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Even more than the movie industry, video games love to create franchises. If a game does well and finds an audience, it’s almost certainly going to have a sequel (or several) planned.
The occasional standalone title might be released but even the most narrative heavy games usually get a follow-up. The result is, usually, a best-case scenario for the studio making the game and the fans playing it. The franchise keeps making money and gamers get the stories, characters, and gameplay that they enjoy.
Yet there are occasions where things don’t work out the way that they should. Sometimes a video game franchise long overstays its welcome, churning out sequel after sequel. In the end it'll either lose what made the series special in the first place or just become something completely different.
The opposite situation can also be true where a franchise deserves a sequel or follow-up of some kind and never gets it. For every Zelda and Mario that seems like it’ll last forever, there’s a video game franchise that was cut off before it really started growing.
This an effort to look at both sides of the coin in video game franchises. It’s not a comparison of all these franchises to figure out which are necessarily better or worse. It is, however, an effort to look at which franchises went on too long and which should be given second chances.
Here are the 9 Video Game Franchises That Ended Too Soon (And 7 That Need To Go).
16 Ended Too Soon: Half-Life
Half-Life isn’t officially cancelled. Yet, with over ten years having passed since the last entry in the series, which was a downloadable chapter for the second full release, and no buzz, it’s effectively dead. There might come a day when Valve resurrects Half-Life and finally wraps up the plot threads, but it doesn’t look it’s coming any time soon.
The reason for why Half-Life is over doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The first two games in the series are widely acclaimed and, thanks to Half-Life 2 being released on Xbox 360's The Orange Box, a whole new audience was opened to the series. If Half-Life 3 ever materialized, people would buy it.
Just for the sake of good storytelling too, so much needs to be answered with Half-Life. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 ended a huge cliffhanger and there’s been no hint of resolution in any medium.
15 Need to Go: Metal Gear
There’s a very good chance that the Metal Gear series will wither and die very, very soon. For now, though Konami is desperately trying to keep the franchise alive, despite losing its creative mastermind.
The Metal Gear series is a product of its director, Hideo Kojima. Kojima, though, has left (or was fired) from Konami and has no chance to make a new Metal Gear game. However, Konami is still releasing games under the Metal Gear name, even if they’re spin-offs.
It’s all a very transparent attempt to have a dead franchise keep creating money.
Even removing it from the controversy and the fact that fans are very protective of Kojima and his vision, the attempt is lazy and gross.
The last Metal Gear game with Kojima behind it wasn’t perfect as it ended with a few plot threads left unresolved. Yet no one but Kojima should be answering those questions.
14 Ended Too Soon: Knights of the Old Republic
BioWare and EA can pretend that Knights of the Old Republic isn’t dead, as it exists in a new form with the Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic. However, fans know that simply isn’t true.
The Old Republic shares as much with the first two KOTOR games as Star Wars Battlefront shares with The Force Unleashed, so nothing. Even if The Old Republic is a different type of MMO, it’s still a MMO and lacks that personal single-player experience of Knights of the Old Republic.
The first two KOTOR games are widely considered some of the best Star Wars games (and stories) ever. They took the galaxy and approached from a new and exciting angle, letting players really immerse themselves.
Yet, after Knights of the Old Republic II, all direct continuation stopped. Instead, BioWare worked on The Old Republic and created their own space opera in Mass Effect.
13 Need to Go: Dead Rising
When Dead Rising began it was interesting, fresh, and exciting. The first Dead Rising was released in 2006. at the very onset of the zombie boom. It had a unique sense of humor and format for a game, where there was a very specific time limit set in place.
The longer Dead Rising has gone on, the more originality has been leeched from it. The franchise is now as lifeless as the zombie monsters who overwhelm it. Dead Rising has become, in all honesty, a hot mess.
The tone of the franchise has varied wildly and that includes not just the games but the side projects, like movies. Dead Rising has no real identity anymore besides zombies are involved. The series is also weirdly convinced that original hero, Frank West, is charming and magnetic when he’s far from it.
After Dead Rising 4, which was aggressively OK, it just needs to bow out.
12 Ended Too Soon: Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia is a series that has been resurrected and rebooted several times. It still stings though that Ubisoft seems to have completely abandoned the franchise. There are few reasons why Prince of Persia is a state of animated suspension, the biggest factor, though, is the success of Assassin’s Creed.
When the first Assassin’s Creed launched, Prince of Persia was Ubisoft’s biggest single-player franchise.
Soon the wall running of the Prince was replaced by the wall climbing of the Creed. As the assassins’ collective star rose, the Prince’s faded to oblivion. The nail in the coffin, seemingly, being the horrible movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role.
It’s true that the franchise didn’t have the highest overall quality. The most recent entries were very disappointing. However, there should be room for two sword-swinging, parkour performing heroes in Ubisoft’s line-up.
11 Need to Go: Five Nights at Freddy’s
The success of Five Nights at Freddy is one of the biggest gaming mysteries of recent memory. Whether it tapped into millennials’ secret fear of animatronics or it just produced easy YouTube reaction videos, Five Nights was the game-de-jour for a long time. Five Nights is still popular and continues to have buzz around it, but it’s mechanically a horrible game.
There’s no real gameplay to Five Nights and its many spin-offs.
They’re cheap, shoddily made games that usually just involve clicking on the screen and jump scares. Fans are convinced there’s some deep lore at play but it’s so vague and complicated it’s indecipherable.
Matters aren’t helped that the timeline of the series is more convoluted than Fast & The Furious with a fraction of the charm and none of the Vin Diesel.
The games make a lot, even when they’re released for free, but they should go away.
10 Ended Too Soon: Crimson Skies
The Xbox One is a solid console. However, Microsoft is severely lacking in first party titles and console exclusive games. So, it’s very bizarre that the company has an IP like Crimson Skies and is doing nothing with it. The Crimson Skies franchise has two games but it’s second, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, is the underrated jewel.
A arcade flying game with incredible controls, High Road to Revenge was one of the original Xbox’s best games. It took place in an alternate America and felt so fresh and unique to everything out there.
The game was clever and fun. Although it told a complete story, it was totally deserving of a sequel. Yet after the second's game release, Crimson Skies crashed and burned.
The game has been made backward compatible on Xbox 360 and Xbox One but any continuation is just a fan’s pipe dream.
9 Need to Go: LEGO Games
It is rather remarkable how many licenses that the LEGO games have captured. Nearly every property with a dedicated fanbase has seen a LEGO Game created. Each entry, for the most part, has the same approachable: cute and family friendly energy. They’re not awful games but the franchise has too many entries.
LEGO games obviously aim for a younger audience and aren’t meant to be too complex, as they' re pick-and-play games for the whole family. Sadly, they’re also very repetitive.
There’s no real joy of creation (or destruction) like there is with regular LEGOs. It’s just a matter of mixing between holding down and mashing a single button to watch stuff happen. There’s way to appeal to a young audience and not be so simple.
With everything under the sun having a LEGO game, it’s time to end the franchise-- or, at the very least, drastically retool it.
8 Ended Too Soon: Chrono
In the 16-bit era Square Enix created several amazing RPGs. However, about the only one who has continued to grow and evolve is Final Fantasy. Everything else was pretty much left to die. No dead franchise from Square hurts more than the Chrono series.
The franchise began with Chrono Trigger, which is one of the best RPGs of all time and was revolutionary for the era.
It focused on time travel from an accessible but still complex way.
It had multiple game endings when that was considered impossible and overall just built an amazing world with lots of lore. The series did continue with Chrono Cross on the PS One, but it was a step down and didn’t do that well.
However, countless series have had missteps and have continued. Final Fantasy hasn’t dropped the ball more than few times. Chrono deserves second, third, and fourth chances.
7 Need to Go: Call of Duty
Call of Duty isn’t quite the juggernaut it used to be in the gaming community. It’s still very big and is showing no signs of slowing down with its annual release schedule. Call of Duty makes money, but it would still be in the best (creative) interest of the franchise to slow down, if not stop altogether.
