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I Only Like Marvel Now: Nextwave, Young Avengers, X-Factor
- Posted by Johanna on July 4, 2006 at 8:23 pm
- Category: Superhero Reviews
- PUBLISHER: Marvel
Marvel is the only reason I'm still reading superhero comics. That's a very strange thing for someone who was always a DC fan to say, but all I feel for that particular publisher these days is apathy. Marvel, while just as fixated on the crossover dollar and the variant cover, at least does some titles that are a little bit different, for those of us who don't need or want 20 changes on the same theme.
And how convenient, that Marvel puts out all my favorite titles in the same week! Now I don't have to bother shopping for another month.
I started off with NextWave: Agents of HATE #6 (by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen). I'm still achy from working with a retailer friend at Heroes Con this year, so ridiculous characters doing violent things was just the ticket for distraction.
I love that this team is so thoroughly modern that they spend all their time insulting each other. When it comes time to save the day, everyone splits up and does whatever they do with little or no concern for the others. It's the ultimate group of individuals, and it's very of the moment, now that news is out that our society is more isolated than ever. No Care Bear Stares saving the day here; put in a room and told to act on their core emotions, this bunch would end up eating each other.
Let's look at those individuals, shall we? Bloodstone is who Buffy and Creepy No-Mouth Batgirl dream of being, a gorgeous female fighting machine, the epitome of fanboy nightmares (because she's also every woman who rejected them). Tabitha blows things up, PMS made flesh. Monica says lovely phrases like "ultraviolet nova", and the result is destruction of entire species. Her character is defined by an absence of anything but being the authority figure, a provocative choice given her skin color.
Dirk Anger, Bad Guy, is what happens when the authority figure actually wants the power given: a twisted mass of neuroses proving every rumor about every perversion possessed by every leader through history true. Poor Aaron Stack is the contributor who will always be overlooked and ignored, the robot cog in the group wheel, Marvin's grandson. The Captain is an unbelievable assumption that drinking and cursing and generally being a wastrel will be rewarded. Boys used to dream that their internal Superman would get them a girl; now the fantasy has degraded to being a hard-drinking faux-Brit.
Every issue results in fans going "eh, it's not as good as last time", but every issue makes me both laugh and think in unusual directions. Every issue keeps changing direction, creativity on demand. Sure, it's easy to get distracted by the random concepts (homicide crabs) flying by and the explosions that usually end the stories, but there's some really subtle stuff going on here that rewards actual thinking.
Or I'm bored and wanted to put my popular culture graduate degree to use, you decide.
I'd like Young Avengers (written by Allen Heinberg) more if it wasn't so fascinated with long-ago Marvel continuity. The characters are strong and the team synergistic, but behind that, there's not enough there there for me to recommend it without reservations.
Also, no one ever feels like they're in real danger. Scary big events happen and someone says something determined, showing the team pulling together, but I don't get a sense of how the characters individually feel, only how I'm supposed to believe they feel. It can be too surface.
God bless penciller Jim Cheung, because this double-sized final issue (for now; the series is planned to return after a Civil War tie-in minseries) is full of battle scenes featuring lots of Avengers, Young Avengers, and Skrulls. The resulting compositions are chaotic, without much depth and as confusing as a battle might really be.
Problems are also resolved much too quickly. A page or less of solution — whether Teddy's kidnapping or Eli's drug issues or the Vision's autonomy — and on to the next thing doesn't satisfy me. Each issue is like a summary of a much more in-depth Platonic ideal of a comic somewhere else. I still like the characters, though, or at least what I envision them to be.
I think Peter David's a genius, because he kept my interest even though X-Factor #8 (art by Dennis Calero) is a Civil War tie-in. Layla is weirder than usual, and her quiet confusion is a much scarier indicator of looming disaster than any more showy disruption could be. With her living Nail-ness (you know, for want of a nail, the shoe was lost, and so on), the book rewards attention, knitting together various happenings clearly but without plot hammers (bang! let's hit the reader over the head to make sure it's obvious!).
The art's got some lovely individual images, but looked at as a whole, the panel-to-panel flow sometimes is lacking, and it can be clear that Calero likes his copy machine. The characters don't appear to be caught at just the right moment, as with the best artists; instead, they seem to be posing, as though modeling for a slow painter. Like I said, though, pretty on a panel basis.
Some of the events discussed herein illustrate why I don't bother much with crossovers. Siryn does a good job of summing up why the characters in this title should care about the Hero Registration Act driving Civil War, but she's also still trying to figure out what happened behind of the scenes of the Decimation, which was last crossover (House of M). Meanwhile, Spider-Man makes a guest swing-through, but it's set before the unmasking that several other titles covered this week.
David addresses that topic in the letter column, briefly, saying that he reads the other comics when we do and has to figure out how to work key events into his schedule. I'm impressed he can do as much as he does here, and given his classic run on the title, I see Quicksilver's impending presence as suggesting good things for the book. (Plus, also in the letter column, David reveals that #13 will be similar to the well-remembered psychiatry issue from that run.)
In Layla, I'm beginning to sense echoes of David's previous godlike child, the boy with the baseball bat in his issues of Supergirl back when. I think I'll have to keep her philosophy in mind:
"You look so serious, like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders."
"I do."
"How do you deal with that?"
"I shrug."
