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Every day this year, I will be examining the artwork on a single comic book story. Today's artist is Chris Bachalo, and the issue is Shade, the Changing Man #1, which was published by DC and is cover dated July 1990. Enjoy!
Chris Bachalo burst onto the scene in 1990 with a cool issue of Sandman and this series, which were the first things he ever had published (a pretty impressive start). His art has evolved quite a bit in the past 20+ years, and sometimes not for the better. But let's see where he started, with this issue!
If you're only familiar with Bachalo's more recent work, the first thing you might notice about the early work is how "realistic" it is. As he got older, Bachalo became a bit more cartoonish, but early on (he was 24 when he drew this), he spent more time making the characters and settings look "real." On this page, the world has gone a bit freaky, so Kathy is seeing strange things bleed through into our reality. Early in the series, Milligan and Bachalo were, it seems, paying a bit of a tribute to Ditko's work on the book, so the precise lines of the clothing on the Metans in Panels 1 and 2 seem to be a bit Ditko-esque (when they're not Kirby-esque). Bachalo and Mark Pennington (who inked him a lot before Mark Buckingham became "his" inker for a time) make sure the smoke is full of squiggly lines and the two Metans have roughly inked faces, with heavy brows and thick hatching on the cheeks and forehead. Panel 3 is pretty cool - Bachalo/Pennington uses lighter and more fluid lines to show Wizor dissolving. Kathy is an interesting Bachalo female. As we'll see over the course of these posts, Bachalo drew his characters - women, especially - far more "immature" as he got older. They were smaller and looked much more like cartoon adolescents, so the fact that Kathy is one of the most "mature" of Bachalo's females even though she's only 23 and therefore younger than many of them is odd. One thing to note is the "proto-Bachalo nose" in Panel 4. We'll keep an eye on that.
I'm not sure how much Bachalo was influenced by Sam Kieth, but this sequence, especially Panels 2 and 3, are very Kieth-like. The barrel of the gun, the charcoal lines exploding from it, the silhouette in the third panel, even the jagged panel border of Panel 2, are all very much like Sam Kieth. It's very interesting.
The cop in Panel 1 is interesting, too, as it shows an early example of Bachalo exaggerating for effect. The proportions might be perfect, but they look strangely off - the gun looks larger than it should be, and the cop's mouth looks wider than it probably would be. Bachalo hides his eyes under the brim of the cap, so that his right eye is completely shadowed, and we get the spot blacks completely around his eyes and the hatching along his prominent cheekbones. We also get small lines on the nose, which will become more and more prominent as Bachalo moves along.
Here's an example of early Bachalo detail, as Troy Grenzer gets put in the electric chair. Bachalo creases the tape as it goes from the metal cap to Grenzer's face, and then again when it crosses his brow ridge. He and Pennington add plenty of folds in it, which it would have on a non-flat surface like someone's face, and you can see the lines in his skin underneath the tape. The metal cap is inked roughly, showing some nicks and abrasions from its years of use. Bachalo draws a nice, plump lower lip on Grenzer as he loses his shit and begins to cry, and we even get some precise spots on his chin where hair would grow. Bachalo is still a cartoonist - the giant drops of sweat show that - but at least early on in his career, he was drawing a lot of details in each panel.
The electric chair comes to life, sort of, and Bachalo draws a nice, hallucinatory monster in Panel 1. He gives the hood that the chair is "wearing" devilish horns, and the spot blacks create the eyes and gaping mouth, while the hatching gives it a burlap feel. Bachalo twists the chair into a nightmare, and his or Pennington's use of spot blacks make it more of a void, drawing Kathy in. The hatching on the legs and the raggedness of the chair's border gives it a malleable texture, as if it's going to mold itself around Kathy. In Panels 2 and 3, we get more splotchiness as the chair appears to throw off pieces, which makes it more unreal than if Bachalo simply drew it "moving." Colorist Daniel Vozzo uses reddish-orange in the background of Panel 1, showing the rage of the electric chair, then shifts to blue in Panel 2, contrasting the rage with Kathy's cool tone. The yellow in the background of Panel 3 turns this slightly more surreal - the sky shouldn't be that color, but the world is not quite sane at this moment, so it could easily change to that hue.
As I noted, the world is going a bit weird, so the man with worms for legs doesn't seem too crazy in context. Bachalo's drawing in Panel 1 is pretty odd - the dude's expression doesn't appear to match the gravity of his situation. He looks mildly amused, which seems bizarre, as his legs have been replaced by giant worms and there's a garden growing in his midsection. If we ignore the odd expression, this is another example of how Bachalo was drawing faces in 1990. The lips and therefore the mouth are larger than "normal," and we again get the giant drops of sweat. The face might look a little weird because there's another face trying to break out of the dude's cheek, but maybe not. Pennington heavy inks work pretty well in this context - it adds gravitas to an odd situation, as the man feels more "real," so what's happening to him, while bizarre, also feels horrific. Vozzo's colors are a big part of this issue, as we see in the final panel. Bachalo gives us a mushroom cloud with heavy charcoal for the smoke, and Vozzo's coloring, the dull blue with the scratchy red marks over it, adds another layer of "unreality" to the entire scene. Vozzo was an early adapter of digital coloring, and I wonder if that's how he achieved this effect.
Kathy believes that she's seeing Troy Grenzer, the man who killed her parents (and basically got her boyfriend killed), and she decides to get some sweet, sweet revenge. This really shows how different Bachalo was with figures early in his career as opposed to later, when he became much more basic. He takes his time with Grenzer and Kathy, and in Panel 1, Kathy twists like we'd expect her to move, while in Panel 3 she lunges nicely and Grenzer reacts by jerking his head back as the knife enters his throat. In Panel 2, we get the heavy inks again, shadowing Grenzer's eyes so that he becomes slightly less than human. There's a lot of hatching on his face and hands, giving him a rough look. Kathy is inked a bit differently - she has some heavy lines around her eyes, but that's from her anger, and Bachalo, notice, keeps her face relatively smooth - it's a classic male/female split in the way artists show skin. We get some nice brushwork in Panel 4 as Kathy swipes the knife across Grenzer's throat - we've already gotten some blood on the page, so the use of blacks in this panel works pretty well, as it's not too gruesome. It also doesn't take our attention away from Kathy - she's in the last spot that we would look at in the panel, and Bachalo wants us to linger on her face, not the blood spurting out of Grenzer. The final panel is well done - Kathy is on her knees, and the light from the right of the panel is creating an orange/blue complement with her dark hair - like in most comics, Kathy's "black" hair is colored blue with lots of inks - and her right side is swathed in shadow. The hatching on her hands and legs and across her face makes her even more closed off, as she realizes that she's "killed" Grenzer. Bachalo draws some light swirls around her as "Grenzer" dissolves, making it clear - if it wasn't already - that Kathy is hallucinating a bit. Shade is messing with her head!
Over the course of the series, Bachalo gradually evolved into his "middle" style, which is what I consider his most successful phase. Tomorrow we'll check out some of that art from that period, as I cheat a bit once more. Sound good? Until then, you can always prance through the archives!


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The effect of completeness of revascularization on event-free survival at one year in the arts trial
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- Received April 13, 2001
- Revision received November 5, 2001
- Accepted November 16, 2001
- Published online February 20, 2002.
Author Information
- Marcel J.B.M van den Brand, MD*,* (vandenbrand{at}card.azr.nl),
- Benno J.W.M Rensing, MD*,
- Marie-angèle M Morel, BSc†,
- David P Foley, MD*,
- Vincent de Valk, PhD†,
- Arno Breeman, MD‡,
- Harry Suryapranata, MD, FACC‡,
- Maximiliaan M.P Haalebos, MD‡,
- William Wijns, MD§,
- Francis Wellens, MD§,
- Rafael Balcon, MD, FACC∥,
- Patrick Magee, MD, FACC∥,
- Expedito Ribeiro, MD¶,
- Enio Buffolo, MD¶,
- Felix Unger, MD, FACC# and
- Patrick W Serruys, MD, FACC*
- ↵*Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Marcel van den Brand, Thoraxcenter Bd 408, University Hospital Rotterdam, Dijkzigt, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Objectives We sought to assess the relationship between completeness of revascularization and adverse events at one year in the ARTS (Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study) trial.
