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COMIC LEGEND: Grant Morrison was forced to add a scene to give Final Crisis a happier ending.
STATUS: Bit of a True/False Mixture
A few years back, reader Michael G. wrote in to ask (among some other legends, which I still haven't addressed):
Did DC editorial make Grant Morrison add a scene to the ending of Final Crisis to make it a happier ending?
Final Crisis was a crossover by DC back in 2008-09, with a basic plot (and this is really distilling a complicated plot down to just the most basic levels) of Darkseid coming back to life (after the events of Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle) by essentially traveling through time. This time travel has made a bit of a hole in the multiverse and has made it possible for an evil Monitor to break free from the prison that the other Monitors placed him into at the beginning of the multiverse. So Darkseid finally manages to conquer Earth with the anti-life equation. Eventually, though, whichever heroes on Earth remain unaffected manage to fight back and take control of Earth and defeat Darkseid. The heroes then must take on Mandrakk, the evil Monitor, who is using this opportunity to basically destroy all of the multiverse. Superman and a legion of Green Lanterns and other heroes stand up to defeat the evil Mandrakk (Superman first encounters Mandrakk during the tie-in series, Superman Beyond, when he gets caught up in the story while trying to save a mortally injured Lois Lane).
Batman plays a major role in the story, as he is captured by Darkseid and is seemingly killed, but not before Batman mortally injures Darkseid. It is this aspect of the story that Michael is referring to.
A major scene in the series is when Batman takes out Darkseid, but not before Darkseid's Omega Beams are sent out and seemingly take out Batman, too…
This leads to a memorable scene where an enraged Superman cradles a seemingly dead Batman…
The scene even made the cover of the hardcover collection of the story.
However, there were some clues that Batman was not really dead, most importantly being that Darkseid's Omega Beams had been shown to send people traveling through time in the past and, in fact, Morrison had used them that way in Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle. So there was a very good chance that Batman was not actually dead, but trapped in time.
It is fair to say, though, that that was certainly not explicit in the text, so DC did request that Morrison add a scene where he made it clear that yes, that IS what happened to Batman, and so he did.
In a great Matt Brady interview with Morrison at Newsarama after the series ended, Morrison explained:
[M]y simple goal was to reach the end without too much hassle and/or interference! Apart from one scene at the end, which I included at DC's request, and contrary to online rumours, there were no rewrites on Final Crisis. Every word is mine. The guilt and the glory are all mine!
So this is definitely what Michael is referring to, but like Morrison notes, the ending didn't CHANGE at all. It was just now more explicit. So I'm hesitant to say that it actually gave the story a happier ending. I think it was just to make the ending that was always there a little clearer, that's all.
Thanks to Michael for the suggestion and thanks to Matt Brady and Grant Morrison for the information!
On the next page, why did the Superman comics change the name of Clark Kent's newspaper from the Daily Star to the Daily Planet?
What scent did Grant Morrison add to Final Crisis?
On second thought, I don't want to know.
The link to the Cap animated series legend leads to the one about Waid's script being changed.
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"I asked Tom Brevoort about it, and he noted that it was really a matter of the VISUAL depiction of the Red Skull, particularly when it came to licensed products. Essentially, stuff like trading cards and the like – the stuff that was most accessible to the outside world."
I wonder if part of it was related to Germany and a few other countries banning the swastika except in purely historical context. If Marvel was considering selling licensed merchandise outside of the US, they might have felt that it was better to avoid potential trouble by avoiding using it in the first place, especially in light of it being a relatively minor thing (after all, the Red Skull has been a general fascist/terrorist far, far longer in the comics than he has been a literal Nazi – it shouldn't be THAT hard to just avoid constant Nazi symbolism or references in favor of general facist themes).
I know comics that are reprinted in Germany that have Nazis or the swastika in them are actually redrawn to eliminate them (or so I've heard multiple times from multiple people), so I could easily see a more corporate Marvel, starting to branch out into more non-comic merchandising opportunities, wanting to save the time and expense of having to re-do things for foreign markets just by avoiding the offending issue entirely.
Oh, forgot to mention:
The above was the same reason why I've always assumed the modern Captain America movie focused so heavily on Hydra and made the Nazis almost an afterthought, so they could essentially use the Nazi aesthetic and motif without using literal Nazi symbolism (and thus jeopardize foreign film sales).
Thanks, Robert and Aaron! Fixed those goofs!
So if that is the case, is that the reason why in the MCU (and the recent TV shows) they've completely divorced the Red Skull from Nazism and made HYDRA a generic evil organization ala SPECTRE? Because in the first movie they flat out have the Skull turning against the Nazis and declaring Hitler to be an incompetent fool (he even plans to nuke Berlin along with America), and the cartoons don't even mention his Nazi affiliations at all.
I even remember some grousing because the Avengers cartoon from some years ago seemed to flat out suggest that the Nazi party didn't exist in the Marvel universe, and that the German group the U.S. fought during WW2 was just "The HYDRA Empire" or some similar nonsense.
Maybe I just don't remember, but can someone tell me why there is a crashed rocket ship in the Batman scene?
True, over here in Germany all comics containing Nazi symbols are cencosered. Swastikas have to be erased, pages reworked etc. in order to be published.
If you ask me it is a bit too much, as the symbols are not glorified and secondly I buy all my comics from American publishing houses, no censorship there, only in translated books.
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Ah, OK. I've noticed the same thing happening before, but I guess it was probably the same issue.
I remember when Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out, it was said the reason the European edition has no swastikas in it is because of Germany's censorship. Instead they use this weird stylised W/eagle emblem on the cover art and in the game. The multiplayer factions are 'Axis' and 'Allies'. Allies use US uniforms and US flags, 'Axis' use Nazi uniforms, but with the w/eagle emblem in place of swastikas and on the flag. Naturally, people made replacements you could download and add to the game, alongside other things like British Army uniforms or Free French uniforms for the Allies and Japanese ones for Axis…
Don't remember what they used in Call of Duty 1 and 2.
