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Parking TipsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/parking/tips.html
Parking Fines
- "Early Bird" payment option, any "No Gold Permit" $35 citation paid within four working days will be charged out at $30, and any $30 citation paid within four working days will be charged out at $25.
- Lack of space is not considered a valid excuse for disregarding the parking rules.
- Parking over parking stall lines because of other illegally parked vehicles is not considered a valid excuse to violate parking guidelines. Vehicles parked over stall lines are subject to a parking citation and/or auto clamp/tow (auto clamp fee at least $75; tow fees vary).
Enforcement & Coverage
- Reserved Gold permit stalls are enforced year round Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Handicap Parking Stalls are enforced 24 hours a day year round. A fine of $200 will be issued to those illegally parked in handicap stalls. ("Early-bird" payment of $150 if paid within four days. Appealed citations lose the right to the "Early-bird" payment option.
- Facilities Management/Vendor Permit parking stalls, Reserved stalls, as well as yellow curbs and red fire lanes are enforced 24 hours a day year round.
- General Purple permit stalls are enforced Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), August through June. You can become a Nighttime Gold permit holder by going the The Wigley 128 Cashiers office and buy either a Fall Semester or Spring Semester Gold permit - the Nighttime Gold permit allows you to park in a Gold permit stall after 4 pm on weekdays.
- Nighttime Purple permits allow parking from 4:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Purple permit stalls, Monday through Friday.
- Residence Hall Green permit stalls are enforced 24 hours beginning Sunday at 6:00 p.m. through Friday 12 noon
Parking Meters
- Once a parking meter or timed parking stall expires you are subject to a parking citation regardless of how long the time has been expired.
- Meters are programmed for 30 minute maximum.
- Better ensure that short term "drop off, pick up" parking needs all met, rather than having one vehicle stay in a meter stall for an hour or more.
- Meters will only accept quarters.
Free Parking
- Free parking is available in Lots 20 through Lot 23 on Saturdays and Sundays. However, you cannot park overnight and must be out of the lots between 2 A.M. and 6 a.m. (Exception: Brown permit holders parked in the Brown permit are in Lot 22).
Emergency Parking
- For emergency parking situations short term exceptions to parking regulations may be obtained from University Security providing the individual notifies Security of their emergency immediately at 389-2111.
- Using emergency flashers does not allow anyone to illegally park their vehicle - especially in handicap stalls, Facilities Management/Vendor stalls, fire lanes, yellow curbs, etc.
- Slow down. Do not speed. The speed limit in the parking lots is 5 mph and on streets it is no more than 30 mph. Remember that pedestrians have the right of way. Parking on the grass, sidewalk, and crosswalk may result in a parking citation and/or auto clamp.
- Permit holders who forget to display their permit may receive up to two dismissals for "no permit properly displayed", contact Campus Hub (SU 117; #1866). Dismissals may be obtained only during the first 7 working days after receiving the citation. Any citation(s) that have been sent to term billing is ineligible for dismissal.
- Green permits only for Residence Hall renters.
- Residence Hall Green permit holders who no longer reside in the Residence Halls and fail to return their Residence Hall Green permit will receive a $100 fine and/or auto clamp (auto clamp fee of at least $75). A prorated refund is available within the first 10 days of Fall and Spring semester.
- Students who use their Residence Hall status to purchase a Residence Hall Green permit for non-Residence Hall students will receive a $75 parking citation and/or auto clamp.
- Residence Hall students: remember you are responsible for obtaining a parking permit or parking information for your visitors. Residence Hall Guest yellow permits and information are available at Residence Hall front desks.
- Residence Hall students bringing their car to campus for a short period of time may obtain a temporary permit for $25 per week from the Cashier's Office.
State vehicle parking on MSU Campus
- MSU state vehicles may park in General Purple permit stalls. State vehicles (non MSU) may park in Reserved Gold or General Purple permit stalls.


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For the better part of How to Be single, you are left to ponder, if the movie is trying to feed you how not to be single. That was a titular bummer right there. Then the journey of this weird girl Alice played by Dakota Johnson starts. Oh, the choices she makes! You can't help but shake your head. Boy is she riding on a downhill or what? If it doesn't make you want to step into the movie and slap some sense into her, then you are not really paying attention.
How to be single is more like watching Alice make mistakes, thousands of them, and then feel sorry for herself in the end when things don't work out. If you really try to figure things out from her perspective, you let it pass, because love's a topic that messes with people. Alice is constantly looking for it, even when she unequivocally claims that she wishes to spend some time alone, and not sediment. But what is surprising is the fact that she is actually constantly scavenging for someone to baby her down.
I need to know who I am alone.
Alice makes all the wrong moves and ends up in a muck of her own doing. It is hard to feel sorry for her, because she clings on to any flickering hope like a moth. This contrasting image in Liz Tuccillo's story is something that is capable of miffing you up. On the bright side, to assuage things down, you have other characters in the movie that try to make the story less punishing.
There is the sister Meg, played by Leslie Mann who is trying hard to have a baby. The coolest and the kinkiest Robin who is, hands down, one of the most interesting characters in How to be Single. Played by a psychotic Rebel Wilson, she remains the only one who tries to bide by the theme of the movie. Sadly she ends up becoming a cameo that shows up only when Alice is trying to bounce back to normalcy like a tilting doll. Oh by the way, Robin has an insane sense of humour. It is hard not to want her as your BFF.
Then there is Tom, the bartender, played by Anders Holm who likes to eavesdrop more than serving people. It is almost like he is never working. Always trying to push his zest before he would place a drink on the table. His story is like, well, another perplexing abyss that you don't want to head towards.
There are childish things that are made into 'things' that get stretched too much. Like that 'drink number' thing that was totally uncalled for. Then at times the humour becomes clichéd, and suddenly you realize that the whole thing actually reeks of stark banality.
I think the humour quotient helps How to Be Single to stand a chance. Because there is always something witty in the corner waiting to lighten you up. In the vanguard is none other than Rebel Wilson who drops hilarious lines with her more than perfect comic timing. Alice comes around too at odd hours, showing us that she is not all cuddly and wobbly, that there is a unique cool side to her too. Other characters like Lucy played by Alison Brie and Tom often crack you up with their conversations, but you don't really see a chemistry developing there.
David story taken up by Damon Wayans Jr. seems like an exercise in futility as well. The way he changes color is so inhuman like that you see through his act.
The best jests are hidden in the starting moments of How to Be Single, when Alice is creating an uncanny relationship with Rebel, and of course whenever Rebel shows up. In its eventuality however when things kind of settle, you do get happy feels.
It goes without saying that Alice's irrepressible urge to find love is simply disappointing. Be prepared to hear you say this out more often, "Is she for real?" Also, watch her more than often try to struggle with her dress, which might force you to think why is she always getting into those clothes she is having trouble with. Then when you really think of it, it is more akin those choices she makes. It's kind of an obvious way to say that Alice is always looking for someone to take care of her. When she scours naught, she cries in her misery.
As we reach the culminating crises, we finally come to realize that Alice gets to justify the movie moniker. For the first time in her life, she is not looking for someone and trying to finish unfulfilled tasks and learning to live with herself.
The thing about being single is, you should cherish it. Because in a week, or a lifetime, of being alone, you may only get one moment. One moment, when you are not tied up in a relationship with anyone. A parent, a pet, a sibling, a friend. One moment, when you stand on your own. Really, truly single. And then, it's gone.
When the above lines are dropped you see Alice fulfilling her dream to witness the sunrise at Grand Canyon. But just when she turns you almost know that she has found someone yet again. Can't this girl stay single like ever?
Anyways, you can watch this one as something light on your watch-list.
Check out the trailer of How to Be Single here:

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Zimmerman trial prosecutors want to introduce routine police calls
SANFORD, Fla. -- As a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman called police close to 50 times over an eight-year-period to report such things as slow vehicles, loitering strangers in the neighborhood and open garages.
