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Pinterest Has a New Plan to Address Self-Harm
Pinterest took techniques from behavioral therapy and reimagined them for smartphones.Photograph: Enzo D./Getty Images
Arielle Pardes
The company has gotten better at removing distressing content. Now it wants to help users feel better.
In an age when so much of the internet feels bad, Pinterest has carved out a niche as the place you come to feel good. So when the company noticed Pinterest users searching for content related to "self-harm"—not a ton, but enough to catch someone's attention—it decided first to filter out what would show up on the site.
Pinterest had already done this kind of moderation work on terms like "anti-vaccination," using a combination of humans and machine learning to clean up the search results. Now, after training its algorithms to recognize content that promotes self-harm, the company says reports of those pins are down 88 percent. When someone does flag a pin that violates its community guidelines, which ban content that encourages suicide or self-injury, it's three times faster at removing it.
Removing bad content was only part of the problem. The fact remained that people were coming to Pinterest to look for stuff related to self-harm, feeling overwhelmed and in pain. "Lots and lots of people are using it for that," says Evan Sharp, Pinterest's cofounder and chief of design. "So, how do we hold up our responsibility to do our best to help them?"
The company launched an initiative over the summer called "compassionate search," which aimed to help Pinterest users combat stress and anxiety by channeling negative emotions into exercises like guided breathing or journaling. Now the company has built another series of exercises specifically geared toward the emotional turbulence of self-injury. Developed in collaboration with a group of mental health organizations, the exercises take techniques from dialectical behavior therapy—a type of psychotherapy used to treat mood disorders, self-harm, and suicidal ideation—and reimagine them for the smartphone.
When a pinner enters a related search term, the site will surface a prompt for these exercises. (It also displays the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, one of Pinterest's partners.) Pinterest does not store data about who uses these exercises, and participation will never affect advertisements or pin recommendations on the platform.
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"We do in fact have evidence-based treatments, based in dialectical behavioral therapy, that work well," says Nina Vasan, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford's School of Medicine and the founder and director at Brainstorm, Stanford's lab for mental health innovation, which is one of the groups that worked with Pinterest. "The problem is that people don't know about them or don't have access to the treatments, so as physicians we feel like it's urgent for us to think about creative ways of educating people about and increasing access to the treatments that we know work."
One of the new Pinterest exercises, called Redirect Your Energy, offers guided practices in journaling, drawing, scribbling, or making a playlist as ways of releasing intense emotions. Another, called Cool Down, instructs someone to hold an ice cube in their hand or the crook of their arm and then focus on it as it melts.
These strategies borrow concepts from dialectical behavior therapy, like self-soothing or distracting when difficult emotions come up. "There are generally two ways people feel that leads to them having the urge to self-harm—either they have so much emotion that it is overwhelming or it's the opposite, they feel nothing or numb and want to feel something," Vasan says. Watching a melting ice cube might seem simplistic, but Vasan says stuff like this is proven to work. It's immediate, and it can serve as either a distraction or a way to feel a strong sensation, which "goes directly to the core of the emotional experience."
Pinterest has been mindful to let organizations like Vasan's design the experiences around compassionate search, combining the platform's user data with evidence-backed research around what works for improving emotional outcomes. "I'm pretty shocked by how long it's taken us to get here," says Sharp, "let alone other companies that have the same user behavior."
Pinterest deferred to mental health organizations like Vasan's while designing features for compassionate search, combining the platform's user data with research on the best ways to improve emotional outcomes.
Searches arising from depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns have always been a part of Pinterest, as on other parts of the internet. (Pinterest declined to share specific numbers on how many people search for "self-harm," but noted that it is not a new phenomenon.) Rates of documented self-harm are on the rise in kids and young adults, Vasan says, although what role, if any, online platforms themselves play is still up for debate. What is clear is that people who plan to self-harm have some relationship to the internet—whether it's Googling the term, posting about their feelings, or otherwise looking for help. "There's an opportunity to meet those pinners where they are," says Sharp.
Other major platforms have also designed experiences to help users in crisis or redirect them toward reputable mental health organizations. On Facebook, searches for "depression" lead users to a landing page that offers the phone numbers for several crisis hotlines, along with a series of self-care exercises. Because this is Facebook, there's also a recommendation to reach out to a trusted Facebook friend, with an automated message written by the company: "Hi, I'm going through something difficult and was hoping to talk with you about it. If that's OK with you, please message me back." Instagram points users toward a similar page for hashtags like #depression and #suicide. If you search for "depression" on Google, the search returns a box that defines the condition, along with an optional diagnostic survey to check if you are clinically depressed.
Sharp says that Pinterest considered making a similar tool, which would leverage the industry-standard diagnostics, but the company decided against it. "For Pinterest, maybe more important than 'am I depressed or not' is what clinical practices are proven to be effective to people who may be depressed," he says. "Those are beneficial whether you're clinically depressed or not. I go to Google to find information. I go to Pinterest to find inspiration."
That can sound like a lot of fluff, especially for a technology platform that went public this year and is trying to recoup falling stock prices. But Sharp, who speaks openly about his experiences in therapy, is one of the few founders in Silicon Valley who come across genuine and earnest in wanting to make people happier with technology. He sees Pinterest less as a place people go to do things, and more of a place people go to feel things. If a platform can cause negative emotional outcomes, he says, then it can also cause positive ones. It's just a matter of what those company leaders choose to create. At Pinterest, Sharp calls it "compassionate design."
Across the Valley, other platforms are beginning to acknowledge the way they make their users feel. Last week, Instagram announced that it would make "like" counts private, a decision the company made to reduce "social comparison" and improve the emotional well-being of its users. Sharp points out that Pinterest removed its Like button almost five years ago and recently disappeared its follower counts, "because it felt like the social sharing thing was leading to the wrong emotional outcomes for users."
Measuring "emotional outcomes" can be difficult, and Sharp thinks that has made it harder for platforms to integrate them into product road maps. It's easy to quantify engagement or user growth; not so easy to quantify how happy or sad your users feel after spending time on your platform. But Sharp talks about Pinterest as an emotional experience and says the company has a duty to try to make those experiences positive.
"Part of our business is helping people work through emotional situations," says Sharp. "We're not going to sit down with them and give them one-on-one therapy, but we can do small things to hopefully help them redirect their energy. A lot of what we're doing today is actually just us living up to our responsibility."
If you or someone you know needs help, call 1-800-273-8255 for free, 24-hour support from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line. Outside the US, visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention for crisis centers around the world.
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I saw this lesson over at http://drawthelineat.blogspot.com/2012/10/owl-silhouette-collage.html and decided it was a great way to instruct my students on how to create a value scale where they would easily create and see the transition from light to dark in a fun way!
We began by painting the moon high up on our drawing paper with white paint. The students were given two different shades of blue paint plus black and white. From there the students mixed colors beginning with the lightest tones first. As they worked their way towards the edges of their paper they were instructed to mix darker tones by adding more paint then the time before. The students were able to mix anywhere from five to seven tones from light to dark.
During week two and three the students drew their owls and the branches of their tree on black construction paper using white chalk. The concept of long, medium and short were discussed for the branches as well as composing a balanced composition on their painted paper.
Who could resist the awesome results of this fun lesson on color, composition and design!
Lovely results - I especially like the owl in flight - he looks as though he is about to swoop!
That's my favorite one also Elizabeth!
Awesome! I'm doing these right now too with my 2nd graders! My two classes are a little messed up right now from half days and our Halloween festivities so one class did spooky silhouettes in honor of Halloween and the other class will be doing African Savannah silhouettes since Halloween has passed!
Can't wait to see them when you're finished. Be sure to share.
These are beautiful! Well done!
Thank you Rozana so much!


