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Afterbirth: DC's "Rebirth" initiative, week one
Batman: Rebirth #1 by Scott Snyder, Tom King, Mikel Janin and June Chung
Outgoing Batman writer Scott Snyder fairly literally hands the reigns over to incoming Batman writer Tom King in this special, designed to show off at least one big change in the Batman status quo. That is the addition of Duke Thomas into Batman's innermost circle.
Thomas, if you haven't been keeping abreast of the goings-on in Gotham, was first introduced as a little kid in Snyder and pencil artist Greg Capullo's "Zero Year" storyline, in which he helped rescue Batman and keep him safe, all the while studying in the hopes of becoming smart enough to save the city from The Riddler. He was a popular candidate for the new Robin when current Robin IV Damian Wayne was (temporarily, it turned out) dead, in no small part because he was black, which would have made him the first black Robin (and the most prominent person of color in Batman's orbit–Orpheus, Onyx and the two Batwings never really caught on).
He was Robin in the alternate future of Future's End, and a Robin in the pages of Snyder's "Superheavy" story arc and the short-lived We Are Robin series. When we last saw Thomas, he was pretty close to Robin III Tim Drake in many respects: A very smart kid who figured out Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne's secret identities and, thanks to the events of "Endgame," temporarily without his parents.
In this comic, he does not become Robin.
That's probably a good thing, given all the Robins there are at the moment, but what role is he going to play? I'm not sure. Batman has his "official" Robin in Damian, he has a team of sidekicks that are being trained in the pages of the upcoming Detective Comics, and he has one, maybe two Pennyworths (I lost track of Julia Pennyworth) working as his partners.
That, like what bat-related codename King might attach to Thomas, remains to be seen.
What is seen here is a few updates on the status quo embedded in a story of Batman vs. a minor supervillain. We see Thomas accept "the offer," we see a two-handed Alfred, we learn that Bruce Wayne has his fortune and mansion back and we see how Batman and Whoever-Duke-Will-Be will work together in the field.
We also see a lot of Janin's excellent artwork applied to the world of Batman. It took me a while to warm up to Janin's realistic style, but I got there during his run with King and Tim Seeley on Grayson. His very detailed style makes the backgrounds worth paying attention to, even poring over (in the case of a Batcave spread), he makes his Bruce Wayne ever bit as sexy as his Dick Grayson (there's a gratuitous shirtless sequence in which Bruce is doing one-armed pull-ups while dangling off the top of Wayne Tower and conducting a meeting; as someone who can only manage two-and-a-half two-armed pull-ups, that freaked me right the hell out) and he even makes elements of the new Batman costume that defeat some talented artists (note Ethan Van Sciver's version of the giant, vaguely bat-shaped utility belt in DC Universe: Rebirth #1) look cool.
The super-villain here is Calendar Man, who still looks like The New 52 version which, you may recall, I hated–both in look as well as in origin.
Snyder and/or King give him a new twist, though, and while I don't really care for it–it's the sort of revision that would work fine in an adaptation to a different medium or an out-of-continuity story, it's just not necessary in-universe–it's something at least, and makes him a lot more interesting than the version previously introduced into the New 52.
It's also hella gross.
This was an all-around good Batman comic then, and an intriguing introduction to the "Rebirth" Batman...although if you liked this, there's no indication you'll like what comes next. That last panel includes a box reading "Next: BATMAN #1! By Tom King & David Finch"
So the ongoing Batman will feature work by half of the special's writing team and artwork by an entirely different artist whose style is nothing like that of Janin (and, by the way, generally terrible in terms of quality).
I won't be reading Batman (not until the trade collection shows up at my local library anyway; I can force myself to read Finch, but I don't want to pay for him or bring him into my home), but the Duke Thomas plot certainly interests me.
There's another box letting readers know that Snyder will next show up in August, with All-Star Batman #1, featuring artwork by John Romita Jr. and Declan Shalvey.
And as for Janin, he has been announced as the other Batman artist, so maybe he and Finch will be trading off story arcs.
Green Arrow: Rebirth #1 by Benjamin Percy and Otto Schmidt
Green Arrow Oliver Queen was a character that was particularly ill-served by the hard reboot of 2011's New 52, as he was a character with a particularly dramatic, decades-long story arc, and a character that had become all but defined by his long-standing relationships with other DC characters. He was a long-time Justice Leaguer (his entire tenure was reduced to an ill-fated try-out in The New 52), he had a long-time romantic relationship with fellow Leaguer Black Canary (whom he has now barely ever met), he was best buds with Green Lantern Hal Jordan (ditto), frenemies with Hawkman (ditto), former partners with his sidekick Speedy Roy Harper (who in The New 52 may or may not have ever even been Speedy, but apparently has worked with Ollie at some point as Arsenal) and the father of Connor Hawke, who also took up the mantle of Green Arrow (and who doesn't exist in The New 52).
Shorn of his history and relationships, what was left was a "Year One" version of Green Arrow, and what is his essential characteristic? He's an archer who wears the color green, a Batman clone with a Robin Hood theme rather than a bat theme, a spoiled rich guy who taught himself archery on an island and returned to his hometown to fight crime. It's not an accident that he was created in the early 1940s, but didn't really stick after the post-Silver Age superhero renaissance outside of team-ups and Justice League books, his most successful run being the Mike Grell-driven one in which he was reinvented as an urban bowhunter of men.
I don't know if it was the difficulty of finding a there there for the character that so troubled his New 52 relaunch, but his first creative team lasted all of three issues, and his second creative team lasted only three more. In fact, The New 52 Green Arrow suffered the most creative chaos of any of the New 52 books to not be cancelled and/or relaunched throughout the course of its four-years and change existence as a line.
The New 52 Green Arrow spanned 54 issues (counting #1-#52, plus issues numbered #0 and a #23.1), and in that time the title had seven writers or writing teams and nine pencil artists. The writers averaged 7.7 issues a piece, while the pencil artists averaged 6.1 issues. Ideally, DC would have cancelled the book a long time ago, but kept it going because the CW has a TV show based on the character, and, in fact, one of the show's producers came on to write it briefly (six issues), and attempts to tie it closer to the TV show, like introducing characters original to the show, were made.
Personally, I tried a couple of issues, but I don't think I ever made it all the way through a single issue, certainly not in a single sitting. One of the longest-running creative teams involved, for example, was that of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino, but I can't stand Sorrentino's artwork, which generally features interesting, show-y lay-outs, but photorealistic artwork that I find aesthetically repulsive.
So, by that probably too-idiosyncratic metric, this qualifies as the very best Green Arrow comic I've read since at least the beginning of The New 52, as it is the first I've managed to read all of the way through in a single sitting. (Actually, out of curiosity, I just checked, and I think the last issue of a Green Arrow comic I read was either #51 or #52 of the 2001-launched series; the former featured an Anarky team-up and a James Jean cover, the latter a Zatanna team-up and a Cliff Chiang cover.)
Writer Benjamin Percy, who was actually the last of those seven writers on the previous volume of the series, can only do so much to restore some of what Green Arrow has lost, but he adds two things I like: The goatee and Black Canary. Actually, Ollie starts with a full-beard, but decides to clean up shortly after meeting Canary and a street kid in trouble and bringing them back to his penthouse apartment, trimming it down to a goatee.
Geoff Johns devoted a chapter of DC Universe: Rebirth to the fact that the New 52-iverse had lost love, and, during that chapter, had Green Arrow and Black Canary both lock eyes and then both feel like they were missing something.
Here Percy avoids any of those cosmic business, but it becomes pretty clear that they each see something in the other. It's a pretty basic team-up, as they find themselves working the same case and bickering a bit, although ultimately they find they work effectively together. is counting on reader familiarity with the characters and their past, if not bringing up Doctor Manhattan and Pandora and Flashpoint.
The case involves sinister, not-quite-human seeming creatures involved in auctioning off homeless people, an element of which is pretty damn tired (I can't tell you how many superhero comics I've read in which villains prey upon the homeless and point out that they are the perfect prey because for all intents and purposes, society doesn't even admit they exist). That's a lot less interesting than the character interactions, in which Canary seems to be playing devil's advocate to the conflicted Green Arrow, who wants to stand up to "the man" even if he is the man. Deliberately or not, their banter reminded me of Denny O'Neill's hard-travelling heroes take on Green Arrow and Green Lantern, only here Canary is in the Arrow role and Arrow in the Lantern role.
I liked art quite a bit, and it looks close enough to that of Annie Wu (who was drawing Black Canary) that I can imagine fans of that series liking the way this book looks, and even how it reads. I'm not crazy about GA's current costume, but with the hood, domino mask and goatee, he at least looks more like himself than he has in a good long time. Schmidt draws both it and Canary's slightly tweaked non-costume costume well.
By the time I reached the last page, I did find myself wondering if DC should have entitled this comic Green Arrow/Black Canary, as they seem to have equal prominence in this first issue at least. It's not like they need a comic just called "Green Arrow" on the shelves because of the TV show, since that isn't called "Green Arrow," but just plain old Arrow.
The Percy/Schmidt creative team is scheduled for the ongoing. I probably won't read this monthly, but only because I'm transitioning into collections as much as possible, rather than because of any objections to the quality.
Green Lanterns: Rebirth #1 by Geoff Johns, Sam Humphries, Ethan Van Sciver, Ed Benes and Jason Wright
Sam Humphries, who will be writing the upcoming Green Lanterns title, is here joined by long-time Green Lantern writer Geoff Johns, who created the title characters, Simon Baz (Earth's fifth Green Lantern, during his New 52 Green Lantern run) and Jessica Cruz (Earth's sixth, but first female, who just got a GL ring in the pages of Justice League, where she has been going by the codename Power Ring and wearing an Earth-3 green ring). There's also a sizable (and wordy!) framing sequence involving a Guardian, a secret rainbow weapon and Red Lanterns Atrocitus, Bleez and Dex-Starr.
The script hums along at a quick pace; this issues is fast and efficient in introducing the portentous threat, re-introducing our two protagonists and their personal conflicts (Baz suffers from prejudice because of his race and religion and has a chip on his shoulder, Cruz is an agoraphobic) and then set up the book's premise.
Their rings call them out to the desert, where they meet Green Lantern Hal Jordan. He tells them he's going to be busy on the other side of the universe with the Corps for a while, so they will need one another, and so he smooshes their power batteries together, essentially forcing them to be Green Lanterns together. He then re-introduces them to the Justice League (Baz fought them once, Cruz was on the team) and tells them that the League will help train them, and off he flies.
It feels very much like Johns-era Green Lantern, and despite the fact that Baz seems a bit more petulant and new here than he did last time we saw him (which seems like forever ago now), these are two very appealing characters who I'll enjoy spending time with, I think. Additionally, Humphries has proved himself a hell of a writer elsewhere, so here's hoping whatever dysfunction that goes on behind-the-scenes at DC that drains the spirit of fun from their super-comics doesn't break him.
The artwork is surprisingly strong, too. Van Sciver's figures look as stiff and posed as always, but they also look as detailed and, well, heroic as always too. Benes draws ten pages, the middle of the book. He handles the scenes of the two leads out-of-costume, and then their initial meeting and a brief fight with a robot. While his figures still fall into one of two categories–male and female–he avoids any of the bizarre, forced cheesecake he has inserted into everything he's drawn before. Visually then, this is not that bad at all, and certainly could have been much worse.
The last page, a splash revealing the Red Lanterns lounging on a pile of skulls, says "To Be Continued in Green Lanterns #1." That will be written by Humphries, but drawn by Robson Rocha. Van Sciver will join artist Rafa Sandoval and writer Robert Venditti on Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps, which launches in July. I don't think Benes has an ongoing "Rebirth" assignment, or, if he does, I've forgotten it.
I would have to see Rocha's artwork before committing, but I could see myself reading this series.
Although I did just notice that Eddie Berganza is the group editor on this book, which made me feel a little gross when I saw his name in the credits. Whether Berganza edits a book or not wouldn't affect whether I review a book or not, nor how I review it, but it certainly makes me stop and think when it comes to buying a book. Having to think about alleged sexual harassment at the beginning of a superhero adventure comic sort of taints the entire reading experience, you know...?
Superman: Rebirth #1 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Dough Mahnke and Jaime Mendoza
Of the four Rebirth specials released this week, this is the only one that focuses at all on the continuity rejiggering that turned the post-Crisis DCU into The New 52, the subject of DC Universe: Rebirth. That is pretty much by necessity too, since the Superman franchise is the one that has been most confused by the reboot and last week's attempts to re-reboot continuity back to where it was before the reboot (Man, even talking about the continuity screwing-around-with is confusing).
As you may know, Superman had his secret identity revealed to the world last June, during which time he lost and then regained his powers...and, just a few weeks ago, he died. But there's a spare Superman laying around, as last year's Convergence event imported another Superman, another Lois Lane and their son Jonathan into The New 52-iverse, where they have been in hiding for 5-8 years now under assumed names.
So the Superman fix seems easy, right? Just make the other Superman the new Superman. This has problems, though, none of which are addressed here. First is the secret identity issue; the world knows that Superman is Clark Kent, and that both are now dead (Right? Did I miss an issue where they somehow made Superman's secret identity secret again, as they did with Dick Grayson's in the last issue of Grayson), which means the new Superman can't reclaim the name Clark Kent.
Secondly, there are two Lois Lanes, The New 52 Lois Lane and the one from the pre-Flashpoint universe. They have different hair colors and the older Lois Lane has a different name, but she's the "real" Lois, or at least the real-er Lois, right...?
