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Monte Carlo arrives in theaters July 1 starring Leighton Meester and Selena Gomez as two-thirds of a friendly trio (the third is Katie Cassidy) and they sat down recently to dish their summer treat.
In the film, Selena achieves many a girl's dream and becomes an accidental heiress. Grace (Gomez) is in Paris on a family vacation when the news arrives and she immediately grabs her two BFFs (Meester and Cassidy) and goes on an adventure that each woman desperately needs.
Monte Carlo is based on the book Headhunters by Jules Bass and among its producers are Nicole Kidman and Forest Whitaker. And yes, one of the "boys" that Gomez and Meester talk so effervescently about is Glee's Cory Monteith.
Meester and Gomez spoke about their flick that follows two characters that each found completely relatable. Meester's character is fleeing a family drama on her European escape. We asked Leighton about her favorite escapes as well as got Selena's take on how Monte Carlo can inspire women of all ages.
SheKnows: What is your ultimate escape or vacation?
Leighton Meester: The best escape, since I don't get to go on vacation a lot, I go down to Florida to see my family all the time. That's the best vacation because my family lives on a little island, so there's really nothing to do except go out on the boat and barbeque and play X-box. That's all we do. They're the most honest, real amazing people I could ever have in my life because they've known me since the day I was born. That... is the best time ever. [Laughs] Besides that, I just went to Mexico to the beach. So, that's really nice [laughs]. Just getting away from everything is really important for everybody -- turning off your phone, your computer, not worry about anything.
SheKnows: Selena, does this movie have a message for young girls?
Selena Gomez: Yes, there are multiple lessons in this film. Obviously the biggest one is figuring out who you are and embracing that part of you -- spreading your wings a little bit and exploring yourself and your world. I think there's another message for the family with step-sisters and getting along and how you handle that as a family. [Laughs] There's romance, every girl is going to love that -- falling in love with each of the boys in the film. It's sweet.
SheKnows: Leighton, you start out as the fun police and eventually embrace life's joys. What part of your own self did you find to portray that metamorphosis?
Leighton Meester: She's a lot like me in that she's kind of a dork [laughs]. She starts off a little bit broken. She's kind of awkward. She hasn't had a lot of social time. A lot of her time was spent with her mother in her final years, then her dad immediately went with this other woman. She was really bitter about that. And of course, Emma (Katie Cassidy) and Grace are super tight. I think she's a little bit jealous. I think what really transforms her is seeing Emma and Grace being real with her and putting her in her place. They give her a wakeup call. She's just being away from everything that was her life before. I can identify with that. She's realizing she can be let free. Also... she gets with a guy [laughs]. That's kind of fun for anyone! Everything is representative of her breaking free of her youth.
Monte Carlo contributes to the budding legacy that is films that speak to girls of all ages?
SheKnows: How do you thinkSelena Gomez: I think moms would appreciate the message and younger girls would like the physical comedy. Teen girls will fall in love with the romance. I think it appeals to all kinds of girls.
Leighton Meester: Seriously, I think all women will appreciate it because they're still going through things in their life -- just changing and transitioning. But also, it represents remembering that time in their life when they were just done with high school or at an in-between time. Like, for my character, she was done with college and trying to figure out what she's doing. It covers a time of change. But also visually, the movie is so beautiful. The clothes, the locations, the boys and the music... it's really sparkly and beautiful.
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First Line Pazopanib in Poor Risk Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (FLIPPER)
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Patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are classified according to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) criteria in three risk-groups: favourable, intermediate and poor. To our knowledge there is only one study which examined the poor risk group (Hudes et al.), which led to the approval of temsirolimus in this population. However temsirolimus demonstrated a low response rate of 8.6% according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumor (RECIST) criteria and a Progression free Survival (PFS) of 5.5 months and not all patients are suitable for temsirolimus treatment.
