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SAN FRANCISCO and DENVER, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Human-caused climate disruption could make Yosemite National Park hotter this century than Sacramento has been, according to a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
The report includes new local climate projections for ten national parks in California. With what the California Climate Change Center calls "medium-high" future emissions of heat-trapping gases, the average of six climate models is for Yosemite National Park to get 7.5 degrees F hotter by 2070-2099 than it was in 1961-1990. That would be enough to make the national park 0.3 degrees hotter than Sacramento historically has been.
Average results from other, park-specific projections include that Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks could get 7.6 degrees hotter, making them 0.6 degrees hotter than the Sonoma County coast has been. Point Reyes National Seashore could get 6.0 degrees hotter, making it as hot as Santa Barbara has been. Death Valley National Park, already the hottest place in North America, could get 8.1 degrees hotter. Average temperatures in Joshua Tree National Park could go up 7.4 degrees and in Mojave National Preserve by 8.0 degrees, making each hotter than Death Valley's historic average temperature.
These higher temperatures would drive widespread changes in the national parks. Also threatened would be the contribution the parks make to California's economy. National parks in the state draw over 34 million visitors a year. Their spending contributes $1.24 billion to the state's economy and supports over 19,000 jobs.
Among a broad range of threats to the ten national parks identified in the report are:
- Joshua trees, which need freezing temperatures to set seeds, are projected to disappear entirely from the national park named after them, and from most of Death Valley National Park and Mojave National Preserve.
- In Redwood National Park and Muir Woods National Monument, higher temperatures already have reduced by 30 percent the coastal fog that redwoods depend on for nearly half their water supply. A continued decrease in the fog could keep the coast redwoods from growing to the astonishing heights that make them the world's tallest trees.
- In Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite, giant sequoias may not be resilient to the water stress and increased wildfire expected with rapid climate change, according to National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey scientists.
- Yosemite Falls, mostly fed by snowmelt, could dry up more often and earlier in summers, depriving many park visitors of one of the world's greatest sights.
- As Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon have gotten hotter and drier, pine and fir trees are dying more quickly. The death rate of trees has nearly doubled over just the past two decades.
- Sea-level rise of 2.0 to 4.7 feet in this century, as projected by the California Climate Change Center, would lead to flooding by storm surges and the permanent inundation of low-lying areas in Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Redwood National Park. At risk are beaches, wetlands, other wildlife habitat, historic structures, highways and roads, campgrounds, picnic areas, and a visitor center.
- In Yosemite, mammals already are moving upslope to stay ahead of rising temperatures. About half of small mammal species in Yosemite now live at elevations different from where they were found nearly a century ago. Most have moved to higher elevations, by an average of about 500 yards higher. Along the coast, seals and shorebirds could lose habitat to a higher sea, and many may abandon the coastal national parks as suitable areas disappear.
The report's lead author Stephen Saunders, RMCO president and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior over the National Park Service, said, "We need to reduce heat-trapping pollution to keep these national parks the special places that Americans know and love. If we keep changing the climate the way we are, it will hurt tourism and the state's economy. In California, climate disruption is a jobs-killer."
Theo Spencer, a senior advocate in NRDC's Climate Center, said, "The natural and cultural resources of California's national parks are directly linked to over one billion dollars in economic activity and 19,000 jobs. By acting now to reduce the pollution that causes global warming we will preserve these jobs and create new ones while continuing America's long-standing position of technological leadership."
The new locally-focused climate projections for the national parks considered two sets of future emissions – the medium-high scenario and one with lower (but still fairly high) emissions. With lower emissions, Yosemite would get 4.5 degrees hotter rather than 7.5 degrees hotter – still enough for widespread, severe impacts. "To really protect these special places, we need to get serious about sharply cutting heat-trapping pollution, and doing it now," said Saunders. Heat-trapping gases have long-lasting effects in the atmosphere, and emission reductions made sooner will have greater effect than those made later. "The good news is that the actions that protect the climate also save energy costs and create clean-energy jobs," he continued.
The new RMCO/NRDC report is available online at http://www.rockymountainclimate.org.
