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After last season's party in St. Paul, Northern Spark will be venturing back to Minneapolis this summer for an evening of special happenings throughout the city on June 14. Hotspots include downtown by the Metrodome, the Walker Art Center, the Greenway, and outside the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. During the overnight event there will be light installations, hands-on activities, live music, and other fun, community-building moments.
The organization recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for basic needs at the event, including electricity, police permits, and other nitty-gritty necessities.
The campaign is currently at $1,770 of a $20,000 goal, with 50 backers and 28 days to go. So where will the money go should you chose to donate? According to the Kickstarter website:
Our Kickstarter goal represents the final 7% of the festival budget needed to ensure that basics are in place for festival success on June 14th.
NorthernLights.mn provides the infrastructure and support that participating artists and organizations need, in turn allowing them to focus on the artistic risks they're taking, not logistical ones. Here are some specific and crucial items your support makes possible:
- Artist stipends for 24 Northern Lights' commissioned and open call projects
- Electricity, lighting, signage, audio support, site permissions, volunteer wrangling, and materials support for artist projects and food trucks.
- Festival wayfinding, police permits, public works and transit coordination, food trucks, bathrooms, maps, guidebooks, and more.
Like any good Kickstarter campaign, the perks for contributors are pretty fun, and start pretty cheap. Donating $10, for examples, gets you a spark toy designed specifically for the evening. Other incentives include a variety of glowing hats, rock-star haircuts from HiFi Hair and Records, a mod deck chair, and original artwork from local artists.
To contribute or for more information about the event, you can click here. The project's video can be viewed below.
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Hurricane Season Highlights Dangers from Rising Seas
By Erin Gustafson
Today marks the beginning of hurricane season, a six-month period in which most of the United States' hurricanes and tropical storms occur. Of course, the east coast of Florida got the party started early this past Memorial Day weekend, hosting tropical storm Beryl with its 10 inches of rain and maximum sustained wind speed of 70 mph, just one in a series of extreme weather events that took place over the holiday weekend. Beryl is especially significant because it is the largest tropical storm to reach land before the official start of hurricane season on June 1st.
"I hope this is not a sign of things to come," commented U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, alluding to the nine to fifteen named storms, including four to eight hurricanes, NOAA's forecasters predict will appear between now and the end of the season on November 30. Unfortunately for all of us, the future doesn't look terribly rosy.
As dramatic as NOAA's hurricane predictions may sound, the agency is saying that they constitute a "near normal" hurricane season which will be less severe than recent years. Still, it's worth noting that any hurricane will bring strong winds, heavy rains, and flooding, and it only takes one massive storm to wreak major havoc.
More troubling still is that hurricane and tropical storm-related flooding this year and in the future will be exacerbated by the effects of rising seas. In the past hundred and fifty years sea levels have risen 8 inches and scientists estimate that they will rise between one and seven feet by the end of the century. With recent reports of melting ice sheets in Antarctica and rapidly disappearing glaciers due to climate change, and emerging concern about the role of increased use of water previously locked up in underground aquifers, predictions on the high end are becoming increasingly likely.
A four foot rise in sea level could endanger 5 million residents living in 2.6 million homes on $500 billion of residential real estate in the U.S., not to mention 300 energy-producing facilities, airports, thousands of miles of roads and numerous other types of infrastructure, making them increasingly vulnerable to increased storm surges and flooding.
At a Senate Hearing on the "Impacts of Rising Sea Levels on Domestic Infrastructures" in April, Dr. Ben Strauss of Climate Central warned that rising seas would "raise the launch pad for coastal storm surges," more than tripling the odds of what used to be "once in a century floods" within the next two decades.
Wind and high waves spun by hurricanes and tropical storms can generate massive storm surges, sometimes flooding large portions of cities and often damaging homes and infrastructure. Beryl's storm surge and rains have caused many roads in coastal North Carolina to flood, some with as much as three and a half feet of water.
In addition, modern hurricanes will be even more damaging due to bigger deluges. Warming oceans mean that more water vapor is lurking in the air off the coasts, and a 4% increase in water vapor over oceans has been observed since the 1970s. Extra water vapor invigorates storms formed off the coast, meaning that hurricanes and tropical storms will dump greater amounts of rain in their wake. So in addition to rising seas, flooding from hurricanes will become more severe because of greater downpours.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are attempting to address the dangers of sea level rise by – almost literally – sticking their heads in the sand. Despite the recent evidence of the damaging effects of hurricanes and coastal flooding in their own state, they are circulating a bill that would reduce state agencies' ability to calculate future sea level rise by not permitting scientists to "include scenarios of accelerated rates of sea level rise" in making their predictions. In other words, ignore the problem, and the problem is solved!
Good luck selling that one to homeowners on the Outer Banks next time a hurricane bears down on them.
— Erin Gustafson is an Energy and Environmental Policy intern with the Center for American Progress
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I am reminded of a story…
In preparing for future weather disasters and sea level rise some states will build their defenses of sturdy masonry, some will choose sticks and still others will select straw. Obviously some of the leaders we have chosen did not learn anything in childhood and some have come up with an altogether novel approach: pretend the disaster does not exist. In the childhood story none of the pigs tried that approach but I think it was because the author knew children were too smart for that. It is not just hurricanes that we need to be ready for. It is shaping up to be a long hot, heat storm hot, summer.
Never fear-the Rightwing Climate Cnuts will wave their magic wands at the menace, and it will all disappear. If not, like Katrina, the poor and indigent will be left to drown, and their abandoned homes left to rot-further proof of the Right's 'moral values'. These are also on display, if you care to read 'The Guardian' today, in another growing campaign of death threats and menaces ( I've even had my own first death threat, although, being thick, I didn't get the meaning of 'red dot on my forehead' for a wee while) against anti-tobacco public health advocates. You've got to admire the Right's ethical values, don't you?
"heat storm hot" produced zero Google hits.
Thank you!
Sounds like a whole new kind of temperature that cooks up a whole new kind of storm. At how many different scales of magnitude and velocity can the atmosphere circulate simultaneously?
Well said Mulga. You be careful out there – some of those folks (in the far right) are truly nuts, so really be careful. Its bad enough you want to take away their fossil fuel related CO2 emissions, but reduce smoking rates too….
I didn't see the article you were talking about, although I saw another from April that is talking about starting in Dec all cigarette packs basically being covered with information and photos of lung cancer (quite appropriate) with minimal branding – looks like it would be effective at reducing smoking rates, wish we had that here in the U.S..
Do you trust NOAA's hurricane predictions…?
I console myself with the thought that, so far, they are all hot air, in this country at least. Climate scientists have a lot more to deal with, including a despicably scurrilous campaign by Murdoch's local sewer-in-chief, 'The Australian', to deny that they have even been threatened.
