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When longtime Palo Alto resident and neighborhood activist Bob Moss noticed a plethora of graffiti around the city in the fall of 1993, he went to Home Depot and picked up some paint, solvent and brushes.
"It was just terrible," Moss said, noting a movie had been released earlier that year glorifying graffiti artists in Los Angeles. "I was just told the kids were doing it because they all saw this movie."
Moss put together a work box filled with supplies and lugged it around the city to clean up hundreds of tags. But he didn't stop there.
In early 1994, he brought the box to a city council meeting and pleaded for help. "I asked to have the city get people involved in taking graffiti off. I shouldn't be doing it all by myself."
The city responded by creating a graffiti management program that now enlists two full-time public works employees and sometimes as many as 40 volunteers.
Moss was no stranger to Palo Alto City Hall, where he's attended meetings and made his voice heard since the mid-1970s.
"He really is, for lack of a better term, a pillar for the community," Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa said in a recent interview. "He has added so much to the public debate and the public discourse in Palo Alto."
Moss, a 77-year-old retired material sciences engineer, moved to Palo Alto in 1971 to take a job at Ford Aerospace. As he did in the Southern California cities of West Covina and Rancho Palos Verdes, Moss quickly immersed himself in civic activities.
"In the '70s, the city had basically parties, there were two groups," Moss said. "There were the ... developers and there were the residentialists."
At the time, there was a "big push to condo conversions," Moss said. Owners were converting their buildings from apartments to condominiums and giving tenants an option to buy a unit or face eviction.
So he worked with the city to make such building conversions more difficult. Among other things, the ordinance prohibits condo conversions unless at least two-thirds of apartment tenants approve, and only when there is a "surplus" of rental housing in town.
In 1989, Moss helped form the Barron Park Association Foundation to aid in overseeing the cleanup of a toxic plume that had spread from a Superfund site.
And four years ago, Moss helped block a project that would have placed research and development offices, as well as 84 apartments, at 195 Page Mill Road. He said the city violated the California Environmental Quality Act in approving the project on land with groundwater contamination.
Former mayor and current Council Member Pat Burt, who often hears Moss chime in during the public comment period at council and committee meetings, said, "I always listen to him and often value what he has to say."
Currently, Moss is pressing the city to take a closer look at unreinforced masonry buildings that could collapse in earthquakes, Burt said.
"It's something I think is worth additional examination and he, to my knowledge, is the only person in the community raising that issue," Burt said. "Even though he's the only one raising it, he may be right on it. He's never afraid of being an outlier."
Burt said he doesn't think Moss is always correct, but appreciates his willingness to have constructive dialogue.
"If you're a Major League baseball player and you get a hit one out of every three times, you're an all-star and you make $10 million," Burt said.
Moss, who currently sits on Palo Alto's Library Advisory Commission, said he became civically active in 1966 when he learned of a developer-backed proposal to build a freeway through West Covina that would connect Huntington Beach and Azusa.
"I killed the freeway," Moss said. "As far as I know, I was the first person to kill a freeway in California."
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The Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
Analysis: Booker's Seven Basic Plots Analysis
Christopher Booker is a scholar who wrote that every story falls into one of seven basic plot structures: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, the Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Shmoop explores which of these structures fits this story like Cinderella's slipper.
Plot Type : Tragedy
Anticipation Stage
Mathilde's hates her middle-class life and dreams only of riches.
The story opens with a long description of how wretched Mathilde is with her middle-class life. All she wants is to be rich, glamorous, and desired by men. It seems as if this will never happen.
Dream Stage
Mathilde receives an invitation, buys a dress, borrows a necklace, and goes to the ball dressed to kill.
Mathilde finally gets a chance to taste the life she's always dreamed of: she gets the invitation to the Minister's ball. And now she starts to move a bit beyond her normal circumstances: she gets her husband to buy her a genuinely nice dress, and borrows a gorgeous necklace from a rich friend (which will set her up for disaster). Then she goes to the ball, and is the most popular woman there.
Frustration Stage
The necklace is lost.
Mathilde's trip to cloud nine comes to an abrupt end when she discovers she's lost the necklace. After a week of searching, it still doesn't show up, so and her husband decide to find a replacement. But now she and her husband are in a real crisis: how can they afford to replace it? Answer: they can't.
Nightmare Stage
Mathilde and M. Loisel fall into poverty to by a replacement and slowly repay their debts over ten years.
From one perspective, Mathilde's life is now worse than it's ever been – it's a nightmare. She's gone from an unremarkable but comfortable life to a grueling and difficult one. And this drags on for ten years. From another perspective, Mathilde's poverty forces her to start working hard, and she does. The debts get paid off. And Mathilde seems to have grown from the experience. It doesn't look as if this will actually have to be a tragedy.
Destruction or Death Wish Stage
Mathilde learns the truth about the necklace.
Oh wait…it is a tragedy. So much for a happy ending. No one dies, but that doesn't make the tragic twist any less devastating.

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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
"I write in blood, and the best truth is a bloody truth." (Irvin D. Yalom, from When Nietzsche Wept)
Batman and Robin #17 ("The Sum of Her Parts Part 1 of 3″) by Paul Cornell (writer), Scott McDaniel (penciller), Rob Hunter (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist), and Patrick Brosseau (letterer). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, DC.
This and Astonishing Thor got the most votes for what you wanted me to buy, so I basically flipped a mental coin – I just like Batman more than Thor, so that's that. I will say to Mr. Bill Reed, who wanted me to get Tarot: You were, of course, the only one who voted for it, and this was the issue about merfolk dying in an oil spill, which means Balent wanted to be serious. I flipped through the issue, and there's absolutely no nudity. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a Tarot issue, if you ask me.
Anyway, I don't have my old issue of Previews, but I had no idea that Cornell and McDaniel were doing an arc before Tomasi and Gleason came onto this series. Was this planned in advance? I could have sworn Tomasi and Gleason were taking over with issue #17, and I wonder if one or the other or both needed more time, and DC asked Cornell and McDaniel to throw something together quickly. Is McDaniel a fast artist? I don't know – the last time I read a book on which he was the regular artist was Daredevil, and that was almost 20 years ago. I don't have anything against McDaniel, I just don't read the books he's working on.
The biggest problem I always have with McDaniel's art is the way he draws figures, not in the actual technical work, but the fact that their ages are strange. Batman is slightly taller than Robin in this book, but in many scenes they have together, they both look like teenagers. When they have their masks off it's better, and in a few scenes Dick definitely looks like an adult, but in most of their scenes together, they both look about the same age. It's not just them, either – Una Nemo looks awfully young when she's on the boat, and even later, she doesn't look too old. Perhaps Bruce just likes 'em young (and given his perpetual 29ness, she probably fulfills the "half the age + eight" rule), but she looks weirdly jailbait-ish. This seems to be a continuing problem with McDaniel. Other than that, he does his usual yeomanlike work. I don't love his art, but I don't hate it either.
Cornell's story zips along cleverly – I love when any Batman has to actually, you know, do some detecting – even though the reveal was pretty obvious (although the final shot is surprising, because … well, I can't tell you, but it's weird). He does a nice job with the relationship between Dick and Damian – even better than Morrison did? – as they fight the bad guys, with both wanting to come up with one-liners and Damian wondering why Dick might think beating on bad guys is fun. Cornell missteps at the end, when the man they're protecting falls into the hands of the bad guy – Damian says, "He's vanished into them! Several of them will have been injured when he landed." First of all, the first sentence is unnecessary, making the second sentence unnecessary as well, but that second sentence is really poorly constructed. Cornell should have said it aloud after he typed it, because there's no way anyone talks like that. It was odd, because it really jumped out at me.
