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Production has begun on Marvel Studios' ANT-MAN AND THE WASP. This is not a drill. It is happening. Peyton Reed is back to help direct this second installment. Remember I interviewed Peyton Reed for the first movie and he is very cool. He did an amazing job so I am sure he will do even better with this second one.
Click here for a tiny start of production announcement which is kind of cute:
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña and Michael Douglas return for the highly anticipated "Ant-Man" sequel
BURBANK, CALIF. (August 1, 2017)—Marvel Studios announced today that production has begun on "Ant-Man and The Wasp," starring Paul Rudd ("Captain America: Civil War," "The Fundamentals of Caring"), Evangeline Lilly ("The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," "Lost"), Michael Peña ("The Martian," "Fury") and Academy Award® winner Michael Douglas ("Behind the Candelabra," "Wall Street"), who all return to the roles they originated in the 2015 box office hit "Ant-Man." Bobby Cannavale ("Vinyl," "Chef"), Judy Greer ("War for the Planet of the Apes," "Wilson"), Abby Ryder Fortson ("Togetherness," "Transparent"), Tip "T.I." Harris ("Sleepless," "Get Hard") and David Dastmalchian ("Twin Peaks," "The Belko Experiment") also reprise their supporting roles.
The highly-anticipated follow-up welcomes Academy Award® nominees Michelle Pfeiffer ("The Wizard of Lies," upcoming "Murder on the Orient Express") and Laurence Fishburne ("John Wick: Chapter 2," "The Matrix"), along with Hannah John-Kamen ("Black Mirror," "Ready Player One"), Walton Goggins ("Vice Principals," "Six") and Randall Park ("Veep," "Fresh Off the Boat") to the ensemble cast.
"Ant-Man" director Peyton Reed ("Yes Man," "The Break-Up") returns to helm Marvel Studios' action-adventure from a screenplay by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers, Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, and Paul Rudd. The film, which opens in U.S. theaters on July 6, 2018, will be filmed in Atlanta and San Francisco.
From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes a new chapter featuring heroes with the astonishing ability to shrink: "Ant-Man and The Wasp." In the aftermath of "Captain America: Civil War," Scott Lang (Rudd) grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father. As he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he's confronted by Hope van Dyne (Lilly) and Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas) with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from their past.
Marvel Studios'' "Ant-Man and The Wasp" is produced by Kevin Feige with Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard, Charles Newirth and Stan Lee serving as executive producers.
The director's creative brain trust includes Academy Award®-nominated director of photography Dante Spinotti ("L.A. Confidential"), production designer Shepherd Frankel ("Ant-Man"), costume designer Louise Frogley ("Spider-Man: Homecoming"), visuals effects supervisor Stephane Ceretti ("Doctor Strange") and seven-time Academy Award® nominee, special effects supervisor Dan Sudick ("Captain America: Civil War").
Marvel Studios continued its unprecedented success with the release of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" on May 5, which topped the opening weekend box office with a domestic take of over $146 million and has gone on to garner over $860 million at the worldwide box office to date.
On July 7, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" opened at #1 with an opening weekend box office of $117 million and has earned a worldwide box office of over $633 million to date.
In 2016, Marvel Studios released "Captain America: Civil War," which opened on May 6 with the fifth largest opening weekend of all time and has since garnered box office receipts of over $1.15 billion worldwide.
The juggernaut studio ended last year with its newest Super Hero "Doctor Strange," starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams. The film opened #1 at the box office on November 4 and went on to gross more than $677 million worldwide to date. The two films propelled Marvel Studios' #1 domestic box-office opening streak to a record-breaking 14 consecutive films.
Marvel Studios' other epic big-screen adventures include "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "Iron Man 2," "Thor," "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Marvel's The Avengers," "Iron Man 3," "Thor: The Dark World," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Avengers: Age of Ultron," "Ant-Man" and the upcoming "Thor: Ragnarok" (November 3, 2017), "Black Panther" (February 16, 2018) and "Avengers: Infinity War" (May 4, 2018).
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. says passengers on some routes can now borrow an iPad 2 at the airport to watch on-demand TV during the flight.
It's an expansion of a deal that the airline has with Dish satellite TV.
Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that the offer will apply to Southwest customers who are flying on WiFi-enabled planes between Chicago's Midway Airport, Denver and Oakland, Calif.
Passengers will be able to check out the tablet computers, watch free live programming on the plane, and return the device at the end of the flight. And sign up for Dish service at home.
A spokeswoman for Dish said the company was providing about 200 iPads at each of the three airports. They must be checked out at a booth in the terminal and can't be reserved ahead of time, she said.
Dish and Southwest announced in July that passengers would be able to watch certain live TV networks on their own devices for free on most Southwest planes, with Dish picking up the tab for the promotion through the end of the year. Southwest had been charging $5 a day for a similar service.

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And now, an open letter of love to Ellen Degeneres for this video. It's four minutes…it's worth it. Check it below:
A love letter for the following reasons: she does not, in fact, do this kind of thing all the time; if she had a hilarious skewery video every week, it'd be one thing but this is more than just the latest Funny Or Die.
I assume her lead-in about being asked to be the spokesperson is true. While she would never have actually endorsed it outright, she could easily have been one of those celebrities who declines but agrees to be seen holding the product "by accident" or in passing.
She could have made the reasonable choice not to upset anyone. After all, sooner or later someone in the Bic corporation would want to buy advertising or sponsor something, right? She might easily have agreed with a half-dozen nervous producers who uneasily said the roasting of these things might "look bad". Believe me, whenever these kinds of things come up, there are always nervous people worrying.
But she didn't.
She included the fact that she'd been asked to endorse the product. She made a video that was long enough the point could not be missed. She included just the right Massengill outfits, since that's basically what we're talking about here, who are we kidding. She hired a tween actor to play the daughter, which means she had to explain the joke (though chances are the kid gets it just fine), thereby paying it forward.
In short, she ripped them a hilarious new one. Smart, funny, and playing by her own rules. Ellen's far from the only one – there are literally thousands of mocking reviews on Amazon – and yeah, sure, it's that much easier to roast something when you have your own show to do it on. Does that take away from the fact that she said something – the right something?
You know what? Good. People are paid extremely high salaries to be funny and to entertain us and point out the things that are ridiculous about our lives. Women who are comedians are still rare enough that their insight into the bullsh-t being bandied around is valuable. This is what it should cost to be a celebrity. There should be a social responsibility.
And notice how much nicer it goes down when there's a spoonful of humour and a stuffed dog involved? How much of Ellen's audience do you think was delighted? How many of them would be horrified if you described them with the "f" word?
Attached - Ellen was awarded the Mark Twain Prize For American Humour in Washington on Monday.


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|Toafeek Hassan,
Lagos, Sunday.news media cloud2 gathered that the deceased, a yet-to-be identified lady, approached Hassan, a
cleric, for spiritual cleansing in Sango Otta, due to some challenges she was facing. Toafeek Hassan
Arrested news media cloud2 gathered that he was on his way to hand over the needed body parts to a cleric
yesterday, when he was accosted by curious people, as the bag was dripping blood. When they forcefully
took the bag from him, a female head, two wrists and a heart spilled out. They raised alarm, which alerted
other residents. But for the prompt intervention of policemen from Area 'K' Command, Badagry, Hassan
would have been lynched by a mob, who tied his hands, legs and was dragging him on the ground.
Confession On interrogation before police arrived, Hassan disclosed that it was his second time of
killing clients for the unnamed cleric for ritual purpose. According to him, "she was not my direct client.
A herbalist, Baba Ronke, brought her to me on Sunday. One Alfa from Sango-Otta took her to him. He
said that the woman was looking for spiritual solution. "The Alfa from Otta uses human beings for rituals.