But you did eventually try just heat storm…right? I got 145,000,000 results.
I admit it is a California term that refers to extended heat waves so it may not be that common. From Wikipedia (under heat wave but if you search heat storm it will come up):
A heat storm is a Californian term for an extended heat wave. Heat storms occur when the temperature reaches 100 °F (37.8 °C) for three or more consecutive days over a wide area (tens of thousands of square miles).
I'm sure we will all hear more about them in the very near future.
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JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — More than 25 Airmen from the 108th Wing's Security Force Squadron deployed from here today for a six-month tour in Southwest Asia in support of Operation New Dawn.
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You know the bit – each day in October I'll give you folks a poll question. Each poll will last four days. The results will be posted every Tuesday leading up to (and ending with) Election Day on the first Tuesday in November. Here is the master list of all questions asked so far!
NOTE: We're talking Amazing #1-now (so including the re-numbering), same with Daredevil. Flash is just the Wally West Flash series, while Hellblazer only had the one series, so that's self-explanatory.
The Frank Miller run on DD alone sealed it for me. I'd vote for Hellblazer, but I haven't read enough stories.
Daredevil was the first title that came to my mind when I saw today's poll.
The Frank Miller run is the most obvious of course, but besides that one, Daredevil has had one great run after another throughout the years.
Hell, I don't like Bendis and I still think that his run was amazing. To me, it's his best work.
Hm, okay, this seems too complicated. I mean, who can make a meaningful comparison here, even if you're familiar with all titles? How many people can sit down and think back over 45 years of Spider-Man stories, but JUST those in ASM; being sure to not let any of the other Spidey comics influence their estimate, even though many key stories ran through all the titles.
Forgive the whining, Brian; on the whole I really enjoy this feature. FWIW I've had the opposite reaction to the apparent complaints about "why didn't you include…?" I usually think more than, say, 8 choices is too many.
Daredevil is probably the most consistently good superhero book in the last 10 years, and thats not even including Millar/Nocenti's work.
Flash has Mark Waid AND Geoff Johns so thats a good choice too. Spidey has just as many good stories as he does bad ones. You don't see Daredevil with any crappy Clone Saga, One More Day, The Other, or Maximum Carnage.
Never read Hellblazer, I think that crappy Constantine movie turned me off(even though I know its probably not accurate). It apparently has writers like Millgan and Ellis, I'm sure I'll get around to it.
Hell Spidey is my favourite hero but I still had to give it to DD. In terms of %age of stories since Frank came along the title has rocked! The Marvel Knights relaunch has got to be the most consistant run ever IMHO.
hard choice for would have gone with spider man but with one more day and the clone saga. had to go with flash . espically the way brad meltzer showed wally deal with loss of kids only to then have to balance being a father of twins. due to a twist plus having to make a deal with the spectre to save his wife from dieing.
@Chad: That was not Meltzer but Geoff Johns. Also, IIRC, the deal was not made in order to save his wife from dying, but only to make everybody forget his secret identity, and Wally made that choice out of the guilt of it endangering his wife.
Daredevil; I haven't read enough Hellblazer to give an informed opinion, and I haven't read much Flash outside of Waid and Johns, and we all know how riddled with crap Spider-Man's past has been.
sandman, without a doubt.
Can't imagine going for anything other than Hellblazer. I feel like a solid 50% of the series has just been really good comics from creators with something to say. Writers like Delano, Ennis and Ellis all put some of their best work into Hellblazer, and there were some very good arcs from others like Azzarello and Diggle (not to mention some great one-offs / two part stories from people like Gaiman, Morrisson, Eddie Campbell and Jason Aaron).
It's not all been perfect, but I feel like I'd be far more likely to pull out a very good issue at random from my Hellblazer collection than I would from any of the other titles given.
I'd say Hellblazer.
Where else would you find a character saying "Cor blimey! I'm shagging a lesbian!! Do I get a prize?"
This is a very interesting selection.
I'm going with Hellblazer myself, if only because even bad Hellblazer's still kinda neat. Azzarello's run was really tough to get through, but still qualifies as an interesting failure, y'know?
Saying that Daredevil wins because of Frank Miller seems odd, since the question was about percentage. Frank still only has x number of issues. No matter how good they are, they can't overwhelm all the other issues if they are NOT great.
(Not saying there is anythign wrong with voting for DD, just for doing so due to one run.)
You had me at the "Flash is just Wally West stories" part.
10+ years straight of good comics.
The fact that Spidey and Daredevil have so many issues makes it hard for me to vote for them. For every "Born Again" there's also a "Clone Saga."
William Messner-Loebs, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns.
Seriously, how is this even a contest?
Eh, Waid has some great issues, but some of his runs felt like filler as it went on, Johns' Flash overstayed its welcome about half-way through. Really, I haven't read a good Wally West Flash in years.
Daredevil is likely your best candidate, what with McKenzie, Miller, Nocenti, Kesel and Brubaker all kicking tons of ass, but realistically, that's only since the 80s, and there were a ton of crappy issues from the 60s until that point.
ASM would have been the easiest choice up to the 90s, then the Clone Saga and some other suspect garbage poked in. After that we had JMS's excellent (for the most part) run, but since Sins Past and through to the modern-day tri-monthly garbage, it's now not even close.
For the reasons above, the default is Hellblazer, which had the inimitable Delano, Ennis, Ellis, Azzarello, Diggle, and some fill-ins by guys like Neil Gaiman. When your worst run is by Mike Carey, you know you've got a solid series.
Yeah, that Flash run is amazing through the end of Johns (and starting right at #1 with Mike Baron). There are comparatively weak issues, of course, but no subpar run of issues. One of my favorite comics ever.
I went DD as well… easy choice for me. DD's had some chokers… but mostly late in the first run. While it certainly had campy bits early in the series, hey, it was the 60's! Then there was that San Francisco goofiness… but for the vast majority of the series, DD has been highly engaging and entertaining, and the art is almost always top notch!
ASM, however… I thought the first Stan Lee penned issues were just… bad… I only read them in the Masterworks collections, but the dialog and the situations… just… no. I can think of plenty of bad ASM stories, but I actually can't really think of a single great run in ASM – it's always been serviceable but too high profile for writers to really do anything interesting. JMS was entertaining, but it wasn't great, and it all got wiped away anyway. McFarlane on art duties makes me love it, but were the stories great? eh. Can't even really include Kraven's Last Hunt… I think the mid to late 80's stuff in ASM was also entertaining, largely due to the excellent portrayal of the supporting cast members… but great? Again… eh.
Hellblazer grabs me every once in a while… I go back to it every now and then, but it's always a fleeting thing – I never want to stick with the title.
