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The HBO series "Girls" has been a trending topic all year, but in one sense it's nothing new. Created, written, and directed by the twenty-six-year-old Lena Dunham, who plays the wannabe memoirist Hannah Horvath, "Girls" is merely the latest in a set of culture-rattling narratives about young women, each of which has inspired enough bile to overwhelm any liver. Among the most famous is Mary McCarthy's novel "The Group," from 1963, with its scene of a humiliated girl sitting in Washington Square Park with her contraceptive "pessary." Women clung to that book like a life raft, but "The Group" was sniffed at by Norman Podhoretz as "a trivial lady writer's novel," while Norman Mailer called its author "a duncey broad" who was "in danger of ending up absurd, an old-maid collector of Manx cats." (Lady writers, beware of men named Norman.)
This dialectic recurs again and again. There was Rona Jaffe's dishy potboiler "The Best of Everything," from 1958; Wendy Wasserstein's plays of the seventies and eighties (a sweeter vintage); and Mary Gaitskill's collection of kinky short stories, "Bad Behavior," from 1988. (Not to mention the work of Sylvia Plath and every song by Fiona Apple and Liz Phair.) These are stories about smart, strange girls diving into experience, often through bad sex with their worst critics. They're almost always set in New York. While other female-centered hits, with more likable heroines, are ignored or patronized, these racy fables agitate audiences, in part because they violate the dictate that women, both fictional and real, not make anyone uncomfortable.
Like "Girls," these are also stories about privilege, by and about women who went to fancy schools. Wasserstein's awesomely strange early play "Uncommon Women and Others" features the Hannah Horvath of Mount Holyoke: fat, sharp-eyed, horny Holly Kaplan, making late-night phone calls to a man she's barely met. "The Group" was about Vassar graduates in lousy marriages to leftist blowhards. "The Best of Everything" starred Caroline, a Radcliffe graduate, who falls for an older drunk who might as well be "Girls" ' sardonic barista, Ray (the great Alex Karpovsky). Because such stories exposed the private lives of male intellectuals, they got critiqued as icky, sticky memoir—score-settling, not art. (In contrast, young men seeking revenge on their exes are generally called "comedians" or "novelists" or "Philip Roth.") There's clearly an appetite for this prurient ritual, in which privileged girls, in their rise to power, get humiliated, first in fiction, then in criticism—like a Roman Colosseum for gender anxieties.
"Girls" has been attacked, and lauded, and exploited as S.E.O. link bait, and served up as the lead for style-trend pieces, to the point of exhaustion. The authors of these analyses have often fretted over privilege: the show is too white, Hannah's a spoiled brat, or a bad role model for Millennials, or too fat to qualify to have sex on cable television. But when there's a tiny aperture for women's stories—and a presumption that men won't watch them—when almost no women are Hollywood directors, when few women write TV shows, of course it's the privileged ones who get traction. These artists have what Dunham has referred to as Hannah's Unsinkable Molly Brown force. (Molly Brown, after all, was a mouthy rich woman who survived the Titanic.) To me, the whiteness of "Girls" is realistic, although the show is slyer and clearer about class than about race. But, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote recently in The Atlantic, "the problem isn't the Lena Dunham show about a narrow world. The problem is that there aren't more narrow worlds on screen. Broader is not synonymous with better."
The specificity of "Girls" also links it to earlier eras. In particular, it echoes a time when the legendary wildness of male New York intellectuals and artists was made possible by middle-class girlfriends who paid the rent and absorbed hipness from the kitchen. As Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac's onetime girlfriend, observed in her scathing memoir "Minor Characters," an account of kohl-eyed Barnard coeds fleeing to Greenwich Village, "Even a very young woman can achieve old-ladyhood, become the mainstay of someone else's self-destructive genius."
In a different time, Hannah and her friends are the bohemians, fresh out of Oberlin. Hannah, her uptight friend Marnie, her decadent friend Jessa, Jessa's cousin Shoshanna, and an assortment of male friends and lovers live in shifting roommate arrangements, on the fringes of New York's creative industries. With admirable bluntness, "Girls" exposes the financial safety nets that most stories about New York—and many New Yorkers—prefer to leave invisible. Last year, at Jessa's surprise wedding to a finance guy, a scene that might have been the climax of an ordinary meet-cute romantic comedy, her cousin Shoshanna blurted out, "Everyone's a stupid whore." The show began with Hannah stealing a maid's tip, and characters are forever ducking out on the rent or ogling someone's brownstone. In an early episode, Hannah was humiliated when her hookup Adam masturbated in front of her; in a fury, she turned her complaints into a demented dominatrix routine, which ended with a demand for cab money, plus extra for pizza and gum. Then she took a hundred-dollar bill—likely the one that Adam's grandmother sends him each month. It was a metaphor for her own confused ambitions: earlier, she'd sabotaged an office job she didn't want anyway; now she'd turned her sex life into art and got paid.