He deceived the woman to Badagry, saying he was bringing her to a senior colleague, who would perform
some cleansing by the river side on her. "Immediately they dropped the woman by the riverside they left,
with a promise to wait for her at the bus stop. While she was waiting, I came and did my part of the job."
Asked how he killed her, Hassan did not state clearly how he committed the act. He only replied that "I
began by asking her where she came from; she said she was from Ojodu Berger. I felt pity for her, but I
could not help the situation. "I was on my way to deliver the needed parts to the Alfa at Sango-Otta when
I was arrested. This is my second time of working for Baba Ronke and Alfa." Police sources hinted that
his accomplices fled when news of Hassan's arrest went round. Contacted, Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, Olarinde Cole-Famous, confirmed the incident, saying investigation was ongoing.


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When SUNY Cortland campus pedestrians enter the Moffett Center lobby closest to Sperry Center, their eyes are likely to be drawn upward. They will meet a massive boat-like sculpture hanging from the lobby ceiling, a work that measures 26 feet in length and gives the impression it is gliding through the air.
The multimedia sculpture, created from scratch by Vaughn Randall, an assistant professor of art and art history, and commissioned by Craig Little, a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of sociology/anthropology, was added to the Moffett Center lobby in January. Fittingly named "Passage," it marks one SUNY Cortland faculty member's artistic ability and another's generosity.
But even more striking is its beaming symbolism for the entire College community.
"If you look at the piece, it's going from left to right," Little said. "It appears to have movement. I think that our lives — as faculty, staff members and, above all, students — that's what we're doing. We're moving through our lives."
For Randall, a boat suggests a voyage.
"It's a good symbol of adventure and creativity, and therefore the pursuit of knowledge," he said.
Many alumni, faculty members and friends of the College have gifted or created artwork for SUNY Cortland. Little's gift, however, is believed to be the first piece commissioned by a faculty member.
The idea first came to him when the Sociology/Anthropology Department moved from Cornish Hall to a newly renovated section of Moffett Center in 2009. His department's new location was gorgeous, he thought, but there was a sense of emptiness in the well-traveled passageway.
"I'm walking through that space, and I'm thinking to myself: 'This would be a great place for a Calder-type mobile,'" said Little, referring to the mobile sculpture work of American artist Alexander Calder.
His interest in art was spurred by his wife, Elaine. She developed a deep artistic appreciation during her retirement, even opting to audit courses through SUNY Cortland's Art and Art History Department.
"I can imagine that absent the connection with my wife, I could walk through that space and never look up and think: 'That would be a great place for something,'" Little said.
It became clear early on that an artistic centerpiece would require a financial backer, so Little decided to fund it. He approached Charles Heasley, the chair of the Art and Art History Department, and asked for a suggested artist.
"My thought was, 'If I'm going to commission something, I want to commission a Cortland artist,'" Little said.
Enter Randall, a woodworker and an artist who works primarily with cast iron.
The two men discussed the possibilities and Randall sent Little sketches based on their conversations. The patron-artist relationship, both men said, was impeccable.
"Passage," the new sculpture in Moffett Center,
measures 26 feet long and 125 pounds.
"He let me have carte blanche, basically free rein, over everything artistic," Randall said.
Still, the labor wasn't easy. Randall worked two months worth of 10-hour days during the summer on the project, regularly re-designing and re-cutting wood.
"Any long process, you start out with this brilliant idea in your head," said Randall. "Then you have to actually bring it into reality and do the hard work, make some mistakes and fix the mistakes as you go."
He used four different types of wood, fabric and steel in the process and constructed the sculpture "like a high-end wooden kayak," because it would hang from the ceiling. Despite a boat hull, paddles and an airplane wing, the piece weighed only 125 pounds.
Transporting the sculpture, which was built in separate pieces, required a trailer. It took four hours for Randall, Preston Marye, the technical director for the Performing Arts Department, and Jenn McNamara, an assistant professor of art and art history, to elevate it.
And now Little, a SUNY Cortland faculty member since 1972, has offered the final product as a gift to the Cortland College Foundation.
"In terms of professional opportunity, in terms of human interactions with my colleagues and students, this place means a lot to me," he said.
Although a formal dedication and reception will take place in April, both Little and Randall have spent time in the Moffett Center lobby where the sculpture hangs, watching people enter the building.
Immediately, eyes move to the ceiling.
"If I make someone stop and think for five seconds," Randall said, "then I've done my job."


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A small southern Southeast Alaska ferry line is of large value to the region's economy. That's according to a new report studying the Inter-Island Ferry Authority.
The authority, known as the IFA, carries about 52,000 passengers a year.
A single ferry leaves the eastern Prince of Wales Island port of Hollis each morning. It arrives in Ketchikan about three hours later, and then waits 'til the evening to sail back.
A new study shows it's an important part of the region's economy. (Read the study's report.)
"No one is no more dependent on IFA's daily timetable than those trying to get fresh or live seafood to market," says Meilani Schijvens of Juneau-based Sheinberg Associates. She authored the report, funded by a state grant to the authority.
Schijvens says the ferry carries 3 million pounds of seafood a year, with a value of $15 million.
Researchers talked to Prince of Wales Island fishermen, divers and logistics workers for the report.
"And the businesses told us that without the IFA, they wouldn't be in business," Schijvens says. She says the ferry also supports seafood processors in Ketchikan.
The report says tourists and others traveling to the island spend close to $6 million a year. And islanders headed to Ketchikan purchase about $10 million in goods.
"We talked to the floor manager in Walmart there and he let us know that approximately 10 percent of all of his customers are coming off the ferry. And those numbers add up," Schijvens says.
The Inter-Island Ferry Authority study also shows close to 4,000 students sailing the route in a year. About the same number traveled for medical care in Ketchikan or elsewhere.
Other details of economic and human impacts are included in the full report. (Read the report.)
"I think what it means to us is being able to explain to other people what we mean to them," says Dennis Watson. the IFA's general manager. He's also mayor of Craig, the largest city on Prince of Wales.
He says it's important to note that the ferry authority covers three-quarters of its costs through ticket sales. That's far more than the state ferry system, and better than its cousins in Washington state and British Columbia.
Watson says that still leaves about a $750,000 hole in the IFA's $4 million-a-year budget.
The Parnell administration has put $500,000 in a funding bill, though there's no guarantee it will make it through the Legislature.
Watson says some of what's left will be raised internally.
"The board has entertained a fare increase just for adult walk-ons. The seniors and children or vehicles won't be affected by it," he says.
That'll be a few dollars on top of the $46.25 one-way fare.
The Inter-Island Ferry Authority has provided Prince-of-Wales-to-Ketchikan service for about a dozen years. It also ran a northern route for a few seasons, but it didn't attract enough passengers.
Before that, the Alaska Marine Highway System made port calls, but they were less frequent.
Report author Schijvens says that didn't do a lot for island residents.
"They absolutely made it work for them at the time. But this is so much better, in terms of being able to have student groups travel, and to go from Prince of Wales to Ketchikan and back again during the day, and not have to get up in the middle of the night, and being able to go one way by ferry and to also come back by ferry," she says.
Before it began, IFA critics predicted it would have to rely heavily on state funding to survive. The report says conditions have changed and the authority is doing well, given the situation.
That includes fuel costs that have risen five-fold since then and the island's population shrinking by about a fifth.


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Through five games, Pierre Thomas and Darren Sproles have combined for nearly double the yards and three times more touchdowns in the passing game than the running game - despite the fact that they are also the top two rushers on the team.
Saints running back Pierre Thomas scampers to the end zone on a screen pass versus the Chicago Bears.
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - When Drew Brees has handed off to Pierre Thomas or Darren Sproles, it hasn't amounted to much lately.
Yet when Brees has targeted either running back with short passes, it has produced first downs, touchdowns, sustained drives and victories for the unbeaten New Orleans Saints.