But that's a minor point, because what we get in this issue is a nice mystery and a nice way to kick off the new Batman dynamic, as Dick and Damian show they're a pretty good team. Of course, they have been for a while, but as Damian points out, now that Bruce is back, Dick can go back to being … more Dick-like, I suppose.
I'm still curious as to why this brief story exists, but it's not a bad story at all. Thanks for the recommendation, people!
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Batwoman #0 ("Beyond a Shadow") by J. H. Williams III (writer/artist), W. Haden Blackman (writer), Amy Reeder (penciller), Richard Friend (inker), Dave Stewart (colorist), and Todd Klein (letterer). $2.99, 16 pgs, FC, DC.
There's not much to this zero issue to judge Williams's writing skills, because it's just Bruce shadowing Batwoman/Kate Kane to prove that those two are one and the same! But it's a nice little re-introduction to the character, and it gives both Williams and Reeder to show off their work. Williams is far superior, of course, and I'm not sure I can really say anything about him at this point. He's breathtaking, and it's so nice to see, unlike so many other great artists who have abandoned interior art, that Williams is still willing to do it, because we get a chance to see his sequential storytelling instead of just his static pin-ups. Reeder is an interesting choice for the counter-artist, mainly because she's so new to the game. When I heard she was the off-artist for the book, I was unsure how that would work. Her work on Madame Xanadu was pleasant enough, but I wasn't sure if she could handle the more gritty nature of this book. But her art is much stronger here than it was on Madame Xanadu (you can get the final issue of that series, which came out this week as well, to compare), and I thought she might be inking herself. She's not, though, and Friend was inking her on Madame Xanadu, so either her style is evolving nicely or Dave Stewart is just that good (unless Stewart colored Madame Xanadu – I can't find the credits – in which case her art is just evolving nicely). She doesn't have the same way with laying out a page that Williams does – nobody working in comics does, really – but her line is stronger and more mature than it has been, and Kate Kane looks more mature than Madame Xanadu did – one of the problems I've had with Reeder's art is the pixie-ish nature of most of the characters, which is odd because Reeder herself is slightly pixie-ish. So I'm feeling better about Reeder doing the art when Williams isn't.
Seriously, though – Williams is one of the few artists whose books I will buy no matter what, and you should really pick this up (I should make a list of artists like that – it would be short, I'd reckon). You might balk at the price tag for 16 pages of recap and introduction, but the two artists really blend their work seamlessly, and Williams, at least, is worth the price of admission.
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Black Widow #8 ("Kiss or Kill Part 3 of 3″) by Duane Swierczynski (writer), Manuel Garcia (penciler), Lorenzo Ruggiero (inker), Jim Charalampidis (colorist), and Nate Piekos (letterer). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, Marvel.
Swierczynski "ends" his "first" "arc" on Black Widow, and it's … to be continued. Yes, this arc leads right into the Hawkeye/Black Widow mini-series that's coming out in a few weeks, which makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm sure the marketing geniuses at Marvel have some reason for doing this, but why on earth would they cancel the ongoing, if that's indeed what they've done (Swierczynski writes on his blog that it's the end of his first arc, which surely implies a second one, doesn't it? – unless he means the new mini-series is his second, which is probable) and finish the story in a mini-series? I can't imagine the readership is going to increase too much – and if it does, won't those new people be a bit peeved that they're getting a continued story? And if the readership remains the same because the same people want to read about Natasha, why kill the ongoing? I'd be happy to hear from someone at Marvel about the logic of this, because until I do, I'm going to assume that business decisions are the company are made by throwing darts at a big board in Joey Q's office.
The issue isn't bad, despite it being the middle of a story. Widow and Fatale – Kate – team up because Fatale never got paid for ruining Senator Crane's life, so she wants some payback. Garcia still has problems with faces, but his action sequence in the beginning when Natasha fights Crimson Dynamo is well done. I like his art quite a bit, but he needs to work on his expressions more, because too often his people look like slack-jawed yokels when they need to be expressing deeper emotions. But the issue, taken as a discrete unit, is okay, but when we consider it as the final issue of an ongoing and leading into a new mini-series, it's kind of annoying.
Of course, I'm sure you all caught where Natasha and Kate end up in their search for the Russian contact:
I've long been amused by the existence of Burgas, Bulgaria (anyone with the last name of "Burgas" knows that the town exists). "Burgas" is, from what I know, a somewhat common Lithuanian surname, and I'm not sure how a Slavic town shares a name with it, as Lithuanians are not Slavic. I assume it's something in the translation and they're not really the same word, just close enough for English purposes. Swierczynski, of course, writes that it's "favored by former Soviet intelligence and European slave traders." Now that's a tourist slogan!
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Damaged #0/Hollow Point #0 by Michael Schwarz and John Schwarz (creators, "Damaged"), Ron L. Brinkerhoff (creator, "Hollow Point"), David Lapham (writer, "Damaged"), David Hine (writer, "Hollow Point"), Dennis Calero (artist, "Damaged"), Elia Bonetti (artist, "Hollow Point"), and Ong Chew Peng (painter, "Hollow Point"). $1.00, 24 pgs (12 pgs each), FC, Radical.
The good people at Radical sent this over to me, which is always nice of them. This is a teaser issue for two new series, although one isn't coming out until June, so I'm not sure if people will still remember this when it comes out, but it's still neat to that they do this sort of thing.
I'm always a bit leery about comics like this, where the "creators" don't actually write it, probably because they're developing these things for Hollywood and don't know how to actually write a comic. There's nothing really wrong with doing this, and at least they hired Lapham and Hine, two guys who know what they're doing, but the ghettoization of comics into places where you can write a screenplay without actually writing a screenplay bugs me a bit. It's probably not a surprise that the best Radical books – Hotwire, The Last Days of American Crime, even Time Bomb – weren't created as movie properties (although they could easily be filmed) but as comics, and it would be nice that, if Radical wanted to create movies out of their books, they would actually create the comics and then try to sell them instead of creating the comics as movie pitches. If it works for them, I guess it works for them!
As for the comics, Damaged is slightly better. Lapham gives us a story of a cop named Lincoln who is called in to investigate a massacre of a Russian mobster and his cadre. He instantly realizes that it's the work of one man (as difficult that is for others to believe), which is later confirmed by the only witness (whom nobody believes). Lincoln knows it's one man because he knows the man – another cop he knew 35 years earlier when this cop, apparently, decided to start killing bad guys. So Lincoln realizes he's going to have to track this guy down. Lapham does a nice job building tension throughout, and it's an intriguing set-up. Calero is hit-or-miss for me, and he's definitely miss on this one. His action sequences look far too stiff, and his faces don't show much emotion at all. I don't know how Calero creates his art – a lot on the computer, probably – but for some stuff, it works pretty well. It might work for this project on a bigger scale, but for these few pages, it's not working very well.
Hollow Point is a bit weaker, mainly because Hine doesn't begin at the beginning. In a text recap on the inside front cover, we learn that an unnamed assassin was shot, and the bullet "opened a third eye into the spirit realm." Now, "tortured by his own bloodsoaked legacy," he wanders around "avenging the ghosts of victims past" – it doesn't seem like it's his victims, but I suppose it could be. This odd set-up might appear in the first issue of this series, and I hope it does, because Hine decides to just show our killer on a job, and without much background, his philosophical narration doesn't work very well. We shall see if the "origin" of the character is actually in the comic. Anyway, in this section he goes to Mexico to track down a pedophile priest. Unfortunately, he starts talking to the priest and for some reason changes his mind about killing him. Then he changes it back, but the priest tells him something that might just have an impact on the future of the series (see below). So there's that. Bonetti's art is more organic than Calero's, but while there's nothing horribly egregious about it, there's nothing really memorable about it either. It does the job, I guess.
This is only an issue, like the other Radical teaser issues. It's a nice way to get a sense of their upcoming projects, so I hope they keep putting them out. It's a neat way to advertise!