Background There is uncertainty to what extent degree of completeness of revascularization, using up-to-date techniques, influences medium-term outcome.
Methods After consensus between surgeon and cardiologist regarding the potential for equivalence in the completeness of revascularization, 1,205 patients with multivessel disease were randomly assigned to either bypass surgery or stent implantation. All baseline and procedural angiograms and surgical case-record forms were centrally assessed for completeness of revascularization.
Results Of 1,205 patients randomized, 1,172 underwent the assigned treatment. Complete data for review were available in 1,143 patients (97.5%). Complete revascularization was achieved in 84.1% of the surgically treated patients and 70.5% of the angioplasty patients (p < 0.001). After one year, the stented angioplasty patients with incomplete revascularization showed a significantly lower event-free survival than stented patients with complete revascularization (i.e., freedom from death, myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident and repeat revascularization) (69.4% vs. 76.6%; p < 0.05). This difference was due to a higher incidence of subsequent bypass procedures (10.0% vs. 2.0%; p < 0.05). Conversely, at one year, bypass surgery patients with incomplete revascularization showed only a marginally lower event-free survival rate than those with complete revascularization (87.8% vs. 89.9%).
Conclusions Complete revascularization was more frequently accomplished by bypass surgery than by stent implantation. One year after bypass, there was no significant difference in event-free survival between surgically treated patients with complete revascularization and those with incomplete revascularization, but patients randomized to stenting with incomplete revascularization had a greater need for subsequent bypass surgery.
Randomized clinical trials indicate that both coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery have the same outcome in terms of irreversible events, such as mortality and myocardial infarction, in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (1,2). The main difference in outcome relates to the number of subsequent revascularizations after the index procedure, which was 30% to 45% higher in the angioplasty group at one year, as demonstrated in GABI (German Angioplasty Bypass Intervention), ERACI (Estudio Randomizado Argentino de Angioplastia vs. CIrurgia) and CABRI (Coronary Angioplasty vs. Bypass Revascularization Investigation) (3–5). After three to five years, these differences in revascularization rates remain constant (2,6,7).
Over the past few years, there have been changes in both the surgical and percutaneous techniques. The use of arterial conduits during surgical revascularization and stent implantation after balloon angioplasty have become standard treatment. In the randomized trials mentioned earlier (2–7), the intention to achieve equivalence in the completeness of revascularization was required only in RITA (Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina), GABI and ERACI. Nevertheless, the repeat intervention rate was not lower in these trials than in those that accepted non-equivalence of revascularization. Data on subgroups with complete or incomplete revascularization have been published for the BARI (Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation) trial after five years and the CABRI trial after one year (8,9). Neither BARI nor CABRI aimed at equivalent revascularization, nor did they evaluate the completeness of revascularization in the cohorts randomized to surgery.
This report compares the differences in outcome in the ARTS (Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study) trial of bypass surgery versus percutaneous intervention between subgroups that were completely or incompletely revascularized, according to a central assessment of angiograms before bypass surgery and before and after percutaneous intervention. The general results of the ARTS trial have recently been published (10).
Patients were eligible for the ARTS trial if they had stable or unstable angina or objective signs of ischemia and multivessel disease, defined as at least two territories of myocardium subtended by stenosed arteries (>50% diameter stenosis in a vessel with a reference diameter of at least 2.75 mm). After the surgeon and interventional cardiologist agreed on the potential for equivalence in the degree of completeness of revascularization with bypass surgery or stented angioplasty, and after the patients gave written, informed consent, the patients were randomly assigned to a treatment group over the telephone by the central office of the study. At least two of the three principal coronary arteries—the left anterior descending (LAD), left circumflex (LCx) or right coronary artery (RCA)—had to require revascularization. If the LCx was dominant, two or more treatable lesions situated in this artery also satisfied the inclusion criteria. Patients with previous angioplasty or bypass surgery were excluded, as were patients with left main coronary artery stenosis. A totally occluded vessel estimated to be less than one month old, on the basis of clinical history, could also be considered as a target vessel. If the total occlusion was of unknown duration or known to be present for more than one month, the patient could still be included as long as two other lesions were targeted. Conventional balloon angioplasty in vessels with >50% diameter stenosis and a reference diameter between 1.50 and 2.75 mm was acceptable as long as two other vessels were amenable to stenting. Lesion-specific criteria were not defined for acceptability in this study. Patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction <30%, previous cerebrovascular accident, recent infarction within the previous week or concomitant severe hepatic or renal disease, or those who needed additional major cardiac surgery, were excluded.
Surgical techniques for patients randomized to surgery were also standardized. The LAD and/or diagonal branches had to be revascularized using the left internal mammary artery. Other vessels had to be bypassed with venous bypass grafts.
Requirements for operators and institutions to qualify as a participant in the ARTS trial, and additional guidelines for medical treatment after either procedure, have previously been published (11).
To evaluate the completeness of revascularization, all patients initially treated according to randomization were included. All pertinent diagnostic angiograms were reviewed centrally at Cardialysis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, by two independent, experienced cardiologists (Drs. van den Brand and Rensing). The coronary arteries were subdivided into 15 segments according to the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) criteria (12). All lesions occupying >50% diameter of a segment with a reference diameter of ≥1.50 mm were scored as potentially amenable to treatment. If all such defined segments had been treated according to the surgical report on the case-record form, the surgical procedure was scored as a complete revascularization. If one or more segments were left unbypassed, the patient was considered to be incompletely revascularized. Any patient with grafts bypassing one or more non-significant lesions and all significant lesions was included in the completely revascularized subgroup. Finally, patients treated with grafts bypassing non-significant lesions, who also had significant lesions that were left untreated, were considered to be incompletely revascularized.
For patients randomized to stented angioplasty, both the diagnostic and procedural angiograms were reviewed. The procedure was considered to result in complete revascularization if all lesions of >50% diameter stenosis had been successfully treated. If no attempt was made to treat one or more significant lesions, or if treatment resulted in a final diameter stenosis >50%, these patients were considered to be incompletely revascularized.
The degree of incompleteness of revascularization with either technique was further specified by dividing coronary artery segments into main and side branches. The proximal LAD (segments 6 and 7), proximal LCx (segment 11 and, in case of left dominance, segment 13) and proximal RCA (segments 1, 2 and 3) were scored as main branches. All other segments were scored as side branches (12). The completeness of revascularization was then scored for the main branches, the side branches or a combination of such defined vessels.
The primary end point was freedom from any of the following major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events: death from any cause; cerebrovascular accident; documented non-fatal myocardial infarction; and any revascularization after the index procedure. For this substudy, events were counted beginning at the index procedure.
Statistical analysis
Continuous variables were expressed as the mean value ± SD and were compared using the unpaired Student ttest. The Fisher exact test was used for categorical variables. The Wilcoxon scores were used for categorical variables, with an ordinal scale. Discrete variables were expressed as counts and percentages and compared in terms of relative risks with 95% confidence intervals, calculated by the formula of Greenland and Robins (13). All statistical tests were two-tailed. Event-free survival was calculated according to the Kaplan-Meier method, and differences were assessed using the log-rank test.
Between April 1997 and June 1998, 1,205 patients were randomly assigned to stented angioplasty (n = 600) or bypass surgery (n = 605) at 67 participating centers.