Through five games, Thomas and Sproles have combined for nearly double the yards and three times more touchdowns in the passing game than the running game - despite the fact that they are also the top two rushers on the team.
Such statistical trends do not necessarily reflect well on New Orleans' running game, but also demonstrate how dynamic coach Sean Payton's offense can be.
"In a lot of cases, we look to the short passing game as an extension of the run. So when you're efficient with the passing game it can serve that purpose a little bit," Brees said. "Now would we like to be better than we have been rushing the football in certain situations? Yes. ... But I'd say those guys (Sproles and Thomas), just from the sheer standpoint of touches, contributions, the passing game is just as important to them as the run game."
Thomas has accounted for 166 yards and two touchdowns receiving, including a key 25-yard score on a screen pass in Chicago last weekend. He has 137 yards and no touchdowns rushing. Sproles has 308 yards and one touchdown receiving, versus 103 yards and one TD rushing.
Both running backs say they're by no means satisfied by their production on the ground and hope to improve in that area at New England this weekend. At the same time, they appreciate the chances they get to make up for it through the air.
"You've got to call what works, and if you see the running game isn't working too good, you want to start going to the passing game, which has always been working for us. But we want to be a balanced team," Thomas said. "We want to establish a running game. That's something we take pride in and something we want to focus on more ... We haven't given up on the ground game at all."
Currently the Saints rank 26th in the NFL in rushing, averaging 78.2 yards per game. Still the Saints have managed to sustain drives and control the ball. Their average time of possession of 34:37 ranks first in the NFL.
"Statistically, it doesn't look like our running game is doing very well right now, but if you look at the games as a whole, a lot of our short passing game ... is really helping us control time of possession," center Brian de la Puente said. "Ultimately, we want to put ourselves in the best situation to have the most advantageous play called. Sometimes that's going to be those quick passes and unfortunately the run game suffers.
"Pierre has an uncanny ability to set up blocks, make us look good on screen plays, the short passing game, check downs," de la Puente continued. "Darren is just tough to cover in space ... He creates a lot of interesting matchups and he's so dang quick it makes it difficult to cover him especially in short and intermediate routes."
The Patriots agree.
"It's definitely tough, especially when they have great receivers," Patriots safety Steve Gregory said of monitoring Sproles and Thomas. "They have a tight end that can really stretch the field and then you got backs that can not only run it when you hand it off to them but they can spread out and line up as a receiver and hurt you in that way. So they definitely present challenges and it's something that we'll have to be on top of our game and know where those guys are on the field at all times, and try to come up with a scheme and a plan to stop them."
Notes: S Roman Harper (knee), WR Lance Moore (hand), RT Zach Strief (ankle) and DE Tyrunn Walker (knee) sat out Wednesday's practice, while DT Brodrick Bunkley, RB Mark Ingram (toe), S Malcolm Jenkins (neck) and CB Keenan Lewis (knee) were limited. Ingram has not been listed as practicing since Week 2. ... OLB Keyunta Dawson, newly signed following the release of OLB Jay Richardson on Tuesday, practiced with the Saints on Wednesday and wore No. 55.
AP Sports Writer Howard Ulman contributed to this report from Foxboro, Mass.


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Review: Green Lantern: New Guardians Vol. 1: The Ring Bearer hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)
Thursday, December 06, 2012
There's nothing wrong necessarily with Tony Bedard's characterization of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner here, though in dialogue Bedard's Rayner still has inexplicable tics that grate through the whole book. Artist Tyler Kirkham's more animated style begins to gell here, even better suited to the wilder aliens of Guardians than it was to Green Lantern Corps previously, but the art has a tendency toward sexual gratuity that's just embarrassing.
Despite this, The Ring Bearer triumphs over Green Lantern and Corps's repetitive storylines and Red Lanterns's stilted introspection because here, something actually happens. The most interesting part of Geoff Johns's revitalized Green Lantern franchise has been the multi-hued Corps, and Bedard brings representatives from each together and plays them off one another in engaging ways. The identity of the person who brought together the "New Guardians" is amusing, full of story potential, and Ring Bearer deals with some of the better plot threads left hanging from War of the Green Lanterns.
At least for the first New 52 Green Lantern collections, the site of the franchise's forward action seems to be New Guardians.
[Review contains spoilers]
Though New Guardians starts slowly with a typical characters-misunderstand-and-fight, it quickly turns to two of the biggest open questions in Lantern lore right now: what did the Guardians do to former Guardian-Lantern Ganthet's mind, and whatever happened to the Guardian Sayd, Ganthet's love and prisoner of Agent Orange Larfleeze? Bedard takes up both of these, and especially strong is the inference that Sayd is secretly manipulating Larfleeze.
The "New Guardian" team is surprisingly compelling. They fight together, at first grudgingly against their common enemy, the Guardians, but after they save one another a few times, some loyalty begins to emerge. Bedard writes an effective speech at the end of the book in which Rayner notes that in working together, the Lanterns become "better than what our power rings say we are." This is a significantly "post-modern" idea -- Geoff Johns has spent a few years establishing the fearsome Sinestro Corps, the angry Red Lanterns, and others, and now New Guardians takes it a step forward to demonstrate how the characters are more complicated than just their rings.
It helps that Bedard populates New Guardians with fan favorites like Sinestro Corpsman Arkillo and Blue Lantern Saint Walker; even in the first issue's fight scene, there's always some entertainment seeing these characters together. Arkillo and Walker have an unexpectedly touching scene in the fourth issue, where Walker restores Arkillo's voice after the warlord Mongul ripped out his tongue some two years ago. For fans of the Green Lantern books, this is an authentic moment -- readers saw Arkillo's defeat and they've seen his shame in numerous stories -- and it suggests the kind of character spotlighting that Bedard can do in this book.
It's also a riot that Larfleeze plays Bosley to the New Guardian's Charlie's Angels, gathering the team and directing them on their first mission (with Sayd's help). Few would predict that Larfleeze would one day add "team leader" to his resume, though at the end of the book, the New Guardians switch to align with Larfleeze's enemy, the alien angel Invictus, and they're directed to kill Larfleeze. Hopefully, despite that Larfleeze is about to star in Keith Giffen's Threshold, Bedard is able to keep him around and to put the New Guardians back under his thrall; it's too much fun to think of him in charge of this team. Bedard also gets points for using Larfleeze's adorable orange construct Glomulus, and suggesting there might be more to the imp than it seems.
Bedard, however, hears a strange Kyle Rayner in his head. As in Green Lantern Corps, Bedard's Rayner is foolishly, inappropriately "hip" -- Kyle calls everyone "dude," from the construction worker he saves in the beginning to Invictus in the end. Bedard's Rayner has never met a colloquialisms he didn't like; rarely does Bedard let a "them" or "about" go by without spelling it as "'em" or "'bout," along with the numerous "wannas" and "gottas."
Bedard's Rayner is at least not the skeevy oversexed pat character here that Rayner has been variously portrayed as over the years (of which the audience saw shades in Bedard's Green Lantern Corps), but Bedard's speech patterns for Rayner just don't make sense. They are not consistent with how Rayner has been written by others (if anything, Bedard's Rayner sounds more like Lantern Guy Gardner) and they suggest a kind of inanity that in fact doesn't even match the actions Bedard gives Rayner, which are uniformly heroic. Ring Bearer emerges as perhaps the best Green Lantern book that Bedard has written so far, if only his Kyle Rayner could be adjusted slightly.
Tyler Kirkham's accentuated, oversized figures fare better here than they did in the War of the Green Lanterns crossover, where they stood out too much beside the straighter lines and smaller panels of Doug Mahnke and Fernando Pasarin. With the big personalities of Arkillo, Saint Walker, Larfleeze, Invictus, and others, Kirkham shines, and this is a rare New 52 collection where the book's art even seems to improve as the book goes on. Unfortunately, the sole woman in most of this story is the Star Sapphire Fatality, with her shirt unzipped and cleavage exposed, and Kirkham never misses an opportunity to include her breasts in a panel, even having her fly upside down at one point so her chest faces the camera.
