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Even in an age rich with comic book adaptations, superheroes aren't always a sure thing. This is even truer on television, where a serialized format might best complement comics' source material. Even if a such a show gains a fervent cult following on the Internet, flagging ratings can sink even the most faithful and beloved televised versions of popular characters.
The time has may have come once more for the axe to fall on two such superhero television series: the animated Green Lantern and Young Justice, currently showing as part of Cartoon Network's DC Nation Saturday morning cartoon block. A press release by Cartoon Network highlighting its upcoming year of programming tellingly omits Young Justice and Green Lantern from its list of returning shows, indicating strongly that both series will conclude at the end of the current season.
While the Cartoon Network press release does not directly state that Young Justice and Green Lantern have been canceled, their absence from its lineup is telling. Moreover, the release specifically highlights two new DC Comics-based series set to begin airing as part of DC Nation on Saturdays – Teen Titans Go! and Beware the Batman. With these two shows slotted to begin next season, the departure of Lantern and Justice only makes sense.
Though Young Justice's cancellation has yet to be confirmed by its showrunners, it looks as if Green Lantern is definitely going the way of the dodo. Series producer Giancarlo Volpe acknowledged the end of the series via Twitter this afternoon. Volpe was muted in his announcement, fielding fan questions and confirming that all completed episodes of Green Lantern will air.
This is dismaying news for fans of both canceled series, which have gained decent followings during the previous year. However, it's not particularly surprising – the entire DC Nation block was bumped from Saturdays in October and placed on a hiatus that only recently ended. This move presaged to many that the programming block might see some serious retooling in the near future.
Though DC Comics fans may be irritated that these animated adaptations are on the way out, the incoming Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go! seem set to fulfill similar functions as Green Lantern and Young Justice, respectively. Beware the Batman is set to become the first CG-animated Batman adaptation and will apparently focus on aspects of the hero's mythos that have gone largely unexplored by previous iterations. Teen Titans Go! is a quasi-continuation of the rather popular Teen Titans cartoon series that aired on Cartoon Network in the mid-2000s; this version appears to lean more toward comedy than action and adventure.
As with any television series cancellation, a period of angry mourning has already begun for both Young Justice and Green Lantern. Thousands of fans have taken to the Internet's favorite mode of attempting to press for change and/or maintaining the status quo: a petition to reinstate the series for new episodes. However, with next season's DC Nation block already carved out, these pleas will likely fall on deaf ears. DC Comics fans will have to decide whether the cancellations are enraging enough to forego the interesting premises of the new DC Nation shows waiting in the wings.
Green Lantern and Young Justice will continue to air Saturday mornings on Cartoon Network's DC Nation through the end of the current season.
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Marissa Mayer has grabbed another Googler.
Andrew Schulte, a former product marketing manager at Google, is joining Yahoo as Mayer's chief of staff.
Schulte joined Google in 2007 in its ad sales department from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In his latest role, he managed integrated Google+ marketing campaigns for entertainment and politics brands.
Schulte tweeted the news this morning and has already updated his LinkedIn profile.
The chief of staff position, long common in political circles, has lately become a must-have in the business world. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg once held the position of chief of staff in the US Treasury Department, and it's widely understood that Sandberg introduced the position when she left Washington to join Google. Many top executives there now have a chief of staff, and other tech companies have followed Google's lead.
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My fellow perfume enthusiast and writer Nathan Branch decided to send me some goodies to review from For Strange Women. When I unpacked them, I was greeted with the phrase "Welcome to the Forest" printed on the outside of the box, which instantly made me smile. I was struck by how pretty and thoughtful the presentation was. Equal parts rustic and Victorian, each sample vial comes with a beautiful card explaining the intention of the scent. For Strange Women is an eco-minded brand, and proves that that doesn't need to mean tacky, pretentious or boring. I don't always actively seek out Earth-friendly products, but when given such aesthetically pleasing and quirky options such as these, I will happily go for the quirky stuff.
my lovely package [photo by me. I know, I'm no Nathan Branch]
Lip Embellishment Gift Set: For Strange Women's Lip Embellishments are lip balms with outrageously good fragrances and interesting packaging. My husband immediately grabbed the Poison Ivy for himself, and I went for the Pine Cone. At first, the wax can be a bit stiff, but I find that it melts with body temperature to spread more easily. I recommend heating it up by rolling it between your palms for a minute before using. The packaging is made with a biodegradable and compostible cardboard-like tube and printed with soy ink, with a cap you pull off. The lip balm is 100% natural, containing beeswax, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, meadowfoam, tocopherol, stevia extract, essential oils (that differ depending on which one you have), rosemary extract and mica. It reminds me a bit of the kind of popsicle that you push up out of the long, clear wrapper to get to the goods. The scents are brilliant and include Poison Ivy, Clove, Pine Cone and Rosewood. They are effective lip protectants and very emollient, and despite the inclusion of stevia, you can barely taste any sweetness- just a tiny hint. Perfect! A set of 4 come in a gift box for $24, or they are $6 individually.
Perfume Enhancing Fixative Base: This waxy base comes in a tin, and the idea is that you apply it before using natural perfume oils to help them last longer on your skin. The directions are: apply to skin, wait three minutes, then apply perfume. It forms a barrier so that the oils don't get sucked up by your skin immediately. It is made from shea butter, cocoa butter, beeswax and vitamin E. The base does indeed help to make the fragrances last longer, and if you generally apply natural perfumes in the morning before work and don't really touch it up during the day, this is something that could be really helpful in extending the fragrance. The tins of Perfume Fixative Base come in two sizes, for $8 and $18.
I love the concept of the Fauna Cologne trio. They are all-natural and are named after animals. These fragrances have an oil base (jojoba and coconut), and are rather mysteriously referred to as colognes. They are not traditional colognes- instead, I believe the word is used to imply that these are more masculine fragrances. There is a 25% fragrance concentration to the Fauna Colognes, and they are all pretty tenacious, especially for natural compositions. Individual bottles of each scent are available, 8ml for $46, or you can get a sample trio for $18.
