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Thursday, October 17, 2013
In ‘Letter 44,’ a secret threatens a US president Associated Press Writer
Secrets abound in America, but none on the scale as those revealed in the pages of Charles Soule’s “Letter 44,” a series where humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition, but a threat kept hidden. The first issue of the series published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press Inc. was released Wednesday. It’s illustrated by Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, colored by Guy Major, lettered by Shawn DePasquale and edited by Jill Beaton. Soule says the new series is a measured essay on the human spirit, and the quest for knowledge knowing that there is life up there and it may not be friendly. The story centers on President Stephen Blades who is told about the existence of an alien presence kept secret for years by his predecessor. It’s in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it’s unclassifiable, it won’t communicate and it may be girding for war. From there, it’s one truth after another and
it changes everything for Blades as a leader, citizen, father and person. Soule said the idea sprang forth in early 2011 about the time “when it was pretty clear that the last space shuttle mission was going to happen soon. The U.S. as a space power was going to change, dramatically.” Inspired by that change, he was walking along the beach in Cape May, New Jersey, and pondering what it would take for America, among others, to get back to the stars. “I wanted to write the story about what we could do and, if we really need to, could we get back up there? What would be the incentive? In the 1960s, it was the Cold War and the space race,” Soule said. “What could take us up there? The idea of aliens being up
This image provided by Oni Press shows one a version of the cover of Charles Soule’s “Letter 44,” a series where humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition, but a threat kept hidden.
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and The Replacements are among first-time nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The hall of fame announced its annual list of nominees Wednesday morning and half the field of 16 were first-time nominees. YES, Link Wray and The Zombies also received their first nominations. More than 600 voters will determine the class of 2014. Inductees will be announced in December and a ceremony will be held next April in New York. The induction will be aired on HBO in May. Nirvana is nominated in its first year of eligibility. If selected for induction, the band would enter the hall of fame almost exactly 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide at age 27. Ronstadt receives her first nomination not long after she shared news that she has Parkinson’s disease. Fans have long questioned her absence from the hall’s roster of stars. Similarly, long-denied YES joins the list after Rush finally struck a blow for prog rock with its induction earlier this year. Repeat nominees are KISS, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, The Meters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Chic. It’s the eighth nomination for Chic since 2003, but comes as co-founder Nile Rodgers is enjoying widespread attention after his collaboration with Daft Punk earlier this year. KISS, LL Cool J and Stevens return to the list after absences of several years.
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1993 file photo, Kurt Cobain, lead singer for the Seattle-based band Nirvana, performs during the taping of MTV’s Live and Loud Production in Seattle.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013 War-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq
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there, and then it all fell into place.” And so it does, with Soule’s story focusing not just on Blades and the political ramifications of knowing what’s up there, but also the crew of the spaceship Clarke, which is poised to make the first, human contact with whatever is there. Soule said the pieces of both plots will come together, over the course of the series, and “everything will make sense,” he says. “Even some of the weird stuff.”
Nirvana, Ronstadt among Rock Hall of Fame noms
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Proud Hodgson’s experience pays off for England
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Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missing
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Big electrical cable being put in the side of the road during a project conducted by PLN reaped complained from residents because it made traffic jam. Complained for public services increase on 2013. The complaints related to services provided by the PLN, such as outages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services.
Complained for public services increase
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Various kinds of fraud against consumers were recognized by Director of Consumer Protection Foundation (YLPK) Bali, Putu Armaya, to remain rampant. Consumer complaints related to public services even still dominated and then were followed by complaints on housing cases committed by mischievous developers and hazardous food case or unworthy food for consumption. “From the number of complaints we have received, they are dominated by public service issues. In other words, it occupies the top five and this belongs to the classic
problem,” he explained. He said that almost 13 years after the application of the Law No.8/1999 on Consumer Protection, in fact, the reality on the field showed that fraud
against consumers was increasingly prevalent. It meant that more and more businesses infringed the business ethics. “We are concerned with the consumers in Bali. To that end, we invite the community to become an intelligent and conscientious consumer,” he said. Related to complaints on the public service, Armaya described that public complaints to the YLPK Bali from January to October 2013 had something to do with public services provided by the PLN, PDAM and banking services totally reaching 475
complaints. “Of the 475 complaints, 200 complaints are related to service of the PLN, PDAM and the remaining 114 complaints are related to banking services,” he said. The complaints related to services provided by the PLN, Armaya explained that many people complained about the outages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services and some complained about the incessant effort of the PLN asking consumers to move from conventional to prepaid power
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subscription. “The PLN may not force consumers to change their payment method from conventional to prepaid system,” he said. As for the service of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), consumers complained that the clean water ran sluggishly in dry season. “In this condition, the YLPK Bali appeals to the PDAM management across Bali to establish good communication to customers. Although getting no water, a good communication to customer is much needed,” he said. Continued on page 6