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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Goodbye James Mitchell: Our Palmer Cortlandt
You've probably seen this, I'm a bit late getting it up. James Mitchell played Palmer on AMC for 31 years. I remember his very first day when he and Nina were in town. LOVED him from the first second he appeared on screen. He tried to keep poor Nina locked away in the house. Remember Daisy and Palmer? Her cat? Good times, good times.
He was in many movies during his long career. He was in "Paint Your Wagon" with Clint Eastwood, the movie Oklahoma!, Carnival on Broadway many Playhouse episodes on television. James Mitchell was 89. He died of complications of pneumonia. His last appearence on AMC was this past month for their 40th anniversary show.
He will be missed.
3 comments:
- Sandra said...
He will be missed. I remember him being such a bastard to Cliff back in the day for dating Nina. I always thought he wielded his power much better and funnier than Adam. R.I.P.
- January 23, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Awww. He was great. I really liked him with Opal.
- January 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM
The early 80's was a great time for soaps. That was the time I watched all 3 ABC soaps AMC/OLTL/GH...and some RH too. Those were the days. Now its only GH...Yeah, Palmer was a pain in the you know what to Cliff & Nina back than. But I loved his love story with Daisy as well as Nina/Cliff's. He will be missed I agree. Thanks for the memories. I missed the 40th ann. special. I stopped watching AMC/OLTL like 89 or so. Only GH/and PC when it was on....now only GH....anyway, RIP James. You won't be forgotten.--Didn't the actress that played Daisy/Gillian Spencer...didn't she write for GH at one time? ...wow the old Daisy/Monique sl...Nina didn't even know she was her mother either...wow....and I recall those dogs Palmer had too. Just as GH was great so was AMC....than on OL there was Asa and the boys....and well we all know how GH was Luke/Laura/etc....wow...great times than....won't ever forget them....
- January 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM


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|Parallel Computational Geometry
Geometric problems are pervasive in many important applications ranging from geographic information systems to physical simulations via the finite element method. The project's basic research concerns the design of efficient scalable parallel algorithms for 1) solving classical geometric problems (e.g. Delaunay triangulation, 3D-Convex hull) and 2) for realizing parallel versions of standard sequential geometric data structures (e.g. kd trees, subdivision hierarchies, quad/oct trees).
Parallel Computational Geometry is concerned with solving geometric problems of size n on parallel computers with p processors (e.g., a PRAM, mesh, or hypercube multiprocessor). Theoretical work in parallel computational geometry has so far focussed on the case n/p=O(1), also referred to as the fine grained case. However, for parallel geometric algorithms to be relevant in practice, such algorithms must be scalable, that is, they must be applicable and efficient for a wide range of ratios n/p.
The focus of this project is on the design of practical scalable algorithms for the coarse grained multicomputer model: p processors, with n/p >> O(1) local memory each, connected to some arbitrary interconnection network (e.g. mesh, hypercube, fat tree). This abstract model closely matches the architectures of most existing multicomputers (e.g. the Cray T3E, Sunfire, and PC Clusters), while abstracting away for the details of particular interconnection networks, but requires the development of new algorithmic approaches to minimize inter-processor communication by exploiting the locality present in many geometric problems. Results to date indicate that our techniques, based on spatial and data structure partitioning, are very promising in that they are straight-forward to implement and extremely efficient in practice.
Implementation and experimentation are particularly critical in grounding parallel asymptotic results and in demonstrating their applicability in "real world" applications. The applied research component of this project concerns the implementation and evaluation of these parallel algorithms on a range of coarse grained parallel machines.
| Project
This project represents ongoing joint work with a number of researchers including Frank Dehne (Carleton), Afonso Ferreira (CRNS France), Laurence Boxer (Niagara), Russ Miller (SUNY USA), and S. Ubeda (France).
Also the following Masters and Ph.D. students in Computer Science have been involved: Albert Chan, M. Diallo and M. Lamoureux.

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Lessons in Learning - Cooley
By Rachel Mergen
"I just love kids. I love watching them learn," remarked Susan Cooley, Wauzeka-Steuben Middle School science teacher. These are the reasons she has dedicated herself to teaching in the rural community for the past 33 years.
Cooley was the youngest member of a large family. She became used to taking care of her siblings' children, which inspired her to pursue teaching and helping the youth.
To follow her dreams of educating the next generations, Cooley originally found herself attending the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater midway through her post-secondary education, believing that Whitewater was the best option for her because she could complete a dual major with special education.
Following her graduation, she completed a master's degree in middle school science at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. In addition, she became licensed to teach agriculture.
Cooley, a native of Seneca and graduate of Wauzeka-Steuben High School, always planned on returning to the area to find a position.
Originally, she taught fifth grade, which later combined with the district's sixth grade class. The three teachers in charge of these grades decided they would all teach language arts curriculum, but then each one chose an additional subject to teach the two grades.
Science was Cooley's choice, because she had "always been inquisitive." While living on a farm, she always wondered how things worked.
Her experience with animals is very evident within her classroom, as she houses many pets including two guinea pigs, three birds and fish.
She also enjoys teaching science, because it is "easy to tie back to the student." She said she is able to make the material valuable to almost every student's life. The information learned can be applied regularly in the student's lifetime.
Currently, she teaches fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade science, along with high school biology. Her favorite topic to teach is physics, because it's normally the first time the students are introduced to the subject. She enjoys lessons on motion and force.
"I have several of my first students' children," she said about what brings great memories to mind. She likes looking back at how families have grown over the years. In addition, she is delighted by running into former students and remembering the positive relationships and moments she had with them. Being able to make connections and seepeople often is the fulfilling part of living in a small community, according to Cooley.
One of her favorite parts of teaching is watching students grow from fifth grade through the start of high school. Occasionally, like this year, she is even able to teach them once again in high school. "To watch them progress in their science studies is neat," Cooley said.
One of the most challenging moments of teaching for Cooley is "when I can't reach a student and have to see them struggle. Sometimes you just can't get them to do well."
In addition, she said it is hard "to watch them not make wise choices."
Cooley hope teachers realize, "Children's behavior is not a reflection of the teachers, but it is more based on the choices they make. [Teachers shouldn't] take their anger personally."
Through her many years of teaching, Cooley has learned the importance of patience and that there is always "more than one way to solve a problem."
An important lesson all teachers must learn, according to Cooley, is to "have a balance between what you do at work and what you do at home. It is really easy to live your work." She hopes all teachers heed the importance of this advice.
In the future, Cooley's dream after retirement is to "put my horse and dog in my horse camper and just travel."


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Top 53 New Characters That Are Coming In Young Justice Season 3
[April Fools comedy post, none of this is real except for the fact that these are all characters fans have asked for in season 3 since it was announced. Even if it's just a joke you can read my slow decent into madness as the list goes on. 😉
I've also added some commentary at the end if anyone's curious about the hows and whys this post was made.]
Since the revival of Young Justice for a third season many fans have speculated what's going to be happening in this new season, and just what new characters will be appearing. Well wait no longer as I have been given insider info about who is going to be showing up in season 3! It's going to be a jam packed season with so many fan favourite characters, you just won't believe who's going to show up!
Season 3 is being made because of the giant outpouring of fan support for so many years, it wouldn't be happening without that devotion from the fanbase. So to truly show their appreciation to the fans the creators are putting in all of your fan requested characters, every single one of them. These are all 100% real fan suggestions for characters to appear in season 3, all taken from when Warner Bros. announced the renewal. I've even been given some new artwork in advance to show off some of these new characters that are coming in season 3.
Warning: this is an image heavy post! Seriously there's 53 images here and one gif. You've been warned!
01. Starfire
Koriand'r is the dethroned princess of the alien world Tamaran, she comes to Earth seeking refuge and finds a new home and some new friends with The Team. She takes on the name Starfire and helps save the world, a lot. We hear about her world a bit, get some small hints about what was going on, but nothing is ever really said about it because it is too painful for Kori at this point in time and it doesn't seem relevant.
Then we learn that the people who took over Tamaran are from Apokolips and it's been conquered by the all mighty Darkseid as he searches for the Anti-Life equation. That's how The Team learn about Darkseid, his connection to The Light, and gives them an even greater motive to stop him. They must fight on to stage a revolution and free Kori's home before Darkseid's reign permanently destroys it.
02. Raven
Raven is a new member of The Team, she's kind of shy and keeps to herself. She has magic powers and can do lots of wazy and creative stuff, but she's still considered the creepy goth kid of The Team. It's only really Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg, who befriend her at first. Then as the season goes on she does end up getting the rest of The Team's friendship. It's a long road but it's worth it in the end.
Her past is also alluded to at points, particularly her mysterious father. It's not really brought up much, except for a few hints, and it's expected that will be the forth season's storyarc after Darkseid is defeated. Trigon as the big bad for season 4 and the focus on more of the magical elements would make the most sense. Then other magic users can get more of a spotlight, maybe even advance that Dr Fate/Zatara/Zatanna story that's been simmering in the background these past few seasons. Who knows.
