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"Loved this hotel! It's right in the town centre so you don't need a taxi to get anywhere in the heart of the city centre. On your doorstep are restaurants, bars, shops and the millenium/Principality Stadium as well as the Motor point Arena. The lady on reception stated she gave us as room at the ..."
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"Great breakfast and superb location overlooking Cardiff castle"
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"We loved the position of the Hotel, close to the castle and all amenities. Our room was absolutely huge and comfortable. The staff were very helpful . The fact that it is in need of refurbishment did not spoil our visit. It was lovely to find an individual Hotel. We look forward to our next vi..."
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"Hotel very good the only drawback is the staircase for older and disabled people. Right in the centre of Cardiff, 5mins walk from Cardiff central railway station."
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"second time staying at lodge. Facilities are great and rooms , bed linen and towels spotless. Iron, ironing board, hairdryer and tea making facilities better than some hotels. Ideally located for castle, civic center, shopping arcades, restaurants and bars. Louis restaurant across the road is a m..."
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"Great stay for the value of money. Decorations were lovely and the bed was clean. Quiet, nice hostel in a busy city. The bus is right behind a bus stop, so it's easy to miss when looking for the hostel. There is no elevator, but the staff offered to help me with my luggage."
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a rare seal from the time the Crusaders ruled Jerusalem in a neighborhood of the modern city.
IAA archaeologists unearthed the seal in Jerusalem's Bayit Vegan neighborhood a year and a half ago, but only recently identified it as a unique seal stamped by the Great Laura, the Monastery of St. Sabas.
The 800-year-old lead seal was stamped by the Monastery of St. Sabas.
St. Sabas (or Mar Sabas in Syriac) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the Christian monastic movement in the Judean Desert during the Byzantine era.
The seal (or bulla in Latin) would have been used to affix to a letter to ensure that a document would not be opened by an unauthorized person. It shows a the bust of a bearded saint holding a cross, with the Greek inscription naming Saint Sabas.
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… What's the worst-rated show in primetime among the major networks? It's NBC's Chuck, which hasn't settled in too nicely to its new Friday time slot. Last week's episode, the second of the show's fifth and final season, registered a measly 0.9 rating with 3.10 million viewers. Those are particularly bad numbers when you consider that the season premiere drew a 1.0 rating and 3.42 million viewers but faced stiff competition from Game 7 of the World Series. Chuck was supposed to rebound in Week 2; instead, it lost even more of its audience. What happened to the Subway-eating fans? [TV By the Numbers]
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DunnhumbyUSA, has promoted six executives including one who will work with The Kroger Co., which controls the iteration of the company in the United States, to build client relationships across the retailer's categories and departments. Cross-department operations often prove difficult to administer at supermarket companies as category managers compete for space and promotional leverage.
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Univision Communications' board has agreed to sell the nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster for $12.3 billion in cash to a consortium of investors, the parties involved in the sale announced early Tuesday.
The company's shares soared more than 7 percent.
The figure agreed upon late Monday equals $36.25 a share, a news release about the sale said.
That price is a 13 percent premium to Univision's closing price Monday. The buyers also will assume about $1.4 billion in debt.
The consortium, led by private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners, also includes Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners and media mogul Haim Saban.
"Univision is truly a one-of-a-kind property," the buyers said in a joint statement. "It is an outstanding media brand with exceptional positions in the fastest growing markets in the country, worldclass assets, strong management, popular programming and unmatched ratings."
Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa, which led a rival consortium of investors, issued a statement Tuesday saying it was disappointed with the outcome of the Univision auction.
"Notwithstanding our repeated offers to discuss all aspects of our proposal, including price, Univision and its advisers refused to enter into any discussions with us after we submitted our initial bid," the company said.
Univision's bylaws allow Televisa, which owns an 11 percent stake in Univision and supplies it with much of its programming, to veto a sale, but such a move can be defeated by a 60 percent approval from Univision shareholders.
Televisa may still seek to proffer a higher bid, but it would have to be at least $38 a share to sway the Univision board, analyst Jonathan Jacoby of Bank of America Equity Research suggested in a note published Tuesday.
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Brandon Paul "Pinky" Guidry, 19, resident of Galliano, died Saturday, July 23, 2005.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Falgout Funeral Home in Galliano and from 9 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Galliano. Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial in Cheramie Cemetery.
