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Steady rains brought minor flooding to parts of Henderson and Transylvania counties Sunday, closing Patton Park on Asheville Highway, Jeffress Road in Mills River and Fruitland Road.
Steady rains brought minor flooding to parts of Henderson and Transylvania counties Sunday, closing Patton Park on Asheville Highway, Jeffress Road in Mills River and Fruitland Road.
A flood warning remained in effect for central Transylvania and Henderson counties until 7 p.m. Sunday. The National Weather Service also issued a flood warning for the French Broad River near Blantyre until Tuesday evening.
The city of Hendersonville closed Patton Park after Brittain Creek, a tributary of Mud Creek that winds through the park, overflowed into the parking lot Sunday.
Jackson Park, which usually floods before Patton, was still open as of late Sunday, said Henderson County Fire Marshal Wally Hollis. However, stream gauges indicated Mud Creek could escape its banks within the park by morning.
As of 3 p.m., Hollis said Jeffress Road was the only county road closed by high water.
"I expect some more will flood tonight, but we'll just have to wait and see," Hollis said.
Around 5 p.m., his prediction came true when county dispatchers reported Clear Creek was washing over the first bridge on Fruitland Road. N.C. Department of Transportation officials were called out to barricade the crossing.
Parts of Henderson County had received between 1.8 inches and 3.48 inches of rainfall through Sunday afternoon, with the rain gauge on Pinnacle Mountain bearing the highest readings, Hollis said.
Including the 1.5 inches that fell there Sunday, the Asheville Regional Airport has received more than 72 inches of rain for the year, according to National Weather Service officials.
Meteorologist Chris Horne said forecasts call for storm clouds to drop another inch or more of rain on Henderson County overnight before beginning to taper off Monday morning. Temperatures will plunge for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with highs only in the low 40s.


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Cincinnati's streetcar project has completed its first mile.
Work on the nearly four-mile loop hit the milestone this past week.
The project's leader tells The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1hKB4lN ) that it's an achievement worth celebrating because of the recent political battle over the project.
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley vowed not to support more spending on the $133 million project. But a city council vote in December revitalized the project, which is set to be finished in 2016.
The streetcar line is designed to connect Cincinnati's downtown and riverfront stadiums with the nearby Over-the-Rhine historic district's trendy bars, restaurants and a popular farmers market.

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If you like mint chocolate chip ice cream this is heaven!!!! It really tastes like Baskin Robbins (well almost as good!) it takes a little more time but it is worth it!! ENJOY!!!!! oh yeh when i am making it i usually double it because it is a little bit of a hock and its so good that i like to keep some in the freezer for other times!! :)
10 people
3 Eggs (seperated)
½ cup confection sugar
3 Tbsp corn Syrup
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 Dessert Whip
½ tsp Pepermint Extract
2 Bars of Chocolate
4 drops green food coloring
1 drop Yellow food coloring
Beat Egg whites until stiff
Add confectionary sugar and corn syrup- mix until well blended
In another bowl (or clean out and dry the first bowl) beat dessert whip until stiff
Meanwhile melt 1 chocolate bar and spread the chocolate onto a piece of parchment paper and put it in the freezer for a few minutes, till its hard. once its hard roll up the parchment paper with the chocolate on the inside and it'll break into tonz of little chocolate shreds.
take the 2nd chocolate bar and using a peeler, peel 1/2 the chocolate bar into a bowl and the other 1/2 break into chunks.
now to make things clear you have 3 bowls. 1) egg and sugars 2) whip cream 3)chocolate- in a lot of different shapes and sizes
put the Vanilla extract and the pepermint extract and the food coloring into the whipped cream and mix it for a second
Now fold everything together! then freeze
it should be a beautiful color green and there should be a lot of nice pieces of chocolate floating around!!


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1.00 – Pilot
Something Wicca This Way Comes but with Phoebe played by Lori Rom instead of Alyssa Milano.
1.01 – Something Wicca This Way Comes
Reunited in the grand Victorian home of their childhood, a trio of sisters discovers they are gifted Wicca witches. Little do they know that their new-found powers mean that they are now prey to evil forces.
1.02 – I've Got You Under My Skin
Phoebe can't resist a peek into the future. She and her sisters earn their first lesson in witchcraft – deadly demons can come in any kind of package, including gorgeous male photographers.
1.03 – Thank You For Not Morphing
The sisters' estranged father returns, but he has teamed up with the new neighbours – who are shapeshifters trying to steal the Book of Shadows.
1.04 – Dead Man Dating
Piper falls for the ghost of a murdered man, who needs her help. Phoebe works as a psychic to make money for Prue's birthday present. And Prue discovers a devastating betrayal.
1.05 – Dream Sorcerer
Prue finds her sleep disturbed by strange visions in which a man taunts her. Later she discovers it to be a demon who is capable of stalking and killing people in their dreams. Phoebe and Piper cast a spell to attract men.
1.06 – Wedding From Hell
An evil bride-to-be, interested only in creating more demonic offspring, battles the Halliwell sisters during her demonic wedding party but is thwarted by Prue's investigation of a mysterious knife.
1.07 – The Fourth Sister
A troubled teenager, Aviva befriends Phoebe with the hopes of joining the Halliwell coven of witches, but Aviva has her own agenda – to steal the Charmed Ones' powers.
1.08 – The Truth Is Out There… And It Hurts
Acting on Phoebe's premonition, the sisters race to stop a mysterious killer from striking again. While Prue casts a spell to find out how Andy will react to her secret.
1.09 – The Witch Is Back
A warlock from the past is released from his curse and tries to steal the Charmed Ones' powers. However, the sisters resurrect an ancestor from the past to combat him.
1.10 – Wicca Envy
Prue's devious boss and secret warlock Rex frames Prue for stealing a priceless tiara and puts her in jail. The sisters plot a jailbreak to catch the sly Rex in action.
1.11 – Feats of Clay
Phoebe's ex-boyfriend Clay breezes into town looking for a reconciliation but, as usual, there are strings attached. This time, Clay brings with him a mortal curse in a stolen Egyptian urn.
1.12 – The Wendigo
Andy goes on a stakeout with an FBI agent who is hunting a vicious beast. Prue hires Phoebe to work at the auction house, but Phoebe's vision of a terrible car crash immediately sends her off to find a long-lost child.
1.13 – From Fear To Eternity
Every 1300 years, a unique demon appears that feeds on the fear of witches. This time he is targeting the Halliwell sisters and they receive aid from their ancestors just as they are close to their own fearful deaths.
1.14 – Secrets And Guys
A kidnapped boy with special powers sends cryptic cries for help to Prue. The search for the boy leads to the unveiling of a special secret about Leo, Piper's beau.
1.15 – Is There A Woogy In the House
Phoebe's fear of a Woogyman who lives in the basement is an ongoing source of amusement for her two sisters. That is, until a violent earthquake unleashes the long-dormant demon that turns Phoebe against her siblings.
1.16 – Which Prue Is It Anyway?
In an effort to protect Phoebe, Prue chants an incantation to multiply her strength. Surprisingly, the spell results in the creation of multiple Prues.
1.17 – That Seventies Episode
The Halliwell sisters must cast a spell that returns them to the mid-70s in order to save themselves from a warlock that is immune to the powers of the Charmed Ones.
1.18 – When Bad Warlocks Turn Good (aka When Bad Warlocks Go Good)
Outrageous situations arise when Phoebe tries to help Piper make a love connection, and Prue meets a young man who is fighting against his destiny to become evil.
1.19 – Out Of Sight (aka Blind Sided)
The sisters attempt a dangerous rescue of a boy who has been kidnapped by a Grimlock, and Prue's secret is shattered when a reporter witnesses her using her magical powers.
1.20 – The Power Of Two
The evil spirit of a serial killer escapes from Alcatraz Island seeking revenge. It's up to Phoebe and Prue to figure out how to vanquish this evil spirit and stop him from killing again, and they must do it without Piper.
1.21 – Love Hurts
Returning to San Francisco, Leo asks the Halliwell sisters to protect an innocent woman who is being stalked by a Darklighter. Piper finally learns that Leo is a whitelighter. Because of this, Piper must say goodbye to her love.
1.22 – Deja Vu All Over Again
A warlock receives a visit from Tempus, a demon who offers to turn back time until the warlock succeeds in killing all the Halliwells.
2.01 – Witch Trial
When a demon steals the Book of Shadows, the Halliwell sisters have just one chance to recapture it or they will lose their powers forever.
2.02 – Morality Bites
Phoebe has a horrifying premonition of her own execution, so the sisters cast a one-time spell that catapults them into the future to try and change her fate.
2.03 – The Painted World
The sisters are trapped in a painting by a warlock who plans to torch it and destroy them unless Phoebe can reverse their impending doom.
2.04 – The Devil's Music
Leo returns to help the sisters save their young neighbour when the manager of a band scheduled to play at Piper's nightclub makes a demonic deal.
2.05 – She's A Man, Baby, A Man!
An evil demon is luring men to their deaths, so Prue casts a spell that transforms her into a man and goes undercover to investigate.
