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The Coronavirus Journal: Surviving and Thriving After DC's Big Change
Featuring art from Hawkeye #22 by David Aja
By Brandon Schatz, with edits and contributions by Danica LeBlanc
Hey there folks. You can call me Staind, because "it's been a while" since my last column. I would apologize for that introduction, but I'm already tired and shame is for squares and those moments when I've spent too much time inside my own head.
To start: as is the case with every Coronavirus Journal, what I'm about to present exists as a chronicle of specific circumstance, and the experience of someone who has been working within this fine industry for over thirteen years. Much of this was scribbled into one of my journals and has been reproduced here with embellishments for the sake of context.
This is also intended to be specific to the comic book industry. There are absolutely larger problems out there and the fate of this form of entertainment is infinitesimal compared to those issues. Other people are more equipped to talk about those larger issues, and as always, I suggest you seek out The Worst Year Ever podcast, as they are doing fine work in this field.
But also, the world is a hellscape, and the only way forward is forming small, strong bonds in our communities, as those in power will never want to erode what they have in order to help the greater good.
This also applies to the comic industry. But we'll get to that.
(Admit it. You missed this.)
Modern technology is so beautiful.
At 9:53am Pacific (the DC office time zone), a communication from DC was blasted across all their retailer communication channels informing folks that DC would no longer be working with Diamond (with a few caveats). We're not going to dig into the hows and whys of that this time, as we covered that quite extensively in the previous installment of this column. This time around is going to be more of a "nuts and bolts" affair – light on the commentary (or rather, lighter than I usually am) with a focus more on how the DC shift affected our day to day business at Variant Edition.
As with any big shift in the industry, the immediate concern was wool-gathering. We immediately set about getting the lay of the land in order to set ourselves up for what was to come and come up with reasonable answers for the deluge of questions that were on our way from customers.
Right at the top, we confirmed our status as a client of Lunar Distribution. We had opened our account when Diamond was still shut down and DC had made moves to see if shipping single issues would be viable without them. At the time, we decided to wait for Diamond to reopen as the cost of shipping to Canada was quite cost-prohibitive for the amount of product being offered. With the "Diamond" option off the table, we knew we had to take steps to see how we could make the shipping position more palatable, but first and foremost we had to ensure our unused account was still active. It was.
From there, we set about contacting some local shops that we were friendly with to see if they would be interested in pooling shipping. Once we had this plan in place, we decided to see what we could do about helping out on a broader scale.
For shipping to Canada, Diamond had always sent the entirety of Canada's comics up in one huge lump of boxes, in order to make duty costs negligible. The comics would arrive out east and then be sent to various drop points around the country, where the product would either be picked up, or shipped to even smaller communities. Our goal was to set up something similar for that through Lunar — ideally using out local drop point guy as the point man.
This plan was gladly worked upon (and somewhat taken over) by the largest outfit in town, who set about using their clout to get everyone in the city on board. This was something they had been doing unprompted from my end, and I want to state that so it doesn't sound like I'm taking credit for that hustle.
As time progressed, things seemed to be lining up, although Lunar was always slow to confirm. We worked out an agreement with the large store that no matter what, if Lunar couldn't confirm a drop point style delivery system, we would combine our orders for the foreseeable future. A general sense of calm was reached. Then all hell broke loose once again.
cuz its nine in the afternoon
When DC announced their big change, they gave retailers a little over a week to get their ducks in order. In the grand scheme of things, this is not enough time, full stop. In talking with a DC rep, I was informed that the termination of their working relationship with Diamond wasn't something they wanted on that tight of a time frame, but a necessity when Diamond refused to work with the company on a requested extension of terms. Diamond intimated that they were expecting response from DC on certain matters, but instead received the termination notice. At a guess, there are truths to both version of this story, but the result was a 10-11 day span of time where a lot had to happen.
We thought we had nailed this particular transition when we got a phone call. The other shop in town had uncovered a third option for Canadians — an outfit called Universal. They informed us that they were going to order their product through them, and that the deadline was in a couple of hours. They were gracious enough to offer us the ability to piggyback off their order for the week while we set up our own account, which we did that very day without issue.
Known more for its gaming distribution, Universal was an outfit that had actually been working with Diamond for quite a few years as a sanctioned sub-distributor who provided their clients with Diamond product. One of their warehouses was located quite close to where Diamond would ship all of Canada's comics on a weekly basis, and a mutually beneficial situation was brokered, allowing Universal to be its own distributor of sorts to gaming stores looking for comic product.
At some point during the expansion of DC's distribution efforts, Universal brokered a similar deal with UCS, with approval from DC itself. As we discovered in short order, we would give Universal our numbers, and in turn, they would receive the stock from UCS and get it to us. They would do this while honouring our current terms with DC Comics, and would eat the entirety of the duty charges of shipping the comics up to Canada. This would save us a remarkable amount on shipping, and would reduce that cost back down to what we were getting from Diamond. There were just two catches: Universal would be charging us upon shipment, and that shipment would occur once they received the product from UCS.
These terms seemed amicable in the face of hearing other stores planning to charge an extra 30% to their customers on all of their DC titles due to the jump in shipping costs. Admittedly, we did NOT dig into whether or not we could delay payments like we can with every other distributor we utilize, but this is something we plan on revisiting now that things have calmed down a bit.
I am proud to state that this relationship with Universal has been quite amazing. While other stores have reported getting product in as early as the Friday before release, ours tend to show up on Monday or Tuesday, depending on when UCS has pushed the product up north. Early in August, on the Canadian long weekend, we did receive our shipment mid-Wednesday, but that was a relatively small stress in comparison to having to charge our folks a great deal more for their DC books.
Other small (in my opinion) things to look out for if you're a Canadian retailer looking to save some money on your DC shipment: Universal functions as its own account with UCS in many ways, and DC hasn't worked out a system to get promos to all the accounts served by Universal as a result. They also need to get their final orders to UCS by Sunday night, and are closed on the weekend… which means they require your numbers by 12pm EST on Fridays.
I've been talking with DC as time allows in an attempt to make Universal a full distribution partner for Canadians to hopefully mitigate those issues, and because it makes practical sense. DC still prints many of their single issue comics in Montreal, and that is where Universal is based. It seems wild to ship the comics down to the States, only to ship them right back up again, when you have a viable and competent distributor, who has been working with Diamond for years already with a proven track record of excellence.