He is survived by his father, Reilly Guidry Jr.; his future stepmother, Sue Ellen Yates; his grandparents, Reilly Sr. and Mary Ann Orgeron Guidry; his great-grandmother, Ida Orgeron; one sister, Melony Nichol Guidry; and his girlfriend, Margo Marie Yates.
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HOUSTON (April 11, 2013)--Houston Mayor Annise Parker is asking the city council to back her plan to replace more than 10,000 trees lost in the city's Memorial Park during the persistent drought.
The plan announced Thursday would also provide money for a mass transit corridor in the normally traffic-clogged Houston Galleria area.
Houston Parks and Recreation Department Director Joe Turner said the park project includes erosion control, removal of invasive non-native species and re-establishing native grasslands and trees.
The cost of the project is $556 million over 25 years, which would come from taxes generated by increased property values in the area.
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Myer Foundation
The Myer Foundation is a major Australian philanthropic organisation managed by the Myer family.
The Sidney Myer Charitable Trust was established by the will of Sidney Myer, who died in 1934, leaving one tenth of his estate for the benefit of the community. Myer's will was proved at £922,000. The most famous philanthropic funding by the fund was for the construction of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in the Kings Domain, Melbourne in 1958, which is named in his honour.
In 1959, the trust was renamed The Sidney Myer Fund and Sidney's sons, Baillieu and Kenneth Myer established the Myer Foundation, with both funds being closely administered. The foundation and fund have been supported by three generations of Myer family members. Carrillo Gantner, grandson of Sidney Myer through Sidney's daughter Neilma Gantner, is chairman of the fund,[1] [2] while Martyn Myer, Sidney's grandson through Ken Myer, is president of the foundation.[3]
The foundation makes "grants across Australia for general charitable purposes in accordance with [its] vision to improve people's lives in lasting and positive ways". The foundation's large grants program gives support in five categories: the Arts and Humanities, Australia in the Asia-Pacific Region, Education, Poverty and Disadvantage, and Sustainability and the Environment.
- ^ Gill, Raymond (2007-07-03), "Mr Gantner, take a bow", The Age, retrieved 2011-08-01
- ^ 48 Asian Altruists: Carillo Gantner, Forbes, 2008-02-27, retrieved 2011-08-01
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Actually it's the Divorce Lawyers who are 'pushing' this.
Why should Ellen deGeneris and Portia deRossi get to keep ALL their money when they break-up?
I see. The only reason anyone ever gets married is because of the divorce lawyer conspiracy. And the only reason to have children is because of the funeral industry conspiracy.
Misery loves company?!
"And the only reason to have children is because of the funeral industry conspiracy."
No, it's the children's clothing cartels.
No fault divorce if there are no complications keeps lawyers to a minimum.
Most people have happy marriages. And it is very important to have it legal so you can see them in the hospital and you can use the legalities otherwise you get shut out of your own relationship.
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The Spring 2016 colloquia will be held in the lobby of the Physical Sciences Complex
Each week during the semester, the Department of Physics invites faculty, students and the local community to hear prominent scientists discuss intriguing physics research. The Spring 2016 colloquia will be held Tuesdays in the Physical Sciences Complex lobby at 4:00 p.m. (preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)
Parking is available in the Regents Drive Parking Garage (PG2). An attendant will direct visitors within the garage. Additionally, a free ShuttleUM bus runs between the College Park Metro Station and Regents Drive at about eight-minute intervals.
February 2
Dan Hooper, Fermi Lab
February 9
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Quantum Many Body Localization
How does an isolated quantum system come to thermal equilibrium due to interaction between its constituent subsystems? Or does it? What underlies the condition for quantum 'ergodicity'? These are some of the basic questions to be discussed in this talk. The topic is of fundamental importance since it deals with the applicability of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to isolated quantum systems, and asks the extent to which an isolated (macroscopic) quantum system can be considered to be acting as its own heat bath.
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Dimtry Pushin, NIST
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Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
The Remarkable Story of LIGO's Detection of Gravitational Waves
On February 11, LIGO scientists announced the direct detection of gravitational waves, confirming a century-old prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. This milestone fulfills a dream which started here on the UMD campus with Joseph Weber, and was finally made possible with the incredibly sensitive Advanced LIGO detectors, combined with a certain measure of luck. I will share both the scientific meaning of the discovery and some of the personal stories behind it.
