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Saturday, January 5, 2013
DOVER — The Dover High School boys basketball team felt it had gone too deep into the season without making a statement win against a Division I contender.
Memorial's 6-foot-4 forward Tong Akat led the Crusaders with 16 points and made life difficult for the Green Wave in the paint. Zoubel Iradukunda scored 12 for Memorial and Kabongo Ngalakulondi scored 10.
An 8-0 run late in the third quarter gave Dover its first lead since midway through the second quarter, and the Green Wave did not trail again. Dover led 52-49 after three stops and held a 61-56 advantage midway through the final frame after an acrobatic layup by Billy Carroll.
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Akat put Memorial on his back in the early going of the third quarter, taking it strong to the basket for eight of the Crusaders' first 11 points of the frame as the visitors took a 41-34 lead.

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My Memories is a digital scrapbook software company that is extremely easy and fun to use. My Memories Suite helps anyone create digital scrapbooks, cards, calendars, etc. without having to buy expensive programs and then learn how to use the software.
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looking pretty promising so far
To far away to even think about at this point. You can bet the forecast will change between now and then.
Yeh it normally changes but im hoping it doesent.
Wave forecasts show potential wave height. So from my experience on this site, wave forecast that are promising in the distant future (a week away or so) usually diminishes at least some as time goes on and a more accurate wave size forecast becomes available. Therefore, I agree with the previous posters, too early to tell.
i hope dem waves gonna be good cause ive been blazin up dat chron chron waitin for da ocean to do its thing and im almost out of money dawg
i just hope someting decent comes
word *****es, im travelin from pa this upcoming weekend to south dirty jerz so there better be a little something something...hopefully waist high and semi clean..ill be satisfied with that...expecially after i busted a nut all over TS Hanna.. dem jollies will last me awhile


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Last night, the party was on at Samsung's seventh annual Four Seasons of Hope gala that generated $1.1 million for several charities that aid children and families. Host Regis Philbin, was joined by co-hosts Michael Strahan, and dancing babe Jason Taylor. Other heavy hitters who enjoyed a stellar perfomance by Carlos Santana while bidding on silent auction items such as an "Ultimate Santana Package," included former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Wayne Gretzky, Arnold Palmer, Joe Torre, Boomer Esiason and Dan Marino.
"It is so rewarding to be able to come out and work with a first-class organization such as Samsung on a night like this," said Santana. "We had a great crowd and were able to raise a lot of money for the charities Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope program supports. It's not often you get such an eclectic group of athletes and celebrities together in one room, but when you do, special things happen and we were able to help a lot of children and families in need in the process." Santana's live performance was delivered from the heart, as his Milagro Foundation was one of the benefiting charities. To date, the event has raised more than $12M for charities.
That's all I got for ya today kids…except for a big shout-out to Rocco-who should have been kissing that trophy instead of you-know-who.
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It's comin', folks!
June 10, 2014
Well, you know how it is around here. When I manage to go for (what I feel like) an extended time without a new comic, I feel like I have to justify myself a little bit. (Yes, despite the constant reassurance that I don't… I appreciate that, you guys. )
In any case, your boy's been under a LOT of stress lately, and had to kind of take this evening to deal with it a touch. Realized that what my main problem comes down to is some time management issues, so I'm going to be trying to handle that. It's my goal to actually make a 5-comic week here before too long, and maybe, JUST MAYBE, try to actually make that the norm again. I have a lot of fun doing the comic, but lately life has been saying "NO! THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT!", and I just wind up listening, 'cause life talks in all caps, so you just KNOW it's shouting.
That said, tomorrow, a comic shall be had! I've gotta re-prime the pump a bit, but I think this is a train that I can get back on track. Good lord that's a lot of mixed metaphors. In any case, all will be well. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
Not dead – just in case you were wondering. :P
May 9, 2014
Hi Guys! So, normally around here, a missed day here or there wouldn't be cause for alarm or anything, but I got ONE comic done this week, which is pretty miserable. And while that kind of thing kills me, the fact is I know there's no avoiding it. Your boy's been sick the past few days, and the bummer about being sick when you're a stay-at-home parent who also happens to WORK from home is that it's not as though I can just take a sick day and call it good. So while NORMALLY I can burn the midnight oil like a boss and knock out a strip, I just fell asleep in my chair while trying to think of something, and being vertical is only serving to give me a headache.
