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The Endless are a family of seven anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts, around whom much of the series revolves. From eldest to youngest, they are:
All debuted in the Sandman series, except Destiny, who was created by Marv Wolfman and Berni Wrightson in Weird Mystery Tales #1 (1972).
These inhabitants of the Dreaming are often former gods, myths, and even ordinary human beings who later became dreams.
Cain and Abel are a pair of fictional characters in the DC Comics universe based on the Biblical Cain and Abel adapted by editor Joe Orlando with Bob Haney (writer) and Jack Sparling (artist) (Cain), and Mark Hannerfeld (writer) and Bill Draut (artist) (Abel). They were depicted together in Abel's first appearance, and they parted to their respective Houses at the end of the story, the House of Secrets having been recently moved, with Cain promising things not to go the way they happened before. Although Cain would abuse Abel, he was not shown killing him until Swamp Thing vol. 2 #33. In Sandman, at least; Cain is shown to kill Abel quite often.Before The Sandman Originally they were the respective "hosts" of the EC-style horror comic anthologies House of Mystery and House of Secrets, which ran from the 1950s through 1983—Cain debuting in House of Mystery #175 (1968) and Abel in DC Special #4 and House of Secrets #81 (both 1969). During the 1970s, they also co-hosted the horror/humor anthology Plop! They were also both recurring characters in DC's Elvira's House of Mystery (1986–1988).
In 1985, the characters were revived by writer Alan Moore, who introduced them into his Swamp Thing series in issue #33, retelling the Swamp Thing's original origin story from a 1971 issue of House of Secrets. Jamie Delano also occasionally used them in a cameo role in his title Hellblazer.
However, it was Neil Gaiman's series The Sandman that more fully developed the "reinvented" characters into more mature, post–Comics Code version of themselves, and who helped fully drag them out of obscurity.In The Sandman In Gaiman's Sandman universe, the biblical Cain and Abel come to live in the Dreaming at Dream's invitation. This is based on the verse in the Bible which says that Cain was sent to live in the Land of Nod.
They live as neighbours in two houses near a graveyard, Cain in the broad House of Mystery and Abel in the tall House of Secrets. According to their appearance in Swamp Thing, the difference is that a mystery may be shared, but a secret must be forgotten if one tries to tell it.
Gaiman's Cain is an aggressive, overbearing character. He is a thin, long-limbed man with an angular, drawn face, glasses, a tufty beard, and hair drawn into two points above his ears. He has been described as sounding "just like Vincent Price."
Gaiman's Abel is a nervous, stammering, kind-hearted man. Abel is somewhat similar in appearance to Cain, with a tufty beard and hair that comes to points above his ears, though his hair is black rather than brown. He is shorter and fatter than Cain, with a more open face. It is eventually learned that the only time he does not stutter is when he is telling a story or when he is dead.
Cain frequently kills Abel in a kind of macabre form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, re-enacting the first murder. In the Dreaming, Abel's death is impermanent, and he seems to recover after a few hours. Cain seems unable to control his frequent murders of Abel, and occasionally expresses remorse over them; there is a genuine bond between the two, beneath the surface contempt. Abel remains dedicated to Cain, and frequently dreams of a more harmonious relationship between the two.
Cain and Abel own a large green draconic gargoyle named Gregory, who also made his debut in House of Mystery #175. In the first appearance of the characters in Sandman, issue #2, Cain gives Abel an egg that soon hatches into another gargoyle, a small golden one. Abel is delighted and names the gargoyle "Irving," but Cain forcefully insists that the names of gargoyles must always begin with a "G." When Abel resists, Cain murders him. After Abel revives, he renames the gargoyle "Goldie," after a friend of his who "went away." Goldie was an invisible/imaginary friend to whom Abel told his early House of Secrets stories, but the idea was eventually dropped. A letter in issue #91 was attributed to Goldie, who claimed that it was her depicted on the cover of issue #88.
The main function of Cain and Abel throughout The Sandman is as comic relief. However, the two play significant (though not key) roles at several points in the series; it is they who take Dream in until his strength is restored following his 72-year-long imprisonment. In the fourth story arc, Season of Mists, Cain is sent to Hell to give a message to Lucifer because the Mark of Cain protects him from all harm. Cain and Abel also aid The Corinthian with the child Daniel during The Kindly Ones, the penultimate story arc of the series. Abel is also one of the victims of the Furies in this series, and is brought back to life by the new Dream.
The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman. His first appearance is in the second story arc, The Doll's House.
The Corinthian is a creation of Dream. His most notable physical feature is his lack of eyes; in their place, two rows of small jagged teeth line each eye socket. The Corinthian often wears sunglasses to cover this up. He is an ambitious, amoral nightmare who is fond of eating eyes with his two additional mouths, and can acquire some of the memories of the former possessors of eyes he eats. He is also able to talk out of any of his three mouths, causing a disconcerting effect.
The Corinthian departs from the dreamscape during Dream's period of captivity, and spends his time hiding out and gathering power in the real world. However, Dream eventually catches up to him shortly after saving Rose Walker from harm. Dream states that the Corinthian was his masterpiece,
Instead, Dream finds his creation has walked the earth for about forty years, playing the role of a serial killer who eats the eyes of young boys and gathering the support of numerous other serial killers. Dream had created the Corinthian as a nightmare that would show humanity its own dark nature, but the Corinthian had done nothing more than commit gruesome murders in his forty years of freedom, doing little to inspire fear on a grander scale in the world. Dream therefore considers the Corinthian to be a failure, and when the Corinthian challenges him for survival, Dream "uncreates" him with no difficulty, saving only one of the Corinthian's skulls for later use. He remarks that the next time he creates the Corinthian, he "shall not be so flawed and petty."
Dream does eventually recreate the Corinthian in The Kindly Ones. The new Corinthian only shares some of his original self's memories, and seems to have a different personality. This new, seemingly gentler Corinthian helps rescue and protect Daniel just before Morpheus dies. In the process, he battles, defeats and eats the eyes of Loki, who, along with Puck, was holding the child hostage.
An exact double of the Corinthian's skull appeared in the treasure chest of Daniel Hall during his brief 'JLA' appearance, suggesting that perhaps the Corinthian was dismantled again, or else simply didn't use any elements of his predecessor in constructing the new one.
Keen-eyed viewers may spot a brief Corinthian reference in Alice Cooper's video clip for "Gimme".
Eve originally appeared in Secrets of Sinister House #6 (August–September 1972), drawn by ? Sederer and Michael Kaluta Eve; she was the series' principal host, often in stock images, usually with her raven. She became the principal host of Weird Mystery Tales with issue #15, Destiny having moved to Secrets of Haunted House as principal host. In Plop!, Eve, Cain, and Abel each tell one story per issue. She also makes a few appearances in House of Mystery and House of Secrets. In her early appearances, she appears only as a crone, is often referred to as a witch, and has a tendency to be snappy and mean. In her first appearance, she scares Cain and Abel, and shouts at them, "Get out of the kitchen when it gets too hot, you cowardly mortals! Old Eve doesn't care..." Her letter column, which was answered in character, was called "Witch's Tales".
In Weird Mystery Tales #3 (November–December 1972), Destiny insisted that Eve, Cain, and Abel are not their Biblical counterparts, whom he says he prefers. When she is shown in Sandman #2, Lucien's comment about her addresses her unfriendly nature prior to Dream's return, stating that she confines herself to nightmares.