March 1
Sami Mitra, APS
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Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland
Particle Physics, the Large Hadron Collider, and Beyond
The central successes and puzzles of particle physics will be reviewed, the discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) illustrating both aspects. The grand principle of Naturalness will be introduced as the dominant organizing principle behind many searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The challenging task of testing naturalness will be summarized, especially the interplay between deep theoretical ideas, such as Supersymmetry, Compositeness, Extra Dimensions and Hidden Naturalness, and experimental strategies at the LHC and even more powerful future colliders. The LHC is beginning its second phase of operations, at significantly higher energies than before, and this talk will give a satellite view of the big issues at stake in the coming years.
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Richard Lebed, Arizona State University
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Robert Brown, American Institute of Physics
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Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
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M Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
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Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
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Art Hebard, University of Florida
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It's funny how plants grow. I think this one receives too much sun, so it decided to grow one long long branch that it keeps hidden in a little space where the sun never hits. And a flower bloomed. It's the plant's only flower.
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Disney to Reboot "The Rocketeer" With Black Female Lead
Every week, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at email@example.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.
Today, we examine Johnny Storm's ersatz marriage to Alicia Masters…
Okay, so the Thing and Alicia Masters were an item for some time, although they ran hot and cold over the years. During Secret Wars, though, the Thing is given an opportunity to stay behind on the alien world that the heroes were drawn to – a world where he could turn back and forth from Ben Grimm to the Thing at will.
So Reed and Johnny return to Earth (Sue was pregnant, so she was left behind) with the She-Hulk agreeing to take the Thing's place on the team.
In #269, Johnny bumps into Alicia…
The next issue, they spend some more time together…
In #274, Reed sees the couple together…
and the next issue, we learn that the two spent the night together…
From this point on, they are officially a couple and finally, in #300 they get married…
57 issues later, the Puppet Master contacts the Thing…
And things get crazy, as the Thing tears through the FF's headquarters trying to find Alicia…
The next issue reveals the truth…
The baby was an abandoned plot, as well (but not forsaken! That's the trick to a lot of these stories. A whole bunch of plots have been abandoned – not so many have specifically been forsaken).
They rescue the real Alicia and she has gone on to be a supporting cast member in a couple of different books (including being Silver Surfer's girlfriend for awhile).
The 'baby', turned out to be some kind of Skrull failsafe weapon.
Lyja gave birth to an 'egg' which then hatched into large tenticled monster.
While in the hospital giving 'birth' Lyja had to become somewhat liquid, so the 'baby/egg' could emerge, and by doing so, she also lost the implant device that gave her the 'laser-fists'.
SO THIS was the inspiration for SECRET INVASION…it's funny how cyclical Marvel universes are (and not in a Sheeda way).
I always forget just how good an artist Paul Ryan is. We need a FF visionaries compilation for those De Falco issues. I guess I never like the Jonnny-Alicia are an item plot. Alicia belongs with the Thing.
"General Kalamari, you've been chosen to be battered in tempura, deep fried to golden-brown perfection, and dipped in a lemon-caper mayonnaise."
This was when I stopped reading Fantastic Four forever – when they couldn't come up with something better for a 30th anniversary issue than a re-cycled Legion of Super-Heroes plot.
And in months to come, now that it has been ret-conned, Mockingbird and many other Marvel characters would undergo the same type of abduction and replacement.
Skrull politics, where the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing, and yet come up with the same ideas for infiltration and invasion.
I don't know what the problem was, and why they had to reverse the marriage. I guess character development for Johnny, Alicia and Ben isn't as important as reverting to the status quo.
This was one the few ideas from the Byrne-Era FF that I never liked. Ben and Alicia's romance had always been one of the most inspiring in comics. But here they broke them up just to have a romantic triangle subplot? Even if we accept that it wasn't the real Alicia, the fact remains that Johnny had a relationship with someone he believed to be his best friend's girlfriend while he was away in another world. And even *slept with her!* Couldn't he wait until Ben came back, or tried to talk to him first? What an ass!
And let's not forget the OTHER side of this wacko plot- that Ben himself was also cheating on her (sort of) while on Battleworld with a woman warrior who turned out to be… just an idealized version of Alicia (Battleworld grants your wishes, which is why Ben could change into a human there) and who ceased to exist in the end. That's what makes him come back to Earth, only to (after dealing with Johnny and 'Alicia') go on to hook up with… Sharon Carter, a real woman who JUST HAPPENED to look like his imaginary girlfriend. Sheesh!
