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[Editor's note: Each Sunday, Robot 6 contributors discuss the best in comics from the last seven days — from news and announcements to a great comic that came out to something cool creators or fans have done.]
It's intriguing to see writer Curt Pires reach the third leg of his music trilogy, Pop (the first two legs were LP and Theremin). When I interviewed Pires about LP nearly two years ago, it was a project he self-published. So I was immensely pleased to see that the recognition of Pires' talent had grown since that first leg to the point Dark Horse is publishing this new four-issue limited series.
In interviews I typically stay away from the "how did you get started in comics" question, but periodically I'll delve into a question about a book dedication, hopeful for an interesting answer. I was hopeful with good reason with this week's interview with writer Sam Humphries about the new Dark Horse hardcover collection of Sacrifice, by Humphries and artist Dalton Rose. To learn the death of his father was the push Humphries needed to pursue writing comics was a moment that gave me pause.
In fact, the book itself — about Hector, who through an epileptic seizure departs from modern time and space, back to when the Aztec civilization was in its prime — stopped me in my tracks. Storytelling that maps a psychedelic journey in a coherent and fascinating manner is no easy feat, but Humphries and Rose have accomplished it. Dark Horse's collection of the self-published series will be released Wednesday.
Tim O'Shea: On a most rudimentary level, let's talk about the logo design for Sacrifice. Who designed it, [comics designer] Dylan Todd or Dalton Rose?
Sam Humphries: Dylan Todd. Sacrifice largely takes place in the past, but it's not a stodgy period piece. I wanted the design to reflect a modern sensibility without ignoring the core of the story, which is the Aztec Empire. It was a difficult balance but Dylan killed it. He gave Sacrifice a "face" to people who had never seen the story.
Dark Horse has provided Robot 6 with a first look at the cover for its upcoming hardcover collection of Sacrifice by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose, announced this afternoon at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle.
Debuting in December 2011, the self-published fantasy/adventure centers on a troubled Joy Division fan named Hector who's plucked from the 21st century and thrown into the middle of an Aztec civil war. After a nearly year-long delay, the series returned in January with Issue 4; the final issue arrives March 20.
Humphries, who has gone on to write Marvel's Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates and Uncanny X-Force, told Robot 6 in September that self-published projects like Sacrifice and Our Love Is Real "always on the table for me, when the time is right."
Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose have provided ROBOT 6 with an exclusive sneak peek at Sacrifice #5, the penultimate issue of their fantasy/adventure, which goes on sale today in print and digital formats.
Debuting in December 2011, Sacrifice centers on a troubled Joy Division fan named Hector who's plucked from the 21st century and thrown into the middle of an Aztec civil war. After a nearly year-long delay, the series returned last month with Issue 4; the final issue arrives March 20.
My brain always shifts toward musical thoughts whenever possible. So when I learned Curt Pires was writing a story called Theremin, I assumed he meant the musical instrument. As I found out quite quickly in this interview, Pires' new collaboration with artist Dalton Rose is focused on the inventor of the instrument, Léon Theremin. The series is slated to launch digitally from Monkeybrain Comics in March.
Robot 6: When we last spoke in September, you said your game plan for Theremin was that you intended to self-distribute it. How did it land at Monkeybrain?
Curt Pires: Initially my game plan was to self-distribute Theremin, correct. Well, It really developed out of talking with Dalton, discussing our plans for the book. We decided that we should sample the book to potential publishers, at least put feelers out there – see what the interest was in the book. We sent the first six pages and plot info over to Chris Roberson and Allison Baker at Monkeybrain, and they liked what they saw enough to invite us aboard to tell our story there. We could not be happier to be telling this story with them.
Sacrifice, the self-published fantasy/adventure comic by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose will return Jan. 16 with Issue 4 after a nearly year-long delay. The final two issues of the acclaimed series are scheduled to arrive in February and March (or, in the words of the teaser, "Now Monthly Until the End of the World!").
"The whole Sacrifice team has been working hard this year to allow us to return to Sacrifice without additional delays," Humphries, whose first issue of Marvel's Uncanny X-Force goes on sale the same day, said in a press release. "Issue 4 is ready to go to the printer, issue 5 is completely drawn, and Dalton is hard at work on issue 6. We're well within schedule to ship the final issue in March. The book is looking better than ever — we thank our awesome retailers and devoted readers for their patience!"
Once and a while a comic drops in my inbox that carries some distinct element that snags my interest. LP, by writer Curt Pires and artist Ramon Villalobos, focuses on the life of a musician named F and the LP he possesses, which has unique qualities — far more unique than your average round piece of vinyl. The comic, which Pires is self-distributing, debuts Sept. 26 (it received a pre-release endorsement from guest Ed Brisson in this week's What Are You Reading?"). In anticipation of its release, Pires took some time to answer my questions regarding his new collaboration with Villalobos — as well as to give me a chance to discuss music a smidge (something I always love to do).
Tim O'Shea: LP centers on a vinyl record (aka LP) — could this story have ever worked for you if it had centered around a CD or an MP3 player?