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Detective Comics #871 ("The Black Mirror Part One of Three"/"Skeleton Cases Part One of Three") by Scott Snyder (writer), Jock (artist, "The Black Mirror"), Francesco Francavilla (artist/colorist, "Skeleton Cases"), David Baron (colorist, "The Black Mirror"), and Jared K. Fletcher (letterer). $3.99, 30 pgs, FC, DC.
Snyder's "back-to-basics" approach on Detective begins with … Killer Croc, the Mad Hatter, and Poison Ivy. Some basics! Actually, it is somewhat basic – there's a new bad guy in town, who is dealing "villain" stuff that recreates the properties of those Bat-baddies, and presumably others. So a kid suddenly turns into a Croc-like villain. A woman has a Mad Hatter stamp sewn into her neck and she goes crazy. Plants suddenly burst out of a man's mouth. It's all very horrific and creepy.
Snyder does a nice job with Dick and Gordon, who have an uneasy relationship in this book, both when Dick is Dick and when he's Batman. Gordon's relationship with Batman is better than his one with Dick, actually, which is kind of neat (Gordon still sees Dick as the boy who took Barbara to the prom, and who knows what business those kids got up to that night!). Snyder also has a nice call-back to Gotham Central, which was a great series, and the whole book does feel like a "classic" Batman story. I do hope Snyder resists using the traditional Bat-villains in this book (despite the way this "dealer" gets his kicks) because they are quite played out. I don't know if he has the clout, like the God of All Comics (who resisted a bit), to create new villains and not re-use old ones, but this is a fine start. We shall see.
The back-up story is odd because a few minutes earlier, when I was reading the main story, I wondered about the person who shows up in it. Of course, I thought of it again on the first page of the back-up story because Snyder and Francavilla directed our attention to it, but I had already thought of it. I'm very intrigued, and Francavilla backing up Jock on this book is a very nice mix – for as long as it lasts, of course. It's kind of neat that Francavilla is not only a very good artist, he's a fabulous colorist. Check out the way that back-up story looks!
A good start on both stories for Snyder. I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes with this.
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Dracula: The Company of Monsters #4 by Kurt Busiek (storier), Daryl Gregory (writer), Scott Godlewski (artist), Stephen Downer (colorist), and Johnny Lowe (letterer). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC, Boom! Studios.
I wrote last time that I wasn't sure if I was getting this past issue #4 (the end of the first arc), and now that #4 is out, I can make up my mind. I do like the series, but I think I might switch to trade-waiting, because four bucks for each issue isn't worth it, especially with the way the book is going. As we've seen over the course of the series so far, Conrad, the old man in charge, wants to become a vampire and wants Dracula to turn him. He takes extreme caution in making sure Dracula doesn't kill him, but of course things go really, really badly for him. Evan, Conrad's protégé, thinks getting Dracula to turn Conrad is a wildly bad idea, but of course Conrad doesn't listen. Man, you just don't want to fuck with Dracula, people! I do like that on the first page, Conrad says to Evan, "You're asking me to believe in the devil?" Yeah, because believing in vampires is so rational. So at the end of the book, Dracula is free. That's all I will say, because I don't want to spoil it.
But I don't like the way the series is going. When it began, I thought it would be a series about Dracula taking modern business practices and applying them ruthlessly to take over society. It might still go that way, but the solicitations have made it sound like Dracula will simply gather an army and take over. Yawn. A good writer will make that work, of course, but I'm just not sure if I'm all that interested in it. So I'll start waiting for the trades and check them out so see if Busiek and Gregory are doing anything at all different with the vampire story. We'll see. Sorry, Chip!
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Scalped #43 ("A Come-to-Jesus") by Jason Aaron (writer), Jason Latour (artist), Giulia Brusco (colorist), and Steve Wands (letterer). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, DC/Vertigo.
Aaron tells a one-off story of the sheriff of White Haven, Nebraska, the town just south of the rez, who's a big blustery fellow who tells the locals stories about his time in 'Nam to impress them. One day a U.S. Marshal shows up chasing a fugitive, and Sheriff Karnow's world is upset a bit. The marshal, it turns out, was also in 'Nam, but he doesn't want to talk about the glory days – he just has a job to do. So Karnow gets a bit pissy with him and decides to find the fugitive himself. Mayhem ensues.
What's really cool about these single issues is not only do we get to see some different artists – Latour has a bit more of a brutal style than Guéra, and his messiness works in favor of him when we get to the stand-off with the fugitive, which is a jumble of weird images – but because Aaron can spotlight characters from around the rez who may or may not play roles in the grander story. Based on the end of this issue, Karnow will play a larger role, which is keen. Plus, Aaron does a nice job showing how Karnow changes throughout the issue, and even though the story is short, we still buy his transformation. What he does with his new attitude is unknown for now, but it's a nice development in the greater series. I haven't gone back and looked, but I assume Karnow has shown up before, and it's interesting to see the focus on him instead of the major players.
I probably didn't need to write any of this. I could have written "It's Scalped," and that would have been enough, but it's still nice that Aaron continues to push the series in nice directions. I am, of course, always looking forward to the next issue!
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Secret Warriors #22 ("Night Part Three") by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Alessandro Vitti (artist), Imaginary Friends Studio (colorist), and Dave Lanphear (letterer). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, Marvel.
I really do wish that, if Cheung is going to draw Daisy with such short hair, someone would tell the interior artists to do the same. Or vice versa. It's not that hard to get a look consistent, people!
Hickman wraps up the short arc with a devastating issue, as things continue to spiral right out of control. This is why Marvel and DC should allow series to end – Hickman can kill whomever he wants without worrying that they'll come back (of course, they still can, as they're corporate characters, but the deaths in this series feel far more final than in others), which gives the series a lot of its power. This is a really good issue, not just because people die, but because it feels more important than, say, someone dying in Hickman's Fantastic Four (which I don't read anymore, but it's the FF – do we really think any of them are going to die?). As the series hurtles toward the end, I keep looking forward to seeing how Hickman will wrap it up. I also like Hydra's table. How do they eat off of that thing?
Of course, all I really needed to write about this issue is that Nick Fury is MOTHERFUCKING BAD-ASSSSSSS!!!!!! But you already knew that.
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Thor: The Mighty Avenger #6 ("Thursday Night") by Roger Langridge (writer), Chris Samnee (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist), and Rus Wooton (letterer). $2.99, 23 pgs, FC, Marvel.
Back when this was solicited, I made some point or another about Fin Fang Foom not being that small. Unfortunately for all concerned, that's NOT Fin Fang Foom. Oh well. It's Heimdall, guarding the Rainbow Bridge to Asgard, who can turn into a motherfucking dragon. So, you know, just as cool.
I suppose it matters not what I write about this charming comic, because it's getting the axe in a few issues, although it continues to be a delightful read, full of wonder and action and great characterization and amazing Samnee art. We still don't know everything about why Thor is stuck on Earth, but at least his relationship with Jane moves forward, and he's just so cute trying to get her approval! I will miss this book, but at least they wrung eight issues out of it.
I don't have the energy to speculate about why the book failed (although the glut of Thor comics might have something to do with it, and based on the fact that Chad Nevett, the biggest Thor fan on the planet, hates the latest Thor offering, how soon did many, many other people give up on buying all the Thor crap?), but it's interesting that Langridge writes on his blog that he had a 12-issue grand plot worked up and now it won't get done. I mentioned this when S.W.O.R.D. bit the dust – as nice as it is to be ambitious, writers really ought to think about how to wrap up their series in 4, 5, or 6 issues, because that's how long these kinds of books last. McKeever managed it with Young Allies, and I worry that this series will really feel unfinished when it ends because of Langridge's bigger plans. It might not – Langridge has made sure that each issue has been enjoyable as a single unit – but it's annoying to know that his grand plan won't see fruition. If he pitched it that way and Marvel knew about it, couldn't they commit to twelve issues? I guess not. Oh well.