03. Cyborg
Victor Stone was once a high school football star till a tragic accident happened. His life was saved by his brilliant scientist father who performed a dangerous experimental procedure to turn Victor into a cyborg. Victor's life was forever changed, now he is an outcast in society, with some lingering resentment of his father, but also a new passion for using his new abilities to save innocents. Victor gets asked to join The Team and he jumps at the chance.
With The Team he starts to feel normal again, like he's back hanging out with all his friends and things start improving for him. Even getting on the road to patching things up with his dad. Recent versions of Cyborg have had him be part Apokoliptain technology, part Mother Box, but Young Justice wanted to get back to the core of his character and felt he didn't need to tie directly into Darkseid as there's already tons of that throughout season 3 and not every superhero origin needs updating. He can just be Cyborg without asking the audience to suspend disbelief that he's somehow the only person who has ever merged with a Mother Box, and that it somehow doesn't turn him into a tool for Darkseid to use. Leave that stuff for the live action movies.
04. Cassandra Cain (Batgirl)
Cassandra is the second Batgirl from the longest running uninterrupted Batgirl comic series (73 issues from 2000-2006), also known as Black Bat and now simply as Orphan in the current comics. She was raised from birth to only read body language and she became one of the greatest fighters in the DC universe, she abandoned her assassin father at the age of 8 when he sent her out on her first mission and forced her to kill a man. Now she vows never to take a life again or let anyone else die if she can prevent it. She ends up in Gotham where she's found by Barbara Gordon, now in a wheelchair and a superhacker named Oracle, where she's given the Batgirl costume and the task of protecting the city.
That's all going to be in the show, as well as Cass learning to speak and socialise with The Team. Artemis is the one to become a second mentor to her after Oracle, given their similar backgrounds and abusive fathers, but she gains and unlikely friendship with another new recruit, Steph Brown. They hit it off and soon become close friends, gal pals even. Her growth is a slow progression throughout the season as we get to know her better and have interactions with her assassin father, David Cain.
05. Stephanie Brown
Now this is an unusual one for this list because Steph has already appeared on the show. In season 2 she had a cameo as a Reach captive in episode 10 "Before the Dawn" but that was all there was, and there have been a few other small cameos of other DC characters in the past including some that had larger roles later on, like Lagoon Boy and Barbara Gordon. So it was inevitable that Steph would get a shot at the big time soon than later.
So who is Steph? Well she is the daughter of Batman D list villain, Quizmaster, a row rent knock-off Riddler. One night Steph had enough and donned a costume to stop him. Eventually she got a promotion to Batgirl, after dying a little at first of course, so there was the possibility that she'd show up as a new Batgirl after Barbara Gordon had retired. But there is another option, something that's been hinted at from the very beginning if fans paid attention to series co-creator Greg Weisman, and his favourite word to say to fans, Spoiler. Yes her superhero name is Spoiler and Weisman's been slyly hinting at this all these years. You crafty bastard.
06. Sargent Marvel (Mary Bromfield)
Mary is the sister to Billy Batson, Captain Marvel, and she's also a superhero who gains powers every time she utters the word Shazam. Calling herself Sargent Marvel she helps out Billy, the Justice League, and The Team, whenever she can. She was going to appear in season 2 but was cut for time, just like Donna Troy, because they didn't have time to design four new character models, two for them in civilian clothes and two for them in superhero costumes. There was also a cut storyline involving her and the Marvel family that was cut when season 2 only got 20 episodes instead of the expected 26.
But she's here now in season 3 and nothing is going to stop her from showing up ever again.
07. Vixen
Mari Jiwe McCabe is the inheritor of the totem and the powers of Vixen. Able to again the strength and abilities of the animal kingdom with just a touch of her totem. She's a force to be reckoned with, which is why the Justice League is fast to recruit her in-between seasons 2 and 3. As of season 3 she's the current leader of the Justice League and she's not got an easy job ahead of her, dealing with The Light, Darkseid, his minions, Intergang sporting even more New God weapons, and of course dealing with The Team. But she's more than up to the task.
08. Rose Wilson (Ravager)
Rose is the daughter of Deathstroke, she's been trained as an assassin and she's there as his right hand. She's there to be a parallel to Artemis, representing the person she could've been if she had been raised purely by her father, Sportsmaster. There's an entire arc about Artemis questioning the decisions in her life because of the death of Wally, as a way to deal with the grief. So the two of them clash and towards the end of the season Artemis reaches a turning point and she decides to help Rose and it becomes a redemption arc for her. Leading to them, along with Cassandra Cain, squaring off against their terrible dads and getting some closure for their abusive childhoods.
09. Misfit
Charlotte "Charlie" Gage-Radcliffe is Misfit, a meta-human with teleportation powers. She lost her mother in an apartment fire and now she's homeless and trying to do good where ever she can, emulating her idol Batgirl. She makes a makeshift costume and goes out to fight crime. She's later picked up by Oracle's Birds of Prey and, after some convincing, Barbara lets her stay with them. From her POV we get to experience a different team of heroes on Earth 16, and the Birds of Prey are the perfect new team to usher in this new season. And an upcoming spin-off series. Though weirdly, through some time travel shenanigans that spin-off ended up in the 90s and we will never speak of it again. Never. Again.
10. The Darkseid Gang
With Darkseid and Apokolips being a big part of season 3 we'll be seeing more of his minions as the play roles throughout the season as they plan their attacks on Earth. There's Kalibak, Darkseid's son and one of his strongest warriors. Granny Goodness chief torturer and moulder of minds as she breaks peoples wills with her torments to make them loyal only to Darkseid. Steppenwolf, general of Darkseid's armies. And Kanto, who is also there.
Darkseid is looking for the Anti-Life equation, and is invading and destroying as many planets as he can in order to find it. We got hints of this in season 2 with Mongel being dethroned from his world, as well as the last arc of the comics with Brainiac and Kylstar, all subtle mentions of this threat they're trying to face out in the vast reaches of space. His search for the equation lead him to Earth where he met Vandal Savage and the two struck up a partnership. They plan to rule the universe together using the Anti-Life equation to assert total control over the will of the universe and enslave everyone's minds to theirs. A plan sheer elegance in its simplicity.
11. Kid Flash (Wally West, new cousin of the original)
This one's a little bit of a trick from the showrunners, fans want Wally back and here he is… well a Wally at least. From the New 52 series of comics and also the Flash TV show comes this new Wally West. He's a cousin to the other Wally and he's also Kid Flash, comics everybody.
Everyone wants Wally to come back, so to subvert those expectations we're going to get this new Wally to take his place. Fans won't see it coming as he shows up with powers to help the Flash and The Team then joins them. It's a bit weird for everyone on The Team to accept him given the old Kid Flash's sacrifice. But could he also be the key to bringing the old Wally back… no, no he's not. Wally's dead and gone forever.
12. Donna Troy
Donna is a character who was meant to appear in season two but had to be cut because they didn't have time to design her. But now she gets the chance to shine. She's a controversial character in the comics because she's known for her multiple and conflicting origins, including her being a time travelling teenage Wonder Woman, and the way the show is dealing with that is by using all of them. Everything's on the table, no matter how bizarre it is. At one point all the different Donna Troy's split off into their own identities and make their own team. Donna Troy and the Troyettes.
13. Damian Wayne
The son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul, in the comics he's the current Robin and also he has a prominent role in the current direct-to-DVD DC animated movies. Because of his large role in that animated universe and also because of the intricate timeline Damian will only appear as a baby in Young Justice. It will be a revealed towards the end of an episode and Bruce will not know about him till he is all grown up, just like in the other continuities. Maybe in season 5 or 6 will we get a grown up Damian. To properly capture Damian's personality perfectly as a baby the producers went and recorded the loudest, most annoying, and obnoxious, baby cries imaginable.
14. Superboy (Jon Kent)
Jonathan Kent is son of Superman and Lois Lane from the current DC Rebirth comics. He's a young boy who is also friends with Damian Wayne, it's a cute friendship with them even getting their own spin-off comic, the Super Sons. Now because Damian is a baby in season 3 so is Jonathan, but he won't get born until the end of the season. Between seasons 2 and 3 Clark and Lois got married and at the beginning of the season Lois makes the big announcement that she's pregnant. It becomes an ongoing arc for Superman as he adjusts to the idea of fatherhood, tying back into his season 1 arc of as he adjusted to Superboy's presence and what that meant for him. This is obviously set up for a future season where Jonathan and Damian are friends and have adventures together.
15. Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)
The son of Oliver Queen comes back from the future to warn everyone of the coming Apokolips. It ties back into the wrecked future we saw in season 2 episode 6 "Bloodlines" where at the end we see Impulse had changed the future, but things still turned out badly anyway. So now Connor is trying to change that, and hopefully not interfere with his own personal history.
