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On October 21st SMART published a new document outlining an additional $622m required to complete the SMART train project:
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These asks can be broken down as follows:
- $178m – Extend from Santa Rosa to Cloverdale.
This was promised to be delivered to voters within the original Measure Q funding request.
- $42.53m – Extend from San Rafael to Larkspur
Again this was promised within the original Measure Q.
- $53m – Add additional 'C' cars (third middle carriages)
SMART's ridership numbers do not merit this additional expense as covered in this Marin Voice piece that I co-authored with Mike Arnold.
- $40m – Rail freight improvements
Why are taxpayers being asked to foot the bill to help commercial freight operations? If there's a return on investment for taxpayers we've yet to see this articulated.
- $29m – Rail operations capacity enhancements – handling freight, Positive Train Control (safety system) maintenance.
Positive Train Control is a foreseeable requirement – this should have been in Measure Q.
- $11m – Petaluma, add a second station and "associated amenities"
Before adding stations it would be better for SMART to understand if it will generate sufficient ridership to justify adding stations. This station by itself will hardly tip the balance.
- $124m – Construct the SMART bike path
This was originally promised to be delivered by Measure Q; costs were projected to be $91m in 2009
- $120m – Add facilities to stations
…including station furniture, ADA features, landscaping, bike and car parking and sharing, real time transit signage, "intermodal improvements", security enhancements and programs for car sharing
- $24m to cover operational costs for local partnerships with bus operators
…these are the shuttles that were again promised to be provided by Measure Q
What this means is that the price tag of SMART, as promised to voters in Measure Q, is going to almost double from $429m – the most recently stated SMART cost figure (source page 7, Nov 2010 Board of Directors Public Workshop), to $1.09 billion.
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Documents from November 2010 SMART Board Workshop show that SMART set aside $213m from the Measure Q 1/4c sales tax bond issue for construction. (Some of the sales tax revenue was set aside to cover annual operating costs). SMART elected to convert a large portion of the annual sales tax revenues into bonds so that they would have the cash up front to construct the line. Of course this figure never came anywhere close to even the $429m let alone the now apparent billion dollar price tag. SMART was always going to need 1/2c sales tax.


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Cloak and Dagger (comics)
|Cloak and Dagger
Cloak and Dagger #1 (October, 1983).
Art by Rick Leonardi.
|Publication information
|Marvel Comics
|First appearance
|Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982)
|Created by
Bill Mantlo
Ed Hannigan
|In-story information
|Alter ego
(Cloak) Tyrone "Ty" Johnson
(Dagger) Tandy Bowen
|Human Mutates
|Team affiliations
Dark X-Men
Secret Avengers (Civil War)
New Warriors (Dagger)
Secret Defenders
Marvel Knights (Dagger)
Brides of Set (Dagger)
Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a fictional comic book superhero duo in Marvel Universe. They were created by writer William "Bill" Mantlo and artist Edward Hannigan.
- 1 Concept and creation
- 2 Publication history
- 3 Fictional character biography
- 4 Powers and abilities
- 5 Mutants or mutates
- 6 Other versions
- 7 In other media
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Concept and creation
The inspiration for Cloak and Dagger came to Bill Mantlo after a visit to Ellis Island. He recounted, "They came in the night, when all was silent and my mind was blank. They came completely conceived as to their powers and attributes, their origin and motivation. They embodied between them all that fear and misery, hunger and longing that had haunted me on Ellis Island."[2]
Ed Hannigan, Mantlo's artist collaborator on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, recalled that he and Mantlo jointly came up with the characters' visual design: "Bill had a short page or two synopsis of the story that he showed me, and we discussed what the characters would look like. He gave me a lot of leeway, but it was fairly obvious that Cloak would be black and have a big 'animated' black cloak and Dagger would be white with a skintight leotard-type thing. I am not sure, but I think I might have come up with her ballet angle. I put the same kind of amulet/clasp on both costumes and came up with the dagger-shaped cutout on her costume, which was quite daring at the time."[2]
Publication history
Cloak and Dagger first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982).[3] After a number of additional Spider-Man guest appearances, they were given their own four-issue limited series, written by creator Bill Mantlo, penciled by Rick Leonardi, and inked by Terry Austin. It debuted in October 1983 and was a success, prompting Marvel Comics to launch an ongoing bi-monthly Cloak and Dagger series in 1985, with the same creative team. Costumed supervillains rarely appeared in the series, which focused on Cloak and Dagger's quest to end the drug trade completely and frequently explored the issue of vigilantism.[2] Leonardi left after issue #6 and was replaced by a series of fill-in pencilers.
After issue #11, Marvel combined the bi-monthly titles Cloak and Dagger and Doctor Strange into a monthly double-feature series, Strange Tales. The title change was accompanied by Bret Blevins stepping in as both penciler and inker. Austin would shortly return, but as the series writer this time, Mantlo having ended his run with issue #6.[4] Though still successful, Cloak and Dagger's sales had been declining for some time, and Marvel's editorial staff felt that a new writer was needed in order to revitalize the characters.[2] Austin immediately introduced Cloak and Dagger's first nemesis, Mister Jip. In 1988, they starred in Marvel Graphic Novel #34: Cloak and Dagger: Predator and Prey, which was written by Mantlo before his departure from the series. Strange Tales ran 19 issues before Marvel decided to split Cloak and Dagger and Dr. Strange back into separate bi-monthly titles.
Cloak and Dagger, now retitled The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger, were by this point being written by Austin and penciled by Mike Vosburg. Dagger was rendered blind in the first issue, and her struggles to deal with this new disability were a major theme of the series. Austin did extensive research at the American Foundation for the Blind so he could give an authentic depiction of the physical and psychological impacts of going blind and the coping techniques used by blind people.[5][6] Both Austin and Vosburg were gone by issue #14. Subsequent issues were variously written by Steve Gerber and/or Terry Kavanagh, but sales began to falter and the series was canceled with issue #19 (essentially the 49th issue of the series, since publication did not pause for the relaunches as Strange Tales and The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger).
The pair continued to make numerous appearances as guest stars in titles such as Runaways and the Spider-Man Maximum Carnage story arc, as well as starring in their own adventures in anthology titles like Marvel Comics Presents. Cloak made a solo appearance in issues of the miniseries House of M, as a member of an underground human resistance movement. It was uncertain if Dagger also existed in the altered reality of House of M as there were no mentions of her during that storyline.
