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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Review: Batman and Robin: Dark Knight Vs. White Knight
This particular book was launched after the events of Final Crisis and the aftermath of Morrison's "Batman R.I.P." story arc in the Batman title left Bruce Wayne temporarily "dead." Dick Grayson became the new Batman, Damian Wayne became the new Robin and DC was launching a new title devoted to this bold new direction.
It was actually the first of two times Morrison's twisting and turning six-year Batman mega-plot birthed a new Batman title. When Bruce Wayne returned, Morrison left Batman and Robin, which had outlived its usefulness to his story, and DC launched Batman, Inc. for Morrison, a new book devoted to chronicling Wayne's attempts to build a global army of crime-fighting Batmen.
So what to do with Batman and Robin...? Cancel it? A successful title starring Batman? Of course not.
Instead, DC would keep it going, although their plan for doing so looks like it must have been more than a little confused, looking back on what the post-Morrison version of the title looked like: Ten issues by four different creative teams, three three-issue arcs by three different teams (the third of which suffered some pretty bad production problems, based on the number of artists involved with it), plus a one-off, schedule-filling issue by the fourth team.
This collection includes all of the post-Morrison issues of the first volume of Batman and Robin save for the final issue, a done-in-one written by David Hine and 2/3 drawn by Greg Tocchini, with artist Andrei Bressan drawing the final third. (What, exactly, happened during this period of the title's life is likely explained by the then-imminent launch of DC's "New 52"; at one point, Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason were announced as the new creative team for the book, but after one arc another creative team came in and, when the second, "New 52" volume of the series was announced, it was with Tomasi and Gleason as its creative team).
All of the apparent chaos behind the scenes obviously wasn't conducive to producing great comics, but there's surprisingly good work in this volume, some of it from creators who haven't produced much of note over the course of the last few years (artist Scott McDaniel and writer Judd Winick, for example) who nevertheless make rather strong showings within these stories.
The first story is very good, the second a little less so and the third even less so. Due to the fill-in nature of all three arcs, and the fact that the de facto Batman showrunner Morrison had already turned his attention away from the Grayson/Wayne Batman and Robin team means there's only so much any writer can do with the characters or characterization. All three writers managed to carry on Morrison's surface-level characterizations, however, and have fun with the inverted light-hearted, quipping Batman and dark, tight-ass Robin relationship, the Dynamic Duo as multi-generational buddy cops with Alfred as referee premise.
All three stories also manage to introduce new villains of varying degrees of stature and creativity, and boast some pretty decent art—at least until the very end of the collection.
Let's look at them one at a time, shall we?
The arc opens in medias res with Batman and Robin busting up a mysterious wedding ceremony of some sort, while Damian bickers with Dick over the fact that they both had an entrance line (That is, traditionally, Robin's job, but ur-Robin Grayson hasn't kicked the habit yet).
From there we flash back a few nights to a grave robbery of one Una Nemo, a brilliant, beautiful billionaire that Bruce Wayne was once semi-courting as part of his weird playboy act; he disappeared on her when Darkseid shot him backwards in time (although she didn't know why he suddenly stopped calling) and then she got shot through the forehead during a yacht robbery gone bad and, thanks to some barely alluded to comic book science about pollution in the water, she survived:
Now calling herself Absence, Nemo launches an extremely strange crime spree revolving around what's missing and what's not there. Her plan seems straightforward, and involves whipping up a cult following and a series of death traps for Batman and Robin, her stated plan being to kill enough of Bruce Wayne's new army of Batmen to regain his attention. More is going on.
It's a extremely well-scripted Batman story, working on the two levels the character's devious plotting is working on, while providing all the surface thrills that Morrison's conception of the all-new Batman and Robin team (and comic) had provided in previous issues, while also mining the fertile psychological territory that is inherent in the Batman experience (It's somewhat neat how Cornell manages to explore Bruce Wayne's behavior and state of mind in a story that he barely appears in at all, while also doing the same with Damian, Dick and the new villainess, and making it all relate.
Based on this story arc alone, Cornell might have been an ideal writer to follow Morrison on the title.
Given all the help McDaniel had in crafting the artwork—Jones gets a "with" credit for pencil art, while all those other names above inked these 60 pages—it's hard to tell exactly what's his and what's some one else's contribution, but it all looks like McDaniel's art. The figures have his signature design, they contort into thrusting, frozen poses when leaping or fighting, they are usually drawn leaping or fighting.
There's a lot of black in the art and it is, in general, richer, deeper, fuller than a lot of McDaniel's work in the recent past (Trinity, Arena, etc). There's a lot more detail to it, but it retains the semi-abstracted look of much of McDaniel's work, in which dynamic angles and figures propel the action as well as the story.
