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In The Eyes Of The Beholder: She Married The Eiffel Tower!!!
She Married The Eiffel Tower!!!
I'm back! After 4 days of not being online, I've finally taken my break! Phew! What a relief!
I spent most of my day yesterday in being a potato couch! hahaha! I was browsing through the channels on TV and finally settled to watching the Tyra Banks show. I got curious with her guest yesterday - the woman who married the Eiffel Tower! Yes! The beautiful Eiffel Tower in Paris! Interesting, isn't it?
Erika La Tour Eiffel is a 36-year-old ex-US Army soldier who claims to be an "objectum sexual" - a person who fall in love with inanimate objects. According to her, she used to be in love with her bow which made her become a world champion in archery. She also had a "relationship" with a bridge when she was young and got all broken hearted when the bridge collapsed to the river below it. While she was relaying the story of her "relationship" with the bridge, she was even teary eyed and very emotional. She said the pain and grieving is the same as loosing a person you really love.
She tried being with a man and a woman just to try to fit in to the mainstream but she said it wasn't the same as how she intimately feel towards the objects she love.
Here's part of the interview on Tyra's show.
Married to the Eiffel Tower????
Has the world gone crazy???
That's the funniest thing I've seen for a while.
Yeah, weird, isn't it? Lol!


Lucky riders will experience the thrill of testing the newborn electric motorcycle coming from the Italian Motor Valley, Modena: an aggressive streetfighter unique in the world for design and technology. Electric Motorcycles Nederland and MMS Concept (Energica Dutch and German importers) will be the partners for the first steps of Energica Eva Ride Experience Europe, the eagerly awaited Energica Eva test ride programme.
Energica Eva is a perfect combination of agility and aggressive riding. The electric heart of the streetfighter is a permanent magnet AC (PMAC) oil cooled motor. It has 70kW (95 hp c.ca) of instantaneous power and a torque of 170 Nm. Energica Eva has a range up to 200km (ECO mode) and can reach a top speed of 200km/h in Sport mode (autolimited).
Eva's battery, inverter, charger and ABS are constantly monitored and managed by a sophisticated Vehicle Control Unit, like Energica Ego. The powerful engine, the extraordinary torque and a characteristic whistling sound are what makes Energica motorcycles "the next big thing": performance and design that will conquer European riders.
The adventures of Energica Eva will continuing in May in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
At Eicma 2015 Energica Motor Company unveiled new products, starting from new accessories and two exclusive versions of Energica Eva! Here is the very first test ride.


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Q: Sometimes I want a generator The following code took me by surprise. I was hoping that I could write a function that might or might not act as a generator.
def mayGen(limit=5, asGenerator=False):
    result = []
    for i in range(1, limit + 1):
        n = i * i
        if asGenerator:
            yield n
        else:
            result.append(n)
    return result

print(mayGen(5, False))

for x in mayGen(5, True):
    print(x)

But no, the output of this program is
<generator object mayGen at 0x7fa57b6ea7b0>
1
4
9
16
25

Calling mayGen with asGenerator=False is simply useless. It seems that the mere existence of a yield statement, regardless of whether it is executed, radically changes the behavior of the containing function.
So what if mayGen was actually big and complicated and I wish I could ask it to either function as a generator, or write its computed output to a file? Is there a well-traveled path here? How are people handling this sort of thing?

A: Just write a generator. You can always take its output and do whatever you want with it: put it in a list, write it to a file, etc. Although, if that's what you're going to be using it for a lot, you might want to write a wrapper function to do it for you, for example:
def willGen(limit=5):
    for i in range(1, limit+1):
        n = i * i
        yield n

def willReturnList(*args, **kwargs):
    return list(willGen(*args, **kwargs))

A: Edit: For a number of reasons mentioned in comments, this is probably not a great idea. In any event, you can write this:
def mayGen(limit=5, asGenerator=False):
    def _generate(limit):
        for i in range(1, limit + 1):
            n = i * i
            yield n
    def _return(limit):
        result = []
        for i in range(1, limit + 1):
            n = i * i
            result.append(n)
        return result
    if asGenerator:
        return _generate(limit)
    return _return(limit)

Edit:
to simiplify even further, you should probably just return list(_generate(limit)) in the final line.

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For all those wanting to record 'Downton' on Prime tonight. I was setting up my PC to record 'Manners of Downton Abbey' on Prime tonight and noticed the record time set itself from 2030 to 0605. Thought I had a problem in my NextPVR software but got the same result after updating the EPG. Also got the same result on my Panasonic Recorder. There is currently an error in the EPG for Prime and all the Programs between 2130 and 0605 tonight are missing.
I reset my recorder manually via Timer record so I don't get several hours of unwanted recording.
I have identified the fault, unfortunately this cannot be easily fixed as the Freeview EPG was last updated around 6pm on a rotated schedule, next one I think is at 12 or 6am to load the next week listings for Christmas Day.
Thanks Biggles and Josh for flagging this and for the work around. There appears to be issues with the EPG data file supplied by the broadcaster from what I've heard. Last update was that Prime had shared their EPG data file and believed the issue to have been fixed. Will let you know if I come across any other info.
I set my recorder for Dowmton and it went for 9hrs 36min I could see it wouldn't stop is there any way I could have stopped it?
Pressing the Stop button usually works on most recorders.
I used Timer Record for last nights episode as it was obvious when setting and checking the setup that the finish time was wrong and I didn't want to record several hours.
It always pay to check settings after setting the recorder. The EPG is only a Guide so don't rely on it being accurate.
Interestingly both the last episode and this weeks episode seem to have started before the scheduled time too. Even with my recorder set to start 1 min early I still missed the beginning.
I always add 6 minutes before and after the recording as the networks are becoming a little silly with the delayed starts and series not running to schedule.
It does on my Panasonic.


Your mental health may greatly suffer from taking alcohol in the long term despite the enjoyable short term effects. Memory loss, depression and even suicide have all been known to come about as a result of taking alcohol.
The feeling of relaxation which is felt after having the first drink is because of the chemical changes caused by alcohol within the brain. It also minimizes worry or uneasiness and amplifies self-confidence in a lot of people. The transmission of neurons in our brain is only being affected at this point.
Still, the entire brain begins getting affected as you consume more alcohol. High intake of liquor can totally change your reaction, it doesn't matter whether you were happy when you drank the first glass, and it can cause you to become volatile and violent. Alcohol has also been linked to aggression and therefore you could become aggressive, angry, anxious or depressed.
On the contrary, the pleasures you seek for drinking alcohol are not always achieved.
Our senses become weakened, lowering sensory input and perception of the world around us when we consume alcohol. When susceptible to apprehension, it's better to identify the root of the problem and resolve it, then keep off from any substance that generates worries. Let's take for instance a man who pays attention to a particular person his girlfriend talks with, that makes him feel bad, rather than focus on knowing her other friends.
You will always appear gloomy once you abuse alcohol. It is simply the brain chemistry which is beginning to react. Serotonin is a brain chemical that helps in mood regulation and this may be lowered by frequent drinking.
In the UK, the probability of becoming high-risk consumers or abusers of alcohol is twice as much when they also experience extreme sadness or feelings of persecution. The alcohol may be used as part of a self medication regime by people with pre-existing mental health issues in some cases. A number of people who began consuming alcohol initially get to know later that it is the root cause of their anxiety.
Heavy consumption of alcohol also has an effect on your relationships with your partner, family and friends. Your output at work could also be affected negatively. Depression can fester well in the presence of such issues.
There is a connection between psychosis, self-harm and suicide Alcohol can multiply the way people react to impulses, reducing their restraint, and making them to act as they would not have.
The NHS in Scotland has confirmed that over 50% of the people who were admitted to hospitals because they had deliberately injured themselves confirmed that they had consumed alcohol immediately before or after injuring themselves. 27% of all men and 90% of women attributed the reasons of causing self-harm to alcohol.
You may not know that High risk drinkers usually also have extreme sadness and delusions of persecution; and vice-versa.
Psychosis can occur when a person drinks excessively, like consuming up to 30 units everyday for some weeks. This is a severe mental illness where the individual will begin to address and it and has delusions of persecution. Mental disorder also happens when one abruptly quits drinking and begins to lack the capacity to focus due to an acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning, called 'delirium tremens'.
Memory can be affected by taking alcohol since it slows down the processes of the brain. The brain may cease to add anything in the 'record store' after heavy drinking. This is the reason behind the memory loss that you may experience after drinking. This phenomenon is known as a short-term memory failure or a blackout and does not indicate that the cells within the brain have been damaged but frequent consumption of alcohol in large quantities can damage the brain because of the effect alcohol can have on brain chemistry and processes.
The memory could also be negatively affected by constant heavy drinking. This may make it difficult to remember recent events even on days when you haven't consumed any alcohol.
FACTS The chemicals that affect your mood maybe interfered with by alcohol.
Try mapping out alcohol free days. Tolerance sets in when you drink alcohol regularly. To keep the possibility of addiction low, health professionals recommend not taking alcohol on certain days. Check it out and give yourselves a break if you would like to understand the kind of positive results you can experience.


