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Literature & the arts
Literature and the arts play a vital role in the culture and traditions of New England. Western Massachusetts in particular has had a rich history of fostering writers and poets, musicians, dancers, and actors. The Department of Special Collections and University Archives seeks to document not only the lives and work of writers and performers in our region, but the creative and artistic process; showing not just the inspiration, but the perspiration as well.
Significant collections
- Poetry
- SCUA houses significant collections for the poets Robert Francis, Madeleine de Frees, and Anne Halley, as well as small collections for William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. The records of the Massachusetts Review are an important literary resource.
- Prose writing
- Collections of note include the papers of writers William J. Lederer (author of The Ugly American, Nation of Sheep, and Their Own Worst Enemy), William Manchester (The Death of a President and American Caesar), Mary Doyle Curran (The Parish and the Hill).
- Journalism
- Journalists associated with traditional print and new media, including an important collection for the Liberation News Service, a media service for the alternative press, and the Social Change Periodicals Collection, which includes alternative and radical small press publications. The papers of Sidney Topol provide insight into the technical development of cable television.
- Literary criticism and linguistics
- The papers of literary scholars associated with the University; records of the Massachusetts Review.
- Performing arts
- The vibrant performing arts community in western Massachusetts is well represented in SCUA through groups ranging from the Arcadia Players Baroque music ensemble to theater troupes such as Double Edge Theater, the Valley Light Opera, and the New World Theater. Among the most significant national collections are the Roberta Uno Asian Women Playwrights Collection and the papers of African American expatriate actor and director Gordon Heath, while the James Ellis Theatre Collection includes nearly 8,000 printed volumes on the English and American stage, 1750-1915, along with numerous broadsides, graphics, and some manuscript materials. Musical collections include the papers of Philip Bezanson and Charles Bestor, the score collection of Julian Olevsky, and the Katanka Fraser Political Music Collection.
Within its holdings, SCUA houses collections of the published works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Francis, Anne Halley, William J. Lederer, William Manchester, Thomas Mann, William Morris, Wallace Stevens, and William Butler Yeats, as well as the personal poetry libraries of Halley, Francis, and Stevens. The department also has an extensive collection of Science Fiction magazine fiction and Scottish literature.
Massachusetts Review
Massachusetts Review Records, 1958-2006.
Call no.: MS 555
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs. Co-founded by Jules Chametzky and Sidney Kaplan in 1959 to promote eclectic, nontraditional, and underrepresented literary and intellectual talent, the Review has been an important venue for African American, Native American, and feminist writers and poets, mixing new and established authors.
The records of the Massachusetts Review document the history and operations of the magazine from its founding to the present, including general correspondence and nearly complete editorial files for published works. The collection also includes a small number of audio recordings of MR2, a radio show hosted by Review editor David Lenson with interviews of writers, artists, and cultural critics.
- Criticism--20th century--Periodicals
- Literature--20th century--Periodicals
- Poetry--20th century--Periodicals
- Abramson, Doris E
- Chametzky, Jules
- Massachusetts Review
Mungo, Raymond, 1946-
Raymond Mungo Papers, 1966-2008.
Call no.: MS 659
Born in a "howling blizzard" in February 1946, Raymond Mungo became one of the most evocative writers of the 1960s counterculture. Through more than fifteen books and hundreds of articles, Mungo has brought a wry sense of humor and radical sensibility to explorations of the minds and experiences of the generation that came of age against a backdrop of the struggles for civil rights and economic justice, of student revolts, Black Power, resistance to war, and experimentation in communal living.
Consisting of the original typescripts and manuscripts of ten of Raymond Mungo's books, along with corrected and uncorrected galleys and a small number of letters from publishers. Among the other materials in the collection are thirteen photographs of Mungo taken by Clif Garboden and Peter Simon during and immediately after his undergraduate years at Boston University; a DVD containing motion pictures of life at Packer Corners in 1969 and 1977; and an irate letter from a writer regarding the status of poems he had submitted to Liberation News Service.
- Communal living--Massachusetts
- Communal living--Vermont
- Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.)
- Montague Farm Community (Mass.)
- Nineteen Sixties
- Packer Corners Community (Vt.)
- Porche, Verandah
- Garboden, Clif
- Mungo, Raymond, 1946-
- Simon, Peter, 1947-
Types of material
- Photographs
New WORLD Theater
New WORLD Theater Records, 1979-2010.
Call no.: RG 025/F2/N4
New WORLD Theater was founded at UMass Amherst in 1979 by Roberta Uno with the mission of presenting innovative works of theater by contemporary artists of color, with the goal of fostering creative communities, promoting cultural equity, and embracing diverse cultural backgrounds, social engagement, and a commitment to justice. For more than thirty years New WORLD Theater produced many dozens of plays and other dramatic works representing new voices in the theater, as well as plays from the traditional multicultural repertory, and they have supported the arts through performance residencies, conferences and colloquia, and a variety of initiatives aimed at the diverse communities they serve, youth, and theater professionals. New WORLD Theater has contributed significantly to national conversations on cultural equity. After more than three decades of acclaim and recognition, New WORLD Theater was closed by UMass Amherst in summer 2010.
The bulk of the New WORLD Theater collection consists of administrative records documenting the day-to-day activities of the theater, however, it also contains an extensive and exceptionally rich archive of taped interviews, conferences, and theatrical productions. Taken together, the audiovisual material traces the history of New WORLD through the words and performances of artists who both contributed to and benefited from the theater.
- African Americans--Drama
- American drama--Minority authors
- Asian Americans--Drama
- Ethnic groups--United States--Drama
- Hispanic Americans--Drama
- Minorities--United States--Drama
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- New WORLD Theater
- Page, Priscilla
- Uno, Roberta, 1956-
Types of material
- Audiovisual materials
- Sound recordings
Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858
Juan Mauricio Rugendas Letters, 1835-1845.
Call no.: MS 271
Born in Germany as Johann Moritz Rugendas, Juan Rugendas was a painter who spent much of his adult life working and traveling in South America. The collection includes a total of 4 poems and 192 personal letters received by Rugendas from four friends during the years 1835 to 1845. Rugendas received the bulk of these letters while living in Valparaíso, Chile, where he found political asylum, and in Lima, Peru from 1842 to 1844.
- Argentina--Description and travel
- Argentina--Social life and customs--19th century
- Painters--South America
- Bustamante, José Javier y Tomás
- Espinosa, Juan, 1804-1871
- Godoy, Juan Gualberto, 1793-1864
- Oro, Domingo de, 1800-1879
- Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858
Types of material
- Letters (Correspondence)
- Poems
Stonewall Center
Stonewall Center Records, 1962-2005.
