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"QUIET YOU FOOL, YOU’LL BLOW OUR COVER"

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Wishing you all a happy and safe holiday season! Thanks to all of you – readers,contributors, rebloggers, retweeters, and lurkers – for another rewarding year at the helm of Transit Maps. I really couldn’t do it without you!

All the best,

Cameron

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This is a sculpture I did for Hub Comics' 5th annual DARK KNIGHT ON A DARK NIGHT Batman art show. It was designed by Erica Henderson.

Damn!

That is amazing!

Finally, to help maximize retailer (and ultimately the community’s) understanding of this change, we’ve pushed both items back to spring releases to ensure a full 4-month solicitation cycle.

How Washington Starves Its Election Watchdog:

Drawing by Adam Zyglis

From Dave Levinthal’s article:

An analysis of thousands of records and interviews with more than 50 current and former commissioners, staff members and associates reveals:

• The commission over the past year has reached a paralyzing all-time low in its ability to reach consensus, stalling action on dozens of rulemaking, audit and enforcement matters, some of which are years old.

• Despite an explosion in political spending hastened by key Supreme Court decisions, the agency’s funding has remained flat for five years and staffing levels have fallen to a 15-year low.

• Analysts charged with scouring disclosure reports to ensure candidates and political committees are complying with laws have a nearly quarter-million-page backlog. Commissioners themselves are grappling with nearly 270 unresolved enforcement cases.

• Staff morale has plummeted as key employees have fled and others question whether their work remains relevant. Among top FEC jobs currently unfilled or filled on an “acting” basis: general counsel, associate general counsel for policy, associate general counsel for litigation, chief financial officer and accounting director. The staff director doubles as IT director.

Texas Law Forces Hospital, Family to Keep Pregnant Woman on Life Support ... RH Reality Check A Texas hospital says it has no choice but to keep a pregnant woman on life support until the fetus she is carrying can be delivered, sometime next year. (Medical monitor via Shutterstock). A Fort Worth, Texas, hospital says it has no choice but to keep a ... and more »

Still not important enough to get her own movie, though.

We're still a far ways off from the kind of memory erasure portrayed in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but a recent experiment has just taken us one step closer. By using electroconvulsive therapy on depressed patients, scientists were able to disrupt their ability to recall emotionally jarring events.

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The United States began phasing out the use of tetraethyllead in gasoline in the mid 1970s (though it's still used in aviation and race car fuel). The pollution from TEL-enhanced gas, however, continues to linger in the soil, especially in cities, where concentrations of tailpipe emissions were higher. A recent study of New York City chickens found that lead from the soil was showing up in detectable levels in the chickens' eggs. The dose is low (though you probably don't want young children eating lots of those eggs), but it's a great example of how the effects of pollution don't vanish just because the pollution ends.

EARLY IN OUR RELATIONSHIP my girlfriend and I went on a travel-writing trip together. I took pictures of her all along the way; across tables in restaurants we couldn't otherwise afford, alongside medieval casements, that sort of thing. She was delighted by the photos, despite my lack of skill with the camera. She said that she had always disliked pictures of herself, except for the few taken by her adoring children. Hence the maxim: You can't take a wonderful picture of something unless you love it.

That tidy little concept comes to mind when I see the unloved, unfocused food at Piattino.

First, some quick background. Piattino was formerly the Mediterranean-Iranian restaurant Shiraz Grill. Two years ago, Nostrana spin-off Oven and Shaker moved in next door to Shiraz. Oven and Shaker made so much money, Shiraz decided to become Italian too, taking cues from its neighbor's menu and décor. That's fine, right? Lots of Portland restaurants look like each other!

No. In an interview recently, John Gorham (Toro Bravo, the Tasty restaurants) told me that he doesn't like his cooks to prepare one of his dishes until the cook loves it, until they "get" what's great about it. The care comes through in the food; what's special about it is featured to its best effect. When I receive a dish at Piattino—say, the wood-fire-roasted half hen with peperonata, parsley, and fennel pollen ($12)—my signals go haywire, then quiet. The bird's skin is more black-gray than appetizingly charred, the peperonata is limp and bland, and the whole assembly sits in a cast-iron pan in a pure black ring of the creosote of god knows what, having sat under a broiler for god knows how long. No one who loves roasted hen sends out a dish that dull and ugly. It's nothing to share with people.

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Although Dan Brown already has one fictional alter ego in the form of Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code protagonist Robert Langdon, the bestselling author will soon have a second — one with superpowers: Anime News Network reports he’s set to become a character in Kafuka Asagiri’s manga Bungō Stray Dogs (Literary Stray [...]

Well, this changes things a bit, especially when it comes to press-written narratives. Tony Romo suffered a back injury in yesterday's win over Washington, a herniated disk in the lumbar region. He toughed it out enough to make the comeback and win the game, but the injury requires surgery and apparently is so bad he won't be able to play the rest of the season. That means Kyle Orton will start against the Eagles in the must-win Week 17 game. Good thing the Cowboys went out last year and got maybe the best backup quarterback in the game.

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Mom will break a heart.  Then business as usual.

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the 1927 film Wings – the first and only silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen star in the film, playing two combat pilots who vie for the affection of the same woman (Clara Bow). That’s the storyline. But neither, as writer Kevin Sessums writes, “shows as much love for her … as they do for each other.”

His first act as an imam? Performing funeral rites for a gay Muslim who died of AIDS.

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#everythingseemsterrible

A North Carolina mother is heartbroken after her son was sent home from the hospital in a taxi for being “uncooperative” and “refusing to talk,” even though he was dying.

Deborah Washington says her son, A’ Darrin Washington,  died in November 2011 after being discharged from Cumberland County Hospital.

In a lawsuit, Washington charges the hospital’s security firm, AlliedBarton Security Services, with dumping her son, who was suffering from cancer, into a taxicab and sending him home.

A’ Darrin  suffered from Hodgkin’s lymphoma and had been a patient at the hospital for 10 years, according to Courthouse News Service.   He  had been admitted to the hospital on November 14th for pneumonia, but was given the wrong medication, causing his condition to worsen.

Doctors eventually corrected their mistake on November 21st, after having given A’Darrin the wrong medication for several days,  and administered A’ Darrin with the correct medicine and prepared him for discharge that very same day.

A nurse called security because A’ Darrin was being “uncooperative.”

“(A) nurse called for security to escort Mr. Washington from his hospital bed to the lobby for discharge because Mr. Washington was allegedly ‘uncooperative’ and ‘refusing to talk or move,’” the complaint states.

“Mr. Washington was unresponsive due to the fact that he was dying,” it reads.

Even though some members of the hospital staff were worried about A’ Darrin, security still loaded him up in the taxi, buckled his seatbelt, and sent him home.

When A’ Darrin  arrived home in the taxi, his family found his body “cold to the touch.”

His mother has filed a wrongful death suit alleging negligence and “negligent infliction of emotional distress,” according to the complaint.

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As students vie for 2014 internships in an industry where 22-year-olds can make more than $100,000 a year, interviews with three dozen fraternity members showed a network whose Wall Street alumni guide resumes to the tops of stacks, reveal interview questions with recommended answers, offer applicants secret mottoes and support chapters facing crackdowns.