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Kelly Adam Asbury (January 15, 1960 – June 26, 2020) was an American animated film director, writer, voice actor, and illustrator. He was best known for directing animated films, including Shrek 2, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Gnomeo & Juliet, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and UglyDolls.

Early life
Asbury was born on January 15, 1960 Beaumont, Texas, the son of Josephine Margaret (Lebeouf) and Donald Leslie Asbury. His father Donald died from cancer when Asbury was 12. He attended Lamar University for two years before transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts in 1980, where he studied animation and filmmaking.

Career
Asbury got his start at Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1983 to 1995, and contributed storyboards for several animated films including The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, as well as Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story. In 1993, he was the assistant art director on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

In 1995, he began working for DreamWorks Animation, and directed two Academy Award-nominated feature films, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Shrek 2 (2004). In addition to directing, he provided some of the extra voices in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.

He directed and co-wrote the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), for which he also provided the voices of the tiny Red Goon Gnomes. He was nominated for two Annie Awards for directing and co-writing that film.

In 2003, he wrote a non-fiction book, Dummy Days, a biography of five 20th-century ventriloquists. He wrote and illustrated twelve children's books, including Rusty's Red Vacation, Bonnie's Blue House, and Yolanda's Yellow School.

In mid-2011 to mid-2012, Asbury briefly returned to Disney to contribute storyboards to Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen. His final directing credits were Smurfs: The Lost Village for Sony Pictures Animation and UglyDolls for STX Entertainment.

Unrealized projects
Shrek – In 1997, Asbury was tapped to make his directorial debut with a film adaptation of the children's book Shrek! alongside Andrew Adamson. He dropped out a year later in favor of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and was replaced by Vicky Jenson, but remained as a story artist and received special thanks on the finished film. He later co-directed its sequel, Shrek 2.
Pooch Café – In 2011, Asbury was brought in by Sony Pictures Animation to write a new draft for a film adaptation of the Pooch Café comic strip.
Will Gallows and the Snake-Bellied Troll – In 2011, following the success of Gnomeo and Juliet, Asbury was hired by Rocket Pictures to write and direct a live-action/animated film based on the children's book Will Gallows and the Snake-Bellied Troll. The film would've been Asbury's first foray into live-action filmmaking.
Kazorn & The Unicorn – In 2012, Deadline reported that Asbury was in the talks with Sony Pictures Animation to make an animated fantasy film titled Kazorn & The Unicorn. It would have followed the adventures of a young man and a unicorn as he seeks to locate a powerful weapon and prove his worth to his true love. Lloyd Taylor was writing the screenplay. Sam Raimi, Josh Donen, and Russell Hollander were producing the film. Troy Quane (Spies in Disguise, Nimona) was later hired to co-direct the film with Asbury, but the film has since been put on hold.
Horacio 3D – In 2013, Asbury was tapped to write a Brazilian animated film based on the Monica's Gang character Horacio, originally scheduled for a 2017 release. According to animator Fábio Mendes, Asbury was intended to direct the film. But as of 2020, nothing has come from the project.

Death
Asbury died of abdominal cancer on June 26, 2020, in his home, Encino, Los Angeles, at age 60. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. He was featured in the In Memoriam section of the 93rd Academy Awards, and Spirit Untamed was dedicated to his memory.

Filmography

Bibliography

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Animated Views: Gnomeo & Juliet's director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!

 Kelly Asbury at Find a Grave

1960 births
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American animated film directors
American art directors
American male screenwriters
American male voice actors
American storyboard artists
Animators from Texas
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from stomach cancer
DreamWorks Animation people
Film directors from Texas
Lamar University alumni
People from Beaumont, Texas
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Sony Pictures Animation people
Walt Disney Animation Studios people


