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in the X-men comics, was there 2 characters called Bishop and Marrow, if so what role did they play and what were Bishop's powers? And in the Wolverine Movie what was the mutant Bradley's power, i think that's his name(the one that was at the carnival with the light bulbs), and is Agent Zero a mutant, if so what were his powers?
yes bishop and marrow were x-men around the same time (early 90s) bishop can absorb energy and re-direct it ex: (cyclops blasts bishop , bishops absorbs it and fires it back.) marrow had bone spikes on her body and could use them as knives or armor she can also heal quick like wolverine . marrow was a morlock and didnt like humans bc of their hatred of mutants , bishop was from the future and came to warn the x-men about his future in which all mutants are locked away in concentration camps or dead , so he is there to prevent that from happening by taking out the mutant responsible (it was originally stopping a assassin from killing a senator, to onslaught , and now its a kid who supposedly grows up to wipe out 6 million humans in 6 seconds)
bradley manipulated energy , he turned on the lights with his power , i dont think he could do somthing cool like blasts or anythin cuz he would have lasted longer against sabretooth.
agent zero is originally the character maverick. maverick could heal quick , not like wolverine but quicker than humans and energy blasts, but he mostly used guns, he became agent zero i believe weapon x experimented on him and changed his powers to a healing factor and a death factor, his death factor allowed him to poison his victims through touch but worked better on people with healing factors (wolverine/sabretooth) bc the poison ate away just as quickly as the body healed
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A rundown of weird crimes and comical crooks from across the globe
For as long as there has been civilisation, there has been crime. Fortunately, as civilisation has evolved through the centuries, the weird and wacky ways in which criminals have tried to get something for nothing has not. From getting caught red-handed to failing in the most slapstick of ways, the world has never been fuller of hapless crooks and comedic capers.
It wasn't just a simple case of mistaken identity that lead to one Baltimore man being locked up, as a student was recently given probation for repeatedly ramming his car into another driver's automobile. His reason? He thought that he was federal agent Jack Bauer from hit US TV show '24', and that his victim was a wanted international terrorist on the run. Though there were no TV cameras rolling at the time, sometimes fantasy and fiction can get mixed up in the heat of the crime, which was bad news for another British burglar. Wearing nothing but a thong, presumably to avoid leaving clues, the man almost made off with his haul undetected, if it wasn't for a video he had made of himself committing the crime that, hilariously, he left behind at the scene.
Sometimes it is the most innocuous of objects that can lead to the most bizarre reasons for arrest though, like a chocolate bar. Out for a jog one morning, a South Shields resident was 'attacked' by a Mars Bar as it was hurled at him from a passing car. Fortunately his assailant was brought to justice, but they were not the only person to be arrested for using food as a weapon. A Florida woman was brought to court accused of beating a man with a large piece of raw meat. Police say the 53-year-old women was trying to teach the man a lesson by repeatedly slapping him over the head with the steak, after he said he wanted a roll instead of a slice of bread.
Despite ingenuity, some criminals just get unlucky, like the Swedish crooks who stole dozens of left-footed shoes from a boutique in Stockholm. Baffled by the seemingly pointless crime, it wasn't until clues lead the police to look as far as Denmark, where shops traditionally display the right-footed shoe, that the master plan was foiled. Speaking of bad luck, when thieves stole a van in Wuppertal, Germany, they probably didn't bargain on it having an unseen passenger in the backseat; Caesar five-year-old circus lion.
Boozy blonde Jennifer Bruce from Aberdeen may regret slipping off the wagon as, after drinking a 'ridiculous amount of alcohol' she succumbed to a dare and went on a naked streak through her local supermarket. From wishing they'd kept their clothes on to wishing they'd simply left them well alone, one man in Kuala Lumpar was chased down the street and attacked by a crowd of shop workers after being caught stealing just one pair of mens jeans.
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Berlin
Berlin, city in northeastern Germany, capital of a united Germany from 1871 to 1945 and again since 1990. It lies on the flatlands of the North German Plain at the confluence of several rivers and amid many lakes. The city's slight elevation made it a site for human settlement even in prehistoric times. Berlin has a population of about 3,454,200 (1992 estimate) and an area of approximately 889 sq km (343 sq mi).
After World War II (1939-1945) Berlin, badly damaged during the war, was situated within the German Democratic Republic (GDR; also known as East Germany). The city was subsequently partitioned into East Berlin and West Berlin. The divided city not only symbolized the collapse of the German Empire, of which it was the capital, but also became a focus of Cold War tensions between the Communist nations led by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the group of Western nations led by the United States. The Berlin Wall, a barrier separating East and West Berlin built by the East Germans in 1961, blocked free access in both directions until November 1989; during the time it stood, at least 80 people died attempting to cross from East to West Berlin. By the time Germany was unified in October 1990, much of the wall had been torn down. A few small segments remain as memorials.