A side note: in talking with DC about this, other than my thoughts on the matter, they hadn't heard much about Universal from folks beyond the fact they were a cheaper option. I responded by saying that in times like these, the fact that they weren't receiving bad feedback spoke volumes… especially given what is spewed in various private retailer forums. I say to DC again: wouldn't it be nice to have a distribution partner whose feedback read "they are wildly competent and cost effective"? Make this happen.
your eyes are the size of the moon
The switch with DC also prompted us to think long and hard about our structures, and our reliance on institutions we had always found unreliable, such as Diamond. I want to preface the rest of this by saying I adore quite a few people who work for Diamond, and I hope they are doing well despite all that is happening. This isn't about the people, so much as it is about the structure.
At the end of March, Diamond shut down their operations, furloughing many workers, and subsequently stopping payment to their various vendors. This was done in an attempt to figure out how to push forward in a time of crisis. I can say unequivocally that this pause in distribution changed the game for our store. We had been moving a lot of our purchasing away from Diamond and into book distribution channels, but single issues were unshakably tied to Diamond. During their pause, we confirmed two extremely important things:
1) Due to how we structured the store, we discovered we could survive and pay all of our bills through graphic novel sales alone. Which led to…
2) While they prop up a significant part of the market, physical single issues in their current format are more of a burden than they are a help. Truly, if you want proof of this, look around to retailer columns and commentary for the past 25 years (seriously – I'm reading stuff from 1995 in between pushing words outta my hands), and try and find someone who is happy with the pricing and needs of distribution for new print single issues. It is incredibly rare.
With these things in mind, we decided to abandon a few programs that we had been relying upon, such as Diamond's ComicSuite program, and the Pullbox Beta. This necessitated several weeks of work sessions that lasted from after work, 'til 2am. We moved all of our customers and their information from ComicSuite over to Manage Comics, a wonderful program that handles subscriptions and special orders. Despite the ease of a mass information upload that the folks at Manage handled on their own, we had to double-check and move a few things around on our end. It was a colossal amount of work, but in the end, we were glad to do it.
When the COVID-19 shutdowns started in full, we were a store that had been doing in-city delivery for three years prior. We had built a nice online system, and we had a robust social media presense that made communicating with our customers a snap. When trouble happened, we were already ready, and we thrived because of it. Taking a look at the landscape and the world's history of pandemics, we figured we couldn't trust Diamond not to shut down again this fall or winter, and take down the direct market as we know it. So we've prepared for that possibility. I honestly think everyone else should too.
Steve Geppi (the owner of Diamond) has talked around the fact that Diamond is at a breaking point. The company itself is still over a month behind getting us our reorders (at least to us in Canada), and their own reports suggest that they are running their warehouses at a 50-75% worker level — NOT because of COVID requirements, but because they haven't been able to retain the staff needed. In fact, they are hiring out to a temp agency to get positions filled and product out the door. This is all before the fall and winter arrives, and with it, another big wave built off the back of whatever infection numbers are currently out there. The history of pandemics say that things are about to get a whole lot worse, and there are no programs yet in place to help with what's to come.
While Diamond has in fact been a helpful partner to many, they have placed themselves in a untenable position. As graphic novels have taken over as the industry's driving revenue source (with the $$$-made gap widening year to year), Diamond did not adjust their model. This has been an industry shift that has happened over the past decade plus, but the company has been so focused on single issues, that they did not build out structures to ensure their relevance today. As it stands, every single graphic novel product I can get through other vendors comes into the store faster that Diamond can turn around, in better condition, and at a better price point. This was even the case pre-COVID. They became, through their own complacency, the worst place to order graphic novels from, and they are in no condition to make that pivot today.
listen to tunes on your zune
Beyond that, Discount Comic Book Service (who runs Lunar) and Midtown Comics (who runs UCS) did manage to keep their operations going during the first impactful days of the pandemic in North America, and did so seemingly without spreading infection. When I look at the future of this industry in the immediate? I see a company like DC that made a tough choice for the future of the industry… one that they took a lot of heat for. I see a company that has looked at the sales charts and are pushing forward, instead of looking backwards, building out when they are still in a position to do so, to ensure their place tomorrow.
I hope that I am doing the same thing too. Our numbers this year would suggest that we are. We don't play the back issue game at all, so these numbers don't come from selling hot books for bonus dollars. It comes purely from the connection to story, and a lot of hard work. It comes from looking at the reality of business, and pushing forward, instead of pushing against.
It comes from a desire to make sure this medium is here for many, many generations to come, and not just the ones who are here today.
A lot has happened in the past few months… but strangely? I feel like it has all been for the best. COVID-19 has been a burden for sure, but I can't lie: the industry needed an accelerant to slough off the bits that weren't working. The unfortunate side effect will always be good people finding themselves in troubled times, but… looking through to tomorrow, I see an industry ready to take the next step.
Comics will never die. But if you're not being realistic with what the future is about to bring us, you might just have a hard time surviving along with it as things change.
Don't worry. You can do this. You just gotta walk forward instead of clinging to the past.
Once again, we'll end this entry just like the ones that came before, with a note:
I will not be reading any comments on this article, nor will I be responding to any social media contact regarding it outside of "thanks for reading", if that response suits. This is more for personal time and sanity reasons. Danica, however, will be free to answer and respond as time allows.
(And that said, folks who have my proper contact info are always welcome to drop a line. I may or may not respond with anything beyond "thanks for reading", but you can try.)
We'll talk with you all soon.
[Note: yes, DC is currently being distributed in the UK through Diamond UK through to the end of December 2020. This wasn't included in the timeline because, as stated above, this was focused on how we specifically had to confront changes ourselves. We figured we'd pop that in there because someone was gonna point that out.]
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Foreign imports from Italy to Port of International Falls in 2015 were $214,568, while exports to Italy were $0.
The value of container cargo imported into Port of International Falls from Italy represented 100.0% of all vessel imports, $214,568 versus $214,568.
By weight, container cargo imports to Port of International Falls from Italy represented 76.2% of all vessel shippments, 12,951 (kg) versus 17,005 (kg).


