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Director, Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interest: synthesis and characterization of novel conjugated polymers and small molecules for organic and hybrid photovoltaics applications
Professor of Material Science and Engineering
Research Interest: solution-processed thin film photovoltaics based on organic, inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite light absorbing mat...
Research Interest: materials modeling, first-principles calculations, novel functional materials, quantum transport, 2D materials, nanomaterials
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Associate Director, Associate Professor of Materia...
Research Interest: ultrafast laser spectroscopy, photophysics of organic and hybrid semiconductors, photochemistry, photocatalysis
Associate Professor of Material Science and E...
Research Interest: fabrication of high efficiency silicon-based solar cells, new device architecture and applications, perovskite-silicon tandem sola...
Associate Professor of Material Science and Engine...
Research Interest: developing the basic science coupled with advanced nanomanufacturing needed to translate the extraordinary properties of two-dimen...
Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engine...
Research Interest: solution-processable organic/hybrid soft materials for electronic devices, printed organic/hybrid electronics, smart materials
Principal Technology Lead
Research Interest: Organic electronics, Thin-film photovoltaics, Plasmonics, Biophotonics, Scanning probe microscopy
Research Technician
Strategic Partnership & Lab Operations Manager
Operations Engineer
Research Interest: Materials science,
Vacuum deposition, Device fabrication and characterization
Senior Technical Specialist
Staff Scientist
Research Interest: Organic electronics, OECT, OFET, bio-organic electronics.
Operations Engineer
Research Interest: Scanning Probe Microscopy, Raman Scattering
Lab Assistant
Research Support Staff in Laquai Group
Lab Coordinator in Anthopoulos & Bar...
Research Scientist
Research Interest: Solution processing, Film formation, Metal oxide semiconductors, Thin-film transistors, (Opto-)Electronic devices
Research Interest: Transient absorption, photo-induced absorption,
excitons binding energy, charges generation, bimolecular recombination,
geminate r...
Research Interest: Photovoltaics; Silicon solar cell; Heterojunction; Carrier Selective Contact
Research Interest: Organic
semiconductors, Organic synthesis, Organic photovoltaics
Research Interest: Materials science,
organic electronics, organic solar cells, inkjet printing, printed electronics
Research Interest: OFET , OPV
Postdoctoral Fellow in Baran group
Research Interest: Organic photovoltaics, organic photodetectors, device physics, thick heterojunctions, cavity engineering, electro-optical...
Postdoctoral Fellow in de Wolf group
Research Interest: Photophysics, Doping, Thermoelectrics, Transport, Phototransport, Quantum dots, Colloidal nanocrystals.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai group
Research Interest: organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells, device modeling, kinetic Monte Carlo, charge carrier dynamics, exciton dynamics, orga...
Research Interest: Materials science; nanocarbons; organic semiconductors; doping; thermoelectrics;transport; bio-/gas-sensors.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthopoulos group
Research Interest: polymers, organic semiconductors, electronics, bioelectronics, semiconductors, photovoltaics.
Postdoctoral Fellow in De Wolf group
Research Interest: Large Area Perovskite Solar Cells, Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Postdoctoral Fellow in Baran group
Research Interest: Organic solar cells, Interfacial energetics, morphology, thermomechanical properties of conjugated polymers, flexible electronics
Postdoctoral Fellow in McCulloch group
Research Interest: Water splitting, Solar cells, Sensors, etc.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai group
Research Interest: photophysics, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, data analysis, photocatalysis, organic photovoltaics, perovskites, fluorescence probes...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthopoulos Group
Research Interest: Materials science and Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow in McCulloch Group
Postdoctoral Fellow in De Wolf Group
Research Interest: Solar energy, sustainable energy, perovskite solar cells and materials, perovskite-silicon tandem photovoltaics
Postdoctoral Fellow in De Wolf Group
Research Interest: Tandem solar cell, Perovskite, Interface engineering.
Postdoctoral Fellow in McCulloch Group
Research Interest: orgainc optoelectronic materials, polymer solar cells, solar energy
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthopoulos Group ...
Research Interest: Perovskite Single Crystal, Field Effect Transistors, Light Emitting Diodes
Research Interest: Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials, Flexible energy harvesting devices, Wearable nanogenerators and sensors
Postdoctoral Fellow in Baran Group
Research Interest: Tandem Solar Cells, Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, Thin Film Solar Cells, Flexible Electonics, Solar Water Splitting, Nanomat...
Research Interest: Surface Science, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Organic Heterostructures
Postdoctoral Fellow in McCulloch group
Research Interest: Photovoltaics, Silicon solar cell, Heterojunction, Carrier Selective Contact, Solar cell characterization, Solar ce...
Research Interest: photovoltaics, hybrid perovskites, materials science and engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai Group
Research Interest: Perovskite and organic electronic devicesorganic, transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) and optoelectronic devices, surface, in...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthopoulos Group
Research Interest: Structure Property relationship, Metal Chalcogenides, Photovoltaic, Energy storage/transport device
Research Interest: Transient absorption spectroscopy, Organic solar
cells, Perovskites, Time-resolved photoluminescence, Photo-physics.
Research Interest: small
molecule acceptor, polymer, quantum dot, photophysics, solar cell device,
charge transport
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Materials Science, LEDs
Research Interest: solar cells, interface engineering, organic semi-conductors
Research Interest: Nanogap (Ng) electronic devices, nanofabrication, energy efficiency, sensor and transducer fabrication and sensors, energy (therma...
Research Interest: Solar Cells, Sustainable Technology, Organic semi-conductors
Research Interest: Hybrid perovskites, optoelectronics
Research Interest: Organic semiconductors, Organic synthesis, OECT, OFET, bio-organic electronics, Crystallization.
Research Interest: printed method, doctor blading, self-assembly interface layer, large-area and flexible structure
Research Interest: Organic Photovoltaics,
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy
Research Interest: Organic
Photovoltaics, thin-film technologies
Research Interest: Silicon, Heterojuction, Surface passivation
Research Interest: Nanotechnology, Organic/inorganic nanocomposites, Renewable energy, Sustainable technologies, 3D/4D printing
Research Interest: 2D materials, LED
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Energy,
Photovoltaics, Sustainable development, Manufacture, Entrepreneurship &
Research Interest: Silicon based solar cells
Research Interest: Perovskite solar cells Flexible and Rigid Thin Film Photovoltaics, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
Research Interest: Adhesion lithography, Diodes, Photo detectors, Nano gap devices
Research Interest: Solar cells, sensors, thermal transport, hybrid materials.
Research Interest: Nanomaterials, Solar Cells.
Research Interest: Perovskite Solar Cells, Charge Carrier Dynamics, Photophysics, Nanomaterials
Research Interest: Rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis
M.S. Student
Research Interest: Electronic materials, photovoltaics, solar cells, perovskite, organic semiconductors.
Research Interest: Materials engineering, 3D printing, polymer properties and characterization.
Research Interest: Thermoelectrics, nanomaterials, perovskites, thermal transport, semiconductors
M.S. Student
Research Interest: Nano-electronics, solar cells, materials characterization and optimization.
Research Interest: Semiconductor devices, transistor, sensor, diode, integrated circuit.
M.Sc. Student
Research Interest: organic synthesis, organic photovoltaics, non-fullerene electron acceptors
Research Interest: Chemical biology, organic synthesis, OPVs
Research Interest: Hydrogen production, Photocatalysis, Water treatment, Nanofabrication, Polymers
Center Manager
Administrative Assistant
Administrative assistant
Ph.D. Graduate from Amassian Group
Research Interest: Time-Resolved Laser
Spectroscopy, Carrier dynamics
Communications Coordinator
Research Interest: Organic synthesis,
Organic Electronics, Polymers
Research Interest: Solar cells, Nano-electronics, Device fabrication and characterization
Postdoctoral Fellow in Beaujuge Group
Research Interest: Organic electronics,
organic solar cells, organic field effect transistors, conjugated polymers
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mohammed Group
Research Interest: Energy storage,
battery, material science, electrochemistry
Lab Assistant in Amassian Group
Research Interest: Organic
Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics, In situ characterization techniques,
Perovskite solar cells, Thin film formation dynami...