It sure takes a lot of guys to ink DC comics these days, doesn't it? The last three names above were the guys who inked Gleason's pencil art on this story. To everyone's credit, it's not incredibly obvious when a new inker comes in, and even with that many cooks in the kitchen, they produce much better than average 21st century Batman comics art.
I wish I could remember which blogger it was that called out how incredibly fucked-up the first scene in this story actually is (It was Tucker Stone, yes, but maybe someone else too...? Maybe everyone else? Tucker's take is, as usual, pretty funny. So you should probably go listen to it). In the book's first three pages, we see the three Robins—Dick Grayson, Tim Drake and Damien Wayne—hanging out in the kitchen with Alfred, making popcorn and smoothies and chatting. Then they gather in Wayne Manor's home theater with their dad/mentor and Alpha Bat Bruce Wayne to watch a movie.
It's a pretty cool, just-some-guys hanging-out, superheroes-behind-the-scenes sort of sequence, the kind that is more rare in Batman comics than in super-team comics. Sure, it's a little weird that none of the Batgirls were invited, and that Tomasi makes a point of this being the important part of the Batman family by having Wayne literally refer to them as "the whole family." But what's fucked-up is the movie they're watching: The Mark of Zorro, aka the movie young Bruce Wayne just got done watching with his parents before they were gunned down in an alley, an event that so traumatized him that he spent the rest of his life and most of his fortune dressing up as a bat to beat people up...and convince dozens of others to do the same!
After that, it is a pretty straightforward Batman comic, in which the Dick Grayson/Damian Wayne versions of the characters (Bruce and Tim apparently go off to their own comics after the movie), investigate the work of a new serial killer with a bizarre and presumably very expensive, pain-staking method of choosing and killing victims.
He's covered in something that renders him a glowing silhouette, with his eyeballs being the only normal detail one an see, and he has some kind of weird gun that paints things similarly glow-y (this detail reminded me quite a bit of the 2003 miniseries Batman: City of Light). To kill victims, he dresses them up as angels, pumps 'em full of drugs, and talks them into jumping off of skyscrapers.
The downside of this is, of course, that it makes this one more story about all of Batman's old villains, instead of doing or saying much of anything new. There are welcome aspects to that strategy, like getting to see Gleason draw a large swathe of the rogues gallery—there's a pretty great scene where you turn a page and suddenly Man-Bat* appears out of nowhere flying tackling Batman—but it also simply covers the same old ground in a slightly different way. This is probably me as much as it is them, but I've read soooooo many stories about Arkham Asylum and its inmates at this point, I find stories dwelling on them rather tiresome now.
Finally, there's a Winick-written Jason Todd story, which I think is the first one since Morrison sort of took over the character for an arc and offered his take on the long-dead Robin that Winick had quite clumsily resurrected and made into the new Red Hood.
Winick's version was a guy in a vaguely Spider-Man-shaped red helmet and street clothes, savagely gunning down villains like The Punisher (as to how he survived being blown up by a bomb and buried, it apparently had something to do with Superboy-punching, but let's not dwell on that).
Morrison reinvented Todd's Red Hood, giving him a cool new superhero costume (which I assume was designed by Frank Quitely rather than Batman and Robin #4-#6 artist Philip Tan, but I don't know for sure), a pair of signature crimson pistols and a sidekick of his own, Scarlet. Just as Dick Grasyon graduated to Batman, Todd made his own Red Hood persona more Batman-like. (That arc also revealed some rather weird details, like the fact that Todd was actually a redhead, but Bruce made him dye his hair black to look more like Dick).
So Winick returns to Todd after Morrison, and essentially writes him as he was writing him before, while acknowledging the cosmetic changes.
Aside from a flashback to Todd's days as Robin during the first ten pages of the book, drawn by cover artist March, and a visit from Dick Grayson's Batman to Todd's jail cell, the entire first issue is devoted to Todd in jail. Apparently, after the events of the previous Red Hood arc, he was being housed anonymously at Arkham Asylum, but is now being transferred to a regular prison.
There he regularly kills criminals—he's up to 95 before they think to transfer him back to Arkham.
Couple of things: 1) Yes, the lethal vigilante in jail killing his fellow convicts left and right is a Punisher story that's been written over and over 2) the Bat-guys want Todd in Arkham Asylum due to its greater security for his own safety, but Todd wants to be in a regular prison since he's not crazy—Arkham Asylum has terrible security, with folks escaping and murdering other people in there constantly, and wouldn't Todd rather be incarcerated somewhere he is able to kill folks like The Joker than somewhere he has to simply content himself with killing gangsters and "regular" criminals...?