The Flash is the only title here I haven't read most of… but I was never a fan of the character (or most of the DCU), so, maybe unfair, but it loses by default.
I almost voted Spider-Man, but then a weird, magical field washed over me and made me forget that stories that I really loved ever really happened.
So I voted Daredevil.
I'm abstaining, as I haven't read much Hellblazer.
DD's been blessed with some excellent runs, so I would probably vote for that, but when I look at the creators who've worked on Hellblazer, I'd rather not skew the result with my uninformed vote.
Hellblazer. There's a reason I own more of it than any other comic.
If the criteria is PERCENTAGE of great stories, Hellblazer wins hands down.
Hellblazer was never below great. Compared to all other comics, which had really sub-par eras, it's a no brainer, really.
Planetary. Y The Last Man. Invincible. Then Flash.
@Chad Nevett: I knew there was a reason I liked you.
@Benhameen, really glad you like Planetary, but that's kinda missing the point – Planetary was 27 issues (and three specials) by one creative team, telling one story. Same basic logic with the others.
The others are books with hundreds of issues under their belts, many different creators, and recognizable eras of storytelling. That's a different type of thing to compare.
(The second "the others" is the books we're actually voting on, sorry for the repetition.)
Oh good lord. Making me choose between Daredevil and Hellblazer? Neck and neck my two favorite books from both Marvel and DC.
Gotta go with Johnny boy, though.
Planetary, Y, Invincible, Sandman, etc. had the same writer for the entirety of their existence. They will not continue with other writers, so it's hard to think of them as having "runs."
Flash had some greatness, but a lot of dreck, and it's only been running since '89.
Hellblazer had Delano's run (never interested me, but I know it has a fanbase) and Ennis's initial run (great). It loses points with me for Azzarello's deeply unpleasant run, Ellis's aborted work, and Mike Carey failing to engage me. I think the quality has always been on the high side, but I rarely find myself sticking around.
Daredevil has had some out and out bad runs, but a) the work of Bill Everett, Stan Lee, Wally Wood, John Romita, Gene Colan, Roy Thomas, Steve Gerber, Miller & Janson, Miller & Mazzuchelli, Nocenti & JR Jr, some Chickchester & McDaniel, Kesel & Nord, and nearly everything from the last 11 years has been at least good, often great; b) it's been around a lot longer than Hellblazer. No other super-hero title around since the '60s or before can boast as much quality.
Of the 3 that I'm familair with, Daredevil's far and away the winner. I can't really remember a time when the book was bad. Spidey's high points are great, but honestly, the series has more bad issues than good ones. I haven't read enough Hellblazer to judge the entire series- though I've liked most of what I've read.
I went with Flash. Both ASM and Daredevil have very long runs with some crappy stories. The first 170 or so issues of Daredevil before Frank Miller are as take-it or leave-it as comics come. That's like 34% of it's run right there. And ASM was written by David Micheline for like 100 issues or something. He's a good enough workaday writer, but besides Venom, can you name any memorable Micheline arcs? Personally, I can't.
Anyway, that left me with Flash and Hellblazer. I was never much of a Vertigo guy until I got older, so I missed out on Hellblazer. But I read Flash from issue #1 on (although I missed some of the 90s stuff), and love Wally. So I went with Flash.
I know Brian gets a little sad when people complain about his polls, like we said his kids were ugly or something, but I think this one is a bit odd, since the lengths of the runs are so different. 500-600 issues for Spidey and DD, and 200-250 for Flash and Hellblazer – kinda apples and oranges, IMHO.
I'm almost ashamed to say it, but I've never read an issue of Hellblazer (or Swamp Thing, or Sandman; and I just read my first Animal man story a couple of weeks ago in trade).
I may not vote on this one, because Daredevil overall has the most great, or very good stories, but the first 50 or so issues of Flash seemed to have the higher percentage of great ones, then I lost interest. As for Spidey, sure some great ones, but tons of filler.
This is a tough one…they're all winners today.
I was never into Hellblazer and positively hate Flash, so that's between Daredevil and Spider-Man for me.
Of the two, Spider-Man wins. Both books were terrible in the 90s and later, but ASM was consistently great on the 60s and early 70s, while Daredevil wasn't.
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Didn't even have to think about it.
I voted Flash. With Daredevil as runner-up.
I didn't read enough Hellblazer, so I may be commiting an injustice. The only run I read most of was Garth Ennis's (one of the best Ennis works, IMO). I'm also familiar with Constantine appearances in Swamp Thing, but apart from that, I didn't read much of him solo.
Amazing Spider-Man is one of those marvel series that alternates good decades with crappy ones. It was great in the 1960s, mediocre in the 1970s, mostly great in the 1980s, utter crap in the 1990s… and I think it has been good in the 2000s, though I know many in the Internet disagree. JMS has been mostly interesting, except for Sins Past. OMD was awful, but I love the current stories, they have that Spidey feeling that's been absent since the early-1980s.
I almost voted Daredevil. But as people have noted, DD in the 1960s and 1970s was good, but rarely spectacular. I like Roy Thomas on the title and Steve Gerber and even Roger McKenzie, but it was never spectacular. After Miller, sure. We have Ann Nocenti and Bendis and Brubaker. But we also have the horrible and confusing D. G. Chichester.
Flash is the one. Mike Baron, Messner-Loebs (VERY underrated), Mark Waid, Geoff Johns. All four were excellent, and that accounts for most of the issues in the run. So Flash has my vote.
Daredevil and Flash. What is it about red-clad superheroes that makes their stories so good? Maybe because they're intermediate characters. Big enough to be… big, but not on Superman or Spider-Man level, so they're spared overexposition.
(And I know many on this board disagree with me, but Wonder Woman since George Perez has been a consistently great read too).
I know Brian gets a little sad when people complain about his polls, like we said his kids were ugly or something, but I think this one is a bit odd, since the lengths of the runs are so different. 500-600 issues for Spidey and DD, and 200-250 for Flash and Hellblazer – kinda apples and oranges, IMHO.
Right, they ARE different, but that was te point – two long series (so bad stretches are not as problematic, percentage-wise) plus two short series (so less time to screw up) – what ends up giving you better percentages? The short series or the long series?
This is not fair wiyh Spidey an DD cause both have more than 500 issues. I mean, bad writers/artists had plenty of time to give readers a lot of crap. If you take just the first 100 issues of each series there would be no doubt about it: ASM wins by far. But if you take the mos memorabel runs I gotta go with DD. How could you not love Miller in those days? Hellblazer is cool, but still a baby in comparison and Flash is just all right.
I mean, bad writers/artists had plenty of time to give readers a lot of crap.