24 Responses to "I Only Like Marvel Now: Nextwave, Young Avengers, X-Factor"
- James Schee Says:
July 4, 2006 at 9:12 PMSo, Next Wave worth getting when it come out in TPB? (HC was last monght, but SC should be soon)
- Greg McElhatton Says:
July 4, 2006 at 9:57 PMI can't help but wonder if some of the problems with YA #11-12 was when the storyline was suddenly compacted from a 6-part story to a 4-part story, myself…
- John Says:
July 5, 2006 at 12:44 AMLayla's philosophy is Randian…by which I mean it comes directly from the book, Atlas Shrugged, from which she was reading the entire issue. Here's the quote from the novel:
"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of this strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulers–what would you tell him to do?"
"I . . . don't know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."I think a lot of people would be shocked to discover Ayn Rand is being referenced in a comic book.
- Bronn Says:
July 5, 2006 at 5:07 AMI can't disagree with any of your thoughts on Marvel. As someone who has just re-entered the comic world after years addiction-free, there are few titles that I think are worth getting. I haven't picked up Nextwave, but might get the trade, based on mostly positive reviews. And I've read YA, but haven't got the trades yet. However, I'm a big PAD fan, so X-Factor's relaunch was on the top of my pull list, and it hasn't disappointed.
The other Marvel titles on my pull list include one I thought you would include, and that is Runaways. Its constantly good, and certainly a book that deserves the buzz its getting, IMO.
I also get Astonishing X-Men (girlfriend is a Whedon-aholic, but its quite good), Squadron Supreme (better as a MAX title, but still solid) and Moon Knight (which has been good but slow to get rolling), so there are a couple of other gems out there in Marvel-land.Bronn
- Paul O'Brien Says:
July 5, 2006 at 5:39 AMIt does seem fairly remarkable that neither the writer nor editor of X-FACTOR knew that one of their lead character's parents was going to die until the issue hit the stands. Whether or not there's a formal system in place, wouldn't you expect the editor of DEADLY GENESIS to find thirty seconds to wander down the corridor and say "Oh, by the way…"? That strikes me as the sort of ultra-basic co-ordination between titles that has unfortunately been tossed out of the window as part of the backlash against excessively tight continuity.
- JD Says:
July 5, 2006 at 6:49 AMEr, that's X-Factor #8, isn't it ?
- Johanna Says:
July 5, 2006 at 6:58 AMJames, this is one of the few titles I like best in chapters. If I had a collection, I'd probably read too much of it at once, which would dull the fun.
Greg, yeah, that would do it.
John, I don't know that it's all that shocking, since many readers know that that's what informed Ditko's work. But thank you for elaborating on that — I haven't read Rand myself, so what I know about her theories comes from Action Philosophers.
Bronn, thanks for recommending some others, although those titles don't work for me consistently. Squadron Supreme, in particular, seems to me to wallow in depravity too often.
Paul, it seemed to me that one of the key elements in that situation wasn't that he was dead, but whether he was going to stay dead. Which is one of the silly things about superheroes that makes this all so confusing and fun.
JD, yep! Thank you very much. I've made the correction — I got confused because Marvel labeled that cover #9, even though it appeared on #8. I appreciate the help!
- Paul O'Brien Says:
July 5, 2006 at 8:21 AM"Paul, it seemed to me that one of the key elements in that situation wasn't that he was dead, but whether he was going to stay dead."
No, not really. DEADLY GENESIS just kills the character, plain and simple. The only reason Peter David was in any doubt about it was because they hadn't told him in advance, and the death happens halfway through the story (leaving the obvious possibility that it might be reversed later on – but it isn't).
- James Schee Says:
July 5, 2006 at 11:04 AMCool.. I'm working so many hours these days that most of the time all I have is enough time to read a chapter (or 1 issue) of a comic though. So I might still consider getting it in TPB form.
On the DC versus Marvel thing. There are a couple of DC titles I'm sort of looking at right now for various reasons. (Ion, Wonder Woman and Flash) And I did preorder the first few months of 52 because they were so cheap online.
Though the only stuff really getting me from DC are their collections of past stuff. Showcase Elongated Man out this week, and the JSA and Huntress trades they have coming. I'd love to see some reviews of American Virgin from Vertigo, since they have a collection of it solicited now.
Marvel has the series I like though, in X-Factor, She Hulk (though not as much previously) Runaways (though only in digest) and Moon Knight.
I wanted to try PAD's Spider-man but it seems, from the outside looking in anyway, too caught up in crossover stuff.
- Alan Coil Says:
July 5, 2006 at 11:09 AMNext Wave definitely works as a monthly, but might be too much in a trade.
Atlas Shrugged is a long novel, but I think that everybody should read it, because the ideas presented in it should be understood by everybody. Ayn Rand was a controversial writer and human being.
I read 4 Marvel comics. Next Wave, X-Factor, Daredevil, and Astonishing X-Men.
Paul said: "That strikes me as the sort of ultra-basic co-ordination between titles that has unfortunately been tossed out of the window as part of the backlash against excessively tight continuity."
I think it's also showing a lack of editorial control. Daredevil is in prison, but he is in Civil War (although, maybe he isn't…?), Banshee is dead, but not everyone knows it, Spider-Man is unmasked, but that hasn't happened yet in X-Factor. Continuity doesn't have to be so tight that the story get strangled, but there should be some kind of roadmap to guide the creators along their way.