Call no.: RG 030/2/6
Following a series of homophobic incidents on the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1985, the Program for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns was established as an administrative center in the Office of Student Affairs. Later renamed after the notorious riots in New York, the Stonewall Center has provided the campus and surrounding community with cultural and educational programming through speakers, films, video and book library, Speakers Bureau on LGBTQ issues, referrals and support, advocacy and community outreach.
The records of the Stonewall Center include documentation of day to day operations, including phone logs, memos, and budget information, as well as posters and press releases for events, publications, campus and external reports, training manuals, surveys, newspaper clippings, and ephemera such as banners, tee-shirts, and buttons.
- Gay college students--Massachusetts
- Gays--Services for
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Students
- University of Massachusetts Amherst. Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns
- Stonewall Center
- Yeskel, Felice
Swados, Harvey, 1920-1972
Harvey Swados Papers, 1933-1983.
Call no.: MS 218
The author and social critic Harvey Swados (1920-1972) was a graduate of the University of Michigan who embarked on a literary life after service in the merchant Marine during the Second World War. His first novel, Out Went the Candle (1955), introduced the themes to which Swados would return throughout his career, the alienation of factory workers and the experience of the working class in industrial America. His other works include a widely read collection of stories set in an auto plant, On the Line, the novels False Coin (1959), Standing Fast (1970), and Celebration (1975), and a noted collection of essays A Radical's America (1962). His essay for Esquire magazine, "Why Resign from the Human Race?," is often cited as inspiring the formation of the Peace Corps.
The Swados collection includes journals, notes, typewritten drafts of novels and short stories, galley proofs, clippings, and correspondence concerning writings; letters from family, publishers, literary agents, colleagues, friends, and readers, including Richard Hofstadter, Saul Bellow, James Thomas Farrell, Herbert Gold, Irving Howe, Bernard Malamud, and Charles Wright Mills; letters from Swados, especially to family, friends, and editors; book reviews; notes, background material, and drafts of speeches and lectures; financial records; biographical and autobiographical sketches; bibliographies.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography
- Jewish authors--United States--Biography
- National Book Awards--History--20th century
- Socialists--United States--Biography
- Bellow, Saul
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979
- Gold, Herbert, 1924-
- Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970
- Howe, Irving
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962
- Swados, Harvey, 1920-1972
Tillis, Frederick, 1930-
Frederick Tillis Papers, 1970-2010.
Call no.: FS 156
A composer, performer, poet, educator, and arts administrator, Fred Tillis was one of the major influences on the cultural life at UMass Amherst for forty years. Born in Galveston, Texas, in 1930, Tillis began playing jazz trumpet and saxophone even before his teens. A product of segregated schools, he graduated from Wiley College at the age of 19, and received his MA and PhD in music at the University of Iowa. As a performer and composer of unusual breadth, his work spans both the jazz and European traditions, and he has written for piano and voice, orchestra, choral pieces, chamber music, and in the African American spiritual tradition, drawing upon a wide range of cultural references. After teaching at Wiley, Grambling, and Kentucky State in the 1960s, Tillis was recruited to UMass in 1970 by his former adviser at Iowa, Philip Bezanson, to teach music composition and theory. Earning promotion to Professor in 1973, Tillis was appointed Director of the Fine Arts Center in 1978, helping to jump start some of the most successful arts initiatives the university has seen, including the the Afro American Music and Jazz program, the New World Theater, Augusta Savage Gallery, Asian Arts and Culture Program, and Jazz in July. Upon retirement from UMass in 1997, he was appointed Emeritus Director of the Fine Arts and remains active as a musician and poet.
The Tillis papers document an extraordinary career in the arts, focused on Fred Tillis's work as a composer. Consisting primarily of musical scores along with an assortment of professional correspondence relating to his publishing and miscellaneous notes, the collection offers insight into the evolution of Tillis's musical vision from the 1970s into the new millennium.
- African American composers
- African American musicians
- Fine Arts Center (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Jazz
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Music and Dance
- Tillis, Frederick, 1930-
Types of material
- Scores
Vega, Carlos
Carlos Vega Collection, ca.1966-1995.
Call no.: MS 800
An Ecuadorian-born community activist, Carlos Vega moved to Holyoke, Massachusetts, with his family in 1955. Settling in the working-class "Flats" neighborhood at a time when many of Holyoke's factories were relocating to the southern United States or Asia, the Vegas were one of the few Spanish-speaking families in the city, but when Carlos began to work on a local tobacco farm at the age of 14, he encountered the new influx of migrants from Puerto Rico who had been lured to the Connecticut Valley as agricultural laborers by the Department of Labor. With the Puerto Rican economy declining in the 1960s, many of these farm workers settled permanently in Springfield and Holyoke, but they soon discovered that the declining economy there combined with racism and urban decay blocked their hopes for upward mobility. Radicalized by the anti-colonial, anti-war, and Civil Rights movements of the late 1960s, Vega emerged as an important community organizer in the 1970s, working with Fair Share, New Unity, Urban Ministry, and other progressive organizations. With a backdrop of riots, arson, and racial tension, these organizations focused on issues relevant to the Puerto Rican community, particularly voter education and registration, fair housing, and education. In 1982, Vega helped found Nueva Esperanza, a non-profit community development organization whose mission was to restore and maintain blighted buildings in South Holyoke. He worked with Nueva Esperanza for over 30 years, continuing until 2010 after a brain cancer diagnosis in 1995. He survived until April 2012.
The materials in this collection reflect Vega's interests in left wing movements in Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, South America and Africa from the 1960s through 1980s and include leaflets, pamphlets, books, and newsletters. The approximately 300 items offer sometimes scarce documentation of internationalist liberation movements such as the PAIGC in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, the Tupamaros in Uruguay, and the EFLNA in Eritrea. Of particular note is a small collection documenting Vega's participation in the 1974 Venceremos Brigade and a collection of clippings, newsletters, notes, fliers, conference material, and newspapers from various groups such as New England Action Research, Friends of the Filipino People, The Latin American Student Association, and the Ethiopian Students Union of North America. Some printed materials are cataloged and housed with the rare books collection.