Connor's appearance also creates friction between Oliver and Dinah, as Connor's clearly not Dinah's child. But they work out Connor's mother is Sandra Hawke, a woman Ollie once had a relationship with and things ended suddenly between the two. She never told him they had a child, because Ollie's kinda terrible and screws up every kid he's ever been near. And given how well adjusted, and non-cloned, Connor is it's easy to see Sandra made the right choice here.
16 & 17. Thunder (Anissa Pierce) & Lightning (Jennifer Pierce)
Thunder and Lightning are the teenage daughters of Black Lightning, who at first didn't want his baby girls involved in crime fighting but let them join The Team to help keep them safe and let them explore their powers in a safe environment. They are the mischief makers of The Team, while mostly serious on a mission they will have no end of fun in the base and try to drag as many as they can to do along with their fun. Anissa also strikes up a relationship with fellow team-mate Grace Choi, but tries to keep it a secret because she doesn't want her father to find out she's at that dating age.
18. Colin Wilkes
Colin is an orphan boy who was experimented on by the Scarecrow and ends up with Mr Hyde/Blockbuster powers where he gets super strength and grows into an adult body. Batman saves him and then later on he befriends Damian Wayne. The two become best friends and hand out together, Damian even getting them their own Bat-Cave, of sorts, so they can go out crime fighting while Batman is busy with Justice League stuff.
But that's all in the future as Damian's still just a baby in season 3. All we see in this season is Colin's name in the hospital maternity ward when Jonathan Kent is born, just as a little cameo of things to come. Hey you all wanted these baby's in the show, don't blame me. Not my fault the show can't make baby's magically grow up to 10 year olds without skipping over huge chunks of the story.
19, 20, & 21. Iron Munro, Flying Fox, & Fury
The trinity before there was a trinity. Three superheroes who served in World War II in order to defeat the Nazis! DC made them to replace Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in stories featuring WW2 and also for other characters who had backstories tied to that era, since DC had decided it wasn't timely to have their three biggest heroes have origins set in the 1940s.
In Young Justice these three heroes end up in the present day due to time travel shenanigans and get into a fight with their respective counterparts because they're contractually obligated to do so. But then they learn to put their differences behind them and fight a supervillain. They go their separate ways and the old trinity return to the past to give old Adolf a thrashing. And we end on finding out Batman has some old Flying Fox comic books, because he's a huge nerd hoarder.
22. Amethyst (Amaya/Amy Wiston)
Amy is just a regular old teenage girl, until one day she discovers she's really the princess of another dimension called Gemworld. She goes over there and banishes the evil that had taken over the kingdom and becomes Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. Things started to get back to normal in Gemworld, but then The Light came looking to take over and steal their land. Amethyst decides the only way they can win is to contact the Justice League to get help. The Team, well Gamma Squad, gets sent over and they have adventures in Gemworld throughout the season, every so often cutting back to Earth to see what's happening there.
23. Harley Quinn
Harley is the obvious choice if you want to continue the story of the DC universe. Due to her new found popularity thanks to the ultra mega popular Oscar award winning movie Suicide Squad, which I heard was supposed to win "best editing" but Captain Boomerang messed up when he was stealing the award so they ending up with "best make-up" instead.
Harley's story here is going to be that she and the Joker have a major tiff at the end of a caper, and when Joker's beating her for his screw up she kills him in self defence. Though this happens on Thanagar so Hawkwoman must come to her legal defence along with Icon in this timely Law and Order SVU in Space homage.
24. Red Beetle (Sara Butters)
Sara is trying to follow in the footsteps of her idol, Blue Beetle. Not that one the dead one. No the other dead one. She's trying her best, and not doing too bad at it if she does say so herself, when she bumps into The Team and the current non-dead Blue Beetle. Now everyone thinks there's going to be some romance between her and Blue, because they're both beetles and ya know, stuff. But it really turns into a love quadrangle between Jaime, Impulse, Traci 13, and Sara. Now that's a wild ride that could ploy be a bit too much ship even for this show.
25. Jimmy Olsen
Jimmy has a brief cameo appearance as he helps Lois as she's dealing with being pregnant and offers advice from the time he was pregnant. It's just a quick gag that's never gone into any detail but is a joking reference to all the times Jimmy has been turned into something else or had a magic spell put on him during the silver age. He also shows up later to deliver this line, "well when I was giant turtle monster you didn't see me complaining about it!"
26. Artemis
She is an Amazon from Themyscira, come to join the fight against The Light and Darkseid. There's a brief moment where she takes over as Wonder Woman, when Diana is off world, but then she comes back and it's no biggy. The Artemis hero name isn't being used so there's no problem there, but eventually people start finding it a bit weird so she starts going by Requiem, because she really liked Requiem for a Dream.
No one can quite figure out how her hair does that either. Hair physics don't work like that!
27. Supergirl
Kara Zor-El, she's Superman's cousin. But also from another dimension. She comes to Earth 16 because she was travelling from Earth 1 to her home on Earth 38, and Melissa Benoist voices her. She's a bit weirded out that everyone on Earth 16 gets cool costumes where as on Earth 1 these same heroes have some… let's say "not as good" costumes. But she gets to have some fun and punch a dragon in her one episode adventure before she goes off to her home.
Then as she leaves another Supergirl pops up, this time from a pocket dimension, but she's not Kryptonian. She's an artificial shapeshifting being called Matrix made by a good version of Lex Luthor called Alexander Luthor. And she's also an angel. Who has fire wings. But that's a whole different story for another time.
28. White Canary (Sara Lance)
Sara is a new character created for the Arrow TV series who then went onto star in the spin-off series Legends of Tomorrow. She's the sister of Black Canary Dianh Lance and also bisexual. She's had a former relationship with Nissa Al Ghul, Ra's Al Ghul's other daughter, and is the Captain Kirk of the series. Every episode she always manages to find a woman to seduce, doesn't matter what the situation is she will find a way. It's a skill that comes in useful in the final fight with Darkseid as she gets all of the Furies to turn on him.
29. Tornado Champion
Created by Red Tornado because he wanted a son, his artificial boy named the Tornado Champion went out to fight crime with his dear old dad. But sadly it was not meant to be and his programming was not up to snuff so he turned villainous and renamed himself the Tornado Tyrant. He tried to take down his father, because teenagers, and he ends up being permanently taken offline with the help of Batman. A sad end to this Pinocchio story.
But sadder than that is the fact that this entire storyline got cut due to time constraints. Such is the way of things for Red Tornado it seems. But this cut story ended up in an episode of Batman the Brave and the Bold, so it all worked out in the end.
30. Deadshot
Floyd Lawton comes back onto the hitman scene after he retired to spend more with his daughter, having gotten over his death wish, as ya do. This time he's gone back to rocking a tuxedo like nobodies business.
Screw you Tuxedo Mask, Floyd did it first!
31. Rick Flagg, Jr
He's in it… I guess.
He has something resembling a personality and some sort of presence that is technically on screen. But hey it's still better than that Robocop remake he was in.
He golfs with a 3 handicap.
32. Captain Boomerang
Everyone's pissed at him over the Oscar's screw-up. Like seriously, it's not that hard to steal an awards show.
Why are you even on this team? All you do is throw boomerangs, how is that good on a team meant to stop Superman? Why couldn't they make you cool like in the comics? Why did the Suicide Squad movie have to suck so much?
33. Killer Croc
He gets to do something!
Oh wait, my mistake, some navy seals did it for him.
Better luck next time buddy.
34. Slipknot
The man who can climb anything, Slipknot. He is the best there is at what he does, and what he does is a very specific and narrow skill set only a few hundred other DC characters can do. Can he climb a building? You bet he can. Can he climb a 90 foot tall boarder wall? Like it wasn't even there. Can he climb a fence? That's a daily jog to Slipknot. Can he climb the mathematical constant of the universe? Too easy.
That's why The Light bring him on board, he is their most valued member in climbing the Anti-Life Equation and discovering its secrets for Darkseid. He even has over double the screen time from Suicide Squad, five whole minutes.
35. Enchantress
She's a J-horror villain and is marketed like that, always looking spooky and scary.
Then bam, after two scenes she's wearing a stupid bikini and shooting lighting at a blue swirly thing in the sky, because all movies need to have blue swirly things in the sky now.
Her heart's her weakness, by the way. If you forget that don't worry, you'll be reminded every 10 minutes about it. Why didn't they just blow her heart up in the first place? They could've ended the movie before the montages had stopped.
36. Katana
This is Katana, she's got my back.
She can cut all of you in half with one sword stroke, just like mowing the lawn.
I would advise not getting killed by her.
Her sword traps the souls of its victims.
