bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rayknight Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > bodhi Wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Apparently the updated initramfs-tools > > package > > > is > > > > not available in stretch its only available > > in > > > > buster and sid! > > > > > > That does not sound right! It is available on > > > Debian stretch. > > > > bodhi the updated package version 0.132 is only > > available on buster and sid. Version 0.130 is > the > > latest available for stretch and doesn't have > the > > new RUNSIZE parameter which can be modified to > > increase the size of the /run mount point to > > prevent the "Failed to reload daemon: Refusing > to > > reload, not enough space available on > > /run/systemd" messages. > > > > There are ways to install buster packages on > > stretch, but it would be nice if they would > > include this package in stretch updates. > > > > Ray > > Ah. In that case, instead of using the > initramfs-tool, couldn't you just use fstab tmpfs > to deal with this?


Surge continues but not as many Central American migrants reaching U.S.
Eric Olson is associate director of the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
In March, he witnessed migrants from Central America crossing the Suchiate River illegally from Guatemala into Mexico in full view of Mexican authorities on the border.
But along the border, he saw Mexican authorities boarding buses looking for unauthorized migrants. He said the Mexican government also has recently established a series of checkpoints father inland.
"That's something that they weren't doing before," Olson said.
Olson also toured a government detention facility in Tapachula, a city in the Mexican state of Chiapas north of the Guatemalan border. He said the authorities were "sending people on a daily basis back to Central America."


Just grab one key. That'll be less likely to generate paradox.
Amie quickly scans the rows of keys until she finds one in the corner, marked with something other than a room number.
She grabs it and puts it into her pocket next to the Dead Moment.
To her right are the elevators, behind her is a room that appears to be a drawing-room or waiting area, but Amie can see a door covered in a tattered piece of cloth that might lead to a service hallway.