2.06 – That Old Black Magic
An evil witch tries to destroy the sisters. Their only hope is to find a chosen one who can use the witch's wand for good, rather than evil.
2.07 – They're Everywhere
The sisters run foul of a group of warlocks known as The Collectors, who gain knowledge by draining human brains.
The sisters visit the summer camp where their mother drowned and discovers that she was slain by a watery demon while her Whitelighter guide and lover stood by helplessly.
2.09 – Ms Hellfire
The Halliwell sisters are targeted by a hit woman known as Ms Hellfire. Prue goes undercover to find out who hired her, flirting with a cold-blooded criminal to do so.
2.10 – Heartbreak City
Love is put tot he ultimate test when a demon sets out to destroy Cupid and all his recent love matches, putting the relationships of the Charmed Ones in danger.
2.11 – Reckless Abandon
The girls receive a crash course in motherhood when Phoebe finds an abandoned baby boy. While searching for the parents, the sisters learn a vengeful spirit has killed all the men in the child's family.
2.12 – Awakened
Prue and Phoebe ignore the code preventing witches from using spells for personal gain when Piper comes down with a mysterious, life-threatening illness.
2.13 – Animal Pragmatism
When Phoebe's friends use a book of spells to turn animals into men, Phoebe's attempt to reverse the spell goes horribly wrong.
2.14 – Pardon My Past
Phoebe risks her life by travelling back in time in order to reverse the past in which she was seduced by an immortal warlock to give in to the dark side of her power.
2.15 – Give Me A Sign
It's a tense time for the sister trio, when Bane, a demon's henchman, kidnaps Prue, hoping that her powers will help protect him. Despite her refusals, a growing attraction to Bane might make her think twice.
2.16 – Murphy's Luck
When Prue rescues a woman who has been driven to attempt suicide by a Darklighter – she finds herself his next tormented victim.
2.17 – How To Make A Quilt Out Of Americans
An old family friend, who also practices witchcraft, reappears in the Charmed One's lives and appeals to them for help.
2.18 – Chick Flick
The sisters go to the movies and find themselves up against the most scariest monsters from the silver screen. Could this be the end for Phoebe and Piper as they find themselves trapped inside a black and white film?
2.19 – Ex Libris
Phoebe tries to help the ghost of a fellow student, who was killed by a demon wanting to stop the publication of the student's thesis proving the existence of evil.
2.20 – Astral Monkey
A doctor accidentally acquires the powers of all three Halliwell sisters during a blood transfusion and begins using them to harvest organs from innocent victims.
2.21 – Apocalypse, Not
The Halliwell sisters come up against The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Prue and one of the Horseman are sucked into a vortex between good and evil, and her sisters must save her or save the world.
2.22 – Be Careful What You Witch For
Tired of losing countless warlocks and demons to the powerful Charmed Ones, an infernal council sends a fast-talking genie to destroy the sisters by granting each of them a wish.
3.01 – The Honeymoon's Over
Prue and Phoebe set a killer free in order to protect their identities, then must fight a soul-stealing Guardian without Piper, who has disappeared with Leo.
3.02 – Magic Hour
Piper and Leo defiantly attempt to marry in spite of the wrath from The Powers That Be, as a demon infiltrates the three Charmed Ones.
3.03 – Once Upon A Time
Piper goes on strike against The Powers That Be, so Prue and Phoebe must work alone to save a little girl protecting a fairy princess from trolls.
3.04 – All Halliwell's Eve
The Halliwell sisters travel back to the 1600's to protect a coven in danger of extinction and save their own future.
3.05 – Sight Unseen
An invisible demon is sent by the Triad to destroy the sisters as Prue obsesses over a human stalker who seeks to kill her.
3.06 – Primrose Empath
Piper and Phoebe race against time to save a cursed Prue who has been tricked by Cole into helping a demon.
3.07 – Power Outage
Cole/Belthazor invokes an anger demon to pit the sisters against each other, rendering them powerless and vulnerable to attack.
3.08 – Sleuthing With the Enemy
Prue and Piper team up with a bounty hunter demon to destroy Belthazor, but Phoebe has other plans for the man she loves.
3.09 – Coyote Piper
When a life essence takes possession of Piper, her soul is at risk of dying if Prue and Phoebe don't kill her body.
3.10 – We All Scream For Ice Cream
Phoebe and Prue battle to save innocent children from the force of The Nothing but must enlist the help of their father to do so.
3.11 – Blinded By the Whitelighter
The Charmed Ones battle their most powerful opponent, an ancient warlock who threatens the existence of all Whitelighters.
3.12 – Wrestling With Demons
When Phoebe confesses that she let Cole escape, a betrayed Prue and Piper must put their feelings aside to stop Prue's old boyfriend from becoming a demon.
3.13 – Bride and Gloom
Phoebe turns to Cole for help when a demon tricks Prue into marriage so he can turn the sisters evil and get the Book of Shadows.
3.14 – The Good, The Bad, And The Cursed
Phoebe's visit to a ghost town becomes a nightmare and when Leo can't help her, Prue and Cole must unravel the mystery to save her.
3.15 – Just Harried
Piper begs for a demon-free wedding day, but her marriage to Leo us put on hold when Prue is accused of murder.
3.16 – Death Takes A Halliwell
Prue faces the Angel of Death while two seeker demons kill everything in their way to find and kill Cole.
3.17 – Pre-Witched
The Charmed Ones battle a warlock that gets stronger every time it is vanquished, as Piper wrestles with her decision to move out of the manor.
3.18 – Sin Francisco
When the sisters fight a demon cursing people with the seven deadly sins, they must first save themselves from succumbing to the powers of their own sins.
3.19 – The Demon Who Came In From the Cold
The sisters and Leo count on Cole to help them when he goes undercover in The Brotherhood of demons, but can he be trusted?
3.20 – Exit Strategy
When Cole is framed for the killing of a witch the sisters tried to protect, he finds it harder to contain his dark side while Phoebe can no longer control her powers.
3.21 – Look Who's Barking
Prue becomes a dog to help track down a Banshee demon but when the demon attacks Phoebe, Cole must save her.
3.22 – All Hell Breaks Loose
When Piper and Prue are exposed as witches, Phoebe sacrifices herself to the dark side to save them but the deal destroys them all.
4.01 – Charmed Again
Phoebe and Piper grieve Prue's death and struggle with the demise of the Power of Three until they discover the existence of half-sister, Paige, a Whitelighter.
4.02 – Charmed Again II
Phoebe and Piper must find Paige and convince her of her witch powers before The Source turns her evil forever.
4.03 – Hell Hath No Fury
Paige steals the Book of Shadows for personal gain, while Piper's inability to deal with Prue's death makes her vulnerable to demon vigilantes.
4.04 – Enter The Demon
Paige creates havoc when she mixes potions that switches her body with Phoebe and must battle evil that has opened a portal between two worlds.
4.05 – Size Matters
A hideous demon shrinks Phoebe to a powerless five inches and uses her as bait to trap the other two sisters.
4.06 – A Knight To Remember
When Paige discovers she was an evil enchantress in a past life after conjuring a medieval prince, Phoebe and Piper are trapped in the Dark Ages.
4.07 – Brain Drain
When The Source taps into Piper's brain and alters her perception of reality, Phoebe and Paige work quickly before she gives up all of their powers.
4.08 – Black As Cole
Phoebe encounters Cole's demonic past when the sisters help a widow seek vengeance on a demon that killed her fiance.
4.09 – Muse To My Ears
The sisters fiercely battle Warlocks who are enslaving the worlds' muses to use their divine creative inspiration for evil.
4.10 – A Paige From the Past
Haunted by her parents' tragic death, Paige travels back in time while Piper must prevent the marriage of Phoebe and Cole, whose bodies are inhabited by outlaw ghosts.
4.11 – Trial By Magic
Phoebe must convince other jury members of the existence of magic while Piper, Paige and Leo frantically search for the real killer in time to free an innocent man.
4.12 – Lost And Bound
The sisters must teach a 10-year old Firestarter how to use his power for good before his demon bounty hunter foster parents find him.
4.13 – Charmed And Dangerous
The Source taps into the ultimate power of The Hollow, which consumes all magical powers, to unleash an ancient evil that goes after the sister's powers.
4.14 – The Three Faces Of Phoebe
When Phoebe casts a spell to decide if she should marry Cole, she faces her past and future, while Cole is unable to control the evil growing within him.
4.15 – Marry Go Round
Phoebe fights with her sisters on her wedding day while The Source, which has completely taken over Cole, orchestrates a demonic ceremony.
4.16 – The Fifth Halliwheel
Paige, who feels like a fifth wheel among her happily married sisters and husbands, becomes convinced that Cole is still a demon.
4.17 – Saving Private Leo
When two ghosts seeking revenge on Leo kill Piper, Phoebe and Paige face the horror of losing another sister.
4.18 – Bite Me
Trying to unseat Cole as ruler of the Underworld, a vampire queen turns Paige into a bloodsucker and urges her to feed on Phoebe and Piper.
4.19 – We're Off To See The Wizard
Piper and Paige help a wizard stop the coronation of a new Source, unaware that Cole is the new Underworld head and Phoebe is his Evil Queen.
