Contrary to Pergamon, where the old Acropolis was located outside modern Bergama, remnants of old Thyatira and its first Christian community are overgrown by new developments and hard to find. Only in a little square neighborhood in the center, which is preserved as a cultural spot, some memories of the time of John are present. Thyatira, the present Akhisar, is a middle-sized and reasonably modern looking agricultural municipality of more than 100,000 inhabitants. Thyatira was not as famous as the cities mentioned before. It was a small insignificant municipality in rural territory. But notably, the longest letter John has to write to the angels of the seven communities is written to this small community.
The fourth or Greek-Roman cultural period
Thyatira represents the fourth or Greek-Roman cultural period. As our present time still is full of memories that go back to the Greek-Roman cultural period, it is relatively easy for us to imagine life in those days.
The Greek-Roman cultural period is a reflection of the Atlantean epoch, which was the center of the era of our mineral Earth planet. The bodies of the Atlanteans were more dense than those of the Lemureans and gradually a bone structure was starting to emerge, although it was still flexible at the start (Steiner, GA 104a, p.98). Their bodies are difficult to detect in archeology, contrary to animals which produced more outspoken bone structures.
The fourth letter stands for the middle of the seven letters. In this cultural period the central event of the Post-Atlantean epoch is taking place: the Spirit of the Sun incarnates as the Son of God in a human body, the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
The liberating mission of the Christ resulted in the gift of the free I to the human being, the eternal aspect of his nature. The essence of his being is presented as the Son of God with eyes like flames of fire and feet like melting gold-ore. He is the love aspect of God which created man and all that exists. In the fourth cultural period man is, as a result of the Christ force descending from the Sun sphere, loosened from his family and tribal connections and starts to become an individual person. The descent of the Christ from the Sun to the Earth, a process that started in the middle of the Atlantean epoch, is needed to save man which was more and more clinging to material matters. This would without the coming of the Christ ultimately prohibit his return to the spiritual world and to his divine origin, according to Steiner (GA 104a, p.84).
The awakening of the human self-consciousness
During the Greek-Roman cultural period from 800 BC – 1400, man’s love for the material world comes to its highest expression in the Greek and Roman art of sculpture, which shows the divine beauty and perfection of the human figure. The coming of the Christ awakens the self-consciousness, the I. The impact of the Christ impulse becomes visible in the Roman empire in the birth of citizenship, the rights of each Roman citizen as an individual for the law. Here the I-consciousness, which was earlier only present as a seed, descends and starts to grow. The personality enters the global stage. An example is the introduction of the concept of a testament (Steiner, GA 104a, p.89). Schult (p.55) recognizes the Christ impulse in Thyatira in the qualities of love, faith and serving patience. In Thyatira, contrary to Pergamon, the last works are more than the first. The last works are greater in Thyatira because the love from the Christ has started its renewing activity in their personalities and the new works they perform.
The ability to say ‘I am’ results in the responsibility for our own deeds. That is why the Christ says in the letter to Thyatira of himself he who searches the reins and hearts. The I consciousness, the ability of self-reflection, becomes the pivot from which the temptations of the soul are going to be controlled and purified.
The birth of the I is at the same time accompanied by the disappearing of the last remnants of the consciousness of the spiritual world, of the awareness of being a spiritual being before one is born as a child on Earth.
Human existence becomes clasped between birth and death on Earth (Steiner, GA 346, p.74). This tragedy of losing the entry to the spiritual world is for instance shown in the drama of the Greek poet Aeschylus, in which Io, who became insane, appears to Prometheus. Io is, according to Steiner (GA 104a, p.90) symbol for the old clairvoyant ability that can no longer manifest itself in this cultural period during the normal consciousness, and only could present itself in a state of insanity.
The Greek develops philosophy, but is not aware of the future ascending into the spiritual world. And the Roman develops, besides science and civil and criminal justice, a large skepticism for spiritual affairs (Steiner, GA 104a, p.91). The science of the Egyptian culture, which reached in its spiritual astronomy till the stars, disintegrates in the fourth cultural period and this results in an inability to search and find the spirit behind the external appearances. As a result, man easily comes to deifying his own lower self, as found in the cases of tyrannical Roman emperors. Schult (p.56) shows that the monumental religious buildings like the pyramids of the Egyptians and ziggurats of the Babylonians are still expressions of the consciousness of the macrocosm, and the astral-cosmic beings of the gods. In the case of the Greek-Roman art the temples are shrunk to the human size. The kingdom of heaven now lives in the inner world of man. The gods have become human. Even the Son of God becomes human. From the eternity of the sphere above the cosmos, the world Logos descends, first in the sphere of the zodiac, than in the sphere of the solar system and finally on Earth and in the I consciousness of man. In the I of man the ‘Light of the world’ starts to shine.
Evil is represented in Thyatira by prophetess Jezebel. This name refers to the assertive Jezebel (living around 900 BC), daughter of king Ethbaal of Tyre and Sidon, who married Israeli king Ahab. After Ahab died, she became queen-mother. She made worship of Baal and Ishtar (Astarte) state religion and had Israel’s prophets killed. Her great opponent was prophet Elia (1 Kings 18 and further). Bock (p.66) suggests that nine centuries later followers of queen Jezebel will not have been so much the problem, but that the text refers to the widespread use of prophetesses, so-called Sibyls, who, like Jezebel, were inspired by the same forces. Sibyls play in the countries around the Mediterranean Sea during many centuries an important role as ecstatic mediums which give oracle proverbs to their visitors. Like the somnambulists, mentioned in the letter to Pergamon in relation to the followers of Balaam, the community of Thyatira is called not to associate itself with these ‘followers of Jezebel’. They all represent forces which oppose the spiritual awakening of man. Man has from now on the task to find his or her own way and make their choices with an awakened self-consciousness.
Schult (p.57) shows that the name Sibyl has a Persian-Chaldean background. It is related to a Sambethe-sanctuary that existed in Thyatira and was known as ‘Home of stars’ or ‘Home of the sun’. Sambe is the name for the Persian-Chaldean Sibyl. This Sibyl sanctuary must have been connected with the sun and star religion of the Sabaeans. The name sibyl obtained in time the meaning of prophetess, but was originally a reference to the cosmic lady, the zodiac sign of Virgo, which will give birth to the solar Son. The Sibyl sanctuary is characterizing Thyatira as a city representing the old sun and star culture. Close to Thyatira was also situated the city of Apollonia. This shows that Thyatira and its environment were worshipping the mysteries of the Sun, as well as those of Venus.
In the first century, these mysteries were in decay, but the influence of Sibyls was confusing the Christian community in Thyatira, particularly by their luciferic ecstasy and sexual rites. Those who fall for the demon of Venus, the illusionary light spirit Lucifer, are soon also victim of the demon of the Sun, the spirit of darkness, Ahriman-Satan, according to Schult.
He who searches the reins and hearts
The Christ states in the letter to Thyatira: And all the communities shall acknowledge, the I AM, he who searches the reins and hearts. In astrology, the reins are positioned under the sign of Venus, the Morning star, while heart and blood circulation are under the sign of the Sun. Christ leads according to the Apocalypse the total of human development and the wholeness of our solar system. Heart and reins of man show microcosmically what appears macrocosmically in Sun and Venus. When man is not able to find in his own Self the true Lucifer, the Morning star of the Holy Spirit, he will revert to the illusory light of the fallen Lucifer, here portrayed as Jezebel, according to Schult.
Steiner connects the quoted sentence of the Christ also with the new impulse that the Christ leads man upward and away from the material world (GA 104, p.87). The solar spirit which Zarathustra called Ahura Mazdao has allied itself since the crucifixion with planet Earth to fulfill its mission (GA 104a, p.93).
The rod of iron
The rod of iron to rule over the nations refers to forces of Mars which are needed to bring life into the physical reality. In plants this is reflected by the iron containing chlorophyll that is needed to make out of sunlight and carbon dioxide organic matter and oxygen. In animals and man iron plays a key role in the red blood-cells which fixate the oxygen in the lungs and exchange it for carbon diode. In case the Mars force is too strong, it kills and hardens life processes. And in the realm of culture, Mars leads to a domination of machine forces. In case the Mars sphere is illuminated by the light of the Christ, the I-force of the spirit can lead the nations. This is what the iron rod represents.
The sphere of the Sun lies spiritually between those of Mars and Venus. When the solar sphere illuminates the sphere of Venus, it becomes the divine sphere of Sophia and the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Illumination of the Mars sphere by the light of the Christ results in the sphere of archangel Michael with his iron armor which conquers the demon of the Sun.