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Earlier this week a number of Passmore employee's – Karen Binks, Richard Higher, Rachel Sykes, Ann Hemsley and Rebecca Silvers, took part in a Fire Warden training course.
The 3 hour course ended with all members becoming familiar with 2 fire extinguishers in particular (Water & CO2).
2 of the group, Rachel Sykes & Rebecca Silvers, can be seen pictured below enjoying trying their hand at using them.


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Following World War II, business interests in the Metro-East area (i.e. metropolitan St. Louis east of the Mississippi River) called for the expansion of public higher education closer to where their workforce was located. The nearest public institution was Southern Illinois University (SIU), based in Carbondale, over 100 miles to the southeast. Although SIU opened a small outpost in nearby Belleville in 1949, it was soon clear that additional capacity was needed. A 1957 report from the Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Education validated the business community's push for local educational opportunities when it demonstrated the need for a four-year public institution in the Metro-East area.
Acting quickly on the report, SIU purchased facilities to accommodate 800 students but within two years, nearly 4,000 students were enrolled. To accommodate this growth, in 1960 SIU purchased 2,660 acres of farmland with good highway access. Plans for a full satellite campus got underway with a conference called Environmental Planning-Edwardsville Campus. Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum was hired to design the campus and ground was broken in 1963. The first two buildings were opened in the fall of 1965 but construction continued at a steady pace throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s. The completeness and inherent insularity of the campus plan, with its hilltop setting, inner quadrangle, and planned skybridge connections, owes much to emerging architectural ideas of the early 1960s: the desire to create new means of social interaction that would be supported by all the latest technological developments.
A long drive leads up to the hilltop campus. The main campus, or Stratton Quadrangle, faces east around a landscaped and paved central commons. The original six academic and administration buildings are a fine mixture of overscaled brick service towers, well-detailed concrete walls, and large expanses of plate glass windows. The buildings deftly combine sufficient scale to accommodate a large student population with more domestic detailing, including concrete balconies, deep overhangs, well-proportioned windows, and entrances hugged by tall, red brick towers. Their crisp detailing and simple materials show the influence of Louis Kahn's newly built Richards Medical Research Building and Goddard Laboratories (1957–1961, 1961–1964) at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Morris University Center, opened in 1967, is a good example of the scale and detailing employed around the quadrangle. Two clean-lined, rectangular brick towers flank an inset glass entrance. Two story wings to either side are given breadth with deep overhangs and balconies whose concrete surfaces are flecked with large aggregate. Full-height windows on the first and second floors provide views out into the landscape and across the nearby Mississippi Bottomlands.
The well-conceived campus is complemented not only by the excellence of the architecture but by the mature landscaping throughout the common areas.
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| forget the silly story - listen to the songs!!!!
Although Paramount had Bing Crosby, Lanny Ross was signed as a backup. When Bing refused to do a cameo in "Alice in Wonderland" (very sensibly as it turned out - the film was a huge flop) the studio was furious and signed Lanny Ross, a radio singer. He got a big buildup and was cast in "College Rhythm", a college musical that also starred Lyda Roberti. Sadly, he only made a couple of films - Paramount obviously decided that Crosby was all they needed. His voice was different to Crosby's, being more of an operatic tenor. Certainly Ross was very wooden in this film (although it was his first feature) and didn't have much personality but the songs spoke for themselves.
Ray Noble's Orchestra with singer Al Bowley, had a huge hit with the film's opening song "Ending With a Kiss". Ross serenades Ann Sothern in the first scene in this very tedious film. Ann Sothern was a real find. She had appeared as a chorus girl in a couple of early musicals but this was the first as a leading lady. She gave the part a lot of personality and it was obvious she would go on to better things.
The real stars were Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland as husband and wife sponsors of a radio programme - he has an "interesting" hobby - he collects bedknobs!!! Lanny Ross plays John who wants to sing on their show and so sings to them whenever he sees them. To make him even more irritating to them he also falls in love with Jane, their daughter (Ann Sothern). This plot premise must have been worn out even in 1934 and made the film seem longer than it was but Ross got to serenade Sothern with two beautiful songs - "Ending With a Kiss" and the beautiful "Melody in Spring", sung as they wander through the Swiss countryside.
The Gale Sisters also make an appearance as a snooty matron's very modern daughters.