4.20 – Long Live The Queen
When Phoebe helps her sisters save an innocent, she and Cole face bloody coup unless she proves her dark allegiance by killing Piper and Paige.
4.21 – Womb Raider
When Phoebe's baby shows signs of demonic powers, The Seer plots to steal the baby and gain the power bestowed upon the heir of The Source.
4.22 – Witch Way Now?
As a reward fir vanquishing the Source of all evil, the Angel of Destiny offers the sisters a chance to relinquish their powers and lead normal lives.
5.01 – A Witch's Tail, Pt 1
The Charmed Ones struggle to help a beautiful mermaid from losing her immortality, but are hindered by morphing mishaps and fiendish water demon Sea Hag.
5.02 – A Witch's Tail, Pt 2
The Charmed Ones struggle to help a beautiful mermaid from losing her immortality, but are hindered by morphing mishaps and fiendish water demon Sea Hag.
5.03 – Happily Ever After
When an evil witch traps The Charmed Ones in warped classic fairy tales, Phoebe as Cinderella meets evil Prince Charming, Paige eats a poisoned apple, and Piper goes head-on with a big bad wolf.
5.04 – Siren's Song
Piper and Paige try to save Phoebe's life from the scandalous Siren while Piper and Leo's personas are switched magically by their unborn child.
5.05 – Witches In Tights
A fiendish demon uses a young boy's magical drawings to transform into a super villain and, in order to stop the demon, the boy must transform The Charmed Ones into comic book super-heroines.
5.06 – The Eyes Have It
Phoebe loses her powers of premonition and as she struggles to retrieve her lost powers, she sees a terrifying vision of The Charmed Ones' death.
5.07 – Sympathy For The Demon
The Demon of Fear returns to seek vengeance on the Charmed Ones and the sisters become trapped in the manor battling their own fears.
5.08 – A Witch In Time
Two of the Charmed Ones are killed and the remaining sister must reverse the chain of death when Phoebe inadvertently opens a time tunnel that provides a pathway for a warlock from the future.
5.09 – Sam I Am
Cole attacks the Charmed Ones as he realises that he must eventually give in to evil destiny in the hope that the sisters will vanquish him and end his suffering.
5.10 – Y Tu Mummy Tambien
A lovelorn demon mummifies Phoebe in his quest to find the perfect body to hold the spirit of his dead lover.
5.11 – The Importance of Being Phoebe
After kidnapping Phoebe, Cole's scheming spells create mayhem for the remaining Charmed Ones as he tries to gain access to the powerful Nexus in the manor.
5.12 – Centennial Charmed
Cole's twisted attempts to win Phoebe back destroys the Power of Three. The Charmed Ones must overcome the destruction he has caused and pull together to vanquish the desperate Cole.
5.13 – House Call
The Charmed Ones become helplessly self-destructive when the Council of Witch Doctors brings voodoo dolls along on a house call.
5.14 – Sand Francisco Dreamin'
Terrifying nightmares come to life when a demon attacks the Charmed Ones with dream dust. The sister must magically re-enter their nightmares to unmask the symbolic meaning of their dreams.
5.15 – The Day The Magic Died
At a summit meeting with the leaders of evil, Phoebe and Paige discover that all magic – both good and bad – has disappeared. Piper needs her sisters' help after she loses her soon-to-be-born baby to the leaders.
5.16 – Baby's First Demon
Demon kidnappers target Piper's baby for the demonic black market, but when their first attempt fails, the demons use Paige as a pawn to launch an attack on Leo and the baby.
5.17 – Lucky Charmed
The Charmed Ones join forces with a Leprechaun to banish a deadly demon who is killing Leprechauns and stealing their magic. Good magic battles bad magic as the sisters try to reverse the Leprechauns' bad luck.
5.18 – Cat House
Piper accidentally casts a spell that sends Phoebe and Paige back in time where, unbeknownst to the sisters, a wicked warlock tries to permanently alter their future by killing the Charmed Ones' cat.
5.19 – Nymphs Just Want To Have Fun (aka Naughty Nymphs)
Piper and Phoebe race against time to rescue Paige after she is transformed into a nymph and then captured by a demon who wants to rule the forest.
5.20 – Sense & Sense Ability
An old crone who wants to kidnap Piper's baby weakens the Charmed Ones by stealing their senses. The blind, deaf, and mute sisters must overcome their handicaps to defeat her.
5.21 – Necromancing the Stone
Halliwell matriarchs who have been summoned to bless Piper's baby fall prey to the Necromancer demon who has returned from the Spirit Realm to absorb their magical powers.
5.22 – Oh My Goddess, Pt 1
At the risk of being seduced by their vast new powers, the Charmed Ones are transformed into gorgeous Greek Goddesses possessing the ultimate power to defeat a band of angry Greek mythic gods, the Titans.
5.23 – Oh My Goddess, Pt 2
At the risk of being seduced by their vast new powers, the Charmed Ones are transformed into gorgeous Greek Goddesses possessing the ultimate power to defeat a band of angry Greek mythic gods, the Titans.
6.01 – Valhalley of the Dolls, Pt 1
Phoebe and Paige search for Leo after Paige accidentally gives Piper amnesia, but the sisters soon learn he is being held on the mythical island of Valhalla.
6.02 – Valhalley of the Dolls, Pt 2
The sight of Leo causes Piper's pain to come flooding back, prompting her to stay behind on the island while everyone else escapes. The Valkyries follow Paige and Phoebe across dimensions to San Francisco and wreak havoc on the city.
6.03 – Forget Me Not
The Cleaners kidnap Wyatt and erase his existence after the child accidentally brings a dragon to life. When Piper, Phoebe and Paige regain their memories they relive the day Wyatt was kidnapped.
6.04 – The Power of Three Blondes
When three evil sisters magically steal the girls' identities and powers, Piper, Phoebe and Paige must convince Chris that they are the real Charmed Ones, to get their lives back.
6.05 – Love's A Witch
When Paige falls for Richard Montana, she gets the sisters involved in a dangerous feud between two magical families, not to mention Richard's deceased lover who take over the body of Paige.
6.06 – My Three Witches
The sisters attempt to escape magical realities where their secret desires come true. Leo demands that the Elders strip Chris of his Whitelighter status.
6.07 – Soul Survivor
Paige is forced to make a deal with a demon in order to recover her boss's soul.
6.08 – Sword And The City
The sisters are called upon by The Lady of the Lake to help protect Excalibur, the legendary sword. Meanwhile, numerous magical beings arrive at the manor to try their hand at pulling the sword from the stone.
6.09 – Little Monsters
After vanquishing a Manticore demon, Piper, Phoebe and Paige become foster parents to its orphaned half-breed infant.
6.10 – Chris-Crossed
Bianca, a woman from the future, arrives to take Chris's powers. Leo learns that she is actually part of an assassin family of witches.
6.11 – Witchstock
Paige finds herself transported back in time to an era of free love and free magic, where she discovers Grams, a peace-loving hippie who is on a crusade to rid the world of evil through the magical power of love.
6.12 – Prince Charmed
After Piper vanquishes a demon from Wyatt's room, she has an epiphany about the rest of her life concerning Wyatt. Paige and Phoebe decide to remind Piper of the importance of love by conjuring up a Mr. Right as Piper's birthday present.
6.13 – Used Karma
Jason breaks up with Phoebe when he finally learns she and her sisters are witches. Meanwhile, Richard tries to free himself of his family's karma, and Piper and Paige try to vanquish a group of swarm demons.
6.14 – The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell
The girls investigate a headless horseman who has been beheading teachers at a magic school.
6.15 – I Dream of Phoebe
When Phoebe frees a genie from a bottle, she must take the genie's place.
6.16 – The Courtship of Wyatt's Father
Gideon makes a deal with the Darklighters to get rid of Leo, but they accidentally send Leo and Piper to the Ghostly plane, leaving Phoebe and Paige to believe that they are both dead.
6.17 – Hyde School Reunion
Phoebe accidentally casts a spell on herself that allows her wild teenage personality to take over, and teen Phoebe is eager to use her magic to her advantage.
6.18 – Spin City
Piper is kidnapped and cocooned by the Spider demon and Chris becomes infected with the demon's venom, so Paige, Phoebe and Leo try to rescue them.
6.19 – Crimes and Witch Demeanors
Phoebe and Paige are caught on video using their powers, so the Cleaners cover it up by implicating Darryl as a murderer.
6.20 – A Wrong Day's Journey to Right
With Piper away at magic school and Phoebe without her active powers, overworked Paige conjures Mr. Right for stress relief, but unknowingly releases his evil twin Mr. Wrong.
6.21 – Witch Wars
Under the pressure that the Halliwell sisters will discover his evil plot, Gideon conspires with two demons to make Piper, Phoebe and Paige part of "Witch Wars", a new demonic reality television show.
6.22 – It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Pt 1
Under the guise of sending Chris back to the future, Gideon creates a portal that puts Chris and Leo in a mirrored world where evil prevails.
6.23 – It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Pt 2
Upon returning from the parallel world, Phoebe and Paige realise that their world is now too good, and every little infraction is a capital offense. Piper gives birth to baby Chris.