Thus, in clinical routine high-risk patients are also treated with multi Tyrosinkinase Inhibitors (mTKI). To date, a prospective data acquisition and control of effectiveness of a mTKI-treatment in high-risk patients has not been conducted.
Pazopanib was recently approved for the first-line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma in Europe and the USA. In the pivotal Phase III trial only nine patients in the pazopanib group were poor risk according to MSKCC risk criteria and no analysis of this subgroup was performed. Therefore further data in this group of patients with high medical need is needed.
Currently there are no well-established predictive or prognostic biomarkers in RCC-mTKI treatment. This is one of the most important scientific questions in this field. In addition to the clinical endpoints in this study, the comprehensive biomarker program seeks to evaluate biomarker candidates and will help to learn more about the effects of pazopanib on the human organism.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Locally Advanced and/or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Carcinoma, Renal Cell Clear-cell Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma |
Drug: Pazopanib |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Single Arm Multicentre Study Evaluating Pazopanib in First-line Treatment of Poor-risk Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma |
- Rate of poor risk patients as defined by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) criteria who are free of disease progression at 6 months after start of first line treatment with pazopanib. [ Time Frame: from registration until progression of disease or death, assessed up to 6 months ]
- Number, characteristics and severity of Adverse Events [ Time Frame: from first dose of pazopanib until 30 days after last dose, death or end of study, whichever came first ]
- Progression free survival of patients treated with pazopanib [ Time Frame: From date of registration until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 20 months ]
- Overall response rate and duration of response according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 [ Time Frame: From date of registration until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 20 months ]
- Relation between biomarkers and clinical outcome (response, stable disease, progression of disease) [ Time Frame: From date of registration until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 20 months ]
- Overall survival of poor risk patients treated with pazopanib. [ Time Frame: from registration until death of any cause assessed up 24 months ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 50 |
Study Start Date: | December 2011 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | September 2018 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Pazopanib
800 mg (2x400mg) pazopanib per day
Drug: Pazopanib
800 mg (2x400mg) pazopanib per day should be taken orally without food at least one hour before or two hours after a meal until progression or occurrence of intolerable toxicity.
Other Name: Votrient
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed metastatic or locally advanced (defined as non operable tumor), predominantly clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
At least three of the following five predictors of short survival are required:
- Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) > 1.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN)
- Hemoglobin < Lower Limit of Normal (LLN)
- corrected serum calcium level > 10 mg/dl (2.5 mmol/l)
- time from initial diagnosis of renal-cell carcinoma to occurrence of metastases of less than 1 year
- Karnofsky Status of 60 or 70
- Karnofsky Status ≥ 60
- Age ≥ 18 years or legal age of consent if greater than 18 years
- Dated and signed written informed consent prior to performance of study-specific procedures or assessments
- Patients with at least one measurable disease, as defined by RECIST 1.1
- Fresh or archived tumor tissue should be provided for all subjects for biomarker analysis before or during treatment with pazopanib.
- Adequate organ system function as defined as:
- Subjects may not have had a transfusion within 7 days of screening assessment.
- Subjects receiving anticoagulant therapy are eligible if their International Normalized Ratio (INR) is stable and within the recommended range for the desired level of anticoagulation.
- Concomitant elevations in bilirubin and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) above 1.0 x ULN are not permitted. Patients with Gilbert's disease and elevation of indirect bilirubin only can be considered like patients with normal bilirubin.
- Compliance of the patient
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other malignancy. (Patients who have undergone prior radical or partial nephrectomy for RCC are allowed). Subjects who have had another malignancy and have been disease-free for five years, or subjects with a history of completely resected non-melanomatous skin carcinoma or successfully treated in situ carcinoma are eligible.
- Prior systemic treatment for renal cell carcinoma. (NB: all treatments, neo-adjuvant, adjuvant or for locally advanced or metastatic RCC are not permitted.)