But because they were so long, the bad writers/artists have a lesser impact, percentage-wise.
A bad writer on the Flash takes a much larger chunk than a bad writer on Amazing.
Someday someone's going to have to explain the appeal of Hellblazer to me, because the Ennis run is the only bit I ever cared for.
I ended up voting Spider-Man. Yeah, you've got crappy years there, but I'd have to say the first 100 issues were greatness in their context, that Roger Stern's 1980s run and the DeFalco stuff that followed it were likewise great, and then even in the midst of utter shite like the Clone Saga are issues like ASM #400.
Daredevil has had several great runs, but I think they amount to fewer actual issues than most people seem to recall. Bendis kind of sucked after issue #50, so I only count half his run. Miller only did about 40 issues of the title. Brubaker adds up to something like 30 more. That's about 100 great issues in 500 or so total, a much weaker percentage than I'd give anything else on the list. (In fairness, fan favorite books like the X-Men would suffer similarly by dint of having such long periods of utter crap going back to the 1960s.)
I suspect that Flash won't get much love here, but that is how I voted. Most people have referenced Johns and Waid, and rightfully so as those were some great comics. I would mention that Messner-Loebs wrote one of the creepiest Gorilla Grodd stories I have ever read. All in All, from start to finish, I think flash has had the highest density of great stories.
Flash was consistently one of DC's best straight-ahead superhero comics for 206 issues, and at times the best. Pretty incredible run for such a high-profile super-hero (and one with a fairly boring power at that). It tailed off very dramatically after that point though.
I seem to be one of the few people voting for Spider-Man.
I've never read Hellblazer, and I don't really know anything about it. I haven't even seen that Constantine movie, but it didn't sound interesting in any way. And I've only read a handfull of Flash issues, and they were all Barry Allen, and I guess we're not even supposed to consider those.
Daredevil has had some great stories, but I haven't read all that many of them. I know I really liked some issues back in the '70s, but my memory of them isn't all that clear. For some reason, I missed both of Frank Miller's runs when they were new. I've since read his first batch in reprints, and they are pretty good, but I think they're somewhat overrated. As for Born Again, I've only read a couple of them, and they do seem great, but it's hard to judge from such a small sample. I wish I'd known about them when they were new, so I could've bought them then. Everytime I decided to check out Daredevil in the '80s, it was written by Denny O'Neil or Ann Nocenti, and it just wasn't worth buying any more issues. The Nocenti stuff I've read was especially bad. So either everyone is completely insane when they praise her stuff, or I was extremely unlucky and only got to see her worst issues. I've bought a few of the recent issues, and they are decent enough, but not great.
But Spider-Man has had a lot of great stories over the years, and the mid-80s in particular was nearly flawless for several years. True, it has gone through some very bad periods– most of the '90s from what I've seen, and at least a few years of this decade (whatever it's called)– but I think the good periods really make up for it. And the last couple of years have been great, despite what a lot of people on here say. (And two years of new Amazing Spider-Man equals six years of most other series.)
But with that horrible decade, can I really say Spider-Man has had the highest percentage of great stories? Sure I can! If I look at all the great comics I have read over the years, the highest percentage of them have been Amazing Spider-Man.
It all depends on how you read the question.
I can understand people saying Daredevil due to to the Miller run, but for % of good comics are you taking into account the pre-miller period? If you did a comparison of the 1st 150 issues of Spider-man and the first 150 issues of Daredevil it would be a huge route in favor of Spider-man. I don't think the Miller issues cancel that out.
"That's about 100 great issues in 500 or so total"
No love for Nocenti, Omar?
I'm a little flabbergasted at some of the Daredevil love in these comments. Yes, DD has had some good stuff since Miller took over the title, but the first 157 issues ranged from mediocre to bad to downright unreadable. Mike, I have to particularly take issue (no pun intended) with your statement that "No other super-hero title around since the '60s or before can boast as much quality". I might argue that over the 15 years Daredevil was being published prior to Miller taking over, every single Marvel title of similar vintage was better, and several DC titles as well. For my money, Daredevil was the most consistently poor book Marvel published over their first twenty years.
I'm not familiar enough with all the titles listed here to actually vote, but I know I would rather read any of the other three than try to choke down that old Daredevil stuff again.
Nocenti was very good up until Inferno or so, but I never really got into the whole protracted Number Nine/Mephisto/Blackheart thing that dominated the last ouple years of her run. And then there was the absolutely inane Bullseye vs. amnesiac Matt story. Nocenti writes beautiful narrative caption and created a couple of great characters in Typhoid and the criminally underused Bullet, but I don't know that her run adds up to "greatness."
Put short, Nocenti had one great year on the book with JRJR, after which diminishing returns set in with a vengeance.
I get that a lot of people are ignoring the pre-Miller years, but I liked them. He was sort of a B-grade, blind version of Spider-Man, much more lighthearted than what would come later, and had some really fun (if not always imposing) villains. I do think the long-running title have a disadvantage over the shorter ones when you're really talking about percentages, and Hellblazer has a leg up on the writing over some periods of either DD or Spidey. (Pretty sneaky not counting the Barry years to make Flash a little more comparable, Brian.)
But not giving Nocenti's run props is just crazy. Sure, Fraggle Mephisto was kind of funny looking, but come on, Matt beat Ultron to death with a stick!
As a percentage of the total run?
Hellblazer without a doubt.
Then the Wally West Flash run.
Well, I'm a Nocenti fanboy, so I think her stuff is great even when it's crazy and misguided ("The hundred heads of Ultron" is totally awesome).
Comparing DD to Spider-Man, DD has IMHO – barring issue 300-350 or so – been good ever since Marv Wolfman took over the title. Spider-Man has only been good in short patches for the past 20 years. The question being how much we should count in the Stan Lee SM vs the Stan Lee DD, which admittedly has to be a lot.
Ah, I'm a little dumb. Didn't see the entire point was long series vs shorter series. I see your argument that a bad run in a shorter series has more impact percentage-wise, but I think you are more likely to have a repeat of bad runs in a longer-series. By their definition, longer-series can survive the vissitudes better than shorter-series, therefore they are more likely to have long runs of bad issues and survive.
As people have pointed out, Spidey and Daredevil have had DECADE long runs of mostly bad comics, but they survived somehow – I suppose since they are Stan Lee created (i.e. flagship) titles.
Arguably, as long as Marvel is publishing, there will always be an ongoing Spider-Man title and Daredevil title (and X-Men, Fantastic Four, Thor, Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, etc) – since it would take a lot of terrible stories for a very long time to make these titles sell poorly enough to be cancelled for good (I mean, Spidey survived the 90s!).