Worse, Kirkham has at least two quintessential "she has no head" moments, in issue #5 and #6, where the panel lops off Fatality's head and her dialogue seems to come from her chest; in issue #6, a poorly-placed word balloon makes it seem as though her breasts are speaking. These are moments that make New Guardians seem juvenile, and it's a pity Kirham mars his work with them.
Of all of the first volumes of the Green Lantern books, Tony Bedard and Tyler Kirkham's Green Lantern: New Guardians: The Ring Bearer is the most fun, the one with the best sense of cosmic wide-eyed wonder. Both writer and artist, however, lose some points in the details, and it hurts a book that shows good potential. New Guardians's second volume will bear a look, and hopefully some of these issues get resolved as the series continues.
[Includes original covers, just two sketchbook pages by Tyler Kirkham]
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I don't know if New Guardians is the best GL book, but I do agree with most of your points, especially in it being the funnest book of the 4 titles.ReplyDelete
Red Lanterns is more introspective, Corps is action and melodramatic (as well as using the same storyline over-and-over again), and Geoff Johns main GL title is all about furthering the mythos. New Guardians, thankfully, offsets itself by not taking itself seriously and being fun. Any GL fanboy will enjoy it just for seeing Johns 8 year run come to fruition. What kind of fan wouldn't want to see a team made up of every member of a lantern corps? (now if Bedard can get a black lantern and white lantern on the team, fans will die happy).
It's also the hub title branching into the other 3 books. Bleez zips in and out from this on Milligans Red Lanterns, and Arkillo's ties to Johns Green Lantern title for being the last yellow lantern.
So although I still prefer Johns main GL title, New Guardians is easily second place and is the funnest. Though I do wish Bedard tone down Kyle's hip-factor. Kyle has come such a long way from being the down-to-earth straight man, to...this, sadly.
None the less, great review and I agree with most of it.
This is one book I was really anticipated for.ReplyDelete
I mean I'm a big fan of the 90s/early 2000s GL title with Kyle. It's great to let him have his own book once again.
Also since this book is the one that plays the most with the recent GL concepts (the "rainbow" corps, Ganthet, etc.) it feels much like a pre-New 52 title.
@Lionheart, a dedicated Black Lantern and White Lantern on this team would be fun. And as a continuity wonk, I liked seeing Bleez zip in and out in this collection -- I actually thought Bleez's role in New Guardians made her transformation in Red Lanterns make a lot more sense.ReplyDelete
I finally read New Guardians, Vol. 1, after waiting for the paperback. It was my 26th (and probably final) N52 Vol. 1 collection and I really enjoyed it. And I can agree with CE that it is maybe the best first volume of the Green Lantern books. I definetely is Bedard's best GL book so far.ReplyDelete
And though the characterization of Kyle isn't always perfect, I recognized how much I missed the character after exactly two years without him. As someone reading DC comics since Zero Hour / Emerald Twilight times, Kyle is still "my" Green Lantern.
I also like the idea of the colored corps, so this volume had a lot going for me.


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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) is launching two new post-secondary certificates for cooking and baking, developed in partnership with Pearson Education.
These industry-recognized, knowledge-based certificates are designed to confirm students' understanding and comprehension of key cooking and baking principles.
The certificates are earned by culinary students who successfully pass two separate and distinct examinations. The exams are sold exclusively by Pearson's Professional and Career Higher Education Sales Team (colleges and universities) and Pearson's Career and Technical Education Sales Team (K-12).
The exams were developed by a team of subject-matter experts from post-secondary academia and the industry to ensure these tests focus on the key concepts critical for success in the restaurant and foodservice industry.
Based on the objectives found in market-leading post-secondary textbooks, a detailed analysis of the course objectives was completed to identify the critical competencies required of a culinary arts student.
"As the restaurant industry's leading provider of training and certification for more than 40 years, the National Restaurant Association is expanding its post-secondary portfolio to help the industry's workforce grow and succeed in a variety of areas within culinary and hospitality," says Paul Hineman, executive vice president of the NRA.
"Our new cooking and baking certificates serve as a strong indicator to employers that job applicants are well-versed in these core competencies," he adds. "In addition, the certificates are a lasting recognition of a student's accomplishment and will help support them in their job search."
Similar to other NRA products, the exams can be administered online or offline (pencil and paper), meeting the needs of instructors and students. Exams are to be administered in a proctored environment by a registered instructor.
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Sweet success nets teen a cool $40,000 college scholarship
Columbus Ohio –When Michael Showalter's parents asked him to earn money toward college, they had in mind an after-school job. But Michael started a small business, Guiseppe's Italian Ice, which quickly turned a profit. He then used his business's success story to win the McKelvey Foundation's $40,000 college scholarship, awarded to student entrepreneurs.
Guiseppe's Italian Ice operates out of pop-up tents, dishing up traditional Italian Ice to tired, thirsty fairgoers at festivals and outdoor events. Showalter buys the product from Little Jimmy's Italian Ice in New Jersey, where it's manufactured according to a century-old family recipe. "It's healthier than most desserts, especially stuff that you find at a festival. One of the reasons I sell this brand is it does not have high-fructose corn syrup," said Showalter. Popular flavors are lemon, blue raspberry, watermelon and cherry. From time to time, the menu also features pina colada, chocolate, grape and green apple Italian ice.
His enterprise, named after his father, began a year ago with an initial investment of $14,000. He recouped those startup costs handily, and in fact, broke even. Soon, Giuseppe's began adding employees. With eight workers and two tents, Showalter has invested another $20,000 to expand his market–next year, Giuseppe's Italian Ice will be sold in both Ohio and Michigan.
Showalter demonstrated true entrepreneurial grit, planning and executing a business that could have taken a lifetime to build, in just a matter of months. "It's been real fun so I keep doing it," said Showalter. "But it's been a lot more work than I thought it would be originally, that's for sure."
Like most entrepreneurs, he is constantly expanding his funding horizon, and never shies from opportunity. The McKelvey Entrepreneurial e-scholarship could have been designed for Michael Showalter—it was created in 2006 to relieve the burden of debt many students face after graduation.
The Entrepreneurial Scholarship is offered by the McKelvey Foundation to high school students who start their own businesses or nonprofit agencies. The foundation's founder is Andy McKelvey, who started his own first business selling eggs at age 14, and went on to found several successful businesses, the largest of which evolved into the online employment ad giant, Monster.com. The McKelvey Foundation currently supports over 600 students achieving a better future.
Showalter graduated from high school this year, and isn't yet sure what his major will be at the University of Michigan. But he is sure about how he'll earn his income–he'll continue selling Guiseppe's Italian Ice at festivals, fairs, and public events.
There are many more resources about entrepreneurial scholarships when you do a search in Google.
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A Nanaimo company has been granted a licence to test and analyze psychedelic drugs.
Salvation Botanicals' Nanaimo lab has been granted a controlled drugs and substances dealer's licence to test psychedelics such as psilocybin, mescaline and MDMA, said Michael Tan, the company's CEO, in an e-mail to the News Bulletin.
The licence authorizes possession, testing, sale, sending, transportation and delivery of psilocybin, psilocin, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDMA), according to a press release.
Although the licence authorizes sale of the psychedelics, Tan noted in the e-mail that at this point, the drugs can only be provided to those authorized to conduct research and development and clinical trials.
Salvation has partnered with Vancouver-based Numinus, which according to the release "aims to facilitate guided psychedelic therapy for individuals suffering from mental health issues, addiction, and trauma."
