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Trend Assessment: Islamist militants expand their operations in the Sahel
Islamist militants in the Sahel are staging increasingly sophisticated attacks, posing a risk in ostensibly secure areas, including the regional capitals. This is occurring amid an influx of financial and material support which could pose additional risks to Western interests in the region.
A destabilised region: the morphing terrorist threat
The increasingly volatile security environment in Mali's northern and central parts, with attacks spreading southward over the past year, is also spilling over to Burkina Faso and Niger. Islamist terrorists affiliated with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, have staged three major attacks in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou over the past two years, and the number of attacks in the country's north have grown at an alarming rate. The groups are also demonstrating growing ambitions and kinetic capabilities.
2 March 2017: Sahelian Islamist militant groups join in the JNIM coalition
13 August 2017: JNIM militants open fire on restaurant popular with foreign visitors, killing at least 18 individuals
4 October 2017: Islamic State affiliate ambushes U.S. special forces in Niger
Winter 2018: Several countries pledge financial support to Sahelian states
2 March 2018: JNIM launched VBIED and MTFA in the Burkinabe capital, killing almost 30 people
On 2 March, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama'at Nusrat ul Islam wa'al-Muslimeen (JNIM) – a coalition of non-state armed groups – used a combination of a vehicle-borne IED, semi-automatic rifles mounted on the back of pick-up trucks and eight heavily armed marauding gunmen to target the French embassy as well as the French cultural centre (Institut français) and military headquarters in the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou. The attacks occurred within a few minutes' interval at around 1000 local time. The assailants killed at least 30 people, wounded over 85 more and caused significant structural damage to several buildings. The attack was symbolic as it occurred on JNIM's one-year anniversary, but also highlighted the group's growing ambitions and operational capacity.
Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), another NSAG active in the region, gained global relevance in October 2017 after ambushing a contingent of U.S. Green Berets and Nigerien soldiers in the border village of Tongo Tongo, about 10km from the Malian border. While the group has been somewhat dormant since its leader, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, in October 2016 pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the apex leader of the Islamic State terrorist network – ISGS has intensified its attacks in the region over the past six months. The pace and sophistication of attacks indicate the groups' growing ambitions, perhaps due to competition with each other but also in response to increased international attention. Both groups have expressed their intention to target Western interests, and some intelligence sources have also said there are signs of co-operation between the two groups. The assumptions are plausible as al-Sahrawi is a former spokesperson for al-Mourabitoun, a JNIM faction.
The growing international engagement: too little, too late?
The international community is increasingly attentive to the deteriorating security environment in the Sahel. Over the past three months, several countries, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have pledged their financial support to the G5 Sahel mission, a joint operation between five Sahelian states which was officially launched last July; it has since launched two cross-border operations in the areas between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which will be the mission's main operational focus over the next year. It includes a total of 5,000 troops with contingents from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Despite its growing financial and political support, the G5 Sahel mission remains under-funded; so far, the promised funds will only cover the mission's first year of operations and the setting up of its permanent office in Mali's Sévaré, a town in the central Mopti region.
The U.S. has also increased its financial commitments in the region, but on a bilateral basis. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of State in February designated the Burkinabe NSAG Ansarul Islam, which is linked to JNIM and to some extent also ISGS, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, underscoring Washington's growing concerns. The group is primarily active in northern Burkina Faso's Soum province, which borders Mali.
In addition, Ghana announced on 3 March that it would host a U.S. military base in its capital, Accra. Countries like Canada or Germany, which were hitherto inactive in the region, have also recently announced their support to governments or multilateral missions; Canada confirmed on 19 March that it would supply the U.N.'s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (Minusma) with two Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters and four Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopters for reconnaissance and armed escorts. In March, the IMF also approved a USD157 million extended credit facility to Burkina Faso to help it fund services to improve security in the country.
Deteriorating social dynamics and security threats
While the growing influx of financial and material support is likely to provide some respite to the governments in the region, growing Western presence also serves to destabilise pre-existing and complex social contracts between communities in the Sahel, which have found themselves in the midst of fighting and competition between Islamist and other non-state armed groups, as well as foreign military forces. For instance, Fulani communities in Niger's western region of Tillabéri have said in interviews that they have been ostracized by the Nigerien authorities and Arab tribes, who often accuse them of sympathising with Islamist militants.
growing Western presence also serves to destabilise pre-existing and complex social contracts between communities in the Sahel
Although Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger will see GDP grow between 5-8 per cent this year, the three countries continue to be underdeveloped and face fiscal challenges due to low prices of key commodities such as gold or uranium. Along with strong population growth, this means that local communities will continue to face economic hardship, while competition over natural resources, such as mining, farmland or livestock, will remain high. This competition is likely to increase in the coming months, as the region experiences its 'hungry gap' season when food stocks significantly decline and competition over resources will grow.
That in turn is providing a ripe recruitment ground for Islamist NSAGs in the region who are either coercing local populations into their power circles or attracting them through the improved opportunities that fighting 'Western crusaders' might present, particularly to local dispossessed youths. While JNIM's different factions, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), al-Mourabitoun, and Ansar Dine, have historically been dominated by Tuareg Imghad and Arab tribesmen, the recent attacks in Burkina Faso have indicated a higher prevalence of sub-Saharan African members, particularly from various Bambara and Fulani communities living in the Sahel.
The assailants behind the attacks on Côte d'Ivoire's Grand Bassam tourist resort presented similar ethnic traits; Aqim confirmed that one of them was Hamza al-Fulani, likely a nom de guerre to designate his Fulani heritage. Recent attacks and videos released by JNIM also suggest that its members are younger – typically in their mid-20s. Last year's formation of JNIM and suspected co-operation between Ansarul Islam and ISGS, also indicate a morphing security set-up. French newspaper Le Figaro also reported last year that ISGS was attempting to strengthen its links with Islamic State in West Africa, a splinter group of Nigerian Islamist NSAG Boko Haram.
The combination of underdevelopment, increased fiduciary competition, and the use of local communities by local and foreign military actors is producing an explosive cocktail that will continue to damage the regional security environment. High-value commercial operations are very limited, and the potential to develop industrial activities, such as mining, will continue to be impeded so long as NSAGs continue to be active in the region. Both northern Burkina Faso and western Niger hold some commercially viable mining deposits, including gold. In recent years, Niger's western department of Téra, Tillabéri region, has seen an intense influx of informal miners from across the country since the early 2000s and artisanal gold mining is booming.
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Harvey Comics vs. Disney
What would happen if the heroes of the Harvey Comics universe meet their equivalents in the Disney universe? That is the goal of this article. Also, the Harvey Comic character deserves to meet the most famous equivalent character.
1) Archibald the Talking Wishing Well vs. Pinocchio
As I stated in Harvey Comics vs. DC article, I have a soft spot for objects with sentience and even wrote a book on the subject called Household Fables. Archibald the Talking Wishing Well is a sentient magical object and deserves to fight another sentient magical object. Hot Stuff's trident is also sentient and capable of doing magic.
Disney is filled with objects that possess sentience. The question is if they must masquerade i.e. hide true sentient and in many cases animate nature. The following Disney films have sentient objects: Aladdin (Magic Carpet), Beauty and the Beast (Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, The Wardrobe), Cars, Toy Story (Aliens, Baby Face, Barbie, Barrel of Monkeys, Big Baby, Bo Peep, Bookworm, Bullseye, Buttercup, Buzz Lightyear, Chatter Telephone, Chuckles, Chunk, Combat Carl, Cymbal-banging monkey, Dolly, Ducky, Etch, Evil Emperor Zurg, Hamm, Hand-in-the-Box, Hannah's dolls, Hockey Puck, Jack-in-the-Box, Janie and Pterodactyl, Jessie, Jingle Joe, Ken, Legs, Lenny, Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear, Mr. Mike, Mr. Potato Head, Mr. Pricklepants, Mr. Shark, Mr. Spell, Mrs. Potato Head, Peas-in-a-Pod, RC, Rex, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Rockmobile, Rocky Gibraltar, Roller Bob, Roly Poly Clown, Sarge, Slinky Dog, Snake and Robot, Sparks, Stinky Pete the Prospector, Stretch, The Frog, Toddle Tots, Totoro, Tour Guide Barbie, Trixie, Troikas, Troll, Twitch, Utility Belt Buzz, Walking Car, Wheezy, and Woody), Fantasia (Mickey the Sorcerer's Apprentice animates brooms), and The Sword in the Stone (Merlin's furniture).
Still the all time classic story of an object coming to life not only in the Disney universe but in world literature has to be Pinocchio. The book is a classic but how people visualize Pinocchio is totally from the Disney movie Pinocchio.
