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SOURCE: Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
August 09, 2017 17:20 ET
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - August 09, 2017) - Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIRS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing novel biotherapeutics through its proprietary Anticalin® technology platform for cancer, respiratory and other diseases, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2017 and provided an update on the Company's recent developments, including:
"During the second quarter, we continued to build on the momentum with which we began the year, by announcing a global transformative alliance with AstraZeneca in one of our core therapeutic areas, respiratory diseases. We also advanced our strategic collaboration with Servier in immuno-oncology, while strengthening our relationship with ASKA Pharmaceutical, who holds an exclusive development and commercialization option in Japan for our anemia program, PRS-080. Our partnerships have generated nearly $80 million in cash flow in 2017, and together could result in more than $4.4 billion in potential milestone payments plus royalties from future product sales, not to mention opportunities for direct commercial sales for several products in the United States. This year's transactions are a significant step towards achieving our goal of becoming a fully integrated, immunology-focused, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company," said Stephen Yoder, President and CEO of Pieris. "We recently received FDA acceptance of our IND filing for our lead and wholly owned IO program, PRS-343, and soon expect to dose our first patient in HER2-positive cancers. We remain on track to advance our lead respiratory program, PRS-060, into a first-in-human trial in the second half of this year in collaboration with AstraZeneca, while advancing PRS-080 into a Phase IIa study in anemia patients. Finally, our balance sheet remains strong, with a financial runway that extends through several critical, clinical-stage value inflection points."
Second Quarter Financial Update:
Cash Position - Cash and cash equivalents totaled $50.3 million as of June 30, 2017, compared to $29.4 million as of December 31, 2016. The increase in cash was driven primarily by a EUR30.0 million (approximately $32.0 million) upfront payment received from Servier and a $2.8 million option payment received from ASKA, offset by $15.2 million of operating cash expenditures during the first half of the year. In addition, in July 2017 the Company received $45.0 million of upfront payments from AstraZeneca.
R&D Expense - Research and development expenses were $5.4 million and $10.8 million for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, respectively, as compared to $4.5 million and $8.2 million for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2016. The Company's increases in research and development expenses reflect advancement across its pipeline of programs.
G&A Expense - General and administrative expenses were $4.3 million and $8.3 million for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, respectively, as compared to $2.4 million and $4.3 million for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2016. The increase in the 2017 periods as compared to the corresponding periods in 2016 is largely attributable to $1.8 million in transaction fees for the successful close of our license and collaboration agreement with AstraZeneca. Of a more recurring nature, recruiting and personnel related costs are increasing as we continue to build the organization and we increasingly require outside professional services, including for intellectual property and corporate legal work, auditing, finance, communications and in other facets of the business.
Net Loss - Net loss was $10.1 million or ($0.23) per share for the three-month period ended June 30, 2017, compared to a net loss $5.9 million or ($0.14) per share for the three-month period ended June 30, 2016. Net loss was $18.1 million or ($0.42) per share for the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, compared to a net loss $10.0 million or ($0.25) per share for the six-month period ended June 30, 2016.
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About Pieris Pharmaceuticals
Pieris is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that discovers and develops Anticalin® protein-based drugs to target validated disease pathways in a unique and transformative way. Our pipeline includes immuno-oncology multi-specifics tailored for the tumor microenvironment, an inhaled Anticalin protein to treat uncontrolled asthma and a half-life-optimized Anticalin protein to treat anemia. Proprietary to Pieris, Anticalin proteins are a novel class of therapeutics validated in the clinic and by partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies. Anticalin is a registered trademark of Pieris. For more information, visit www.pieris.com.
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My name is Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond, the very secret agent. And I am a dead man walking.
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The Design Fiction of Black Mirror
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
The first two episodes, written by Brooker, feature plenty of his favoured themes - degredation, the public's obsession with celebrity and the elite, exploitation, the media, herd mentality, immorality - a high-profile political figure is forced to have sex with a pig, a TV talent shows run by porn barons, that kind of thing.
The first episode wasn't set in the future, but felt like a more deviant and sneering version of the present. A society more akin to YouTube comments. The second episode used a more dramatic but contrived futurism that felt more like living in a Nintendo Wii game. @AlxButterworth pointed out it's use of an idea from new media artist Jeffrey Shaw c. 2000. This more familiar nature of this futurism was certainly intentional - it's satirical and exaggerated. The first was set today, the second was a kind of future imagined by Nintendo Wii, but the third was a futurism more sophisticated, more Apple-esque or Rams. Some kind of Swiss school of horror.
I don't mean this to distract from the quality of these first two episodes, they were brilliant and entertaining. But it's specifically the third episode that I found really interesting as a piece of design fiction. This is a great example of what design fiction can do for us - the prototyping of the future to make sure were don't fuck it up for ourselves. You could argue that all science fiction does this, but with this episode it feels so possible, so familiar and desirable that it makes it all the more chilling.
SPOILER ALERT: Make sure you've seen it first before you read the rest of this and from here on I'll assume you've seen it.
The third episode was leagues ahead of the first two, don't you think? The style of futurism was retro (the cars, the houses) but the bionic devices and their interfaces were more stylish, simplistic and felt like the kind of things you would really expect of the future. They were subtractive.
They even had classic cars (the maroon one is a Ford Zephyr, apparently). Perhaps the 3D printers of the future can knock out a shiny new VW Karmann Ghias as easily as today's 3D printers churn out blobby grey trinkets. The presence of classic cars felt like a nod to our present obsession with polaroid filters a la Instagram and Hipstamatic, a kind of borrowed sentimentalism.
You can see how such an invention as Willow Grain could come about - an implant that allows you to play back any memory you've ever experienced, not just see but taste, smell and feel. Yes please, I'll have some of that.
And their ability to see information augmented with their vision feels very much like the bionic contact lenses that we hear about on a regular basis.
While it was on, many people on Twitter pointed out the similarity to Facebook's Timeline.
Just watched final #blackmirror - its sent shivers down my spine & was the most disturbing, I want to delete Facebook timeline now #fb
— Sam Walmsley (@sammielw) December 19, 2011
It's basically an hour long advert spelling out the reasons for not using Facebook. It just clicked when he said 'timeline' #blackmirror
— Gem (@GemStGem) December 19, 2011
Watching @charltonbrooker's #BlackMirror from last night. If your Facebook Timeline's activated, you should probably clean it up! #prophetic
— Dan Morrissey (@danofftheradio) December 19, 2011
Good timing on tonight's #blackmirror coinciding with the new Facebook #timeline. Very apt!