"Psychedelics for the treatment of mental health issues is a topic of high interest now, and Salvation is proud to be at the forefront of this space," Tan said, adding in the release that Salvation Botanicals is "strategically positioned to become a leader in controlled substances testing in Canada by providing scientific expertise and a commitment to our partner's success through an efficient and consultative approach."
Tan noted that a Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will begin soon through the B.C. Centre on Substance Use.
"Looking ahead beyond the Phase 3 clinical trial stage is the prospect of public use," he said.
He said Numinus is positioning itself as a channel for psychedelics-based therapy at clinics it plans to set up, and at that point, Salvation could potentially participate through research and development, testing and manufacturing.
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Pembroke natives Scott and Debbie Matthews understand the mechanics of owning a small business. They launched Pembroke-based Matthews Electric Inc, a full service electrical contracting company nearly two decades ago out of their Pembroke home, and later out of a 3,000 square foot facility in Marshfield.
Since the couple's humble beginnings, Matthews Electric enhanced its breadth of expertise to include generator sales, installation and service, prompting the recent launch of the company's sister business, New England Generator Corp. We have always done generator work and wanted to separate the generator part of the business so we could grow it.
Matthews Electric expanded their corporate footprint in 2013 to include a 16,000 square foot commercial facility on Pembroke's Columbia Rd. / Rte. 53. The company more than doubled its staff to include a collective 27 cross-trained technicians, 2 master electricians, and several journeyman electricians. Due to the growth, superior customer service, along with our Angie's A+ rating Matthews Electric was the proud recipient of the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce's 2013 Business of the Year award!
We have embodied the qualities that all small business owners would love to achieve starting a small business in our home and slowly accomplishing all that we can do to build it into something bigger and more substantial. The key to the company's success is simply this, understand what it is that the customer is requesting and provide them that exact service without overselling anything not needed. This along with placing a highly trained workforce into the field and providing superior customer satisfaction from our office is what separates us from the competition.
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After Eye-Fi initially launched Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards for digital cameras in 2007, we were generally impressed; the company figured out a way to effectively transfer photos wirelessly from certain SD card-ready cameras to computers. At the time, Eye-Fi was still trying to figure out where it and its products would fit in the Apple universe, having pitched the memory cards as accessories for the Mac version of iPhoto, and its young app as a way to automatically share iPhone snapshots online.
Flash forward to today, and things have dramatically improved thanks to a new series of Eye-Fi X2 cards, including Eye-Fi Pro X2 ($100). Now featuring class 6 read and write speeds, up to 8GB of memory, and a seriously upgraded application that can instantly fire off photos from digital cameras to any iOS device—even when you're not in range of a home or office Wi-Fi connection—these memory cards completely change the game for serious digital photographers. Pop an Eye-Fi X2 card into a compatible digital camera, go out in the field with your iOS device, and you'll be ready to start editing and sharing images from the iPod, iPhone, or iPad within minutes. If your iPhone or iPad has a cellular connection, you can literally upload DSLR-quality shots directly from the field to the Internet without using a computer. We've now tested this extensively with the Pro X2 model, as shown in this almost entirely Eye-Fi-transferred photo gallery, and it works.
Amazingly well, at that.
A few camera-specific caveats need to be acknowledged up front. You need to have a digital camera that's compatible with Eye-Fi cards, which have been increasing dramatically in number over the past few years. Some recent cameras, such as Canon's 5D Mark III, actually have integrated Eye-Fi-specific menus that recognize and provide basic configuration settings for the cards. Other cameras will either block the cards' Wi-Fi signals or not accommodate the cards for other reasons; the earlier 5D Mark II, for instance, has spotty Eye-Fi compatibility even when users buy CompactFlash/SD Card adapters and consider making other modifications. And even the aforementioned Eye-Fi-compatible 5D Mark III occasionally has SD card-related errors that may require you to pop the battery out and reset the camera. Various firmware updates have in some cases added, improved, or weakened Eye-Fi support, so there's no performance guarantee, but the trend has been greater support with fewer bugs over time.
Setup is handled pretty smoothly with Eye-Fi computer software—one time only if you want, setting up an account on Eye-Fi's servers that can be used for a variety of advanced sharing/gallery features—and the free iOS application, which uses some neat tricks to serve as a conduit for photos. Once your iOS device has been paired once with the Eye-Fi X2 card over Wi-Fi, the app automatically will look for the card whenever they're paired again, and start transferring new photos to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch without forcing you to lift a finger.
The only extra step beyond launching the app is taking a brief detour to your iOS Settings menu and tapping on the powered-on card's Wi-Fi network. In our testing, Pro X2 created this network for direct transfers no matter where we were, so long as the camera was turned on and the network was enabled to remain on in settings.
As a practical matter, the workflow improvements Eye-Fi Pro X2 creates are so considerable that any camera battery life impact the card creates will feel negligible, except on underpowered batteries. What used to be a labored "pull the memory card or plug your camera into the iPad Camera Connection Kit, import photos manually, disconnect the card or camera" process becomes "keep shooting or leave your camera on, wait for the app to finish transferring images to any iOS device—quickly—then turn the camera off." Eye-Fi includes a simple USB memory card reader with Pro X2, but iOS users probably won't have any use for it. Full-resolution images synced to your iOS device via the app get transferred automatically into your photo library, then synced back to your computer via iPhoto, Aperture, or other programs. It's all extremely easy, and far more device-compatible than Apple's iPad-only Camera Connection Kit.
This isn't to say that the Eye-Fi Pro X2 we purchased is perfect. The 8GB version's $100 price point seems so crazy by contrast with simpler, technically faster traditional SD cards that you'll really need to appreciate the direct-to-iOS wireless feature to be willing to buy in. And the company continues to maintain an initially confusing matrix of different products at various price points, differentiating $40, $80, and $100 cards primarily through software and post-purchase upgradeable features.


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- Pairs well with keyboard docking station
- IPS display provides better-than-average images
- No ports beyond a docking connector
Our Verdict
The Transformer stands well on its own, but it's notable when paired with Asus's terrific optional keyboard dock, which adds an SD Card slot, USB port, touchpad, and extra battery.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 Tablet doesn't stand on its own. But when paired with its matching keyboard dock, the Transformer morphs into a tablet that strikes an admirable balance between productivity and entertainment. At $399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model (or $499 for the 32GB Wi-Fi model, prices as of May 6, 2011), the Transformer is the least expensive Android 3.0 tablet to date; and the smaller-capacity version bests Apple's iPad 2 by $100.
None of this is to say that the Transformer's implementation is perfect. The hardware has some rough spots, and so do the Android OS and the $149 Mobile Docking Station option. But even taking those patches into account, the Transformer carves out a solid niche for itself in an increasingly crowded market.
Transformer's Hardware: Design Wins and Flubs
In its design, the Transformer shares some characteristics with other current tablets. The front face is dominated by a 10.1-inch display, with various buttons, ports, and slots distributed along the edges. The Transformer has familiar-sounding guts, too: It runs Nvidia's 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 platform, carries 1GB of RAM, and uses Google's Android 3.01 (Honeycomb) OS.
Like many of today's tablets–the superslim Apple iPad 2 being the notable exception–the Transformer measures 0.5 inch tall. It's longer than other tablets, besting the Acer Iconia Tab A500 by half an inch, the Motorola Xoom by almost a full inch, and the Apple iPad 2 by 1.2 inches. The extra length makes for an extra-wide bezel in landscape mode; it also allows the Transformer's physical size to match the Mobile Docking Station's, so the two can connect as a clamshell laptop would. (By itself, the Transformer measures 10.7 inches by 6.9 inches by 0.5 inch.) Designwise, this approach is a win.
