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I'm sure I don't need to tell you who's back.
Let's talk about him … and his buddy too, while we're at it.
SPOILERS for Legion Of Three Worlds #4 behind the jump.
The "him" is, of course, Kon-El/Conner Kent/Superboy, who first appeared some sixteen years ago in June 1993's The Adventures Of Superman #500. That issue kicked off "Reign of the Supermen!," which was the final act of "The Death Of Superman," which itself was probably the early 1990s' hugest, most sales-goosing-est Big Event. When Superboy got his own series not long afterwards, writer Karl Kesel and penciller Tom Grummett made it a blend of broad comedy, light-hearted homages to Jack Kirby's Jimmy Olsen and Kamandi, and teenage male hormones. A spinoff, Superboy and the Ravers, lasted just under two years (1996-98). The main series ended with issue #100 (July 2002), but the character continued for another few years in Young Justice and Teen Titans, losing (or growing out of) a good bit of his comedic bent along the way. In Teen Titans, writer Geoff Johns emphasized Superboy's friendship with Robin and romance with Wonder Girl. Appropriately enough for a character born of a Big Event, Superboy died in one as well, in May 2006's Infinite Crisis #6 (also written by Johns).
"His buddy" is Bart "Impulse/Kid Flash/Flash IV" Allen, created by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo for June 1994's Flash #91. Originally, Bart was something of a replacement hero as well, since he came into Flash just as Wally West was bouncing around in the timestream (in Zero Hour) and trying not to get stuck in the Speed Force (in Flash #s 99-100). However, Bart was played more for laughs, especially once he got his own series. There (under Waid and artist Humberto Ramos), Bart was virtually a cartoon, thinking in pictograms and acting on … well, you know. Impulse lasted 90 issues (April 1995-October 2002) under various writers before it too was canceled. Still, like Superboy, Impulse finished out Young Justice and moved over to Teen Titans, where he matured pretty much overnight into Kid Flash. Infinite Crisis also affected Bart profoundly, aging him prematurely to 20 years old and setting up his year-long stint as the Flash. Bart was murdered by the Flash's Rogues' Gallery in The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 (August 2007).
Now, via the 31st-Century science of Legion Of Three Worlds, both characters have been revived, just as they were before their Infinite Crisis fates. Moreover, Superboy will be appearing in the new Adventure Comics alongside the Legion of Super-Heroes. A preview of Francis Manapul's Adventure art shows the Boy of Steel playing catch with Krypto under the wide Kansas skies, as Martha Kent looks on beatifically. These images must comfort the character's many fans, considering that three years ago, both death and litigation (over the original Kal-El Superboy) threatened his future viability.
Superboy's return is the bookend to his death in Infinite Crisis. There, his sacrifice saved the Earth, and prompted all manner of soul-searching. Among other things, Conner was Superman's protege, Wonder Girl's boyfriend, and Robin's best friend, so there were definite consequences; and the real-world "story behind the story" cast a pall of permanence over what might otherwise have been seen as just another stunt.
Of course, now it does look like just another stunt, not least because Johns tends to be around for both the imposition and reversal of major changes in characters. Johns wrote 1999's Day Of Judgment miniseries, which turned Hal Jordan into the Spectre; and five years later wrote Green Lantern: Rebirth. In 2004, alongside co-writer Mark Waid, Johns ushered out the "reboot" (i.e., post-Zero Hour) Legion of Super-Heroes; but now they're back in LO3W. Through Infinite Crisis, Johns exiled Wally West; and a year later he (and co-writer Brad Meltzer) brought Wally back in the JLA/JSA crossover "The Lightning Saga." To be fair, these could all be coincidences, or (more likely) confluences of editorial assignments; but after a while it starts to look like Geoff Johns is responsible for who lives and who dies.
Indeed, given the labyrinthine nature of DC's big crossover events over the last few years, it may even look like Johns has planned the apparently-final fates of Superboy and Kid Flash to be mere periods of hibernation. DC might even see such a strategy as a win-win. It can capitalize on the flood of emotions accompanying the initial shock; and a few years later, it can try to get back in the fans' good graces when the characters return. That's far from a perfect business plan, since it risks alienating said fans to such a degree that they don't come back. Nevertheless, it fits with DC's current long-form "wait and see" storytelling model. Trust us, the company says; you'll be happy eventually.