Pinocchio is desperately looking for magical allies throughout the multiverse to fight Geppetto, who had become evil. Pinocchio visits Archibald the Talking Wishing Well for advise since Wishing Wells are kind of the gossip queens of their particular magical universe. Listening to wishes all day long ends up being a lot of intel! Archibald is very honest with Pinocchio and points out the inhabitants of the Harvey universe would make poor soldiers. Later that night, Archibald wishes upon a star every night for humanity or death until he is delivered from his condition by the Haunted Tank years later.
2) Baby Huey vs. Donald Duck
I deal with the subject of anthropomorphic animals in more detail at:
https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/Disney-vs-marvel-funny-animals/
Disney is arguably the home of the most and greatest cartoon anthropomorphic animals. However, the most famous duck of Duckburg and Disney is Donald Duck! Donald Duck hasn't had to deal with a baby for awhile but has extensive experience with children. Donald has three nephews, Huey, Dewy and Louie, that he has had many adventures with them. Baby Huey's town Duckville borders Duckburg. Baby Duck gets lost during a school field trip to Duckburg. Donald Duck sees Baby Huey crying on a park bench and tries to comfort Baby Huey. Baby Huey gives Donald Duck a hug which knocks him out. No one in Duckburg has this sort of strength and Donald gets Baby Huey a job as a body guard to Scrooge McDuck.
3) Casper vs. Blackbeard's Ghost
Casper loves his new friend from the Marvel Universe, Homer the Ghost, but misses getting rides with his horse, Nightmare. Casper is a novice at interdimensional travel which for a ghost involves changing the vibrational frequency of the ghost's spectral body. Casper ends up in the Disney universe not the DC Universe. The Disney universe has many less ghosts than the Harvey universe. Ghosts even have a town, Spooky Town, in the Harvey universe! Casper is in a panic! There are no ghosts in this new universe. A bearded ghost comes towards Casper.
Blackbeard bellowed, drunkenly, "Avast ye matey! I be Blackbeard. I thought I had met all the ghosts in the great spectral vastness."
"Sir, I think I am lost", responded Casper.
"Hmmmm, I have been cursed to wander as an unquiet spirit until I perform a good deed and I think helping a lad like yourself would be a good deed indeed!", responded Blackbeard.
Blackbeard actually knows less than Casper about how to use his ghostly powers. Casper reflected that he had actually learned a lot from the Ghostly Trio. Casper was polite and pretended to take Blackbeard's advice but realized on his own was that if he reversed the vibrational process then he should return home and it worked.
4) Hot Stuff the Little Devil vs. Chernobog
Disney is the "G" rated part of the toon universe and not surprisingly stays away from the very touchy subject of devils and demons. Chernobog is Disney's most famous and arguably only demonic character. Hot Stuff notices a disturbance in the very firmament of hell. When he gets to near the disturbance, Hot Stuff finds himself thrown out of a volcano surrounded by other demons, ghosts and witches. There is this eerie music playing in the background. Hot Stuff is very scared. The music stops and Chernobog returns all the beings he used like so much confetti, at a party, back to their respective realms.
5) Nightmare the Galloping Ghost (Casper's horse) vs. Pegasus (horse of Hercules)
Horses are a constant part of the background of Disney cartoons but very few have names and include: Achilles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Bullseye (Toy Story 2), Captain (One Hundred and One Dalmatians), Cyril Proudbottom (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.Toad) , Khan (Mulan), Maximus (Tangled), Pegasus (Hercules), Phillipe (Beauty and the Beast), Philip (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Samson (Sleeping Beauty) and Sprout (The Parent Trap, 1998). While many of the horses listed are brave, especially Achilles and Khan, only one has the power of flight like Nightmare and that is Pegasus.
Nightmare is distressed. There was yet another Phantom Zone disturbance, Nightmare wishes Superman would fix that problem once and for all, and she is flying around a cartoon universe that is familiar yet unfamiliar. Her love, Comet, is nowhere to be found. Pegasus has been the only horse in the skies forever. Pegasus sees Nightmare and says hello in horsey (neeigh). The two play hide and seek in the clouds. Nightmare is not as smart as Comet but smarter than Pegasus and soon becomes bored. Pegasus does not even have rudimentary telepathy and zero language skills beyond a whinny. When a rift to the DC universe opens, Nightmare is gone.
6) Richie Rich vs. Scrooge McDuck
Cai Shen, the Chinese God of Wealth, will give a silver version of his golden rod. The golden rod turns iron into gold. The silver rod turns iron into silver. The silver rod will be given to a person of great wealth that is worthy. Cai Shen visits Richie Rich in the Harvey universe in the guise of a beggar. Richie Rich is the wealthiest being of the Harvey Universe and thus warrants a visit by Cai Shen. Richie Rich showers the beggar with attention and food. Cai Shen is impressed until he is taken to the mansion of Richie Rich.
"There is too much conspicuous consumption. A tree fort made of money is an unworthy act", reflects Cai Shen. Cai Shen thanks Richie and quietly slips away.
Cai Shen then visits the Disney universe and attempts the same beggar ploy on Scrooge McDuck looks at the shoes of Cai Shen and realizes the shoes are incredibly expensive and at oods with the overall dress and appearance of the beggar.
"It's the old eccentric millionaire pretending to be a beggar scam", thinks Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge McDuck has pretended to be a beggar himself once or twice over the years. Scrooge McDuck plays the game perfectly. Cai Shen is fed and feted and all displays of conspicuous consumption are wisely avoided. Cai Shen transforms into his real form. Scrooge McDuck immediately recognizes Cai Shen. Scrooge McDuck is an avid collector of Chinese antiques.
"Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, this is the big time", thinks Scrooge McDuck.
Cai Shen gives Scrooge McDuck the silver rod. Within a week Scrooge McDuck has accidentally turned Donald Duck into silver while trying to extend the powers of the silver rod by combining them with the good luck power of his number one dime and has no idea how to undo the spell or how to contact Cai Shen. Huey, Dewey and Louie find a Chinese spell book and read the counter spell, they go to a fine boarding school in Australia. Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck's nephews will have to go on a quest to find the ingredients for the counter spell. This was the plan by Cai Shen to teach Scrooge McDuck humility from the beginning!
7) Sad Sack vs. Sarge, Commander of the Green Army Men
I have written about comic book war heroes before at:
https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/Disney-vs-marvel-war-heroes/
Disney is filled with mythic warriors like Hercules and Mulan but stays away from the drab, bloody, muddy, all too real, terrible wars of the Twentieth Century. However, there is one commanding officer that would feel at home in the modern battle field and that is Sarge who has the honor of commanding the Green Army Men of Toy Story. Sad Sack has escaped the endless jokes of Sgt. Fury in the Marvel universe and finds himself in the Toy Story universe. Sad Sack feels at home for the first time in his life. The endless drills of the Green Army Men against a none existent army are strangely soothing. Sad Sack saw real war in the DC and Marvel universes and likes the fake war of the Disney part of the multiverse. Sarge likes Sad Sack and soon promotes him to the rank of corporal.
8) Stumbo the Giant vs. Willie the Giant
What giants at Disney would be a good match for Stumbo? Hercules, the movie, has quite a few titans who are large and of giant proportions but far more powerful than any giant. Gustav the Giant is a Stumbo type giant but was a one-shot in a Disney short with Mickey as a tailor here, but Gustav was not very memorable mostly because the cartoon he was in was not very good. Mickey was the hero against a second giant in Willie the Giant in Mickey and the Beanstalk. Willie made further appearances in Mickey's Christmas Carol, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Disney Parks, and Once Upon a Time. Stumbo buys some beans from a shady visitor to Tiny Town. The beans sprout and Stumbo quickly climbs the bean stalk to the palace of Willie the Giant.
Willie is not just a giant but has any number of magical powers including flight, invisibility, and metamorphosis. Stumbo is probably smarter than Willie but only marginally. Willie is quite sure Stumbo is in his palace to steal his magic harp and deals with Stumbo decisively and brutally. Stumbo's limp body is thrown from the sky to the earth but Stumbo does not die since no one dies in this type of Disney cartoon or any Harvey cartoon.
9) Wendy the Good Little Witch vs. Witch (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Witches in the Disney universe include: Circe (Hercules) , Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), Martha Wentworth ( The Sword in the Stone), The Witch (Brave), White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Miss Eglantine Price, The Sanderson Sisters, and Witch Hazel. However, when you think Disney witches the classic is the Queen turned witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Perhaps it's the transformation from a great beauty to a terrible hag is what titillates our imagination.
The witch offers Wendy a poisoned apple. Wendy would never eat an apple from a witch in her universe but in her universe witches have a green complexion. Wendy figures the person in front of her is just and old lady. Wendy eats the apple and dies.
