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We believe in one God. He is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He eternally exists in three personalities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and one.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, was buried, was resurrected, ascended into heaven, and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father.
We believe the Bible in its entirety to be the inspired Word of God and the infallible rule of faith and conduct.
We believe in the resurrection of the dead, the eternal happiness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost. We believe in personal salvation of believers through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. We believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life.
We believe in divine healing, through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ, and that healing is included in the Redemption.
We believe in water baptism, in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as distinct from the New Birth, in speaking with tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance (Acts 2:4), in the gifts of the Spirit, and the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit. We believe that all of these are available to believers. We believe in the Christian's hope-the soon-coming, personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ
It's important for you to know why we are here and where we are going. In other words, what is the main purpose of this ministry, what is the vision and direction God has mandated for this church? These are questions that should be addressed and answered in all ministries whenever anyone is making a commitment to become an active part of a fellowship. I believe it is essential for you to know the purpose of this ministry so you can fulfill God's purpose for your life. Therefore, I am making an effort to ensure you know the purpose of this ministry beforehand. The purpose of Word of Abundant Life Ministries, International is "to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every race, creed and nationality through the teaching of God's Word." Our vision statement: "To See People From All Races, Creed And Nationalities Brought Into The Family Of Jesus, To Teach And Develop Men And Women Into Spiritual Maturity by Having A "Heart To Heart" Relationship First With God And Then With Each Other, And To Fully Equip Them To Do The Work Of The Ministry" clarifies God's mandate for this ministry. Our mission statement summarizes and simplifies this important assignment. It states: Reaching all, Teaching All, and Discipling All for the Kingdom of God! (Matt 28:19) In addition, our motto, "Developing Disciples For His Kingdom" makes a direct statement to our expected results.
It's obvious this assignment is greater than our abilities and this is why we depend on God to bring it to pass. Our responsibility is to be Committed, Faithful and Obedient to His Word and His calling for our lives. You may say, "I'm not sure what my calling is." This is another major reason why this ministry exists. The Lord instructed me to establish a "3-D" (Dimensional) Ministry. A ministry designed to (1) To Fully Equip Men And Women Of God In Discovering, Developing And Doing God's Purpose For Their Lives; (2) To Outreach To The World, To In reach To Each Other And To Up reach Unto God; (3) To Lay A Sure Foundation Of The Word Of Faith By Ministering To The Needs Of The Spirit, Soul And Body Of Men And Women.
In addition, the Lord has given us other mandates to establish: These include establishing a Discovery Center; a Development Center; a Resource Center, a Victory Center, a Safe Haven Center, a School of Ministry, a School of Music, a Christian School (K-12), a Production Ministry and a Publications Ministry. He also gave a vision of a "Son Dome" and the LIFE Center of which will be the basis out of which most of these ministries will operate. God also gave me an assignment to establish a Development Institute with seven disciplines of study to provide a means of fulfilling this vision. The seven disciplines are called The Seven Visions of Development. They consist of Personal, Child/Youth, Family, Leadership, Ministry, Community and Kingdom Development.
Each discipline will have selected courses of studies that are tailored respectively for each discipline. I believe in order to impact a city, one must take the city. To take a city, one must be developed and willing to exercise kingdom dominion principles. The first Development Institute will be located in the Western United States (Phoenix, AZ) with future institutes expanding globally. My life vision is greater than the resources I presently have and extends beyond my generation. Therefore, I need every divine connection and the Wisdom of God to fulfill His purpose and destiny for my life.
It's obvious we need supernatural assistance to accomplish these assignments. However, we stay focused by reminding ourselves "Only Through God, Only With God, Only For God!" It's not us, but Him. We understand our purpose as willing vessels is to assist Him in fulfilling His plans. This is why we must work together in Faith and Love. Ephesians 4:16 states we are fitly joined together and compacted by which every joint (that's us) supplies to the increase of itself to one another in love.
As you can see there are many facets to this ministry. However, if I summarize the complete vision of this ministry into one word it would be "DISCIPLESHIP". This is our main goal; to be obedient to our Lord's command…"Go ye therefore, and teach (disciple) all nations…." Matt 28:19
I now hope you have a better understanding and insight of this ministry's vision and goals. My words of encouragement to you are "Discover, Develop and Do" what God has ordained for you since the beginning of time. We have God's plans and purposes for this ministry, now let us together Grow, Develop and Disciple ourselves and others into men and women of Excellence, Integrity and Purpose in which the overflow of our lives and theirs will IMPACT homes, communities and the world abroad!
To God Be the Glory
Word of Abundant Life Christian Center is an IRS Section 5013c non-profit corporation with its main office located at 6849 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85033. Word of Abundant Life Christian Center was organized and incorporated in June 1997 to provide religious services, educational and ministry to its membership and the general public. Word of Abundant Life Ministries, international (Word of Abundant Life Christian Center) began June 17, 1997 as a small Bible Study Group. We began holding services at Glendale Community Center, with 35 people in attendance at the first Sunday morning services on June 29, 1997. April 1998, Word of Abundant Life Christian Center experienced growth resulting in a move into a new facility located in Peoria, Arizona 85345. With the new facility we opened a Nursery and added more classes to our Children's Church. After two years of growth both in quantity and quality, the ministry moved to our present location at 6849 W. Indian School in Phoenix which is a 18,000 square foot facility with over 5 acres of land valued at $1.2 million dollars. Presently, our membership is steadily growing with over 1200 members.
WOALCC has a diversity of ministries to meet the spiritual, mental and physical needs of every individual regardless of age, gender, race or any other differences. We serve the needs of members from all over the valley and meet these needs through many auxiliaries, departments, schools and ministries (most are active and some are still under development). Some services provided are Computer Resource Training Labs, Youth Development, Children's Development, Family Enrichment, Single Ministry, Financing/Budgeting, Career Enrichment, Health Enrichment, Computer Training, Tutoring, Mentoring Ministry, Men's Fellowship Ministry, Women's Fellowship Ministry, Prison and Hospital Ministries and other Community Development Initiatives. Others include establishing a Discovery Center; a Development Center; a Resource Center, a Victory Center, a Safe Haven Center, a Christian School (K-12), a Production Ministry, a Publications Ministry and a School of Ministry and School of Music. Our vision is to Reach All, Teach All and Disciple All for the Kingdom of God!
Under our ministry umbrella is Abundant Love Child Development Center; licensed by the State of Arizona for childcare services up to 110 children from infant to 12 years of age for the local community and our church membership. Last year, we provided over 3,000 hours of Child Development Services for the local and church community, which equates to over 165,000 hours of service (55 children). We also networked with Arizona Department of Education to implement a Child Food Care Program (Hot Meals) and provided over 24,000 meals for the children. Our goals are designed to reach out and serve the particular needs of the community.
Previously, we have partnered with Western Power Administration for the acquisition of over 30 computers and DeVry Institute of Technology located in Phoenix, Arizona for a special project with their Networking students to obtain hands on experience with building a Local Area Network (LAN) for WOALCC. This project was a success and assisted us in moving forward with our community development operatives.
