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Build a Batman
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Travis Hedge Coke
It's story time! Let's read Return of Bruce Wayne together! (Or, you can just sit there and read about me reading it. That works, too.)
Batman is awesome. Even people who hate Batman stuff actually like Batman, they just don't like the execution, or the ephemera. If you truly and totally dislike Batman, you've rejected humanity. (This column will have hyperbole. Batman necessitates hyperbole.) But, why? It's easy to love Batman, but difficult to, sometimes, justify loving Batman. Or, to explain the attraction. If John McClane or Han Solo suddenly dressed like a bat, they'd be less than cool. How long would Dorothy Gale or Norm MacDonald be worth watching, if they swore to fight crime after seeing their folks gunned down on a latenight Gotham street?
If your best friend had billions of dollars but only employed one old man to clean his mansion, man cave, thirty-five cars, made him perform surgeries by himself, check messages, manage his schedule, select his clothes, cut his hair, and coach him in being a decent human being, plus cook all the meals? Your friend would be a jerk. Batman, though, needs an Alfred.
Grant Morrison said Return of Bruce Wayne, his examination of what makes Batman Batman by throwing him around in time, setting him on fire, shooting him, and generally slapping him around, is some of his tightest writing, and it probably is. There is a ridiculous depth and complexity in what appears to be a simple gimmick comic, and let's hope Batman is so Batman that it justifies the efforts.
So, before we begin reading, let me say Batman!
And, now, let's read…
Chapter 1: Shadow on Stone
Pg 2-5 – The comic begins with some guys following bat-looking shadows and boot-prints in the mud, until they get to a cave. Bat symbols, bat silhouettes are fun to draw. They're like making those V-shaped birds (that also appear in these pages), but have more points on them. And, let's face it, the bat silhouette is the easiest thing to associate with Batman, even before the mask or "My parents are dead!" And, who is Batman, if not a dude with bats who comes out of a cave? So, that is exactly how Batman shows up, a dude, in tights, coming out of a cave full of bats to do justice.
Pg 6 – Batman, who has amnesia, sees a guy called "Joker," who laughs, and he glares at him. Because of Law of Batman #1: Batman is an awkward judge of character.
Pg 10 – A dead father, a dead mother, and some (Flintstones' style) pearls on a necklace. It's how Batman came to be, in the brain and heart of a little boy, as we get reminded in every single Batman movie, and it's also how Batman comes in, here, in Return of Bruce Wayne.
Pg 11 – The kid, here, has just lost his grandfather, his dad is clearly grieving, and yet, his main concern is "How will I ever be a man?" How much of Batman is just that? Just a young kid, unable to deal with kneeling in his parents' blood, trying to be a man?
Is Batman a man? Is he more than a man? Real people can't ever do all Batman does, right? Even stripped down versions of Batman are still bigger and stronger and more resilient than us, right?
The kid's dad tells him there's "not much to being a man," and points out that Batman still needs to eat. Batman does sleep, he does get hungry, and…
Pg 12 – And, Batman does get hurt. The classic Year One makes a big deal of how mortal Batman is, how easy to get severely injured it is in his lifestyle, and here we see the first of many injuries to Bruce in this comic, as he takes an arrow to the shoulder, saving the kid.
Pg 13 – And, the kid loses his dad. Everyone knows Bruce's parents were murdered and he became Batman, many remember that Robin, as well, loses his parents before Bruce takes him in and helps him become Robin, but is the loss necessary? Is putting on a mask and fighting back against villainy warranted by grieving? Is it just about grief?
Pg 16 – The first villain of Return of Bruce Wayne, Vandal Savage, is emblematic of "the first villain." He's caveman evil. He's Cain. He's Proto-Bastard. And, he not only killed a giant bat-monster before, he's hung it up as a furry scarecrow to terrify his follows and Bruce Wayne, who he's tied down to die staring at it.
A famous Batman quote is regarding criminals being a fearful and superstitious lot, justifying his bat-costume and themes. Is Batman just a scarecrow for criminals? Is the bat-signal up against the clouds just as terrifying and crime-preventative as Batman, himself? Is a seven foot tall bat-monster's head and hide up on a stick as scary as, or scarier than a man in a pointy-eared mask with a yellow belt and themed boots?
Pg 19-20 – "Eat his brains." "Break his back." Everything Savage and his people suggest to end him are things that Bruce Wayne has faced before and bounced back from. While his gang say "nothing can kill" their boss, and yes, he's revealed to be functionally immortal, Bruce cannot be permanently ended either, because a) he's the goddammed Batman and b) he's protected by a commercial necessity to keep telling Batman stories.
And, crucifying Batman? Tying out Batman, arms out, legs spread, bleeding and confused? We haven't seen the crown of head wounds he got earlier than this, in Return of Bruce Wayne, but we will. Morrison has already said he feels Superman is a better idea than Jesus and here is yet another Christ moment for Batman, a comparison he's been making since at least the early 90s.
Pg 22 – Batman is hallucinating and remembering and understanding. In effect, he is having a vision. Batman, especially Morrison's Batman, has visions. But, going all the way back to that bat that sat on a bust in his father's study, Bruce Wayne is a superstitious man. And, his heroism springs from his cowardice, from a base-level terror and anxiety. Bruce is a superstitious and cowardly man, and his awesome comes out, in part, from acting against those despite feeling them. The big monster bat skin hung over him as he is staked out overnight is horrifying. It reminds him of terror, monsters, omens, skeletal hands pointing, and masks, and ultimately, himself.
Pg 23 – The kid is back! And he bears a bat-shield.
Batman has inspired a scared orphan to man up, put on a mask, and come save his ass so he can go beat up evil. Batman is forever, but Robins spring eternal. In Robin, Batman sees how he could have helped himself, and Robins see in Batman what all kids see in Batman: a hero they could be if they worked hard enough. As adults, we know, mostly, that it's silly to believe this. You can't be Batman. You'd die being Batman and nobody would ever treat you as they treat Batman in a Batman story. But, to kids? As a sell? Batman is the superhero you could be.
Pg 26 – Bruce Wayne is a badass. But, you put point ears and a cape on Bruce and he's unstoppable.
Vandal calls Bruce a "sorcerer" here, and since Batman is traditionally considered "super rational" or a guy who doesn't like or believe in magic, that might seem ignorant. But, Grant Morrison understands magick differently, and his Batman – his way of looking at Batman – makes calling him a sorcerer totally sensible. Batman believes in fate and omens and in fighting them or ignoring them if you desire. He believes in directing, in control, in defiance and order and compassion. He's superstitious. A crusader. A priest. Batman is the weird, emotional, incomprehensible dark man who lives on the outskirts of town in his weird cave full of tools and fetishes, who comes into town and performs awesome feats in his animal mask.
Pg 27 – And Bruce Wayne, by being a dude in an animal mask, inspires others. He inspires what the kid, on this page, calls "Bat People."
Pg 34 – With Batman gone, we see the fate of Savage, and why Savage is not Batman and Batman not Savage. They'll both be around in the 21st Century. They're both strong, fast, incredibly smart, powerful and inspiring men. Vandal Savage wants to be king. He wants to sit in the middle of town, with the best of everything as his right, to be worshipped and admired by demand. Law of Batman #2: Batman is not a conqueror. Batman doesn't really care if people worship him, or admire him. He wants his dead parents to think well of him, maybe, and he likes his friends, sure, but he'll burn anyone if it's the right thing to do, the just thing. Batman doesn't demand the cops serve him. He'll work besides the police or government, but if they're on the other side, they're on the other side. He'll fight cops. He'll scare citizens flying overhead on a batrope, but he won't attack people and demand allegiance or payment.