Langridge and Samnee are encouraging people to buy the trade, and so will I. I can't blame trade-waiters for this book's failure, because it's a measure of how fucked up the way comics are sold is that Marvel has no idea how many people would buy this in a different format and they're already killing it. But, again, that's a post for another day!
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Ultimate Spider-Man #150 by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), (wait for it!) David LaFuente (artist), Sara Pichelli (artist), Joëlle Jones (artist), Jamie McKelvie (artist), Skottie Young (artist), Alex Maleev (artist), Dan Brereton (artist), John Romita, Sr. (penciler), Al Milgrom (inker), Frank Cho (artist), Jim Mahfood (artist), Scott Morse (artist), Craig Thompson (artist), Michael Avon Oeming (artist), Jason Pearson (artist), Sean Phillips (artist), Mark Bagley (penciler), Rodney Ramos (inker), Art Thibert (inker), Bill Sienkiewicz (artist), P. Craig Russell (artist), Jacen Burrows (penciler), Walden Song (inker), Leonard Kirk (penciler), Terry Pallot (inker), Dave Gibbons (artist), Michael Gaydos (artist), James Kochalka (artist), David Mack (artist), Brett Weldele (artist), Ashley Wood (artist), Justin Ponsor (colorist), Imaginary Friends Studio (colorist), Matthew Wilson (colorist), Jean-Francois Beaulieu (colorist), Transparency Digital and Digital Chameleon (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer), and Chris Eliopoulos (letterer). $5.99, 40 pgs (main story) + 63 pgs (back-up story), FC, Marvel.
I usually buy Ultimate Spider-Man in trades, and I still haven't decided to keep up with it after it switched to "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man," but I thought I'd give this monster a try. With all those artists, it's tough to pass up. The main story involves the new direction of the title, as Carol Danvers tries to figure out what to do about Peter Parker and his abilities, which often cause a lot of property damage. She asks Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor to share their views, and they each tell a story about when the encountered Spider-Man. Iron Man thinks he's groovy, Cap thinks he's a punk, and Thor thinks he's a noble warrior. What's neat is that Bendis makes their reaction perfectly reasonable within the context of the Ultimate Universe, at least as I remember it – Tony is a young techno-punk, so Peter's knowledge of tech impresses him; Cap is an old fogey, so Peter's snottiness rubs him the wrong way; Thor is a god, so Peter's nobility impresses him. Carol decides … it's time for superhero school! He needs to be trained, after all.
The second story is odd, because I wonder how old it is. It centers around a school project where the kids need to come dressed as a superhero, which I swear took place in an early issue of Ultimate Spider-Man. Right? Some of the artists just contribute pin-ups (nice ones, to be sure) and those with dates on them are marked "2002." So have we seen this thing before? Or is it just that Bendis had some pin-ups lying around and wanted to fit them into a story somehow? Did this take eight years to complete because of getting pages from all the different artists? None of the artists are out of date to the point where it's obvious this is really old, so I'm just wondering what's going on.
Either way, the line-up is impressive. Jones draws the Iron Man story, and it's fantastic. McKelvie, who can't get a regular gig, apparently (I hope it's by choice – even though I doubt that – because that would suck if it weren't), gives us a really nice and almost wordless Captain America section. The choice of Young to draw the Thor part is inspired, mainly because there's a big monster that he just nails. Pichelli is a really nice artist with some Stuart Immonen in her work, which is keen. And, of course, the back-up story has all kinds of amazing art, even if some of it's only a page or two.
So that's issue #150 of Ultimate Spider-Man. I have no idea how much of it will be reprinted (especially the back-up story), so if you like to see a lot of very good artists doing their thing, it's totally worth the six bucks. The stories are just okay, but that's okay – Bendis just gets out of the way and lets everyone do their thing. It's a lot of fun.
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Gantz volume 14 by Hiroya Oku. $12.99, 217 pgs, BW, Dark Horse.
I appreciate that Dark Horse cranks these out rather quickly, but I'd also like Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service to come out more often. Or, you know, Eden to come out at all.
Miss Don't Touch Me volume 2 by Hubert (writer/colorist) and Kerascoët* (artist). $14.99, 92 pgs, FC, NBM.
I had forgotten (until it was solicited) that there was going to be a volume 2. That's kind of cool. The first volume was quite good, and I'm looking forward to the next one!
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So my daughter is continuing with her drawing class, and this past week, she came up with this:
This is, of course, a MONSTER TRUCK! Okay, it's not too obvious, mainly because she screwed up the tires, but how cool-looking is that? I'm expecting DC to call any day to offer her Teen Titans. She'd KICK ASS on that book!
And lo! it's The Ten Most Recent Songs Played On My iPod (Which Is Always On Shuffle):
1. "Do You Recall" – Journey (1979) "After stormy weather, does the sun shine every day?"
2. "Hollyann" – Boston (1986) "I still hear guitars in the air as we sat in the sand"
3. "The Maestro" – Beastie Boys (1992) "I feel like Rufus Thomas, the crown prince of dance"
4. "Breakdown" – Guns N' Roses (1991) "Just because you're winnin' don't mean you're the lucky one"1
5. "The Train" – King's X (1996) "You leave us all behind, you start to feel the pain"
6. "Right Here, Right Now" – Jesus Jones (1990) "A woman on the radio talks about revolution when it's already passed her by"
7. "Learning to Fly" – Pink Floyd (1987) "Across the clouds I see my shadow fly, out of the corner of my watering eye"
8. "We" – Neil Diamond (2005) "Love is not about young or old, touches everybody in a special way"
9. "Lights" – Journey (1978) "So you think you're lonely, well my friend, I'm lonely too"2
10. "Beautiful Girls" – Van Halen (1979) "She had a drink in her hand, she had her toes in the sand"3
1 I like about six Guns N' Roses songs, and this is one of them. It's odd, because I really like those Guns N' Roses songs, yet I can't stand the rest of their catalog – I'm not even indifferent to it, I actively hate them. Weird. Also, if you check out that video, you see Stephanie Seymour. Does Stephanie Seymour ever sit around and think, "I let Axl Rose touch me" and then shiver? I wonder. Also, I have never heard anything from Chinese Democracy, nor did I hear any real news about it except that it came out. Is it just so bad that no one wants to comment? Or has the music world really passed Axl by?
2 Man, you need to check out the hair and the clothes on the boys in that video. The Seventies ruled, man!
3 Two Journey songs, Boston, Floyd, and Van Halen – this playlist wouldn't look out of place on my favorite radio station when I was growing up, 93.3 WMMR, in 1987 or so. Did anyone (or, hell, does anyone) still listen to WMMR? (Bill Reed, I'm looking at you.) I know classic rock stations are all over the dial all over the country, but MMR was fun because of Pierre Robert (rhymes with "Colbert"), who's still a DJ there, man! Two things stand out about Robert's shows – he always ended them with "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python, and he played "Alice's Restaurant" every Thanksgiving. He's still playing it, apparently. Pierre Motherfuckin' Robert.
How about we check out some totally random lyrics?
"Met an Indian boy in Ottawa
He laid me down on a bed of straw
Said don't waste your breath
Don't waste your heart
Don't blister your heels
Running in the dark"
Chew on that with your Thanksgiving dinner/leftovers! I hope everyone had a good day if they celebrated the Pilgrims coming over here to spread religious intolerance and kill any indigenous person they found. And if you didn't celebrate … well, you're obviously an un-American Commie (or worse yet, a not-even-American Commie!), but I still hope you had a good day!