Horse: Let me just get this out of the way first: I am ALL about Horse. Horse is everything. My kingdom for a Horse? Yes, please. This is a very rich, deep hay fragrance- fresh and comforting. It is animalic in the way that I hope everything labeled an "animalic" fragrance will smell, but rarely does. There is saddle leather present, and even the saddle wax that goes on it. It really takes me back to when I was a kid, hanging out at my mother's horse barn. While including all the elements that make us Barnyard Chic Freaks titter with excitement, Horse manages to mostly focus on the sweat-covered skin of the horse itself after just having been for a long run. It's an emotionally tender scent for me, and frankly, it almost makes my eyes well up with tears. Horse has the kind of imagination contained within it that you don't see very often. It has a linear development, but that's a positive thing here. Everything is present all at once and it just fades as a whole over time. Once it dries down in the extreme, it's very much a dry hay scent. Horse is completely enchanting, I will need a bottle of this.
notes: hay, clover, leather, cedar, oats, musk
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Coyote: Coyote is meant to evoke the warm fur of this elusive canine creature. Coyote starts and finishes in the masculine realm. Bay is one of those things that are rarely (if ever) used in feminine perfumes, and the bay is fairly strong here and stays throughout the entire wearing. The neroli and bergamot give a nice little citrus acidity to the blend, and after about 10 minutes go by, the warm fur accord emerges. It is not "wet dog" kind of animalic fantasy accord, so it's not quite as literal as Horse feels. Coyote is a dry, aromatic fougere with the fur element represented by a musky, woody combination. There is a smokiness that is not overwhelming nor does it give smoked meat or barbecue, thankfully. It is a slightly bitter, dry wood smoke. I think Coyote is very nice, but its classic, masculine fougere nature is not something I would reach for frequently (especially since now I can easily make myself smell of Horse).
notes: neroli, bergamot, bay leaf, patchouli, wood smoke, musk, warm spices
Sand Dollar: Sand Dollar comes out of the gate with a lovely pine and lime combination. I'm not usually partial to aquatic themes in perfume, but this one is not your run of the mill Cool Water type of aquatic. The fact that Sand Dollar is all natural works in its favor. Again, there are several fantasy accords here (salty citrus? Ocean pine?). I do get the salty sea thing, but it's not overbearing. The citrus really pops, lending a nice contrast to the pine, and in the end, citrus and pine is what I remember most about this fragrance. I forget that a sand dollar is a living creature, maybe because I've never seen one in person that I can recall. Almost everyone has held the dried-up skeletal remains of one before, but contemplating this perfume has reminded me that the Fauna collection is about the living wonders of the world- animals and creatures of all kinds and sizes. When I'm not thinking about perfume, I can always be caught thinking about animals.
notes: salty citrus, rosemary, seaweed, musk, ocean pine, lime, jasmine
living sand dollar [follybeach.com]
I still have samples of several more For Strange Women perfumes to try, and based on my opinion of what I've tried so far, I'm looking forward to it. There is much fun to be had with this line, and it won't cost you dearly.
Jill McKeever [how cute is this photo? It's from her Etsy store]
[products were purchased and sent to me as a gift by Nathan Branch. The For Strange Women website is HERE, and the Etsy site is linked at the top of the page]


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CONWAY, Ark.—Junior Elizabeth Bromirski recorded a career-high 23 points and senior Melanie Short scored 20 in helping lead the Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team to a 73-62 road win against Hendrix College, Friday evening in Conway, Ark.
The Panthers move to 7-9 overall and 2-3 in the Southern Athletic Association. The Warriors remain win-less at 0-16 overall and 0-5 in SAA play.
After BSC pulled out to a 7-0 start to open the game, Hendrix quickly came back and the rest of the half stayed close. The Warriors held a 35-33 lead at halftime.
Six minutes into the second half, Hendrix achieved its largest lead of the game, going up 42-36, but the Panthers answered with a 10-1 run to pull up 46-43 at the 11:47 mark. BSC held onto its lead for the duration of the game, slowly building to as much as a 15-point lead, twice, before winning by nine.
Bromirski led all players with her career-high 23 points, hitting 9-11 from the field and 4-6 from three-point range. Short also scored 20 points and pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds. Freshman Kelsey Brown led with six assists.
The Panthers out-shot the Warriors in every category, going 25-54 (.463) from the field, 10-23 (.435) from three-point range, and 13-15 (.867) at the free throw line. Hendrix shot 26-70 (.371) overall, 5-17 (.294) from beyond the arc, and 5-10 (.500) at the line.
BSC also out-rebounded Hendrix by a large margin, 48-30, but committed 10 more turnovers with 17 to the Warriors' seven.
The Panthers stay on the road to face Rhodes College on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Memphis, Tenn.


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The way the movie plays with the ideas Wakanda's isolationism and traditionalism vs. modernism is very interesting. It makes the movie about something other than a superhero who has to stop a bad guy from doing a bad thing. There's legitimate conflict other than "Black Panther is good and Killmonger is bad." I don't think a Marvel movie has done this well with the themes beyond the superhero plot since Winter Soldier (Though I do like how Guardians Vol. 2 tackled the ideas of both growing up and family).
The big issue that prevents it from being my No. 1 Marvel movie with a bullet (it's definitely up there, not sure it's as good as the aforementioned Winter Soldier is that the escalation of the conflict felt rushed. Lines were drawn so early into Killmonger's reign that everything felt it was happening way too quickly when they started fighting. Like it makes sense that W'Kabi would side with Killmonger but he basically bought into everything right away? That was my main gripe.
Which, I get it. The studio wants the big action setpiece, you can't make the movie longer, and you don't want to cut out all the (excellent) world building early on in the movie. Still, it sticks out.
This is maybe the best-cast Marvel movie yet, which is saying quite a lot. Michael B. Jordan is getting most of the hype here which makes sense, because he's really excellent in everything he's ever in. Chadwick Boseman is also great as a cool, collected character. Letitia Wright was the biggest standout for me. She's really good. I spent the entire movie trying to figure out what I've seen her in until I finally googled her during the credits (She's in the "Black Museum" episode of Black Mirror and she's great in that too). It's nice to see Danai Gurira on the big screen. I like her a lot but don't want to have to watch trash-ass Walking Dead to see her. Winston Duke is another standout, since he's been in so little before this and proceeded to do a great job as f***ing MAN-APE.
Ludwig Goransson's score is pretty damn incredible. He did great work in Creed and I hope he gets some awards hype for this, because it's awesome. Kendrick Lamar's soundtrack for this is really good too and I was hoping it could get used more in the context of the film, but that's a hard balance to find especially when you've got a killer score. But I definitely recommend checking it out. Kendrick did a great job curating it and working with known commodities, rising American artists and working with African artists as well.
This has to cement Coogler as one of the best blockbuster filmmakers working since this and Creed are just phenomenal (I will say that I thought he showed more flair with the camera in Creed, though this movie does have some really pretty-looking scenes as well). I do hope he doesn't go completely into blockbuster territory though and mixes it up with more subdued films like Fruitvale Station as well


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Welcoming Gilgamesh Brewing
"'Eat the food, Enkidu, it is the way one lives.Such is the history of beer that it pre-dates the history of writing. While the claim is unprovable, some historians believe that beer predated civilization; having discovered fermented grain accidentally, early man began to cultivate to improve his homebrewing odds. But when civilizations did begin to document their lives, they documented beer. The earliest civilization known to do so were the Sumerians--worshipers of the Goddess Ninkasi--who in the world's first epic, Gilgamesh, made several references to beer. (In the passage above, Gilgamesh civilized a feral rival by ministrations of sex and beer. In this way, the Epic of Gilgamesh was also the world's first beer commercial.)
