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Early Bird Sessions
Collaborative Exchange
The OMG DMN (Decision Modeling & Notation) Standard: State of the Art
Paul Vincent, TIBCO Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM
Room: Regency 2
What Is the Business Motivation Model (BMM) for Business Strategy? A Q&A Session
Keri Anderson Healy, BRCommunity.com
Room: Diplomat 5
Getting Executive Buy-In for Process-Based Management
Facilitator: Roger Tregear, Leonardo Consulting
Room: Diplomat 1
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Room Change
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Decision Tables in Practice: Two Case Studies on Process Variability and Health Care
Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari Nicola Boffoli, SERLAB
Joint BBC Session
The Future of Business Analysis: It's Not What It Used To Be
Kathleen Barret, MicroMarketplace
Room: Great Hall 5
Focus on Business Events (CEP)
The Semantics of Events for Business
Paul Haley, Automata, Inc.
Room: Regency 3
Process and Information Architectures - the Missing Link to Improving Enterprise Performance
Louise Harris, SToS Consulting Inc
Panel: BPM Around The Globe: What Can We Learn?
Moderator: Celia Wolf, Business Process Trends
Bassam AlKharashi, ES Consulting Roger Tregear, Leonardo Consulting Gilles Morin, BPMPLUS Inc Alexandre Mello, BPM Experts
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Analyzing and Managing Business Decisions using Decision Table Models
Jan Vanthienen, K.U. Leuven
Real-Time, Rule-Based Launch Experience: How Microsoft Achieved It
Hani Rachidi, Microsoft Mary Crawford, Microsoft Operations Services
Room: Great Hall 6
What Analysts Need to Understand About Business Events...
Paul Vincent, TIBCO
Panel - Operating in a Regulated Environment: Understanding & Incorporating Requirements Beyond Your Control
Moderator: Julian Sammy, MicroMarketplace
Carol Scalice-Miello, Pfizer, Inc. Neil Bazley, SMS Management & Technology and IIBA® Indy Mitra, Bank of Montreal
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Adapting the BA Role for Complex Projects
Kathleen B. (Kitty) Hass, PMP, Kathleen Hass & Associates, Inc.
Room: Diplomat 3
The Architecture of Enterprise Know-How
Ronald G. Ross, Business Rule Solutions, LLC and BRCommunity.com
Aligning Business Process, Rules and System Requirements
Denise Owen, CGI
BPM at Catalina Marketing: From Concept through Implementation to ROI
Jeff Mount, Catalina Marketing Stephen Edinger, Catalina Marketing
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Sustaining Process Maturity
Phil Short, Mars Canada Inc
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What is Decision Management and Why is it a Solution to Today's Intelligent Economy
Stephen D. Hendrick, IDC
Panel Discussion
The 3 Amigos on Enterprise Design: Burlton, Ross & Zachman
Roger Burlton John A. Zachman Ronald G. Ross
Using Behavior Driven Development and Feature Injection to Build Better Software
Jeffrey Davidson, Davisbase, Inc.
Fantastic Voyage or the Impossible Dream? The BA as Management Consultant
Richard Larson, Watermark Learning
Improving Process Quality: Sharing insights from the Process TestLab
Thomas J. Olbrich, taraneon Process TestLab
A Business Process Project Manager's Sanity Checklist
Sandra Foster, Capstone Ridge Group and BPTrends Associates
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Attendee Box Lunch
Using Decision Tables to Manage EBook Access
Paul Snow, SourcePulse
SBVR: What and Why
IIBA® Lunch Session
IIBA® Certification and IIBA® Direction
Kathleen Barret, MicroMarketplace Michael Gladstone, IIBA®
You Just Can't Make This Up: Horror stories in Business Processes
Moderator: Roger Burlton, Process Renewal Group
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How Business Rules and Tables Take Over - Reducing Completion Times from Months to Hours
Ronny Keiser, SD Worx
Bridging The Worlds Of Legislator And Technologist Through The Formalization Of Legal Rules With SBVR
Ashild Johnsen, Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway
Advanced Data Modeling
Rick Clare, PMCentersUSA
Globalization and Its Impact on Business Analysis
Peter Johnson, CBAP®, Peter Johnson LLC
The OMG's Business Architecture Standardization Work - A Progress Report
Neal McWhorter, Enterprise Agility
Efficient BPMN: from Anti-Patterns to Best Practices
Darius Silingas, No Magic Europe
Business Value - Building BPM Capabilities in the Norwegian BU of ConocoPhillips
Tom Einar Nyberg, Capgemini Steve Hayes, ConocoPhillips, Houston
Value-Driven BPM: Roadmap to Immediate Value and Lasting Capabilities
Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, Accenture
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Emerging Trends Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kristen Seer, Business Rule Solutions, LLC
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Gladys S.W. Lam, Business Rule Solutions, LLC and Publisher, BRCommunity.com
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Friday, June 22, 2012
hunger pangs
Is it okay to feel hungry? I have always feared my stomach rumbling like if I didn't eat right away I would starve. So, I know it is important to fuel your body and it is good to eat many small meals a day to keep hunger away but is there anything wrong with feeling a little hungry? Now I am not alluding to starving oneself. What I mean is it might be 10:30 and I am eating lunch around 12 is it okay to wait for lunch? I don't feel faint or sick. Just ever so often my stomach rumbles and I think "oh no I better eat". Instead I am going to try to wait, planning my meal, and eating at 12. Why are we so afraid of being hungry?
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Linen Conservation Area
Location: Belfast
Designation date: 11 December 1992
Designation date: 11 December 1992
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This area is important for its historical and architectural heritage as well as its potential for future development.
The area played a very important role in the social and economic development of the linen trade and in the 19th Century growth of Belfast from town to city.
It had its beginnings in Georgian times but blossomed fully in the 1860's when Belfast overtook Leeds and Dundee to become the world leader in linen production. By the end of the Century the city was well established as the linen capital of the world.
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In the 20th Century the linen industry declined dramatically. The Linen Conservation Area, however has continued to occupy an important position in the economic life of the City and today it is one of the most important office sectors in the City Centre.
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Pattern: Pescovegetarian Mittens
Yarn: Ironstone Harmony, 2 balls. Didn't use it all- have enough leftover for a matching beanie.
Needles: US 9 and 10.
Modifications: Only change was to take the tip of the mitten down to 6 stitches before I cut the yarn and cinched the loops closed.
Good pattern- very quick to make with bulky yarn. I plan to do this pattern again in a light color so that the fishbone design stands out more.