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Fantastic Female Friday- Codex + Tinkerballa (The Guild)
The Guild was a webseries about a group of gamers who are members of the same Guild in an MMORPG who meet up in real life to help each other deal with their real life problems. The jobless, friendless, greasy haired Codex (Felicia Day) gets a drop in from Guildmate Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh) that she's been in game flirting with and suggests that the whole team meets up. Including teenaged Bladezz (Vincent Caso), bald pennypinching Vork (Jeff Lewis),
The uber tech obsessed and glittery girly Tinkerballa (Amy Okuda)
who uses the hot nerd girl/loser nerd boy stereotypes to her advantage. She hates work and questions about her real life. She sees most men as marks and plays Nintendo DS between turns. She's a flirt but she is actually a prude. "He only got to second base, and my second base is everyone else's first."
And Clara (Robin Thorsen)-
wearing her +20 intelligence thinking cap. Her avatar is called Clara, the mother of 2 has to use her real name since she previously used the pseudonym "Mominatrix" and her kids started calling her that. Her husband was not amused. Basically, gaming and drinking is her thing, she's a breeder and her husband picks up the tab. She always has a ponzi scheme and her kids are usually covered in shaving cream and oatmeal. She ditched out on her sister's wedding to get some "me time." She's an I Love Lucy-esque housewife cliche, but she's funny, cheerful and she's the only one who gets any play from the hot stunt guy.
Notably, Bladezz's little sister, (played by real life sister Tara Caso) Dena is always antagonizing him and kicking his ass and being cooler than him
Codex, our main protag (played by series writer Felicia Day) is neurotic and weak stomached, she often relies on her avatar for her confidence.
After she ditches Zaboo, Zaboo falls for BDSM, bi-sexual, FPS obsessed Riley. Riley is tall, confident model hot but her personality is very demanding and 'masculine"
Riley (Michelle Boyd) is a little much, she keeps Zaboo tied up in a closet and thinks The Game is stupid, but she was a confident and awesome addition to the gamer-girl fold. As was Venom (Teal Sherer), hot goth chick in a wheelchair from the rival Guild.
Who touted a snarky dark and stormy attitude, took advantage of people's preconceptions about her disability and her good looks and played them to her advantage, whether it was to get in line first at GameStop or to distract "helpful" people. Bonus points that the actress is actually in a wheelchair after a car accident when she was a teenager.
This series plays up the nerd stereotypes and archetypes to infinite degrees. Teenage pervert, middle-aged loser, hot tease, attention starved, flaky mom, tough chick, neurotic social-phobe… they're everywhere. The best part about it is that women show up as all sorts of side characters as well, from sassy waitresses to quirky bloggers to Masterchief bodyguards that beat up Kevin Sorbo.
Totally Badass.
I had such a hard time picking ONE girl to single out as the greatest female character. I was immediately tempted to go with Tinkerballa (the former pre-med major turned costume designer is my kind of nerd) but with previous Fantastic Female Bernadette Rostenkowski I figured we had recently had a "Yeah, nerds can be hot-chicks, too!" fist bump. The same would go for Riley or Venom. And Clara. With the turnaround in later seasons with Codex coming out of her shell, admitting she loves the Guild as people not avatars, she saves the game at Mega-Game-O-Rama and gets a job working for the neurotic Game creator. She really gets her shit together and confronts social situations head on problem solving and sticking up for her friends. Tinkerballa gets a similar closure when she stops keeping her persona separated from her real-life self, tells her parents that she's into gaming and fashion design and finds a guy she likes enough to buy dinner for.
Meanwhile Clara still shuns parental responsibility in her quest to never stop gaming, Vork gets a sci-fi icon girlfriend but is still hugely out of touch and Bladezz is still a perverted teen looking to get internet famous.
But ultimately I could decide between Codex and Tinkerballa
If you haven't watched you completely should, there's a rainbow of personalities and nerd cookies everywhere!
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Movie Review- Captain America: the Winter Soldier
I'll put this at the top: 5 out of 5- One of those rare and awesome occasions where the sequel is far better than the original. Ridiculous action sequences, character emotional development for Both Captain America and Black Widow, girl power galore, a few thought provoking moments about government reach and friendship.
Don't read past this if you don't want spoilers!
At the beginning of the film Steve Rogers meets Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and they bond over their military service and fitness routine. As the trailer gave away, Wilson comes to play an important role (for both the action and Cap's character development).
Soon after Captain America and Black Widow out on a mission, only, they aren't exactly on the *same* mission. Romanoff is not perturbed by this, but Rogers: America's hero, golden boy and symbol of freedom, is not feeling it. He confronts Fury, who reveals a detailed plot about how they created these helicarriers to detect threats before they become threats. Meaning that people are being punished before crimes are committed. Logically, people change their minds or there are 1000 variables about why someone considering committing a crime might change their minds. But people in the US HAVE been arrested and charged with "thought crimes" and some of them have been orchestrated to create perceived threats by government agencies SO none of this is even far fetched. I always post this same information abou Eric McDavid who was entrapped by an FBI informant and then charged with conspiring to commit eco-terrorism. He didn't actually do anything, and most of the planning and prepping was single handedly done by the informant who was heavily pressured by the FBI to not be wasting their time -which meant planning a crime involving property destruction of a logging company. He was sentenced to 22 years because the government wants "Green" to be the new Red Scare (this movie is still playing up the Red Scare, though). This theme re-emerges again later with Dr. Arnim Zola and the Hydra plot to orchestrate crimes and tragedies so that people will just hand over their freedom and say "protect us at all costs" …I live 45 minutes from Boston and we're coming up on the year anniversary of the Marathon Bombing. When they searched for the suspect the entire city and neighboring suburbs SHUT DOWN more extreme people said we were under Marshall Law (we weren't), it was voluntary, but how voluntary is it really when you're being told that an armed fanatic is in your backyard and these people with the big guns are here to handle it… can you let us in your basement? People have very divisive opinions about it and I understand that. The ensuing high fiving "This is our fucking city" mentality was alarming. I thought that shutting down all businesses sent the wrong message. But no one asked me, either. But that's part of the problem. We have no choice but to trust the people who make these choices for us.
None of this sits well with Captain America and he goes to discuss it with Peggy Carter, who unlike Steve has aged, she tells him he has to adjust to the way things have become. Then in a moment that almost turned me into a crying child (I was hung over, don't judge me) she forgets that she was just talking to him, and starts crying because she's so happy that he's alive. Chris Evans is a better actor than he's gotten credit for, because it was really his reaction that turned me into mush. It seems like a brief moment along with a joke to Black Widow that "everyone in his barbershop quartet is dead" so he has no plans this weekend, yeah Cap has next to no one.
But that all changes when he finds out that he's not the only WWII soldier to be made super.
In an explosive scene, Fury is targeted by "The Winter Soldier" who is thought to be responsible for decades of assassinations, he even shot Romanoff once. Fury "dies' (come on, no one thought he was dead) at Steves house and it's revealed that his cute neighbor is really Agent 13 who has been watching out for him (Fury always has people watching each other, just happened on Agents of SHIELD where Melinda May was watching Coulson). And Steve and Natasha are sent off on this journey together to find who killed Fury, what's on the drive that Natasha uploaded in the earlier mission and find out who can be trusted, all the while dodging Hydra agents and the Winter Soldier in intense fight scenes and car chases. With no idea who to turn to, Steve chooses to trust Natasha and Sam Wilson. While they recoup at Sam's, after they are exploded in a bunker, Black Widow confesses that she has the same sense of betrayal as Steve, She thought she stopped working for the KGB to be one of the good guys. There wasn't as much character development for Widow in this go around, just a glimpse, she was also sans-catsuit most of the time. She got to do a ton of standard bad ass stuff, like nurse bullet wounds while getting the drop on the Winter Soldier.
In a lengthy and interesting fight scene with the Winter Soldier, Captain realises that he's Bucky. "Who the hell is Bucky?" the villain replies. Captain America's best friend from when he was still Skinny Steve, he's being manipulated and brainwashed by Hydra to take out those that they want taken out. Soon they will have the Helicarriers for that. But seeing Steve brings back some of Bucky's memory. and at the final fight scene, Bucky pulls Steve out of the water. And it was really nicely done. In a flash back to after the death of his mother we seen Steve trying to go through it alone, so he doesn't dissolve into a puddle over the fact that his best friend is a brainwashed assassin who doesn't remember him. But he can't kill him either. Sam recognizes this early and goes along (with his project Falcon suit) to make sure what has to happen does. But in the end it's down to Cap and Bucky. Captain America orders Maria Hill to destroy the helicarrier (that he is on) and continues fighting with Bucky. And Steve says, "I'm not going to kill you. You'll have to finish the job, because I'm with you til the end of the line." And it wasn't played up very emotionally, and it didn't need to be. But it speaks volumes about what Cap is willing to live with and what he's willing to live without. So couple the fact that this was borderline suicidal with the fact that he doesn't want to work for SHIELD, he doesn't believe in the path the government is taking and he's losing Peggy? Ouch.
Meanwhile, Black Widow is taking out Redford's character, Alexander Pierce -top brass who is really Hydra. And she has to electrocute herself to do it (she was also shot in pretty much that same spot). She's going to put up all the info about Hydra, but in the process she could be putting out all her deep dark secrets. Since one of her main points in Avengers as well is her legacy in comics was atoning for her past, this is a sore spot. But she does it.