Besides, how come a Skrull spy was able to slip into Reed Richard's family circle? They've dealt with them for YEARS, you'd think he would have devices to detect them even in disguise active at all times. (Which is another reason why Secret Invasion made little sense.)
Why is it that people often forget to mention the MC-2 versions of Johnny Storm and Lyja ?
So, *so* lame.
A recycled Legion of Superheroes plot complete with a Legion cruiser! How great is that?
Ben was probably going to stay on Battleworld forever. Meanwhile, people move on. Ben was an idiot if he expected Alicia to wait for him and not move on with someone else.
Call me crazy…. but I actually really liked this plot turn. Jonny is more effective as a hothead single guy. The plot of Jonny-Alicia was juicy during the Byrne run, but marrying them off was always a mistake to me. (I don't know why writers were so quick to marry off young characters without thinking through what their new status quo would be…. you already have Sue/Reed as a married couple, so doing that to Jonny/Alicia starts to cut off some dramatic possibilities of an FF comic… but I digress…)
The Lyja wrinkle was an inspired solution, making the Skrulls a super-threat in replacing someone so close. And I LOVED Lyja as a character, too. Some things are better abandoned an' forsaken!
I always hated the way things progressed after Byrne left. The Johnny / Alicia romance felt very organic, but then to marry them together so quickly (mere issues after Byrne left) felt very forced, and then the skrull reveal… well, it was inevitable TBTB would want to return the status quo, but yuck. What clumsy drama.
Defalco eventually drove me off the FF, which I had loved for years.
I HAAATTEED Defalco's run on this book. It's the primary reason why I don't pick books written by Defalco.
My views are pretty much what Stephane said, that the Johnny-Alicia bit felt more organic than the Skrull reveal. And as others have noted, the story was a pretty blatant swipe of the Colosssal Boy/Shrinking Violet/Yera reveal, which I believe was also planned all along and not a shorehorning thing like Lyja.
I could understand the desire to break them up, but I don't understand why DeFalco couldn't have just gone with an ordinary divorce. Especially considering their personalities and how quickly they got together (it couldn't have been more than a few months of Marvel time).
Even the idea of Franklin mentally pushing them together, as revealed in the Englhart/Harkness dream story, worked much better than this Skrull idea.
In Secret Invasion, they actully state that the skrull has come up with a way of masking themselves, from Reed's usual way of detecting. The only way to find out if one was a skull at first was killing them or by using the gas, they used in the end.
I am very happy about Johnny and Lyja still being together over on Earth-MC-2 where they lived happily ever after and are in the Fantastic Five.
That's what makes him come back to Earth, only to (after dealing with Johnny and 'Alicia') go on to hook up with… Sharon Carter, a real woman who JUST HAPPENED to look like his imaginary girlfriend. Sheesh!
Sharon CARTER is Captain America's Girlfriend
Sharon VENTURA was the Thing's – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Ventura
Well, at least they found a way to salvage the baby plot point:
MC2, The Fantastic Five, Torus Storm.
of the entire Alicia and johny winding up being married i hated that it turned out that Alicia was actully a skrull spy named Lyja who later had a baby weapon. espically when it was the puppet master who figured out Alicia was fake first .
Mary, the problem with the Franklin pushing them together idea was that it essentially turned Franklin into the world's youngest rapist. I can see why they decided that it would damage Franklin's character permanently.
Stephane, in Byrne's last issues, Johnny wanted to ask Alicia *something*. I can see why Stern decided it was a marriage proposal.
Andy, the Shrinking Violet reveal probably wasn't planned all along, since "Violet" defeats one of Darkseid's creatures, something that would have been very difficult if not impossible for a novice.
Sijo, Reed WAS shown having installed Skrull detecting devices at the wedding. Either they didn't work or he didn't think to use them on Johnny and Alicia- yes, that makes Reed look like an idiot.
Ah, Skrulls.
I didn't read Secret Invasion except for the first issue. I heard people wanted Spider-man to turn to be a Skrull because of the state of his comic. IT's really hard to see Spider-man in comics then and now and 20 years ago and say that's the same guy. I guess that's the way it's going. People wanted Reed and Tony Stark to turn out to be Skrull's, too. I guess they did that already in Infinity War (I think). Oh, Captain Mar-Vell came back in Civil War… or did he? Civil War was changing the Marvel Universe, but they really should of pulled back on a few things to make the other things work better in my opinion.