And, thirdly, this means that the current Superman is much, much older than all of his peers, like Batman and Wonder Woman. According to DC Universe: Rebirth, The New 52 is ten years younger than the pre-Flashpoint DCU, and the New 52 has been around for five years (as per Justice League #1), but more likely seven years (as two years passed in Batman), or even eight years, as we just saw 10-year-old Damian Wayne celebrate his 13th birthday in Rebirth.
So if one of the main goals of The New 52 reboot was to make the characters younger, then the new direction for Superman is a complete 180: He's a good 6-9 years older than he was (having also spent a year on the planet Telos before arriving in The New 52-verse 5-8 years ago), making him 16-19 years older than his fellow Justice Leaguers...and he's married (one of the things The New 52-boot specifically undid so as to make him seem younger and to open up new story possibilities, which just meant "date Wonder Woman" in practice)...and he has a kid.
That third point is really just an irony I thought I'd point out. The first two are story problems, and as to how they'll be worked out, the writing team of Tomasi and Gleason, who will also be writing the ongoing "Rebirth" version of Superman, don't address those at all here.
The older Superman, distinguishable by a cape-less black suit with a white S and a beard, visits the memorial of the younger, now dead Superman and narrates to his fallen doppelganger, recapping the events of Superman #52. And then hears something underground, and discovers Lana Lang attempting to steal the body. Lana is trying to fulfill her promise to Clark to bury his remains next to his parents in Smallville, while Bearded Superman wanted to steal the body to stick in a Kryptonian Regeneration Matrix, and bring this Superman back to life in the same way he was brought back to life.
This involves he and Lana having a rather intense heart-to-heart, and his telling her about the time he died and came back to life (this leads to a beautifully drawn seven-page sequence recounting "The Death of Superman" and a scene from "Reign of The Supermen"). I could quibble here, as it was pretty damn clear from the original stories that Superman wasn't dead-dead, simply completely exhausted of all solar energy in a way that made him appear lifeless until he was recharged by the matrix, whereas The New 52 Superman is apparently so dead that he's ashes in a canister that Lana is carrying around, but then, DC seems to have rather gradually retconned Superman's death into an actual death-death over the years.
So Lana and Bearded Superman visit the Fortress of Solitude, where the latter learns that there is no Regeneration Matrix in this continuity, and that New 52 Superman may actually be dead and gone forever.
As I said, this doesn't really answer any of the questions about how to resolve the mess of The New 52, but it at least makes clear that the new Superman will be the old Superman (The Comics Alliance headline "Everybody Is Hawkman" rattled around my skull a lot while reading this issue). This issue is really then little more than a emotional transition from the old status quo (i.e. The New 52) to the new status quo ("Rebirth"). What it does accomplish is show off how great Mahnke's art is, and how much better he's become since the last time he was regularly drawing the adventures of Superman.
The next issue boxes simply refer to the next issues of Superman and Action by number, with no mention of creators, but there are plenty of ads in this issue to let readers know what is going on in which Superman Family book–Superman, Action Comics, New Super-Man, Superwoman and Supergirl–and by all appearances we have a sort of 21st Century answer to "Reign of the Supermen," with Lex Luthor, Lois Lane and a new, Chinese character all attempting to fill-in for the late Superman, while the old Superman will clearly be the new Superman.
Confusing? Yes. But these new books all look and sound pretty good, from a Gene Luen Yang-written Super-Man book, to a Phil Jimenez Superwoman book to DC finally–finally!–getting their shit together enough to release a Supergirl comic to sell to fans of the Supergirl TV show (which, of course, is now between seasons).
All of the Superman Family books look promising, although I'm not sure how I want to proceed with reading them. As enamored as I am with the comic book format, I've recently been forced to reorganize my comics midden, and I'm thinking that putting trades on bookshelves is a hell of a lot easier than bagging, boarding and filing comic books in longboxes...
Oh. And this is also an Eddie Berganza joint, so, you know, you can feel gross while reading this one too...!
Posted by Caleb at 8:24 PM
Labels: DC Rebirth 2016
This all hurts my head. I love the DC characters but I can't stand what Johns, Didio, and Lee have done with them during their respective tenures, especially Johns' obsession with fetishizing continuity porn. I love the DCEU films but stuff like this makes me pessimistic for his increased involvement in their production.
Golden Bat?
There are such things in South America, and when I searched online I discovered that there was once a rather macabre Japanese manga hero who used that name, but may still be subject to IP that would cause problems.
I just find it fascinating that DC (and we, in all likelihood) feel a necessity to create a continuity context for all the changes, rather than just restarting things by stating "this is the new normal."
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Welcome to John B. Cary Elementary School where we take pride in our students and their academics. Our focus for this year is ensuring that we are the (W.R. I.T. E) school. This means that our daily instruction will consist of writing and reading incorporated together everday.
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RPS to be Closed on Monday, January 27
Dear RPS Family, I'm reaching out to share an important change in our school calendar: RPS will be CLOSED on Monday, January 27. Please allow me to explain. On that day, the Virginia Education Association (VEA) is hosting a "Fund Our Future" rally at the State Capitol to advocate for increased school funding. Based on data we collected last week, it appears that nearly 700 (about a third) of our teachers will be taking personal leave to participate in the VEA rally. We are proud that so many of our educators will be turning out to advocate for RPS and all of Virginia's public schools. Unfortunately, however, it is simply not possible to secure enough substitutes for this many classrooms. As a result, non-participating teachers would face unreasonable class sizes that would make meaningful instruction nearly impossible and potentially create significant safety concerns. Given this – and after conferring with the School Board – I have decided to close RPS on Monday, January 27. Click the link above to read the rest of this letter.
RPS Awarded Four Electric Buses from Dominion Energy
Richmond Public Schools (RPS) is set to receive four electric school buses as part of Dominion Energy Virginia's Electric school bus deployment. Earlier this school year, RPS applied for the first phase of Dominion Energy Virginia's Electric school bus initiative. This initial phase aims to have 50 buses fully operational within their service territory by the end of 2020.
RPS Launches RPS en Español
Richmond Public Schools is proud to announce RPS en Español, a new initiative to inform, empower, and share information and resources with our growing Spanish- speaking community.
Parents + Attendance = Student Success
The PASS docket, a new RPS and Richmond Juvenile Court initiative, aims to lower chronic absenteeism across the division by connecting students and families with wraparound supports while enforcing school attendance through the legal system.
Seven RPS Teachers Honored with the 2019 R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence
Seven Richmond Public School teachers were recently honored with the prestigious R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence during a ceremony at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
RPS Launches New Crossing Guard Pilot Program
"While the focus is on the safety of our students and families, we are also very intentional about creating safe and loving school environments through this pilot," said RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras. "Each crossing guard from the program works at that school, so they are already familiar with the school community, which empowers them to continue to build on their relationships with students and families."
Home Visits Initiative Builds Trusting and Meaningful Relationships with Families
"Our parents are experts on their children. We believe that parents and teachers are co-educators, each just as important as the other," said Dr. Shadae Harris, RPS Chief Engagement Officer. "All families have the ability to assist their child in their academic success and high impact family engagement strategies, such as home visits, can happen in everyone's home."
RPS Administrators Attend Trauma-Responsive Leadership Training
"In alignment with Dreams4RPS, this training is a significant step for our division in ensuring that our teachers, support staff, and administrators have the skills necessary to effectively and compassionately serve all of our students who may have been impacted by trauma," said Harry Hughes, RPS Chief of Schools. "Through a thorough understanding of trauma-responsive practices, coupled with our deep care and commitment to our students, we can work together to minimize the impact that this stress has on their lives so that they can focus their minds on learning."
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Sunderland prisoner of war veteran Len Gibson dies aged 101
Jungle war veteran Len Gibson has died aged 101 – just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life.
Len, from Sunderland, endured three and a half nightmare years of forced labour, monotonous near-starvation diet, disease and brutality as a Japanese prisoner of war.
After the war Len forged a career as a teacher in Sunderland schools. He died in hospital on Saturday.
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On Tuesday a book based on his memoirs was due to be launched at the Newcastle headquarters of the cancer patient care charity Daft as a Brush, which Len supported.
Amid his wartime ordeal Len and his fellow captives drew comfort from the guitar he made from waste wood and wire.
In the introduction to the book, musician, songwriter and record producer Dave Stewart describes how Len and his guitar inspired him to take the path which led him to co-found the Eurythmics and pursue a long and successful musical career.
Len slaved on the infamous Burma-Siam "Death" Railway and the Mergui Road, built in Burma by PoWs and Asian labour which the Japanese army used as a means of retreat in 1945 as British and American forces advanced.
He suffered nearly 30 separate bouts of malaria, dysentery, typhus, beriberi, tropical ulcers and abscesses.
A scant "diet" of poor rice, tea, and a "stew" which was little more than flavoured water, plus beatings and intense labour in stifling heat, reduced Len to six stones in weight.
After being hospitalised on his return to Sunderland, Len met his future wife Ruby, who was a nurse, and they spent 70 happy years together.
Len Gibson with his wife Ruby
Daft as a Brush founder Brian Burnie said: "After returning to Sunderland, Len became a teacher and continued to serve the community for decades. He is the greatest gentleman I have ever met and I felt the story of his life had to be told and recognised through the book.
"The book is a celebration of his life and now has even more meaning. It will be lasting memorial to a man who helped an unbelievable number of people over the decades."
Proceeds from the book, titled Len Gibson: A Wearside Lad in World War II, will go towards helping cancer patients served by the charity.
Len published a version in 2005 but it had since been largely forgotten, and was revised, improved and updated by Daft as a Brush.
"It was an honour and a labour of love for the team to work on updating and re-publishing Len's book, which is also a tribute to the men who served with him," said Mr Burnie.
From the age of nine, Dave Stewart's home in Ettrick Grove, Sunderland, was one house away from that of Len and he became friendly with Len's son David.
Len pictured during his war days
(Image: North News and Pictures)
Dave said: "As I was growing up I would often visit the Gibsons. One day Len picked up a guitar and played it in a magical way – a certain kind of rhythm I'd never heard before. It was like an epiphany.
"I became interested in how to play guitar and would ask Mr Gibson to play so I could see his fingers move on the fretboard and watch his other hand strumming.
"After everything Mr Gibson had been though, the fact that music kept him and others alive, pouring a sense of hope into a seemingly hopeless situation, is a mind-blowing feat of strength and to this day almost impossible for me to comprehend.
"Len Gibson's way of playing and singing through adversity is an example I have followed. I cannot explain how much Len and David's enthusiasm for life and music has influenced but I am full of gratitude and those moments hearing music played in the Gibsons' front room I will never forget."
Len was born in Sunderland on January 2, 1920. In early 1939 he was taking night classes at Sunderland Technical College and working during the day at the town's Binns factory.
Len volunteered for a TA artillery regiment and after the outbreak of hostilities, Len, accompanied by his banjo and his regiment, set sail landing at Bombay in India.
They set off again on the slow and ageing ship Empress of India. Built in 1912, she had difficulty in keeping up with the convoy.
Sunderland World War II veteran Len Gibson
Eight miles from Singapore, she was sunk by Japanese aircraft.
"I had never been in the deep end of Sunderland swimming baths," said Len. "But a piece of cork around my chest kept me afloat."
He was later picked up – minus banjo- by a boat and taken to Singapore – where he and his comrades and their truck-towed gun joined in the fighting to repel the Japanese invasion.
Len added: "Word came that we were capitulating. It was to be an unconditional surrender. We could not believe it."
Len and his comrades were herded into metal cattle trucks in the punishing heat for a six-day journey into Thailand and their first labour camp.
On the journey they divided into three groups and took two-hour turns to stand, sit and lie down.
Their first task was to clear jungle ground for the rail track. "It was extremely hot, like being in an oven.
"There were often beatings when the guards weren't satisfied with progress. It was terrible to have to witness a comrade being beaten."
After 40 of their comrades died in a cholera outbreak, the prisoners had to bury them.
On one occasion, a PoW became lost in the jungle and, exhausted, lay down. When he was found "he was covered in leeches. They were in every crevice of his face and body."
After the Japanese surrender, the PoWs were flown to Rangoon in Burma and taken to a dining room.
"Sitting in a chair was odd. Picking up a knife and fork was a novelty. We looked at food we had dreamed about." Some men wept.
They eventually returned home. "No-one could possibly describe the feelings we had when we first saw our families. It had been more than four years since we had seen any of them."
Lying in his own bed at last, Len remembered: " I gazed at the ceiling. How had I survived? Why had I been spared?
"Every day for more than three years I had seen men die, because of inhumanity, starved of food and denied basic medicines."
Len's book costs £12 plus postage from www.daftasabrush.org.uk or 0191 285 5999.
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Chris Farrell at the border
About 30 minutes. Good information.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/latest-videos/
Go to the middle of that page, where it says Inside Judicial Watch, and there's a video about the *caravan* and what the regular media idiots won't tell you because they're afraid we'll figure out what's really going on here. This is certainly not a spontaneous group of people which is being touted as mostly women and children. It's no such thing. Chris actually talked with some of the people in the group and said he saw MS-13 tatts galore. These are young men, young angry men it seems.
All I can say is our border troops better damned well be authorized to shoot.