Call of Duty is primarily an online game. The campaign exists but 80% of the user base ignores it. Call of Duty has done a great job with building its multiplayer mode though and that should be the focus on the series.
The franchise would be best releasing one game every so often and continuing to support it with online features and content.
The cycle of releasing virtually the same game year after year is just dull and uninspired.
The quality hasn’t exactly dipped for Call of Duty but it’s just boring and expected.
6 Ended Too Soon: Earthworm Jim
The '90s saw a cavalcade of platforming mascots hit the gaming scene. A few managed to escape the decade, far more were abandoned and never seen from again.
A couple, like Crash and Spyro, are even rumored to be getting resurrections sooner rather than later. Yet if there’s one platforming mascot that should still be revived its Earthworm Jim.
Earthworm Jim has seen re-releases and remakes of his older games. Yet it’s been a long time since Earthworm Jim had a proper new entry. It’s a total waste of a character that’s just full of personality and has headed some surprisingly excellent games.
The death of Earthworm Jim has a lot to do with its publisher, Interplay, failing and being wiped off the map. However, someone should pick up Jim and try to give him new life.
5 Need to Go: Mario Party
Nintendo really does treat their IP right. The House of Mario tries to always improve things with each entry of a franchise. The notable and sad exception, however, is Mario Party.
The franchise started off very strong in the Nintendo 64 era, even if the minigames were mostly garbage. Yet the longer Mario Party has gone on, the more it’s been mishandled.
Mario Party is build on unfairness as so much is left up to luck and chance. However, recently entries in the series have taken away almost all the skill. The classic board game format is gone, replaced with a car mechanic that puts every player in the same location. It’s a pit where fun minigames are only sporadically sprinkled in.
Nintendo could change things and restore the classic (better) format. However, in its current form, Mario Party needs to just be put out of its misery.
4 Ended Too Soon: Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie is another A+ franchise that Microsoft has access to but they’re just sitting on it. It’s true that the last entry in the franchise, Nuts & Bolts, didn’t do well. However, that’s also because it was the exact opposite of what fans wanted from a new Banjo-Kazooie game.
It was a vehicle creation game that just happened to slap platforming Banjo and Kazooie into it.
Banjo-Kazooie really could be Microsoft’s answer to Mario. Back when Banjo-Kazooie was on Nintendo’s console, the games were completely on par with Mario 64 for platforming supremacy.
The franchise is overloading on personality, color, and just plain fun. Sadly, Banjo and Kazooie are doing nothing but gathering dust in Microsoft’s closet.
It’s not easy to build a 3D platformer in the modern era, despite how Nintendo makes things look. Still, there should be some effort to make it happen for Banjo-Kazooie.
3 Need to Go: Sonic
Sonic isn't a completely terrible franchise. Occasionally even the modern games end up being halfway decent. However, there are far more bad Sonic games than good ones. The dedicated fans keep Sonic afloat, but SEGA seems to be trying to everything to kill the blue hedgehog.
A good Sonic game just needs one thing to make it work: a satisfying sense of speed and acceleration.
Players need feel like they’re controlling a super-fast hedgehog. Strangely, SEGA rarely seems able to make that work. There’s been so many gimmicks and weird mechanics added to Sonic that feels like SEGA has no idea what to do with their most popular character.
Even if great games, like Sonic Mania, are released it can’t help but feeling the franchise is beating a dead horse (or hedgehog) over and over.
2 Ended Too Soon: Mass Effect
Mass Effect just released a new entry in the series. It is a bit premature to say it’s dead. However, there are several reports that the franchise is on ice for the foreseeable future and there may never be another entry to come out. This is a disappointment for several reasons.
The last Mass Effect, Andromeda, was a flawed game but not a disaster. The problems with Andromeda could easily be fixed in a sequel. That game could’ve, retroactively, even made the original more enjoyable.
Yet Andromeda was such a critical failure and middling financial success that all production on the game and franchise seized. BioWare has abandoned Mass Effect to work on new sci-fi franchise Anthem and the only continuing single-player RPG franchise in development is Dragon Age.
Mass Effect is too expansive and detailed a world to be totally abandoned, but that's what seems to be the reality.
1 Ended Too Soon: Jade Empire
This is yet another BioWare property that has been lowered into an early grave. The death of Jade Empire does make more sense than the death of Knights of the Old Republic.
It was a new IP that was released at the tail end of the original Xbox’s life cycle with little fanfare. Jade Empire is the definition of a cult hit. It’s also fantastic.
As a blend of Chinese mythology and original lore, Jade Empire is unlike any other Western RPG. This wasn't only true at the time of its release, but also now in present day as well. It’s game world begging for more stories and characters.
Jade Empire does tell a complete story and is well worth playing (and replaying). However, it’s also one of the most exciting and unique RPG franchises from BioWare that somehow has just one entry.
What abandoned video game franchises would you like to see more entries from someday? Which series do you think need to be abandoned? Sound off in the comments!

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Leeds United must demand astronomical money for their young talent if they are to be taken seriously.
Leeds United have an opportunity to prove they have changed.
Two years ago the Whites were caught out by Bournemouth, who pressured them into selling Lewis Cook, as he had just one year left on his contract.
The Cherries paid just £6 million up front for the midfielder, a ridiculously low fee. Now with interest mounting in Ronaldo Vieira, they have a chance to show they won't be pushed around.
The Sun (15/7 p59) report Cardiff City plan to bid £8 million for Leeds talent Vieira, who stepped up after Cook was sold.
The 19-year-old is an England under-20 regular, and Leeds can't let him go cheaply.
Fortunately for them, Aston Villa have recently set the market, by placing a £30 million price tag on midfielder Jack Grealish, The Independent report.
Who is the better player of the two remains open to debate, with Grealish three years older than Vieira.
Leeds tied Vieira down to a long-term contract in Radrizzani's first month as Leeds owner last summer.
They will not be pushed around like they were with Cook, and if Villa are valuing Grealish at £30 million, Leeds should also express that it would take a similarly astronomical fee to even make them consider selling one of their stars of the future.

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A few days ago I was able to witness the finale of what can only be explained as the answer to my ancestors prayers. Although I was detained along the freeway in vanouver only moments away from the ferry terminals during the landing of the canoes, I and my best friend waited from 1:50ish until 8:40 to get on the ferry.
When we arrived, the sun was going down, the group was winding down and and I saw a glimpse into our past. I saw a gathering of nations, who formed a large circle, singing, laughing and dancing. I saw each group and memeber honored for their participation, their involvement and ther support! I saw my love, with a drum in his hand, singing, and dancing. I saw joy, i saw relief, i saw victory, i saw honor. i saw the sun dance as it went to bring light to another world. I saw pride, strength, unity, and friendship.
As a spectator, who arrived without the usual bang or grand entrance, i came in almost unnoticed. it is from this view that i felt the sudden wave of unexplainable emotion which overtook my body and its entirety. I saw our young people, being honored and treated with the respect they've earned, deserved and fought for. I saw a symbol of hope, for my people. I saw within this final day of song, dance ad celebration, that as long as these true leaders were around, our people have little cause for concern. Our songs were being sung, by the youth. our words were being spoken by our youth. our practices and protocols we being demonstrated by our youth. our people were represented in the strongest of lights, because of the will within our syilx paddlers.
This family reunion of paddlers, grounds crew, spectators, supporters and our ancestors had surpassed anything i have ever experienced in my life. i was actually speechless. me. i had nothing to say, i only watched the aurora of what was happening in front of me and felt the heavy burden of doubt be removed off my back. Every doubt I had about the direction our culture and livelihood was heading -disappreared. Every doubt i had about culture being replaced with economic opportunity and tokens and trinkets, vanished. because i saw it happen. i saw both my past and my future shining in front of me and i basked in all its glory.
