funny Fortnightly with an example of this hugely talented and loved man's Nellyphant strip. Given the only word (or rather noise) this particularly silly elephant could make I think it's a particularly suitable send off for this blog post:
Six issues and a special doesn't sound like much but to me it's still a crime this happened to such an excellent comic. I'll be back in a fortnight (9th September) to introduce you to it, but for it to have only lasted that length of time and still be my very favourite comic out of all these being covered in my Beyond Oink! series, that must tell you just how awesome I felt it was.
What other comic can give you THIS as a free gift with its first issue?!:


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The Global Social Network
Indian students rank near the bottom on PISA, a global test of learning standards conducted in 74 nations this year. TIMSS, another standardized international test, produced similar results earlier in 2003.
This is the first time that Indian students participated in PISA. Students from Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu took the…Continue
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A recent report by the Center for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) finds that Pakistanis are less entrepreneurial than their counterparts in the majority of 59 member nations of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), according to Express Tribune newspaper. The…Continue
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Pakistani-American Mansoor Ijaz's confidential memo to retired US Admiral Mike Mullen on behalf of former Ambassador Hussain Haqqani makes a reference to the 1971 war where it says "this is a 1971 moment in Pakistan's history". What does it really mean? Does it mean there is another India-Pakistan war in the offing? Or an expansion of US Afghan war into Pakistan? Or further splintering of…Continue
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For at least two years in a row, BRIC has, in the words of SGS's Albert Edwards, stood for Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept, not an acronym for populous emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China as Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill saw it ten years ago.
In fact, O'Neill has himself expressed disappointment in India, one of the BRICs, a designation that has boosted…Continue
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Pakistani actress Veena Malik (Urdu: ويتا ملک, born Zahida Malik), who raised eyebrows last year for her provocative on-screen behavior in a reality show, is in the midst of yet another controversy after posing in the nude for the December 2011 cover of the Indian edition of international For Him men's Magazine(FHM). The ISI…
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Asif Farooqui is making millions of dollars by turning thousands of tons of waste in Lahore into liquefied petroleum products and fertilizer for farmlands.
Words like "clean" and "green" are not usually associated with the streets of major South Asian cities, but Farooqui's Waste Busters, a successful waste management business, is slowly changing the image of the Pakistani city of Lahore, according to an…Continue
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CMS Hospital Pricing
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Debugging consoles (in games)
So I wasted most of my dev time today on something I have no proper use for yet.
Some of you may know how Skyrim has this console you can open up in-game and type commands into, right? Best guess on my part is that it was for debugging and testing during development. Because hey, quick access to items, abilities, and everything else that'd take you hours of gameplay really does open up a lot of time for doing more productive things. And though I won't be including it in the final game (if it ever even gets that far), it's still a mighty useful and cool thing to have. Besides, it's fun to implement!
I'm not doing anything fancy, or at least not yet. My game barely has any content yet so I haven't gotten much farther than a "move direction" command which serves literally no point whatsoever since the arrow keys can accomplish movement much quicker. Haven't even gotten it fully functional yet. All I've got is the command line interface itself, opened up by hitting return (but only if the game's running with debug enabled), and shows a simple line with a cursor that doesn't even blink. The structure for commands to be stored in is implemented, as well as a way to handle them. It's not exactly working yet though, so did a small shitty workaround for the time being.
At least now I got something to show.
So, there's that. I'm hoping to finish this by tomorrow, of course implementing new commands as I go. I really should start separating stuff into game modes already, so I can mess around with making a menu and other procrastinatory activities.
But hey, having fun, so nobody can stop me.
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Peter F. Sale is a marine ecologist who has seen firsthand the degradation of coral reefs during the course of his working life. A Canadian, he was educated at the University of Toronto where he completed a Masters thesis on a near-extinct race of trout, and at the University of Hawaii, where he learned to pronounce Hawaiian words tolerably well and commenced his lifelong engagement with coral reef fishes. He has been a faculty member at the University of Sydney, Australia, University of New Hampshire, USA, and University of Windsor, Canada, where he remains Professor Emeritus. He was until recently Assistant Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University, based in Hamilton, Ontario, while living with his wife, Donna, in the Muskoka District, one of the most beautiful parts of Ontario, about three hours north of Toronto. They have one son and a granddaughter born in 2010.
His work has focused primarily on reef fish ecology and on management of coral reefs. He has done research in Hawaii, Australia, the Caribbean and the Middle East, and visited reefs in many places in between. He has successfully used his fundamental science research to develop and guide projects in international development and sustainable coastal marine management in the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. In Our Dying Planet, Peter Sale uses his own experiences to help tell the story of the global environmental crisis. He makes the argument that this complex and very serious problem can be solved, has to be solved, and must be solved soon if we want a good future for our children and grandchildren. Our planet does not have to die.
