Anyway, this is how the revamped battle system looks – it mostly works the same, there’s just better graphics, most of the code has been replaced with something tidying and more manageable and there’s more information in the HUD. Plus, abilities are grouped together so there’s fewer menus to deal with.

Another change is that in the original demo I only had the concept of the class system called ‘Paths’, but hadn’t put it to practice, now it works. Each path has a set of unique abilities and their own unique strengths, but of course there are shared abilities, for example, those who played the demo will remember ‘Hex’, which 3 Paths can use, the other 3 use an alternative skill, you’ll see in one of the screenshots below that Shadower Keats has an ability called ‘Shadowblend’, which is the skill he learns instead of Hex and is Shadower exclusive. There’s also Bluff (Tormentor) and Cursed Blade (Manic).

These are the latest screenshots:

Gunshot

Abilities

I’ve re-rigged Keats and he’s more animation friendly and I’ve fixed the problems where importing Keats means his animations are borked. Now we have a working Keats battle mesh. The weapons in his hands are place holders until I set up the limb commands. I will see how the new animations will work with the battle system and then make any tweaks based on it.

Keats aiming his gun to shoot

Weapons are attached inside of the game, which allows for multiple weapon models, which is what I intend to do. I’ll also take the advantage to improve Keats’ walk cycle.

A few changes on the battle so far:

Instead of ‘Neuro’ and ‘Psycho’ branches, I’ve just grouped them together as abilities, though what ‘school’ a particular ability belongs to is shown. Plus I’ve given each a description in battle, it allows a player to see what Threshold each skill belongs to. I am slightly tempted to remove ‘Psycho’ from Whisperers and ‘Neuro’ from Psychopaths, but have abilities spanning across all Thresholds. However, I’m keeping it this way for the time being.

So, lets take a look!

A Whisperer focuses on using ‘Neuro’ attacks, therefore all of its Neuro abilities will be designed at dealing damage. It has the highest ‘Mind’ stat in the game and gets a boost to concentration. A Whisperer doesn’t need decent weapons, so it’ll be restricted to Knives and basic firearms, like a pistol. This means it can still use weapons whenever a situation calls for it – for example, if an enemy is strong against Neuro and weak against Blood-based attacks, switch to ‘Blood’ and use ‘Leech’. It may favour the ‘Curse’ Threshold.

A Psychopath focuses on using ‘Psycho’ attacks, therefore all of its Psycho abilities will be designed at dealing damage. It has the highest ‘Delusion’ stat in the game. A Psychopath will uses swords to power its Psycho-based attacks, but they will only be a basic set of swords. It may favour the ‘Blood’  Threshold.

A Manic focuses on its Melee attacks, so its Neuro abilities, like ‘Cursed Blade’ will be aimed at enhancing a Manic’s melee attacks. It has the highest ‘Strength’ stat in the game. A Manic will use an exclusive set of swords, but only basic firearms. It may favour the ‘Frantic’ Threshold

A Trigger Finger focuses on its Ranged attacks. Neuro attacks will not be cast nor will they use the ‘Mind’ stat, they will be fired from the barrel of a gun. It has an increased ‘Dexterity’ stat, Each bullet can be enchanted. It will only use a dagger as a melee weapon. It may favour the ‘Nerve’  Threshold.

A Shadower focuses on avoiding damages. It comes with its own exclusive set of Neuro & Psycho attacks. It has an increased ‘Agility’ stat. It will use ‘shadow’ based weapons, such as powerful daggers and easily conceal firearms capable of dealing maximum damage. It doesn’t have a very high vitality, so anybody playing a shadower will want to do what they can to avoid being hit. Shadowblend & Shades of Grey will help in that respect. Shadower will attack faster than other paths. It may favour the ‘Fear’ Threshold.

Enemies will be tougher.

A Tormentor focuses on taking damage. Its attacks focus on enfeebling foes and empowering Keats. Certain abilities will have additional effects. A Tormentor gets more health and a higher ‘Vitality’ stat, making skills like ‘Power Strike’ and ‘Death Scythe’ stronger. A Tormentor may favour the ‘Empowerment’ Threshold. A Tormentor uses a Scythe.

Enemies will be tougher.

The other addition will be, abilities are learned through pickups instead of level ups. In a previous update I mentioned using Dream Zones, which are previous boss zones that can be revisited an a player can explore these areas for items, I figured if they scouted for abilities too then there’d be more of an incentive to use Dream Zones.

In the image below you’ll see an Ability that can be picked up, you may remember from the original demo Keats was a Whisperer and his first spell was ‘Hex’, in the below shot, Keats is a Shadower, hence Shadow Blend will be the first ability he pick up – it can also be Hex, Bluff or Cursed Blade…depending on your Path.

The difference between lists is that, in the inventory list you get something like:

Item(1)

Item(2)

Item(3)

In the equipment list it’ll end up as

Item(2)

Item(4)

Item(9)

So they need to be parsed differently.

Anyway, it just means you get an effect like this:

Small update on the chart:

You can see there’s a save file system the and separate branches for ‘New Game’ and ‘Load Game’. Hence I’ve got started on the main menu so I can implement those 2 branches. For the save file, I’ve decided to avoid being complicated and just used DBP’s ‘Save Array’ and ‘Load Array’ commands. Whilst it does mean 1 file per array, but the save files are put away tidy so it’s a viable system…at least for now, I mean, it’s not if it doesn’t end up doing what I want it to do – current tests show that it ought.

For example, here’s the directory for ‘Save Slot 1′:

And you can see the menu below. The part of the menu you can see is the class selection screen, so whenever you start a new game you get to choose what path you want to go on.

What I’ve also done is mapped out the game’s engine components into a very confusing looking flow chart. But it’s useful in visualising each part, I can see straight up what’s updated when I change a scene – so I might decide something else needs updating there, like when I start adding NPC’s again. It’s good to think about everything that’s happening before I start loading – so when I add the Save/Load functions the pre-load data will probably have arguments for a ‘new game’ and some variables ready for loading a player’s save, whilst technically it is loading, but the ‘load’ section applies to loading levels and scenes, which might be decided by a game save – currently the first level to load would be ‘Bedroom’ and all of the data surrounding it.

Anyway, here’s the image of it, it might be useful to anybody trying to map their own project (click to see full)

So doing something else for collision is just a more sensible idea. I set up Sparky’s Collision DLL, it works, it’s smooth, it does everything I need and I’m having no problems with it.

The rest of the overhaul today was just having a character walk between scenes. It works smoothly enough and the system used just means I can just keep on adding scenes and in theory should have no problems. The point of this overhaul is to have methods that are repeatable, so it’s a successful system so far.

In the main code, calling each scene change is simple as this:

if Scene(bedroom).Map.exist = 1
Scene(bedroom).Map.file = “Media/Maps/Warehouse/Set 1/Scene1.x”
Scene(bedroom).Map.lmfile = “media/Maps/Warehouse/Set 1/Scene1_lm.x”
LOADScene(bedroom, 35)
SetScene(bedroom)
endif

So, when I call a new scene (if I hit space in this test), then what’ll happen is all of the data will be deleted from the scene and replaced with a new scene.

