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NEWARK, N.J. — Jeff Vanderbeek has taken over sole control of the Devils and refinanced the team's debt.
The Devils, who announced the deal on Thursday, said that CIT Group was the lead agency in handling the refinancing. In conjunction with the deal, the minority owners, Brick City Hockey and its related entities, no longer have a stake in the team.
Vanderbeek was close to refinancing the nearly $80 million in debt during the playoffs last season. The team's run to the Stanley Cup final — where it lost to Los Angeles in six games — generated roughly $32 million in revenues and Vanderbeek's financial footing also improved with the Prudential Center emerging as one of the country's top revenue-producing facilities in recent years.
"Today's announcement is good news for Devils fans though I fully recognize fans' frustration with the work stoppage," Vanderbeek said in a statement. "Our future is now secure and we can be confident of continued on-ice success. Our team has gone to the Stanley Cup final five times in the last 17 years and following the most recent run to the final last year, we are excited about our future — for Jersey's team and the Prudential Center, home to the 2013 NHL draft."
Vanderbeek thanked Mike Gilfillan, who owned and ran Brick City Hockey LLC, which had a minority interest in the team.
"Together, we shared a passion that led to the building of the Prudential Center — truly a shining jewel of a facility and in my view, one of the best arenas in the entire world," Vanderbeek said. "The Rock is a great legacy for which we will always be proud."
Gilfillan said Brick City's involvement with the Devils was to make pro sports a catalyst for economic development in downtown Newark, along with staging events for concerts and family shows to complement performances in the nearby New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
"Our goal to stimulate and facilitate that growth has been achieved," Gilfillan said in a statement, "and is obvious to everyone, given how much development has occurred near the Prudential Center and the Performing Arts Center, from what is underway, and is to come."
Vanderbeek refinances debt, takes control of Devils
NEWARK, N.J. — Jeff Vanderbeek has taken over sole control of the Devils and refinanced the team's debt.


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Khaalidah Miller scored a career-high 25 points and No. 13 Georgia forced a key turnover with 5 seconds to play to hold off No. 8 Kentucky 75-71 on Sunday.
Anne Marie Armstrong and Jasmine James each added 12 points for the Lady Bulldogs (19-3, 7-2 Southeastern Conference), who had a 74-71 lead after James hit one of two free throws with 1:12 left.
Shacobia Barbee stripped the ball from Kentucky's Jennifer O'Neill at the top of the key in the closing seconds and Miller hit one of two free throws with a second left to seal it for Georgia.
A'dia Mathies and O'Neill each scored 18 points for the Wildcats (19-3, 7-2), whose winning streak at Memorial Coliseum ended at 33.


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I rarely put my 4-month-old in "real" outfits because I feel like they make him seem so much older, but I also (secretly) kind of love dressing him like a little man. A baby in skinny jeans and a chambray button-up? It doesn't get much better than that!
So consider this the first installment of "Mama & Baby Style," where I'll be sharing photos of our outfits from time to time (and maybe sometimes they'll be matching…).
On Mama: Similar chambray button-up, $24.95 from H&M // Skinny Jeans, $34.94 from Old Navy // Platforms, $69.95 from DSW
On Baby: Chambray Button-up, $24.95 from Gap // Skinny Jeans, $24.95 from Gap // Black Socks (8-pack), $10 from Old Navy


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Open Performance Night, First 7 people to sign up at 6:30pm will perform for 7 minutes. Performance, theater, music, dance, poetry and fiction welcome. No stand up. Sponsored by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Wed., Dec. 7 at 7pm. Free admission. Dixon Place at The Marquee, 356 Bowery., bet. Great Jones & E. 4th Sts. 212-219-0736 x106.
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"DNA Mixture Analysis/PERLIN", Perlin, Mark W. (applicant), Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08, 19 February 2013, Case No. T 2050/07, reported by Stefan V. Steinbrener, Bardehle Pagenberg
At present, there are virtually no decisions of EPO boards of appeal in the field of bioinformatics. On one of the rare occasions (case T 784/06 "Genotype determination/Beckman" of 23 June 2010; see EPLAW Patent Blog of 27/10/2010), Board 3.3.08 (albeit in a different composition) decided that mathematical steps included in a method of determining the genotype at a locus within genetic material obtained from a biological sample were to be ignored in assessing inventiveness if they did not interact with technical activities so as to lead to a "tangible technical result".
This finding arrived at by reasoning an absence of interaction from a lack of detailed disclosure was somewhat surprising, in particular since on the one hand no objection under Art. 83 EPC was raised; on the other hand it seemed to lose sight of the intended focus on the solution of a technical problem. The decision thus appeared to rely heavily on specific deficiencies of the case and did not answer the question of whether such mathematical steps more or less necessarily performed by computer processing might in principle make technical contributions in biotechnology.
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Roche Pharmaceuticals (OTC: RHHBY) is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world by revenue. The company, based in Basel, Switzerland, has three main biologic therapies -- cancer therapies Avastin and Herceptin, and arthritis and cancer treatment Rituxan/MabThera. Roche is also the manufacturer of Tamiflu, one of the only available treatments for aggressive strains of influenza.[1] In FY 2010, Roche generated revenues of CHF 47.5B and net earnings of CHF 8.9B.[2]
Rituxan, a drug for arthritis and cancer, retains patent exclusivity through 2015, while Avastin and Herceptin, both cancer therapies, retain patent exclusivity through 2019.[3] [4] Such patent exclusivity gives Roche one of the youngest and most profitable product portfolios in the pharmaceutical industry.[5]
In January 2010, the FDA approved Roche's antibody drug, Actemra, to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The drug, which was originally developed by Roche subsidiary, Genentech, is already approved in Europe and Asia and is expected to reach blockbuster status (more than $1B USD in annual sales).[6] Actemra is a first-in-class drug that directly inhibits the interleukin-6 receptor, which is known to be involved in the symptoms of arthritis. The drug is administered intravenously every 4 weeks to patients.[7]
In March, 2009, the company completed a $46.8 billion buyout of the remainder of outstanding shares of US biotech company Genentech (of which it already owned a majority stake). [8] The company also holds a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceuticals (4519-TO) of Japan.
The company has two divisions: Pharmaceutical and Diagnostics. The company is the world's largest cancer drug manufacturer with additional drugs for various indications such as macular degeneration, antivirals, and a large vaccine unit. In FY 2010, Roche generated revenues of CHF 47.5B and net earnings of CHF 8.9B.[9]
The following drugs all generated at least CHF 1 billion in sales in 2010.
Roche is a provider of diagnostics products (products for testing and treating medical conditions) in addition to its pharmaceutical products. The division has five units: Professional Diagnostics, Applied Science, Tissue Diagnostics, Diabetes Care, and Molecular Diagnostics. Professional Diagnostics is the largest unit, accounting for nearly half of the division's sales, followed by Diabetes Care and Molecular Diagnostics.
