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The University of Kansas has found its next athletic director.
KU chancellor Douglas Girod announced on Thursday that Jeff Long — the longtime Arkansas athletic director — will fill the position for the Jayhawks formerly held by Sheahon Zenger. He will be introduced at a news conference on Wednesday, July 11 before, officially taking over the position on August 1, the university said in a release.
"Jeff Long has tremendous leadership and administrative experience in major college athletics, and he is a terrific fit for Kansas Athletics as we work to ensure our student-athletes succeed on the field and in the classroom," Girod said. "Those who know him describe him as a man of character who cares deeply about higher education and the student-athletes he serves. For all these reasons, we are thrilled to welcome him to the University of Kansas."
Long noted in the release he was "thrilled" to be able to join the university.
"It was clear from the moment I met with the chancellor and his search committee members, they have a deep love for the university and understand and appreciate the positive role intercollegiate athletics plays in the university community," Long said. "Through our conversations, it became evident we share a common belief that the student-athlete experience prepares young people for the challenges they will face throughout life. I am excited to work with the student-athletes, coaches, staff, the community of Lawrence and the incredible fan base to build on past success and create a shared vision for the future of Kansas Athletics."
KU alumnus Drue Jennings, who was part of the search that brought Bill Self to Kansas, led up the seven-week process to find Long. He also commented in the release:
"We are thrilled to have someone of Jeff's caliber joining the University of Kansas," Jennings said. "Jeff has a record of integrity, experience in hiring coaches, ties with other Bowl Championship Series schools, effective fundraising and a willingness to lead on national issues affecting college athletics. We can be proud that he's joining us at KU, and we can be confident that Kansas Athletics is in good hands under his leadership."
The Foundation Capital partner is at the head of a new generation of Silicon Valley VC's who did not descend from the heights of finance, but rose through the ranks of design. And, he believes, we're entering the century of the designer-founder.
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We don't usually think of venture capitalists as the "creatives" in today's economy—at best these stolid investors enable creatives by providing them with the financial backing and the management advice to make their ideas happen.
Think again! Foundation Capital partner Steve Vassallo is at the head of a new generation of Silicon Valley VC's who did not descend from the heights of finance, but rose through the ranks of design. 99U met with Vassallo in his office at Foundation Capital in Menlo Park to learn about about his background, his motivation, and his future vision.
Steve, let's begin by figuring out who you are. You took a degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford, but now you are working as a venture capitalist. Can you connect the dots?
I have been a maker since before I can remember, whether it was building crazy Lego models or starting my own business (Steve's Snowblowing Service—I still carry the card in my back pocket). At Stanford I was planning to get a Ph.D. in robotics and mechatronic systems, but I got sidetracked into a course in "Visual Thinking" where I learned about drawing and sketching, prototyping and need-finding, and creative problem-solving in small teams. That was the beginning of my discovering product design as a discipline.
I then spent five years at IDEO designing sunglasses for Nike, a bun toaster for McDonalds (I think I'm the only venture capitalist who has ever taken a course at McDonald's Hamburger University), and anesthesia delivery devices. My last project at IDEO was Cisco's VoIP system; I had to go head-to-head with Cisco engineers who made switches and routers that sit in closets and data centers and who didn't know the first thing about consumer products, like a phone that might touch a person's face 100 times a day. We had to educate them about the behaviors we saw in the field—at call centers, trading floors, cubicles—behaviors that if you just sat at your desk you could have never imagined.
But I was never crazy about the time-and-materials model of consulting, so I decided to apply to the Stanford Business School. I spent two years learning about "the business thing," which I knew nothing about.
Eventually, I joined the team at Foundation Capital—first as an entrepreneur-in-residence, then as a partner—and I found it to be the most stimulating job on the planet. I meet maybe 20 new entrepreneurs a week, and I can't help but be compelled by the mission they are on. They have thrown themselves into an idea and they're just not gonna stop until their vision comes to pass. That's a pretty amazing thing to be around all day.
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In various interviews and discussions, Ben has suggested that the name MailChimp was coined more like a joke!
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Sharing Freddie paraphernalia (read T-shirts, knit caps, toys et al.) with their community looks like a great strategy for MailChimp, however, this strategy has not been a mere marketing gimmick for MailChimp. It is a way of testing, surprising and delighting their everyday users .
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"We think of them as gifts. There's no way to directly measure the impact of giving away shirts and hats, and that's OK with us. Thinking about them as gifts changes our perspective, too.
If we considered them primarily marketing expenses, we'd want to figure out how to minimize cost and maximize the brand effect—essentially, we'd be thinking about ourselves. As gifts, we think first about the recipients and about how they'll feel when they receive the gifts. So we go over the top to make people feel special."
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MailChimp has definitely garnered an enormous patronage due to the word-of-mouth created by their startup swag! Needless to say, it continues to bring a truckload of loyal users on their table.
While many brands have adopted a similar tone with its users now, MailChimp has been doing this for the last 15 yrs!
Any startup that has its focus on growth CANNOT do without crunching valuable data. It is a metric that can open a treasure trove of opportunities for improving your product and delivering the best to your users.
MailChimp used data to analyze trends, launch unique features as well as in improving its team's productivity. After launching their freemium version, MailChimp had to battle quite a few roadblocks, a significant one being the volley of abusive and spammy users.
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, an abuse prevention initiative. They've also got an abuse desk in place to deal with any issues and educate its users.
Honesty is ingrained in the DNA of focused and growth-centric startups. That's simply because they value their end users a lot. Buffer is well-known in the startup arena, for the level of transparency it shares with its user. Very recently Ryan Hoover also went public in response to a Medium post that criticized Product Hunt .


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"The Visa Approval Backlog and its Impact on American Small Business"
June 4, 2003
Mr. Chairman and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am Palma R. Yanni, President-Elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). I am honored to be here today representing AILA, the immigration bar association of more than 8,000 attorneys who practice immigration law. Founded in 1946, the association is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and is an affiliated organization of the American Bar Association (ABA).