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November 7, 2016 | The Show Must Go On, Alas
Bill Bonner
Is an American author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects. He is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, and author of the daily financial column, Diary of a Rogue Economist.
BALTIMORE – "Nobody knows anything," they say in Hollywood.
They gather together millions of dollars… top celebrity actors… a director who has just won an Oscar… add a script with plenty of sex and violence… and look forward to a blockbuster.
Then they put it in front of a live audience… and the customers turn up their noses.
Box-Office Politics
Tomorrow's spectacle was meant to be a great epic from Establishment Productions.
It was to be the story of two noble families – the House of Clinton and the House of Bush – in a traditional staged conflict.
The House of Clinton would put forth its champion, Hillary. She – if elected – would be the first woman president of the United States… and the first wife of a president (not to mention the first candidate faced with impeachment before even being elected)… ever to rule over the Americans.
Hillary was the candidate of the Left; studio strategists were sure she would make the show a hit. She had the cronies' money in her pocket already. And there were enough people on the take from government to get her enough votes.
"Women and families" were what she said she cared about. She said it so often you could almost believe her.
Her only weakness was that she might not seem "tough" enough for the empire's lead role. So the studio set her up with four years of training as President Obama's secretary of state… bombing, bullying, and shamelessly cheerleading the murder of thousands of the women and children she was supposed to love so dearly.
The House of Bush, meanwhile, had a long history of success in box-office politics. The founder of the dynasty, a Wall Street banker called Prescott, was elected as U.S. Senator.
His son George was a U.S. president. And grandson Dubya also played the role. So it seemed as though Dubya's brother Jeb would be a shoo-in.
He would show the world that all members of the Bush family were not stupid. Plus, Jeb had proven, in the swamps of Florida, that he could woo the crackers and win an election.
Election Showdown
It should have been a box-office bonanza in the Independence Day genre.
In that sci-fi action filmantasy, aliens attack the planet. At first, the Earthlings have trouble getting their act together. But then, the president himself puts on his fighter-pilot helmet and goes out to face the enemy and save humanity.
This year's film, Election Showdown of 2016, was meant to have the same kind of end-of-life-as-we-know-it tension – resolving itself, of course, in a stirring triumph for the American Way.
Winner and loser would stand together, one congratulating the other, in front of a waving flag the size of Texas. The message would be clear and uplifting. Though they may have their differences, in the end, Republicans and Democrats are committed to the same goal: keeping the Deep State insiders in power.
But it was not to be. The sequel of Independence Day – Resurgence –fizzled. So did the "Make America Great Again" election. We saw a foreshadowing of trouble early in the primaries. There was something wrong: Neither of the two stars appealed to the fans.
The cronies played their roles – duly ponying up the millions to make the flick. The studio insiders, directors, and producers, performed as you would expect, perverting democracy with the usual tricks. The lead actors, too, appeared on set and delivered their lines just like they were supposed to. But viewers wouldn't play along; they refused to clap!
The great drama that the special interests had scripted so carefully… and funded so generously (Hillary had already put in place one of the most successful influence-peddling machines in history)… was going to be a flop.
The seats were left empty. The popcorn was unsold. The mob in the seats was restless, practically threatening to burn the theater down. The script had to be thrown out. A new team of writers, directors, and producers was brought in.
Numbskulls and Has-Beens
The two performers had missed the mark.
One pretended to care for the weak, the underprivileged, the single mothers, and the multiple offenders. The other pretended to care about the economy, money, a sensible foreign policy, and traditional Republican values.
But the spectators had already seen this movie. They knew it was a fraud. They knew, too, that both of the stars were swinish mountebanks who had been playing them for fools for years…
The fans demanded something different; they wanted authentic characters, even if they were numbskulls or has-beens.
And so it was that two unlikely performers – one playing the part of an aging, cranky socialist… the other a flamboyant, rude P.T. Barnum – stole the show!
And what a show we ended up with! We can't remember when an election generated so much interest, entertainment, claptrap, vituperation, calumny, and hogwash. The film, intended as a feel-good fantasy, has become an entirely different thing. Comic, dramatic, at times surreal… It is in a class of its own, somewhere between The Walking Dead and House of Cards.
Hillary barely held on to her role and, and is now the champion for both Houses… not to mention the entire Deep State establishment. And poor Jeb had to go back to the stable, replaced with the aforementioned carnival barker, a man much better suited to the new farce-like genre.
No matter who wins, it's one for the history books.
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Bill Bonner November 7th, 2016
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19,900% more cents than Mary does.
Any example in which "Mary has half as many cents as Nora has dollars" will yield the same result. Note that the percent change formula is required—a percent more (or percent increase) is not the same as a percent of something.
Therefore, Nora has 200 times as many cents. 200 times as many is 199 times more. To convert 199 times more to a percent, add two zeros to get 19,900%.
"If Mary has half as many cents as Nora has dollars"
"(...) then Nora has what percent more cents than Mary does? (100 cents = 1 dollar)"