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RJ's FAQs of LIFE
My name is R.J. and I'm here to answer your FAQ's of Life and pay you in common sense.
LESSON 32: JOHN HENRY – A TALE OF IRON & MAGIC
Last time I looked at something from Mayke, I made a distinct comment about what I'd seen.
I'm here to say, today, that I was wrong.
Hey and Welcome to the next Lesson.
LESSON 32: JOHN HENRY – A TALE OF IRON & MAGIC | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
JOHN HENRY: A TALE OF IRON & MAGIC
-by Edward Williams & art by Miguel Angel Ruiz and Tim Wasney
"throughout this entire issue there's been a constancy of color: purple. […] You get various colors for our heroes, but always, negatively speaking, color is associated with the other side."
[PREVIOUSLY]
Well, okay, not wrong. I'm never wrong. I'm too dope for that, but more accurately close. Yeah, I'm going with that.
My first instance is here:
We see a phantom-like character appear and only see their silhouette. It's a spectacular way to establish a character, proving, once again, Ruiz and Wasney are one hell of a combo. But, back to the panel, we see kids run away from this guy.
SEE!?? PURPLE = BAD!
But, then later we see it isn't a villain, but our hero: John Henry.
Now, if you recall from my previous lesson, which you totally should because it's dope and share it around to help my blog grow, Henry was one of the good ones. A godlike being that helped form that landscape which civilizations were born.
He actively fought against those in purple.
Why is he purple now? Did he fall? He's scaring kids now; is he evil? Has our hero finally changed after years of pain?
Yes, but, like before, not exactly.
We see he's greeted by Sil'at, an enchantress from the looks of it, and it doesn't take long for tensions to rise.
Then, things go from John Henry to Henry the Giant REAL QUICK!
While I'm gearing up for a fest with long, emotional dialogue with bloody results, I…again was close.
They don't. No fight. Not so much as a single punch is thrown.
But they do talk.
And THAT is where I was wrong.
And THAT, my FamiLee, is the lesson.
[LESSON]
John Henry and Mayke show us that there's more than one way to end a war and more than one war to fight. Yes, we can say superheroes win the day by beating up the bad guys, but what about the ramifications of those actions? What good does throwing a punch do if you're walking around with your darkest demons?
What good does cleaning up the world if the one you're making is worse off?
Henry and Sil'at settle their differences with a cordial conversation and owning up to their mistakes. Henry [Cavill, ha!] could have thrown punches and cause more damage Man of Steel's ending, but it wouldn't change a thing.
This was the way. This was the lesson to learn.
I learned that even gods and legends, especially from Greek mythology, come from mortals. If the ones who make the gods are imperfect, so must be their creations.
To admit fault, there has to be fault to begin with.
We create our legends and art reflects our reality.
It's okay to be wrong, it's okay to be angry, but there's a time and place for everything and it's okay to admit fault, especially if it means you can move forward together because, at the end of it all, it doesn't matter about "good" or "evil", purple or non — it matters what you do with it.
Purple as I saw it was used for evil, but not here.
John Henry will make a new road for us with more than just his tale of Iron & Magic.
[SUPPORT]
You can find the official sites: https://wearemayke.com & https://www.patreon.com/wearemayke and issue 1 here: https://wearemayke.com/volume-one/john-henry-a-tale-of-iron-and-magic/ Official twitter: @wearemayke , @itsedwilliams , Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearemayke/ , Instagram: @wearemayke
Well, that's all for now. So, until Mayke crosses over with Beautiful Fruit's canon or Eminem responds to Nick Canon, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Until then, class dismissed!
Author R.J. LEEPosted on December 16, 2019 December 16, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags black art, black comics, ed williams, indie comic, john henry, miguel a ruiz, passing, rjfaqs, tim wasney, wearemaykeLeave a comment on LESSON 32: JOHN HENRY – A TALE OF IRON & MAGIC
LESSON 31: SPEEDSTAR
Is Ben gonna be cocky and brash like Sonic? Will he be methodical like Barry Allen or sweet and life loving (…) like Wally West?
LESSON 31: SPEEDSTAR – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
SPEEDSTAR
-by Deandre Moffett & Alejandro Acosta, Francis Llamzon
Being a fan of comics, speedsters are actually at the top of totem pole for me. The Flash, both Barry and Wally (except not so much anymore because Rebirth did that boy dirty), Ultimate Quicksilver, Sonic the Hedgehog – the list goes on.
Whether they were born with it or had greatness thrust upon it, every speedster winds up having their own story that's interesting to their respective character, so how does Speedstar standout?
Is Ben gonna be cocky and brash like Sonic? Will he be methodical like Barry Allen or sweet and life loving (AND NOT MASS MURDEROUS) like Wally West?
The first thing I notice about this is the art direction. It's simply and not too busy that makes reading it a nice combination rather than diminishing story for style when it comes to content.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of Young Justice.
Like Young Justice, it's friendly to a younger audience but isn't afraid to tackle more adult/grayer areas and that's what I like about this most. It's honesty.
Later on, Ben gets his powers and tries to stop a robbery. Pretty cut and dry, but the conclusion couldn't be far from it.
Minor spoilers, but when, as it's his first outing, he there's a robbery, he tries to take out the criminals and save the day.
And, you know what? This was a damn good choice. Not because it was the hero needing to overcome some great trial or tribulation, but because of the other side of the situation.
They're not sad, they're GRATEFUL.
No, Ben didn't stop the robbery, but, more importantly, NOBODY GOT HURT. He didn't need to see or do things the way a traditional hero would, but that was perfect. There was never a better situation for an up-and-coming hero to learn other than that.
Speedstar is a great introduction to superhero comics. A newer approach with a safe, albeit refreshing take on an origin story. You'll pick up beats from other tales, yes, but also are taken on a different path that is welcoming to all newcomers.
This is a story that is shooting to first place.
You can find the official site: https://www.waypointcomics.com and issue 1 here: https://www.waypointcomics.com/store/speedstar-issue-1 & https://indyplanet.com/speedstar-1 , Official twitter: @Waypointcomics , @deandre_moffett , Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waypointcomics/ , Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waypointcomics/ , @waypointcomics
Well, that's all for now. So, until Static and Icon star in Young Justice or Teen Titans comes back, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on December 12, 2019 December 12, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags Alejandro Acosta, art, comic, Deandre Moffett, digital art, Francis Llamzon, indie comic, rjfaqs, sonic the hedgehog, speedstar, the flash, waypointLeave a comment on LESSON 31: SPEEDSTAR
LESSON 30: HERO GENERATION
Guardian Prime lands and the people below are blurred and there's a bit of motion blur as well to show his descent…
In other words, HA! DOPE!
LESSON 30: HERO GENERATION – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HERO GENERATION: EXTREME MEASURES
-by Ozo "Da Vinci" Ezeogu, Tobe "Max" Ezeogu, & Michael "Balox" Balogun
Now, this isn't my first time learning from "Comic Republic" and what they have to offer. I went over their work before for Black Business Month ( https://bit.ly/2seejbV ) and they've been on my radar ever since.
I distinctly remember having nothing but positivity for the project. It gave me a sense of hope and even encouragement as I myself still strive for my own voice and I'm happy to say that this was no exception.
We start out by one of the more creative pages I've seen in a while with what looks to be a housefire. Now, the inner monologue gives an extra a voice, but what stands out to me is the choice in panel separation.
Rather than regular blocks like we're used to, the falling debris serves to tell the story and keep the page layout as we'd expect from a comic. It's a small, but welcome change to the norm that I'd expect nothing less from these guys.
It doesn't take long for things to pick up speed as we're introduced to our first hero, Max Speed.
The aura reminds me of Quicksilver from Days of Future Past and, like so, he's one the best parts of it.
Shortly after the team, formally known as the Extremes, joins in and helps put out the fire, only to see a bigger problem on the horizon.
Wasting no time, we get to see just why it is that they're a team.
Power Boy takes to the skies and battles the meteor shower outright while Nutech handles the problem as best he can from the ground using his magnetism, leaving Max Speed to evacuate the area.
They move in such syncopation, but still have hiccups in dialogue and overstating their abilities. They're good, but not pros and, like the product, it shows me growth can come from it and it will get better.
Another thing I want to touch on, especially when comparing from the last project, is the art.
Now, the art is still consistently good and layered as you can tell, but I want to point out some of my favorite parts of the issue.
Max Speed, again, has my attention most because I can see things that I used to do. The bulled effects, to further show his speed is something I used in Photoshop when I was getting my bearings years ago.
Seeing it here in an indie comic within a published continuity with their own following, site AND PHONE APP, it paints a picture BY EXAMPLE without the need of a speech bubble that, in time, maybe I can be up there, too.
LAST THING, THO!?
THEY FINISH THE QUIP!
Once again, Comic Republic never ceases to amaze and I feel like the two things I've found are only the start of their works. At the end of their issue, they leave a paper trail for the next step/chapter of this story and it's from another title.
They plan out stories while crossing over titles and show confidence in their work and light the way for other striving artists.
You don't have to go to Extreme Measures to be the start of a new Generation.
You can find the official site, and countless other stories: https://www.thecomicrepublic.com/readcomics.html ,
Official twitter: @comicrepublicng
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ComicRepublic
Instagram: instagram.com/comicrepublicmedia , @comicrepublicmedia #ComicRepublic
Well, that's all for now. So, until Tobey Maguire joins the MCU or Anakin Solo comes back, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on December 9, 2019 December 9, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags black art, black business, black comics, comic republic, extreme measures, guardian prime, hero generation, Michael Balogun, Ozo Ezeogu, rjfaqs, Tobe EzeoguLeave a comment on LESSON 30: HERO GENERATION
LESSON 29: LOVE UNIVERSITY