— Alex Hay (@mralexhay) December 19, 2011
Thinking that this week's #blackmirror is well timed for the official Facebook timeline launch…. (cc @charltonbrooker )
— Danny Whatmough (@DannyWhatmough) December 18, 2011
I'm sure #BlackMirror is a comment on Facebook Timeline...
— Chocablog (@chocablog) December 18, 2011
This final episode wasn't written by Brooker but was penned by Jesse Armstrong, who is known for Peep Show and The Thick of It.
It almost feels like a public service. Brooker and Armstrong are saying "hang on chaps, let's not rush into all this. I know it looks fun but we're going to think up some really horrid scenarios that might make you think twice."
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Valentines Day Special: How Being Single is a Blessing
Valentines Day, 14th of the month February, yup, It's a day when sweet couples have fun and get romantic with each other, reasons to plan something like candle light dinner with someone you love. Congratulations to those who have a date on this very special day, enjoy with your girlfriend/boyfriend and please don't bother to read this article. If you still want to read this, please don't blame me if you happened to break up with your girlfriend/boyfriend.
Now for those who don't have a date on this occasion of Valentines day. All of you who are still single, how are you celebrating this valentine day. Don't tell me that you are sitting in some corner of your home and thinking about the couples having fun and blaming yourself that you didn't ask the girl next door to go on a date with you. If that's the case then please slap yourself and get out of this coma. Yup, you are single and this is the best thing ever which can happen to you, so instead of cursing yourself try to enjoy your singlehood.
So why being single is a blessing, here are some merits that I can think of, but there are numerous other benefits of being single which are out of the scope of this article and those you will realize yourself in future.
No Painful Breakups
It's 2016 and yes, there is still something like true love, but the thing is it is mostly one sided, so if you truly love your girlfriend and she just broke up with you for someone else or for any lame reason, how do you plan to endure the pain of a breakup. Being single is better than to have a broken heart. A quote which I found on someone's Facebook status. So no girlfriend means, no breakups, no break ups means no pain and no pain means eternal happiness.
Save Your Money and Time
Yes, if you are single you are actually saving a lot of money for yourself. You don't have to roam around and fulfill those silly requests (mostly includes money) of your girlfriend. You don't have to buy expensive gifts for her for every silly occasion. Believe me, this is the best way to save your money. You can actually spend your money how you want. Be single and save your money for Sony's PS4 or if you don't like buying PS4 you certainly will save a lot of money for your beer. The best thing is you don't have to worry about your pocket money because you surely can roam around with empty pockets.
Don't have to answer silly questions.
Suppose there's an earthquake followed by a volcanic eruption. If this can't kill you, all those silly questions like "Do I look attractive", "Which color suits me", "will this dress suit me" will sure kill you. If you are single you don't have to bear these life threatening questions. These questions become worse if your girlfriend/boyfriend suspects that you are cheating with her/him. "Why you are late, are you with some other girl", "What were you doing with that girl" are some pretty good examples.
Endless Freedom
When you are single you are master of yourself. You can go wherever you want, you can stare at pretty girls walking on the street, without any concerns (you certainly can't do this while walking with your girlfriend). Enjoy your freedom, this is the best thing of singlehood.
Adequate Sleep
The good thing is that you are single and that's why you don't have to text your girl/boy whole night. This is the worst side effect of being in a relationship, you have to compromise with your sleep just to talk about rubbish things. All singles out there, you all certainly don't want to look like a zombie with huge red eyes every morning.
Don't have to Remember Dates
What happen when you, forget your Anniversary or forget your lover's birthday. You all know what happens in those cases. But you don't have to worry because you are single.
Being single is a blessing, if you know how to enjoy it and live with it. You are awesome and you don't need a lover to tell you that. Singlehood is the sweetest thing if you can live all by yourself and can dance alone in the rain. So instead of being joyless, go out and have some fun.
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Interesting in that basically all of Leone's collaborators hated him, but most of his actors absolutely loved him. (I do wish that he would have been alive at the time Frayling wrote STDWD, if only so that he could respond to all the claims by his collaborators of what a jerk he was).
Yes interesting We could even be more precise: his famous collaborators (Morricone, Delli Colli...) loved him. The ones who hated him are usually more obscure: not a single guy who doesn't have an account on this board knows about Vincenzoni.
Personally, I think Vincenzoni is wrong, I think that some of Leone's movies have very well-done deeper themes beyond the surface stuff, which is also great.
Using a psycho to explore these themes isn't much use, though, is it? Travis is both demented and dangerous, and whatever "truths" he comes up with aren't going to be of much help to (presumably) sane people like us. Yeah, we can still ponder these issues on our own--but we don't need Travis's example as a jumping off point. I mean, we already have Camus's The Stranger, what more do we need?
These guys always slight the material because they know the filmmakers too well (the same happened with Hitchcock). Because the filmmakers are not intellectuals, but rather entertainers, the assumption is that ALL they can do is entertain. But not so. Leone and Hitchcock, for example, because they worked in genres, dealt with archetypes. Archetypes are freighted with deep, deep layers of meaning; in them repose a vast culture. A simple quest tale, for example, encompasses all previous quest tales. So when Harmonica rides, so does Shane, but also Orlando and Parsifal. Would somebody like Leone be aware of this while making a particular film? Not necessarily. But he wouldn't have to. The archetypes themselves carry their own associations. Patterns therefore occur with or without the intentions of the makers. The focus has to be on the films themselves, not the people who made them. Did Shakespeare fully comprehend what he was doing when he faithfully followed the formula for tragedy laid down by Seneca, or mimicked the conventions of Menander's comedies? We don't know, and it doesn't matter.
and it says that on the laserdisc commentary, Scrsese acknowledged that some critics interpreted it as fantasy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#Interpretations_of_the_ending
Thus with Taxi Driver: being alienated from society isn't something limited to murderous psychopaths.
We're not supposed to identify with Travis ultimately--we might find him sympathetic in some scenes as we go along, but by the end of the picture we have to reject him utterly. Just as we do Meursault in The Stranger.