Economy
Following the division of the city of Berlin in 1949, the economies of the two halves of the city were integrated into the economies of the two newly separated republics of Germany.
The economy of East Berlin was totally integrated with that of East Germany and also benefited from a steady stream of visitors from West Berlin and West Germany. East Berlin was the hub of East Germany's commercial, financial, and transportation systems, and, although it comprised less than one-half of the former unified city, it was also a huge manufacturing center. Among its principal manufactures were steel and rubber goods, electrical and transportation equipment, chemicals, and processed food. The Spree River, which is connected by waterways with the Baltic Sea, widened in East Berlin to form a major inland harbor. An airport at Schönefeld, just south of the city, served both East and West Berlin.
Much of West Berlin's industrial capacity was destroyed in World War II, and its economy suffered again during 1948 and 1949, when the USSR blockaded the area in an attempt to drive out the Western powers. Beginning in the 1950s, however, West Berlin's economy was revitalized with a great deal of assistance from West Germany and from the United States, which provided support under the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan). The city soon became an important manufacturing center, producing electrical and electronic equipment and substantial quantities of machinery, metal, textiles, clothing, chemicals, printed materials, and processed food. The city also developed as a center for international finance, for research and science, and for the important West German film industry. It was linked to West Germany by highways, canal systems, a railroad, and airplane services, which used Tegel, Tempelhof, and Gatow airports in West Berlin and Schönefeld airport in nearby East Germany.
With the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the two halves of the city were once again physically integrated. Their economic integration became official in July 1990. East Berlin underwent a greater economic upheaval, with many formerly state-owned businesses succumbing to privatization.
While reunification (Die Wende, or “the change”) allowed many families and friends long separated by the Berlin Wall to reunite, it also brought with it numerous economic and social problems. Berlin has been forced to deal with housing shortages, strikes and demonstrations, unemployment, and increases in crime and right-wing violence against foreigners. Unification costs in Germany have led to increased taxes, reduced government subsidies, and cuts in social services.
Points of Interest
The imposing Brandenburg Gate (1788-1791), inspired by the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, is located at the western end of Unter den Linden, a famous boulevard in Berlin that extends east to Museum Island, in the Spree River; the Brandenburg Gate was closed to free access until December 1989. On or near the boulevard are the classical-style State Opera House (1743); the State Library (1774-1780); the baroque Arsenal building (1695-1706; designed by Andreas Schlüter), now housing a historical museum; Saint Hedwig's Cathedral (1747-1773); the Gothic Church of Saint Nicholas (late 14th-early 15th century); the French Cathedral of the Platz der Akademie area, the heart of the French quarter in the 17th century; and the University of Berlin (1810), whose faculty has included 27 Nobel Prize winners and philosopher G. W. F. Hegel. Well-known streets crossing Unter den Linden are the Friedrichstrasse and the Wilhelmstrasse, on which once stood the Reichschancery of Adolf Hitler.
Berlin's most famous boulevard is the Kurfürstendamm, which is lined with fashionable hotels, restaurants, shops, and movie theaters. At the boulevard's eastern end is a ruined tower, all that remains of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (1891-1895; destroyed during World War II), maintained as a reminder of the destructiveness of war. Adjacent to the ruins are a polygonal church and its separate campanile (1959-1961). Branching from the Kurfürstendamm is the Tauentzienstrasse, a major shopping street and the site of the Europa Center (1963-1965): a 22-story complex of restaurants, shops, offices, cinemas, a planetarium, and an ice-skating rink. To the northeast is the Tiergarten park, largest of Berlin's nearly 50 parks, which extends about 3 km (about 2 mi) to the Brandenburg Gate. In the Tiergarten are the large, modern Congress Hall (1957); the Reichstag building (1884-1894), once the seat of the German parliament, which was gutted by fire in 1933 and again damaged at the end of World War II, but which has since been largely restored; the Berlin Zoological Garden, the largest and one of the oldest in the world; and an aquarium. Near the Tiergarten is the Kulturform complex, including the Museum of Applied Arts; the Bauhaus Archives and Museum, commemorating the Bauhaus school of architecture and design (1919-1933); the Musical Instrument Museum; the National Library; the New National Gallery (1968), designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, housing a collection of 20th-century art; and the striking Philharmonie Concert Hall (1963), an asymmetrical structure that serves as the home of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Southeast of the Tiergarten is Oranienburger Strasse and environs, the heart of prewar Berlin's Jewish district. Revitalization of the area has included restoration of the New Synagogue (1866), which was badly damaged on Kristallnacht (see Holocaust) and by bombing. The synagogue is now a center for the study and preservation of Jewish culture. The area is also known for its art galleries, cafés, bars, and artists' studios. Berlin's oldest Jewish cemetery is nearby.