This song [Parallel Lines] is quite possibly one of the most TRAGIC love songs I've ever heard and something tells me it'll play Lucy's story perfectly…
LESSON 29: LOVE UNIVERSITY — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LOVE UNIVERSITY
-by Allison Chaney Whitmore, Carola Borellti & Agnese Pozza
As someone in his first real relationship, awkward family exchanges and all, (Happy 2 Years, baby), I gotta admit I'm out of my element when it comes to love. Things I learn media, mostly forced sessions of romance in film that is abusive half the time, are rarely as things should be. Also, Jim and Pam's relationship from The Office got me thinking that could happen to me.
Too bad it did.
Point is, love has expectations, but it rarely is as you think it should be and that's the best thing about Love University.
Whitmore gives us a side hug and walks us through meeting our protagonist, Lucy Barloc, but it doesn't really feel like we're "meeting her" because of the way she's naturally conveyed.
She goes to a sensitive of sorts to see about her future and that look on her face says it all. We've all made it.
Now, normally, I don't care for a lot of exposition said at the beginning of stories. It's often that it comes off as an information dump and can be really disengaging, but Whitmore, without any external dialogue or thought boxes, shows why she's an award-winning writer.
Lucy is alone.
She doesn't talk to herself or overthink things and she's meeting someone for the first time. She has to explain herself and what she reveals isn't just all just surface level stuff, it gives perspective on not what she wants, but who she is.
With that one line, she goes from being a young girl just looking for love and possibly a prince charming to wanting to belong. That goes SO MUCH FURTHER than the superficial expectation of loving someone based on their external appearance.
You can go your whole life surrounded by friends, family and colleagues, everyone wanting you just the same, but a feeling of wanting to belong can always be there. That's a self-discovering venture not many can say they've taken because, like Lucy, they're looking to someone else to tell them where they belong.
Lucy wants love from someone else because she feels that's where she will belong.
Lucy, at her core, wants to matter.
THAT is why this exposition matters.
Like whiplash, you don't get the "be yourself" speech or "your prince charming is on his way". You get a no. A straight up NO. There's more there, but by then I was already hooked not only because of the story, but the implications of what that means.
"True love is forbidden". It comes off harsh and surprising to say the least, but that's why I wanna talk about it.
Love is Forbidden, but she never says what KIND of love is forbidden.
The Ancient Greeks define love as 8 different kinds:
Agape – Unconditional Love: Altruistic, selfless and often spiritually loving.
Eros – Romantic Love: Romantic, physical, passionate love
Philia – Affectionate Love: The kind of love you feel for your friends. Platonic.
Philautia – Self-Love: Healthy, self love.
Storage – Familiar Love: Like Philia, but more like parent-child love
Pragma – Enduring Love: Love that has grown and endured over time.
Ludus – Playful Love: Basically the "Honeymoon Phase" of every relationship
Mania – Obsessive Love: Star Wars fans
So…which is it? Is it all of it? Is it implied that all forms are "True Love" and thus all are forbidden or is one more "true" than the others and only it applies?
We later find out that "falling in love" is forbidden. So, is it the act of falling in love or is it love in general or, in this latest context, deep, enthusiasm?
My guess? No matter what the answer is we have to think differently on what it could be. Love has so many different interpretations and, to prove my point, we're gonna have to look at Frozen.
Won't lie, when I first saw this film, I was not expecting this. However, a sister can truly love their sister. The film was smart in always leaving out "kiss", only mentioning it as an example of the act, not the requirement.
Since it's "forbidden" to love at the school, they're teaching them how to be fighters.
Love and War are synonymous and Cupid himself is known to carry a bow, even was lonely in mythology. Cupid is known for helping others fall in love…with a weapon.
Personally, I think she's closer to that "Parallel Line" kind of love, that tragic kind.
Yeah, it's country, but rock with me for a sec.
This song is quite possibly one of the most tragic love songs I've ever heard (I know, right?) and something tells me it'll play Lucy's story perfectly.
You said "I love you" to me
I don't know what that means
So I froze in my feet
People use it too carelessly
And I couldn't believe
That you would dive in so deep
And you said perfectly
Everything I've been feeling about you
It's time to break the chains that held me back from you
See, this stanza/verse leads you to believe you have someone, a man in this case, that's nervous and hasn't been in love so he doesn't have that connection but he'll finally get there – a chance that Lucy, too, could have.
But you'd be wrong.
Take a little bit of my
Heart tonight
No, I literally don't mind
Just please don't misplace it
And take a little bit of my
No, baby be mine now
Baby, be mine now
Maybe it's time we put our hearts in a parallel line
This is where all my thoughts are proven.
He wants someone to be his, while he himself is only giving a PIECE of his heart. Of course he wouldn't mind because he has most of it. If love fails, he's lost nothing. It's just a piece, but it's masqueraded as some grand gesture. (no, seriously, the next verse starts with "I was never the type to put it all on the line")
But the point I really want to make is in the last line –
PARALLEL LINES.
If love is truly the matter, why would parallel lines be the thing he chooses?
Parallel lines DON'T TOUCH.
Forever, they're cursed to run the same course as the other, but never touching. The closest thing to love, but they'll never really have it.
The best stories are the tragedies.
And that, I feel, is what Lucy may be starting her journey on.
But, hey, even Cupid walked away with a W in the end, see here:
https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/cupid/
Anyway, back to Love University, I gotta talk about he[art]. (#barz)
There are countless reasons to gush on various panels because not one is wasted and, even without text, you're given a sense of person.
What I want to point out specifically is this particular shading.
Just by looking at the particular shading, you can tell the leaves above them are shattered and not completely blocking out the sun like they could have from window. They're outside and those are leaves and I LOVE THAT.
Love University applies interesting twists to tried and true concepts while laying the groundwork for further issues to come. As someone whose avenue isn't romance, this is approachable to anyone who just wants a newer, cooler step into that realm with things that may be more than what they seem.
(seriously, they're eating ambrosia. ISSHEAGODDESS!?)
Love U belongs in your reading list; you're gonna learn to love it.
You can find the official site, and first issue, : https://gumroad.com/evoluzionepublishing , Official twitters: @alli_whitmore , @CarolaBorelli , @JustinBirch , @Marcel_Dupree , & @EvoluzionPub Facebook: facebook.com/evoluzionepublishing , Instagram: instagram.com/evoluzionepublishing
Well, that's all for now. So, until I find love using Brian McKnight's steps or Chris Brown has me on a remix, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on December 6, 2019 December 6, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags agnese pozza, black art, carola borelli, disney, evoluzione comic, evoluzione publishing, frozen, indie comic, lesson 29, love, love university, rjfaqsLeave a comment on LESSON 29: LOVE UNIVERSITY
LESSON 28: MINE TO AVENGE [BOOK OF LAYLA #1]
Let me see what this is all abo—
EXCUSE ME!?
I'm thinking it'll be a nice, new title to read, but I GET HIT WITH GENIUS ARTISTRY!
MINE TO AVENGE: BOOK OF LAYLA #1
-by Robert Jeffrey II, Matteo Illuminati & Loris Ravina
This title is a bit different from my previous ones. Someone, @Marcel_Dupree on Twitter, came to me asking if I'd look at certain titles and this one was on the list, so, thanks, Marcel. I got you, bro. Let me see what this is all abo—
Look, man, I know this is my first issue requested, but I'm about to not do this going forward. I'm thinking it'll be a nice, new title to read, but I GET HIT WITH GENIUS ARTISTRY!
I can't go any further without commenting on the art, specifically in this page/panels.
First off, the accuracy. The sun is setting and its angle paints the whole setting in a peachy, red color, but the tiniest bits of planned imperfections is what draws me in.
Here in the corners, you can see splotches of paint drops (or ink?), like it's given a literal touch of "paint" to the scenery. It pops out more and given the vibe we're given of the bottom panels, it's like the creator itself didn't have time for perfect colorings.
We see here, she's [Leah] in a rush, looking back like something is chasing her and the paint/ink blotches added to the atmosphere.
SPEAKING OF ATMOSPHERE,
Look at the windows! Major props and kudos to the artist because not only will you see that spectacular showcasing of the angle on the walls, there's TWO. Given that the residence is at an angle, the windows on the walls would ABSOLUTLEY give off that specific look.
Lastly, [my bad, there's a lot to unpack here] we see Leah running and, if you notice, there's less and less light on each panel, like she's trying to escape the darkness.
Now, I'm of the subscription of thought that darkness in and of itself isn't something to fear…but, nah, fam, if I saw THIS coming for me, I'd be bookin' it, too.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – *addendum: even the border of the image gives a horrific change!
Now, if you think I'm giving away a lot of plot, out of fear of spoilers, I'm not.
This is only the first page.
Before I move on completely, I do want to point out one specific panel – without context, and a little play with lighting and colors, the artists give us this little nugget. As opposed to a man with a hat, at a certain angle, he becomes…
Y'all ain't slick. That was dope and you know it!
The thing that got me was I didn't know exactly how to approach this issue as I knew nothing about it and wanted to go in blind. What comes off as a supernatural, historical piece gets flipped on its head when we're greeted to this:
So, it's a futuristic setting? Okay. No problem, I can dig it.
I know I've gushed a LOT about the art, but the writing shouldn't be underestimated, either.
In so many comics nowadays, we see dialogue that just doesn't work or that it's trying to emulate how they thing people of the story should sound.
We're introduced to two other characters, Travis and Prya, two may-or-may-not-be siblings on this journey. Now, instead of constant "lil' bro" and "sis" talk, because that's how all siblings talk, I guess, we just get straight to it in something that's relevant and natural.
Now, just given a subtle clue, I think they're already trained fighters just by one specific shot.
Guess who ALSO has a glint like that in their eye? And if he was trained, so must she have been.