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Since I have been posting articles to my blog, there always seems to be a few stories that have been continually read. Of the many topics I choose to write about, the articles on the Ozark Sasquatch have grown in popularity. I briefly covered the subject in 2011 and thought it was concluded. Since that time, it has been read an average of 200 times a month.
Over the past few months I have gone back and done a little more research on old Solomon Collins or "Ol' Blue Sol." It was his first initial sighting just north of the Rockbridge, Missouri, that we have the beginning of this Ozark story.
Because of this story, I have met some amazing people in doing the background of the Blue Man of the Ozarks. Of those people, I have had the pleasure of meeting one of the most knowledgeable people in the world of Bigfoot. His name is Clifford LaBrecque, and it was an uncanny moment of how I met him. To the point….I do not believe in coincidence.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and visit with him. The man is a wealth of knowledge.
I will be sharing more about my journey & the Blue Man in the future. Needless to say, it's amazing to see the connections that are orchestrated, even when it's not expected. This whole process has encouraged me to keep researching & digging. I will leave you for the moment with a few pictures of a life-sized replica of Bigfoot & myself.
Enjoy your Ozarks' History.


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Failure to promote apprenticeships and traineeships should result in the sack for careers advisers, House of Commons Education Select Committee chair Graham Stuart has said.
During a debate secured by the Association of Colleges and All-Party Parliamentary Group for FE and lifelong learning chair Stephen Lloyd MP, Mr Stuart said schools needed a bigger incentive to offer comprehensive careers advice, including non-academic routes.
He said: "The heart of the problem is a simple one, in my opinion — it doesn't come out in the myriad of reports that have been produced on this subject or indeed in enough speeches given by colleagues in this chamber. The problem is there are insufficient incentives for schools to take it seriously."
He added: "We have got to change the accountability regime to a high-stakes environment in which you very easily get publicly humiliated or sacked."
His comments on February 25 came after the 2011 Education Act made it an explicit requirement of schools to promote apprenticeships and traineeships in careers advice, and Mr Stuart said the majority of schools were failing to get it right.
"The central issue is that schools aren't incentivised to take it seriously and they have some perverse incentives like filling their sixth form places which means they won't even let colleges in," he said.
Shadow Junior Education Minister Yvonne Fovargue agreed and paid tribute to the work of South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
She said: "The fact is that we need more than an unenforced duty on schools, which simply leads to buck-passing. One-in-three teachers says they do not have the right expertise and resources to adequately provide effective information, advice and guidance."
She added: "I visited the Bristol campus of South Gloucestershire and Stroud College the other month. The college has an excellent careers hub, working with schools across the area — independent schools, academies, state-controlled schools and primary schools — and providing one-to-one advice from professional careers advisers, which it employs.
"The college is the point of contact for all employers, it works with the local enterprise partnership, and it is considering expanding its service. It is an excellent model for the careers advice of the future."
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OKLAHOMA CITY - A nutritious meal can do a lot to get the brain and body geared up for the day.
With Oklahoma City Public Schools starting back up next week, a nutrition task force is looking at ways to make sure your kids are eating right to excel in the classroom.
"We want to find out why they aren't choosing the food that we have right now," said Deborah Taylor, Asst. Director of Nutrition Services for OKC Public Schools.
A child nutrition task force formed earlier this year will look at doing just that.
"They had assessed everything. They had visited other schools and they just decided, 'hey we can probably do this on our own,'" Taylor said.
There are challenges to feeding 44,000 kids twice a day; one of those is making sure the food tastes good while meeting USDA guidelines, but the district believes hiring two registered dietitians will help.
"If you were in my office, I'd ask you what you already like to eat and how you already cook and we would change those recipes, and we would take the foods you like already and learn how to make them more healthy," Taylor said.
The August lunch menu includes whole grain chicken nuggets, skim chocolate milk and apricots, using the 'My Tray' dietary guidelines.
Taylor worked in Shawnee schools for the past 22 years and has seen huge success with getting students to want to eat in the cafeteria.
"It works great," she said.
"At a middle school, we have 87 percent of our kids eat at Shawnee Middle School. That's what we want to see here at OKC Public Schools."
OKC schools see only 30 to 40 percent of students heading to the cafeteria lines for breakfast and lunch.
"Why are they choosing not to eat our school food?" Taylor inquired. "We're going to find out. We want kids eating with us. That's the whole point. If kids aren't eating with us it doesn't matter how healthy it is."
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Third graders have started the school year by traveling across the world to learn about the art of India! We have been looking closely at Henna and how they use all different types of LINES to create beautiful designs for festivals and celebrations. We watched a time lapse video of Henna art being applied to a hand and students pointed out all the LINE styles they observed. We have been working hard to design our own Henna on paper. Stay up to date with pictures of their progress on Instagram @summitartists
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3 Myths About Happy Marriages
I just finished reading The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by renowned marriage researcher and clinical psychologist John Gottman, Ph.D, and writing up a piece on his seven science-based principles. (Stay tuned for that one!)