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization works to keep the American West special by reducing climate disruption and its impacts in the region. The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national nonprofit organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists.
Contact: Stephen Saunders (303) 880-4598 and email@example.com.
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A group of children sit in front of the television at Louisville Central Community Center's Mini-Versity Child Development Center.
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Early childhood educators use the program as a prompt. The children then mix colored liquid into bags that contain plain dough-like material that will soon become yellow. Then green, when they drop in blue liquid.
The video is part of KET's new Everyday Learning Collaborative and the one of several new resources that will soon be available to hundreds more early childhood educators with the potential to reach tens of thousands more children across Kentucky, officials say.
Research says communities need access to quality early childhood care. But in Kentucky only a quarter of children are ready for kindergarten when they first enter the public education system. In Jefferson County it's around a third.
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Start by installing your distribution of choice. The specific file locations given below are for Fedora 5. Most distributions install only one DE by default, so make sure to select the desired DE during installation. Although many distributions, including Fedora, give the choice of GNOME or KDE, some have opted to provide only one DE.
GNOME and KDE coexist well. One is set as the system default, but both GDM and KDM allow you to select GNOME or KDE desktops on the fly for each login. The system default DM, on the other hand, is the only DM that will be used.
To select the system default DE and DM, edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. It should have only two lines:
DE is either GNOME or KDE, and DM is either XDM, GNOME or KDE.
If the system does not automatically boot to a graphical login, change the default runlevel (initdefault) to 5 in /etc/inittab.
To use a font server, run ntsysv and select xfs to run at boot. Also, configure xfs by editing /etc/X11/fs/config and remove the line no-listen = tcp to allow outside connections to xfs.
KDM is configured using the file /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc, which is in INI format. To allow remote connections, set Enable=true in the Xdmcp section. You probably also will want to customize the X-*-Greeter section, which controls the appearance of the login screen. Note that if the UseTheme parameter is true, many other parameters in this section will be overridden. KDM also can be configured using the KDE Control Panel, but it loses all the comments in kdmrc. I prefer to edit kdmrc directly.
GDM also has an INI format configuration file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). Simply set Enable=true in the xdmcp section. The GDM configuration file is not heavily annotated, so the GUI configuration tool gdmsetup may be preferable. Run gdmsetup locally on the terminal server. On the Remote tab, change Style to Plain, Plain with face browser or Same as local. If in doubt, choose Plain.
For any DM, access is controlled by the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. Simply add the IP address or DNS name of each allowed host. A * on a line by itself will allow connections from any host.
This is everything necessary to allow a thin client to log in to a desktop on the terminal server, but more server configuration will be necessary later to access local thin-client hardware beyond KVM.
A thin client is not the only way to access the XDMCP server. Client software also can be run from a workstation. You can access either a desktop or directly run applications.
If X is not currently running, the following command provides a login to a remote desktop on a terminal server host:
X -query host
If X is already running, the same command also will work, with the local desktop and the remote desktops being on separate virtual terminals (VTs). To open the remote desktop in a window, use:
Xnest -query host
If either of these give the error "Server is already active for display 0", select a different display number by adding :1 as the first option.
To run an X application remotely without a desktop, use:
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to log in, and then run the application from the command line. The ssh option -C will add compression for slow connections.
If your workstation has tsclient installed, this provides a GUI front end for Xnest as well as client software for other protocols.
Most of the above functionality can be added to an MS Windows workstation by installing Cygwin. When installing Cygwin, add the package X11/xorg-x11-xwin to the default installation. Also, add Net/openssh if you want to use SSH. The above commands should then work in a Cygwin shell. For SSH, run startx first, then run ssh in the X terminal window that it creates.
Thin clients provide GUI tools that make basic network configuration similar to any other network appliance. Beyond the basic configuration, these tools allow the creation of sessions. A session defines the server to access and the protocol to use. XDMCP can be a session, but because the thin client is running X natively, connecting to an XDMCP server might be a basic display configuration setting. How this is done depends on the manufacturer. Other protocols are always configured as sessions.