Or like so:

DeleteAll()

Scene(bedroom).Map.exist = 0
Scene(storage).Map.exist = 1

goto LOAD

Don’t let the GOTO command scare you, whilst many programmers are so adamant against the use of a GOTO command because it usually means spaghetti code, but it isn’t the case here. The code is very tidy and labels make it simple for me to differentiate the 2 main points in the main code – the ‘start’ (where the loop starts) and ‘Load’ where the media for the particular scene is loaded. This means I can have functions looping for the battle system and also the menus. The DeleteAll() function will get rid of any media I don’t need and this means ‘current’ Scene (bedroom) no longer exists so I tell the program that and tell it to give me the new scene (storage).

One of the important functions is ‘SetScene(object)’, because inside of it it will detect what current scene is loaded (which is what ‘obj’ is for) and will set specific settings for that scene, such as object positions, player/Enemy positions, camera position, light position and colour. The commands look like this:

Scene(obj).Light.colour.red = 255
Scene(obj).Light.Colour.green = 200
Scene(obj).Light.Colour.blue = 100

Scene(obj).Light.position.x = 0
Scene(obj).Light.position.y = 700
Scene(obj).Light.position.z = 500

Scene(obj).Cam.position.x = -10
Scene(obj).Cam.position.y = 200
Scene(obj).cam.position.z = -250

Then you’ve got the LoadScene(obj, scale) function too. Which just loads the scene object file, lightmap, scales them and turns the object into a static rigid body.

Combined, the result of Scene(bedroom) is this (please ignore the cubes):

And for Scene(Storage):

The cubes were only tests for creating and transforming my character objects through my UDT’s; adding characters to the scene will be the next stage. I know it seems like it’s back to stage 1 again, but this code is much better and will be more manageable, particularly as the game grows but also in terms of hunting down bugs. The last engine code was feature being built on top of feature, but as all the features are coded this rewrite just means placing them somewhere sensible.

Also, I guess I ought to use this post to plug a pretty cool Dark Basic Professional IDE called Indigo. It really has made recoding this game more conveniently, especially as its syntax highlighting will highlight functions regardless of where you’ve declared them, the elements pane can display elements from all source data if you want it to instead of ones in the currently opened source file, which is useful for quickly accessing a variable or function that needs changing. What’s even more cool is that it comes with UDT  Auto-suggestions (makes coding with UDT’s a lot quicker), actively tries to correct or warn you about any mistakes inside your code before you compile it and if you want it to it can automatically indent your code so it looks neat and tidy. There’s other useful features and I recommend anybody using DBP to try the latest download. Linky McLink Link

John Clare

The main inspiration behind the ideas of this game also share the same origins as the inspiration for my novel. The poetry of John Clare, John Keats and William Blake. You can see how John Keats comes into it already. Here is one of the poems that inspire this.

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,

My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death’s oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
And e’en the dearest–that I loved the best–
Are strange–nay, rather stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil’d or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below–above the vaulted sky.

‘I am’, John Clare

A little bit of background on John Clare here, he was an English poet in the 1800′s, but later in life he lost his sanity and was committed to a mental asylum and it’s where he wrote the above poem. So it is an extremely powerful piece of poetry and it has kind of stuck with me since I first read it.

Anyway, what relevance is all this? The character of Keats, is in a similar position to how John Clare was, losing his mind and finding himself in a delusional state of mind and living in quite an oppressive state. There is this longing with him, one Keats and Clare share, to be somewhere away from the world and to be untroubled with burdens. So Abeyance is trying to sympathise with those suffering from delusions.

John Keats

The poet John Keats comes in because it’s not all about feeling trapped or a burdened mind, John Keats had a talent for creating something imaginative and beautiful, not only that he dealt with mythology and fantastical worlds escaped from reality. A perfect place for Keats to escape to, scenes where man has never trod. Here is a quote from John Keats, ‘You speak of Lord Byron and me – There is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees – I describe what I imagine’. And  I don’t think there’s anything more apt than that, as Keats’ (in Abeyance) world is completely imaginary.

And William Blake looked to people and society in his poetry, his piece ‘London’ is a brilliant commentary on London society at the time he lived, he took it from a negative point of view and pretty much described the people as prisoners or slaves, he uses the description ‘mind-forged manacles’ and  I think that’s an excellent description for a society where people aren’t free. Exactly like Keats’ society. I also loved this one, “And the hapless Soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.” He really manages to capture something powerful in only so few words.

So, what exactly IS Abeyances plot? Keats is made insane by the oppressive nature of his society, where independent thought is frowned up and in trying to embrace his free thought he is at a conflict. He fights these shadows in his head to try and gain control, but is his connection to a dream world all that healthy? His one desire is to get away from the burdens of living in society and to live freely amongst nature. This means Keats not only visits this darkened dream-world but he encounters a fantastical world that has kept its natural beauty, where he is free. Unfortunately his 3 realities will start to merge and what seemed clear before may begin to blur.  Keats does meet one fortune, a girl who seems different to the rest, she could well become all that keeps him from falling into a darkened abyss.

Or could not. I mean, I’m not exactly going to give the specifics. It could be a happy ending, but it could be a horribly depressing ending – the real world could swallow him whole by treating him as a ‘nutjob’ possibly executing him out of mercy, it could be that he finds happiness in this new place, a great allegory for going to heaven and would tie so nicely to that John Clare poem (you know, being with God in the vaulted sky), it could be that this darkened reality destroys him and he is left just a vessel; void of humanity. Or it could be he successfully defeats the demons and he finds complete clarity and maybe escapes from this cruel society and finds a place similar to that in his dreams – or conversely, decides he isn’t scared to be independent and faces the law. It might not even be ANY of those things, I might have just been thinking of what somebody might speculate whilst I keep the real answer to myself or this is a double bluff and I threw the real answer in there…or I myself haven’t actually decided yet. Maybe aliens will inherit the earth.

Anyway, this is just me explaining the plot more whilst showing what angle I’m coming in at for the plot in this game.

Abeyance is the name of the project I am working on at the moment. You can actually view the Abeyance site here. The game creation forums I visit holds a challenge every year called ‘NaGaCreMo’ (a game creation take on NaNoWriMo) and the challenge is to have a demo completed at the end of the month. When I last did game creation as a hobby I used to find I didn’t get very far with my projects and so I thought NaGaCreMo would be a fantastic opportunity to take one of those projects, make it manageable and see if I could come up with a complete fully functional demo. Abeyance was the chosen project because out of all of the previous attempts it was the least media heavy, initially the idea was to go for a combination of 3D backgrounds and 2D sprites. My demo was completed, in fact, you’re welcome to download it here; PhysX drivers are required (linked in the developer’s log).

The method worked, however, there were a few things I was unhappy with…mainly my really poor 2D art skills. In fact, I could see animating 2D sprites becoming more time consuming than animating 3D objects. I am better at 3D than I am at 2D. This means at the moment I am going through the original demo and giving it a massive graphical update! I’m about 20% of the way through. As it’s messing with how I coded the maps, a few code rewrites are being made so that this system works. Instead of loading a large scene at once, I’ll be having it load segments and any characters present in those segments.