Drink the beer, as is the custom of the land.
Enkidu ate the food until he was sated,
he drank the beer--seven jugs!-- and became expansive and sang with joy!"
~Epic of Gilgamesh
This long preamble is by way of introducing you to yet another new brewery of which I was until this weekend ignorant: Turner's Gilgamesh. Sharp-eyed reader Derek noticed this story in the Salem Statesman-Journal:
Visitors to the Gilgamesh booth during the Oregon Food, Wine & Beer Festival's opening day today were privy to three beer tastings — including the popular Black Mamba, a black tea and tangerine zest beer — from the young brewery based in Turner.Digging a bit deeper (the Google points me to both a website and Facebook page), you will find an eclectic list of beers, half of which eschew hops for other herbal infusions: Black Mamba (no hops), Copper (traditional amber), IPA (traditional, but with an intriguing mixture of Amarillo, Simcoe and Zeus), Hopscotch (traditional Scottish ale, and surprisingly their most popular), Cranberry Saison (obviously nontraditional--brewed with local cranberries and no hops), and Chocolate Mint Stout (local mint and
[Nick] Radtke, his two brothers and father started the brewery about nine months ago, deciding to rely on 12 years' brewing experience. "Eight or nine months ago we realized we were tired of the daily grind of our jobs and we decided to open a brewery," Radtke said.
Consider my interest piqued.


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Twitter & the gluten-free community has been buzzing the past day or so about the news that Starbucks is discontinuing the Valencia Orange Cake, the only gluten-free food offering on their menu. They are replacing it with Kind Bars (a fruit & nut bar), which are rumored to be less expensive for the consumer. This message from a Starbucks employee came across the Celiac Listserv this afternoon:
Hello ___________,
Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company.
I apologize, the gluten free Valencia Orange Cake has been
discontinued. Many factors go into the decision to remove something
from our stores, but I understand how frustrating it is when a
product you know and enjoy goes away.
I am sharing your desire to bring gluten free Valencia Orange Cake
back into our stores with the Food & Beverage team. I want you to
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time to write and share your concerns.
I would also like to invite you to visit www.MyStarbucksIdea.com.
This website is a forum where you can share your ideas, tell us what you think of other people's ideas and join the discussion that will help shape Starbucks future. Many of the ideas shared have already been turned into action. If there are any questions or concerns that I have not been able to
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I have also read that they were discontinuing the cake because it seemed like more of a "treat" as opposed to a healthy snack/breakfast. I kind of thought that was the point, but I could be wrong. I carry Kind Bars in my purse almost all the time for emergency purposes, I don't need to go to Starbucks to buy one.
I am going to make sure to voice my opinion to Starbucks. Lots of voices make changes. If you are unhappy about this, make sure to let Starbucks know.
Update: Sign this petition to help bring back the Valencia Orange Cake!
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ThunderMountainRide necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
The primary brand is the thunder-mountain-ride.com
John Coppock & Associates LLC is a consultant to R&S Promotions, who is the event promoter for the upcoming Thunder Mountain Ride motorcycle rally. Promotion will include placing the winning logo in all manner of promotional media, including print, television and Internet. Embode Corporation is providing functional design for the website, Internet marketing and social networking.
We are seeking a compelling logo design. A PDF of a promotional PowerPoint side-show describing the Thunder Mountain Ride in more detail can be found at:
Please also refer to our existing placeholder website:
The target market includes sophisticated adult social bikers from their 20's to their late 50's, with disposable income, together with legitimate vendors and sponsors.
The winning logo should convey the ambiance and excitement of a community-driven motorcycle rally event. The Thunder Mountain Ride motorcycle rally is hosted by the town of Payson, Arizona - Arizona's cool mountain town.
5,500 ft in mountains on top of Mogillon Rim horrendous thunderstorms
The Goal of the promotion behind this logo is to drive 4,000 new customers during October 7-10, 2010, to the Thunder Mountain Ride held in Payson, Arizona.
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Parnassus Campus (Room CL 220)
All recent H-1B holders at UCSF are required to attend an H-1B orientation session. Here you will learn about how to maintain your legal status, traveling abroad while on an H-1B, how to apply for an H-1B visa stamp at a U.S. Embassy/Consulate and many other things you need to know while living in the U.S. and working at UCSF in H-1B status.
Hosts: Chris Flores
Location: Parnassus Campus (Room CL 220)
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500 special edition 50ps signed and individually numbered by Olympic legends Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes, Lord Sebastian Coe and Daley Thompson are now available from The Royal Mint.
Available now in strictly limited quantities are four special edition 50ps hand signed by Olympic legends Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes, Lord Sebastian Coe and Daley Thompson. Only available directly from The Royal Mint these exclusive packs include the Official Sporting Memorabilia of London 2012 serialised hologram and online registration card.
In their own words
"I've had enough. If anybody sees me going anywhere near a boat again they have my permission to shoot me." – Sir Steve Redgrave (after winning gold in Atlanta for the 4th time).
"Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one." – Daley Thompson
"Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!" – Seb Coe (a few minutes after a 2nd place finish in the 800m Olympic Games final in Moscow 1980, he later won the 1500m).
"I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream; that should give people hope." – Kelly Holmes


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WESTFIELD, Mass. – Seniors Jake Kerin (Quincy, Mass.) and Nicole Sidiropoulos (Carver, Mass.) continued to run hard this time at the 2012 Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championship meet, which was hosted by Westfield State University. Kerin led the men's team to a 6th/13th place finish at Saturday's meet while Sidiropoulos was one of two Beacons to compete on the women's side.
For Kerin his afternoon ended with a final time of 27:45.07 to earn a 25th/39th place finish overall. For Sidiropoulos she crossed the finish line with a time of 20:46.57 to earn 30th/52nd place in her first LEC championship meet. The only other Beacon to compete for the women's squad was Ari Leao (New Bedford, Mass.). The junior posted a final time of 23:26.51 to earn 53rd/106th place respectively.
Back on the men's side, Tad Delaney (Halifax, Mass.) recorded the Beacons second fastest time as he crossed the finish line with a final time of 28:34.13 (38th/63rd). Behind him was Tyler Colbert (Groveland, Mass.) in 56th/121st place with his time of 32:03.73. On Colbert's heals for most of the afternoon was Joe Miller (Hull, Mass.) who finished a mere six seconds behind his teammate with a time of 32:09.85 (61st/122nd).
Matt Nardiello (Swampscott, Mass.) and Chris Chapman (Brockton, Mass.) closed out Saturday's meet right next to each other as they posted times of 34:15.38 (61st/137th) and 34:52.54 (62nd/142nd) respectively.
Cross Country returns to action on November 10 when they take part in the NCAA Division III New England Regional meet at Westfield State University.