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King – Casper the Friendly Ghost
Queen – Wendy the Good Little Witch
Bishop – Hot Stuff the Little Devil
Knight – Nightmare the Galloping Ghost
Rook – Richie Rich
Pawn – Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
Other Chess Set Proposals:
Alice in Wonderland versus Wizard of Oz Chess Set Proposal
DC Superheroes versus DC Supervillains Chess Set Proposal
DC Superheroes versus Marvel Superheroes Chess Set Proposal
Greek Gods versus Norse Gods Chess Set Proposal
Revised Batman versus Superman Chess Set Proposal
Star Trek versus Star Wars Chess Set Proposal
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Tagged Casper the Friendly Ghost, King, Queen, Wendy the Good Little Witch
What would happen if the heroes of the Harvey Comics universe meet their equivalents in the DC universe? That is the goal of this article. The challenge is finding the Harvey Comic equivalent character in the very different DC universe. Also, the Harvey Comic character deserves to meet the most famous equivalent character. DC characters that had their own title are considered more important than characters that did not have their own title. If more than one character type had their own title then the character that had more impact on the history of the DC universe is picked as the "adversary" for the Harvey character.
1) Archibald the Talking Wishing Well vs. Haunted Tank
Archibald the Talking Wishing Wellis a very, very minor character in the Harvey universe but I have a soft spot for sentient objects. I even wrote a book on the subject called Household Fables. Archibald the Talking Wishing Well is a supporting character in the Casper universe. Hot Stuff's trident is also sentient and capable of doing magic. Unfortunately while the Casper universe is overrun with, one-shot, sentient objects this is really not something that is done in the DC universe. However, there is the Haunted Tank which is a tank haunted by the ghost of Robert E. Lee and this is pretty much the foremost sentient object in the DC Universe and actually almost the only sentient object in the DC universe that is not a one-shot.
The Haunted Tank gets lost in a back story of Tales of the Unexpected, just before Lee's fight with the other ghost Captain Fear, and finds himself in the Casper universe. Archibald asks the Haunted Tank if he wants a wish. Robert E. Lee wants his body back! One can assume that Archibald can see and hear ghosts since Archibald communicates with Casper. Archibald gives the transformation a try but just doesn't have the juice for such a giant magical spell. Lee starts to wheel himself back home but Archibald yells "stop".
Archibald has been a sentient magical well for thousands of years and is sick of his existence. Archibald gives and gives and sometimes doesn't even get a thank you. Archibald realizes that the Haunted Tank is the only being he has ever met in the Casper universe that has the guts to do what has to be down. Archibald tells the Haunted Tank in piteous voice, "Please kill me!" Lee understands the pain of the wishing well since he has been trapped in a similar manner. Lee realizes that Archibald's plight is far worse since it's been his lot for thousands of years not just a little over a hundred. At least the Haunted Tank has mobility and adventures. Lee slowly lowers the turret of the Haunted Tank and blows the well to bits.
2) Baby Huey vs. Rubberduck
I have written about anthropomorphic animals before at:
https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/dc-vs-marvel-funny-animals/
The anthropomorphic animals of DC include Alley-Kat-Abra, American Eagle, Bulldog Drumhead , Captain Carrot , Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, Dodo and the Frog, Doodles Duck, Fastback, Flippity & Flop, J. Rufus Lion, Little Cheese, McSnurtle the Turtle, Nutsy Squirrel, Peter Panda, Peter Porkchops, Pig-Iron, Racoon Kids, Rubberduck, Tito and his Burrito , Three Mouseketeers, and Yankee Poodle
Baby Huey deserves to fight another anthropomorphic duck. The foremost and actually only anthropomorphic duck of the DC universe is Rubberduck. Rubberduck is a supporting character of a second tier title, Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew. Rubberduck was trying to visit Superman with his interdimensional vehicle but ended up in the Harvey universe instead.
Baby Huey thinks Rubberduck is so cute and tries to give him a big sloppy kiss. Rubberduck mistakes this attempt at affection for an attack. Baby Huey effectively has super strength and has been known to toss cars around. Rubberduck can stretch his body like Mr. Fantastic or the Elongated Man. Rubberduck wraps his body around Baby Huey and starts the big squeeze. Baby Huey almost passes out but with one gigantic push of his arms manages to snap out of Rubberduck's grip. Baby Huey then whirls Rubberduck around and around by his legs and finally lets him go. Rubberduck falls into a convenient lake unconscious. Baby Huey jumps into the lake but remembers that he can't swim. Rubberduck drowns. Baby Huey cries and cries until Papa Duck calms him down.
3) Casper vs. Spectre
DC doesn't have that many ongoing ghost characters. Ghosts in DC include: Dark Angel, Dead Boy Detectives, Deadman, Gentleman Ghost, Haunted Tank, and the Spectre . The Dead Boy Detectives, Deadman, Haunted Tank and the Spectre have all had their own title. However, the Spectre has been around since the Golden Age and is generally considered the archetype of the ghostly superhero that abounded in the Golden Age.
Casper hears the meowing of the Phantom Zone Cats and follows the meowing to the Phantom Zone. Casper is surrounded by evil Kryptonians that have been sentenced to the Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians are mean and scary, far scarier than the Ghostly Trio, and Casper begins to cry. The Spectre hears the crying of the ghost child and takes him by the hand and leads Casper back to his own universe.
4) Hot Stuff the Little Devil vs. Etrigan the Demon
The following is a list of demons in the DC universe: Anton Arcane, Asmodel, Azazel (DC Comics), Belyllioth, Blaze and Satanus, Blue Devil, Chantinelle, Demons Three, Dreamslayer,Etrigan the Demon, First of the Fallen, Great Evil Beast, Heggra, Jeannette (comics), Lucifer (DC Comics), Mazikeen (comics), Mnemoth, Nebiros, Nekron, Neron, Onimar Synn, Raven (comics), Sabbac, Trigon (comics) and Yuga Khan. Hot Stuff is technically a devil not a demon but these terms are interchangeable in the DC and Harvey universes unlike the Marvel and more especially the Dungeon and Dragon universe. Hot Stuff should meet DC's foremost demon since DC appears to avoid the appellation of devil, probably for religious reasons.
Only the Blue Devil, Etrigan the Demon and Lucifer had their own titles at one time or another. The Blue Devil is an odd little second or even third tier character that is currently in comic book limbo. Lucifer is one of the most powerful characters in the DC universe and could probably wipe out the entire Harvey universe without much trouble. Poor Hot Stuff would be hopelessly over matched in a contest against Lucifer. Therefore, Etrigan the Demon emerges as the champion of the DC universe.
Hot Stuff wanders away from Deviltown and encounters a section of hell he has never seen before. Etrigan is considered one of the more powerful demons even in the much darker recesses of hell. Etrigan is probably stronger than any demon in Deviltown. Hot Stuff is a baby that wears asbestos diapers. Hot Stuff takes one look at Etrigran and runs back to Deviltown.
5) Nightmare the Galloping Ghost (Casper's horse) vs. Comet the Super-Horse
There are not a lot of important horses in the DC universe. Bat Lash has a horse named Daisy. Victory and Vanguard are flying horses used by the Shining Knight. Comet the Super-Horse is Supergirl's horse and the most famous DC horse and just about the only DC horse even hard core DC fans can name. Comet was once a human but was turned into a horse and then a super-horse by Circe. Circe is generally a bad witch but will do good deeds if a good looking blonde hunk is involved. Comet has all the super powers of Superman and Supergirl but none of their weaknesses. Comet is immune to Kryptonite and does not lose his powers under a red sun due to the magical rather than Kryptonian origin of his super powers. A horse is stronger than a man and a super horse is stronger than Superman. Superman alone can defeat Supergirl but Supergirl astride Comet can defeat Superman. Super-Girl with Comet beating on Superman is more or less a story line in more than one Silver Age Superman family issue. Krypto managed to survive the destruction of the Silver Age continuity by DC during the Crisis on Infinite Earthsbut Comet and all the other super pets that included Streaky the Supercat and Beppo the Supermonkey did not so this adventure takes place in the Silver Age exclusively. When is HeroClix going to create a Supergirl plus Comet miniature using their Brave and Bold combined hero system?
Casper has disappeared and Nightmare follows his astral trail to the Phantom Zone. The Phantom Zone Cats telepathically tell that Casper was in the Phantom Zone but was led back home by the Spectre. You can see the DC Earth easily from the Phantom Zone and Nightmare sees Comet. Nightmare's heart beats like her heart has never beat before.
Nightmare thinks, "That's one fine stud!"
Nightmare descends from the Phantom Zone to the DC Earth and offers her haunches to Comet. The two can communicate telepathically. Comet once was a human but has been a horse for a very, very long time. Normal horses are not as intelligent as Nightmare and break easily. Nightmare's fluffy mane is like nothing Comet has ever seen before. Nightmare's Disney style eyes give her an exotic look that Comet finds irresistible.