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Jason The Athlete MacDonalds rise in the UFC continues to be nothing short of meteoric. And after devastating submission victories over Ed Herman at Ultimate Fight Night on Spike TV and Chris Leben at UFC 66 on pay-per-view, MacDonald will return to the Octagon for his biggest test yet at UFC 68: The Uprising. On March 3 in Columbus, Ohio, MacDonald will square off against former UFC middleweight champion Rich Ace Franklin.
Now clearly a top-five contender following his spectacular chokeout of Leben, a victory over Franklin would factor MacDonald as a serious challenger for the UFC crown.
When you continue to be successful in the UFC, each time you go back you get a tougher fight, said MacDonald. I got a big win over Leben who was considered to be in the top five and now theyre giving me someone else who is another top guy.
The UFC is trying to build up Kendall Grove and Im on a roll right now so that fight might come later on. But Rich needs a fight coming back after his loss to new champion Anderson Silva and (UFC head matchmaker) Joe Silva told me that he likes to match up fights that the fans are going to be excited about.
He said a lot of people thought Id lose to Herman and then they thought Id lose to Leben and probably a lot think Ill lose to Franklin. But he thinks I can win and I know I can win that fight. The UFC is excited about it so Im excited about it. Its a huge opportunity for me.
Added Mark Pavelich, MacDonalds manager from Pro Camp Sports Management: Jason has become a very popular figure in the UFC and was swarmed by fans after he beat Chris Leben. Even though the fight is in Ohio where Rich is from, I guarantee that when Jason wins hell be signing autographs and posing for pictures for hours just like he did in Las Vegas and in Fort Lauderdale.
While there has been some speculation amongst fans that Franklin presents too big of a challenge for MacDonald at this point, The Athlete is more than eager to test himself against Franklin, who holds notable career victories over Ken Shamrock, David Loiseau, Nate Quarry, and Marvin Eastman.
People consider me a big middleweight and weve both fought at 205 pounds before so were comparable there, offered MacDonald.
Im not crazy about fighting a left-hander again but its my fourth one this year so its not a big deal anymore. The thing about Rich unlike Leben is that Rich is a polished striker. Leben is a brawler who swings from the fences and his style made my standup look worse. Maybe Rich will figure my standup isnt that good and thats fine with me.
Ive worked a lot on my striking with some good boxers so I feel very confident in my standup.
And if it comes down to a battle of submissions, MacDonald has proven to be incredibly dangerous. In fact, his unorthodox guillotine choke which rendered Leben unconscious was voted No. 4 in the UFCs Submission of the Year derby while his triangle choke which put Herman away was recognized as an honourable mention in the same voting.
I guess Ill have to look at the top three to see where I think I should be ranked, laughed MacDonald.
I got suckered into a brawl with Leben in the first round and everything I wanted to do well went out the window. But in each fight I learn something and when I got back to my game plan, I was able to finish the fight.

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Havana Nights, Havana Days
The new U.S. travel restrictions are adversely affecting the Cuban economy. But the cigars are getting better.
James Suckling
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Cigar of the Year, Jan/Feb 2005
It was 9 p.m. Seven Americans sat in the eighth-floor penthouse overlooking the Plaza de San Francisco in Havana, smoking Dunhill Cabinetta Robustos and waiting for the third and final U.S. presidential debate to start. Seven-year-old Havana Club rum was flowing freely and so was the commentary on the prospects of the presidential debate and the election.
How surreal is all that?
Only two of the Americans were there legally, and I didn't want to be judgmental, but they looked like the furthest things ever from priests on a humanitarian mission to Cuba. My buddies, Captain Jack Fantastic and Don Juan Coyote (I can't use their real names because someone with the U.S. Treasury Department probably will read this), certainly weren't in Havana to go to church. They had already smoked more Cuban cigars in three days than some people may have in a lifetime. They were having the time of their lives.
Travel to Cuba for most Americans has been illegal since the early 1960s when the embargo was imposed, but it has been cut back even more following the introduction of new travel restrictions last July. Even before the new rules were imposed, I had friends who had been fined thousands of dollars by the Treasury Department for making illicit trips to Cuba. But the prospects of paying Uncle Sam for going to the island didn't seem to inhibit Captain Jack and Don Juan. They obviously were on a Cuban cigar smokers' mission.
