Contains a photo of every MLS player (except two) and coach in the league's history, who have played at least one meaningful game. Many thanks to everyone who helped me find some of the more obscure players, including all those on Bigsoccer and Dan of Metrofanatic. Enjoy.
CORRECTIONS: The pictures of Chris Brunt and Washington Rodriguez are of the wrong people. Here are the real MLS players. I've updated the download links with these photos replacing the previous ones.
Yay, another first place ranking New York fans can be embarrassed about.
The expansion teams will obviously rank lower here, except for Chivas which has their own "source" of players. The league's two most successful franchises are at the top. New York is an interesting case because they have brought in so many failures. See their rank in the next category.
Assistant to the Interim Manager?
That's what Peter Nowak is leaving DC United for? To be Bob Bradley's assistant? That seems like a big step down to me. Why would you leave the best team in the league to play second fiddle to a guy you outperformed over the past three years? Could you imagine that scenario in any other league than MLS? Hopefully (for his sake) he has something lined up in Europe.
So that's two MLS coaches gone for the national team. I guess it's likely that Bradley will end up being that coach over the entire next cycle. After all, why would you leave your club just to be an interim coach for six months (he couldn't do both?) ? That's just great. So in 2010 we'll make the round of 16 if we're lucky, get eliminated, and be right back where we are now.
So the failure to get Klinsmann or Pekerman not only is a lost opportunity, but now it hurts MLS as well. Great. And of course, you can't get good foreign coaches to replace Bradley or Nowak, because they're not familiar with the league's system of drafting, allocations, and playoffs. Not that they're worth it, because it doesn't matter how you do for 90% of the season anyway.
I'm posting less now that it's the offseason, and I thought I would summarize my thoughts on all the pressing soccer issues in one post.
This is incredibly disappointing. Not because he's a bad coach, it's just that there's no way he will be able to bring something highly different to the table. We need a foreign coach to do that, someone with experience at the highest levels of the game. Why? Because, the goal is to win the World Cup. I think all Americans realize that there's virtually no way we can possibly win the 2010 World Cup, due to the fact that the players we have now are not good enough. Incidentally, that's why everyone goes crazy over every young kid and wants them capped, because we already know what the veterans can do (and it's not good enough).
So if our players aren't good enough to win it, the only super slim chance we have is to have a brilliant coach like Otto Rehhagel with Greece. Bradley is not going to be that guy. Why not hire someone who will bring in a different way of thinking? MLS (and the popularity of soccer) will not succeed or fail based on the national team results. The national team coach doesn't need to do any developing of players, so even if it fails miserably it's not going to set us back as a soccer playing nation. Bradley is more of the same and that does nothing for us. He's not even the best choice in MLS (Peter Nowak anyone?).
This is a good trade for all parties. First, Adu can easily do Andy Williams' job. RSL's defensive needs are far more pressing, but this and the signing of Luis Tejada should make them better. Nick Rimando should be an improvement over Scott Garlick as well. And of course, the media attention is a big part of this. RSL needs to do something after two bad years, and they have to finally get the stadium built. Also, the Utah Jazz are having an outstanding season, their first good one since RSL came into existence. They also gave up a major allocation, but given their track record they had a good chance of messing it up anyway. Now they need to sign a defender.
DC didn't need Adu, and now they can sign a good player from South America. As for Freddy himself, he finally gets to run the show with an MLS team. He probably should've been traded after last year. While he probably wasn't ready to start before, given the relative meaninglessness of the regular season, why not? I expect him to do well, though.
As Grant Wahl mentions, it seems like given how Dempsey's transfer is playing out, Adu will be here for the entire 2007 season. I don't agree when he says that DC comes out better though, especially when you take into account the off the field stuff.
As the Salt Lake Tribune reported, some info was released coincidentally at the same time the Adu trade broke (yeah right). The article says that "RSL averaged nearly 10,000 in paid attendance its first two seasons at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium." Nearly appears to mean that it was actually less than 10,000, which directly contradicts the numbers leaked to the San Diego Tribune during the Summer. There, the 2005 paid attendance was listed at 12,689 although 18,037 was announced. So that means that either the 2006 season was much worse for the team (unlikely), or that the previous number was wrong (probably). Or RSL is lying, but they would be stupid to lie if they really want the stadium.
Anyway, does that mean that all the San Diego article numbers are wrong? There's no way to know. There's also the possibility that the Salt Lake Tribune reported something wrong, but in summary it seems like RSL is doing worse than previously thought. I should mention that 10,000 paid would still put them in the top half of the league, and is ultimately meaningless as long as the stadium is built. There's also an AP article with more stuff.