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This flower blooms in the Air lanang village, South Curup District.but unfortunately when I go to that place, it's already faded.very difficult to reach that flowers, because flowers are located in the steep cliffs.and here are some image was taken by my friend at june 28,2009 before the flowers faded
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this is a small size of Amorphophallus titanum because the high just 180 cm and 88 cm for the wide. the spadix only 175 cm from the bottom and and has a depth of approximately 115 cm.**** Amorphophallus titanum
The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", and titan, "giant") is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The largest single flower is borne by the Rafflesia arnoldii; the largest branched inflorescence in the plant kingdom belongs to the Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera). It thrives at the edges of rainforests near open grasslands. Though found in many botanic gardens around the world it is still indigenous only to the tropical forests of Sumatra. Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the titan arum is also known as a carrion flower, the "Corpse flower", or "Corpse plant" (in Indonesian, "bunga bangkai" – bunga means flower, while bangkai means corpse or cadaver; for the same reason, the same title is also attributed to Rafflesia which, like the titan arum, also grows in the rainforests of Sumatra). The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 3 metres (10 ft) in circumference. Like the related cuckoo pint and calla lily, it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like the flower's single petal. In the case of the Titan Arum, the spathe is green on the outside and dark burgundy red on the inside, and deeply furrowed. The spadix is hollow and resembles a large loaf of French bread. The upper, visible portion of the spadix is covered in pollen, while its lower extremity is spangled with bright red-orange carpels. The "fragrance" of the inflorescence resembles rotting meat, attracting carrion-eating beetles and Flesh Flies (family Sarcophagidae) that pollinate it. The flower's deep red color and texture contribute to the illusion that the spathe is a piece of meat. During bloom, the tip of the spadix is approximately human body temperature, which helps the perfume volatilize; this heat is also believed to assist in the illusion that attracts carcass-eating insects. Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, then a day or two following, the male flowers open. This prevents the flower from self-pollinating. After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground corm. The leaf grows on a semi-green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. The leaf structure can reach up to 6 metres (20 ft) tall and 5 metres (16 ft) across. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place. When the corm has stored enough energy, it becomes dormant for about 4 months. Then, the process repeats. The corm is the largest known, weighing around 50 kilograms (110 lb). When a specimen at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens, was repotted after its dormant period, the weight was recorded as 91 kilograms (200 lb). Image Locatin : Air Lanang Village South Curup District, Rejang Lebong Regency Image by: Curup Kami and Ahyan Sori, June 2009
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The evening of November 17...
Alfredo's is found in Quezon City, Tomas Morato. They are well-known for their scrumptious steaks cooked from imported meat and high price tag. This was where the festivities would end tonight. Even my brother-in-law wasn't able to eat up his entire ration.
Here is my beautiful juicy steak before it had been dissected. Medium rare was my sister's choice, but nonetheless nothing I'm particular of. Had I gone hungry even at least once the entire day, I'm sure this sizzling piece of protein would've just perfectly made its way home in my tummy.
But no! I had cake, iceblended coffee with extra whip cream, two plates of spaghetti and two glasses of C2 during snack time. And that was to say the least of it. At Alfredo's I had thick, rich tomato soup, a pandesal, and two types of vegetable salads. Oh yes, the gravy as well! Should I still review their food? Shouldn't this be enough to show how much I loved the flavors and the ambience of the restuarant? The service was top-notched, too.
Not to forget my Rib-eye steak (which cost 1,500php). That last bite piece was to be the pinnacle of my entire day's meal. And I only had two glasses of the bottomless iced tea to accompany it. I felt my head swirling...Oh no, please don't let it be my body's warning sign of a hypertension. Or maybe it was protein overload.
|Sango!'s store frontage is the one at the right bottom corner.
I felt staying still was not an option. So to keep myself moving, I and my nieces went accross the street towards Sango!. This a burger joint (more or less) who offered free manga reading. Each corner table had a row of manga selections.The receptionist was even nice to us- giving us some origami samples even when I told her we weren't dining in. Sango! is definitely on my TO-VISIT list when I come back.


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NE of Zion Crossroads on U.S. 15
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Hi Flutterby peeps!!
Belinda here today with the first of my July posts featuring the totally awesome 'Flawsome' collection.
There is so much to love about this collection; from the stunning colours to the brilliant quotes and sentence enhancers. The perfect range to scrap those selfie photos.
'Love This' Layout
I recently decided to trial creating layouts in an A4 format as opposed to my regular 12" x 12". It is mainly for ease of storage. So much easier (and cheaper) to store them in ring binders instead of the giant plastic tubs I have stacked up in my already cramped old home. Let me know what you think of this size and if you have tried scrapping in this format. I think I like it.
I began this layout by swiping some Golden Light Molding Paste over the stunning Little Big Love stencil. How cute are those little love hearts? I then diluted some of the Flutter Colour Paints to a watercolour consistency, spritzed my background with water and then applied the runny paints with a large soft, wet paintbrush. Spritzed again. Mopped up a little of the excess liquid with scrunched up paper towel and then dried with a heat gun. This is pretty much my 'go to' technique tfor starting each of my layouts. When you are onto a good thing and all that. ;-)
I decided to scrap a strip of fun photo booth photos of myself and the uber talent that is Louise Nelson taken at the Seriously Scrapbooking All Day Scrap last year. I chopped up the filler photo cards with the strips of pattern and scattered them over my background to frame my photo strip.
I then layered on some of the fabulous co-ordinating embellies, wood veneer, bits & bobs and a flair from the collection.
Here's what I used:
- Flair Button
- Grape Soda
- Raspberry Punch
- Sunshine Yellow
- Tropicana Teal
Thanks so much for checking out my layout today. Make sure you share your own Flawsome creations in the Flutterby Inspiration HQ group. I would love to see them.


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Golf being one of the most popular sports around the world, there are plenty of things related to it that you should know about. In this sport, keeping an eye on the statistics is certainly quite important. As a golfer, one should have all the details related to the stats on his or her fingertips. The information related to the stats can be used in various ways to improve your game. Fortunately, there are many options available for the golf stat trackers.
If you browse through the web world, you will get numerous trackers and such devices. But, the question that might come into your mind is- what are the basic advantages of using these tracking devices? How the statistics can help improve me game. Let us find out.
The advantages of golf stat trackers
- Knowing about the driving distances is really important when it comes to enhancing your golfing skills. Sometimes due to certain conditions, you might hit the ball to a really far distance. However, it does not mean that you can hit the same distance each and every time. For this reason, you need to have an idea about your present capability of how far you can hit the ball. The tracker can provide you an average figure of the same. This will help you in adjusting your game according to the conditions of a golfing club.
- Apart from the ability to hit the ball to a long distance, you also need to maintain a decent level of accuracy. Without any doubt, accuracy is really important in this game, and if you are looking for a golf stat tracker that can keep a record of your accuracy then check out http://www.topgolfrangefinders.com/golf-stat-trackers. Unless and until you are not aware of your accuracy, you will not be able to adjust and improve your game.
- It is true that majority of the shots in golf are taken from inside 150 yards comprising of the green. With the help of a golf stat tracker, you will get a better idea of the accuracy of your strokes in the green region. This will help you to plan your shots accordingly. In other words, you will be able to plan your next move well in advance.
- In order to track your progress, you need to keep an eye on your overall scores. In this regard, some trackers offer complete details of your handicap as well. It helps in knowing about the areas where you need to improve. So, it certainly makes you a better golfer.
- Penalty strokes are always bad, and almost every novice golfer has to deal with it. In fact, even the trained golfers also suffer from this problem. But, if you keep an eye on your penalty scores, you will be able to work on it and reduce the number of penalty strokes eventually.
So, those were some of the major reasons that make golf stat trackers so much useful for the golfers. Before choosing any particular one, it would be better to check out the reviews online.