Curt Pires: I definitely think this story only works on vinyl. There's something romantic about vinyl — something tactile. Something that you don't really get with CDs or MP3s. I think a lot of my thoughts as towards this are sort of folded into the story. Sometimes intentionally — other times maybe not so much.
Did you have the story already written when you teamed with Ramon Villalobos, or did you construct the story with his art style in mind?
I had the full script written by the time Ramon had hoped on board to draw the book. I was definitely looking for someone with a bit more of European clean line style to draw this book. I'm a huge fan of this style of art. So Ramon's sort of Darrow/Grampa/Quitely-influenced style was perfect for this book.
Digital | Retailer Brian Hibbs responds to recent comments around the price of digital comics, commenting on how "channel migration" could effect comic retailers: "The concern of the comics retailer isn't that there IS digital — fuck, I'm totally all for a mechanism to drive a potentially wide segment of customers to the medium of comics itself. How can that NOT help me? But, rather, that enough customers will 'change channels' (of purchase), so as to make segments of work unprofitible to carry. I've been pretty straight with you — most periodicals are but marginally profitible; most books are largely unprofitible. That we have stellar, break out, oh-my-god-it's-like-printing-money successes like WALKING DEAD or BONE or SANDMAN doesn't mean that this is the way all books can follow. Quite the opposite in fact! So what this means is that even losing a TINY portion of the readership through Channel Migration could potentially have dire effects. Seriously, if I lost just 10% of my customers, I'm done. And what we also know is that when physical stores close, most of that readership for comics UTTERLY VANISHES. The gist of this is that losing 10% of sales to migration could mean that the other 80% of that stores' sales are COMPLETELY LOST." [The Savage Critics]


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Because I know Slog readers are a bunch of hype-hungry Apple fanboys and girls, following is a quick recap of the new products Apple announced at Macworld this morning. Aren't you so excited!?!
• Time Capsule - An Airport Extreme (wireless router) with a big internal hard drive, for backups using Leopard's new Time Machine.
• iPhone - SDK for third-party apps (still) coming in February. New software update coming today, featuring psuedo-GPS, web clips, rearrangeable home screen, and more. iPod Touch to get Mail, maps, and other iPhone features, making it precisely an iPhone without the phone. $20 upgrade.
• iTunes - Movie Rentals. All major studios are on board, rentals to cost $2.99 - $3.99. Start watching within 30 days, watch for 24 hours. Launches today.
• AppleTV Take 2 - No computer required. Rent/buy movies, music, TV shows, etc., directly from iTunes Store on your TV. HD movies also available, with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. Free software update for existing AppleTVs.
• Macbook Air - "World's Thinnest Laptop." 0.76" thin, built in iSight camera, Core 2 Duo. Sports a multitouch trackpad (like an iPhone screen). No optical drive, Superdrive accessory for $99, and some kind of software to let you "borrow" another PC or Mac's optical drive. 5 hour battery life. "Fits inside an envelope." 64GB solid-state flash drive optional.
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General Growth to Reap $700 Million in Secondary Offering
Mall owner General Growth Properties Inc., GGP 0.54 % which last week ended its 19-month bankruptcy, will reap more than $700 million in additional capital from its secondary public offering of 155 million new shares this week.
General Growth, which owns 183 U.S. malls, said late Monday that it priced its offering at $14.75 a share. The company's stock traded at $15.40 Monday in 4 p.m. composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, unchanged from the Friday close.
The company's offering was part of a so-called clawback option on $6.8 billion of capital already pledged to it by five big investors led by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. BAM 0.54 % Those investors agreed earlier this year to provide General Growth the capital in exchange for new shares amounting to two thirds of the company's total.
However, under the terms of its recapitalization pact, General Growth had the right to claw back and sell on the public market a portion of the shares earmarked for three investors in the Brookfield group: Pershing Square Capital Management LP, Fairholme Capital Management LLC and the Teachers Retirement System of Texas. General Growth could do so only if it could sell the shares to the public at a higher price than the $10 a share that the trio had agreed to pay.
By pricing its offering at $14.75 a share, General Growth will raise roughly $2.3 billion in selling all 155 million shares. Of that, $1.6 billion will replace the money that otherwise would have been raised by selling those shares to Pershing, Fairholme and Texas Teachers. The additional $700 million amounts to the surplus that General Growth received for the wager made months ago by its executives, led by departing Chief Executive Adam Metz, and advisers that the company could eventually sell the shares to the public for substantially more than $10 a share.
With the recapitalization complete and the secondary offering set, General Growth gets a clearer picture of its ownership roster. Brookfield will remain General Growth's largest shareholder with a 25% stake. Other big shareholders include Fairholme at 12%, Blackstone Group BX 2.20 % LP at 5% and Texas Teachers at 3%. Pershing gets a 5% stake in the recapitalization to add to General Growth shares and debt it already owned.
However, the big investors collectively hold warrants to buy another 120 million shares, which would eventually add to their ownership percentages.
General Growth's old shares from before its April 2009 bankruptcy filing now collectively amount to 34% of its total. Included in that amount is a stake of roughly 7% held by the company's founding Bucksbaum family.