Is a couple of degrees really that bad? With small stadiums, you should expect a sellout anyway. That to me is probably the most disturbing thing. Why change the SSS only policy (if there was one) now? Sure, DC is a great soccer city, but it's a freaking baseball stadium with a covered up infield. So the quality of the field and the overall soccer experience will be less. How can they effectively sell stadiums if they don't hold their championship match in one? After a great year, looks like a bit of the "old MLS" has reared its ugly head.
MLS execs must be thinking about the big crowds in the pre-SSS days. But with all the money that's pouring into the league, they really don't need it. Forget the money, I'll take 20,000 fans in a real soccer stadium over 60,000 in RFK anyday. The improved appearance on tv is well worth the loss of revenue.
The only reason this decision makes any sense is if you consider geography. The last MLS Cup on the East coast was in 2002. So if that's the reason, then I guess I can live with that.
I'll leave the fond memories and tributes to others, but I just want to point out the differences in the Kansas City Star and Dallas Morning News articles today. I know he owned the Chiefs, but he also owned the Wizards until recently. So you would think that the KC Star would have more than a sentence or two about the Wizards. There's also very little about tennis or any of the soccer stuff, and the timeline at the bottom is missing so many important milestones, they should've left it out completely. No mention of his love of the World Cup either. The Dallas article does a much better job at encompassing everything that he did, and is also written more beautifully. Great job.
This past week we've taken a look at the year by year rankings for offenses and defenses in MLS. Looking a little more closely, I've made a list of which teams were truly great or horrible based just on those rankings. The following lists are those teams which were in the top or bottom three in both offense and defense.
The 2002 Galaxy are the only champions to be ranked in the top three in both categories. It's interesting also to see which teams make it on here and which are left out. Both of the Earthquakes' triumphs miss out, and yet the 2002 team makes it? 1999 for the Fire? The worst team on here is the 1997 Dallas Burn, who actually had a losing record (13-14-5 w/no shootouts).
Thanks again to the 2006 Rapids, who showed us how unfair the MLS playoff system is. Teams like that don't deserve to be one game away from the championship. I don't believe any of the others here advanced past the first round of the playoffs. The Wizards' championship was surrounded by two horrible years, although they did make the playoffs in 2001. Actually, they only finished two games under .500 that year, but still had a -20 goal differential. The worst goal differential to make the playoffs is Miami 1998 (-22). The best team on this list was the 2000 Rapids.
The host's spot (South Africa) will NOT count as part of the CAF's (Africa) five spots. This is very interesting, because I always assumed that this should be the way it's done. However, with the places changing every time you could never tell for sure exactly if that was the case or not. I know that the in the 1994 qualifying, CONCACAF only got one spot because the USA hosted. They previously had two in 1990. But I used to play Championship/Football Manager, and they similarly took the host's spot out of the regular places. Not that they were perfectly accurate.
Seems it varies from tourney to tourney. For example, in the 2005 U17 World Cup, only two CONMEBOL teams qualified along with Peru as hosts. Same for Finland in the 2003 edition. But that's changed for 2007 (partly due to an increase in teams from 16 to 24). This change is the correct thing to do for all worldwide international tournaments. The host's place should be separate.
The other big change is that now CONCACAF's fourth place team will play CONMEBOL's fifth place team in the playoffs. Last time CONCACAF played AFC (Asia); the matchup was Trinidad vs Bahrain. This also makes complete sense, and was entirely predictable. For those who don't remember, originally OFC (Oceania) was given their own full spot in the 2006 World Cup, leaving CONMEBOL with only four. As the only confederations with half spots, that's why CONCACAF and AFC were matched up. It was only later that half a place was taken from OFC and given to CONMEBOL, creating another playoff.
Actually, it's moot because now the OFC champion will compete in the AFC's final round. It's scary that FIFA is making such good decisions. Last time AFC's final round consisted of eight teams; with the addition of Australia and the OFC champion it makes sense to go to ten. That's what I'm predicting. New Zealand should be able to hold their own against teams like Bahrain and Uzbekistan, although they probably don't have enough talent to make it.
There have been a total of 49 head coaches in MLS, including interim. Including all competitions (not just the regular season) through 2006, which ones have done the best?
29/49 meet the 50 game requirement, while everyone else has 36 or fewer. The bottom three are Ivo Wortman (1.11), Alfonso Mondelo (1.06), and John Ellinger (0.93).
Also, there's a really interesting stat about MLS coaches that I read a while ago. I believe it was on Bigsoccer, from Numerista (EDIT: It was actually by ChrisE, and here's the thread)? Using regular season records only, they determined that no MLS coach has done better with their second team than with the first. That was from at least a year ago, so I double checked it myself, and it turns out that Fernando Clavijo is the only guy for whom that's not the case (1.20 vs 1.34). He still has a losing record for both teams though.


