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This is another article chronicling life behind the scenes of Violet Mary, with a look at multi-talented drummer Chris Teal…
When Violet Mary was undergoing a change in drummers leave after the recording of their third album Level, this was a position the group had
experienced several times before. The drummer's position was open for a third time, and Violet Mary had hired a new bass player in Marty Dorren in 2011 after their original bassist left. Auditions were scheduled, and Violet Mary would take time to decide on who the right fit would be for them.
They didn't have to go that far, because Chris Teal was already on board - and he carries a lot of many beats with him.
The Eastman alum stepped up behind the drum kit as Violet Mary's third force of the sticks, but before Teal landed the job, he was already a part
of several notable local bands. He founded the multi-style band Quintopus in 2009, while playing drums for the jazz band The Dave Rivello Ensemble, jazz chanteuse Madeleine Forster, and the rock group The Mighty High and Dry. Besides his drum work, Teal is also lending his voice as a member of the a cappella group The Bowties.
Teal's road to drumming success began in his home state of Washington, and it didn't hurt to have family deeply involved in music. "I always grew up hearing music in rehearsals and at my parents' schools," he said. "Both are music teachers and my mom plays with the symphony in Spokane."
Throughout his early musical learning, Teal took up the drums in high school and learned how to play with different styles - from the classic rock of The Beatles and Genesis to jazz giant Miles Davis. That versatile training continued into Whitworth University located in Spokane; he graduated in 2005, with his bachelor's degree in Jazz Percussion Performance. Then came time away from school, with life in the Spokane music scene and even spending time with a cruise line. Soon after, Teal took on a new opportunity across America, when he was accepted by the prominent Eastman School of Music in Rochester; he would earn his Master's in Jazz and Contemporary Media in 2009.
Before he made his way onto Violet Mary's drum throne, Teal had seen them perform as well as meeting several band members. "I had met Mike and Mel (Muscarella) at a Fair Trade Music meeting, and they'd heard me play with the Po' Boys Brass Band, and I heard Violet Mary a few times after that."
In November 2012, an opening came up within Violet Mary's ranks. The band saw their drummer Scott Butcher leave, and according to
guitarist/co-producer Mike Muscarella, they had planned auditions with several drummers including Teal.
"(We) brought Chris in first," said Muscarella. "We make a point in taking our time in making this level of decision. After the audition, we hung out with Chris and then sent him home. From there, the decision was simple and unanimous: cancel the remaining auditions after offering Chris the gig."
Teal savored the opportunity as Violet Mary's new drummer. "When the opening came…it just worked out really well, and we hit it off playing and
personality wise."
Even with all of the other current projects Teal has attached to, the band shows no concern over his level of involvement. "We knew that his other
work would be a complication," said Muscarella. "But his playing and personality was what we needed, so we were willing to head in that new
Muscarella acknowledged Teal's many styles have been just another element in a continuing period of change for Violet Mary. "(The band's) style is rather defined at this point, but that definition isn't static. The brand evolves as the music evolves…but will add new colors and textures based in part to Chris' voice."
Even with his steady career of life as a drummer, Teal has also pushed himself in promoting music in Rochester. He is a founder and artistic
director for the Institute for Creative Music; he also plays drums for the school-oriented IfCM Collective, along with other musician-educators - and his versatile musicianship has been a driving force in his involvement with the group.
"There weren't enough gigs in Spokane to just be a one-style guy, so I had the chance to sit in with bands that my teachers played with and sub
for them," said Teal. "I think that set me up to play in some very specific settings."
Teal is also one of the driving forces behind Free Trade Music Rochester, an organization whose goal is to grow the city's music community through projects and active engagement. The group's website calls FTM an extension of the Rochester Freelance and Live Music Forums, the latter in which he is listed as a co-founder. Teal said FTM is a group of musicians launched in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on collaboration amongst musicians and locations where they perform.
"In Rochester, we're getting the musicians working together on some recurring projects," he mentioned. "(And we're) keeping everyone in contact with each other in sharing resources, communicating about professional business practice and band policies."
One such recurring FTM project is a yearly compilation featuring selected tracks from local artists, with Teal calling on Mike Muscarella to help organize the first release. Besides Violet Mary, several other bands with Teal's acknowledgment were included - as well as bands MoChester & The Isotopes, and solo artists Amanda Ashley and Alysia Groth.
Another project in the works has been the formation of an FTM concert series, with the Artisan Church's stage being used as a performance space. "It seemed like a logical step to get people out hearing the bands that we've featured on the CD," said Teal. "By running the events ourselves, it gives everyone interested the opportunity to be involved, even if they're not performing."
Teal will be part of Violet Mary's FTM concert with Eyesalve this Saturday night at the Artisan, and the drummer sees loads of potential ahead for all involved. "The music will be great, and we'll all learn a lot about what we need to do moving forward with the organization and our projects by who shows up."


