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I've got some exciting news to share with you today.
As you know, backlinks are the most important factor in getting your site ranking higher in the Search Engines. The failure to build backlinks is the #1 reason why people fail to rank.
Since we began our move from the Yahoo Site Explorer to the more reliable backlink data source, Majestic SEO, some users expressed concerns about Majestic's data not updating as frequently as Yahoo's backlink data.
With Majestic's data being updated fortnightly, it often took longer to see new backlinks to show up in our Rank Tracker and SEO Competition Module.
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Market Samurai Now Supports The Majestic SEO "Fresh index"
The Fresh index is another backlink database, which runs alongside the standard Majestic SEO backlinks database (the "Historical Index").
The Majestic Fresh index uses a similar technology to Google's "Fresh Crawl". It's a smaller database of backlinks than the main historical index, but it can be updated far more rapidly and frequently – daily, in fact.
The Fresh index will contain only new backlinks, those crawled in the last 30 days, so the total displayed will be lower than that from the Historical index.
But with daily updates, the Fresh index becomes an important benchmarking tool – letting you track the increase in backlinks for a site as rapidly and accurately as the Yahoo Site Explorer ever did.
To read more about how cool the Majestic SEO Fresh Index is, you can read this blog post which goes into the specifics in more detail.
We've hooked the Fresh index into Market Samurai, in both the Rank Tracker and SEO Competition modules, giving you access to the data quickly and easily.
The new data can be accessed via drop down menus in those modules. First you'll need to select "Majestic SEO" as the backlink source, then you'll see another drop down offering you the choice between "Fresh" and "Historical" backlinks.
With access to potentially the most up to date backlink data on the Internet, assessing competition and tracking both your domains and those of others will now be easier and more effective than ever before. In fact, the new index will let you track a site's backlink growth almost in real-time.
This new functionality is available only in the latest version of Market Samurai, and you'll need to update your copy in order to access it.
To update, go to the File Menu, then to Settings (or the Market Samurai menu, then Preferences if you use a Mac), then to the "Updates" tab, and hit the button marked "Check for Updates".
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Alex Green
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A law professor joins "Morning Joe" to talk about the legality of killing Americans abroad.
Published 2:05 p.m. ET: A Justice Department paper concluding that the United States can order the killing of American citizens believed to be al-Qaida leaders shed at least some light on a legal rationale that lawmakers, journalists and civil libertarians have asked about for months.
But it leaves a swarm of questions unanswered.
The document says that the government can use lethal force against its citizens under three conditions: The citizen must pose "an imminent threat of violent attack" against the country, capturing the citizen must not be feasible, and it all has to be done within "law of war principles."
The paper, first obtained by NBC News, is expected to figure prominently in the Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for John Brennan, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA. Brennan was an architect of the administration's controversial escalation of drone strikes to take out suspected militants.
Here are four key questions about the Justice Department paper:
1. What's in the original Justice Department memos?
What was obtained and made public Monday by NBC News was a Justice Department white paper. It summarizes classified memos on targeted killings produced by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to the president.
Those original memos have not been released.
The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Justice Department in 2011 and 2012, seeking the administration's legal justification for the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen believed by the government to have directed the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day 2009.
In January, a federal judge refused to require the government to disclose the justification, but she expressed frustration.
"The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me," wrote the judge, Colleen McMahon of Manhattan federal court. "I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret."
2. What is an imminent threat?
The paper, in requiring that the U.S. citizen must pose an imminent threat, refers to a "broader concept of imminence." It goes on to say what an imminent threat is not: Meeting the condition "does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future."
"Everyone agrees that if the country is about to be attacked, the country has a right to defend itself," Stephen Saltzburg, a constitutional scholar and law professor at George Washington University, said Wednesday on MSNBC. But the Justice Department paper "defines imminent threat as being nothing that's imminent at all."
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that he was satisfied with the definitions.
The paper says that al-Qaida is continually plotting against the United States and says that the government may determine that a citizen has been "recently" involved in "activities" posing a threat of violent attack, without defining either term. The government may also determine simply that "there is no evidence suggesting that he has renounced or abandoned such activities."
3. Who pulls the trigger?
Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS News last year that the president makes the call when an American citizen is targeted for killing, without court oversight, when the government believes that that citizen wants to attack the country.
"The president obviously reviews these cases and reviews the legal justification and in the end says go or no-go," Panetta said. "In the end, when it comes to, you know, going after someone like that, the president of the United States has to sign off. And he should."
The Justice Department paper suggests that a wider circle of people could make that call, however. It permits targeted killing when an "informed, high-level official of the U.S. government" has determined that the target is an imminent threat. The memo does not say who in the government might qualify.
"It's completely on faith," said Naureen Shah, a lecturer at Columbia Law School and associate director of the Counterterrorism and Human Rights Project at the school's Human Rights Institute.
"That might be something we're willing to trust President Obama with," she added, "but are we willing to trust the junior-level people who are actually running the show? Who are we trusting here?"
4. Could the justification apply in the United States?
The Justice Department paper explicitly refers to killing an American citizen in a foreign country. But legal experts and some lawmakers, concerned that the rationale violates the right to due process afforded Americans by the Constitution, see no reason why it couldn't apply inside the United States.
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We expect certain websites to run listicles ranking hot coeds, sure. But Bloomberg Businessweek? Yep: the magazine's website recently asked readers to vote on which business school had the most attractive female students, apropos of nothing other than a general appreciation for babes.
The piece (<3 you, Google cache) went up on Friday and stayed up until late Sunday night, when it was finally deleted without comment. Today, Businessweek gave The Daily Dot this statement, which refers to a mysterious "hot business dudes" poll which no one seemed to notice:
We regret issuing two online polls last week that asked our readers to comment on which business schools had the most attractive male and female students. The Face/Off polls have been taken down from businessweek.com. They were in poor taste and undermine the tremendous value our Business Schools vertical provides.
Ah, it only took a weekend (and a zillion angry tweets) for the magazine's editors to conclude it was "in poor taste" to ask readers to rank business school students by hottness. But, as The Daily Dot points out, this is the third year running that the magazine has published a regurgitated "Hottest Guys and Girls" feature. According to last years, "Every year Bloomberg Businessweek partners with College Prowler, which surveys college students throughout the U.S. and uses those surveys to grade each school on everything from academics to nightlife to off-campus housing."
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There will be a live radio link from the ISS to selected Spanish primary schools. Students will ask ESA astronaut Pedro Duque questions. Another goal is to develop and maintain the amateur radio activity on the ISS using the on-board ARISS radio equipment. Principal Investigator: G. Bertels (Belgium) E. Grifoni (ESA).
This experiment focuses on the behaviour of a rigid body rotating around its centre of mass. The rigid body used in the experiment will simulate a rotating spacecraft. The objective is to prepare a video for educational purposes to demonstrate the dynamics of solid body rotation, which may occur depending on the distribution of mass of the body. Such factors can have the effect of changing the axis of rotation of a spacecraft. Principal Investigator: A. Laverón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
The objective of the Chondro space experiment is to find more stable bone cartilage structures, by dissolving cartilage tissue from pig bones into its basic components and then regrowing these components into new cartilage. Principal Investigator: Technical University of Zurich (Switzerland).
Using relatively simple hardware, the experiment will illustrate the principles of dynamics, ranging from the classical rational mechanics of solid bodies to the continuous media mechanics. Also, experimental video material will be prepared for educational purposes.
The behaviour of transparent closed containers (having the same size and total mass) filled with solid bodies (spheres) of different radii, will be analysed. The mass of the content of each container is the same in all cases. Principal Investigator: A. Laverón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).