She is one of the many representations in The Sandman of the triple nature of womankind (maiden, mother and crone), based on the three distinct "Eve"s in some versions of the Genesis story: the arrogant Lilith, an unnamed virgin, and Eve herself. As such, while she is an individual with her own personality, she is also one another representation of The Three, along with the Fates, Graces, Gorgons, and Furies. This is comparable to the way the series' protagonist, Dream, is on one level a character in his own right, and on another level merely a symbol or representation of the larger concept of dreams.
Eve lives in a cave in the Dreaming, and is often accompanied by Dream's raven. The first Raven, Lucien, taught her how to bury Abel after Cain murdered him and she has been accompanied by a Raven ever since. She is kind and has a maternal nature. Most of the time she appears as a black-haired woman of indeterminate age. However, her appearance also mirrors her triple nature; she sometimes shifts between being a young, attractive maiden, a middle aged mother, and an elderly crone. These changes are directly related to the distance she is from the mouth of her cave.
In The Sandman vol. 1 #4, the Nightmare Wizard is shown as a conjurer of children's nightmares that Garrett Sanford believes are excessive, stating that they cause the deaths of the dreamer. Although implicitly male, the character looks like the crone Eve as she appears in The Sandman. A more likely association is the witch Hepzibah in Supergirl vol. 1 #10, who looks identical to Eve's 1970s appearances, and using dolls, tries to use Supergirl to kill Prez Rickard.
It was noted that Gregory did not appear in The Kindly Ones, even though a few key scenes focused on Cain and Abel's Houses, and then reappeared in The Wake. Theorists have presumed that this was because he had been slaughtered by the Kindly Ones. Although numerous references to the name Gregory appear in this collection, most, if not all, are references by the predominant artist for The Kindly Ones Marc Hempel to his own comic series named Gregory.
Goldie also appears for a short scene in The Doll's House, in which he is sitting upon Abel's shoulder as Lucien asks Abel about the inhabitants of the house. He later appears throughout issue #40, "Parliament of Rooks", and briefly at the beginning of Brief Lives. He also accompanies Abel in The Kindly Ones, and is with him when he gets murdered by the Furies, crying when his owner is killed. He is later seen playing with Daniel.After The Sandman Goldie's life took a sharp turn in The Dreaming, a Sandman spin-off series not written by Gaiman. In "The Goldie Factor," Abel is yet again killed by Cain, and Goldie grows angry, and, after spitting acid onto Cain's boots — almost getting Abel killed again — the gargoyle leaves for the outer Dreaming.
Upon learning that Goldie is missing, Cain reveals how he found Goldie: during the years of Dream's absence, he bought a golden gargoyle egg from a door-to-door merchant. However, somehow the egg managed to get him to give it to Abel, and was "persuasive" with Cain. This is indeed admirable; the only way to force Cain to do something would be to threaten him, and most characters in Sandman have avoided ever attempting to do so.
Cain and Abel go to Lucien to learn more, and Lucien informs them that only one person had been looking for Goldie before, a man with no arms or legs. However, in the book in his library on golden gargoyles, the page concerning what they guarded had been torn out. Meanwhile, Goldie stops in at the Labyrinth Cafe, only to meet a man with no arms or legs named Tempto. Tempto recognizes Goldie's power and enlists her services.
Cain and Abel seek the advice of Eve, who tells them that the limbless man, Tempto, was the serpent at the Garden of Eden who had tempted her into eating the forbidden fruit, thus causing her to be thrown out of Eden. In the continuing search for Goldie, Cain discovers new things about himself and his brother, such as that he had founded the first city and named it after his son, Enoch, and that when Abel dies, he becomes a completely different person, with no stutter or timid personality.
Goldie, in the company of Tempto, enters the Garden of Eden. Tempto then "corrects" the original passage from the Bible, bringing Adam back from the dead and annihilating everything except Eden. Eve, however, realizes what is happening and tries to eat the forbidden fruit by herself. Before she can do this, however, Goldie touches the trees, grows to an adult form, and returns everything to normal.
Cain and Abel reappear along with everyone else, and Tempto makes a quick escape after they try to catch him. Goldie is led by Eve to a pile of golden gargoyle bones, and Eve explains that gold gargoyles are built not to protect buildings, but to protect creation stories, such as Genesis and the story of Prometheus. To prevent Tempto from trying the same thing again, Goldie must build a nest out of the bones of her mother and ancestors, and give birth to and raise the next guardian. There is a tearful farewell between all of the characters, and Goldie is left behind at Eden.
At the end of the story, Cain and Abel sit at home. Cain, possibly for the first time in his life, wishes to cheer Abel up, and so he gives him a present: the gold and silver apples from the tree in Eden. However, this only depresses Abel further, and so Cain grows angry and asks Abel if he wishes to be put out of his misery. Abel replies, "Muh-Maybe".
Stunned, Cain rebukes him, saying that that's not how it works, that he kills Abel because he wants to. Abel says that Cain wanted him to be happy. Cain grimaces, and plunges a knife into his brother. When Abel awakes, he notices that he is not dead as usual. Instead, he's in the middle of the desert. He hears an "awk", and runs into the arms of a fully-grown Goldie.
Meanwhile, Cain looks over the temporarily dead Abel, and mutters: "Strange... I've never seen him look so happy and peaceful. I don't know why, but... I'm almost scared."
Like Cain and Abel, Lucien, created by Paul Levitz, Nestor Redondo, and Joe Orlando, was originally the host of a 1970s "weird tales" comic, specifically the three-issue Tales of Ghost Castle (May/June–October 1975). In that series, he is portrayed as the guardian of a castle in Transylvania abandoned by both sides during World War II , watching over its forgotten library with his companion, a werewolf named Rover. In his first appearance in Preludes and Nocturnes (issue #2) this is retroactively revealed to be Dream's castle.
Lucien is the effective keeper of the Dreaming in Dream's absence, and becomes one of Dream's most faithful and trusted servants after proving his loyalty by never abandoning his post during that period. His primary function is to protect the Library, wherein are contained all the books that have ever been dreamt of, including the ones that have never been written. The titles of some of these books, many of which are sequels to real works, are visible.
In issue 68, it is revealed that Lucien's existence in the Dreaming began as serving the role of Dream's first raven. An allusion to "Mr. Raven", the ghostly librarian in George MacDonald's novel Lilith, may be intended. Being that Lucien was the first raven, it has also been theorized that he could be the first man (Adam).
In issue #9, Morpheus assigns Lucien to do a census of the Dreaming. He identified four denizens who left during the 72 years of Dream's imprisonment. Thereafter, Morpheus gives Lucien more and more responsibility, until he becomes a sort of Prime Minister of the Dreaming. When Mervyn Pumpkinhead questions Morpeus' decision to give Lucien such authority, Morpheus responds that Lucien remained at his post and did his best when Morpheus was imprisoned, implying that Mervyn isn't as responsible.
Matthew is a character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic series. He is the raven companion of Dream of the Endless.
Matthew was originally Matthew Cable, a long-time supporting character in the Swamp Thing series, but because he died while asleep in the Dreaming, he was offered the chance to become a dream raven and serve Dream if he wished, and he accepted.
Matthew is not the first of Morpheus' ravens. Former ravens include Aristeas of Marmora, who returned to his life as a man for one year at one point, and Lucien, the first of the ravens. The purpose of the ravens is debatable. Morpheus seems to keep the ravens around out of some sort of unspoken need for companionship, though he also sends them on occasional missions.