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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks - interviewed at Towers Watson in March 2013.Interview Details
Phone interview a few days after I applied. Easy/routine questions. On-site interview to follow. Four 30 minute interviews with a lunch interview following. Each interviewer had a different set of questions to ask. One of the interviewers was EXTREMELY rude and laughed at my answer to "what is an actuary."Interview Questions
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I applied online. The process took 5 days - interviewed at Towers Watson in March 2013.Interview Details
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Two rounds. First round consisted of 4 interviews of 30 minutes each followed by a lunch interview. 1 technical interview, the rest was behavior and personality-based. Two weeks later I was called back for a second round of interviews, one with a senior actuary and one with a senior consultant.
The interviews were alright. You had to be very quick on your feet and have a wealth of experiences to draw from (leadership, education, community work) and know the company very well. I prepped before hand for about a week, so I didn't have an issue, but I can see where interviewers may have a rough time. Everyone is extremely friendly and wants to get to know you more than anything else.
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Objectives: Existing practice guidelines for osteoarthritis (OA) analyze the evidence behind each proposed treatment but do not prioritize the interventions in a given sequence. The objective was to ... [more ▼]
Objectives: Existing practice guidelines for osteoarthritis (OA) analyze the evidence behind each proposed treatment but do not prioritize the interventions in a given sequence. The objective was to develop a treatment algorithm recommendation that is easier to interpret for the prescribing physician based on the available evidence and that is applicable in Europe and internationally. The knee was used as the model OA joint. Methods: ESCEO assembled a task force of 13 international experts (rheumatologists, clinical epidemiologists, and clinical scientists). Existing guidelines were reviewed; all interventions listed and recent evidence were retrieved using established databases. A first schematic flow chart with treatment prioritization was discussed in a 1-day meeting and shaped to the treatment algorithm. Fine-tuning occurred by electronic communication and three consultation rounds until consensus. Results: Basic principles consist of the need for a combined pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment with a core set of initial measures, including information access/education, weight loss if overweight, and an appropriate exercise program. Four multimodal steps are then established. Step 1 consists of background therapy, either non-pharmacological (referral to a physical therapist for re-alignment treatment if needed and sequential introduction of further physical interventions initially and at any time thereafter) or pharmacological. The latter consists of chronic Symptomatic Slow-Acting Drugs for OA (e.g., prescription glucosamine sulfate and/or chondroitin sulfate) with paracetamol at-need; topical NSAIDs are added in the still symptomatic patient. Step 2 consists of the advanced pharmacological management in the persistent symptomatic patient and is centered on the use of oral COX-2 selective or non-selective NSAIDs, chosen based on concomitant risk factors, with intra-articular corticosteroids or hyaluronate for further symptom relief if insufficient. In Step 3, the last pharmacological attempts before surgery are represented by weak opioids and other central analgesics. Finally, Step 4 consists of end-stage disease management and surgery, with classical opioids as a difficult-to-manage alternative when surgery is contraindicated. Conclusions: The proposed treatment algorithm may represent a new framework for the development of future guidelines for the management of OA, more easily accessible to physicians. © 2014 The Authors. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 17 (3 ULg)
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The influence of substrate hydrophobicity and biomacromolecules (dextran, bovine serum albumin - BSA) adsorption on the cleanability of surfaces soiled by spraying aqueous suspensions of quartz particles (10 to 30 µm size), then dried, was investigated using glass and polystyrene as substrates. The cleanability was evaluated using radial flow cell (RFC). The surface composition was determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The interpretation of XPS data allowed the complexity due to the ubiquitous presence of organic contaminants to be coped with, and the surface composition to be expressed in terms of both the amount of adlayer and the mass concentration of adlayer constituents. When soiled with a suspension of particles in water, glass was much less cleanable than polystyrene, which was attributed to its much lower water contact angle, in agreement with previous observations on starch soil. Dextran was easily desorbed and did not affect the cleanability. The presence of BSA at the interface strongly improved the cleanability of glass while the contact angle did not change appreciably. In contrast, soiling polystyrene with quartz particles suspended in a BSA solution instead of water did not change markedly the cleanability, while the contact angle was much lower and the aggregates of soiling particles were more flat. These observations are explained by the major role of capillary forces developed upon drying, which influence the closeness of the contact between the soiling particles and the substrate and, thereby, the adherence of particles. The capillary forces are proportional to the liquid surface tension and depend in a more complex way on contact angles of the particles and of the substrate. The dependence of cleanability on capillary forces, and in particular on the liquid surface tension, is predominant as compared with its dependence on the size and shape of the soiling aggregates, which influence the efficiency of shear forces exerted by the flowing water upon cleaning. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 14 (4 ULg)