As my presence became more apparent, and as i was introduced to the many people who were there i heard some of the most amazing stories of truimph. i heard stories of how our paddlers abilities were doubted because of their age, and then heard how they paddled up and down the toughest of waters numerous times, when the adult and more experienced crews barely made one run. I heard of moments of defeat and fear disappearing because of the voices of our youth which sang songs to the water as the paddles used the waves as a stick does a drum. I heard stories of how our young paddlers strength and endurance pushed the limits and boundaries of every other paddler on the water. I heard how the sudden bursts of energy, laughter and smiles ceased tension amongst the group as a whole. i heard about how much other paddle crews and spectators gained a higher sense of understanding the respect of who we are and what we do, by following the LEAD of our youth. I heard how the okanagan people 'KwuSukwnaqinx' were the at the centre of it all and how loved and respected our people were, because of these paddlers.
Yet, i heard no speeches from them about what they were doing, what they were going to do, how they were doing it or why. i never heard any of them say one word about the impact they have and have had on our people, our nation or our future.
Instead, they sang the songs they knew and the songs they created. they used our words in a way in which everyone knew what those words meant. Instead they created change.
This is what TRUE LEADERSHIP really is. this is what CHANGE really looks like. this is what our ancestors meant when they said the youth are the ones...who will bring it back!
Had I been there on time i would have watched the launch, welcomed them on shore, had supper with them, visited with my love, congratulated the youth and then i would have gone home on the last ferry and been home around 2am. I was exactly where i was supposed to be and arrived exactly when i was supposed to arrive.

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Delta presented a live demonstration to show the power efficiency of Delta’s power quality solution. This live demonstration adopted the APF2000 Series for harmonics suppression and presented highly effective power quality improvement. It soon became the most popular display at Delta’s stand.
Aside from power quality improvement, Delta also demonstrated a demo set of linear motors for high-speed motion and precise synchronous/asynchronous positioning, which showcased Delta’s advanced technologies for high-speed, high-precision and high-performance industrial automation products.
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William Silano collection
Biographical Materials undated, 1966-1981, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1994-1995
Separated into four subseries: Correspondence, Writings, Portfolios, and Awards.
Project Files 1965-1978, 1994 is separated into 4 subseries: Harper’s Bazaar, Nudes, Miscellaneous, Notebooks, and Original Folders. Project files include negatives, proofs, contact prints, work notes, and receipts. The original, non-archival, project file folders have been photocopied and the originals are stored in box 7, Photocopies are with appropriate materials. Boxes 3-6 are arranged by project number while Boxes 7-8 contain Nude and Misc. projects organized by date due to the inconsistency of project numbers. Business materials such as invoices and receipts are included in their respective folders. Negatives are currently included but will be isolated in cold storage for preservation
Printed Materials 1961-1994, 2011, 2015 is is separated into 4 subseries: Periodicals, Tearsheets Booklets & Publication Proofs, Mockups, and Photocopied Articles. A maximum of 3 copies of each periodical issue are kept if duplicates are present based on condition. Periodicals are organized by publication first, then year.
Photographic Materials 1965-1982 is separated into 7 subseries: Color Slides, Negatives, Polaroids, Photographs, Prints, Transparencies, and Personal Photographs. Slides housed in plastic boxes have been rehoused into archival slide boxes to be properly preserved, while slides in original Kodak boxes remain there due to cost and time restrictions of rehousing this portion of the collection. Materials will eventually need to be in cold storage for ideal preservation. The slides and negatives located in project files will remain there until collection is surveyed for cold storage. Slides with suspected mold have been separated for conservation assessment. Subseries 5: Prints is housed in an oversized drawer labeled accordingly. Negatives and slides require advanced notice.
- 1961-1995, 2011, 2015
- Silano, William (Person)
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William “Bill” Silano (1934 -2014) was born March 26, 1934 in Flushing, Queens, NY. His brother George Silano had a darkroom in the basement of their parents’ house, where a young Bill became familiar with the basics of the photographic process. Silano gained technical knowledge of the practice of photography from studying his brother’s copy of The US Army Field Manual of Photography and formally studied at the School of Modern Photography in Manhattan. In the 1950s, Silano enlisted in the National Guard. After his military service he enrolled in a photography workshop taught by Alexey Brodovich, art director for Harper’s Bazaar. Silano was invited to Paris to photograph for Elle Magazine, and settled in London working for local publications such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
After returning to the United States in the mid-1960s, Silano began working with the art directors Ruth Ansel and Bea Feitler at Harper’s Bazaar in New York. He also photographed for Town & Country, Wear-Dated, and Vogue Italia. His career spanned the mid-1960s to the late 1980s with a few projects in the early 1990s. Silano’s work embodied Brodovich’s teaching of, “If you look in the camera viewfinder and see a picture you’ve seen or taken before, don’t take it.” Embracing experimentation, Silano focused on surreal landscapes cultivated through scale and color to compose his images.
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Collection consists primarily of color slides, project files, and periodicals containing Silano's work. Negatives, contact prints, proofs, tearsheets, mock-ups, correspondence, photographs, and personal photographs are also represented. Materials present range from 1961-1995, 2011, 2015 with the majority of items from the late 60s through early 80s range, representing Silano's most active years.
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Biographical Materials
- Subseries 1: Correspondence
- Subseries 2: Writings
- Subseries 3: Portfolios
- Subseries 4: Awards
- Series 2: Project Files
- Subseries 1: Harper’s Bazaar
- Subseries 2: Nudes
- Subseries 3: Miscellaneous
- Subseries 4: Notebooks
- Subseries 5: Original Project Folders
- Series 3: Printed Materials
- Subseries 1: Periodicals
- Subseries 2: Tearsheets, Booklets & Publication Proofs
- Subseries 3: Mockups
- Subseries 4: Photocopied Articles
- Series 4: Photographic Materials
- Subseries 1: Color Slides
- Subseries 2: Negatives
- Subseries 3: Polaroids
- Subseries 4: Photographs
- Subseries 5: Prints
- Subseries 6: Transparencies
- Subseries 7: Personal Snapshots
The William Silano Archive is composed of materials donated by George Silano in 2017.
Separated materials include potential mold hazards from select slides, tearsheets, and Polaroids. Negatives will eventually be separated into cold storage.
Collection processed and finding aid created by Sarah Jardini in 2018. Processing is still active and some materials may not be fully accessible. Please see archivist for details.
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For years, I’ve enjoyed my grandma’s pecan pies during the holidays. She always makes them the same way and they turn out amazingly delicious. Grandma sure does know her way around the kitchen. However, I came across this recipe for chocolate Kahlua pecan pie and thought, “Why not?” So, I gathered the ingredients and got to work. The first thing that I noticed was how heavenly the house smelled. It was like walking into a Cheesecake factory.
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Pop star Katy Perry has taken aim at Theresa May and Donald Trump’s relationship with a politically-charged performance at the Brit Awards.
The singer introduced two skeleton puppets dressed as the US President and the Prime Minister as she performed her latest single Chained To The Rhythm.
President Trump’s puppet sported a long red tie and clutched the hand of May, mirroring last month’s meeting in the US when the two leaders briefly held hands in an awkward exchange.
Katy campaigned for Hillary Clinton in last year’s US election and her latest music video warns against “living in a bubble” as she visits a dystopian theme park.
The video for Chained To The Rhythm shows people shuffling along in queues at retro-futuristic amusement park Oblivia, only to be hurled to their deaths from pastel-coloured rides with names such as The Great American Dream Drop and Bombs Away.
Dancers wearing model houses over the upper-half of their bodies surrounded the two giant puppets, with one taking a stumble off stage onto a table.

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Steingraber, 2 others get 15 days each
READING CENTER, April 18 -- Three of the "Seneca 12" protesters arrested last month for trespassing on Inergy property pleaded guilty and refused to pay their fines Wednesday night in Town of Reading Court. As a result, each was sentenced to 15 days in jail and taken into custody.