Anyway, they touchdown and are about to start the mission when Prya finds out his AI is named "Sade".
Not one step missed and not beat skipped. The dialogue flows naturally and you don't get too much of a sense of MCU humor where moments are setup just for one-line punchlines.
Then it kicks it up to high gear (without giving too much away) in an action set piece that's… Bay Boys II's intro mixed with Vanhelsing. Now, I'm just gonna point out on…or a couple, specific shots to prove a point.
Weapon of choice? Sword. Guess who ALSO uses a swor—lemme stop.
Can't forget about Prya. She's the one that…Set It Off.
I'll stop.
I like this panel because it's that brief moment right before everything shuts down. That look of surprise one gets right before death, before they can even register what happened. She's impressive like that.
Mine to Avenge is a title that I can't wait to see what comes next.
It supplements great writing, an intriguing idea with supernatural and mystery elements with a pretty bow of futurism on top while not pandering to any kind of crowd by mentioning our characters' race.
And, you know what? I like that.
No superhero needs to justify being White or their race, why should we?
I say that to say, like Mine to Avenge, it's okay to be different and genuine. I can't put Mine to Avenge in a genre "box", of sorts. It's got elements of horror, supernatural, mystery, sci-fi, and Black (another box for us to fit in, awesome…) all in one, but never sacrifices any one portion of it for another.
It's okay to be you and like multiple things, so long as it's genuine.
To support and read more of this work, you can find the official site, and first issue, : https://gumroad.com/evoluzionepublishing , Official twitters: @SYNCHRKJ , @Marcel_Dupree , @EvoluzionePub & @matt_llluminati , Facebook: facebook.com/evoluzionepublishing , Instagram: instagram.com/evoluzionepublishing
And, another big thank you to Marcel for pointing me in this direction. I'll be happy to get the word out, brother.
Well, that's all for now. So, until Ryan Drummond or Jaleel White come back as Sonic or people stop asking Chadwick Boseman to say "Wakanda Forever", I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags black art, black superheroes, book of layla, evoluzione publishing, indie comic, loris ravina, marcel dupree, matteo illuminatio, mine to avenge, rjfaqs, robert jeffrey iiLeave a comment on LESSON 28: MINE TO AVENGE [BOOK OF LAYLA #1]
LESSON 27: ROUTE 3
Quick question, have you ever seen the trailer to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"?
THAT'S WHAT ROUTE 3 REMINDS ME OF!
LESSON 27: ROUTE 3 – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ROUTE 3 #1
-by Robert Jeffrey II & Sean Damien Hill
It's quaint, slow and, in spite of its black-and-white times of filming, actually rather, mostly pleasant. Hitchcock doesn't waste any time trying to scare the viewer; he's probably the furthest thing from it. He's calm, collected and well dressed. Everything is fine…
Until he speaks.
He talks about the film, but cuts himself off before giving too much away. Not about the murders, mind you, but about the context of them. The detail.
By leaving out key elements to scenes, your interest is piqued until you just have to see what he's talking about.
It starts out calm, if not almost cliché opening of army men on their way to handle a hostile situation with someone with powers. With the way comic book films have dominated the box office in the past decade, it isn't anything you haven't seen before.
Don't get me wrong, the art is great. You get a sense of energy forming around him, but you can't place whether it's fire or smoke, giving a newer layer of intrigue.
The kid doesn't even speak, giving him a stoic vibe that shrouds him in further mystery.
It's all fine, until this happens.
Wait, hold on.
There's…another? Who is he?
Where did he come from? How did they not know about him?
But, up! Doesn't stop there.
So, hold up, he can speak!? So, what is he saying!!? What is it!?
THEN – !
We cut to this. Just a kid. Chilling in the morning. Then you're left wondering what happened? What was the other guy? What's the power? What is going on?
And the story just keeps going, knowing GOOD AND WELL what it did.
And it goes on and on like this throughout the WHOLE issue. You get something you're interested in and it maliciously continues on knowing it's got your interest held hostage and not in a click-bait-y way, but you really want to keep reading to see where it will go.
At the risk of minor spoilers, you get one last nugget dropped and it's this:
DUDE! WHO IS HE!?
WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
WHAT'S "STARTING"!?
And, then it ends. It ends knowing it placed enough nuggets that, if you're paying attention, will fester and grow into a purchase of their next issue and, man…
It's a damn clever plan!
Route 3 starts off in action and leaves you with wanting more. If you're looking for a newer approach to comics, this will take you down the right route.
[LESSON]:
Even if you think you know where something is going, stick with it. You owe it to yourself to see things through to the end and, who knows? You may just learn something new.
If YOU would like to support and read more of this work, you can find the first issue on: https://peepgamecomix.com/product/route-3-1/ , official site: https://blacksci-fi.com , https://blacksci-fi.com/about-us/ , and learn more about the author himself: https://blacksci-fi.com/author/robert/ Official twitters: @SYNCHRKJ , @iamblackscifi , @EvoluzionPub , @133art , @TerminusComics
And, if you want to see his next venture: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384244474/kamikaze-sci-fi-animated-short-and-comics-anthology
Support his work on kickstarter!
Well, that's all for now. So, until someone explains the meaning of "ay" in "okay" to me or Sonic comes out with a good game, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on November 21, 2019 November 21, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags black art, black scifi, black superheroes, comic, indie comic, rjfaqs, robert jeffrey ii, route 3, sean damien hillLeave a comment on LESSON 27: ROUTE 3
LESSON 26: BLACKOUT
What do you get when you mix the social issues of today and past, the technological advancements of Wakanda and the futuristic touch of a Cyberpunk Sci-Fi with time travel?
I…don't even know.
And that's the realest compliment I can give it.
LESSON 26: BLACKOUT — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-by Roosevelt Pitt Jr, Alexander Malyshev & Xong Bros
Reading Blackout, I'm given so many vibrant panels, witty dialogue, action that's on par with the newest triple-A studio games and vibes that should be clashing, but mesh well at every turn.
For something called Blackout, the array of colors and saturations is astounding, but something tells me there's more to that.
Initial impressions give me a futuristic utopia of sorts where more people of color are out in possibly different roles in society. You get an impression here there are vacationers, stewardesses and security and not one hint of a hassle.
I imagine living in Salem, you'd probably get used to its settings, but I can't look away. There's technology the likes of which top sci-fi artists could be envious of, but as we go on, there's hints of a fantasy elements, as well.
Thanks to Brother's spear, he's able to see those who've passed as they walk around invisible to those not able to see them. There's a lot going on in this panel so I'll try to put it all into words:
From the light of the spear, you get a sense of radiant light that shines omnidirectionally as shone by the lighting in the peaks of the fabrics of his arms.
From that same light, though, you can see it line perfectly up on the building as if it's a projector, something you'd see with sci-fi technology, not regular light like you would a light bulb which leads me to wonder if it's more than just mythical light or if it's got tech in it, too.
You can see a head's up display [HUD] from this same light which could explain it and, as it's not coming from Richard, who we find out is the "tech" guy, it's probably from the spear.
Also, you see the dead walking around as it displays its power, possibly playing into the "go into the light" when referring to death.
MAN, there's a lot to unpack and the issue refuses to slow down.
Since I'm in the topic of aesthetics, can we just TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND?
Previously when I spoke on Tephlon Funk! (https://bit.ly/2ps623b), I spoke on how two different styles coming together could end drastically making the tone disjointed and unenjoyable. Even talked about Harriet Tubman Demon Slayer (https://bit.ly/2Om4VdJ) having chibi moments like Teen Titans.
This is just another example of greatness coming together.
Imani has features of anime while on the same panel we have what we consider regular comic art, with sci-fi tech AND spirits all in that small portion of a panel AND ALSO, notice the change in dialogue boxes that signifies more tech-y sounding dialogue rather than normal language.
Not one portion of the panel looks out of place and my kudos goes out to the creators.
The biggest point of interest for me, though, is the explanation of Blackout and while I won't spoil it because I feel that revelation is worth the price of issue alone, I will point to THIS panel.
It's not the massive array of information on screens. It isn't the kaleidoscope of colors to look at. It's this.
See it yet? How about now?
The pixels!
The tiniest pixels on the screen were placed there to put in further detail on the screen. For context, this is Justice League from DC Comics.
You get a sense of technology being all around Cyborg, true, but it's always seen with a pattern overlayed over the drawing, hence the checkerboard designs. The art is superb, but you really only get a sense of him looking at screens given the context of the scene, not the art itself.
Another instance is here where they are looking at a screen, but it's just a blank box.
No disrespect, but when it comes to Blackout, they went the extra mile and it needs to be shared. Like I told Beserat at Etan Comics,
Blackout didn't have to do that, but they did.
This is a title you can't miss. Blackout is definitely one that needs more light shed on it.
If YOU would like to support and read more of this work, you can find the first issue on: https://indyplanet.com/the-powerverse-blackout-1 , official site: https://willpowercomic.com , and there is a kickstarter up for the follow up, sequel issue available here: https://bit.ly/2XnxCuU Official twitter: @WILLPOWER4
Well, that's all for now. So, until issue 2 drops or Netscape makes a comeback, I'll see you for the next lesson.
Author R.J. LEEPosted on November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 Categories Books, comics, indie comic, UncategorizedTags black art, black comics, blackout, comic, indie comic, rjfaqsLeave a comment on LESSON 26: BLACKOUT
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It took me a full day (- 6h give or take) to make an animated, low poly mecha. This is why I'm not a graphics artist!
You can see the 32×32 texture in the top left corner. I didn't even use all of it yet.
Tomorrow's for gameplay then. Gotta keep it simple, but taken that I have no ambitious design this time, it ought to happen.
Now for some well earned sleep.