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in Computational Mechanics (in press)
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) made of polycrystalline silicon are widely used in several engineering fields. The fracture properties of polycrystalline silicon directly affect their reliability ... [more ▼]
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) made of polycrystalline silicon are widely used in several engineering fields. The fracture properties of polycrystalline silicon directly affect their reliability. The effect of the orientation of grains on the fracture behaviour of polycrystalline silicon is investigated out of the several factors. This is achieved, firstly, by identifying the statistical variation of the fracture strength and critical strain energy release rate, at the nanoscopic scale, over a thin freestanding polycrystalline silicon film, having mesoscopic scale dimensions. The fracture stress and strain at the mesoscopic level are found to be closely matching with uniaxial tension experimental results. Secondly, the polycrystalline silicon film is considered at the continuum MEMS scale, and its fracture behaviour is studied by incorporating the nanoscopic scale effect of grain orientation. The entire modelling and simulation of the thin film is achieved by combining the discontinuous Galerkin method and extrinsic cohesive law describing the fracture process. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 4 (0 ULg)
A note on the equivalence between observed and expected information functions with polytomous IRT models
Magis, David
in Journal of Educational & Behavioral Statistics (in press)
The purpose of this note is to study the equivalence of observed and expected (Fisher) information functions with polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. It is established that observed and expected ... [more ▼]
The purpose of this note is to study the equivalence of observed and expected (Fisher) information functions with polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. It is established that observed and expected information functions are equivalent for the class of divide-by-total models (including partial credit, generalized partial credit, rating scale and nominal response models), but not for the class of difference models (including the graded response and modified graded response models). Yet, observed information function remains positive in both classes. Straightforward connections with dichotomous IRT models and further implications are outlined. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 9 (0 ULg)
Isolating auroral FUV emission lines using compact, broadband instrumentation
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in Planetary and Space Science (in press)
Images of auroral emissions at far ultraviolet (FUV, 122–200 nm) wavelengths are useful tools with which to study magnetospheric-ionospheric coupling, as the scattered sunlight background in this region ... [more ▼]
Images of auroral emissions at far ultraviolet (FUV, 122–200 nm) wavelengths are useful tools with which to study magnetospheric-ionospheric coupling, as the scattered sunlight background in this region is low, allowing both dayside and nightside auroras to be imaged simultaneously. The ratio of intensities between certain FUV emission lines or regions can be used to characterise the precipitating particles responsible for auroral emissions, and hence is a useful diagnostic of magnetospheric dynamics. Here, we describe how the addition of simple transmission filters to a compact broadband imager design allows far ultraviolet emission ratios to be deduced while also providing large-scale instantaneous images of the aurora. The low mass and volume of such an instrument would make it well-suited for both small satellite Earth-orbiting missions and larger outer planet missions from which it could be used to characterise the tenuous atmospheres observed at several moons, as well as studying the auroral emissions of the gas giants. We present a study to investigate the accuracy of a technique to allow emission line ratio retrieval, as applied to the OI 130.4 nm and 135.6 nm emissions at Ganymede. The ratio of these emissions provides information about the atmospheric composition, specifically the relative abundances of O and O2. Using modelled FUV spectra representative of Ganymede's atmosphere, based on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), we find that the accuracy of the retrieved ratios is a function of the magnitude of the ratio, with the best measurements corresponding to a ratio of ∼1.3 . [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 6 (1 ULg)
Adolescentes victimes d'abus sexuel et trajectoire délinquante : quels facteurs de résilience ?
