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COMIC LEGEND: Todd McFarlane worked Felix the Cat into issues of his comics as a treat for a friend of his.
STATUS: True
Todd McFarlane is one of the most popular comic book artists around, and that's even with him not penciling a regular book for many years.
One interesting thing he used to do when he was penciling books regularly was that he would sneak a drawing of the popular classic cartoon character, Felix the Cat, into his comics.
The reason behind this is because McFarlane knew a fellow at the local comic shop McFarlane frequented that seemed to be suffering some form of Post-Traumatic Syndrome. Almost certainly as some sort of coping mechanism, the man had a Felix the Cat doll with him at all times. He and McFarlane were friends (well, in the "guy you talk to when you pick up your books from the local comic shop" style of friendship) and he would often tell McFarlane how he did not pick up any books McFarlane drew, because he was not a fan of superhero comics.
So McFarlane asked him, "If I put Felix the Cat in my comics, would you buy them then?"
He said yes, so McFarlane began to put Felix the Cat into his comics.
I could do tons of these, but let's just do McFarlane's first story arc on Spider-Man, where he was the writer/penciler/inker (all the full pages can be clicked on to enlarge, since some of the drawings are pretty tiny).
Here's Felix's appearance in issue #1 (he's on the back of a guy's jacket)…
Here he is in #2…
Here he is in #3…
#4 is tricky. I don't believe I've found him yet. There's a bit here where we see "Cat beer," so that would presumably be it, right?
But can you see Felix there?
Later in the issue, there are a few panels with animal carvings, could either of these be intended to be Felix?
And, finally, here he is in #5…
Very cool little bit by McFarlane!
McFarlane has spoken about this in a few places over the years, but I'm directly quoting McFarlane's appearance on Tom Seymour's video podcast, Bif Bam Pow Wow. You can check out the Bif Bam Pow Wow website here.
Thanks to Tom Seymour and Todd McFarlane for the information! Now someone flip through their copy of Spider-Man #4 and let me know where Felix is!!
COMIC LEGEND: The Wonder Woman TV series adapted their costume change from the comics.
STATUS: False
In last week's installment, I discussed the debate over whether it was editor Julie Schwartz or writer Len Wein who invented the idea of Wonder Woman twirling her lasso around herself to change her costume.
Len Wein is quoted in Alter Ego #2 as saying:
I was actually thrilled when the Wonder Woman TV series several years later used a version of my bit (although adjusting it so that she did the spinning, instead of the lasso) to affect the change.
Now, do note that Wein does not specifically say that they took the idea from his comic, but that's certainly how I always understood it, that the comic came up with the change and then the show did the change, just with a twist.
Interestingly enough, my pal Kurt Mitchell pointed me to a 1959 Wonder Woman comic where Wonder Woman changes her costume just by spinning! Going even further, reader Tim Hanley did a bit on his blog with all of Wonder Woman's costume changes over the years! You can look at it here. Along with his piece, Tim also suggested that he thought the costume change being similar on the TV series was just a coincidence.
And that is exactly what it was, says Andy Mangels, who has forgotten more about the Wonder Woman television series that I'll ever know. Mangels has done extensive interviews with pretty much everyone who would know the deal behind the costume change, and the consensus on the issue is that Lynda Carter actually came up with the idea for doing a spin (and Carter said as much to Mangels in an interview in Back Issue #5, where she notes that she suggested a spin based on her background in dance).
In addition, Mangels notes that the show's producers were almost entirely interested in the early Wonder Woman issues from the 1940s, not the current stuff, so it is unlikely that they would have known about the fairly recent change by Wein.
Now, again, Andy Mangels (who also created and produces the nifty annual Wonder Woman Day event) knows a lot more than I do on this subject, so if he says it is false, I have no reason to doubt him.
Thanks to Andy for the information (check his website out here), thanks to Back Issue magazine and Lynda Carter for their information and, finally, thanks to Alter Ego magazine and Len Wein for the quote! Thanks to Tim and Kurt for their contributions, as well!
COMIC LEGEND: John Buscema drew the entire Wizard of Oz story for Marvel and DC's MGM's The Marvelous Wizard of Oz just by memory of seeing the film decades earlier and got the story almost exactly correct.
STATUS: True
One of the first few legends in this column (first few months, at least) was the story of how the first comic that Marvel and DC ever worked on together was a joint publication of the Wizard of Oz.
You see, Marvel had been working on an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, the Wizard of Oz (sort of like how Eric Shanower and Skottie Young just wonderfully did for Marvel), written by Roy Thomas and penciled by John Buscema.
Here, courtesy of Alter Ego #15 (a tribute to the late, great John Buscema soon after his passing), is a page of Buscema's pencils from that adaptation…
However, Marvel learned that DC had gotten the rights to the MGM's movie adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, so they quickly struck up a bargain where Marvel and DC would joint publish a comic adaptation of the film, with Marvel actually being responsible for the writing/drawing end of the deal.
Thomas and Buscema remained on the project (working in the Marvel style where Buscema would draw the pages based on the plot and Thomas would then script them).
However, a significant problem was back in the mid-70s, reference material for films were pretty darn sparse. You couldn't rent the video or the DVD to see what's what.
Instead, Thomas had to work off of a bootleg audio tape of the film's entire soundtrack and viewing the film once at the apartment of Marvel production manager, the late John Verpoorten, who had a 16mm copy of the film.
Buscema, however, decided to just draw the story from memory! Not only from memory, but he claimed he had not seen the film since it came out in 1939!!! Thomas remembers only that Buscema said it had been many years since he saw the film, not "since it came out," which is how Buscema later would tell the story. But either way, trying to draw a 75-page adaptation of a movie just based on your memory of it from years earlier is pretty darn impressive (they did supply Buscema with stills of the actors, because he had to base the characters on the actual actors). Thomas recalls that had it not been for their short deadline (since they had to scrap their original project to do the combined project with DC, they had a shorter period of time to get the book out), he might have challenged Buscema more on the subject, but since time WAS short, he trusted Buscema's belief that he could draw the comic from memory.
And amazingly enough, when he delivered the pages, he had only messed up the order of a couple of sequences! Marvel just cut and pasted the sequences into the correct order and Thomas scripted over that.
Here's some samples from the comic…
Remarkable work from a comic book legend (although, Buscema himself was a bit disappointed in the final product, as he felt that the inkers on the book, Tony DeZuniga and a number of assistants, were forced to rush too much).
Thanks so much to Alter Ego magazine, Mark Evanier (who did a panel at the 2001 San Diego Comic Con where Buscema related the above story), Roy Thomas (who later confirms the story from his perspective in the same issue) and, of course, the legendary John Buscema. And just because I think of him every time I do a piece about the Wizard of Oz, let's give a shout out to Eric Gjovaag, too, who has one of (if not THE) coolest Wizard of Oz websites out there!
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Man, I want to know when that Wizard of Oz book will be reprinted
They just did a special edition of Superman vs. Ali, so maybe…
One of the most prominent (and coolest) Felix references McFarlane did was the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #320, which has Felix peeking out of a trash can (or a Felix doll sticking out of a trash can) right behind Spidey.
Man, I want to know when that Wizard of Oz book will be reprinted
They just did a special edition of Superman vs. Ali, so maybe…
In the same article, Thomas expresses his confusion, too, over why it has never been reprinted as a regular-sized comic, as you figure it would certainly sell.
Then again, Marvel does have their excellent series of Shanower/Young Oz stories in print, so perhaps they do not wish to compete with themselves?
One of the most prominent (and coolest) Felix references McFarlane did was the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #320, which has Felix peeking out of a trash can (or a Felix doll sticking out of a trash can) right behind Spidey.
But you're supposed to be finding the Felix the Cat appearance in Spider-Man #4, Richard!