The Lagos-born Paralympian takes us on a moving odyssey across Africa, starting in Senegal. Thank goodness the BBC have moved on from the endless procession of white presenters in 'colourful' foreign lands.
Gorée island off the coast of Senegal. The largest slave trading post on the African coast for centuries and now a place of pilgrimage. Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama have both been here. In the first episode of Africa With Ade Adepitan (BBC Two), it's the turn of the Paralympic athlete, TV presenter and all-round good egg to bear witness to this tiny speck of land that symbolises the greatest inhumanity.
"Bye-bye Africa for ever," the guide explains as Adepitan passes through the "door of no return" at the House of Slaves Museum, memorialising the final exit point for 10 million African slaves. The Yorùbá, the guide adds, were known as "stallions"; prized above all other slaves. "That's my tribe," Adepitan says quietly. The Londoner, who was born in Lagos and left with his parents after contracting polio when he was 15 months old, gazes out at the Atlantic pounding the rocky coast. Where many Africans jumped, preferring suicide to what lay ahead. More than a million died before reaching the Americas. "What happened here for them was just the beginning," says Adepitan, aghast.
It is easy to forget how much BBC travel programmes have changed. What used to be an endless procession of genial white male presenters encountering "colourful" foreign lands and cultures is slowly becoming a diverse genre. Which, apart from anything else, makes for better telly. Travel documentaries are so much more nuanced, interesting and moving when people with actual connections to places go or return to them. Or someone really smart and self-aware, such as Sue Perkins heading up the Mekong river. It makes a difference when "colonial" is used to describe history as well as architecture.
Adepitan begins his four-part quest by parachuting over the bleak, mountainous landscape of Cape Verde, Africa's most westerly point, in a modified wheelchair. For a moment, I was fooled into thinking this might be the kind of silly, upbeat documentary in which Adepitan zip wires across the continent. But the fun pretty much ends here. Even when he meets the next generation of star footballers at Ivory Coast's hallowed ASEC Mimosas club, where Kolo and Yaya Touré lived and trained, a positive story ends with the thousands of young men trafficked abroad every year by dodgy football agents. Yet another of Africa's remarkable resources ruthlessly exploited.
On the island of Fogo – and Adepitan's ability to get around the most inaccessible and remote places is amazing – he visits a village in the shadow of an active volcano that buried half the homes in red hot lava when it last erupted. The local taverna owner is unperturbed. "I've lived through two eruptions and never known anyone to be killed by the volcano," he shrugs. One active volcano is nothing compared with centuries of destruction wreaked by man.
Next, Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, and to Lagos, where Adepitan was born. He visits some fellow polio survivors who, like him, are disabled and love sport. They career about on skateboards, or rather scraps of wood attached to wheels, playing the most impressive game of football I've seen. One man, Ortega, takes Adepitan out on his tuk-tuk, modified so it works with hand controls. He shows him the bridge under which he lives.
Then it's on to a megachurch which looks more like a football stadium and can apparently hold a million evangelical Christians. Nevertheless, they are building a bigger one. A squirming encounter with a representative from the Redeemed Christian Church of God ensues. He says the church's vision is to … help more Africans out of poverty? Nah. To build churches all over the world. Adepitan does ask him about the pastor's private jet and notorious wealth, which he defends on the grounds that it is a necessity. Ducking both an invitation to join the church or probe further, Adepitan moves on swiftly. "If you get a rollercoaster I'll think about it," are his parting words, which feels somewhat satirical considering there is an actual funfair in the town surrounding the church headquarters. This world. You couldn't make it up.


Mental Health awareness in schools across Manchester, is set to be improved thanks to a green paper released by the government which proposes several plans to be put in place by 2022 across the UK.
The £300m investment is part of new measures taken by the Department of Health and Education.
Plans on the green paper include: a four-week waiting time for NHS children and young people's mental health services, training for designated members of staff in schools to improve prevention work, every secondary and primary school in England to be offered mental health awareness training, earlier access to services through the creation of new mental health support teams working in and directly with schools and all pupils to be taught about mental health and wellbeing in PSHE lessons.
Across the UK it has been recorded that 50% of mental health problems are established by the age of 14 and 70% of mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficient early age.
In particular, Stretford High School in Greater Manchester is a secondary school which aims to improve communication to help pupils achieve their full potential and recognises that mental health awareness and support is essential for doing this.
Lindsay Brindley, Deputy Headteacher, says she is cautiously pleased to see how the plans are going to effect the mental heatlh services at her school, she said: "We experience daily, young people who desperately need support and have to wait months to get it. As a result we already operate an initial intervention service that addresses risk taking behaviours, sense of belonging and emotional, social and environmental well being.
"Due to the lack of provision currently available and the level of need we have had to make significant investment to plug the gaps.
"We hope that the support being offered is significant enough to address the root causes as well as enabling direct, timely and effective interventions to happen.
As part of the plans to bring in support teams working in schools, one charity with this in mind, who will be able to broaden their services is Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
The charity, is a children's mental health charity with a hub in Manchester which aims to support young children and their families.
In a press release by Anna Freud, the charity expresses that they are pleased with the issue being acknowledged and addressed by the government.
Like Stretford High School and many other schools across Greater Manchester and the UK, the mental health support programme being extended to 1,200 schools and colleges comes as good news.
With the intervention waiting time into mental health problems for young people being at an average of 10 years, the new law of 4-weeks allows the issues to eventually raise mental health awareness at a quicker rate.
To find out more information on the government's plans, click here.