Our real estate agency can offer a warehouse for rent Binh chanh district Ho Chi Minh City for starting a business in Vietnam.
Warehouse for rent in Binh Chanh district in Ho Chi Minh City. The large warehouse has a convenient surface to store products adapted to the business of the company. This warehouse is almost empty, quickly available and the area is located in a industrial area.


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De N836 is een gewestweg in de Belgische provincies Luxemburg en Namen. De route verbindt de N86 ten zuiden van Jemelle met de N86 bij Marche-en-Famenne. De weg vormt een sneller alternatief voor de N86 voor doorgaand verkeer tussen Rochefort en Jemelle in het zuidwesten en Marche-en-Famenne in het noordoosten. De route heeft een lengte van ongeveer 10 kilometer en bestaat uit twee rijstroken voor beide rijrichtingen samen.

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International Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's Day: Empty rhetoric and unfulfilled promises
07 Mar 2000, 12:00am
The situation of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls throughout the world lies in stark contrast with the grand rhetoric of the international community, Amnesty International said today, International Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's Day.
'Despite the promises and declarations made five years ago at the Fourth World Conference on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Beijing,
there have been very few positive developments taken by governments to advance Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's rights and protect them from the plethora of human rights abuses that they face simply as a result of their gender,' Amnesty International said.
'The continuing failure to protect Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's rights reflects many governments' lack of political will to bring about real change in the lives of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights.'
'It is all too common for governments to ignore their promises and commitments made in the international arena or to place obstacles in the pursuit of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's rights by invoking cultural or religious interests,' the organisation added.
More Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls die each day because of various forms of gender-based discrimination than as a result of any other type of human rights abuse. Every year a vast number of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and young girls are mutilated,
battered to death, burned alive, raped, trafficked for domestic or sexual purposes, primarily because they are female.
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights continue to be treated as second class citizens in many parts of the world and are subjected to discriminatory laws and practices, often in the name of religion, tradition or culture. In Pakistan for example, hundreds of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights every year are killed in the name of honour, yet despite the illegality of such practices, they continue to occur because of the indifference and gender bias of the Pakistan authorities.
In some countries, young girls and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights continue to be forcibly circumcised despite being outlawed by national legislation.
'Responsibility for these abuses rests with governments if they systematically fail to bring these attackers to justice and neglect their obligations to protect Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights against such forms of violence,' the organisation stressed.
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights are particularly at risk in areas of armed conflict. In addition, refugee or internally displaced Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and young girls, who are often relied upon to care for the young, the sick and the elderly in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, are vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse at state borders and in refugee camps.
Amnesty International has also received reports of sexual violence against female East Timorese refugees in West Timor, reportedly committed by Indonesian security forces and militia groups in September 1999.
Similarly, in Burundi, the organisation has learnt of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and young girls who were raped in October and November last year by members of the Burundi security forces in or near regroupment camps set up by the government.
One of the few achievements by the international community to help protect Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights from abuses has been the establishment of the International Criminal Court
and its classification of rape and other forms of sexual violence -- including enforced prostitution,
forced pregnancy and sexual slavery -- as crimes against humanity, and as a war crime when committed in the context of international or internal armed conflict.
The adoption of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights (Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's Convention) in December 1999,
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'Universal ratification of the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's Convention by the year 2000 was one of the goals of the Beijing Conference. However, many governments, including the USA, have still not ratified the Convention. Until they do so and start honouring their commitments,
universal human rights for all Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights will remain an unattainable and distant goal.'
'Governments must act today to live up to their obligations to respect and promote the human rights of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights under international law,' Amnesty International concluded.
Background Under the UN Charter, states pledge to take action to promote universal respect for and observance of fundamental freedoms for all, without discrimination on the basis of sex. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights instruments proclaim that all are entitled to human rights without discrimination on the basis of sex.
The Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights was adopted in 1979. It recognises that discrimination prevents Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights from enjoying the full range of human rights and freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural and civil fields, and it outlines measures which governments are required to take to end such discrimination. To date 165 members of the UN's 188 member states have ratified the Convention The Convention establishes the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights (CEDAW), a committee of 23 independent experts which reviews the reports that state parties are required to submit indicating the measures taken to implement the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rightsÃŒs Convention.
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The Catchment group is ready to start another year of looking for solutions to problems affecting the quality of Jamison Creek!
Meet at 2:50pm in the foyer of Council's administration building. An agenda will be sent out approximately one week prior.
This entry was posted in and tagged bushcare, catchment group, catchment meeting, Jamison Creek on 16 January, 2017 by Bushcare Office.
This entry was posted in and tagged catchment planning, Jamison Creek, stormwater management, water quality on 28 November, 2016 by Bushcare Office.
There are currently five active Streamwatch groups in the Blue Mountains: Fitzgerald Creek, Gordon Falls Creek, Leura Falls Creek, Popes Glen and South Lawson Bushcare Group.
Streamwatch is coordinated by the Australian Museum. Members of Streamwatch register with the Museum and are provided with training, water testing kits and support. The Museum also does a visit to a newly proposed site. Streamwatch groups commit to doing water testing at a regular time once a month and uploading the data onto the Streamwatch website. Groups are also encouraged to take part in the Autumn Waterbugs Watch and Spring Waterbugs Watch run by the Museum.
BMCC Bushcare Officers have done the Streamwatch training.
This entry was posted in Events, News, People, Research and tagged Fitzgerald Catchment, Jamison Creek, Leura catchment, streamwatch, Volunteer, water quality on 27 July, 2016 by Bushcare Office.
This newly formed catchment group are meeting to to explore the environmental issues impacting on the Jamison Creek ecosystems and to implement strategies to improve the overall catchment health. The group will be meeting monthly for the set up phase of the group. Meet in Blue Mountains Council Administration building foyer 2.50 pm for a 3pm start.
Contact Lachlan Garland to express your interest to come along.
This entry was posted in and tagged catchment planning, environmental restoration, information, Jamison Creek on 7 March, 2016 by Bushcare Office.