Excluding patients who died while on the waiting list (n = 3), received medical treatment only (n = 5) or crossed over to the opposite treatment (n = 25), a total of 1,172 patients were treated according to their assigned procedure: 593 stented angioplasty and 579 bypass patients. Angiograms from 1,143 patients (97.5%) were available for central analysis. For stented angioplasty, 576 (97.1%) of 593 angiograms could be reviewed, whereas for bypass surgery, 567 (97.9%) of 579 angiograms were available.
Baseline demographic data and patient characteristics for subjects included in the analysis of complete and incomplete revascularizations are summarized in Table 1. Complete revascularization was achieved in 84.1% of bypass surgery patients and in 70.5% of stented angioplasty patients (p < 0.001). Incompletely revascularized patients from both groups showed a significantly higher number of diseased vessels and segments, compared with completely revascularized patients (Table 2).
The number of segments treated in the groups that were incompletely revascularized was lower than the number of diseased segments, as scored on the case-record forms, and even lower when compared with the angiographic assessment by the core laboratory. Some segments were left untreated because they were not scored as containing angiographically severe lesions by the investigators. According to the case-record form, the number of segments treated in the surgical group was not significantly different for the complete and incomplete revascularization groups (Table 2). For the stented angioplasty group, however, the number of (successfully) treated segments, according to the central reading of the angiograms, was significantly lower in the incompletely revascularized group (Table 2).
Table 3summarizes the major adverse events, in rank order, for the four subgroups. A significantly higher rate of event-free survival could be demonstrated only for the completely versus the incompletely stented patients, due to a significantly lower number of subsequent bypass operations.
On average, 1.4 lesions in patients from the incompletely stented group were left untouched (66%) or resulted in a failure (34%). This is significantly higher than the average of 1.1 segments left untreated by the surgeon (p < 0.05). In addition, more main branches were left untouched or were unsuccessfully dilated in the incompletely stented group compared with the incompletely bypassed group (Table 4).
No differences in infarct-free and stroke-free survival could be demonstrated among the four groups (Fig. 1A). When repeat revascularizations were also considered, a significant difference in event-free survival could be demonstrated between completely and incompletely revascularized patients from the stented angioplasty group, as well as between the stented angioplasty groups and both surgical groups (Fig. 1B). Overall, superior major adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events-free survival was evident after bypass surgery, whether complete or incomplete, compared with both complete and incomplete stented angioplasty.
Incomplete revascularization is known to have a negative influence on the outcome after bypass surgery (14–17). After percutaneous angioplasty, this adverse relationship is much less clear (18–27). There may be several reasons for this discrepancy, including the definition and assessment of completeness of revascularization, the patients studied and the duration of follow-up. If the usual definition for completeness of revascularization is applied to the stented angioplasty patients (25), complete revascularization was present in 70% of the stented angioplasty patients. This compares favorably with previous reports on the completeness of percutaneous revascularization in two other randomized trials of angioplasty versus surgery (8,9), but it was nevertheless somewhat disappointing for modern-day percutaneous coronary interventions.
Comparison and assessment of completeness of revascularization
In the BARI trial, complete revascularization was attempted in only 584 (64%) of 907 patients randomized to angioplasty, but the percentage of patients who were actually completely revascularized is not mentioned. In CABRI, only 29% of all angioplasty patients had complete revascularization (9). In contrast to the ARTS trial, BARI and CABRI did not aim to achieve equivalency in the degree of completeness of revascularization in both patient groups. At five years in BARI, this led to a non-significant difference in mortality of 4.6% between surgically treated patients and incompletely revascularized angioplasty patients, compared with a mortality difference of 1.1% between surgically treated patients and those with intended complete revascularization by angioplasty. The only other difference that approached significance was the percentage of patients undergoing bypass surgery within five years after angioplasty, which was 29.7% versus 36% for those with planned complete versus incomplete revascularization.
In the CABRI angioplasty cohort, after one year, the completely revascularized patients had a higher event-free survival, compared with incompletely revascularized patients (69% vs. 57%; p = 0.01). The same trend toward a higher mortality rate exists for incompletely revascularized patients in the ARTS trial, in both the stented angioplasty and surgically treated groups. Although our study extends to only one-year follow-up, the difference in event-free survival was already present at hospital discharge after the initial procedure. In fact, two-thirds of all bypass operations after an incomplete angioplasty procedure were performed during the initial hospital stay.
Assessment of the completeness of revascularization may be an important issue. Generally, all bypass operations are considered by the surgeon to be complete, but early closure of a certain percentage of bypass grafts is well documented. Thus, revascularization by 30 days after the procedure may not be as complete as assumed by the surgeon at the time of the operation. Angioplasty, by its very nature, is easier to evaluate critically with respect to the completeness of revascularization. Incomplete revascularization may be due to lesions that are not amenable to angioplasty (e.g., totally occluded small branches with adverse characteristics), but it may also be due to a generous interpretation of the post-procedural angiogram by the operator. It is well known that assessment of procedures by core laboratories not directly involved with patient enrollment may lead to outcome scores different from those reported by the operator (28,29). For example, in the GUSTO-IIb (Global Use of Strategies To Open occluded arteries in acute coronary syndromes) study, the core laboratory scored an additional 14% of procedures as being unsuccessful, because at the end of the intervention, the lesion severity still exceeded the 50% diameter stenosis criterion.
In this study, when all of the diagnostic angiograms of the patients randomized to surgery or stented angioplasty were read centrally, many patients were scored as being incompletely revascularized. This assessment for surgical patients was done by comparing the diagnostic angiogram score with the investigator's surgical procedure report. For stented angioplasty patients, the assessment of the completeness of revascularization was achieved by comparing the diagnostic angiogram with the post-procedural angiogram. This provided a much more stringent evaluation of the completeness of revascularization than that in the surgical group. Thus, accurate and reliable scoring of the completeness of surgical revascularization cannot be guaranteed, because only repeat angiography of all patients immediately after surgery can provide such information, and this would be very difficult to justify.
Patient selection
Incompletely revascularized stented patients showed more extensive coronary artery disease than the completely revascularized angioplasty patients in ARTS. In BARI, this difference in significantly diseased segments was 3.9 versus 3.2, and in our study, it was 3.4 versus 2.5, according to the core laboratory reading (8). In addition, the number of patients with at least one totally occluded segment was 30% higher in the incompletely revascularized group in BARI. In our study, the total number of patients with at least one total occlusion was much lower than that in BARI, reflecting the intention of complete and comparable revascularization in ARTS for the surgery and stented angioplasty groups. Nevertheless, in our study, the frequency of totally occluded segments was 14% higher in the incompletely revascularized groups. Thus, both the more extensive coronary artery disease and the higher percentage of totally occluded segments contribute to a lower percentage of patients with complete revascularization. Unexpectedly, this was also true for patients treated with bypass surgery.
Duration of follow-up
One of the shortcomings of our study is the relatively short duration (one year) of follow-up. Nevertheless, most events after angioplasty occur in the first year, and a significant difference in event-free survival was obvious between completely and incompletely revascularized patients in the stented angioplasty group. With a comparable gender mix and age distribution of patients studied in BARI and ARTS, and a higher percentage of diabetic and unstable patients in BARI—but with similar left ventricular function, the "natural" history without intervention might be expected to be comparable for patients enrolled in these two studies. Nevertheless, the difference in the incidence of bypass surgery procedures after complete angioplasty in the two studies is striking: 2% in ARTS after one year and 29.7% in BARI after five years.
Part of this difference in the repeat intervention rate can undoubtedly be ascribed to a reduction in restenosis by the implantation of stents in the ARTS trial (in 89% of all dilated lesions). The number of repeat angioplasties constituted 13.1% in ARTS within one year, 24.1% in BARI within five years and 21.6% in CABRI within one year (2,5). Progression of atherosclerosis between one and five years was an important reason for subsequent bypass surgery in BARI, possibly coupled with a greater tendency to opt for surgery as opposed to repeat angioplasty with stenting in 1995. Further developments in anti-restenosis therapy (e.g., brachytherapy, drug-eluting stents) may offer continued percutaneous options in patients with restenosis or in-stent restenosis after initially successful percutaneous procedures, so that bypass surgery is no longer the only option available to such patients.