Then they did that thing where they 'killed' Wolverine in Astonishing X-Men and it as it turned out HE WAS REPLACED BY A SKRULL and Xavier had to figure out who else a Skrull. That was alright.
THey should really use those disquise plots sparingly.
I don't mind stuff like the Mar-Vell Skrull since it was planned all along. I actually wish they'd kept him around because a comic series about a Skrull superhero has lots of areas it can go.
What's interesting to me about this as a fix is What If Vol. 2 #6, "What if the X-Men lost Inferno?" Granted, "What If's?" are other realities, but in that one we see the very human Alicia giving birth to Johnny Storm's very human son (with Rachel Summers and Dr. Strange as the delivery people…odd).
Makes me wonder if this fix was just yanking something out of thin air at the last moment.
Andy, was Mar-Vell Skrull planned all along? When people found out Marvel was bringing back Captain Mar-Vell, there was *massive* backlash, which was followed by Marvel revealing that the returned Mar-Vell was a Skrull. At the time, it certainly felt like it could have gone either way, that either it had been planned all along or that Marvel went with "He's a Skrull" because response to bringing back Captain Marvel was universally negative.
As for Lyja, I kind of liked her. I think she went well with Johnny, while I didn't think Johnny/Alica worked. (The whole Johnny/Alicia/Ben stuff was pretty lousy to me, along with Ben staying on another planet and the Sharon stuff that followed and… Yeah, all pretty bad to me.) Lyja was actually a bit interesting. Until the writers ruined that as well.
That issue of What If? came out before this story was even conceived.
Meh, the whole Johnny/Alicia relationship was one that never really worked for the characters, so this is one retcon I can get behind of.
Why didn't Johnny and Alicia get a divorce? Probably for the same reasons Quesada later claimed for Spidey and MJ: it sets a bad example for kids.
I liked the Johnny/Alicia relationship. It was a sign of Johnny maturing and putting his womanizing ways behind him. The reversal annoyed me and I soon quit the FF soon after. I think one way Reed never found out she was a Skrull was it was the period in which Skrulls lost their ability to change form and were stuck in whatever form they were in. At least for most of the dating/marriage storyline. Perhaps once the Skrulls were stuck, the detectors wouldn't work. Plus, she was sent to infiltrate but did love Johnny and didn't go along with any Skrull plans.
The issue where Alicia is revealed to be Lyja was my first issue of FF ever. I had no idea what the hell was going on, but I am still a Lyja fan.
The best thing to come out of this story, in my opinion, was the re-forming of the New Fantastic Four. Sure, it was only for a couple of issues and ended up with the original Fantastic Four on the moon, but it was fun to see that dynamic, even if only for a little bit.
I would have suggested this way before, but perhaps I misunderstood 'abandoned and forsaked' on some level. Ok, to go way back to my first understanding of comic book ret cons; did anyone do anything on 'malcom mcbride is carrion? in some way shape or form? I know Gerry Conway did a clone thing, then ret conned the clone thing to a virus thing, then the clone thing was retconned as a side affect of some other 'clone thing' that had something to do with Spider-Man (not sure exactly what that was, did Spider-Man have a 'clone thing?') Anyway, I was curious.
Also- Long Live Lyja.
I liked the Johnny Storm/Alicia Masters relationship. Under Byrne it felt like a natural outgrowth of their friendship. They both missed Ben and were trying to move on with their lives. After Byrne left everything went to hell in a hand basket. Byrne actually let the characters grow and change only to have it all undone by following writers.
It's too bad that Hickman has said he doesn't like Lyja. Even though I hated DeFalco's clumsy "I Married a Skrull from Outer Space" I thought she made a good auxilliary member.
There should be another dumb development from the DeFalco era FF….Kristoff Vernard is Reed Richards half brother!
As my fellow FF fan Iron Maiden pointed out,.Hickman doesn't want to use Lyja, so it looks like we'll have to wait for the next FF writer for developments on that end. DeFalco's run is hit-and-miss: he brought back Agatha Harkness (only for Sue/Malice to expel her), guested the "new" Fantastic Four, and "killed" off Reed and Doom. Oh well, at least Aguirre-Sacasa made lemonade out of lemons by having Lyja appear in Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four.