7.01 – A Call to Arms
The exotic powers of Hindu's Ultimate Lovers, Shakti and Shiva, overtake Piper and Leo. Phoebe and Paige must stop them from consummating their love or the universe faces destruction.
7.02 – The Bare Witch Project
A mishap at Magic School conjures up Lady Godiva who arouses a spirit of liberation in the sisters. But the sisters can't bask too long in Lady Godiva's glow when an evil land baron sets his mind to killing Lady Godiva.
7.03 – Cheaper By the Coven
The Charmed Ones are whirled back in time when Grams arrives for Chris' wiccaning and the sisters are stunned to find themselves to be bickering teenagers once again.
7.04 – Charrrmed!
While searching for witches who have been disappearing, Paige encounters Captain Black Jack Cutting, an infamous 18th century pirate who is looking for the fountain of youth.
7.05 – Styx Feet Under
When a demon named Sirk tries to destroy his human half by killing off his remaining blood relatives, Paige casts a spell that inadvertently blocks all deaths from occurring.
7.06 – Once In A Blue Moon
The Elders' suspicion of Leo causes them to assign a new Whitelighter to the girls. However, when the new Whitelighter is nearly killed by beasts, the Elders blame the attack on Leo.
7.07 – Someone to Witch Over Me
Paige's decision to help Agent Brody brings the sisters face-to-face with an evil demon, Sarpedon, who captures innocents' Guardian Angels for his own protection.
7.08 – Charmed Noir
While investigating a murder at Magic School, Paige and Agent Brody are sucked into an unfinished novel written 20 years ago by two students.
7.09 – There's Something About Leo
Leo's announcement that he is an Avatar causes pandemonium in the Charmed Ones' lives. Blood is shed when the distracted sisters are unable to fulfill their duty to protect the life of an innocent.
7.10 – Witchness Protection
Leo is forced to protect the Seer upon the Avatars' insistence that she has information that can help destroy the demons while Agent Brody shares his darkest secret with Paige.
7.11 – Ordinary Witches
Still not completely sure that the avatars mean well, Piper agrees to switch powers with Phoebe so that she too can see Phoebe's vision of a utopian world.
7.12 – Extreme Makeover: World Edition
With the impending doom of the Avatars' Utopian transformation of the world where all humans must be put to sleep, the Charmed Ones become victims of a paranoia spell that attracts and kills an Avatar.
7.13 – Charmageddon
While the Charmed Ones enjoy their new conflict-free world, Leo learns the avatars protect their Utopia by controlling everyone's destiny.
7.14 – Carpe Demon
When Paige tries to hire a new professor for the Magic School, one of the candidates, Drake, turns out to be an ex-demon.
7.15 – Show Ghouls
While trying to help the Lost Souls of hundreds of victims who died in a catastrophic fire at cabaret, Phoebe and Drake transport themselves back to the night of fire and are stuck in the year 1899.
7.16 – The Seven Year Witch
Piper ends up in a coma after a vicious demon attack and her spirit is stuck in the cosmic void between life and death. Moreover, she is surprised to find Cole waiting for her.
7.17 – Scry Hard
Zankou is determined to find the Nexus and release the Shadow, the ultimate power. For their own protection, Piper and Leo are magically miniaturized and trapped inside a dollhouse.
7.18 – Little Box Of Horrors
Pandora's Box falls into the hands of a shapeshifting demon who wants to open the box and release all the wickedness it contains. The sisters must find the Guardian who can return the released evil spirits to the box.
7.19 – Freaky Phoebe
A power-hungry sorceress switches souls and tries to gain control of the Underworld while armed with Phoebe's identity and power. Phoebe, a prisoner in the sorceress' body, is accidentally vanquished by her sister.
7.20 – Imaginary Friends
Baby Wyatt's imaginary friend is a demon trying to gain his trust to turn him evil. Piper's spell inadvertently brings an evil 25-year old Wyatt back from the future who now wants to crush the good in baby Wyatt.
7.21 – Death Becomes Them
A menacing confrontation with the undead innocents that the Charmed Ones were unable to save allows Zankou to take control of the Book of Shadows.
7.22 – Something Wicca This Way Goes
Zankou steals Phoebe's premonition power and thwarts the Charmed Ones' attempts to reclaim the Book of Shadows. The sisters realise that the only way to stop Zankou may be to sacrifice themselves.
8.01 – Still Charmed & Kicking
Presumed dead, the Charmed sisters start a demon-free existence with new identities, but Paige can't escape her Whitelighter instincts and answers the call of a young witch named Billie.
8.02 – Malice In Wonderland
The Charmed Ones come to Billie's rescue when she tries to thwart Haas, a young demon who wants to lure the sisters out of hiding and take over the Underworld.
8.03 – Run, Piper, Run
When Piper's adopted physical appearance gets her arrested as a woman wanted for murder, the sisters and Billie set out to clear the woman's name.
8.04 – Desperate Housewitches
Piper's son Wyatt is kidnapped by Mandi, a demon in disguise who wants to use the boy's powers to bring back The Source and create the perfect demon family.
8.05 – Rewitched
Billie jeopardises the Charmed Ones' new lives when she uses her powers and is caught by Homeland Security Agent Murphy, who suspects the Halliwell sisters are not dead.
8.06 – Kill Billie: Vol 1
After Billie freezes in fear upon seeing her demon target, The Dogan, she opens up to the Charmed Ones about a Halloween long ago when a demon kidnapped her sister.
8.07 – The Lost Picture Show
Paige's Whitelighter father, Sam, asks for help when his charge, J.D., escapes from Vaklav, a demon who holds people hostage inside an evil photo collage.
8.08 – Battle Of The Hexes
Phoebe and Billie discover a belt with superpowers that can turn the sexes against one another, while a power-hungry female demon uses Billie to achieve female domination.
8.09 – Hulkus Pokus
When Billie is infected by a government created virus that causes magical beings to "hulk out." Piper and Leo race against time to find an antidote to save her life.
8.10 – Vaya Con Leos
Piper turns to the Elders and The Avatars to save Leo from The Angel of Death, while Phoebe and Billie hunt for Billie's missing sister and meet Burke, a demonic bounty hunter who freezes his victims into trophies.
8.11 – Mr. & Mrs. Witch
When Billie discovers the power of projection, she inadvertently transforms her parents into cold-blooded assassins who are then hires to kill the CEO of a powerful company.
8.12 – Payback's A Witch
Paige tries to help Henry's parolee, Nick, get a loan at a bank, but when the loan is denied, Nick crashes his car into the building and holds everyone hostage.
8.13 – Repo Manor
The Charmed Ones consider moving but they're forced to remain under the same roof by a demon who miniaturises and imprisons them inside a dollhouse replica of the Manor.
8.14 – 12 Angry Zen
Piper searches for information about Leo and discovers a message from Lo Pan, a monk and keeper of a sacred Buddhist staff containing the power of influence.
8.15 – The Last Temptation Of Christy
Paige is torn between dating mortal Henry or a magical suitor who proposes marriage, while Billie finds her sister, Christy, who has been held captive by demons for several years.
8.16 – Engaged and Confused
Paige and Henry's cold feet put their engagement in jeopardy, while a demon kidnaps Christy to lure the Charmed Ones to attack the Triad and prevent them from taking over the Underworld.
8.17 – Generation Hex
Piper is forced to take charge when Leo's teen prot�g�s come to the manor seeking refuge from the demons that have overtaken the Magic School.
8.18 – The Torn Identity
Phoebe must choose between mortal or magical love, while Piper interrogates the demons who killed Billie and Christy's parents to prove that they are connected to the Ultimate Power.
8.19 – The Jung And The Restless
When Phoebe and Piper formulate a plan to get Leo back, Christy traps them in a dream state to prove to Billie that the sisters' "inner-truths" are driven by selfishness.
8.20 – Gone With The Witches
Billie and Christy team up to destroy the reputations of the Charmed Ones and force them into hiding in the Underworld.
8.21 – Kill Billie: Vol 2
In order to defeat Billie and Christy, the Charmed Ones conjure The Hollow, the most powerful force known to man, which leads to a devastating battle.
8.22 – Forever Charmed
Piper enlists Coop's help to travel back in time and change the events that led to the deaths of Phoebe and Paige.
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His two-a-day football workouts in the stifling, late-summer Maryland humidity complete, Brendan Looney headed home. But before settling at the kitchen table to stuff his face or collapse into bed, Looney completed one more task.
He walked into the back yard of the family's spacious 3½-acre spread and ran more sprints. One hundred fifty, maybe 200 yards. Twelve reps. Up a steep hill.
His father asked him why.
"Hey Pops," Looney would say. "I want to know that in the fourth quarter I worked harder than those guys and we deserve to win."
On a DeMatha Catholic High School team that would finish the 1998 season 12-0, ranked 13th in the nation by USA Today, a team that included Miami Dolphins All-Pro defensive end Cameron Wake, Looney, a Wes Welker-like wide receiver, was named team MVP.
Looney graduated from the Naval Academy, became a Navy SEAL lieutenant and on Sept. 21, 2010, died along with eight other passengers in a helicopter accident in Afghanistan. He was 29.