I did get one worried e-mail a week or so ago (well, maybe not WORRIED, but still) just making sure I wasn't going to quit the comic, and while I may have the most sporadic update schedule known to man lately, you can rest assured with one thing: I NEVER plan to call it quits on this bad boy. It's like anything else in life – sometimes things get nuts and get in the way, and you have to do what you can to keep your head above water. But even if I miss more than my fair share, I'll always come back for more – and maybe there will even come a time when I'm able to arrange my day such that I can start getting them done earlier – but it's sure not in the cards just now.
Anyway, my head's starting to hurt a bit again, so I'm gonna go lie down and attempt to continue not being dead. Wish me luck!
Hogwarts is Here
April 21, 2014
So, you may have already seen this site pop up somewhere on your social newsfeed, or maybe you're only just hearing about it here for the first time, but the gist of it is this: Hogwarts is Here is basically an online version of Hogwarts. It's structured like any other online classes you may have taken, complete with weekly lessons, reading assignments (with books provided), and essays/quizzes/research assignments. Which are GRADED.
Now, you might find this ridiculous, and that's because on the surface, it is. But there's a little more to it than that… it is, for all intents and purposes, just another MMO. Only this time, instead of running out into a fake dungeon and killing fake creatures for fake loot, you're taking fake classes and reading fake textbooks for fake grades. But the reason it appeals to me is that I've always been big on lore – I spent HOURS reading the history of Azeroth back when I played WoW, and I read all the supplemental books and information for Myst that I could get my hands on. And really, magic systems are a lot of fun to deconstruct – the system used in the Dresden Files strikes me as particularly nifty, and the Harry Potter magic system, while simplistic, lends itself really well to a "game" like this. The supplemental reading assignments are kind of fun in the way they're presented (with a little bit of made up wizarding history), and the essays are a chance to get a little creative writing done.
And at the end of the day, you're earning points for your house, and nothing makes something fun like a little friendly competition, eh? Granted, they're going through some growing pains at the moment while they deal with the influx of traffic they've gotten, and they're currently doing some maintenance on the assignments section, so you can't hand in any homework yet… but still.
In any case, if this sounds like your particular brand of insanity, look me up and give me an add – I'm easy to find, since I just use my real name wherever I go. And have fun, folks!


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• Use an appliance thermometer to check the temperature in the refrigerator and freezer and help determine the safety of the food.
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• Check refrigerated and frozen food items. Use the appliance thermometer to help ensure that the temperature of food items is at a safe level.
• If food still contains ice crystals or is 40° F or below, it is safe to refreeze. Refrigerated food should be safe as long as power is out no more than 4 hours. Consume these foods as soon as possible.
• Thawed foods that are still cold should be cooked immediately.
• Any food that has an unusual smell, texture or color, or perishable foods that have been at room temperature for more than two hours should be disposed of.
• Dispose of perishable food items such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy products if they have been at temperatures higher than 40° F for two or more hours.
After a Flood
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• Discard wooden cutting boards, wooden dishes and utensils, plastic utensils, baby bottle nipples, and pacifiers that have come into contact with flood water because these items cannot be safely cleaned.
• Damaged cans that are punctured, swollen, or have extensive rusting should be discarded.
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• Remove labels, if possible, to avoid harboring dirt and bacteria. After a thorough cleaning, relabel cans and pouches, including the expiration date, with a permanent marker.
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• Foods should be eaten as soon as possible.
After a Fire
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• Foods exposed to chemicals should also be discarded because the chemicals cannot be washed off.
• Toxic fumes can permeate packaging and contaminate food. Foods in permeable packaging such as screw top, cardboard and plastic containers, plastic bags and plastic wrap should be discarded.
• Food in cans or jars may appear to be okay, but the heat from a fire can activate food spoilage bacteria. The heat may also cause jars and cans to split and crack. Check containers carefully.
• Food stored in refrigerators or freezers can also become contaminated by fumes, since these appliances may not be airtight. Discard foods that have an off flavor or odor.
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• Decontaminate cookware, utensils and dishes before using them. Wash them with soap and hot water then soak the items for 15 minutes in a solution of one tablespoon of unscented liquid chlorine per one gallon of water. Cans can also be decontaminated this way.


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The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust stir beneath the surface.