Chapter 2: Until the End of Time
Pg 1 – Does Batman create his villains? Encourage them?
Bruce fights a monster here that he brought to this time, this place, but he didn't know it (and does not understand, in the scene), and he's not responsible for the decisions the monster makes. You can't blame Batman for Joker or Riddler or the Cavalier or Professor Pyg. Even if they are inspired by him, or delighted by his attention, these are people making their own criminal decisions. You can't blame Batman any more than you can blame their victims.
Pg 2 – "Stay with me and I'll love you," Annie says to Bruce, "Until the end of time." This witchy, dark-eyed woman who he saves from a monster, who patches him up and puts him to bed and says sweet, mysterious things to him.
Pg 8 – A bat, nailed dead to a church door. Stabbed in the heart and hung up as a scapegoat, another scarecrow bat monster, another impaled bat.
And, what does Bruce call it, straightaway? He says it "seems a sinister omen." It's a bat-signal, it's an omen, but it's a manmade omen, and Bruce knows it. He's already taken a fake name, here, and put on a costume (with a belt full of pouches), to be the policeman Mordecai, with his chief suspect announcing, in front of him, "The devil walks among us!" as he approaches.
Pg 9-10 – Bruce dispels the idea the Devil is at work here, by using both detective work and intuition to suggest the crime was committed by mortal and immediate hands, specifically those of the decedent's wife. He's partially wrong, but he doesn't know he's wrong and it's a good, simple, sensible deduction. His only flaw is not going far enough in his investigation.
Pg 11 – Even though he believes she committed murder, Bruce still shows great compassion, though. He doesn't want her on trial for things she didn't do, he does not desire her to be tortured. Batman understands mistakes, missteps, violent emotions. Batman must be compassionate. He must believe in justice, in helping people, but he can't be about vengeance or cruelty and last.
Pg 12-13 – And, here, with Annie, Bruce continues to show both his compassion and his inability to correctly judge people. He's emotional. He has an incredible soft spot for women in trouble and for those he feels are shunned or persecuted. Annie is being incredibly suspicious here, her words and actions tinged with cruelty, and yet he ignores that and focuses on her suffering and sadness. He says of her and himself, "We both lost our way."
Pg 14 – Bruce's description of what he assumed happened to him, as he is still mostly amnesiac, makes it sound as if he was mugged after coming into Gotham, just as his parents were, the night they were murdered before him.
Pg 15 – "I don't believe there are witches here," says Bruce, but we know there are. Bruce has a tendency to deny magick, witches and demons, even if they are right before him. He doesn't want to see Annie as a witch, or a threat, despite the fact she talks of magick, dark gods, and punishments. He wants to see in her only someone to rescue and someone acting criminally or viciously only out of innocence, the same way he sometimes treats Catwoman or Talia as naïve or animally innocent, instead of as adult women who've chosen their lives.
Pg 16 – The dragon, the devil hurting innocents, flees when the bats come out.
Pg 17 – Bruce's idiot ancestor, the primary antagonist of the issue, refuses to acknowledge that a mortal woman could be the murderer. A guy who wants to torture and kill women for being witches, but the idea that a housewife could be a murderer and not a giant supernatural monster dragondevilthing? Batman may tend to infantilize women, but he's not a raving misogynist with drool on his chin at the thought of brutalizing young ladies for being immoral.
Pg 18 – Annie's not quite Snow White, but Bruce is the Huntsman in that story to her fairytale princess exiled to the woods. The Huntsman's role is to defy queen and society to save a girl who has a very vicious sense of justice, and Bruce, in this chapter, is performing just such a role.
Pg 19-21 – Bruce calls the monster he accidentally brought with him, his "responsibility." He knows Annie called him by magic for an "avenging angel." He doesn't try to punish her, even knowing she's responsible for murders and been manipulating him. He tries to help. He tries to protect, no matter what.
And, Annie, at the same time, demonstrates the self-justifications of so many of Bruce's eco-villains. She cares about animals, she values the plants and nature, while society is destroying them, so it must be okeh that she's killing and hurting people. It doesn't ring any less selfish here, than when Poison Ivy says it, or R'as al Ghul, but Bruce always tries to give it great consideration, because he wants righteousness to mean rightness and good.
Pg 26 – Minutes until the end of time and the universe, Bruce Wayne stands in a dark disguise, in the last house at the edge of forever, and he pauses from world-saving and world-ending business to memorialize Annie's death billions of years earlier. He calls her passing, "a tiny spark unnoticed in all the cosmic geometry," and to some, that might means it's not significant enough to take time out from what might save existence, but Bruce knows it is. Bruce knows the value of commemorating the dead and caring for the suffering.
Pg 29 – Without Bruce there, Annie dies unjustly by petty officers of a crooked and dogmatic law. Why does a city full of police need a Batman? Because policework is a job. Batman is a thing.
Bruce's ancestor could never be Batman, and Batman could never be that constable. He's petty, angry, sadistic, and incapable of looking at people as individuals or acknowledging they have lives, that extenuating circumstances and moments of passion exist. He has a false name, he has a sense of justice, but no compassion at all.
Chapter 3: The Bones of Bristol Bay
Pg 1 – Batman, seen finally in full costume (in flashback), with his head wounds and just now being shot in the skull by a dark god or true devil.
Pg 2 – Is this Vandal Savage again, in a costume, calling himself Black Beard? It is easy to say, "How can they not tell it's ____ in a costume?" if you have no reason to suspect it is, it will be difficult. It's easier for us, outside the story, because the story makes the connection for us, but remember, in the very first Batman story ever, we spend the whole story with Bruce and Commissioner Gordon talking, Batman fighting crime, but it's only revealed in the last panels that Bruce is Batman and prior to that, you can't tell.
Pg 4 – Black Beard is mistaken about Bruce's identity, too. He sees he's strong, he sees that he's intense, and he wants him to be something he understands, so he assumes he's the Black Pirate, Captain of the Black Rose.
Bruce does not hesitate on this page to headbutt evil right in the nose, because Batman can't hesitate. Batman cannot be intimidated. Or, at least, intimidation should not slow him up. Action! Justice! Broken noses!
Pg 5 – Vandal Savage or not, Black Beard is captaining a ship called Revenge and set up as a small king, once again, a swaggering bully with royal pretensions, ruling by fear and cruelty. Batman, to keep being Batman, cannot be sailing the good ship Revenge or making a bully or a king of himself.
Pg 8 – More dead bats tethered to posts and some impaled skulls. Batman, for all the fun and flash of him, is a terrible mythic thing that, when crucified, is shown to also be small, mortal, funny-looking. And, there's always a terrible hole in him, something broken, even in the lightest of takes, something is driving this guy, there is something more solid, more whole, or holy, that he is seeking.
Pg 9-13 – While Black Beard makes leaps of faith, such as his "if this story about the Black Pirate is true, then this and this story must also be true," Bruce Wayne follows paths of analysis. He tries not to make assumptions, but deductions based on evidence.
Pg 14-15 – Finally, a scene in the present day. A different Batman and his Robin, in radiation suits, in a destroyed city, looking very post-apocalyptic, continuing to fight crime and solve mysteries even with Bruce Wayne missing. Bat-people needed Bruce to start it all, but once begun, there will always be a Batman. As a former Robin says, the bat symbol was found throughout thousands of years, "carried across the Siberian land bridge into Europe by North American cavemen and built into 19th Century gardens."
Pg 18 – A bridge of bones, and a pack or brave pirates who're going to "show death who's master" begin to die one by one, by a visitation of bats, bat-people, bat-fletched arrows and shuriken.