General Growth, based in Chicago, sought bankruptcy protection last year after failing to refinance portions of its $27 billion debt load as they came due. After its recapitalization, the company now carries roughly $20 billion of debt. Its new CEO, former Vornado Realty Trust executive Sandeep Mathrani, is expected to join the company in the coming weeks.
Serving as joint global coordinators for the secondary offering were Goldman Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities. Joint book-running managers were Wells Fargo Securities, RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, UBS Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley. Senior co-managers were Macquarie Capital and TD Securities, with Piper Jaffray as co-manager. The offering is expected to close Friday.


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McCain-Camp Gaffe Trumps 'Nuts' Remark!
It's exhausting that the focus of the election zigs and zags with every successive surrogate gaffe. Except, in this case, many believe that Phil Gramm's misstep could cause trouble for quite a while.
Barely a day after the entire campaign was overshadowed by Jesse Jackson's castration threat, we have a whole new gaffe to harp on! Yesterday the fickle, unforgiving spotlight turned toward John McCain's top economic adviser, former senator Phil Gramm, after he claimed America has become a "nation of whiners" and that we've been experiencing only a "mental recession." Gramm has refused to back off his comments, but McCain quickly distanced himself. (He also had a funny answer when asked what Gramm's role in his administration might be: "I think Senator Gramm would be in serious consideration for ambassador to Belarus, although I'm not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that." Jeez, talk about throwing someone under the bus.) It's exhausting that the focus of the election zigs and zags with every successive surrogate gaffe. Except, in this case, many believe that Gramm's misstep could cause trouble for quite a while.
• Howard Fineman calls Gramm a "one-man thundercloud" with "one of the more boneheaded remarks in recent presidential politics." While "technically, we may in fact not be in a recession," that "misses the point" that many people are struggling with rising costs and unemployment. [Newsweek]
• Chuck Todd and friends write that Gramm's comments not only threw McCain "way off message," but more important, "combined with McCain calling Social Security 'a disgrace,'" amounted to "flypaper for the 'out of touch' label, something both candidates have been desperately trying to avoid." The result is that McCain has to "stick to focusing on the economy even more than he wants." [First Read/MSNBC]
• Matthew Yglesias says an argument over whether the "economic downturn is real or else some kind of mass hallucination doesn't strike me as a minor economic policy issue" and "if McCain doesn't agree with his top economics surrogates about it, he probably needs a new team." [Atlantic]
• Michael Shear and Jonathan Weisman write that "McCain faced an uphill climb even before his campaign's recent miscues" since many Americans blame President Bush for the economy and McCain has already admitted that "economic policy is not his strong suit." [WP]
• Jim Geraghty sighs and wishes Gramm had at the very least "listed some of the figures who prompt him to declare us 'a nation of whiners,'" like professional athletes, Hollywood celebrities, and "the gay guy suing the Bible publisher for defamation." [Campaign Spot/National Review]
• Marc Ambinder believes Gramm's comment "is technically true but contextually meaningless." It's another example of the push-and-pull for McCain between two kinds of economic conservatives: those, like Gramm, who "experience the world through graphs, charts and data," and those like "policy chief Doug Holtz-Eakin, who experiences the economic world through the language of politics." [Atlantic]
• Chris Cillizza makes the case that "in a vacuum," Gramm's blunder "would have almost no measurable impact on the presidential contest." But they could be "dangerous" for McCain because it fits into the narrative that Obama is trying to create — that McCain is "fundamentally out of touch with the worries and hopes of the average American" and "clueless on the economy." With enough incidents like these, the "the narrative will take hold" and cause real trouble for McCain. [Fix/WP]
• Christopher Beam finds it funny that "Gramm and his investors have felt the pain as much as anyone," as the stock of UBS, where he's the vice-chairman, has "dropped by 70 percent over the last year." [Trailhead/Slate]
• Ed Morrissey thinks McCain took the "politically adept course" by "acknowledging the pain of many in the current economic slowdown, and casting his policies as the answer for the problem." And even though Gramm "tossed some sand in the gears … McCain's still fortunate to have him as an adviser." [Hot Air] —Dan Amira
For a complete and regularly updated guide to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain — from First Love to Most Embarrassing Gaffe — read the 2008 Electopedia.


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FBI, U.S. Marshals And Secret Service Investigate Journalist's MurderThe FBI, U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service were brought in to help solve the murder of a freelance journalist in Garland.
Fort Worth PD Seek Convenience Store Homicide SuspectThe Fort Worth Police Department's Homicide Unit is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect in a homicide at Pronto convenience store Saturday.
Camera Catches Bank Robbery Suspect And Getaway CarShortly before noon on Wednesday, a surveillance camera caught the man entering the Wells Fargo Bank in the 3900 block of Oak Lawn.
Dallas FBI Needs Help Finding Local RobbersThe FBI needs your help finding four men involved in a recent armed robbery in Dallas.
Dallas Police Issue Arrest Warrant For Murder SuspectDallas police have issued an arrest warrant for Michelle Le Speed, who police say was involved in the murder of 61-year-old David Haskell Sparks.
Trio Wanted In Attack And Robbery Outside Grocery StoreDallas police say the men followed the victim out of the Gold Store Food and Grocery on E. Ledbetter Drive.