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SoulTsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture - Audiobook (Abridged)
Digital Audio - Abridged Edition
By: Leonard Sweet
Narrated by: Leonard Sweet
Since the release of Halftime in 1994, more than 150,000 people have purchased the book and begun a journey from success to significance. In a way that no one could have predicted, this book has started a widespread movement that views midlife as an opportunity rather than a crisis. It helped men and women between the ages of 35-50 realize that they have at least another thirty years of active, vibrant living ahead of them and that retirement is not the optimal option. But now, readers feel stuck. More than eighty percent of people who began the journey got sidetracked. Now they want to know how to get "unstuck." Stuck in Halftime is written for the person who is trying to successfully make it through the midlife journey of "half time." It shows readers how to get past the barriers that stand in the way. It outlines eight "myths of half time" that distract people trying to move from success to significance. It also explains the new rules of this journey, since the old rules of the first half do not work anymore. And it uses stories of those who were stuck in a similar way to illustrate ways to become unstuck. This book is of enormous help to those who heard the "still, small voice of God" calling them to a life of significance. It is a book of encouragement, hope, and practical guidance.
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African American Studies Minor Returns to Ball State
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]imon Balto joined Ball State's history department in 2015 with a mission in mind: to bring back the university's African American Studies minor.
"We're a growing institution with an increasing number of minority students," Balto said of Ball State, "and because we live in an increasingly diverse world, employers want students who can think in a broader cultural context. That's why a program like this becomes so important."
Abel Alves, chair of the history department, welcomed Balto's efforts to resurrect the minor. It was last offered in 2010, when the previous professor who oversaw the program retired.
In its newest iteration, the minor includes courses in architecture and planning, communications, criminal justice, English, history, political science, psychological science and sociology. With its return, Ball State is one of six Indiana public universities to offer a minor in African-American Studies or related areas.
Broad appeal
The minor is open to all students. Alves encourages undergraduates across disciplines—from telecommunications and journalism to urban planning and entrepreneurship—to consider adding it to their academic plan.
"It would prove relevant to reporting contemporary events or revitalizing an African-American neighborhood. It provides the information and context needed to make intelligent choices."
Alexis McKenzie (seated) meets with Assistant Professor of English Emily Rutter, who teaches an introductory course on African-American literary traditions. McKenzie, an interpersonal communications major, said the African American Studies minor gives students a better understanding of the country they live in.
Balto hopes future social studies teachers also consider the program. "Because Ball State has such a strong background in teaching teachers, these are the people I'd recommend the minor to most."
With the minor available as of this fall, Balto is helping more students officially register for it. "Students can talk to their adviser about signing up or to me directly."
Among the first students to enroll was Alexis McKenzie, a junior majoring in interpersonal communications. "I was drawn to the minor after taking a black history course with Professor Balto my sophomore year," McKenzie said. "It was something entirely new to me to talk about black culture in an academic setting. I was fascinated by the content we discussed."
McKenzie said the African American Studies minor is relevant to students outside of the history program because it offers them an often-ignored perspective that provides an opportunity to better understand the country they live in.
"Our nation's history is racialized," the Fishers resident said. "With an event like the incident in Charlottesville, I don't think you can fully understand the magnitude of its implications without a grasp on the history and current culture of black communities."
Context in a complex world
Balto is well-suited to lead the program. An assistant professor specializing in African-American history, he has spent years researching the black freedom struggle. He's a contributor on the topic to media outlets like Time and The Washington Post and in 2018 will release his first book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.
"We are very fortunate to have him here at Ball State," said Alves, who praised Balto's dedication to increasing students' awareness of the cultural and historical contexts they live in.
"From the Harlem Renaissance and James Baldwin to studying contemporary inner-city community efforts at making this country a better place, he guides them in an exploration of how central African-American history is to everything American."
Today's current political climate makes the African American Studies minor more relevant to more people, Balto said.
Already this semester he's discussed race and Southern identity with his students, including a recent conversation about the country's renewed debate to remove its Confederate monuments.
"More students are seeing the way in which these historical topics are still relevant. They're having a huge impact on current politics and culture, making them issues that are alive in the conscience of college students trying to make sense of the world." —Simon Balto
Alves considers Ball State's African American Studies minor a community-building program, one that aims at inclusivity and the elimination of marginalization.
"African-Americans, from W.E.B. Dubois and Zora Neale Hurston to Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama, have been central to the intellectual and social development of the United States," Alves said. "But there have been those in our history who have tried to bury this narrative. African-American studies is a corrective to that."
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Tags: Department of History, Diversity, Faculty, Previous Issues
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In football parlance, the only thing more difficult than winning the league is defending your title. After Song of the Rolling Earth, John Lister-Kaye was under pressure to perform to his own high standard. But with Nature's Child he has taken a step forward whilst strengthening his reputation as one of Scotland's leading lyrical writers.
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The step forward, however, is his ability to view the flora and fauna through the eyes of his young daughter, Hermione, describing her naïve, childish – but no less important – reactions, and demonstrating how eye-poppingly extraordinary nature can be.
We chart Hermione's development as a budding naturalist, as she learns to accept the 'inevitability of death and attune her formative emotions to the stark reality of nature's wild wheel'. We feel her panic as she is charged by a mighty bull seal, her excitement at disturbing an octopus while diving for seashells in Malta, her pride at catching scorpions in the Kalahari and her total incomprehension of rhinoceros poaching in Swaziland.
Hermione's education is in stark contrast with the couch potato, video game culture that pervades modern society and for Lister-Kaye it is a labour of love to relate his daughter's delight in the environment he so enjoys. The result is another beautifully written book that is both informative and uplifting, that reminds the reader how scary and fascinating the world looked when we were kids.


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1964 Alaska Earthquake Seismograms
Short Period Seismogram from the 1964 Alaska Earthquake
Station Code: DAL
Vertical-Component Benioff Seismometer
Magnification: 1,500
Start Time of Record: March 27, 1964, 17 hours, 39 minutes UTC
This is a 24-hour long seismic record.
Time progress left to right and from top to bottom, just like text on a printed page.
Each line is 15 minutes long.
The hour marks are visible as a vertical stripe parallel to the left edge of the record.
Long Period Seismogram from the 1964 Alaska Earthquake
Vertical-Component Sprengnether Seismometer
Magnification: 25,000
The minute marks are visible as diagonal stripes on the upper half of the record.
The original records were made photographically with a light beam focused on a piece of photographic paper. When waves from the 1964 earthquake arrived the beam began moving back and forth so quickly that the photographic paper did not receive enough light to register the position of the trace. This situation continued for many hours following the earthquake, which is why the records above have a white band at the center.
Station Code: COL
College, Alaska
Sprengnether seismometers
Photograph by Jack Townshend, 2003.
The seismograms reproduced above recorded east-west ground motion via a long-period Sprengnether seismometers and a sensitive galvanometer. Time progresses from left to right and from top to bottom, just like text on a printed page. Each line is 60 minutes long with a short vertical line identifying each minute. Component, magnification, date, and the beginning and ending time are noted on the left side of the each seismogram.
The original record was made photographically with a light beam focused on a piece of photographic paper. When waves from the 1964 earthquake arrived the beam began moving back and forth so quickly that the photographic paper did not receive enough light to register the position of the trace. This situation continued for many hours following the earthquake, which is why the record from March 27 shows little after the arrival of the P-wave at the red arrow.
Eventually the electrical current generated by the motion of the seismometer exceeded the capacity of the galvanometer and the galvanometer mirror reflecting the light beam became stuck in an extreme position until it was readjusted early the next day.
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  2004 – Nie zakwalifikowała się
  2008 – Nie zakwalifikowała się
  2012 – Nie zakwalifikowała się
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Udział w mistrzostwach Azji
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  2000 – Faza grupowa
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  2002 – Ćwierćfinał
  2003 – Ćwierćfinał
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  2005 – 3. miejsce
  2006 – 2. miejsce
  2007 – 3. miejsce
  2008 – Ćwierćfinał
  2010 – 2. miejsce
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Woodwinds of Change
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Amitabh Bachchan with flutist Pandit Chaurasia during launch of a biography 'Woodwinds of Changes' by Surjit Singh on Chaurasia's 70th birth anniversary in Mumbai - Photogallery
Amitabh Bachchan with flutist Pandit Chaurasia during launch of a biography 'Woodwinds of Changes' by Surjit Singh on Chaurasia's 70th birth anniversary in Mumbai. (Reuters/Manav Manglani) ()
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Amitabh Bachchan with flutist Pandit Chaurasia during launch of a biography 'Woodwinds of Changes' by Surjit Singh on Chaurasia's 70th birth anniversary in Mumbai. (Reuters/Manav Manglani)
Actor Amitabh Bachchan (L) speaks as his wife Jaya Bachchan (2nd L) and singer Sonu Nigam (R) gestures to the media while flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia looks on during a book launch - Photogallery
Actor Amitabh Bachchan (L) speaks as his wife Jaya Bachchan (2nd L) and singer Sonu Nigam (R) gestures to the media while flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia looks on during a book launch. (Reuters/Manav Manglani) ()
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Actor Amitabh Bachchan (L) speaks as his wife Jaya Bachchan (2nd L) and singer Sonu Nigam (R) gestures to the media while flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia looks on during a book launch. (Reuters/Manav Manglani)
(From L- R) Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, his wife Jaya Bachchan and flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia attend a book launch in Mumbai on July 1, 2008 - Photogallery
(From L- R) Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, his wife Jaya Bachchan and flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia attend a book launch in Mumbai on July 1, 2008. (Reuters/Manav Manglani) ()
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(From L- R) Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, his wife Jaya Bachchan and flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia attend a book launch in Mumbai on July 1, 2008. (Reuters/Manav Manglani)
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan presents 'Woodwinds of Change' a biography, by Surjit Singh to renowned flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Mumbai on July 1, 2008 - Photogallery
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan presents 'Woodwinds of Change' a biography, by Surjit Singh to renowned flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Mumbai on July 1, 2008. (Reuters/Manav Manglani) ()
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Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan presents 'Woodwinds of Change' a biography, by Surjit Singh to renowned flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Mumbai on July 1, 2008. (Reuters/Manav Manglani)