Winn Van Meter, father of the bride, is not having a good time. Barred from the exclusive social club he's been eyeing since birth, he's also tormented by an inappropriate crush on Daphne's beguiling bridesmaid, Agatha, and the fear that his daughter, Livia—recently heartbroken by the son of his greatest rival—is a too-ready target for the wiles of Greyson's best man. When old resentments, a beached whale and an escaped lobster are added to the mix, the wedding that should have gone off with military precision threatens to become a spectacle of misbehavior.
Excerpted from Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead. Copyright © 2012 by Maggie Shipstead. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Q: SEATING ARRANGEMENTS is set on a Nantucket-like island off the coast of Cape Cod over a three-day wedding weekend. What about this elite social setting drew you in?
I grew up in Southern California. My parents are transplanted Midwesterners who don't like gin or lobster (I know: weird). I didn't know what a WASP was until I went to college, and then, through friends, distinctly non-friends, and a boyfriend, I got something of a crash course, which was, like most crash courses, intense but patchy and incomplete. I'm not a believer in the old "write what you know" chestnut. I like to write about what I want to know more about.
My first year of grad school, I was kicking around the question of what problems come with privilege and entitlement. For example: if you think all possibilities are rightfully open to you, whether in choosing a job or a mate, then how do you ever decide? How can you ever be content? I hadn't come up with a way to approach these questions through fiction until a friend of mine had the good grace to be hit by a golf cart while riding his bike on Nantucket. (Naturally, he was wearing tennis whites.) His leg was cut badly enough to need stitches, but the driver of the golf cart wouldn't apologize. This profoundly unsettled my friend. "You're supposed to apologize," he told me on the phone. "Even if something's not your fault, you apologize so everyone feels better. It's polite." He was bewildered, not angry, and, while making sympathetic noises, I started thinking about a character who depends on the people around him to abide by strict rules of behavior and whose fragile world is thrown into disarray when they don't. I knew I wanted to explore and maybe critique the very, very First World problems of such a character, and I knew I wanted to use a certain crisp, clean, preppy New England vacation aesthetic as a background for behavior that was neither crisp nor clean. So I wrote a very bad short story, and then, two years later, I lived on Nantucket for eight months (let the record show that they did not include the summer months) and wrote the first draft of the novel.
Q: Throughout SEATING ARRANGEMENTS, it often feels like we're getting voyeuristic glimpses in to the habits of the well-bred and ill-behaved. Where did you draw inspiration for these characters and their antics?
The characters are all primarily invented, but I accessorized them with bits and pieces borrowed from real people: choice phrases, descriptive details, a delightfully strange first name. Sometimes a name or a line of dialogue is enough to give a character shape, especially at the beginning. Then, the more you write about a character, the more information you have about what he or she would do, think, and feel in any given situation, and their antics start to flow from their personalities. When you go back to the beginning of a draft to revise, you suddenly know this person better than you did when you started and can see all sorts of psychological inconsistencies and moments where the tone wanders. The borrowed bits and pieces get crusted over with layers of invention and eventually lose all connection to that poor real-life source who was foolish enough to talk to a writer at a party.
Q: Patriarch Winn Van Meter is a Harvard graduate who is obsessed with membership in all the right clubs. As a Harvard graduate yourself, was club membership something people took very seriously?
Harvard has an odd, retro system of social clubs called final clubs that are exclusively male, are not funded or regulated by the university, own spectacular Cambridge real estate, and admit members through a selective process called punching. From what I observed, membership was a matter of absolute and dire seriousness for some guys, but others had no interest in joining a club or joined for reasons that didn't go much deeper than wanting to have a place to hang out with their friends. A handful of female final clubs have been founded over the past twenty or so years, but because they don't have the same alumni resources or long traditions as the men's clubs, they don't seem to confer the same status or occupy the same place in the collective Harvard imagination. There's an ongoing debate about the final clubs that will probably never end. Some people think they're incubating and perpetuating misogyny, racism, economic segregation, homophobia, and other very bad things. Other people argue that club members have special and unique bonds and create opportunities for one another. I don't begin to have the answers—I think, at the very least, it's problematic that men control so much of the social space at Harvard, but I also see how, for lots of members, the clubs are harmless fun. Truth be told, I was just glad to be a girl so I didn't have to worry about getting punched or not.
Q: To the horror of his daughter, to whom he is toasting, Winn's wedding toast equates marriage with death. Was this intended as farcical or tragic and have you previously experienced an awkward wedding toast such as this one?
