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1. Michael Choice (OF)
Choice may not be the popular pick as the top guy in this system but I didn't hesitate in putting him in this spot. He is the epitome of a right fielder with the potential for plus-plus raw power, good defense and a solid-average arm. Though he swings and misses a lot his sound approach at the plate allows him to actualize his power in game situations. He could be a classic cleanup hitter that helps in the field as well.
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10. Renato Nunez (3B)
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11. Vicmal De La Cruz (OF)
Arguably a better pure hitter than Nunez, De La Cruz is another promising young Latin talent for the A's. With a chance to play up the middle as a center fielder with plus speed, De La Cruz could be another impact talent. He squares pitches easily and can show outstanding five o'clock home run power that scouts believe could be plus game power in time. According to the A's De La Cruz is an extremely aggressive player that is still learning how to harness himself and his abilities in game situations.
12. Collin Cowgill (OF)
Another piece received from the Diamondbacks in the Cahill deal, Cowgill could find a role in Oakland's outfield as soon as Opening Day. An undersized grinder, Cowgill still has tools that can play at the big league level. He has solid hitting ability with average power potential thanks to plus-plus bat speed. He plays hard in center field with good instincts and a decent arm. He also handles the corners well and should be a very nice fourth outfielder at the Major League level.
13. Stephen Parker (3B)
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14. Aaron Shipman (OF)
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# Missing Since: April 28, 1991 from Orangefield, Texas
# Classification: Endangered Runaway
# Date Of Birth: August 13, 1976
# Age: 14 years old
# Height and Weight: 5'7, 140 pounds
# Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes. Slaughter wears eyeglasses. She has a suture line along one of her inner calves. Slaughter's ears are pierced.
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Slaughter departed from her family's residence in Orangefield, Texas during the early morning hours of April 28, 1991. She took all of her personal belongings with her and emptied her parents' wallets. Slaughter has never been heard from again. She has a history of running away, but she had never been gone for an extended period of time in the past. Slaughter may have been accompanied by a 19-year-old Caucasian male at the time of her disappearance.
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The shape of the face of this Jane Doe kinda matches, but Jane Doe is listed as 4" shorter than Amanda. Amanda's glasses in the photo do not appear tinted so am unsure.
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* Cause of death was homicide by strangulation.
* Estimated date of death is May, 1992
* State of Remains: Somewhat advanced mummification
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* Estimated age: 13 - 17 years old
* Approximate Height and Weight: 5'1 - 5'3"; 100 - 125 lbs.
* Distinguishing Characteristics: Shoulder-length light-brown hair. The victim wore large rose / pink-colored eyeglasses, which had thick lenses.
* Clothing: She was discovered wearing a Niki Lee long-sleeved, multi-colored floral-print blouse; size 9 black denim stretch pants with black lace trim around the ankles; a black hair bow; and brown tennis shoes.
* Dentals: Available
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Shortly after 1 a.m. on May 28, 1992, Phoenix police, using tracking dogs, found the decomposing body in a desert area commonly used to dump trash, in the 2000 block of East Deer Valley Road.
A man riding an all-terrain vehicle noticed a foul odor coming from a rubbish pile and saw a hand sticking out. He called police, who used tracking dogs to find the body under a sheet of plywood.
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could be
Looks like a possibility. Height & weight estimates could be off a little on the remains found.
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Jane Doe seems to have a longer chin though....
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The Jane Doe is not Amanda. The above article gives a really detailed account of the search for Amanda. So sad - I hope she's found soon.
During a recent search through Websleuths.com, The Enterprise discovered that in January, a user with the screen name PonderingThings made a possible connection between Amanda and the body found in the Phoenix desert.
"OK. I've finished my searches and these are the possibilities I've come up with. The closest match is Amanda, in my opinion, but the chin is off. Still don't know...," PonderingThings wrote.
About a month ago, the Enterprise contacted Phoenix police about the possible connection, and investigators there then contacted Orange deputies.
It seemed the family's wait could be over soon.
But it wasn't Amanda.