Anyway, when Todd is being transferred again, he's "rescued" by The Menagerie, a team of mercenaries who are half-animal—the artists draw them as basically human with animal heads on top. They look kinda silly but, hey, new characters! That's something.
They are working at the behest of...Some Lady. Winick doesn't really explain who she is, or why she wants to free Jason Todd. She does know he's Jason Todd, though, so she somehow knows more about him than anyone at Arkham Asylum or the Regular Prison (Blackgate...?).
And, um, that's pretty much it. The story simply finds Jason Todd, follows him around, and then sets him free to fly off into an indeterminate future (I'm not certain; is this his last appearance before The New52boot, in which he would be reintroduced in the title Red Hood and The Outlaws...?).
The story isn't terribly ambitious, and lacks even a pretense of characterization of the antagonists, who are maguffins without so much as a veneer of non-maguffinosity. Where it really falls down, however, is the art. Which, as I mentioned, is by several artists, none of whose styles mesh in the least.
Any one of them would have probably done a decent enough job, but all together on a single story? It's a mess, and they're not even doled out, like, one per issue.
Here, for example, are three images by the three artists from the same story:
Recently, Grant Morrison has announced that he's winding down all of his DC writing, which currently includes Action Comics and the recently relaunched Batman, Inc.
It will be curious to see what DC decides to do with that created-for-Morrison title when his run wraps up. Will they allow that book to retire with Morrison, or will they keep it going as they kept Batman and Robin going...?
If the latter, perhaps they'll let Cornell take it over. Based on the stories in this volume, he's the best they've got at following Morrison.
*Was Man-Bat an inmate of Arkham at any point in the comics...? This is the first I've heard of it, and I can't really remember an instance of him being shown as an inmate. I thought he wasn't criminally insane so much as sometimes he would turn into a giant bat, which is more of a chemical problem than a mental one..
Labels: batman, cornell, gleason, guillem march, jason todd, scott mcdaniel, tomasi, winick's writing
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- Bram said...
Absence's hole in her head had, IIRC, less to do with pollution and more with some sort of genetic abnormality that … meant there was empty space … oh, I dunno. It was a clever take on a scientific phenomenon that … I really like Cornell, but this arc just fell short.
- Aki Alaraatikka said...
Funny. White Knight was the arc I actually wanted to read, of all these stories, and now I find out it`s nothing new, after all. Damn it.
I`m more interested in the Absence-story now, though.
As far as I know, Red hood didn`t appear after this story. Maybe he had a few cameos, though. They don`t count as a story, though.
Also, what about the fill-in ish? Did you forget to review that?
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PM was astonished that I still had a bottle of Cramolin in my toolbox. It was a popular cleaner for electronics once upon a time, and as I found with my commuter bike, it prevented corrosion and intermittent contacts between the bike computer and its mount.
Cramolin was replaced by DeoxIT, a similar appearing liquid that has a different odor and slightly higher viscosity. Where Cramolin smelled slightly acidic, DeoxIT is far less pungent. Also, DeoxIT's higher viscosity makes it a little more difficult to remove after cleaning an assembly.
And therein lies a story.
When I hired into the navigation electronics shop at this very large airline, most of the fleet was composed of Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. The controls for those aircraft were primarily electro-mechanical systems. When you look in the cockpit and see all those dials, switches, and indicators - those were a big part of my job. Since much of my previous work involved small mechanical devices, working with gears, levers, and springs was second nature. That's how I ended up on the pitch control panel for the DC-10.
Pitch is the up or down motion of an aircraft relative to a horizontal line. The pilot would set his cruising altitude on the pitch panel by turning a knob connected to a gear train that moved both a mechanical counter and a mechanical encoder assembly. These days, encoders are optical devices, very small and very reliable. Your car probably has an optical encoder on the frequency dial, particularly if it's speed sensitive. Turn it faster, and it makes bigger changes.
Those old mechanical encoders weren't nearly as reliable. They consisted of two spools with a pattern of make-and-break contact areas. Tiny cat-whisker switches rode on the spools. As the spools turned, the cat whiskers touched on gold plated conductive areas or insulators. the pattern determined the particular data being sent to the flight computer. Naturally, this was a redundant system as there were two identical spools sending the same data. If they differed, the computer flagged the panel as faulty.
Corrosion wasn't a problem due to the gold-plated contacts. But dust intrusion and the eventual wear on the cat whiskers, combined with the loss of tension over the years, made these panels a bit tricky. A tiny amount of dust on the spools would build up under the cat whiskers. Under high magnification, it looked almost like a miniature snowdrift blown up against the wire. But it was just enough to lift the switch out of contact with the spool. Once one side went intermittent, the computer threw up its hands in disgust.