Research Assistant in Amassian Group
Research Interest: Organic solar cell, OLED, OFET,organic
Research Interest: Organic Solar Cells, Photophysics, Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
Ph.D. Graduate from Mohammed Group
Research Interest: Polar Chain, Bio-electronic
Lab Assistant in McCulloch Group
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mohammed Group
Postdoctoral Fellow in Amassian Group
Ph.D. Graduate from Prof.Beaujuge's group ...
Research Interest: polymer, solar cell,
Ph.D. Graduate from Beaujuge Group
Research Interest: Polymer Solar Cell, Multi-junction, Transparent Superhydrophobic Coating, Nanostructured Materials
Postdoctoral Fellow in Amassian Group
Research Interest: Carbon Materials, X-ray Photo Electron Spectroscopy
Research Interest: Interface chemistry, surface functionalization, surface chemistry, supercapacitor
Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Laquai Grou...
Research Interest: Organic photovoltaic,
small molecule, solution-processed, device physics
Research Interest: organic electronics, photovoltaics, material characterization
Research Interest: Polymer synthesis, Organic
Electrochemical Transistors
Ph.D. Graduate from Amassian's Group
Research Interest: solar cells, nanotechnology, material characterization
Ph.D. Graduate from Beaujuge's Group
Research Interest: Device fabrication and analysis, device physics,
inorganic synthesis
Postdoctoral Fellow in Beaujuge Group
Research Interest: Polymer Solar Cells, Polymer Acceptor, Cathode
Interface Material
Research Interest: Scanning tunneling microscopy, Heterostructured organic and inorganic materials
Research Interest: crystal epitaxy, nanoparticles, rare earth ions
Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai Group
Research Interest: Solar cell, charge
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Over this past weekend, I had the privilege of attending a field trip for my honors "Health Inequalities" political science course with Professor Dean Robinson to the UMass Center at Springfield, a satellite campus to UMass Amherst offering programs in nursing, education, business and more. Like most college students, waking up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday to go on a field trip really wasn't my cup of tea. While I might've woken up that morning desiring nothing else but a few more hours of sleep, the field trip proved itself as a valuable learning experience. Our class had... Read More
Attendance: The Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (Mass URC) is a day set aside for students and professors from 28 different universities across the Commonwealth to share and present their original research and learn from other students. So, basically, one of the largest networking opportunities UMass offers. There will be students from every field of study presenting their research. No, seriously: marketing, journalism, communication, biochemistry, etc. Every major, hundreds of students, all presenting their research and it's free to attend. Networking:... Read More
The death of Nipsey Hussle has hit a lot of people I know really hard. The mourning is in part due to what an amazing person he was and what he was doing for his community. However, it also has to do with what his death represents to a lot of people: the dangers that black and brown men face in our country, specifically if they are rappers or community activists. The stories of what he was doing in his community have blown my mind. Often we talk about what we would like to see people do or change in their communities, and rarely do we acknowledge the people doing it.... Read More
Ryan's Question: How does it feel to be inducted into Phi Kappa Phi? Amberly's Answer: It feels kind of weird—but a neat kind of weird—to be perfectly honest. (For those who don't know what Phi Kappa Phi is, it's an honor society that you can find out more about here. I was inducted into the society last Sunday, March 31.) I'm not used to a big deal being made of my academic achievements. I do my assignments, I try my best on them, I turn them in, and then I get a grade. Sometimes, a couple of months after the semester is over, I get an email from UMass telling me I... Read More
Ryan's Question: Would you say that you ever feel inspired to do random things that you previously had no interest in? If so, has this occurred more once you attended college? Amberly's Answer: Well, you know me, Ryan. I am not typically inspired to do random things. I am a thoughtful, cautious person. My brain tends to map out all of the possible effects of my decision, even as I've just made it. It maps out all of the possible ways it can go wrong, all of the possible ways it can go right. If I've chosen to do something "randomly," it's likely I quietly did some... Read More
This past week I wrote an article for the Daily Collegian covering an event on the upcoming documentary, Ashes to Ashes, which shows Dr. Shirley Whitaker's effort to honor and mourn the nearly 4,000 reported African American people who were lynched between 1866 to 1950. This event was both really intense and beautiful. In Springfield in 2017, Dr. Whitaker organized a funeral service for the people killed, and part of the documentary showed that experience, with some individuals' names being called and remembered (this was big for Dr. Whitaker; she told me she wanted to... Read More
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Ryan's Question: What do you think the role of technology plays on a college campus? Amberly's Answer: To be frank, I think it would be easier to ask what part of campus and college at large isn't affected by technology. Everywhere you look, you will see a laptop or a phone out, ready to connect with the internet and the world. The lobbies (at least in the Honors College) have a TV screen, ready to play the Superbowl or the latest episode of American Horror Story. In classrooms, we have an increasing number of projectors and smart screens. We use sites like Moodle and... Read More
Mass General Law Chapter 272 Section 80D states the following: "No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as premiums living baby chickens, ducklings, or other fowl under two months of age; violation of which will result in a fine of not more than one hundred dollars." Notwithstanding the enumerations of the first statement, such a sale, barter, or other exchange is permitted if 1) the person(s) acquiring the birds is a breeder buying for commercial use; and 2) that the birds are sold past the first day of May in quantities of two dozen or more; or 3... Read More
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Posts Tagged 'Geoff Johns'
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For dubbing our San Diego condo "Hive Five Headquarters," we sure were quiet during the actual convention. Surely, the other blogs were covering all of the actual news stuff (OMG EYE-STABS) while we were out, you know, having fun and stuff. But we wouldn't be much of a comic blog if we didn't talk about San Diego Comic-Con itself, so here's the day-by-day goings on through the eyes of us High Fivers.
Wednesday, July 21
Not much really goes on at Preview Night, but it's always nice to get the lay of the land. Early access to the floor and first pick of whatever is for sale is cool and all, but that's more or less all that happens. The highlight of Preview Night (for me) was definitely getting Bill Willingham to sign my copies of Ironwood #7-10 (pfft, don't judge me). He was shocked when I pulled them out of their bags, and for a minute I thought the whole exchange was going to be super-awkward, but then he jovially asked for our I.D. cards and starting sharing some insider information with us, like how his former studio mates' mugs are hidden in the cover art of issue #10.
Maggie's Preview Night highlight? Shaking Michael Dorn's hand and mumbling "Thank you," like a big dumb fangirl.
Aside from that, I managed to pick up Power Man and Iron Fist #50, Flash Volume 1 #289 (first Firestorm back-up, the first thing George Pérez ever did professionally) and DC Comics Presents #17 (Superman and Firestorm team-up, a huge hole in my Ronnie Raymond collection). Hell yes.
Thursday, July 22
All the other blogs are putting in their two cents about this, so we might as well follow suit. Yes, Westboro Baptist Church protested Comic-Con and it's "worship of false idols." While High Five! unilaterally agreed with Warren Ellis' plan of "ignore, ignore, ignore," some attendees opted to counter-protest. Whatever, go for it. My biggest problem was that while most of the signs mocked religious intolerance (I did laugh at "the Cylons destroyed the 12 Colonies for your sins" and Maggie loved the "Kill All Humans!" sign wielded by a Bender), some of the signs in the counter-protest (namely "Fuck God") were just as offensive as Westboro's signs, more or less giving Phelps and crew exactly what they wanted. Oops.
Inside the convention center, we got Hava all badged up and headed straight for the "BOOM! Irredeemable/Incorruptible" panel. Highlights included the potential for character-specific one-shot tie-ins and listening to Waid and Peter Krause discuss their writing process. Oh, and the Irreedemable perfumes by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (friends of Hava's, plug plug plug).
Later we hit up the "Mondo Marvel" and "DC Comics 75th Anniversary" panels. Holy shit, I could listen to Dennis O'Neil (Green Lantern/Green Arrow!) and Jerry Robinson (creator of Alfred, Robin, and the freakin' Joker!) talk all day. Fun Fact: According to Jerry Robinson, Batman's sidekick was NOT named after the bird, but after Robinson's own childhood nickname.