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Suspect Killed In Crash After Carjacking In GarlandPolice say they found the first suspect driving the Pathfinder, but he took off at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. That led to the crash that killed him.
Two Nearby Hotels Robbed At Gunpoint OvernightDallas Police are looking for three suspects they say are involved in armed robberies at a LaQuinta and Ramada Inn off LBJ Freeway.
Reward Offered For Information Leading To Dallas Murder Suspect Arrest, IndictmentDallas police are searching for a man in connection with Friday's murder on Pacesetter Street.
Mesquite Police Link Suspects To Separate RobberiesPolice in Mesquite have linked the same suspects to two separate aggravated robberies that happened on January 12.
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All Rise...
Judge Daryl Loomis's head is full of molasses.
The Charge
I'm good…I've tried my best to get over it, but I can't.
Opening Statement
By 1920, Buster Keaton (The General) had met great success as the regular sideman in Fatty Arbuckle's comic shorts, but had yet to be cast in a multi-reel feature film. Things started to change for him after Douglas Fairbanks had a stellar run on Broadway with The Henrietta. When Fairbanks turned down the chance to reprise his role in the film version, he recommended Keaton for the part. He didn't get top billing, but he stole the show and began one of the great film careers in Hollywood history.
Facts of the Case
Nicholas Van Alstyne (William H. Crane, True as Steel) runs the Henrietta silver mine and, with all his wealth, has spoiled his children rotten. His son, Bertie (Keaton), is a no good shirkaday who sponges off his father, while his daughter, Rose (Carol Holloway, Rich Men's Wives), isn't much better and has given her share of the fortune to her idiot husband, Mark Turner (Irving Cummings, Beautifully Trimmed). Bertie starts getting his life together and agrees to marry the lovely Agnes (Beulah Booker, The Boomerang, but Mark ruins it all by pinning his own illegitimate daughter onto Bertie. Agnes leaves and Mark reveals that he has squandered control of the mine, which will soon be auctioned away. In order to save the family and get Agnes back, Bertie travels to Wall Street himself to get their assets back.
The Evidence
Buster Keaton would go on to make plenty of pictures that were far superior to The Saphead, but it's easy to see how his popularity grew so quickly. No matter what he's doing, and here he isn't the most endearing of characters, he's completely likable and sympathetic. He's not even the main star of the movie, but he steals the show at every turn.
If you're familiar with Keaton's later work, it will quickly become clear that The Saphead is atypical for the actor. Unlike most of his work, he was on loan to Metro and had no creative control of the project, so outside of him and him alone, there's almost no comparison. Director Herbert Blaché (The Calgary Stampede) created something more akin to melodrama than the slapstick that Keaton was known for and, while Keaton does have a few good pratfalls (including one that looks like it must have broken his tailbone), he was mostly forced to play it straight. He's brilliant at whatever he does, though, so he charms audiences even without his usual shtick.
The rest of the performances are pretty mediocre and the story, while ambiguous and more sophisticated than many plots of the time, is a little hard to follow, especially the main plot point of the illegitimate daughter, a sequence I had to watch multiple time to understand what had occurred. There are a few choice sequences, including a grandly funny scene in an underground gambling house and the uncomfortable fact that Agnes, the love of Bertie's life, is also his adopted sister. Everything memorable about The Saphead involves Keaton, though, so I can gladly leave the rest of the movie behind.
Kino's Blu-ray of The Saphead is fantastic in every way. It was rare luck that the film was curated so carefully and it shows in every frame of the film. This is one of the best-preserved silent films out there and, though there's some understandable damage on the nine-decade-old print, it's almost completely free of problems. The contrast is solid, the color tinting is rich, and there's a surprising level of detail. The transfer isn't perfect; there are some bits of digital noise here and there, but it's otherwise solid. To listen to the score by Robert Israel, one of the better silent arrangers out there, viewers have the option of a 5.1 Master Audio track or a PCM stereo mix. They're more or less the same, though there's a bit more oomph in the surround mix.
The extras are the real value of the disc, though. It starts off with a complete alternate cut of the film (and a second piano score composed by Ben Model), which has undergone the same level of care as the main feature. As Brett Wood, who created these new masters, states in a short featurette comparing them, no two shots are the same at any point in the film. This alternate take, used for the international market, watched on its own, may not seem different at all, but scenes presented side by side show the multitude of differences in each shot. The best extra (and, really, one of the better extras I've experienced) is a half-hour reel-to-reel audio recording from 1962 of Buster Keaton at a dinner party regaling friends with songs and stories from his Vaudeville days. The audio quality isn't all that great, so it's a little hard to understand at times, but it's an invaluable piece of history. Finally, a gallery of photos from those old Vaudeville days is another nice historical document.
Closing Statement
By the standard his fans have come to expect from Buster Keaton, The Saphead really doesn't measure up, but as his first feature, it's something that anyone who appreciates the silent should see. With such a high-quality Blu-ray on top of it, this becomes a must-own disc for them.
The Verdict
Highly recommended.