Riddle, riddle, when my mum was going, she left me something. They are with us in our homes and could be male or female. Their roles in homes are not too well defined but they generally do the washing, sweeping, dusting, mopping, ironing, washing of dishes and cooking utensils, taking care of the children and any other duties they are assigned.
I am talking about the indispensable but often vilified, maltreated and disrespected addition to our homes, the house help.
The harsh economic realities have forced most mothers, who were hitherto solely housewives, to get out and secure jobs to support their families. Coupled with this is the decline in support from the extended family. These and other factors have necessitated the recruitment of additional hands to run our homes.
In the past, these aids were recruited from within the extended family, acquaintances and close community members. The common practice these days is to recruit from agencies who provide a number of them for the client to choose from.
Those from agencies are a little more expensive since they come with agency fees, as well as higher monthly salaries. They are supposed to be trained and professional in their field of work, with their backgrounds checked but in reality, this mostly tends to be a farce.
Initially, they may go through some cultural shocks, depending on where they are coming from and require some time to adapt. For some of them, this adaptation may take eternity. Their mode of remuneration is often direct payment, though other forms of compensation include funding their training in a vocation of their choice. This is usually common with relatives.
Though the trend seems to be changing for the better, their plight is generally not a pleasant one; from how they are called, to what they eat, to where they sleep. In some homes, they are not allowed to even eat some of what they cook for the household and have to settle for leftover food. Even the children may be encouraged to abuse them.
Despite the fact that they are often the last to go to bed, they are the first to wake up and start performing duties. Often times, they enjoy no break or leave to catch some rest.
In spite of the invaluable services they provide, their importance is often not recognised until they are not there. Notice of quitting throws the whole house into disarray. With little or no notice, they can wake up one fine morning and say they are leaving; the polite ones make up stories of how they have just been informed about the illness of their parents and do not even mind using an announcement of death as an escape plan.
Somehow, some of them never see their duties as a job being rendered for money but as a favour. For some, they have to be reminded of their duties on a daily basis. Stories are told of how some connive with robbers and how they maltreat and molest children left in their care.
Some pilfer things from the home. This is mostly done by those who enjoy off days. They take anything and everything - from pegs to children's clothes to wigs, rice, soap etc. -, forgetting that they are paid for their work.
In order to improve their plight and ensure that the client gets satisfactory services, I think that their services must be regulated. For instance, there should be a mandatory period of training for them. Additionally, they should be paid a decent monthly wage irrespective of whether they are relatives or not. They should also be entitled to a daily rest period and most importantly an annual leave.
They must be reoriented to know that they are not doing a favour but working for money. Moving forward, they must be made to contribute to the national kitty as other workers do by way of taxes. There should be a solid background check on them to forestall some of the unfortunate and criminal stories we hear sometimes. A story is told of how one, a male, disguised himself as a female and got employed in a family with five young girls. The poor family has still not recovered from the devastation he left behind.
The house-help industry is a critical one which has come to stay. There is the need for the government to regularise it to ensure win-win outcomes for the house help and the employer as is the case elsewhere.