Noted environmental activist Sandra Steingraber, who that afternoon had given a fiery speech at a Seneca Harbor Park rally (pictured at right), read a similar but subdued version of the same speech in court before being sentenced by Town Justice Raymond H. Berry. Steingraber became emotional about halfway through her lengthy court statement, prompting tears among some of the onlookers -- mostly supporters who filled the courtroom to its 49-person capacity.
Also pleading guilty were Melissa Chipman of Hector and Michael Dineen, an Ovid farmer. All three were given time with family members in the town clerk's office down the hall from the courtroom before being led away in handcuffs to a Schuyler County Sheriff's Department van and from there to the Sheriff's Office. The two women were to be transferred to another jail later that evening -- probably in Yates or Chemung County, spectators speculated.
The march from the town hall to the van was through a crowd of about 100 well-wishers, most of them applauding the prisoners and many crying out: "Thank you, Sandra."
Steingraber, 53, of Trumansburg, is a biologist, poet, author, speaker and activist who is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College. She is also a woman who has been fighting recurring bouts of bladder cancer since she was 20. As pointed out in a recent article about her in Rolling Stone magazine -- which called her "The Toxic Avenger" -- she early-on suspected her cancer was caused by carcinogens released by industry into the environment. Her path has led her to write three books -- Having Faith, Living Downstream, and Raising Elijah -- that combine studies of environmental health with applicable accounts from her personal life.
On this day, at Wednesday's lakefront rally, she was the fiery orator her admirers have come to expect, and contrite lawbreaker -- admitting that she had never deliberately broken the law before, never deliberately embraced civil disobedience, but was ready to take her medicine. "It's not part of my DNA," she said of her role with 11 other people in the temporary body blockade of the Inergy property on March 18. "But here we are. If I end up in jail, don't send me letters; send letters to the editor and to the governor."
Besides, she said, trying to joke about it, jail conditions won't really be new to her. Since she has spent so much time fighting cancer with stints in hospitals, "I'm used to terrible food, being confined in small places" and having people in authority doing invasive things to her body.
She, Dineen and Chipman and the rest of the Seneca 12 -- and indeed the 100 or so protesters at the rally who later attended the court session -- are opposed to Inergy's plan to store liquefied petroleum gas in caverns deep in the ground just west of Seneca Lake. Inergy says such caverns have been used for decades; the protesters say full disclosure of problems in those caverns have been kept under wraps. By extension, the group opposes hydrofracking in New York State for much the same reason -- a belief that it will contaminate the state's land and waters.
Dineen also spoke at the rally, explaining that he became an activist "to protect my granddaughter and to protect my farm." He said there has been "complicity" between industry in the state and regulatory agencies, and that something needs to be done. "This is civil unrest," he said, "and I'm the face of it, and you're the face of it."
Chipman, 55, who has a massage therapy business and is, according to one acquaintance, "very soft spoken," was nonetheless outspoken during the rally, telling spectators it is wrong for corporations to harm the planet and the people living on it. "I've come to civil disobedience as a last resort," she said. "I'd rather eat bread and water now than have no bread -- and toxic water -- later."
Most of those at the rally traveled up to Reading Center after their lakeside gathering to provide support for the three defendants. Since fewer than 50 people are allowed in the courtroom, a like number were stationed outside the room, in a lobby area. Although the courtroom doors were closed, a buzzing of voices -- often loud -- could be heard during the court proceeding.
Chipman was the first one to stand in front of Justice Berry, who explained her various rights -- of counsel, of a free phone call to anyone she might need to contact, of adjournment -- and then asked for her plea.
"Guilty," she said.
The judge fined her $250 plus a mandatory state surcharge of $125, and asked if she planned to pay it that night.
"No," she said. "I'm not paying it."
"You know what the alternative is," the judge responded.
"I do," she said. She then read a statement that was a carbon copy of her brief speech at the rally, right down to the "toxic water" line.
"Have a seat," the judge said when she was done. After he tended to some paperwork, he called her back to the bench a couple of minutes later, and sentenced her to 15 days of incarceration "in a facility to be determined by the Schuyler County Sheriff's Department. And you owe the court the $125 state surcharge."
Chipman was puzzled at that, and asked if paying that was something new for someone headed to jail.
"Absolutely not," the judge said. "It's been on the books for years."
Dineen, 64, then was called forward, and listened to the same instructions Judge Berry had provided to Chipman. Dineen wasted no time in pleading guilty, saying "I choose not to pay the fine at all, sir."
"You know the alternative? the judge asked.
"Fifteen days in jail?" Dineen answered.
"Correct," said the judge, who then allowed a statement from Dineen that was much the same as the speech he had presented at the rally.
"I'm not taking this step lightly," Dineen read to the court, explaining that he believes Inergy's storage plans "have the potenital for catastrophe. I believe I'm trying to protect the community."
Then it was Steingraber's turn, and some confusion ensued when she told Justice Berry that she had counsel present, a man named Joe Heath. But she said she wished to handle her own defense. The judge said that since she had counsel, he would line up a meeting for her with the District Attorney.
"Can't I be sentenced tonight?" she asked.
The judge shook his head no, but Heath approached the bench and explained that Steingraber was handling the matter pro se -- on her own behalf. The judge at that point accepted her guilty plea, and fined her $250 and the $125 state surcharge.
"Will you be paying that this evening?" he asked, probably knowing the answer.
"I respectfully decline to pay," said Steingraber.
She too drew a 15-day jail sentence, and she too presented a statement -- but not briefly as those before had done. This was a long statement that dwelt on the meanings of trespass -- in the sense in which she and her fellow protesters had trespassed, and in the sense that industry assaults the environment in a "toxic trespass" that endangers the land, air and water. And that "toxic trespass" comes at a time, she said, "when we should be moving away from the use of fossil fuel." Her voice started wavering midway through, and she paused briefly to gather herself. Several people in the room could be seen wiping their eyes.
She rallied near the end, telling the judge she had taken the trespassing action "to bring attention" to the dangers she sees and "as an act of protecting our waters."
She was, she concluded, "willing to go to jail."
Almost as an afterthought, two other protesters who had appeared in court last month and delayed payment of their fines now presented the $375 apiece to the court. They were Dennis Fox, 20, of Middle Island, and Kathleen C. Alvey, 22, of Ithaca. Each paid with money raised by protest supporters.
Then, with court adjourned, the three jailbound members of the Seneca 12 exited the courtroom to the cheers of supporters in the lobby beyond, and walked down a hallway to the clerk's office and a farewell meeting with spouses or, in Steingraber's case, with her spouse and a son.
Then, handcuffs applied, the three prisoners were led by deputies out the front door of the town hall to the applauding group on the walkway and in the parking area -- and Steingraber, before being directed into the police van, raised her manacled hands above her head, fists clenched, and smiled.
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From top: Sandra Steingraber speaking at the afternoon rally; Michael Dineen at the rally; Melissa Chipman at the rally; Crow Marley of Hector, one of the Seneca 12, performed songs at the rally, with such lyrics as "People of the fields, hold on to your rivers, hold on to your creeks"; a handcuffed Steingraber, with Dineen behind her, leaves the town hall en route to the Sheriff's Department van; Chipman heads for the van.
Next up: The final three members of the Seneca 12 arrestees -- James Borra of Hector, Marjorie Rodgers of Elmira and Richard "Spike" Jones of Belfast -- are due in Town of Reading Court on May 1 along with a fourth, Nathanael "Mahats" Miller, a law student who had his case adjourned April 3 after securing the services of Attorney Lance Salisbury of Ithaca. Five others have paid their fines: Fox and Alvey Wednesday night, Jack Ossont of Himrod, Katarina Andersson of Ithaca, and Darmaye "Crow" Marley of Hector.
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Recently in May 2018, Autocar online shared some exclusive images of Peugeot 4008 SUV Coupe on test. In the weeks that followed, many automotive websites around the globe confirmed the testing and possible release date of this muscular and handsome looking sporty SUV coupe that would compete head on with the BMW X2, Toyota C-HR and Mazda CX-3.