Matthew's word balloons and font style are scratchy and uneven, probably to represent a hoarse, cawing voice, and perhaps as an indicator of his crude, smart-aleck personality. Underneath his frequently irreverent manner, Matthew is actually very loyal to Dream, and he is one of the characters who takes it the hardest when Dream perishes, initially seeking release from his service, but eventually coming to terms with his loss and choosing to remain as Daniel's raven.
Mervyn, or Merv, as he is better known throughout the series, is Dream's jaded, street-wise, cigar-smoking janitor. As his name implies, he has a pumpkin for a head, and his overall appearance is similar to that of a scarecrow combined with a jack-o'-lantern. He resembles Jack Pumpkinhead of L. Frank Baum's Oz books.
Mervyn apparently drove a bus in dreams for a time during Dream's extended absence, and is first seen in Preludes and Nocturnes when Dream hitches a ride with him and chats for a while. Merv is in charge of the construction, maintenance and demolition work in the Dreaming, though he sometimes complains that his job is superfluous since Dream can change any of it at will. One issue of the "Dreaming" spin-off comic focuses on a dreamer who enjoys working under Merv's supervision.
Mervyn was one of the few who actively took up arms to fight the Furies in The Kindly Ones but is easily killed. He is returned to life by the new Dream in The Wake.
In a past incarnation shown in The Wake, Mervyn was seen to have had a turnip for a head instead of a pumpkin, either as a result of Dream's alterations to his servants or, more likely, due to the changing cultural dreams and myths of societies over the centuries. It is William Shakespeare who sees Mervyn with a turnip for a head, and he would probably not have known of pumpkins, an American plant. Turnips, on the other hand, were well-known in England at the time and were carved as a part of the Celtic festival that inspired Halloween. Mervyn also at one point was given a pumpkin pie for a head when he briefly lost his own. This occurred in Mervyn's spin-off from The Sandman called "Merv Pumpkinhead: Agent of Dream" in the spinoff "Taller Tales". It is possible that other creatures would see other appearances, and perhaps even personalities, associated with Mervyn, and with many other residents of the Dreaming. This has at least been confirmed in the case of Dream himself.
The Basanos is a living Tarot deck created by the seraph Meleos to duplicate the divining power of Destiny's book. They are incredibly powerful due to the fact that they control probability, making whatever outcome they desire not only likely, but inevitable.
After escaping from Meleos, the Basanos take possession of Jill Presto, a cabaret worker. Lucifer Morningstar seeks them out for a tarot reading, which they grant.
When Lucifer creates his new universe, the Basanos move to take control of it so that they can breed (something that is impossible in The Creator's cosmos). Though initially successful in their plan, forming an alliance with Lucifer's enemies, their ability to control random chance is severely limited by Lucifer's creation, and Lucifer is able to outmaneuver them. Lucifer finally gives them an ultimatum: destroy themselves or risk letting the egg they laid in Jill Presto die. The Basanos choose death and extinguish themselves.
Basanos is Greek for touchstone. Such a touchstone may be a piece of slate used to test gold, or it may be a metaphor for torture or torment to test truthfulness. Why Meleos chose this name for his creation is unknown.
Once a major goddess, the loss of her believers over time has significantly reduced her powers. She is quite flirtatious with Dream, and seems to have previously developed a mutual attraction with him which ultimately came to nothing. He sometimes goes to her for advice or companionship. Dream is almost affectionate with her, and in her own words she adores him.
Bast has also appeared in issues of Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl, as well as in Gaiman's novel American Gods. She is one of the chief goddesses worshipped by the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall.
However, despite these indications that all the mythologies in the Sandman are ultimately subordinate to the Judeo-Christian God, Gaiman has on several occasions stated that he never intended the Creator to be any specific religion's god, just as he makes it clear in the first appearance of the abode of the angels, the Silver City, that it "is not Paradise. It is not Heaven. It is the Silver City, that is not part of the order of created things." However, the Silver City is very often referred to as "Heaven" in the Lucifer comic book series.
In that series, one of the critical turning points is The Presence's abandonment of his Creation, which leads to a large number of problems, including struggles to claim the power that the Creator has abandoned, to make the destruction of the universe inevitable and to the slow unraveling of the universe due to the disappearance of the Name of the Creator written on every atom in existence. This is an ongoing storyline in Lucifer.
The Presence is referred to as the creator in JLA stories involving the fallen angel Zauriel.
He is temporarily freed from his punishment by Odin to help with their negotiations for the rulership of Hell. He manages to deceive Odin and Thor into taking another ambassador in his place using his illusionary powers, but fails to fool Dream. Dream says that although his victim must be freed, he allows Loki to go free, and will place a dream-illusion in Loki's place.
Loki returns in The Kindly Ones. He works with Puck to kidnap Daniel, and harbours deep resentment about being in the debt of Dream. The Corinthian and Matthew eventually find Daniel, and Loki takes on the form of the Dream. The Corinthian is not fooled, and strangles Loki who assumes the form of a monstrous dragon, then that of The Corinthian himself, then Daniel, then his own. The Corinthian knocks him unconscious. He then consumes Loki's eyes. Loki, now blind, is taken by Odin and Thor back to his punishment. He attempts to goad Thor into killing him, but Odin prevents this, leaving Loki to his fate worse than death.
Loki appears, when in his own form, as a tall, thin man with yellow eyes and long red hair that resembles flames.
Loki is based on the Norse god Loki.
Odin is based on the Norse God Odin.
The Three represent the female principle, prophecy, and mystery, and they are often a vaguely menacing and enigmatic presence in the series. As a three-in-one mystical being, they can be seen as contrasting with the commonly-used triple-male Trinity. Indeed, legend and mythology play a much larger role throughout the series than religion does, though some segments suggest a supreme monotheistic God at work behind the scenes.
Common incarnations of the Three include the Erinyes (Furies) in their vengeful aspect and the Moirae (Fates) or Weird Sisters in their divinatory aspect. They also sometimes subtly appear in the form of other characters (such as Eve) or groups of characters.After The Sandman The Three later appeared in a graphic novel named Witchcraft, in which one of their priestesses in ancient Rome, Ursula, is set upon and raped by barbarians. She is then reincarnated three times, followed by the witches, and raped again three times by reincarnations of the barbarian leader until the modern age, when she comes back as his mother-in-law.
The Three eventually decide on a suitable punishment for the barbarian: that he would be reincarnated as each of the priestesses he had raped, in order, with the exception of Ursula. He would never know what was happening until the moment of death, at which point it would start all over again.
The Three are satisfied, and in the end tell Ursula that her grandchild will be beautiful, demonstrating a rare instance of apparent empathy.
He was cast out after Lucifer abandoned Hell, and made the mistake of threatening and attacking Dream to try to gain ownership of it. Dream keeps him in a bottle in a chest of trinkets and mementos.
He is based on the demon Azazel.
He had possession of Dream's helm, but lost it in a challenge. He later reappeared briefly as one of Azazel's tactics to gain ownership of Hell.
He is based on the demon Choronzon.
Choronzon appears in 52 #25 (Late October 2006).
Duma is a fallen angel from the DC Vertigo series The Sandman.Before The Sandman Duma's name means "silence", and he is based on the angel Duma from Jewish mythology. In those tales, he is the angel of silence and death's stillness. According to these same stories, he is the guardian of Egypt and the prince of vindication. Based on this, one could speculate that he was the angel who killed the firstborn Egyptians in Moses' time. Some sources also name him a "Prince of Hell," which would mean that at some unknown point in time he displeased God and fell from grace.