In January 2003 Word of Abundant Life Christian Center began broadcasting with a Sunday Radio Broadcast, "Living the Abundant Life" on 1280AM KXEG, which consequently expanded into a daily Radio Broadcast, Monday through Friday.
In March of 2006, Bishop Derone Robinson extended the ministry's "Missions Support" to Africa. Word of Abundant Life Christian Center initiated a food program to the "New Generation" Primary School in Mbale, Uganda East Africa; providing a balanced breakfast for more than 120 children in which 80 percent are orphans, as well as seeded financial support to several Ugandan Pastors. Financial assistance to these Pastors in Africa, allowed them to focus on their Vision and assignment from God and become more effective in preaching the Gospel to their local assembly and the world. Word of Abundant Life Christian Center has also partnered with these Pastors to financially support the Building Fund Project, the Construction of New Generation Church and Primary School and Living Waters Christian Center in Mbale, Ugan
Word of Abundant Life Christian Center faithfully provides financial support to the following missions:
Jewish Voice Ministries International
Compassion International
Christ for All Nations-Reinhart Bonnke
Feed the Children
Mountain Moving Faith Ministries-Pastor John Casarez
His Songs Ministries - Pastor Judy Jacobs
Day Star - Marcus & Joni Lamb
In 2007, in conception of the Vision Theme "Reaching All, Teaching All, and Discipling All for the Kingdom of God", was birthed. Word of Abundant Life School of Ministry Resource Center, was an Accredited Bible College under Vision International Education Network which has broadened their teaching in more than 140 Countries. Word of Abundant Life School of Ministry Resource Center began teaching Men and Women not only to learn the Word of God at a higher level, but to "Invest in their Destiny".
Bishop Derone and Pastor Brenda Robinson have been married for 38 years with four grown children; Cedric (Bobette), Terence (Breanne), Sharonda (Patrick) and Micah (Destinee) and 21 grandchildren. They have been in ministry for over 36 years; having traveled and ministered extensively to include the Spain, Italy, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. They have pioneered and pastored churches in England and Germany. Bishop Derone and Pastor Brenda are under the spiritual covering of Apostle Johnnie Smith, Chief Apostle of (UHAI) United Holiness Assemblies International. They both have inspired to further their own personal growth through higher education (Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Associate of Arts in Theology, respectively). Bishop Derone and Pastor Brenda Robinson are Elders on the Board at the International Institute of Mentoring under the Leadership of Pastor Judy Jacobs. There are many who have influenced their passion and love for God and His people. Some who have passed on to glory, (Pastor Willie Holly), one their fathers in the Lord who taught them how to pastor and love the people of God. Apostle Johnnie Smith, Elder Nate Crawford and Apostle Leon Brown, we're their first spiritual fathers whom they had the honor of sitting under their tutelage. Dr. Myles Munroe, Evangelist Olivia Mitchell, Pastor Judy Jacobs and Pastor Russell Freeman through mentorship and friendship were instrumental in providing a godly influence in their lives. And of course, the family of Word of Abundant Life in which they stated they would be forever grateful and indebted. Bishop Robinson stated, "The last seventeen years have been challenging and yet rewarding. And may our history (as someone stated) remain "His Story" and our future reflect our vision of the continuous passion to impact lives that will change homes, communities and the world for the Kingdom of God.


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This innovative course focuses on the development of a significant experimental animation production that synthesises research undertaken in areas such as drawing, live-action, drawing on film, under camera manipulation, stop-frame animation, pixilation and sound as art. A strong independent research base will underpin individual practice.
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The Department promotes a blending of arts practices responsive to current cultural and digital industries demands; inspiring students to engage with real world scenarios through creative and imaginative responses.
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Sensors 2015, 15(10), 25033-25038; https://doi.org/10.3390/s151025033
A Note on an Improved Self-Healing Group Key Distribution Scheme
State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Network Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
School of Information Science and Technology, University of International Relations, Beijing 100091, China
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Academic Editor: Leonhard M. Reindl
Received: 23 June 2015 / Accepted: 16 September 2015 / Published: 29 September 2015
(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
AbstractIn 2014, Chen et al. proposed a one-way hash self-healing group key distribution scheme for resource-constrained wireless networks in the journal of Sensors (14(14):24358-24380, doi: 10.3390/ s141224358). They asserted that their Scheme 2 achieves mt-revocation capability, mt-wise forward secrecy, any-wise backward secrecy and has mt-wise collusion attack resistance capability. Unfortunately, this paper pointed out that their scheme does not satisfy the forward security, mt-revocation capability and mt-wise collusion attack resistance capability. View Full-Text
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Thought the newest computers, electronics, or smartphones were out of your reach? Worried you can't afford new furniture or home appliances? At Rent-A-Center near 41858, renting the latest home decor and more is possible.
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Three of the Weir children, from left, Tad Weir, Julie Gockley and Cathy Renk, pooled their resources to provide a memorial to their parents, which they hope will fly forever over the city they loved. (Johnson Publications photo)
The base built below the of the flag pole has the same brick as the nearby city office buildings. (Johnson Publications photo)
Sitting atop a 50-foot pole, the U.S. flag was flying briskly Saturday afternoon. (Johnson Publications photo)
Parents' memory lives on with gift of U.S. flag
Bill and Nancy Weir loved Imperial, the community in which they lived for more than 50 years.
While both Bill and Nancy have passed away, their children are keeping their memory alive with a high-flying gift to the city their parents loved.
Last week, the brick memorial base was completed that sits below a 50-foot flag pole carrying a 10 x 15-foot American flag, all gifted to the city by three of the Weir children—Cathy (Weir) Renk of Peru, Ill., Tad Weir of Imperial and Julie (Weir) Gockley of Imperial.
They all felt there was no better way to memorialize their parents than with the American flag.
It stands along Broadway Street between 7th and 8th Streets, at the northeast edge of the city office buildings.
The memorial plaque at the base reads, "May Old Glory fly in their honor forever over the city they loved."
Nancy Weir was one of the co-founders of the Chase County chapter of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (FFVF), whose goal is to bring the message of engaged and responsible citizenship to schools and communities. Each year, the FFVF chapter provides scholarships to high school students here to attend seminars on the FFVF campus in Valley Forge, Pa., and a tour of Washington D.C.
Both Bill and Nancy were also active in a number of community organizations and city boards/commissions. Bill passed away in 2008; Nancy in 2015.
The city provided the installation of the flag, and ran the utilities to the pole so it could be lit at night. Lighting above and below the flag comes on automatically at night, so the flag is visible 24 hours a day.
Cathy said her mother was adamant about lighting on the flag at night, so they weren't about to leave off the lighting.
Jo Leyland, city clerk/administrator, worked closely with the Weir children on the project.
Leyland said she couldn't be happier with the project.
"I just think it's so beautiful. I love how it looks and it's such a nice addition to this area," she said.
Cathy said their parents always taught them to give back. Their parents can smile now, knowing they listened.


