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Local funding exceeded total federal funding contributions for the 25 New Starts projects, accounting for $16.3 billion, or almost half, of $33.8 billion of total project funding (see figure below) from October 2004 through June 2012. This outcome reflects the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) policy to encourage project sponsors to seek less than 60 percent of the project's costs from New Start funds--less than the allowable 80-percent New Starts-share maximum. Local agencies used a wide variety of sources, but most commonly used sales taxes for their contributions to the projects; sales taxes were used for 13 of the 25 projects. Federal funds from all sources for New Starts projects totaled about $15.2 billion. The New Starts program alone provided about $14 billion, or 92 percent of the federal funds during this period. Federal-aid highway funding that was "flexed," or transferred, to transit was the second largest source of federal funds, providing about $720 million. Finally, states provided about $2.3 billion, or about 7 percent of total funding, to 13 of the 25 projects. States obtained most of this funding from bonds or other debt mechanisms.
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FTA, through the Capital Investment Grant program, which includes the New Starts and Small Starts programs, provides funds to transit project sponsors to build new or expanded fixed-guideway transit systems. Small Starts also includes projects known as Very Small Starts projects. These three categories--New, Small, and Very Small projects--vary by total project cost and amount of the Capital Investment Grant program contribution to the cost. For New Starts, total estimated project costs exceed $250 million; for Small Starts, they are less than $250 million, and for Very Small Starts they are less than $50 million. For New Starts the federal contribution is at least $75 million, for Small Starts it is less than $75 million.
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users directed GAO to annually review FTA's New Starts program. This report discusses the extent to which project sponsors use non-New Starts funding to help construct New Starts, Small Starts and Very Small Starts projects. GAO reviewed financial information for all of the 25 New Starts and 32 Small Starts and Very Small Starts projects FTA identified as receiving construction funding from October 1, 2004, through June 2012. GAO interviewed FTA officials regarding program data and officials from 8 project sponsors to get their views on funding sources. GAO also reviewed relevant federal laws and other documentation. DOT officials reviewed a draft of this report and provided technical comments, which GAO incorporated as appropriate.
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Matthew Birt says:
Valentino Rossi believes his riding position on Ducati's 2012 Desmosedici could be pivotal to solving some of the vague front-end problems he's experienced in a nightmare debut season for the Bologna factory.
Rossi and Ducati tested the GP12 again in Jerez last week but both denied the latest session had seen the nine-times world champion debut a full deltabox aluminium frame...
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Mar 09
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Nostrodamus says:
You didn't really mean that 'dear' bit did you?
Oct 10
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whemy says:
erm solution number 199 yes lets try this take the tank off put it behind my ass and ill sit next to the headstock and the downward pressure will make the bike turn and i get front end feel ,yes yes problem solved now im worth my 25 million for developing the bike.........
who needs stoner he couldnt make the bike work he,s rubbish odd win here and there and a championship a lucky one of course! looks like championship number 2 coming yep lucky again only 3 other honda riders on factory bikes to deal with who have been on the bikes longer than him. but who needs riding skill when your names stoner just a lucky year again!!!!
who,s the most successful rider in the 800 era dam that guy stoner again if only he hadnt ridden that ducati to so many wins it wouldnt make rossi and the ducati combination look like being the worst since ducati joined motogp..
Jun 11
Posts: 2569
PaceyCasey says:
Why don't you just state that you hate anybody that beats Vale?
I bought my wife a new car this week. I took it for a quick spin. The first thing i done was adjust my seating position until i was fairly comfortable. 5mins down the road i 'tweaked' the seating position again until it felt right for me. Just saying.
'Aquarius' and others are correct in pointing out that Ducati have thrown a fortune at one rider and have reaped ridicule! Ducati have taken one hell of a beating this season from all sides. Nickys results are give or take on par with previous seasons aboard the bike. The money/time that's been spent on their other rider seems to be proving fruitless. In that case then surely more attention should be placed on the rider orchestrating the changes, as opposed to the team? That's the only logical conclusion wether you like it or not.
1: He's admitted to not being an engineer. Which would've come as a shock to some people
2: Humility. A worthy attribute he's discovered for the first time in 2011.
3: Red and Yellow = Orange
4: After Laguna this year he doesn't think Stoner is such a pussy afterall.
5: Eleven crashes this season means he really is trying.
6: He no longer thinks dividing walls are a good idea.
And last but not least;
7: He's given up on the silly post race pantomimes.