The Art of Photography is a Video Blog by Ted Forbes I occasionally watch during my lunch hour. It's usually a decent length – 20min or so and often covers a review of prominent photographer's work – however it does sometimes cover other aspects of photography e.g. issues with signing contracts. Worth adding to your feeds if you do such things (I use feedly after Google Reader was stopped) or checking occasionally otherwise.
Just looked after not watching for a while and noticed there is an interview with Mick Rock. One of the most significant names in Music Photography and possibly THE name in terms of 70's Rock. Work (an image library) have some dealings with him and my recent coverage of music gigs peaked my interest in it, and then thought I'd share.
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to be a photographer then – especially since I've loved and at one time had a big passion for that kind of music (was a massive Hendrix fan). Certainly – much more skill was required with film and as such I'm assuming there would have been much fewer photographers and so possibilities of back stage access or hanging out with the musicians more likely. I've been to gigs where there are 20+ photographers in the pit. I'm sure because of this we are kept in our place with stricter limits. But then befriending a musician that becomes "big" might just be a matter of being in the right place at the right time.


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However, both Professor Kealey and Freer agree that skipping breakfast isn't right for everybody. Children need it, and those people who happily eat breakfast and are at a healthy weight should just carry on. 'The trouble with studies is that there simply isn't a "one size fits all" approach when it comes to real people,' says Freer.
1.Appetite. 2017 May 1;112:44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.12.041. Epub 2017 Jan 4. A randomized controlled trial to study the effects of breakfast on energy intake, physical activity, and body fat in women who are nonhabitual breakfast eaters.
2.Nutr Neurosci. 2016;19(3):110-5. doi: 10.1179/1476830515Y.0000000011. Epub 2015 Jun 15. The effect of breakfast versus no breakfast on brain activity in adolescents when performing cognitive tasks, as assessed by fMRI.
3.Telegraph: Is breakfast actually bad for you?
4.Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Oct;19(10):2006-14. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.48. Epub 2011 Apr 7. Greater weight loss and hormonal changes after 6 months diet with carbohydrates eaten mostly at dinner.
6.Singapore Med J. 2007 Oct;48(10):906-10. Body composition, nutrient intake and physical activity patterns in young women during Ramadan.