Pg 19-20 – And, standing on the bridge of skulls and femurs in the dark, surrounded by bats? A masked Bruce Wayne who will teach the surviving criminals fear.
Pg 21 – "I never met a ghost I couldn't kill," says Black Beard, but Batman is friends with death, Bruce Wayne is there in the dark, in a place of death, and it's his home. For Bruce, death is a beginning, it is an always. You fight on regardless, and do right.
Pg 27 – Jack Valor, the guy whom Bruce borrowed his mask from this issue, wants to retire from masked dogooding, but Bruce tells him clearly, "Whatever happens… never give up the fight."
Pg 28 – Black Beard, on the other hand, says he had planned on getting the treasure and retiring to a little island, have a family, be super-rich, but since he hasn't got the gold and silver, they might as well go back to plundering. "Bring on tomorrow, we'll seize it by the throat!"
Pg 29 – And, after many years of masked crimefighting, Jack did retire, marry, have kids, and chill out. But, even as an old man, unmasked, not using his fists or a sword, he still fought the good fight his entire life. He still consorted with bat-people and their plans for justice, their fight against the devil and crime. He did good.
While Black Beard/Savage is the antagonist here, Jack Valor is the strongest foil in The Bones of Bristol Bay for Bruce Wayne. He, too, wears a costume inspired by one his father wore, fights against crime and cruelty, comes from a wealthy family, has great physical prowess, all that good stuff. But Jack doesn't even seem to know why he does it, except he inherited it and bad people annoy him. He lacks Bruce's drive for more than adventure or distraction.
Law of Batman #3: Batman does not stop.
Pg 30-31 – Wayne Manor, that abandoned, big, haunted house just outside the city, with its caves and its shadows! And, in Wayne Manor, a man of justice, a man with superhuman reflexes and true grit. A man who lost his family, lost his way, but fights on! Jonah Hex!
Jonah is a hired gun, the best hired gun in the Old West, and he and Batman do share a lot in common, but Jonah, like Jack, is no Bruce Wayne. Batman is not for hire. He doesn't owe allegiance. Batman is about an ethos, a directive, not law or contract. Jonah isn't all about the money, he's not a greedy or vain man, in that way, but he upholds his image above all else, and he is often incapable of changing his mind, while Bruce Wayne can change tactics, he can forgive enemies and he can cast judgment on friends. Bruce Wayne can call people out, or he can look the other way, as individual situations mitigate or instigate.
Chapter 4: Dark Night, Dark Rider
Pg 1-3 – Yet another family brought low by thieves with guns.
Pg 4 – And, this time, a mother kneeling in the rain, the blood of her family pooling around her, as she plans vengeance and envisions the "darkest, truest angel." And, in answer to her desperation, the avenging shadow that falls on her belongs to…
Pg 5 – Bruce Wayne, complete with a dead father hanging over his shoulder, a mask on his face, and some Dark Knight Returns-evoking lightning flaring in the background.
Pg 6-7 – Again, with a bridge that can deliver death. And, again with Bruce being referred to as a ghost, except they know he can't be a ghost because he's using tools.
Pg 8 – And, here is the 19th Century Vandal Savage, here calling himself Sauvage. And, also, looking sadder, lonelier, with a cancer that won't stop but can never kill him, and being greedy with his booze.
Pg 11-12 – Bruce isn't killing anyone, but he is disabling everyone's gun arm as soon as they get in his way. Batman isn't about killing, he's about disarming. Dead people, after all, can't feel guilt and they can't rehabilitate.
Pg 14 – Like the post-apocalyptic present or the devil-overrun Gotham that Bruce's ancestor policed, Sauvage/Savage sees this era as "fallen times" filled with "degraded men." Every era looks dark and crime-ridden, sinful and gone too far, but how many eras actually have been? None, probably, or else we'd never have got out of them and into the future.
Batman doesn't believe in futility or sin so deep it can't be absolved or damage that can't be repaired, worlds or people who can't be saved.
Pg 15 – Hey, kids! It's Thomas Wayne! Bruce's evil, also immortal ancestor, who's a devil-worshipping paranoid jerk. And, he's introduced calling a hostage, "slut," because like his and Bruce's mutual ancestor, the Hammer of old Gotham, Thomas has issues with women.
More skulls on sticks, too. Gothamites love skulls on sticks.
Pg 16 – The bells will "summon.. from the shadows… one who won't stop until the wicked are brought to account.
Now, no one in the scene knows what the bells are, or do, outside of prophecy. She thinks they'll bring the above-quoted figure, and Thomas believes they bring Barbatos, a bat-god, but also, if you've read this comic, and others, you know that the bells are a mnemonic to remind Bruce of Alfred, of calling Alfred to come patch him up and save his life, the night he decided concretely to become Batman. So, the above quote applies to Batman, yes, but it also summarizes Alfred quite well. Because while there is a Batman, there is an Alfred.
Pg 23-24 – Three different ancestors of Bruce Wayne's converge, on an immortal who doesn't seem to get that he is, one trying to kill himself rather than wander with ennui on his shoulders, and Catherine, brave, fiery, having been kidnapped, tortured, and drugged, still fighting, still protecting secrets, defending family, and hitting Vandal Savage, ever-living conqueror, right in his face.
Pg 25 – Bruce, standing in the rain before a kneeling couple who will one day be his great-great-great grandparents, having saved their lives and now handing them the pearls that one day will belong to his mother, the pearls his mother will die wearing.
"All of the days of the world is one day," Catherine said her grandfather, Jerome said, "and he must be strong for us all." This is true of Batman, but it is true for all of us, then, as well. It's that third Law of Batman, again. Batman does not stop.
Pg 28 – Batman, shot down. If it is true that when Bruce Wayne's parents were gunned down, he was killed, it is also true that when his parents were murdered, Bruce became immortal. "And now I must die," does not follow "I've been shot in the breast" for Bruce Wayne, for Batman. But, it'll hurt.
Pg 30 – Thomas Wayne, immortal, evil, takes his medical equipment and a top hat and sails for Liverpool. Because we just read Batman vs Jack the Ripper and didn't realize it.
Pg 31– Bleeding out, staggering, Bruce is in the city of his childhood for about four panels before he's hit by a truck. Welcome to Gotham.
Chapter 5: Masquerade
Pg 2 – It wouldn't be a Frank Miller riff without heavy shadows, sharp angles, tough talk, an ass-shot dominating the page.
Pg 3-4 – Bruce is going to follow Marsha Lamarr. She's presenting a crime to him and she's a woman in apparent need. That's all Bruce needs to get going. It's that infantilizing he does plus his drive to see crimes solved.
He does not know the crime is his own mother's murder, because he hasn't got his memory all the way back and he has a concussion. Nor, does he understand that the costume this woman presents to him is one his dad wore, one time, to a fancy dress party, a proto-Batman costume.
Pg 11 – Bruce has a "capacity as a detective" because Marsha is disguising him as one. Just as Bruce has a capacity as such as Batman, or a capacity as almost anything by similar means. Dress up and do the job.
Pg 13 – Betsy and Roddy Kane, the parents of Bruce's mother, are many things he must not ever be. The joke the page about wasps is a joke on how WASPish Betsy comes off, but she's also callous, classist, judgmental, dismissive of her dead daughter, her son-in-law, her suffering husband right there beside her, only seeming to care about place, money, and vengeance, not people.
Pg 14 – Bat symbols in the dregs in the teacup, in the outline of the awning.
Pg 15 – But, even Roddy and horrible Betsy Kane are suffering. She's posing as an arch and vicious WASP, but she's heartbroken and fearful, and like all people, she's dying.
