![]() These included art from comics like Wildcats, Stormwatch, Deathblow, and more. ![]() Later the same year that Gen 13 was released as a regular series, Image released the trading card set Wildstorm Archives I, which was a 99-card set showcasing cover art from various comics under the Wildstorm Productions banner. The Wildstorm Archives I chase card set, featuring 11 of the Gen 13 variant covers in a holofoil finish. I’ll blindly trust that the “legends” are true (and that possibly, there may be a drawn-on Do-It-Yourself cover inside too!), and keep my set sealed. ![]() I will admit even with the promise of an unsigned Chromium Cover inside, I have not been able to bring myself to open my set. Since then, I’ve never seen a proper price guide amount for the ‘Artists Proof’ set, which I guess just goes to show that these sets are incredibly rare. I have a vague recollection of the comic store owner I used to go to in Iowa, telling me that he heard one was going for $500 (and this was in 1995!). Through an online source, I was able to obtain one of these rare treasures, though I was surprised that unlike the black box set, the red one does not give a number of how many were produced (mine just has the number “294” on it). If you were looking to get that exclusive 14th cover without a signature, this was where you’d find it. Unknown to a lot of people, there was a super-rare ‘Artists Proof’ red-box of the variant cover set that was released. Each signature set for each of the creators was limited to a numbered edition between 1500-2500. The incentive to purchase these box sets was the 14th cover, signed by either Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, J Scott Campbell, or Alex Garner. Left) The black-box variant cover set (Right) The super-rare red-boxed ‘Artists Proof” variant cover set (Thanks, Sven!). Also, if you want to see what the covers look like at a higher resolution, simply click on the image. So, let’s take a little stroll down memory lane, and look at the 13 different variant covers, and a few other odds and ends. Nowadays, pricing on the variant covers is not as extreme as it was in 1995 (I attended the San Diego Comic-Con for the first time that year, and a couple sellers were asking upwards of $70 for a couple!!), but still, it can take a little jumping around to find these. Though somehow, over the course of the next year, I did manage to obtain all 13 of the covers. Even though I salivated over these covers, they cost much more than a 15-year-old like myself could afford (my Dad also wouldn’t pay the $25+ per issue they were asking). Now, I had encountered variant covers before (they were a staple of the whole death/return of Superman saga DC Comics did), but Image had taken the promotion of this new release to insane levels.Īccording to the comic shop owner, as well as Wizard magazine, a total of 13 different covers had been released. Along with 2 regular cover variants, I noticed 4-6 different covers for issue #1 sitting behind the counter (with much higher price tags, courtesy of the shop owner). I remember eagerly walking into my local comic shop, only to be greeted by a surprise. ![]() As it neared the end of its run in 1994, word spread that Wildstorm would make Gen 13 into an ongoing series, with the first issue released in March 1995. The series proved to be a surprise hit, and even ended up adding a 5th part to the storyline, and serving as a launching pad for up-and-coming artist J Scott Campbell (also known these days for his art on Danger Girl, and Wildsiderz). member John Lynch, who has defected, and becomes the group’s mentor as they work out their life and new powers in La Jolla, California. The comic dealt with a group of super-powered teens, who after their powers manifest at a secret training facility in the desert, go on the run from the group I.O. In February 1994, the Wildstorm Productions arm of Image Comics released the beginnings of a 4-issue miniseries titled Gen 13 (originally titled Gen X, until Marvel Comics came knocking on their door). But somewhere in the early 1990’s, the gimmick of specially bagging comic books with extra incentives (like promo trading cards), or giving them alternate covers came into play. It used to be that one would buy a comic book, and that was it. One that reared its head in the 90’s comic industry, were Variant Covers. I don’t know what it is about the 1990’s, but there seems to be an overload of special-edition/limited-edition stuff overflowing from that decade.