Prosecutors want to introduce recordings of some of those calls during Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, saying they are indicative of his overzealousness in pursuing people he considered to be suspicious -- and of his state of mind on the night the unarmed teen was killed.
Defense attorneys object to the introduction of the calls, saying they should not be admissible under the rules of evidence.
Judge Debra Nelson said she would address the matter Tuesday, on the second day of the trial that has stirred nationwide debate over racial profiling, vigilantism and Florida's expansive laws on the use of deadly force.
Jurors are being sequestered for the duration of the trial, which could last several weeks.
In his opening statements Monday, State Attorney John Guy repeated obscenities Zimmerman uttered while talking to a police dispatcher moments before the deadly confrontation with Martin. He quoted Zimmerman as saying that Martin was one of the "F---- punks" who "always get away."
The defense opened with a knock-knock joke about the difficulty of picking a jury for such a widely publicized case.
"Knock. Knock," said defense attorney Don West.
"Who is there?"
"George Zimmerman."
"George Zimmerman who?"
"All right, good. You're on the jury."
Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder for gunning down Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, as the black teenager, wearing a hoodie on a dark, rainy night, walked from a convenience store through the gated townhouse community where he was staying.
Randy McClean, a criminal defense attorney in Florida with no connection to the case, called the prosecution's opening statement "brilliant" in that it described Zimmerman's state of mind. But he described the knock-knock joke as less than stellar.
"If you're defending your client for second-degree murder, you probably shouldn't start your opening with a joke," McClean said.
The case took on racial dimensions after Martin's family claimed that Zimmerman had racially profiled the teen and that police were dragging their feet in bringing charges. Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race.
But in his opening statements, Guy reiterated the Martin family's claim, saying Zimmerman viewed the teen "as someone about to a commit a crime in his neighborhood."
"And he acted on it. That's why we're here," the prosecutor said.
Zimmerman didn't have to shoot Martin, Guy said. "He shot him for the worst of all reasons: because he wanted to," he said.
The prosecutor portrayed the then-neighborhood watch captain as a vigilante, saying, "Zimmerman thought it was his right to rid his neighborhood of anyone who did not belong."
West told jurors a different story: Martin sucker-punched Zimmerman and then pounded his head against the concrete sidewalk, and that's when Zimmerman opened fire.
Showing the jury photos of a bloodied and bruised Zimmerman, the defense attorney said, "He had just taken tremendous blows to his face, tremendous blows to his head."
West said the idea that Martin was unarmed is untrue: "Trayvon Martin armed himself with a concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman's head."
The prosecutor, however, disputed elements of Zimmerman's story, including his claim that Martin put his hands over Zimmerman's mouth and reached for the man's gun. Guy said none of Zimmerman's DNA was found on Martin's body, and none of the teenager's DNA was on the weapon or the holster.
But West said that doesn't prove anything, arguing that crime-scene technicians didn't properly protect Martin's hands from contamination.
Two police dispatch phone calls that could prove to be important evidence for both sides were played for the jury by the defense. Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, left the courtroom before the second recording, which has the sound of the gunshot that killed Martin.
The first was a call Zimmerman made to a nonemergency police dispatcher, who told him he didn't need to be following Martin.
The second 911 call, from a witness, captures screams in the distant background from the struggle between Zimmerman and Martin. Martin's parents said the screams are from their son, while Zimmerman's father contends they are his son's.
Nelson ruled last weekend that audio experts for the prosecution won't be able to testify that the screams belong to Martin, saying the methods used were unreliable.


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Pacific Northwest wheat growers now have added insurance against outbreaks of yield-robbing fungi, thanks to "Cara," a new, white winter club wheat cultivar developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
According to Kim Garland-Campbell, a geneticist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Pullman, Wash., "Cara" is the product of a cooperative wheat breeding effort to combine high grain yields and flour quality with resistance to multiple fungal diseases. Of particular concern is stripe rust, a disease caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis, which has inflicted yield losses of up to 40 percent in Washington and other Pacific Northwest states.
In fact, the release and subsequent sale of "Cara" in 2009 coincided with a stripe-rust epidemic that had overcome the resistance present in cultivars of club wheat that had been planted at the time, notes Garland-Campbell, who works at the ARS Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit in Pullman. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.
Based on 60 yield trials conducted in plots where stripe rust was present in Oregon and Washington, "Cara" outperformed most other commercial cultivars, with two-year averages ranging from three to 18 percent better than the other wheats used in the evaluations.
"Cara," which was derived from crossing three diverse wheat germplasm sources, is primarily adapted to the Palouse and other rust-prone areas of the Pacific Northwest that receive 15 to 24 inches of precipitation annually. In addition to stripe rust, "Cara" carries genes for fungal disease resistance to straw breaker foot rot and powdery mildew.
"Cara" also scored high on standard industry evaluations for milling, baking and other end-use properties. For example, like other club wheats, flour milled from "Cara" has low viscosity and protein content, coupled with high "break flour" and "weak gluten," characteristics ideal for making air-leavened cakes, sugar snap cookies, biscuits, pastries and other soft, fluffy-textured baked goods.
Read more about this research in the February 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
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Still Not Serious About Cutting Spending
The howls of outrage that have greeted the report of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform shows two things: 1) most Democrats have no interest in reducing the size and cost of government; and 2) few Republicans are actually serious about it.
From the initial reaction, one would think that the Commission has slashed government to the bone, throwing the elderly, poor and sick into the street. In reality, the Commission report is far from a radical document. It proposes a reduction in government spending from 24.3 percent of GDP today to 21.8 percent over the next 15 years. That's a start. But as recently as 2000 total federal spending was just 18.4 percent of GDP — and people were hardly dying in the streets during the Clinton years.
In fact, the Commission doesn't actually "cut" federal spending. Under the Commission's proposal, it would rise from roughly $3.5 trillion today to more than $5 trillion by 2020. So, under the terrible "cuts" that the Commission is recommending, federal spending would still increase faster than inflation. This is the old Washington game of calling a slower increase than previously projected a "cut."
But Democrats appear unwilling to support even this modest slowing in the growth of government. Instead they call for simply raising taxes to support a virtually unlimited amount of federal spending. Republicans, meanwhile, talk about reducing government, but fall back on bromides about reducing waste, fraud, and abuse when faced with the need to make specific cuts.
If we were serious about reducing the size, cost and intrusiveness of government, we should roll back spending to Clinton‐era levels. (My colleague Chris Edwards has shown how that can be done.) That would eliminate the need for the tax increases that the commission proposes.
Alas, we still await political leadership with that amount of courage.


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Romain Hatchuel has some sobering news: higher taxes are inevitable and there is not a lot (though there is something) that investment advisors can do for their affluent clients about it.
Hatchuel is managing principal of Square Advisors — the New York affiliate of the global investment advisory firm Square Capital, based in London and with offices in Paris and Luxembourg — that caters to high-net-worth and institutional investors.
While many others fill a similar role, advisors would do well to heed Hatchuel's warning.
The French native humbly eschews making market forecasts, pointing out that many big names in the industry, whom he sees as having greater knowledge than he, generally get things wrong.
But when he's not seeing clients at his offices on New York's posh Upper East Side, Hatchuel does monitor capital market developments, pore over data from the International Monetary Fund and other sources, and has reported his findings in a series of op-eds published in The Wall Street Journal.
And he offers not a vain prediction but rather a generalized warning to any who will listen: the developed world's debt tab has now come due and can no longer be evaded.
"At the end of the day, everyone gets what they deserve," Hatchuel told ThinkAdvisor in a phone interview.