- History or clinical evidence of central nervous system (CNS) metastases or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, except for individuals who have previously-treated CNS metastases, are asymptomatic, and have had no requirement for steroids or anti-seizure medication for 6 months prior to first dose of study drug. Screening with CNS imaging studies (computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is required only if clinically indicated or if the subject has a history of CNS metastases.
- Clinically significant gastrointestinal abnormalities that may increase the risk for gastrointestinal bleeding
- Clinically significant gastrointestinal abnormalities that may affect absorption of investigational product including, but not limited to: Malabsorption syndrome, major resection of the stomach or small bowel.
- Presence of uncontrolled infection (> grade 2 NCI-CTCAE Version 4.03).
- Corrected QT interval (QTc) > 480 msecs using Bazett's formula
History of any one or more of the following cardiovascular conditions within the past 6 months:
- Myocardial infarction
- Cardiac angioplasty or stenting
- Unstable angina
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Symptomatic peripheral vascular disease
- Class III or IV congestive heart failure, as defined by the New York Heart Association (NYHA)
- Poorly controlled hypertension
- History of cerebrovascular accident including transient ischemic attack (TIA), pulmonary embolism or untreated deep venous thrombosis (DVT) within the past 6 months. Note: Subjects with recent DVT who have been treated with therapeutic anti-coagulating agents for at least 6 weeks are eligible
- Prior major surgery or trauma within 28 days prior to first dose of study drug and/or presence of any non-healing wound, fracture, or ulcer.
- Evidence of active bleeding or bleeding diathesis.
- Known endobronchial lesions or lesions infiltrating major pulmonary vessels
- Hemoptysis in excess of 2.5 ml (or one half teaspoon ) within 8 weeks prior to first dose of study drug
- Any serious or unstable pre-existing medical, mental, or other condition, medical, social or mental impairment or drug abuse that could comprise or interfere with the subject's safety, provision of informed consent, or compliance to study procedures.
- Unable or unwilling to discontinue use of prohibited medications for at least 14 days or five half-lives of a drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of study drug and for the duration of the study.
- Simultaneous participation in another clinical drug study
- Known infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or chronic hepatitis B or C
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women. Female subjects of childbearing potential need to be negatively tested prior and as close to the start of therapy as possible, at least within 14 days. Women participating in this trial are required to use adequate contraception. Female subjects who are lactating should discontinue nursing prior to the first dose of study drug and should refrain from nursing throughout the treatment period and for 14 days following the last dose of study drug
- Subjects who are unable to take oral medication
- Known hypersensitive reaction to any of the components of study treatments
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01521715
Contact: iOMEDICO AG | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Germany | |
Urolog. Klinik im Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität | Recruiting |
Erlangen, Germany, 91054 | |
Principal Investigator: Peter J Goebell, PD MD | |
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik f. Urologie | Recruiting |
Essen, Germany, 45122 | |
Principal Investigator: Marcus Schenck, MD | |
Med. Klinik II, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität | Recruiting |
Frankfurt, Germany, 60590 | |
Principal Investigator: Lothar Bergmann, Prof. MD | |
Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum (MVZ) Osthessen GmbH | Recruiting |
Fulda, Germany, 36043 | |
Principal Investigator: Heinz-Gert Höffkes, Prof. MD | |
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald | Recruiting |
Greifswald, Germany, 17475 | |
Principal Investigator: Laura Hoppe, MD | |
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover | Recruiting |
Hannover, Germany, 30625 | |
Principal Investigator: Viktor Gruenwald, MD | |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Klinikum Grosshadern | Recruiting |
München, Germany, 81377 | |
Principal Investigator: Michael Staehler, PD MD | |
Universitätsklinikum Münster | Recruiting |
Münster, Germany, 48149 | |
Principal Investigator: Edwin Herrmann, MD |
Principal Investigator: | Michael Staehler, PD MD | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Klinikum Grosshadern |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | iOMEDICO AG |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01521715 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
iOM-605 2011-001138-40 ( EudraCT Number ) |