37. El Diablo
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well
Wow, wow, wow (hoo hoo hoo)
I was slippin' into darkness
When they took my friend away
I was slippin' into darkness
When they took, when they took my friend away
You know he loves to drink good whiskey (wo ho ho ho)
While laughing at the moon
Slippin' into darkness
Take my mind beyond the dreams
I was slippin' into darkness, yeah
Take my mind beyond the dreams
Where I talk to my brother (wo ho ho ho)
Who never said their name
Slippin' into darkness, yeah
All my trouble so I choose
I was slippin' into darkness, yeah
All my trouble so I choose
I got a wife and a baby, yeah yeah (oh ho ho ho)
Now my love hath gained its fame, yeah
Slippin' into darkness, yeah
When I heard my mother say
I was slippin' into darkness
When I heard my mother say
Hey, what'd she say what'd she say
You've been slippin' into darkness (wo ho ho ho)
Pretty soon you gonna pay, hey
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
38. Artemis (Evelyn Sharp)
The new Artemis from the Arrow TV show. Former Black Canary knock-off, she takes on the Artemis identity when she sees no one using it. That doesn't last long and so every episode she's in a new identity till she finds one that isn't already taken. She tries Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Superman, Hawkman, Prometheus, Hawkeye, just nothing works for the poor girl. It takes contact from some trademark lawyers to get her to stop.
39. Jesse Quick (Jesse Chambers)
Jesse is the daughter of golden age heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle. She has super speed and goes on to date the new Wally West. She's all kinds of awesome and kicks major butt, but somehow it's always off screen. Every time there's an emergency she gets told she needs to go protect Central City because it's been left defenceless with them all off on a mission. It's just weird how that just keep happening every single episode she's in. Like constantly, non-stop, keeps on happening. Then she doesn't actually get to do any protecting, if there's a crime that needs stopping someone else always stops it first. Just keeps on happening. Constantly.
Nah, I'm just kidding, that doesn't happen. It'd be incredibly terrible writing and what TV show would possible do that?
(looking at you Flash season 3)
(seriously WTF was that shit?)
(You're better than this Flash writers)
40. Atom (Adam Cray)
He shrinks.
41. Atom/Atomica (Rhonda Pineda)
She also shrinks.
42. Atom (Ryan Choi)
He also also shrinks, and he had a really cool and incredibly underrated comic series written by Gail Simone that you all should track down and read! Ryan Choi is legit awesomeness. Seriously it's a lot funnier than whatever the hell this thing you're reading right now is.
43. Molecule (he wasn't in enough comics to get a real name)
Oh my god how many shrinking people are in this season? How many things can be solved by shrinking? What are they going to do, have all of them shrink down and have an epic fight inside Darkseid's head?
Wait they're totally going to do that.
44 & 45. Zan & Jayna
The Wonder Twins! I mean come on now, they're the Wonder Twins! From like that old cartoon show that made Aquaman famous! Who wouldn't want these great characters on the show?
(I've never seen a single episode of the Superfriends, I have no clue who these characters are other than general osmosis from jokes made about the cartoon over the years. BTW yes I know Wendy and Marvin are from the Superfriends cartoon and the runaways in season 2 are based on the ethnic stereotypes from Superfriends. But serious I don't know, don't care, and you couldn't pay me to watch an episode of Superfriends.)
(Unless someone wants to make me a serious offer because, ya know, I don't have standards as you can tell by this thing you're reading)
46. Dr Light (the bad one)
He's a silly comic relief villain, a nice change of pace from the overly serious villains. Because you need to have a little comedy and not ever villain needs to be a serious spin on a Silver Age concept. It would just be a terrible idea to try and make him a "grim and gritty" supervillain. It would just make for like the worst comic book story, where they'd randomly turn him into a rapist because that's all cool and edgy, and then the Justice League would turn out to be a bunch of mind wipers who mind rape their villains, and at the end of the story it'd turn out none of that even matters and was only there to play to the edgelord crowd.
Thank god that never happened and we can all just enjoy Dr Light the way he was created, as a fun comedy villain.
47. Jemm
Truly truly truly outrageous! Woah! Jemm! The music's contagious, outrageous!
Pop band from Mars comes to Earth to try and make the big time. Rebranding themselves to Jemm after their manager tells them their previous name "Son of Saturn" wouldn't play that well on Earth. Ultimately they keep failing and get more and more desperate as they stoop to criminal acts to try and improve their popularity. They keep getting stopped by Misfit and in the end she challenges them to a battle of the bands, loser leaves the planet, and Misfit with her band The Birds of Prey beats them in an action packed musical episode.
48. Prometheus
The man with a CD drive in his head that has the programming for all the best martial arts fighters in the world.
He's taken down by Sportsmaster at the start of one episode, calling him an overrated villain with a very dated gimmick.
Dude, get a USB port, or somethin'. No one uses CDs anymore. Seriously.
49. Crazy Quilt
The arch-nemesis of Robin! No, seriously, this guy is the canon arch-nemesis of Robin.
In the show he keeps showing up to have a "final face off with Robin" then gets annoyed that it's not the same Robin he has a feud with. They take him down pretty easily every time, and him and Nightwing are never on screen together.
50. Zebra Man
He is secretly the human body for Darkseid and he nearly ends the world. Because no one ever suspects the Zebra Man!
51. Mighty Endowed
The original villain for the Young Justice comic, once mild-mannered Professor Nina Dowd made contact the magical mysterious energies of the Super Cycle she was turned into the evil Mighty Endowed! With the power of hypnotic tits so large she can't even stand up anymore without assistance! Yes they are that large! (Yet somehow she's always drawn as having average sized breasts for a regular comic book woman, strange that. Almost like the average size in a comic book would be absurdly large in real life.)
Thanks to the show moving to Netflix they can finally put this classic Peter David creation on the air.
52. WWE Wrestlers
Yes that's right, the WWE Wrestlers are coming to the DC universe in a special crossover episode. From the breakout success of Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery, The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown, Scooby Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon, and The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania, it is only logical that the next step is Young Justice. There is already precedent to say they are already in canon with one another with the first Scooby Doo crossover containing a special guest appearance by the Young Justice girls watching the final match on TV, they are apparently avid wrestling fans. It's only logical that these girls would want to go meet their wrestling heroes at some point in the show.
I have it on good authority that Vince McMahon is an agent of The Light.
53. Orca
And finally we get to the end with the top requested character for Young Justice, Orca! She was once a mild mannered marine biologist, Dr Grace Balin, until an accident paralysed her. She used an experimental Orca Whale spinal tissue graft to heal herself and in the process turned herself into the mutant Orca. With her scientific funding for underprivileged kids cut off Orca turns to stealing to provide funding for her research.
Orca has made a recent resurgence, first in the current Rebirth comics and in the Lego Batman movie, so naturally she continues that resurgence into Young Justice season 3. Top insider info says she will be a big recurring villain, facing against the Team many times over the course of the season, and eventually leading to a redemption arc. She will be one of the keys to defeating Darkseid once and for all. Things are all coming up Orca in 2017.
Honourable mentions:
These are all the characters that couldn't fit into season 3 and so they will be in season 4. Sorry gang, but there was only so much time in this season.
Duke Thomas
Jessica Cruz
Gorilla Grodd
Golden Eagle (Ch'al Andar/Charley Parker)
Northwind (Norda Cantrel)
Hawk (Hank Hall) & Dove (Dawn Granger)
Zatara (Zachary Zatara)
Tim Hunter
Bombshell (Amy Sue Allen)
Power Girl
Christopher Kent/Nightwing (Lor-Zod)
Mon-El (Lar Gand)
General Zod
Batwing (Luke Fox)
Harper Row
Thunder (Cece Beck)
Captain Thunder/Colonel Lightning (Willie Fawcett)
Cyclone (Maxine Hunkel)
Speedy (Mia Dearden)
Speedy (Thea Queen)
Emiko Queen
Ion/Kyle Rayner
Simon Baz
Jade (Jennie-Lynn Hayden)
Halo (Gabby Doe/Violet Harper)
Isis (Adrianna Tomas)
Osiris (Amon Tomaz)
Lady Quark
Wildcat (Yolanda Montez)
Sandman & Sandy
Offspring (Luke McDunnagh)
Starlight (Stella Maxwell)
Silver Banshee
Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg)
Starman (Prince Gavyn)
Tornado Twins (Don and Dawn Allen)
Impulse (Iris "Iray" West)
Miguel Barragan (Bunker)
Aquagirl (Lorena Marquez)
AJ/Arthur Junior
Aquaman (Arthur Joseph Curry)
Greg's knock-off Gargoyles from JLA Showcase 80-Page Giant #1 (yes this is a real thing that really happened)
And that's everyone. All 112 new characters that will be appearing in seasons 3 and 4. There was one character that sadly couldn't be fitted into such a packed roster, Jason Todd aka The Red Hood. His request came in too late and so he had to be put on the back-burner, maybe for seasons 5 or 6. They just had too many characters to use that the docket for the next few seasons was already filled. Sorry Todd fans, that's showbiz.
