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Mylan wins $127 million tender to supply ARV drugs to South Africa
Bangalore: South African-based subsidiary of Mylan Laboratories, a leading manufacturer of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, has been selected as an ARV supplier by the South African National Department of Health for the tender period from January 1, 2013-to-December 31, 2014.
Mylan secured a $127 million (R1.12 billion) share, which represents 19.1 percent of the $671 million (R5.9 billion) tender value. As a part of this award, Mylan will supply the South African Government with 31 percent of the 30 million units of triple therapy fixed dose combination (FDC) called for in the tender. Mylan is pleased to support the government's initiative to move to triple therapy FDC treatment regimens in South Africa, as such regimens can simplify treatment and improve patient adherence.
Mylan CEO Ms Heather Bresch commented, "Mylan's mission is to provide the world's seven billion people access to high quality medicines, including affordable ARVs. Only through access to these vital medicines can we stem the tide of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and around the world. This award reinforces Mylan's commitment to provide high quality advanced drugs to help people suffering from HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and we are proud to have been selected as a partner to the South African Department of Health."
"We believe Mylan's selection as a leading supplier to the South African Government's ARV tender reflects our vertical integration, quality manufacturing, global scale and proven-track record of being a reliable partner in supplying affordable ARV medicines across the world. We are pleased to bring this global scale, quality and reliability to the South African market and continue our legacy in fighting HIV/AIDS," said Mr Paul Miller, managing director and vice president of Mylan's South African business.
Mylan supplies ARV drugs to more than 120 countries around the world and approximately one-third of HIV/AIDS patients receiving treatment in developing countries depend on a Mylan ARV product. Mylan will be entering the South African market with a comprehensive portfolio of ARV drugs, consisting of first- and second-line adult and pediatric therapies, including several dual and triple FDCs.
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SLAMM!! held their first "Holland vs. Thailand" event in a long time on Sunday in Almere, Holland and the fight that everyone was excited about was K-1 and It's Showtime veteran Mohamed Khamal fighting Saiyok Pumpanmuang under Muay Thai rules. The event wasn't televised anywhere but a video did finally come out today, showcasing Khamal's win via cut stoppage. Sadly, Khamal retired after the fight, saying he had "more important things" to focus on. A win over Saiyok is a good one to go out on. Check out the video.

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I think she is just getting eccentric in her old age, but, Tommie is 13.5 yo. Over the last few weeks, she would be in the house(on her couch!) and all of a sudden dive off and go to the door. This happened several times in a night. Thats progressed to her not wanting to be inside with us( me and the other dogs) much, or even at all. She may come in for a few minutes and then head for the door. Lately wont even sleep inside- I have a crate in the puppy barn with blankets in it-so she at least has a 'spot" to go to.
Also, more weak in the rear,but not bad- still wants to go for (and does) our nightly walk/run/swim.
Coat getting dull.
But, she has not lost drive to EAT at all... same old Tommie there- but just acting wierd.... Not sure what a vet visit will tell me-other than she is aging.
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I felt it was time for a definative poll on what we want to see done for each movie. I'm starting with E1, since it has a massive amount of figures that needs done.
Please post your Top 10 wanted figures, and I'll keep track of them and at the end I will post a most wanted update thread. Only two rules for the poll are, please no listing figures that just need re-sculpts (I plan on a seperate thread for that), and please choose no more then 10.
This poll takes in account Eeth Koth and Amidala: Travel Gown, so please do not include them in your choices. With that said, lets begin. First my list in alphabetical order:
1. Amidala: Celebration w/ Globe of Peace
2. Daultry Dofine
3. Gragra: Chuba Vendor
4. Kitster
5. Oppo Rancisis
6. Padme (Handmaiden Outfit)
7. Trade Federation Clean-up droids
8. Yarael Poof
9. Wald
10. Wookie Senator
Hard to pick just 10, but thats my list. Can't wait to see everyone elses. And we'll know soon, who the most wanted figures of each movie are.
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Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.Will the People of Earth Bow Down toAlien Overlords—or Will They Live Free or Die?
First Contact Was Friendly
When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief.Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World
When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and earth's governments have accepted the status quo.
Live Free or Die
To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath.
Troy Rising is a book in three parts—Live Free or Die being the first part—detailing the freeing of earth from alien conquerors, the first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.
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Emergency physician and fantasy nerd in Chicago.
"Republican Physicists in Space!!!"
This is actually solid and creative sci-fi. A few of the reviews I read accuse the book and the author of racism but I think this is going way too far. The story is basically about Republican physicists saving the world. Even as someone who is very politically progressive I enjoyed it immensely. The conservative stuff is not hidden, the author just throws it right out there and in that way it's almost funny. The good guys are heads of corporations who are trying to save humanity despite government interference/regulation. There's a bunch of little digs in the vein of "if we can just keep the damned government off our backs" and even a slam on space-environmentalists ("we've trashed our own planet enough...")
That said I didn't find any of this overbearing and in reality the author is probably correct that first contact with alien species would not dry up all the hundred year old political squabbles on earth.
Alot of this book is concerned with the size/scope/power requirements of spacefaring. I bring that up to say that despite the levity of the dialogue it's actually pretty hard core sci-fi. Those hoping for laser battles or light-saber fights will be disappointed by this novel. The major battle scene reads almost like a physics textbook.
Overall this is a fun read. The narrator is excellent, he does some voice modulation for different characters but does not go to the ridiculous lengths to which some are tempted.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
"Not the Hubble"
Back in the 80's I read a long article in Discover Mag. about the making of the mirror for the Hubble telescope. It was just before the Hubble was to be launched into space. It was exciting, because we were excited about this huge telescope and what it would mean to science. It was interesting because it was about real people and the real things they had to do to get it done right. ( which turned out they did not do right).
Ringo spends two to three hours telling you how to make a mirror in space out of an asteroid. While this is very interesting, ten minutes would have been plenty. In my non-fiction I want details. In my fiction I want a story, not step by step directions on how to do something for hours. In one part when building a large machine he even goes into the building of giant washers. He does the same with economics. You get a few hours of econ 101 with this book.
Embedded in the hours of take peg A and insert in slot B, is a really really good story. There were chapters I could give 5 stars too, because the story was so good. Take out all the other though and you only have about a four hour story.
I try not to dish on fellow reviewers, as I am pretty sensitive myself, but for some reviewers to say they did not see the politics is ridiculous. Ringo hits so hard on liberals and anybody who lives in a city, that I thought maybe he was trying to do an opposite of "Stranger In a Strange Land". That he was so extremely conservative to show conservatives how overboard they can go. In one part of the book, it is mentioned that most of Africa gets wiped out of existence and he responses by saying they were worthless people anyways. The name of the book is "Live Free or Die".
If you like your science fiction full of the nuts and bolts it takes to build things and economies and if your not politically sensitive, then you will love this. If you like a really good story, it is there, you just will have to wade through hours of instructions, but it is there.
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fan
"Tyler Vernon to the rescue!"