Those Felix the Cat appearances sure are … advantageous!!!!!
Man, Buscema's art on Wizard of Oz is gorgeous! Definitely some of the best I've seen him put out. Wow. Wasn't expecting that.
Brian, are the results of the most recent Top 100 on their way soon? Really looking forward to those. Thanks man.
Man, if that's the result of a rush job, I'd love to see how it would have looked if the inkers had been given time to do their thing…
"Then again, Marvel does have their excellent series of Shanower/Young Oz stories in print, so perhaps they do not wish to compete with themselves?"
Considering how many characters or team's have multiple series, I think it's probably more likely that it's the whole co-ownership thing. Seems that gone are the days of the DC/Marvel crossovers
I'm not seeing the cat in that panel from issue 1. Where should I be looking?
Doesn't he turn up on MJ's nightshirt at some point?
Really? Going for Spider-Man Felixi?
IIRC, in Hulk, they randomly pick up a Felix the Cat doll that bounces around the SHIELD van they stole during the lead up to the Gamma Town story.
I'm not seeing the cat in that panel from issue 1. Where should I be looking?
Bottom of the page, on a guy's jacket. It is waaay tiny.
Well done, Greg Burgas, well done.
I think you meant to say:
"Todd McFarlane's art is some of the most popular comic book art around."
>>Todd McFarlane is one of the most popular comic book artists around<<
Is pretty far from the truth. Having actually seen his asinine behavior and rudeness displayed at not one, but two comic cons, in the last 20 years – about 10 years apart – I can attest.
Seeing these pages just reminded me of how much I can't stand McFarlane's Spider-Man. Worst Mary Jane ever.
Unlike most other films, The Wizard of Oz was relatively easy to rewatch. It aired every year on CBS from 1959 to 1991. It's hard to believe that Buscema hadn't caught it on TV at some point. But even if had only been a few years since he had seen it, his recreation is an impressive feat.
True, Ralph, that's why I tossed in the bit about whether Buscema was remembering correctly when he said he had not seen it since it came out.
Pic #4, there's a veritable Rohrschak of Felix images. In the first panel, at the top, I even see ET smoking a cigarette and flipping eggs in a frying pan! Isideways, off the 4th knuckle of the first fist.
The 2nd panel, the kneck of the "Cat Beer" seems to have an image. The first panel of that series seems to have a Felix just off the lower forearm of the third arm on that page. (He's looking askance).
Now if you look at the three circular sculpted designs just to the left of the gargoyles in the final panel of that ish, the partially obscured third signal seems to clearly have enough of the this cat's face to count.
This column is a big fave, please keep it up.
Dammit, Burgas, I was going to make a "Rise above it all!" joke but you beat me to the punch. Curses!
"However, a significant problem was back in the mid-70s, reference material for films were pretty darn sparse. You couldn't rent the video or the DVD to see what's what. "
Man, DVDs back in the 70's were HUGE, bigger than frisbees and black as could be!
I believe the Felix in #4 is inside the first "O" in "DOOM."
Is it wrong that I always get Rob Liefield and Todd MacFarlane mixed up?
Make that the bottom "DOOM" in the inset panel.
Something similar to McFarlane's Felix the Cat happens with Erik Larsen: he always draws a bald guy with glasses and a moustache in his comics. I think I read he is best friend?
I noticed early on that MacFarlane often inserted Felix into a story, but I never knew why. I just assumed he was a fan. I must say, though, that I hadn't noticed all of these before.
FYI, there was a SECOND Oz book – The Wonderful World of Oz – that had the story of Ozma of Oz. (I own 'em both.) The art wasn't Buscema, I think it was one of Marvel's Filipino contingent. (I want to say Rudy Nebres but I could be wrong.)
Ralph: Actually, NBC had the rights to air "The Wizard of Oz" from 1968-1975. The Wizard returned to CBS for the following year. I'm too young to remember the 1967 CBS airing, so my formative memories are from the early NBC years.
Yeah, I'm not that impressed by Todd either. He draws monstrous stuff okay, but his normal people look exactly that… monstrous. Check out MJs hand in that second image.
That Buscema art is gorgeous. I too would love to see that book reprinted.
Thomas had to work off of a bootleg audio tape of the film's entire soundtrack and viewing the film once at the apartment of Marvel production manager, the late John Verpoorten
I did not know Verpoorten was a production manager; I just knew the name as an inker on some of the old Silver Age X-Men issues.
John Buscema is the greatest comic artist of all time.
That is all.
Those Felix the Cat appearances sure are … advantageous!!!!!
I feel sorry for McFarlane's friend with PTSD, but seriously, is it that hard to get over the past? Why can't he just… rise above it all!!!!!!
McFarlane's art sure hasn't aged very well. Looks really off.
CPADave71 is correct about Felix being behind that first O of "doom". Hard to see, but it is there.
Now that you've done McFarlane and Felix, how about Terry Austin and Popeye?
The unfortunate thing about Land of Oz (the second book in the series) was that part of the MGM contract required them to draw the MGM scarecrow and Tin Man. Everyone else was based on John R. Neil's design for the book (and it does look awesome).
They announced Ozma of Oz but never brought it into print. I've always assumed it's because the first two books were the only ones out of copyright at the time (now all the Baum Oz books are).
Really good work from Buscema ( no. 1 on my vote). But you, ve got to give DeZuniga credit too! He's one of the best inkers Buscema ever had. Their work at Conan is remarkable.
I'm perfectly willing to believe that Lynda Carter came up with the twirl-in-place costume change independently but the fact remains that Wonder Woman did use that method at least once in the comics, in Wonder Woman (first series) #104 (February 1959). I will e-mail you the relevent panels, Brian.
OK, I'm not getting these Felix the Cat jokes ("advantageous" "rise above it all") in the comments. Who wants to enlighten me?
I know I've read this before about the Oz book being drawn from memory, but, ironically, I can't remember where I read it. Maybe it was in the best of Alter Ego book I've read.
Sent 'em to your CBR e-mail account, Mr. C.
Re: Wonder Woman, as someone mentione diun the previous thread, it should also be noted above that the commentary for the pilot on the Wonder Woman season 1 DVD set (with Lynda Carter & Douglas S. Cramer) further corraborates the story that she said she could do a twirl.
Re: Wizard of Oz: Aside from the Marvel/DC issues, even though Warner owns both the movie and DC Comics, there might also be additional negotations needed due to comic being a movie adaptation, the movies and comics being different departments. The book's now in the public domain so I imagine that would be marginally easier to arange a reprinting of; you'd "just" have to deal with DC and Marvel.
OK, I'm not getting these Felix the Cat jokes ("advantageous" "rise above it all") in the comments.
McFarlane used "advantageous" and "rise above it all" frequently during Torment, nearly to the point of absurdity. Due note, though, that this was the first comic McFarlane ever wrote.
Similarly, Todd used to hide spiders on most of his covers when he started doing Amazing. It was like looking for the Playboy bunny on the cover to Playboy. So there's another legend for ya.
The 2nd Oz treasury was drawn by Alfredo Alcala….and I loved it then, and love it now.
Maybe the reason the first hasn't been reprinted is the minor use of the lyrics? I'm sure there's all sorts of legal issues between DC/MARVEL/MGM etc that probably will keep it from ever being reissued.
I have it already, in the original form…so not that big a deal to me. If Marvel/DC could figure out a way to make a buck on it-and Oz Movie stuff always has some market, they would.
But what do I know? You'd think George Lucas would put out the STAR WARS HOLIDAY special just to make a buck as well.
Best Buscema inker? Himself…..and George Klein on the AVENGERS in the 50's issues…the inks on the first two Vision stories might be the best ever.