I hear from Cubans as well as sources in Miami that the new travel restrictions have dramatically reduced American visitors to the island. According to estimates, more than 100,000 Americans (mostly Cuban Americans) used to annually travel to Havana and other parts of Cuba. It's now expected to be half that number or less. The main reason is that Cuban Americans are no longer allowed to travel once a year to the island to visit relatives. Now they can go only once every three years. In addition, the U.S. government is issuing fewer travel licenses for Americans traveling to Cuba for humanitarian, religious and cultural purposes. Trips for cigar smoking are definitely off!
I visited a handful of cigar shops during a five-day visit to the island in October and they were all moaning about the loss of business due to the change in U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba. The stricter regulations also no longer even allow legal American travelers to the island to return with $100 worth of Cuban products, which for many usually included a box of cigars. Combine this with a 30 percent increase in cigar retail prices in June, and some cigar merchants say that their business is down as much as 60 percent.
"It's an absolute disaster," said one veteran cigar merchant who is arguably one of the island's most knowledgeable tobacco men. It's better not to mention his name for obvious reasons. "It's just too expensive. People have sticker shock. Cigars that cost $180 [a box] earlier this year are now more than $230. My customers are shocked."
A shop attendant in another store, who also wished to remain anonymous, said, "What am I supposed to say to my customers when they ask me why the prices have increased 30 percent? I have to tell them the truth. There is no reason at all and the decision was wrong. Whoever made the decision is an idiot."
Here are a few examples of the prices now for cigars in Havana shops: Montecristo No. 2, $172.50; Cohiba Esplendido, $458.75, Partagas Serie D No. 4, $151.25; Punch Punch, $151.25; Romeo & Julieta Churchill, $202.50; Partagas Lusitania, $220; Montecristo No. 4, $100; Ramon Allones Gigantes, $210; and Partagas 898, $192.50. These prices are all for boxes of 25 cigars.
"It may not look like much still to some Americans, but the prices are actually 35 percent more expensive, because we had a 5 percent price increase at the beginning of 2004 besides the 30 percent one in June," said another cigar merchant in Havana. "It hurts."
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Disappearing objects fixed but still no new version.
Dr. Code has fixed the disappearing objects and the resulting crashes quite some time ago (August 2012)
and at the time it seemed we could fast forward to a new release. Unfortunately some other crashes were
uncovered and Marzo went on a bug squishing rampage last year. After that very productive outburst our
development almost completely stopped apart from some bug fixes.
On the plus side this means that the current snapshots are much more stable than the last rc1 release,
not to mention the ancient 1.2 version that should never be used again. For that reason we no longer link
to our old releases on our download page.
However there is still no new release and thus the ancient Exult 1.2 version is unfortunately still widely
regarded as the stable version, especially in Linux repositories.
After over a decade you can buy the Ultima 7 games again.
As of today Good old Games offers
"Ultima 7: The Complete Edition" for $5.99. If you don't already own it - go grab these gems now.
Fortunately the complete edition means that it's both games, The Black Gate and Serpent Isle, with their
addons, The Forge of Virtue and The Silver Seed.
News about Exult are rather slow these days but Marzo has accepted the quest to take on the disappearing objects.
What we've been up to since the rc1 release and why there is no final version yet.
Let's start off with the the bad news:
We have a bug that causes random objects in the games to disappear forever. When this happens
Exult tends to crash badly. Unfortunately this bug is unpredictable and we have no sure way of
reproducing and thus fixing it. We have some ideas of what is happening but no fix yet. This is
a real show stopper and unless we fix it we can't release another release candidate or a final
version. If you encounter this bug (disappearing objects, random crashes, especially in combat)
best you can do is revert to an earlier savegame.
The good news is that we welcome a new member to our team, Malignant Manor, a long time user
of Exult.
He took on many bugs and improved many other things:
We also put all our various audio files (digital music pack and the SFX packs) into an
all-in-one package. You can download a zip file for manual installation or an installer for either
Windows or Mac OS X. You don't need to download this if you already downloaded the audio packs
individually before. And if you still prefer to download the smaller, individual packs, these are
also still available.
Head to our download page to grab it.
Exult 1.4.9rc1 has been released!
It took us over six years, but with DNF seemingly getting ready to be released after all, we had to do something.
To prepare for a full release, we have created a first Release Candidate, available on
our download page.