I remember the same thing happened with a JSA issue a few years back. The premise was that the Neo-Nazis had conquered America and put all the superheroes in concentration camps, but the issue itself was edited to have a prominent swastika removed from the cover. At the time one of the recurring discussion points was that it might have been a problem with reprinting the comic in Europe.
Woohoo, I made the big time! Glad to hear my suggestion came out on the "True" side.
The bit about Final Crisis I never understood was the whole Hawkman/Hawkgirl thing. Morrison wanted to "kill" them so that someone could bring them back while fixing their continuity, but no, last-minute edits reveal they survive… all so Geoff Johns can kill them and bring them back himself half a year later in Blackest Night. So all the "save" got us was some very stupid scenes of their hearts being ripped out and their Black Lantern forms being generally terrible like the rest of the Black Lanterns, but I guess having that was *really* important to someone.
@Michael P
DC has been really terrible about killing prominent heroes to try to sell a sense of peril (which never works since we know they'll be back). That may have been why they pushed Hawkman and Hawkgirl's deaths back to Final Crisis. The next most prominent characters to die in the first few issues were Tempest and Hawk. And not even the Hawk people liked.
I don't approve of censorship, or trying to "soften" a character's established history.
But I do admit I find it a little distasteful to see swastikas used to sell comic books and video games.
It's one thing to have the Red Skull be a Nazi, but putting Nazi imagery on the cover as a way of attracting attention and sales is kind of gross.
I dunno about you guys, but Hauptmann Deutschland made me LOL
Marvel should've created a 'Captain East Germany' during the years of division just to see him and the Skull bickering over the 'merits' of Nazism and German Communism…
The bit about sanitizing the, proposed, Captain America animated series reminded me of an old episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Supposedly, the season 1 episode "The Quest Of The Red Skull" was pulled from syndication due to depictions of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi swastika, and the use of the phrase "Heil Hitler".
I don't know the details behind this one. Perhaps something to discuss in a future column.
could see marvel not wanting to use the red skull back ground as a nazi say for movies or merch but to go and change a story they okayed talk about back tracking and a little censorship. and interesting to find dc actully got grant to do something on their orders given that it seems he is one of those who can do what ever he wants as long as he does not wreck one of dcs characters and can see newspapers who were carrying the strip that led to superman helping launch the comic book industry not wanting to mention their rivals.
"I wonder if part of it was related to Germany and a few other countries banning the swastika except in purely historical context."
Germany, at least, allows swastikas in artistic contexts (including movies), even in non-historical settings. The problem is that certain media like comic books and video games have never been formally recognized as "art."
It's kind of weird if time travel also clones your body and duplicates your belt, shoes and pants. Also, if the Dad from the Red Skull legend spent less time writing letters to comic book companies and more time actually educating his son about modern history, maybe he'd be a better dad.
So I take it that's why Mark Gruenwald had the Skull declare himself a nihilist for a while?
"So if that is the case, is that the reason why in the MCU (and the recent TV shows) they've completely divorced the Red Skull from Nazism and made HYDRA a generic evil organization ala SPECTRE?"
HYDRA is the MU's Spectre. Strucker founded it as a path to personal power, not because he had any belief in Nazism.
I loved Final Crisis (despite the behind the scenes stuff that had JG Jones not able to complete the series), but I seem to remember Morrison's original intention was that the first page of the series start with the First Boy on (DC) Earth, Anthro, and the last page of the series with the Last Boy on Earth, Kamandi.
Instead Kamandi gets squeezed into one panel at the end, just before the epilogue with Anthro dying and Batman hanging out.
Good to see a proper Kamandi piece in Multiversity Guidebook though – another great series that is somehow underrated.
I seem to recall when the first Captain America film came out that the film makers said that they wanted Cap to fight Hydra, not the Nazi's, as they did not want to imply that the Allies needed a superhero assist to win World War II. Thus Cap and the Howlers in the film faced off against an offshoot that even the Nazis found extreme.
The mythology of Hydra in the MCU is getting complicated. I had the impression in CA:TFA that the Red Skull founded Hydra, but the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tv series implies Hydra has been in existence for hundreds of years. We may be reaching the stage where the MCU needs a retcon.
It's kind of weird if time travel also clones your body and duplicates your belt, shoes and pants.
It doesn't. The Batman corpse was set up in a couple issues of Morrison's Batman and fully explained in Batman and Robin a few months after Final Crisis ended. Basically, Darkseid's minions were trying to clone an army of Batmen brainwashed to serve Apokolips, but Bats broke free and sabotaged the plan before going to confront the Big D himself. Superman finds the remains of one of those clones, not the real Batman.
I wouldn't say this elimination of Nazi's or Hitler with the Red Skull is anything new. In 1966 with Marvel's first venture into animation through Grantray-Lawrence Animation, on the Captain America segments of The Marvel Super Heroes series they adapted the origin of The Red Skull. But the animated version eliminated all references to Nazi's and redrew Hitler, as just some ordinary tyrant and called him "Leader".
There was an Indiana Jones video game called INDIANA JONES AND THE IRON PHOENIX that was never released because of distribution problems in Germany due to the depiction of Neo-Nazis as the villains. The story was later recycled as a mini-series for Dark Horse Comics in the mid-90s.
Was the old man that died Anthro?
It's one thing to question whether a nazi symbol is appropriate on a comic book, and another to not want to tell a 10 year old about Nazis. It must be a generational shift … I'm fairly certain that any kid who lived through WWII or had parents who lived through WWII learned about Nazis at an early age.
