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Cornball dialogue and poor characterizations drag down the successes of the incredible visual effects.
Julian Roman - MovieWeb
Darting between Earth and the rest of the cosmos, Green Lantern can be fun as spectacle (which is why kids may go for it), yet the whole movie is eye candy, and not much more.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
"Green Lantern" is bad.
Manohla Dargis - New York Times
Lantern rarely taps the charm Reynolds has shown in previous films. Consequently, it's hard to imagine why the nebulous Corps chose a cypher such as Hal as its savior.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
Neither amusing nor exciting enough to ensure a long-running franchise.
Mark Jenkins - Washington Post
Green, we're told at some point in "Green Lantern,'' is the color of will. Based on the movie surrounding that line, it's also the color of won't. Won't make sense. Won't satisfy a soul. Possibly won't make a dime.
Wesley Morris - Boston Globe
Campbell's ADD style privileges spectacle over story -- so much so that the film never rewards the viewer for even trying to keep track of what is going on.
Karina Longworth - Village Voice
More "Daredevil" than "Dark Knight."
Joe Neumaier - New York Daily News
Mr. Sarsgaard succeeds in creating a real guy with real passions. Apart from him there's nada.
Joe Morgenstern - Wall Street Journal
Half-campy, half-compelling.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
Green Lantern opens with the words "Billions of years ago..." Take that as a sign of just how much time this ostensible action movie spends explaining itself.
Tom Maurstad - Dallas Morning News
...a pretty joyless comic book movie experience.
Glenn Kenny - MSN Movies
"Green Lantern" does not intend to be plausible. It intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects. If that's what you want, that's what you get.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
Only in fits and starts, mostly in the most earthbound scenes between Reynolds and Blake Lively, does "Green Lantern" offer traces of real personality.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
The result is a deadly disappointment, despite Ryan Reynolds's cocky, muscle-flexing charisma.
Michael Wilmington - Chicago Reader
About as enjoyable as an explosion in the mold lab.
Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer
A mind-numbing, misguided pandemonium that ranks as the biggest comic book misfire since "Batman & Robin" battled Poison Ivy.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
As a disjointed rumble in the cosmos, it's both too much and too little, and too dorky looking. In this case, Green means stop.
Tom Long - Detroit News
Even in the brainless world of cinematic comic books gone bad, it's as bad as it gets -- a dumb, pointless, ugly, moronic and incomprehensible jumble of botched effects, technical blunders, and cluttered chaos.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
Martin Campbell's visually lavish sci-fi adventure is a highly unstable alloy of the serious, the goofy and the downright derivative.
Justin Chang - Variety
A relentlessly silly superhero flick with eyeball-rolling dialogue - set in vast, familiar-looking digital realms that look like rejected models from the second "Star Wars" trilogy.
Lou Lumenick - New York Post
"Green Lantern" isn't "Jonah Hex" bad. But it's silly enough to be part of the same "silliest Warner Brothers comic book summer movies of all time" conversation.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
Campbell seems unsure of what to do with one of the most shopworn figures from the DC Comics stable.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
It's almost as if no one cared to try hard enough to tell a coherent and engaging story.
Laremy Legel - Film.com
[The] movie groans with the strain of explaining who Green Lantern is, while also trying to sell the movie as a big, eye-popping summer entertainment. What gets sacrificed on the altar of this new franchise launch is any real sense of fun.
Liam Lacey - Globe and Mail
"Green Lantern" is purely a popcorn movie for 12-year-olds, who won't be disappointed.
Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com
Even by the standards of the current run of mediocre comic-book movies, this one stands out for its egregious shoddiness.
Dana Stevens - Slate
The result makes the movie seem assembled from bits and pieces of other superhero yarns rather than existing on a plane of its own.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Serves up all the requisite elements with enough self-deprecating humor to suggest it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Todd McCarthy - Hollywood Reporter
A joyless amalgamation of expository dialogue and special effects that aren't especially special.
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
Apart from some spiffy visual effects, which create coherent, scary textures and architecture for outer space, Green Lantern is the most generic of summer time wasters.
Richard Corliss - TIME Magazine
Green Lantern is a new primer on how not to make a comicbook movie unless you want to screw shit up. Flat FX, smirky acting, clunky writing and clueless direction. WTF?
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
He's an ambiguously...heroic hero.
Richard Roeper - Richard Roeper.com
More science-fiction space opera than superhero epic, it works in fits and starts as its disparate parts go in and out of effectiveness, but the professionalism of the production make it watchable in a comic book kind of way.
Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
It often feels like there are two separate stories featured in this comic book flick but neither of them is particularly interesting.
John Hanlon - Big Hollywood
This is a blue-light special version of a superhero movie. This is what happens when they go wrong. This is what happens when they don't care.
Will Leitch - Deadspin
Across the board Green Lantern is an average experience. There is zero character development, an overly confusing plot and way too much dodgy CGI assaulting the screen.
Benjo Colautti - We Got This Covered
Not "Jonah Hex" bad...but almost.
Roger Moore
"Green Lantern" does have a fair share of problems and yet is not quite as bad as some are making it out to be. It merely gets added to the long list of superhero films as one of the more forgettable ones
Jeff Beck - Examiner.com
I would say that this film is 50/50 good and bad. The stuff that works really works, but the stuff that doesn't work doesn't really work.
Austin Kennedy - Sin Magazine
There's a bit more character in the extended cut, but the film is still a mess of tones, driven by a Star Wars-like narrative but cut down by a sloppy Transformers feel.
R. L. Shaffer - IGN DVD
Thinks it is more impressive than it actually is. Faced with over-blown effects, characters look flat and disappear into the background without a whimper, thanks to an insipid script and the film-makers' unwillingness to flesh out anyone but Hal Jordan.
Simon Gallagher - What Culture
While it doesn't reach the heady heights of Iron Man, it's a worthy addition to DC's movie universe.
Rob Power - SFX Magazine
In an attempt by the script to be both epic and snarky, director Martin Campbell and actor Ryan Reynolds did the best they could with what they were given to work with.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
More science-fiction-y than most superhero films with some cool intergalactic visuals, the story can't quite make the most of Ryan Reynolds' charisma...
Bruce Bennett - Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
How many more of these superheroes can we take?
Leah Rozen
It drones on, needlessly complicating the story line with too many character relationships and too many dull stretches.
John J. Puccio - Movie Metropolis
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Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
You'll need all the navigational help you can get, lantern or otherwise, to make it through this unfocused, CGI-driven mess of a movie.
Neil Pond - American Profile
whereas Marvel's summer movie Thor revelled in its outlandish setting, Green Lantern dithers between realism and all-out fantasy.
James Luxford - The National
I've always considered DC's Green Lantern to be one step too far over the line into "come on, that's just silly" territory. (Fresh, but only just)
Tim Martain - The Mercury
Acaba se revelando um passatempo relativamente divertido e agradavel.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
Before Hal Jordan's big-screen debut, I'd never heard of the guy. And now, having sat through the confused mess that is Green Lantern, I don't mind if I never hear of him again.
Anders Wotzke - Moviedex
Green Lantern is all CGI sheen and no soul, taking the comic book movie one giant leap backwards in its inept attempt at creating a would be dazzling adventure.
Matthew Pejkovic - Matt's Movie Reviews
When Green Lantern does get its green groove on, its quite enjoyable... but the film is left sadly lacking due to the way it fumbles its set-up.
Matt Neal - The Standard
The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers.
Philippa Hawker - The Age (Australia)
Things improve as the plot kicks in, thanks to enjoyable performances from Peter Sarsgaard, as the more-or-less human villain, and Blake Lively as the feisty heroine.
David Stratton - At the Movies (Australia)
A certain tone is needed to carry off the script's manifold absurdities. It has to be tongue-in-cheek rather than foot-in-mouth and Reynolds' success rate is intermittent at best.
Paul Byrnes - Sydney Morning Herald
Apparently Sarsgaard's [character] went to high school with the characters played by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, which is perhaps the only joke in the movie to actually land.
Simon Miraudo - Quickflix
Everything fits together just well enough to work, but not enough to excel.
Wesley Lovell - Cinema Sight
It's certainly not my cup of tea, but it does fulfil its promise to the core fans
Andrew L. Urban - Urban Cinefile
Here's a comic book fantasy with a galaxy of special effects, a splendidly despicable villain in Peter Sarsgaard and heroics from the likeable Ryan Reynolds, who finds courage to overcome fear, win the girl and save the world.
Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile
- National Post
If serendipity is a collision of happy accidents that produce something greater than the sum of their parts, then The Green Lantern is its unlucky antonym, a film far less impressive than its superior individual ingredients.
Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com
Robbed of his personal pronoun by a pan-galactic evil ...
Ed Whitfield - What Culture
There's an interesting conceit at the core of Green Lantern, the otherwise overstuffed and clumsy superhero outing starring DC Comics' ring-wielding interstellar cop.
