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" In a true democratic society where democracy flourishes, no one should be fearful of expressing their opinions […] The National Intelligence Service (NIS) — a government body — filing a libel lawsuit against an individual citizen is an abuse of power and a draconian act that clamps down on our democracy. And the reason for the libel is so lame that will even makes a passing dog laugh; for criticizing its incompetence in an op-ed […] I really hate the situation of fighting against the huge powerhouse, NIS. Who would enjoy this? Whenever I have a hard time finding locations for my national lecture tour, I begin to wonder if it has something to do with my battle with the NIS. Same thing happened when some of my booked TV show appearances got canceled for no apparent reason. "
— Professor Pyo Chang-won, South Korea's top intelligence agency is suing forensic psychologist Pyo Chang-won for defamation


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One of my favorite things about October is busting out just the right spooky audiobook to get me in the Halloween spirit. There's just something about taking an already terrifying book, then adding the right narrator and sound effects to make it an even more hair-raising experience.
Be warned – the titles below are not for the faint heart so listen if you dare!
Welcome to another installment of Tween Reads! This week the focus will be on horror titles, but keep your eyes peeled for other genres as the weeks go by. This list isn't meant to be exhaustive, but to give tweens and parents some initial guidance as they make their way over to the young adult shelves. And some of these are titles that are new to the Children's shelves or might have flown under the radar. What are your favorite tween horror reads?
Waite till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, was originally release over 20 years ago,
so why am I still recommend it to young people?
Horrifying Graphic Novels
Stephen King scares me. (See my other blog post this week.) But don't you find that once you get to know someone, they don't intimidate you as much as before? I plan to find out. I'm starting a 2008 biography of King written by Lisa Rogak, who also wrote biographies of Shel Silverstein and Dan Brown.
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There's already some of that in WoW, though. Blacksmiths can make extra sockets, tailors can embroider their cloaks, engineers can tinker with belts and helms, etc. Everyone can reforge their gear.
The issue that WoW has to contend with is balance. Because players are limited to 2 primary professions, Blizzard has to ensure that these professions are somewhat balanced so that players are not forced to choose a particular profession for their class. If you go too far the other way (say, let a blacksmith put sockets on another player's armor) then you actually detract from the profession: all of a sudden it's not important to BE a blacksmith, it's good enough to just know one.


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Preservation and zoning
These houses are going to be demolished to make room for a parking lot. Says Ryan:
In my view, it takes a particularly unimaginative, short-sighted, and careless sort of person to see a piece of property in this location and determine that the best and most profitable use for it is a surface parking lot (particularly since street parking near H Street isn't exactly difficult to find).
Not at all. A parking lot is pure optionality. It generates income, it lowers your property taxes, and it makes it really easy to build something highly commercial if and when developers can actually borrow money again. Old houses like these are never going to be particularly lucrative. Best to take any opportunity to demolish them, so that down the road they can be easily replaced with something shiny and new.
As Ryan's commenters point out, the problem here isn't that the owners of the houses want to demolish them, or even that the Historic Preservation Review Board neglected to save them. Rather, it's that the zoning laws allow parking lots (and the associated curb cuts etc) at all. The problem with the parking lot isn't that old housing will be demolished, the problem with the parking lot is that it's a parking lot. Historic preservation boards shouldn't be used as stealth zoning authorities. There are real zoning authorities for that kind of thing.
Tred carefully Felix, this is foreign territory for you.
While it is unfortunate that these houses, if historic, are slated for demolition, there are numerous other factors at play.
First, this picture is a perfect example of America's blighted neighborhoods. Yes, the exterior may be attractive and nostalgic, but the interiors are likely dilapidated and unsafe. If they aren't they soon will be. The homes may also be partially vacant, or in foreclosure. If left in this state, that attractive facade will soon crumble, and various pests and miscreants will move in. The sad reality is that homes are expensive to maintain, and even more so when they are old.
There may also be other factors such as brownfields or land contamination, perhaps emanating from a nearby former industrial facility, the storefront or homes themselves (asbestos, oil leaks, etc). This would restrict what could be built. Parking lots are often used to cap polluted land.
Unfortunately, while parking lots are not the most desirable option, they are better than crackhouses or burned out hulks, which if left abandoned these houses would surely become. At least you captured their history before they are demolished.
Some parking spaces can be profitable. For example, parking in the center Florence, Italy costs approx. $42 per day or $4.2 on hourly basis.
Built environment may not be Felix' beat but he nails this one perfectly: "Historic preservation boards shouldn't be used as stealth zoning authorities."


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In France, home bakers measure all the ingredients in the small, glass yogurt containers they buy in the supermarket: three containers of flour, two of sugar, one of yogurt. Lots of bakers make a version of this cake. This is based on a recipe from Dorie Greenspan and uses both a clear glaze and white icing. I have made this cake with great success using half vegetable oil and half olive oil.


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I am an apparatus taken for granted by modern man. I create fire at the demand of a mechanized series of movements. I can perceive the minds of those who ignite me and I can destroy. I collect owners and I collect their memories.
His madness engulfs.
Clay picked me up off the table and ran his fingers over the ridges in my sticker. He recognized the defacement as trademark Amelia. It was a habit she had as long as he could remember. He traced the memory of the recent days past.
After arriving home from the local bar, Clay entered his home to discover that his wife, Amelia, had left the coffee pot on, and a note behind. The note, scribbled in her imperfect hand read, "Happy anniversary fuck-face." Clay remembered the feeling in his chest that ensued. A heavy twinge, a pain rooted deep in the idea that he was losing the only woman who was ever sad enough to let him love her. He fled the house in hopes of catching her at work.
As he approached the motel, he noted the vacancy sign and how for the first time since Amelia had worked there, it expressed "no" in front of it. As he parked his car, he ran through the excuses he could spit at her, why he had forgotten that today marked their fifth year of marriage to one another.
I got in a car accident.
I was arrested.
They kept me late at work.
As he passed the rooms that lined the walkway he heard Amelia crying out, not in dismay, but in pleasure. The sound itself stopped time. He peered through a slit in the dingy curtains to see her, sitting naked on the bed. She was looking toward someone, someone who found refuge in the shadows of the room. He needed to act, he needed a drink.
He walked to his car, retrieving a barely touched fifth of whiskey from the passenger seat. He drank while he thought.
He thought of his father, and his dangerous habit of looking up while the world beneath his feet disintegrated. An astronomer by title, and workaholic by nature, the departing of his alcoholic wife was coped with by sixty hour work weeks. This, unfortunately, left Clay an orphan. He picked up his momma's bottle and headed for adulthood with a healthy disrespect for his father, and an unrealistic longing for his mother.
That is when he met Amelia. A woman inaccessibly depressed. He married her in hopes of obtaining the one girl in rural Kansas that did not want to escape. She was perfectly sad and stayed perfectly-put.
A man emerged from the hotel room and lit a cigarette. Clay was never good at confrontation and the whiskey made it harder to think. He approached the man, the rage welling within him.
