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Though the economic recovery remains fragile, there is good news for South Carolina, according to economists at the 31st Annual Economic Outlook Conference sponsored by the Darla Moore School of Business. The conference has grown over the years into the state's premier gathering of economists, policy makers, bankers, investors, business executives and community leaders. John Silvia, Ph.D., a managing director and chief economist for Wells Fargo, was this year's keynote speaker.
Silvia directed his comments at business leaders who want to make good decisions. "There are five benchmarks for good decision-making," he said. "Inflation, profits, growth, investments and the dollar. Bad decisions come from not taking all of these factors into consideration."
He reported that the economy remains fragile because of continued below-characteristic economic growth. "There is no double-dip, but we didn't have the kind of economic recovery we are familiar with," he said. He believes that this period in history will be called the Great Recession.
With the U.S. economy growing at only two percent, he reported that small businesses continue to struggle while businesses with a global reach are participating in the recovery, some at rates that are their highest since 1982.
Silvia forecasts that the U.S. economy will grow at a two-to-three percent rate in the coming year, and sees the country's exposure to a European recession as minimal. He recommended that individual investors fully investigate how much exposure they have before investing in European banks. For instance, French banks are 20-30 percent tied to Italy, while Portugal holds a massive quantity of Greek debt.
When asked if the Federal Reserve's policies were like lending yourself money, he replied, "No, it's like loaning money to your brother who has never paid you back."
Moore School researcher Joseph Von Nessen, Ph.D., looked at prospects for South Carolina in the coming years. Using a "naïve forecast," which is a prediction of the future based on past performance without any adjustments, Von Nessen said that with a growth rate of one percent it would take us until 2018 to get back to pre-recession levels. Using the current growth rate of two percent, we can expect to achieve pre-recession levels in 2014-2015. If the growth rate increases to three percent, our economy will go back to pre-recession levels in late 2013-2014. While these numbers are troubling, perhaps they should best be viewed in terms of how much we have lost in this recession.
He reported that S.C. is doing better than the nation in new housing starts, and that first-time and move-up house prices are stabilizing. He anticipates continued growth in 2012, and expects the strongest job growth in manufacturing, professional services and health care.
Douglas P. Woodward, Ph.D., director of the Division of Research and professor of economics at the Moore School, told the audience that though we should worry because of the weak global economy and the possibility of financial contagion, there is much for South Carolinians to be happy about. The state's economy is healing, some sectors are even robust, and there are hot areas that are the envy of other states.
Woodward announced that a new report out from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that South Carolina and Michigan are leading in the U.S. in leading indicators right now. Woodward also reported that the United States is ranked fourth in the world for providing the best environment to start a business, and that South Carolina is ranked fourth in the U.S. as a great place to do business. "We're the fourth best state in the fourth best country," he said. "We're doing extremely well."
Woodward said that the U.S. productivity, measured in output per worker, is what determines long-term competitiveness, and is holding up very well. "We have a highly productive economy," he said. "Better than Europe and to some extent, better than some parts of Asia."
The coastal areas, the Midlands and the Upstate are outperforming the nation in job growth. Additionally, Charleston had the largest increase in its share of adults with college degrees—a favorable statistic not only because this group has the highest level of employment, but also because they are the least likely to use social services.
S.C. Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt gave a vision for the future of South Carolina that builds on the state's past. "Manufacturing is taking hold again in South Carolina," Hitt said. "The state has a great tradition." However, for 13 years the state saw a decline in manufacturing jobs because of losses in the textile industry.
"What we need to remember is that we don't lose industries unless the life cycle of the industry changes and the industry goes away. That is critical to how we need to think about ourselves and our state," he continued. "In 2010, we had the first growth in manufacturing payrolls in 13 years. We hit bottom and we're on the way up. Manufacturing is what we're good at."
Hitt reported that South Carolina is leading the Southeast in manufacturing job growth. "While 17 percent of the state's output is in manufacturing, only 10 percent of our workforce works in manufacturing," he said. "It needs to be higher."
Hitt named the 85 businesses that announced that they were coming to S.C. this year, for a total investment of $3.9 billion in new manufacturing.
"Manufacturing is wealth creation," he said. "We've got BMW as one bookend in the upstate, Boeing as one bookend on the coast, and we're going to fill the middle of the state with tires—Bridgestone, Michelin and Continental.
"Within a few years, South Carolina will be the largest tire producing state in the U.S. by a large margin. We are a big player in the tire market, and we need academic development in logistics. We're going to be shipping tires around the world," he said. "I'm tired of hearing about [other universities'] logistics programs. Our research universities need to invest in logistics. We may be able to have endowed chairs."
"We have great in-migration into the state of people looking for jobs," he said. "If our state's people were trained for the open positions we have here, we'd have no unemployment."
Moore School Dean Hildy Teegen announced the launch of SCDASH.com, a new economic informational resource that is free to all. Teegen said, "We wanted to provide a public service to further economic development and to give decision makers the information they need."