Nightmare and Comet begin a torrid love affair. Will Nightmare ever return to Casper? Will Casper care? Will Supergirl become jealous of Nightmare? Will Superman become jealous of Nightmare? What will Lois Lane do? What convoluted plan will Lex Luthor come up with in order to use Nightmare to destroy Superman? How will the editors at DC transform Jimmy Olsen into a male version of Nightmare? Will there be a Nightmare/Ace the Bat-Hound team up against a Comet/Krypto team up? Stay tuned for another day in the lives of the Silver Age, Super Family.
6) Richie Rich vs. The Green Team: Boy Millionaires
The Green Team is a team of rich kid adventurers. The entry fee for the club is a million dollars. The Green Team hates Richie Rich! They are millionaires while Richie Rich uses millions of dollars to make common place objects. Richie Rich has slept on a sleeping bag of hundred dollar bills (Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #11). Richie Rich exercises with a jumping rope made out of precious jewels (Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #23). Richie Rich made a bridge of dollar bills (Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #30). The list goes on and on. The Green Team is in DC comic book limbo and in this state have metafictional awareness. The Green Team is aware that they are a poor copy of Richie Rich. They tried to bribe Animal Man (Animal Man #25) into getting them out of comic book limbo but failed. If the Green Team ever escapes comic book limbo then Green Team plans to buy DC Comics and get Richie Rich to join their team as a butler that works for them! Of course if they get out then their metafictional awareness will disappear. The Green Team is aware of this and have tattooed directions on their bodies as to what to do in case they ever escape DC comic book limbo. Where Harvey comic book characters go when their title and even their comic book company is gone is unknown. Oh they end up on my blog!
7) Sad Sack vs. Sgt. Rock
https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/dc-vs-marvel-war-heroes/
The DC heroes include Blackhawk, Boy Commandos, Captain Storm, Creature Commandos, Enemy Ace, G.I. Robot, Gunner & Sarge, Haunted Tank, Hunter's Hellcats, Johnny Cloud, the Losers, Mademoiselle Marie, Red, White and Blue and Sgt. Rock of Easy Company. Sad Sack is sadly assigned to Easy Company and has Sgt. Rock has his NCO. Sgt. Rock takes one look at Sad Sack and knows what he has to do. Sad Sack is put on point and taken out by a German sniper shortly afterwards. Even two days later, no one in Easy Company even remembers Sad Sack.
8) Stumbo the Giant vs. Colossal Boy
Stumbo is a giant and logically should fight the foremost giant of the DC universe which is Colossal Boy. Colossal Boy wanders through a dimensional rift and finds himself in Tiny Town, the home of Stumbo. Stumbo has once against accidentally destroyed a house in Tiny Town. Colossal Boy surveys the destruction and decided Stumbo is some sort of evil giant that likes to destroy houses of those smaller for fun. Colossal Boy grows to the size of Stumbo and loses some self control because at that size his intellectual capacity is diminished. Diminished capacity or not, Colossal Boy has had extensive Legion martial arts training plus years of fighting experience. Stumbo almost never fights enemies and mostly has accidents in Tiny Town. Colossal Boy starts the fight with quick Karate chop to the jugular followed by a Judo throw. Once down, Colossal Boy get Stumbo in a neck choke and chokes him out. The small natives start throwing rocks at Colossal Boy and he is confused. Fortunately, Braniac 5 has found Colossal Boy and uses an interdimensional transporter ray to bring Colossal Boy back to the DC universe.
9) Wendy the Good Little Witch vs. Zatanna
Wendy deserves to fight the foremost witch of the DC universe. There are a ton of witch choices in the DC Universe including: Alley-Kat-Abra, Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, Circe (comics) , Dark Angel (DC Comics), La Encantadora, Enchantress (DC Comics), Glorith, Jinx (DC Comics), The Mad Mod Witch, Madame Xanadu, Madame Zodiac, Manitou Dawn, Lyta Milton, Morgaine le Fey (DC Comics), Queen of Fables, Raven (comics), Satan Girl, Silver Sorceress,Tala (comics), Titania (DC Comics), Traci Thirteen, Warlock's Daughter, White Witch (comics), Witchfire (DC Comics), Yellow Peri, Zatanna, and Zealot (Wildstorm).
Only Madame Xanadu and Zatanna have had their own series. Zatanna has been an important member of the Justice League of America. Zatanna even appeared in the Superboy TV show Smallville! Zatanna is also famous for her costume and especially her fish net stockings. Zatanna wins the DC witch wars.
Wendy accidentally creates an interdimensional portal that takes her to the DC universe. Wendy is flying around Gotham City with her broom and literally runs into Zatanna. Wendy is used to ugly adult witches with green skin warts and ugly purple robes. Wendy can magically sense that Zatanna is a witch like she is but the sort of witch she wants to be when she grows up.
Wendy, "You are beautiful".
Zatanna responds in a maternal voice, "You are pretty cute yourself kid but do you mind if I give you some fashion advice?"
Wendy, "Please, please, please!"
Zatanna uses her magic to give Wendy a makeover.
Wendy is overjoyed. Zatanna helps Wendy get home and promises to visit her someday. Casper meets the new Wendy and feels a strange sickly sweet nausea that disturbs him to his astral core. Suddenly Casper doesn't feel so friendly towards anyone that looks at Wendy. Casper has been lonely ever since Nightmare disappeared but this new Wendy more than makes up for the disappearance of Nightmare.
Tagged Alley-Kat-Abra, American Eagle, Amethyst, Anton Arcane, Archibald the Talking Wishing Well vs. Haunted Tank, Asmodel, Azazel (DC Comics), Baby Huey, Baby Huey vs. Rubberduck, Bat Lash, Belyllioth, Beppo the Supermonkey, Blackhawk, Blaze and Satanus, Blue Devil, Boy Commandos, Brave and Bold, Bulldog Drumhead, Captain Carrot, Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, Captain Storm, Casper, Casper vs. Spectre, Chantinelle, Circe (comics), Colossal Boy, Comet the Super-Horse, Creature Commandos, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Daisy, Dark Angel, Dark Angel (DC Comics), DC Horses, Dead Boy Detectives, Deadman, Demons Three, Deviltown, Dodo and the Frog, Doodles Duck, Dreamslayer, Enchantress (DC Comics), Enemy Ace, Etrigan the Demon, Fastback, First of the Fallen, Flippity & Flop, G.I. Robot, Gentleman Ghost, Glorith, Great Evil Beast, Gunner & Sarge, Harvey Comics, Haunted Tank, Heggra, HeroClix, Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Hot Stuff the Little Devil vs. Etrigan the Demon, Household Fables., Hunter's Hellcats, J. Rufus Lion, Jeannette (comics), Jinx (DC Comics), Johnny Cloud, Krypto, La Encantadora, Little Cheese, Lucifer (DC Comics), Lyta Milton, Madame Xanadu, Madame Zodiac, Mademoiselle Marie, Manitou Dawn, Mazikeen (comics), McSnurtle the Turtle, metafictional awareness, Mnemoth, Morgaine le Fey (DC Comics), Nebiros, Nekron, Neron, Nightmare the Galloping Ghost, Nutsy Squirrel, Onimar Synn, Peter Panda, Peter Porkchops, Phantom Zone, Phantom Zone cats, Pig-Iron, Princess of Gemworld, Queen of Fables, Racoon Kids, Raven (comics), Red, Richie Rich, Richie Rich vs. The Green Team: Boy Millionaires, Robert E. Lee, Rubberduck, Sabbac, Sad Sack, Sad Sack vs. Sgt. Rock, Satan Girl, Sgt. Rock, Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, silver age, Silver Sorceress, Spectre, Streaky the Supercat, Stumbo the Giant, Stumbo the Giant vs. Colossal Boy, Tala (comics), Tales of the Unexpected, The Green Team: Boy Millionaires, the Losers, The Mad Mod Witch, Three Mouseketeers, Tiny Town, Titania (DC Comics), Tito and his Burrito, Traci Thirteen, Trigon, Vanguard, Victory, Warlock's Daughter, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Wendy the Good Little Witch vs. Zatanna, White and Blue, White Witch (comics), Witchfire (DC Comics), Yankee Poodle, Yellow Peri, Yuga Khan, Zatanna, Zealot (Wildstorm)
DC vs. Marvel Kids
Casper and Fox
This is the eighth post in this series. DC versus Marvel superhero posts have been done to death on the internet and I wanted to do something different. This series looks at what happens when you pit the non superheroes of these two companies. This series also gives me an excuse to revisit some of the obscure comic book characters of my past. The dominance of the superhero genre in American comic books has meant that characters of other comic book genres have been ignored for decades and this series to some extent is an attempt to rectify this unfortunate state of affairs.