I'm pretty sure Holocaust survivors want you to tell your ten-year-old son about Nazis — "Never forget", and all that…
There are times I kind of hate the argument "how do I explain it to my ten-year old?"
You put it in terms that are appropriate for the child in question. Today you might say something like "way back before your grandparents were born, there was an evil man who wanted to take over the world and kill everyone he thought wasn't worthy of life. That was the symbol his army used, and anytime someone in a story uses it that means they're just as evil."
Done. Or go into more detail if you think they can handle it.
I'm not sure where this 10yr old is from, but in Australia all 10yr old children are exposed to subject matter in regards to WW1, WW2, Vietnam etc through school. It's not dumbed down either – 10yr olds are a lot more knowledgeable about Nazism than some seem to assume.
I recall reading that, for the WWII scenes in the animated series "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", the creators were given a choice:
1. Nazis armed with Cobra-style energy weapons.
2. HYDRA armed with normal guns.
They ultimately decided to go with option 2. It certainly fit the aesthetics of the era better, and avoided the silly things like assault rifles shooting spiked metal balls, like some other Marvel cartoons have had.
Maybe this is another legend or maybe I'm just wrong, but I always thought the Daily Planet was a reference to the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Anyone who thinks 10 years olders can't deal awareness of Nazism would better pay attention to how they deal with angry discussions in loud voices between their parents.
Nazism is a walk in the park by comparison.
Yeah, pretty depressing that Marvel cave in on account of one guy who didn't want the trouble of explaining things to his son.
As for the depiction of Nazis in pop culture, I'm of the opinion that using them as comic book supervillains is completely valid and even laudatory. Avoiding this use reeks of "respecting" them. And Nazis shouldn"t even be respected. Their victims should be respected. The Nazis themselves should be spat upon and ridiculed at every oportunity. And that includes making them into crazy supervillains.
It reminds me of Russel Crowe's neo-nazi character in Romper Stomper whining that people turned Hitler and his writings into a joke. Right on. We should make Hitler into a tacky joke so that everyone who follows his mad ways appears to be an outrageous freak. God knows that it's sometimes hard to make human beings ashamed of acting in evil ways. Let's make Nazism tacky and overblown so that they may be shamed away from fascism from fear of being seen as buffoons.
I certainly knew about Nazis when I was 10, as did every kid I knew. I can't imagine anyone at that time claiming that 10-year-olds should be shielded from that knowledge. For that matter, 10-year-olds aren't what I would consider "little kids". They're generally capable of understanding most of the things adults can understand. When I was 10, growing up, as I did, in New York City during the Cold War, I was already worrying about nuclear attacks. The following year, we read 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World in school. I can sympathize with parents wanting to shield their kids, and I don't believe there's a single absolutely correct way to raise your children, but sheltering a 10-year-old from knowledge that Nazis ever existed seems a bit extreme. (And they say that children grow up faster these days…)
I also agree with Luis Dantas, by the way.
Stuff that is closer and happens in the home, like the various bad As (argumentative, abusive, arbitrary, alcoholic, addicited, absent, aloof) parents are far more difficult to cope for the kids than any religious, social, or political topics.
The danger of turning Nazism into a joke is that you miss it when it comes back, as it has in different forms over the decades. Fascism is making a comeback in Europe right now and is, arguably, also finding a foothold in the modern Republican Party. To my mind, people like the Nazis should not be reduced to "cartoon figures' – they should be understood and feared as the real people they were. That's the only way to guard against them – i.e., to understand that, under the right circumstances (like economic and political distress) ideas similar to Nazism gain new life.
Thanks for the summation of "Final Crisis." That gave me a much better idea of what happened in that series than reading the actual comics!
Shaun –
I think that is despite Nazism being turned into a joke, not because of it.
My take about fascism coming back under different guises is that Nazism and fascism aren't very consistent sets of ideas. Like Umberto Eco said, there is a group of characteristics, some of them contraditory, that can coalesce into fascism. It's damned hard to be on guard against them all.
IMO, one inroad was the big comeback of Social Darwinism in the 1980s, now under a capitalistic guise under Reagan and Thatcher. Sure, it was different from Nazism in that a person's worthness wasn't directly dictated by race and blood, but by monetary success. But it's deep down the same poisonous ideology of survival of the fittest and a lack of compassion for "inferiors".
I know the company line is that's it's to not glorify and create a resurgence of nazism in Germany, but it seems a lot more like sticking your head in the sand and being a Holocaust denier. It reeks of Japan tailoring their history teachings to cover up what they actually did. Can you see how it would go over if the US made rules saying you couldn't portray slavery in media? Caving to what seems to be cowardly policy is not a great look.
Saying that, I don't mind if you make the Red Skull outside the Nazis, as long as you acknowledge they exist. I don't mind the MCU Skull starting and using Hydra; I mind the other German soldiers not being Nazis in any way. Even in the comics he was separating himself from Hitler because he no longer saw him as subservient to him, and Hitler was afraid of the Skull. A guy even the Nazis say goes too far? That's a fitting bad guy for Captain America.
But one should always be willing to portray them. Showing them and glorifying them are two very different things. Show how awful they were, as seriously as Shindler's List or as fun as "I hate these guys" from Indiana Jones. I think they've earned the scorn. And you can make fun of them. Mel Brooks has done a great job of taking something scary and mocking it. I don't think "Springtime" makes anyone think of them as less of a threat. If currents Germans are too sensitive to take it, tough. I'm was 70 years ago not 700; deal with it.
Side question, what is that thing over The Red Skull's right shoulder on the trading card? As a kid I thought it was a cowboy hat that flew off his head, but obviously that's not it. I'm assuming it's some kind of flying contraption but the scale seems really off.
Maybe this is another legend or maybe I'm just wrong, but I always thought the Daily Planet was a reference to the Toronto Globe and Mail.