They have appeared in various other Marvel Universes, in one of which Cloak was killed.[7] Dagger also served as a member of Marvel Knights in a short running mini-series.[8]
It was announced at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con that the team would be reappearing once again in their own 5-part mini-series by writer Valerie D'Orazio, with pencils by Irene Flores and colors by Emily Warren.[9][10]
They appeared in the Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men crossover, "Utopia". "They're here presented with a chance to have their reputations exonerated and their records sealed [if they join the Dark X-Men]," Matt Fraction explained in an interview with Marvel.com. "Osborn presents it to them as the ultimate public service, [where] they can work off their past indiscretions—[such as] Cloak's dealings with the Avengers during the [Skrull] invasion." Fraction claimed the more appealing part of Dark X-Men was to see how Cloak and Dagger react in a real superhero team scenario.[11]
Fictional character biography
Tyrone "Ty" Johnson (Cloak) and Tandy Bowen (Dagger) met in New York City as runaways. Tyrone was a 17-year-old boy from Boston, Massachusetts with a debilitating stutter and ran away to New York City when his speech impediment prevented him from stopping his friend from stepping in front of a moving vehicle. Tandy was a 16-year-old girl from a privileged upbringing (born in Shaker Heights, Ohio) who ran away because her multi-millionaire supermodel mother was too busy with her career and social life to spend time with her daughter. When they met, Tyrone considered stealing Tandy's purse, only to be shamed when she kindly offered him money. A thief stole the purse and Tyrone retrieved it for her. Afterwards, they had dinner and became fast friends. When naïve Tandy accepted an offer of shelter from some strange men, wary Tyrone went along to protect her. The two teens were soon forcibly delivered to criminal chemist Simon Marshall developing a new synthetic heroin for Silvermane and the Maggia, testing it on runaway teens with fatal results. Johnson and Bowen somehow survived injections of the drug, and they fled. During their escape, the drug turned them into superpowered beings (this is later retconned that they were both actually mutants and that the drug had simply awakened their latent abilities).[12] Tyrone found himself engulfed in darkness and seized by a strange hunger which eased in the presence of Tandy glowing with a brilliant light. Trying to hide his newly shadowy appearance in a makeshift cloak, Tyrone began absorbing Marshall's thugs into his darkness while Tandy struck them down with daggers of light. The two teens dubbed themselves "Cloak & Dagger" and declared war on drug crime in combating drug-dealers and helping runaway children.[volume & issue needed]
Later it was revealed that during this time, D'Spayre had manipulated these events from behind the scenes.[13]
War on Drugs and other heroes
Cloak and Dagger became vigilantes and hunted and killed Simon Marshall and his drug-dealing henchmen responsible for activating their powers. They first encountered Spider-Man during these events.[14] They next murdered Silvermane in revenge, and battled his reanimated cyborg form.[15] They next teamed with Spider-Man to thwart the Punisher's murder attempt on the Kingpin.[16]
When their activities became too damaging for the illegal drug trade, some dealers kidnapped members of the New Mutants and tried to control them by injecting them with a drug similar to that which gave the duo their powers. For a time, they lost their powers to the heroes Sunspot and Wolfsbane but they cooperated in retrieving them when it was learned the others were not handling it well. Cloak and Dagger saved them with Spider-Man, but turned down an offer to join the X-Men's School for Gifted Youngsters.[12] Cloak and Dagger battled Silvermane and the Answer. Kingpin wanted Dagger to help heal his wife, but Dagger refused to help him.[17] Cloak & Dagger befriended the superpowered preteens Power Pack[18] and twice aided the New Mutants, junior trainees of the X-Men.[19] The duo eventually learned they were mutants themselves, which is also the reason why they were the only test subjects to survive the administration of the drug in the first place.[19] Though they tend to target ordinary street criminals, they have faced such diverse foes as Doctor Doom, the Beyonder, Vermin, the Zapper, the Disciplinarian, the Warlord of Kampuchea, Mephisto, Thanos, The Assembly of Evil, Firebrand, and Lightmaster.
Cloak and Dagger encountered the Beyonder during Secret Wars II.[20] They also encountered Mayhem, a police officer who had gained powers from illegal drugs similarly to what had been done to them.[21] They next encountered Doctor Doom in Latveria.[22] Alongside Doctor Strange, they battled Ecstasy.[23] They were used in Nightmare's plot to defeat Doctor Strange.[24] They battled Mister Jip, and Night and Day.[25] They also encountered Power Pack again.[26]
Dagger was later possessed by Night, and battled X-Factor, and lost her sight temporarily.[27] Cloak and Dagger battled Hydro-Man, the second Jester, the Hulk android, Rock, and Fenris alongside the Avengers.[28] Dagger later regained her sight, and helped defeat Mister Jip.[29] Cloak later unknowingly met his twin sister.[30] Cloak and Dagger later battled D'Spayre, learning that he gave them their Dark Form and Light Form, which had been pieces of his soul, which interfered with their natural mutations.[13]
Dagger was one of the 'seven brides' selected for the serpent god Set in the Atlantis Attacks crossover storyline, the other six being Jean Grey, the Invisible Woman, Andromeda, She-Hulk, Storm, and the Scarlet Witch.[31]
Cloak and Dagger played a small part in the Infinity Gauntlet saga. When Thanos used the power of the Infinity Gauntlet to sacrifice half of the population of the universe to Death, Dagger was among the superheroes that vanished. Cloak answered the summons of Adam Warlock to join a task force of the remaining superheroes to fight Thanos.[32] During the assault on Thanos by the assembled team, Cloak managed to pull Thanos into the Darkforce Dimension, but was killed when Thanos released a massive amount of energy from within him; all that was left were pieces of his cloak.[volume & issue needed] His life was restored after most of the events were undone by Nebula after she seized the Infinity Gauntlet.[volume & issue needed]
The two tended to live in churches, supported by friends and priests. Cloak has run away many times, not understanding that Dagger is fully willing to use her light power to satisfy his darkness. Cloak & Dagger are devoted to each other, but Dagger often wants more from life. While on an international case, Tandy performed with Eurocirque as Lady Light and shared a romance with a supposed stowaway on a drug boat.[33] Eventually he was exposed as a criminal but ultimately sacrificed himself to save Dagger.[34] Tandy found new friends in the New Warriors who teamed with Cloak, Dagger, and other heroes to defeat the shadow-lunatic Darkling.[35] She also joined the team for a brief period, leading to further tension with Cloak.[36]
"Maximum Carnage"
Cloak and Dagger teamed with Spider-Man, Captain America, Black Cat, Nightwatch, Iron Fist, Deathlok, Morbius, Venom, and Firestar to halt a murderous super villain rampage led by serial killer Carnage. Dagger was supposedly killed by Shriek (Carnage's "wife") while saving an injured Spider-Man, but was later revealed to be severely wounded and recuperating within Cloak's shroud, and was the key instrument in breaking up the Carnage 'family'.
Marvel Knights
After Tyrone leaves Tandy's side, he was no longer able to control his hunger and consumed any and every lawbreaker, no matter how small the offense. While searching for him in churches she meets the Black Widow who she teams up with to prevent a church from being robbed. Daredevil later appears and both assist him on a mission he received from the Punisher.[37]
Dagger becomes a member of the now-defunct "Marvel Knights" team, partnering up with many different heroes, including Shang-Chi, Luke Cage, Moon Knight and Daredevil. During her time with the Knights, Dagger developed a deep friendship with the Black Widow (Natasha Romanova). Natasha brings Tandy to the guidance of Dr. Strange in the hopes of finding a crazed Tyrone. The Marvel Knights and Dr. Strange locate and battle an enhanced and deranged Cloak, during which most of the group are absorbed into his cape.[37] Dr. Strange reveals that has become possessed by Nightmare. Tandy manages to overpower and absorb Ty's Cloak powers, freeing everyone from his cape.[38]
For some time, the Black Widow lets Ty and Tandy live in her apartment, which was later attacked by a homicidal Life Model Decoy of Nick Fury. Though at this point he was a normal human, Ty managed to defeat the robot.[39]
Cloak and Dagger make their return in Runaways, in which Tyrone appears repowered and stable. At one stage, the LAPD recruited the team to locate the Runaways. During their initial encounter, Dagger quickly knocked out Nico Minoru with her light and Cloak easily absorbed Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Alex Wilder, and Nico. Gertrude Yorkes was able to halt Dagger's light attacks with her dinosaur Old Lace, as Dagger's light had no effect on animals, and Molly Hayes managed to pull Cloak's cloak from his body, severing his connection to the Darkforce Dimension. This caused a ceasefire, during which time Gertrude and Molly explained to Cloak and Dagger that the LAPD were actually corrupt and under the control of the Runaways' supervillain parents, the Pride. Cloak managed to reconnect to his cloak and rescue the Runaways he had absorbed, and he and Dagger both promised to return to New York and bring back the Avengers to stop the Pride and rescue the Runaways. However, the traitor in the Runaways—Alex—instead contacted the LAPD, which had the Pride erase Tandy's and Ty's actual memories of the group, thus preventing them from helping the Runaways.[40]
Cloak was later impersonated by Reginald Mantz who was using Mutant Growth Hormone to replicate Cloak's powers. Mantz, stalked and attacked Dagger, leaving her hospitalized. After a fight with the New Avengers, Cloak regained his memories and requested the Runaways' assistance in clearing his name, as he had been framed for attacking Dagger. Cloak appealed to the fact that they all shared bonds in being runaways and explains the reasons he and Dagger never helped them as planned. They agreed to help, and successfully helped Cloak apprehend his impostor, the delusional orderly, Reginald Mantz, who believed that he and Tandy were in a relationship.[41]
"Civil War"
Cloak and Dagger are revealed to be members of Captain America's faction of super heroes who oppose the Superhuman Registration Act during the "Civil War" storyline.[42]