This book kicks off the Troy Rising series with the standard Sci-Fi scenario of mankind's first contact with aliens. As is often the case, things don't go well for Earth as we are outclassed both technologoically and militarily when the Horvath come to claim our resources. Earth's governments have no recourse but to comply to the demands and Earth becomes a subservient planet.
Enter Tyler Vernon into the story and things start to change. Tyler Vernon not only steps up to save Earth but he also saves this entire series of books. He is an interesting, opinionated character that isn't willing to allow Earth to remain slaves to the Horvath. Any time the book (and series) focuses on Tyler Vernon and his plans it flies by and is a joy to listen to.
There are, however, lulls in each of the 3 books in the series so far where Ringo spends way too much time on boring subjects. In the first book it is the difficulties of mining in space with a "laser", in book 2 it is ship maintenance and welding in space, and in book 3 it is the culture clash faced by the Latin American military in space. Each of these are important to the overall story, but could have been addressed in far fewer pages. The bloat fills the gaps between the interesting parts of the story related to Tyler Vernon and the fight for humanity's freedom.
Mark Boyett does a decent job with the material, although he is forced to repeat "Tyler said" thousands of times due to the way the book is written. He is also a bit dry in his overall reading.
If you are willing to take the good with the bad then give the Troy Rising Series a shot. It is a 5 star story arc stuffed with boring periods that drag it down to 3 stars.
"Ayn Rand in outer space"
I agree with a great deal of the politics in the book, but, Ringo really shoves in your face. It's really a political screed in the guise of a science fiction novel. The sad thing is that I think it might have been a more effective at making its political points with some subtlety, and would have been a better novel to boot.
It might not bother too many others, but to me the very technical, very blatantly expository dialogue got very tedious very quickly. And there's LOADS of this here. I followed it for awhile, but the exobiology lessons in the form of dialogue made my brain drift. And then I would have that sinking feeling that I've just spent the past 15 minutes wondering idly about things like when Toyota intends to change the Corolla in a meaningful way, or weighing the pros and cons of buying the smaller 700 watt or the larger 1000 watt microwave while this audiobook droned on in the background. So I'd have to weigh whether to back it up or not. Mostly, I said "screw it."
With characters existing to advance political didacticism and deliver wooden expository dialogue, your expectations for character development should be low. Well, lower them yet further and you'd be about right.
After a point, I lost patience with it, which is sad, really, because I think the premise IS intriguing.
"For Better or Worse: Ringo Channels Heinlein."
I like this book.
I have given a 5 star rating because it does exactly what it promised in the first few minutes: to discuss politics, war and relationships.
I will note that I am sucker for the Heinlein homage that seeps through Ringo's writing in this novel. If you like Robert Heinlein's classic characters Lazarus Long or Jubal Hershaw, you will like Ringo's Tyler Vernon. However, the converse sentiment also holds true, you will likely see in Tyler Vernon the same audacious (maybe even arrogant) attitudes found in Heinlein's writing which alleges that bureaucrats are the single biggest danger to humanity (even more than the dreaded "liberals").
I will note that for the record, the author takes creative liberties with many (read most) of the details regarding space exploration, political/economic philosophies and the suffering that comes with Alien Domination. While I accept that current literary theory holds that authors only tell the stories they themselves believe and as such Ringo must see himself as Tyler Vernon, I will note that the same criticism has been labeled at Heinlein. I would say that if all you hear or read in the character of Tyler Vernon is a fictional caricature of the ideal "rugged individual," you have only seen one dimension of Tyler Vernon.
As a work of Science Fiction, this is not a book that reads like a technical manual nor is it filled with in-depth or vivid descriptions of milieu, environment and setting. Yet careful listening to the words will demonstrate that the relative unimportance of details is a central theme in the life of Tyler Vernon.
At the same time, it must be noted that Ringo is not Tom Clancy. I say this to note that Ringo does not bury you in minute details simply to prove the expertise of his characters or his own depth of knowledge and extensive research. Ringo implicitly requests his readers/listeners accept his authorial fiat on the subject of details in order to tell us a new twist on an old story.
"Another John Ringo classic"
John Ringo delivers again with a sweeping epic of the near future. He draws on some old sci-fi themes from classic stories of the past, throws in a Howard Hughes-like character, and gives us another great story. Ringo's conservative political views tend to come out in his writing, but are a minor distraction from an otherwise great story. This audio book was well-narrated with good characterization. I am looking forward to Ringo's sequel in what I understand will be a triology. I recommend this one.
"Classic Ringo"
If you enjoy john ringo then you will absolutely love this book. Memorable characters, great science, solid story and clear writing, it's all there, along with his political views.
Point is, there is nothing in this book that will be surprising to any Ringo fan. If your a new fan of a politically right bent, you'll love this book.
If you're not, or you haven't been a fan of ringo in the first place, then, like the person who gave the book a 1 star, just avoid this book. It's that simple.
To the Ringo fans out there, Rest Assured, he'd done it again.
"A Question of Tonnage - Hard Engineering Fiction"
I couldn't believe how much I liked this book when I launched into the first few chapters. I also couldn't believe how much I disliked this book when hour after hour was spent discussing the pros and cons of various engineering problems.
Instead of the rapid-pace events of the book's beginning, be prepared for bureaucrats, negotiations, engineering brain-storming sessions and one meeting that leads to another that leads to still another, seemingly endlessly.
I appreciate that John Ringo has given this a great deal of thought and wants to include the detail he has imagined for this project. However, I just really don't care how you are going to solve the problem of cutting a door through a nickel-iron chunk of asteroid.
This is not really hard sci-fi, which I love, but hard engineering fiction where a person is supposed to enjoy the debates about advanced engineering topics. Included in these long discussions are questions about how much tonnage some device should be, and the pros and cons of having an interior 9 kilometers across versus 10 kilometers because they didn't use enough volatiles when expanding the sphere.
"A fresh approach to alien contact"
The story takes an interesting approach to alien contact. An advanced race, the Glatun places a space gate close to Earth, which makes possible to travel huge distances. Doing so, they connect the Earth to the other species. But instead of a big hype, they simply give a "phone notification" to the presidents of the most important countries, and then they leave.
Another unusual turn is that another race, the Horvath oppresses the Earth, taking our valuable metals.
Usually, in other books what comes next is a heroic fight for the freedom of the planet, but not in this one. Vernon takes small steps, first trading with the Glatun to get finance for other projects, and then he buys space ships to mine asteroids. Finally he builds a super asteroid-fortress to defend the Earth from the Horvath. This makes the story more "real", more believable.
Another point, which distinguishes this story from the tiresome hollywood plots is that people die in the fight. Whole cities are destroyed.
The one thing I found disturbing is that the author gave too much scientific details. While it could be compelling to someone working in the research or science field, sometimes it was boring for me.
I think the title really fits the story, because the main character, Tyler Vernon rather dies than let the aliens occupy the Earth. Vernon is not a hero like Superman. He is an ordinary man, but still he has strong values.
I enjoyed this audio book, and recommend for listening.