I liked the Johnny Storm/Alicia Masters relationship. Under Byrne it felt like a natural outgrowth of their friendship. They both missed Ben and were trying to move on with their lives. After Byrne left everything went to hell in a hand basket. Byrne actually let the characters grow and change only to have it all undone by following writers.
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I'm still undecided whether getting Johnny and Alicia together was a good idea or not. It worked with Byrne at the helm. But now, long years later, I know that major superhero characters aren't allowed lasting changes. Johnny Storm must remain a hotheaded, impulsive bachelor.
But man, it never ceases to amaze me how bad DeFalco was. Unbelieavably so. So frikking bad that it ruined DeFalco for life for me. If anything, having my favorite FF creator ever (Byrne) followed so closely by my least favorite (DeFalco), it taught me a lot about superhero universes.
Namely, that you shouldn't get too attached to them. And that it's hard to consider them art. It's as if Ed Wood were allowed to make a sequel to Citizen Kane, and revealed that Kane wasn't dead after all, he was really an alien mastermind, and Rosebud was the name of the spaceship he came in.
I complete agree with Bill Walko. Marvel and DC are to a certain extent cyclical, with the characters rebooting every couple of years to the pure, baseline version of their conception. Sure, I miss Peter David's intelligent Hulk (and his sinister Joe Fixit gray Hulk), married Spider-Man and, yes, Lyja the Lazerfist from time to time, but I can't fault today's creators for wanting to tell stories with the classic Hulk Smash!, nebbish hard-luck single Peter Parker and hothead Johnny Storm. Personally, I think the Lyja reveal is a great, pulpy way of rebooting a book back to the classic set-up without throwing away an entire storyline: reality wasn't altered, no deals were made with Mephisto, and a complicated, tragic new frenemy was added to the FF mythos. Profit!
Furthermore, Michael is right that the Englehart story ruins Franklin as a character, and would seriously make the case for locking him up in the Vault or the Negative Zone. Finally, who gives a crap about the Legion of Super-Heroes and their gazillion characters, endless reboots and nigh-impenetrable continuity: by now, everything's probably been done in the LoS! There's never anything new under the sun, all storytelling tropes are about execution and not novelty anyway.
It didn't bother me so much that the plot was used before – as you said, it's hard to come up with something that's never been done in comics history – as the fact that this was the 30th anniversary issue, and I expected something more original and better for that.
IT's really hard to see Spider-man in comics then and now and 20 years ago and say that's the same guy.
Well Spider-Man 20 years ago was the David Michelinie era, easily the worst Spider-Man writer ever for me and the first one to ever drive me away from Amazing Spider-Man. So saying Spider-Man today is nothing like he was 20 years ago is a compliment. If I was a Spider-Man writer I'd strive to hear that from fans.
Colossal Boy and Shrinking Violet should've sued this storyline for copyright infringment.
It's like anything else.
Kids who read this stuff at the time were pretty into it and have fond memories of it. Like Scott Lang and Kristoff as FF members.
Billy: I recall reading somewhere that Mar-Vell as Skrull was planned all along but can't say where. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt because Secret Invasion hints were planted years before the Civil War issues. Even without the reveal it was a relatively harmless return though, since the cover story was that Mar-Vell had travelled through time, so the death was never negated to begin with.
In terms of it hard to come up with something that had never been done before, well there's that but this one hit too many of the exact same beats; it was hard to believe it wasn't a swipe.
"Namely, that you shouldn't get too attached to them. And that it's hard to consider them art. It's as if Ed Wood were allowed to make a sequel to Citizen Kane, and revealed that Kane wasn't dead after all, he was really an alien mastermind, and Rosebud was the name of the spaceship he came in."
I would camp out in line for that move.
Also, isn't that basically Scientology?
I apparently don't know how to spell "movie".
Put me in the liking Lyja character too. One interesting thing from those panels. We never get any Alicia thought bubbles in them. Was that part of the style back then to have the thoughts of only the main characters?
And here I was worried I was going to be the only one who remembered the Legion plotline. It was done SO so much better there. Right down to the "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" send-up when Gim and Yera visit Mom (AKA President Of The Earth)
In my heart, I suspect the whole Skrull thing was added on later in a desperate attempt to bring thing back to the norm. It wouldn't be the first time – heck, just look up the list.
This is one retcon I was glad for.