Cloak is shot by S.H.I.E.L.D. tranquilizers while teleporting Captain America and the rebel faction to a chemical plant where they believed a catastrophic accident had taken place. It turns out to be a trap set by Iron Man waiting with the pro-registration faction. Dagger is hit with a lightning attack by a clone of Thor.[43]
It is then revealed that the pair were captured during a mission in Queens and jailed in the Negative Zone prison.[44] They are freed by the shapeshifter Hulkling, who was disguised as the pro-registration Hank Pym,[45] which leads to the climactic battle between the two sides, both of which Cloak teleports to Times Square, New York.[46]
"Secret Invasion"
Luke Cage calls Cloak, who drops the New Avengers at the top of Stark Tower to steal one of Tony Stark's quinjets. When Cage offers to take him with them to find the downed Skrull ship, Cloak refuses, and vanishes.[47]
Dark X-Men and "Utopia"
Norman Osborn tracks down Tandy and Tyrone in Colombia, burning down drug fields and approaches them to join his new team of X-Men. Initially against it, as they know of Osborn's past and don't consider themselves mutants, Osborn tells them that they can take their war on drugs to a global scale as well as having no trouble with police anymore. Dagger agrees to the deal for them both, but Cloak remains hesitant.[48]
Cloak and Dagger are later recruited into the Dark X-Men by Osborn. On their first mission, they take down Hellion, Sunspot, Match, Meld, Lorelei Travis, Adam X, and Avalanche, who are protesting against Osborn.[49] After Emma Frost's and Namor's betrayal of the team, Emma offers them the opportunity to join the real X-Men and their exodus from the USA, to which both instantly agree.[50] During their time with the X-Men, Cloak becomes involved with Wolverine's plan to kill Romulus along with Bruce Banner and Skaar.[51] Dagger is kidnapped and Romulus orders her to be beaten. Wolverine and Cloak manage to save her, and Wolverine kills her kidnapper, much to her chagrin. However, she tells Tyrone to continue helping Wolverine, as he needs his help.[52] Aiding Wolverine, Cloak uses his power to trap Romulus in the darkforce dimension.[53] However, Romulus later escapes and fights with Wolverine and Cloak.[54]
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After doing tests on Dagger, Dr. Nemesis confirms that they are not mutants, disappointing her as she enjoyed being on a team. It is revealed later that Tyrone was cheating on her with Tia, a girl from his old neighborhood. Eventually, Tia reveals that she knows his secret identity as Cloak and has him kidnapped, torturing him to keep him from using his powers. Dagger becomes worried after he doesn't return home after a few days and manages to track him down. With the help of X-Men Anole and Dr. Nemesis, she fights off his captors whereupon Tia reveals that she has powers as well and has been brainwashed to hate them. Tia manages to escape the fight and Tandy and Tyrone decide to leave Utopia and the X-Men and return to New York to work on rekindling their relationship.[55]
They are featured in the "Spider-Man" storyline as being homeless as they had just lost their home in New York because it wasn't up to code. They then were confronted by the Avengers who informed them about the present spider problem at hand. It's also revealed that Dagger is attending college classes as an attempt to normalize her life. Cloak has contradicting views as he acknowledges them as "special".[56] After Mister Negative hears of a prophecy that he destined to be killed by Dagger, he kidnaps her and corrupts her with his negative touch; her powers are changed, now working through the Dark Force.[57] Similar to Cloak, she gets the "hunger" for light and starts dying from the lack of it. Cloak pleads with Mister Negative to give him the touch. He surprisingly agrees, altering Cloak's abilities to be powered by light. Cloak feeds Dagger his light, causing an explosion. In the aftermath it is revealed that Dagger now has Cloak's original powers, and Cloak has Dagger's.[58] This change in powers recalls the reference to D'Spayre's influence on their life, as according to him in the final issue of their original run, these were the power sets they were always originally meant to have, but D'Spayre interfered, resulting in Cloak and Dagger having 'reversed' power sets, and considered weaker than what they would have been had D'Spayre not gotten involved in their lives.[volume & issue needed]
Powers and abilities
Tyrone acquired D'Spayre's Dark Form, which gave him the ability to create an aperture into the dimension of darkness and to dispatch people into the darkness dimension. He also gained the abilities of intangibility, and the teleportation of himself and others through the dimension of darkness. Cloak feels a constant "hunger" which can only be assuaged by "feeding" either on light projected by Dagger or on light consumed from victims dispatched to the dimension of darkness. He later develops better control of his "hunger".
Tandy had the ability to create psionic "light daggers" which travel wherever she wills them, and which drain living beings of vitality when struck. Her "light daggers" also have the capacity to cure certain persons of drug addictions, and can alleviate Cloak's hunger for light (which simultaneously allows her to avoid becoming overcharged).
Cloak and Dagger both have moderate experience at street-fighting, and Dagger's combat techniques utilize her light powers and ballet dance training, as well as her sense of spatial relations, which had been heightened by her temporary blindness.
Spider Island
As noted above, Tyrone and Tandy swapped powers during Spider-Island.[59]
Mutants or mutates
Cloak and Dagger were considered latent mutants whose powers were activated when they were injected with an experimental illegal drug in earlier appearances. In later years, they have been listed as mutates, meaning that their powers derived from an external mutagenic source. This designation was used for them in the Civil War: Battle Damage Report. However some mutants, such as Sunfire, Polaris, and Thunderbird, have also required external stimuli to awaken their latent powers.
Uncanny X-Men writer Matt Fraction stated: "No, they don't [think of themselves as part of the mutant community], and that's the thing: in a time when there are so few mutants left, can they afford to not at least acknowledge the existence of this community, this family?"[11] As such, in the Utopia crossover, when recruited by Norman Osborn as part of his "Dark X-Men", Cloak and Dagger comment how they aren't mutants.[48] This is further confirmed by Doctor Nemesis, who ran a full range of genetics scans on Dagger, stating that her powers were derived solely from the drug that changed both her and Cloak.[55]
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline, Cloak and Dagger are members of Sinister's Six, who were brainwashed into fighting the X-Men. They were apparently killed in battle though this has yet to be confirmed.[60]
House of M
In the "House of M" storyline, Cloak appears as a member of the Underground Human Resistance led by Luke Cage, regarding Cage as a father figure. No mention of Dagger's whereabouts are made.[61]
League of Losers
Dagger features in an arc of Robert Kirkman's Marvel Team-Up vol. 3, featuring a group of C-list heroes dubbed "The League of Losers". A group of heroes including Darkhawk, Dagger, Araña, Gravity, X-23, Sleepwalker, and Terror (although Araña dies along the way) go to the future to prevent the villain Chronok from stealing Reed Richards' time machine, Chronok having come to the present and already having killed all of Marvel's major heroes.[62]
Marvel Zombies
In Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness Cloak and Dagger, both zombified, are seen in a narrow alley devouring a hapless victim.[63] In Ultimate Fantastic Four #23, Cloak is seen as one of the dozens of zombified heroes who have gathered together to hunt down and eat the last four known unaffected people.[64]
Spider-Ham parody
In the parody series Spider-Ham, the duo are parodied as Croak and Badger, a frog and a badger.[65]
Ultimate Marvel
A character named Tandy Bowen makes a cameo appearance as a teenager running for and eventually succeeding in becoming school president.[66] She then appears as an anti-mutant who calls an anti-mutant task force to arrest Kitty Pryde.[67]
When Ronin stumbles into a police station to provide evidence against the Kingpin, two women dressed as Cloak and Dagger are both in handcuffs for an unknown offense.[68]
The Ultimate Marvel versions of Cloak (Ty Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) officially debut during a battle against Bombshell.[69] A series of flashbacks reveal that the two were high school sweethearts that were critically injured in a car accident while on their way to their prom. Roxxon's Brain Trust had the two teens declared legally dead and used them as test subjects in an experiment involving dark matter, resulting in Tandy and Ty gaining superpowers.[70] Eventually, Cloak & Dagger as well as Bombshell assist Spider-Man and Spider-Woman in fighting Roxxon's Brain Trust as well as confronting Philip R. Roxxon.[71] The two later joined The Young Ultimates before the team disbanded.[volume & issue needed]
Universe X
In the 2000 miniseries Universe X, Ty Johnson is dead, but his cloak is still carried by Dagger. Mar-Vell is given the cloak by Dagger and uses it as a teleportation device and a gateway to the Realm of the Dead.[volume & issue needed]
In other media
- Joseph Loeb of Marvel Television reported at Comic-Con 2011 that Cloak and Dagger are in development as a television series for ABC Family. The duo will be relocated to a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.[72]
- Cloak and Dagger appear in the third season of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon series,[73] with Cloak voiced by Phil LaMarr and Dagger voiced by Ashley Eckstein.[74] Cloak was possessed by Dormammu as part of a plot to capture Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, and White Tiger in a plot to power the Siege Perilous and invade Earth. With help from Dagger, Spider-Man was able to free Cloak from Dormammu's possession. Cloak and Dagger then help Spider-Man free Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, and White Tiger and defeat Dormammu. They were supposed to be two of Spider-Man's recruits for his new team of superhero "warriors". They originally turned down the offer, having been recruited by Taskmaster who claimed to Cloak and Dagger that no one can be trusted. In the episode "New Warriors", Cloak and Dagger appear as members of Taskmaster's Thunderbolts alongside Vulture where they end up freeing Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Beetle, and Scorpion from the Tri-Carrier's brig. Taskmaster had Cloak "thin the herd" by transporting Power Man, Iron Fist, White Tiger, and Nova to a deserted island. Cloak and Dagger switched sides after Spider-Man saved Cloak from the Tri-Carrier's engines after Taskmaster refuses and the two of them found out Taskmaster can not be trusted and joined Spider-Man's team by the end of the episode.