"Laugh out loud funny"
John Ringo is a great Sci Fi writer. All his books have humor, and historical insight applied to future imagined. To top it off Mark Boyett is the best narrator I've heard yet. This is a great book and hopefully part one of a series. The aliens are funny as hell without trying. The novel ideas for using crude brute force engineering to achieve sophisticated goals makes this a must read.
"Predictable but fun"
This title has received criticism of being right-wing propaganda...
Apparently, one can't even read a book anymore without politicising it.
I for one had fun with this and I'm not ashamed for it.
Yes, the story is a bit cheesy and predictable, the main character a hero who single-handedly saves Earth, but so what?
It's not like Hollywood has done any better lately. At least the characters in Live Free or Die have more depth to them.
If you're looking for something whimsical, surprising or deep, you'll be disappointed, but if you like the majority of SciFi movies, you will enjoy this.
"well written"
Just what I love. Story about mankind's resourcefulness set in not so far future. Mankind triumphs thanks to few special individuals and ability to cooperate and work hard. In short " Don't mess with the Terrans"
yes, absolutely
"Brilliant stuff"
I love this book, I have listened to it twice now. The narrator is fantastic, his Vermont accents absolutely spot on and very funny. This is one of the most unusual sci-fi stories I've read and also the funniest. I don't like Russell's review of this book, I can't help thinking that he misunderstood some of the politics and humour. It is interesting and odd that Russell has also posted the exact same, word for word review on Amazon of the paper back book.
Don't be put off, this series is thoroughly entertaining and clever.
"awesome but"
Eveything was great. But shouldnt have included political commentary. Out of place. The tidbits of slacking off liberals and hailing conservatives. Thankfully there wasn't too much of it.
Other than that close to perfect book and one of the best narration performances ive heard.
"Quite enjoyable"
It was a good book, would not normally go for this but tried other series from the author which i enjoyed. The book and idea was simple but fun, why not have one man whom stands above overs :) did go on a bit but overall enjoyable :)
"Best audible SF book ever"
Absolutely brilliant SF book, really big what if storyline, had me riveted and unwilling to get out the car and go into work n
Sticking it to the Horvath
Clear and well paced.
Troy station coming online and defending the world
Listen to it, awesome.
"terrible story, horrible politics, not for me!!"
this starts well, the guy can write, but after about 2 hours the story descends into a slightly distasteful right wing, misogynistic rant. I had to stop listening, in fact I'll be asking for my money back on this one.
"Juvenile, and not in a good way."
This is a very mediocre sci fi romp, not awful, not a work of literature either.
The problem is that this is a very, very thinly disguised piece of EXTREMELY right wing propaganda.
Through a series of rather forced deus ex machina, the author's utopia of blond, illiberal hard working, non-muslim humanity with a hyper-libidoed female population is brought into being. Conveniently by the evil aliens without the heroes' approval or intervention thereby enabling everyone to enjoy the resultant paradise without that pesky guilt that more mundane ethnic cleansing usually brings.
It is, in a word, juvenile. The lead character, super smart yet a good ol' man of the land, is transparently just a mouthpiece for the author's prejudices. He becomes the richest man in the world overnight and routinely shows up those liberal city folk (the President, corporate executives, etc.) for the low down cowardly sneaky liars they are. And in the end of course, saves everybody with only the asians, africans, middle easterners and city folk falling victim to the ensuing conflict. No loss there then.
I would expect this kind of thing to be written by a geeky teenager as a wish fulfilment fantasy after he'd just been snubbed by the prettiest girl at high school when asking her to the prom.
From a published author, it's just a bit sad.
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By Teresa Rivas
All three major indexes clocked gains above 1% in Thursday's trading, as markets cheered Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's conciliatory remarks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 169.21 points, or 1.1%, to close at 15,460.92, a new high. It's the 24th new record close for the index this year. All thirty Dow components finished higher.
The Nasdaq moved up 57.55 points, or 1.6%, to 3,578.30, a new 52-week high.
The S&P 500 climbed 22.40 points, or 1.4%, to 1,675.03, also a new record. The S&P has reached new closing highs 18 times this year.
The rally extended gains from this morning, when markets opened strong. While stocks didn't move much after Wednesday's publication of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee's June meeting, Bernanke's remarks at an after-hours question-and-answer session encouraged investors, as the Fed Chief said that the economy needs "highly accommodative monetary policy for the foreseeable future."
Still, Barclays' Michael Gapen noted that while markets were heartened by the dovish tone of the meeting, the central bank's confidence remains, bolstered by improving data. "[A]lthough the minutes reflect the back and forth discussion at the meeting, and that discussion may have reflected conditionality and a data dependent outlook, the outcome of the meeting in the form of the policy statement and press conference is what matters and the consensus outlook is fairly robust. In addition, we suspect that many on the committee are likely to view the June employment report, with a 195k increase in nonfarm payrolls and a net 70k upward revision to the previous two months of data, as indicative of the type of further progress many participants desire to see. We continue to expect that the committee will taper asset purchases at the September meeting (to $70bn per month from $85bn) and conclude purchases in March 2014."
Winners today included Costco (COST), which reported better-than-expected June same-store sales, and energy names, which were able to end higher despite a downbeat forecast from Chevron (CVX), although they lagged the broader market.


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How MakerCulture Is Reinventing Politics
Cyclist advocacy movement: bike camp
Hundreds of cyclists huddle in a cramped conference room. The room's walls are covered with pieces of paper on clipboards. At the top of each page are suggestions on how to best promote cycling issues in Toronto, followed by a series of empty dots. Jason Diceman, a facilitator for BikeCamp, yells above the crowd.
"Read these, fill in one dot to record your opinion! How many dots?" Diceman playfully asks the crowd. "One," the crowd responds. "Tell your friends!" Diceman jokes. "Fill in one dot and sign the sheet!" As Toronto's next municipal election approaches, city cyclists join forces to strategize about how to get their issues on the agenda.
The Toronto Cyclists Union (TCU) and community members met at BikeCamp in mid-October last year to outline what issues they want to push for during the 2010 mayoral race. Their strategy is decided on democratically. The TCU aims to act on those ideas which received the most dots.
What were BikeCamp's three top ideas? The first is get a segment on cycling rights and rules into Ontario's driver handbook and driving courses. Second, to promote a specific route or bike lane with support from wards across Toronto. And the last is to get cycling education in schools.
Brainstorming is the easy part, according to Margaret Hastings-James, a BikeCamp organizer and avid cyclist. The hard part is actually getting people to work on those projects. "The most important thing that will come out of today is getting some new energy. People that are interested to pick up on some specific campaigns or events and to actually run with that and make it their own project," Hastings-James explains.
Hastings-James has been a bike advocate since 2003, after she was hit by a car while cycling. Luckily her injuries weren't serious, but the accident made Margaret realize the need for more bike lanes and stricter traffic rules. Although hundreds of cyclists showed up for BikeCamp in October, only a small group donates their time to bike advocacy.