Ethan Alter - Television Without Pity
The screenplay isn't as bright as those of other superhero films. But "Green Lantern" isn't a dim bulb of a movie, either.
Linda Cook - KWQC-TV (Iowa)
The film also needs a jump-start or a new Central Battery sometimes that Reynolds alone simply cannot provide.
Lisa Giles-Keddie - Real.com
... the movie finds its bearings once Reynolds takes center screen; the franchise would do well to depend on him more than on sci-fi mumbo jumbo.
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
...an overlong and thoroughly uneven big-budget blockbuster that just barely earns a passing grade...
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
Another comic-book hero hits the screen... and doesn't make a big enough splash
Robert Denerstein - Movie Habit
A muddled mess of a superhero film swathed in layer upon layer of (fairly necessary) exposition and burdened by a seriocomic turn by lead Ryan Reynolds.
Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle
Not even Ryan Reynolds' charm, which pours out of the actor like water over Niagara Falls, can overcome the lumpy narrative and special-effects overkill.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
A tedious hodgepodge of rote conflicts and character hang-ups.
Nick Schager - Lessons of Darkness
Lantern proves it's not easy being green.
Charles Koplinski - Illinois Times
A parlor game could be made out of how many times the word "fear" is uttered in Martin Campbell's superhero franchise non-starter.
Brett Michel - Boston Phoenix
Green Lantern is a moronic superhero. Ryan Reynolds is too cool to play such a lame character. There...I said it.
Bob Grimm - Tucson Weekly
Green Lantern makes an effort to differentiate itself on an aesthetic level, but otherwise it's what you'd expect - a special-effects bonanza following formula.
Andrew Hedley - Flicks.co.nz
The only reason you go to see a movie like this is the special effects and the fight scenes, right? It has both in spades and the 3D effects are good, too.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
Ryan Reynolds is a fearless fighter pilot famous for wielding his stick in many a starlet's cockpit.
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad.
David Edelstein
This is just one 'been there done that' super hero movie too many in a summer crowded with super hero movies.
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
The script is pretty dry and many of the scenes between Reynolds and Blake Lively don't work at all. It's a shame that the script doesn't give Reynolds the kind of winking humor that Thor had, and that he is so good at delivering.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky - Ebert Presents At The Movies
Green Lantern is reminiscent of 2008's The Incredible Hulk, another superhero flick that boasted a strong cast but went overboard on visual stimuli.
Tyler Hanley - Palo Alto Weekly
Superhero movies have become CGI demo reels, and we go for long stretches wherein nothing organic is on the screen at all, except for the occasional green-screened actor.
Rob Gonsalves - eFilmCritic.com
It basically suffers from many of the same flaws as Thor did, but seems far more tired because we've already seen this story two times already this summer.
Matthew Razak - Flixist.com
It has room to grow if Warner Brothers has the will power to deepen the characters and sharpen the writing in the inevitable sequel.
Daniel M. Kimmel - New England Movies Weekly
The cocky charm of Ryan Reynolds and worthwhile 3D give this movie just enough magic.
Jeff Bayer - The Scorecard Review
The F/X of Hal creating objects out of his ring's green light are successfully, modestly fantastic. Such professionalism needn't resort to dumb stereotyping.
Armond White - New York Press
The latest movie scraped from the barrel where studio execs store their childhood comic collections.
Jason Solomons - Observer [UK]
A substandard superhero film.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Green Lantern uses so much CGI it's a wonder anyone bothered bringing a camera to the set.
Christian Toto - What Would Toto Watch?
Fortunately, Ryan Reynolds' combination of suave self-assuredness, seasoned comic timing and old-fashioned ability to kick butt outweigh the film's minor flaws to make for a satisfying cinematic experience that just screams sequel.
Kam Williams - NewsBlaze
That the super villain resembles nothing so much as a giant tentacled dust-bunny with teeth does nothing to make it strike fear in the hearts of the audience
Andrea Chase - Killer Movie Reviews
Certainly better than Thor.
Scott Nash - Three Movie Buffs
What makes Green Lantern work is the pupil-popping effects. Don't see it for the plot. See it for the visuals.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
To compare this to truly abysmal efforts like Catwoman and Batman & Robin would be an exercise in misguided grandstanding; at the same time, the middling results suggest that Hollywood might consider cooling it on the super-sagas for a while (fat chance).
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
The ironic timing of opening nationwide on Father's Day weekend couldn't be more strategically perfect, because this entertaining movie provides dads, who grew up reading comic books, an opportunity to spend quality time with their young sons & daughters
Keith Cohen - Entertainment Spectrum
In desperate need of a visionary to turn it in to the space epic it deserved to be in the first place.
Felix Vasquez Jr. - Cinema Crazed
In a summer filled with flights of comic book fancy, Green Lantern only distinguishes itself by being one of the goofiest superhero movies of the year.
Diva Velez - TheDivaReview.com
... a shame this fantasy-adventure arrives in a summer swamped by superheroes. It's the best of the batch so far, but it's in danger of being snubbed by the seen-one-seen-'em-all contingent.
Glenn Lovell - CinemaDope
Rises to the level of idly amusing summer trifle.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
Campbell just renders the comic book mythology in bright colors with expensive CGI, and then sort of shrugs - "here you go, nerds."
Eugene Novikov - eFilmCritic.com
Sure, comic lovers will thrill when Jordan recites the Lantern oath for the first time, but I bet they'd be a lot happier if he had something interesting to do afterwards.
Rob Vaux - Mania.com
A textbook example of movie-making by committee. All the money in the world can't save a film with a script THIS bad.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Gropes for a foothold on the rocks of logic.
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
I want superhero movies to involve something more than setting up a marginally interesting premise so that there can be more sequels and snack food tie-ins.
Dave White - Movies.com
Reynolds has the xylophone abs and smart-aleck persona to make a superhero fun... This movie has little else to offer except gaudy CGI doodles including like a villain resembling an overflowing septic tank with teeth.
Steve Persall - Tampa Bay Times
Lantern dazzles with some ambitious visuals and a wicked cool mythology, but fails to overcome its fear that is audience is stupid.
Neil Miller - Film School Rejects
Visually quite interesting [but] the combination of earnestness and smart-ass wisecracks proves unstable.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Turns out that the only power this movie had was to put me to sleep by the second act.
Grae Drake - Movies.com
It isn't innovative, it isn't deep, the characters aren't particularly well-developed, but I still had a good time watching Green Lantern. It's hard to dislike a movie that has shortcomings and still provides an...
Leonard Maltin - Leonard Maltin's Picks
'In brightest day, in blackest night' and in dingiest 3-D, Green Lantern arrives and it's the dumbest superhero movie of the season.
James Verniere - Boston Herald
The film wears its nerdy heart on its sleeve, which is endearing, and often falls just short of hitting the mark, which isn't. But a sufficient number of elements work well enough that I came away smiling.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
Everything about Green Lantern is unremarkable.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
The mythology is nonsensical and the plot takes forever to get going. But once it does, the movie takes advantage of a strong cast and a director who knows what he's doing.
Stephen Silver - Patch
If only the filmmakers had put as much creative energy into the character of Hal Jordan as they did into his lovingly rendered CGI-enhanced suit
Steven D. Greydanus - Christianity Today
Asinine, nauseating and often dull with no thrills or excitement to be found. It'll make your eyes and ears bleed simultaneously.
Avi Offer - NYC Movie Guru
I am consumed by the aubergine power of muddled confusion and despair.
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Better to fixate on the interstellar eye candy.
Kelly Vance - East Bay Express
"Green Lantern" is badly paced, derivative and clunky. Its biggest sin is being joyless. The film just isn't fun.
Bob Bloom - Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
I liked it much more than, say, Thor, precisely because it's so openly childish. That approach seems right for the material. Twelve-year-olds are fabulously well-served by the movies nowadays.
David Sexton - This is London
The superhero genre is the home-court of the underdog, of skinny Peter Parkers and mutant outcasts, of heroes born from pain or ingenuity. In Green Lantern, the rich get richer.
Christopher Orr - The Atlantic
Entertaining but superficial superhero thriller.
S. Jhoanna Robledo - Common Sense Media
Reynolds isn't a bad choice for this type of role. He's beefed up his body and his face resembles that of an ordinary star who could have had greatness thrust upon him.
Graham Young - Birmingham Mail
You'll wonder how, after such a promising opening, it all went so wrong.
Alex Zane - Sun Online
A screenplay that was conceived in what will undoubtedly be remembered by the four writers who contributed to it as the blackest night of their creative lives.