SC Dash is a clearinghouse for economic data about South Carolina. It was created by the Moore School, with help from Cyberwoven and IT-ology. Users can create custom searches to find and compare South Carolina statistical data within a variety of categories, geographical areas and from a multitude of sources.
"It's a one-stop shop for all S.C. data, coming from a wide range of data sources, both federal and state," she said. Data is the most current and reliable available. "We welcome data that you have and want to contribute, and welcome links from your websites."
From the SCDash.com website there is also a blog on S.C. trends. Contributions and comments are welcome. To find out more, visit www.scdash.com.
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Princeton gets grant to study self-government crises
Posted August 9, 2000; 09:31 a.m.
Princeton's Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination has received a $308,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop strategies to prevent and manage crises of self-government -- strategies which may help avoid the bloodshed that has marked such places as Kosovo and Kashmir.
Program director Wolfgang Danspeckgruber is heading the project, which will analyze strategies to prevent conflicts of self-determination from turning violent as well as responses and management techniques if violence does occur. The two-year, interdisciplinary project will focus on Africa, the Balkans and the Far East, and on international mandates, Danspeckgruber said.
In addition to Danspeckgruber, the investigators are Michael Doyle, director of the Center of International Studies and professor of politics and international affairs; Jeffrey Herbst, chairman of the politics department and professor of politics and public affairs; and Gilbert Rozman, professor of sociology.
The four researchers intend to produce a book at the end of their study. Results also will be discussed at meetings with regional experts and representatives both in the United States and abroad.
"We intend to undertake in-depth theoretical analysis of the causes of self-determination as well as the development of potential mechanisms for their resolution," Danspeckgruber said.
The Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination supports and advances work in the field of self-determination and self-administration. It was established in 1994 with the support of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein.
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2. a b c W. R. Taylor (1962). Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-04904-6.
3. S. Hiscock (1979). "A field key to the British brown seaweeds (Heterokontophyta)". Field Studies 5: 1–44.
4. H. Stegenga, J. J. Bolton & R. J. Anderson (1997). Seaweeds of the South African West Coast. Bolus Herbarium Humber 18, University of Cape Town. ISBN 0-7992-1793-X.
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Students to hit the jackpot with fundraiser
The College-in–the-Woods dining hall at Binghamton University will be transformed into a casino beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, complete with roulette, black jack and chance wheels with all proceeds going to a good cause. The event is open to the public.
Known as Casino-in-the-Woods, the annual event is hosted by the College-in-the-Woods area government. Each year Casino-in-the-Woods benefits a different local organization. This year's proceeds will go to the Animal Care Council and organizers are hoping to raise $1,600.
A cover charge of $2 includes refreshments and music. Participants will then be able to win real money by purchasing chips to play games of chance.
For more information, contact Richard Schofield, resident director, at 777-3664.


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Population: 21,324,791 (July 2009 est)
GDP per capita (PPP): $4,300 (2008 est)
Total expenditure on health per capita: $213 (Intl $, 2006)
Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, south of India.
Implementing Partner In-Country: Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka (Prof. Mahen Wijesuriya and colleagues)
Website: www.diabetessrilanka.org [2]
International supporter: Rotary Club of Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia
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In 1998, the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka established an Insulin Bank. The Insulin Bank provides support for children with diabetes in poor families. Financial and social constraints had previously prevented ideal care for most of these children, as the free health system in the country was unable to supply the best quality insulin and the support needed for monitoring, control, and regular assessment of complications.
Funds from the Bank provide the best quality insulin, regular complications assessments, and medical, nutritional and psychological support free of charge to any child with diabetes in the country. The Bank has been very successful; however it is not able to cater for all needy children. We therefore commenced assisting the Bank in 2004, and we now support 60 children.


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University of South Carolina Lancaster
The University of South Carolina Lancaster received a grant from the Duke Energy Foundation for $7,500 to upgrade, replace and augment its chemistry lab equipment.
The grant will be used to add equipment such as top-loading balances, analytical balances, melting pot apparatuses and other equipment to the chemistry department.
This will allow students to conduct more efficient lab exercises, thus making them more comfortable and competent with the equipment.
Department of Social Services
The Lancaster County Department of Social Services, in partnership with the S.C. Department of Social Services, will be issuing free coupons for fresh produce to low-income individuals age 60 and older.
The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program coupons may be used to buy fresh produce from local participating farmers markets.
Each eligible person will receive $25 worth of coupons to use at participating markets through Oct. 15.
Terrance Antonio 'Tonio' Jones, 36
Terrance Antonio "Tonio" Jones, 36, died Sunday, May 29, 2011.
He was the son of the late Rosa Lee Jones and Robert Sanders Jr.
One man was killed around 4 a.m. Sunday on Pardue Street. The victim has not been named, pending family notification, however the suspect has been identified as Quanell Marquan McIlwain. Authorities are searching for the suspect. The Lancaster Police Department asks if the public has any information on his whereabouts to call 911. Check back to www.thelancasternews.com for more details.