I reached out to the showrunners to verify these accounts, Greg Weisman had this to say, "SPOILER REQUEST, NO COMMENT" the caps lock was implied by his tone.
Brandon Vetti said, "who are you? How did you get in my house? And why are you carrying a tomato?" Which I took to mean as a confirmation all these reports are true.
No word on the rumoured Orca vs The Batman live action movie, that is reportably in development. It is supposedly on it's sixth director, with Emma Stone playing the title role after Ben Afleck's unfortunate departure.
See you all next week for "223 reasons why Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice was the most amazing movie ever!"
[so this was a fun post to make. I had the idea when season 3 was announced in November when all the fan lists of characters started appearing, so I decided to save all those lists when I saw them. I never expected there to be so many, though that did add to the parody of Top Lists. There weren't a lot of repeats either, most of these were just one off suggestions, so it seems everyone wants someone different in season 3. The most repeated characters were Cass Cain, Steph Brown, Damian Wayne, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, and of course Jason Todd. Jason was the most requested, so I obviously had to leave him off this list. 😉
Originally I wanted to do all of the list, even after I counted them up and found out it was 112 characters, because I'm stupid like that. But thankfully due to time constraints I only could do 53 and left the rest as "Honourable Mentions" since I didn't want to waste them and thought it was funnier seeing this huge list of names without descriptions than it would be me trying to make jokes about all of them. I think we can all agree me not making jokes is funnier than me trying to.
I do wish I knew how to make posts into multiple pages, or if the WordPress Blog sites are even capable of doing that. Just to cut down on the image heavy nature of the post. The only other option was just doing multiple posts, and that would've ruined the joke a little bit. I did try to shrink down the image sizes as best I could, but even then it's still 53 images that are 20MBs in total. So I'm sorry if that screwed things up for people trying to read it.
At first I had the idea to write it all as a "serious" take on what the characters would be doing in season 3, and Orca was the first one I wrote which is why it reads a bit more serious than the ones right before it. But then I started writing Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad people and I could not stop myself from making jokes about that movie. Once I had written the Katana exposition introduction from the movie I knew there was no way I could make this "serious." So I decided to make it look serious at the start and then slowly slip more into the stupid stuff.
That Starfire image is a joke image made by one of the animators of the show about 4 years ago. It did fool a lot of fans back then, even with Nightwing's amazing disco suit, so I thought what better way to kick this thing off. Also since Young Justice character designer Phil Bourassa works on a lot of the current DC animated movies I figured I might try and pass off a few of those designs as Season 3 art. That Cyborg image is from a Fisher Price short called "DC Super Friends The Joker's Playhouse" that I found when looking for Cyborg images to use. I figured it might be able to fake someone out for a minute since I doubt many people are familiar with it, unlike the Justice League Doom animated movie I was going to use originally.
My favourite joke came from realising Jemm Son of Saturn (a Martian Manhunter villain) could be turned into a Jem and the Holograms parody. Then further realising that The Misfits were the rival band of Jem and, hey look at that, number 9 on the list is Misfit. Black Canary also had a band called the Birds of Prey in the current comics, so that got added in there. It all just fit into place kinda perfectly. I do now seriously wish Misfit had to fight a villain pop band from Mars. That's like a perfect episode of Batman Brave and the Bold or Justice League Action right there.
I do have to admit I did cheat a little bit and there is one character I added in myself. Only one though, the rest are all legit fan requests. Can you guess which one?]
Posted on April 1, 2017, in Animation, Comics, Film, Other and tagged April Fools, Batman, DC, Fans, Gargoyles, Greg Weisman, Idiocy, LGBT, Slash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Young Justice. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.


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Richard Branson on his Carbon War Room and $200 a Barrel Oil (Video)
Photo via Time
As you may know, everyone's favorite airline-owning-yet-green-leaning hotshot British entrepreneur kick-started another initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions last year. Richard Branson's Carbon War Room was designed to connect industry leaders with scientists and sustainability consultants to help slash emissions efficiently and profitably. The famed investor spoke out about his ideas regarding climate, oil, and entrepreneurship in a brief interview with Climate Progress's Joe Romm. Video after the jump.It's interesting stuff, indeed, and the man seems to give a pretty forthright, candid interview:
Remember, this is a man who has said that "There are some of us who believe that the problem of warming is as bad as the First and Second World Wars combined. It's that serious, and you know the key is carbon, [but] there's no war room coordinating the attack on carbon." Hence, his initiative.
In continuing to blaze trails in the business sphere, Branson proves once again his efforts and ideas are an invaluable influence on the business community.
Read Climate Progress' full analysis for more on Branson's Carbon War Room.
More on Richard Branson
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Branson Offers $25 Million to Remove Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ...


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Buffet worker stomps garlic with boots
Garlic can be a difficult ingredient to deal with. It is quite hard, and needs to be minced up, so not to get a huge chunk of garlic in your mouth. However, one food handler in particular is having issues deciding how to mince it. This week's infosheet can be downloaded from here.


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How many artists can you think of that made you a promise, and stuck to it?
Lawrence's aim for Felt was simple: release 10 albums and 10 singles in 10 years, and then leave the stage. To their eternal credit they managed just that, despite more than their fair share of line-up changes, drug problems and bum deals. But the thing they craved the most, pop success, eluded them.
Though they proved capable of topping the indie charts, and though their fanbase was, and still is, fiercely, zealously passionate, Felt never achieved anything even close to the mainstream traction of their similarly literate contemporaries, The Smiths. Lawrence's steadfast refusal to re-form Felt and profit from indie retromania means that the band are likely to remain what they have always been: a cult concern.
Nonetheless, there's been a palpable renewal of interest in Felt of late: they're the subject of a lavish new photo book, and more notably their enigmatic frontman is the star of an acclaimed documentary, Lawrence of Belgravia, which premiered at the 2011 London Film Festival and will be touring selected UK cinemas in May. Their failure to become famous is becoming famous.
If you're new to Felt's catalogue, then there are a couple of obvious entry-points: Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (1986), widely regarded as their magnum opus, and the shimmering, Robin Guthrie-produced Ignite The Seven Cannons And Set Sail For The Sun (1985). The compilations Absolute Classic Masterpieces (1992) and Bubblegum Perfume (1990), highlighting the best of their Cherry Red and Creation output respectively, are also excellent. Lawrence sounds a little anonymous on their underappreciated 1982 debut, Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty, his vocals buried deep in the muddy mix; but soon-to-depart guitarist Maurice Deebank is on fire – his baroque phrasing framed by Gary Ainge's rudimentary, tom-heavy drums to create one of the few truly satisfying hybrids of post-punk sparsity and soft-psych expressionism to exist outside of Hannett-produced Durutti Column.
Though they will be forever associated with indie-rock, and understandably so, Felt were also prone to experimentation. As their names suggests, they were a group with a marked interest in texture. Sometimes this preoccupation was taken to oddball extremes: they celebrated their high-profile signing to Creation with the release of a 19-minute album of vaguely pastoral instrumentals entitled Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death. Less a pisstake and more a gesture of bugger-the-consequences autonomy, Let The Snakes was a showcase for the lively playing of teenage keyboard whizz Martin Duffy, who by this point had become Lawrence's favoured musical foil. In fact, such was Lawrence's belief in Duffy – who has since served in the ranks of Primal Scream for 25 years and counting – that Felt's next all-instrumental album, Trains Above The City, that he tasked him with writing and solo-performing the entirety of Felt's ninth album, another all-instrumental affair, entitled Trains Above The City.
Felt's failure to become famous is becoming famous.
Lawrence did however deign to contribute to the Space Blues EP, produced by John Leckie and released the same year as Trains: 1988. This record is Felt at their most textural and textual. For me it's the zenith of Lawrence's achievements as both pop songwriter and sonic architect. The title track is one of the few things in Felt's catalogue that could legitimately be described as "funky" – quite remarkable, given that there are no drums on it. Duffy's louche Fender Rhodes, organ and synth licks are the driver here, Lawrence adopting a mannered, Lou Reedish half-sneer to deliver one of his direct, faux-hepcat lyrics, quite possibly addressed to himself: "I'm your greatest fan…'cos you don't give a damn." The soda-pop psychodrama is frothed up with cooing backing vocals from Strawberry Switchblade's Rose McDowall and swooping string parts from violinist/violist Francis Sweeney.
'Be Still' is a cover of The Beach Boys song, which appeared on 1968's Friends LP and was written by Dennis Wilson and Steve Kalinich. Lawrence is faithful to the meditative, acid-tired drift of the original, coaxing a mellifluous, droning ambience out of Duffy's keyboards that's almost Eno-esque, and delivering a downcast vocal that gladly leaves the limelight to the clock-melting soprano sax reverberations of Richard Thomas (of 4AD jazz-not-jazzers Dif Juz). In terms of sound and mood, 'Be Still' has similarities to some of Spacemen 3 or Spiritualized's more inward-looking numbers, but with a delicacy, a feeling for understatement, that the boys from Rugby have always lacked.