No, but there IS a legend that they considered going with Daily Globe to replace Daily Star for that very reason (as a reference to the Globe and Mail). I've never seen an actual citation for that legend, though, so I tend to doubt it.
@Annoyed Grunt – it looks like the Second Sleeper (or something similar) though if it is it's far away and the flagpole is enormous
According to one of the TPBs of the JLA/JSA crossovers, "Earth-X" came about because it was originally going to be "Earth-Swastika" and Julie Schwartz told Len Wein "That symbol is not appearing on the cover of any book I edit." So they lopped off the hooks on the arms. But that's more about disgust for what it symbolizes than wanting to shield kids (as witness they had lots of Nazis inside the book).
I remember when Englehart wrote the Skull as someone who seriously believed in the Nazi ideal (freaking out at Gabe Jones dating Peggy, for instance), he sounded totally insane to me—imagine someone believing in Nazism 30 years later! Depressingly, he no longer seems like an outlier.
"Fascism is making a comeback in Europe right now and is, arguably, also finding a foothold in the modern Republican Party"
The GOP has much to answer for. Being nationalist socialists isn't one of them.
Good Grief. When I was a kid in the 70s, you couldn't move for weekly comics called "Battle" or "Combat" or such. Not only would any 10 year old know exactly who and what Nazis were, but most would be forgiven if they thought Britain was actually still at war with Germany!
Yeah, kinda figured the Grant Morrison one would be false. Having finished Supergods recently, you can tell he views superheroes as figures that, while they can always fall, should never completely fail. Hell, Final Crisis itself is about good's ultimate triumph over evil. There was no room to "change" anything to a lighter ending because the universe itself was literally growing sick and dying because Darkseid won. So either he died and the universe got better, or he didn't and DC would have to make FC non-canon because there would BE no universe, which was ABSOLUTELY not an option at the time.
I don't think comics or trading cards are a strong enough influence on anything to matter. So turning them into cartoon villains is perfectly fine. If you don't get better information on history from credible sources as you age, there must be a bigger problem with the educational system. 1% of 1% of the world reads comics and .001% are influenced by them in any measurable way.
Anyone here from Germany (or other European mainland country) that could check on Comixology if Superman #54, part of Time and Time Again set in WWII-Warsaw from the 1987 series, is available to them?
The WWII setting for Captain America was, i thought, sheer brilliance. When Superman Returns was in theaters it failed in overseas markets. America was not seen in a good light in 2006 and few things were as American on a movie screen as Superman at the time. (Anyone thinking it was a flop should realize that it outgrossed Batman Begins domestically.) Captain America, wrapped in the flag and having it in his very name would of course have an even stronger national connection.
By the time the first Captain America film came out, our international reputation was better, but Captain America was fighting Nazis and fascists, which would have a certain commercial appeal in European countries. BUT, the villains shifted to Hydra so that there's no impugning the soldiers who fought and died going against the Nazis (and wouldn't have as many problems in Germany and Italy of course), nor a sense that America came in and did all the work (as could have been perceived under a different artistic vision). Respect for the international community. It worked.
Strangely enough, I was very disappointed in the second part of the first Captain America movie. I was really waiting for some epic, dramatic insert of Captain America in some historical WWII battles, kicking Nazi ass, and what we got was some strangely atemporal sci-fi adventure.
I disagree completely with the notion that superheroes like Cap are disrespectful to actual soldiers. That is a revisionist view, when the actual soldiers and their families clearly had no problems with patriotic superheroes at the time World War II was actually happening. I mean, those comics sold like hot cakes during the Golden Age, right?
This is an instance of later people being offended "on behalf" of people that weren't offended the first time.
There is the trickier matter of the overseas market. I dunno. I'm not American, but I do live in a continent that had no WWII battles fought on our lands, so maybe I'm not the best person to judge it. But you'd have Captain America fighting in battles with the US Army in places were real Americans helped out, I think. No one would have the bad taste of insinuating that Capain America was instrumental in saving the Russians in Stalingrad or something.
My recollection, which could be wrong, is that Gruenwald stated at the time that changing the Skull from a Nazi to a nihilist was simply a way of trying to keep the character more current. I think he just wanted the Skull to embody a more universal evil, not rooted in any particular historical period. The irony is that it also made the Skull seem a bit less evil (comparatively, of course).
>True, over here in Germany all comics containing Nazi symbols are cencosered. Swastikas have to be erased, pages reworked etc. in order to be published.
Not true. This usually applies to comic books that are purely for entertainment (like the ones Marvel and DC publish) but comic books with a historical value/context etc. can keep the swastika.
Overall it had gotten better in the last decade since there has been an effort to make comic books seen as art (thanks to the label "Graphic Novels").
But even then they weren't censored but self-censored as the law is a bit tricky here as it acts AFTER something has been published and the publishers usually try to avoid that (as one publisher – Alpha – was driven out-of-businesse due to this).
>I dunno about you guys, but Hauptmann Deutschland made me LOL
Personally I like it was is one of the few (if maybe only) occasion were "Captain" (the military rank) was translated correctly. Usually one could see "Kapitän Amerika" which is downright wrong as a "Kapitän" is someone steering a ship.
>Anyone here from Germany (or other European mainland country) that could check on Comixology if Superman #54, part of Time and Time Again set in WWII-Warsaw from the 1987 series, is available to them?
Nope. I can't find it via the Comixology search. I can find it via Google but when trying to add it to the cart I'm getting an error message. I can add it when activating a VPN but not sure if I then could buy it and then access it (and I'm not trying to do that).
The old "don't show it because I don't want to explain it to my kids" argument is usually used to complain about depictions of homosexuality.
It was a crap argument there and it's a crap argument here.