The Morning star
The letter to Thyatira ends with Christ’s promise that those who overcome will not only receive the rod of iron but also the Morning star. The Morning star indicates a decisive change in the fate of man and the Earth. During the fourth, the present mineral Earth era, a transformation takes place among the seven Earth eras. This fourth era is first characterized by a descending episode, called the Mars episode, while after the incarnation of the Christ an ascending episode arrives, the Venus episode. Venus shines clearly at the morning sky before the Sun arises above the skyline and starts to over-glow Venus. That is why the Christ mentions the Morning star which will be given to man when he is moving back to the spiritual world. The Morning star represents the ascending line in human evolution once he or she is able to overcome with the new I-consciousness the immoral temptations in his or her soul. A new future perspective grows, as after the Morning star the Sun, the Son of man, arises. This all shows why, according to Schult, Thyatira is characterized by the Sun.


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Conventions | With the long-planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center stalled indefinitely, the Los Angeles Times offers an overview of efforts to keep Comic-Con International in the city past 2016, and what suitors like Los Angeles and Anaheim, California, have to offer. “The proposals we’ve received are pretty amazing,” says Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer. “It’s not an easy decision.” However, the San Diego Tourism Authority remains confident that convention organizers will sign a deal — possibly with a month — to remain in the city through 2018, based on an agreement for nearby hotels to offer their meeting space for Comic-Con programming. (The Tourism Authority has already asked hotels in the Comic-Con room block to freeze their rates at 2015 levels for the next two years.) [Los Angeles Times]
Awards | Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? has been nominated for yet another award: This time it’s the Autobiography category of the National Book Critics Circle awards. [Newsday]
Publishing | The cartoonist Riss (Laurent Sourisseau), who was injured in the Jan. 7 attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, will take over as editor. Riss co-edited the magazine with Stephane Charbonnier (Charb), who was killed in the massacre. The next issue will be delayed by several weeks, and Riss said the magazine will have to be “reinvented,” because so much of the content stemmed from the “collective dynamic” of the staff, many of whom are now dead. [Le Monde]
Auctions | A bound collection of the first 24 issues of Magic, a British comic that was launched in 1939 and ran for 80 issues, has sold at auction for £15,600 (more than $23,500), far above the initial estimate of £2,000 to 3,000. The comic was published by DC Thomson, publisher of the slightly older and more long-lived Beano and Dandy, but it was canceled in 1941 due to paper rationing. Auctioneer Steve Dewar of the auction house of Curr and Dewar reckons that there are only eight to 10 copies of the first issue in existence; two of them sold in 2004 and 2005 for between £1,000 and £2,000 each. [BBC News]
Publishing | First Second editorial director Mark Siegel and associate marketing and publicity manager Gina Gagliano discuss the kids’ graphic novel scene and how it has changed, how First Second has changed, and why more publishers aren’t launching their own graphic novel imprints. There’s also a good interview of First Second’s 2014 releases and what to expect in 2015. [A Fuse #8 Production]
Creators | Terry Moore goes in depth about Rachel Rising and talks about some of his other work as well. [Comicbook.com]
Creators | Box Brown discusses creativity, his process and Retrofit Comics. [Darling Sleeper]
Creators | Aisha Franz talks about moving from self-publishing to being published by others, and about how she constructed the story for her graphic novel Earthling: “With Earthling, in the beginning, I focused on the little scenes, and then one scene and then the next one, and then it started to develop a kind of rhythm, but of course I collected a lot of materials, and ideas. I threw out a lot of stuff, but I always had to stop and think about it, if this was really working.” [The Hairpin]
Creators | Michael DeForge talks about the “meandering” structure of his stories, his changing palette, and his favorite webcomics (all of which begin with the letter S). [Paste]
Creators | Roman Muradov discusses his first full-length graphic novel, (In A Sense) Lost and Found, published by Nobrow. [Broken Frontier]
Graphic novels | Here’s a point of view you don’t see too often: Monica Edinger argues that Cece Bell’s El Deafo should be eligible for a Newbery Award because the text carries the story. [Educating Alice]
Crowdfunding | The Kickstarter for the game Exploding Kittens reached its $10,000 goal in just eight minutes, probably because one of the creators is Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal. Gary Tyrrell checked in at the 17-minute mark, when the number was around $65,000, and in the time it took him to write a blog post about it, the total rocketed to almost $300,000. (It’s $1.6 million as of this writing, but obviously that’s a moving target.) [Fleen]
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It felt like things were slowly beginning to get back to normal. COVID-19 cases were diminishing, businesses were reopening and yes, movie theaters were in the early stages of gearing back up with new safety measures in place. But in the past couple of weeks, there’s been another surge in states like Florida. In addition, a number of viral videos on social media show individuals freaking out over being told to wear a mask inside a store.
It seems like such a simple thing to do and yet, people don’t want to be told what they can and can’t do. New York is one of the states hit hardest by the virus and is also beginning to reopen. And in the wake of this and wanting to help curb another spike in cases, the state has released a new safety advertisement featuring Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees.
The ad, which you can see below, features the serial killer as he walks around the city in his iconic hockey mask. But unlike the killer we’ve seen in a number of movies, he’s sad because his face frightens people. That is, until a little girl hands him a face mask to wear.
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Wearing a mask has proven to be an easy and important way to stem the spread of the #coronavirus, yet many New Yorkers still aren't doing it. This is especially true of younger people who may feel invincible to #Covid19. How can we get them to pay attention to this life-saving message? Tap into pop culture and entertain them. Don't preach. Don't fear-monger. Do the opposite. Make them smile, engage and share with their peers. As the tri-state area begins to open, Toby Trygg, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy Health, aligned with the talented folks at @chimneygroup to help create this timely PSA. #Ogilvy #OgilvyHealth #AgencyLife #AdLife #PSA #PublicHealth #Creative
The ad ends with the message: “Wearing a mask can be scary; not wearing one can be deadly.” The post also singles out young people as a demographic not wearing a mask because they feel invincible, and encourages individuals to use non-threatening or preachy dialogue to get them to be safe, which may include pop culture references or making them smile.
It’s an effective ad and it’s surprising that California didn’t think of doing something similar with the film industry angle. But at the end of the day, it’s up to each person to set an example by helping prevent the spread of COVID-19 and the easiest way to do that is to wear a mask. How ironic is it then that they turn to Jason Voorhees, one of the most vicious movie killers, to help save lives.


For the past few weeks, I’ve been sounding like a broken record, in terms of advising/suggesting grounding and the importance of grounding practices; embodiment, and being rooted and anchored in the physical body.
This has been preparation for us all, because there are a lot of Cosmic energies and activations for the incoming week of November 12-18, 2023. Perhaps one of the most volatile, and potentially most turbulent and chaotic, energetic week of 2023.
Enter: Mars, Ceres, the Sun and the Moon opposing Uranus on the Scorpio/Taurus axis…, oh! and Pluto, the North Node & Eris square dance in the background… The rest of November is quite Cosmically packed, though for our transformation and growth, always.
In moving into this coming week (and always):
The first thing we must remember is that We Always Have a CHOICE.
The choice to channel the Cosmic energies that are available to us~ into Constructive and Productive, rather than Destructive. (refer back to November Gentle Reminders)
And the second thing we must remember is to STAY OUT of Fear.
Fear as we know is a low frequency. In worries, anxiety, tension, or stress~ we must stay present with our mind and our thoughts...where they wander or run off to, we can ensure we are allowing the feelings, but to not get stuck or spiral down into them. Acknowledging, processing, and moving through...
Knowledge is always power~ however action must be taken…
otherwise knowing is the same as not knowing at all.
We kick off this coming week with the Moon first entering Scorpio early Sunday morning 02:39HKT. This sets the stage for the entire week~ as we move into the balsamic Moon phase, it is of stillness and quieting just before arriving to the New Moon on the 13th (17:27HKT | 13:27PST). The dark moon is for reflection and rest, in preparation for what lies ahead. Always a good practice to settle and retreat, during this phase of the moon.
Shortly after the Moon moves into Scorpio, Mars will oppose Uranus Rx~ and this energy runs through the entire week.
Monday the 13th:
New Moon at 20°44’ Scorpio, where the Sun & Moon sit with Mars, all opposing Uranus.
Tuesday the 14th:
The Sun opposes Uranus Rx exactly, and the Moon moves into Sagittarius, immediately squares Saturn, then conjuncts Mercury and sextiles Venus
Wednesday the 15th:
The Moon trines Chiron Rx
Thursday the 16th:
The Moon trines the North Node and squares Neptune, then moves into Capricorn
Friday the 17th:
The Moon trines Jupiter Rx, squares Venus, and Chiron Rx, while Mars & the Sun both trine Neptune Rx
Saturday the 18th:
Mars Cazimi 25°37’ Scorpio (Mars conjunct the Sun)
If you’ve been feeling a bit off, uneasy, or restless… this is probably why.
These energies are unstable, un-grounding, and can be unexpected, and unnerving.
Mars in Scorpio energy is raw firepower. It is intense; penetrating, and excavating; it dives into the Underworld and brings up our shadows. Yet it is our warrior spirit, of our passions, determination, and drive~ power of initiation and self-motivation, however also can become destructive and of war (Mars in Scorpio post here).