In addition to sharing what leads to a successful marriage, Gottman also debunks common myths about relationships. Here are three that I found especially interesting and surprising — and I think you will, too!
By the way, you can learn more about John Gottman and his research here.
1. Myth: Better communication will save your marriage.
Fact: We often hear that successful conflict resolution, which includes active listening, makes for healthy and happy marriages. But according to Gottman, most of the roughly 650 couples they sampled "rarely do anything that even partly resembles active listening when they're upset."
Also, a study by researcher Kurt Hahlweg and colleagues found that couples were still distressed after trying active listening techniques. Couples that were helped relapsed within a year.
Plus, conflict-resolution-based marital therapies have a high relapse rate. He cites research that reveals a success rate of 35 percent for the best conflict resolution therapy, a rate that diminished a year later. (Only 18 percent of the couples maintained improvements at followup.)
One of the problems is that most couples aren't able to listen actively. And it's hard to be empathetic and objective when your partner is talking about you. According to Gottman, "Active listening asks couples to perform Olympic-level emotional gymnastics when their relationship can barely walk."
He doesn't discourage people from using the technique. He says that if you think it'll help, give it a try. But "Even if it does make your fights 'better' or less frequent, it alone cannot save your marriage," he writes.
2. Myth: Avoiding conflict will kill your marriage.
Fact: We also often hear that fighting is a good thing. You get out your grievance instead of letting it fester and balloon until you erupt. We've come to believe that staying silent will sabotage and subvert relationships.
But according to Gottman, "Plenty of lifelong relationships happily survive even though the couple tend to shove things under the rug." He gives the example of Allan and Betty:
When Allan gets annoyed at Betty, he turns on ESPN. When Betty is upset with him, she heads for the mall. Then they regroup and go on as if nothing happened. Never in forty years of marriage have they sat down to have a "dialogue" about their relationship. Neither of them could tell you what a "validating" statement is. Yet they will tell you honestly that they are both satisfied with their marriage and that they love each other deeply, hold the same values, love to fish and travel together, and wish for their children as happy a married life as they have shared.
Gottman says that couples just have different conflict styles. Some avoid fights like the plague. Others fight often. And still others are able to talk issues through calmly and reach a compromise.
Surprisingly, neither style is superior. The key is that partners aren't a mismatch in their argument style. So if one partner wants to discuss a conflict, but the other flees the house or turns on the TV, that's a problem.
3. Myth: Reciprocity underlies happy marriages.
Fact: Some people and even professionals believe that happy partners have an implied agreement to compensate each other for their good deeds. For instance, you cook dinner and your partner responds in kind by washing the dishes.
Alternately, in bad marriages, it's believed that couples have broken that contract, and built-up resentment results. In theory, by informing couples about this unwritten contract, their relationship will improve.
"But it's really the unhappy marriage where this quid pro quo operates, where each feels the need to keep a running tally of who has done what for whom," Gottman writes. Happy couples, however, just do nice things because they want to. They feel good about their partner and their relationship.
Gottman says that if you're keeping score over an issue, it's probably a source of tension in your relationship.
What do you think about these myths?
Do you think they're still facts?
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SBS's 'Star King' has wished girl group SECRET a speedy recovery following the news of their recent car accident.
The girls appeared on the December 15th broadcast of 'Star King' alongside others like Kim Na Young, Boom, Park Hye Mi, Park Joon Kyu, Byun Ki Soo, and more.
While watching a group of church choir members perform, the 'Star King' staff streamed a caption across the screen that read, "We wish Sunhwa, Zinger, Hyosung, and Ji Eun a speedy recover and that their hearts are healed."
SECRET was involved in a car accident back on December 10th. The members were immediately taken to the hospital with Zinger being seriously injured while the other members suffered minor injuries. The girls are now released from the hospital, but their schedules have all been canceled until the year-end ceremonies.
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I am a cultural anthropologist whose research and writing are organized around core anthropological concerns with nature and culture and the biological and the social in the production of personhood and social value. In my past and ongoing projects––which include transnational adoption from South Korea, the ecologies of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), and transnational circulations of medicinal ginseng––I seek out the particular ways in which conceptions of the nation, personhood, politics, and human/non-human relations are performatively and discursively made and remade through cases that confound everyday assumptions about what is "natural" or "cultural."
I received both my M.A. (with a Certificate in Culture and Media) and Ph.D. from New York University. In 2006, I was a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Literatures. Before joining the UCI Anthropology faculty, I was an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester (2007-2014), and editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (2013-2014). I currently serve on the board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society of East Asian Anthropology.