Please play with it and tell us of any problem you encounter using the
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If you have followed the news this list is likely already familiar to you,
but we did a lot with Exult in the years since 1.2:
There have been many changes to Exult Studio and our support for mods as well:
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The 10-year-old was the most seriously hurt, but is in fair condition and expected to be okay.
The intersection was closed while police investigated, though police say it's almost certain, the accident was caused by a red light runner.
The other two children are also expected to be okay.
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It's spring in Colona. The door is open, and I'm listening to the meadowlarks' liquid burble.
There is also the garbage truck grinding away up the road. But still, it's a quiet valley.
That was one of its chief attractions when we bought our lot in the summer of 1997. On still afternoons, you could sit up on our hill and hear the little Hernandez girls playing half a mile away across the fields. Sometimes you might overhear a conversation between ranch hands even farther away – not the words really but the low sine wave of their back-and-forth sentences. Coyotes singing to one another up and down Scotty's Draw sounded as if they were right here on our driveway.
Enchanted by this magic sound bowl, we set about deciding where the house should go, until one day a different noise floated up to our ears. Unintelligible at first, it morphed into a crooning, self-satisfied AM radio rant, and then very clearly into the voice of the chief Dittohead himself, Rush Limbaugh.
The first time, we tried to laugh it off. The second and third times we heard him, we panicked. It was coming from somewhere out on the valley floor. But where? There were only a handful of houses back then. Which one was the culprit? Which of our (obviously) conservative neighbors had the volume turned up to eleven? And Oh-My-God what had we gotten ourselves into?
You can turn your back on the view, but you can't hide from sound. When we drove out from Ridgway to sit under the open sky, there was Rush, "America's Truth Detector," screaming about Hillary Clinton and the rest of "the feminazis, whose most important thing in life is assuring that as many abortions as possible occur!"
Or we'd be sheltering beneath an ancient juniper, rolling fragrant berries around in our hands, and here would come an assault on "environmental wackos" out to destroy the real America. Except for the maggots and the plastic (?) banana, Rush had us pegged as "long-haired, dope-smoking, maggot-infested, good-time, rock 'n' roll, plastic-banana FM types." Our love affair with this gorgeous piece of high desert was threatened by an angry disembodied voice from out of the ether.
One day I decided to try and find the source of the vitriol. What would I say if I found it? Hi, I'm your new neighbor with a ponytail, and I was wondering… or, Golly, have you noticed how amazingly sound travels in this valley?
I drove slowly with the windows down, listening. There is a metal garage/shop part way out the road with three big bay doors, always open. Maybe, I thought, this building served as an amplifier somehow. And the owner, who never seemed to be about, just left the radio on inside the way some people leave the TV on all the time, for company.
But I couldn't hear any Limbaugh as I crept by. Not there and not emanating from any of the other houses or vehicles or barns along the route. I even stopped the pickup and got out with the engine turned off to see if I could detect anything.
Nothing. Could it be the offending waves beamed in from somewhere far, far away, bouncing off the stratosphere and down to our innocent cosmic dish of a home site?
It didn't do to despair about it. We pressed ahead with house plans, though when it came to choosing wall materials we opted for thick concrete and foam the better to insulate our ears. While we were indoors. But what about when we wanted to be enjoying the out-of-doors?
Bill Clinton's impeachment came and went around the new year of 1999, as actual drawings for the house evolved. It was winter; the adobe hills were either snow covered or sticky with mud. We didn't go out to the site much.
Come late April, we were ready to start digging the foundation. The weather was beautiful, like it is now. The cottonwoods down by the river showed tender new buds. The first purple wildflowers poked out of the ground. The work began and swept us along in its daily progress and camaraderie.
Then one afternoon in the stillness when everybody else had gone home I noticed an absence, the absence of bellicose bullshit. And I realized I hadn't heard Limbaugh since we'd started working.
I never would figure out who had moved over the winter or what had changed. I just knew the acoustic invasion was over. It was spring. And we were free.


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Perhaps more importantly, we PAY a weekly fee to enforce this street date.
Conceptually, we could sell *DC* (only!) at 12:01 am, since THEY "broke street" first, but that's even crazier to open up to just sell one single publisher.
Perhaps more importantly, we PAY a weekly fee to enforce this street date.
Conceptually, we could sell *DC* (only!) at 12:01 am, since THEY "broke street" first, but that's even crazier to open up to just sell one single publisher.
I think the publishers will be in for a shock in a year or two, especially if they manage to bust retail stores - pressure will mount/growth will stop, until they drop prices on digital issues. $3.99 for twenty pages doesn't compare to a 99c song or app. Then they'll have a short boom, and then realise there's less money coming in than ever before.