Apr 11
Posts: 3619
Bultoboy says:
I'm not interested in all the Rossi/Stoner who's best crap. Not interested in race stats that mean nothing. And I don't give a shit about anyone's definition of true race fan. I like watching racing and many other forms of motorsport.
If you don't think that it is astonishing that they are only trying seating and riding positions now, then I am astonished for the second time in one day.
Jul 08
Posts: 1091
leemuz says:
1) Always backs up his girlfriend Aquarius.
2) Gives credit where credit is due to rossi and co.
3) Never 'bigs' stoner up into something he's not :-p
4) Has an un bias opinion on all riders, stating 'im a race fan not a stoner fan'.....lmfao
5) Has his own opinion on things and says what he honestly believes rather tha what pacey and aqueerius want to hear.
6) Has a full profile, as only a 'honourable' poster would, so his posts hold water in a disagreement with fellow site users.
7) As a rossi hater....never bothers with threads relating to VR as this would be a waste of time and energy...seen as he has no interest in anything one of the greatest motorcycle riders has achieved...
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Aug 02
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cthwaites says:
Aquarius is about the only person on this blog who knows his facts and history...90% of what is written here is unadulterated crap.
Jul 06
Posts: 71
waipipi says:
Couldn't agree with you more!
Nothing but negative spiteful hatred from the lot
They relish the chance of bitching/ moaning and generally doing anything to denounce Rossi.
Sure it must have been hard to fault him over the past ten years so they sure as hell are making most of it now!
It makes me wonder why they even bother reading the articles at all!
Not a particular fan of either Stoner or Jorge but I would love to see some close racing and a full grid. F1 went thru and is still going thru it's fair share of boring racing so as a motorcycle racing fan I want motogp and the lower cc classes to be the exciting spectacle that we all should look forward to.
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Both of our daughters attended the Montessori Early Learning Center and School of The Arts. I was drawn to the school due to it's unique approach to teaching children and the Arts program.The concept of focusing on a child's individual learning ability was interesting;they fulfilled that objective.I also found the building to very clean, colorful and well organized. I was pleased with their reading program. The Montessori approach which teaches children to initially focus on sounds and not just learning alphabets,provided the foundation for both daughters to excel in reading. My daughters also benefited greatly from the Arts programs. Both got their start in ballet at MELC, which not only assisted with their social skills, but also provided them with the confidence to perform in public, today. I found the staff, including the Director to be professional,friendly and caring. And,they adhere to strict guidelines to protect the students. The school certainly deserves five stars.
My child has been attending MELC for 4 years and the experience has been wonderful. She has obtained a quality education that that is unbeatable. Parents and administration are encouraged to interact twice a year at the parent conferences, but the director is always available by phone, day or night. The parent club is wonderful, but not a lot of parent participation. I have always been able to get my child's progress from the teacher when I asked. Wonderful extracurricular activities. If they more available grade levels we would certainly continue.
We discovered the Montessori Early Learning Center when our son was 4 1/2, substantially beyond the age at which it would have been best for him to start there. However, the staff and faculty of the school welcomed him and made a commitment to helping him catch up and even excel in his education. Almost immediately, we saw him learning skills he had never even heard of before, and he began to read within months of starting to school there. He still struggled, but the faculty and staff were so very patient with him, and found effective ways to encourage him to keep at it. He developed a confidence in his academic ability that he never would have found elsewhere. Additionally, he had opportunity to participate in multiple arts opportunities that were unique to the MELC, and he discovered skills even we didn't know he had! We love this place!
I wish they would add the next plane of learning here. I would keep my child in this school indefinitely! My daughter has been attending since she was 3 and she has learned how to learn. I am sure she will be able to apply those techniques wherever we go from here. She has never been pushed acedemically. She is allowed to move at her own pace (which has been faster in some subjects). The extracurricular activities encourage the children creatively and socially. Parents aren't allowed in the classroom during instruction, but are allowed during open house with a full explanation of their time well spent. Our experience has been amazing.
The Montessori Center is the best school we found in this relatively depressed area of Columbia. While the location of the school is convenient, and the indoor and outdoor facilities are great, the attitude of the directress/owner is quite unpleasant. She complains about the low participation in the parent club, and at the same time goes out her way to keep parents away from the classrooms. The allowed time for parent-teacher communication is 20 minutes twice a year! If you try to exchange a few words with your child s teacher or make a minor comment, you are rudely reminded of the school rules drop your child at the front door and leave immediately . If you can put up with that, I believe you can expect your child to have good social skills (the Montessori method is great in that aspect), good academics, and participate in a number of extracurricular activities.