Uranus in Taurus is the Great Awakener, urging us towards the leveling-up and next evolution of the Self. It is anything but tradition~ rather, of disruptors, riots & rebellions, free-thinking, tech and future, and of break-downs and ultimately break-throughs. And in the sign of Taurus where he has been traveling since May of 2018, this relates to shaking up our physical safety and security, stability, and material resources. It is also of Mother Earth and her resources, as well as money and finances, hence the “climate change” movement, the recent “natural disasters”, as well as the instability of the markets, economy, and the traditional/old systems of 3D Physical World.
Uranus can also hyperactivate our nervous systems, and create extra buzzing or anxiety in the body too.
This Mars/Uranian energy combined can result in acting out and projections in the most intense and extreme of ways. It is impatient, that creates frustration and irritability, leading to possible sudden outbursts. It is explosive energy, uncontained, and tense, very much volcanic and earth shaking. If you find yourself (your ego) projecting, please pause. If you’re being projected upon, know what’s yours and what isn’t. Walk away and maintain awareness in the environments you place yourself in for the next week. Who you surround yourself with, and by.
Slow down when in the car, remember to buckle your seatbelt, and be careful with fire and knives, cuts and burns, as this energy can be accident prone.
Mars & the Sun in Scorpio opposite Uranus in Taurus in it's highest vibration, is the energy of LIBERATION and FREEDOM.
As the Mars/Uranian energies play out in our personal lives this week, they will also play out on the World’s stage; for what is currently happening in the Collective is a reflection of our combined individual consciousness. As we sit upon our own unhealed wounds, tramuas, and suppressed pains, at this time ALL is being being excavated and brought into the light (ahhh Scorpio Season), in the form of Collective reality. Yet as we learn to heal and Rise Above (staying out of duality)... may we see that these are the forms of humanity's unhealed wounds. That truly, we each contribute to the Whole.
Evil has always existed, and it seems as if the World has been worsening… but it has not. Darkness has always been there, but more hidden— and as more of us are awakened to it; more of the darkness has been brought into the light.
This is why it’s so important that we continue to do our own healing work; in our journeys and paths to releasing all that isn’t ours. In rediscovering our true selves; rather than that which we were told who to be. To learn how to love ourselves unconditionally; rather than trying to prove ourselves and our self-worth to others/the external. To understand and know that we are deserving, and our Souls are already perfect. To remember, We are a Soul, merely having a human experience.
This energy is absolutely transformational and especially during Scorpio season, is not easy. And there is no end to Shadow-work, but it is a lifelong commitment and the most radical act of Self-Love… to face what lies beneath the surface, in choosing to honour and return to Your Soul and connection to the Divine/Source/God/Goddess.
This is why Grounding is/has been stressed so much in recent weeks; in preparing ourselves to stay in and connected to the physical body; despite what may be happening in the external World. Seeking productive outlets to channel the excess of energies, like exercise and movement. Healthy eating habits to keep our vessels clean, less dense, so that we can be more discerning in the energies. Shadow work is not only of the mind/conceptual/intellectual, emotional, or spiritual, but is also extremely physical, as the body keeps the score~ and the cells hold our trauma (yes, inner child trauma, even when the brain has forgotten). Therefore, continue to check in with yourself and your body~ Full Embodiment; however this looks like for you.
Especially for those who have any planets ~21° of Fixed Signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), please take extra good care of yourselves during this week.
We must remember that whatever happens in the external worlds, we must maintain our inner peace.
So as you proceed into this coming week, continue to nourish and nurture, and return to your sacred space: the Heart... and Breathe.


While actors Huma Qureshi, Farhan Akhtar, and Swara Bhasker are taking part in protests against the amended Citizenship Act, actor Kangana Ranaut on Monday condemned these protests and said the people should not instigate violence in the name of democracy.
"It's not correct for the people to instigate violence in the name of democracy.
We are still hung on to the pre-Independence era. During that time, going on strikes against the people, who had captured us, not paying taxes, all of this was really cool. But today, because of democracy, your leaders have come from within you, not from Italy or Japan," the 'Panga' actor told ANI.
Slamming people for vandalising public property during protests, Ranaut said, "In our population, only three to four per cent people pay taxes.
Rest of them are actually dependent on them. So, who gives you the right to burn buses, trains, create ruckus in the country."
"One bus costs a lot. It's not a small amount. And the condition of this country is such that there are so many, who are dying of malnutrition," added Ranaut.
On the work front, the fiery actor will next be seen in sports-drama 'Panga' where she is essaying the role of a Kabaddi player. Helmed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, 'Panga' is set to hit the big screens on January 24, 2020.
Delhi's deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia slammed Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut over her comment on anti-CAA protests.
Kangana Ranaut tweeted, "When you protest, the first thing that's imp is that you don't turn violent. In our population, only 3-4% ppl pay tax, others are actually dependent on them. So, who gives you the right to burn buses, trains & to create ruckus in the country?". Replying to Kangana, Manish Sisodia tweeted, "Even daily labourers pay indirect taxes when he buys something cheap like salt. They even pay taxes when they went to watch movies and are responsible for income of actors."


Included into the F-ACT festival, the recycle workshop is an initiative that wants to carry out the concept of enhancing the behavior of a material by proposing possible paths for a new reality. The material considered is plastic, one of the most popular polluting materials of our planet that is creating a major problems for global pollution but that should be seen by the final consumer with more awareness.
The workshop will be divided into two parts: the first based on raising awareness to the problem of plastics through the activities of the Venice Calls association and the second part linked to the possible creative re-use of this material through the experiences of V.E.R.-V and by the artist Cosima Montavoci.
The workshop will be implemented by young people through a participatory approach with the aim of influencing the participants by promoting greater sensitivity within the city of Venice on the subject of plastic.
The EAT ART association will be the moderator during the workshop with the aim of promoting public interaction with the various speakers.


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Street Address for Shootersolutions (Snail Mail) is:
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1-360-988-6583 is available for both phone and text.
Instead of an e-mail contact which gets harvested by SPAMers, other contact information will be by webform, which will be added shortly.
Working now is messages left at the instant messanger service.
Well, Drupal site is now programmed correctly to accept to Authorize.net Secure Credit Card transactions where the data will not pass through https://Shootersolutions.com
This is in addition to the Secure Credit Card Processing.
It seems web forms are much more popular these days than the old fashioned phone number.


Despite their age, women want to glow and feel confident on every occasion. Their hair plays a huge role in this. If it isn’t properly styled, you may constantly feel like everyone is judging you and not be able to fully dedicate to the event you’re attending.
Especially, when women are over fifty years old, they start searching for ways to look younger, stylish, and modern all the time. In this case, their hairstyle is the key to their whole image. So, you should be careful which options you decide to go for. If you are young you can watch my article about Short Haircuts for Women.
To assist you in this, on this list you’ll encounter the fanciest hairstyles for women over 50 together with advice on how and where to wear them.
No matter if your hair is thinning or it’s thicker, this feminine style will suit you. It’s short, allowing you to experiment both with wavy and straight hair.
All middle-aged women can try it mainly during more formal gatherings or at work. It’ll complement their stylish clothes perfectly.
Very Short Hairstyle
This is known as the actress Judi Dench’s hairstyle. It’s a pixie cut, which looks a bit boyish, but it’s very stylish and original nevertheless. To keep it that way, though, you’ll need to trim it regularly to stop it from overgrowing.
Also, it’s very simple to maintains it can be washed at once and it doesn’t require combing at all. Not to mention that it can be worn basically everywhere and with any clothes you like.
Long and Wavy Locks
There’s nothing long hair to give women the youthful appearance they long for. However, the only difficulty with this hairstyle is that it takes more time and effort to keep it beautiful.
Those that have naturally thick and wavy hair will have no serious trouble, whereas women with straight hair should go over more steps to get this look. But it’s not impossible thanks to the cosmetics for adding volume to the hair, irons, and driers.
What makes this hairstyle desirable among older women is its simplicity and elegance. It adds a glamorous touch to every event no matter if it’s during the day or at night. And it matches your elegant clothes just fine.
This polished crop also frames your face pronouncing the angles.
Hairstyle with Bangs and Layers
This hairstyle proves that age is just a number and that a good hairstyle always looks good on a beautiful woman.
Usually, females in their fifties opt for a more voluminous type of cut that complements their face, overall appearance as well as personality. It can be enriched with gorgeous bangs to make it more interesting. Some stylists also like to put a few highlights.
The Curly Bob
It’s an unwritten rule that the longer the bob is, the better the curls are.
To pull this hairstyle off, you need a longer bob – preferably it should be at shoulder-length. That’s because these bobs can be tweaked more and you can play with them to create all kinds of curls.
Plus, it’s easier for care.
The bangs which are swept to the side are a real hit with females under and in their thirties. But that’s also the case with the ones twenty years older.