- Johanna Says:
July 5, 2006 at 12:45 PMJames, good reminder — I'm looking forward to that Showcase, too. I just read American Virgin last night, so I hope to have some thoughts on that shortly.
For me, Spider-Man as a character has been too negatively affected by writers like JMS who didn't understand the concept. Peter David is writing the issue of Marvel Adventures Spider-Man that's offered in the latest Previews, though, so I think I'll try that.
Alan, unfortunately, no one ever seems to think that they have time to create and communicate a road map.
- jabolo Says:
July 5, 2006 at 6:31 PMOh please. It isn't like the lack of a reference from recent events from other titles is anything that really detracts from the story's major themes.
That is, if you are taking the comic in question as a bit of pulp entertainment and not the all encompassing escapism that only a fanboy would so crave. Superhero comics (atleast the good ones) don't require that level of consistency. If they were intended to be that literal, then the large number of genre conventions and plot contrivances (superpowers) would have already made all a failure on that count.
The sooner you forget about the 'shared world' b.s. the sooner the publishers will dump the stupid gimmick.
- franklin Says:
July 6, 2006 at 12:32 AM", but looked at as a whole, the panel-to-panel flow sometimes is lacking, and it can be clear that Calero likes his copy machine. "
This is strange since Calero is almost universely lauded, even by those who don't care for his style, as a great storyteller, and I agree. Some comic fans seem to want everything to look like a cartoon and freak out (ala Byran Hitch) when anything looks like it was drawn from referece. I dig it.
- Johanna Says:
July 6, 2006 at 7:16 AMI don't recall seeing any analyses of Calero's work one way or another, myself, so I can't speak to what other people think. All I can do is give my opinions based on what I read — and there were a few times where I had to reread a sequence to see exactly what happened. It's not a huge problem, but I do see an area of potential improvement.
As I said above, though, his figure work is very nice.
- franklin Says:
July 6, 2006 at 10:12 AM"I don't recall seeing any analyses of Calero's work one way or another, myself, "
Try comixfan.com for a start.
- Johanna Says:
July 6, 2006 at 10:16 AMThanks, but no. I'm not looking for any additional reading about comics these days — I'm quite happy with the 80 or so feeds I check regularly.
- franklin Says:
July 6, 2006 at 2:20 PMI see. Well that's certainly fair minded.
- Johanna Says:
July 6, 2006 at 2:32 PMWhat's unfair about being comfortable in my opinion? I believe you that others say differently, but that's usually the case. :)
- franklin Says:
July 6, 2006 at 4:56 PM"What's unfair about being comfortable in my opinion?" An interesting way of putting it.
- Johanna Says:
July 6, 2006 at 5:28 PMDo you want to have an actual conversation, or do you want to play word games? Cause I suspect, given that I wield absolute power here, that I'm going to win the latter. :)
My job is to have and express opinions. A bunch of message boarders disagreeing isn't going to alter what I saw in the comic. If you want to change my mind, we need to talk about why you disagree instead of you just pointing somewhere else and saying "they think so too".
- franklin Says:
July 7, 2006 at 3:01 AM"Do you want to have an actual conversation,"
With all due respect, you've not only made it clear that you see no reason to change your mind, you wont even deign to look at material that may. I certainly don't see any way to change your mind if you won't read or refer to material that doesn't support your viewpoint.
So it wasn't really my intention to prolong a 'conversation" but I do find your responses extremely telling, and I suspect that YOU may suspect that your terse and snappy answers say something about your mindset that may not be exactly positive.
Why else would you refer to your "godlike" power as a guarantee you will "win". I can't even begin to get to your way of thinking. But don't worry, I won't bother to read you anymore or try to offer anything positive.
Since you're not looking for any additional reading (and yet you seem to think that what YOU'RE writing is somehow worth cramming onto my list.)
- Johanna Says:
July 7, 2006 at 7:42 AMIf I changed my mind as soon as someone said "other people over there disagree", I wouldn't have lasted this long. You haven't given me any other reason to consider. And no, I don't have time to waste rummaging through a comic board site in order to find information that *may* be more in-depth than "Calero rocks!"
If you want me to change my mind, why don't *you* tell me what I'm missing in the art instead of saying that other people like it and throwing in an irrelevant reference to Bryan Hitch? That's what I meant by "having a conversation". Possible, totally hypothetical example: "Did you notice the subtle and effective use of panel viewpoint changes on page 6? FakeFanName goes into more detail about it at this link (FakeURL)." That's a lot more effective than simply saying "MessageBoard loves it" when I have no reason to believe I'd agree with MessageBoard on anything else, either. Instead, it gives me specifics and tells me what additional information is out there.
"Terse and snappy", by the way, is more entertaining to readers than "long and self-indulgent", and I'm here to provide value to the audience. The wisecracks may not work for you, but they're intended to keep things light-hearted. If you're not enjoying the reading, then you're right, it's better to go elsewhere. I hate to lose a reader over a misunderstanding, but if you're not going to be happy until I say "you're right, the art is stunning and perfect", then you're not going to be happy.
- markus Says:
July 7, 2006 at 7:56 AM@franklin
I'd be the first to agree that our host's response leaves a lot to be desired, but she's right in that you need to provide a counter-argument. She has argued her position above and you have merely waved in the general direction of a potential source of counterarguments. That's a bit like saying "someone at my university would disagree".