Peugeot’s popular 3008 or 5008 SUV will continue to be updated and this new Coupe will add to its family of vehicles for the global market.
In case you did not know, the Peugeot 4008 nameplate is not new and the previous 4008 model was marketed in Europe and it was a shared model with the Mitsubishi RVR. Citroën also marketed its particular version of the Mitsubishi model. It was the Citroën C4 Aircross. The new Peugeot 4008 in little or nothing will be related to that model.
This new 4008 will be sitting right between the current Peugeot 3008 and 5008. As represented by the recreations that accompany this article, it will present a more elegant and sporty design.
Yes, this latest crossover will be based on the successful Peugeot 3008 just like how BMW shares its SUV and sport Crossovers on one platform.
Jean-Phillipe Imparato, CEO of Peugeot, commented the following when asked about this new model, “After achieving our goal of launching three new SUVs in Europe and two in China, it is time to return to our DNA and continue betting on our SUV family because the market demand is unstoppable”.
Despite its exterior shape, the new 4008 will have a cabin for five passengers, although the rear center seat will be relegated for occasional use or for short and / or young occupants. The vehicle will be mounted on the EMP2 platform of the PSA Group.
This new sports coupe will come with a range of engines. There will be a three-cylinder PureTech petrol and four-cylinder BlueHDi diesel engines.
In addition, two plug- in hybrid versions will be available with significant autonomy in 100 percent electric mode. Both electrified versions will draw on a 1.6-liter THP petrol engine used by the new DS 7 Crossback. The GT and GTi labels are also expected to be present in the range of the new Peugeot 4008.


02.09.19: As of Monday, 02.09.2019, Indonesian security forces continued raiding villages in the Gome District of Puncak Regency. The number of civilians forced to leave their villages and flee to Yenggernok continues to rise and has reached around 1500 people.
Security forces began raiding a number of villages in the Gome District on August 24th, 2019 in pursuit of the West Papuan National Liberation Army (TPNPB), who are led by Goliath and Anton Tabuni. The raid immediately caused 800 civilians to flee to Yenggernok village, also in the Gome District.
One Gome District resident who asked not to be identified for safety reasons stated that the number of refugees has now increased to around 1500 people. “Right now there are around 1500 people who are displaced. They have come from many villages in Gome,” he stated to a reporter from Tabloid Jubi via cell phone.
Based on his observations, the displaced people come from Misimaga, Agiyome, Gome, Kelaungin, Ninggabuma, Tegelobak, Upage, Wako and Yonggolawi villages. Some of the refugees are being housed in makeshift tents set up in the courtyard of the Indonesian Gospel Camp Church (GKII) in Yenggernok village. Others are being housed by the Samaria Church, and are scattered among the homes of 17 residents in Yenggernok.
One of the refugees, Mama Waker, stated that over the last few days the food supplies for the refugees have begun running low. “We want to take food from the gardens, but it is difficult because the security forces are occupying the community gardens. We are being forced to wait for food assistance from the government,” they said.
One of the refugee volunteers in Yenggernok, Torius Tabuni, said that since the raids by security forces began on August 24th, 2019, he had received information regarding the deaths of four civilians in Gome. A resident named Ginobinok Tabuni (60) died after being trapped in a burning home on Saturday, August 24th, 2019. His family buried them the next day.
Minanggen Wakerkwa (60) died on Monday, August 26th, 2019, while fleeing through the forest and was buried by his family. A high school student named Yul Magai (18) died from gunshot wounds. “High school students going to school not wearing uniforms are being shot at. He died on August 28th, 2019. An elderly woman whose name is unknown died of natural causes at the refugee camp on August 31st due to age and illness,” stated Torius Tabuni.


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The Southern Border region is one of the most diverse, economically vibrant, and safest areas of the country, home to about 15 million people. It is a place of hope and opportunity, not fear and conflict. President Trump is throwing a tantrum and now threatening to declare a national emergency by spewing blatant lies about the border and our communities in a sinister attempt to justify his deadly, wasteful and harmful border wall. President Trump is wrong to use federal workers and their families, along with asylum seekers, immigrant youth, border communities or anybody else as political bargaining chips for a hateful campaign promise. The only crisis we see in our communities is one stemming from excessive, unchecked militarization - and a humanitarian crisis of Trump’s own making.
This is what we know to be true along the southern border:
Southern border communities are among the safest in the nation, according to FBI statistics. In fact, the southern border region, which includes such cities as San Diego, CA, Douglas, AZ, Las Cruces, NM, and El Paso, TX, are among the safest in the country. There is no evidence to support Trump’s misguided attempts to create a crisis where there isn’t one.
The southern border is an engine of economic growth. The Southern Border is a key engine of economic growth; an international trade hub that creates jobs and generates wealth across the country. The families that live across the southern border aspire to live in peace and harmony, working and raising families just like other families across the nation.
The southern border is a place of hope and opportunity—not a place of confrontation, hate, and out-of-control militarization. Trump is manufacturing a crisis in one of the most vibrant regions in our nation to fulfill a campaign promise based on hate and fear. Border communities have already endured 700 miles of walls built in our towns, neighborhoods and even backyards. We know firsthand that there is no national security emergency at the border, only the one that exists in Trump’s mind. Walls and hyper-militarization don’t make us safer, but do hurt the 15 million people who call the southern border region home, endanger wildlife and the environment, and are a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
There is no emergency at the border, but instead a humanitarian crisis—and it is a crisis of Trump’s own making. Apprehension rates at the southern border are at historic lows - and the majority of those seeking entry at our southern border are families and kids fleeing from spiraling violence and poverty. Instead of responding to the increase of families and others seeking protection by strengthening capacity to process asylum claims, the Trump administration is spurring a humanitarian crisis through vindictive policies—tearing kids from their parents, tear gassing toddlers, and attempting to close legal channels for individuals to apply for asylum.
Southern border residents don’t want a wall, and neither does the rest of the country. Poll after poll has shown that southern border communities reject the notion of building more walls with their southern border neighbors. For example, over 30 cities and counties in the southern border region have issued resolutions opposing border walls. All nine congressional representatives serving border districts oppose more border wall funding. According to a recent poll, 65 percent of the people who live here do not want a wall. Instead, they want to revitalize their communities with better K-12 education and other policies that revitalize, not militarize our communities.


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North Carolina will play Dayton on Thursday in the final game of the NIT Championship 2010. If the Tar Heels manage to win, they will be the the first program to follow an NCAA national title with an NIT title.
The NIT actually predates the NCAA championship in terms of history. It was started in 1938, predating the NCAA Tournament, by one year. The NIT consists of 32 teams, and formerly all games were held in Madison Square Garden. A change was made in 1977, now only the Quarter finals through Championship games are in MSG.
In the NIT championship 2010, a number of teams that usually make the NCAA saw off years and were in this tournament. Among the teams in the NIT this year that normally are seeded in the NCAA, or at least, have been at some time in the past, are the Tar Heels, but also Texas Tech, NC State, UConn.
In order to reach the NIT championship game, North Carolina had to squeak out a win over the Rhode Island Rams (26-10). The Tar Heels won 68-67 in overtime Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, Dayton (24-12) overcame Mississippi (24-11) 68-63. Chris Johnson scored 22 points, and had to make five tense (and key) free throws down the stretch.
The NIT championship 2010 will be decided Thursday night, April 1st. The game will begin at 7 PM ET, broadcast on ESPN.
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Well, I just got back from a much needed camping vacation at the lake. We had so much fun and I had the privilege of sitting back, relaxing and spending time with the family. It was wonderful.
My family started going to the lake when I was about 15 years old and haven’t stopped since. I’ve gained many fond camping memories throughout the years.
Just the other night as my dad and I sat around the campfire, we began to talk about some of the reasons we have loved camping for so long. It’s just a totally different experience than going on a great big vacation to a large city or an amusement park somewhere.
Here are some of the reasons we came up with for going on a family camping trip and foregoing the typical big vacation, or at least occasionally.