At the time of his death Looney was stationed in Coronado and lived in Rancho Bernardo.
This weekend, 10 San Diego County high school football teams will participate in games locally that are part of the first Under Armour Brothers in Arms Classic.
The event was created by Eric Beach of Costa Mesa, himself a DeMatha product. Beach is hoping to continue Looney's legacy while raising funds to defray college expenses for the children of military personnel who die in combat.
"This is our way of giving back to the military people who served us so honorably," said Beach.
The Under Armour Brothers In Arms Classic features 31 games nationwide, predominantly in the South.
Friends and family describe Looney as a phenomenal athlete, a leader by example, someone who wasn't afraid to step outside his comfort zone yet balanced ruggedness with kindness.
After losing a conference championship game his junior year at DeMatha, Looney wanted teammates to remember the numbing feeling of defeat.
Days before practice began his senior year, Looney posted newspaper stories about the season-ending loss in the locker room and weight room. They stayed there the entire season.
"He was hellbent on letting everyone know what their expectations were for the year ahead," said Tom Porton, a DeMatha administrator.
Hellbent describes the way Looney played football. He started at wide receiver, safety and returned kicks.
"They said the only thing he didn't do was sell tickets," said Looney's father, Kevin.
High school teammate Eddie King says Looney brought back memories of Ronnie Lott when he played safety -- a vicious defender who craved contact.
Looney wore a helmet with an extra layer of exterior padding and his collisions often sent the padding flying.
"Brendan was always delivering the blow," said King. "Never receiving."
King joked that his friend had one glaring weakness.
"He was fortunate we went to an all-boys high school," said King. "He couldn't match a shirt and tie to save his life. Brendan always found a way to match a floral tie with a plaid shirt."
Looney played football for two seasons at the Naval Academy. Although he hadn't sampled the sport before, he switched to lacrosse and played regularly on the Midshipmen's varsity.
Looney's younger brothers, Stephen and Billy, followed him to the Naval Academy. Brendan's senior season, 2004, all three brothers played on the Middies' varsity. The Midshipmen lost to Syracuse in the NCAA championship game that year 14-13.
Amy Looney, Brendan's widow, still lives in San Diego.
"I could never in a million years envisioned the way things ended," Amy said. "But I know Brandan would have done anything for me. I think of him as a completely selfless, honest and genuine."
As for her husband's soft side, Amy said the rugged SEAL couldn't say no when she pined for a small, white, fluffy bichon dog.
"He would take that dog to the park and claim it was his wife's dog," said Amy. "But let me tell you, he loved that dog."
High school football special events:
Vista vs. Whittier La Serna at Cathedral Catholic, 5 p.m.
San Pasqual at Torrey Pines, 7 p.m.
Oceanside vs. St. Augustine at Mesa College, 7 p.m.
Sandy (Utah) Jordan at Cathedral Catholic, 8 p.m.
Phoenix Desert Vista vs. Mission Hills at Cathedral Catholic, 11 a.m.
San Juan Capistrano JSerra vs. Las Vegas Centennial at Carlsbad, 1 p.m.
Chandler (Ariz.) Hamilton vs. Eastlake at Cathedral Catholic, 1:30 p.m.
Gardena Serra vs. Mesa (Ariz.) Desert Ridge at Cathedral Catholic, 4 p.m.
Avondale (Ariz.) Westview at Westview, 7 p.m.
Helix vs. Honolulu Punahou at Cathedral Catholic, 7 p.m.
Sept. 6
Gardena Serra at Oceanside, 8 p.m.
Sept. 7
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame vs. Loomis Del Oro at Oceanside, noon
Upland vs. Westlake Village Oaks Christian at Oceanside, 4 p.m.
Corona Centennial vs. Ventura St. Bonaventure at Oceanside, 8 p.m.


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2014 Kia Sorento SX: Passenger Life
As automotive editors, we often find it easy to fixate on describing the experience behind the wheel. And while there's plenty to talk about with the 2014 Kia Sorento SX from a driver's perspective -- from its user-adjustable steering effort to driver aids such as blind spot monitoring -- there's also a slew of features focused on the passenger.
Comfort: Slightly Firm, but Long-Haul-Friendly
Several road trips in the 2014 Kia Sorento SX have revealed the cabin to be comfortable, though perhaps not quite as plush and accommodating as you'll find on domestic sport 'utes. While the seats, for instance, are agreeable over the long haul, there's also a bit of European influence in their cushion design that leans more towards sporty supportiveness than sofalike softness. Of course, a certain amount of firmness can actually aid comfort over the long haul by keeping the spine straight, but that balance between support and softness requires striking just the right balance to achieve the optimum ergonomics. Evaluating its seats on those terms, the Sorento manages to satisfy more often than it disappoints on long trips, though there invariably comes a point where it's best to pull over, get out and stretch.
Amenities: The Little Things
Sometimes it's the little things that make passengers happy. Sure, the Sorento has the usual creature comforts you'd expect given its nearly $40,000 price tag -- such as heated and cooled seats, dual zone climate control and a 10-speaker Infinity sound system -- but what we started noticing on long trips were the little things. We appreciated features such as visors with extendable tips, which helped keep the sun out of our eyes, and integrated rear sunshades that reduced the fatiguing effects of solar heat.
The reclining rear seats can be tilted at two different angles, due to the split, fold-down function. These seats make it less likely that passengers will complain about extended seat time, though the feature can be a frustrating tease when cargo in the rear bay blocks the seat from leaning back. One particular stint in the back seat enabled me to use the Sorento as a mobile office, thanks to the built-in 115-volt power inverter, which enables easy laptop plug-ins. Power is only activated when a button is pressed on the center console, and that activation resets every time the engine is switched off. Rear passengers also have their own air-conditioning controls as a standard feature on the SX and Limited models, while the feature is available as an option on the LX and EX versions.
The Kid Factor
No description of passenger ergonomics would be complete without covering the kid factor, and our Sorento experience with our 2-year-old has (knock on wood) been positive. The LATCH anchor points are easy to reach. Once a baby seat is installed, there's enough room back there to accommodate those eager arms and legs -- though the front seat is often close enough to encourage kicking and/or grabbing by toddlers.
Other items that make life easier for parents include a power lift gate, easy sight lines and good visibility looking at the back seat.
Though the Sorento's interior is vastly improved for 2014 with soft-touch materials, there are still a few bits that haven't aged as gracefully as the plusher pieces, such as some of the kick panels and the plastic trim on the steering wheel. These complaints are minor, though. The interior has generally been aging well, considering our car's 15,000-mile odometer reading.
The Bottom Line
What's the bottom line when it comes to evaluating the passenger experience in a car? Well, the bottom line is usually that: how comfortably a vehicle drives when it's been driven for mile after mile after mile. Amenities aside, the Sorento has proven to be a place that it's easy to spend several hours in, even if its seat cushions aren't optimally cushy. Add the bells and whistles that come standard on the SX model and this Korean sport 'ute proves to be a better road warrior than you might expect for a challenger brand.


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Ross/USA: mid-June to late July, 2019.
Ross/Asia: Sun July 7 to Fri Aug 9, 2019.
USA site: Columbus, OH, USA.
Asia site: not yet decided.
The Ross Program at the Ohio State University is an intensive summer experience designed to encourage motivated pre-college students to explore mathematics. During those six weeks, students are immersed in a world of mathematical discovery.
Dr. Arnold Ross founded this multi-level program at Notre Dame University in 1957. Its growth was then spurred by the launch of the Sputnik satellite and the subsequent surge of interest in science education. Arnold Ross's Program has run every summer since then, moving to Ohio State in 1964. It is currently sponsored by the University.
The central goal of the Ross Program has always been to instruct bright young students in the art of mathematical thinking and to inspire them to discover for themselves that abstract ideas are valuable and important. First year participants take the basic course in number theory. For most students, this is the first time they are asked to consider entirely new questions, to develop methods that they have not seen before, and to justify every answer.
The value of a mathematics education lies not only in obtaining proficiency in computational tasks, but also in building a foundation for critical thinking. Students who have never asked why things work the way they do are not prepared to lead the way to future scientific innovation. It is precisely this independence of thought and questioning attitude that the Ross Program strives to nurture.
Ross Program in China.
Ross/Asia will be held in China during July and August. Dates will be announced later.
Ross/Asia will follow the same format and style as Ross/USA. All classes are held in English. This information is mentioned again on the Ross Program's To Apply page, and will also be posted HERE. (You may select "English" in the navigation bar). We are grateful to the private company Renascentia Hall International for their continuing support of Ross/Asia.
Ambitious pre-college students with interests in mathematics and science are invited to apply. First-year students range in age from 15 to 18 years old. (In rare cases, younger or older students are accepted.) Admission decisions are based on several criteria, including: school transcripts; teacher recommendations; essays concerning the applicant's interests and goals; and the applicant's work on some challenging math problems.
Undergraduate math majors, and math graduate students, are invited to apply to be a Ross Counselor.
NOTE. The Ross Program cannot accommodate students who must arrive in Columbus more than two days after the start of classes. Unfortunately, this policy eliminates applications from students whose high school schedules prevent them from arriving by Thursday evening.