Mind you Brian, didn't you say a short term collapse of the big two could be good for the market?
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I appreciated Brian's piece very much. Comic store owners are under terrific stress just trying to keep their business running, and it is not so profitable as well.... Another loss that we've had is the collector's market, which is now dominated by online sales. You don't get as much opportunity except for very rare stores in major cities to peruse a collection of Golden Age or Silver Age comics.
I encourage fans to continue to see the added value in the paper product, and buy the better quality stuff.... Please help us retain our retail businesses, as there is a difference in having a music CD and owning a physical comic.
It is fine for some fans to move to digital (especially new fans!), and I wish you all the best. I doubt that I will choose to continue with Marvel and DC and Image comics when that becomes the only choice.
I mostly buy digital, though I do buy some print, mostly Marvel because $3.99 for digital only when a print buyer can get print+digital for the same price is a complete ripoff.
I personally have a great deal of difficulty getting too worked up about the whole release time issue. Same day for print and digital makes sense, but artificial restrictions just serve to annoy people. I'm also confused by the apparent dichotomy between saying that print is better quality on the one hand, and worrying that putting digital on sale earlier at the same price will cannibalize sales to some great degree. All the evidence appears to say that digital is additive, and anything that gets more people reading comics is good in the long term. Besides, if print is truly that much better, digital buyers will migrate to print.
(Personally, I don't think print singles are entirely better than digital. I dislike the ads and modern coloring looks better on a screen from my perspective.)
Having said all that, I do not only buy my digital books through my LCS's ComiXology storefront, I also got him to get one. He runs a mostly games, secondarily comic shop and wanted some way to serve those people who already bought digital. (He's been in business just over 3 months).
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
Now I'm not saying I support the $3.99 digital price tag (I won't buy a digital comic for more than $1.99). I'm just saying if you look at the numbers it's not hard to see why they do it. Without the Comixology middle-man they may be able to do something about that.
And in terms of street date, I don't think diamond should be enforcing any time of day beyond "wednesday". As Brian said, DC has chosen to set their release time at midnight. Marvel chooses to have special midnight releases all the time. Beyond "Wednesday" this choice should be left to the retailer. It's theaters that decided to keep release date by doing midnight showings, not studios.
And again I posit, if Hibbs thinks he needs to open at midnight to compete in this market, and Diamond had issue with it, I believe the community at large would support his decision and he, along with all retailers if they chose, would be allowed to continue the practice. As I said before, that's how change is made.
I personally would not open at midnight, but I don't think I'm losing any customers to iBooks at midnight that I also wouldn't be losing to iBooks at noon.
The ONLY way TO release at 12:01 am is to be on DED. It's about a 4 hour process to count in and get the books on the racks, fill subs, merchandise the store, etc.
More importantly, as I said, we are the drop point for SF. If *I* unilaterally broke street date, this would jeopardize all of the OTHER stores in SF as well.
Brian has it ever occured to you that Disney and Warner would prefer to act as their own distribution and shopfront arm? I'm sure they are looking at Forbidden Planet comic book/ merchandise franchise in the UK, and wishing they could command a similar set up in the USA? Once a critical mass of stores goes out of business, the sales and profits will drop, and they will be 'forced' to establish their own comic book shopfront franchise which can unilaterally tie in more directly with whatever movies/ TV shows they are looking to promote across the nation. Don't expect many more favours from them, you're getting in the way of further profits for their shareholders.
C'mon, guys..... Rule-breaking suggestions and conspiracy theories are not really very helpful. Brian's situation is just representative of the entire situation and country.
Yes, digital is 'taking over', but I suspect that there remain enough luddites (or, at least, people not interested in digital comics) that I hope the entire industry will be interested in continuing the production of cheap paper comics. In fact, I wonder if they'll get cheaper instead of more expensive----just as a way to continue paper comics as an alternative reading source.
I guess my comments aren't all that helpful, either. But, if anyone has a helpful suggestion, please make it practical....
I'm one of those readers who switched to digital. Mostly. I will buy a trade or graphic novel now and again directly from the publisher or through an online comic seller. I did it for the usual reasons, saving money, saving space where I live/easier to store on a computer or hard drive, plus I have access to all the comics I could want. Whereas sometimes I would walk into a shop and they only carry what sells for them, not what I am interested in. And I am not a regular enough customer to get on a subscription list, so that is a waste of time. Digital makes sense for me.
1. Diamond might be more favorable to the retailer, but has it caught on with consumers? I tried the app and deleted it. As a digital customer, I'm already upset that there isn't a DRM-free option for most digital comics (and I support the DRM-free artists offering such options, like Sim and Bob Burden). I'm not about to use two solutions to get my comics.