- Central America--Foreign relations--United States
- Civil Rights movements--Africa
- Civil Rights movements--Central America
- Civil Rights movements--Chile
- Civil Rights movements--United States
- Civil Rights movements-Asia
- Civil Rights movements-Caribbean
- Latin America--Periodicals
- Nicaragua--History--1979-1990
- Radicalism--United States
- Revolutionary literature
- Socialism
- United States--Foreign relations--Central America
- Venceremos Brigade
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives and the Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst co-sponsor an annual colloquium to commemorate W.E.B. Du Bois. Timed to coincide with the anniversary of his birth (February 23), the departments invite a distinguished Speaker to discuss Dr. Du Bois' life, work, and legacy.
- Performer: Brian Richardson and Pulse Ensemble Theatre
- Title: "A Man for All Times: W.E.B. Du Bois"
This year's Du Bois Birthday Celebration features performances of "A Man for All Times: W.E.B. Du Bois," performed by the Pulse Ensemble Theatre. The one-hour one-man show of the 95-year-long life of W.E.B. Du Bois unfolds in a gripping performance by Brian Richardson, and a moving script by writer/director Alexa Kelly. Learn more about Great Barrington's native son, civil rights leader, and visionary of equality and democracy at this free performance by Pulse Theatre Ensemble.
Additional free performances will be held on Saturday, February 22, 7:00 p.m., at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and on Sunday, February 23, 10:00 a.m., at St. John's Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Speaker: Arthur McFarlane II
- Title: "The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois and Its Relevance to Today
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McFarlane, the great-grandson of W.E.B. Du Bois, will discuss the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist, co-founder of the NAACP, and the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University.
- Speaker: Derrick Alridge
- Title: "Ideas Have Consequences: The Radical Pedagogy of W.E.B. Du Bois"
- Professor in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Derrick Alridge is author of The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History, lead editor of Message in the Music: Hip Hop, History, and Pedagogy, and Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of the Study of African American Life and History. He is currently completing an intellectual history of Hip Hop as a social movement called The Hip Hop Mind: An Intellectual History of the Social Consciousness of a Generation (University of Wisconsin Press) and is conducting research for a book on the role of education in the civil rights movement.
An educational and intellectual historian, Alridge is associate editor of the Journal of African American History and served as Director of the Institute for African American Studies. Alridge's areas of scholarship include the history of African America education, African American intellectual history and the history of ideas, and civil rights studies. His work has been published in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Negro Education, and teh History of Education Quarterly, among others.
- Speaker: Bettina Aptheker
- Title: "W.E.B. Du Bois: Personal Stories/Political Reflections"
- Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and History
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Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught for more than 30 years. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006). It contains many stories of her early friendship with W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois. Other major books include, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1976; 2nd edition, 1999); Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982) and Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989). She is the biographer of Shirley Graham Du Bois for Notable American Women, and is currently writing a critical essay on Graham Du Bois' creative career as an opera composer, playwright, biographer, and novelist. She is also at work on a major research project: "Queering the History of the American Left: 1940s-1980s."
- Speaker: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Title: "The Many Lives of W.E.B. Du Bois in the New From Slavery to Freedom"
- Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham has been chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard since 2006. She also served as Acting-Director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute in the Spring 2008. A prolific author, she is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the African American National Biography (2008)—a multivolume-reference work that presents African American history through the lives of people, and she and Gates also co-edited African American Lives (2004), which served as the forerunner to the AANB. Professor Higginbotham was the editor-in-chief of The Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001) with general editors Darlene Clark Hine, and Leon Litwack. She also co-edited History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates and Contestations (1997).
Professor Higginbotham is the author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880-1920 (1993), which won numerous book prizes, most notably from the American Historical Association, the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Black Women Historians, and the Association for Research on Non-Profit and Voluntary Organizations. Righteous Discontent was also included among the New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of the Year in 1993 and 1994.
- Speaker: Howard Dodson
- Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Public Library -
A scholar, historian, educator, curator, consultant, and lecturer, Howard Dodson, has committed his professional life to the retrieval, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of the history and culture of African and African American peoples.
Since 1984, Dodson has served as chief of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the world's leading and most prestigious repository for materials and artifacts on black cultural life. Under Dodson's leadership, the Schomburg Center has developed into the world's most comprehensive public research library devoted exclusively to documenting and interpreting African diasporan and African history and culture.
Dodson's books include Becoming American: The African American Journey (Sterling Publishing, Inc., 2009), In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience (National Geographic Press, 2004), Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture (National Geographic Press, 2002), and The Black New Yorkers: Four Hundred Years of African American History (Wiley, 2000).
- Speaker: Arnold Rampersad
- Department of English, Stanford University
A distinguished biographer and literary critic, Arnold Rampersad is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University. A scholar of race and American literature and the Harlem Renaissance, Rampersad has written books on W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and most recently, Ralph Ellison. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was a 1991 recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant." He is a recipient of fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Professor Rampersad has recently published Ralph Ellison, a biography of the novelist (1914-1994). His other books include The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois (1976); The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols., 1986, 1988); Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993), co-authored with Arthur Ashe; and Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997). In addition, he has edited several volumes including Collected Poems of Langston Hughes; the Library of America edition of works by Richard Wright, with revised individual editions of Native Son and Black Boy; and (as co-editor with Deborah McDowell) Slavery and the Literary Imagination. He was also co-editor, with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, of the Race and American Culture book series published by Oxford University Press. His teaching covers such areas as nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; American autobiography; race and American literature; and African-American literature.
- Speaker:James Turner
- Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
- Poster (pdf)
- Speaker: Clayborne Carson
- Stanford University, editor, Papers of Martin Luther King
- Press release (pdf)
- Speaker: Robert Hill
- UCLA, editor, Papers of Marcus Garvey
- Press release (Word file)
- Speaker: John H. Bracey
- Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst
- Panelists:
- Horace Clarence Boyer
- Music, UMass Amherst
- Esther Terry
- Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst
- Phil Zuckerman, "Du Bois, Religion, and The Souls of Black Folk"
- Sociology, Pitzer College
- David Blight, "A Poet's Sense of the Past: The Souls of Black Folk as History"
- History, Yale University
- Ernest Allen, "The Education of Black Folk: The Educational Philosophies of W.E.B. Du Bois"
- Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst
- Gerald Friedman, "Reconstructing the Color Line: The New Economics of Race in the Post-bellum South"
- Economics, UMass Amherst
- Panelists:
- Esther Cooper Jackson
- Co-founder, Freedomways
- James Jackson
- Editor, Daily Worker
- Abbott Simon
- Executive director, Peace Information Center and co-defendant with Dr. Du Bois
- Speaker: David Levering Lewis
- History, Rutgers University
- Speaker: Ruth Simmons
- President, Smith College
- Speaker: Ernest Allen
- Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst
- Speaker: Randolph W. Bromery
- President, Springfield College and former Chancellor, UMass Amherst
- Speaker: David Levering Lewis
- History, Rutgers University
- Panelists:
- David Du Bois
- William Strickland
- Michael Thelwell
- Speaker: Herbert Aptheker
- Editor, Complete Published Works of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Listen to a recording of Aptheker's lecture.