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Telular Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets Fixed Cellular products that enable a standard telephone, fax, computer or security alarm system to operate wirelessly over the cellular network for either primary or back-up communications. Based on its proprietary RJ-11-to-Cellular interface technologies, Telular provides the capability to connect landline telephone equipment with cellular-type transceivers used in wireless communication networks in the Cellular and PCS frequency bands. The principal product lines, TELGUARD®, Wi-PATH®, and PHONECELL® allow traditional wireline networks to send and receive voice, data, and facsimile signals over wireless networks using standard telephony technology.
Telular's product lines incorporate the world's leading cellular standards (GSM, CDMA) and are marketed worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Telular has an R&D Center in Atlanta, Georgia and regional sales and technical support offices in Atlanta, and Miami.
Telular Corporation was founded in 1986 and went public in 1994. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol "WRLS."
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They will hopefully be introduced to these symbols through video and written training. After this they will be given cheat sheet notepads that will only have the symbols on them in case a homeowner receives the notepad. We don't what the homeowner to immediately recognize that the notepads have an ideal customer profile located at the bottom. They sales people will just put a mark on the symbol to indicate that the homeowner meets that requirement.
The icons will initially be accompanied by a text description, but they will then appear on other materials by themselves so they should be immediately recognizable once introduced with a quick discussion.
They will represent a set of key "markers" that--if a household possesses them--greatly improved the chances of upselling our product.
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* A household income of >$50K
* Kids in the household
* The homeowner is employee in a management position, as a professional (doctor, lawyer, etc.) or in a white coller job.
* Have they attended some level of college (graduation not necessary)
* They own the home
* They are younger than 60 years old.
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In my favorite section of How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields recounts an anecdote he heard about a film director who happened to sit next to George W. Bush on a flight from Seoul. During the flight, a Korean dentist took out his camcorder and panned from Bush to the famous director to the in-flight showing of "King Kong." It's a humorous, plausibly peculiar moment that, in the ubiquity of the camera, the filming of the film, and the odd juxtaposition of people on the plane, encapsulates postmodernity.
I wish there were more moments like it in this slim volume, which instead dwells on Shields's tastes, angsts, and proclamations of what makes particular writers important. I once heard the memoirist Patricia Hampl observe that there are two types of memoir, one that bears witness to a historical moment through the lens of personal experience and another that's about "how I came to be me." Shields's book is the latter, and he reads the authors he loves almost exclusively through this lens.
Conspicuously absent is writing driven by social or political issues, which is a legitimate choice, but Shields never touches on this aspect even when he discusses deeply political writers like Milan Kundera or Kurt Vonnegut. For Shields it's all personal – which, of course, it is, but for him it's exclusively so.
The book is divided into sections with headings suggesting David-Foster-Wallace-meets-Winnie-the-Pooh (e.g., "In which I evoke my character and personality, especially the way I always argue against myself, am ridiculously ambivalent – who knew?"). Comprised of fragmentary reflections, his structure resembles Annie Dillard's "For the Time Being," which Shields admires, yet whereas Dillard's mosaic of observations and introspection comprises a moving search for meaning, Shields's often appears merely self-aggrandizing, as when he revisits memories of the girlfriend who recorded her passion for him in a journal he read on the sly or quotes a reviewer who has "overpraised" his work.
Shields is a highly regarded and important author, so I kept wondering, why don't I like this book? I, too, love many of the authors he reveres. I, too, prefer D.F. Wallace's essays to his fiction. I'm even an admirer of a (comparatively) lesser-known writer like Maggie Nelson, whose "Bluets" I was pleased to discover in his list "Fifty-five works I swear by." My favorite superhero is even Spider-Man and I looked forward to reading Shields's analysis of him.
Yet for the most part, the book left me cold or (I'll admit it) even slightly irritated. Yes, the prose was well-written, but it served to posit ideas about art and life I'd already heard ad infinitum or recount events of Shields's life that just didn't resonate with me. Maybe his book will sit better with fans of his earlier work who are interested in Shields' personal life, or readers who hope to learn about postmodernism through reading a text that both discusses and self-consciously exemplifies it.
Apropos of Shields' postmodern bent:
A professor of mine once recounted that a reviewer dismissed her memoir by criticizing her for never forgiving her parents. She noted that it was an imposition of Christian morality to claim that a book was only "good" if it culminated in redemption. She was right, of course. Conversely, for Shields, who conspicuously revels in a postmodern ethic, literature is of value only if it subscribes to an inherently meaningless universe. For this reason, he eschews novels – all fiction, really – which he claims unilaterally argues for meaning in the world by virtue of creating a cohesive narrative, and he thus dismisses as unrealistic and escapist.
Literature is under no obligation to represent a cohesive, redemptive universe, true, but it seems narrow, if not arrogant, to dismiss all writers who see meaning in the world (and thus depict it in their fiction) or who are (God forbid) overtly religious, like, say, Marilynne Robinson or Toni Morrison (the latter, unsurprisingly, Shields makes it clear that he doesn't like).
By the time I dragged myself to the finish line of the closing chapter, I was dying to pick up my five-month-old from daycare, little life-force that he is, for a dose of – what? – non-cerebral, unmediated humanness? Call me old-fashioned, but I need something – be it parenthood, family, love – untouched by the technology-saturated postmodern world that obsesses Shields, a world in which we are each terrified of and running from our inescapable isolation and mortality.
Elizabeth Toohey lives in Brooklyn and teaches courses remotely as a visiting professor for Principia College. She is currently teaching courses on postcolonial literature and gender studies.


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My Ride - 1969 Opel GT
Mike Meier, 56, and Alan Brattesani, 65, both live in Davis. Mike is a materials scientist who retired from UC Davis and now does some writing, programming and media work. Alan, his partner in crime, is a retired chemist and business owner and is enjoying tennis, golf, his family and life. Together they are the core of Team Tinyvette.
Back in the late 1960s my friend Alan Brattessani wanted an Opel GT. I wanted a Corvette. Fast-forward 40-some years: we're both retired and we never did own those cars. About a year ago I happened to run into Alan and said, "I have a great idea. Let's get an Opel GT, dress it up like an old Corvette and go racing in the 24 Hours of LeMons." Alan replied simply, "OK."
Within a week we had dragged a derelict 1969 Opel GT down from Oroville, parked it in my carport in Davis and then tried to figure out what to do next. We had never done this before. Nevertheless, "Team Tinyvette" was born - and we were going racing!
We worked on that car day and night for nine weeks straight. The motor and drive train didn't get any attention, but we did install new brakes and wheels, a cage and other safety gear before rolling on two coats of Rustoleum Sunburst Yellow paint and hauling it up to Thunderhill Raceway Park for its first race. The 24 Hours of LeMons is an endurance racing series featuring offbeat and wildly decorated cars costing $500 or less, not including safety equipment.