So please, find that analysis you mentioned, link to it and perhaps summarise it here. I'm sure, once you've done that Johanna will be willing to address that.
At any rate, there's no need to respond with petulance to her bragging about her mod powers. I agree it is bad style and she could have explained what she expects of you instead of simply assuming you're being aggressive. Still, by not bringing concrete arguments _here_ (where the discussion is happening for the time being) you have violated a rather fundamental requirement for any discussion. If you do that, you have to expect people making uncharitable asumptions and getting a tad aggressive.
In short, relax, drop the bitchin-contest and bring some arguments from whatever well is most convenient to you ;-) - Johanna Says:
July 7, 2006 at 9:19 AMThanks for the third-party opinion, Markus — I'm sorry my little joke came off as bragging. I admit, I can be too quick on the trigger in trying to head off pointless "are not/are too" arguments. I blame too many years of them for showing me too much of the bad side of online behavior.
Since I know more about analyzing writing than I do analyzing art, I'm happy to see thoughtful pieces on how to read and dissect panels and pages.


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"KARATE CHOP" ON PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS of 2014 LIST (HERE)
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: Unsettling and poetic. . . . Some pieces, like one about a four-pound tomato, are oddly beautiful; others are brilliantly disturbing (more HERE)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (Starred review): Nors's writing doesn't just observe the details of life—online searches, laundry, fantasies, conversations with semi-strangers, compulsions—it offers a marvelous, truthful take on how these details illustrate our souls. (Read more HERE)
PARIS REVIEW "WHAT WER'RE LOVING": Dorthe Nors is a writer of moments—quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic. (Read more HERE)
BOOKLIST: In the span of two pages, she is able to both build and unmake a character, achieving the same complexity that other writers require entire novels to establish. (…) Karate Chop is the first of Nors' books to be translated to English but certainly won't be the last. Lovers of the art of literary fiction, students of psychology, and everyone looking for a quick, thought- provoking read should all indulge themselves in the subversive delight of this short story collection.
VOGUE: The short-short stories in Danish sensation Nors's slim, potent collection, Karate Chop . . . Evoke the weirdness and wonder of relating in the digital age.
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Nors illuminates an ominous world of disconnected people trying to make sense of their dislocation…Nors' affectless, matter-of-fact storytelling…is the perfect complement to the low-wattage desperation and inertia her characters feel…Karate Chop is just like that: It loves you andwants to teach you, but it also wants to harm you (more HERE)
OPRAH: "In this collection of stories, Danish fiction comes off a little like Danish furniture, spare and sublime. Author Dorthe Nors knows how to capture the smallest moments and sculpt them into the unforgettable." (more HERE)
ELLE: "The intricately crafted stories in Karate Chop, from popular Danish writer Dorthe Nors, focus on ordinary occurrences . . . and then twist them intobrilliantly slanted cautionary tales about desire, romance, deception, and dread."
STAR TRIBUNE: Karate Chop" is a collection of brittle, blackly comic and quietly explosive stories that provide snapshots of modern Danish life and home in at daring angles to highlight the quirks, agonies and vulnerabilities of the human condition. . . . The result reads like a master class in compression, precision and economy of language (more HERE)
THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS: "Precisely crafted and melancholy stories. . . . Karate Chop displays an admirable willingness to take on difficult stories, and Dorthe Nors tells these difficult stories very well." (more HERE)
THE DAILY BEAST: Not dissimilar to the melancholic interior scenes painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi, numerous films by Thomas Vinterberg, and even the churning sounds of composer Niels Gade, these stories look underneath deceptively quiet surfaces, finding undercurrents that may never fully express themselves but repetitively hint at their constant presence. . . . Peppered with themes of memory, violence, loss, and separation, these pages quietly announce a confident and valuable new voice in translated fiction.
KIRKUS REVIEW ON KARATE CHOP: These amuse-bouches are a fine introduction to the author's work. (Read more HERE)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Horror and comedy both require timing, and Dorthe Nors has it. The stories in her newly translated collection "Karate Chop" are less meditations on human savagery than riffs on it, understated monologues of everydayness through which the horror surfaces like a joke. Blink and you might miss the punch line, whether it's a suitcase full of body parts or a more ordinary dismemberment. (more HERE)
TIN HOUSE: "Nors' stories are brief and exploratory, not creating meaning, but allowing the story to assemble meaning."
BOOKCOURT: Maybe allot ten or fifteen minutes to read one story, and then many, many more minutes to puzzle over how it is you've just been karate chopped(!) in the jugular by the writing in Nors' first book to be translated from Danish into English
THE RUMPUS: Exceptional. . . . Nors is adroit at offering powerful summation at the precise moment with a single cutting phrase or an unexpected observation. . . . These brief realistic stories provide universal insight into an everyday, modern existence (more HERE)
BROOKLYN DAILY: Each piece, while deceptively short, contains enormous power and offers keen insight into the brief, sometimes overlooked, but often lifechanging moments of our lives. I can't wait to see more from this writer (more HERE)
MARIE CLAIRE: "In this slim collection of stories, the Danish Nors examines everyday issues with intensity and force."