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The hardened glass shattered into many mostly harmless fragments in the event the windshield broke. These windshields, having said that, could shatter from an easy stone chip. In 1919, Henry Ford solved the problem of flying particles by utilizing the new French technologies of glass laminating. Windshields built employing this process ended up two layers of glass with a cellulose internal layer. This interior layer held the glass with each other when it fractured. In between 1919 and 1929, Ford ordered using laminated glass on all of his automobiles.[2]


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The Sofista is a modular three-seater couch that can be separated into three different seating units. In its default setting, it's a normal-looking three-seater couch with arms on each side. But when the arms are pulled away, one becomes the chair and the other a chaise lounge. In this mode, seating for two or three additional people becomes available but can be tucked back away when not required.
The Sofista comes with a removable cloth washer that is machine washable. The pads are made from polyurethane foam while the legs are constructed from beech wood.
The Sofista costs a hefty $1,620, but that price isn't too bad when you consider that it essentially functions as an entire living room set. This ingenious piece of furniture is available in eight different color patterns.
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For Black History Month, CBR and I have brought back The Color Barrier for a special examination on Black culture as it relates to the worlds of comic books and popular entertainment.
So without further ado, I have to kick off the month by talking about one of the most well-known Black superheroes around, Storm of the X-Men.
Created by writer Len Wein and illustrator Dave Cockrum, Storm was first introduced in "Giant Size X-Men #1," a comic book which also introduced other mutants of color, and is a collector's item.
Born Ororo Munroe, the woman who would become Storm had a Kenyan princess for her mother and an African-American for her father. She was born in Harlem, but would spend her first set of formative years in Egypt.
A former thief and street-smart survivor who discovered her powers to manipulate the weather, Ororo was recruited to travel back to America and join the X-Men, a group of mutant heroes who fought to protect Homo sapiens and mutants alike.
In the forty years that followed, the ups and downs of Storm's character development have been enough to bend the brains of many fans, in ways both good and bad.
Recently, Storm has been the subject of debate because of the latest casting choice for her appearance on the big screen. Throughout the various X-Men films produced by 20th Century Fox, Storm has been portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry. To this day, a vocal community of fans communicate their displeasure with Halle as Storm. However, that talk has been overshadowed by displeasure with the actress chosen to play a young Storm in the upcoming Fox film "X-Men: Apocalypse." Her name is Alexandra Shipp, and she has just stepped into it by accepting the role.
Three Actors Join "X-Men: Apocalypse" as Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm
Her complexion, significantly lighter than that of Storm's own, is a big issue, during these times in which darker-skinned actresses are getting more exposure in Hollywood. It's a subject deserving of examination, and various people have done it already, so I'm not going to tackle that one today.
I'm interested in the new "Storm" ongoing series by Marvel Comics. Written by "Action Comics" scribe Greg Pak and illustrated by Victor Ibanez, the monthly series is the book fans have been asking for, forever.
"Storm" is finally here, and it's not selling well. The sales are at the point where Marvel made it known that the book was in danger of cancellation.
How is that possible? A book that is long overdue, of a Black female superhero, at a time when Black women are at the center of popular entertainment, in real life and fiction? When the word "diversity" is so widespread you cannot go a week without seeing it in the cyber-circles of entertainment?
It's a concern to be sure.
What do we find if we look back through the history of the Storm character?
Pak Makes "Storm" America's Most Wanted
A strong Black woman who survived through poverty and the loss of her parents as a child, discovered her extraordinary gifts and used them to help her people, travelled to America to help on a global scale, lost her powers, refused to become a victim and emerged as a woman strong enough to wrest leadership of the X-Men from a superpowered comrade, became the leader of a band of underground mutants by defeating the band's leader in battle, returned home for self-exploration, regained her powers, and married King T'Challa, thereby becoming the Queen of Wakanda, one of the most technologically advanced nations on Marvel's Earth.
The very look of Storm has changed over the years as a reflection of the character's growth, culminating in the second phase of her Mohawk hairstyle.
Impressive, right?
On the other hand, Storm and King T'Challa are no longer married, their relationship torn to shreds as one of various casualties of a Marvel line-wide event.
Granted, marriages do not always work out, but the symbolism of two of Marvel's top-tier Black characters getting married was major, and the dissolution of that marriage was perceived as a different kind of symbolism.
Since there are few to no all-Black marriages in superhero comic books, for the only one to fail was not an appreciated ending by Storm's fans.
That one still sticks in people's minds. It's a blight on the character. A demerit.
But wait! Storm was made the leader of an all-female X-team in "X-Men," kicked off by star writer Brian Wood and star illustrator Olivier Coipel, whom has illustrated many a popular Marvel Comic monthly series and limited series, ranging from "Thor" to "House of M."
So that erases the blight, right?
Not really, but we'll run with it. After all, "X-Men" premiered out the gate to stellar sales figures, proving that if you combine the right intellectual property with the theme of female empowerment, and add a powerhouse creative team, you have a damn good chance of hitting the jackpot.
Looking at Storm, throughout the years and the various art styles that have helped develop and prolong her image, it's fair to say Storm is one of the most beautiful women in the Marvel Universe. Just as Wonder Woman probably is for the DC Universe.
Part of what sells comic books is art. The combination of art with character. Art with intent. Putting together the right formula to get a positive result.
When you get it right, the results speak for themselves.
The monthly "Black Widow" series, about the assassin hero known worldwide due to the Marvel Studios film slate, is illustrated by Phil Noto. His version of Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, is beautiful. Hands down. She is one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she will slice a blade across your throat while you're having a conversation with her. With a style reminiscent of fashion illustration, Phil makes Natasha look so real, you believe in the makeup on her face, the color of her piercing eyes, the shade of her complexion, the softness of her skin.
"Angela: Asgard's Assassin," a new series from Marvel Comics, is illustrated by Phil Jimenez. Phil is one of the top comic book artists in the field now, and among other things, he is well-known for drawing beautiful women. "Angela: Asgard's Assassin" is simply one of the best-looking monthly comics being produced by an American publisher. You look at that book, and you know Marvel Comics is taking no prisoners with the title. Every aspect of the book comes together to make a book of high-production value.
Then we have "Storm."
The art is solid. Better than solid. The storytelling is clear and on point. Panel arrangement, really good.
In Your Face Jam: The Case for #SaveStorm
But do you find it attractive?
Think about this.
Do you look at the "Storm" series aesthetically and think it matches with an iconic Black female superhero of African heritage, who is quite possibly one of the most beautiful and majestic women, superhuman or otherwise, to grace the planet's ground and sky?
I look at DC Comics' "Wonder Woman," and the style by former Marvel superstar artist David Finch, and I get the sense that the company's goal is to match up an aesthetic with the character.
She is iconic. She is Wonder Woman.
The book should visually scream "Take me seriously. Ignore me at your peril."
The aesthetic of Storm, no matter what medium you show her in, is a matter of import.
Storm has been illustrated, when not in her own series, by heavy hitters like Barry Windsor-Smith, John Romita, Jr., John Byrne and Simone Bianchi. Artists from different eras of popularity, but all of them top of the line.
If the most iconic Black female superhero in all American superhero comics, having appeared in four films and at least two animated series, the symbol of Black femininity and grace and strength and culture and sexuality to many a fan, Black and otherwise, if this superhero is not illustrated on a regular basis in her own book in a way that demands you take her seriously, in a medium and industry heavily impacted by the strategic use of art, then when will she be?