Not a big fan of the Gru's scripting in this issue. He really sells modern Germans short. The allegedly heroic Hauptmann Deutschland's dialogue is less, "You're a Nazi. You're evil and deserve to be punished!" than "You're making my country look bad."
"You haff become an embarassment, Herr Schmidt…und der Vaterland doesss not LIKE embarassments."
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Even if there actually IS fine print somewhere this is absolutely criminal and I hope there is some way to stop these companies who are manipulating consumers in this way. What a headache!!
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Perez Hilton's Daily Update: Sasha Obama Got A Summer JobShe'll have six Secret Service agents with her while on the job
Britney Spears Pranks Jimmy Kimmel in the BedroomRhianna pulled a similar prank on Kimmel.
DJ Khaled has Ridiculous Answers to Ridiculous QuestionsKhaled displays his fine tuned humor in a new segment with Jimmy Kimmel.
Who Parodied Kanye West's 'Famous' Video Better Colbert or Kimmel?The late night hosts created similar roasts of Kanye's latest music video.
Kevin Hart Complains About Crappy Father's Day GiftsA parent loves their children unconditionally, but that doesn't mean they have to enjoy the stupid homemade gifts their kids make them!
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There are dozens of Facilities projects going on at any given time. Most happen behind the scenes. But here are a few that may affect your normal routine:
Chapin Hall Construction Activity Notice
Sawyer Demolition Process to Begin on Monday, June 8th
Demolition of the old Sawyer Library is scheduled to start on Monday June 8th. Demolition activity will shift from the interior of the building to the exterior beginning with the installation of site fencing and creating an access road into the site on the west side.
Once fencing is installed, pedestrian traffic to the new library will be restricted to the paths from the south off Main street or the walks from the north behind Chapin Hall and east of Hollander Hall. Pathways through or across the demolition site will not be available. The actual demolition process is expected to begin on June 22nd and take approximately one month to complete.
Chapin Drive will remain open to traffic with some restrictions during the period when the south portion is being re-constructed in early July. Parking along the north portion (from the Congregational Church parking lot entrance north) will be relocated to the newly created lot just north of Chapin Hall on June 22nd. This will accommodate the two-way traffic required for trucks to access the demolition site from Mission Park Drive.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- The Palisade Bulldogs reached double digits on their current win streak with a 51-31 win over the Glenwood Springs Demons.
Palisade (10-2, 3-0) defeated Glenwood 51-30 to extend their win streak to 10 games. The Bulldogs came out a little slow, flip-flopping leads throughout much of the first half. But they ran away with the game in the second half.
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In appreciation for five decades of generous community support, Minnesota Opera presents three free outdoor concert performances of Puccini's La bohème as an encore to its 50th anniversary season. These family-friendly events feature the Minnesota Opera Orchestra and Chorus and a cast of opera's most beloved characters performing the heartwarming love story that inspired the Broadway musical, Rent.
Tenor Harold Meers makes his company debut as the poet Rodolfo opposite soprano Karin Wolverton, last heard in the Pulitzer Prize Award-winning Silent Night, as the seamstress Mimì. Andrew Wilkowske (Silent Night) and Rodolfo Nieto (Hamlet) sing the roles of Rodolfo's friends, the painter Marcello and the philosopher Colline. Christie Hageman (Turandot) is Musetta and Brad Benoit (Turandot) is Parpignol. Leonardo Vordoni (Lucia di Lammermoor) returns to conduct the Minnesota Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
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The producer of Devil May Cry 4, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, brings you the newest installment to the BASARA series, Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes, on the PLAYSTATION®3 and Wii. A fun, action-packed and accessible title set during a tumultuous period of Japanese history, Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes follows players as they fight their way to dramatic battle of Sekigahara. Players will master the swords and spears of more than a dozen fierce samurai warriors in huge battles against hundreds of opponents that will become more and more challenging throughout the game. On their journey to the final battle, learn how to unleash powerful and spectacular Basara moves or make use of the boost mode to wipe out as many enemies as possible.
Victory in battle will not only deliver a new territory but the natural resources of that region, which can be used to upgrade weapons. With unique playable characters along with supporting generals who make it easier to command and lead armies, players will see the battle from the perspective of each military commander with the ultimate goal of re-writing history to rule all of 16th century Japan.
In the dynamic new "Heroes' Story" mode, the player's decisions impact history with a redesigned story mode. Based on choices made by the player, new drama unfolds as friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and a new Sengoku story unfolds. Adding a new strategic element to the game, forces can fight for control/taking over of the entire battlefields, and ultimately the nation.
+ Fight your way through hundreds of enemies across many exciting battlefields using cool combos and over-the-top special moves until all heroes have gathered at the decisive battle of Sekigahara
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With school around the corner, time for parents to restore routine
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HOUMA -- After more than two months of no homework, late nights and unfettered freedom, thousands of local students face the end of summer and a return to the structured schedule of school.
Getting ready for back to school
Here are tips from the National Education Association to help start of the new school year on the right foot:
Students often get first-day jitters. To help, start talking now about the upcoming school year and the first day of classes. Discuss what to expect on the first day catching up with old friends and meeting new ones, learning classroom rules and finding out whats ahead. Take note of how you feel about your child going off to school.
If youre new to the area, take time to visit the school before classes begin. Walk, drive or show your child the bus route to familiarize him or her with the trip to school.
Make time to get to know your childs teacher and classroom aide. Let the teacher know you appreciate feedback on your childs progress positive and negative. Alert the teacher to anything out of the ordinary thats going on with your child or family.
Also make a point of meeting other school-staff members: the principal, school secretary, bus driver, cafeteria staff and others who work at the school. The better you know the school and how it operates, the more likely your child will be to have a productive and positive school experience.