Pg 17 – The first thing Marsha and Bruce do, hitting Wayne Manor, is to visit the family graveyard. Because Wayne Manor is the family plot, in its way. The crypt Bruce reaches first is Alan and Catherine's, the couple he had only last issue seen meet for the first time. We are all mortal, whether we like it or not, death is always present.
Pg 18 – Thomas Wayne, with a new face, an awkward haircut, running a military psychiatric hospital and making deals with desperate sinners as he wants to be the devil (and, he is a devil, he's just too self-doubting to guess it). Here, at Willowood, he is actually the "inmate running the asylum," as we'd seen just previously, "Bad Tom," whom Betsy Kane thought was Bruce's father, Thomas Wayne, is actually this much older and considerably more evil Thomas.
Pg 20 – Marsha is telling Bruce she "only wants [him] to play a detective," that she only wants a patsy, but he can't see it.
Pg 23 – "Playing a ghost didn't seem so bad." At least, Bruce is starting to get into it again.
Pg 24 – And there's Bruce, in his daddy's clothes, in the family cemetery, surrounded by darkness and bats and an eclipsed moon.
Pg 26 – "A poisoned kiss." Several bat-villains have used poison lipstick or poison kisses before, from Poison Ivy and Talia to the Joker, himself, but too, it's a metaphor of intimacy turning into betrayal, and how attractive some risk, some pain can be. Bruce Wayne always goes along with these sorts of women, doesn't he? And puts himself besides these kinds of men. Maybe he hopes that sometimes it won't turn out to be true (and on occasion, he's been right), but still, it's the kind of risk that would get you or I killed. We cannot be Batman and make it. At our best, we can be Batman and die.
Pg 27 – Old Thomas Wayne, here wearing his domino mask and his robes and hood looks an awful lot like the New God of Sadism, Desaad. And in the panel at the bottom, as Bruce tells her, "No one lost a soul, but you," Marsha looks like she's gone soulless, just not caring at all, cruelly lighting her cigarette…
Pg 28 – That she will use to set Bruce Wayne on fire.
Pg 29 – One of the cabal changes his mind. See? Bruce's trust isn't so bad. People can change. People can act better. No one is damned forever. But, though he helps Bruce escape, his own guilt will weigh on him like a jacket lined on the inside with knives, for the rest of his days.
Pg 30 – Bruce's grandfather dies as Bruce leaves this time.
And, thus ends Bruce trying to play at being a detective. Just wearing a bat-mask and solving mysteries is not enough. Batman cannot be just a detective. He can't just be a costume. As we see, that only results it being set on fire.
Chapter 6: The All-Over
Pg 1-4 – Bruce Wayne at the end of time, in the last haunted house at the edge of town ever.
The story of Batman is being archived for all time, and these are its defining elements: the pearls, the bell, the gun, and the bullet. Apparently, that's what you need to build a Batman: pearls, bell, gun, bullet.
The robots here are filling "the hole" in existence with all the information they can, and the story of Batman is the last thing packed in.
Pg 3 – Bruce is dying from being shot, beat up, and set aflame, but Batman can't die because then there wouldn't be as many Batman comics coming out, so, the robots resurrect him. And, too, one of them merges with him. Because Batman is about not dying and about making friends, whether Batman himself knows this, or otherwise. It's about reaching out, about touching people, and keeping them alive.
Pg 4 – The robots also pulled the devil out of Bruce that he's been carrying with him this whole time.
Pg 5 – Bruce needs a disguise and an ally, so he can fight the bad thing. Always.
In this case, he needs to hide inside one of the robots, his new friend, and find a way to defeat the monster that's been piggybacking on him this entire comic.
Pg 8 – "If I ring this bell, Alfred will come," says Bruce back in his past, the night he chooses to become Batman, which he has not done yet. This, of course, is the all-important bell that is a defining part of his story, yet something so often ignored.
Where there is a Batman, there is an Alfred. Where there is a Batman, there are bat-people.
Pg 13 – Skeets is trying to get them to trust Batman, soon Red Robin will be asking Bruce to trust him. Batman's not about trust, right? Batman is a skeptic, Batman is a cynic? Right?
Batman is a superhero who dresses in a silly costume and tells children that even if their parents die or the world falls apart it's not the end, and things can and will get better. Batman drives a batmobile with bat-symbols on the hubcaps.
Pg 16 – Using end of the world technology, Batman has two awesome tools in his cache now: 1) he gets to briefly know almost everything and 2) he throws bats at people. Yes, Batman has evolved past batarangs or grappling guns with pictures of bats on them to actually growing bats off his costume to attack on his behalf.
Pg 17 – Red Robin means major superheroes when he says "big guns," but this is Batman. Batman. Bringing guns in is going to put him down faster?
Pg 18-19 – Red Robin asks Bruce to trust him, tries to remind him of what Batman is and should be. But, he's also convinced still that there is something wrong with Batman, the same way most of us, when we look at Batman objectively, decide that his approach is "real world" unhealthy. That there's something wrong with him.
Pg 20 – Bruce tells Wonder Woman to put the lasso on him, use it to force him to tell the truth, because Bruce Wayne likes being honest. If Bruce lies or keeps secrets, they are to protect others, not for him to hide inside.
Pg 21 – And Batman's crafty. The horrible monster devil bat thing inside him tells him to say "nothing," so Batman goes "Nothing," and then continues with what he wants to say.
Batman doesn't stop.
Pg 22 – Bruce's biggest enemy is wrapped around him like a skin.
Splayed below in insets, all manner of things to flesh out a Batman: pearls, bullet, gloves, gunshot victim, bat, night, knight, Orion, laughter, constellations, the hanged man, a Robin, Wonder Woman.
Pg 23 – Wonder Woman helps build a better Batman? Yes, she does.
"Batman should be on his own, or he's less special" makes sense until you really apply it. Batman working alongside Superman and Wonder Woman without having massive powers does make him special. And, like here, when Batman can utilize his superhuman allies to defeat the devil that's pursued him across all time because the Justice League are really good at punching monsters in the face, that's beyond special.
Pg 27 – Wonder Woman says "Batman must die!" and he is, already, dying.
But, the thing is, again, we are all, always dying. Some of us are just dying slower than others.
And, Red Robin? Red Robin saying how unfair it is that Batman must face these cosmic and metaphysical assaults, that only gangsters and serial murderers should be thrown at him? He's thinking small. It's his friend, his father figure, so we can forgive that, but it's small. Batman is big. Batman can take it.
Batman can die and it won't kill him.
Pg 28-29 – In flashback, Bruce is told, "If you flinch, you will not survive." Luckily, he's Batman. Batman does not stop. Batman does not flinch. Batman sees pain and hardship and the safety and goodness beyond it and leaps right into the pain and hardship to carry all of us to the other side.
Pg 31 – Wonder Woman and Superman need a way to get Batman back to life, and his Robin has the simplest, most direct method. Show him his cowl and tell him that his city needs him.
Pg 33 – And it works.
Pg 34 – Batman, in the cave, in the dark, with the bats, ready to go save his city, to save all of us and everything, tonight and every night. And, always.
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A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up
Ida F. Dancyger, Suzanne R. Sunday, Elke D. Eckert, Katherine A. Halmi
The assessment of personality variables measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), was compared in a sample of 52 female inpatients with anorexia nervosa at the time of hospitalization, discharge from hospital, and 10 years after treatment. Admission MMPI scores were significantly higher than scores both at discharge and 10 years later. There were no significant overall differences between discharge and follow- up evaluation. Discharge, but not admission, MMPI scores were positively correlated with 10-year follow-up study on seven of 10 clinical MMPI scales (all but hypochondriasis, masculinity/femininity, and hypomania). At follow- up evaluation, eating disorder poor outcome was associated with higher MMPI scores. There was no significant difference on admission MMPI scores between the four outcome groups; however, patients who recovered had a greater decrease in MMPI scores at the 10-year follow-up study compared with poor outcome patients. The long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa was largely unrelated to the severity of psychopathology during the acute phase of the illness. These results suggest that persistent personality features are best measured following treatment of acute symptomatology of anorexia nervosa.