The first post looked at Westerns and Western heroes. https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/dc-vs-marvel-western-heroes/
The second post looked at war comics and war heroes. https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/dc-vs-marvel-war-heroes/
The third post looked at women's comics and working women. https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/dc-vs-marvel-working-women
The fourth post looked at space operas and spacemen https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/dc-vs-marvel-spacemen/
The fifth post analyzed funny animals.
The sixth post looked at the teenagers of teenage humor comic books. https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/dc-vs-marvel-teenagers/
The seventh post looked at horror comics and horror hosts. https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/dc-vs-marvel-horror-hosts/
I am inventing a comic book genre name for this series. Women's comics are defined as comic books that appeal to women. I would like to propose there is a genre of comic books that appeals to very young children as opposed to children in general and I would like to name this genre kids comic's. The ultimate example of this genre would be the children's Harvey Comics line that included such characters as Baby Huey, Casper, Hot Stuff, Little Audrey, Little Dot, Little Lotta, Spooky, Richie Rich and Wendy the Good Little Witch. Harvey Comics also published comics with superheroes but is best remembered for its kid's comics. I see similarities between Harvey Comics and Archie Comics.
Faced with hopeless competition with DC and Marvel in the superhero arena, these two comic book companies found success in non superhero genres, an example of niche marketing in the comic book marketplace. Archie Comics has dominated teenage humor for decades, right up until the present and squashed attempts by DC and Marvel to make titles that compete in this genre. Harvey Comics was also able to survive in a similar manner with kids comic books. Interestingly, both Archie Comics and Harvey Comics tried superheroes but eventually gave up these titles probably because of competition from DC and Marvel. Both Archie Comics and Harvey Comics had to learn hard lessons about their core business which turned out to be genres other than the superhero one.
There is tremendous overlap between the funny animal genre, dealt with in the post about funny animals (https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/dc-vs-marvel-funny-animals/) and kid's comics and many comics fit both genres. Still, characters such as Casper are obviously not funny animals. I would propose that funny animals are a subgenre of kid's comics logically but the funny animal subgenre is so big it must be treated as a genre. In a similar manner, logically superheroes are a subgenre of science fiction but are such a dominant subgenre in terms of the comic book marketplace that superheroes are best dealt with as a separate genre. This post will only deal with kid comics that are not funny animals.
This genre is characterized by a simplified cartoon style, very G rated material, even by comic code approved standards, and very simple plots. The defining characteristic is that the comic book is aimed at a very young readership. I would say the comic books should be able to appeal to preschoolers and they should be able to handle the material without the aid of an adult. Older readers may like the simplicity of the comic books in the same way that even adults can appreciate a children's book but the reverse is not true. A relatively G-rated comic book like Superman, especially a more recent Superman comic book, will not be appreciated by preschoolers unless their literacy is especially high.
DC kids include the Brat Finks, Stanley and his Monster, as well as, Sugar and Spike. Stanley and his Monster replaced the Fox and Crow in issue #109 but the retitled comic book only lasted until issue #112. Stanley is a six year old with a lisp that mistakes a monster for a dog and lets him secretly live with him. The monster is covered with pink hair, has enormous fangs and is gigantic, maybe nine feet? The parents never catch onto the existence of the monster. In the innocent comic book logic of that era, hiding a nine foot monster in a typical suburban house is considered totally possible. The comic book was printed in the sixties. In the nineties, DC decided to add some back story to the series and include Stanley and his Monster in some DC crossovers. I still prefer the more innocent less sophisticated Stanley and his Monster of the sixties.
Sugar and Spike was created by comic book legend Sheldon Mayer and is one of the best comic books lines ever! Somehow DC forgot to reprint this comic book in their current reprint Showcase series. This is extremely unfortunate and I urge DC to add Sugar and Spike to the Showcase reprint line. Sugar and Spike are two preschoolers that talk to each other in baby talk that adults can't understand.
Sugar and Spike are constantly trying to figure out adult logic and the adult world and come up with outlandish explanations that nevertheless are totally logical. Mayer was able to capture kid's logic in a way few cartoonists ever have. The closest any cartoonist has ever come is Calvin and Hobbes but I actually think Mayer does a better job and he is dealing with much younger children that are harder for adults to understand. Sugar is a blonde haired kid. Spike is a red haired kid. Other characters came and went in the strip such as Little Arthur, Uncle Charley and Bernie the Brain and even the secondary characters of this great strip were better than the primary characters of most cartoons. The strip lasted 98 issues, from the seventies into the nineties, and I am sure would have gone on even longer except for his death in 1992.
Marvel Kids, pre-Star imprint, is a much shorter list and I want to mention Homer the Happy Ghost who was brought to my attention by a reader of this post (see comments). Homer the Happy Ghost was an obvious imitation of Casper that lasted 22 issues, between March, 1955- November 1958, which for a none superheroe is not bad! Supporting characters included Melvin the Mixed-Up Ghost, Invisible Irwin, Dugan the Dead End Ghost, and Zelda the Zany Witch. Homer was reprinted for five issues between from November 1969 to May 1970 and I vaguely remember seeing this version of the title. Anway, thanks for the info Mark!
Marvel Kids include all the characters of their Star imprint that lasted from 1984-88. The characters of the Star imprint included Air Raiders, ALF, Animax, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Care Bears, Chuck Norris and his Karate Kommandos, Defenders of the Earth, The Flinstone Kids, Foofur, Fraggle Rock, The Get-Along Gang, Heathcliff, Heathcliffs Funhouse, Hugga Bunch, Inhumanoids, Madballs, Masters of the Universe, Masters of the Universe Motion Picture, Misty, Muppet Babies, The Muppets take Manhattan, Peter Porker The Spectacular Spider Ham, Planet Terry, Popples, Royal Roy, Silverhawks, Star Wars Digest, Star Wars Droids, Star Wars Ewoks, Strawberry Shortcake, ThunderCats, Top Dog, and Wally the Wizard. Marvel did publish a couple of Casper comic books in 1997.
Most of the Star comic books are not Marvel properties and will not be looked at given the topic of this post. Spider Ham, Planet Terry, Royal Roy, Top Dog and Wally the Wizard are the only true Marvel properties of the Star comic's line. Spider Ham was already dealt with in the funny animals post so we are down to Planet Terry, Royal Roy, Top Dog and Wally the Wizard.
Planet Terry, Royal Roy and Top Dog were all written by Lennie Herman. Planet Terry was a space saga. Planet Terry was looking for his parents in space with his sidekicks a robot named Robota and a green-scaled muscular alien named Omnus. I swear that Planet Terry's facial features are very similar to those of Casper. He flew around in a jet pack and many of his flying poses seem directly lifted from Casper comic books. Top Dog is a talking dog and therefore a funny animal and the subject of another post. Royal Roy is Marvels version of Richie Rich of Harvey Comics. Prince Roy lives in Cashelot (Camelot plus Cash) and only
lasted six issues. Wally the Wizard was an apprentice wizard to Marlin the Wizard, Merlin the Wizards older brother. Wally the Wizard was created by Bob Bolling who had also created Little Archie.
Sugar and Spike team up with Stanley and his monster for a day at the sandbox and run into these two weird kids in weird costumes. One is dressed like a prince, one is dressed like a spaceman and one is dressed like a wizard. Sugar and Spike know all about Halloween and love that day and know darn well this day isn't that day. They start laughing at the costumed kids and soon a fight ensues. Stanley's Monster sits on the Marvel kids until they agree to behave. DC wins this round.
Other DC vs. Marvel Posts
Big Monsters
Fourth Wall Heroes
Superpets
War Heroes
Western Heroes
Women in Refrigerators
Posted in Comic Book Critique, DC Comics, DC vs. Marvel, Marvel Comics, What if comic book fights?, What if comic book situations?
Tagged Air Raiders, ALF, Animax, Archie Comics, Baby Huey, Bob Bolling, Brat Finks, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Camelot, Care Bears, Cashelot, Casper, Chuck Norris and his Karate Kommandos, comic book, comic books, Defenders of the Earth, Dugan the Dead End Ghost, fanfiction, Foofur, Fraggle Rock, funny animals, Harvey Comics, Heathcliff, Heathcliffs Funhouse, Homer the Happy Ghost, Hot Stuff, Hugga Bunch, Hugh Fox, Inhumanoids, Invisible Irwin, Little Archie, Little Audrey, Little Dot, Little Lotta, Madballs, Masters of the Universe, Masters of the Universe Motion Picture, Melvin the Mixed-Up Ghost, Misty, Muppet Babies, Omnus, Peter Porker The Spectacular Spider Ham, Planet Terry, Popples, Richie Rich, Robota, Royal Roy, Silverhawks, Spooky, Stanley and His Monster, Star Wars Digest, Star Wars Droids, Star Wars Ewoks, Strawberry Shortcake, Sugar and Spike, The Flinstone Kids, The Get-Along Gang, The Muppets take Manhattan, ThunderCats, Top Dog, Wally the Wizard, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Zelda the Zany Witch.