I am so jazzed for the return of Batwoman, and I totally agree with you about William' art. Unique and utterly masterful. However, as a huge fan of Reeder's art and the Madame Xanadu series, I have to say I am just as excited that she will be handling the off arcs. While it's very different than Williams' if you look back at her work throughout Madame Xanadu, you'll notice that like Williams, she has an amazing way with layouts that shatters conventions of the comic book panel. And while I agree, many of her characters had that pixie-ish quality, it's good to see that Kate has more maturity in her look. And that panel you chose to highlight from the issue? It blows my mind. What a great pairing.
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From your description and the list of artists, it sounds like Ultimate Spider-Man 150 reprinted the Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Special that finished off the Ultimate Marvel Team-Up series. Does the Kolchalka page have Iceman? If so, it's definitely a reprint of that issue.
Chinese Democracy sounded overproduced and dated the moment it came out. A friend burned me a copy, and I had to force myself to listen to it twice through. The songs sound generic, and the "wall of sound" approach doesn't help. One of Axl's strengths is his range. Multi-tracked vocals kills it. Avoid.
I grew up listening to the local classic rock station (100.7 WZLX in Boston), but stopped when the softer songs of the seventies were put into heavier rotation. This was about 15 years ago. I like Hendrix, Dylan, Beatles, and the Who. I don't like Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Boston (sorry), or Billy Joel. There was plenty of good music in the '70s, but most of the singer/songwriters, disco, and arena rock does nothing for me. To each his or her own.
Your daughter's monster truck is awesome, especially the eyes & teeth.
For the record, WMMR is, has been, and always will be the #1 pre-set on my car radio. And you can't beat Pierre Robert. Granted, just about every other DJ who used to be on MMR is now on WMGK, which is a great classic rock station in its own right now, but they don't have Pierre. (By the way, though, it was John DeBella's Morning Zoo that used to end with "The Bright Side of Life." Pierre had the show right after the Zoo, though, so he was usually there for the handoff.)
For the record, I'm NOT the biggest Thor fan on the planet. I'm a fan, but there are bigger ones, in physical size and in genuine love for the character.
And good call on not getting Astonishing Thor #1. Sorry for suggesting that one…
Oh, and, Greg? No promotion for you appearance on the podcast this week? For shame!
Mike Loughlin nailed it. It's a reprint of the Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special #1, and has already been collected in several Ultimate Team-Up trades.
There are actually radio shows called "morning zoo"? I guess thats why whenever someone jokes about cheesey morning DJs they name the show morning zoo. Funny.
Power Man #4 was hard to read, I might just be too hung over though.
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I could have sworn Tomasi and Gleason were taking over with issue #17, and I wonder if one or the other or both needed more time, and DC asked Cornell and McDaniel to throw something together quickly
That's exactly what happened.
DC were actually upfront about it as well!
Tomasi and Gleason needed more time due to Brightest Day.
The only thing that startled me was that the announcement was only 2-4weeks ago, I think, which really makes you wonder how short of a lead time they have – last months books were advertising Tomasi and Gleason as taking over.
That said, I loves me some Paul Cornell, so I was pretty stoked with it.
Okay, it's definitely the reprint. Still, I had never seen it, so it was pretty danged cool.
Brian: Thanks for reminding me that DeBella was ending and Robert was coming in. I knew Robert was always there, and forgot that it was the beginning of his show and the end of the morning one. It's been 20 years since I listened to the station, so I tend to forget some of the details!
Chad: Since we haven't actually done it yet, I figured I'd wait until it was posted to promote it. But there will be promotion!!! And I'm shocked to hear you admit that you're not the biggest Thor fan. My world is shattered! I didn't hate Mike Choi's art, though, and I see that you did. Too bad the comic sucks!
Trey: Good call. I should listen to some more Emmylou Harris, because I love that song.
Bill: Well, yes, but Balent pulled the old "cover the breasts with foreign objects" thing that the Big Two do. I thought he had more integrity than that, man!
FGJ: Thanks for the info.
Loved Batwoman #0. Like you Greg, I'm a long time J.H. Williams III fan. Can't wait for Feb.
You are really underselling Reeder there. First of all, her Madame Xanadu art was great. Her sense of pace, her balance of lights and darks, her curvilinears, and her more ambitious layouts put most of DC to shame, and that was her second major published work as far as I know. Name me any other DC artist who could not just fill in for Williams, but hold their own in a book with their art lined up, and not only that but also have a conversation with him in the art? I don't know if Williams did all the rough layouts or not but Reeder definitely brought her voice to her half of the book and that set up a great dynamic between Kate's two lives. In fact as awesome as Williams preview art was, I found myself wanting for more of the two artists working together because the two of them work so damn well as a team and I cannot wait to see Reeder's solo issues.
I hope that Batman doesn't factor into the comic too much. I like her independence from all that baggage and her independence in general. Did you give up on Strange Tales?:(
Black Widow is ending? Is this because Spider-Girl has started? I'm starting to suspect that Marvel has a policy of publishing only one ongoing series at a time about a female character.
Honestly Chinese Democracy got excellent reviews, hit the net. I personally have listened to it about 2 times, it just isn't GNR. I agree with Steve Adler (ex-GNR drummer) that the band should be called W.A.R. (W Axl Rose) and not GNR.
Amy Reeder is a brilliant artist. She is one of the most talented artists currently seeing print… though JH Williams is THE best, in my opinion.
Batwoman is going to be awesome.
Julian: I haven't given up on Strange Tales, sir! I asked the guy at my shoppe to re-order issue #2, but it hasn't arrived yet. I'll get issue #3 when it comes out, but I may have to do some hunting for issue #2 if they don't get it for me.
I apologize for underselling Reeder. I only have the first Madame Xanadu trade (although I bought the arcs without her on art), and while I liked her art, I don't recall her doing anything all that different with the way pages are laid out and other nifty things. I flipped through the final issue of Madame Xanadu and it still seemed like it was good but not innovative. I suppose I didn't look at it closely enough, but on first glance, it just looked like good draughtsmanship and not really anything else. I thought her art in this book was a huge step forward, but maybe she's been doing stuff like this for a while. Even so, my fears about her drawing the book when Williams isn't have been mostly allayed, so I'm happy about that!
Interesting to hear Mike and Jax's comments about Chinese Democracy. I really did hear nothing about it!
Mary: Well, they are publishing She-Hulk! I have no idea what's going on with Black Widow. The ongoing hasn't been solicited recently, the new mini-series has been, so I just assume the ongoing has been axed. I don't know what they're going to do after the mini-series concludes … launch a new ongoing? This is why I don't understand their business practices!
I stopped buying Ultimate Spider-man after the Ultimatum story and, though I have picked a few recent issues up cheap, I haven't read them yet. Returning to original numbering already is a pretty weird move though. Did sales drop off by a lot or something?
As for the facny dress thing, I'm pretty sure it was mentioned early but took place in the team up one shot special. Another multi artist job.
"Honestly Chinese Democracy got excellent reviews"
I'm not going to call anyone's musical opinions wrong, personal taste and all that, but no, it really didn't.
There were a few, but by no means a majority; in fact NO position on the Axl Rose Solo Album was really a majority, the reviews were scattered across the spectrum, from raves to pans and all points between (from "disappointing" to "not as bad as expected").
You might want to go back and buy Action Comics #895 after all, Greg. Not that it'll be really necessary to your future enjoyment, but it sets up an appearance by the Secret Six.
I gave up on the entire Ultimate line when Ultimatum came out. It was the perfect jumping off point. I've been staying away from all the Ultimate Comics mostly out of spite, which is starting to wear off. Is Ultimate Comics Spider-Man worth picking up? I have the entire run of Ultimate Spider-Man, so is there anything I'm missing by ignoring Ultimate Comics Spider-Man?
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Tim Ehrhardt 10 months, 3 weeks ago on Payson Community good guy Shot in Payson YESTERDAY!