"You come and there's people here all presenting awesome ideas and then they leave the room and it's like, 'Wait a minute, who's going to implement all this?'" says Hasting-James. But she remains positive. Rising gas prices, concern for the environment and crowded streets have increased participation in cyclist movements. Only decades ago bike advocacy was virtually unheard of, but now attracts support from people in all walks of life.
"It's really encouraging to see a lot of new faces here today. I find that the movement in general in Toronto is changing face," said Hasting-James. "It's not the same die-hard sort of 'enviro' freak types… there's a lot of variety in people here." In only one year of operation the Toronto Cyclists Union is 730 members strong. And continues to grow.


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a method of numbering years which refers to the period of time that began after the birth of Jesus Christ
'Guidance from the broadcaster's ethics specialists suggested that the modern phrases common era and before common era should be considered as potential replacements for Anno Domini and Before Christ. The proposal caused consternation among Christian traditionalists and some of the corporation's most famous names, who promised to ignore the idea.'The Telegraph 26th September 2011
If you saw a date reference followed by the letters BC, you'd be likely to know that whatever was being described happened a jolly long time ago. But if you saw one preceded or followed by the letters CE, would you be clear about its position in the sequence of time? For the uninitiated, CE is an abbreviation of the expression Common Era, and in 2011, it's proving rather controversial.
CE and BCE … were conceived as … expressions that are not specifically anchored in Christianity and are therefore sensitive to all and any of the world's religions and belief systems
Common Era is basically an alternative way of expressing the concept denoted by the phrase Anno Domini, commonly AD for short. In chronology, AD is used after a date to pinpoint it as after the time when it is traditionally believed that Jesus Christ was born (Anno Domini is a Latin expression meaning 'in the year of the Lord'). Its counterpart is of course BC, an abbreviation for before Christ used to show reference to a time before the approximate birth of Jesus Christ. Correspondingly therefore, Common Era has a respective counterpart Before Common Era, or BCE for short, which can be used as an alternative to BC.
Numerically, both systems are equivalent, so 2011 CE is exactly the same as 2011 AD. Why then do we need CE and BCE when there are already established terms to represent these concepts? The straightforward answer is that they were conceived as 'neutral' chronological terms, expressions that are not specifically anchored in Christianity and are therefore sensitive to all and any of the world's religions and belief systems. In contemporary usage the idea has been embraced in some, mainly educational, contexts, so that for instance CE/BCE pop up in school textbooks and have been adopted by many universities on particular courses, including the Open University, the UK's largest. Interestingly, this Ngram chart of word usage over two hundred years supports the suggestion that the expression Common Era became much more established towards the end of the 20th century.
However the idea of Common Era as a religiously neutral term seems to come unstuck at its very conception because, although it's supposed to be a secular piece of terminology, any attempt to define it uses Christianity as a reference point. Ironically, one of its main lexical variants, also abbreviated to CE, is Christian Era. The alternative Current Era is also sometimes used.
The expressions Common Era and Before Common Era hit the spotlight in September 2011, when the BBC, as part of its commitment to impartiality, reportedly advised the use of them as a way to avoid offending and alienating non-Christians. The measure sparked a backlash of criticism however, not just from Christian commentators, but also from some of the BBC's leading presenters and even the UK government, who argued that AD and BC were the most widely recognized and understood terms and it therefore made no sense to stop using them.
Though it may look like a trendy new creation, the origins of the expression Common Era date as far back as the early 1600s. In 1635, derived from the Latin form vulgaris aerae, the expression Vulgar Era emerged, with vulgar in its original meaning of 'of the common people'. By the early 17th century this expression had begun to take the variant form Common Era, which was introduced more widely by Jewish academics in the mid-eighteenth century.
A much more recent coinage with the same underlying principles of religious neutrality is the term Winterval, suggested as a politically-correct alternative to Christmas, but predictably proving equally controversial.
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Q. What are you currently working on?
I am currently a senior producer at NPR's All Things Considered. I'm doing research for a potential project to chronicle the history of the western U.S.-Mexican border.
Q. Could you describe one person, experience, or series of events at Emerson that shifted the course of your career and that illustrates one of Emerson's core attributes of creativity, collaboration, risk taking, and excellence?
It wasn't just one person, but the mix of disciplines I encountered there. One stand-out, however, was the opportunity I had to intern with Vin Di Bona '66 (executive producer, Vin Di Bona Productions). I did documentary work for a local TV station and got a taste for the professional world.
Q. Is there an example of how a classmate aided you with your career?
Classmate Peter E. Parisi gave me a sense of the possibilities of radio and sound. Classmate Mike Zotzmann '71 taught me the joys of madcap humor.
Q. Are you professionally connected to other Emersonians?
Emersonian Patrick Murray '93 works at NPR as a broadcast engineer; former NPR producer Hannah Misol was a delight to work alongside.
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ANATHEMA MARANATHA be upon him, whether he be black or white, young or old, gentle or simple, philosopher or dunce, bond or free, who says we are not intended to be happy in this world! Can our God be of so refined a cruelty as to have created so many millions of human beings, just to worry their lives out? Can He he have framed them into such an ingenious compound of matter and spirit?—can He he have given them such vast capabilities of being glad and being sorry, merely that He he may the better torment them? Can He he have made us out of spite, as Caliban opines of his god Setebos, in Browning's fine poem? If He he had done so, why did He he make the period of our sufferings so short? why did He he not make us eternal? then indeed (were He he such a monster of barbarity, as is presupposed by this hypothesis), might He he have worthily page: 155 wreaked his hatred upon us. Our religion, as Pascal remarks, is the only one that inculcates on its rotaries not only awe and reverence, but love towards the Deity.
Could it reasonably ask us to give our hearts to a capricious, malignant demon, who had put us together, only that he might mangle us? Moreover, would not such a demon in all probability have got tired of his cruel game, having had so many hundred generations on which to practise it? Would not he probably be turning his devilish power of inflicting anguish into some new channel; testing it upon some other family of defenceless sufferers? To no demon's malice do we owe our creation; our God meant us to be boundlessly, flawlessly happy; that we never can be now, thanks to ourselves, but moderately, temperately, soberly happy we may still be, if we go the right way to work. Happy, partly in present fruition, far more in expectancy; happiest in the very fact which at the first blush has a sorry aspect—that all our happinesses here are but transitory, mere types and shadows page: 156 of worthier substances, never to be grasped till this mortal has put on immortality!
My happiness that night was not tem‐ temperate page: 157 perate, moderate, sober: it was limitless, frenzied, drunken. The pace was too good to last, as I might have known, had I not been nineteen, and somewhat of a greenhorn, even for that immature age. I wonder I did not catch my death of cold, I'm sure. It never occurred to me, either to go to bed or take off my wet clothes. Hour after hour, I sat with drenched garments clinging close round me, with my dank thick hair streaming loose about my throat. I might have been Ophelia, without the flowers and the insanity.