- Cloak and Dagger were chosen[when?] as one of the many properties in Marvel's new film deal with Paramount Pictures, along with Captain America, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Black Panther.[75]
Video games
- Cloak and Dagger both appear in the 1994 Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage video game, where they can be "summoned" by the player to harm all enemies on the screen.
- Cloak and Dagger appear in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, with Cloak voiced by Ahmed Best and Dagger voiced by America Young. Cloak is a non-player character and exclusive boss for the PlayStation 2, PSP and Wii versions, while Dagger is a boss for the Pro-Registration Act that attacks the heroes alongside Colossus.
- Cloak and Dagger appear as non-player characters in Marvel Heroes, with Cloak voiced by Rick D. Wasserman and Dagger voiced by Tara Strong.
- On September 2013 Marvel Universe release Cloak and Dagger action figure in wave 27.
- ^ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z vol. 13 (2010)
- ^ a b c d Shayer, Jason V. (December 2010). "Cloak and Dagger: Child of Light and Child of Darkness". Back Issue! (TwoMorrows Publishing) (45): 67–75.
- ^ DeFalco, Tom; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1980s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 207. ISBN 978-0756641238.
Cloak and Dagger's first appearance was written by Bill Mantlo and illustrated by Ed Hannigan. A socially conscious writer, Mantlo used the characters to address the problems of teenage runaways and the dangers of illegal drugs.
- ^ Issue #7 credits Mantlo as writer, but was in fact wholly written by Dr. Strange writer Peter B. Gillis. Letters pages in later issues corrected this error.
- ^ "Marvel A to Z". Marvel Age Annual (4) (Marvel Comics). 1988. pp. 6–18.
- ^ "Dark Dispatches" letters page in The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger #5.
- ^ Universe X #1
- ^ Marvel Knights #1-12
- ^ Siegel, Lucas (July 27, 2008). "SDCC '08 - The Return of Cloak and Dagger". Newsarama.
- ^ Richards, Dave (July 28, 2008). "CCI: D'Orazio talks 'Cloak & Dagger'". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ a b Strom, Marc (May 27, 2009). "Our Dark X-Men Week continues with an in-depth look at Cloak and Dagger". Marvel Comics. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
- ^ a b Marvel Team-Up Annual #6
- ^ a b Cloak and Dagger vol. 3, #19
- ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64
- ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #69-70
- ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #81-82
- ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #94-96
- ^ Power Pack #7-8
- ^ a b New Mutants #23
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 2 #4
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 2 #5-6
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 2, #10
- ^ Doctor Strange vol. 2 #78
- ^ Strange Tales vol. 2 #3-7
- ^ Strange Tales vol. 2 #9-11
- ^ Strange Tales vol. 2 #13-14
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 3, #1
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 3 #9
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 3 #13
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 3, #16
- ^ Avengers West Coast Annual vol. 2, #4
- ^ Infinity Gauntlet #1-4
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 2, #7-9
- ^ Cloak and Dagger vol. 2, #11
- ^ New Warriors #33-35
- ^ New Warriors #49-51
- ^ a b Marvel Knights #1
- ^ Marvel Knights #9
- ^ Marvel Knights #13
- ^ Runaways #7-8
- ^ Runaways vol. 2, #9-12
- ^ Civil War #2 (August 2006)
- ^ Civil War #3 (September 2006)
- ^ Civil War #5 (November 2006)
- ^ Civil War #6 (December 2006)
- ^ Civil War #7 (January 2007)
- ^ Secret Invasion #1
- ^ a b Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #513
- ^ Dark Avengers #8
- ^ Wolverine Origins #42
- ^ Wolverine Origins #43
- ^ Wolverine Origins #49
- ^ Wolverine #312 ,Oct. 2012
- ^ a b Cloak and Dagger #1 (March 2010)
- ^ Spider Island: Cloak and Dagger #1
- ^ Spider Island: Cloak and Dagger #2
- ^ Spider Island: Cloak and Dagger #3
- ^ Spider Island: Cloak and Dagger #3
- ^ X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6
- ^ House of M: Avengers #4
- ^ Marvel Team-Up vol. 3, #15-18
- ^ Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness #2
- ^ Ultimate Fantastic Four #23
- ^ Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #16
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #87 (December 2005)
- ^ Bendis, Brian Michael (w), Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #9. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Bendis, Brian Michael (w), Ultimate Spider-Man #110 (September 2007). Marvel Comics.
- ^ Bendis, Brian Michael (w), Marquez, David (a). "One Year Later" Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man 23 (July 2013), Marvel Comics
- ^ Bendis, Brian Michael (w), Marquez, David (a). Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (vol. 2) #24. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #28 (December 2013)
- ^ Marvel confirms 'Hulk' and 'Jessica Jones' in development for ABC
- ^ http://www.newsarama.com/18445-disneyxd-s-ultimate-spider-man-renewed-for-3rd-season-hulk-s-m-a-s-h-clip.html
- ^ http://www.heruniverse.com/blog/fangirls-assemble-universe-announces-new-marvel-apparel-line/
- ^ "Marvel Updates Its Film Slate". ComicBookMovie.com. Retrieved 2007-05-22.
External links
- Cloak at the Marvel Universe wiki
- Dagger at the Marvel Universe wiki
- Profiles of Cloak and Dagger at Spiderfan.org


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DBT individual psychotherapy is for individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder traits. Clients participating in DBT individual therapy also attend a DBT skills group or have graduated from a DBT skills group. The goal of individual DBT therapy is to help clients create "a life worth living" by addressing safety issues (suicidal thoughts and behaviors, self-injurious thoughts and behaviors), therapy-interfering issues (impulsive behaviors, things that interfere with therapy), quality of life interfering issues and other specific targets/goals. Clients monitor symptoms and skills used daily on a diary card, which is reviewed in each session. Chain analyses are completed by the client both in sessions and outside sessions to analyze behaviors that the client wants to change and to identify skills that could be helpful. Clients and therapists explore a dialectical way of viewing things, which includes balancing acceptance and change.
