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You voted, now here are the results of your votes for your favorite comic book creator runs of all-time! We'll be revealing five runs a day for most of the month. Here is a master list of all of the runs revealed so far.
Here's the next five runs…
85. Keith Giffen and Tom and Mary Bierbaum's Legion – 104 points (2 first place votes)
Legion of Superheroes #1-38, with the Bierbaums taking over until #50
When Keith Giffen rejoined Paul Levitz on Legion of Superheroes in 1988, the book was already in a slightly darker place, but it only got darker. Levitz and Giffen really began to stress that the Legionnaires were getting older. However, nothing prepared readers for what they were about to experience when Levitz left the book at the closing of that volume of Legion.
When Legion of Superheroes re-launched with a brand-new #1, Giffen was now the plotter of the comic as well as the artist, and he brought scripters (and long time Legion fans) Tom and Mary Bierbaum and finisher Al Gordon with him. And the book had moved forward five years into the future.
The world of the Legion was now a grim, desolate place, and the days of young men and women in colorful costumes were long gone. Instead, they were now, well, five years older, and no longer in costume – yet they all remained heroes. The story was an extremely ambitious look at a bunch of grizzled characters somehow coming together to reform some semibalance of the Legion they all once cared so much about.
One of the most notable aspects of the comic was how DENSE each issue was. Giffen used the nine-panel grid to great effect, making each issue filled with so much story that it would have easily twice as much stories as most other comics of the time (and that's not even counting the pages at the back of the issues, which they used to fill in readers on what was going on in the Legion world).
Perhaps the most impressive thing about this run to me, personally, was how they dealt with having to come up with a brand-new origin for the Legion (one sans Superboy, who was off-limits), without it really being too confusing.
The comics were dark, but they were also filled with humor and great character work.
One of the fascinating aspects of the story was the way Giffen would use back-up pages like Alan Moore used back-up pages in Watchmen. He would have documents that would elaborate on the stories within the comics. For instance, one of the biggest plots in the comic was the war between Braal (home to Cosmic Boy) and Imsk (home of Shrinking Violet). During the war, Imsk used a weapon on Braal soldiers, killing many of them and incapacitating others. Cosmic Boy (Rokk) survived, but he lost his powers.
In one issue, they show the events (including the revelation that Violet's lost eye came as a result of Rokk)…
Later, they show dueling historical takes on the event…
Eventually, Giffen introduced apparent clones of the original Legion, still in bright and colorful costumes, and his original plan was for them to revealed to be the ACTUAL Legion, and Giffen's older Legion would get their own spin-off book. That fell through, and Giffen departed the title.
The Bierbaums stayed on until #50, and tied up a lot of loose threads.
Giffen drew the book at first and was followed by Jason Pearson, who did a wonderful job in his first (and only?) regular penciling assignment for Marvel and DC.
84. Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon's Top 10 – 105 points (1 first place vote)
Top 10 #1-12, Top 10: The Forty-Niners OGN, Smax #1-5
Alan Moore's Top 10 is about a world where the police have to police superheroes. However, in the comic's notable twist, Top 10 is about police officers who ARE superheroes, which is normal enough, as nearly EVERYone in the city of Neopolis has superpowers and costumes, from the cops to the robbers to the civilians.
The artwork was by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon, who drew the 12 issues series together (Cannon did layouts and Gene Ha did finishes on the regular series) and then each drew one of the two spin-offs by themselves (Ha handling the Forty-Niners graphic novel, which tells the history of Neopolis and Cannon taking Smax, a spin-off starring one of the cops from Top 10).
Top 10 refers to the 10th Precinct, which is who the book follows, in a riff on Hill Street Blues, only with superheroes.
Moore uses the opportunity of a city filled with superheroes to make many pointed observations about superheroes, mostly comical ones. However, the book is also a character-driven comic, as well, it is just that the characters are absolutely bizarre, so their dramas are, as well. Moore, though, never treats their bizarre dramas as anything but serious problems, which gives the book a truly human feel in an otherwise superhuman environment. Like this domestic dispute between two familiar superheroes from the 1960s…
There was a lot of humor in the series, too. Like this one character has powers where she is basically naked at all times, but she can hide it by manipulating the colors on her skin. When she realizes that the sergeant of the precinct, a talking dog, is color blind, she is outraged. This leads to a fascinating discussion between the two…
Of course, later in that issue, we learn that the Sergeant was lying about being attracted to dogs and just said it to get her off his back. Pretty darn funny. As are the various comic book homages that are scattered throughout the series.
There was a sequel to the series published in 2005, but Moore was not involved.
83. Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub – 106 points (5 first place votes)
Lone Wolf & Cub Vols. 1-28
Lone Wolf & Cub (or as it was originally known in Japan, Kozure ÅŒkami) is a straightforward tale.
Ogami Itto's wife and most of his family was murdered by the Yagyu clan so, along with his young son (the only survivor), Daigoro, he must gain his revenge upon the Yagyu clan, and its evil leader, Yagyu Retsudo. And along the way, hilarity ensues.
So with such a straightforward tale, for it to be so acclaimed, you know that the story and the art must be great, and it really is.