Decisions about a creator in relation to a book in development is, among other things, connected to a projected profit and loss. One book has a top budget, the next a median budget, the next a lower budget, based on historical sales patterns and a handful of people doing some analysis to decide what book gets a certain profile of artist, and, or a certain style that corresponds with healthy sales.
I wonder what "Storm" was projected to sell.
I wonder how many names were in the hat for the monthly choice.
This is the right time for a "Storm" comic book, and if the number one publisher in American comic books cannot get it to sell to a level that ensures its long-term survival (and these days that means twenty-four months), I don't know about you but I am compelled to look at what other books have in relation to "Storm," and start asking questions.
Are you buying "Storm"?
If so, that's great.
If not, why not?
Really, why not?
Maybe if we can figure it out now, it'll help us make certain purchasing decisions later to help books in need, or give us the certainty of knowledge with which to go to the publisher and say:
"I'm not compelled to buy this book, and this is why."
And don't be distracted by "Secret Wars" and its demolishing of titles.
Things did not fare well for "Storm," no matter what.
The questions are still worth asking.
I just presented one possible reason.
Consider some others.
Joseph Phillip Illidge is a public speaker on the subjects of race, comics, and the corporate politics of diversity. In addition to his coverage by the BBC and Publishers Weekly, Joseph has been a speaker at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Digital Book World's forum, Digitize Your Career: Marketing and Editing 2.0, Skidmore College, Purdue University, on the panel "Diversity in Comics: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Comic Books," and at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art in New York City.
Joseph is the Head Writer for Verge Entertainment (www.verge.tv), a production company co-founded with Shawn Martinbrough, artist for the graphic novel series "Thief of Thieves" by "The Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman, and video game developer Milo Stone. Verge has developed an extensive library of intellectual properties for transmedia development. Live-action and animated television and film, video games, graphic novels, and web-based entertainment.
His latest project is "The Ren," a 200-page graphic novel about the romance between a young musician from the South and a Harlem-born dancer in 1925, set against the backdrop of a crime war and spotlighting the relationship between art and the underworld. "The Ren" will be published by First Second Books, a division of Macmillan.


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Used 2007 Lexus IS Sedan
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2007 Lexus IS KBB Expert Review
Fresh from a complete transformation in 2006, the sporty and affordable Lexus IS touts an aggressive look, a more responsive chassis and a choice between two potent six-cylinder engines. With its increased interior volume the rear-wheel-drive IS is now better situated to compete with the BMW 3 Series, Infiniti G35 and Audi A4. While some purists will grumble about the availability of a manual transmission and all-wheel drive only on the less-powerful IS 250, the IS 350's 5.6-second zero to 60-mph time and advanced VDIM (Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management) stability system should go a long way toward pleasing most. The availability of such uncommon options as Dynamic Radar Cruise Control and Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS) place the IS a step above the competition.
You'll Like This Car If...
If you consider your car as not just a transportation appliance but, instead, as a piece of sporting equipment, you'll feel right at home behind the wheel of the IS 250 or IS 350. An added benefit - you won't see clones of your car on every street corner.
You May Not Like This Car If...
You might be convinced that no Japanese car, no matter how competent, can match the driving enjoyment delivered by the BMW 3 Series. And if you seek a car with styling so distinct you can discern its brand without seeing its badging, the IS's handsome but derivative styling might not push your buttons.
What's New for 2007
A new X Package is offered on rear-wheel-drive models and includes a sport suspension, five-spoke 18-inch alloy wheels, sport pedals and illuminated door scuff plates.
Driving It
Driving Impressions
Test drives quickly revealed that both the IS 250 and the IS 350 offer significantly better-than-adequate acceleration. Of course, the IS 350 is the hot rod of the two, boasting a laudable zero to 60-mph sprint of 5.6 seconds. In around-town, freeway commute and open two-lane touring, the IS 250 feels completely in its element, but we have to admit the added 102 horsepower of its IS 350 sistership is appealing.
Steering is sharp and direct, although some might complain of a bit too much boost. With a double wishbone front suspension and a multi-link rear, plus either Vehicle Stability Control (IS 250) or the more sophisticated Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management system (IS 350), the car has both traditional and New-Age technology to foster superior handling.
Favorite Features
Paddle-Shift Automatic Transmission
The sequential-shift six-speed automatic, offered in the IS 250 and standard in the IS 250 all-wheel drive and IS 350, allows you to cruise in full automatic mode, or shift it yourself via steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters or an up-down push on the console-mounted gear lever.
Back-Up Camera
The Back-Up Camera system, which displays its view on the dash video screen, comes on automatically when you shift into reverse.
Vehicle Details
The IS interior is well-designed, well-finished and intelligently laid out but, at the same time, lacks the distinctive style some of its European competitors bring to the table. Bright, clear Optitron gauges, which are illuminated even in daylight, are extremely readable and deliver an upscale aura. The seats are firm and properly adjustable, but rear-seat passengers might struggle a bit for foot- and legroom - although the interior will accommodate five (friendly) adults. Where the interior really shines is in its features. For example, keyless entry with push-button start is standard, so you needn't remove the key from your pocket or purse before you start the vehicle. Welcome features such as a power tilt/telescoping steering wheel and touch-screen navigation system plus "back-up" camera are available as well.
The new IS is the second Lexus model (after the GS) to incorporate the new Lexus design "language" that was first introduced to the public in the LF Series of concept cars. The goal is to combine sporty and luxurious elements, but the net result is not nearly as distinctive as the BMW 3 Series or the Audi A4, for example. Still, the IS represents a significant styling improvement over the original model. The wide stance and long wheelbase, coupled with tightly-drawn bodywork, give the car a presence and sophistication the previous one lacked. Interior space benefits from increases in overall length (3.5 inches), width (3.0 inches), wheelbase (2.4 inches) and rear tread (1.9 inches.)
Notable Standard Equipment
Standard features on the IS 250 include Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), six-speed manual transmission, front side-impact airbags, front and rear side-curtain airbags, 10-way power adjustable front seats, power folding side mirrors, dual-zone automatic climate control, one-touch open/close power moonroof, tilt-telescopic steering wheel, SmartAccess keyless entry and start, Homelink, 194-watt 13-speaker sound system with in-dash six-disc CD changer and auxiliary input and a multi-information trip computer. The IS 350 adds a 306-horsepower 3.5-liter V6, six-speed automatic transmission with steering-wheel mounted shift paddles, Vehicle Dynamic Integrated Management (VDIM) and 10-spoke alloy wheels.
Notable Optional Equipment
Notable options for the IS include an Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS) that enables front headlamps to turn with the wheels to help see into corners, heated and ventilated front seats, Pre-Collision System (PCS) that senses an impending crash and prepares safety systems, a power tilt-telescope steering wheel and a new 14-speaker Mark Levinson audio system. The system offers 300-watts of power, 14 speakers (including a center speaker and sub woofer) and 7.1-channel speaker architecture.