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Breaking Walls, Turning the House
Artist talk by Atsuko Mochida
@INSTINC SOHO: 12 Eu Tong Sen Street, Soho2 at central #04-163
The current resident of Instinc: Atsuko Mochida (b. 1989, Japan) will make an artist talk. She will talk about her major site-specificartworks she did in previous years, such as the turning house, prison break, moving walls, etc.
>>Artist website: http://atsukomochida.jp/
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7:45-9:00 Small party
Atsuko Mochida's work breaks with physical boundaries – it turns the space we perceive in daily situation into something threatening, compelling, into a new level of subconscious behavior. Invading both private and public space she is able to translate everyday feelings into physical objects and installations.
Her work also refers to ones struggles to adapt to social and structural changes in contemporary life: the question of identity and role in today's world provoked through social and academic educational structures.
Entering one of Mochida's installations can evoke a feeling as if entering a dreamlike state or as if you took a sudden sidetrack while drifting through thoughts. Or to quote Haruki Murakami: Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Stefan Klein (2015)
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Islamophobia and the new clash of civilisations
The Muslim and non-Muslim worlds are becoming increasingly intolerant of each other
Gideon Rachman
It is now getting on for 20 years since the attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001, and the idea that international politics should be organised around a "war on terror" is no longer fashionable. But suspicion and hatred of the Muslim world, inflamed by 9/11, has not faded with the passage of time. On the contrary, Islamophobia, as it is often called, is now a central part of politics in most of the world's major power centres — from the US to the EU, China to India.
At the same time, countries that were once seen as strongholds of moderate Islam — in particular Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan — are witnessing a rise in radical Islamism. The overall picture is that both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds are becoming increasingly intolerant in their attitudes towards each other, with politicians more and more inclined to pander to fear-driven views of the world.
The most startling recent development has been China's decision to imprison more than 1m Uighur Muslims in the northwestern province of Xinjiang in mass internment camps, in an effort to "re-educate" them. This policy seems to be a wildly exaggerated response to a relatively minor threat of domestic terrorism, combined with the Communist party's increasing paranoia about social, political and regional conformity. The internment process has been unfolding since early 2017 and is belatedly attracting international condemnation. A UN human-rights panel has called on China to release illegally detained Uighurs. And, this month, Turkey became the first major Muslim nation officially to condemn Beijing's policy towards the community.
The outside world's slowness to respond to China's actions in Xinjiang stems partly from a reluctance to antagonise the emerging superpower. But it may also reflect an increasingly hostile attitude to Muslim minorities in other parts of the world.
India, Asia's other emerging superpower, has been governed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party for almost five years. BJP militants make little secret of the fact that they regard Islam as alien to India. About 14 per cent of the Indian population is Muslim, but there was not a single Muslim among the 282 BJP members elected to the national parliament in 2014. The fear of Islamist terrorism in India has surged following a suicide-bombing in Kashmir that killed 44 paramilitary police. With elections looming, an increase in communal tensions seems likely.
Anti-Muslim sentiment has also flared up in Myanmar, where more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee the country by army offensives, amid reports of rape and murder. Most are now living as refugees in neighbouring Bangladesh.
The plight of Muslim refugees, however, is not a particularly popular cause in the west. Since 9/11, many more American civilians have fallen victim to school shootings than to Islamist terrorists, but anti-Muslim rhetoric by politicians has become more pronounced. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, then US president George W Bush visited a mosque and asserted that "Islam is peace"; 15 years later, Donald Trump won the presidency after campaigning to ban all Muslims from entering the US.
In recent years, Islamist terrorism has hit Europe far more frequently than the US, with France suffering particularly badly. The fear of terrorism, combined with the arrival of refugees from the Middle East and north Africa, has produced a surge in support for nationalist and Islamophobic parties. Parties that campaigned against Muslim immigration are now in government in Hungary, Austria, Italy and Poland — and they are powerful opposition forces, shaping the debate, in Germany and France.
The anti-Islam radicalisation outside the Muslim world is coinciding with the rise of intolerant Islamism in some Muslim countries that used to be relatively immune from that ideology.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, once lauded in the west as the model of a modernising democrat, is increasingly despotic and given to bitter conspiracy theories about the west. Turkey's secularists are on edge, fearing an Erdogan-driven effort to Islamise their country.
The situation has been worsening in Pakistan for decades. Islamists are using blasphemy laws as a weapon to persecute religious minorities and political opponents. Salman Taseer, a former governor of the province of Punjab who spoke out against the blasphemy law, was assassinated in 2011. His murderer has become a hero of the Islamist movement. Imran Khan, the current prime minister, defends the blasphemy law.
Campaigns against blasphemy have also become a political weapon in Indonesia, the world's most populous majority-Muslim country. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (known as Ahok), a Christian and former governor of Jakarta, was imprisoned in 2017 after being convicted of blasphemy. Ahok was a protégé of the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi. But, running scared of the rising tide of Islamism, Jokowi has selected a conservative Muslim cleric as his running mate in April's presidential election.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there were endless discussions about a "clash of civilisations" between the Muslim and the non-Muslim worlds. It is no longer quite so fashionable to discuss the concept. But something that looks strikingly like a "clash of civilisations" is emerging nonetheless.
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Utah teen killed by falling rocks during family vacation at Glacier National Park
She was vacationing with her family at Glacier National Park in Montana.
A Utah teenager died on Monday after being hit by falling rocks while vacationing with her family at Glacier National Park in northwest Montana.
The family was riding in their vehicle at around 7 p.m. when multiple rocks came crashing down from a nearby mountain, landing on the vehicle's roof and shattering the rear window, park officials said.
The 14-year-old girl died before she could make it the hospital.
"A.L.E.R.T. air ambulance responded, but was unable to airlift the girl because of her unstable condition," the park said in a statement Tuesday. "Flight paramedics traveled with her via ground ambulance to Kalispell, MT. The girl died while being transported to a local hospital."
Two other children were also taken to a hospital with minor injures and two adults suffered "significant" bruising.
Officials said the rocks ranged in size, with the smallest being about the size of a fist and the largest about 12 inches in diameter. They said the amount of debris left from the rocks could have "filled the bed of a pickup truck."
The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of other family members, according to the statement.
"The park extends its deepest condolences to the girl's family, and thanks its partner emergency care providers for the significant response," the statement said. "The family asks for privacy at this time."
Going-to-the-Sun Road, where the fatal accident occurred, was partially closed for approximately three hours while road crews cleared the scene.
At least one other person had previously died on the road from falling rock, with the most recent incident occurring in 1996, park officials said.
ABC News' Rayquan Taylor contributed to this report.


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Billy Ray Cyrus is a Country music superstar and a successful actor, who now understands what's most important to him in life - his home and family. As VOA's Mary Morningstar tells us, family values are the common thread throughout Billy Ray's new album, "Home At Last."
A conversation between Billy Ray Cyrus and his father, who died of cancer last year, was the inspiration for his new album, Home At Last. His father told him, "Son, enjoy life. Appreciate every second you have with your family. Live, love and laugh often and don't ever take it for granted. Be thankful and just remember home is where your heart is, a place inside you never really leave."
Billy Ray grew up singing in his father's gospel quartet. He began performing professionally at the age of 20. In 1992, Billy Ray's debut single, "Achy Breaky Heart," climbed to the top of the Country chart and also reached the Top 5 on the pop chart. Success on Country radio continued throughout the 1990s with such hits as "Could've Been Me," "Heart Of A Woman" and "Busy Man."
Then, in 2001, Billy Ray was cast to star in the cable television series Doc. The career change turned out to be a mixed blessing. He says he was thankful for the experience, but filming in Toronto kept him separated from his wife and five children for long periods of time. Billy Ray left Doc after four seasons, returning to his home in Tennessee and his career in music.
For the release of his latest album Home At Last, Billy Ray signed with Walt Disney Records. The album features some original songs, as well as several cover tunes. The classics include "You've Got A Friend," "Put A Little Love in Your Heart," a unique version of "Over the Rainbow" and Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl."
Critics and Country music fans are giving high marks to Billy Ray's new album. The collection sold enough copies to enter the Country Albums chart at Number 3 and the Billboard 200 at Number 20.
