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The Darkness ended just as things were getting interesting. On his 21st birthday, mafia hitman Jackie Estacado was targeted by mafia boss "Uncle" Paulie, but was saved by the Darkness, a malevolent force that inhabited his family for generations. The Darkness' power grew over the course of the game, but its true strength wasn't seen until the very end. After being pushed around for most of the game, Jackie Estacado finally had enough. Taking control away from the player, things went to hell as Jackie, with the full power of the Darkness at his disposal, destroyed anything and everything in his way. Now with a sequel on the way, gamers can finally play with the full power of the Darkness for the first time.
Based on the comic book series of the same name, The Darkness II will not be developed by Starbreeze Studios, the team behind the first game. Instead, Digital Extremes, who worked on Bioshock 2 and Dark Sector, will take on development duties. Taking place two years after the first game, Jackie has become Don of the Franchetti family but is unable to move on from the death of his girlfriend Jenny Ramano, whose death the Darkness forced Jackie to watch. Things do not get any easier when a mysterious group known as The Brotherhood, led by a dangerous man named Victor Valenti, attacks Jackie. The Brotherhood knows about the Darkness, and Victor wants it for less than reputable purposes. Jackie is seriously injured in an early attack, forcing him to unleash the Darkness to figure out just what is going on.
Double the Tentacles, Double the Fun
In the first game, the Darkness was relegated to several different abilities. The Darkness could manifest as eel-like tendrils that could be used to attack enemies or throw objects, summon impish Darklings that attacked enemies, send out tendrils to scout ahead locations and take out enemies, and even create a black hole that sucked up anything near it. These Darkness powers were always separate from the gun combat, meaning Jackie would have to switch from guns to the Darkness mid-combat to make use of his powers. Two years older and wiser, Jackie no longer has to worry about such trivial issues. Thanks to what the developers are calling 'quad-wielding,' Jackie can use guns and the Darkness at the same time, creating possibly the most badass way to create havoc possible. While gunplay will use the standard shoulder buttons (depending on whether you're using two pistols or a two-handed weapon like a shotgun), the Darkness will be controlled using the right and left bumpers. The Darklings also play a more important role in the sequel. Instead of having a variety of Darklings to choose from there will just be one who plays a role in the story. Unsurprisingly, the Darkling will act as a sort of comic-relief in that it can urinate acid on enemies. The Darkness II also looks noticeably more violent than the first game, with Jackie using the Darkness to rip enemies in two and perform other finishing moves, such as the "Anaconda," which is perhaps best left to the imagination. The environment will also be a factor, as Jackie can throw nearby signs or parking meters to impale enemies. The Darkness isn't all offense though, as Jackie can also use the Darkness to rip off car doors or other pieces of the environment to create a makeshift shield.
Jackie's going to need all the shields too, since his enemies won't be simple mob henchman like the first game. The Brotherhood is not just going to lay down and die like your typical Mafioso, and is more than willing to do whatever it takes to get Victor the Darkness. There are different types of Brotherhood, from 'Rookies' who wear a special dark-relic infused helmet that protects them from headshots and make effective use of cover, to 'Melee' enemies who act like tanks, taking lots of damage while they charge you head on. Perhaps the most dangerous enemy however, and the one who fits into the theme of light vs. dark the most, are the 'Support' units. They only use a giant floodlight that does no damage to you, but makes the Darkness go into hiding. Needless to say, when you have several Melee brutes charging at you that's the last thing you want to happen.
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The graphics for The Darkness II have also been changed. Moving away from the more realistic take the first game had, The Darkness II uses a cell-shaded approach not unlike another 2K game, Borderlands, that helps it look more like the comic book it's based on. Things aren't all different, as Mike Patton, vocalist for Faith No More, will be returning to voice the Darkness. While there was a multiplayer mode in the original game, no announcement of a return has been made. Given the laggy nature of the original game's multiplayer, the time might be better spent creating a polished single player experience.
The original Darkness, while flawed in some ways, was still a great single-player experience and had some of the most memorable moments from this generation of games. The Darkness II will build on that by finally letting us have full control of the Darkness, and the thought of dual-wielding pistols while using the Darkness to impale people sounds too good to be true.
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Summer Sleep-Away Camps: A Tradition of Fun and Growth
June 9, 2013 August 31, 2013 Posted in The Quarterly magazineTagged ACA, American Camp Association, Boy Scouts, camp, Camp Cherry Valley, Camp Fox, Camp Whittle, Catalina Island, Christian camp, Eleanor Eells, Forest Home, Fredrick William, Girl Scouts, guide discoveries, Gunn, internal drive, internet camp, jameson ranch, Laura Mattoon, nature, outdoors, overnight camp, pali adventure, ragging, sleep-over camp, south pasadena, summer camp, The Gunnery, The Quarterly magazine, Thomas Caldwell, Winacka, Y, YMCA, YWCALeave a comment
Originally published in The Quarterly magazine, Summer 2013
5 AM. There was a biting chill in the air at the edge of a wood-planked pier on Catalina Island. But fighting against common sense, I dove into an even more frigid Pacific. Every nerve ending was jolted to attention as a rush of exhilaration forced my limbs to move, propelling me toward the sandy shores of Camp Fox.
What would compel me, a kid more than 30 years ago, to go "polar bearing?" Peer pressure? Maybe. Stupidity? Probably. The pure rush of mad fun? Most definitely.
It was summer. I was at camp. And I was going to make the most of my week away from my parents. The expectation of making new friends, enjoying nature and having fun was a given. Little did I know that I would also be educated there: learn new skills, build self-confidence and be inspired to become a better person. This masked learning occurred with each successive camp, whether it was a traditional outdoor activity camp, Girl Scout camp, gymnastic camp or church camp, I grew, transforming for the better.
Megan McDuffie, in her 11th year of being a volunteer or camp director at YMCAs Camp Whittle, reflects on her experience there. "It's powerful to see kids who came in through camp, giving back to the community… In an unplugged environment, it's valuable to get back to nature while connecting with other campers."
And for the last 152 years, children in America have been experiencing the multi-faceted thrill of overnight camps.
In 1861, an educator and abolitionist with Christian values, Fredrick William Gunn and his wife, Abigail took a group of children camping. The youth from "The Gunnery," the Gunn's school in Connecticut, went on a 10-day "Civil War-inspired training" that included swimming, fishing, hiking and boating. About 30 boys and 12 girls participated in the trip that would ignite a camping movement, making Gunn the "father of recreational camping."
In the 1870s, the Gunn's continued camp at Lake Waramaug. In 1874, the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) opened a camp for girls who needed rest from their non-stop working conditions, while a couple private camps sprang up in 1876 and 1881.
The YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in New York opened Camp Dudley in 1885, the longest continually operating camp in the United States.
By 1902, Camp Kehonka for girls was founded in New Hampshire by Laura Mattoon, teacher and creator of bifurcated clothing for girls so that they could move more freely outdoors.
Eleanor Eells, social worker, camp advocate and camp historian, said of Mattoon in her 1978 publication Eleanor's Vignettes, "She understood well the place women were to occupy in the twentieth century and the many ways in which the camp experience could be a preparation. Her ideas about camping education, and women's role were in advance of her time."
The LA YMCA started its first summer resident camp in 1912. In 1914, after the South Pasadena YMCA (later adding San Marino to its name) was founded, campers from the new Y joined the LA camp.
In addition to traditional camp activities like horseback riding, kayaking, archery and a ropes course, unique to the Y's camp is the rag program of setting personal goals, which also began in 1914 by Thomas Caldwell.
"Ragging" a friend meant bestowing one of various bandana-like colored cloths around a person's neck as an outward symbol for an inward commitment toward betterment. Lorenzo Frias, a Freshman at South Pasadena High School and on the leadership track at Y camps said, "It's an amazing experience. It changes you. I even have a friend with anger management issues who just changed. He became nice!"
In 1910, the same year Boy Scouts of America and Camp Fire USA began, Alan S. Williams founded the Camp Directors Association of America, known today as the American Camp Association (ACA), standardizing camp quality for safety, staffing, health and programming.
The ACA helped take camps to a new level of excellence. "Educators are at the core of the camp community, professionalizing the field and raising the professional caliber," said Peg Smith, CEO of the American Camp Association.
Today, there are nearly 200 overnight camps in California (162 are ACA accredited) and close to 2000 nationwide (1,636 are ACA accredited). That's more than 14,000 sessions in all!
Along with local traditional camps, like Catalina Island Camps (since 1922) and the YMCA's Camp Whittle (since 1958), there are also popular interest group camps like Camp Cherry Valley on Catalina Island for Boy Scouts (since the 1920s), Winacka Girl Scouts camp in San Diego (since 1974) and a nondenominational Christian camp at Forest Home in Forest Falls (since 1938).
Currently, the colorful palate of sleep-away camps is mind-boggling. One can choose among an in exhaustive list of camps centered on: every imaginable sports activity, art, science, language and cultural experiences.
There are even technology camps that focus on computers, programming, iPads, iPhones, gaming and game design (internaldrive.com); then to rehabilitate from too much technology use, there's a ranch and rustic living camp (jamesonranchcamp.com).
Some unique experiences include: secret agent, girl power, Hollywood stunt, rock star, flying trapeze, extreme action, fashion, DJ, broadcast, culinary camps and more (paliadventures.com). Or if astronomy and space exploration are a passion, there's Astro Camp (guidediscoveries.org).
I don't remember all the things I did at the many camps I attended, but I do remember my awe of nature, a force bigger than myself. I remember the people and how they influenced the way I felt about myself.
There were crazy fun counselors who did ridiculously silly things like rinse into a cup only to pass it on for the next counselor to do the same. There were campers who told scary stories about bores that would gore us in the night if we stepped out of our cabins and bees that could spit blinding poison into eyes. And there were "friends" who made me ask a boy to dance, leaving me humbled by the trauma of it even now.
I learned silly songs I can still recite perfectly today. I relaxed on logs, doing nothing but cultivate deeper friendships. The saturated weeks I spent with people proved to draw them closer than years of casual interactions. And if they asked me again to jump into ice-cold waters in the middle of the ocean, I just might do it.
Resources for local camps: camppage.com, kidscamp.com, ymcala.org
Special thanks to Stephanie Yuen at the South Pasadena/San Marino YMCA and Kim Bruno at the American Camp Association for contributing to this story.
History of camp credits: connecticuthistory.org, acacamp.org and summercamphandbook.com