What I found most disappointing about the Transformer was its physical build. At first blush, it feels sturdy enough, but I didn't like the flex built into the textured plastic back. The flex made the Transformer feel chintzy, as did the minute gaps between the metal frame and the scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass screen. But at least the Transformer's plastic design lowers its weight. At 1.5 pounds, it's heavier than the 1.3-pound iPad 2, but the Transformer benefits from good component balance on the inside that makes it feel lighter than it really is.
In other respects, the tablet's design is well executed. When held in landscape orientation, the power button and volume rocker sit at the upper right corners; and the 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera is at the top center. Along the right-hand edge are a 3.5mm audio jack (which doubles as a headphone output and a microphone input), the Mini-HDMI port, and the microSD card slot. Toward the bottom corners of the left and right edges are stereo speakers, but they aren't the only source of sound. Even when my fingers blocked the speaker grilles, I could hear audio clearly.
Asus explains that the Transformer's design also transmits audio through the same openings at the bottom of the tablet that serve as the connection points for the Mobile Docking Station. The tablet has SRS audio enhancements built-in, but there's no equalizer or similar app for adjusting sound, and there's nothing to adjust in the Android OS settings. The integrated SRS Wow HD audio does include support for virtual 5.1 surround sound in videos. In use, the speakers seemed superior to most tablet speakers I've listened to, but not nearly as good as the best ones I've heard on a tablet–those on the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook. Audio sounded reasonably full and distinct, with crisp though somewhat tinny vocals.
Running along the bottom edge of the Transformer is the 40-pin dock connector. The tablet comes with a power adapter and a USB-to-dock connector cable. The dock connector can charge from the adapter or via the cable, when connected to a PC (for a trickle charge only). The cable can also handle data transfers from a PC. Asus says that accessories will be available for the dock connector, including an SD Card reader and a USB-A port; however, the company hasn't indicated whether those accessories will ship in the United States when they become available later this summer.
At back is a 5.0-megapixel camera for still image capture and video capture at 720p; but there's no LED flash, as several competing tablets have. As on other Android 3.01 tablets, images look disappointing (for stills and videos both).
The Transformer uses a 1280-by-800-pixel IPS display, and has a widescreen 16:10 aspect ratio. As in Apple's iPad series, the use of IPS technology helps the tablet achieve excellent viewing angles (Asus says that the range is 178 degrees, and I noticed no color shift and a clear image as I shifted to extreme angles), improved color, and deeper blacks. Colors looked better than on other Android 3.01 tablets, but that could be because Asus adjusted Android's default color temperature and white balance to match its IPS screen. Still, the Transformer can't match the color accuracy of the Apple iPad 2.
The Transformer has 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR connectivity in this version. Asus expects to release 3G varieties via mobile carriers (to be announced) later this summer.
(Stay tuned to this space; we'll update the review with full testing from the PCWorld Labs.)
Transformer's Software, Customized
When I first turned the Transformer on, I noticed immediately some pleasant user-interface improvements that Asus made to stock Android 3.01.
For starters, the core navigation buttons are dramatically better. Asus replaced the standard Honeycomb nav buttons (three light-blue outlines that serve as the primary navigation aids at the lower left of the screen) with three white, solid button formations that are crisp and distinct. In particular, the back/exit button, better represents its function with a looping return arrow–an improvement on the stock Honeycomb's chintzy back arrow that looks more like a bookmark symbol.
Another big change involves the Asus keyboard. The stock gray Honeycomb keyboard is available as an option, but by default the Transformer uses Asus's own keyboard, which features a lighter gray background and dark, well-defined letters and numbers. The redesigned keyboard has a row of number keys up top; and keys in both the number row and the first letter row are slightly taller than the ones on rest of the keyboard. The keyboard appears to occupy about the same depth as the stock Honeycomb keyboard, but with the added benefit of the number row (a native first among the Android 3.0 tablets). The keyboard incorporates Google's predictive text, too, another native first for an Android 3.0 tablet. Unfortunately, this feature behaved a bit unpredictably in my testing. For example, it didn't work consistently when filling in fields in the Web browser. Also, the keyboard sacrifices some of its QWERTYness–by having its Z and S keys stacked, for example. On the whole, the keyboard was responsive.
In addition to introducing these adjustments, Asus provides a small selection of its own Android widgets to use in customizing the front face to dictate how you access your data. For example, you can get a large, friendly weather update; or choose My Zine widgets that present your photos, weather, and recently accessed Web, music, and book content in a fresh way. The approach is similar to–but not as far reaching as–Acer's handling of its Iconia Tab A500, where widgets appear as additional app icons primarily to create a sense of categorized folder hierarchy for your apps (Android 3.0 doesn't have folders, as Apple's iOS does). Asus's approach isn't as far-reaching as Samsung's TouchWiz interface on the 7-inch Android 2.2 Galaxy Tab or HTC's Sense UI overlay planned for its 7-inch Flyer. According to Asus, by omitting an extra overlay, the company can respond faster to OS updates as they come available from Google.
Asus also provides a couple of custom wallpapers, including the interactive MyWater wallpaper that reacts to the motions of the built-in gyroscope, and shows the battery level by changing the water level in the wallpaper. Fun touches, to be sure, but detrimental to battery life.
In use, the Transformer felt about as zippy (and as sluggish) as I've come to expect from the current crop of Tegra 2 tablets, depending on the activity. Its camera was actually slightly faster on the trigger than the ones on other Android 3.01 tablets I've used–but still pokey as molasses. This version of Android has image and text rendering issues, too, as its predecessors did. Images aren't rendered sharply and with good detail in the Android Gallery, and text appears to be insufficiently antialiased. Android 3.01 hasn't yet received a major update; one can only hope that these issues and others will be fixed in the future.
The Transformer comes preloaded with useful software. Some apps are unique to Asus: Asus's MyNet DLNA media sharing app; MyCloud for accessing Asus's Webstorage (2GB free for one year; unlimited storage for $5 monthly) or for connecting remotely to your desktop via the Splashtop-powered MyDesktop; MyLibrary for accessing newspaper, .Epub, and PDF book content. Also on board: Infraware's Polaris Office 3.0 for viewing and editing (and saving as Office 2003 files) Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; Layar; Fuze Meeting; and a file manager (which, like ones I've seen on other tablets, confusingly interprets the internal memory as a mounted SD Card). To get Adobe Flash 10.2, you'll have to download it on your own.
For the desktop, Asus provides downloadable utilities to complete the Transformer: PC Sync and Asus Webstorage.
The Keyboard Docking Station: How It Works
The Transformer gets its name, of course, from its companion piece, the $149 Mobile Docking Station. And Asus got this critical part of the equation right. The Mobile Docking Station transforms the Transformer into a netbooklike clamshell that weighs just under 3 pounds when combined (the docking station itself weighs 1.41 pounds). The bottom surface is composed of textured brown plastic, matching the design of the Transformer tablet itself. The two parts fit together seamlessly and easily, unlike keyboards that are of separate sizes and designs from the tablet (as is true of Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad 2); and the solution is far more integrated and elegant than even the best designed iPad cases I've seen that include a keyboard. The two pieces are of matching size, and when you attach the tablet to the hinged dock, the dock flips across the front of the tablet, just as if the combination were any other clamshell laptop. I didn't have any trouble aligning the tablet and snapping it into position; a slider lock beneath the tablet conveniently locks it into place.
When assembled as one, the Transformer and the Mobile Docking Station look smart and act clever: The touchscreen is fully operational while plugged in, save for access to the on-screen keyboard; but in addition, some key buttons–including Android back/exit and home buttons, and media playback and volume buttons–are integrated into the keyboard. The island-style keys on the 92 percent of full-size keyboard are distinct and easy to press, and they made accurate touch-typing a breeze. For its part, the silky touchpad supports easy mouse control in the Android environment.