I forgot to add re;'Buscema inkers….never much cared myself for Dezuniga, Chan, Nebres…..and others that almost made his pencils unrecognizable. Check out WARRIORS OF THE SHADOW REALM…between the inks, and the painted colors…the pencils are almost lost….how much better would that have been with only Buscema pencils? A lot, in my opinion….
SInnott did some great inks early on with Big John….but best when Buscema was doing more complete pencils…
Ah, thanks Brian.
I was going to say that surprisingly, I DON'T have a copy of that Spider-Man #1, but while I don't have one of the millions that were printed, I DO have 1 in one of those Marvel 100 greatest issues ever. I'll have to dig it out.
As a Western-Canadian, I really really really wanted to like Todd MacFarlane in the late 80s/ early 90s.
But he was boorish when I saw him at a Con, and by the time of his Wendigo storyline he was becoming more and more irritating than he ever was inspiring,
Along with Jim Lee and Rob Leifield, he was one of the main reasons I stopped buying comics in the early 90s.
Thanks, Todd.
On the other hand, who ever told a truer, simpler, more eloquent story than John Buscema?? Truly great stuff, always.
Sad that he didn't quite get onto my top ten artists, He hovered around # eleven and twelve but Neal Adams kept shouldering in front of him. Sorry, Big John, You were something special.
@bbb: I'm assuming that if the will was there, the potential rights issues are less of an obstacle today than they've ever been. Since 1985, when Ted Turner gave the rights to the MGM library to Warner Brothers, that left two of the three parties reporting to the same desk, meaning Marvel would only need to talk to one party ultimately.
Mind you, with Disney now looking at their own Oz prequel, we may have a new complication to deal with…
You can probably get the OZ comic on ebay for less than a reprint would cost and it would be the treasury edition.Large pages.
The best Buscema inker? Palmer, man, Palmer!
I read Amazing and Todd's own Spider-man book when they came out back then and I always wondered if there would a copyright problem with that. I guess not. I think it helps the Felix the Cat line… whatever that is.
I heard he drew that one big splash page from Spider-man #1 on extra large piece of artboard, larger than two standard comics art pages together just to get that detail.
That Buscema Wizard of Oz art is fantastic.
I remember seeing Felic the cat in most spawn issues back in the days where I was still reading Spawn
Frank– Todd was the only one hiding Spiders on the covers. All the Spider-titles were doing that at the time, although Todd does seem to be the first one to do it. I guess it could've been his idea, but I always assumed it was Salicrup that came up with it. Salicrup had changed the logos of Spectacular and Web to match that of Amazing, which meant removing the little spider that used to be part of the Web logo. (He also dropped the 'Peter Parker' from the title of Spectacular.) Anyway, a letter soon appeared in Web, in which a reader said that he missed the little spider, and the reply said to look for the return of the spider 'on ALL the Spider-titles'. Then the hidden spider showed up on the cover of Amazing #303 shortly after that, and then other Amazing issues, and then Spectacular and Web issues, as well.
In particular, just after "His powers-Extraordinary" came "His webline-Advantageous".
And why does this era's Peter Parker-Mullet get accepted, given all of the grief for the Supermullet?
Funny, I remember seeing in-house ads for the Wizard of Oz book as a kid, but I don't remember knowing it had been drawn by Buscema. "Rushed" or not, those pages look pretty good. Buscema and DeZuniga always made a good artistic combo. Really hope they reprint this.
With regards to the lack of reprinting the Thomas/Buscema "The Wizard of Oz," there could be another reason (one that I don't believe anyone else suggested): Judy Garland's likeness. While Buscema obviously didn't draw his Dorothy as an exact duplicate of Garland, it IS similar enough that licensing rights could cause a problem (not to mention the fact that not only is this Dorothy a teenager but also a brunette–the original Dorothy, as described by Baum, was a preteen and blonde). While the issue of "celebrity licensing" was pretty non-existent in the mid-1970s, it is a major deal now and has been for the better part of 20 years. I don't know who holds the licensing rights for Judy Garland (whether it's Liza or Lorna Luft or some third-party agency) but whoever it is would possibly need to be contacted (and probably paid) before Marvel could legally reprint the book, even if Marvel got the OK from whoever owns the rights to the film. I'm guessing there would be less of a problem concerning the likenesses of Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke or Margaret Hamilton as most of them are only recognizable in their famous Oz guises.
Warner Bros. now holds ownership of most/all pre-1986 MGM properties. So, I guess there's some kind of glimmer of hope for a reprint of the Wizard Of Oz adaptation. It certainly couldn't hurt DC's pocketbook to give it a go. If anything, I'd say it's all up to Disney now if they wanna play nice with the other kids in the proverbial sandbox we call "the sequential art industry".
Disney shouldn't have anything to say about it. They don't have any rights to the movie and the novel's public domain.
Wasn't McFarlane doing the Felix thing when he was drawing Infinity, Inc and the Hulk, too? I seem to remember seeing it happen in more than one book of his.
Bonus footnote: Todd McFarlane drew the back cover of Dark Horse's Felix the Cat's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (paired with the front cover by Dan DeCarlo; talk about your odd couples). With original pin-ups by such folk as Mort Walker, Art Clokey, and Dik Browne, this has to be one of the more eclectic collections of comic artists ever done.
I always felt McFarlane's early work on Hulk and Amazing SM were superior to his latter work. Once he started writing, drawing and inking his art started looking very rushed and lazy. His art on Spawn was pedestrian at best. Unlike Jim Lee who has gotten even better with age. Make no mistake McFarlane is not alone when it comes to "90's greats" who's art hasn't aged well.
I believe if you go to Golden Age Collectables in Vancouver you'll be able to see the Felix the Cat doll. I think it's the one behind the rare/old comics counter.
[…] McFarlane worked Felix the Cat into issues of his comics as a treat for a friend of his." The reason why is pretty […]
In reference to Todd McFarlane, I've had a few dealings with him both personal and business, and have always found him to be a nice guy. No-one's denying he isn't a little on the arrogant side but you don't get to be as successful as he became by being a shrinking violet
Fraser – Disney owns Marvel, just like WB owns DC – what Mad Monkey is saying is there are ultimately 2 companies involved in this – WB, which owns DC and the MGM catalogue, and Disney, which owns Marvel.
Now, Mad Monkey is wrong on a few points, IMO:
DC and Marvel aren't managed by the central corporations, for the most part – WB/Disney can dictate things, to an extent, but mostly they don't bother. So, this is most likely to be an issue between Marvel and DC, not the main companies.
There's no reason to believe that either of the relevant of the sub-entities within WB have any desire to reprint the book in the first place, which would need to be true for the ball to be in Disney's court.
Connected but not quite synonymous with the above – there's no reason to believe that Disney would be less likely to work with WB than vice versa, if one or the other company did decide it would be worth it to reprint the book.
…But he's right on that Disney would be involved in this – albeit in a very loose way.
Love seeing all the praise for Big John. Mr Buscema was my favorite comics artist as a kid, and I have a long history of running into comics fans who don't like his work and prefer hacks who aren't worthy to carry John Buscema's pencil box. As for his inkers, I really liked his FF work with Joe Sinnott; everybody who ever did the FF did their best FF work with Sinnott. Somehow, it's like Sinnott was the best inker for the Fantastic Four! Klein and Palmer were both great, too.
Felix has a rather unique design with the rounded cheeks. I believe that the animal carving on what appears to be a cauldron is modelled after felixs shape as it doesn't look like just a sculpture of a cat, but rather a felix like cat. Of course it would be more obvious if the eyes were round instead of slanted.
For those still having trouble with the hidden Felix in #1:
And if you do indeed dedicate an upcoming column to the hidden spiders on Spider-Man covers, Brian, be sure to mention the hidden cats on Jim Balent's Catwoman covers. When not obscured by the barcode, Jim managed to include a cat (or, in one case, catfish) on pretty much every Catwoman cover. And he was on that series for quite some time…
could you possibly find a bigger contrast in art than these Todd and John pages. I won't qualify one vs. the other, but they're such different approachs. Ok, I will qualify — which one looks dated?