Whereas Flash (Wally West) and Hellblazer aren't as entrenched in the fabric of their respective universes – Wally is a replacement of Barry, and Hellblazer is in a niche Vertigo universe that isn't really a 'shared' universe – and are more likely to be killed off or cancelled than long-running titles (as Wally seems to in the throes of right now, essentially being put out to pasture for the return of Barry – which could never happen with Peter Parker, as Ben Reilly proved). Therefore, these shorter titles can't afford to have a decade of bad comics, because the readership are invested in them as characters, not as icons, and if the stories and characterization suffers too long, the readership will fall off and the title can easily be cancelled or reimagined without shaking up the landscape of all of the other comics within their imprint.
Basically, I'm saying it is easy to imagine the DC Universe without Wally as the Flash (although painful to some), but it is essentially impossible to imagine the Marvel Universe without Peter Parker as Spidey and Murdock as Daredevil. They are part of the very fabric of the MU, IMO.
Ann Nocenti's run was awesome, except perhaps for the Bullseye's end issues.
Yes! Nexus for the win! The Dude (and Paul Smith) kicked tail along with Mike Baron's scripts. Speaking of Baron, his Wally West Flash run was really, really good too, but it gets lost in the shuffle between Waid and Johns. Another really consistent, long series was the Defenders. Steve Gerber, Dave Kraft, J.M. DeMatteis, Peter Gillis, not to mention Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart, and Len Wein…all classic stuff (but Ed Hannigan's run was not so good).
While so much of the recent run of Daredevil has bordered on fantastic, I'm still going to go with Hellblazer. Runs from Azzerello, Delano, Ennis, Ellis, Carey, Jenkins, plus stories from Morrison and Gaiman. Can't ask for more.
" I get that a lot of people are ignoring the pre-Miller years, but I liked them. He was sort of a B-grade, blind version of Spider-Man, much more lighthearted than what would come later, and had some really fun (if not always imposing) villains. I do think the long-running title have a disadvantage over the shorter ones when you're really talking about percentages, and Hellblazer has a leg up on the writing over some periods of either DD or Spidey. (Pretty sneaky not counting the Barry years to make Flash a little more comparable, Brian.) "
Also, if you go by quality as well as quantity, mediocre early Daredevil has much more weight than outright awful Spider-Man ( Maximum Clonage, Chapter One, Sins Past, One More Day, etc. etc. etc. )
But JoeMac, by saying it's possible to imagine a DC without Wally as the Flash, you're ignoring an essential hook to the entire concept of The Flash: legacy. After all, it's present in the very first Barry Allen story, and is an essential component to the character's place in the DC universe. Of course no one other then Matt Murdock could be Daredevil, because the story is about Matt. With The Flash, it's not just about Barry, Wally, or Jay, it's about the mantle of the Flash.
I voted for the Wally West Flash series. Hellblazer I've never read, though I hear its good. I've only read a handful of Daredevil stories, from Miller to Kelley to Bendis, but none of them really wowed me. The early Spider-Man stories by Stan Lee were great, but from the 80s on up it really hasn't done anything for me. Flash on the other hand has had some great writers in Mike Baron, Bill Loebs, Mark Waid and Geoff Johns. Granted, there are a few arcs/issues that I could just as easily forget, but the really great ones made it worth following the series. To this day, its the only comic book series that I own every issue of just because I love the character and his world so much.
Roman– Thanks for mentioning The Defenders. It really was great, and horribly underrated. I really love the DeMatteis and Gillis issues (nearly sixty issues of [mostly] great storytelling). And many of the David A Kraft stories were pretty good, too. I've only read two of the Englehart issues, and they weren't very good. I usually like Englehart, though, so I'm assuming I just accidentally read his worst ones. As for Gerber, I always hear about how great he was, but I've only read one, so I can't say for sure. (You're right about Ed Hannigan being awful. I think that's always the case.)
It always upset me that they killed off the Defenders just to make way for X-Factor, which was excruciatingly bad for the first seventy or so issues.
I agree that the choices seem a little too exact. Limiting the Flash stories to just Wally's for example put his at a disadvantage next to the longer running series. In any case, I voted for Spider-man, since his stories are the most classic (Hellblazer shouldn't be on the list either; he's not a superhero, his stories are "good" in an entirely different way the others are.)
I voted Daredevil but Hellblazer is on my mind as well. Just in the moment, I couldn't think of a lot of Hellblazer stories I loved off the top of my head, whereas with Daredevil there's been lots to love. I'm even a fan of runs no one mentions very often, like Shooter and Denny O'Neil, let alone the great Miller work and Brubaker stuff.
But both series do seem to attract very strong writers who go on to do interesting runs.
I guess if I honestly thought in terms of percentage, DD's been hurt by some real corny stuff in its first 100 issues, but out of the stuff I've read, I've really liked most of it. So the heart votes DD.
Also just want to say, i think this is one of the more interesting poll questions we've had (and I've liked pretty much all of 'em).
Good going, Brian!
Daredevil. You got:
(A) Wally ****ing Wood.
(B) Gene Colan's playing around with shadow and movement (and absolutely dominating 98% of his artistic competition at the time),
(C) EFFECTIVE social relevance with Brother Take My Hand,
(D) the most sexually risque superhero books EVER during Conway's run,
(E) some of the darkest storytelling in superhero comics ever even before Miller started – Anyone read the Marv Wolfman Copperhead story? That stuff was pitch freakin' dark.
(F) Frank Miller, giving us (I believe) the first Manga inspired artowork in American superhero books and reincorporating Eisner,
(G) John Romita Junior his mixture of down-to-earth grittiness and Kirby grandeur,
(H) A couple years I didn't read that looked terrible. and
(I) Bendis completely structurally re-inventing mainstream comics story-telling.
Hellblazer didn't have quite the same caliber of artists. Spider-man had… the '90s, basically. The Flash had Geoff Johns, who was at the time a REALLY technically poor writer. (Although I figure the slasher-movie influenced violence and shock-value cliffhangers felt new and made his stuff seem relatively exciting.)
So, overall, Daredevil in a walk. Of long-running non-creator owned titles, I think only Swamp Thing (vol 2.) was better. Captain America was damn close, though.
Before, I even clicked on this poll I was thinking, "Hopefully, Brian will include Daredevil, because that would be my number #1″ And, yes DD was there was I went to the poll. Next I figured, well, everyone's going to vote Spider-Man, with a good dose of Hellblazer. But I'm definitely voting DD.
Lots would seem to agree.
As for why, I'll just say… right on Mark Andrew. And he didn't even mention Brubaker or the brief presence of the great Bill Everett.
Also, I'll echo Mark again and put out a word for Captain America. There were lots of great runs in that title(s).