The configuration details below were tested on an Igel 364 LX. They should be general enough to work with any thin client with ESD and NFS server capabilities, but these are not features that should be assumed.
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Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE (born 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour-long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio (NPR). She also curates ThistleRadio, a 24/7 web-based music channel devoted to new and classic music from Celtic roots and produces Thistlepod, offering free podcasts from her radio program archives.
The radio program has won numerous awards since its inception in 1981, offering a fusion of traditional and contemporary Celtic sounds, interwoven with in-studio performances and Ritchie's own trademark commentary in her "soft Scots" dialect.[1]
Early years[edit]
Ritchie was born and raised in Scotland, where she went to the University of Stirling for her undergraduate education. While there, she was invited to spend one semester in North Carolina in the United States, and that was when she first heard NPR. After graduating in Scotland she returned to North Carolina and, although initially pursuing post-graduate research, was hired by WFAE FM, the NPR station in Charlotte, to oversee fundraising and promotion efforts.
WFAE was a new station open to new ideas and in 1981 Ritchie began a weekly hour of Celtic music for its local audience. The Thistle & Shamrock was picked up for national broadcast less than two years after this debut. The program's national following grew quickly and it was soon established as one of NPR's most widely heard and best-loved music offerings. During her years based in North Carolina, Ritchie visited radio stations coast-to-coast across the US, presenting live broadcasts and events, and in 1989 and 1990, traveled to 22 US cities with The Thistle & Shamrock Concert Tour.
Return to Scotland[edit]
Fiona Ritchie has come full circle to re-settle and create her radio programs at home in Scotland. On numerous return trips to the United States, she has visited and raised funds for NPR member stations everywhere from Louisiana to Alaska, and hosted festival concerts from Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to Chicago's Grant Park. Along the way she has forged a strong association with the United States, and made a unique contribution to the American airwaves. In 2003 the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage honored her for "creating an on-air community, serving as a musical ambassador, and connecting listeners with the best of traditional and contemporary artistry."
In the UK, Fiona Ritchie has presented numerous programs for BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 2, launching the Radio Scotland world music series "Celtic Connections" in 1993. She has produced and presented many live concert performances and broadcasts, including a musical event for HRH Prince Charles in 2001 at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, and has acted in an advisory capacity for arts organizations in the US and UK, including serving on the Scottish advisory committee for the British Council.
Awards and honors[edit]
Ritchie's awards include four World Medals from the New York Festivals International Competition for Radio Programming, and a Flora Macdonald Award from St. Andrews University, which also conferred upon her the degree of honorary doctorate. Hundreds of Thistle & Shamrock tapes and vinyl albums, along with concert recordings, playlists, newsletters, and related materials are now part of a working archive in the Scottish Heritage Center at St. Andrews University (North Carolina). The archive is open to anyone interested in studying the rich heritage of Celtic music.
In 2006 Ritchie launched Thistlepod, a free podcast from NPR featuring new-releases from Celtic roots. Her partnership with NPR Music gave rise to ThistleRadio in 2012, a 24/7 web-based music channel devoted to new and classic music from Celtic roots. Ritchie has also produced several CD compilations and authored a 2005 volume on Celtic music for the NPR Curious Listener's Guide book series. In 2014, Wayfaring Strangers, her major book and CD chronicling the musical voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, was published by UNC Press. The book was co-authored by Doug Orr with a Foreword by Dolly Parton.
Ritchie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and traditional Scottish music.[2]
- ^ "Celtic Connections: A Visit to the Studio". The Scots Magazine, Oct 2007. D.C.Thomson & Co.Ltd. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b23. 14 June 2014.