Payson Community good guy Shot in Payson YESTERDAY!
One of the community groups on Facebook has had updates, with Darla and their daughter posting. The Roundup posted on their Facebook page last night.
Tim Ehrhardt 1 year, 7 months ago on Town drafts agreement for Rim Ranch development
Town drafts agreement for Rim Ranch development
I've been told that the amount of usable land there is a lot less than 80 acres. (That could be a good thing, but to tout 80 acres is unfair.) Also, there is a good sized chunk of land in this region that has power and already has paved roads to it. And no, it's not at the airport, and yes, it's on the market for sale.
I don't like this being called Rim Ranch, which I guess was a moniker that has been used for a little while. There is already a Rim Ranch in Payson, a subdivision next to Manzanita Hills. I wish they'd use a different name.
I'll also give you one more tidbit to look at - 2011 Payson Transportation Study. Maybe with regards to the future, this Fox Farm site works really well. Maybe not. Take a look at where it sits in regards to future plans and how it might affect the direction of the region. This study covers the footprint of Payson and the estimates of future roads shows what the projection was in 2011. How does the usage of Fox Farm change all of that? What are we really looking at long term here for the region? Maybe it's a great thing, maybe it's not. What's the bigger picture and vision?
Tim Ehrhardt 1 year, 10 months ago on Residents protest 40-foot, view-destroying APS poles
Residents protest 40-foot, view-destroying APS poles
I think you're missing the point - you're talking about new poles that obstruct views because they're higher, not a desire to not replace the current poles. In the case of the houses on Bulla, the views are definitely a selling point. I can tell you as a Realtor that power lines and poles are definitely something that I have to work around when taking pictures. It definitely detracts and has some sort of negative effect on values. I don't blame the neighborhood for wanting answers and for APS and the town to work with them on it. It's quite reasonable in my opinion.
Tim Ehrhardt 1 year, 10 months ago on A family's heartbreaking tragedy inspires their lifesaving effort
A family's heartbreaking tragedy inspires their lifesaving effort
Really, really glad to see what the family is doing. Some additional information on where the accident happened.
This happened on a hill that locals call "cattle guard hill". It's about two miles on FR 29 from Mead Ranch and is in the Dude Fire burn. I drive it just about every day and came across the closure from the accident about 7:30 or so on the night it happened while on my way home. It's in the shadow of Myrtle Point, a gorgeous spot. They lost it on what's pretty much an L curve and there's a canyon where it happened - that's what they almost certainly went at least a little bit into. Difficult spot, the canyon and road curve is very steep in there. If there's not a car coming the other way (there is good visibility), you want to cut that corner. I saw the markings of the ATV's path the next day and it appeared that they ended up wide coming into the curve and just couldn't save it.
Our local fire folks do a great job. Friends told me that neighbors of mine, Lenny Trujillo and J.P. Matchner were on that call. They live in Mead Ranch and work out of that Hellsgate firehouse. It would not surprise me if they were first on the scene.They're great guys and it's not been an easy year for them. Remember, they lost a co-worker and terrific neighbor, Bobby Mollere, earlier in the year.
Tim Ehrhardt 3 years ago on Samuel H. Mitchell and the Phoenix Street Car company
Samuel H. Mitchell and the Phoenix Street Car company
Ella was definitely a key factor in the founding of the Payson Presbyterian Church. The Roundup had an article a few years ago on their 75th anniversary that mentioned her extensively. I also checked my clip collection, and below is what I found. I would suggest getting in touch with the Payson Presbyterian Church to see if they have some additional information. I'm sure that they would love to hear from you.
Church Dedication Arranged At Payson
PAYSON, Nov. 14 - Formal dedication of the newly organized Payson Community Presbyterian church will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 19. The Rev. Charles S. Poling, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Phoenix will give the dedication sermon. The new church here was made possible by Mrs. S.H. Mitchell, a member of the First Presbyterian church of Phoenix. - November 15, 1935 The Arizona Republic
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I just passed your message along to Jayne Peace Pyle and that's going to be your best source. I know that she's been in touch with a See from Camp Verde. I'll make sure that she gets in touch with you.
Tim Ehrhardt 4 years, 5 months ago on Tourism vs, recycling ?
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Obviously, as someone who has a passion for history, I disagree with your statement Pat that "Globe has a history, Payson does not." By the same token, I think I kind of understand what you're saying and I think that's been a challenge here. From a historic building standpoint, Payson didn't have the master pieces that Globe had. In my opinion, and certainly I'd love to hear yours on this Pat, Payson never had the money that Globe had and that's part of it. When you look at the square footage of remaining old buildings here, it seems to me that they are typically much smaller than what you see other places.
I think there's plenty of history though, although I think it's much more spread out which creates a challenge. Personally, one of the things I would really like to see is historic markers throughout the region, including at the Holder graves northwest of Payson and the Allenbaugh graves on the Colcord Mountain Road. It's not as sexy persay as a centralized bunch of historic buildings, but I think it's still important and plays to the underlying strengths of the region.
Tim Ehrhardt 5 years ago on Next Mayor
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Very timely post Pat. I haven't heard anything about possible mayoral candidates but it does seem to be a ripe time for discussions. Definitely curious as to what folks are hearing about possible candidates.
Tim Ehrhardt 5 years, 8 months ago on Unhappy with Star Valley speed camera
Unhappy with Star Valley speed camera
I drive pass those cameras just about every day, and guess what? They work. I definitely drive slower through there now than I did before, and it's definitely easy to turn out of a place like Plant Fair than it was before. I don't care who's profiting, they serve the true purpose that they are there for.
Tim Ehrhardt 5 years, 9 months ago on Swiss Village
Swiss Village
Historically Main Street was the center of town, but it hasn't been for a long time. There is great potential there and it does seem to me that there are some really good folks down there trying to make a go. But in my opinion, it's going to need a successful restaurant at some point, and you could argue that it needs a successful Oxbow. I love that area, but it's a difficult area to "fix" and there are a lot of different opinions on it.
I like Dan's mention about Barney Swartwood. The guy was a premier developer in this town. He did some terrific subdivisions - keep in mind that we he developed Mesa del Caballo in the late 50s, it was site built only. He really did some nice stuff and the vision for Swiss Village and surrounding area was good. I've heard a lot of really good things about him.
I think with regards to town support, it's a very tough thing in this day in age, especially for a town the size of Payson. If you help Main Street, businesses on the highway complain, if you help Swiss Village, businesses on the south end of town and Main Street complain. As leadership comes and goes, there are different visions and different places in town near and dear to people's hearts. And the one thing that is going to be constant, is change, no matter how much we fight it - sometimes it's for the better, sometimes it's for the worse, sometimes the opinion of that depends on point of view.
I too remember the "good ole days" of Swiss Village. We never really did the lighting thing, but my Mom always insisted on a stop at Candle Factory the day after Thanksgiving. And the bakery that used to be where the Mexican food place is now...oh my, that was some really good stuff.
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Has anyone thought about integrating CF7 with the eShop plugin?
I played around with the idea a while back, but I just can't get it to work. But I think if we combine CF7 with just about any one of the ecommerce plugins we'd have something better than Gravity Forms and it would be free - bonus!
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The Orioles are coming off a successful 2012 campaign which saw them finish 7-2 overall and a second place finish in the Cloverbelt Conference.
Stanley-Boyd returns their offensive leaders including quarterback Tyler Sorenson, running back Ronny Ponick and receiver Dustin Spaeth. Head coach Jeff Koenig will also have some inexperienced players in the fold as well.
"We have a lot of returners this year, there is actually a lot of older players and also a group of younger players and not a lot in the middle. So we have the tale of two teams going on at once.