Three Vanderbilt University scientists on the forefront of research in cellular dynamics and cancer treatment will discuss their cutting-edge investigations during the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 21.
Their discussion, entitled "Cutting-Edge Molecular Tools Drive Basic Science Discovery and Patient Care," will begin at 4 p.m. in room 208 Light Hall. It is sponsored by the Office of the President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
• Lauren Parker Jackson, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry.
Zanic, a 2016 Searle Scholar, combines the tools of biology and physics to study the dynamic architecture of the microtubule cytoskeleton. Microtubules are a common target for chemotherapeutic agents and microtubule-regulating proteins are implicated in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Lovly, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, is seeking to understand and develop improved therapeutic strategies for genetically defined molecular subsets of cancer. She is co-editor-in-chief for My Cancer Genome, a free Vanderbilt-developed website that aims to provide health care practitioners and patients with up-to-date information about genetically informed cancer medicine.
Jackson, a 2016 Pew Scholar, focuses on cellular trafficking pathways that move molecular "cargoes" to specific locations in the cell. Disruptions in trafficking pathways cause human diseases including neurological disorders and cancer.


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Global M&A Partners and its member firms are firmly committed to supporting educational and medical charities operating in the third world and have also financed directly infrastructure projects such as a hydro-electric dam in Ethiopia.
Our most recent collaboration has been to provide approximately one third of the funds to build a modern secondary school in the Rift Valley in Kenya, in the town of Langalanga. The school is now fully functional and is building up to full capacity of 480 students of between 13 and 18 years (currently 240 attend). GMA is proud to have enabled the completion of this project which boasts 12 classrooms, 3 science and IT laboratories which are on a par with any first world country, a library and an assembly hall. This school with educate many generations of young Kenyans for years to come.
Other projects financed by GMA and its member firms include:
Paying for 300 cleft surgeries for children with no access to medical care in countries like India, China and the Philippines.
Building a modern hydrotherapy pool and rehabitiation centre for individuals who have lost limbs in the war in Afganistan.
Setting up and Ffnancing a centre in The Gabon to combat child trafficking.
Financing mobile medical response units in Ethiopia as well as missionary posts in that country.

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The Olomane River () is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.

Location

The Olomane basin covers .
It lies between the basins of the Washicoutai River to the west and the Coacoachou River to the east.
It includes part of the unorganized territory of Petit-Mécatina, Quebec and part of the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent.
The proposed River Natashquan Biodiversity Reserve would be partially within the watershed.

The river is more than  long, flowing to the west of the Étamamiou River.
It rises in a swampy area, first flows northwest, then makes an abrupt turn and flows south to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
The mouth of the Olomane River is in the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality.
The Innu settlement of La Romaine is on the west shore of the bay at the mouth of the river.

Description
According to the Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec (1914),

Name

Eugène Rouillard (1906) says the Innu language word Olomanoshibo means "Paint River" and refers to the reddish color of the water.
Red ocher deposits are found on the banks of the river.
The river is named Ouraman in the 1685 map by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin.
Variants of the name since the 18th century include Eau ramane (Jacques-Nicolas Bellin 1744), Oraman, Ouramane, Oraman, Olomanosheebo and Olomanasheebou.
The Olomane form was adopted in 1921.
In the Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec (1925) the river was named Grande Romaine to distinguish it from the Romaine River that enters the Gulf of Saint Lawrence  to the west at Havre-Saint-Pierre.

Settlement

The Innu people have traditionally left their winter hunting grounds and lived at the mouth of the river in summer.
A trading post operated at the mouth of the river from 1710 to 1925.
A report dated 11 May 2009 said that the community of La Romaine did not support a project to connect the settlement to the main network from Natashquan, and a partnership for a 6.6 MW hydroelectric plant on the Olomane River, located near the village, was being explored.
The existing 4 MW diesel plant was expected to no longer be sufficient by 2015.