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Chris Efessiou is an entrepreneur, business leader, speaker, mentor, father, and author of the highly acclaimed book "CDO: Chief Daddy Officer." In the past 20 years Chris has founded, developed, and managed multiple successful enterprises—all the while being a committed single parent. Chris is committed to inspiring working parents to attain success at work and at home. Chris clearly defines the fundamentals of solid leadership critical in both arenas, and provides advice on how to transfer business skills to parenthood and personal relationships. Chris is a visiting professor and guest lecturer at numerous academic institutions. A business advocate, Chris is a member of the Management Committee of the Small Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce; an advisor/director on charitable, corporate and academic boards. He is a sought after keynote speaker on topics related to Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Using Business Skills for Personal Relationships.


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This is a unique blend of Indian spices and different floral fragrances. Citrus, honey and vanilla notes among others, combine to give a zesty yet sweet fragrance.
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The Natasha Watley Foundation 5k (NWF5k)
The Natasha Watley Foundation 5k (NWF5k) is to maximize the awareness of the foundation while promoting active and healthy lifestyle choices for the youth of today. Our message is aimed to all age groups and cultures who are ready to make a difference in the rising generation. The NWF already encourages softball as an alternative outlet of daily stressors and the race will enhance community participation in fostering healthy decisions by running for a cause.
Race Goal
Although the main goal of the 5k is to raise money for the livelihood of the foundation, the NWF is using the race as a channel to encompass the community and surrounding businesses to participate and help the internal growth of today's youth. As participants in the race, the foundation members are expected to go and use valuable skills thru networking and attempts to gain sponsorships for their place in the race. This will build self-confidence and enhance social skills which will be useful in the success of their future endeavors. By asking for sponsorships the youth are involved just as much as the community members and businesses.
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1) Partner with local businesses to successful advertise and promote the race while increasing brand awareness of these local partners.
2) Provide a great venue and atmosphere for a fun, unique and
competitive 5k race.
3) Have a large and diverse crowd of runners who decide to participant in the event because of the location, activities and cause.
4) Promote healthy and active lifestyles through physical activities
5) Have FUN for an Awesome cause!
The Natasha Watley Foundation (NWF) was founded by two-time Olympic medalist Natasha Watley to create opportunities for girls in underserved communities to learn and play the game of softball. NWF uses the medium of sport to inspire young women to reach their full potential while fostering character development and awareness of social issues that affect women.
The mission of the NWF is to empower young women to make healthy lifestyle choices, develop strong self-esteem, and to become leaders of character through participation and training in the sport of softball. The Natasha Watley brand is expanding daily. Natasha runs many camps and clinics throughout the nation, has an instructional DVD on the market titled "The Art of Slapping", and sponsors a 10U team, in Southern California. Watley is very concerned with the development of today's youth and cares deeply for underprivileged children.
The Natasha Watley Foundation (NWF) is her newest expansion; which is a public, non profit, national community service organization. Watley uses NWF as a vehicle to help bring the sport of softball to young girls in the nation's inner cities. The foundation provides an opportunity for young women to compete in leagues and on teams when financial resources are limited; and provides a positive alternative to the every day struggles they may endure in the inner cities.
Watch this video on the Natasha Watley Foundation.
The Natasha Watley Softball League was created, in collaboration with City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and the Natasha Watley Foundation, to provide girls living in underserved communities, the opportunity to learn and play the game of softball.
Established in 2008 with just a handful of girls and teams participating, the program continues to grow. This year, over 170 young girls, ages 9 to12, mainly of African American and Latino backgrounds participated in the summer softball league. Fourteen teams from twelve recreation centers (all located in South Los Angeles) competed from June through August. Many of the participants played softball for the first-time and learned life skills they will have for the rest of their lives.
The league has two very successful components besides the game of softball. First, is the college mentor program. This program matches top female scholar athletes from universities nationwide who are originally from Southern California, with a local recreation center team. Each mentor is responsible for coaching, teaching the four points of the diamond, providing free instructional clinics throughout the year and recruiting young female athletes.The other popular component is an essay contest. Each player is responsible for submitting an essay based on the core values of character and the Four Points of the Diamond – discipline, dedication, dignity and duty. The winner (including a adult chaperone) receives an all expenses paid trip to the National Pro Fast pitch championship game and the opportunity to be involved in a special softball clinic taught by top female athletes in the sport.


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If you want to parody spy shows and movies, re-imagining Canada as a world power goes a long way toward establishing the right tone of insanity. As series co-creator Kevin White says, InSecurity -debuting Tuesday, Jan. 4, on CBC Television -is set in "a superpower that is tricking the world." Read more.
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I took the EPT and I have two vertical lines. One is going through the square window and one through the round. There is a VERY faint line going through the vertical line in the round window. I took a test before but the sign in the round window was horizontal compared to the vertical in the square window.
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Well, it's simple. There's a plus sign for positive and a negative sign for negative. But if I'm positive then I'm missing the vertical line on the positive sign.
If there is a faint line then it may mean there isnt enough HCG to give a firm positive. Did you use the first void of the morning? Using the very first void (pee) first thing in the morning has the highest concentration of HCG, the hormone the test looks for for a positive result. If you didnt use the first void of the morning, I suggest you retest using that first am void. Copy and paste this into your browser to tell you what to look for: www.errorprooftest.com/how-to-read-ept
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Hot Chili Cocoa
Hot Chili Cocao
Cuddle up on a cold winter night with a healthier, low calorie version of hot chocolate with a KICK!
Total Cook Time: 5 minutes
Makes 2-8 oz servings
8 oz Unsweetened Chocolate Almond Milk
8 oz filtered water plus a little more (some steams off on the stove)
2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
Dash Nutmeg
Dash of Chili Powder (I use McCormick's Cocoa-Chili Powder)
Stevia Drops to taste
2 Warmed Mugs
1. Add all ingredients to a small pot.
2. Heat over stove top on medium stirring constantly.
3. Once cocoa is mixed well and liquid is steaming, serve in warm mugs
4. Enjoy. Cinnamon sticks are a great addition to stir with!
Approved by Sean Marszalek CEO SDC Nutrition, Inc
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It's hardly a secret that FCA US LLC has had a longstanding partnership with Waymo, which is the self-driving technology division of Google. Waymo headquarters is the site where FCA US LLC vehicles are fitted with the latest self-driving tech and gadgetry.
To really ramp up its investment, FCA US LLC has now pledged to provide Waymo with additional 2018 Chrysler Pacifica minivans numbering in the thousands.
It certainly makes sense that the Chrysler Pacifica would be the vehicle of choice for early autonomous testing. The minivan accommodates up to eight passengers, which makes it the ideal choice since the first self-driving cars rolled out will likely be mass transport vehicles. Newer Chrysler Pacifica models are also designed to specifically accommodate Waymo's proprietary software and hardware.
This isn't the first time FCA US LLC and Waymo have planned on a project of this magnitude. So far, the automaker has already supplied Waymo with over 600 vehicles across its lineup. These vehicles have been tested across 25 major U.S. cities, including metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, and Phoenix.