After 15 hours out on the track in the August heat, we managed to complete the race, which was a big accomplishment, because about a third of the cars at LeMons don't even make it to the finish line. The next December we raced the car at Buttonwillow and did a bit better. Then we started winning our class, then dominating our class and then we got kicked up into the top class, which is where we are now.
This car, which we dubbed the Tinyvette because it looks like a three-quarter-scale Corvette, is a heck of a lot of fun to drive. It's not fast, but it is fast enough and it just keeps going, which is what it takes to do well in endurance races. The car is also well-balanced, is easy to handle in the rain and is very forgiving.
On the street our Opel is still a lot of fun, but for different reasons. Part of it is the novelty of driving an old car, but a lot of it is because without all of the stuff they put in modern vehicles the driver is reminded that, underneath all the bells and whistles, a car is just a can with four wheels and a motor. Our little yellow can is just a car, a no-frills one-seater driver's car, and we love it that way.
Besides all of the racing, we have driven the Tinyvette to three shows in Monterey, and it also goes to local shows, where we strap excited kids (and the occasional adventurous parent) into the seat of a "real race car," let them hook up the steering wheel, put on a helmet. All of the other cars in the show are no-touch beauties. Not ours. Touch away. We built it to have fun with, not to stand around and look at. The Tinyvette was also in last year's UCD Picnic Day parade, and last September we exhibited it in the California Automobile Museum.
This little car has come a long way from that orchard outside of Oroville, and so have Alan and I. We are still having a lot of fun with our little yellow friend. And yes, we will be racing it again in LeMons later this year.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, December 18, 2010
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WASHINGTON, DC – The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is disappointed that, after successful passage in the House, the Senate failed to advance the bipartisan DREAM Act this morning. The legislation did not garner enough votes to overcome a procedural hurdle, even though with 55 votes it had the support of a majority of the chamber's lawmakers.
"It was with a heavy heart that I watched the DREAM Act deferred to yet another Congress. After the historic House victory and the tremendous outpouring of grassroots support for this legislation that would help deserving young people, today's failed cloture vote is a wrong-headed dénouement," said AILA President David Leopold who watched the legislative proceedings from Capitol Hill.
"It was sad to see some U.S. Senators putting politics before principles to vote no on cloture, thereby attaching their names to the wrong side of history. The DREAM Act did not pass today, but inevitably it will be law."
AILA will continue to fight for this legislation that will provide legal relief for the hundreds of thousands of young people who want to give back to the nation they call home. The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act would have provided a conditional pathway to legal permanent residence for certain unauthorized youth who, as children, were brought to the U.S. if they: complete high school; demonstrate good moral character; and complete at least two years of higher education or serve for at least two years in the U.S. military.
This bipartisan bill would have brought our country one step closer to realizing our shared ideals of fairness and justice. Although not actualized today, the DREAM Act will one day be a part of the American meritocratic legacy.
"The failure of the DREAM Act today is frustrating especially knowing that the majority of Americans believe that it's the right thing to do. Unfortunately, some legislators fell prey to the myths and distortion that became a cancer on this debate that should have been about core American values," concluded Leopold.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
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Next Friday, July 20, one of the most anticipated movies of 2012, "The Dark Knight Rises" -- the third and final installment in director Christopher Nolan's take on Batman -- opens nationwide.
This movie is set eight years after 2008's "The Dark Knight," in which Batman (Christian Bale) battled the Joker (the late Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for his role) and took the fall for attorney Harvey Dent's (Aaron Eckhardt) crimes as the villainous Two-Face, to protect Dent's reputation and not undercut the fragile morale of Gotham City's people. Hunted by the police -- including his ally, Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman, who returns for "Rises") -- Batman hasn't been seen since.
However, the arrival of Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and Bane (Tom Hardy) force Batman out of exile. Morgan Freeman returns as Lucius Fox and Michael Caine returns as Alfred the butler.
Nolan collaborated with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, and Ann Arbor native David Goyer on the story and direction of the trilogy, which began with 2005's "Batman Begins," giving the movie franchise a much-needed shot of adrenaline after 1997's "Batman and Robin." Theirs is a dark, gritty take on the DC Comics character who debuted in 1939.
"I like (Bale). He is a quieter actor and blends so well into the role," said Ferndale native Bill Messner-Loebs, who wrote the syndicated "Batman" daily newspaper strip in the early 1990.
"Other 'Batman' actors had very strong personae and the movies tended to be about them. 'Batman Begins' was more a real movie and more collaborative."
Comic creators have been trying to distance Batman from the campy trappings of the 1960s TV series starring Adam West -- and have done a pretty good job of it. In 1973, Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams returned Batman to his 1940s roots, planted by creator Bob Kane: a dark vigilante preying on criminals.
Michigan comic writers pave the way
This paved the way for comic writer Steve Englehart's classic run in 1976. With artists Marshall Rogers and Detroit native Terry Austin, Englehart's work is considered a definitive take on the character. In fact, it served as the blueprint for 1989's "Batman" starring Michael Keaton (Englehart wrote early drafts of the script) and the Emmy Awarding-winning "Batman: The Animated Series" in the 1990s.
"I focused on Batman as a pulp character and Bruce Wayne as an adult -- that darkened him up," said Englehart of California, who introduced girlfriend Silver St. Cloud and pushed the envelope by having Batman sleep with Silver.
"Batman is an adult character -- he is the scourge of criminals -- yet he looked stupid in front of women. He blushed, he stammered," Englehart said. "Having him sleep with Silver had never been done before; it revolutionized comics. This was just a thunderbolt. One of the reasons why my run was definitive was that it did something the readers have never seen before."
The sex scene was only implied.
"In those days, comics were for everyone and we didn't want to offend children and their parents," Englehart explained. "Everyone who was meant to get it did get it. Everyone who was not meant to get it didn't get it."
In 1986, Frank Miller revolutionized the character further, writing "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" for DC Comics. Taking place in a dystopian society, Batman comes out of retirement for one last fight. Miller's take on Batman introduced an era of "grim and gritty" comics, demonstrating that it's not just a children's medium. It received mainstream attention, the likes of which hadn't been seen with earlier comics.
Miller followed up with 1987's "Batman: Year One," showing Bruce Wayne first becoming Batman, which was the basis for "Batman Begins."
Berkley native kills Robin
Comic artist and illustrator Jim Starlin, a Berkley High School alumnus, had the Joker kill Batman's sidekick, Robin, in 1988. This was the second Robin since the original Robin, Dick Grayson, outgrew the role and became Nightwing.
DC ran a telephone poll to determine if he should live or die. Fans wanted him dead.
"To me, going off to fight crime with a teenage sidekick wearing primary colors while you hide in the shadows is not only a cowardly act, but a criminal act. I always had trouble with (Robin) and I lobbied (for his death) from the beginning," Starlin recalled. "(Superheroes) play life and death games all the time. It only seems fair occasionally that someone doesn't make it through to the end of the story. Norman Mailer once said all true stories end in death. Why shouldn't it work that way in a fantasy situation, too?"