@Morten: I am aware of the Secret Invasion thing, but it just felt like an asspull- why cannot Reed's technology detect the Skrulls now? Because we say they invented some way! By that same token you have to ask, why doesn't Reed make sure his safeguards stay up to date, the man makes experiments in space for a hobby and there's an entire alien empire (the Kree) that must dedicate a lot of constant research on Skrull detection. In fact most alien civilzations probably do.
@Philip Ayres: Yeah, got my Sharons confused. Point still valid though.
What killed me with this is how quickly everyone adapted to the situation. Johnny and Alicia should be uncomfortable around eachother now. There interaction would never be the same…now you'd never know the two were once legally married (yes I know it wasn't really Alicia..).
Heck most fans wouldn't even guess Johnny was married period.
There's a lot of that in comics- writers having characters' relationships going back to normal when they really shouldn't have. Don't get me started on Scott and Alex after Inferno.
Re: the 'copying' of the LSH plot – Tom DeFalco is now writing for Yera in Legion Lost. I wonder if there'll be any call backs to the similarity of Yera and Lyja's introductions.
Given their powers, it makes perfect sense for Skrulls to try infiltrating as a tactic.
"There should be another dumb development from the DeFalco era FF….Kristoff Vernard is Reed Richards half brother! IIRC, Reed's dad floated that idea, but as he admitted at the time, he's such a complete lair you can never trust anything he said. But if they did confirm it and I forgot, feel free to correct me.
I enjoyed a lot of DeFalco's run (but I hated Byrne's so YMMV). And I'm one of those glad to see Lyja and Johnny together in the M2 Fantastic Five/.
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I hate all of this. Johnny and Alicia are creeps if they get it on before she has broken up with Ben. Byrne is even implying Ben & Alicia's whole relationship has been unhealthy and codependent. And then if you tell me she was a Skrull, then Johnny was raped… multiple times. He never gave consent to have sex with an alien, whether she liked him or not. None of it fits the tone of the Fantastic Four.
I'm a huge fan of Byrne's FF run but not the last couple of years, the art and writing all went bad and he never recovered. His personality stinks too, speaking as somebody who left his board.
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There's something a little perverse about the subtitle of Craig Unger's new book, The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future. Nearly everything in it has been extensively, exhaustively told before — indeed, it's surprising how little new information or analysis it contains. It has the feel of a hurried clip job, poorly edited and rushed into print, perhaps out of fear that the window of relevance was closing. It would be the perfect book to give to a thoughtful, intelligent reader who has been completely oblivious to American politics for the last seven years.
This is terribly disappointing, because in the past Unger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, has proven an excellent reporter. The author of the important 2004 book House of Bush, House of Saud, about the relationship between the president's family and the decadent rulers of the barbarous Saudi kingdom, he would seem like an ideal guide to the tangle of messianic delusions and Machiavellian scheming that has shaped America's foreign policy during the Bush regime. The Fall of the House of Bush attempts to show how the rise of the religious right and the rise of the neoconservatives worked in synergy to push the United States into its mad war in Iraq. It's an incredibly rich subject: the simple question of whether Bush is a genuine religious zealot, a cynic manipulating the faithful, or some strange combination of the two cries out for exploration. But Unger treats his terrain superficially. For the most part, he recapitulates events others have already written about rather than probing them for new meaning or uncovering the unknown.
The most interesting parts of Unger's book deal with the odd, potent alliance between born-against Christians and Israeli hardliners. Reaching back through history, he explains the evolution of premillenial dispensationalism, the end-times theology that dominates the American evangelical world. According to dispensationalist doctrine, the return of the Jews to the biblical state of Israel — which includes the occupied territories — will precede the second coming of Christ, making the annexation of Palestinian land a precondition of earthly paradise. So-called Christian Zionists have thus been among the fiercest champions of Israeli irredentism. And, Unger writes, because the Christian Zionists are politically useful, Jewish hawks have mostly been content to ignore the narrative of Christian triumph implicit in these "millennial dreams." (The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier has aptly called this ecumenical bargain a "grim comedy of mutual condescension.")