In 2017, Waymo fitted several FCA US LLC vehicles with Level 4 autonomy technology, meaning the cars were tested without a human driver. Human personnel, however, had to remain nearby. The Chrysler Pacifica had the honor of being the first vehicle to be graced with Level 4 self-driving capability.
Visit Top Speed to learn more about Waymo's plans for Chrysler Pacifica autonomous testing.
Stop by Wickstrom Chrysler Jeep® Dodge RAM in Barrington, IL today to check out the Chrysler Pacifica. You'll quickly see why it was chosen for early self-driving technology testing. Our pre-owned cars for sale near Schaumburg, IL also includes several Chrysler Pacifica models.


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Numbers never lie !
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Monday, August 3, 2015
BSE Sensex - Sideways Susie !
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Flied Lice anyone ?!!
Check out the charts via the link below.
Chinese Markets Chart Snapshots
Chinese Markets Chart Snapshots
Take the world's largest populated country, open a stock exchange, ensure that a majority of the companies are owned by the state, add to the excitement by making sure that only a 1/3rd of the total listed shares are free float (means public can buy/sell freely). Now add fuel to the fire with the abundant financing options for stock market transactions – margin financing. Oh, and I almost forgot a majority of the folks who dabble in Chinese markets are below the age of 35 – meaning still learning! Ouch!
So you have a LOT of young/inexperienced people chasing very FEW stocks with a LOT of cheap money!!
As long as the market is up all is well, but the moment markets head south it turns into a bloody stampede. As is evident from the recent events unfolding in the Chinese stock markets.
Knee f***ing hao folks! Welcome to the party and please bring some "flied lice"!! mwahahah….
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Monday, July 27, 2015
Global Booze Stats !
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Market Updates...
Its time to eat humble pie?! not clear yet. But looks like a sharper pullback within the bullish trend than earlier imagined.
BSE Sensex: With the derivatives settlement approaching in a couple of days, there is a strong chance that this fall might be bought into and overall the markets turn sideways. Supports exist at 27600 odd levels.
Shanghai: After the crash down to 3500 levels last month(where there is ample support) the index did bounce back and is now retesting supports to confirm that the crash is indeed over. Situation is still unfolding though hence a little bit of wait and watch to confirm the trend is in order.
Dax: A case of a stronger than anticipated pullback within the bullish uptrend. Has a couple of decent gap-up support levels approaching at 11000-11150 levels which could prove to be the trend decider.
Dow Jones: Is back down to its 200-DMA with 4-5 days of straight decline. Could be oversold on the short-time frame charts. Cluster of tops around 18100-18300 range needs to expand though for some comfort on the medium term time frame.
Will keep updating as the situation unfolds. Traders would do well to absorb their stop losses and look for opportunities to re-enter.
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Au Revoir - performance appraisals as we knew it !
The above is the link to a 1 minute video on the Washington Post, in which the CEO of Accenture speaks about how his firm is doing away with the traditional performance appraisal process.
Sounds intriguing for sure. I found out that Deloitte has also gone ahead and junked its performance appraisal process and settled for a simpler "4-questions format" to judge its employees. Here are the 4 questions that Deloitte thinks are pertinent for this process;
1. Given what I know of this person's performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus.
2. Given what I know of this person's performance, I would always want him or her on my team.
3. This person is at risk for low performance.
4. This person is ready for promotion today.
The conspiracy theorists would say, "these guys are brilliant, they just cooked up another way to earn money because now they will have to help thousands of companies worldwide on how to adminster and manage the new performance appraisal process"!! hehehehe.
Or it could be simply them trying to avoid thousands of hours lost in the performance appraisal process not to mention the unproductive unbillable hours (or do they bill them still to some hapless client?!) heheheh..
Too early to say but i like the 4-question format of Deloitte. Keep an eye out for this to hit a company near you soon! cheers....
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Jio aur Jeene Do !!
The above chart of Reliance Industries clearly shows the stellar runup from the sub-800 levels recorded in April 2015. It was a screaming buy at that point and has more than justified its presence in a model portfolio.
Having gained over 25% in a space of only 4 months and with its quarterly numbers also out, what's in store for the stock? Here are my observations on that;
1) Given the sharp nature of the rally, it's quite obvious that short-term and derivatives traders should unwind their long positions or atleast hedge fully with ATM put options.
2) Technically speaking, the stock has arrived at a point where it should find reasonable resistance to its immediate upmoves. The next week could see some sort of a sideways to a mildly downward reaction, if that happens, the low of the week should be used as a stop loss for long positions. On the upside, further rallies can be had only upon convincing crossover of the 1050-1060 levels with greater volumes.
3) An intermediate term target of Rs.1350-1400 range appears achievable by March 2016.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
Hey, let's start a hedge fund !!
The following lines from his interview to WSJ caught my attention,
1) " I've still got it" and 2) "life can be very boring without work"
lol... So true. For those who have never invested (let alone dabble in hedge funds) in the financial markets, starting a hedge fund at age 78 is a task that no sane man would like to attempt, especially after having set a good track record in the years before - check this out,
" Launching a new hedge fund is the latest of multiple reinventions for Mr. Zweig, born in Moscow to Jewish parents who emigrated to the U.S. shortly before World War II. He grew up in Detroit and earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Work he and another scientist conducted independently of each other suggested that protons and neutrons are made up of smaller particles known as "quarks." The 1964 finding was initially dismissed by other scientists. but quarks have since come to be known as a fundamental building block of matter.
Mr. Zweig later migrated to government and academic projects that involved the search for signals amid noise.
He was one of a handful of academics to propose a system designed to stop the flow of troops and materials from North to South Vietnam by creating an electronic barrier consisting of sensors and mines. He eventually left the project amid his opposition to the war.
While teaching at CalTech he helped invent the algorithm that underpins cochlear hearing implants, electronic devices that can provide a sense of sound to the deaf. He also founded a company that leased software to the National Security Agency. "
hmmmm.. So what on earth is Ol' Georgie trying to do? (My disclosure i am listening to the "Ghani Bawri" track from tanu weds manu returns while typing this out! check that out too...)
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Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they've bought and sold, via "13F" filings. Their latest moves can shine a bright light on smart stock picks.
Today, let's look at investing giant Elliott Associates, which was founded in 1977 by Paul Singer. According to the folks at InsiderMonkey.com, the company oversees funds that have beaten the S&P 500 since the 1990s. It can be hard to find data on returns, but a Bloomberg report in 2008 noted that since its inception, Elliott's hedge fund had outperformed the S&P 500 handily, averaging a 14.7% annual return, after fees. The company is known for its activist investing, as it has often bought significant stakes in companies and then tried to influence them. One of its specialties is distressed debt. It recently offered to buy Compuware for $2.35 billion.
The company's reportable stock portfolio totaled $3.0 billion in value as of Sept. 30, 2012.
Interesting developments
So what does Elliott Associates' latest quarterly 13F filing tell us? Here are a few interesting details:
The biggest new holdings are BMC Software (UNKNOWN:BMC.DL) and News Corp. (NASDAQ:FOX). Other new holdings of interest include mortgage REIT American Capital Agency (NASDAQ:AGNC), which recently offered investors a mind-boggling dividend yield above 15%. There are concerns that the dividend may get reduced, but that might not happen for a while. You might still want to be wary, though, as there are some aspects of the company that aren't too appealing.
