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Mother Russia has arrived, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse looks duly freaked out about it.
Ever since Kick-Ass 2 was announced, we've been dying to discover who director Jeff Wadlow would select as the most intimidating new villain to join the franchise. It seems as though Mother Russia has indeed been cast, though we still are clueless abut who's playing her.
Wadlow tweeted an image showing Mother Russia's impressively tall and terrifying body, although the photo doesn't show her face. In the background, Mintz-Plasse sits holding a script and looking a bit freaked out by the woman he's going to spend a good portion of the movie acting with.
"2 days till we start shooting… and Chris just met Mother Russia!" Wadlow tweeted.
That's not the only spoilery image the director has tweeted. He's also shown off exciting props like Hit-Girl's bike and Mother Russia's sword. With only one day to go until filming begins, we can expect plenty more updates from the set over the next couple of months. Just don't show us the decapitated dog prop.
Based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s miniseries and the Hit-Girl spinoff, Kick-Ass 2 picks up months after the 2010 action comedy, as Kick-Ass forms alliances with other local heroes and joins Justice Forever, which discovers the Red Mist — rechristened "Motherfucker" — is gathering his own group of villains.
Carrey would join returning cast members Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Mintz-Plasse and Yancy Butler, along with new additions Jim Carrey, John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Lindy Booth, Andy Nyman, Morris Chestnut and Robert Emms.
Kick-Ass 2 opens June 28, 2013.
Am I the only one who thinks that physique looks more masculine than muscly female? Makes me wonder if it's gonna be a Winklevoss situation, with a man providing the size and a woman performing the facial performance.
Sounds like you've never seen a female bodybuilder or wrestler. :D That's probably a wrestler given her muscle definition and the fact that she'd be already trained for the fights/stunts, unlike a bodybuilder.
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Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of Dawn" is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, "The Sea of Fertility." Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess--an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, "The Temple of Dawn "becomes""the story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.
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Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was many people. The best known in Japan of the writers to emerge there after World War II, he was by far the most published abroad. Mishima completed his first novel the year he entered the University of Tokyo. More followed (some twenty-three, the last completed the day of his death in November, 1970), along with more than forty play, over ninety short stories, several poetry and travel volumes and hundreds of essays. Influenced by European literature, in which he was exceptionally well read, he was an interpreter to his own people of Japan's ancient virtues, to which he urged a return. He had sung on the stage, starred in and directed movies and was a noted practitioner of Japan's traditional martial arts. He seemed at the height of his career and vitality at the age of forty-five, when after a demonstration in the public interest he committed suicide by ceremonial seppuku.
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Honey Apple Oatmeal Crisps
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I LOVE baking, but my problem is I make a big recipe & then I get sick of it before it is all eaten. So I bought a small-batch baking book! THe recipes are great & they make just enough for one or two to enjoy. THat way you can try lots more recipes! this is one of these great small batch recipes. Enjoy!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 cooking apples
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, cold & cut into pieces
- 3 tablespoons rolled oats
- 3 tablespoons pecans, chopped and toasted
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease two 1- to 1 1/2 cup oven proof bowls or ramikins and set them aside.
- Make the filling:peel apples & cut them in half. Remove the cores. Thinly slice the apples & place them in a mixing bowl. Add lemon juice ^ toss to mix.
- Melt the butter in med. skillet over med. heat. Using a whisk, stir in the honey,flour, cinnamon, and salt, whisking until smooth. Add the apples & cook mixture over med. heat, turning the apples gently until they are just tened, 5 minute.
- Remove from heat & spoon mixture into prepared dishes, dividing evenly.
- Make the topping: Place flour & sugar in a small bowl ^ whisk to blend well. Add butter pieces & toss to coat the butter with the flour mixture. Rub the mixture with your fingertips until crumbly. Mix in oats & nuts. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the filling. Bake until topping is golden brown and the filling is hot, 20 minute
- Remove dishes from oven & let cool on a wire rack for 15 minute Serve crisp warm or at room temperature, with your chioce of ice cream or topping.
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Meteor Math
What parents need to know
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that METEOR MATH is sort of like an outer space meteor-blasting arcade game that incorporates basic math drills. In a method that uses the reverse of most flash cards, the game gives the player a number at the top of the screen and the player has to to choose the correct two meteors (which have numbers written on them) to collide and make that number -- either by addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, whichever one the player has chosen. For subtraction and division kids don't have to select the numbers in the correct order. Kids level up or down depending upon how many they've answered correctly. Point totals are given. As the timer counts down on matching the right meteors to get an answer, a warning buzzer sounds. If the correct meteors are not collided in the given time, the player loses one three "lives," depicted in the corner as icons of planets.
What kids can learn
- arithmetic
- division
- multiplication
Engagement, Approach, Support
Especially for kids who like arcade-style collision games, Meteor Mathwill likely be a fun, sticky way to practice basic math operations on a colorful, action-packed interface.
Kids work through arcade-style drills, which can be fun and effective. Still, for subtraction and division kids don't have to select the numbers in order,which may hamper building concepts clearly.
A graphic explains how to play each mode up front. The three modes are quite similar. Game Center enabled for score tracking and comparing with other players.