Billy Ray wrote the first single from Home At Last for his daughter Miley, who stars in the popular series Hannah Montana. His wife and children left for Los Angeles while he stayed behind in Tennessee to finalize the move.
"As I watched my family drive off, my heart was breaking," he said. "My daughter's life was about to change and it was time for daddy to let her go."
Once Billy Ray got to California, Disney also offered him a role in Hannah Montana. He plays the father of his daughter's character.


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Westerville, Ohio, 43082
Commute to Downtown Westerville
Almost all errands require a car.
Minimal bike infrastructure.
5831 Elise Lane has a Walk Score of 4 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
This location is in Westerville.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 5831 Elise Lane.
This location is in the city of Westerville, OH. Westerville has an average Walk Score of 28 and has 36,120 residents.


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Nacional 27 has been named 'Chicago's hottest Nuevo Latino restaurant.'
This modern Latin restaurant takes the flavors, cooking styles and ingredients from the 27 countries comprising Central and South America as well as the Latino Caribbean islands. With a cocktail program using fresh fruits and exotic liquors, it's the perfect spot for a night on the town with mojitos, margaritas, Latin beats and seductive salsa. The menu, showcasing Spanish tapas, empanadas, tacos, ceviche and steak, is one bold flavor after another, delivered in a chic atmosphere that's reminiscent of Miami nights. Nacional 27 opens its dance floor every Friday and Saturday evening with live DJs. Salsa lessons are hosted every Wednesday.


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It wasn't supposed to end like that for the University of Minnesota softball team.
The Gophers program entered the national spotlight last week after, despite winning the Big Ten Tournament and having a 55-4 record, they didn't receive one of the top 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. They had the best record in the country, but the NCAA selection committee didn't feel they were one of the 16 best teams, and therefore, didn't host a regional.
After breezing through their opening game 11-3, the Gophers ran into a tough Alabama pitcher in a 1-0 loss. Minnesota recovered Sunday at beat Louisiana Tech to keep its season alive, but they would need to beat the Crimson Tide twice to move on. The Gophers were shut out 1-0 again, leaving us to wonder what might have been after a 56-5 season.
The playoff disappointment was nothing new for Minnesota sports fans. But for a week, we cared about a program that was otherwise under the radar this spring. Here are four other examples of Minnesota playoff disappointment with high expectations.
Minnesota Wild Eliminated By Mike Yeo, St. Louis Blues
The Minnesota Wild had one of the best regular seasons in franchise history in 2016-17. The Wild finished second in the Western Conference with 103 points. The momentum is good to have, nothing in the regular season matters when the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin. Unfortunately for the Wild, they were eliminated by a division rival and their former head coach in five games.
Mike Yeo consistently said the series against the Wild wasn't about revenge, but he had to have cracked a bit of a smile after beating the team and organization that let him go in February of 2016. The Wild couldn't generate much offense against the Blues, and Jake Allen stopped nearly every puck he saw.
Expectations were for the Wild to make a deep run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Instead, it was another massive disappointment. Wild management has said there will be changes, now we have to wait and see what those changes are.
Minnesota Twins Swept By Yankees 2 Straight Years
The New York Yankees were a thorn in the side of Ron Gardenhire and the Minnesota Twins for many years, especially in the playoffs. The Twins opened Target Field in 2010 and used a historic second half to run away with the AL Central title. The Twins were promptly swept by the Yankees.
The year before, the Twins beat the Tigers in Game 163 to win the AL Central. Next was the division series against the Yankees. The result? A 3-0 sweep for New York. Sound familiar? In 2006, the Twins won 96 games to take the division title, then got swept by the Oakland Athletics.
Truth be told, the Twins have a horrible playoff record since getting to the American League Championship Series in 2002. They've been to the playoffs five times in 14 seasons since 2002, and their playoff record? 2-15. They've done the work to get to the postseason, but lack what it takes (dominant pitching, timely hitting) to win in the playoffs.
Minnesota Vikings 1999, 2009… Enough Said
Perhaps the most heartbreaking playoff disappointment comes from the Minnesota Vikings. Twice, they had trips to the Super Bowl virtually locked up. And twice, Vikings fans had their hearts ripped out.
In the 1999 NFC title game, it was wide left from Gary Anderson. He hadn't missed a field goal all year, and if he makes the infamous fourth quarter kick, the Vikings take a 10-point lead over the Atlanta Falcons with 2:18 left in regulation. Instead, the Falcons tied it and won the NFC title in overtime. The Falcons lost in the Super Bowl to John Elway and the Denver Broncos. But none of that really matters, because the best offense in the NFL that year, with the best rookie in Randy Moss, didn't play in the Super Bowl.
Now that we've ripped open that wound, might as well go back to the 2008 NFC title game debacle in New Orleans. Yeah, there were plenty of mistakes in that game, but two stick out the most. It started with the Vikings calling a timeout to set up a play to get the ball in the middle of the field for Ryan Longwell to kick a game-winning field goal. Then, the inexplicable happened. The Vikings had 12 players take the field out of a timeout. Penalty. The next play, needing yardage to kick that potential field goal, Brett Favre threw over the middle of the field across his body, looking for Sidney Rice. He was intercepted by Tracy Porter. Favre had the option to run for a few yards, and had a receiver open on the sideline. But he took a gamble, and lost.
Yes, Vikings fans are still bitter. The Saints went onto win the Super Bowl.
Minnesota Lynx 2016 WNBA Finals Loss
The Minnesota Lynx have been one of the best teams in the WNBA the last five years. They've won three championships in the last five years, and they were poised to win their fourth last season. The Lynx finished the regular season 28-6 and won the Western Conference. They got to the WNBA Finals and had a five-game battle with the L.A. Sparks.
The Sparks got a rebound and put-back in the closing seconds to outlast the Lynx, 77-76. Instead of planning their fourth title parade, the Lynx were left wondering what happened and probably staring blankly at the ceiling that night. It's another gut punch in a list of several playoff disappointments.
The silver lining here is that you're at least giving yourself a chance by getting to the playoffs. But at some point, a team has to break through and end the curse.
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text: Journey to Yes Fraser says YesFraser is a Labour member who, let down by the empty promises made by Better Together in the final days of indyref and concerned about an increasingly right-wing UK out of the EU, sees independence as the only choice now.Daniel says YesDaniel says Yes. As more Scots who voted No to independence reconsider their decision, we follow their journey to Yes and self-determination for Scotland. Daniel is a Dundee based engineer originally from London. Daniel discusses the personal, political and economic impact of the Brexit vote and the need for Scotland to take a different path.Caroline says YesCaroline is a business woman who lives in Edinburgh and is originally from Sussex. Traditionally Conservative, Caroline developed a keen interest in Scottish politics after the first indyref that was to completely alter her view of Scotland's position in the UK. Caroline discusses the post-Brexit landscape, her concern of the increasingly right-wing populist UK Conservatives, disappointment in Ruth Davidson (Edinburgh voted 75% Remain), the economic implications of staying in a Tory dominated post-EU UK and the huge opportunities of independence for Scotland.Mike says YESMike Dailly is the Principal Solicitor of Glasgow's Govan Law Centre and Govanhill Law Centre. Traditionally Labour, Mike was a high profile campaigner for Better Together during the first independence referendum. After the UK Government's broken promises on more powers, the prospect of decades of Tory austerity and xenophobia, Mike has come to the conclusion that Scotland needs to take a different path now.Tom says YESTom Morton is a broadcaster, writer and journalist based in Shetland. For Tom, Scottish independence is a question of moral authority and whether the Scottish people are best served by self-governance. The collapse of Labour, Brexit and the prospect of eternal Tory reign in the UK has transformed the political situation. The independence movement's claims for self-determination now has a clear moral and reasoned case but it will take time to build a strategic campaign because the next indyref must be won.Christopher says YESChristopher Graham leads Yes Bikers, a group of motorbike riders who support pro-independence events in Scotland and now Europe. Christopher voted No based on the mainstream media and now feels he did not have all the information needed to make an informed choice. It was a decision Christopher almost instantly regretted and the further betrayal of promises on more powers validated. Scotland now faces a choice between Tory Britain or a journey to self-determination and a more open progressive Scotland.