Under the Hood
Two new engines are on tap for the IS. The 2.5-liter version found in the IS 250 uses dual variable valve timing with intelligence (VVT-i) and a new direct-to-cylinder fuel injection system to create 204 peak horsepower and 185 pound-feet of torque, which for most people, most of the time, is more than enough. A conventional six-speed manual or a sequential-shift six-speed transmission are available and, unless you really like to row gears, the automatic is the recommendation. While the 2.5-liter V6 is a good choice, those of us with heavy right feet prefer the new 3.5-liter engine, which uses an intriguing mix of port- and direct-fuel injection to develop 306 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque. With this engine the six-speed sequential-shift automatic is the only transmission choice, and performance drivers won't be disappointed.
2.5-liter V6
204 horsepower @ 6400 rpm
185 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4800 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 20/28 (manual), 24/32 (automatic), 22/28 (AWD automatic)
3.5-liter V6
306 horsepower @ 6400 rpm
277 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4800 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 21/28 (automatic)
Pricing Notes
The Lexus IS 250 equipped with a manual transmission has a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $30,970, while the version equipped with the sequential-shift automatic transmission starts at $32,140. The all-wheel-drive IS 250 stickers for $35,000 and the rear-wheel-drive IS 350 has an MSRP starting at $36,420. To make your best deal, be sure to check the Fair Purchase Price which shows what consumers in your area are paying. In looking at prices buyers are paying, the IS 250 and IS 350 fall right in line with their competitors, including the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Acura TL. In terms of resale value, the IS is projected to hold its value on par with most of the segment, but a few percentage points off the segment leaders.
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November 17, 2018
Ultra Reliable Vehicle
This has been an incredibly reliable vehicle for us. We have had not one single repair made to this car. Just tires, batteries, brakes,...
September 25, 2018
Fantastic company
This car is extremely reliable! I love everything about this car except for the color and interior, mine is gold, with tan interior that...
August 22, 2018
Awesome sport sedan. Very reliable. Fun 2 drive.
I ordered the car in Fall of 2005. My IS 350 was one of the first sold in NJ. I took delivery in Dec. 2005 of my 2006 IS 350. One...
June 23, 2017
Rare IS with six speed stick is the bomb!
The Lexus IS 250 with a 6-speed stick is a rarity.This red beauty is a head turner. Paint is perfect and sparkles. She is a great road...
April 14, 2017
Great Car!!!
This car is absolutely great in all ways. Its very reliable and a great looking car. I would recommend this car if you like a very...
March 13, 2017
old reliable!!
After 10 years , she is perfect .Everything works ,as when she left the showroom floor . She lives, most of the time in a nice warm ,dry...
December 11, 2016
Love the ISF
This car is the best of both worlds . Wife is happy.
November 02, 2016
Reliable and wont go wrong
This car has been driven all over the country, I bought this with 136k on it in 2011. I still drive it daily, I have been coast to coast...
October 19, 2016
LEXUS IS 250 my review
I have had this car for 5 years now. PROS: The car handles great, easy to park, lots of trunk and back seat space, no mechanical...
October 09, 2016
classy, comfortable and fun to drive !!
Ole "Ginny" is a fun car to drive and very comfortable . People ask me about her all the time ,and say how great the car looks !! This...


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Young singers between 18 and 30 joined for the EuroChoir 2017 that took place in Utrecht (NL) and was organized by ZIMIHC.
In 2017 Maria van Nieukerken (NL) and Lorenzo Donati (IT) were the conductors.
The repertoire was a mix of Dutch and Italian choral music with the common theme of water.
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Bloody Chambers
A "bloody chamber" is present in some form in each of the ten stories, which is perhaps why Carter chose to name the collection The Bloody Chamber. The bloody chamber takes different forms throughout the book, but serves the same symbolic purpose. It is a room where violence and enlightenment occur simultaneously. It is a place of transformation for the heroine that changes her irrevocably. Bloody chambers are often connected with not only the blood of violence, but also with the blood shed when a woman loses her virginity and when she menstruates. The term "bloody chamber" can also refer to the vagina or womb, and Carter uses this fact to underscore the connection between women's sexuality and the violence they experience.
In "The Bloody Chamber," the bloody chamber is the Marquis's chamber of torture and death. When the heroine finds it, she puts herself in danger of being killed but also gains the knowledge to prevent her death. As Moore states, the key to the bloody chamber is "the key to her selfhood"; seeing her potential fate makes the heroine realize that she has bought in to a life of objectification ans subjugation that will ultimately kill her.
In "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon," the bloody chamber is the Beast's room. Even though the Beast does not hurt anyone in the room, it represents the violent and "bloody" reputation. If the Beast is seen as a being who devours, his room is perceived as a place of terror - a bloody chamber. The Beast's room is also a place of transformation for both himself and the heroine. It is there that she realizes her love for him and that he transforms back into a human.
In "The Tiger's Bride," the bloody chamber is also The Beast's room. It is bloody in the first place because it is there that The Beast devours his prey; the floor is littered with bones. It is also there that the narrator transforms into a tigress and thereby learns her true identity.
In "Puss-in-Boots," the bloody chamber is more comical. It is the heroine's room, where she sheds blood when she loses her virginity, and where Signor Panteleone's corpse is laid after the bloody crime of his murder. As in other stories, the bloody chamber in "Puss-in-Boots" is where the heroine gains a new identity and begins to fulfill her destiny. In "The Erl-King," the Erl-King's hut is a bloody chamber because it is there that he "kills" girls by turning them into tormented caged birds. It is also there that the heroine plans to shed the Erl-King's blood in order to save her life.
In "The Snow Child," the bloody chamber can be considered both the hole in the snow that the Count and Countess ride past and the girl's vagina. The Count sees both these bloody chambers as objects for him to enjoy. It is the Countess, however, and not the heroine who gains knowledge. At the story's end, the Countess realizes that the rose "bites"; that the price of being a man's object is the pain of subservience and loss of identity.
In "The Lady of the House of Love," the bloody chamber is the Countess's room. For the Countess, her room is doubly bloody. There she has sucked the blood of countless victims and there she bleeds for the first time. The Countess dies in her bloody chamber, but only after being enlightened - literally - by experiencing love, turning into a human, and letting light into her chamber for the first time.
In "The Werewolf" and "The Company of Wolves," the bloody chamber is grandmother's house. In "The Werewolf," the girl makes the chamber bloody by disfiguring and then killing her grandmother. By doing this, she is able to live a happy life, yet the story's ending is ominous because we do not know whether she takes her own victims in this bloody chamber. In "The Company of Wolves," grandmother's house is bloody first when the wolf eats her, and again when the girl loses her virginity to the wolf in it. This bloody chamber is a place of enlightenment for both the girl, who realizes that she is "nobody's meat," and the wolf, who lets himself be devoured for the first time.
In "Wolf-Alice," the bloody chamber is the Duke's castle. There, the Duke devours his bloody victims. There also, Wolf-Alice begins to menstruate, which triggers her to become increasingly human. Both Wolf-Alice and the Duke discover themselves in this bloody chamber with the mirror's aid.
Many of the heroines in the book are virgins, and many others are implied to be. In some male characters' eyes, such as the Marquis's, the heroines' virginity is an invitation for corruption. It is also an invitation for violence, because in taking a girl's virginity, a man spills her blood. Indeed, when the Marquis rapes the heroine, he is said to "impale" her.