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What's it about?
One number appears at the top of the game's screen. Players must choose two or more meteors out of many floating around, which also have numbers on them, to collide to match that top number -- either by addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. Once the player selects a correct combination, the meteors explode and another "answer" number appears. Kids level up or down depending upon how many correct answers they give. If the correct meteors are not chosen in the given time, the player loses one of three "lives," unless they're in practice mode.
Is it any good?
Especially for kids who like arcade-style collision games, METEOR MATH will likely be a fun way to practice basic math operations. The colorful screen and fast-paced drill is addictive and effective. It's great practice for kids to see there's more than one way to arrive at a number, whether adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
However, kids don't have to choose numbers in the correct order for subtraction or division -- so it's not clear whether a kid thinks 6 is 4-2 or 2-4, for example. It would be nice if there was a way to customize the starting point for students who are further along the path of math facts. Also, the high scores section is a bit confusing, and there's no way to turn off the sound, including the emergency horn honking that sounds as players reach the point of losing a "life" if they don't solve the problem.
Families can talk about...
If your kids don't like timed games or buzzers at the end of a "life," encourage them not to watch the timing bar in the corner and to turn off the sound on your device, which can be a distraction.
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Now on to the Oscars.By Mike Vilensky
The second installment of our Sundance gallery.By Kyle Buchanan
Vulture's taken a look at the newest crop of contenders and the careful narrative crafted for each.By Lane Brown and Kyle Buchanan
Our critic feels vindicated for his passion for the tiny film, and gives his take on the other nominations.By David Edelstein
A team of Vulture reporters was dispatched to Los Angeles this weekend to chronicle the loose talk and boozy mayhem.By Vlada Gelman, Kyle Buchanan and Benjamin Hurvitz
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It's a rousing film, with so much texture that once it gets you, you're good and got.By David Edelstein
He's skinnier, balder, and more intense.By Willa Paskin
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Based on solid evidence, NSAIDs reduce the risk of adenomas, but the extent to which this translates into a reduction of CRC is uncertain.
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Based on solid evidence, harms of NSAID use are relatively common and potentially serious, and include upper gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic kidney disease, and serious cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, and hemorrhagic stroke.[12]
Magnitude of Effect: The estimated average excess risk of upper gastrointestinal complications in average-risk people attributable to NSAIDs is 4/1,000 to 5/1,000 people per year. The excess risk varies with the underlying gastrointestinal risk, however, it likely exceeds ten extra cases per 1,000 people per year in more than 10% of users. Serious cardiovascular events are increased by 50% to 60%.
|Study Design: Evidence obtained from RCTs and high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses.[13,14]
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Based on solid evidence, daily aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid [ASA]) for at least 5 years reduces CRC incidence and mortality. This is based on two reports of extended follow-up of two RCTs [16,17] and meta-analysis of observational studies.[16] A third report that adds extended follow-up of an additional two RCTs (with a meta-analysis of all four RCTs) adds certainty to this conclusion.[18]
Magnitude of Effect: After 23 years of follow-up, incidence of CRC in the placebo group was 3.8% and in the ASA group 2.5% (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.63; 95% CI, 0.47-0.85). In the report from all four RCTs, the 20-year risk of death due to CRC in trials that allocated ASA for at least 5 years was reduced by about 40% (HR = 0.60; 95% CI, 0.45-0.81), absolute risk reduction was from about 3.1% to 1.9%. The primary effect was on mortality from proximal colon cancer.
|Study Design: Extended follow-up of four RCTs.
|Internal Validity: Fair, some data from registries and death certificates, some loss to follow-up; variation in ASA dose; adherence to ASA unknown after end of trials (5-9 years).
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Quality Inn Florence
Hotel Guest Rating: 5.8/10
150 Etta Gray Drive
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Welcome to the Quality Inn Florence
Free Wi-Fi, an outdoor pool and a free, hot breakfast make for a budget-friendly stay at the non-smoking Quality Inn Florence.
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This three-story hotel offers 47 rooms with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, hairdryers and ironing facilities. Some also have microwaves and refrigerators. Kick-start your day with a free, hot continental breakfast, and in the summer, cool off in the outdoor pool. A guest laundry and an exercise room are available. Pets are welcome for a fee, and parking is free.
Hotel Location
Surrounded by restaurants, this hotel is a little over a mile from Regency Square Mall. Check out Wilson Lock and Dam, about two miles away, or learn local history at Indian Mound and Museum, about five miles away. University of Northern Alabama is five miles west. Northwest Alabama Regional Airport is seven-and-a-half miles south.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests like the "friendly and helpful staff," rooms with flat-panel TVs, microwaves and refrigerators, and easy access to shopping and dining at Quality Inn Florence.
Quality Inn Florence Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Alarm clock
- Bus parking
- Cable television
- Complimentary full american breakfast
- Exercise gym
- Free movies/video
- Hairdryer
- Handicap rooms
- High speed internet connection
- Ice machine
- Iron
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- Non-smoking
- Onsite laundry
- Outdoor parking
- Outdoor pool
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- Pay per view movies on TV
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Hotel Information
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Quality Inn FlorenceOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
June 30, 2015
Family Traveling with Teens
Great value for the price paid!