The late, great Goseki Kojima's artwork was an inspiration to many artists, with Frank Miller probably being the most notable (and think about it, if you inspired Frank Miller's style, think of all the artists who were then inspired by Miller…), and his depictions of the stark reality of violence is stunning.
Kazuo Koike's story is quite impressive, especially the way he shows how evil the circle of violence between the two clans is, leading to the memorable conclusion to the series (which lasted six years, between 1970 and 1976).
82. Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark and Stefano Gaudiano's Daredevil – 107 points (2 first place votes)
Daredevil (Vol. 2) #82-119, Daredevil #500 (Lark penciled all but five of the issues and Gaudiano inked all but three of them – and that's counting the fact that Lark inked himself on the very first issue)
The great Daredevil stories are often remembered by how they begin, as Frank Miller made clear with both the beginning of his acclaimed run as writer/artist on the series as well as the legendary first issue of "Born Again." Brian Michael Bendis followed suit with his first issue and here, Ed Brubaker matches both fellows with the first issue of his run, where Brubaker had the unenviable task of not only following Bendis' acclaimed run on the title, but opening his run with Matt Murdock in prison after the end of Bendis' run.
Check out wonderfully Brubaker captures the inherent drama of Matt not being able to help his friend while in prison…
What an opening.
Brubaker and artists Michael Lark and Stefano Gaudiano handled the powerful opening arc of the series well, as Murdock has to make his way through prison life while forces are conspiring to make sure that he does not live long enough to actually stand trial for his "crimes" as Daredevil.
Once that story is over, Brubaker spends a nice chunk of time settling the situation that Bendis left Daredevil in through a "Daredevil on the run" arc, but he does so in a way that does not feel like simply rote "okay, everything is back to normal" fashion.
Once things are back to some semi-balance of normality, Brubaker then puts Murdock through the paces in some dark storylines that push Daredevil practically to the edge of sanity.
This run heavily evokes the feel of a number of 1970s cult classics, with a noir flourish. Lark and Gaudiano bring the book an "old school" feel while being amazingly technically proficient artists. They tell a story extremely well.
A notable addition to Daredevil's supporting cast during this run was Marvel's little known private investigator character, Dakota North. Brubaker does wonders with her as a character, making her a vital part of the book. The relationship between North and Murdock help drive a great deal of the plots in the series.
Brubaker also introduced a new female Bullseye character (Lady Bullseye, natch). What should not be left unheralded is the work of the cover artists on this series. Tommy Lee Edwards got things off to a great starting with some stunning covers and then a new addition to Marvel, Marko Djurdjevic, set the world on storm with his epic painted covers. Daredevil had some of the best covers going for years between the two men.
81. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal – 108 points
Criminal #1-10, Criminal Volume 2 #1-7, Criminal – The Sinners #1-5, Criminal – The Last of the Innocent #1-4
Criminal is interesting in that its current format of a series of mini-series was really what the series was all about even before it officially went to the current format. That is, each story arc was, in effect, its own little mini-series. It all takes place in the same shared continuity, though, just each arc spotlights a different criminal.
As to the plot of Criminal, it is exactly what its title says it is – a book about criminals. Brubaker and Phillips excel at producing high quality crime stories and Criminal is a perfect outlet for such stories.
The first arc, Coward, was about a crook who was one of the best in the business, mostly because he always knew when to run. Here is the amazing opening scene introducing him to the audience…
Of course, the story deals with said "coward" being forced into a situation that he COULDN'T run away from. That really describes a lot of the stories in Criminal, compelling characters being forced into tough situations where they must react a certain way to survive (or not) and the end result can often be heartbreaking but it is always compelling.
And the artwork, wow…Sean Phillips is just a master of noir. He can create a perfect scene like few artists working in comics today. And his character work is outstanding.
The most recent Criminal arc was one of the series' most acclaimed, as Brubaker and Phillips created characters based on classic Archie characters (although, really, just the archetypes of the characters, who have been around in media before they were Archie characters) and then put them through the wringer, exploring the idea of how powerful of a drug nostalgia can be while showing that "the good ol' days" were rarely as good as you remember them, and you can't force your way back to such an ideal. Phillips rocked with his stylized flashbacks of the characters (in a not quite Dan DeCarlo style, but clearly evoking an innocent worldview, even as they make it clear that these characters were NEVER "innocent").
Man i really loved Top 10, i almost went blind searching every panel for those hidden easter eggs. What a shame Moore's so bitter towards the industry these days.
I thought that the Brubaker and Lark's Daredevil would have ranked higher. I don't remember if I voted for it, as I haven't read it all yet, but I think it is as good as Bendis' run.
Didn't expect Brubaker's Daredevil.
Anything by Giffen is always cool. Did his Legion run make the list last time?
The other three are pretty much the usual suspects. And ranked right around where I would have expected them to be.
I first read LONE WOLF & CUB at First Comics, and picked it up again at Dark Horse.
Not sure if this manga's the longest manga series ever written (this one has nearly 8500 pages). But it boggles the mind that it took 6 years to do this series!
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL is soon concluding its run at 19 years, and not sure of the page content, but it should be pretty damn close.