"You have a spare smoke?" He asked, instead of delivering a swift punch to the man's unsuspecting jaw.
"Sure," Dave uttered. Annoyed by the interruption in his own thoughts.
Clay envisioned Amelia, scarlet with arousal, sucking off the man before him. He imagined her calling out his name, he imagined her skinny legs enfolding him, drawing him into her. As he imagined, the madness welled.
"You got a light? I guess I only brought the addiction," Clay managed to slur out.
Dave passed me to Clay. Before Clay could light his cigarette, Dave disappeared behind the door of the room. Clay went back to his truck and reached for a rag on the floor. He twisted the fabric into a dingy wick, a wick he placed half in the bottle. It reached just far enough for the liquor to soak into the fabric. He thought it was a hell of a bouquet to give his wife on their anniversary, homage to the five years of sadness and anger that preceded it. He lit the end of the wick and tossed the bottle. The sound of the glass shattering was followed by the woosh of flames engulfing the curtains.
He stumbled back to his truck and drove away.
Sitting on the cold wood of the bar-top, I recall the warm touch of Amelia. The inferno of her madness.
She collected her madness in her chest.
She picked me up off the bedside table and lit a cigarette. She was thinking about the note she scrawled, the imperfections in her handwriting, the way the words tilted on the page, like a drunken stumble frozen in one nauseated lean. She exhaled. She thought about the man lying next to her, face burrowed into a pillowcase that had previously cradled the heads of countless people.
He was not the same man who gave her the ring that was now on the adjoining bathroom's counter.
Dave uttered a simple "hello" and the rest became its own version of history.
Her eyes stumbled down his frame and settled on the foot of the bed. She remembered how her empty bed looked that morning, unmade. The man lying next to her stirred awake just in time to see a tear descend down her cheek. She saw the way he masked his non-existent concern behind a stone face.
"You know, everybody cheats."
She was annoyed at the assumption that her tears were born of guilt.
She stole another breath off the cigarette. She sat there, small and sad.
In this moment I came to the overwhelming realization that she was more defined by the negative space around her than she was by the matter that composed her. An empty unraveling, an existence set entirely in the realm of the non-real. Her desires seemed to serve as a black hole to her heart, pulling in every burden and making it infinitely small, compacted, and nestled at her very core. She took to collecting these burdens in her beating bloody organ like microscopic marbles. She liked the weight of it, gave her a sense of gravity to stay-put.
This bloody, marbled mass was her madness.
When she fucked Dave, she gained access to a small glimpse at the horror within herself, and that is why she did it. She loved her husband, but the way he fucked her made her feel ugly. Gentle and reserved, as if he was afraid of getting too far inside of her.
She speculated the origins of her overwhelming masochism, the nature of her need to feel pain, to derive her pleasure from it. Perhaps it was that all of her lovers, to some degree, actually loved her. Her gut dropped; more marbles. She wondered if everyone just bought in to the idea of love like the idea of God. She rendered herself incapable of both that emotion and that belief.
She would have liked to say that it was Dave's composure, his confidence that attracted her to him. Moth to flame. It was not. It was the muffled screams that echoed out from the rooms he temporarily occupied that grabbed her attention, the relived faces and bruised wrists of the women he had just fucked senseless. The serenity of surrender.
Amelia looked at Dave, who looked into space.
His immediate disinterest in her was probably a hazard of the job. She thought of clever ways to explain the marks, the bruises. It would never matter anyhow. Her husband was a man who liked to make love in the dark. He was too busy to soak in her naked body, ever. Regardless, the excuses formed.
I tripped.
I fell repeatedly on a bamboo rod.
I violently resisted arrest.
She picked me up off the bedside table and absentmindedly scratched horizontal lines into my warning label, a habit from her past. I sensed my time with her was coming to an end. Her very collection of madness was taking its toll. She set me down, opened the drawer and peered at the Bible. She glanced toward the bathroom as a shadow outside the window. Dave emerged.
"I'm not done with you, dear."
Amelia, embarrassed, obediently sat down. Dave went to his bag and produced two pair of handcuffs. He secured her wrists to the bed frame and grabbed a cigarette.
"There. Now you can't go anywhere. I'm going smoke. Then I'm going to shower off your filth. I want you to think about what's coming to you."
He wears his madness on his sleeve.
He lifted me from the table with a single swift motion. As his fingers clasped around me in empty embrace, I felt the opposing sensation of exposure. A sensation I doubted was different from the way his women had felt when he removed their clothing, exposing them. It was a motion so quick one would hardly notice the sensation of the fabric brushing their skin before it hit the floor. At his mere touch I was naked, like them. They usually trembled in his presence. I stood my inanimate ground.
"There. Now you can't go anywhere…"
He stared at the smoldering end of his cigarette, like it was going to reveal his future via smoke-signal. He thought about the last time he felt sadness, the moment he recognized her misery as his own.
Many days he had approached her at that desk, he had no need to say anything. She knew what he wanted, one room for three hours. The hourly rate was not posted on the board, would have given the other customers a notion of what really went on there. Usually he would walk in; she would scrawl a note on the board and set two keys on the counter separating them. He would always pay cash, which he would toss onto the barrier, never handing to her. This transaction took place at least four times a week, and when you are a regular in the motel industry, conclusions tend to be drawn about your life choices. He felt her judgment burning though him, and he didn't want to let it bother him, but it did. It infuriated him. The fury was his madness, which identified hers. He wanted to prove to her that he was more than an animal, or at the very least that she was an animal too.
He was pleased at the way this seemed to catch her off guard. It was the sensation that in this moment, his utter transparency submitted itself to a more opaque quality.
He had made his living off of crushing the madness in others. He would inflict pain and pleasure simultaneously, in a grand symphony of opposition. He would punish the pleasure, and please the punished. All this seemed to do was mute his madness temporarily.
He had given Amelia all the pain he could muster. She was not a paying customer, and this was not another day on the job. The truth was that this was personal. A conquest he disguised as pro-bono adultery.
His mistake was in thinking that her madness would submit to his. She would sustain a gaze into his eyes when he least expected it, when he was hurting the most. This bothered him. Most of the women that employed him refused to open their eyes for most of their exchange, especially the more turbulent moments. This always reminded him of when he was himself a frightened child, covers pulled to the crown of his head. If he couldn't see the monsters, they could not see him. Eyelids like sheets, he would somehow be incapable of seeing what they truly were.
Amelia did not follow suit.
When she stared at him he would drive himself into her further. He was hoping for a sigh, a wince, any validation that he was even in the same room as her, let alone within her. Nothing. Nothing spare that relentless stare. His frustration immense, he reverted to shaming her.
"Turn over, turn off the lights, turn something for fucks sake."
She masked her hurt behind a soft-sedated face. The misery scrawled itself in apathetic lines on her face. He had immediately regretted this decision. He was not in control, her madness was.
She obediently twisted to a face-down position, and though he could not tell exactly, it looked like she finally closed her eyes. He reached out and grabbed a handful of her hair. He yanked her head backward to discover that his suspicion was true; nothing of her piercing irises could be seen beneath the flesh of her eyelids. His petty triumph came in the form of orgasm.