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How's the new year treating you so far? I wish I could say I did something fun and exciting over the holiday break but truthfully, December was one big blur of finishing a handful of large projects, cleaning up my books, shredding old paperwork and finishing up my revised portfolio. Not glamorous…but totally necessary.
I've been struggling with feeling behind on a bunch of important tasks for months now and that's one of the reasons I'm hesitant using word "goals" in the typical sense. To me, the 10 things outlined below are more of a work-in-progress and a simple reminder of the changes I want to keep charging towards.
Pre-P.S. Do any of these resonate with you? If you have anything you're working towards, I'd love to hear in the comments below – let's keep each other accountable!
Goal #1: Live more in the moment.
These days, I don't have a five year plan, let alone a one year plan. Why? Because I have confidence that things will always work out and I know I'm on the right track, spending my days doing what I'm meant to do. I'd rather not chase after more, more, more and put myself on a nonstop treadmill of busy-ness (that was my entire last year — and it's not fun or inspiring). Growth is good but also, I'm conscious that right now, right here, I do have enough.
Goal #2: Take more field trips.
Last year, I spent so much time sitting at my desk, being super regimented, mostly out of habit. It's a weekday, therefore you must go into the office, sit at your desk and refresh email. NOT. Sure, there's plenty to get done on a daily basis but there will always be more things getting tacked onto your to-do list. Taking an afternoon off to wander through the art museum will not kill you!
Goal #3: Take more photos.
One thing that made me sad in 2017 was glancing over at my camera as it sat around untouched for weeks at a time. I'm not a professional photographer but I've always enjoyed documenting the world around me as a creative outlet. What I realized is that hobbies like taking photos don't always need to have a specific end goal – not every photo needs to be blogged or shared on social media. Do something because you enjoy it, pure and simple.
Goal #4: Make time for non-client projects.
As Branch continued growing in 2017, I felt the squeeze with keeping up on my own projects which led to me feeling like the cobbler who has holes in their shoes. The longer I put off my own work, the worse I felt. Ugh.
If you never allow yourself the whitespace to think through what you do, why you do it and explore new ideas, you're only going to hurt yourself in the long run. I know it's hard to find the time to add your own projects on top of everything else and there are nights I stay at the office till 3 am just to have the space to work through ideas, uninterrupted. It's not ideal…but if there's a will, there's a way.
Goal #5: Hit inbox zero every week.
You know what stresses me out? Unanswered email lingering in my inbox. I feel immense mental clutter when I feel like someone is waiting on an answer, especially a client. If I can resolve something quickly right when I see it and get it off my plate, awesome.
With the longer, more in-depth emails, I try to batch tasks. For instance, if I get 5 inquiries for new projects, I'll answer those all at once. For estimates, I'll complete those all at once since a lot of the requests are very similar. Going forward, I'm going to try to wrap up whatever hasn't gotten answered before 6 pm on Friday so I can start the weekend with a clean slate.
Goal #6: Think before buying more stuff.
I'm not an anti-shopping saint. I still buy things but now, I think harder about them. Buy what you need, sprinkle in a few things that make you happy as you have the budget and then cut out all the mindless money wasters. It's all about balance.
Goal #7: Move around more.
I have have always struggled to fit exercise into my schedule but I've found a fairly easy solution with the Sweat With Kayla app. The exercise routines are less than 30 minutes and the equipment is fairly basic, no gym membership needed.
I'm not super regimented because some days, I just don't have the time but I try to get in 3 workouts in a week. Sure, it would be great to follow the exact schedule but my take is that you should do your best and making a regular effort is better than not trying at all.
I've always enjoyed blogging and using social media but most days last year, there wasn't room to make it happen. Over December, I mostly stayed offline and made a lot of progress – things are finally getting more balanced and ready to share more again.
Once again, sharing content is not about being glued to a specific schedule (that just creates more stress and resentment) but by simply alotting more time for creative exploration though blogging, podcasting, posting to social media, or whatever else that may be.