Costs and Financial Aid
Fees for this program are determined the cost of six weeks of room and board and by various instructional costs. Unfortunately, those costs seem to rise every year.
The Program fee for 2019 will probably be $5000.
Financial aid is available and we encourage qualified students to apply. We hope to be able to provide enough support to enable every accepted applicant to attend this great Program.
A copy of our 2016 program brochure may be downloaded at: Ross Brochure_2016 [pdf]
To Apply
The Ross Program application is posted by mid-January. The Admissions Committee will start reading applications on March 1, starting a process of rolling admissions a week or two after that. The final application deadline is April 1, but spaces do fill up quickly so it's best to apply early.
Ross Program Support
The Ross Program is supported in several ways. Partners in this mathematical enterprise include:
The American Mathematics Society's Epsilon Fund
and several private donors.
Related Programs
Several other excellent summer mathematics programs are listed on the AMS mathcamps webpage. Two of them, PROMYS at Boston University, and the Honors Summer Math Camp at Texas State University, are very close in spirit to the Ross Program since they are run by Ross alumni.
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information. You can also email us at email@example.com.


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Pets, Pets, Pets...
R.I.P. His real name was "Moose". You knew him as "Eddie" on TV. Frasier's Jack Russell Terrier (JRT) died last week at age 16. The canine character actor so amazed viewers, that many rushed out to get an impish pooch just like him.
Eddie's stardom ushered in a wave of popularity for his breed that is still going strong. Unfortunately many impulse buyers didn't stop to find out that terriers are feisty, and that if their energies are not channeled correctly, behavior issues surface. Far too many owners give up on them. Lots of Jack Russells wind up in the pound, just like Eddie (or Moose, his alter ego) did, when he was still a problematic pup.
Hailed as the "Lassie of the 90s", Eddie appeared for 10 years in 192 episodes as Kelsey Grammer's nemesis on the hit sitcom. From 1993, until he retired and turned the role over to his son in 2003, Eddie perfected his famous look, a stare that unnerved the stuffy radio shrinkFrasier Crane. It wasn't all an act because Eddie had a mischievous way about him. The terrier's trainer Mathilde Halberg taught him the endless glare by pointing her finger up. No matter what, Eddie had to look at the finger in front of her face. She conditioned him to ignore all sorts of distractions, and tricked him into licking his human costars by strategically placing pat behind their ears.
Actually Eddie's son, Enzo, had already been doubling for him in the action shots for the last couple of years. Halberg found Enzo easier to train. He was as smart as his famous father, yet not as tough.
Eddie, then Moose, had a rough start. He was a regular dog delinquent. Originally owned by a Florida family, he was too hard to handlea chewer, barker, house soiler, and escape artist. He climbed up trees, and then chased cats and horses ad nauseum. In fact, he killed a cat. A stroke of good luck saved the tiny terror. When his owners gave him up because he was such a dynamo, a Florida manager of a company that trained animals for show business answered their last resort call and adopted him. At 2-years-old, Moose was flown to Los Angeles where Halberg was able to transform his excess energy into a constructive career for the soon to be celeb. Moose beat out 20 other dogs for the role of Eddie.
His other career achievements include a starring part in the 2000 film, My Dog Skip, as the older Skip; Enzo played the title role. He also penned an autobiography My Life As A Dog-with some tutoring from TV writer, Brian Hargrove. Eddie was often a cover pup on entertainment publications. Frasier received 21 Emmys over its decade run but Eddie was never honored. The precocious pup's contribution to Grammer's success was publicly noted during his 1994 Emmy acceptance speech when the actor said: "Most important, Moose, this is for you."
Jack Russells are quite intelligent but their demands can overwhelm the inexperienced dog person. Their name refers to a general type of working terrier, bred in Britain in the early 1800s to hunt fox. Innate hunting skillsbarking, digging, possessiveness, following a scent non-stopare what often frustrate the novice. True "Napoleons:" Jacks are big dogs in little bodies. They won't hesitate to challenge dogs that tower over them.
JRTs remain active their whole life. A hyper Jack once found her way from Deer Park to Babylon down by the bay. She spent the night at my house before the shelter picked her up, and we were shocked to find out she was 10 years old. Despite a short or wire coat, these terriers shed. They require basic obedience, a securely fenced yard, and lots of supervision around kidsfar from the portrait painted on TV or in the movies. That's why we always see them in the shelter. A sweet older guy with limited vision and a few lumps and bumps is at Babylon Shelter right now. He would like to find his way back home; sure does look like Eddie.
Unfortunately, this week Babylon Town Shelter (643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon has a sampler of the discards of canine fads. All these deserving dogs are looking for loving homes. "Simba" in Cage 45 is the cutest 1 year Labradoodle, purchased from a "designer dog" breeder, and given up because of allergies. Yes, he's a big dog, and he sheds. When are people going to realize that there are no guarantees from invented breeds either, and that the only completely hypoallergenic dog is at Toys R Us? Meanwhile this happy, young St. Bernard in Cage 43 (a Beethoven stand-in, perhaps) was found wandering a few blocks from the shelter. His microchip traces to a disconnected Florida phone. Hard to believe that no one realizes something that huge is gone. In Cage 27 there's also a male Boston terrier (looks a lot like the Visa commercial) with a chip registered to a defunct pet store in Bethpage.
Males: a purebred Boxervery handsome in Cage 1; "Billy"a 1 year Collie
mix in Cage 17 who belonged to someone who is now homeless; "Noz"the perky Westie mix in Cage 15; a light colored Beagle in Cage 11.
Females: "Cher"the starlet purebred Chow in Cage 63; an older Golden retriever in Cage 87; a frightened small black Lab, hit by a car, in Cage 75; "Lady"the Shepherd/Collie mixnow in Cage 81.
See more photos of Babylon Shelter dogs and cats on the shelter's Petfinder site. St. Bernard Simba Pets of the Week


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|2009-08-14, 01:09
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Tannhäuser Gate
Age: 30
I don't think I've reached or if I ever will reach the point where I'll be addicted to animes in general. Sure, I can get to like a certain anime and feel compelled to watch every episode of it but it would never get in the way of my daily activities/duties.
After all, I spent about 2 weeks without so much as daydreaming about anime while I was on my summer vacation. In my case it's more like a positive addiction - it acts as a mood improver and isn't nearly as time-consuming hobby as say video games.
|2009-08-15, 05:46
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Onani Master
I'd probably just go back to more video games or bike riding.
EDIT: And I'd probably also stop procrastinating with my writing instead of reading AS all the time... must... finish... story...
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|2009-08-15, 18:16
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
If its just watching/reading the actual source material, I've gone months between series before. Must be because it takes so much for something to convince me to stay with it. And then once I find something I marathon it in a couple days, then go on another dry spell. xD
But if its all things related to anime, like reading fanfiction, then no I don't think I can randomly decide to get rid of that. Unless I'm extremely extremely busy for a few weeks, which has yet to happen.
|2009-08-16, 15:15
|Link #212
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: England
Age: 37
Well I can proudly say that for at least the last 12 years I havent gone a week without watching one episode of anime.
My holidays are basicly anime instead of work time. Infact other than camping the odd weekend here and there the only time I went away on holiday was to Japan so I did what alot of people on this type of forum never actually do, I saw anime in Japan as it aired, not a day later fansubbed (but I did get the stuff I watched when I got home, made alot more sence with subtitles).
I think I'd probably be OK not seeing any. But to be honest I'm not going to even attempt to stop watching it. Although this current season isn't giving me much to watch.
|2012-07-05, 11:19
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this is how its done
Join Date: Mar 2012
I'm not addict so I can still live without anime because I have various hobbies. I just think that without anime it would get boring in the entertainment area sure I'll watch movies and listen to music but It wouldn't be the same. Anime does just a little bit more for me
|2012-07-05, 11:20
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 24
Meh~ I can easily live without anime even though I watch so many~ I'll just move on to other activities~ I went 2 weeks without a single anime episode once. Wasn't bored at all~ Anime to me is just an interest. Not an addiction~
Even though I do say that I must watch anime~ It's just to be funny
|2012-07-05, 12:35
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
i am an anime addict, i have lived before without watching anime and it actually was difficult, it's just so boring and something seems missing without it,
if the anime universe was to suddenly disappear, then it will be difficult at first but then i will find other things to do and get adapted to new things, there is still a lot to do in this world.
But as long as the anime universe exist, i will find my way to it somehow
|2012-07-05, 18:19
|Link #218
Senior Member
I tried a few times actually. once I came upon the conclusion that it was because of my anime hobby that I did not have a girlfriend yet. I said I would stop watching anime until I got one. Kind broke my Promise after watching this really cool AMV posted on here, 'Do you know your Anime'.
another I realized that even when I'm not currently binging on Anime, I still have Obsessive tendencies and temporarily default to another addiction(Reading a book, drawing, Google Sketch-up Modeling, Rpg Games,MMOs, Writing Stories/Fanfics) My whole life is actually jumps from one obsessive hobby to another.