He hated how he wanted to hold her and tell her that he had lied, that she was beautiful. That she was the first woman he had wanted to defile in a long while. His own personal monster was sitting on the bed next to him, smoking a cigarette.
He pretended to wake. He saw a single tear repelling down her cheek and jealousy consumed him. It became clear to him in that moment that what terrorizes people is personal. No matter what he did he could not render this reaction from her. She held her emotions close and he held his out for the world to see. He felt inadequate.
"You know, everybody cheats."
The silence that ensued was in grave contrast to the screaming in his head. He wanted to prove to her so many things and all that had been accomplished was his own submission to her. His madness grew in the form of hatred. It waxed in the presence of his current solitude. He drew a deep breath from his cigartte.
"You have a spare smoke?"
Dave hardly noticed the man walking toward him.
Clay sat reading the paper.
"This could be the biggest tragedy to hit rural Kansas since the Clutter family murders. Earlier this week the small town of Concordia Kansas awoke to a tragedy at the local motel, The Bluebird Inn. The victim, 32 year old Amelia Barnquist was found deceased, suffering fatal burns. Dave Hutchensen, in a tragic attempt to save Barnquist's life, expelled the contents of an entire fire-extinguisher over her charred remains. According to a statement made by Hutchensen early Monday morning he had left Barnquist, restrained to the bed in the room some twenty minutes before the inferno. During Hutchensen's absence, what is speculated to be a maltov cocktail soared through the window of the motel room and instantly engulfed the bed and Barnquist in flame. "As soon as I heard the screams I came out, by then it was too late," Hutchensen, who was showering at the time, explained. Law enforcement is puzzled at who exactly is to blame for the untimely death of the woman. Barnquist's husband, Clay age 35 is still missing and is wanted by the local police for questioning…"


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TEAMS: Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard knows plenty about dishing out pain having knocked several Patriots out of games throughout his career. We now have to show Pollard respect though for being able to play in immense pain. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Pollard played the majority of the season with six cracked ribs. Pollard first hurt his ribs in the second game of the season against the Eagles. He then reaggravated the injury in a loss to the Redskins and missed the final three games of the year. He did his best to keep the injury quiet, but spoke about after the Super Bowl. "It's tough dealing with pain," Pollard told The Baltimore Sun. "For us as football players, we know we're going to go through it. At the same time, that's the name of the game. Six of them, yep. Hey, it's up to us to go out there and play, and we did." Kudos to Pollard for still knocking dudes out while injured.
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@40 / Trillex - While this is true, and while I completely empathize with your BG efforts (we need more of that! Kudos!), the point I was trying to make was that Battlegrounds is something that even solo players can participate in. You cannot do it with Arenas. Therefore Battlegrounds have the option to be open for casual play and Arenas do not.


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In arguments with friends and locals about tourism, sometimes I feel like I'm talking endlessly in circles, because people seem to be missing the point I'm making. When I criticise the industry here and the way it locks people into dead-end service jobs, destroys the environment, and makes the climate actively hostile for locals, they seem to believe that I hate tourists and think they shouldn't come here. That's not the issue. The issue for me is that the community has become, like many other communities across the US, solely dependent on tourism, and that is dangerous.


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The Abrolhos Islands, with their rich flora and fauna and surrounding coral reef communities, form one of Western Australia's unique marine areas.
The Abrolhos Islands lie about 60 kilometres west of Geraldton, on the Western Australian coast, and consist of 122 islands clustered into three main groups: the Wallabi Group, Easter Group and Pelsaert Group, which extend from north to south across 100 kilometres of ocean.
The area is home to an abundance of wildlife including sea lions, dolphins, migratory whales and sea birds. The extensive coral reef system stretches for a hundred kilometres and is home to many species, some as yet to be named. The unique wildlife and pristine beaches make for excellent swimming, snorkelling and beach walking. The Abrolhos Islands provide idyllic surroundings for a quiet picnic on the beach, or an afternoon snorkelling over coral gardens just under the surface.
The warm southern flowing current creates a marine environment that breeds both tropical and temperate sea life. The current maintains water temperatures at about 20 - 22 degrees allowing corals, sea grasses, tropical fish and other sea life to thrive in an area they wouldn't normally be found. These islands are also the home of more than 90 species of sea birds.
The Abrolhos Islands are the main source of supply for Western Australia's rock lobster fishing industry. Home to fisherman from March until June, the Abrolhos remains almost deserted for the other eight months of the year.
The Abrolhos are also famous for their historic shipwrecks, the best known being the Dutch East India Company vessel Batavia, which ran aground in 1629.The water surrounding the islands is the graveyard to 18 other wrecks, mostly believed to be from the 19th century.
Visitors can access these pristine islands by charter, fishing and eco boat tours from Geraldton and Kalbarri, float plane tours from Geraldton, and aerial tours from Dongara, Geraldton and Kalbarri.
Geraldton is the region's largest city and is also well know for being one of the windiest places in Australia, making it ideal for windsurfing. From Geraldton there are also many diving tours to the reefs and ship wrecks.
Accommodation in Geraldton ranges from motels and hotels to backpacker hostels and quaint bed and breakfasts.
For more information about the stunning Abrolhos Islands, contact the Western Australian Visitor Centre on 1300 361 351. For information about Geraldton contact the local Visitor Centre on 1800 818 881.
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Maui Business Report
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Game On
Eyeing the business of sports, Maui's industry leaders seek to measure the rest of the iceberg.
by KATHRYN DRURY WAGNER
The Plantation Course, 2012 Hyundai Tournament of Champions. (inset) Granger Larsen, currently ranked #40 on the ASP World Tour, has been sponsored by Hi-Tech since he was in grade school.
Photo: Courtesy of Stan Badz, PGA Tour
If you want to know how much the average visitor spends during a Maui stay, the Hawai'i Tourism Authority can tell you—$203 daily. Curious to know how much the EA Sports Maui Invitational boosts the local economy? The basketball tournament's organizers estimate $8.1 million. But if you're keen to track the growth of one of the island's major new industries, you're out of luck for now.
"There are almost 100 businesses related to the surf, windsurf, kite and SUP business, whether they are retail, schools, manufacturers or repair," says Kim Ball, of Hi-Tech and Shapers. "That does not include bike, dive, fishing, golf or tennis businesses."
Nearly everyone agrees that having fun is big business on the Valley Isle, but most of what's known about the sports industry is anecdotal.
Photo: Courtesy of Granger Larson
A 2010 economic development strategy report by the County of Maui proposed creating a Sports Sector Market Analysis and Strategic Plan, but no plan yet exists. The need for data has been urged by several organizations, says Brianne Savage, sports and entertainment specialist at Maui's Office of Economic Development, a position created in 2011. "There's a lot of money in the sports sector and we're not tracking this money as its own thing. We need to get to where we can get these numbers."