Then, they all have to find new jobs. Fury lets his identity stay dead (but probably not for long), Romanoff goes to find a new identity, Agent 13 joins the CIA, Maria Hill interviews for Stark Industries and Falcon goes back to what he was doing before he got embroiled in this.
At the end credits we see Bucky in the Smithsonian watching the feature about himself and Captain America. Bucky's resurrection in comics was always controversial, he was killed off in 1948, but revived periodically, before 1968 where his death became official. He was then used as a symbol of why superheroes shouldn't have young sidekicks. It stayed this way, as angst and a cautionary tale, until 2005 when Ed Brubaker decided to bring back Bucky. And retcon all that wherein Bucky was really a 16 year old trained operative who was trained to conduct covert assassinations. Co-creator Jack Kirby wasn't opposed. Anyway, so he's the Winter Soldier but in the books Cap gets him his memories back via the cosmic cube and Bucky becomes a good guy… and then he becomes Captain America. So it'll be interesting to see the next time Sebastian Stan reprises the role again (be it for May 6th, 2016's Cap3 or before that) and what phase it will take.
Falcon first appeared in Captain America in 1969, he was from Harlem and was a community volunteer. Tones of that definitely showed through in the film where he was counselling PTSD sufferers, I like the way they applied those traits to modern and personal purposes and I'm glad they left out his affinity for birds.
And after after the credits we get our first glimpse at Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver *squeeee*
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She-Hulk #3
Exemplary Kevin Wada watercolor markers cover!
The son of Victor Von Doom, Kristoff Vernard, is attempting to defect from Latveria and receive asylum in the US. So he's come to the office of She-Hulk, PLLC. Not that she was his first choice, this is the 15th firm that he's tried.
Mini-Von Doom: "..The idea was that you must possess more fortitude than the average member of your profession. And now that I have met you, I see that there is nothing average about you at all."
Shulk: "Are you.. Was that.. did you just hit on me?"
Von Doom, Jr: "Eh. Probably."
They head for lattes and Kristoff Vernard tells her about his father's oppressive rule over Latveria, about raising him to follow his father's footsteps and carry his legacy. She-Hulk decides to take his case, but time becomes of the essence when she finds out that he's been in the country for EXACTLY one year. If the petition for asylum isn't filed within a year then that path is closed. Luckily Kristoff who-does-not-take-cabs has a driver ready and Jennifer knows a judge, "I saved her niece from Skrulls once. She should be able to get us in today."
His driver turns out to be a doombot sent to take him back to Latveria. Kristoff takes it in stride, She-Hulk KOs the freaky robot and then grabs Kristoff and finds the stashed Fantasticar. One of the old ones. (it looks like a penis)
Kristoff is bummed, the doombot must have alerted his father to their plan …but She-Hulk has a plan!
And it involves Hellcat!
(She-Hulk's assistant with the monkey is weirding me out… where is Soule going with this?)
All things go well… until Victor Von Doom drops in. Well then.
This series is consistently entertaining. It's tied with Loki:Agent of Asgard for my new fave. Pulido's art is very distinctive. It's not typical of the current fashion but reflects more classic styles. Bright, clear, sparse backgrounds, thick outlines. The faces are weird. They are, but I enjoy how unique it is. It's very distinctive.
Soule's writing here is very light hearted, but Walters comes off as determined (and very Ally McBeal-ish). The issues thus far have focussed mainly on social interactions and quirky dialogue while still adding in enough zany action to not feel like a rom-com in a law office or a procedural script. And I find it really interesting that they are turning to these very B-List characters to hold up the story (Stark was in issue one.. but Hellcat, Kristoff, Sharon King are all finding a life here after some time by the wayside). I love it.
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Anime Review #1- Rosario + Vampire
I've actually been meaning to write about this one for a while. The premise is perfect. A boy who fails to get into any prestigious private schools is accidentally enrolled in a school for monsters, Yokai Academy. The only human, surrounded by snow ghosts, succubi, werewolves, vampires, witches, cat people and blob monsters quickly attracts a posse of magical females… who all want him. The age and premise make this akin to a gender-swapped City of Bones. Powerful females constantly protecting the puny human from a world that he was unwillingly cast into? Multiple suitors vying for affection? One of them is an outright stalker?
Tsukune Aono flirts with Moka Akashiya (who is a sweet girl wearing a rosary that keeps her violent vampire form underwraps), Tsukune likes her but doesn't like sharing his blood and isn't 100% about dating a vampire. He is also pursued by a busty succubus, Kurumu…
…and the super stalker Mizore.
Mizore begins as a villain, willing to hurt Kurumu, Moka and even Tsukune himself while in pursuit of his affections. During the altercation Tsukune blames himself. Says that this is all happening because of him. Kurumu wisely speaks up, telling him that he is not to blame, "It is never the victims fault! People are responsible for their own actions!"
This is something that is few and far between in media aimed for the tween and teen set (although I wouldn't rate this anime in that category) we often see victim blaming in YA. Examples include, audiences not liking Clary's "friendzoning" of Simon, the "romantic" stalker Edward's over protectiveness of Bella, Buffy's mother blaming her for the creeper behavior by Angelus after they sleep together. So I had a fist pump moment when she blurted that out.
Tsukune is also kind of a special snowflake himself: he's the only one that can remove the cross from Moka's neck. He solves his problem using traditionally female tactics like talking out problems with the monster.
Although I'm touting the feminist power of Rosario + Vampire… Moka's transformation scene leaves much to be desired in that category.
At Anime Boston there was a panel called "Fight Like a Girl: How Magical Girls Weaponize Femininity" the presenter was named Nina (if anyone has additional info, throw me a comment, I'd love to add it) and she brought up this excellent point about magical girl transformation scenes from Sailor Moon and Ballerina Tutu. The Females put on jewelry, get a hair makeover and/or change into a fancier outfit. This can have both negative and positive interpretations. From "you have to be beautiful and girly to have power" to "you can be pretty and girly and have ability as well" to "pride in your appearance can be empowering" and it is really individual preference that will dictate one's interpretation.
But with Moka: We get and upskirt, her breasts enlarge and her shirt busts open. Brief flashes of (albeit not graphic) nudity ensue before her hair lightens. Her inner-vampire is a true immortal in the body of a girl and I see why this happens but I have trouble concocting a positive twist on cleavage and panty shots being a sign of power. The anime itself is rated MA 18+ (there's a BDSM teacher/monster, a perverted senior and a million upskirts) so the case can be made that this is for adults… but the characters are still Freshman and Sophomores and one member of their group is only 11, Yukari Sendou.
And the lessons learned are very teenage. Yukari, for example, faces bullying for being a witch (a "being of the borderline" AKA a supernatural HUMAN) until Moka and Tsukune stick up for her. She's also coming to terms with her sexual orientation she falls first for Moka and then for Tsukune she wants them to have a three way relationship. In one episode, after being teased by volumptuous Kurumu she wants to grow up and visits the school nurse who feeds off her body shame and self loathing but transforms her into a beautiful womanly figure who instantly attracts attention. In the end she learns to love herself as she is and not grow up too fast. So the rating and life lessons are very incongruent. I don't know what the rating is in Japan and I have heard that the 18+ rating is ethnocentric and based on prudish Western connotations.
Still.. there's nothing empowering about wind blowing your skirt up.
If you can get passed that it is very good and lots of fun. I enjoy seeing how the group of friends gets out of trouble and am impressed with how often opening their circle up to other characters- who are mainly female- solves conflict. I also enjoyed the varied interpretations of monsters, and despite pandering to male audiences there is some genuine girl power.
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So after my MANY COMPLAINTS about last issue… my hangs ups have almost all seemed to be addressed this time around.
Selene Gallio's name was spelled right, Monet and Karima looked like two separate people, they addressed who was where (with a role call, which seemed like a response to complaints that I -and seemingly others- had last time).
The "Meanwhile" was still a "Before" (Quentin Quire was on the plane telepathically combating the Sentinels..
at no point "Meanwhile" could QQ have been at the school with John Sublime last issue ..anyway…
In Japan, Ana Cortes bites the dust (at the close of #11 she stabbed herself through the gut with a sword). And there's a slightly baffling scene of Madelyne Pryor's resurrection. And then they introduce who's on the inbound X-Jet.. which Rachel groans at. And it comes off as BWood being annoyed at readers being annoyed last issue -but I'm so vain, I think this issue is in direct response to me. Anyway; Storm, Rachel, Psylocke, Money, Karima got a tip about Lady Deathstrike's whereabouts …from Ana.
Arkea's the queen bee of the hive mind so they decide to shut her down. They know she's still recruiting and know it is likely that both the Black Queen and Red Queen have joined up.Monet crashes through the building (again) but instead of heading right for Arkea she goes to get some revenge on Amora while Psylocke has a rematch against Typhoid Mary. Rachel doesn't get a rematch against Selene (long ago, Rachel faced off with her but Wolverine injured Rachel to take her out of the fight so that she wouldn't be a murderer) but instead gets attacked by her mother's genetic clone.
But Storm negotiates. She tells Madelyne and Selene to just walk away and go elsewhere, just let the X-Men take care of Arkea.
You don't span decades with X-Men wanting you dead- or in Selene's case; centuries- and survive without being a little self serving. They just got their lives back… so they walk away.