Maggie and Hava tried to hit up the "Geek Girls Exist" panel but the place was well over capacity and half-full of dudes. Bummer! Still, rather than pout, the girls gave up getting in and held their own Geek Girls panel at a bar on Fifth Street, because this is San Diego Comic-Con, and you can always find something awesome to do when your original plan falls apart. Big congratulations to the Geek Girls' Network for hosting a massively successful panel!
Later on, Maggie went over to w00tstock and met Wil Wheaton and Aaron Douglas and Matt Fraction while Hava, Jon, and I went to the BOOM! Studios' Fifth Anniversary Drink-Up and spent upwards of an hour and a half chatting up Peter Krause. Hell of a way to end a night.
Friday, July 23
Friday was Room 6DCE day. After sitting through the "Marvel Video Games" panel (and, I'll admit, "Marvel vs. Capcom 3" looks pretty rad), the barrage of DC panels began.
First up was "Spotlight on Grant Morrison" and, my god, that was entertaining. Between his bajillion impressions, he announced the release of an Absolute We3 and revealed that Seaguy: Eternal will be coming sooner rather than later.
Next up was the "Batman: The Return" panel. The stage was packed, with Grant Morrison, Bryan Q. Miller, Gail Simone, Paul Dini, Paul Cornell, Judd Winick, Scott Snyder, Frazer Irving, David Finch, Dustin Nguyen, and Mike Marts (I probably forgot somebody). Biggest news was that Morrison will be replaced by Peter Tomasi on Batman and Robin while Morrison starts a new Batman team-up book called Batman Inc. Paul Cornell will also write Knight and Squire (which we're all pretty psyched for) and a Batman Beyond ongoing was hinted at. Also, the whole panel kept joking about how Dick Grayson is about to get "a bullet in the brain" meaning that I'm pretty sure Jon and I were right (at least about something).
Next was the "Superman: Man of Tomorrow" panel with J. Michael Straczynski, Jeff Lemire, Sterling Gates, Shane Davis, and Paul Cornell. Straczynski discussed his upcoming run on the "Grounded" storyline in Superman (nothing we didn't already know) and the Superman: Earth One graphic novel he's writing, with art by Shane Davis. Cornell revealed that Neil Gaiman's Death will be a major character in Action Comics #894. The biggest news (to us, at least) was that the Phantom Stranger would be a major character in an upcoming Superboy book by Jeff Lemire. YES.
The last panel of the day was "DC Nation." Dan DiDio, Straczynski, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, and Jim Lee (flanked by fans in costumes, including a Darkseid who stayed frighteningly in-character) revealed a few future projects, but nothing too crazy. Mostly that Geoff Johns will write a book starring Bart Allen and the other speedsters called Flash: Speed Force, that he's writing a Dex-Starr Valentine's Day special, and that he has an upcoming secret project with Grant Morrison.
On the way out, after nearly six hours parked in 6DCE, we ran into fellow blogger Kelson from Speed Force. Who'd have thought people from the internet have, like, faces and stuff!
Maggie and Hava headed over to the Geek Girls Tweet-Up while Jon and I went to Tweet House Party on the U.S.S. Midway and watched William Shatner, Brent Spiner, and LeVar Burton promote a website they knew nothing about and then run away to a VIP area. At least we got to be serenaded by Alice Cooper's son's band (Oh God. No).
Saturday, July 24
By this point, we were exhausted, and we still needed to get a ton of shopping done. The only panel we attended on Saturday was "Avatar Press and Max Brooks" where they talked endlessly about Crossed and Lady Death before casually mentioning that Warren Ellis is working on a second volume to Ignition City and that Supergod #4 is fiiiiinally ready to ship next Wednesday. While there wasn't much news on the Ellis at Avatar front, listening to Max Brooks riff for 45 minutes was a hoot. He even touched on inter-fandom animosity, saying, "Everyone gets to have something, even teenage girls who are afraid of penises. Suck my blood, but don't touch my tits!"
The rest of the day was dedicated to buying books and gathering sketches (we'll share those in a separate post) and autographs. Jon managed to track down a sweet copy of October 1976's Captain Britain #1 (complete with mask) and Maggie got June 1967's Strange Adventures #201 (featuring an old Animal Man story that's screaming for the Silver Age Recap treatment).
The most awesome thing of all, however, was talking extensively with Frazer Irving (who drew a three-second Batman for Maggie even though he wasn't supposed to) and getting a bunch of books signed by Grant Morrison. Oh, and this.
Sunday, July 25
I guess Hall H had nothing going on because the Exhibit Hall was fucking packed. Everybody walking past the immense line to get signatures and sketches from Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, and Francis Manapul asked what the deal was and then walked away, unimpressed by some of the best artists in the business.
Maggie gathered 3 out of 4 signatures for her copy of 52 #1 last weekend, with a bit of Con luck on Sunday. We were talking with Greg Rucka at the Oni Booth about some of his upcoming books, including the next issue of Stumptown and a new Queen & Country novel. As Rucka signed some comics for Maggie, up walked Geoff Johns. Rucka signed 52, then turned around and handed it to Johns for her. The two writers shared an "Aw! Remember the good old days!?" moment, and Maggie did a fist pump because in case you didn't know, now that Johns is running half the DCU, his signing lines are enormous.
The only panel we attended on Sunday was the "DC Town Hall Meeting." Dan DiDio and Jim Lee really, really wanted to know what we thought of digital comics. (Answer: We like them, but don't you dare fuck with our weekly books.) Also, Maggie may have terrfied poor Mr. DiDio. He brought it on himself though, when he asked (albeit jokingly) if she didn't mean to be at a Harry Potter panel instead. Sorry, DiDio. You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
We've got more San Diego news in store, including some reviews and the High Five! Sketchbook, San Diego edition. Stay tuned!
Ma Hunkel: America's First Lady Hero
Posted June 2, 2010on:
When I say the name "Red Tornado," you undoubtedly assume I'm talking about DC's modern incarnation, a big red robotic wind elemental guy from Rann who wants nothing more than to be human and love on his family. Well, come on! This is the DC Universe, where every character ever is part of some long, long legacy of somewhat similar (even if just by name) characters! And, as bizarre as it sounds, Red Tornado's legacy goes all the way back to 1939, predating even Jay Garrick, Wonder Woman, and Alan Scott (sort of) by a couple months.
Acquired in DC's buyout of All-American Publications, Ma Hunkel debuted in June 1939's All-American Comics #3, in which she started making repeated appearances in its Scribbly Jibbet features, written, penciled, inked, lettered, and edited by Sheldon Mayer. She was also a single mother of two kids, Huey (best friend of Scribbly's) and Sisty (best friend to Scribbly's little brother, Dinky). And she didn't do much.
Finally, in November 1940's All-American Comics #20, something happens. Ma's brother-in-law strikes it big at the track and gives her the money to purchase the Schultz's Grocery Store. As soon as she opens the doors, some local mobsters from the Torponi gang come in and try to shake her for protection money. Now, Ma is pretty burly and fights them off, but Sisty and Dinky hide in the Torponis' car, pretty much kidnapping themselves. After the NYPD refuses to go after the Torponis, Scribbly tells her about the Green Lantern (who, at this point, was only four issues old). So Ma does the least logical thing possible and, instead of calling Green Lantern, the superpowerless Ma Hunkel puts on red tights, puts a cooking pot on her head, and goes out as the Red Tornado to rescue her kids (as far as I know, making her the first female superhero ever).
After she rescues Sisty and Dinky, NYPD police chief Gilhooley takes sole credit for bringing down the Torponi gang. When confronted by Ma Hunkel in her Red Tornado garb in front of the press, Gilhooley decries vigilantism and orders Red Tornado's arrest. Ma evades capture by putting her costume on a gorilla, letting it get arrested in her place. Everybody all ready assumed that under the costume Red Tornado was a dude (what with how strong Ma is), but now they come to the conclusion that was the gorilla the whole time. Goddamn, Golden Age comics are weird.