D&D you should check out the bonus on the My Name Is Nobody DVD. Vincenzoni is very harsh about Leone in this one. HE starts out nicely, and then you can feel his anger is getting harder and harder to control and he finally gives example of "ridiculous" dialogues from the dollar trilogy. I've only watched this once years ago, but I also remeber that toward the end he finally says something nice about Leone, but even this sounds "but he was not THAT bad, this little kid": he says how Billy Wilder watched OUATIA and told him that even if you could criticize the story and the structure, Leon ewas a great director. Then he emphasizes on "Billy Wilder! Billy Wilder said that!", as if Leone needed any kind of approval in 1984.


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Momentarily stunned, Gahan's fingers slipped from their hold upon the cordage and the man shot downward through the thin air of dying Mars toward the ground three thousand feet beneath, while upon the deck of the rolling Vanator his faithful warriors clung to their lashings all unconscious of the fate of their beloved leader; nor was it until more than an hour later, after the storm had materially subsided, that they realized he was lost, or knew the self-sacrificing heroism of the act that had sealed his doom. The Vanator now rested upon an even keel as she was carried along by a strong, though steady, wind. The warriors had cast off their deck lashings and the officers were taking account of losses and damage when a weak cry was heard from oversides, attracting their attention to the man hanging in the cordage beneath the keel. Strong arms hoisted him to the deck and then it was that the crew of the Vanator learned of the heroism of their jed and his end. How far they had traveled since his loss they could only vaguely guess, nor could they return in search of him in the disabled condition of the ship. It was a saddened company that drifted onward through the air toward whatever destination Fate was to choose for them.
And Gahan, Jed of Gathol–what of him? Plummet-like he fell for a thousand feet and then the storm seized him in its giant clutch and bore him far aloft again. As a bit of paper borne upon a gale he was tossed about in mid-air, the sport and plaything of the wind. Over and over it turned him and upward and downward it carried him, but after each new sally of the element he was brought nearer to the ground. The freaks of cyclonic storms are the rule of cyclonic storms, since such storms are in themselves freaks. They uproot and demolish giant trees, and in the same gust they transport frail infants for miles and deposit them unharmed in their wake.
And so it was with Gahan of Gathol. Expecting momentarily to be dashed to destruction he presently found himself deposited gently upon the soft, ochre moss of a dead sea-bottom, bodily no worse off for his harrowing adventure than in the possession of a slight swelling upon his forehead where the metal hook had struck him. Scarcely able to believe that Fate had dealt thus gently with him, the jed arose slowly, as though more than half convinced that he should discover crushed and splintered bones that would not support his weight. But he was intact. He looked about him in a vain effort at orientation. The air was filled with flying dust and debris. The Sun was obliterated. His vision was confined to a radius of a few hundred yards of ochre moss and dust-filled air. Five hundred yards away in any direction there might have arisen the walls of a great city and he not known it. It was useless to move from where he was until the air cleared, since he could not know in what direction he was moving, and so he stretched himself upon the moss and waited, pondering the fate of his warriors and his ship, but giving little thought to his own precarious situation.
Lashed to his harness were his swords, his pistols, and a dagger, and in his pocket-pouch a small quantity of the concentrated rations that form a part of the equipment of the fighting men of Barsoom. These things together with trained muscles, high courage, and an undaunted spirit sufficed him for whatever misadventures might lie between him and Gathol, which lay in what direction he knew not, nor at what distance.
The wind was falling rapidly and with it the dust that obscured the landscape. That the storm was over he was convinced, but he chafed at the inactivity the low visibility put upon him, nor did conditions better materially before night fell, so that he was forced to await the new day at the very spot at which the tempest had deposited him. Without his sleeping silks and furs he spent a far from comfortable night, and it was with feelings of unmixed relief that he saw the sudden dawn burst upon him. The air was now clear and in the light of the new day he saw an undulating plain stretching in all directions about him, while to the northwest there were barely discernible the outlines of low hills. Toward the southeast of Gathol was such a country, and as Gahan surmised the direction and the velocity of the storm to have carried him somewhere in the vicinity of the country he thought he recognized, he assumed that Gathol lay behind the hills he now saw, whereas, in reality, it lay far to the northeast.
It was two days before Gahan had crossed the plain and reached the summit of the hills from which he hoped to see his own country, only to meet at last with disappointment. Before him stretched another plain, of even greater proportions than that he had but just crossed, and beyond this other hills. In one material respect this plain differed from that behind him in that it was dotted with occasional isolated hills. Convinced, however, that Gathol lay somewhere in the direction of his search he descended into the valley and bent his steps toward the northwest.
For weeks Gahan of Gathol crossed valleys and hills in search of some familiar landmark that might point his way toward his native land, but the summit of each succeeding ridge revealed but another unfamiliar view. He saw few animals and no men, until he finally came to the belief that he had fallen upon that fabled area of ancient Barsoom which lay under the curse of her olden gods—the once rich and fertile country whose people in their pride and arrogance had denied the deities, and whose punishment had been extermination.
And then, one day, he scaled low hills and looked into an inhabited valley—a valley of trees and cultivated fields and plots of ground enclosed by stone walls surrounding strange towers. He saw people working in the fields, but he did not rush down to greet them. First he must know more of them and whether they might be assumed to be friends or enemies. Hidden by concealing shrubbery he crawled to a vantage point upon a hill that projected further into the valley, and here he lay upon his belly watching the workers closest to him. They were still quite a distance from him and he could not be quite sure of them, but there was something verging upon the unnatural about them. Their heads seemed out of proportion to their bodies—too large.
For a long time he lay watching them and ever more forcibly it was borne in upon his consciousness that they were not as he, and that it would be rash to trust himself among them. Presently he saw a couple appear from the nearest enclosure and slowly approach those who were working nearest to the hill where he lay in hiding. Immediately he was aware that one of these differed from all the others. Even at the greater distance he noted that the head was smaller and as they approached, he was confident that the harness of one of them was not as the harness of its companion or of that of any of those who tilled the fields.
The two stopped often, apparently in argument, as though one would proceed in the direction that they were going while the other demurred. But each time the smaller won reluctant consent from the other, and so they came closer and closer to the last line of workers toiling between the enclosure from which they had come and the hill where Gahan of Gathol lay watching, and then suddenly the smaller figure struck its companion full in the face. Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. The man half rose from his concealment the better to view the happening in the valley below. The creature that had felled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. Gahan hoped that it would gain its liberty, why he did not know other than at closer range it had every appearance of being a creature of his own race. Then he saw it stumble and go down and instantly its pursuers were upon it. Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had felled.