The design of the ARTS trial was such that at least two lesions in arteries >2.75 mm, leading to two different territories, had to be treated. Despite intentional comparable revascularization, completeness was achieved in 84.1% of bypass patients and 70.5% of stented angioplasty patients, according to a central angiographic core laboratory assessment. After one year, this led to 7% and 2% lower event-free survival rates for incompletely revascularized patients from the stented angioplasty and surgically treated cohorts, respectively, when compared with completely revascularized patients allocated to the same treatment. This means that for angioplasty patients, the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness can be further enhanced by careful selection of patients, making complete revascularization the aim and the outcome of the procedure.
☆ The Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study (ARTS) was sponsored by Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company.
- Abbreviations
- Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study
- left anterior descending coronary artery
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- left circumflex coronary artery
- right coronary artery
- Received April 13, 2001.
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|June 1, 1961
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WUSN is an FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, The station broadcasts on 99.5 MHz and is a country radio station owned by CBS Radio. The station focuses on country music from the '90s, along with current product and some classic country from the '70s and '80s.
The station broadcasts from a transmitter atop John Hancock Center, and its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop.
99.5 WEFM/99-"We" FM
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Until 1978, 99.5 was classical WEFM, one of the first US FM stations, and the second station in the United States to broadcast in FM stereo. The station was owned by the Zenith Radio Corporation, now Zenith Electronics Corporation. It started as WWZR in 1940 on 45.1, also as W51C, then on 98.5 when the FM band moved. It changed to 99.5 and WEFM (named for Zenith executive Eugene F. McDonald) during the late 40s, which it was until it was sold. During this time, the only commercials were for Zenith, one each hour, usually directing listeners to their Display Salon on Michigan Avenue, "Where no sales are made."
In the early 1970s Zenith agreed to sell WEFM to General Cinema Corporation, which intended to change the station's call letters to WICV (pseudo-Roman numerals for 99.5) and institute a rock format. Objections from listeners delayed the format change until May 1978, at which time General Cinema converted the station to a top 40 format but decided not to change the call sign, branding the operation as 99-"We"-FM. Morning shows were hosted by Dan Walker, the (Illinois) governor of Rock and Roll (formerly of WDHF/WMET 95½) and joined by Willak. Afternoons featured "Cox on the Radio". Other disk jockeys during the top 40 era included John Calhoun and Ken Cocker.
The WEFM call sign is now used on 95.9 FM in nearby Michigan City, Indiana, which also is imaged as "We-FM."
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In the early 1981, WEFM briefly flipped to a Soft Vocals format. In 1982, newly purchased by First Media Corporation, WEFM flipped to WUSN ("US*99"). The station was dark for several weeks while the ownership, the United States Navy, and the FCC came to agreement on the new call sign. When it came back on the air, the station called itself US99, but at the top of the hour ID had to continue using the WEFM call letters. The initial promotion was a guarantee of always playing four songs in a row, offering up $10,000 to the first person to call should they fail in the promise. The first day on the air, a disc jockey claimed to get his carts mixed up and only played three. A check was cut for the lucky listener who called in first. Within 48 hours, another mistake was made, and another $10,000 check was given away. It was in light of the continuing lapses of judgement that major changes were made in the staff. Chief among them was First Media's transfer of Lee Logan from KFMK in Houston to Chicago to take the helm as Program Director, following a brief stint by Dan Walker. Lee's first choice as morning man was Don Wade, who featured the always opinionated character Sheriff C.W. Turnipseed and his ever-present spitoon, and Don's wife, whom he always referred to as "The Lovely Roma Jean". Corporate management decided to bring in shock-Jock Gary Dee as the new morning man, an experiment that met with limited success. Under Lee's leadership, the station took on four country music competitors in Chicago: 670 WMAQ, 1160 WJJD (flipped to Music of Your Life in 1982), WJEZ 104.3 (formerly WJJD-FM, which flipped to oldies as WJMK "Magic" 104 in 1984, and then "Jack FM" in 2005), and WKXK (now WLS-FM). Having taken US99 to the top of the heap as the most listened to Country station in the nation, Lee Logan departed US99 in 1987 for Los Angeles. Until 2015, the station was basically alone in the Chicago market offering country music, as only outskirt suburban stations like WCCQ, which covers the southwest suburbs and WLJE, which covers Northwest Indiana offered alternatives to WUSN. With the conversion of iHeartMedia's WNUA (95.5) from Spanish contemporary to country as WEBG on January 12, 2015, the station has its first true competition in years.
WUSN was owned for years by First Media after it debuted in 1982. In 1992, Infinity Broadcasting bought WUSN. CBS bought Infinity in 1997, making WUSN a CBS owned station. WUSN dominates as a country station and is one of the top ranked country stations anywhere.
On April 13, 2001 a memo from WUSN management demanding that all on-air employees of WUSN-FM attend the George Strait Country Music Festival on May 26, 2001 at their own expense[1] and "work the crowd" on behalf of the station was leaked to the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.[2]
On July 7, 2003, country music radio personality Cliff Dumas sued Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and WUSN-FM in United States District Court, seeking monetary damages. Dumas alleged that WUSN management had induced him to resign gainful employment at a New Mexico radio station to take a job at WUSN which was offered but then never materialized.[3]
In 2007, the station was nominated for the top 25 markets country music Radio & Records magazine station of the year award . Other nominees included KYGO-FM Denver, WYCD Detroit, KEEY-FM Minneapolis, WXTU Philadelphia, and KSON-FM San Diego.[4]
In 2010, the station won Country Radio Broadcasters/Country Aircheck Awards for Station of the Year for a Major Market; the Lisa Dent and Ramblin' Ray Show for Major Market Morning Show and Marci Braun (weeknight host/MD) for Major Market MD.[5]
Lisa Dent and Ramblin' Ray Stevens won a Country Music Association Award for Major Market Personality of the Year at the 44th Annual CMA Awards for the Lisa Dent and Ramblin' Ray Morning Show.[6]
- ^ Radio Ink Magazine. Radioink.com (2001-04-13). Retrieved on 2013-07-23.
- ^ "US-99 penny pinching suggests scary trend", Robert Feder, Chicago Sun-Times, April 13, 2001
- ^ Cliff Dumas, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and WUSN-FM, Defendants-Appellees., 416 F.3d 671, Federal Circuits, 7th Cir. (August 01, 2005) Docket number: 04-1133
- ^ "2007 Industry Achievement Awards". Radio and Records. September 28, 2008.
- ^ "Word on the Street - March 4". March 4, 2010.
- ^ "Word on the Street - Nov. 24". November 24, 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WUSN
- Radio-Locator information on WUSN
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WUSN
- Guide of Chicago Country Radio
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
10 comments:
- Angelina PeoniesandOrangeBlossoms said...
This is super cute! Love the little hens!
- May 11, 2016 at 11:15 PM
- Liz@ Infuse With Liz said...
Very cute Laurie- love the theme. Love how you have the hens gathered around the eggs. Those dishes are one of my favorites. I managed to get the dinner plates in black but never found the salad plates. The peony in the center is so pretty.
- May 12, 2016 at 5:40 AM
- Rosie M. said...
Love this darling table, Laurie! Your plates are fantastic: wonderful mixture of patterns. Your centerpiece is fun and accentuates your theme perfectly. And your chicken napkin rings were a great find. Thanks for sharing this. Rosie @ The Magic Hutch
- May 12, 2016 at 9:12 AM
- Ginger said...
I love the casual table, so cute!
- May 12, 2016 at 11:39 AM
- Valerie Roberts said...