June 20, 2015
December 26, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
July 28, 2014
Had a problem checking in. Some problem with deposit date.
March 30, 2014
Business Traveler
The hotel or to be accurate motel really needs to be refurbished. The owners need to spend money on this motel in order to charge the price that they do. And earlier review said that this place showing it's wear and that was being generous. This is simply old. When I checked in one of the workers said that the place was 15 years old, but it looks older. On the bright side if the owner spends some money on the place it can better compete with other hotels in the area. ...
June 12, 2013
Solo Traveler
Fair. You get what you pay for and this was a cheap deal, but it was dirty and in durepair.
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Family Traveling with Young Children
the service was not very good we booked non smoking the room smell of smoke cause my sinus to flame bath towels rough not soft sheet not very. Dust noted in laundry room where pillows were stored.
December 22, 2011
Refrigerator didn't work, WiFi was slower than dial up, it took 20 minutes to cook a 3 minutes meal in the microwave. Room was loud because we were right across from the maids service room
September 27, 2011
Rooms were nice and clean. Is an older motel but has been kept up nicely. Room had flat screen TV. Also had small fridge and microwave. Will stay at again when visiting area.
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Equal cost multiple path (ECMP) forwarding is the most prevalent multipath routing used in data center (DC) networks today. However, it fails to exploit increased path diversity that can be provided by traffic engineering techniques through the assignment of nonuniform link weights to optimize network resource usage. To this extent, constructing a routing algorithm that provides path diversity over nonuniform link weights (i.e., unequal cost links), simplicity in path discovery and optimality in minimizing maximum link utilization (MLU) is nontrivial. In this paper, we have implemented and evaluated the Penalizing Exponential Flow-spliTing (PEFT) algorithm in a cloud DC environment based on two dominant topologies, canonical and fat tree. In addition, we have proposed a new cloud DC topology which, with only a marginal modification of the current canonical tree DC architecture, can further reduce MLU and increase overall network capacity utilization through PEFT routing.
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Posted in thread: Barley Wine recipe and aging question on 12-08-2013 at 11:07 PM
thanks for the info, I'm going to take some time to look through that yeast cycle page.I was
thinking I'd spike some new yeast with the priming sugar next year, figuring that after all
that time aging...
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Thanks for the input on the 15 day-primary. I guess I'll make sure it's down to essentially no
bubbling before racking it? It's slowed down pretty far now, even with the champagne yeast
having just go...
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I have my first barley wine fermenting right now, I'll describe the recipe/process so far, then
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I also made some changes to the code to fix some W3C errors. I'll see what changed in the 2.0.6 version, do some fixes and send it back to you.
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
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Integration of syntactic and semantic properties of the DNA code reveals chromosomes as thermodynamic machines converting energy into information
- Georgi MuskhelishviliAffiliated withSchool of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen Email author
- , Andrew TraversAffiliated withMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Understanding genetic regulation is a problem of fundamental importance. Recent studies have made it increasingly evident that, whereas the cellular genetic regulation system embodies multiple disparate elements engaged in numerous interactions, the central issue is the genuine function of the DNA molecule as information carrier. Compelling evidence suggests that the DNA, in addition to the digital information of the linear genetic code (the semantics), encodes equally important continuous, or analog, information that specifies the structural dynamics and configuration (the syntax) of the polymer. These two DNA information types are intrinsically coupled in the primary sequence organisation, and this coupling is directly relevant to regulation of the genetic function. In this review, we emphasise the critical need of holistic integration of the DNA information as a prerequisite for understanding the organisational complexity of the genetic regulation system.
KeywordsHolistic methodology DNA supercoiling Chromosome structure Gene order Transcriptional regulation Nucleoid-associated proteins
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- Integration of syntactic and semantic properties of the DNA code reveals chromosomes as thermodynamic machines converting energy into information
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Volume 70, Issue 23 , pp 4555-4567
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- 2013-12
- 10.1007/s00018-013-1394-1
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The University of Central Arkansas has announced the President's and Dean's List for spring 2016. Students must achieve a 4.0 grade point average with a minimum course load of 12 credit hours to receive recognition on the President's List. Recognition on the Dean's List requires at least a 3.5 grade point average with a minimum course load of 12 credit hours. A total of 905 students were nam … [Read more...]
Counseling psychology program receives accreditation
The University of Central Arkansas Department of Psychology and Counseling has received a seven-year accreditation from the American Psychological Association (APA) for the counseling psychology program. With the recent accreditation, UCA is now home to two of the three accredited psychology programs in Arkansas. The counseling psychology program is one of 72 accredited counseling psychology … [Read more...]
UCA Archives receives historical papers of late AFL-CIO leader
The University of Central Arkansas Archives has received the papers of the late J. Bill Becker, president of the Arkansas AFL-CIO, from 1964 to 1996. The papers were donated to UCA by the Becker family. Becker passed away in December 1997. According to Jimmy Bryant, director of the UCA Archives, "Mr. Becker was a very powerful labor leader and had significant political clout. Politicians v … [Read more...]