Hey – two runs I voted for – Daredevil and Criminal – and both written by Ed Brubaker.
I didn't think Daredevil would be in the top 100, but I also think it is as good as Bendis', also great, run, and holds up better than Bendis' on the second read.
Glad to see Criminal here. I think it is the best of the Brubaker/Phillps work, so am interested to see how Sleeper/Incognito do. I suspect Sleeper will rank, but not Incognito.
Criminal was an ongoing series I didn't mind voting for because there isn't going to be an ending that impacts my enjoyment of the series as a whole. I was surprised to see Chew yesterday as it is planned for a finite run and is almost a mystery. How the ending plays out will affect how I perceive the early issues.
Still no runs I voted for here yet, but Top 10 would've sat at #12 if this had gone further. I also greatly enjoy the Giffen Legion. One of the greatest moments in comics history is when Giffen just destroys Earth. Fantastic.
Was not expecting Brubakers Daredevil.
So far none have appeared from my top ten. My top 7 I know will make it, but I'm hoping Perez's WW and O'Neil/Adams Batman make it also.
I was wondering why on Earth a "grim-and-gritty" Legion would be popular, but then I went, "oh yeah, the '80s."
Not surprised to see the "Five Years Later" Legion show up. Really need to give that a read someday.
It might be sacrilegious to say so, but Top 10 is possibly my favorite Moore work of all time.
I remember Briubaker's Daredevil being pretty good, though like most modern comics, I haven't had a chance to go back and re-read it.
The only ones from this post that I read a significant portion of were the "Five Years Later" Legion (which was a bit dark for my tastes, but still had its moments) and Top 10 (which I only read the first story arc, and I kinda regret leaving off of my short list). None of the others were available where I live, so they flew below my radar.
That "Lone Wolf and Cub" scene looks awesome, though.
Giffen's legion is The prime example that entry points aren't (or maybe didn't used to be, back when comics were more affordable) needed to attract new readers. i had only been seriously collecting for a couple of years when it came out, i had heard of the legion but never read anything about them, so i picked up this series. TOTAL CONFUSION!! i didn't have clue one as to what the hell was going on, couldn't keep the names straight, it was insane. BUT, the story and art were so entertaining i was compelled to get legion back issues to fill in the giant holes in my knowledge. the legion has been one of my favorite series ever since
I don't understand the appeal of Ed Brubaker at all. Bendis and Maleev, for all the former's flaws, brought a unique voice to Daredevil and created stories that were designed to constantly keep the reader off balance without giving in to despair. Brubaker just turned it into another workaday gritty crime-ish comic.
Criminal's better, largely because of Sean Phillips, but still isn't really my thing.
I really need to read Giffen's legion, and Top Ten is a notable hole in my working through Moore's body of work. Lone Wolf & Cub I've read some of.
@ Michael P:
The 5YL Legion was popular because it was good! i have read the Legion since the Great Darkness Saga and i loved the 5YL up until they blew up the Earth. It was dark & gritty, but there were great reasons in the actual story for that. i also loved Giffen's artwork as it was dense & sometimes hard to understand [as were all the allusions that became clearer as the series went along]. This was a thinking person's comic book and was a very different Legion. Some hated it, but Giffen being a huge talent, i think that i worked well, until the Clones dragged down the momentum & Giffen left.
Criminal was my number one. For my money, it is the best comic being regularly released and is good enough to keep me reading monthly comics. It ranked just ahead of Gaman's Sandman (or the last on-going to bear that distinction), because it is clearly the work of a collaboration between a particular writer and a particular artist. Both are essential to every issue.
Nothing else from my list has shown up, but the 5YL is unquestionably great run. It is an easy run to admire and a tough one to love. Those comics are incredibly dense and relentlessly dark. The contrast between the Kennedy-era optimism that spawned the Legion with the Reagan-era dystopia of the TMK run was just brutal. It is amazing that this hasn't been collected into one of those oversized omnibus deals.
I loved that first Brubaker Daredevil arc set in the prison. So much so, that I was hoping it went for longer! – Something about Prison dramas that I cant get enough of!!! (Azzarello on Hellblazer was another favorite).
Top Ten is phenomenal
Twice in this post, you write "semi-balance" (not a real word) when you mean "semblance"
Sorry to seem nit-picky, but things like that tend to really bug me and unfortunately made it hard for me to enjoy reading your otherwise fine post.
The five years later Legion is awesome.
I love the Legion, and I've recently been picking up whatever copies of any of the series I can get. I think I have most of this 5YL run now, actually.
Top 10 was really good, but I've only got the first 7 issues. I've read Smax too, actually. There was that sequel you mention (by…some writer and Jerry Ordway), but there was also the more recent "season 2″ (I think) by Ha and Cannon, and supposedly there's a sequel to that in the can that DC isn't releasing for some reason.
Lone Wolf and Cub is neat from what I've seen. Good thing you included a urination scene, as that's apparently a "thing" in there.
I have a chunk of the Bru/Lark DD, and it seems ok. The Bendis run must be up there still, along with Miller, and I think I saw already that Waid's run is there. So is DD the character with the most runs on this list, I wonder?