The docking station has two USB 2.0 ports, each tucked behind a flap door, and one SDHC card slot. The ports flaps give the dock a smooth look along the edges, and they felt sturdily made, but they strike me as being an annoying impediment nonetheless.
The dock handled the various SD Cards and flash drives I plugged in, and the USB port can accommodate input devices such as an external mouse. However, Android 3.01 seemed to get confused easily when I repeatedly attached and detached USB drives–especially if I unplugged the drive without properly unmounting the media first.
When I plugged in a USB drive, the Android OS took a few moments to mount the media. Upon recognizing the item, the OS displayed a USB drive icon in the status bar tray at the right. You tap the icon to pop up a tab confirming that external storage has been recognized. At the tab's right are two, more subtle, features: a folder icon that takes you directly to the USB drive's contents via the included file manager; and an obtusely designed icon for unmounting the drive without having to dig into the Settings/Storage menu.
That the folder icon jumps you directly into the file manager is a good thing; otherwise, you have to hunt around in the file manager for the USB drive (which is buried under the Removable directory within the root directory). Finding the USB drives manually was an inefficient experience, given Android's plethora of files and folders. And yet, as rough as that part of the presentation was, the Transformer deserves props for allowing users to access and manipulate files on the tablet.
Here's a real-world productivity example. I could pop in a USB flash drive, open a Word .docx in the Polaris Office 3.0 software, edit the document, and then save it with a new name directly to the directory of my choice on the flash drive or in the tablet. Having resaved the document to the tablet, I opened the Gmail app and attached the newly edited file to an outbound e-mail message. The operation was nifty, convenient, and not doable in the same way with any other tablet shipping today.
A few times when I pulled the tablet out of its nest, it popped up one of Android's infamous "Force Close" errors. On other occasions, the mouse pointer stopped working and I had to unplug and reattach the tablet to get it to resume. And now and then I had to try multiple times to succeed in using the mouse pointer to select something. Another oddity: Using page up and down on a Web page sometimes caused it to navigate among HTML fields, instead of scrolling the whole page as I expected.
Still, these strike me as software glitches that Asus could fix in future firmware updates. For a first salvo, the experience was smoother than I expected, and the innovative design is a huge step beyond other dock setups I've seen. I loved being able to tap away fast e-mail messages, navigate the tablet while it stood upright, and even alternate between keyboard, touchscreen, and touchpad navigation.
By marrying the two components of the combination device, you'll get extra battery life (which Asus estimates will increase by about 72 percent over the battery life for the tablet alone). Plus, if you need to grab the Transformer and its Mobile Docking Station on the run–as when I did when passing through airport security–you can do so with one hand, a convenience for mobile professionals.
Bottom Line
In spite of my minor complaints about its design, this tablet is worthy of consideration. Asus's aggressive pricing, coupled with its above-average display, make the Transformer a serious contender. Even if you factor in the extra cost of the docking station, the costs are offset by that module's expandability and functionality. The big question, as with all early-round Honeycomb tablets, relates to the unknowns of Android 3.x's evolution and its thus-far slow-to-grow app environment. If neither of those issues is a deterrent, the Transformer + Mobile Docking Station could be a winning combination of productivity tool and entertainment demon.


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The FT-1900R provides a hefty 55 Watts of power output, with "low power" settings of 25, 10, and 5 Watts, for situations where full power is not required.
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The large 6 digit backlit LCD on the FT-1900R ensure excellent visibility
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The FT-1900R packs 3W BIG watts of Loud Audio with its own Internal Speaker for those noisy environments.
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The supplied MH-48a6j DTMF Microphone is illuminated for ease of nighttime use, and you may enter operating frequencies directly from the keypad. What's more, memory channels may also be recalled directly via the keypad.
200 Memory channels with Alpha-numeric Labeling
The FT-1900's extensive memory system includes 200 regular memories, ten pairs of band-limit memories, 8 memory banks, and a one-touch "Home" channel. Memory channels store repeater offset information, as well as CTCSS or DCS data, and can have a six-character label appended, for quick channel recognition. And the memories may be allocated into as many as eight memory banks, for more efficient scanning.
Dedicated 10-channel NOAA Weather Broadcast Channel Bank (U.S. version)
Included in the FT-1900r is a dedicated, quick-access memory bank that contains the ten standard NOAA Weather Information Channels, so you can keep track of weather conditions expected for your area.
Four user-programmable "soft" keys are provided on the MH-48a6j microphone, allowing you to bring often-used Menu items, or front panel key functions, to your fingertips.
Built-in CTCSS and DCS Encoder/Decoder Circuits
The FT-1900R includes both CTCSS and DCS Encoder/Decoder circuitry, with Reverse CTCSS Decoding also available, to mute your receiver when a particular tone is received (instead of opening your squelch). And you can encode CTCSS and decode DCS, or vice versa, too, if your application requires it.
Adjustable Mic Gain and Wide/Narrow Deviation and RX Bandwidth
The microphone gain for the FT-1900R's transmitter is adjustable, so you can optimize it for your voice level as well as background noise in your operating location. And for operation in crowded channel environments, the TX deviation and RX bandwidth may both be reduced via the Menu.
Automatic Repeater Shift (ARS), Automatic Power-Off (APO), and BCLO (Busy Channel Lock-Out)
ARS: Automatically selects the typical repeater shift used in your country, based on the current operating frequency.
APO: Automatically turns power off after a user-defined time period, to prevent you from running down your car battery if you forget to turn your rig off.
BCLO: Prevents you from transmitting on an occupied frequency (especially valuable during Tone Squelch or DCS operation).
CW Trainer
You can practice your Morse Code recognition, using this novel trainer that sends you five-character code groups, with variable speed and instant feedback as to the correct characters sent to you.
Security Password to Prevent Unauthorized Use
A defeatable (by the owner) Security Password system is provided for the FT-1900R, so you can limit operational access to yourself and any other users (if any) informed of the password for the transceiver.
Easy Access to YAESU's Renowned WiRES-II™ Internet Linking Nodes
A front panel key provides instant access to WiRES-II nodes. More information about WiRES, Yaesu's exciting and fun way to communicate via Amateur Radio AND the Internet, may be found at the WiRES-II Web site: www.vxstd.com/en/wiresinfo-en
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Vending machines at every street corner, birthday cakes at work, and creamy Frappuccino's on-the-go. We are constantly tempted by tasty energy-rich foods everywhere we go. Yet, many of us still manage to avoid gaining weight. Why is it that our waistlines respond in different ways to this 'obesogenic' environment? Since all eating decisions are made between our ears, it seems likely that not everyone's brain responds the same way to food. We recently reviewed how personality relates to the way...
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In policy making, there is a recurring demand that consumers be better educated at a young age, and more thoroughly informed about nutrition. There are frequent calls for a "transformation in the minds of consumers" – away from cheap, fatty, and sugary foods and toward nutritionally sound, healthy diets. Many political and social actors have attempted to change consumer knowledge, attitudes, and preferences in order to encourage healthier lives. Yet despite the efforts that have been made, policy measures aimed...
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"Mindless" eating
Some foods and drinks can seem easier to eat than others. Have you gone to the movies and ordered the medium sized popcorn? Or the large? The chance is that whichever you took, much of it was gone before the movie started. Furthermore, independent of the size of the bucket you chose, you may feel equally as full (or not so full and eager for more!).
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Eating behavior and body weight are determined by multiple factors including genetics and environment, which interact in different ways defining our food choice and their long-term consequences. Therefore a profound knowledge of factors influencing food choice becomes more and more relevant as it can serve as a guideline to develop treatment strategies to stop the obesity epidemic in western societies.
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Almost everyone today can relate to the terms "comfort eating" or "emotional eating". In a hectic world, the idea that people treat themselves to their favourite food in order to improve their wellbeing seems to be a compelling contributor to why obesity is on the rise. A lot of us are struggling with the daily hassles of our workplace or private lives from time to time, and if eating "comfort food" provides a quick solution to restore one's mood, this...