I've never been in the audience for quite such a downer of a wedding toast, but I would say a solid 30-40% of the ones I have witnessed would qualify as awkward. Most people aren't entirely comfortable with public speaking, and when you mix in a lot of emotion and alcohol, people can be unpredictable. I've seen a mother-of-the-groom catalog the groom's ex-girlfriends. I've seen a maid-of-honor catalog the bride's ex-boyfriends. I've seen a best man rewrite the lyrics of "American Pie" to be an uncomfortable seven minute string of rhyming insults about the groom. I'm generally ambivalent about the prospect of having a wedding of my own, but, if I have one, toasts will be forbidden.
Q: There's a great scene with an exploding whale. Does that actually happen??
It does! And let that be a lesson to us all: don't get too close to a decomposing whale carcass. When I was in high school, I read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a scientist who had been killed while performing a necropsy on a whale. Gas built up inside the corpse; it exploded, and this poor man was impaled by a shard of bone. Not surprisingly, the story stuck with me, and when I started drafting Seating Arrangements, I decided early on to include an exploding whale. I didn't have the plot mapped out at all, but I was strangely confident there would be an opportunity somewhere to work in the whale.
If you search on YouTube, you'll find some whale explosions, natural and otherwise. One of my favorites is a classic news clip from 1970 about local authorities in Oregon who didn't know what to do with a dead grey whale and decided to blow it up with dynamite . . . too much dynamite. Huge chunks of blubber rained from the sky and crushed cars and terrified all the spectators who'd come out to see the blast. Whales are just so impossibly large that I think there's something confrontational and compellingly grotesque about them when they're dead. You can't ignore a dead whale; it's a memento mori on a gigantic scale.
Q: What writers and novels inspire you?
There are too many to list! Day to day, I tend to read a lot of nonfiction and am not great at staying on top of current fiction, but I have a shelf of books at the ready for when I'm having trouble writing. I'll pick one up and read for a while, and often just a few pages of someone's marvelous prose will sort of get me in tune. The contents of the shelf rotates, but some standbys are The Great Gatsby (duh), Brideshead Revisited, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Lolita, Housekeeping, To the Lighthouse, Pride and Prejudice, Loving, The Virgin Suicides, The Early Stories by John Updike, Selected Stories by Alice Munro, and The Stories of John Cheever. Lately I've been on simultaneous A.S. Byatt and John Le Carré kicks, who write about very different subjects but are both master stylists and are inspiring me to aspire to use the omniscient voice. I'm also reading Michael Chabon's new book, and I've been thinking about how much I love the way the humor and beauty in his work starts on the diction level. He routinely writes sad sentences that are made funny by one unexpected word or vice versa. Reading his fiction reminds me that every word matters.
Q: When did you first realize you loved to write?
Any day now. Writing is difficult and takes forever, and I'm constantly aware that I should always be looking harder and thinking harder. I don't dislike the act of writing—and I would feel lost and useless if I stopped doing it—but when things are going well, the experience is more of focus than of enjoyment. I love books, and I do love certain things about the process of constructing characters and stories, like when the solution to some structural problem suddenly becomes clear and I get a boost of momentum. I also love the challenge of inventing characters who seem real to me, and then I love trying to see through their eyes. The opportunity to be someone else is one of the great pleasures of reading, and I've been surprised that it's a pleasure of writing as well.
On a practical level, I started writing fiction in college more or less on a whim and then applied to the Iowa Writers' Workshop the year after graduation also pretty much on a whim. When I got in, I immediately became much more serious about improving my work, but I can't remember any moment where I knew I wanted to be a writer. It was more that I slowly figured out I didn't want to be anything else.
Q: What are you working on next?
I just finished a novel that's mostly about ballet. It's all in present tense but covers thirty years. There's a Soviet defector. There's Southern California and Paris and New York. There's some high drama. But, other than that, I'm terrible at describing my own projects and should say no more. Next I'd like to finish a couple short stories I've been toying with, one about the Paris catacombs and one about an ocean liner. I like to mix it up.
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"Zestful yet acerbic. . . . For all its madcap quirkiness, Shipstead's adroit escapade artfully delivers a poignant reflection on the enduring if frustrating nature of love, hope, and family."—Booklist
"[Shipstead's] book places a magnifying glass over classic New England upper-crust culture. . . . Whether reading Seating Arrangements is like looking into a mirror or peeking through the window, the gin-soaked escapades are difficult to turn away from." —The Phoenix (Portland, ME)
1. "The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, / Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends / Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. / And their friends, the loitering heirs of City directors; / Departed, have left no addresses." This is the novel's epigraph, from "The Wasteland," T. S. Eliot's epic poem of ruin and desolation. How does this verse relate to Seating Arrangements? Why has the author elected to place it at the front of her novel?