New York Personal Injury Lawyers: Be Sure To Promptly Demand That Surveillance Videos Be Preserved.
The importance of promptly demanding that surveillance tapes be preserved is illustrated in the recent case of Rodriguez v City of New York. In that case, a child was assaulted at school. The victim's lawyer claimed the school provided negligent or insufficient supervision, thus facilitating the attack. After suit was commenced, during the deposition of one of the school employees, the employee testified that she had reviewed a surveillance video taken the day of the incident. She claimed it did not show the attack, but did show kids leaving the school.
Right after the deposition, the injured child's attorney sent out a "Notice for Discovery and Inspection" demanding a copy of the surveillance video. The School's lawyer sent a response indicating the video had been automatically taped over about 60 days after the incident and that, in any event, it had not shown the attack.
The plaintiff's lawyer moved for sanctions against the defendant, arguing that the video would have, at the very least, shown the amount of supervision going on as the students left the school.
While the judge faulted the School for having failed to preserve the video when it knew litigation was afoot, the fact that the video was destroyed BEFORE plaintiff's attorney asked that it be preserved certainly did not help plaintiff's argument that the defendant should be severely punished for having allowed the video to be over-written. The judge refused to preclude defendant's defense of the case, and instead meted out the less severe sanction of charging the jury that it could draw an "adverse inference" from the fact that the School let the video be taped over. The judge also noted that, if the video-tape had shown the attack itself, he might have issued a more severe sanction because the loss of that evidence would have more seriously prejudiced the plaintiff's case.
Moral of the story: As soon as you represent an injured plaintiff, think about whether the incident happened in an area where there might have been surveillance cameras (almost everywhere these days!) and immediately send out a letter asking that all surveillance videos be preserved.
Plaintiff claims that defendant has failed to produce in court a surveillance tape and that defendant has failed to offer a reasonable explanation for not producing it. Defendant claims that the video did not show the incident itself, but merely showed students exiting the school, and that the video was inadvertently taped over. If you believe that defendant has not offered a reasonable explanation for having failed to preserve the video, you must decide what weight it would have had in your deliberations, if any. If you find that the video would have been important or significant in your deliberations, you may, but you are not required to, conclude that if it had been produced it would have supported plaintiff's position on the issue of lack of adequate supervision.