Monet grabs Arkea's host Reiko (after Arkea goes batshit and makes a run at Storm) and Karima shoots her with a weapon specially engineered by John Sublime. Then Karima says she's taking a gig with Sabra and Gabriel.
Okay… This time I liked Anka's art fine. Maybe the last issue was just rushed, I don't know. It looked better. The characters were distinct, the lines were clean. The backgrounds were stylishly sparse.
Then we get to this dubious "Meanwhile"
Cessily and Roxy finally get their issues worked through…
Mann's art is so good! Paul Mounts colors are so good! This picture that I took with my smartphone in my crappily lit den does it o service. It's really just gorgeous. This little side mission was certainly fun albeit somewhat convoluted. Look at the ripples! Look at the facial expressions. It's so good!
Jubilee makes some comments to Julian that aren't quite suitable for work. Anyway, Sentinels handled.
I actually kinda dig Quentin Quire, he reminds me of my high school friends. He can come around if he wants.
Is Jubilee actually gonna do vampire-y stuff. I feel like they've been teasing me with this for 8 months.
This is one of my fave series, I'm glad to see it was back on track this month. I did think it was weird that Selene and Madelyne just walked off, now there are two big bads on the loose, I'm sure they will be popping up somewhere soon. This was a much better issue, I'm still a little baffled about the way the story is being split up.. but I'm okay with it as long as there is consistency and cohesion between the two plots.
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Javier Pulido keeps the art very bright, very 70's/80's. Charles Soule keeps it light and jampacked with girl power and nerd cookies.
Jennifer Walters takes the money that she was paid for representing a woman suing Tony Stark and leased and office and opened her own firm. And? For starters, everyone in the Brooklyn building has superpowers, she's renting from Sharon King "Went to the Charles Xavier school, I could do things with weather, you know storm? I was more like DRIZZLE. That all ended on M-Day, but I know what it's like for people with powers." They security deposit needs to be calculated by NASA. .
She hires on another attorney (who brought a monkey) and then sets out to find so clients. She's being slandered by her former employer for breaking their $50,000 table. Considerably discouraged: she heads out early for a martini with Patsy AKA Hellcat. Funfact: Patsy actually predates Marvel, she first appeared in Marvel precursor Timely comics in 1944
…although, she wasn't a superhero until 1972. Fits well with the 70s-80s look of the comic. Perfect BFFL for the McBeal-ish She-Hulk.
After more than a few drinks, Hellcat decides that she wants to take out an AIM lab some SHIELD doofus told her about.
The AIM dudes put up a fuss, and She-Hulk sticks up for her sloppy drunk friend… and then somewhat inexplicably gives her a job. Probably so she won't be alone with that weirdo with a monkey. Anyway, when she drags her hungover butt to the office the next morning, there's someone waiting… Is Jen DOOMED with a difficult client?
This series is so much fun so far. I love the classic vibe, light hearted, throwing names around. She-Hulk's superpowers mixed in with real world responsibilities in a way that we don't usually see. LOL "I don't know how much warehouse doors cost, but it's probably expensive!"
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Harley Quinn #2
Helter Shelter
Dr. Harleen Quinzel still has a price tag on her head, and while she gets to lay the smack down on some hired guns most of this issue is centered around Harley organizing a heist… to save animals from being euthanized. Adorbz. And while she's getting her animal rights on, she calls eco-terrorist BFF Dr. Pamela Isley. Our favorite Gotham PhD's liberate some animals and then snuggle up all the while Harley tries to figure out what's going on here.
All the while dealing with real world issues like waiting for a fridge to be delivered so that rotting corpse quis stinking up the place.
I loved that Harley got a visit from my favorite Gotham anti-hero Poison Ivy. But I dislike the way Chad Hardin and Stephane Roux went with her look;
Tribal tattoos? argh…
but the personalities are right, constantly playing off each other: pranking, flirting, teamwork and girl power! oh HELL yeah! I'm about to ask writer Amanda Conner to be my Valentine… hmm.. would co-writer Jimmy Palmiotti like that? Poison Ivy even comes up with a scheme to fake Harley's death and let her collect on the reward, but Harley decides to go the direct route -you know, wrapping would be assassins in sausage and throwing him to the dogs.
While both Harleen and Pamela tend to be morally ambiguous villainesses and occasional good guys.. there's an odd subtext.. Poison Ivy loves plants more than people, something that's been proved many times before and Harley's main storyline of this issue was rescuing pups and kitties (and in issue 1 she adopted a dog and slammed down an animal abuser). Point being: these characters are shown protecting animals or the environment and are portrayed as deviants. Of course no one wants ancient oaks or wide eyed beagles to bite the dust but often activists are presented as radicals or extremists in an effort to alarm other would be do-gooders. I find it endearing from HQ but the stereotype in general is detrimental when the "Green Scare" is a very real thing. To the point where people have been baited by the FBI and charged to decade long jail sentences for THINKING about planning a crime.
Everyone loves Harley and Ivy but they are the Dark Knight's adversaries, so what message are we sending about opposers of animal cruelty? By using the unstable Harley as an ALF avatar is the message being sent that environmental and animal rights activists are all nutjob wackos?
Or is this a way for the outrageous Quinn to seem more innocent and sweet?
Standard | Posted in Comic Books!	| Tagged activism, Amanda Conner, animal rights, Batman, Brooklyn, Chad Hardin, comic books, Danzig, DC, eco-terrorism, eco-terrorist, girl power, Harley Quinn, Jimmy Palmiotti, Poison Ivy, Stephane Roux, the Joker, woof woof	| 3 Comments
THROWBACK ATTACK! Wolverine TPB!
Frank Miller/Chris Claremont
Wolverine #1-4 and Uncanny X-Men #172-173
The Wolverine was (SO loosely) based on these comics.
There's actually far less of a segway between that stuff with the bear and Wolverine going to Japan in the source material. Also in the comics Yukio and Wolverine get close. And Wolverine doesn't lose his regenerative powers. And the Silver Samurai is a totally different person. And there's no nanites. And the rest of the X-Men show up. Yeah… the only thing the same is the names of people and that it is set in Japan.
But I digress. Wolverine comes off of the mountain to see Mariko who he loves. She's married. Her husband abuses her. Wolverine has to save her. Against her will. As the daughter of a wealthy and powerful man she is also heir to his legacy. And she is bound by tradition and honor. Stuff that the loner and berserker Wolverine wouldn't understand. (Which his friend Osada recognizes while still saying that Wolverine is the "most Japanese Westerner he ever met" -what?!)
After fighting her father and her father leaving Wolverine for dead, Wolvie meets Yukio. Who is more wild and slightly more agile than in the film. Wolverine and Yukio get together until Wolverine finds that she was plotting against him and in cahoots with The Hand (Japanese mafia assassins). Mariko's half brother tries to take control of the business by becoming the Silver Samurai. Viper poisons people. But in the comics it's Rogue who- after recently inheriting Carol Danver's powers considers herself invulnerable- saves the lot of them. While that's going on, an out of control Ororo makes friends with Yukio and get's her first mohawk.
I hadn't read these before (spare me) and I'm glad I did. The art is simple and fantastic. Without relying on backgrounds and tech much is explained through just facial expression or hands… but Wolverine's narration is sometimes a little much.
With Yukio's consciousness living on in Ana Cortes and Brian Wood's X-Men- as well as Storm's punk rock 'do, The Wolverine based off this collection and all the nerd points I just earned this was definitely worthwhile. Only downside is the collection ends without it all wrapped up and there's this weird stuff with reincarnated Jean Grey mixed in but there was bound to be something since these stories spanned years.
If the movie was more closely based on the comics it would still have barely passed the Bechdel Test but it would have, because Yukio and Storm hit it off so well. Why did Kitty cry about Storm's haircut, though? I'm baffled.
Standard | Posted in Comic Books!	| Tagged action chicks, Chris Claremont, Classic Comics, Frank Miller, girl power, Mariko, Marvel, Rogue, Storm, the Wolverine, TPB, Trade Paperbacks, wolverine, x-men, Yukio	| 0 comments
PrinceLESS #1
I was light on comics to pick up, so I decided to just grab some stuff. And I was sifting through NES cartridges when out of the corner of my eye I see this bright pink comic on the All-Ages shelf. I don't usually read "all ages comics", or "girl comics" or "fairytale comics."
So in this story we have a Fairytale Princess. And this fairytale princess is of color. Unfortunately this is so notable because of representations of Princesses including but not limited to those by Disney whose single foray into having a black/African American princess left the heroine as a swamp animal for most of the movie without any princess privileges. And spare me the "but Tiana worked hard" or "it was realistic" because No. It wasn't. And frankly it doesn't matter: There were so many discussions about whether or not Disney could have used an African folktale for the story or if they made the right move by setting it this way and the correct answer is that they could have done both or neither: EverAfter/StoryLand worlds are make believe and everyone should be included. No one living in 2014 America recognizes themselves culturally with dragons or castles or birthright. And yet for some reason these movies repeatedly come out with white characters as if this is something logical because it's realistic or historical because it has an origin in some Northern European country. And writers, artists, animators, marketing execs and whoever else can handle that movie/comic/TV fans can suspend disbelief for talking snowmen, fairy godmothers, magic spells, etc., but do not think the masses can handle a princess being a different race than the one in the original literature written hundreds of years ago? OH Spare me. People who actually have a problem with it should be banished to 1280 AD.
Plotwise: We start off with a story within a story: a fair maiden with arms like pipecleaners getting saved from a tall tower guarded by a dragon by her one true prince. And they live happily ever after. Oh Joy! Princess Adrienne doesn't buy it. And she tells her mother so. Her mother is nonplussed. The practice of locking Princesses in towers to be saved by the most valiant of knights who will prove himself brave and worthy enough to rule is accepted. She figures Adrienne will get over it (she doesn't) and she gets locked in a tower when she turns 16 (after being drugged by her parents).