Goal #9: Spend more time offline.
This is a bit of a contraction to the point above (haha) but one thing I became really aware of last year was how much time I was spending online basically goofing off and how that affected what I was getting done.
I've recently gotten a lot better about not aimlessly surfing random sites — I get online, get what I need and get back off. I used to be afraid that not being as present online as much would affect my business but to my surprise, it hasn't, probably because I'm spending more of my time doing the actual work versus obsessively checking up on what everyone else is doing.
Goal #10: Get better at saying no.
Why is saying no so hard?! Towards the end of the year, I had to say no to a bunch of things in rapid succession and each time, I dreaded it. Through a lot of tough situations, I've realized that we all have a limited amount of time and it should be spent doing what we enjoy as much as possible. Of course laundry needs to get done, bills need to get paid and work needs to get finished but the limited time we have left should be spent in enjoyable ways.
The more things you take on that you secretly dread, the more resentful you'll be…and nobody wants to deal with that! ;).
When you do have to say no, be polite but firm, own it fully and most importantly, always offer a helpful alternative.
Wow, that was long! But all these things have been on my mind lately and what I've found is that the more clear you are about what you want to achieve and where your boundaries are, the sooner it will transpire.
What are some goals you're working on this year, big and small?
Do you have any tips for staying accountable?
Hello Shauna! All of these resonate with me – but my biggest goal for 2018 is to take time to listen to my inner dialog, and get clear on what my own, personal needs are. I'm such a people-pleaser, that when asked what I want, the answer isn't as immediate as it should be! I think this goes hand-in-hand with backing off on the online jaunts as well. I get consumed looking through instagram, when I could be centering myself, and gaining clarity.
Natalie, I totally get the people pleaser thing…that's a hard one to break! But the first step is being more self-aware and thinking about how each decision affects your well-being. Instagram is such a double-edged sword because we both like to share and I still feel that sense of community in small bursts but then the comparison trap sets in. Everything in moderation, right?! And so glad you got a copy of the almanac!!! I haven't seen it in print yet but am so happy we pulled it off this year. So much more user friendly.
Yay, new year, new us!
I totally get you on the "being more offline" front. I noticed I am more unhappy and somewhat unsatisfied with life and when I soul-searched I noticed, that I look more at my friend's lives than living my own? The fear of missing out is there, but I guess that's just because we conditioned ourselves to be on at all times and keep up with everything?
So I also want to regulate my online time somehow, make it more quality time.
Using that extra time, I got the wish to focus more on surrounding or experienting with art of any kind? Even without the goal of becoming a pro in all of them. Just trying to paint, photograph, write and maybe play around on an instrument some more. I feel it could help getting more inspired this year.
The buying less stuff hits home, because due to my move back to Germany I had to part with so many things, just because they couldn't fit in my two suitcases haha! Weeks later we moved again here in Germany, so I had to cut down twice. And the amount of clothes I had thrown out was shocking and astonishing??
Looking forward to more stories and projects from you!
Yes! Love your goals. We have a lot of similar ones, especially the saying no one. I've been having trouble with that all my life. Happy 2018. Wishing you all the best!
I know how you feel. I feel uncomfortable putting out "goals." However I've listed a few things in my moleskine as reminders.
2. Embrace creative tasks again. I've put blogging and photography and many other hobbies I really enjoyed for a hold for the last 2 years focusing on work and study. I've started playing around with my Lubitel camera- first step- buy film!
3. Learn to say 'no.' That's always been hard for me, as a Doctor I find it hard to say 'no', however for your own sanity you have to learn to stop.
I make a fresh to-do list every day, and that keeps me organized. I also took breaks from social media to breathe.
A big timekiller for me is the Internet. Perpetually looking for inspiration but I find I act less because I look for more rather than work with what I already have. There's always progress to make!
Thanks for sharing, informative blog post!