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Once in a while I come across a bag so cool that… you could frame it. This is the case with the Civilian Loader. While it looks are worthy of framing it would be stupid since this thing is 100% purpose driven design. It begs to be used.


Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 not booting | Gillware Inc.
Oftentimes, we take our computers' good health for granted. When you press the power button on your machine, you expect it to turn on and greet you with the login screen like usual. However, as we know all too well, sometimes things go wrong and your hard drive won't boot up. This was exactly the case for a recent data recovery customer in our lab.
Another thing sometimes taken for granted is the accessibility of Outlook email data. Aside from calendar and contact information, many users rely on Outlook to store and archive their old emails. In this case, the customer needed their Outlook data recovered, but unfortunately it was stranded on the hard drive.
After getting the drive into our lab, our engineers determined that it was suffering from an issue with its firmware. Firmware is a storage device's operating system that holds all of the compiled application code for doing everything the drive needs to do, including reading and writing data. If there is an issue with a hard drive's firmware, often the drive cannot function at all.
When a drive's firmware has issues, it will need to be repaired or the drive can't boot itself. Gillware has an expansive firmware library and years of reverse engineering on different hard drive which allow us to make firmware repairs with a high degree of success. In this case, engineers were able to use advanced engineering techniques to repair the firmware bug.
Although only approximately 10% of the cases that enter Gillware's data recovery lab involve a firmware issue, success rates are still high in these types of cases. In this particular case, engineers were able to recover 99.9% of the files on the drive. One of the customer's key Outlook .pst files was not completely recovered , but engineers were able to test the file to confirm that it was still fully functional.
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Marantz was founded in 1953 and has a wide range of hi-fi components. For instance, CD players, DVD players, amplifiers, record players and A/V receivers. Marantz's range is so extensive, that it ranges from entry level models to high end models. Marantz from Japan has been at the top of the hi-fi world for years now, and is one of the big players in the field of high end hi-fi.


New criminal offence on the cards.
State-sponsored hackers that target privately-held 'trade secrets' could contravene a new criminal offence being proposed by the Australian government.
A committee examining a package of laws targeting espionage and foreign interference last night recommended clarity whether the new 'theft of trade secrets involving foreign government principal' criminal offence would specifically apply to hackers.
Its 404-page report [pdf] said the applicability of the proposed offence to attacks launched through "cyber vectors" was not sufficiently clear, and should be spelled out.
Under the proposal, it would become an offence under Australian law to "dishonestly receive, obtain, take, copy or duplicate, sell, buy or disclose certain information where the conduct is connected to a foreign government principal".
A 15-year penalty would be available in successful criminal prosecutions.
Unlike other laws in the package being considered, the theft of trade secrets "does not contain a national security element", the committee noted.
Instead, the Attorney-General's department said the offence was intended "to combat the increasing threat of data theft, business interruption and economic espionage, particularly by or on behalf of foreign individuals and entities".
Targets could include "highly valuable and sensitive information held by the CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Group, commercial secrets such as negotiating positions on natural gas and iron ore prices, and trade secrets related to nuclear power, metal, solar production and defence industries (including trade secrets held by private contractors)," the department indicated.
ASIO indicated that this kind of activity could occur "through cyber and human means"; however, the committee said it was worried that hacking and cyber-based attacks were not specifically called out in an explanatory memorandum accompanying the package of new laws.
"The committee questions whether it is sufficiently clear that the proposed threshold of 'dishonestly' stealing trade secrets would capture economic espionage committed by cyber vectors - for example, by hacking into a company's electronic records in order to access commercially sensitive information and intellectual property," it said.
The hacking offence is part of what amounts to a substantial re-writing of "Australia's criminal laws relating to secrecy, espionage, foreign interference and sabotage".
The committee said it recognised the need for the rewrite and recommended the new laws be passed, with some modifications.
However, it said that proposed secrecy provisions to be incorporated should be subject to review after three years.


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Q: Marker info erratic in KML layer I am working on loading KML files into a map using Google Maps API v3. The KML loads fine and the markers are seen. But the marker info (pop-up when the marker is clicked) never shows up in a consistent manner. A few work some times, some others don't. This is really peculiar. To see the page, check-
http://www.sobitabraham.com/teawap/NEW_kml.html
The KML file is here-
https://sites.google.com/site/teawapdata/home/kml-files/TEAWAP.kml
The KML file is 990 KB in size, so it is not some file size ceiling problem. It could have something to with the caching of KML, I am not sure. The KML file was exported from Google Earth.
The frustrating thing is that this marker behavior is erratic, the error is not consistent. This problem is seen even when I paste the URL of the KML file into maps.google.com. Any help in sorting this out will be appreciated.
Thanks.

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HomeTechnologyMeta thinks they have a cool new way to save water in their data centers
Meta thinks they have a cool new way to save water in their data centers
Meta plans to reduce the amount of water its data centers use by implementing a system where sites will operate at higher temperatures but lower humidity.
Facebook's parent company said it is testing some sites to operate at 90 degrees Fahrenheit, about 5 degrees above normal temperatures, as part of broader plans to become "water positive" by 2030.
Meta also told audiences at the recent 7×24 Exchange Fall conference in San Antonio, Texas, that it also plans to reduce the frequency of backwash used to clean filter systems, as well as tweaking the water softening systems used in many of its services. data centers.
How will this work?
Meta's pilots involved adjusting the temperature environment in only one half of the data center while keeping the other side at the current level of comparison.
Meta hasn't clearly specified how much water it intends to save annually from these measures, saying only "millions of gallons," according to reports.
On a per-location basis, Meta estimated the savings would range from 10% to 65% depending on the region.
Why this move?
Data centers are a huge drain on the world's limited water supply, according to a report by the US Department of Energy, and these centers combined used 174 billion gallons of water in 2020 in the US alone.
The target is a water consumer in and of itself, the big tech company used 2.57 million cubic meters of water over the course of 2021 primarily as a result cloud hosting which is responsible for huge swaths of consumer data, According to GlobalData. (Opens in a new tab)
Even a slight decrease in water production per data center can cause huge positive ripples globally, Meta currently operates approximately 40 million square feet of data centers globally As per its website. (Opens in a new tab)
Meta isn't the only big tech company looking to make its data centers more sustainable.
Microsoft says it has created carbon-neutral alternatives to the diesel generators used for backup in its data centers, in the event of power outages and other service outages.
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Nightstream 2020 Review: RUN is a Taut and Thrilling Tale of Maternal Horror
2020/10/12 16:28:20 +00:00 | Heather Wixson
For his follow-up to 2018's Searching, Aneesh Chaganty is once again exploring the challenges of raising teenage children in his latest film, Run, but this time, it's the parental figure that is behind the central conflict to the story. With shades of Stephen King (think Misery and Carrie, minus the telekinesis) bubbling just below its surface, Run is a taut and highly suspenseful thriller that often zigs when you're expecting it to zag, resulting in an expertly crafted, nerve-shredding psychological thriller that may tread some familiar narrative territory, but manages to thwart any expectations you may have about what to expect.
In Run, Sarah Paulson plays Diane, a mother who has devoted the last 17 years of her life to being the sole provider and caregiver to her daughter, Chloe (Kiera Allen), who has a myriad of special needs that require constant attention and keeps her tucked away from the world. Chloe yearns for her freedom, though, and is hopeful that soon enough she'll be headed to college once she graduates from home school. But after the teen discovers that one of her pills isn't what she thinks it is, Chloe begins to suspect that her mom's intentions aren't exactly in her best interest, and Diane wonders if her inquisitive daughter might be close to catching on to the truth about what she's been up to all these years.
For Run, Chaganty co-writes the script alongside Sev Ohanian (who he previously collaborated with on Searching), and once again, this screenwriting duo has struck gold with their latest story, as the reason the film works as well as it does is due to how they're able to leave cinematic breadcrumbs throughout, so that we know as viewers that we're looking for something to be amiss, we just don't know what until Run hits its wonderfully audacious climax that feels like it is hearkening back to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Run also features a handful of tension-fueled set pieces that certainly escalated my heart rate a few times and had me nervously frittering away as well. There was one sequence in particular that felt highly innovative, featuring the wheelchair-bound Chloe doing her damnedest to break out of her second story bedroom while Diane was away from the house, and her character demonstrating some MacGyver-esque abilities that were truly impressive, yet felt wholly grounded in reality.