We love this school! When our son started at MELC, he was 3 years old and was learning little in public pre-school where the focus was on sitting still and being quiet, not on speaking to a kid's heart. When he started at MELC, we immediately saw a difference in his behavior. The school's teaching method allows our son to control his learning pace, he works on tasks that interest him and is encouraged to interact with the other children in his classroom throughout the day. The teachers are fantastic and care deeply about kids. Every decision made has children's interests as top priority. The teachers treat our son with respect, and in turn receive his respect. 1 1/2 years after starting at MELC, our son is now well behaved, reading, writing (in print and cursive), well spoken on other cultures, and takes ballet and gymnastics. This is a fantastic school!
While this school's intent is good, I found the teachers and director to be not open to questions or constructive criticism. While there is a parent club and parents can be involved in that respect, parents are not allowed in the classroom. There is little interaction with your child's teacher(only parent-teacher conferences twice a year and interaction by chance - if you run into the teacher outside of the classroom). You can view the classroom through two-way mirrors, but you are not allowed in (even during your visit/tour). This is to prevent distraction, which is understandable; however, as a result, you can only see what is going on, not hear what is going on. Good academic and extracurricular - push too hard though.
I have been absolutely amazed at the academic growth of my 3.5 year old since joining this school. She has been attending for 4 months. The parent tour really opened my eyes to the possibilities of what children these ages can learn. [Her] attitude has tremendously improved after being removed from a traditional daycare. She is learning and growing academically, but behaviorally as well. The teachers and director are all about helping the children learn to their fullest. I have and will continue to recommend this school for anyone with young children. The price is very competitive to traditional daycares and your child is far better off.
OCTOBER 2006 In my opinion the Montessori Early Learning Center is a great school. I respect how well the staff and director handled the children when the fire distroyed the school. Even with the limited resorces they had the children still were taught with the upmost care. The children of this school adjust well in what ever environment they happen to go into. The extracurricular activities are wonderful the children enjoy them greatly. All of the parents have adjusted to the situation as well as the children. Again this is my opinion. Thanks for your time.
The quality of academic programs at this school is excellent!. My twins started here when they were 3 years old. By the time they turned 4, Hailey was reading books and doing addition. Her brother is not far behind. I am amazed at the things each is learning. Both of them are way ahead of our older neighbors that are in public school. This is not a daycare. It is a private, year round school with high quality, certified teachers. The arts program is wonderful. The Columbia Childrens Ballet is housed here. Both children take ballet, gymnastics, and music class. The great thing about these classes are that they are held in the afternoon, while the children are still at school. This leaves our evenings open for family time. The parent involvement is at the level expected at this size of school. There are some parents that are involved and give 100%.
We've been at MELC from primary to current Second Grade (4 years). The school is totally student-centered and focused on instilling each child's love of learning and their achievement. It is a loving, safe environment with highest discipline. The students have self-control, great manners, respect for the Golden Rule, their country and each other. All extracurricular arts classes are on campus and during the afternoon--when I pick up my child she's already finished ballet, drama, piano and art. She's performed publicly since age 3, thanks to the school's expertise. Imagine your child coming home at and asking about the Taj Mahal, identifying all continents, and asking for help with 'research' for a report? Most Elementary students at MELC function above grade level and transition easily into gifted programs in public school. And swimming is a required activity in summer and computer use is taught. I wouldn't enroll my child elsewhere.
I personally think the school is awesome. For a school that suffered a fire, that have made a miraculous recovery. The school is absolutely beautiful and the education is wonderful. It is not often that your child has academic learning as well as learns practical life skills. The children that leave this school are almost always placed in the gifted program. Not only are the children strong in academics, but they have great social skills as well. I would highly recommend this school!
I have been very pleased with my child's experience at the Montessori Early Learning Center. The staff is extensive and well trained in the pure European Montessori tradition. They have a great Parent Club that I attend regularly and help with fund raisers such as Girl Scout Cookies and the Ballet Alliance. MELC gave my child a great start in reading, math and you can't beat the Montessori training in Geography. The arts program is extensive and my child is able to take music, dance and drama. They put on great recitals each year and the school houses the Children's Ballet of Columbia. Montessori takes dedication from parents. Each parent is encouraged to attend workshops in reading and other subjects that will help your child at home. It takes a lot of time, but was great for my childs development. I highly recommend this school to anyone considering a Montessori education.