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The Charge
"This puzzle is made up of nothing but mysterious pieces."—Mireille
The Case
So how noir is Noir? Well, this 26-episode Japanese television series does include the themes of quixotic fate and the importance of "cool," standard for film noir. It is mostly set in France, to acknowledge the roots of the genre. However, it tends to lack the dark humor of the films of Clouzot or Melville. In fact, the entire series seems almost aggressively humorless, without making the mistake of tipping over into the grotesquely gothic.
Perhaps that is the most surprising thing about Noir. No, I take that back. The most surprising thing about Noir is how good it actually is, when there is so much that can go dreadfully wrong with a show like this.
The premise is deceptively simple. Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin known to the underworld as Noir. Traveling with her is a teenage girl, Kirika Yumura, who has no clear memory of her past and deadly, instinctual skills. They are linked together by a cryptic conspiracy, Les Soldats, which somehow holds the key to both their identities.
There have been anime shows about the moral ambiguity of professional murder (Crying Freeman, Golgo 13) and certainly plenty of buddy-cop series—even a few with vaguely lesbian undertones. And many shows have tried to balance their episode-by-episode plots with "big conspiracy" overplots (Evangelion). Most of these have mastered inscrutability almost to an art form (try following the dialogue in Gundam Wing or Candidate for Goddess some time, in any language).
Noir manages to keep its dialogue free of pretentious poetry and metaphysical clutter, while offering enough tantalizing clues to the overall mystery to give the show a sense of direction. In between the occasional revelations, the assassination missions are kept direct and simple, with the action sequences tastefully directed.
The show also avoids taking a precious approach to its female leads, steering clear of the cheesecake (known in the anime world by the lurid name of "fan service") that a show about cute girls with guns might normally invite. Instead, Noir peppers its art direction with a few op art touches (the color schemes, especially in the opening credits, are reminiscent of Jim Steranko and other '60s and '70s graphic design) and generally keeps its pace and tone realistic. This is a show that seems more concerned with accurately depicting the guns the women carry than with showing them in their underwear.
While the show is limited by its television budget (note the frequent use of flashbacks as a means to recycle animation while establishing mood), it is stylish enough without trying to exceed its means, and the intelligent writing helps the story itself hold together over the long haul. A striking musical score by Yuki Kajiura helps too.
ADV packages the show in its usual fashion: five episodes in the first volume, four episodes in each volume thereafter. As always, ADV charges too much ($30 apiece) to lure the merely curious. The first two volumes set up the basics. The story will really kick into gear in episode 10 (starting Volume 3), with the introduction of a third female assassin who will solidify Mireille and Kirika's links to Les Soldats. Each volume includes a minimum of extras: production sketches for each episode, Japanese promos, and unretouched opening and closing credits. The English dub is fairly solid. Volume 1 even comes with a pair of red-filter "decoder" glasses to uncover clues on the packaging. It is a silly gimmick, but one which speaks volumes about the show itself. Noir takes cliché material and gives it enough of a fresh spin to be worth a look. You may not find a lot of depth here, but the show is entertaining enough to hold together for 26 episodes, which is more than you can say about many anime shows these days.
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Golf in the Kingdom | 2011
En route to India in 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy plays one last round of golf in Scotland before giving up the game. His pairing with mysterious golf pro Shivas Irons leads to adventure ...more
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En route to India in 1956 in search of enlightenment, a young American philosophy student - Michael Murphy - takes a Scottish detour to the "Links of Burningbush." Seeking to enjoy one last round before giving up his beloved game, he is unexpectedly paired with the mysterious and mischievous golf pro - Shivas Irons. A wild adventure on and off the links ensues, where Murphy's perception of golf and life are indelibly changed. Out of this transformation the two forge a deep and unbreakable bond of camaraderie.


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The smart won't buy Hillary's book
Published: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 12:00 a.m.
To The Editor: Poor, poor Hillary has now decided to try to convince us of how gullible she really is, for a price of course.
She was surprised by Bill's extracurricular activities? She thought he'd change after the first half dozen women? Doesn't it make you want to just rush out and buy the book? I don't think so, I don't think so and I don't think so.
One minute she's convinced the New York electorate that she's the "i" in intellect and the next she expects us to believe she knew nothing of Bill's dalliances or the cover-up thereof. Maybe Bill sent her a note to elucidate his indiscretions and it just got lost in that convenient black hole on her desk.
Those who mistook Bill's charisma for character should not make a similar mistake with Hillary's innocence and honesty. At least he was one for two.
Instead of buying the book, send the jacket price as a gift to the Salvation Army. The Clintons have always railed against "trickle down" economics; now's your chance to take a couple of real crooks out of the trickle altogether.
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Deep Sea Salvor Encounters Potentially Deadly Shark Swarm
Tarpon Springs, FL, November 21 2012 --áSalvaging cargo from a commercial shipwreck in international waters off the Carolina Outer banks, diver Robert Mayne was suddenly surrounded by hundreds of swarming Sand Tiger Sharks.
Over the past several months the Research Vessel (RV) Aqua Quest and crew divers have been engaged in the recovery of a cargo of copper ore lost off the capes in 1922. Captain Robert Mayne has been commercial diving for thirty-five years and has encountered a Ĺshark or twoĺ in his career, but never a school of this size and magnitude. Sand Tigers are considered an over-fished and endangered marine species. Mayne also knew that the Sand Tiger species are potentially dangerous and there have been several dozen unprovoked Sand Tiger attacks in the past.