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Snacking - a cause of weight gain?
As the world's eating habits are changing, so are our waistlines. A hot topic in the field of obesity is whether frequent snacking can contribute to the obesity epidemic. It has been suggested that the effect of snacking on body weight is most likely down to the size and type of snack. Many nutritionists urge people to snack; to eat little and often throughout the day to keep energy levels up. However, many people forget the nutritionist's definition of...
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Grocery shopping on an empty stomach might not be the best idea when trying to lose weight. Food becomes more attractive when we're hungry and we seem particularly susceptible to the luring properties of high-energy dense food like pizza or chocolate. Hunger and satiety are important in controlling daily food intake and securing adequate amounts of energy and nutrients. These physiological states influence food consumption and the food choices we make. In Nudge-it we explore the underlying brain mechanisms of...
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Our bodies and behaviours are products of our genes and our environment (with a bit of randomness thrown in). Our genes are relatively fixed, but the body they build is not, and nor is the environment. This changing environment can change our bodies (obesity is a good example), and penetrate further, even to change gene expression. This is a life-long process but there is a great interest in how early-life experiences, like stress or exposure to high-energy foods in childhood...
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How do we choose what, when and how much to eat? It's a simple question but a complete answer is currently impossible to give. Of course, we need the energy and nutrients present in food to allow us to live, and this idea of energy balance is familiar - we use a varying number of calories each day and need to replace them. But it is certain that we don't eat only because we're hungry. Imagine that eating was driven...
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A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of origin for all living marsupials.
The study, to be published in PLoS One on Dec. 16, shows that peradectids, a family of marsupials known from fossils mostly found in North America and Eurasia, are a sister group of all living opossums. The findings are based in part on high-resolution CT scans of a 55-million-year-old skull found in freshwater limestone from the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming.
"The extinction of the dinosaurs was a pivotal moment in the evolution of mammals," said Jonathan Bloch, study co-author and associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at UF's Florida Museum of Natural History. "We're tracing the beginnings of a major group of mammals that began in North America."
Opossum-like peradectids first appeared on the continent about 65 million years ago, at the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which killed the dinosaurs.
"North America is a critical area for understanding marsupial and opossum origins because of its extensive and varied fossil record," said lead author Inés Horovitz, an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Unfortunately, most of its species are known only from teeth."
The study also analyzes two 30-million-year-old skeletons of Herpetotheriidae, the sister group of all living marsupials.
Based on fossil evidence from the skull and two skeletons, the study's authors concluded the evolutionary split between the ancestor of opossums and the ancestor of all other living marsupials occurred at least 65 million years ago, Horovitz said.
Marsupials migrated between North and South America until the two continents separated after the end of the Cretaceous period. Marsupials in South America diversified and also migrated into Antarctica and Australia, which were still connected at that time, Bloch said.
North American marsupials went extinct during the early Miocene, about 20 million years ago. But after the Isthmus of Panama emerged to reconnect North and South America 3 million years ago, two marsupials made it back to North America: the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), a common resident in the Southeast today, and the southern opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), which lives as far north as Mexico.
The study describes a new peradectid species, Mimoperadectes houdei, based on a relatively complete fossil skull. The high-resolution CT scan of the skull gave researchers a large amount of information about the animal's internal anatomy. The ear, in particular, provides researchers with information on skull anatomy and clues about the animal's locomotion, Bloch said.
The scan showed the new species shared enough common traits with living opossums to indicate an evolutionary relationship. Some predictions about that relationship could have been made from fossil teeth, Bloch said, "but this provides a much stronger foundation for that conclusion."
Most North American marsupials living in the Paleocene and early Eocene (56 million to 48 million years ago) were small-bodied animals. But M. houdei approached the body size of some opossums living today.
"You would probably recognize it as an opossum, but it wouldn't look quite right," Bloch said.
The skull came from the same limestone deposits in Wyoming as the primitive primate skull Bloch and other researchers used to map an early primate brain with CT scans in a study published earlier this year.
"In parts of North America today, opossums are one of the most commonly observed mammals around," Bloch said. "This fossil skull shows its roots going back to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This is literally the fossil that shows us the ancestry of that animal."
The study's examination of the two skeletons gives a first glimpse into the form and structure of primitive marsupials and shows that they were more terrestrial than modern opossums. The skeletons came from the late Oligocene and were found in the White River Badlands of Wyoming.
The international research team also included Thomas Martin (University of Bonn, Germany), Sandrine Ladevèze and Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra (University of Zurich, Switzerland), and Cornelia Kurz (Natural History Museum, Kassel, Germany).
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These two saws were a gift to my BB guy to hang in the cabin. I painted them. The inside of the cabin has had no work done to it really, not even walls so for now they are just hanging above the patio door.Some time ago I posted this picture of the sun/moon medallion on my deck. I had several comments on how nice it was. I got it in Mexico and have never seen a similar one here.
When my BB guy and I came back from the trip to the Island last week this is what we found...
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That's a bummer Lori about the sun/moon thingee. You're very good at painting, the saws look great.ReplyDelete
I have treasures hanging on the "zap strap" things.ReplyDelete
They'll hold forever, I tell myself with fingers crossed.
Think of this as another treasure-hunting opportunity as you get to shop for something new [old] to fill the space.
OH NO! What a shame -- and no way to piece and glue it back together? It could be Scarface Sun/Moon then.ReplyDelete
The saws are very nice -- you do good work!
Oh, the Wisconsin Northwoods girl in me LOVES that first saw with the snowy cabin scene, and YOU painted it???? WOW, you go girl!!!ReplyDelete
I feel so bad about the broken sun/moon medallion. I'm over here giving you all the Awwwwwwwwwwwwww's I've got!
Love the two saws, they are both just gorgeous. Wow, how awful that the moon face is so broken. Very sad, it really was gorgeous. Hugs, MartyReplyDelete
Sorry about your sun guy, he was gorgeous. Maybe he can be turned into something crafty, a mosaic? Love the saws, very creative.ReplyDelete
In response to your comments, yes I am trying to feel better, already up and moving, better than yesterday. Thankfully.
The cat, well.....he just helps himself to the food in the fridge. And the bowl of cat food on the kitchen floor. After all, he is king of the Catstle.
Lori - so sorry to see the destruction of your Sun/Moon!! Love your saws. Many years ago two of my friends kept telling me "anyone can tole paint". I didn't believe them -- until I took some lessons -- no where near as good as your artwork but I did surprise myself.ReplyDelete
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Police in Richmond, Virginia now know who they are looking for after a string of thefts from city laundromats.
Timothy Lott, 54, is accused of going from laundromat to laundromat and stealing women's underwear, according to WTVR.
Lott was captured on surveillance video in August, police say. And they say he is at it again, striking recently at two more laundromats.
"It's a pattern that I just want to put a stop to," Al Bingenheimer, who owns several laundromats in the city, told WTVR. "I want my customers to feel safe and comfortable, and I don't need a guy rummaging through the clothes of females to get a key piece of what he wants."
Bingenheimer said he personally followed Lott to another location on October 20th and witnessed him walk in. He said Lott grabbed a few pieces of clothing from a machine that a woman had just loaded her laundry into and then ran back to his car.
"It's scary because this guy is going through washers and dryers to get what he wants," said Courtland Marsh, who lives close to one of the laundromats. She said it's convenient to drop a load off of clothes and return later.
She's now rethinking that.
She said the thefts are creepy, and she hoped it doesn't turn into something worse.
"What if he tries to get a person you know?" Marsh asked.
Be aware of your surroundings is the message from Richmond Police.
"We have beautiful neighborhoods in the Fan and Museum Districts and we don't want it to be tarnished by one guy doing stupid things," said Bingenheimer.


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