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Bush Wins One in Padilla Case
Editor's note: Yes, George Bush. No, Jose Padilla.
That's the gist of today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the so-called Dirty Bomber case. By a margin of six to three, the justices rejected an appeal by Padilla, a Chicago-area man who federal authorities say was part of a plot to set off a radioactive device. He has been held since his arrest in 2002, much of that time incommunicado in a navy brig.
Padilla's case challenged the president's authority to declare U.S. citizens enemy combatants and hold them indefinitely. Last year, the government dropped that strategy and moved the Padilla case to a criminal court. The move appears to have paid off.
Here's a take from the Christian Science Monitor:
"Rather than argue the case on the merits, the Bush administration had undertaken an array of procedural maneuvers that appear to have been calculated to avoid Supreme Court review of the case. Many legal analysts were watching closely to see if the high court would permit the government to benefit from such tactics.
"But in its Monday order, the justices made clear that while they were divided on whether to take up Padilla's case, a majority was prepared to hear the case should the administration attempt to shift him back into open-ended military custody."
As Chisun Lee wrote back in 2003, the Padilla case is not just a game of tactics for the lawyers, but rather a case with serious consequences for us all.
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A Lifetime in Limbo
Why the "Dirty Bomber" Case Threatens Everyone's Rights
by Chisun Lee
June 4 - 10, 2003
He disappeared down the rabbit hole.
A year ago this week Jose Padilla, nabbed while on a visit to Chicago, was taken into military custody and sealed off from the rest of the world. To date, the government continues to deny the Brooklyn native a right all Americans take for granted: to tell his side of the story.
The public was told back then that his banishment was their salvation. Attorney General John Ashcroft, the nation's top law enforcer, revealed in a dramatic announcement via satellite from Moscow, "We have disrupted an unfolding terrorist plot to attack the United States by exploding a radioactive dirty bomb." The day before, June 9, 2002, President George W. Bush had deemed Padilla so grave a threat to national security that he ordered him held incommunicado until the war on terrorism was over.
The administration says it needs absolute authority when so much seems to be at stake. This is typical of presidents in wartime. But in this war the number and origin of the enemy is unknowable, and decisive victory almost impossible to envision. Padilla could be looking at a lifetime in limbo, deprived of rights that Americans consider fundamental. On the anniversary of his spectacular detention, the battle to get Padilla any kind of hearing, or even access to a lawyer, continues. Meanwhile, his case goes largely unnoticed.
Yet a year of developments in other terrorism-related cases has produced more reasons than ever to question whether the chief executive must simply be trustedseemingly indefinitely, in this new era of warto know best. While Jose Padilla, a violent ex-con, may not inspire much empathy, his predicament matters to everyone. If he never gets his day in court, it will mean any American could be jailed for life, without the chance to defend himself, on the president's say-so.
The "illegal enemy combatant" is a despicable foe, one who ignores international rules of war and fights for an outlaw outfit, like Al Qaeda or the Taliban, rather than for a recognized nation. Unlike the two other U.S. citizens, John Walker Lindh and Yaser Hamdi, who have been put in this category, Padilla was not captured on a foreign battlefield fighting with rogue forces. He was arrested on May 8, 2002, unarmed and carrying a genuine ID, getting off a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Nor was he immediately labeled an enemy combatant. Federal agents had tracked him for weeks based on tips from informants, and at first they detained him as a material witness. They wanted his testimony for a grand jury convened in New York to investigate the 2001 terrorist attacks. Padilla was taken to a high-security federal prison in Manhattan and put in solitary confinement. U.S. district court judge Michael Mukasey appointed Donna Newman, a little-known criminal defender, to represent him. She recalls meeting with him for a total of 20 hours.
It is difficult to put a sympathetic shine on Padilla, though Newman tries. Born in 1970 to a working-class Puerto Rican family in Brooklyn, Padilla grew up in Chicago, where he joined a gang and committed crimes including aggravated battery and armed robbery. He served time in Florida for handgun possession and is said to have converted to Islam in prison.
"He was very confused," Newman remembers. "He was not angry or outraged. He was very calm, quiet. He made a great effort to understand what was happening and had great confidence in me." She says Padilla did not express his reportedly radical Muslim views to her.
Padilla's mother calls her frequently, says Newman, who claims he had gone to Chicago to visit his son. His family are "very concerned and very warm," she says, but they refuse to speak to reporters. Unlike the family of John Walker Lindh, who spoke with anguish about the misguided youth to Katie Couric and other national outlets, Padilla's kin are "very press-shy," says Newman. "But that doesn't mean they love him any less."
A month after Padilla was arrested, Newman asked the judge to release her client, who had yet to be charged with a crime and was still being held as a witness. The day before Mukasey was expected to make his decision, the president issued his remarkable order that Padilla was an enemy combatant and should be rushed into incommunicado military custody. He was taken to the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, where he remains today.
Newman didn't learn of Padilla's military detention until the next day. She immediately filed a habeas corpus petition, the centuries-old citizen's tool to protest imprisonment without due process.
Over the next six months, she and her co-counsel, Andrew Patel, exchanged a battery of briefs with the Justice Department. The administration said it knew from confidential informants that Padilla had traveled extensively through Arab and Muslim nations in the late 1990s and early 2000s, meeting with senior Al Qaeda leaders and plotting to build and detonate a radiological bomb in the U.S. The military wanted to hold Padilla indefinitely, not just because he was dangerous but to interrogate himperhaps, as one intelligence official said, for "years."
Newman questioned how the administration could pluck an unarmed American from U.S. soil and make such allegations, while denying him the fundamental right to contest them. She immediately began to raise questions about the government's evidence, zeroing in on a Pentagon document that revealed some informants had not been "completely candid" and "[s]ome information provided by the sources remains uncorroborated and may be part of an effort to mislead or confuse U.S. officials."
In December Judge Mukasey ruled that Bush, like all presidents, has the right to hold enemy combatants, even Americans, incommunicado in times of war. But allowing for the possibility that Padilla might not actually be an enemy combatant, Mukasey said the administration would have to face a court challenge and make at least "some evidence" hold up in the end. That challenge, of course, would be feasible only if Padilla were permitted to meet with his lawyers.
The government refused and instead demanded the case be passed up to an appellate court. In April, Mukasey agreed. The parties are waiting for a hearing to be scheduled.