Among holdings in which Elliott Associates increased its stake was networking and storage products provider Emulex (UNKNOWN:ELX.DL), which reported a 43% drop off in storage connectivity products in its last quarter. Elliott Associates now owns more than 11% of the company, and is likely to make some strongly worded suggestions.
Elliott Associates reduced its stake in companies such as oil and gas specialist McMoRan Exploration (UNKNOWN:MMR.DL) and Brocade Communications (NASDAQ:BRCD). McMoRan, it turns out, is being acquired, if things go according to plan, by Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX), along with Plains Exploration and Production (UNKNOWN:UNKNOWN). Opinions are divided on how smart a move this is, with some investors taking a wait-and-see approach and others wondering if Freeport overpaid. Part of the appeal of McMoRan Exploration is its ability to dig very deep for oil along with its major stake in the promising Davy Jones well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Brocade Communications, with its record of frequently topping analyst expectations in recent quarters, looks like a bargain to some, with its forward P/E ratio of 8. Some see the company as an acquisition target, with companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) among those suggested as logical suitors. The company's growth rate has been shrinking in recent years, worrying some investors, but others are very hopeful about its growing involvement in cloud computing and its expansion into areas other than storage.
Finally, Elliott Associates' biggest closed positions included Magna Entertainment and News Corp. (NASDAQ:FOXA). Other closed positions of interest include QLogic (NASDAQ:QLGC). While some may dismiss QLogic, my colleague Sean Williams sees a lot to like, such as its partnerships with original equipment manufacturers, its competitive position, and growth potential.
We should never blindly copy any investor's moves, no matter how talented the investor. But it can be useful to keep an eye on what smart folks are doing. 13-F forms can be great places to find intriguing candidates for our portfolios.
Longtime Fool contributor Selena Maranjian, whom you can follow on Twitter, has no positions in the stocks mentioned above. The Motley Fool owns shares of BMC Software, EMC, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, and IBM. Motley Fool newsletter services recommend Cisco Systems and IBM. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Cystic Endometrial Hyperplasia.
Cystic endometrial hyperplasia may develop after chronic exposure to estrogens such as phytoestrogens or estrogenic implants. It may also be a sequella to chronic cystic follicular degeneration or granulosa cell tumors. In this slaughterhouse specimen a fully developed corpus luteum is present on the right ovary.
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Support » Plugin: WooCommerce » WooCommerce allow free download without Checkout?
WooCommerce allow free download without Checkout?
Resolved vangillmedia
Hello there,
I'm setting up a download store with WooCommerce (for PDF sheet music), and would love to know if there's a way for some products (that are free) to also have a 'download now' button that does not add them to the cart?
I currently have the products set at £0.00 and customers can certainly go to checkout and get them no problem, but it would be great to cut out the process of customers filling in unnecessary billing details, if they only want to download the free stuff.
(Let's face it, that's probably most of them… ;o))
Thanks in advance.
Roy Ho
If you want others to download and do not need them to proceed to checkout, simply put a download link directly in the product description.vangillmedia
Thanks splashingpixels – that's a good solution.
One thing I was hoping for, is for the "Add to Cart" button not to be visible – both on the All products page, and on the single product page. Is there a way of enabling that?Roy Ho
For that you can just comment it out in the template files. Copy the template file in question from the WooCommerce plugin and put them inside a folder "woocommerce" and within your theme folder. Of course keep the same folder structure as where you copied it from. Then modify the template to comment the add to cart button out.
The template files should be in the single-product/add-to-cart folder.vangillmedia
Thanks so much for the advice – I'm afraid I'm somewhat of a novice with php, and this solution falls a couple feet beyond of my knowledge boundary. So rather than ask you (or anyone) to explain in simpler terms, I'll just live with it until I find some time to figure it out. Thanks again, very much appreciated.
@VanGill Media
When adding a free product, treat your free product as 'external product'..
Then 'add to cart' button will dissapear,
and there will be an option to rename the button to any name as you like..
E.G. You can name it 'download' and then link the button to the free file.
Anyway, if you want to change ALL 'add to cart' buttons on entire site..
just open function.php in your theme folder.. add this text:
add_filter('single_add_to_cart_text', 'woo_custom_cart_button_text'); function woo_custom_cart_button_text() { return __('My Custom Button Text', 'woocommerce'); }
before this line :
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Don't add any code below here or the sky will fall down */
Hope it help..vangillmedia
Brilliant @candeed, that's just what I was looking for!
Many thanks.candeed
My pleasure, @vangillmedia.. 🙂
(by the way, please consider to mark this thread as 'resolved')vangillmedia
if i want to keep some products FREE and some PREMIUM, which php code i should use? please!
Thanks in advance !!
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Green tea consumption and the risk of liver cancer in Japan: the Ohsaki Cohort study
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To investigate the association between green tea consumption and liver cancer incidence.
We prospectively followed 41,761 Japanese adults aged 40–79 years, without a history of cancer at the baseline or any missing data for green tea consumption frequency. Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI), adjusted for age, alcohol drinking, smoking, the consumption of coffee, vegetables, dairy products, fruit, fish, and soybean.
Over 9 years of follow-up, among 325,947 accrued person-years, the total incidence of liver cancer was 247 cases. We found that green tea consumption was inversely associated with the incidence of liver cancer. In men, the multivariate-adjusted HRs (95% CIs) for liver cancer incidence with different green tea consumption categories were 1.00 (reference) for <1 cup/day, 0.83 (0.53–1.30) for 1–2 cups/day, 1.11 (0.73–1.68) for 3–4 cups/day, and 0.63 (0.41–0.98) for ≥5 cups/day (p for trend = 0.11). The corresponding data among women were 1.00 (reference), 0.68 (0.35–1.31), 0.79 (0.44–1.44), 0.50 (0.27–0.90) (p for trend = 0.04).
Green tea consumption is associated with a reduced risk of liver cancer incidence.
KeywordsLiver cancer Green tea Japanese Incidence
This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research and for the Third Term Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control (H18-3jigan-ippan-001), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in Japan. We thank Yoshiko Nakata, Mika Wagatsuma, and Naoko Sato, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, for their technical assistance.
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Agent Message Transport Protocol
for HTTP Specification
Document title
FIPA Agent Message Transport Protocol for HTTP Specification
Document number
Document source
FIPA Agent Management
Document status
Date of this status
Change history
Approved for Experimental
© 2000 Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents - http://www.fipa.org/
Geneva, Switzerland
Use of the technologies described in this specification may infringe patents, copyrights or other intellectual property rights of FIPA Members and non-members. Nothing in this specification should be construed as granting permission to use any of the technologies described. Anyone planning to make use of technology covered by the intellectual property rights of others should first obtain permission from the holder(s) of the rights. FIPA strongly encourages anyone implementing any part of this specification to determine first whether part(s) sought to be implemented are covered by the intellectual property of others, and, if so, to obtain appropriate licenses or other permission from the holder(s) of such intellectual property prior to implementation. This specification is subject to change without notice. Neither FIPA nor any of its Members accept any responsibility whatsoever for damages or liability, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this specification.