AILA takes a very broad view on immigration matters because our member attorneys represent tens of thousands of U.S. families who have applied for permanent residence for their spouses, children, and other close relatives to lawfully enter and reside in the United States. AILA members also represent thousands of U.S. businesses and industries that sponsor highly skilled foreign professionals seeking to enter the United States on a temporary basis or, having proved the unavailability of U.S. workers, on a permanent basis. Our members also represent asylum seekers, often on a pro bono basis, as well as athletes, entertainers, and foreign students.
AILA appreciates this opportunity to testify today on the visa approval backlog and its impact on small business. At no time in memory have the delays in visa issuance been so acute, nor the impact so profound. Visas that once took a day now take a monthif you're lucky. Visas that once took a month now take a yearif you're lucky.
How did we get to this point? Largely for two reasons: the introduction of processes for the sake of having processes, with little regard for their effectiveness or impact; and inadequate funding for adjudications which if not properly responded to will leave these backlogs unaddressed. Few would argue that the introduction of additional security checks and precautions are not necessary or advisable. But the key is to ensure that all agencies involved in the checks regard them as a priority, and that the agencies work together to avoid duplication and minimize error. That has not been the case.
When we talk about visa issuance, we usually mean the process by which a U.S. consulate or embassy abroad issues a document that enables a person to apply for admission into the United States for a particular purpose. As I will discuss shortly, the delays in the visa issuance process alone can be monumental. But, in many cases, visas for individuals critical to a small business cannot be issued until the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), which used to be the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), has approved an underlying petition.
The problem faced by businesses is that lengthy delays permeate all of these agencies.
Delays at the Consulate: Let's start at the consular stage and work our way backwards through the process. Several factors have made the process of obtaining a visa so slow that many are opting not to travel to the United States at all. Indeed, last fall the State Department had to raise its visa issuance fee by approximately 50% to make up for the shortfall in revenue created by the dramatic drop in the number of visa applicants.
Security checks account for some of the more dramatic delays in visa issuance, as some have waited two, three or even eight months or more while the State Department awaits a reply from other agencies on security inquiries. Again, few would argue that security scrutiny is unnecessary. But many of these checks are conducted for reasons that seem inexplicable. For example, persons coming to engage in activities relating to fields on the Technology Alert List are subjected to some of the lengthiest inquiries. But many of the activities on this list push the edges of credibility as areas of security concern. One can understand the need to make sure that additional bases are touched when a visitor's activities will relate to "Reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel to recover produced plutonium," one of the entries on the list. But, lengthy investigations of applicants who will engage in activities related to geography or landscape architecture, also on the list, are less easy to understand.
But beyond the rationality of who is subjected to these lengthy checks is the question of whether the checks should be so lengthy. Most of the agencies involved in the Technology Alert checks are entities whose missions do not include the processing of applications, and therefore do not have the culture of time-critical response or the understanding of the importance of visa processing to the United States. As a result, many of these security checks languish unattended for lengthy periods.
The same phenomenon occurs with respect to FBI checks. The State Department will not issue a visa until it has heard an affirmative reply on requests that it submits to the FBI. These requests are rarely based on actual intelligence information: instead, they have been based on the ethnicity and demographics of the applicant or on the fact that, when the Department checked the applicant's name in its "CLASS" database, there was a "hit" indicating a possible problem.
Most such "hits" turn out to be nothing: either the applicant happens to have the same name as someone who is of concern, the entry in the database relates to something minor that is not a basis for denying a visa, or the entry is a mistake. But all of these "hits" have to be checked. And, that often means that the consul must wait for the FBI and CIA to reply on an inquiry. Again, because the processing of visa applications is not perceived by these agencies as mission-critical, and because application processing is not something for which they have seen reason to invest in systems, replying to these inquiries is often not a priority.
A recent example from my own practice illustrates the problem. In March a physician who is practicing with a small hospital in a rural, medically underserved area went home to Central America for a brief vacation. He was trained in the United States, had received multiple previous visas, and had a security check done both by BCIS and the Department of State prior to the approval of his change of status to H. When he went to the U.S. consulate to obtain a new visa he was told there was a "hit" on his name, albeit with a different birth date, and he had to be fingerprinted and wait for the FBI to clear him before the visa was issued. The process took 60 days, and the community struggled without this desperately needed physician.
The result of all of this? Visa delays.
Add to this the announcement two weeks ago that the State Department will now interview, with just a handful of exceptions, all nonimmigrant visa applicants, That announcement was accompanied by an advisory to posts that they would have to handle this additional workload with existing resources: no new personnel or facilities would be added. Already, visa appointments at posts like London and Bern are backed up into mid-July, and it is expected that interviews at some posts will take months to schedule.
Since the State Department has no system for pre-clearing visa applicants, the checks that I discussed previously will not even begin until the visa interview has been held. Thus, we can expect that it will not be long before it will take nine months or more to get a visa, as is the case already in some consulates. What small business can wait that long for a needed employee?
As I indicated, all of the above focuses on just the process for obtaining the visa abroad. If the visitor is going to do any work in the United States, the company here will first have to petition on his or her behalf with the BCIS. Delays on this end also are profound: it is no longer unusual for such a petition to take a year or more to clear the BCIS.
Delays at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS): Like the consular process, the problems at BCIS stem from several causes. BCIS's predecessor, INS, developed a "backlog reduction plan" that was put in place to reduce the waiting times for the processing of many major types of petitions and applications. Just when that plan was starting to make inroads into the backlog, the word came down that no application or petition could be completed until a check was completed through the Customs Service's "IBIS" database, which contains information from a number of law enforcement agencies.
The problem was that this database, long used by INS for security checks, was not tied in with INS databases. So IBIS checks required a process separate and apart from the adjudication of the applications and petitions. This check increased the time spent on each application by anywhere from 10 to 40 percent, depending on the application type. Also, the IBIS checks result in the same kinds of "hits" as the CLASS checks that were discussed above at the consulates. The agency must clear each and every hit by contacting the agency that provided the information, sometimes by having to repeatedly call local police agencies or other entities until they can get an answer. As a result, applications with a "hit" can languish for months on end, only to find in the end that there is no impediment to approval. In my own practice, we have a case that has been pending since last July where we are certain there is no basis for the "hit."