In many of the stories, the heroine or hero's virginity is a source of protection and strength. In "The Company of Wolves," the heroine's virginity is like a "pentacle" that shields her from harm. In "The Lady of the House of Love," the soldier's virginity protects him in a similar way. Both characters, by virtue of virginity, are innocent enough not to be afraid, and their lack of fear is what saves them from death. They transform from prey into devourer, the girl "eating" the wolf and the soldier tasting the Countess's blood when she meant to taste his. In "The Tiger's Bride," we find that The Beast is actually afraid of the heroine because she is a virgin. He wants nothing more than to glimpse her naked, untouched body, but the sight of it frightens and shames him.
According to Carter's stories as a whole, virginity is a source of strength because it is "power in potentia." Like water pent up behind a dam, it is stronger than water that is not being restrained. When the narrators in all three stories mentioned lose their virginities - either symbolically or literally - they release a transformative power. The girl in "The Company of Wolves" turns herself into a predator and the wolf into prey. The soldier in "The Lady of the House of Love" turns the Countess into a human. The heroine in "The Tiger's Bride" transforms into a tiger.
The Pornographic Image
In several of her stories, Carter explores the idea of pornography and its presence in everyday life through the objectification of women. In the stories, a pornographic image is created when one person is undressed and another one is not. The clothed person, who is in the position of human master, seems to have power over the naked person, who is in the position of animal or slave. Carter uses a specific pornographic image in "The Bloody Chamber" to define this image. It is a picture by Rops of a fully-clothed man sizing up a naked woman as though she is "a lamb chop." The heroine calls this picture "most pornographic of all confrontations," which the Marquis recreates when he undresses her while remaining clothed. Later, when the heroine flips through one of the Marquis's books, she comes across a pornographic engraving called "Reproof of Curiosity" wherein a man masturbates while whipping a naked woman.
While clearly delighting in the excitement of the pornographic image, Carter also gives a clear warning of its consequences, the objectification and consequent subjugation of women. At no time is this clearer than when the heroine discovers the other wives' corpses in the bloody chamber. She realizes that for the Marquis, erotic and violent desires are inextricable. He turns his wives from pornographic displays into elaborately-displayed corpses. In "The Snow Child," the girl is nothing but a pornographic image, a semblance of nude attractiveness that the Count dreams up. As a mere image, the girl is powerless; she does not speak and only knows how to follow commands. She is not even real, as we discover when she turns back into a collection of objects. The Beast's in "The Tiger's Bride" tries to place the heroine in a "pornographic confrontation" when he asks her to strip in front of him. The Beast is not only clothed, but every part of him is covered to hide that he is a tiger.
The Beast reverses his pornographic request, however, when he takes initiative to strip in front of the heroine. In this way, he concedes some of his power over her so that when she undresses for him, it is by choice. The heroine in "The Company of Wolves" also reverses the pornographic image when she takes off her clothes for the werewolf in a sort of striptease and then undresses him. By taking off her own clothing, she takes control over her nakedness and her flesh. Then by undressing the werewolf, she puts them on an equal level. Once neither one of them is totally in control over the other, the danger is gone.
The Liminal Experience
Many of the stories focus on the idea of liminality, of existing on the threshold between two places or states of being. The narrator in the Erl-King describes the sensation of liminality as "vertigo." When the Erl-King, a liminal creature who is half-human, half-woods, draws her into his "gravity" of in-betweenness, she is unpleasantly disoriented.
In literature, liminal spaces traditionally give the occupant both power and torment. By existing in two states or being two things simultaneously, the occupant has qualities of both. At the same time, he or she is condemned never to be fully accepted in either state. The two halves of the liminal being's experience do not seem to make a satisfying whole. Carter explores liminality primarily through half-beings: werewolves, vampires, and the special case of Wolf-Alice, the hyphen in whose name pronounces her liminality most definitively. All of Carter's werewolves: the grandmother, the hunter, and the Duke, do not fit in with either humans or wolves. Humans shun werewolves because they try to eat them. As the narrator in "Wolf-Alice" explains, eating humans makes werewolves cannibals; therefore wolves will not accept them because they go against nature's code by eating their own kind. In order to find a place with humans, werewolves must transform somehow. In "The Company of Wolves," the girl must become more wolfish and he more human in order for them to be together. In "Wolf-Alice," the Duke becomes either more human or more animal - we do not know which - when Wolf-Alice shows him kindness. Before that, the Duke's liminal existence tortures him; he is "an aborted transformation," a "parody" of a wolf, who belongs nowhere but isolated in his castle.
Just like werewolves, the Beasts are tormented by living liminally. They too are trapped between being human and animal, and must isolate themselves because there is no other half-creature to keep them company. Carter's more obvious spotlight is on the half-beings we have mentioned. Her more radical statement, however, is that all women are forced to live life as a liminal experience. The heroine in "The Tiger's Bride" realizes this when she considers that men consider women as soulless and incapable as animals. She is a human who is treated like a beast, and is therefore living as liminal and unfulfilled a life as The Beast. We see this too in "Puss-in-Boots," where the young woman's life can hardly be called living; Signor Panteleone treats her like an object and she has no power of her own until her husband is dead. Just like the werewolves and Beasts, these women must choose one kind of experience in order to be happy. The heroine in "The Tiger's Bride" renounces the human experience in favor of the animal experience, because as a woman she will never be seen as fully human. In "Puss-in-Boots," the heroine must kill the beast in her life - Signor Panteleone - in order to claim her full humanity.
The Objectification of Women
Women are objectified in every one of Carter's stories. The objectification and subjugation of women is part of the "latent content" of fairy tales that she exposed, as she claimed, simply by virtue of being a woman. The heroine in "The Bloody Chamber" is one of the most obviously objectified. The Marquis makes her into a pornographic image by undressing her while remaining dressed, he dictates that she always wear her collar of rubies like a dog, and most extremely, he plans to turn her into a literal object - a corpse - to display in his bloody chamber. The Marquis does not only kill his wives; he makes elaborate displays of their dead bodies as though they are collectibles.
In "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon," Beauty becomes an object when her father uses her as payment for his debt to the Beast. Even though Beauty lives luxuriously both at the Beast's and in London, like the heroine in "The Bloody Chamber" she is seen as property. In "The Tiger's Bride," the heroine's father considers her one of his belongings, which is why he wagers and then loses her to The Beast. While she is human, the heroine is seen as merely "a pearl" or "a treasure," prized for her beauty and nothing else. She escapes objectification by rejecting the role of woman entirely and turning into a tigress.
The girl in "The Snow Child" is the crystallization of Carter's message about women as objects. The Count simply wishes her into existence based on his ideas of attractiveness. Like the mechanical soubrette in "The Tiger's Bride," she does not speak and does only what she is asked to do. When she dies, the Count rapes her corpse as if he created her only to be a sex toy. When she dies, she disappears into a collection of objects.