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though i'm still sobbing over harvard -- went complete w/o a phonecall email, so i'm guessing i'm in the "You Suck" pile. Boo!
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"Saturday Night Live" returns this weekend for its 42nd season, and just in the nick of time as we stand 38 days until the presidential election. Alec Baldwin will make his SNL debut as Republican nominee Donald Trump, while Emmy winner Kate McKinnon rehashes her already fabled role as Hillary Clinton.
Mining politics for comedic fodder has been a strength of SNL over the decades. Chevy Chase made millions laugh as Gerald Ford in the 1970s, and more recently, Tina Fey invoked vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to hilarious effect.
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On Nov. 2, 2010, the night Republicans took back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner promised a fed-up electorate that things were going to be different.
The new majority would distinguish itself by "standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive to a smaller, less costly and more accountable government here in Washington, D.C.," said Boehner, who became speaker.
Two years in, the Republican-run House has held fast to its ideals. Members voted 33 times to repeal the federal health care law they derisively call "Obamacare," pushed to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and passed bills cutting federal spending.
Their proposals then went to the Democratic-controlled Senate — and died.
There are, of course, different ways to read the situation.
"They've done a great job of keeping their promises," said Brian Darling of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "The House should be judged on what they've passed. It's very hard to govern when you only have control of one chamber of Congress."
Then there's the more results-oriented take.
"The Republicans made very ambitious plans to basically transform the political world. I don't see much progress at all, frankly," said Norman Ornstein, a scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "It's a pretty dismal record."
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In their 2010 campaign manifesto, the "Pledge to America," Republicans detailed a litany of promises addressing health care, taxes, the economy and other policy areas. PolitiFact has been tracking many of these promises, as well as others, on our GOP Pledge-O-Meter found at PolitiFact.com.
We rate promises based on outcomes, not intentions. Of the 57 GOP promises we're following, we've rated 11 Promise Kept and rated four Compromise. Three are rated Stalled while an additional 11 are rated Promise Broken. About half have not been rated yet or are In the Works.
On the spending front, Republicans succeeded in cutting their own budget, and they set a hard cap on discretionary spending in last year's debt-ceiling deal.
Another area where Republicans have had notable success: stopping things.
They pledged to keep terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay, just as President Barack Obama vowed to close the detention center. Obama lost.
They successfully blocked another Obama priority, climate legislation known as cap and trade. Boehner branded it a "full-blown fleecing of the middle class."
And a bill favored by Democrats to ease rules for union votes never got a hearing in the House.
But to enact anything new, the parties must work together. These days that's a rare occurrence.
House Republicans have made next to no progress on health care policy. Their votes to repeal the federal health care law repeatedly passed the House, but the president's health legislation remains the law of the land.
"The Senate is being obstructionist," Darling said. "They're not allowing a full and fair debate."
Health savings accounts, which allow people to set aside money before taxes to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses, are popular with Republicans because they're essentially a tax break. Several Republican-sponsored bills would expand the use of those accounts.
Democrats don't necessarily oppose them, but because Obama's health care legislation sets a cap on certain types of health savings accounts, Democrats are loath to consider legislation that could be seen as weakening the law.
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It's clear that the partisan divisions in Washington are keeping both sides from accomplishing their goals. And voters are noticing: Congress has an all-time-low approval rating of around 9 percent. But Ornstein says divided government doesn't have to automatically lead to gridlock.
"Often we've had more policy success with divided government than we've had with united government," he said, citing bipartisan support in Congress for President George W. Bush's tax cuts and the education legislation No Child Left Behind.
"What it depends on as much as anything is the mind-set of the parties, especially the minority party," he said.
In the GOP-led House, he said, "it's the 'my way or the highway' mind-set."
As the party works to put Mitt Romney in the White House and send more Republicans to the Senate, a question remains over how to satisfy voters who supported the GOP wave of 2010 out of opposition to the status quo.
One central Florida primary shows some Republican voters are still embracing outsider candidates. Ted Yoho, a political neophyte, upset 12-term U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns with an ad depicting career politicians as pigs at a trough.
Yoho, who won support of Florida tea party groups and Sarah Palin, said that while principles are important, he knows voters still want to see results.
"The American people, or the people in my district that I've talked to, they don't care who broke it," Yoho said. "They just want it fixed."
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Are Local Government Cuts Nearing An End?
New data shows local public employee cuts have slowed. Does this mean governments are about to rehire?
Labor Department data released today shows local government payroll cuts coming to a halt, with employment levels virtually unchanged since November.
That's a stark contrast from the past few years as localities made historic cuts to account for budget shortfalls. The new figures, along with gains in private sector employment, give reason for optimism that public employee reductions are finally nearing an end.
Public sector academics and researchers told Governing earlier this week local government cuts are close to bottoming out. However, they don't expect municipalities to begin hiring anytime soon.
"We're in a trough now at the local government level," said Elizabeth Kellar, president of the Center for State and Local Government Excellence. "In the next year or two, we may begin to see things pick up very gradually in the places that have been hardest hit."
Employment for schools and local agencies has nearly unchanged since November, declining by only 2,000 workers nationwide. During the same period a year ago, local governments slashed 50,000 jobs, according to Labor Department estimates.
The few job openings at the local level frequently remained frozen for months. But some governments struggled to find qualified candidates for engineers and other highly-skilled positions, Kellar said.
To compensate for increased workloads, Kellar said many local managers opted to train existing employees to assist with added duties. "If you're asking the people to step up and take on more responsibility, you need to do everything you can to develop your skillsets," she said.
Kellar expects a slow recovery for most areas. Municipalities in Florida, California and other states taking a significant hit in property values will be last to rehire, she said.
As economic indicators show, some areas of the country have gradually begun to recover.
A National League of Cities survey of city officials released today reported local economic improvements over the previous six months for 57 percent of localities, compared to only 10 percent identifying worsening conditions. Still, public employee reductions continued, with 39 percent of city administrators reporting personnel cuts. Local governments have eliminated 481,000 jobs since the beginning of 2009, according to Labor Department data.
"We're not completely out of the woods yet, but I don't think we're talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs [being cut] either," said Chris Hoene, research director for the National League of Cities.
Hoene estimated localities will not see sizable revenue increases to allow for rehiring for another 18 months to two years. "They're still reeling from the effects of the recession," he said.
State governments -- more dependent on income and sales tax -- will likely add employees before those at the local level. As revenues replenish state and federal coffers, grants funding local agencies will follow.
Hoene said cities may elect to hire back contractors, though, before full-time staff because they require less training and are easier to bring back on board.
Walter Broadnax, a professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University, said governments will continue to target personnel cuts if budgets remain tight.
"I am hopeful that we are close to bottoming out," he said. "I think there's going to probably be a little more before we turn sharply in another direction."
Broadnax points to a boost in private sector confidence as good news for local governments. Private sector hiring and growth should help to spur better revenue projections as governments prepare budgets for the next fiscal year.
"If we can keep the private sector engine running warmer and warmer, then I think we'll get the reaction we want on the public side," Broadnax said.
The graph below shows estimated month-to-month changes in total employment for local governments, according to the Labor Department. These figures are current as of March 9, and could be revised at a later date, as is usually the case with BLS data.
UPDATE: This graph illustrates total government employment since 2009. Because reductions in recent years represent only a small portion of the total workforce, changes are not visible unless the graph is scaled (as in a previous version of this report).