"The amount of economic growth that the Western world has enjoyed in the past 30 years just has not reflected true economic activity," he says. "It has reflected true economic activity plus abnormal debt expenditure. So what we are experiencing today is [the result] of these years of inflated growth through excessive debt."
So while the U.S. experienced GDP growth, on an inflation-adjusted basis, of 191% in the years 1950 to 1980 at a time when the nation's aggregate debt grew by 12%, in the more recent three decades — between 1980 and 2010 — the U.S. experienced lesser GDP growth of 124% while debt grew 125%, Hatchuel laments.
"What rises abnormally through the abuse of a perfectly legal substance, which is called debt and which has clearly been abused over the past three decades, has to come down when the supply of that substance is reduced," Hatchuel says.
"Today — for the past four to five years — we are at the inflection point. There has been too much [household] debt, the burden of which has been partially transferred to banks, then from banks to the government.
"Now that U.S. households have for the most part delevered and now that nonfinancial corporates have balance sheets that are generally in stellar shape, what is left is a huge pile of debt on the shoulder of the federal government," Hatchuel continues. "This is going to have to be paid for one way or the other. Increased taxation, particularly on wealthiest Americans, is in my view one of the most logical means the U.S. government has at its disposal."
While no fan of higher taxes, Hatchuel sees increased taxation as preferable to the alternatives, which include outright confiscation of wealth (e.g. Cyprus) or defaults on bonds (e.g. Greece).
"One way or another, the taxpayer will lose. It will be a little more orderly for the taxpayer to lose through taxation," he says.
While Cyprus is a small country that many can't find on a map, Hatchuel emphases that it was a large economic entity — the European Union — that imposed this draconian response, seizing as much as 100% of savings above 100,000 euros to assuage the Mediterranean island's debt crisis.
"This bail-in plan that ended up rescuing Cyprus was designed, orchestrated and announced by European Union leaders. There were two plans. The original plan was even more severe and penalizing toward account holders. It didn't protect accounts under 100,000 euros. There was outrage that the European Union would transgress the sacrosanct principle of insured bank deposits. But both plans came from the European Union leadership, not Cyprus," he says.
The fact of Cyprus' asset seizure may be of greater consequence than the fact that similar sorts of ideas are bandied about. But ideas have consequences — and influence on policymakers — and the fact that institutions such as the IMF have been beating the drums for wealth taxes in developed nations make their policy realization more feasible.
Hatchuel notes a recent IMF paper, little commented on, that proposes a one-off levy on the private wealth of affluent citizens in Western countries. Moreover, the IMF says that the U.S. is nowhere close to the optimal rate of taxation from a revenue-maximizing point of view, arguing that the top bracket's current 45% average in combined federal, state and local taxes should be between 56% and 71%.
While a wealth tax would seem unsurprising in some countries — "France obviously comes to mind," Hatchuel says — it goes against the U.S. grain.
"Even with Obama and a Democratic Congress, the U.S. remains fundamentally a capitalist country," he says.
And yet, Hatchuel has observed that the drift toward higher taxation is slowly growing more mainstream in the U.S.
Sure, New York's new Democratic mayor, Bill de Blasio, has proposed levying a tax on the wealthy to pay for universal preschool. But increased taxation is now "defended by people you would not necessarily have expected, such as [PIMCO's] Bill Gross," who recently railed against 1% Scrooges.
"He recommended that capital be taxed at the same rate as labor," Hatchuel says of Gross' proposal.
"But capital does not grow on trees, which means that when someone has amassed some capital, chances are that that capital has previously been taxed at least once or sometimes several times through income or inheritance or capital gains.
"Taxing capital gains at the same level as income would essentially mean taxing it at a much higher rate than income," he continues. "I think there is a good set of reasons why capital gains should be treated differently from income even though it can be a popular opinion [to say] that the wealthy already have enough wealth and should be taxed higher. But Bill Gross is a very smart man, and anything he says should obviously be taken seriously."
Given the current political and cultural climate in the U.S., Hatchuel foresees increasing taxes in the following areas — all short of an explicit wealth tax:
First, an increase in income tax rates is "a possibility, particularly when you look at historical rates of taxation, which in the not-so-distant past were much higher for high-income earners."
A second likely development would be a change in the tax status of carried interest (essentially, performance fees for investment managers).
"Carried interest is treated as capital gains rather than ordinary income when everyone knows it's really income. This will primarily affect hedge fund managers, private equity managers and other professionals in the financial sector," he says.
A third change investors should expect is in the tax status of municipal bonds.
"I'm not saying the tax exemption will go away soon," he says, "I don't think it will. But I was interested to see in the heat of fiscal discussions about a year ago that [a changed tax status for] municipal bonds was one of the few… ideas that garnered bipartisan support and I think it will come back on the table at one point. I think there will be a cap rather than an outright elimination of the exemption, which is clearly something that benefits the wealthiest households in the U.S."
So, with such changes afoot, what's an investor to do? Hatchuel turns taciturn, but then offers de minimus practical advice.
"It is not in investors' hands to decide how taxation will evolve," he says. "I think the expectation is that they will evolve in a direction that will not be favorable for investors, particularly the wealthiest ones."
Moreover, Hatchuel is not an advocate of tax schemes for the rich, as contemporary political campaign parlance has it.
"I would never advise anyone to play games with their taxes, especially now that we live in world that is so globalized and transparent. Taxes should be paid as and when they are due. You may find sophisticated tax advisors who will come up with a legal or supposedly legal scheme to minimize taxes. That's not my business and…that's not my advice to anyone."
His only practical advice is that investors avail themselves of opportunities while they still exist, assuming they are financially prudent.
For example, so long as municipal bond investors remain exempt from federal (and sometimes state) taxes on the income, "this has value when you believe in the asset class and when you think the asset class is a safe place to be — and depending on the amount of duration risk that you are prepared to take," Hatchuel says, who expects a grandfathering of existing bonds at such time as their tax benefits are one day capped.
As for investments subject to lower capital gains taxation, investors should similarly take advantage of that offer while it is available.
Alternatively, "income-oriented strategies should be included in a portfolio only if the investor concludes they have true value in terms of their asset allocation because obviously they have less value from a tax point of view," he adds.
But the bottom line is that today's developed world, budgetary imbalances imply higher taxation. "The debt is going to have to be paid for one way or another," Hatchuel says.
Check out these related stories on ThinkAdvisor:
- Americans, and Their Money, Flee High-Tax States
- Tax-Weary U.S. Millionaires Move to Cayman Islands, Hong Kong for Relief
- Wealthy French, Average Americans Continue to Flee High Taxes


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Presurgical SPECT/CT shows more cancer than current standard
Startling data from an international multi-center trial provide growing evidence that sentinel node imaging is more effectively accomplished with hybrid functional imaging with single photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography (SPECT/CT) than with another molecular imaging technique called lymphoscintigraphy. This conclusion held after imaging a range of cancers displaying a variety of lymphatic drainage types associated with melanoma, an aggressive skin cancer; breast carcinoma; and malignancies of the pelvis, such as prostate and cervical cancer, say researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2014 Annual Meeting.
Lymph node imaging is an essential tool in the context of surgical resection, because cancer spreads first to the lymph nodes, specifically the sentinel lymph nodes, before navigating the bloodstream and developing new malignancies elsewhere in the body. Molecular imaging of these sentinel nodes provides a surgical map that can improve a patient's chances of becoming cancer free.
"We found significantly more sentinel lymph node involvement with SPECT/CT, which altered surgical planning for many of our patients—a finding that was repeated across all malignancies and clinical institutions," said Thomas N.B. Pascual, MD, co-author of the study and a research scientist from the section of nuclear medicine and diagnostic imaging and division of human health of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. "These results could potentially inform new clinical practice and shape appropriate use of SPECT/CT imaging for patients selected for surgery."