External links[edit]
- The Thistle & Shamrock - official site
- The Thistle & Shamrock via streaming audio
- Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts
- Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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Macy's and Aflac Expand Long-Standing Partnership Set to Add Value to Macy's Iconic Events and Holiday Festivities Nationwide08:00 EDT Tuesday, October 25, 2011AFLAC DUCK BALLOONICLE TO DEBUT IN 85TH ANNIVERSARY MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE® AFLAC HOLIDAY DUCK TO BE AVAILABLE AT MORE THAN 670 STORES NATIONWIDE AND MORENEW YORK and COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season Macy's will be quacking the halls as the retailer expands its partnership with Aflac. Beginning in early November, Macy's and Aflac will expand the availability of the collectible plush Aflac Holiday Duck to more than 670 stores nationwide. The Aflac Duck will also debut as a new balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Aflac will help Macy's bring holiday happiness to children across the nation with the one and only Santa Claus."We are extremely pleased to expand our long-standing relationship with Aflac, which will undoubtedly bring excitement to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade lineup with a whimsical 35-foot-tall balloonicle, as well as to our stores nationwide with the Holiday Duck, Santa Claus visits, and event integrations," said Amy Kule, Macy's Group Vice President of National Events and Partnership Marketing and Executive Producer of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "The Aflac Duck has always been a favorite collectible plush in our stores and expanding his visibility will bring him to new fans this holiday season.""This year we are pleased to partner with Macy's for several special events in cities across the country as well as have the Aflac Duck make its first appearance in the 85-year history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade," said Michael Zuna, Chief Marketing Officer of Aflac. "We are equally proud that our annual plush Holiday Duck will be sold in more than 670 Macy's stores nationwide, with the proceeds going to support the treatment and research of childhood cancer at hospitals across the nation. That's up from just over 200 stores last year."Aflac Duck Balloonicle Joins Macy's ParadeMaking his first appearance in the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Aflac Duck will have spectators quacking with delight as he rides down the route. The famed spokesduck will take on a new form for the festivities as a 35-foot-tall balloonicle (a Macy's hybrid vehicle and balloon). Riding on a sleigh and wearing a festive scarf, the Aflac Duck balloonicle will be a surefire hit and a welcomed addition to the legendary Parade lineup. 2011 Aflac Holiday Duck at Macy'sDebuting in stores in early November, Macy's will offer the unique 2011 Aflac Holiday Duck as a collectible plush gift. The Quack That Gives Back is dressed in a hat and scarf that conjures up frosty images of the holiday season. With proceeds set to benefit children's cancer organizations, the Aflac Duck will be available at 674 Macy's stores, an additional 463 versus 2010. The Aflac Holiday Duck will be available in a six-inch version retailing for $10 and a 10-inch version for $15, with all the proceeds distributed to the nearest of more than 50 participating pediatric cancer hospitals in the region where the duck is purchased. 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Macy's stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments, including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy's is known for such epic events as the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks® and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®, as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy's helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers. For Macy's media materials, images and contacts, please visit our online pressroom at macys.com/pressroom. About Aflac Incorporated: When a policyholder gets sick or hurt, Aflac pays cash benefits fast. For more than 55 years, Aflac insurance policies have helped provide a safety net and given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the United States, Aflac is the number one provider of guaranteed-renewable insurance. 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President Mahinda Rajapaksa-led ruling alliance in Sri Lanka, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), has recorded an emphatic victory in the parliamentary elections held on Thursday. Of the results of 180 seats declared so far, it has won in 120 constituencies.
The outcome of the elections to the 225-member House shows that there is no change in the public mood since the January 26 Presidential election in which Mr. Rajapaksa secured a second tenure by nearly 18 percentage points over the candidate backed by the entire Opposition.
Going by the available trends and projections for the remaining seats, the UPFA might end up short of a dozen seats for a two-thirds majority. The main Opposition grouping, led by the United National Party (UNP) has so far bagged only 47 seats.
The Democratic National Alliance (DNA), the third front led by the defeated common consensus Presidential candidate and former Army Chief (retired) General Sarath Fonseka, has fared poorly, securing less than half-a-dozen seats. The Janatha Vimukthi Perumana, a main constituent of the alliance, is the biggest loser.
The official final tally of the new Parliament is expected to be delayed for at least two more weeks, as the Election Commission has withheld the results of 12 seats in the Kandy district following complaints of irregularities in some polling booths.