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To celebrate the opening of the Visions of the Universe traveling exhibit, come meet Galileo Galilei himself to hear about the tumultuous times of the Scientific Revolution, and about the man who challenged accepted scientific beliefs and fundamentally altered our understanding of our place in the cosmos.
Galileo will be portrayed by returning Chautauqua performer Fred Krebs. Mr. Krebs has been an instructor in social sciences and humanities for 42 years at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and has been an active Chautauqua speaker with over 15 different historical characterizations performed in 23 states. In 1997, he received the Kansas Humanities Council's first Chairs Human(i)ties Award for "making connections between ideas and the people of Kansas for over 25 years."
Following the performance, the public is invited for refreshments and tours of the Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery traveling exhibit.
Kim Zoldak will present an introduction to telescopes, including their history and use. Come learn about the different kinds of telescopes, sky maps and coordinates, and free online tools for beginning astronomy hobbyists.
Kim Zoldak is a PhD student in the Space and Planetary Science program working on research in Astrophysics. She is also a NASA Space Science Student Ambassador and holds outreach events and star parties across NW Arkansas. She teaches undergraduate Astronomy Labs at the U of A.
What's next for American manned spaceflight? Will Bryan will deliver a public presentation about the future of manned space exploration and answer questions from the public.
Will Bryan is a graduate student at the University of Arkansas' Center for Space and Planetary Sciences and a passionate advocate for space exploration. He grew up with NASA and continues to proudly believe in and work for a deeper understanding of the universe.
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Long time Stoolies know that the only thing I love more than gambling, great asses and pizza is rope swing mishaps. Unfortunately I feel like it's been 2 years since we got a new one. Well today my prayers have been answered as we finally got a new challenger and it's a doozy. I love the sound of the face smashing into sand and the gratuitous scream before impact. But having said that I'm still choosing #5. Yeah I know all the others were more violent but I don't care. #5 wins on sheer ineptitude. I mean to say this lady never had a chance would be one of the great understatements of our generation. Like she literally never even got one foot of the ground. That's almost impossible when doing a rope swing. I mean even in the worst case rope swing scenario, your feet should be in the air for a minimum of 2 seconds. But not this lady. It was a disaster from the word go. And unfortunately I don't think it's the first time that this has happened to her. Because judging from the reaction of the dude with no shirt on he acts like he sees this type of shit on a daily basis.


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In another post, I mentioned taking a student and his fiancé shooting and that went well and they had a great time. They wanted to buy the HS2000 handgun I let them shoot. So, I sold it to them, and that leaves me with a XD bitone with SA trigger job, an XD, and a Tactical, but anyway, I took some of the money and ordered a leather Alessi CQC/S easy on/easy off, OWB holster. It's either for my USP or Sig 229R DAK; it seems I'll have about 12 weeks to decide.
I got tactical black instead of the beautiful brown shown in the attached pic. I guess tactical and black is redundant nowadays.
So what do you think - my mind is going first and I'm reverting back to my childhood when I thought holsters had to be leather?
Oh, you might notice there's some kind of strange looking gun shown in the holster and it's cocked!!! Must be somethin' new, huh?


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Norwalk is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 105,549 at the 2010 census, up from 103,298 at the 2000 census, making it the 58th most populous city in California and the 255th nationally. Founded in the late 19th century, Norwalk was incorporated in as a city in 1957. It is located 17 mi southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and 12 mi northwest of Garden Grove. Norwalk operates under a Council/Manager form of government, established by the Charter of the City of Norwalk which was drafted in 1957. The five-member City Council acts as the City's chief policy-making body. Every two years, Councilmembers are elected by the citizens of Norwalk to serve four-year, overlapping terms. Councilmembers are not limited to the number of terms they may serve. The Mayor is selected by the Council and serves a one-year term. Norwalk is a member of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments. Norwalk's sister cities are Hermosillo, Sonora and Fresnillo, Zacatecas in Mexico. [more on Wikipedia]


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ACE awards & logo features
March 5, 2009Great news! We won an ACE of distinction for the Sharon Litchfield Photography logo. We'd like to thank Sharon for collaborating with us! I'd also like to congratulate Kristin because she is the creator of this identity.
I have some other logo related news to share:
The Van Horn Welding logo will be included in an upcoming logo lounge book! Look for it in the Master Library Series, Initials and Crest book.
Flickrdesign featured a selection of our logos. Most of these ones were done by Dana, so the title of the feature is a little misleading!
Canadian Design Resource featured the Stampede Casino logo.
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2012 Georgia Mountain Fall Festival
- October 9, 2012
Coming up from October 12 – 21, 2012 is the Georgia Mountain Fall Festival at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiawassee, Georgia. What better time to have a festival in the mountains of north Georgia than the fall. Enjoying the beautiful display of fall colors and the crisp mountain air is just the beginning of a good time. The festival will be 10 days of great arts and crafts, a flower show, music shows, the annual fiddler's convention, helicopter rides, and Fearless Flores Thrill Shows. Below is the schedule of events.
Daily Crafts and Exhibits will be open from 10 AM to 8 PM every day but Sundays. Sunday hours are 10 AM to 6 PM. The Fearless Flores Thrill show can be seen 2 times each weekday and 3 times on the weekends. Helicopter rides will be given by Blue Ridge Helicopters on October 17, 18, and 19.
Music Shows
October 12
2 PM – Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
3 PM & 6:30 PM – Aaron Tippin
8 PM – Country Music Show (open to anyone who would like to perform)
October 13
2 PM – Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
3 PM & 7 PM – Bellamy Brothers
8 PM – Jim Wood and the Georgia Mountain Fair Staff Band with a variety of single acts chosen from the Friday night show.
October 14
11 AM – Interfaith Worship Service – Crystal River
2 PM – Gospel Show – The Isaacs, Crystal River, and Nelons
October 15
2 PM & 7 PM – The Grascals, Wyatt Espalin and Trees Leave
October 16
2 PM & 7 PM – John Conlee, Brantley
October 17
2 PM & 7 PM – Connie Smith, Steven Phillips and Midnight Express
October 18
2 PM & 7 PM – Ronnie McDowell, Mike Fuller
October 19
2 PM – special guest Quebe Sisters Band
5:30 PM – Quebe Sisters Band
7 PM - Fiddlers Convention – Featuring New EMCEE, Barry Palmer with Beginning Fiddler, Harmonica, Buck Dancing, Dulcimer, Dobro and Old Time Banjo. Winners in each category will be designated official Georgia State Champions.