The usual procedure was to disassemble the panel, remove the altitude encoder assembly, and then disassemble it. Care had to be taken to mark it in order to make re-alignment easier. The spools were cleaned with Cramolin (See? I got around to Cramolin again) to float any dust up out of the spool's surface. The excess was wiped away and then the spools were cleaned again with denatured alcohol. I really wanted grain alcohol for a cleaner as it leaves no residue behind and it makes a dandy technician lubricant when mixed with some fruit juice. That's an excellent way to get fired around here, incidentally.
After cleaning, the whole shebang went back together again, sometimes aligned properly on the first try. When I was learning to do this, the initial unit took about 2 hours to disassemble and clean, and then it took the rest of the week to get it back together and working properly again. There were lots of interesting ways to do it wrong. I found most of them.
This morning I wanted to see how DeoxIT compared to the older Cramolin. I had a circuit board with push button switches. These have only one moving part besides the push button cap. There's a small coil spring formed in a circle around a center post with a groove to retain it. When the button is pushed, the spring is forced out of the groove and it makes contact between the center post and a circuit trace. When the force on the push button goes away, the spring goes back into the groove. It's very simple.
Since this control is in the cockpit, it sometimes gets liquids spilled onto it. There a gasket between the push button cap and the switch itself to prevent liquids from entering the unit, much like a computer keyboard. Still, they can get very dirty and this one was no exception. I cleaned it up and decided to try the DeoxIT on the switches.
Using a cotton swab, I daubed a bit onto each spring. After a few minutes, I washed it off with alcohol, or rather, I tried to wash it off. The stuff is tenacious! It took three washings to get the board clean and I still had to wipe some DeoxIT away with a small Kimwipe.
I'm thinking this stuff would be better for connections exposed to weather, like my bike computer, or the electrical connectors for trailer hitch lamps. But in future, I will use it very, very sparingly on these control panels.
One last thing - because I went looking for information on Cramolin yesterday, I discovered that our shop doesn't have a material safety data sheet for the stuff. Without it, I don't think we can legally have that chemical in the shop, and since we are regularly inspected by the FAA and our internal audit people, I'll probably have to dispose of my bench stock.

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If three hunters are walking side-by-side hunting pheasants, the hunter in the center will shoot at birds flushed in the middle, which fly straight away. The other hunters will shoot at birds flying toward their end of the line.
If a bird turns and flies back across the line of hunters, it is best if all three hold their swings and do not fire. The same is true of a rabbit scurrying back between the hunters.
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This paper provides a background on the focus and nature of the Australian housing industry and the factors affecting production costs. The paper will also review Australian and overseas literature relating to the subject.


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Its the end of the monsoon season ,with the clouds deserting the skies to give way to a sardonically smiling sun, leaving behind a strange "depression", and the beginning of a cruel month-log oppressive heat,as they call it. I sit by my window sill, a silent observer to nature's farewell to the pompous army of wispy white-silver blurbs that had invaded the skies only about a couple of months ago. The trees are bowed, all prepared to shed off the regal green costumes they'd been wearing for the annual play, still lookin fresh, nonetheless like a full grown adult whose just passed the prime of his life. A flock of birds move swiftly across the sky, blocking the rays of the sun intermittently, in a way of strange defiance to its all-pervasiveness. They dont look back, neither do they hesitate for once at the prospect of having to leave a place which was their haven for quite some time now. They just move on ....to another country, another season, another home... seamlessly...
Its a small occurence in the yearly cycle of nature, and yet so significant as to teach one a lesson of how everythin that comes has to go away, sometimes so subtly that this fact becomes hard to sink in. Questions of why and how arise, yet they seem a ruddy rhetoric, coz there exists no answer, no explanation to pacify the ostensible nature of our lives.
The most powerful man at IBM taught me the most humblest of lesson in a 5- min speech. It was an innocuos and yet pertinent question - "IBM sold off everythin that had taken it years to invent and develop, in a matter of days to save itself from turning into just a name in the golden pages of history. Wasnt it tough to let go?" . The answer made us listen in a wide-eyed astonishment, "Its true that it had taken lots of efforts, and nurturing to develop all those technologies. The biggest opposition to the sell-off were the scientists who'd worked on it for years, for it was their soul and their lives more than their daily bread. It, had, however become impossible to keep it any longer. We could only keep our children if we could watch them wear torn clothes and bang their plates in hunger. We thought it a better option to give them away to someone who could take better care. We had not turned irresponsible, but the responsibility had become the roadblock. So, we decided tolet go. And its never easy to do that. But , at some point you come to realise that you cannot have everything for urself. You visit a hotel, stay in a room and like its furniture, possibly even get addicted to the plasma screen, but then when u check out you dont take all of it with u, and its inadvertent , it comes naturally as the most obvious thing to do. Its the same about so many things in life. Think of those who have to get a part of their body amputated because it has become cancerous. This is letting go. "
"I let go
With no yesterday
Neither a tomorrow
No fantasies of pleasure
No baggage of sorrow
I let go
I have now
And now has me
The coming moment will decide
What the next step will be...