Neil Scott's slide guitar bathes in a balmy psychedelic light the otherwise more straightforward 'Female Star' [not on YouTube, it would seem], a return to the deadpan bedsit realism Lawrence is best known for. "Now I'm broke, and it ain't no joke," he sings, addressing the primary concern of independent artists the world over. "I ain't got no money," he adds, "and I don't think that's funny." 'Tuesday's Secret' is a sublime study in accelerated Byrdsian jangle wherein Lawrence and Richard Left's duelling axe-work rivals that of Johnny Marr.
Space Blues was Felt's tenth single – their last. Naturally it feels like a tantalising glimpse of what the band might have achieved, the new territory they might have made their own, had they saw fit to carry on. But no true fan of Felt laments their demise: Lawrence said from the start that they'd make 10 albums and 10 singles in 10 years; no more, no less. How many other artists can you think of that made you a promise, and stuck to it?
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"Mr. Bomani began his martial arts training in
Africa in the 1906s. By 1968, Mr. Bomani, had traveled to Okinawa and began training with Eiichi Miyazato Sensei at the Jundokan. Mr. Bomani was a student of Miyazato Sensei's, until Miyazato Sensei passed away in 1999. Since that time he has trained under Koshin Iha Sensei.
Mr. Bomani was responsible for introducing Jundokan Gojuryu to
Tanzania and he founded the Tanzania Okinawa Gojuryu Karate Association. Mr. Bomani was also instrumental in spreading Jundokan Gojuryu through out the United States. He founded many dojos in New York, Washington, Kentucky and Ohio. He has left several yudansha spread across the United States and Africa."
After not being in touch with Bomani for over 20 years I finally tracked him down and we were to meet this Spring as he was leaving the country for awhile. His son called me last week to let me know he had past, he found one of my messages and realized I was not aware of his passing.
Sensei Bomani, though our time together was brief, had a get effect on me. I was surprised his son knew of me and said his father had spoken of me many times. Bomani gave me a way of looking at Africa, past the bullshit, past the vagaries of expatriatism. He showed me how to blend, and communicate with people in a place foreign to me. So it was not foreign to me for long. Knowing him, people took time to know me.
He walked among the common people of Tanzania with respect and love, having married a Tanzanian woman and living in the community instead of the usual expatriate abodes, separate and apart from the real community. He lived with his wife in a simple 2 room dwelling and she cooked on a a small charcoal stove, fresh whole wheat chapati, he was vegetarian and we had that in common. Dar Es Salaam was the easiest African city I have ever been in to be vegetarian. I was hard core back then. Bomani and his wife's extended family taught me how to live like a Tanzanian, away from the restaurants in hotels so many many of my fellow African American expat acquaintance frequented. There was a strong indian presence in Tanzania so I could get dal and puri and whatever veg Indian cuisine I desired back then.
I remember being to his house for dinner many times and a chorus of frogs outside his window during dinner, so loud we could hardly hear sometimes. Chapati and Spinach curry, coconut rice, with fresh baked chapati on a charcoal stove. I learned to make the coconut rice, from a whole coconut, shredding the meat and socking it, making coconut milk.
I remember making the long trek from his home back to the Chicken Farm, where i was staying at the time. I took the last bus and my two mile walk in the dark on a side road outside Dar, re-examining parts of our conversations about identity, nationality, struggle, mission, purpose, and quantifiable results. It was a good time in Dar Es Salaam, the times of Tanzania's first President Mwalimu Julius. Nyerere. We would see him on the beach some mornings when we did sunrise workouts. President Nyerere would wave, alone walking in solitude like he had not a care in the world. Certainly the Moranguzi (Secret Service)was not too far away.
I almost drowned one afternoon workout when I walked far out into the sand to the pictures and the tide of the Indian Oceans started coming in. When I got to shore the water had almost been up to my shoulders and I was trying to save my cameras. Bomani did warn me when I walked out there. He said he figured I would eventually float back to shore one way or another.
He had hundreds of students. I remember the 5 mile runs in formation. Bomani always leading. He was a hard taskmaster. A good friend in the short time I was there. I think we both had malaria at the same time. I left Dar for awhile after that, as my recovery was good but I was having some strange recurrences. I really looked forward to our meeting this Spring. I am really sad about this.


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There are a lot of choices of blog sites and tools. I decided to use Blogger because Google owns it, it's free, looked easy to set up, connected with Google+ so my 3 followers can easily find me:)
Bluehost only provides instructions on how to set up Wordpress, so I used these instructions instead:
To put Blogger on your site you need a subdomain. Through cpanel's domain management and Subdomains I created blog.jimcsmith.com.
Then at blogger.com you create your blog.
Next under Blogger's settings/advanced you add a 3rd party url to, in my case, blog.jimcsmith.com. Clicking the save button gives you an error message and instructions to add two CNAME entries into your host server's DNS settings.
Going back to the Blogger settings page and clicking the save button gave no errors this time. Now entering in either blog.jimcmith.com or jimcsmith1.blogspot.com brings up my blog.


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Sim City 4.0 Update Available For Download Today
Ryan Martin / 6 years ago
SimCity is due to received update version 4.0 today which brings in a lot of old and new features to the game. In terms of the "old" things, it brings back those things which were taken offline to reduce server strain such as leaderboards. Dynamic global market prices and region filters will also be re-enabled too.
The new additions to the game include a "launch park" available for early adopters and also a new region called Edgewater Bay that has seven new potential city sites. The full change log is as follows:
– New: SimCity Launch Park, an exclusive new park just for our dedicated fans who were early adopters.
– New: Region: Edgewater Bay. Seven city sites in one cluster around a beautiful bay with one great work site.
– New: Your current server will now be shown in the options menu.
– New: More detailed rollover information on buildings telling player's if their Sims received happiness from a park or from shopping. Previous to this fix, this information was generic.
– Re-Enabled Feature: Global Market prices now dynamically change during gameplay.
– Re-Enabled Feature: Leaderboards will be active on EU West 3, Pacific 1 and Pacific 2 at the release. We will enable them on additional servers throughout the day.
– Re-Enabled Feature: Region filters are now enabled on all SimCity servers. Players will be able to search for open games by Map Name, Sandbox Mode, and Abandoned Cities.
– Rain Clouds: Fixed an issue where some cities would not have rain clouds to replenish their water table. If you had a city with this issue, you will start seeing clouds again within a game day.
– Fire: Improved response time of fire trucks to fires. Improved the time it takes for a fire signal to reach a fire station.
– Mission updates: Tuned Metals HQ and Community College missions. These were appearing too early, making them difficult to complete. They now appear later in a city's development.
– Solar Farm Great Work: Reduced fire risk at the Solar Farm Great work. Local fire engines were spending too much time at the Solar Farm.
– Messaging: Improved pre-requisite messaging for Trade Port, Casinos, Smelting Factory and Oil Refinery. It should be clearer on how to unlock these buildings.
– Graphics: Fix for flickering low wealth buildings on NVIDIA graphics cards.
– Education: Fix for an issue some cities experienced where commuting students did not return from a neighbor's city. This was causing a problem where students would disappear from a city in some cases.
– Tuning: Sims will lose a small amount of happiness if they don't have a place to shop. Cities without places to shop will see complaints and feel the effect of unhappy Sims. This will emphasize the importance of commercial zones.
You can check out the full details on the official website, the update will be dished out via Origin today (May 23rd).


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I've been looking at improving how we support users of Google Analytics recently. There's a lot of demand for help with using the tool. But I've been focusing on why we should use the tool rather than the mechanics of how to.
Measuring outcomes is hard, but does that mean we shouldn't do it? Measuring inputs is easy, so does that mean we should do it? Are we saying to ourselves: "I don't have time to do it right, but I do have time to do it wrong?"How to choose the right web metrics - article by Gerry McGovern


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MELVIN AARANSON, of Cherry Hill, passed away on Sept. 21. Husband of Phyllis Aaranson. Father of Jamie (Terence) Fischer and Randy (Rochelle) Aaranson. Grandfather of Alyssa, Rebecca, Jeremy, Sydney and Ethan. Brother of Sheila Moses. Contributions can be made to the Katz Jewish Community Center, www.katzjcc.org. PLATT MEMORIAL CHAPELS, Inc.
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On the eve of 38 weeks and with only one "work" day left, I find myself completely excited and numb (for a lack of better words) at the same time. I am excited to have the next three months off to gather my thoughts, be able to have mornings without an alarm, and to be able to be in my own thoughts before the baby comes. I 'm looking forward to be able to have a little time to plan, journal and blog my big plans for my framing business and design business to help keep our little family afloat while on maternity leave.