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![]() New RSE with real instrument sounds - listen to some samplesNew Graphical Interface (skinable)4 Display Modes: Page, Parchment, Vertical Screen, Horizontal ScreenFine Scrolling and Zoom from 30% to 200%Score display fully redesigned (similar to published songbooks)Automatic vertical positionning and spacing of score symbols to avoid collisions and blank spacesNew Page Setup windowAdvanced Standard Notation (effects, beams, stem direction.)Manuscript Configuration for each Track (tablature only, standard notation only or both, diagrams.Writing down every nuance of a guitarist's performance is a challenge that can tax even the best notation software. New RSE with real instrument sounds - listen to some samplesNew Graphical Interface (skinable)4 Display Modes: Page, Parchment, Vertical Screen, Horizontal ScreenFine Scrolling and Zoom from 30% to 200%Score display fully redesigned (similar to published songbooks)Automatic vertical positionning and spacing of score symbols to avoid collisions and blank spacesNew Page Setup windowAdvanced Standard Notation (effects, beams, stem direction.)Manuscript Configuration for each Track (tablature only, standard notation only or both, diagrams.)Multiple Selection used for editing and playing toolsPlaying of a selected part with Multiple Selection (also works for looped play)Move Tracks Up and DownVoice Support (lead and bass)Coda, Segno (simple and double), Fine + 14 possible jumps8va, 8vb, 15ma and 15mbTriplet Feel affected to the bar (8th or 16th)Improved Alternate EndingsImproved Grace Note and Dead NotePossibility to add Effects on Tied NotesExtended Bends and Tremolo BarFull Support of Artificial HarmonicsWah-wahHeavy Accentuated NotesTunings associated to an InstrumentDiagrams displayed with the score and/or under titleImproved Speed TrainerMusicXML Import/ExportPowerTab ImportTablEdit ImportPDF ExportImproved ASCII Import/ExportBMP Export of a complete pageImproved and Simplified WAVE Export (using Windows® Mixer) Changes ![]() The help file covers each topic without going into excruciating detail and if you’re after some extra resources, you’ll find tablatures, lessons and exercises on the Guitar Pro web site.Ī good one-stop solution for beginners and experts alike, Guitar Pro succeeds in delivering the variety and depth required to taking the next step to rock-stardom! It’s difficult to point out faults with Guitar Pro, but having mentioned the cluttered interface, it could do with a facelift in the form of tabs or something similar that would better categorize and clean up the buttons scattered around the screen. The extra dimension of a separate MIDI device lets you get ideas down much quicker while also giving you the ability to experiment with variations of a piece. Using the virtual keyboard or guitar, although tedious, will yield results when you want to compose something of your own, but for optimum results you can hook up your own MIDI device (such as a keyboard) and get cracking on tracks that are as simple or complex as you want. Getting the basics down is all well and good, but when it comes to composing or playing sheet music, Guitar Pro has it licked. Moving on, you can practice the large variety of scales that each come with a plethora of variations. Once prepared, you can get started on the individual note library that lets you visualize the fingering as well as listen to how they should sound. The digital guitar tuner and the metronome are extremely handy to have and save you the bother of going out to buy them or of searching through your cluttered room for either. ![]() Some of the gizmos included in the software can actually come in useful and let you do everything from one place. ![]()
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Alpha-Dent Alginate Impression Material is available in fresh mint flavor and two set types. ![]() The great thing about most CSS transitions is that very little code is required to do simple yet impressive things that are both effective and visually stunning.įor more advanced animation features, check out the next post on creating a successful CSS keyframe animation. Now, you should be a master with CSS fade in transitions, right? Play around with the code and get creative with it. Once the scroll position is greater than or equal to the HTML element's top edge position, the element will fade in. The scroll_pos variable contains the value of the top scroll position in the viewport and the element_pos variable contains the value of our HTML element. The Fade In TransitionĪnd some styling to differentiate our new element from the rest of the page. 