I have an issue of Criminal but haven't read that yet. These aren't the Bru books that I voted for
This time around, I'm familiar with 4 out of 5. In some cases, very familiar. (I once bought a copy of the first manga volume (in English) of Lone Wolf & Cub . . . and failed to fall in love with it.)
"Criminal" is the only one I've never glanced at. What I have seen of Brubaker's work doesn't thrill me the way it seems to do for many other people, but I can understand why someone might want to vote for some of his runs.
At this point, however, none of my runs have been mentioned among the Top 100.
A nice fistfull of comics here.
Never heard about this particular incarnation of the Legion. This was, unfortunately, the time period when the general movement toward "grim and gritty" was sweeping comics (thanks alot Frank Miller) and it got to be a little too much. But I tend to like Giffen. Don't know if I'll seek these out but if I ever come across a trade or some back issues they may be worth a look.
And speaking of "grim & gritty", has any modern super-hero character been more fully immersed in the "noir" than Daredevil (and on several distinct runs as well). I think that what Waid is doing with the character now was not only brilliant, but quite frankly necessary at this point. Even though I loved most of the DD comics published during those runs, I've read so much "down & out" Daredevil that I cannot imagine a more boring "here we go again" direction in comics than another dark DD comic (not to take away from Bru's run here – it deserves the accolades). Enough is enough already though.
Now Criminal is where you go when you want the good, classic noir stuff. Brubillips is one of those creative teams I tell my LCS to put on my pull list, sight unseen, whenever anything new comes out.
And count me in with those who think that Top Ten is some of Moore's best work (it certainly ranks with his most enjoyable anyway). I've read about half of those issues, out-of-sequence, just based on haphazardly finding them in back issue bins here and there and have loved every second of reading it. Not many series I could read in such a haphazard, non-sequential way and still love the shit out of it.
Top Ten deserves to be in the Top Ten of this poll.
I didn't vote, but Lone Wolf and Cub is in my top 5, no doubt.
The story isn't really straight forward, the creators take a look at many aspects of Japanese society, life, and death, as they weave many different things into this ultimate revenge tale.
Also, it has the best ending to any comic, ever.
Legion – I have no interest in LOSH. Sorry. I just don't.
Top 10 – I think I'll get hunted down and killed if I say I liked Powers better than this. So, I'll concede that it's pretty good to. Just not GREAT.
Lone Wolf & Cub – I have the first twelve on my shelf. Only the read the first. But spent collective hours looking at the other eleven.
Daredevil – I'm in the middle of Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev's run right now, so I'll get there soon enough. I really like Ed Brubaker
Criminal – Especially for that.
Wow, after a busy weekend, I have some catching up to do on this list.
Great picks today. Top Ten and Criminal are both books that I love, but didn't vote for because I imposed a "one run per writer" rule on my list, and opted for Swamp Thing and Sleeper instead.
But I think Top Ten is one of Moore's true classics, and long over due for a nice hardcover treatment from DC. Other than Watchmen, you'll never find a more densely packed 12 issues than Top Ten. It's almost like The Wire in terms of how many important characters there are and how much is going on, even if the themes don't overlap much. And Criminal is great too, a little like a more realistic Sin City written by someone who isn't insane.
I haven't read Brubaker's Daredevil yet, I actually just finished hunting down the Bendis DD hardcovers on eBay, so when I finish those, I'll get to the Brubaker issues.
I've never gotten around to Giffen's dark Legion either, though I have read his first run with Levitz. It's surprising that DC has never collected one iota of this. Hopefully they will at some point, as I don't feel like hunting down the individual issues.
And Lone Wolf & Cub is something I keep meaning to get from the library. Someday.
Giffen/Bierbaums Legion 2012: #85, 104 points
Giffen/Bierbaums Legion 2008: #44, 208 points
Down 41 places, -104 points
Moore/Ha/Cannon's Top 10 2012: #84, 105 points
Moore's Top 10 2008: #68, 141 points
Down 16 places, -36 points
Koike/Kojima Lone Wolf & Cub 2012: #83, 106 points
Koike/Kojima Lone Wolf & Cub 2008: #95, 100 points
Up 12 places, +6 points
Newcomer: Brubaker/Lark/Gaudiano's Daredevil, #82, 107 points
2008's #82: No entry. Instead, two runs tied for the #81 slot. The two runs are Milligan/Allred's X-Force/X-Statix and Brubaker/Phillips Sleeper, with 113 points.
Brubaker/Phillips Sleeper 2012: #81, 108 points
Brubaker/Phillips Sleeper 2008: #81, 113 points
No change, -5 points
Lone Wolf & Cub has always had plenty of admirers in the American comic book scene, and it's pretty logical that number has only increased since the 2008 voting. Lone Wolf & Cub climbs the list and also gains points, probably owing to its sterling reputation.
Brubaker/Phillips's Sleeper holds steady, losing a small number of points and staying at the exact same point in the top 100. This is fairly impressive given how many of 2008's darlings are no-shows or sliding down the list this year. It would probably be fair to say that Sleeper's already a minor classic, and likely to become a major one in future years.