While stuck in her tower, she writes so she doesn't "go stupid" and scolds both the dragon and princes below. One such prince shows up and says he seeks a "fair maiden." She tells him that "fair" means "white." She calls him a moron, then says, "You're so anxious to take a wife! Why don't you take a book first? Work your way up."
Through a series of events she ends up teaming up with the dragon that 's guarding her tower (by telling him that he's part of a system that is detrimental to him!), gearing up, and setting out to free princess from towers!
The real gem in this feminist dream?
The end of the comic has a mini story that features a Prince, forced to go through Charm School to learn how to save princesses who finds out that it's not all he hoped it would be.
Because patriarchy is bad for everyone. HOLY GUACAMOLE!
I picked up the $1 reissue of this and I cannot wait to find the rest because it is both fun and insightful. And Adrienne is dressed like Princess Peach which has nothing to do with anything really, I just thought that was cool. I know I focussed in on all the social justice stuff. But really the overall plot is a spunky action-chick who teams up with a dragon (to rebel against society). Come on. that is so rad.
I don't even give stars for comicbooks and this gets 5 Stars
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Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Elects New Board
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has elected Steve Urban to a 2-year term as Vice President, succeeding Bernard Weiser. Additionally, Jeremy Gordon was reelected as Treasurer and Christopher Reeves as Sergeant-at-Arms in the organization's annual Board elections.
By Keith Gayhart
Steve Urban becomes Vice President. Jeremy Gordon reelected Treasurer; Christopher Reeves reelected Sergeant-at-Arms.
Studio City, California – The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has elected Steve Urban to a 2-year term as Vice President, succeeding Bernard Weiser. Additionally, Jeremy Gordon was reelected as Treasurer and Christopher Reeves as Sergeant-at-Arms in the organization's annual Board elections. They join Mark A. Lanza, who continues in the role of President, as board officers.
Newly-elected as Board members at large are Peter Albrechtsen, Amber Funk, Scott Jennings and Charles Maynes. Re-elected board members include Miguel Araujo, David Barber, Daniel Blanck, Perry La Marca, Paulette Victor-Lifton and Garrett Montgomery.
"The MPSE is fortunate to have many talented members willing to devote their time to help elevate our amazing craft," said Lanza. "Our new board was chosen from a field of especially strong candidates. We are grateful for their dedication." Lanza also offered special thanks to Weiser for his years of service to MPSE. Weiser will focus on his role as President of the Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance (EIPMA).
(l to r) Mark Lanza, Steve Urban, Jeremy Gordon, Christopher Reeves
Despite the pandemic, MPSE expanded its outreach in 2020. It conducted nine virtual "Sound Advice" webinars focusing on sound work on such projects as Mr. Robot and Better Call Saul and highlighting new technologies. It also launched a quarterly publication for members titled Wavelength. The organization's signature event, the 68th Annual Golden Reel Awards, will be held for as a virtual event April 18th with participants from around the globe.
Steve Urban is a Supervising Sound Editor based as Sony Pictures Entertainment. His credits include Madame Secretary, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder. He won a Golden Reel Award for his work on The Duel.
Jeremy Gordon is a Supervising Sound Editor with Atomic Post Sound, where his credits include The Magicians, The Leftovers, and Resurrection. He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee for Smallville and Party of Five) and a three-time Golden Reel Award nominee.
Christopher Reeves is a Supervising Sound Editor based at NBC/Universal. He is a nine-time Emmy Award nominee, with two wins for his work on The X Files. His recent credits include Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
About MPSE
Founded in 1953, the Motion Picture Sound Editors is a non-profit organization of professional sound and music editors who work in the motion picture, television and gaming industry. The organization's mission is to provide a wealth of knowledge from award winning professionals to a diverse group of individuals, youth and career professionals alike; mentoring and educating the community about the artistic merit and technical advancements in sound and music editing; providing scholarships for the continuing advancement of professional sound education; and helping to enhance the personal and professional lives of the men and women who practice this unique craft.
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This LA Caterer Will Cook You a Weed-Infused, Multi-Course Feast
Elevation VIP Cooperative, INC.'s three-course menu included Sour Diesel paired with black garlic; poulet roulade with Girl Scout Cookies; and a French vanilla cake with Blue Dream hybrid terpenes for dessert.
by Javier Cabral
Aug 24 2016, 11:00pm
Medicated heirloom tomato salad. Photos by Javier Cabral
"Would you like to come to a private cannabis-infused dinner? It is an upscale event with an intimate setting where the chef pairs each plate to compliment terpenes found in cannabis."
Believe it or not, in 11 years of writing professionally about Los Angeles food culture, I've never received such an invitation. At that very moment, my two worlds became one. I'm not a "smoke weed every day" pothead, but as a native of this city, marijuana has been present throughout many stages of my young adult life. And with Proposition 64 to legalize recreational weed in California on the local ballot this November, I knew this moment would happen very soon.
So there I was, Ubering to an undisclosed location deep in the Hollywood hills on a Wednesday night. It was BYOB, but I was instructed that it was best to not drink so that I could feel the intended paired high of the strain used in each course. That undisclosed location turned out to be a huge mansion just bong's throw from the Hollywood Bowl overlooking the entire city. I was quickly flagged to sign a waiver that made me promise I was "not an informant," and also to confirm that I had been legally prescribed medical cannabis. Good thing I had just gotten my license an hour prior via a ten-minute-long, Skyped-in session with PrestoDoctor for my tendonitis.
Once that was signed, I was quickly handed a jungle-green Champagne spritzer tinted with a bit of kiwi puree spiked with ginger, mint, and 12 milligrams of Girl Scout Cookies. I continued to trip the fuck out on the fact that I was about to have a medicated feast in the Hollywood Hills. The other patients who were present at the intimate dinner were just as colorful as you would imagine. There was a blonde woman wearing a practically see-through red dress; a video editor; a cannabis cookbook author; a lawyer who specialized in defending cannabis businesses; an artist; and the millionaire investment banker who owns the home, along with his young Peruvian date.
Medicated heirloom tomato bisque
The company cooking the food for the evening was Elevation VIP Cooperative, INC., a dispensary-meets-medical-cannabis-collective that operates as a full catering service. Legalities-wise, a patient can donate money to them to cook an elaborate medicated feast for them, and as long as every guest has been prescribed medical marijuana and joins their collective, they are good to go. They have been providing medicine to patients this way for years, and their operation appears to be growing strong.
Elevation is made up of chef Andrea Drummer and Hamady Diallo, who deals with the front-of-house operations. As I sipped my Champagne, trying to pick up the the skunky notes from the weed-kiwi syrup, they were both extremely busy in the mansion's spacious kitchen. The menu for the night was: spicy, heirloom tomato bisque fortified with 18 milligrams of Sour Diesel and black garlic; poulet roulade with parsnips and 26 milligrams of Girl Scout Cookies again; and a French vanilla cake with bruleed fig and créme Anglaise enriched with ten milligrams of Blue Dream hybrid for dessert.
Medicated poulet roulade
Diallo and Drummer are not the type of chefs who are looking for too much attention, probably due to the fact that there are so many gray areas in California's edible business laws. (Though they prefer to lay low most of the time, they were featured in the opening scene in the first episode of Chelsea Does on Netflix.)
Andrea Drummer and a patient at the dinner. Photo courtesy of Hamady Diallo
From a phone interview with Drummer the day before the dinner, I found out that she is originally from Fort Lauderdale and that her father and brother-in-law, who are both ministers, have accepted her career as a thriving cannabis chef in California. She used to work at a nonprofit before attending Le Cordon Bleu in LA to pursue becoming a full-time weed chef. When I ask why she made this career choice, she responded, "I just found out lucrative it can be, and how much it really does help patients like myself."
From a conversation after the dinner, I found out that Diallo is originally from Mali, West Africa, and that he was raised in DC. When I asked him about what inspired Elevation, he simply said, "As patients ourselves, we wanted a healthier, alternative, organic, locally-sourced way to have our medicine—outside of baked goods and sweets, because there is definitely a shift in the market happening right now." They both have goals of breaking into the pre-packaged, frozen, medicated food market eventually.
Bruleed fig with medicated creme anglaise
The dishes were textbook-perfect and tasted like what you would have at a casual bistro located at a cooking school. Everything was clean-tasting, including the herb's muted flavor through the soup, chicken, and cake. The total amount of cannabinoids for the evening was a very controlled 66 milligrams, which is enough to make even a seasoned patient feel a little funny. Drummer and Diallo are sticklers about controlling the amount, though they will make it stronger if requested. Of course, like any good experience with an edible, I was extremely skeptical of the effects of it until I was blown the fuck out of my mind at the end of the night.
The party escalated very quickly after the dinner. The millionaire and another guest who had shown up late to the party started singing along to 80s songs. (That woman with the red dress was a very good singer, who sounded remarkably like a combination of Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys.) As the night got went on, a man with a saxophone showed up and started performing covers of songs upon request.
It was then that I knew it was time for me to go home and sleep. If this is what the future of recreational weed in California—and its subsequent effect on our food scene—looks like, sign me up.
Andrea Drummer
Elevation VIP Cooperative
Hamady Diallo