The Zohar, a book of Jewish mysticism, describes his position in Hell as such that he had "tens of thousands of angels of destruction" under him, and that he was "chief of demons in Gehinnon with 12,000 myriads of attendants, all charged with the punishment of the souls of sinners."
Dumah is also the name given to the guardian of the 14th gate, through which the goddess Ishtar passed on her journey to the underworld in Babylonian mythology. Dumah may or may not be related to Duma.In The Sandman It is unknown how much of Duma's background from Jewish mythology was actually incorporated into the character by Gaiman. Many theories and interpretations have been put forward, but nothing is concrete.
In Season of Mists, we find that Lucifer has closed down Hell in frustration, handing off the key to the bemused Dream. Eventually, after much squabbling between various gods, Duma and Remiel receive a message saying that they are to watch over Hell. Remiel immediately rejects it, but Duma silently accepts the key, and the guilt-stricken Remiel joins him in ruling Hell. Remiel subsequently attempts to redesign Hell, transforming it from a place of punishment to a place of rehabilitation for lost souls, but Duma's interest in these changes is unknown, as is his true opinion on many things.After The Sandman Following the end of the The Sandman series, Remiel and Duma lose ownership of Hell in a complex sequence of events in the Lucifer spin-off series. Duma eventually allies with Lucifer and Elaine Belloc in the battle to save creation. It is he who persuades Hell's new ruler Christopher Rudd to bring his army to Heaven's aid at the Battle of Armageddon plain.
Lucifer is the Miltonian former ruler of Hell, a charming, intelligent, and utterly ruthless fallen angel.
He is one of the most powerful beings in existence, said at one point to be surpassed only by his Creator.
He is based on the fallen angel Lucifer, whose story was created by John Milton in his Paradise Lost.
Neil Gaiman also used the character Lucifer in his short story 'Murder Mysteries'. In this format, Lucifer was a captain of the Silver City, with Azazel as his protege.
From the book, "Hanging out with the Dream King" (a book consisting of interviews with Gaiman's collaborators), one of Gaiman's artists, Kelley Jones, states that Lucifer is based on David Bowie, image-wise. In the interview, Jones states the following:
"...Neil was adamant that the Devil was David Bowie. He just said, 'He is. You must draw David Bowie. Find David Bowie, or I'll send you David Bowie. Because if it isn't David Bowie, you're going to have to redo it until it is David Bowie.' So I said, 'Okay, it's David Bowie.'..."
When Lucifer resigned, Mazikeen left Hell and ended up following her master, becoming part of the staff at the "Lux" (Latin for light, and the first root word in "Lucifer"), an elite Los Angeles bar that Lucifer had opened and played piano at. To conceal her demonic nature, she covered the deformed half of her face with a white mask and rarely spoke.After The Sandman In the ongoing comic book series Lucifer, Mazikeen is a devoted ally of Lucifer Morningstar and the war leader of the Lilin, a race descended from Lilith. A fearsome warrior and a respected leader, Mazikeen is a prominent character in the Lucifer comics. She has the appearance of a human female with long black hair.
In Lucifer, Mazikeen's face was turned fully human when she was resuscitated by the Basanos following the destruction of the Lux in a fire. This was because the vessel of the Basanos, Jill Presto, did not realize that Mazikeen's face was naturally deformed, and assumed that it was burned in the fire.
When Lucifer refused to assist her in restoring her face to its former state, she defected to her family, the Lilim-in-Exile. As their war leader, she led their army against Lucifer's cosmos, allying herself briefly with the Basanos. However, this was a ruse; after a desperate gamble, she bought Lucifer enough time to destroy the Basanos and regain control of his creation. Lucifer then accepted her into his service once more and made the Lilim-in-Exile the standing army of his universe.
Lucifer ultimately restores Mazikeen's half-skeletal face shortly before departing the known universes, gifting Mazikeen with his celestial fire.
While reigning in Hell, Remiel attempts to organize the domain into a great soul-cleansing machine. However Remiel never fully gets over his fall from the Silver City and tries to return the keys to Lucifer, in The Kindly Ones.
It is suggested that Remiel was a silent supporter of Lucifer, in The Kindly Ones, during Lucifer's revolution against the creator, in Remiel's conversation with Lucifer at the Lux. Remiel's weakness of character is apparent in their conversation.After The Sandman Following the end of the Sandman series, Remiel and Duma lose ownership of Hell in a complex sequence of events in the Lucifer spin-off series. At the end of the series, Remiel tries to rebel against Elaine Belloc, refusing to accept her as God's successor. When he tries to kill Gaudium and Spera, friends of Elaine's, she steps in and puts him in his own Hell until he gets his act together.
Robert "Hob" Gadling is a human who was granted immortality and meets with Dream once every hundred years.
The manner in which he becomes immortal is complex and abstract. Hob's unending life began in a pub named the White Horse in 1389 when he simply declared that he "had decided never to die." Death agrees, at Dream's request, to forego her responsibilities in Gadling's case. Whether Death does this out of respect for her brother's whim or Gadling's conviction remains unsettled.
In The Wake, Death meets Gadling at a Renaissance Fair; out of respect for her late brother Dream she offers to end his six-hundred-year life, but Gadling refuses.
After traveling through Hades, losing his beloved (twice), and being torn apart by the Bacchanae (the beloved madwomen of Dionysos), as in the legend, Orpheus spent a long time traveling around the world as a disembodied head. Johanna Constantine helped rescue him from Revolutionary France. He was eventually "put out of misery" by his father, an event which fulfilled the prophecy of Desire, Dream's sibling, that he would spill family blood and trigger a sequence of events leading to his destruction. The vengeance of the Furies was brought upon Dream for the mercy-killing of his son, Orpheus, in 'The Sandman: Brief Lives'.
Thessaly is the last of the millennia-old witches of Thessaly. She makes her first appearance in A Game of You, in which she is shown to be an amoral, cold-blooded, proud, and ruthless character, though not a malicious one. She proves extremely willing to mercilessly hunt down and kill anyone who threatens her, and she seems to be concerned primarily with her own advancement and survival.
When the Cuckoo of "The Land" of Barbie's dreams threatens to kill Barbie, Thessaly and Barbie's friends venture into Barbie's dreams to save her. However, Thessaly is driven more by her pride and her own self-preservation than by any desire to help Barbie. She ends up being tricked by the Cuckoo and is almost trapped forever in a desolate archipelago of the Dreaming along with Barbie's friends until Barbie wishes for their safe return to the waking world.
Thessaly returns in the later volumes, where she is Dream's lover for a time, but this relationship ends unhappily for both and is never actually shown in the series. When it is alluded to in Brief Lives Thessaly is never mentioned by name, so only in The Kindly Ones is this romance revealed. Also in The Kindly Ones, Thessaly provides Lyta Hall with protection and sanctuary from Dream, who is being targeted for death by the Furies, using Hall as a vessel.
When Lyta wakes up after Dream's death, Thessaly calmly advises her to leave. Thessaly suggests that many people, including herself, would be more than happy to murder Lyta for her part in Morpheus' destruction. In The Wake, Thessaly expresses some remorse for her actions.
Thessaly also is the star of two spin-off comic series, The Thessaliad and Thessaly, Witch for Hire written by Bill Willingham. In the spin-offs, Thessaly (under that name) and her companion, a ghost named Fetch, first set out to tackle various gods of the underworld who want her dead. Later she is unwillingly pressured into a monster-killing contract.
She is alluded to in the Faction Paradox series, in the character Thessalia and her protege Larissa.