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How Ub Iwerks helped create Mickey Mouse and then got cut out of the iconic character's origin story
One man's name is recognized the world over. The other's remains relatively obscure. But both had a hand in creating one of the most enduring cartoon characters ever: Mickey Mouse, who this year celebrates his 90th anniversary.
Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks were business partners – and friends – and together with Walt's brother Roy built the foundation of a company that today is worth upwards of $110 billion. Its beginnings, however, were much more humble and hard scramble.
Walt hustled and dreamed, Roy handled the finances, and Ub animated furiously.
'If Walt was a wizard, Ub was the man behind the curtain. Ub created Mickey Mouse, and Walt dreamed up Mickey's actions,' Jeff Ryan wrote in his book 'A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt.'
But after 10 years in business together, Walt and Ub's partnership deteriorated to the point where Ub quit, sold his shares for $3,000 – Ryan told DailyMail.com that Ub's 20 percent stake would be worth something like $32 billion nowadays – and struck out on his own. (That $3,000 from 1930 would be over $45,000 in today's money.)
Ub – 'the genius who brought Mickey Mouse to life,' Ryan wrote – would be written out of the story of how the character got developed.
'The way Mickey Mouse was created didn't have that much Disney magic behind it. Someone sat down and drew a bunch of animals. Eventually they drew a mouse and they drew a couple more versions of a mouse until there was one that was going to be relatively easy to animate,' Ryan explained to DailyMail.com.
Animator Ub Iwerks, pictured here sometime in 1929 with a drawing of Mickey Mouse, helped to created the iconic character in March 1928 with Walt Disney. Disney and Iwerks met when they were teens in Kansas City in late 1919, and worked on several endeavors together. A few years later, Disney moved to Los Angeles. He was so broke when he left Kansas City, he had to sell his camera for travel money, according to Jeff Ryan's book 'A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt'
Walt Disney, left, and Ub Iwerks, right, with the character they created, Mickey Mouse. After Disney moved to Los Angeles to pursue movies, he convinced his friend Iwerks to come out and join him. Together with Walt Disney's brother Roy, in 1924 they started Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, which would become Walt Disney Studios, according to 'A Mouse Divided'
Walt Disney, right, was a hard worker and a dreamer. Ub Iwerks, left, stayed loyal to Disney after he lost his staff and his main cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Friends and business partners for years, together in March 1928, they created Mickey Mouse. Iwerks did every frame of Mickey's debut cartoon, 'Plane Crazy,' according to the book 'A Mouse Divided'
Mickey Mouse, above, in his 1929 cartoon called 'The Karnival Kid,' in which he was a hot dog vendor. It wasn't until the character's third film, 'Steamboat Willie,' released in November 1928, that Mickey became a star. Recently, a huge exhibition opened in New York City that celebrates the character's 90th anniversary, and many contemporary works were commissioned to reimagine the icon
Mickey Mouse, above, in 1929. Worldwide, he is one of the most recognizable cartoon characters
There are several different myths of how Mickey Mouse was forged. One of the most well-known tales is that Walt created Mickey on a train from New York to California after losing his star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, due to the fine print of its distributing deal with Universal.
'Rushing through the prairie states, he decides to replace the lost rabbit with a mouse, and draws Mickey on a pad,' Ryan wrote.
One legend went that the inspiration for Mickey came from a little mouse Walt had trained to do some tricks. In later iterations, the story expanded to Walt having a whole family of mice, according to the book.
Another anecdote was Walt drew his pet mice when writing letters to his six-year-old niece – who Ryan pointed out didn't exist then.
After debunking the myths, Ryan explained what actually happened in his book.
Charles Mintz at Universal, which had a distributing deal with Disney, had indeed lured Walt's staff – save Ub – away and pointed out that Universal actually owned Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
'In a single blow Walt lost his business, his friends, and his career,' Ryan wrote.
A new star was needed – and quickly. So, in March 1928, Ub and Walt started sketching different animals that included a dog, frog, horse and cow.
'Walt, who started off as an animator but hadn't drawn in years, tried his hand at a mouse. It was tall and gawky… But the idea was solid: the star should be a mouse,' Ryan wrote.
'Ub took a clean sheet of two-hole punch to brainstorm a more easily drawn mouse. Animation is all about efficiency; the fewer lines it takes to make a character, the better. He needed a caricature of a mouse, not a real mouse.'
Ub kept drawing the mouse – using circles because they were easier – and what emerged is what Ryan called 'ProtoMickey.'
'After drawing a body clad in shorts and shoes onto his final head, Ub had his mouse. The next drawing Ub made was of a finished creature. He circled it in blue pencil — success! Inside the blue circle was a shirtless mouse, with a round belly and skinny arms. He was wearing two-button shorts, the style worn by young boys. He's missing his shoes, and his ears are undersized, but that's Mickey Mouse,' according to the book.
Speaking with DailyMail.com, Ryan said that above story isn't what people wanted to hear as 'the great origin story of the great Mickey Mouse.'
'So over the years, Walt started to add to it because he was a great storyteller more so than he was a great truth teller. He didn't want people to leave disappointed.'
Walt Disney, above, seen with a sketch of Mickey Mouse. Disney, with his friend and partner Ub Iwerks, created the character in March 1928. At the time, Disney had lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit – and his staff – and needed a new star. Mickey's first three cartoons came out in 1928: 'Plane Crazy,' 'The Gallopin Gaucho,' and 'Steamboat Willie,' which would make the character a star
After the Mickey's success, Jeff Ryan, author of 'A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt,' told DailyMail.com, it changed Walt Disney. 'Walt didn't treat Ub with kindness, deference, or gratitude,' Ryan wrote in his book, and their partnership deteriorated
Ub Iwerks left Disney in early 1930, according to 'A Mouse Divided.' He then founded Iwerks Studio. Above, a still from the 1933 short film 'Ye Olden Days.' Mickey Mouse attempts to rescue his sweetheart Minnie Mouse, who is locked in a tower
Before the staff had jumped ship to Universal, they often played tennis together before work and after, would go to people's houses to drink and played cards.
Ub and Walt had been friends since they were teens, when they met at a commercial art studio in Kansas City in late 1919. Walt, just shy of 18, was going by 'Walter Diz' then – a hard worker who had already held many different jobs and lived with his older brother Roy, a banker, according to the book.
'Uptight Ub was an irresistible target for Diz's trickster side. Diz sometimes called Ub "the hillbilly" for his gullibility,' Ryan wrote. Ub, whose full name is Ubbe Eert Iwerks, was 18.
When they both lost their jobs at the commercial studio, Ryan wrote that Walt 'proposed that he and Ub go into business as their own two-man studio. Ub was the talent; Walt would be the hustler.'
Their first studio was a spare bathroom at a local newspaper.
It didn't last long, however, and soon after Walt landed another gig and got his boss to hire Ub where they made title cards for ads before silent films. Together, Walt and Ub sold their debut cartoon – a minute-long short – to a theater for 30 cents a foot, which is how animation was sold then, according to the book.
Always ambitious, Walt tried his hand at other ventures and by 1923 launched Laugh-o-Gram. Ub eventually worked with him again.
'Walt ended up borrowing thousands to keep his production chugging along. He lined up new investors to simply pay off existing investors. He snuck out of his office so he didn't have to pay back rent, and scribbled a new address on his business cards,' Ryan wrote.
Walt decided to leave Kansas City and headed to Los Angeles to make movies, according to the book, and was 'so broke he had to sell his camera for travel money.'
In 1924, Walt and Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Los Angeles, and Ub would soon follow them out West.
'Walt Disney would probably have gone bankrupt if it wasn't for his brother Roy Disney,' Ryan told DailyMail.com. 'Roy was the one who kept Disney going and once he did that, Walt had this seemingly endless funds of finance coming in so he could spend more and more money on each one of his animated projects.'