Museum Island, in eastern Berlin, is the site of the Pergamon Museum (1930), with a fine collection of Greco-Roman and Asian art; the Bode Museum, with displays of ancient Egyptian and Byzantine art; and the National Gallery (1866-1876), with exhibitions of 19th-century painting.
On the eastern bank of the Spree is Alexanderplatz, a large square with restaurants and stores; nearby are the Television Tower (365 m/1197 ft) and Red Town Hall. A statue facing the eastern entrance to the town hall commemorates the Trummerfrauen (Rubble Women), thousands of women of all ages who cleared up vast quantities of rubble left in Berlin after World War II.
Forests and farmland cover nearly one-third of Berlin. In the southwestern part of the city is the vast Grunewald forest, which contains a great deal of woodland and the large Wannsee, formed by the Havel River, as well as a Renaissance-style hunting lodge (principally mid-16th century, with 18th-century additions), the large Olympic Stadium (built for the 1936 Olympic Games), and a broadcasting tower (1924-1926) measuring 138 m (453 ft) high. Other points of interest include Charlottenburg Palace (begun 1695), which houses the Museum of Decorative Arts, and the neoclassical Humboldt.
In the Dahlem district of western Berlin, near the Grunewald, are a group of famous institutions, which include the Painting Gallery, with displays of European painting from the 13th to the 16th century; the Ethnological Museum; the Sculpture Gallery; museums of Indian, Islamic, and East Asian art; and the German Folklore Museum. North of the Dahlem district is the Bridge Museum, displaying 20th-century German Expressionist art by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and others. Other museums in the city include a museum of Greek and Roman antiquities; the Bröhan Museum, with Art Deco and Jugendstil collections displayed in period settings; and the Egyptian Museum, which contains a world-famous bust of Nefertiti, queen of Egypt in the 14th century BC.
Besides the University of Berlin, institutions of higher education include the Bruno Leuschner College of Economics (1950); the Hanns Eisler College of Music (1950); the Free University of Berlin (1948), founded mainly by professors and students dissatisfied with conditions at the University of Berlin in East Berlin; and the Technical University of Berlin (1879). Additional cultural facilities include museums of Berlin and German history, the Comic Opera, and the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, home of the Berliner Ensemble, noted for productions of plays by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, its founder. Also located in Berlin are the German Film and Television Academy (1966) and the College of the Arts (1975). Additional performing-arts facilities include the German Opera and the Hebbel Theater. The city is the site of an annual film festival and numerous other festivals. Berlin hosts the annual Grüne Woche, Germany's largest agricultural fair.
In Berlin's northern suburb of Sachsenhausen is the site of one of the first concentration camps in Germany, built in 1936; the site is now a memorial. After the war Soviet secret police used the camp to house war criminals, former Nazis and military officers, and opponents of the occupying regime. The camp was closed in March 1950. In 1992 arsonists set fire to the camp museum during a wave of attacks against foreign asylum-seekers.
Berlin has an efficient integrated system of subways, elevated train lines, buses (including all-night service), and trams.
European Metropolis
In 1871 Berlin became the capital of the unified German Empire. During the following decades the city grew into a major industrial center, specializing in machinery, electrical goods, and textiles. Culturally, Berlin won worldwide fame for its excellent theaters, concerts, and exhibitions; commercially, it benefited from a wide network of railroads converging at the city. Extensive construction of factories and commercial buildings attracted thousands of workers, most of whom were housed in large tracts of shoddy tenements.
After World War I (1914-1918) Berlin's adjacent communities were incorporated into the city, increasing its population to 3,850,000. Berlin suffered economic setbacks during the troubled Weimar Republic (1919-1933), but the wealth of its theatrical, musical, and other cultural offerings remained unrivaled.
During the restrictive Nazi years (see National Socialism), Berlin's cultural life lost much of its prestige. An ambitious building program, by which German dictator Adolf Hitler aimed to make the city the world's foremost capital, was architecturally uninspired and never completed. In 1936 the city was host to the Olympic Games. During World War II large parts of Berlin were destroyed by air raids and, toward the end of the war, by artillery fire and street fighting. By 1945, about 50,000 prewar buildings had been destroyed, many were in ruins, and the city contained some 75 million cu m (101,250,000 cu yd) of rubble. Berlin's population was 2,800,000, down from its prewar 4,400,000.