2. Winn is obsessed with status, with matters of appearance and pedigree and joining all the right clubs. What do you think the author thinks of Winn? What did you think of him? Is he sympathetic? Does your view of him change over the course of the novel? Do you think Winn himself changes or grows over the course of the novel?
3. How is Daphne different from her father? Is her world view different or is it the same? How do Daphne's and Livia's values differ?
4. Discuss Dominique's role in Seating Arrangements. How is she different from the other characters in the novel, and how does this alter the reader's perspective?
5. Discuss the scene where the whale explodes. What do you think the whale symbolizes for the author? What do you think the explosion is meant to dramatize or represent?
6. On page 164, Biddy draws herself a bath and spends a quiet moment reflecting on her predicament and her marital expectations after Winn's inescapably obvious attentions to Agatha following her fall from the deck. "The obviousness was what she could not tolerate. She had known what she was when she married him, had expected to be the kind of wife who looked the other way from time to time, but she had also expected him to be discreet. And he had been. She assumed there had been other women, but she had never come across any evidence of them, which was all she asked. A simple request, she had thought: cheap repayment for her forbearance, her realism, her tolerance. At times his discretion had been so complete she had allowed herself to believe maybe there hadn't been others, but she didn't like to risk being foolish enough to believe in something as unlikely as her husband's fidelity." What is Biddy's view of marriage? Does the author share this view? Do you? Is fidelity essential to a good marriage? What exactly is a good marriage, in your view? In Shipstead's?
7. Aunt Celeste brings levity, acerbic wit, and a rather dark personal history to a host of subjects that are often treated sanctimoniously, among them, romantic love and the possibility of living happily ever after. What is Celeste's contribution to the Van Meter family, and to the novel as a whole? What is your opinion of her? The author's?
8. In what way does the Duff family differ from the Van Meter family? How are they aware of their differences, whether social, financial, or historical? Do you think the author is pointing out their differences primarily, or their similarities?
9. On page 170, Winn recollects a story he was told one night at the Vespasian, while still a young man, about his grandfather's inheritance. How is this story significant, and how has it informed the truths and myths of his family history?
10. In chapter eleven, Livia and Francis have a fascinating conversation in which the author provides several nuanced reflections on varieties of love: maternal, filial, familial, romantic. How do these ruminations embody—or shape—our perception of love and its obligations, in the world of Seating Arrangements and in the world at large?
11. Following the aforementioned conversation, Francis says to Livia, "Another reason I like you is that I think we have similar roles in our families. We're the critical ones. We represent a threat to their way of life, a new order." What does he mean? How, in particular, might Livia be perceived as a threat to her family's way of life? Is she more or less of an iconoclast than her aunt Celeste?
12. Discuss the debacle of Winn's bridal toast in which he equates marriage with death. Do you think the author intends the reader to perceive this as farcical or tragic?
13. Look at the end of chapter seventeen, which closes with Livia listening to her parents in their bedroom and the line, "Their door shut behind them, and she heard the murmur of their voices, the unknowable language they spoke only to each other." How does this recast our sense of Winn and Biddy's marriage?
14. Discuss the epilogue and, in particular, the final image of Daphne and Winn dancing. What note does the author strike at the novel's conclusion? How has the novel, and the family, recovered from its various catastrophes and regained its balance after the tawdriness of the events that preceded it and the spectacularly deflating effect of the patriarch's wedding toast? Is this a happy ending? Do you think the author intends it to be so?
15. Is it surprising, given the novel's themes and its central voice—an older, patrician male—to discover that its author is a twenty-eight-year-old woman? Why or why not?


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It was a special night at The Phantom of the Opera when Andrew Lloyd Webber and more were on hand to see Norm Lewis become the first African-American actor to play the title role on Broadway.May 14, 2014
Beautiful Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller joins the ranks of Broadway greats to be honored with a caricature at the legendary theater district restaurant Sardi's.January 27, 2015
The funny 20-year-old breakout star of Pitch Perfect is making them laugh in Broadway's The Book of Mormon. He stopped by Show People to talk about his already-standout career.August 28, 2014


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WC14: DC Comics Spotlights Batman with Simone, Manapul and More
DC's Bat-talent convene in Anaheim to discuss the recently launched "Batman Eternal" weekly series and the Dark Knight's monthly adventures.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Lara Croft's Adventures Continue in "Tomb Raider" #3
Ancient magic continues to haunt Lara Croft and CBR has an exclusive preview of Gail Simone's "Tomb Raider" #3!