UCA, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre host 'First Folio!'
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The University of Central Arkansas Norbert O. Schedler Honors College has selected 75 incoming first-year students as its newest class of Honors Scholars. The students were selected from a pool of over 375 qualified applicants, of which 136 were selected for intensive full-day interviews on the UCA campus. Honors Scholars receive UCA's most prestigious scholarship package, reside in a l … [Read more...]
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Reynolds Performance Hall announces 2016-17 season
Kicking off with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on Sept. 22, UCA Public Appearances will feature a record 22 events for the 2016-17 season in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas. The season will include Broadway, Pops and Night Out Series, two lectures and three Add-On Specials as well as five Main Stage EdUCAtion shows. "This season is made up of c … [Read more...]


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Moments later, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, said he would revisit the whole agreement this fall, when his panel takes up a rewrite of the Higher Education Act.
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Using Congressional Budget Office estimates, rates would not reach those limits in the next 10 years.
Lawmakers engaged in near-constant work to undo a rate hike that took hold for subsidized Stafford loans on July 1. Rates for new subsidized Stafford loans doubled from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated outstanding student debt at $1.2 trillion — up 20 percent in just two years. Student loans are now the largest form of consumer debt behind mortgages.
The rapid growth in debt is raising alarm among experts, and there is growing evidence student debt is weighing down the economy — for instance, by delaying the ability of young graduates to buy homes.
The increase follows the jump in the cost of higher education.
The tuition sticker price at public four-year colleges is up 27 percent beyond overall inflation over the last five years, according to the latest figures from the College Board. This past year it rose nearly 5 percent to an average of $8,655 nationwide.
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The Gateway District talk about their new album
The Gateway District has quietly played around town for the past five years, releasing a self-titled 7" and the full length Some Days You Get the Thunder. Although the members are often scattered across the country due to other obligations, they found the time to get together for Perfect's Gonna Fail, which will be released in March on It's Alive Records. The band is made up of familiar faces: Carrie Bleser was in the Salteens, Maren Macosko was in Soviettes, Nate Gangelhoff is currently in Banner Pilot, and Brad Lokkesmoe splits time with Dear Landlord.
That's an impressive resume, and a window into the pop punk-fueled sound that the band delivers.
Gimme Noise talked with Nate about the new record, as well as his upcoming book.
Gimme Noise: You're all very busy people with other bands and priorities. How did you decide to start another one?
Nate Gangelhoff: Well, like pretty much every band I've been in, it just seemed like a fun thing to do. When we did the original 7", it was--if I remember correctly--shortly after both The Soviettes and Rivethead stopped doing stuff, so writing/recording/playing a handful of new songs for a new band seemed like a great idea, and it ended up being a blast.
Between tours and members moving around the country, you often aren't all in the same city. How does that affect the band?
I don't think there has ever been a point in the band's existence where all four of us lived in MPLS for more than, like, a month at a time. But we've found a way to make it work, which is neat. It's actually a really fun system, for lack of a better word--roughly every year the other three people in the band write about four songs each. Then we get together and hash them out and make changes. I write guitar leads and, boom, we have a new album. You'd think that would be difficult and annoying when you have someone living in California or Wisconsin, or always on tour or whatever, but it totally works. Huh, I sound like I'm pitching something in the middle of a seminar right now.
Both Maren and Carrie sing the lead at times. Will you be taking the mic on the new record?
Haha, absolutely not. That would destroy the record. "Hey, I got an idea.... how about we have that guy who is missing nine of his fingers play a really prominent guitar solo on our record?" It would be sort of like that.
Can you talk about the name a bit? My understanding is it's a name for an old part of town that's basically gone now. Do you have an interest in local history?
Correct, it was a part of Minneapolis (around Hennepin and Washington, basically) that was sort of like the heart of the city for awhile and, based on stories and photography from the era, was pretty fascinating: really great architecture, and a lot of character. And then.... they destroyed most of it in the '50s. The sad thing is the city seems to never learn when it comes to the value of these timeless landmarks--they got rid of GameWorks not so long ago. (Yes, we thought about changing the band name to GameWorks District.)
I like local history, but I'm not an expert (or "buff," I guess the term is) or anything.
You're involved in a lot of projects. Do you multi-task, or do you bear down on each one for a period of time?
I multi-task, but when something is getting close to completion it gets the most focus. For most of this winter I went back and forth between writing Banner Pilot song ideas and finishing up my next book. Now I think the next few months will mostly be focused on getting the Banner Pilot songs done and ready for recording.
You've previously released You Idiot and you're working on the finishing touches to another book. Any idea when/how the book will be released?
Well, I'm shooting to have it with me when we go down to SXSW, so.... crap, pretty soon here. This time around there will be Kindle and other e-Book versions in addition to the print copy, so that'll be nice. It's called Hit the Ground Stumbling and, even though it's quite a bit different, I think people who liked the last book will dig this one, too.
The Gateway District will play a release show for Perfect's Gonna Fail on March 26 at the Turf Club with Off With Their Heads and the Arrivals.
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When Samsung will copy Google Glass and name it Samsung Glass?
Can anyone predict?