For I'm but an idea upheld
Another idea can also be me
I let go
To be another me!"
-quoted from "http://humorix.20six.co.uk/humorix/art/22750318/I_let_go#comm"
I'm amazed at the way children and dogs have this innate capabilty to let go(not that i'm comparing the two in any way-i'm not a child hater nor a dog lover!! ). They become so attached to people close to them in a very short time, but when those very people go away even for a short time, its convenient for them to forget all about them in a matter of hours or days at worse. They wont hang on to them, and would still smile with a faint recognition if they see them again, only to show that same affection if the countenace is prolonged for some time. I had a cousin in singapore, and we used to go there every summer when she was just 2-3 years old. For the 2 month period that i used to be with her, i was the one to bear her peskiness and the only one she'd look for every morning at the ring of the alarm bell. She used to hug me so hard that it was always tough to say goodbye. She used to cry and miss me for a day , and then again the very next year, she'd be like the 5 second Joe, behaving like she'd never seen me before, leaving me with the daunting task of wooing her again, only to say goodbye again. I met her after a long time a month ago. She has grown up to be a 12 yr old with the typical British accent and attitude. She remembers me, but sadly for me , feels no affection at all. I'm just another acquaintance that her short life had treated her to. For me, its hard to swallow this fact, and yet for her it doesnt make any difference. Same goes with dogs, u live around em for a few days and they'll bow before u...u come again after a year, try to poke them and off goes ur finger(poor u- u'd never realised that the loving dog ever had such sharp canines!!!!).
It takes us more than a tear and a resolve of the greatest degree to let go of anything, or anyone- our possessions tend to take over our very existence - be it the people we love, our dogs and cats (it took one whole song for a certain Jai to make Aditi overcome the loss!!! :P ) , boyfriend/girlfriend, a job, a dream which couldnt be realised, or sometimes, even an obsession!! We hang on to it like a baby does to his bottle of milk. We sit and think about the loss so much that it makes no sense to live at all. And all this, because of our expectations that never cease. From the moment we first get attached to somethin or someone, we start expecting, and then we start expecting those expectations to be fulfilled, which goes on to become a vicious circle which threatens to undermine our very own selfs!! Its not that letting go is something i preach, beacuse i'm the worst person in the world to practice it- and one doesnt preach what one cant practice!! I've always somehow managed to lose everyone who has ever come close to me -and they have somehow managed to fade away swiftly into the depths of time. Be it a friend who has hurt me , or left me high and dry in times of need, a teacher at school who was more than a teacher, a girl who broke my heart, or just somebody who forgot me with time. But i still hold on to the memories, keep believing that someday i'll find them all back, and lead an ideal life- with the people i want. But then there's no such thing as idealism in our prosaic lives. In the end it boils down to god's pencil and the papyrus on which he inscribed the lyrics of our lives. We can do anythin but cannot make God buy an eraser. You may call him a miser but then thats what he is... Whats meant to go, will go...we can ill-afford to miss a glance at whats coming next...watch out!! It might be meteoroid!!! :P
Kabhi kabhi aditi zindagi mein yu hi koi apna lagta hai
kabhi kabhi aditi wo bichhad jaaye to ek sapna lagta hai
to phir koi kaise muskuraaye kaise hasde khush hoke
aur kaise koi sochde everythin's gonna be ok!!!
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We're as excited as anyone about the idea of Mass Effect 3, but the series was always planned to be a trilogy, and the second game has been out for a good amount of time. Is anyone really surprised by the game's official reveal? Well, we now know that the game that we all knew was coming is in fact coming, with a release date of "Holiday 2011."
Like most of the games revealed at the 2010 Video Game Awards, there was a short teaser with no game play, but some interesting details on the game's story. Looks like we're going to be fighting on Earth this time. Take a look at the teaser and start speculating!
Before the awards show, EA briefly listed the game on its official site with the following details on the story:
Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.
While I enjoy distant planets much more than returning to Earth, our planet will likely be one setting among many. With such drastic changes taking place in the game play between the first and second Mass Effect titles, the new game is bound to offer many surprises in terms of mechanics and tone. Also, the game has been confirmed for the Xbox 360, PC, and... drum roll please... the PlayStation 3! That's great news for Sony fans who are just now getting a taste of Mass Effect 2.