As far as the Bush administration is concerned, anyone who insists Jose Padilla must have his day in court is living in a dream world. Critics, the president's supporters say, have utterly failed to grasp the magnitude of the times. The U.S. is at war against evil, an elusive foe. In the fight to keep America safe from terrorism, the president claims sweeping authority, even the power to deprive his fellow citizens of due process, if it seems important to national security.
The administration knew that Padilla was nowhere near the point of detonating a bomb when he was arrested. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held a news conference to calm the public hours after Ashcroft's dramatic announcement. "There was not an actual plan," he said. "We stopped this man in the initial planning stages." He later said any plotting had amounted only to "loose talk." White House insiders reportedly were furious at Ashcroft for causing such a scare that the markets briefly plunged.
But after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, a wait-and-see approach is believed unacceptably risky. The administration has tended to operate by the "mosaic" theory, which holds that seemingly innocent, unrelated facts and people can actually belong to a larger, nefarious whole. The focus on sleeper cells reflects a similar view, that the very absence of obvious activity can, counterintuitively, bode ill.
Padilla's deep captivity is important not just because it keeps him from harming the public, but more so because he is a "very high" counterintelligence asset, according to Defense Department intelligence director Lowell Jacoby. The military is not interested in prosecuting him but rather in interrogating him, Jacoby told Judge Mukasey in January. Any outside contact, especially with a lawyer, would disrupt "the kind of relationship of trust and dependency necessary for effective interrogations."
Jacoby claimed an impressive track record, reporting, "It is estimated that more than 100 additional attacks on the United States and its interests have been thwarted since 11 September 2001 by the effective intelligence-gathering efforts of the Intelligence Community and others."
When Time recently ran an article challenging, in part, the detention of foreign combatants at Guantánamo Bay past the reported end of their interrogations, the Justice Department issued a scathing response. "The article implies once we get information out of an Al Qaeda operative telling us how they would like to kill us, the next logical step would be to release them to go carry out such operationsor at least bring in lawyers to facilitate their release," wrote public-affairs director Barbara Comstock in a letter to the editor that the agency disseminated widely.
The Justice Department was more diplomatic with the Voice. An official said last week, "The fact that America enjoyed so many years of peace prior to the attacks of September 11 has made war, and the things that go along with it, somewhat new to many Americans. This lack of experience with long-existing wartime authorities may mean that some misunderstand the steps that the government is lawfully taking to protect our nation from terrorism."
Department spokesperson Monica Good-ling said Bush was wielding these vast wartime powers with the noblest of intentions. "The United States has every interest in preventing harm from coming to the American people, but zero interest in detaining random, law-abiding Americans," she said.
Goodling also referred the Voice to a friendly outside expert, Robert Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia and a former federal official. He was less restrained.
"The nature of war is that a lot of decisions have to be made quickly. One of the realities is, bad things happen to good people," said Turner. "Even if Padilla is innocent, which I believe he isn't, he's certainly not one of the top 100 tragedies of this war. The idea that we would rather let him kill 20,000 people rather than detain him when there is reasonable doubtthat's a tough question."
Yet when other terrorism suspects have been able to challenge the government in court, the truth has turned out to be tamer than officials initially claimed. The administration may wish to be taken at its word on Padilla, but its record raises some unwelcome doubt.
In announcing charges against young men in Detroit and Lackawanna, New York, federal officials gave the impression they had disrupted major sleeper cells and thwarted determined terrorists. But in Detroit, it has emerged that prosecutors derived their most damning information from a convicted con artist, currently in their custody, who told them he knew some of the four suspects.
In Lackawanna, six accused Arab Americans recently pleaded guilty to the relatively minor charge of providing "material support" to terrorist affiliates. They face sentences of up to 10 years, and despite the adamant claims of federal investigators, they were not found to have participated in a terrorist conspiracy.
In February a congressional audit revealed that, of the slew of convictions federal prosecutors had reported since September 2001 as terrorism-related, nearly half132 out of 288in fact had nothing to do with terrorism. And while at least 750 immigrants were detained and questioned by federal investigators immediately following the 2001 terrorist attacks, not one was charged in relation to the tragedies.
But the case of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, also deemed at one point to be an enemy combatant, casts the most substantive doubt yet on the administration's claims of sound judgment. Attorney General Ashcroft said at the start that Lindh was guilty of "conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States" as an "Al Qaeda-trained terrorist." Yet after a rigorous challenge in court, the government's original 10 counts against him shrank to one, and it was not directly related to terrorism.
Unlike Padilla, Lindh was captured among hostile forces, in Afghanistan, but he nonetheless received a civilian trial and had the opportunity to mount a stellar defense. His father, a corporate lawyer with California's reigning energy supplier, quickly retained powerhouse San Francisco attorney James Brosnahan. According to his firm biography, Brosnahan, in over 40 years in complex litigation, has repeatedly been ranked among the top trial lawyers in America and has twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. A thorough dissection in the March 10 New Yorker graphically details how miserably Lindh was treated by federal captors before his lawyers got involved. Afterward, Brosnahan and company blew holes through the government's inflated case.
With resources ample enough to send a private investigator to Afghanistan to verify Lindh's exact location on September 11, 2001, his lawyers negotiated for him to plead guilty to one count of contributing "services" to the Taliban, for which he is serving 20 years in a medium-security prison. In perhaps its most effective move, the team seized on indications that the feds had violated Lindh's right to due processmost egregiously by interrogating him for 54 days without a lawyer. As a part of his plea agreement, Lindh is now aiding government investigators.
Those less fortunate could end up like Padilla, especially if the administration is less judicious in naming enemy combatants than it claims to be. Federal prosecutors reportedly used the possibility of such designationand its implied loss of contact with a lawyer and other rightsas leverage during plea negotiations in Lackawanna. Lawyer Patrick Brown told the Voice that his client, Shafed Mosel, and at least one other suspect were offered immunity from being named enemy combatants as part of the deal if they would plead guilty. Brown says the U.S. attorney's office gave him the impression that a change in status "wasn't just a hypothetical, that it could happen. Getting the commitment that they wouldn't seek it was them really giving us something."
In a way, Padilla is fortunate. It is be-cause of the window during which he was held as witness and provided a lawyerand because his lawyer mounted a spirited challenge despite being unable to contact her clientthat the world knows as much as it does about his case. (In fact, the public likely knows much more than he does. The Defense Department will not confirm that Padilla is receiving lawyer Newman's mailings of legal papers.)