The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) is an international organization that is dedicated to promoting the industry of intelligent agents by openly developing specifications supporting interoperability among agents and agent-based applications. This occurs through open collaboration among its member organizations, which are companies and universities that are active in the field of agents. FIPA makes the results of its activities available to all interested parties and intends to contribute its results to the appropriate formal standards bodies.
The members of FIPA are individually and collectively committed to open competition in the development of agent-based applications, services and equipment. Membership in FIPA is open to any corporation and individual firm, partnership, governmental body or international organization without restriction. In particular, members are not bound to implement or use specific agent-based standards, recommendations and FIPA specifications by virtue of their participation in FIPA.
The FIPA specifications are developed through direct involvement of the FIPA membership. The status of a specification can be either Preliminary, Experimental, Standard, Deprecated or Obsolete. More detail about the process of specification may be found in the FIPA Procedures for Technical Work. A complete overview of the FIPA specifications and their current status may be found in the FIPA List of Specifications. A list of terms and abbreviations used in the FIPA specifications may be found in the FIPA Glossary.
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2 Message Transport Protocol for HTTP
3 Informative Annex A — Example
This document is part of the FIPA specifications and deals with message transportation between inter-operating agents. This document also forms part of the FIPA Agent Management Specification [FIPA00023] and contains specifications for:
· The transportation of messages between agents using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP - see [RFC2616]).
This MTP is based on the transfer of data representing the entire agent message including the message envelope in a HTTP request. The HTTP data transfer is a two-step process: the sender makes a HTTP request and after receiving the data the receiver sends a HTTP response. The receiver then parses the message envelope and the message is handled according to the instructions and information given in the message envelope.
The name assigned to this component is:
A HTTP request comprises:
· Request Line
- The request method type that must be POST.
- The request resource identification that must be a full URI (see [RFC1630]).
- The request version that must be HTTP/1.1.
· Request Headers
- The mandatory parameter Content-Type: that must be "multipart/mixed" and must have a boundary parameter enclosed by double quotes. It should be anticipated that the boundary parameter may be "folded" as described in [RFC822] – hence parsers must be able to handle this type of encoding.
- The mandatory parameter Host: that must be in the form hostname or hostname:portnumber.
- The mandatory parameter Cache-Control: that must have the value no-cache.
- The mandatory parameter MIME-Version: that must have the value 1.0.
- The optional parameter Content-Length: that contains the size of the request body[1].
· Request Body
The request body contains the agent message. The agent message has two components (separated as defined in [RFC2046] for multipart/mixed MIME content): a FIPA message envelope and a FIPA message body (the payload).
The encoded body must therefore contain at least two parts, the first part containing the FIPA message envelope, the second part containing the FIPA Message being sent. Each of the two parts must specify an encoding-level ContentType field which may be any MIME type (Implementations must assume that some parts of the multipart encoded content may contain raw binary data). Each of the two parts may contain other headers such as, for example, Content-Transfer-Encoding but the processing of these fields is not mandatory.
The charset used in headers and the boundary delimiter of the multipart encoding must be plain ASCII.
Where applicable the charset encoding of the FIPA Message must be specified as a charset parameter of the ContentType header. This charset parameter value must have the same value as the value of the envelope payload-encoding field.
The parts encoded in the multipart message body are enclosed between boundary delimiters. The boundary delimiter is formed from the boundary value specified as parameter for the ContentType header. The boundary value must be a sequence of maximum 70 ASCII chars. Each MIME part is to be considered enclosed between two occurrences of the sequence "CRLF--boundary value". The last boundary delimiter must be a boundary delimiter ending line and is formed from the usual boundary delimiter followed by the sequence "--", that is, "CRLF--boundary value--".
The envelope body encoding must therefore have the following structure:
- MIME headers (at least a MIME-Version header and a ContentType header that contains the boundary value).
- An empty line delimiting the MIME headers from the MIME body.
- A boundary delimiter line that delimits the beginning of the envelope part.
- A ContentType header line that must have the value appropriate for the envelope representation (given in each envelope specification).
- An empty line (CRLF CRLF).
- The FIPA message envelope.
- A boundary delimiter line that delimits the FIPA envelope from the FIPA message.
- A ContentType header line that must have the value appropriate for the FIPA Message representation.
- A boundary delimiter line that defines the end of the FIPA Message. This boundary line MAY be a boundary delimiter ending line.
A HTTP response comprises:
· Response Line
The response version must be HTTP/1.1. The response status code must either be the success code or a suitable error code as defined in [RFC2616]. The success code only means that the receiving agent has succeeded in extracting the message content from the HTTP request. More detailed information about non-HTTP related issues such as envelope parsing and message handling should be sent back to the sender agent as a separate message. If a sending MTP receives an error code then the expected behaviour would be to try sending the message using another combination of target resource address and content type or give up. The reason phrase in any error response may be any string and is used only for informational purposes.
· Response Headers
- The mandatory parameter Content-Type: can be any MIME type (see [RFC2045])
- The mandatory parameter Cache-Control: must have the value no-cache, and
- The optional parameter Content-Length: specifies the size of the response body[2]
· Response Body
The response body may contain a message reply and depending on the content type can be text, binary or multipart. The sender is not obliged to read or make use of such content (i.e. it should not be relied upon for message transfer).
The default connection behaviour on HTTP version 1.1 is to have persistent connections which means that after a request-response cycle, the connection is kept open and other requests can be made. However, because this would require a more complex implementation, connection persistence is not mandatory. In the case of a simple MTP implementation that would not support persistence, the Connection: parameter with the value close must be sent in the request headers if the MTP is acting as a sender or in the response headers if the MTP is acting as a receiver.
It should be anticipated that some of the header field values (especially the boundary parameter of the Content-Type request field) are "folded" as described in [RFC822]. So parsers must be able to handle this type of encoding.
Compliance to the MTP described in this document does not require HTTP 1.1 features that are not explicitly mentioned here.
The syntax used for the representation of the FIPA message envelope is that defined in [FIPA00085].
1. The boundary field is usually "folded" on a new line. So the underlying system should be able to fold/unfold encoded MIME headers and values.
2. In the MIME body before each boundary delimiter there must be a new line separator that is considered to be part of the boundary delimiter. So sections are delimited by the sequence "CRLF--boundary value" (where CRLF are two octets with values of 13 and 10 representing the ASCII characters CR and LF, boundary value is the sequence specified in the ContentType value as parameter, and "--" are two ASCII minus characters).
3. Good implementations will generate random boundary values and will check that none of the encoded parts contains the boundary delimiter sequence.
4. It is possible to have some text before the first boundary delimiter line and after the ending boundary delimiter line, namely a prologue and an epilogue. This text is to be ignored and should be there only to emphasise the boundary delimiters.
[FIPA00023] FIPA Agent Management Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00023/
[FIPA00067] FIPA Agent Message Transport Service Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00067/
[FIPA00085] FIPA Agent Message Transport
Envelope Representation in XML. Foundation for
Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000.