These database difficulties are exacerbated by other problems. There is no way for the consul or the BCIS to update the databases when they have cleared a "hit" to indicate this clearance. So, the negative information continues in the database, often feeding into other databases that will show a "hit" down the line. Thus, even if the BCIS has ensured that the John Smith showing in the IBIS system is not the John Smith on the application, it has no means to notify the IBIS system, or any other agency in the process of this fact. So, when Mr. Smith goes to the consulate to apply for his visa, very likely the CLASS system will show a "hit", and the lengthy clearance process will begin all over again.
These problems have recently been ever further exacerbated by a March 24, 2003 Federal Register notice in which the Justice Department declared that the FBI no longer is subject to the Privacy Act requirement that information that it enters into law enforcement databases be "accurate, relevant, timely and complete." Since information can be entered into these databases with no regard for its accuracy, we can expect even more errors in these databases, with no real means to correct them.
The database check problems, alone, rendered the backlog reduction plan no more than a distant dream. But these are not the only factors that have created nightmarish backlogs at BCIS. For the past several months, BCIS personnel were pulled from adjudication activities to register citizens of 25 predominantly Moslem countries under a program known as "call-in NSEERS". This ethnically-targeted program of questionable national security benefit absorbed thousands of work hours, thus further setting back efforts to catch up on backlogs, and in fact causing backlogs to grow.
Backlogs also have been created by a growing "culture of no" within the BCIS. A memo issued last year by the then-Commissioner of INS, indicating that there would be "zero tolerance" for INS employees' failing to follow procedure, was taken by many adjudicators to mean that they could be punished for approving cases. As a result, many applications are subjected to "Requests for Evidence" asking often nonsensical and irrelevant questions. These requests add weeks, if not months, to the process. A small company is virtually guaranteed to receive such a Request.
Also, many applications that not along ago were considered easily approvable are now denied, invoking an appeal process that in itself can take one year or more. Indeed, many of the applications now being denied are extensions or similar applications where, on the exact same facts and law, the request had been approved a couple of years ago. These denials seem to happen most often to small businesses.
Examples: How acute are these backlogs? A company based on the West Coast or in the Southeast can expect a petition for an H-1B to take six or seven months IF there is no Request for Evidence. Since there likely will be such a request if the petitioner is a small business, the actual processing time is more like ten months, assuming there is no denial and need for appeal.
These companies can have their petitions processed much fasterwithin 15 days (plus the time for the Request for Evidence)but that "premium processing" costs $1,000 extra, an amount that few small businesses can afford.
So, combining delays at the BCIS with delays at the consulate, it can take companies seven to nine months to obtain a simple H-1B (not long ago considered a two-month process) in the BEST of conditions: no Request for Evidence, no database "hits", no security clearance requirement. But few cases seem to exist in the best of conditions anymore, so it is now typical for a company to have to wait more than one year to bring a critical expert to the United States to work on a project.
Examples of these situations abound:
• A Mexican national trying to establish a small business in the United States that initially would hire about 10 Americans cannot get started because the owner was faced with a "hit" in the CLASS database, due to an identity error caused by the double last names commonly used by Mexicans. He had to be fingerprinted, and the fingerprints sent to the FBI. He's been told to expect a minimum of 3 to 4 months for a reply from the FBI. In the meantime, this business is losing contracts for export work from the intended U.S. operation. It should be noted that this individual has been issued three U.S. visas in the past, and has no criminal record.
• A California biotech research company submitted an H-1B petition to the BCIS in November 2002 on behalf of a Russian scientist, to participate in a six-month collaborative program starting July 1, 2003. The petition was not approved until May 28, 2003, and now the scientist would face another delay awaiting visa processing in Moscow, which undoubtedly would include a lengthy "Technical Alert List" check. But this no longer matters: the project has been cancelled because this key participant would not be able to arrive on time. Yes, the company could have paid $1,000 for faster processing, but as is true for so many small businesses, this extra amount would have demolished the budget for the project.
• A small U.S. business that manufactures forensic document authentication software is missing key contract bidding opportunities because of the unexpected wait for a key manager from its overseas parent to obtain a visa interview.
• A small company operating small-town behavioral health centers has been desperately searching for a psychiatrist willing to serve in these areas. They finally located a doctor who was completing residency training in the United States, but before they could even petition to the INS/BCIS for him, they had to have waived a requirement that he return to his home country of Jordan for two years. That waiver, which first had to be cleared through the Agriculture Department and then the State Department, took one full year at those agencies, during which time the State Department conducted a "CLASS" database check. The company decided it could pay the $1,000 premium processing fee for the H-1B petition, but this turned out to be wasted money because the then-INS refused to complete processing of the waiver under premium processing. The waiver took seven months to clear INS. At the end of April this year, the petition and waiver were finally approved and the doctor applied for the visa. He has been told that the visa will take a few months because the State Department must once again run a security check on him. This small business, and the small-town communities it serves, have waited for more than 2 years for this physician, and will still have to wait several months more.
There is no question that security must be a priority. But that security must be pursued rationally, and its processes must take into account the need to keep trade and business flowing. These uncertain economic times are when we most need America's leading employerssmall businessesto flourish. They cannot do so if their position in the international marketplace is undermined by bureaucratic delays, lack of coordination, inadequate funding for adjudications, and a culture of "no."
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. " A. Einstein
1. You could say "aliens with super technology altering quantum states magically make this happen in accordance with the bible to make it seem like the bible is true."
(This would be curious. How can you prove God isn't an multi-dimentional alien overlord?)
Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
4: Believe the bible and God is real, and satan has been working his hardest to keep people from finding the truth... and inventing all sorts of ways around people actually believing in God.(in this case, you'd have to sift out all the lies you've been believing and find the truth like I did)
I suppose the only thing that would make me believe at this moment in my life is if the supposed almighty showed and proved to me they were God.