The vast majority of the company's research and development spending was concentrated in pharmaceuticals. Developing a new drug is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. Hundreds of thousands of candidate compounds must be screened to identify a handful of potential drugs, and even fewer of these candidate drugs are found to be effective at treating a disease. The drug must then pass strict safety standards in several series of clinical trials. The entire process of developing a new drug and bringing it to the market takes up to 10 to 15 years and on average costs $800 million.[11]
Most of Roche's product pipeline focuses on continuing the development of already certified successful drugs like Avastin. It has many clinical trials combining its approved drugs with other compounds or using its cancer drugs for different cancer treatment applications. Success with these trials would extend the scope and duration of the drugs' patents, bringing in billions more in revenue.[12]
Due to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, pharmaceutical patents last 17 years, during which a pharmaceutical company has an exclusive right to manufacture a particular drug. After the patent expires, generic versions of the product can be produced and sold by competitors. Generic medication is cheaper to produce (due to the substantially lower research and development costs) than brand medication, and the lower cost is often a strong incentive for consumers to choose generics over branded drugs. In addition, the presence of a generic alternative may force a decrease in the brand name medication's price, through increased competition. Roche's business model is highly dependent on patent protection and the enforcement of intellectual property rights, and weak patent protection decreases the profitability of drugs. Major pharmaceutical companies are constantly threatened by the entrance of generics.
Roche, however, has one of the youngest pipelines in the industry. Its biggest drugs - MabThera/Rituxan, Avastin, and Herceptin - accounted for large portion of annual revenues and have patent protection through 2015, 2019, and 2019, respectively. The only major drug for which the company is losing revenue due to pricing pressure (both from branded competition and generics) is the anemia drug NeoRecormon/Epogin.
There is always a threat of a regional or even global outbreak of a major influenza virus. For example, the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 infected 500 million people and killed 10% of victims.[13] More recently, the Avian flu of the early 2000s killed at least 200 people around the world, particularly in Southeast Asia.[14] The Swine flu scare of April 2009 similarly threatened countries all over the world, and the possibility that a future swine flu variant could turn into a major flu pandemic is a serious concern. Public health officials all over the world have stocked up on vaccines and treatments in the event of such an outbreak. Roche's Tamiflu is one of two approved influenza treatments for aggressive influenza strains.. A similar increase was initially expected in 2010, but when there were fewer H1N1 cases than expected, many countries cancelled or downsized their orders. A sustained period of calm can result in decreased demand for Tamiflu and hurt Roche's bottom line, but renewed fear of outbreak (such as the Swine flu scare) can be a significant boon to earnings.
Beginning in 2009, the FDA implemented a series of reforms that include stricter monitoring of drug adverse events, more funding for the agency, stronger ability to force product recalls, more scientific expertise within the agency, more transparency. While the tightened regulations and increased transparency will eventually improve the overall quality of pharmaceutical products, companies will have to adjust to the stricter standards and stronger enforcement.[15]
Competitors to Roche's major drugs include:
Roche's biggest competitors include Pfizer (PFE), Merck (MRK), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis AG (NVS), Eli Lilly and Company (LLY), Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY), Sanofi-Aventis SA (SNY), and Gilead Sciences (GILD).
Competition in the pharmaceutical industry lies mostly in specific drug markets. For example, a new diabetes drug is not going to have any effect on an existing cholesterol drug, no matter how successful it is. As a result, financial data on the pharmaceutical companies do not tell the whole story. Instead, it may be more appropriate to analyze Roche's competitors by each drug market (See section on Major Drugs and Industry Trends).


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So, in order, we have:
He commented on my "Rape Commanded?" post.
I responded.
He responded.
I responded.
And here we are with his response.
Before we begin, let's remember from my last post that he'd said (emph. original):
You are correct. My morality is subjective. Everyone's morality is subjective, to be technical about it, but let's stick to atheism. Yes, subjectivity, relativity, all true. Your critiques are true. I have no objective standard by which to demonstrate that my morality is such.I spent a great deal of my last post diving deep into the absurdity and unliveability of such a position, and how he proves it throughout his position. Let's see if he has changed anything since then.
ME: "Quite simply, it leaves him stuck in the middle of nowhere. Have you ever tried to convince someone who preferred pizza with pineapples and Canadian bacon that pizza with pineapples and Canadian bacon is, in fact, revolting? How far did you get?"
HIM: This, and where you go with it, seems to me like a false equivocation. Taste in pizza toppings is purely subjective, as is my morality, as I agreed. Okay, so far so good. Problem is, taste in pizza toppings and feelings on say child rape, are not equally subjective.
But he said "NO objective standard". Why is he backtracking now and trying to mix some objectivity into the mix?
I know why - he's realised the horror of his proposition and is trying to move the goalposts later. I commend him for this, b/c of course his position IS horrible and disgusting, but I will not accept this sort of tapdancing. He needs to wholly retract it.
There are degrees to which something is subjective. There are external factors (ie, evidence) which one can point to in order to try and substantiate his or her subjective opinion.
Really? He's both falling into the "brain scan" problem I posed to him in my last post, and committing Hume's naturalistic fallacy - making an IS into an OUGHT. What magx01 needs to do here is correct Hume and show us precisely the reasoning involved in getting from "Evidence X exists" to "I should do something different".
There are real world implications that in and of themselves, are objective/can be objectively assessed.
I don't think anyone would dispute this. The question is: If atheism is true, why should anyone care? And it appears that magx01 gets that, for he says:
Of course, your response to this will likely just be "so what?" You're taking the subjectivity/relativity thing too far.
Well, we'll see if he can substantiate that accusation.
Just because we have not been prescribed the notion that an action that does harm is bad by some objective, outside source, does not preclude us from coming to that consensus ourselves and working on avoiding such effects by limiting behaviour.
Does magx01 think I'd object to this? Of course! But the question has never been: "Do people prefer petting dogs on the head to torturing them?", but "Is it morally right for me to pat the dog on the head rather than torturing it?" Merely telling me how people feel about a given question tells me nothing about the moral value of it, short of an argument that makes the connection. It's simply a repeat of the naturalistic fallacy.
What it comes down to is limiting harm and maximizing benefit/pleasure/survivability/health, etc. I can immediately foresee you making the obvious objection: But HOW did you come to those as criteria if you have no objective basis by which to select criteria? This is the part you keep getting stuck on, and the answer to it is the part you seem to be missing: Experience, our nature/biological/social drives, discussion, and usually, majority rule.
This seems to be the crux of magx01's argument, and I've seen it all too many times before. But does magx01 give me a reason to think it's morally right to accept his moral framework? And what happened to his previous contention that "I have no objective standard by which to demonstrate that my morality is such"? Easily discarded when it became inconvenient and too painful to hold, as I expected.
The other thing that magx01 has not considered when making man the measure of his morality is that man has also experienced what he'd consider evil. Who exactly does magx01 think commits crimes? Rapes children? Commits genocide? Blows up school buses? Why, humans, of course. magx01 is simply committing special pleading in this, as he refuses to take into account the obvious fact that not everyone throughout human history, nor even in modern times, has held the same moral values that he does, as I pointed out before.