Comprehensive Psychiatry
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-440X(97)90073-0
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Dancyger, I. F., Sunday, S. R., Eckert, E. D., & Halmi, K. A. (1997). A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 38(3), 185-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-440X(97)90073-0
A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up. / Dancyger, Ida F.; Sunday, Suzanne R.; Eckert, Elke D.; Halmi, Katherine A.
In: Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol. 38, No. 3, 01.01.1997, p. 185-191.
Dancyger, IF, Sunday, SR, Eckert, ED & Halmi, KA 1997, 'A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up', Comprehensive Psychiatry, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 185-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-440X(97)90073-0
Dancyger IF, Sunday SR, Eckert ED, Halmi KA. A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 1997 Jan 1;38(3):185-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-440X(97)90073-0
Dancyger, Ida F. ; Sunday, Suzanne R. ; Eckert, Elke D. ; Halmi, Katherine A. / A comparative analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of anorexia nervosa at hospital admission, discharge, and 10-year follow-up. In: Comprehensive Psychiatry. 1997 ; Vol. 38, No. 3. pp. 185-191.
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news Lucasfilm Warned 'Obi-Wan' Star Moses Ingram About Racist 'Star Wars' Hate: It Will 'Likely Happen'
Lucasfilm is aware of the dark side of "Star Wars" fandom.
After John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran received racist fan harassment following their respective roles in the recent Skywalker trilogy, the production company behind the franchise is bracing for backlash over POC stars.
Moses Ingram, who plays a villainous Inquisitor in upcoming Disney+ series "Obi-Wan Kenobi" hunting the Jedi trainer (Ewan McGregor), revealed that Lucasfilm was proactive in media training ahead of the series premiering May 27.
"It was something that Lucasfilm actually got in front of, and said, 'This is a thing that, unfortunately, likely will happen. But we are here to help you; you can let us know when it happens,'" Ingram told The Independent.
Ingram noted that "Obi-Wan Kenobi" director Deborah Chow has been "putting the proper systems in place so I feel safe as we do the work" throughout production. "Of course, there are always pockets of hate," Ingram said. "But I have no problem with the block button."
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Distribution of the Sample Range of Discrete Random Variables
number of variables
m (uniform, binomial)
p (binomial, geometric)
λ (Poisson)
Let , …, be a random sample from a probability distribution. Let and be the smallest and the largest value in the sample. The sample range is , that is, the difference between the largest and the smallest value. The sample range is a crude measure of the variation in the sample. The Demonstration shows the distribution of the sample range, when the sample is drawn from some well-known discrete distributions.
Contributed by: Heikki Ruskeepää (June 2014)
Snapshot 1: The sample is drawn from the discrete uniform distribution on the integers ; the blue line is the probability distribution function (PDF) of the discrete uniform distribution. Each of the red curves is the PDF of a sample range: the dark red curve is the PDF of the sample range when there are only two observations. The light red curves are the PDFs of the sample range when there are 3 to 10 observations. For example, toss a die several times. With two tosses, the sample range (the difference between the results) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say. Here it is less probable that the range is 0 than, say, 1; this is natural since, to get a range of zero, the results must be the same (only 6 possibilities out of 36), but to get a range of one there are more choices (10 possibilities out of 36). For three tosses, the sample range takes on, with high probability, intermediate values . On average, the more tosses, the larger values the sample range takes on. For example, with 10 tosses, the sample range (the difference between the largest and smallest result) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say.
Snapshot 2: The sample is drawn from the binomial distribution: we repeat an experiment six times, each experiment being a success with probability 1/6. For example, toss a die six times and count the number of 6's; do this series of six experiments repeatedly. Repeating the six experiments two times, the sample range (the difference between the number of 6's) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say. Repeating the six experiments 10 times, the sample range (the difference between the largest and smallest number of 6's) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say.
Snapshot 3: The sample is drawn from a geometric distribution with the parameter . For example, toss a die until you get 6 for the first time. Count the number of failures, that is, the number of tosses that precede the first 6. Repeat this series of experiments several times. The distribution of the sample range for two series of experiments (the difference between the number of failures) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say. For 10 series of experiments, the sample range (the difference between the largest and smallest number of failures) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say.
Snapshot 4: The sample is drawn from a Poisson distribution with mean 5. For example, assume that the number of certain kinds of accidents in a given city in a day has this distribution. Consider the number of accidents in several days. For two days, the sample range (the difference between the number of accidents) takes on, with high probability, values from the set . For 10 days, the sample range (the difference between the largest and smallest number of accidents) takes on, with high probability, values from the set , say.
The distributions considered in this Demonstration are (in Mathematica input):
DiscreteUniformDistribution[{1,m}], BinomialDistribution[m,p], GeometricDistribution[p], PoissonDistribution[λ].
Let the cumulative distribution function (CDF) and the probability density function (PDF) of the sample variable be and , respectively. The PDF of the sample range for a sample of size is [1, pp. 50, 51]
where is the support of the distribution. This formula is used to calculate the distribution of the sample range for the binomial and Poisson distributions. For the uniform and geometric distributions, we have simpler closed-form formulas in [1, pp. 51, 52].
[1] B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, and H. N. Nagaraja, A First Course in Order Statistics, Philadelphia: SIAM, 2008.
Statistical Range (Wolfram MathWorld)
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Heikki Ruskeepää "Distribution of the Sample Range of Discrete Random Variables"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DistributionOfTheSampleRangeOfDiscreteRandomVariables/
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Who is the richest person in scotland 2018?
How many of the UK's richest people are Scottish?
People with Scottish connections account for 82 of the 1,000 UK list's richest people. Glenn Gordon and family - spirits - £2.882bn. Sir Ian Wood and family - oil services and fishing - £1.763bn.
Who was the last person hanged in scotland?
It was not, however, the final chapter in Dumfries' own links with the practice. The last man to be publicly hanged in Scotland, murderer Robert Smith, also met his end in the town in 1868. His death mask can be viewed in Dumfries Museum to this day.
no it has nothing to do with Scotland.Added: Scotland Yard is the name of the street location where the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police used to be located.
Are cats from scotland?
Cats were first domesticated and became pets in Egypt.


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City of Statues, Owerri: (The Statues of Roch)
Tourists: TheLastGoodMan et Shalom.
Location: City of Statues, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, Africa, Planet 🌍.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime – Jean Cocteau
A statue is a large 3-D work of art (sculpture) created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting and is usually representing a person or an animal.
Lots of statues have been erected and are still being erected all over the world from the famous statue of Liberty in New York City, USA to the statue of Unity, India, just to name a few. Here in Nigeria, we have erected statues of different sizes, representation and symbolic significance in our cities, towns and villages from the tallest statue in Nigeria at 42ft, Queen Moremi statue of Liberty, Ile-Ife, Osun State to the Jesus de Greatest statue, in Abajah village in Imo State at 28ft.
Pamela and the Queen Moremi Statue of Liberty.