We always try to finish in the top half of the conference, be competitive in every game we play, and we want out guys to learn really important life lessons as we are going. We have a great group of guys this year and we are excited for the season."
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Bob Clark begins his fifth season as the Associate Head Coach at the College of Charleston and 40th overall in coaching.
In five seasons at The College, Clark has served under both current head coach Candice M. Jackson as well as former CofC (and current Georgetown) boss Natasha Adair. Known around the country as one of the best game management coaches in the business, Clark's wealth of experience has proved influential during his time in the lowcountry.
"I couldn't be any happier that Bob decided to stay," said Jackson. "His wealth of knowledge and experience will play a big part in what we do here. He is a family guy and this is going to be a family atmosphere. I really like what he is going to bring from that standpoint and am thrilled to have him."
Clark helped the Cougars achieve one of their most successful two year stints in program history, combining for 35 wins and consecutive trips to the Women's Basketball Invitational during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.
Prior to joining the Cougar family, Clark spent five years as an assistant coach at Wake Forest, helping to guide the Demon Deacons to a 20-14 record and an appearance in second round of the WNIT.
In his first season in Winston-Salem, Clark also helped guide Wake Forest an 18-14 record overall and a fifth place finish in the ACC. Seven of those wins came in conference play, which was the second-highest conference win total in school-history.
In his second year with the program, the Demon Deacons began the season with a record-setting 12-0 start. In January, the nation began to recognize Wake Forest's achievements and the Demon Deacons were voted into the Top 25 for the first time since the 1987-88 season.
Prior to his arrival at Wake Forest, Clark served as the head coach for the girls' basketball team at Loch Raven High School in Baltimore, Md. for the 2006-07 season. After leading Loch Raven to the finals of the Region 2A North tournament, Clark was named the Coach of the Year for the Baltimore metropolitan area by the Baltimore Examiner. After going 10-11 the previous season, Clark led the Raiders to a 19-4 record in his only year.
During Clark's six seasons at Georgetown (1998-2004), he helped the Hoyas to four WNIT bids and also served as the recruiting coordinator for three of those campaigns.
Clark has also been an important part of four teams that advanced to NCAA tournament play. While an assistant at Radford (1994-1996), Clark's teams won the Big South Tournament earning an automatic bid to the NCAA's in each of his two seasons. Clark also helped guide Providence (1990-93), to two at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament while racking up an impressive 62-30 record. During the 1990-91 season, the Lady Friars also led all Division I schools with a 96.7 scoring average.
Clark's first collegiate position was as an assistant men's basketball coach at Roanoke College (1984-86) in Salem, Va., for two seasons. During that time, Roanoke won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference title and competed in the Division III National Tournament each season.
Clark, a Philadelphia native, is a 1984 graduate of Towson University with a degree in elementary education. Clark is married to the former Kristen Morast and the couple live in Mount Pleasant with their two daughters, Alyssa (17) and Brittany (13).


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DETROIT – Eminem is planning a free show in Detroit on the same day his album "Relapse" is released.
He announced plans for Tuesday's show on his MySpace page. Fans lined up for tickets Monday morning at Record Time in the Detroit suburb of Roseville. The tickets were to be given away later in the day.
DJ Jazzy Jeff will be a special guest.
Eminem spokesman Dennis Dennehy confirmed the show will be at MotorCity Casino's 1,500-seat Sound Board theater.
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Arizona for-profit school returns Hobby Lobby gift.
Grand Canyon University, a Phoenix-based school, was awarded an unusual gift in September. That gift came from the owners of the Hobby Lobby craft store company, who decided that GCU should take stewardship of a 217-acre property in western Massachusetts, including land and buildings that once housed a prep school founded by evangelist, D.L. Moody. GCU was the lone finalist standing and was among 100 parties that had initially expressed interest in the property.
GCU, however, has decided to return the gift to Hobby Lobby, after discovering it would have to commit far more money to ready the properly for occupancy than had been originally projected. Just five weeks after Hobby Lobby held a ceremony awarding the Northfield, Mass., property to GCU, school administrators have given it back. Instead, the university has decided to spend $6.4 million to pay for a 15-acre expansion of its Phoenix campus reports the Phoenix Business Journal, as it surrenders its plans to expand to the northeast.
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Owned by the Green family, Hobby Lobby acquired the property in 2009 with the intention of giving it away. Indeed, the family had the C.S. Lewis Foundation in mind as the foundation had long expressed a strong interest in starting the C.S. Lewis College, based on the writings and works of the 20th century British author and Christian apologist Clive Staples Lewis. Those plans, however, never materialized as the foundation was unable to raise the minimum amount of money needed to manage the property as part of the gift requirement.
Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and spokesman for the Green family, expressed disappointment in GCU's decision, but said that a new search would be started soon. Despite the challenges of managing such a large piece of property, a number of organizations continue to express interest in it reports the Huffington Post.
The Green Family
The Greens are a prominent Christian family that support a number of Christian organizations and institutions including Wycliffe, Oral Roberts University, Harbor House and Every Home for Christ. They are also behind an effort to open a Bible-based museum in Washington, D.C. That museum is expected to house thousands of biblical antiquities for what will be a non-sectarian, scholarly-focused institution.
GCU's withdrawal may eventually have a positive outcome for another organization, but it is also likely being received as good news by Northfield residents. That town, situated on both sides of the Connecticut River, is home to about 3,000 residents and was facing the prospect of a 5,000-student GCU campus opening its doors. The previous school had housed no more than a few hundred students and faculty, and was seamlessly integrated with this bucolic western Massachusetts community that has little desire of becoming a college town.
Foundation Aspirations
With GCU out of the way and an earlier entry by the North American Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention also withdrawn, that leaves the Green family exploring its stack of earlier applicants and perhaps welcoming new ones.
Although it hasn't been publicly shared yet, you can imagine that the board members of the C.S. Lewis Foundation are still holding out hope that somehow the property will house the C.S. Lewis College. It may take a miracle to pull that off, but then we're talking about our mighty God who delights in removing mountains for those who put their trust in Him.
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Twizy Is Renault's Breezy Bet in Big Electric-Car Gamble
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France — Those who still think electric vehicles are simply jazzed-up golf carts had better think again. Or at least Renault would like them to.
If the French car maker has its way, commuters who fancy slaloming through city traffic and parking perpendicular to the sidewalk will soon be doing so in a tiny all-electric four-wheeler Renault has called the Twizy.
That's if they don't mind the cold. Renault's Twizy has a roof, and a windshield, but there are no sides. Driving along Renault's new electric-vehicle test track in the outskirts of Paris at 60 kilometers an hour on a chilly December morning got the wind blowing through what's left of my hair. Commuters making a longish trip in winter will require more wrapping than a business suit.
Being open to the elements has other advantages apart from fresh air. Heaters, as well as air conditioning systems, are voracious consumers of energy, and would seriously reduce the Twizy's claimed 100-kilometer range on a full charge.
The Twizy goes on sale in France in the spring, and will be rolled out progressively in Western Europe. The souped-down Twizy 45 version that doesn't require a driver's license in France and has a top speed of 45 kilometers an hour will retail for €6,990 ($9,000). A more powerful version that can hit 80 kilometers an hour will cost €7,690, not far off the cost of gasoline-engined minicar with four seats and sides. And a heater.
But France's electric-car subsidy could reduce the bill to around €5,600 for the cheaper Twizy, the same price as a high-end scooter. That's cheaper that the G-Wiz, the two-seater electric city car made by India's Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles that's been on sale in the U.K. for several years. It has a range of up to 80 km.
Twizy buyers get the car but not the battery. Like all of the four electric vehicle models that Renault is bringing out through mid-2012, the lithium-ion battery must be rented from Renault for €50 a month. That may sound a lot over a year, but the other side of the coin is that recharging costs are peanuts compared with gasoline and diesel. And customers have the comfort of knowing that if anything goes wrong with the battery, Renault will replace it.