Majority rule = might makes right. A regime could come into power that passes a law condemning all atheists who like video games to lives of hard labor in a gulag; I presume magx01 could express no moral objection to this, especially if the regime in question were to remind him that "our experience leads us to believe that you're unpleasant people, and we prefer you be out of our sight, turning big rocks into littler rocks with hammers." And how much more if they threw in: "We're also biologically driven to do so. It gives us a thrill, a pleasurable rush of hormones, and relief to the headache that you give us. Besides, we're biological determinists and clearly don't have any choice in the matter."
While we have no objective standard to say that the benefit to the person performing behaviour A
magx01 needs to realise that if no objective standard exists for morality, then even using the word "benefit" is question-begging. How does he know that it's an objective benefit for me to live a pain-free life, free of people torturing me? He doesn't; he's just guessing b/c it's what he thinks he'd like. But is he everyone? Does he have access to the moral opinions of even a fraction of what all people think?
Susan (who was raped) is harmed in that the rape does her physical damage,
Begging the question again. "Damage" in a universe without a grand design, goal, or purpose is irrelevant. Besides, both Susan and John her rapist are going to end up in the same place - the great infinite unconscious rot of decomposition. So what?
People in the community are harmed in that they now must deal with fear and paranoia as there is a rapist at large, and whatever other effects there would be that I cannot even conceive of at the moment, and are not really worth me trying to rack my exhausted brain to try and fuss out.
No argument as to how he measured John's benefit vs the "harm" done to the community and family. How did he perform that assessment? What are the rules? Since they're not objective, why should anyone think they are worth anything?
My poor brain is being taxed trying to defend/explain the entire moral system of secular humanity
He's actually doing a very good job; the problem is that the worldview being defended is so ridiculously empty, it's impossible to defend.
A rape does no good for the society at large.
1) How could he possibly know that?
2) Even if he could, John the rapist is part of the society. So are other rapists. Unless magx01 wants to commit more special pleading and a priori exclude them from his definition of "society".
Do you honestly think that it's monumentally difficult for a group of people over time, witnessing this, to say, "hey, you know what? John and his ilk should not be allowed to go around raping people anymore. No more rape. The harm is does far outweighs what good there may be, and said good is both selfish AND comes at the expense of others, so no more rape!"
No, but not because atheism is true. They think that way b/c God has put eternity in their hearts and written His law on their hearts.
Even if they did think that way, and even if atheism were true, to think that way would be to think inconsistently with their worldview, outside of a substantiating argument from magx01.
I don't see what the purpose of you pointing out the subjective nature of "atheistic morality" is when its subjective nature does not preclude it from producing tangible positive effects.
This is what atheism does to people - it blinds them from the obvious in many areas to the degree that they can say "I have no objective standard by which to demonstrate that my morality is such" one moment and the next turn 180º around and say stuff like this. How does magx01 know that these effects are positive? And how does he know that one should seek positive effects?
Speaking of slavery, you will say that the bible (aka god) does not condone slavery
No, I would not say that, and I reserve the right to qualify my statement with specific explanations.
Who was a huge part of the contingent that wanted to maintain the slave trade, while secular morality was in the process of moving us away from said action, and what did they use as support for their arguments? CHRISTIANS, using THE BIBLE!!
1) magx01 simplistically equates "slavery" with "The African slave trade of the 17th-19th centuries".
2) No recognition that Christians also were the driving force behind abolition.
3) Is this more of his not-objective yes-objective waffling?
4) Perhaps magx01 could give us an argument that takes us from "People used Document X to lend Behavior Y moral credence" to "Document X actually teaches that one should engage in Behavior Y". Where is his exegesis of the relevant passages and historical context? Nowhere - he simply assumes it, probably b/c he was told to by some amateur like the Skeptic's Annotated Bible or Dick Dawk.
5) Such behavior is actually predicted by the Bible - misuse of God's words for sinful men's own ends. magx01 joins the long line of atheists who never take the Fall of Man into account when evaluating the Christian worldview. They must think that God promised all daisies and roses in this life.
magx01: "I don't see you offering a justification for your assertion that god's laws are moral at all."
ME: "Should I? Why?"
And this is the first time I feel like being blatantly rude to you. Are you ----- kidding me? You spend an inordinate amount of cognitive energy on trying to demonstrate to me that your morality is objective, and therefore superior to mine, which is subjective. I ask you to demonstrate this to me (aka validate/backup/provide evidence for, your claim) and your response is "why should I?"
Notice how magx01 never answers the questions. I guess I'll have to repeat the question. Why should I provide any rational justification for my view? Is there some objective obligation upon me to do so? magx01 already laid out how we can know how stuff is moral - Experience, our nature/biological/social drives, discussion, and usually, majority rule.
Well, experience tells me that he won't answer my own request for clarification, so I don't feel like answering.
My natural, biological drive is toward laziness, so why should I expend the energy to think about and type up a reply?
And this is my blog - I'm the only majority who matters here. Since might makes right, I am exercising what magx01 said I get to exercise in making my own rules.
It's also a terrible debate tactic.
1) Where does magz01 get the objective definition of good and bad debate tactics? How does he know what is the "best" way to defend a viewpoint?
2) So what if it's terrible? Is magx01 the Pope of Morality, defining for the rest of us that we should debate well rather than terribly?
3) Since magx01 keeps begging the question over and over again, it's actually a pretty good debate tactic, incidentally.
you are making the mistake of conflating rules of logic, reason and debate with morality.
magx01 just said "rules". A Freudian slip, to be sure.
I have not once felt as though I am wasting my time here, and I am trying hard to make sure you feel likewise
Well, on a personal note, I definitely do not think this is a waste of time. The fact that magx01 doesn't think that EVERYthing is a waste of time, however, demonstrates that he can't live consistently with his atheism.
magx01: You contradicted yourself.
Me: "So what? Is there something wrong with self-contradiction? If he says it is irrational, again, so what? Is there some reason I shouldn't be irrational, on his worldview? What if my morality says it's morally obligatory to be irrational?"
Come on man, first see above. Second, you're just being disingenuous now. This is you blatantly running from a legitimate criticism on my end.
Note the lack of a substantive response. Imagine if it had gone like this:
Me: God exists.
magx01: No, there's no evidence for that. Further, lines of evidence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H all militate against it.
Me: Come on man. Of course He exists.
Would magx01 consider that a substantive reply? Not if it's not him receiving the benefit.
DOES your christian worldview prescribe irrationality and inconsistency to you by divine command? No, and you know it. The answer to your question is this: BECAUSE YOU SAID IT IS BETTER. If it is not better, YOU HAVE NO POINT and no legitimate CONTENTION with ATHEISM.
magx01 still seems not to get my point here. Of course I think it's better, but on atheism I am asking him to give me a reason to think it's better. His continuing failure to give us a reason to think so is proof enough of the absurdity of the atheistic worldview. These are fundamental questions I'm asking, and if he can't give us a reason to think it's a good idea or obligatory to make moral judgments and think rationally, then there's no reason for him to talk to anyone, ever.