Notes

Sources

Rivers of Côte-Nord

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Real Name: Norman Virgil Osborn
AKA: Carnage, Cletus Kasady, Commander Osborn, Director Osborn, Gobby, Goblin, Goblin King, Goblin Kingpin of Crime, Goblin Lord, Great and Terrible, Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, Os-Man, Iron Patriot, Mason Banks, Normal Osborn, Normie, Octo-Goblin, Overlord, Red Goblin, Scrier, Stormin' Norman, Storm-Guy, Stormy, Super-Adaptoid
Family: Alton Osborn, Sr. (paternal great-grandfather, deceased); Alton Osborn, Jr. (paternal grandfather, deceased); Amberson "Ambrose" Osborn (father, deceased); Unnamed mother (deceased); Emily Osborn (wife); Harry Lyman (son); Gabriel Stacy (son); Sarah Stacy (daughter); Liz Allan (ex-daughter-in-law); Normie Osborn (grandson); Stanley Osborn (grandson); "Carnage" (former symbiote); Carnage (former symbiote)
Base of Operation: Formerly Symkaria; Goblin Underground, abandoned subway under New York City, New York; Oscorp Tower, Manhattan, New York City, New York; H.A.M.M.E.R base, Avengers Tower, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Osborn Manor, Columbus Circle, New York City, New York; Thunderbolts Mountain, Coyote Springs, Colorado.
Identity: No Dual Identity
Citizenship: American
Martial Status: Widowed (legally)
Occupation: Arms dealer, professional criminal mastermind; formerly Alchemax Executive, director of H.A.M.M.E.R., C.S.A. official, prisoner, adventurer, businessman, owner and president of Osborn Industries and Oscorp, government-appointed director of the Thunderbolts, owner of the Daily Bugle, Initiative P.R. teacher, crimelord
Education: College graduate of Empire State University (science major, fifth year degree)
Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) (at normal size); 6'4″ (in armor)
Weight: 185 lbs (83.91 kg) (at normal size); 385 lbs (armor)
Eyes: Green ; formerly Blue
Unusual Feature: Huge scar in the middle of his chest, which he gained after he was impaled by his own glider; claws, fangs, pointed ears, a prehensile tail and a prehensile tongue while bonded with the Carnage symbiote; formerly facial features horribly modified by plastic surgery.
Origin: Human mutate, accidentally exposed to a chemical formula that increases strength and intelligence, which led him to become the criminally insane Green Goblin
No villain has cause Spider-man more pain and loss then Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. Introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (1964) by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Green Goblin was originally a villain trying to take over the underworld of crime, whose identity was a mystery for some time. He would hire gangs and other villains to distract Spider-man while he would attack crime bosses. His identity was eventually revealed to be Peter Parker's friend's abusive father, Norman Osborn. After a battle with Spider-man, Osborn lost his memories of Green Goblin and this caused Peter to leave him go without arresting him. However, Harry's drug problems and other factors, caused the Goblin persona to return. He also learnt of Spider-man's identity, which he used to capture and attack him. This eventually led to one of the most famous deaths in comic book history with the death of Gwen Stacy, when Goblin threw Gwen off a bridge causing Spider-man to try and capture her by using his web, leading many people to believe caused her to snap her neck killing her. Spider-man attacked Goblin but refuse to kill him. Osborn tried to kill Spider-man with his glider but he dodged it and it pierced Goblin killing him.
However, thanks to the Goblin serum that gave him his powers, Osborn gained a healing factor and survived. He used this opportunity to flee to Europe. He joined the Scriers and forced his way to the top of the cult. He then used them to enact his revenge against Spider-man, including being the person truly behind the Clone Saga and other events. He also kidnapped Aunt May and sent an actress to pretend she was her and have her die. However, none of these worked to break Spider-man and Osborn took matters into his own hands, having the Parker's baby be a stillborn and killing Ben Reilly. He then went return to the public image as a business man working to ruin Spider-man image, including buying the Daily Bugle. He then frame Spider-man for murder which lead to Spider-man taking up 4 new identities, in the Identity Crisis arc. He then was one of 5 people to perform the Gathering of Five ritual, which granted 5 people different powers. He then believed that he had gotten the Power part and attack Spider-man, revealing Aunt May alive and well. He instead got the insanity part and was captured by Spider-man.