Quote from: Gohavesomefun on September 10, 2012, 04:53:09 PMI suppose the only thing that would make me believe at this moment in my life is if the supposed almighty showed and proved to me they were God.But how would that be done? *snip*That is the problem you have when you have defined an entity in such a way that it is completely incoherent. yhwh is supposedly perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, outside space, abstract. Does any of that add up? To me, it doesn't. But even assuming it does, how could you or I verify any of those qualities if one day someone claiming to be God (capital G) showed up? What is a perfect being and how would I know it if I saw it? How could I verify omnipotence? It could demonstrate extreme power, but maybe there are things it cannot do that it is concealing from me?How could I verify omniscience? It could demonstrate vast knowledge, but if it got something wrong that humans don't know about, there is no way we would know. How could I verify eternal?
That answer it would be evidence, not proof. It would certainly make me far more inclined to listen to and consider faith based viewpoints as valid. I would certainly be likely to become an agnostic theist to begin with, as there is now a demostration that standard empirism is flawed and the supernatural does exist.
What would you choose? I'm really curious what y'all really think.
They would have to make something impossible by all rights of science; possible.
Quote from: Gohavesomefun on September 11, 2012, 01:33:54 PMThey would have to make something impossible by all rights of science; possible.Such as...? A thing could be possible and seem impossible because science is not quite right and we don't know it. Our own limitations would make recognizing whether something truly impossible was done, impossible. You know, Penn and Teller do seemingly impossible things all the time and I cannot tell how they do it. They did a mini series years ago where the toured the world to see how other cultures did magic.[1] They found a street magician in India and played along with his act. Then they realized they guy was trying to make people believe he was actually doing magic and conning them out of money, food, trinkets, etc. They had an ethical problem with that and stopped helping him. But my point was, people believed it. And if unsophisticated people believed other people can do magic, when in fact, they are not, then it is likely to me that even sophisticated people might be tricked into believing a powerful or advanced being is doing magic when it, in fact, is not.So again, whither yhwh? 1. Magic & Mystery Tour
Simply changing anything in science that's deemed impossible, right down to raw equations (simply put 2+2 would equal 5).
Quote from: Gohavesomefun on September 11, 2012, 04:36:01 PM Simply changing anything in science that's deemed impossible, right down to raw equations (simply put 2+2 would equal 5).No, a god can't do that (make 2 + 2 = 5). That's logic, and even Christian scholars would say that god cannot do the logically impossible. He might be able to change the charge on electrons or some such thing, but he can't change how logic works, even according to theists that understand these things.
Let's say I found a way to ask God for healing for amputees in a way that he answers.So, I'm able to heal amputees by asking God / Jesus to heal them - and their limbs regrow in about a minute -- causing them to gain weight and mass proportionate to the newly regrown appendage......Does this prove that God exists? .....What would you choose? I'm really curious what y'all really think.
What is the one characteristic that God has that another all-powerful being would not have? The God is the being that is credited with creating the universe.So what if we devised a scientific device that allowed us to peer into the past and watch the God create the universe? I would then have to say that for the same reason I agree that the Andromeda galaxy exists (directly viewed through a scientific instrument), I must now agree that God exists.Would I study it? Yes, of course. Would I whorship it? Probably not.
great to hear from all y'all!I've thought about this myself - and even if you died and ended up in heaven - as described in the bible -- could you prove that it wasn't just an illusion that wasn't going to immediately end with an eternally playing rickrolled video for everybody who "believed" in God?I'm guessing you'd have a really hard time proving this for certain.
I don't think you could prove whether or not it's best to believe in God or not.
... On the other side of things, there's always the argument "well, how can absolutely prove that the reasons you don't believe in God aren't deceptions from satan?"...


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In addition to mapping out major profiteers, this piece focuses on some of the Wall Street firms, like Wells Fargo and SunTrust, that are both an important engine for this carceral machine and are also public-facing brands vulnerable to popular pressure. In a coming piece, we will turn to the political and social relationships that prop up these profiteers.
Operators of child, family, and adult detention centers
The operators of detention facilities that benefited from Trump's family separation policy, and now his indefinite family incarceration policy, fall into two major categories: non-profit agencies, which look a lot like big businesses, and for-profit private prison companies.
The child detention centers came into sharp focus over the past few days, with the release of heartbreaking images of small children packed into cages, as well as recordings of them crying out for their parents. These child detention centers are run by large nonprofits like Southwest Key Programs. Though Southwest Key is a nonprofit, it is also a very large business – it boasted of $242 million in revenue in its 2016 annual report, and is
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$458 million this year through the Department of Health and Human Services to run shelters for separated children. Its CEO, Juan Sanchez, made $786,822 in 2016, according to the organization's most recent tax return .
It is important to note, however, that for-profit private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic were major beneficiaries of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, even if they weren't detaining the children themselves – they have been detaining the parents and other adults criminally charged due to the zero-tolerance policy. For GEO Group and CoreCivic, this is a significant boost to their bottom line. CoreCivic uses the term "man-day" as a key performance indicator in its financial reports, which gives a sense of how closely these companies keep an eye on how many people they are able to detain, and for how long.
Now that the policy has shifted, maintaining zero-tolerance and replacing family separation with indefinite family detention, these private prison companies will likely see a further increase in the "man-days" that they can report to their shareholders. In addition to operating immigrant detention centers, these companies also operate family detention centers – the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, TX (CoreCivic), and the Karnes Residential Center in Karnes, TX (GEO Group), which have been subject to significant legal challenges. In its most recent annual report, CoreCivic singles out the operation of family detention centers as a significant risk factor for its business (See: "Providing family residential services increases certain unique risks and difficulties compared to operating our other facilities" on page 30 of CoreCivic's 2018 annual report .)
They're usually a little (or a lot) more emotional and fiery than you're used to and can give you a sense of anxiety absent from other areas in your life.
At best, they try your ability to be a sane, rational human.
You just care so much .