How does the subjective nature of my morality stop me from wondering if you are personally bothered with what you claim to be an objective fact?
It doesn't. It's when magx01 starts acting like his personal subjective morality has any normative bearing on anyone else that the problems begin.
Me: "Hmm, this brings up a good point, which can serve as a clarification for our further discussion. I shamelessly ripped that line off of William Lane Craig, but I forgot to tweak it for my own use. I mean it is a moral system that is prescriptive and that is true whether or not any human believes it.
So hopefully that will help."
magx01: Oh, it helps all right. It helps YOU. You just changed the definition of objectivity in order to suit your purpose.
Well, pardon me. magx01 needs to know that retractions and corrections, if admitted candidly, are perfectly acceptable on this blog. Nobody's perfect, least of all me, and so if I need to tweak the expressions of my view so as to better represent what I actually believe, I'll apologise for the poor previous explanation and move on. I am sorry that I got it wrong before, and this is the fix. Hopefully magx01 will be gracious enough not to carry on about such a thing.
This gives you the perfect out, as it neatly sidesteps the issue of objectivity going out the window if morality is contingent upon god's mind.
Well, yes, quite so. I couldn't have said it better myself - my position does indeed match reality. That's why I continue to hold to it despite putting it to the test time and again.
You conveniently change an established definition to mean only HUMAN minds as opposed to any
Sorry about that, but let's try to deal with my actual position, K?
I'm very sorry to inform magx01 of this, but if this is the big 'special pleading' he's going on and on about, he's going to end up looking foolish. It's not special pleading to correct a bad expression of one's own position. Does he even know what special pleading is? It's unlikely, given the numerous times he himself has committed it in the course of our convo.
you can;t and won't just come out and admit that your so called objective morality was created by a mind
Speaking of fallacies, strawmen are fallacious.
your belief is irrational and predicated upon faith, which we both know means a lack of evidence.
magx01 needs to do some elementary reading before spouting nonsense like this.
Your belief is not based on rationality and reason.
magx01 is forcing me to be a bit of a broken record here, but one more time -
Why should I provide any rational justification for my view? Is there some objective obligation upon me to do so? magx01 already laid out how we can know how stuff is moral - Experience, our nature/biological/social drives, discussion, and usually, majority rule.
Well, experience tells me that he won't answer my own request for clarification, so I don't feel like answering.My natural, biological drive is toward laziness, so why should I expend the energy to think about and type up a reply?
And this is my blog - I'm the only majority who matters here. Since might makes right, I am exercising what magx01 said I get to exercise in making my own rules.
So your answer to the euthyphro dilemma is to say "Not a, but not not a?"
magx01 shows little recognition of what the Euthyphro "dilemma" is in reality. And there is a very easy solution, as I deal with here and which TrueFreethinker does here.
magx01: "If they did come from god, well there goes your claim of objectivity, since they are not independent of a mind."
Me: " The mind in question is a transcendent mind, of the Ultimate Lawgiver."
magx01: Uh huh.....any evidence of this?
Sure, lots of evidence, but we're not discussing that right now. Feel free to peruse my blog - it's easily found. What concerns us here is a comparison of worldviews and specifically how atheism deals with moral claims. So far, not well, and bunny trails don't help.
Besides, what if I were to ask magx01 for evidence of his own worldview? I'm sure that'd go over well.
It looks like your objective morality is not superior to my subjective morality in the slightest
And yet how could we possibly know this? What does "superior" even mean?
And (William Lane Craig) is supposed to be the be all end all of christian rationality.
He's not, just FYI. He's quite smart and very good at what he does well, but he doesn't do everything well. How about asking me what I believe?
Valid points were made, but they were made in the pursuit of disingenuously attacking me for things that you yourself share with me, but care not to realize....or admit.
I'd be happy to discuss them if magx01 could point some out.
Of course, why not be disingenuous? Where has magx01 given us any reason to think that it's better not to be disingenuous than otherwise?
Where have I attacked him?
And even if I have, what's wrong with that? Why discard his own moral criteria, as he told us above, when convenient for him? That is special pleading.


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Education systems are complex, operate in diverse environments and within a context of change. One key area of change is the demand for greater accountability, which itself demands more highly specialised knowledge and skills. Other challenges arise from processes of internationalisation and the increasing prevalence of markets. These developments raise questions about the nature of administration, management and leadership in educational settings. Accordingly, there is a growing need for quality research to understand this complexity and the relationships between organisational learning, organisational culture and organisational change. Critical program and policy evaluation are essential research tools informing effective growth and evolution in educational systems.


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19 U.S. Code § 1308 - Prohibition on importation of dog and cat fur products
The term "cat fur" means the pelt or skin of any animal of the species Felis catus.
The term "interstate commerce" means the transportation for sale, trade, or use between any State, territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof.
The term "customs laws of the United States" means any other law or regulation enforced or administered by the United States Customs Service.
The term "designated authority" means the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to the prohibitions under subsection (b)(1)(A), and the President (or the President's designee), with respect to the prohibitions under subsection (b)(1)(B).
The term "dog fur" means the pelt or skin of any animal of the species Canis familiaris.
The term "dog or cat fur product" means any item of merchandise which consists, or is composed in whole or in part, of any dog fur, cat fur, or both.
The term "person" includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, business trust, government entity, or other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
The term "United States" means the customs territory of the United States, as defined in general note 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
The designated authority may prohibit a person from importing, exporting, transporting, distributing, manufacturing, or selling any fur product in the United States, if the designated authority finds that the person has engaged in a pattern or practice of actions that has resulted in a final administrative determination with respect to the assessment of civil penalties for knowing and intentional or grossly negligent violations of any provision of this section or any regulation issued under this section.
In determining the amount of civil penalties under this paragraph, the designated authority shall take into account the degree of culpability, any history of prior violations under this section, ability to pay, the seriousness of the violation, and such other matters as fairness may require.
No penalty may be assessed under this paragraph against a person unless the person is given notice and opportunity for a hearing with respect to such violation in accordance with section 554 of title 5.
Any dog or cat fur product manufactured, taken, possessed, sold, purchased, offered for sale or purchase, transported, delivered, received, carried, shipped, imported, or exported contrary to the provisions of this section or any regulation issued under this section shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall enforce the provisions of this section with respect to the prohibitions under subsection (b)(1)(A), and the President shall enforce the provisions of this section with respect to the prohibitions under subsection (b)(1)(B).