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Note that certain CSS rules, including the transition rule, come with a set of vendor-specific prefixes we can use for a variety of browsers, including -webkit for Chrome and Safari browsers and -moz for Firefox browsers. transition: This is the shortened version of many different transition properties where 5s is the duration of the transition effect, in this case five seconds, all specifics the property that will be animated (in this case, all properties of the element), and ease-in-out specifies the speed curve for the transition, which in this case means the animation will speed up midway through and slow down before the animation completes.opacity: Sets the visual transparency of the element, with accepted values ranging from 0.0 (fully transparent) to 1.0 (fully opaque). image transition css image fade in fade out animation cssCSS image transition effects, specifically the fade-in and fade-out animation, are a popular way t.There are a few rules we'll be following: In this case, we'll be using CSS transitions to change the opacity rule within a set timeframe. 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Enjoy captivating 7.1 multi-channel surround sound with CMSS 3D1.Equalizer1 and Audio Cleanup will enhance your music experience greatly.Features like CMSS 3D1, Bass Boost1, Graphics Create your own MP3 or WMA music collections. ![]() Creative MediaSource Organise and play WAV, CD, MP3 files with Creative MediaSource player.Music Recording & Playback with EAX Music Enhancement The Upgrade Solution for Basic Motherboard Audio to High Quality 24-bit, 7.1 Audioĭelivering audio quality of up to 24-bit / 96kHz, 100dB SNR clarity and 7.1 surround sound, Sound Blaster Audigy Value is the ideal upgrade to high quality audio from basic motherboard audio. ![]() When he and his uncle parted ways, he started his own one-man band. If I came home from steel band practice around ten o’clock I would sit down with and play couple tunes.” Had bought a keyboard for my small son and I used to `fingle’ round with it. He had already begun to experiment a bit with another musical instrument. He joined his uncle’s band, if a couple of years late, and started playing at various venues. He used to always carry me around trying to get me to into the bands…” I got an Uncle named Clifton Daly…he used to play in a band named Marble and the Stones. Small,” says Daly, “I always used to like singing. Whatever conflict caused this split however, Daly still holds the utmost respect for his former mentor, the man who sees as paving the way for his success today. Was a Boxing morning, you could say that my services were terminated from Geddes’ Band” As a matter of fact, I got married on steel band money.” Geddes’ steel band was his actual livelihood until they had a parting of the ways. Say I was with Geddes for eight years, there wasn’t a week that I didn’t earn a salary. Throughout those eight years, he didn’t have to work other than playing music. You would see people doing these things but they wouldn’t tell you like this is how this is being done, that is how that is being done this is how Roy Geddes used to teach you to play pan.”ĭaly stayed with Roy Geddes until 1998. He says that it was when he went under the tutorship of steel pan veteran, Roy Geddes, in 1990 that he learned the fundamentals of music theory in general and steel band playing in particular. All this time he was playing steel band, his only ‘academic’ musical knowledge was from the famed School of Hard Knocks. It was through his playing with the phone company’s band that he got employed at the company itself. Played with Youth Division Band, I played with Palm Tree Breakthrough Band, the GDF steel band at one time, Telecoms Band.”ĭexter Daily and vocalist during a performance All them pans I could play.”ĭaly grew up honing his steel pan skills under several teachers, like ‘Dougla’ and `Massabo’ and played in several bands. Only instrument I know that I was never too fascinated playing in the steelband was the drum set. Tears notwithstanding, Tenor Baby didn’t restrict himself to playing just one type of steelpan though. Unfortunately, one of the musicians left out was Dexter.Ĭry throughout the parade so dem banna start calling me Tenor Baby…” The truck that they hired was too small and all of the musicians couldn’t their instruments on it. He recalls that the band he played in was participating in some parade or the other. In fact, one incident in his younger days earned him the name `Tenor’ or `Tenor Baby’. Daly says that he loved playing the tenor bass with a passion. He started out playing the tomberos, then moving up to play the tenor bass pans as he got older. You play out, you put up your ‘lil money, you could buy a school shirt, you buy a school pants…” His mother was doing her best to provide for the first eight of what would eventually turn out to be s16 children.įound music was the only way out for me…I find that it could do certain things. ![]() He started playing steel pan music from the age of six, and found that – in addition to giving him pleasure – it helped give him some independence. Daly grew up in a single-parent home during the seventies and eighties. WHEN someone hears about a one-man band the very first image that comes up in their head is probably one of an odd-looking character playing the flute with one hand, the drums with the other and a piano with his toes.ĭexter Daly doesn’t quite fit that picture but possesses an equal affinity for playing music as such a character might have done. You play out, you put up your ‘lil money, you could buy a school shirt, you buy a school pants…’ `I found music was the only way out for me…I find that it could do certain things. `Music was the only way out for me’ – Dexter Daly