Study findings showed that SPECT/CT breast cancer imaging caught 13 percent more cancerous sentinel nodes—2,165 nodes versus 1,892 using planar lymphoscintigraphy. The hybrid SPECT system also caught 11.5 percent more sentinel nodes when imaging for melanoma, with 602 versus 532 nodes detected. In addition, 29.2 percent more nodes were imaged using SPECT/CT to detect pelvic cancer—195 nodes found versus 138 with planar imaging.
Changes in surgical planning as dictated by SPECT/CT were substantial—16.9 percent of breast cancer surgeries underwent a change in management, 37 percent of surgeries for melanoma changed and 64.1 percent of surgical plans for pelvic cancer were changed due to detection of additional sentinel nodes. Calculated mismatch between sentinel nodes and lymphatic territories using the two imaging systems was gauged at 17 percent for breast carcinoma, 11.2 percent for melanoma and 50 percent for pelvic imaging. The significantly higher mismatch in pelvic tumors was thought to be due to relatively deeper lymphatic drainage and location of pelvic sentinel nodes.
Cancers are a leading cause of death. The most recent data available shows that cancers were the cause of 8.2 million deaths worldwide in 2012, according to the World Health Organization. Annual cancer diagnoses are expected to increase more than 60 percent from 14 million in 2012 to 22 million within the next two decades. Lung, liver, stomach, colorectal and breast cancers cause the most cancer deaths each year.
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German Nintendo Exec Hints at Possible Super Smash Bros Release Date
Outside of a vague 2014 release window, we didn't know when Nintendo was planning on releasing major Wii U titles Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8. Now, thanks to the publisher's German GM, we have a better idea of what to expect. Maybe.
Speaking with German site Neckar-Chronik (and translated by CVG), Nintendo Germany GM Bernd Fakesch talked a bit about how Nintendo plans to drive success for the Wii U with major releases. This year was a bit slow, save for these final few months when we got The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and Super Mario 3D World. That same drought shouldn't be an issue for Nintendo in 2014, especially if Fakesch is telling the truth about when Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8 are due to arrive.
"At Christmas we now want to inspire with titles like Wii Party U, Wii Sports Club, Wii Fit U and all of course Super Mario 3D World," Fakesch said. "For next spring [we have] two more big license games also announced with Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros."
It's been hinted at before Mario Kart 8 would be coming in the spring, but this is the first we've heard anything about when to expect Super Smash Bros. Due out on the Wii U and the 3DS (and 2DS), Smash is easily one of the most anticipated titles of 2014 on all platforms, let alone Nintendo's. Hopefully we won't have to wait much longer to find out whether or not these release windows hold true.


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Several years ago, my father received a letter from his auto insurer saying he didn't get the highest discount due to his credit score. Until then, he had no interest in checking his credit. After all, he pays his bills on time and rarely has a need to borrow. Why bother?
He's not alone. Some 38% of consumers surveyed have not seen their credit scores recently in the past year, and 17% have never seen their scores at all. That's according to research by LexisNexis and Javelin Strategy and Research. The reason more than half (57%) of those age 25 and older gave for never reviewing their scores? They aren't interested in seeing them.
In other words, they just don't care.
If you're among those consumers, I can explain to you how strong credit scores can save you money, and point out that your credit reports may contain mistakes that are raising your interest rates and causing you to lose out on the best discounts on your auto or homeowner's insurance. I'll tell you that monitoring your credit scores can alert you to changes to your credit reports which, in turn, may help you catch identity theft faster if you become a victim.
Maybe you're not worried about any of that right now. That's fine.
But someday that may change. And if you wait until then, it may be too late.
Why Your Credit Score Matters
Let's say you find a house for sale and fall in love. In today's hot real estate market in much of the country today, you may need to get preapproved for a mortgage ASAP so that your offer will be considered seriously. What happens if you find a mistake that takes 30-60 days to clear up?
Or how about if you are a victim of a natural disaster and need access to credit to make repairs while you wait for your insurance company to write a check? Are you really going to want to deal with your credit report then?
You could lose your job and find that you need access to low-cost credit to start that small business you have always dreamed of owning. Starting a business is time-consuming enough without adding another item to your to-do list.
Perhaps you'll have to relocate to be closer to family or a new job, and you'll have to get a mortgage to finance your new home while you try to sell your current one.
Who knows?
The point is, life happens. And when something does come up that throws a wrench in your plans, will you really want to find yourself worrying about checking — and perhaps working on — your credit reports and scores?
Do yourself a favor and get your free credit reports and free credit score now, when you aren't pressed for time or under the gun to get approved for a loan.
By the way, in the same survey, 7% of consumers over the age of 25 who had never checked their credit scores said they didn't want to pay the associated fees. For them, the good news is they can get one for free every single month using Credit.com's Credit Report Card. That's one more excuse knocked off the list.
Have you not checked your credit reports or scores because you aren't interested in doing so? Or did you find something surprising when you did check your credit? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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There is a fine line in a productive summer garden where the harvest goes from plentiful to growing "out your ears." Of course, you can give extra produce away or donate it to a local soup kitchen, but another option is to freeze the abundant harvest. I grew up on a rural farm where food preservation was a way of life. From snapping green beans for canning to washing blackberries for freezing, we learned to help from a young age. Here are tips to help you get started with freezing produce at home.
Selecting Produce
Be sure fruits, vegetables and herbs are harvested at the right time (morning is best) and picked at the peak of ripeness. Freezing will not improve quality. Those to be frozen should be prepared as quickly as possible. In other words, waiting to see how much food is left at the end of the week and hurriedly deciding to throw it in the freezer is not the best way to go. Choose fruit and veggies without disease or insect damage. Rinse produce thoroughly, sort and dry. Pulling out a bag of tomatoes from the freezer only to find a tomato hornworm hitched a ride into the bag is a good way have an entire bag end up in the compost. Though freezing food may change the texture, most of the flavor and nutritive value will remain after thawing.
tough surfaces that sometimes form on frozen food. Prevent with moisture/vapor-proof containers and remove all air from packages.
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Freeze whole, rinsed berries in ice cube trays filled with water to add frozen festivity to cocktails, lemonades and iced teas.
Herbs for freezing:
• Clip fresh, young leaves in morning
• Clean the leaves
• Dry them
• Place in sealed plastic bags (remove the air) or airtight container Try these herbs: basil, borage, chives, dill, lemongrass, mint, oregano, sage, savory, sorrel, sweet woodruff, tarragon, thyme
Choosing the Right Container
Containers for freezing foods should be airtight, moisture/vapor resistant, capable of withstanding freezing and thawing, and should be able to be labeled. The particular container chosen depends on what is being frozen and what you plan to do with it after freezing. Containers could be glass canning jars (wide mouth is best), plastic bowls with lids or sealable, plastic freezer bags, which includes durable bags used with food preservation vacuum-sealing machines.
Gathering the Necessary Tools
• Washed, cleaned and dried freezable containers
• Freezer-compatible labeling markers and label tape
• Freezer paper (used in some circumstances)
• Clean and sanitized work space
• Hair net and gloves are advisable but clean hands are fine
• Colander
• Knives and cutting board; avoid iron and galvanized cooking utensils and equipment
• For vegetables, a deep pot for blanching and another container or sink basin for ice water bath
Preparation of the Fruit or Vegetable
1. Select fresh pods less than 3 inches in length.
2. Wash and trim pods, leaving cap whole.
3. Label and date freezer bags/containers.
4. Blanch okra in small batches for four minutes.
5. Prepare ice water bath in a large container or sink basin.
6. Emerge blanched okra into ice water for 5 minutes, until cooled.
7. Remove and drain okra.
8. Pack okra pods (whole or sliced) into clean, freezer bags, squeeze out air and seal.
9. Repeat using the same blanching water and ice water bath.
10. Freeze up to one year at 32 F or below.
11. Enjoy deep-fried or add to gumbos, vegetable soup, stir-fry, etc.
Prepare fruit as it will be used – peeled, chopped, pitted, etc. Food that will darken or degrade rapidly should be prepared in small batches so as it is prepared, it is put into containers and frozen. Four types of fruit packing are used: dry pack, sugar pack, syrup pack and unsweetened pack. Sugars and syrups are often used to improve texture and flavor after food is thawed, but is not essential. Berries can be frozen in a single layer on a tray, then transferred frozen to freezer bags. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can be added according to package directions to prevent fruit discoloration. Most vegetables (except onions and peppers) should be blanched (briefly heat treated by boiling or steaming) before freezing. Blanch and immediately follow with ice water cooling. Vegetable type and size determine blanching time.