Mayne stated that Ĺhe had just entered the water to descend to the shipwreck site at 120 feet when he was surprised by the sharks. ĹI was only down about twenty feet when a nine foot long ĹSand Tigerĺ shark approached me and rolled over as it swam toward my left swim fin. ľ When you see a potentially dangerous shark of this size, getting that close, your heart rate increases, and you know you better get out of the water.ĺ
Mayne captured his initial shark footage on a ĹGoProĺ underwater camera affixed to the top of his dive mask. ĹI recorded the first approach by the shark and thatĺs my swim fin in the picture ľ this was truly a once in a lifetime encounter.ĺ Mayneĺs videos are now running on YouTube,áand the Aqua Quest International corporate web site and Facebook.
When the curious shark swam off Mayne decided to swim to the bottom and Ĺprepĺ equipment for the continuing excavation. ĹThat was a mistakeĺ Mayne said, Ĺas soon as I reached the bottom I looked around and the lone shark was now part of a growing school of Sand Tigers, then when I look up there were literally hundreds of sharks between me and the Aqua Quest.ĺ When another shark swam in for a Ĺcloser lookĺ Mayne fended off the shark with a swim fin, then decided to abort the dive and head for the surface. As Mayne made his way to the surface he observed that the ĹSand Tigersĺ were feeding on the schools of small fish that inhabit the shipwreck site ľ ĹMy fear now was that one of the feeding sharks would take a bite out of me and Ĺchum upĺ the water ľ I wasnĺt on the bottom long enough to need a decompression stop ľ but if I had a serious shark bite, I could possibly Ĺbleed outĺ before the Coast Guard could get a Ĺchopperĺ out to get me to a hospital.ĺ
The GoPro footage shows the magnitude of the shark swarm as Mayne picked his way through the sharks to the surface. Back on board the Aqua Quest, Mayne lowered a ĹGoProĺ camera on a cable back into the water to capture more of the shark swarm on video. The four-plus hours of video shows the sharks ľ estimated at a thousand - swimming and feeding between the Aqua Quest and the shipwreck site. Mayne stated that Ĺthe sharks were acutely aware of the ĹGoProĺ camera and made countless passes at the camera, rubbing up and bumping the camera but never biting the intruder.
Over four daylight hours and into the night the camera captured the schooling sharks and their unique behavior. The Aqua Quest crew could hear the sharks as they broke the surface and continued to feed and perhaps breed. Captain Mayne believes that the footage will be of interest to Marine Biologists, particularly to the Mote Marine Laboratory shark experts in Sarasota, Florida. Mayne believes that he and his crew observed behavior that may be unique to this shark species; the crew recorded as much information as they could in the time available ľ in the face of inclement weather in the wake of Hurricane Sandy the Aqua Quest was forced to break off their investigation and head for port in North Carolina. Mayne was particularly impressed with the behaviorĺ exhibited by the sharksö ĹThey behaved almost like dolphins exhibiting Ĺbreaching behaviorĺ ľ coming almost full body, and half jumping out of the water. We believe that this behavior may not have been observed in this magnitude by the ĹSand Tigerĺ species.ĺ
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tw telecom Inc. (TWTC)
Q4 2011 Earnings Call
February 9, 2012 9:00 am ET
Larissa Herda - Chairman, CEO and President
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Carole Curtin
Welcome to tw telecom's conference call. We're pleased to have you join us today. To review our results for the quarter, please visit our website where you can find our press release, supplemental quarterly information and SEC filings.
Before we start, I'd like to draw your attention to our Safe Harbor statements included in our supplemental materials which you can find on our website. Information in our quarterly earnings materials and our discussion today contain statements about future expected events and financial results that are forward-looking and are subject to risks and uncertainties. A discussion of factors that may cause our results to differ materially from the expectations is contained in our filings with the SEC under Risk Factors and elsewhere available on our website. I'd also like to point out that our earnings materials and discussions contain certain non-GAAP financial measures. You can find reconciliations between the non-GAAP and GAAP financial measures in the materials on our website.
Now I'm pleased to introduce tw telecom's Chairman, CEO and President, Larissa Herda.
Larissa Herda
Thanks, Carole. Hi, everyone, and thank you for joining us. 2011 was a great year for us, financially, operationally and strategically. Let me recap some of our key achievements.
Starting with our financial accomplishments for the year, we accelerated our revenue growth to 7.4% in 2011 from 5.1% in 2010 which is 45% expansion of our organic growth rate. We grew our data and internet revenue over 18% in 2011 and we ended the year with a strong growth engine representing nearly half of our total revenue.
We also grew total revenue for the 29th consecutive quarter which speaks to the strength of our model, the consistency of our performance and the validation of our strategy. And we achieved low revenue churn of 0.9% for the year as well as 0.8% in the fourth quarter which is the lowest since we started reporting its metric over 10 years ago.
We attributed this low churn to the attractiveness of our product portfolio, ongoing retention efforts and our continued success with the overall customer experience.