'That's one of the things that made Disney successful over all his other competitors over the years, he could simply outspend them and put more money up on screen and of course that meant more money came in for him and (his competitors) got bankrupt trying to replicate his success.'
Above, a still from the 1935 film, 'The Band Concert.' It was Mickey Mouse's first color cartoon. Ub Iwerks, who helped to design Mickey, had quit Disney and was running his own studio. But after Iwerks Studio went bankrupt, he went back to work at Disney in 1940, according to the book 'A Mouse Divided'
It is unclear how Iwerks ended back at Disney, according to 'A Mouse Divided.' 'It's telling that there was no press announcement that Ub Iwerks had returned to Disney. Ub was just another employee, after all, not the genius who brought Mickey Mouse to life,' author Jeff Ryan wrote. Above, Mickey Mouse is seen with Bobo the elephant
'Walt Disney was a genius and Ub Iwerks was a genius, but they were different sorts of geniuses,' Jeff Ryan, author of 'A Mouse Divided,' told DailyMail.com. Together, they created what would become one of the most enduring cartoon characters: Mickey Mouse. Above, Mickey Mouse is seen with Minnie Mouse in 1941's 'The Nifty Nineties'
A new exhibition that runs through February 10th is celebrating Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary. The large exhibition in New York City also commissioned new art that reimagined the iconic character. Above, Mickey Mouse is with Pluto in 1939's 'The Pointer'
In 1928, when Walt was pinning his hopes on Mickey, Ub worked by himself on the cartoon character's first film: 'Plane Crazy,' a silent film that was released on May 15 that year.
'Out of necessity, Ub flew solo on Plane Crazy as its lone animator. No in-betweening, no key poses. He did Every. Single. Frame. Much of this was accomplished via prodigious use of recycled animation,' Ryan wrote.
'I did all the animation for Plane Crazy: seven hundred drawings a day,' Ub recalled, decades later, pride still evident in his words, according to the book. 'I really extended myself. Five thousand drawings for a picture took four weeks to complete.'
In addition, Ub was putting $35 a week into the company's coffers, and owned one-fifth of the now named Walt Disney Studios, Ryan wrote.
In 'Plane Crazy,' Mickey Mouse takes a flight. The year before, Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. Mickey enlists his future sweetheart, Minnie Mouse, also in her debut, to fly with him. There is an unpleasant scene, Ryan noted, in which Mickey is forcing himself on Minnie.
'Mickey Mouse tries to take advantage of Minnie in his first appearance,' Ryan told DailyMail.com. 'And she fights back and that was par for the course for women in silent films back then. Like Theda Bara and Lillian Gish were always having people trying to force themselves on them and they would retain their honor and fight back.'
Hitler 'jealous' of Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney?
Adolf Hitler 'was reportedly a fan of early Mickey Mouse cartoons.'
But after 1929's 'The Barnyard Battle,' which featured 'villainous' German cats, the 'cartoon would only be aired after censors removed much of the cat-on-mouse violence,' Jeff Ryan explained in his book, 'A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt.'
'Hitler had a personal opposition to Mickey Mouse. A 1931 Nazi publication condemning the new fad said: 'Mickey Mouse is the shabbiest, most miserable ideal ever invented… healthy instinct should tell every decent girl and honest boy that those filthy, dirt-caked vermin, the greatest carriers of bacteria in the animal kingdom, cannot be made into an ideal animal type,' according to the book.
Speaking with DailyMail.com, Ryan said: 'I was surprised that (Hitler) was so jealous of Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney. And I think he could have followed the imagery and the ideas for how to propagate the Nazi party from what Walt was doing with the Mickey Mouse Club and by using the silhouette as a graphical representation. That stuff showed up but in this terrible, through mirror darkly way, because, you know, Nazis are basically the worst.'
'He took all the wonderful elements of Disney and dipped them in tar.'
'No one considered that Mickey Mouse would be the icon of goodness and childhood and civility so seeing that is really disconcerting to a modern audience.'
Ryan wrote that 'Plane Crazy' debuted to 'almost no fanfare,' but Walt was 'satisfied' with the audience's reaction to Mickey. Ub and the small staff then started on Mickey's second film, 'The Gallopin Gaucho,' and once it was completed, began work on his third film and the one that would make him a star: 'Steamboat Willie.'
In 1928, sound was a relatively new trend for film. Up until 'The Jazz Singer' in October 1927, there had been mostly no sound for dialogue, and the plot of the movie was sometimes relayed with title cards. Theaters often had a pianist or organist that accompanied the films with music.
For its well-known opening scene in 'Steamboat Willie,' Mickey can be heard whistling and the steamboat's whistles are blowing. Ub played two instruments and 'Walt handled the voices of Mickey and Minnie, picking a sheepish squeak for Mickey, and an even higher register for Minnie. This inauspicious performance would be the beginning of Mickey's falsetto, and of a sonic link between Walt and Mickey,' according to the book.
Premiering at the Colony Theatre on Broadway in New York City on November 18, 1928, audiences couldn't get enough of Mickey Mouse and the sound that came with it.
'Audiences loved their first film with 100 percent sound, and the little guy who caused so much ruckus… Mickey Mouse would be the biggest American star of 1929,' according to the book.
Mickey's success, however, changed Walt, Ryan said.
'There were many problems working with Walt, but at their core was a lack of respect. Walt didn't treat Ub with kindness, deference, or gratitude. He yelled, he bullied, he changed his mind in a heartbeat and blamed Ub for not keeping up,' Ryan wrote.
'The friendship was already over. The business partnership had already devolved into resentment. All that was left was to make it official, and tell the world that Ub Iwerks was not a whipping boy. Ub's son Dave summed it this way: "He'd begun as a partner, and was now an employee." '
In early 1930, Ub left Disney and founded his own animation studio.
'The person who shot Ub in the foot was ultimately Ub himself. He was working with Disney and 10 years of middling through made them best friends and business partners, but once they got successful with Mickey Mouse, it changed Walt,' Ryan told DailyMail.com.
'But in doing so he sold his 20 percent share in Disney. He would do anything to get rid of Walt Disney from his life. But that may have been the single worst business decision of the 20th Century because if he had held on, that 20 percent share, which he got $3,000 for, would be worth $32 billion nowadays.'
Ryan explained that Ub owned one-fifth of Disney, and while the market capitalization of the company does fluctuate, it is currently over $164 billion, according Yahoo! Finance.
The Walt Disney Company did not respond to requests for comment.
After Ub left Disney, he founded Iwerks Studio. By 1940, it was bankrupt and somehow Ub ended up back at Disney – it is unclear how it happened.
'It's telling that there was no press announcement that Ub Iwerks had returned to Disney. Ub was just another employee, after all, not the genius who brought Mickey Mouse to life,' according to the book.
Ub was first back at Disney as a technical supervisor for the Optical Print Department, but eventually was given the freedom to 'tinker with whatever he wanted… Over the years he became one of the world's greatest special effects technicians. Alfred Hitchcock even borrowed his talent to get some of the trick shots for 'The Birds.' If you saw something on screen back then you hadn't seen before, it was probably because of Ub Iwerks,' Ryan wrote.
Ub Iwerks died on July 7, 1971 at aged 70. Married to Mildred Henderson since 1927, Iwerks had two sons, one of which, Don, would also work for Disney. His granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks directed the 1999 documentary 'The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story.'
'Walt Disney was a genius and Ub Iwerks was a genius, but they were different sorts of geniuses. Ub was a technical genius, he could animate faster and better than anyone else but that was a learned skill and when Ub left, Walt was able to replace him with other people who could elevate the art better than Ub could,' Ryan explained.
'But Ub, on the other hand, didn't have the spark of joy and imagination that Walt did. So he was able to animate very fast and work for other animation companies but he could never animate something with the love that Walt put into his projects.'
'And that's ultimately why you know who Walt Disney is but you don't know who Ub Iwerks is.'