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When I signed up to bring in treats for my daughters' preschool class for their Pumpkin Patch Day, I was determined to NOT bring in something full of sugar. Then, I started actually thinking about what to bring and I was stumped. Cupcakes and cookies were everywhere and seemed to be the logical choice. I also wanted to stick with the pumpkin theme of the day and several kids have food allergies, which made things a bit more challenging.
When I saw the giant boxes of fruit cups at Sam's Club, I knew they would work for my pumpkin theme. Cups of mandarin oranges plus a black permanent marker made for an easy pumpkin treat that was a lot healthier than a sugar filled dessert snack. I just freehanded a cute little smiley pumpkin face on the side. I suppose you could also cut out some vinyl with your Silhouette and stick on the side of the cup. Peaches would also work for an orangey pumpkin.
I added a green spoon and a pumpkin napkin and the kids seemed happy with their snack. They didn't seem to miss the sugar and the other moms were appreciative.


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Customs response to latest trends in counterfeiting and piracy11 January 2010
by Ina Dimireva -- last modified 11 January 2010
The European Commission proposes a series of customs measures aimed at protecting the EU more effectively against counterfeiting and piracy. These measures include improving legislation, strengthening partnership between customs and businesses and increasing international cooperation.
Communication of 11 October 2005 from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee on a customs response to latest trends in counterfeiting and piracy [COM(2005) 479 final - not published in the Official Journal].
This Communication sets out a range of initiatives aimed at cracking down on counterfeiting and piracy. The measures in question will be implemented by customs.
Problems and threats
The industrial production of counterfeit goods poses a threat to:
- the health, safety and jobs of EU citizens (e.g. fake medicines or foodstuffs);
- the competitiveness and trade of the European Community (EC);
- investment in research and innovation in the EC.
There was a 1000% increase in counterfeiting and piracy between 1998 and 2004. In 2004 alone, 103 million fake or pirated articles were seized by customs officials in the EC; 4.4 million of these were fake foodstuffs and alcoholic drinks. Much of this traffic is sold on the black market, which means losses of tax revenue for Member States.
Most of the products seized are household items, with growing numbers of sophisticated hi-tech products being faked. The quality of these counterfeits is now so good that it is becoming difficult to distinguish the real article from the fake. What is more, high profits and relatively low risks make counterfeiting and piracy lucrative for those involved in organised crime.
Recommendations and Action Plan
The Commission proposes a range of recommendations aimed at tightening customs controls to help combat counterfeiting and piracy in the Community.
In its action plan, the Commission considers measures to be necessary in the following areas:
- increasing protection at the level of Community legislation and operational performance;
- strengthening the partnership between customs and businesses;
- improving international cooperation.
Customs controls on inbound traffic need to be improved and the suitability of the existing legal and operational measures has to be examined. Two concerns in particular must be addressed. The first involves the simplified destruction procedures that will reduce costs to businesses and public administrations alike. The second relates to the fact that travellers are currently permitted to import small quantities of personal-use items that may be counterfeit.
Operational performance
New techniques and instruments are needed to ensure that operational capacity is consistently high. Actions have to be developed and brought together in a new operational control plan based on risk management. The EU's Customs Information System (CIS) enables the national customs services of Member States to exchange and search for customs information.
Effective customs enforcement can be guaranteed only if businesses are also fully involved. Improving the early exchange of information between businesses and customs is also important. A possible solution could take the form of an EU electronic information system for intellectual property rights.
International cooperation
The main region producing counterfeit goods is Asia, and China in particular. International cooperation is crucial in halting the production and export of counterfeit goods. The Commission intends to:
- introduce export and transhipment controls;
- exploit and extend Customs Cooperation Agreements to cover regions where there is a significant level of counterfeit production;
- enhance the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS);
- strengthen cooperation with the World Customs Organization (WCO), Europol and Interpol;
- enter into bilateral arrangements, especially with China.
Council Resolution of 13 March 2006 on a customs response to latest trends in counterfeiting and piracy [Official Journal C 67 of 18.3.2006]
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1891/2004 of 21 October 2004 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights [Official Journal L 328 of 30.10.2004].
Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights [Official Journal L 157 of 30.4.2004].
Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights [Official Journal L 196 of 2.8.2003].
This Regulation sets out measures and conditions for the customs authorities to take action against goods found to have infringed IPR.
Council Regulation (EC) No 515/97 of 13 March 1997 on mutual assistance between the administrative authorities of the Member States and cooperation between the latter and the Commission to ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters [Official Journal L 82 of 22.3.1997].
This Regulation establishes a centralised customs information system.


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I'm concerned about the dearth of role models for young women. The sad truth is, in the event of a zombie apocalypse, they have no fictional leaders to inspire them.
Luckily zombie fiction does offer a number of bad-ass Amazons. First and foremost, there's Alice, of Resident Evil fame. She's basically superhuman, she's not afraid of the Umbrella Corporation, and she will blow the head off of any corpse that blunders into her path. Planet Terror's Cherry Darling gets after the undead with her machine-gun leg. World War Z wasn't overflowing with female narrators, but one of the best sections features a female pilot whose plane goes down deep in Zack country. More recently, Boneshaker treated us to mule-stubborn Briar Wilkes and one-armed bartender Lucy O'Gunning, both of whom will straight waste a rotter. Even Miss Elizabeth Bennett has had a chance to test her martial prowess against the undead.
But zombie-slaying prowess does not make a leader. That skill set doesn't necessarily translate into an ability to unite panicked, argumentative survivors. The apocalypse makes it difficult to secure the basics like food, water, and shelter. There's the inevitable disagreement over how to get those things. Someone needs the moral authority to mediate those arguments. That doesn't even touch the problem of keeping everyone from succumbing to despair. Kicking ass is a piece of cake compared to this psychological stuff.
Lots of stories never even feature a female leader in the first place. Dawn of the Dead opens with Ana, who's cool under pressure and even has valuable medical training. But it's Michael who steps into the leadership role. Shaun of the Dead: It's Shaun's movie and Shaun's band of survivors, despite his planning skills being so poor he can't manage dinner reservations. The ladies of Zombieland manage pretty well until they reach Pacific Playland and abandon all good sense. Then it's up to Columbus and Tallahassee to bail the silly girls out. If you watch The Walking Dead carefully, the female characters spend an awful lot of time doing laundry. Eventually we'll discover that Andrea's a hell of a sharp shooter, but Rick is indisputably the group's hero and leader.
Perhaps an even more frustrating example is 28 Days Later. When we first meet Jim, he's in no condition to face the new world. Luckily, he's rescued by survivors Selena and Mark, and it's immediately clear who's the boss of that team. Selena catches Jim up to speed, says when it's time to move and dispatches anyone who's bitten. By the end of the film, she and Hannah have both become Jim's responsibility. He's the one who bursts into the mansion, rescues them from impending rape and reassures Selena that "It's not all fucked." Not exactly Father Knows Best, but closer than you'd expect from Danny Boyle.
There's a reason zombie movies default to heroes rather than heroines, and it's not just because studios won't greenlight anything with a female lead. It's reflective of the world we live in. If the rage virus swept across America tomorrow, lots of survivors probably would defer to the most competent man left standing, even if Hillary Clinton (or Condoleezza Rice, for that matter) were right there, dusting off her tattered pantsuit. Zombie narratives are about how normal folks respond to disaster, how you and your neighbors and your coworkers might react in the direst of situations. That's why they make such convenient vehicles for social commentary.
That's also why the lack of commanding women is so noticeable and galling in zombie stories. It's not like the rest of pop culture is burgeoning with examples. Even in science fiction, think of the eleventh-hour switch from Kate to Jack as the castaways' leader or Princess Leia's migration from diplomat to bikini-wearer. But this subgenre is about how average, unremarkable people react when crisis disrupts their lives and they're forced to improvise. It's maddening to think such conditions would give the upper hand to monstrous caveman like 28 Days Later's Major Henry West.