There are still no leads in a string of recent car break-ins in Indian Land.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies are searching for whoever broke into at least a dozen vehicles throughout several Indian Land neighborhoods May 19-20 and then again May 26.
Sgt. Eric Brown, a crime prevention officer with the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, has sent several e-mail crime alerts during the past week about the break-ins to residents in the northern part of the county.
A Lancaster man was arrested recently after leading police on a car chase along U.S. 521.
The chase began shortly after Lancaster police officers, who were patrolling the intersection of Woodland and Roddey drives at 10:58 a.m. May 11, noticed a man drive by whom they had a warrant on, according to a police department incident report.
The driver, later identified as Charles Henry Davis, 43, 2543 Great Falls Highway, was driving under suspension and made an improper turn, so officers tried to pull him over, the report said.
The economy will continue to improve in the coming year – slowly.
That was the message from national economist Steve Rick during the 2011 Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce's Economic Forum on Thursday morning at the University of South Carolina Lancaster's Bradley Building.
The event, sponsored by Founders Federal Credit Union, drew about 100 local business men and women.
Reece Murphy
When it comes to graduations, none represent determination and overcoming the odds quite like a commencement ceremony for adult education graduates.
Every graduate has a story
Take 45-year-old Paula Ivey of Buford and her 22-year-old daughter, Brittany Dabbs, for example. Both graduated Wednesday night with their GEDs from the Lancaster County School District adult education program.
The Lancaster County Forfeited Land Commission has extended the deadline for a Charlotte-based real estate developer to present a viable purchase contract for Edenmoor.
The Forfeited Land Com-mission (FLC) had set a May 17 deadline for a purchase contract from the developer, Eden Ventures.
FLC Chairman John Lane said the company met the deadline, but commissioners granted the extension in light of a new Eden Ventures proposition that would speed up the purchase process.
March of Dimes
Bruce Brumfield, CEO of Founders Federal Credit Union, will serve as chairman for the 2011 Piedmont South Carolina March for Babies, which includes the Lancaster, Chester, Cheraw, Chesterfield and Kershaw areas.
He is committed to helping reach the event goal of $40,000 to support March of Dimes' research and community programs to help moms have full-term pregnancies and babies to begin healthy lives.
The local March for Babies will be Oct. 22 at Lancaster High School.
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text: If you head along I-70 through Wyandotte County in Kansas, you've no doubt seen signs for the National Agricultural Hall of Fame. It's been there for more than 50 years thanks to a federal charter by an act of the 86th Congress and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 31, 1960. Chances are good that you may never have stopped inside. In fact, attendance in recent years has been so poor that the attraction, which celebrates agriculture and the American farmer, was almost shuttered three years ago. Now a new board of directors is breathing new life into the museum about two miles west of the Kansas Speedway in Bonner Springs. Producer Justin Bond takes us on a tour.


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Vodalian Soldiers
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"Vodalian rank is displayed by the colors and patterns of their skin. Beware the color red; that is the badge of the empress's favor."
—Corbio, pearl diver
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Classic Sixth Edition — Common
Creature — Merfolk Soldier
"Vodalian rank is displayed by the colors and patterns of their skin. Beware the color red; that is the badge of the empress's favor."
—Corbio, pearl diver
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Creature — Illusion (0/1)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Phantasmal Sphere, then sacrifice Phantasmal Sphere unless you pay for each +1/+1 counter on it.
When Phantasmal Sphere leaves the battlefield, target opponent puts an X/X blue Orb creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Phantasmal Sphere.
Creature — Human Wizard (1/1)
, Sacrifice two lands: Draw three cards, then discard one of them.
Creature — Bird (1/2)
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Creature — Homarid Drone (1/2)
, Sacrifice a creature and a Swamp: Destroy target nonartifact creature. It can't be regenerated.
, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Creature — Human Artificer (1/2)
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Creature — Volver (1/1)
Kicker and/or (You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)
If Cetavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with first strike.
If Cetavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with trample.
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (1/1)
: Target instant or sorcery spell becomes the color of your choice.
Creature — Merfolk (1/1)
When Whirlpool Rider enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
Creature — Fish (4/1)
Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân.
Creature — Turtle (1/1)
Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.
Creature — Human (1/1)
: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.
Creature — Human Wizard (1/1)
Sacrifice Alchemist's Apprentice: Draw a card.
Creature — Merfolk Scout Ally (2/1)
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature — Moonfolk Wizard (1/2)
, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Tap target land.
Creature — Spirit (0/3)
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
Creature — Human Wizard (1/2)
, : Target creature with power X or less can't be blocked this turn.
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (2/1)
Inspired — Whenever Deepwater Hypnotist becomes untapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Enchantment Creature — Spirit (1/1)
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Flitterstep Eidolon can't be blocked.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked.