What horror was this that he was witnessing? Or were his eyes playing some ghastly joke upon him? No, impossible though it was—it was true—the head was moving slowly to the fallen body. It placed itself upon the shoulders, the body rose, and the creature, seemingly as good as new, ran quickly to where its fellows were dragging the hapless captive to its feet.
The watcher saw the creature take its prisoner by the arm and lead it back to the enclosure, and even across the distance that separated them from him he could note dejection and utter hopelessness in the bearing of the prisoner, and, too, he was half convinced that it was a woman, perhaps a red Martian of his own race. Could he be sure that this was true he must make some effort to rescue her even though the customs of his strange world required it only in case she was of his own country; but he was not sure; she might not be a red Martian at all, or, if she were, it was as possible that she sprang from an enemy people as not. His first duty was to return to his own people with as little personal risk as possible, and though the thought of adventure stirred his blood he put the temptation aside with a sigh and turned away from the peaceful and beautiful valley that he longed to enter, for it was his intention to skirt its eastern edge and continue his search for Gathol beyond.
As Gahan of Gathol turned his steps along the southern slopes of the hills that bound Bantoom upon the south and east, his attention was attracted toward a small cluster of trees a short distance to his right. The low sun was casting long shadows. It would soon be night. The trees were off the path that he had chosen and he had little mind to be diverted from his way; but as he looked again he hesitated. There was something there besides boles of trees, and underbrush. There were suggestions of familiar lines of the handicraft of man. Gahan stopped and strained his eyes in the direction of the thing that had arrested his attention. No, he must be mistaken—the branches of the trees and a low bush had taken on an unnatural semblance in the horizontal rays of the setting sun. He turned and continued upon his way; but as he cast another side glance in the direction of the object of his interest, the sun's rays were shot back into his eyes from a glistening point of radiance among the trees.
Gahan shook his head and walked quickly toward the mystery, determined now to solve it. The shining object still lured him on and when he had come closer to it his eyes went wide in surprise, for the thing they saw was naught else than the jewel-encrusted emblem upon the prow of a small flier. Gahan, his hand upon his short-sword, moved silently forward, but as he neared the craft he saw that he had naught to fear, for it was deserted. Then he turned his attention toward the emblem. As its significance was flashed to his understanding his face paled and his heart went cold—it was the insignia of the house of The Warlord of Barsoom. Instantly he saw the dejected figure of the captive being led back to her prison in the valley just beyond the hills. Tara of Helium! And he had been so near to deserting her to her fate. The cold sweat stood in beads upon his brow.
A hasty examination of the deserted craft unfolded to the young jed the whole tragic story. The same tempest that had proved his undoing had borne Tara of Helium to this distant country. Here, doubtless, she had landed in hope of obtaining food and water since, without a propellor, she could not hope to reach her native city, or any other friendly port, other than by the merest caprice of Fate. The flier seemed intact except for the missing propellor and the fact that it had been carefully moored in the shelter of the clump of trees indicated that the girl had expected to return to it, while the dust and leaves upon its deck spoke of the long days, and even weeks, since she had landed. Mute yet eloquent proofs, these things, that Tara of Helium was a prisoner, and that she was the very prisoner whose bold dash for liberty he had so recently witnessed he now had not the slightest doubt.
The question now revolved solely about her rescue. He knew to which tower she had been taken—that much and no more. Of the number, the kind, or the disposition of her captors he knew nothing; nor did he care—for Tara of Helium he would face a hostile world alone. Rapidly he considered several plans for succoring her; but the one that appealed most strongly to him was that which offered the greatest chance of escape for the girl should he be successful in reaching her. His decision reached he turned his attention quickly toward the flier. Casting off its lashings he dragged it out from beneath the trees, and, mounting to the deck tested out the various controls. The motor started at a touch and purred sweetly, the buoyancy tanks were well stocked, and the ship answered perfectly to the controls which regulated her altitude. There was nothing needed but a propellor to make her fit for the long voyage to Helium. Gahan shrugged impatiently—there must not be a propellor within a thousand haads. But what mattered it? The craft even without a propellor would still answer the purpose his plan required of it—provided the captors of Tara of Helium were a people without ships, and he had seen nothing to suggest that they had ships. The architecture of their towers and enclosures assured him that they had not.
The sudden Barsoomian night had fallen. Cluros rode majestically the high heavens. The rumbling roar of a banth reverberated among the hills. Gahan of Gathol let the ship rise a few feet from the ground, then, seizing a bow rope, he dropped over the side. To tow the little craft was now a thing of ease, and as Gahan moved rapidly toward the brow of the hill above Bantoom the flier floated behind him as lightly as a swan upon a quiet lake. Now down the hill toward the tower dimly visible in the moonlight the Gatholian turned his steps. Closer behind him sounded the roar of the hunting banth. He wondered if the beast sought him or was following some other spoor. He could not be delayed now by any hungry beast of prey, for what might that very instant be befalling Tara of Helium he could not guess; and so he hastened his steps. But closer and closer came the horrid screams of the great carnivore, and now he heard the swift fall of padded feet upon the hillside behind him. He glanced back just in time to see the beast break into a rapid charge. His hand leaped to the hilt of his long-sword, but he did not draw, for in the same instant he saw the futility of armed resistance, since behind the first banth came a herd of at least a dozen others. There was but a single alternative to a futile stand and that he grasped in the instant that he saw the overwhelming numbers of his antagonists.
Springing lightly from the ground he swarmed up the rope toward the bow of the flier. His weight drew the craft slightly lower and at the very instant that the man drew himself to the deck at the bow of the vessel, the leading banth sprang for the stern. Gahan leaped to his feet and rushed toward the great beast in the hope of dislodging it before it had succeeded in clambering aboard. At the same instant he saw that others of the banths were racing toward them with the quite evident intention of following their leader to the ship's deck. Should they reach it in any numbers he would be lost. There was but a single hope. Leaping for the altitude control Gahan pulled it wide. Simultaneously three banths leaped for the deck. The craft rose swiftly. Gahan felt the impact of a body against the keel, followed by the soft thuds of the great bodies as they struck the ground beneath. His act had not been an instant too soon. And now the leader had gained the deck and stood at the stern with glaring eyes and snarling jaws. Gahan drew his sword. The beast, possibly disconcerted by the novelty of its position, did not charge. Instead it crept slowly toward its intended prey. The craft was rising and Gahan placed a foot upon the control and stopped the ascent. He did not wish to chance rising to some higher air current that would bear him away. Already the craft was moving slowly toward the tower, carried thither by the impetus of the banth's heavy body leaping upon it from astern.