Also, in a day and age when representation has been a huge part of the ongoing discussions regarding Hollywood, I think Chaganty's decision to use a wheelchair-bound actress to portray a character in a wheelchair was not only something that I really appreciated on a personal level, but it also introduced me to this newbie talent in Allen, who more than holds her own against Paulson throughout Run, which is no easy feat by any means. The cat and mouse game that unfolds between this duo of strong-willed women is often strikingly calculated on the page, and brilliantly brought to life by two talents who easily hold command over the screen whenever they appear.
Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention one of my favorite actors, Pat Healy, also appears in Run as a kindly mailman whose daily interactions with Chloe are one of the highlights of her day, as he's the only means of outside contact for a good portion of the film.
While the story seems to escalate very rapidly out of nowhere, almost in conflict to the even-keeled pacing that preceded it, Run is a surprising thrill ride that effectively proves that no one in this world will love you like your mother does—and in the case of Chaganty's latest, it's a truism that proves to be both dangerous and potentially lethal.
Movie Score: 4/5
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About the Author - Heather Wixson
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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Prof. Fabian Clark's Office
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Originally Posted by LadyNerd
Lyra picked a particular spot to continuously stare at for a little bit, thinking about the past and now the future. She heard Josh speak but didn't look up as she responded. "It's not me that I'm worried about," her eyes moved to scan his as she bit her lower lip. She turned around to face Christian once more, puzzled. "Look. What is going on? I just don't understand." She lightly shook her head as her voice was still low enough so that only he could hear.
She then heard another voice speak up. At least if there was anyone in this room that agreed with her, it was, of all people, Mallory. "Love potion? Come on, that can't be," she snorted.
Mallory shook her head. "Think about it. He's with you, and now he starts blabbering this nonsense about liking me? I know guys have weird minds, but this is too weird....even for him." Mallory countered, then shot Christian a look.
"It's the only explanation. Christian's my bestfriend. I know him. I doubt he'd cheat on you."
Originally Posted by SweetAussie
Agie was just about to reach for the door when Fabian stopped her. Damn! She wanted a clean sweep and now she was stuck. "But Professor, I have homework and Quidditch. You have this under control." She continued.
Agie giggled at his explanation about boys. At least he didn't think anything was wrong. "Great thinking, I agree. Teenage boys are always up to something. They are al..." She stopped suddenly when she heard Mallory. Oh crap. She mentioned love potion.
"Don't be silly Mallory. He has just realised his true feelings for you." She said, trying to convince her.
This was bad. Very bad!
"No he hasn't. We're [I]just friends[I]" she said, emphasizing the last two words. "And if it's so silly, why don't you try coming up with a logical explanation other than all this junk about 'true feelings'?" Good point. At least she thought it was...
Originally Posted by Tailz
Christian just blinked and kept staring at her, with the same empty look on his face. He frowned at her question, "What does that have to do with my love for you? I was looking for you obviously..."
Mallory listened to another one of his annoying answers. "It has nothing to do with your love for me because you don't." she snapped. "Now, where were you even before that...when..." she thought hard on what the right question was to ask.
"Where were you when you first thought you loved me?"
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Originally Posted by angelwing
Ari grinned and waved at Josh. "It's been going alright so far. How are you?" She asked him curiously and glanced at the crowd. She leaned and whispered with a teasing grin. "Are you the cause of all these people?" She wouldn't put it past him.
"Brilliant..... mostly." he told her honestly. he then chuckled as she asked if he was the cause of all of this."of course...you know how determined i am to find out what happened to the kids." he then spoke to her in a low voice."They are all jealous." he teased. " actually i just came here to talk to fabain." he then wondered what the nurse was doing so far away from her hospital." what are you doing here? Up to trouble?" he teased back.
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Lyra's eyes shifted to her uncle's face once more, a look of 'I didn't do it, whatever it was'. "Well, that's fine and dandy on the love end of the stick," she began as her eyes glanced towards Josh for moment, then proceeded back to her uncle. "But the soccer ball has been in there since the last time I was here. Remember? Me...and Jo-...all of us?" She tried to cover herself remembering she never truly finished her conversation with him as he walked back to his office to find her hand in Josh's hair. "I came to get it back to give to Lover Boy over there."
Even after Lyra's explenation Fabian could not possible fathom the idea of a soccer ball within his vicinity. If he spotted it, it would have gone out of the window. "So is that why everyone's here? For a bloody soccer ball?"
Originally Posted by Tailzinator
"SEE! At least Mr. Tall Man agrees with me...all you guys are giving me no support on this..." Mr. Tall Man? Meh, names weren't of importance...the only name he wanted to know was (apart from his own) Mallory's. The words soccer weren't registering at all in his head, "What's soccer? I assure you that I don't play soccer. I don't have the time!! I'm too busy thinking about her..." he sighed and continued to look at her, with that glazed, enchanted, look on his face.
"Bite your tongue lad" Fabian croaked with an amused expression, "I'm tall alright but no need to air my height to everyone-" he broke off with full curiosity. Christian considered Soccer his game, even more than Quidditch and to go over and beyond disowning it over a girl .. was definitely amusing. "I say you got leg shackled early" he bellowed with laughter.
Originally Posted by Jenster
"I just arrived here Sir. I came to talk to you. An errand as it were. And Lyra just started having a go at me. I still have yet to figure out why," Marco frowned. "I can come back later if you want Sir. After they..." he looked at Lyra and Josh "Have gone."
Why was Lyra having a go at him? Fabian shot Lyra a questioning glance, then again looked back at Marco before she starts one of those 'you embarrassed me in front of boys moments'. "If it will take long come back later.. as you see" he nudged his chin towards Professor Max and Nurse Arian, "I have company.. but if it won't then wait till I give them the soccer ball and you'll have my attention marg-co!"
Originally Posted by *JoshMoonson*
"professor." josh called to fabain as he didnt know if he could stand in the presence fo the greatest scum on the planet." I was waiting to talk to you...its rather important."
"Aye, so not about the Soccer ball?" though now he wondered who trailed who. Lyra or him? Tough call. "Same goes to you lad. If it will take long come back later, if not then give a minute with Marco".
Lyra's eyebrows raised as she began to snicker lightly. "Mr. Tall Man? Yep, he's okay. He didn't even know your name, Fab-umm-Professor Clark, sir, uncle," she mumbled the last part to herself, trying to keep the student-professor relationship where it needed to be. "And lookie there, he doesn't even know what soccer is." She of course had to be smart and point out the obvious to prove a point.
Fabian grunted, "he knows soccer alright. He annoys me with it day and night this is no different" he shook his head. Whats the sudden animosity between Lyra and Marco?
Originally Posted by griffin_girl
She kept thinking that over and over again. "Guys...please...quiet..." she said amongst all the shouting. Obviously no one heard her. But that one last piece of clue. Christian said he didn't know about soccer. "AHA! See? there's something wrong with him, I mean, this is Christian Miles, he's a soccer fanatic. Now he claims he doesn't know anything about it. This means that everything he's saying right now isn't treu." she said triumphantly. Nothing this boy said was true. Not on single thing.
"He must be on some sort of spell, or charm or..." then it hit her. He kept saying he was in love with her..."Potion! Love potion." she gasped. "But how? And why was I...?" she turned quickly to Christian. "Christian, where were you before you found me at the library?"
"Aren't you Mallory his girl friend?" Fabian questioned, she was Christian's girl friend aye? He remembered her from the feast. Hmm. "If you two weren't dating i'd say he got a good knock on his head. But he also said that you were more important than Soccer. If i was in your shoes, i'd say go with that. Soccer is not a game for lads of his age. Find him a tougher game to obsess over, Aye? Its about time he grew out of that bloody game".
Originally Posted by Ariana
"Of course I like animals." Ari answered him giving him an incredified look. Who didn't love animals? Weirdo's. She nudged his shoulder a little bit as they walked towards his office. It seemed there was quite a crowd gathered there.
"Good! Cause I've got lots of them behind that door" Fabian smiled, then glanced at the students. "How about you wait inside Ariana?" he dug his hand deep inside his right pocket to retrieve his office key. After opening the door, he kept it wide open, and went to search for that soccer ball.
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Originally Posted by Mamushkaleontti
Mallory sighed. "Yes, I am Mallory, but I am most certainly NOT his girlfriend. I never was and we never dated." she said, trying to stay calm. "Look, he" she said pointing to Christian, "is with her," she said pointing to Lyra. "I thought you should've found out by now. The whole school os talking about it." she said, with a hint of misery. She and Zero had heard the news the very smae way. Gossip.
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Ariana laughed and shook her head. "Me, trouble. Of course not." She gave him a mock scandalized look. Ari ruffled his hair a bit as Fabian conversed with the other students.
"Sure, not a problem." She gave Josh a wink and waved before making herself comfortable in Fabians office. Taking the opportunity to look around.
