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Festival, Jan.Copyrights (C)2002 by Coyote Mediaproductions.Caching is set to enabled.Information has been retrieved from cached file.JavaScript, or it has been disabled.Bush, see Barbara Bush.Barbara Pierce Bush (born November 25, 1981) is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of U.Barbara Bush was born in Dallas, Texas, at Baylor University Medical Center.Barbara is named after her paternal grandmother, former First Lady Barbara Bush.Jenna and Barbara Bush with their parents George W.When the family lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her sister attended Preston Hollow Elementary School; Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent Teachers Association at that time.When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended St.Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas.In 1996, Barbara began attending Austin High School, graduating with the class of 2000.Barbara was charged the following year with a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of alcohol in Austin and pleaded no contest.Barbara lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.Hewitt National Design Museum.Barbara's graduation from Yale in May 2004 was given heavy media coverage.She and Jenna made several media appearances that summer prior to the 2004 US Presidential election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31.The media also extensively covered the campaigning of John Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra, making the "battle of the daughters" a human interest element of the campaign.Barbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.See also
Jenna Bush, twin sister
Laura Bush, mother
President George W.Bush, father
former First Lady Barbara Bush, grandmother
former President George H."Split Decision", Dallas Observer, January 11, 2007.New York Post Online Edition (November 9, 2006)."First Twin Jenna Bush may leave D.Jenna Bush embarks on book 'Journey', USA Today, March 6, 2007."Telephoto Finish: The Bush Twins Graduate From College, and Private Life", Washington Post, May 24, 2004, p.Bush twins not deterred by shutterbugs.Independent Online (Pty) Ltd.Africa", The Boston Globe, July 6, 2005.Bush's Daughter to Intern for Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatric AIDS Initiative Clinics in Africa.Remarks by Barbara and Jenna Bush to the 2004 Republican National Convention.Julia Reed (August 2004)."Jenna and Barbara Bush: Sister Act".See Copyrights for details.Barbara "Babs" Gordon is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics and related media, created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino.From 1966 to 1988, she was the superheroine Batgirl; since 1989 she has been known as Oracle.Barbara Gordon's persona as Batgirl is regarded as a pop culture icon due to her adaptation in the Batman television series of the late sixties and continued media exposure.The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl has been adapted into all media relating to the Batman franchise, including merchandise, television, animation and feature film.During the early seventies, the character was also used to advocate for women's rights.Oracle, providing intelligence and computer hacking services to assist DC Universe superheroes.The character's progression from Batgirl to Oracle became a point of controversy among critics and commentators.The series depicts her as a great intellect uninhibited by her paralysis, skilled in the martial art of eskrima.Batman: The Killing Joke (1988)
1.Fictional character biography
2.Powers and abilities
3.Adaptations into other media
4.Editor Julius Schwartz claimed that when planning the new Batgirl's comic book debut, he had considered the character to be a vehicle that might attract a female viewership to the Batman television series of the sixties.Actress Yvonne Craig portrayed the character in the show's third season.Gordon exceeded these earlier figures in popularity, and readers requested for her to appear in other titles.I'd like to say a few words about the reaction some readers have to Batgirl.They were there because romance seemed to be needed in Batman's life.Batwoman who constantly had to be rescued from Batman.Following the comic book debut of Barbara Gordon, Craig also promoted the comic book incarnation of her character.While actress Yvonne Craig as Batgirl appeared every week in the new season of Batman, DC Comics featured Batgirl on several covers of Detective Comics, often overshadowing Batman and Robin in order to promote the new heroine.Batgirl became a lighthearted departure from the tortured characters of Batman and Robin, each depicted as fighting crime to avenge the death of their parents.Girl, independent of a male superhero.Gotham City public library; "presumably one of the largest public libraries in the DC Comics version of reality."The character was also given a starring role in DC's Batman Family comic book which debuted in 1975.Although permanently retired, Barbara Gordon's incarnation as Batgirl remains one of the most popular and high profile characters of the Silver Age of Comics.The Joker critically injures Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Killing Joke.Barbara Gordon (and similarly, the over all portrayal of female characters in comic books), others have regarded The Killing Joke as one of the greatest Batman stories of all time.Despite Moore's writing, Valerie D'Orazio, a former editor at Acclaim Comics and DC Comics has denounced the book citing "It doesn't take the perspective of a woman into account.Barbara Gordon in it."The Killing Joke, that's exactly what they're supposed to do."Although there is a divide between those who enjoy The Killing Joke and those who are disturbed by it, Alan Moore has expressed disappointment in his own work.Following the release of the graphic novel, comic book editor and writer Kim Yale discussed how distasteful she found the treatment of Barbara Gordon with her husband, fellow comic writer John Ostrander.Rather than allow the character to fall into obscurity, the two decided to revive her as a character living with a disability.Both Yale and Ostrander would oversee the development of Barbara Gordon's new persona as Oracle for the next several years.Birds of Prey starring the two title characters.In an interview with Columnist Jennifer Contino, Simone explains her fondness of Barbara Gordon:
Kim Yale and John Ostrander picked up the character and made her into a brilliant master computer operator and one of the most fascinating characters in comics.Throughout the course of the character's history, Barbara Gordon's intelligence has been one of the character's defining attributes.According to BusinessWeek, Oracle is listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional superheroes appearing in American comics and is the only female character to appear on the list.Reacting to Batman: The Killing Joke and Barbara Gordon's later character development as Oracle in Batman: Gotham Knights, Ray Tate, a reviewer at Silver Bullet Comics, writes,
Let's get this out of the way first.There is absolutely no reason why Barbara Gordon should be in a wheelchair.Alan Moore and Brian Bolland meant The Killing Joke as an imaginary tale dealing with the iconography of Batman and the Joker...There are countless examples of Batman employing that which is only theoretical in his fight against crime.His knowledge of stem cell technology should surpass that of the real world.There is simply no reason for Barbara Gordon to be confined to that wheelchair.Barbara in this incarnation is not a bad character, but she is not better because she no longer hunts the night in cape and cowl.Ross explains in an interview:
Paul Dini had this idea of putting Barbara Gordon in the Lazarus Pit to revive her...The idea of using the red instead of the traditional yellow was meant to invoke the idea that coming from the Lazarus Pit, she was in a way, more compromised as a character...Denny shot it down, because, according to him, everybody loves Barbara Gordon as Oracle and as a handicapped character.The theory was that DC didn't have enough handicapped characters, so they weren't going to do anything with Barbara as she was.Some argue that the Barbara Gordon character provides a greater service to DC Comics and its readers in her current status, regardless of the events which preceded Oracle's creation.The DCU would be a lesser place without Barry's sacrifice, or the crippling of Barbara at the hands of the Joker."Without much fanfare, Barbara Gordon has become the most popular handicapped character since Charles Xavier.In fact, Oracle's nature as a handicapped superhero and a role model is almost never mentioned by the company or fans...And we knew that others with disabilities might look at her and feel good reading about her...Barbara isn't her handicap; there's more to her than that.Barbara Gordon's classic Batgirl design drawn by Kevin Nowlan.In her original adventures during the Silver Age of Comics, Batgirl is depicted as a librarian by day, and a spirited crimefighter by night.The character was fleshed out considerably, with the shy, mousy, bookworm version of Barbara Gordon giving way to a more modern, confident character.Mite, and Mxyzptlk for the first time.She also fights alongside the Justice League of America against the villainous Queen Bee.Bard is a romantic interest of Barbara's, as well.Batgirl reveals her secret identity to her father (who had already discovered it on his own), and serves as a member of the U.Clark Kent, establishing their friendship, and fights alongside Superman.Bronze Age
In 1975, DC created the Batman Family comic book, which ran for 20 issues.The two fight Killer Moth and Cavalier, and learn about each other's secret identities.Batgirl continued her adventures there.DC Comics to a single continuity.The conclusion of Crisis on Infinite Earths changed DC Universe continuity in many ways.Crisis, Supergirl does not arrive on Earth until Gordon has established herself as Oracle; many adventures she shared with Batgirl are now retroactively described as having been experienced by Power Girl.Batgirl and the Golden Age Dr.Barbara Gordon's origin is rebooted by author Barbara Randal.Within the storyline, Gordon recounts the series of events that lead to her career as Batgirl, including her first encounter with Batman as a child, studying martial arts under the tutelage of a sensei, memorizing maps and blue prints of the city, excelling in academics in order to skip grades and pushing herself to become a star athlete.In Batman: The Killing Joke (1988), the Joker shoots Barbara, intending to drive her father James Gordon into madness.The bullet severs her spine, permanently paralyzing her from the waist down.Initially, Gordon's paralysis plunges her into a state of reactive depression.However, she soon realizes that her aptitude for and training in information sciences have provided her with tremendous skills that could be deployed to fight crime.She serves as an information broker, gathering and disseminating intelligence to law enforcement organizations and members of the superhero community.Gordon is a highly gifted child having graduated from high school early, but initially desires to join law enforcement as opposed to vigilantism in the previous origin myths.Cover to Birds of Prey: Of Like Minds featuring Oracle, Black Canary, and The Huntress.Author Gail Simone and Artist Ed Benes.After her unsuccessful partnership with Power Girl, Oracle later joins forces with the superheroine Black Canary.They form the nucleus of the Birds of Prey organization.Black Mask commandeers Oracle's computers and satellites and engages in a fight to the death with Batman.Batman to rescue her rather than continue the battle.Brainiac, an artificial intelligence entity, in order to become a biological being.Although Oracle overpowers Brainiac and expels him from her body, the advanced virus delivered by him remains despite his absence.Oracle develops cyberpathic powers that allow her to psychically interact with computer information systems.Oracle teams with the Martian