Today, Batman continues his war on crime in several solo titles. He also appears in the "Justice League of America," a team of superheroes consisting of Batman and Superman, among others, written by Clarkston native Geoff Johns, DC's chief creative officer. Johns also wrote the recently released "Batman: Earth One." In it, Johns reimagines Batman's origin, making him an angry vigilante with little interest in heroics, much less protecting the innocent.
"Dual identities and dual motivations are very powerful. We all think we are different people inside than the weak, compromised husk that the camera sees," Messner-Loebs said. "We just need the 'event' to bring it out. Superman, Zorro the Scarlet Pimpernel, all played to that archetype, and the stronger the contrast between the two identities the better. I also think Batman has been lucky. Each time he needed to be reimagined for a new era, some really powerful creator has come along and given him just the right spin. ... No wonder we like him so much."


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During my time away from the blog, I made a lot of cookies. And by that I mean two batches or so every week for about two months. In retrospect, I believe I was possessed by a cookie demon, an apron-clad creature that breathes flour from its nose, has beaters instead of hands, and whose eyes are glazed sticky sweet with honey. My kitchen became host to mixing bowls in the sink, flour on the floor, and a tin of cookies on the counter at all times. I fed my housemates cookies. I bestowed cookies upon friends. I wooed with cookies. Yes, wooed. And of course, I consumed many of them myself.
My baking bonanza was part of a larger pattern of self-indulgence that started last fall. I had been weaning off my drugs since last October after two years of heavy antibiotic treatment for Lyme Disease and related tickborne co-infections. My doctor had told me that I was in remission, and we should try running an experiment to see how my body behaved without treatment. I took my last pill in late November, a landmark event. In a somewhat reckless (yet well-deserved) move, I celebrated.
Caution, moderation, and self-control are not my natural and preferred methods of approaching the world. I've had to develop them in the last few years out of health-related necessity, and I managed to drum up gumption that I didn't know I had. I was so tired of regulating myself. So I threw care to the wind.
I let go.
I cheered myself with wine and coffee and all number of things that I had forbade myself from partaking in the last 4 years, returning to a slightly amended version of my habits of old. Concurrently, I indulged my heart and body, spending obsessive amounts of time in a blissed out haze of crushy giddiness with a pleasure rebel of equal measure to me. I laughed more than I'd laughed in years, shaking out the dust and cobwebs from prior years of sick sorrow. I fed parts of my soul that had lay hungry for far too long.
It was all so needed, a medicine all of its own. I knew all of that was a recipe for inevitable intense consequence, but I didn't care. I wanted to experience every moment the present so badly, so I did.
Everything hit an unfortunately timed wall in the desolate grey of mid-February, a tsunami wave of intrinsically cyclical circumstances. Cookies, wine, and losing time in starry-eyed explorations were replaced by new antibiotic regimens, detox baths, and days lost in battling Herxes from Hell. I was in physical and emotional crisis. My behaviors had fed my soul, but had also fed all the sleeping bugs in my system and brought them back to life. I had symptoms I hadn't experienced in months and years. I felt nauseous from the drugs in my system and the lonely pit in my stomach. My head throbbed and shooting pains transversed my flesh. Worse yet, my swinging manic depressive cycles joined forces with a wicked Bartonella brain freakout and an aching heart, forming an unholy trinity of psychological destruction. Thoughts of self-harm wracked my brain, unlike any I'd had in years. It was terrifying.
I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, nights were silent and solitary. I struggled to unravel the pain, grappling to discern what to attribute to the flare in my illnesses, or to side effects from the pharmaceuticals, or to the deep depressive cycles, or to the unraveling of intimacy. I was plagued by frustration for taking everything "too far", indulging "too much", feeling "too deeply". I thrived at very little other than taking my pills, crying, watching Netflix, and writing depressing poetry.
What a clusterfuck.
Thankfully, within the last few weeks, a switch has begun to flip. My body has started to acclimate, my depression has started to lift, my lonliness has slowly subsided. Some light poked through the clouds and I have flocked to it. And now, I'm feeling pretty good -- all things considered.
Matters of the body, mind, and heart have all achieved a certain level of balance and redefinition and appreciation. Times like this are for learning, growing, and self-reflection. It takes patience and faith and hard work. And sometimes it sucks. But in my experience, in this life of mine, things usually end up better after a bout like this. And thankfully, they have.
I'm not baking many cookies right now. My tendancy to overindulge doesn't bode well with the way antibiotics effect my body, so I'm putting on the brakes the best I can. But have a storehouse of recipes from my winter baking binge to revisit. I made these little love nuggets last weekend for a potluck, to great delight of all who ate. They are loaded with all kinds of stuff, a celebration of all the ways I like to overdo. But the gluttony is tempered by whole grains and healthy fat and sensible sweeteners. It's the sort of balance I am trying to achieve.
Totally Loaded Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (gluten-free, dairy-free, cane sugar-free)
yields 3 dozen 3-inch cookies
In addition to boasting whole grains, raisins, cashews, and coconut, these cookies are totally loaded with protein, fiber, and amino acids. Sweet.
A few tips on the fat. Make sure to use softened - not melted - coconut oil. If you are a butter eater, an equal weight of butter can be substituted. Also, chill the dough in the fridge for 3-4 hours before baking. Why? Chilling the dough hardens the coconut oil and shortening, so it doesn't melt as quickly while the cookies are baking. Instead of spreading out like weird pancakes and ending up lacy and thin, cookies baked from chilled dough spread gradually and end up slightly chewy in the middle and crisp on the outside. Totally worth the wait, trust me. And besides, it gives you lots of time to sneak into the fridge and eat spoonfulls of dough. Because duh, why else bake cookies?!
- 90 grams / 0.75 cup quinoa flour or amaranth flour*
- 60 grams / scant 0.5 cup arrowroot starch or arrowroot flour (equal weight of tapioca flour or tapioca starch can be substituted)
- 40 grams / 0.25 cup buckwheat flour
- 5 grams / 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 5 grams / 0.75 teaspoon salt
- 9 grams / 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 150 grams / 0.5 cup + 3.5 tablespoons softened virgin coconut oil
- 75 grams / 0.25 cup + 2 tablespoons palm shortening
- 170 grams / 1 cup palm sugar (or equal weight of another granulated sugar, such as coconut sugar)
- 80 grams / 0.25 cup maple syrup
- 2 large eggs
- 8 grams / 2 teaspoons gluten-free vanilla extract
- 290 grams / 3 cups gluten-free rolled oats
- 225 grams / 1.5 cup lightly packed raisins
- 85 grams / 1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 100 grams / 0.75 cup toasted chopped cashews
In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda, and salt until well combined and light. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream coconut oil and shortening until smooth and fluffy. Then add sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla and beat until smooth (some sugar granules may remain, that's okay). Add eggs and mix just until they are evenly combined. Gradually add flour and mix until evenly incorporated.