Creature — Human Wizard (1/3)
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Meletis Astronomer, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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I visited a KB Toy Works in Batavia NY today, and to my surprise I found a whole bunch of Episode I die cast ships on trilingual cards for a clearance price of $3.99. The original price was supposedly $12.99 according to the sticker. I assume that is a Canadian price. Expensive nevertheless.
They only had the four initial ships to sel (the Gian Speeder, Trade Fed Battleship, the Royal Starship and the Droid Federation Starfighter). Don't know if this is a local thing or not.


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Giorgio Petrosyan Gets First KO in 3 Years Against Ole Laursen (Video)
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Today in Trieste, Italy, kickboxing's best fighter Giorgio Petrosyan was back in action for the first time since winning the GLORY 3 Rome 70kg eight man tournament on November 3.
Petrosyan fought Ole Laursen, and what looked like a mismatch on paper was exactly that. Petrosyan was on another level from the opening bell before quickly dropping Laursen with a knee to the liver and then knocking him out with a clean high kick. This was Petrosyan's first real stoppage win since January of 2010 (Not counting the knee injury TKO of Ky Hollenbeck) when he stopped Mohamed Diaby.
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Of course, if you don't win but plan on coming down to the festival regardless, Orville will have a booth set up in David Pecaut Square throughout the entire Festival. Come down, try some popcorn and say hi. They'd love to meet you.
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"You'll like it better or my name isn't Orville Redenbacher." That's the promise Orville made more than 40 years ago—and the same promise the brand stands by today. Popcorn hadn't changed much in five-thousand years until Redenbacher and his business partner Charlie Bowman came along. They spent decades breeding more than 30 thousand hybrids to find that perfect pop.
Originally named Red-Bow, their new breed of popping corn was sold out the back of a station wagon to stores across Indiana until they decided to consult with a marketing firm based in Chicago. "They came up with the same name my mother did for free," laughed Orville Redenbacher years later.
Orville Redenbacher was born on a farm in Indiana in 1907. His love of popcorn started early as he raised and sold popcorn in the 1920's while he was in grade school. After studying agriculture at Purdue University in the 1930s and teaching high school, he devoted himself to making the perfect popcorn.
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29/65 made it thru
Rotation for the amateur: 46,15,30,63
Alright Marisa way to go kiddo. Diva got called back for third series in derby. See if we can actually hold our own on the land proud of you and Dolly. You young lady are a very skilled handler.
OPEN winner: FC/AFC Flyway's Ruby B. Gonia, owner-handler Don Graves. Ruby also got the RJ in the Amateur.
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II. What form of Closer Union do you favour—Federation or Unification; and for what reasons?
Firstly: Because all history teaches that in small States there tends, other things equal, to be more personal freedom, more individuality, and a higher social vitality than in large. I believe a body of small, highly organised social units self-governing, but uniting together for the furtherance of certain great common aims, to be the highest form of social organisation yet evolved by page: 9 humanity, and that which, probably, will ultimately prevail throughout the world, at least for a time.
Secondly: Because a vast territory, highly diversified in its physical features, in the nature of its populations, and the history and traditions of their past, does not lend itself healthily to centralised government.
Thirdly: Because a huge territory like South Africa, divided into a number of strongly organised and individualised though confederate States, will present a far greater obstacle to the undue dominance of any interest, class, or individual than the same territory under a unified and centralised government. The special danger of centralised democratic States is always the tendency to fall a prey to the tyranny of sections, of large interests, or of strong individuals. The walls of each self-governing State are so many barricades, each one of which must be broken down before any oppressive over-domination can absolutely succeed; and, behind any one of which a successful resistance may take place when others have fallen. In short, it makes for freedom. I think even the short history of South Africa in the past throws light on this.page: 10
Fourthly: Because I hold that our continued division into States will tend to produce a finer type of citizen. I believe that were there two large territories, both situated exactly as South Africa is to-day, and that one adopted a completely unified form of government, while the other formed a confederacy of largely autonomous States, that at the end of fifty, and, yet more, of one hundred years, the last would be found not merely to possess a more self-governing people imbued with a more strongly civic spirit, but that the general intellectual vigour and initiative would be found higher; that it would be found to have produced a larger number of remarkable men and women, even in the non-political realms of art, literature, and science. If in the fifteenth century it had been possible to break down permanently the walls of the European States and weld them into one State, with one form of laws, one Government, and one set of institutions, I believe the progress of the human race would have been stayed. The wonderful rate of evolution among the peoples of Europe during the last six hundred years has largely depended on their being divided into a num- number page: 11 ber of comparatively small States; enabled to enrich each other with the results of their always-varying experiments in government, in education and in arts, and to stimulate each other by the impinging of unlike upon unlike. Had it been possible to unify and govern from one centre the entire body of Europe, I believe her peoples would to-day be almost as moribund as those of China. We, at the extremity of a continent, alone in these Southern Seas, far removed from other nations, will be particularly liable, with a centralised and uniform form of government, to sink into a torpid and retrogressive State; it is essential our component parts should retain enough individuality and distinctness to impinge upon and stimulate each other, if our life is to be adequately fertilised.