I've Had Enough
The passionate relationship can cause behaviour that you didn't know you were capable of – and that you're not especially proud of (as in, you wouldn't even show your best friend those text messages).
You just can't help yourself sometimes from wearing your heart on your keypad and hitting send on emotionally charged messages or calling back as soon as you hang up. You may say things you don't mean. Some people simply have that maddening effect on you.
And no, it's not an especially proud place to be.
Once the fights start to happen more frequently, the compatibility factor becomes impossible to ignore. You try to block it out; you revisit old pictures and text messages from happier days. You focus on that high. Because you miss it – you crave it. You've become addicted to it.
It's wonderful, but it doesn't last – and confronting that is the hardest part.
The super passionate relationship is difficult to quit. Even if you know it's the wrong thing. The fact that it feels so damn good when you're together justifies the suppression of those voices in your mind that tell you it's just not right.
Some relationships are simply meant to live in that Neverland, short-lived fling stage. Real life can be a total buzzkill once it sets in and the 'compatibility' element becomes just as important as the 'connection' and the 'chemistry'.
That's not to say that it's impossible to have all three and live happily ever after. It's just that the super passionate, insta-relationship seems to often lack the compatibility element once the shine wears off.
The breakup of the super passionate relationship can be one of the most challenging, heartbreaking things you've faced.
You find yourself crying during Uber rides, becoming one of those psycho social media stalkers (yikes) and anxiously wondering whether you'll ever find as intense of a connection as that again. You may go on dates to distract your mind and feed your ego, but they just make you feel worse when the same impossible-to-find connection you had in the super passionate relationship has no chance of happening.
After all, it was such a rarity.
Anyone who has been in a long-term relationship knows that the mad, passionate, I-want-to-rip-your-clothes-off stage isn't always going to be as intense as it was within the first half a year of getting to know one another, anyway.
You may as well actually know how to get along.
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The course introduces students to the fundamental principles associated with processing discrete time signals. The architecture, instruction set and hardware and software development tools associated with a fixed point general purpose VLSI digital signal processor are examined. Some common real-time applications are implemented such as digital filters and DFT-based spectral estimation on a typical fixed point digital signal processor.
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Lumber, timber, or trees cultivated and harvested for commercial purposes, is used in a wide range of industries. Timber's end products are among the most basic yet widely used goods in the world and include lumber, paper, cardboard, and various containers and packaging materials. In addition to these staple goods, timber has recently been used in the production of cellulosic ethanol, a promising source of renewable energy.
The timber industry is unique in several important ways. First, different end uses require different types of trees. Geographic location largely determines the types of trees timber companies produce, which can limit the industries to which a company can sell its timber. For example, a timber company that operates in just one region where only paper-grade trees grow would be unable to do business with lumber companies. A second notable feature of the timber industry is that its products continue to grow until they're harvested. Unlike other goods from living sources, trees have an extremely long shelf life, allowing the timber industry to weather periods of poor market conditions with relative ease.
Due to its role as a supplier to many different industries, the timber industry itself is subject to a number of external market forces. Conditions in the markets for paper, lumber, or other timber products largely determine the demand, and therefore pricing, in the timber industry as a whole. In addition to events specific to individual markets, general changes in macroeconomic conditions, such as an interest rate increase, can have implications for the timber industry.
The chart at left shows continuos front-month futures prices for Lumber traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchage.
Lumber Futures contracts are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange under ticker symbol LB and are delivered in January, March, May, July, September, and November of ever year. (For more information on commodity tickers, check out the commodity ticker construction page.)
The largest end market for timber products is the construction market, particularly the residential construction market. An average new home built in the U.S. contains over 14,000 board feet of lumber.[1] As such, conditions in the housing market can have a significant impact on lumber-grade timber prices. Increases in residential construction would increase demand and prices for lumber, while housing slumps can put downward pressures on prices as demand declines.
Interest rates can impact timber prices in several ways. Rising interest rates can have a negative impact on consumer spending, especially in the housing market. As interest rates rise and it becomes more expensive to purchase a home, residential construction will likely slow, decreasing demand for lumber. This would likely lead to lower timber prices. Falling interest rates, on the other hand, could stimulate the housing market and increase residential construction by making it more affordable for people to buy houses. The increased demand would drive prices upward as a result.
Declining demand doesn't necessarily lead to lower prices. Timber companies can somewhat offset lower demand by reducing production capacity, thereby tightening the supply of timber goods as well. Due to the organic nature of its products, the timber industry has a particular incentive to cut production and wait out periods of low demand. Instead of harvesting more trees and producing more end products to compensate for lower prices, timber companies can reduce output and wait for market conditions to improve. By the time demand for timber products increases again, the companies' timberlands will have grown in both size and value. Though it requires patience and a belief that the timber market will rebound, many companies take this approach, as it maximizes per-tree profitability.
Chinese timber companies, however, have not scaled back production in times of low demand. They have instead increased production capacity, building more plants and mills despite declining global demand. The Chinese demand for timber goods, particularly paper products, is currently stronger than in the global market, and much of the extra production is consumed domestically. In spite of this, the fact that China is importing less paper from other countries exacerbates the already-decreasing demand facing U.S. timber companies. Increased Chinese production capacity can put downward pressure on timber and paper prices around the world.
Perhaps the paragraph above was true when written but it is highly doubtful now. China has a serious shortage of timber at a time when it's domestic demand for lumber for housing is increasing dramatically. Historically China has imported logs and done the conversion to lumber. This, too, has been changing rapidly and today China is shifting and more lumber is being imported. This is a significant trend reversal. "Softwood lumber imports to China have increased by 81% in 2009. It is not inconceivable that China will import more lumber than Japan in 2009, a historical first. Canadian sawmills have been the major beneficiaries of this new fast-growing market, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly." [2]
Timber prices can be significantly impacted by natural disasters. Domestically, timber-producing regions are located in several parts of the country, exposing them to various natural disasters, including forest fires in the West and hurricanes in the East and Southeast. The risk of damaging insect infestations can also pose a substantial threat to timber companies across North America. For example, an estimated 17 million acres of lodgepole pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, have been destroyed in the last fifty years by the mountain pine beetle. These events can all decrease the supply of available timber. In the case of hurricanes and wildfires, demand for timber is likely to increase as well because of the need to replace or repair damaged property, pushing timber prices even higher. Interestingly, all three of these natural disasters are more likely to occur at higher temperatures, indicating that global warming might be a growing factor in the price of timber products.