LARGEHEARTED BOY: Dorthe Nors acutely Karate Chop mines the unexpected and explosive from everyday lives in this brilliantly understated short story collection. (more HERE)
THE ATLANTIC: Karate Chop marks the arrival of a new literary talent to American shores. The longest story in the collection is nine pages, and most are only three or four—surprising narratives that brim with associative richness. Each piece is brief, unpredictable, and thrilling as a blown-up balloon's flight, held by the nozzle and let go. (interview HERE)
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: "These incisive short pieces . . . Move quickly to twisty endings."
SHELF AWARENESS FOR READERS – STARRED REVIEW: The stories in Karate Chop are as tremendous as they are brief. . . . With each story weighing in at a mere four or five pages, Nors doesn't waste any time delivering a knockout. . . . [Nors's] spare prose and scrupulous structures leave her stories feeling haunted by the scent of warm laundry and gasoline, the ache of love and fresh bruises and the sound of a direct hit reverberating in ambient normalcy. . . . Striking.
KGB BAR LIT MAGAZINE: Karate Chop brings a sly, steady voice in a collection of fifteen varying stories.(…) The most compelling aspect of Nors' art is what unifies the collection: the author's insistence on giving us what is, not what it looks like. (more HERE)
STRAIGHT MAGAZINE: Nors … has an excellent sense of proportion. She lets all kinds of fascinating details linger around the periphery, giving the reader glimpses of a larger fictional world that always stays just out of reach … Given her résumé, it's entirely possible I've come across one of Nors's stories in a magazine, only to flip right past it. After spending a day entranced by Karate Chop, I won't make that mistake again. (more HERE)
NEWPAGES: "—though writ small, still deadly. … Nors describes so precisely the facets of vulnerability and self-delusion, as well as the high price that must be paid in life for self-protection."
HAZEL & WREN: Although Karate Chop is Nors' first English translation, she has five other novels just waiting to be translated for eager audiences. Since you can't read her novels yet, whet your appetite with Karate Chop. You won't even need a cup of coffee to keep you awake.
A READING LIFE: The author's combination of economical prose and the short length of the stories themselves leads to a streamlined and ultimately pleasing effect. This is the first book translated into English by this Danish author and hopefully not the last.
LITSTACK: … these short offerings, are highly effective and feel intensely personal …"Karate Chop" …pulls at you, like a strong undercurrent on an otherwise seemingly peaceful river.
COOPER STREET JOURNAL: … just as Alice Munro seems to fit a novel's worth of complexity into a twenty-page story, Nors can take the weight of a dense twenty-page story and fit it snugly into four or five. It's a talent all short story writers should study.
COLUMBUS ALIVE: Think of her as a modern, Danish Flannery O'Connor. The author's direct, almost flat prose serves her droll and darkly imaginative short stories well, elevating each two- or three-page piece into a lingering mix of the mundane, familiar and puzzling.
COMPLETE REVIEW: pitch-perfect; unsettling
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: Nors's stories are timeless and universal.
Ideas and emotions are quick in arriving, equally quick to shift meaning as we read forward. This technique has much in common with aspects of karate; when one arm strikes forward the other draws back, and the arm drawing back is equal in importance to the arm striking forward. Nors knows and understands so much about us; her perceptions frequently shock with their acuity, though within seconds you recognize them as, yes, true. Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone)
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Happy Birthday to you!
You're born in the zoo!
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Apparently, Dahbriukay was too touched with our composition that he squashed his face on my shoulder like a pug's wrinkled forehead to hide his tears of joy.
Such protective arms he has, hor?
Like I could sink and melt into his embrace.
Like nothing bad's gonna happen to me.
Oh, and sorry for being sappy.
But doctor said I shouldn't suppress my emotions for the sake of my subjective well-being.
So, from now on I'll be very sappy in my writings and sing Plain White T's 1,2,3,4 to Dahbriukay every night before I sleep.
*evil-grins* (Whenever I sing this to him, he gets really annoyed because it always means I'm hinting at something. :D)
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Discussion on the Youth Representative. It was talked about the ages that are in the by-laws already and also if it can be a boy or girl, which is in the by-laws already. Jan Summerfield made a motion to give State Fair tickets to them for their participation. Seconded by Gary Penner.