Men, like sheep, soon lose their individuality when congregated in too large masses under uniform conditions. It is hard to catch six sheep scattered about on a large plain; but three thousand massed in one uniform flock can be driven by one boy to the shambles.
Fifthly: I am in favour of Federation in opposition to Unification because it is in the page: 12 order of growth. The nation, if it desires, can at any time easily pass from a moderate form of confederacy to a closer, or on to absolute unification: but it will be impossible for it, without dislocation of the entire social structure, to pass back from Unification to Federation.
A great Frenchman, perhaps the most noted genius who in modern times has given his thought to the study of State growths, expressed the view in the early days of the North American Republic, that the centrifugal forces would probably ultimately prove too strong, and the several States sever themselves from the centre. Time has proved that even he was wrong; and it would seem likely that wherever confederate States are geographically united, once the federation formed, the danger to be feared is rather the continual growth of the central power. Switzerland and other countries illustrate this.
It is quite possible that in one hundred or even fifty years we shall form one centralised State; but that is a wholly different matter from starting with one.
Finally: I am in favour of Federation, page: 13 because I believe a moderate form of Federation is healthily possible in South Africa to-day; and Unification is not. Even if it be possible for any body of persons hurriedly to force it through, the revolution which would be caused in our entire social structure, the rights, possessions, privileges which would be interfered with, must ultimately, as the people fully grasped its meaning, cause social disaster, and a confusion which would be inextricable.


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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Have the AT-ST Crew and Ewok Scouts been confirmed? I was just at a Kmart and didn't see them, though they did restock with another case of the lost line wave (which I got there about a month ago).
Also, has anyone seen the MTT anywhere but Walmart? I've only seen it at a few Walmarts and nowhere else. (It's pretty sweet, BTW.)
My brother picked up 2 atst packs and one ewok pack this morning. I guess he got there as they were opening up the cases, so he had first pick of what he wanted.
I just got the Ewok and AT-ST Crew packs - one Kmart had them, and another did not.


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Litigation, especially in the corporate field, has always been a costly activity. It is risk-riddled and pursuing claims for millions of pounds is a timely endeavour. In some cases, it can take several years to reach a verdict; that's a long time to cover all the legal fees when there is the chance the case can flop.
Given present day economy, it is no surprise to hear that many businesses are sidestepping going to court, even when they have a strong case. The prospect is expensive and many in-house counsels choose not to risk tying up the cash flow.
Third party litigation funding was once an illegal, mistrusted practice but nowadays, more and more businesses are turning to independent funders to help with the costs of litigation. FTSE 100 companies and global businesses are consulting third party funding firms, like Vannin Capital, to fund their cases and spread the risks.
It has now become a respectable method of funding legal costs and achieving justice. As with most things in life, money unfortunately is at the heart of litigation and it always will be. It costs money to take a case to court and pay all the legal fees; and sadly money doesn't grow on trees.
However, a judicial review by Lord Justice Jackson has led to the recent reforms of legal costs, with the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO). The new law will hopefully give clients clarity on funding costs, give funding providers clear guidelines to follow, and encourage good practice within the industry.
As part of the reforms, cost budgeting at the start and during a trial has become compulsory, and After-the-Event Insurance (ATI) remains vital. Damage-Based Agreements (DBAs) have replaced Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) and will very much be a 'wait and see' component.
What else has changed? The industry has become self-regulated. The Association of Litigation Funders of England and Wales (ALF) was set up in 2011 and all members are fully vetted. They must follow a strict code of practice which ensures that they do not run out of money half way through a trial, or unduly interfere in the running of a case.
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Want to get into B-school? Go for the easy A.
Business-school applicants with a high undergraduate grade-point average—even those who attended schools identified as practicing grade inflation—are more likely to be admitted than those who performed slightly less well amid tougher grading standards.
"Experts take high performance as evidence of high ability" but don't consider how easy it is to achieve that performance, wrote researchers from University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, polling firm CivicScience Inc. and Harvard Business School. The research was published last week in the journal PLOS ONE.
In other words, an applicant with a 3.6 GPA might wow the admissions office, even if the average student in that person's graduating class finished with a 3.7. The applicant who managed a 3.4 in a class whose average hovered closer to 3.2, however, might not make the cut.
In one experiment, 23 admissions officers evaluated nine fictional business-school applicants from schools identified as being of similar quality but with different grading standards. Even after acknowledging that other students worked harder to earn their high marks, the reviewers still admitted students with inflated grades at a higher rate.
Admissions officers do this despite claiming that their years of experience reviewing applications given them a good sense of which schools tend to churn out A students and which actually give average students a middle C.
Another study considered more than 30,000 recent applicants to elite business schools, and again found that those from more lenient undergraduate institutions—determined by measuring average GPAs at those schools—had a better shot at acceptance than did those who attended more rigorous schools.
Such assumptions about talent, known as fundamental attribution error or correspondence bias, are present in the corporate world as well.