For those that haven't looked at the first 110 or so issues of Daredevil (and I haven't read them all, either), let me repeat:
Bill Everett. Wally Wood, including that great fight with Namor. John Romita. Gene Colan. The scripting wasn't always great, but the art was usually excellent. DD really started to suck following Gerber's run, but only for a few years. Then, Miller got the party going in the late '70s, and it's been mostly quality since.
As opposed to Spider-Man who had Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr, and Gil Kane for its first 110 issues? Yeah….it's easily tied with DD for art and trumps it on stories for the same span.
The greatest Hellblazer story for me? "Hard Time" by Azzarello and Corben.
For those of you that's never read even a single issue of Hellblazer (and there seems to be a lot, juding by the posts in this poll), i suggest you pick up this TPB.
It'll change your mind and keep you hooked. Trust me.
Personally, i think Constantine can beat any of the Superheroes shown in this poll, especially if they're in London. Easily.
The only person that he can't beat is himself. He's his own worst enemy.
Yeah, i'll be voting for Hellblazer (this after reading significant runs of Daredevil with Miller, Smith, Bendis and Brubaker as well as Spiderman with Michelinie, Larsen, Strackzinsky, and others).
I have never read Hellblazer. I didn't enjoy most of the Wally West Flash series. Daredevil only worked for me during Frank Miller's two runs and the Nocenti/Romita Jr. era.
It's gotta be Amazing Spider-Man for me. I've read stories ranging from Stan Lee through David Michelinie over several decades.
Easy one for me.
Has anyone here read enough of all four titles to REALLY answer this, or are we all just going with our biases?
I've read all 4 titles to some degree (I started HellBlazer at the beginning of Carey's run, thus I missed most of the "good stuff", I guess), I just think that there was very little bad stuff from Flash V.2. If you throw out the Millar "Black Flash" dreck, it's basically all readable or better, ranging to absolutely great at points.
I'd like to cast my vote for either Love and Rockets or Eightball. While I enjoy many features on this site, it seems strange that something called "Comics Should Be Good" spends so much time obsessing about superhero comics, which rarely rise above mediocrity, when there have been so many great non-superhero comics that get ignored. The first series of Love and Rockets contained more "great" stories than the entire runs of your four choices above.
This question is mind numbing. For anyone I'd have to truthfully answer they'd have to have read 600 some Spidey issues. 500 some Dardedevil issues. 200 some Flash issues. And over 250 Issues of Hellblazer. Has anyone here read all 1,550 comics? There's some good stuff in there but a whole lot of shit.
I've only read the Ditko run on Spidey. The Miller issues of Daredevil and maybe a quarter of Brubaker's run. Al most all of John's run on Flash. None of Hellblazer.
It came down to Ditko and Miller so I gave it to Miller (although John's Flash was good, just not great.) He created the character and essentially mapped out the series bible in 40 issues. This would have been tougher though if Frank's other Elektra work was included, but it's not.
"The first series of Love and Rockets contained more "great" stories than the entire runs of your four choices above."
Agreed. Wouldn't a better comparison be Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Usagi Yojmbo, Savage Dragon?
Actual well planned ongoing series with a single narrative.
Percentage-wise, it's Hellblazer in a walk. Ennis, Ellis, even a Morrison fill-in, it's like a whose who of the modern greats. Even what I would very subjectively label as the second stringers (Milligan, Azzarello, Delano, etc) would be a powerhouse line-up on any other book.
I concede that Daredevil has probably had more great runs than any other mainstream superhero, but people forget that there were a hundred plus issues before miller came along, and another long drought prior to the Smith relaunch.
Spidey and Flash, as others have mentioned, have as many bad spots as good.
Remember when Daredevil had armor? Remember when Spider-Man had armor? Remember when Wally had to eat a million cheeseburgers and could only go 700 mph?
Hellblazer, it is. Never had armor, for one thing.
And he's the Mary-Sue of the Greatest Writer Of All Comics. Plus all his friends. (And no, jeff Whats-His-Name never worked him over. Honestly, I spent an afternoon wiki'ing his mainstream superhero work, just to see if I can get into it and I CAN'T. It all seems like re-hashed crap.
Daredevil a close second, although you GOTTA BE A REAL FAN to even look at the first 157 issues. (Remember when DD flew a plane from Latveria to Englandland? Even though he's blind?) Spider-Man is more inconsistent than the average soap opera and I like Barry better.
I rather liked it when Wally had clear limits to his powers.
Though I also enjoy the Mark Waid all-powerful Wally.
I concede that Daredevil has probably had more great runs than any other mainstream superhero, but people forget that there were a hundred plus issues before miller came along,
I didn't.
"The first series of Love and Rockets contained more "great" stories than the entire runs of your four choices above."
Agreed. Wouldn't a better comparison be Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Usagi Yojmbo, Savage Dragon?
Actual well planned ongoing series with a single narrative.
Actually, Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Usagi Yojmbo, Savage Dragon, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Groo seem like a nice set of things to compare…
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incredibly unique artist. The implemented promotions were designed to
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through the irresistible juxtaposition of imagery and text. The
layering of texture, color and type reimagines the movement and sound
provided by the Soundsuits, when in motion.
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"gleefully" that the exhibit "sure beat school") and families with children,
along with those interested in cross-cultural arts and performance.
Furthermore, the campaign helped to ensure a strong exhibition turnout
following the immensely popular and nearly impossible-to-follow special
exhibition on Picasso. The unique elements of Nick Cave's art and the
excessive energy drew nearly double the projected attendance.
View our Nick Cave commerical here. You can also catch a glimpse of how "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth"
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After estimating that Sony's weak earnings are only going to get worse, finance company Standard and Poor's downgraded Sony's corporate credit rating to A- for long term borrowing and A-2 for short term loans.
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Sony's business division responsible for both flat-panel TVs and PlayStation has reported a net loss of $449 million in its most recent financial report. This was the third consecutive year in the red for the company, with at least one more year of losses expected.
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they need to banned anyone not 18 on this site. Sony is a huge company and has a lot of divisions inside Sony. how about their movie studios or ... i am not wasting my time for a kid who thinks ps3 is the only thing that Sony makes and loves spending all its little allowance on a xbox360 every year when it breaks.
Suddenly the argument turns into consoles? That is a weak argument if you think underage kids need to be kicked. I do agree with your weak point however, Sony is a large company. That is where I depart and add, it is a big company and like all big companies it can fail. Has nothing to do with business and technology, it has to do with economics the steady streams and rise/decline of consistent demand.