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Bawa, FFK, Shehu: Of Slump, Slum And Somersault By Festus Adedayo
Slumping and somersaulting into the slum are regular features in Nigeria. Whether the slump is that of taxonomy for selfish purpose by Buhari or it is a moral somersault like that of Fani-Kayode or it is even a literal slump like Bawa, or the calamitous somersault of the Naira into the abyss, values are compromised. It is as if we are a country where morality is on sabbatical.
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Last Thursday, when the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the story of the late enfant terrible of Oyo State politics, Busari Adelakun, sidled into my memory. Media reports said that Bawa slumped at an occasion commemorating the National Identity Day.
Same last week, Nigeria was back to her English class session. Occasionally, some fortuitous occurrences force this country, a product of Mrs. Flora Shaw's taxonomic ingenuity, to go learn some basic language meanings. This time, Nigeria had to contend with the difference or differences between "slump" and "somersault." Questions that confronted Nigeria and needed answers were, in their specifics, what exactly does anyone mean when they say something/someone had slumped or somersaulted? What is a slum? Is a slum a slum because it bears stench akin to Bethlehem's – Jesus birthplace's manger – or it is a stench because it has the noxious smell of sewage?
While on the podium speaking on the importance of digital identification, Bawa was said to have manifested physical signs of delirium. From the video of the event in circulation, the EFCC chair momentarily contorted his face like one struck by an unseen lightning. It was not clear whether this was due to exhaustion or an emotional trauma. He had painfully recounted the death of an employee of the commission he didn't name. Upon walking away from the stage and taking his seat, Bawa was said to have fallen. Assisted up by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, Bawa was spirited out of the hall. In confirming the incident, EFCC, through its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said the fall was a mere "incident" where Bawa "felt unwell and had to return to his seat."
I just recently re-read Peter Morton-Williams' anthropological study of the Ogboni, the dreaded ancient Yoruba secret cult, entitled The Yoruba Ogboni cult in Oyo. Apart from its outline of the potency of blood in sacrifices and oath, written way back in 1960, Morton-Williams' is a study in what probably drives interests in secret societies and why the elite take unqualified voyage into it, in spite of rapacious embrace of Christianity and Islam. It also explains why the Ogboni still has controlling importance in Yoruba religious organization, centuries after it was established.
If you add this to analyses of celebrated poet, Gabriel Okara's Piano and Drums, a poem that evocatively brings out the effects of clashes between Western and African cultures, you will realize the reason and nature of some snide comments attributed to Bawa's slump on the social media. It is why pastors visit the Sangoma, babalawo or dibia on weekdays and speak in tongues at the pulpit on Sunday in African churches. As news of his slump trended on social media, some commentators asked if the young EFCC czar was being pursued by some traducers who were angling for his seat. As is the nature of Africans who never believed disasters, calamities, sicknesses or diseases have singularly physical, biological connotations without corresponding metaphysical underlining, many of the commentators didn't believe that the EFCC boss slumped because he merely "felt unwell."
Adelakun was a firebrand politician of the Second Republic, a politician who fellow politicians could ignore only at their peril. First, he enfolded traditional African Yoruba culture and symbols of rituals into modern practice of politics. He demonstrated this in his politics and never hid the fact that he was in touch with rituals. Born in the Ejioku area of Ibadan, Adelakun began peddling his political trade from the days of the Action Group of the First Republic. When the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) was founded, he became trapped in the turbulent politics of the era which was just a transpose of the earlier republic. He actually began his politics from the Ibadan Peoples Party (IPP) days, with the stormy petrel, Adelabu Adegoke in charge. After the republic was collapsed by a military coup which dissolved it aftermath the chaos of the Western region, Adelakun went back to farming and also joined a farmer's union, becoming its president.
Barely educated though, in 1979, Governor Bola Ige of Oyo State appointed Adelakun commissioner for local government. He was redeployed to the health ministry two years after. Adelakun however exited the UPN under a chaotic circumstance and, with Sunday Michael Afolabi, joined a faction opposed to Ige. He later decamped to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), swearing to dislodge Ige, which he accomplished. To achieve this, he supported and eventually achieved the enthronement of Chief Victor Omololu Olunloyo as governor to replace Ige.
While leaving the two ministries he was commissioner, Adelakun became a mythical figure due basically to how he flaunted his grips of esotericism and the deep metaphysics of traditional Africa. He was reported to have famously sworn that since any cloth worn by Ipin leaf could never be worn by any human being again on earth, no one could step into the office he was leaving. Ipin is a leaf that farmers dread in the forest like a plague. Bodily contact with it was akin to being bitten by a scorpion.