In a related experiment, researchers asked 129 business executives to evaluate 12 fictional candidates for promotion to a senior management position at an airline, based on the on-time flight performance at airports under their command. Those who boasted high on-time rates were ranked as stronger candidates, even if their airports already had efficient schedules before they took over; those who improved the on-time numbers at airports with historically lower rates weren't rewarded for their hard work.
Sam Swift, a postdoctoral fellow at Haas and the lead researcher, says the solution is to bar decision makers from ever seeing the raw scores and only present to them relative performance data. For example, they shouldn't necessarily be privy to the fact that a candidate earned a 3.6 GPA (seemingly a strong showing)—only that the candidate was in the 60th percentile of a graduating class (not so strong after all).
But Mr. Swift isn't optimistic that schools will change any time soon, because no single institution wants to be the first to clamp down on grade inflation, given concerns about how it could hurt students in the job market or graduate-school admissions.
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WANDA CORN: Flower Abstraction by O'Keeffe was painted in the early 1920s when she was living in New York.
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WANDA CORN: We're looking deep into a flower. So deep that it's very hard to find forms that you can identify as a stamen, for instance, or a petal.
She had a wonderful phrase later on. She would talk about making something that was far away nearby. And I always thought that that phrase, the far away nearby, even works for these early paintings, where something small like a flower becomes large and embracing in an abstraction that's 48 inches high.
When O'Keeffe came to New York to be with Alfred Stieglitz, she entered into the circle around him which was filled with photographers such as Paul Strand and Stieglitz himself. And she was very much taken with what the photographers were doing at that point, experimenting with close ups, experimenting with different more abstract ways of framing their subjects.I think it's fair to say that she borrowed some of the camera thinking from her colleagues at that point. So that she gave herself permission to do what the photographers were doing, which is to move uncannily close to something like the flower in this painting and cutting out, if you will, the contours of the flower so that we move right inside it.


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A concert featuring performers from New York City and Princeton is planned for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The program includes performances of various instrumental and choral pieces as well as an experimental investigation into the relationship between written text and music. Performers will include: Jim Allington, percussion; Arash Amini, cello; Martha Elliott, soprano; Brooke Joyce, vibraphone; Tom Kolor, speakers; Brian Krinke violin; Margaret Lancaster, flute; Beth Meyers, viola; Tae Hong Park, electic bass and electronics; Adam Sliwinski, speaker; Evan Spritzer, clarinet; Dan Trueman, electric violin; Danny Tunick, percussion; and Jenny Undercofler, piano.
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I always wondered if palpatine was a Jedi...
If he was, then how come none of the Jedi Council recognize him or even felt that he was strong with the force???
your thoughts.
I always wondered if palpatine was a Jedi...
If he was, then how come none of the Jedi Council recognize him or even felt that he was strong with the force???
your thoughts.
As always...........L
I've always heard this one explained away as "Hard to see, the Dark Side is....." I guess it makes sense, somehow Sith (or at least Palpatine) are able to keep Jedi from sensing the disturbance in the Force that they would cause.
Palpatine is not a Jedi. He's a Sith. Like Fulit said, he's able to keep jedi from sensing his dark presence.
I believe Palpatine is a Jedi, but not trained by the Jedi council. I believe the Sith are Jedi, perhaps in the way one might say Catholics are Christians.
As for this "the Jedi never sensed him" stuff, I think it's not an issue since the Jedi never sensed that Darth Maul was behind doors or bearing down on them in the desert, nor did Luke sense the Emperor's true abilities in ROTJ.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
The original Sith Lords were jedi, (SW Tales of The Jedi) two of them fled the Republic to a distant galaxy and conquered the Sith race. (Thats why they are called sith) After the death of the original Dark jedi's, the following sith lords had to learn the sith ways by Sith Teachers, which means they are no longer Jedi's. However this story is E.U. thus is not considered canon, maybe Palpatine was also a Dark Jedi but no one in the council knew of him...??? Well, i guess we will find out in the next films.
As always...........L
I guess jedi can't sense Sith behide doors and walls?
His a sith so he might have the power to cloak himself from the Jedi.Maybe Jedi can only sense true evil of someone? And since Palpatine was not as much evil in EP they couldn't detect him?
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
I believe that the Sith can hide thier ture self and is one the thier greatest feets.That is why the jedi can not see him for what he turely is.It gives them a Ace in the hole for when they need it.
No I don't think he was a Jedi.I believe he trained as Sith.If someone out there knows for sure,please let us know.
"I have a bad feeling about this".
"Just when I remembered what it was,I forgot where I put it."
The only reason why Yoda had that line about "Hard to see, the Dark side is" is because Lucas had to come up with a "plausible" way that Darth Sidious could be right under the Jedis' noses without them knowing it. It was totally the opposite with Luke and Vader in ROTJ. They could both sense each other's presence being that far away from each other, but it served the purpose of the movie to have them ID each other. I throw it up to just a needed plot device.