Later, Hettie worked in the series The Dreaming, in which it was discovered that she had dealings with Destiny, Johanna Constantine and President Thomas Jefferson.
The Dancing Girl: Ishtar or "The Dancing Girl" is last on Delirium's list of immortals or long-lived humans who were "friends of" Destruction and who Delirium and Dream seek information from in Brief Lives. Ishtar is initially introduced as a tall, dark-haired dancer in a strip club and a friend of fellow dancer Tiffany; later she is revealed to be a current form of an ancient Babylonian goddess, a past lover of Destruction, and a source of the conflict between Destruction and his family (especially Dream, who seems to have opposed the relationship). After sending Tiffany away, Ishtar eventually dances one last time, unmasking her ancient power and causing many of her audience to suffer physical harm from watching her. Finally she makes the building explode as she presumably goes out of existence.
A shapeshifter through glamour, the Cluracan is brother to Nuala, the Dream King's fairy servant. An amoral, gay (in both the literal and modern sense of the word) rogue, Cluracan features in Season of Mists, Worlds' End, The Kindly Ones, and The Wake. He is strongly reminiscent of the "trickster" archetype also associated with Loki.
The Cluracan is based on a drunken leprechaun of Irish mythology, the Cluricaun.
Nuala is a faerie gift to Dream at the end of Season of Mists. She is beautiful initially, but Dream takes her faerie glamour away, leaving a small, brown-haired, plain-looking girl in place of the beautiful blonde faerie woman.
From this point on, Nuala takes on the housekeeping duties of the Dreaming, only stopping when her brother Cluracan brings her back to Faerie in The Kindly Ones. When she leaves, Dream granted her with a boon as a reward for her years of servitude, allowing her to call on him if she needs to. Nuala had been nursing a crush on Dream for some time, so she finally calls him, asking him to love her. Dream is unable to do this, but he says that he can at least "send you a dream of my love." Nuala responds, "I already have that, my lord."
Auberon is a character in the comic book series The Sandman and The Books of Magic. He is seen for the first time in Sandman#19 as Auberon of Dom-Daniel, and again in several issues of The Books of Magic and in the Books of Faerie miniseries.
The character is implied to be the inspiration for Oberon of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The character is implied to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's Titania (Fairy Queen) in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is some speculation that she in the past was a lover of Dream's, although this is never explicitly stated.After The Sandman Titania is also a major character in the comic book The Books of Magic, of which the first four issues were written by Gaiman, and its spin-off series The Books of Faerie.
In the latter series, it is revealed that she is not a fay, but a human girl who crossed over into the fay realm and was then adopted by the current queen of the fay. She appears to be a fay due to an enchanted circlet she stole when the last queen was transformed into a tree by her husband. She is also the most powerful human sorceress alive, which simply aids in her deception. Despite this arcane power, it was revealed that she is illiterate, and so regularly uses Dream's library because its special properties allow its users to read books in any language, including those they cannot speak.
The inspiration for the character is shown to be the Puck of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, but within the context of the series, the character in the play was inspired by Puck.
He is the son of Roderick Burgess, mother unknown (but probably Ethel Cripps, and therefore half-brother of Doctor Destiny). He is taught by his father, and takes part in his rituals. Upon Roderick Burgess' death, Alex inherits his estate, including his magical order. He keeps Dream imprisoned, as his father did, trying to bargain for power and immortality in exchange for his release. The Order enjoys a resurgence in popularity in the 1960s, but by the 1970s it is in decline again. Alex passes ownership of the Order on to his boyfriend, Paul McGuire (formerly a gardener at the estate), and becomes obsessed with his prisoner and with his father. Finally, in 1988, Dream's guards fall asleep, and Dream escapes. He puts Alex into a nightmare of "eternal waking," in which he is forever dreaming he is waking up, and each waking degenerates into another horrible nightmare. This nightmare lasts for years, ending only with Dream's death in the ninth collection in the series, The Kindly Ones.
Alex is quite tall and near-sighted. He has brown hair which he wears in a variety of styles throughout his life, but by old age he is bald and has come to resemble his father very closely. His relationship with McGuire is deep and heartfelt, but his obsessions with his father and with Dream eventually come to rule his life. In The Wake, he appears again as the child that we see in his first appearance.
Alex is in many ways a tragic figure, perhaps the first statement of the theme that Desire explores in The Wake: "The bonds of family bind both ways." Had Alex not been born the son of his father, inheriting the imprisoned Dream, his life might have been much happier. However, he is finally able to find some measure of fulfillment in his old age, following Dream's death.
His name almost certainly derives from Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, the protagonist of which is named Alex, but could also be a nod to Aleister Crowley, whose original middle name was Alexander and who was mentioned in the first issue.
Roderick Burgess (1863–1947) was the Lord Magus of The Order of the Ancient Mysteries. Born Morris Burgess Brocklesby and known also as The Daemon King, his magical fraternity was based in "Fawney Rig" in Sussex, and was initially funded by his inherited industrial wealth. Burgess is a magician rather in the vein of the real Aleister Crowley, and within the DC world is Crowley's rival.
The series begins with Burgess' attempt to capture and bind Death, which fails, capturing Dream instead. Burgess keeps Dream trapped in a glass globe for the rest of his (Burgess') life, attempting to bargain with Dream, but Dream remains silent. Burgess dies of old age still attempting to get a response out of Morpheus. His order passes on to his son, Alex.
Burgess is a bald-headed, slightly pot-bellied man with a large hook nose and something of the look of a gypsy about him. He is ultimately self-centred; his sole purpose for the Order is to bring money and power to himself, and he is consumed by his desire to achieve immortality. His relationship with his son is only briefly touched on, though it is implied that it is unhealthy, with Burgess pushing his son to spend his life pursuing his father's dreams.
This was stolen and hidden in the future by the wanderer, Mad Hettie. Hettie both blackmailed ('I knows about you and the little Corsican') and bribed Johanna for her silence, promising her that she would live to age 99.
This Johanna performed successfully, dying by getting out of her wheelchair, while listening to the singing of her old companion, Orpheus.
Johanna is presumably intended as an ancestor of John Constantine, although this has not been explicitly stated.
She is also mentioned in the Doctor Who novel The Man in the Velvet Mask, set in an alternate post-Revolutionary France.
John Constantine is a con man and magician who accompanies Dream on a quest to find his pouch of sand.
John Constantine has his own series, John Constantine: Hellblazer, which occasionally has guest appearances by Cain and Abel. He is also prominently featured in another series, Swamp Thing, from which he originated.
Her last joy was her son, John Dee, whom she sought for 10 years. She discovered that he had become a living corpse. Despairing, she killed herself by removing the one thing keeping her alive—an amulet in the shape of an eye which granted its user protection.
Once dead, this and the Sandman's Ruby was entrusted to her son after stealing it from Ruthven Sykes, who had stolen it from Roderick Burgess, who had stolen it from Dream.
John Dee, also known as Doctor Destiny, is a DC Comics villain whose powers were derived from his use of Dream's Ruby. His name is almost certainly a reference to the real-life John Dee. He was incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, with other Batman villains such as The Scarecrow and The Joker, until freed by the amulet given to him by his mother, Ethel Dee, former mistress to Roderick Burgess. He had previously fought the Sandman (Garrett Sanford) alongside the Justice League.
John originally named himself 'Doctor Destiny' to protect his mother's surname, but after her death changed it back. The Ruby had drained away his mental and physical state until he was no longer able to sleep or dream without it. This had the unpleasant effect of turning him into a browned, living corpse.