But it doesn't matter how such a social collapse would play out, because this is fiction, and fiction doesn't simply reflect reality. Narratives aren't just commentary. They shape the way we envision the world. Before we can elect a female president, we have to imagine a female president. In order to look to a female leader in a time of crisis, we have to imagine women can be leaders. This is especially important in the case of zombie stories, which are never simply allegories. They're thought experiments for how to react to real-world crises and a fertile place to suggest alternatives to the status quo.
I love zombies, and I'll keep cheering on the protagonists who slay them regardless of gender. That said, subgenres need stirring up every once in a while, or they'll stagnate. And this kind of character represents a golden opportunity to do something different in an increasingly overcrowded field. What kind of survivor group would choose a female leader? What does her "Live together, die alone" speech sound like? How does she enforce her decisions?
I'm not saying NOW needs script approval for every proposed zombie flick. But it would be nice to see the female equivalent of Rick Grimes at least once.


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Today, when everything is spreading all around the world through internet, when the tools are availabale for everybody and are easier to use, when citizen infographics are a fact, in these days, the most original ideas for infographics are not being published in newspapers, but in blogs, flickr or another personal pages, but with echoes all around the web that make them ananymous most of the times. Here ypu are some examples:
If extraterrestrials are watching our TV, what are they watching now?
Just making an operation with the distance of some stars and planets and the speed of electromagnetic waves, you can have this graphic.
This could be the original source
What do different positions think about different sexual behaviors?
Although you can find several mistakes (Catholic church is not neutral about homosexuality, or that is my perception), the idea is direct and easy to understand.
A possible original source, although it looks like anadaptation.
The browser wars
This one is already a classic.
I found this here
How do you want your coffee?
Another classic, already posted on this blog
This one has father, Lokesh Dhakar.


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Cramps are painful, involuntary contraction of muscles. In runners, a common site of muscle cramps is in the calf (gastrocnemius and soleus muscle). Cramping may occur either during a run or after it. Many people experience the onset of cramps hours after a run, especially while sleeping at night involuntary contraction of the calf muscle causes intense pain and may even cause the ankle to flex. Cramps cause the muscle to go into spasm, which inhibits blood flow to the area. The decreased blood flow makes it difficult for oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to the muscle.


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I used the new Cute Fruit stamp set along with our Kissables stamps and kissed them together to add a pattern (and texture) to the pumpkins.
awwww, sooo freaking cute Ashley!! Our hamster is a great way to make someone's day...and the sentiment will definitely make someone happy to read. The washi tape is a great finishing touch and I love that banner!
Yup, I know...this set is AWESOME! It's fantastic how she used the same color scheme throughout this tag set. Her coloring skills are fabulous!!
When Nadia Comaneci achieved the first perfect 10.00 score in gymnastics, the scoreboard wasn't even capable of showing 2 digits. Instead it showed 1.00


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A look back at ROH Respect is Earned I
Ring of Honor 'Respect is Earned' Debut PPV Report
Ring of Honor, five years and four months old, began airing their debut PPV this week on the Dish Network, with the PPV set to debut on the primary PPV provider In Demand on 7/20. Taped on Saturday 5/12 before a sellout crowd at the Manhattan Center in New York City, "Respect is Earned" marks a major step forward for what has evolved into the alternative wrestling promotion for the diehard wrestling fan.
"Respect is Earned" opened with BJ Whitmer inside the ROH ring before a loud New York City audience. The fans were immediately intense and alive, chanting "ROH" in a feverish manner that is immediately brings to mind the glory days of the ECW revolution. Whitmer welcomed everyone at home to Ring of Honor. He said that in ROH, they let their wrestling do their talking for them and challenged anyone who thought they could take him out to come to the ring for a fight.
ROH went to a quick opening video that lasted about 30 seconds, highlighting some of their talent with a "Respect is Earned" graphic. For fans weaned on the Monday Night Wars, they'll immediately notice how the show doesn't easily mesh from inside the ring to the video and back to the ring, but considering the company's resources, it's to be expected.
When we returned to the ring, ROH champion Takeshi Morishima came out and accepted the challenge, putting the title on the line.
ROH champion Takeshi Morishima vs. BJ Whitmer
They started out exchanging forearms to the face. They battled in the corner and the referee was shoved down early. Whitmer got near falls on the champion with an Exploder and a lariat. Morishima, who physically works like Terry Gordy in his prime, drilled Whitmer with a lariat and a big boot. Whitmer kicked up. Morishima drilled him with another lariat and then hit a backdrop driver gaining the pinfall. Match was good but short. From an action standpoint it was good, but you wouldn't have known much about the wrestlers. The crowd reaction made it seem important, which helped with first impressions.
Your winner and still ROH champion Takeshi Morishima!
British star Nigel McGuinness came to the ring. Dave Prazak commented, "It's top challenger, Nigel McGuinness!" The crowd chanted Nigel's name. Five minutes in and the passion of the crowd makes the show strand out from other wrestling PPVs where the audience sits on their hands for a lot of the product. McGuinness congratulated Morishima on a good match, telling the champ, "That was one hell of a title match and you, sir, are one hell of a wrestler, but then again, so am I". McGuinness challenged him for a title match saying he doesn't care if it's in London, Tokyo or tonight in NYC.
Bryan Danielson, dressed in dress clothes, came to the ring telling everyone to wait a second. They noted he was a former World champion who was back after a five month absence. Danielson boasted he was champion for over 15 months and was "The Best Wrestler in the World." The crowd said it along with him. He began noting everyone he defeated as champion including Samoa Joe, Lance Storm, Homicide, and even McGuinness. He said that if anyone deserves a title shot tonight, it's "American Dragon." Danielson pokes his finger in Nigel's chest as he says this. Nigel tells him that if he does it again, he's going to break Danielson's finger off and shove it down his throat.
Danielson backs off and says it's not the time for fighting, then nails Nigel with a forearm. They begin fighting in the corner. Morishima gets involved and faces off with Danielson. They nod in agreement and Danielson charges Nigel in the corner. The announcers note that they look like they are on the "same page." Morishima hits a running splash on Nigel in the corner and smothers him with a boot to the face. Danielson and they lay out Nigel. As Morishima is trashing Nigel, Danielson picks up the ROH title belt and looks at the crowd. He says, "It's my belt." Morishima sees this and snatches it away. Morishima walks off. Danielson watches him leave and Nigel recovers behind him. Danielson realizes it and rolls out of the ring.. Nigel challenges Danielson to face him right now but Danielson scoffs, "I don't need this crap" and walks out. A good, elementary way to establish the importance of the belt and get over some of the top names in one segment.
They go to a video feature on Brent Albright which reads, "Coming soon to ROH PPV" They show a video feature on Albright hitting suplexes and snapping on his crowbar finisher. Albright does a voiceover saying he wants money and the best way to get it is to win titles and take people out for it. Albright warns everyone that in his world, it's get out or tap out.
They go right back to the ring.