And so here we are, with Conner back in his T-shirt and jeans and Bart in his yellow-and-red, like it was 2005 all over again. Now Superboy and Kid Flash can rejoin the Teen Titans, and all will be as it was.
Except that I don't think it'll play out like that. Obviously Superboy will head to the new Adventure Comics, where the natural team-up will be with the Legion of Super-Heroes. For his part, Kid Flash seems like a natural co-feature for the new Flash series, which one would think Johns would also write. All that is fine, and probably appropriate considering that each of these characters had his own long-running ongoing series not too long ago.
However, I have to wonder: did they each have to die — and stay dead for extended periods — in order to get all this attention? Has Legion Of Three Worlds been nothing more than an opportunity for Johns to fix a few of DC's missteps, including two he helped facilitate? The more I think about it, the less convinced I am that Superboy's return in LO3W is part of some grand scheme which extends back to Infinite Crisis, because again, the risks of alienating the readership seem too great. Why kill a character in 2006 — with all the finality that implies — only to revive him two years later?*
Given the ambiguity of "The Lightning Saga's" ending, Bart Allen's convoluted career path seems more calculated. First, in 2006, Infinite Crisis got Wally out of the picture and made Bart a 20-year-old. Bart then got his own series, which wasn't that well-received and was canceled after thirteen issues in order to make way for Wally's return. On the same day in 2007 that Bart's "death issue" came out, "TLS" brought Wally back over in Justice League of America. Unfortunately, readers didn't take too well to Wally's new status quo, and his revived series was canceled in favor of bringing back Barry Allen (in 2008's Final Crisis #2, with the reasoning no doubt upcoming in Flash: Rebirth). Barry had been dead for over twenty years, so no one could accuse DC of long-term planning in his case. However, "TLS's" aforementioned ambiguity got fans thinking that it was the precursor to Barry's return. And of course, it all comes back to Geoff Johns, whose departure from The Flash provided an opportunity to do something different with the book; and who, again, wrote the big event which made those big changes possible. It's all in the service of making DC's characters accessible to new readers, I suppose. Retire a character one year, bring him back the next, and then do another big change the year after that. You're constantly back at square one!
When Infinite Crisis got ahold of them, these characters were each a few years removed from having their own books. For that matter, they were each many years removed from their original conceptions. Essentially, they had become part of the Teen Titans ensemble. Now, though, they've been revived not so much for the sake of Teen Titans — which could probably use one or both, don't get me wrong — but, more likely, to become players in new titles.
Let me be clear: I am not saying that it was wrong to bring back Superboy or Kid Flash. My beef — and it is hardly a new one — is with the elaborate stunt-plotting which brought them to this point. The characters have returned as if Infinite Crisis never happened … so why did it?
* [Remember, LO3W was supposed to have wrapped up, along with the rest of Final Crisis, by the end of last year.]
Wow. Slow news day, huh? Listen, you ask why? There could be any NUMBER of reasons, not the least of which is: A) Money (after all, DC COMICS IS around to make money, right?), and B) A chance to try something new and tell a story at the same time, which dovetails nicely into A.
In regards to the co-features, does anyone know if there are plans to combine the stories at different points? I remember Nemesis and Batman teaming up in Brave and the Bold, and it tying into Nemesis' back-up at that time. I'd love to see the Question and Batwoman together (I've probably phrased that wrong), and Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes – well, that's just self-explanatory.
It's not a slow news week that prompted this article. This is the same sort of DCnalysis GOF always does around this time of the week.
I was just reading the Infinite Crisis TPB, and in the interviews in the back GJ basically says that he was told someone had to die, and he didn't want it to be Nightwing, so he killed Superboy. Johns has always wanted to bring Superboy back.
I must admit to getting a warm fuzzy when I saw the re-appearance of Superboy. YAYZ!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a needed heroic sacrifice for Infinite Crisis, and originally it was going to be Nightwing but it ended up being Superboy. And the Kid Flash into Flash was completely editorially mandated according to Mark Waid in a past interview.