The girl apparently is the daughter of a woman living somewhere in California, police said.
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Im sure the friend would have said something if Amanda had come to any harm though. It seems to me she just didnt want to be found!
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Hell Hath No Fury... Never, ever, take a phone away from a teenager.
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Amanda Gail Slaughter (14) - Orangefield TX, 1991
Amanda Gail Slaughter
Endangered Runaway -- Missing Since: April 28, 1991
Missing From: Orangefield, Texas
Height: 5'7" -- Weight: 140 lbs -- Hair Color: Brown -- Eye Color: Brown
Amanda has a suture line on her inner calf and she wears glasses.
Amanda left her family's residence in Orangefield, Texas during the early morning hours of April 28, 1991. She took all of her personal belongings and emptied her parents' wallets. That same night, another neighborhood fried of Amanda's also ran away. A year later, the friend returned home, but refused to say where they had been. She may travel to California or Washington.
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Updated Doe Network Profile November, 2011
Distinguishing characteristics and new LE contact added.
Amanda has a suture scar on her inner left calf.
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wow...there is always hope...maybe a sad ending, but hope in finding an answer to where a loved one went
May Amanda Rest in Peace. Her story is so sad, and I hope her daughter will be able to at last form a bond with her maternal grandmother.
That article was well-written, but I'm still wondering how Amanda's body was released for burial if LE didn't have (I assume) her real SSN or identifying information. Likewise, how did she get prenatal care and hospitalization when she had her daughter? One of the photos shows her shortly after she gave birth to her daughter in what is clearly a medical setting, i.e. not a home birth.<-- Watched one too many Hanna-Barbera "teenage detective" cartoons as a kid.
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In this paper, we study the auction to allocate an indivisible good when each potential buyer has a private and independent valuation for the item and suffers a negative externality if a competitor acquires it. In that case, the outside option of each buyer is mechanism-dependent, which implies that participation is endogenous. As several works in the literature have shown, the optimal auction entails strong threats to induce full entry and maximal expected revenue. This results from the full commitment assumption, which ensures that threats are credible. We show that absent credible threats, the entry process does not lead to full participation: the equilibrium entails screening of agents in the entry stage and a trade-off between reserve prices and entry fees. Besides, we discuss the conditions under which the impossibility to use threats does not prevent the seller from ensuring a minimal screening and reaching a high expected revenue.
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I am been battling with my finances for years now, and I cant seem to come out of it.My money just gets taken away as soon as I receive it. Please bless my finances, and help me improve my life. I just want to live a good, successful, more fullfilling life especially with my stressful financial situation and the bad choices that I have made.
Please grant me the finances to pay off all my loans and to live stress-free.May your name be praised.
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Page 3 of 11It's hard to imagine a more uncomfortable family dinner than the one on display in the 1998 Danish film, The Celebration. A large, wealthy family gathers to celebrate the patriarch's 60th birthday. During the special dinner his son gives a speech announcing that the father sexually abused both himself and his twin sister, who recently committed suicide. As you can imagine, the weekend-long celebration isn't quite as pleasant as planned especially with even more dirty little secrets come to light through a series of fights and accusations.
It's a relentlessly dark and depressing movie with sprinklings of the sick brand of humor that only seems to come from disturbed European filmmakers. No family gathering could possibly go worse than this, so it's a good movie to help put things in perspective. I wouldn't recommend watching it with your family though. That would be only moderately less awkward than actually living out the movie.


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I've been on the hunt for a new job and am noticing the large ratio of UI/UX Design jobs vs. regular web design jobs. I really don't have any experience with UI/UX Design (unless you can count responsive web designs with some user testing?) How can I make the jump? How can I get some experience in UI/UX? My current employer doesn't do any app or software dev...just websites. I am not even sure if I can convince someone with a freelance project that I'm qualified. I know I'm a strong designer and I know I have the capacity to learn...but it seems like all employers are looking for someone with more experience (I do have 10 years web/graphic experience...design and front-end dev...but that doesn't seem to be good enough). What are your thoughts?