![]() Similar to other EC2 instances, customers can easily use EC2 M1 Mac instances together with AWS services and features like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for network security, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for expandable storage, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for distributing build queues, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for OS image orchestration. Customers can also consolidate development of cross-platform Apple, Windows, and Android apps onto AWS, leading to increased developer productivity and accelerated time to market. Customers rearchitecting their macOS applications to natively support ARM64 architecture on Apple SoC can now enjoy faster builds with bare metal performance and convenient distributed testing without having to procure, install, manage, patch, and upgrade physical build infrastructure. Now with EC2 M1 Mac instances, Apple developers can enjoy up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads, while enjoying the same elasticity, scalability, and reliability that AWS’s secure, on-demand infrastructure has offered to millions of customers for more than a decade. Apple-designed M1 SoC also enables ARM64 architecture for the first time on Apple macOS. M1 is the first personal computer SoC built using cutting-edge 5-nanometer process technology, combines numerous powerful technologies into a single chip, and features a unified memory architecture for improved performance and efficiency. Thursday: Finish MX Practice-Begin MX Racing-End the day at 4 p.m.Today, millions of Apple developers across the globe are seeking to support Apple’s once-in-a-generation transition to a new family of custom silicon designed specifically for the Mac, starting with the M1 System on Chip (SoC). Wednesday: MX Practice begins in the afternoon Tuesday: Finish Supercross Qualifying-Begin Supercross Mains Monday: Practice Starts - 8 a.m.-Supercross Qualifying begins - 1 p.m. Gage Linville is owning the 51cc classes. Jeremy Martin is debuting his Star/Valli Yamaha's this weekend and while he's yet to reel in a moto win, he's been up front every moto so far. Both looked solid, but we don't think anyone will be able to match up against Adam Cianciarulo in the main events. Forkner led early, but was eventually pressured and passed by Green. Thomas Covington took a third in 250 B Stock but has the speed to win titles if he can get a good jump off the gate.īlake Green and Austin Forkner put on a show for the Division win of the Supermini 1 class. Keep an eye on the podium for these two once the gate drops for the main events on Wednesday. ![]() Webb came out on top, but not before being passed twice by Owen. So far, he's handling the pressure with ease.Ĭooper Webb and Jace Owen went to war in the first 250 B Stock moto of the week. The pressure is on Nelson this week as he is expected to win or podium every time he's on the track. Nelson, who originally had plans to race supercross in 2012, has decided to keep his amateur status for one more season with the hopes of going pro aboard a Troy Lee Designs Honda following Loretta's. In the Open Pro class it was the return of Jessy Nelson that made headlines. A holeshot and a moto win to kick off the week should give Epstein the momentum. Healthy and ready to roll, Epstein lined up against the likes of Zach Bell, Jeremy Martin, Justin Hill and the rest of the stacked pro class and never looked back. Dillan Epstein has been a force over in amateur motocross throughout the years, but injury has kept him from reaching his true potential. In the Pro class an unlikely hero made himself known. And while a qualifying win won't do much for your overall, it can definitely set you up for a title run in the main events. Monday and Tuesday are devoted to qualifying, with main events being held on Wednesday. The first part of Monday consisted of practice, but racing ripped off the gate around 1pm with over 20 qualifiers being run before the sun set behind the evergreens that line the supercross track. A truly unique event, Mini O's is one of the most prestigious amateur races in the world. The first part of the week is spent on the supercross track with the second part moving over to the outdoor track. It ultimately marks the end of Silly Season for the amateur community and is the proving ground that sets the stage for the 2012 calendar. While Mini O's is technically the final amateur national of the season, for those in the know, it's more of a preview of what's to come for 2012. The 40 th Annual Thor Winter National Olympics, better known at Mini O's, kicked off yesterday and we've already been privy to some of the best racing of the year. |