Anyway, this screenshot should give an idea of how the graphics are changing (the sprites on the left pic aren’t even mine, mine were worse).

Graphical Changes

You can see a big difference. Currently the only trouble I’m facing at the moment is the rigged animations. I am using MilkShape3D to animate my models and export them to the game engine, however, the exported version isn’t doing as it’s told, so animations appear shoddy. My battle animations aren’t that great anyway, but we will see improvements once I can figure out what’s wrong with the exporter.

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Fireflies singing lovesongs
As the phone silently vibrates.
Boys at play; The tree
Stands tall and wise.
And you are all there is.

Everyday
You glow. And at night,
You glow again.

Click the link below to listen to the recording:

Kingdom of God Seminar: Session 1 Proclamation and Rejection of the King

Abeyance structure The political organisations and networks of people who keep a political movement alive in times of relative inactivity. Abeyance structures are often hidden from the wider public, but they play a special role in ensuring the continuance of radical ideas, tactics, identities and traditions.
(from “Activist Wisdom” by Sean Scalmer and Sarah Maddison)

The days of “mass mobilisation” around climate change seem* to be behind us.* The period that began roughly in 2006, with UK Climate Camp #1, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, the Stern Review and then the IPCC’s fourth assessment report (Feb 2007) closed with the Copenhagen debacle (November 2009). We now stagger on in the aftermath, numbers falling, outfits folding all around.

So, what now?

Serious climate activists have a few tasks ahead of them, IMHO
a) a clear-eyed assessment of how we blew the chances we had in those ‘golden’ years so that we are less likely to screw it up in precisely the same way if there is a “next time”
b) continuing to skill ourselves up and try to retain the (trickle of) people who will come looking for useful work to do, even while the issue of climate change is studiously ignored by the media and government and in the “too hard” basket generally
c) sustained ongoing discussion and relationship-building with groups who don’t see climate change as Their Problem at present, so that.. well, see below.
d) continuing to push, even with our reduced numbers and smell-of-defeat around us, for a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources and a build up of social and ecological “resilience.” that will mean doing it smarter… This will mean focussing on local resilience in constructive ways

Essentially, what I am advocating is “abeyance structure” work. It’s not sexy, it’s probably pointless. (because by the time everyone pays attention to climate change again as they seemed to do in 2006-9, the water will be lapping around our ankles. But I don’t see the extremes of continuing to make Big Plans for Big Demonstrations and “Giving Up” as options. This seems like the Third Way?

To be ready for… what?! Well, at some point this species may wake from its slumber. Not all at once, but when there is next a “policy moment” we need to be ready with viable alternatives that are understood. We need to be able to apply pressure to counteract the people who are currently benefitting from the set up as it stands. Alongside this, of course, and intimately part of it, is the need to be building alternatives, “prefigurative” structures. By doing so we reality-test our grand dreams and theories, which is always a good idea…

Some key terms
War of position (Gramsci)
The war of position is intellectual, a culture war in which the anti-capitalist agitators and organizers seek to create a counter-hegemonic block based around the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. Once achieved, this position will be used to increase class consciousness, teach revolutionary theory and analysis, and to inspire revolutionary organisation.

Eco-fascism
The combination of state and corporate power to defend the existing power holders (mostly white, mostly male), especially using ‘ecological protection’ as an excuse, a tool they’ve used for well over 100 years.

* I could of course be completely wrong. A year from now there might be hundreds of thousands of folks on the streets, in their town halls and outside corporate HQs demanding action, and taking it themselves. I don’t know how that would happen, but it’s theoretically possible

The war’s abeyance was due to the thing that had stepped out of the clouds. Had it opened its hands, chaos may have again erupted. But it raised its arms aloft and closed them, like it was bending a high invisible wire.

It glanced over each luminous shoulder. It narrowed its eyes. Giving voice to the look on its face, the words that emanated from its perfect lips and twelve copper mouths chorused together: “Has anyone seen Olaf?”

An interminable silence. A few scabby arms raised.

The thing peered down at the bloody crowd of men and at last selected a thick, bearded fellow from among the archers. It bent down and held out one of the silver tentacles that sprouted from the tips of its golden elbows. Its mouths piped again: “Pay up, Olaf son of Erik, son of Cuthbert.”

The man glowed red beneath his braided locks and pulled a burlap purse from his jerkin, tossing it to the thing with no shortage of distaste – though borne, it seemed, more from resignation than distemper. The thing erupted into a column of smoke that dissipated quickly over the battlefield. And of course the fighting resumed.

I barely escaped with my life, being by that point bewildered by the exchange and furious that anyone would have the gall to stab me repeatedly after witnessing such a hideous transaction. To be fair, though, in retrospect, it really wasn’t any of my business.

Forget about e-books. They booty to continued to actualize abnormally if you’re a slooooow typist. You can actualize an audio artefact in a day instead of weeks or months with an e-book. If you charge actualize an e-book, do the audio aboriginal and accept addition transcribe the audio into a chat file. You than apple-pie it up and add some affiliate active and an basis and Bam! You accept an burning e-book

2.Thou shall use a angle microphone for your recordings.

I acquisition that application a angle mic is a lot added able than a accepted microphone. A angle mic gives you the abandon to move your arch about and you don’t feel belted as far as actuality positioned in advanced of a table top mic.

3.Thou shall not be abashed to almanac your voice.

Many bodies abhorrence the way they complete on band (me included) and feel that they cannot put calm a “Professional” product. The aboriginal time you apprehend yourself on band you are aloof activity to die. It takes convenance to absolutely allege properly. You get addled by the alarming Uh and Um affection and the banausic articulation virus but booty affection …you can do this. Slow bottomward and apply on what you’re adage and interject some accent and angle changes to your voice. Bottom line…add some personality.

I’ll accept I’m no able apostle myself… It takes convenance and you will get better.

Here are a brace books you ability appetite to analysis out:

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie

Secrets of Successful Speakers: How You Can Motivate, Captivate, and Persuade by Lilly Walters

4.Thou shall add addition and outro music to your audios

If you absolutely appetite to add a able brightness to your articles you charge add the addition and outro music. You apperceive that air-conditioned music you apprehend at the alpha of the audio aloof afore addition starts the introduction.

You could accord this armpit a try: frontandbackmusic.com for some demos.

5.Thou shall use altered formats for your audio advice product

A brace of means to actualize an audio artefact is to account addition over the buzz and almanac it or aloof do a beeline advanced gab affair on your own. To accumulate it simple aback I’m recording on my own, I address bottomward some ammo credibility to use as anamnesis joggers to accumulate me on clue during the recording sessions. Also, aback application the computercomputer application it allows you to abeyance so you can get your thoughts calm and again aloof restart the recording action after a skip.

6.Thou shall use altered alert formats for your audio product.

When distributing your audios you accept altered formats to accept from. You can use .wav, .mp3, .ram files. Wave files booty up the best amplitude and are megabyte hogs. Mp3 and ram (real amateur files) booty up the atomic bulk of amplitude and are acceptable for alive audio on the web. If you are distributing your audio on CD it is best to use wav. That way you will be able to accept to them in any CD player. Here is a little admonishing aback recording your audio projects. Be acquainted of the amplitude you accept on your adamantine drive. A two hour recording affair will booty up to 1.3 gigabytes of amplitude in wav. I like to almanac and adapt in abate intervals and bake them to a CD-RW aloof to get them off my adamantine drive.