I think I have thought about all the possibilities about how life will be when the baby comes that I just can't think anymore. What if she's a terribly unhappy baby? What if I'm a terribly unhappy mother? What if she doesn't start feeding right away? What if she has colic? What If I lose my mind? What if I have to call my husband to come home to give me just a moment to gather myself (or cry alone in the bathroom so no one knows I'm losing it). But oh…what if she's perfect…sleeps thorough the night…latches on right away…coos and melts my heart. I make myself go crazy. I mean, coming from a large family, and being one of the older cousins, babies are no unknown territory for me. I know how to take care of a new born….right? At least I think I have a grasp. These are the thoughts that circle my head all day. My real fears when it comes to bringing this little girl in to this world. I guess we will just have to find out when she arrives. Any day now….


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The most fundamental point the author makes is that Bachs cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art. All his discussions ultimately lead to justify this single point. In order to understand Bachs cantatas better, it is essential that as Chafe shows, we have to examine in detail every element that they are made of, i.e. the text and music along with their historical backgrounds, not separately but holistically; in doing so, we need to cover such issues as Lutheran liturgy and theology, modal tradition and music theory of the day. The author certainly argues carefully and thoughtfully what Bach might have intended in his music---e.g. how the cantata texts reflect Lutheran interpretation of scripture, how the principles of Lutheran hermeneutics work in Bachs music, how the text and music interact, and how Bachs tonal structure and modal harmony relate to the theological content of his cantatas. Readers should note that his analysis---the term he uses in the title---is nothing to do with those approaches by Schenker and other analysts; much of his musical analysis is non-technical, and for this reason, the book should appeal to wider readership.
Starting with the contents, some readers may be puzzled by his chapter headings, as there seem many abstract terms which do not tell them straight away the logic and structure of his arguments; the heading of Chapter 2 Lutheran metaphysical tradition may be particularly bewildering. Yet when you read along the book, the authors tactful narration should unfold the thrilling course of thoughts, as he demonstrates quite successfully how Bach attempted to bring out the Lutheran dogma in music. The actual musical analyses of the cantatas are treated as examples to substantiate his specific theoretical arguments, and therefore only a handful of cantatas, mostly from the early Leipzig period, are discussed in depth. Thus there is considerable scope for future expansion if the author wishes to.
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Bone healing and maintenance is a consequence of proper fixation and there is a critical need to monitor strain in orthopedic screws in order to detect loosening early. Orthopedic screws apply stress and fix the position of implanted orthopedic devices such as fracture fixators and spinal grafts. Bone healing is accompanied by increased rigidity, while loosening is a major cause of implant failure. Loosening is often an indication of infection on the device surface, which is difficult to eradicate if not treated early and usually requires device removal with risk of mortality and morbidity from surgery and prolonged hospitalization. Approximately half of infections acquired in hospitals are associated with implanted or indwelling devices (one million in 2004) and of the two million fracture fixators implanted annually in the US, 5-10% become infected, and 40% for soldiers due to debris in blast injuries. Loosening is most commonly determined by radiography and is characterized by displacement of the screw in a time series of X-ray images or dark lines surrounding the screw due to bone degradation. However, these results are difficult to quantify, especially at early stages, and the X-ray images are ill-suited for studying dynamic motion. The objective of this pilot project is to provide the preliminary results and instrumentation to demonstrate that in situ changes in strain and spectrum can be monitored noninvasively through tissue. Optical tension-indicating bolts have been described in the patent literature since the 1970s; the novelty of our approach is that we use upconversion and radioluminescence to provide an essentially background-free near infrared signal that can propagate deeply through tissue for orthopedic applications. We will fabricate tension-indicating luminescent screws by modifying existing orthopedic screws. We will then characterize the modified screws both mechanically and optically. We will measure implant loosening after repeated strain cycling in bone mimics and ex vivo bovine bone. This pilot project will enable us to collect data for a future R01 proposal studying implant loosening and biofilm infection in rabbit models. The luminescent tension-indicating screws will enhance our ability to assess mechanical changes in vivo and enable quantitative assessment of implant loosening and bone healing.


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With some of the greatest heroes on Earth, the Justice League is the ultimate force for good in the DC universe. When something is that good, it's fun seeing what it would look like if it was evil. Alternate realities have been a theme in comics since the Golden Age, and the Justice League has been twisted up in countless universes.
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There have actually been evil versions of the Justice League that run from not scary at all to a group you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. In just a few months, we'll be seeing a new "Justice League" movie and there are rumors of an evil Superman making an appearance. With that in mind, it's time CBR showed how scary the Justice League can be.
What would have happened if Superman had landed in the Soviet Union instead of the United States? That's the premise of "Superman: Red Son," a 2003 Elseworlds miniseries by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Kilian Plunkett. In an alternate reality, Superman's Kryptonian spaceship landed in the Ukraine during the Cold War instead of in Kansas. Raised by the state, Superman became a tool of the Soviet Union, and disrupted the power balance of the world.
In the miniseries, alternate versions of members of the Justice League all appear, even though they're often on different sides and are never really called the Justice League. Batman was a terrorist revolutionary fighting Stalin and Superman, Green Lantern was a psychotic pilot who used his ring to make an army of Green Lanterns for the US, and Wonder Woman was Superman's lover who became bitter when he rejected her. It ended on an apocalyptic note with Lex Luthor manipulating everyone as the winner over all.
As far as "scary" Justice Leagues, we'll start with the least scary but a definitely evil version: the Super Enemies. If the classic 1970s TV show about DC was called "Superfriends," there had to be some bad guys called the Super Enemies, right? 1979's episode "Universe of Evil" started with Superman transported to a parallel universe where the Hall of Justice has been replaced by the Hall of Evil, and all the Justice League members are bad guys. There was even an evil alien-monkey Gleek.
As Superman tried to escape from the Super Enemies and the military armed with kryptonite weapons, the evil Superman was transported to the real universe to fight the Superfriends. Superman-Prime ended up getting an antimatter flask that switched them back, which was good news for everyone. Later on, Lex Luthor organized his own Legion of Doom to be the real anti-Justice League, and had a much better name.
In 1989's "Justice League International," Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis created the Injustice League in "Justice League International" #23. The JLI was more of a sitcom than a serious comic, so the Injustice League were a team of really bad supervillains who wanted to be evil, but couldn't quite pull it off. The Injustice League's members included Cluemaster, Major Disaster, Clock King, Big Sir, Multi-Man and the Mighty Bruce. They mostly got beat up a lot.
Now, things get complicated, because 2000's "Silver Age: The Showcase" #1 (Geoff Johns and Dick Giordano) retroactively made 1989's Injustice League the second version of the team. The "original" team was brought together in the Silver Age by the evil intergalactic Agamemno, who used Lex Luthor to recruit other villains like Black Manta, Bizarro and the Joker. This Injustice League was way more effective, and switched minds with the JLA. When the Justice League managed to switch back, they erased the memory of the event from the villains' minds.
We're going to switch it up here, because when we talk about the Justice League, there are different versions of the JL than just the ones with Batman and Superman. There's also a smaller and less-powerful team called Justice League International, and Mark Waid and Rod Whigham had them face their evil duplicates in 1992's "Justice League Quarterly" #8.
In a previous story, Booster Gold had left the JLI to found his own corporate-sponsored team called the Conglomerate. That didn't work out too well, and the owner decided to pull new heroes out of another reality to form a new Conglomerate of Deadeye (an alternate Green Arrow), Fiero (Fire), Frostbite (Ice), Elasti-Man (Elongated Man), Element Man (Metamorpho), Scarab (Blue Beetle), and Slipstream (Flash). The Conglomerate decided to challenge the JLI to a "friendly" competition that quickly turned violent when they realized the new Conglomerate were all from Qward, an evil anti-matter world. The JLI managed to get them back into their own world, but it was a very close call.
In 2000's "Superman: Emperor Joker" (J.M. DeMatteis, Mike S. Miller), the DC universe was turned upside-down when the Joker tricked the fifth-dimensional imp Mister Mxyzptlk into giving him a portion of his power, giving Joker the chance to reshape reality in his image. Metropolis became a twisted sideshow of its former self, where Superman was a wanted criminal held in Arkham Asylum, Batman was slaughtered every night and brought back to life, Aquaman couldn't go in water, and Bizarro was the world's greatest hero.
In this reality, the Justice League is the Joker League of Anarchy, made up of criminals instead of heroes. Bizarro and Poison Ivy led a team of new supervillains Gilly, the hellish Scorch, Ignition, Skism, and the gunfighter Bounty. They did the work of the Joker, which was spread destruction and chaos wherever they went. Although the Joker's Justice League was more incompetent than effective, they still enforced the rule of law, which was basically chaos.