True to his boast, Adelakun's immediate successor in the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy, Lasisi Olatunbosun, died shortly after being sworn in. The trope that gained traction was even that Olatunbosun's buttocks got irretrievably glued to the seat Adelakun used in office. Again, his successor as commissioner in the Ministry of Health also died, allegedly of stroke. In Yorubaland, until of recent, stroke was held to be a metaphysical attack that was always the handiwork of traducers. Jailed in 1984 by the Buhari military regime, Adelakun took ill in prison and died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Some people believed that his death was quickened by his inability to offer propitiations to grooves and gods who gave him his mythical legend.
Aside the slump of the EFCC Bawa, not a few things have been slumping and doing acrobatics in Nigeria recently; acrobatics like the famous Atilogwu dancers'. Like the Nigerian Naira, for example. Right now, the Naira has snatched the most notorious of national infamies available. The way Almighty Naira kisses the canvass, rather than a cry, it provokes laughter and enchantment one gets while watching Atilogwu. Some hilarious economic analysts claim that the Naira's somersault is like a kiss of death. The Naira is engaged in one of the most flip-flop numeric dances of a national currency ever in the history of a nation.
One minute, the Naira is standing ramrod on its feet (though you would be right to say Naira lost its ramrod posture since the early 2000s or so, and has shamelessly lay prostrate, especially since the coming of this government). The next minute, that ramrod posture vanishes, in a meteoric rise that makes you remember Hubert Ogunde's famous song, Iye le o ma wo. Ogunde, in that track, sang that the person who fixes his gait on a bird will in the next minute see feathers at the bird's talon. Never the bird again – iye le o ma wo lehin eye o, e o l'eye ri… Ogunde was probably trying to localize Greek philosopher, Heraclitus' famous dictum. Because no two situations are exactly same, Heraclitus then surmised that you cannot step into same river twice, simply because life is woven round a tapestry called change. It is so bad that if Godwin Emefiele; sorry, the Nigerian Naira, greets you "good morning," you have to look through the window to confirm. Naira's duplicity could be benumbing. When you think you see an outwardly shining currency, bearing the totems of a people bound in freedom, peace and unity, all you see are feathers… a currency as light as feather or is at best a mirage, holding the values of what my people describe as a mere idandan.
Pardon my scant sense of hierarchical positioning. Long before the Naira, the Muhammadu Buhari government's sense of taxonomy was the first to do acrobatics. With blood flowing from victims of notorious Fulani herders on the streets of the Southwest, Southeast, Northwest and some parts of the South-South, a furious Buhari couldn't stand the bloodshed. What! He shouted. Then rockets of fire began to sound somewhere across the River Niger bridge. There was also some burning, some maiming and hoopla gone haywire. Then Buhari sat by the panes of his imperial castle in Aso Rock and decreed a label. Those who downed military fighter jets in the Northwest, who kill in their hundreds, who rape multiple of our children, are just bandits, Buhari proclaimed. Those "dots in a circle" children are terrorists, sons of Osama Bin Laden, so said the imperial taxonomist. QED.
Bothered by the success that advocates of separatism are recording, especially in getting the United Nations to listen to their plea that they are consistently being bayoneted by the Fulani-led government of Nigeria, Buhari somersaulted into what is called the fallacy of generalization. This fallacy is a pitfall in logic and reasoning that results from a faulty umbrella covering of an issue. It is an informal fallacy where an argumentator draws a conclusion about a phenomenon based on one or few instances of that phenomenon, by jumping into a wonky conclusion.
That same Thursday last week, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said that Buhari was "shock(ed) to see 'Yoruba Nation' advocates throwing their lot in with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and organising 'increasingly violent rallies in Nigeria." He said that "IPOB is a designated terrorist organization," and "has now publicly revealed a 50,000 strong paramilitary organisation. It regularly murders security services and innocent civilians, with a significant uptick of violent attacks this year. And it is currently attempting to hold Nigerian states hostage with orders to stay at home under threat of terror. Without doubt, Nigerians and the entire world will judge Yoruba Nation by the company it keeps."
This somersault or slump of the Buhari government is phenomenal and equal to a governmental performance of what I call a labeling gymnastics. While what unites both Yoruba nation agitators and IPOB is known to be that both want separate countries peacefully carved out of Nigeria, while Yoruba advocates have never been known to have shed even a pint of blood, IPOB dissociates itself from the maladies of the region in the name of Biafra. Even at that, none of the two has a quarter of the notoriety of bandits whom Buhari, in his taxonomic somersault, is cladding in the euphemism of banditry, to avoid western nations' assault on it, probably.