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The School was established in 1967 to serve the needs of the British and Dutch expatriate communities in Jeddah. Today, JPGS welcomes expatriate and Saudi Arabian families alike, with students from a wide range of nationalities whilst retaining a family and community atmosphere. The School is heavily oversubscribed with waiting lists in almost all year groups. Children in the Prep School follow the Cambridge Primary Programme; whilst the Grammar School prepares pupils for Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) IGCSEs and International A Levels.
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Ranbir Kapoor and Mahira Khan's viral pictures from New York have been doing the rounds on the Internet. Ranbir Kapoor, who is rumored to be dating the Pakistani actress were seen smoking together in New York City streets. Mahira is a single mother who was divorced in 2015.
Ranbir Kapoor came out to defend her from trollers & people criticizing the actress for smoking in a short dress. Targeting everyone for singling out Mahira in those pictures, Ranbir spoke to NDTV.


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New documentary set to blast stereotypes of PTSD
By Jon Anderson
Producers for the upcoming ÒFace of PTSDÓ documentary are focused on highlighting combat veterans who have battled through post-traumatic stress with innovative alternative therapies and gone on to lead successful lives. Credit: Courtesy of Malka Media
A team of filmmakers vow to break down the stigma and stereotypes associated with post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans with a new documentary showcasing the success stories of those who've broken through the fog after war.
"We believe that the mainstream media has chosen to go with stories that have shock value, rather than telling the stories of veterans who deal with the disorder but still lead highly productive lives," said Derek Brown, director of "The Face of PTSD," now in preproduction.
"This has created a mischaracterization of those with the disorder as violent, abusive, or addicted. We will show how that mischaracterization is a leading cause for veterans not seeking treatment, and thus further perpetuating the problem."
That's not to say those who are dealing with PTSD haven't gone through hard times, Brown said. But "despite those challenges, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We want to bring awareness to the causes of the stigma surrounding the disorder in order to promote a message of treatment rather than judgment."
Brown's crew is adopting the hashtag #treatmentNOTjudgement as the rallying cry for the movie. He says much of the film will delve into alternative ways veterans are finding help in managing and even overcoming PTSD.
The feature-length film is being produced by New Jersey-based Malka Media, which has launched an Indigogo Indiegogo campaign to help crowdfund the project. The money will be used to cover the expenses of interviewing veterans and experts across the country.
Meanwhile, two veterans veteran's charities, "Backpacks for Life" and "Soldier's Soldiers' Angels,", are partnered with the production, including special incentives for donations within the Indiegogo donation tiers.
Brown says he was inspired to create the film after a trip downrange with Army veteran Colin Wayne Erwin, who was on a USO tour at the time.
Erwin suffers from PTSD after a 2012 rocket attack in Iraq left him with severe injuries. He's gone on to become an elite fitness model, as well as founding his own patriotic-themed sign company in Alabama.
Erwin will be among those featured in "The Face of PTSD."
"Once I got to know his story, and the things he had to overcome, I knew we had to make this film," says Brown said.
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Fast deformation dynamics using model order reduction in iMSTK
Jianfeng Yan, Sreekanth Arikatla and Andrew Wilson
In iMSTK finite element method is often the method of choice to simulate soft tissue mechanics. Depending on the geometric complexity of the anatomical model, the degree of freedom can quickly grow leading to a high computational burden which can have adverse effects on the frame rate and interactivity. Parallelization (see our recent blog), strategies such as adaptive time-stepping and graded mesh can alleviate some of the computational burden but sometimes, depending on the scenario, one may run out of cost-cutting options. A reduced-order model for the deformation dynamics was introduced to iMSTK to address this issue.
Model order reduction (MOR), also called dimensional model reduction, provides quantitatively accurate descriptions of the dynamics of a system at a computational cost that is much lower than the original numerical model. The idea is to project the original, high-dimensional solution space onto a low-dimensional subspace to arrive at a reduced model that approximates the original system. The low-dimensional subspace is carefully chosen such that the most important characteristics (often known as modes) of the original system's behaviors are preserved. With much fewer degrees of freedom, the reduced model can be solved much faster than the original system. It has been extensively used in many disciplines, including fluid dynamics, mechanics, computational biology, circuit design, and control theory. MOR is often used in the computational mechanics community for large scale simulations [4] and offers an excellent opportunity for low-cost deformable tissue models.
Deformation dynamics with MOR
A finite element (FE) modeling of the partial differential equations of elasticity on a discretized spatial domain produces ordinary differential equation (ODE) of the form $latex Mu+Du + f_{int}(u) = f_{ext}$ where $latex u$ is the displacement field, $latex M, D, R^{3n \times 3n}$ ($latex n$ is the number of nodes) are the mass and damping matrices, respectively and $latex f,f_{int} \in R^{3n}$ are the internal and external forces, respectively. MOR produces a low-dimensional subspace of size $latex r ( \ll 3n)$ spanned by the columns of $latex U \in R^{3n \times r}$ allowing us to approximate the solution $latex u=Uz$ where $latex z \in R^r$ is the reduced coordinates. Similarly, the above-mentioned ODE can be posed and solved in the reduced space. The obvious advantage is that $latex r \ll 3n$ is much less than $latex n$ resulting is a much faster solution to the reduced ODE after which the full-space solution can be recovered from $latex u=Uz$.
Barbič et al. [1] showed that for geometrically non-linear material models that are commonly used to model deformation in iMSTK, the internal force can be approximated as a cubic polynomial in $latex z$ whose coefficients can be precomputed and stored at a cost of $latex O(r^4)$. Using numerical quadrature rules, the precomputation cost can be further reduced to $latex O(r^2)$[2]. The subspace basis U is time-invariant, mass-orthogonal ($latex U^TMU=I$), and depends on geometry, boundary conditions, and material properties. A good subspace consists of the low-frequency modes that correspond to the least resistant deformations. The basis can be constructed using linear modes and their modal derivatives, which span the natural second-order system response for large deformations. With k linear modes, users can choose a fraction of $latex k(k+1)/2$ modal derivatives available. One of the advantages of this approach is that no a priori knowledge of runtime interaction is required and therefore the precomputation needs to be performed only once. The full details of the above-described procedures can be found in [1].
MOR in iMSTK
iMSTK uses Vega [3] as a backend for FE-based deformation dynamics. Recently, we have exposed MOR features of the Vega library (see release 3.0) that implements the above-described approach. iMSTK's dynamical models implement dynamically evolving models that have the ability to simulate 3D elastic continua, fluids, elastic membranes, and 1D structures. A new dynamical model ReducedStVK was introduced that solves the reduced model for deformation. The following code snippet shows how to create and configure the dynamical model with pre-computed coefficients of the cubic polynomials (.cub file) for the reduced internal forces, and the other the basis matrix (.float file).
auto dynaModel = std::make_shared<ReducedStVK>();
auto config = std::make_shared<ReducedStVKConfig>();
config->m_cubicPolynomialFilename = iMSTK_DATA_ROOT "/heart.cub";
config->m_modesFileName = iMSTK_DATA_ROOT "/heart.float";
dynaModel->configure(config);
Performance of reduced and full-space FE dynamical model
The table above compares the speed of MOR that uses a different number of linear and non-linear basis with the traditional FE dynamical model for a tetrahedral mesh with 12827 elements (and 12K degree of freedom). As can be seen, MOR is 12-16 times faster than traditional FE based dynamical models for this case. Furthermore, we have observed that with only 20 non-linear modes, the results from MOR agree quite well (visually) with that using FEM.
The reduced model employs a dense matrix solver (whereas the full model results in a sparse system) and hence further optimizations are possible (eg. using MKL). The reduced basis depends on the boundary conditions, material constants, and mesh topology. Therefore, MOR can only be employed for simulations that do not change these at runtime.
This work was supported, in part, by the following awards from NIH: R44DE027595, 1R01EB025247, 2R44DK115332. R44AR075481 (Disclaimer: The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH and its institutes.)
[1] J. Barbič. Real-time Reduced Large-Deformation Models and Distributed Contact for Computer Graphics and Haptics. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 2007.
[2] S. S. An, T. Kim, and D. L. James. Optimizing cubature for efficient integration of subspace deformations. ACM Trans. on Graphics, 27(5):165:1–165:10, 2008.
[3] Sin, F.S., Schroeder, D. and Barbič, J. (2013), Vega: Non‐Linear FEM Deformable Object Simulator. Computer Graphics Forum, 32: 36-48.
[4] Vorst, H. A. v. d., Schilders, W. H., Rommes, J. (2008). Model Order Reduction: Theory, Research Aspects and Applications. Germany: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Q: stop fade in out on a movieclip actionscript 2 I'm trying to stop fading in/out my movieclip.
I'll explain: I've integrated my swf in an HTML page with a dropdown list. When i choose an item from this list a javascript function it's called.This function execute a callback to a function in my swf file that fade in/out an image drawn at runtime (depending on the item selected in the dropdown list). When I choose another element I want the previuos item stops fading and the new starts.
This is my fading function:
function fadeIn(h){
if (eval(h)._alpha<100) {
    eval(h)._alpha += 20;
}
else {
    clearInterval(fadeInterval);
    setTimeout(startOut, 500, h);
}
}