I agree with every beat of this article on principle until your sum-up. "The characters have returned as if Infinite Crisis never happened … so why did it?" immediately leads me to question why, with the return of Kara Zor-El, The Anti-Monitor, The Multiverse and Barry Allen, the FIRST Crisis happened, then.
@Brian – I think that the co-features will be dealt with differently for different books. Dan Jurgens told Comic Related a few weeks ago that there are no immediate plans to comingle Blue Beetle and Booster Gold–but Dan DiDio has said in Newsarama and CBR interviews that Black Canary and Green Arrow will naturally be a fluid relationship, with different characters taking the lead versus the backup story, and sometimes the two playing off each other or crossing over.
Rik, I think the reversals of the first Crisis' casualties can be distinguished from Kon and Bart because those deaths were, as far as we knew back in '85, permanent — like, as permanent as DC could make them. Even when John Byrne created Matrix/Supergirl, she wasn't "the" Supergirl. When those characters were brought back, it wasn't as part of some series of interlocking events which you could see clearly as part of the original story — instead, it was different people deciding that it was no longer taboo to have these characters stay dead.
Tom, I think you're giving people too much credit here. There is no master plan here. The Wizard of Oz is just an old guy behind a curtain. Consider:
Superboy was taken off the stage right as litigation was starting with the Siegel estate. Court rulings since then have made it clear DC will retain at least a half-stake in Superman and Superboy, so now he is miraculously back.
Bart was made into the new Flash with a much-ballyhooed Hollywood team. Then the series tanked. He was killed to make way for Wally's return (under Meltzer), who was then promptly shoved off-stage to make way for Barry's return (under Johns).
If any of this strikes you as long-term planning, then the threshold for long-term planning has been lowered considerably.


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The Atlanta Falcons' three-game skid continues with a 27-13 loss to the Chicago Bears inside the once-friendly confines of the Georgia Dome.
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The Atlanta Falcons continue to struggle on the road, dropping another away game to the New York Giants by a score of 30-20.
The Atlanta Falcons struggles on the road continue with a disappointing 41-28 loss to the Minnesota Vikings
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The Falcons looked sluggish and out of sorts in a 24-10 bruising at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals on the road today.
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PITTSBURGH -- Jason Schmidt, the Dodgers' primary offseason
pitching staff addition, will return from a nearly seven-week
layoff because of an inflamed right shoulder to start Tuesday night
in San Diego.
The Dodgers made the decision to return Schmidt to their
rotation after he threw six shutout innings Wednesday for Class-A
Inland Empire in a rehabilitation start, then followed that with an
impressive bullpen session Saturday in Pittsburgh.
"We really needed to see how that ball was coming out of his
hand," manager Grady Little said. "Hopefully, he can continue
feeling good. If he's feeling good and ready to go, we feel
confident we can put him out there for 90 pitches or so Tuesday. We
know he's going to compete, and we'll see what happens."
Little doesn't know if Schmidt's velocity will return
immediately -- the right-hander once threw in the mid-90 mph range,
but was down from that earlier this season.
"I think it will gradually come back, if he's feeling good,"
Little said.
However, Little doesn't doubt Schmidt is ready to be a fixture
in the front end of the Dodgers rotation immediately.
"He rebounded from his outing the other day, when he threw 71
pitches, and he played catch yesterday [Friday] and felt great
again today," Little said. "The ball's coming out good. He's
ready and we're certainly ready to see him back out there."
The 34-year-old Schmidt gave up two hits, walked one and struck
out seven in his Class-A start Wednesday. Schmidt, who signed a
three-year, $47 million contract during the offseason, was 1-2 with
a 7.36 ERA in three starts for the Dodgers before being sidelined.
With Schmidt back in the rotation, left-hander Mark Hendrickson
returns to the bullpen after going 2-3 with a 4.17 ERA in 11 games,
including eight starts. Hendrickson has lost his past three
decisions, giving up five runs and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings of
an 11-4 loss to Washington on Thursday -- after the Dodgers had
thrown shutouts in their previous two games.
Schmidt's return is the second change in the Dodgers' rotation
in a week.