They better name it Gorilla glass. GLW has the patent. Of course the Korean lawyer who sided with Samsung may not obide with patents like she did against AAPL.
You mean Korean judge. Samsung may have already bought several Google glass and trying to figure out how to copy... Samsung is good at copying ..


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Above Average Turnout In Philadelphia For Pennsylvania PrimaryTuesday's Pennsylvania primary election turnout is drawing praise from the leader of a Philadelphia voter watchdog group.
Young Students Learn About Voting Process By Helping Out On Election DayHundreds of high school students learning about the Democratic process are helping out at polling places across Philadelphia Tuesday.
DA's Office, Committee Of Seventy Urge Voters To Stay Vigilant On Election DayThe Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and the Committee of Seventy will be watching out for voter-related problems during next week's primary election.
Manayunk Software Company Eyes The Future of Tech-Enhanced VotingA Manayunk software developer thinks it should be less complicated to do your civic duty.
Central High Students' Grilling of Philadelphia Mayoral Candidates Carried Live on Cable TVThe questions, from Central's Class 274, covered a wide variety of issues.
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Gov. Christie Cancels Thursday Appearance In PhiladelphiaMore than 600 people were expected to show up at the Bellevue to hear Chris Christie speak. But early Wednesday evening, the Committee of 70's president and CEO Zack Stallberg got a call from Christie's office that the Governor was sick and had to cancel.
Officials In Philadelphia Ready To Monitor Election Day Activities, Problems At PollsCity, election, and good government officials want to make sure everyone behaves around polling places on Tuesday in Philadelphia.
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It's the holiday crunch time and we could all use a bit of humor, so today, for your reading pleasure, I'm reviewing two very different webcomics that both made me laugh out loud.
The first is The Princess Planet. I saw people recommending it here and there, but I resisted for a long time because anything involving princesses reeks of kid stuff. Having survived my daughters' princess phase, I was more than happy to pack it in.
As it turns out, though The Princess Planet channeled what I was muttering all those years and turned it into funny. The star of the show is Princess Christi, who gets bored on the very second page and turns herself into a superhero, leaving her attendants behind to draw moustaches on the skinny girls in her magazines. That sort of deliberate anachronism, drawing bits of modern life into the faux-medieval world of fairy tales, is the straw that Brian McLachlan has been spinning into gold for the past four years. The jokes mostly turn on the characters' self-awareness that they are fairy-tale clichés, and running gags include one-upmanship among the princesses and the king and queen's quest to find a new heraldic symbol for their kingdom to replace the current one, a pile of grass eating a sandwich.
Here's a post-Thanksgiving special that won't cost you a dime: Robot Comics is offering the iPhone/iPod Touch version of British artist Ben Powis's Where Grows the Bitter Herb for free until December 8. Another Powis comic, Turtle Guitar, is always free. (Both comics are also available for Android at the standard price of 99 cents.)
Both stories are little folkloric tales brought to life with lovely art. Powis uses simple shapes with heavy outlines, textured backgrounds, and varied hatching to create comics panels that look like drawings from a picture book. The watercolor-like textures show up nicely on the backlit screen of the iPhone, and the panels also appear to be cropped differently than they were in the print edition of the book, providing a different type of reading experience.
Thanksgiving is around the corner; by the time you read this, I will be baking pies and getting out the good china. But first, I want to sit back and take stock of all the things I'm thankful for this year. Webcomics-wise, that is. Think of this as a buffet of my favorite dishes, and perhaps, when the table is cleared, the game is over, and the kids have spun down and fallen asleep on the floor, you'll have time to sample them and find something new to like.
Breakfast of the Gods: Snap, Crackle, and Pop have been kidnapped (and tortured!), the Honey Bee turns up dead, Count Chocula paces the ramparts in his castle—and Boo Berry shows up to needle him. In Breakfast of the Gods, Brendan Douglas Jones shows the darker side of the cereal mascots of the 1960s and 70s in a fantasy adventure that's part Lord of the Rings, part nutritious breakfast.
Unshelved: Bill Barnes's art is simple to the point of being rudimentary, but he still manages to endow each of the characters in this library-themed comic with a unique and believable personality. Even better, he and co-writer Gene Ambaum really nail the feeling of working in a place where you have to deal with the varied whims of the public as well as your own wacky co-workers.
I discovered Chronicle shortly after Josh Way started posting it online, and I liked it immediately. It's the story of a brash big-city newspaper editor sent out to run a two-bit paper in a modern-day Green Acres, a small town with more than its share of colorful characters. I really enjoyed Way's sense of humor and his varied cast, so I was disappointed when he brought the comic to an end this spring.
Since I spoke to Joe Infurnari last week about the abrupt end of the Process, I thought it would be nice to talk to a creator who brought his work to a more deliberate end. For Way, Chronicle was a testing ground where he developed both his cartooning skills and the discipline to draw a daily comic. And now he is applying those lessons elsewhere: as it happens, Way is launching a new comic, Strewth!, on November 30 (but click now for the preview art).
Brigid Alverson: Why did you decide to end Chronicle?