Glowacz, Fabienne ;
in Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence (in press)
Introduction: This study concerns resilience related to juvenile delinquency among victims of sexual abuse: sexual abuse has been recognized as a powerful risk factor for the emergence of deviant and ... [more ▼]
Introduction: This study concerns resilience related to juvenile delinquency among victims of sexual abuse: sexual abuse has been recognized as a powerful risk factor for the emergence of deviant and criminal behavior. Objective: Our study aims to explore and highlight the protective factors that prevent victims of sexual abuse from engaging in a delinquent trajectory. Method: The sample consists of teenage girls who have revealed at minimum last year, their intergenerational abuse. These girls, all between 12 and 18 years old, are divided into sub-groups: the non-offender victims and the victims who are also offenders. Each teenage victim is compared to a normative population on different psychological functioning dimensions : self-esteem (Harter's self-perception profile for adolescents), aggressiveness (the Buss-Perry Aggression questionnaire) and Post-Traumatic Stress, with the Impact of Event scale-Revised, (IES-R)-Horowitz. We analyze family characteristics such as familial attachment and family climate, social characteristics such as associations with peers, and environmental factors such as reactions to revelations of sexual abuse, the presence of family and extra-familial resources, psychological care. Results and conclusion: The results show that teenage victims of sexual assault present lower self-esteem and a negative self-perception in all fields, except for the perception of their attractiveness. Over-investment of this single dimension of self-perception can lead to a sexualization of their relationships with others and expose them to the risk of sexual revictimisation. The comparative analyses between the adolescent delinquent and non-delinquent victims highlight risk factors in connection with setting them off on a delinquent trajectory and protective factors supporting their resilience. The results highlight specific characteristics to the offender juvenile victims supporting a delinquent trajectory : aggressiveness, PTSD, defensive strategy of avoidance and characteristics of abuse (chronicity of abuse). The victim committed in delinquent trajectories presented more aggressiveness, consumeristic behaviour, post-traumatic stress and defensive strategy of avoidance than non-offender victims. Delinquent behaviour, just like substance abuse, could be a strategy of risk avoidance in connection with reliving sexual trauma, which hinders the process of resilience. Compared to the process of resilience, immediate and differed paternal support (during and after the revelations) seems the most important factor of protection. Being able to benefit from psychological councelling and having an extra-familial resource (a significant relationship with someone in the social environment) also constitute factors that support the resilience of these teenagers and prevent them from going down the path of delinquency. The interventions should aim at establishing a therapeutic alliance with these young girls during the early process of revealing the sexual abuse and mobilize and activate the support of the father (when he is not the abuser) or of a meaningful paternal figure as early as possible during the revealing phase and to accompany him in this restructuring function. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 13 (5 ULg)
L'auteur de la Passio sanctae Salsae a-t-il aussi écrit la Passio sancti Fabii ?
Fialon, Sabine
in Meyers, Jean; Fialon, Sabine (Eds.) La Passio sanctae Salsae. Recherches sur une passion tardive d'Afrique du Nord. Avec une nouvelle édition critique d'A. M. Piredda et une traduction annotée du G.R.A.A. (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 8 (4 ULg)
Compte-rendu de Catherine SAUCIER, A Paradise of Priests. Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège, 299 p. in-8°, University of Rochester Press, 2014.
George, Philippe
in Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique (in press)
LiturgieDetailed reference viewed: 6 (1 ULg)
Compte rendu de Hagiographies. Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550, sous la direction de Monique Goullet, vol. 6. Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Corpus Christianorum. Hagiographies, 6).
George, Philippe
in Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 14 (1 ULg)
Dominant amphipods of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows display considerable trophic diversity
Michel, Loïc ; Dauby, Patrick ; Gobert, Sylvie et al
in Marine Ecology (in press)
Gut content examination and trophic markers (fatty acids, stables isotopes of C and N) were combined to delineate the diet of the dominant species of amphipods from Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica ... [more ▼]
Gut content examination and trophic markers (fatty acids, stables isotopes of C and N) were combined to delineate the diet of the dominant species of amphipods from Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows and to highlight trophic diversity among this community. Our results indicate that, although all dominant species heavily relied on macroalgal epiphytes, considerable interspecific dietary differences existed. Carbon stable isotope ratios notably showed that some of the amphipod species favored grazing on epiphytes from leaves or litter fragments (Apherusa chiereghinii, Aora spinicornis, Gammarus aequicauda), while others like Dexamine spiniventris preferred epiphytes from rhizomes. The remaining amphipods (Caprella acanthifera, Ampithoe helleri and Gammarella fucicola) readily consumed both groups. In addition, SIAR modeling suggested that most species had a mixed diet, and relied on several food items. Fatty acid analysis and gut contents revealed that contribution of microepiphytic diatoms and of benthic and suspended particulate organic matter to the diet of amphipods were anecdotal. None of the examined species seemed to graze on their seagrass host (low 18:2(n-6) and 18:3(n-3) fatty acids contents), but G. aequicauda partly relied on seagrass leaf detritus, as demonstrated by the lesser 13C-depletion of their tissues. Overall, our findings suggest that amphipods, because of their importance in transfers of organic matter from primary producers and detritus to higher rank consumers, are key-items in P. oceanica associated food webs. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 40 (10 ULg)
La Passio sanctae Salsae. Recherches sur une passion tardive d'Afrique du Nord. Avec une nouvelle édition critique d'A. M. Piredda et une traduction annotée du G.R.A.A.