When Germany reunified in October 1990, a reunited Berlin once again became the national capital. The seat of the federal government was scheduled to shift from Bonn to Berlin by the year 2000, although the Bundesrat (federal council) and eight federal ministries will remain in Bonn. Renovation of the Reichstag building is under way to accommodate the Bundestag (lower house of parliament); the surrounding area will house federal government offices. South of the Reichstag, Potsdamerplatz is scheduled for major development, including a $2-billion office complex to open in 1998. In September 1994 French, British, and U.S. troops formally left Berlin. Following the departure of Russian troops the month before, the event marked the end of an occupation that had lasted for nearly 50 years.
After the unification of Germany in 1990, subsidies once provided by the German government ended, forcing the Berlin government to make extensive cuts in its budget in the mid-1990s. Public service jobs were trimmed, and costs for social services increased. Angry postal and construction workers went on strike, and children and teachers protested the cuts in education and services. In addition, expenditures by the government increased as it helped rebuild East Berlin to bring it up to the standards of West Berlin
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i have what i believe to be a japanese spirit box. can someone translate this for me?
well in this box i believe to be a spirit box ( a box used to catch spirits) i found this miniture gold box with key. it has some symbols on it i think are japanese. can someone translate them?
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Photo Color Laser Or Photo Laser Engraving is scratch and water resistant and included in the price.Available in 14K Solid Yellow White Gold, and Solid Sterling SilverHeight does not Include loop bail.The small heart measure at approximately 1/2 inch X 1/2 inchThe larger heart measure at approximately 3/4 inch X 3/4 inchShips in 1 Business DayHow will you send your photos Upload right through the website, Email, or Mail in.Click quotCustomize Add to Cartquot button to choose how would you li
Photo Color Laser Or Photo Laser Engraving is scratch and water resistant and included in the price.Available in 14K Solid Yellow White Gold, and Solid Sterling SilverHeight does not Include loop bail.The small heart measure at approximately 1/2 inch X 1/2 inchThe larger heart measure at approximately 3/4 inch X 3/4 inchShips in 1 Business DayHow will you send your photos Upload right through the website, Email, or Mail in.Click quotCustomize Add to Cartquot button to choose how would you li
Gold from Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap Part 2
Sunday, July 5, 2009 Gold from Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap Part 2 RecyclingSecrets.com by Michael Meuser
This is the 2nd in an ongoing series of articles about my experience in the electronic salvage, recycling and gold recovery business. At first, I was going to write this up as an ebook and sell it, but I decided - given the tough economic times we all face - to give it away in installments. New installments, resources, how-to articles and news can be found at www.RecyclingSecrets.com.
In my last post I began the story of how I got into the electronics, telecommunications and computer recycling / gold recovery business. I'll tell you a bit more about it here.
This seeming very small "tip" I got from the telecommunication workers turned out to be a virtual gold mine for me and my family.
Up until the time I met these guys, all of their scrap from upgrades and repairs to telecommunication microwave repeater stations in Nevada went into the local landfills. But, because of the upgrade across the state from tube type repeater radios to solid state, the amount of scrap was just too much to handle in this manner.
They told me that they thought the scrap was going up for bid and that I should contact the local office about it. I first, though, wanted to know what it was that I was bidding on. So, I went to the local office, told them of my intentions and they gave me a key to a repeater station and told me to take notes, samples, talk to workers - in short do whatever it took to make a reasonable bid that I could live with.
I headed to Nevada with my very used dodge van. I brought back samples of microwave tubing (beautiful pure copper rectangular tubing with brass flanges), large batteries for their backup power, gold plated attentuators, connectors and the like and many many photos of gigantic steel racks, radios racks of extruded aluminum, etc. etc.
Turns out that the company just wanted a flat per pound bid for everything but the batteries and then a separate bid for the batteries. Batteries at the time were very low in value and, in fact, becoming hard to find anyone who would take them for scrap at all. I asked if I could just bid on everything else and leave the batteries behind and was told no - it was all or nothing.
I was also told that I would probably be the only contractor to bid - they clearly were not interested in the revenue, they just wanted the stuff out of there.
I bid only 1/4 cent per pound on the batteries and just a few cents on the rest. I was awarded the contract. I still remember the local office guy saying, "are you sure you can handle this?" and me saying, "sure, no problem at all."