Being able to control dreams, he used the ruby to bring out the 'darkness' and 'bestiality' of many people across the world. He had no purpose in doing this. To quote: 'I think I'll dismember the world and then I'll dance in the wreckage.'
While doing this, over a period of 24 hours he focused the energy of the ruby on several people in a cafe, one of them a friend of Rose Walker. He used them as puppets, horribly having them murder and degrade each other as if toys, until all were dead.
Dream double-bluffed him into destroying the ruby, which Dee believed to be Dream's life. It actually only stored some of his energy, and with it released Dream instead became even more powerful than before. Easily overpowering Dee, Dream decided not to destroy him, and instead returned him to Arkham. Dee was finally able to sleep.
He has since appeared in Justice League and Justice Society stories, having retained some residual power from the ruby.
In A Game of You, Foxglove is going out with Hazel McNamara, and the two help Thessaly rescue Barbie.After The Sandman In Death: The Time of Your Life, Foxglove has become a pop superstar after being seen by a promoter in Death: The High Cost of Living. She is raising a child with Hazel named Alvie. Alvie dies of cot death, leading Hazel to make a deal with Death. However, even in the world of the Endless there's no such thing as a free lunch, and another character's life has to be sacrificed for the child's.
Daniel is the son of Lyta Hall, and the successor to the role of Dream of the Endless.
Hippolyta "Lyta" Hall is a major character in The Sandman, the mother of Daniel.
She has a son, Alvie, from her one heterosexual encounter. It is likely that Alvie is named after Wanda (see below).
In Death: The Time of Your Life Alvie dies of cot death and Hazel makes a deal with Death to bring him back.
It is later learned that the father of this child was Desire. Unity was supposed to be a "vortex of Dream," a special entity that appears only very rarely, with the ability to connect the dreams of other beings, a dangerous ability that can eventually cause the destruction of The Dreaming. The only time Dream is allowed to take a human life is to kill a vortex. Desire's intervention confuses the issue, and eventually Unity's granddaughter, Rose Walker, becomes the vortex. Desire does this so that Dream will be forced to kill a person of family blood, thus bringing the vengeance of the Furies on him.
However, just before Dream can kill Rose, Unity appears, explaining that she should have been the vortex, and asks for Rose's heart. The heart is a red glass one (remniscient of the green heart-shaped piece of glass that appears in the opening tale of this series). Taking the heart, Unity becomes the vortex, and dies.
Unity is of medium height, with reddish-brown hair that she wears long and loose in the self-image she uses in the final dream-meeting between herself, Rose, and Dream; as the old woman we meet at the start of The Doll's House, she has grey hair and wears a curiously old-fashioned dress. She seems kind, and smiles a lot.
Prez Rickard appears in a single issue as the ideal President.
He is Roderick Burgess' second-in-command of the Order of the Ancient Mysteries until November 1930, when he steals a number of treasures (including Dream's helmet, ruby and pouch of sand) and £200,000 in cash from the order and flees to San Francisco with Roderick's mistress, Ethel Cripps. In December 1930, he trades the helmet to the demon Choronzon for an amulet that looks like an eyeball on a chain. This amulet protects him from the magics of Burgess until 1936, when Ethel Cripps leaves him, taking the amulet with her. He is then killed.


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At the end of April, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seemingly changed its stance on net neutrality.
If you're not acquainted with the concept, here's what you need to know. The FCC created the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data equally — not charge different rates based on user, content, site, platform or application. ( I wrote about this last month).
- January 14 – The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules in response to a suit filed by Verizon.
- February 19 – The FCC said it would not appeal the decision, but would craft new rules to prevent disparate pricing. This was seen as a benefit to heavy content providers — companies like Netflix — who were paying a premium to reach their customers at the highest speeds.
SEE ALSO: 8 tips for creating strong passwords (and still remember them)
- April 23 – The FCC, in a seeming total stance shift, signaled it would propose new rules that would allow big companies (like Netflix or Amazon) to pay ISPs for special, faster lanes to deliver content more speedily to consumers. The Internet exploded with negative commentary from a variety of sources.
- May 15 – To mitigate backlash, the FCC launched a "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" seeking public comment on how best to protect and promote an open Internet.
- June 3 – Comedian John Oliver did a 13-minute net neutrality segment on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. He urged viewers to comment, and the resulting activity crashed the FCC's website. More than 45,000 comments were posted and more than 300,000 emails were sent to a special FCC inbox. (The highest number of formal comments received by the FCC had been 2000.)

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From Ursula C. Schwerin Library Research Guides
High-quality open access curricular materials are increasingly available online, and can provide an alternative to traditionally-published, high-priced textbooks. This guide will help faculty incorporate freely-available open access and public domain resources into courses.
City Tech Efforts
- The First Year Writing @ City Tech site on the OpenLab collects resources and materials related to teaching writing and learning about writing instruction.
- City Tech Digital Reader for English Composition, created by Johannah Rodgers (English) & Anne Leonard (Library), curates texts and essays that are freely-available on the internet on a variety of themes for use in writing and literature courses.
- The Precalculus textbook written by Thomas Tradler and Holly Carley (Math). A PDF version is available for free download and a print version to purchase from Lulu.com.
- The Readings and Viewings page on Anne Leonard's course site for LIB 1201 Research & Documentation for the Information Age shows how readings from the internet and those in library databases can be linked to for student use.
Best Practices and Guidelines
- The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare from the Center for Social Media at American University is designed to help those using materials in their open courses to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. This covers options for using materials that may be under copyright; that is, they are not open educational resources, but might be able to be used in courses under fair use.
- Ethan Wattrall, an anthropologist at Michigan State University, wrote a great short piece for the Prof Hacker blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education covering some Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course.
Open Textbooks and Other Open Content
Repositories of open textbooks, courses, and learning objects:
- Open Course Library is a collection of faculty-developed open educational materials (textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments) managed by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.
- Connexions, developed at Rice University, offers open college course content including text and multimedia in lesson-sized modules that can be used as-is or combined into textbooks.
- The OER Commons, developed by the non-profit Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is a repository for open educational resources for students from preschool through college developed at schools around the world.
- The Open CourseWare Consortium website provides a search engine for open college and university‐level educational materials organized as courses.
- The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, which emerged from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, offers a list of open textbooks and other open educational resources by subject as well as peer reviews of many to assist faculty in choosing material for their courses.
- MERLOT, a long-standing project out of the California State University system, is a peer-reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials.
Open access texts & books
- The well-established Project Gutenberg website offers free downloadable versions of books in the public domain and those in which the copyright has expired.
- The Online Books Page hosted at the University of Pennsylvania lists over a million free books on the web across a variety of subject areas.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists free open access scholarly journals worldwide, and is browsable and searchable by subject or discipline.
- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has compiled this useful Directory of Open Access Databases that lists research and scholarly databases available free to anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation.
- The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a portal to over 5 million texts, images, primary sources, and other materials from libraries, museums, and archives across the U.S.
Copyright and Fair Use Tools
- The Digital Copyright Slider created by the American Library Association's Office of Information Technology Policy can help you quickly determine if material is likely to be copyrighted.
- The Fair Use Evaluator, also from the ALA, can help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under copyright law.
Design and Authoring Tools
- The City Tech OpenLab can be used to create and display course materials for any department or course at the college.
- This Digital Learning Tool Kit from the edited volume Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy offers links to many tech tools for creating and using open educational resources.
- Gimp is an open source image editing tool akin to Adobe Photoshop.
- The Creative Commons search engine is a great place to find copyright-free images and other media for use.