Your table is darling! I especially love the napkins and plates.
- May 12, 2016 at 3:59 PM
- The French Hutch said...
Hi Laurie, I love this casual scape. The napkins and hen rings are adorable. Love the blue and while and the red. LOL, glad your china didn't serve chicken for dinner………When it is just the two of us it is always casual here.
- May 12, 2016 at 8:53 PM
- robin lorraine williamson said...
love the tablescape so pretty the salt and pepper shakers so cute thanks for sharing have a great day
- May 13, 2016 at 4:37 PM
- Jemma@athomewithjemma said...
Thank you for sharing your darling table with us at TOHOT!
- May 14, 2016 at 5:33 AM
- Laura Ingalls Gunn said...
Now this table is quite the cockle doodle do! I adore your mash napkins. Thank you so much for linking up to Thoughts of Home on Thursday. You make our gathering a happier place.
- May 14, 2016 at 6:56 PM
- Stacey said...
This table is adorable! Love the blue and white dishes and those napkins are fun. :)
Laurie, I love the new picture of you!!
- May 14, 2016 at 8:49 PM


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waiting rooms
Most people don't like waiting. It's a necessary nuisance. But, it doesn't have to be. Waiting Rooms are a site-specific installation which adds a positive vibe to the whole experience.
Brightly coloured steel structures are shaped into forms echoing houses. The effect is immediate. Placed on urban roadsides, the minimal structures create intimate areas in the open air, stimulating interaction between people. Strangers strike up conversations and children clamber along the frame.
Waiting Rooms are designed as temporary taxi stops for MINI Design Rides during Dutch Design Week to shuttle visitors across the city. Tire tracks of coloured paint show people where to go. Upon closer inspection, the pattern in the tracks spells out the word MINI; a clever way of communicating the brand sponsoring these special taxis.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
23 comments:
- Virginia said...
i don't know KM but this just isn't you for some reason. I'm sorry but it just isn't you. Sorry Km, great shot , but it ain' t you ! ::)
- September 3, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Virginia said...
Tit for tat?
- September 3, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Virginia said...
Yep and I left you an answer. I love me some KM!!!!
- September 3, 2010 at 10:24 PM
- Lily Hydrangea said...
I have a feeling we're not in Greenwich Village anymore.
- September 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM
- -K- said...
This made me laugh.
- September 3, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Ken said...
Happy Labor day too!
- September 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM
- Birdman said...
Hahahaha! Ya, it is a jump from the last meatpacking shot! From sad to happy! Enjoy the long weekend!
- September 4, 2010 at 6:30 AM
- Tracy said...
Happy Labor Day to you, too! Although the giant panda makes me wonder if I'm not at the Macy's Parade. :-)
- September 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- altadenahiker said...
When you see one of these inflatable dollies out my way, there's usually a used car lot underneath.
- September 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Virginia said...
Rumor has it KM has a blow up party doll in the closet.
- September 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Jean Spitzer said...
Ouch! Happy Labor Day to you.
- September 4, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Virginia said...
Something just pour toi tomorrow!
- September 4, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Ilse said...
very cute!
- September 4, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- Hilda said...
I have to agree with Virginia — this is so not you. But I wish you a happy long weekend anyway! :D
- September 5, 2010 at 4:08 AM
- sonia a. mascaro said...
Happy Labor Day to you!
- September 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Cezar and Léia said...
This panda is so sweet, beautiful angle in this picture.Happy Labor Day!
- September 5, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- byron said...
So cute yet monsterously menacing... must be the mischievous smile...
- September 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Carla said...
that guy makes me smile... maybe we should have big blow up pandas strategically placed around cities to make us feel better. Thanks for the great photo. Carla
- September 6, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Rob said...
Happy labor Day!
- September 7, 2010 at 8:42 AM
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The Sheridan County Fair Association Board of Trustees approved to move forward with an agreement with Verizon to construct a cell tower on Fairgrounds property. Facilities Director Melissa Albrecht explains the numbers of the deal that was made with Verizon.
Albrecht says that the next step is to gather public comment on the issue.
The 60 foot high cell tower will be located in between the Fairgrounds office building and shop at the south end of the Fairgrounds.
Albrecht also pointed out that the proposals from Architect Dale Buckingham for new infield restrooms continue to be way out of their budget.
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Join us on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, for food, fun and entertainment with the family!
This year's entertainment line-up features Hawaiian music and hula performances with emcees Kimo and Leilani Kahoʻāno. Listen to the lovely sounds of the Royal Hawaiian Band, Punahou Alumni Glee Club, Naluhoe, Weldon Kekauoha, Jerry Santos, and Kualoa. Performances by Hālau Ka Pā Hula Hawai'i, Kumu Hula Kaha'i Topolinski; Hālau Hula Ka Lehua Tuahine, Kumu Hula Kaʻilihiwa Vaughan; and Hālau Hula Kamamolikolehua, Kumu Hula Pohai Souza.
Shop at the Marketplace featuring local artisans and crafters for haku lei, lauhala, island-style clothing, jams-n-jellies, baked goods, treasures at Tūtū's Attic, and other locally hand-crafted items. Enjoy ʻono Hawaiian food, poke bowls, shave ice and more. Families can watch live demonstrations of poi pounding, lauhala weaving, ʻohe kāpala and kapa making by cultural practitioners and try their hand at Keiki Krafts!
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Tomorrow is International Women's Day and also the day for the Strike 4 Repeal March.
The aim of the Strike 4 Repeal campaign is to persuade the Government to hold a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, which guarantees the right to life of the unborn. According to statistics at least 9 women have to travel outside Ireland every day for an abortion.
The campaign is based on "non-traditional strike actions for human rights that we have witnessed in other parts of the world. The strike will not be an industrial strike in the traditional sense, but could include taking an annual leave day off work, refraining from domestic work for the day, wearing black in solidarity or staging a walkout during your lunch break," the organisers said.
"Our demand is that the Irish Government call a referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment by the 8th of March. If not, Ireland will strike."
If you want to March meet on O'Connell Bridge, March 8th at 12:30pm and wear black.
If you're in Dublin, meet me on the Bridge at 12:30#strike4repeal #wewontwait pic.twitter.com/V94XPTm5fP
— Strike 4 Repeal (@Strike_4_Repeal) March 4, 2017
"We've had an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm from secondary school and college students, who are now planning their own ways to show solidarity and/or strike on the 8th, and several pubs and cafes in Dublin have come on board already to close for the day to mark the strike," Ms Brophy said.
"We've been overwhelmed and heartened by the support for the strike so far, in particular from students, and from regional and rural groups. The enthusiasm around the country has shown us the appetite for action from the Government on this issue. People want a referendum on the Eighth Amendment."
One of our favourite comedians Deirdre O'Kane has children of her own and speaks out strongly in the podcast below about her views on it.
"I think the fact that abortion isn't legal in Ireland is a joke. I think it's ridiculous. Can we grow up now please? This is 2016. Can we just deal with our issues? Stop putting people on boats to England. It has just got to stop. It doesn't matter whether you agree with is or not. It's actually irrelevant. It's just insane. It's so immature. I can't even believe it's a thing. I can't believe we are discussing it'
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Just in time for Easter, this healthier spin on copycat Reese's peanut butter eggs only takes about 10 minutes of hands on time, and can be adapted to be nut free or paleo.
It's been a hot minute since I had a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg but all I remember is sweetness. Sickly, make your throat hurt (do you get that), sits-in-your-stomach-like-a-lead-balloon sweetness. That waxy chocolate, and bad processed sugar-y filling… ick. I first made these eggs a couple of years ago – in fact, they were one of the first recipes to appear on A Clean Bake – and it was a revelation. It turns out copycat Reese's peanut butter eggs are actually better than the original.