I have a 2018 3801 WB and would really like to understand the wiring for the cable/satellite/antenna wiring without having to trace each and every wire.
If anyone has a specific wiring diagram for this model, I would really appreciate it if you can share it. I have downloaded the diagram here in the library, but it doesn't represent this model. I have asked the dealer many times, but still no luck.
2 connections side by side (assume for satellite, 1 to bedroom and 1 too living room) to be confirmed.
1 connection for park cable system, enters into splitter and to bedroom/living room.
Face plate with 2 outlets, 1 for antenna and the 2nd for ? I think park cable.
I am also hoping that I can hook up my PVR receiver in the living room or bedroom which requires 2 line feed in and then have 1 line run to the other tv. My remote is UHF, so it doesn't matter where the receiver is. This is how I had it set up in my previous trailer - Blackstone by Outdoor RV and an awesome unit by the way.
If only this information was included with the owners manual.
Pez, my advise would be go to home depot and buy a cable tracer, that's where I got mine cost about $25.00, it has four different sounders all color coded and easy to use. takes a couple hours if you make labels and tag all wires.
I can tell you there is a power wire that goes from bedroom and is attached to one of your roof top cables, once you remove the caulk just pull line out a little and it is taped to cable. You will not need to do this unless you are hooking up a satellite dish.
I have a 2015 39 MB model and the splitter for living room cable was located by the rear left living room light, that is if you are standing at door looking to rear of unit. It was easy to find once told that, as some are located in bedroom overhead depending on model. My cable hook up from my basement went to the bedroom, then to the living room, but line was apparently run down the left side to rear of unit.
Hope this helps, I could not get a diagram of way cables were run, so I did it myself as many others on this site also. Good Luck.


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I always make it a point to visit Hard Rock Café locations when I am traveling. The atmosphere is fun and I enjoy the food and music. It is fun to see how many different glasses you can collect around the country. I have collected about 10 glasses so far from various locations. I also love looking at the rock memorabilia.
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My boyfriend and I ordered the Jumbo appetizer plaza which included potato skins, cheese sticks, spring rolls, onion rings, and chicken tenders. This appetizer is humongous and qualifies as a meal in itself!
My favorite appetizer is definitely the spring rolls! I get them on every visit! I also got the twisted macaroni and cheese, which is a great spicy variation on traditional macaroni and cheese. My boyfriend got the turkey burger and said that it was worth the price as well. The novelty drinks here are always good and you can pay a little extra to keep the souvenir Hard Rock glass.
The prices are kinda high depending on what you order, but I don't mind paying more for the fun atmosphere. If you skip the drinks and buy moderate priced entrees, you really can walk out spending less than $30 per couple. Tip: keep your receipt! There is a code to complete a survey in which you can print out a $5 coupon good for your next visit!
The waiter was pretty bad, but the restaurant was completely packed. He messed up our potato skins by putting bacon on them, but quickly rectified the problem. I have been to this location several times in the past and the service you receive really depends on which waiter you get and the crowd levels.
I love listening to the music and looking at the rock memorabilia after I eat. This location had touch screens in each booth which was fun to look at while waiting for your food. Hard Rock Hollywood had a contemporary, high energy feel to it and was packed with people due to the touristy location.
I recommend visiting this Hard Rock on Hollywood Blvd.location because the food is good, the atmosphere is fun, and it is centrally located to other area attractions like the Walk of Fame, Hollywood and Highland Center, the wax museum, and various other Hollywood attractions.