Ian Buckwalter - DCist
At least the filmmakers acknowledge that Reynolds in green tights and mask still looks like his non-Green Lantern alter ego, cocky test pilot Hal Jordan. There's none of this Clark Kent/Superman silliness.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
As he has the power of imagination, it is only fittingly ironic that the movie about this Green Lantern guy has so little of it.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Although "Green Lantern" isn't a particularly good movie, it could be setting us up for one.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Considering all the characters and subplots, it's no surprise Green Lantern feels more rushed and truncated than epic.
Kevin Williamson - Jam! Movies
...fun but terminally unwieldy adaptation of the venerable DC comics franchise pinballs between above-it-all camp and gravely serious sci-fi shenanigans...
Corey Hall - Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
It is of my opinion that superhero movies are supposed to be super. Green Lantern is merely ordinary.
Adam Tobias - Watertown Daily Times
Hal Jordan isn't exactly gifted in the imagination department.
Nathaniel Rogers - Film Experience
A cheesy, clunky B-movie blockbuster lacking the wit and wonder that you find in the best comicbook adaptations.
Allan Hunter - Daily Express
The best way to describe his Reynolds' portrayal as Hal Jordan is 'wise-ass.' and with this film, his comedic skills should have been laid aside. Strong's performance as Sinestro is reason enough to see the film rather than Reynold's campy performance.
Wilson Morales - BlackFilm.com
One of the goofier, less pretentious and more agreeably kid-friendly superhero action movies of the current trend.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
In the hierarchy of comic book movies, it's hovering somewhere near the bottom.
Mike McGranaghan - Aisle Seat
The problem is that the story isn't pulp enough. The Green Lantern saga has always been notable for its extra weight, its sense of propriety, and Campbell just can't make it fly.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
Green Lantern fails on almost all levels. The story seems determined to hit every cliche in the universe and the dialogue is consistently trite ...
Lori Hoffman - Atlantic City Weekly
While Campbell's film is handcuffed by the formula assigned to every single superhero origin story to date, "Green Lantern" constructs some elaborately fantastic universes for the intergalactic portion of its story.
Sean O'Connell - Hollywood News
Ryan Reynolds is great. This is the second comic book movie [that] hasn't lived up to him.
Widgett Walls - Needcoffee.com
Like The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2, it feels like a superhero movie made by committee.
Norman Wilner - NOW Toronto
DC has to step up its game. Christopher Nolan's Bat-films aside, Marvel is kicking their ass all over the place.
Pete Vonder Haar - Houston Press
Jennie Kermode - Eye for Film
In spots, the movie soars and it's everything I wanted from a 'Green Lantern movie. In other spots, it's darn-near sadistic and plays to a much older crowd than the little ones. (Full Content Parental Review also available)
Teddy Durgin - Screen It!
Friends, fanboys, critics, lend me your eyes. I have not come to bury Green Lantern, but to defend it.
Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
Another DC comics superhero, another ho-hum 3D movie adventure.
Anthony Quinn - Independent
Short on story but visually entertaining, Green Lantern glows most brightly as a special effects showcase leaving dramatic pathos to other men wearing tights.
Jonathan W. Hickman - Daily Film Fix
A solidly entertaining summertime spectacle and one of the more enjoyable films in the genre since 2008's Iron Man.
Mike Scott - Times-Picayune
A by-the-book Hollywood tentpole that exhibits competent blockbuster craftsmanship, but no special feel for the material at hand.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
When it comes to the big questions, director Martin Campbell -- who knows about fresh starts, having twice revived the 007 series, first with "Goldeneye" and then with the recent "Casino Royale" -- seems to have most of the answers.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
A disappointing film that gets mired down in the cliches of previous comic book superheroes on the screen.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
Green Lantern isn't just bad, it's Fantastic Four bad.
Bill Clark - FromTheBalcony
I never thought I could feel sorry for Ryan Reynolds.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The picture is slathered with so much CGI goop that it's often indistinguishable from a Saturday morning cartoon show.
Kurt Loder - Reason Online
Green Lantern is lifeless, lacks emotional connection, charisma, good special effects, a flowing story-line and everything else that makes a movie entertaining.
Kevin McCarthy - BDK Reviews
A soulless thrill ride, making a familiar comic book commotion without a sparkling personality or daring script to keep it awake. A superhero film shouldn't feel like a bedtime story.
Brian Orndorf - Sci-Fi Movie Page
You'll need superpowers of your own to survive this hell.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
Green Lantern is no Iron Man -- and, for that matter, it's no Green Hornet either.
Scott A. Mantz - Access Hollywood
As Norm Macdonald would say, 'Wait, what?'
Matt Pais - RedEye
...it screams for a coherent, well-told story.
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Expectations were low for this superhero summer blockbuster wannabe, with Ryan Reynolds, and it meets them head on.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For a movie that relies so heavily on energy to form its narrative, Green Lantern lacks any real oomph of its own.
Bill Gibron - Filmcritic.com
[An] earnest and militantly generic film that sets up the likelihood of a sequel during its final credits without delivering any convincing reasons why anyone should be excited by the prospect.
Sukhdev Sandhu - Daily Telegraph
A fun movie that you can lose yourself in for a little over 100 minutes and get a thrill and laugh or two along the way.
Sam Bathe - Fan The Fire
Reynolds is a charismatic lead, but the filmmakers miss the mark by making all the outer space stuff seem cartoony and the story on Earth cornball and dull.
Brian Juergens - CampBlood.org
On brightest screen, in threest-D, It's the latest franchisee! This superhero's super-slight; Beware two hours... Green Lantern bites!
Peter Canavese - Groucho Reviews
It's unremittingly average, high-caloric and indigestible junk food for the restlessly stupefied. We've all been there.
Burl Burlingame - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Even the most hardcore fans should be leaving the theater saying 'In brightest day, in blackest night, may a really crappy movie escape my sight.'
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
Campbell made Zorro and Bond work as contemporary heroes, but doesn't quite have the feel for poor old Hal Jordan.
Kim Newman - Empire Magazine
A lot of eye candy worth savoring, but next to nothing in the departments of wit, depth, heart, or insight.
Scott Weinberg
It's a mess, a boring mess, featuring boring Ryan Reynolds.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
For all the talk of conquering fear and harnessing energy, Lantern ironically plays it safe and gets grounded by a leaden, spiritless adaptation.
Matt Stevens - E! Online
All the glowing green bolts of light may be enough for a summer action film, but can't disguise the soulless, by-the-numbers approach. And Reynolds' hero has no personality.
Caryn James - James on screenS
Gleefully pulpy dialogue that evaporates on the comics page -- lines like, "You can't give in to fear! I know what it's like to be afraid to be afraid!" -- land with a series of heavy wet thuds on the cement floor of the cineplex.
Glen Weldon - NPR
Director Martin Campbell has somehow managed to make the origin story the least interesting part of the film. And when that comprises a big chunk of your movie, it results in a pretty joyless experience.
Jason Zingale - Bullz-Eye.com
Even the talents of director Martin Campbell can't make this anything more than yet another derivative comic book film. Frankly, I'd rather read Donald Duck.
Tony Medley - Tolucan Times
Cool powers? Check. Interesting villain? Check. Interesting girlfriend? Half a check. Angsty parental issues? Check.
Nell Minow - Beliefnet
Ryan Reynolds' most heroic feat in this effects-laden comic book adaptation is saving it from being a complete dud.
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
Green Lantern's ring is cooler than Thor's hammer, but not as awesome as Ironman's suit.
Ted Fry - Seattle Times
This is a harmless way to squander two hours of your life, but it's impossible to imagine the green-clad central character becoming a serious rival to Batman.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
Casino Royale director Martin Campbell makes everything look good and the action scenes are watchable.
Roz Laws - Birmingham Post
Let there be light? Eh, not so much.
Pete Hammond - Boxoffice Magazine
Reynolds is almost good enough to stand up to the gargantuan tower of emptiness that is Green Lantern, but he's fighting a losing battle.
Stephanie Zacharek - Movieline
Reynolds - so good in recent movies like Buried and The Nines - just looks like a slice of inert beefcake.
Peter Bradshaw
One of the weakest comic book superhero adaptations we've had in awhile.
Christopher Lloyd - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
an enterprise marked by an unlikable hero, patently unconvincing special effects and a muddled screenplay that chokes like LeBron James under the weight of giant gobs of raw exposition.
Peter Sobczynski - eFilmCritic.com
Are Parallax and Hector Hammond really the most interesting villains in the Green Lantern universe? Because if they are, then there's no reason for a sequel.
Rebecca Murray - About.com
There are movies willed to life by the passion of their creators, and there are movies like Green Lantern, which are willed to life strictly by market forces.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
Green Lantern does offer the occasional brightly-coloured thrill for those only interested in the most simple and straightforward of superhero tales. It's a shame, though, that it can't aspire to anything greater.
Seb Patrick - Film4
Martin Campbell's Green Lantern is a mediocrity, neither folly nor kitsch.
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine
More fun than Thor, because the constructs are just more fun to watch than big dudes hitting each other.