Manhunter in Metropolis to coordinate a counterstrike to the Secret Society's global jailbreak.The renewed romance between Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson is also cut short by the Infinite Crisis storyline.When DC continuity jumps forward one year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Oracle and her team continue to work in Metropolis.Oracle works with Batman, although not on a regular basis as before.Oracle continues to lead the Birds of Prey, and expandes the ranks of the operation.Eventually, Spy Smasher is forced to admit her defeat and returns control of the Birds of Prey organization to Oracle.At the conclusion of the arc, Oracle also adopts Misfit into the Birds of Prey.Batgirl and is described as being a "star athlete."Following the events of The Killing Joke, Barbara Gordon continued to train in the martial arts as Oracle, despite being paralyzed from the waist down.Technological skills
Prior to the character's career as a vigilante, Barbara Gordon developed many technological skills, including vast knowledge of computers and electronics, expert skills as a hacker, and graduate training in library sciences.Like Batman, Barbara Gordon originally used a wide variety of computer electronics and gadgets during her early adventures as Batgirl.According to Gail Simone, Oracle maintains control over the twelve technologically advanced satellites that were created by Lex Luthor during his tenure as President of the United States.Information broker
Oracle places her considerable skills and knowledge at the disposal of many of the DC universe's heroes.Batman, himself a genius with a wide knowledge base and access to vast information resources, routinely consults Oracle for assistance.Batgirl's addition to the comic book medium was inspired to tie in with the television program in order to bring in a female audience.In 1972, three years after the Batman television series ended, Craig appeared again as Batgirl in a public service announcement for the U.Department of Labor advocating equal pay.Batgirl was their role model...They say its because it was the first time they ever felt girls could do the same things guys could do, and sometimes better.Entertainment produced the television series Birds of Prey, loosely based on the comic book series of the same name.Dina Meyer became the first actress to portray Barbara Gordon as Oracle.Superman Hour) which originally aired on CBS in 1968.Barbara Gordon was adapted into the series of animated television programs produced by Warner Bros.Animation collectively known as Bruce Timm and Paul Dini's DC Animated Universe.These series of animated programs began with Batman: The Animated Series which debuted on the Fox network in 1992.Barbara Gordon in this continuity, made her first appearance in the two part episode "Heart of Steel."In the character's third appearance, Barbara Gordon played a starring role in the series finale "Batgirl Returns" (1994).Following the launch of The WB network and at the request of Warner Bros.Justice League episode "The Savage Time" (2002).Although the DCAU did not end until the finale of Justice League Unlimited in 2006, Warner Bros.Barbara Gordon was introduced as Batgirl in the two part episode "Batgirl Begins" (2005).This series also marked the animated debut of Barbara Gordon as Oracle with the futuristic episode "Artifacts" (2007).Partial bibliography
Showcase Presents: Batgirl, Vol.Batman: The Complete History.ISBN 0789020998
Brooker, Will.Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon.Critiques on Infinite Earths.Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in a Public Service Announcement for the U.Batman: The Complete History.Batgirl Promotional Short (1967).DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes.CARMINE INFANTINO: DECADES AT DC AND BEYOND.Remembering Kathy Kane: The First Batwoman.The Image and Role of the Librarian.Batman: The Killing Joke.Chuck Dixon, Jordan Gorfinkey (1996).WW PHILLY: Crisis counseling with Dan Didio: DC jumps one year into the future.OSTRANDER ON ORACLE, MARTIAN MANHUNTER AND MARVEL'S WESTERN HEROES.Crisis on Infinite Earths.Batgirl and the Golden Age Dr.Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon (2003).Nightwing: Hunt for Oracle.Birds of Prey: The Battle Within.Birds of Prey: Blood and Circuits.Birds of Prey: Whitewater.Batgirl Promotional Short (1967).DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes.Batgirl Promotional Short
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Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in a Public Service Announcement for the U.This page was last modified 11:19, 8 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Records is now available!Illustrator Barbara Gregory brings an artist's eye for colour to her knitting designs.Children's author, freelance writer, teacher and mother, Barbara Bietz was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in southern California.She earned her BA and Master's degree in Education at the University of Arizona.Barbara writes a monthly column for FamiliesOnlineMagazine.Barbara is an active member in the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.She currently resides in Ventura County, California with her husband, two children and three dogs.Las Vegas, Nevada is a bustling town that is growing in residential and commercial population.It also provides a mecca for tens of thousands of tourists each year.She has received an extensive number of awards and certifications.Learn more about her professional background.Barbara takes very seriously.Looking for just the right property?Seller Tips: Read through helpful tips of information on buying or selling your home!Let me figure out how much your home is worth in today's market!Thanks for visiting my online real estate source.Real Estate agentsWorldwide real estate companies directory and property buyers and sellers guide.Deep Link Directory, Deep Link Submission, Paid Web World Directory, quality links on the internet.I'm Barbara Winter and
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