My favorite (and probably the most famous) Ma Hunkel appearance was in Winter 1940's All-Star Comics #3. Ma decides to gatecrash the first meeting of the Justice Society of America, hoping to join the ranks of her inspiration, Green Lantern. Unfortunately for her, she rips off her pants crawling in through a window, gets called the Red Tomato by an extremely dick-ish Hourman, and bails.
Other than a few more adventures with the Sisty and Dinky as the Cyclone Kids, Ma pretty much disappeared after Scribbly's strip ended in All-American Comics #59. She did manage to have a one-panel appearance in July 1990's Animal Man #25 (pushing a stroller full of cans in Limbo) and then, finally, a full-fledged re-appearance in February 2004's JSA #55. It turns out that Ma Hunkel has been in the Witness Protection Agency ever since 1950 and, now that the last member of some gang is dead, she's free to come out of hiding.
Currently, Ma Hunkel can be found in Manhattan taking taking care of the headquarters of and basically acting as housemother for the Justice Society. Plus, her granddaughter Maxine (who, just for kicks, I'll assume is the love-child of Sisty and Dinky) is a member of the JSA All-Stars under the alias of Cyclone and has the power of flight and wind manipulation.
And, as weird as it sounds, I really hope that Maxine one day takes up the Red Tornado name. I mean, come on. Wouldn't it be awesome for that legacy to come full circle?
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WTF Is: Zero Hour
Posted March 30, 2010on:
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We all know how much the publishing houses love their events. Hell, at last year's San Diego Comic-Con, there wasn't a single DC, Marvel, or Image panel that didn't ramble on and on about how great Blackest Night, Siege, or Image United were gonna be. But in 20 years, will people really give a shit about any of that? Or will they just be really confused when an older comic writer references it in a book? Yeah, it's the latter. Well, that's what "WTF Is" is all about: explaining what happened in all the events from the past that didn't really live up to the glory of, oh, Crisis on Infinite Earths or something.
And, speaking of a DCU crisis, doesn't it seem like 1994's Zero Hour: Crisis in Time would be the perfect place to start?
Zero Hour is the story of the DCU vs. Extant. Sort of? Yeah, this is one of those books where they tried to get as much shit to happen in as few pages as possible. Here's the best way I can explain it. During Armageddon 2001 (which almost deserves a "WTF Is" of its own), a character named Waverider goes back in time to the year 2001 to try and destroy an evil being named the Monarch before he can kill all the superheroes around 2030. During that event, the Monarch captured Hank "Hawk" Hall and Dawn "Dove" Granger, eventually executing Dove and making Hank go crazy. The Monarch then revealed himself to be a future version of Hank, driving Hank to kill the Monarch, steal his armor, and take up the Monarch mantle himself (in other words, he does everything in his stupid power to make sure that he ends up a bad guy). After becoming a Captain Atom villain for a while, it's discovered that instead of the Monarch killing Dove, he just absorbed her or something. Hank Hall then changes his name to Extant, steals Waverider's time travel bracelets, and disappears into time to try and change the universe into how he wants it by erasing existence from the end of time backwards to the beginning and restarting from scratch.
So, yeah, what we have here is another DC "crisis" event attempting to once again change the DCU forever by throwing a ton of confusing shit at us all at once and hoping that in the end it all makes sense. To make matters worse, Zero Hour was written by Dan Jurgens, the guy behind Superman vs. Aliens, the "Death of Superman" storyline, and the creator of DC's Tangent imprint. Also included in the storyline are a bunch of tie-ins that were all released in October 1994 and numbered #0 (also known as "Zero Month") which each revealed something unknown about the main hero of the title's origin. Basically, this is everything amiss with 1990s DC Comics. Brace yourselves.
So, here is the quickest summary I can muster. Extant travels to the end of time, killing Time Trapper and causing a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style Ctrl+Z rift to go backwards through time, erasing existence (don't think about the physics of this, it makes zero sense). Metron, Waverider, Superman, and Batman team up to attempt to stop the universe from rebooting. They get the help of every other hero in the DCU and the results are somewhat catastrophic. Wally West, Jay Garrick, Steel, most of the JSA, Dr. Mist, Vandal Savage, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Kyle Rayner all "die." An attempt is made at explaining what Hawkman's deal is by stuffing all of the Thanagarians into one body (which just ends up raising more questions rather than clarifying anything). Extant is revealed to not really be the villain of the book, but was working for Hal Jordan (under the influence of Parallax) who wants to undo Coast City getting destroyed in "Reign of the Supermen." The story ends with the universe being completely erased before the Spectre showing up to save the day (as he pretty much does in every Crisis) and the Green Arrow shooting Hal in the chest, "killing" him. The Spectre pumps newcomer Damage full of energy, causing him to act as a new Big Bang. Time goes by naturally and the universe is as it was. Sort of.
But how is this still relevant to the modern DCU? Well, remember when I said all of those characters "died?" The only ones who actually died and stayed dead were the original Atom and Doctor Mid-Nite. Wally West just got thrown through the time stream a bit, where he witnessed all the major points in his life (including his and Linda's deaths) and gave a younger self a pep talk. Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner didn't really die, but got transported back to Oa. There, they had an all out fight that ended with Oa getting blown the fuck up. Aquaman got his totally 90s beard and harpoon hand after piranhas ate it off. Power Girl has a baby which is pretty much never heard from again. The biggest impact, however, was probably to Green Arrow. Thinking that he'd just killed Hal Jordan, Ollie threw his costume into the sea, went back to the monastery he joined in Flash #218, and meets Connor Hawke, his son, for the first time.
Some of the strangest tie-ins, however, had to be in both Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Geoff Johns' Booster Gold. In Sandman: Worlds' End, a group of inter-dimensional travelers sit in a bizarre inn and wait out the "reality storm" caused by Parallax in Zero Hour (without ever directly mentioning it). Even stranger is April 2008's Booster Gold #0, in which Booster, Dan Gerrett, Ted Kord, Jamie Reyes, and an unnamed fourth Blue Beetle from the 57th century stumble across Extant and Parallax discussing why they didn't want Alan Scott dead. After a brief fight, Booster and the Beetles (ha) zap themselves away to the time of Booster's origin, making its premise similar to the #0 books of 14 years prior.
Anyways, congratulations, whoever you are! You are now an expert in all things Zero Hour and never, ever have to read it.
It's hard to write an original love story. How does one make the most universal of plotlines fresh and interesting? By re-telling his tortured relationship between his fundamentalist Christian upbringing and his first real love, Thompson gives us a unique twist on the autobiographical love story. Most of Thompson's childhood and teenage years in small town Michigan are set during the harsh winter season. Thompson's beautiful black and white drawings are a perfect complement to the stark, bleak beauty of his Midwestern hometown. Thompson has a big, sweeping lyrical style, but finest moments in Blankets are mostly silent. Like a silent film, Blankets' strongest impact is in the images, such as the long dream sequence where the two lovers are mingled in the patchwork quilt Raina gives Craig.
What makes Blankets so compelling is Craig's conflict between his deep-seated devotion to God and his passionate feelings for Raina. Religion rarely gets tackled in comics, and rarely as subtly as Thomson tackles it here. Without demonizing his former faith, he raises good, hard questions about his beliefs, and doesn't give us any easy answers. What's so refreshing is that Thompson leaves Craig's relationship with Raina unresolved. When his relationship with Raina ends, it isn't neat and tidy. Like real life, it's messy and complicated, and sometimes we never see that person again. You wait to see if he's going to circle back to Raina, and tell the reader what happened, but they are left hanging, just like in real life. Thompson spent five years on his 500+ page labor of love, and he leaves a moving testament to childhood, love and faith.