Whether its a bedroom desk or the kitchen table, every child needs a regular place to study and complete homework. This area should be well lit and equipped with school supplies like paper, pencils and a dictionary. Siblings should respect the time set aside for studying and not distract the child who is doing homework.
Children appreciate routine. Set aside a specific time for studying every night. Discuss with your child what time of day would work best.
If your child attends an after-school program, find out if students will be expected to do homework there. If your child completes homework assignments away from home, plan to review the work at a set time every night. If homework has already been completed, have the child use study time for reading or reviewing problem areas.
Set high expectations. To learn, children must believe that they can learn. The feedback you give your child what you say and do about his or her abilities will have a lasting impact on your childs self-confidence. Be encouraging and praise your child for the amount of effort that he puts into a project. Let her know that doing her best is what counts.
Instill a love of reading in your child. Research shows that children who are read to in their early years do better in school. Each night before bed, read to your child for at least 20 minutes. If the child is learning to read, ask him or her to read to you. For older children, set 30 minutes aside each night for family reading time when everyone reads together silently.
Keep plenty of reading materials available books, magazines and newspapers. Let your kids see you reading and theyre more likely to pick up the habit.
If possible, volunteer at your childs school a few hours a week. Find out key dates during the year when there will be opportunities for you to participate in events. Mark your family calendar to hold those dates.
Aug. 8 marks the start of public-schools in Terrebonne. Public schools in Lafourche start a day later, and Catholic schools resume on Aug. 14.
As the start of classes loom, area parents are already changing schedules to help ease the transition.
"Ive been reminding them about the rules and regulations and getting them into bed early," Shawanda Chatman, a mother of three daughters, said while shopping for school uniforms at Uniforms Etc. on Barrow Street in Houma. "They are not really ready to go back, but they are never really ready. Once I set my goals, theyll listen."
Some of the rules the Gray resident is setting for her young daughters include getting to bed by 8:30 p.m. so they can be rested and ready to learn. The National Center on Sleep Disorders Research recommends that children ages 7 to 11 get at least nine hours each night. School officials recommend that all students should turn out the light no later than 10 p.m.
Chatman was one of a handful of parents doing last-minute school shopping Monday afternoon at Uniforms Etc. -- another tell-tale sign that school is about to start.
Michael Stephenson, store manager, said most parents and students wait until the final days of summer to buy the necessary school uniforms -- navy bottoms for younger kids and khaki bottoms for older ones and collared shirts.
"They wait to the last minute, big time," Stephenson said. "Weve noticed a lot of people havent done their shopping yet."
Across town at Young Fashions School Uniforms, the scene was similar. A few parents were sifting through uniforms trying to find the right size. Connie Pierron, store manager, said that if students and parents want to get the proper size and colors, its better to shop a month in advance.
"They are thinking they are coming early, but they should come in four weeks before," she said of parents doing their shopping this week. "When parents come, they dont just buy one outfit, they buy five outfits."
In addition to buying uniforms and school supplies, parents must make sure their childs immunizations are up to date. If your child needs a shot, he can get one for free from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Safe and Healthy Kids Day at Southland Mall in Houma. The event includes immunizations and hearing, vision and dental screenings.
The Terrebonne Health clinic also provides immunizations by appointment from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Thursday. The clinic is at 600 Polk St., Houma. The telephone number is 857-3601.
Other area locations include:
Parents should bring their childrens shot records.
Once school starts, parents should help their children develop good homework and study habits. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends creating a quiet spot for your student to do homework and to forbid TV viewing during homework time.
To help meet that goal during school, its important to establish a routine now, easing children back into a regimented schedule after a summer spent staying up late and sleeping much of the morning.
Start by putting children to bed a little earlier each night now, school officials say, and that will make the first few days of school easier on everyone -- students, parents and teachers.
Pam McCann, principal at Broadmoor Elementary, oversees a student body that includes kindergarten through sixth-graders. Classes start at 8:30 every morning.
"I would say at least by 9 (p.m.) for the lower kids and no later than 10 (p.m.) for the older ones," she said when suggesting an appropriate bedtime. "They need eight hours of sleep."
McCann also suggests letting students who take the school bus regularly ride it on the first day back to school.
"That allows the bus driver to know where the kid is going to be dropped off," she said.
For older students, attending scheduled school orientations is a good way to get back into the swing of things. Throughout this week, all four public high schools are offering orientations to new and returning students.
"It would be very good for the students and parents to attend the orientation so they can get a sense of where they go, what they do, what is expected of them," said David Bourg, supervisor of high schools. "Most schools, I know in the secondary school, we attempt to start school on the first day, so come prepared to learn."
Officials also say parents should be on the look out for important paperwork thats sent home with children the first week of school. Typically this paperwork needs to be filled out and returned to school promptly.
Courier staff writer Mika Edwards can be reached at 857-2202 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem.
—Henry Kissinger
The goal of the game is to find three hidden pieces of a phone that E.T. needs to "Phone Home" with... Even if you find the pieces, it's Jack and Shit—and Jack left town. That's because you need to find the Phone Home zone also.
The abnormal area of the heart is frozen to prevent the arrhythmia from recurring and the team believes that they've solved her problem. However, we know better as it's only twenty minutes past the hour.
—Polite Dissent, reviewing an episode of House
—Toad, Super Mario Bros. 1
Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
—The Wolf, Pulp Fiction
Now I just need to install this baby in the Trogdor machine, and we can end this episode early!
—Strong Bad, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Well, everything really wrapped up nicely. [Looks at his watch] Ooh, much quicker than usual.
—Homer Simpson, "Homer and Apu"
Every time we move a yard ahead, Ryan goes and moves the goal line down to the other side of the field!
—Atlas, BioShock
My extraterritorial rights are too powerful to let this game end!