function fadeOut(h) {
if (eval(h)._alpha>0) {
    eval(h)._alpha -= 20;
} else {
    clearInterval(fadeInterval);
    setTimeout(startIn, 100, h);
}
}

function startOut(h) {
fadeInterval = setInterval(fadeOut, 1, h);
}

function startIn(h){
fadeInterval = setInterval(fadeIn, 1, h);
}

function flashing(h){
var bname;
bname = "planGroup.singleObject." + h;
eval(bname)._alpha = 0;
fadeInterval = setInterval(fadeIn, 1, bname);
}

I tried with clearInterval(fadeInterval), but this doesn't always work, tried with my_mc.stop() but this doesn't work either.
I tried also to set a variable count that execute the fading olny 5 times, and this work unless I change the item in the drowpdown list before the function complete.
Any ideas?? Hope it was clear!
Thanks

A: If anyone cares i solved with the Tween class!! All those functions were replaced by one line of code:
function fadeTo(clipName, fadeValue){
    new mx.transitions.Tween(eval(clipName), "_alpha", mx.transitions.easing.Regular.easeOut, eval(clipName)._alpha, fadeValue, 1, true);
}

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Q: Android create static ArrayList im trying to remove values from an arrayList im my android app, but they keep re-appearing.
My arrayList is in a separate class,
in my Main Activty I create an instance of that class and remove a value from the array.
I exit the Main Activity and return the value  re-appears.
My Question is how can I can some kind of static instance of the array class???
 //ArrayClass
 public class ArrayClass {

 public final static ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();

 public ArrayClass() {
    words.add("WORD");
    words.add("WORD");
    words.add("WORD");
 }

 //Main Class
 ArrayClass wordc = new ArrayClass();

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      wordc.removeWord(0);
 }

A: Orest is correct you do want a singleton pattern, but remember when you access the class's methods you always need to use the getInstance() method.
For example a method within the Class:
public String getWord(index i) {
     .......
}

Should be called statically as follows
ArrayClass.getInstance().getWord(i);

NOT like this
wordc.getWord(i);

This guarantees that there is one and only one instance (thus the singleton)

A: I might be confused on what you are doing but to access the static Array you don't want to create an instance of the class. Everytime you do that you are running the constructor which, in the example code, populates your static Array each time with 3 values.
I don't see exactly what you are trying to accomplish so maybe you could explain that a little better but I'm guessing this really isn't what you want your constructor doing. I think you want to access the Array itself statically
 //Main Class
 ArrayClass wordc = new ArrayClass();

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      wordc.removeWord(0);  //don't need this
      ArrayClass.words.remove(0);  // would remove the element at index 0
 }

But this still wouldn't solve your problem. You need a method inside your ArrayClass class that adds items to your Array. Doing it in your constructor will add these items each time you create a new instance of your class.
If this doesn't answer your question then maybe you can explain your assignment a little better.

A: Have you tried the Singleton patter? You will have one static reference of ArrayClass and it's internal state won't be violated by activity lifecycle.
public class ArrayClass {
     private static ArrayClass instance;
     public static ArrayClass getInstance() {
         if(instance == null) instance = new ArrayClass();
         return instance;
     }
//...rest goes as is.