2. Are we sure DC would actually have the option to sell comics on Thursday? I realize they're a big fish and probably have more say over Comixology than, say, Bluewater, but it's possible their contract states that they must deliver content within a certain number of hours of print new release.
3. As for 1 out of 20 making a cut on CMX...I'm failing to see how this is substantially different than, say, the one in 20 retailers that carry anything outside the Big Two. Those other twenty retailers probably are not highlighting the digital program in their stores with anything other than whatever stock promo material that CMX provides, and probably not even that. Or they tried it one week, didn't see that big pop, and said forget it, ignoring the marketplace shift.
4. As for CMX getting their milkshake eaten...well, maybe. Certainly, there's no "little guy" in other online media sales, save for Netflix and Hulu (and those are backed by big money, and even those companies have rumblings every once in a while). But I think it's more likely- and I'll bet it's CMX's exit strategy- that they get bought by one of the Big Fish, instead. For some reason, none of the Big Fish have come up with a captivating digital comics experience through their platforms yet. I bought Wizzywig through iBooks. It's a great book, but the iBooks experience is terrible for GNs- incredibly slow at startup. And this is APPLE we're talking about. None of the non-CMX options for digital comics are as easy for the reader as CMX. At some point, one of them will decide it's worth the money to just buy CMX.
5. Unless...and this would be a much bigger threat than day-and-date...the Big Two go to an all-you-can-eat model. Instead of trying to convince the diehards to spend $3-4 per book, why not offer up a program of, saying $15-20/week for all the books? I still think this is the real endgame, and I will actually predict that it'll be an eventual iPad-Marvel relationship because of the ties of the two companies (Disney and Apple, both having deep roots through Steve Jobs). I even think we'll see something like that next year; Marvel still hasn't released a Digital Comics Unlimited app for the iPad, but swear they're working on it. I'll give 50-50 odds that an all-you-can-eat option is in there...
There's also Marvel's "bounceback" program, where they pay a small amount to retailers when customers redeem the digital codes -- YTD this has also been an utterly insignificant number. Free money, so that's fine, but nothing of any meaning or weight whatsoever.
I don't think so, because I think that yields DRAMATICALLY lower revenue, and there's no way that you generate *brand new* readership with a weekly payment model like that.
Also, those kinds of aggregate payment models are absolute hell on creator royalties.
I can't speak for others, but for me iVerse/Diamond was a non-starter.
As a user, the one thing that drives me to an app is unique content, and I don't see that on iVerse. In fact, quite the opposite, as they lack three premier publishers, including the two biggest. There's no benefit to me as a user from using iVerse; buying through a retailer's ComiXology storefront may help the retailer less than buying through Diamond/iVerse, but it's a better fit for my needs; especially since the Android iVerse app does not have a good rating.
I'm still flabbergasted at the idea of pushing digital back a day to 12:01 AM Thursday (Pacific I assume). All that does is penalize and anger digital customers, and there's no evidence it would help print sales. Not every digital sale is a lost print sale.
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
"No business model can last forever unchanged. The Music industry had to evolve to allow single song downloads to combat piracy, in doing so a lot of independent stores died out. But if the Musical labels didn't change, they would have died out along with them."
The thing about digital distribution for comics is that in the long run, it is not a good business model for comics. The only cost savings a publisher would enjoy is with paper and printing costs, which are interconnected. These savings can (and should) be achieved by (1) reducing the number of titles offered each month by the Top 5 (DC, Marvel, Image, IDW, and Dark Horse) and (2) higher print runs which will reduce the unit printing costs. Nearly every other cost savings advantage that would be enjoyed by digital comics is either already enjoyed by print distribution or it costs more with digital distribution. Let's talk returns and distribution.
The Direct Market is already nonreturnable. Period. Unlike every other sector of the publishing industry, comic book publishing for at least the last 10 years has not had to deal with returns. People will cite this as an advantage of digital distribution. The comic book industry already enjoys this advantage. Distribution is where digital loses me when concerning comic book publishing. ComiXology is undeniably the leader in digital comic book distribution. Guess what? The distribution costs for a digital comic book are 65% of the cover price vs. 60% of the cover price for a print comic book, despite lower overhead. Let that sink in for a minute. With digital, you are eliminating the costs that would be required for a physical product because there is no physical product. With no physical product, there are no shipping, inventory, insurance costs, etc. There are no returns. And the distribution costs for a digital comic book are 5% more than a physical comic book. The industry hasn't simply created a digital Diamond, they've created something far worse.