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Repost from 2010...
Of all the pictures out there of these two guys this is what was selected for the headline...and the media continues to insist they're impartial...it's disgusting.
I went ahead and fixed it for Yahoo...I'm that kind of guy...
Lord, grant me the intelligence liberals have to better understand how tax-funded jobs can pay more than tax-providing jobs, and be sustainable......why does my head suddenly feel so empty?
See the original chart, sans visual aides, at PowerLine
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Repost from 2010...
Inspired by this story from The Hill
From Doug Ross
It took a while to remember, but that lame joke Obama made about crying over spilled milk during the State of the Union reminded me of this graphic I made in 2011..
The answer isn't much of a shocker, but it's kind of fun getting to it.
This was posted with the question in the title at Free Republic. Some retorts were really funny (see them here), this one is by far the winner:
"A nice putt, a nice butt and a nice mutt."Add a comment
You won't like him when he's angry...
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What would a Shepard's pie or cottage pie be classed as?
A fair point, they have no pastry topping or base so don't meet my definition. However, they ARE a filling and topping combination, which a pizza still is not.
I'm still not gonna give on pizza's being pies. That's just an Americanism, and we all know we can't trust you guys on pies. You make sweet pumpkin pies and those things are VILE!


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Kent State doctoral student, Ryan Marek, interviewedPosted Aug. 28, 2013
Dr. Denise D. Ben-Porath, an Associate Professor of Psychology at John Carroll University, and Ryan Marek, a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Methodology at Kent State University, were recently interviewed by Dug Dug.
Mr. Marek's personal program of research is currently focused on the role of psychological assessment in behavioral medicine. He and Dr. Denise Ben Porath recently published the paper, Targeting premeal anxiety in eating disordered clients and normal controls: A preliminary investigation into the use of mindful eating vs. distraction during food exposure. The article appears in The International Journal of Eating Disorders.
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author3 wrote:Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series
I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series
LilMaibe wrote:I must admit I stopped reading the watch books after Jingo. Granted I read Nightwatch, but 5thE, Thud and now Snuff don't strike me as interessting. I will try to read Snuff, for the sake of it, but I am not looking forward to it.
There just nothing that really sets the watch-, or better Vimes-, majorly, books apart from the procedurals you have on tv or older police/detectivenovels.
Never understood what people find so neat 'bout Vimes anyway.
Bouncy Castle wrote:Perhaps she thought the Watch books were a typo, and a continuation of the Witch books?
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For now Fedor, let's see if Jones can also have such a big streak.
For now Fedor, let's see if Jones can also have such a big streak.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
Depending on were you set the standards at you can make a case for any one of them, but Fedor is my pick for so many years and did it respectfully. GSP may end up with the longest streak though
Rickson. He's only like, a bazillion and oh.
Aldo's current streak isn't worth a mention? If Jones was knocking off former champions and perennial contenders from the HW division, dana would be having PRgasms all over the interweb. But because Aldo is quietly doing business--not ducking fights, not even boasting huge length advantages over most of his opponents--nobody notices him. He's what, on a 15 or 16 win streak? More than half of them stoppages? One title defense less than Jones [and that's counting the MW's Jones "defended" against] and a better all-around skill set, in a much, much more competitive division. Nonsense.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
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Aldo, to me, should be a lot higher on everyone's list of impressive winning streaks, p4p rankings, etc
Aldo has dispatched 2 LW already (Florian, Edgar) and was in line to face another (Pettis). He's fighting guys from a higher division, who are coming down to challenge him, and he accepts with no whining and crying. HIs skillset is amazing to watch, beating all around fighters from both FW and LW division.
I think Fedor holds the greatest win streak ever for now. Jose Aldo and Jon Jones have put in quite a bit of work in their respective streaks as well though.
I wanted to give a mention to Renan Barão though.
30 wins, with a 66.7% finish rate. (14 Subs, 6 (T)KO's)
Only career loss was his first pro fight.
Unbeaten streak began in May 2005.
One No Contest, and if that goes against him he still has a 20 fight win streak.
He may not have the same quality of opponents as Fedor, Jones, Aldo or GSP, but I can't fault him for that. They keep putting people in front of him, and he keeps winning. I cannot wait to see him face Dominick Cruz, provided he beats Eddie Wineland.
Why can't we look at someone like Cruz right now for this?
Sure he is only on a 9 fight winning streak but of those 9 fights, 6 of those were against Top 5 fighters in his weight class. Something no other figher has even come close to doing. Fedor never fought 6 Top 5 HWs in a row, Wandy never came close to fighter 6 Top 5 LHWs in a row, neither has GSP and has Silva even fought 6 Top 5 peope period?
I do not think he should be considered the best winning streak (only 9 wins) but as far as beating Top guys each time out no one else is close.
Dude, Im a wrestler. Im the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. Thats all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
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Four pros will film a trick. The Pros involved are Shane O'Neill, Ishod Wair, Peter Ramondetta, Chris Cole and mystery skater for the final grand prize round. This month's pro is our mystery skater, Nyjah Huston. Voting will end at 11:59 pm on October 17th. The combination of the number of "Votes" a video receives in addition to Editor's/Pro's choice will determine the winners from the highest vote getters.
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Not so long ago we listened to music on the go with a cassette-based Walkman and, later, a portable CD player. Inevitably, you'd have to untangle the magnetically coated tape from the grasps of your heavy Walkman or restart your CD after going over a major bump in the road while riding in the backseat of your parents' car. As we celebrate the 11 years of the Apple iPod, it's hard to believe what we were putting up with before it arrived.
The iPod wasn't exactly the first of its kind; there were six MP3 players on the market before it came along. But in the first ever iPod promotional video, DJ and musician Moby said he'd owned three and couldn't figure out how to use any of them. With the iPod, "I held it, and 45 seconds later, I knew how to use it," Moby said.
The iPod may have seemed revolutionary but it got its start back in 1979. British inventor Kane Kramer created the first digital audio player, called the IXI, which was able to play about one song. The prototype was shelved when Kramer couldn't market it successfully and his patent expired in 1988. Kane did get credit, though, when Apple ran up against patent issues in 2007 and brought him in to testify. "To be honest, I was just so pleased that finally something that I had done which has been a huge success and changed the music industry was being acknowledged," Kramer told The Daily Mail. "I was really quite emotional about it all." Though even with his place in digital music history, he admitted he couldn't bring himself to buy an iPod.
That certainly doesn't stop more than 350 million others who have purchased iPods, though, and those iPods hold albums of tunes from the 26-million-song iTunes library. In this story, we reflect on the iPods through the years, along with that year's chart-topping songs, courtesy of Billboard. Let's start the countdown.


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By stillhippy
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Comments about Nashbar S2 Shorts:
Most shorts are too thick for me or the lite ones wear out instantly. Just the right weight. Med was a little snug but wearing nicely. Easy care! dries faster than paint *()
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By mort
from mid-Atlantic area
very comfortable
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my favorite bike shorts so far
By njmtnbkr
from NJ
so far so good, only shorts I like better are my cannondale liners that I wear under long pants.
Excellent shorts at any price
By NJ Longhorn
from Somerset County, NJ
I bought these shorts on clearance and expected to use them only when my other, more expensive shorts are dirty. But when I tried them on, I was shocked at how comfortable they are. The shammy seemed to be cushy where it needs to be but not too bulky. The fabric felt supportive but not restrictive. The seams were unobtrusive.I decided to give these shorts a real test by wearing them for the second day of back-to-back centuries this weekend. I never thought about the shorts again until I finished the ride. No numbness, no chafing.I plan to buy another pair or two. What a great find!