Then fold in oats, raisins, coconut, and cashews with a large sturdy spoon or spatula. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Heat oven to 350º F and line baking sheets with parchment. Scoop chilled dough onto a baking sheet, leaving 3 inches or so between each cookie. Bake for approximately 16 minutes per batch, rotating pans half way through if baking two sheets at a time. Cookies should still be soft in the middle but browned around the edges, then remove from oven.
Let cool for 5 minutes before carefully transferring cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling. Store cooled cookies in a well-sealed jar, container, or bag at room temperature for up to 4 days (although they won't last that long).
*Flour Power! If you can't find quinoa or amaranth flour for purchase, or if you want to save some ching, grind your own. Simply place whole quinoa or amaranth grains in a high powered blender like a Vitamix or a coffee grinder, and grind until you create very fine flour with an even texture. So easy and so fresh!
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Every day in my social media streams I see a handful of 15 reasons to ____ or 7 way to ____ and it is driving me crazy because I'm in marketing, I see what you're doing there, but also because I have been doing this for nine years which means I am an overbearing preachy know it all who had to code her own sidebar content boxes that weren't even called widgets yet uphill both ways in blogspot and do you even know what FTP is? Get off my CSS.
But thankfully, my dear friend Denise Tanton reminded me - with her signature graceful eloquence - that there are multitudes of opinions about how we write blog posts, which work together to create a vast and diverse blogosphere, and each viewpoint is as valuable and important as the others.
@mrlady exactly. Fuck mr lady lol #lesbianapproved lol— Denise Tanton (@dtanton) August 23, 2013
And she even went so far as to demonstrate her point for me. Read it here. And that got me thinking about all the great (read: not pseudo-marketing formulaic SEO click bait pointlessly numbered) list-posts I've read over the years, and the few I'd even written myself (there are a few here, here, and here) before I decided no one should write them anymore, and that somehow turned into a group of us co-chairing The Sigmund and Freud Cross-Dressing Six Flags Sexy Sexy Safari Tours, or something like that.
I'm not entirely sure.
The internet moves fast.
Keeping up is hard.
Awesomely enough, this random post I was writing so I could keep avoiding the giant herd of elephants in this here room on the internet has somehow brought me around to that giant herd of elephants in this here room of the internet, comprised of everything I haven't found a way to publish yet, for one reason or another.
The human psyche is a dick.
Bygones. I needed a segue into the rest of my life, because really, two months of dodging elephants is exhausting. Also, not as good for the glutes as you'd guess.
And so partly to let Denise know that I heard her, and hopefully avoid getting thrown into the lesbian tiger pit (though if it's the lesbian cougar pit, SIGN MY SHIT UP) and more-partly because I now have more posts in draft than I do published, I thought I would write a list post of my own, wherein I gloss over a whole lot of pretty important information* that really should go into a series of long, deep, meaningful posts, or, you know, MY BOOK, but you know.
Things ain't nobody got time for:
- That.
HOLY DIGRESSION. I think it's time to just list out everything I'm not writing, and then maybe start publishing all the posts I have in draft line item number by line item number.
Color by numbers blogging. And I bitch about the list-makers.
- I moved.
- To Northern California.
- And to Busy Dad.
- Over the first week of July, which was in-between BlogHer Food and BlogHer 13. Which is the perfect time to move.
- If you hate yourself.
- But I hate Arizona, and love Busy Dad, more. So I moved.
- And here is where I have to give my kids' father massive props for letting us go, because really, he totally could have said no and then we would have been stuck in that god-awful place for like ever and really, i would rather not-quite-die but you know what I mean than stay there one more day.
- Of course, he has been nothing short of a
- Chump ass
- Crying in his beer
- Breast-feeding
- Motherfucker
- To me ever since we moved, but he let me move. There am I happy.
- And I know he's reading this, which is a lot of why I can't write anything anymore, because try having your ex of 20 years read your diary as you write it, but I found and read some of his journals, too, so quid pro quo, bitches.
- And of course my daughter started having massive panic attacks the day before I left for BlogHer '13.
- And her fish died the morning I left.
- Because GAH.
- But my teenage son stopped talking about killing himself.
- No, I am not telling you which one. That's his business.
- But you should watch this video from VOTY or read the post here on Adrienne Jones' blog No Points for Style, because we have to be talking more about our kids' mental health as a community and I for one have no idea how or where to start, so I am eternally grateful that she started for us.
- Also, I got to spend, like, quality time with
- Queen
- Motherfucking
- Latifah
- at VOTY.
- There isn't one single picture of us together.
- But man does she say Mistah Laydee just riiiiiight.
- And now BlogHer is over and I am at the doctor kind of a lot with my daughter, who seemed to turn a really large corner a few weeks ago and is even putting herself to sleep at night again.
- Baby steps on the bus.
- And then I learned exactly how fun it feels to have your child tell you he hates you
- And mean it
- And have reasoning and facts backing up why
- And not being able to do a thing about it, because being the sober parent means you get to take the punches and keep wobbling back up and being the consistent, even, rational, not-emotionally-outbursty one and just hope he remembers it on the other side.
- Which I think/hope he will, because holy SHIT do I love him
- Even if I never even wrote a post for him on his 15th birthday which was 4 1/2 months ago
- Best. Blogger. Ever.
- But I'm getting much better at Facebook
- Which really isn't something I ever wanted to brag about, but here I am, checking Facebook alone in the dark and getting busted by my step-son who makes really funny faces at you when you get busted checking Facebook alone in the dark
- But not as funny as this face
- Nothing is as funny as that face
- Except maybe watching BusyDad load up a grocery belt
- But that is a story for another day.
And hopefully now I can start writing it.
*For me. It's possible that maybe it isn't as important for you.


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Darrow, who was handed the file by Premier Stephen McNeil after a series of cost overruns and delays, said he recently made a personal visit to the vessel.
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The Bluenose II has been undergoing a multi year restoration that's been plagued by budget overruns and repeated delays, with the steering problems just the latest.
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Experts will be hired to design the hydraulic system and to investigate a backup system where buoyancy is added to the rudder to help it move, he said, adding that the solution will also have to be certified by regulators and tested at sea.
Eddie Orrell, a Conservative member of the legislature, said he isn't fully confident with the latest ideas for a solution.
The province has already revealed there were seven redesigns of the rudder and steering system amid debates over changes to the rudder that date back to 2010.
He also noted that Nova Scotia's auditor general is continuing to review the restoration and he will have more to say about what went wrong with the project once that report is complete.
