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The Glaring Reality of Women Superhero Movies
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While I was beginning to write my latest review for a superhero movie I watched that was recently released on home video, it made me think about Women-led superhero movies and how it's been so long since anyone has dared to make one, either on home video or in theaters. That movie happens to be the first movie that has been released in the US that's led by a female superhero since 2009's DC Animated Wonder Woman. If you're curious, the movie is Barbie in Princess Power. Yes, it took a Barbie movie to break this streak. By my count there have been 80 superhero movies released in the US between 2010 and April 2015. This is the only one led by a female superhero. If I expand my search just a little, there is at least one other that I am aware of from a couple years ago in Japan called Nuigulumar Z but that's it. When you look at theatrical features the prospects are even more grim considering the last female-led superhero movie was all the way back in 2005 with Elektra and the next one isn't due until 2017 with Wonder Woman, that's twelve years. Think about this: if a girl was born in 1999, she would not have been able to see a superhero movie led by a woman in the theaters until her 18th birthday.
One of the saddest things to think about is when you consider the business of the female-led superhero movie. When you look at the last three films to come out in theaters (2002's Powerpuff Girls Movie, 2004's Catwoman, & 2005's Elektra), they made a total of $75 million which doesn't even cover the $100 million budget of Catwoman. But by the same token, with the exception of the Powerpuff Girls movie they were all terrible movies. It would be a completely different situation if these were all critically acclaimed films that failed to make any money, but by all accounts it was the fact that they were awful movies that contributed to their failures. And yet, it seems like the studios took their failure as an excuse to further their sexism by not developing any superhero features led by a woman.
But while it's easy to sit back and blame "old, white, Hollywood producers" the fact is that there have been plenty of much smaller independent films released over the past ten years that have built on the latest superhero craze and not a single one of them have dared to include a woman superhero either. The only place where that really starts to come into play is when you look at webseries and short films. Webseries like We Might Be Superheroes, Super Knocked Up, and Chick! and fanfilms like the two Wonder Woman trailers by Jesse V. Johnson and Rainfall Films. But there hasn't been any palpable move to make any of these properties into a feature length film.
It's not until the past few years that studios have finally started to realize that audiences are craving for a strong, female protagonist. You don't have to look very far to find an incredibly successful film led by a strong, female, protagonist. The Hunger Games is likely the biggest example with the later films becoming the highest grossing film of the year in the US for that year, or at least in the top 5. Branching out from that, last year's Lucy is a prime example of a ridiculous premise with middling critical reviews that made large amounts of money largely due to the appeal of Scarlett Johansson's strong female lead. Other prime examples that were in the top 10 box office for the year are: Maleficent, Frozen, Gravity, Twilight, and Brave. It's absolutely ridiculous that it's taken over 10 movies before Marvel Studios is willing to take a "chance" with a female-led Captain Marvel. By comparison, DC and their late start seem very progressive as it's only going to take them 3 movies in their current slate before getting to Wonder Woman. It's just as bad if you start to look behind the camera as well, from 2010 until now there have only been 9 writing or directing credits for women. Only 1 was a director: Lauren Montgomery for Justice League: Doom, and she shared directing credits for Green Lantern: Emerald Knights & Batman: Year One, and only 2 had a solo writing credit: Marjorie Liu for the story on Avengers Confidential: Punisher and Black Widow and Marsha Griffin for the film that inspired this post: Barbie in Princess Power. The others were: Jane Goldman with shared writing credits on X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, and Kick-Ass, Nicole Perlman with shared writing credit on Guardians of the Galaxy, and Anna McRoberts with shared writing credit on Super Buddies. It's nice that Marvel and DC are actively looking for a female director on Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman, but it's time that they look farther than that and I hope you're with me. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
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I'm a comic book movie enthusiast who has watched and reviewed over 400 superhero and comic book movies in the past seven years, my goal is to continue to find and watch and review every superhero movie ever made.
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Posted on April 18, 2015, in Blogs and tagged Blog, film, movies, Superhero, women. Bookmark the permalink.	11 Comments.
Lee Laughead | April 18, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Agreed with everything here. Women generally don't get to do much in Hollywood as actors, directors, or writers. It's nice to see someone acknowledge that without calling for the extermination of everyone with a Y chromosome.
I'd love to see an animated Storm movie from Marvel.
Bubbawheat | April 18, 2015 at 9:41 pm
Yes! Storm is a great character, but I think the best we'll get is a fan film called Rain from Maya Glick who is a fan of mohawk Storm.
Andrew | April 20, 2015 at 12:33 pm
BOOM! Amen to all of this. It's such a ridiculous thing that female superheros are ignored for more male driven narratives, and that shouldn't (and doesn't) have to be the case. X-Men completely botched what could have been an incredible female driven Phoenix film, which is a shame.
I will say that in comparison, X-Men does have it the best when you consider how many strong female roles it has in it: Jean, Storm, Rogue, Mystique, and several others in more minor roles. The example I came up with still blows my mind, 18 years before being old enough to see one in theaters, as they would be 3 for Powerpuff Girls, and 6 & 7 for the PG-13 rated Catwoman and Elektra.
le0pard13 | April 20, 2015 at 6:22 pm
So damn true, bw. As mentioned, Lauren Montgomery's Wonder Woman was a wonderful production that happened to be direct-to-DVD animated superhero film that was just splendid. All those I knew that screened it thought it great…and then nothing followed up on it. Damn, I wished they'd have adapted that to a live-action movie years ago instead of being in development Hell for so long. Fine post.
Not to mention that it wasn't a flop either. I don't think it made as much as a Batman or Superman title, but it was up there with the Green Lantern ones.
Shah Shahid | April 22, 2015 at 11:54 am
Very cool sum of the current state of affairs. This is by far the most accessible article I`ve seen about this topic. You did a cool job of summarizing the stats and presenting them in an easy and layman manner. And this is coming from someone with a very limited attention span.
I know exactly what you mean though. It`s hard to give my daughters a cool super hero to aspire to or be into, given the lack of female lead film or stories out there. They have to settle for a female supporting character in a male dominated film.
It looks like there's at least a little bit of hope from the DC side of things. They just announced a big initiative to market superheroes for girls with more toys, comics, and TV shows. So there is hope that it will blow up in just a few short years time, but there could be any number of missteps between now and then.
Abbi | April 24, 2015 at 6:24 am
Morgan R. Lewis | May 3, 2015 at 9:03 pm
Terrific post, Bubbawheat. When I saw the latest round of idiocy in the form of those leaked Marvel/Sony emails, I was tempted to write something myself until I remembered I had this post from you sitting in my inbox. You've said just about everything I would have said.
It really gets me that they cite Elektra and Catwoman as examples of it not working. Everybody knows those were terrible movies. Just like there have been terrible male superhero movies… doesn't stop those, does it? Or Supergirl… come on, now. The other late-franchise Superman films weren't exactly critical or commercial darlings either. And if we're going all the way back to the mid-80s, between Superman and Batman for our data points… well… there's a pretty good example of why this is a stupid line of reasoning.
To put it bluntly, can you picture anybody saying that Marvel Comics films couldn't possibly work, based on the failure of Howard the Duck? I don't think so.
And yeah, I think the "old guard" in Hollywood are a big part of this. I'm reminded of the "gotta be white guys" rule of action films, because "Audiences won't watch an action movie starring a black man." Then along came Will Smith and Denzel Washington, and lo and behold, audiences watch. Now it seems to be "Audiences won't watch an action movie starring a black man who isn't Will Smith or Denzel Washington." It's difficult to drive a point home into some peoples' heads, I guess.
As for the indies… despite what a lot of them would like to claim, there's an awful lot of "as above, so below" going on. When you're borrowing Hollywood's tropes, it's hard to keep out the bad ones without a degree of conscious effort that most people don't exercise.
Bubbawheat | May 3, 2015 at 10:32 pm
It's pretty awful the more I look into it, it's a topic I will definitely be revisiting in the near future.
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Dr. Terry and Dr. Bennett Discuss MLK's Powerful Philosophy of Love
We were honored to have with us on January 17—in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy—Dr. Brandon Terry and Dr. Joshua Bennett, who illuminated for us the breadth, depth, and power of MLK's philosophy of love and non-violence as a means of bringing about meaningful action and change.
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"Today, we gather to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." began Headmaster Brennan. "We pause to recognize the contributions of this remarkable man and to consider anew the principles of justice, equality, and brotherhood—principles he pursued ardently and about which he spoke eloquently. While the United States today is blessedly different from the United States of Dr. King's lifetime, racism and bigotry persist, and there continue to be opportunities for all of us to stand up for the values that Dr. King espoused. The prejudices and hatred that Dr. King worked so hard to eradicate remain in too many heads and hearts, even as laws and social policy have been advanced that protect and affirm the rights of all Americans. In these recent years, many headlines have focused on high profile cases involving race, violence, discrimination, activism and, thankfully in many cases, hope."
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Does each of us have an enduring core as a person, irreducible to our physical beings, and the source of some of our most valued capabilities? The belief that we do, has been held by most human beings throughout the ages and in virtually every culture. But that belief has dwindled among a great many people in Western Europe and America.
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We will explore the many different ways in which the word Soul is used, ranging from the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of best-selling self-help books, to referring to the "souls" of nations or organizations or even technologies*, to using the term "Great Souls" to describe outstanding people like Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
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PhD Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2015
Abstract: The main purpose of this thesis is to expound the notion that the fourteenth-century poet John Barbour used a loose framework of standard chivalric ideals and tropes to explain and in some cases legitimise the actions of his heroes and that Blind Hary adopted a similar approach when composing The Wallace around a century later.
It will explore the idea that both writers did this in order to present their heroes in a way that their audiences would recognise and also to influence the behaviour of these audiences, insofar as the audience of these works in their immediate historical context can be reconstructed. This thesis will not attempt to deal with whether or not they were successful in affecting change in the behaviour of the audiences, as this would require a significant broadening of the scope of this study and it is doubtful whether this may even be possible to assess even in a much wider study.
However, in addressing the major themes of both poems with regards to chivalry, this thesis will draw on the historical contexts in which each source was written in order to better explain why these authors adopted the attitudes they did and why the notions they espouse might have been apposite at the time of writing.
In particular, it will consider the way each author explores themes of prudence, friendship and loyalty as expressed through oath-making for what these themes tell us about Barbour and Hary's engagement with chivalry. These themes will then be drawn together in a final chapter on what constitutes 'acceptable' behaviour for each of these writers.
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Top Image: Robert the Bruce addressing his troops before the Battle of Bannockburn – illustration by Edmund Leighton (1852–1922)
TagsChivalry in the Middle Ages • Medieval Military History • Medieval Scotland