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This is a program to generate all prime numbers between 0 and a given number(y). Is it possible to "translate" this program to java? The assignment calls on me to do this in java and I see no need to reinvent the wheel.
#Function that determines whether a number is prime def Primality(n): if n < 2: return False for x in range (2, int(math.sqrt(n)) + 1): if n % x == 0: return False return True # variables to keep track of primes found and to advance the number tested primes = 0 # counts the number of prime numbers the program finds n = 1 # variable used by the program to count and run each number through the primality function y = 10000 # the limit for the counter. # while loop calls the primality function until "y" primes are found. It will also list the prime numbers found while primes < y: n += 1 Primality(n) if Primality(n): print( n ) primes += 1 print( "I have", primes ,"prime numbers" ) print( n, "is the nth prime number.")


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LOS ANGELES, April 26 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress-model Jessica Alba says she wore two girdles to return to her slender toned body following both of her pregnancies.
"It was brutal; it's not for everyone," the 31-year-old told online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter's digital magazine.
"I wore a double corset day and night for three months. It was sweaty, but worth it," she said.
Alba is married to Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, who played Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC TV series "Hill Street Blues."
The couple have two daughters, Honor Marie Warren, age 4, and Haven Garner Warren, 1.
Celebrities including Brooke Burke-Charvet, Jennifer Garner, Kourtney Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow are reported to have used the tummy-tucking method too, the Los Angeles Times says.
Alba mentioned nothing in the article about any health issues tied to wearing the corsets. Doctors warn wearing them for long periods can lead to health concerns.
The actress, who got her start in 1994 at age 13 in the Disney Hollywood Pictures film "Camp Nowhere" and the Nickelodeon TV series "The Secret World of Alex Mack," spoke to the Net-a-Porter magazine about the film "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," in which she reprises her "Sin City" role as Nancy Callahan.
The cast includes returning members Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Powers Boothe, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis.
"I just finished the best movie I've ever done," she said. "It was so opposite to what I do [at home].
"My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [having children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision," she said. "Now, I don't care. It could be a pile of [expletive] and you could think it was the worst thing you ever saw, but I still had the best experience."


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A delicate, hand-sculpted menorah by Michael Aram references the Tree of Life symbol, representing growth, renewal, sustenance and love.
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Striking blue lucite makes a fun, graphic statement.
Wide curved strokes in a transparent rectangular base are a modern twist on the traditional menorah. The bright blue base represents the sky and sea.
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This menorah adds contemporary style year-round.
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Remember that time that bike broke down and it caused a three mile traffic jam? That was the worst.
I took a slightly different route to work today from the one I took home from work yesterday and between the hill, the stop lights and the pace of the cyclists sometimes in front of me in bike lanes, it took me 15 minutes longer to get to work than it did to get home from it. There also might have been a slight difference in my overall effort, since I tend to have more giddy up (technical term) heading in one direction rather than the other. For the ride in, my average speed was 11.2 miles per hour. #data #strava #whocares
I don't think I'm surprised anymore by the number of times I say "please stop" to my fellow travelers during one of my commutes. Whether it's beseeching a turning drive to decline to strike me or intimating to an oncoming cyclist that the light has well turned red and she's about to cross the path of a revved sedan, "please stop" is my new catchphrase. It's not nearly as catchy as "where's the beef?" but you have to work within your comfort zone and querying drivers about the location of their meat would be nonsensical in most cases. Politely suggesting that others heed is definitely within my comfort zone. Mumbling it ensconces it even further there. Oddly enough, it seems to have little effect.


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Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to this and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or left out. Anyway here's what I did in order to setup my pptp vpn on ubuntu.
1. apt-get install pptpd
2. vi /etc/pptpd.conf
changed localip to my server's eth0 ip and remoteip to 192.168.2.234-238,192.168.2.245 and uncommented both lines
3. vi /etc/ppp/chap-secret
Added username server and password and ip as *
4. vi /etc/sysctl.conf
made sure net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 and uncommented it.
5. vi /etc/ppp/options
modify and uncommented lines ms-dns, changed it to "ms-dns 220.127.116.11" and "ms-dns 22.214.171.124" (google's free DNS)
6. /etc/init.d/pptpd restart
7. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
8. reboot
through windows 7 vpn network setup I've manage to connect and login to my created vpn the only thing is that windows is saying that there is no internet access from my vpn's side.
Thanks =D
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Ok, I solved my issue which is bascally step 8.
When i rebooted the server, step 7 iptables routing do not save therefore after every reboot i'll have to re-enter that line in root/shh.
I'm wondering is there a way to permernantly keep the masquerade routing in effect even after a server restart? Thanks!