Regarding the Wizard of Oz, I honstly don't think Marvel or DC enter into the discussion at all… except as potential packagers of a reprint. They don't own the material, Warner Bros. does (because they own MGM's film). The way corporations work, that does not automatically mean that DC gets to reprint the book or in any way owns it. There are always tangled (and frequently stupid) legalese threads making problems. Further, JosephW has brought up the additional wrinkle.
Chances are, if Warner Bros wanted to issue a comic book adaptation of the film, they'd contract a new edition. But I'd love to see a new printing of the Thomas/Buscema version.
Speaking of things I'd love to see, I'd dearly love to see a hardcover collection of Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey. That one really gets convoluted, because even though MGM (and now WB) owned the content of those 11 issues (counting the Treasury adaptation), Kirby created a character in the final 3 issues, "Mister Machine", that was subsequently rolled over into an ongoing series copyrighted by Marvel, Machine Man. Technically the comics (specifically 2001 #8-9-10) are owned by MGM/Warner Bros, but would Marvel try to block any reprinting by another publisher?
A further possible complication is, what precisely was involved in the MGM catalogue sale to Turner (and subsequent trnafer to Warner Bros)? Depending on the terms of the contract, it's even remotely possible that MGM still owns the licensed property, even though WB owns the films – which muddies the negotiations further since they'd need to get the film's owners to greenlight the ancilliary publication of material based on their property.
After all, Marvel didn't reprint their comics based on Star Wars, Battestar Galactica or Doc Savage because they don't hold the licenses.
The rights situation that has most surprised me was seeing Red Sonja show up in Dark Horse's Conan line. I'd have assumed that as she originated at Marvel (albeit based on Howard's Russian heroine Red Sonya) she'd have stayed at Marvel.
Keith brings up interesting points about who owns what and who could reprint what.
I'm wondering about the 2001/Machine Man thing now. I know that you did a legend about how Circuit Breaker first appeared in Secret Wars so that Marvel would own the character (they wouldn't own her if her first appearance had been the Transformers series where she made most of her appearances). I guess a similar situation DIDN'T exist with the 2001 adaptation, since Marvel still owns Machine Man. But is there more to it?
And would Red Sonja be a similar situation as Circuit Breaker (that is, she appeared in the Conan comics, so whoever owns the Conan license owns her), or did that character get licensed out separately even though it's a shared universe(a la Buffy and Angel)?
IIRC (and I believe this has come up here before) Kulan Gath was created for the Conan title and he still appears in the MU today.
Doesn't he have a modern, non Marvel Conan appearance too?
First time I've Kulan Gath was in the Red Sonja/ Spider Man crossover. That story was great and clever, but Claremont insisted in writing the same story a dozen times and it became dull.
Best Buscema inker?
Due to Conan, I like very much Tony Dezuniga and Rudy Nebres. Their inks worked very well on Black and White.
In colors, Joe Sinnot will be always the greatest! Sinnot is the best in the 60's and 70's and Terry Austin on 80's.
The weaker ones are Vince Coleta (I've never liked his work) and Tom Palmer (the pencils vanish under the ink).
I was surprised to read the original Kulan Gath story–a crossover with Michael Moorcock's Elric–and discover Gath was actually from Elric's realm of Melnibone, since he's stuck around the Marvel and Hyborian Ages ever since (a friend of mine always wanted a New Mutants scene where Mirage shows Kulan Gath his worst fear—"What? He's terrified of a half-naked guy with a sword?")
The trouble with reusing him is, he's such a bland, generic wizard. Unfortunately, Thoth Amon is off-limits.
Why is my comment from December 3 still pending of moderation?
Even as a kid I found McFarlane's writing terrible. And I'm the guy who bought the complete Xenobrood mini-series, so I wasn't exactly a gourmet. (I was surprised by his work on Infinity Inc though)
But, but… I LIKED Xenobrood!
"Man, if that's the result of a rush job, I'd love to see how it would have looked if the inkers had been given time to do their thing…"
I think some of it is John Buscema being VERY anal about how people inked his pencils.
A few people have commented about inkers with regard to who was the best and who was the worst for John Buscema. In Twomoorow's Sal Buscema book, Sal talks at length about how John was very… particular about how others inked his work and the only person that he (John) liked inking his work aside from himself was his brother, Sal.
I think bbb mentioned Ernie Chan and Rudy Nebres; I would throw Sonny Trinidad in there as well as inkers that John LOATHED working off his pencils. He felt that they took over the work and just buried his pencils. He would eventually just start doing breakdowns instead of spending time doing tight pencils when he believed that he was working with someone who would overpower his art.
How did Buscema feel about Tom Palmer who inked much of his later Avengers work? I've got mixed feeling about Palmer's Avengers work but think it works well with Buscema (as it did with Simonson on Star Wars) but it just doesn't suit the later Avengers artists.
My favorite Buscema inkers are Ernie Chan on Conan the Barbarian and George Klein on The Avengers.
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The include directive is being used from a file 4 folders in from the
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based on the example above.
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That way I can change the default state and the path from the root of the header file for the default state in a prefix header, and the source using the
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Artist Takes Taxidermy To New Heights
Bart Jansen was devastated when his cat Orville, named for Orville Wright, was run over by a car. Jansen had Orville stuffed, and fitted with remote controlled helicopter propellers. The Orvillecopter flies around an art exhibit in Amsterdam.
Good morning. I'm David Greene. Some pet owners embrace taxidermy as a way to preserve the memories. But an artist in the Netherlands is taking it to the next level. Bart Jansen was devastated when his cat Orville, named for the aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car. He wanted to make sure the cat kept his identify even after death. So Jansen had Orville stuffed and fitted with remote controlled helicopter propellers. Now the Orville copter flies around an art exhibit in Amsterdam. It's MORNING EDITION.
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In this paper, we study the source localization problem in wireless sensor networks where the location of the source is estimated according to the quantized measurements received from sensors in the field. We propose an energy efficient iterative source localization scheme, where the algorithm begins with a coarse location estimate obtained from a set of anchor sensors. Based on the available data at each iteration, we approximate the posterior probability density function (pdf) of the source location using a Monte Carlo method and we use this information to activate a number of non-anchor sensors that minimize the Conditional Posterior Crame¿r Rao Lower Bound (C-PCRLB). Then we also use the Monte Carlo approximation of the posterior pdf of the source location to compress the quantized data of each activated sensor using distributed data compression techniques. Simulation results show that the proposed iterative method achieves the mean squared error that gets close to the unconditional Posterior Crame¿r Rao Lower Bound (PCRLB) for a Bayesian estimate based on quantized data from all the sensors within a few iterations. By selecting only the most informative sensors, the iterative approach also reduces the communication requirements significantly and resulting in energy savings.
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It was 4:47 p.m. Sunday when a beaming Charlie Manuel sauntered into his team's clubhouse. He found Freddy Galvis, shook the diminutive hero's hand, and disappeared to pack for an eight-game road trip. As Galvis described his elation upon hitting an unbelievable home run that sealed a 3-2 Phillies victory to a throng of reporters, Kevin Frandsen jumped up and down to make Galvis laugh.
A few lockers away, Carlos Ruiz struggled to pull green shorts over his wrapped right leg. Across the room, Ryan Howard dismissed the notion that a left knee injury that apparently has afflicted him since spring training was serious. Both players did not join their teammates on the charter flight to Miami. Both are bound for MRI examinations Monday morning in Philadelphia.