Why Blanch Vegetables?
Improperly frozen grapes covered with ice crystals. Avoid by using quality freezer bags and freezing smaller batches at one time to ensure rapid freezing.
• Stops enzymatic reactions within produce
• Seals in flavor, color, nutrients, and preserves quality and texture
• Destroys bacteria and insects
• Removes dirt
Darren Scott, food scientist and sensory specialist at the Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center at Oklahoma State University, says the quality of frozen food depends on the treatment the food receives prior to freezing, how the food is frozen, and the post-freezing storage conditions. He further states that "freezing does not stop enzymatic action and will not kill bacteria." Mr. Scott adds that self-defrosting freezers that go through a warm-up phase each day may allow partial thawing of foods. This is important because some bacteria are capable of growth at temperatures just slightly above freezing, and he cautions "bacteria are capable of rapid growth."
A general rule of thumb for properly frozen food is that it will last six months to a year. Vacuum-sealed foods usually last longer depending on the food product.
Makes 5, 8-ounce jars
This recipe uses freezer jam pectin, which means the recipe uses less sugar
• 1½ cups granulated sugar
• 1 pouch (1.59 ounces) freezer jam pectin
• 2 cups crushed, hulled (cap removed) strawberries (or raspberries)
• 2 cups diced, peeled kiwi fruit (or mashed banana)
In a medium bowl, combine sugar and pectin, stirring until well blended. Add fruit. Stir for 3 minutes. Ladle into freezer jars, leaving ½ inch headspace. Apply lids tightly. Let stand at room temperature until thickened (about 30 minutes). Freeze up to one year (or enjoy immediately). Thaw before use.
A version of this article appeared in a July/August 2011 print edition of State-by-State Gardening.
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As students head home for the summer and temperatures continue to rise, university recreation centers often face lower attendance numbers, even though some students and faculty stick around for the summer trimester. So, as campus life slows, I wondered if some university rec centers were overcoming the summer slump and keeping their facilities thriving. A review of some news stories showed that some university rec centers are doing just that.
Students and locals are flocking to the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center at the University of Iowa in Iowa City this summer. Kim Jamriska, facility coordinator at the recreation center, told The Daily Iowan that the center has between 2,000 to 3,000 visits each day during the summer.
"Members like to come and workout when it's hot outside," she told the newspaper. "We especially see a lot of families and even camps that come to use the indoor facilities."
This kind of attendance isn't unheard of on the Iowa City campus. Attendance has increased at the center during the past year, and it remained relatively good last summer. The facility recorded 70,000 visits in May 2011 and roughly 79,000 in May 2012. Center administrators expect good attendance for the rest of the summer, considering June 2011 had more than 62,000 visits and July 2011 had more than 52,000 visits.
The University of Texas in El Paso credits its steady summer attendance to special deals for classes and practical rates for students taking the summer off. The staff encourages members to try out classes such as weight training and conditioning, and body sculpting for free during the first week in June.
"Our summer numbers continue to increase," Norma Saavedra, center fitness coordinator, told UTEP News. "I'm happy to see the popularity of this place. We work to instill the concept of a healthy lifestyle, and that is an ongoing effort."
Summer fitness program specials – $25 for the first class and $15 for additional programs – entice returning and new members to try something new. A High Ropes challenge course is also attracting visitors. The center booked 12 groups from on and off campus to use the challenge course during the first two weeks of June. More than a dozen UTEP students recently underwent intense safety training to be certified as managers of the course, which is outside the recreation center.
Kim Keeton-Pettit, the coordinator of the Outdoor Adventure Programs, supervised the ropes training sessions and is finalizing the schedule for outdoor trips that will start in September, including a backpack trip to the Gila National Forest and excursions to Carlsbad Caverns and the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in October.
Visits dropped from 100,000 in the busy months of January and February to 25,000 in the first summer month of May at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center at Ball State University, Muncie, IN. Students not enrolled for the summer semester who want to use the rec center must pay a $90 fee. Instead of doing so, many are using the older Ball Gymnasium, which is free.
"We know our traffic is going to be down a little bit, and we believe in this university and utilizing our resources efficiently," Adamowicz told Club Industry.
To keep the newer facility in use during the summer, recreation center focuses on other programs, such as day camps and swimming lessons, directed toward university employees and their families.
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Two goals from Adam Lallana and further efforts from Billy Sharp and Jos Hooiveld ensured the Saints cleared the final hurdle with ease, ultimately finishing only one point behind npower Championship champions Reading.
Asked to sum up his feelings amid a mass pitch invasion at the final whistle, Adkins said: "Pride, too right it's pride. A lot of people put a lot of hard work in, and for the players trying to get off the pitch now, being mobbed by our fantastic supporters, they deserve all the plaudits they get. Since I joined the football club, they've been tremendous."
He added: "Everybody at this football club has worked their socks off and deserve all the praise they get.
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Goalkeeper Kelvin Davies added on BBC1: "It's unreal.
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Grains closed the trading session slightly lower. November beans finished 4 ¾ cents lower at $17.27 ¾, December corn 4 cents lower at $8.34 ¾, and December wheat down 5 cents at $9.17.
The Pro Farmer crop tour still seems to be the main focus of the market. Yesterday's results revealed a slightly better pod count and corn yield estimate than expected in Indiana. We still have the rest of the week to get through so we will want to monitor any news coming out of the field for short term direction.
STATSCAN released their survey results this morning. The average analyst estimate was calling for 16.40 MMTs of canola production but instead came in at 15.41 MMTs. This triggered a strong rally in the canola futures as well as soybean oil. Canada's wheat production was estimated at 27.01 MMTs which is in line with market expectations.
The EIA Ethanol Production report showed another increase in production and an unchanged supply. This was not far off from expectations and didn't trigger a major market response. The FOMC Minutes caused a sharp decline in the US Dollar Index providing some underlying support to commodities in general. In their release they hinted to another round of quantitative easing (QE3) "soon" which is seen by many in the industry as inflationary.
Tomorrow morning we will have the Weekly Export Sales data at 7:30 am CST. The average guess for corn is 200,000 – 500,000 MTs, for beans 400,000 – 800,000 MTs, and for wheat 300,000 – 400,000 MTs. With the current USDA estimates for soybean production we obviously need to see a slowdown in export bookings to show demand rationing. Crush margins have been good and last week we saw another large sale number, which is partly why the price of November soybeans has rallied 93 ¼ cents in the past 7 days.
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Russia's Rospotrebnadzor consumer rights watchdog is checking American bourbon whiskey, in particular Kentucky Gentleman produced by Barton 1792 Distillery, on quality concerns, its press service reports on Monday.Russia focusing on products imported that contain poisons and pesticides and GMO's seems to be a good move and perhaps we should also take a look at how we spend our money. There are also other aspects to some products that are poisonous.
It said Kentucky Gentleman bourbon had not gone through state registration as to its compliance with regulations of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, although its label bears the EAC mark for products turnover in the market of the Customs Union member-states.
Rospotrebnadzor also said phthalates had been found in that bourbon whiskey "which may cause functional and later organic changes in the central and peripheral nervous system, endocrine system, as well as oncologic diseases and male and female infertility".