Top 10, like many of the Moore properties present in the 2008 vote, slides down the list this year. Top 10 appears not to be collected in trade, which probably doesn't help things. Moore's also been the subject of fan backlash in recent years, perhaps turning new readers off of his work.
The big loser for this entry in the Top 100 is the Giffen/Bierbaums Legion, which plummets 33 places down the charts and loses half its points. This is a case where I think poor treatment of the property by DC in recent years is probably depressing interest in the vintage Legion books. Back in 2008, Legion was a much higher-profile property, complete with a recent cartoon series.
Brubaker's Daredevil run was still being published during the 2008 polling, and its reputation seems to have grown in the years since. This probably fueled in part by Brubaker becoming an increasingly high-profile writer, and it's probably no coincidence that Sleeper and his Daredevil are side-by-side here.
Criminal, not Sleeper.
You're right, my eyes must've fixated on the covers. I think everything I wrote about Sleeper would generally apply to Criminal, fortunately.
Lynxara — Top 10 was collected in trade, but they may be out of print. 2 volumes for the first "season", the 49ers was an OGN, and Smax is definitely in trade (as that's how I read it). Again, they may be out of print, and DC obviously doesn't care as apparently Ha and Cannon have a new mini of the book done (or written, maybe), Ha's a DC exclusive, and nothing. Guess it won't make that Before Watchmen money, so who cares?
I know Sleeper was discussed in error, but that has been traded since, as well as an upcoming omni. So it's on people's minds.
And the converse is true here again, I think. The 5YL Legion is NOT in trade, so it loses ground here.
If it was just one or 2 books like this, I wouldn't fuss, but it looks like a trend, based on your stats — traded works gained or held steady, un-traded lost ground.
I think the Top 10 trades may be out of print, I've read a lot of complaints about people not being able to find the series recently. Rooting out general trends like runs doing better as a result of getting trades is why I decided to crunch the numbers, so I don't mind the "fuss." More information is good, and I'm no sort of expert on what's collected and what isn't.
I'm not convinced that being out-of-print would produce such huge drops as 5YL Legion and Suicide Squad by itself. It's clearly a factor, but there's other out-of-print books that are holding onto their points a lot better. I feel like the huge drops probably are the result of several trends converging, some more obvious than others. I admit I'm not at all sure what might be at play in Suicide Squad's case, though.
That Legion run dropped 41 places.. not my favourite period of the legion
Too confusing (5 years later and the post Mon_El retcon), and the dark future never really seemed to fit with the legion …and bringing in clones of your heroes (as anything other than short-lived enemies) is a bad idea (ask Spiderman).
Some good ideas and I loved "Tenzil for the Defence" (A must for "I love ya but you're strange")
But, over-all I prefer the Levitz runs (with or without Giffen)
I have much love for the 5YL Legion, which was actually my real introduction to the LSH, which had seemed incomprehensible and confusing and a bit lame before. I felt like with this one I was on the same page of confusion with everyone else, and the backups (various McCauleyCom pages, entries from Brainac 5, etc.) were really cool. I love trying to figure out whom everyone was and why they had gone the way they had.
I started out hating Giffen's 9-panel grid work and great to love it, making his replacement on pencils by Brandon Peterson & Jason Pearson hard to adjust to. The first year or so was brilliant and then it got a little ragged, with great stories interspersed with more average work. The "Batch SW6″ stuff worked great in the liberation of earth from the Dominators (you gotta love how the Subs became so effective) and a bit of an albatross later.
Giffen did humor exceptionally well in this run, especially with Tenzil, but also managed to have other characters be funny and make it work even in more serious stories. ("No ultra-strength, Jo! No ultra-strength!!")
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ResCap is also trying to resolve potential objections to an auction of its mortgage-servicing unit, which is scheduled for next month. The so-called stalking-horse, or lead, bidder is a unit of Fortress Investment Group LLC, which has agreed to buy the mortgage business for more than $2.4 billion, unless outbid at the auction.
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That support deal came after some ResCap bondholders including John Paulson's Paulson & Co. and David Tepper's Appaloosa Management hired law firm White & Case LLP in January to oppose a bankruptcy.
Bondholder attorney Christopher Shore told Glenn that the investors he represents will participate in creditor talks.
The bondholders "are looking to renegotiate their deal," said Kirk Ludtke, an analyst at CRT Capital Group LLC, the Stamford, Connecticut-based broker-dealer. Ending the agreement may also allow the investors to sell the securities and lock in profits, he said.
"This development shows that the strategy to use bankruptcy to fix the ResCap liabilities may not be as easy as the Geithner Treasury and Ally management supposed," Chris Whalen, a senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners LLC in New York, said in an e-mail.
The case is In re Residential Capital LLC, 12-12020, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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The American Immigration Council, ABA Commission on Immigration and Penn State Law's Center for Immigrants' Rights are pleased to announce the release of the practice advisory, Notices to Appear: Legal Challenges and Strategies.