That same week had barely ended when Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, literally swallowed his own vomit by joining the All Progressives Congress, (APC) a political party he had always viscerally attacked. Responding to the posting of this dispiriting news on Facebook last week by presidential media adviser, Femi Adesina, I could only borrow late Professor Pius Adesanmi's quip on another slump by a top-rate media icon when he merely wrote "And Jesus wept" to qualify the calamitous somersault into the slum.
My Osun State story
On Friday, July 2, 2021, I had the opportunity of taking a shuttle back into my past. I had met Chief Akinwande Akinola, former Managing Director of International Breweries Limited, Ilesa at the Ibadan Recreation Club's conferment of Merit Awards on recipients, among whom was Akinola. While the din of music was blasting the ears, I walked up to the podium ingenuously called the "high table" in Nigeria to meet Akinola, now an octogenarian. After exchanging measured pleasantries, the type you give a stranger, I asked him if he could still recollect knowing me. He cast my face a futile scan and made frantic efforts to decode who the stranger was. Losing the battle of recognition, he announced, "I can't recognize you, sir." Then, silently, like the whoosh of an evening wind, I announced to him: "Some 35 years ago, sir, I was your messenger at the International Breweries, Ilesa." You can imagine the incredulity that coated the face of the old man.
Osun State, for me, holds both nostalgia and history of my growing up years. That history suffered violence a few years ago when my schools lost their names and uniforms. Thank God, we have them back. From St. Johns Primary School in Ikire where I began, to Ajangbala D.C. Primary School in Iwo which I left in 1979, Akinorun Grammar School in Ikirun where I began my secondary education, to Cherubim and Seraphim High School, Ilesa where I finished my secondary school and The Polytechnic, Esa-Oke where I began my Ordinary National Diploma, I am always ready to duel whoever chooses to call me anything but a stakeholder in Osun State matters. On Saturdays in Ikirun those days for instance, it was time to hawk plastics for my mother, walking from Ikirun to Inisa and down to Iragbiji. Last week, I was back to the Ikirun, Iragbiji road on an excursion to my past. It was like a transmogrification and transfixion. Suddenly, I was hawking plastics again.
I had cause to ply that route a couple of years ago. It bore the colour of decadence of road infrastructure that litters the whole of Nigeria today; and indistinguishable from the craters that have been the people's lot. Last week, however, the road had received its own transformation. Like what I saw in November 2017 when I went to witness a friend's PhD reception on the Gbongan, Osogbo road. Immediately I left the Gbongan overhead bridge, with the exception of a few kilometers that were passable, the rest was grueling. I learnt the 29 kilometer stretch of road had been awarded by the immediate past government which did its best and left the rest for the people to grapple with. It was a very loud complaint about that road that cost a high court judge her job under the last government. Last week, however, when I breezed into Osogbo, after four years, I met that road, up to Ode Omu, wearing some garment of life adorned it by the Governor Adegboyega Oyetola government.
I was in Osogbo to honour a friend and sister. But I felt I should complete the voyage into my past by touching the beacons that marked out my life trajectory: Ikirun, Iragbiji and Ilesa. From Osogbo, I was asked to take the Kelebe to Iragbiji road, home of Iragbiji Grammar School, the school that, in connivance with rivals like Ebedi Grammar School and Kiriji Memorial College, Igbajo, used to give my Akinorun Gramms a tough time in those days in inter-school football fiesta. The freshly done Osogbo-Iragbiji road is historic. It was tasting asphalt for the first time since Adam and Eve. I had earlier driven through the almost completed Flyover bridge at Olaiya in Osogbo via Alekuwodo road area. From Iragbiji, I went to Ilesha, through Oromu, Oke Iyin and to the Ilesa Roundabout Okeoye to Irojo and down to Ilesa/Akure Expressway. Those days, while Baba Adedara Ar'unra L'oja Oba, the Adamo music legend, played draft game along this St. Margaret road, we used to go look at the iconic Adamo musician. This was at a time Adedara was engaged in a huge tiff with Akanbi Aliyu and the very visceral track from Aliyu – alara jiju, yei le, yei po era – the man with skin laced with craw-craw; this is mind-boggling!
Like millions who regained their almae matres from where the last government dumped them, I have a soft spot for the incumbent governor. And I pray for him each time I think of Kerubu – students' inflexion of our school's name – and its Lazarus experience. So when I read the Commissioner for Works, Remi Omowaiye's claim in a national newspaper interview last week that his principal, Governor Oyetola, would trounce the likely governorship candidate of the PDP, for next year's governorship ticket, it occurred to me that the opposition should take Omowaye's claim with all seriousness. Osun is no doubt retrieving itself from its recent past. One quiet man is sitting there silently rewriting Osun's developmental history.
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Q: IE8 fills form fields with wrong data after hitting Back button What I need is this:

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*user loads the page (inputs are null)

*user gives some input and submits

*the inputs have their new values

*user navigates back

*the inputs have their previous values

My php file looks like this:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

    <form id="formTest" name="formTest" action="<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method="post" autocomplete="off">
        <select id="selectTest" name="selectTest">
            <option value=0 <?php if(isset($_POST['selectTest']) && $_POST['selectTest']==0){echo 'selected=\'selected\'';} ?>>Select an option...</option>
            <option value=1 <?php if(isset($_POST['selectTest']) && $_POST['selectTest']==1){echo 'selected=\'selected\'';} ?>>Option 1</option>
            <option value=2 <?php if(isset($_POST['selectTest']) && $_POST['selectTest']==2){echo 'selected=\'selected\'';} ?>>Option 2</option>
        </select>

        <input id="inputTest" name="inputTest" type="text" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['inputTest'])){echo htmlentities($_POST['inputTest']);} ?>" />

        <input type="submit" value="OK" />
    </form>
    <?php
        print_r($_POST);
    ?>

As you can see the form "remember" its data after a submit. The problem occurs at this point when the user hits the browser's Back button. Although the POST array has the values of the previous state, the browser fills the fields with the data of the next state (with the ones after the submit).
Although I could managed this problem in Chrome and Firefox with turning off the autocomplete property of the form, but this had no result in IE8.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

A: It sounds like you want the form always to display the values you echoed in your PHP? A quick-and-dirty fix is to reset the form when the page loads:

You might need to update that onload attribute for different page structures or you could do it more elegantly if your actual application used jQuery and you give the form an ID.
I believe there is a way to turn off autocomplete/history per-field in IE also. I'd have to google that. Edit: Okay, I did... looks like you have the form attribute IE is looking for. I don't think this is actually an autocomplete issue so much as the back button is trying to recreate the last state of the page... including changes the user made, specifically filling out fields.
Here's the jQuery approach to resetting the form when the document is ready (include back button)... strangely, jQuery hasn't implemented the reset() method of a form, so the [0] gets you the raw DOM element. Add these lines to your head; substitute a local jquery on your server if available and preferred:

A: If you run them through some sort of persistent struct (session scope comes to mind) , you can set that to a conditional on your form.   So if it doesn't see the form variable (which is what post is for passing and interrogating form stuff).  So the statement would replace the post isset and instead check if the struct 'session' (or some other scope) exists and if so populate.  Make sense?  I hope this helps.