The man watched the slow approach of the monster, the slavering jowls, the malignant expression of the devilish face. The creature, finding the deck stable, appeared to be gaining confidence, and then the man leaped suddenly to one side of the deck and the tiny flier heeled as suddenly in response. The banth slipped and clutched frantically at the deck. Gahan leaped in with his naked sword; the great beast caught itself and reared upon its hind legs to reach forth and seize this presumptuous mortal that dared question its right to the flesh it craved; and then the man sprang to the opposite side of the deck. The banth toppled sideways at the same instant that it attempted to spring; a raking talon passed close to Gahan's head at the moment that his sword lunged through the savage heart, and as the warrior wrenched his blade from the carcass it slipped silently over the side of the ship.
A glance below showed that the vessel was drifting in the direction of the tower to which Gahan had seen the prisoner led. In another moment or two it would be directly over it. The man sprang to the control and let the craft drop quickly toward the ground where followed the banths, still hot for their prey. To land outside the enclosure spelled certain death, while inside he could see many forms huddled upon the ground as in sleep. The ship floated now but a few feet above the wall of the enclosure. There was nothing for it but to risk all on a bold bid for fortune, or drift helplessly past without hope of returning through the banth-infested valley, from many points of which he could now hear the roars and growls of these fierce Barsoomian lions.
Slipping over the side Gahan descended by the trailing anchor-rope until his feet touched the top of the wall, where he had no difficulty in arresting the slow drifting of the ship. Then he drew up the anchor and lowered it inside the enclosure. Still there was no movement upon the part of the sleepers beneath—they lay as dead men. Dull lights shone from openings in the tower; but there was no sign of guard or waking inmate. Clinging to the rope Gahan lowered himself within the enclosure, where he had his first close view of the creatures lying there in what he had thought sleep. With a half smothered exclamation of horror the man drew back from the headless bodies of the rykors. At first he thought them the corpses of decapitated humans like himself, which was quite bad enough; but when he saw them move and realized that they were endowed with life, his horror and disgust became even greater.


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Imbler made a valiant effort to trim an early 16-4 deficit down to five on several occasions, but was never able to completely dig itself out of the early hole.
Regann Skinner scored 22 points, and visiting Jordan Valley bolted out in front early, then pulled away late for a 38-22 win at Imbler Thursday to hand the Panthers their first loss of the season.
Imbler head coach Darci Sweet pointed to rebounding, particularly on the offensive end for the Mustangs, as one of the keys to the outcome.
"I think that was the biggest difference in the game," Sweet said. "We allowed way too many second chance points. They're a good team. We could have had a little better effort, but it's early in the season. A lot of things we can improve on."
The Mustangs grabbed 16 offensive boards, one of which was put back in by Nicole Terry to give Jordan Valley its 12-point edge late in the first quarter. Terry, who had 10 points and seven rebounds, grabbed five on the offensive glass.
The Panthers finally got going after the slow start. A Gracey Smith layup and 3-pointer by Hannah Kilpatrick, who led Imbler with seven points, pulled Imbler within 16-9 after the first quarter.
"We didn't let up. That's for sure," Sweet said of the team's response after the early deficit. "I really think our lack of rebounding was what hurt us the most. If we could have continued to work hard, box out and not give them second-chance points, it would have made a bigger difference for us."
A layup by Kilpatrick cut the deficit to 16-11 midway through a low-scoring second quarter, which ended with Jordan Valley up 18-12 after the teams combined for five points on 2-for-24 shooting. The Panthers cut the deficit to five three more times, the last at 24-19 on Anika McDonald's field goal late in the third. But the Mustangs ended the game on a 14-3 run, with Skinner scoring the final nine points of the game.
Along with Kilpatrick, Caysie McGinness added five points for the Panthers. Both teams, though, struggled from the floor. The Mustangs shot 18-for-56, largely impacted by a woeful 1-for-19 effort in the second quarter. Imbler, meanwhile, was just 9-for-37. The Panthers also hurt themselves with 25 turnovers.
Sweet said there's still a learning curve for Imbler, which is trying to replace four key seniors from last year's squad that finished fifth in the state.
"We're definitely trying to figure out how we're going to be the most successful," she said. "We have a lot of inexperienced kids out there right now."
Playing a team like Jordan Valley, Sweet said, helps.
"It definitely makes us better," she said. "Any time we can see a good, tough, competitive team that works that hard against us, it's going to make us better."
Kilpatrick added three steals, and Trinity McKaig grabbed eight rebounds for Imbler (2-1 overall), which faces Irrigon today at the Heppner Invitational.


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|Shekau says in a new video that reports of Sambisa's fall were totally untrue.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says in the latest video that reports of the group being crushed by the Nigerian Army during the capture of its Sambisa forest stronghold Camp Zero were untrue, NAIJ.com reports.
Shekau also claims that the group is safe and far away from any location where the Nigerian military can capture its members or defeat it
The authenticity of the video is not yet confirmed and the video could have been shot several days or weeks before the capture of Camp Zero and besides, the Shekau in the video appears slightly different from the former one
In answer to NAIJ.com's call to comment on the matter, the spokesman of the Nigerian Army Brigadier-General Sani Kukasheka Usman said the security outfit has yet to see the video and to confirm its authenticity
The Boko Haram leader, who was flanked in his usual style by armed fighters, denied defeat of the insurgent group.
Commanding officer of Operation Lafiya Dole Lucky Irabor said at the conference that Shekau's personal qu'ran and a flag were found at the camp, left behind as he made haste to abandon the camp which was besieged by Nigerian armed forces from all directions.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari announced the fall of Sambisa in a goodwill message to the military on Saturday, December 24. In the statement, the president said the fall of Sambisa's Camp Zero was achieved at around 1.35pm a day earlier.