So Yes I can go without anime...but nothing really changes.....
|2012-07-06, 00:25
|Link #220
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Trendy Backwater
Age: 32
I don't watch anime just to kill time like I watch TV. For me there's a good enough reason why I became addicted in anime in the first place. It's not like I cannot live without it but I would've been addicted to something else much worse because I tend to be easily addicted to whatever interests me.
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2015 Audi A3 Cabriolet: Frankfurt Auto Show
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"Cabriolet" is one of those quaint words for soft-top or convertible. So the 2015 Audi A3 Cabriolet follows in the company's fine tradition of making elegant open-top cars. This time, the new generation of Audi A3 compact sedan provides the lower half, topped off with a fabric roof.
There hasn't been an A3 cabriolet in the U.S. before, so this is a novelty. It's a 4-seater in theory, though that might not always work out in practice. Best to leave the rear quarters for the short and nimble. The car does have decent trunk space, though: 10.1 cu ft. A long weekend's luggage for two will fit, even with the top down.
The sportier S3 cabrio is also coming over, with all-wheel drive as standard. The entry level A3 employs front-wheel drive; all-wheel drive is an option for higher trim levels. Educated guesses on engine choices would be a 2.0-liter, 200-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder in the regular model, and that same unit tuned to 300 hp in the S3.
The roof is operated electro-mechanically, performing its folding/unfolding act in less than 18 seconds and at driving speeds of up to 30 miles per hour. There's also a proper glass rear window instead of a plastic one.
How Much?
We'll have to wait and see, but a 2013 BMW 1 Series Cabriolet starts at $47,600. Don't expect a bargain.
When Can You Get It?
Late 2014.
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The 2015 Audi A3 Cabriolet is fun and stylish. And thanks to optional head-level heating for the front occupants, it's a soft-top that can be used even on those crisp, cooler days. Other options include Audi's magnetic ride adaptive suspension, active lane assist and parking assist.
Other Cars to Consider
2015 BMW 2 Series Convertible -- This new model doesn't come out until 2014, when it replaces the 1 Series coupe and convertible. The advantage of rear-wheel drive gives it a sportier edge over the A3 cabrio.
2014 MINI Cooper Convertible -- Packed with more character than upper-class ambiance, the MINI Cooper is one of the best-handling front-wheel-drive cars around.
2013 VW Eos -- Cheaper and closely related to the previous-generation A3, the VW Eos has a folding hardtop instead of fabric. So it's slightly more weatherproof and acoustically insulated.
Used BMW 1 Series Convertible -- If a premium compact soft-top needs to be bought immediately or soon, this would be a good choice.
Used Audi A5 Cabriolet -- It's one size up from the A3 but still far from bulky. The A5 cabrio has graceful lines that should remain easy on the eye after several years.


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Louisville lacks the corporate support for an NBA team that would likely be needed to attract professional basketball to the city, said a study into the feasibility study commissioned by Greater Louisville Inc.
Those corporations would be called upon to lease suites at the KFC Yum! Center for NBA games—but the "lack of corporate depth" in Louisville means that those companies would each need to lease a greater share, the study said.
Louisville does has a strong potential fan base for the NBA, the study noted.
The results raise questions of how Louisville will approach financing issues with the KFC Yum! Center, where the tax district created to pay off bonds hasn't produced the hoped for revenue.
The executive summary is posted below. It's the only portion of the study that's been released so far.
Mayor Greg Fischer said the report leaves the city "where we were before."
Fischer emphasized that Louisville was never in pursuit of an NBA team—and there doesn't appear to be an available team in the near future. The study doesn't end the prospects for Louisville someday having an NBA team, but the next time a team becomes available more research will be needed.
"If that happens someday we need to revisit all of the data, we need to make sure the state and the city and UofL are all on the same page with this as well and then we'll deal with it at that point in time," Fischer said.
Fischer is interested in extended the tax increment financing district—in which a portion of the taxes from businesses near the arena are targeted to pay the arena's bonds—10 more years to 30, he said. The Kentucky General Assembly must approve any changes.
That would be helpful obviously to put more revenue in the pot," Fischer said.
Discussions on any such move are "in the very early stages," he said.
The study also notes that Louisville corporations that chose to spend money an NBA team would likely, at least in the beginning, shift those funds from the sports and entertainment they're already supporting in the city.
Fischer said the study does not put an end to the possibility of Louisville attracting an NBA franchise.
PricewaterhouseCoopers did the study. It conducted, in part, by interviewing a sample of Louisville companies. Fischer suggested that those companies' support may become more favorable if a specific team were available—where the companies could better assess their potential success in the city.
"It means it needs to be investigated specifically for what's the team, who are the players, what's the coach. And if it's real, then people will take it more seriously," he said.
The lacking tax increment financing revenue means that the city is likely to contribute the maximum contribution to the arena's construction bond debt.
Fischer has raised interest in the NBA in large part because of this. The tax increment financing hasn't produced the expected revenue.
A franchise doesn't appear available any time in the near future.
The embattled Sacramento franchise appeared destine to move to Seattle earlier this year after an offer to buy from a group led by businessman Chris Hansen and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer.
But not now. The NBA's relocation committee voted 7-0 to keep the Kings in Sacramento, and a new ownership group there has offered to forego revenue-sharing among NBA owners—a policy meant to bolster struggling franchises.
A final decision on the Kings is expected May 15.
Stern has said expansion isn't likely anytime soon.
"Between the state, the city and UofL, the Yum! Center will be fine," Fischer said.
UofL has a lease that NBA advocates have criticized as too favorable to the university. Fischer said there have been no discussions on renegotiating that lease.
They've been good responsible corporate citizens," he said. "There are no discussions going on with them, with their lease. If and when we ever got to that point, I'm sure they'd have something to add to the conversation."
Update: Here's reaction from Home Court Advantage, which released its own study last year warning of negative effects of the NBA in Louisville, has issued a statement through Boxcar PR. It says, in part:
"Our community's size and economic status does not support an NBA team. Our community overwhelmingly embraces the collegiate atmosphere that University of Louisville Athletics brings to our city."
Meanwhile, attorney J. Bruce Miller, a longtime NBA advocate, criticized the study for not looking at a broader section of Louisville's region. He said companies outside of Louisville would be interested in supporting an NBA team in the city.
"The market area is not Jefferson County," he said. "The market area is the Insight-exlcusive cable franchise area, which includes Lexington, Frankfort, Covington, Bowling Green, Owensboro and southern Indiana. That's the market area for a major league professional athletic team. They seem to want to believe that it's just Jefferson County, and that's just not the case."
Miller also said he's spoken with prospective NBA team owners interested in bringing a team to Louisville, at least some of which are from outside the U.S.
We'll have more reaction to the study on Wednesday.


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Rokita Distributes Voting Equipment Funds to Owen County
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Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita today distributed election reform money to Owen County. This is the latest round of funding Rokita's office is sending to counties from the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Owen County is receiving $126,000 in federal and state money that is being distributed by the Secretary of State's office. This brings to $17.5 million the total distributed under HAVA to Indiana counties since Rokita's office began distributing funds to help pay for voting equipment upgrades resulting from the required phase-out of lever and punch card voting machines.
"We're glad to receive this money because it allows us to move on with our voting machines," said Owen County Clerk Nick Robertson. "We're happy this phase is complete and we're excited this is all coming together."
"It's great to see federal money being put to good use to help ensure fair and efficient elections for Hoosiers," Rokita said. "Owen County can now focus on other election matters."
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Holy Moly! Did you hear about the Pfizer birth control pill recall? Not for nothing—this is more upsetting to me than Tylenol recalling its baby fever meds. Welcome Pfizer babies! Baby Boom! Bang? Bad!?
If you've been reading my blog since July 2007, you know that JD's father and I were in a committed relationship and one night we had unprotected sex. I was not taking birth control pills (he was aware) and he didn't wear a condom (um, he was DEF aware). It was not smart. It was dumb and frankly, I didn't think about taking Plan B because of where I was in my cycle. It was the first week of December, 2006. Cold, grey, yellow taxi cabs, Christmas lights, hand holding in fuzzy pockets, sleepovers, cuddles, warm breath kisses, butterflies, falling in love, margaritas, movies, under duvet days, silly texting, subway rides, date night, longing, excited, confusion, chaos, scared, happy, lonely, ready, not ready, ready, ready, ready, willing, not willing, pushing, pushing away, pullling back in, hoping, freaking, hormones...LIFE. OH LIFE!
We had just come from his boss' holiday party. We were wildly obsessed with each other—it WAS a two-way street. Our romance was fast, intense and it changed MY life. He left in March 2007. JD arrived in August 2007. Here I am. Here we are.