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ND Law hosts interfaith dinner in observance of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter
Author: Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame Law School students and members of the wider South Bend community came together on the evening of Friday, April 22, for an interfaith dinner in Eck Commons.
About 70 people from different faith backgrounds attended the dinner, which was held in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Jewish Passover, and Easter. Every 30 years, the three major holidays coincide for three consecutive years, so the event on April 22 was a rare opportunity to celebrate Ramadan, Passover, and Easter at the same time.
The event started at sunset, which was 8:33 p.m., with the Ramadan tradition of breaking fast taking place with dates and water at 8:36 p.m. A Muslim attendee then delivered the call to prayer, customarily performed to remind Muslims to leave worldly matters behind and come pray. Attendees of other faith traditions sat in silent recognition as Muslim attendees then went to one end of Eck Commons for the maghrib prayer, which Muslims pray at sunset each day.
Dinner featured halal food and matzo. Local spiritual leaders from each religious tradition spoke during the meal.
The University of Notre Dame's staff chaplain, Rev. James Bracke, C.S.C., spoke about Easter. Mahan Mirza, executive director of Notre Dame's Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, talked about Ramadan. Bob Feferman, community relations director for the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, and Rabbi Shoshana Feferman of Temple Israel in Valparaiso, Indiana, talked about Judaism and the significance of Passover.
The event was the first time Notre Dame Law School came together as a community for an interfaith dinner, but it will not be the last. The Law School will host another interfaith dinner next year when the three faith traditions will coincide for a final time before the 30-year hiatus.
"The beauty of a time when Ramadan, Passover, and Easter all coincide is that it gives us an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the inter-spiritual ties that bind these Abrahamic traditions together," the Law School's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Max Gaston said. "Whether you are Jewish, Muslim, or Catholic, we are all called to a path of love, and the belief that dedication to that love is the highest expression of our faith."
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Patty Wetterling questions sex offender laws
Fri, 2014-08-01 20:10 +0000 — CCJR-NH Staff
In a March 2013 article, The outspoken activist talks about a change of heart over the wide-reaching scope of laws she helped put into action.
On an overcast spring day in 1996, a handful of people filed out of the Oval Office and assembled on the driveway of the White House before a scrum of reporters. They cast satisfied glances at the television cameras as birds chirped and a helicopter whirred nearby. Nothing except for the white memorial ribbons pinned to their lapels indicated the nature of their fateful connection to each other as the parents of children kidnapped by strangers and, in all but one case, viciously assaulted and murdered.
Standing together, they represented a grim who's who of notorious child abductions of the late 20th century. On one end was John Walsh, whose six-year-old son, Adam, was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981 and later discovered decapitated. Then there was Marc Klaas, the father of Polly Klaas, a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, in 1993 and whose body was found two months later in a shallow grave. In the middle were Rich and Maureen Kanka, whose seven-year-old daughter, Megan, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 1994 by a convicted sex offender living across the street from their home in New Jersey. At the front of the group was Patty Wetterling, the mother of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old who was abducted at gunpoint near his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota, in 1989 and never found.
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President Clinton signs "Megan's Law" on May 17, 1996. Looking on from left are Megan's mother Maureen and brother Jeremy, Rep. Dick Zimmer, R-N.J., and John Walsh.
There was a stoic, familial air between the parents, a soldier-like bond. Minutes earlier inside the Oval Office, they had watched President Bill Clinton sign legislation known as Megan's Law, named for Megan Kanka, that required states to release information about registered sex offenders to the public. The law was an amendment to the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, which was part of a landmark violent crime bill in 1994 that required law enforcement in every state to maintain registries of convicted sex offenders and track where they lived after being released from prison. The original law gave states the option of whether to notify the community of a sex offender's presence. Two years later, Megan's Law said that they must.
But before long the victorious mood at the press conference abruptly shifted. After the group thanked legislators who'd helped shepherd the law through, some reporters mentioned challenges to its constitutionality. The parents grew defensive. John Walsh, whose son's murder had led him to become a renowned campaigner for children's safety and eventually the host of TV's America's Most Wanted, pushed himself before the microphones and raised his voice.
"This is letting parents know that the fox is in the henhouse," Walsh said, jabbing a finger in the air. "We're sick of seeing these people get all the rights and our children and the parents not getting any rights. Believe me, I've hunted these people for nine years now. They're predators, they prey upon children — that's their business. We deserve to know these people are in our neighborhoods!"
Patty Wetterling, a petite woman with a neat chestnut bob, looked dismayed in her taupe skirt suit. She interjected, explaining gently that Megan's Law was the equivalent of warning children about a dog in their neighborhood that's known to bite, and adding that it was not about revenge but ultimately just one piece in a large puzzle whose goal was a safe society.
"I do think it will have a positive effect," she said.
Several years later, Wetterling flew back to Washington for another press conference, this one announcing the most comprehensive proposed legislation ever to manage sex offenders. Again, she stood among a cohort of other parents who had suffered unspeakable tragedies.
The proposed law would set national standards for sex offender registration, establish civil commitment procedures for people deemed sexually violent predators, require the registration of kids as young as 14 who had committed sex offenses, and be applied even to people whose crimes predated the law and who had successfully completed their sentences.
By then, sex offender restrictions had mushroomed in a way that was starting to trouble Wetterling. In the years since Jacob's abduction, she had devoted her life to children's safety. But the more she learned about the nature of child sexual abuse, the more she felt like these laws simply didn't get to the root of the problem, and actually made it worse in ways that were hard for most people to grasp.
At the Washington press conference that day, members of the media sidled over to Wetterling to ask her for a comment about the proposed new law. In her earnest manner, she confessed to some misgivings.
"I do have a little bit of concern about it being retroactive," she admitted, "and that it's now going to register juveniles."
Later, on a glorious midsummer day in 2006, President George W. Bush was joined in the White House Rose Garden by lawmakers and victims' families, including John Walsh and his wife, Reve. The president delivered a triumphant speech. Then he sat down and signed the legislation known as the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act.
There are nearly 750,000 registered sex offenders in America today, up 23 percent from six years ago. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on registering, publicizing, tracking, and confining them. Since the Wetterling Act was passed in 1994, laws governing sex offenders have grown successively stricter and more far reaching. In many places, residency restrictions dictate that sex offenders cannot live within a certain distance from schools, playgrounds, daycare centers, parks, bus stops, and other places where children gather. Online registries broadcast the names and pictures of offenders, often without specifying the nature of their offenses. Juveniles treated as adults and labeled as sex offenders for acts involving other kids bear that stigma well into adulthood.
Virtually all the major laws regarding sex offenders have been passed in the wake of grisly, high profile crimes against kids and, like Megan's Law, they bear victims' names as somber memorials. The laws tend to fuel the impression that sex offenders are a uniform class of creepy strangers lurking in the shadows who are bound to attack children over and over again.