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Eilis and Michael were married at the stunning Church of the Immaculate Conception with the reception to follow at Seven Spring's Resort. By the end of the wedding day our cheeks were sore from smiling. I don't know that I've ever seen two people more happily in love as these two were. We are so thankful to have been given the opportunity to document their love, and we hope you enjoy taking a peek into their big day!
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In a large bowl, whisk the first five ingredients. In another bowl, whisk eggs, milk, butter and vanilla until blended. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in chocolate chips.
Coat a griddle with cooking spray; heat over medium heat. Pour batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto griddle. Cook until bubbles on top begin to pop. Turn; cook until second side is lightly browned. If desired, dust with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream.
3 pancakes (calculated without whipped cream): 489 calories, 22g fat (12g saturated fat), 133mg cholesterol, 725mg sodium, 67g carbohydrate (32g sugars, 4g fiber), 12g protein.
These were delicious and so easy to make!


Today this stuffed bear is available to a good home. Re-homed!
His body is made from a lovely blue linen fabric, and his ears and belly are a yarn dyed cotton fabric from Lecien.
If you'd like to make your own bear, you can read more about the Bailey Bear pattern here.


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The Lodge of Happiness are pleased to announce details of their 2015 Ladies Festival Weekend. Not a common occurrence for the Lodge of Happiness but Ladies Festivals are common in many other Lodges.
The Connaught Hotel is one of the top AA**** Hotels in Bournemouth a member of the "Best Western" group. It is perfectly situated close to the West Cliff and has an award winning AA Double Rosette Restaurant. All rooms are en-suite with tea/coffee making facilities, and many have recently been refurbished. The Hotel has full Leisure facilities including an indoor heated swimming pool, Jacuzzi, Sauna, Steam Room and Gymnasium. The hotel is only five minutes walk from the town centre and the same distance from the sea front.
A special rate has been agreed with the hotel of £185.00 per person for the full weekend as detailed below. If you are unable to manage to stay on the Friday night, a limited number of rooms are available at £125.00 per person for the Saturday /Sunday only.
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I am all wrapped up in this cat condo business. In doing some research today I found this attractive cat, functional, object of art, scratching post, cat tree, a hiding spot, and condo all in one. It is on the pricey side for something my cats will drool on and destroy, but I still think it's hot. It's designed by Warren Lieu for One Form Design.
Materials: 83 laser-cut double wall corrugated cardboard shapes, hand-laminated into the final pod.


Brand new BEAUTIFUL dress. Never worn or tried on. Never altered. Stored in original dress hang up bag in pet/ smoke free home since purchase. All swing tags and replacement beading intact. Purchased from Bridal Boutique in Lewisville, Texas.
SEE ATTACHED PICTURES FOR DETAILED DRESS DESCRIPTION FROM THE DESIGNER REGARDING BEADING, FABRIC, ETC.
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"The Good Life" by Genevieve Dewey is a beautiful novel that sits somewhere between romance and character study. Two introductory short stories give us a quick insight into the relationship between Detective Kyle Anderson and his best friend Dominic and also between Dominic and Kyle's sister Kate.
The latter two finally come together as lovers but things get complicated once again when the wedding is being planned, an ex-wife shows up and Eros throws some more arrows into the members of the two families.
This is a very enjoyable read with some wonderful human observations about our goals and desires in life, about chances, about being true to yourself and about finding out what a good life is to you.
Dewey has chosen a great set of characters to highlight all of these issues and to drive the often amusing and sometimes more dramatic plot onwards. Charming and philosophical in places this is a very pleasant book that should find a wide audience.
–The Good Life © 2014 by Genevieve Dewey,All Rights Reserved.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read and review, Christoph! I really appreciate it!


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Q: Using paypal at AdMob I would like to use AdMob in order to publish banners at my Android App, so i can earn something for my hard work.
I would like to use PayPal as my payment manager, but i don't have paypal account. I saw that there are 2 types of Paypal account types (in Israel there are only 2 types):

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*individual

*business

I don't have a company - do i need to sign in as individual? and if i have individual account - will AdMob will be able to transfer my revenues?
thanks.

A: You need a Individual Paypal account.
And yes, Admob will transfer your money to you.

However, if your total payable earnings are less than $20 at the end of a month (or $100 for international wire payments), AdMob rolls your earnings over to the following month. For example, if you earn $10 in January and $50 in February, a payment is be sent to you for $60 in early to mid-April.