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The One True Love of Alice-Ann
by Eva Marie Everson
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Living in rural Georgia in 1941, sixteen-year-old Alice-Ann has her heart set on her brother's friend Mack; despite their five-year age gap, Alice-Ann knows she can make Mack see her for the woman she'll become. But when they receive news of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mack decides to enlist, Alice-Ann realizes she must declare her love before he leaves.
Though promising to write, Mack leaves without confirmation that her love is returned. But Alice-Ann is determined to wear the wedding dress her maiden aunt never had a chance to wear—having lost her fiancé in the Great War. As their correspondence continues over the next three years, Mack and Alice-Ann are drawn closer together. But then Mack's letters cease altogether, leaving Alice-Ann to fear history repeating itself.
Dreading the war will leave her with a beautiful dress and no happily ever after, Alice-Ann fills her days with work and caring for her best friend's war-torn brother, Carlton. As time passes and their friendship develops into something more, Alice-Ann wonders if she'll ever be prepared to say good-bye to her one true love and embrace the future God has in store with a newfound love. Or will a sudden call from overseas change everything?
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Everson (Five Brides, 2015) tells a classic 1940s coming-of-age war love story complete with soda shops, five-and-dimes, rationing, and German POWs. She brilliantly captures life in small-town America and the men who went to war, those who came back, and the women they left behind. Rich with prayer and Christian faith, Alice-Ann's characters are portrayed with soul-satisfying emotional vulnerability as they hit all the high notes of the aching of youth, the shock of loss, and the gentle surprise of falling in love again.
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Living in non-glamorous, small-town Georgia in the 1940s does nothing to satisfy 16-year-old Alice-Ann's longing for beauty and maturity. She wants to be seen as a woman and is in love with her brother's best friend, Mack; she plans on confessing her love to him. But when Pearl Harbor is attacked, the build-up of war stuns the town and puts her plans on hold. Mack enlists and promises to write, but never broaches the subject of his feelings for Alice-Ann, leaving her to wonder whether her love is returned. She savors his letters, and when news of his death reaches her, she struggles to let go of her childhood love. When her best friend's brother, Carlton Hillis, returns from the war badly injured, Alice-Ann becomes his caregiver, never expecting to care more deeply for him. As Mack's place in her heart slowly fades, or transforms, she receives an unexpected call from the Pacific that shakes her world and forces her to make a choice. Everson (Five Brides) beautifully captures the fickle, inexplicable nature of human emotion in this sob-inducing romantic tale.
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Michael Allen Fox
American/Canadian/Australian philosopher
(1940-05-07) 7 May 1940 (age 82)
American, Canadian, Australian
The Case for Animal Experimentation (1986)
Deep Vegetarianism (1999)
Michael Allen Fox (born 7 May 1940) is an American/Canadian/Australian philosopher who was based at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1966 until his retirement in 2005. He is the author of a number of books, including The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective (University of California Press, 1986)—the arguments and conclusion of which he later rejected—Deep Vegetarianism (Temple University Press, 1999), The Accessible Hegel (Humanity Books, 2005), The Remarkable Existentialists (Humanity, 2009), Understanding Peace (Routledge, 2014) and Home: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Career[edit]
Fox studied for a Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and then a Master of Arts and PhD at the University of Toronto. He began teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University in 1966, and remained at the institution until his retirement to Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, in 2005. He also took up visiting positions at the University of New England and the Australian National University. He was, in 1996, the University of Tasmania's James Martineau Memorial Lecturer. In addition to teaching at Queen's, he was the editor of Queen's Quarterly for a decade.[1][2]
Fox's first monograph was The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective, which was published by the University of California Press in 1986.[3] Fox had been unimpressed by Peter Singer's call for animal liberation in the latter's 1975 book, and had dismissed Singer's arguments about the wrong of speciesism. Fox then published a series of papers challenging Singer's ideas, and advised several organisations on animal experimentation.[4] In The Case for Animal Experimentation, Fox argues that, in many cases, invasive animal testing is ethically justifiable, and that the ethical challenges to it can be overcome. He also explores a number of experiments that have received particular criticism from critics, including some addressed by Singer. Much of the book is given over to an explanation and exploration of the place of animal testing in science. Despite his defence of animal testing, Fox closes the book with a series of recommendations for how the system could be improved. The book was widely reviewed,[5][6][7][8][9][10] and a paperback edition was released in 1988.[11]
Less than a year after the book's initial publication, Fox found himself "in radical disagreement with some of its major theses".[12] Fox published a paper in Between the Species retracting his arguments and offering a case against animal experimentation, describing The Case for Animal Experimentation as "an embarrassment" to him. Quoting his own words on human superiority, he wrote that he "now look[s] at these arrogant remarks with dismay". He reported that critical reviews and the comments of a personal friend had been able to awaken him from "dogmatic slumber" about human duties to animals.[4] Years later, Fox published a paper in Organization & Environment entitled "The Case Against Animal Experimentation", representing the "reversal of the view [he] once defended". This paper analysed and supplemented Joan Dunayer's critique of animal testing.[13]
After retracting his arguments in The Case for Animal Experimentation, Fox went on to author Deep Vegetarianism with Temple University Press in 1999.[14] In this book, Fox presents arguments in favour of vegetarianism, exploring its cultural and historical background and linking it with other progressive movements, especially feminist movements.[15][16][17]
In 2005, the same year as his retirement from Queen's, Fox published The Accessible Hegel, an introduction to the thought of G. W. F. Hegel, with the Humanity Books imprint of Prometheus Books.[18][19] Since his retirement, he has published The Remarkable Existentialists (2009, Humanity Books),[20] an introduction to the thought of several figures associated with existentialism,[21] and Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction in 2013 with Routledge.[22] In the latter book, Fox presents peace as a way of life and an ideal to be aimed for, asking the question of why humans engage in violent activity and what can be done to prevent violence.[23] In 2016, his Home: A Very Short Introduction was published as a part of the Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series.[24][25]
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In addition to his books, Fox has published over 20 book chapters, over 40 peer reviewed journal articles, over 40 book reviews and a range of other popular, academic and technical works.[2]