Try out the methods at www.usability.gov, in any way you can. If you can't get "real" work experience on those methods, start up a project in your free time, most of these methods cost very little time and money to try out. Volunteer work is another great way if you're mostly concerned about the experience
While you want to design the UI for websites or web applications you should know the principles of the design. However, UI and Graphic design seem the same at first glance, there are some differences you should know.
The differences between UI design and graphic design comes from Interaction Design. As a graphic designer, you probably are good in visual design, but you need to be good in interaction design too.
I recommend that you just start reading every UX book you can get your hands on:
And then spend a year or so offering your services, basically below-market rates, to do a UX analysis or new product feature. Look for nonprofits, government agencies, and places that don't have a huge budget for this stuff.
I started out as a web designer and made the transition to a user experience designer. I made the transition by thinking more and more about user experience with my designs versus what looks good right now. A pretty design may get you a lot of likes on Dribbble or Behance, but a smart workflow gains you the appreciation of your users.
Read and learn everything you can. Find designers you admire and ask them questions about why they made the decisions they did.
I didn't hold an official UX designer role for almost 8 years after I first started as a designer, but it was an approach I always had with my work in some way. Start thinking about the user holistically when designing your websites. Every site has goals and tasks that are trying to be accomplished. A simple date picker is a chance to think about the UX.
Clients may not be contracting you initially for UX jobs, but start showing even on something as mundane as a contact form you're thinking through that experience.
I am a UI & UX professional working in MNC. My career has began with web designer role and part time photoshop. I worked for one year in Photoshop and web designing, with HTML, CSS, jQuery and JavaScript, then I moved to mobile app designing. I just took 1-2 months to know things about mobile app designing then I started work on web app UI designing in photoshop. After 2 year's experience I started to research over HCI and UX designing and usability and all. Few steps you can take to become a UI & UX Designer:
That's all, actually. Best one is if you get any job with UX Profile that doubles your strength. You will automatically things from your senior or team members. So, it's easy and mind driven, after all.


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This booklet examines hallmarks of the universal church, including unity and love toward God and man, giving practical shape to each characteristic as it is manifested in the local body. Because the church is the corporate dwelling place of God's Spirit and his continuing witness to the world, Savage contends that it loves the world most faithfully when it embodies what the world does not have. The church's radiant love as the body of Christ is the only sure antidote to a postmodern world mired in sin and despair and has the power to actually transform all that it touches.
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USS Bowfin
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Torpedo tubes.
Compartment Door.
Submarine Memorial.
Survivors of Pearl Harbor attack.
USS Missouri and Arizona Memorial.
How the Memorial is situated over the USS Arizona.
Arizona Memorial
Just inside the entrance of the memorial.
The far end looking back at the entrance.
Memorial Wall.
Part of the USS Arizona.
Tears of the Arizona. (oil from the engines)
Punch Bowl Cemetery.
A lot of the victims of the attack are buried here.
King Kamehameha.
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Banyan Tree
Hula dancing at the International Market Place.
Inside our hotel lobby.
Diamond Head Crater
Sun streaming through the clouds.
Waikiki Resort Hotel.
View of Waikiki Beach from our Hotel Balcony.
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Entrance into Diamond Head Crater.
Tunnel into Diamond Head.
View across Diamond Head from the top.
View from top of Diamond Head.
Diamond Head Lighthouse.
View from Hotel Room.
Beach on Maui.
One of the many bridges on the Road to Hana.
One of the many waterfalls along the road to Hana.
Seven sacred pools waterfall.
Haleakala Volcano
Wild goats.
Cinder Cone.
Our cruise ship dock at Maui.
This is one Banyan tree at Lahaina, Maui.
This is a single limb of the Banyan tree.
The trunk of the same Banyan Tree in Lahaina, Maui
A look back at the coast from our whale watching boat.
Lahaina Harbor, Maui.
Several humpback whales.
Humpback calf breach.
Monk Seal.
Haleakala Volcano.