; Fialon, Sabine
Book published by Ausonius (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 8 (4 ULg)
La Porte Mantile et la Porte du Capitole [de la cathédrale de Tournai] dans l'Histoire de l'Art roman
Van den Bossche, Benoît
E-print/Working paper (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 13 (4 ULg)
Jews and Christians in Late Africa : an hagiographical perspective
Fialon, Sabine
in Lanfranchi, Pierluigi; Verheyden, Joseph (Eds.) Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (titre provisoire) (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 12 (0 ULg)
« Semen est sanguis christianorum » (Apol. 50, 13). Tertullien et l'hagiographie africaine
Fialon, Sabine
in Lagouanère, Jérôme; Fialon, Sabine (Eds.) Tertullianus Afer. Tertullien et la littérature chrétienne d'Afrique, IIe-VIe siècle (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 9 (0 ULg)
PET imaging analysis using a parcelation approach and multiple kernel classification
Segovia-Román, Fermín ; Phillips, Christophe
in International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging, Tübingen 4-6 June 2014 (in press)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive medical imaging modality that provides information about physiological processes. Due to its ability to measure the brain metabolism, it is widely used ... [more ▼]
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive medical imaging modality that provides information about physiological processes. Due to its ability to measure the brain metabolism, it is widely used to assist the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) of Parkinsonism. In order to avoid the subjectivity inherent to the visual exploration of the images, several computer systems to analyze PET data were developed during the last years. However, dealing with the huge amount of information provided by PET imaging is still a challenge. In this work we present a novel methodology to analyze PET data that improves the automatic differentiation between controls and AD patients. First the images are divided into small regions or parcels, defined either anatomically, geometrically or randomly. Secondly, the accuray of each single region is estimated using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and a cross-validation approach. Finally, all the regions are assessed together using multiple kernel SVM with a kernel per region. The classifier is built so that the most discriminative regions have more weight in the final decision. This method was evaluated using a PET dataset that contained images from healthy controls and AD patients. The classification results obtained with the proposed approach outperformed two recently reported computer systems based on Principal Component Analysis and Independent Component Analysis. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 9 (0 ULg)
Sophistique et Philosophie: Platon, héritier de Protagoras
Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Book published by Vrin (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 15 (0 ULg)
Genetic parameters for mid-infrared methane indicators based on milk fatty acids in dairy cows
Kandel, Purna Bhadra ; Gengler, Nicolas ; Soyeurt, Hélène
in Journal of Applied Animal Research (in press)
Dairy production is identified as a major source of methane (CH4) emissions. Selective breeding canbe one method used to mitigate CH4 emissions but practical and cheap measurement of this trait is not ... [more ▼]
Dairy production is identified as a major source of methane (CH4) emissions. Selective breeding canbe one method used to mitigate CH4 emissions but practical and cheap measurement of this trait is not currently available. The mid-infrared (MIR) prediction of milk fatty acids is relevant in this context. Five MIR methane indicators were derived from the literature and were calibrated from 600 samples analyzed by gas chromatography. Genetic parameters for these traits were estimated using single trait random regression test-day models from 619,265 records collected from 2007 to 2011 on 71,188 Holstein cows in their first three lactations. For the published indicator showing the highest relationship with the methane data (R2 = 0.88), the average daily heritability was 0.34±0.01, 0.37±0.01 and 0.34±0.01 for the first three lactations, respectively. The methane emission (g/day) was increased from beginning of lactation, reached at the highest in peak of lactation and decreased towards end of lactation. The largest differences between estimated breeding values (EBV) of sires having daughters in production eructing the highest and the lowest methane content was 21.80, 22.75 and 24.89 kg per lactation for the first three parities. Positive genetic correlations were estimated between indicator traits and milk fat and protein content. Low negative correlation was observed with milk yield. In conclusion, this study shows the feasibility to predict methane indicator traits by MIR. Moreover, the estimated genetic parameters suggest also a potential genetic variability of the quantity of methane eructed by dairy cows. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 83 (38 ULg)


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The "Breaking Bad" script that was stolen from Bryan Cranston's car actually gave the show a HUGE edge in its final season ... so says one of its biggest stars.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito -- who played villain Gus Fring -- has an interesting theory about things that appear disastrous at first glance ... but actually turn out to be huge positives ... and the stolen script is a prime example.
Charles Baker -- aka Skinny Pete -- had a different theory.
As we reported, the script -- for an episode from the final season -- was stolen out of Cranston's Audi earlier this month in Albuquerque. He even called 911. A man named Xavier McAfee has been arrested in connection with the case, but the script hasn't been recovered.
Actually this is a teaser for the final season...Mike is NOT dead and survived the Walter shooting...Dude finds Walt's car parked in ABQ and rips the script to ransom it back for 5 million so he can finally leave his grand-daughter that nest egg that he has lost 2 x before. Not to be a spoiler but we also learn in this season that Walt corrupts Hank and he starts running interference on the DEA side so WW can fling that dope 24/7.
Yup! It has INERTIA!!!
Im glad because I love this show.
So it was a conspiracy.
"Actor Giancarlo Esposito -- who plays villain Gus Fring"
who "played". Guess you guys need to catch up on the episodes.
Of course it helped most people never heard of it before.
It's an OK show. Good actors. The female characters are written badly, like that other show The Walking Dead.