[RFC822] Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
Messages. Request for Comments, 1982.
[RFC1630] Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW:
A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the
Network as used in the World Wide Web. Request for Comments, 1994.
[RFC2045] Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies. Request for Comments, 1996.
[RFC2046] Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types. Request for Comments, 1996.
[RFC2616] Hypertext
Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1. Request for Comments, 1999.
The agent email@example.com sends a message to the agent email@example.com which is resident on an AP that has an ACC with an external HTTP interface. Both agents are simple implementations that do not use connection persistence and the message encoding (see [FIPA00085]) that they use is text.
1. email@example.com sends a message to firstname.lastname@example.com:
POST http://foo.com:80/acc HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Host: foo.com:80
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart-mixed ;
Content-Length: 1518
Connection: close[3]
This is not part of the MIME multipart encoded message.
Content-Type: application/xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<params index="1">
<encrypted>no encryption</encrypted>
<received >
<received-by value="http://foo.com/acc" />
<received-date value="20000508T042651481" />
<received-id value="123456789" />
Content-Type: application/text; charset=US-ASCII
:name email@example.com
:addresses (sequence http://bar.com:80/acc))
:name email@example.com
:addresses (sequence http://foo.com:80/acc )) )
:content-length 14
:reply-with task1-003
:language FIPA-sl0
:ontology planning-ontology-1
((done task1)))
2. The ACC responds with a successful notification:
Content-Type: text/plain
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close[5]


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Jane Burgess
Jane Burgess grew up in Covington, Indiana and received a B.A. from Purdue University in Elementary Education and Masters in Education from West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Burgess' professional career in education included from classroom teacher to Director of Support Operations for a national education company H.O.S.T.S. (Help One Student To Succeed) where she had the unique opportunity to work with school and districts throughout the country. She is now a full-time mother, homemaker and volunteer. Mrs. Burgess currently serves on the Boone County Habitat for Humanity Board and is a deacon at Zionsville Presbyterian Church.
Jane and her husband Claude have two children, Kristin, a junior in college and Thomas, a sophomore in high school.
Joe Stein
Vice President
Debbie Ungar
Shari Alexander Richey
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The Webcomic Overlook #185: Dynagirl
There was a short lived TV series back in the 1970's called Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. It was created by Sid and Marty Krofft, those crazy puppeteers who made bizarre, psychedelic shows which tread the line between fantastic and nightmare-inducing. They're likely lost to younger Webcomic Overlook readers these days: H. R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Land of the Lost. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was supposed to be a callback to the much more famous 1960's Batman series. They wore spandex, rode around in Electri-Car before the Nissan Leaf made it cool again, and fought villains with names like Empress of Evil and Glitter Rock… who, frankly, sound like they should be opening for KISS.
If you could sum up the seventies in the span of one minute, you can't get more accurate than the show's opening sequence:
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was never really that popular, and it lasted all of 16 episodes.
And yet … in 2001, some genius decided that it was ready for a reboot. Seriously. And it was as stereotypically 1990's comic book reboot as you can get. Electra Woman (played by Night Court's Markie Post) was a washed-up, drunk, divorced superheroine who was brought back into action by an all new Dyna Girl. Now, admittedly this sounds like a pretty terrible concept. However, it's pretty remarkable when you consider that a) this was a year before Spider-Man officially kicked off the decade when superhero movies dominated the box offices, and b) a full three years before The Incredibles, which rode a very similar premise to boffo returns. (To be fair, though, the whole "washed up superhero" trope had already been done with Watchmen.)
There's also a webcomic entitled Dynagirl, written by Cary Kelley and illustrated by Harold Edge… and … it's not that same Dyna Girl created by Sid and Marty Krofft.
Or … is she?
Because, despite the fact that she's sporting hot pants rather than spandex, Dyna Girl follows what sounds like a very similar story arc as the one Markie Post did in the 2001 reboot.
Our heroine is Kerri Masters, a.k.a. Dynagirl. She first appeared in Red Handed Studios' Fallen Justice, a sort of Justice League-like print comic where everyone looks like they were drawn to as background characters in Subnormality. I've never read Fallen Justice, as it seems to primarily exist on the rack of comic book shops in Texas. Dynagirl, however, sorta works as a standalone title… though knowledge of Fallen Justice does help to make a few details a little less confusing.
Dynagirl plays many roles: Single mom. Former waitress. Superhero. She gained superpowers after she'd fallen down a well trying to rescue a childhood friend. The well gave her and her friend … superpowers! Dynagirl claims she's an energy sponge, absorbing the energy of anything thrown at her. They manifest into has Superman's powers (flight, super strength, etc.), only instead of shooting lasers out of her eyes she emits energy beams from her hands. In her first outing, she was captured by the villain Simon Hurst, who physically and emotionally abuses her. Sometimes later, Justice Theta — a fellow superhero and live in boyfriend — was killed.
All of these things took a toll on Dynagirl's mental health, and she spends a lot of time crying. After Justice Theta's death, Dynagirl retired from the superhero biz, focusing instead on being a mom.
But, like Michael Corleone once said, "Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in." A super-secret corporation somehow not named Cerberus tracks down Dynagirl and give her an offer she can't refuse: join our team of corporate-funded superheroes, and we'll make sure your family is provided for.
Kerri agrees to join, but on the condition that she gets to choose her own version of the Justice League. This is, frankly, a lot tougher than it seems, especially since Dynagirl's world follows immutable comic book laws where two people can't just sit down and talk like adults. They pretty much have to smack each other around first. For example, Dynagirl visits a woman named Amanda (a.k.a. Mindfire). The exchange goes something like this:
Amanda: "What the hell?!"
Dynagirl: "Amanda, if you'll just give me a second."
Amanda: "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!"
During which Amanda hits Dynagirl with her superpowers. Dynagirl makes a big deal that she didn't come here to fight, and Amanda snaps back that Dynagirl shouldn't have come here at all, since she put her entire family in danger. Mind you, this is after Amanda has already caused untold property damage by using her telekinetic powers to smash cars, lawnmowers, and televisions in a desperate attempt to not talk to Dynagirl. This was pretty much the standard storytelling device in the 90's: people just standing around, talking? Boooooring. Hear that click? That's 13-year-old boys shutting down their browsers so they can go skateboarding or hang gliding or something more EXTREME than watching people act reasonable.
Also joining the team are Waypoint (Kerri's childhood friend whose truly awful costume includes a half mask and a spandex leotard that's zipped down to her belly button), Zig Zag (who probably took the only speedster-related name that hasn't yet been copyrighted by Marvel or DC), and Batman. OK, technically he's The Knight, which is the most transparent reference to Batman you can muster without calling him Batmanuel. The difference, of course, is that Batman doesn't have a catchphrase half as cool as "It's Night Night Time!" His design is oh-so-90's: The Knight has pouches so big that they'd make Rob Liefeld jealous. The way these pouches cover up his abs makes me wonder if he's hiding a little bit of a gut underneath.