"If he didn't initially have counsel, who would know?" says Newman. She says she has no idea "what's being done to him" by the military interrogators. She read in the New Yorker that Lindh was "sometimes kept blindfolded, naked, and bound to a stretcher with duct tape. . . . fed only a thousand calories a day, and was left cold and sleep-deprived in a pitch-dark steel shipping container," and she knows that her client is less protected than Lindh was. Padilla technically shares the same status as the foreign combatants at Guantánamo Bay. They have been the subject of international concerns about torture, and as of last week, 18 of them had attempted suicide a combined total of 27 times. The Justice Department referred questions about Padilla's physical state to the Department of Defense, which did not return a Voice call.
There appears to be no requirement that a president inform the public when he locks up an American as an enemy combatant. When Steven Brill, author of After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era, asked "one of Ashcroft's closest aides" shortly after Padilla's detention what insurance an American had against secret arrest and imprisonment, the aide replied, "Well, I guess his family could speak out if he's missing, and if that creates a political furor, then the President would be accountable at the next election."
Asked last week if the Bush administration would ever hold a citizen in secret, Justice Department spokesperson Goodling would only say, "We don't comment on hypothetical situations that do not exist." But she said the government was currently holding no other American enemy combatants incommunicado besides Padilla and Hamdi, who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan.
Georgetown law professor David Cole provocatively suggests a truly Kafkaesque possibility about Hamdi: "We don't even know for sure if Hamdi was captured on the battlefield. It's treated as undisputed fact, but I question that a court can determine whether someone was captured on the battlefield without some adjudication of that. We're just taking the government's word for it."
Cole says everyone has a stake in the enemy combatant question. "The authority of the executive branch to go out and unilaterally pick up any U.S. person anywhere in the world and lock him up without any forum in which the person could assert his innocencethat ought to be a frightening prospect for any of us," he says.
It is difficult to imagine a time when the administration would let Padilla walk out of the brig, a free man. Cole suggests that even if the courts permit Padilla to mount a challenge through his lawyers, he will likely still be deemed detainable on the government's evidence and will continue to be held as an enemy combatant.
There is a possibility that Padilla will eventually be prosecuted. Ashcroft told author Brill, "Detaining a person who is an enemy combatant does not preclude subsequent prosecution." It remains to be seen how material obtained through intensive interrogation would be viewed in a trial, and whether the government could seek a punishment as severe as death, based on such coerced information.
Executing American enemy combatants is well within the realm of reason, says national security law expert Turner. He says presidents may lawfully condemn U.S. citizens to death during wartime. Last week, overseas news outlets caused a stir by reporting that the U.S. was considering a death tribunal at Guantánamo Bay. According to those accounts, the foreign enemy combatants there could be tried with no right to appear before a jury or to appeal. Asked whether the Bush administration would subject Padilla, or any American, to such a procedure, spokesperson Goodling said simply, "The Justice Department doesn't comment on hypothetical situations."
Some have said Congress should step in before Padilla's plight gets that ugly. Says Cole, "Congress could enact a statute that would set up procedures and provide for some rights to the individuals" detained as American enemy combatants. Newman has not reached out to legislators, believing it inappropriate in her current role, but she says, "Congress should be involved. They have a better understanding of the politics."
The Voice asked the judiciary committee chairs and ranking members in both houses for their thoughts on Padilla, but on this key case concerning fundamental American rights, only Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat and former chair, replied. "As a U.S. citizen arrested in the United States," Leahy said, Padilla has the right to "contest the validity of his detention." Depending on the outcome in court, he said, "Congress should evaluate the need for further legislative action," and his office mentioned legislation he had introduced "to ensure due process for enemy combatants captured abroad."
But if an early draft of the administration's Domestic Security Enhancement Act, popularly known as Patriot Act II, becomes an official bill, Congress will have no choice but to tackle the question of due process for accused Americans. One section of the draft would give the executive branch more power to keep secret any information on detained terrorist suspects. Another section would strip citizenshipand presumably the rights that go with itfrom Americans affiliated with any group the attorney general designated as a "terrorist organization," even if they did not engage in unlawful activity themselves.
For now, the question of the administration's rightful power over American enemy combatant Jose Padilla awaits a hearing before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, ardent supporters of the White House make a compelling point: The ultimate judge of the president's actions does not reside in a courtroom or on Capitol Hill, but rather in the voting booth.
Research assistance: Jorge Morales and A.P. Smith
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The award-winning Holocaust documentary, Misa's Fugue, has played around the world.
On June 22, viewers in Berks County and the Lehigh Valley will have the chance to watch the film when it makes its official television premiere on 69-WFMZ-TV.
The documentary was co-created by independent filmmakers and Fleetwood Area High School students and teachers.
Misa's Fugue, a 90-minute film that weaves art, music, history and technology with emotion and inspiration, tells the extraordinary story of Holocaust survivor Frank "Misa" Grunwald.
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History shows that nearly 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. Grunwald was one of fewer than 300 children to escape death from the "camp-ghetto" at Terezin (or Theresienstadt) in the Czech Republic, a facility used by the Nazis as a tool of deception.
Grunwald is now 80 and living in Fishers, Ind. More than 66 years after his liberation, the twists, turns and torments of his four-year ordeal and miraculous survival have been artfully documented by a collaboration of more than 200 former and current students, 10 teachers who spanned six different departments in Fleetwood Area High School, a small handful of independent filmmaking professionals, and five international organizations.
Misa's Fugue began with Gaston's happenstance introduction to Grunwald, an epiphany and scribbles in a notebook some 22 months ago at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Belfer "Next Step" Conference in Indianapolis.
After hearing Grunwald's story and viewing several of the hundreds of family photos that miraculously survived the war, Gaston asked Grunwald if his story had ever been documented. Grunwald said yes, but not to his satisfaction. A retired industrial designer and adjunct professor at Purdue University, Grunwald connected with Gaston over a mutual love of the arts and agreed that he would be willing to share his life with students in a school several hundred miles away.
Following his meeting with Grunwald, Gaston called his then-colleague and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum teacher fellow and 10th year Social Studies teacher, Jennifer Goss. He pitched the idea and then asked her to help him produce the film, placing her in charge of procuring the initial funding. Goss, said,
"The entire film has been community funded," he said. "The initial donation came from the Jewish Federation of Reading. Other community groups and individual donors came on board and helped to bring this project to life."