That's what Wetterling used to believe about sex offenders, too. Yet over the course of two decades immersed in the issue, she found her assumptions slowly chipped away. Contrary to the widely held fear of predatory strangers, she learned that abductions like Jacob's are extremely rare, and that 90 percent of sexual offenses against children are committed by family members or acquaintances. While sex offenders are stereotyped as incurable serial abusers, a 2002 Bureau of Justice study found that they in fact have a distinctly low recidivism rate of just 5.3 percent for other sex crimes within three years of being released from prison.
Though the term "sex offender" itself seems to reflexively imply child rapist, a broadening number of so-called victimless crimes are forcing people onto the rolls. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 28 states require registration for consensual sex between teenagers, 13 for public urination, 32 for exposing genitals in public, and five for soliciting adult prostitutes. Restricting where sex offenders can live, in many cases forcing them into homelessness and disconnecting them from family and social support, hasn't had any quantifiable reduction on the rate of sexual abuse. And many sex offenders are really children themselves: Juveniles make up more than a third of those convicted of sex offenses against children, and their high amenability to treatment suggests that their youthful mistakes don't predict a lifetime of abuse to come.
These days, Wetterling is a 63-year-old grandmother with a warm smile, soft blue eyes, and a folksy manner. She's well known for her two campaigns for Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District, which she lost to Mark Kennedy in 2004 and Michele Bachmann two years later, as well as her personal story, which is deeply imprinted in the state's collective memory. Her eyes still gloss over with tears when she talks about Jacob.
She's less well known for having quietly emerged as perhaps the most unlikely voice questioning sex offender laws. Although she remains a prominent advocate for child safety — she is the board chair of the influential National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the director of the Minnesota Health Department's sexual violence prevention program — she has expressed gnawing doubts over the past several years about how we deal with sex offenders, a striking stance for someone who has been personally affected in such a devastating way.
"We have an intolerance for sexual violence, which I agree with," she said recently over coffee downtown. "People want a singular solution, and the solution that's been sold over the years is lock 'em up and throw away the key. But we've cast such a broad net that we're catching a lot of juveniles who did something stupid or different types of offenders who just screwed up. Should they never be given a chance to turn their lives around?"
She paused.
"They are very different than the man who took Jacob."
Long before Wetterling became a public figure, she was a stay-at-home mother in the small town of St. Joseph. On the evening of October 22, 1989, she and her husband, Jerry, went to a party celebrating a local arts festival that she chaired. Their 11-year-old son Jacob stayed at home with his best friend, Aaron Larson, along with their other son Trevor, 10, and their eight-year-old daughter, Carmen. Trevor called over to the arts festival party and asked permission for the three boys to go to a local convenience store, where they could rent a movie and buy soda. They got a neighbor girl to come babysit Carmen and took off on bikes.
The boys were riding home in the dark when a masked man emerged from a gravel driveway along a country road. Pointing a gun, he told the boys to lie down in a ditch, demanded to know their ages, then ordered first Aaron and then Trevor to run into the nearby woods or risk being shot. By the time the two boys caught up to each other and dared to peek back, Jacob and the gunman were gone.
For the Wetterling family, the weeks and months that followed were an agonizing blur. Dozens of county, state, and federal investigators flocked to St. Joseph in the effort to find Jacob. Throngs of firefighters and student volunteers combed the surrounding woods and cornfields.
It soon hit the national news: Peter Jennings on ABC reported, "the effect on Jacob's family has been obvious, but his kidnapping has also torn the tightly knit social fabric of the entire town." Pictures of Jacob, a handsome, tawny-haired boy, were plastered at truck stops, tollbooths, and convenience stores across the Midwest. Billboards and bumper stickers pleaded for information. Thousands of fruitless tips poured in.
Investigators regretfully shared that the most common motive in this kind of abductions was sexual, and they felt all but certain that this was the case with Jacob.
Patty was shocked. "Who would do that?" she thought. "Who would ever think of sexually violating a child?"
The sheriff's office worked with a correctional facility in nearby St. Cloud to catalog recently released sex offenders and painstakingly created a database detailing where they lived to track them down for questioning.
By January 1990, the number of leads had dwindled and the FBI withdrew most of the agents it had assigned to investigate Jacob's abduction. Even so, his family remained hopeful. They poured their energy into keeping him in the public's awareness. It wasn't until about a year after his disappearance that Patty began to think beyond her immediate desperation to find her son and mustered some energy to try to help others.
She'd been ruminating about the database of local sex offenders the police had compiled, and how helpful they said such a resource would have been immediately after the abduction to enable them to quickly locate and rule out suspects. Patty felt certain that the database was a valuable law enforcement tool that shouldn't be filed away in some dusty cabinet. In fact, she thought there should be something similar for police to access wherever a child is abducted.
Around that time, Gov. Rudy Perpich asked Patty to serve on a task force examining the problem of child abduction and exploitation in Minnesota. Cordelia Anderson, an expert on child sexual abuse prevention, was appointed to the same task force and remembers feeling amazed at how Wetterling was able to separate her emotion from public policy decisions.
"Despite the extreme characteristics of Jacob's case, which play into the scariest stereotype and are very, very rare, she somehow quickly went to trying to educate herself," Anderson says.
Half a dozen states already had sex offender registries, and in accordance with one of the task force's recommendations, Wetterling helped craft legislation that would implement one in Minnesota based on what was working elsewhere. Accessible only to law enforcement, it would carefully distinguish between offenders based on the number of offenses, victim's age, degree of violence, and amenability to treatment. It wasn't long after the state law passed in 1991 that Wetterling turned her sights on implementing something similar on the federal level, with powerful allies including former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger.
Senator Durenberger was from St. Cloud, four miles from where the Wetterlings lived, so the abduction had struck close to home for him. It was a matter of days after hearing about it on the news that he had driven over to meet the family for the first time and offer whatever help he could.
"There's nothing like coming into the middle of a tragedy that doesn't have an easy answer," he recalled. "Everybody is going, 'What can we do?'"
Durenberger stayed in contact with the family, dropping by every so often to slip a supportive note in their mailbox, and he eventually led the effort to pass federal legislation requiring every state to maintain a sex offender registry accessible to law enforcement, and to regularly verify offenders' addresses for 10 years to life depending on the severity of their crimes.
Although Durenberger was out of the Senate when the law finally passed in 1994, he regarded it as a victory.
"Patty started the movement," Durenberger says. "Just a few people had the nerve to get out ahead of the problem and try to come up with a solution that could apply across the country. This was happening one kid at a time, one family at a time. If it had a potential preventable cause, than we ought to deal with it legislatively if we could. That was the imperative."
At the time, registration wasn't seen as a panacea for the problem of sexual abuse, nor a scarlet letter to be pinned on all sex offenders. As far as Wetterling was concerned, the registry was just something that would make it easier for the police to locate former offenders.
"I think [she] intended for registration to fill a gap in public safety," Anderson says. "The whole movement to register juveniles or to lump all who commit any kind of offense into something they can never in their lifetime shake was not the intent. I don't think anybody foresaw that it would turn into what it's become."