Environmental conservation groups often criticize the timber industry, claiming that its logging practices are harmful to U.S. forests. These groups lobby for increased legislation governing the actions of timber companies and protecting certain areas of forest lands. About one-third of the forestland in the United States is publicly owned and has been withdrawn from production. Of the remaining 500,000 acres, 29% is publicly owned and contributes very little to the Nations timber output. The timber industry is always at risk of increased governmental regulation, though there have been few instances of this happening in recent years. A Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election could spur a rise in the number of bills aimed at conserving forests. Legislation such as this would likely decrease the size of commercially harvestable timberlands and drive timber prices upward.
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NH-made craft beer eyed for state liquor stores
By BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
CONCORD - A plan to promote beer made at New Hampshire craft breweries by selling it at state liquor stores is running into opposition from a grocery industry trade group.
New Hampshire State Liquor Stores do not sell beer. But legislation being heard today in Concord would expand a State Liquor Commission pilot program that now targets New Hampshire-made wines to the sale of beer made by the state's growing number of the state's nano- and microbreweries.
"The liquor commission has not had a good history promoting New Hampshire wine," said New Hampshire Grocers Association President John Dumais. "How effective would they be for nanobreweries?"
Nanobreweries are the smallest of the small beer manufacturers, turning out 2,000 or fewer barrels of beer per year. Microbreweries produce up to 15,000 barrels per year.
The bill proposed by a group of lawmakers would add beer to the list of products that the Liquor Commission is required to sell in its stores "whenever feasible."
As written, House Bill 275 goes beyond merely encouraging the sale of craft beers. It adds beer to the products that may be sold in state liquor stores, without limiting it to craft beers brewed in-state.
As drafted, the proposal adds six separate references to the sale of beer in state liquor stores, adding "beer" to provisions of the law that currently mention only the commission's traditional products, wine and liquor.
Smaller profit margins have discouraged suggestions that state liquor stores sell beer. The Liquor Commission estimates that the mark-up on beer is 10 to 20 percent, while the mark-up on wine and liquor reaches 50 percent, according to a fiscal note attached to the bill.
Grocery industry executives are worried that if the state-owned stores start selling beer, they won't stop at the craft brews.
"They could first try to capture the craft beer market and as that takes off, they would go after national brewers," Dumais said. "People would stop on the highway, they wouldn't go into the towns and go to other stores."
David Currier, who heads Henniker Brewing, which bottled its first batches of beer this month, says he can see both sides.
"I have mixed emotions about this one - as a start-up, we obviously want to get our product anywhere and everywhere we can, " Currier said. "But what will this do for some of the border towns when people don't have to get off the highway to buy local beer."
Henniker is classified as a beverage manufacturer, a category larger than nanobreweries or microbreweries.
A separate bill would allow nanobreweries to serve more product to on-site customers. Right now, they are legally limited to tastings - only four ounces of each label of beer they sell per customers. House Bill 253 would remove that limit.


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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig is out of the starting lineup for the second straight day because of a sore left hip.
Manager Don Mattingly says he could use Puig in Sunday's game against Colorado if needed, but he'd like to let the Cuban star rest if possible.
Sunday's game was the third in which Puig didn't start since being called up from Double-A Chattanooga on June 3. He was held out of the lineup on Saturday while still nursing the hip injury that was the result of him crashing into the outfield wall at Colorado on July 3.
He only played three innings on Friday night.
Puig is hitting .392 with 19 RBI and eight homers in 37 games with the Dodgers.


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At 10:00 A.M. (EDT), we received the latest report on the steadily improving housing market when the U.S. Department of Commerce issued new residential data for the month of May. At first blush, the report was very positive, with new home sales higher on both a sequential and year-over-year basis.
Specifically, sales of new single-family houses in May came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 476,000. That figure was 2.1% above the revised April figure and up a notable 29% from the prior-year figure of 369,000 units. The consensus expectation called for sales of roughly 462,000 new units.
A geographic breakdown of the new home sales data also made for a nice reading. New home sales were up 76.6%, 27.9%, and 18.6%, year to year, in the Midwest, the South, and the West, respectively. Sales in the Northeast were flat, year over year. The increases in the South and West regions are particularly encouraging, as those areas are the two biggest housing markets in the country, especially in terms of new residential construction.
The latest data—another positive snapshot of this improving sector—come on the heels of this morning's encouraging report on home sale prices. Indeed, the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index showed that prices increased by 12.1% for the 20-City Composite in the 12 months ending April, 2013. It was the highest monthly gain in the history of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. As of April, average home prices across the United States are back to their early 2004 levels for both the 10- and 20-city composites. All these factors augur well for a continued recovery in this all-important sector of the U.S. economy.
However, we would be remiss if we did not warn investors that the recent rise in lending rates—sparked by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the lead bank will look to begin tapering off its bond purchases later this year—bears watching. The rising mortgage rates, coupled with higher selling prices, could raise some affordability concerns for prospective buyers going forward. Still, we don't expect the problems of the last decade to return, as the homebuilders are acting with much more discipline with regard to construction activity these days, which should limit the downside risk of too many unsold properties flooding the markets. In fact, the months' supply of houses on the market stands at 4.1, which is well below the historical norm of about six months. The favorable supply/demand balance for the homebuilders should lead to further firming of home prices in the coming months and limit the near-term number of speculative properties on the market.
All in all, the latest data on new home sales and home prices are yet another sign of a strengthening housing market. The construction and sales of new homes—though only a small fraction of the nation's total home sales—is vital to the overall health of the U.S. economy as each new property built usually creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates close to $90,000 in tax revenues. At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Each judicial district shall adopt written guidelines governing excuses and postponements from jury service. At a minimum, written guidelines shall include the following:
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(b) Postponements of jury service are preferred over excuses;
(c) Any postponement of jury service shall be to a date certain; and
(d) The court shall be made aware in writing of multiple requests for postponement made by any individual prospective juror.