Then let's talk about the realities of pricing and consumer preference. First, "digital dimes" are not going to offset the losses from print revenue. No one, and I mean no one, thinks and no one is putting forth data that digital comics are going to move at $2.99 and $3.99 cover prices. These books are going to be 99 cents or $1.99 at best. So for essentially 35 cents in revenue, remember your art & editorial costs are going nowhere, you are going to need sell-through numbers that dwarf the current sell-in numbers of the Direct Market. And with DC particularly (and everyone else remaining mum) stating that digital sales are additive, going digital is going to cost comic book publishers a lot more revenue in the long run and the short run than if they threw some real support behind the Direct Market and print comics.
Consumer preference is another matter altogether in that there is nothing officially or unofficially that suggests that comic book consumers prefer print over digital. Nothing. The Economist managed to double its circulation in recent years because they have a very specific demographic who derives a very a specific use from that publication. They do not operate under the same marketing conditions as their fellow newspaper and magazine publishers. The same goes for comic book publishers. Advertisers are moving their money to digital...so what? Comic books have never relied on advertising for revenue as a part of their business model. Newspaper and Magazine publishers have to follow the money, so digital is the smart move for them. We readers are the source of revenue for the comic book publisher and we don't prefer digital over print, yet. BTW, The Economist is making greater pushes into digital only because of reader surveys that indicate that 60% of their subscribers will come to prefer digital over print in the next year or so. We'll see.
This is a short-sighted move, as always, by comic book publishers to undercut the Direct Market for the digital market. The same forces in play in other parts of the publishing industry are not in play in the comic book industry. The publishers are drawing the wrong assumptions and are making bad business policy as a result. Digital music shook out the way it did because for a 16 song album, we were getting overcharged $16.00 (the music companies had lower overhead with CDs than Vinyl, sound familar?) and the product increasingly sucked. When MP3s allowed consumers to go a la carte, Apple saw the writing on the wall and made the smart move because consumers had already indicated how they wanted to consume music. Apple now dominates because they read the tea leaves correctly and accurately. We, retailer and consumer alike, are telling the Top 5 how we want to consume this product. If they listen and institute the right business policies, this business will grow because there is a lot of pent-up demand. If they don't listen, kiss this industry good-bye because it will have betrayed its maturity and its inability to grow.


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Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - It was set to be one of Fargo's perfect fall weddings: A ballroom reception, a much sought-after band, limos and a bridal suite...
Then, the phone call: The bride was "left at the altar" and out thousands of dollars.
But in the end, Michelle Marxen is having the last laugh, and CCRI clients are coming out the winners.
Flowers; we were getting flowers from Shotwell's.
One look at Michelle Marxen's wedding planner, and there is no doubt this was set to be a wow wedding.
Michelle Marxen- Donating Wedding Day to CCRI: "My fairy tale wedding: You know, as a young girl, you dream of your wedding day."
Signed contracts reveal a planned night of fabulous flowers, music from Tripwire, a dream gown, the big ballroom at the Ramada, photographers and limos.
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But the day the wedding invitations were set to go out, he said, "I love you," and he went to work.
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Ravens head coach John Harbaugh is back into the routine at the Castle. He is turning down speaking engagements and book deals and watching video of potential draft picks.
The euphoria of being a winning Super Bowl head coach is finally starting to die down.
"I'm getting into the routines again," said Harbaugh, about to enter his sixth season in Baltimore. "I'm watching every guy in the draft. I've got to do that, I've got to know who we're drafting and if I can help.
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"I get a report every night from our coordinators on what they did and it gives me a chance to weigh in as well. "It's amazing how many things go on — how many parallel things like the draft, free agency and negotiations — go on at the same time."
It's always been like that, but it's different this year because the Ravens won the Super Bowl, which put them weeks, and in some cases months, behind other teams.
Even the losers of the Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers, have a head start on the Ravens in the offseason because of the celebrations and commitments associated with being the champions.
Harbaugh simply outperformed his young brother, Jim (49ers head coach) during the Super Bowl and the week leading up to the game, but the aftermath has been a whirlwind.
After the game, he spent hours greeting, meeting and partying with his coaches, their wives, family members and others in the organization.
He spent several hours at the team party dancing with his daughter, Alison, 11, before sleeping about an hour and then attending the press conference for the winning coach.
"When I got back to the hotel, I put my feet up and drank a diet Pepsi," Harbaugh said. "I wasn't interested in drinking anything else because of the emotional high. I really wanted to see the highlights of the game because it was like a blur.