Though the six-week campaign in the run-up to the elections did not evoke much interest among the people, the outcome was watched with keen interest as it is the first general election in the island nation after the military defeat of the LTTE and the death of its leader Velupillai Prabakaran in May last.
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Low voter turnout and sporadic incidents of violence marked the elections. The Election Commission is to release the voting data only after all the results are officially announced and the independent election monitors have estimated the voter turn-out to be between 50 and 55 per cent. Polling in the war-ravaged Northern Province appears to be very low.
The high-pitched presidential election in January fourth week that saw a voter turn-out of nearly 75 per cent, a general perception that the combine headed by the President would fare well in the parliamentary election after the Presidential poll and a series of elections throughout the country, barring in the north, were some of the factors for the voter apathy.
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Don't carry a knife on a regular basis. But I have available a Leatherman tool and if I am attending something that needs fixing that is likely to be with me. But if I need to cut something thre is a box cutter with a new blade available but if it is a serious job like a rope around the prop the bread knife with it's serrated edge is the weapon of choice.
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In case you missed it, Amazon announced last Thursday their intent to buy the popular digital comics provider comiXology. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, and terms were not disclosed.
Maybe this explains why my Prime membership went up in price? OK, probably not. But this is a major shift for the industry, as the biggest seller of digital comics will be owned by a mega Internet company. It's really too soon to know exactly what this will all mean, but here are a few thoughts I've had after shifting through the announcement and some of the reactions to it.
Dark Horse Comics is the highest-profile publisher whose digital releases are not available on comiXology, opting instead to use their own platform, Dark Horse Digital. Following Thursday's news that Amazon has reached an agreement to purchase comiXology for an undisclosed amount, ROBOT 6 reached out to Dark Horse president and founder Mike Richardson for his thoughts on the matter:
"Companies outside our industry have been paying increasing attention to comics in recent years. New technology has offered a variety of new opportunities in both content creation and content delivery. It is not surprising that Amazon and Comixology would come together considering this environment. The comics industry, despite periods of lull, has always been an evolving and changing business, and this move is consistent with that history."
To mark the digital debut of Peter Bagge's Hate and Dame Darcy's Meat Cake, Fantagraphics Books and comiXology are offering the first issues of both series for free for a limited time.
First published in 1990, Hate chronicles the life of Bagge's longtime protagonist Buddy Bradley, a malcontent who comes of age in the Seattle grunge scene before moving back to suburban New Jersey and his dysfunctional family. One of the bestselling alternative comics of the '90s, Hate ran for 30 issues; Bagge resurrected the title in 2000 for a series of Hate Annuals. A Hate follow-up, Buddy Buys a Dump, is planned for release in June.
Published by Fantagraphics since 1993, Darcy's Meat Cake delves into a neo-Victorian world of humor, romance and frequently tragic fairy tales featuring such characters as Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig and Stregapez, who speaks by dispensing Pez-like tablets through a hole in her throat.
"Debuting Hate and Meat Cake digitally on comiXology marks a new era for these historic Fantagraphics titles," Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds said in a statement. "Although the trade paperbacks collecting these works are perennial classics, this marks the first time that the single issues of these generation-defining classics have been widely available in well over a decade. Now with comiXology's help, readers around the world will be able to experience them anew and discover just what makes these books so timelessly great."
When the announcement was made this week that DC Comics has started selling single issues in the Google Play Books store, my reaction was surprise — that the publisher wasn't doing it already. Unlike Marvel, which has an exclusive agreement with comiXology for single-issue sales, DC takes a broader approach, offering comics through Kindle, Nook, iBooks and, of course, comiXology. There's a lot of redundancy there: You can read DC comics on your Kindle as straight e-books or via the comiXology Kindle Fire app, on your iPad via iBooks or the comiXology iOS app or the Kindle or Nook iOS apps, and now, on your Android device via Google Play Books or the comiXology Android app.