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Hosting a 4th of July party is a great way to get your friends and family together for the celebration, but many people are put off by the potential costs. If you assume that you'd need to spend lots of money to throw an impressive party, think again. As long as you're prepared to do a little more planning than you might otherwise have done, you can easily save across most areas without looking cheap or tacky. Here are some tips for hosting a 4th of July party that won't hurt your budget too much and that will still be remembered for all of the right reasons:
3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Borrow From Your 401(k)
If money problems arise and you don't have savings to tap into, you might be tempted to withdraw from your 401(k) plan instead of using alternative options like credit cards or taking out a loan. Many people are of the mindset that because they've paid money into a 401(k), they're perfectly entitled to take it out again as they see fit. In reality though, it doesn't work like an extended savings account and shouldn't be treated as such unless you want to run into problems. Here are some of the reasons why I'm not in favor of borrowing from your 401(k) unless there really is nothing else to fall back on:
Online Prescriptions: Tips on Staying Safe
My cat was recently diagnosed with kidney and thyroid problems and has been prescribed medication to control the symptoms or delay the inevitable. I was happy to pay the prices marked out by our local veterinary surgeon because I assumed that the costs would be much the same across the board. Last week, a friend casually mentioned that she was contemplating buying medication for her three cats online after stumbling across various websites that were selling the same medications as her veterinary surgeon, but for a much cheaper price. This got me thinking about buying prescription medication in general via the Internet, and how to know if you're really getting such a good bargain in reality. What kind of things should you be keeping an eye out for if you're looking for a reputable online pharmacy to buy prescription medication from?
Personal Finance Roundup: Why Great Deals Don't Automatically Equal Savings
I came across a post on the Money Ning blog that gave me some food for thought this week. I'm usually not one to turn down a bargain if I feel like I'd be getting a good deal, but their recent post on Are You REALLY Saving? 3 Ways You Could Be Overspending made me stop and think about whether that's really the best move. Many of us make bulk buys or keep an eye out for sales so that we can save money on our purchases, but you may want to think twice after reading Miranda's points about why you're not necessarily getting the deal that you might assume.
Why You Shouldn't Take Out Payday Loans
When unexpected expenses come out of the blue and you're not sure how best to pay, you may be tempted to take out a payday loan to get a hold of the money straight away and get the payment wrapped up. Here at Money Crashers, we are strongly against payday loans. If you're not familiar with how they work, the basic idea is that you are temporarily loaned the money until your next payday. In most cases, you apply for the loan and are approved very quickly (often within one or two hours), and the money can usually be deposited into your bank account that same day. Sounds good, right? Think again. There are some pretty big downsides to payday loans that make them a very risky and unattractive prospect. Here are some of the reasons why we're so set against payday loans:
Throwing a Budget Baby Shower
If you're reading this post, there's a pretty good chance that someone close to you has recently announced their pregnancy. Once the congratulations have been dished out, your thoughts might turn towards throwing a baby shower for the new mom. There is a common misconception that you have to spend a good deal of money to throw an enjoyable baby shower (or any type of party or celebration, for that matter) but this is simply not true. You can easily throw a great baby shower on a budget if you're prepared to get creative, and here are some tips to help you do just that:
LendingTree Review – Taking The Hassle Away From Loan Shopping
As you can probably tell from the name, LendingTree deals with loans. More specifically, it acts as a convenient way for consumers to find loan options. I've had some personal experiences using LendingTree and want to give you some insight into the service.
Both personal and commercial loans can be taken out through the website. LendingTree doesn't deal with loan requests directly. Instead, it gathers together your information (both personal and financial) and passes it over to member banks, who will then send you their rates from which you can compare and choose. This makes things a lot easier for you if you're looking for a loan since you don't have to spend a boatload of time shopping around to compare quotes.
Graduation Attire – What to Wear to a Graduation Ceremony (on a Budget)
Judging from the comments on my recent post about going to a wedding for less, it seems that graduation ceremonies are definitely hitting people hard at this time of the year. I've opted to focus this post on the outfit side of things, because this can soon send the costs soaring. Academic dress can be a big expense, especially when you are unlikely to have any need for it afterwards. Here are some tips to get prepared for a high school graduation (but this post applies to other levels of graduation as well), particularly if money is tight:
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How to Stop Expensive Friends Pushing You Into Debt
Are friends with expensive tastes encouraging you to spend more than you want to? I have one particular friend who always insists on going to expensive restaurants while she's visiting. Granted, she only visits once or twice a year and I do have plenty of time to adjust my budget in preparation, but it's still money that I wouldn't otherwise be spending. Being someone who likes to spend as little money as possible, I still come to begrudge the expense even though it's not a regular occurrence. For some people reading this post, the situation will be much worse. Accepting such an invitation might even be the difference between being in the red and in the black. So, how do you tackle the problem without losing the friendship? Communicate, don't make a scene, be assertive, and take charge of the plans!


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Over 385,500 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in 2008,1 making it the most frequently diagnosed cancer in European men, with the exception of skin cancers.2 Therefore prostate cancer represents a major cause of morbidity, especially in the developed world. The site will provide information on both hormone-sensitive and castrate-resistant prostate cancer, detailing current screening and detection methods, and the recommended treatment options available for individual patients.
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aul Auster is one of those writers who is always multitasking. His stories are never about just one thing, and you can never be sure what's going on behind the scenes until you turn the last page. This is why I hate him, not to mention envy him. And also why I love him.
Sunset Park appears at first to be the ordinary story of a young man, Miles Heller, who is working a dead-end job and trying to find some meaning in his life. But as we explore his history, his current living arrangements, and the people in his life, we start to see that we are really exploring the idea of growing up and what it means to live in the world. All of this, of course, is buried in the conversations and obsessions of Miles and his parents and friends.
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Social cognition in major depressive disorder: A new paradigm?
- Pablo BillekeAffiliated withCentro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (CICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del Desarrollo Email author
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Social cognition refers to the brain mechanisms by which we process social information about other humans and ourselves. Alterations in interpersonal and social functioning are common in major depressive disorder, though only poorly addressed by current pharmacotherapies. Further standardized tests, such as depression ratings or neuropsychologic tests, used in routine practice provide very little information on social skills, schemas, attributions, stereotypes and judgments related to social interactions. In this article, we review recent literature on how healthy human brains process social decisions and how these processes are altered in major depressive disorder. We especially focus on interactive paradigms (e.g., game theory based tasks) that can reproduce daily life situations in laboratory settings. The evidences we review, together with the rich literature on the protective role of social networks in handling stress, have implications for developing more ecologically-valid biomarkers and interventions in order to optimize functional recovery in depressive disorders.
KeywordsSocial neuroscience Social functioning Game theory Social dilemmas fMRI EEG
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- Social cognition in major depressive disorder: A new paradigm?