In 2008, Wetterling received a missive in the mail. "My name is Ricky and I'm a 19-year-old Registered Sex Offender," it began:
"One night, when I was only 16, I met a girl at a teen club who told me she was almost 16, and we hit it off. She and I dated for a few weeks, but because of some issues at home, she ran away. The friend she was staying with told her to tell the police we had sex, and that she was too scared to go home because she was pregnant. When questioned by the police, I told the truth, I said "yes we had sex twice." The police informed me she was only 13. I was charged with two felony counts of Sexual Abuse 3rd degree and tried as an adult. Now because of the laws regarding the age of consent I am a Registered Sex Offender. Things for me, as well as my family, have changed dramatically and our lives have been shattered."
Wetterling was dumbfounded. She had never imagined her idea being used against someone like this.
"It just makes no sense to me," she says. "The design of the law was not to punish kids for being kids. He thought she was 16, and she lied."
Wetterling found herself questioning not only cases of juvenile sex offenders like Ricky, but also adults who had clearly committed harm but still didn't seem to warrant the kind of permanent pariah status that registration conferred.
One woman contacted Wetterling to share the story of her husband, a former alcohol abuser who had committed a sex crime when he was 19. He went to jail and afterward turned his life around, getting married and having two kids. The Adam Walsh Act retroactively forced him to register as a sex offender, ushering him into a deep depression. He could no longer sit with his own family at church or chaperone school field trips due to the law's provisions.
Wetterling also met a biochemist and college professor who had been caught molesting his stepdaughter. In addition to his prison sentence, he successfully completed treatment as well as a reunification program with his family and was judged rehabilitated by those who knew him. Yet the unforgiving rules of his status as a registered sex offender eventually pushed him into unemployment, homelessness, and a rootless life at the fringe of society.
She kept coming back to the same nagging feeling: These men were not the same as the man who abducted Jacob. These were not serial child abusers who had no capacity to change, and in a terrible twist, their status as sex offenders might actually make children less safe instead of more. Clogging the registries with so many people who don't represent a real ongoing threat could make it harder to discern those who actually do. Moreover, by perpetuating the stranger-danger myth, the laws could be lulling parents into a false sense of security, blinding them to the much more likely threat of sexual abuse by family and friends. Wetterling started feeling that sex offender laws had simply gone too far.
"We've caught a lot of people in the net who could have been helped," she says. "We've been elevating sex offender registration and community notification and punishment for 20-some years, and a wise and prudent thing would be to take a look at what's working. Instead we let our anger drive us."
To those who support the expansion of sex offender laws, Wetterling's concern for offenders can seem naive and misguided. After his daughter's rape and murder, Marc Klaas became a vocal supporter of stiffer penalties and stricter post-prison monitoring of offenders. He founded an organization, KlaasKids, whose mission is "to protect America's children from the predators who lurk in our shadows," according to its website, and endorses both Megan's Law and the Adam Walsh Act.
"My feelings for Patty are very warm, but I think she's wrong," Klaas says. "I don't think the system is out to punish innocent people. These are people who've existed in anonymity for thousands of years and now we're finding out who they are, and they're whining about it."
Wetterling is quick to say that she still supports registries as a law enforcement tool and believes in civil commitment for some offenders who are truly too dangerous to live in society. Yet she has a fundamental disagreement with the other victims' families.
"We just view the problem differently," she says. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for what John and Reve Walsh have done, and I used to sit down with Marc Klaas to have a drink or six. We've undergone a shared experience, and I'm never going to tell a parent the way they're dealing with it is wrong or the way I'm dealing with it is right. I just think some of this really angry, punitive stuff is letting the bad guys win. They're building a world that isn't caring and believing in one another. That's not who I am."
courtesy of Klaas
"My feelings for Patty are very warm, but I think she's wrong," says Marc Klaas, whose 11-year-old daughter was abducted and murdered
Inside a hotel ballroom in downtown Atlanta a few years ago, Wetterling stood at a podium and held a crowd of 1,300 people at rapt attention. She cleared her throat and told the story she's told hundreds of times, the story of Jacob's abduction. She talked about her determination to help prevent child sexual abuse, not just punish it, and about her resistance to simplistic solutions to a complicated problem.
Among those listening to her address the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, a national organization dedicated to preventing sexual abuse, was Joan Tabachnick, a co-chair of the organization's prevention committee.
"I think almost everybody in that audience was in tears because of the vulnerability she's able to show, speaking about the horrific experience she's had, as well as how she's translated that into public policy," Tabachnick recalls. "It's amazingly courageous to ask what can we do to prevent this given that there are so many other parents who don't want anything to do with what she's saying."
Wetterling approaches the issue of sexual abuse prevention with the same sense of complexity and nuance that she brings to her understanding of who sex offenders are. To help keep them from reoffending, she believes we need to aid their success with housing, employment, counseling, and social support, all of which the current system does much to dissuade.
"There's a whole bunch else that needs to happen," Wetterling says. "We can't just keep locking them up, putting satellite monitoring on them, registering them for life. That doesn't change the problem."
Wetterling is also focused on primary prevention — that is, stopping abuse from happening in the first place. It's a bitter irony that almost all our public funds are funneled into punishing known sex offenders and virtually none are aimed at preventing sexual abuse from happening in the first place. Waiting until a child is harmed, hoping to find out about it, and then reacting with vengeance might satisfy the public's bloodlust and win points for politicians, but it's not a strategy that actually protects kids.
Yet a growing number of clinicians, researchers, activists, and public health officials are turning their focus to primary prevention, which means examining risk factors, protective factors, and even the neurological origin of why some adults may be sexually drawn to children.
For Wetterling, primary prevention also means taking a broad, holistic view of what's happening in our culture. She rues the effects of a porn-soaked, over-sexualized culture on young people and espouses teaching children about healthy relationships and appropriate behavior starting at an early age.
It's a testament to her preternatural faith in the power of prevention that she sees even her own son's abductor as someone whose vile behavior might have been averted. In 1999, on the 10th anniversary of Jacob's disappearance, Patty wrote an open letter to his kidnapper:
"I have found some comfort picturing you not as a mean old, ugly, bad guy, but at one time, you were an eleven year old boy," she wrote. "Someone's son...possibly someone's brother needing and hopefully sharing the love an 11-year-old boy deserves. If this love wasn't shared in your family, I'm sorry. Every child is entitled to the love and caring that family and friends provide."
She kept a list of questions she was desperate to ask next to the phone in case the abductor called: Why did you do it? Why Jacob? Where is he? But he never called.
Wetterling still harbors hope that Jacob is alive and will return to her someday. In the meantime, she spends her life thinking about what can be done to help children right now — those who might be victimized, as well as those who might grow up to become victimizers someday.
"We can spend the rest of our years talking about how to manage sex offenders," she says. "But wouldn't it be better if we could quit growing them? That's the bigger problem."
By Jennifer Bleyer Wednesday, Mar 20 2013
Source: http://www.citypages.com/2013-03-20/news/patty-wetterling-questions-sex-...
courtesy of Wetterling
Beginning with her participation in a 2007 Human Rights Watch report, Patty Wetterling has criticized sex offender laws, a striking position given her tragic personal history