This style of bangs is accompanied by long hair that’s curly for most of the time. The only problem may be that women with this type of hair must use hair products as well as a hair dryer to control those wild curls.
The Famous Flip Hairstyle
The very popular Fawcett flip is making a huge comeback! Named after the late, great, award-winning actress and artist, Farrah Fawcett, it gains a lot of fame nowadays with many hairstylists suggesting it to their customers.
This hairstyle will give you class and an edgy look while at the same time it will make you look contemporary and ultra feminine.


With The Flash/Supergirl Crossover making headlines for being awesome last week, including #SupergirlXTheFlash being the number 1 trend on Twitter, I thought the Glee alumni in that episode was just one of the many reasons to take a look at some TV actors who can really belt it out.
So you probably already know that some of these actors are capable of holding some amazing notes but just in case you don't, we'll take a look at some of the more obvious ones too! You will also probably notice an unusual amount of superheroes on the list (for real, like two thirds of this list features stars from superhero shows!). Thus, here are some TV Stars that can actually really sing!
1. Melissa Benoist — 'Supergirl'
This one most people know by now. But in case you didn't, our first SuperGleero on the list is none other than the Girl of Steel herself. Before she was a kryptonian hero, Melissa Benoist's most famous role was as Marley Rose in Glee. The sweet, kind Marley entered the show at the beginning of it's fourth season, becoming one of the new leaders of the New Directions. She became a regular in Season 5, although all the newbies practically vanished midway through the season. Melissa also met and married her co-star Blake Jenner. The newbies may not have made the same impact as the earlier bunch of New Directions, but there was no denying their talent. Melissa Benoist used the platform to showcase her talent and let her amazing voice speak for itself! Check out Melissa's stunning rendition of Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball:
2. Andy Mientus — 'The Flash'
I only put The Flash down for Andy Mientus because it's his most recent TV work — as awesome as both he and the show are, when it comes to his previous roles, he has demonstrated his immense talent to an even greater degree on Broadway and on Smash as Kyle Bishop. Having appeared on Broadway multiple times, most notably as Marius in Les Misérables and Hanschen in Deaf West production of Spring Awakening. His chemistry with fellow Broadway (and now Superhero) alum Jeremy Jordan in Smash was quite simply brilliant and although at times Jordan's Jimmy Collins was quite unlikable, you could always count on Kyle to ground him. I am a huge fan of Mientus and it's pretty clear that he has a huge future ahead of him on Broadway and TV. I was over the moon when I heard that he was cast as the Pied Piper/Hartley Rathaway in The Flash and can only hope that he shows up more often because he was exhilarating as Rathaway.
Mientus has an incredible voice and although I have been a fan of his singing for a few years, I never actually realized until recently just how powerful his range is. This performance of "Last Week's Alcohol" below is captivating and mesmerising. It's that good. Amazing.
3. Jeremy Jordan — 'Supergirl'
That brings us nicely onto Jordan who, like Mientus, has quite the Broadway catalogue to his name, most notably Newsies. He would also his feature film debut that same year in Joyful Noise alongside Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton and most recently starred in The Last Five Years alongside Anna Kendrick. A seasoned Broadway actor and performer, it's no surprise that he excels whenever he sings. Seriously, he has a really powerful voice. Furthermore, Supergirl's resident whizz-kid also starred in Season 2 of Smash as the moody and sometimes aggressive Jimmy Collins. Although many fans weren't keen on the moody character, fans were quick to praise Jordan's performances, particularly his debut on the show with "Broadway, Here I Come".
Check out Jordan's incredible pipes as he belts out "Voice In A Dream" on Smash:
4. Jensen Ackles — 'Supernatural'
Dean Winchester can sing?! Ackles may hunt demons on TV for a living, but it turns out that he has quite the rockstar voice, too! I was aware that he could sing but never actually knew how awesome he was. Dean Winchester would definitely be proud of him! Be sure to check out this live performance of "Simple Man" at VanCon:
5. Grant Gustin — 'The Flash'
This one is something that the vast majority of people know by now, but it wouldn't have been just for me to create this list without featuring the Scarlet Speedster himself, Grant Gustin. Gustin first starred in the Broadway Revival Tour of West Side Story as Baby John. Then, in 2011, he got his first big TV break when he joined Glee as villanous warbler Sebastian Smythe. Despite being devious, fans loved Sebastian as he belted out many famous songs, including: "Stand" "Uptown Girl" "Smooth Criminal" and "Glad You Came". I love the fact that he was a major part of my life back then and still is now as The Flash — he is a joy to watch. Furthermore, he briefly showcased his vocals on Season One of The Flash when Barry had a little impromptu karaoke with Caitlin. Here's hoping we hear more of Gustin's awesome voice in the future! Check him out, performing One Direction's "Live While We're Young" (some slick dance moves too!):
6. Chyler Leigh — 'Supergirl'
Kara's big sister is a natural when it comes to singing. Leigh's other well-renowned role was as Dr.Lexie Grey on Grey's Anatomy. This amazing series was one of the many that followed the popular trend of featuring a musical episode, too! Of course, Leigh showcased her talents here. Check her belting out "Breathe" on the musical episode of Grey's Anatomy:
7. Carlos Valdes — 'The Flash'
Cisco may be the reliable sidekick of The Flash but did you know he actually has quite the amazing voice? Carlos Valdes went to the University of Michigan and studied alongside fellow musical TV actors such as Darren Criss. He also appeared in stage productions of High School Musical and The Wedding Singer as well as being a stand-in on the National Tour of Jersey Boys. This was one of my favorite discoveries because Valdes has an amazing tone to his voice - love it! Check him out performing "Open Your Eyes." I know he opened mine! What a voice!
8. Colton Haynes — 'Arrow/Teen Wolf'
This one I didn't know about until very recently, but it looks like Arrow's Roy Harper can belt out quite the notes. Despite being most known for his acting, particularly as Jackson Whittemore in MTV's Teen Wolf and Roy Harper/Arsenal in Arrow, Haynes is quite the musician and you can actually find a lot of uploads features him singing on YouTube.
Check out his powerful and quite frankly amazing duet of "19 You and Me" with New Heights. It kinda gave me chills. Awesome.
9. Katharine McPhee — 'Scorpion'
She may play Page Dineen on the incredibly popular series Scorpion but if you followed her career beforehand, you will know that McPhee came runner up on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006. She is a well-renowned artist having released multiple albums. Furthermore, she played one of the two lead roles in Smash and during her time on the show, she really showcased her amazing vocal range. Check her out performing "Don't Forget Me" from Smash. Both versions of this song still give me goosebumps!
10. Tom Cavanagh — 'The Flash'
"He's not a musician...some would say he's the reverse!" Sorry I couldn't actually resist that! Anyways, Tom Cavanagh may have portrayed the evil Reverse Flash/Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne posing as Harrison Wells on Earth-1 and the moody but good-hearted Harrison Wells on Earth-2, but Mr. Cavanagh also happens to be a very talented musician. He has a great voice, especially when accompanied by a trusty guitar! Here is his awesome impromptu rendition of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" on Ellen!
11. Stephen Amell — 'Arrow'
Yup, you read that right. It may not be as common knowledge as Gustin and Benoist, but the original hero in the Berlanti triangle of shows can sing too! The Green Arrow himself, Stephen Amell has been known to put on a show for his fans. And back in January, that was no different when he and fellow Arrow star and professional stage star John Barrowman performed an incredible duet of "Music of the Night" at Heroes & Villains FanFest. Powerful!
Now after reading all that (and seeing that the list is coincidentally filled with stars of superhero shows), my only question is: Where on earth is the The Flash/Arrow/Supergirl Crossover Musical Extravaganza?! Think about it: who wouldn't want to see Barry and Oliver and Kara try to outdo each other, fighting crime and singing at the same time?! Or Jeremy Jordan and Andy Mientus reunite with a Winn/Pied Piper duet?! The possibilities are endless so with all that in mind: Make it happen!
Anyways, there you have it! Many actors have hidden talents and those were just some of them! Obviously there is the whole cast of Glee and Smash but you would all already know that if you watched those shows. But if you think of anyone else, do post their names in the comments! Until next time: Happy reading (and singing)!


Big week for DC this time around - third weeks always seem to be huge - but were the comics any good? Go below the cut ... if you dare!
Black Canary #1 ("The Most Dangerous Band in America") by Brenden Fletcher (writer), Lee Loughridge (colorist), Steve Wands (letterer), Annie Wu (artist), Dave Wielgosz (assistant editor), and Chris Conroy (editor). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC.