There I sat by the open casement window, with a box of mignonette under my nose; with my candle first flickering in its socket, and then departing this life with a grievous stink, and with the summer dawn broadening across the pearl‐gray sky. I had fallen neck and crop into love; it had not taken a minute doing, but for all that, it was as thoroughly done as if I had been walking in deliberately and gingerly for the last dozen years. Quite unexpectedly, when I was neither looking for nor thinking of any such thing, I had found a most precious stone, a pearl of great price, and page: 158 I must needs look at it on all sides, weigh it, and consider gravely to what best profit I could put it. One thing was certain, to no one's lot could it ever have fallen to have discovered so big a pearl; others might have hit upon smaller ones of the same genus, but in size and colour mine must be, have been, and ever will be unique.
The rain had ceased, and one star stole from behind the soft dense cloud‐curtain, and trembled and shook in the distant ether. I fixed my excited sleepless eyes upon it. Had that far world any inhabitants? any beings like ourselves? men and women? were there any red‐haired girls and handsome fair men there? If so, could there be any one living there now experiencing felicity equal to mine? most unlikely. Had any one in this world ever been possessed of such perfect bliss? Was papa as happy when he brought mamma back first to the dear old house, in the days when they planted that Westeria that covered half the south wall now? Mamma in a sad coloured gown, with a waist under her arms, leg of mutton sleeves, and bob page: 159 curls, which was the aspect under which my deceased parent always presented herself to my mind's eye, being the form under which she was represented in a miniature that had hung, ever since I could recollect anything, over against papa's chair in the library? I decided not.
Was Dolly anything like as happy when she was engaged to that pink‐eyed young man of immense property, who died of consumption a week before his intended wedding day. I taxed my memory to recollect any ejaculations expressive of ecstacy given utterance to by my sister, when in the rapturous position of betrothed to that poor, three‐quarter‐witted young Crœsus. The nearest approach to anything tender that I could recall as having proceeded from her, was "that he was not quite such a fool as he looked."
When he died, I remembered that she cried a little, and went into mourning, and said that she wished she had been his widow, poor dear fellow, for that widows' caps were so becoming, and she should have liked to have paid that tribute of respect to his dear memory.page: 160
The pearl‐gray sky turned red, then lilac, then rose, then azure. The sun came forth in his might, and the birds page: 161 began talking volubly all at once, singing hymns and pæans, and blythe good‐morrows one after another. I rose from my seat, and began pacing up and down the room, with my hands locked together.
Why was I so happy? What had I done to deserve it? Why was God so good to me? Did He like me better than other people? Could it be that He chose favourites capriciously among his creatures? Had He so chosen me? or had He only given me this great boon to punish me more heavily by taking it away again? I fell on my knees, and begged and entreated God to visit me in any other way He should see fit; to send any loathsome agonizing sickness upon me; any form of suddenest, awfullest, cruellest death, but not to rob me of my yellow‐haired lover. In what way this hallowed, chastened, pious prayer was granted, you oh my unknown friends! shall see hereafter.
As I rose from my impromptu devotions, I inadvertently put my hand into my pocket and drew out the bank‐notes, which I had till that minute forgotten. I kissed each one separately, since Richard page: 162 might have touched it, locked them all up in a drawer with my Sunday bonnet and my best Bible, and then at length, when other decent folks were getting up, I took off my clothes, laid down and slept profoundly, till roused by the entrance of Mary, the apple‐cheeked, with my hot water.
That day was marked by two incidents, both black in hue; that day papa went away for a week's visit to an old chum, and that day Dolly returned. I think the two occurrences stood somewhat in relation of cause and effect to each other. I think that my father, with a cowardice unworthy of his age and station, fled at the approach of his lovely Dorothea. Dear old gentleman, I forgave him his desertion, because I sympathized so with the occasion of it. I poured out his tea for him, packed up his clothes, and put sprigs of lavender among them to remind him sweetly of his old home and his little daughter, gave him my blessing, and sent him off.
"Good‐bye, dad," said I, hanging about his neck. "Don't catch cold, and don't page: 163 leave any of your pocket‐handkerchiefs behind you, and don't leave me very long to Dolly's tender mercies, and come back soon."
Dolly arrived shortly afterwards. From the upper regions I heard her advent—heard the wheels of her chariot, "low on the sand and loud on the stone," rolling to the door. I went down with laggard steps to receive her. The noon sun was beating on the hall door, making the iron knobs red hot; beating, too, on the aged and dilapidated Collins, who stood on the flagstone, with his ugly old head wagging like a mandarin's, partly from ague, partly in greeting to the returned Dorothea. The cab stood piled with luggage in the blinding glare, and the poor cab horse, with its lean head drooping, feebly tried to swish away the flies from its thin flanks with its tail. I stood in speechless, loveless admiration, as Dolly daintily descended, fresh and trim, as if she had been travelling in cotton wool and silver paper, in a bandbox, instead of in dusty railway and mouldy chaise.
"Well, Nell," said she, presenting her page: 164 cool peach cheek to me, "how are you? Much the same as usual, I see—hair arranged with a pitchfork and dress with a view to ventilation."
I said nothing smart in reply to this fond greeting, because, as Johnson candidly avowed to the obsequious Bozzy, "I had nothing ready, sir." I followed Dolly meekly into the house, taking great care not to tread on her train. She had addressed to me but half a dozen words. I had not been above five seconds in her company, and yet she had compelled me to descend to the old standing ground miles below her. In her absence, I felt myself to be a lovable, admirable, rational woman; once again in her presence, I returned to my old station of gauche, charmless, witless school‐girl.