Journalist Salkida, who is usually privy to such videos, reacted in a rather unusual manner on his Twitter handle to reports of the new video by Shekau. He tweeted a sealed lip:
December 29, 2016
The authenticity of the video cannot be immediately verified by Naij.com and may have been shot long before the destruction of Camp Zero by the Nigerian armed forces.
On its part, the Nigerian Army has said it is not aware of the existence of such a video. Nigerian Army's spokesperson Brigadier-General S.K. Usman, when called by NAIJ.com for comments on the development on Thursday, December 29, said the military is yet to see the video of Shekau's denial.


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The Ark includes Noah, two elephants, lions and zebras and giraffes – where all the animals and blocks store inside the ark.
The pieces are easily grasped by chubby hands with doors and movable pieces easy to manipulate. Activities for the younger child includes discovering cause and affect and imitation of the noises found aboard. The toy encourages cognitive abilities by fostering thinking skills as they discover different ways to activate the sounds within the ark. Motor skills are enhanced through staking and sorting blocks and animals.
As they grow older and embrace the imagination stage, the animals will partake in staged events and storytelling. Additional blocks and animals are available to build the variety within the ark.
Made from durable hardened plastics, Noahs Ark is easy to keep clean, though if subjected to oozing mess which hardens with time, there are corners which might prove difficult to extract all mess from. Noahs are is not orientated toward one or the other sex, though this reviewer would have preferred Noahs wife to feature as well. Storage might be an issue as its an odd shape and once the collection grows, not easy to pack away altogether.
Whilst the set is not cheap, the sturdiness and durability of the toys must be taken into account. Especially for a family who are encouraging the Christian faith as an inclusive lifestyle, this toy proves an invaluable learning tool. Fisher Price toy as available in most quality toy stores and online.


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HALLOWELL — Elaina George said she took much from the community when she was abusing prescription drugs and alcohol.
Now that she's clean and sober, she wants to give back.
George, a former nurse and recovering addict, led the effort for the new drug recovery house in Hallowell, at 138 Town Farm Road. The Oxford House admitted its first residents Aug. 1, and George hopes to have all eight slots filled by the end of the year. Some neighbors expressed concerns about the house to the city's Planning Board and City Council, but the house is considered a single-family dwelling by the Federal Fair Housing Act and is protected from any zoning restrictions or ordinances.
During the Planning Board's July meeting, Larry Davis, who lives a few houses away on Town Farm Road, said he was concerned about the lack of oversight from the Oxford House organization and what the city would do in the future if a similar facility wanted to move into Hallowell.
George said any fears or concerns are misguided.
"The last few weeks have been amazing," George said Tuesday during a tour of the Hallowell sober house. The five-bedroom, three-story home can accommodate eight residents, which will be only men, and features a combination of single and double rooms. Residents contribute $150 per week toward maintaining the house, which is self-governed by its residents in accordance with Oxford House's rules and regulations. Measuring success in a sober house isn't hard, George said, and ultimate success would be the house having to close because there was no longer a need for what it provides.
In reality, George said, "success for us would be that someone has reintegrated into society, has stayed sober and has achieved what they had before and beyond."
One of the residents in Hallowell's new Oxford House, Andrew Rice, said the area needs these types of facilities because so many recovery centers don't offer transitional recovery, so you end up graduating from a program and then going right back to the streets.
"I'm grateful that Elaina has put the work in and given me an opportunity to have a safe place to go to flourish in my recovery," Rice said. "Someday maybe I can give back to the community in the same way she has."
George, 32, of Sidney, graduated from Messalonskee High School in 2001 and enlisted in the Army several years later, where she was first prescribed Vicodin for an injury to one of her eardrums. After leaving the Army, George enrolled at the University of Maine at Augusta and completed a two-year nursing degree in 2008.
While working as a nurse at Sheepscot Valley Health Center, George found a way to falsify her own medical records and obtain prescriptions for oxycodone. She was fired from that job for obtaining the prescriptions under false pretenses.
George worked at Kindred Transitional Care & Rehab in Augusta, where she admitted to the state's Board of Nursing in 2013 that she diverted oxycodone from the facility for about 18 months, taking five or six pills per shift while also buying pills on the street. She said she was taking 10 to 30 milligrams of oxycodone a day at that time.
"My drug addiction looked different than most people who take drugs and are then unable to function," George said. "I couldn't function without them. I was a functioning addict."
George's addiction continued after the birth of her son, Alex, in September 2011. She had a cesarean section and was prescribed Vicodin, because she didn't disclose any history with abuse to her doctors after the procedure.
"It blew up again after that," George said. "I couldn't feed my addiction enough and was spending at least $1,000 a week buying pills on the street."
She said she was using her entire nursing paycheck for pills.
Her battle with prescription opiate addiction came to a head when she entered a rehabilitation facility in January 2013 and graduated from two programs in March and April of that year. She's been clean from prescription drug use for three years.
She voluntarily surrendered her nursing license in July 2013 after a lengthy review by the Board of Nursing. In the document, George admitted to falsifying records, printing prescriptions and then deleting the files and diverting medication. She signed a five-year monitoring agreement with the Medical Professionals Health Program that runs through 2018.
George, who works as a case manager at a local homeless shelter, said had she not had access to the pills as a nurse, she would've found them somewhere else. She doesn't regret going into nursing, and she wants to give back to the nursing community.
"My old advisors want me to come back and speak to nursing students about the dangers of it," George said. "(Access to pills) was too easy, and I didn't identify it, so I want to share that."
Though she had stopped using prescription opiates in 2013, George still had a problem with alcohol and with the law. She was arrested and pleaded guilty to domestic violence assault in 2012 and for violating condition of release in March 2013. She was pulled over and arrested for operating while under the influence of alcohol in February 2013, her second drunken driving arrest since turning 18.
George was given a three-year suspended sentence, two years of probation and a $400 fine stemming from being arrested and charged with acquiring drugs by deception in July 2010. Her last run-in with the law was last August, when she was arrested for violating a condition of release.
She said she hit rock bottom with alcohol last August when she disappeared and stopped seeing her family. George was sick and didn't want her son to see what alcoholism had done to her. She was living on a farm with someone else who had an alcohol problem, so she didn't think she had any problems.