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23. | i. | TEMPERENCE21 MORGAN, b. 1760, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. May 28, 1849, Harrison, VA. |
24. | ii. | NANCY ANNE21 MORGAN, b. 1759, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. 1816, West, Augusta, Virginia, USA. | |
25. | iii. | CATHERINE JENNNIE MORGAN, b. 1763, Morgantown, Monongalia, Virginia; d. WFT Est. 1814-1858. | |
26. | iv. | LEVI MORGAN, b. Jun 26, 1766, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Sep 1825, an early blizzard (found in large hollow tree said to be one of his favorite places to camp near Salt River while hunting.) He was 59. Louisville, Kentucky;. | |
27. | v. | MORGAN MORGAN, b. Nov 07, 1767, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Aug 20, 1852, Pine Grove, Wetzel County, VA. | |
28. | vi. | JAMES MORGAN, b. Oct 25, 1769, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. May 24, 1855, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. | |
29. | vii. | URIAH MORGAN, b. Jul 22, 1774, Morgantown, Monongalia, Virginia, USA; d. 1851, Tyler, Virginia, USA; Adopted child. | |
viii. | ZADOCK MORGAN157, b. Jul 24, 1776, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Jul 19, 1834, Greene, Indiana; m. MARY POLLY HODGEN, Mar 03, 1809, Jefferson, Kentucky. |
Notes for ZADOCK MORGAN: 8th child of Col. Zackquill Morgan, founder of Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. A record giving the date of birth of the children of Col. Zackquill is extant, but since an error is noted in the case of his brother James, these dates may not be trusted and a question mark is used. One reference says that Zadock died young and left no family. |
More About ZADOCK MORGAN and MARY HODGEN: Marriage: Mar 03, 1809, Jefferson, Kentucky |
ix. | HORATIO MORGAN, b. Apr 09, 1778, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Mar 09, 1867, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, USA. |
Notes for HORATIO MORGAN: 9th child of Col. Zackquill Morgan, founder of Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Never Married. He spent most, if not all, of his life in Monongalia County, and probably died at Morgantown. He was not married. His name is found frequently in Morgantown history where he was a land owner, engaged in business, and help settle his father's estate. He was engaged somewhat, along with his brothers Levi and Morgan, in protecting the border from Indian raids, for we find at least one mention of him making an expedition into the Indian country along with his brothers. George A. Dunnington, in his History of Marion County, published at Fairmont, in 1880, makes one mention of Horatio. "The vindictive passions of the white settlers once aroused, they would forget for the moment they were civilized men, and the bare sight of an Indian, whether friendly or otherwise, would arouse their spirit of revenge in their heart, and they would be lead to commit acts which in their thoughtful moments they regretted. A striking incident of this kind occurred in which Horatio Morgan, of Prickett's Fort, was the principal actor. "While hunting one day he unexpectedly came upon an Indian seated near a fire on the river bank. Concealing himself behind a tree, Morgan watched the scene for some moments. Over the fire was suspended a pot in which an Indian boy was stirring a mixture of herbs and water. The first mentioned savage -- an old man -- sat upon a log with his head bowed in his hands, evidently very sick, and the boy was boiling the gruel to relieve his suffering, which appeared to be intense. Not a considerate thought for the pitiable condition of the old Indian seemed to enter the mind of Morgan, but raised hiss gun, after watching the scene awhile, he fired. The ball went crashing through the brain of the sick man, and he was forever freed from his sufferings. The boy, frightened by this sudden evidence that an enemy was at hand, took to the woods and made his escape. "Horatio was overcome with remorse the moment after he fired the shot, and would have given the world to have been able to recall it. So stricken with shame was he at the cowardly advantage he had taken of the Indian, that it was not until years afterwards that he related the circumstances; and then it was with a feeling of deep regret at what he had so thoughtlessly done. Dunnington further says that about the year 1791, "A small company of settlers, including Horatio and Levi Morgan, Jacob and John Hays, and several others made an expedition from here (Fairmont) to an Indian town on Sunfish Creek, in Ohio, for the purpose of destroying it. Arriving there they found the village deserted by the warriors, and the only remaining inhabitants a few women and children and old men. "They stole up to the outskirts of the town, where they could obtain a good view of the situation. Observing an old man sitting quietly smoking a pipe in the door of his wigwam, Levi Morgan told the rest of the party to watch him exhibit his extraordinary marksmanship, and taking steady aim at the center of the old man's forehead, fired. The ball did not vary a hairs breath from the spot, and the old Indian rolled over dead. This was the signal for the attack and the men plundered the village and returned home, bringing with them several prisoners." |
30. | x. | CAPT. ZACKQUILL MORGAN, JR., b. Aug 01, 1782, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Aug 24, 1814, Lost his life in the War of 1812 in the retreat from Washington, D. C.. | |
31. | xi. | SARAH MORGAN, b. Feb 11, 1784, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. May 27, 1868, Taylor, West Virginia, USA. | |
32. | xii. | HANNAH MORGAN, b. Dec 09, 1786, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. May 27, 1860, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA. | |
33. | xiii. | DRUSILLA MORGAN, b. Oct 09, 1788, Morgantown, Monongalia, VA; d. Jan 15, 1879, Marion, West Virginia, USA. | |
xiv. | RACHEL MORGAN, b. Jun 29, 1790, Monongalia, VA158; d. Jan 1864, West Virginia, USA, Died, Had a fit and fell into a fire.. |
Notes for RACHEL MORGAN: 14th and youngest child of Col. Zackquill Morgan, founder of Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Never Married. |
More About RACHEL MORGAN: Census 1850: Marion, VA Census 1860: Marion, VA |
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, or the analog compact audio cassette, the disc is a random-access medium, making seek time very fast. MiniDiscs can be edited very quickly even on portable machines. Tracks can be split, combined, moved or deleted with ease either on the player or uploaded to PC (only with the latest version of Sony's PC based
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V4.3 software) and edited there. Transferring data from an MD unit to a non-Windows machine can only be done in real time, preferably via optical I/O, by connecting the audio out port of the MD to an available audio in port of the computer. With the release of the Hi-MD format, Sony began to release Macintosh compatible software. However, the Mac compatible software is still not compatible with legacy MD formats (SP, LP2, LP4). This means that using an MD recorded on a legacy unit or in a legacy format still requires a Windows machine for non-real time transfers.