Of course, I've come a long way since then but despite the hundreds of other recipes that have appeared on this site since the first iteration of these copycat Reese's peanut butter eggs, this recipe remains one of my favorites. It's very lightly sweetened with honey (or maple syrup, if you prefer) but the chocolate and peanut butter flavors still shine through – as they should.
The ingredient list is so simple, you'll laugh: peanut butter (or your nut or seed butter of choice), the aforementioned honey or maple syrup, a tiny bit of coconut flour to get the Reese's texture, and dark chocolate to coat. Add salt, if you want (I did; it complements the sweetness). That's ALL. Easy and no-bake, a quick spin in a food processor is all that stands between you and these crispy-on-the-outside, soft-and-peanut-buttery-on-the-inside, way-better-than-Reese's peanut butter eggs.
Healthier Copycat Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs
Just in time for Easter, this healthier spin on copycat Reese's peanut butter eggs only takes about 10 minutes of hands on time, and can be adapted to be nut free or paleo.
- 1/2 cup creamy natural unsweetened peanut butter, or other nut or seed butter
- 2 Tablespoons honey or maple syrup
- 1 Tablespoon coconut flour (approximate), more or less, according to how runny your nut butter is
- 1 Pinch salt
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or chopped bar,, plus additional 1/4 cup for drizzle (optional)
- In the bowl of a food processor, puree together the nut butter, honey/maple syrup, 1/2 Tablespoon coconut flour and salt until it forms a mass.
- If the dough doesn't stick together completely, add a little more coconut flour, 1/2 Tablespoon at a time, until it forms a single, soft mass and the oils are mostly absorbed (it will look matte).
- Roll 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon portions of dough into ball, and then flatten and lengthen between your palms into an egg shape.
- Place freeze peanut butter eggs in an airtight container lined with wax paper, for at least 45 minutes, until firm.
- Melt 3/4 cup of chocolate in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring in between, until the chocolate is completely smooth and shiny.
- Dunk each PB egg into the chocolate and lift out with a fork. Firmly tap the fork several times on the side of the bowl to get rid of the excess chocolate before returning the egg to the wax paper to dry.
- Repeat until all of the extra eggs are covered.
- Melt the remaining 1/4 cup chocolate and pour into a small zip-top bag, squeeze it into a corner, and snip off a tiny piece of the corner of the bag. This will give you a makeshift piping bag that you can use to drizzle the remaining chocolate on top of the eggs.
- Allow the eggs to sit at room temperature or in the fridge until chocolate has completely hardened before eating.
- You can add stevia to taste (to the nut butter mixture) if you'd like the eggs to be a little sweeter.
- For paleo compliance, try almond butter, cashew butter, or sunbutter for the filling.
- If your nut butter is from the bottom half of the jar and the oil has separated significantly, it may be too dry to stir and hold the filling together. In this case, add coconut oil (melted and slightly cooled) or another mild flavored oil of choice about 1 teaspoon at a time until the filling is moist enough to stir and to hold together when pressed into the egg shape.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
Nutrition Information:Yield: 7
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 222 Saturated Fat: 6g Sodium: 128mg Carbohydrates: 22g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 13g Protein: 6g
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Hedge-fund mogul Paul Singer, after an 11-year battle to collect on defaulted Argentine bonds — a fight that included three huge legal victories and a global hunt for assets — stands weeks away from possibly collecting $832m on an estimated $48m investment.
The New York Post reports that's a 1,608% return — a huge payday, to be sure, but not even the biggest in Singer's 37-year career.
It's the kind of investment acumen that has helped Singer's $23m Elliott Management post an annualized return of 14% since 1977 — outpacing the 11.3% return for the S&P 500 during that time.
As if that weren't enough for the 69-year-old investor, the Argentine investment could ultimately bring Elliott $3bn if he is paid every cent he claims he is owed, according to Argentina.
The victory over Argentina that Singer stands to realize further validates a business strategy that has been widely disparaged as 'vulture investing' — picking at the carcasses of bankrupt companies or countries in default by buying their bonds for pennies on the dollar and then litigating for profit.
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Reality Skimming
Reality Skimming promotes optimistic SF -- stories that inspire us to fight the good fight for another day. Committment to larger projects, the writer's sense of mission, joy of reading, the creative campfire of the SF community and the love of deserving protagonists are celebrated. We believe in heroes and striving to be what we believe in. It is also a news hub for content related to the Okal Rel Saga written by Lynda Williams.
ORU Artifact #3: Hiding Low Video
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Gary Renshaw created the Hiding Low video as an honorarium commission after a discussion with Lynda at a con in Calgary in 2007. The illustration of Amel contemplating himself in the mirror was Michelle Milburn's first piece of artwork for the ORU. Hiding Low was originally intended as the first installment in a digital story set in Amel's envoy period. Lynda planned three novellas, collectively known as the 'flight cycle', to chronicle Amel's attempt to escape the consequences of stealing his infant brother, Erien. Only the middle novella, "Never Again", was ever completed, in draft, describing Amel's stop over at an Okal Lumens reverie on a parochial Silver Demish world.
Hiding Low youtube installment. Origin: Produced and read by Gary Renshaw, based on text by Lynda Williams from unfinished novella series called 'The Flight Cycle'. Art by Michelle Milburn, circum 2007.
Golden Souls by Lynda Williams – Post 4
Terrible News
Dela went back into the study to look for Ril now, but she was not there. Instead, Dela gravitated toward the window which filled a quarter of the wall facing onto the courtyard. It was an heirloom window, its panes cut like stained glass and divided by lead-gray lines that suggested vines climbing a wall.
Outside it was unusually quiet. There was often some petty or nobleborn lady dropping in, about this time, just so she could tell her friends that she had spoken with Dee's Golden Princess more recently then anybody else; or to get Dela's opinion on a dreadful new dress that she did not have the heart to criticize; or most difficult of all, to show off a darling child dressed up in its ceremonial best.
Everything around Dela seemed so ordinary, it was hard to believe that anything alarming was about to happen.
Dela wondered, instead, about what Pureblood Amel, grandson of the Sacrifice, would think of her.
The study had three full-length mirrors. Dela stopped before one of them to take stock of who she was. She cut a proud figure, the daylight bold at her back through the panes of the old, hand-crafted window, but she had her flaws. She was plump. It was pleasantly distributed, but she could never have squeezed into the clothes she wore the day she came to Dee Manor. And she did not have a commoner's excuse. As a Royalblood, she could expect to enjoy eternal youth until she ran afoul of regenerative cancer. Her shoulder length hair, curly by natural inclination, had highlights of bright gold that played off her crisp blue eyes. Her face was too round; her nose too snub; and her breasts too large. By local standards she was considered beautiful. At court she had barely been passable. One of her tutors even told her she was 'trivial'. Goldens, he said, were meant to experience feelings like a symphony, not a shrill little tune on a village street corner.
But Dela liked the inadequate woman in the mirror. Her eyes could be merry. Her heart, for all that she fussed about little things, could be powerfully moved out of good motives. Maybe she was not as selfless as Lellalee, or as brave as Fritan. Maybe she did not have Demlara's dignity or the genius of Fahandlin. She was only Dela, the least of the great. But she would do for Dee Manor.
If anything of legendary proportions was required, surly it would not be required of her.
Dela sent for tea, feeling the matter settled.
The maid who appeared was normally a cheerful girl. Today, she was dressed in mourning black, which stood for the depths of space where unbodied souls had to wait to be reborn in the flesh of their families. Dela asked the girl, kindly, who had died. The poor girl grew wide-eyed and fled, her lower lip quivering violently.
ORU Artifact #2: Michelle Milburn Art Book p 1-2
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Michelle Milburn created the layouts for the first Okal Rel Universe art book for use at Chicon 7 in 2012. The art book was made possible by ORU patron Kathy Plett. David Lott is facilitating its production, and it will taken to Chicon 7 by Angela and Tegan Lott. The ORU is grateful to Bobbie DuFault for the invite to Chicon 7.