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After writing, how to get rid of dark circles?, how to get rid of bags under eyes?, and how to get rid of puffy eyes?, we are now writing home remedies for dark circles under the eyes. Dark color appears under the eyes is referred as dark circles. Dark circles are also known as dark rings or shadows. Dark circles can emerge on both men and women of different age groups. They look very ugly and fade your personal appearance. Dark circles are not a serious skin disorder, but they show that the person is tired, exhausted, unhealthy and older. There are different ways to get rid of dark circles, to know more read the article.
Cucumber have properties to remove dead skin cells and skin lightning. The dark circles present under the eyes are slowly removed by the cucumber astringent properties. They are refreshing and soothing for the skin.
Grind a cucumber into a fine paste.
Apply the paste under your eyes and rub gently for 5 minutes.
Potato contain natural agents that help to lower down the puffiness under the eyes. The bleaching agents of potato help in lightning dark circles.
Use a grinder to extract the juice of the potato. Soak a cotton swab in the juice and apply under your eyes. Allow the juice to rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Wash it off with cold water.
The other way is to cut the potatoes into thick pieces and apply it on your dark circles. Rest it for 30 minutes. You can feel the difference in a few days.
Rose water helps to refresh the eyes and rejuvenates the under skin of the eye. It has mild astringent properties and it is also known as a good skin toner.
Soak cotton swabs in rose water for 5 minutes.
Apply the soaked cotton swabs on your closed eyes.
Rest it for 15 to 20 minutes.
Follow this method two times in a day.
Almond oil is rich in vitamin E which removes dark circles under the eyes. It is in use for centuries due to its soothing powers. It is very helpful for soft skin around the eyes. Applying regularly will remove dark circles in a few days.
Apply almond oil before going to bed.
Wash it with cold water next morning.
Do it regularly until dark circles under the eye disappear.
Lemon is a citrus fruit which contains a high amount of vitamin C. Vitamin C help in removing dark circles under the eyes due to its skin lightening properties.
Take some lemon juice in a bowl.
Apply the juice with the help of cotton swab around your eyes.
Rinse it off after 10 minutes.
Apply this daily for few days.
Coconut oil has properties to fight bacteria and remove dark circles effectively. It is easily available in the market. Gently massage the under portions of your eyes to remove dark circles. It also works as a moisturizing agent and make skin soft and shiny. It makes you look younger as it prevents wrinkles and fine lines under the eyes.
Take a few drops of coconut oil on your palm.
Use your fingertips to massage under eyes for a few minutes.
Repeat after every 4 to 5 hours in a day.
Tea contains caffeine and antioxidants, which are highly useful in getting rid of dark circles as well as swelling under the eyes. Tannins present in the tea helps in removing dark color and reducing swelling of the eyes.
Take two tea bags and place them in refrigerator for an hour.
Place tea bag on both eyes for 10 minutes.
Remove it and rinse your face.
Repeat it two times in a day for a few days.
Turmeric plays an integral role in Ayurvedic medicines because of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that can help reduce dark circles. Turmeric will make your under eye skin smooth, soft and moisturized.
Make a paste by mixing two teaspoons of turmeric powder and some pineapple juice.
Apply this paste to affected areas of your eyes.
Let it rest for 10 minutes at least and rinse it off with cold water.
Use paste regularly for a few days and see the difference.
Ice is the cheapest way to cure itching and inflammation caused by the dark circles. It has the property to bring instant relief to swelling. Follow an easy manner to get rid of dark circles.
Take 2 to 3 cubes of ice in a piece of cloth.
Apply to the under eye dark circles for a few minutes.
Apply two times in a day.
The other way is you can soak a piece of cloth in cold water or cold milk.
Rest it for a few minutes on your eyes.
Aloe Vera has the anti inflammatory and antibacterial properties. It fights out the bacteria and infection and helps in soothing the skin caused by dark circles under the eyes. Aloe Vera gel is easily available in any store. Apply the gel directly on your sunburn it will lower the inflammation, itchiness.
If you have an Aloe Vera plant in your home.
Then take fresh gel from it by peeling out the leaf.
Massage gently with the gel below your eyes for few minutes. Rinse it with cold water after massaging.
Applying fresh gel is more effective.
Baking Soda has anti-inflammatory and bleaching properties. It clears the dead skin cells and the infection from the under eyes. It also protects the skin from harmful UV rays and environmental pollution. Follow an easy way to lower the dark circles.
Take a spoon of baking soda in a bowl and mix it with two spoons of water to form a paste.
Soak a cotton swab in the paste.
Use cotton swab to gently massage the under eyes.
Follow it daily two times in the morning and the evening.
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Dr. Reddy in Conversation with The Advisory Board's Managing Director, Eric Larsen
News 2016 July Dr. Reddy in Conversation with The Advisory Board's Managing Director, Eric Larsen
We are pleased to share this Q & A featuring Dr. Reddy and Prime Healthcare and the Managing Director of the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is a prestigious healthcare advisory organization located on three continents, and their Daily Briefing is distributed to more than 200,000 healthcare leaders throughout the United States and abroad. Please feel free to share Dr. Reddy's feature article with others in your organization and community. The beginning of the interview is posted below, or clickhere to read the full article.
You see a failing hospital. CEO Prem Reddy sees an opportunity.
Lessons from the C-Suite: Prem Reddy, Chair, President, and CEO of Prime Healthcare
1:53 PM on July 11, 2016
by Eric Larsen, Managing Partner
Welcome to the "Lessons from the C-suite" series, featuring Managing Partner Eric Larsen's conversations with the most influential leaders in health care.
In this edition, Prem Reddy, chair, president, and CEO of Prime Healthcare, tells Eric about his system's approach to working with health plans, how he became known as a turnaround expert, and why leadership is in his DNA.
Q: Dr. Reddy, you have 43 hospitals in 14 states and 43,000 employees. Prime is the fastest-growing health care system in the country, as Modern Healthcare pointed out last year, and the fifth largest for-profit system by hospital count. You've taken bets on acquiring distressed and bankrupt hospitals that others have passed over. How have you made these acquisitions work?
Prem Reddy: My experience with Desert Valley, the hospital I built, gave me a level of confidence that I could turn around a failing hospital. Desert Valley was sold, along with my physician practice management (PPM) company, to PhyCor. PhyCor declared bankruptcy soon after that. At the time, I was very disappointed with myself. This was my only experience building a hospital from the ground up, and I felt that I had failed.
In December 2000, the doctors at Desert Valley called to ask me to come back. I pooled all my money and borrowed money and bought it back. From 2001 to 2003, I worked as a physician, as a medical director, as a cardiologist. It was a mess at that time, but Desert Valley eventually did extremely well.
Later, a group of doctors 30 miles away bought a hospital when it was in distress, and then it failed and went into bankruptcy. They asked me to purchase the hospital through bankruptcy and turn it around. And then a third hospital in bankruptcy came to me. That's how I became a turnaround expert of hospitals.
Now, we get at least a few calls a week. We can't help everyone, but concentrate on those we can help.
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Tunisian Protesters Shouted 'Death to the Jews!
Israel is a sovereign nation and other nations do not have the right to tell her how to run her government or her nation.
But we know that all eyes will be on Israel in the last days, and we are to watch the fig tree, which represents the nation of Israel.
Yahweh is drawing all nations towards Israel for the final battle in which He will destroy all those that are trying to divide HIs land and conquer His people.
No matter what else happens in the world, we need to watch Israel and the middle east, for this will show us just how close the return of Yahshua Messiah is.
This country actually has no business telling any nation what to do, or the so-called "United Nations".
Is there an Nazarene assembly in Israel?
For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.
Banishment is forever. G-d's love provided Himself as the means for salvation for all people. No one needs to be banished.
PRAY FOR YISRA'EL TO ACCEPT YESHUA AND NOT TO BE ETERNALLY BANISHED FROM G-D.
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Q: Chrome not respecting rem font size on body tag? I've taken to using rem's to size fonts in recent projects, then using px as a fallback for older versions of IE.
I've also been setting a font-size of 62.5% on thehtml so I can more easily set font sizes later on in the stylesheet, I then set a font-size of 1.4rem on the body so unstyled elements have a base font-size of at least 14 pixels, see the code below:
html { font-size: 62.5%; } /* font-size: 62.5% now means that 1.0 rem = 10px */
body { background: #fff; font-family: arial; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 1.6rem; }