I like Brenden Fletcher and I like Annie Wu, so I'm not quite sure why I don't like Black Canary more. The premise, which comes out of Dinah's guest starring role in Batgirl, is that she, like Barbara, has been de-aged and completely shorn of her history - one would think someone would remember Dinah's time with the Justice League - and put her in a band, and evil scary things are tracking her down. The premise itself is pretty brilliant - why wouldn't Dinah join a band, with those pipes of hers? - but the execution, at least in this issue, is off. Last week I was against the fact that Starfire acts like a complete stranger to Earth despite the fact that Conner and Palmiotti remain relatively true to her history, and I find myself having the same problem with this. Dinah isn't exactly anonymous in the DCU, even the DCnU, and Fletcher at least hints that her marriage to Ollie is still in continuity, although I don't know when or if they actually broke up. People have taken me to task for caring too much about continuity in the past, which is laughable considering how little DC and Marvel I actually read, but it's not that I care about continuity, it's that if writers are going to keep bringing it up, they need to respect it a little. If DC wants to pretend that this is a brand new character, that's fine. But it's not. It's just a weird little thing that bugged me. It's not really what kept me from enjoying the book.
The problem with the book is that it wants to be much cooler than it is. The premise is hard to pull off - any time you venture into subjects where there are levels of coolness, you run the risk of failing to reach them, and hip indie bands are one arena where "cool" matter almost more than anyplace else. I don't know how old Fletcher is, but I'm going to assume he's cooler than I am, but even he seems to be trying too hard with regard to the band's coolness. Whenever you deal with something that doesn't translate well to comics - and music is probably the ultimate difficult medium to translate - it becomes harder to let the reader feel the coolness without telling us how cool they are. Fletcher veers close to that trap, and it drags me out of the story. With something like Phonogram, where the music is baked into the story, Gillen gets away with it because he's using real music, so even if you disagree with his conclusions about it, you can listen to the music and understand why it means something to someone. With something like Jem and the Holograms, we actually get lyrics to the music (like Phonogram, whether you like the lyrics or not is immaterial to a degree), and the way Campbell and Robado draw the music gives us at least an idea of how it "sounds." We don't get any of that in this comic, just a few press clippings about how awesome the band is. Granted, this issue is more about Dinah being a distraction because she keeps fighting people, but it still doesn't feel, to me, like a comic about a band. All those people holding instruments are just standing around holding instruments. That might just be my opinion, however. And the superhero plot - that weird demon things keep attacking, and they're after the band's young guitarist (who's that girl's guardian, by the way?) - just isn't good enough to hold my interest right now.
It's more of a shame because Wu's scratchy lines are pretty well-suited for the punk aesthetic the book is going for. She does a good job with the characters, especially the way they interact with each other, and her very few concert scenes work well. She also falls a bit into the trap of telling, as when Fletcher gives us the press clippings about how Dinah has finally learned how to connect with the crowd, Wu either doesn't want to or doesn't get to draw it - the concert scene is so brief that we don't get a lot of it. Wu does a nice job with what we see, but we don't see enough. It's the restrictions of a 20-page comic, I suppose.
This has the feeling of a comic that would work better as a trade. A lot of comics are like that these days, but they make use of the single-issue format better than others. It seems like Fletcher has a big plot in mind, but he also wants to get a bunch of characters and characterization into it too. With this issue, he doesn't quite get the balance right, and if he's going to use a band setting, he and Wu have to figure out how to make it more "musical," for lack of a better word. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. We shall see!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Doctor Fate #1 ("Blood of the Pharaohs") by Paul Levitz (writer), Sonny Liew (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist), Nick J. Napolitano (letterer), Amedeo Turturro (editor), Andy Khouri (editor), and Brian Cunningham (editor). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC.
No one remembers Fate very fondly except me, because it was motherturducken awesome and nothing you can say will make me change my mind!!!! More people remember the brilliant J. M. DeMatteis/Shawn McManus Dr. Fate series (and the Messner-Loebs run that followed it, which I haven't read), but it's still not necessarily what you think of when you think of Doctor Fate. For better or for worse, you think of Kent Nelson (if you think of Doctor Fate at all, which, let's be honest, not many people do). He's not as inextricably linked to the character as Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent, but I would argue that he is more linked to the character than Hal Jordan and Barry Allen, for instance. Yet DC seems to really like making other people Doctor Fate. I certainly don't have a problem with it, but it's strange that DC thinks this iteration of the new character will sell. Maybe they just assume that all the people who think of Kent Nelson as Doctor Fate have finally died off or given up on DC comics. Who's to say they're wrong?
Levitz is an interesting writer to tackle the character, as his heyday is far past, even more than many of the war horses that DC keeps employing. I've read Levitz's work before, but he's never left much of an impression - he's the Legion of Super-Heroes guy, and I am less interested in the Legion of Super-Heroes than I am in almost any other group of characters published by DC or Marvel. So I simply don't really have an opinion of Levitz. However, he does get this book off to a fairly rousing start, as there are ancient Egyptian deities running around causing and/or delaying natural disasters. Khalid, the new Fate, is the typical skeptical superhero - a ghostly apparition offers him the helmet, but he rejects it until his cat starts talking to him. That does it, apparently. In between, Levitz gives us a fairly creepy avatar that may or may not actually be Anubis, who walks around in a hurricane that threatens to destroy New York. It's a classic stereotypical set-up, which is fine, because Levitz gives us an interesting main character - Khalid is a medical student, he's heroic but still reluctant, and he - as yet - has no inciting tragedy in his life (his father appears to be in some peril at the end of the issue, though, so stay tuned!). Levitz cleverly links Khalid to the past, as his last name is, naturally, Nelson - although how that works when his father is Egyptian and his mother is the American in the couple is beyond me (I suppose the father could have taken the mother's name, because he's just that progressive?) - and we'll see where that goes. It's not a great issue, but it works quite well.
A lot of the credit does go to Liew, who's one of these cool artists that DC has decided to employ. DC is trying to catch up to Marvel, apparently, and has begun trying to get artists who don't fit into their House Style, and Liew is just another one of those nifty people. He helps Levitz's script quite a lot, as the strange creature wandering around causing havoc gets weirder and weirder looking as the book progresses, for instance. When Khalid becomes Doctor Fate, Liew really takes off, as he draws a creepy Bastet (who is Fate's ally, but that doesn't mean she doesn't look creepy) and a wonderful page where Khalid kind of melds with the helmet. Liew probably wouldn't be the best person to draw a straight superhero book (it was a weakness of The Shadow Hero, but that wasn't quite a straight superhero comic, so it didn't matter too much), but his angular, spindly work creates a neat atmosphere for a slightly oddball comic. Loughridge does a very nice job with the colors, using a lot of sickly greens to give everything a watery look, even when there's no water. It makes the entire comic look soggy, which is pretty neat. I also dig Napolitano's lettering for the statue in the beginning of the book - it's nifty.
I do have to laugh at the censorship on the comic. I don't know what DC's policy is on bad language, but it seems pretty clear they're letting writers get away with more - the creature that may or may not be Anubis uses "bitch" on the first page, but of course DC still doesn't let writers use much stronger language than that. However, when Khalid rescues the baby in the subway and hands her back to her mother, the woman says "G-d bless you." Fuck the heck? I know that in Victorian novels, you'll often see "God" written "G-d," and I always figured it was because their delicate (public) sensibilities wouldn't allow them to use the Lord's name or something dumb like that. I can't believe that DC is behind this, so is Levitz? I don't know anything about Levitz, so maybe he also doesn't want to take the Lord's name in vain. So why put it in the book at all? The woman could have said "Bless you" or, you know, nothing at all after thanking Khalid. If you don't want to write "GOD" out, that's fine. But don't use "G-d." It just looks stupid.
Anyway, this is a good comic. That's keen.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Doomed #1 ("Doomed, I Say!") by Ulises Arreola (colorist), Corey Breen (letterer), Javier Fernandez (artist), Scott Lobdell (writer), Andrew Marino (assistant editor), and Paul Kaminski (editor). $2.99, 20, FC.
As with many of these DCYou books, Doomed #1 is a fairly standard superhero introduction comic - as I've often noted, it's all in the technique, and these days, Lobdell seems as bland as someone like Dan Jurgens, where you know you'll get a serviceable job but nothing really stands out. That goes for Fernandez's art as well - it's perfectly fine, in that slick, overly rendered way, but it doesn't really grab you, either. Lobdell gives us a student named Reiser (I guess that's his first name) who interns at S.T.A.R. labs, and on his first day, he takes off his helmet in a "clean room" for just a second and later turns into a weird, red-skinned, and apparently molten-in-some-way creature. It's not really about the destination, it's about the journey, and Lobdell gives us all the signposts along the way, taking his page right from the Steve Ditko/Stan Lee playbook. Reiser is already a college student, so he doesn't live at home, but he visits his elderly aunt in the suburbs because he's her only living relative anywhere near. He works at a place where hinky experimentation is going on. He apparently gets affected by one of those experiments. He lives with a couple of dudes who fit into stereotype slots. He meets two attractive women, one of whom is a bit scornful of him, one of whom seems to be far too interested in him to be for real. It's not that it's bad, it's that it's familiar. Familiarity is comfortable, certainly, but it's also dull. Doomed is like a CBS police procedural.