He would eventually return but was captured and imprisoned by Spider-man. He however had a back up plan and worked with Scorpion to kidnap Aunt May and force Spider-man to help him escape but Spider-man worked with other heroes and sent Osborn and those that worked with him back to jail. Osborn was later put in charge of the Thunderbolts. He then helped with the Secret Invasion fight and killed the Skrull Queen. He was hailed a hero and made in charge of Super-human affairs. He set up HAMMER and became Iron Patriot and began hunting down heroes. He fell from power during the Siege arc and was imprisoned. He was eventually helped to escape by his HAMMER followers and gained the Super Adaptoid powers but was defeated by the Avengers and had those powers removed. At some point Osborn began having plastic surgery to hid his identity and began gathering followers, most of which were people that Superior Spider-man left escape, for a new Goblin cult in which he build in order to destroy Spider-man and take over New York as Goblin King. He was eventually defeated when Peter Parker returned who depowered him. He escaped and worked to build a new army by working with the new ruler of Symkaria and forced the people to either build his weapons or sell his services to terrorists. He was eventually defeated by Spider-man and Silver Sable but escaped, realizing he needed to get his Goblin powers back. This eventually led to the Red Goblin arc where he became the host of the Carnage symbiote. He was defeat by Spider-man who had bonded with the Venom suit again.
Green Goblin is one of Spider-man big 3 villain, alongside Doc Ock and Venom, so he has a quite a few figure over the years. He has had a number of figures in Spider-man Classics line, both from Toybiz and Hasbro. His first ML however was in the Sinister Six box set by Toybiz. He later got a single figure in the Toybiz Onslaught series with an unmasked variant. Hasbro then gave him his Iron Patriot suit in the Iron Monger wave. He got a "classic" update in the Sandman wave and is getting a Red Goblin figure in the Kingpin wave. He would get a classic update in the Spider-man Vintage line.
Recommend Figure: Hasbro Marvel Legends Spider-man Vintage Wave – Green Goblin
When Goblin first appeared he was using what people called a flying broomstick. However, he was later replaced it with the iconic Goblin Glider. However, with small redesigns, his classic costume remained mostly the same as his first appearance. This is what most have based on since.
If you want a classic version of Green Goblin then this is the one to get. While the Toybix one was great for it's time, it's awkward articulation made it hard to move. Essential for any Spider-man collection being his most dangerous enemy.
Recommend Figure: Toybiz Spider-man Classics Series 7 Green Goblin
With the launch of the Marvel Knight imprint, Green Goblin got a short lived redesign, when he attcak Spider-man and was promptly arrested. This led to Osborn getting Scorpion to kidnap and bury Aunt May and trying to get Spider-man to help him escape.
This is more of a stylized version of GG and is not something that you have to have unless you have to have every version of a character. Not recommend for anything other then that.
No, short lived and forgotten.
Recommend Figure: Hasbro Marvel Legends Iron Man 3 Iron Monger Wave Iron Patriot
After Osborn killed the Skrull Queen and ended the Secret Invasion, he was made in charge of Super-human affairs. Wanting to create his own version of the Avengers, he gather other villains to work with him each being a counterpart to proper Avengers. Needing an Iron man and Captain America, he combine the two and created the Iron Patriot armor.
This is an absolute essential figure if you want to complete the Dark Avengers team, to which we only have a handful of character left to get. It is also important for a Green Goblin collection as well as Avengers villains shelves.
Goblin King
Recommend Figure: Hasbro Marvel Legends Spider-man Sandman Wave Green Goblin
While Doc Ock was the Superior Spider-man, a new Green Goblin character was working underground, gathering followers from people that Ock had defeated, like Phil Urich. He went by the name Goblin King and his identity was kept secret in order for readers to think that he wasn't Osborn. This costume is basically an updated version of his classic version.
I would recommend getting this is if you want a modern version of Green Goblin and want to recreate the battle between both Superior Spider-man and Classic Spider-man.
Red Goblin
Recommend Figure: Hasbro Marvel Legends Spider-man Kingpin Wave Red Goblin
After Spider-man depowered him and stopped him from selling weapons, Osborn tried to regain his Goblin powers by combining with the Carnage Symbiotes. This lead to him becoming the Red Goblin. It took the combination of Spider-man bonding with the Venom Symbiote to take him down.
A fan requested version, I would recommend getting this for any Goblin collection as well as Venomverse, Symbiote or Spider-man collection. Also if you are getting the Black Suit Spider-man in that wave then you need this to battle that.
Recommend Figure: Hasbro Marvel Legends Venom Venompool wave – Carnage
During Absolute Carnage, Carnage went about gather all the symbiote codex from everyone who ever wore one. One of his first target was Norman Osborn. After getting the Codex, he set Norman (wearing a version of the Carnage Symbiote) after Spider-man and Venom. He would fail to capture them and was then sent to get Miles Morales, who he infected.
Obviously you are getting this figure for your Carnage collection but if you want to have every version of Norman Osborn, then you will need this, at least for the Knull marking head.
First Appearance – Low
Gathering of Five – Very Low
Thunderbolts – Possible
Thunderbolts II – Possible
Super-Adaptoid – Low
Octo-Goblin – Very Low
Carnage – Very Low
Alternates: Carnage Wearers | Goblins | Green Goblins | Iron Patriots | Kingpins | Stormie Normies | Super-Adaptoids
Family: Osborn Family