14. Black Hole – Charles Burns
Set in 1970s Seattle, Black Hole is about the spread of a sexually transmitted disease that causes grotesque mutations in the teenagers who contract it. It's also a horror comic, and Charles Burns' tremendous work draws heavily in its aesthetic from the fantastically lurid grindhouse and slasher films of that era. But as you might expect, Black Hole is really just about growing up, and the physical transformations that the kids in the story go through only serve to literalize the genuine horrors of real-life adolescence. The sexual nature of their encounters and the complications that arise in their relationships reflect universal themes of immaturity, ignorance, shame, and alienation that pretty much all of us experience at that age. And, as with the high-schoolers in Black Hole, these are the trials that ultimately lead us to make the awkward transition into adulthood… or at least to just get the fuck out of town as soon as we're able.
13. Ultimate Spider-Man – Brian Michael Bendis
If you've never read a Spider-Man comic before, what do you know about him? How does our impression of arguably the greatest character in the history of comic books differ between his official continuity and the cultural canon? It probably isn't all alien symbiotes or organic web shooters versus mechanical or having six-arms or clones names Ben or the trials of marriage (let alone any "Brand New Days") or the even Daily Bugle and getting his ass yelled at a lot for just trying to get on with his day.
Well, wait. Maybe that last one…
Spider-Man is beloved above and beyond all else for being the superhero we can relate to, the guy who's life as Peter Parker was often as dramatically true to life as his costumed exploits were fantastic and, more importantly, were just as compelling and fun to read than the smash and bash, if not more so. So when the Ultimate Universe idea came around, it makes sense that Spidey was the most perfect fit for the update: Take all the stuff that we remember and love about Peter Parker's history, and place it in a simple, modern context without all the decades of convolution. What you get is a 15 year old kid who has to deal with new powers (and new responsibilities) after he's bitten by a radioactive spider… on top of dealing with high school. And it works. All the greatest moments get their due, and Brian Michael Bendis gives us as much meaningful time with Gwen Stacey, Mary Jane Watson, and the gang as he does thrills watching Pete quip one-liners as he puts the beats on the Green Goblin, Electro, and Doctor Octopus.
It works so perfectly that, like an awesome TV show that runs way too many seasons too long, it inevitably becomes just as convoluted as the series it was created to simplify, and actually had to be rebooted/relaunched itself! That's comics for you. But for sixty-some issues, Bendis and series regular artist Mark Bagley delivered our friendly neighborhood web slinger as not as we know and love him, but as we felt like we knew and loved him. Which is really way better anyway.
12. Green Lantern: Rebirth – Geoff Johns
Love him or hate him, Geoff Johns was unarguably the continuity guru of the 2000's, and his rise to prominence can be pinned on a single event: Green Lantern: Rebirth. Regardless of what critics have said of his work, Johns' impact on the DCU was both immense and undeniable. First off, Johns brought Silver Age legend Hal Jordan back to life, reviving popular interest in the previously b-list Green Lantern Corps, spawning several on-going books, and a big-budget blockbuster movie. If that wasn't enough, the success of this single story line managed to set the tone for DC continuity, landed Johns some of the best selling comic mini-series of his day, and poised him for a role as the head creative voice at DC Comics. Not too shabby.
DMZ's portrait of a besieged Manhattan told through the lens of a semi-disaffected, semi-independent reporter is a book firing on all cylinders. Striking visuals evoke a place almost, but not entirely, unlike the New York City of today, and Brian Wood guides the reader through the morass of the city with the same ambivalence to the journalistic form as his lead character, Matty Roth. Whether you think Brian Wood glimpsed the future of the fragile Union, or if he's just writing a different kind of the "real America," cultural polarization hyperbole that has been the media's stock-in-trade for the past few years, DMZ thrives so deeply in the ambiguity that it will keep even the most opinionated engaged. Not that this book lacks clarity of moral vision—there is good and there is evil—but they are rarely as clear as borders on a map.
In San Diego, Geoff Johns mentioned we'd be seeing a new speedster. For two months I went on and on to anyone who'd listen about how the new speedster had better be a girl, and how come we don't really have a girl speedster?, and HEY! SHOULDN'T THE NEW SPEEDSTER BE A GIRL?!
Two months later, at Long Beach Comic Con, I poked my hand in the air and asked:
"So, the new speedster you mentioned in San Diego, any chance it will be, you know, NOT a boy?"
Johns leaned into his mike.
"Definitely a girl."
Or something like that, I was too busy spazzing out. But here we are. Flash: Rebirth #5 has finally made it's way to the shelves.
Wally got a new costume. Whatever. Little Irey's the new Impulse! Liberty Belle seems to be embracing her speedster roots!
Rob and I have been discussing the various DC "families" quite a bit lately. The Batman family is the most diverse, gender-wise (Barbara, Kate, Stephanie, Selena, Renee, Helena, and I'm sure Cass will show up again one of these days.) Superman's got, um, Kara. The Green Lantern Corps has thousands of female members, but as far as the 2814 family goes it's pretty much just Carol. Wonder Woman doesn't really have a "family" in the sense that the other four do, and until recently the Flash Family women were just the wifeys. Joan, Iris, and Linda are some of the best written wives in comics, but speedsters they are not.
Still, you can't just go creating female characters for the sake of having female characters. Part of the fun of Marvel and DC Universes is the rich history, the Big Picture that all these little stories are told against. Any new hero, male or female, needs to feel organic – there's got to be a reason for them to exist. Thanks to Tim Burton, Batman: The Animated Series, and now Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, the Dark Knight has been the most popular DC character of the past few decades by a big long shot. Subsequently, the Bat family universe has grown by leaps and bound since the eighties.
Superman and Wonder Woman? Not so much. Yes there's Connor and Krypto and Kara (and Karen? sort of.), and Cassie and Donna, but when you compare these relatively small posses to the massive Bat-family, the Green Lantern Corps, or the ever expanding Flash Family, Kal-El and Diana don't have too many mini-mes. Those two are the platonic Zeus and Hera of the DCU, to replicate them too many times would negate their entire mythologies.
I'd certainly like to see fewer derivative female heroes in comics, but we need more women saving the world, period. They're more likely to stick around if they've got a real place in the Universe, which is why the Bat-family women have managed to not only remain integral to Gotham, but to the DCU as a whole, even carrying their own titles. Bringing in more female heroes by using the existing hero families as a jumping off point is the easiest way to get more women into comics and keep them there, on the page and in real life.
But here's why Irey's a big deal. Jay was your grandad's Flash. Barry was dad's. Wally was ours. If the tradition continues, Iris West just might be The Flash to my kids. Now that'd be something.
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Day two of LBCC! Lots of important news was broken, lots of crazy moments were had, lots of drinks were downed. Let's just effin' get to it!
- Jon and Maggie both met Stan Lee and got autographs (on the Amazing Spider-Man #41 and #71! Spidey vs. Quicksilver #71 went off to CGC to get slabbed and graded, 1st Appearance of Rhino #41 was a little beat up and is now proudly on display in their living room)!
- Rob figured out what his holy grail of comics is and bought Firestorm the Nuclear Man #1-4, went to the Boom! Studios Party, and traded Mark Waid his copy of #2 (with weird reader survey in it) for Waid's personal copy of both #2 and #5! That's a whole run! (UPDATE: Ten days later, Rob's got the full Firestorm run, and Mr. Waid posts scans of the weird survey to his blog.)
- High Five! contributor Hava got her convention cherry popped and saw her comic bro-crush, Geoff Johns!
- At DC Nation, they announced that Johns' new Flash run will have a Wally West co-feature, that Dan DiDio and Phillip Tan are taking over the Outsiders, and that the new Speedster is a girl (something Maggie has desperately wanted to happen)!
- Aforementioned Boom! Studios Party was tame, but fun! So much Sam Adams October Fest is in Rob's belly!
- Geoff Johns (again)
Yeah, so we only high fived one dude who we also happened to high five yesterday. To be fair, we were busy being all awesome and hobnobbing with people whose books we love. Plus, Jon and Maggie had non-con business to attend to and Rob had to show Hava the ropes! Rob is tired of typing in the third person! Picture time!
Day one of Long Beach Comic Con was short and sweet (to say the least). For only technically being open for four hours today, there was a crazy amount of shit that we managed to accomplish.
- Both Los Angeles and Long Beach declaring October 2, 2009 to be Stan Lee Day (and he thought he "was just here to cut a goddamn ribbon")!