Not later than 270 days after November 9, 2000, the designated authorities shall, after notice and opportunity for comment, issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. The regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide for a process by which testing laboratories, whether domestic or foreign, can qualify for certification by the United States Customs Service by demonstrating the reliability of the procedures used for determining the type of fur contained in articles intended for sale or consumption in interstate commerce. Use of a laboratory certified by the United States Customs Service to determine the nature of fur contained in an item to which subsection (b) applies is not required to avoid liability under this section but may, in a case in which a person can establish that the goods imported were tested by such a laboratory and that the item was not found to be a dog or cat fur product, prove dispositive in determining whether that person exercised reasonable care for purposes of paragraph (6).
The designated authority shall pay a reward of not less than $500 to any person who furnishes information that establishes or leads to a civil penalty assessment, debarment, or forfeiture of property for any violation of this section or any regulation issued under this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as superseding or limiting in any manner the functions and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Treasury under the customs laws of the United States.
The designated authorities shall, at least once each year, publish in the Federal Register a list of the names of any producer, manufacturer, supplier, seller, importer, or exporter, whether or not located within the customs territory of the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, against whom a final administrative determination with respect to the assessment of a civil penalty for a knowing and intentional or a grossly negligent violation has been made under this section.
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, referred to in subsec. (a)(8), is not set out in the Code. See Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule note set out under section 1202 of this title.
A prior section 1308, acts June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 308, 46 Stat. 690; June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 4, 52 Stat. 1079; Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 397, § 10(a)(1), (b) to (f), 67 Stat. 512; Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1045, § 1, 68 Stat. 914; Aug. 28, 1957, Pub. L. 85–211, § 3, 71 Stat. 487; Apr. 16, 1958, Pub. L. 85–379, 72 Stat. 88; May 16, 1958, Pub. L. 85–414, § 1, 72 Stat. 118, prescribed articles for temporary free importation under bond for exportation, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 87–456, title III, § 301(a), title V, § 501(a), May 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 75, 78, effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after Aug. 31, 1963.
2014—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 113–188 struck out subsec. (e) which related to submissions of a plan for enforcement and annual reports on enforcement efforts.
Pub. L. 106–476, title I, § 1443(c), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2167, provided that:
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in Pub. L. 107–296 as of Nov. 25, 2002, see section 211 of Title 6, as amended generally by Pub. L. 114–125, and section 802(b) of Pub. L. 114–125, set out as a note under section 211 of Title 6.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Charles Kim, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, talks about engineering for those struggling to meet basic needs and how such projects benefit students by facilitating deeper learning and a greater sense of civic responsibility.
Q: Recently you gave a talk making the point that most engineering performed by the most intelligent and talented engineers benefits only 10 percent of the world's population while more than 1 billion people worldwide struggle to meet basic human needs. As a professor how are you working to change that?
A: This is one of the more disconcerting statistics I have found about engineering. A lot of engineering decisions are made because you have to think about the profitability of a company and what will impact the bottom line the best. In the current environment, we engineer a lot of high-tech, very attractive products, like the iPhone and the iPad and all their competitors. We perceive that these types of products will yield the greatest profit.
Most of our efforts as engineers go toward serving the population that wants the next greatest and best thing, while we have 1.5 billion people who barely get water or food every day. There are about 1.5 to 2 billion people a day who live off one dollar or less a day. This, of course, is relative in the sense that one dollar can buy you a whole lot more in sub-Saharan Africa but at the same time it's still only one dollar a day. They are barely scraping by and if one day's work is not profitable enough, what can they do? They don't eat.
If you make a product that you can sell to the poorest 1 billion in the world — with even the smallest profit margin, let's say just 1 percent — you've just made a $10 million profit. A lot of multinational corporations aren't thinking along these lines, although there's a growing number of engineers, professors and even some companies now that are saying, "Hey, there's this whole market of people that we can sell these products to."
Q: So, what is Bucknell's role here?
A: I got involved in this type of work during my first year here through the Bucknell Brigade. The El Porvenir community in Nicaragua, where they grow coffee on top of a mountain, was without water for six months of the year. Mike Toole in civil engineering and I worked with four mechanical engineering students and one civil engineering student to design a pumping system to get water to the top of the mountain. It took close to three years for us to get everything done in terms of raising funds, getting everyone on board and actually constructing and implementing everything.
Students in the current millennial generation want to make a difference in the world. They're very community service oriented and need a venue in which they can use their professional training to better serve the community, whether it be the local community or the worldwide community. A lot of these efforts are geared toward education and providing opportunities for our students to make a difference.
In that sense it's the right time, it's the right place. Since the project in Nicaragua, we had a project in Africa where we designed a cart to go behind a bicycle to carry crops and water. Another project is to design affordable eyeglasses for the developing world — about $2 materials, inclusive. The model that we're proposing is to have a few local entrepreneurs make and distribute the glasses at a profit of about $2 per pair of glasses. If they make and distribute eight pairs of glasses a day, they make roughly $8 a day per person, compared to somebody who's making $3 or $2 (a day). In this model you not only provide a business, you also improve someone's vision — hopefully improving literacy rates. That's really exciting for me. We are working in collaboration with Jamie Hendry in the School of Management, and she brings so much to the table in making sure we're thinking about long-term sustainability.
Q: You mentioned two engineering projects — the bicycle cart and the inexpensive eyeglasses. Are there any other projects you're working on?
A: We try to find projects that will have a broad application in the developing world. A new project still in development is a bicycle-powered grain grinder. Two common crops in the developing world are sorghum and millet. They grow reasonably well in dry weather. In Uganda, they use sorghum as a grain to make bread. Women in the community spend on the average about 90 minutes a day grinding with a stone. It's a laborious, backbreaking task. Imagine if you could cut that time down to even 10 or 15 minutes, then you've created an opportunity. One could spend an hour studying, an hour building a business, an hour doing whatever it may be.
In addition, we're also developing an affordable "bicycle taxi" that can carry two kids to and from school. Both of these projects are in support of the Bicycles Against Poverty initiative, but will hopefully be broadly applicable in the developing world.
These projects are complicated from a mechanical engineering perspective; how can you make something for $80 when commercial grinders are several thousand dollars? How can you design them with limited locally available materials and manufacturing processes? I'm not sure if these projects will follow the same model of creating a business for somebody (as we're trying to do with the eyeglasses), but we're trying to establish relationships with NGO's in Uganda to make this happen.
Q: What do students bring to the projects and what do they take away from them?
A: The students bring a lot of different things. These projects are not as technically complex as designing a car, such as an all-terrain vehicle for the Baja competition. You're not using the forefront of technology to design these projects. But to make them economical, to use only locally available materials and processes, to consider the end user — that's real engineering.
What students bring to the table is both their skill set as engineers as well as motivation and excitement. This current millennial generation really wants to see the work of their hands make a difference. My hope is that my students walk away changed people, that they realize that their education is more than to just serve themselves and provide a means to make money and support their families.
Q: Can you give some examples?
A: Take the Nicaragua project, for example. We had four senior mechanical engineering students involved. Rob Gradoville (Class of '07) joined the Peace Corps right after graduation and was in the Dominican Republic for two years. Now he is at the University of Pittsburgh heading up projects with Engineers without Borders and other organizations.