The quality of this program in my opinion is not good. I did as much reasearch as I possibly could on montessori learning, but I should have done more on this particular school. My husband and I are very invloved with our son. We take an intrest in every milestone of his life. This school does not embrace the parent at all. The child will learn to read but they will not be able to mix well with other children once they are intergrated into other situations after leaving this particular program. The extracurricular activities are awesome. There is little to no parent involvement expected by the Director/owner.
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Researchers Construct Implantable Cartilage With 3-D Printer
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) — Researchers take a huge stride in the advancement of human medicine by making a 3-D printer that can create implantable cartilage.
According to an Institute of Physics news release, the hybrid printer "produced cartilage constructs with increased mechanical stability compared to those created by an ink jet printer using gel material alone."
Researchers used a combination of systems that included a traditional ink jet printer and an electrospinning machine to build the cartilage made of synthetic and natural materials. The materials help promote cell growth.
"Electrospinning of polycaprolactone fibers was alternated with inkjet printing of rabbit elastic chondrocytes suspended in a fibrin–collagen hydrogel in order to fabricate a five-layer tissue construct of 1 mm thickness," the study states. "The chondrocytes survived within the printed hybrid construct with more than 80 percent viability one week after printing."
Dr. James Yoo, professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, believes this can be the future of implantable cartilage.
"This is a proof of concept study and illustrates that a combination of materials and fabrication methods generates durable implantable constructs," Yoo said in a statement. "Other methods of fabrication, such as robotic systems, are currently being developed to further improve the production of implantable tissue constructs."
Researchers tested the cartilage by implanting the 3-D printed objects into mice. According to the news release, the 3-D implants "developed the structures and properties that are typical of elastic cartilage" after eight weeks.
The study was published in the Institute of Physics journal Biofabrication.


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DEFINITION of 'SSE Composite'
A market composite made up of all the A-shares and B-shares that trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The index is calculated by using a base period of 100; the first day of reporting was July 15, 1991.
The composite figure can be calculated by using the formula:
INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'SSE Composite'
The SSE Composite is a good way to get a broad overview of the performance of companies listed on the Shanghai exchange. More selective indexes, such as the SSE 50 Index and SSE 180 Index, show market leaders by market capitalization.
Over time, it is likely that the SSE Composite will closely resemble the overall economy of China; there are still many large, state-run companies that have yet to go public in sectors such as banking, energy and healthcare.
Base PeriodA particular time period for which data is gathered and used ...
Foreign Invested Enterprise - FIEAny one of a number of legal structures under which a company ...
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Was Amy Winehouse planning on adopting a Caribbean daughter before her untimely death at age 27? On Sunday, 10-year-old St. Lucia resident Dannika Augustine told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper that Winehouse was in the process of adopting her, and that she already considered the singer her mother. But Winehouse's rep says the story is a fabrication, telling E! News on Monday that "there's no truth to it."
Winehouse did, in fact, know Dannika and her family, as she frequented St. Lucia on getaways. Amy and Dannika were photographed together by paparazzi several times, and Winehouse often went to a bar run by the girl's grandmother. But the story in the Mirror presents Winehouse as a virtual member of the family, who would "beg" Dannika's poverty-stricken parents to let her adopt their child.
"Amy loved Dannika with all her heart," Dannika's grandmother told the paper. "I don't know why Amy took to Dannika above all the other children on the island, but from the moment they met they were inseparable. They would spend all day playing, horse-riding and walking up and down the beach hand-in-hand."
Dannika's mother and father corroborated the story that Winehouse had begun adoption proceedings, and Dannika herself even gave a sorrowful statement.
"Amy was already my mother," said the 10-year-old. "I would call her mum and she would call me her daughter. She took care of me and we had fun together. I loved her and she loved me. She was the most amazing person, and I was looking forward to living with her here or in London. I cannot believe she is gone. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me."
It's a tragic, touching story -- but, again, not true. Winehouse's rep didn't even know anything about Dannika, telling TMZ, "I think (Amy) might have met her in St. Lucia, but she was in no way about to adopt her."
E! speculates that the Augustine family -- reportedly living in poverty -- lied to the Mirror in order to get paid big bucks for an exclusive story. That would explain why they did it, but not why so many people seemed willing to believe it. Perhaps we all want to believe that Amy Winehouse was trying hard to turn over a new leaf, instead of succumbing to the same addiction she'd fought her entire life.


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In The Foyer Now: JAWS 2
May 31st, 2014
These will be irregular posts (aren't they all) about some of my favourite film posters. Not necessarily my favourite films, but the images used to promote them that I find alluring, striking and resonant.