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Although NServiceBus has been around for a while, many developers are only familiar with the top-level public API. Join Udi Dahan for a look into some of the lesser known capabilities of NServiceBus that just might save you from having to reinvent the wheel.
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HIPERPAV can be used to minimize early-age PCCP cracking. In the following cost benefit analysis, the cost of ½ % early-age PCC cracking is evaluated for a typical paving day and the numbers computed are scaled up nationally to show yearly potential savings with the use of HIPERPAV.
The following costs were provided by a paving contractor in the MidWest:
- Typical cost of new PCCP: $30.00/sy
- Typical cost of PCCP removal and replacement: $200.00/sy
Estimating the cost of ½ % early-age cracking for a typical PCCP construction day:
- Length: 3000 ft (1000 yd)
- Paving width: 36 ft (12 yd)
- Area: 1000 * 12 = 12,000 sy
- New PCCP cost = $ 360,000/day
- Cost of cracked slabs (0.5%) = $ 1,800/day
- Remove and replace cost = $12,000/day
Estimating the cost of using HIPERPAV:
- 1 technician at $60/hr
- Time running the software: 4h per day to gather inputs, run, create and file reports
- Total cost of running HIPERPAV = $60/hr * 4 hr = $ 240/day
In summary, the cost of running the software would be $240/day with potential savings of $12,000/day at a benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of 0.98.
In reality, not every single PCCP project ends up with 0.5% cracking, some projects may successfully avoid cracking, while others may result in higher amounts of cracking. However, preventing a single crack from occurring (1 slab ~ 20 sy) can save approximately $4000 over $240/day running HIPERPAV.
Applying the above calculations for all PCCP placed in the US (estimates for 2006 based on ACPA Pavement Market Quarterly):
PCCP Construction costs (2006 Q1-Q4): $ 2,513,210,000
Estimated cost of cracked slabs (0.5%) = $ 12,566,050
Estimated Cost of removal and replacement = $ 83,773,667
Potential savings using HIPERPAV to prevent cracking = $ 82,098,193 /year
(at a BCR=0.98)
It must be emphasized that this analysis does not take into account additional benefits such as reduction in project time and/or user delays due to the reduction in PCCP removal and replacement operations.
Potential savings per state are presented below (click on the image to view):
Potential Savings: Based on PCCP Construction from ACPA, Pavement Market Quarterly, Vol 8.1, Oct-Dec 2006


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A group of friends stumble upon a town conspiracy to kill it's riches residents and profit off of their funerals. Starring John Glover as the town mortician and Data from "The Goonies" as Josh, the aspiring film director of the group, can three four friends put a stop to this evil plot or murder for profit.
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Maple Grove has many beautiful lakes to enjoy. There are trails throughout the City that offer scenic views of the lakes for people who enjoy hiking and biking. There are also several beaches for those hot summer days.
If you are interested in ideas for improving Minnesota's lakes and streams, there are ten pointers in this informational brochure.
Additional information:
- Cedar Island, Pike & Eagle Lakes Nutrient TMDL five year review
- Eagle Lake Water Quality Report Card
- Cedar Island Lake Water Quality Report Card
- Maple Grove Local Surface Water Management Plan - 2018
- Maple Grove's Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program
- Public access information
Water Quality Monitoring
If your home has inadvertently been mapped in the floodplain:
- Go to the Minnesota DNR website.
- Scroll down to the "Types of Map Amendments".
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What's the cheapest way possible to fly to Tasmania?
I have 2 friends who live in tasmania. they're actually roommates. i wish that they would just buy me a ticket but it doesn't look like it. what combination of flights do you think is the cheapest way to fly from the US to tasmania?
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First, consider which airport you want to fly into in Australia. I would recommend Melbourne if you want to go to Tasmania, as it's closer and the flight from Melbourne to Hobart (?) will be cheaper than from Sydney. Most international legs from the USA to Australia are the same price to both Melbourne and Sydney, so it makes sense to fly to Melbourne. Also, Melbourne's international and domestic airport terminals are walking distance, whereas in Sydney you'll have to catch a bus between the terminals and you'll have to pay for this.
For flights from the USA to Australia, check mobissimo.com which will search all the major airlines and find you the cheapest fare.
For domestic flights from Melbourne to Tasmania, you've got either Virgin Blue (www.virginblue.com.au) or Jetstar (www.jetstar.com) as the cheapest carriers. From Melbourne to Hobart a good fare would be anywhere from $50AUD to $120AUD. Make sure you add on a luggage allowance or you'll be in for a nasty charge at the check in counter!
Also on the return flight, give yourself plenty of time between your flight to Melbourne and to the USA as often the cheap carriers sometimes 'bump' flights and you wouldn't want to miss your international departure! over 11 years agoAnswered by Ian C via Travellr.com
For local Australian flights I always check first with www.webjet.com.au as it gives all the possible flights and prices and then purchase directly with the airlines - sorry web jet!
I agree with Ian - if you can fly into Melbourne. There are some great deals out at the moment for flights between Australia and the USA
Suzi over 11 years agoAnswered by Suzi Watral via Travellr.com
@ian: you're forgetting Tiger (www.tigerairways.com). That's the cheapest way between Melbourne and Tasmania... I got a flight for 28 bucks, they have them all the time. They are really strict about turning up early though and being under the baggage weight limit.
To compare domestic flights I use www.webjet.com.au also - but they add multiple sneaky charges if you actually try to book through them, sometimes doubling the cost of your flights, so book via the airline. over 11 years agoAnswered by Rob Saunders via Travellr.com


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Syfy Bets $105m on a TV Series and Video Game [Updated]
Takes big swing on apocalyptic space Western
At the risk of stating the obvious, $105 million is a lot of money. That's about what Comcast and NBCUniversal have shelled out on the new Syfy series and video game Defiance, a hybrid unlike anything you've seen on television. I mean your computer. Wait, make that your PlayStation.
Look, it's new. It doesn't fit into any one box in your living room.
Still, $105 million is the rough budget for the project, which includes a staggering $40 million for the TV series alone (for perspective, HBO, the gold standard for expensive TV, shelled out $60 million on Game of Thrones' first season). The balance pays for the $50 million it cost to make the video game, developed with software company Trion Worlds, which shares the financial burden (NBCU owns half of the game with Trion), and the show's huge marketing budget—upwards of $15 million.
[UPDATED: The budget breakdown for Defiance has been revised per new information from Syfy, which initially provided Adweek with erroneous numbers. Though the overall figure is correct, NBCUniversal bears less of the financial burden than it originally indicated.]
That budget alone indicates just how big a swing Defiance is, not just for Syfy but for NBCUniversal's whole cable division. Sources say the show, which debuts April 15 at 9 p.m., is being given as high a level of internal promotional attention as Universal Studios' feature films. "[It's] top-priority across Comcast for March and April, up there with Fast & Furious 6," says one insider.
In other words, Defiance had better hit big.
But seriously, what is it? Think of the TV series as the love child of Joss Whedon's posthumously venerated half-season wonder Firefly and Syfy's own five-season small-town dramedy Eureka. The elevator pitch: It's a post-apocalyptic space Western, set 40 years in the future, that pushes all the geek buttons. The show creator is Rockne S. O'Bannon, whose credits include a cult Syfy show from the late 1990s called Farscape. Actors with genre TV chops man this ship: True Blood vet Grant Bowler plays reluctant sheriff Jeb Nolan, Dexter thespian Julie Benz plays town mayor Amanda Rosewater and relative newcomer Stephanie Leonidas plays Jeb's adopted alien daughter Irisa, who is angry with him for allowing the two of them to get waylaid in Defiance (formerly St. Louis).
There's a lot more to it than that, including an ongoing conflict among several different varieties of alien and alien crossbreed—the pilot is roughly half introductory whodunit and half future-war background primer. And it's crammed with expensive special effects.