Laura Roberts (Class of '07) is in the Peace Corps in Suriname. She worked with the Kevin Gilmore and Mike Toole from the Civil and Environmental Engineering on a senior design project to bring water to a local community. This project gained a lot of press and was recognized by former President Clinton.
Adam Donato (Class of '07) was working in the Boston area for a few years; he has since gone back to graduate school at Virginia Tech. His long-term goals are to do more of these types of projects, too.
Last year, one of the bicycle project students (Adam Andersen, Class of '10) decided to stay and complete a master's degree to work on the eyeglasses project. I'm hoping I was a small part of that decision. A lot of students are chomping at the bit to get involved with this kind of work, and we're providing an opportunity for them to do what they want to do.
As a faculty member I suppose I'm allowed to be idealistic. When you consider the potential we have to affect students and the directions they'll head in the future, giving them the opportunity to do something like this is highly motivational for me. They can develop a worldview, saying, "Hey, I'm an engineer and I can make a difference to the least privileged people in the world, the smallest people who everyone ignores."
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John J. Mearsheimer, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
US president Barack Obama today welcomes arguably his least favourite foreign leader to the White House. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit neatly coincides with the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). That event offers both men a chance to appeal to some of Israel's most ardent American supporters. We can therefore expect to hear repeated references to the "common interests", "unshakeable bonds" and "shared values" of the two countries.
This familiar rhetoric is misleading at best and at worst simply wrong. No states have identical interests, and Israel and America are at odds on two vital issues: Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr Obama should continue to rebuff Israel's efforts to push him into military confrontation with Tehran, while reminding Mr Netanyahu the true danger to Israel lies in its refusal to allow a viable Palestinian state.
On Iran, Mr Netanyahu is convinced it wants nuclear weapons, and that this goal threatens Israel's existence. He does not think diplomacy can stop Iran, and wants the US to destroy its nuclear facilities. If Mr Obama refuses to order an attack, the Israeli leader would like a green light to do so.
Mr Obama and his advisers — including the military — see things differently. They do not want Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, but they do not believe a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel. After all, Israel has its own nuclear arsenal, and could obliterate Iran if attacked. US intelligence is also confident Tehran has not yet decided to build nuclear weapons. Indeed, US leaders worry that, no matter who does it, an attack would convince Iran it needs its own nuclear deterrent. They are correct.
Equally important, force cannot produce a meaningful victory. Israel's air force cannot destroy all Iran's nuclear facilities; even a successful US attack could not eliminate the knowledge on which the programme is based. Iran would simply rebuild its facilities in less vulnerable locations, as Iraq did after Israel bombed the Osirak reactor in 1981.
In short, while one can understand why Israeli hardliners might want the US to strike Iran, Washington has no interest in pursuing this course and Mr Obama should make this crystal clear to Mr Netanyahu.
The gulf between Washington and Jerusalem is just as wide on the Palestinian issue. Mr Netanyahu opposed the 1993 Oslo accords, which sought to resolve the conflict and establish Palestinian self-rule. The only "state" he would countenance today is a set of disconnected and disarmed enclaves under de facto Israeli control. He was elected in 2009 on a platform rejecting Palestinian statehood, and his cabinet is populated with politicians who want to control the West Bank forever. His government continues to expel Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and to expand Israeli settlements there.
By contrast, Mr Obama is committed to helping create a viable Palestinian state living alongside Israel in peace. As he said in Cairo in June 2009, a two-state solution is "in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest". He knows the combination of US support for Israel and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians fuels anti-Americanism throughout the Arab and Islamic world, and contributes to the global terrorism problem.
In fact, the Palestinian issue is the real existential threat to Israel. More than 500,000 Israeli Jews now live in the occupied territories, and continued settlement building will lead to a single state between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea. Given demographic trends, this "Greater Israel" could not be both a Jewish state and a full democracy. Instead, it would be an apartheid state, threatening Israel's legitimacy and long-term survival. As Ehud Olmert, former prime minister, said in 2007, if the two-state solution fails, Israel "will face a South African-like struggle for equal voting rights". And if that happens, he warned, "the state of Israel is finished".
Mr Netanyahu and Mr Obama have clashed repeatedly on the Palestinian issue, and each time Mr Obama has backed down. He is unlikely to press the issue between now and November's election. Instead, he will act as if the US and Israel remain the closest of allies.
If only this were true. In fact, this situation highlights the dysfunctional nature of the "special relationship". If the US and Israel had a normal relationship, Mr Obama could make his disagreements with Mr Netanyahu plain, and use the bully pulpit and America's substantial leverage to help Israel rethink its course. But Aipac and other groups in the formidable Israel lobby insist politicians admit no daylight between what Israel wants and what Washington says and does. For Mr Obama, acknowledging these obvious strategic differences would alienate crucial political allies, leading Democratic party fundraisers and Israel's supporters in the media, imperilling his re-election prospects.
Because war entails significant costs and risks, and brings no lasting benefits, the best hope is that Mr Obama will continue to deflect pressure for military action, no matter what he says in public. Meanwhile, the greatest danger to Israel — the occupation — continues unchecked.
Full text of this publication is available at: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/38c9382a-65f8-11e1-979e-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F38c9382a-65f8-11e1-979e-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=#axzz1oNIYP2zX
*The writers are professors at the University of Chicago and Harvard Kennedy School respectively
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Tiffany (NYSE:TIF) spooked shareholders on Thursday by saying its same-store sales flatlined during the holiday-shopping season, prompting the jewelry company to issue a profit warning.
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Shares of Tiffany tumbled 8% on the gloomy holiday results.
Tiffany said its net sales increased 4% to $992 million during the crucial months of November and December, but same-store sales were largely flat.
Total sales rose in most regions, highlighted by a 13% jump in Asia-Pacific to $187 million and a 3% gain in the Americas to $516 million. But European sales rose just 2% to $119 million and sales in Japan slumped 5% to $153 million. Tiffany also said sales at its New York flagship store dropped 2%.
Given the disappointing holiday sales, Tiffany said it now anticipates full-year earnings to be at the "lower-end" of its forecast issued in late November for EPS of $3.20 to $3.40.
That means Tiffany could end up missing Wall Street's consensus expectations for full-year EPS of $3.26.
Due to "uncertainty about general economic conditions," Tiffany CEO Michael Kowalski warned the company is "planning sales growth conservatively" in 2013, pegging earnings growth at 6% to 9%.
Tiffany is scheduled to report full results on March 22.
Shares of New York-based Tiffany dropped 7.27% to $58.66 ahead of the opening bell on Thursday, putting them on track to extend their 12-month decline of 3.8%.
While Tiffany disclosed flat holiday sales, rival Zale (NYSE:ZLC) said its holiday same-store sales rose 2.3% and told investors it expects to achieve positive net income for 2013.


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The latest on the fallout from Superstorm Sandy, which hit the East Coast last week, and a new wintry storm hitting the Northeast.