Change the conversation: Mark unpacks Mad Men season 7
May 15th, 2014
One thing that disappointed me about the commentary surrounding Time Zones was a general unwillingness on behalf of most critics to get stuck into not just Freddy's pitch but the first scene generally. I understood why well enough, it was a depressing episode and seasoned fans have been well trained to mistrust the surface glamour of Mad Men's premiers, which in the normal course of things turns to crap after the first half hour. But in the end that didn't cut it for me, for two reasons. Firstly, because the opening pitch so often serves as the key to unlocking a season's trajectory, and secondly, because Freddy's first words, a confident and joyous starting gun on a gloomy story, were designed to nag.
"I want you to listen carefully. This is the beginning of something."
The idea that these words heralded the beginning of the final season and nothing else seemed unlikely. Because, come on everyone, this is the final season. Every detail is important.
Initially the main effect of this nagging, this jarringly incongruous celebratory voice echoing across the ruins cheering the new day, was to force me to re-evaluate many of the scenes and plot beats most reviewers took for granted were evidence that things will never go right for Don. Then it got me thinking about the downward spiral of the season more generally, eventually concluding that this, like Don's descent in six which led to that beautiful final scene, was probably a good thing too. I was listening, I was paying attention, and it occurred to me that the Something Terrible Don drew down with that first ad pitch in The Doorway probably wasn't through with him yet. Megan leaving him to pursue her career in California and his getting fired was only the start of it. Things needed to get about as bad as they could before the pendulum would swing the other way.
Quite simply, I realised this season is about nothing less than the destruction of Don Draper.
May 6th, 2014
Mindless Ones at Thought Bubble 2013
November 22nd, 2013
For the third year running Team Mindless will be in (almost) full effect at the Thought Bubble comics convention in Leeds. I'll be there trying to shake off my current Brendan McCarthy inspired appearance in front of my adoring public, and I believe Andre Whickey, Bobsy, Gary Lactus, Mister Attack and The Beast Must Die will also be in attendance on Saturday and Sunday.
If you fancy stopping by for a chat or buying our wares, we'll be at Tables 21-22 in Allied London Hall for the duration of the weekend.
Fans of word/face combinations should note that the beautiful mugs behind our SILENCE! podcast will be performing SILENCE! Live (in 3D) at 11.40am on Saturday morning at the Speech Bubble Panel Arena in Armories Square. As if the prospect of matching face to voice wasn't exciting enough, Mssrs Beast and Lactus will be joined by comics' own Kieron Gillen, Brandon Graham, Al Ewing, and Ales Kot as they discuss love, life, and (obviously) comics in bottom-wetting detail.
Back in Allied London Hall, those of you lucky enough to have pennies in your pocket will be able to exchange them for the following shiny treats!
In his secret identity as "Fraser Geesin," Britain's Next Top Cosmic Apocalypse Gary Lactus will be glad to take your Earth currency in exchange for…
Headrust – a collection of 20 years worth of family strips
The Cleaner #1 - about a true hero of our times
Knights of the Realm – as serialised on this very website!
The Amusing Brothers Collection – as featured in your least haunting dreams
Scott "Mister Attack" Mackattack (Sorry, I'm a dick – Scott McAllister, that's his name. This is his website. Go show him some love!) will be selling the first two collections of his Wake Up Screaming comic (Everyone's Felt Like This Once and A Head Full of Maybes) alongside Points on a Graph, his new comic about the growing crossover between post-human entities and customer service work.
He'll also be giving away samples of his new Webcomic, The Weegie Board, as written by some prick called David Allison.
The Beast Must Die might have had to pretend to be a mere mortal called Dan White in order to have his Cindy and Biscuit nominated for Young People's Comic Award at this year's BCAs, but that doesn't lesson his achievements at all.
Cindy and Biscuit is one of the best comics around. Check it out:
When pressed for details as to what its host body would be selling this weekend, Andrew Hickey's beard made the following statement out of its many gorgeous tendrils:
I will have the first ten copies ever printed of my collection of essays about Doctor Who, Fifty Stories For Fifty Years, available — it comes out tomorrow, the day of the anniversary itself (I haven't even looked at the copies myself yet, so they're unproofed — caveat lector). I will also have copies of my book about Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, An Incomprehensible Condition, and my essays about comics and Doctor Who, Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, as well as my short story collection Ideas And Entities. I may have one or two copies of my music books as well if I have any left over from last year (I haven't checked). I will also scribble in the books if you wish.