The Kentucky Gentleman brand and Barton Distillery are subsidiaries of The Sazerac Company, a jewish owned private company based out of Louisiana which is the largest distilling company in the United States.
Bill Goldring, Chairman of its Board of Directors, also leads the Goldring Family Foundation which contributes millions of dollars to various institutions including Birthright Israel which promotes zionism to the jewish youth of America.
The vision of Taglit-Birthright Israel is to strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish communities and solidarity with Israel by providing a 10-day trip to Israel for young Jewish people.Poison products or poison ideology. We can boycott both even if it does effect American workers which is a shame.
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Russia announced on Thursday that it was banning the import of a wide range of food and agricultural products from Europe and the United States, among others, responding to Western-imposed sanctions and raising the level of confrontation between the West and Moscow over the future of Ukraine.
Dmitri A. Medvedev, the prime minister, announced that Russia would ban all beef, pork, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway for one year.
Below is the list of banned products:
- cattle meat, fresh, chilled or frozen;
- pork, fresh, chilled or frozen;
- poultry and its subproducts, fresh, chilled or frozen;
- all salted, dried or smoked meats;
- fish, shellfish, scallops and other aquatic invertebrates;
- milk and dairy products;
- vegetables;
- fruits;
- nuts;
- sausage and similar meat products;
Here's a question. Why didn't Russia include Israel in its ban of these products?
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It's crazy that Vincent Kartheiser has never been nominated for an Emmy. He is the only major actor from the original Mad Men cast who hasn't been recognized, even as series boss Matthew Weiner continues to put Pete Campbell through the ringer both physically and emotionally. This season might be his angstiest yet. He has been dumped by Trudy after cheating with a neighbor, become emboldened enough to give Don shit ("You're Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine!"), gotten high at work, become saddled with a sick mom, and most recently, hit on by the mysterious Bob Benson. Kartheiser's achievement (outside of his famous bitch face)? We still feel bad for the guy! Vulture caught up with the actor, who is in Minneapolis rehearsing to play Mr. Darcy in a staged production of Pride and Prejudice, to talk about Bob's flirtation and his real fear when it comes to playing Pete. Taking a tumble down the stairs was nothing.
In Sunday's episode, Bob appeared to be making a pass at Pete. Were you surprised Pete played it cool?
I think it was very natural.
Yes. You found it unnatural?
I guess I expected Pete to snap, which he tends to do.
This is not something that he foresaw. It's not an ongoing issue. This is a moment that happened out of the blue, and if it's ever happened to you, and I don't know if it has, but if it's ever happened to you, if someone of the same sex that you didn't recognize had those feelings toward you, and then all of a sudden that happens, there's just a moment where it sets in.
Now, you also have to understand the reason he didn't explode is because Bob is bigger than him and stronger than him, and Pete last season got his ass kicked by someone who wasn't as big or as strong as Bob. Matthew's allowed his characters to learn. Okay, Pete can scream at his secretary. He can scream at his mom. But to scream at or attack someone like Bob, who has a lot to lose in this situation, may open Pete Campbell up to a broken jaw or a black eye.
That makes sense.
Also, Pete's not quite aware when it first happens that that's what it is. It's not like Bob tried to kiss him, so he's being subtle. He's being slight with it, you know, because he doesn't quite know that that's what it means.
It's a rare moment of restraint for him then. You do deliver a rant better than most.
Oh, I don't know whether to be honored or embarrassed.
Honored! Harry's also had his moments.
Yeah, I mean, Harry's really making a lot of big moves, and he's doing a great job in the television department, and yet, he continues to get passed over for promotion, right? He's got his reasons.
Pete's had a lot of legitimate reasons to be angry this season: Trudy threw him out, Don doesn't listen to him, his mom is sick. Do you do anything special to get worked up?
No. I have techniques that I use, but there's nothing particular I use to get worked up more than I would use to get any other emotion. I don't want to get technical because not only is it boring, it's also personal. But sometimes, if I've done many takes, and I still can't get it, I will naturally become aggravated with myself.
Tell me about filming the scene where Pete's shouting at Don after Don fires Jaguar. He calls him Tarzan.
[Laughs] I loved it. It is a great line, and I'm constantly getting great lines on the show. The whole challenge is to not ruin it from page to performance, to keep somehow the hilarity and the intensity that's on the page. That line in particular is funny because our A-camera operator is named Don Devine, and that line "vine to vine" became kind of our play on words for Don Devine. Now, every once in a while, someone will say, "You're Tarzan, swinging from Don Devine." Inside joke for you.
And Matt showed you how to fall?
That's true actually. I went and did a couple of takes, and then Matt came and said, "You know, it's this," and then I just did my best to do that.
Is fake falling down the stairs still a little scary?
Well, I mean, fear is not something that you really engage too much in while you're acting. The things that really scare me about acting have nothing to do with physical harm. It's more emotional harm to one's psyche. That five minutes before you walk onto a stage to do a performance that you haven't done before is a much more paralyzing fear, a fear to your core that is really indescribable and yet overcome-able. And so fear of physical harm … I embrace that. Falling down the stairs? I mean, I make an ass of myself much more as Vincent than Pete ever could on that set, so basically, I'll do something as Pete, and then [the cast and crew] will say, "Gosh, why can't you be more like that?"
They do not.
You'll have to interview some of them. They'll probably agree.
Well, Pete makes an ass of himself in wonderful, hilarious ways.
I'm not playing it for laughs.
Right, that's why it's funny. Pete's so serious. It makes his quiet moments, like when he's alone with an empty box of cereal in his apartment, that much more sad. They're more of a gut punch.
I actually had no idea that people thought it was funny. Sometimes I think Matthew does not intend these things to be funny, so if I am having that as the outcome, then I would consider that a failure on my part. I will say that Matthew would re-shoot if he thought that I had given the editors something that they couldn't manipulate into a performance worthy of what he's trying to express. I do have faith that, if people are finding it funny, and if Matthew finds it funny, then I guess that was what his goal was.
Do you watch your performances?
I'll watch parts. I'm always impressed with how they've managed to make my performance palatable because that really is quite a feat, and I'm very impressed by that team of people. I would say that has much less to do with me and much more to do with the team of professionals and technical people behind the scenes, the editors and the director and the post-production producing team. I enjoy watching the other actors that act across from me, and I learn a lot about my flaws and my mistakes by watching what I do, so I do watch sometimes, and it's always a humbling experience.


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|Splinter of the Mind's Eye
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Hardcover, Paperback
|Preceded by
Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
|Followed by
The Empire Strikes Back
Splinter of the Mind's Eye is the first Expanded Universe Star Wars novel, written by Alan Dean Foster and originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books. It is set between Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, approximately 2 ABY in-universe.
Stranded on a jungle planet, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia found themselves desperately racing Imperial Stormtroopers to claim a gem that had mysterious powers over the Force.
Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to Circarpous to enlist their Rebel underground in the battle against the Empire. But the farm boy from Tatooine hadn't counted on an unscheduled landing in the swamplands of Mimban…hadn't counted on any of the things they would find on that strange planet.
Hidden on this planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible. In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast.
Accompanied by Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio—his two faithful droids—Luke and the Princess set out for the Temple of Pomojema…and a confrontation deep beneath the surface of an alien world with the most fearsome villain in the galaxy!
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are traveling to Circarpous IV for a Rebel underground meeting in an attempt to take the Circarpousians into the Rebel Alliance. Leia's ship experiences problems; she is forced to land on Circarpous V, Mimban, a foggy, swampy planet. Luke follows. A strange colorful energy storm caused by energy mining forces their ships down in a crash landing.