The airline industry has seen a significant market shift from focusing on the high yield business traveller in the 1990s, to the predominating low cost carrier business model of today.
In the 1990s, major airlines coveted the high yield business traveller who would pay $5,000 to $10,000 for an overseas executive or first class ticket. Students, families, and budget minded travellers were the ignored segment of the market that no airline (except Southwest) specifically catered to, or attempted to woo as long term clients. This low yield segment was not worthy of an airline's special attention and efforts. But that was in the past.
During the global economic troubles of the past decade, the large, established flag carriers like British Airways, Air Canada, KLM/Air France, American Airlines, Alitalia and many dozens of others, were basically fiddling as Rome burned. The industry was shifting around them as their legacy high-yield business models shriveled, whilst the Low Cost Carrier (LCC) business model took route on a global scale, muscling away a huge segment of the available revenue seat miles.
In layman's terms, as the global economy collapsed, businesses bought a lot less $10,000 airline tickets, and everyone, not only students and families, was looking for the best airfares possible. The airlines that could best lower costs and maximize economies of scale, such as Southwest (an outstanding example) and Ryanair (a much cruder example) succeeded and grew at the expense of the staid and non-entrepreneurial legacy carriers.
The "fiddling" has stopped at some legacy carriers, as they've launched their own LCC operations. Recent examples include Alitalia's Air One, Air Canada launching Rouge, and Singapore Airlines launching Scoot.
The special sauce involved in successfully running a LCC is two-fold: First, management needs to examine every conceivable cost component and reduce costs to the bone, leaving no penny unaccounted for. Secondly, management needs to compete as best as possible on price. Passengers will choose one airline over another to save just a few dollars (or Pounds or Euros) on the cost of a ticket. Evidence being the success of travel price-comparison websites.
If hard costs like fuel, salaries, aircraft lease, insurance, maintenance, and airport related fees are similar across the spectrum, how can one airline truly offer a lower ticket cost and woo passengers without sacrificing the bottom line?
Could there in fact be a significant cost component that all airlines are seemingly beholden to, that could be eliminated, with benefit to the passenger, which could at the same time translate into a competitive advantage? Not a single airline has been bold enough to address this cost issue because they have been blind-sided by legacy thinking, and are incapable of thinking "outside the box".
The world over, probably 99.99% of all airline tickets are purchased via credit card. Most airlines are probably paying out 2% of their gross revenues in processing fees to the credit card companies. Credit cards by their very nature bring additional costs and problems to the airline industry, specifically those associated with airline ticket fraud and ticket purchase chargebacks.
Airline ticket fraud can work in a number of ways. A fraudster can use stolen credit card details to purchase airline tickets online, and then resell them online via Craigslist or other such sites to unsuspecting purchasers. The fraudulently purchased airline seats are temporarily removed from the airline's live inventory and cannot be sold to bona fide customers, and the airline misses out actual revenue. In addition, the airline suffers the manpower cost of investigating and addressing the matter, as well as the bad exposure of turning away unsuspecting passengers at the check-in counter.
The other common form of airline ticket fraud is credit card chargebacks. In this scenario a passenger books a ticket and travels with the airline, but the passenger files a bogus chargeback with their credit card company. The card-holder could say the ticket was purchased fraudulently by a third party in the name of a third party. Or the passenger could say the service provided was not that which was agreed to. There is any number of reasons a ticket could be charged back, potentially leaving the airline with a 100% loss of revenue on a ticket sale. And again, there are airline manpower costs to investigate such matters.
Accepting credit cards has become a necessary evil in the world of selling airline tickets. The fraud related costs are a significant cost component that must be accounted for in addition to the credit card processing fees. With some creative thinking, it is indeed possible for open-minded airline decision makers to shave costs (which competitors have ignored) while simultaneously beating the competition in the fight for the price sensitive passenger.
1) By accepting a Euro or dollar form of electronic payment completely removed from the credit card networks, an airline would not incur a 2% credit card processing fee.
2) Airline ticket fraud and resultant costs would be significantly reduced. Fraudsters are attracted to the credit payment model like bees to honey. However, if a payment system was irrevocable funded from the user's bank accounts using a secure, originator pushed funding source like IBAN or a similar such system, the possibilities for chargebacks would be significantly reduced. The airline would derive comfort and security in knowing that the ticket payments are being made with non-contingent bank sourced funds. Fraudsters will be much less attracted to IBAN and bank account sourced payment methods than credit card payment methods, for the simple reason that they prefer to follow the path of easiest success in their ill done deeds.
3) The airline in this scenario would benefit from a competitive price advantage without a resultant effect on the bottom line.
This last point is particularly important. As it stands today, no airline offers its passengers a choice in how they wish pay. It is credit cards or debit cards (which are also processed via the credit card networks), or nothing. There is an "outside-the-box" strategy that an airline can employ which actually empowers its prospective customers to decide if they would like to pay with credit card, or alternatively, pay via a cash-based payment method completely removed from the credit card networks.
Thus, this new "outside–the-box" payment option allows airlines pass the decision making authority to the passenger to decide if the airline should pay the 2% credit card fee to the credit card companies, or back to the passenger.
If the customer pays by credit card, the fee goes to the credit card company. If the customer decides to pay with non-contingent bank account sourced credit, the airline passes a 2% credit card fee as a discount to the customer.
Therefore, savvy airline executives can turn the credit card fee into a competitive advantage by empowering their customers to decide who the airline should pay the credit card fee to, be it the credit card company or the passenger.
Today, no airline gives the customer no choice in the matter. So the first airlines to actually give their customers a choice, will derive a competitive pricing advantage over their competitors without any financial change in their bottom lines.
There is no logical basis for an airline not to extend this fundamental choice to their customers. We know that airline passengers are sick and tired of being levied surcharge on top of surcharge. Last year Ryanair passengers were very vocal in their great disgust with the airline for imposing an added fee-based Ryanair payment card to facilitate online payments, with even higher fees for payments made via non-Ryanair credit cards.
Airlines the world over are fighting tooth and nail for customers, and they can't figure out how to cut costs and create new competitive advantages, yet this opportunity has been staring them square in the face since as far back as 2010.
With ticket purchase payments processed via CashSender, an airline will simultaneously address all three of the legacy payment problems addressed above: The 2% credit card fee will be avoided, airline ticket fraud and chargebacks will be significantly reduced, and the airline would enjoy a pricing advantage over competitors by re-directing the credit card fee to the customer.
CashSender is looking to partner with launch client airlines, particularly in Europe and Canada, and other industry stakeholders (including online reservation software providers) to bring this much needed openness with the benefits of enhanced security to the airline ticket purchase process.
A concept we often here about is how cutting edge companies provide services that "disrupt" the marketplace. For airlines looking to upstage competitors and "disrupt" the marketplace, this is an ideal opportunity to take a position and set a trend. Instead of fiddling while Rome burns.
A first-rate factual account of today's airline industry. Like the solution offered!
Thank you for the support Robin!