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Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
The situation in Afghanistan is grave and deteriorating. This is in part the legacy of an under resourced war effort that has cost us and the Afghans dearly. The Taliban has retaken important parts of the country, while a flawed U.S. strategy has led American forces into secondary efforts far away from critical areas. However, we remain convinced that the fight against the Taliban is winnable, and it is in the vital national security interest of the United States to win it.
You've called Afghanistan an "international security challenge of the highest order, " and stated that "the safety of people around the world is at stake." Last month you told a convention of veterans, "Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people."
We fully agree with those sentiments. We congratulate you on the leadership you demonstrated earlier this year when you decided to deploy approximately 21,000 additional troops and several thousand civilian experts as a part of a serious counterinsurgency campaign. Your appointments of General Stanley McChrystal as top commander and David Rodriguez as second in command in Afghanistan exemplified the seriousness of purpose you spoke about during the campaign. We are heartened to see that the much needed overhaul of our military operations has begun.
Since the announcement of your administration's new strategy, we have been troubled by calls for a drawdown of American forces in Afghanistan and a growing sense of defeatism about the war. With General McChrystal expected to request additional troops later this month, we urge you to continue on the path you have taken thus far and give our commanders on the ground the forces they need to implement a successful counterinsurgency strategy. There is no middle course. Incrementally committing fewer troops than required would be a grave mistake and may well lead to American defeat. We will not support half-measures that repeat the errors of the past.
This is, as you have said, a war that we cannot afford to lose. Failure to defeat the Taliban would likely lead to a return of al Qaeda to Afghanistan and could result in terrorist attacks on the United States or our allies. An abandonment of Afghanistan would further destabilize the region, and put neighboring Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal at risk. All our efforts to support Islamabad's fight against the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal regions will founder if we do not match those achievements on the other side of that country's porous northwestern border.
As you observed during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, "You don't muddle through the central front on terror and you don't muddle through going after bin Laden. You don't muddle through stamping out the Taliban." We completely agree. Having "muddled through" in Afghanistan for years, this is no longer a politically, strategically, or morally sustainable approach.
Mr. President, you have put in place the military leadership and sent the initial resources required to begin bringing this war to a successful conclusion. The military leadership has devised a strategy that will reverse the errors of previous years, free Afghans from the chains of tyranny, and keep America safe. We call on you to fully resource this effort, do everything possible to minimize the risk of failure, and to devote the necessary time to explain, soberly and comprehensively, to the American people the stakes in Afghanistan, the route to success, and the cost of defeat.
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i just read a post which was talking briefly about getting virus's from websites, how do you recieve a virus from a website? is it common and how do you prevent it from happening.
when you connect to a website you get to reach their site by travelling to the appropriate IP. which will automaticaly give the site my IP. how would a virus be uploaded to my pc? is there some kind of malitious code in the html or are hidden packages sent through ports? what ports would these be? and are there programs out there that allow to see exactly what files & data are being transfered.
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Only at MSG. Here's this, from an ESPN column about the Knicks ongoing adventures in trading Iman Shumpert:
According to league sources with knowledge of the team's talks with potential trade partners, president/GM Steve Mills' management team has also cited Mike Woodson's coaching as one reason for Shumpert's poor play.
"They're saying that Shumpert's a better player [than he's shown] but Woodson isn't using him right," one league source said.
Got that, potential trade partners? Shump won't suck as much for your team as much as he sucks for our team as long as your coach does not suck nearly as much as our coach, Mike Woodson, who clearly sucks, sucks.


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Quick and Easy Chili
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Cook: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 2 to 3 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) Mexican stewed tomatoes
- 1 can (16 ounces) chili beans, undrained
- 1 cup frozen corn
- Shredded cheddar cheese, optional
- In a large saucepan, cook the beef, onion and green pepper over medium heat until the meat is no longer pink; drain. Add the next six ingredients; cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve with cheese if desired.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 249 calories, 8g fat (3g saturated fat), 37mg cholesterol, 947mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 6g fiber), 19g protein.
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My family loves this recipe! I can't always get Mexican stewed tomatoes, so if that happens, I used original stewed and add smoked paprika, oregano, and extra chili powder. It's perfect for our family of four with just enough left over for one lunch the next day. I've made this at least five times now, so it's officially my go-to chili recipe.
Aug 21, 2013
This was a great recipe to make, since I was in a hurry. However, the raving reviews at the dinner table made it all the more special. My dad protested that traditional chili does not contain corn, but he had to admit he liked the recipe. Doubling the recipe made a perfect amount to feed only eight (yes, we have hearty appetites). The recipe does not call for salt or pepper, but I added 3 teaspoons (remember that would be 1.5 teaspoons for one times the recipe) and 1 teaspoon of pepper (equivalent to ½ teaspoon). I put in 3 teaspoons of chili powder and it was still not too spicy for the younger people. Served with a lot of cheddar cheese and hot sauce for those who like a little more kick, this dish is fantastic; I will make it many more times in the future!