Fox, Michael Allen, ed. (1980). Schopenhauer: His Philosophical Achievement. Brighton, England: Harvester Press; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble.
Fox, Michael Allen, and Leo Groarke, eds. (1985). Nuclear War: Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang.
Fox, Michael Allen (1986). The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Fox, Michael Allen (1999). Deep Vegetarianism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
Fox, Michael Allen (2005). The Accessible Hegel. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books.
Fox, Michael Allen (2009). The Remarkable Existentialists. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books.
Fox, Michael Allen (2013). Understanding Peace. London: Routledge.
Fox, Michael Allen (2017). Home: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ "Michael Fox". Queen's University. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
^ a b "Professor Michael Fox". University of New England. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011.
^ Fox, Michael A. (1986). The Case for Animal Experimentation. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
^ a b Fox, Michael Allen (1987). "Animal experimentation: A philosopher's changing views". Between the Species 3 (2): 55–60, 75, 80, 82.
^ Cartmill, Matt (1986). "Animal rights and wrongs". Natural History. 95 (7): 66–9.
^ Watson, Richard A. (1986). "The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. Michael Allen Fox". Quarterly Review of Biology 61 (4): 526–528.
^ McGuire, Michael T. (1986). "Animals". JAMA. 256 (8): 1054–5.
^ Dawkins, Marian Stamp (1987). "The case for animal experimentation: An evolutionary and ethical perspective". Trends in Neurosciences. 10 (2): 97.
^ Richmond, Caroline (1986). "The case for animal experimentation". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 11 (10): 411–2.
^ Burke, Robert and Jerrold Tannenbaum (1986). "The ethics of animal research: Two views". The Scientist. 1 (1): 19–20, 22.
^ Fox, Michael Allen (1986). "Author reverses views on animal rights". The Scientist 1 (3).
^ Fox, Michael (2000). "The case against animal experimentation: Comments on Dunayer's 'in the name of science'". Organization & Environment. 13 (4): 463–7.
^ Fox, Michael Allen (1999). Deep Vegetarianism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
^ Lockie, Stewart, Jen Hayward, and Nell Salem (2002). "Book reviews". Agriculture and Human Values 19 (4): 361–3.
^ Goering, Sara (1999). "Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism". Ethics 111 (3): 632–4.
^ Philbrow, Anne (2000). "Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism". Philosophy in Review 20 (2): 103–5.
^ Fox, Michael Allen (2005). The Accessible Hegel. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books.
^ Bates, Jennifer (2007). "Michael Allen Fox, The Accessible Hegel". Philosophy in Review 27 (1).
^ Fox, Michael Allen (2009). The Remarkable Existentialists. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books.
^ Fairfield, Paul (2010). "Michael Allen Fox, The Remarkable Existentialists". Philosophy in Review 30 (1).
^ Fox, Michael Allen (2013). Understanding Peace. London: Routledge.
^ Harris, Ian (2015). "Matthew Allen Fox. Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2014." Peace & Change 40 (2): 276–8.
^ Fox, Michael Allen (2016). Home: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ "New book by Michael Fox". Queen's University. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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It's that time again when I struggle to control my emotions. I actually liked school and was fairly good at it, but there's something scary in the start of each new year. I am challenged with a new job and have been at it a week. I wanted to work in the schools and my dream came true. So why is it so difficult? Fear of the unknown is mostly what I have come up with.
Boy(man?)/22 is getting his meager belongings together to go back to school today. He has a furnished apartment and there is not much needed. He survives on next to nothing anyway. It's hard to know how one goes seemingly without food, shampoo, laundry soap, etc. I mean, he has access to these things, but comes back at the end of the year with them still in his car.
The high school boys start back Wednesday but have their first soccer games Monday and Tuesday. Marching band is in full rehearsal as well. Getting their physicals and registration fees and lunch accounts set up, I discovered I neglected the car registration on the boys' shared car. So much to keep track of. My head is spinning and my stomach churning. I'll let ya know when things calm down a bit but for now, I better get busy living.
These last few days before school/work starts are busy wtih appointments, errands, etc. Today I switched out cars with my parents. With the new commute, I felt a need to be comfortable so I will be driving a largish sedan rather than the rattle trap Corolla. More gas expense, but I hope it will save me some energy and be safer. I know, that sounds really stupid. So that involved transfering the junk in my trunk, license plates, title, registration, and notifying the insurance company. Insuring 3 young men is not a cheap proposition either.
I don't know how people live on one salary these days. The utilities and insurance are as much as a house payment. Supporting kids through college is another one. And there are now so many extraneous 'necessities' like cable and internet.
It was hotter than a marshmallow in a campfire today. Dejavu??
We departed on time with lunch packed and 9 aboard for Holiday World and Splashin' Safari, a huge theme park in the Hoosier National Forest. Sounds cool and comfortable doesn't it? Not so. It was death defyingly hot. Without the unlimited free drinks and sunscreen there would have been multiple heat strokes throughout the day (and that was just from me). The water park was not any relief at all as the water was all turned to jacuzzi temp and the lines for the slides 35-60 minutes long. The pavement was like walking over burning embers, there was no shade but we persevered. After about 3.5 hours we decided to try the amusement rides where maybe there would be some shade and shorter lines. The shade idea didn't really work out since it was still 110 degrees in the shade. We did ride the Voyage and it was the bad assest ride ever. The kids wanted to do it twice.
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June 25, 2019 / 8:19 PM / 23 days ago
Facebook gets Brazil fine for withholding WhatsApp data reduced to $6 mln
SAO PAULO, June 25 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's fine for withholding WhatsApp messaging from a drug-trafficking investigation in Brazil should be reduced to 23 million reais ($6 million), a Brazilian federal appeals court said on Tuesday.
The decision overturned a fine of around 2.035 billion reais ($528 million) imposed in June 2017, which was deemed disproportionate by the federal appeals court in a trial last Wednesday.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The world's largest social network has been struggling with legal troubles in Brazil in the last few years.
In 2016, a senior Facebook executive was kept in a Brazilian jail for nearly 24 hours in what the company considered "an extreme and disproportionate measure" resulting from a dispute over a court's demand that the company provide data from its WhatsApp service.
The messaging app also became the frontline in Brazil's bitter presidential race last year, after newspaper Folha de S.Paulo had reported that supporters of far-right candidate and eventual victor Jair Bolsonaro had funded mass messaging attacks against leftist rival Fernando Haddad. ($1 = 3.8550 reais) (Reporting by Gabriela Mello; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)