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Translational Neuroscience
Volume 4, Issue 4 , pp 437-447
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- 2013-12
- 10.2478/s13380-013-0147-9
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- 2081-3856
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- 2081-6936
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- Springer Vienna
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- Social neuroscience
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- Social dilemmas
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- Pablo Billeke (1)
- Samantha Boardman (2)
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- 1. Centro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (CICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
- 2. Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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Bald Eagle Watching in the Cache River Wetlands
The Cache River Wetlands offers great opportunities for eagle watching, as well as spotting other birds. The Cache River Wetland Center provides resource and identification materials to help you spot eagles and other birds in the area and along the rivers. They will provide maps and directions to the viewing station for the nest just off Illinois Route 37 off Perks road and south of the visitor's center.
Bicyclists meet at the Olive Branch Community Center at 8 AM. Organized bike routes of 15, 30, 45, 62 and 100 mile rides around scenic Horseshoe Lake and area. Entry fee includes: Event bag, chance for attendance prizes. Early registration includes commemorative t shirt.
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Enjoy the fall color of the Shawnee National Forest and guided home tours. Shop at local orchards, farm markets and art and craft fairs. Sample wine along the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, participate in the fun run or biathlon race.
This fun fest includes a flea market, parade, softball tournament, yard sales, BBQ and music, canoe tours on Saturday.
Dozens of hummingbirds should be present to "wow" the observers. After the birds are captured and banded (through special permits), visitors may wish to adopt one (for a $5 donation to the Lincoln Land Association of Bird Banders, sponsor of the event) and have the privilege of releasing it back to the wild. Those who adopt birds will receive an attractive signed certificate and will be notified if their bird is ever recaptured. Held at the Trail of Tears State Forest pavilion, Jonesboro, 9:00 am to noon. There is no charge for the event.
Organizers have planned a one-day tour in and around Union and Jackson counties. Transportation, lunch and commemorative t-shirt are provided as part of the tour. The fall tour will commence at the Shawnee College Annex in Anna, Illinois at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 24, 2016. The Fall Ozark Tour coincides with National Public Lands day. The tour will visit Shawnee National Forest sites including the Kaolin pond area where the clay for the famous Kirkpatrick pottery was obtained; Pomona Natural Bridge, one of the largest Natural Bridges in the Midwest; and the Lincoln-Douglas debate site at the old Union County fairgrounds all with interpretation by U.S. Forest Service personnel.
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I was forced to reset my password - but no password was secure enough ... and believe me - I TRIED 20 character PW's that just weren't acceptable.
Good idea and it DOES effectively block out the Brute Force idiots out there, but implementation is not yet ready for 'prime time'.


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Released: Jul 01st, 1995
Running Time: 120
Director: Paul Thomas
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Rocco Siffredi, Asia Carrera, Ian Daniels, Laura Palmer, Crystal Gold, Tammi Ann, Eric Price, Tony Tedeschi, Mark Davis, Celeste (I)
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Film
This murder mystery opens promisingly, as Tony Tedeschi stands over Celeste's lifeless body. We assume he's a cop as he digs out and reads a series of letters written to Celeste by an unknown author, and the movie flashes back to the incidents they describe...
Eric Price and Asia Carrera, an "alternative lifestyle" newly-wed couple, pick Celeste up for a rollicking threesome. They soon get more than they bargained for, though, when the little troublemaker begins playing one against the other, manipulating them as she does all her lovers (providing lots of prime suspects).
While the movie is technically up to P.T.'s usual high standards, the story is lacking. The problem is that by the time we find out "whodunnit" we don't really care, because none of the characters in the movie are sympathetic enough to hold our interest.
Of the seven sex scenes, the best two are Celeste's threesome with Rocco Siffredi and Mark Davis, and the initial threesome with her, Carrera and Price.
Celeste is, as always, ravishing, and her four scenes make it worth recommending to her fans. The attractive cover should help you market it to this demographic.


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Resident Evil 6 / DLC: Predator Mode [G+R]
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Offline: 0 (0:gsicon:)
Online: 5 (125:gsicon:)
Approximate time for 125:gsicon:: 1+ Hour(s)
Glitchy achievements: None
Unobtainable achievements: None
Extra equipment needed?: None
Available for two to six players, in Predator Mode, one player takes on the role of the Ustanak, the fearsome B.O.W. that stalks Jake Muller throughout his campaign, and tries to eliminate the human players. The humans' task: stop the deadly B.O.W. in its tracks, or at least survive until the end of the session.
Step One: Invincible + Held Captive
These two achievements can be done in the same match. You will only need one other player to get them done. Use the map, 'Steel Beast' as the Ustanak spawns directly in front of the human player(s).
Step Two: Not Without A Fight + Easy Pickings
Again, you will only need one other player for these two achievements. You will obtain 'Not Without A Fight' as you are working on the previous two achievements. Once 'Now Without A Fight' is complete, simply kill your enemy partner as the Ustanak to obtain 'Easy Pickings.'
Step Three: One Is Never Enough
This achievement will be quite time consuming when compared to the rest, but it should not take more than 20 minutes if you have two other players with you. As Ustanak, just grab 50 players. Refer below for an extremely easy and time-efficient method.
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Defeat Ustanak 20 times.
This is best done with only one other player. Load the 'Steel Beast' map, as both the human players and Ustanak will spawn right next to each other on the catwalks beneath the bridge.
Choose any character that has a shotgun or magnum (preferably Leon or Agent) and simply kill the Ustanak for the match to end. Allow your partner to do the same during the next match. Repeat this process until you both get the achievement.
Note: While using this method, the player who kills Ustanak will also unlock Invincible and Held Captive in the process.
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Defeat Ustanak without anyone on your team being captured.
Again, this can be done with only one other player. Load up 'Steel Beast' and simply kill the player who is controlling Ustanak. The match will end immediately and the achievement will unlock.
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Eliminate all players as Ustanak in less than a minute.
Start a match on 'Steel Beast' with one other player. As Ustanak, all you must do is kill the single enemy player by grabbing them or running into them until their health depletes and they die. The achievement will unlock as soon as the enemy player dies.
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As Ustanak, capture a total of 50 humans.
This achievement is best done with 2 other players. 'Steel Beast' is your best choice as it's the smallest map for this mode. When it is your turn to play as the Ustanak, simply grab one of the enemy players. The second enemy player should be standing behind the Ustanak, ready to release their partner from the Ustanak's grasp. Continue to grab the same player, as the other player continues to free their partner.
Note: You should be able to get 15+ grabs in a single round.
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Defeat Ustanak with only one Agent remaining.
With only one other player, load up 'Steel Beast' and simply kill Ustanak. Since you are the only player on your team, the game will read that you are the only one left alive. The achievement will unlock as soon as the match ends.
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