"My parents called my probation officer that day because nobody knew where I was," George said. "It was 4 p.m. and I was heading to Margarita's in Augusta when they found me. I was walking and talking but blew a 0.38," she said, referring to a breath test for alcohol.
George said most women her size — she is petite, standing 5 feet 2 inches tall — would die once their blood-alcohol level reached 0.40, so she probably would have died of alcohol poisoning that night had the police not picked her up.
George's father, John, said they worked hard to find out where she was because he thought she might have been in violation of her parole. Her parents got help from the sheriff's office to locate her, which probably saved her life.
"I was going to die an alcoholic's death," she said. "That night I was sitting in jail when I decided I would do anything to change my life."
Once she got out of jail, George got involved with the Maryland-based Oxford House organization, spending several months in a house in Portland. She celebrated her 1-year anniversary of sobriety Wednesday.
"Going into the house in Portland was a very positive step because it enabled her to be independent and responsible," John George said. "She was in a good environment with other women working to be sober."
George said her recovery never will be complete because it's something you continually work on daily. She doesn't have cravings for alcohol and doesn't struggle, but rather she has an awareness that she has a disease that she needs to handle.
"I can't just have a glass of wine, because it would turn into a bottle, and then I'd be going to a liquor store," she said. "With everything I've been through, those cravings have been erased."
Her son, Alex, who will be entering kindergarten in a few weeks, is her everything, George said. The visitation agreement with her ex-husband gives her time with Alex on Wednesdays and every other weekend, and John George said she lives for the time she gets to spend with her son and longs for the days when she can have full parental rights again.
"Without him, I don't know if I would've been able to pick myself back up so many times," she said. "He's a little rock star and personality."
Margie Taylor, also a former nurse and recovering addict, has known George for several months and is the president of one of Portland's Oxford Houses. She said part of being a nurse is about taking care of people and giving back, so she's not surprised George has dedicated so much time to the Oxford House in Hallowell.
"It's not a house that she's going to be directly benefiting from, but what it is providing her is a means to be helpful and show there's a better life out there," Taylor said. "It's selfish not to use the tools we've been given in recovery to help the greater good."
George's father said some of George's physical attributes, such as her bright eyes, attentiveness and energy, have returned since she got clean. He said George's family is "extremely proud of her efforts to reach out and help others," and he is thankful to have his daughter back.
George has been invited to attend Oxford House's annual convention next month in Dallas, and she's said she's already spoken with Augusta Mayor David Rollins about putting an Oxford House in the capital city.
"I want to continue to bring the Oxford House concept to areas in need around central Maine," George said, "because Oxford House showed me how to live again and I want to share that with others who need help."
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Illinois is one step closer to a agreeing on a funding formula for the state's schools.
One Tuesday senators voted 38-13 in favor of House Amendment 5 to Senate Bill 1947. The same measure dramatically passed through the House on Monday, with representatives rejecting it on its first vote.
Then democrats tried to override Governor Rauner's veto of Senate Bill One. When that failed, they passed the most current measure on the second vote.
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Here is how my fruity pork curry turned out:
|Fruity pork curry.
Ingredients for fruity pork curry - adapted from my Weight Watchers Nice and Spicy
1 tbsp garam masala
1tbsp garlic powder
1tbsp chilli powder
1tbsp crushed chillies
1tbsp salt
2tbsp curry powder
1 small onion, finely chopped
3 x 150g lean pork steak - fat removed and cubed
low fat cooking spray
2 tbsp oil
1 red pepper
200ml hot chicken stock
300g passata
4 fresh or canned pineapple rings cut into pieces.
Chop the onion, and pork into bite size pieces. Apply the seasoning to the pork and onion mixture and leave to marinade for at least 30 minutes. Heat a wide non stick pan with the oil and cook the pork for around 6 minutes, stirring. Add the stock, passata and pineapple and leave to simmer for around 20 minutes on a low heat until the stock has thickened.
Serve with rice, naan bread or chappatis.


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The Campaign Gets Nasty Heading into Second Debate Barack Obama 's campaign has aired what it calls a "documentary" on John McCain 's involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the 80's and 90's. McCain has unleashed Sarah Palin. What will we see and hear tonight? Michael Abramowitz, White House correspondent for the Washington Post , previews tonight's second of three debates, with NBC's Tom Brokaw moderating between the candidates and an audience of undecided voters.
The Keys to Middle East Peace Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has scheduled an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference for sometime next month, but not all the players have agreed to show up. Rice, who says the time has come for a Palestinian state to be founded, is shuttling around the Middle East , but Israel won't promise to address the tough issues, and the Arab states are playing hard to get. Meantime, Israel's still-mysterious midnight bombing raid on Syria last month has created problems for the Secretary of State. Syria will be crucial to regional peace, but hard liners within the Bush Administration want to get tough. Was Syria trying to build a nuclear weapon? How will last month's raid impact plans for next month's peace conference?
Gonzales Is Out, Will Mukasey Be His Replacement? Former New York federal judge Michael Mukasey is President Bush's nominee to be the next Attorney General of the United States. He's a law-and-order conservative Senate Democrats may find acceptable, but he could face opposition from the Republican right wing. We hear about his record and some of the issues his confirmation will raise, including politics at the Department of Justice, warrantless wiretaps, the unitary executive and social issues, including abortion.
General David Petraeus on Capitol Hill Before General David Patraeus or Ambassador Ryan Crocker said a word to a joint committee of Congress , Democrats and Republicans were exchanging partisan charges. Democrat Tom Lantos said he respected the witnesses personally, but felt they were sent to convince Americans that victory is at hand. Republican Duncan Hunter —a presidential candidate—said he was outraged that some of his colleagues had attacked the witnesses' credibility. When Petraeus finally got underway , he emphasized that he had neither been scripted nor told what to say by the White House or Pentagon. He said that improved security means US forces can be reduced sometime in the future. But the essence of the message has been telegraphed, and polls show public skepticism that either man is independent of the Bush White House. As the debate on Iraq continues, will the Bush Administration define its objectives?
President Bush's Last Push on Immigration Bill President Bush made a rare visit to Capitol Hill today to lobby Republican support for immigration reform . Before the meeting, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama rebuffed the President's effort, saying, "He needs help us write a better bill and not back a bill that so many of us cannot support." Michael Abramowitz is White House correspondent for the Washington Post .