Josh Way: I knew from the start that Chronicle would have an ending, though I was flexible about how and when that would happen. There was always a sense that Chronicle was a prelude to something else. Not that it was a throwaway or a false start, but it was as much about developing discipline as a cartoonist as it was about the story. For lack of a less dumb analogy, I suppose it was a kind of cartoonist boot camp I devised for myself.
The decision to actually end the strip came when I felt I had established some discipline in the daily work, and when the story was moving naturally into a kind of "third act." I started wishing I could apply the things I'd learned to something new, and the web platform gave me the freedom to move in that direction.
Last week, I wrote about the way webcomics end—sometimes with a bang, sometimes with a whimper. Unlike print comics and graphic novels, which almost always have a predetermined structure and pace, webcomics often flicker and die before their time. The reasons for this point up some of the structural and creative differences between webcomics and other media, so I thought it would be interesting to discuss the phenomenon with some creators.
The Process is not officially dead, but Joe Infurnari stopped updating it in mid-2008, right around the time it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic. The Process is thoughtful, well executed, and embedded in a stunningly beautiful website. So what happened? I went straight to the source and asked Infurnari, who was good enough to speak frankly about the creative and economic pressures of the webcomics creator's lifestyle.
Interviews with comics creators usually include a lot of questions about the origins of the comic—what was the inspiration, how did you find a working partner, how did you find a publisher, that sort of thing.
One topic that hardly ever comes up is how the comic ends. It's not the sort of thing one thinks of with regard to print comics, because the vast majority are either one-shot graphic novels or endless series that have been running since FDR was president.
Webcomics are a different matter. "Over 15,000 webcomics now exist online," Wikipedia tells us, but probably 14,000 of those stopped updating after six episodes. This is the dark side of The Promise of Webcomics: It is true that anyone can start a webcomic, and that without the usual barriers to publication, such as editors and budgets, the web has become a seething cauldron of creativity. However, things like slush piles and contracts and editors are there for a reason: Not just to keep the crap out, but also to make sure the creator finishes the damn comic. The internet imposes no such restrictions. Consequently, many webcomics start with a burst of enthusiasm and fizzle when the creator runs out of ideas or has to study for finals.
When it comes to horror, I'm not really a fan of zombies, vampires, or exploding eyeballs. I prefer the more subtle type of horror, the kind that walks a line between everyday life and something much darker. The kind where everything seems normal until… suddenly it isn't. Like this moment in Pete Stathis's Evenfall: Phoebe, the heroine, keeps slipping from everyday life into an alternate reality, and this is a signal that it's happening again: She steps into the elevator and all the buttons have changed to down arrows.
Now that's creepy.
Caryn A. Tate's Red Plains, now playing at the Top Shelf 2.0 anthology site, uses the classic Western setting to frame stories that have a bit more depth to them than the standard shoot-em-up. In a series of interconnected episodes, she explores the conflict between ranchers and farmers, the life of a black cowboy, a murder mystery with a twist, and, most recently, a complicated tale of civic life, gun control, and armed revolution.
What makes Tate's comic tick is her characters, who stretch the Western archetypes with their quirks and flaws: Sheriff Doles, a former handyman whose intellectual curiosity and laid-back style rub the town fathers the wrong way; Jackson Stevens, the trigger-happy, over-privileged son of a wealthy rancher; Bob Schwartz, a seemingly upstanding lawyer with a hidden dark side; Mayor Wells, who suffers from a mysterious illness, and his wife, who seems to be running the show. The four episodes that are up so far are interconnected but can be read on their own as well; together they paint a fascinating picture of life in the Old West. I interviewed Tate by e-mail to find out how she comes up with her stories and puts everything together to make a sum that is greater than any of its parts.
The title is a bit of a stretch, but bear with me.
The folks behind the manga site ComiPress have just unveiled Inside Scanlation, an impressive website that chronicles the history of scanlation, that is, bootleg fan translations of Japanese manga (and later, Korean manhwa as well). It's an amazingly detailed and textured history, complete with interviews with scanlators and industry figures, a glossary, and a timeline.
One of the things it chronicles is the way scanlation groups helped create and maintain the market for translated manga in this country. Licensed manga is just a bit behind the bootlegs—scanlation sites were doing a brisk business by 1998, while the bookstore boom in manga took off around 2000. Coincidence? I think not. Here's Del Rey editor Dallas Middaugh reminiscing about his early days at Viz in an interview with Dirk Deppey of The Comics Journal:
To be honest, when I was at Viz back in 2001, 2002, we were following scanlations as a way of discovering new titles. [Deppey laughs.] Hey, I don't read Japanese, and the people making scanlations were finding good manga.
Paradigm Shift
By Dirk Tiede
Paradigm Shift starts out like any other buddy-cop story, with donuts, wisecracks, and corpses turning up in the bushes, but halfway through, it lives up to its name and crosses over into darker territory.