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Lyra noticed Josh speaking to someone who seemed to be the nurse of the school. She wondered what brought her here, unless something was wrong with Fabian. She pushed it to the side for now seeing that her uncle seemed to be in good health as it was and was letting the nurse inside his office.
She watched as Fabian disappeared within his office to search for the soccer ball that obviously didn't seem to make a difference at this point.
Lyra began to bite her lip once more listening to Mallory's explanation. It did make sense to her being that Christian was acting all weird towards her, especially after their 'talk' at Hogsmeade. She didn't say a word, keeping her mouth shut for once to here the story laid before them.
And then Mallory said it, right there in front of everyone. She started to speak but could only open her mouth, to let the flies in of course!
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"I am sorry to interupt Sir. I shall return later once Professor Vindictus and Nurse Numel have finished," Marco smiled. He liked Fabian and Max. And didn't want to hang around with Josh, the spawn of Satan himself.
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"Thank you Ariana!" he murmured, "Please make yourself comfortable". Astonishingly he found the ball on the far right corner, he carried into his hand and walked back out into the corridor.
Fabian's face drained from all color when Mallory pointed at Lyra, what was she saying? Impossible! "Apparently I didn't know" he responded feeling his throat going dry, "and since no one bothered to tell me" he glared at Lyra then Christian. "You can keep him. He's a good lad. Just keep him away from soccer". His eyes trailed back to Lyra for a moment then threw the ball gently at her to catch.
"Later Marco!" he murmured after the Slytherin then glanced at Josh, "So, what about you?"
"Alright.. i will wait." he told him as he quickly add." but i was here after Mallory thus before marco." he just wanted to add that.
josh smirked as ari was just as much of a trouble maker as he was. " Goodbye." he said to her as he waved back at her. he grinned as he then headed back to lyra.
he looked at her and smiled." you want to stay with you?" he asked as he stood by her side." i could go if you would rather me. i'll leave it up to you." he told her as he then moved to rub her arm. Thats what a friend would do.
he murmured after the Slytherin then glanced at Josh, "So, what about you?"
"um...' he looked at lyra and then at fabain." i guess i will stay..." he told him.
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Vindictus couldn't believe the stubborn Slytherin boy. "Did Marco wack you in the head with a Bludger?" he asked in disbelief, "Because you seem to enjoy telling people what to do. Five points from Slytherin and I suggest you stop talking."
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Lyra placed her hand to cover her face for a moment. Apparently, Christian never made it to talk to Fabian like he said he was since the last time they talked. She was absolutely dumb-founded and couldn't speak. This was just getting worse and worse as she dug her hole deeper and deeper into the ground.
She saw the look in her uncle's eyes as he held the ball in his hands. He was right, Christian was a good guy and probably one of the best, or at least he was on her list, but her love belonged to another and apparently so did Christian's, even before they met.
She removed her hand from her face in time to catch the ball that Fabian threw. If Christian didn't want it, then she was keeping it. "Thanks," she said with a sigh, clearly seeing that he was wanting them to leave.
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Christian considered Mallory a bit more. He loved the girl...it only made sense to tell her what she wanted to know...as long as it kept her close. His glazed eyes, narrowed slightly in thought. "I was...leaving a room.." he couldn't remember exactly...his mind was too clogged with thoughts about her to focus on anything else.
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They were askin' if you were around. How you was, where you could be found....
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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater
Well.. five points.. what!! he had done nothing. this teacher was looney.. he out did blaylock. Which was very hard to do..." I think i'll come back fabain." he said as he then left.
"Your welcome!" he responded to Lyra as he shiftily took in the encounter between Max and Josh. He rolled his eyes as Christian spoke, "well thats very informative. Can you give out more details, something that would maybe make me believe that you've ... changed as they say?"
"See ya later Josh!" Fabian murmured, the kid was wise to come back later.
Lyra looked back to Josh, watching him walk away. She looked from Mallory to Christian...and then to her uncle. "Clearly, Christian is not with me," she began as her eyes drifted back to the spot where Josh was only a few moments ago. "I'm with Josh!" Her eyes glanced back to her uncle's face as she took a deep breath, waiting for a reaction, but clearly not wanting to see it. "If you will excuse me, I have someone to catch up with."
She turned as she began to walk away, not looking back at what she just witnessed.
Christian glared at Mr. Tall Man. How dare he use that tone with a boy who was in love? His glare turned to the girl they were all saying that he was with. "How can I have been WITH YOU!?" he shouted after her. "For the love of all that is good, I love Mallory..."
He turned back to Mr. Tall Man. "I...can't remember..." His hand travelled into his hair, clutching it tightly. It was like sanity was trying to fight itself free.
Vindictus shook his head as the Slytherin boy and Fabian's niece walked off. She's a handful. However, his concern was Christian. "Hey, Ariana," he asked and walked over to the nurse's side. "Any suggestions on what we can do for Christian?"
Ariana looked up at Max and then over to the boy. "I'm afraid I might not have been here for enough of the conversation. What seems to be the problem?" She asked curiously. The boy seemed to be alright to her. Perhaps a little odd but that seemed to be normal for that age.
"Look at him - he thinks he's in love," Max whispered to Ariana. "Should he sleep it off or something?"
Ariana couldn't help but chuckle at that. "Is that what you do when you fall in love Max? Take a nap and hope it goes away?" She laughed a bit more at that. She figured Max didn't mean to sound that way but it was still amusing. "If it is something more serious like a love potion, I'd like to check him out. However perhaps sleep isn't a bad idea. Depending on the potency of the potion, there's no telling how long it will last. I suggest sleeping and then maybe coming by the waiting room tomorrow ....by any means necessary. He probably won't be willing."
Fabian's eyes trailed after Lyra, maybe it was harsh of him not to be kinder. Would it be too much of him to ask, if she told him about the person she was dating. He'd give her time to cool down of course. They'll need to talk tonight, perhaps during dinner.
Fabian leaned on the door frame, crossed his arms and intently scrutinized Christian with his eyes. "He looks alright to me" Fabian shrugged, falling in love was never a bad thing. It was the most natural reaction a human can inhabit.. he trailed off smiling at the memory of his wife. "Sleep sounds appetizing this moment".
Max listened carefully and his mind went to work. "Perhaps I should give Christian some advice in the romance department and suggest he get some sleep," he whispered to Ari. "That will give me a chance to summon Juno or one of the other Ravenclaws to escort Christian to the Boys Dormitory." He winked at her and walked over to the boy.
"Christian, want to tell me more about Mallory?" he asked the young man as he stood before him. "Perhaps I can help you plan the perfect romantic date."
Fabian grunted at Max's comment, "Apparently Mallory isn't interested in him, never dated. Hmmph. The lad had a thing for my niece". His eyes raked Christian over, nothing was making sense to him. Whats Lyra doing with Josh? And why was he all over Mallory?
Christian eyed Mr. Tall Man, before eyeing the man approaching him. His eyes quickly shot back and forth between this man and Mallory. Perfect romantic date eh? That would be sure to make Mallory happy. Perhaps make her realize his feelings for her.
He pulled the man a little bit farther away from her, so that she wouldn't hear. He was slowly becoming more self-concious of what he was saying about his feelings for Mallory. "Hmm...she's like...one the sweetest people ever...not afraid of anything...likes the outdoors. She also likes cheesecake..." Random. "She has like...the most beautiful eyes..." He went back into his dreamlike, but glazed state.
"She sounds wonderful," Vindictus smiled and behind his back, he pulled out his wand. A silver image emerged from the tip and raced down the hall. "Tell you what - I'll arrange for the House Elves to fix a special cheesecake for her. The two of you can have a nice romantic picnic on the grounds." He put his wand away. "But for that to happen, you need to get some sleep because girls don't like it when their dates fall asleep."
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地点 Location Hutan Lipur Lubuk Yu, Maran, Pahang.
进入 Access Narrow road, easy trail.
High chasis cars is recommended.
Lubuk Yu Recreation Park is located at Maran, between Felda Jengka and Kampung Sungai Jerik. This small waterfall in the park name as Lubuk Yu just because the waterfall is in 'U' shape. To reach the waterfall, you have to take road no.64 and to north direction if you come from Maran.
After we parked our car, we followed the jungle path to the end of the park.
It was flash flood during the time we are visiting. It looks like it was heavy rained before.
End of the trail is a rock platform. According to the local, this is Lubuk Yu Waterfall. Locals love to fishing at the place.
There was a incident happened here. Six villagers who were involved in an operation to find a drowning victim in the Lubuk Yu recreational forest, from June 26 to 30 were reported to have died due to leptospirosis bacteria infection and melioidosis. On July 10, the Lubuk Yu picnic area was ordered to be closed to the public immediately for further investication. The disease outbreak is declared over as there had been no new cases reported among those exposed to the diseases after 28 days.
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