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Social and Behavioral Research on the Elderly in Disasters (R03): This FOA issued by the National Institute on Aging encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications from institutions or organizations that propose to conduct research in the behavioral and social sciences on the consequences of natural and man-made disasters for the health and well-being of the elderly, with an ultimate goal of preventing or mitigating harmful consequences. Disasters include weather-related events, earthquakes, large-scale attacks on civilian populations, technological catastrophes or perceived catastrophes, and pandemics.
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As you know, most people look forward to going on vacations or spending time with families rather than partying with their co-workers during holidays like Christmas. So you will definitely need unique office Christmas party ideas that will make your co-workers want to attend your Christmas party.
Office Christmas Party Ideas
The most important thing that one should realize is that an office Christmas party is unlike other regular office parties. You cannot and must not force people to take part in the celebration, and even though it is an office party, it doesn't have to be traditional. It is totally up to you whether to organize a themed party or not. The most important thing is to make sure the entertainment is a good fit for your group. Even though pleasing everyone is a hard task, make sure you try your best.
Choosing The Party Theme
Throughout the year, more than 8 hours a day, your co-workers have worked really hard with you, so you all deserve cool office Christmas party ideas. Why not centre the office Christmas party ideas around an activity?
- Going to a comedy club : This certainly is a no-brainer. Go and have a good time seeing a great comic.
- Bowling : Who doesn't like games, especially bowling? It will be real fun to go bowling with your co-workers. Throw the bowling ball down the lane!
- Movie Marathon : Why not go for a movie? Better still, a Christmas Movie Marathon? It is certainly not necessary that the movies be Christmas themed.
- Sports Event : Take your team to enjoy a sports-themed event while networking over lunch or dinner.
Choosing The Venue
Looking for an exciting venue for the Christmas Party?It all comes down to personal preference when it comes to choosing the venue.
- Party In A Restaurant : If you plan to organize a traditional office Christmas party, why not take your team-mates to a lovely restaurant. You may also invite a local church group to perform or sing. Even though many office parties exclude children, I think it is a good ideas to invite the families of your team-mates as well. One of the best among Christmas office party ideas, don't you think?
- Party On A Boat : Now this a new and fun office Christmas party idea, don't you think? If you do so, you might first choose the theme of the party, as it affects the expense of the boat party to a great extent. How about a Karaoke Night or a Texas Hold'em Party?! Also, it is very much recommended that you create a "guest-list". The more is not always merrier! The larger the group, the larger will be the expenses.
- Party At A Pub : Need some more office Christmas party ideas? How about a party at the pub? A Christmas party in a pub can be much more relaxing than a party in a restaurant. Also, many pubs will have special festive menus too, which will get your guests excited. Additional events too can be organized, such as wine tasting or quiz.
When choosing the venue for your Office Christmas party, it is a good idea to call around these places and check if the venue offers free parking. Make an appointment with the Catering Manager to visit the facilities and discuss the cost per person, the types of holiday menus offered and the floor plan. Type up an agenda for the Christmas eve and give it to the Catering Manager. A sample Agenda would look like
- 6-7 pm Arrive for Appetizers and Socializing
- 7-8 pm Announcements, give out door prizes
- 8-9 pm Dinner
- 9-1 am Dancing All Night and Having Fun
Office Christmas Party Games
A very important part of any party, games add to the fun and liveliness of a party. Here are some excellent office Christmas party games –
- Musical Chairs : An absolute favourite among many people. It is a common one among the office Christmas party games. Do I really have to explain the game to you?
- Pass The Parcel : A gift is wrapped in multiple layers of paper. Each layer has a small prize beneath it. The centre layer has the grand prize. Another one of the classics. Music is played during the game, and the parcel is passed around. The person who gets the parcel when the music is stopped gets to unwrap the topmost layer and take the gift beneath. The process is continued until the last wrapper is reached and the grand prize awarded.
- Who Am I : One of the employees is blindfolded. Have that employee identify their colleagues by touching their palms (rather than faces).
- Employee Awards : Why not award certificates for specific "achievements" ? Like a Heinz Ketchup Award for always running late to meetings! Make sure you don't hurt the feelings of anyone though!
Christmas Party Games For Adults
There are many more office Christmas party games like Christmas themed bingo, Christmas Carol Name that Tune, Christmas themed pictionary and many more. If you would like to read more about Christmas games, please visit my post below:
->Ice Breaking Christmas Party Games
Things To Take Care Of
Since you are here for some Christmas office party ideas, there are some things you need to take care of –
- Make sure you don't organize the party in the same location as you work in. It would be a great idea to party in an off-site location.
- Make everyone feel comfortable. Just don't force them to wear Santa hats just because you are wearing it. Do not force them to take part in the office Christmas party games. Remember, the party is for everyone to enjoy, not just yourself.
- I would suggest that you avoid office talks completely during the party.
- During the party, please forgo all office politics. It doesn't matter whether the person is from the same or other department, make him/her feel a part of the party.
- The usual sit-and-eat parties are boring! People generally tend to avoid such parties.
- It is advisable that you let someone else the strain of organizing your Christmas party. Find a good catering service to do the job.
- The more is not always merrier! The larger the group, the larger will be the expenses.
- Food and alcohol are important components of a party. If you plan on having alcoholic beverages in your office Christmas party, use an outside service. Never ever allow employees to bring their own beer or any alcoholic beverages.
- An office Christmas party is an excellent way to meet new people with whom you won't normally talk at work, so don't be cliquey.
Describe them the details of the event in detail, for example, the directions to the venue, including address and phone number, the agenda above, parking arrangements, the party dress code, list details about the cash bars, and the type of food that will be served via buffet table or sit down.
The employees will no doubt appreciate having all this detailed information regarding the event.
So, the more you involve your employees the more they will appreciate the office Christmas party. If the party really is for their benefit, cater to them, not to management. Plan early, and having the advance lead time will make sure that the party is a hit. Have a fun Christmas party! I hope you liked the office Christmas party ideas. Have a great time!
Why not check out VideoJug's funny video on behaving at an office Christmas party?


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"Somewhere along the way, livestock production, and I would throw crop production in there as well has gotten a bad rap, and it's really taken for granted, when it's a very noble profession. You are feeding the world."
Jodi Sterle is Texas Agrilife Extension's swine specialist.
"There are some people who think that they need to walk around, socialize with other pigs, etc., like that, but it's really hard to explain that to someone who's never tried to feed a group of sows who've been arguing and fighting over their food, like I said, even if there's plenty of food available."
Sterle says science needs to catch up with emotions.
"Science tells us that those sows are protected, that the unborn piglets are protected in the sow gestation stalls, but the public does not look like it's going to accept that much longer."
Sterle is afraid that as the public gets further removed from agriculture, animals are being thought of as animated movie characters.
"We can give her exactly what she needs every single day. In the real world, or the wild, that doesn't happen, and it's survival of the fittest."
Agricultural producers maintain it's in their best interest to care for their animals.
"Our job is to put those animals in the best environment possible, to provide shelter, food, water, and that includes shelter from predators especially, as well as from the elements, in order to provide the safest, most wholesome food supply in the entire world."
Sterle says the remedy to these mistaken perceptions is education.
"I have a five year old and a nine year old and they can tell you that animals, livestock, have two jobs, and that's how we describe it, and the five year old's always asking, is this one's job to produce food for the world, to feed the world, or is it's job to have babies?


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I am trying to show that the function $\log||\log |x||$ is in VMO. The book that I was reading just mentioned that it was a straightforward verification. Can some help me to figure it out?