The video game is a massively multiplayer third-person shooter that features voice work by actors from the TV series; it goes live and will be available in stores April 2. The game also keeps pace with the events of the show, referring to series plot developments as it goes on. The show returns the favor; as your character fights mutants and aliens on another front, your army's major victories will make an appearance on the show. More on this later.
Syfy president Dave Howe calls the experience "true transmedia," and though he's excited about it, he is aware of what's at stake. "I've lost a lot of sleep over this project, as you can imagine, especially since we've delayed it twice," admits Howe. Defiance has been in development for five years—an eternity for a TV series but not unheard-of for a game (although plenty of games get pounded out in a year or two).
That long gestation period helped bring about some unique opportunities. For one thing, the show's been in development longer than Syfy has been owned by Comcast. Howe says that's a good thing. "What's really fantastic is that Comcast and the new owners, even more than the old owners, have made it a big priority," he says. "They see it as the way this business will evolve—with broadband video game components and a TV component."
Why is that good? Because Defiance is a lot of different things at once—and each one affords Comcast the chance to make money. Being a TV series, it requires you to have a cable connection to watch it live (Comcast sells those). The series is expected to attract young male viewers, creating valuable ad opportunities (Syfy sells advertising). But it's also a very complicated video game, which dumps users into a lush world that changes as the series progresses. Without a fat broadband connection, the game's punishing duels with hordes of other players just won't be as fun or rewarding. Beef up your Internet bandwidth, worry less about lag screwing up your aim while you're trying to pick off a college student in Arizona with your grenade launcher (Comcast sells web access, too—branding for its all-in-one package Xfinity is all over Defiance).
Not that there aren't plenty of chances for Defiance to bite Comcast in the backside. Massively multiplayer online games are notoriously tough sells—they're usually subscriber-fee-based business models, in which the player buys the game and then pays to participate in the virtual world. Defiance isn't sub-based, which could be an advantage, but lessens the revenue potential.
Quick sidebar: For every one success story like World of Warcraft, which has 10 million subscribers, there are five games like Star Wars: The Old Republic, a game developed by BioWare, creators of the much-admired Mass Effect games. SW:TOR used an unbeatable license and an all-pro dev team, and went free-to-play after a $200 million outlay and less than a year's worth of subscriber fees when subscriptions dropped way under 1 million. Publisher EA claims the game made money, but it certainly didn't meet expectations.
Put another way, it's one thing to ask for 12 hours of a gamer's time spread over a few weeks; it's quite another to create an open-ended product. Defiance hopes to circumvent the drop-off in interest with which most MMO games struggle by tying events in the game to events in the series. The show is set in a dystopian St. Louis while the game takes place around the ruins of San Francisco, but Trion has what the company's svp of development Nick Beliaeff calls "about a dozen patents protected" around the game's rendering software. Briefly, most games load up a series of equations onto your computer or console that tell it how and when to draw the world. Some very complex equations allow for changes and movement, while everything else in the world might as well be bolted to the ground.
With Defiance, your computer or game box renders the world, but Trion's servers can tell anything and everything where to go and why, and it will change across millions (hopefully) of computers around the country and the world. "It allows us to take an asset like an enemy [and] move anything anywhere," Beliaeff explains. "We can change the stacks on the fly, and it's all invisible to the players."
If there's, say, an earthquake in San Francisco in the show, players can boot up immediately after Trion tells the game, "Hey, there's been an earthquake," and buildings and trees will have fallen over or tipped sideways. Even better, if Trion wants to have a tornado rip through the world in the middle of everyone's game, it will happen.
Jeff Gomez, who did world-building consulting for both the Halo video game series and James Cameron's Avatar, says that the project's novelty may be its Achilles' heel. "This is unprecedented," he says. "It is by no means easy to do, and I'm personally not certain that it'll be done well. But I certainly give Syfy and [Trion] high marks for making the attempt. A specific effort is being made to match the story canons up to one another, and that's noble."
The development cycle had its speed bumps. In the end, some of the negotiations over the complexity in the game versus the effects in the show were handled as a hostage exchange: You give us jetpacks, we'll give you horses and nobody gets hurt. "They really didn't want to do horses in our world," sighs Mark Stern, president of programming for Syfy—the critters present too big a target for this kind of game. "So the agreement was, 'OK, as long as you agree to no flying, we'll agree to no horses.'"
The stakeholders still fantasize about their perfect version. "We wanted flying vehicles, and Mark and his crew were like, 'Screw flying, it'll blow up our CG budget,'" grumbles Beliaeff. "So we ended up creating this whole mythology where the Ark ships blew up and that created this low-flying asteroid field that made flying in the world impossible."
At first, both parties bickered like divorced parents fighting over an only child, but the partnership created some profitable confluences. For example, Trion developed a set design to Syfy's specs much earlier than a TV show would have. "We had an amazing catalog of art and landscaping," says Stern. "All those different things became much more vital." Beliaeff adds that the asteroid field become a brag-worthy feature, rather than a hindrance. "Syfy actually brought in a scientist from [NASA's] Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explain to us how it could happen," he says. "So our low-flying asteroid field is signed-off on by a JPL scientist." That's some serious geek cred.
They eventually became model parents. "We didn't want a scenario where Trion won this argument or Syfy won that argument," Beliaeff says. "We just wanted to do the best thing for Defiance." But because of the extra-long development cycle, every part of Defiance had to get done early—casting, writing, design and especially ad sponsorships.
Once again, Syfy had to make something new. "It was very important for us, on this project, to begin to redefine what a show sponsorship looked like," says Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal president of ad sales. She and her team began pitching it as early as January 2012—well before that upfront season, but long after the property had kicked into high gear on the creative side. Yaccarino landed three major advertisers: Dodge, Verizon and Axe. Verizon may not enjoy category exclusivity—the show is so FX-heavy, other marketers may be able to slip in via post-production.
Yaccarino went the extra mile to make sure her clients were getting the royal treatment and would spend accordingly. "Defiance was a very big part of the upfront for the entire cable portfolio," she says, declining to quantify the sponsorships' value.
At least one of the sponsors appears happy with his treatment. Mark Malmstead, brand manager for Dodge media, social media and CRM, explains the brand will be integrated deep into both the show and the game, with an emphasis on the redesigned Dart on air and on digital. "We've got two Charger police cars that integrate into the programming," he says. "They've been retrofitted to look like…I call 'em Mad Max-type vehicles. There's an old Dodge dealership that will be one of the settings—there may be an old Dodge billboard that's crumbling on the side of the road." The game will have a drivable Dodge Challenger "with pipes and big tires and machine guns" on it. Meanwhile, Dodge is taking the cars themselves around to auto shows and Dodge events to show off their homemade star.
Yaccarino has what she believes is an ideal sponsor here. Defiance is in good (read: young and male) company with the auto manufacturer, including the NFL and the Red Bull Signature Series—two other places where Dodge is spending a lot of money on the Dart.
Francois Lee, svp and group client director at MediaVest, is a guy who knows from this demographic (one of his clients is Xbox). He's optimistic about Defiance though he cautions that "it's a huge undertaking."
To Lee, the whole transmedia approach makes sense: "There's such a strong story element in games nowadays. It's not just about going in and playing it." Lee appreciates the idea of "trying something completely different," which could draw more young men back to the tube. "I don't think young men are not consuming entertainment," he says, "they're just consuming differently. Instead of watching it on TV, they're streaming it or watching it on other devices."
Syfy averages about a 1.0 rating with men 18-49—the network's big hit with the demo is WWE SmackDown. Syfy's delivery guarantees for Defiance, adds Lee, are "optimistic but not unrealistic…It's a premium property, and they're not giving it away."
But it's that story element that worries Gomez: "This is an element that MMO games have not been able to conquer, and that's why Star Wars took such a beating. In Star Wars, you want to be the hero and save the galaxy, and you can't. Syfy has taken on a big challenge." That challenge, he says, is maximizing the player's contribution. "At the end, you've done a small thing that has contributed to a greater success," says Gomez, "but we all want to be heroes."
It remains to be seen whether Syfy ends up NBCU's hero.