October 20
10:30 AM – Fiddlers Convention – Competition includes Senior Fiddler, Junior Fiddler, Bluegrass Band, Finger Style Guitar, Flat Pick Guitar, Banjo, and Mandolin.
7 PM – Finalists Competition – Featuring New EMCEE, Barry Palmer
October 21
11 AM – Interfaith Worship Service – Palmetto State Quartet
2 PM – The Florida Boys, Palmetto State Quartet, The Talleys
Tickets are: Gates: $5.00 (Music Shows Not Included) Children Under 10 Free Gate Admission.
Music Shows October 12th, 13th & 16th: $10.00, Music Shows October 14th, 15th, 17th – 21st: $5.00
Parking: $2.00 with a free trolley ride from the parking lot to the gate
For more information, call 706-896-4191.
Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds1311 Music Hall Road
Hiawassee, GA
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Young Harris Art Fest 2012
- August 6, 2012
The Young Harris Art Fest will take place at Mayors Park in Young Harris, Georgia on August 25th and 26th, 2012. The festival will be open Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM and Sunday 10 AM to 4 PM. Over 70 juried arts and crafts vendors will be displaying their hand made work. Some of the work includes pottery, fused glass, fine art, wood turning, fabric art, jewelry, wood working, photography, soaps and candles. This is a great outdoor show with free parking and free admission so come out and enjoy this fine weekend in the North Georgia mountains. For more information, call 706-897-6179.
Mayors Park6321 US Highway 76 West
Young Harris, GA
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Moonshine Cruiz-In
- August 1, 2012
The Georgia Mountain Moonshine Cruiz-In begins on August 9, 2012 at 9 AM with a 60 mile Mountain Cruise through the beautiful mountains of North Georgia starting at the Ridges Resort in Hiawassee, Georgia to Anna Ruby Falls, continuing on to Hiawassee's new wine vineyard, then ending back into downtown Hiawassee for a late lunch. Visiting Anna Ruby Falls will cost $3 unless you have a senior pass, then it is free!
The Cruiz In will continue through August 11 in downtown Hiawasse, the Ridges Resort and at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds with plenty of live music along with cars, cars, and more cars! There will be a huge parade with a street dance in downtown Hiawassee on Friday night starting at 7 PM. You will be able to see a '68 Impala that was featured on the TV show "Muscle Car" as well as Larry Price's "The Black Phantom", the only person ever to outrun the legendary lawman Buford Pusser of Walking Tall fame. Meet special guests, legendary drag racing driver Bobby Umsted and drag racer and organizer for Cars for Kids Southern Style Larry Price, as well as Dennis Gage and Linda Vaughn. There will be folk art exhibits, mountain crafts, a pioneer village, a real moonshine still and much more. For more information, call 662-587-9572. It is sure to be a great weekend!
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The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare
- August 1, 2012
The Byron Herbert Reece Farm and Heritage Center in Blairsville, Georgia along with the Brasstown Repertory Theater Company presents "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" on August 2, 3, 9, 10, and 11, 2012. This play will hilariously cover ALL of Shakespeare's plays in just 90 minutes. The way they will be presented will leave you busting a gut in laughter. This is recommended for mature audiences.
Showtimes will be at 7 PM. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $13 for members of the Byron Herbert Reece Society. Take advantage of your time by arriving early to tour the beautiful grounds of the Byron Herbert Reece Farm and Heritage Center. The farm admission will be discounted $1.00 from 5 PM to 6 PM each evening of the play. For more information, call 706-745-2034.
Byron Herbert Reece Farm and Heritage Center8552 Gainesville Hwy.
Blairsville, GA
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2012 Georgia Mountain Fair
- July 13, 2012
It's that time again for the Georgia Mountain Fair at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiawassee, Georgia. The fair will be in town from July 20 – 29, 2012. See the many artisans diplaying their arts and crafts. The crafters are selected by a special committee with many years of festival experience and patrons should expect lots of one of a kind handmade works of art. The crafts and exhibits will be open daily Monday – Thursday 10 AM to 8 PM, Friday 10 AM to 9 PM, Saturday 9 AM to 9 PM, and Sunday 10 AM to 6 PM.
Carnival rides will be open daily, Monday through Friday opening at 4 PM, Saturday opening at 12 Noon, and Sunday opening at 1 PM.
Gates: $5.00 (Music Shows Not Included) *Children Under 10 Free Gate Admission * Music Shows: $10.00 (Must Pay Gate Fees) Parking: $2.00
Fair Schedule
Friday, July 20
Music Show – 2 PM and 8 PM
Lee Greenwood
Tommy Townsend and Waymore's Outlaws (Former members of Waylon Jennings Band)
Saturday, July 21
Georgia Mountain Fair Parade – 11 AM
Music Show – 2 PM and 8 PM
Marty Stuart
Leipers Fork
Sunday, July 22
Interfaith Worship Service – 11 AM
Gospel Music Show – 2 PM
The McKamey's
The Primitives
The Servers
Monday, July 23
Music Show – 1 PM and 7 PM
Janie Fricke with special guest The Roys
Miss Georgia Mountain Fair – 8 PM
Tuesday, July 24
Photo Exhibit – 10 AM
Music Show – 2 PM and 8 PM
Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius
Cooking Contest Ingles Supermarket & Gluten-Free Baking Contest
Georgia Mountain Fair Youth Baking Contest
Bring Dishes between 4:00 PM & 4:30 PM
Judging begins at 4:30 PM
Winners will be announced at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, July 25
Music Show – 2 PM and 8 PM
Mike Snider
The Barker Brothers
Thursday, July 26
Bluegrass Day – 2 PM and 8 PM
Don Rigsby & Midnight Call
Tim Graves, Daryl Mosley & Farm County
The Cleverlys
Cooking Contest
Savory Family Favorites
Bring Dishes between 4:00 PM & 4:30 PM
Judging begins at 4:30 PM
Winners will be announced at 6:00 PM
Friday, July 27
Music Show – 2 PM
Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
Music Show – 3 PM and 6:30 PM
Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
Single Acts – 8 PM
Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
Saturday, July 28
Music Show – 2 PM
Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
Music Show – 3 PM and 7 PM
Crystal Gayle
Music Show – 8 PM
Jim Wood and The Georgia Mountain Fair Band
Jim's Jam – 10 PM
After Hours Dance to Southern Rock, 50′s, Beach, Blues
Sunday, July 29
Music Show – 11 AM
Lefevere Quartet
Music Show – 2 PM
Lefevere Quartet
Chuck Wagon Gang
Crist Family
For more information call 706-896-4191.
Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds1311 Music Hall Road
Hiawassee, GA
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Vince Gill in Concert
- June 15, 2012
The legendary, award winning country artist, Vince Gill, is coming to the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiawassee, Georgia on June 23, 2012 at 7 PM.
Vince Gill began his musical career playing bluegrass music. He joined the country-rock band, Pure Prairie League in 1979 and recorded 3 albums with them. In 1983 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his dream as a country music artist. His talent led him to the top where he continues to soar with many albums and even more awards. He is a member of The Grand Old Opry, has sold over 26 million albums, has earned 18 CMA awards, including Entertainer of the Year, 20 Grammy awards, has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and his career is far from over!
Tickets are $45. Call 706-896-4191 for information or order your tickets online at www.georgiamountaingairgrounds.com.
Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds1311 Music Hall Road
Hiawassee, Georgia
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2nd Annual FFA Rodeo
- June 15, 2012
The Towns County FFA is hosting the 2nd annual FFA Rodeo in Young Harris, Georgia on June 15 and 16, 2012. The entertainment starts at 7 PM with the music of Hiawassee's own Steven Phillips and Midnight Express and a special appearance will be made by "Elvis" better known as Roy Perren, the Towns County High School Principal. The rodeo starts at 8 PM with bulls, barrels, broncs, and more! There will be food vendors, t-shirts, and a silent auction, lots of fun for the whole family.
The venue for this sporting event is The Stables at Brasstown Valley Resort, on Highway 76 near Young Harris College, across from the new Blue Ridge Mountains EMC. The rodeo is being produced by the Hedricks Rodeo Company. Tickets are $10 for adults, under 5 is free. For more information, call 706-379-4606.
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i think one of the reasons why those gold plated servos are more desirable is that they would be much more tolerant to less than perfect setup? i would really, really, really love to put savox 1250 in my edge (and save 7245 for laser or mxs) but seing as they seemed just enough for a 57", im kinda scared...
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I've thought about creating a pdf/video tutorial of using the hitec programmer for the ultimate setup. However, there is always a point of diminnishing returns, and as time consuming as the process is, and the number of different possible forks in the road as there are, creating a general RC audience pdf/video tutorial is a *LOT* of work. Maybe sometime this summer.
Meanwhile, we should all be greatful for people like DocAustin, and many other rcgroup users, who do take the time to share their knowledge. |
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Others have reported, and it makes sense to me, that it's a good idea to setup those programmable servos that have the option to reduce power in the event of over current. Not all of the programmable servos have this feature, though. The 5245 do not if I remember correctly, but the 7245s do. Another thing you can do is set up your ailerons and rudder for symmetrical defelections for symmetrical throws. This probably makes the most sense on the ailerons and rudders. Doing this is complicated, however, by both the hitec software, and what they consider 0, versus what your radio considers 0. That issue aside, the easiest scenerio is when your control surface control horn hole for the control horn is perpindicular to the hinge line. In this case, set your 0 for the servo arm to be 90 degrees, and then you should be able to set your zero and end points even without a programmer. For this reason, I personally try to not install control surface control arms in until after I have CA'd the hinges. That way, I can trim the control surface control arms if necessary to try to get the holes over the hinge line. If for whatever reason that is not the case, what follows is speculative on my part, but I think DJMoose has said this is true somewhere if I remember correctly (I just haven't done the math to verify it). If the control surface control horn hole is not over the hinge line, that is, that the hinge to hole angle is not 90 degrees, adjust the zero of ther servo control arm to be the same angle. I suspect this is about right, but like I said, I haven't done the math to verify that it is always true. For example, there might be an angle offset based on the lengths of the control surface control horn hole to hinge line length, when that length differs from the servo arm hole in use to servo arm mounting screw length. I usually end up doing trial and error here in practice, and it is time consuming, frustrating, and one of the issues where the law of diminishing returns probably applies. There are a finite number of splines on the servo control arm, and this is where programming a new center at the servo can help. This is where some nice diagrams and a bit of time with some trig. will come in useful. But since the PWM for zero used by the hitec programmer probably differs from your radio (it does for Spektrum), this is also a time consuming process. This summer I plan to measure the PW of the hitec programmer zero, and compare it to various spektrum receivers, and see if there is any consistency and and a consistent offset error. Such a measurment, if it is consistent, will reduce some of the frustration. Similar measurments would be necessary with hitec, futuba, etc., receivers. It will be tough, as my rambling paragraph above alludes to. And, I think most people aren't so anal about the servo setup. I am, because I want to know that all of my bad flying is my fault |
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Tom what are you using in your 60" EXPs? Do they have anything close to the spec of the 7245's 89oz-in @ .11sec/60deg or the JR 3711HV's 86oz-in @ .13sec/60deg?
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Jennifer shows off her short hair cut in an artsy photo shoot for 'W' magazine's 'Movie Issue.' Wearing a retro, floral two piece, are you loving J-Law's messy pixie and overall look?
Jennifer Lawrence, 23, is on top of the world once again as she graces the new cover of W magazine, released on Jan. 7. She's wearing minimal makeup, with a pale pink gloss and black eyeliner. She looks adorable and sexy at the same time in a vintage outfit and heels.
Jennifer Lawrence On 'W' Movie Issue — Shows Off Short Pixie Cut On Cover
Inside the mag, Jennifer poses with messy hair in a white bathrobe. She looks so young and innocent! Her nails were done by celebrity manicurist Alicia Torello.
W's Movie Issue features six different covers — Jennifer joins Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong'o, Matthew McConaughey, and Oprah Winfrey.
Jennifer's Infamous Oscars Fall
Jennifer spoke about tripping up the stairs as she went to accept her Oscar in 2013:
"I was at the Oscars, waiting to hear if my name was called, and I kept thinking, Cakewalk, cakewalk, cakewalk. I thought, Why is 'cakewalk' stuck in my head? And then, as I started to walk up the stairs and the fabric from my dress tucked under my feet, I realized my stylist had told me, 'Kick, walk, kick, walk.' You are supposed to kick the dress out while you walk, and I totally forgot because I was thinking about cake! And that's why I fell."