Excellent fit/ comfort, poor durability
By PJ
from NY
Got one pair, loved the fit/ comfort so got another, then another. Found that over a short period of time all were wearing/ tearing at the seam where lycra met the pad. At first I thought one or two pairs were defects, but they all ended up wearing/ tearing at the same general location. Definitely NOT my saddle as a cause. I wear other shorts without issue.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Great Shorts
By Uncle Drew
from Pleasant Lake MI
I just finished my first 103.6 mile ride and these shorts were awesome. No issues with quality or comfort with these shorts. I am 6'2" 195 and the XL fit perfect. I would buy these again and highly recommend these to anyone looking for a good short at a good price.
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By Bob A.
from Glastonbury,ct
About Me Casual/ Recreational
This is an excellent product, what I really like about it is the lower profile padding in the front, so the 'boys' are not being squished.
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very nice shorts
By Old rider
from Cape Coral, Florida
I ride 5 or 6 days a week between 20 and 60 miles each ride and found these shorts to be very comfortable. I have ridden in both hot and wet weather and would recommend these to any one. I ride both a road bike and a mountain bike.
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Feel as comfortable as any high end shorts I have ever purchased before. Used them for the first time on a 60 miler with a cat 1 and cat 5 22 mile climb, felt great!Would buy another pair and recommend them. I am an avid cyclist and am always looking to be more comfortable on longer rides.
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I've had many different road bike shorts over the years and this product is excellent. A good tight fit without being uncomfortable. Provides excellent protection from chafing, etc.
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The theory makes the most sense under assumptions of constant returns to scale and the existence of just one non-produced factor of production. These are the assumptions of the so-called non-substitution theorem. Under these assumptions, the long run price of a commodity is equal to the sum of the cost of the inputs into that commodity, including interest charges.
Historically, the most well known proponent of such theories is probably Adam Smith. Piero Sraffa, in his introduction to the first volume of the "Collected Works of David Ricardo", referred to Adam Smith's adding up theory. Smith contrasted natural prices with market price. Smith theorized that market prices would tend towards natural prices, where outputs would be at what he characterized as the "level of effectual demand". At this level, Smith's natural prices of commodities are the sum of the natural rates of wages, profits, and rent that must be paid for inputs into production. (Smith is ambiguous about whether rent is price-determining or price determined. The latter view is the consensus of later classical economists, with the Ricardo-Malthus-West theory of rent.)
David Ricardo mixed such cost of production theory of prices with the labor theory of value, as that latter theory was understood by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk and others. This is the theory that prices tend toward proportionality to the socially necessary labor embodied in a commodity. Ricardo sets this theory at the start of the first chapter of his "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation". Ricardo also refutes the labor theory of value in later sections of that chapter. This refutation leads to what later became known as the transformation problem. Karl Marx later takes up that theory in the first volume of "Capital", while indicating that he is quite aware that the theory is untrue at lower levels of abstraction. This has led to all sorts of arguments over what both David Ricardo and Karl Marx "really meant". Nevertheless, it seems undeniable that all the major classical economics and Marx explicitly rejected the labor theory of price ().
A somewhat different theory of cost-determined prices is provided by the " neo-Ricardian school" of Piero Sraffa and his followers.
The Polish economist Michał Kalecki distinguished between sectors with "cost-determined prices" (such as manufacturing and services) and those with "demand-determined prices" (such as agriculture and raw material extraction).
One might think of this theory as equivalent to modern theories of markup-pricing, full-cost pricing, or administrative pricing. Ever since Hall and Hitch, economists have found that the evidence gathered in surveys of businessmen support such theories.
Most contemporary economists accept neoclassical economics or mainstream economics. The non-substitution theorem is presented in graduate level microeconomics textbooks as a theorem of mainstream economics. Also many mainstream economists think they can justify theories of full-cost pricing within their theory. The majority of mainstream economists would probably then accept this theory as an element in their theory which does not give adequate attention to issues of consumer demand and marginal utility.
In economics, returns to scale and economies of scale are related terms that describe what happens as the scale of production increases. They are different terms and are not to be used interchangeably.
(The diminishing of utility should not necessarily be taken to be itself an arithmetic subtraction. It may be no more than a purely ordinal change.)
The notion that marginal utilities are diminishing across the ranges relevant to decision-making is called "the law of diminishing marginal utility" (and also known as a "Gossen's First Law"). However, it will not always hold. The case of the person, dog, and roses is one in which potential uses operate independently — there is no complementarity across the three uses. Sometimes an amount added brings things past a desired tipping point, or an amount subtracted causes them to fall short. In such cases, the marginal utility of a good or service might actually be increasing.
There are many different accounts of labor value, with the common element that the "value" of an exchangeable good or service is, or ought to be, or tends to be, or can be considered as, equal or proportional to the amount of labor required to produce it (including the labor required to produce the raw materials and machinery used in production).
Different labor theories of value prevailed amongst classical economists through to the mid-19th century. It is especially associated with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Since that time it is most often associated with Marxian economics; while among modern mainstream economists it is considered to be superseded by the marginal utility approach.


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Tractors live forever mobile phones die all the time!
I have 3G and it is not good but i'v signed a 12month contract so have to stick with it until i can go back to broadband.
I know this thread was started so jason could say he was away but
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Marcelle Twin-Over-Twin Bunk Bed
Marcelle's linear design, rectangular shapes and antique grey finish pay homage to the simplicity and restraint of late 18th-century furnishings, while the padded linen upholstery ensures lasting comfort for modern-day kids.
- Expertly crafted with a kiln-dried, solid hardwood frame using mortise-and-tenon joinery
- Liberally padded and upholstered in stain-resistant sand linen inside and out
- Tailored, cotton-twill trim with exposed, hand-hammered upholstery tacks reflect artisan tailoring
- Features a ladder and 2 guardrails for top bunk
- Ladder can be positioned on right or left
- Antique grey finish is carefully rendered and distressed using a hand-applied 16-step process designed to achieve the look of a weathered antique
- Imperfections are to be expected, and are part of the wood's character
- Tapered legs are gently fluted, giving a subtle nod to the ordered symmetry of Classic columns
- Diamond carving detail atop each leg corner
- Slat roll on bottom bunk designed for a twin mattress; top platform designed for use with our Low Profile Plush Mattress
- Converts to two twin beds
- Includes nylon glides on feet
- This item is handcrafted with meticulous care. Given its hand-finished nature and natural variations in the wood grain, each item is unique and no two will be exactly alike.
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends that top bunks not be used for children under 6 years of age
- Wipe with a soft, dry cloth. Avoid direct sunlight and heat to protect the finish.
- Wood swatch is 6" square; free shipping
- GREENGUARD Gold Certified. Meets or exceeds stringent chemical emissions standards. Learn more.
Marcelle Twin-Over-Twin Bunk Bed
- Twin-Over-Twin Bunk Bed (with Ladder): 47"W x 79"L x 72½"H
- Twin-Over-Twin Bunk Bed (without Ladder): 44"W x 79"L x 72½"H
- Clearance Under Bunk: 7¼"H
- Upper Bed (Converts to Footboards): 44"W x 79"L x 33½"H
- Lower Bed (Converts to Headboards): 44"W x 79"L x 39"H
- Twin Bed When Converted to Two Beds: 44"W x 79"L x 39"H
Marcelle Twin-Over-Twin Bunk Bed
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