"I'm just a YES man trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango McCallum
"Good dialogue and smooth editing are no match for a good YES man by your side, kid." - George Lucas
I always felt that the reason why the connection was so strong between Luke and Vader was because they were father and son. The force played a large part, but the connection between father and son made it possible. I do not think that Palpatine is a trained Jedi. I see him being someone who taught himself by reading some old books and stuff like that.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
I think the closeness of their relationship is what gave Vader and Luke (and Vader and Obi-Wan) the ability to sense each other. However, in ROTJ, Palpatine did not sense Luke's presence on Endor when Vader did, and we KNOW that he was definitely a Sith there. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon don't sense Maul behind a door less than 15 feet ahead of them in Ep 1, and Qui-Gon doesn't sense Maul on the speederbike in the desert either.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
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"After conducting a thorough review of existing human resources programs and processes, the Office of Human Resources developed the new HR Solution Center, which is intended to provide centralized service across a wide range of topics," said Maureen Nash, vice president for human resources. "The HR Solution Center is the result of a detailed evaluation of other service centers in various environments and matches the needs of our users with the best available technology. The HR Solution Center is one step in our plan to become an outstanding service provider to faculty, staff and retirees."
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MADISON, Wis. - Popular energy drinks claim to give people hours of energy, but dentists said people may be bathing their teeth in acid when they consume energy drinks.
Experiments are shedding new light on some of the most popular energy drinks.
They come in flashy containers, promising a boost to get you through those long days.
"A lot of people really do sit and just drink this stuff," said Madison College dental hygiene student Alicia Selzler.
But when the jolt runs dry, new research shows, people are left with are serious hazards to their teeth.
"I used to drink these in high school myself," said Selzler. "And I always wanted to do hygiene, but I never really thought of what this is actually doing to my teeth until I saw this."
Selzler is no stranger to sugar's destructive path, but the experiment she's conducting with her classmates at Madison College examines the acid content of energy drinks.
"The citric acid is the one ingredient that we noticed that if it was listed near the top of the ingredient list, that was one of those solutions we knew we were going to get a low pH," said Marcy LeFave, Madison College dental hygiene faculty member.
On a pH scale, a reading of 7 is neutral, like water. The lower the number, the more acidic the chemical. Students measured the pH of a variety of drinks. Coffee and milk showed pH scores of around 5 and 6, respectively. Root beer was around 4.
But a sugar-free bottle of Vitamin Water Zero showed a high level of acidity in a test, Selzler said.
"It's actually Vitamin Water Zero," said Selzler. "It's showing a pH of 3.15. So the pH of that product is really, really low."
The energy drink in the experiment logged a pH close to 3 as well. Battery acid reads -1 on the pH scale.
And with the popularity of these types of drinks, researchers said it's only a matter of time before a rising number of dentists expend more of their energy on tooth decay.Dentists warn of high acidity in some energy drinks
"The problem is they sip on them throughout the day." said LeFave. "So they're constantly bathing their teeth in a solution that is 3.0. We even find some that are 2.5 pH. So we know those are very acidic."
"I always tell my patients, and I've learned from my hygienist and my teachers, if you sip all day, you get decay," said Selzler, "So this is kind of what we like to show people, the acid and what it's all doing."
With sugar, the decay process begins after the sugar reacts with the bacteria in a person's mouth to produce the acid that eventually gets to his or her teeth. When drinking energy drinks high in citric acid, it skips the sugar-bacteria chemical reaction completely. Researchers said the citric acid could damage a person's teeth faster.
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Steamboat Springs It was more than 20 years ago that Greg Stump changed the way the world saw skiing with "The Blizzard of Aahhh's." He filmed a new skiing revolution, and it was neon onesies, mohawks and a new generation of extreme skiing heroes doing things on snow that pushed the progression of the sport.
Now, 13 years after his most recent film, the ski filmmaker's return to the big screen is an autobiographical retrospective into the ever-evolving world of action sports films.
"Legend of Aahhh's" will screen at the annual Steamboat Mountain Film Festival, which kicks off at 6 p.m. with Standard Films' "2112" snowboard movie, followed by Stump's film and Matchstick Productions' "Superheroes of Stoke."
Michael Martin, director of the ski business program at Colorado Mountain College and the founder of the film festival, said he watched Stump's movies daily as a kid. Stump was an inspiration for Martin to start making his own ski films.
"It was the fact that he tied a really great story into his films," Martin said. "Especially at that time, he was the first one that focused on creating the characters of the skiers and brought them to the forefront. And he was the first to sort of use modern music. You could point to that point as when ski movies and eventually snowboard films changed to the current format."
But Stump's return is not the only homecoming at Friday's Steamboat Mountain Film Festival. The venue housing the three ski and snowboard films is the Chief Theater, which in recent years has been a commercial movie theater but has its roots as a community performing arts and music venue.
This will be the first event in the Chief Theater since it was purchased by the nonprofit Friends of the Chief, an organization that plans to revive and renovate the venue in coming years.