The Notice to Appear is the charging document used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to notify a noncitizen about immigration charges and a future immigration court hearing. Filing a Notice to Appear ("NTA") with the immigration court places an individual in a removal proceeding before a judge and is a significant step in the removal process. Various officials within the three major immigration-related components of the Department of Homeland Security — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — are empowered to issue NTAs, which trigger removal proceedings in immigration court. At various points after an NTA is issued, an attorney may negotiate with DHS to obtain a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. DHS has discretion either to file the NTA with the court, thus going forward with removal proceedings, to drop or revise certain charges, or to cancel the NTA and thus end the removal proceedings. After the NTA is filed, DHS can exercise discretion through a joint motion asking the judge to administratively close or terminate proceedings. The decisions made by DHS about Notices to Appear are not just ministerial, but can impact the lives of noncitizens and their families in significant ways.
This practice advisory provides innovative legal and procedural arguments and strategies for seeking prosecutorial discretion, and is intended for attorneys representing noncitizens 1) who are likely to be issued NTAs, 2) who have been issued NTAs that have not been filed with the immigration court, or 3) who have been issued NTAs that have been filed. It provides an overview of the legal requirements for an NTA and strategies available to attorneys to cancel, mitigate, or challenge the contents of an NTA.
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Modeling and simulation of photovoltaic (PV) power systems have become increasingly important with wide acceptance and integration of solar energy in modern electric grids. The transcendental nonlinear equations describing the PV generator, which are coupled with the detailed switching models of the power electronic converters, generally result in slow and inefficient simulations, especially when long-term analyses are required. This paper focuses on simple and efficient modeling approaches that are suitable for long-term and large PV system analyses. This study provides a simplified PV-cell model and its parameterization, guaranteeing that the I-V characteristic curves pass through the typical points given in manufacturers' datasheets. Furthermore, several power interface models are provided for fast simulation purpose. A classical two-stage power processing system with intermediate dc link used as a string inverter, as well as a single-stage conversion unit used in distributed module-dedicated PV applications, are taken as application examples. The generalized modeling approach is thoroughly evaluated by comparing the simulation results with the experimental data of a practical 2.4-kW grid-tied PV solar unit. The proposed methodology is shown to have advantages over conventional modeling approaches to simulate long-term grid-tied operation.
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The Impact of the Media on National Security Policy Decision Making
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What is the impact of the media upon national security policy decision making? Do network news personalities exert genuine power over the national command authority? Does the photograph of a mob dragging the body of a dead American soldier through the streets drive policy decisions? If the answers to these questions are "Yes," then the claim made by William Randolph Hearst is correct, and national policy is at the mercy of the media. In asking whether, or to what extent, these questions might be answered in the affirmative, the author of this study has raised as many additional questions. The impact of the Information Age is being felt right now, but what the long-term impact may be requires considerable further study. The mere fact that personal computers are proliferating and with them FAX and E-mail capability does not necessarily mean that we are moving into an age of increased public involvement in government nor that the groups actively interested in foreign affairs will change dramatically. But it might.
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Read about the new 2014 Rocky and Bullwinkle short.
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Mr. Peabody is a cartoon dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, produced by Jay Ward. Peabody appeared in the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments created by Ted Key, and was voiced by Bill Scott, while Sherman was voiced by Walter Tetley.
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What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
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Arthritis means inflammation in a joint. That inflammation causes redness, warmth, swelling, and pain within the joint.
Rheumatoid arthritis affects joints on both sides of the body, such as both hands, both wrists, or both knees. This symmetry helps to set it apart from other types of arthritis.
RA can also affect the skin, eyes, lungs, heart, blood, or nerves.
What Are the Symptoms?
- Joint pain and swelling
- Stiffness, especially in the morning or after you sit for a long time
- Fatigue
Rheumatoid arthritis affects everyone differently. For some, joint symptoms develop gradually over several years. In others, it may come on quickly.
Some people may have rheumatoid arthritis for a short time and then go into remission, which means they don't have symptoms.
Who Gets Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Anyone can get RA. It affects about 1% of Americans.
The disease is two to three times more common in women than in men, but men tend to have more severe symptoms.
It usually starts in middle age. But young children and the elderly also can get it.
What Causes It?
Doctors don't know the exact cause. Something seems to trigger the immune system to attack the joints and sometimes other organs. Some experts think that a virus or bacteria may change the immune system, causing it to attack the joints. Other theories suggest that in some people, smoking may lead to rheumatoid arthritis.
Certain genetic patterns may make some people more likely to get RA than others.
How Does It Affect the Body?
Immune system cells move from the blood into the joints and joint-lining tissue, called synovium. Once they arrive, those immune system cells create inflammation that leads to irritation, which wears down cartilage (the cushioning material at the end of bones). As the cartilage wears down, the space between the bones narrows. As it gets worse, the bones could rub against each other.
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I have managed to set up an ubuntu server VM (using Oracle VirtualBox) which will eventually be part of a small Hadoop practice cluster. I have followed along with various tutorials online and I'm now trying to set up a shared folder between the guest and host OS. I have installed the latest version of Guest Additions using the built in package manager.
The problem is that once I mount the shared folder in the guest OS, if I try to ls the contents of that folder, the OS hangs and I am forced to restart the VM. If I ls the folder prior to mounting the shared folder no errors occur.
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touch /media/sf_VMshare/testfile, the file appears in the corresponding host OS directory as if everything is working correctly.