Since the comic is about a superheroine who's been emotionally scarred, you can expect this comic to go for big emotional moments. Unfortunately, these are, for the most part, pretty hokey. Take for instance, Zig Zag, who gets all of Issue 3 to develop his backstory. (In fact, he's pretty much given the role of co-lead. I have a feeling that he was originally slated for his own title comic, but was perhaps shoe-horned into Dynagirl for economic purposes.) Zig Zag is a time-traveler, and he's looking for someone. He zips to present day and meets his younger self. And then he sees his mother, who is apparently deceased in his timeline. They share a full page hugging scene.
Why doesn't this scene work? First of all, we JUST got introduced to Zig Zag. We don't know him. We don't know his Mom. So does that really merit a full page scene pregnant with emotion. Second, this setup, precluded by — you guessed it — tears welling up in Zig Zag's eyes, just feels so sappy, manipulative, and unearned. If you try to force me to feel sad for the main characters, I just end up resenting it.
Our heroes band together after a freak storm threatens the East Coast. It's being caused by Kerri's friend, Dervish (who last appeared in Fallen Justice), who has the double-whammy power of weather control and speed. Zig Zag, our man with his eye on the future, says that if our team kills him, then millions will die!
Dervish, though, isn't acting under his own accord. He's actually being manipulated by his brother, a man they call Cane. He has wicked voodoo magic that lets him summon elementals out of thin air. He's using these powers to, I don't know, find a lab filled with cloned superheroes so he can steal toxins or something? I wasn't too sure about his motivations here, since I have a feeling he could've walked into the building without summoning up a hurricane.
He also he wants Dynagirl to be his wife. Yes, Cane is a villain straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon. He even does the whole maniacal laugh thing. He generally gets some of the comic's cheesiest lines:
"Now you pay the price for your interference!"
At some point, I expect him to say, "Tonight, I dine on turtle soup!" Of course, you've got to leave the corniest line to Dynagirl herself.
"No suit can make you a hero. It's your heart that defines you."
Good Lord, I had no idea I was reading Captain Planet.
The plot is seriously all over the place, and you get whiplash trying to figure out why certain plot elements were introduced in the first place. The first issue introduces Kerri's waitressing job, a town filled with superheroes, and an initial corporate funded superteam that's training in the Danger Room. These plotlines are more or less dropped as we head toward the "Dynagirl recruits her new team" plot. Toward the end of the Dervish/Cane saga, when the team is on the way home after a job well done, Dynagirl disappears and somehow travels back in time and has to fight dinosaurs. Well, somebody enjoyed The Return of Bruce Wayne!
In a way it's charming. Just like TV's Dyna Girl, this Dynagirl is a throwback … specifically to comics and Saturday morning cartoons from a decade ago. I can sympathize. I am the proud owner of an almost complete run of Chris Claremont's X-Men Forever, his revisit to the era when Jim Lee was artist. Comics these days to be a little too serious, and I sorta miss the bombastic posturing of the comics from the 90's and the "all dialogue consists of one-liners" disciple of the 90's X-Men cartoon. Yet the pacing is too sloppy, the plot is too haphazard, and the characters are all too alike for me to recommend this webcomic.
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
Posted on September 30, 2011, in 3 Stars, action webcomic, superheroes, The Webcomic Overlook, WCO Big Review, webcomics. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
3 stars but you give good webcomics 3 star this is bad very bad why so many stars you gave 3 stars to turbo defiant kimecan 3 stars how can you even give this piece of shit 2 star let alone 3 ?!?!!?
I like how you left out all the punctuation until the very end. Pent up punctuation.
the art looks great I´ll read it when I get home.
on a non related note
the Santo did you read the end of Penny and Aggie this week?
When you say "bizarre, psychedelic shows which tread the line between fantastic and nightmare-inducing" do you mean like "Saphire and Steel" which wasn't exactly David McCallum and Joanna Lumley's finest hour…


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Link Check
Link Check allows users to test all links on a page, both internal and external, and provides information and status codes for these links. Link Check can be run from both Page Check and Final Check.
There are several ways the Link Check can be performed. First, users can access this tool from the Page Check modal. Click the Links button to run the check.
Additionally, Link Check may run during Final Check as part of the Publish Process. Depending on how Final Check has been configured, Link Check may run automatically; otherwise, it can be run manually by pressing the Links button in the Final Check modal.
Performing a Link Check
There are several ways to perform a Link Check:
- Navigate to the Pages list view by selecting Content > Pages from the global navigation bar.
- Hover on the target page's row and select Page Check from the Review menu to display the Page Check modal.
Additionally, selecting Publish from the Publish menu to display the Final Check modal will also provide the ability to perform a Link Check.
- Click the Links button to run the check. If desired, click Show Results once the check has completed to view results of the check.
Users can also perform a Link Check from the Page Actions toolbar:
- Navigate to the Pages list view by selecting Content > Pages from the global navigation bar and select the page to be edited.
Additionally, selecting the page from the File Navigation sidebar also displays a view with the Page Actions toolbar included.
- Click the Page Check button in the Page Actions toolbar to display the Page Check modal.
Additionally, clicking the Publish button displays the Final Check modal.
- Click the Links button to run the check. If desired, click Show Results once the check has completed to view results of the check.
Link Check Results
When users click the Link Check button, it will attempt to validate all on-page links for the selected page, including mailto links. Both staging and production links are spidered.
There are three different indicators that can display after a Link Check has been performed:
If there are no warnings or errors during the Link Check report, the button is shaded green and the message "OK" displays. This indicates that links are either valid or skipped (by design).
The Link Check button is shaded gold and the message "Warning" with a numerical value indicating the number of potential errors. The system flags a warning for a link when the result of a request for a resource is indeterminate; that is, it did not receive either a positive 202 that the link was OK or a 404 indicating that the file was missing. Other status codes are also possible.
If the result of a request for a resource there are any errors confirmed by the Link Check report; that is, the result of the request for a file is a client or server error; such as a 404, not found, the Link Check button is shaded red and the number of errors is listed underneath the button.
Show Results
After running Link Check, click Show Results below the button to display the Link Check Results modal. This modal provides a list of the links checked, their status on staging and production, and the applicable status codes. The modal can also be opened in a new window by clicking Open in New Window. The results modal includes the following:
- Link URL: Lists the URL or defined href that was requested.
- Staging: Indicates the status of the file on the staging server. Hovering over the status icon will reveal a tooltip about the status.
- Production: Indicates the status of the file on the production server. Hovering over the status icon will reveal a tooltip about the status.
- Status Code: When applicable, provides the response to the request
|Link is not on staging. Indicates that the link is broken on the page in staging.
|Cannot check link, all 100 statuses. Link check is unable to verify if it is a valid link or not. Often occurs if the link is a mailto
|Staging, Production
|Link is Valid (202), all other 200 statuses. The link points to a page that correctly renders.
|Moved Permanently (301), Found (302), all other 300 statuses. The file has been moved, or any other miscellaneous issue.
Not Found (404), all other 400 or 500 statues. The link points to a nonexistent destination (the link has been misspelled, the page has moved, etc.)


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