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Rocky Romero
ROH played some clips of Marufuji as he came to the ring. Nice touch. The crowd chants Marufuji's name. Dave Prazak pointed out that ROH has two of the best wrestlers in the world, from different parts of the world here in New York City. He then thanked the fans for allowing ROH a chance to prove what they are all about. Marufuji did some fast offensive mat wrestling to start. Romero broke out an Octopus submission, before turning that into a near fall. The announcers explained the importance of the GHC title in Japan, which Marufuji has held, and that he is from NOAH but calls ROH his home in the United States. They also discuss Romero's international experience. They go into a fast sequence of kicks and missed moves. Prazak noted that the match was an important piece of what ROH was all about - taking the top competitors in the world and letting them compete. Romero rolls into a cross armbreaker. Romero mounted Marufuji like an MMA fight and began slapping him with both hands. He nailed a kneedrop for a near fall. The announcers explained how the submission would put pressure on the arm. He released and began nailing kicks to the shoulder and arm. Romero continued to work over the shoulder and went back to the cross armbreaker.
Marufuji hit a springboard dropkick onto Romero, who was outside on the apron, sending him into the guard rail. Marufuji went to the floor where he picked up Romero and rammed him knee first into the ring post. Romero returned to the ring, where Marufuji continued to work it over. He pulled Romero's leg between the ropes and nailed a dragon screw legwhip. Marufuji continued to work over the leg. The announcers pointed out that each competitor had picked an extremity for their strategy. Romero went to the ropes but was dropkicked in the leg and hit with a dragon screw, bringing him back to the mat. Marufuji locked on a figure four leglock.
Romero came back with several Tornado DDTs for near falls. Marufuji escaped a Dragon Suplex, landing on his feet, then drills Romero's face into his knees. He nails a powerbomb for a two count. Marufuji goes to the top rope but Romero uses a takedown to bring him to the mat from the ropes, locking on a cross armbreaker in the process. The crowd chants, "Please don't tap." They exchange kicks to the face, leading to a ROH chant.
Marufuji powerbombs Romero into the corner. Marufuji hit a Van Terminator (Coast to Coast) from one corner to the other on Romero, who kicks out. The crowd boos the kickout. Romero tried for a Dragon Suplex and got a two count. Marufuji nailed several kicks to the head, then drilled Romero with the Sliced Bread #2 for the pin.
Your winner, Naomichi Marufuji!
Lenny Leonard said that we just watched the style of wrestling that ROH was built on. They showed some replays. The crowd chanted Marufuji's name. This was a really, really fun, athletic match and one of the best bouts on PPV in some time. Live, I thought it was probably the best Romero ever looked for ROH and after watching it on PPV, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this was likely the best match ever in his career.
Backstage, "Super Agent" Larry Sweeney was with Tank Toland (who I doubt many people will realize was one of the Dicks in WWE). Sweeney said that now that ROH was in millions of homes nation wide, he was going to prove why he was the best agent in professional sports today. He called himself a "Mover and Shaker." He bragged that Chris Hero, the best athlete in ROH, was his top client. Sweeney said he was ready to drop a bomb and started talking up his newest client for Sweet and Sour Incorporated." He introduced Sara Del Ray, calling her the best female wrestler in the world today. Del Ray entered the scene. Tank looked surprised and had been making some great facial expressions this entire time. Sweeney said that he was all "Pay to Play" for his clients and wasn't afraid to let them sit out until "the money is right." Sweeney's delivery was great. Sweeney told Del Ray that when you signed on with him, you get the services of Toland, the best personal trainer in sports. Toland brought Bobby Dempsey into the scene and showed off his gut, saying that when he was down with the heavy Dempsey, Dempsey would be molded into another Tank, another superior athlete. He told Dempsey to start doing squats, calling him a sloth and pathetic. Del Ray began doing them and Toland told her she didn't have to do them because it was an exercise for men. Del Ray suggested she could do more squats than Toland. They began doing squats face to face. Dempsey, who had been doing squats all this time, finally collapsed. I guess he's going to be a Blue Meanie style comic relief. Toland told him he was disgusting and to get out of his sight. He and Del Ray kept doing squats as, off camera, Gabe Sapolsky yelled that something was going on in the ring and to go to the ring.
Inside the ring, Nigel McGuinness was throwing Morishima into the corner as Bryan Danielson attacked him from behind. The announcers noted that he called out Morishima. They doubled on Nigel. Pro Wrestling NOAH's KENTA hit the ring and made the save, nailing a big boot on Danielson, who bumped out of the ring. The announcers introduced KENTA as Danielson's toughest opponent from last year and Morishima's top rival in Japan. Nigel drilled Morishima with a lariat. Nigel and KENTA were left standing.
They aired a quick video commercial for www.ROHWrestling.com.
When we returned Claudio Castagnoli and Matt Sydal were inside the ring and the Briscoes' music began playing. The crowd clapped to the Briscoes' theme.
ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs. Claudio Castagnoli and Matt Sydal
The announcers announced that Morishima & Danielson would wrestle KENTA and McGuinness later in the event. Briscoes were in control early and it was something of a tag team showcase, which is smart on ROH's part since no one else really showcases their tag teams in a pushed position. The announcers said the Briscoes were on a quest to prove they were the best tag team in the world today. Lots of good wrestling early, which gave the announcers ample time to provide background as well. Prazak and Leonard really have raised their game with this show.
Jay Briscoe hit a split legged moonsault on Claudio. Sydal backdropped Mark over the ropes to the floor, then caught Jay with a rana while he was on the top rope. Claudio walked the ropes and dropped an elbow. The Briscoes pulled out double beel throws on Sydal and Claudio.
Claudio did the big swing on Jay. Mark finally gets tagged in. Jay hits a flip dive to the floor on Claudio. Mark evades a Sydal rana while on the top, then dives off, catching him with a sunset flip takedown. By this point, there was far too many spots and near falls to remember.
Jay nailed a flying bodypress on Caudio for a two count. Sydal drags Mark to the floor, where they brawl. Jay gets tossed out. Sydal jumps on Claudio's shoulders and dives down onto the Briscoes. Sydal nails a shooting star on Mark but Jay breaks it up. Jay presses him over his head and drops him, nailing a death valley driver. Mark dives out of the ring on Claudio, setting up the Doomsday Device, with Mark springboarding off the ropes to clothesline Sydal.
Your winners and still ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoe Brothers!
Phenomenal stuff here. There was tons of great back and forth wrestling here and everyone really busted their ass and there was far too much to type and recap. I'll just write this - if you miss the glory days of Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Dean Malenko, Psicosis and the other WCW Cruiserweights from when they used to steal the show, you want to see this match, ASAP because it's that same work ethic and workrate, minus announcers who disrespect the talent in the ring.
While the Briscoes were in the ring celebrating, ROH announcers Lenny Leonard and Dave Prazak made their first on camera appearances, thanking everyone at home for allowing the promotion to "earn your respect." They were in the audience, with their backs to the ring, sort of similar to all those famous WWF interview segments from the 1980s. They thanked New York City for the sellout crowd and talked about the electric atmosphere live. The fans chanted "ROH." They talk about how important the ROH live experience is and run down many of the cities the company will be coming to soon.
Kevin Steen and El Generico interrupt the announcers. Kevin Steen says they have a very important question and the only two people who can answer it are the Briscoes. Steen wants to know when he and Generico are going to get their "well deserved" title shot. The Briscoes said they were right here. Steen and Generico ran through the crowd with a handheld camera following them, which added to the feel of spontaneity of the moment. They start brawling in the ring. A million people hit the ring to pull them apart. Mark Briscoe hit a bodypress off the ropes into Steen to spark the fight again. That's a first. The Briscoes are finally removed to the aisle by officials, leaving Steen and Generico to destroy several of those left in the ring with them. Steen and Generico nail their finishers to accentuate they are players. Generico then did a dive onto everyone in the aisle (think Kid Kash at the Hammerstein Ballroom during the big riot towards the end of ECW) . The crowd chanted "ROH."