Gaston, who had 15 years of experience in the film industry prior to becoming a teacher, directed the project and served as producer and as one of the screenwriters. Goss, a noted Holocaust educator, produced and also served as the film's historical consultant and assisted with the screenwriting.
The project took off and grew in ways that the pair hadn't imagined. "It has consumed every spare second of our lives for nearly three years," Goss said. "It's become just so much more than a simple film."
The film premiered in Reading in April 2012. More than 400 supporters, local notables, students and their families were in attendance. The premiere was accompanied by a display of the student artwork that is interwoven throughout the film.
Since the premiere, the film has been selected to participate in several prestigious film festivals, including the Phoenix Film Festival, the Philadelphia Film Festival, the Zagreb (Croatia) Jewish Film Festival and the Greater Reading Film Festival. In July, it will play at the New Hope (Pa.) Film Festival, which was recently dubbed the "Sundance of the East" by major news media outlets. It is also slated to play next month in Australia at the Jewish Holocaust Center in Victoria.
Misa's Fugue has also garnered several awards. The Pennsylvania School Press Association awarded its Rachel S. Turner Award to the project in November. The film also recently won five Telly Awards, a prestigious award in the film industry. The film was recognized for its achievements in the categories in Education, Production, Art Direction and Historical Biography.
It also won the highest Telly Award, the Silver Telly, in the People's Choice category.
In October, the film was specially screened for staff and volunteers at the U.S. Holocause Memorial Museum. It has even garnered attention from Emmy-award winning actor Michael Constantine and Playtone Productions co-founder Gary Goetzman. Both personally reached out to the producers to share their positive impressions of the film. Goetzman has also written a letter of support for the project.
Since April, the team has distributed 1,000 DVDs of Misa's Fugue at nominal pack-and-ship costs to high schools, non-profits and museums that illuminate Holocaust history and to project donors. Funding from backers, such as the Jewish Federation of Reading, the Albright College Holocaust Resource Center, the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council, local synagogues and many anonymous donors are enabling that plan, as well as other education partnership projects.
Gaston has been humbled by the experience and grateful for the opportunity.
"This man trusted me with his legacy," he said, noting his life will forever be galvanized by his friendship with Frank Grunwald. "It is a huge responsibility that I never took lightly.
"I hope everyone who sees this film realizes the underlying message of education that goes beyond a classroom, a textbook, a standardized test," Gaston said. "This is a lesson and an experience about humanity these kids will remember the rest of their lives." According to Goss, who now teaches at Robert E. Lee HS in Staunton, Va., the project was truly "life changing."
The students who participated agree.
To extend this mission, the pair is distributing the film on a "not-for-profit" basis fueled by donations. Their goal is to get it into high school and university libraries and classrooms across the country and around the world. To date, the film has been shared in numerous states across the country and at least a dozen other nations around the world.
On Saturday, June 22, Misa's Fugue will air on WFMZ-TV at 8:30 p.m.
For more information on the film, visit www.misasfugue.com.
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Princeton graduate alumnus Michael Oren will present a lecture on his recent book, "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
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Anyone know WHEN these will be available?
Anyone know WHEN these will be available?
I thought I heard August, but ONLY in the park. Look in the SAGA section for a thread about this.
Does anyone know why they decided to release these figures as part of the POTJ line instead of the current SAGA line?
Talk Show Host Interviewing Joker: Your said to have only killed about 600 people Joker. Now dont take this the wrong way but I think youve been holding out on us.
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I'm not sure. Perhaps the design and layout for the POTJ packaging was already completed some time ago.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
If what I read/heard was true...the figures are set to hit DW first, then coming out to DL about a month afterwards.
I happen to be heading out that way in August..
Pelleaon- I'll pick up some for ya!
According to the post on the main guide:
"The Star Tours Exclusive Rex and G2-4T figures.
Star Tours figures are only available in Star Tours Disneyland and Star Tours Disney World/MGM Studios Theme Parks. The REX figure is the pilot of the Star Speeder 3000 which takes its audience on tours to Endor although the tour ends up going wrong. The figures visor flips up and down. G2-4T is the worker droid you get to speak to while your waiting in line for Star Tours. The figures will retail for around $10.00 each" 6-23-02
and from an earlier post:
"Hasbro and Disney team up to bring Star Tours figures to their upcoming Downtown Disney store.
Just over 2 months ago, we reported on 2 prototype Star Tours action figures showing up on ebay, but there was no confirmation of whether these would ever see production. The figures - Captain Rex and a G-5 droid, which both feature prominently in the Star Tours attraction (the latter is seen as 2 different droids that chat at the line, while the former is your Starspeeder 3000's captain) - are not directly confirmed in a new Walt Disney World press release, but it does mention that Hasbro and Disney have worked together to create action figures based on Disney theme parks' Star Wars-themed Star Tours attraction. The Star Tours figures will be exclusives to the upcoming "Once Upon A Toy" megastore in Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney marketplace. Check out this entire press release at LaughingPlace.com for more info.
Thanks to "Dave" for writing in about this.
UPDATE - wdisneyw.co.uk, an unofficial site about Walt Disney World, has put up the press release about August opening of the "Once Upon A Toy" store, only this site has a Disney photo from the press release that shows a pair of Captain Rex figures being played with and another in POTJ packaging (see close-up above). The Captain Rex figures are not featured prominently in the photo, but you can make out the droid's shape in the packaging - which appears to have no "Power of the Jedi" logo under the main Star Wars logo nor a "Jedi Force File" icon but does appear to be the older POTJ-style of bubble rather than the new Saga-style bubble. The packaging may be an early mock-up, but the figure itself appears to be closer to the final versions than the test-shots." 6-5-02
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hmmm...seems like there's some conflicting reports. the article posted above says that the figures will be sold in a Downtown Disney store while other reports have stated that they would be sold in the Star Tours Star Traders gift shop. The major difference would be that park admission is required for the latter but not for the former.
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I would assume both places will carry the figures.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing!" - Lord Darth Vader
Well, these things must have already been released. People are already selling these things claiming in-hand on ebay.
"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
Disney's press release said it'd be exclusive to the "Once Upon a Toy" store opening this August in Downtown Disney, WDW Florida. (oh, and you'll have to pardon my putting "G-5" droid, I was copying Steve's earlier news that had that without thinking, I knew it was a G2 droid)
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.
So will there be a "Once Upon a Toy" opening in the Anaheim Downtown Disney?
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Monday, June 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m. · Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium
Posted June 10, 2014; 09:16 a.m.