It's clear the industry is a significant employer. With golf alone, "There's a whole pipeline of suppliers, people growing turf grass, creating sand for bunkers," says Mark Rolfing, NBC Sports commentator and host of TV's "Golf Hawai'i" program.
Now industry leaders are ready to start keeping score.
The Price of Paddling
Photo: Courtesy of Odeelo Dayondon
$100 to $200 Canoe club membership fees
$200 Your own paddle
$20 to $50 Club jersey
$3,000 to $4,000 One-man canoe
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High-Definition Makeup: Get a Flawless Finish
HD Makeup is no longer the secret weapon of TV stars alone.
Do I need to switch to HD makeup?
Upgrading to HD formulas isn't necessary if you aren't on camera.
"Much of the HD makeup trend is all about clever marketing," cosmetics chemist Jim Hammer says. "But it does make sense that these formulas can soften skin imperfections and make it appear more uniform and smooth without visible residue."
That doesn't mean you won't see similar results from other cosmetics. "Many of the ingredients in HD makeup are present in wrinkle-concealing and matte foundations that have been on the market," Hammer says.
Cosmetics with light-reflecting ingredients will have the same benefits as many high-definition makeup options. Popular airbrush foundations also get your complexion camera ready.
Which HD makeup products are worth the investment?
If you're in the market, consider a foundation or concealer designed for HD filming. This is often where you see the most impact, Turnbow says. HD foundations are a good choice if you're worried about how your skin will look in pictures -- a great tip for wedding photos.
Camouflaging imperfections to create a smooth canvas will make any other cosmetic you apply look even better. Plus, focusing on your skin tone means you can also get away with wearing less makeup.


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LEE COUNTY, Fla. - Detectives with the Cold Case Unit have tracked down a murder suspect in California.
The sheriff's office says the suspect has been on the run for nearly 30 years. James Edward Sims, 56, was taken into custody by Lee County detectives at his home in Lakewood, California. He had been living there under an assumed name. Sims is charged with the murder of Roy Radabaugh on January 18, 1981 in the parking lot of what was then the Fox Den Lounge on Fowler Street in Fort Myers. Sims allegedly shot Radabaugh execution style during an argument over a woman. Radabaugh was 29 years old at the time.
Sims was identified as a suspect, but by then had skipped town. He was subsequently able to assume a new identity and a new life in California.
Detectives say they used a thumb print on Sims' California driver license to positively identify him. They then flew to California to stake out his residence and took him into custody this morning.
"This is a significant apprehension," says Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott. "Even though this murder happened 29 years ago, the victim's family has not forgotten and we have not forgotten."
Lt. Bill Kalstrom, a supervisor with the Cold Case Unit, calls the arrest "very rewarding. This is the perfect example of the type of case this Unit was set up for."
Sims is charged with first degree murder. He is awaiting first appearance in California (on Tuesday July 6th). From then, the extradition process will be determined.


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*She couldn't help but to smirk at Zack's surprise to her talking* *pearly fangs peek over her bottom lip as she continued to speak* I'm sure you are aware of those… magical gray-faces. One decided to transform Cloud's motorcycle, Fenrir, into the actual living wolf. So here I stand before you as such. However I'm rather bored… Master won't let me into his home
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Minimum 90 day period? WTfook? It's not as if we in the USA just became aware of the Keystone project last week. Seriously, would be as patient as the Canadians have been? http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/15/white-house-to-harper-well-let-you-know-about-the-keystone-pipeline-when-we-are-good-and-ready/
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Why not... and US companies can pull all of their plants out of Canada and cause massive unemployment.
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please, canada can't even keep the jobs they have and now they want to pollute the u s?
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who cares, let them sell to china
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keystone would go through pristine nebraska lands, damage just from building it would never be fixed
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wouldn't destroy your back yard, your home
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so you know how it impacts everything and you still think it's a good idea? really? do you know the canadians just had a pipeline explosion week before last?
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let'em go around nebraska, leave us alone
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Hello everyone, Just a quick note to let everyone know I'm back doing Dadq Mail work, after my Holiday: I did manage to meet my goal of riding a bike to all the Colorado 14ers (and then summiting them) in a record time. Huzzah! ...
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Hello everyone! v7.1.0 will be out soonish - one of the new features in it will be Stationary. Stationary are sort of like Drafts, but they stick around, until you don't want them anymore. A lot of people tell me they basically send the same message, again and again, with minor differences in content (come to think of it, that's what I do, too!), so it would be nice to be able to have most of the message already done, and then fill in the needed changes. So, that's what we've got. Here's the branch that's currently...
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Hello Everyone, v7.0.5 of Dada Mail has been released: * Download and Install: http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-7_0_5/install_dada_mail.pod.html * Changelog: http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-7_0_5/changes_7_x.pod.html#pod7.0.5 This bugfix release focuses on a few different parts of Dada Mail, to make thingks work soother: • The Installer was given some TLC, with code being cleaned up, and a few extra options added - look for new advanced configuration options for Bridge and Bounc...
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Is there an easy way to add google analytics tracking code into Dada so that we can trace signups? Right now the tracking code stops tracking as soon as they leave the page with the signup form, so there is no way to see whether a visitor subscribed or just left the page. Untitled Document Warm regards, Mary Ann ...
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Glad to hear it's an easy fix. Untitled Document Warm regards, Mary Ann On Jun 7, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Justin J <email@example.com> wrote:Here's that issue you just brought up: https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/444It's gonna be an easy fix - ...
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Here's that issue you just brought up: https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/444 It's gonna be an easy fix - ...
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Great, thanks. :) I was pleased that the problems I had with the partial list mailings were resolved when I upgraded (at least as far as my test lists go - a mailing to the big list hasn't gone out yet but I assume it will have the same results). Untitled Document Warm regards, Mary Ann On Jun 7, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Justin J <email@example.com> wrote:And thanks for the issue report for Beatitude - I think the changes I've made will fix the things you've found and should be out in v7.0.5, (https://g...
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On Jun 3, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Mary Ann Kelley p.p. Dada Mail Developers (maryann _at_ thehomeschoolmom.com) wrote: > I use p.p. mode with bridge and most from: names render fine. Certain addresses show up like this screen grab: > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s109/sh/8a2cf59a-4449-43a3-81b1-56bb49a4546d/74e35fa51ac8784a0503bdc443682e39 > > The utf-8 encoding garble is what is showing up in the listing of emails instead of the sender's name, and when the email is opened it precedes that address instead of ...
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I use p.p. mode with bridge and most from: names render fine. Certain addresses show up like this screen grab:https://www.evernote.com/shard/s109/sh/8a2cf59a-4449-43a3-81b1-56bb49a4546d/74e35fa51ac8784a0503bdc443682e39The utf-8 encoding garble is what is showing up in the listing of emails instead of the sender's name, and when the email is opened it precedes that address instead of listing the name. Most of the time it displays the name properly. I haven't been able to determine a common factor like certain ISPs, but i...