Bit weird how the beard thinks it's in charge, but I'm not brave enough to contradict it so we'll let that pass for now.
Finally, I'll be there with copies of Cut-Out Witch (a book full of melancholy ghosts and lo-fi monster magic, as drawn by my friend Lynne Henderson and captured in caption by my good self) and issue #1 of Looking Glass Heights, a mix of comics and essays on a set of common themes (housing, hubris, reality, the weather):
There might be a few other tricks and treats for you if you stop by over the weekend, but I won't ruin them for you by spoiling them now.
Thought Bubble is easily the best comics convention I've ever been to, and if you can make it to Leeds this weekend I'd urge you to attend even if you don't want to have to look at us/give us money/touch our many gorgeous heads.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 2009
October 20th, 2013
"What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Time War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
With apologies to Francis Fukuyama
The End of Time is a resignation letter.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 2008
October 14th, 2013
2008 was, artistically if not commercially, the nadir of Doctor Who. By this point, a series which, when it returned, had seemed fresh and vibrant, had become barely coherent, with each episode being little more than a set of effects set-pieces strung together with no thought for logic and topped off with a couple of 'comedy' moments and some over-the-top emoting. While Russell T Davies was regularly describing the series as "the best drama in the world", there was precious little drama in it any more.
Midnight was a very welcome exception.
Haggard West
September 13th, 2013
If a white wealthy talented American male can make it out there, so can damn well anyone!
Readers of good conscience peek at their Paul Pope comics through tense and cringing fingers.
Because yes, you'll be pleased to know, it's important to note, but when it comes to fighty, flighty, punchy-jumpy, there is still no one who springs into mind (maybe Rafael Grampa but let's not even) who can do that great comicsy Pope trick, that thing, the rugged and robust capture of action-motion he can do, that stack of photos falling through the panel skin while you look, but still solid and full of weight, thing.
It is a shiveringly good signature move that makes your fan man go into a full hard, and it is still there in this Haggard West comic. (West as in The West, Haggard as in haggard – the title is a double entendre, minus one, see below)
But you have to read it through your fingers. Anyone with a more than passing moody pout out of a car window on the desert (or is it a city?) highway familiarity with his work is always going to read his comics tense, knowing at any given second the author is going to interrupt this uniquely rendered and quite marvelously flowing scrap to embark on an exploration of the somewhat laughable but also cruel, sadistic, economically and historically illiterate and sadly popular political philosophy (guffaw) of libertarianism, made famous and fashionable in the US several decades ago by accelerationist Soviet deep agent Ayn Rand.
You might have read Haggard West and thought to yourself, 'Hey, there were no characters in this comic called Yahek or Mon Vises, so he left the politics for babies out of it this time!' If so, a) you don't exist b) you can't be that dim c) what comic were you reading again?
Haggard West is dead!
Who can save the city? Who can save the superhero now?
We've been here before, in an not-identical but broadly analogous form, after the crash of 1929. How do we reinvigorate the tired and emotional economies of Anglo-American capital? Legalise booze, sure, bring that revenue back into the mainstream – that's a no brainer.
What apparently is a bit more of a brainer is promoting an idea of virtuous militarised aryan youth to inject the necessary vim and vigour back into the enfeebled action men of the shiny city. No one would be daft enough to make an icon-fetish out of muscular fighting Nordic virtue and try to frame it as the mythopoesis of a viable political subjectivity, would they? Not again?
There could be super dark black irony at work here of course, forming an effective and bold historical critique, drawing a neat parallel with the current moment…
…but it's not very likely really, is it? END
Appendix 1-
The suspicion – forlorn hope – that there might be a sardonic commentary at work is prompted by the Battling Boy preview pages. Our plucky young lad – with superpowers, the son of a god remember – is sort of given a solo challenge, a stand on your own two feet neanderthal rite of passage thing, face this by your own mettle tested or fall, all that shite. But the god of adventures has packed a trunk full of priceless godly adventuring shit for you – you don't even have to pack it yourself!
On reflection, it is unfortunately impossible to imagine even in the fullest depths of drugged reverie a libertarian with that kind of self awareness, or a sense of humour. This from the class of thoroughbred free market idealogues whose inherited wealth conveniently never remembers the Marshal Plan…
Appendix 2-
Battling Boy is out soon! Preview pics below…
RCrumb Old Genesis
September 4th, 2013
The pleasure here comes not only in having some beautifully textured visuals to help you through the awkward, self-serving language; but also from the strange tension in seeing one of medium's most idiosyncratic and defiantly independent artists work with a text that both belongs to everyone, and in some sense lies at the root of so many commonly held social and cultural structures. Crumb has spent several lifetimes somehow convincing the world that by sticking to his personal vision – repellent and antisocial as that so frequently was- he was somehow serving a greater collective good, by clearing space where the pure freedom of the artist might flourish. No matter how arseholeish the art he'd fill it with, that space itself performed a transcendent function – a dream of freedom, even a freedom to support racist or misogynist repression – that many sections of postwar Western culture sincerely believed it needed to have. Maybe they were even right.