Has Vice President Cheney's Clout Been Downsized? Vice President Cheney is on his way to Japan, where he will not meet with the Defense Minister who called the Iraq war a "mistake." Jumio Kyuma has since said he meant it should have been better thought through. The Vice President will visit Australia as well as Japan, partly to reassure them about the recent deal with North Korea . But he may be holding his nose about the kind of arrangement Cheney and his conservative allies long tried to avoid. Is it a sign that the Vice President is not as powerful as he used to be? We ask Michael Abramowitz, who reports for the Washington Post .
Bush Pledges Continued US Presence in Iraq at NATO Summit In Estonia today, President Bush gave a preview of his meeting with Iraq's Prime Minister later this week. Saying he'll discuss the situation on the ground as well as American and European support of Iraqi security forces, he vowed not to pull out troops before the US mission is complete.
Life in New Orleans One Year Later Mayor Ray Nagin wants half of New Orleans to come back home, and today President Bush got a look at what they would find when they got there. A year after Katrina, there's no central plan, and some neighborhoods are as full of debris as they were when the waters receded. Today, Nagin said that things "would have been different" if "rich people were struggling in New Orleans." Will disaster be a catalyst for reconciling issues of race and class? We hear about the desperate lack of affordable housing as 73 separate neighborhoods try to decide what to do. What about jobs, schools and businesses to keep the economy going?
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn't yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey's public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who's behind them.
Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey's truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we'll go behind the "velvet rope" for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2565?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Hoss Man updated SOLR-2565: --------------------------- Attachment: SOLR-2565__HuperDuperAutoCommitTest.patch As mark mentioned, i started looking into a better overall meme for testing autocommit -- i could never reproduce any of the failures charlie cron was complaining about, but the tests didn't make any sense to me anyway. path demonstrates a new overall approach, using more detailed monitor of events -- not just "the most recent event" but all of them in a queue of (rough) timestamps. at the moment one of the tests has an @Ignore:nocommit because of the delete bug that miller mentioned, but it would be helpful to know if people who were seeing problems running AutoCOmmitTest.testSoftAndHardCommitMaxTime (ie: charlie cron and simon) could try this patch out and see if it works better for them. > Prevent IW#close and cut over to IW#commit > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: SOLR-2565 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2565 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: update > Affects Versions: 4.0 > Reporter: Simon Willnauer > Assignee: Mark Miller > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: SOLR-2565-revert.patch, SOLR-2565.patch, SOLR-2565.patch, SOLR-2565.patch, SOLR-2565__HuperDuperAutoCommitTest.patch, dump.txt, slowtests.txt > > > Spinnoff from SOLR-2193. We already have a branch to work on this issue here https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/solr2193 > The main goal here is to prevent solr from closing the IW and use IW#commit instead. AFAIK the main issues here are: > The update handler needs an overhaul. > A few goals I think we might want to look at: > 1. Expose the SolrIndexWriter in the api or add the proper abstractions to get done what we now do with special casing: > 2. Stop closing the IndexWriter and start using commit (still lazy IW init though). > 3. Drop iwAccess, iwCommit locks and sync mostly at the Lucene level. > 4. Address the current issues we face because multiple original/'reloaded' cores can have a different IndexWriter on the same index. > Eventually this is a preparation for NRT support in Solr which I will create a followup issue for. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Sioux Falls Casino Robbery Suspect Arrested With Stolen Car In Texas
The man wanted for robbing a Sioux Falls casino has been arrested in Texas.
Police say 36-year-old Jesse Robert Buskol walked into the the Golden Coin Casino on West Russell Street on Thanksgiving armed with a handgun. They say Buskol demanded cash from the clerk and witnesses saw him speed away in a PT Cruiser. Police found surveillance from a nearby home and tracked down the Cruiser. They found a black jacket and cash inside.
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In 1871, a village called "Brooklyn, Texas" which included a school, church, lodge, general store, saloon and blacksmith shop was established. A post office opened in 1873 and the town was renamed Forney for noted railroad official John W. Forney. By 1891, Forney had become a bustling town that included a bank, opera house and two hotels.
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To receive the PhD in biology, 60 credits are required, distributed as follows:
In general, formal coursework should be completed within the first four semesters.
Students generally benefit more from Scientific Communication if it is taken in the first year.
These courses are designed to help students stay abreast of recent developments through reading current literature and to provide opportunities for public speaking.
Up to 5 of these credits can be replaced by elective course credits, subject to approval of the student's AAC.
Students are required to take the following courses:
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Each student takes at least 12 additional elective credits, subject to the approval of the student's dissertation committee.
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Students take a minimum of 32 dissertation credits.
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Students are required to participate in the teaching program as teaching assistants for at least two semesters. The teaching responsibility is intended to enhance the experience and skills of the PhD candidate.
To continue in the PhD program, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.0 and may not receive a grade of C in more than one course.
Students must pass two examinations administered by the academic advisory committee (AAC), composed of the advisor and three other members acceptable to the graduate program director (GPD) and the biology graduate committee, before they undertake research at the doctoral level: 1) a written comprehensive examination to test the student's command and knowledge of four specific areas of biology, and 2) a subsequent oral qualifying examination based on a) the oral description and defense of the student's dissertation proposal, and b) comprehensive questioning focused on the four areas covered in the written exam.
The written comprehensive examination may be taken at the end of the student's first year, or after the completion of at least 18 credits of coursework; it should generally be taken by the end of four semesters or 36 credits of course work. The student will defend four areas, drawn from the array of graduate courses offered in the department or from other areas acceptable to the AAC and approved by the biology graduate committee.
A student who fails the written examination may, at the discretion of the AAC, be permitted a second and final written examination after six months. A student failing the examination a second time may either 1) withdraw from the program or 2) formally petition the AAC for permission to work toward a master's degree in biology, in biotechnology and biomedical science, or in environmental sciences. A student may not continue in the PhD program after a second failure of the comprehensive examination.
Generally, within one month of the written exam, the student should submit his or her dissertation proposal (suitable for submission to external funding agencies) to the AAC and the GPD. Before taking the oral examination, the student should confer with members of the AAC on the soundness of the proposal. The student should also discuss any deficiencies in the written exam with the individual members of the AAC. Generally, the oral qualifying exam should be scheduled within one month after the submission of the dissertation proposal.
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