In the beginning, the detectives in question, Kate McAllister and Mike Stuart, are as smooth as they come. They have their differences—Kate's a bit tougher, Mike's a bit cooler—but their relationship runs on easy patter and unspoken coordination. Tiede is subtle, introducing Kate's demons a little at a time—a sudden flash of dizziness, a wound that heals too quickly—but as the story goes on, we see her unravel more and more until it's hard to say what is nightmare and what is real. Mike, on the other hand, starts out as an understated character, but his quietness conceals his strength. Again, there is a slow build; his offhand mentions of martial arts and Zen Buddhism foreshadow his full development as a character later in the story.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
I'm going a little off topic this week because I spent the weekend at New York Anime Fest—which, despite the name, included a fair amount of comics action. Yes, they had Gundam director Yoshiyuki Tomino as their keynote speaker, and Viz drew cheers with the announcement that they would be showing the last season of the InuYasha anime online, for free, at almost the same time it will be broadcast in Japan. But there was plenty to love for those of us who don't like their pictures moving. Here's a sampling of the highlights:
Peepo Choo: Vertical, which has mostly published classic manga up to now, caused a stir with their announcement that they had licensed this Japanese manga by American creator Felipe Smith. Smith was one of Tokyopop's early global manga creators, and his first manga, MBQ, showed a lot of promise. A year ago, the editors of Kodansha's Morning 2 magazine decided they wanted to add an American to their lineup, and Smith was their choice. Peepo Choo is an adventure/comedy about an otaku in Japan, and much of the humor turns on his bad Japanese, which will make translating a challenge despite the fact that Smith partially wrote it in English. However, Vertical is uniquely suited to publish this book as its marketing director, Ed Chavez, helped edit it during a stint at Kodansha. (Here is the author showing off a sample at his MySpace page.)
Del Rey's kids' lineup: Ordinarily, I wouldn't be all that excited about another round of Ben 10 manga; I read the first one and was pretty unimpressed. But Del Rey is taking a new tack: They are setting real comics creators loose on these properties and letting them use their own styles. So the next Ben 10 manga will be written by Peter David and illustrated by Dan Hipp. Are you wondering what a Hulk writer and the creator of Gyakushu! are going to do with Ben 10? Because I sure am. Along the same lines, the next Bakugan Battle Brawlers will be written by the veteran team of Nunzio DeFillippis and Christina Weir and illustrated by Kriss Sison, and the team working on their manga prequel and novelization of the movie The Last Airbender will include X-Men: Misfits writer (and veteran Nickelodeon magazine editor) Dave Roman and Yokaiden artist Nina Matsumoto. In other words, Del Rey is throwing a lot of talent at these books.
I thought that I might be writing about reading comics on Apple's revolutionary new tablet, a much-rumored expanded version of the iPod, by now, but their September meeting came and went with no news on that front. So I'm still reading on my iPod Touch, which has the virtues of clarity and portability and the vice of tininess.
Even with the small screen, though, my iPod is evolving. Back in the Stone Age (six months ago), each comic or section of a comic was a single app, which led to a lot of little icons cluttering up the screen. Now a reader can use a single app such as comiXology's Comics app, iVerse, or Panelfly, to buy, download, and organize comics, which is a more elegant solution. ComiXology has just released a free version of its app, which allows readers access to all the free comics in its app store, and it also has a Lite version that is 12+, as opposed to 17+, presumably for younger readers.
I assume the hidden hand of Apple has something to do with the fact that these apps have similar design and functionality: You pick your function from a navigation strip across the bottom, with icons for the store, featured items, etc., and you move from a list of comics to catalog listings by tapping and swiping, just as with other apps.
These apps solve a glaring problem, which is that there is no obvious way to find comics in the iTunes store. Continue Reading »
Making fun of history has been a good gig for quite a while. I grew up reading Richard Armour's fractured retellings of history-book standards, such as It All Started with Columbus, and of course Mad Magazine was a reliable source of misinformation. (The Marx/Marx Brothers and Lenin/Lennon confusion lingered for an embarrassingly long time, thanks to them.) And then there is Blackadder, a show whose humor content scales directly with the viewer's knowledge of British history.
Mock history has proven to be a fertile vein on the web as well. It's hard to find anyone who doesn't love Kate Beaton's Hark, A Vagrant. Reading her irreverent takes on historical topics is sort of like sitting in the back of class drawing moustaches on the Founding Fathers.
Skin Horse, print edition
By Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells
Couscous Collective, $14.00
Skin Horse is laugh-out-loud funny, in the way that the Marx Brothers were funny: It starts with something that is just barely plausible and then piles up incongruities into a massive, complicated structure built entirely of crazy.
This print edition covers the first year or so of the webcomic, collecting the daily strips in an attractive square format that makes for easy reading. Skin Horse is one of those webcomics that tries to do two things at once—deliver a gag every day and also build up a larger storyline. It succeeds admirably at both, but the collected edition allows the reader to focus more on the longer story and less on individual punchlines.
Skin Horse is a government agency whose job is to provide social services to non-human sapients—animals, zombies, killer robots, and the like that have been endowed, usually in sinister ways, with human intelligence.
Today's topic is not webcomics themselves but the spaces around them.
A webcomic, by definition, exists on a website, and that website can be a valuable tool to set the tone of a comic, add context, and provide a smooth, pleasant reading experience.
Or not.
I am constantly amazed at the number of creators who work hard to make a good comic and then put it on a generic, poorly designed website that screams "amateur," or worse, drives the reader away with clumsy navigation.