Fred Topel - Screen Junkies
Faithful to the comics almost to its detriment, "Green Lantern" is a two hour film that would have been much better at ninety minutes.
Michael A. Smith - Nolan's Pop Culture Review
I burned off a weekend in Hell sitting through this. What is Adolphe Menjou doing in this? I hate the color green now.
Victoria Alexander - FilmsInReview.com
A whole lot of familiar superhero elements thrown together in a haphazard, uninspired way.
Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly
Green Lantern is ultimately let down not by the weight of its ambitions, but total lack of them.
Martyn Conterio - Little White Lies
Generic superhero movie, assembled with off-the-shelf narrative components and no authentic soul or emotion. Green Lantern is colorless.
Frank Lovece - Film Journal International
Weakness is the Lantern's greatest strength. If anything, there should have been more chinks in his CG armour.
Stella Papamichael - Digital Spy
There's a tongue-in-cheek vibe that works occasionally as Lantern seems to have more in common with superhero flicks like FLASH GORDON...
JimmyO - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Suffers from a terminal case of origin-osis, the disease that infects super-hero movies forced to explain a character's origin.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
If, indeed, it is true there are only seven original stories in this world, surely the super-hero comic genre's got a corner on the market on one of them. Now, even the people behind the mounting of this same-old same-old seem kinda bored by it all.
Joanna Langfield - The Movie Minute
It's a comic-book cocktail for happy hour, a shot of quick-release gratification designed to give you a buzz from a top shelf of generic brands.
Elliott Noble - Sky Movies
The season's noisiest reminder yet that the amount of money thrown at the screen isn't nearly as important as the quality of the story being told.
Geoff Berkshire - Metromix.com
Despite a winning aw-shucks performance from Ryan Reynolds, the film can't overcome its thinly drawn characters and generally hokey execution.
Tim Grierson - Screen International
Watching this overproduced movie, which is devoid of real plot or characters, is like spending a day in amusement park, taking rides that vary in excitement, at the end of which you feel saturated and exhausted.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
Green Lantern is, more so than most, an accurate representation of [the comic book] artform: brisk, enjoyable and, like a 30-page single issue, ephemeral.
Jordan Hoffman - UGO
The digital effects and scenery are good; some action sequences, including Lantern's rescue of an out-of-control helicopter, blast the senses.
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
Disappointing superhero movie that delivers a couple of decent set pieces but is ultimately let down by a laughably poor script, some extremely dodgy editing, a lack of humour and a non-committal performance from Ryan Reynolds.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
I didn't love this movie. But for the first half-hour, it had me, hungry for it to win me over completely. And then, it got too complicated.
David Poland - Movie City News
There was a lot of potential in Green Lantern, almost all of it squandered.
Devin Faraci
Two finger-drumming hours of puffed-up, prancing tripe, that couldn't have been any more irritating if the lead role was played by that bellowing Go Compare fatso.
Robbie Collin - News of the World
...a comic-book movie that lets its nerd flag fly.
Josh Larsen - LarsenOnFilm
At this point in the superhero genre the same old origin story simply isn't enough.
Katey Rich - CinemaBlend.com
The ring may not make mistakes when it chooses a new Green Lantern, but plenty of mistakes were made in bringing Green Lantern to the screen, and in the end, I have a feeling this is our one and only trip to Oa.
Drew McWeeny - HitFix
Lifeless, joyless, and a whole lot less than meets the eye. One has to wonder if all these superhero tales were created by way of "Mad Libs."
Dustin Putman
Green Lantern fails to shine.
Thelma Adams - Us Weekly
The lantern kind of resembles a funky bong, and if you were to make use of one before seeing Green Lantern, the film would be a lot more fun.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
It's a frustrating, deeply flawed film rife with missed story opportunities and squandered potential.
Jim Vejvoda - IGN Movies
As a superhero origin story, it's a major disappointment, including the surprising revelation during the final credits.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
Hallucinatory, glow in the dark gangbangers with trippy green bling. Which obscures the WW II roots of the DC comic that flourished back then, and subliminal focus instead on what green stuff was in the pipes those filmmakers may have been smoking.
Prairie Miller - NewsBlaze
For an actor so often praised for his down-to-earth demeanor, larger-than-life may simply lie outside of Ryan Reynolds' range.
Thomas Leupp - Hollywood.com
A film that's all set-up and no pay-off: an origin story for a hero we don't much care for with an elaborate lore we have zero interest in, toplined by a star who's little more than a torso and a smirk.
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Carpenter sent down, Sanchez unavailable
Two bits of news this morning:
* According to a club source, Matt Carpenter is the player on his way out today to make room for Kyle McClellan on the active roster. Carpenter will be optioned to Triple-A Memphis. Carpenter went 1-for-15 with a double, four walks and four strikeouts in seven games.
* Pitching coach Dave Duncan told KFNS 590 AM this morning that Eduardo Sanchez has some "tightness in his shoulder" and will be unavailable for a few days. I'll obviously be chasing this today.
More to come on the site as the day goes on.
Kozma out; Hamilton, Carpenter in – UPDATED
The Cardinals are beefing up their bench with a pair of additions. Prior to Friday night's game against the Cubs, the club will option shortstop Pete Kozma to Triple-A Memphis and recall first baseman/outfielder Mark Hamilton from Memphis. Also, third baseman Matt Carpenter's contract will be purchased from Memphis, with the team likely to send out a pitcher to make room on the active roster for Carpenter.
The Cardinals are doing without outfielder Matt Holliday, who was placed on the disabled list on Thursday. That will provide more regular playing time for Allen Craig and Jon Jay, which in turn weakens the Cardinals' bench. Bringing back Hamilton and adding Carpenter should help address that issue.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported late Thursday night that Kozma would be optioned, and a club official confirmed on Friday that Hamilton will be the player taking his roster spot. No official confirmation was available on Carpenter's promotion. However, Mark Cohen, the sports information director at Carpenter's alma mater, Texas Christian University, reported on Twitter that Carpenter has been called up.
Kozma, 23, appeared in 10 games during his first stint in the big leagues, mostly off the bench. He went 1-for-8 but drew three walks, and recorded a double for his first Major League hit.
Hamilton will be making his second appearance in St. Louis this year. He went 3-for-15 earlier in 2011. Over parts of three seasons at Triple-A, however, Hamilton has shown himself to be an offensive force. In 25 games at Memphis this year, he's batting .391 with a .509 on-base percentage and a .552 slugging percentage. His career Triple-A line is .318/.409/.564 with 26 home runs in 143 games.
Carpenter was a Spring Training sensation and very nearly made the Major League roster out of camp. He got off to a slow start in the regular season, but is currently hitting .283 with a .421 OBP and a .387 SLG at Memphis. Carpenter was the Cardinals' Minor League player of the year in 2010.
Wednesday camp tidbits: Waiting on a lineup
* With knuckleballer R.A. Dickey on the mound for the Mets, the Cardinals will not be sending out what you would consider an 'A' lineup today. However, it's still not announced. Tyler Henley will be starting in right field, though, with Jon Jay moving to center. Andrew Brown will start at first. TLR said that Matt Holliday will be in there but did not commit to any other regulars.
Saturday camp tidbits: Boggs, Freese, Berkman, Spagnuolo, etc
It's another gorgeous day in Jupiter, a little bit cool with no clouds.
Tuesday camp tidbits: Berkman and B games
* TLR said that Lance Berkman will be held out of pretty much all throwing for a few days to rest his sore elbow. He's the starting DH today and won't be back in the outfield for a few days. He also won't throw in drills.


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Former Cleveland Browns coach Sam Rutigliano will be the guest speaker at North Royalton Christian Church, 5100 Royalton Road, at 10 a.m. Aug. 18. The event will take place during the morning worship service.
Rutigliano, who will talk about "Making a Difference," joined the Browns as their head coach in 1978. He led the 1980 team to the AFC Central Division Championship and was named NFL Coach of the Year.
He was the head coach during the Kardiac Kids era, and wrote the foreword for "Kardiac Kids: The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns," published by The Kent State University Press in 2003. Books will be available for purchase after the worship service, and Rutigliano will be available to autograph the books.


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Blog Guy, how's Oktoberfest shaping up this year, if you take my meaning? You know, those Bavarian women tend to wear some pretty risqué outfits over there, huh?
Blog Guy, how's Oktoberfest shaping up this year, if you take my meaning? You know, those Bavarian women tend to wear some pretty risqué outfits over there, huh?
Blog Guy, I like it when you find interesting traditions practiced by other cultures, like for instance that "love market" that you wrote about last year.
Blog Guy, it's a couple of days before the end of February and there hasn't been a single sign of the onrushing Apocalypse this month. I'm feeling much better already.
Blog Guy, I'm thinking about becoming a drug dealer, or maybe even a drug kingpin, but fashion is important to me. Can you give me some idea of the dress code for this exciting field?