"It was all kind of crazy from the way the game ended right into the parade."
Just how crazy?
The Ravens didn't have their postgame prayer or dedication of the game until two days after the Super Bowl was over. Before Harbaugh knew it, he was standing in front of a crowd of 70,000 fans at M&T Bank Stadium for the team parade.
Since then, Harbaugh has been flooded with numerous speaking engagements and tons of book offers.
He will speak only at a couple and isn't ready to write a book even though he has quite a resume having coached in three AFC championship games and won a Super Bowl.
Harbaugh did make an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on the Thursday night following the Super Bowl. He couldn't get out of that one.
Boss's order.
"I didn't want to do it, it wasn't me," Harbaugh said. "But everyone told me I had to do it. Steve called up and basically ordered me to do it, so I did it. It was cool, kind of different. I got to meet an Elvis impersonator and The Flying Nun.
"Those speaking engagements, I can't get to them all, so I'm not doing them, only a few. I could do 300 of them. The book deals started coming in the day after we won. What have I really done? Plus, I don't want to be telling other people how we do stuff. If I do write a book, I want to do it well. I have too much other stuff to do right now, and I will do it but I have to earn it."
Harbaugh is still hot.
His college alma mater, Miami University (Ohio), plans to build a full-size bronze statue of Harbaugh outside of Yager Stadium. Harbaugh will join a list of other outstanding coaches like Paul Brown, Weeb Ewbank, Ara Parseghian and Bo Schembechler.
Like the book deal, Harbaugh was uncomfortable with the statue but went along with it after two Miami officials persuaded him at the scouting combine in Indianapolis about a week ago.
"It's not the statue, but to be recognized with that group of coaches is really neat," Harbaugh said.
Everything seems to have settled down now. Harbaugh did get a chance to sneak off to New York for a few days with his family to watch Spider Man and walk around Central Park. He has started reading two books and will start playing golf again soon.
But for now, he is back in his office watching film of college players and potential free agents. Harbaugh won't reveal much, but it's safe to say the Ravens want to patch up the middle of their run defense so the priorities in the offseason are finding a defensive tackle and linebacker. They'll also be looking for a rookie safety and a couple of veterans to fill out the offensive line.
As for the 2013 message, Harbaugh already has one prepared.
"Here's my theory: it's not going to be as simple as put it away, it's behind us, we're moving on," said Harbaugh of winning the championship. "I don't think that is realistic or fair. We are the 2012 defending champion. That team will walk together forever. That is something we should hold onto. It was a great accomplishment, we gave 100 percent and that's how we did it.
"We should be 100 percent motivated going forward and 100 percent in trying to become the 2013 champion. There is no fine line, no balancing act. You can give 100 percent to your family, 100 percent to your job. You should give 100 percent to being the best father you can be, 100 percent to being the best coach you can be. That's the message and now we just have to go back to work."


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The primary purpose of the Accounting program at Southeastern Louisiana University is to help our students, who are mainly from southeastern Louisiana, build a better future for themselves and the communities in which they ultimately serve. Through excellent instruction provided by a qualified faculty, students are exposed to accounting concepts and practices that provide them with knowledge based for successful entry into the profession.
The Accounting Program has two secondary purposes. The first purpose is to enable the faculty to advance accounting knowledge, particularly knowledge related to pedagogy and business practice, through research and other forms of inquiry. The second purpose is to give faculty an opportunity to provide service to Southeastern Louisiana University, the College of Business, the Department of Accounting and Finance, the broader accounting related community, and the region in which Southeastern is located.
Goal 1: Students will have the technical accounting knowledge and skills necessary for successful careers in accounting.
Goal 2: Students will recognize ethical dimensions in accounting issues and practice.
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Four months ago, a fisherman found a baby bottlenose dolphin tangled in the buoy line of a crab trap near Cape Canaveral. "Winter" is just one of hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, marine mammals and seabirds that are caught accidentally by fishermen each year. The good news is, unlike most bycatch victims, instead of losing her life, Winter only lost her tail.
After being nursed back to health by more than 150 marine biologists and volunteers working around the clock, Winter has shown great improvement. She swims and plays at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. But Winter isn't out of the woods just yet, experts think she needs...a prosthetic tail.
If the logistics (read $100,000) can be worked out, Winter's prosthesis would be the first for a dolphin who lost its tail. Dana Zucker, COO of the aquarium is hoping the cost of the tail will be underwritten by the company that creates it.
Since we're asking...maybe the company wouldn't mind throwing in 100 million + prosthetic fins for sharks ever year?
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