I am at the limit of what I know to do to troubleshoot this on my own. If anyone had any suggestions as to what to try next I would be in your debt.
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Editor A. M. A. Journal, 68 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.
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—On yesterday the clerk of the Maxwell House here, handed me a package of papers, which proved to be the notes and original papers read in the Section of Practice of Medicine, at the meeting of the Association held at this place in May, 1890. They evidently were lost, and only now have come to light. If you desire the package, I will forward it to you, as many of the essays bear the marks of careful preparation, and no doubt the authors would be glad to either get their copy again or have it published by you. Very truly yours,Nashville, Tenn., October 17, 1891.The misplacement and apparent loss of the papers of the Section on Medicine last year was a source of much trouble to the Editor of The Journal, and every possible means was
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China's Biostar Pharmaceuticals is teaming up with the country's Fourth Military Medical University (FMMU) to jointly conduct Phase I–III clinical trials with the latter's Viacom Pine II Cream, which is in development initially for use by the military to treat skin diseases including bacterial and fungal infections, dermatitis, and eczema.
Under terms of the Letter of Intent signed between the organizations, Biostar will coordinate with FMMU to complete clinical trials before October 2015, and will fund and carry out trials and approvals, as well as complete the construction of a production line, obtain GMP certification, and manufacture the drug using FMMU technology. FMMU will submit applications relating to the start of trials, coordinate with China's military authorities, and secure final product approvals.
The LOI follows a cooperation agreement signed in January 2012 under which Biostar was sleected to share resources and ideas with FMMU, and to collaborate on the clinical trials of products in development for China's military, and hospitals managed by FMMU. "Following the initial clinical research, Viacom has demonstrated encouraging results for the treatment of several skin diseases such as bacterial and fungal infections, dermatitis, and eczema, which are common among members of the People's Republic of China armed forces," explains Ronghua Want, Biostar chairman and CEO. "Once Viacom receives approval from the military authorities to be sold in military hospitals, we will apply to receive the State Food & Drug Administration's approval to sell it in healthcare centers and hospitals all over the country."
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (Paperback)
Subtitle on cover: How one man saved the British monarchy.
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Peter Conradi is the author of The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer, and Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the New Russian Nationalism. A graduate of Oxford University, he also studied at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University and knows Hanfstaengl's hometown well. Conradi is Deputy Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times (London).


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Despite attempts by animal rights activists to halt and end the 2011 bear season in New Jersey, the state is going forward with the hunt starting today. The area that is open for bear hunting is about a 1,000 square miles, with an estimated population of 3,400 black bears in the small state, giving it one of the densest bear populations in the nation. Most if not all of the counties have reported bears.
Last year 20% of the bears harvested were bears that had been marked as nuisance bears. Each licensed hunter is allowed to harvest one black bear, and must register it at a check station. The season ends December 10th, coinciding with the firearm deer season.
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Crivelli, Tatiana (2010). Fra Oriente e Occidente: improvvisazione poetica e carattere nazionale italiano nella Corinne di Mme de Staël. In: Alfonzetti, B; Bellucci, N. Corinne e l'Italia di Mme de Staël. Roma: Bulzoni editore, 83-106.
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The article makes use of postcolonial theory, in particular of Said's notion of orientalism, to investigate the refined play of implicit and explicit cultural assimilations involved in Stäel's choice to represent Italy through an extemporaneous woman poet. In this study we look at Corinne in a different light: rather than accentuating those elements of the book, which anticipate modern comparativism, the author investigates its judging glance – that proceeds in a polarized fashion, typical of the imperialist epoch – and highlights the outsider perspective, from which Mme de Stäel imposes over Italy and the Italians a model for perceiving themselves as European.
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I have been going to the Veranda since 2004. We stay in Unit 410 --a two bedroom ocean front condo. The view is amazing! floor to ceiling doors looking out to the ocean. A nice pool and right on the beach. Made things so easy when my kids were little and took naps. Could sit on the huge veranda while they slept. The veranda spans from one bedroom to the other. The rooms are always clean and recently they were updated and very pretty. The condo has everything you need and the office is generous if you need extra toilet paper or laundry detergent, etc.
Longboat Key, for those who have never been, is a narrow long island that is less crowed and feels more residential (classy). For people who want tons of tourists and razzmatazz this is not the place for you. I love that the beaches on Longboat are quiet and clean. If I want night life I am ten minutes to Armand's Circle or downtown Sarasota (which has restaurants and shopping) and ten minutes to Bradenton Beach and Anna Maria Island for bars, restaurants and shops.