The 2014 season of the Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts series will open with a performance by the Horszowski Trio at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 16, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. All concerts in the series are free, however tickets are required. Tickets are distributed at the Richardson box office starting at 6 p.m. There is a maximum of four free tickets per person. Doors open at 7 p.m.


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Wakkewakken, the legless women, is associated with the ancestral honey in areas around where Wamud Namok, AO lives – his country Kabulwarnamyo. Dulklorrkelorrkeng has legs, arms, an 'arse like a monkey' and the pushed backed face of the ghost bat. Wamud Namok, AO depicts Dulklorrkelorrkeng with a black whip snake at its thumb. The Wakkewakken was painted first and Wamud Namok, AO indicated early that he was going to paint a row of four or five of these beings – obviously a change of mind occurred soon after. The areas of hatching on the malevolent Dulklorrkelorrkeng and snake have been executed by two hands – Wamud Namok, AO's and his son's wife Jenny. Wamud Namok, AO moved to his granddaughter's house to finish this work. Here his son and wife were also camped and Jenny was instructed to infill the marked out areas of his design. Her practical hand is honest and workman like, differing to his lines, which not only show his confident lightness of touch, creating tonal variation, but also of an old man's tremor.
Dulklorrkelorrkeng are malignant spirits associated with a site of the same name in the Mok clan's estate. Dulklorrkelorrkeng are usually described as evil spirits or devils similar in nature to the malevolent Namande spirits living throughout western Arnhem Land. Dulklorrkelorrkeng are of both genders and are only visible to the 'clever men'. Wamud Namok, AO learnt what they look like, how they live and about their activities from his father, who was a 'man with power' as he had special qualities and could see the invisible. Dulklorrkelorrkeng eat poisonous snakes and angurrk (gum) from a number of local tree species. Their pets are djapo (northern quoll), but not the small species known to common people; their pets are djapo namandegen, large animals said to be as large as wolfhounds.
Dulklorrkelorrkeng live in anberrk (forest usually described as dry country as it lacks surface water) where they sit on hollow logs that serve as their home. They get their djiddjirrdok(drinking water) from hollow anbulurrdak and andjalen trees. If you tap these trees, you can hear the water splashing and the movement of Dulklorrkelorrkeng inside.


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Christmas Solos for Students
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Protecting critical infrastructure can advance national and local efforts to combat terrorism. NIJ has worked with researchers to develop vulnerability assessments for seaports, shopping malls, trains, subway systems, and agricultural industries; and to help prepare first responders.
Preventing Agricultural Terrorism. Law enforcement agencies lack the resources for an effective response to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (whether it occurs naturally or by deliberate terrorist attack). Foot-and-mouth disease is a virulent and sometimes fatal disease that frequently affects cattle and pigs. Prevention efforts might include identifying threats to the local agricultural industry, developing new partnerships, establishing an effective intelligence network, and developing local community policing programs for agriculture.
Learn more about this project in Defining Law Enforcement's Role in Protecting American Agriculture from Agroterrorism.
Shopping Mall Preparedness. Researchers in an NIJ-funded study found that shopping malls have taken steps to improve security, but some gaps still remain. The research involved surveys with State homeland security advisors and security directors of the Nation's largest indoor retail malls.
The report recommended that planners conduct formal risk assessments, develop and rehearse emergency response plans and involve stakeholders, standardize anti-terrorism training courses, and enhance partnerships with the public sector. The report also contains a state-by-state analysis of State laws focused on regulating the hiring and training of private security personnel.
Learn more about this project in Assessment of the Preparedness of Large Retail Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack.
Securing America's Passenger Rail System. More than 12 million Americans travel on passenger-rail lines each weekday, and the open nature of rail systems make them attractive terrorist targets. Spectacular terrorist bombings of passenger rail systems in Mumbai, Madrid, and London in recent years have produced hundreds of casualties, heightening concerns about the possibility of similar attacks on American soil.
An NIJ-sponsored study found that while bombings are the most prevalent terrorist threat to rail systems, most bombings produce few fatalities and injuries. The study identifies 17 options for improving security. Some of the options, such as enhanced security training, are relatively inexpensive.
The study gives transit security managers a way to evaluate varying approaches to increasing security, such as deploying canine teams or installing sophisticated vehicle surveillance systems. The study gives practical guidance to managers about how to improve safety efficiently and economically.
Read the full monograph from the RAND Corporation, which conducted the study for NIJ, Securing America's Passenger-Rail System Exit Notice.
Protecting America's Ports: Assessing Coordination Between Law Enforcement and Industrial Security. (Police Executive Research Forum) Obtains information about security systems in all 185 American seaports, and how public-private partnerships operate and focus on terrorism around ports. Lessons learned and partnerships that function at a high level will be analyzed to help guide law enforcement efforts in this area.


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...and then jumping right back into that time machine heading to the 1970s this time.
Way to start it off with a bang, Cee Lo Green. Nice normal wig, nice normal expression. Standard bling on the high-necked jacket. Yes, this all seems to be in order.
Not to be outdone, Christina Aguilera swiftly retaliates by shrinking down a UFO and wearing it as a jaunty cap.
This was taken right after Carson Daly rewarded him with a heart, after a harrowing journey through the land of Oz.
Continuing our headpiece theme, this little number is straight from Cleopatra's closet.
You know, just a nice red studded leather jacket like you wear on the weekends.
That's a pretty snug unitard for a lady over thirty.
Well hello there, Cee Lo, thank you for taking a moment out of 1925 to come perform on The Voice for us.
Raise the roof for these super awkwardly uneven braids.
...and then jumping right back into that time machine heading to the 1970s this time.
Xtina, you need to decide whether you're a courtesan or a geisha or else I won't know how much to tip you.
Serving 'evil genius' realness.
And yes, he brought that cat ON THE SHOW.
In tonight's episode, in addition to a contestant, Christina also had to eliminate a portion of her dress.
This man knew he was going to be on television tonight. He knew that and this is what he chose to wear.
And the winner is...Cee Lo. Because that, ladies and gentlemen, is a red spangly suit. A suit...for a man...covered in red sequins.
Annnnnd this is approximately how crazy Adam and Blake get. Some five-o-clock shadow and a slightly shiny shirt.


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TAPS' programs provide support and care to more than 50,000 military survivors through Survivor Seminars and Good Grief Camps, Quarterly TAPS Magazines, 24-hour phone support, and our network of professional resources.