Lobdell isn't a terrible writer, so he adds a few nifty touches - Clark Kent lives in the same apartment building as Reiser, S.T.A.R. labs is a weirder place than we usually see, Reiser's transformation doesn't make him completely a monster, but it's still not a great scene - to his story that raise it up a bit. Much like a lot of DC books in this latest initiative, Lobdell is finally trying to make DC as diverse as they claimed they would be back in September 2011 - Reiser is black, while Clarice and Jayne are ... indeterminate. This makes the fact that Reiser has an Italian aunt kind of strange, and I can't decide if it's Lobdell celebrating the fact that so many families are mixed race these days or if it's Lobdell not letting the racial diversity get, you know, too out of hand. I mean, there have to be mostly white people, right? It's still refreshing to see Reiser and someone like Khalid from Doctor Fate, even though it's one of those things where you wonder what took them so damned long. Baby steps, people!
Doomed might be part of the DCYou initiative, but like a lot of DCnU books from 2011, it really does feel a lot like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." It's a competent superhero comic. That's about it.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1 ("Extrastellar Exploitations") by Amanda Conner (writer), Justin Gray (writer), John J. Hill (letterer), Paul Mounts (colorist), Jimmy Palmiotti (writer), Stéphane Roux (artist), Dave Wielgosz (assistant editor), and Chris Conroy (editor). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC.
The pairing of Harley and Kara comes about, I assume, solely because Conner and Palmiotti (and possibly Gray) like both characters, and since Harley is selling and Power Girl hasn't done great in the past, it makes sense, sales-wise, to team them up. The writers use the old hoary chestnut, amnesia, to explain why PG would team up with someone like Harley, which is fine but can't really stand up to a long-term thing, right? I mean, I haven't checked to see if this is a mini-series, but I imagine the shelf life isn't very long for a team-up like this.
Anyway, Conner and Palmiotti, who seem like good hedonists, really like Vartox, because he shows up in this comic, too (I suppose he's really the only memorable PG "villain," too, so there's that), but this time, as a victim of a "cosmotyrant" who wants to "cleanse the universe of hedonism." Well, that sucks. Vartox has, as far as I know, always been a condescending sexist, but he's never been truly evil, so setting him up as a victim of a humorless bad guy makes sense, because then we can enjoy his buffoonery without necessarily rooting for him to fail. It's a clever little ploy, even though it's still somewhat paper-thin. Basically, the entire plot is just an engine to get Harley and Kara to play off each other - even with amnesia, PG is more serious than Harley, so Harley gets to crack the jokes while PG acts as straight man. It's fairly humorous, and the writers have a pretty good handle on both characters, and the fact that Harley has a straight man makes her far less intolerable, which she usually is. So that's nice.
Roux has altered his style a bit from when I last saw it - he's usually very refined and even slick, which is beautiful but often a bit soulless. His lines are scratchier on this book, and while his sense of style is still there, it's tempered enough by the roughness that it really works well. He cleverly gives us a bit of gratuitousness when it comes to Power Girl without being too obnoxious about it, and his facial expressions and body language are very well done, as the art helps heighten the comedy nicely. Roux doesn't strike me as the fastest artist in the world, so I wonder how long he'll last on this book, but this is a very nice-looking comic, and it helps get it off to a good start.
I'm not terribly interested in either of these characters, but the tone Conner, Palmiotti, and Gray are going for feels like it's kind of in their wheelhouse (I should say Palmiotti and Gray, as I haven't read enough by Conner to know her style very well), so it works nicely. It's a solid comic, slightly above average simply because no one takes it all too seriously even though Oreth Odeox, with his hatred of fun, does at least represent a somewhat serious threat. I don't know how serious the writers will get with him, but at least the threat is there!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Justice League of America #1 ("Power and Glory Part One") by Jeromy Cox (colorist), Andrew Currie (inker), Chris Eliopoulos (letterer), Daniel Henriques (inker), Bryan Hitch (writer/penciller), Alex Sinclair (colorist), Wade von Grawbadger (inker), Amedeo Turturro (assistant editor), and Brian Cunningham (editor). $5.99, 48 pgs, FC.
If you like Bryan Hitch's "detail porn" art and enjoy his wide-screen action, I guess this delivers. It's great that it's actually more than double-sized for only 6 bucks, and you get your money's worth when Hitch decides to draw a comic, although the parade of inkers occasionally makes different pages stand out oddly. The fight between the JLA and the Parasite is pretty cool, although because Hitch, weirdly, doesn't use "wide-screen" action too much for the fight, occasionally it's blocked strangely. Parasite's growth happens instantaneously, which is kind of odd. It also takes seemingly far too long for them to figure out how to beat him - I thought it was SOP when fighting an energy leech to overload him and make him blow out, but only Batman (and Cyborg, to a lesser extent) figure that out. Oh well - it looks pretty keen.
The story is fine, too - someone or something is killing alternate-dimensional Supermen, and some punk scientist claims he wants Superman's help in stopping it, but of course he has a hidden agenda blah blah blah. Oh, and Rao shows up. Years ago, Hitch drew a story about the Justice League fighting, basically, God, and I guess he dug it so much he had to do it again! It's not a bad set-up, but the only reason we get 48 pages of story is so Hitch can show pages and pages of the League fighting Parasite. The story could easily have been set up in 10 pages, tops. But that's what you get when you buy a Bryan Hitch comic! I'm a fan of Hitch, but he usually draws things that I don't want to read, and I'm not terribly interested in his Justice League. But that's just me.
Hitch has been working on this for a while (Batman is Bruce Wayne, for instance), and I'm sure DC is just hoping he can get the entire thing out in a timely fashion. I'm much more interested in what Hitch might be working on after this comic ... but I've said too much!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Martian Manhunter #1 ("Weapon!") by Eddy Barrows (penciller), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist), Eber Ferreira (inker), Tom Napolitano (letterer), Rob Williams (writer), Harvey Richards (associate editor), and Brian Cunningham (editor). $2.99, 21 pgs, FC.
Rob Williams is one of those interesting British writers that occasionally show up over here with a neat comic, so it's nice that DC is letting him write an ongoing, because it's just another example of them perhaps learning the lessons of the Great Non-Reboot of 2011. I have never been a fan of Barrows's Image-founder-lite artwork, but either he's changed his style a lot or Ferreira is a great inker, because this book looks terrific, and Williams brings the weird to the Martian Manhunter, with a strange homeless man (who happens to be green), a horrific shape-changing murderer, and J'onn asking someone to kill him. Williams is good at weird, and so despite this comic being set deep within the DCU (there's a cameo by denim-wearing Superman, for instance), it definitely has a disturbing vibe to it. There's always a potential for that with J'onn, because he is a Martian and because of his powers, but Williams really goes for it nicely. Existential threats are always a good way to go if you can pull them off, and while it's clear that Williams is thinking big with the "epiphany," it's also localized enough with regard to J'onn that he might be able to get away with it without involving more heroes. In a shared universe, that's always a tough line to walk, and it seems like this threat is very much tied to J'onn, so perhaps Williams will be able to keep the Justice League out of it.
As I noted, Barrows's art is really good. His Mr. Biscuits is creepy, sure, but he also has a casual elegance that would make him interesting to kids but also heightens the weirdness about him. Barrows does a wonderful job when he draws J'onn as a giant dragon saving a plane (has J'onn always been able to add mass like that?), and the murder of the sheikh in Dubai is really nicely done - it's witnessed by what appears to be a cat burglar, and we see the shape-shifter change from her point of view before Barrows gives us a cool scene where it lets her know she's been seen. The coloring is slightly over-rendered, but unlike some books from smaller publishers, Eltaeb and Barrows work pretty well together - Barrows has been around long enough that he seems able to lean into the digital coloring and not let it overwhelm his lines. I hate the computer-generated ocean when J'onn saves the plane, but such is life. I haven't seen enough of Barrows's art to know if this is career-best from him, but it's still very good work.
Williams has some interesting ideas in his writing, and this just seems like the latest one. Turning J'onn into a figure of fear has been done before, but not too often, and it's always a fascinating idea. This is one of the better comics of the DCYou, which, had you told me that Eddy Barrows was drawing it, I wouldn't have believed. Who knew, right?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Prez #1 ("Corndog in Chief") by Ben Caldwell (penciller), Travis Lanham (letterer), Jeremy Lawson (colorist), Mark Morales (inker), Mark Russell (writer), Brittany Holzherr (assistant editor), and Marie Javins (editor). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC.