Blog Guy, I have a medical question. I'm a woman considering getting breast implants. Where can I go to get a breast exam and a reliable professional opinion on this?
Blog Guy, I'm very, very confused.
That's nothing to be ashamed of in this blog, sir. What seems to be the problem?
Blog Guy, I heard on the radio that a Picasso painting just sold for more than $106 million! They held up a photo of it on the radio news, but I was driving and couldn't look.
Okay sales staff, the big civil defense and security equipment exhibition is coming up, and we need to push our merchandise. Let's brainstorm!
Quick quiz: Who would you LEAST like to find out is a bogus, untrained fraud?
a) The guy fixing your washing machine
b) The yard man trimming your magnolias
c) The accountant preparing your taxes
d) The plastic surgeon doing your breast implants
Yeah, I think most of us would have to go with that breast implant thing.
In Venezuela, police have arrested a man and woman accused of impersonating plastic surgeons and providing women with silicon breast and buttock implants from an illegal clinic in an apartment.
Blog Guy, I'm a regular reader of your blog, and I need a personal favor.
Sorry, I can't really get involved with helping people, I've got a lot of readers.


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From Flint Journal files, July 4, 2007:
FLINT, Michigan - Juan E. Mestas, a community icon and chief face of the University of Michigan-Flint, on Tuesday announced his resignation from the chancellor post months after suffering a stroke.
The charismatic figurehead, known for a peppy, personable leadership style and who made history during his eight-year tenure by launching student housing at the commuter campus, is apparently in good health after a five-month medical leave.
In a letter that is still sending shock waves through campus, UM president Mary Sue Coleman said "with his (medical) recovery complete," Mestas will officially step down from the helm of UM-Flint on July 16 "to pursue personal and academic interests."
About Juan Mestas:
Juan Mestas, 64, resigns from UM-Flint after an eight-year tenure marked by:
• Shepherding the student housing
project whose groundbreaking shares his resignation date of July 16.
• Building the Women's Educational Center.
• Starting the schoolis first doctoral
• Promoting research to develop new programs, including bringing world-class lecturers to Flint.
• Overseeing the completion of the William S. White building.
• Starting a job shadowing program for faculty at the administrative office.
• Creating a more student-centered
university through contact with student groups.
• Starting big initiatives to boost
enrollment, ìinternationalize campus, and broaden the campus' service area to increase student access to the university.
What's next:
• Provost Jack Kay will remain acting chancellor until a new chancellor is hired.
• UM President Mary Sue Coleman will appoint a search committee this summer to conduct a national search beginning in fall.
• After an administrative leave starting this summer, Mestas will return to campus with an appointment as Chancellor emeritus and special advisor to the
chancellor and provost, pending approval by the UM Board of Regents.
After a nearly yearlong sabbatical, Mestas, 64 - who has not been reachable for an interview - plans to return to UM-Flint as an adviser to the chancellor and provost.
"Juan has really brought together a spirit of togetherness and family on this campus. I think it's an incredible loss," said acting chancellor Jack Kay, who will fill the role until a national search for a new chancellor, scheduled to start in the fall, is complete.
"He is a writer by academic discipline, and he has a wonderful way with words and using words to really bring people together. He is truly a great leader."
It makes sense that words were the tool of choice for the bilingual Cuban-American scholar, who is also a book author, poet, public speaker, professor and one-time student activist.
Noted for a likable charm and zesty passion that led the dream of student housing to reality, Mestas has also been known to diffuse fires through dialogue.
"He was the right person at the right time in the institution's development," said psychology professor and friend Tom Wrobel, who just last week went to a Detroit Tigers game with the Yankees-devoted Mestas.
"His style was to listen, listen and listen more before making decisions, so he really understood where everyone was coming from and to explain decisions."
He cited the time Mestas was hours late meeting Wrobel because he was explaining a tuition increase to the student government president.
Mestas' efforts to make staff pay more equitable and his idea to have a faculty member job-shadow at the administrative office every year also "endeared him to the faculty," Wrobel said.
Mestas left his job as a top official at the National Endowment for the Humanities to become the university's fifth chancellor in 1999. He has been credited with helping start the first doctoral program, building the Women's Educational Center and developing programs that bring distinguished scholars and world-class lecturers to Flint.
Mestas also oversaw the completion of the William S. White building that bridged the campus to the Flint River.
But he was also a witty administrator and professor who reached out to students, many of whom he recognized by name.
UM-Flint alum Brian Proffer, 23, said even when students disagreed with Mestas, they respected him because they felt he was putting their concerns first.
"I know the student body loved having him as chancellor," said Proffer, who was treasurer and vice-president of student government on and off over the last three years.
"He was really connected with the students and very interested in what students were doing whether it was related to the university or not. He never really stopped being the chancellor once he left the office."
Kay, who is normally UM-Flint's provost, said he has spoken with Mestas since he took leave and that "he looks great" and is doing well.
The chancellor fought through years of hurdles and false starts for student housing that he vocally advocated would revitalize downtown. Kay said Mestas will be at the groundbreaking to see his pet project born July 16 - the same day his resignation becomes official.
In her letter, Coleman expressed regret with losing a leader who promoted research for new programs and helped to create a more student-centered university.
"Chancellor Mestas has, as you know, been an exceptionally warm, engaging, thoughtful and dynamic leader -one who cares immensely for the members of the campus community, for the University of Michigan-Flint and the larger Flint community, and for the University as a whole," Coleman said in the letter.
"Chancellor Juan Mestas' impact on UM-Flint and on the University has been transformative, and the legacy he leaves is great."


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Microsoft Pays Xbox Staffer To Shhh About Homophobia Claims
Already notorious for its homophobic gaming policies, Microsoft's Xbox also stood accused of letting gay discrimination run rampant in its own offices. Jamie Durrant sued the company for about $70,000 after co-workers branded him as "Fag Boy Jim" and messages reading "I'm Jim and I'm Gay' were circulated — and HR refused to do anything. Now, the two parties have reached a settlement.
Too bad we'll never know the terms, thanks to the confidentiality agreement Durrant had to sign in order to see a payday after coming to terms with Microsoft at an employment tribunal.
But let's let Microsoft talk out of its ass. According to a spokesman: "We are pleased to have reached an amicable resolution to this matter with Mr. Durrant. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but we can confirm that Mr. Durrant will not continue his employment at Lionhead as part of the agreement. Microsoft has a longstanding commitment to diversity. We attract, recruit and respect diverse talent and we have included sexual orientation in our anti-discrimination policies for 20 years. Our efforts have been recognised by a wide range of groups, including the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in its 2009 Corporate Equality Index. We do not tolerate breaches of our code of business conduct and take any complaints extremely seriously. Throughout this process, those to whom Mr. Durrant brought his concerns have taken them seriously and concrete actions have been taken to address them. Neither Mr. Durrant's sexual orientation nor the nature of his complaint had any bearing on the way it was handled."
The guy lost his job. Where is the justice?
the guy should have told them to go fuck themselves and brought the truth about the company out in the open.
its just words and don't let words define you…remember it not just wht people say…but who says it…
Well, I think this kind of hatred and bigotry must be fought at all levels but, as I've said before, that this goes on at one of these gaming companies doesn't surprise me. Not sure what division he worked in but some of those games you see advertised at night are appalling – glorifying war, violence, rape, misogyny, death, gore – a bunch of geeks who like to pretend they are soldiers and "real men" behind their made of CGI blood and gore – it is not a bit surprising to me that this would be a very hostile, anti-gay environment, but also, judging from some of these games – xenophobic, misogynistic, bellicose and hostile…
Yeah, well, bragging about HRC recognizing your company doesn't mean shit. HRC hands out "awards" like they're candy. HRC even endorsed Republican Mary Bono. When I called and asked what they were thinking, I was told Bono "was the best candidate running" – nevermind there was a gay-friendly Democrat on the ticket, too. HRC, GLAAD, and all these other self-appointed gay leaders can kiss my ass.


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So far I've talked about fun I've had in the DR, the not-so-fun sickness I had in the DR, and the work I've done in the DR, but I haven't talked about one very important thing about the DR: the FOOD! The verdict: it's been pretty good, but I'm ready to get back to the U.S. and eat "normal" again.
For breakfast we either have some sort of hot cereal comparable to Cream of Wheat or cold cereal with usually warm (gag) powdered milk and hard boiled eggs, rolls, and jam. For lunch and dinner there has been lots and lots of rice and beans, plantains in every shape and form, various, mystery meats random assortments of vegetables, cabbage salads, and plenty of fresh melon and pineapple. Like I said, it's not bad but there's not a lot of variety.