— FORECAST: A strengthening storm moving up the East Coast with snow, sleet, rain and wind gusts as high as 60 mph is expected to spread through the region through Thursday. Moderate coastal flooding possible.
— POWER OUTAGES: Nearly 800,000 homes and businesses, mostly in New Jersey and New York, down from a peak of more than 8.5 million. Figures from Sandy have fallen greatly or disappeared but have started rising again in some places because of the new storm.
— CONNECTICUT: As much as 8 inches of snow reported through Wednesday night inland. State's largest utility sends line workers and tree trimmers back to work as snow and winds start. Power outages: About 4,000.
— MASSACHUSETTS: Up to 4 inches of snow expected in western and central Massachusetts; Cape Cod and neighboring islands under high-wind warning. Outages: 7,700.
— NEW JERSEY: Crews push sand back onto beaches to protect areas flooded by Sandy's surge. New evacuations ordered in some communities already emptied by Sandy; new shelters open. Some who just got power back after Sandy lost it in new storm. Outages: 475,000.
— NEW YORK: Construction in New York City is halted ahead of rain, sleet and snow. Residents of low-lying neighborhoods are urged, but not ordered, to evacuate. Major airlines scrap flights more than a week after Sandy caused cancellation of more than 20,000. Long Island Rail Road, major commuter route, suspends service. Outages: More than 292,000, tens of thousands of them caused by the new storm.
— PENNSYLVANIA: Road and utility crews prepare for windblown snow, freezing rain and 1 to 5 inches of snow, including up to 4 in Philadelphia. Delays and cancellations at Philadelphia airport. Outages: More than 1,000.
— RHODE ISLAND: Sandy recovery efforts are suspended as officials brace for new power failures. Outages: 560.
— WEST VIRGINIA: Power is slowly being restored after Sandy's heavy snowfall, but full recovery could take months. Schools remained closed in at least two districts. Outages: 18,700.
— DEATHS: More than 100; figure has fluctuated as authorities release more information.
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Israel and I visited my favorite bakery today to pick up some Japanese pastries.
The one on the left is filled with ham and cheese and the second is a sweet coconut
roll. Israel ate a small cheese bread all by himself, he loves bread and since we're
still waiting for his teeth to show up, it's something he can eat all by himself.
The weather finally feels like Fall, thank goodness! I love the smell of Fall, and
just about everything that comes with it. Israel was able to wear a scarf for the
first time Friday, I had it made for him while I was still pregnant. He's also happy
to be wearing some skinny black cords and suede slippers. I love that boy!
I photoboothed myself to give you an idea of what I look like right this minute.
I almost never include photos of myself on the blog, something I plan on maintaining
for quite some time because I hate the way I look in pictures and only about twice
in my life have I liked a photo someone has taken of me.
Still, I thought it might be time to break the anonymity for just a day to talk
about my hair. It's getting pretty long and while I like the idea of long hair,
it's high maintenance. Most days it sits as a bun on top of my head, my husband's
least favorite look. You can see it's naturally wavy, so straightening it is a
major project and one that Israel doesn't like waiting around for. Should I cut it?
I've been pondering the idea for a while but the last time I chopped it off I ended
up hating it a month later. Not sure what to do...
Want to see a more interesting hair story? Check out Sandra's new do!


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Chloe Bennet, Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen shoot a scene for Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Director Roxann Dawson, second from left, talks with Clark Gregg, while script supervisor Dawn Gilliam, right, shows them the script. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Chloe Bennet, left, as computer hacker Skye and Ming-Na Wen as agent Melinda May get last-minute touch-ups before shooting a scene. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Clark Gregg, as agent Phil Coulson, films a scene inside the command center of the Bus. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Between scenes, Clark Gregg shows Ming-Na Wen a recent press clipping on his phone. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
A camera operator focuses on Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen during filming. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Ming-Na Wen, who plays agent Melinda May, watches a monitor on the set. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Before a scene is shot, Clark Gregg's mike is adjusted as he talks to Chloe Bennet. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Ming-Na Wen and Clark Gregg catch up on text messages while on the set. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet and Clark Gregg joke between scenes. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton and Chloe Bennet between scenes. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Inside the command center are Brett Dalton, left, Chloe Bennet, Ming-Na Wen and Clark Gregg. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Prop books on the set. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson during a scene. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
For more behind-the-scenes images from "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." visit our Hollywood Backlot gallery.
Make way for more Marvel in prime time.
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" will return for a second season, and a new series, "Agent Carter," starring Hayley Atwell, will join the one-hour adventure on ABC's schedule, the network announced Thursday.
"Agent Carter" will see English actress Atwell reprise her role as Peggy Carter from the "Captain America" films — the show is set one year after the events depicted in "Captain America: The First Avenger" and follows on the heels of a one-shot centered on the character that accompanied the "Iron Man 3" DVD.
The renewal announcement for "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."– which tracks the exploits of Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his roster of operatives — Ming-Na Wen's Melinda May, Brett Dalton's Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet's Skye, Iain De Caestecker's Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge's Jemma Simmons — arrives just before the first season finale of the show airs next week.
Created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." marked Marvel's first foray into live-action television. The show received a somewhat mixed reception, with ratings dipping in the wake of the series' strong debut.
In an interview with Hero Complex, Jed Whedon and Tancharoen said they expected that the show might experience some ratings turbulence before finding its own path, and they were confident that in time, audiences would come to embrace the show.
"We anticipated it a little bit," Whedon said in a recent phone interview. "The Marvel flip at the top of the show has only been in front of movies that cost millions and millions and millions of dollars, so when you see it, there's an expectation that you're going to see a Marvel film. We knew from the get-go that this is a TV show and we can't compete with the films but that we would be held up against them.
"And there was a faction of our audience who was expecting to see a Marvel comic character week after week," Tancharoen added. "That was something that creatively wasn't the intention of the show from the beginning. We were also welcoming in a new audience, a new ABC audience, people who have maybe never even read a Marvel comic or seen a Marvel movie, so we had to be very mindful of trying to have a broader appeal."
In all, it's been a big week for genre television. The CW officially picked up "The Flash" for its prime-time lineup; Fox announced its plans to order "Gotham" to series; and NBC gave the greenlight to "Constantine," based on DC Comics' "Hellblazer."
Click through the gallery above for a behind-the-scenes look at "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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Grant Gustin shows off full Flash costume
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': J. August Richards talks Deathlok duty
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': Brett Dalton on playing 'badass' Ward
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' ready for prime-time action
'Winter Soldier': 75 images from the Marvel film
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At this year's American International Toy Fair, Yvolution is launching its new EXY Extreme Yvolution series. Offering kids a more extreme ride, the first two products in the line include the EXY Trickstartr, an entry-level stunt scooter with an innovative wheelie system, and the EXY Sharker, a three-wheeled skateboard made for urban street surfing.