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Hey Berlin - wasn't that you in uniform in one of the earlier scenes before he asked the non gooners to leave?
well spotted old fan, banged to rights, i'm the one wearing the knights cross 1st class with oak leaf clusters! ;-)


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I am attempting to login to Youtube with WWW:Mechanize and use forms() to print out all the forms on the page after logging in. My script is logging in successfully, and also successfully navigating to Youtube.com/inbox; However, for some reason Mechanize can not see any forms at Youtube.com/inbox. It just returns blank. Here is my code:
#!"C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Data::Dumper;
my $q = CGI->new;
my $url = 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?uilel=3&service=youtube&passive=true&continue=http://www.youtube.com/signin%3Faction_handle_signin%3Dtrue%26nomobiletemp%3D1%26hl%3Den_US%26next%3D%252Findex&hl=en_US<mpl=sso';
my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);
$mechanize->agent_alias( 'Windows Mozilla' );
form_id => 'gaia_loginform',
fields => { Email => 'myemail',Passwd => 'mypassword' },
die unless ($mechanize->success);
$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/inbox';
my $page = $mechanize->content();
print Dumper($mechanize->forms());
Mechanize is unable to see any forms at youtube.com/inbox, however, like I said, I can print all of the forms from the initial link, no matter what I change it to...
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Conventional methods for protein expression rely on bacteria, yeast, plant, or mammalian cell lines. Many proteins, however, cannot be manufactured in these systems, including those with novel chemical modifications such as non-natural amino acids.
Sutro Biopharma says its open cell-free synthesis (OCFS) method rapidly makes proteins that cannot be produced by conventional systems. The OCFS technology acts more like a biochemical system than living cells, so conditions can be exploited to make proteins of interest.
"It's 'open' in the sense that different reagents can be added in a combinatorial fashion to find the right conditions for optimal protein synthesis," says William J. Newell, CEO.
James Swartz, Sc.D., created the OCFS technology at Stanford University. Swartz removed the ribosomal machinery needed for protein transcription and translation from Escherichia coli and then transformed the key components into a cost-effective platform for protein manufacturing. The ribosomal machinery is contained in a cell-free extract that can be modified to carry out reactions under conditions that living cells cannot tolerate.
Swartz helped start Sutro Biopharma in 2003, based on the intellectual property that he developed surrounding the E. coli cell extract and its modifications. The cell-free expression system can produce peptides, cytokines, antibodies, and other proteins in either small laboratory batches or larger quantities.
"The cell-free extract is the same regardless of the peptide or protein that will be synthesized. That's a fundamental difference that distinguishes our method from other cellular expression systems," says Newell.
Among the challenges Swartz faced was how to fuel large-scale protein production. For small laboratory research, ATP fuels the ribosomal machinery, but the amount of ATP required for large-scale protein synthesis is cost prohibitive.
Swartz solved the problem by using cheaper energy sources to activate oxidative phosphorylation pathways, which, in turn, generate ATP for the ribosomal machinery. "This is a fundamental part of the IP that we licensed exclusively from Stanford," says Newell.
A major advantage of Sutro's platform is that non-natural amino acids can be introduced to produce novel protein therapeutics for scientific exploration. Other systems that incorporate non-natural amino acids involve orthogonal tRNA cell-based methods and extensive protein engineering, and they take months to years to perfect.
In contrast, Sutro's OCFS technology allows non-natural amino acids to be added directly in a highly predictable way, and proteins are rapidly generated in a days or weeks, Newell explains.
New versions of peptides and proteins, which are more specific or potent than natural ones, can be made through the incorporation of non-natural amino acids. Rather than being restricted to the 20 natural amino acids, focused libraries of non-natural amino acids expand Sutro's toolkit.
"In our process it takes five to six hours to make and screen variants with non-natural amino acids," says Newell. The platform combines rationale combinatorial chemistry with protein engineering, an approach similar to that used for screening small molecule drugs.
In just days, "you can identify a lead candidate, use small combinatorial libraries to iterate around the lead, explore the space, and quickly winnow down candidates and keep the best ones," Newell says.
The trick to working with non-natural amino acids is finding ways to insert them into an exact location within a protein structure in order to generate a homogenous, reproducible protein product.
Researchers at Sutro Biopharma developed analytical methods to ensure that non-natural amino acids are conjugated at exact sites and remain intact during scale-up, important features for both protein manufacturing and regulatory control.
Sutro Biopharma collaborates with other companies to design peptides and proteins. In 2010, the firm also began using its platform to pursue therapeutic opportunities in-house.
Its first major collaboration was initiated in January 2011 with Pfizer for undisclosed targets. The partnership gives Pfizer access to peptides that are difficult to produce with conventional technologies.
As projects progress to clinical-stage development, Sutro can provide initial quantities of cGMP product from its new cGMP facility that is scheduled to open early in 2012. Sutro likely will supply partners with its cell-free extract for protein manufacturing, which can be used by any contract manufacturing facility.
"There's nothing magical about the manufacturing setup if you have the ingredients and know the process," says Newell.
A recent study in the July 2011 issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering showed that Sutro's OCFS technology platform produces high yields of synthesized proteins with straightforward downstream purification processes.
In the study, the bioactive cytokine human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor was produced at linearly scalable levels of up to 700 mg/liter in 10 hours. Since publication, batch efficiency has doubled, says Newell, demonstrating the potential of the company's OCFS technology for cGMP manufacturing.
Other companies sell cell-free protein expression kits, but they sustain only tiny amounts of protein, Newell notes. The advantages of Sutro's system include its scalability to commercial size batches, use of low-cost energy sources, and ability to incorporate non-natural amino acids.
"Our system gives people an opportunity to explore a wider space in a faster timeframe in the protein research and manufacturing space," says Newell.
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