Oh and did you happen to catch what's missing? Dessert! I guess it's been good to tame down my raging sweet tooth, but I would do just about anything for one of these bars right now. As a Salted Nut Roll candy bar lover, these bars were right up my alley. They are chewy and salty, as the name suggests, and disappeared in minutes when I brought them to work a few weeks ago. Definitely a winner!


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A friend decided at the last minute to forego her annual three-hour trek to her hometown for Thanksgiving.
Instead she stayed in Harrisburg to give thanks and eat turkey with friends.
You can blame her sudden change in plans on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
My friend, who I will call Lisa because she didn't want me to use her real name, decided the conversation around the dinner table would just be too heated to handle after the recent election.
She didn't want to get into the kind of nasty conversation that could result in flying mashed potatoes and stuffing.
She is a Democrat, her siblings are Republicans. That doesn't necessarily have the makings of a family feud. But in these high-anxiety times of economic struggles and embassy attacks, it does for some people.
Lisa believed a Mitt Romney presidency would be terrible for women, and she worried about what she saw as his changing attitude on so many issues during his political career and has made that clear to her relatives.
Her one brother, in particular, believes another four years of Obama will be a catastrophe for the United States. He worries about the job market for college graduates and whether the country will continue to lose its moral compass on important social issues with the Democrats again holding the White House. He, too, has been outspoken.
"By Election Day, people were so set on who they wanted to win, it was hard to see anyone else's viewpoint," Lisa said. "Some things that were posted on Facebook from my family — both Democrats and Republicans — made me think, 'Yikes, Thanksgiving is going to be World War III.'"
Most people probably didn't worry they were walking into a politically charged war zone on Thursday. But given the diversity of many of our families, and as Lisa said, how charged up people were about this presidential election, there had to be more than a little heartburn at dinner tables — and it wasn't just caused by the high-starch side dishes.
At my family gathering, my mother played her usual role as firefighter, extinguishing any politics-induced fires that started with a quick look or a few words.
The old saying might have never been invoked more at a holiday gathering in recent years than it was this past week: Leave religion and politics at the front door when you go home. There is something about these two topics that brings out the best and worst in us.
Given the negative buzz that went along with this election — a stream of nasty TV ads, a rolling commentary on who was the winner and loser of each debate that sounded more like the analysis of a boxing match than a presidential contest, and the fact that supporters of each candidate believe the United States is at a difficult and important precipice in our history — emotions that spilled out at family gatherings over the last few daysare not surprising.
And this certainly was an election of strong opinions. We wrote endorsements for 13 races, as I mentioned in a previous column, but it was our endorsement of President Obama that by far garnered the most reaction from readers.
Seeing how strident the conversation around politics has become, it might be time, however, that more people start learning how to have a respectful conversation about our differences, and where better to begin doing that than with our family.
Instead of Obama supporters taking a victory lap around the living room or Romney supporters grumbling about the doom and gloom to come, we should all find common ground, such as agreeing to push Congress and our president to resolve important issues facing our country such as the fiscal cliff.
When I asked Lisa about this the day after Thanksgiving, and whether she regretted her decision to stay away for the holiday, she wasn't certain.
"I'm not sure my family is ready for that," she laughed. "Hopefully things will cool down by Christmas."
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Mayor Bill de Blasio once again called for universal pre-kindergarten to be funded by a tax hike on the wealthy, even as reports surfaced that Gov. Andrew Cuomo would seek to fund the program statewide without a tax hike.
The new mayor appeared at an East Harlem pre-kindergarten center with a slew of union heads -- including the United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew, who had previously been unsure about the pre-k plan -- in a show of strength of those supporting his signature proposal.
The mayor echoed the sentiment of state Sen. Diane Savino, who told the Advance this weekend the city tax hike, which Albany would need to pass, is a matter of "home rule." He said the last three mayors have asked Albany to raise revenue in the city through taxes, and were granted the chance.
"We're talking about the ability of the people in New York City to tax ourselves," de Blasio said. "We're talking about city taxes."
He said there was great agreement on the goal, and that now the task was getting people to agree how to get there -- through the tax hike.
De Blasio wouldn't comment on a Capital New York report that Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, would seek to get out in front of de Blasio's plan and fund pre-k through other means.
"We don't accept reports in the media as the same as what the governor is going to say," de Blasio said. "The governor has not said that to me. I have no verification that that's what he's going to propose."
Asked whether he'd accept it as a victory if the state did fund the program -- without the tax hike on those making more than $500,000 -- de Blasio said he believes pre-k funding shouldn't be subject to Albany's budget woes.
"This is dedicated funding for five years," de Blasio said of his plan. "We don't want to do this year by year. We don't want to do half measures."
The de Blasio plan calls for a tax hike on wealthy city residents -- amounting, the mayor has said repeatedly, to the cost of a small soy latte each day -- for five years, after which he said the city would look to integrate the program into its city budget without continued taxation.
Mulgrew, a Staten Islander, was one of many labor leaders joining de Blasio Monday morning. He said his initial skepticism on the program -- the UFT originally backed de Blasio's primary opponent -- was based on fears the program couldn't be pulled off.
"You can tell by what the mayor just said that they really have engaged themselves in a meaningful way," Mulgrew said. "Now that we are very, very, not only just comfortable, but we are extremely supportive that we are going to be able to get this done."


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CANTON, MI -- Federal authorities have added 13 new names to the long list of suspects charged in a massive health care fraud scheme involving a Metro Detroit network of drug-distributing, Medicare-defrauding health care workers.
Last month, Babubhai "Bob" Patel, a Canton man who owned 26 Detroit-area pharmacies, sentenced to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $18.8 million in restitution for running what investigators called an elaborate scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield.Patel, 50, was arrested on Aug. 2, 2011 and a jury found him guilty a year later of health care fraud, distributing controlled substances and conspiracy charges, according to federal court records.
Of 25 co-defendants originally charged with Patel, 20 have either pleaded guilty or were convicted by juries. Five others still face trial.
And today, the U.S. Attorney's office announced the indictment of 13 others, including five doctors, four pharmacists and Patel's brother, a home health agency owner.
FBI, DEA and U.S. Health and Human Services agents found that between 2006 and 2011, Patel's pharmacies billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $57 million, and that "at least 25 percent of those billings were for drugs that were either medically unnecessary or never dispensed."
Investigators said Patel's pharmacies used a network of doctors, pharmacists paid patients and patient recruiters in the scheme.
The pharmacies, according to the U.S. Attorney's office, paid
kickbacks to doctors who wrote prescriptions for expensive medications,
which were billed and either distributed unnecessarily or never
dispensed and at all.
Patients, according to the new charges announced today, also received unnecessary prescription drugs as kickbacks in exchange for
agreeing to have their insurance cards used at Patel's pharmacies.
The drugs included Oxycontin, Vicodin, Xanax and cough syrup with codeine.
refer patients to his home health agency, and then billing Medicare services that were unnecessary or never provided.
The other 12 new defendants include pharmacist Mehul Patel, 34, of Canton; pharmacist Pradeep Pandya, 49, of Grand Blanc; pharmacist Vikas Sharma, 34, of Windsor; pharmacist Mukesh Khunt, 33, of Toronto; physician Richard Utarnachitt, 71; of Clinton Township; physician Ruben Benito, 72, of Madison Heights; physician Javaid Bashir, 59, of Jackson; physician Carl Fowler, 60, of West Bloomfield; physician Rajat Daniel, 47, of West Bloomfield; businessman Atul Patel, 31, of Canton; patient "recruiter" Anthony Macklin, of Detroit; and patient recruiter Michael Thoran of Detroit.
"Today's indictments, particularly of the medical professionals are significant," said Detroit DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Corso.
"It is alleged that these individuals abused their positions of trust and endangered the lives of countless people by illegally distributing opiate painkillers and depressants throughout southeast Michigan.
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GLOVERSVILLE - Atticus M. Finch had a hero's welcome on Saturday, when he appeared at SkyHeart Place with Tom Ryan, author of the book that has made the miniature schnauzer a minor literary celebrity.
Atticus - named after the protagonist of "To Kill a Mockingbird" - seemed to take the attention in stride, resting peacefully on stage as Ryan addressed a crowd of nearly 200 people as part of the Gloversville READS! program.
Cutting a casual figure in his hiking clothes, Ryan told the stories behind the stories from "Following Atticus," his book about how his relationships with his dogs changed his life.
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Writer Tom Ryan holds his dog Atticus M. Finch during their appearance Saturday at SkyHeart Place in Gloversville. Ryan's book, "Following Atticus," is this year's Gloversville READS!?community reading program selection. (The Leader-Herald/Bill Trojan)
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Gloversville Public Library Director Barbara Madonna hands out treats for children to give to Tom Ryan's dog Will, center, during the event on Saturday.