I'm a fan of Ben Caldwell's art, and I'm very happy he's getting to draw a mainstream DC comic, even if it is a limited series (which, like some others we've seen from this non-reboot, is probably smart, as the concept really doesn't have too long a shelf life). Caldwell's cartooning skills are wonderful, and his style works really well with the satirical nature of this comic but he also does well with human emotions, so when Beth gets her hair stuck in a fryer early in the comic (which makes her an Internet sensation and jump-starts her political career, unbeknownst to her), Caldwell does a great job showing the various emotions she goes through as she works hard to clean the grill, gets scared because her hair gets caught, and then becomes resigned because she knows it's going to go viral pretty quickly. Caldwell does this throughout the book - he takes a, frankly, ridiculous script and manages to give it some humanity, as when Felipe Alvarez realizes what he has to do to win a game show that will help him bring his family to the United States, and Caldwell shows his fear, determination, and pain to take what could have been silly and make it poignant. Caldwell updates Boss Smiley really well, as he and his cabal have human faces that they hide behind computer-generated avatars, making them more real than in the original but also keeping the sinister aspect of the giant smiley face. Caldwell brings the world of 2036 to life very nicely, as he shows the bombardment of advertising and pop culture that has become more and more constant becoming even more intrusive. It's a beautiful comic in the service of a less than great story, unfortunately.
Russell wants to write a satire, and that's fine. Satires are really hard to do effectively, because if you're not obvious enough, people take it too seriously and then defenders have to fall back on the "Frank Miller defense," which is that we shouldn't take his misogyny and homophobia seriously because of course he's doing satires! Russell doesn't want to be subtle, but if you're not doing a subtle satire, it becomes strident and dull, and this book veers too far into that area. Russell wants to point out how stupid the American electorate has gotten, which is fine, but he does it in as facile a way as possible - he takes the worst parts of our culture and extrapolates them out to a logical extreme, while ignoring the more noble areas of the culture. It's easy for writers to do this, and it lets them make fun of the banalities of everyday life and laugh at the idiots, but it's not terribly good satire and it's not usually a good story. Beth's plight - her father is deathly ill and she can't afford the experimental therapy to save him - is tonally off from the rest of the comic, which makes both feel bizarre. Russell can't go fully into the satire because he's trying to make Beth a sympathetic figure, but in doing that, he takes a good deal of the bite out of his story. Meanwhile, he never considers that people might be smarter than he thinks. His targets - corporate politics, pandering to the electorate - are worthy, but he goes after them in such a ham-handed way that even the concept of a decent person like Beth becoming president simply because she's a viral sensation and in 2036 people can vote on Twitter isn't as clever as it should be. An earnest satire has no teeth, and that's what Russell has written. No one should be spared - not Beth, not Felipe, not even Beth's dying father - but Russell is unwilling to take the final step. That's why satires are so difficult to pull off.
It's frustrating, because the idea of a neophyte teenager as president in a corrupt world is certainly appealing. Beth is a passive person so far, so it's impossible to really get a good sense of what she brings to the table. The bad guys might as well be twirling mustaches, and the blonde newscaster might as well be naked. It would be more ridiculous, but it would also show that Russell is going all in. Prez is a bit mealy-mouthed for a first issue, and that's a shame.
The art is very nice, though!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Robin: Son of Batman #1 ("Year of Blood") by Patrick Gleason (writer/penciller), Mick Gray (inker), John Kalisz (colorist), Tom Napolitano (letterer), Rebecca Taylor (associate editor), and Mark Doyle (editor). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC.
Patrick Gleason must really like Damian, because here he is, writing and drawing a Damian solo book after working with the character for the past few years. I'm not that interested in Damian as a character, although he's good for some comic relief because he's such a douchebag, but if Gleason likes him, more power to him, I guess.
The draw of this book, perhaps not surprisingly, is the artwork. Gleason hasn't changed much since I first saw his art back on the earliest issues of Noble Causes, but that might be because he was already so damned good back then. He has a wonderful mix of cartoonish stuff and more "realistic" stuff, so he can draw a giant flying thing (it's not Man-Bat, as Damian repeatedly stresses) but he can also do some brutal violence. He draws a creepy Nobody, Damian's "arch-villain" (although this one is a bit different than the original) and a terrifying vault, but he also is fluid enough to do wonderful fight scenes. Ironically, perhaps, he's weakest at simple human interactions, so Damian's dream at Talia's grave is the weakest part of the comic, even though that's a relative term, as it's still pretty nice-looking. Gleason really is a great artist, and the book looks terrific.
His story is fine - Damian has done horrible things in the past, and now he wants to atone, and the original Nobody's daughter has taken up his mantle and will presumably cause trouble for him. And Talia's alive. Is that a new development? I'm glad she is, because Morrison's handling of her was a major problem in his Batman run, and I hope she goes back to being the sort-of villain but not really that she was back in the day. That would be nice. It's a decent enough story, but it definitely takes a back seat to the art. But that's okay.
It's nice that Gleason gets to write and draw his own comic, and the idea of Damian atoning is perfectly fine. I'll probably get a trade of this when it shows up, if only to check out more of Gleason's art!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆ ☆
You might notice that this post is ridiculously late and that it doesn't have any images. I'm not going to get into the troubles I've been having with my Internet over the past week, but suffice it to say that I'm full of rage right now. I don't have Internet at home at this moment, so I'm finishing this post at the local library, where I can use their wi-fi. I'm also not going to have time to review the other books I bought last week, so I'll write a bit about them here, if you don't mind.
Archie vs. Predator #3 continues the entertaining series, although the survivors for the final issue are a bit predictable. Kurt Busiek does a good job showing how "Sticks" can finally join a band in Astro City #24, which isn't surprising as he usually does a good job with the comic. The finale of Ei8ht made me grumpy, because while Albuquerque wraps up the main plot, he also leaves far too many threads hanging, and who knows when he'll get back to the series? After a dull second issue, The Infinite Loop #3 is a cool issue, explaining some things about what's going on and giving Elsa Charretier a nice explicit sex scene to draw. Things keep getting worse in Letter 44 #17, which isn't surprising. It's still a gripping comic, though. Lumberjanes #15 is a typical issue, which means it's awesome. In Manifest Destiny #15, Lewis and Clark find out that their captive bird can talk (which isn't too surprising, actually, as they were bound to meet something intelligent), and it just gets weirder from there. Shit really hits the fan in Mind MGMT #34, but considering that there are only two issues left, that's not shocking. Ms. Marvel #16 was pretty cool, but that might be just me, as I love comics that show what the regular folk are doing when the world is going to shit because of yet another villain's plot or something like that. Secret Identities continues to kick ass, as we get a backstory of Luminary but Faerber and Joines also move along the treachery plot nicely. David Lapham closes the noose in Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses #5, and he does that kind of thing so well that you're on the edge of your seat wondering how anyone will make it out alive. Greg Rucka comes up with the most Portland plot ever (even more than the soccer one that preceded it!), as Dex gets involved with the high-end coffee trade in the new Stumptown arc. Ales Kot decides to skip talking directly to the reader in The Surface #3 and talks directly to ... well, himself. Warren Ellis spends a lot of time doing nuthin' in the latest issue of Trees. And there's more drinking in Valhalla Mad #2, but what's this? A plot! That might get in the way of the gluttonalia! Sheesh, Mr. Casey, what are you doing?
I apologize for the tardiness and brevity of this post - I hope to have Internet access back tomorrow morning, and then there will be no stopping me! If it weren't for the new DC books, I probably would have just skipped this week, but I wanted to get to those, because I'm all about customer service around here, people! I'll be back ... sooner than you think!!!!! Have a nice day!


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UN Watch. Resignation of top UN rights official who failed to act on peacekeeper rape of children underscores need for accountability
GENEVA, July 22, 2015 – The resignation of a top UN rights official who admitted she did nothing after receiving reports of child rape by French soldiers in Central African Republic – because she was distracted by budget cuts- « underscores the dire need for greater accountability at the world body », said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
« Not only did Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri fail to act, » said Neuer, « but she was part of a coterie of top UN officials who punished the only member of her office who sounded the alarm, veteran staffer Anders Kompass, by firing him. »
« The message heard loud and clear throughout the world body was that speaking out against the banality of bureaucratic complicity with evil will kill one’s career, that it’s better to stay silent. »
« Therefore, to the extent that Ms. Pansieri is in fact resigning over her office’s shameful inaction, indifference and cover-up concerning the rape of children by peacekeepers, then today marks a small step toward greater accountability for malfeasance by UN officials. »
« In this episode, as in many others throughout the UN, minimal levels of scrutiny and acceptance of responsibility is desperately required, » added Neuer.


Radio and podcast giant iHeartmedia has accelerated the launch what it says it the first — and only — 24-hour service dedicated to news coverage from a Black perspective.
BIN: Black Information Network is “focused on service to the Black community and providing an information window for those outside the community to help foster communication, accountability and a deeper understanding,” the company announced Tuesday.
BIN will be distributed nationally through the iHeartRadio app and accessible via mobile, smart speakers, smart TVs and other connected platforms. Programming also will be on all-news local AM/FM broadcast radio stations providing local news, weather traffic and sports in addition to national news in markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland, Augusta, Ga., Columbus, Ga., Macon, Ga., Detroit, Greenville, N.C., Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Norfolk, Va., Riverside, Calif., San Francisco and Seattle, with additional local markets being added over the next 60 days.