When I got into my van and drove back home I was in a daze. I thought, how in the world am I going to do this? The bits and pieces quickly came to me - fortunately I had grown up with a can-do attitude - a crucial part of your mental makeup if you are going to be a successful recycler / salvager.
More to come. New articles will be listed at www.RecyclingSecrets.com (news, tools, and resources are also available here) and also at the recyclingsecrets.blogspot.com.
About the Author
I got into the recycling and salvage business in the early 80s. The housing boom and recession at that time and loss of a job made me look for a new way to support my family. I found a small pamphlet titled, surplus and salvage and began applying the principles that I found within. My salvage work ranged from autos and trucks, building materials, metals to electronics and gold. A year ago or so I began to write an ebook about the electronic salvage and gold recovery experience. I was going to sell the book, but writing an entire book proved daunting so I've started to write it in short articles that I give away free. I know that these are hard times and I don't want to burden you with any more expense. I hope that my experience will prove to be encouraging and useful to you.
I have a bachelors in design but I'm in Australia, whats the Australian DC?
You could post your work on this website for free http://buycomicart.co.uk/submit.aspx or send your comic work to a newspaper. Just ring around newspapers and magazines to check if they're looking for artists! Good luck x
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I want to start reading this comic, and im going to purchase 'The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes' (which collects the first 9 issues). But what i want to know, is that collection in color? Or black and white?
I would perfer the comic in color, so does the Preludes and Nocturnes collection come in color? Or is that only the Absolute Edition?
thanks!
dude how old are you? chances are if you have a yahoo account you should quit reading comics and get an actual hobbie. jus jokin i think there are black and white. lol
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A fresh, up-to-date approach to creating comics shows artists of all ages and talent levels how to build basic figures into stylized characters, set them in action, and add the backgrounds needed to complete the visual storytelling process. Chapters include instruction on basic shapes and perspective; human anatomy, figure drawing, and stylizing the basic figure; the head and comic facial expressions; and backgrounds and inking techniques. Terrific tips of the trade are provided by prominent young professionals in the comic book industry who share their insiders overviews of the business, giving aspiring cartoonists a decided edge in becoming savvy newcomers as they prepare to enter a very competitive field. Andy Smith, whose own comic books are published by Image Comics, has worked as a penciler, inker, and art director for several top companies, including Marvel, DC, and Acclaim Comics. He lives in Orlando, Florida. Paperback, 144 pages, 300 black and white and 10 color illusr
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Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928?1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry, creating narratives with cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent Japanese output. God of Comics chronicles Tezuka?s life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics. The book emphasizes Tezuka?s use of intertextuality. His works are filled with quotations from other texts and cultural products, such as film, theater, opera, and literature. Often, these quoted texts and images bring with them a world of meanings, enriching the narrative. Tezuka also used stock characters and recurrent visual jokes as a way of creating a coherent world that encompasses all of his works. God of Comics includes close analysis of Tezuka?s lesser-known works, many of which have never been translated into English. It offers one of the first in-depth studies of Tezuka?s oeuvre to be published in English.
A visual book can be defined as any book that relies on pictures to tell a story or demonstrate a concept. Words can be evident in visual books but often take a secondary role to the images.
Kids who come late to reading may struggle with large tracts of text, pages of prose alone that are generally symbolic of having achieved a competent level of reading.
Comics can offer an enticing intermediary for kids who are still drawn to books but who may reject the idea of traditional chapter books. While there is still a certain amount of stigma attached to comics, there are a number of titles that both attract reluctant readers and also offer a level of appropriate reading material for emerging readers.
Titles like The Dreamland Chronicles, Bone, Tellos and The Amulet are all books in a series that are image driven stories with age-appropriate vocabulary and subject matter.
Beyond comics there are some books that maintain a level of attraction for visual learners whilst retaining the familiar chapter book format. At the forefront of these is the Geronimo Stilton series. Originally written in Italian, this series was first translated into English in 2000 by Scholastic.
The main feature of these books is their emphasis on color text and dynamic illustrations. When you open a Geronimo Stilton book the first thing to note is their white pages. The pages are white, not sepia to hold the color that appears in both the text and the illustrations that butt into the text.
The main parts of text are in black but words of different fonts and color are interspersed at various points to add emphasis to certain words or simply just add variation. For readers intimidated by long stretches of prose in even the smallest chapter books, these visual variations are engaging and entertaining.
For visual kids who are struggling with reading, letting them peruse visual books such as Geronimo Stilton or comics like Bone, may instil a love for reading through this temporary phase.
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