The EXY Trickstartr is a stunt scooter for beginner riders who want to learn how to master basic tricks. It features a slick matte black/vibrant color design and comes with a special patent-pending device that allows riders to do a wheelie. Trickstartr also offers kids four ways to ride: 1) The Easy Way, 2) The Hard Way, 3) The Expert Way, and 4) The Pro Way. Once the stunt is mastered, the detachable device can be removed to improve speed and agility.
The EXY Sharker is a three-wheeled skateboard with a modern surfboard design. It is half-caster board and half-skateboard, with a front 360-degree caster wheel and traditional skateboard trucks in the back. Riders twist back and forth to get started, self-propel, carve, and pump. The quicker they pump the nose, the faster they'll go. The Sharker also features a patented super strong ABS Tri-core grip deck and PU wheels with durable ABEC 7 bearings.
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Release Date: July 30, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo again has been recognized as a great place to work, making The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual list of "great colleges to work for" for the sixth straight year.
UB was among 97 institutions receiving the honor for 2013 based on a survey completed by nearly 45,000 faculty, staff and administrators at 300 institutions.
For the rankings, colleges were grouped according to their size based on overall student enrollment – small, medium or large – and whether they are a two-year or four-year institution.
They then were judged on 12 features of excellent academic workplaces – such as teaching environment, diversity and job satisfaction and support – based on employees' responses on a five-point scale to 60 statements, such as "Senior leadership provides a clear direction for this institution's future" or "Promotions in my department are based on a person's ability."
Recognition in each of the 12 categories, except for diversity, was given to the 10 highest-scoring institutions in each size for four-year colleges and the four highest-scoring in each size for two-year colleges. In the diversity category, three four-year and three two-year colleges were recognized.
The survey was administered by ModernThink LLC, a human resource consulting company, in partnership with The Chronicle.
UB was recognized in two categories: Compensation & Benefits, and Work/Life Balance.
The Chronicle noted that UB employees have access to the programs and expertise of the university's new Institute for Person-Centered Care, "the first of its kind nationwide" to provide services for the frail and elderly. The publication also praised the university's "state-of-the-art" child care center, which recently renovated its locations on the North and South campuses.
"We are pleased UB was again recognized by The Chronicle as a great place to work," said Laura Hubbard, vice president for finance and administration. "This is an honor shared by everyone at UB who helps make the university a collegial, equitable and supportive workplace."
Visit The Chronicle's website to see the full list of colleges. http://chronicle.com/article/Leadership-Work-Life-Balance/140421/


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I usually have many projects going at once but for some reason four Charity Projects seem to have gotten finished one after another.
The first were the Camo Hats for the Troops
These Hats are being collected at Two Sister and Ewe. Two Customers, one in the Military herself and the other a Military Wife, are sending these hats to Troops in Iraq. The Shop stocked Camouflage acrylic yarn just for this project. I got two hats out of one ball of this worsted weight yarn.
The second project or projects were my Red Scarf Project donations this year. Two Sisters has a collection basket for this Orphan Foundation of America project. They'll mail them all in the beginning of December. I hope we have Red Scarves everywhere. (Several years ago The Shop was the collection point for Pink Scarves that were going to be sold at the Breast Cancer Walk with all the money going to the Susan Komen Fund. I never saw so much Pink in one place in my life!)
My first scarf is the Li's Reversible Herringbone Scarf. This is a very nice pattern - write to Li if you'd like her free pattern.
Pattern close-up.
My second Red Scarf is made from the Pattern "Men's Cashmere Scarf" in Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. Of course, I didn't use cashmere yarn both of these scarves are made with Marble Yarn from James G. Brett.(I was several rows into this pattern when I realized it is nearly identical to Yarn Harlot's Handspun Scarf pattern that I finished just a few weeks ago. I wonder if both authors are aware of how similar their patterns are?)
I recently had a Birthday lunch with my Sister and her daughters and grandchildren and my daughters (neither have children, not for lack of my encouragement!) Here is a photo of my great-nephew Joey (2.5 years)
and my newest great-niece Lily
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Charity Knitting Report
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I might have missed the announce list message, but checking eprints.org (esp. the download page it appears that version 1.0 is ready to go. According to the main page, "An earlier private beta release of eprints met with unanimous approval. The first complete operational release is available (for free, of course) as of December 1 2000." Of course, the Open Archives standard is about to change as of mid-January (at the public meeting in D.C.), when they will release the next version of the OAI spec. So eprints will have to change pretty soon, but it looks solid already otherwise.
Greenstone 2.27
Gordon writes: "Version 2.27 of the Greenstone digital library software is available. There are two big improvements: 'The Collector' now works in Windows 95/98 and is more stable on other platforms; and the experimental 'Phind' phrase browsing interface is now a Greenstone classifier (Unix only). Various smaller improvements include: document display modes, Z39.50 efficiencies, new metadata extraction, enhancements to the install and make scripts, and many bug fixes. Examples at www.nzdl.org; download from sourceforge."
from freshmeat: "New distribution formats (Windows binary, Linux binary, Source), Dutch interface, various bugfixes (particularly to install & uninstall scripts), updates to included packages, documentation for making your own home page, and a little bit of unstable research thrown in for good measure." more info here...
from eprints-announce: "The public beta version of the eprints.org archive software is now available for download from eprints.org." Standard beta-quality disclaimers apply, but this is Good News...
From Stuart comes: "Greenstone is a GPL Digital Library Software package for building multimedia, multilingual collections. It is very practical, and has been used by the FAO and other humanitarian organisations to distribute information to developing countries because it can be used to build CDROMs or websites and is free (speech) software. It is also the research environment of the New Zealand Digital Library Project, so development is ongoing.
You can find Greenstone, its source code, numerous example collections, manuals and more at http://www.nzdl.org." We've posted on this here before but now it's on the projects list too...
EPrints code coming
Thomas wrote in to oss4lib-list about eprints.org and its promise of a free code release. At the site you'll see that this is a generic successor to the CogPrints codebase, and is intended to be fully Open Archives-savvy. This is a Good Thing(tm)...
For those of you who've not seen recent developments in Electronic Thesis or Dissertations (ETD) systems, check out www.thesis.org and www.ndltd.org for an overview. There's also a new version of ETD-db, vt.edu's package for managing ETD archives (thanks to Charlie G. for the pointer). Anyone know if these folks are in tune with the Open Archives Initiative?
HT00 Tutorial & Greenstone-2.13
Great to see that there's going to be a tutorial on "How to build a digital library using open-source software" at the upcoming ACM Hypertext '00 conference. Reading through the speaker's bio I found Greenstone, nzdl.org's collection backend. Looks like several implementations are running already, too. It would be great to post a conference report from a willing attendee... (hint hint :)
Chronicle and slashdot on LOCKSS
slashdot is running this story on the Highwire Press-led LOCKSS project for distributed long-term journal storage. The /. blurb references the months-old Chronicle piece on the topic. The LOCKSS page hasn't changed in a while... hope we see some source code and reports soon.
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