Now I take birth control pills, but I'll be honest, I didn't start right away. On my first visit to the OB-GYN after giving birth to JD, my doc asked what I wanted. Um, I was single and S-E-X was NOT something I was thinking about. I did in fact have a dry spell (blushing), but these days, I'm a confident, dating, normal (?) 31-year-old woman. I take a brand name pill. It has only 4 placebos. I LOVE it. I barely bleed, never get PMS and well, I'm protected, right? But you better believe I had a mini panic attack when I read about the Pfizer recall and googled my brand name pill. Twice. Luckily it's manufactured by a completely different company and luckily, I use backup in addition to the pill. What can I say, I am a paranoid, don't-want-to-get-pregnant-until-I'm-married-gal now. I'm the girl that screams, 'Ah, I'm on the pill, get a condom NOW,' before anything goes down. It's a comedy act (blushing!) And despite my duel protection, I am the gal who freaks, calls her girlfriend and pees on a stick for no reason at all. NO. REASON. AT. ALL. Para-para-PARANOID.
I bet there are plenty of women who took 911 pregnancy tests this week, swallowed Plan B One-Step and plain old freaked out after reading about this Pfizer #$%@!-UP (recall). And I imagine some women scheduled abortions. The whole point of birth control is to prevent ovulation, to prevent pregnancy! Birth control pills are not supposed to be in the GOTCHA category of life! I am saddened and horrified by Pfizer's blooper!
How do you feel about the Pfizer Birth Control Pill recall? What type of BC do you use? Do you take/use BC + require your man to wear a condom? (DO IT!) Single mamas, I so want to hear from you! XO
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Gov. Rick Scott is being urged to support tougher ethics laws in Florida, including strengthening the voting conflict law so that certain public officials would have to abstain from voting in cases in which they declare a conflict of interest.
Scott and two top aides, general counsel Jesse Panuccio and policy chief Chris Finkbeiner, met Wednesday with Virlindia Doss, executive director of the Commission on Ethics, and Matt Carlucci, a Jacksonville businessman and Scott's latest appointee to the bi-partisan, nine-member ethics panel. Kerrie Stillman, the ethics commission's spokeswoman, said Scott asked for the meeting.
"He was very interested in what we had to say," said Stillman, who also attended.
"The commission has some good ideas, which we're reviewing," said Scott's chief spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers. "We look forward to working with the legislative leadership."
The ethics agency is asking for four specific changes to state law:
* Hold state-level appointed officials to the same standard as local appointed officials, who must abstain from voting in cases in which they have declared a conflict of interest.
* Allow the commission to record automatic fines as a lien on real and personal property, giving the agency more leverage to collect unpaid fines, which have mushroomed in recent years.
* Allow state attorneys, FDLE, the governor's office and Department of Financial Services to refer ethics complaints to the commission, subject to a super-majority vote (at least six members) to trigger an ethics investigation. The commission is not asking for the power to initiate its own investigations, something it has requested repeatedly in the past without success.
* Revise the legal definition of what constitutes a reckless complaint to make it more difficult for people to recover legal fees from a person who makes a frivolous complaint. "This has had a chilling effect on complaints," the commission said in a summary of the proposal.
Any changes to Florida ethics laws must be approved by the state Legislature, whose members are subject to the ethics laws.
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Pakistani police have opened a blasphemy case against a teenage Christian boy accused of sending derogatory text messages about Islam's prophet to neighbors in the southern city of Karachi, an official said Friday.
Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who visited Malala in hospital in Peshawar on Wednesday, said it was time to "stand up to fight the propagators of such barbaric mindset and their sympathisers".Malala gained attention aged 11, when she started writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban.Using the pen-name Gul Makai, she wrote about suffering caused by militants who had taken control of the Swat Valley in 2007 and ordered girls' schools to close.The Taliban were ousted from Swat in 2009, but her family said they had regularly received death threats. They believed she would be safe among her own community, but on Tuesday, she was stopped as she returned home from school in Mingora, in north-western Swat, and shot in the head.
Pakistan reminds me of an insane asylum where the inmates have developed gangs that will attack other inmates whose delusion does not coincide with their current hallucination.Personally I think we should bomb the middle east, not with bombs but with educational material because the stupidity there is burning up the world.
I guess the real question is, if Pakistan could send drones into our air space and bomb OK or whatever...would they?
In a way, your post is beautiful
This past Saturday the Mennonites were in the square of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with signs "Now we are the terrorists in Afghanistan - stop the war." Tough standing in such a GOP stronghold with those signs - I'll bet they took a lot of crap. And it's interesting to think how the Mennonite mentality stands up to scrutiny. Helps worldwide in most disasters, fairly closed society, believes in god, many Mennonite sects deny women a leadership role -Hmmm, if only life were black and white - good people and bad people - easy to pick and choose which sides we should be on when. Could it be that every one of us is a hypocrite?
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So to summarize-Jono 111 wrote:Wow - that's one of the most grotesquely sexist, insulting and patroning things I've read for a long long time.
To summarise:
1 If you kitesurf you'll look hot and can get more cock.
2 You won't be as fat.
3 Random men will think you're hot, you'll get more cock.
4 You are no longer restricted to sunbathing, because that's all girls do.
5 You can go shopping more, because that's all girls do.
6 Your boyfriend will love you more and give you more cock.
I honestly thought this was a joke....but I'm scared it's not
Sounds like someone needs to get laid!!!
and maybe go back to grammar school......
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Hi, I would like to ask some advice on setting up a source control structure. We've got an internal library project which is made in .NET 2.0. This library is used in many different projects (most of them 2.0) so it's very important to us.
Now with VS2008, we're starting to create new projects in .NET 3.5 / VS2008. Offcourse those projects are also using the library, but we cannot add the library projects since they're 2.0 (the conversion wizzard pops up asking to convert the project to VS2008). We can offcourse include the last released build DLL, but that's not ideal.
Is it possible, using Fortress/Vault, to create a Library35 folder with a VS2008 project in it? Offcourse it's a little more complicated than just copying, because changed made to the library code shoud ultimately be available in both libraries, except new functionality which uses the 3.5 Framework.
I don't exactly know how copying/sharing/branching could solve this, so I would like some help on this. Would it be best to convert the main project to 2008 and leave the sub library in 2.0? Or should I create a 3.5 sub project and leave the library as it is? I'm lost!
Library in .NET 2.0 and 3.5: how?
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My initial response is to recommend that you try VS 2008's multi-targeting
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We have a similar problem here, except we must stay compatible with VS.Net 1.1. We handle this by keeping two project files, VS 2003 and VS 2005. The code must remain 2003 compatible (which means we did not keep any code changes that 2005 did when it converted the project). We do two builds, one with each version of Visual Studio.
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Yeah, but multitargeting only supports loading 2.0 projects in VS2008, not mixing 2.0 and 3.5 projects within one solution.
Your option of creating a second project file in VS2008 is a nice one which I didn't think of yet. Though I would like a source control solution even more, that does seem to be a good option. I'll just wait a bit for some more options
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Well I would still like to know if Vault/Fortress provides any usable options for these kind of problems. The second project file seems like a good solution but that hasn't got anything to do with source control as far as I know (except for storing the file ofcourse)
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|Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528 German, The Adoration of the Magi, 1511. Woodcut. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Stephen H. Loeb. 1983.1.10
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BETHESDA, Md. - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced today a number of key personnel changes, including the appointment of a new scientific director to run its intraumural research program, a new director for the extramural program that oversaw the Human Genome Project and new advisors in the Office of the Director.
"This is a very exciting time for the National Human Genome Research Institute," said Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "As we move to finish the human genome sequence in April 2003, the institute has been conducting a yearlong planning effort to prepare for the next phase of genomic research. It's only natural that the institute itself would also evolve. The new team promises to be a powerhouse for genomic research."
New appointments include Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., as the scientific director and director of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research (DIR); William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D., as the intramural clinical director; and Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., as the director of the Division of Extramural Research (DER), along with the appointment of two DER associate directors: Jane L. Peterson, Ph.D., and Bettie J. Graham, Ph.D. (See accompanying articles).
In addition, NHGRI's Office of the Director is adding new staff, including Christopher Austin, M.D., in the newly created position of Senior Advisor to the Director for Translational Research and Jean Jenkins, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, as Senior Clinical Advisor.
As Senior Advisor to the Director for Translational Research, Dr. Austin will explore dissemination to academic investigators of the high-throughput technologies used in the private sector for deriving small molecule probes of biological pathways. He will also expand relationships with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and focus on translating the genomic data produced through the Human Genome Project into new therapeutic strategies.
Dr. Austin received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1986 and obtained clinical training in neurology as a resident and clinical fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he eventually became chief resident. From 1991 to 1996, he was a Research Fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Since 1996, Dr. Austin has been working at Merck Research Laboratories, most recently as the Director of Genomic Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience. He played a key role Merck's pharmacogenomics program and started a schizophrenia drug development project team that has identified two molecular targets now being tested for the treatment of the disease.
Dr. Jenkins will continue NHGRI's mission to educate health professionals and the public about the role of genetic medicine in the clinic, as well as the health and societal implications of the HGP. In addition to her part-time position at NHGRI, Dr. Jenkins will continue to serve as the Clinical Nurse Specialist Consultant in Cancer Genetics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where she has been since 1997.
Dr. Jenkins received her B.S.N. in nursing from the University of Maryland in 1975 and her M.S.N. in oncology nursing and education from Catholic University of America in 1984. Dr. Jenkins earned her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 1999. In 2000, she was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She began her career at the National Institutes of Health in 1975 and has served as a Public Health Service Corps officer since 1986.
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