(Adopted March 28, 1986, effective July 1, 1986; amended May 4, 2001, effective July 1, 2001.)
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Welcome to The Alphabet of Manliness. This site is dedicated to the memory of the effeminate man, who
has faced the onset of extinction on June 6, 2006.
The paperback edition of The Alphabet of Manliness is now out in two alternate covers. You're about to get gang-banged by manliness because they're both being released at the same time:
Photographic evidence of faces rocked on my new book tour finally posted.
New edition of The Alphabet of Manliness: Extended Edition finally up on Amazon. Face stomping tour announced.
I'm working on a new edition of "The Alphabet of Manliness." The new edition will be
expanded and revised, and will include "The Numbers of Manliness." This is officially the
first announcement of this, even before my regular website or newsletter. It pays to
Congressman Jim Cooper indirectly admits that the title of my book is sexier than his on PBS - NOW.
Finally, something worth reading hits the UK. The UK edition is finally released.
Pictures from the first book signing are posted on the tour page.
When is the last time you truly felt alive? When is the last time
you did anything that mattered?
Today is the official release day of the greatest work of literature
ever bestowed upon humanity. You only have one life to live. Make it
worth living.
The first official
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The Alphabet of Manliness is now rocking crotches over at Barnes & Noble.
The UK version of the book will be released by Penguin, and
will be available simultaneously with the US release. The UK release may have
a different cover. Cancel your vacations.
For the first time in the history of the universe, the cover of my book. Behold:
Manliness test added to about section. Take it right now.
Banners added to faq section.
Pics of my pecs inadvertently added to faq section.
Holy shit! The book is available for pre-order on Amazon! I just came.
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Award-winning writer Thomas Mallon will be giving a reading of his work at Davidson College on Wednesday evening, January 25.
Mallon is the director of creative writing at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., but is spending this spring semester at Davidson as the McGee Professor of Creative Writing, teaching a course in creative nonfiction and an upper-level course on fiction writing.
His reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Alvarez College Union 900 Room, and there is no charge to attend. For information call 704-894-2254.
Mallon will read a chapter from his forthcoming book Watergate: A Novel, due out in February. He will also read from his essay "Forty More Years: Nixon and Me," whose title riffs on the chant "Four More Years" often heard during Richard Nixon's 1972 bid for re-election. "In this essay," said Mallon, "I explore the ways Richard Nixon has occupied my imagination in the 40 years since Watergate."
Professor of English Cynthia Lewis, who will be introducing Mallon at the reading, considers Mallon's vast knowledge an asset to his writing. "He just knows so much," she said. "His comprehensive mind wraps itself around a subject and enables him to imagine about it."
Mallon received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University. After teaching at Vassar College in New York for a number of years, he went on to serve as literary editor for Gentleman's Quarterly, where he penned a book column called "Doubting Thomas." Mallon has since written eight novels and numerous works of nonfiction. His books often explore political or historical subjects, from the Kennedy assassination in Mrs. Paine's Garage to the changing nature of letter writing in Yours Ever: People and Their Letters.
Mallon's work has also appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. Mallon's numerous honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Award for outstanding work as a writer, and a National Book Critics' Circle Award for excellence in reviewing. Most recently, Mallon was honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style.
In 2002, Mallon was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the National Council on the Humanities, which he did until 2005. He then served a year as Deputy Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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Jennifer Garner: Friends Nicknamed Me Casper!
Jennifer Garner is casual chic while taking her adorable daughter Seraphina to karate class on Friday (March 15) in Brentwood, Calif.
Earlier in the day, the 40-year-old actress' husband Ben Affleck was spotted carrying Seraphina while grabbing some breakfast at Brentwood Country Mart.
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The day before, Jennifer was spotted chatting on the phone in Santa Monica, while Ben was seen leaving a friend's home in Burbank.
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Subaru BRZ specs and prices announced
* BRZ prices range from 24,995 to 27,995 * Two trims - SE and SE Lux * Manual or auto, only two extra options...
The Subaru BRZ will cost between 24,995 and 27,995 when it goes on sale this summer.
The BRZ will be available in either SE or SE Lux trim. An entry-level BRZ S will be offered in 2013.
A manual gearbox comes as standard, but an automatic version with paddle shift is available for 1500 extra.
SE gets 17-inch alloy wheels, keyless entry, leather-trimmed steering wheel and six-speaker sound system with iPod connectivity.
SE Lux adds heated leather seats. The SE Lux manual will cost 26,495, the automatic will be 27,995.
There are just two optional extras, sat-nav at 1000 and a special paint finish costing 500.
Six colours will be available, Satin White Pearl, Sterling Silver Metallic, Dark Grey Metallic, Crystal Black Silica, San Remo Red, and WR Blue Mica.
Every car comes complete with Subarus Everything Taken Care of (ETCo) add on, which includes minor dent and scratch repairs, alloy wheel repairs, a monthly wash, an annual valet, lost keys replacement, service collection and delivery, and an annual wheel alignment check at no extra cost.
ETCo also offers the first MoT test free and winter wheel and tyre storage free of charge.
The Subaru BRZ is virtually identical to the Toyota GT86, which also starts at 24,995.
Rory White


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I voted against Mitt Romney because I resent being called a taker. Yes, I receive a health and financial security program from the federal government, but I've done my share of responsibility during my life, and I have contributed to the economy and society.
I voted against Mitt Romney because I resent being called a taker. Yes, I receive a health and financial security program from the federal government, but I've done my share of responsibility during my life, and I have contributed to the economy and society.
After high school, I worked for the federal government. I worked on the Central Valley Project to get water from Northern California to Southern California and the farmers. Many members of the 47 percent went to school, bought a home and got a good job because of the GI Bill signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944.