These highly accurate scales are made from high-quality extruded aluminum with Photo Anodized calibrations that are a permanent part of the aluminum and will never rub off. Imprinted with an inspiring Wright quote.
Dimensions: 1.022" wide per side.


Transformers Generations can be seen as the successor of Classics and Universe toylines that ceased in 2008 but making a come back in a rebranded form in 2010.
This line is dedicated to mainly deluxe figures with few voyagers. The deluxe class figures stand at about 5.5 to 6 inches tall. The transformation level is between intermediate to moderate.
Just like it's predecessors, Transformers Generations was reintroduced as a platform of suggesting homages of older Transformers characters, mainly Generation One's as new toys with of course, applied modern toy technology to provide more articulation and paintjob-accuracy.
Transformers Generations can be seen as a memorable toyline to celebrate the glory of the Transformers roots and origins which was associated closely to the Generation One. Other than Generation One, it also emulates designs based upon characters from IDW Publishing Transformers comics and also Transformers War For Cybertron game.
Some characters from the War For Cybertron game were absorbed as part of the toyline making use the ambiguous prefix 'Cybertronian' on their official names.
There are no series or other indications on the toys' packaging regarding which continuity the characters hail from. This seems to follow Hasbro's recent trend of leaving as much of that kind of information as possible up to the imagination of the fans.
This line officially starts on July 2010 in conjunction of the 2010 Cybertron Con in Shanghai, China. First photos of upcoming figures set for release on Spring 2011 were unveiled.