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Q: Is it possible to run multiple functions side by side in javascript even if they are not triggered at the same time? My script runs as follows:
//Gets triggered when a button is clicked
function button_1() {
    ...
    setTimeout(other_function(), 0);
    ...
}

//Checks if for hundreds of thumbnails a high-res version is available
function other_function() {
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        error: function() {
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    ...
}

I understand that when the function "button_1" is triggered it executes code until the function "other_function" is triggered. From that point on both functions run pseudo simultaneously. The problem I have now is, that the function "other_function" runs for a long time. While that function is running and the user triggers another function e.g. "button_2", then javascript finishes the function "other_function" first before it starts executing code within the function "button_2".
Since the function "other_function" does not have that high of a priority to the user it is more important that the website responds to input rather than finishing the function "other_function" first.
Is there a way to still execute code blocks from the function "other_function" but also mix code blocks from the function "button_2" in between, so they run side by side and the user does not have to wait until the function "other_function" has finished?
Thanks a lot for your help!

A: There are three possible ways to approach it, depending on what you mean by "side by side". If you are talking about actually simultaneously executing code, it can only be achieved by multithreading, because you can imagine code like a literal thread going through the CPU, traditionally also described as a "tape" ( because that's what it used to be ).
The only way to process simultaneously is by using multiple threads, multiple CPU cores instead of one. This way even if one thread takes a long time ( it blocks ), other threads are still being processed. The other advantage is that two threads are actually getting processed twice as fast, because you are using double the processing power ( or more, depending on how many threads you can use ).
Javascript has no multithreading support as it's simple by design. If you are writing Javascript for the browser your only choice is using the Web Workers API, nodejs has a very similar Cluster API in the standard library, as well a frameworks.
The second approach is called "subroutines", where rather than doing the entire expensive computation, you split it up into many small chunks and return control after every one of them, so other computations can be made ( for example handling of events ) between those chunks.
The third, the "asynchronous" approach is irrelevant for your problem. I'm just mentioning it because it's the best approach for many very similar looking problems. Instead of doing multiple computations side by side, people often just want functions to "wait for something". It's a completely different topic, but a very popular one to be confused about.