Everyone brawled to the back. The cameras followed the brawl backstage. Jay and Generico brawled back into the crowd. Steen laid out Mark with a chair in a back hallway. Steen and Generico are finally dragged off with Steen taunting the Briscoes to kiss the belts goodbye. Jay and several officials checked on Marc, who was out cold. They used multiple camera angles here, which sometimes looks terrible for wrestling but since the four went into different directions, it made sense there were different cameras following them. The backstage stuff seemed chaotic and at times wasn't lit well, which in a sense was good, because that way it didn't look scripted and rehearsed, like some backstage fights do on WWE and TNA.
They aired clips of Roderick Strong giving Delirious a legitimate concussion on February 17th in Philadelphia and additional clips building up the match between the two.
Roderick Strong vs. Delirious
They were in the ring ready to wrestle when we returned from the video piece. Delirious, who wears a mask and babbles in odd tongues, went insane at the sound of the bell, causing Strong to go to the floor early. Delirious began running around and they battled on the floor around the ring. Since we had seen so much in-ring wrestling, the fight around the ring was a nice change of pace.
They returned to the ring, with Strong taking Delirious down with a shoulder tackle. They go into some mat wrestling. Delirious missed a kick to the side of the head. The crowd got behind Delirious, chanting, "Blah blah blah blah."
Delirious hit a rana from the top on Strong, who came back drilling him facefirst into the turnbuckles. Crown taunted Strong chanting, "Rooooderick." Strong whipped Delirious in the corner, but was hit with a clothesline. Strong nailed a number of backbreaker variations and gutbusters and chops. Delirous drilled Strong with a neckbreaker, then began chopping. Strong hit a swinging backbreaker over the knee. Delirious began firing back with punches to the mid-section. Strong tried to springboard off the turnbuckle but was caught with a headbutt to the stomach.
Delirious hit several clotheslines off the ropes, followed by a leaping lariat. Delirious dropkicks him into the corner, then hits The Panic Attack, a running knee strike in the corner. Delirious went to the top for "Shadows from Hell" a splash across the back, but Strong evades. Strong hits a Torture Rack into an over the knee backbreaker. He presses and tosses Delirious atop the turnbuckles, then hits a Fall Away Slam off the ropes. Delirious fights back and hits Shadows over Hell then goes for the Cobra Stretch. Roderick hit a powerbomb across his knee for a two count.
Delirious hit a flip dive off the top rope to the floor on Strong. They battled on the floor and to the apron. In a sick spot, Strong suplexed and dropped Delirious on the apron outside the ring. Strong covers him but Delirious kicks out. They battle back and forth with forearm shots. Strong hits a gutbuster, then locks on a Boston Crab. Delirous goes for the Cobra Stretch. Gibson nails a suplex, a running boot and his finisher, the Gibson Driver (sit down powerbomb named for Strong's mentor James Gibson) for the pin.
Your winner, Roderick Strong!
After the pin, the No Remorse Corps. all beat down Delirious. They bridge a piece of guard rail between the ring and railing. Strong hit a powerbomb on Delirious onto the rail. Erik Stevens ("of the Resillence!") hit the ring for the save. The announcers noted the Resilience has been feuding with the NRC.
Backstage, Adam Pearce sent Shane Hagadorn to find someone. Pearce talked about the growth of ROH from a tiny company to a larger company. He said that everyone in the locker room has to stand up and decide what they need to do to take a piece for themselves. Hagadorn returned and said he found "him" and they are right around the corner. We follow Pearce, who shows us a beaten, tired BJ Whitmer trying to recover from his match earlier. Pearce says that Whitmer's soul is in so much pain, even he can't reveal it to the world. Pearce said that Whitmer has made sacrifice after sacrifice for ROH and its fans and has had flesh torn and made trips to the hospital for the ROH fans. He said that Whitmer lost one of the most violent feuds in ROH history against Jimmy Jacobs and now has to try and figure out how he can break free from that. Pearce said that Whitmer is going to always be known as the guy that lost the first ROH PPV match and that will always haunt him when he dreams and when he wakes up. Pearce said that Whitmer is going to keep wondering how he makes peace for himself when the pressure is on. He said that everyone acts their own way and find the spot in their soul where clarity lives. Pearce said that he knows what he is capable of and pretty soon, everyone watching will know it too. He walks in silence to Whitmer and puts his hand on Whitmer's shoulder. Good promo and you can see some Raven-esque persona coming out of this for Pearce, perhaps affecting Whitmer when he's at his weakest moment. I'm curious to see where this goes.
ROH champion Takeshi Morishima & Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA and Nigel McGuinness
We go to Bobby Cruise, who announces it's time for the main event. We get the full ring introductions for each followed a video package on all four.
Lots of great back and forth wrestling here. Danielson and KENTA started with back and forth exchanges. Morishima shoulderblocked Nigel down. Danielson drilled McGuinness with a forearm off the ropes. KENTA nailed Morishima with a boot to the face but was caught by Danielson with a Dragon Screw leg whip. All four faced off center ring, which led to a "ROH chant."
Nigel DDT'd Morishima on the apron outside the ring, but Takeshi shrugged it off and powerbombed him into the railing ringside. KENTA tried to help but was whipped into the railing. He held KENTA for Danielson, who came charging with a running boot to the face. Danielson and Morishima worked over Nigel in the corner and on the mat for awhile with Danielson focusing on his knees. KENTA finally got the hot tag in and nailed a springboard missile dropkick to Danielson Morishima nailed one of his own on KENTA and followed that up with a sideslam. KENTA powerslammed Morishima, which the place came unglued for due to the size different.
Nigel tagged in and began drilling Morishima with strikes and thrusts, taking him out in the corner. McGuinness hit a running charge into a forearm, which looked awesome. Morishima came back with a big boot, but missed a missile dropkick. Nigel clotheslined him for a two count. Morishima went for a cartwheel into a handspring elbow, but Nigel drilled him with a lariat for another near fall. Nigel and Morishima battled atop in a corner. Danielson tried to get involved so KENTA attacked him. It ended with Morishima dropping down on Nigel like former WWF champion Yokozuna would. Morishima nailed a backdrop driver but KENTA broke up the two count. KENTA hit a diving knee onto Danielson, who was draped against the ropes.
Danielson nailed a Dragon Suplex then locked on a Crossface Chicken Wing. KENTA pushed off the corner and Danielson nearly ended up pinning himself. Danielson goes to the top but Nigel comes from under him and nailed a powerbomb. KENTA tries to hit a bodypress from the ropes but Morishima catches him and tosses him with a suplex. Nigel nailed a forearm off the ropes on Danielson. He tosses Morishima into the first row, then dives off the top rope onto him.
Danielson goes for a diving headbutt on KENTA but KENTA gets his feet up. He nails a dropkick and hits the Go To Sleep for a two count, but Morishima breaks the count. Morishima clotheslined KENTA and Danielson nailed him with a backfist. KENTA kept kicking out. At some point, Nigel ripped up his arm as he was at ringside taping it up and you could see blood peering out from under the tape. He rebounded off the ropes and drilled a lariat into Morishima, but went down selling the arm. KENTA nailed a suplex and got a two count on Danielson. The place chanted for ROH.
KENTA was drilled with a back suplex and Danielson went for the Cattle Mutilation but didn't get it. He nailed a back suplex on KENTA and began beating him with elbow after elbow, teasing a MMA-like ref stoppage. Danielson forced KENTA to tap out to the Cattle Mutilation submission while Morishima beat down Nigel in the corner.
Your winners, ROH champion Takeshi Morishima & Bryan Danielson!