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Several of Terhune's friends say he had never been violent, although he was "slipping mentally" after a recent series of disappointments: He dropped out of several colleges; had a disillusioning reunification with his birth parents; suffered romantic frustrations; and faced mounting mental health problems.
He told friends he struggled to control schizophrenia, migraines, depression and anxiety. They blame the medications he was prescribed for causing the violence.
"I don't think Cameron was in his right state of mind in January," said Candice Graves, 18, of Oakdale. "He's not a bad person. He loved his parents."
One family friend said Terhune's parents had started to pressure him to take more responsibility for his life and help pay for his most recent attempt at college. Terhune, the friend added, tended to blame others for his failures.
"It always seemed to be someone else's fault," the friend said. "He always told people what they wanted to hear. His parents finally stopped believing him."
Diana Martinez, 22, of Oakdale said she argued with Terhune just days before the killings because he had been drinking while using prescription drugs.
Another friend said Terhune confessed to him one day after the killings.
"His words were, 'I broke up with my girlfriend and I killed my parents,' " said Paul Guerrero, 23, of Modesto. "He jokes around. I just thought maybe he was joking."
Guerrero said he has talked to Terhune in jail, and Terhune told him he doesn't remember the killings.
"He said he knew what he did by looking at it," Guerrero said. "He says he doesn't remember. I said, 'When did you think this was wrong?' "
Guerrero said Terhune responded, "When I stopped blacking out, I realized what I was doing was wrong. It was already too late. They were already on the ground."
Notebooks full of 'everything'
To his friends, Terhune was a giving person who never expected anything in return. He was passionate about making music, watching films and drawing. According to Jacob Andrew Dodge, 22, Terhune has filled more than 50 notebooks "full of his imagination, stories, real-life trauma, etc. Just everything."
But Terhune had a hard time making good choices. Friends described him as passive and reserved.
"Cameron's always struggled," Guerrero said. "He worked at different things, went to different places, and nothing ever worked out. Every time he would give his heart out, it would get stomped on. That's the type of person he was."
They described his relationship with his adoptive parents as respectful and affectionate.
"He never raised a hand to me or a voice to me in the three years we were together," said Martinez. "This is the first time he's ever had an outburst."
In July, Terhune signed up to join the Navy but was released from that obligation in the fall.
"He was really depressed about being discharged," said Martinez. "He said this was his last chance to succeed."
The years after Terhune graduated from high school were marked by a series of false starts.
In 2003, Terhune graduated from Modesto High School then attended California State University, Chico, for one semester. He went to Missouri for about six months and attended a community college there before coming back to California.
He lived in Ceres for about a year, according to Eric Wolford, a former roommate. Terhune delivered newspapers briefly for The Bee, Wolford said. They worked on recording and video editing and did the "post-high school thing."
Terhune took classes at Modesto Junior College and worked with Guerrero at Denny's. In 2006, he and Dodge moved to Los Angeles to attend a campus of the New York Film Academy.
Several clips have surfaced on YouTube depicting scenes from one of Terhune's film school projects called "We're All Zombies." Some of the videos show Terhune eating pizza covered with fake blood. Friends who knew about the project said an instructor assigned it, and the gore is not a sign of Terhune's mental state.
Terhune completed film school "all up through the last project, which he didn't do," according to Dodge. Martinez said Terhune told her film school "wasn't what he thought it would be."
In 2008, Guerrero said, Terhune decided to move to Georgia to get to know his birth parents. He worked at a golf course and a liquor store, but had trouble with the new relationships.
Terhune flew back to California in July, Guerrero said. He stayed in Modesto for two weeks then signed up for the Navy. About two months later, the Navy decided not to give him a position. Guerrero said Terhune was secretive about why it didn't work out.
'Not truly in the Navy'
Terhune had visited a recruiter in July, but was never a service member, said Lt. Cmdr. John Daniels, a Navy spokesman.
"He signed up but he never shipped off," Daniels said. "He was not truly in the Navy. He was not wearing the Navy uniform. He was under contract to join."
Daniels could not release further details about Terhune because of privacy laws, but spoke generally about the sign-up procedure. Recruits visit the processing station, undergo a medical screening and take an aptitude test to determine job placement. Then they wait for a spot in basic training.
Terhune's friends said his test results were stellar and that he was scheduled to go into the Navy's nuclear power program. Daniels could not confirm this.
According to Daniels, 59 days passed from when Terhune signed up until his "administration separation." He could not divulge why Terhune was released, but said there can be various reasons: a criminal violation, a medical problem, recreational drug use, acknowledging homosexuality.
Terhune's friends said the Navy let him go because of mental health problems. He had struggled with anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression.
When the Navy didn't work out, Terhune moved to Chicago for a couple of months to be with a woman. He also was diagnosed with schizophrenia, friends said he told them. A doctor prescribed a slew of medications for his treatment.
In October, he took the train back to California but was kicked off in Arizona when he had a seizure. He rode a bus to San Jose and was homeless for several days before his father drove out to bring him home.
Friends said Terhune didn't know what to do with himself when he returned from Chicago.
"He seemed really upset. He was a shadow of his former self," said Guerrero. He said Terhune was depressed because he couldn't find work.
Friends said the medications he was taking for anxiety and depression changed him.
"It wasn't him that killed his parents, it was the damn prescriptions that took him over the edge," wrote Guerrero in an e-mail to The Bee.
"He had told me before that he trips out when on the meds and feels even worse when he doesn't take them," Dodge wrote.
Martinez, an emergency medical technician, said she never noticed signs of schizophrenia.
"He had his ups and downs," she said. "If he was feeling down, he didn't talk. When he was up, he was more social. He would always try anything once."
When he wasn't taking his medication, Martinez said, Terhune could become "very secluded" and anxious. "
As fall became winter, things seemed to improve, said Guerrero. Terhune was getting along better with his parents and taking classes four days a week to get certified as a pharmacy technician. But Guerrero was busy with three jobs and 20 units at MJC, he said, and wasn't paying close attention.
On Jan. 10, three days before the Terhunes' deaths, Martinez said, she argued with Cameron Terhune when she learned he had been drinking heavily on New Year's Eve in addition to taking his medication.
Around the same time, Dodge wrote, he "received strange e-mails from him (Terhune) asking me if I knew what it was to be a man and that he would have to commit two unspeakable acts in order to be set free.' "
Dodge said he would not provide the e-mails to The Bee but had turned them over to authorities.
Detective Ken Hedrick of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said he could not comment because the investigation remains open.
The family friend who wanted to remain anonymous said tensions grew throughout the holiday season. Ken and Diane Terhune asked Cameron to help pay for his pharmacy technician classes. Ken Terhune also told his son he was disappointed with him, the friend said.
Friend was sleeping on floor
On Jan. 14, Guerrero was at school when he got a call that Terhune was at his place. When he got home about 11 a.m. Terhune was sleeping on his floor.
"He was shaking, hungry, pale. I thought he got into a car accident," Guerrero said. "He looked at me and shook his head. He said, 'I can't talk about it.' And I said, 'Let's go for a drive.' "
About 10 minutes later, Guerrero said, Terhune told him he killed his parents. Guerrero said he thought Terhune was joking, or that he'd had a bad dream, and sent him home.
The next day, officers found the bodies. That night, police arrested Terhune when they found him sitting in a car on Floyd Avenue near Rose Avenue in northeast Modesto.
Guerrero said, before the killings, he remembers Terhune being warm toward his parents, hugging and kissing his mother. Terhune's dad, he said, co-signed for two college loans and bought him two cars. He remembers Terhune e-mailing him in all capital letters about his high score on the Navy test, saying how he wanted to succeed, to settle down with the right woman and make his parents proud.
"This wasn't Cameron who did this. He was just like everyone else. He was an A-plus student, really smart, kind of nerdy. He listened to rock, but he wasn't a dark person," Guerrero said. "He just couldn't keep the momentum going."
Bee staff writer Emilie Raguso can be reached at 578-2235 or eraguso@modbee.com.
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Trading Begins on China's New Stock Exchange
Trading on the Beijing Stock Exchange commenced on November 15, just two months after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the new bourse comprised of innovation-driven small- and medium-sized enterprises. Turnover on the first day amounted to 9.57 billion yuan ($1.5 billion), equivalent to just 1% of the combined daily turnover of the country's other two exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
The first batch of listings on the new exchange included 81 companies, of which ten were making their debut after recently conducting IPOs. The other 71 stocks transferred over from the 'select tier' of China's over-the-counter National Equities Exchange And Quotations (NEEQ) system, used to trade shares of smaller companies not listed on either the Shenzhen or Shanghai exchanges. One of the main reasons for the launch of the new exchange was to provide a venue with greater liquidity than NEEQ to trade these shares.
Chris Liu, Invesco
According to Chris Liu, Senior Portfolio Manager, China A-Investments at Invesco, "Brokers will benefit from the initiative most because the setup of the new stock exchange will boost the trading liquidity of NEEQ and will encourage more SMEs to get listed in the new stock exchange, which are good for both brokerage business and IPOs businesses."
The Beijing exchange's focus on smaller companies engaged in advanced manufacturing and services industries will complement Shanghai's Nasdaq-style Star Market and the Shenzhen bourse's ChiNext board of start-ups.
According to Liu, The Beijing Stock Exchange targets smaller companies at an even earlier stage of development than those on the STAR board and CHINEXT board. "The minimum market cap required is the lowest for Beijing Stock Exchange among the three stock exchanges." He added that "the overlap between the existing exchanges is small since these 3 stock exchanges focus on companies that have different sizes and focusing on different areas of industrial value chains."
Volume on the new exchange is expected to increase, though it will remain a negligible proportion of the country's total stock market turnover. "We expect the initial trading on the Beijing exchange to have only limited impact on the performance of A shares and its liquidity," China International Capital Corporation analyst Li Qiusuo wrote in a note published just before the exchange's launch. Li expects daily volume to increase by as much as three-fold, but even then it would be less than 3% of the total.
The launch of the new exchange is part of China's plan to promote equity financing in order to reduce banks' exposure to credit risks. Eight mutual funds targeting the exchange have completed registration, according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Mutual funds are expected to bring greater liquidity over the coming months.
Only qualified investors, of which there are about four million in China, are allowed to trade on the new exchange. Among the minimum requirements are having at least 500,000 yuan in assets in stock accounts and two years of trading experience. Qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) and approved overseas traders holding the offshore yuan can also trade on the exchange.
The new exchange's listing requirements are less stringent than those of the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, with companies required to have a minimum market capitalization equivalent to about $31 million. No price change limit was set for the first day, but henceforth, shares will be permitted to move up or down as much as 30% a day, compared to limits of 10% and 20% for different boards in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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