Jesus de Greatest Statue. | Pht cdrt: vanguardngr.com
A striking situation has been the recent collection of statues erected and still being erected by the Rochas Administration. This collection of statues I have termed "THE STATUES OF ROCH" numbering over 14 can be found mounted on their plinths at the Heroes Square (in between the Ikemba Ojukwu Convention Center and the Hall of Fame) in Concord Boulevard in Owerri; this collection has attracted applause, criticism, admirers, tourists and attention to Imo State. However, there are other statues erected in the state that have drawn the world's attention to Imo State; like the aforementioned Jesus de Greatest statue that was erected under the sponsorship of Mr Obinna Onuoha, founder of Premier Petroleum Limited.
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing – Agesilaus II
This collection of statues have been erected and still being erected to honour and celebrate some outstanding men and women of goodwill (dead and alive) who had/have excelled ambitiously and in their capacity as leaders, contributed tremendously to the advancement of humanity in Nigeria, Africa and the World at large and likewise been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The Statues of Roch is currently made up of:
Dr Akanu Ibiam (Outstanding medical missionary who was appointed Governor of Eastern Region, Nigeria under the First Republic 1960-1966.
Chief Sam Mbakwe (First Civilian Governor of Imo State).
Dim Chukwuemeka Odemegwu Ojukwu (Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966 and the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970).
Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (First Nigerian President).
Kwame Nkrumah (Former President of Ghana).
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Former President of Liberia).
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
Jacob Zuma (Former President of South Africa).
Sir Abubaka Tafewa Balewa (Former Prime Minister).
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (Former President of Nigeria).
Dr Alex Ekwueme (Former Vice President).
Martin Luther King (No tags though)
Late Sage, Obafemi Awolowo
Late Evans Enwerem (Former Senate President).
President Buhari's statue (Under construction). 🚧
Dr Akanu Ibiam
Chief Sam Mbakwe
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana
Dim Chukwuemeka Odemegwu Ojukwu & TLGM
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia
Former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma
Dr Alex Ekwueme
Sir Abubaka Tafawa Belewa
Shalom with a cross-section of the statues
TLGM with a cross-section of statues
Collection of Statues
Have you visited the city of statues (statues of Roch)?
Feel free to reach out to me if you need help in locating these statues.
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Aniekan says:
Wow. So this statue thing is actually real. I just knew of the Jacob Zuma own. 🤣🤣🤣. I hope they follow him to his hometown when he leaves office
calebduff says:
😁😁😁 It is real and more to be erected. Pres. Buhari's statue is currently on-going.
Lol. For real?
Bdiva says:
Oh I should visit here when next am in Owerri though
Wow! Never knew there was something like this.
Professor Evans says:
Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful!!!
Good adventure, Duffy!
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. Raised in an aristocratic family, he took his first airplane ride at the age of 12 and immediately fell in love. He received his pilot's wings during his compulsory military service in 1922, around which time he also began to write. His adventures as a pilot would supply the inspiration for all of his literary endeavors, which culminated with the 1943 publication of the classic The Little Prince. Saint-Exupéry disappeared in July 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France during World War II, leading to speculation over the cause of his death that persists to the present day.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900. His father died when he was a young boy, and his mother moved him and his four siblings to a relative's château in the east. Saint-Exupéry enjoyed a mostly carefree and privileged life, and in 1912 took his first trip in an airplane—an experience that would have a profound and lasting impression on him.
Receiving his early education at Catholic schools in France, Saint-Exupéry was sent away to a boarding school in Switzerland after the outbreak of World War I. He returned to France in 1917 and briefly attended a college prep school in Paris before attempting to enter the naval academy. However, a historically poor student, Saint-Exupéry failed the examination and studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts instead.
Despite his disappointing rejection from the naval academy, in 1921 Saint-Exupéry was given the opportunity to realize his dreams of flying during his compulsory service in the military. Initially working as a mechanic in the army, he learned how to fly. Saint-Exupéry thus became a pilot in the air force the following year, based in North Africa. His engagement to a young woman resulted in Saint-Exupéry leaving the air force in 1922. But when their relationship failed shortly thereafter, Saint-Exupéry returned to his first love, flying, and developed a new passion as well—writing.
While working various jobs, Saint-Exupéry began to write stories inspired by his experiences as a pilot. He published his first work, "The Aviator," in 1926, the same year that he returned to flying as a mail pilot with the aviation company Aéropostale in Toulouse, covering routes between France, Spain and North Africa. The remainder of Saint-Exupéry's life would be defined by the intertwining of his dual occupations as aviator and author, with the former providing the inspiration for his literary work.
In 1927, Saint-Exupéry was placed in charge of an airfield in the Sahara. His experiences there informed his first novel, Southern Mail, which celebrated the courage of pilots and was published in 1929. His similarly themed Night Flight was published in 1931 after he returned from a two-year posting in Argentina, where he had helped to establish an air mail system. Night Flight would become his first true literary success, receiving the Prix Femina literary prize and later being adapted into a 1933 Hollywood film starring John Barrymore, Helen Hayes and Clark Gable.
In 1931, Saint-Exupéry also married for the first time, to Salvadoran writer and artist Consuelo Suncin. Though they would remain together, by all accounts their marriage was a troubled one due to Saint-Exupéry's infidelities and frequent absences. Among the most eventful of these sojourns was his 1935 attempt to break the air-speed record between Paris and Saigon. En route, his plane crashed in the Sahara, and he and his copilot wandered the desert for days, nearly dying of exposure and dehydration before being rescued by a wandering Bedouin. Saint-Exupéry's 1939 memoir Wind, Sand and Stars, which includes an account of the events, surpassed the success of his earlier works, winning the prestigious Grand Prize for Novel Writing from the Académie Française and the National Book Award in the United States.
But neither Saint-Exupéry's growing literary success nor the disabilities resulting from several plane crashes could tear him away from his calling as a pilot. When World War II erupted, he became a military reconnaissance pilot until the German occupation forced him to flee France. Relocating to New York City, he lobbied the U.S. government to intervene in the conflict and also continued to document his adventures, publishing Flight to Arras in 1942 and Letter to a Hostage in 1943.
However, from a literary perspective, his most important work during this period was the children's fable for adults, The Little Prince. The poetic and mystical tale of a pilot stranded in the desert and his conversation with a young prince from another planet, it was written and illustrated by Saint-Exupéry and published in both French and English in the United States in 1943, and later in more than 200 other languages. It is considered one of the greatest books in the 20th century and is one of the bestselling books of all time, becoming the subject of numerous adaptations, including a Grammy Winning children's album featuring Richard Burton and a 1974 musical film featuring Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse.
In 2015, a new testament to the staying power of Saint-Exupéry's cherished tale came in the form of a new 3D-animation adaptation with a star-studded cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, James Franco, Benicio Del Toro, Ricky Gervais and Paul Giamatti. With the film already having played in overseas markets, The Little Prince is slated for a U.S. release sometime in 2016.
Never one to rest on his laurels, in 1943 Saint-Exupéry returned to France and rejoined his squadron, insisting on flying despite his age and infirmities. On July 31, 1944, he left Corsica for a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. He never returned, and when neither he nor his plane was found, he was deemed killed in action. Saint-Exupéry's mysterious disappearance made international news and was the cause of much speculation until 2000, when a scuba diver exploring the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille discovered the wreckage of a plane that was later raised and identified as Saint-Exupéry's. Though evidence indicated that he had likely been shot down, the true cause of his death remains unknown.
French engineer and physicist Charles de Coulomb made pioneering discoveries in electricity and magnetism, and came up with the theory called Coulomb's Law.
The short stories of writer Guy de Maupassant detail many aspects of French life in the 19th century.
St. Martín de Porres is the patron saint of interracial harmony, known for his social work and miraculous healing powers.