The Gus Fring storyline has been my favorite part of the show thus far. Was sad it ended. Loved how it was written A+
I love "Breaking Bad" and Giancarlo did an amazing job playing Gus. I think he is right. People will watch even if the script is leaked. All the actors do such a good job, people will still want to see it even if they know what happens. But it will take away from the excitement of it. So hopefully the person who has it isn't going to be a jerk about it and leak it.
BTW, what was up with "Community" getting him again this season and once again not taking advantage? For a show that does so many parodies you would think they would have taken advantage of having Gus Fring. Oh well.
Breaking Bad is the best show I've ever seen except maybe for The Wire.
Breaking Bad is the best show I've ever seen except maybe for The Wire.
U can say that again!
Give me my script B!TCH!
Esposito is on jimmy kimmel tonight. Like in two minutes. Im just saying. So if u wanto see him, i guess u got time to pee. Barely.
Long live Gustavo!


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The technology and consulting firm Accenture PLC (NYSE: ACN) announced a strong quarterly growth for its second quarter. Here are the highlights from Accenture's most recent quarter:
- Earnings per share were $1
- New client bookings rose by 15% compared to the same time last year
- New client bookings rose by 21% from the previous quarter
- Revenue rose by 3% to $7.49 billion
- A semi-annual cash dividend of $0.81 per share was announced
All of these are positive signs for investors, but let's take a closer look at the financials to see where the profits are coming from.
Accenture has two different revenue streams: consulting and outsourcing. The company operates globally with its largest operations in the Americas followed by Europe, Middle East, and Africa and finally Asia pacific.
Revenues (in millions)
EMEA saw the slowest growth rate from the same time period the prior year. This is largely due to the economic uncertainty in Europe. One of the greatest factors for Accenture's success is the economic climate.
Overall consulting revenues have declined while outsourcing revenues have grown. Economic uncertainty pushes companies to outsource some operations. The company is spread across many industries. This limits drastic drops in revenue due to market conditions and allows for steady growth. The health and public services and financial services are the two strongest growth areas. This is largely due to the challenges of those two industries over the last year.
Growth next year will be double digits. The global economy has room to improve this year – especially with regards to financial services and the healthcare industries. With this grow, the stock has some room to move to $77.50-$78 per share over the next year.
Infosys, Ltd. (NYSE: INFY) and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSH) are two other technology and consulting companies competing with Accenture. So, how do they compare?
Infosys was ranked as the 19th most innovative companies by Forbes magazines. It operates in over 30 countries helping companies solve problems and innovate with technology. The India-based company has been expanding in to Germany with a large-scale project with BMW. The company is trying to change its business mix and enter new opportunities. This will come at a cost with hiring new people and engaging in new technology. Growth is expected to be flat through the next year. Investors expect more than that from companies. So, I don't see this is a strong company to invest in for now. The stock has had a drastic gain over the last year and surged by 19% in one day this past January. At $53.40 per share, the company is price a little high.
Cognizant Technology Solutions saw strong growth in financial services and healthcare during 2012. Total revenues grew by 20% in 2012 from 2011 to $7.3 billion. This is largely due to what the management call a "continued expansion of the market for global delivery of IT services and business process outsourcing." The company also saw an 8.9% increase in revenue from Europe. This is something Accenture was not able to accomplish. Growth next year should be solid double digit and the stock price has a 10% upside potential.
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Don't blink - you might miss it! Vintage footage of current NASCAR superstar Jimmie Johnson during his pre-Sprint Cup days in one of the most vicious crashes in auto racing history.
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Pepsi are using the cells of dead human fetuses in order to test the chemical reaction of the artificial flavouring in their drinks despite having other options.
To be more specific, it is Senomyx, a company which Pepsi work with and get their flavouring chemicals from who are doing the testing but Obama has said it is perfectly reasonable.
The original story was exposed last year but many people are still unaware that the flavouring in Pepsi is being tested on dead human futus cells often from aborted babies.
The story was broke by the organisation Children of God for Life (CGL) and their director Debi Vinnedge said,
"What they don't tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 — human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors,"
"They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors."
The companies share holders then demanded through a petition that they use more ethical means of testing the flavour chemicals and requested the company,
"adopt a corporate policy that recognizes human rights and employs ethical standards which do not involve using the remains of aborted human beings in both private and collaborative research and development agreements.".
The Obama administration decided to block the petition because they thought testing on dead fetus cells was "ordinary business operations" and should continue.
Debi Vinnedge was outraged by the decision and said,
"We're not talking about what kind of pencils PepsiCo wants to use – we are talking about exploiting the remains of an aborted child for profit,"
"Using human embryonic kidney (HEK-293) to produce flavor enhancers for their beverages is a far cry from routine operations!"