Why choose one over the other? Actually, the question really is, why something other than comiXology? For regular comics readers, comiXology offers a more organized storefront and bookshelf area; e-book vendors just give you lists, while comiXology groups comics by publisher, by series and by creator. The other bonus for comiXology users is their Guided View panel-by-panel view system, which flows really well and makes it easier to read comics on an iPhone. On the other hand, Amazon is where the casual customers are, people who just read books but might pick up a comic from time to time.
The press release I received this morning from Titan Comics calls Martin Eden's Spandex "the world's first comic featuring gay superheroes," which seems like the sort of claim that gets refuted as soon as you post it on the Internet. Still, Eden has taken the idea of, basically, an all-gay Justice League and really run with it.
Spandex was nominated for an Eagle Award, and Titan Books collected the first three issues into a trade edition a couple of years ago. Now it's making the first two issues available on comiXology for $1.99 each.
Anyone can be a hero, and in the independent comic series The Pride writer/creator Joe Glass has crafted a superhero supergroup made of LGTBQ characters. Debuting in 2012 in the United Kingdom with a six-issue series, which was followed by a spinoff called The Pride Adventures, the comic has been sold by Glass at conventions, by mail and via PDF. And this week it makes its debut on comXology.
"When I was growing up, and coming to terms with my sexuality, one of the things I always felt sad about was the fact there were no visible, openly gay superheroes I could relate to," Glass wrote for an Indiegogo campaign for the series. "Sure, there were one or two, but they lived in the background or were poorly represented. Ever since then, I wanted to change that. And that's what The Pride is all about."
Veronica Darkwater lives in a world that's a bit jagged around the edges. That's because she's the heroine of Matt Ritter and Adam Elbatimy's Nova Phase, a comic that is drawn in an 8-bit style reminiscent of old-school video games.
Robot 6 readers got a sneak peek at the first issue late last year, and now the first two issues are available on comiXology; the first issue is free, and the second is just 99 cents. Ritter and Elbatimy plan on a six-issue story to be released digitally first, with every two issues collected into a print comic by SLG Publishing. Eventually, the whole story will be collected in one print volume.
This comic raises some interesting questions of technique and format, so I asked Ritter and Elbatimy to share some of their process and their thinking.
Robot 6: I know everyone asks this, but I'm going to start with it anyway: Where did the idea for this comic come from? Why do a space opera about a bounty hunter in 8-bit-style art? Did the story come first, or was the art a part of the concept from the beginning?
Matthew Ritter: I was interning over at Dark Horse Entertainment, and I wanted to pitch them something before I left. So I contacted my artist friend Adam, who I had worked on other projects with/for. We both loved comics and pixel art, so as we tossed ideas back and forth we settled on pixel art. We talked about some video game spoof comics and other ideas, and eventually I wrote a little short piece set in the Nova Phase world, he liked it, and so we went on from that.
Comics are a visual medium, and some images grab your attention at the outset. In the case of writer/artist Matthew Petz's War of the Woods, I liked the story from the moment I saw a live turtle being used as the otter Phin's helmet.
The digital series, which reveals an alien invasion of Earth from the perspective of an animal kingdom, has completed two seasons (both Season 1 and Season 2 are available on comiXology) with more on the horizon. Petz recently took some time to discuss how the series came into being and some of his plans for Season 3.
comiXology announced today that they will offer 100 self-published comics for $10, as they celebrate the "one-year anniversary of comiXology Submit at SXSW today." The special deal is available through Monday at 11 p.m. Eastern.
comiXology Submit allows independent creators and cartoonists to upload their comic book and graphic novels into comiXology at no cost. The package of 100 comics includes some really good stuff, including The Bunker #1, Becky Cloonan's The Mire, Moth City #2, The Deep: Here Be Dragons #1 and The Antler Boy and Other Stories, which alone costs $9.99.
The deal goes along with a whole week's worth of comics that comiXology has been giving away at South by Southwest, which included the first Locke & Key trade paperback, issues of Smallville and XO Manowar, and more. Visit their Tumblr to get the redemption codes, as some of them expire tonight.
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Diamond Comic Distributors' digital comics program, Diamond Digital, will shut down on Friday, although titles purchased through the service will continue to be available via iVerse's Comics Plus app.