Since we have a positive function, we can deal with ball instead of cubes (it's allowed without this assumption, but not trivial and needed here, and will allow us to use the fact that the function, called $f$, is radial over $\mathbb R^d$), and which are centered at $0$. First, we write \begin{align}m(B(0,a),f)&=\frac 1{a^d}\int_0^ar^{d-1}\log|\log r|dr\\\ &=\int_0^1 s^{d-1}\log|\log s+\log a|ds\\\ &=\int_0^1s^{d-1}\log|\log a|\left|\frac{\log s}{\log a}+1\right|ds\\\ &=\frac{\log |\log a|}d+\int_0^1s^d\log\left|\frac{\log s}{\log a}+1\right|ds. \end{align} Now, denoting $\mathcal O(B(0,a),f)$ the oscilation over the ball $B(0,a)$ we get \begin{align} \mathcal O(B(0,a),f)&=\int_0^1\left|\int_0^1\left((\log|\log t+\log a|)t^{d-1}-m(B(0,a),f)\right)ds\right|dt\\\ &\leq 2\int_0^1s^d\log\left|\frac{\log s}{\log a}+1\right|ds. \end{align} An argument of dominated convergence gives us the result.


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BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary told jurors in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial Tuesday that he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower and that he that he heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound."
His account of the night differed little from his appearance in December at a preliminary hearing for Penn State administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz. The one difference: He said the shower encounter took place in 2001 instead of 2002.
But effect of what he saw, and heard, was unchanged, he said, responding to questions from Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan.
Sandusky is on trial on 52 criminal counts related to the alleged assaults of 10 boys during a 15-year period. Authorities alleged Sandusky abused boys at his home and inside the football team's on-campus facilities among other places.
McQueary told the jury that he was at home, in bed, watching the film "Rudy," when he decided to go to the football team building. He said he walked into the support staff locker room to put away a pair of new sneakers and, as he opened the door, he heard the noise.
"Very much skin-on-skin smacking sound," he said. "I immediately became alert and was kind of embarrassed that I was walking in on something."
He said that he turned and glanced over his right shoulder at a mirror that had a 45-dgree angle and saw Sandusky "standing behind a boy who was propped up against a wall." He estimated the boy to be 10 to 12 years old.
He said that the "boy's hands (were) up on the wall. The glance would have taken only one or two seconds. I immediately turned back to my locker to make sure I saw what I saw."
Then he put his shoes in the locker and slammed it shut, hard.
"I made the loud noise in an attempt to say 'Someone's here! Break it up!'" McQueary said.
When asked what he saw, McQueary said "the defendant's midsection was moving" subtly.
He said he then went upstairs to his office.
"It was more than my brain could handle," he said. "I was making decisions on the fly. I picked up the phone and called my father to get advice from the person I trusted most in my life, because I just saw something ridiculous."
He said he was very vague with his father on the phone, and that his dad, John, told him to leave immediately and come to the house.
McQueary's testimony came after a teenager told jurors that a school district guidance counselor initially didn't believe his abuse claims because the former Penn State assistant football coach was considered to have "a heart of gold."
The teen, labeled Victim No. 1 by a grand jury, tearfully recounted for jurors repeated instances of abuse, which he said included kissing, fondling and oral sex during sleepovers at the coach's home.
A social worker who spoke to Sandusky about the boy's claims testified that the coach denied having sexual contact with the boy but did acknowledge lying on top of him and blowing "raspberries" on the boy's stomach. The social worker, Jessica Dershem, also said Sandusky told her he couldn't recall whether he had ever touched the boy below his waistline.
The charges against Sandusky — and two university officials accused of perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse — touched off a massive scandal that led to the firing of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and the departure of the university president. Paterno died in January of lung cancer, just over two months after his ouster.
Now 18, the accuser known as Victim 1 recounted an early encounter that escalated to oral sex.
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Most people do it behind closed doors, but these people couldn't really care less who sees them having sex.
The University of Texas chapter of Phi Gamma Delta is in hot water after throwing a Western themed party that has been accused of being racist.
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Remember kids, not everything in plastic bags is candy.
As you'll see in the video, finding Waldo doesn't always turn out the way you want.
Here's one way to end your relationship, document every time your woman has rejected your sexual advances and then email it to her. That should work.
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The biennual Solar Decathlon returned to Southern California last week, with a twist.
The EVs of the 2015 Solar Decathlon
The New Autonomous Electric Nissan LEAF
Posted with permission from the author. Previously published at Clean Technica.
Monday night's email from Nissan's Tim Gallagher inviting me to visit the El Toro Marine Base on Wednesday was too good to be true. Nissan was going to have the new autonomous driving car, an electric Nissan LEAF, available to drive. Whoops, I guess "drive" is the wrong word. I'll be riding in it.
Quick Chargers are Comin'
Vroom, vroom! That's the sound of quick charging, Los Angeles style, which Plug In America co-founders Paul Scott and Zan Dubin Scott celebrated last month on a hot afternoon at Nissan of Downtown L.A. Paul, the dealership's Leaf sales specialist, drew triple the number of usual Saturday test drives with Clean Get Away, a party to mark installation of a new DC quick charger (DCQC).
What is the Most Affordable EV?
Plug In America Research Launches Second Landmark Battery Performance Survey: Tesla Roadster
Like owners of conventional gas cars, owners of electric cars are naturally interested in understanding expectations of long-term performance and maintenance issues.
City of Sammamish Installs Charging and Adds LEAFs to Fleet
The city of Sammamish, WA, recently purchased two Nissan LEAFs, and I helped make that happen by assisting the city director of community development in evaluating the total cost of ownership of the LEAF compared to gas cars the city was considering purchasing.
San Francisco Plugs In!
Nissan Quick Charger
Smaller size, and lower-cost quick charger.
Made by Sumitomo for Nissan and sold/serviced by Aerovironment.
Charger will come in two models, one for indoor use (Basic), designed to help accommodate fleets such as daily rental cars; and an outdoor model (Advanced), which is specifically designed for public and commercial charging uses – such as public spaces, corporate campuses, and retail centers.
Wired blogger takes on Nissan LEAF
Darryl Siry blogs over at Wired's Autopia. He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. He's a bit surprised, as are all of us, that Nissan has emerged as the first big automaker to manufacture a mass-produced electric car.
LEAF looking fine in San Jose
The Nissan LEAF has been on tour in California the past few weeks. CEO Carlos Ghosn appeared at the inaugural presentation in LA, attesting to the electric car's centrality to Nissan's vision of our automotive future.


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Survey: Shark tourism in the Bahamas
The Cape Eleuthera Institute is investigating the economic impact that shark diving charters have on the Bahamian economy. To gauge this, they have added a short online survey for people who have either been to the Bahamas, or are planning to do so. Adding your input to this will take no more than a few minutes, and may help more sharks in the Bahamas receive protection.


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Talks with Heenan Fail, But DLA Still Wants a Canadian Partner
Cross off global legal giant DLA Piper from the list of firms snapping up partners from Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP, which last week announced that it would dissolve as its lawyers fled for rival firms.
On Monday morning DLA Piper, which had been courting a group of Heenan Blaikie lawyers, released a statement confirming that talks to create a Canadian wing of the world's biggest law firm were off:
… on Sunday night, after additional due diligence and consideration over the weekend, we were unable to agree to economic terms and accommodate the needs of the lawyers at Heenan Blaikie. As a result, we have ended all negotiations.
DLA Piper, which has more than 4,200 lawyers worldwide, has been eyeing the Canadian legal market for some time. Last week the firm was engaged in what Roger Meltzer, DLA Piper's co-chairman for the Americas, described as "deep negotiations" with a group of up to 70 lawyers, including up to 30 partners, from Heenan Blaikie's offices in Toronto and Calgary over a proposed deal to create a Canadian wing of DLA Piper.
But by Friday evening the discussions appeared to be tanking. A spokesman for DLA Piper disagreed, telling WSJ that "talks are ongoing." But a spokesman for Heenan Blaikie said on Friday that talks were "suspended at this time," while a person familiar with the matter said negotiations had ended and were "off the table."