- Having Geoff Johns sign the Firestorm variant for Blackest Night #3 which, apparently, he never saw before!
- Maggie holding her holy grail of comics, the Flash #123!
- Having a ridiculously long conversation with J.J. Kirby about Kilowog and the X-Babies (complete with a sketch of Baby Beast)!
- Scoring a gigantic free sketch of Lieam from Mouse Guard by David Petersen!
- Picking up a copy of Wonder Woman #214 (Flash & Wonder Woman team up!) and getting it signed by artist Drew Johnson (who also agreed to an interview)!
- Not drowning in a sea of poor hygiene and actually being able to walk from here to there (take that, SDCC)!
- Geoff Johns
- Mark Waid
- J.J. Kirby
As I said, cut us some slack for not doing that much. It was the short day! But here's hoping tonight's Atomic Comics karaoke party (even a hot Wonder Woman couldn't talk too many nerds into getting on stage with a live band, bless them) doesn't hold a candle to tomorrow's Boom! Studios shindig. Oh, tomorrow's going to be one full fucking day. At least it's close enough to home that I can actually spend tonight in my own bed (instead of the backseat of a Yaris, which is what I did at SDCC this year).
That's all for today High Fivers! We'll be back tomorrow with reports from DC Nation and 50 Questions with Mark Waid! If you're in the LA/OC area, admission is only $25 for a one day pass tomorrow, come hang out! And at the end of the weekend, we'll post all the cool stuff in our sketchbooks!


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He said in the remaining four years of its term, his government aims at creating smart villages through implementation of "seven resolves" which have programmes for providing free electricity connection, toilets, drinking water, and sewage connection to all areas.
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"If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies. He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply."
Reminds me of when I was in living in the library of a guesthouse of an Oxfordshire MP, and sitting up one night eating my first Indian food with a real Indian man, who explained to me that the problem with Americans is that they're the only people on earth who you can stay up talking to all night, become closest friends with, and the next time you see them they treat you as if it never happened. I could never understand what his name was, because everyone drops their R's in England anyway, so it sounded to me like Nasa. Anyway, his analysis was correct, at least going forward in our own friendship.
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Today we are the proud owners of Pickle Creek Herbs, a small organic herb farm in Southeast Iowa. We grow herbs, berries, tomatoes, and garlic that we then use to create herb-infused olive oils and vinegars, jellies, syrups, soaps, salves, and lip balms. We take the process from seed to store and make everything ourselves using original recipes perfected over the years. And yes! You can taste the difference!
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If you can't quite control your carb cravings, here's a gnocchi even Atkins could love. -- Amanda Hesser
The first time I ate malfatti at Al Di La Trattoria in Park Slope, I got very worried. The pillowy, egg-shaped gnocchi transcended all my previous impressions of what a good pasta dish should be. These were robust but light, and as you ate them you could pick out the many flavors inside: fresh creamy ricotta, chard, grated nutmeg, nutty browned butter and sage. I worried that I might not get back for more before the menu changed.
Others worried, too, apparently, because Anna Klinger, the chef, said that since opening the restaurant four years ago, she has not been able to take them off the menu. Not a bad response to a dish whose name actually means ''misshapen.''
There is more than one type of malfatti, according to Cesare Casella, the chef at Beppe, who is from Tuscany. ''One is made with pasta -- flour and eggs -- and you make a very strange form,'' he explained. ''The other is like a gnocchi.'' Klinger's are the gnocchi type, also sometimes called gnocchi gnudi or ravioli gnudi, nude gnocchi and nude ravioli, respectively.
Because they don't have pasta on the outside and very little flour inside, this also means that malfatti are practically ''safe'' for the many Atkins dieters who in their puzzling fervor would seem rather to eat lard than a tangle of spaghetti.
While most versions call for spinach, Klinger favors Swiss chard, which yields more volume and sweetness. Klinger blanches the chard, squeezes it dry in towels, chops it and dries it again. Wet chard makes for sodden malfatti. The other crucial element is the ricotta, and Polly-O does not cut it. (Klinger prefers A & S brand or Calabro.)
Then comes the fun part: shaping the malfatti. You drop a spoonful of the chard mixture into a floured wineglass and swirl it like a 1997 Chianti. A quenelle shape forms before your eyes.
Klinger freezes them by the dozen and drops them in boiling water when an order rolls in. (You can do the same when friends come to dinner.) Then she slices sage and tosses it into a pan of bubbling butter. The best nonpasta pasta, or nude ravioli, you have ever tasted is only seconds away.
Anna Klinger's Malfatti
1 pound ricotta
Kosher salt
4 bunches Swiss chard (about 4 pounds)
8 ounces butter
1/4 cup flour, plus more for shaping
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
4large egg yolks
1 large whole egg
Freshly ground black pepper
24 fresh sage leaves
Parmesan cheese for serving.
1. Drain the ricotta in a sieve lined with cheesecloth overnight in the refrigerator. Measure out 11/4 cups.
2. Bring a large pot of water, heavily seasoned with salt, to a boil. Trim the chard, removing all stems and large ridges. Add half to the boiling water and cook until soft, about 3 minutes. Fish out and plunge into a bowl of ice water. Repeat.
3. Squeeze out chard with your hands. On a dish towel, spread the chard in a circle the size of a pie. Roll up the towel and have someone help you twist the ends to squeeze out as much moisture as possible. Pulse in a food processor until fine. Squeeze out in a dish towel once more, until very dry. (You will have about 1 cup.)
4. Melt half the butter. Mix chard and ricotta. Add melted butter, 1/4 cup flour, 1 heaping teaspoon salt and nutmeg and mix again. Drop in egg yolks and egg, season with pepper and stir again. Sprinkle a cutting board with flour. Shape into 1 ounce balls, about 1 tablespoon each, dropping them on the cutting board. You should have 25 to 30.
5. Put a teaspoon of flour into a narrow wineglass. Drop in a ball and swirl until it forms an oval. Repeat. (You may need to change the glass.) You may freeze them at this point.
6. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Drop in the malfatti and cook until they float, about 8 minutes. (If frozen, 10 minutes.) Put remaining butter in a small sauté pan and heat until bubbling, shaking the pan. When it smells nutty, add sage and cook 30 seconds. Season with salt.
7. Drain malfatti and place on plates. Spoon on the butter and sage. Grate Parmesan over each plate.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings as a light main course; 6 to 8 as a first course.


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Foods to Eat to Get Rid of the Flu
When you get the flu it just plain hurts. There are no medical cures for the flu, only palliative treatments for pain and other symptoms. But your kitchen is a haven for healthy foods that can provide relief of symptoms making your down time a little easier. Medicinal foods have been used for centuries by almost all cultures and herbal practitioners for soothing away the aches and pains, coughs and nausea accompanying the flu. Next time you have that all-over-body pain with aching, coughing, sneezing, sniffling and chills, head right to your kitchen for relief.
Ginger is a blood purifier and an excellent herb to use for soothing away several flu and cold symptoms 1. Used for hundreds of years by the Chinese, ginger root helps reduce fevers, breaks up coughs and soothes the nausea and stomach upsets of the flu, according to the Ivillage website. Someone with the flu can grate fresh ginger, about 2 tbsp. full and steep in 2 cups of hot water for 15 minutes to make an infusion that can be taken as tea. Raw honey can be added to sweeten the mixture. Another alternative is to drink ginger ale as long as it has real ginger in it. It is recommended to allow it to go flat and bring to room temperature for use with an upset stomach.
Hot Spices
If suffering from the flu, one remedy is to make a mix of garlic, horseradish and cayenne pepper by crushing a clove of garlic and making a paste by adding the other ingredients. Next, 1 tsp. of the mix should be steeped in a cup or two of hot water. After straining the mixture and adding some raw honey, it is ready to be consumed. If the mixture is too spicy, more water can be added. This is an excellent ready remedy to use to break a fever or break up chest and sinus congestion according to Jethro Kloss in his herbal book, "Back to Eden. 3"
Garlic is one of the two best flu remedies reports the How to Cheat Colds and Flu website 2. Used for centuries by herbal practitioners, garlic has both antibiotic and anti-viral properties. Allicin, the active ingredient in garlic, breaks up mucous and acts much like a decongestant providing anti-oxidants to fight free radicals according to the iVillage website. Garlic can be eaten cooked, raw, or in odorless capsule form.