After the match, Danielson grabbed the ROH title belt but was drilled with a backdrop driver by Morishima. Nigel returned to the ring and presented Morishima with the belt out of respect but was laid out with a lariat. Morishima swung the belt over his head as the announcers wondered who could defeat him. The PPV went off the air.
Overall, a great PPV debut. For the price of $9.95, you won't get more wrestling anywhere in a two hour timespan. There were long matches, lots of matwork and striking that wouldn't seem foreign to a MMA fan coming across the product, wrestling based around athletics, not looks and matches built around the Japanese style with hard hitting athletics, submissions, strikes, lots of big moves and kickouts, and highspots galore.
The promos, particularly Adam Pearce and Larry Sweeney, were very good and at the same time, none of them were your sterotypical wrestling promos of 2007 that sounded hokey and scripted. These felt like you were watching athletes and their associates talk, not wrestlers pretending to be actors.
The production is below what fans who are only exposed to WWE's level of production will be familiar with, but the product is completely different from anything else on PPV right now. Still, this show wasn't meant to compete with WWE or TNA, but to be an entirely different niche product for fans to sample.
My feeling watching it was that if you were already an ROH fan, you'll probably like the PPV. If you are into MMA or old school wrestling, you'll like aspects of it but it will seem different. If you are looking for a show to lose yourself for two hours and remind you why you first fell in love with wrestling, this is where you want to be.
A great debut and I can't recommend ordering this show strongly enough. If all goes well for ROH, a new crew of superstars are about to be unleashed on the United States.
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I can't say enough good things about Craft Vic. They showcase the latest and greatest in Australian craft, have a great exhibition program – and have always been so friendly and supportive to me personally!
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Crime SuspenStories #16
Joe Orlando was born in Bari, Italy, but his family emigrated to the USA and settled in New York City in 1929. He attended the High School of Industrial Art before being drafted into the Army, where he served in the Military Police in France, Belgium and Germany. Back in civil life, he studied at the Art Students League in New York. He published his first comic, the feature 'Chuck White', in titles like Catholic Comics and Treasure Chest. He then opened a small studio with Wallace Wood, where they were joined by young artists like Sid Check and Harry Harisson. Wood and Orlando worked as a tandem on Fox features like 'Dorothy Lamour', 'Martin Kane', 'Frank Buck', 'Judy Canova' and 'Pedro'.
Pedro (Fox, 1950)
When Fox folded in 1950, the discouraged Orlando went to work at a handbag manufacturer, but was soon brought back to comics by Wood, who could use some help with his heavy workload. They shared art duties on comics for Avon ('An Earth Man on Venus', 'Strange Worlds', 'The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu'), Youthful Magazines ('Captain Science') and Master Comics ('Dark Mysteries'), as well as EC.
Judgement Day (Weird Fantasy #18, 1953)
At EC, he became a solo artist, and was one of the staples of the New Trend's science fiction titles (Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Weird Science/Fantasy), especially for the 'Adam Link' stories he made with Otto Binder. Orlando also had stories published in the horror and crime titles, as well as the humor title Panic.
This is your strife (Panic #1, 1954)
When EC stopped publishing comic books in 1956, due to Fredric Wertham's campaign against violent comics, Orlando transferred to Stan Lee's Atlas, working on titles like Mystic and Astonishing. Orlando also contributed art for three issues in Gilberton's Classics Illustrated series, namely 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Caesar's Conquests' and 'Ben Hur'.
In 1957, he went back to EC when he became a regular contributor to Mad magazine, among others by taking over 'Scenes We'd Like to See' from Phil Interlandi. An episode of 'Scenes We'd Like to See' from issue #40 (July 1958), written by Nelson E. Bridwell and drawn by Joe Orlando, received media exposure when it was shown in 'The Garry Moore Show' on 30 April 1958.
In the mid 1990s, he also worked for Marvel's Daredevil and the James Warren magazines Creepy and Eerie.
The Meddlers (Shock SuspenStories #9, 1953)
Orlando joined DC Comics in 1966, initially doing art on 'Swing with Scooter' and 'The Inferior Five', before becoming an editor under Carmen Infantino. Besides editing existing titles like 'House of Mystery' (in which he introduced the hosts Cain and Abel) and 'Swing with Scooter', new titles were created under his helm, such as 'Swamp Thing', 'Phantom Stranger', 'Jonah Hex' and 'The Sandman'. He also co-launched and drew for DC's new humor title PLOP! in 1973, and provided magazine art to National Lampoon and Newsweek. At DC he eventually became Vice President and Editorial Director, and even became head of MAD, after the death of Bill Gaines in 1992. In addition, Orlando was a teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts.
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Pewaukee woman to leave for Oklahoma to help rescue animals
A Pewaukee woman is heading to Oklahoma on Thursday to help rescue animals, and she said time is of the essence.
The devastation in Moore, Okla., is unimaginable, and the impact on pets is where Caryn Buege comes in.
"I mean, we know there's animals stuck beneath these houses that have collapsed. So once they start moving debris, we're moving potentially live animals into dumpsters," said Buege of Operation Bring Animals Home.
Buege has experience. She helped rescue animals after Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.
"Our goal is certainly (to) get these animals, get them triaged, take them to some sort of staging ground or vet clinic, take pictures, document where we found them the best that we can," Buege said.
Then she tries to reconnect them with their human families using social media or other means.
"Cats are difficult. They climb. They hide. They're more difficult to catch than dogs are," Buege said.
And soon dogs will become more skittish, form packs and make rescue efforts more difficult.
"Obviously, we're not going to be able to save them all. We're not going to have access to all of them. But the ones that we do, we really need to get there as quick as we can," Buege said.
If you'd like to help with Operation Bring Animals Home, and the group's search and rescue team, go to www.obahrescue.com.


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Competition: Going Electric at Formula Hybrid
Dartmouth Formula Racing (DFR) took a new approach for the seventh annual Thayer-hosted Formula Hybrid Competition: building an all-electric racecar.
"We completely rebuilt last year's car so that it could hold the battery and house all of the necessary electric components. This involved re-welding the frame, building an electric motor, and optimizing all of the car's systems for electric operation," says DFR captain Darren Reis Th'13. "Going all-electric was quite the engineering challenge."
But challenge is what Formula Hybrid is all about. "It's the most difficult and most challenging of all the SAE Collegiate Design Series competitions," says organizer Douglas Fraser.
Since Formula Hybrid, held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., in early May, requires students to collaborate across mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines, corporate sponsors Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors view the competition as a unique recruitment opportunity. "I was on Drexel University's team last year," says GM's Nathalie Capati. "From it, I got recruited into the field of hybrid-electric vehicles." Serving as a technical inspector at this year's competition, Capati looked for the latest talents. "Seeing the teams working together is enough for me to recruit them. At Formula Hybrid I can see them in their real form," she says.
This year's 11 teams experienced a new competitive twist: The 22-km endurance event took place on the speedway's sports car road course instead of its oval track. With two climbs per lap, the course favored cars with effective regenerative braking.
DFR's all-electric vehicle scored well. The team took first place in the all-electric category, won the IEEE Excellence in Engineering Award, and earned a Ford Efficiency Award.
For additional videos, photos, and more, visit formula-hybrid.org and dartmouth.edu/~dfr.
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Nominations sought for yard awards
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- Category: Community
- Published on 29 June 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the Yard of the Month and Rural Beauty Spot of the Month. This year nominations are being sought
through e-mail. For more information, see the June 27 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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A Pontiac woman is facing multiple charges after Troy Police arrested her for drunken driving with four children in the car.
Shemika Shanee Allen, 33, of Pontiac was arraigned May 3 before Judge Kirsten Hartig of the 52-4 District Court in Troy and bond was set at $20,000 cash or surety bond.