Right-hander Brett Tomko (1-5, 5.66 ERA) was sent to the bullpen
on Wednesday and left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo was called up to start
Saturday night in Pittsburgh. The 25-year-old Kuo is expected to
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Dodgers a better idea if he is ready to be a starter in the majors.
With Hendrickson, Tomko and Chad Billingsley now in middle
relief, and Jonathan Broxton setting up closer Takashi Saito,
Little thinks the Dodgers have the makings of a strong bullpen.
Billingsley struck out five of the seven batters he faced Friday
while pitching 2 1/3 shutout innings of a 5-4 victory in
"He [Hendrickson] is willing to do whatever we need him to
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BP Robots to Begin Next Attempt to Curb Record Spill
BP Plc will use undersea robots to begin cutting damaged pipe from its leaking oil well off Louisiana within the next several days, risking temporarily increasing the flow as it seeks to end the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the latest procedure to attach a pipe to the leak so the oil can flow to a surface vessel for capturing, White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner said yesterday. The decision follows a failed effort to plug the well.
The cutting will commence soon, BP spokesman Jon Pack said today. Preparation work continues, and the operation is on track to be completed by June 6, Pack said.
"BP and the government have no choice but to proceed," Jason Kenney, an analyst at ING Commercial Banking in Edinburgh, who has a "buy" on the shares and owns none, said yesterday. "This is war. As in all wars, it rarely goes smooth."
The failure to cap the well came as a congressional committee released reports by BP to federal officials of operation problems in the Macondo oil field six weeks before a blowout on April 20 destroyed Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 workers.
Shares Fall
BP shares fell 46 cents, or 7.7 percent, to 5.37 euros in German trading as of 12:34 p.m. local time. Trading in London was closed today. BP fell 5 percent to 494.8 pence in London on May 28 and has lost 25 percent since the blast.
"The chances of success are probably comparable with top kill but the risks are higher because what they're going to do is cut off the existing riser which has been kinked on the sea-bed for the past month," Geoffrey Maitland, a professor of energy engineering at Imperial College in London, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today.
Using remote-controlled vehicles at the mile-deep well, BP plans to shear away most of the damaged pipe that once rose from the well to the Deepwater Horizon. Then it will make a more precise cut with a diamond-toothed band saw, BP Managing Director Robert Dudley said in television interviews yesterday.
That will make a clean junction for a gasket-lined cap intended to catch most of the oil and route it to the surface through a pipe, Dudley said.
Engineers expect the method to work better than a smaller pipe used to capture 22,000 barrels of oil, he said.
"There is little else they can do right now, so they should try it," Tad Patzek, chair of petroleum and geosystems engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, said yesterday in an interview. "The cap will be at the end of essentially a mile of pipe. It will be heavy and it may be bent as it is jerked around by the pressure of the escaping oil and gas."
BP hopes that by installing the cap closer to the source of the leak, the oil will be warmer, reducing the likelihood that icy hydrates will form, blocking the tubing, as they did with a previous effort, BP's Pack said today.
The well has spewed from 12,000 barrels to 19,000 barrels of oil a day, a government panel estimated May 27. Government experts estimate the spill will increase over the four to seven days BP needs to fix the cap, Browner said in a "Face the Nation" interview yesterday on CBS.
"The worst is that we have oil leaking until August" when BP says it will complete the first of two so-called relief wells intended to plug the damaged well securely from the bottom, Browner said.
Relief Well
BP said today that the first relief well, which it began drilling May 2, is now at 12,090 feet, two-thirds of the way to completion. The drilling effort is "on track, even slightly ahead," said BP's Pack.
The new funnel may enable BP to capture as much as 90 percent of the oil and gas escaping from the well, Dudley said on "Face the Nation." BP is also preparing a second blowout preventer that may be bolted on in place of the cap and used to try again to stop all leakage, he said.
President Barack Obama ordered BP's cleanup efforts tripled in oiled areas that encompass 107 miles of shoreline and 30 acres of tidal marsh.
"Every day that this leak continues is an assault on the people of the Gulf Coast region, their livelihoods, and the natural bounty that belongs to all of us," Obama said in a statement Saturday. "It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking."