Chicken Soup
It's not called "Jewish Penicillin for no reason, explains the Dave's Garden website. Home made chicken soup is made with lots of healthy herbs and spices and healthful vegetables. Chicken soup has been prescribed for helping to heal colds and flu for hundreds of years and the Jewish doctor Maimonides recommended it back in the twelfth century.
Dietician Lynn Grieger of the Ivillage website, recommends increasing Vitamin C intake during a bout with the flu. One way to do this is by making lemonade. All it entails is squeezing half a lemon and mixing the juice with a spoonful or two of raw honey to sweeten and a glass of warm water. Vitamin C is loaded with anti-oxidants and helps to purify the system and boost immunity.
- Dave's Garden: Herbal remedies for cold and flu symptoms
- How to Cheat Colds and Flu: Best two foods to beat swine flu
- "Back to Eden;" Jethro Kloss; 2006


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As one of the top kid & teen friendly all-inclusive resorts in Puerto Vallarta, we've always got our younger guests and young adults in mind.
Our activities program has been designed by a children's and teens entertainment company that specializes in the younger guest set. The program offers everything kids look for and love: supervised pool and beach games, competitions, arts and sports skills, and pastimes focused on sharing, sometimes with parental participation.


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Modern warfare came to Afghanistan with the Soviet invasion of 1979. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, a decade of civil war piled disaster on top of calamity. Now the global war on terrorism continues to fill the land and the sky of Afghanistan with the machinery of death.
LOOMING DISASTER: Afghan weavers depict on their rugs what they see and what matters most to them. And so over three decades of chaos, the customary images of flowers have turned into bullets, or landmines, or hand grenades. Birds have turned into helicopters and fighter jets. Landscapes have filled up with field guns and troop carriers. Sheep and horses have turned into tanks.
But are the war rugs pro-war or anti-war? Whose side are they on?
It is hard to tell what a particular rug is supposed to mean when its history is hidden and its maker is unknown. In the past, the materials and weaving techniques of an oriental rug were a clue to its origin. People of different ethnic groups, in different places, made rugs in different ways. Today four million people from all over Afghanistan have been mixed together in refugee camps, sharing and mixing images and techniques. As a result, the old methods of sorting rugs into categories no longer apply.
What's left are the rugs themselves – eloquent anonymous documents of catastrophe.
MINES: Afghanistan is the most heavily mined country in the world, a legacy of the Soviet war. Countless mines remain hidden in fields and roads, waiting to be detonated. Adults and children with arms and legs blown off are a common sight. Of all the Canadians who have died in military operations in Afghanistan, 75% have been killed by home made mines. These "improvised explosive devices," similar to the ones used by Afghan fighters to retaliate against the Soviets, are used today by al Qaeda and the Taliban against coalition forces.
CROSSFIRE: Some war rugs include weapons that are hardly visible. They blend right in. The rugs look like typical oriental rugs, until you notice the troop carriers and helicopters neatly hidden in the body of the rug or encircling its border. Sometimes images of weapons cover the whole field of the rug, like a colourful meadow of flowers. On other rugs, guns and tanks and planes stand out as individual portraits, framed perhaps by a row of bullets or grenades.
The weavers of Afghanistan have seen the machinery of war, not through radar scopes or on the internet, but straight on, caught in the crossfire. Cities and landscapes under attack are drawn f rom multiple shifting vantage points – from above and from the side all at once – as if no solid place remained to safely stand and observe.
A bird's eye view of Afghan roads would show tanks, armoured personnel carriers, LAVs, trucks and motorized artillery crawling like ants from one military engagement to another. A bird's eye view of airfields like Kandahar and Bagram would show fighters and bombers and helicopters coming and going. The war rugs, like television news programs, report this incessant military activity. Television imagery itself, from CNN and al-Jazeera, has also influenced rug-weaving. Fractured scenes with multiple images and moving lines of text appear on the rugs, just as they do on television screens.
HEROIC PORTRAITS: War rugs show heroes as well as weaponry and shattered landscapes. Amanullah Kahn was the king of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. He fought the British to a standstill in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and gained independence for Afghanistan. He campaigned against the veil, against polygamy, and encouraged the education of girls. His attempts at modernization created a violent religious backlash, and most of his army deserted rather than resist. To avoid a civil war he abdicated and went into exile in 1929, and most of his reforms were overturned. The skill and bravery of Ahmad Shah Massoud – who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s – was legendary. After the Soviet withdrawal, he helped set up the Northern Alliance and served as Defence Minister in the first independent Afghan government. Internal friction led to civil war, the destruction of Kabul, and sectarian massacres. On September 9, 2001, Massoud was murdered by Taliban assassins.
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Virgin Media Ltd has been found to have run foul of the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) once again – this time breaching database practice codes by sending marketing communications by email to a customer who had previously requested not to be sent such emails.
In defence of the complaint, Virgin argued that the Data Protection Act permitted them to contact customers infrequently to update them on recent business developments and that the email sent to the complainant was just that. They believed it was not a marketing communication because it: i) announced that Virgin Mobile had become part of the Virgin Media Group; ii) did not have the facets of marketing transmissions; and iii) gave customers the opportunity to opt-in to receive further marketing communications following the change.
ASA upheld the complaint ruling that whilst emails informing customers about business changes did not constitute marketing communications, the Virgin email was double-edged as it contained marketing paraphernalia such as price and gift incentives whilst the text used had markers of marketing campaigns although this was in conjunction with information about business development.
Given the breach of the ASA code, Virgin were prevented from circulating the email in its 'current form' and warned that they must ensure that customers who request not to receive marketing communications by email do not do so.


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Gatwick Airport Community Trust
Grants available for: to support community projects that protect and enhance the social and environmental well-being of the community, particularly those affected by operations at Gatwick Airport.
Size of grants given: £250-£5000. Most grants are £1,000-£2,000
Next deadline: tba, likely to be early 2020
Aims of Fund
To support community projects that protect and enhance the social and environmental well-being of the community. Priority categories are:
- Development of young people
- Art projects including amateur drama, music, art
- Sporting facilities
- Environmental improvement and conservation
- Improvements to community facilities such as village halls
- Support for the disabled
- Support for the elderly
- Encouragement of additional volunteering or giving in the area
Who can apply
Groups based in their set area of benefit – these areas are listed on their website.
How much and what can you apply for
£250-£5,000. Most grants are for £1,000-£2,000.
In 2017, 107 grants were awarded, totaling £195,428. Almost all grants were for under £3,000, and most were for £1,000-£2,000.
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We open on Monday March 2nd at our brand new studio, and to celebrate, we've secured some excellent goodie bags for the first 25 people to buy a class pack or membership. We've got Hey! Holla yoga bags, Bounce energy balls from We Heart Living, Propercorn popcorn, Teapigs tea, Ombar raw chocolate, Rebel Kitchen dairy free mylks (chocolate, chai or matcha green tea), Roots&Bulbs flavoured waters, Clarins products (either hand & nail cream, Eau Dynamisante, Renew Plus Body Serum or a One Step Cleanser) and Chia Company Oats and Chia packs. All this comes in an East of Eden Walthamstow canvas bag.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Yoga Magazine – Take a deep breath… East of Eden yoga arrives in Walthamstow
Take a deep breath… East of Eden yoga arrives in Walthamstow
Walthamstow residents and single-parent powerhouses Abigail McLachlan and Naomi Costantino are spreading their yoga passion to East 17, with a brand new 30-mat studio East of Eden, opening March 2nd 2015 in the newly created TramWorks.
Womens Fitness Magazine – Yoga sequence for lymphatic drainage
The Numinious – What is Dharma?