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Gold Complex | Interview
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Indie + alternative music culture depends on dedicated artists who create diversity & drive innovation in all aspects of songwriting, production & performance. We constantly feature new & notable independent acts on the verge of success. Meet this week's featured artist in an exclusive interview. Introducing You To Your Next Favorite Artist: Gold Complex.
Toronto's Gold Complex fuses classic soul with pop and R&B into a fresh sound that is all their own. Gold Complex is a dynamic octet that has built a strong fanbase in Canada. Their first two singles 'Tread On Me' and 'Backbone' received regular rotation on radio nationwide and were featured on the Nickelodeon television series, Open Heart, now on Netflix. The band is currently in the the studio recording their debut full length album "New Soul," set for release in April 2017.
We recently talked with Will Bowes (lead singer), to get his take on alternative culture. Read on to find out more about your next favorite artist.
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With an infectious smooth jazz instrumentation supporting their alt soul sound, Gold Complex makes feel good music perfect for fall-evening vibes. Will Bowes' charming vocals atop the stimulating R&B-adjacent lounge music is an interesting combination that somehow reminisces alt-pop in the vein of early Maroon-5 and self-titled era Walk The Moon. One of my favorite tracks of their EP is the silky single Tread On Me. Theres a sense of uneasy ache that pairs well with the sultry longing in the vocals. The track is cinematic with its slight atmospherics, which foreground both the midnight sax sounds and a shaky, shuttering, guiro-sounding audio effect. It's stunningly encapsulating and I'm heavily into it.
What are your top 3 favorite albums that inspired you to get into music?
For me, it was Neil Young's Decade, The Beatles' White Album and Christina Aguilera's Stripped (I'm not kidding).
What are your fondest musical memories?
My fondest musical memories are just singing in the car with my family as a kid. My parents definitely encouraged my sister and I to express ourselves when we were listening to music, and that mentality has stuck with me today.
Lately what musical periods or styles do you find yourself most drawn to as a listener?
I find myself really drawn to classic soul and motown records. I have been listening to Otis Redding's Greatest Hits lately and I can't get enough of it.
What is your creative process like? How do you approach the writing process? Is there a particular message or theme central to your creative works?
For me personally, I can just be sitting around at work and hear a catchy melody in my head. As soon as that happens, I immediately grab my phone and record a voice memo of it. If I don't, I'll forget it within five minutes and be so mad at myself. As far as the band goes, when one of us comes up with a song, it becomes a great collaborative effort where every instrument puts their stamp on an idea. I think because all of us in the band are experiencing varying degrees of love and romance at this point, a lot of our songs have to do with the ups and downs of falling in love, being in love, or heartbreak, as cliche as that sounds.
We're a firm believer that the cities that artists are based in helps craft their sound. How would you describe your city's music scene? How has it inspired you into crafting your sound?
Toronto has an incredibly diverse, and almost overwhelmingly large independent music scene. There is so much to check out if one just does some digging. I think that the diversity of both the people and the music in Toronto has inspired us to try new things and infuse elements of different sounds and styles into our own music.
How would you describe your visual aesthetic, in terms of album artwork, music videos, and artistry? How does the music you create contribute to your visuals? Does this extend to your live show experience?
We are incredibly fortunate to have access to an incredible artist who does a lot of our key art and promotional material. Her name is Alli Boddy and she is our guitarist Andrew's girlfriend. Thematically, we have incorporated imagery of an old ship on a voyage into a lot of our work. For example, Alli painted the album cover of our newly released Deluxe Edition EP and it is an old ship travelling through space. This imagery speaks to the idea that Gold Complex is bringing an archaic sound into a modern, futuristic world. We're so happy that Alli has created such a beautiful look for our brand!
As an indie artist in the digital age, social media and streaming are essential tools for marketing and promotion. What do you think about online music sharing, both as a music fan and as a musician? How do you think social media/music streaming services impacts the rising musician?
I feel extremely optimistic about music in the digital age. I know a lot of artists take the position that with streaming vendors like Spotify and Apple Music, artists aren't making as much money off of individual record sales, but I think the indie artist actually benefits from this model. This is because so many people have access to stream undiscovered artists at no cost to them. I constantly find myself listening to entire albums of artists that I might never have otherwise been turned on to, simply because I'm able to stream them. Streaming gives the listener an incentive to check out new music, and it gives artists the opportunity to be heard.
What is your dream collaboration and why?
Andrew (our guitarist) said this earlier, and I have to echo his thought – Paul McCartney. He is obviously a performing and songwriting legend. I love that he still seems just as passionate today as he did thirty plus years ago. I saw him live a few months ago and it was probably the greatest musical experience of my life.
Which songs are you currently obsessed with? What new acts do you recommend to our listeners? What bands do you believe are your best kept secret in the indie community?
I'm a bit late to the party I know but I've just gotten in to the Alabama Shakes album "Sound and Color," and it's incredible.
What are you currently working on? Any new projects?
We're currently working on our debut album New Soul, due out in early 2017. We feel so excited by everything we've heard thus far and cant wait to share it.
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Blue Devil
The book starts out on a island wear they are filming the Blue Devil movie. Dan shows off the exo-suit he built by throwing a boulder. It then pans to Sharon and Wayne going into a temple, Sharon finds a stone totem and puts it into a key hole opening a door way to hell. Nebiros emerges from the portal and starts attacking the film crew. Marla ask Dan to fight it due to his exo-suit. Dan engages Nebiros in a battle were he uses a bunch of his gadgets that are integrated into his suit. He then gets hit by Nebiros mystical blast. Believed to be dead the rest of the crew gets brave and starts to attack, except for Wayne who tries to run for the chopper or boat. Dan gets up and jumps back into action. Seeing that Dan is fighting with all he has, Wayne decides to fight by making a lasso and throwing it around Nebiros, and has everyone pull. This gives Dan the breather he needs to keep fighting. the crew comes up with the idea to push Nebiros back through the portal. Dan grabs Nebiros and uses the rockets in his trident to push Nebiros, luckily right before they closed the portal some of the crew pulled Dan out. When back in his trailer he realizes that when he got hit by mystical blast the suit formed to his body.
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I... Vampire! (2011)
A cult favorite series is collected at last, from HOUSE OF MYSTERY #290, 291, 293, 295, 297, 299, 302 and 304-319 and BRAVE AND THE BOLD #195! Vampiric Lord Andrew Bennett turned his beloved Mary Seward into a vampire, hoping to keep her by his side through eternity. But what happens when her power turns her evil?
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The creeps are coming for you. They're lurking in the shadows, and they're near enough to touch. They used to be content to stay out of the glare of the city's bright lights. But bad things have been happening-bad things that only the creeps can see. And only the creeps can stop. The creeps are coming for you and they're whispering their names: Eyeball, Gurgle, Booger, Chitter, Breaker, Gelulite and Mrs. Skank. And though you may recoil from them in horror, (italic)they(italic) are not the monsters. And one day soon, your life may depend on them. CREEPS is coming for you from the minds of acclaimed Spectre and Martian Manhunter artist Tom Mandrake and Blue Devil co-creator and Shi writer Dan Mishkin. The Creeps are coming for you in a tale that mixes horror with heroism...and its own weird brand of humor. Their first adventure begins here. Give yourself the Creeps!
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Ина Эднер (, урожд. Ина Шрайер, ; (9 июля 1917 года, Берлин-Кройцберг, Германия — 27 марта 2008 года, Лениц, Германия) — одна из первых женщин-полицейских в Германии, антифашист, член движения Сопротивления во время Второй мировой войны, член организации «Красная капелла».