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What facts in commutative algebra fail miserably for simplicial commutative rings, even up to homotopy?
Simplicial commutative rings are very easy to describe. They're just commutative monoids in the monoidal category of simplicial abelian groups. However, I just realized that a priori, it's not clear that even some of the simplest facts we can prove for ordinary commutative rings (in particular those that depend integrally on the axiom of choice, or even those that depend on the law of the excluded middle) will hold for simplicial commutative rings. However, we have at least one saving grace. That is, the interesting parts of simplicial commutative algebra come from considering things up to homotopy.
So, for example, as far as it makes sense, can we prove that every simplicial ideal of a simplicial commutative ring is weakly equivalent to one contained in a maximal simplicial ideal? Perhaps a better way to state this would be something like, "every noncontractible simplicial commutative ring admits at least one surjective map to a simplicial commutative ring that's weakly equivalent to a simplicial field", or some variation on where the homotopy equivalence appears. Given that the axiom of choice does not necessarily hold in $sSet$, it doesn't seem reasonable to think that the ordinary theorem will hold.
Is there a version of the Hilbert basis theorem that holds up to isomorphism? How about weak equivalence?
What other well-known theorems will fail, even up to homotopy?
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Harry GindiHarry Gindi
$\begingroup$ For what it's worth, if you're familiar with any good papers that deal with simplicial commutative algebra, I'd be grateful for some references. $\endgroup$ – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 7:35
Most of the things that stop working are things related to procedures in commutative algebra that don't preserve exactness. The tensor product of simplicial modules always has to be the derived tensor product in order to be meaningful, etc.
One of the sticky points is that "free" is not the same as "polynomial" in higher degrees except in characteristic zero, and this makes building simplicial rings from a generators-and-relations perspective quite difficult.
For example, if R is an ordinary ring viewed as a constant simplicial commutative ring (with homotopy R, concentrated in degree 0), then you can take the free simplicial R-algebra on a class x in degree n; let me call it A. If n=0, the homotopy groups of A are just the polynomial algebra R[x] concentrated in degree zero. If n=1, the homotopy groups of A are an exterior algebra over R on a generator in degree 1. If n=2, the homotopy groups of A are a divided power algebra on a over R on a generator in degree 2 (a simplicial commutative ring always has a divided power structure on its higher homotopy groups). If n>3 and 2R = 0, then the answer is always a countable tensor product of exterior algebras over R. If n > 3 and pR = 0, you get algebras whose structure is simply complicated (because it involves iterated Tor starting with a divided power algebra).
Similar remarks apply to trying to construct an ideal generated by a collection of elements in homotopy groups which are anything other than a regular sequence in $\pi_0$ - you are unlikely to get the "quotient" you expect.
Tyler LawsonTyler Lawson
$\begingroup$ Dear Tyler, Thanks for the excellent answer. Do you know of any good papers/references that cover this material in-depth? $\endgroup$ – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 17:19
Given a simplicial ring $A_\bullet$, it is standard that $\pi_0(A)$ is a ring and $\pi_n(A)$ is a module over it, so $A_\bullet$ is weakly contractible iff $\pi_0(A)=0$. Also, $\pi_0(A)$ is just the cokernel of $d_0-d_1:A_1\to A_0$. We can take any chain of face maps $A_n\to A_0$ and compose with the projection to $\pi_0(A)$, and this will be independent of which chain we chose. These maps $A_n\to\pi_0(A)$ give a surjective map from $A_\bullet$ to the constant simplicial ring $\pi_0(A)$. (This is just the simplest piece of the Postnikov tower.) If $\pi_0(A)\neq 0$ we can then compose with a surjective map to a constant simplicial field.
Note also that all simplicial fields are constant. This is just because the composite $A_0\xrightarrow{s_0^n}A_n\xrightarrow{d_0^n}A_0$ is the identity, so $d_0^n$ is surjective, but all field homomorphisms are injective, so $d_0^n$ is an isomorphism.
I think it also works out that a simplicial ring is contractible as a simplicial group iff it is weakly contractible (because you can find an element $x\in A_1$ with $d_0(x)-d_1(x)=1$, and then shuffle-multiplication by $x$ should give a contraction). It would be stronger to say that there is a contraction by ring maps. I don't immediately see the full picture about that.
Neil StricklandNeil Strickland
$\begingroup$ What is the proper generalization of a surjective algebra (which are in canonical bijection with ideals) to the simplicial context? Is it more effective to generalize surjective algebras or ideals? $\endgroup$ – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 9:58
$\begingroup$ Meanwhile, this is an awesome answer. $\endgroup$ – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 9:58
$\begingroup$ @Harry: In simplicial commutative rings, a map $A \to B$ is surjective on $\pi_0$ if and only if there is a factorization $A \to A' \to B$ where the first map is a weak equivalence and the second map is surjective levelwise. By far the easiest generalization of "ideal" is the fiber/kernel of a map of simplicial rings, and there are an abundance of them. $\endgroup$ – Tyler Lawson Nov 8 '10 at 13:40
$\begingroup$ Heh, seven years later, but a question: Are there simplicial commutative rings that behave geometrically or algebraically as 'fields' up to homotopy without being simplicial fields (which are necessarily constant as you mentioned), or do you have to move onwards to commutative ring spectra to get any interesting examples of such things (in which case the sphere spectrum is a pretty obvious candidate)? $\endgroup$ – Harry Gindi Aug 24 '17 at 13:29
Maybe it is too late to answer this, but here is a classical "epic fail" which I'm sure you've already seen in disguise:
Even for the constant ring $\mathbb{Z}$, thought of as a simplicial ring, short exact sequences of free modules of finite rank (i.e. free abelian group of finite rank on each degree) don't split.
Simplicial free abelian groups are just complexes of abelian groups. Short exact sequence of complexes produces a long exact sequence, and if the boundary map is non-zero then it certainly won't split.
I don't have a more conceptual way to "explain" this, but for me it is like such failure are caused by some non-abelian input, (e.g. those coming from a topological space or homotopy groups.)
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Q: Android SecionList and Holder I have list with section, but this ListView is very slow.
I need any holder, but i don't know how I can make it.
When I had one type of view it was simple, but here I have problem.
I create holder, but when ListView is showing, I see:
"titel","title","title","item","item"
"titel","title","title","item"
"titel","title","title","item","item","item"
This is my code:
public class EntryAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Item> {

private ArrayList<Item> items;
private LayoutInflater vi;
Context context;
private String nazwa;

public EntryAdapter(Context context,ArrayList<Item> items, String nazwa) {
    super(context,0, items);
    this.items = items;
    this.context = context;
    this.nazwa = nazwa;
    vi = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
}

And my get View:
      @Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    final Item i = items.get(position);
    if (i != null) {
        if(i.isSection()){
            SectionItem si = (SectionItem)i;
            convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_item_section, null);

            convertView.setOnClickListener(null);
            convertView.setOnLongClickListener(null);
            convertView.setLongClickable(false);

            final TextView sectionView = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.list_item_section_text);
        }else{
                Obiekt ei = (Obiekt)i;
                convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.row_list, null);
                final TextView title = (TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_tytul);
                final TextView odleglosc = (TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_odleglosc);
                final ImageView obrazek = (ImageView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_ikona_mala);
                final LinearLayout pole = (LinearLayout)convertView.findViewById(R.id.LinearLayout1);

        }
    }
    return convertView;
}

A:
I have list with section, but this ListView is very slow.