In 2010, the DC animated movie "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths" brought an evil League version to the small screens. Written by Dwayne McDuffie and directed by Lauren Montgomery and Sam Liu, "Crisis on Two Earths" was about an alternate reality where the Justice League was evil, and Lex Luthor and the Joker were the heroes. When the two teamed up to steal a Quantum Trigger, Luthor escaped into the mainstream universe.
There, Luthor explained he was from an alternate world where the superheroes of the Justice League were a criminal organization known as the Crime Syndicate. Led by Ultraman, the villains Superwoman, Johnny Quick, Owlman and Power Ring tried to recover the Quantum Trigger as a way to dominate their world. The Justice League uncovered a plot by Owlman to use the trigger to destroy all the other parallel universes. It was a bad world, but not as bad as we'll see later on.
"Crisis on Two Earths" was partially inspired by our next entry, "Crisis on Earth-3," first released in 1964's "Justice League of America" #29-30 (Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky). In that two-part issue, we first met the Crime Syndicate of America, which would become the premiere evil Justice League in its many different forms. The Crime Syndicate had conquered their world of Earth-Three when Ultraman discovered Earth-One, and decided to invade it.
Ultraman was basically Superman, except he gained powers (instead of losing them) whenever he was exposed to kryptonite. Owlman was an evil Batman with psychic powers, Johnny Quick was the Flash, Superwoman was Wonder Woman and Power Ring was a cowardly Green Lantern. They not only beat the Justice League, but went on to try to conquer the Justice Society of Earth-Two. The Justice Society was better prepared, and the Syndicate were beaten and imprisoned in another reality with signs posted not to disturb them. They'd be back, though.
Just because the Justice League belongs to DC doesn't mean they're the only ones who get to make the team evil. Marvel got into the act with 1969's "The Avengers" #69, created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema. In the final panel of that issue and continuing into the next issue, the cosmic Grandmaster decided to pit four members of the Avengers (Thor, Goliath, Iron Man and Captain America) against a team of new villains called the Squadron Sinister.
The Squadron was a thinly-veiled evil version of the Justice League. Doctor Spectrum was a multi-colored version of Green Lantern, Hyperion was a powerful god-like being like Superman, Nighthawk was a black-clad hero like Batman and the unfortunately-named Whizzer was super-fast. They were beaten by the Avengers, but returned later on to fight the Defenders, and even showed up in 2015's "Secret Wars" where they tried to rule Battleworld.
What do you get when you combine the Injustice League with the Crime Syndicate? You get the Injustice Syndicate, which made its debut in 2009's "Batman: The Brave and the Bold." In "Deep Cover For Batman" (directed by Michael Chang and written by Joseph Kuhr), the Injustice Syndicate was an evil version of the Justice League that faced Batman, made up of Owlman, Blue Bowman (Green Arrow), Scarlet Scarab (Blue Beetle), and Silver Cyclone (Red Tornado). They managed to get their hands on a dimensional portal from the Red Hood (one of the good guys in his dimension).
In this episode, Batman was the one who traveled to the evil dimension to pose as Owlman to trap the members of the Injustice Syndicate. There, he discovered the Injustice League planned to destroy other worlds. Using his detective, gadgets and martial arts skills, Batman managed to defeat the Injustice League.
In "The Avengers #85" (1971) by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, the Squadron Sinister was changed into the Squadron Supreme in a retcon. The Avengers traveled to an alternate reality where they discovered Hyperion, Whizzer, Nighthawk, Power Princess and Dr. Spectrum. When the Avengers attacked, they discovered that the Squadron Supreme were really heroes, and the Squadron Sinister were evil clones. With the help of the Avengers, the Squadron Supreme defeated their enemy, Brain-Child. The heroes returned several times, but made their mark in a dark new series.
In 1985, Mark Gruenwald, Bob Hall, Paul Ryan and John Buscema created the miniseries "Squadron Supreme," which focused on the team's efforts to rebuild their world after an almost apocalyptic battle. The team decided to make their world into a utopia, but went about it the wrong way by using behavior modification, confiscating weapons and created a totalitarian government. Even though they had the right idea, the Squadron Supreme were scary, even as heroes.
Once again, we're going to an animated series, where we met the Justice Lords. They first appeared on the 2003 "Justice League" animated TV show in the episode "A Better World." In their alternate reality, President Lex Luthor executed the Flash, which made Superman so mad that he killed the former supervillain. Superman and the Justice League set themselves up as the new rulers of the world's governments and became the Justice Lords.
As villainous Justice Leagues tend to do, the Justice Lords went to the world of the regular Justice League, where they captured the League and tried to impose their totalitarian rule. Starting by using his heat vision to lobotomize his arch-enemy Doomsday, Lord Superman moved on to try a takeover of the world's governments. Fortunately, the regular Superman was able to free himself and convince the real Luthor to strip the Justice Lords of their powers, and that stopped the Lords for good.
In 2013, another evil Justice League came along in the video game "Injustice: Gods Among Us." Set in an alternate reality where the Joker tricked Superman into killing Lois Lane and destroying Metropolis, the Man of Steel broke his rule about killing to get revenge. Having crossed that line, Superman and the rest of the Justice League set up a new global government as tyrants. To stop him, Batman pulled members of the Justice League into the Injustice universe.
They weren't really called the Injustice League, but the title of the game gave it away. It was an excellent fighting game that led into a great comic book series as a prequel, which explored how mighty heroes could fall to the level of criminals. It's scary to watch Superman go from the world's greatest hero to its greatest villain, not because of some hokey "evil universe" but because he was pushed too far.
In the new continuity of 2006's "Infinite Crisis," the alternate universe with an evil Justice League returned along with the DC multiverse, and the Crime Society of America was born. Given center stage in a title almost as long as the story, "Countdown Presents The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society" #1 was written by Sean McKeever and illustrated by Jamal Igle. It featured the story of the Jokester, a clown-faced hero fighting the five members of the original Crime Syndicate. The Society also added a host of new members including evil versions of Black Canary, Booster Gold and Supergirl.
In the new "Countdown: Arena" series, the evil Monarch brought together different characters from the new Multiverse to fight for the chance to join his army. The Crime Society was part of the battle, seen in the sidelines. Fortunately, the entire universe was later destroyed except for Superman-Prime and a single plant in a final battle with Monarch, taking the Crime Society with it.
In 1996, Alex Ross and Mark Waid teamed up to create the miniseries "Kingdom Come," set in a near-future where the traditional heroes of the past came together to stop the brutal superheroes of the new generation. The new Justice League of elderly (but still strong) heroes like Superman and Green Lantern set up a prison to hold rogue heroes and supervillains alike. Unfortunately, the Gulag erupted in a riot between metahumans that threatened to destroy the world.
Just like the Squadron Supreme, the Justice League of "Kingdom Come" was scary because it was trying to make the world a better place, not because it was pure evil. Throughout the story, the Justice League struggled to follow their morals, even as they imposed their own brand of justice on an unhappy world. Batman in particular sided with Lex Luthor to "liberate" mankind from the Justice League. In the end, Superman saw his failure, but only at the cost of thousands of lives.
After the "Crisis on Infinite Earths," the alternate universe of Earth-3 ceased to exist, but a new antimatter universe was introduced. 2000's "JLA: Earth 2" by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly brought back the Crime Syndicate with a slightly different spelling: the Crime Syndicate of Amerika. In Earth 1, Alexander Luthor is a hero who travels to the main DC universe to ask for help to stop the Syndicate.
Once again, the Syndicate were evil counterparts of the Justice League, but way more evil. Ultraman incinerated people just for criticizing him, Owlman was a brutal murderer and Johnny Quick was a drug addict. It took almost all of the Justice League's power to travel to the antimatter universe and try to bring order, only for the Crime Syndicate to make the jump to their Earth to bring terror. It was a brutal fight that was more about the nature of good and evil than punching.
When alien warlords attack New York City, it's time to call in the Justice League, but what happens when the threat is more supernatural? How do Superman and Wonder Woman fight legions of undead or immortal sorcerers? That was the question raised when the Enchantress actually beat the Justice League, causing them to form another, darker team. Yes, we're talking about Justice League Dark, created by Peter Milligan in 2011's "Justice League Dark" #1 (Peter Milligan, Mikel Janin).
The series introduced the titular heroes, made up of mystical characters of the DC universe like John Constantine, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Shade the Changing Man and Zatanna. They all worked together to investigate the bizarre and otherworldly monsters and magical beings that lay outside the norm. Justice League Dark is technically a team of superheroes, but they also give most people goosebumps. A team of undead, magicians and monsters, Justice League Dark is definitely one of the spookier versions of the Justice League. Just be glad they're on our side.
Which team would you be afraid to face under a full moon? Let us know in the comments!


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Ground-breaking real-time strategy game that pioneered the concept of
dramatically different races in one game. Players choose to control one
of three races -- one human and two alien -- in single-player or
multiplayer. The human Terrans have the latest in combat technology,
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