David Darrow, the premier's deputy minister, said Tuesday the work means the Bluenose II known as the province's roving sailing ambassador likely won't be setting sail this summer.
"The people of Nova Scotia expect the vessel is going to be there as a tourist icon and now we know it isn't going to be there."
Darrow said the stability of the vessel was also reviewed Tuesday, but the most recent figures and tests indicated it met the standards.
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The Bluenose II, launched in 1963, is a replica of the original Bluenose, a Grand Banks fishing schooner that won worldwide acclaim for its graceful lines and speed.
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Months back I posted a link to Paul Cornell's list of thirty comics which Hugo voters should consider for nomination.
A couple of weeks back Cornell added to the list with five more comics to consider.
I've been using Cornell's first listing as a wonderful reading list which has introduced me to a goodly number of great comics. Now I've got a few more to consider.
I plan to register to be a supporting member of this year's Worldcon so I can nominate and vote for the Hugos, and I'll probably need to use Cornell's list as a referent. I should probably register soonish, too, before Jan 31 (or I can't nominate, and nominating is going to be half the fun).
Monday, January 04, 2010
Five More Comics from Paul Cornell
Monday, January 04, 2010
Posted by Joe on Monday, January 04, 2010
2 comments:
- Paul Cornell said...
Joe, that's excellent. Thanks for checking my list, and for joining in with the Hugo community.
- January 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Joe Sherry said...
Shoot - thank you, sir. I had a great year of reading comics in part because of your list.
- January 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM
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186 Former interns earn Hall of Fame honors
Some of the best interns in the Illinois Legislative Staff Internship Program (ILSIP) are elected every two years into the Samuel K. Gove Hall of Fame. They are honored for having great careers in public service. The last five were inducted in 2011, and more will be inducted this fall. A plaque hangs in the Illinois State Capitol recognizing these Hall of Famers.
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Last but certainly not least, cook the ribs low and slow for optimum tenderness and juiciness.
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• BBQ It's about the rub (See recipe below). Great BBQ tastes great without sauce. The sauce is the finishing touch.
• Buy pure meat nothing added. Certain percentage of anything added such as brine or salt water is not desirable.
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$1 Million Reward Offered in Dorner Hunt
(CNN) — A reward of $1 million is being offered for information leading to the capture of Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer who is accused of killing three people in the past week and who wrote a searing manifesto threatening the lives of police officers and their families, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on Sunday.
A scaled-back search for the officer resumed Sunday morning in the San Bernardino Mountains as the city's police chief called on Dorner to surrender.
The Los Angeles Police Department says the cashiered cop declared war on his former comrades and their families and has killed three people since last weekend. In an interview aired Sunday on CNN affiliate KCBS, Chief Charlie Beck called Dorner a "trained assassin" but said he wouldn't be harmed if he gave himself up.
"If you turn yourself in, then you will be safe and nobody else has to die," Beck said. "If you don't, if you decide to try to take the life of another Los Angeles police officer or their family member, then you'll have to suffer the consequences."
The dragnet was in action Sunday around the Big Bear Lake resort, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, where investigators found Dorner's burning pickup Thursday afternoon. After working through a weekend of heavy snow and overnight temperatures in the single digits, police officers, sheriff's deputies and federal agents tried again to pick up Dorner's trail, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Lehua Pahia said.
The day's effort began with about 60 officers — but by early afternoon, it had been scaled back to about 25 investigators, aided by a helicopter equipped with body-heat sensors and other specialized equipment, Pahia said. None of the tips the department had received so far has panned out, she said.
The LAPD fired Dorner, a former Navy officer, in 2009 after finding he had falsely accused his training officer of using excessive force on a mentally ill man. Dorner challenged his firing in court and lost, and in a manifesto released last week, he blamed racism and corruption in the department for his removal.
Beck announced Saturday that the LAPD would re-examine its proceedings against Dorner — "not to appease a murderer," but "to reassure the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all things we do."
"I am aware of the ghosts of the LAPD's past, and one of my biggest concerns is that they will be resurrected by Dorner's allegations of racism within the department," Beck said.
'Last resort'
In the manifesto posted online, 33-year-old Dorner promised to bring "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" to officers and their families, calling it the "last resort" to clear his name and strike back at a department he says mistreated him.
According to authorities, Dorner began making good on his threats a week ago when he allegedly killed Monica Quan and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, in a parking lot in Irvine, south of Los Angeles.
Quan was the daughter of a now-retired Los Angeles police officer who represented Dorner in a disciplinary hearing that led to his termination.
Days later, early Thursday morning, Dorner allegedly opened fire on two LAPD police officers, wounding one, in the suburban city of Corona.
Roughly 20 minutes later, Dorner allegedly fired on two police officers, killing one and wounding another, in the nearby city of Riverside.
Since then, much of the manhunt for Dorner has focused in and around Big Bear Lake, after Dorner's pickup was found burning in the area. Officers trudged through fresh snow Saturday as they searched homes, knocking on doors and peeking in windows.
But as the search continued with no sign of Dorner, questions were raised about whether he had escaped the dragnet, possibly days earlier.
Arrest warrant
A federal arrest warrant affidavit said Dorner's burned-out truck was found near the property of a known associate in the Big Bear Lake area Thursday afternoon.
There has been no sign of Dorner since Thursday, and there has been speculation, based in part on the affidavit, that he has possibly crossed state lines into Nevada or made his way into Mexico.
Authorities say Dorner spent at least two days in the San Diego area after the shooting of Quan and her fiance.
Dorner's ID and some of his personal belongings were found Thursday at the San Ysidro Point of Entry at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the affidavit.
Border patrol agents have been searching cars crossing into Mexico for signs of Dorner, while authorities have searched a home Dorner owned in Las Vegas and one owned by his mother in La Palma, California.
Two sailors reported Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant, approached them at the San Diego-area Point Loma Naval Base, and local police allege he attempted to steal a boat.
Even so, the focus of the manhunt remains on the San Bernardino Mountains, where the search has been slowed by heavy snowfall.
Search teams were aided by helicopters, snowcats and armored personnel carriers with snow chains.
On alert
Los Angeles-area police and several military installations have been on alert since the shootings, while authorities chase down unconfirmed sightings of the 270-pound, 6-foot Dorner.
In the manifesto and on a Facebook page, Dorner allegedly singled out as targets cartain officers and their families, who have been under guard since the shootings.
Beck said the LAPD is now guarding the families of more than 50 police officers. Officers guarding one house early Thursday shot and wounded two women who were driving a pickup similar to Dorner's, something Beck called a "tragic, horrific incident."
Beck said the shootings of Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernandez, occurred a day after the manhunt for Dorner began, and that the officers were under enormous pressure.
CNN's AnneClaire Stapleton and Irving Last contributed to this report. Paul Vercammen and Stan Wilson reported from Big Bear Lake. Chelsea J. Carter wrote from Atlanta.


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