—Quercus Alba, Hiimdaisy parody of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
There's all sorts of stories where you think you've beaten the final boss, but then it moves up to the next level!
—Haruna, Mahou Sensei Negima!
Can I just say if you thought that this story was nearly over it's barely even begun.
Crashing turns to quiet
and calm sweeps through the land
The battle's been decided,
but who had the upper hand?
But look! A hero rises from the smoke!
Our glory has been regained!
A cheer brews up among our army...
Now for truth, the battle is over,
And evil's reign is done.
Our hero stands triumphant...
No, no, wait, I was wrong!
He's up aGAAAAAIIIIIIN!
Oh wait, HE'S UP AGAAAAIIIIN!
— Epic Monster Battle, Phineas and Ferb
That's it, my dear friends and siblings. We won the war! Quickly, let's free the remaining Hoshidan soldiers and release the prisoners— *nearly shot in the face by a completely unhinged Takumi*
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Clerk Judith Sprague before the
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It took 35 minutes to garner a quorum of 75 for he Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire District annual meeting May 20 and just 30 minutes to pass unanimously 23 warrant articles for the coming fiscal year without any objections.
The district residents approved $3.9 million for the prudential committee's operating expenses; $1.9 million for the Water Department, and $7.1 million for the Fire Department. Various smaller amounts were approved for a fourth ambulance, for the complete repair of Engine 306, other expenses, debt and pension benefits.SV
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Sprint, Calvary Portfolio Services They stole our money 10 days before christmas without even telling us who it was for! Hawthorne New York
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We had received a phone call about 2 months ago from a collection agency claiming that we owed them $980. for a past due bill. The man was extremely rude and told us that if we didn't pay he would have our wages garnished. He wouldn't even tell us who the original creditor was. His exact words were that "you know you owe this money, I don't have to tell you where it's from, I'm not your babysitter," etc. When my husband demanded proof, he refused and mumbled something about Boeing Employee Credit union.
The only account we ever had from Boeing was a car that we financed through them. We called boeing immediatly, they checked it out and we showed a $0 balance in every system they had. We haven't even owned that car for 4 years now. The woman at the bank suggested that it was probably fraudulent so we tryed again to get more info with no luck.
a couple days later we were served with a writ of garnishment. again they only named boeing on the paperwork, we checked again with no luck.
We honestly thought that this had to be fraudulant because of the way it was handled. We never received anything from Calvary other than the writ that was sent.
Then last friday night, we tried to use our debit card and found out they had taken everything.My mortgage, car and other payments hadn't even cleared and now we have no money. How are we supposed to feed our three children and give them a Christmas? We are a paycheck to paycheck family. luckily I have a lawyer friend helping us. The only way we found out it was sprint was because he ordered copies of all of the court dox. The outrageous thing about it is that my husband has never even had a sprint account. They are theives and they had better pray hard to not end up in hell or jail or both!!!
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Lead Safe, LLC
Office in SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
We area group of highly dedicated professionals that treat every project as though it were our own. Lead Safe LLC is a New York State Certified Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE.) We have performed literally thousands of inspections and risk assessments. We have worked in housing projects, apartment complexes, scattered housing sites, Section 8 housing, and for Jane ...
Kennametal Inc.
based in Fort Mill, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Kennametal delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through our advanced materials sciences and application knowledge.Our commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to our customers. Kennametal's ...
based in Charleston, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
AlgaeControl.US, based in Charleston, SC is a Master Distributor for Sonic Solutions LLC ultrasound algae control devices. We currently have over 50 authorized dealers nationwide providing you a wide variety of expertise; from water garden experts to pond and lake biologists to industrial wastewater engineers. Using sound "green" water management practices positively ...
B+B Anlagenbau GmbH
Office in Moore, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
For over 28 years B+B Anlagenbau GmbH is active in the field of plastic recycling equipment and plant engineering. Thus, the company is one of the corner-stones of this innovative and future orientated industry (number of patents). Today we offer our customers a wide range of machines- and plant components for the re-processing of plastics of all kinds. Our goal still is, ...
Sonoco Recycling
based in Hartsville, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Sonoco's operations consist of its consumer packaging businesses – Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Flexibles and Global Plastics; its Global Services division, which provides high-impact retail displays and packaging supply chain management; its Industrial Converted Products businesses, which manufacture tubes and cores and reels for the wire and cable industry; ...
HRP Associates, Inc.
Office in Greenville, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
HRP Associates, Inc. was founded in Connecticut in 1982 with the sole purpose of serving the environmental needs of the regulated community subject to the newly-enacted Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA). Since that time, the firm has grown to be a full-service provider for all environmental media, while also adding civil engineering and surveying services.
Clewer OY
Office in Bluffton, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Clewer Marketing Ltd. operates in environmental technology and is a subsidiary of the Salmela Corporation, better known for its Hesburger brand. Clewer Marketing Ltd is responsible for the sales and marketing of Clewer waste water treatment systems.
SAR Elektronic GmbH
Office in Greer, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
We have been engaged as a general and subcontractor for more than 25 years. At the same time, we can handle projects of any size, deliver turnkey systems or subsystems. With a proprietor-managed company like ours, you can always expect and depend on our quality, reliability, and proverbial German engineering performance.
Colbond bv
Office in Enka, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Colbond (formerly Akzo Nobel Geosynthetics) manufactures high quality and well-respected products for building and construction, civil and enviromental, and industrial applications. For proven performance in drainage, soil reinforcement, erosion control. Our geosynthetic product development is based on many years of intensive research and experience in the field of ...
Controlled Sites LLC
based in Clover, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Stormwater and Erosion Management Specialists. Controlled Sites provides stormwater inspection and documentation services for developers, grading contractors and builders. Rely on our up-to-date knowledge of local, state and federal regulations to ensure that your projects are in compliance. We work with you to help you avoid the expensive fines and delays that can result ...