Previous Trouble
BP had told U.S. regulators six weeks before the Deepwater Horizon exploded that workers had difficulty maintaining control at the rig, according to e-mails released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the leak.
A March 10 e-mail to Frank Patton, the Minerals Management Service's drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, from BP executive Scherie Douglas said the company planned to sever the pipe connecting the well to the rig and plug the hole because of problems controlling the well.
As early as the second week of March, BP was enlisting help from J. Connor Consulting Inc., a Houston-based firm that advises some of the world's biggest energy companies on how to respond to oil spills, according to the e-mails.
"You can list at least seven barriers that have been broken for this accident to occur," BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward told reporters yesterday in Venice, Louisiana.
"The rig crew failed to identify that there were hydrocarbons in the well bore. They failed to implement the right well control procedures," Hayward said.
The spill may cost BP $22 billion should it continue through early August, when the company expects to plug the leak with one of the relief wells, Kenney, the ING analyst, said yesterday. That compared with his estimate of $5.3 billion had the latest attempt to plug the well worked.


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The School Supply Santa all started eight years ago, thanks to Denise Kooiker of Byron Center, MI. Once again she is asking for your donations for kids in the Grand Rapids areas to start the upcoming school year.
Donations are distributed to administrators at schools in Byron Center, Kentwood, Wyoming, Kelloggsville, Godwin, Godfrey-Lee and Vista Charter Academy. Adding to the list this year are Rockford and Grandville schools.
Donations of backpacks and all school supplies can be dropped off at all the Kent District Library branches, local Starbucks and Biggby coffee houses, Talsma Furniture stores, Macatawa Banks, Byron Community Recreation and Gaines Township Hall. The drive runs from August 1 – 28. More information is available at the School Supply Facebook page at Facebook.com/SchoolSupplySanta.
Mark DeJong, who holds a Bachelor of Science in elementary education from St. Cloud State University and a master's in educational leadership from Bethel University, will serve as the new principal of Vanguard Charter Academy for the 2015-2016 school year. Mark replaces Daryl Vriesenga who retired at the end of this past school year.
Mark is a familiar face around school, having served as assistant principal and academic dean since 2011. He has spent the past 15 years in education in the classroom and leadership. Before moving to Michigan he served as the superintendent and principal of an elementary school in Minnesota along with leading an elementary school in the Dominican Republic as their principal.
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A separate registration form must be filled out for each participant.
Please make checks out to East Kentwood Student Council and mailed to the school.
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KENT COUNTY, Mich.-- The search for Kent Intermediate School District's next leader is over.
Grandville Superintendent Ron Caniff will replace Kevin Konarska, who is retiring. Caniff was the lone finalist left after West Ottawa Superintendent Tom Martin withdrew his application for the job. Caniff's final interview with the Kent ISD Board was held Tuesday.
"The Board is thrilled to welcome Ron Caniff as the next leader of Kent ISD," said Kent ISD School Board President Claudia Bajema. "He brings 15 years of experience and the strong support of his peers.
"We are confident that the transition from Kevin to Ron will be very smooth, and that Ron will lead with the talent, energy, and interpersonal skills that we have enjoyed for the past nine years under Kevin's leadership. We also wish Kevin all the best in the next phase of his life," she added.
KENT COUNTY, Mich.—The Kent Intermediate School District will continue screening its lone finalist for superintendent.
Monday, West Ottawa Schools Superintendent Tom Martin announced he is withdrawing his application for the job. Martin was one of two finalists for the position with Kent ISD.
In a statement released to WZZM 13 Monday, Martin said, "After talking with West Ottawa's board president who urged me to stay and hearing the same support through numerous emails, notes and phone calls, I've decided to withdraw from the Kent ISD search. We have come so far in this district, and with the continued support of staff and community, we can and will build on that improvement for all of our students. College, career and life ready is a vision that's becoming a reality, and I look forward to continue being a part of that success."
KENT COUNTY, Mich.--- The Kent Intermediate School District is throwing its support behind a sales tax hike to fix Michigan's roads and provide additional funding for schools and local governments.