Strange to pick Genesis then, a book that justifies its own archaic madnesses and hardcore rhetoric of obsolete social evil by appeals to divine authority and the vicissitude of historical longevity itself. Crumb takes its toxic content (and legacy) and tries to turn it into pictures and words alone, as if they don't touch or connect to anything, as if this book, like his own back catalogue, should only ever be understood as harmless marks on paper and nothing else. If Genesis, with its holy massacres, its hatred of women and nature can be redeemed on artistic merit alone, maybe Crumb can too.
And if he just wanted to turn a new audience on to a founding text of the occidental canon, then maybe he could've picked a book that wasn't such a cunt, y'know?
Despite all that, two points of genuine brilliance worth mentioning:
The limb-rocking, pre-curse serpent in Eden reworked as cosmic horror and Sitchinian(?) paranoiac scifi:
And perhaps the funniest panel Crumb's ever drawn – the looks on the guys' faces as they're queueing up to go into the tent. Oh yeah, all us dudes have got to be circumcised from now on, God says, 'kay?.
Were those later Cerebus issues that I never read as good as this?
mindless zombie notes
September 3rd, 2013
Brief and hasty thoughts after listening to this rather interesting Roundtable Discussion from 2011 on Romero's Dawn of the Dead…
[You already know if vague meanderings about zombie movies are your thing so stop here or shuffle on as you prefer.]
Ballard (Mentioned in discussion c. –40 mins)
An interesting avenue of conjecture lies in imagining a conclusion to Dawn and it's central private shopping mall utopian imaginary, minus the aggressive intervention of Blades, Sledge and the rest of the biker gang (see below) which provokes the films dramatic finale. The inevitable outcome here is mentioned already during the roundtable: pure Ballard.
Left to fester in the mall, the survivors' molecular neosuburbia would have atomised rapidly, losing its structure to the dissipating pull of mathematical entropy as our survivors retreated further and further retreating into their private dystopian interiors:
Francine behind the false wall of their enclave, nursing her baby, perched upon a nest of ripped-up cardboard boxes.
Peter burrowing ever deeper into the mall's guts, crawling the ventilation shafts and access hatches, digging at the walls and chewing the electric cables.
Stephen with his weathered flight jacket, binoculars and empty rifle, stalking the rooftop, unable to return to the plastic vaulted sky below.
The shops lying terrifying and empty again, except for when the moon is full and Fran and Pete would meet on the main concourse to fuck, while Stephen peers through the skylight.
Zombie children (c. –23 mins)
This scene is recapitulated in 28 Days Later, in which Cillian Murphy's character walks through almost exactly the same scene, killing a rage-infected child, out of sight of his fellow survivors. Boyle/Garland choose this taboo-within-a-taboo as a key turning point for his character, beyond which he kills no more of the infected victims, choosing instead to identify with them and eventually adopting their methods as a means of overcoming the remnant militarism of dead Britain.
This seems to suggest dead children as given cause and justification for the entwined problems/solutions each film poses and represents: GET MAD=GO ZOMBIE
Bikers (c. –15mins)
Led by Tom Savini himself, who used the …Dead movies to transfigure his traumatic memories of Vietnam War horror into celluloid spectacle, thereby changing the decomposing face of cinema forever, the biker gang within the film's model represent the coming intrusion of post-Fordist labout and neoliberal capital, crashing the postwar party of settled and endless bourgeois plenty.
The bikers are literally deterritorialised – piratical and nomadic – and better adapted to survive within the available niches of the postapocalyptic ecology than our bored and barricaded survivors: they are playful with the undead, having developed new perversions and sexual subjectivities with the zombies (and mannequins) as their focus.