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ZED451 Closes in Mizner Park; Cites Economy
Categories: Food News
The restaurant opened in 2008 with a contemporary American rodizio format and a fixed-price menu. Meats were brought to the table on skewers and carved tableside for diners who also could choose from the large Harvest Table of salads, soups and sides.
Changes to the menu last year, with the addition of ala carte menu items, a bar snack menu and lower prices on some items apparently couldn't help the restaurant fight growing competition in the area.
Chicago's ZED will remain open. A statement from the corporate offices reads, "Our ZED451 flagship location in downtown Chicago continues to thrive, which underscores the strength of the concept in urban areas," said ZED Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Carl. "ZED451 is an unconventional steakhouse that has proven very popular for group dining as well as its bar experience. Its style of service, ambiance and food is highly contemporary, if not revolutionary."
An attempt will be made to place the staff of ZED451 in other locations, perhaps Abe & Louie's, another of their restaurants. Foods remaining at the restaurant will be donated to the Boca Helping Hands food bank.
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Harry Potter Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources
WJC's Harry Potter marathon pays dividends
The man, the legend, Warwick Johnson Cadwell watched the entire series of Harry Potter films with his family over the Halloween holiday period. Mass sketching ensued, as you can see below.
Mike Mitchell re-skins Superman #6 with disturbing results
Illustrator Mike Mitchell, artist of the Tumblr-baiting Just Like Us series, has a new series on the go, re-skinning the classic strongman pose from the cover of Superman #6 with the wardrobe of other pop-culture icons. And the results are, to say the least, a little bit freaky. More below, and the full set so far can be seen here.
Wish This Was Real | Brian Kesinger's Steampunk Avengers
There have been other steampunk Avengers, but with the Hulk in suspenders and a bowler? I'd read a comic just about him.
Anyway, Brian Kesinger is awesome and you should check out his blog and DeviantArt page. He also does steampunk other things, like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Star Wars. But if steampunk's not your thing, his Hip Hop Boba Fett and Pooh vs. Voldemort are cool, too. I posted bunch of my favorites below.
Alan Moore's Antichrist is a lot like Harry Potter
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill is due out this week, and the U.K. newspaper The Independent zeroes in on what everyone will be talking about: The Antichrist has arrived, and he sounds an awful lot like Harry Potter:
Though the words "Harry Potter" are never mentioned, the allusions are unmistakable. One section features a magical train hidden between platforms at King's Cross station which leads to a magical school. The Antichrist character has a hidden scar and a mentor named Riddle. (Lord Voldemort, born Tom Riddle, is Harry Potter's arch enemy in the Potter series.) Characters resembling both Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also appear and, at one point, the Potter character kills someone with a lightning bolt from his flaccid penis.
So is Moore lining himself up with the religious fanatics who were burning the Harry Potter books in parking lots a few years ago? Of course not. Reviewer Laura Sneddon, who has actually read the book, says Moore is using the boy wizard to critique modern popular culture:
Giant robots come to Hogwarts
Neill Cameron is the creator of Mo-Bot High, a British graphic novel that he describes as a "giant robot high school comedy epic," so it seems natural that he would add giant robots to the Harry Potter stories. Actually, here's how it came about:
so aaaages ago I made a Funny Joke on twitter, announcing my delight at the news that I'd landed the assignment of producing graphic novel adaptations of all seven Harry Potter novels… but that I would of course be making some changes. This was just an excuse for me to make up lots of silly titles: Harry Potter and the Unusually Large Baby, Harry Potter and the Drunk Jellyfish, that sort of thing. Anyway, comics writer, journalist and tweeter par excellence Chris Sims chimed in with "Harry Potter and The Hell With It, They All Have Giant Robots Now." And lo, my mind was blown.
Cameron has worked up some nice character sketches of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the others. I burned out on the Harry Potter books on volume 3, but I have to say, I would totally read Cameron's graphic novel. Think about it, JK!
Lucy Knisley pays attention to Harry Potter
Lucy Knisley (Stop Paying Attention) has created a series of posters, each abridging one of the Harry Potter books. You can see the first four on her LiveJournal and the first three are available as prints.
Saturday Shelf Porn
Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn! Today's shelves are courtesy of Kenny Mittleider, who shares his extensive toy collection.
If you'd like to submit your shelves, just send some pictures and a write-up to email@example.com.
Now let's hear from Kenny …
What Are You Reading?
Welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly discussion about the comics we here at Robot 6 have been checking out lately. Today's special guest is Lauren Davis, who blogs about webcomics at Storming the Tower and io9, and is the editor of the San Francisco comics anthology The Comic Book Guide to the Mission.
To see what Lauren and the Robot 6 gang have been reading lately, click below …
Comics A.M. | February's record low, skepticism about digital plans
Publishing | February brought a noteworthy, if unwanted, record for the direct market: The lowest-ever top title on record. Green Lantern #62 led Diamond Comic Distributors' Top 300 with an estimated 71,500 copies, 18,400 less than the previous record holder. Chart watcher John Jackson Miller writes, "For the first time, we probably cannot say that when all reorders and newsstand sales are added, the total will be above 100,000 — although we certainly would expect its eventual readership to go above that mark given reprint editions (to say nothing of digital)."
DC's $29.99 Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne deluxe hardcover helped to push year-over-year dollars sales up 6.92 percent, offsetting a slight decline in periodicals to and nudging combined sales up .94 percent. "Sales of those 'long tail' titles below the Top 300 masked a weakness at the top of the list," ICv2 notes. "Unit numbers at the top of both the periodical and graphic novel lists were some of the lowest since ICv2 has been tracking comic sales." [ICv2.com]
Comics A.M. | Detective Comics auction, comics prices and anti-piracy bill
Comics | A copy of Detective Comics #27 bought for 10 cents by Robert Irwin in 1939 sold at auction Thursday for $492,937. It's not a record price for the first appearance of Batman — a CGC-graded 8.0 copy fetched more than $1 million in February — but the $400,000 that the 84-year-old Irwin will make after the commission fee is subtracted will more than pay off the mortgage on his home. [Sacramento Bee]
Digital piracy | The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would grant the Justice Department the right to shut down a website with a court order "if copyright infringement is deemed 'central to the activity' of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime." In short, Wired's Sam Gustin writes, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act "would allow the federal government to censor the internet without due process." [Epicenter, AFP]
Comics A.M. | Supermain lawsuit restarts, Hulk smash illegal immigration?
Legal | A federal judge has lifted the delay in the ferocious legal battle over the rights to Superman, allowing attorneys for Warner Bros. to proceed with deposition of the families of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright issued the stay last month while he considered an appeal on a procedural ruling, but on Tuesday he modified the order, permitting the studio to "proceed with full discovery of [heirs] Joanne Siegel, Laura Siegel Larson, Jean Peavy and Mark Peavy." The depositions are expected to begin immediately. [THR, Esq.]