ECCC: Gail Simone On Her Comics Secret Origin, "Tomb Raider" & Kickstarter
Gail Simone discussed her early days as a CBR columnist, Kickstarting a comic, initially declining the "Tomb Raider" writing gig and much more.
PRESS RELEASE: Gail Simone Extends "Red Sonja" Run at Dynamite
Gail Simone Makes a "Savage" Return to Marvel With "Wolverine"
Gail Simone discusses her first full length Marvel story in over a decade, a flashback to Logan's early adventures with Jubilee in "Savage Wolverine" #19.
PREVIEW: Simone Explores Yamatai's Aftermath in "Tomb Raider" #2
Lara Croft's adventures continue in the new "Tomb Raider" ongoing series from Dark Horse, written by Gail Simone with art by Nicolas Daniel Selma.
EXCLUSIVE: Simone and Calafiore Bring "Leaving Megalopolis" to Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics will publish Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore's Kickstarter-funded "Leaving Megalopolis," with a chance of a future sequel.
REVIEW: Simone, Selma & Gedeon's "Tomb Raider" #1 is "Visually Stunning and Fun"
Gail Simone, Nicholas Daniel Selma & Juan Gedeon bring Lara Croft back to comics in "Tomb Raider" #1, a "visually stunning and fun" debut.
Comics A.M. - Pioneering Comics Journalist Bhob Stewart Dies
Bhob Stewart passes away at age 76. Has digital brought back disposable comics? Gail Simone and Kate Leth! Five manga that should be licensed in the U.S.!
DC Comics Cancels "The Movement"
Gail Simone has announced the cancellation of DC Comics' "The Movement," with the final issue of the series dropping May 12.
Gail Simone Aims High with "Completely Badass" "Tomb Raider"
Writer and avid gamer Gail Simone tells CBR News how much writing Dark Horse's soon-to-debut "Tomb Raider" comic book means to her.
PREVIEW: Gail Simone Brings "Tomb Raider" #1 to Dark Horse
2013's "Tomb Raider" video game revival was only the beginning. Now Gail Simone and Nicolas Daniel Selma bring "Tomb Raider" back to comics at Dark Horse!
PREVIEW: Simone's "Batgirl" #27 Enters "Gothtopia"
"Gothtopia" hits Gail SImone's "Batgirl" #27 in this preview of the alternate reality-based issue.
After Star Wars, Dark Horse Declares The "Year of the Horse"
In the wake of losing the Star Wars comics license, Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson & E-i-C Scott Allie declare 2014 the "Year of the Horse" as they expand and expound on Hellboy, Buffy, superheroes and more.
Gail Simone Working on Her First Marvel Story in 10 Years
The one-time writer of "Deadpool" will return to the character and Marvel for a story in April's big wedding issue.
Comics A.M. - Direct Market Sales Grew 9.33% in November
Combined comic and graphic novel sales up 9.33% over November 2012! Interviews with Art Spiegelman, Amand Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, and Gail Simone! Plus more!
EXCL. PREVIEWS: "Mark Waid's Green Hornet," "Red Sonja," "Vampirella" & More!
Dynamite has provided CBR with exclusive previews of its Dec. 18 releases, including "Mark Waid's Green Hornet" #8, "Red Sonja" #6 and more
Comics A.M. - Festival Celebrates Cartoon Library Re-Opening
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art features Pope, Smith & more! Interviews with Simone, Bagge & others!
Simone Leads All-Star, All-Female Writers on "Legends Of Red Sonja"
Gail Simone speaks about her new "Legends Of Red Sonja" anthology and the female creators behind the series.
Layman, Fabok Bring "Gothtopia" To The Bat-Books in January
DC Comics' January solicitations reveal "Gothtopia," a new Bat-book based story starting in John Layman & Jason Fabok's "Detective Comics" #27 story.
NYCC EXCLUSIVE: Wood & Simone Combine "Conan" and "Red Sonja"
Dynamite Entertainment and Dark Horse Comics join forces to bring Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja together in a crossover series written by Gail Simone and Brian Wood.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Simone & Geovani's "Red Sonja" #4
Courtesy of Dynamite, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Red Sonja" #4 by Gail Simone and Walter Geovani. Has the She-Devil with a Sword fought her last fight? Find out October 9!