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A Look Back at the Top 5 Photo Trends of 2015
Which photo trends were most prevalent on social media platforms, really made an impression on us, and made us smile? Take a journey with us and learn more about what kinds of snapshots were most popular in 2015.
Photo trend: all kinds of selfies
Everyone's taken a selfie before and in 2015 the trend was especially popular. It's to no one's surprise, then, that the selfie trend began to take many new shapes and forms over the course of the year. While the main point of a selfie is usually to take a photo of oneself in front of beautiful scenery, feet became the main focus of selfies in 2015. Countless photos of bare feet can be found with the hashtag #Footsie on Instagram and other social networking websites. This was surely not a trend for everyone. Even the popular duck face trend abdicated in 2015 and made room for the fish gape selfie. To make a fish gape selfie, you no longer make pouty lips. Instead, you slightly open your lips like a fish and look directly into the camera. An indispensible tool for taking selfies which became much more popular in 2015 was the selfie stick. Thanks to its utilisation, another trend has also been established, namely the group selfie #Usie. Since the shooting angle is larger when using a selfie stick, it's possible to take a selfie of a lot more than just 2 or 3 people.
Photo trend: animals photographing themselves
Ever since the dawn of the Internet age, funny animal photos have become more and more of a popular trend online. 2015 saw another creative idea come about to showcase one's pet in the limelight. The simple yet funny idea was to take a photo of your pet as if it was taking a selfie of itself. To do this, people simply took the paw of the animal, pulled it towards the camera, and snapped the shot at the right moment to make their own pet selfie. This trend wasn't just popular to do with house pets in 2015; many people used drones or other methods to take snapshots of wild animals looking curiously into the lens.
Photo trend: fountain of youth
"Forever Young" isn't only a popular song by Bob Dylan from the 70's, but also a mantra of those who may be old in years, but young at heart. The desire to remain forever young can be seen in many photos taken in 2015. The goal here was to show the world that you don't have to act as old as your driver's licence says you are. This led to many older people doing things like taking a ride on a skateboard, dressing in trendy clothes, or even taking a selfie to send to the grandkids.
Photo trend: nostalgia
The trend of using tried and tested methods to do something, even when something new and better is available, is nothing new. This was especially true in 2015 with a larger demand of instant photos and Lomography cameras than in previous years. During the introduction of digital photography, sales figures of Polaroid cameras began to decline, however, the numbers have begun to rise again in recent years. New models and a better image quality are two arguments for using older photo technology. The train of thought here is not to take hundreds of photos from the same perspective, but to take one purposeful snapshot and to be able to instantly hold the end result in the palm of your hand. Even when editing photos, many people have gone back to the roots of photography and use black and white or sepia filters.
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Photo trend: moving pictures
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est un recueil de yonkomas créés par Usamaru Furuya, prépubliés dans le magazine Garo entre  et  et regroupés par l'éditeur Seirindō en un volume relié sorti en . La version française est éditée par les Éditions IMHO en un volume sorti en .

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Après avoir obtenu son diplôme à l'Université des beaux-arts Tama à vingt-quatre ans, Usamaru Furuya reprend son activité de dessinateur en parallèle d'un poste d'enseignant en arts plastiques. Ne se sentant pas capable de fournir un , il démarche la revue avant-gardiste Garo qui publie six mois plus tard ses premières œuvres. Comme il ne maitrise pas encore les techniques de découpage et de narration du manga, il choisit le format yonkoma, passant parfois entre 16 et 18 heures sur la même case. Ceux parus entre  et  sont rassemblés en un volume relié publié par l'éditeur Seirindō en   sous le titre Palepoli. Le recueil est réédité par Seirindō en 2000 et par Ohta Publishing en 2003.

La version française est éditée par les Éditions IMHO en un volume sorti le   et réédité en .

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Plusieurs critiques ont souligné l'aspect original de ces yonkomas expérimentaux. Pour Marius Chapuis, . Jason Thompson d'Anime News Network décrit l'œuvre comme une .

Lors d'un entretien avec l'artiste, le magazine Atom compare la subversion des  avec l'œuvre de Makoto Aida, qu'Usamaru Furuya préfère rattacher à Shintarō Kago, qui . Furuya invoque l'influence de l'architecture post-moderne, en vogue dans les années 1990, dans sa démarche de . Il poursuit ce registre expérimental en 2000 avec Plastic Girl, un manga publié dans le magazine culturel japonais Studio Voice dans lequel il utilise des supports tels que le bois, le vitrail ou la pierre.

Selon Actua BD, l'œuvre de Furuya , notamment à travers la figure de . Pour Roman Rosenbaum, cette . Le critique tempère toutefois l'aspect fantasmatique de cette représentation en citant la préface de Furuya à l'anthologie d'œuvres underground japonaises Secret Comics Japan de l'éditrice Chikao Shiratori, publiée en anglais par VIZ Media en 2000 : , et en conclut qu'il s'agit plus de légitimer la culture japonaise face à ces influences occidentales, tout en en admettant la fascination éprouvée pour la culture étrangère.

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Recueil de mangas
Manga des années 1990
Manga publié par IMHO