Despite their anarchic surface and apparent disdain for the commodified desires and familiar comforts of the hastily re-improvised nuclear family, they are only interested in the mall for what they can extract from it. Their belief in might-makes-right and reinscription of archaic gender roles makes the vision of a human future where they are most fit uncomfortably primitive…


text: Patriots Coach Doesn't Rule Out Bringing Back Tebow Print article Send a Tip by John Pudner 2 Sep 2013 post a comment The possibilities mentioned for Tim Tebow on these pages include the Canadian football league or the Chicago Bears (see Kevin Scholla's argument here), but how about the New England Patriots? Bill Belichick did not rule out the possibility of bringing Tebow back during the season, as organizations sometimes do for players who they cut after the preseason. Sports Illustrated is reporting that on Monday Belichick declined to rule out the possibility of bringing Tebow back, particularly if one of his two current quarterbacks gets injured. Then again, Belichick declining to comment on something is not necessarily news. The coach is known for not divulging much in his league-mandated injury reports, or giving out any other information that could possibly tell an opponent anything about the Patriots' strategy. Tebow went only 11 for 30 passing in the preseason, and his chances to sneak on the roster as a player who could also play tight end may have taken a hit when the Patriots realized Rob Gronkowski would be able to suit up Sunday.


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Patrick AndersonSecond Violin, however, starts with the German invasion of Austria in March of 1938. The narrative proceeds to the onslaught of the Blitz—the massive, sustained German bombing of London—and the heroic defense put up by outnumbered RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain from July to October of 1940. If you are of a certain age, even the mention of those events is deeply moving. Never, as Churchill said, have so many owed so much to so few. It has been Lawton's achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling moment in 20th-century history.
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Save to My Recipes
Beet and Cabbage Soup
Servings: 6
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 3 cups coarsely chopped peeled raw beets (from 1 1/2 pounds)
- 3 cups chopped red onion
- 3 celery stalks, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup chopped red cabbage
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped seeded jalapeño chiles
- 5 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Tortilla chips
- Sour cream
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add beets, onions, celery, cabbage, and chiles; sauté until celery is soft, about 10 minutes. Add 5 cups broth and lime juice; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer until vegetables are very tender, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
Working in small batches, puree soup in blender until smooth. Return soup to pot; season to taste with salt and pepper. Thin with more broth by 1/4 cupfuls, if desired. Ladle soup into bowls and top with tortilla chips and sour cream.
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- Starring: Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot Bowles, Joe Bastianich
- Summary: 24 contestants between the ages of 8 and 13 compete for a $100,000 prize on the junior edition of Gordon Ramsay's cooking reality show.
- Genre(s): Reality, Food & Cooking
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 27, 2013
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 08:00 PM
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The best competition show on television stars 11-year-olds.... Like the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MasterChef Junior is a celebration of talent, precocity, merit, obsession, and, above all, losing.
The show's assemblage of pint-sized personalities demonstrates enough natural charm to sustain a season and potentially give both Fox and Ramsay another reliable reality franchise.
The result is a family-friend mixture of competition series suspense and a genuine desire to see the kids succeed. Though there are a few eye roll-worthy moments from some ("I believe I have a very sophisticated palette," one boy says), others are delightfully able to keep up with Ramsay's quips.
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Nov 8, 2013This show isn't simply Masterchef with kids; it has a different layout. One thing I noticed was that there's no swearing (unlike regular Masterchef and Hell's Kitchen). Also, the "young home cooks" are almost as good (if not better) than their adult counterparts! These are 8-13 year olds we're talking about here! As I predicted, Alexander became America's first Junior Masterchef winner!
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Nov 3, 2013Honestly, I think the show is rigged. This year they had a contestant named Alexander, who without a doubt had a ton of talent. That being said, In one episode, He easily had the worst dish and he broke down crying knowing he was going to go home. Instead, They keep him and let someone else (who didn't have a bad dish, at least no where near as bad as Alexander's) go.
I hate that. I hate when a show blatantly screws over contestants. These kids had time to prepare for each dish, They are told what they are cooking a-head of time to be ready for it, and yet Alexander still manages to disappoint and he doesn't get sent home? It's not about talent, It's about having the best dish, and he didn't and yet they still keep him on. What a joke. I, for one, will not be tuning in for next season.… Expand


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Pamela P. Flaherty is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Citi Foundation. She is also Director of Corporate Citizenship for the company and a member of Citi's Management Committee. Previously, she managed Citibank's New York branch banking business and served as Citicorp's Senior Human Resources Officer. She began her career at the company in Citibank's International Banking Group.
She is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University and also participates on the Boards of several non–profit organizations, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Kenyon College, Colonial Williamsburg, and The Nature Conservancy Long Island Chapter. Pam is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She is an honors graduate of Smith College and holds a Masters in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
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