On a moonless night in August, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly fishing since he was a boy. Will she be the perfect catch -- or the one that got away? A bewitching story about how even our most intimate moments are shaped by the ghosts of the past, from the author of Jerusalem and Mojo.
This is the second time Walking Shadow and director Amy Rummenie have gone to the Butterworth well. His first major success, Mojo, got the Walking Shadow treatment back in 2010. Mojo was a very different play - all male, steeped in violence. Part of my struggle with that play at the time was that the characters were all so completely clueless about their emotions that the opportunity for growth and change was slim. Here, in The River, you have characters so consumed by and in thrall to their emotions that they're almost doomed from the start to being overwhelmed and swept away by them.
The man of The River is Andrew Erskine Wheeler, who played the pastor in the recent Walking Shadow production of The Christians (which blew me away in a way few other pieces of theater have done this year). Wheeler is equally good here in a very different role. He's matched in intensity by the two main women of the play, portrayed by Emily Grodzik and Elizabeth Efteland. These three characters all want love so badly, it's hard not to root for at least one of them to find it. Who that's going to be shifts rather radically over the course of the play's ninety minute run time.
But the play often had me nervous for reasons I'm not entirely sure either the writer or the theater might want me to be. Blame it on popular culture if you like, but it's hard not to worry when a man takes a woman to a remote cabin and always has a rather forbidding looking hunting knife on his person. Toss on top of that the fact that the man always seems haunted by another woman regardless of the one he's with at any given moment. Then, just for perverse fun, the writer throws in a reference to Ted Hughes (not a spoiler, but see: Sylvia Plath). It's a good reference, and a good poem (read in its entirety I might add). The play, and the characters, lean pretty hard on that poem, and even harder on another by William Butler Yeats but it's a little difficult to understand why. The rest of the script, Butterworth's own words, and the performances are so good, the poems hardly seem necessary.
The River is one of the better plays about love I've seen in a while (I was about to say specifically heterosexual love, but with the focus they have, the translation here is pretty direct across the spectrum of sexuality). And not love as manifested in a relationship with a plot so much as just that big, unwieldy emotion of love itself - the need, the desire, the ache, the way one willingly deludes oneself into thinking you can ever fully escape your romantic past and not have it somehow taint your relationships in the present. This isn't generic love. It's quite specific, and those details matter. The surrender involved is both intoxicating and frightening. Can we avoid making the same mistakes over and over? Probably only if we're willing to identify them and own them.