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Not one of our tasters enjoyed this cornbread take on the holiday favorite, with complaints about it being too dry, which the preparer (me) apologizes for if it was her fault. Other comments were just not very nice, so let's just move on.
Greige has been all the rage in home decor, but it's not too appealing when it's the color of your dressing. It just made the bland taste all the more upsetting.
"Rancid," "boring," "tastes like a dusty pantry" and "looks like dog food" were a few of the crueler comments this stuffing received from our tasters. Perhaps sage shouldn't be a tradition after all. At least not in the proportions used in this recipe.
This vegan-friendly stuffing had its fans, but overall our panel felt it was more like eating plain bread than dressing.
Decidedly different, this pork-flavored stuffing mix was a little on the salty side for most of our testers. This fact could have led to one of them calling it disgusting, but on the other hand, some peeps really enjoyed this more savory/meaty version of stuffing—hence its middle-of-the-pack status.
Why cubed bread deserves such special attention, we have no idea, but this stuffing is another place where our less-than-perfect onion dicing might have hindered public opinion. Basically its biggest crime is being boring, but really that just means you get to be a little more liberal with your gravy pour on Thanksgiving Day.
The tricky thing with this and the other Pepperidge Farm mixes on the list is that they call for onions and celery as part of the standard prep. So we may have made this a little onion heavy for some tastes, but overall, our tasters said this was a good, but ultimately meh, option.
Another middle-of-the-road choice, this mix was definitely the best of the cornbread versions we tried. However, we still weren't all that impressed: Some groaned that it had a weird color and texture.
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The whole-wheat variety JUST beat the original chicken flavor, but this classic still had its fans. There were some who felt the color was a little too yellow, which could turn off picky eaters, but this mix is used year-round for a reason, people.
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David Adedeji Adeleke (born November 21, 1992), better known by his stage name Davido is a Nigerian recording artist, performer, and record producer. Davido's 2011 single "Back When" was nominated for Best African Act at the 2012 BET Awards. He won Best New International Artist at the 2014 Channel O Music Video Awards.
In February 2015, Davido signed an international distribution deal with Sony Music through which his label HKN (The House of Hit) will be catering to Sony Music's R&B artists in Africa. He became the first-ever Nigerian musician to have over 1 million followers on Instagram.
Davido was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Chief Deji and Vero Adeleke. He has two brothers named Sina and Sammy. In January 2017, the singer announced his engagement to Chioma Avril Rowland.
Davido relocated from Washington DC to Lagos in 2011 where he met producer Tagoe at a family function. The duo went on to form HKN Music. On February 1, 2011 Davido self-released his debut album "Omo Baba Olowo" (translated into English means: "The Son of an Estate Agent or Broker"; a common euphemism for a wealthy man's son).
His stage name is an alternative way of spelling 'Oduduwa'. In September 2012, he signed a record deal with Sony Music. On May 19, 2013, Davido released "Gobe" as the lead single from his upcoming second studio album. The song peaked at number 1 on Pulse's Afrobeat chart for four consecutive weeks. It also reached general charts in Ghana and Senegal. Davido is currently signed to Sony Music Entertainment Africa (through Sony BMG).
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Davido Net Worth 2021
Davido is one of the richest musicians in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $25 million. His yearly salary is $13 million dollars and he has broken several records within his career. By 2022, Davido's net worth is expected to be $32 Million Dollars
Source Of Wealth: Singers/Musicians, Inheritance, Record Sales
Full Name: David Adeleke
Date of Birth: November 21, 1992
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia
Height: 6 ft (1.83 m)
Eye Color: Brown – Dark
Ethnicity: Nigerian
Nationality: Nigerian/American
Son Of: Chief Deji & Vero Adeleke
Education: University Of Oxford
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer
Net Worth: $25 Million Dollars
Annual Income: $13 Million Dollars
Houses: London UK, Abuja & Lekki Nigeria
Awards: BET Awards (Best African Act), Channel O Music Video Awards (Best New International Artist)
Nominations: Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Next Big Thing – Male , MTV Europe Music Awards (Artist To Watch) Justin Bieber Roast By Kevin Hart (Video of the Year) YouTuber of the Year Award at The Headies 2016.
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More About Davido's Charities
Davido supports various charity organizations around the world. He donated money for charities like Davido Music Worldwide DMW Charity Foundation to support people living with cancer, sickle cell anemia, and other terminal diseases. He also joined hands with United Nations UNAIDS to help end HIV Aids in Nigeria. His charity song is yet to be released but he has featured on several songs which are all available on iTunes.
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Before becoming a singer, David was actually interested in becoming an Architect(which is his first degree). He went to study Architecture at the prestigious University Of Oxford, England but later dropped out after he started to make money from music.
His real name isn't actually Davido (David Adeleke) it's Oluwatobiloba (Oluwatobiloba Daniel Adeleke).
He has 2 brothers and 1 sister who are also very successful in their different careers like Kola (Kolapo Daniel Adeleke), Tomi (Damilare Sonoiki) & Yetunde (Solape Olatunji).
His dad Chief Deji Adeleke was Nigeria's number one billionaire property developer of 2016.
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Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
43 Pages Posted: 10 Jun 2005 Last revised: 5 Jun 2022
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Matias Iaryczower
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
Pablo T. Spiller
University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group
Mariano Tommasi
Universidad de San Andres - Department of Economics
Date Written: May 2005
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislative lobbying, and find that lobbying falls the more divided the legislature is on the relevant issues. We apply this framework to analyze supreme court labor decisions in Argentina, and find results consistent with the predictions of the theory.
Iaryczower, Matias and Spiller, Pablo T. and Tommasi, Mariano, Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation (May 2005). NBER Working Paper No. w11317, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=721105
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Seacow
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My experience with the shoegaze genre goes as deep down the rabbit hole as Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine and The Smashing Pumpkins - so, not very deep. And I wonder is this my own fault—a lack of musical due diligence—or is it a product of underexposure in musical criticism? I suspect it's a mix of both. The genre, like emo, has branched into various musical trees.
Finding a band near the roots of shoegaze is rare. Plenty of current bands are utilizing distorted, droning guitars and hazing atmosphere to create a layered, amorphous sound (i.e., Hammock, some Portugal. The Man and Pikul-era Silversun Pickups), but it's never the center of their music. UK-based Seacow, though harken back to the genre's golden age, and their debut album Calf is a foggy overture in what shoegaze in the 2010's can and should be.
Fronted by chief songwriter and guitarist Martin Soloman, Seacow is the antithesis of the up-beat, energetic music emanating from young bands in big city's here in the US. Soloman's guitar is drenched in ethereal effects and his voice rarely changes register as he lulls listeners into a sonic daze. The band is comprised of Soloman, Darren Gibbs (bass) and Matt Badger (drums), and showed a knack for crafting introspective, ambient music with their Steller Has Gone e.p. but it had no sense of cohesion. They'd yet to see the forest for the trees. Less than a year later, their sound seems fully realized.
Calf is very much a sum of its parts. Listeners should absorb the full-length through repeated listens instead of trying to pick favorite tracks. There are no true "singles" here. The album as a whole is one big, foggy daydream—distinguishing moments oscillate with each listen.
Each song can fit in one of two camps: plodding, spacehead numbers ("Operation Mincemeat," "So Cold" and "Farmer Farm") or relatively up-tempo jams ("Toxo," "Jed" and "Break Point"). It's all dream-dripping Neo-psychedelia reminiscent of Angelo Badamenti's Twin Peaks score, and it's all fantastic.
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It is one of those questions; "How are you feeling today?" that is like looking out to sea - you pinpoint one wave of emotion or feeling before that is swamped by another feeling and then it becomes a confusing picture of how exactly do you feel right now in this moment.
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We report that the Corynebacterium ulceribovis strain IMMIB L-1395T (= DSM 45146T) is an aerobic to facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from the skin of the udder of a cow, in Schleswig Holstein, Germany. The cell wall of C. ulceribovis contains corynemycolic acids. The cellular fatty acids are those described for the genus Corynebacterium, but tuberculostearic acid is not present. Here we describe the features of C. ulceribovis strain IMMIB L-1395T, together with genome sequence information and its annotation. The 2,300,451 bp long genome containing 2,104 protein-coding genes and 54 RNA-encoding genes and is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Type Strains, Phase I: the one thousand microbial genomes (KMG) project.
Yassin, Atteyet F., Lapidus, Alla, Han, James, Reddy, T. B. K., Huntemann, Marcel, Pati, Amrita, Ivanova, Natalia, Markowitz, Victor, Woyke, Tanja, Klenk, Hans-Peter, and Kyrpides, Nikos C. High quality draft genome sequence of Corynebacterium ulceribovis type strain IMMIB-L1395T (DSM 45146T). United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0036-7.
Yassin, Atteyet F., Lapidus, Alla, Han, James, Reddy, T. B. K., Huntemann, Marcel, Pati, Amrita, Ivanova, Natalia, Markowitz, Victor, Woyke, Tanja, Klenk, Hans-Peter, & Kyrpides, Nikos C. High quality draft genome sequence of Corynebacterium ulceribovis type strain IMMIB-L1395T (DSM 45146T). United States. doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0036-7.
Yassin, Atteyet F., Lapidus, Alla, Han, James, Reddy, T. B. K., Huntemann, Marcel, Pati, Amrita, Ivanova, Natalia, Markowitz, Victor, Woyke, Tanja, Klenk, Hans-Peter, and Kyrpides, Nikos C. Wed . "High quality draft genome sequence of Corynebacterium ulceribovis type strain IMMIB-L1395T (DSM 45146T)". United States. doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0036-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256929.
Bacteroides barnesiae Lan et al. 2006 is a species of the genus Bacteroides, which belongs to the family Bacteroidaceae. Strain BL2T is of interest because it was isolated from the gut of a chicken and the growing awareness that the anaerobic microbiota of the caecum is of benefit for the host and may impact poultry farming. We report that the 3,621,509 bp long genome with its 3,059 protein-coding and 97 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Type Strains, Phase I: the one thousand microbial genomes (KMG) project.


Mary's been working hard lately looking for locationless caches. This evening we went after a couple of them. The first one we looked for was something that had the word "Cache" in it's name.
7289 Steps Today - 3.33 miles.