Thursday, March 19, the Kent ISD Board approved a resolution in support of Proposal 1, which will be on the May 5 ballot. In the resolution, the Board said Michigan ranks last in the nation in transportation spending per person. The Board also noted money being siphoned from the School Aid Fund to higher education, since the previous sales tax proposal generating funding for schools did not include colleges and universities.
GRANDVILLE, Mich.—Congressman Bill Huizenga is looking for student artwork to adorn the U.S. Capitol.
Now through April 17, high school students from the Second District are encouraged to submit their entries in this year's Congressional Art Competition. Each student may only submit one entry to Congressman Huizenga's office, located at 4555 Wilson Ave. SW in Grandville.
"The Congressional Art Competition is an excellent platform for young artists to challenge themselves and explore their artistic ability as well as their creativity," said Huizenga. "Students from across West Michigan have impressed thousands of visitors to the U.S. Capitol with their artwork and I cannot wait to see what this year's competition has in store."
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Numerical Simulation of Microphone Wind Noise, Part 3: Wind Screens and Shields
This paper discusses the use of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for computational analysis of microphone wind noise. This final part of the study discusses the effect of typical wind shields and pop screens on the flow around the microphone body. The simulations show that although all types of screens share common action mechanisms, moving the vortices generated by the flow further away from the microphone diaphragm and absorbing the vortex energy, the importance of these mechanisms varies with the type and size of the shield. In addition to the flow properties also the effect of different wind shields on the acoustical response of the microphone is discussed.
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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (December 5, 2013) Before Aaron Collins died, he gave his brother, Seth, a mission to eat, be merry and leave a giant tip.
On Wednesday night, Seth Collins of Lexington, Ky., did just that, as he left a $500 tip for a Friendly's waitress in Springfield, Vt., as part of a nationwide tour on which Collins embarked in the name of his brother, who died in July 2012 at the age of 30.
Friendly's waitress Julie Bombria said she thought she was going to faint after getting the generous tip.
In his will, Aaron Collins asked his family to give his money to people in need.
After Seth put a video of his first tipping spree on Facebook, he started getting donations from around the world.


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The dollar rose in quiet Asian trade Friday, winning support from positive US jobs data and a deal between Russia and the West aimed at easing tensions in Ukraine.
The greenback fetched 102.48 yen in Tokyo, up from 102.39 yen in New York Thursday while the euro drifted lower against the dollar to $1.3811 from $1.3813.
The European single currency rose to 141.54 yen from 141.45 yen in US trade.
But the dollar's rise against the yen could prove short- lived, dealers said.
"We don't feel any sign that aggressive yen selling is set to start amid falling volatility," said Osamu Takashima, chief forex strategist at Citibank Japan.
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits edged higher last week but still remained close to a seven-year low, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Initial claims, an indicator of the pace of layoffs, have been slowly trending lower as the world's number one economy recovers from recession.
A deal struck in talks in Geneva between the US, European Union, Ukraine and Russia to ease the crisis took some of the short-term worries out of the market, where traders in many forex centres including London and New York were to start the Easter weekend holiday on Friday.
The parties in the Geneva talks agreed to restore security in eastern Ukraine, where forces from Kiev had moved to oust armed pro-Russia separatists from government buildings they had occupied.
-- Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this report --


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Ever wonder what saucy Scottish superchef Gordon Ramsay's really like? You know, when the cameras are off? Can the abusive, F-bomb-dropping, egomaniacal host of Hell's Kitchen truly be that much of a mean-spirited ass in real life? If there's one dude in the Valley who would know, it's Scottsdale's Brad Miller, the arrogant superstar-chef wanna-be who Ramsay booted off Fox's hit TV show last month for his questionable teamwork skills. (Of course, Miller's "stone cold" lamb appetizer didn't help his cause, either.)
Get some face time with Miller when he hosts the Hell's Kitchen Viewing Party for the overcooked show's Season Three finale. Don't expect Miller to dish on who walks away with the HK grand prize, but the 25-year-old, a Scottsdale Culinary Institute grad and former kitchen-hand at the Arizona Biltmore, may be able to sate your couch-potato appetite for juicy "Chef" morsels and other behind-the-scenes gossip.
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