Биография
Ина Шрайер родилась 9 июля 1917 года в берлинском районе Кройцберге. Она была дочерью скульптора Эриха Шрайра и портнихи Маргарете Хетцель. Её отец был одним из основателей Союза Спартака и Коммунистической партии Германии.

С 1923 по 1927 год Ина обучалась в начальной школе в Кройцберге, затем перешла в школу Минны Кауэр в Нойкельне. Здесь вскоре стала членом студенческого совета. Она была первой девушкой, поступившей в школу-интернат в Шафенберге. Благодаря своей дружбе с Гансом Лаутеншлягером и Гансом Коппи, в 15 лет, в 1932 году вступила, в объявленный нацистами «вне закона», Коммунистический союз молодежи (KJVD), и участвовала в политических акциях против нацистского режима.

После прихода нацистов к власти, 30 января 1933 года, её отца освободили от занимаемой должности, а в доме провели несколько обысков. Несмотря на хорошую успеваемость, ей не удалось получить аттестат зрелости. Школу в Шафенберге нацисты закрыли, а обеспечить образование дочери в другой школе родители не могли из-за отсутствия материальных средств. Мать помогла ей подготовиться к поступлению в швейное профессионально-техническое училище. Однако из-за отсутствия у матери лицензии преподавателя швейного дела Ине отказали в поступлении. Женщины стали зарабатывать на жизнь, обшивая знакомых. В 1936 году ей все же удалось устроиться на работу швеёй в дамское ателье.

В середине 1930-х годов Ину заметил популярный во времена нацистского режима фотограф Ганс Хубман и предложил сняться для обложки журнала. Став моделью в главном салоне Третьего рейха, она получила доступ в «высшее общество», который использовала для сбора информации для движения сопротивления. Например, таким образом, ей стало известно о сроках проведения операции нацистов по захвату Москвы. 14 сентября 1936 года вышла замуж за Ганса Лаутеншлягера.

Как модель, она имела контракты во многих европейских городах, что давало ей право выезда из страны. В конце 1930-х годов через подругу Оду Шоттмюллер присоединилась к группе, возглавлявшейся Харро Шульце-Бойзеном и Арвидом Харнаком. Обеспечивала связь между берлинской и брюссельской группами Сопротивления.

В сентябре 1942 года была арестована гестапо. Её курьерская деятельность осталась незамеченной. В июле 1943 года Верховный суд признал её виновной в «пособничестве и подстрекательстве к мятежу» и приговорил к шести годам лишения свободы.