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George Walford: Tightening the Nuts
A Letter to the Editor.
George Walford in his review (IC 46) of Spanner (Issue No. 1) is misinformed. There is no such thing as a "Spanner group" – at least not in any formal sense of the word – and, consequently, the title of his review of the same organisation from which he implies Spanner purportedly "broke away": The Socialist Party of Great Britain.
To put the record straight, Spanner is simply a forum for an exchange of ideas primarily about the way to achieve a non-market society. The range of individuals involved in this project is quite diverse. Some are members of the SPGB, some are ex-members of the SPGB and some have never had any connection with the SPGB whatsoever. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of readers fall into this last category as well as a growing proportion of contributors. Maybe, in due course a formal structure might emerge though there are strong grounds for opposing such a move.
One realises that the prospect of a pluralistic socialist politics rather upsets the neat symmetry of Walford's hypothesis – i.e,. that "so long as the Spanner group (sic) continue to aim at 'socialism' conceiving of it as a system exclusively of common ownership with its members politically and intellectually autonomous, they will be driven towards the rigidity and dismissiveness characteristic of the Party." But perhaps it is he who is being rather dismissive and rigid here. By the way, it should be pointed out that it is quite untrue that all those involved in the Spanner project envisage socialism exclusively, in terms of a system of common ownership. Some of us, at least, see an important role for productive relationships that cannot meaningfully be said to be grounded in common ownership of the means of wealth production. Hence the reference in Issue No. 1 to the concept of a "Gift Economy." Hence also the reference in our letterhead to common ownership of the vital means of wealth production (leaving open the question of what would happen to "non vital" means of wealth production).
Next, George Walford avers that he can find nothing to really substantiate Spanner's claim to be a "New Journal for New Thinking." One might retort that such a subtitle is intended to be more prescriptive than descriptive (though it is the nature of a forum that one cannot impose, but one can certainly invite, "new thinking"). Spanner does not claim that the ideas it contains are necessarily new in themselves. The novelty hoped for lies in the direction of its thinking, in the emphasis given to certain ideas.
All the same, one is inclined to think that Walford is a little too gung-ho in his criticism. For example, he says that his "strengthening impression of an intimate connection between Spanner and the party hardened into conviction on reading the definition of socialism (given in the Debate Forum, The Road to Socialism)." Granted that this definition is similar to that used by the Party, what is so astounding about this statement is that George Walford utterly fails to grasp the significance of this document as a radical departure from the traditional Party approach on how to achieve socialism. In its renunciation of the Big Bang theory it is quite clearly at variance with the views of the conservative and neo-conservative wings of the Party which constitute the great majority of party members. That is why the ideas contained in the document were vigorously rejected by the Party in the late 80s at its annual conference.
Where Walford does deal with these ideas in another context he shows himself to have far more in common with the Party, or rather its conservative majority, than he possibly realises. This is evident in his attack on Gareth Thomas' reference to the development of "socialistic" activities which progressively help to make the idea of socialism more acceptable in the absence of any direct evidence of "socialism in action." This gradualist (which is not the same as reformist) approach to the evolution of social relationships prefiguring socialism itself, suggests that these relationships will incresmingly take on the quality of those what will exist in socialism as the latter becomes more imminent. For example, the market economy may well be increasingly circumvented as writers like Andre Gorz have suggested. Direct production for use, albeit still partly dependent on the market for inputs etc, may become more widespread due to the expanding realm of mutual aid. Yet, disappointingly, the only conclusion which Walford can draw from all this is that if such activities are "not in the full sense socialist, if they do not constitute a socialist system, they can provide no evidence for the practicality of full socialism." No evidence? Not even partial or indirect evidence? This is typical of the black-or-white thinking which he so often accuses the Party of engaging in.
It would seem that George Walford simply cannot bring himself to acknowledge the possibility that socialists can differ significantly among themselves even in respect of the very nature of socialism itself. It may be that, such is his tunnel vision fixation with the Party, he cannot do otherwise.
Editors, Spanner
Reply from George Walford
This letter does not consist entirely of agreement presented as if it were contradiction, it also contains a little argument; this can be quickly dealt with.
The Spanner editors speak of people involved with the project and that involvement constitutes these people a group. The issue of formality is a red herring introduced by the editors.
The editors cannot, sensibly, both object to my calling Spanner a breakaway and accuse me of failing to recognise it as a radical departure.
The demonstrated viability of a society containing socialist activities provides no evidence for the practicality of one in which all the means of production, without exception, are commonly owned and democratically controlled. In terms of abstract logic the distinction here is between some and all; what is true of some may or may not be true of all.
It is acceptance of the purist conception that sets up a rigid black-or-white division- between one system that is socialist and all others that are not. Spanner No. 1 committed itself to that purist conception: "As far as Spanner is concerned it [socialism] may be defined as a system of society in which the means of wealth production – the factories, farms, offices etc.- are owned and democratically controlled by the community … " If this is "quite untrue" it is Spanner, not IC , that needs correction. If Spanner, or some of the people involved with it, also hold another conception, the resulting tangles are for Spanner, not IC , to sort out.
Suggestions that the market economy, and direct production for use, "may" do this or that, are adequately dealt with by adding that they may not.
These editors misrepresent their own writer. Gareth Thomas does not refer to "the development of 'socialistic' activities which progressively help to make the idea of socialism more acceptable"; he writes more carefully than that, speaking of this as something which may happen, using "if" and "hopefully."
Rather than resolving or transcending the Party's self-contradictions, Spanner has tried to draw back from them. Its editors at least have failed in the attempt, retaining the rigid exclusiveness which marks Party thinking and produces the self-contradictions. They demonstrate this by describing Spanner as "a forum for the exchange of ideas primarily about the way to achieve a non-market society." Not a society in which the market plays a smaller or less harmful part, but one from which it is excluded, a non-market society.
Beyond Politics, an outline of systematic ideology, by George Walford, will be published on 1 September. For details see p. 16 below.
HEGEL AT BRAZIERS
Braziers Adult College, with which Harold Walsby was at one time associated, is to run a weekend course on HEGEL AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS. The date will be November 30 to December 2, the Tutor Glynn Faithful BA, PHD and the fee is £60.50.
"In spite of the Eighteenth Century's preoccupation with individual subjectivity, Hegel's philosophy has a collective basis. He says: 'In the history of the world, the individuals we have to do with are peoples: totalities that are states.' Moreover his concept of Geist is based on a divine mind whose 'Providence is wisdom, endowed with infinite power, which realises its aim, namedly the absolute rational design of the world.' We will examine this aspect of his 'absolute idealism' and its relationship to modern theories of the evolution of consciousness and psycho-social phenomena. A useful introduction to this subject is P. Singer's Hegel, OUP 1983, Past Masters Series, £3.96."
from Ideological Commentary 47, September 1990.
Author: gwiepadmin on July 30, 2013
Tags: Braziers, George Walford, Harold Walsby, IC47, Paradox, Socialism, Socialist Party of Great Britain
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// Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.TestCommon;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Queue;
using Xunit;

namespace Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.EndToEndTests
{
    public class ParallelExecutionTests : IDisposable
    {
        private const string TestArtifactPrefix = "e2etestparallelqueue";
        private const string TestQueueName = TestArtifactPrefix + "-%rnd%";

        private static readonly object _lock = new object();

        private static int _numberOfQueueMessages;
        private static int _receivedMessages;

        private static int _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions;
        private static int _maxSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions;

        private static ManualResetEvent _allMessagesProcessed;
        private CloudQueueClient _queueClient;

        public static void ParallelQueueTrigger([QueueTrigger(TestQueueName)] int sleepTimeInSeconds)
        {
            lock(_lock)
            {
                _receivedMessages++;
                _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions++;
                if (_currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions > _maxSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions)
                {
                    _maxSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions = _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions;
                }
            }

            Thread.Sleep(sleepTimeInSeconds * 1000);

            lock(_lock)
            {
                _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions--;
                if (_receivedMessages == _numberOfQueueMessages)
                {
                    _allMessagesProcessed.Set();
                }
            }
        }

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        [InlineData(1, 1)]
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        [InlineData(2, 3)]
        [InlineData(3, 3)]
        public void MaxDegreeOfParallelism_Queues(int batchSize, int maxExpectedParallelism)
        {
            _receivedMessages = 0;
            _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions = 0;
            _maxSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions = 0;
            _numberOfQueueMessages = batchSize * 3;

            RandomNameResolver nameResolver = new RandomNameResolver();
            JobHostConfiguration hostConfiguration = new JobHostConfiguration()
            {
                NameResolver = nameResolver,
                TypeLocator = new FakeTypeLocator(typeof(ParallelExecutionTests)),
            };
            hostConfiguration.Queues.BatchSize = batchSize;

            CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(hostConfiguration.StorageConnectionString);
            _queueClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
            CloudQueue queue = _queueClient.GetQueueReference(nameResolver.ResolveInString(TestQueueName));

            queue.CreateIfNotExists();

            for (int i = 0; i < _numberOfQueueMessages; i++)
            {
                int sleepTimeInSeconds = i % 2 == 0 ? 5 : 1;
                queue.AddMessage(new CloudQueueMessage(sleepTimeInSeconds.ToString()));
            }

            using (_allMessagesProcessed = new ManualResetEvent(initialState: false))
            using (JobHost host = new JobHost(hostConfiguration))
            {
                host.Start();
                _allMessagesProcessed.WaitOne(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(90));
                host.Stop();
            }