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text: blog postsMemories of CAM Program Early Years 1974-1976 at SSUOct 19, 2010 9:08 pmIn 1973, a professor at Oberlin gave me information about a new program in Community Arts Management (CAM) at Sangamon State University directed by Dave Sennema. I did not act on it for a year, but my husband Frank and I traveled to Springfield by train and bus to check out the school in 1974. I entered the program fall of 1974. Our CAM classes took place in the Capitol Street building downtown, where we parked on the roof of a nearby garage. Our group was the second class in the CAM program. There had been two students in the first CAM program, and there were now about eight of us in the program.. We took different courses at the downtown building and at the main campus in the south part of town. At the time, there were only a few buildings on the main campus - the library, the auditorium and a classroom building. Cornfields came right up to the edge of the campus. As someone from the East coast, I found this interesting.I remember seeing some great folk performers who came to town. Richard and Linda Thompson (while they were still together) performed at a wonderful coffeehouse on Capitol Street next door to our classroom building. (Richard Thompson became well known later in the band "Fairport Convention." Jean Ritchie came to the main campus auditorium. This was my first time seeing her live. A few years after leaving SSU, I was able to purchase my own dulcimer, and would be fortunate to see her several more times in Greater Cincinnati. Back then, I did not suspect that the dulcimer would lead to my present career as a performing musician.During the first year, we rotated internships in local arts organizations and took many other courses on campus. The most unusual thing I remember doing was working with CAM student Debbie Van Nest to paint a mural with different underwater creatures taken from children's paintings at a local elementary school. The students had made colorful drawings of fish and underwater creatures, which we designed into a wall mural. One day, the tornado sirens went off and we hated to get off our ladders while we were in the middle of painting, but we reluctantly joined the children sitting with their hands over their heads in the hallway. On the way, I glanced out the window and saw the sky the color of pea soup with a lavender stripe of light near the ground. The pea soup part started to form a point like the bottom of an ice cream cone. We sat down in a hurry and covered our heads. The tornado did not touch down that day, luckily. This was part of a class called Creativity taught by artist Maura Formigoni.I also had my first professional singing job at SSU, when Professor Anna May Smith asked me to entertain at the Faculty Club in the spring of 1975. This also sowed the seeds for my music career.The second year, we interned at different organizations around the country and returned to Springfield to share experiences and to write a collaborative manual. I have not returned to Springfield since 1976, and imagine that the campus has grown beyond those initial few buildings sitting in the cornfields.These days, I am a free-lance Celtic harper, composer and recording artist in Greater Cincinnati after having had day jobs in public relations, advertising, and directing the alumni association for a local art school in the past. My husband Frank performs with me on bodhran drum when I'm not playing solo. We will be performing and teaching several workshops in Asheville, NC in late October, 2010 for Southeastern Harp Weekend. Photos of us can be found at this link at the bottom of the page: http://www.southeasternharps.com/SEHW/Friday_Concert.html. I have used the management skills in my harp career and helping to run some local festivals. Indirectly, they have been helpful with financial and legal issues of caregiving for elderly parents.I have fond memories of the camaraderie of our CAM group and some fun parties, like Don Adams' omlette party and the white elephant party where we all brought something to give away in lieu of gifts at holiday time. We spent the evening laughing at everything people brought. For poor graduate students, this was a wonderful party.I would enjoy hearing from other CAM alums.Nancy Bick Clark, M.A. 1976 SSUMy story, question or comment may be used in other 40 Years publicity materials, such as flyers, web pages, the online discussion board, etc. Yesstats412 Views 0 Comments additional actions Add Comment


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|It's a pretty impressive feat to make the flawless Kate Middleton look unflattering, so perhaps British artist Paul Emsley should be commended on his polarizing new official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge. Though Middleton graciously smiled and praised the work, many critics are savaging it for more accurately capturing the ghost of Kate Middleton than Kate Middleton herself. But perhaps it's just a hazing. The duchess now joins an illustrious list of notables forced to feign delight awkwardly while standing alongside questionable official portraits.
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|"Ghastly." "Dull." "Lifeless." The first official portrait of Kate Middleton is being called so bad by art critics that The Daily Beast's own Royalist, Tom Sykes, wonders, "Will the artist be sent to the tower for the hideous picture?" Totally failing to capture Middleton's youthful beauty, Paul Emsley perhaps was "aiming to show us what Kate would look like if she was 20 years older, smoked, never washed her hair, and ate junk food," Sykes suggests.
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|In 2010 royal brothers Harry and William were given a historic dual portrait, depicting the princes "in casual conversation." While not considered the disaster that Middleton's portrait is being branded, the boys seem to be suffering the painful awkwardness that seems always to strike when someone instructs you to "pose like you're relaxed." Prince Harry's own review was hardly a rave and more of a roast of his brother: "I don't know, I'm a little bit more ginger in there than I am in real life, I think, I don't know, and [William] got given more hair so, apart from that, it is what it is, but no, it's nice, it could have been worse."
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|The Iron Lady is looking a little smudged. The 2006 portrait of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was, fittingly, constructed from silk chiffon and rusted iron by artist Benjamin Shine. Thatcher can hardly contain her enthusiasm.
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|You'd be forgiven for not realizing that Tony Blair is the man in his official portrait, as the eye is immediately drawn instead to the red poppy on his lapel. Artist Jonathan Yeo included the poppy in the painting, unveiled in 2008, as a symbol of the many wars Blair led the nation into while prime minister. Yeo's "painting uses a classic strategy of the traditional portrait artist when dealing with a sitter's disfigurement," wrote Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. "In paintings by Goya or Ghirlandaio people defiantly sport a physical blemish. Blair sports his horrific political blemish."
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|Presidential portrait or senior class photo? No one could accuse former president George W. Bush of not looking at ease in the 2008 portrait painted by his Yale classmate Robert Anderson. Bush apparently insisted on the informal pose, and Anderson said his goal was to portray the president in a "personal and conversational manner." The wallet-size version is going to look great on grandma's fridge.
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What you can find out about your child's donor or donor-conceived genetic siblings
The HFEA has a record of all births as a result of assisted conception treatments from licensed UK fertility clinics from 1 August 1991 – the date the HFEA was set up – and onwards.
The information includes details of everyone whose donated sperm, eggs or embryos are used at licensed UK fertility clinics.
Parents of a donor-conceived child are able to access information on their child's donor (and about any donor-conceived genetic siblings) from the HFEA or the clinic where they received treatment. This is because parents are seen as guardians of their children's interests and are in the best position to pass information on to their children at an age when they can understand it.
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- What can I find out about my child's donor?
- What can I find out about my child's donor-conceived genetic siblings?
- What should I do with the information I receive?
- Where does the information come from?
- What can my child find out about their donor?
What can I find out about my child's donor?
When you apply to the HFEA for information you will be given everything we hold about your child's donor except for that which could identify them. Only information which could not, on its own or in conjunction with any other information, be used to trace or identify the donor will be given.
Different donors will have provided different amounts and types of information. Some donors may have only provided a small amount of information, others will have provided a more detailed description about themselves as a person.
The information you receive, depending on what your child's donor provided, could include:
- a physical description of the donor (height, weight, eye and hair colour)
- the year and country of the donor's birth
- the donor's ethnicity
- whether the donor had any children at time of donation, how many and their gender
- the donor's marital status
- the donor's medical history
- a goodwill message from the donor to any potential children.
Please note that any identifying information in the donor goodwill message and pen profile will be redacted.
- View an example of a redacted message (pdf 536Kb)
Information about your child's donor-conceived genetic siblings
In many cases, lots of different couples will have used the same donor to help create their family. This means that there may be other people who are genetically related to your child.
Parents are entitled to find out the number, sex and year of birth of their child's donor-conceived genetic siblings.
10 different families are able to use the same donor and have as many children as they like, so it is possible that your child could have over 20 donor-conceived genetic siblings. It is also possible that they may have none.
What to do with the information you receive
We provide information to parents so that it can be passed on to their donor-conceived children. It could be that your child has shown an interest in learning about their background, or you are preparing to tell your child that they were conceived with the help of a donor.
There are support groups and professional counselling services which may be able to give you advice and help on how best to talk to your child.
For more information see:
Where does this information come from?
The information we hold about donors is submitted to us by the clinics where they register.
When donors donate they have to fill in a donor information form. Download the current form to get an idea about the information we collect:
- Donor information form (example)
What can my child find out about their donor?
When your child reaches 16, he or she can apply to the HFEA to find out if he or she is donor-conceived. If the applicant is donor-conceived, and on the HFEA Register, non-identifying information about their donor, and about any donor-conceived genetic siblings they may have may be disclosed.