A?woman in the audience takes a photo of writer Tom Ryan during his talk on Saturday at SkyHeart Place in Gloversville. (The Leader-Herald/Bill Trojan)
Ryan said for 11 years, he published a small newspaper devoted to shining light on local-government corruption in Newburyport, Mass. His first dog, another miniature schnauzer named Max, helped change his attitude and lift his spirits. When Max died, Ryan said, he cried like a baby, and the whole town seemed to mourn the popular pooch along with him.
"Animals have a way of reaching out to us in a non-verbal way," he said. "It's communication that's very pure. ... It gets you to your core."
After he lost Max, Ryan went in search of a dog like him and eventually found Atticus.
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After losing a friend to cancer, Ryan said, he and Atticus developed a mutual passion for hiking. In 11 weeks, they hiked all 48 peaks over 4,000 feet in New Hampshire's White Mountains, and they turned their adventures into a way to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in honor of a friend who had died of cancer.
Ryan said Atticus seems happiest in the mountains, and when they reach a summit, the dog likes to sit and stare off into the distance like a "little Buddha."
"Our book is not about mountains - like 'Moby-Dick' isn't really about a whale," Ryan said. "It's not about dogs, it's about friendship, and transformation and what love can do for people."
Ryan and Atticus were joined Saturday by Will, whom they adopted a year ago, rescuing him from a shelter in New Jersey that was preparing to put him down. Then 15 years old, Will was elderly, arthritic, deaf and nearly blind, Ryan said, but after adjusting to his new home and his new companions, the dog seems to have a new lease on life.
While Ryan spoke and Atticus relaxed on stage, Will wandered among the members of the audience, drawing the attention of some of the young people in attendance.
Ryan said he treats his dogs like he would like to be treated: Love and the freedom to roam without a leash are essential.
"By treating [them] better, I became a better person myself," he said.
Gloversville Public Library Director Barbara Madonna said this year's Gloversville READS! program was put together by a subcommittee of library's Program Committee, with several volunteers from the community.
"It was a lot of work, but we had so many hands helping that it really wasn't a heavy load," she said. "Everybody came to the program with a lot of ideas."
She described Saturday's event as "a clear winner" and said while it was the highlight of the program, Gloversville READS! isn't over yet.
"After today, I hope more people will check out the book, keep reading, keep talking about it, keep finding their own way to get involved in the READ," Madonna said. Two more events associated with "Following Atticus" are planned this month:
- At 10 a.m. April 27, a "Tails to Rails" dog walk will take place, starting at Trail Station Park on West Fulton Street in Gloversville. The event will be sponsored by the Fulton County Public Health Department and HealthLink Littauer.
- At 6 p.m. April 30, a Blessing of Dogs event will take place at the library, with the Rev. Linda Martin, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Broadalbin.
For more details about these events, see the library's website, www.gloversvillelibrary.org.
For more information about Ryan, his dogs and their hiking trips, see his blog at tomandatticus.blogspot.com.
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"I can't wait for The Dark Knight Rises to hit cinemas. Apparently, it contains two minutes of new footage that wasn't in the trailers," film critic Scott Jordan Harris tweeted the other day.
Ha ha, right?
I'm saving a full-blown rant about trailers and the current state of movie marketing for later (it's been brewing for a while - check out my #DjangoTrailerBan on Twitter for the joke I plan to beat to death for the next six months).
So I'll let Harris' words sum up Hollywood's endless promotional onslaughts for the time being, and move on to the new previews released this week.
First, the opening volley in the "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" marketing onslaught debuted. It's 1:19 of everything you love/hate/love to hate about it:
Some observations:
- "We're the same temperature now!" (groan)
- More sweeping forest shots! (groan)
- "Oh my!" he says. The Volturi! (groan)
Next, our first look at "Monsters University":
- I have to admit, I LOL'ed at this. Literally. That's a great gag.
- Mike Wazowski is one of my Pixar faves. I'll happily watch a new adventure of his. ("University" doesn't hit theaters until summer of 2013. In the meantime, we'll have to let the solid-if-not-always-spectacular "Brave" slake our Pixar thirst.)
- Will this cause a great "Prometheus"-style debate over whether it's a true "prequel"? Hope not.
And finally, the latest (and last, I believe) trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises":
- I purposely didn't watch this.
- I don't want any more spoilers, no matter how small they are.
- Coming soon: an explanation of my #DjangoTrailerBan. Consider this post a teaser trailer for the upcoming post.
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I'm with you Ravyn Rant. I love the games too! I am just an all-round sports fan and will be happy just to see Canada kick some international butt!!!Originally Posted by Ravyn Rant
I'm with you Ravyn Rant. I love the games too! I am just an all-round sports fan and will be happy just to see Canada kick some international butt!!!Originally Posted by Ravyn Rant
I love speed skating. short and long track
I love watching all of it, but skating comes first then bobsled, luge, skelton.
Would love to ride a bobsled someday that would be so fun. Don't want to drive or be the brake man just sit in the middle and go for the ride.
I love biathlon! It's my second favorite sport after skating.
Speed skating because one of our hometown (Houston) guys (Hedrick) is expected to do well, and downhill skiing...should be great this year. Also looking forward to watching short track skating. I like to watch almost all of it except luge, biathlon, and curling. I even watched the combined nordic today.
I LOVE the Curling. You know I have to cheer for the Canadian home town boys.:chorus: :chorus:
I like the speed skating (long and short) and I've also enjoyed all the X-game sports.
Ski jumping, downhill skiing and snowboard are my favorites, but I like all of the Winter Games sports.
I enjoy the downhill, slalom, combined, halfpipe, moguls, snowcross, ski jump, some speed skating and short track and of course figure skating. I'm not to interested in the hockey, curling, nor the ski/gun biathon or whatever it is.
Short track speed skating because it's so unpredictable. Also Snowboard cross because it's so unpredictable.
I love alpine super G. Snowboard half-pipe was fun. Curling has become mesmerizing to me, perhaps because it's on constantly! I watch it every morning on one of NBC's cable channels.


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Thanks to many readers, T.K. from Old Jefferson now has the recipe he was seeking for canneles, a bakery item from Bordeaux, France. A wire story in The Times-Picayune piqued his interest, and he writes, "They sounded absolutely heavenly. They are traditionally baked in a specific copper mold which is greased with paraffin. Looking online for the molds, I found modern ones in silicone. ... I had ordered them, but Katrina hit before I could ever make the canneles.
"Since I've never eaten one, I can't explain why I'm so obsessed with making them, but there you are."
J.P. from Mandeville was one of several people to the rescue.
"I understand an obsession with something you've never eaten, " she writes. "I've had the article (he) is looking for in my file for the past six years. I've never forgotten it, but I've never eaten a cannele either."
The article by Betty L. Baboujon originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times in early 2004.
We also heard from I.E. of Kenner, who writes, "I am very pleased to share my recipe with T.K. and anyone else who loves canneles the way I do. You may have trouble finding the molds, however. I have some that I bought several years ago. They are tin, which I feel makes them crusty as I feel they are meant to be. They are delicious.
"I have made these many times. They are best served warm, but just as wonderful at any temperature. Enjoy!"
Her recipe is the sought-after one. The article with the recipe catalogued the author's trial and error in making the little cakes after falling in love with them in Paris.
"The Bordelaise cakes are shaped like golden crowns. Outside is a caramelized crunch; inside, a silky softness, " she wrote. The ingredients are simple, but baking them was a challenge.
The recipe originally came from French chef Michel Roux; he attributed it to a pastry chef near Bordeaux, home of the cannele. The batter is made a day ahead and baked the next day, but it keeps for up to five days. The L.A. Times test kitchen determined that the best pans to use are a silicone cannele pan -- with six to eight round, fluted hollows about the circumference of oversize muffins but much deeper -- or a silicone maxi-muffin pan. Second-best is a metal cannele or muffin pan. (Metal pans have to be well-greased; silicone pans do not.)
Cannele Cakes
Makes about 27
2 1/4 cups sugar
1 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
3 eggs
2 egg yolks
5 tablespoons dark rum
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1/2 cup nonfat dry milk
The day before you intend to bake the canneles, make the batter: Combine sugar and flour in a large mixing bowl and whisk to mix evenly. Whisk in condensed milk, eggs, yolks, rum and vanilla.
Combine water, butter and dry milk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over low heat, whisking occasionally. Whisk hot mixture into the flour and egg mixture until thoroughly combined. Pass the batter through a fine-meshed strainer into a container; let cool slightly, then cover tightly and refrigerate a minimum of 24 hours, a maximum of five days.
When ready to bake the canneles, heat oven to 400 degrees. Remove the batter from the refrigerator and whisk to combine, 1 minute. Fill cannele molds 3/4 full. (If using silicone molds, do not grease; tins should be lightly coated with oil.) Set molds on a baking sheet.
Bake until the canneles are firm and very dark brown, about 1 hour, changing the position of the pans several times -- back to front and top to bottom during baking. Let sit 5 minutes, then invert onto a rack. Gently pull the sides of the silicone mold out to release the canneles onto a rack. Serve warm.