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Rožňava Circuit
Štítnik Circuit
Jelšava Circuit
Rimava Circuit
Church acess
Brdarka brzotin chyzne contacts Dobsina henckovce kamenany kocelovce kraskovo kyjatice ochtina plesivec rakos rimavskabana rimavskebrezovo rybnik sivetice Stitnik
Plešivec, Reformed Church
Churches, Štítnik Circuit
plesivec
Plešivec is an ancient seat of the Bubek family. The Ákoš family, the ancestors of the Bubeks, received it from King Belo IV. in 1243, after the battle on the Slaná River, where the ancestor of the Bubeks, Detrik, allegedly saved the king's life. After stabilizing his position in 1320, Dominik Bubek built a water castle in Plešivec. In its vicinity, he built a monumental church, which also served as a burial place for the representatives of the family. It was constructed on the site of an older church built by his ancestors. The church, originally nearly twice as long as it is now, was a two-nave Gothic building with a polygonal ending of the chancel, originally vaulted on the central pillars.
From 1349, we have a record of the request of Juraj Bubek to the Pope for the possibility of collecting the indulgences to finance its construction. In the middle of the 14th century, the interior of the church was completed with fresco paintings of very high quality, carried out by Italian masters. In the first quarter of the 15th century, the church was completed with the north-facing funeral chapel of the Bubeks, built according to the pattern of the Spiš funeral chapels. We enter into the chapel through an impressive portal, the architecture of which is associated with the works of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice. In its interior, we find three three-part late Gothic windows with an original tracery in the ogive arch shape and corbels of the former vaults.
In 1558, at the time of the Turkish threat, the church was severely damaged, the vault collapsed and the building remained as a ruin until its reconstruction in 1617. By that time, the church was taken over by the reformed believers who reduced its layout to its current length of 19 meters; they covered the nave with a flat ceiling and closed the entrance to the unused chapel. At that stage, the entrance to the church was established from the south and three window openings were made on the south wall. From that period comes a valuable matroneum with painted decorations from 1627. In 1807, a bell-tower was built, a beautiful example of the so-called Gemer classicism.
The first research in the church was realized in 1861 during its restoration. Under a layer of ashes, the original frescoes were discovered. At the beginning of the 20th century, an epitaph of Ladislav Bubek from 1401 was discovered under the pulpit and was placed on the chapel wall. The paintings were professionally restored in 1938, at a time when Plešivec belonged to Hungary.
A painting of the kings St. Stephen and St. Ladislaus was discovered on the exterior side of the southern wall. Further research, in 1977-1978, revealed the frescoes on the southern wall of the chancel, the fragmentarily preserved Last Supper, and the monumental Crucifixion, including two crucified thieves, with three Marys and St. John, a group of Pharisees and soldiers on horses. Since 2009, another restoration of the church has been underway.
2011-2014 revealed a Christological cycle depicting Jesus' life, beginning with the Scene of the Annunciation on the northern wall, the Introduction in the Temple, the Baptism of Christ, the Coming to Jerusalem, the Feet Washing, Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus judged by Pilate, the Flagellation of Christ, Jesus carries his cross (northern wall), the Last Supper and the Crucifixion (southern wall). In addition, there are twenty-four saints in three rows on the sides of the windows.
The frescoes of the Pelšivec church are some of the best medieval frescoes in Slovakia. They are probably the work of at least two Italian masters, from the Padua school circle, invited by Juraj Bubek, who during the campaign with King Louis I in the struggle for Naples heritage, got to know the current Italian painting style. The painting is characterized by distinctive narrative elements, the plasticity of figures and sophisticated composition revealing the mastery of the authors based on the painting of Padua Trecento in the time of the famous Giotto.
Architecture: gothic Construction: early 13th century
Church: Reformed Church Patrocinium: originally St. George
Circuit: Štítnik Circuit
Contact: Károly Radácsy, pastor of the Reformed Church
Kostol so zvonicou
Ešte nezrekonštruovaná časť presbytéria
Kaplnka rodu Bubekovcov
Interiér kostola
Renesančná empora z roku 1629
Neorenesančný organ z roku 1877
Gothic portal of the chapel
Gotická sedília v Bubekovskej kaplnke
Epitaf Ladislava Bubeka
Freska tri Márie
Freska ukrižovania
Strieľňa z čias tureckého ohrozenia
Association Gotická cesta
Association Gotická cesta – Gothic Route was founded as the result of long-term collaboration of members of Regional Monuments Board in Rožňava with the Regional Development Agency in Rožňava. It was registered in january 2008. Rožňave. In addition to the founding members – professionals, dealing with the protection and restoration of cultural heritage, representatives of the municipalities in which the monuments of the Gothic Route are located, as well as representatives of the Lutheran Church and of Roman Catholic Church as owners of these cultural monuments, also accepted membership in the association. The aim of the association is to work for the benefit of cultural monuments located on the Gothic Route in Gemer region. Our activities include organization of cultural events, excursions, lectures and conference, publishing tourist materials and popularization of the monuments of the Gothic Route.


Hornbills – look at those bills!
Check out those bills! These are Hornbills, and they were easy to find from their noisy distinctive sounds in the thick forests of Sungai Kinabatgangan River on our little safari in Malaysian Borneo.
Unique Breeding Strategy: During mating periods, females are incarcerated in a tree cavity and fed by the male for the duration of incubation until the young are ready to leave on their own. Thus they need fairly large tree cavities, so they rely on large trees in old growth forests. Thus the presence of hornbills is actually a sign of the forest's health.
There's 54 species of these large birds, 8 of which are in Borneo.


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Engineered wood flooring, radiator panel, double glazed window to rear, fan light, coving.
Low level, W.C., pedestal wash hand basin, radiator panel, vinyl floor, spotlights.
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Low level W.C., pedestal wash hand basin, shower tray, vinyl floor, part tiled walls, towel radiator.
Carpet, radiator panel, double glazed window, storage, en-suite.
Low level W.C., Pedestal wash hand basin, shower tray, vinyl floor, radiator panel.
Carpet, radiator panel, double glazed window to front, storage.
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Vinyl floor, radiator panel, pedestal wash hand basin, panel bath with shower over, spotlights, double glazed window.
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