Furthermore, BIN will provide the news service for several additional iHeartMedia hip-hop, R&B and gospel stations across the U.S. Those include Power 105.1 in New York, Real 92.3 in Los Angeles, WDAS and Power 99 in Philadelphia, WGCI and WVAZ in Chicago, WJLB in Detroit, The Beat in Houston, The Beat in Miami, WQUE in New Orleans, and KMEL in San Francisco.
In addition, selections of BIN’s radio content will be distributed as podcasts across iHeartRadio’s podcast network, including a daily news and analysis show running 10-20 minutes. Also, excerpts from iHeartRadio’s Black culture podcasts will be included in BIN’s broadcast radio programming.
BIN is set up as a standalone business unit within iHeartMedia, led by president Tony Coles (above left) and director of news operations Tanita Myers (above right).
Coles, who also serves as division president of the iHeartMedia Markets Group, has more than 35 years of experience in the radio industry including stints as a programming exec, on-air personality, brand manager. Myers, a veteran radio producer, broadcaster and news anchor, joins iHeartMedia’s BIN after 15 years at Reach Media. She was formerly director of operations for “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” and executive producer of “Rickey Smiley Morning Show,” and she’s worked as a reporter in news, traffic and weather for several major-market stations.
According to iHeartMedia, its broadcast stations alone currently reach 93% of Black Americans, giving BIN immediate access to audiences. The company plans to promote BIN across its social-media footprint as well. In addition, Clear Channel Outdoor (which spun off from the company last year following iHeartMedia’s bankruptcy reorg) has signed on as a national marketing partner.
“We are pleased and proud to enable the support the launch of BIN: Black Information Network by contributing resources that will have the greatest impact — our reach, our multiple platforms, our technology infrastructure and our broad, in-depth relationships with consumers,” iHeartMedia chairman/CEO Bob Pittman said in announcing the venture.
For the launch of BIN, iHeartMedia has adopted a sponsorship model, inking deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Bank of America, CVS Health, Geico, Lowe’s, McDonald’s USA, 23andMe and Verizon. Those marketers “will be able to deliver important messages to BIN’s audiences and serve as a platform for philanthropic and community outreach to build brand connection and support the Black community, as well as use it for advertising messages as needed,” according to the company.
“We are proud to be a founding partner of BIN: Black Information Network,” said Paul Martin, chief diversity officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment. “There has never been a more important time for Black voices to be heard. We applaud iHeartMedia for their vision and initiative to create this platform for news coverage with a Black voice and perspective.”
According to an iHeartMedia study of Black listeners, 86% agreed that a service like BIN is necessary and are likely to rely on it as an important news source while 83% think such a service would provide important information they can’t get on radio or TV today. The company said the BIN concept proved “equally strong” among respondents in both 18-34 and 35-54 age brackets.
“BIN: Black Information Network will fill a void by providing continual news and objective information with full focus on the Black community,” Coles said in a statement.
The company began developing what became BIN last year and recently moved up the launch timeline. The “events of the last few weeks, especially the senseless and tragic death of George Floyd, highlighted the need for this network,” Coles said. “Now is the time for our voice to be heard, and I could not be more proud of our work and the team we are assembling at BIN.”
According to iHeartMedia, BIN is actively hiring for various positions; the company said job listings will be posted to iheartmediacareers.com.


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[PRE-SA-2012-03] Linux kernel: Buffer overflow in HFS plus filesystem
May 16 2012 02:04PM
Timo Warns (warns pre-sense de)
PRE-CERT Security Advisory
* Advisory: PRE-SA-2012-03
* Released on: 10 May 2012
* Affected product: Linux Kernel 3.3.x <= 3.3.4
2.6.x <= 220.127.116.11
* Impact: code execution / privilege escalation
* Origin: HFS plus file system
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November and December have always been my favourite time of the year. Christmas lingers, cookie smell everywhere and people are just in a good mood, excited for Christmas, spending time with family and of course, holidays. Yet I love it for yet another reason: To reflect. As the year nears it's end, life calms down, holidays allow me to relax and really think about what I have achieved this year. I tend to get lost in the every day happenings throughout the year and so by the time Christmas and New Years arrive, I have forgotten most of the amazing things that happened since January. Although it may not seem like it, 12 months are quite a time.
So every December, I take out my notebook where I have written down my goals for the year and find myself having achieved quite a number of them, without necessarily actively having focused on them. I take some time out and every single year, I am surprised at just how much awesome stuff has happened. This makes me feel grateful and even more excited to start out into the New Year, have new goals and start again. They are not really New Year's Resolutions - I find those work out quite badly, such as "oh, I want to lose weight". So I choose to set the intention to experience certain things or learn something new. And I also tell myself that while that list of things I want to achieve can always change, because over the course of 12 months, a lot of stuff happens. Stuff that we expect, and stuff that we certainly do not, and so the goals list is just a list of intentions and nothing more. Then I let go, and let New Year's magic happen.
If you love this time of the year, too, why not look back at the year and pat yourself on the back for all the great things you have accomplished. How did you develop as a person? What did you learn? Who did you meet? Did something really significant happen? These are all things you should write down and keep, so you can always look back at them - that's the most fun part actually.
So let's relax, breathe and look back. I'm normally not a fan of going back into the past, but once a year, I make an exception, so that I can be grateful for all that I have learnt, reflect on things I could do better and then leave 2016 behind me to start fresh, in the present, into 2017.
Do you usually do this? Do you have any other great ideas to end the year with?


No email from Bill. No mail, of course. It is Sunday.
Learned about karma, rebirth, and nirvana today. After two days of listening I'm ready to look at a flower and smile.
Words are ample, sometimes, if you need a paperweight. But sometimes they are a delusion in that they make you think you understand something, when in fact the words just rushed by as you glanced at them.
I'm too tired to write anything. I did learn one thing (at least) of value: that I would still want to try to be a good person even if there was no rebirth or karma.
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Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley’s DiGa are shopping a hybrid reality/scripted project with Jimmy Kimmel’s Jackhole Industries described as “Borat meets Green Acres.”
“It’s a passion project for Jimmy,” says DiSanto, co-owner and founder of DiGa, the production company he created with Gateley after the duo left MTV in 2010.
The untitled project will have fictional characters in a non-fiction world, much like Sacha Baron Cohen’s obtuse Kazakh journalist in Borat.
“It plays on the idea of how far hospitality and politeness get pushed and does it in way that also examines culture clashes,” explains DiSanto. Kimmel will executive produce but he will not have an on-camera role. DiSanto and Gateley are currently pitching the project to networks.
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They’re also working with former ‘N Sync star Lance Bass on a television series version of his Famous Yard Sale charitable initiative, which helps celebrities auction off their memorabilia and other cast-offs including clothes, shoes, art and furniture with the proceeds going to charity. Bass has already registered the Famous Yard Sale domain name and Twitter handle. The show will have a host and appraiser working with celebrities to organize each auction. DiSanto says the idea came from Bass’ personal quandary about what to do with a warehouse full of remnants from his ‘N Sync days.
“You get a little bit of [MTV’s] Cribs, a little bit of the Barbara Walters aspect where the celebrity is walking down memory lane, and a little bit of Pawn Stars,” says Gateley. Bass brought the idea to DiGa, which developed the concept and brought in New York-based Leftfield Pictures, which produces History’s Pawn Stars, to showrun.
Gateley said they’re currently lining up celebrities to be featured in the show. And while she said Bass would be happy to fill the Barbara Walters-host role, that will ultimately be up to the network that buys the project. They’re currently shopping it to broadcast and cable networks.
“It has big set-piece moments so it can definitely play on some of the broadcast networks,” says Gateley. “But it works equally well on cable.”
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The Kimmel and Bass projects are two of many in development at DiGa, which has a production partnership with Ben Silverman’s Electus. They have projects in development with a slew of celebrities including Tyrese Gibson, Molly Simms, Randy Jackson, Reverend Run and Fashion for Dummies author Jill Martin. Additionally, MTV’s Teen Wolf, which DiSanto and Gateley continue to EP, is in production on its second season set to bow this summer.
“We’re really excited about the diversity of projects, networks and talent that we’re working with,” says DiSanto.
And finding themselves on the other side of the negotiating table, while it has taken some getting used to, has also been a positive experience for the longtime MTV executives.
Since they started their careers at MTV as producers, says Gateley, “we always had to pitch upstairs. It’s just now we have to wait for the go-ahead. Of course, taking notes is always fun. We dished them out for many years and now we get to take them, so we deserve our comeuppance.”
Adds DiSanto: “The notes process is helpful no matter who you are. Often you’re so close to the project that sometimes you need an outside eye to help shape it. So far it’s been an amazingly cool, collaborative and eye-opening process.”
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