Study First Received: | December 21, 2011 |
Last Updated: | June 1, 2016 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma Carcinoma, Renal Cell Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Adenocarcinoma |
Kidney Neoplasms Urologic Neoplasms Urogenital Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Kidney Diseases Urologic Diseases |
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50 Cent Needs to Shut Up
Really, seriously, it's great
One of the most fascinating and rewarding experiences I've had in my short career as a music writer came on Monday evening, when I spent six hours following Just Blaze around; the print-edition article should be out soon. I saw him drop hundreds and hundreds of dollars on obscure-ass records, I heard him talking about his favorite member of Brand Nubian (Sadat X), and I got to meet Saigon, Alchemist, and, surprisingly enough, Dan the Automator (they shop at the same record store). And now I've got two and a half 90-minute Maxell tapes full of great quotes, which I'll probably be pillaging for blog purposes over the next couple of weeks. Here's one that probably won't make the article:
"To be honest, the past couple of years, hip-hop has been like I don't know. I'm not going to take the typical route and say it's the South because I don't consider them not hip-hop. You listen to the majority of their music, and all those beats sound like a beat you might've heard on an old Just-Ice or Beastie Boys album, a little 606 or an old Mantronix beat. I'm not mad at them. They're rocking 808s, cool. There's some I like and some I don't like, but instead of sitting there and complaining about the South, you just have to make quality music. All of the other areas like the West and the South that have had their reign, they made it by sticking to their own. New Yorkers will say that whatever music's hot, those are the records that we'll make. Lil Jon gets hot, and all of a sudden every East Coast rapper has a record with him. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's a difference between collaborating and making blatant attempts to save your career by jumping on a bandwagon."
See that? Just Blaze, like damn near everyone else who's working in rap music these days, has a lot of problems with the places the music is going. He's also an East Coast guy, and the decline of New York as center of the rap universe has been frustrating for him. OK. But here you've got the guy responsible for half the great East Coast rap singles this decade, and he's blaming the state of the industry on something other than Southern rap. He's blaming it on laziness and trend-jumping and general lack of artistry. He's thought about what's going on, and he's taking steps to correct what he sees as problems. Now compare that with 50 Cent on MTVnews.com yesterday:
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"A lot of the music that comes out of the South is kind of simplified and I think it's kinda 'cause they just wanna have a good time," he explained. "They don't wanna think about what [they] just said. ... They really didn't make sense, but they made sense in a way and they just wanna hear something while they're actually partying and it works for them. But when they don't take the time to make it the highest quality possible, it hurts the actual hip-hop [genre]. People wanna make music they can get away with as opposed to the best possible music they can make.
"They'll lower the grade of music," he continued. "It changes the range you can go and then it causes confusion amongst artists that don't have their own direction at that point and they all start making music that is similar. Like if the record comes out and it's a hit and it's the simplest thing on the planet, all of a sudden the new artists start writing records that are similar to that hit. Their motivation is to have a project that's successful and that will allow them to move out of the financial situations that they're in when you're in the 'hood or in the ghetto. They make it sound like the record that they hear playin' on the radio as opposed to just creating their own lane."
I could be wrong here, but it looks to me like 50 is blaming the South for influencing people to make novelty club songs, instead of blaming the people actually making these songs. Consider for a minute: the guy who wrote "Candy Shop," still the dumbest #1 single this decade even post-"Laffy Taffy," is talking shit on an entire region for making "simplified" music. The more you think about what 50's saying, the more annoying it is. 50 has made good music, but it's not like he's revolutionized rap on anything other than a business level; he's manufactured and marketed a grim and uncomplicated cold-blooded persona and taken it to unprecedented levels of fame, so if anyone in rap is responsible for lowering the grade of music, it's him. (And I like 50; I'm just saying.) Also, how often does 50 think about what he just said? And does he realize that the single best rapper he's got in his camp is his only Southerner?