Luke exits his X-wing and, with R2-D2, begins searching for Leia's Y-wing. He finds it; Leia is there as well as C-3PO. They all begin walking in search of a beacon that could possibly be a station that would allow them to get off the planet.
Instead, they find a mining town; Leia sees that the Empire has a secret energy mine here. They enter unnoticed, steal some mining clothes, change into them, and enter a bar. An Imperial suspects, so he investigates, and to cover up Luke and Leia's true identities, Luke claims that Leia is his servant girl. The Imperials no longer suspect. An old woman named Halla comes over and quietly talks to Luke and Leia; she identifies Luke as one who is strong with the Force. Then the old woman takes out a splinter of a glowing crystal that she identifies as the Kaiburr crystal, which to Luke seems to magnify and focus the Force to a Force-sensitive. She has but a shard of the crystal; she is in search of the whole thing. She strikes a deal with Luke and Leia that if they help Halla find the Kaiburr crystal, Halla will help Luke and Leia get off the planet. They all exit together.
Upon emerging, Leia admonishes Luke for slapping her in the restaurant and calling her his servant girl; Luke falls off the walkway and into the mud. He pulls Leia down with him. They begin playfully fighting as some miners emerge from the building. They claim that fighting in public is against Imperial law here, so they all get into a brawl.
Imperial stormtroopers bring everyone, except for Halla, C-3PO, and R2-D2, who all hid in the shadows, to the local jail. They are all questioned by Captain-Supervisor Grammel. The miners who confronted Luke and Leia are taken away while Grammel continues questioning with Luke and Leia. Grammel discovers and confiscates the crystal shard after having already confiscated Luke's weapons, most prominently his lightsaber. Luke and Leia are placed in the maximum security cell with two drunken, but friendly to Luke, Yuzzem named Hin and Kee, while Captain-Supervisor Grammel reports the incident and the crystal shard to the region's governor, Governor Essada.
Halla shows up in the jail cell's window. She, having claimed to be a master of the Force, uses the Force to lift up the food tray through the jail bars and over to the open/close mechanism so that the jail cell opens. The two large, hairy, and muscular Yuzzem go on a rampage killing Imperials while Luke and Leia make their way to the exit. The two Yuzzem catch up with Luke and Leia as they all exit the jail together; the Yuzzem give Luke and Leia their weapons.
The four make their way to a pre-specified meeting point. They find Halla there, who steals a vehicle. They all begin making their way to the place where Halla believes the Kaiburr crystal to be, the Temple of Pomojema. As they are driving through the swamplands with little pursuit due to Luke's quick thinking, they encounter a large, pale white worm with huge jaws. It begins chasing them; eventually they all must exist the vehicle. Luke and Leia split up with Halla, C-3PO, R2-D2, Hin, and Kee; Halla's group loses the wandrella creature, while Luke and Leia are still being chased.
Luke and Leia find a deep well into which they climb down vines and hide on a ledge. The wandrella finds them but falls down the well in an attempt to get to them. Its massive body takes the climbing vines that acted as ladders with it. Luke and Leia wait for some time until Halla's group finds them. There is no way back up, so Luke and Leia are told by Halla that there should be a passageway back up to the surface in the back of the ledge on which they are sitting. Halla's group leaves to make their way to the ground-level end of the passageway while Luke and Leia journey through it.
Luke and Leia encounter a lake, onto which they must float using a lily pad–like boat; they encounter another creature in the black waters of the underground lake, but Luke makes it go away with his father's lightsaber. They get to an abandoned underground city where they are stalked and attacked by some Coway guards/patrols. All but one Coway are dispatched; the one goes off and tells his Coway tribe about the visitors. Luke and Leia follow the single Coway to the tribe.
There, Luke and Leia see that Halla's group made it to the other side of the passageway and had already made their way into it to meet up with Luke and Leia, but here they have been tied up by the Coway. To save his friends, Luke must fight the Coway's champion fighter; Luke wins. The Coway then become friends and feast with Luke, Leia, Halla, Hin, and Kee. But Luke, in the Force, senses Darth Vader. Coway patrols race over to the tribe and confirm Luke's feeling: Imperials, led by Darth Vader and Captain-Supervisor Grammel, are attacking the underground cave.
The Coway tribe and the protagonists prepare for the attack. The Imperials arrive, but they are surprised by the Coway tribe's powerful response and the Imperials face a debacle. Darth Vader and Captain-Supervisor Grammel retreat with very few surviving stormtroopers. Darth Vader and Grammel leave in search of the Temple of Pomojema while Luke and company steal an Imperial transport left behind. They travel to the temple as well.
Upon arriving at the temple, Luke, Leia, Halla, Hin, and Kee exit to find the Kaiburr crystal and the fact that they have beaten Grammel and Vader to the temple. They encounter yet another creature with large jaws; they try to fight it off with ineffectual blasters. Luke tells Hin and Kee to go get some rifles. Luke finally decides that cutting down one of the pillars holding up the temple will crush the creature; it does. They all then make their way back to the Kaiburr crystal located in the back of the temple.
The two Yuzzem, Hin and Kee, never return. Luke wonders why, but then is crushed by rubble that fell from the cracking, ancient ceiling. Darth Vader then enters the Temple of Pomojema after having turned off the droids and killed Captain-Supervisor Grammel, Kee, and supposedly Hin. Leia takes up Luke's lightsaber and begins fighting Darth Vader, with little success; she is badly injured. Hin, badly injured, shows up and lifts the big rock off Luke's leg. Luke then fights Darth Vader, engaging Vader on a level which even surprises the Dark Lord. Here Vader conjures a ball of Force energy (possibly his own interpretation of Force lightning), which Luke manages to deflect. They continue to battle and Luke, his actions guided by the spirit of Obi-Wan and his power augmented by the Kaiburr crystal, strikes Vader's sword arm, severing it. Undaunted, Vader picks up his lightsaber with his remaining arm, and again pursues the exhausted Luke. Vader, also exhausted, is about to win, staggering as he approaches to make the killing blow, and he falls into a pit; Luke senses that this does not kill Vader. As the story ends, a healed Leia and Luke drive off with their droids and with Halla into the mists of Mimban, ready to take on further off-world adventure.
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Splinter of the Mind's Eye was the first-ever Expanded Universe novel to be written and published. According to an interview with its author, Alan Dean Foster, in Empire magazine, the novel had been written to be filmed as a low budget sequel as a fallback plan in case Star Wars hadn't been a huge success. This accounts for why the book takes place almost entirely on a fog-shrouded planet. Additionally, Harrison Ford was not signed for the sequel as of the writing of the book, which is why Han Solo does not appear in it. Although George Lucas is credited as the author of Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, the novelization of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was in fact written by Alan Dean Foster. Foster's early involvement in the Star Wars universe gave him the opportunity to write this book. Though Foster was granted a great amount of leniency in developing the story, one requirement was that a lot of props from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope could be reused when filming the new film. According to Foster, Lucas' only request upon inspecting the manuscript was the removal of a dogfight in space undertaken by Luke and Leia before they crash-landing on Mimban. Presumably, this sequence would have cost too much money to create.
At the time it was written, the familial relationship between Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader had yet to be revealed. Therefore, some inconsistencies are evident and unavoidable. Most noticeably the sexual tension depicted between Luke and Leia in this book, which in retrospect would be considered inappropriate in most countries. (Although Lucas claimed to have had the Star Wars saga mapped out even at this early stage, the fact that he allowed this plot element to remain in Foster's novel has been cited as evidence that he hadn't yet decided on the characters' true backstory.) However, Lucas has stated before, that this tension was on purpose, to show that the two had feelings for one another, but that they did not know exactly what type of feelings.
The Kaiburr Crystal was originally developed in the second version of Lucas's The Star Wars script. The script for Star Wars: A New Hope was a revised version of the fourth draft, which only contained a few dialogue contributions by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck.