"In other words, PepsiCo thinks its stockholders are too stupid to understand what they are doing with the remains of aborted children,"
If ever we needed a reason to never drink Pepsi again this is certainly it and their blatant disregard for ethics shouldn't go unnoticed either.
The Obama administration protecting big business is hardly surprising but it should wake Americans up to who is most imporant in Washington and it's n0t "we the people."
Using dead fetus cells to test for the reaction to chemical flavouring is not something that would be needed if Pepsi wasn't full of unnatural, harmful chemicals.
Please share this information with everyone you know finds out about these disgusting acts from Pepsi and hit them where it hurts…in the profit.
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So…. Nuka has a girlfriend now!! She has no name yet. She was gotten off eBay for pretty cheap, but she has head jitters and DHS really bad. I hope it's fixable. She is missing a few other pieces also (tail and ear). She's had a rough life, but when I charged her and turned her on her personality was so cute and active! I can't wait to find out if she can be fixed, and fix her!
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Singapore: A Travel Guide
As requested, here's a travel blog post/itinerary guide about the country I've considered home for the past two years. There are so many things to see and do in Singapore but this entry should be able to cover the basics and must-see. Please don't forget to share appreciate this to your friends who are planning to visit the Garden City soon! x


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'X Factor' Judges Enjoy Four-Hour Dinner Together in New York After Big Announcement (EXCLUSIVE)
Yesterday, FOX finally confirmed the long-awaited news that Britney Spears and Demi Lovato will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid on The X Factor this fall, replacing ousted judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
The announcement was made during the afternoon, at the network's Upfronts presentation in New York, which meant the fabulous foursome had plenty of time to enjoy the bright lights of New York in the evening.
So, where did they go?
Restaurant onlookers can exclusively reveal to Celebuzz that the four judges enjoyed a relaxed dinner together in the back of ABC Kitchen, where they stayed for about four hours.
"They were very talkative and enjoying it," said one source. "They arrived mid-evening, around 8-ish, and stayed until late."
Spears, 30, looked "amazing," said an onlooker, donning a black dress (her third of the day) with her hair up. The Womanizer singer reportedly spent a lot of her time talking and joking around with Cowell, 52, while Lovato, 19, chatted it up with Reid.
"All four looked like they were getting on well and relaxed," said the restaurant onlooker.
Cowell reportedly sat in between Spears and Lovato, and sipped on Sapporo beer.
Reid, 55, was the first to leave the restaurant, and was followed by Spears, who left with her managers. Cowell and Lovato left at the same time, said onlookers.


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April 5, 2004 -- Tempting as it might be to do so, using the television to "baby-sit" 1- to 3-year-olds increases the possibility that the baby will have attention problems in school, according to results of a new study of more than 2,500 children.
Child development experts have been worried about kids and TV for decades and the American Academy of Pediatrics is already on record in favor of limiting toddler TV time, but the study from researchers at the University of Washington Child Health Institute in Seattle offers the first scientific evidence linking television exposure to attention problems. Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, tells WebMD that a 3-year-old who watches TV for two hours a day "has a 20% increased risk for attention problems at age 7 compared with a child who doesn't watch any TV."
Christakis says that the risk increases as TV watching increases so that "for each additional hour of television watched, the risk is increased by almost 10%."
Moreover, he says that the TV may increase the risk for attentional problems because television images change rapidly, "which is an important contrast to the pace of real life," he says. He notes that even some well-respected children's programs - such as Sesame Street -- are specifically designed to rely on rapid fire images to keep a young child's attention.
In the study Christakis and colleagues used data collected from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. The survey collects data on family background, home environment, and health. Mothers were asked to estimate television watching time on a typical weekday. Television data were available for 1,278 children at age 1 and 1,345 children at age 3, and data were collected again for both groups at age 7. The researchers used a measurement tool called the Behavioral Problems Index to identify children who had attention problems such as difficulty concentrating, being easily distracted, impulsiveness, or restlessness. He says that about 10% of the children had attention problems by age 7.
Megan Fox says many parents "start out with pretty strict rules about TV." Fox, who is a stay-at-home mom with four children, tells WebMD that her oldest daughter Sarah, now a third-grade student in Lakewood, Ohio, "watched no TV." But the television rules softened somewhat when Sarah was joined by Michael, age 8 and Anna, who will be 5 in August. When baby Jack arrived two years ago, Megan decided that sometimes she had to "turn on the TV so that I could get something done." Now, she says, Jack probably sees about an hour of TV a day.
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Susan Buttross, MD, FAAP, who is a professor of pediatrics and chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the University of Mississippi in Jackson tells WebMD that Fox is probably pretty typical of most parents. "We don't want to make any parent feel guilty," says Buttross who is also a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. "The fact is that younger children in families are going to be exposed to TV."