The problem is, Chrome seems to handle this in a strange way ... Chrome seems to set the font sizes correctly on the inital page load, but on subsequent refreshes the font sizes are way bigger than they should be.
SEE FIDDLE (HTML copied below for future reference)
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <title>Page Title</title>

This is a test, this font should have font-size of 14px.

This is a test, this font should have font-size of 14px.

This is a test, this font should have font-size of 14px.

Remember, you might need to hit run once or twice in Chrome to see said effect.
Does anybody know what is causing this or if there's a way around it? Am I committing a crime by setting a 62.5% font-size on the html element (I realise there are arguements against doing so)?

A: Try:
html { font-size: 62.5%; } /* font-size: 62.5% now means that 1.0 rem = 10px */
*{font-size: 1.4rem;line-height: 1.6rem; }
body { background: #fff; font-family: arial;  }

Seems to look better on refreshing the page :)
FIDDLE

A: The * selector is very slow, as the author of this bug in Chrome, I'd advise a workaround like this until the bug is fixed:
body > div {
    font-size: 1.4rem;
}

Provided you always have a wrapper div anyway ;)

A: Yes, this is a known bug in Chrome, which has been linked already.
I found
html { font-size: 100%; }

seems to work for me.

A: This seems to be a Chrome bug;  see Issue 319623: Rendering issue when using % + REMs in CSS, and/or a partly-merged duplicate: Issue 320754: font-size does not inherit if html has a font-size in percentage, and body in rem

A: The easiest solution that I have found is to simply change the body definition to
body {
    font-size: 1.4em;
}

Because it is the body, you don't have to worry about compounding – just use rems everywhere else.

A: The answer of Patrick is right.
We have the same issue on Android 4.4.3 WebView.
Before:
html {
    font-size: 62.5%;
}

body {
    font-size: 1.6rem;
}

After:
html {
    font-size: 62.5%;
}

body {
    font-size: 1.6em;
}

With em and not rem, it works !

A: The way I fix this is by setting an absolute font-size in the body-element. For all the other font-sizes I use rem:
html {
    font-size: 62.5%;
}