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My friendly peeps from au Canada are talking a lot about the new Canadian anti-spam law: http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/h_00211.html Basically it requires you to have an opt-in list - a good thing. But, one of the things lacking in Dada Mail is a way to say, "yes, this list is totally opt-in", and then show data to support this fact. One new feature in Dada Mail could be to supply this information easily and one way to do that, is to just have a new table in then db that says, for each li...
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Grumpy Old Fan | Better living through crowdfunding
I can't deny the appeal of crowdfunding. I've contributed to a handful of projects, including the Stripped documentary, the new Steve Rude sketchbook and a guide to Star Wars' domestic filming locations. I'm also planning to pledge to Leaving Megalopolis, the new graphic novel by Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore.
Like many of you, I'm predisposed to like Simone and Calafiore's work based on their issues of Secret Six. I also enjoyed the way Simone and her collaborators brought a little town of superheroes to life in Welcome to Tranquility. Heck, I just like Simone's writing generally, and as it's within my budget, I don't mind spending the money.
However, while responding to Tom Spurgeon's call for crowdfunding thoughts, I had a crazy idea: What if a license fee were part of the crowdfunding proposal? In other words, what if one item in a project's budget were earmarked for licensing particular characters from DC or Marvel?
While there is a fine line between stupid and clever, I'm not sure upon which side this post lies. That's probably not so good — but it hasn't stopped me yet. …
Kurt Busiek wants to know: Is it creators or characters that win your money?
Is a familiar creator enough to bring you to a new book, or do you only pick up a new title with familiar characters? The ongoing creator-owned debate is interesting in theory, but eventually it has to come down to practical application. And Kurt Busiek seriously wants to know.
Busiek posted an informal poll on his Facebook page on Tuesday after someone on Twitter said he wanted to read The Savage Land by Kurt Busiek and Steve Lieber. As that Marvel series doesn't exist, Busiek wondered whether "a comic about a lost land full of dinosaurs and primitive tribes" would necessarily have to set within the Marvel Universe for readers to buy it, or would another dinosaur-filled lost land work just as well.
"If Steve and I wanted to do a comic about a lost land full of dinosaurs and primitive tribes, would it need to be the Savage Land?" Busiek wrote. "Would Ka-Zar, Garokk, Sauron and the ability to have Spider-Man and Nick Fury show up need to be part of the deal?"
He also pointed out the availability of such lands and his experience with creating one recently: "After all, Pellucidar and The Lost World are both in the public domain at present, and it's easy to make up a new setting like that. In fact, the last time I wrote a place like that, it was The Phantom Continent, in Kirby: Genesis."
Talking Comics with Tim | Monkeybrain Comics' Allison Baker & Chris Roberson
Since the first time I hung out with Monkeybrain Books founders Allison Baker and Chris Roberson at the Westin hotel bar during HeroesCon a few years back, I have longed to do a joint interview with them. While their publishing house Monkeybrain Books has been in existence since 2001, in July Baker and Roberson launched a creator-owned comiXology-distributed digital imprint, Monkeybrain Comics. While much is known of Roberson, not everyone knows Baker's background. As detailed at their company website: "Allison Baker has worked in feature film and political media production for more than 13 years, while also managing the day-to-day operations of Chris Roberson and Monkeybrain Books." Please allow me to apologize in advance for not quizzing Roberson about my new favorite Monkeybrain work of his, Edison Rex. Update: After I finished posting this article, Monkeybrain announced that tomorrow (August 14) would mark the release of a 99-cent autobiographical story by Kurt Busiek, Thoughts on A Winter Morning, drawn by Steve Lieber (a story which was originally appeared in Negative Burn: Winter 2005).
Tim O'Shea: Which came first, the decision to move to Portland or the decision to move Monkeybrain into the digital realm?
Allison Baker: The move to PDX was definitely decided first. Monkeybrain Comics started out as an idea and theory, trying to solve a lot of the problems creators run into when working within a traditional publishing model. The final piece of the puzzle came to us at the end of last year. After that we started actively putting it all together in the beginning of 2012.
Chris Roberson: Yeah, we'd been planning our move to Portland for well over a year, and talking about it for a year or two before that. The germ of the idea that would eventually become Monkeybrain Comics was planted around the same time, but didn't take its final form as a digital comics imprint until the end of last year.
Food or Comics? | Gyoza or Godzilla
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
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Chris Arrant
If I had $15, it'd be an eclectic bunch featuring Jesus clones, retired spec-ops workers, environmentalists and Batman. First up would be Punk Rock Jesus #2 (DC/Vertigo, $2.99), following Sean Murphy's big-time foray into writing and drawing. Murphy's delivering the art of his career, and while the story might not be as great as the art, it still has a synchronicity to the art that few other mainstream books have these days. After that I'd get Dancer #4 (Image, $3.50); Nathan Edmondson seemingly made his name on writing the spy thriller Who Is Jake Ellis?, and this one takes a very different view of the spy game – like a Luc Besson movie, perhaps – and Nic Klein is fast climbing up my list of favorite artists. After that I'd get Massive #3 (Dark Horse, $3.50), with what is disheartedly looking to be the final issue of artist Kristian Donaldson. No word on the reason for the departure, but with a great a story he and Brian Wood have developed I hope future artists can live up to the all-too-brief legacy he developed. Delving into superhero waters, the next book I'd get is Batman #12 (DC, $3.99), which has become DC's consistently best book out of New 52 era. Finally, I'd get Anti #1 (12 Guage, $1). Cool cover, interesting concept, and only a buck. Can't beat that.
If I had $30, I'd jump and get Creator-Owned Heroes #3 (Image, $3.99); man, when Phil Noto is "on" he's "ON!" After that I'd get Conan te Barbarian #7 (Dark Horse, $3.50). I've been buying and reading this in singles, but last weekend I had the chance to re-read them all in one sitting and I'm legitimately blown away. The creators have developed something that is arguably better than what Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord started in 2003 and shoulder-to-shoulder with the great stories out of the '70s. This new issue looks to be right up my alley, as Conan takes his pirate queen Belit back to his frigid homeland in search of a man masquerading as Conan. Hmm, $7 left. Any other Food or Comic-ers want to grab some grub?
If I could splurge, I'd excuse myself from the table dining with my fellow FoCers and get Eyes of the Cat HC (Humanoids, $34.95). I feel remiss in never owning this, so finally getting my hands on the first collaboration between Moebius and Alexandro Jodorowsky seems like a long time coming. I'm told its more an illustrated storybook than comic book, but I'm content with full page Moebius work wherever I can get it.
Food or Comics? | Tales Designed to Sizzlean
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Graeme McMillan
While the offerings on show at my local comic store this week won't compare with those available at Comic-Con International, if I had $15 this week, I'd pick up Sean Murphy's Punk Rock Jesus #1 (DC/Vertigo, $2.99), the new Bloodshot #1 (Valiant, $3.99) and the final issue of the enjoyable Kirby: Genesis #8 (Dynamite, $3.99); the first for the art alone (I know very little about the story, but Murphy's art is always worth checking out), the second for the high concept, and the third for the payoff that I know is coming from Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Jack Herbert's resuscitation of the King's concepts after following the series thus far.