When Ghostface's Fishscale comes out at the end of the month, it'll be the best album of the year. Until then, though, the year's best rap album (the year's best album period, as far as I'm concerned) comes from a former associate of Young Buck, Juvenile. Reality Check happens to be the most popular album in the country as I'm writing this, and it's also a very Southern album. It leans heavily on synth blips and enormous trunk-rattling bass. It has a bunch of songs about selling drugs and at least one song about butts. The only non-Southern rapper on the album is Fat Joe, now attempting to save his career by doing his best to make himself an honorary Southerner, like he did on the "No Problem" and "Go Crazy" remixes. More than anything, the album leans more heavily on the grain of Juve's voice than on anything he actually says. He's older now, and his greasy, curling N.O. drawl now has the weight of experience behind it. It's not the Johnny Cash/Scarface thing where the strain in his voice lends him an instant authority; it's more a wounded, damaged rasp, like he's been through things you can't even imagine and he just knows that things are going to get bad before he has time to adjust, to the point where even his dis song against Lil Wayne ends with an anguished conversation with God. "Get Ya Hustle On," of course, is the Hurricane Katrina song, striking because it's more pained confusion than righteous anger: "Whoadie, you really feeling your folks / It's them crackers behind the pencils that ain't hearing us, though / We starving; we living like Haiti without no government / Niggas killing niggas and them bitches is loving it." But even the stuff that predates Katrina has this raw bleakness. The masterful "Sets Go Up," which sounds the way I hoped microhouse would sound before I ever actually heard it, is based on Juvenile's set of four rules, the second of which is "never turn my back on my city," and that song's been on mixtapes for more than a year. Lyrically, "Rodeo" is nothing but a standard strip-club anthem, but the slow, mournful Cool & Dre beat and Juvenile's sad, bluesy growl (and the song's video) show the dark side of the sex industry even if the words of the song don't. Reality Check fizzles out before it ends, and there's an unbelievably wack Brian McKnight song that some people inexplicably like, and most of my friends are not into it at all, so there's a very slight chance that I could be wrong about it. It's not perfect, but it's pretty great anyway. It's certainly a hell of a lot better than The Massacre.
In unrelated news, Jay-Z is now grabbing lunch with Bill Clinton. I told y'all.
And in even more completely unrelated news, I did a Stycast. It has a Bouncing Souls song on it. You should listen to it.
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Christmas Tree Danish Pastries Recipe
I've been making these tender mini trees for nearly 40 years-and folks still keep asking for them! With almond filling, maraschino cherry "ornaments" and iced garlands, the flaky pastries taste as festive as they look.
- 4-3/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 cup cold butter
- 3-1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1-1/4 cups warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces almond paste
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk, beaten
- 14 green candied cherries, quartered
- 14 red candied cherries, quartered
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon flour on a work surface; place butter on surface and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon flour. Press and roll out with a rolling pin. Scrape butter from rolling pin and continue to work the butter until it forms a smooth mass without any hard lumps. Knead in 1/4 cup flour, working quickly to keep butter cold. Place butter mixture on a sheet of plastic wrap and shape into a small rectangle. Cover with another sheet of plastic wrap; roll into a 9-in. x 6-in. rectangle. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
- 2. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Add the egg, sugar and salt; beat until smooth. Stir in the remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; cover and let rest 5 minutes. Roll into a 14-in. x 10-in. rectangle, with the short side toward the bottom. Unwrap butter mixture; position on dough 1 in. above bottom edge and 1/2 in. from each side edge. Fold top half of dough over butter and pinch edges to seal.