Safari Helicopters.
Kilauea Volcano.
Lava cones near the crater.
Active lava breakouts.
Pu'u O'o Crater
Skylight over lava tube.
Whats left of Jack Thompson's house.
Pu'u O'o Crater.
Lava splashing inside the crater.
Coast just below Kilauea.
Waterfall from helicopter.
Flying back into Hilo.
Snorkle pictures.
Dark fish are Brown Surgeon and the stripped are Hawaiian Sargent fish.
Mix snorkel ans scuba and you get snuba.
Yellow Tangs.
Trigger fish.
Sargent fish center.
Moorish Idol fish
Moorish Idol.
Yellow tang center.
Blue Bullethead Parrot fish. (center)
White Spotted Puffer fish.
White Spotted Puffer fish.(just right of center)
Sea Urchin.
Yellow Tang.
Various fish.
Triggerfish (center)
Another Triggerfish.
Trumpet fish.
Orangespine Unicorn Fish.
Sea turtle.
Spinner dolphins.
More spinners.
Bottlenose Dolphin.
Nawiliwili Lighthouse, Kauai
Waimea Canyon
Multicolored Lantana.
A small shop in Kauai
Niihau shell leis from the private island. Some of these leis are worth thousands of dollars.
Niihau shell leis. ( the shells are collected from the beach an assembled by hand.)
The cheapest necklace I saw was around $475 and they were about half the length of these and only one color shell.
Kauai chickens are everywhere.
Spouting Horn.
Red Hibiscus
Mr. Smith our Luau host.
The pig pulled from the ground.
Entertainment during the feast.
Hula dancer.
Hula dancers.
Samoan Fire Knife Dance.
Various cultures make up the Hawaiian family.
Safari Helicopter.
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COLCHESTER — When the Burlington Chamber Orchestra formed in 2007, its mere existence was a landmark. It was the first time there were enough professional string players in the greater Burlington area to make such an ensemble even a possibility.
Saturday at St. Michael's College, the orchestra achieved another milestone, proving itself capable with excellent performances delivering a powerful and beautiful musical message.
It's no accident that this evening of inspired performances came during what has come to be an annual residency by violinist Soovin Kim, a product of the Vermont Youth Orchestra — as are many members of the BCO — who has gone on to an international solo career.
The concert (which was repeated Sunday afternoon) culminated with Mozart's gloriously lyrical Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364. Violinist Kim and violist Mary SangHyun Yong, a fellow Marlboro Music Festival alum, proved outstanding soloists, delivering just the right combination of expressiveness and restraint to deliver the work's sublime Classical power.
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The concert opened with Kim and BCO principal players performing the String Sextet from Richard Strauss' opera "Capriccio," Opus 85. While the lines weren't always clear, Strauss' trademark quirky harmonic and rhythmic lyricism was delivered with warmth and depth. It's an intriguing work that was played convincingly.
The program was rounded out by lyrical works of Edvard Grieg, "Badnlat" from Two Lyric Pieces, Opus "Kulokk & Stabbelaten" from Two Nordic Melodies, Opus 63. Led by Kim, the BCO strings performed warmly.
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George, now 51, was arrested in August 2007, after a detective reopened the cold case, and convicted seven months later of first-degree murder and insurance fraud, among other counts, and sentenced to life in prison. However, the judge later set aside the verdict, citing prosecutorial misconduct — George's mug shot was shown to the jury — and the release of new evidence that could lead the jury to believe another person was responsible for the murder. His retrial began Sept. 14, and should conclude this week. Prosecutors contend that George staged the killing to look like a robbery so he could collect money from an insurance policy and a shared estate, and start over with another woman. George insists he was asleep at the time of the shooting, and that his wife was the victim of a robbery gone wrong. [Daily Tribune]
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"I think, without wishing to sound like a deposed dictator or a mob boss, that I'd like to take the Fifth and at this point say I reserve my position and say I have no comment to make. […] It's not something that I'd personally like to see happen. I sense you're drawing me a little off the position of not commenting on it, so I think I'll kind of leave it like that. What I would say is, intrinsic to the whole idea of Watchmen is that they existed in a world that was the way it was because of their existence. And I think to transplant them into another world actually removes a huge part of what is the essence of Watchmen."
– Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons in an interview with CBR TV,
addressing perennial rumors about a sequel to the landmark 1986 miniseries, and the possibility of the characters being integrated into the DC Comics universe
Say the name Liam Sharp to a group of comic readers and it's bound to bring up different images for each person. To some he's best known for the early '90s Marvel UK series Death's Head II, while others think Judge Dredd and even others remember his ill-fated comic company Mamtor from a few years back. Although Mamtor failed to become a lasting presence, it featured impeccable work (and design from Tom Muller) that is a great back-issue find if you're so lucky. And at Comic-Con International over weekend, Sharp announced his new publishing outfit — Madefire Publishing.
Launching as a digital-first comics publisher, Madefire is intended to be a modern-day equivalent of the comics from Sharp's childhood — "cheep, accessible entertainment," as he's told Bleeding Cool. Using the wide user base of smartphones, Madefire's digital comics app hopes to touch into both the hardcore fan, the lapsed fan and the future fan with their line-up of titles.
In addition to his own project Captain Stone is Missing, Sharp has assembled a great line-up of creators for the effort, including Mike Carey and Dave Kendall's Houses of the Holy and a new series called Treatment written and drawn by Dave Gibbons (!!).
No word yet on when their first projects will be released, but I'll be keeping my ears up looking for more information as its announced.
As we noted a week ago, Sam Humphries and Steven Sanders self-published a science fiction comic called Our Love Is Real, which subsequently sold out in print in nine hours. A second print is on the way (that's the cover you see to the right) and it's still available digitally through their website or comiXology.
Humphries, a former Robot 6 guest contributor and my fellow panel member in San Diego next week, agreed to share a list of what he considers to be some of the great science fiction comics. Note that he chose not to use the words "best" or "favorite" to describe the list. "'Favorite' or 'best' implies more commitment than I'm ready to give," he said.
So without further ado …
Six great science fiction comics, by Sam Humphries
1. AKIRA by Katsuhiro Otomo
A giant of science fiction, often imitated, never surpassed. At its heart is a tale of a bromance gone wrong, two best friends who carve their years of brotherhood and resentment across Tokyo, Japan, and the Moon. The anime adaptation is superlative, but the manga, sprawled across six thick volumes of meticulously drawn, hi-octane pages, is a true monumental achievement. I'll be gunning for this No. 1 spot 'til I die. G.O.A.T.
Watchmen #7 (1986), page 16. Dave Gibbons.
Dream sequences are always a lot of fun. The comics medium nails dream states on a regular basis better than any other medium, in my opinion. Something about it is perfectly pitched to depicting that particular mental activity. Maybe it's because we dream "in comics" a lot of the time — science tells us that the amount of actual moving images we see in dreams is relatively small compared to the number of still images that flash one after another through our minds, linked into continuity by the imagination. The narratives we create while dreaming exercise the same thought processes we use to read comics, so perhaps it's no wonder that seeing dreams drawn into comics form feels so right, so familiar.
Dream comics so often means formalist comics — the call to produce a convincingly different state of consciousness gets inside the layouts at least as often as the boxes themselves, the actual mode of working altered to reflect it. The dream sequence is a chance to push boundaries and try things, to cut loose or bring a little something extra. The Dave Gibbons page above is one of the all-time great dream scenes, up there with Jim Steranko's psychedelic muraling in Captain America and Winsor McCay's all-time champion fantasies on Little Nemo.
There's a weird little sequence in the middle of DC Universe: Legacies #3 when the narration's timeline goes all hazy and oblique, in order to move the story from sometime in the Eisenhower/Kennedy years right into the "X years ago" of modern continuity. Because Legacies tracks some sixty-five years of costumed crimefighting, this sequence bridges the gap between the Justice Society's retirement and Superman's debut.