"Arrow" Adds "The Killing" Actress Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin
"The Killing" actress Bex Taylor-Klaus joins "Arrow" in season two, where she'll be playing Sin, a character who originated during Gail Simone's run on DC Comics' "Birds of Prey."
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Simone & Geovani's "Red Sonja" #2
Dynamite Entertainment has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Red Sonja" #2 by Gail Simone & Walter Geovani. August 14, Sonja makes an inconceivable move that costs her like no previous battle ever has!
SDCC: DC Creators Look To The Future Of The New 52
At the DC Comics - The New 52 panel at San Diego Comic-Con International Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, Gail Simone, Kyle Higgins and more spoke about "Trinity War" and what's next for their individual books.
SDCC: DC Entertainment Goes All Access For Comic-Con
Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, Gail Simone, Tom Taylor and more join the first DC Comics Panel of Comic-Con International 2013 to share current and future plans for the New 52, Vertigo and more.
Pipeline - 7/16/2013
Augie begins a new series looking at the experiments Marvel took in the early 2000s. This week, he focuses on "Gus Beezer" and "Black Widow." One works much better than the other, but both are worthy experiments.
SDCC EXCLUSIVE: Liu Joins Simone's "Legends of Red Sonja" Superstar Roster
Gail Simone has assembled an all-star, all-female lineup of writing talent for Dynamite's "Legends of Red Sonja," a miniseries celebrating the character's 40th anniversary. Marjorie Liu discussed her involvement with CBR.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Gail Simone's "Red Sonja" #1
Gail SImone's hotly anticipated all-new "Red Sonja" series is almost here, and Dynamite has provided CBR with an exclusive extended preview of her and artist Walter Geovani's take on the She-Devil with a sword!
REVIEW: Simone's "Batgirl" #21 is "In The Top Tier"
Jim Johnson gives "Batgirl" #21 written by Gail Simone with art by Fernando Pasarin 4 stars, saying the issue that introduces a new Ventriloquist "remains in the top tier of DC's output."
"American Vampire Anthology" Includes Rucka, Cloonan, Simone & More
Vertigo Comics has announced "American Vampire Anthology," an 80-page special based in the world of Scott Snyder & Rafael Albuquerque's "American Vampire" releasing August 7.
DC's "The Movement" is Subversive All Over
ROBOT 6's Tom Bondurant takes a look at DC Comics' newest title, "The Movement" #1 by Gail Simone and Freddie Williams II, noting it "succeeds by playing with familiar superhero tropes."
PREVIEW: Gail Simone's "The Movement" #1
DC Comics has released a preview of Gail SImone and Freddie Williams III's "The Movement" #1. Super powers and social activism collide on May 1!
CSBG's Greatest Stories Ever Told Continues!
All April, CSBG features your votes for the Greatest Stories starring your favorite characters and creators! This week spotlighted Doctor Strange, Gail Simone & Elseworlds -- check them out and vote on future lists!
Filmaker Guevara-Flanagan Documents Wonder Woman's Importance In "Wonder Women!"
Documentarian Kristy Guevara-Flanagan spoke with CBR about exploring the origins and cultural significance of William Moulton Marston's Amazonian princess in "Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines."
Simone & DC Bring Transgender Character To "Batgirl"
In a first for capes and tights comics, Barbara Gordon's roommate announces that she's a transgendered woman in the pages of this week's "Batgirl" as Gail Simone explains why the move is long in the making.
Conversing On Comics With Gail Simone
Robot 6's Chris Arrant discusses comics with "Batgirl" writer Gail Simone about her upcoming work on "Red Sonja" and her Kickstarter project "Leaving Megalopolis" with Jim Califiore.
Simone Rallies the 99% for "The Movement"
Writer Gail Simone spoke to CBR News about the heroes of her new DC Comics series "The Movement" as well as the struggles of balancing entertainment with large-scale political ideas.
ECCC: Dynamite is Ready to Explode
Dynamite officially announced Gail Simone on "Red Sonja," discussed upcoming surprises and introduced the world to Gross Guy at Emerald City Comicon this weekend.
ECCC: DC Comics The New 52
Creators from James Robinson and David Finch to Gail Simone and Scott Snyder join forces in Seattle to discuss DC Comics The New 52, and the publisher announced a new "Pandora" series while teasing many incoming events.