7.Thou shall use bargain assets for your audio.

I get all my balloon backpack shippers and CD cases off of Ebay. They accept some abundant deals. I get my CD’s bifold at Diskfaktory.com because they can run baby quantities of 50. I wouldn’t get any added fabricated until you apperceive you accept a winner.

8.Thou shall accept fun aback creating your audio products

I accept to say I absolutely get pleasure the conception action and it’s absolutely accurate aback you go to almanac a artefact and can comedy it aback and accept to it on the fly. You get a faculty that this affair is absolutely advancing together. And aback you add the music you absolutely get a faculty of satisfaction. Creating audio is absolutely burning delight aback it comes to creating advice products. I adulation it…

As of this writing, I’m alive with my wife on a artefact and I’m interviewing her and we are accepting a blast. She makes mistakes and I accomplish them and we aloof sit there and laugh. My wife has the UH and UM affection so we are aggravating to get convalescent of that… But the point is that we are accepting a acceptable time.

Quick Tip: I use a splitter to add two microphones to my computer. You charge to accession the aggregate to get it normalized.

9.Thou shall body a audio advice empire

If you absolutely appetite to get a jump alpha in the advice artefact business this is the easiest and funniest way to do it. As fast as you can almanac and adapt these things the faster you can crank them out and alpha authoritative some money. Also audio CD and tapes accept a college perceived amount and you can get added for them again by aloof affairs an e-book.

10.Thou shall apprentice whatcomputer application to use for your audios.

Software can be expensive. Many of the gurus acclaim Sounforge but I adopt a affairs from Cakewalk alleged Plasma. Thiscomputer application is bisected the amount of Soundforge and is actual versatile.

Well there you accept it. Some acceptable tips to get you started on architecture your audio empire.

It would be nice to be the guy or gal who wins the laptop for a change…

Above all else, afore you adjudge to alpha putting strategies and approach calm to beat the added bidders in these auctions, you accept to apprehend that not every tactic is activity to assignment every time. There are dozens of approaches that you can booty against artfulness the added bidders – in some cases the aboriginal time you accomplish a brace bids with a simple abeyance action you’ll win. In added cases you’ll dump aggregate you accept additional the kitchen bore at an bargain and airing abroad the loser.

You accept to apprehend that accident and defeat are a actual absolute and apparent allotment of demography allotment in about-face bid auctions. If you can’t acquiesce to lose, and you’re not accommodating to go the ambit (which agency advantageous retail if it comes bottomward to it) again stop while you’re ahead.

Otherwise, abide on and analysis out one accepted acceptable action that can put you advanced of the bold if you administer it properly:

Autobidders for Hire

The apple of the about-face bargain has taken a lot of abuse with the autobid system. After all, if the users can assignment an autobidder again why can’t these bargain systems assignment an auto applicant that abettor bids and keeps the bold rolling? New sites don’t acquiesce for that because they aren’t affairs their own items. They accept no absorption in active up the bids because they don’t get paid until the account sells and the aggregate of the accumulation goes to the actuality affairs the goods.

With that said, you should advance an autobidder if you aren’t able to sit and adviser an absolute bargain – and who wants to do that on a approved basis. If you accept to sit through the absolute affair that agency watching every additional of an bargain to accumulate from actuality outbid – because every additional counts. With the autobidder you can airing away. All you accept to do is set the max bulk you appetite to pay and the max cardinal of bids.

Just accomplish abiding you do your algebraic appropriate to agency in absolute amount additional bids spent so you don’t wind up overpaying.

One affair you charge to abstain is ambience your autobidder up beyond too abounding auctions. It’s accessible to lose clue the cardinal of autobids you place. Most bodies accept a botheration acclimation their own analysis book so be accurate back acclimation your own bid count.

Focus on aloof one or two auctions, alike with an autobidder, so that you don’t overextend yourself and run out of bids at an annoying time.

Well, at the end of the day, perhaps it wasn’t meant to bey. I mean be. But some of the bay/bey similarities above were meant to be – that is to say, they’re cognate (they have a common origin). And I won’t keep an explanation in abeyance any longer.

Abeyance, which is normally preceded by in (or sometimes into) and typically is seen in held in abeyance or, sometimes, put in abeyance or similar other phrases, originated with an image of an open mouth of expectation – it could be a chick awaiting a worm, or perhaps someone cut off in mid-sentence by a “Hang on for a moment – gotta get this call” (or a “Talk to the hand”): Old French abeance “gape, aspire after” came from a plus late Latin badare “open the mouth wide, gape”.

And that gaping mouth also shows up in bay meaning “an opening in the wall”, whence we get bomb bay (but not Bombay) and sick bay – but apparently not the bay in Hudson’s Bay (whence the Bay) and ebay (originally named after San Francisco Bay), which comes from late Latin baia (though badare may have had an influence). It also seems to be a source of keep at bay or hold at bay, but that has also been influenced by bay as in what hounds do, which is from Old French abai “barking”. The other thing hounds will do if trained – obey – comes from Latin ob “towards” and audire “hear”.

The word abeyance actually looks like, say, an ebay username that might be used by a guy named Abe Yancey (actually, the rare synonym abeyancy would suit even better). The act of saying it may be seen just vaguely to illustrate it in the way the glide in the middle (in the International Phonetic Alphabet, [j], which here is written y) holds the vowel in suspension for a moment, keeping the tip of the tongue from reaching the alveolar ridge (in fact, it makes a sort of triphthong, a three-part vowel, that is often heard in southern US pronunciations of words such as bad and mad). French speakers may also note a resemblance in sound to abeille, “bee”, which is one thing you may want to keep in abeyance for as long as possible.

Oh, and your ebay cane? Well, abeyance is a word you may want to keep in stock, but you can’t always keep stock in abeyance. If the auction gets away from you, I know a guy named Llano who can set you up with a nice cane…

much obliged

Before I get into the last post, I wanted to thank all of you for reading and posting comments to the daily euneJeune. I can’t tell you how much I’ve appreciated all the feedback and support.

For their role, however large or small, they played in making this a rewarding undertaking, I’d like to give a special thanks to the following people: Donika Miller, Marc Schuster, David Frees, John Sellers, Ezgi Bilici, Joe Taylor, John Hay, Kate Jacovino, Jeannie Matamoros, Beth Treisner, Heather Petrovsky, Courtney Papada Daly, Kelly Kampf, Jonathan Chriswell, Bill McLeer, Kristie Attardi, Wynn Sanders, Mike Graveley, Richard O’Connor, Brian McFadden, Kevin Emery, Adam Schwartzberg and Annette Burgess. Your support was huge.

Sorry if you deserved a mention and didn’t get one. Doesn’t mean anything other than I’m forgetful.

Also, a special shout-out goes to Mindninja, or Jen, or whatever the hell your name is, for stalking me for a few months last year. Your unrelenting negativity taught me there’s always going to be someone who flat out disagrees with my perspective. I have no idea who you are, but I have my theories (ex-girlfriend, ex-friend, etc.). Whoever you are, I hope the medication is working.

All right, now to today’s installment.

word

abeyance [uh-bey-uhns] n. 1. temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let’s hold that problem in abeyance for a while 2. Law. a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder: an estate in abeyance

birthday

Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651), David Thompson (1770), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Percy Heath (1923), Johnny Horton (1925), Cloris Leachman (1926), Willie Nelson (1933), Gary Collins (1938), Burt Young (1940), Jill Clayburgh (1944), Isaiah Thomas (1961), Akon (1973), Johnny Galecki (1975), Kirsten Dunst (1982)

standpoint

It’s finally here. The day I’m closing shop on the euneJeune daily. 14 months ago, I began this to prove to myself I could write something, good or bad, on a daily basis. And, for the most part, I did. I’ll always look back to this blog as something I’m proud of. I’m going to miss it badly.

But life goes on and I need to spend the time I allotted for this and use it for the writing I was meant to. Don’t worry, I won’t be entirely disappearing from the internet. I’ve been invited to be a contributor on Popularity Contest, a blog recently started by my friend Marc Schuster, and I’ll be posting stories on there from time-to-time.

I love Esquire and my favorite section is always “What I’ve Learned.” For my last Standpoint, I’m going to share what I’ve learned about myself, about the internet, about the world, from what I’ve done here.

» Astrology is horseshit. The day of the year someone happens to be born is completely inconsequential. Oskar Schindler and Saddam Hussein share the same birthday. So do Leonardo da Vinci and Seth Rogen, Raphael and Zach Braff, Vincent van Gogh and MC Hammer, James Madison and Erik Estrada. Looking for similarities within those pairings is ridiculous.

» Like most writers, I guess, I have a tendency to concentrate on troublesome people. I’ve focused more on Glenn Beck, Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Palin than I have on Chuck Klosterman, Conan O’Brien and Jack Kerouac. Something I should dwell on for a stretch.

» I have a broader vocabulary than I used to. The other day, I heard someone describe himself as a polemic and I knew exactly what he meant. (He was calling himself a controversialist.)

» The amount of news stories on any given day is staggering. Between the “reputable” sources and the bloggers, it’s fairly easy to find a news story in which the facts are presented just the way you like them. It’s great because no one ever again has to be wrong. Even when they are.

» I challenge you to find any quotations website where Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Ralph Waldo Emerson aren’t prominently featured. Go on, I dare you.

» Probably even Zach Rogue thinks I listen to too much Rogue Wave.

» When you write a blog, your greatest friends won’t read it. If you offered my best friend Harvey $1 million to tell you just one thing I wrote about here in the past six months, he’d be forced to forfeit the cash. (I have to say Joe Taylor is an exception to this rule. Or I’d never hear the end of it.)

» If you’re doing anything online that’s in need of promotion and you fail to see the merits of Facebook an Twitter, you need to reconsider. The days where I shared or tweeted my latest post, my traffic was over three times higher than those days I didn’t. The stuff works.

» One thing anyone who writes needs to remember is that there are those out there who internalize everything they read. Because of that, you’ll receive negative and hurtful attacks. Never let the vitriol people spew stop you from expressing yourself. Fuck those people. Wake up tomorrow and keep going.

I’ve learned all that and more. I hope you learned some things, as well.

quotation

Don’t be dismayed by goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. ↔ Richard Bach

tune

For my last post I thought this Elliott Smith song was rather appropriate. Enjoy “A Fond Farewell.”

gallimaufry

→ If you’re not yet reading Hyperbole and a Half, I’m not sure what you’re waiting for. One of the greatest blogs I’ve read.

→ Man, US Senators sure do fancy themselves some meddling. Hey, elected officials, I’ve got to believe there some other problem you can be trying to solve. We’d be in a pretty sweet spot right now if Facebook privacy issues was the country’s highest priority.

→ This is the closest thing I’ve seen resembling honest journalism in a long, long time.

Cast
Patrick Rombyer…………Calvin
Barton Bund……………….Jack
Andrew Hoag……………..Tyler
Jamie Weeder…………….Laura
Susan Kulp…………………Emily
Benjamin Dickinson…….Andy
Heather Atwood…………Grace

Crew
Jason Atwood……….Writer/Director
Fadi Elnaggar………..Assistant Director
Josh Grant……………Script Supervisor

January 17th: 10-4 (Bar Location, Ypsilanti)
January 20th: 7-10 (Office Location, Ann Arbor)
January 22nd: 7-11 (Parking Lot Location, Ypsilanti)
January 23rd: 3-8 (Church and House Locations, Ann Arbor)

*Abeyance: N. Suspend action.

“In 2002, after nearly two decades in action, Fugazi decided to declare an abeyance. Their indefinite hiatus has yet to break while other 80s and 90s alternative acts have reunited.”

Fugazi – Waiting Room (live):

*Anachronism: N. Something or someone misplaced in time.

“Sunny Day Real Estate were such visionaries in alternative rock that they seemed like an anachronism; even their reunion spell occurred a decade before the recent splurge of rock re-starts.”

Sunny Day Real Estate – J’Nuh (live):

Feel free to study along!

Abeyance is one of those words that I had heard before but could only pretend to know what it means.  And it seems that this band also wanted to pretend to know what it means.  I’m not very impressed or intrigued at their choice of a band name or their music.  I think that the only things that will be in a state of disuse or suspension will be their CDs.  har har.

Also, for you CCGers out there, it appears that Abeyance is a relatively valuable ($6) Magic the Gathering card.  Who knew?  Now you do.

Foreword

There’s an old Negro spiritual called “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me”. In this same spirit, this author allows the work of Chief Circuit Judge J.L. Edmondson and his cohorts to speak for them. Unlike, Judge Graham and his enablers, their work will not be characterized or mis-characterized it will be produced in full and publicly available for the reading public to make their own assessments. The record fully supports the idea that Judge Edmondson and his colleagues at the Eleventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals have defined the concept of “judicial misconduct” out of existence. Moreover, the record here will reveal that Judge Edmondson and his colleagues will not mention the allegations of misconduct raised against Judge Graham, much less test them for veracity.

What To Focus On

• The allegations of misconduct are not denied.
• The allegations of misconduct are rarely mentioned.
• The Allegations of misconduct were ignored in the appellate process
  • Usurping Legal Authority
  • Refusing to Rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction
  • Allowing Scores of Motion to Languish

  • Judge attempted to arrogate his own authority by ordering the clerk to return notices of appeals without filing them.

    • intentionally lying and misrepresenting the law;
    • refusing to rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction for more than 15 months;
    • allowing scores of motions to go undecided;
    • and usurping legal authority.
    • The complaint alleges (Core Allegations):
    • intentionally lying and misrepresenting the law;
    • refusing to rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction for more than 15 months;
    • allowing scores of motions to go undecided;
    • and usurping legal authority.

  See Complaint and Order, Judicial Council Order.

  December 14, 2001, Judge R. Lanier Anderson renders order dismissing the complaint due to:

  The allegations of the Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling”. Additionally, this complainant currently has pending in this court several Petitions for Writs of Mandamus that address this issue. Consequently, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 372(c)(3)(A) and Addendum Three Rule 4(a)(2) this Complaint is Dismissed.

  When Judge Anderson wrote this order, the Eleventh Circuit had already had denied the mandamus petition, Case No. 01-15754, which he references in his order dismissing this complaint. Consequently, Judge Anderson knows that Judge Graham’s misconduct has not been discussed, much less remedied.

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  INTERVENING MANDAMUS

  December 5, 2001, in a terse one page, (Case No. 01-15754), “opinion” denies relief. “The “petition for writ of mandamus and petition for writ of prohibition” is DENIED.”
  January 25, 2002, the Eleventh Circuit refuses to give the basis for its opinion of December 5, 2001 and denies a motion for rehearing or clarification.

  Complaint No. 02-0029

  Judge Graham attempted to use the contempt process to force Mason to drop a lawsuit filed against him.

  In this Complaint, Mr. Mason makes the unsupported allegation that Judge Graham has “improperly and illegally used his office to bring criminal contempt charges against me since the imitation (sic) of my last complaint on February 8, 2002″. Although Mr. Mason does not submit any evidence or documentation in support of his allegation, Judge Graham did in fact issue an Order to Show Cause regarding possible contempt charges against Mr. Mason detailing why Mr. Mason should be charged with criminal contempt, Not one reason cited in this order relates to any complaints having been filed against Judge Graham by Mr. Mason. The allegations that Judge Graham improperly and illegally issued the Order to Show Cause, and that it was issued in retaliation for Mr. Mason having filed complaints against judge Graham are clearly disputed by Mr. Mason’s behavior and obvious disregard for Judge Graham’s Omnibus Order and are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling”, Therefore, pursuant to 28 U .S.C. § 372(c)(3)(A) and Addendum III Rule 4(a)(2), this Complaint is Dismissed .

  See Complaint and Order.

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  COMPLAINTS FILED IN 2005

  A Series of complaints, Nos. 05-00008, 05-0011, 05-0012, 05-0013, 05-0020, and 05-0021, were filed in 2005. In order to keep Judge Edmondson from viewing allegations of misfeasance, malfeasance, and nonfeasance against Judge Graham in isolation, Mason included the following allegations in all the complaints so that Judge Graham’s record could be viewed in the aggregate.

  Additionally, in 2005, Judge Edmondson knows for certain that Judge Graham has escaped appellate review because the Eleventh Circuit, though fully briefed, refused to discuss whether Judge Graham should have disqualified. Moreover, the Eleventh Circuit declined to discuss the allegations of misconduct and abuse that Mason used to support the thesis that Judge Graham should have disqualified. See, Case No. 01-13664, Unpublished Opinion.

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  Complaint No. 05-0008

  Complaint filed January 29, 2005.

  Additionally, Judge Graham knowing falsely created a Civil Justice Act Report that concealed the fact that he had a motion for a preliminary injunction pending for more than 15 months. Judge Edmondson reply to these allegations:

  In this complaint, the single (unsupported) allegation that has not already been determined in previous complaints filed by Mr. Mason against Judge Graham is that Judge Graham intentionally falsified his March 31, 2001, Civil Justice Reform Act Report in an attempt to conceal the fact that he had not ruled on one of Mr. Mason’s motions for over 15 months. Notwithstanding the fact that the motion in question was pending for more than six months, and the fact that the March 31, 2001 report is incorrect, Mr. Mason has not presented any information, evidence or documentation to support his claim to suggest that the omission of this motion on this CJRA report was an intentional attempt by Judge Graham to conceal his failure to rule on the motion. The allegations of this Complaint are “frivolous”, “successive”, and “appropriate corrective action has been taken”. Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U .S.C. § 352 (b)(I)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4 (b)(3) and (4) and 18(c) this Complaint is DISMISSED.

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  Order 05-0011. Complaint No. 05-0011
  Complaint filed January 31, 2005.
  This complaint, in addition to the core allegations, alleges the following:
  Judge Graham has arrogated his own authority, much like Sadam Hussein, Stalin, Hitler, other infamous autocrats and dictators. Specific acts of misconduct committed by Mr. Graham include, but is not limited to the following:
  Concocting a patently illegal injunction or pre-filing screening under the guise of “inherent authority”. See (D.E. 878), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-878/de878.pdf.Using this patently illegal injunction to initiate and gain a criminal contempt conviction. Allowing the Eleventh Circuit to use this patently illegal injunction, (D.E. 878), rendered on September 20, 2001 , to affirm the dismissal of a case, 99-14027-CV-Graham, that closed on June 20, 2001. Imagine that! Allowing the Eleventh Circuit to destroy my right under the “rule of law” to appeal this patently illegal injunction, (D.E. 878).Using intimidation by ordering me, Robert Waters, AUSA, Frank Smith, U.S. Probation, and others to come to a “Status/Motion Hearing” on January 9, 2005. Abusing his office and circumventing the appellate process by ordering me not to file any one page requests to file Rule 60(b) motions and refusing to put this illegal order in writing so that it can be challenged on appeal. July 7, 2005, Judge Edmondson answered these allegations:

  In this complaint, there are only two allegations that have not been determined in previous complaints filed by Mr. Mason against Judge Graham. Mr. Mason first complains that Judge Graham issued a verbal order on January 14, 2005, which advised him not to file any further pleadings with the court . Mr. Mason then complains that this order was not in writing to prevent him from filing an appeal. The allegations of this Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling or frivolous or both”, and the allegations of the complaint “lack any factual foundation or are conclusively refuted by objective evidence” . Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U .S .C. § 352(b)(1)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4(b)(2)(3) and (4) this Complaint is DISMISSED.

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  Order No. 05-0012. Complaint No. 05-0012

  COMPLAINT FILED FEBRUARY 7, 2005. SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT AND JUDICIAL ABUSE

  1. Mr. Graham abused his office by having the U.S. Marshall, Keith L. Kluttz, come and interrogate me at my home on or about February 5, 2004 when he had no earthly reason to do so.
  2. Mr. Graham abused his office by ordering me to come to “Status/Motion Hearing” on January 14, 2005 on a closed civil case, 99-14027.
  3. Mr. Graham conducted a quasi criminal hearing under the guise or cloak of a “Status/Motion Hearing” in a civil matter. The AUSA and U.S. Parole were attendance at this “Status/Motion Hearing”. I was unrepresented by a competent criminal defense lawyer.
  4. Graham ordered me to answer his intimidating questions in violation of my Fifth Amendment rights. Mr. Graham gave me no warning that my statements could be used against me even though the U.S. Attorney and U.S. Probation were in attendance.