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I forgot to add that I toss it all in the crockpot in the morning. Plus, it freezes well too for a great make-ahead option.
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I made this chili for my daughter's b-day party because I knew I would be busy, and it got rave reviews. I beef it up a little by adding more ground beef, and a can of black beans and/or kidney beans. If you're really pressed for time, buy the pre-chopped onions and peppers at the grocery store -- it doesn't get any easier than that!


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Chief Ric Bishop
Corrections Mission Statement
Our mission is to promote and maintain public safety through effective correctional and reentry practices.
It is our vision to help inmates successfully re-enter our community, through a comprehensive level of supervision and care by following the elements of TRANSFORM.
TRANSFORM reflects the following correctional management approaches:
Treatment - includes screening at time of arrest for possible diversion, jail intake, transition, and discharge planning
Re-entry - includes discharge program tailored to each individual
Accountability - compliant with local, State, Federal and Constitutional laws
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Respect - respect for all members of our community; citizens, staff, and inmates
Mission - all policies, procedures, practices, and strategies will be tied into the corrections mission
The vision of TRANSFORM will be accomplished through the major program components of Pre-Release Programming, Transition Planning and Post Release Follow-up. Absent an inmate's choice to participate in a Reentry program, they will be housed in a safe environment, provided basic human services equal to or exceeding constitutional requirements, depending on the direction of the Sheriff and community expectations and standards.
Corrections staff
Corrections Deputies provide supervision, custody and care of inmates in the Clark County Jail facilities. Duties include booking (facility admissions), searching and releasing prisoners, monitoring jail access, courtroom security, transport of inmates, inmate classification, and work release. They help in maintaining order in the day to day operation of the jail. It is not uncommon for staff to physically subdue a violent inmate and a day later try to protect that inmate from harming themselves.
Corrections staff continues with honor and distinction in their dedication, patience and resourcefulness to operate safe and secure facilities. By the end of 2009, 32 custody staff positions were cut due to the budget deficit, making their responsibilities and duties very challenging. Corrections specialized units, inmate programs, specialty courts, and other agency and community partnerships has eased the "do more with less" in daily operations, but the increasingly unpredictable inmate population still presents challenges and strains resources in safety and security of staff, visitors of the facility, inmates and themselves.
Improvements and changes
In 2004, video arraignment was implemented providing better service to courts and paperwork and reduced inmate movement outside of the jail increasing safety for court personnel and the public.
The Corrections Branch adapts as federal laws and requirements change for jails regarding supervision, custody and care of adult pre-trial and sentenced offenders. In 2008, the Corrections Branch at the direction of the Sheriff, implemented the following additional education efforts and reporting systems related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA): 1) PREA requirements and reporting of incidents were provided to all persons coming into the facilities, 2) inmate education and information posted to avoid victimization, 3) a reporting system utilizing the inmate telephone system, and 4) investigative procedures, report writing and tracking systems were improved.
In 2013, the Corrections Branch embraced a new mission and vision, expanding from incarceration supervision to a broader, corrections-based supervision. Part of this change in focus is connecting people released from jail with community resources to reduce recidivism and promote healthier outcomes and safer communities in our county. The Corrections Re-entry Program began in 2014 and has already seen successes. For more information about this new program click on these links to view a video:
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What's the real meaning of Vernon's defeat of a bid by Assembly Speaker John Perez to force its disincorporation?
The state legislature has never been weaker.
Think about it. The speaker made a priority of the shutting down of Vernon -- a small LA county city of merely 112 residents that is really a business enterprise dogged for decades by allegations of corruption.
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He spoke out again and again about the need to do something about Vernon. He largely convinced the media that he was right.
None of it mattered.
The city used its millions to rally support from other cities, county officials and labor unions. The bill to kill Vernon died in the state senate, and it wasn't even close.
Perez got just 13 of 40 votes.
Such an outcome would be unthinkable if the legislature, and legislative leadership, had any real power. But they don't.
The state legislature is constrained by the constitution and laws from doing much fiscally beyond cleaning up the messes left each year by the broken budget system.
Term limits mean that Perez won't be around long enough to exact serious retribution against those who opposed him on Vernon.
It's unfashionable in California to speak in favor of legislative power. The exercise of such power can often look brutal and ugly. But it's essential to have such power if you want a state to be governed.
California's system doesn't permit such power. And so our state goes ungoverned.
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