Those outside the evangelical subculture — which, as Unger shows, has come to dominate the Republican Party — often underestimate the popularity of such apocalyptic beliefs. With conservative evangelicals playing a recently amplified role in the government and the military, it's worth scrutinizing the impact of dispensationalist theology on America's Middle East policy. But Unger doesn't do that. He simply explains the belief system (itself a central subject of several excellent books, including The End of Days by the Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg) and explains that Bush is an evangelical. He doesn't delve into reports about increasing proselytizing in the military or examine the way right-wing churches used end-times imagery to build support for the war in Iraq.
As the book goes on, the early focus on the Christian right gives way to a detailed account of the rise of the neoconservatives and their relentless drive for war in Iraq, a war they imagined would transform the Middle East to America and Israel's advantage. Unger offers an interesting inquiry into the connection of Michael Ledeen, one of the most fanatical of the neocons, to the forged documents the administration used to argue that Iraq sought uranium from Niger. Aside from that, though, Unger is just rehashing a story already told in George Packer's The Assassin's Gate; David Corn and Michael Isikoff's Hubris: The Inside Story Of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War; James Mann's Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet; among many others.
Unger is unabashed about relying on others' reporting; the book is dense with quotes and footnotes. One error, though, made me suspicious of how closely he read all this material. About a third of the way through The Fall of The House of Bush, he attributes a quote to the late televangelist D. James Kennedy ("It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish.") that actually comes from one of Kennedy's former employees, George Grant. Curious about Unger's source, I followed the footnote and was surprised to find it pointing to my own book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. The quote in my book clearly comes from Grant; one would have to be skimming pretty quickly to miss that.
That's a very minor error, one any author could make and few would notice. But there are others. "In deference to the Christian Right, morning-after contraceptive sales were banned, even after having been approved by the Food and Drug Administration," Unger writes. That's not precisely true — it was only over-the-counter sales that were banned, a small but significant difference. Such mistakes aren't enough to undermine Unger's credibility, but they do add to the sense that the book was hastily written and edited.
His editor also should have caught numerous clunky repetitions. At the end of one page, he writes, "And in July 1996, just after taking office, newly elected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on his way to the United States to speak before a joint session of Congress. Just as important, he would meet with Richard Perle and other principals of the neoconservative movement." Then, at the beginning of the next page: "On July 8, 1996, about six weeks after his election as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington to see Richard Perle, one of several neoconservative analysts who had mapped out a new strategy for him in a policy paper entitled 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.' " There's enough of this sort of thing to seriously slow down the story, which is an especial problem in a book like this. If you're going to recount a tale already told by others, you at least need to do it with more style.
Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She was formerly a senior writer at Salon.com, and her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York, Glamour, The New York Observer, The Guardian (U.K.), and many other publications. Her next book, about the global battle over reproductive rights, will be published by Penguin Press in 2009.
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I would get into a hot shower and start massage in a downward/toward the nipple motion. Try to get all sides of the boob. See if the milk is flowing evenly out. If you see it's blocked, concentrate on that area. If it's blocked too long, it will get painful.
Once out of the shower, work on it off and on, and try a heating pad.
That's what worked for me anyway.
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Ditto what Jill said. That is what I did, hot shower and massage. Every once in a while I'd take a washcloth and soak it in hot water and then sit on the bed with it on my boob. I also had DS or DD breastfeed that side first to help to get it unplugged and I'd massage it at the same time. All these worked for me.
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I get hard lumps when I go awhile without breastfeeding. I didn't think the duct was necesarily clogged unless they hurt. I just know to apply pressure to those places when I pump, which makes the milk come out of there. When I nurse, LO, I feel them disappear. Yeah, when I had a cracked nipple, I was super prone to getting hard lumps that hurt.
I second that hot shower. A warm, wet washcloth is another option for a clogged milk duct. My midwives told me to do a warm washcloth with a plactic bag over it, and then a heating pad on top of that. That works super well for me. I used to get them a lot when my milk first came in, so I was taking a Happy Ducts tincture from Wish Garden.
if you see a blister then you can poke it with a clean needle then massage the milk out. that worked for me.
Oh those are so painful!!!
I poked mine with a needle and got ultrasound therapy on it the same day. Not sure which worked. But the needle was MUCH less embarassing! :)
I read that ultrasound helps declog it, and I was already going every so often to my chiro and getting ultrasound for my back. So I asked the nurse (female, thank goodness!) if she'd do my nipple. I t was a first for both of us! LOL
Buy the end of the day it was unclogged...but I also took a needle to it that morning, so who knows what actually worked. I know I didn't get any more after that.
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