body {
    font-size: 14px;
}

.arbitrary-class {
    font-size: 1.6rem; /* Renders at 16px */
}


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I Like Superman?
I only truly started reading comics last year. To ease myself into the fandom, I decided it might be a good idea to get a broad sampling of all the DC and Marvel characters, starting with whatever origin stories and first issues I could find. I jumped right in with Batman: Year One, Green Arrow: Year One, and the first trades of Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four.
With few exceptions, my philosophy has been to read one trade paperback per character (life is much easier without needing to deal with single issues), and then move on to another character. I'm reading Star Trek graphic novels on the side, and I'm gradually exposing myself to more non-mainstream comics, but my focus is still on understanding who the DC and Marvel characters are, and what their worlds are like.
My plan is to have sampled a wide range of DC characters before starting to read Crisis on Multiple Earths, as the Crisis stories seem to have an impossibly large cast of characters, and I'd prefer to have even a minimal backstory on as many as possible. My plan with Marvel is to read through everything set in the Ultimate universe, because I'm all about continuity, and it's very easy to identify that anything with "Ultimate" in the title is going to take place in the same universe with the same characters. Yay continuity!
That being the case, my experience with DC has been very broad, and my experience with Marvel has been a little less broad but a bit more deep. My plan to read just one issue of a series before moving on to another hasn't been as successful with the Ultimate universe, but that's mostly because I haven't yet seen any issues of Ultimate Ant Man or Ultimate Quasar to diversify my collection. DC, on the other hand, has afforded me the opportunity to read Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Flash, Green Lantern, and others, though I confess I like Batman and Blue Beetle enough to have read through a few more comics than my self-imposed maximum of one.
Superman, though. Superman has exceeded the acceptable buffer limit of two comics on my shelf, and frankly, I'm shocked.
As I stated in my review of Superman: Birthright, which should have been the only Superman book on my shelf, I am not a fan of ol' Supes. After watching the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve, seeing Superman Returns, reading Superman: Birthright, and seeing one or two Superman cameos in the Batman books I'd been reading, I had concluded two things:
(1) Being an indestructable powerhouse vulnerable only to a silly green rock is booooring; and
(2) Fighting against Lex Luthor all the time is booooring.
Supes had one shot to win me over with Superman: Birthright, and though the comic was a very decent read, it didn't do much to convince me that I should spend any more time or money on Superman.
A while later I found myself browsing the shelves of a comics shop, and I happened upon Superman / Doomsday. Now, this might be worth spending a little more time and money on Superman; I knew nothing about Doomsday, so right off the bat I'd be getting exposure to a new villain, which worked into my plan quite nicely. Furthermore, there was the outside chance that Superman might be a smidge more interesting when pitted against Not Lex Luthor.
In the end, it was worth picking up because Doomsday is interesting enough and because Superman actually got smacked around a bit. Still not enough to convince me to read more Superman, but it at least helped to dispel some of my misgivings.
At any rate, that was the last I was planning to hear about Superman until he showed up in my Batman comics again. Naturally, things didn't go according to plan.
Somewhere around the same time, I read Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost because I wanted an introduction to Wonder Woman, and I couldn't think of a more ideal way to become introduced than through a crossover with Batman. Ultimately I wasn't captivated by the Woman's charms because I'm not all that interested in mythology, but I was willing to give her another chance if the right comic came along.
Enter Trinity.
Trinity is a Batman / Wonder Woman / Superman story that was a shoo-in for the position; if Wonder Woman didn't impress me, then I could at least depend on a good showing from Batman and a predictably ho-hum experience with Superman.
Now I am finally beginning to understand why people pay attention to the author of a comic book.
Previously, I expected the characters would be pretty consistent from one writer to the next; after all, I had grown up on shows like Star Trek, which had numerous writers, and there was never much variation between writers that I could detect. When all the heroes and villains and locations are already mapped out for you, how much difference could one writer make, anyhow?
Apparently, I know nothing about writing a story.
Under the command of Matt Wagner, Trinity gave me an appreciation for Superman that two movies, two trade paperbacks, and a lifetime of indirect exposure did not.
Kal-El has to keep up the pretense that he's a regular, imperfect human being, so he intentionally misses the train thrice per week in a town where the trains are always on time. He isn't just a brawny do-gooder; he is the last surviving member of an entire race of people, and his heritage carries a high value in this world of aliens.
Also, Bizarro is a wonderful villain, at least the way Matt Wagner writes and draws him.
Maybe this Superman guy is okay, I thought.
So I read Superman: Last Son. Now Supes is a family man. Now Clark Kent is looking out for other people, and not just trying to hide his secret identity. Now there are more people from Krypton who have survived, and Superman reacts accordingly. Now Lex Luthor is the clever, scheming villain he's supposed to be.
Now Superman is a real and dynamic character, not just an invincible goody-two-shoes with the same lame-o villain all the time.
It took a very long time, but I am shocked to say that I think I might consider reading another Superman comic.
Head for the hills; it's the end of the world.
Topics: Comics, Philosophy of Fandom, Stories of Fandom
Kingdom Come!
I just have to keep plugging it, it's one of the best Superman stories I've ever read.
Of course, if I keep pushing up your expectations, it'll inevitably suffer when you find it...
Flashman85 said...
Didn't I mention it? I finally tracked down a copy of Kingdom Come, and there's only a few titles I have to read before I jump into it. I'll be sure to do a full review!
Awesome! I'm looking forward to it!
Not only does it have a great character-based story, amazing art, and some of the most compelling portrayals of comic characters I've ever seen without being "post-modern gritty gore", but the main character is a preacher... which gives us an interesting perspective on events.
I'll second Kingdom Come and on top of that suggest Red Son. (It's in the Elseworlds line. I don't know if you've seen or heard much of Elseworlds: they consist of various what-if scenarios played out for a few books. Red Son addresses the question of what Superman would be like and what would become of the world if his capsule landed in the USSR and he were raised to be a paragon of that nation's espoused virtues.)
While Elseworlds can be hit-or-miss, I have found Red Son to be one of my favorite Superman stories. If you also appreciate Lex Luthor, Bizarro, and Batman, I think you would find their incarnations in this alternate universe satisfying.
I've heard of Red Son, but now that you've officially recommended it, I'll look into it. Thanks!
Another popular Elseworlds Superman book is the JLA collection called The Nail. The sequel, however, is less than satisfying.
Kingdom Come is also an Elseworlds book. If DC has a neat story idea that doesn't work in the "real world", they just throw it under the Elseworlds imprint. But then they started treating the Elseworlds books as other universes or the future and things are getting really inconsistent... but that's another gripe entirely.
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There are extensive areas of unmodified silver beech, red beech, and valley floor podocarp forest, alpine tussock lands, alpine wet turf and sub-alpine sphagnum bog. It is one of the few areas in the region containing southern rata, a species endangered by possum browsing. The forest is home to a great variety of indigenous forest birds, including the rare kaka, kakariki and NZ falcon (karearea).
Greater Wellington manages the Hutt Water Collection Area carefully,controlling possums and other animal pests to protect the rich variety of plant, fish, insect and bird species that make up the forest ecosystem. We use vegetation plots, exclosure areas and animal abundance plots to monitor vegetation response and animal numbers in the area. Photo points provide a record of vegetation changes at specific sites.


Established in 1898, the Kruger National Park is one of the Africa's oldest and greatest wildlife reserves. Twice the size of Yellowstone in the US, the Park is a paradise for the wildlife enthusiasts, nature photographers and birdwatchers.
Spend a full day on game drives in the Park with our guide who will be on the lookout for sightings of the "Big Five". Enjoy a packed lunch inside the park, returning to the lodge in the early evening.
Depart Kruger National Park and travel via the "Panorama Route", known for its cultural heritage and its dramatic landscapes. Travel through Gods playground enjoying the views of God's Window, Blyde River Canyon and the Three Rondavels arriving in Johannesburg in the evening.


I will be visiting seven schools that are close to some of our most mystical sites. Local children will tell us what legends surround the ancient circles and how these places spark their imagination and drive their creativity.
I will cover over 750 miles of Scotland's most beautiful countryside in my trusty, or should I say, 'rusty' camper-van. I'll take six ferry journeys and spend 10 nights away from home.
I have my recording equipment, my camera, my books and enough food to cover the trip.
Like my Bali trip last year, I want to take note of any interesting features and creatures I see along the way. Scotland is a wonderful country with amazing wildlife and a fascinating history.
Cross-curricular fun and interaction, where children's author, Paul Murdoch, looks at some of the most interesting sites in Scotland, but then uses these as a starting point for original writing.