The incident began when a Chevrolet Malibu passed Troy Police officers on patrol at I-75 and Wattles at 1:39 a.m. on May 2. Officers noted the driver was driving at 86 mph in a 70-mph zone. When the officers caught up with the vehicle, they observed it swerve out and then back into its lane.
The officers stopped the vehicle near Wattles Road and saw several occupants, including what appeared to be juveniles.
As officers approached the vehicle, the Malibu suddenly accelerated and drove away. Officers merged back onto the freeway and activated their lights and siren.
The Malibu continued southbound on I-75, disregarding police. A second police car with emergency lights activated entered the freeway in front of the Malibu.
Police said the Malibu drove around that police car and continued southbound. The Malibu was traveling between 60 and 81 mph with difficulty maintaining its lane.
Eventually, four Troy Police cars boxed in the suspect vehicle and successfully forced it to stop without a collision occurring.
The Malibu had traveled six miles before finally stopping, police said.
Police found four children between 5 and 13 years old in the rear seat. A man was in the front passenger seat.
The driver was arrested for operating while intoxicated 2nd offense, child endangerment, fleeing or eluding police and driving while license suspended 2nd offense.
Officers drove the man and children - who are the man's relatives - to their home. The driver's breath test results were 0.17 percent, more than twice the legal limit, police said. She also has an outstanding warrant from a previous drunk driving arrest.
Allen's next hearing is before Judge Hartig at 9 a.m. on May 14.


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(Reuters) - Dollar General Corp (DG.N) said on Tuesday it remained cautious about the rest of the year, as heightened competition in pricing and ramped-up advertising could hurt sales and margins despite an encouraging start to the holiday season.
The discount chain posted a bigger-than-expected increase in quarterly profit and total sales in line with Wall Street expectations. But sales at stores open at least a year rose less than some analysts expected, and its profit forecast suggested this quarter's profit will miss estimates.
Shares of Dollar General slid 5.1 percent to $44.20 after falling to a session low of $43.53. The stock was the worst performer in the S&P 500 index .SPX, which the company joined less than two weeks ago. Rival Family Dollar Stores Inc FDO.N was doing as poorly, with a 5 percent drop.
Dollar General, which prices most of its merchandise below $10, generally does well when economic concerns push those on limited budgets to cut spending.
But competitors including Walmart have stepped up their focus on items priced at $1 or less and have been advertising heavily, putting pressure on stores such as Dollar General that operate on much smaller ad budgets. Dollar General said it would start to lower some prices and use more advertising.
Headlines about potential federal tax increases and spending cuts after the start of the new year also appeared to be having an effect, it said.
"I think the customer is fatigued, they're tired, they're scared," Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Dreiling said on a conference call. "Every time you turn on the television, there's a bunch of guys in suit(s) who are frowning, telling you that the world's going to go over the fiscal cliff."
The company is seeing a more pronounced paycheck cycle, with strong sales when shoppers get paychecks and a drop at other times.
"We've actually coined a phrase here: there's more days than there is dollars" for customers, Dreiling said.
Dollar General will follow Family Dollar's lead and start to sell tobacco products, which should boost sales as its patrons tend to use tobacco more often then consumers overall.
Even so, Dreiling admitted that usage is in decline in what he calls a "dying category," and selling low-margin cigarettes will pressure the chain's level of profitability in 2013.
While Dollar General's latest quarter only ran through November 2, the chain said it was encouraged by results from the Thanksgiving weekend and the start of the holiday season.
Profit rose to $207.7 million, or 62 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter, from $171.2 million, or 50 cents, a year earlier.
Earnings rose to 63 cents per share, after adjusting for items such as expenses from a secondary offering and debt amendment fees, topping the analysts' average target of 60 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sales jumped 10.3 percent to $3.96 billion, in line with analysts' expectations.
Sales at stores open at least a year, or same-store sales, rose 4 percent. Sanford Bernstein analyst Colin McGranahan said he looked for an increase of 4.5 percent, while BB&T Capital Markets analyst Anthony Chukumba expected a 5 percent gain.
Chukumba said he was "a bit concerned" about the slowing sales growth.
Same-store sales rose 6.3 percent in the third quarter of last year and 5.1 percent in the second quarter of this year.
The latest increase was not as strong as the 5.4 percent same-store sales increase at rival Family Dollar, but outpaced recent growth of 1.5 percent at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's (WMT.N) Walmart U.S. chain and 1.6 percent at Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR.O).
More shoppers visited Dollar General's stores during the quarter and spent more, on average, than a year ago, it said.
Dollar General is now calling for a fiscal-year profit of about $2.82 to $2.85 per share, versus a September forecast of about $2.77 to $2.85 per share. Both outlooks included about 4 cents per share from the favorable resolution of tax audits in the second quarter.
Analysts' average estimate is $2.86.
Dollar General now expects sales to rise by 8 percent to 8.5 percent this fiscal year, after an earlier forecast of 8 percent to 9 percent growth. It expects same-store sales to rise 4.5 percent to 5 percent, versus a September forecast of 4 percent to 5 percent.
For the current fourth quarter, it expects same-store sales to rise 3 percent to 4 percent.
Fourth-quarter gross profit, as a percentage of sales, is expected to be flat or modestly lower than a year ago, and would lead to a modest decline in the gross profit rate for the year.
Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe


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Paul M. Banks a.k.a. The Sports Bank, NBC Chicago Street Team So far, the eyes have it, as the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes look a cut or two above the rest of the Big Ten, so if you're an Ohio State or Iowa fan, watching the game with your alumni groups at the sports bar this fall has been, and should continue to be a lot of fun. Of course, Chicago is filled with alumni of all the Big Ten schools, so read on to see where I ranked yours. Unfortunately, the two home teams, Northwestern and Illinois are pretty far down the list.
Buckeyes post back-to-back shutouts for first time since 1996, and are starting to look like the best team in the conference. Again. Eventually making this year…well, yet another OSU conference title would really suck for ratings. Because it would be BORRRRRRRRRRING! Where are the 2000 Purdue Boilermakers, 1995 Northwestern Wildcats, and 2001 Illini when you need them?
2. Iowa (4-0, 1-0)
Meet senior linebacker Pat Angerer, could there be a better name for a linebacker? Angerer racked up a game-high 14 tackles and two turnovers to help the Iowa defense limit Penn State to only 10 points. Angerer recorded his first interception of the season and rambled 38 yards to set up the Hawkeyes' second touchdown of the quart. Later he forced a fumble that was recovered by the Hawkeyes at the 18-yard line.
To read the rest of the power rankings click here
See more of Paul M. Banks' sports-writing at the site he founded The Sports Bank, NBA analysis at Walter Football.com and his "Patrick Kane Chronicles" at Buffalo Sports Daily


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New Orleans Gardens: 18th and 19th centuries
John Magill discusses New Orleans gardens of the past.
John Magill is historian and curator for The Historic New Orleans Collection. With spring quickly approaching, John thought to talk about what New Orleans gardens were like during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 18th century, many of New Orleans' early garden designs followed the style of gardens in France. As the city entered the 19th century, however, English style gardens increased in popularity. Because New Orleans was spread out and not very densely populated at that time, gardeners had a lot of open space available to plant. Although we take public parks and green spaces for granted today, John notes that Audubon Park and City Park were not developed and used as parks until the early 20th century. Consequently, residents had to rely on their own ingenuity if they wanted to enjoy greenery and flowers. In this podcast, John also explains how the meaning of the term "Garden District" has changed from those early years.