The Twizy will appeal to drivers who like the acceleration of a 125cc scooter but don't like the idea of falling off one. After all, more than half of the deaths and injuries on Parisian streets involve scooters and motorcycles, according to the Paris mayor's office. On the other hand, the nearly silent Twizy isn't equipped with a noise-making system to warn pedestrians of its approach, a potential hazard to the blind and unwary.
The Twizy's controls are more sophisticated than a dodgem car's accelerator and steering wheel, but only just. There are accelerator and brake pedals, plus a switch for forward and reverse modes.
The instrument console — panel would be too grandiose a term — shows speed, the amount of charge remaining and the distance it will take you before your Twizy slows to a halt and has to be recharged, assuming you've made it to a charging post. A full charge takes three and a half hours on a regular household socket. As there's no space for two occupants side by side, the Twizy offers tandem seating, with the legs of the rear passenger astride the driver's seat, promising no more comfort than a scooter.
Renault, which has made a €4 billion bet with its partner Nissan Motor Co (7201.FR) on popularizing electric cars, is pitching the head-turning Twizy as a trendy, niche product that will appeal to young, urban professionals looking for a fun but frugal set of wheels.
Whether it will ever make money in such a small market segment is an open question. Renault is counting on the Twizy at least drawing attention to rest of its more conventional zero-emission fleet made up of a sedan, a city car, and a small delivery van.


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State police say they've arrested a 57-year-old western New York man on animal cruelty charges after he fatally shot three cats that had been left with him by their owner.
Troopers say the cats' had been left with Roland Reinisch of Perry for safekeeping while the owner was away. Police say he deliberately shot the three cats, then buried them in two separate locations in the Wyoming County village of Castile, 45 miles southwest of Rochester.
Troopers arrested Reinisch last Tuesday and charged him with three misdemeanor counts of torturing or injuring animals. He was issued an appearance ticket to answer the charges in the Castile Village Court at a later date.
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UberMask uses custom selected key combinations to hide and manage files and folders. Using a BOSS key, all managed data will be hidden at the same time. The UberMask key is used to hide or reveal single files and folders and to launch the UberMask application.
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I'm developing a CMIS wrapper to interact with an Alfresco repository. This wrapper is there - as one of the main reasons for most wrappers :-) - to translate the CMIS protocol to a less granular (more functional) level. Using Apache Chemistry with the Alfresco extension I'm able to fullfill all functional requirements, except one:
A hierarchy of folders must be created, but that the "leaf" folder then should disable the creation of further subfolders by this user. In short: I need to disable the createChildren inherited ACE for the "leaf" folders. In different posts, I found out that this is not possible in the current CMIS implementation of Alfresco, so at this point I need to use a different API (native webservice). This is bad design, having 2 entry points - especially from 1 component - to the same backend system.
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Is this going to be implemented in the near future in Alfresco CE, i.e. allowing to break the ACL inheritance - fully or partially - in the applyACL operation?


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Abstract—In this paper, we propose a modified version of the K-means algorithm to cluster data. The proposed algorithm adopts a novel nonmetric distance measure based on the idea of "point symmetry." This kind of "point symmetry distance" can be applied in data clustering and human face detection. Several data sets are used to illustrate its effectiveness.

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Washington, D.C. (AP) - Economists are saying President Barack Obama's proposed tax breaks for businesses won't be a quick fix for the
economy, with one saying they "won't be a game-changer."
Even if the breaks were enacted soon, analysts say the benefit
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Some say that until businesses feel more confident about their
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DEXTER - Jesse Lee Neal, 84, died Dec. 23, 2003, at the VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff.
Born June 21, 1919, in Bell City to the late William A. and Clara Lowery Neal, he had lived in Blytheville, Ark., and St. Louis but had spent most of his life in Dexter. Employed with Elder Manufacturing for over 25 years, he worked for the Dexter Schools for seven years and was a member of the Liberty Hill General Baptist Church and the VFW Post in Bloomfield. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with tours in Australia and New Guinea.
On Oct. 18, 1941, near Bloomfield, he married Mable Payne, who survives of Dexter.
Other survivors include: one son, Jimmy Dale Neal of Maryville, Tenn.; two daughters, Ruth Ann Silvey of Dexter and Vicki Lynne Davison of Poplar Bluff; four sisters, Novella Nelson of Campbell, Omega Lovett of Round Lake, Ill., Bernice Gardner of Essex and Joye Sue Maulding of Festus; and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one son, Jerry Lee Neal; one sister, Imogene Evans; and two brothers, James R. Neal and William L. Neal.
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Nike Zoom Vapor 9.5 Tour, Crimson colorway
Nike Air Zoom Vapor VI
^^^miss mine!
These look really sick. Where did you get the colour scheme from?
Cheers man - they were an unreleased colour from the end of last year. Found them for dirt cheap on the auction site
Sorry for bad quality, but here is a good part of my vapor collection. I go through vapors in 3-5 weeks so I have a ton of them.
some 5's and 6's.
I'll throw my collection into the pool -- love the vapor tours!
Are these Nike ID?
The AJ3's and the safari Oscillates right next to eachother......two shoes I love but can't get
@gino no - those are a colorway that didn't make it to retail, but showed up on the bay a few seasons back (maybe fall 15?) - didn't have my size and I don't like paying retail, so I missed out on them
Basically what he said ^^
From Winter last year but never fully released. Shame because they look great and bit more interesting than the grey/navy version that did come out
Wow that's insane. Congrats to those who landed aa pair. Gorgeous
Looking awesome! Great contrast
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Given the way your question is worded, I'll assume you aren't already
using shadowsets. If that's the case, you will at least have to dismount
the current disk to re-mount it as a one-member shadowset to get the
process started.
But then, yes, you should be able to "transfer" the data this way. Then
after the data is transferred you'd have to dismount the shadowset and
remount the new disk. It'll complain though if you try to re-mount the
device as a non-shadowset.
Considering you will have to dismount the original disk before the
transfer and dismount the target disk after the transfer, I don't see the
advantage of this "shadow" tranfer method. You might as well, make the
storage you want on the EVA, then BACKUP the content from one disk to another.
You're going to have "downtime" on that disk either way.
You may have licenses for shadowing on the IA64 already. If you have the
MCOE (Mission Critical Operating Environment) license, which it seems you
do if you have clustering, then I believe that also covers volume
shadowing. You're good to go there.
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> Hello
> We are installing an EVA4000 in replacement of an MSA1000.
> I was wondering if I could use HBVS to switch my data onto the new storage,
> online.
> That is: create a new drive on the EVA4000, mount it as a shadow member of
> the existing one on MSA1000.
> When the merge is complete, dismount the member that's on the MSA1000.
> A possible technical problem:
> The VMScluster is comprised of 2 Alphaservers and one IA64 server. When I
> mount /cluster the shadow member, will all nodes see it properly (different
> architecture should not be a problem on VMS) ?
> And is there something obvious that I do not see ? Is this a workable plan ?
> I remember 5-6 years ago, HBVS would not mount members of different sizes so
> that will certainly be a problem if it's still the case.
> And I hope HP can lend me HBVS licenses for a week or two... I may still
> have some for Alpha but certainly not for IA64.
> Just thinking, looking for feedback


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804-301 Applied Math
Develop the calculating, measuring, and estimating skills used in the construction trades. Discuss topics such as calculations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; calculations using percents; measures of length, area, and volume; and the use of power and roots.
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Offering number: 804-301-001
Tuition/fee: $280.80
Seats Open: 7
Instructor: Peterson, Melvin L
Dates: 08/24/16-12/16/16
Days: Wednesday Friday
Times: 11:30am-12:50pm
Room: E113