- Rest and Relaxation: The atmosphere of the lake provides a simplicity and peacefulness that’s not so easy to come by these days with all our hectic schedules. As opposed to the normal vacation schedule in which you are busily zooming from one attraction to another, the peaceful outdoors and nice fresh air are the attractions.
- Inexpensive: Camping is a relatively inexpensive vacation option. The campsite we rented was only $20 a night, pretty cheap in comparison to a hotel bill. If you don’t have a tent, you can probably borrow one from a friend or family member. Even if you have to buy one, it’s a one time investment that will last many trips. You’re also grilling and eating simple foods that don’t cost near as much as going out to restaurants. Of course, another biggie is no expensive amusement park tickets.
- Quality Family Time: One of the best parts about camping is the quality time you can spend with your family. Since you’re in one place and not hustling to get from one place to another, you have plenty of time for togetherness. Some of the things we did this past weekend included throwing frisbees, riding bikes, making s’mores around the campfire and a little swimming. Actually the kids did the swimming, it was a little too chilly for the rest of us…burrr! We did sit and watch them have fun though.
Even if you’ve never tried camping before, it’s never to late to embark on this new adventure. You just might find yourself addicted too.
Does your family ever go on camping trips? If so, what types of things do you like to do?
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The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has identified a body found floating in a canal near West Palm Beach earlier this month.
The body of Rene Perez Hernandez, 48, was discovered Sept. 3 at 1:46 p.m. near the intersection of Congress Avenue and Southern Boulevard.
Investigators said no foul play was suspected in Hernandez's death.
The sheriff's office did not give a cause of death.
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(Cybertech) – Windows 10 X has died. Yet another version of Windows that we never knew.
My issue with this is not that Microsoft has killed it because it realised it wouldn’t be a success – such conviction should be applauded – but that it’s yet another failure to create a lightweight version of Windows.
Such an operating system could have been ideal for tablets and other devices like the Surface Pro X in addition to the confirmed and now delayed Surface Neo.
Over the last decade we’ve also seen Windows RT (basically Windows 8 running on ARM) and Windows 10 S (or Windows 10 in S Mode) launch as well. Both fell away. And then there’s Windows 10 X which – although the same – can be seen as being a Chrome OS equivalent for lightweight, accessible Windows machines with a simplified Star menu app launcher and taskbar.
Apps remain a problem
The key reason Microsoft can’t make a success of these is three-fold in our opinion – firstly, as Microsoft appears to have admitted, there isn’t the appetite for a lightweight version of Windows from potential purchasers. They’re happy with Windows 10 by-and-large and with 1.3 billion active Windows 10 devices out there, there’s an argument not to break what has already been fixed.
Secondly, a lightweight version of Windows, whether RT, 10 S or 10 X can’t be a success without developers developing Microsoft Store apps. Here there’s a problem because Microsoft has constantly failed to engage developers enough with the store, from its struggles with Windows 10, the unconvincing example of its own Skype app on Windows 8 through to now, where it’s simply not possible to rely on the Windows Store entirely.
Thirdly and crucially, Microsoft was so bad at communicating how Windows RT or Windows 10 S were different from the mainstream version of Windows. Microsoft told me at the launch of Windows 8 in 2012 that it would tell customers how it was different from Windows 8.
“We definitely are working hard at retail or at any point of purchase to make sure customers do understand what Windows RT is”. That’s what Windows 8 marketing head Tami Reller told me during an interview at the time.
The main problem was that you couldn’t install desktop apps, instead relying on the Microsoft Store which was woefully inadequate at the time.
And it repeated the trick with Windows 10 S (or Windows 10 in S Mode), citing security as the reason but confusing a lot of consumers in the process that then had to struggle to switch their machines out of S Mode and into standard Windows 10.
Indeed, I had a call from a lady I know recently who had this very problem – she had downloaded the Zoom Rooms app from the Store, but that isn’t the same as the standard desktop Zoom client. I had to talk her through the complicated process to upgrade so she could download the desktop app.
So while there are some good reasons that Microsoft has decided to can Windows 10 X, it’s pretty clear to me that it only has itself to blame. With the proper infrastructure and understanding in place, it should have made a success of Windows 10 S, even if Windows RT was a bit before its time.
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And with ARM-based PCs now on the rise thanks to Qualcomm’s Windows on Snapdragon and Apple Silicon in particular (as well as the rise of Google’s Chromebooks) the time for Windows 10 X really should have been now.
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For the past two years, Rep. Linda Sanchez has had to fend off two well-financed campaigns from Republican Tim Escobar.
This year, Sanchez, D-Lakewood, will have opposition from her own Democratic party, including one candidate who ran for the seat four years ago when there was no incumbent.
Kenneth Graham, 52, of Lynwood, a constitutional law professor at Cal State Long Beach and USC, placed fifth out of six candidates in the 2002 primary election that Sanchez won.
Frank Amador, 46, of Los Angeles is an attorney who can’t vote for himself because he doesn’t live in the district. Candidates only have to live in the state in order to run for Congress.
Bill Wachob, campaign consultant for Sanchez, who was unavailable for comment on Friday because she was traveling, said she’s not worried about her opposition.
“It’s anybody’s opportunity to run,” Wachob said. “She really looks forward to putting her record out there and talking to voters about what she’s done in the district.”
The two challengers come at Sanchez from the left and right.
Citing his experience of 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Graham said he would be a better voice to speak out against the Bush administration’s foreign policy.
“It’s come time to end” the Iraq war, Graham said. “When I’m elected, I will be a force of reckoning, a voice that advocates the interests of military against the war. She hasn’t done anything.”
He also criticizes Congress and Sanchez for not doing enough to protect Social Security and health care and for not doing enough in terms of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
Wachob said that Sanchez has done as much as she can to oppose the Bush administration.
“She has been a very outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s handling of Medicare, Social Security and the war on Iraq,” he said. “She was ranked by National Journal as one of the five most liberal members in all of Congress.”
Amador disagrees with both Graham and Sanchez on issues like the Iraq War and Social Security and said he also has more experience in life.
“We’re in a situation we have to see through. We can’t just get up and go,” Amador said of Iraq. “We need to be in until the country is stabilized.” He also said that privatization of Social Security is something that needs to be considered.
Wachob said Sanchez won’t take Amador seriously because he doesn’t live in the district.
“Until he does that, he doesn’t know what the people of this district need or want,” Wachob said.
Amador said he plans to move into the district, but the fact that he does not live there now is not a big deal.
“Why wouldn’t I be able to represent the district because I don’t live there?” he asked. “In Congress you make the laws for the entire nation.”
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In November 2012, Cabinet approved the 5-year strategy, Rising to the Challenge: The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan 2012–2017 (Rising to the Challenge). This strategy builds on and supports previous strategies.
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Michigan State Football and head coach Mel Tucker have been on a recruiting frenzy this week, with a barrage of offers going out to players around the country. One of the latest offers came from 2022 3-star weakside defensive end Jihaad Campbell, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound pass rusher from Timber Creek High School in New Jersey.
An offer for Spartans fans
Campbell is the No. 28 ranked weakside defensive end in New Jersey and the No. 19 ranked player in the state according to 247Sports. While Campbell is not super highly ranked, he does have some offers from some major programs in the country, like Texas, Michigan, Clemson, Ole Miss, and Penn State.


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Way back when I started the blog I posted my Christmas Wish List. Well my 30th birthday is just around the corner, so i figured I would do it again. Here is my birthday wishlist of doom!
Little King's Story (wii) (released late June)
Take a little pikmin, add a dash of animal crossing and you get Little King's Story. A very silly game. Why does all the cool stuff come out after my birthday?
Peanuts 1960's dvd (released July)
A collection of classic 1960's Peanuts Cartoon including one of my favorite: Charlie Brown's All-Stars. Again why July? Shouldn't the world revolve around me!!!