TAPS Good Grief Camps are designed for children of all ages (0-19). The Good Grief Camp provides a safe place for children to learn about grief, share their feelings, express their emotions and helps to heal young hearts. It is a day of activities for children to meet others their own age who are also greiving and have the chance, in facilitated groups to learn that they are not alone in their feelings. Throughout the day, there are special activities we call "grief work", where the children will have fun while discovering how to cope with the pain they are experiencing. The children end the day by creating a network of care to lean on as they move forward in their daily lives.
A Survivor's relationship to the deceased is very important to the way TAPS provides services to that individual. The following chart depicts the Category of Survivors* (%).
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White cotton candy greeted us as we walked in the the door at 80 East Bay Street, while we heard music pumping from a deejay from a room in the back of the house. It was Spoleto SCENE's annual White Party, and the event lived up to it's billing. Everywhere the eye looked—white shirts, white dresses, white jackets. Just inside the door, we ran into Ayoka Lucas who was wielding a Flip to capture the sea of (almost) all-white couture to post on her blog later.
My wife, Elisabeth, and I had just left Dogugaeshi (which, for me, was mercifully only one hour long). We didn't see any of the Dogugaeshi performers—or puppets—there, but the whole Don John cast spilled in around 11:30. I told Kneehigh founder Mike Shepherd ("Nobby") that they were practically naturalized Charlestonians, they've been here performing so long. What with the music from the deejay blaring from the room right behind us, he, looking puzzled, struggled with my Southern, then I struggled with his Cornish, then we both said, "Yes," and called it night on that conversation.
80 East Bay is currently on the market (and unoccupied, albeit furnished for the party), so everyone had the run of the elegant circa-1800 townhouse. Upstairs, we ran into Meredith Siemens, Garrett Bean, Allison Skipper, and Kristen Ley hanging out, drinks in hand, in a second-story bathroom (the room had a fireplace, so everything was on the up-and-up). Just down the hall, we enjoyed the view from a sunroom with French windows overlooking the party scene developing in the courtyard below.
Things were still cranking up pretty good when midnight struck, but our babysitter's carriage was about to turn back into a pumpkin, so we called it a night to rest up for the next round of performances and parties. Hard to believe only two days of Spoleto '09 left.


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Watch La Roux's New Video, 'In for the Kill'
Starring Elly Jackson and a creepy yellow snake.
Starring Elly Jackson and a creepy yellow snake.
Ja Rule's Fyre Fest Is the Breaking Point for Luxury Festival Experiences
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods Is More Relevant Than Ever In Trump's America. That Scares Him.
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"If I win back to back on Miss Congeniality, I'll be more than grateful."RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: The Blame Game
What's the deal with Farrah Moan?Some Canadian Schools Have Banned Discussion of 13 Reasons Why
Some district leaders are worried the show glamorizes suicide.Catastrophe Recap: What Do You Do If Your Kid Sucks?
In this episode of Catastrophe, Rob is a man unraveling.Dear White People Recap: The Ballad of Coco and Sam
Logan Browning and Antoinette Robinson are terrific in this episode.John Boyega Is Spending His Star Wars Money on Some Heinous Interior Design Flourishes
He has knight figurines at the ready to serve you toilet paper.Ellen DeGeneres Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Her Coming-Out Episode With Oprah, Laura Dern, and More
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The late director of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Rachel Getting Married had a remarkable body of work.Ja Rule's Fyre Fest Is the Breaking Point for Luxury Festival Experiences
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When we lived in Port Moresby we had passionfruit like this growing ona vine on our back stairs... sweet, juicy and delicious... there is nothing like fruit that grows in the tropics!
Oh my GOODNESS, Jode. What a stunning page and photo - even in the tiny thumbnail it looks as if I could just reach out and grab that fruit. I love how you used the pic as a large background and your use of the challenge colors is just gorgeous and makes me want to be eating one of those lucious pieces of fruit. I like how you placed your title in a verical position with your journaling on the opposite side and in a light color. Awesome layout... Just wow..........
What a delicious picture. I don't think I've ever eaten passion fruit but that looks good enough to eat. Gorgeous layout. That gives new meaning to the orange and green theme!
Gorgeous photo! It makes me want to reach out and pluck the fruit right now. I love the depth of field you gave it, too. I also love your title-work; the colors of the alpha and the paper are lovely together. And I like the photo of the inside of the fruit, too. So perfect for this week's color challenge. Beautiful page!!
Great photo and layout Jody. Looks like you could just reach out and grab that yummy fruit. Pretty title work too. I like the variations of the greens from the fruit to the leaves and the soft background too. Lovely!
Beautiful! I love the title lettering - I really want to learn how to do that!
How exciting to have this right outside your door! It's a wonderful photo & I really like your alphas.
Perfect! I love that photo and the colors are just perfect. Great job on the challenge. I'm glad I was able to stump you for a little bit!
Wow what a stunning photo. I want to reach out, pick it and taste it. I like how the photo is the centerfold of this page. The title is a perfect choice. Nicely done.
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It's just lovely. I miss that fruit here.... It's hard to find. Mostly in a bottle already squeezed. I love making frosting (icing) on a granadilla cake.(Passion fruit - granadilla.)
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Stanley TucciStanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He was nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009). Tucci's other recent celebrated roles have been in The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia. He has been nominated three times for Golden Globes, and won twice — for his title role in Winchell, and for his supporting role as Adolph Eichmann in Conspiracy, both from HBO films. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Winchell. He was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play for his role as Johnny in the 2002 revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
Stephanie CarawayStephanie, a Certified Sommelier, began her career in New York working at a number of notable establishments such as Balthazar and the Cub Room. Moving on to Arizona, Ms. Caraway studied in the cellar of Peter Kasperski, while managing the Wine Spectator Award winning wine programs of Cowboy Ciao, Kazimierz, and Sea Saw. Subsequently, while with of Fox Restaurant Concepts, she was the steward of a quarter million dollar wine program and was responsible for the education of the staff of not only one restaurant, but several different restaurant concepts. Stephanie was honored by Food and Wine Magazine which named her one of the Top Sommeliers of 2010. She currently holds a position with Southern Wine & Spirits.