Retailing | Bookstores had their worst month of the year in September as sales slipped 7.7 percent, to $1.51 billion. [Publishers Weekly]
Piracy | Colleen Doran argues that it's the middle-class artist, not the rich corporations, who are the real victims of digital piracy. [The Hill]
Crime | Houston police have arrested two people believed to be responsible for stealing thousands of dollars worth of comics from stores around the city. Bedrock City Comic Company was hit at least four times. [My Fox Houston]
Straight for the art | Dumbledore & Voldemort by David Petersen
Mouse Guard creator David Petersen shares two pieces of art he traded to artist Craig Rousseau, featuring Harry Potter's Dumbledore and Voldemort fighting. Click on over to his site to see his Voldemort.
When I wake up in the morning and the 'larm lets out a warning …
The always-entertaining Lucy Knisley imagines what J.K. Rowling might've come up with had she been inspired to create Harry Potter some two decades earlier. The result? A Saved by the Bell-style TV series called Hogwarts High, starring John Cusack, Mark Paul Gosselaar and Brooke Shields, and featuring David Bowie as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Universal offers some details on secretive Harry Potter theme park
Who needs Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk when you have Harry Potter?
Amid speculation as to what Disney's announced $4-billion purchase of Marvel could mean to existing theme-park licenses, Universal Orlando today unveiled details for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure.
The rights to the $265-million "theme park within a theme park" were secured from author J.K. Rowling in 2007, but NBC Universal has managed to keep information about the project a secret.
After Meyer biography, Bluewater will conjure Rowling (and her unicorn)
Bluewater Productions isn't all about biographies of politicians, dead celebrities, dead politicians and presidential pets.
Just two months ago the publisher announced a comic detailing the life of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. And now comes news the Vancouver, Washington-based company is setting its sights on one of the biggest names in modern fiction: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
Like the Meyer comic, the Rowling one-shot will be released under the "Female Force" banner, which has been home to biographies of such public figures as Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Princess Diana.
It's unclear, though, whether, like Meyer's title, Rowling's will be narrated by a fictional character. (In Meyer's case, it's "the most famous vampire of them all." For Rowling, I vote for a house-elf.)
"She is a remarkable and multi-dimensional woman," writer Adam Gragg said in a press release. "Learning about who she is and how she struggled to become a success was a truly enlightening experience. Twelve publishers turned her down. If it weren't for the daughter of a British publisher who liked Rowling's first chapter of Philosopher's Stone, we might never have met Harry Potter."
The comic's cover, as Rowling devotees are well aware, depicts a pivotal moment from the author's life previously only seen air-brushed on the side of a van: When an aged unicorn-physician tended to Rowling's dislocated shoulder.
Female Force: J.K. Rowling is set for release in December.


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Address: 121 North Water Street
Major renovations completed in 2007, including installation of a staircase to the lantern room, allow the interior of the Edgartown Light to be open to visitors. A lighthouse keeper will be available and the doors will be open during designated hours. Parking is available, but limited, on North Water Street. The Vineyard Transit Authority (VTA) busses drop off on Church Street in Edgartown. It is a 5-10 minute walk to the lighthouse from this location.
The 13th Lighthouse Children's Ceremony of Remembrance Please read the Martha's Vineyard Times article about this moving ceremony.
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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)News for Caturday, woman uses cat as weapon against police - Orlando
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January 10th, 2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) An Orlando woman employed a novel device to resist arrest for the attempted murder of her boyfriend. Lisa Frink, 45, threw her cat at police and fought them with a concrete trowel before she was eventually subdued and arrested. ORLANDO, FL (Catholic Online) - While it may not make the "Caturday" posts on the social networking sites, Lisa Frink may be deserving of attention. After slashing her boyfriend multiple times for his refusal to allow her to use his food benefit card, police responded in force.Fink fled into a shed when police arrived so police sent a dog to subdue her. In reaction, Fink picked up her cat and threw it at the dog. The cat latched onto the dog's muzzle and held on. When police caught up with her, cornered in the shed, she armed herself with a concrete trowel and swung it at officers. A second dog was sent to assist and after biting Fink twice, she went to the ground but refused to be handcuffed. Officers then used a chemical spray to gain compliance. Police have revealed that Fink suffers from a medical condition and had not taken her medication that day. She was arrested and booked for attempted murder and harming a police dog, among other charges. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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It all started with the ribbons — pink for breast cancer, teal for ovarian cancer, blue for colon cancer. And then the yellow bracelets hit the scene and many others followed. Now we have so many ways to be inspired and show our support.
As an educator, I participate in many cancer-awareness events and I always come away with an incredible sense of pure joy and hope. It's so incredibly moving to see a group of people getting together to raise money or give support for the cancer cause. The whole idea has helped us move from a time when cancer was a word rarely spoken, to the present, when support and awareness are free and open.
Events help provide a sense of doing something — moving forward with a real connection to others who have the same passion and drive to make a difference. We are all touched by cancer in some way during our lives, which is why it's so important to talk, walk and show support in every way possible.
I'd love to hear from all of you on this topic. Talk about a cancer event that inspired you. How do you give and receive support?
Sheryl M. Ness, R.N.
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Original article: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/expert-blog/cancer-awareness/bgp-20056330


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The Kaiser Chiefs started in Leeds when school friends Nick Hodgson, Simon Rix and Nick 'Peanut' Baines began to play together.They were later joined by Andrew Whitey White and Ricky Wilson,
The Kaiser Chiefs' (named after the South African football club where Leeds Utd, the band's beloved team, bought their captain) influences include The Beach Boys, Super Furry Animals, The Kinks, XTC, Beta Band, Blur, Supergrass, 10CC, Small Faces, Dexys Midnight Runners and Madness.
After a string of successful singles and albums the kaiser chiefs were getting bigger.In July 2005 they were chosen to open Bob Geldoff's Live-8 festival in Philadelphia, their performance was broadcast by satellite to every Live-8 venue around the world, giving the band massive world-wide exposure.
The band then opened the 2006 Brit Awards, where they won three of the five categories they were nominated in, impressively beating bands such as Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Oasis to win 'Best British Group', 'Best British Rock Act' and 'Best British Live Act'.
When the band formed their original aim was merely to get an early slot at the Leeds Festival. Who could have predicted that they would achieve so much in just over two years? The band are currently back in the UK recording their next album.