"Hazy and oblique" are also good words for describing DC's approach to long-term continuity. The history of the DC Universe is well-settled up to the early 1950s, but past then it becomes elastic. This is something we've come to expect: fudging the calendar keeps our heroes both as experienced and as youthful as they need to be. However, each passing year also widens the gap between the end of the Golden Age (early '50s) and the beginning of the Silver (thought to be 12-15 years ago). Through reader-identification character Paul Lincoln,* DCUL's writer (and longtime DC favorite) Len Wein aims to put a human face on all those four-color adventures.
That sounds like the premise of 1994's Marvels and its spiritual descendant Astro City. Really, though, any halfway-entertaining super-survey needs a narrator with a recognizable point of view. Even 1986's History of the DC Universe, which was basically a series of George Pérez pinups arranged in chronological order, took its florid prose ostensibly from Harbinger's meditations on the nature of heroism.
No, seriously! Those are Scalped and Ultimate Captain America writer Jason Aaron's exact words to the legendary Watchmen and From Hell scribe (and fellow beard enthusiast) in Aaron's latest "Where the Hell Am I" column for CBR: "Go fuck yourself, Alan Moore." Apparently the writer took Moore's spate of angry and dismissive comments about the comics industry — spurred most recently, in straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back fashion, by unpleasant dealings Moore had with former collaborator Dave Gibbons over DC's potential publication of Watchmen sequels — very personally:
The great cartoonist and critic Frank Santoro is once again tackling grid-pattern panel layouts, and this time he's talking about arguably the most famous nine-panel grids of all: Those used by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in their stone-classic superhero dissection Watchmen. Here's a sample that includes an insight about the art in that book that had never occurred to me before:
Alan Moore, whose tumultuous relationship with DC Comics is legendary, claims the publisher offered this week to return the rights to his most famous creation — in exchange for a concession.
"They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels," Moore told Underwire today. "So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked. But these days I don't want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don't want it back under those kinds of terms."
Rumors circulated earlier this year that the departure of Paul Levitz as president and publisher of DC cleared any in-house obstacles to further use of the Watchmen characters. However, Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee tell Underwire the company "would only revisit these iconic characters if the creative vision of any proposed new stories matched the quality set by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons nearly 25 years ago, and our first discussion on any of this would naturally be with the creators themselves."
Moore, who created the groundbreaking 1986 miniseries with Gibbons, stopped working for DC in 1989 following disputes about Watchmen royalties and a proposed age-rating system. When WildStorm, which published Moore's America's Best Comics line, was sold to DC in 1998, the writer was assured of an editorial firewall protecting him from the parent company's interference. However, there were still conflicts, most infamously the pulping of The Legion of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5, which contained an authentic vintage advertisement for the Marvel-brand douche.
Moore, who has refused royalties from film adaptations of his work, says he no longer even has a copy of Watchmen in his house. "The comics world has lots of unpleasant connections," he tells Underwire, "when I think back over it, many of them to do with Watchmen."
• Apple is getting in on the Comic-Con pre-show hype by highlighting all their comic book applications within iTunes. In their "App Spotlight" newsletter, they wrote: "We're dusting off our Klingon costumes — it's time for Comic-Con. From Marvel Comics favorites to more recent releases such as Twilight: The Graphic Novel, you can now enjoy comics and graphic novels from past and present right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch."
• The Comic-Con International site this year introduced a scheduling feature that allows you to pick and choose the panels, films, etc. you'd like to attend, and then export them to your mobile device of choice. In addition, it also shows you how many people have indicated which panels they plan to attend, which is a fun way to see how popular certain panels are.
My wife used it over the weekend; it took her about half an hour to set up, browse the extensive schedule, make her selections and subscribe to it so she gets updates directly on her iPhone calendar (the bulk of that time was going through the schedule and deciding what she wanted to attend). At the time, it looked the Glee and Joss Whedon panels were the most popular.