Ray IsleRay Isle is Executive Wine Editor of FOOD & WINE, the modern, stylish, trend-spotting, talent-seeking epicurean brand. In addition to overseeing F&W's wine department, Isle writes the monthly column, Tasting Room, for the magazine, directs the title's spirits coverage, and is the author of foodandwine.com's wine blog, Tasting Room. Isle was promoted from wine editor in 2010, and has also served as deputy wine editor and senior editor. Prior to joining FOOD & WINE in 2005, Isle was managing editor of Wine & Spirits Magazine. He regularly conducts wine tasting seminars at epicurean events and appears as a wine and spirits expert on national television, including NBC's Today and CBS's The Early Show.
Beth ShakBeth Shak is a professional poker player. She has appeared in the World Series of Poker and is among the top percentile of the "Women's All Time Money List". Her total winnings to date exceed $470,000. Shak is an active philanthropist, playing in many charity poker tournaments and has raised money for various charities.
Danny MeyerDanny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, has been active in the restaurant industry for over 25 years. His restaurants include: Union Square Cafe, Eleven Madison Park, Blue Smoke, The Modern and Shake Shack . Danny, his restaurants, and chefs have won an unprecedented 24 James Beard Awards. He has made numerous appearances at the annual Food & Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado.
Zachary QuintoZachary Quinto grew up in Pittsburgh. He has had guest starring roles on such shows as: Touched By an Angel, CSI, Six Feet Under, and Crossing Jordan. In 2004, he spent an entire season as computer analyst Adam Kaufman on FOX's highly rated drama 24. Quinto is best known to date for his role as Sylar, the super powered psychopathic serial killer on the NBC smash hit series Heroes. In May 2009, Quinto appeared as Spock in the blockbuster reboot of the Star Trek franchise, directed by JJ Abrams. He lives in Los Angeles, but travels to New York as frequently as possible.
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With its border located less than an hour north of San Francisco by car, the Sonoma Coast American Viticultural Area was established in 1987 and is part of California's larger North Coast which has 44 sub-regions, 13 of them in Sonoma County. Sonoma Coast is a sweeping appellation in terms of area, altitudes, ocean vistas, and agricultural terroirs. The region occupies 750 square miles, making it the largest AVA in Sonoma County. It runs the length of Pacific coastline from San Pablo Bay, up past the city of Santa Rosa, to the southern border of Mendocino County, then east into the Coastal Ranges. Sonoma Coast is a sparsely-populated place, and it's the county's most sparsely-planted AVA .
Maritime influences define the Sonoma Coast. A huge difference between this sub-region and other nearby AVAs is climate. The coast has twice as much rainfall, constant marine fog, and cooler temperatures than occur inland. The shore has miles and miles of rugged terrain characterized by a series of highly eroded cliffs and mountain tops. Small vineyard blocks exist mainly on the leeward side of these cool mountains and hills. The mountainside soils tend to be either volcanic ash or clay, dry and not very rich, with rock and gravel--good for aeration and drainage. Temperatures are warm enough to ripen the grapes when they are planted above the fog line and can receive adequate sun -- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and cool-climate Syrah do particularly well. At lower altitudes, not many grapes are grown. The lush green, fertile meadows and valleys of this region produce almost every imaginable vegetable, along with specialty flowers -- the low-altitude landscape is filled with apple, pear, pomegranate, fig, and other orchards.
Sonoma County has a long history of wine-making, dating back to the early 19th century, with the establishment of the Spanish Mission system in California. Sonoma Coast, however, does not have a very extensive history of wine production, although Sonoma County's first known vineyard happened to have been planted in 1817 in the area that is now Sonoma Coast's well-known Coleman Valley Road. For about 150 years after that, the area was largely ignored by viticulturalists, felt to be too cold for growing grapes. Planting along the sunny ridge lines was not tried in earnest until the mid 20th century. Sonoma Coast is now known for some of the United States' best Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines. Its Syrah is highly regarded, as well. These varieties compliment the food produced in the region, especially abundant native seafood harvested from the Pacific Ocean.
For more on Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, click here.
Photo of Sonoma Coast courtesy of George Rose.
•Don't confuse the Sonoma Coast with other AVAs containing the name "Sonoma," such as the famous Sonoma Valley or the Sonoma Mountain region. To learn about all the wines and diverse areas within Sonoma County, visit www.sonomawinegrape.org and www.sonomawine.com
•Most wineries of Sonoma Coast are recently-established (after the 1970s), small boutique producers. There is a strong movement underway to divide Sonoma Coast into 3 or 4 smaller AVAs because the area, as it is now delineated, is very large and diverse.
•Not only is natural "dry-farming" favored by on the Sonoma Coast, so is organic farming. Greener options such as solar power, hydroelectric power from water wheels, and bio-diesel fuel are widely used in vineyards and wineries of the Sonoma Coast.
•Because of the enormous sea and land bird population on the Sonoma Coast, all vines have to be covered with nets as soon as the grapes begin ripening; otherwise, the plants will be picked clean before harvest time.
•Wildlife of all kinds abounds in this mostly rural region. Deer and wild boar can enter the vineyards and injure or destroy the plants. Gophers are a challenge, as >100 individuals can burrow and inhabit one acre. When this happens, between 20 and 30% of the total grape crop can be lost.
•Farming of sheep for both meat and fine wool used to be a popular co-industry of wine-making, but because of increases in both coyote and mountain lion populations, few sheep are still kept. Some farmers have substituted water buffalo for the more vulnerable livestock. Buffalo mozzarella cheese (made from water buffalo milk) pairs nicely with wines of this region.


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Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.
The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?


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200 Silver St Unit 102 Agawam, MA 01001
Lois Osetek, MS, CCC-A
Clinical Audiologist Lois Osetek is the manager of Mercy Hearing Center. She has been helping (read more)
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175 Carew St Suite 150 Springfield, MA 01104
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28 N Main St West Hartford, CT 06107
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1013 Farmington Ave W Hartford, CT 06107
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300 Hebron Ave Ste 202 Glastonbury, CT 06033
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21 South Rd Ste 112 Farmington, CT 06032
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499 Farmington Ave Ste 210 Farmington, CT 06032
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Connecticut Ear Nose & Throat
988 Silas Deane Hwy Wethersfield, CT 06109
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Kensington Hearing Services
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Chapter 6: Linear Inequalities
You've learned how to solve equations for a specific value, but what if the solution you were looking for involved a set of many answers. For example, you can pass a math test with any grade that is at least 65. Also, anyone under the age of 55 does not qualify for a senior discount. Both of these situations have many values that make them true statements, and inequalities are what you will use and solve to represent scenarios like these.