Page 1-2 of the first ORU art book. Character is Kath in novella Kath, holding baby Vondar. Origin: a page of print art book made possible by Kathy Plett and put together by Michelle Milburn, featuring the work of Michelle Milburn, Richard Bartrop, Brianna Thomas and Yukari Yamamoto.
Golden Souls by Lynda Williams – Post 3
Introducing the not-so-Golden Ronan.
When she felt better, Dela ate a few cunningly made sweets from a dish that was always full, and decided she would take a walk. But when she called for a servant to fetch her walking shoes, she was met by a man in house uniform wearing a dueling sword.
"Princess-liege," he said, "you cannot go out."
Dela blinked at him. "Why ever not?"
He was one of Ril's grandchildren, a large, honest man, who had bred down in his choice of wife. They had lost their first son in fleet service, but had another boy-child at home and a daughter studying court-craft at the capital. He was a good man, content to raise chickens and children with equal enthusiasm on his small country estate and to serve Chandad's cousin, Ronan, as a house guard.
But there is very little that's Golden about him, when you think about it, thought Dela. She couldn't see how she would distinguish him from a Silver Demish nobleborn or even a Blue Demish one. "You really have to stay inside," he told her, "out of sight, until Lord Ronan says otherwise."
Lord Ronan acted as her regent during her husband's extended absence. He was two ranks beneath her — a mere Seniorlord nobleborn like Ril. Despite this, he presumed to address her in peerage unless there were guests present. She would not have minded even that, if Ronan had felt real respect for her. He only looked after her on behalf of his highborn cousin, the Highlord Chandad, who had taken her as bride to gain Dee Manor. All Chandad cared about was that her Royalblood rank entitled him to challenge his betters for things that he was not entitled to have, and to move in higher circles than he was entitled to, by blood. It had taken her ten years, but she had accepted, at last, that Chandad was not worthy of her love. The soul he dragged through life was mere dross. Not gold.
None of the men of Dee had Golden sensibilities. They admired her, but not as she desired. She was a trophy. A status symbol. They paid lip service to Okal Lumens, the path of light, but only as it featured in their day to day existence. They did not feel the need for goodness or for beauty. Not in the way Dela did. On the days when she pined for court, only Lady Ril's faith made life bearable.
ORU Artifact #1: Early Map of UnderGelion
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Lynda drew this map of the underground setting for stories about the planet Gelion as a young adult, probably in first year or two of university as a prop for story telling with Alison. Lynda and Alison met in first year in a Calculus class.
URL of origin, old ORU site: http://okalrel.org/saga/reference/graphics/citadel.html
Golden Souls by Lynda Williams – Post 2
Dela Broods on the Comforts and Disappointments of her Life So Far.
Lady Ril understood spiritual matters. Her pity was all the more formidable for that. But to live in a world without Light! Dela's heart rebelled. She rose in a rustle of layered skirts, afraid she would burst into tears.
"I want to be alone," she said.
"Of course, my dear Golden. My princess."
Dela quailed before the look of admiration on Lady Ril's plain, beloved face. Perhaps it seemed to Ril that every Golden Princess of the Emperor's court must partake in some small measure of the Family of Light's ability to comfort and inspire through their love. But she could not substitute for what Ril said was lost! Her lineage was too weak, and her beauty much too flawed. She had failed even to keep her husband at home, at Dee Manor.
The Family of Light were essential to her.
Dela sought them in her withdrawing room, where they could always be found in her books of plays and poems, and visualized in the reproductions of court portraits which lined the walls. The withdrawing room was the one place where Dela could worship greater powers of good, instead of representing them for Dee Manor. The room had no windows. She looked out, instead, through the poetic histories preserved forever in her books, and the eyes of the Emperor's dead ancestors gazing benignly down with fragile, perfect beauty. Some of Dela's courtly relatives felt it was tawdry to hang reproductions no matter how renowned the originals. Original works, these cousins said, had greater powers. But taking the portraits with her when she left court was out of the question, and it was these pictures that Dela needed. Pictures to match the stories which nourished her so far away in time and space from her days at the court of the Golden Emperor.
There was sweet Lellalee, who died for love of common folk; and brave Fritan, so noble that even his Vrellish enemy could not bear to take his bright life on the challenge floor; and Demlara, who ruled wisely during the Golden Age; and Fahandlin the poet who wept for the smallest pains. All were as beautiful inside as they were to gaze upon; Souls of Light, as finely made as china dolls; inspiring goodness in the world by being too good to endure transgressions and too glorious to risk offending.
Except, if Ril was right, the world had failed at last and none would ever suffer themselves, again, to be reborn. The Family of Light had abandoned Demora, driven from it by its fall from grace over the centuries since the Golden Emperor ruled, also, at the Gelack court.
Lying full-length on her divan, Dela closed her eyes and clutched her favorite book of poems, searching her memory for proof that Ril had to be mistaken, just this once.
"Do not grieve," Lellalee had told her contrite worshippers, "for I have done some good, and that's enough." Demlara had promised, "Light returns when evil tires of its broken toys." Fritan said, "Keep faith, and faith will keep you." "Beauty pol?" laughed frail Fahandlin, "look up, it fills the sky! What is more rel , or more beautiful, than the stars!"
There had to be strength left in Demora's Golden wisdom. It had to be there still, disguised. In this room, at least, Dela was not alone. In this room she had the courage to be Golden in a world which was forgetting how to understand what it admired.
She sniffled her way through half a dozen handkerchiefs before she settled down to rest on her divan, gazing at the familiar room. The walls were pale pink, the divan rose, and vases were filled with fresh flowers. Here she kept the books which she had memorized and the music box her mother had given to her when she came to Dee Manor, twenty-two years ago, as Chandad Dee's bride. Chandad had been so dashing, even though he was merely a Highlord, and she was proud to be received like an empress, at Dee Manor. But Chandad was really only greedy, and her Golden powers inadequate to curb his straying eye once she failed to give Dee the highborn heir that, above all else, it wanted of her. All in all not a story of legend.


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Corey Goode
When Corey Goode was six years old, specialized testing at school identified him as an intuitive empath (IE) with precognitive abilities. Based on his scores, he was taken into the MILAB program, which is affiliated with one of the Secret Space Programs. MILAB trains abductees/recruits for any number of military black ops programs. They found Goode's IE abilities, particularly his strong empathic sense, would be useful for interfacing with non-terrestrial beings whose true intentions are easily hidden from others.
At the age of 16, Corey was taken from home to be trained by the MILAB program from 1976-1986/87 Later in his 20 years of service, Corey was assigned to various posts, including the Intruder Intercept Interrogation Program, the ASSR "ISRV"– Auxiliary Specialized Space Research, Interstellar Class Vessel, and much more. As he matured, he was assigned to an IE support role for a rotating Earth Delegate Seat (shared by secret earth government groups) in a "human-type" ET Super Federation Council. This all occurred during a "20 years and Back" agreement from 1986/87-2007.
After returning to civilian life, Goode worked in the information technology and communications industry in hardware and software virtualization, physical and IT security, counter electronic surveillance, risk assessment, and executive protection, and served in the Texas Army State Guard (2007-2012), C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computation & Intelligence). The time in the Texas Military Forces was unrelated to the Secret Space Program Service.
Since then Corey continues with intermittent recall work which includes meetings with various extra-terrestrial and intra-terrestrial entities, briefings with high level government personnel and much more. He works closely with the Blue Avian race, beings of a much higher density that are a part of the Sphere Being Alliance, who have chosen him as a delegate to interface with multiple ET Federations and Councils on their behalf, and liaison with the Secret Space Program Alliance Council.
Several years ago, after friending David Wilcock on Facebook and having ongoing discussions, Corey was outed, and forced to come forward as an official whistle blower before he had prepared him and his family for such exposure.