Turning to the bottom line for the year, we grew modified EBITDA margin 7.4% and we delivered a strong 36.4% modified EBITDA margin which is particularly impressive for an expanding growth company like ours. We increased our pre-tax net income by over 100% and delivered $58 million in net income reflecting ongoing financial strength in the business.
We also have expanded levered free cash flow by more than 10% as we increased cash flow margins to 6.7%. Additionally we continue to return value to our shareholders in the form of share repurchases which totaled $59 million as we completed one share repurchase plan and announced another multi-year plan for $300 million in November.
In addition to those financial accomplishments we advanced the business strategically positioning us for more growth in 2012 and beyond. Here are some highlights of those accomplishments. We grew our fiber-connected building additions by over 2,200 which is an increase of more than a third of those added in 2010. This was a company record reflecting our momentum in customer wins for connectivity to enterprise self-side and data center locations.
We also strategically advanced new products. This included great success in selling our converged services that we launched in the middle of 2010 which contributed to our strong 2011 revenue growth. Additionally, we added product enhancements to Ethernet portfolio that contributed to our ongoing leadership position in Ethernet solutions.
Additionally we designed, developed and introduced new network capabilities including the first phase of our intelligent network solutions. We believe our roadmap for these solutions will lead to greater differentiation and continued ability to take market share.
Last but not least, was the fact that we increased our Net Promoter Score to its highest level ever. This key metric not only measures our customer satisfaction and loyalty, we believe it played a key roll in propelling our revenue growth in 2011.
So let me summon 2011 as a terrific milestone in our continuing growth story. A year ago, we talked to you about breaking away from the pack and we believe that we clearly have done that with these accomplishments which demonstrate our ongoing growth and cash creation story, our differentiated market position and our ability to execute all of which were driven by our ongoing strategic choices. And of course, none of this would be possible with our most strategic asset which is our incredible team of employees. So let me say thanks to our team for breaking away from the pack and putting us on such a strong trajectory for 2012 to help our customers make their operation function better, faster and easier.
Now I'll turn the call over to Mark.
Mark Peters
Thanks Larissa. Today I'm going to provide a few comments on the fourth quarter including bookings, demand and overall customer sentiment, some insights on our 2012 capital allocation strategy, and some color on margins including a remainder regarding seasonality.
Let's start with the fourth quarter. We delivered another strong performance that contributed to our accelerated revenue growth for 2011.
Now, some revenue highlights for the fourth quarter. Total revenue grew 8.2% year-over-year and 2% sequentially, as data and internet continue to be our growth engine. Data and internet revenue represented 49% of our total revenue, up from 45% a year ago and grew more than 18% year-over-year. Within data and internet revenue, our strategic services which grew 27% year-over-year and represented about a quarter of total revenue. This subset includes our Ethernet and VPN data related products.
Our voice revenue grew 6% year-over-year due to growth from converge and dedicated voice services, boosted by the volume and rate growth and taxes and fees and partially offset by churn. And our services revenue declined 4.5% year-over-year primarily reflecting churn and reprising for contract renewals largely in transport services, which outpaced growth in high capacity and co-location services. Intercarrier compensation at 2% of revenue continues to represent a very small aspect of our business. And you can see our press release for further guidance related to this item.
Now, move to our fourth quarter highlights for margins and our bottom line. Modified EBITDA grew 7.3% year-over-year as we delivered a strong 36.4% modified EBITDA margin. Pre-tax income grew 40% year-over-year primarily driven by modified EBITDA growth as we delivered $16.4 million of net income, which declined about 6% year-over-year reflecting a higher effective tax rate.
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Nigerian helicopter crash kills four policemen
A police helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Wednesday, killing four policemen on board, including a senior officer, authorities said.
"Four police officers, including a (deputy inspector general), were killed," police spokesman Yemi Ajayi told AFP.
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Government officials, emergency services and residents said the helicopter came down in a residential area in the Rukuba district of the city.
It was not immediately clear if there were casualties on the ground, and the cause of the crash was not yet known.
The officers' mission was not clear as well, but a joint military and police task force is deployed in Jos to contain violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups that has rocked the city in recent years.
Ajayi said the victims included a policeman who was last month promoted to the rank of deputy inspector general, a position held by a number of officers just below the head of the national police force.
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Article: Brian Skerry's dolphin images from National Geographic
Underwater photographer Brian Skerry's work has been featured in the cover story of the May issue of National Geographic magazine. Entitled "Dolphin Intelligence: It's time for a conversation", he and National Geographic have kindly allowed Wetpixel to post some of the article's stunning images.
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Brian Skerry named as Nikon Ambassador
Underwater Photographer Brian Skerry has been announced by Nikon USA as a Nikon Ambassador. This accolade comes after he was named as a National Geographic Photography Fellow just under a year ago. Skerry is also an outspoken advocate for marine conservation. (Image by Brian Skerry/National Geographic)
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Due to rapidly declining sardine population numbers, federal regulators agreed yesterday to halt commercial sardine fishing off the west coast from Mexico to Canada immediately and close next year's season as well. Regulators hope to prevent the level of fishery collapse that famously affected Monterey Bay's Cannery Row. (Image from Shutterstock)
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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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The Minneapolis Indie Xpo (MIX), a popular and growing showcase for independent artists, won't be back for the foreseeable future.