Leading up to today's DC editorial panel at WonderCon, Alex Segura shares some news that editor Ian Sattler will talk about — that J.H. Williams III, Dave Gibbons, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Rags Morales and Dan Jurgens will all contribute to the DCU: Legacies title.
Announced back in December, Legacies is a ten-issue miniseries written by Len Wein that, according to DC's co-publisher Dan DiDio, " breaks down, over its chapters, the five generations of the DCU. They're very concise generations, each with a beginning and end, and what you see is the various incarnations of our characters evolve, change and grow as the generations pass on." Each issue is being drawn by a different artist.
Andy Kubert and Joe Kubert were announced as the art team for the first issue, and we'd heard before that Williams would be working on the title as well — his issue will feature the Silver Age Seven Soldiers. That's Gibbons' cover to issue #3 above.
Highlights from the upcoming week, drawn from the CBR Events Calendar. To submit an event, go here.
Today: At 2 p.m. PST Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, The Originals) will host a free webinar on Manga Studio, teaching aspiring and professional artists how to create illustrations using the software. Space is limited to the first 500 people who register here. More details can be found here. (Manga Studio is a sponsor of Robot 6.)
Thursday: Legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer will speak about his new autobiography Backing Into Forward: A Memoir from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City.
Friday: The third annual Comicpalooza opens at noon at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Comics guests include Phil Foglia, Rob Liefeld, David Mack, Jim Mahfood, David Malki, Humberto Ramos, Ben Templesmith, Ethan Van Sciver, J.H. Williams III and Bernie Wrightston. The event continues through Sunday.
Friday: Toronto Comic Con Wizard World kicks off at noon at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto. Comics guests include J. Bone, Adi Granov, Phil Jimenez, Dale Keown, Leonard Kirk, Yanick Paquette, Gail Simone, Cameron Stewart, Ty Templeton and J. Torres. The event continues through Sunday.
Pamela Mullin over at Vertigo's Graphic Content blog posted a teaser today for an upcoming project with a very impressive line-up of talent involved with it. That line-up includes Jim Lee, Rebekah Isaacs, Fabio Moon, Ryan Kelly, John Paul Leon, Lee Bermejo, Philip Bond, Eduardo Risso and Dave Gibbons.
So what is this mysterious project? Well, Pamela's staying quiet on the details, but my own investigations* have turned up the fact that it's related to Brian Wood's DMZ. No doubt Pamela will have more details soon.
Robot 6 confirmed this morning that writer Mark Millar and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons are looking to join forces on a possible creator-owned series, as reported by Rich Johnston on his new blog.
However, Millar says the details of the project are off the mark.
"Rich [is] totally wrong," Millar told Robot 6. "This series I'm announcing in summer is someone else, though Dave and I [are] talking about doing SOMETHING in about a year. No idea what or where it is yet."
Asked if the project he's announcing at Comic-Con International is his long-rumored project with Civil War and "Old Man Logan" collaborator Steve McNiven, Millar said: "No, that's already semi-official. Have another one we'll announce, too, which might be even bigger. Should be a big summer."
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Original post made by Lucy, Midtown, on Jan 27, 2008
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a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 28, 2008 at 8:09 am
Jesus Ramos park has also been closed for renovations. It was supposed to reopen in November. It has just been reopened and the fences removed this last weekend, that's two month behind schedule.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 28, 2008 at 8:17 am
If you walk up to the park and there is a sign says the project should be ended on 1/31
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jan 28, 2008 at 8:58 am
How did you find the improvements? My JLS student used to ride his bike through this park everyday on his way to and from school and I hadn't realised it was now open.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 28, 2008 at 10:20 am
Resident: For the many thousands of dollars the City invested in Jesus Ramos park, it looks just the same. However, I understand they installed a whole new watering system, then they had to relay the lawn areas.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 29, 2008 at 9:34 pm
The answer to Hoover Park:
In talking with staff, they claim that the park will be open in the next 2 weeks. They have been delayed because of the rain. Installing new picnic tables was planned to be near the end of the project. They have been installed. I predict the park will re-opne mid-February.
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