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The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, California, ignited this week near a geothermal power plant. Officials warn that high winds and dry weather are contributing to fire risk throughout the state.
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New fires are spreading in California despite power blackouts to prevent ignition
More blazes ignited this week, but power companies are starting to restore electricity to thousands of customers.
By Umair Irfan Updated Nov 1, 2019, 11:20am EDT
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Even more wildfires have ignited in California this week, amid high winds and dry weather, despite massive ongoing firefighting efforts and power shutoffs to hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the state in hopes of preventing an ignition.
The Maria Fire in Ventura County ignited Thursday evening and spread to more than 8,000 acres, driven by Santa Ana winds with gusts up to 80 mph. The blaze was zero percent contained as of Friday morning. The nearby Easy Fire in Simi Valley ignited Wednesday, rapidly reaching 1,806 acres. The blaze was 60 percent contained on Friday.
Here is a look at the #EasyFire from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley:https://t.co/zVIZselbnD pic.twitter.com/EGAXTkZG0i
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 30, 2019
Meanwhile, firefighters continue to battle other major wildfires throughout the state. The Getty Fire ignited near the eponymous modern art museum in Los Angeles early Monday morning and rapidly spread over 745 acres — encroaching on the 405 Freeway, one of the city's most important traffic arteries. Though it's one of the smaller fires, it's threatening the state's most populated county. The Getty Fire triggered mandatory evacuations for more than 10,000 homes, destroyed at least eight houses, and forced some to flee in the middle of the night. It was 52 percent contained as of Thursday evening. Officials believe the blaze was ignited by a tree branch hitting a power line.
Man these LA aren't no joke. Had to emergency evacuate my house and I've been driving around with my family trying to get rooms. No luck so far! ♂
— LeBron James (@KingJames) October 28, 2019
In Santa Clarita, the Tick Fire has torched 4,615 acres, forced 50,000 residents to evacuate, and caused schools to close due to air-quality concerns. The blaze was 95 percent contained as of Wednesday and evacuation orders have now been lifted.
Fire officials also reported that the Saddleridge Fire near Los Angeles, which ignited two weeks ago, is 97 percent contained after burning 8,799 acres. The Hillside Fire in San Bernadino was 50 percent contained on Thursday, after spreading across 200 acres.
In Northern California's Sonoma County, a much less densely populated region known for its vineyards, the Kincade Fire has burned through more than 77,000 acres and was 65 percent contained as of Thursday evening. It's the largest blaze in the history of the county and has already destroyed 96 structures and forced 200,000 people to flee.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has an updated map of many of the current major fires throughout the state and you can see the location of many of the fires in the map below:
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Sunday to mobilize resources to fight these fires.
The recent blazes have sent choking smoke and ash over some of the state's most densely populated areas, like Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, degrading air quality and causing dangerously unhealthy levels of air pollution.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned that "extremely dangerous fire weather conditions" were in effect. Forecasters are now expecting winds to slow down and temperatures to drop, but humidity throughout the state will likely remain low, maintaining dry conditions.
No precipitation in sight. Dry weather likely to continue through early November. #cawx pic.twitter.com/uv8PygG2pC
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) October 31, 2019
And after days of sporadic blackouts for almost 1 million customers over concerns that high winds could bring trees into contact with power lines and spark a new blaze, power utilities are starting to switch the lights back on.
#PSPS: PG&E Nearing Full Restoration Following System-Wide Historic and Widespread Wind Events; Approximately 6,700 Customers Remain Out of Service https://t.co/AiF2FL9cwc pic.twitter.com/9XO3kBXF03
— PG&E (@PGE4Me) November 1, 2019
California's power shutoffs are a desperate attempt to stop new fires, but power is coming back
PG&E, the utility serving Northern California that was found liable for starting several major fires, conducted several rounds of public safety power shutoffs — deliberate blackouts — to reduce fire risk. More than 940,000 customers lost power over the weekend. Some customers, including medical facilities that depend on electricity to refrigerate medicine and run vital equipment, lost power for days. Even clinics with backup generators had to ration their power use and people who rely on home medical devices had to evacuate, highlighting again how power shutoffs hit the most vulnerable the hardest.
Southern California Edison, which provides power to the southern part of the state, had shut off power to more than 15,000 customers earlier this week. On Friday, the number dwindled to 1,100 customers without electricity.
Vox's David Roberts has explained, at length, the factors that led these utilities to undertake such drastic action and why California is likely to experience these shutoffs again. It will take years for better land management practices, new housing policies, and upgrading power infrastructure to reduce the overall fire risk. In the meantime, California faces the prospect of more fires or even more drastic actions to prevent them.
Why wildfire risk in California is so high right now
Though 2019 has been a much less active fire year for California compared to the record-breaking fire seasons of 2017 and 2018, the risk for a severe blaze remains high due to recent weather and long-term trends.
Seasonal winds — the Diablo winds of Northern California and Santa Ana winds in the southern part of the state — picked up strength this week, helping blazes spread. The weather in California this week was also hot and dry, with humidity below 9 percent in much of the state.
There is also plenty of vegetation ready to burn: a wet winter and spring this year caused a bumper crop of grasses and shrubs, followed by an extremely hot summer that turned this vegetation into tinder.