            Assert.Equal(_numberOfQueueMessages, _receivedMessages);
            Assert.Equal(0, _currentSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions);

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            int delta = _maxSimultaneouslyRunningFunctions - maxExpectedParallelism;
            Assert.True(delta == 0 || delta == 1);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            if (_queueClient != null)
            {
                foreach (var testQueue in _queueClient.ListQueues(TestArtifactPrefix))
                {
                    testQueue.Delete();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


Evertiq - IDTechEx: Graphene's centre of gravity shifts to China?
IDTechEx: Graphene's centre of gravity shifts to China?
Europeans won the Nobel Prize for their work on graphene but they are not necessarily winning on the commercial front. In fact, it is the Chinese who might overtake them.
Chinese entities are taking the patent landscape by a storm and have now put an unbridgeable distance between themselves and the rest of the world. Chinese entities now featured heavily in the list of top ten patent holders, while there is a notable absence of Western entities. It is of course by no means certain that quantity will translate into quality, but what is certain is that Chinese research is leaving behind no white space in the graphene patent landscape. Chinese entities are also announcing ambitious production plans. Many such as The Sixth Element and Morsh have capacities greater than 100 tpa. The utilisation rate is still low and the quality may not be the highest, but in most case will be good enough. It is worthwhile noting that Chinese also had success in the CNT business, therefore there is no reason to doubt that they can replicate it here. The progress is not limited to platelet type graphene. Several Chinese firms have set up production lines for producing and transferring CVD graphene films. Here too they are announcing aggressing scale, performance and price plans, and are innovating in the way they combine the doping and transfer steps. This is not to say that Europeans and others are also not doing great work. In Europe, many companies have innovated and/or scaled. North American companies are also making strong progress. In fact, Vorbeck was one of the first to bring real applications to the market based on its graphene conductive inks, while XG Sciences was one of the first to scale and help make graphene affordable. Japan has been slow to wake up to the graphene craze. This may seem surprising given Japan's strong tradition in material research and manufacture, but this is because many Japanese companies had their fingers burnt after they wholeheartedly embraced CNTs at the peak of their hype. Despite this, good work has been coming from Japan.


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Physics >
torque, in physics, that which tends to change the rate of rotation of a body; also called the moment of force. The torque produced by rotating parts of an electric motor or internal-combustion engine is often used as a measure of its ability to do useful work. The magnitude of the torque acting on a body is equal to the product of the force acting on the body and the distance from its point of application to the axis around which the body is free to rotate. Only the component of the force lying in the plane of rotation and perpendicular to the radius from the axis of rotation to the point of application contributes to the torque. This radius is called the moment arm, or lever arm. The net torque acting on a body is always equal to the product of the body's moment of inertia about its axis of rotation and its observed angular acceleration. If a body undergoes no angular acceleration, there is no net torque acting on it. Units of torque are units of force multiplied by units of distance, e.g., newton-meters, dyne-centimeters, and foot-pounds (or pound-feet).
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Q: ¿Cómo puedo poner un update de registro en php? buena noche.
brevemente, estoy trabajando con un contador de fechas en php conforme pasan los días el contador resta días de los 30 que están predeterminados, sin embargo, antes de llegar al ultimo día estoy intentando meter un update para que actualice los registros de un array pero no entra el update a pesar de que ya le puse un  if, cada que actualizo la pagina entra el update sin importar que falten más de 20 días.
la pregunta es, ¿Cómo puedo meter correctamente el update cuando falte 1 día de finalizar el periodo?
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      ($days = date_diff($fechaFinal, $fechaActual));

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la pregunta es, ¿Cómo puedo meter correctamente el update cuando falte
1 día de finalizar el periodo?