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Inequality Expressions
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Linear Inequalities
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Multi-Step Inequalities
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Applications with Inequalities
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Compound Inequalities
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Absolute Value
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Absolute Value Equations
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Absolute Value Inequalities
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Graphs of Inequalities in One Variable
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Linear Inequalities in Two Variables
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To help you visualize inequalities, this chapter begins with graphing them on a number line. It then moves into solving inequalities that entail one and multiple operation(s) to isolate the variable. Next, writing, graphing, and solving compound inequalities are introduced. From there, the chapter transitions into absolute value equations and inequalities, with special attention paid to analysis and graphing of them. It concludes with graphing of linear inequalities in two variables and solving real-world problems using linear inequalities.


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Set in Texas' third smallest town, Tuna, this comedic play shines a light on life in a small southern town during the holiday season. Centered on the town's annual Christmas Lawn Display Contest and the "Christmas Phantom" who is mysteriously vandalizing the entries, A Tuna Christmas is a yuletide lampoon that's hysterically entertaining. Footlight Players Theatre, 20 Queen St. Sunday, 3pm. $25;$22 senior; $15 student. (843)722-7521, www.footlightplayers.net


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In an effort to decrease the spread of conjunctivitis on campus, Princeton University health services will provide all students and staff with a free bottle of Care Instant Hand Sanitizer (waterless soap).
The outbreak of conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, has continued after spring break, although at a lower rate than before the break. From the beginning of February through April 9, health services has seen 395 cases of the disease in students. An additional 35 cases have been seen in employees.
The hand sanitizer, which has been supplied by Caligor Distributors and Medical Packaging, contains an alcohol-based gel which may limit the spread of infections.
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The tomb of Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva and the heroine in one of Judaism's greatest love stories, has become a place of pilgrimage, candle-lighting and prayer
The centuries-old double-domed tomb of Rachel, located in the cemetery south of Tiberias, has become a place of pilgrimage, candle-lighting and prayer in recent decades, as interest increases both in the ancient tombs of the righteous and the story of this woman, the dedicated wife of the great sage Rabbi Akiva.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Designer Tidbits: Sweetwater
The Fat Quarter Shop is excited to welcome Susan from Sweetwater to the Jolly Jabber. Sweetwater's latest fabric collection is Reunion for Moda Fabrics.
Q: What was the first seed that grew into the Reunion collection?
A: One day when we were travelling to Denver we passed by a sign that said Reunion. The sign caught our eye and the ideas started flowing for a new fabric line. We tried to capture different things that you may have at your family reunion by naming all of the different prints after people or things associated with a family such as Sally's Skirts, Nora's News, Grace's Garden, and Johnny's Jacks. We had a lot of fun naming the prints!
Q: If your collection had a soundtrack what would be on the list?
A: This is a tough one! The first song that came to mind was We Are Family by Sister Sledge – but it really doesn't fit. And then I thought, how about Red Solo cup by Toby Keith? No, that really doesn't fit either so I think we are going to say Summertime by Kenny Chesney.
Q: What single print/SKU in the collection is your favorite?
A: 5471-13. We love words on prints and I especially like this particular newsprint. We are from a small town and whenever someone has a family reunion or a get-together you can find a write-up like this in our local paper.
Q: What is your favorite project you have made using this collection?
A: This one is easily the Zig Zag pattern! After we are done showing the quilts we get to split the quilts up between the three of us (my mom, my sister, and myself). I know this is the favorite one by far and the day we distribute the Reunion quilts amongst us might not be that much fun!!
Q: If this collection had a scent to it, what would it be?
A: This would have to be Philosophy's Pure Grace. I love this fragrance! It is a clean and fresh scent which hopefully matches this collection.
Q: Can you give us a sneak-peek of your next fabric collection?
A: This is the first time we have mentioned our new line. We are so excited about it!!! It is a fun new kids inspired line called Lucy's Crab Shack. Once we receive some yardage we will be showing more photos from this line. We are patiently waiting :-)
Q: If you had a mascot, what animal would it be?
A: The first animal that popped into my head was a pig. Now, I know all of you are saying a pig????? Because that is exactly what my mom said! But yes a pig! I knew pigs were smart but then I found this out to back up my own thinking:
Intelligence research was done with pigs in the 1990s. All species of pig are smarter than dogs, and capable of abstract representation. "They can hold an icon in their mind, and remember it at a later date", says Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University, who discovered that pigs dominate at video games with joy sticks.
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They also lead complex social lives, have a good sense of direction, they learn from watching one another and they also outsmart each other. And don't forget the fact that they dream. I know a bunch of useless information but that way you won't think I am crazy to pick a pig!
Q: Who is your favorite celebrity?
A: My sister has John Elway but I have the newer version – Tim Tebow. I have his picture as my wallpaper on my phone (my husband is real impressed!). He is a fan of his as well so no worries!
Q: If we were making a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?
A: Jennifer Aniston
Q: Who is your favorite fabric designer not including yourself?
A: Whoever designs for J.Crew!
Posted by Stephanie Howard at 5:01 PM
Labels: Designer Tidbits, Moda Fabric
7 comments:
- Stitched With Prayer said...
Oh how I love Sweetwater Fabrics!!! Hugs...
- February 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM
- Jo said...
The ladies of Sweetwater always come out with the most wonderful fabric lines! I don't think there has been one I have not liked. Now I will be on pins and needles waiting for Crab Shack.
- February 14, 2012 at 6:31 PM
- Patty said...
I agree with Jo. I have most pieces(maybe all) of every line Sweetwater has made. Lucy's Crab Shack looks like another winner. They just keep getting better!!
- February 14, 2012 at 9:05 PM
- Shelley said...
Pigs may be smarter but dogs are cuter lol! And take up less room in the bed :)!
- February 15, 2012 at 7:02 AM
- Lori Kae said...
Sweetwater fabric and projects make me just giddy and oh so happy!! I have loved every release and can't wait to get my hands and machines creating with Lucy's Crab Shack! We all have fabrics which speak to our souls and their company feeds mine. :) Pigs are awesome and if our city ordinances allowed them as pets my children would have one. lol Thank you for sharing your hearts, creations and a part of your journeys ladies!
- February 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- Cindy said...
Sweetwater is quickly becoming one of my favorite designers. Love the new line....can't wait for the next one.
- February 15, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- Helen L said...
I love Sweetwater and what they design!!
- February 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM