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About Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary
Diverse Habitats
At first glance, you might not see the special qualities of Bolivar Flats, a unique area combining salt marsh, mud flats and beach, each habitat quite different from the other. Every year hundreds of thousands of birds discover that Bolivar Flats is a special place. Here they find a resting place and nesting habitat where a smorgasbord of invertebrates and fish is spread. Decomposing plant material derived from the salt marsh and delivered by the coastal currents feeds millions of small worms, shrimp and clams which live in the mud flats. Thousands of birds, small fish and crabs hunt the shallows for these invertebrates and small fish that venture into deeper water.
International Recognition
Bolivar Flats is a Globally Important Bird Area, the highest designation, and an International site in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.
It's For the Birds
People are encouraged to walk along the beach and enjoy watching the birds and other wildlife that is protected here. Observe wildlife from a distance at which they feel comfortable. Walking in vegetated dunes and marshes is discouraged. These areas contain hidden nests and venomous snakes. The vehicular barrier was erected to protect nesting and roosting birds, most of which live on the ground. In addition, vehicles compact the sand, killing the plants and animals that live there and making it more difficult for birds to find food and cover. Regulations also prohibit fires in the sanctuary.


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Q: We had lots of tadpoles in our pond last year. Will they still be tadpoles this year or can we expect more frogs?
Lynn – Beecher, IL
A: What would a summer evening on your pond or lake be without bullfrogs? Let's discuss how to distinguish bullfrog and toad tadpoles and understand how they develop into adults.
What Came First: the Egg or Frog
Both bullfrogs and toads reproduce by laying eggs in the water. Female bullfrogs deposit their eggs on the pond surface in large round clusters or masses protected by aquatic plants. One bullfrog can lay up to 20,000 eggs, which are then fertilized by the males. Toads create strands of dark-colored eggs that look like black pearls attached to foliage and leaves near the water's edge.
After 7 to 10 days, frog or toad tadpoles hatch from their eggs. Bullfrog tadpoles appear dark green to black in color and they're big – much larger than other species of frog or toad. They also mature more slowly when compared to their toad counterparts. In fact, bullfrogs will stay in their tadpole stage for almost three years before transforming into adults.
From Aquatic to Terrestrial
A toad's and frog's physical development from tadpole (or pollywog) to adult are similar. As tadpoles, they live exclusively in the water and nibble on aquatic plants for nourishment. At first, their bodies are long and narrow and include a tail where they store fat when food is in short supply during the winter months. Eventually, the tadpoles will start to grow back legs, followed by their front legs. And then their tails shorten and disappear, and they develop lungs. Before long they're full-fledged adults.
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As with most critters in the wild, the strongest will survive – and tadpoles are no different. Out of the thousands of pollywogs that are born, only a small percentage make it to adulthood. They have, however, evolved some survival traits that protect them from predators, including their camouflage color that makes them excellent at hiding.
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Article URL: U.S. officials: Al-Qaida behind Syria bombings - BostonHerald.comU.S. officials: Al-Qaida behind Syria bombings
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) | Saturday, February 11, 2012 | Home - BostonHerald.com | Middle East
WASHINGTON _ The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, seeking to exploit the bloody turmoil in Syria to reassert its potency, carried out two recent bombings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and likely was behind suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 28 people in the largest city, Aleppo, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers.
The officials cited U.S. intelligence reports on the incidents, which appear to verify Syrian President Bashar Assads charges of al-Qaida involvement in the 11-month uprising against his rule. The Syrian opposition has claimed that Assads regime, which has responded with massive force against the uprising, staged the bombings to discredit the pro-democracy movement calling for his ouster.
The international terrorist networks presence in Syria also raises the possibility that Islamic extremists will try to hijack the uprising, which would seriously complicate efforts by the United States and its European and Arab partners to force Assads regime from power. On Friday, President Barack Obama repeated his call for Assad to step down, accusing his forces of "outrageous bloodshed."
The U.S. intelligence reports indicate that the bombings came on the orders of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian extremist who assumed leadership of al-Qaidas Pakistan-based central command after the May 2011 death of Osama bin Laden. They suggest that Zawahiri still wields considerable influence over the networks affiliates despite the losses the Pakistan-based core group has suffered from missile-firing CIA drones and other intensified U.S. counterterrorism operations.
U.S. officials said that al-Qaida in Iraq, or AQI, began pushing to become involved in Syria as Assads security forces and gangs of loyalist thugs launched a vicious crackdown on opposition demonstrations, igniting large-scale bloodshed. Growing numbers of lightly armed army deserters and civilians have joined an armed insurrection, and perhaps thousands of people have been killed.
Zawahiri finally authorized AQI to begin operations in Syria, the officials said, in whats believed to be the first time that the branch has operated outside of Iraq.
"This was Zawahiri basically taking the shackles off," said a U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports. Like others interviewed for this story, he spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue involves classified information.
U.S. officials believe that the Sunni Muslim AQI was looking to expand beyond Iraq, where it has been stepping up attacks on majority Shiites. In Syria, Assad heads a regime dominated by Alawites, a minority Shiite Muslim sect that has ruthlessly ruled the Sunni Muslim-majority country since Assads father seized power in a 1963 coup.
"This has less to do with the targets and more to do with the opportunity," the U.S. official said.
Fears of AQIs widening ambitions are one reason why the United States wants to maintain good relations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki despite concerns over his increasingly autocratic rule, a second U.S. official said.
"We desperately need to partner with him (al-Maliki) to go after al-Qaida. We think we can," the official said. "Because these guys are already spreading. They did the two attacks in Damascus."
The first Damascus attack occurred Dec. 23, when suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives outside intelligence agency compounds in the Syrian capital. At least 44 people were killed and more than 160 wounded.
Then, on Jan. 6, at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured in a bombing against a second intelligence agency compound.
As regime forces continued pummeling the opposition stronghold of Homs on Friday, two suicide bombers driving explosives-packed vehicles attacked security compounds in Aleppo, killing at least 28 people. It was the first significant violence to strike the commercial center, which has largely remained loyal to Assad.
The Assad regime blamed all of the attacks on al-Qaida, citing them as proof that it is fighting terrorists and not a pro-democracy movement. In each case, opposition activists accused the regime of staging the bombings to discredit their movement and undermine the support its receiving from the United States, European powers and the Arab League.
The U.S. officials said that AQI and Zawahiri apparently see Syrias turmoil as an opportunity to reassert themselves after the battering the core group has taken with the death of bin Laden and the killing and capture of key operatives in Pakistans tribal areas.
They "are seeing space, seeing a vacuum, and opportunity to bounce back and they are taking advantage of it," said the first U.S. official.
AQI operatives may also think that Syria offers them the possibility of challenging Zawahiri and his group for leadership of the network.
"We never had to worry about the al Qaida in Iraq people, bad as they were in Iraq, providing real competition to the main al-Qaida force," he said. "But that can happen. Because the main al-Qaida force has been decimated in Pakistan, and these guys may get a new lease on life."
A third U.S. official said that AQI has been able to operate in Syria because it still maintains in that country networks that it used to infiltrate foreign extremists into western Iraq to fight U.S. forces.
"This is opportunism, plain and simple," he said.


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Every Wednesday, food52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius. This week: how to make good on the peaches you'd never want to eat, from Bill Smith's Seasoned in the South.
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You just never know when you're going to get a bum peach.
When you get ahold of a perfectly ripe one -- soft, sweet and ready to pour peach juice all over your shirt the moment you bite -- you know you should eat it right then and there, maybe even leaning over a trash can at the farmers market. But for those bum peaches, the ones that could roll around the bottom of your bag all day and emerge completely unfazed, Bill Smith -- longtime chef of Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill, NC -- gives us a genius way to make good, in his 2005 cookbook Seasoned in the South. Just in time for early peach season, and the hottest, most beastly days of summer -- a low maintenance, no cook, very little sweat recipe. 6 ingredients and 20 minutes till Green Peach Salad.
Green peaches -- at least the ones that us regular folks not in possession of a peach orchard can get our hands on -- are not actually green. Just poke around for the hardest, most unforgiving peaches in the pile. Unfortunately, these are easy to find, especially at your local grocery store.According to Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach, you should also ignore any deceiving red blush (it's bred into most of our peaches and nectarines these days and says nothing about ripeness -- those tricksters!). Instead, look at the underlying yellow tone. The warmer it is, the riper and sweeter your peach. Snatch those up and eat them out of hand -- or sliced up, with cream and dark brown sugar, if you must.
But cool-yellow-bordering-on-green undertones? That spells tart and crunchy, like a firm pear (Melissa Clark is a fan too). Sure, you could leave them out on the counter and they'll soften, sometimes precipitously -- but they will never be one bit sweeter, so best go make a salad.
Peel them (or don't) and slice them as you would for pie. I take this to mean wedges about 1/2-inch wide at the fattest end (I've been faulted for my "rustic" knife skills in the past, but I think big and chunky works here -- it leaves them with some crunch). Freestone or clingstone, hard green peaches will cling like the dickens to the pit, so I find it easiest to segment them before pitting -- prying off one wedge at a time. Ripe peaches would cave and turn to pulp under such pressure, but green peaches maintain their dignity.
Shake some sugar and salt over them, toss with fingers, lick fingers, and let them macerate for a mere 10 minutes -- almost immediately they'll turn glossy and pert as moisture is drawn out. A bit of peachy nectar collects in the bottom of the bowl, which you swish together with olive oil, mint and lots of black pepper -- there's your dressing.It looks a bit like canned peaches swimming in syrup and, in a way, it is -- if you could hook up jumper cables to their slippery undying flesh and jolt them back to life (please don't actually do this). It's resilient where they're sodden, refreshingly tart where they cloy.
Bill Smith says this salad is great with cold meats. I think a big bowlful would make a lot of sense at either a hot, smoky barbeque or a civilized brunch. Or you could make like EmilyC, who tipped us off to this recipe (thanks Emily!): "I made it for first time last night and ate about a pound of it in two minutes flat. It's that good."
Crook's Corner's Green Peach Salad
From Seasoned in the South by Bill Smith.
Serves 4-6.
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Country Music Legend George Jones Dies
KSCB News - April 26, 2013 10:15 am
George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.
Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to his publicist Kirt Webster. He had been hospitalized with fever and irregular blood pressure, forcing him to postpone two shows.
With one of the most golden voices of any genre, a clenched, precise, profoundly expressive baritone, Jones had No. 1 songs in five separate decades, 1950s to 1990s. He was idolized not just by fellow country artists, but by Frank Sinatra, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, James Taylor and countless others. "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones," Waylon Jennings once sang.
Word of his death spread like white lightning Friday morning as his peers paid tribute.
"The greatest voice to ever grace country music will never die," Garth Brooks said in an email to The Associated Press. "Jones has a place in every heart that ever loved any kind of music."
Ronnie Dunn added: "The greatest country blues singer to ever live."
In Jones' case, that's not hyperbole. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, "Possum" evolved from young honky-tonker to elder statesman as he recorded more than 150 albums and became the champion and symbol of traditional country music, a well-lined link to his hero, Hank Williams.
Jones survived long battles with alcoholism and drug addiction, brawls, accidents and close encounters with death, including bypass surgery and a tour bus crash that he only avoided by deciding at the last moment to take a plane.
His failure to appear for concerts left him with the nickname "No Show Jones," and he later recorded a song by that name and often opened his shows by singing it. His wild life was revealed in song and in his handsome, troubled face, with its dark, deep-set eyes and dimpled chin.
In song, he was rowdy and regretful, tender and tragic. His hits included the sentimental "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," the foot-tapping "The Race is On," the foot-stomping "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," the melancholy "She Thinks I Still Care," the rockin' "White Lightning," and the barfly lament "Still Doing Time." Jones also recorded several duets with Tammy Wynette, his wife for six years, including "Golden Ring," 'Near You," 'Southern California" and "We're Gonna Hold On." He also sang with such peers as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard and with Costello and other rock performers.
But his signature song was "He Stopped Loving Her Today," a weeper among weepers about a man who carries his love for a woman to his grave. The 1980 ballad, which Jones was sure would never be a hit, often appears on surveys as the most popular country song of all time.
Jones won Grammy awards in 1981 for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and in 1999 for "Choices." He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992 and in 2008 was among the artists honored in Washington at the Kennedy Center.
Jones continued to make appearances and put out records, though his hit records declined.
"I don't want to completely quit because I don't know what to do with myself," he said in 2005. "I'll be out there as long as the people want me to be out there."
He was in the midst of a yearlong farewell tour when he passed away. He was scheduled to complete the tour in November with an all-star packed tribute in Nashville.


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is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950375/en-us still the soluition for this? why is this "bug" coming again in windows 7 with integrated sp1? this
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Pentagon Contractor May Have Violated Iran Sanctions
The defense contractor that supplies food to American forces in Afghanistan brought certain supplies to Kabul through U.S.-sanctioned Iran. WSJ's Nathan Hodge has the details. Photo: Getty Images
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Stealth RNAi siRNA is manufactured with the strictest quality control standards. Each single-stranded RNA oligo is analyzed by mass spec and then annealed to deliver the specified amount of duplex. Pre-designed Stealth RNAi and Custom Stealth RNAi siRNA are delivered lyophilized, and come with 1 ml DEPC water for resuspension.
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Stealth RNAi siRNA provides effective knockdown to ensure silencing of the target gene. (Figure 1) compares the ability of Stealth RNAi siRNA with traditional siRNA for silencing. In (Figure 1), Stealth RNAi siRNA knockdown is highly potent just like siRNA knockdown.
Corresponding controls consisted of chemistry matched, scrambled sequences with a similar base-pair composition. Reduction in p53 expression is presented as fold change in expression of p53 normalized to GAPDH relative to the corresponding control measured by quantitative real-time PCR.
Figure 1. Reduction in expression of p53 in A549 cells by siRNA and Stealth RNAi siRNA delivered using Invitrogen Lipofectamine 2000.
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Off-target effects occur when the sense strand of an siRNA has homology to an untargeted gene and becomes incorporated into a RISC complex, thus directly silencing the untargeted gene. Stealth RNAi siRNA can eliminate sense strand off-target effects that can be problematic with traditional siRNA, even at low concentrations. These problems can arise because both the sense and antisense strand of an unmodified siRNA can enter the RNAi pathway. But Stealth RNAi siRNA modifications only allow the antisense strand to efficiently enter the RNAi pathway. This modification eliminates concerns about sense strand off-target effects.
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Figure 2. Stealth RNAi siRNA exhibits increased specificity for targets.
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Stealth RNAi siRNA is stabilized against nuclease degradation in serum. Unmodified 21-mer dsRNA sequence (left panel) and corresponding Stealth RNAi siRNA sequence (right panel) at 0, 4, 8, 24, 48, and 72 hours following incubation in 10% mouse serum. Following incubation samples were separated on a Invitrogen Novex 15% TBE-Urea polyacrylamide precast gel.
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For years, I've had a pet peeve with President Obama. I knew he wasn't as progressive as many Democrats thought he was in 2008. Don't get me wrong — I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 ad 2012. But many people the first time around thought he was going to be the champion of so many progressive causes that had been swept under the rug during the George W. Bush era.
Maybe he would have been more willing to take on more social issues if he'd had a Congress that was a little less obstructionist, but I'm not convinced he would have taken on the issues that I hoped he would tackle — passing the Paycheck Fairness Act, increasing the minimum wage, doing something to bring people out of poverty and making sure all kids have the same educational start.
I know. I'm a dreamer.
But in the President's latest State of the Union address, much of what he talked about was political music to my ears. Obama has received a lot of praise for signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law as one of his first official acts. And that was a big deal, but I never appreciated how the administration touted the Ledbetter Act as creating a law that would ensure that women would get equal pay for equal work — it doesn't, no matter how much the administration has tried to finesse it. And they have. But Ledbetter only gives employees — both men and women — an extended amount of time to sue for back pay and discrimination once it's discovered; it's not a guarantee that men and women doing the same job will get the same pay.
As for poverty, I'm sad that it's taken the President this long to stand up for the importance of the minimum wage — not that $9 an hour is such a wonderful salary, but it's significantly better than $7.25 that it is now, and has been since 2009. Anyone who knows anything about the story in the book Nickled and Dimed, knows that.
So what's gotten into President Obama? One obvious factor is that he doesn't have to worry about re-election anymore, so that frees him up to just put it all out there on the table. I don't hold any notion that everything he proposed in #SOTU2013, as they called it on Twitter, will become legislation that can make its way though Congress without the Republican leadership throwing more roadblocks into the path of progress.
But as a girl who's proudly and unabashedly liberal, who feels that the federal government does have some role to play in making sure that people are paid a fair and livable wage, President Obama's remarks restored a little bit of the faith I had lost in him during his first term.
Realistically, I know some decisions will have to be made about which proposals live and which ones will die on Capitol Hill. But at least the President showed us a little of that liberal he kept in the political closet for the last four years.
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Grant Morrison: Final Crisis Exit Interview, Part 2
Last week, we kicked off an epic conversation with Grant Morrison about Final Crisis' end and the big picture of the siven issue miniseries.
Given that the earlier interview was conducted before issue #7 hit, we stayed fairly clear of specific plot points and elements of the story's conclusion. With a note of warning for those who don't want to see any spoilers for Final Crisis #7, we wrap up our conversation with Morrison, tackling some specific points and looking at the big picture that issue #7 presented.
Newsarama: Let's start with the opening on the other earth - you mentioned in an interview that this was a nod to Obama's speech where he joked about being rocketed to earth from Krypton....although this feels like a nod to that combined with Marv Wolfman's Earth-D - a possible direction the DCU was supposed to follow after the original Crisis?
Grant Morrison: It was directly in reference to Obama's comments. I wanted to mark the moment where the fearful zeitgeist of the backward-looking Dark Age of Bush/Blair/Bin Laden yielded to the potentially more progressive Obama Age.
I'd completely forgotten about Marv's Earth-D idea but I'm glad this ties in with that too and provides another link with the original Crisis.
NRAMA Was "The End is Nigh" sign in front of the White House a nod to Watchmen?
GM: Watchmen? What's that? Is that the one where the hero dog gets its head kicked in? Sweet.
No. If it was meant as a proper nod to Watchmen, I'd have asked for the prophet of doom to look more like Walter Kovacs. This is a generic sandwich-board guy who's only here to flag up the mood of Biblical apocalypse from the get-go.
3) You know we're going to ask...the Supermen who are with the Question and Captain Marvel – analogs all?
GM: They all have names, histories and backstories. Since I wasn't able to use the Superman analogs from other companies directly, I had to create analogs of the analogs.
NRAMA: Generally speaking, how detailed was your script for this issue's other characters? Was it up to Doug, or did you detail who they were, what they looked like, and where they were from?
GM: The script was very detailed and I sent Doug costume sketches for a lot of the analog characters.
NRAMA: I think more than the other issues, issue #7 left people hanging a little...in a good(?) way - the origin and components of the Watchtower, the robot JLA, the unseen Metal Men attack...feel free to fill in the blanks about those, but it seems like there's a lot of story that remained in your head. Can you discuss a little about how you splice out what makes it to the final page, and what stays behind?
GM: The origin of the final Watchtower is described in captions and its components, recognisable to DC readers, are not significant otherwise. The robot JLA and the Metal Men of Earth-44 are one and the same and we see their attack and their defeat by the Luthor/Sivana team on the next page etc.
I choose to leave out boring, as I saw it, connective tissue we didn't really need for this story to work. I choose to leave out long-winded caption-heavy explanations that bring readers 'up to speed', even as they send them to sleep. And we left out the line-wide crossover tie-ins that have every detail of backstory spelled out laboriously by writers desperate to get back to their own plotlines. Otherwise, the whole thing is there on the page in word or picture form…and when interestingly-shaped story spaces can be opened out to make room for enthusiastic speculation and debate that adds to the fun. Looking up characters you thought were simply generic cavemen or monsters and finding they have histories you can explore and adventures you can read adds another interactive layer that takes you deeper into the mysteries and complexities of the DC virtual reality.
NRAMA: Can you speak about the format that you used to tell this last issue's story - multiple narrators telling the story to multiple audiences...why that approach?
GM: If you go back to the first issue, it starts with a 'caveman' version of the basic hero story. Then we get Dan Turpin narrating and so on through the series. Rising Sun narrating the start of issue #2, the Monitor origin story from the Infinite Book in Superman Beyond – even things like Alfred narrating the two Batman crossovers, or the use of magic words throughout the series. It's all about people telling stories to one another, so the final issue makes that explicit.
NRAMA: Likewise the multiple timelines. Would a linear narrative resulted in a different story in the end?
GM: Final Crisis is absolutely linear until the last issue when time folds down on itself and even then it's pretty straightforward A to B to C. A different writer would have resulted in a different story perhaps!
NRAMA: Superman and Darkseid - for those of us who didn't attend night classes on New Genesis...despite being shot through the heart, Darkseid is still alive, he's taking aim at Orion to basically start the whole story, and the Flashes lead the Black racer to him...and that kills him? I feel a little slow here, but when did he start falling through the multiverses?
GM: Again, I don't think you need to know anything about New Genesis or any other information apart from what's in the story. Darkseid wasn't shot in the heart. We all know Batman doesn't kill people, hasn't killed people for 70 years and isn't about to start here. It's a big enough deal for Batman to pick up a gun. He winged Turpin knowing that the Radion in the bullet would be enough to poison Darkseid's divine essence. Radion only kills gods after all. It slays ideas. After that shot, Darkseid is dying, just as someone with radiation poisoning might slowly expire, as Superman explains in #7. The Black Racer drags him struggling away into oblivion over the course of that issue until nothing remains but the fading, ghost-echoes of his malice.
Darkseid started falling through the universe after the event we experienced as The Death of The New Gods. He fell backwards through time and wound up in a human body, on Earth, in the Mister Miracle series back in 2005.
NRAMA: The return of Aquaman...that's the Aquaman? King Arthur returned in the hour of his people's greatest need?
GM: J.G. Jones and I figured it was time to bring back an Aquaman we could all understand, so there he is. Someone else will pick up on that story, I'm sure.
NRAMA: Got it. Back to some details, time-wise here, how long did the building of the machine take?
GM: Time as we know it is no longer in operation at this point in the story, so it takes ten pages!
NRAMA: [laughs] Alright then. From what you've shown, do you have a Luthor/Sivania miniseries in you somewhere? Or at least a one-shot?
GM: That would be good. They make a great double act but I don't have anything planned.
NRAMA: Who was escaping through the tunnel and why did Lord Eye shut it down?
GM: The inhabitants of Checkmate Castle were escaping through the 'Black Gambit' graviton tunnel, as set up in Final Crisis #6 and anchored in place by the Atoms in #7. As time broke down, Lord Eye's programming began to fail. Checkmate technology wasn't up to the task of holding open a tunnel between two entire universes passing one another in hyperspace (the 'Bleed, as Warren Ellis named it, or 'Bulk', as physicists prefer to call the same idea). Lord Eye tries to shut the tunnel down to prevent further damage, but that puts the escapees in danger, so Hawkman and Hawkwoman hurl themselves back into the fray to stop the Eye and save everyone's lives.
At which point, Shilo Norman's Motherboxxx takes charge, reads the co-ordinates off Sonny Sumo and dials up a Boom Tube connection to Sonny's home Earth, now in ruins following the events of Countdown and Final Crisis! Everyone in the tunnel gets transferred to Earth-51, where the Ultima Thule finds them later…as Renee Montoya tells us on page 17.
Sorry if it seemed unclear to some readers but the words and pictures on the page do contain all of the information above if you go back and look. Is it presented in a carefully-composed 'chaotic' way? Yes, because getting caught between two entire universes as they skim past one another at the end of the world, while Justifier troops pour in through the walls to get you would be pretty chaotic and I wanted to capture that. This page is pure Pop Art – big shouty, jagged balloons with 'TIME! SPACE! SHREDDING!' and declarations of love. It's the 4-D Roy Lichtenstein page!
NRAMA: What is Superman's song? What does it sound like?
GM: 'Born In The USA'? 'Crazy In Love'? 'Man, I Feel Like A Woman'? 'My Way'? 'A Milli'? 'Come Into The Garden, Maude'? Whatever your favourite song is, that's what he's singing. For me today, it's 'Granite' by Pendulum.
NRAMA: Element X from Metron (his chair at least...) - that's a reflection of the first scene in the series, and the larger metaphor of the gods giving fire, correct?
GM: Pretty much.
NRAMA: Your collection of Supermen - first, there look to be more than 52...second, you can save it for another time to run them down individually, but do you know who each one is?
GM: I think Doug just kept drawing until he hit the sides! The script specified a ton of variant and parallel Earth Supermen, including Majestic, Apollo, the Red Son Superman, Superdemon and the New Frontier Superman. I also asked for Superwoman from Earth 11, a couple of Sons of Superman – including the guy from All Star Superman #6 and I wanted Bizarro flying in the opposite direction from everyone else but a few of those didn't make it through Doug's pencil.
NRAMA: Nix's troops at the endgame...Captain Carrot? Really? Did you reverse them from what Bill Morrison had done in his story, or did Bill do what he did as a means to hide them from the Monitors and others, for this very moment?
GM: In retrospect, that's exactly what Bill did! We Morrisons have to stick together. At the end of the Captain Carrot miniseries, the Justa Lotta Animals escaped their own Crisis (on Earth-26, I mistakenly wrote Earth-35 in the script so it'll get changed for the trade), only to be turned into a bunch of very ordinary pets on Earth-0. It was a sad ending but it meant that there was now a team of cartoon super animals living in secret on Earth-0. This seemed like a perfect time to bring them back into play.
NRAMA: The final fight with Mandrakk boils down to Supermen and the Green Lanterns, with the GLs delivering the final blow. The Supermen is obvious, but of all the heroes and powers you had to choose from, why the Lanterns?
GM: Darkness vs. Light. The Green Lanterns' are soldiers of Light and they also have a new law which allows them to kill with a smile. It could only be them who shot the ultimate stake into the Cosmic Vampire's heart.
NRAMA: But still - the larger picture here - sun gods, heroes with weapons of light, angels, supercool teens and funny animals joining together to kill a creature of darkness that was sucking the life out of the world. Metaphorically speaking...well, I'd guess that's a pretty big metaphor for what you're wanting to do with Final Crisis?
GM: Your first sentence is a description of everything I love about comics. I just wanted to do the kind of comic I, and others like me, want to read. Apart from one or two things, I'm not getting much of what I'm into from mainstream hero books these days. They're all well crafted and I enjoy the work of all my old favourites as usual but even with hundreds of books a month, I still can't find many comics that deliver exactly what I, as a reader and a fan, am looking for from superheroes in these changing times. That's why I wrote one.
NRAMA: You mentioned that there was one scene that you included at DC's request at the end - was that the scene showing that essentially, everyone was okay, with Lois narrating...or later...in the cave?
GM: The scene was with Batman. I'd made it a little more ambiguous but DC editorial didn't want readers to think Batman might actually be dead for more than a fortnight, so I revised the last page to be somewhat 'on the nose', as they say in Hollywood.
NRAMA: You have the Monitors note that earths 43 and 31 are unmonitored - those were the Red Rain and Dark Knight earth, correct? Why those earths?
GM: A Vampire Batman Earth and the Dark Knight Earth seemed somehow appropriate.
NRAMA: Just to summarize with the New Gods, they've left earth and have taken up residence in Universe 51 in their original togs?
GM: No, the togs are a little shinier and more like J.G. Jones' updated designs from the Final Crisis sketchbook. They now have a newly-fashioned Kirby-flavoured Earth to deal with as they slowly return from 'death' to their full power and majesty. Right now, they're like tribal gods on a primitive planet. Clash of the Titans, dude!
NRAMA: What was Nix's plan that he used to recreate earth 51? Was there more beyond Kirby's map? A full timeline?
GM: He just used the map to build the geography of the new Earth-51. beyond that, yes, he had his own Monitor plan which involved cutting and pasting sections of other times and places into Earth-51's history. And who wouldn't? The effect of all this cosmic Photoshopping occurring around the Command-D bunker caused Kamandi's consciousness to shift wildly through time and the Multiverse, which is why he was able to appear to Anthro in issue 1 and Dan Turpin in issue 2.
NRAMA: As Nix walks us through the end of the Monitors - they were the ones protecting, shepherding and monitoring the 52 worlds. Without them...what happens? As you alluded to before, does this mean the multiverse will...grow?
GM: As we saw in Superman Beyond #1, the original, infinitely vast Monitor-Mind created a 'concept' to contain and study the Multiverse. That concept – a structure known as the Orrery of Worlds – was designed to protect Monitor from the effects of the Multiverse, like a bandage over a wound, or, perhaps, a cage around a wild animal.
The cage is gone now, so yes…anything can happen. Watch this higher dimensional space.
NRAMA: Nix wakes up on earth...are the other Monitors now part of the story as well?
GM: No. Monitor-Mind has worked through its own Ultimate Story and spared Nix Uotan to be its sole representative and interface with the Multiverse. I see Uotan's 'hyperhero' role in the DCU as a cross between the Silver Surfer and Doctor Who (particularly the Earthbound Jon Pertwee iteration of the character).
NRAMA: The radio at the end hints at it - that the story of the multiverse is only beginning. Dan has said to us that he wants you to be the first to explore the multiverse, according to your vision and plan. Can you give us some hints at how you see it all fitting together now, and when you may get the time to dive in?
GM: I'm in the early stages of putting together material for a Multiverse series but I want to spend a lot of time getting it exactly right, so there are currently no deadlines and I don't anticipate any of this coming out until 2010. I'm doing some Vertigo books first.
NRAMA: Superman's final wish - Why did he wish for a happy ending, rather than something literal, like Batman coming back?
GM: 'Batman coming back' is a little bit too specific an ending for a story about stories. Let's face it, there's always a dangerous 'Monkey's Paw' element to making any specific wish – what if Batman 'comes back' but as a zombie, or a villain, or as a tiny little Batman who just sits there?
Superman knows best and chose his wish to maximize the Miracle Machine's effects. And as a happy coincidence, his big pal Batman will come back.
NRAMA: Big, big picture-wise, Superman knows he's part of the story, doesn't he? It's not something he shares with Lois over coffee, but after Final Crisis...he definitely knows, right?
GM: Superman understands his place within the levels and scales of the Multiverse and Beyond, certainly. He knows he's part of 'the story' but not in the kind of 'fourth wall' breaking way of Animal Man, say. Superman knows he's part of a much higher structure of nested realities, in the same way that I do. In his own dimension, his own world, he's absolutely real, with a real life.
NRAMA: Oh, and and finally, we'd be remiss - Batmanthro? What does the Omega Sanction mean for him? Can he fall back into our world? Is he on our world? Does someone have to go find him? Does he have to live a succession of lives like Shilo? So…many…questions….
GM: I'm returning to Batman in June…
NRAMA: Thanks Grant. I think there are a lot of people who are looking forward to what's next.
GM: Thanks, Matt, and for all the interviews in this Final Crisis series. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the book and wasn't afraid to say why. Hope you like the new stuff!


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If Eric Decker had caught TD No. 51, he'd have pranked Peyton Manning, he says
Broncos receiver Eric Decker, who caught Peyton Manning's 50th touchdown pass of 2013 and protected No. 51 when Julius Thomas left the ball on the field, already had a plan for what he'd do if he caught the record-setting ball Sunday.
"I was going to take it home," he said, laughing. "That's an item that is going to go for a lot."
Decker, though kidding, said that he hoped to prank Manning back with the ball after all of the pranks that the quarterback pulled on him while they were training at Duke University last offseason.


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Ad Parnassum, vol. 11, n. 21 (April 2013)The volume under review is probably the most extensive study of Dussek published to date. The editors have assembled an impressive list of authors, contributing their valuable expertise in the variety of spheres with which Dussek's life and work were associated ... (Susan Wollenberg)
Notes (December 2013)... the book is sure to be the most important scholarly resource on Dussek for some time to come. (Bryan Proksch)


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As a general reminder, all content on this site is visible to anyone with a browser - that includes the people who are giving groups permission to run events.
The catalyst for this post is based on feedback from at least one event sponsor who strongly considered pulling the funding for events based on some of the behaviour they witnessed on this forum. It is clearly not in the interest of this hobby that this should happen.
Some issues have occurred in the past and look to be occurring again in terms of how events are being announced and discussed on forum.
At the moments there are 2 options for people who wish to advertise an event:
- Create an entry in the calendar. This is currently operating as it should.
- Create a topic in the Events. There are problems in terms of how this is operating.
The intention of this post is to clarify what is and is not acceptable in terms of posts relating to events.
- Posts relating to events should be made by someone acting on behalf of the event. The post should concentrate on telling people about the event and who to contact if they want to attend as either a participant or a member of the public.
- It is acceptable to ask questions about the event once they are framed in a positive matter.
- It is not acceptable to conduct an online negative campaign against an event or whoever happens to be organising it. This is irrespective of the background circumstances which have led to that person or group running the event.
- 'Bumping' topics is tedious. This refers to the practice of posting something of no real value on a topic solely to move it up the topic list. In cases where this is done to remind people that the event is on or that some information has been updated, that is OK. In cases where this mechanism is being used to 'talk up' an event at the expense of other events it is not OK.
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XM8 rifle in basic infantry configuration, as displayed in January, 2004, at the ShotShow-04 in USA
XM8 rifle in "automatic rifle" (light machine gun) configuration. Notelonger barrel and folded bipods under the forearm
XM8 rifle in "sharpshooter" (parasniper) configuration. While sightlooks similar to red-dot, mounted on other variants, it is of 3.5X magnification; spare magazine is clamped to the right side of the magazine inserted into the rifle.
XM8 rifle in Compact (SMG / PDW) configuration, with shortened barrel.
Author of this website is posing with XM8 at the ShotShow-2004, Las Vegas,USA.
Caliber: 5.56×45 mm NATO
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 838 mm in basic configuration, butt extended
Barrel length: 318 mm in basic configuration; also 229 mm in Compact and508 mm in Sharpshooter and SAW versions
Weight: 2.659 kg empty in basic configuration
Rate of fire: ~ 750 rounds per minute
Magazine capacity: 30 rounds (STANAG) or 100-rounds double drum inAutomatic Rifle/SAW role
The development of the XM8Lightweight Assault Rifle was initiated by US Army in the 2002, when contractwas issued to the Alliant Techsystems Co of USA to study possibilities ofdevelopment of kinetic energy part of the XM29 OICW weapon into separate lightweight assault rifle, which could, in the case of success,replace the aging M16A2 rifles and M4A1 carbines in US military service. XM8 is being developed by the Heckler-Koch USA,a subsidiary of famous German Heckler-Koch company. According to the present plans, the XM8 should enter full production circa 2005, if not earlier, several years before the XM29OICW. The XM8 (M8 after its official adoption) should become a standard next generation US forces assault rifle. It will fire all standard 5.56mm NATO ammunition, and, to further decrease the load on the future infantrymen, a new type of 5.56mm ammunition is now being developed. This new ammunition will have composite cases, with brass bases and polymer walls, which will reduce weight of the complete ammunition, while maintaining compatibility with all 5.56mm NATOweapons. Along with 20% weight reduction in the XM8 (compared to the current issue M4A1 carbine), this will be a welcome move for any infantryman, already overloaded by protective, communications and other battle equipment.
The XM8 will be almost similar to the "KE" (kineticenergy) part of the XM29 OICW system, being different mostly in having a telescoped plastic buttstock of adjustable length, and a detachable carrying handle with the sight rail.
As of mid-2004, XM8 now is undergoing wide-scale testing in several units of US Army, and is receiving a positive feedback.
XM8 status update (September 2005): Following several complains about non-competitive procurement of the XM8 system from Heckler-Koch USA, US Army first opened the bidding for contract to other companies, and then, in the July 2005, suddenly suspended the entire OICW Increment 1 program to re-think the entire set of requirements for the possible replacement of current M16 rifles and M4 carbines. These requirements will be re-viewed as Joint Services effort. At the present time, it seems that development of HK XM8 is suspended; it may be resumed if XM8 suit the new US Joint Service Requirementsfor a new assault rifle system; or, it may not. We will watch this process closely and update this article when new information will be available.
Technical description.
The XM8 is a derivative of the Heckler-Koch G36 assault rifle, and thus it is almost similar to that rifle in design and functioning.XM8 features a short piston stroke, gas operated action, with rotating bolt locking. Barrels are quick detachable, and planned to be available in several sizes, ranging from 229 mm (9.5 inch) for Compact/PDW version, 318mm (12.5 inch)in Basic version, and two 508mm (20in) barrels, one for Sharpshooter/Sniper version, and heavier one (along with bipod) for Squad Automatic Rifle role. The entire construction is modular and built around the polymer receiver with boltgroup; Magazine housings could be easily swapped for compatibility with various types of magazines; various buttstocks could be installed in a second for various roles (standard buttstock is a telescoped 5 position adjustable one).Top of the receiver is fitted with proprietary sight rail, which can accept illuminated red-dot (collimator) sight, or any other type of sighting equipment.Detachable forend will be available in various sizes, and could be replaced withXM320 40mm grenade launcher (the improved HK AG36).
Ambidextrous fire controls are mounted on the trigger unit, integral with pistol grip and triggerguard, and in basic configuration are planned to deliver single shots and full auto fire.The G36-type ambidextrous charging handle is located at the top of the receiver, below the removable carrying handle.


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Located in a small strip mall on a commercial street in Decatur, Ala., Right Choice Money Services looks like any other check-cashing outlet. Once you step inside, however, you immediately notice differences.
Large, prominently displayed signs inform customers of all fees. "Part of what sets us apart from competitors is that we're not trying to hide anything," says Peter Alvarez, general manager. "We show all our fees up front."
But the most notable feature that sets Right Choice apart from local "fringe bankers" is how it treats its customers. "Our employees really want to do what's right for the consumer," Alvarez says. "They'll strike up conversations to figure out how to help. We hire people who have a personal mission for service."
Right Choice has an advantage in its search for service-focused staff because its employees already work for a credit union. Right Choice leases its employees from $3.3 billion asset Redstone Federal Credit Union, Huntsville, Ala. Redstone Federal created Right Choice as a credit union service organization to serve unbanked and underbanked consumers.SIDEBAR
The decision to look like a typical retail financial services storefront was deliberate. "Many folks who are unbanked or underbanked are intimidated at the thought of going into a traditional financial institution like a bank or credit union," Alvarez explains.
Redstone Federal's strategy for serving the unbanked and underbanked is only one of many possible approaches, says Karen Biddle Andres, senior manager and consultant for advisory services at the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI).
"We're just beginning to scratch the surface in terms of the models that are emerging," she says.
Final frontier?
Financial services revenues from serving unbanked and underbanked consumers totaled $78 billion in 2011, according to a study released by CFSI and Core Innovation Capital in September 2012. The report predicts revenues will hit $85 billion in 2012.
"This is the last remaining 'white space' in financial services," Biddle Andres says. "What makes it so exciting and compelling is that there's a lot of uncharted territory here. There's a lot of opportunity for credit unions to reinvent themselves to serve this market."
CFSI's mission is to help financial institutions figure out how to do just that. Twice a year, CFSI hosts an Underbanked Solutions Exchange where participants share ideas and best practices. Since forming in 2008, the group has grown from five participants to 18, including seven credit unions.
Biddle Andres has witnessed an evolution in thinking among Exchange members over the years. Early on, she says, the focus was on transforming unbanked and underbanked consumers into more traditional members or customers. Consumers could start with cashing checks or buying prepaid cards, for instance, and then move "up the ladder" into other financial products.
But what Exchange participants have learned is that it's crucial to serve consumers in their current circumstances. "Some people are just fine with check cashing, prepaid cards, money transfers, and money orders," Biddle Andres says. "They don't need to move up the ladder at all. Staying on the rung where they are could be the best place for them."
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In search for next pope, self-promotion is taboo
VATICAN CITY >> At the conclusion of a news conference here late last year, reporters rushed the stage in the hopes of getting a word with Marc Ouellet, a Canadian cardinal who even then was topping many short lists to be the next pope. As the reporters called "your eminence" and waved business cards in the air, he politely smiled, stepped back and disappeared through a door, stage left.
Ouellet, who had come to talk about the church in the Americas, apparently had little interest in discussing anything else, especially himself. The resignation of Benedict XVI has only reinforced the reticence of the pope's potential successors. In the Vatican, even a whiff of self-aggrandizement is tantamount to sacrilege, explicit politicking is a surefire way to leave the conclave as a cardinal and the non-campaign campaign is an institution in its own right.
Becoming pope is the antithesis of an American political campaign. Nobody campaigns to be pope -- at least not openly.
"Campaigning?" Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C., said in an interview Sunday in Rome. "If it were to happen I think that it probably wouldn't be all that well received. It's sort of 'Come on. Get with it, you are out of step. That isn't the way we do this.' "
Monday marks the beginning of the unofficial race to choose the 266th pope, as cardinals hold a series of closed-door gatherings, eventually leading to the conclave from which the next pontiff will emerge. The talks will include much more than logistics. The cardinals will mull the major challenges facing the church but also get to know each other. The 115 electors in attendance will listen with a discerning ear to their colleagues' ideas -- and to their ability to inspire.
"The election is not understood in the same framework as the political elections in the United States," said Wuerl, who noted that here, the Holy Spirit is believed to play a primary role. He said that between the formal speeches of the prelates, there would be an extended "coffee break" during which they would get a better sense for each other's personalities and problems. "But now that you've met someone and he tells you -- you know, in my country this is the issue we are facing -- now when he speaks you have a human being to connect to the idea," Wuerl said, adding that he would like the next pope to have "pastoral experience enough to say, 'Look, I know what I'm talking about because I've done it.' "
In 2005, few cardinals needed to get to know Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. As the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and one of the Vatican's powerhouses, he worked closely with Pope John Paul II and often received cardinals on their visits to Rome.
When John Paul died, it was Ratzinger who served as the dean of the College of Cardinals, overseeing the general assembly meetings. And it was Ratzinger who delivered the homily at John Paul's funeral. The address galvanized support for Ratzinger, who, after four ballots and within 24 hours of the Sistine Chapel doors closing, emerged on the balcony as Benedict XVI.
But Benedict's resignation deprived his would-be successors a public platform on which to shine.
The closest thing to a prime speaking spot was handed out last month to the eloquent Italian Gianfranco Ravasi, a papal contender and head of the pontifical council for culture who preached to Benedict and the other church leaders during Lenten spiritual exercises. (The pope called the remarks beautiful. One member of the Roman Curia -- the Vatican bureaucracy -- called them "long.") An active Twitter user with more than 40,000 followers, Ravasi quoted from the Book of Matthew on Feb. 26: "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Two days later he thanked his followers and added, "I take my leave of you for a few days." Since then, nothing.
At a press conference a few hours before Benedict's official retirement Thursday, a trio of American cardinals talked to the English-speaking press in an auditorium at the Pontifical North American College. Among them was Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, considered, along with New York's Timothy Dolan, the most plausible of the distant long-shot Americans.
O'Malley said that he had been preparing for his first conclave -- "one of the most important things" in his life -- by praying and researching. "I've tried to read as much about the other cardinals using the Internet a lot," he said, adding that his reading list had included the daily profiles of potential candidates by John L. Allen Jr., a leading Vatican expert at the National Catholic Reporter.
"Some of them have been helpful," O'Malley joked, an apparent reference to Allen identifying him as the most likely American candidate.
Vatican officials have rolled their eyes at remarks made by Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. In a recent interview with the British Telegraph, Turkson ruminated on the significance of possibly becoming the first black pope. "If I was elected pope it would signal a lot of [personal] change," he said. "Very big change in a lot of regards."
False modesty, strategic blandness and keeping one's head down are of course not unique to papal elections. Hillary Rodham Clinton has in the past proven herself uniquely successful at non-campaigning campaigning. (It's the-out-in-the-open part that's been less successful.) Howard Wolfson, the communications director of Clinton's 2008 campaign, said he saw some parallels between Clinton's tactics in her presidential bid and those of the aspiring cardinals.
"When then-Senator Clinton was asked whether she was thinking of running for president, she would often say, 'I've got more than enough to say grace over as it is,' " he said. "Sounds like a line that might work particularly well under these circumstances."
The Catholic Church has considerably more experience with the art of the clandestine campaign, which for nearly 1,500 years has been a necessity as much as a strategy.
Back -- way, way back -- in 499, a Roman synod banned papal electors from promising votes to a future candidate while the current pope was in power. Even attending meetings where such votes were pursued became verboten. The ban was codified a few decades later when the Roman Senate objected to Felix IV instructing electors to name his archdeacon, Boniface, as his successor. The body passed a formal edict forbidding talk of a pope's successor while he lived.
The rules have since been relaxed. "I would imagine each of us has some kind of a list of primary candidates and then others secondary and tertiary," Cardinal Francis George of Chicago told reporters last week. "That's what shapes often the smaller, more intimate conversation. 'What do you know about this candidate, and can you tell me how he would react to this? What sort of person is he? What's the personality?' "
Often that happens over a plate of pasta or a glass of wine or, as Cardinal Edward Egan, the former archbishop of New York, put it, over "cafe and biscotti."
Egan had just entered the North American College with the former Washington archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Dolan. As the three prelates, dressed in black with white collars, waited for the elevator upstairs, Dolan quickly deferred a question about what he expected from the upcoming week to his elders, who are both older than 80 and as such cannot enter the conclave.
"These are the two veterans who have been through it before -- tell him what this week's like," Dolan said.
"Cardinal Dolan is going to be praying all the time," Egan said mischievously, "but with more intensity than ever before, and he is going to be smiling the whole time through."
The elevator arrived and Dolan excused himself. "I've got to get on a phone call," he said. Egan and McCarrick stayed back to chat. As Egan continued to talk about the "beautiful week" ahead, Dolan looked on uneasily from behind the closing elevator doors.


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One Practitioner's Appraisal
An address by
Robert M. Trueblood,
at the American Accounting Association
Annual Meeting at the University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana / August 27, 1969
In the fine arts, a critic would not attempt an appraisal
of a painter's work on the basis of a productive
period of only five or ten years. And a painter or sculptor
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show without 20 or 30 years of production behind him.
I have been asked, in effect, to do a retrospective
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As it happens, I made my choice of accounting as a
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It was in the early 30's that the American
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Jeff Cohen led the Ivy League with 48 goals this spring (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior attackman Jeff Cohen of the Harvard men's lacrosse team has been named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-America honorable mention team, it was announced Thursday.
Cohen, a native of Syosset, N.Y., enjoyed one of the finest seasons in Crimson history, ranking second in the country with 3.43 goals per game and 11th with 4.0 points per contest during his senior year. Cohen led the Ivy League with 48 goals and eight man-up goals and was selected unanimously to the All-Ivy League first team. He also garnered NEILA All-New England first team honors and was picked to play in the USILA North-South Game.
Cohen became Harvard's all-time career leader in goals (142) and finished his career tied for sixth in points in team history (167). His 48 goals this spring rank seventh most for a single season in program history, as he recorded 10 hat tricks in 2012. Cohen also scored three goals or more in six straight games from Feb. 28-March 24.
During that stretch, Cohen tallied five goals against Holy Cross (Feb. 28), Duke (March 12), Brown (March 17) and Dartmouth (March 24). He also netted a career-high seven goals in Harvard's 11-7 victory over Michigan March 31.


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The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration – Central Federal Lands Highway Division have scheduled the fifth of 20 different three-hour blasting operations from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday on Hwy 36 between Estes Park and Lyons.
The blasting will take place at mile marker 11.8 (west of Pinewood Springs near Estes Park). The blasting is part of the U.S. Highway 36 Emergency Flood Reconstruction project between Lyons and Estes Park.
Motorists will need to use alternate routes, especially via Colorado Highway 7 between Lyons and Estes Park, as no through traffic will be allowed through during the closure and major delays are expected.
During blasting activities, crews will be loosening sections of the mountainside and then removing the loosened materials from the roadway. On average, the highway will be moved inland away from the river 20 feet, with the range varying between five feet to 50 feet.
An expected 210,000 cubic yards of material is expected to be removed (the equivalent of 210,000 dishwashers). The materials will be recycled and used to not only stabilize the embankment below the highway, but will also be used to stabilize the river channel. Leftover materials will be donated to other area reconstruction projects underway by towns and counties still recovering from the flood, including the Boulder County Road 80 (Longmont Dam Road) project underway by Boulder County and the city of Longmont. Unfortunately, no materials will be available for donation to private citizens.
Altogether, there will be 20 different three-hour full closures, 10 different two-hour full closures, and 10 different night time full closures. The night time full closures will last from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Due to this and other projects on U.S. 36, including utility work as well as work on Longmont Dam Road, major delays are expected on U.S. 36 during the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. CDOT is strongly recommending the use of U.S. 34 between Loveland and Estes Park, and Colo. 7 between Estes Park and Lyons as alternate routes for those who can use them.
Throughout the duration of construction, cyclists will not be permitted on U.S. 36 within the work zones, and several trail access points will be closed for safety reasons. Other flood-impacted highways will remain open for cyclists, who ride at their own risk and are urged to ride using extra caution.


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