В мае 1945 года она была вице-мэром в Бранд-Эрбисдорфа, где проработала до лета 1946 года. После эвакуации из Польши матери и её сына Акселя Ина приняла решение вернуться в Берлин. Но ей предложили место в новообразованном защитном отделении народной полиции в Нидерзедлице, в Дрездене, куда она переехала вместе с матерью и сыном. В 1947 году её перевели в районное управление полиции Гроссенхайна. Там она несколько месяцев проработала главой ведомства в местной администрации. В 1949 году поступила на службу в уголовный розыск в должности главного уполномоченного государственного органа народной полиции в Дрездене. Она была ответственна за расследование подрывной деятельности и нацистских преступлений. В мае 1950 года, по собственному желанию, была переведена в Берлин в главное управление казарменной полиции. Уволенная за нарушение правил эксплуатации в октябре 1950 года, была принята в Торговую Организацию, ведавшую промышленными товарами, и в 1953 году стала начальником отдела. Когда её муж, Ганс Лаутеншлягер, вернулся в Берлин из советского плена, они расстались полюбовно.

В декабре 1952 года вышла замуж за Зигфрида Эндера. Приняла на себя управление несколькими экспроприированными фермами. Позднее, из-за участия в демонстрации рабочих 17 июня 1953 года, была уволена с работы, и в декабре 1954 года исключена из Социалистической единой партии Германии (SED). В связи с исключением из партии, не смогла устроиться на работу, и в мае 1955 года вернулась к профессии швеи. В 1957 году была вновь принята в SED, и в 1962 году получила место сотрудника Министерства торговли в Берлине. С 1965 по 1967 год была директором по учебной работе в Высшей школе внешней торговли (ГДР). В 1967 году подала в отставку по состоянию здоровья и получила инвалидность. С 1972 по 1975 год работала вместе с мужем в Ираке в качестве приглашённого специалиста. В ГДР она работала с молодёжью, читала лекции по истории движения сопротивления, а после воссоединения Германии, принимала активное участие в Партии демократического социализма (ПДС).

Ина Эндер умерла 27 марта 2008 года в Лениц, в Германии.

Литература
 Hans Lautenschläger: An der Seite Hans Coppis. Erinnerungen des Genossen Hans Lautenschläger über den Kampf der Schulze-Boysen / Harnack — Organisation. Berlin 1980
 Gert Rosiejka: Die Rote Kapelle. «Landesverrat» als antifaschistischer Widerstand. — mit einer Einführung von Heinrich Scheel. ergebnisse-Verlag: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0
 Leopold Trepper: Die Wahrheit. Autobiographie; dtv: München 1978
 Schallplatte Rote Kapelle. Dokumente aus dem antifaschistischen Widerstand. Aus Gesprächen mit Überlebenden und ausgewählte Dokumente — letzte Zeugnisse; VEB Deutsche Schallplatten: Berlin 1987 (2 LPs mit Tonaufnahmen von Ina Ender, Hans Lautenschläger und anderen)

Ссылки
 Скульптура Ины Эндер

Примечания

Члены Коммунистической партии Германии
Женщины — члены Красной капеллы
Члены Партии демократического социализма

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Milwaukee Brewers Release Jeff Suppan
by Adam Bernacchio under MLB
I love it when teams in professional sports sign average players to large contracts based on a single game or one seven-game series. Some examples of this include:
Dallas Cowboys signing Larry Brown to a five-year, $12.5 million contract because he picked off two passes in the Super Bowl.
Tampa Bay Lightning sign complimentary player Ryan Malone to a superstar contract worth $31.5 based on his playoff successes with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
New York Yankees sign Damaso Marte to a $12 million deal because he struck out David Ortiz in a big spot in September in 2008.
One more example would be the Milwaukee Brewers signing pitcher Jeff Suppan to a four-year, $42 million contract in the winter of 2006 because he ran through the New York Mets in the 2006 NLCS. Suppan pitched the game of his life in Game 7 of that series (seven innings of two hit baseball) and it earned him that huge contract.
It was a terrible contract signing at the time and it looks even worse now. The Brewers released Suppan on Monday and will absorb the remaining $10 million left on his contract.
Outside of one good year in 2005 (16-10 with a 3.57 ERA) and that one series against the Mets in 2006 as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, Suppan has always been a below average major league pitcher. However, Suppan represents how the value of pitchers have changed over the last 25 years.
Teams value quantity over quality when it comes to pitching. If a guy is able to pitch 180–200 innings, then he has tremendous value to a team regardless if those 180–200 innings are of quality.
Suppan has always been able to eat innings, but rarely gives a quality performance. Suppan's ERA is usually in the high-four's/low-five's, gives up about 10 hits/9, and K's only about four/9.
In 2010, Suppan was especially bad. His ERA was 7.84 and gave up a whopping 50 hits in 31 innings. You know you have to be pretty awful to be released from a team that is struggling to find pitching.
I would be surprised if a team didn't pick up Suppan. He could be a pitcher who is used in mop up duty in order to save the bullpen. A return to the Cardinals wouldn't surprise me.
Suppan was 29-36 with a 5.06 ERA in his three plus years as a Brewer.
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Q: regular covering proof Here is my problem:
Let $S_g$ be an orientable closed curved surface (like sphere or torus) with genus $g$. With arbitrary $g\geq3$ show that $S_g$ is a regular covering of $S_2$.
I have no idea how to approach this problem since I struggle a lot in writing proofs concerning covering spaces. Any pieces of advice would be greatly appreciated.