That said, if I only had $30, I'd put both Punk Rock Jesus and Bloodshot back on the racks for another week, and add Darwyn Cooke's new Parker adaptation, Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, $24.99) to my pile, instead. Cooke's Parker books are consistently must-buys, and I can't see why this one would be any different.
What other creator-centric collections should DC consider?
Recently, an off-hand tweet by Kurt Busiek brought something interesting to mind. First, the tweet: "There are SUPERMAN BY GARCIA-LOPEZ and BATMAN BY ARCHIE GOODWIN hardcovers coming. Life is good."
The two books he's talking about are Adventures of Superman: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Tales of the Batman: Archie Goodwin, both hardcovers and both scheduled for release in April. It's interesting because, by and large, DC Comics hasn't released a lot of books focusing on a creator. Sure, the publisher has made exceptions for Alan Moore (DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore), Jack Kirby (Jack Kirby Omnibus) and Geoff Johns (The Flash by Geoff Johns Omnibus), but seeing it done for creators like Goodwin and Garcia-Lopez feels different somehow. While Goodwin was a positively epic force during his time in comics, he's not exactly a household name in the modern parlance of comics fans (unfortunately), and Garcia-Lopez was an artist, not a writer like all of those listed above. DC, and comics in general, has shown itself to be very writer-centric in terms of the attribution of works, so for me this is a breakthrough — or at least a crack in the wall.
Spurred on by these ideas, I'm beginning to think of what else, and who else, DC could capitalize on with its massive library of work created in the past 78 years. Here are some ideas:
Kurt Busiek will eat a bug if you back Lea Hernandez's Kickstarter
Lea Hernandez, creator of Cathedral Child and Rumble Girls, has a Kickstarter that looks pretty nice: It's The Garlicks, a charming, kid-friendly tale of a vampire family — Pandora, a tween-age girl who doesn't seem to have any vampire powers; her kid sister Pamila, who has super-cute vampire powers; her mother, a butcher (kid-friendly vampires eat pork, not blood); and her father, a flower-eating barista.
Aside from the cuteness, The Garlicks is allowing Hernandez to stretch artistically in a couple of different directions; in an interview at Yet Another Comics Blog, she talks about her new use of color, saying "My good friend Adam Warren (Empowered) kept telling me my color work was stronger than my b&w/limited palette/pencils, going back to my story for Comic Book Tattoo, until I took the plunge. He was right, and I've had so much pleasure in working in color."
Hernandez has obviously put a lot of thought into this comic, and the art is fantastic. However, she also set a very ambitious Kickstarter goal of $40,000, and she has to raise more than half of that by Thursday afternoon. So Kurt Busiek jumped in to help: He promised on Twitter that he would eat a bug if people support the Kickstarter. Actually, he promised to claim to eat a bug, and at the moment, he's just eating the bug in a nice little print that Hernandez is including as a extra. At some pledge levels she will draw a custom sketch of Kurt enjoying his little snack. But there is a possibility that Busiek will eat a real bug; at the Kickstarter page, Hernandez writes, "There's even a possibility of Kurt eating a REAL bug, if the price is Right. (The right price is probably $3,000., the right place at Emerald City Comic-Con.)"
Quote of the day | 'Don't mess with my cake'
"The real answer to questions like, 'Why doesn't the Flash clean up Gotham City, too?' is 'It would make Batman's cake lousy. People read Batman because they like crimefighter stuff where Batman's cool, and don't really want to see Superman or the Flash or Green Lantern mess with that particular cake.' On the other hand, people who like stories where Batman and Superman and Green Lantern work together have the JLA cake, and some people like both kinds of cake.
But if you start to tie it together with logic foremost in your plans rather than entertainment, then you need to explain why Superman doesn't help all the other heroes almost all the time, and why aren't the crimefighters turned into SF-type heroes to make them more effective, and you end up with everything being JLA cake, and no solo Batman cake left. Or you come to the conclusion that it doesn't work, so Batman shouldn't be in the JLA, which maybe preserves the Batman cake, but it messes up the JLA cake.
So in the end, the answer to all of these questions is: Don't mess with my cake."
– Kurt Busiek, using a cake/frosting metaphor to point out how logic should never trump fun in shared-universe superhero comics. He's right of course, and that he even has to point this out goes to show how grown-ups ruin everything.
(via The Comics Reporter)
Grumpy Old Fan | Tradition, expectation, and message
The great strength of DC's superhero line is its heterogeneity — that is, its history of bringing together different genre-based roots and different storytelling approaches. However, as the shared-universe model came to dominate superhero serials, DC's various high sheriffs have tried to impose various kinds of order on these disparate perspectives. Starting in the Silver Age, the infinite Multiverse organized characters broadly, for example by generation (Earth-Two), publisher (Earth-X, Earth-S, Earth-Four), or special category (the Crime Syndicate's Earth-Three, the Zoo Crew's Earth-C). Crisis On Infinite Earths consolidated a lot of that, The Kingdom's Hypertime sought unsuccessfully to reincorporate it, and 52 compromised with a scaled-back set of parallel Earths. Today, the New-52 setup still has a Multiverse, but the main DC-Earth has scaled back its superheroic history dramatically.
Details aside, though, each of these cosmological structures is an attempt to bring some deeper meaning to DC's superhero line. Put simply, for a long time DC's superhero books weren't about something, whereas Marvel presented a "world outside your window" in which superpowers came with their own sets of problems. Thus, from the post-Crisis 1980s until the end of Flashpoint last summer, DC was arguably "about" superheroic legacies, and had no small success putting new faces with old names.
And again, those details are not especially germane to today's post. Instead, I want to talk about the nature of DC's various traditions, the extent to which those traditions should guide the publisher, and whether DC's superhero books can, collectively, ever really be "about" anything.
Food or Comics? | Flex Mentaleggio
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
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Graeme McMillan
It's a week of familiar faces for me this time around. If I had $15, it'd go on Action Comics #8 (DC, $3.99), which completes Grant Morrison's first story arc on the title — even though we've already had the second one; thanks, fill-ins! — as well as Supreme #63 (Image, $2.99), with Erik Larsen illustrating the final Alan Moore script for Rob Liefeld's Superman knock-off (I'd love to see a well-done collection of all of these issues one day, now that the Moore run is completed). Also on tap, the final issue of OMAC (#8, DC, $2.99) and the long-awaited return of Busiek, Ross and Herbert's Kirby: Genesis (#6, Dynamite, $3.99), because a man needs as much well-done Jack Kirby-inspired comics as possible, goshdarnit.
If I had $30, I'd add Hulk #50 (Marvel, $3.99) to once again celebrate what Jeff Parker had managed to do with a book and concept that, by all rights, should've disappeared a long time ago. (In all honesty, I much prefer the Red Hulk to the classic version these days, and it's all Parker's doing, along with his various artistic compatriots on the title.) Everyone who isn't reading it: This is a jumping-on point issue! Try it and see if you don't love it, too. And, despite the unevenness of earlier issues, Matt Fraction's Casanova: Avarita #3 (Marvel, $4.99) is also a must-read; I really didn't like the first issue, but loved the second. We'll see where the book goes next.