So it seems it's back to square one for DLA Piper, as it resumes its search for the right Canadian partner. According to the firm:
We were extremely impressed with the lawyers we met during this process and wish them all the best. We continue to strongly believe that Canada is an important market for the firm and will explore future opportunities there that complement our global business strategy.


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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - One Rio de Janiero resident says his upscale, beachside neighborhood seemed more like Iraq for a time today.
Gunmen armed with high-caliber rifles, grenades and pistols exchanged fire with police. A bystander was killed as she was getting out of a taxi.
Thirty people were taken hostage at a luxury hotel popular with foreign tourists, but were released within hours.
Television images showed an elite unit of Brazil's military police entering the Intercontinental Hotel and evacuating approximately 400 guests, many of whom were staying there for a dentists' convention.
Police say 10 suspects have been arrested.
Security in Rio de Janeiro is of great concern as the city prepares to host the final of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Officials have started an aggressive program to clear drug gangs from the city's slums.


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This year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world's largest for-profit prison corporation, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. CCA pioneered the practice of incarcerating people for money, which has now ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry.
In May 2013, Kerri Kennedy, AFSC's Associate General Secretary for International Programs, discussed the ongoing civil war in Syria.
With help from AFSC, a group of Iowa Dream Activists call for and win driver's licenses. This January 21, 2013 clip is from KCCI TV in Des Moines, and includes footage of interviews with young people who are being denied drivers' licenses because of their immigration status. The activists were protesting outside of the Iowa Department of Transportation because the DOT was refusing to issue licenses.
Youth staged a federal budget public action on the National Mall while they were in Washington, D.C. for the "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" leadership and lobby training, which also coincided with the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) and U.S. Tax Day. "Dear Congress, invest in us" A video featuring these young people is up for a People's Choice Award in the Looking @ Democracy challenge. Voting is open to the public through 3 p.m. EST on April 16.
This is the second of two videos in which people offer their remembrances of Michael McConnell and condolences to his family following his memorial service April 12, 2013.
This is part one of two videos in which people share their memories of Michael and their condolences to his family following his memorial service April 12, 2013.
This is part 2 of video remembrances by AFSC Midwest staff of regional director Michael McConnell, who passed April 7, 2013.
AFSC Midwest Regional staff offer their remembrances of regional director Michael McConnell, who passed April 7, 2013. (Part 1)
Hector Salamanca, an AFSC Iowa Dreamer and intern, reads a poem written by Michael McConnell to celebrate the creation of AFSC's Midwest Region in 2012. Michael was an AFSC regional director for 23 years until his passing April 7, 2013. AFSC has established the Michael McConnell Youth Internship Fund to help carry on Michael's passion for peace and justice. Here's the text of the poem:
Michael McConnell, former regional director of AFSC's Midwest Region, reminds us of the power each of us has to build peace and justice. This is 11 minutes of footage from Michael's Oct. 6, 2012 talk at a Windows and Mirrors reception held in the Des Moines Valley Friends Meetinghouse. Michael passed away April 7, 2013 after a courageous dance with cancer. Read more.


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Mark Millar and Frank Quitely make a welcome return with "Jupiter's Legacy 2" #1, a straightforward and action-packed reintroduction that focuses on the beginning of a resistance movement.
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She Wolf #1
Rich Tommaso's "She Wolf" #1 is an artsy take on the trope of the teenage werewolf.
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Bitch Planet #8
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro refuse to take the easy way out in "Bitch Planet" #8, where we learn where Kamau's sister is being held.
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Lazarus #22
In Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's "Lazarus" #22, Johanna Carlyle plans the next moves in the War against Hock, and Malcolm Carlyle speaks from his sickbed.
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Snotgirl #1
In Bryan Lee O'Malley and Leslie Hung's new ongoing series "Snotgirl," Lottie is a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect life who also happens to be a gross, allergy-ridden mess behind the screen.
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The Wicked + The Divine #20
In "The Wicked + The Divine" #20, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie spill the beans and reveal how Laura survived death at Ananke's hands, even as the gods continue to choose sides with Minerva's life on the line.
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Howard Chaykin brings many of his usual touches to "Midnight of the Soul" #1, including an alcohol-addicted, traumatized protagonist who discovers a dark secret.
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Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's "Paper Girls" #6 kicks off its second story arc in 2016, but it's not until the final two pages that the story shifts from somewhat unremarkable into something interesting.
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Tokyo Ghost #7
In "Tokyo Ghost #7," Rick Remender and Sean Murphy's tech-addicted dystopia takes a kick to the teeth as the Tokyo Ghost arrives in L.A. to exact revenge for the destruction of civilization.
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East of West #26
Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta's "East of West" #26 rumbles forward as Death actively looks for his son Babylon with a new ally, and a new face enters into the presence of the Chosen.
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In "Southern Bastards" #14, Jason Aaron and Jason Latour wrap up "Homecoming" in the best way possible: with the arrival of Roberta Tubb.
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The Fix #2
In the deliriously fun "The Fix" #2, Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber double down on corrupt cops Roy and Mac as they do anything and everything wrong, but with ruthless efficiency.
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The Wicked + The Divine #19
Ananke's enemies and allies clash in the Underworld in Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's "The Wicked + The Divine" #19.
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3 Floyds: Alpha King #1
Comics and beer have never gone together better than in Nick Floyd, Brian Azzarello and Simon Bisley's "Alpha King" #1, a well-crafted dark fantasy tempered with a down-to-earth background in craft-brewing.
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Velvet #14
In Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's "Velvet" #14, Velvet pursues a meeting with with the President of the United States, who is one of the only men still alive who can answer her questions about X-14's death.
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Saga #36
Dynamic duo Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples wrap up the sixth story arc of their Eisner Award-winning series "Saga" in an epic fashion with issue #36.
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Sex Criminals #15
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky bring trouble home to roost in "Sex Criminals" #15, where one character starts to lose interest in the central conceit of the comic.
|May 2nd, 2016
Chew: Demon Chicken Poyo #1
John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew: Demon Chicken Poyo" #1 reveals what Poyo has been up to since his death in the "Chicken Tenders" arc.
|April 25th, 2016
Jupiter's Circle #5
Mark Millar, Chris Sprouse, Walden Wong and Ty Templeton's "Jupiter's Circle" #5 starts to wind things down, but -- even as we get a climactic confrontation -- the story feels unsure and up in the air.
|April 18th, 2016
Grizzly Shark #1
Although Sea Bear is nowhere to be seen, Ryan Ottley's cult classic character is back with all-new adventures in "Grizzly Shark" #1.
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The Fix #1
Spencer and Steve Lieber's clean, well-trimmed bad guys belie the darkly comical tone of "The Fix" #1, a highly engaging introduction.
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The Wicked + The Divine #18
"The Wicked + The Divine" #18 kicks off the series' explosive new story arc as Persephone performs her first concert, the gods choose sides and Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie give readers reasons to worry.
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Black Road #1
Brian Wood and Garry Brown's "Black Road" #1 plunges readers into Norway as the Norsemen and the Christians wage a vicious war of conversion, with Magnus the Black as our slightly unreliable.
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Saga #35
Even as all of the characters start to converge in Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' "Saga" #35, some run the risk of arriving just too late to help.
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Injection #8
In Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's "Injection" #8, Vivek reflects on a portion of his education, and Maria offers Robin another job.
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Huck #5
"Huck" #5 plunges further into Huck's origin as he's dragged back to Russia, but Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque's comic was more engrossing when it was less about Huck's powers and more about his personality.
|March 21st, 2016
Monstress #4
In Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's "Monstress" #4, the Monstrum inside Maika becomes hungry for flesh, and the Queen of Wolves must decide on a response to the machinations of the Cumaea.