LTG Aktiengesellschaft
Office in Spartanburg, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
LTG Aktiengesellschaft designs and manufactures components and complete systems for room air and process air technology and, with its Engineering Services, offers all kinds of dimensioning and experimental services in the field of air technology. Our customers are investors, architects, consulting engineers and corporations from any industries. With our designs we ...
based in Spartanburg, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Kistler-Morse designs & manufactures premier weight solutions for both Bulk and In-Process applications around the world. We give you the inventory measurement and control capabilities you are looking for with sensors and controllers as well as remote inventory management.
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The 24-year-old has been sidelined since suffering a knee injury that required surgery in City's Barclays Premier League win over Swansea last October.
Richards had been in just his fourth match back after missing the start of the campaign with ankle trouble.
The England international has been out longer than hoped, having initially been sidelined until the end of February, but he is now back training with a view to playing at Old Trafford on April 8.
Richards told the club's website, www.mcfc.co.uk: "In the last 10 days I've been training outside again, doing two days of running and then a recovery day after that.
"I had a big fitness session on Tuesday and I'm starting to feel really good again so, when the lads are back from international duty, I should be taking part in partial sessions with them as I continue to close in on a return.
"I think the Newcastle match will come too soon for me, though I hope to have been training normally by then.
"Realistically, I'm looking more to the game away to United and then the FA Cup semi-final, maybe against United again, to be properly involved again - two relaxing games in a week on the horizon!
"I'll be trying my best to get back into the squad and it will be great just to be back among the lads and getting a feel for everything again."
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Published: Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
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To The Editor: We've all known George Bush is arrogant, but had we any idea of the extent?
Some hint is given in his response to Bob Woodward's (Bush at War) asking if he ever explained "what he was doing." "Of course not, I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
Wow! Talk about your imperial presidency. George III couldn't have said it better. That hubris must have Zeus readying his thunderbolts.
He also tells Woodward he operates not on the "facts" but on his "instincts," his "gut reactions." Great, a leader who prefers feelings to facts.
At least we know he won't be getting any ideas while exercising. His aides assure us he doesn't even watch television news; he wants to "focus on fitness." Rather catchy. No reference to gum-chewing.
That Rumsfeld is some kind of guy! Unlike other Bush-hawks, he wants not one but two wars.
After all, what are a few trillion dollars and innumerable lives more? Hey! Let's go all out and attack Iran, too!
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Situated in New Braunfels, this hotel is 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from New Braunfels Conservation Society and 2.7 mi (4.3 km) from Schlitterbahn Waterpark. Museum Of Texas Handmade Furniture and New Braunfels MarketPlace are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a business center, and a meeting room are onsite.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, La Quinta Inn & Suites New Braunfels provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. This hotel offers access to a business center and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This business-friendly hotel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Woodbury Central senior Kobey Gray is a captain and a starter on the Sergeant Bluff-Luton soccer team. "He demonstrates a ton of athletic ability," says Mrs. McElrath. "The amount of leadership Kobey has on the team is amazing. I know I am not his coach, but as a huge Wildcat fan, I am super proud of Kobey,"
Gray, and sophomores Dawson Petersen and Alec Ladd "are strong representatives of" WC on the SB-L soccer team, says Mrs. McElrath. "They travel to Sergeant Bluff to practice and compete with the soccer team," she continues. Other area schools joining the WC and SB-L team include Hinton and Siouxland Community Christian. SBL soccer players compete against all 3A schools.


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There's quite a bit of gravity involved in a physicist's job. But that doesn't mean they can''t have a little fun, too.
Physicists are the geeks...er...um...guys who attempt to explain how the physical world works. They ask questions and then go about finding the answers. What are the immutable laws of nature, and what are the more mutable laws of nature that can be fudged slightly? How does matter interact and why does it behave the way that it does? Why does it…matter? How fast can we make a particle travel, and if it gets loose, could it break my windshield? (And is it covered by my insurance?)
While some physicists work in the theoretical realm—asking these broad questions so that we may better understand the world around us—others have more practical aims, such as expanding our technological base of knowledge to allow for the creation of advanced medical equipment, electronic devices, etc. The former are much more likely to be wearing tie-dye at any given moment.
It takes an inquisitive, mathematical, and scientific mind to become a successful physicist. But if that sounds like you, go for it, because you'll be rolling in it—especially if you work for the Federal Government. They may not pay their postal workers all that much, but that doesn't mean they're always tightwads.
Because physics encompasses such a broad area of study, and because an advanced knowledge of physics extends into so many different fields, few physics grads with only a bachelor's actually end up holding the title of "physicist." For the most part, they work in the private sector, often as an engineer, computer scientist, or physics teacher at the high school level. However, when asked by a stranger, they may still respond that they are a "physicist." You should just let them have that.
Physics majors who walk away with a master's degree work in many of the same places that those with bachelor's degrees do, but tend to take on more supervisory roles, while roughly half of those with PhDs are employed in academia. Academia, for the record, is the world of instruction and learning, and not a delicious nut. The other half of PhDs engage in long-term research projects, either in corporate labs or for the federal government. You may have the idea in your head that all physicists are rocket scientists, but as you can see, there is actually quite a bit of diversity among those with degrees in physics. Even if 94% of them do wear the exact same horn-rimmed glasses.
For lovers of science, being a physicist is pretty much the bee's knees. All scientific work is indeed important, but the study of physics incorporates the absolute basics. Without an understanding of how things work, biologists would be bewildered when butchering baboons, chemists would be confused when combining chemicals, and paleontologists would be perplexed when polishing paleoliths. Physics provides a fundamental understanding of all else. Of course, other scientists may feel that their field is the most important, but that's between you guys.


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