The news broke Friday at The Hollywood Reporter, where Graeme McMillan picked up on an email sent to retailers two weeks ago. The stated reason: "18 months after its launch, results indicate that Diamond Digital has not gained enough traction in the marketplace to continue."
There are a lot of reasons why Diamond Digital didn't work, but I think chief among them is the initial concept was flawed. The idea wasn't to provide readers with a simple, easy-to-use digital comics service; it was to protect brick-and-mortar retailers by providing them with a digital comics service that wouldn't compete with them. That drive to avoid competition resulted in a clunky and almost-unusable platform. Meanwhile, comiXology took a different tack and expanded the comics market, bringing in new readers — who then found their way to comics shops and bought print comics.
Of course, the biggest problem operationally was that Diamond Digital catered to a market dominated by Marvel and DC but didn't carry single-issue comics from either publisher. And granted, that is a huge flaw.
Top Shelf Productions, home to some very successful graphic novels — among them, March and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — has announced it will make its graphic novels available digitally as DRM-free direct downloads. That's something readers say they want, and it's a model that Image Comics has already implemented.
Digital readers have been clamoring for this sort of thing on message boards and in comments sections for some time, although it remains to be seen whether the warm feeling of absolute ownership that comes with a DRM-free PDF trumps the convenience of cloud storage, easy syncing and Guided View offered by comiXology. As a matter of fact, Top Shelf's Chris Ross and comiXology's John Roberts discussed this very point in July at Comic-Con International and found a surprising amount of common ground.
Publishing | DreamWorks Animation's announcement on Monday that it is launching its own book-publishing unit doesn't mean the end of the road for its comics licensees, at least not yet: ICv2 talked to representatives from IDW Publishing, which publishes the Rocky & Bullwinkle comics, and Ape Entertainment, which has had a number of DreamWorks licenses, and both say that this won't affect their comics. [ICv2]
Auctions | A collection of comics that included the first issues of The Amazing Spider-Man and the British satirical comic Viz, as well as long runs of several Marvel series, brought in almost £25,000 (about $41,300 U.S.) at an auction in Newcastle, England. The majority of the comics were from a single collector whose wife decided to put them up for sale after he died. For those who are curious about the details, Duncan Leatherdale of The Northern Echo liveblogged the auction. [BBC News]
Controversy | Zainab Akhtar has a good roundup of the SodaStream controversy: A number of internationally known creators have protested SodaStream's sponsorship of the Angoulême International Comics Festival because the soft-drink manufacturer has a factory in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "All of Israel's settlements in the Occupied West Bank are illegal under international law, and SodaStream's factory in specific was build on land seized from several Palestinian villages in what is regarded as the largest single act of expropriation by the Israeli government in its 47-year long military occupation of the West Bank," the organizers of the protest said in a statement. A number of artists, including Jacques Tardi (whose work was celebrated in a special exhibit at the show) have signed an open letter to festival organizer Frank Bondoux, asking him to end the relationship with SodaStream. Tardi also issued a statement saying he felt that he had been "taken hostage," as he did not know about the sponsorship until the festival began. [Comics and Cola]


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Obama proposes $60.4 Billion for Sandy relief, whatever happened to cutting spending?
Chris Christie and other Northeast governors went hat-in-hand to Washington this week seeking federal funds to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. And President Big Spender readily agreed, proposing $60.4 Billion in immediate aid.
President Barack Obama formally asked Congress Friday for $60.4 billion to help states such as New Jersey and New York rebuild in the aftermath of devastating Superstorm Sandy.
"Our Nation has an obligation to assist those who suffered losses and who lack adequate resources to rebuild their lives," acting Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients said in a letter to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Meanwhile, everyone is talking about cutting federal spending. Well, almost everyone. Dear Leader just wants to raise taxes. He's gonna need a lotta new taxes to cover $60.4 Billion.
As for that "our nation has an obligation" thing, here's what Democrat Grover Cleveland (born right here in Caldwell, NJ) had to say about that:
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should I think be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Amen Brother.