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Jupiter's Circle #4
In "Jupiter's Legacy" #4, Mark Millar and Chris Sprouse combine the wonder of the Silver Age with the political and social turmoil of the 1960s.
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The Discipline #1
Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernandez's "The Discipline" #1 gains new life from a different publisher, but -- while this opening chapter holds promise -- it feels by-the-books.
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Chew #55
In John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew" #55, a major character dies and Tony gets some unexpected answers when he goes looking for Savoy.
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In Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo's "Snowfall" #1, an eco-terrorist strikes back against a corrupt government in the aftermath of catastrophic climate change.
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Sex Criminals #14
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Injection #7
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Paper Girls #5
In Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's "Paper Girls" #5, Tiff, Mac and KJ fight a woman on a dinosaur and Erin makes a decision not to listen to her elders.
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Mirror #1
In Emma Rios and Hwei Lim's "Mirror" #1, a young mage who works with talking animals is driven to a breaking point when he must weigh duty and power against love and mercy.
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Black Magick #4
In Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott's "Black Magick" #4, an autopsy reveals a lead only Rowan recognizes, while two very different kinds of witch hunters set foot in Portsmouth.
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Cry Havoc #1
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|January 20th, 2016
Injection #6
In Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's "Injection" #6, Vivek Headland takes a new case that leads to an unwelcome discovery about a recently delivered ham from a butcher in Brooklyn.
|January 18th, 2016
Huck #3
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|January 18th, 2016
The Walking Dead #150
Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard bring the physical threat home to Alexandria with "The Walking Dead" #150, and that's not even the creepiest part...
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Bitch Planet #6
In Kelly Sue DeConnick and Taki Soma's "Bitch Planet" #6, flashbacks reveal how Meiko Maki ended up in the A.C.O.
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Paper Girls #4
Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang continue to take us on a tour of the future in "Paper Girls" #4, and it's even more dangerous than anything we've seen up until now.
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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bleakly wrap up their noir Hollywood mystery in "The Fade Out" #12.
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Lazarus #21
In Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's "Lazarus" #21, the fortunes of the Carlyle Family take a turn for the better, not once but thrice.
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Black Magick #3
"Black Magick" #3 is slow-moving but rich in atmosphere, and the end result is a pleasant experience as Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott let this world of police work and secret magick unfold in front of us.
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Chew #53
In John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew" #53, Tony Chu and Mason Savoy eat and chat, with bizarre and dangerous results.
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Saga #32
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|December 24th, 2015
The Wicked + The Divine #17
Kieron Gillen and Brandon Graham use "The Wicked + The Divine" #17 to set up some groundwork for Sakhmet, but it's only the epilogue page drawn by Jamie McKelvie that readers will talk about.
|December 16th, 2015
Monstress #2
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
We've been hearing about some unique Red Kettle bell ringers who are using creative approaches to help raise more money for Salvation Army services in their communities.
These ringers will make you take a second look if you pass by their kettles.
Tinker the Tiny Horse. She doesn't have hands but she still manages to ring for hours. Watch video
Elvis Presley -The King lives afterall…singing and ringing and shakin' his hips at Wal-Mart. Watch Video
Union Soldiers Vs. Confederate Soldiers – They're at it again, but this time they're fighting for bragging rights of best Red Kettle fundraiser. Read more
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Andreas Lauritz Thune
Andreas Lauritz Thune (9 April 1848 – 20 April 1920) was a Norwegian engineer and businessman, associated with the company Thunes Mekaniske Værksted.
He was born in Drammen.[1] His grandfather, who was a blacksmith by profession,[2] had founded a workshop in that city in 1815. The workshop developed to the manufacturing company Thunes Mekaniske Værksted, or Thune for short. It moved to Kristiania in 1851,[3] with Andreas' father in charge.[2]
Andreas Lauritz Thune graduated from Horten Technical College in 1868. He took over Thune in 1871,[1] at the age of twenty-three. At that time the production facilities were located in the downtown street Ruseløkkveien, but Andreas Thune moved to the nearby street Munkedamsveien. He started production of agricultural machinery and steam engines,[2] and locomotive production began in the 1890s. Around the turn of the 20th century Thune became the most important locomotive manufacturer in Norway, along with Hamar Jernstøberi og Mekaniske Verksted. Between 1901 and 1920 these two manufacturers delivered about 250 locomotives to the Norwegian State Railways.[4] To allow this kind of production, the production facilities had moved to rural Skøyen, as the locale in Munkedamsveien became too small for large-scale industrial production, and expansion was physically difficult. Andreas Thune had bought the property Kjellebekk, near Skøyen Railway Station, and was personally registered as owner in the 1899 property valuation. Originally using the estate as a country house, he commenced the building of production halls in 1901[2] and moved in with the company the next year.[1]
In 1889 Andreas Thune had been among the founders of the employers' organization De Mekaniske Værksteders Forening.[1] With the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers, a trade union which is now a part of the United Federation of Trade Unions,[5] MVF negotiated Norway's first collective bargaining agreement in 1907.[6] The name was changed to Mekaniske Værksteders Landsforening in 1908, and to Teknologibedriftenes Landsforening (Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries) in 1989. Following a 2006 merger, it is now a part of the Federation of Norwegian Industries.[6]
Andreas Thune was proclaimed Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1897.[1]
- ^ a b c d e "Thune, Andreas Lauritz". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.
- ^ a b c d "Branntakster forteller industrihistorie", Leif Thingsrud. Oslo municipality.
- ^ "Thunes mekaniske Værksted, A/S". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.
- ^ Gundersen, Håkon (1983). Samferdsel i Norge. Oslo: Samlaget. p. 75. ISBN 82-521-2362-7.
- ^ United Federation of Trade Unions
- ^ a b Federation of Norwegian Industries


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Our panelists predict, what will A-Rod do now he's not playing baseball?
Now panel, what will A-Rod do without baseball? Luke Burbank.
LUKE BURBANK: You know, New Jersey's going to be looking for a new governor.
BURBANK: And if he was weirdly strong that would just be gravy I guess.
SAGAL: Amy Dickinson.
AMY DICKINSON: He's not quite sure what he's going to do but he does know this. He's really pumped up for it.
SAGAL: And P.J. O'Rourke.
P.J. O'ROURKE: God, I had the same answer as Luke almost, big steroid body's going to run for governor of California.
CARL KASELL: Well, if A-Rod does any of those things, panel, we'll ask you about it on WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
SAGAL: Thank you, Carl Kasell. Thanks also to Luke Burbank, Amy Dickinson, P.J. O'Rourke. Thanks to all of you for listening. I am Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week.
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Recent theme update disabled shadow box effect for image gallery.
Recent theme update disabled shadow box effect for image gallery.
Hi, some questions :
1) can you share a link?
2) Can you check if you see this issue in the demo site here : http://demo.themesandco.com/gallery/
3) what is the browser you are using (and version)
Thanks for your feedback
Hi Nikeo,
First, thank you for the quick response!
1. http://opspublicsafety.com/single-drawer-series/
2. Demo works fine.
3. Chrome (latest version.31.0.1650.57 m)
I had the gallery set to go to link to media file instead of attachment page, which skipped the separate page with the image and just went to the shadow box of images, which was working very well.
Still building the site at the moment, don't mind the missing content. :)
Many thanks
Hi, this might not be related to the update then.
Check if you have selected linked to attachment on the top right corner of the gallery pop-in.
Hope this will help, cheers
Regretfully the attachment page doesn't enable the shadow box effect either.
:S Not sure if it helps, but I literally showed someone the shadowbox look, did the update and tried to show someone else and it didn't work. I didn't make any other changes in between.
Sorry for the trouble Nikeo. Thanks for your time on this.
Hold the phone, it is working all of a sudden.
Not sure what happened, but thanks.
Well, you fixed it yourself!
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