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A veteran and NSA agent is accused of beating his adopted 3-year-old son to death. The absolutely horrible allegations say that 36-year-old Brian Patrick O'Callaghan, a former Marine who served in Iraq, brutally beat young Hyunsu (called "Madoc"), who was adopted from South Korea, while his wife was out of town.
The accusations couldn't be more chilling. Police have charged O'Callaghan with first-degree murder and child abuse after Madoc was found "beaten from head to toe," says the Assistant District Attorney. Madoc had tragically only been in the country for about five months.
The boy was brought to the hospital after O'Callaghan says he found that he had slipped backwards in the shower and hit his shoulder. O'Callaghan says he put him down for a nap, but later there was mucus coming out of his nose and the boy began vomiting.
Hospital workers alerted authorities after believing the boy showed signs of having been beaten. He died and an autopsy reportedly showed fractures at the base of his skull, bruises to the skull, and many other injuries.
The man's lawyer insists that he did not commit this disgusting crime -- and that there is no history of abuse with his other son, who is 7 years old. He calls the charges "unfounded" and says the injuries mentioned in police documents are untrue.
He also says that O'Callaghan's family is standing behind him. I assume this must mean his wife too. What must it be like for the wife to go out of town, leave her newly arrived son with her husband, and come home to find this?!
"He's worked so hard to get this baby," said O'Callaghan's grandfather, refusing to believe the charges.
We don't know exactly what happened, but police must feel they have a solid case or there wouldn't have been an arrest. To think that this poor little boy, who had such a hard life before he came to the U.S., finally gets here, and then meets his fate in this way ... it's just horrific.
Could this former Marine be capable of this? He is certainly denying it through this lawyer. But what happened? Why would a 3-year-old be alone in a shower? Why would he put him down for a nap when he'd received injuries of this caliber?
Unfortunately, we all know that child abuse occurs at all levels of society. Those who are better off and who have served our country are not necessarily people incapable of harming children. But did he? That's for a jury to decide.
What do you think happened?
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Oh, I think he beat the life out of this poor little boy who deserved so much better. Call me judgmental; call me presumptious; call me whatever the heck you want, but the picture of this "man" and the callous, lifeless look in his eyes says it all for me. I hope he suffers greatly in prison but it won't be enough.
There is absolutely no excuse for what he did, but I have to wonder if this man is suffering from PTSD after his time in the service. It's a well know fact that the government does nothing to support its military folks coming home after service in war torn areas, and these men and women often suffer from serious mental health issues when they try to reacclimate into civilian life.
Yet another example of every child deseres a mother and a father; yet, I'm left to wonder what an innocent 3-year-old could have possibly done to deserve this father.
Lena - You mean a Stir writer didn't tell the complete story? Shocking... He still has a very menacing, killer look to him regardless of what the true story is. He looks like the character from Full Metal Jacket (military movie) who just loses it and goes crazy (but he just killed himself). I also wouldn't be surprised to hear that he did in fact kill this child and some sort of PTSD was involved. And also, WTH is a 3 year old doing in the shower alone? It's just all too fishy for me; sorry, but when it comes to the life (or death) of an innocent child, I'll work backwards and presume guilt until he proves himself innocent. Wrong? Maybe, but I don't care.
The first thing I thought was PTSD as well. Maybe he's usually a very normal guy but had a flash back and lost it. I think it's better he be arrested and have a thorough investigation than to just believe him, call it an accident and leave a potentially very dangerous man walk the streets and care for another child.
Here's a paragraph from the CBS article on O'Callaghan:
The boy's injuries included a skull fracture with bleeding on the front and back of the brain with multiple impacts to the head. His body also showed multiple contusions, and there was evidence of impact trauma on the boy's scrotum, according to the documents.
International adoptions have very stringent screening protocols. Psychological testing would have seen a person capable of child homicide. This guy, like so many of these men; are changed completely by the work they do; as the work they do seems to cause tremendous misery, all over the world. The work they do is apparently lethal. Another highly decorated marine, I believe, was recently convicted of violating little 1 to 3 year old boys and girls. Something is horribly, grotesquely wrong with these people, the work they're involved in, and the care, or lack of care that they get. They have a very serious problem with monsters getting off the reservation.
This animal could have been in charge of deciding privacy protocols for their universal spying program. Chew on that for a bit.


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How Long do I cook a Pork Roast in a crock pot?
I have an 8 lb pork roast that I am cooking in my crock pot. The only settings are keep warm, low, and high. How long and at what temperature should I cook it?
wow 8lbs?…… well i usually cook my 4 lb one on low for hours……
i'd say an 8 lb one should be cooked on low for 8 hours, high for 2 extra….just til it's white on the inside
if you want to speed it up a bit, i'd cook it for 5 hours on high.
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