You are always inflating a new view in your getView() method.
Inflating a view, typically takes a long time.
You want to re-use previous views, by checking if the 'convertView' is null or not. This will increase the performance. NOTE, you also have to implement getItemViewType() and getViewTypeCount() since you have two different views:
public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Item> {

    private List<Item> items;
    private int TYPE_SECTION = 0;
    private int TYPE_OBIEKT = 1;
    private static LayoutInflater vi;

    public MyAdapter(Context context, List<Item> _items) {
        super(context, 0);
        vi = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Service.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        items = _items;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return items.size();
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.BaseAdapter#getViewTypeCount()
     * Determines how many different views you have
     */
    @Override
    public int getViewTypeCount() {
        return 2; // We have two different kinds of views
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.BaseAdapter#getItemViewType(int)
     */
    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        Item item = items.get(position);
        if (item.isSection())
            return TYPE_SECTION;

        return TYPE_OBIEKT;
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.ArrayAdapter#getView(int, android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup)
     */
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        // Get the item
        final Item item = items.get(position);

        if (getItemViewType(position) == TYPE_SECTION) {

            // Return a SectionView object
            return getSectionView(position, convertView, parent, (SectionItem) item);
        }

        // Return an Obiekt object
        return getObiektView(position, convertView, parent, (Obiekt) item);
    }

    /**
     * SectionView specific
     *
     * @param position
     * @param convertView
     * @param parent
     * @param item
     * @return
     */
    public View getSectionView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent, SectionItem item) {

        SectionHolder holder;
        if(convertView == null){

            holder = new SectionHolder();

            // Inflate a new View
            convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_item_section, null);
            holder.sectionView = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.list_item_section_text);

            // Set the ObiektHolder as the tag, to retrieve it for re-using
            convertView.setTag(holder);

        } else {
            holder = (SectionHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        // Holder is never null here
        holder.sectionView.setText(item.getSectionTitle());

        return convertView;

    }

    public View getObiektView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent, Obiekt item) {

        ObiektHolder holder;
        if(convertView == null){

            holder = new ObiektHolder();

            // Inflate a new View
            convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.row_list, null);
            holder.title = (TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_tytul);
            holder.odleglosc = (TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_odleglosc);
            holder.obrazek = (ImageView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.row_ikona_mala);
            holder.pole = (LinearLayout)convertView.findViewById(R.id.LinearLayout1);

            // Set the ObiektHolder as the tag, to retrieve it for re-using
            convertView.setTag(holder);

        } else {
            holder = (ObiektHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        // Holder is never null here
        holder.title.setText(item.getObiektTitle());

        return convertView;
    }

    private static class SectionHolder {
        TextView    sectionView;
    }

    private static class ObiektHolder {
        TextView        title;
        TextView        odleglosc;
        ImageView       obrazek;
        LinearLayout    pole;
    }
}

NOTE: Tested and working now!

A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBM6wVEO70. Talks about listview peformance with view holder.
http://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/smooth-scrolling.html. Have a look at the documentation in the link under the heading Hold View Objects in a View Holder
Stright from the documentation :
Your code might call findViewById() frequently during the scrolling of ListView, which can slow down performance. Even when the Adapter returns an inflated view for recycling, you still need to look up the elements and update them. A way around repeated use of findViewById() is to use the "view holder" design pattern.
Example of viewholder.
  @Override
  public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
  // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   ViewHolder holder;

        if (convertView == null) {
                  convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list, null);
                  convertView.setLayoutParams(new AbsListView.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
                          LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
                  // Creates a ViewHolder and store references to the two children views
                  // we want to bind data to.
                  holder = new ViewHolder();
                  holder.t1=(TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
                  holder.t2 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
                  holder.t3 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.textView3);

                  convertView.setTag(holder);
              } else {
                  // Get the ViewHolder back to get fast access to the TextView

                  holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
              }
              holder.t1.setText("set text")
              holder.t2.setText("set text2");
              holder.t3.setText("set text3");
              return convertView;
  }
}

class ViewHolder
{
  TextView t1,t2,t3;
}

A: First of all you have to check if convertView is already inflated. If it's already inflated you can recycle it and you don't have to inflate it again. That's where you gain performance.
Example:
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    View itemView = null;

    // not inflated
    if (convertView == null) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) parent.getContext()
            .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        itemView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item_section, null);
    }
    // already inflated
    else {
        itemView = convertView;
    }

    // get your textview's etc.

    return itemView;
}

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Since blizzard announced Onyxia return in patch 3.2.2, we was discussing it in a guild chat and someone wondered how many "minus 50 dkp" related achievements will be there. I've looked around my PC and found the original mp3 and some other Wipe Club stuff.
If someone is intrested to read about Wipe Club and the guy leading raids – here is a nice story. Enjoy!


Hello everyone! Happy December! Today, I will start my "25 Days of Holiday Songs" Challenge! I will feature a post written by wonderful bloggers and writers every day. Each person picked their favorite holiday song.
Today's post is written by Anna Kat Napier. Her amazing blog is called Victoria Lee Home, a lifestyle blog that has tips and tricks for various avenues of life. Be sure to check out her blog right now as she features some great tips on how to organize the chaotic Christmas season!