Hubert de Givenchy has died at 91. Best known for designing Audrey Hepburn's little black dress in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' Givenchy was one of several Paris-based designers, including Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Christobal Balenciaga, who redefined fashion following World War II.


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Chris Dennis is the male fr. Pru award winner
by Geezaldinho on Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:50 pm
Congrats to Chris. both for the award and for a great rookie season on the bluff. The team looks like it will be even better next year with him as a key.
Foxhoven, Dennis win UP student-athlete awards
The Portland Tribune, Aug 3, 2010
WILL CREW
Forward Danielle Foxhoven and baseball pitcher Chris Dennis are the University of Portland's student-athletes of the year.
Soccer star Danielle Foxhoven and pitching standout Chris Dennis are the University of Portland's 2009-10 Fr. Chester Prusynski student-athletes of the year.
The annual award is based on academic and athletic prowess.
Dennis, a junior right-hander from Bothell, Wash., became the school's career leader in saves (14) and was one of five finalists for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year award. In his first year with the Pilots after transferring from Edmonds Community College, he tied for third in the nation in saves and made the all-West Coast Conference team. He went 5-1 with a 1.88 ERA and .204 batting average against, striking out 51 batters in 43 innings.
Dennis is the first baseball player to take the honor since Ben Ortman in 1993.


Every Tuesday passes pretty much the same. But today, it didn't just pass. This Tuesday became the day I met Jesus. Really.
I was sitting at my desk…you know the one with the incessant ringing of the phone. And the ordinary happenings were happening all around me. People coming and going, bosses being bossy. Client's being met and ushered to the inner sanctum where the clock ticker begins.
From my desk I have a view of the front walk and most of the parking lot. I noticed the Pepsi Cola truck pull in as it usually does on Tuesday, driven by a pretty cool dude named Larry.
Larry and I have short conversations where we cram as much "hey, how are you—how's your family" every visit. I enjoy talking with Larry. I threatened him that if he ever quit driving, we'd start shopping at Sam's for our cola's! He's the best driver we've ever had. Polite. Kind. Fast and efficient.
"Have you delivered before?" I said this on the off chance that he had delivered on a day that I was out, knowing almost without doubt he had not.
"Straight into the kitchen please. Put them on the shelf in the closet in the corner. Thanks!" With the kitchen right next to my office (handy, huh), I said loud enough for him to hear me, "where is Larry?" I sure was hoping he wasn't about to tell me that he had been laid off! I would most certainly call and complain!
He said something I totally did not understand except one word…"mucho"…something something something.
"Well, only one word", was my reply. "Mucho".
I didn't take a foreign language in school…and there are days, I can barely speak understandable English.
Okay. That I can understand. At least he stayed home.
The Pepsi driver continued to chat about sickness and swine flu and problems in general and I was mostly listening and then he stood right in front of me, where I had full view of his name tag hanging from the lanyard around his neck. "Jesus".
In Spanish, there's an accent mark on the "u." It's pronounced "heh-SOOS". But of course, you know me…I read Jesus. Not MY JESUS, but I read Jesus without thinking of the individual. Until his next statement came out.
I looked at him, with his name tag pronounced, "heh-SOOS" and solemnly stated, "well, some of us are going to heaven, and then some of us are not." I waited for his response.
He had moved over to the door now, ready to make his exit. I was simply shocked into a stupor that here in the Bible Belt of the United States, standing in our office was someone that didn't believe in a literal hell.
He quickly changed the subject to sports and news as he opened the door to leave. I was still in such a shock that not one single Bible verse came to my mind! Not one! Not even Genesis 1:1 or John 3:16!
As soon as he closed the door, I was struck with the thought, here was this Jesus (pronounced heh-SOOS) and he apparently knew nothing of the teachings of MY JESUS! My heart broke, my eyes filled. I also thought to myself, maybe as a slight consolation, a scripture didn't come, because maybe it wasn't necessary….. for this time.
But you can bet (not that I bet) I will be ready should this particular Pepsi dude walk through our office door again.
By the way, I found SEVERAL references —I'm listing only this one, but I really want some feed back. Share some of your stuff! What would you say to someone who does not believe in hell, but rather believe's we are "living it" here on earth.
Mark 9:43-44 says, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched– where 'Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.' " NKJV The next few verses have the same reference hell and unquenchable fire.
Folks, I have such a desire in my heart to see changes in ME and those around me. I want more of God! I want to tell more—show more of Christ than ever before! It's in my heart and it's got to come out!
Come on. Tell me your thoughts… share some stuff—some WORD!
My sister, Aimee told me a little story of when she was working at the hospital (on the baby floor), a woman and her husband was in their room after she had given birth the night before, and when Aimee came on shift she said the whole floor stunk. She said it smelled like "collards cooking". Everyone was complaining. They couldn't find the source.
So Aimee set out like a huntin' dog on a scent. She found the source. Lying on a couch in his wife's room lay a tuckered out workin' man—snoring loud enough to wake the dead…and with feet and leather boots stinky enough to kill 'em all over again!
Miss Fix-it found a bag to put said stinky boots in and tied the knot tight. When the wife roused from her sleep—she explained that they were "smelling so bad, it might upset your stomach when your supper gets here." The sleeping giant of a husband never even skipped a snore. Kept right on sawing the veritable logs.
Well, that was your funny for the day. It was an old story from Aimee's hospital days…but made me laugh. Maybe it did you too!
While I fully realize that any strength I have comes from my Father, I also know that I can't avoid the pain. He gives us strength to endure the pain. Every single kind of pain.
I had to have blood drawn last year for a simple cholesterol check. My regular nurse—the one that KNOWS how difficult it is getting blood from me and HOW TO DO IT WITHOUT KILLING ME had a baby and was not there. So —I got this little chick—who said—"oh it'll be easy, I'll just leave the blood pressure cuff on". Yeah right.
So while the blood pressure cuff is cutting off the circulation to my hand, and sweet young nurse is tapping the inside of my arm to get a vein to pop up and say "here I am—stick me please"….I am thinking of Wanda. And how many times she was poked and prodded. How she endured needle after needle, blood draw after blood draw. Year after year.
She was given strength. To endure the pain. The pain wasn't removed from her life just because she was a sweet precious child of the Father. But He gave her unimaginable strength to keep going.
That's what He does for us. As we face trials and problems, situations that just knock us down, the Lord lifts up our weary body, brushes us off, cleans us up….sometimes even has to do a little "garment repair"—when we act out of character for our calling. I have had garment repair. In years past, my mouth got me in a world of trouble. WHEN I am not careful it still does.
So with caution I stand. Willing—unsure of my ability, but very sure of His ability.
Your strength and my strength, comes from Him. Yes, you may have to endure the pain of the drawing of blood….but He will strengthen your soul. He strengthens my soul.
Have you been struggling? I have.
Am I in the boat alone?
I use the word "lesson" because, that's what it has been of late. Lessons. From HIM to me.
Do you ever FEEL parched? Dry?
I read and chewed. The man wrote this –no telling how long ago—but it fits the heartbeat of so many of us today!
I know there are many (maybe even you reading this) that has a vision or dream that you feel God has placed within your heart. Something that often seems too heavy or great to bear. A calling on your heart and life to "go" to the unknown. See the yet unseen. And to teach…perhaps the seemingly unteachable.
I don't know what this devotion does for you today, but I say this, don't give up on the vision He has given you. If your heart is feeling dry and parched, remember He promised the thirsty lands of your heart will become a pool…springs of living water—enough to feed the thirsty souls of others!
The "battering" it out in the valley can be discouraging…(I am there), but sister—and brother, YOU are not alone there! He is with YOU! He is with ME!