Sarah Morean, who directed the show in its two years of existence, mentioned last year in an interview with Tom Spurgeon that the show wouldn't be back in 2012. She also suggested that "after this year it might not happen again." Now, however, Morean has given official word on the MIX website that the event won't return, although she remains hopeful for the potential of similar shows in the future.
So do I. Robot 6 wishes Morean and the other MIX organizers the best in future endeavors.
When I first heard about plans for the Minneapolis Indie Xpo, I wasn't sure why we needed another local convention, but I was sure glad we were getting one. I love conventions and only get to go to one out-of-town one a year, so I lean pretty heavily on the two cons that the Midwest Comic Book Association throws annually. If someone wanted to put on a third, I wasn't about to question it.
There is a reason for the new show though, and it's a good one. According to MIX's website, the show "aspires to create new comics fans by reaching out to the local community and inviting them to learn to love comics again, or for the first time." They do this by varying from the business model the MCBA uses for its shows. The MCBA doesn't charge for creator tables; it makes its money selling space to retailers and charging a modest ticket price to attendees. That creates a fun show with tons of local talent and admission is cheap enough to encourage curious members of the community to come by and check it out. It's a great time that Twin Cities comics fans look forward to all year.
But if the goal is to get people who wouldn't ordinarily pay to attend a large celebration of comics like the MCBA puts on, MIX's organizers – Sarah Morean (The Daily Cross Hatch) and Andy Krueger (founder of the St Paul Craftstravaganza) – have found a good way to do that. They charge a reasonable table fee for exhibitors, hold the show in a part of town known for its arts community, and let the public in for free.
How that worked out, after the break.
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Retailing | Barnes & Noble, the largest book chain in the United States, lost $63 million in the first quarter, a vast decline from a $12-million profit it reported for the same period a year ago. The retailer pinned about $10 million in losses on its costly fight with billionaire investor Ronald Burkle, and warned that a proxy battle could push the company even further into the red. [Reuters, ICv2.com]
Passings | Paprika director Satoshi Kon, who began his career as a manga artist before moving into anime in 1995, died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer. He was 46. Kon made his directorial debut in 1997 with Perfect Blue, and went on to helm such critically acclaimed anime features as Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and the aforementioned Paprika, as well as the television series Paranoia Agent. [Anime News Network]
Publishing | Kai-Ming Cha looks at initial efforts by manga publishers to provide digital content as legal alternatives to scanlations. [Publishers Weekly]


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Most Doctors Aren't Talking About Sex Enough With Their Teen Patients
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Thanks to a patchwork of insufficient state laws, most teens in the U.S. aren't guaranteed to get medically accurate information about sexual health at school. And according to a new study, most of them aren't getting that information from their doctors, either.
Researchers at Duke University taped over 250 doctor's visits at clinics in North Carolina, and found that many medical professionals aren't asking teens about sex during their annual physicals. The ones that do bring up the topic spend an average of just 36 seconds on it — hardly enough time to cover the major issues related to sexual health, like using birth control, preventing sexually transmitted infections, or having healthy dating relationships. The study also found that teenagers won't broach the topic themselves if their doctor doesn't bring it up first.
Previous studies have also found that doctors tend to avoid talking about the issues surrounding birth control with teenage boys, furthering a gender divide that tends to place the burden of sexual responsibility solely on young women.
"It's hard for physicians to treat adolescents and help them make healthy choices about sex if they don't have these conversations," lead author Stewart Alexander, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University, pointed out. "For teens who are trying to understand sex and sexuality, not talking about sex could have huge implications."
Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that doctors should be bringing up topics related to sex with their teenage patients. In light of an ongoing STD epidemic among U.S. youth, the AAP also advocates for comprehensive sex education policies and expanded access to condoms in public schools.
Some doctors may avoid bringing up sex with their teen patients because they don't want to appear as though they're encouraging sexual activity. But the assumption that discussing sexual health pushes teens to become sexually active is a myth. Talking to adolescents about sexual health — including messages about healthy relationships and delaying sex until they feel ready — actually help them make safer decisions. Planned Parenthood, the largest sex ed provider in the country, recently launched an initiative to help encourage parents and kids to have more of these kinds of conversations at home.
But these conversations need to be happening in the doctor's office, too — and there are some simple steps that medical professionals can take to ensure they occur more frequently.
"We need to create environments in our office to make it comfortable to have these conversations," Dr. Ron Feinstein, a pediatrician with Cohen Children's Medical Center, explained in an interview with Everyday Health. "Physicians need to have some form of confidentiality between the teens and their parents in order to properly have the conversation, which means they need to tell the parents that there will be some private time where it will just be the patient and doctor."
Bradley Boekeloo, a professor of behavioral and community health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, told NPR that the good news is that teens actually welcome these discussions. They may be too embarrassed to bring up sex themselves, but previous studies have found that teenagers are glad when their doctors talk about the subject. "It's ultimately important to the adolescent," Boekeloo noted.


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Selby Hospital Receives Top Honors
Updated: 12/01/2010 - Selby Hospital in Marietta was ranked within the top 15 percent in the nation for joint or knee replacement.
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