It's important to remember that wildfires are a natural part of many ecosystems in California, restoring nutrients to soils, regulating growth in forests, and even helping some plants germinate.
But the drivers of the growing fire risk in California are due to human-caused factors, which have been mounting for decades.
For one thing, Californians have built homes in fire-prone regions as the state's housing crunch forced people away from major cities. This raises the likelihood of sparking a fire. About 84 percent of wildfires are now ignited by humans, whether from downed power lines, neglected campfires, errant sparks, or arson. This proximity also increases the ensuing damage with so much more property in harm's way.
Reports indicate that the Kincaid Fire started in The Geysers, the largest geothermal electricity facility in the world. A transmission line operated by Pacific Gas and Electric reported problems shortly before the fire began, and firefighters found power equipment that wasn't shut off at the time even though the utility was deliberately cutting power to some areas to reduce the risk of igniting a fire.
Years of suppressing natural fires have paradoxically allowed vegetation to build up to unnatural levels. That means that when a fire does occur, it can burn with greater speed, range, and intensity.
People are also causing climate change. That has contributed to Western forests drying out as average temperatures rise. It has also exacerbated the impacts of California's years-long drought. These stresses have left trees vulnerable to pests like bark beetles, which can rapidly kill a distressed tree. Together, these factors have led to the deaths of 149 million trees in California. Hotter, drier conditions over the long term will only worsen the fire risk.
This is a worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
Californians are taking steps to reduce these fire risks, but the challenge is immense and some of the tactics have proved controversial. Last week, the US Forest Service began a controlled burn in Butte County, the site of 2018's Camp Fire, the state's deadliest and most destructive wildfire — which ignited more than 150,000 acres. The controlled burn is only over 300 acres, which means there's still vastly more wilderness area that may need this treatment. Controlled burns also pose air-quality risks and aren't themselves foolproof: In the past decade, states like Colorado, Montana, and California have seen prescribed burns spread out of control and threaten homes.
Gov. Newsom earlier this year signed an emergency order to speed up forest thinning near high-risk communities. But environmental activists have criticized this policy because it reduces the time allotted to environmental reviews of these projects. Some activists also oppose logging as a tactic for reducing fire risk, arguing instead for more fire-resistant building codes and defensible spaces around homes.
It shows that California's fire risk is an enormous technical and political problem. There are no easy answers, and more difficult decisions over who gets to live where, what tactics to pursue, and who has to pay, lie ahead.
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The Village Radio Theater at Cedarville University will be performing and recording a live radio script of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" at the Cedarville Opera House on December 5 at 7:30 p.m. and December 6 at 8:30 p.m.
The production will be performed for a live audience and many members of the audience will have the opportunity to participate with the cast. The show will have live underscore music, and sound effects will be recorded with audience members.
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Iceberg lettuce prices have risen more than 160 percent since the latest E. coli outbreak.
American shoppers didn't waste any time disposing of romaine lettuce when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national ban in November due to possible E. coli contamination. And while many retailers removed various lettuces from their produce sections, new industry reports suggests that prices for other lettuce varieties actually soared after the CDC's latest ban.
According to data sourced from the United States Department of Agriculture, it only took a week for consumer demand to cause prices to nearly double, CNBC reports. On November 19, a day before the CDC's latest ban on romaine lettuce, a carton of iceberg lettuce sold at wholesale market value for $20.85 maximum—but on November 21, just a day after the CDC's announcement, the same carton of iceberg lettuce sold for a high of $39.56.
Even though the CDC has since recanted its national romaine lettuce ban after discovering the source of the contamination in California, it seems that consumers may still be steering clear of the leafy green. On November 26, the date when the CDC formally lifted its advisory, the price of the same carton of iceberg lettuce was selling for a high of $45.65 each.
USDA reports point to dwindling supplies of iceberg lettuce, saying that consumer demand simply exceeded what was available on the market—and iceberg lettuce wasn't the only variety with noticeable price increases. Varieties including Boston, red leaf, and green leaf lettuces also followed a similar demand increase.
"As always seems to happen, there is an initial response when you take a major component out of the marketplace and others start to fill that gap," Trevor Suslow, the vice president of food safety for the Produce Marketing Association, told CNBC. "Prices certainly have taken an increase."
It's worth noting that romaine accounts for a rather large component of lettuce sales in the United States—for a 52-week period that ended on November 10, romaine made up 38 percent of national lettuce production valued at $1.6 billion, according to Nielsen figures.
Despite earlier romaine recalls and safety advisory notices in 2018, demand for romaine was steady in the days before the latest recall. However, sales data wasn't available during the blanket ban, and it remains to be seen if shoppers have resumed their romaine-buying habits.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has devised a plan to prevent another widespread recall in the future, asking producers and distributors to physically label romaine products with their farm's location and the date it was harvested. And farmers in Yuma, Arizona have taken new steps to keep this upcoming season of romaine lettuce safe from contamination. But one local farmer tells CNBC he's unsure if consumers will bounce back from this latest recall so easily.
"We've seen, maybe, folks have regained confidence more quickly here with romaine," John Boelts told CNBC. "We're seeing OK demand so far, but we'll see how that holds."


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