After the valley of shaping—the vision will become a reality.
Photo taken from our weekend mini-retreat. Jeff, Max and me. Sunrise over Silver Lake.


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Pat Cross: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project
Cross, Pat
Redman, Sam
Pat Cross was born on Saint Patrick's Day, 1926 in Normal, Illinois. In this interview, she describes her childhood growing up in Normal before the start of the Second World War. Following a six-month training program at the University of Minnesota, Pat worked as a radar engineering aide at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. She describes her recollection of the training program and her memories of working at Wright Field. Following the war, she completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois before teaching and serving as an administrator at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Cross, Pat. "Pat Cross: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project." Interview by Sam Redman in 2012. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2012.


Here are a few of movies I put together. I'll add more as I do them. Think you'll get a kick out of my tour of the Las Vegas Strip.
Funny and very short. Learn more than you thought possible about early computing!
After my flight home was canceled by a snow storm, I had some layover time to kill in Vegas. This is the result.
Take one live radio play - combine it with my cartoons - and this is the result.
Here's a faux open for a game based on part of a novelette I'm writing. All tongue in cheek, of course.


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Allegations of Google's Hidden Web Tracking Pages Raise New Privacy Concerns by Nicole Lindsey
Allegations of Google's Hidden Web Tracking Pages Raise New Privacy Concerns
Nicole Lindsey· September 19, 2019
In the race to monetize as much personal data as possible via its online advertising platform, Google is allegedly constructing a number of "hidden" web pages that will enable the company to circumvent its own GDPR-compliant internal policies. At issue is a new complaint from privacy-focused web browser Brave that Google is using a secret system of hidden web tracking pages in order to serve up personally identifiable information to advertisers. In fact, Brave feels so strongly about this allegation that it has been added to an ongoing complaint that it originally lodged with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) back in 2018.
Details of the new complaint alleging hidden web tracking by Google
The details of Google's hidden web tracking system to serve personalized ads were outlined by Brave's Chief Policy Officer, Dr. Johnny Ryan, who has been campaigning very publicly against Google for the past year. According to Ryan, Google has created a system of web tracking that will enable it to keep its online advertising model as profitable as possible. The story was first reported in the Financial Times.
At issue is Google's real-time bidding system for online advertising known as the Authorized Buyers platform (and formerly known as DoubleClick). This is an algorithmic advertising platform that helps to serve up targeted ads to users when they are using the Google Chrome browser. The key here, of course, is having the right personal data about web users, so that online advertisers know how much to bid on each ad, and which ad to show that user. In browsers that still enable cookies, this is relatively easy to do because advertisers have, at a minimum, data related to your browsing history. But when users opt out of allowing tracking cookies, that's when the task of serving up personalized ads becomes much more difficult.
So, as might be expected, Google has come up with a workaround for this problem. According to Brave, Google still creates unique identifiers for each web user linked to their browsing activity – but instead of sending this information directly to advertisers as part of bid requests, it creates an elaborate network of hidden web pages that advertisers can log into instead. Once they are logged in, they can then grab this personally identifiable information and match it with any information they already have about the user in order to create very sophisticated advertising profiles and decide how much to bid. But there's just one problem with this indirect form of web tracking – it's not GDPR-compliant.
Ryan tested his hypothesis that Google was secretly collecting personal data about him – which might include personal information, social media usage information, or even clues as to his political affiliation or ethnicity – and then sharing it with online advertisers by using a new version of Google Chrome on a new device. This was to ensure that there was no prior browsing history, no login information and no cookie information available to Google. What he found, though, was that Google was still able to serve him very personalized ads. So how did Google do it?
As part of his own investigation, Ryan found that Google was creating multiple hidden web pages, each one dedicated to tracking his online browsing behavior. And he also noticed that multiple advertisers and other users were accessing those pages. In just one hour of web browsing on Google Chrome, he uncovered 9 web tracking pages and 11 duplicate pages.
As Ryan suggests in his complaint, if Google is tracking him, they are likely tracking just about everyone else as well. After all, Google's Authorized Buyers program is used by 8.4 million websites worldwide, and Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers in the world. So Ryan is asking the Irish Data Protection Commission to look into this and stop Google from doing it in the future.
Google denies secret web tracking
Predictably, Google completely denies all wrongdoing. In a statement, Google said, "We do not serve personalized ads or send bid requests to bidders without user consent." In other words, Google claims that no workarounds of any kind have been used in cases where users are not able to be tracked via cookies. Moreover, Google says that it will continue to cooperate fully with the Irish Data Protection Commission.
It is also worth noting that Google is Brave's No. 1 competitor, and anything that Brave can do to weaken Google is going to help Brave. That might explain why Brave has been so open and vocal about these web tracking pages – the allegation might sound like a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo to many, so Brave is doing everything that it can to explain Google's practices in normal, everyday language. After all, everyone is able to imagine – at least, at a very high level – how a system of secret web tracking pages might work.
More privacy headaches for Google
This current allegation over secret web tracking is just the most recent privacy headache for the Silicon Valley giant. It seems like everywhere Google turns these days, there's a new privacy problem staring it in the face. For example, the company's popular video platform, YouTube, just got hit with a $170 million fine from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for serving up personalized ads to young kids under the age of 13. And Google has been dogged by persistent complaints that many of its most popular services – such as Google Search – intrusively invade into people's personal privacy.
Alleged hidden web tracking pages could be #Google's workaround to monetize data from users who opted out of tracking cookies. #respectdataClick to Tweet
And, on top of all that, there's now growing momentum for both state and federal antitrust probes into Google's behavior. There is mounting concern that not only is Google playing fast and loose with users' personal data, but also that it is intentionally stifling competition and causing harm to consumers via its monopolistic online advertising system. Thus, it's important to view Brave's web tracking allegations as part of this broader context – it's just one more example of how Google is using its dominant market power to abuse the very system that has enabled it to become one of the most powerful and profitable companies in the world.
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Nicole Lindsey is a journalist and writer for more than 10 years, focusing on the intersection of technology, innovation and privacy. She has a background in information technology and has worked with various software companies and tech startups on their public relations and communications initiatives.
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Q: Proving the integral converges for all $p>1, q<1$ How can I prove that the integral
$$
\int_1^{\infty}\frac{dx}{x^p\ln^q(x)}
$$
converges when $p>1$ and $q<1$. I'm not sure where to start on this problem.

A: HINT: Substitute $x=e^t$, it would become a familiar integral
EDIT: $dx=e^tdt$, thus, integral becomes $$\int_0^{\infty}e^{-(p-1)t}t^{-q}dt$$
Now substitute $(p-1)t=z$ which gives $$\int_0^{\infty}e^{-(p-1)t}t^{-q}dt=(p-1)^{q-1}\int_0^{\infty}e^{-z}z^{(1-q)-1}dz=(p-1)^{q-1}\Gamma(1-q)$$

A: Another hint might be: Write the integral as $$\int_1^a\frac{dx}{x^p\ln^qx}+\int_a^{+\infty}\frac{dx}{x^p\ln^qx},~~~a>1$$
I just remark some points about the first integral here. As $\ln x=\ln(1+(x-1))\sim(x-1)$ when $x\to 1^+$ so $\ln^qx\sim(x-1)^q$ when $x\to 1^+$ and then we have $$\lim_{x\to 1^+}(x-1)^q\times\frac{1}{x^p\ln^q x}\sim \lim_{x\to 1^+}(x-1)^q\times\frac{1}{x^p(x-1)^q}=1<\infty$$ so the comparison test says thee first part converges. Think about the second part or use @Avatar's way.

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