A: Let us deal with standard covering first, then we will see the normal/regular one. A standard trick when dealing with this kind of problems is to use multiplicativity of the Euler characteristic $\chi$. In particular, for a $k$-sheeted cover $E$ of a compact CW-complex $X$ the following formula holds: $$\chi(E)=k\cdot \chi(X)$$ This simple formula (which is not hard to prove, I believe you can find a proof on any standard algebraic topology book) gives you a good starting point when dealing with finding covering spaces of a manifold.
In this case we plug-in $E=S_g$ and $X=S_2$, with the formula $\chi(S_g)=2-2g$ to obtain that the degree of the covering must be $k=g-1$. (you should do these computation to see why we assumed $g\geq 3$, actually $g=2$ is not a big problem :) ).
Now the covering maps are given in the following way. Draw your oriented surface $S_g$ with one of the hole in the centred and the other (which are $g-1$!) evenly spaced around it. The free action is given by rotating around the central hole. Note that it does define a (free) group action of $\Bbb Z/(g-1)\Bbb Z$ on $S_g$ and you should prove that the quotient is really $S_2$ (basically notice that you are identify all the "rays" emanating from the central hole - this gives you intuition on why you get $S_2"- then formally prove that the quotient has all the properties required).
A similar setting is depicted by Hatcher (page 73)

Where the difference is that the quotient is $S_3$ and therefore on each ray we have $2$ holes. You should work out the details of this.
For what concern regularity of the cover let me be a little bit sketchy:every covering action arising as nice group action like this (I'll refer to prop 1.40 page 72 of Hatcher for the precise statement) gives rise to a regular (normal in Hatcher notation) cover.

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Home Perspectives Annapolis sets framework, challenge remains in implementation
Annapolis sets framework, challenge remains in implementation
Samar Assad
The joint understanding reached by Palestinian and Israeli officials and presented at the Annapolis Middle East peace conference today sets a solid framework for a negotiating process, but the challenge remains in the implementation of the specifics.
The statement, read by U.S. President George W. Bush, incorporates the required points for a solid foundation to launch talks, mainly the immediate start of negotiations to resolve "all outstanding issues, including all core issues without exception." Without exception means that the fate of Palestinian refugees as well as East Jerusalem and illegal Jewish settlements will be addressed. The joint understanding also provides a timeline for negotiations-12 December 2007 as a start date and December 2008 as a target end date for a final agreement.
While reaching a joint understanding on a general framework was a trying task for the two sides, the real test is in the implementation of the specifics. How will the sides resolve the issue of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory? How will the Palestinian refugee issue be settled? What will be the borders of the Palestinian state? Today's remarks by Bush, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert provide some insight on how the sides may differ on the interpretation and implementation of the final status issues.
Bush stated that Israel must "show the world that they are ready to begin-to bring an end to the occupation that began in 1967 and an end to settlement expansion." To Palestinians, this translates to the establishment of a Palestinian state on the territory marked by the 1949 armistice lines and sovereignty over all that is within it. However, Olmert pointed to Bush's 2004 letter to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon which states that "In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations be a full return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion."
While President Abbas stated that the settlement of the Palestinian refugee issue will be based on U.N. Resolution 194, Olmert reiterated that Israel is a Jewish state and that it will be part of an international effort to resettle Palestinian refugees in a Palestinian state.
Now that the both sides, with Arab and international support, have officially resumed talks that have been stalled for years, the real test is in reaching an understanding on and the implementation of the core issues that uphold Palestinian rights and international law.
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