In order to deliver the Blue Avians' important message to humanity and to inform the world of our true history in the cosmos, Goode now devotes most of his time and energy to the taping of disclosure interviews on Cosmic Disclosure with Wilcock, as well as planning and participating in various disclosure events. He has also become an extremely beloved and respected convention speaker. Here is the message he is tasked to share:
Every day, focus on becoming more service to others orientated. Focus on being more loving and focus on raising your vibrations and consciousness level. Learn too forgive yourself and others, thus releasing karma. This will change the vibrations of the planet, the shared consciousness of humanity, and change humanity one person at a time, even if that one person is yourself."
A true family man, Goode occasionally shares with his followers experiences he enjoys with his wife and two children as they navigate through their most unusual life. In addition, he and his family have begun the transition to a plant based diet over the course of this past year. If you are interested in making this transition yourself, here is an excellent resource, along with with video below on high vibration diets.
*Written by Janet Glatz
VIDEO #1: Hollow Earth vs Honeycomb Earth & Inner Earth Civilizations - Corey Goode
VIDEO #2: Bridget Nielsen & Corey Goode - High Vibration Diets & Raising Consciousness


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Breaking: European Parliament with Legislative Proposal for a better ECI The European Citizens´ Initiative is back on the agenda!
Press Release
The ECI Campaign highly welcomes a new draft for a Legislative Initiative Report of the European Parliament for an improved Regulation 211/2011 for the European Citizens´ Initiative. The text, which was drafted by György Schöpflin (EPP), has just been published.
The suggested amendments aim at making the ECI more user-friendly and politically more powerful, with an enhanced follow-up for successful ECI, which managed to gather more than one million signatures. The latter is specially greeted by The ECI Campaign because "a reformed ECI regulation must make policymaking not only 'more accessible' but also more impactful. Every successful ECI thus should lead to a legal proposal by the EC and a plenary vote by the EP," comments Carsten Berg, director of the NGO.
The report comes out at exactly the right time, with a Public Consultation of the European Commission on the ECI ongoing until 16th August. While the commission includes detailed questions about user-friendliness, administrative burdens, and options to enhance the ECI as a tool for discussions in its questionnaire, it stays however vage when it comes to the political follow-up, criticises The ECI Campaign. The activists have therefore published their answers where they highlight the importance of more political power, plus other neglected aspects.
They are now campaigning to encourage citizens and other NGO to also contribute to the consultation. "This is a unique opportunity for citizens to share their concerns and opinions with the commission", says Heike Aghte, campaigner for the consultation procedure. "Citizens responding to the commission, plus a European Parliament initiating ambitious suggestions for an amended regulation – this is a perfect setting where all protagonists can strengthen each other."
A first discussion of the Legislative Initiative Report will take place in the Committee for Institutional Affairs (AFCO) on 12th July, whereas the commission´s consultation will be continued until 16th August.


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To Avoid message "Disk is write Protected"
This message will be displayed only if your register entry is corrupt, or administrator has some limitation or the device itself is protected from unauthorized writing. Here are some ways to avoid this message.
1. If the hardware lock in the device is pushed, it protects accidental writing. Push it back, to disable this write protection. If it is still shown, then the problem may in register entry
2. If the registry key is modified, fix it by following steps,
i)Press Windows Key + R
ii)In run dialog box, type regedit and Enter
iii)In Registry Editor expand the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
iv)Expand System Folder in the left pane under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
V)Choose Current ControlSet and expand it to locate Services
Vi)After you expand Services, click on USBSTOR Vii)Double click on Start and enter 3 in the box appears.
Viii) And close Registry Editor.
3. After editing the registry, even after if that message is displayed, then the problem is with the device itself!
4. Boot in safe Mode, to do this perform the following steps,
i)Restart Windows When the computer turns on again, press F8.
ii)Select option Boot Into Safe Mode using arrow keys and enter.
iii)Open run box and type cmd to get DOS window.
iV)To format the device in problem, then format by, if it is drive F then type format f:
This action will erase all the data's in that drive, you should do this only if you can't able to use this drive always!


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Hey all -
What have I been up to lately? My new(ish) rock/blues duo, GOBLIN QUEEN. Goblin Queen is me and fellow Seattle Public Schools music teacher, Celeste Flock. She is the best guitarist I have had the honor of playing with! Most of the upcoming shows on my calendar are the two of us together. Come see us rock (you will see your old elementary music teacher in a different light and realize she probably had A SECRET LIFE - weird).


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Brenda and Jim handed over the reins to Mark, their son who joined the family business in 1986 and his wife Sue. Brenda retired in 2002 and Jim retired shortly after, sadly Jim passed away in 2004.
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Last of the Breed
The treasure trove of honky-tonk hits and Texas swing tunes that turned the album Last of the Breed — by the legendary Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price — into a major-selling hit is a once-in-a-lifetime concert event. The three deliver rousing performances of their greatest hits in the richest voices this side of the Rio Grande.
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Having a lot of iPad tips on hand can come in handy when you're just learning to use your device. However, you have a busy life, which you likely do not have lots of. This article contains great iPad tips that will allow you to take full advantage of all the features your iPad.
Go to your mail in settings and then preview. You can change this to 5 lines.This saves you to tailor how much you'll see in the Mail app and lets you skim your email at an accelerated rate.
Iphone Charger
Don't use your iPhone charger for the iPad if you don't have enough time. The wattage on the iPad is twice as much as that for the iPhone. Charging your iPad with an iPhone charger will delay the charge time. You should use your iPad charger that came with the iPad.
The iPad shows the first two lines of every email by deafult. You might want to have more than that. You can select mail icon in settings.
If you want to sync your Google and iPad calendars, then go to your Mail option, Contact then Calendars. You select Other after tapping the Add An Account and then Other.Tap the icon Add CalDAV Account and then enter your Google data. You should have everything you need.
A great way to keep the pages from closing is to open other one in new tab. When in Safari, simply tap on the link and hold it until you see a pop-over menu appear.
It is important that you know how to provide proper care of your iPad. The heat will begin to degrade a battery's performance. You must also keep the iPad does not come in contact with moisture as this could cause it to short circuit. You would be smart if you purchased a cover to protect your iPad from shocks and dust.
Do you feel distracted by seeing the battery charge icon on your iPad's screen? This can be simply turned off so that it does not bother you. Begin by going to your Settings. Look under General section to locate Usage.
Do you wish you could get to your bookmarks icon to view your favorite sites? You can eliminate this annoyance by permanently enabling the bookmarks bar on permanently. Go to your Settings screen, tap on Safari and turn on the bookmark bar.
There is a safeguard to losing your iPad if it becomes misplaced. Simply visit Settings menu and then select iCloud. Add your unique Apple ID and turn on the app. When you do this, you only need to visit iCloud.com to locate a lost iPad.
The iPad not only is fun, but it's a very useful tool. You can get the most out of it if you know what you're doing, and it can sometimes be hard to find instructions. With your new information close at hand, you will get lots more use from your device. Try out some of these tips next time you power up your iPad and enjoy!


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Every day it is easy to pass by and ignore those less fortunate, but with these painted homeless signs, it will be difficult to look anywhere else. Designers Kenji Nakayama and Christopher Hope came together in order to help give homeless people a fighting chance.
They photographed various people around the Boston area and then transformed their cardboard signs into painted works of art. These painted signs make it nearly impossible to ignore what they are saying. This is an incredible project to help raise awareness and to try and help the homeless population. Nakayama and Hope also gave these people 10 dollars to accompany their new sign, and hopefully along with that, they were able to restore some of their faith in humanity. These painted homeless signs are a great reminder that we should all help out others when we have the opportunity to do so.
These Painted Homeless Signs Attract Attention
Sarah St.Jules — July 24, 2013 — Social Good
References: complexmag