Wreck-gar transformer figure
Its weird al as a transformer. How cool is that? This guy is almost impossible to find in stores.
One Piece Second Voyage DVD set
One Piece Third Voyage DVD set
One Piece Fourth Voyage DVD set
Hey didn't I ask for these back in December? :p These are the really, really good episodes where the team finally comes together.
Brandon Bird Print from brandonbird.com
Brandon Bird paints weird paintings of celebrities. I've wanted one for years so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Any print will do.
Tom Everhart Print (Last Supper)
Tom Everhart Print (Dog Breath)
Tom Everhart is the only artist allowed to paint the Peanuts gang. Here are my two favorite prints.
NECA TMNT Figures Set
Again, December? And where is the Shredder figure? :p


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Lots of interesting reading going on around here these days, including:
- Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment. This is my first Ferrante, and probably won’t be my last. It was a strange book, difficult — in the sense of emotionally wrenching — unpleasant, surreal at times. It’s the story of a woman dealing with her husband’s abandonment, and it starts off in what feels like familiar territory but then veers off into unexpected places. I can’t say I enjoyed the book exactly, but I was intrigued by it. The book was unpleasant in a way I’m not entirely sure how I feel about, but this was not entirely bad.
- Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests. I may have been spoiled for further Sarah Waters books by Fingersmith, which I liked a whole lot. I’ve also read The Night Watch, which was good but not quite as good, and now The Paying Guests was not quite as good as well. I thought the first half was too slowly paced and the direction the plot was heading in was obvious. The second half picked up the pace a lot, which was good, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the entire thing needed more shaping and editing. I was reasonably happy reading this — Waters is good at what she does — but I wanted more. I read Waters to get immersed in a good story, and she sometimes delivers that, but this was uneven.
- Matthew Salesses’s I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying. This one was intriguing. It’s a fairly short book, and is described as a novel written in flash fiction, or “short-shorts,” which sounds kind of gimmicky, but it worked really well. There are 115 short chapters, usually only part of a page long, describing a man’s experience as he finds out about and meets his five-year-old son. It’s a first-person narration from this man’s point of view, and he is straightforward about his many affairs and infidelities and all his other character flaws. There’s something about his voice that is compelling in spite of all his unpleasantness. But mostly it’s the writing that makes this book so good. Each chapter is a self-contained unit that’s a little like a poem in its richness. I wanted to slow down and read each piece slowly so as not to miss anything.


2. Olbermann Suggests Plame Case "Deja Vu" for Watergate's John Dean
3. If "Liar" Cheney Runs, Helen Thomas Promises "I'll Kill Myself"
Correction: The July 28 CyberAlert carried the correct July 28 date, but was mislabeled as "Wednesday" instead of the correct day, Thursday.
Seemingly prompted by a Tuesday AP story on how "the United States and Australia are the only industrialized countries that don't provide paid leave for new mothers," an article USA Today posted online Wednesday under the headline, "U.S. behind other countries in terms of maternity leave," NBC's Today on Thursday jumped on the supposed problem and featured the same professor and liberal Congressman quoted by the AP. Co-host Campbell Brown demanded: "Why does the rest of the world get paid leave while moms here race back to work?" She declared that the lack of a law requiring paid maternity leave is "a real problem." Matt Lauer echoed: "It's really important for so many working moms, it's just unbelievable." Reporter Mark Mullen unfavorably compared the U.S. with Canada and Sweden before he featured a professor who asserted that "we are a disaster" on guaranteed leave. Mullen painted the current Family and Medical Leave Act inadequate and then promoted how a liberal Congressman, naturally unlabeled, wants to "give parents more."
With "America vs. The World" as the on-screen moniker, the July 28 Today brought aboard Carol Evans of Working Mother magazine to whine about the situation. Brown began: "So listening to that taped piece, we're not doing very well in this."
The MRC's Geoff Dickens took down the plugs fill-in co-host Campbell Brown delivered on the July 28 Today, starting at the top of the program: "Also ahead. New moms and maternity leave. Why does the rest of the world get paid leave while moms here race back to work? We're gonna have some very surprising statistics about that."
At the top of the 7:30m half hour: "And then later the truth about maternity leave. How do we stack up compared to other countries? And the answer might surprise you."
Before and ad break at 7:38am: "And still ahead. Why the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to maternity leave and what you can do if you're a new mom."
Standing outside in front of the crowd at 8am: "We also have another really interesting story coming up in this half hour. If you have a baby, have children or are thinking about having a baby some interesting information about maternity leave policies. The United States is only one of two, let me get this right, Australia's the other one, two industrialized countries that [meant to say "don't"] guarantee moms paid maternity leave and it's a real problem or at least something you need to look, look at ahead of time. And we're gonna give you some information on how to find out about your company's policies and what we can do about it."
Lauer soon plugged the next segment: "When we come back, moms, money and maternity leave. Why some businesses may be giving moms in the U.S. the short end of the stick."
Finally, after all the hype, at 8:11am Today arrived at the crisis. Brown lamented: "In most of the world mothers with newborns are guaranteed at least some paid leave from work to take care of their new arrivals but new moms here in the U.S. don't get that luxury. Here's NBC's Mark Mullen."
Mullen began with the plight of an American woman, though he did not identify her location: "Raylynne Daza [sp] treasures the days she spends with her son Aiden. Her maternity leave expires soon and before she's really ready Raylynne will go back to work and leave her baby in child care."
With "Maternity Leave: America vs. The World" on screen, Brown set up an interview segment: "Carol Evans is the CEO of Working Mother Magazine. Carol, good morning to you....So listening to that taped piece, we're not doing very well in this-"
Evans consumed the rst of her time by outlining how to press the human resources department.
Home page for Evans' magazine: www.workingmother.com
"U.S. Sets Own Course on Maternity Leave" read the headline over a July 26 AP story by business reporter Peter Svensson, as posted by Yahoo.
The next day, USA Today posted it in the Money section of its Web site under the more aggressive headline, "U.S. behind other countries in terms of maternity leave."
An excerpt from Svensson's story:
In Santa Fe, N.M., Linda Strauss McIlroy, a first-time mother, is trying to get used to the thought of soon putting her two-month-old boy in day care so she can get back to work.
"It's hard for me to imagine leaving him," she says. "Just not being with him all day, leaving him with a virtual stranger. And then that's it till, you know, I retire. It's kind of crazy to think about it."
Across the border in Vancouver, British Columbia, Suzanne Dobson is back at work after 14 months of paid maternity leave.
"It was great," she says. "I was still making pretty good money for being at home."
Across the ocean, in Sweden, Magnus Larsson is looking forward to splitting 16 months of parental leave at 80 percent pay with his girlfriend. They are expecting their first baby in a week.
With little public debate, the United States has chosen a radically different approach to maternity leave than the rest of the developed world. The United States and Australia are the only industrialized countries that don't provide paid leave for new mothers nationally, though there are exceptions in some U.S. states.
Australian mothers have it better, however, with one year of job-protected leave. The U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act provides for 12 weeks of job-protected leave, but it only covers those who work for larger companies.
To put it another way, out of 168 nations in a Harvard University study last year, 163 had some form of paid maternity leave, leaving the United States in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
How did it end up this way?
"To me it's a puzzle. I can give you all the arguments that have been used, but that still doesn't really solve the puzzle," says Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, a professor of child development and education at Columbia University....
There have been several attempts at introducing paid maternity leave in the United States. The Clinton administration wanted to allow states to use unemployment funds for maternity leaves, but that was shot down by the Bush administration after opposition from business groups concerned with increased contribution to state unemployment funds.
A bill introduced in the House by Reps. Pete Stark and George Miller, both D-Calif., would establish a fund that would replace 55 percent of pay for workers on FMLA leave. Contributions to the fund would come from employers.
"There are a couple of central problems when we look at paid leave legislation. The first is: who's paying for it?" asks Michael Eastman, director of labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
U.S. employers already pay $21 billion a year in direct costs related to the FMLA, Eastman says, in addition to indirect costs like additional overtime for those who fill in for workers on leave....