When your child reaches 18, he or she can apply to the HFEA for information about their donor and donor-conceived genetic siblings. The donor information could, in some cases, include identifying details such as a name, date of birth and last known address.
Due to changes in the law, people who donate at a licenced UK fertility clinic, after 1 April 2005, are required to provide contact details that can be passed on to any potential children who apply to the HFEA for information. Prior to 1 April 2005, donation occurred anonymously.
In recognition of the fact that donor-conceived children may have a desire to discover as much about their origins as they can, and that donors are also interested in learning about any genetically related children they may have, those who donated prior to 1 April 2005 have been given the option to remove their anonymity if they wish.
If a donor removes their anonymity by 're-registering' at the clinic where they donated or the HFEA, their contact details can be provided to any child over 18 who requests this information from the HFEA. Since donor re-registration was introduced in 2005, 90 donors have re-registered.
Where is the donor information kept?
Information on donors and the donor-conceived is stored on what is called the HFEA Register. The register contains information on all registrations, treatments and outcomes of assisted reproduction techniques in the UK since 1 August 1991.
Why have the Register?
The Register gives people conceived through donation an opportunity to learn about their origins.
It also allows donors to discover if they have helped an infertile person to get the family they longed for.
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Sharing Nature Sharing Life
In 1974 Comvita founders Claude Stratford and Alan Bougen imagined people living healthy lives. Bees were their inspiration, and honey their medicine.
People were drawn to the same vision, hearing the stories of care for the community through good health. Paengaroa became home to Comvita, a place for people working with and learning from nature.
Through our colleagues, community & customers we share and receive knowledge and compassion, creating respectful relationships full of meaning and joy.
We constantly strive to improve the way we do things, we ask why and how might we, listen to others and nature, learning, understanding and sharing.
We dare to be different, we challenge the status quo, embrace new ways and learn from our mistakes.
Connecting people to nature and good health. That's how it all started in 1974. Today Comvita continues that vision by researching and selecting sources of natural ingredients, carefully tending and harvesting them to preserve their purity.
Inspire, enable and empower people to live healthy, happy and vibrant lives.
We began with a few guiding principles, and we still hold to them today: Preserve the purity of source, share knowledge, replant and replenish….
Nature is our pure source. We research and select natural ingredients; tending and harvesting them with care to preserve their powerful healing intelligence.
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She's called Novak both her best friend and her mortal enemy -- sounds like any other BFF relationship to me.
Photo: Nikki Nelson / WENN.com
She's called Novak both her best friend and her mortal enemy -- sounds like any other BFF relationship to me.
Photo: Nikki Nelson / WENN.com
Quite a mouthful, so it only makes sense that she'd shorten it up a bit. If only we could get Zach Galifianakis to do the same.
Photo: Dan Jackman/WENN.com
Mindy was born and raised in Cambridge, MA, then went on to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
Photo: New England Magazine
Mindy was only 24 when she became the first and only female writer (of a team of eight writers) for The Office. She eventually evolved from writer status to actor status with her portrayal of the character Kelly Kapoor.
She continues to write, and has even produced and directed some episodes, too.
Photo: NBC
Mindy's mom was living in Nigeria when she was preggers with her, and American TV was limited. The only show that her parents could get was Mork & Mindy, and because of this, her middle name was taken from the quirky series about an alien who comes down to earth and woos a human.
Photo: Flavorwire
Although she has only written for one SNL episode, it's still pretty impressive because for the longest time SNL was known as an all boys club when it came to writers.
Photo: NBC
Along with her acting and writing for television, Mindy also released a series of essays last year called Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). Just like Mindy, it's funny and witty, and will make you cry from laughing so hard.
I'll say it again: the gal is brilliant.


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Welding I: MIG
Learn the basics of MIG welding. This class will cover all the necessary safety instruction before heading into the shop. Topics covered and practiced will include how to tack weld, laying beads, and the different types of joints. Each class is limited to 8 participants to allow for all students to receive the instruction and practice needed to successfully complete a small project. Helmets & gloves are provided.
Requirements: Closed toed shoes, long sleeve shirt and long pants (natural fibers)
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2012 election
Outcome 2012 Presidential Election Predictable By Typography?
Now that the dust has settled and the United States of America have elected their new… errr… old president, I thought I'd have a look at the campaign logos to see if the type tells us anything that we should have known. 20/20 hindsight, ya know? Since Shepard Fairey and the Obama camp embraced Gotham […]Read more
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That store could be in the garage of my apartment building and I'd still avoid going there most of the time.
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.
If nothing else, Burbank TRU is good for some laughs!
And I'd rather put up with Dazed any day over Pimply Faced Teen at La Cienega TRU.
i can only remember finding good stuff at Burbank TRU maybe 3 times in the last 3 years. That's a crappy average.
If anyone finds a Crimson Empire comic pk. could you stash one for me?
need one pretty quickly
update: found some last night miraculously. One is for a trade and the other I will keep. I also found a shadow guard. hooray!
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It's easy how it works at Burbank TRU: You just gotta call and see what day they get a truck. Just show up that day AT OPENING and the stuff will be there. You don't have to go every day of the week looking and wasting your time and gas. Yes, you still have to put up with the employees, but that's the same situation at every TRU.
Panorama walmart had a nice selection of TF animated. They had a little bit of everything - so if you're into those animated head on down. I don't want to say what was there and then have it be gone when u get there. Pm for add'tl details.
Also I found the crimson empire pack and FU shadow guard there. I think they were putbacks from a stash. Lucked out.
Indy vehicle fans. I saw a few cargo trucks and the jungle cutter as well.
sorry for the late post, I stashed all 3 of the 'black and grey armored' SL Troopers,(sorry guys, don't remember what they are all named) at TRU la cienega this morning, the stash should still be there. Pm me for location.
Hide it, Post it, and PM it.
Utapau Shadow Troopers FM. If they rerelease the SDCC excl. Shadow Scout, I hope they repaint the visor red like these guys. They'll look like the comic version and 20x better. I know this is wishful thinking with Hasbro.
Battle on Mygeeto is up at HTS, as are 8-pack army building bundles of troopers which show 9 figures instead of the 8 advertised.


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Wind Cave
National Park
South Dakota
... we made our way down the stairway against the very strong wind and then began our descent proper, into the wonderful, indescribably wonderful cave - down, down into the very 'bowels of the earth."
To witness the beginning of the formation of Wind Cave, one of the world's oldest caves, you would have to have been here 320 million years ago. At that time parts of the limestone that constitute the upper levels of Wind Cave were being dissolved into cave passageways. As ancient ocean levels fluctuated, these passages were filled with sediments. Beneath the ocean, a thick layer of sediments continued to be deposited above that limestone.
About 60 million years ago, the forces that uplifted the Rocky Mountains also uplifted the modern Black Hills producing large fractures and cracks in the overlying limestone. Over millions of years, water moving slowly through those cracks dissolved the limestone to produce the complex maze of the cave's passages.