"It's just cool to be the first event there," Martin said. "We're very excited to be pioneering this. As longtime locals in Steamboat, we've always wanted to have a downtown venue like that to support the local aspect."
On Friday, the venue will look relatively the same as it did when it was a movie theater. There's only room for 150 people in the two theaters, so tickets will be limited. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.steamboatfilmfestival.com and at Ski Haus.
Martin and his crew plan to screen the films simultaneously in the two separate theaters, and a bar will be set up in the concession stand area.
Friends of the Chief board member and volunteer Valerie Stafford said Thursday that while there might not be many visible changes inside the venue, a change of attitude and a vision for the future will be apparent.
"We're just trying to keep the theater active," Stafford said. "I think we're just excited about bringing an activity to the space and having a place for art to be showcased."
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Mayor Kristen Brown is inviting local students to design the Mayor's greeting card that is sent out throughout the world during the holiday season. This year, Mayor Brown is asking students to create a design that features the Chaos I sculpture at The Commons.
The Mayor's Holiday Card Design Contest encourages students in kindergarten through eighth grade to use their imaginations to draw a design that represents Columbus during the holiday season. Last year, more than 200 students participated in the contest, and all the entries were displayed at The Commons to help celebrate the holidays.
"Our holidays are made extra special when we see the creative talents of our young residents," Mayor Brown said. "I was delighted by the response to last year's contest, and greatly appreciate the efforts of our community's children to design the greeting cards that represent the City of Columbus during the holidays."
More than 1,000 greeting cards were mailed last year across the world, including to Germany, China, Japan and right here in Columbus. This year, four of the submitted designs will once again be chosen to be displayed on the Mayor's greeting cards, and all the entries will be showcased at The Commons.
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The stated theme of "Homecoming," in the inner lobby of Brown University's List Art Center (64 College St, Providence, through June 22), is work by five Brown alums about "the body and the various ways it is represented." But perhaps without realizing it, curators Heather Darcy Bhandari and Ann Tarantino, both 1997 Brown grads, have created an opportunity to consider Providence art's influence.
"Homecoming" features Jonathan Ehrenberg (class of '97), Orly Genger ('01), Kevin Kramp ('02), Maria Walker ('02), and Saya Woolfalk ('01), artists who got their diplomas and then soon left for London (Kramp) or New York (all the rest). It's a sampler, offering just a taste of each artist's output in a rough gallery space. But note those graduation dates: 1997 to 2002. Those were peak years for Providence's psychedelic printmaking explosion and the related crafty, handmade, feminist, messy, monstery art produced by the collectives Dirt Palace (founded 2000) and Fort Thunder (1995 to 2002) and other kindred spirits. The Fort performance quartet Forcefield (Mat Brinkman, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, Ara Peterson) filled a giant room with a midnight alien invasion of beeping mannequins covered with furs and knit costumes at the "Whitney Biennial" in New York in 2002.
Woolfalk's Technicolor soft fabric sculptures and costumes, usually embodying her invented mythology of a race of human-plant hybrids, clearly fall into this lineage — from the psychedelic colors to the monster narrative to the feminist reclamation of traditional crafts. Reclining figure with facial adornment (2012) is a mannequin dressed in a leafy, bridal white pantsuit, sneakers, and quilted cape laid out in a glass case. A skeleton stitched together from rainbow-hewed fabrics sits atop the body. The face is encrusted with green and white beads and faux butterflies with crystals sprouting from the mouth. The effect is dulled in the show's somewhat haphazard grouping, but it looks like an alien Snow White whose face has been eaten by evil glittery parasites while waiting in her glass coffin for Prince Charming's kiss.
A mysterious narrative is also at the center of Ehrenberg's 2010 video Seed, which features masked actors performing a slow, tremulous, visionary but somewhat thinly developed tone poem. A man discovers his nose has fallen into his bowl while he's eating, so he goes to a spare body parts shop where he gets a tree branch to replace it. Then his hand falls off and is replaced by another branch. Then he opens his shirt and finds moss. He finally mutates into a tree with an owl nesting in his belly.
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• Had a great time down at Six on the Square Saturday for the Seamus Kennedy performance! It was a sold-out crowd, so I'm grateful to Nancy Morey and Jeanie Petersen for getting me in. Hadn't been there since the old Night Eagle days. The space is pretty much the same, but what strikes me now just as much as it did then is what a treasure this is in little ol' Oxford. Growing up, I never thought of the hometown as being particularly cultural in any respect. Nowadays, we have a thriving non-profit bringing in high-calibre acts in an intimate and unique setting. Not sure how 'hidden' it is right smack in the middle of Oxford, but Six on the Square truly is a gem!
• Got your purple laid out for tomorrow? Took some excavating in the closet, but I think I found something wearable (see paragraph above; I was a Blackhawk, not a Tornado). Tuesday is "Paint the County Purple!" day, sponsored by Chenango County's Relay For Life effort and an awareness-raiser for the fight against cancer. It's a simple thing to do to show solidarity for such an important cause.
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