  On January 9, 2005, Mr. Graham concocted what he termed a “Status/Motion Hearing” order. This order was then certified on January 10, 2005 by one of Mr. Graham’s clerks. This order specifically demands that the following individuals be there: Frank Smith, U.S. Probation, Robert Waters, AUSA, Lynn Waxman, Appellate Attorney, Maria Sorolis, counsel for Highlands County. This order was picked up by Fedex on January 10, 2005 and delivered to my home on January 11, 2005. Mr. Graham scheduled this hearing for January 14, 2005 at 15:30 in Fort Pierce. Mr. Graham was already scheduled to be in Fort Pierce on this date. Mr. Graham made no effort to talk to me or my appellate attorney about dates that would be convenient to us. Mr. Graham made no prior contact with me or Ms. Waxman. At this hearing, Mr. Graham made absolutely no mention of the merits of any pending motion in the civil case, 99-14027. Mr. Graham kept saying the case was closed and not to ‘file’ anymore Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P. motions or requests to file Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P. motions. Mr. Graham asked U.S. Probation about the terms of my probation. Why is this needed in a civil matter?
  For what purpose did AUSA Robert Waters and US Parole Officer Frank Smith attend a “Status/Motion Hearing” in a civil matter? Mr. Graham has refused to put any of the “commands” he made in writing so that they could be held up to public scrutiny. Mr. Graham felt it important enough to hastily concoct a “Status/Motion Hearing”, but not important enough to memorialize is “commands” to writing. Mr. Graham does not have the legal authority to demand, under the threat of arrest, that I attend a “Status/Motion Hearing” on a closed civil case. Mr. Graham had a deputy US Marshall come by my home and interrogate me without the presence of counsel even though criminal contempt case was pending, Case No. 02-14020-CR-Moore. I was questioned by the U.S. Marshall without benefit of having an attorney present. Mr. Graham had no probable cause to send the US Marshal to my house. The mere fact that Mr. Graham disagrees with my unrelenting attacks on his record and personal integrity is not sufficient reason to “sick the dogs on me”, or US Marshal. The US Marshal’s office is not Mr. Graham’s private police force.
  June 27, 2005, Judge Edmondson states:

  In this complaint, there are four allegations that have not been determined in previous complaints filed by Mr. Mason against Judge Graham. Mr. Mason complains that Judge Graham abused his office by ordering him to appear at a Status/Motion hearing held on January 14, 2005, and that Judge Graham scheduled this hearing without any attempt to talk with him or his attorney about dates that were suitable for them. Mr. Mason also complains that Judge Graham ordered him to answer intimidating questions at this hearing without warning that his statements could be used against him even though the U.S. Attorney and U.S. Probation offices were represented and present at this hearing. Mr. Mason further complains that Judge Graham improperly and without good cause sent the U.S. Marshals as his own private police force.

  The allegations of this Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling”, frivolous”. and the allegations of the complaint “lack any factual foundation or are conclusively refuted by objective evidence” and “successive”. Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U.S.C. § 352(b)(1)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4(b)(2)(3)(4) and 18 (c) this Complaint is DISMISSED. Order No. 05-0012.

  Complaint No. 05-0013

  Complaint filed February 8, 2005
  In addition to the core allegations, this complaint alleges:
  Mr. Graham abused his office by ordering me to come to a “HEARING ON CONDUCT OF PARTIES DURING PROCEEDINGS” on December 4, 2001 on a closed civil case, 99-14027. The case was closed on June 20, 2001.This case was on appeal since June 25, 2001, consequently, Mr. Graham no longer had jurisdiction over the case. Why do I need to a ““NOTICE OF HEARING ON CONDUCT OF PARTIES DURING PROCEEDINGS” on a closed case? Does Mr. Graham get to order me to come to a hearing anytime he gets ready?
  Judge Edmondson’s reply:

  In this complaint Mr. Mason alleges that Judge Graham abused his office by ordering to appear at a hearing on December 4, 2001, when the case in question, No. 99-CV-14027, was closed and on appeal at the time the hearing was scheduled. The allegations of this Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling”. Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U .S .C. § 352(b)(1)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4(b)(2)(3) and (4) this Complaint is DISMISSED. Order No. 05-0013.

  Complaint No. 05-0020

  Complaint filed February 16, 2005
  This complaint alleges:
  Judge illegally blocked Mason’s access to the courts by improperly denying motions to proceed without payment, in forma pauperis, on 18 different occasions, while refusing to cite a legal or factual reason for doing so as required by law.
  Graham allowed IFP motions to linger for months in violation of S.D.Fla. Local Rule 7.1.B.3 which calls for a hearing on motion in 90 days. (DE #8, 9-18-2001). Plaintiff’s motion was filed on 3/12/01 (DE #2). It took Graham more than six months to create a reason to deny this motion that was not denied until 9-18-2001. See (DE #8, 9-18-2001).
  Graham deliberately stated misleading facts or outright lied in justifying his injunction of September 20, 2001, (DE 878), by using the very unfiled lawsuits that he denied me IFP status to support this patently illegal injunction . For the purpose of justifying the injunction, (DE 878), Mr. Graham counted the following lawsuits as being “filed”: (1)Case No. 00-14202, (2)Case No. 00-14201, (3)Case No. 00-14116, (4)Case No. 01-14074, (5)01-14078, See pgs. 1-2, DE-878, URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-878/de878.pdf. Mr. Graham states, “Marcellus M. Mason (“Mason”) has filed eleven (11)cases and/or counterclaims in this District…” According to Mr. Graham’s own definition of “filing”, “A complaint is not considered filed until the filing fee is paid.” See (DE -10) Case No. 00-14201. See also (DE -10) Case No. 00-14202. No filing fee was paid in either of the above cases because Graham arbitrarily denied me the benefit of the in forma pauperis statutes. Using Graham’s own definition there were only 11 minus 5 or 6 lawsuits “filed.” Case No. 00-14240 which Graham also counts was actually filed by Highlands County, not me. Now Graham has only 5 lawsuits filed. Case No. 01-14230 was filed in state court and removed to the S.D. Fla. by Highlands County after Graham crafted the injunction where they knew the case would be assigned to Graham. See Notice of Removal, URL: http://geocities.com/mcneilmason/secret/01-14230/NoticeOfRemoval.pdf. Graham now has only four lawsuits that I filed, not the 11 he concocted. See Litigation Summary, URL:http://mmason.freeshell.org/LitigationSummary.doc . The four remaining lawsuits Case Numbers 99-14042, 99-14257, 99-14314 were consolidated with Case number 99-14027.

  Judge Edmondson’s reply:

  In this complaint Mr. Mason, although worded differently that his previous complaints, re-makes the allegation that Judge Graham denied him access to the courts by summarily denying a string of motions for in forma pauperis and that Judge Graham did not identify either of the only two reasons allowed for such denial. The allegations of this Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling” and “successive”. Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U .S .C. § 352(b)(1)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4(b)(2)(3) and (4) this Complaint is DISMISSED.