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For the article, as posted by Yahoo: news.yahoo.com
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann remains obsessed with the Plame/Rove case and with analogizing it to Watergate. On Thursday night's Countdown he devoted a segment to "questions about a third administration official who may have leaked the classified information without a reporter even asking about it." Describing that as "the latest tentacle springing out from what some have already called 'The Never-Ending Story,'" as if he has nothing to do with making sure it never ends, Olbermann introduced a Watergate figure and linked the two scandals by suggesting the guest may have "a sense of deja vu" now: "Paying close attention to that story both for a series of columns on the Findlaw Web site and because perhaps of his own sense of deja vu, is John Dean, the White House counsel to Richard Nixon and author of the book, 'Worse than Watergate.'"
The Tuesday and Wednesday night Countdown shows, without Olbermann, featured segments on the Plame case and Olbermann did segments all last week. On Monday's show, as recounted in the July 26 CyberAlert, Olbermann applied a Watergate analogy to the Plame/Rove case as he asserted that "in the same summer in which Deep Throat has been identified, that remodeled phrase from Watergate keeps reappearing: What did the 'fill-in-the-blank' know and when did he know it?" Olbermann noted how "the White House Chief-of-Staff knew about the investigation at least 12 hours before the White House itself was warned." Citing a supposedly "potentially explosive question," Olbermann reveled in how "a phone call between Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card" is "raising eyebrows and raising questions about a 12-hour gap, a 12-hour gap that might really be an 84-hour gap." As for whether President Bush will sacrifice Karl Rove, Olbermann recalled how "Richard Nixon loved Ehrlichman and Haldeman and got rid of them both on the same day." www.mediaresearch.org
A plug at 8:15pm EDT: "And the plot thickens also in the outing of the CIA officer, Valerie Plame. Questions about a third administration official who may have leaked the classified information without a reporter even asking about it."
At 8:30pm EDT: "From real men of genius to men under real suspicion. Never mind Karl Rove, is a third White House staffer believed to have talked to a reporter about Valerie Plame?"
Olbermann set up the eventual segment: "A third administration figure has now been injected into the CIA leak/Karl Rove investigation. A reporter's source, who is neither Rove nor Vice President Cheney's Chief-of-Staff, Scooter Libby, and a reporter's source whose reporter makes it clear in no uncertain terms the source volunteered the information that Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA analyzing weapons of mass destruction. Our third story on the Countdown, to borrow the title of the old Carol Reed/Joseph Cotton/Orson Wells masterpiece, 'The Third Man.'
White House press corps veteran Helen Thomas, now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, told The Hill newspaper that if "Dick Cheney is going to run for President, I'll kill myself," adding: "All we need is one more liar." The "Under the Capitol Dome" column by Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour in the July 28 Hill, a newspaper which covers Capitol Hill, also quoted Thomas as asserting: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
On National Review's "The Corner" blog early Thursday morning Kathryn Jean Lopez noted the Thomas remarks quoted by The Hill: corner.nationalreview.com
....Thomas, a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers who has covered the White House since the Kennedy administration, wrote in May that Cheney "certainly could campaign on the theme that he has had experience in running the White House."
Thomas made the suggestion in a column she wrote about President Bush's not being notified about a terror scare caused by an off-course Cessna airplane until after it was over, according to Editor & Publisher magazine.
Declaring that the incident "again raises the question of who's running the show," Thomas also noted Cheney's central role on Sept. 11 and the widely held view that he is "probably the most powerful vice president in recent times, perhaps in U.S. history."
But asked this week if she is promoting a Cheney candidacy, Thomas made it clear she isn't.
"The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told The Hill. "All we need is one more liar."
Thomas added, "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
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But she admires Bill Clinton. Here's how she introduced him at an October 9, 2001 Greater Washington Society of Association Executives lecture shown on C-SPAN:
That won the "Bring Back Bubba Award" at the MRC's DisHonors Awards held in early 2002. For a RealPlayer clip of Thomas: www.mediaresearch.org
-- Brent Baker


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It's difficult to ignore the headlines about rising rents in America's coastal cities. In places like San Francisco and New York City, formerly working-class neighborhoods have been transformed into enclaves where only the wealthiest can afford to live. On the other hand, cities in the Southeast are often seen as relatively affordable compared to these pricey metropolises. But research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Community and Economic Development (CED) group shows that low-cost rented housing is increasingly out of reach for low- and moderate-income households in the Southeast. From Nashville to Miami, southeastern renters are feeling the pinch of an increasingly unaffordable market.
These are the findings of "Declines in Low-Cost Rented Housing Units in Eight Large Southeastern Cities," a new CED discussion paper by Dan Immergluck, Ann Carpenter, and Abram Lueders. The paper demonstrates that eight major cities in the Southeast have lost significant numbers of affordable housing units, and they've gained large numbers of luxury-priced rentals. The eight cities—Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, and Tampa in the Fed's Atlanta District and Memphis in the Fed's St. Louis District—each experienced declines in the number of low-cost units, with varying levels of magnitudes of change. Nashville, for example, lost 7,778 low-cost rental units in a four-year period while it gained almost 3,925 higher-cost units (see the table and figure).
The paper's findings are based on census tract-level data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS). Changes in units by gross rent categories were calculated between ACS five-year estimates for two periods: 2006–10 and 2010–14. Low-cost units were defined as those with rents under $750 a month (considered affordable for a household with an annual income of $30,000). Higher-cost units were defined as those with rents over $1,500 a month. Losses in low-cost rental units were scattered among neighborhoods within the studied cities. However, an analysis of tract-level data found that tracts with a younger population, newer housing stock, and low poverty rates experienced the largest losses in affordable housing.
There are many trends that could be contributing to the loss of low-cost rented units in the Southeast. First, aging low-cost rental housing is often abandoned once the cost of maintenance exceeds its potential rental income. Previously affordable rental units may be upgraded into luxury units as rental demand increases, while increased demand for land may make affordable housing cost-prohibitive. Some of the increase in higher-cost rentals may also include single-family homes that were converted into rental housing in the wake of the Great Recession. Together, these factors spell trouble for renters.
When rents rise, the financial burden on renters can take a severe toll. Housing experts typically agree that a household shouldn't have to spend more than 30 percent of its income on housing. Above this level, households are considered to be "cost-burdened." In the eight studied cities, more than 80 percent of households with incomes below $35,000 were paying over 30 percent of their income on housing. Additionally, over 50 percent of all households in these cities—regardless of income—were cost-burdened.
Maintaining a supply of affordable rental housing is an increasingly important goal for cities throughout the Sixth District. The nature of affordable housing loss varies from city to city, and successful mitigation strategies will have to take the unique dynamics of individual markets into account. But without thoughtful policy and investment, it's unlikely that the pattern of decreasing affordability can be halted. The findings and implications of this paper should provide a helpful starting point for stakeholders across the region engaged with this complex and crucial issue.


*Despite a public brushing off her husband Robin Thicke’s sexualized performance with Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards, TMZ is reporting that privately, Paula Patton felt humiliated — and it set in motion the path to their separation.
Sources connected to the couple tell TMZ that Patton felt “utterly disrespected” when Robin virtually simulated sex with Miley on stage. After the performance Paula reportedly got into a blow-out argument with Robin, telling him he insulted her before a huge national TV audience.
What really pissed Paula off is that the performance was a total surprise, notes TMZ. Miley improvised the raunchy part without warning, but Robin played along … and that enraged Paula.
Sources say Paula also became irate when she saw photos surface of her hubby at one of the after-parties cupping a woman’s behind.
“We’re told things never got better after that,” reports TMZ. “They argued constantly and Paula was furious Robin continued to party at clubs with various women … pictured at times getting very cozy.
“It reached the point of no return last week — at least for Paula. As we reported … Robin is pulling out all the stops to change her mind, but we’re told she wants out of the marriage.”
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