Design affects readers on an unconscious level. A tightly designed website has an aura of its own that can rub off on the comic and make it seem better than it really is—and a poorly designed site has the same effect in reverse.
It's a tough world out there, and you want to stack the deck in your favor as much as possible. That means everything on a webcomics site should work to enhance the comic, and anything that doesn't should be ruthlessly eliminated.
Herewith, then, is a short list of webcomics dos and don'ts.


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A woman was life-flighted to a Wichita hospital after a roll-over car accident on Madison Road in Riley County. Tashayla Newell, 20, Salina, was traveling west on Madison Road around 3:45 p.m. Sunday when she lost control of her 2004 Chevy Impala. The vehicle went off
The Riley County Police Department along with the Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas State University Police Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint in the early morning hours on Saturday in the 2000 Block of Kimball Avenue. Two hundred and sixty-two vehicles were stopped in the checkpoint between
A Fort Riley soldier was arrested Friday on multiple charges related to sexual acts with a minor, according to a press release from the Junction City Police Department. Ivan O. Sherren, 37, was arrested on charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sodomy, and electronic
The Riley County Police Department and the Kansas State University Police Department are cautioning the public about walking alone at night after a sexual assault was reported in the early morning of August 11 in the area of the university campus. The victim in this case
A Fort Riley soldier has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder among other charges following a failed suicide attempt earlier this year that left one man dead. Documents obtained by The Mercury Thursday show that Gary Nelson, 22, of Junction City, entered the plea last week.
Police closed off three blocks in Ogden Wednesday afternoon following reports of homemade explosives in the area. Riley County Police Department officers and a bomb team blocked off the streets after responding to a domestic dispute in which a man threatened his wife that there
Riley County authorities issued an advisory Wednesday afternoon cautioning people to stay away from a three-block a section of Ogden. The alert, which applied to the 200 block of 10th through 12 Streets in that city, apparently related to an ongoing investigation of a report of a
A Manhattan man has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for robbing a convenience store that led to arson in which a Kansas State University researcher died. Frank Joseph Hanson, 23, was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime
A Manhattan accountant has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling from a commercial construction company where he worked. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced the sentencing Monday afternoon against Larry D. Lord, who pleaded guilty in March to one count of mail
A 23-year-old Manhattan man was stabbed at a lake on Sunday after a fight about the volume of the radio. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office is investigating a stabbing reported to have occurred at Pottawatomie County State Lake No. 2, 8010 State Lake Road in Manhattan
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This is the all-new Volkswagen Golf GTE, a new performance-focused plug-in hybrid that follows the petrol GTI and diesel GTD. A petrol-powered plug-in hybrid, it has been designed to give hot hatch levels of straight-line performance alongside an incredibly low CO2 figure of just 35g/km.
The styling is inspired by the Golf GTI, with the same aggressive air-vents and low front spoiler as the iconic petrol model. However a distinctive set of C-shaped LED running lights have been integrated into the bumper, and the red lines on the grille and headlights have been replaced with subtle blue trim instead.
Golf GTE: Golf GTI of the future? Not until they cut some of that weight... pic.twitter.com/QpJ3Q22zjr
— Jack Rix (@jack_rix) March 3, 2014
Volkswagen offers the Golf (at least in Germany) with five different power sources – diesel, petrol, pure electric, compressed gas and now plug-in hybrid. Essentially, the Golf GTE uses the same lithium-ion battery technology as the Audi A3 e-tron, which means an identical 31-mile electric range and fuel economy of 188mpg.
Those powerful batteries are linked to a 101bhp electric motor that is bolted to the gearbox housing, and when combined with the 148bhp 1.4-litre TSI engine, total system output is an impressive 201bhp and a diesel-like 350Nm of torque.
Performance is brisk too, with the GTE taking just 7.6 seconds to reach 62mph from a standstill, but the top speed is capped at 134mph. The motor and engine drive the front wheels through a newly developed triple-clutch DSG gearbox and several heavy-duty electronics systems to carefully manage the flow of power.
All this technology does come at a price though. Weighing in at 1,524kgs, the GTE is 173kgs heavier than a GTI and 300kgs heavier than standard Golf 1.4 TSI. Still, VW claims that in hybrid mode the GTE can cover 583 miles on a single tank.
Zero-emissions driving can be accessed at any time thanks to an 'e-mode' button in the cabin, which switches off the engine completely and limits the top speed to 81mph. Several other driving modes will be offered, including a 'GTE mode' that delivers the maximum amount of power for a sportier and more exciting drive.
The battery pack takes three and a half hours to charge from a household socket, and is mounted beneath the rear seats – but that means the petrol tank has been moved to the boot, so the boot is around 100 litres smaller than the standard car.
Inside, there are more blue accents on the seats, steering wheel and gear stick. It will come with a 6.5-inch touchscreen display as standard, which will include an 'energy flow monitor', and the rev counter makes way for a power meter instead.
Volkswagen plans to launch the GTE later this year, with order books opening in August, and prices are likely to put it between the GTI and the Golf R. That should mean a list price of just over £30,000 after the £5,000 government grant is deducted.