At the beginning of the disc there is a table of contents (TOC, also known as "System File" area of the disc), which stores the start positions of the various tracks, as well as meta information (Title, Artist) about them and free blocks. Unlike the conventional cassette, a recorded song does not need to be stored as one piece on the disk, it can be stored in several fragments, similar to a hard drive. Early MiniDisc equipment had a fragment granularity of 4 seconds audio. Fragments smaller than the granularity are not kept track of, which may lead to the usable capacity of a disc actually shrinking. Also, no means of defragmenting the disc are provided in consumer grade equipment.
MiniDisc devices feature a copy-protection scheme known as
Serial Copy Management System
Serial Copy Management System
The Serial Copy Management System or SCMS is a copy protection scheme that was created in response to the digital audio tape invention, in order to prevent DAT recorders from making second-generation or serial copies. SCMS sets a "copy" bit in all copies, which prevents anyone from making further...
. An unprotected disc or song can be copied without limit, but the copies can no longer be digitally copied. However as a concession to this the most recent Hi-MD players can upload to PC a Digitally Recorded file which can subsequently be resaved as a
Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...
(PCM) file and thus replicated.
Audio data compression
The digitally encoded audio signal on a MiniDisc has traditionally been data-compressed using the
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC in 1992. ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to have the same running time as CD while storing audio...
format (
ATRAC was devised for MiniDisc so that the same amount of audio a CD can carry can fit on a disc far smaller than the CD (which contains uncompressed 16-bit stereo linear
Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-code modulation is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form for digital audio in computers and various Blu-ray, Compact Disc and DVD formats, as well as other uses such as digital telephone systems...
ATRAC was also used on nearly all
Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...
devices until the 8 series but is now only used in Sony's MiniDisc devices (as of November 2008) as ATRAC is fundamental to the MiniDisc specification.
In MiniDisc's latest progression, Hi-MD, uncompressed CD-quality linear PCM audio recording and playback is offered in addition to ATRAC compression of varying bitrates; placing Hi-MD on par with uncompressed, CD-quality audio for the first time.
Sony's ATRAC codec differs from uncompressed PCM in that it is a
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Lossy data compression
In information technology, "lossy" compression is a data encoding method that compresses data by discarding some of it. The procedure aims to minimize the amount of data that need to be held, handled, and/or transmitted by a computer...
audio data compression scheme, so decompression of the compressed signal will not yield the original signal, although the compressed signal may sound identical to the original to the listener. The latest version of Sony's ATRAC is ATRAC3plus. Original ATRAC3 at 132 kbit/s (also known as ATRAC-LP mode) is the format used by Sony's Connect audio download store. ATRAC3plus is not used in order to retain backwards compatibility with earlier NetMD players.
MiniDisc has a feature that prevents disc skipping under all but the most extreme conditions. Older CD players had once been a source of annoyance to users as they were prone to mistracking from vibration and shock. MiniDisc solved this problem by reading the data into a memory buffer at a higher speed than was required before being read out to the digital-to-analog converter at the standard rate required by the format. The size of the buffer varies by model.
If the MiniDisc player were bumped, playback could continue unimpeded while the laser repositioned itself to continue reading data from the disc. This feature allows the player to stop the spindle motor for long periods, increasing battery life. The memory buffer concept introduced by MiniDisc was soon incorporated into portable CD players as well, and in hard drive based digital audio players.
A buffer of at least six seconds is required on all MiniDisc players, be they portable or stationary full-sized units. This is needed to ensure uninterrupted playback in the presence of
Fragmentation (computer)
In computer storage, fragmentation is a phenomenon in which storage space is used inefficiently, reducing storage capacity and in most cases reducing the performance. The term is also used to denote the wasted space itself....
The data structure and operation of a MiniDisc is similar to that of a computer's
hard disk
Hard disk
A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...
drive. The bulk of the disc contains data pertaining to the music itself, and a small section contains the Table of Contents (TOC), providing the playback device with vital information about the number and location of tracks on the disc. Tracks and discs can be named. Tracks may easily be added, erased, combined and divided, and their preferred order of playback modified. Erased tracks are not actually erased at the time, but are marked so. When a disc becomes full, the recorder can simply slot track data into sections where erased tracks reside. This can lead to some fragmentation but unless many erasures and replacements are performed, the only likely problem is excessive searching, reducing battery life.
The data structure of the MiniDisc, where music is recorded in a single stream of bytes while the TOC contains pointers to track positions, allows for
gapless playback
Gapless playback
Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed...
of music, something which the majority of competing portable players, including most
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
players, fail to implement properly. (Notable exceptions are
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
players, as well as all recent
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
At the end of recording, after the "Stop" button has been pressed, the MiniDisc may continue to write music data for a few seconds from its memory buffers. During this time, it may display a message ("Data Save", on at least some models) and the case will not open. After the audio data is written out, the final step is to write the TOC track denoting the start and endpoints of the recorded data. Sony notes in the manual that one should not interrupt the power or expose the unit to undue physical shock during this period.
In 2000, Sony announced MDLP (MiniDisc Long Play), which added new recording modes based on a new codec called ATRAC3. In addition to the standard, high-quality mode, now called SP, MDLP adds LP2 mode, which allows twice as much recording time (160 minutes on an 80 minute disc) of good-quality stereo sound, and LP4, which allows four times more recording time (320 minutes on an 80 minute disc) of medium-quality stereo sound.