How will you fulfil your Dharma in 2015? First, says Naomi Costantino, ask how you can use your talents to be of service. Illustration: Erin Petson
"You have made very deep promises between your Soul and your Self. Now is the time to carve your place into the memory of this planet earth and serve this promise. May your journey complete its way to your destiny. And may you understand the preciousness of your own life." – Yogi Bhajan
What is Dharma? There are plenty of explanations and interpretations out there about the concept of Dharma and how it plays out in this divine and equally elusive Universe of ours. But it is commonly thought of as our "life purpose", and at it's roots the word speaks to duties, conduct and virtues.
We Heart Living – 5 classic yoga mistakes and how to avoid them
Want to be the ultimate yogi? Here are 5 classic yoga mistakes and how to avoid them, according to yoga teacher and co-founder of Eden East, Naomi Costantino
There really is no such thing as mistakes in yoga. It's about the process and arriving on your mat exactly where you are in that present moment and working from there. Having said that, here are a few pointers to help you on your way.
We Heart Living – 5 ways to be a better yogi
Yoga teacher Naomi Constantino gives you her top 5 ways to be a better yogi so you can get even more from your time on the mat.


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I thought it was nicely poetic that my selection entry to the dubzoo.com 2016 mix should be opened up with a (very loose) Panda reference and one of my instant likes from Conducts new LP – Borderlands, Grand Panjadrum on BMTM. Panja almost sounds like Panda, right?
Conducts – Panjadrum is a wonderfully haunting yet uplifting piece, released as part of the duos Borderlands LP, on BMTM (http://www.blumarten.com/product/conduct-borderlands-lp/). Guitars play over a BIG lazy kick drum which takes its time through. Yes, I did get teary to this, first time. Moving on and the head nod to BMTM continues with the Mellow soundscape and solid beats of Blu Mar Ten – 5 Summers followed by Frederic Robinsons take on Keenos – Nocturne.
With the scene set its time for some jazzy rollers from Roy Green and Protones – Freshy > Serem – Goldilocks > Macca & Los Contreras – Love and Skeletone – Make it Move. There's some romance for sure in that pacy little furore, followed up by a truly great new relese form The Vanguard Project – Want You Back and the Jazz rusher from Paul Su – This is Jazz.
Here, the mix selection transitions for some deepness. Leading the charge is Alix Perez – Maiden, with some loving vocal work and sweet crunchy percussion. A steady bass melody steps through at ease to create a thoroughly laid back Ballard type piece. The pace and vibe is brought back further with Oaks – Untitled 09 and into the dark business that is the collab between Ailx Perez and Skeptical – Elephant Dreams. The deep intensity continues through Aldred – Just a Moment into the thoroughly deep piece from Philth – Earth. Earth is full of wistful emotion, with a strong element of mournfulness, captured in the synth melody and slow rise and fall of orchestral notes.
A short uplift on Logistics – Okiwa is proceeded by another Alix Perez track – Recall and Reflect, a deeply sexy piece in his EP of the same name for Exit Records. The soundscape is then blessed with the wonderfully dub drenched collab form Digital, Audio Habitat & Mad Vibes – Maintain and through into G.H.O.S.T's rugged beat driven piece – One.
At the end now and Frederic Robinson returns to give Royalstons – Jungle Gone Down his trademark treatment before the mix ends on the uplifting spiritualism of The Vanguard Projects – All that I Need (feat Pat Fuggoni)


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Well, I'm not into self-promotion but it is new news for Goree, Texas and Jimmy Harlan doesn't hesitate to bring it to my attention that it's been awhile since I've posted. When Kent closed Trainham Grocery he kept most of the meat processing equipment out of the meat market. Little did he know that that equipment would birth a new business years later. Selling ice is somewhat of a volatile business and retaining employees on a full-time basis throughout the winter is nearly impossible. Wild game processing is a logical off-season business that (so far) has enabled us to keep three employees from seeking supplemental income. And the fact that Kent is a lover of the outdoors just adds to the perfect fit of this new adventure.
Friday, November 30, 2007
New business in town~
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Goree made the news...
I'm waiting on pix from the Halloween party for the Goree children and an update from the benefit bingo for the Memorial Building! I want to keep up with the Goree happenings, ya know. But, in the meantime Goree, Texas was in the news...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Hot Dog On A Stick : Brings Back So Many Childhood Memories ^_^Posted by Kat at 4:35 PM
I have always had a soft spot for Hot Dog On A Stick. It is a common chain that has been around 1946 and you can usually find it inside the food courts of malls. Of course now I barely hang out or go to the mall, but I saw a coupon for Hot Dog On A Stick... heck yah! lol Buy 2 get 1 FREE! It was time for me to pay them another visit and refresh my memory. My signature choices are the Cheese On A Stick. I can never remember which type, American or Spicy Jack, is my favorite so I always get one of each just in case. So that is already 2 items and now for the free item... I actually really like their Shoe-String Fries but I saw something new on the menu! They now offer Funnel Sticks with just Powdered Sugar, Raspberry, or Chocolate Syrup. I am glad I took their advice to try this delicious new item. Technically it was the "free" item so what did I have to lose. lol It was fantastic. A tiny morsel fried to perfection! The outside is crispy but the inside still had the delicious chewy texture. I could eat a hundred of these in one sitting. Don't even think about the calories, but I think that is what makes it good. I hope they keep this delicious new treat on the menu because it makes me want to go back more often! Wish I had more coupons too! lol
Even though the Cheese On A Sticks have always been favorite, it really depends on who makes it and if you eat it while it's piping hot. I don't think the batter has changed much since I was a child but I think my tastebuds have. Don't get me wrong, I still love the classic taste but it doesn't have the same "Oomph" as they did before. Of course nothing is as good as it was in your memory, but lately I have not had any strong desire to revisit them for an old favorite. The coupons do help to motivate me though. O=) To be fair, I took this order home so the cheese was all solidified and the congealed texture didn't help. After a quick reminder, I think I like the regular American Cheese because it has a stronger cheese flavor when compared to the Spicy Jack. Hopefully I will remember this post the next time I go there... although I always get one of each, but now I am thinking 3 orders of the Funnel Sticks!!! lolHot Dog On A Stick
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Drawings by Levi van Veluw
A series of drawings including elements from the artist's boyhood bedroom but focusing on their destruction.
Order turns into chaos. Visions of collapsing desks, falling cupboards and exploding cabinets mark the moment of disruption. Human structures are affected by forces of nature such as gravity, water and wind and in this way realigned into a new, natural order of things.


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Amish Furniture Store
Although the Amish are known for having all kinds of nice furniture in their local Amish furniture store, there are some other items you find even more desirable to you. In fact, some people find the Amish quilts to be the best items you can find at a store like this.
Amish quilts didn't really catch on in Amish communities until the 1870s. Before then, the Amish shunned quilt making as "too modern." However, from the time that making quilts became an accepted practice in Amish communities to 15 years later, you could nary find a home without several quilts in it.
In the years since, Amish quilting has evolved, but it always stays several years behind current trends. For example, Amish quilts at first were very ordinary. The first Amish-made quilts were made in one solid color. Gradually, extra pieces of colored fabric were added to these Amish quilts. For example, a quilt might have a large, colorful diamond in the middle, although the rest of the quilt was still a more solid, less exciting color.
As Amish quilts have evolved, their evolution has depended largely on those who live in the Amish communities. Basically, a community consensus has had to be reached in many instances when deciding if certain colors
– like pink and white – are acceptable to use.
Now, Amish quilt making has come full circle. Some women have gone back to incorporate more black in their designs, but also include a lot of color.


text: Men's Bible Study "Bigger Than Me"—The Saturday morning Men's Group meeting at Folkestone Wayzata will begin a new study titled "Bigger Than Me." This brotherhood of men meets every Saturday morning 7 to 8 a.m. in the Folkestone Auditorium, 100 Promenade Ave-nue. Some of the 27 chapter titles include "Losing My Religion," "Who Are You Calling Greedy," "Alienation," "Go and Do Like-wise," "Far from Boring." Come and join us. Contact Gordy Engel 612-709-4879 or Dan Oie. 763-221-9123