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Frederick Mors (born Carl Menarik, 2 October 1889 – 1918?) was an Austrian serial killer. Mors killed eight elderly patients by poison while employed in a nursing home in New York City. He was very cooperative, readily admitting to the murders when questioned by police. After being arrested, Mors was diagnosed as a megalomaniac and committed to an insane asylum. He later escaped.

Immigration
Mors immigrated to New York City from his native Austria-Hungary in June 1914. The German-speaking Mors gained employment as a porter for the German Odd Fellows' Home in Unionport, New York (now the Bronx) through the Immigrant Free Employment Bureau. The home housed 250 orphans and 100 elderly men and women.

Inexplicably, though he terrified the older residents, both the younger residents and visitors seemed to like him and enjoy his company.

Mors exhibited signs of megalomania soon after beginning to work at the nursing home: he would wear a white lab coat with a stethoscope around his neck, and insisted that the elderly residents address him as "Herr Doktor."

Murders
In the four-month period from September 1914 to January 1915, 17 residents—an unusually high number—died at the Home.

Fearing foul play, the administration called the police in to investigate.

Mors had used arsenic and chloroform to murder at least eight of the elderly residents. He later claimed he was "putting them out of their misery".

He committed his first murder using arsenic, purchased from a local druggist. Encountering some difficulties with this method, he later switched to the use of chloroform.

Victims
Carl Hitzel, 78, by administering morphine
Henry Haensel, 67, by giving arsenic
Carl Garf, 65, by giving arsenic
Mrs. Katherine Piazza, 75, by giving chloroform
Mrs. Frederick Drey, 75, by giving chloroform
Mrs. Elizabeth Hauser, 70. by giving chloroform
Henry Horn, 68. by giving chloroform
Ferdinand Scholtz, 77, by giving chloroform

Investigation
Early in the investigation, police learned of the fear the elderly patients and staff had of Mors. On these grounds, he soon became the primary suspect of the investigation. When questioned, Mors readily and calmly admitted to killing eight of the seventeen patients who had recently died. He claimed that these were mercy killings and that they had been nuisances. In detail, he described his method as:

First I would pour a drop or two of chloroform on a piece of absorbent cotton and hold it to the nostrils of the old person. Soon my man would swoon. Then I would close the orifices of the body with cotton, stuffing it in the ears, nostrils, and so on. Next I would pour a little chloroform down the throat and prevent the fumes escaping the same way.

Mors also claimed that the home's superintendent had encouraged him to kill the more ill and more elderly patients.

The district attorney declined to prosecute Mors, finding him to be criminally insane, and committed him to the Hudson River State Hospital, pending deportation to Austria. Mors escaped from the institution in May 1916.

In 1917 he surfaced in Torrington, Connecticut living under the alias Frederick Maurice Beno working in the first aid department of Turner & Seymour Company. He used the same birthday as Mors in a World War I draft registration. He also sent three letters saying he was the same person that had killed 8 people in New York. He left notes of suicidal intent and disappeared in April 1918. A skeletonized corpse was discovered in May 1923 that was identified as his by officials who examined the remains at the time. The remains had been there for at least four years and was identified partially based on the type of shoes both Mors and Beno were known to have worn. Two bottles were found nearby that was presumed to be poison.

See also
List of serial killers in the United States

References

1889 births
1914 murders in the United States
1918 suicides
American escapees
American serial killers
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Escapees from New York (state) detention
Fugitives
Male serial killers
Medical serial killers
Murder in New York City
People from Vienna
People with narcissistic personality disorder
Poisoners
Suicides by poison
Suicides in Connecticut

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Le Fruit du péché est une nouvelle de six pages d'Anton Tchekhov.

Historique
Le Fruit du péché est initialement publié dans la revue russe Les Éclats, numéro 27, du , sous le pseudonyme A Tchekhonte. Cette nouvelle est traduite aussi en français sous le titre Illégalité.

Résumé
L'assesseur de collège Migoulev a fauté avec Agnia, son ancienne femme de chambre. Il y a maintenant un bébé, et Agnia le poursuit et lui réclame de l'argent. En rentrant chez lui, il trouve un bébé sur le pas de la porte. Affolé, il le prend et veut le mettre sur le pas de porte d'une personne à l'autre bout de la ville. Cela ne marche pas.

Il rentre chez lui et avoue tout à sa femme. Il apprend dans la foulée d'un voisin que c'est le bébé d'une femme qui visitait la sienne. Il plaisantait, mais sa femme va-t-elle accepter la plaisanterie ?

Notes et références

Édition française
Le Fruit du péché, traduit par Édouard Parayre, Bibliothèque de la pléiade, Éditions Gallimard, 1970

Adaptation au cinéma
Bezzakonie (URSS, 1953)

Nouvelle d'Anton Tchekhov
Nouvelle russe parue en 1887
Nouvelle publiée dans Les Éclats


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Q: How do I combine Generic list of different types in to one generic custom list of type? Let's say I have three generic lists of the diffrent type Customer, Address and Account. How do I combine them into one generic list of 'CustomerProfile' type?
Example:
Public class Customer
{
    long customerId{ get; set; }
    int titleId{ get; set; }
        string firstName{ get; set; }
        string middleName{ get; set; }
        int maritalStatusId { get; set; }
}

public class Address
{
        public long addressId{ get; set; }
        long customerId{ get; set; }
        short addressTypeId{ get; set; }
        string postCode{ get; set; }
        string geoCodeLattitude{ get; set; }
        string geoCodeLongitude{ get; set; }
}

public class Account
{
    long accountID{ get; set; }
        string accountDesc{ get; set; }
        short accountStatusID{ get; set; }
        DateTime joinDate{ get; set; }
        DateTime insertDateTime{ get; set; }
}

when I return new CustomerProfile list the result set should be look like below:
<CustomerProfile>
<Customer>
    <customerId>
    <titleId>
        <firstName>
        <middleName>
        <maritalStatusId>
</Customer>
<Address>
        <addressId>
        <customerId>
        <addressTypeId>
        <postCode>
        <geoCodeLattitude>
        <geoCodeLongitude>
</Address>
<Account>
    <accountID>
        <accountDesc>
        <accountStatusID>
        <joinDate>
        <insertDateTime>
</Account>
</CustomerProfile>

A: Short answer, you can't.
You will need to use List<object> to store them all or create a CustomerProfile class that encapsulates Customer/Address/Account.
public class CustomerProfile
{
public Customer { get; set;}
public Address { get; set;}
public Account { get; set:}
}

Then you can have

List<CustomerProfile>

A: You have three Entities as you said Customer, Address and Accounts. Your two entites Customer and Address have association but Accounts doesnt have any association, it means it can hold all Account data from Account table in that Entity say List.
First you can create a property as a list in the customer class for holding its addresses.
Second you can define another property as a list for accounts.
When you load the application then you can get all the customers and their address and the fill the Cusotmer object and its Address property and Account into it.
Now, when you get the object of customer then by its two properties Address and Account you can access its data easily.
You can also make a class CustomerProfile in which you can define your all entities as a list and then when you run your applicatoin then you can fill all their properties to access the object of customer profile.