Tienes que poner un condicional que verifique si los días del intervalo son igual a 1 simplemente:
if ($days->days === 1) {
     $actualizar=$conexion->query("UPDATE pedidos SET Estado='Cancelado'
      WHERE id='$ids'");
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Secrets & Doors Anthology Benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
First, let's introduce you to all these fantastic authors!
ANGELA HARTLEY spent much of her childhood being shuffled from house to house with only books for companionship. The magic she found in the written word saved her in many ways, transporting her into worlds far more enjoyable than the one she resided in. Literature became a passion and the idea of writing carried her through years of uncertainty. Following her father's tragic death in 2005, she decided it was time to let go of the past and pursue her dreams. With the love and support of her family, she's built worlds of her own full of procreating angels and demon rock stars. Her debut New Adult horror novel, Copper Descent, was released through Fox Hollow Publications in May 2014. Angela currently resides in Midway, Utah with her three children and husband.
www.angelahartley.blogspot.com
TERRA LUFT is a speculative fiction writer and prolific blogger. An overachiever by nature, she
tackles every project with coffee and sarcasm and believes all rules exist to be broken. She works full-time by day and writes by night, always searching for that ever elusive work/life balance people tell her exists. She lives in Utah with her husband and two daughters, their naughty dog, and a cat who stole her heart.
www.terraluft.com
CHRISTINE HAGGERTY, author of The Plague Legacy series, grew up in rural Utah with three brothers, a sister, several chickens, a goat, and an outhouse. She always loved the escape of fantasy and the art of writing, and her life's passion is to craft stories of strength and survival. As a former high school language arts teacher and a black belt in karate, Christine has found a niche
combining both skills to help authors write effective fight scenes.
www.christinehaggertyauthor.com
MERIANN BOXALL resides in the mountains of Northern Utah with her husband and two children.
A work-at-home mom she has a Master's degree in Business Administration. She finds herself teaching college courses online and writing grants for nonprofit organizations. Growing up in a small town rich with culture she developed a love for the art of storytelling. She is an avid reader who loves being outdoors, boating, and trail-running in the mountains that surround her home.
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C. R. ASAY joined the Utah National Guard at the age of seventeen. After spending time in the 625th Military Police Corp she transferred to the 19th Special Forces group as a counterintelligence agent. She retired from the military after marrying her best friend, and graduated from college so that she could embark on the most exciting adventure of all; being a
mom. The short story version of her first novel, Heart of Annihilation, earned an honorable mention from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. C. R. Asay currently resides in West Jordan, Utah, with her husband, four children, and a dog. There is always a dog. www.crasay.com
MICHAEL DARLING has been a butcher, a cartoonist, and an award-winning magician. He fell in A Wrinkle in Time. The synergistic mingling of words, art, theater, and magic have led to many projects in the years since. Michael's fiction was first published in college and his non-fiction has appeared in the book Teach by Magic and MAGIC Magazine. Death by Magic and The Mystery of Dr. D'Arq have been produced for the stage along with radio scripts for The Faith and Families Report that aired in more than 80 markets worldwide. As an actor and singer, Michael has appeared in more than 15 plays and musicals. As Michelangelo, he has entertained audiences with his own brand of magic and illusion in hundreds of shows and has appeared with the Utah Symphony and toured with Odyssey Dance Theatre's Thriller production. Michael is currently working magic with an urban fantasy novel as well as an epic fantasy series for young adults. His short stories have been accepted for publication in 2015.
love with science-fiction after reading Madeleine L'Engles'
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JOHNNY WORTHEN is the tie-dye wearing author of the nationally acclaimed young adult paranormal Eleanor, the Unseen, and the adult occult thriller, Beatrysel, and Dr. Stuart's Heart. His short story, The Point, appears in the Dark Fiction anthology Little Visible Delight, and look for his genre-bending comedy noire, The Finger Trap in 2015. Trained in modern literary criticism and cultural studies, Johnny writes upmarket multi-genre fiction. "I write what I like to read," he says. "That guarantees me at least one fan." Johnny lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and sons.
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SAM MCCLENDON is a world championshipmartial artist and Science Fiction/Fantasy enthusiast.
Having survived cancer, he now pursues his dream of becoming a published writer, and works to help build a community of support for aspiring writers in Utah. Currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah, he works in the IT field for a local software company
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LEHUA PARKER is the award-winning author of the MG/YA series the Niuhi Shark Saga: One Boy, No Water; One Shark, No Swim; and One Truth, No Lie. Originally from Hawaii and a graduate of The Kamehameha Schools, Lehua is currently an author, book doctor, public speaker, soccer mom, and playwright. An advocate of literacy and indigenous cultural narratives, you can find her at www.LehuaParker.com, lurking on Facebook when she should be finishing her next novel, or folding laundry.
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JESSICA PARKER is a fantasy author currently working on a fairytale series. Her adventures in the
written word have occurred as long as she can remember; reading stories of dragons, magic, romance, and the power of one person inspired Jessica to write stories of her own. Aside from reading and writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, camping, swimming, movies and cooking.
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ADRIENNE MONSON is the award winning author of the Blood Inheritance trilogy and a paranormal Regency novella, Eyes of Persuasion. She resides in Utah with her husband and two children where she works on more stories to share with the world. She also enjoys reading, kickboxing, and cooking.
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CALLIE STOKER gained a love for stories early in life. Her first favorite series was The Indian in the Cupboard. The idea of a boy's toy coming alive in a magic cupboard gripped her imagination and never let go. In the past decade, Callie has honed her editing skills by studying the writing craft and defining the elements that make a story work. She can read any story, any rocky first draft, and provide the first aid it needs to live off the page, and resonate in the minds of readers. She works with new writers and published authors by treated editing as an opportunity to teach and encourage, instead of just correct. Her business, The Manuscript Doctor, offers several services dedicated to help stories at every stage reach their potential and change their readers forever.
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Awesome, right? Now for the book:
Open the door and unlock the secrets in eleven short stories from The Secret Door Society, an organization of fantasy and science fiction authors dedicated to charitable work. All proceeds from this anthology benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in their quest to cure Type One Diabetes (T1D).
In these pages you'll discover a modern woman trapped in an old fashioned dreamscape, a futuristic temp worker who fights against her programming, a beautiful vampire's secret mission disrupted by betrayal, a sorcerer's epic battle against a water dragon, the source of magical mirrors—and more. There are tales for every science fiction and fantasy taste, including new works from award-winning authors Johnny Worthen, Lehua Parker, Christine Haggerty, and Adrienne Monson.
Join us in the fight against T1D as you peek into a world of magical and mysterious doorways—if you dare.
By: Angela Hartley Head
strong, quirky Elise is always leaping before she looks. This time she's landed on an accidental time-travel adventure. Running from her controlling ex (who also happens to be a wizard), she discovers what put the 'evil' in medieval, and that snakes are always better as handbags. Join Elise on this wacky journey of self-realization, and you too will unlock her secret.
By: Terra Luft
Jadayell is devoted to abolishing the ban on reflections, but her family is responsible for upholding it and protecting the real reasons behind it. In her quest to satisfy her personal desires, she uncovers a secret with the power to destroy the world. Will she choose the greater good of the people, or her own selfish needs?
Simple Magic
By: Christine Haggerty
After Soria and her companion are sent by one of the Five Elders to the earth's surface to kill a human family, Soria discovers that a deeper secret lies beneath the command.
The Red Portal
By: MeriAnn Boxall
Isabelle is tired of hiding what makes her unique. She is ready to stand out and stand up. As the Princess of Aylan it is her duty to lead her people by exposing the biggest lie of all. In order to do so, she must face her past and her mother's abandonment head on. What she discovers may be more than her kingdom can handle.
Good Enough to Die For
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Molly, an unwanted shelter dog, is given a second chance when she bonds with a lady, carrying the tangy scents of otherworldly fear.
By: Michael Darling
A futuristic temp worker finds romance and a terrible secret in her new crew. To preserve the truth that could change her life, she'll have to overcome the programming used by the UP corporation to control her. But the price may be more costly, and personal, than she bargained for. True Sight
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Inside Peek!
Inside look at Secrets & Doors
Isabelle is tired of hiding what makes her unique. She is ready to stand out and stand up. As
the Princess of Aylan it is her duty to lead her people by exposing the biggest lie of all. In order
to do so, she must face her past and her mother's abandonment head on. What she discovers
may be more than her kingdom can handle.
"We were once a great, happy people. We had freedom. We had courage. I want to bring that
back. Today, I return that to you by bringing back what we thought was lost." I looked around,
"Mother?"
Unique Thing
MeriAnn loves pushing herself to the limits through trail running and an Ironman Triathlon laterin 2015.
By Angela Hartley
Head-strong, quirky Elise is always leaping before she looks. This time she's landed on an
accidental time-travel adventure. Running from her controlling ex (who also happens to be a
wizard), she discovers what put the 'evil' in medieval, and that snakes are always better as
handbags. Join Elise on this wacky journey of self-realization, and you too will unlock her
secret.
"Kill the witch! Kill the witch!" Villagers chanted. They gathered around the house.
Great! Now they resorted to name-calling. Really mature. So I did what any strong, capable
twenty-year-old would in my position. I opened the window and shouted. "Seriously?!"
Interesting author tidbit:
Room 517 was my first attempt at writing humor, but Diabetes is no laughing matter for me.
My oldest daughter has lived with Type 1 for over 9 years. She's my hero and my heart.
True Sight
By: Jessica Parker
Rothe has strived for twenty years to complete the spell to fix everything. Summoning a
dragon to gain the final ingredient is only the beginning.
A loud sucking noise sounded from below. Rothe hurried to the cliff edge to see
a whirlpool opening a doorway into the ocean depths. A dark shadow shifted
under the surface and Rothe moved away from the edge.
Interesting tidbit:
I have insulin resistance. While not the same as diabetes, many of the effects are
similar. That being said, it hasn't stopped me from enjoying the outdoors where
I drew inspiration for my story. I'm happy to support such a great cause
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Debbiedoo's: Home sweet home, and some features from the newbie party!
Home sweet home, and some features from the newbie party!
So very happy to be home after two long, wonderful weeks!
I thank you all for sharing our vacation with us. I wanted to share as many pics as I could on my blog with you all. I have so many more and so many other fun and exciting things we did.
For now, it is back to home and garden blogging.
Here are some of the most viewed posts from my Newbie party.
First up was Suzy....Suzy featured her friends Kitchen.
She has a very pretty kitchen too. I have those very same valances, which I love from Walmart!
Oh my this cute little face is just so adorable!
Thanks again for all your lovely comments while I was gone. It will take me forever to catch up here in the land of Blogs!
If I blabbed about you, feel free to grab a blab button.
Don't forget about the Mountain of Giveaways.
10 CANS of chalk paint and more up for grabs.
Yipee.. I'm the first today. Welcome home. Know you were missed. Now, off you go to learn how to PIN IT.... Can't wait to see what BOARDS you have.
I am so looking forward to your next MAGAZINE COPY meme..:)) That was so much fun.
Welcome home Debbie. Awaiting more pics.
Welcome home! Sorry you had to come home to such horrible heat! Hope you stay cool!
welcome home,, I'm glad you liked the photo of the kitten I painted,, isn't he (or she) a little doll!
Welcome Home! Love the features ... the kitchens are beautiful, and I want to snuggle with that precious kitty. Have a great weekend.
Welcome home, Debbie! Hope you had a wonderful time - great features.
Welcome back! Hope you had fun!
Welcome home Debbie! I'm so out of it with blogging, I'll have to catch up on all your vacation posts:) I bet it feels good to be home! We're leaving for NC on Sept. 1st, I know I'll be homesick!
Welcome home! It's great to go away but it's wonderful to be home. Wow 2 weeks!! Lucky you!! Enjoy your weekend Debbie!!
Hi Debbie, It's always nice to get away and even better to come back home. I'm glad you had a great time.
Welcome back!! What a wonderful post with gorgeous kitchens--and wow, I love that kitten--pure joy!!!
welcome home Deb..you deserved a great vacation and I'm glad you got one. you have such a happy looking family..
Welcome home, there's no place like home.
Thanks for sharing these bloggers with us. The kitty pic is precious. Glad you had a great getaway. Thanks for stopping by to visit me.
Get settled...welcome home. Nice features and cute kitten.
Welcome home! Even though you posted, we missed you! We did bring in your mail and newspapers every day...and we dusted and vacuumed the night before you arrived.
Home ain't no place like it!!!
Happy for yall, everyone needs a vacation!
Hi Debbie. I'm trying to get caught up reading my favorite blogs. Imagine my surprise when I found that you "blabbed" about my post on Linda's kitchen being one of the most viewed. I can't tell you how thrilled and honored I am!!! Linda will be so excited when I pass this along to her. She has really enjoyed seeing everyone's comments. I'll definitely be adding your button to my blog. Thank you again!