Should I be splurging, then this week the splurge is on Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe HC (DC/Vertigo, $22.99). One of my favorite comics of all time, I'm likely going to end up getting this over-sized, recolored reprint just because I genuinely can't resist the optimistic, hopeful tone of the book and its love of superheroes.
Talking Comics with Tim | Thomas Scioli
Back in 2010, when Thomas Scioli started bolstering his online presence and entered the realm of webcomics with American Barbarian, I was curious to see how things would play out (as may or may not have been obvious in my June 2010 interview of him). I'll be honest and admit that now, more than a year later (and with far more of the project online to read), American Barbarian far exceeds what I expected. As much as I have always enjoyed and respected his Kirby-influenced approach to visual storytelling, after reading this double post Apocalyptic tale, I am far more impressed with Scioli's funky ear for dialogue. It's like reading a 1970s comic written by a minimalist version of David Mamet. Doubting my quirky endorsement of the work? Then realize AdHouse is collecting the webcomic for a 256-page/6 " x 9 " /hardcover release early this year. If you don't trust my tastes, then you should definitely trust AdHouse publisher Chris Pitzer. To mark the upcoming release, Scioli and I did another of our quick email interviews. Before diving into the interview, let me take a second to agree with JK Parkin's sentiment in this post, back in June, that DC Comics should have considered Scioli for one of the New 52 titles that it launched back in September. So I was surprised to learn (as you can read in this interview) that DC did not contact Scioli when assembling the creative team for the new OMAC title. As I edited this interview I realized it was hard to find my favorite part of our discussion, but it may be the revelation that the look for Two-Tank Omen came to Scioli in a dream. A close second was learning a bit about his next webcomic, Final Frontier. Feel free to chime in with your favorite part of this interview and/or Scioli's work in the comments section, please.
Tim O'Shea: As an independent creator, the job of marketing your work falls to you. Do you think over the years, you have gotten more comfortable marketing yourself? On a related note, how did you decide upon doing this one minute trailer for American Barbarian?
Thomas Scioli: Even the largest comics publishers don't seem to have a budget for promotion, so I'd say any creator, independent or mainstream, can benefit from doing their own promotion. It's something that I've never been comfortable with, but do out of necessity. I think I have gotten better about it, because in the beginning, it would give me crippling anxiety, now it's just mild trepidation. The idea for doing a trailer came from having seen other people do it. AdHouse's own Afrodisiac trailer and [Top Shelf's] Infinite Kung-Fu [trailer] are two that made an impression on me when they made the rounds. It got me excited about those two works, so I wanted to do the same. I'd been dabbling with animation, back when I started AmBarb so it was a natural outgrowth of that, too. Once you start doing a webcomic it isn't long before you realize, hey, why not just do a cartoon?
Comics A.M. | Riverdale's gay wedding; Tintin wannabes
Comics | CNN covers the upcoming wedding of Archie Comics' Kevin Keller, who will get married to another man in Life with Archie #16. Keller was injured while serving in the military in Iraq and Clay Walker, his groom-to-be, was his physical therapist. "Riverdale is this picturesque vision of American life, and when you see yourself reflected in that, you have a role in even the most idealized version of the reality you live in," said Matt Kane, associate director of entertainment media for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "That's the difference between feeling like a rejected outsider and feeling like you're a part of something." [CNN]
Comics | Jim Caple worries that viewers of the Tintin movie won't appreciate it the way he does, comparing old-school Tintin fans to old-school Boston Red Sox or Seattle Mariners fans: "That's what I worry about. I worry there will be all these Tintin wannabes who only know the character from the movie, who don't appreciate Herge's genius, who don't know what it was like to wait a month for the next 10-page installment or when you had to special order the few books made available in America. Fans who didn't earn this movie." [ESPN]
Comics A.M. | Ex-Marvel staffer says layoff protest misguided
Publishing | Damien Lucchese, a production artist laid off last week by Marvel, explains why fans should not boycott the publisher over the layoffs: "What I'm trying to say is that I don't want everyone to just see the MARVEL logo and think of a huge, top-heavy company, full of money hungry suits that make poor decisions (in some peoples' opinions). That's not what MARVEL is and there are still people working very hard (even harder now), day after day to put out comics for people to enjoy." [Blog@Newsarama]
Digital piracy | Jim Mroczkowski posts his third interview with a digital pirate; as in the first two episodes, what comes through is that social pressures and one-upmanship have a lot to do with it. Also, piracy is expensive for the pirates, who usually buy the comics they scan—and often don't even read them. [iFanboy]
Food or Comics? | Heaping helpings of Kirby, Manara, X-Men and more
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Chris Arrant
If I had $15, I'd be a judicious comics buyer and pick the top four out of over 20 titles I'd want this week. DC/Vertigo makes it slightly easier by making the new Brian Azzarello/Eduardo Risso joint Spaceman #1 only $1. This dollar price point for first issues combined with the $9.99 price point they sometimes do for the first volume of comic trade paperbacks surely gets a lot of traction. Next up I'd get Jason Aaron's new era of the X-Men in Wolverine & X-Men #1 (Marvel, $3.99) with Chris Bachalo. I'd also get my regular pulls of DMZ #70 (DC/Vertigo, $2.99) and The Walking Dead #90 (Image, $2.99) and last–but first in my stack to read-–would be Secret Avengers #18 (Marvel, $3.99). I hear some Ellis guy is writing it, but the big draw for me is artist David Aja. His Iron Fist run is one of my top favs in comics in the past ten years, and he's a titan in my book.
BOOM! brings Dracula: The Company of Monsters back as a webcomic
This past summer BOOM! Studios promoted two of its new ongoing series, Elric and Planet of the Apes, with dedicated websites that included, among other things, brand new content in the form of webcomics. The Elric site had a new 10-page story, while Planet of the Apes had a "prequel" story for the big blockbuster movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
And now BOOM! is launching another microsite that, appropriately enough, brings Dracula: The Company of Monsters back from the dead. BOOM! put a stake in the series with issue #12, but just like the title character it seems you can't keep it down. In a press release BOOM! said they plan to serialize the print comic first and eventually will post new material. They also plan to include commentary from the series' creators, which include writers Kurt Busiek and Daryl Gregory, and artists Scott Godlewski and Damian Couceiro. And they have a web store set up so you can go from reading to buying with a click.
It's an interesting approach for the company, taking a print comic that didn't work out for them and posting it for free on the web. It's a model that worked well for Phil and Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius, which started out in print, then moved to the web and does well in trade collections. And it's a good test case scenario for the company, as they've already got two Dracula trades in print that they can drive people to buy right away after sampling the free webcomic. Added to that, it's a great series by some talented folks, so I'll be interested to see how it does.


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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
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Bestselling authors and archaeologists Michael and Kathleen Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star.
The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high. Cahokian warriors and traders roamed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. What force on earth would motivate hundreds of thousands of people to pick up, move hundreds of miles, and once plopped down amidst a polyglot of strangers, build an incredible city?
A religious miracle: the Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. But not all is fine and stable in glorious Cahokia. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life. Now it is up to Morning Star's aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to keep it quiet until she can uncover the plot and bring the culprits to justice. If she fails, Cahokia will be torn asunder in warfare, rage, and blood as civil war consumes them all.
The acclaimed high chief of the Deer Clan, Right Hand, fingered his prominent and scarred chin as he looked westward across the sprawl of Cahokia. The Whisperer was coming. Right Hand had received word but two days past.
Plotting the murder of a living god is a dangerous business. We have no way of knowing how Power will react.
The thought sent a flutter of unease through him.
According to the latest of the Whisperer's messengers, the time to act had arrived. All Right Hand needed was the "token," the weapon with which to
W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear talk about Cahokia and their new novel, People of the Morning Star.
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"Sure to keep readers turning the pages… As usual, the Gears, husband-and-wife archaeologists, have enriched and enhanced the gripping plot with plenty of anthropological, archaeological, and historical detail." —Booklist on The Dawn Country
"Rich in cultural detail. Both longtime fans and newcomers will be satisfied. Another fine entry in an ambitious, long-running series."—Kirkus Reviews on People of the Longhouse
"The Gears have consistently captured early Native American life with precision, detail, and narrative excitement." —Booklist
"Set in the 1300s largely in what is now Alabama and Mississippi, this complex novel tracks three wanderers' quest to create peace in violent times. Blended with the carefully drawn suspense of court intrigues, colorful characters and sharp plot twists, this is a terrific tale." —Publishers Weekly on People of the Thunder
"The Gears, husband-and-wife archaeologists turned bestselling authors, continue their superbly researched and rendered North America's Forgotten Past series. This novel is as good a place as any of its predecessors to jump in and begin enjoying the authors' talents." —Booklist on People of the Thunder
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Between running from classes to club meetings to study sessions, college students are certainly busy bunch. That's why Amy Levin, founder and creative director of CollegeFashionista, has pulled together these tips to help students—or anyone, for that matter—get out the door in a jiff and still look stylish.
It starts the night before: I know that the last thing many people want to do when they get home from a late night of studying or partying is tend to their skin. But taking time to care for your skin at night will save you tons of time in the morning. A proper skin regimen will reduce redness, pimples, and even out your skin tone. Establish a routine that, at a bare minimum, includes removing your makeup and moisturizing. The Yes ToTMFacial Towelettes are definitely a staple in my skincare routine. They are gentle enough to use everyday, but really balance out my skin with their natural ingredients, such as tomato and watermelon extract.
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Recently Obama revaled a lot about his spiritual life, letting the world know how he relies on his Christian faith as a source of strength. Whether you voted for him, or agree with his politics, when speaking to your youth leadership team, or speaking on Christian leadership in general, this may be appropriate to bring up.
How does faith affect your course in the world? How does it drive you to help others? How can you lead and have influence as a follower of Christ? What do you have as a Christian that others need, and which you can show the world?
All good questions for discussion. Here is an excerpt from the article (Click pic to read article):
The US president told the national prayer breakfast in Washington that he prays for peace in the Middle East – and that he also asks for God's assistance with his 12-year-old daughter, Malia.
"Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance, where there will be boys. Lord, let her skirt get longer as she travels to that place," Obama recounted.
Obama's speech today was laced with Biblical references in his most public affirmation of his faith. With many Americans under the illusion that he might be a covert Muslim, Obama explained: "I came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace him as my Lord and Saviour."
Obama described his upbringing as "not religious", his father as a non-believer and his mother "grew up with a certain scepticism … she only took me to church at Easter and Christmas – sometimes".
It was Obama's involvement as a community organiser, "working with pastors and laypeople, trying to heal the wounds of hurting neighbourhoods", that had first led him to see himself as a Christian.


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For some reason, my computer has stopped playing video files. I try and open DVD's, downloaded video files and other movies but the computer freezes. The worst thing is that even the video files that useto work, dont work anymore. I've tried playing the video files on RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and Divx Player, but it doesnt make any difference. When i try to open the video, it seems as though it is loading but it then suddenly freezes and the whole computer crashes.
Is there any video card i may need to check or update. Any help would be appreciated as im completely stuck...thanks
Got the same problem - hope soembody can help. I just don't understand why files that used to play stop playing--it seems to hit files at random (same extension, same size, same age).
Thanks for reply. Atleast I know now that im not the only one to have this problem. I've tried updating the video drivers from the relevant websites but it doesnt make a difference. Audio files work fine, but its just the video files that have suddenly stopped working. If you do find a solution, please do let me know.
much appreciated
Try uninstalling your video card drivers,restart your pc then reistall the drivers for your board.Get the latest ones from the manufacture.
thanks for reply..to be honest, im nowhere near as technical as others when it comes to computers. how would i go about uninstalling the video drivers and then re-installing them back again?
Hi guys and happy troubleshooting! If you use the WinXP learn to use system restore before you make more damage because you download or install something that conflict with the setting for your video card.So go start/all programs/accessories/system tools/system restore and click on it.Click on restore my computer to an earlier time and go next.In the lft side of the window is a calender and in the right side is listing what you have done in that day.Click backward on dates until you see a system check point.Pick one and go next and the computer is going to restore by itself to the configuration of that date.Remeber all installations done after that date is going to be deleted. If this is too scary for you we go with the plan B: click right on my computer and choose properties click on hardware and pick device manager.You are going to see a list of your computer components and click on the + in front of the display adapter and you are going to find out your video card ex: NVidia or Ati or whatever.If you click right on it you may uninstall it or just update the driver but in order to do that exit and now that you know the type of your video card go to the manufacturer site like ati.com or nvidia.com or just Google the name of the card and once you are on the site look for the latest driver and download it.Keep the file on desktop and be sure you download also the directX 9c from Microsoft.If you just want to update the driver install first DirectX and after that the new driver.If you want to make a bigger job uninstall the video card but when you restart the Windows you may have some problem with the display resolution because the video card is not there anymore so my advice is just update the directX and the driver .Good Luck.
appreciate your suggestions....im going to try and update the video card from the manufacturers website and if that dont work, ill just restore the systems settings to an earlier date....
Dear Sir ,
I download movies from net but i am unable to open file. type of File showing 007 file. kindly suggest what i do.
If those songs were downloaded unto your computer and somehow they got deleted, then we can do a system restore to try to retreive them back.
1st thing you want to check for is to see if they are in your Recycle Bin on your desktop.
If not you can do a system restore.
If they are saved online and not your computer, you will have to call up the company you bought them from.
How to do a system restore:
1.Left click on the 'Start' button
2. on 'Search Programs and Files' type in 'System restore'.
3.. Select 'System Restore'.
4. follow the steps and restore the computer to the time before the inncodent took place (preferably the day or 2 before)
5. Wait for the computer to restore and restart (this will happen by itself once you have followed the steps.
6. When the computer restarts to the log in screen, see if the problem is gone.
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