In the novel, the beam generated by Darth Vader's lightsaber is described as blue, like Luke's, which may be due to the bland coloration of the lightsabers in the theatrical release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
In this novel, released in 1978, C-3PO mentions that Darth Vader knows "all the proper code words and commands" to shut him down. This eventually received a convenient explanation, as it was revealed in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (released in 1999) that Vader himself built 3PO as a young Anakin Skywalker. However, this also opens up an inconsistency, since C-3PO's mind was supposedly wiped by Bail Organa's people after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (released in 2005). Whether Lucas had developed any of these story elements at this early stage is not known.
R2-D2 is repeatedly referred to in the novel as a "detoo" rather than an "Artoo" unit. Such terminology was still fluid at this early stage. Later, the first two letters of a unit's name would be used to designate the model of unit.
When Luke duels Vader, the former's technique is markedly more accomplished than in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, even to the point of severing Vader's mechanical arm, and Leia too is able to defend herself against the dark lord. Skywalker tells Vader that "I am Obi-Wan" which could indicate that Luke's great victory against the far more powerful and experienced Vader was as a result of Obi-Wan's force-spirit flowing through the Luke's during the duel. This is also supported by Obi-Wan's claim in The Empire Strikes Back, that he "can no longer help [him]", which implies that he once had helped Luke in battle. Leia's ability to hold off Vader in battle without any Jedi training can be explained by the revelation in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi, that she was a Force user and potential Jedi.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye was adapted into a Dark Horse comic book limited series and graphic novel by Terry Austin and Chris Sprouse published in 1996.
This is a gallery of the different cover variations of Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
Full cover art
Classic paperback
Dutch - Gevangenen van de oerwoudplaneet
German - Die neuen Abenteuer des Luke Skywalker
German - re-release - Skywalkers Rückkehr
Polish (non-official) - Spotkanie na Mimban
Polish (official)
Russian Hardcover - Осколок Кристалла Власти
Spanish - El Ojo de la Mente
Hungarian - Erőpróba


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Thread: When Hybrids will be worth it.
When Hybrids will be worth it.
As I see it, if you are willing to drive a compact vehicle with marginal performance, you can find that now without the premium price of a Hybrid.
If you require room and more performance, going from a vehicle that gets 18 mpg to one that gets 36 mpg, and still meets your needs (like the FEH). makes sense.
I expect payback within 5 years, and relatively low depreciation if I decide to sell it before that time.
If you are going from a vehicle that can achieve 40 mpg to one that may achieve 50 mpg - the payback may never come - especially if you pay over MSRP.
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When Hybrids will be worth it.
Keeping track of oil and oil prices has been a hobby of mine for a while. I have always been environmentally conscious and have always bought cars (since 1986) based at least partly on fuel economy.
Remember: it is cheaper to save energy, (i.e., through efficiency) than to buy it! That's why I ordered a Prius last August (and was told it will arrive in a few weeks).
Regarding the comment earlier about cheap oil....there are some good articles in Scientific American (1996, 1998?) and in National Geographic (2004?) regarding when world oil production will peak. Many experts predict between 2004 and 2010!!! What that means is: all the "easy" oil will have been pumped out of the ground, and it will get progressively more expensive to get the rest out of the ground. I believe only Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan and United Arab Emirates have oil wells that have yet to peak in production. (Makes you think twice about why we started the Iraq war.)
The method used to estimate this peak in production was the same one that a Shell geologist used in 1956 to predict that peak US production of oil would happen in 1969. It actually happend in 1970, and has been declining ever since. So, order your highest mileage cars now and tell your friends, things will get very expensive within our lifetimes. Especially when you consider that China, India and Africa all want their share of upward mobility just like we did.
And, if we invade Iran, like some reports are now showing coming out of the Pentagon (see recent articles by Seymour Hirsch, the guy to "outed" the Abu Garaib scandel), we will also have, in addition to high oil prices, even more terrorism to worry about due to our recent stupid foreign policy.
Saving energy is always cheaper.....
When Hybrids will be worth it.
sometimes you can spot in the background of movies a gas price sign. it's interesting to see that just 5 years ago we were paying near $1 a gallon and today it's $2 a gallon. i wish i knew where there was a running factual record of our gas prices. the drop in the US dollar value is a component of the increase we've been seeing, along with the increase in demand from contries like china & india who are *growing up* in a sense ~ adding cars to suplement carrying material on horse-ox-elephant.
wait till they discover air conditioning!
expect gas prices to rise faster then your paycheck!
see ya
When Hybrids will be worth it.
$1.45 in Atlanta last week. $1.60+ now.
When Hybrids will be worth it.
It sounds to me like they are worth it now...
Gas prices spiraling out of control; how many old peat bogs and decomposed dinosaur flora beds can really be left to tap for oil usage? It sounds like denial to me and I do not mean a river in Africa.
With all the writing on the wall, how does a Dodge Magnum make any sort of sense? It sounds like time misspent. Focus on alternative energy sources is necessary now. That way, they are no longer ALTERNATIVE. The sooner that is addressed, the more viable (economically and performance-wise) these automobiles will become. One must walk before they can run and the sooner one learns, the better we are for it.
By the way, I remember theold Datsuns and VWs. They could not get out of their own way for certain! But now they are quick, econmoical and fun to drive. I recall my dad's old VW bug and my mom's VW station wagon. POKEY! I own a '96 Jetta with 140k, and it is a quick responsive, fun to drive machine. It's funny waht 25 years worth of focus becomes...
When Hybrids will be worth it.
Worth it? Now? No. Cool? Hell yeah. I'm still waiting for a hybrid compact car under $15 000.
Toyota Echo Hatchback Hybrid anyone?
I hate the current trend. I will NEVER buy a SUV or a truck, hybrid or not.
When Hybrids will be worth it.
And I will never put my family in an econobox that is not as safe nor as comfortable as my Escape. If you are willing to compromise that much, why not ride your bike?
When Hybrids will be worth it.
"And I will never put my family in an econobox that is not as safe nor as comfortable as my Escape. If you are willing to compromise that much, why not ride your bike?"
Safe? What are you talking about? Echos are pretty safe : http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/n...x.cfm/id/38249
Have you ever been into an Echo? Their very comfortable. And, they only cost a fraction of your big Ford Escape.
Drive my bike? Sure, I do it all the time when it's an option. Don't you?
My opinion is that most people don't need a big expensive truck or suv. Maybe you don't, maybe you do and that's fine. They want cars that are bigger and more powerfull. For what? The speed limit is the same for everyone. I don't get it. I sure don't need all those horsepowers and very few do...
When Hybrids will be worth it.
The final thing after gas prices that made me get on the list to buy an escape hybrid, was this pass Summer Hurricane Season. It brought to light the days of gas shortages and long lines. Four hurricanes, no elec. (no pumping), high prices, 6 hour waits to get 10 gal of fuel for your car and generator! Try this for a month and you will be glad you had a fuel misser. Natual disasters, war, teriorrist bombs and other accidents are reasons to be prepared. You just may need to pack up some important things like your family, cooler, food, clothes, maybe a dog or cat etc. and leave for awhile. Now, do you want to do it in an Escape or Honda? What about driving through flooded roads? The smaller cars don't fare so good!
Do you know how hard it was just to get a generator then? Wake up people, there are so many reasons to buy this SUV Hybrid now it isn't funny. I jumped at the chance to get one. Pay now or pay more later!
When Hybrids will be worth it.
Hybrids are worth it now. It's just that no cost is associated with the removal of vehicular CO2 emmissions from the atmosphere.
If these costs were included the sums would be vastly in favour of hybrids.
Eventually the "penny will drop". For example, In Australia a week or so ago, we had 38 deg C in Perth, Western Australia while it was snowing in Victoria. Unheard of in recorded heistory in an Australian summer.


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