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At your next meal, take a moment to look at your food. Notice how it looks on the plate. Is it attractive? Notice the colors, textures, shapes and sizes of the different foods. Does the sight please your eye as much as your palate?
For a twist on healthy meal planning, pretend you're a chef or food stylist. The empty plate is your canvas. Half of it will be filled with fruits and vegetables, one-fourth will be protein and the final fourth can be grains or starchy foods. Now think about creating a meal that could be the cover of a food magazine. It will need to be colorful, and have a variety of shapes and textures.
How would you picture lasagna? Will it have layers of red plum tomato sauce, crescent-shaped zucchini, white low-fat ricotta speckled with green spinach leaves, and wavy whole-grain lasagna noodles? Or perhaps you're imaging lasagna deconstructed, with each food individually displayed on the plate. How would you present a fish dinner? Would the plate hold steamed bright green and orange vegetables, a crusty whole-grain hard roll, and white fish with green herbs and a wedge of lemon? Or would you pile up dark green and purple lettuce leaves, sprinkled with bite-size squares of red bell pepper, kernels of yellow corn, and white and green cucumbers, topped with grilled tuna steak and a drizzle of balsamic vinaigrette?
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Very interesting article.
Great way to improve our health.
Do you have a recipe for "cabbage soup"? I'm a type 2 diabetic and am always looking for new & interesting ways to get a lot of veggies in my day. Years ago there was a delicious recipe for cabbage soup based on using V-8 or tomato juice, chopped cabbage and herbs and spices and it was yummy. Any ideas? Thanks!
As a chef and now a nutrition student, I think this is very good advice and a fun way to encourage people to be creative when planning an appealing and healthy meal. Yummy food images always open our appetite and our inspiration, so picturing in your head the final product and of course adding all those colorful greens and vegetables, is a great way of planning your next meal. I like how you describe half of the plate being full of fruits and vegetables, as most people usually fall short on the intake of this super important food group.
Dear Jennifer and Katherine:
I find the color your plate approach so helpful, especially as fruits and veggies provide most of the color and are so healthy.
i like cooking with 2~3 colourful vegetables.for example,i will use potato,green pepper,red pepper together.
i want to be a budding food artist
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Every year we hear these dramatic predictions. Accuweather.com is talking about 18-24 inches of snow, with the "possibility of a blizzard". Some people are even talking in terms of the "great blizzard of '78". Grumpy claims it's going to be a whole lot about nothing again. Who knows?
In the meantime, we prepare. These storm predictions are the "black Friday" of grocery stores. All over New England, people scamper off to fill their home with food, water, candles and batteries "just in case".
I know we could survive for weeks on what we already have here. Months, even. But… I am leaving early tomorrow morning for a 12 hour work shift. I know they'll be fine, but, I still feel like I need to make sure that the kids and Grumpy are fine in my absence. So I went, like a lemming, to prepare.
We have a huge, shiny new store in the next town over. It was packed. About 4,000 people pushing carriages all over the store. I had no idea what to buy. I just wandered up and down the aisles. Usually behind old people. I mean "tales from the crypt" old. I could hear the clock ticking my life away. I had to get something and get out. Then, I got this great idea to roast a turkey. It would stay fresh for them over the weekend, right? If we lose power, they can always store it in the
porch back-up refrigeration room. Lucky for me- they had 2 fresh turkeys left. It was 2pm, but if I hurried home I could get it into the oven and done by about 5:30; in time for dinner. Perfect!
Well, by the time I got home it was 2:30. Maybe if I cook it unstuffed it will be done in time. Then, there were dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Can't rinse a turkey with dishes there- so I had to put them into the dishwasher…which was, of course, filled with clean dishes. So, putting away the dishes when the phone rang. Run to my desk- it's a robo-call from the school superintendent announcing that school is cancelled for tomorrow. As soon as I answered the phone, though, I forgot what I was doing. I started checking out Facebook. And email…OMG! It's almost 4 o'clock! Back to the dishwasher. Finished unloading, then reloading. Chopping the onions, carrots, celery to put under the turkey in the roaster. Finally got that bird washed, seasoned (no time to brine it) and into that oven. At 4:49pm.
So now- I just have to make the stuffing, because what's a turkey without stuffing? Oh- and I have to figure out what to do for dinner. Because that bird isn't going to be done for a long time. Seriously- who has time for this???


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