Per cannele: 176 calories; 34 mg sodium; 49 mg cholesterol; 4 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 31 g carbohydrates; 3 g protein; 0 fiber.
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IT'S A MELEE: "While cleaning up, I found an old recipe clipping for Shrimp Artichoke Melee, " writes B.D., who has contributed to this column several times. "It won the Grand Prize in the 1985 Times-Picayune annual recipe cook-off contest. ... This just happens to be the 25-year anniversary of this recipe receiving the award."
The recipe has been requested before by other readers, who loved it. Originator Patricia W. Collins won a $250 grand prize for her creation.
Shrimp Artichoke Melee
Makes 6 servings
1 large onion, thinly sliced
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 cup chopped green and red bell peppers
1 stick margarine
4 tablespoons oil
2 pounds medium raw shrimp, peeled
1 (10.5-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
1 (4-ounce) can mushrooms, drained
1 teaspoon liquid crab boil
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 (14-ounce) can quartered artichoke, drained
2 1/2 tablespoons corn starch
3 tablespoons lemon juice
12 ounces fettuccine
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 lemon, cut into six wedges
In a large skillet, sauté onions, parsley and peppers in 1/2 stick margarine and oil. Add shrimp and sauté until pink. Add mushroom soup, mushrooms, crab boil, salt, white pepper and garlic powder. Mix and cook 2 to 3 minutes. Add artichokes. Blend.
Blend corn starch and 1/4 cup cold water. Add to mixture to thicken. Cover and simmer about 15 minutes until flavors blend. Add lemon juice and heat 1 minute.
Cook fettuccine in salted, boiling water. Drain. Add 1/2 stick melted margarine and 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese. Toss and mix well.
Serve Shrimp Artichoke Melee over fettuccine with lemon wedges and sprinkle servings with remaining Parmesan.
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SEEKING BEEF ROOM'S CAESAR: L.K. writes from Metairie: "I am hoping that you can get the recipe for the dressing for my favorite Caesar salad ever. It was at the Beef Room, a steakhouse that used to be located on Causeway Boulevard in Metairie. I spent every wedding anniversary there (they also had the best broccoli au gratin in town) until they went out of business about 15 years ago. I'm still married, but we both miss the salad."
While we wait on results of this search, here's a recent recipe from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's from Bay Wolf, which has "had 35 years to perfect the salad, " writes Michael Bauer. The restaurant, in Oakland, Calif., is a perennial on the newspaper's Top 100 restaurant list.
The secrets are salt-packed anchovies ("Don't even think about using the oil-packed. Be sure to rinse before using."); sherry vinegar instead of Worcestershire; whole romaine leaves; and croutons made from a baguette cut into cubes, tossed in freshly made garlic oil and then toasted in the oven right before the salad is served.
Bay Wolf Caesar
Makes 4 servings
Peeled cloves from 1 head garlic*
3 anchovies, salt-packed preferred (rinse before using)
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 1/2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more as needed
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 cups olive oil
Freshly ground pepper to taste
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 baguette
2 hearts of romaine, leaves separated, cleaned
For the dressing: Mince together 2 cloves of garlic and the anchovies, and then place in a small, nonreactive bowl. Add lemon juice, vinegar and 1 teaspoon kosher salt; macerate for 15 minutes. Place egg yolk and 1 tablespoon lukewarm water in a blender; process until light and fluffy. Drizzle 1/2 cup olive oil in a slow, thin stream. Add garlic-anchovy mixture, and salt and pepper to taste. The dressing can be made up to a day ahead; refrigerate extra for up to three days.
For the croutons: Preheat the oven to 350°. Place 1 cup olive oil and the remaining garlic into a small saucepan over low heat. Cook until garlic is light brown, about 10 minutes. Watch carefully so garlic does not burn. Remove garlic and reserve for another use. Meanwhile, cut baguette into 1/2-inch cubes, toss with 4 tablespoons of the garlic oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Place bread cubes on a rimmed baking sheet, and bake until crisp and golden brown, about 15 minutes.
Assembly: Toss romaine leaves with half of the dressing, 1-1/2 cups of the croutons, 2 tablespoons Parmesan, and salt and pepper to taste. Divide between 4 plates, sprinkle with remaining cheese and serve. Reserve the extra croutons for another use.
*The amount of garlic used depends on personal preference and the season. You can use more young spring garlic, but use older, strongly flavored winter garlic more sparingly. Note that the recipe contains an uncooked egg, which in rare instances might carry salmonella.
Per serving: 360 calories, 5 g protein, 5 g carbohydrate, 37 g fat (6 g saturated), 60 mg cholesterol, 646 mg sodium, 1 g fiber.
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Hi, I am new to Primal recommended by a paddling (Kayaking) club member,
who also is a natural chiropractor. I had been following ZONE diet (similar in many ways) for 7 years.
Only just got interested in exercise last August, after being a couch potato, except for kayaking. Started hiking and bicycling again, last summer, as well. It was the hiking and out-of-shape up mountains and losing last 10 lbs that got me to finally consider exercise.
Anyway, ZONE is similar diet/eating/lifestyle in many ways. Been taking Fisk Oil, Vitamin D etc for 7 years, now. I have a question about the Appo-B number on my cholesterol test. 8 years ago before doing any diet/health changes my total Cholesterol was 264. Dr. (a shame he moved, was conservative) suggested diet and exercise. One year later, after no change in my lifestyle, my cholesterol was 284. Dr. prescribed Zocor 20 mg for 90 days, and again suggested a diet and lifestyle change. With my weight also being up decided to make a change. Hated diet books, all seemed extreme (and most are). Wife happened to bring home Omega-Rx Zone that week, and having off the rest of the day from work for Dr. appt., I decided to read this, another "diet" book. Well this was more science backed-up and more about lifestyle and not "diet". I decided to give it a try including a high Quality Fish Oil / Omega-3.
45 days into 90 day Zocor, I was on a 1-week business trip. Upon return, I found I could not find the Zocor. Oh well, I thought, let me really put eating lifestyle change to the test. After 90 days returned to Dr. and cholesterol was 224! (And weight was down, too.)
So after 7 years of maintaining, I finally started exercising last August as mentioned.
When my paddling chiroprator friend told me about Mark;s daily Apple, I was intrigued. From Dr. Barry Sears and ZONE, I knew about 2 LDL cholesterol, but in layemen terms of "fluffy, beachball, harmless" and "smaller, dense, problematic" - which I now know as Pattern A and Pattern B from the Primer that Giff (sic?) put together on these forums.
So having just ordered a blood test for my next annual exam (different Dr., unfortunately - my previous hard-to-find and rare conservative Dr. moved out of the area 5 years ago.) I asked them to add the Appo-B test. (I did not know about VAAP, then. Next year.
I am not sure what numbers regarding Appo-B mean or good range? I am not worried because even Dr. Sears emphasizes the TriG/HDL ratio, too, and mine dropped from above 4.0 pre 7 years ago to about 1.0 post lifestyle change.
So, as a reference here are my numbers:
Only three dates: 7 years ago, 1 year ago pre-any exercise, & 3 days ago post-exercise with Appo-B test results.
Time:.....7 yr.....1 yr.....3 day
LDL........213......117......100 (calculated? Friedewald?)
LDL........n/a........87........69 (calculated via Iranian from this forum's formula)
TriG/HDL..4.0..... .76....... .61
So, I am not sure what to make of Appo-B nor what it means?
Esp. in light of all other numbers being so excellent.
It has been shown in studies that a high apo B concentration reflects a dominance of small, dense LDL, even in the case where LDL is a "normal" number. You don't want small, dense LDL, you want large fluffy LDL and therefore a low apo B concentration. Apo B is a better predictor of heart disease risk than a simple LDL number. 79 is within a good range, anything below 109mg/dL is considered good.


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The Boston Bruins announced they have recalled center Carter Camper from Providence Monday evening and will join the club in St. Louis for practice Tuesday.
This is Camper's first-career NHL call up and earned it with his first professional hat trick coming in a 4-3 win over the Connecticut Whale on Sunday at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.
Camper, 23 gives the Bruins an extra forward on the bench as the club has been thin without the presence of Nathan Horton (concussion) and Rich Peverley (knee).
In 53 games with the P-Bruins, Camper has 14 goals playing in the No. 1 center position and leads the team in points (38) and assists (24).
Boston faces the Blues Wednesday in the fourth of its six-game road trip then travel to Buffalo and Ottawa before coming back home next Tuesday, Feb. 28.
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text: Hey my friend, saw your log and once I clicked on it I didnt want to click off. Theres a great wee community just on this log alone haha. keep fighting the fight my friend, and well done not gaining a pound whilst travelling, that cant have been easy (or normal).