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As summer continues to heat up, we thought that a cool strawberry salad recipe from the ICECulinary Arts curriculum would be the perfect way to savor the season.
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Insulting Comments Contest - We Have a Winner, and a Mashable Cow
The Insulting Comments Contest was sponsored by Ruduzu's anti-social network, which is currently for sale.
We have a winner! There were some pretty hilarious comments that appeared as a result of the Insulting Comments Contest, some of them quick and cutting, others longer and more inventive. The Herpes Fairy said she was "sorry to hear about the herpes", while Eat Me had some particularly biting comments. There were also lots good insults about my prediction that 2007 would be a big year for contests right as I hosted...a contest. However, two comments stood out - they're quoted below.
From Web 2.0 Skeptic, who started the insulting comments trend, predicting what will happen in 2007:
I'm going to really go out on a limb here and make some off-the-wall predictions that may come as a shock to a lot of people. But I stand by these predictions and think that by this time next year I'll be hailed as a visionary.
1. People will continue to consume online porn regularly.
2. Spam email will continue to rise.
3. Organized online crime will continue to be more profitable than starting a Web 2.0 company by the tune of at least several billion dollars, but all the Mark Zuckerburgs will continue to think that they're money.
4. At least 5000 pregnancies will be the result of MySpace hookups. I accounted for 2-4 last year. I won't know for sure until the paternity tests are in.
5. My 25% of the $15 million I am helping get out of Nigeria for the former king will finally arrive just as promised. Ngobe if you read this please call me with an update. 281-330-8004
From an anonymous author:
11 Social Networking predictions for 2007, interspersed with commentary on Pete's mother:
1. Online Contests Become Huge: but still not as huge as Pete's momma!
2. RSS Won't Go Mainstream…: and even if it did go mainstream the public would still consume fewer feeds than Pete's momma!
3. Online Video Fallout: I am in complete agreement.
4. YouTube Becomes Bigger Than MySpace: but it'll never be as big as Pete's momma! (like fish in a barrel, folks!)
5. Mobile Social Networking Takes Off, Mobile Becomes a Standard Social Networking Feature: but mobile services will never appeal to Pete's momma, who's too big to be mobile!
6. Social Networks Fail To Expand Internationally Due to Local Competition: but 2007 is the year Pete's momma expands internationally (into Canada and Mexico), at least when she's turned sideways!
7. YouTube Meets Dating: but videos of Pete's momma will still be too big for cable modems, let alone dsl!
8. Metacafe Acquired: shortly after Pete's momma got hungry!
9. End of Flock? Yes, after Pete's momma sat on it!
10. TV Show-related Social Networks: TV shows start to come with a social network attached, but there'll be no room in them once Pete's momma signs up!
11. YouTube Celebrity Appears in a Hollywood Movie: this doesn't happen until 2008.
Web 2.0 Skeptic's comment ends better, even if it was actually left on a post that doesn't qualify for the contest. But I'm going to declare the anonymous commenter the winner. The reason? He/she left the message "Donate My Winnings to Heifer International".
Heifer International, as some bloggers already know, provides livestock to hungry families from Appalachia to Zambia in an effort to help them become self-sufficient. $500, as it turns out, is the exact amount needed to buy a cow, which can provide 4 gallons of milk a day, help crops grow and give birth to a calf every year.
We wish our Mashable cow more success than the average Web 2.0 company. ;)


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What Does it Mean to be 'Fleetworthy'? – A Fleetworthy Solutions Infographic
Does the current state of the transportation industry and safety and compliance rules, laws, and regulations give you a splitting headache? With all the regulations you need to keep track of and all the changes that happen, do you feel comfortable with your current state of compliance and safety programs? There are so many points of data to monitor and it is often hard to step back in your busy day to pause and take it all in. Having the ability to analyze your fleet, the data coming in, the applicable regulations, and how that translates into supporting the goals of your organization is crucial to success.
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After your request, the diverse debut compilation of Cosmicleaf Records, Chill On Ice...
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...which has become a best seller, now reprinted in a special second edition with a bonus track from Side Liner. Chill On Ice first edition was released in January 2005 and sold out in every store worldwide after wicked feedback.
Chill On Ice is a compilation that would be a friendly companion for the winter. A multimood and multistyle chill out compilation with soundscapes from the lands of Greece, Israel, Australia, Serbia and Montenegro. A peaceful sound environment for keeping you warm the cold nights of winter and travelling your thoughts under the rustle of leaves. The ambient spaces between electro, trance, rock and world fusion are fertile ones, and the richness of the sounds on Chill On Ice suggest a group of artists diving headlong into them with passion, open minds and impressive programming skills.
The sounds of Chill On Ice are so connected with nature that the tv show for tourism in Greece, use this unique atmosphere as background for the awesome nature spots of Greece