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In Poverty 592 2.43% 462 1.84%
Not in Poverty 1,664 6.84% 1,643 6.53%
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65 Years and Above 3,560 14.64% 3,453 13.72%
In Poverty 1,103 4.54% 709 2.82%
* The total population is the population for which poverty status is determined. Therefore, the total in this table should not be expected to match the total population in the population growth topic.


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Paul Scholes: Selling Paul Pogba Would Not Be A Loss To Manchester United
Losing Paul Pogba would not be a loss for Manchester United and there are other players in the squad who could perform to his standards, believes Paul Scholes.
The Frenchman looked likely to leave the club over the summer after he announced that he was looking for a new challenge away from Manchester. However, Red Devils boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was keen to keep hold of the midfielder and did so, pricing him out of a move to Real Madrid or Juventus.
Pogba has now started four Premier League games this season, with mixed performances. Scholes believes he still has his heart set on a move and would be no loss to United if they let him go.
'I think it's quite clear he wants to leave the club,' Scholes said. 'He wanted to move to Real Madrid [in the summer] and for whatever reason it didn't happen. If they ask him to stay for a year then we'll see what happens. But I don't think it will be a big loss to United [if he does go].
'At the end of the day his form hasn't been great anyway over the last three or three years he's been there. I'm sure there's more players there who can step in and do just as good a job.'
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The 26-year-old is currently out with an ankle injury that kept him out of United's win over Leicester City in the Premier League last weekend. He will not be playing in the Europa League game against Astana at Old Trafford on Thursday but may return for a trip to West Ham on Sunday in the Premier League.
The World Cup winner provided two assists in the first game of the season, a 4-0 win over Chelsea, but has not scored or laid on an assist since then, playing in draws with Wolves and Southampton and a defeat to Crystal Palace.
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