  Order No. 05-0021. Complaint No. 05-0021

  Complaint filed February 19, 2005
  This complaint alleges:
  Mr. Graham should have disqualified himself long before any motion for attorney’s fees had been presented. “Disqualification is mandatory for conduct that calls a judge’s impartiality into question.” U.S. v. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001). As this Complaint and previous complaints clearly demonstrate Judge Graham should have disqualified himself because he: (1)he intentionally misrepresented the law; (2)refused to rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction for more than 16 months;(3)usurped legal authority by requiring me to seek the permission of a private law firm to communicate with my government;(4)allowed scores of motions to go undecided; (5)concocted a “pre-filing” injunction;(5)lied on a Civil Justice Act Report;(6)See Section 372(c) complaints docketed under Case Nos. 05-0008, 05-0011, 05-0012, 05-0013, and a complaint dated Wednesday, February 16, 2005 for more reasons Graham should have disqualified. Mr. Graham and his Magistrate awarded the Defendants, Highlands County, a whopping award of $200,000 that he admitted in writing had nothing to do with the law or the “merits”. Mr. Graham even lied in order to award the defendants $200,000 in attorney’s fees. These allegations are fully supported by the following RECORD facts. See (DE #882), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-882/de882.pdf . (DE 891), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-891/de891.pdf . Judge Graham intentionally lied in order to award attorney’s fees of $200,000. Mr. Graham admitted that he knew the law and was not going to follow it with respect to the awards of attorney’s fees. At page 3 of the Report and Recommendation, Graham and his Magistrate admit that Christiansburg Garment Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 434 U.S. 412 (1978) is the standard for awarding attorney’s fees. Mr. Graham and his Magistrate admit that I had no chance of paying $200,000 in attorney’s fees but awarded it to the defendants anyway. After awarding the Defendants $200, 000 in attorney’s fees against me, Mr. Graham then decided to deny me in forma pauperis status to appeal this travesty. Moreover, Mr. Graham refused to offer any lawful reason for denying me IFP status. See (DE #906), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-906/de906.pdf . I prevailed on a summary judgment in a lawsuit filed against me by Highlands County and Mr. Graham refused to award me costs of less than $200.00. See (DE #27), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/00-14240/de27.pdf ; (DE #33), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/00-14240/Doc33/de33.pdf ; (DE #35), URL: http://mmason.freeshell.org/00-14240/Doc35/1.jpg . Judge Edmondson’s reply:

  In this complaint Mr. Mason repeats allegations, filed in previous complaints, that Judge Graham should have recused himself, that Judge Graham refused to rule on several motions, and that Judge Graham required him to seek permission from a private law firm to communicate with his government. The only new allegation in this complaint concerns the attorney fees awarded by Judge Graham to the defendants in the amount of $200,000. Mr. Mason claims Judge Graham lied in order to grant the fees. The allegations of this Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling” and “successive”. Therefore, pursuant to Chapter 16 of Title 28 U .S .C. § 352(b)(1)(ii) and Addendum III Rules 4(b)(2)(3) and (4) this Complaint is DISMISSED.

  Order No. 05-0021.

  What makes this order particularly offensive is that both Judge Graham, for no stated reason, and the Eleventh Circuit, both denied Mason the opportunity to appeal the $200, 000 judgment. The Eleventh Circuit claimed the appeal of the $200,000 attorney’s fees was frivolous without providing a scintilla of evidence to support its mere fortuitous and self-serving conclusion.
  On September 20, 2001, Judge Graham rendered a pre-fling injunction sua sponte, or on his motion and without notice to the litigant Marcellus M. Mason. See Docket Entry Number 878, (D.E. # 878) . Page 3, of this document boldly asserts: THIS CAUSE came before the Court sua sponte.
  EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE IS THE FACT THAT THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT REFUSES TO REVIEW THIS SUA SPONTE ISSUED PRE-FILING INJUNCTION FOR VALIDITY. SEE mmason.freeshell.org/SuaSponte.htm#AppellateHistory.

When Does Judge Graham become Accountable?

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Judge Edmondson’s Attack on the Complainant

On May 2, 2005, Circuit Judge J.L. Edmondson, Eleventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeal stated:

Of the eight complaints not specifically naming Judge Graham as the complained–of judge, five name judges of this Court who served on panels reviewing Mr. Mason’s appeals — panels that affirmed decisions and rulings by Judge Graham. None of Mr. Mason’s judicial complaints have prevailed. All of the complaints that have been resolved to date have been dismissed for some or all of the following reasons: the complaints were (1) plainly untrue; (2) frivolous; (3) successive; (4) conclusively refuted by objective evidence; (5) lacking in factual foundation; (5) lacking in evidence sufficient to raise an inference that misconduct had occurred; or (6) directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling…Eight of Mr. Mason’s twenty-one judicial complaints are still pending before this Court: Complaint numbers 05-0011, 05-0012, 05-0013, 05-0020, 05-0021, 05- 0022, 05-0023, and 05-0036. Six of those complaints name Judge Graham while the other two name judges of this Court who served on panels that affirmed decisions or rulings issued by Judge Graham. Four of the complaints are, on their face, successive. Accordingly, determination of those eight complaints will be held in abeyance pending the resolution of this Show Cause Order

See Show Cause Order.

The Perfect Scam

IMPORTANT BACKGROUND AND CONCURRENT FACTS

In order to fully understand the lengths that Judge Edmondson and his cohorts at the Eleventh Circuit are willing to go through to conceal the acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance committed by Judge Donald L. Graham, one must read the opinions in the direct appeal, Case
No. 01-13664 and mandamus petition, Case No. 01-15754 (“The “petition for writ of mandamus and petition for writ of prohibition” is DENIED.“)in conjunction with the complaints listed below. The Eleventh Circuit does not deny the allegations it simply ignores them. In the direct appeal, the Eleventh Circuit acknowledges that it was briefed on the issue that Judge Graham should have disqualified because of the alleged misconduct, however, it refuses to discuss this issue on appeal (“Mason also raises issues that relate to non-sanction matters, … the denial of his motions to disqualify the district court and magistrate judges,“). Similarly, it refuses to discuss this issue in mandamus petition.

The Eleventh Circuit and Judge Edmondson employed a perfect strategy to conceal these allegations of misconduct. The direct appeal and mandamus orders are non-published. Neither of these opinions have ever been available in the Court’s database or released. Couple this fact, with the fact that the Judicial Misconduct Complaints are kept confidential no one would ever know save this website.

It is noteworthy and quite revealing that upon reading the complaints and Judge Edmondson’s replies that he does not deny, because he can not, any of the allegations set forth in any of the complaints below.

The point of the foregoing is that Judge Edmondson and his cohorts knew full well that when these complaints were lodged that the Eleventh Circuit had already refused to address these allegations in the appellate process. Consequently, there is no remedy for these acts of misconduct and abuse.

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Complaint #01-0054

This complaint raised the following allegations:

Complaint No. 01-0054. On November 7, 2001, former Chief Judge R. Lanier Anderson, without denying the truth of the allegations, stated:

Marcellus M. Mason. Jr. filed this complaint against United States District Judge Donald L. Graham, pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 372(c) and Addendum Three to the Rules of the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit. The allegations of the Complaint are “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling” and/or ‘Action on the complaint is no longer necessary because of intervening events, and intervening events”. Consequently, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 372(c)(3)(A) and (3)(B) and Addendum Three Rule 4 (a)(2), this Complaint is DISMISSED.

On March 5, 2002, the Judicial Council declined to do a review. See Order.

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Case No. 01-0068

Complaint No. 01-0068

Complaint filed on November 27, 2001