Later erosion changed surface drainage patterns that caused subsurface water levels to drop, draining the cave passages. As the modern Wind Cave formed, many of these newer passages intersected the original cave, revealing the red clay and sandstone sediments from 320 million years ago.
It was after the cave formed that most of the colorful cave formations began to decorate its walls. One of the most prominent features in Wind Cave is boxwork - thin, honeycomb-shaped structures of calcite that protrude from the walls and ceilings. Nowhere else in the world can such a large display be seen. Some of the better known cave formations, such as stalactites and stalagmites, are rare here.
You might wonder if after more than 100 years of exploration there is anything new to discover in Wind Cave. Barometric wind studies estimate that approximately five percent of the total cave has been discovered. In 1891 Alvin McDonald wrote in a diary of his cave trips:
The better equipped cavers of today have not given up. They are continuing to push farther and farther into the cave's cool, black recesses.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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All Bar One MillenniumSq Leeds
Unit D Electric Press, 4 Millenium Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 3AD
Unit D Electric Press, 4 Millenium Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 3AD
Poor Tuesday has never been the most popular day of the week, but here at All Bar One we've given her a rather fabulous makeover with our best evening wine-and-dine offer yet. A mere £20 will get you and your friends sharing four small plates from our enticing new international menu, along with a bottle of house red, white or rose. Perhaps a spread of crispy Feta & Spinach Borek with chilli tomato jam, Bresaola with rocket, Parmesan, extra-virgin olive oil & balsamic, Chorizo & Halloumi skewers with pico de gallo salsa and a Little Mezze of Middle Eastern delights.
Choose a bottle of Coopers Select Wine (red, white rosé) or, if you have your heart set on that special bottle of crisp New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc or silky Chilean Pinot Noir, we'll upgrade you to a Discovery Wine for an extra £5. Meet our current favourites:


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Ballet-Folklórico de Princeton to perform March 8
Posted March 4, 2003; 09:44 a.m.
Ballet-Folklórico de Princeton , a Mexican folk dancing group, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the Frist Campus Center theater.
The show, called "De Punta y Tacón," will combine tap dancing, mariachi music, vibrant costumes and flying machetes. Tickets are $4 and are available at the Frist box office, (609) 258-1742.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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Friday's Familiar Strangers art opening at Eye Level Art brought together five graffiti artists from 4 different states, art patrons and top notch street style. Art was on display from Bigfoot, El Kamino, Chip 7, Patrick Griffin and Charleston's own heavy hitter Ishmael, of who I was fortunate enough to snag a free print available to show goers. It was a cultural awakening of sorts delivering paintings, photos, film and even 3-D art (with 3-D glasses provided) of which I could barely pull myself away from... well that is until I saw the fashions sported by many of the art lovers. Speaking of, don't forget to take a look at the Street Style gallery from this event. Even though he was shy to a camera (hey, I get it), I did have a brief moment to chat with Ishmael as I was just about to leave and he was full of gratitude uttering thank you as every other word in his conversation. No, thank you! This goes down in my book as one of the coolest nights in our local art world!


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Making a game sub-board? Willy nilly game/personal post mix has my OCD out of whack! haahaa
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Making a game sub-board? Willy nilly game/personal post mix has my OCD out of whack! haahaa
I suggested it once. It was a no-go.
I would agree with that, sometimes Games takes up the whole first page!!
I agree! I wonder why it was a no go.
PatriceJ has previously posted that there would be no 'games' forum
Nancy in western NY
before you speak THINK
T is it True? H is it Helpful? I is it Inspiring? N is it Necessary? K is it Kind?
that's correct. we are a quilting board. games are not part of our mission or focus.
I Quilt, I Nap, I Quilt Some More ... Aaaaah, The Good Life!
I also have an eddres you can use if you need to contact me with questions or suggestions that relate to our community: firstname.lastname@example.com
But there are games here already. If they are allowed even though they are not a primary focus, then perhaps there is some case to consider putting them where those who don't wish to view them can more easily ignore them.
Fortune favours the prepared mind
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
Gosh, I just don't get what's so hard about scrolling past the game posts, like you scroll past any other post you don't have an interest in. I don't play the games either, but I certainly don't let them bother me. I probably scroll past many more than I read, it's just part of "surfing".
MzzzQuilts aka Ellen
They don't bother me per se but I don't participate in them. It would be no trouble at all to create a sub board in the general chit area since it's non-quilting. But of course, it was only a suggestion.


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We haven't posted an official release announcement, but we did release LNX-BBC 2.1 (get a torrent, or do lame old direct download). They're going to be sold through the EFF store and the FSF membership program, and of course you can sell your own if you like. Business-card CD-R blanks have prices comparable to those of regular CD-R blanks a couple of years ago.
I've had this silly momentary obsession with hacking our releases so that their MD5 checksums start with "bbcbbc", or perhaps so that both their MD5 and SHA1 checksums start with "bbc". I've been experimenting with some Python code which appends bytes to a given document in order to cause it to have a hash with chosen properties. Fortunately, you can't choose more than a few bytes of the hash, as a practical matter, but my success in this makes me want to encourage people to actually read the whole PGP key fingerprint when you're signing a key. Some people sort of doze off in the middle of verifying a fingerprint.
To make a checksum start with "bbc", you only have to examine about 4096 possibilities, and to make it start with "bbcbbc" (or "bbc210") it would be about 16777216 possibilities. Soon after that, we start to run into trouble.
Zack suggested the right approach: you don't hash the whole file every time, you hash the original file, save the current state of the digest, and then see what the output of the digest would be if you updated it with any of some thousands or millions or more of alternatives. In my code this is done with a loop containing a digest.copy(), digest.update(), and digest.hexdigest(), which work properly with Python's md5 and sha modules. It takes only a few seconds to run for a short string.
Bram is famous; Jack Valenti sent personal letters to each of the five Commissioners of the FCC, mentioning BitTorrent downloads of TV shows as an argument for expanding technology regulation. The letters are signed "Warmly, Jack" -- by hand.
I know of two useful BitTorrent patches floating around; I wrote one (to make --responsefile and --url basically optional) and Aaron Swartz wrote another (a command-line downloader with a single status line, like wget).
I'm pretty busy with EFF stuff and still keeping my diary over here.


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Author to discuss art looting by the Nazis, Nov. 12
Posted November 8, 2002; 01:55 p.m.
Hector Feliciano will discuss his book "The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Feliciano researched classified and recently declassified documents, interrogation reports, detailed Nazi inventories, private family archives, museum exhibition, and sales catalogs, and conducted thousands of interviews. His work reveals a conspiratorial international art trade with present links in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the former Soviet Union.
Since the publication of his book, many rightful owners have recovered their stolen paintings and artwork.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archeology , Accion Puertorriquena y Amigos, Program in Jewish Studies, Department of History, and the Center for Jewish Life. A reception will follow the lecture in Shultz Dinning Hall, Robertson Hall.
Contact: Tom Bartus (609) 258-3601