The heroines in the Red Riding Hood stories are symbolically sexual objects because the werewolves see them as prey. Like the hereoine to the Marquis, these heroines are of more value to the werewolves dead than alive. The only heroine who manages to objectify a man instead of being objectified herself is the Countess in "The Lady of the House of Love." She is condemned never to be happy with a man because, like a werewolf, her insatiable hunger causes her to kill her potential mates. The Countess's story lets us see the other side of objectification; it harms the objectifier as well as the object. The Countess can never really be happy because she can see men only as objects. All she wants is fulfilling love, yet all she can conceive of is objectifying lust.
Carter does not give men all the blame; she suggests repeatedly that women are complicit with their own objectification. The heroine in "The Bloody Chamber," as well as her mother, see marriage to the Marquis as a transaction to raise them out of poverty. The young woman in "Puss-in-Boots" no doubt married Signor Panteleone for money and status. In "The Erl-King," the narrator is conscious that she is walking into a trap by consorting with the Erl-King, but does so anyway. Carter's heroines all have in common the quest to escape objectification in order to claim power over their own bodies and an authentic existence.
Carter experiments with mirror images as well as actual mirrors throughout the book. In her versions of fairy tales, Carter calls to attention the mirroring in her sources, where good and evil, human and animal, Beauty and Beast, are irreconcilable opposites. She then takes pains to confound these dichotomies in order to suggest that morality is not so clear-cut as we might like to think.
We first see actual mirrors in "The Bloody Chamber," where the Marquis surrounds the bridal chamber with mirrors. He not only turns the heroine into a pornographic image, but one reflected twelve times. It is only when the heroine looks in the mirrors that she realizes how obviously the Marquis is objectifying her. She is also horrified when the sight of herself as pornographic image arouses her; when she understands that she enjoys being objectified, she realizes her complicity in her own destruction. In "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon," we see the Beauty's transformation from unspoiled child into pampered woman by the fact that she looks in the mirror too often. She has become obsessed with her own physical image, when she really prefers the Beast's image of her as someone with whom to have meaningful conversations.
In "The Tiger's Bride," the heroine looks in the soubrette's magical mirror and sees her father's face instead of her own, as if she has "put it on." It is as though she bears the mark of being her father's property by actually wearing his face. Later, the mirror makes the heroine have another realization. She sees her father rejoicing at having his wealth returned and realizes that wealth means nothing to her. Only then can she undress of her own accord and transform into a tigress.
In "The Snow Child," there is no magic mirror as in the story of Snow White. To the Countess, who takes on the role of evil stepmother, the girl herself is the magical mirror that, in the end, shows her her own fate as a woman with no personal power. Nowhere are mirrors more transformative than in "Wolf-Alice." The mirror, so much a silent witness that it is nearly a character, is the object that catalyzes Wolf-Alice's transformation into a human. We know that she is still an animal when she thinks her reflection is another creature. When she realizes that the reflection is her own, that she is capable of casting a reflection, she begins to understand that she is separate from and has power over her surroundings. Just as the looking glass is the portal to self-awareness for Lewis Carroll's Alice, so too is it for Wolf-Alice. Both animals and humans cast shadows, but the Duke does not because he is a liminal creature who does not quite belong in the physical world. We know he is becoming human when, at last, his face appears in the mirror.
Roses appear throughout the book to represent the women who give or receive them. The rose or any flower is often used as a symbol of the vagina as well as one of idealized femininity. The white roses in "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride" represent a "mythologized" idea of a woman. Beauty's rose grows unnaturally in the middle of winter, yet it is still perfect; it represents her unspoiled, gentle, virgin self. Beauty and her father both want the rose, so they both subscribe to an idealized idea of who she is. She is objectified into a rose. When Beauty's father steals the rose, expressing his desire to keep her virginal and perfect, the result is that Beauty becomes a literal object - the payment of her father's debt. When she sends the Beast roses, she is sending him reminders of her idealized self, which he cherishes. At the story's end, Beauty takes charge of her own desires and returns to the Beast. The roses have wilted, as has her identity as the perfect object of a woman.
In "The Tiger's Bride" and "The Snow Child," the heroines prick their fingers on roses. The first hands her father a rose covered in blood, which symbolizes the fact that his objectification of her causes her suffering. The second heroine dies when she pricks her finger in an even more extreme show of the way that objectification harms her. The Countess does not learn this by example, and must prick her own finger on the rose to find out that being treated like an object hurts or as she says, "bites."
Carter uses roses most extensively in "The Lady of the House of Love." Instead of an idealized representation of the Countess, the roses represent her desire for love as well as her immortality. A thicket of rose bushes protects the Countess's castle as one of solely thorns protected Sleeping Beauty from rescue. The Countess's roses are unnaturally red, beautiful, and fragrant. Like her, they are "obscenely" beautiful because they come from a supernatural source. If the roses represent the Countess's immortality, then they also reflect the torment it causes her. The Countess's tortured station as vampire, like her roses, prevents her from rescue, "awakening," and experiencing love until the soldier comes along. When the Countess transforms and then dies, she leaves behind "as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose" that she says she "plucked from between [her] thighs, like a flower laid on a grave. On a grave." The word "souvenir" recalls the rose's connection with objectification from other stories. The fact that it is "fanged" reflects the fact that the Countess's experience of human love has killed her. The Countess implies that the rose is an embodiment of her vagina, her desire. When the soldier is able to "resurrect" the "monstrous" rose at the story's end, he symbolically restores the Countess - with her sexual and romantic desires - to immortal life. Even though the Countess herself cannot love when immortal and cannot live when mortal, her fulfilled desire still lives on in the rose.
Violence and Sex/Love
In her stories, Carter poses the idea that sex/love and violence are inextricable. We see this clearly in the title story, "The Bloody Chamber," in the Marquis's favorite quote: "There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and he ministrations of a torturer" (Baudelaire). To the Marquis, the sex act is inseparable from the act of murder, which we see reflected in the heroine's diction when she describes the loss of her virginity as "impalement." He marries women only to have sex with them and then kill them, seeing those two actions as part of a single action. In "The Tiger's Bride," the heroine's act of transformation is both a sexual and violent event. The Beast licks her, which is a sexual action, but in doing so, he is stripping off her skin, which is an act of violence. The heroine's revelation and release from the prison of her human body is connected with her sexual freedom, but the price of both these freedoms is pain.
In "Puss-in-Boots," violence against Signor Panteleone is necessary to secure the opportunity for sex and love for the young woman. The connection between sex and violence in this story is made especially clear when the young woman and Puss's master have sex on the floor while the corpse occupies the bed. The sex act and the violent act are just feet away from one another. "The Company of Wolves" equates the acts of sex and devouring. The werewolf intends to eat the girl, but she ends up seducing him and "consuming" him in a sexual way. For these characters, the acts of sex and violence are easily interchangeable. Again, the sex act takes place feet away from a corpse, this time the grandmother's.
In other stories, sex and violence collide in an act of transformation. In "The Erl-King," the transformation is negative; sex with the Erl-King precedes enslavement. But the heroine manages to avoid violence against herself by wreaking violence upon the Erl-King. Even in "The Bloody Chamber," the heroine escapes her death sentence. "The Lady of the House of Love" and "The Snow Child," sexuality literally destroys the heroines. The Countess dies when the soldier presses his mouth to her wound, an act that encapsulates the sex/violence connection and is a possible symbol of cunnilingus. The Snow Child dies before the Count can have sex with her, but it is only when he rapes her corpse that it disappears. These characters die and disappear because of sex, suggesting that revelation comes at a high price.


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Montreal, Aug 11 (IANS) Second-seeded Swiss Roger Federer overcame a shaky start to defeat Spain's David Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 and book a berth in the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup here.
The 36-year-old Federer was on Thursday outplayed from the baseline in the early going by the unseeded Ferrer, who broke the 19-time Grand Slam champion's serve twice in taking the first set, reports Efe.
The Swiss also struggled more than usual on serve in the second set but managed to draw level with the Spaniard and then took full control of the match early in the third set when Ferrer made a series of unforced errors.
Federer grabbed a second service break late in the third set to effectively seal the victory and improve to 17-0 lifetime against the 35-year-old Spaniard.
Next up for Federer in Friday's quarter-finals of this US Open tune-up event will be 12th-seeded Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut, who saved a match point in a narrow 4-6, 7-6(7-5), 7-6(7-2) victory on Thursday over unseeded Frenchman Gael Monfils.
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"If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income."
-- Jay Abraham
A few developers may be feeling both swamped and stranded by Apple's App Store. While it has been enormously successful from Apple's standpoint, prices are low and competition is keen. The challenge for developers is to approach the App Store with the right kind of thinking.
One of the curses and blessings of the Apple iPhone SDK is that anyone who has the experience and skill to build a small application for the iPhone can do it. The curse part is that developers who believe that developing the app, submitting it to Apple, and sitting back to wait for the checks to arrive is all there is ... are in for disillusionment.
To be sure, there have been some notable successes, especially in the early days of the App Store. However, like the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, many launch out on a venture; only a few get really rich.
Of course, the expectation of becoming wealthy and having it fall flat could lead to rationalization and bitterness, likely directed at Apple and the competition.
The Trap
I started thinking about all this when I ran across a blog entry from developer Craig Hockenberry who was concerned about the low price of apps in the App store. He called them "ringtone apps" because the cost of the app, $0.99, is the same as a ringtone. He argued that it's hard to recoup the development costs of quality software in a flooded market, a Gold Rush market, with the current costs of doing business. He pointed put that, at US$150-200 per hour for a good software engineer, a three month development project would cost $80K. He'd have to sell over 115K copies at 99 cents to break even.
Later, in an e-mail exchange, Mr. Hockenberry said, "We feel very positive about the business opportunities in the App Store. Apple has also been very good about making changes based on feedback from the developer community. We're all learning new things at this point." Even so, he expressed concern about the current favor for lower price apps. "We're setting the price first, then matching the amount of development to that price. It's pretty clear that the sweet spot pricewise is 99 cents." That's a tough situation to be in.
Chuck Soper with the Vela Design Group had similar feelings of optimism, opportunity and dismay. He told me that competition is driving prices too low. "The sheer number of apps in the App Store make it difficult to gain much visibility. Many of these apps are simple and have limited functionality. Higher quality apps with more functionality and value are often difficult to find."
On the surface, then, it would seem that while experienced developers remain optimistic about App Store opportunities, they are concerned about how difficult it is to charge more than the going rate and obtain some visibility for their quality software. That's the depressing, first blush reality: making a living on quality software for a buck.
Is that the end of the tale? I might have stopped there, but like any emerging story, I suspected that there is a hidden dimension that hasn't come to the surface. So I set out to find out more.
Value in a Free Market
First, I suspect that the earmark of any good, free enterprise system is that the ground rules afford lots of opportunity for both failure and success. In that sense, we should be thankful for developer failure; it certifies Apple's wisdom.
Apple's agenda is to create a market opportunity, sell a lot of iPhones, solidify the developer base, get a leg up on the competition, solidify the next major platform, and make money doing it. There's nothing wrong with all that.
However, when some developers complain that prices are too low and that they can't easily get rich or even sustain their business, that's not a symptom of something Apple did wrong. Rather it's a symptom of a really open, free market. An analogy might be miners from the Gold Rush complaining that the roads were terrible, that they had to buy a mule and supplies, and no one was clearing the snow from the mountain passes.
I spoke with Jan Füllerman from nova media in Germany about this on the phone. He agreed with the dismal situation of too low prices in the App Store, but added that his company takes a broader approach. They're working with Deutsche Telecom, the parent of T-Mobile, on a project that has taken years of preparation and trust to close the deal. In addition, their apps right now are on the Mac where profitability and uniqueness are easier to come by. Their goal is to have such a broad base of opportunities and revenues that if they do sell an iPhone app, they'll be one of the last iPhone developers standing.
I also chatted with Dan Burcaw of Double Encore, Inc. right here in Denver. "Developers are pricing their apps too low when it's not necessary," he said. "Some apps are designed to be volume apps, but others shouldn't be. Understanding the customer's needs is vital."
He told me that in one case, in consulting with a developer who was selling an app for $0.99, raising the price to $1.99 actually increased sales. After all, if the developer doesn't value the product, why should the customer?
In fact, App Store developers who lower their prices too far aren't even learning the lessons of Apple; they're thinking more like Dell.
Really Good Business Models
There's a lot more to selling in the App Store than a simplistic development effort and then dropping the app into Apple's hands. "The real battle is getting eyeballs on the product," Mr. Burcaw said. And there are ways to do this. One developer built a viral YouTube video that whetted people's appetite for the app even before it shipped.
A broad, well thought out business model is alien to many young developers, but if they're truly in business for the long haul, there are some things that just have to be done according to Mr. Füllerman and Burcaw. It's work:
- Build a great supporting Web site that drives customers to the App Store. Don't wait for them to simply stumble around, unguided, in the App Store.
- Understand the customers' needs and values. If those are met, the app will merit a fair price.
- If possible, develop a synergy with Macintosh apps. Customers who trust and depend on a Mac app will tend to buy an iPhone app from the same company.
- Develop multiple revenue sources with different kinds of customers: corporate, consultants, other developers, and end users.
- Work in partnerships, perhaps with other developers, so that awareness is spread. Advertise in the right places. Create viral advertising.
- Figure out a way to build a brand that sets the company apart from the amateurs looking for one-shot riches.
A great example of this is the mSecure app that I reviewed at the iPod Observer recently. The developer understood that the single most important thing about his app was the security of the data and trust that the data would remain under the control of the user. He charges $2.99, not $0.99, and indeed any app that sold for the lower amount really wouldn't be taken seriously when it comes to the critical nature of personal, sensitive data. His understanding of his market and customer dictated an appropriate price. It could have been even higher.
Only Rats Win the Rat Race
There are a lot of young, solo developers out there. Each is looking to make the maximum money for the least investment. Often, an immature understanding about value will lead to cut throat competition. Some of the apps are 99 cent crapware. Or greedware.
Apple didn't get where it is by selling junk to the lowest common denominator and neither will successful iPhone developers. In time, the Apple App Store will settle out. Even as the number of available apps soars yet higher, there will be a day of reckoning. Those companies that develop a solid brand, deliver quality products and construct a solid, long term business model will survive. The rest will have served their short term goal of fanning the flames and giving Apple a head start against the other mobile phone makers -- but they will quickly pass into history.
They will be just like all those Macintosh Classic apps we no longer use but remember fondly. Some not so fondly.


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