I am glad we have Social Security and Medicare, which I and other working Americans paid into and earned. We are not takers. We paid for what we receive. Social Security is not an entitlement. It's a retirement insurance we, the workers, pay into and earn. Health care should be a human right.
America needs a constitutional amendment to make basic health care a human right.
Arne Aasen
The Record ran an article on former congressman Richard Pombo ("Pombo misses policy, but not politics," Nov. 4). In the article the former congressman said he misses his old job. For thousands of voters in his former district, myself included, we will never miss him and really hope he never runs again for any political office, including that of dog catcher. We hope he enjoys his retirement down on the farm, which suits his ability very well.
Al Galaviz
My message to Gov. Mitt Romney on April 3 was ignored. Had he addressed immigration reform during his campaign he might have received 71 percent of the Latino vote.
Wake up Republicans, we are here to stay and we are Americans first, but there is hope that we can compromise with Democrats and pass an immigration reform we can all accept and be proud of. President Barack Obama needs everyone's support now. Let's do it.
Arthur Sepeda Garcia
Regarding Michael Fitzgerald's Nov. 7 column, "Air rule foes all fired up," I was a chimney sweep in this community for 30 years. Early studies showed most of our Valley pollution is the result of the Bay Area pollution riding the wind and settling over our Valley.
We are penalized and they are not. The idea of hiring city/county workers in vehicles to patrol for no-burn day violators and issue $50 first-time fees doesn't justify the manpower, payroll, vehicle costs and pollution output of the vehicles. Now they are going after the barbecue folks.
The government is slowly taking away our rights, be it summer or winter burning. I can see it now, an already overcrowded jail full of Raiders and 49ers fans booked on Sundays for barbecue violations.
Craig T. Roley
My heart sprang with joy when I drove down March Lane on a recent afternoon and saw the city's new landscaping between Pershing Avenue and the Greek Orthodox Church. After 50 years of looking at dirt and weeds, what a magnificent transformation.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this city beautification project. And a note of appreciation goes to the church for years of maintaining the property in front of their church. The flowers are always magnificent.
The businesses on the south side of March Lane from Precissi to Pacific Avenue also deserve our praise. Obviously, they truly care about our community.
I can hardly wait to see what the city, University of the Pacific, and Stockton Beautiful are doing to the Miracle Mile median strip project. I know it will be splendid.
Beverly Fitch McCarthy


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Beyoncé is ready for an Amazon-sized challenge — the pop superstar wants to be the first actress to wear Wonder Woman's famed red, white and blue bathing suit on the silver screen.
"I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman? It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It's time for that, right?"
Beyoncé says that she has met with representatives of DC Comics and Warner Bros. to express her interest in a major role in one of the many comic-book adaptations now in the pipeline following the massive success of "The Dark Knight," "Iron Man" and the "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" franchises. Beyoncé's acting to career to date has included a comedic role in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" and two notable music world roles, the first as a quasi-Diana Ross character in "Dreamgirls" and as the defiant and heroin-addicted Etta James in the upcoming "Cadillac Records."
"After doing these roles that were so emotional I was thinking to myself, 'OK, I need to be a superhero,'" Beyoncé told me this week when I met her for an interview in a suite atop the Rivington Hotel in New York. "Although, when you think about the psychology of the heroes in the films these days, they are still a lot of work, of course, and emotional. But there's also an action element that I would enjoy."
The recent success of sophisticated comic-book adaptations is the main reason for Beyoncé's interest, she said, but her focus on Wonder Woman was intensified earlier this year when she saw Lynda Carter's costume from the 1970s television show on display at the Costume Institute's "Superhero" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beyoncé is in amazing shape right now (she had gained more than 20 pounds for the James role and came back from that leaner than before), but she said the Wonder Woman costume is an unforgiving one.
"I would definitely have to keep it right for that costume. The way that Lynda Carter wore it, she was sooo fine. She was amazing. I saw her costume at the Met. Her waist was unbelievable. It was pretty crazy, actually, her proportions. But I love Wonder Woman and it'd be a dream come true to be that character. It sure would be handy to have that lasso. To make everybody tell the truth? I need that. It would come in very handy."
The 27-year-old Houston native also recently finished work on the Scott Shill thriller "Obsessed" and, in her role as a woman whose husband is being stalked, she got her first experience with a staging a brawl for the camera.
"I play a wife fighting for her family and I have this big, big fighting scene with Ali Larter, who is an incredible actress. It took us days just to film it. I had my boots on and, wow, I got into it. So I really want that now. Now I have to do an action film. It's like dancing and choreography. And the superhero movies now, they're not corny, not corny at all, so that's what I want to do. And I would love if it could be Wonder Woman."
It"s not clear if anyone will be able to deliver a Wonder Woman project anytime soon, however. The heroine, who debuted in 1941, is by far the most iconic superhero who has yet to reach theaters. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Hulk and the Fantastic Four have all had multiple bites at the Hollywood apple and Captain America and Captain Marvel, both of whom were featured in 1940s serials, have adaptations now in the pipeline, as do Thor, Flash and Green Lantern.
"Catwoman" and "Elektra" both fizzled at the box office, which certainly didn't help the cause of female costumed characters as properties. In 2005, Warner Bros. announced with some fanfare that Joss Whedon of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame would bring the pride of Paradise Island to the screen but even his considerable affinity for strong female characters didn't help him deliver a script that stirred studio chiefs. Still, earlier this year Warner president Jeff Robinov said that a solo Wonder Woman project remains one of the studio's future plans as it mines the DC library.
If not Wonder Woman, what other character, either Marvel or DC, could Beyoncé want to portray? With a laugh, she said: "I'm open to suggestions!"
Well, anyone?
— Geoff Boucher
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Credits: Wonder Woman by Alex Ross, courtesy of DC Comics. Beyoncé in concert photographed by Kevork Djansezian of the Associated Press. Beyoncé arriving at the premiere of "Dreamgirls" in 2006, photgraphed by Matt Sayles of the Associated Press. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in the 1970s, image from Los Angeles Times archives.