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time....
of the standard SP mode is 292 kbit/s, and it uses separate stereo coding with discrete left and right channels. LP2 mode uses a bitrate of 132 kbit/s and also uses separate stereo coding. The last mode, LP4 has a bitrate of 66 kbit/s and uses joint stereo coding. The sound quality is noticeably poorer than the first two modes, but is sufficient for many users.
Tracks recorded in LP2 or LP4 mode play back as silence on non-MDLP players.
recorders allow music files to be transferred from a computer to a recorder (but not in the other direction) over a USB connection. In LP4 mode, speeds of up to 32× real-time are possible and three Sony NetMD recorders (MZ-N10, MZ-N910, and MZ-N920) are capable of speeds up to 64× real-time. NetMD recorders all support MDLP.
NetMD is a proprietary protocol, and it is currently impossible to use it without proprietary software, such as
SonicStage is the name for Sony software that is used for managing portable devices when they are plugged into a computer running Microsoft Windows. It comprises a music player and library manager, similar to iTunes, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. It is used to manage the library of ATRAC...
. Thus, it cannot be used under non-Windows machines. A free
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
based implementation, libnetmd, is being developed, but it cannot be used to upload music .
Hi-MD is the further development of the MiniDisc-format. It was introduced in 2004. Hi-MD media will not play on non Hi-MD equipment, including NetMD players.
Recording modes
Modes marked in green are available for recordings made on the player, while those marked in red are only available for music downloaded from a PC. Capacities are official Sony figures; real world figures are usually slightly higher. Second generation Hi-MD players also support MP3 compression natively, in a multitude of bitrates. Recently, 352 kbit/s and 192 kbit/s
have also been made available for 1st and 2nd generation Hi-MDs.
Bitrate (kbit/s)
Availability and capacity (min)
Standard player
MDLP player
Hi-MD player
80 minute disc
80 minute disc (HiMD formatted)
1 GB Hi-MD disc
Stereo SP
Mono SP
Linear PCM
External links
MiniDisc Community Portal
MiniDisc.org FAQ
MiniDisc Forum by Sony Insider
Audio T-Board
Linux and Sony MiniDisc players
The Difference between Type-R and Type-S


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Done With Obama, Child Reporter Now Interviewing NFL Cheerleaders
That's a video from Saturday of Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary student who became world-famous during his 2008 quest to interview Barack Obama. The kid landed that interview this past summer. Judging by this more recent video at Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium, Weaver has followed the traditional journalism career arc, eschewing serious interviews with government policy makers in favor of fluff pieces about beautiful people with dubious claims to celebrity, like the cheerleaders above. Has Weaver's school been purchased by the Tribune Company?
By this time next year, Damon, you'll be on your way toward a cynical attitude like the one I'm displaying in the paragraph above. Enjoy the ride!
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Music-loving Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood is being lined up to host his own radio show in Britain.
The Hollywood actor, 23, has been asked by pop flagship station BBC Radio One to stand in for veteran DJ John Peel when he goes on vacation later this year.
Wood - who is brushing up on his DJ skills - recently performed a four-hour set in London.
He enthuses, "It was only supposed to be two hours but it went well and they asked me if I wanted to carry on, so I did.
"I DJ-ed with my iPODs. I had two linked up and just played the songs off them."


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The iPod Touch is sometimes considered the iPhone's "baby brother" of sorts. While it's matured into a formidable device, there are still a few things that us iPod Touch users don't have: a camera, for example, and an always-on cell connection with GPS. Location Services on the iPhone are a cinch thanks to GPS. But what about iPod Touch users? Location Services can be incredibly useful, but there's nothing more frustrating than clicking "deny" every time an app requests to use your location in order to avoid a long, fruitless search. Well, it turns out that iPod users haven't been left out of the loop…not quite.
If you're one of the lucky ones, your iPod's Location Services will work the instant you connect to a WiFi network, like they're supposed to. But for the many of us, that nasty "Location cannot be determined" pop-up is a constant reminder of our device's limits. So why does this work for some people, and not for others? It all depends on where you live and what wireless networks your device finds. For example, my iPod's Location Services were absolutely useless at home, but when I drove two hours to the Apple Store to have them look at it (hey, I had other shopping to do, too!), suddenly there wasn't a problem.
The reason for the discrepancy is that the iPod relies on Skyhook for location information. Don't be surprised if you've never heard of it; the Apple "Geniuses" hadn't, either. Skyhook is essentially a database of known WiFi points and their addresses that supplies the technology behind non-GPS Location Services on the iDevices. (See the "how it works" page.) Here's the catch, though: if your WiFi access point isn't registered with Skyhook, Location Services simply won't work. Skyhook's coverage is far from comprehensive, focusing primarily on urban areas, so this isn't exactly an uncommon problem.
To remedy the situation, you can register your router on their website by entering your email address, your physical address, and your router's MAC address. Instructions for finding your MAC address are available on their website, and after submitting the information it takes 1-3 weeks for Location Services to work.
And that's it! So, if you were wondering why Location Services just won't work on your iPod…here's the likely answer.
Let us know if you've had a similar experience, and/or if this works for you. As for me, I'll be enjoying my newfound ability to, you know, use Maps. What a relief!
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text: People who get a kidney transplant should have a hernia truss after surgery because they cut you the whole way across. I did not get one and now a year and a half later, I have to have a hernia repair. I will wear one after this surgery. Buy one if you have to have surgery on your belly.