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How is a near miss defined?
With respect to mid-air collisions, how is a near miss calculated, detected, and reported? Does ATC have radar detection, or is it strictly up to pilots to report a close encounter with another aircraft?
air-traffic-control tcas
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$\begingroup$ As you wrote in the question body, they're called "near mid-air collision" (or NMAC), not "near miss", if you change the title fast we might avoid the George Carlin references... woops, too late. ;) $\endgroup$ – falstro May 1 '14 at 21:03
$\begingroup$ My first thought was to ask the question, why is it called a near miss? I used the term near miss since it seems to be a more common phrase and thought that would be pertinent to the answer. Plus, I want to know about a near miss, not a far miss. $\endgroup$ – Magnetoz May 1 '14 at 21:09
$\begingroup$ It's called a near miss because the planes came near to each other but missed. It's a miss that was near, not something that was nearly a miss. $\endgroup$ – David Richerby May 1 '14 at 23:42
$\begingroup$ At small, busy airports, where most NMACs occur radar is not accurate enough in many cases to judge the situation and it must be done by eye. At large airports or in low visibility the separations are much wider to support radar and therefore NMACs are much less common. $\endgroup$ – Tyler Durden May 2 '14 at 15:18
First I'd just like to comment that "near miss" is a bad term (as falstro also noticed). It seems to say that the planes "nearly missed", implying they didn't miss. The FAA uses the terms "Near Midair Collision" (NMAC) for serious incidences, and "loss of separation" for less serious ones. As such, terms like "near miss", "close call", and "narrowly escaped disaster" are not well defined.
ATC does usually have radar. The data is recorded and can be analyzed later. Of course, not all areas have radar coverage. In these cases it is up to pilots to report if they feel safety was compromised. They can use the Aviation Safety Reporting System, which is part of the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing system.
Especially with commercial flights, Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is also used. If TCAS issues a Resolution Advisory (RA), which commands pilots to take action to avoid a collision, the pilots are usually required to report the incident.
A "loss of separation" would be anything less than the required separation.
According the the FAA:
A near midair collision is defined as an incident associated with the operation of an aircraft in which a possibility of collision occurs as a result of proximity of less than 500 feet to another aircraft, or a report is received from a pilot or a flight crew member stating that a collision hazard existed between two or more aircraft.
That and more information about reporting incidents can be found in Section 6 of the AIM.
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$\begingroup$ You can look up "near miss" in a dictionary. It means "narrowly avoided collision or other accident". So the OP is not using the term incorrectly. $\endgroup$ – Barmar Apr 30 '19 at 19:38
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Q: How to query specific column name from multiple table from SQL I want to query the column_name=object_no in the multiple tables ( up to 100 tables). I'm using Oracle SQL Developer.
To shows the tables that do not have column_name=object_no, I tried with the SQL query below.
SELECT TABLE_NAME
FROM USER_TAB_COLUMNS
WHERE NOT COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%OBJECT_NO%'
ORDER BY COLUMN_ID;

However, it show the same table multiple times and mixed up with the table that also have COLUMN_ID='OBJECT_NO'.

A: Because user_tab_columns has table_name and column_name in each rows, so your select only omit the row with that columns, not other rows with other columns of that table.
One query you could use is:
SELECT DISTINCT table_name
FROM user_tab_columns c
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT 1
    FROM user_tab_columns
    WHERE column_name LIKE '%OBJECT_NO%'
        AND table_name = c.table_name
)
ORDER BY table_name;

Other way could work is:
SELECT DISTINCT table_name
FROM user_tab_columns
WHERE table_name NOT IN (
    SELECT table_name
    FROM user_tab_columns
    WHERE column_name LIKE '%OBJECT_NO%'
)
ORDER BY table_name;

A: Try this:
SELECT
    DISTINCT TABLE_NAME
FROM
    USER_TAB_COLUMNS
WHERE
    TABLE_NAME NOT IN
    (
        SELECT
            TABLE_NAME
        FROM
             USER_TAB_COLUMNS
        WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%OBJECT_NO%'
     )

A: Try this -
SET SERVEROUT ON;

BEGIN

FOR R IN (SELECT 'SELECT '||A.COLUMN_NAME||' FROM '||A.TABLE_NAME||' ' AS QRY FROM USER_TAB_COLUMNS A
WHERE COLUMN_NAME = 'OBJECT_NO')
LOOP
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE USING R.QRY;
END LOOP;
/


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I was lucky enough to be linked in Gala's "Carousel" column (and the very first link, no less), and saw my hits over the weekend increase more than 13 times what I normally average!
It's nice to see all my hard work somewhat paying off. Thanks again, Gala Darling!
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So, Poetry & Popular Culture was just in the western suburbs of Chicago visiting family for the July 4 weekend, and we got a chance to hang out for a while with brother-in-law Jim who's an I.T. guy, an amateur astronomer, and really into geocaching—the worldwide treasure-hunting activity, apparently started in the year 2000 by a guy from Beavercreek, Oregon, where people use GPS devices to track down any of the 1.3 million hidden objects secreted by game players in over 100 countries around the globe. Not content to simply give out the coordinates of their caches, some clever geocache hiders, united by the official site Geocaching.com, make the game one step more interesting by requiring players to first solve a puzzle in order to discover the treasure's coordinates. Brother-in-law Jim, who has tracked down any number of caches in and around the Chicago area and elsewhere, saved the following puzzle for P&PC, hoping that our poetry acumen and beatnik-friendly disposition would help him with a hunt in the nearby suburb of Winfield.
Harnessing the associative logic and apocalyptic rhetoric that is stereo- typical of beatnik-style coffee-shop verse—and not entirely unlike the poem that Herman Munster recites in the video clip that Angela Sorby commented on for P&PC about a year ago—the Winfield puzzle encodes the treasure's coordinates. From the slang to the punny language (we especially appreciate the pun on "cool cat" that is "cool cache"), we think it's a little masterpiece. It was written and placed in March of 2010 by someone identified as sgauss, and brother-in-law Jim says we should use the identification tag GC250N1 when mentioning it—itself a little finding mechanism (the registered GC code) for geocachers in the know.
and so the suburban Chicago's Beatnik has given us a poem in the following scenario that converts from its associative word salad—and references to both popular poetry and popular culture—to a string of numbers like that. Totally grooving with the hep cat's verse, we hopped in the car, tracked down the location, searched around for a while, and eventually found the cleverly-hidden treasure: a water-proof capsule which contained a little Anglo-Saxon-like scroll on which we wrote our names testifying to the fact that we were there. We got it, man. Can you?
And then I had The Vision. I was standing outside, and a voice was saying, "Here, you should hide a cache here, man!"
I looked around and spotted someone who just didn't seem to belong at this spot. I saw him, and I knew he was a beatnik. He was a beatnik, and he was in Winfield. Why was a beatnik in Winfield? Why was he telling me where to hide a cache? As if this beatnik has read my mind he spoke again, "You wanted to know where to hide a cache, and how to hide it. You wanted a cool cache, and I have come bearing answers. Put the cache right here!" And he walked up and pointed out where the cache should go.
I looked where he pointed. I could hide a cache there, but it wasn't really an original hiding place. It would just be a park- and-grab. I thought I had come up with one or two ideas that were a little better. I told the beatnik, "Well, sure I could put a cache there, but I'm not sure how cool that would be."
"You don't think this would be cool? Trust me, man, this will be cool. Because you're not just going to tell people where to find this! It will be a mystery, it'll blow their minds!"
"Oh, you mean a puzzle cache? I've had one or two ideas about logic puzzles, or something with computers..."
"Umm ... crazy? I'm not sure I get this."
The beatnik looked back at me and said, "It's poetry, man. Free association. Stream of consciousness. Trust me, they will GET it man!" And then he handed me the piece of paper with the poem on it. I looked at the paper, re-read the poem, and flipped it over. On the back were a set of coordinates. I looked at the coordinates, and then flipped the paper over again, and looked at the poem some more.
I looked back up at the beatnik. He said, "You dig?" I nodded, and bongo drums started to play as he turned, started to walk away, and then faded out of sight. Crazy.
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