If you want to encourage redevelopment then invite private investment and incentivize them with tax breaks. Chris Christie keeps saying the Jersey Shore is so "vital", well then entrepreneurs ought to be chomping at the bit to invest in its future. Banks can underwrite loans, leave the taxpayers out of it. And if you didn't have insurance or can't afford to rebuild? Sorry, but you chose poorly and that's not my problem.
Besides, Bruce Springsteen and his celebutard friends are working overtime to solicit donations for you. Americans are a very generous lot, just be patient.
Any Congressman who votes for this boondoggle isn't serious about cutting the deficit or reducing the size of government. It's time to stop paying lip service to austerity and to start making the hard decisions. Otherwise, why bother complaining about anything the government spends money on?
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Unelaborated references to a circa-2001 event called the Big Terrible and Alice's post-919 enrollment in the International Institute for Terrorist Studies mark Julavits's second novel in time: It hovers over North Africa in the desert of the real, where we all live now. One of Alice's professors so severely doubts even her immediate surroundings that she suffers bouts of Sartrean nausea at the institute's salad bar. "Is this really happening to me?" she asks, and why shouldn't she? Hers is an age when a just-like-a-movie spectacular in New York provides the pretense for a just-like-a-movie spectacular in Iraq, and footage of an American soldier's rescue ends up filed under "docudrama," merely inspired by true events. Bruno, who fancies himself a populist ("Even terrorists must avoid the temptations of tyranny and give the choice back to the people," he intones), swans around the cabin like a veteran director on a film set, throwing the occasional tantrum and seducing his diva lead actress. Playing the plump, funny sidekick, Alice also gets turns in the spotlight. The aurally alluring negotiator, Pitcairn, summons her into the cockpit to serve as his "conduit," supposedly because they both speak Sasak"the Lombok language I had learned quite effortlessly in Mylandrum," explains Alice, daughter of a globe-trotting entomologist, "because I was talented in that way in which timid girls with uninhibited sisters strive to be talented."
Bruno's involuntary cast soon discovers that, contrary to the cinematic version, the hours of a hijackee are dominated not by fear but tedium. The downtime grants Julavits ample opportunity to unpack an extreme relationship under extreme circumstances: Alice the dutiful would-be social worker and Edith the impetuous man-eater. In many ways, Living Backwards suggests an updated projection of Mary Flanagan's short story "White Places," in which a hapless little girl submits to increasingly diabolical games of Pretend at the behest of her mean older sister. Julavits's sense-and-sensibility duo languish at the mercy of Bruno's whims, but remain more helplessly enthralled to an apparent genetic inheritance of symbiotic spite and a cruelty disfigured by love.
Spite and love-borne diseases prevailed in Julavits's starkly lyrical debut, The Mineral Palace (2000), a dust-in-the-throat account of a bewildered young mother's struggle to wend her way through the social snakepit of Depression-era Pueblo, Colorado. Clear-eyed as Alice Munrothat deep-sea diver of the psycheand bold enough to bring its heroine face to face with Bonnie Parker, the novel strained a bit to shoulder its thick catalog of tragedy: drownings, fires, tormented animals, incest, lamings, suicide, infanticide, corrosive regret. It's especially intriguing, then, that the ruthlessly self-interrogatory Alice wonders if her pull toward social work doesn't bespeak an unseemly fascination with other people's abasements. As Bruno points outacting on intelligence gathered from waspish Edith, of courseAlice is somewhat a connoisseur of vicarious misfortune and failure, extracting what she calls "Shame Stories" from her fellow passengers, which Julavits intersperses as stand-alone chapters throughout Living Backwards. The author garnered much attention for an essay in the inaugural issue of The Believer bemoaning the "snark bytes" and "bonbons of malice" that too often pass for book criticism in certain New York publications; admirably, her novel in turn poses an implicit challenge to the storytelling instinct itself. (Co-edited by Julavits and Voice senior editor Ed Park, The Believer is published by McSweeney's; Living Backwards shares with Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity a deadpan intimacy with the cotton-mouthed stupefaction of airline purgatory.)
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