- 3. Turn dough a quarter turn to the right; sprinkle lightly with additional flour. Lightly roll into a 16-in. x 8-in. rectangle. Fold bottom third of rectangle up and top third down, as when folding a business letter, making a 5-1/2-in. x 8-in. rectangle (this is called one turn). Rotate dough a quarter turn to the right. Lightly roll into a 16-in. x 8-in. rectangle and again fold into thirds, finishing the second turn. Repeat rotating, rolling and folding two more times for a total of four turns. (If at any time the butter gets soft, refrigerate it for 10-15 minutes.) Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- 4. For almond filling, in a bowl, beat the almond paste, sugar and egg until smooth; set aside. Roll dough into a 22-in. x 7-in. rectangle. Cut lengthwise into fourteen 1/2-in. strips. Twist each dough strip, zigzagging dough on ungreased baking pans to form tree shape. Brush with egg yolk. Dot with almond filling. Decorate with candied cherries. Let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 20 minutes.
- 5. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire racks. In a bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, water and almond extract. Drizzle over pastries. Yield: 14 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 207 calories, 14g fat (8g saturated fat), 65mg cholesterol, 314mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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Lot 104: Thomas Matthews Rooke, R.W.S. (1842-1942)
Victorian & Traditionalist Pictures
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June 16, 2005
London, United Kingdom
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An Idyll
signed with initials and dated 1881 (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 24 5/8 in. (49.8 x 62.5 cm.)
The Property of The Lord Glenconner
This fascinating picture, unseen at auction for more than forty years, is an early work by the artist, and reveals the considerable influence of Burne-Jones and his circle. Born in Marylebone, the son of a Jermyn Street tailor, Rooke trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. In 1869 he applied to work for Morris & Co., and this led to his appointment as Burne-Jones's studio assistant, a post he retained until Burne-Jones's death in 1898. In the 1890s he kept a remarkable record of conversations in Burne-Jones's studio; passages are quoted in Lady Burne-Jones's Memorials, and a selection was published as Burne-Jones Talking in 1981.
The studio was a sophisticated milieu and Rooke mixed with some of the most influential figures in the post Pre-Raphaelite tradition: Spencer Stanhope, J. M. Strudwick (who was also an assistant), as well as Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Millais, and Ruskin. He adopted the manner of all these masters, and visual quotations abound in the present picture. The mother reading to her two daughters beside a lily pool recalls the figures in Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus, a subject he worked on in various versions throughout his career. And the stone statue, of Diana the huntress(?), is reminiscent of those depicted in Spencer Stanhope's Patience on a Monument smiling at Grief. The model for the mother is Rooke's wife, dressed in the 'Aesthetic' costume of the day. Born Leonora Jones in the Channel Islands, her strongly modelled features are instantly recognisable, and for a time she acted as governess to Burne-Jones's daughter Margaret.
The symbolism of the picture is unclear, but the composition anticipates and is very similar to The Dancing Girls, Rooke's picture of 1882, which is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It does not appear to have been exhibited, either at the Royal Academy or the Grosvenor Gallery, and may have been painted for his own enjoyment.
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Alliance One International Reports Improved Fiscal Year 2013 Results
Jun 17, 2013, 17:00 ET from Alliance One International, Inc.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI) today announced improved operating results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2013 driven by revenue and operating income growth.
Fiscal Year Results
For the year ended March 31, 2013, the Company reported net income of $24.0 million, or $0.27 per basic share, compared to net income of $29.5 million, or $0.34 per basic share last year.
Sales and other operating revenues improved versus last year $93.0 million to $2,243.8 million consistent with the plan of leveraging the Company's lower cost position in the markets that it operates. This year cost of goods sold included $14.3 million of foreign exchange hedging expense primarily due to significant Brazilian Real depreciation versus the U.S. dollar during the first quarter, while last year we recognized $6.0 million of income. The $20.3 million cost increase versus last year directly impacted gross profit. Additionally, monitor expense remained similar to last year and should no longer impact results after the second quarter next fiscal year and is also not part of recurring core operating costs. A portion of cost and efficiency improvements are evident with an additional $1.8 million decrease in selling, general and administrative expense to $145.8 million, when compared to last fiscal year and reduced by $12.2 million since 2011, driven by head count reduction. Finally, operating income of $160.3 million this year, included $24.1 million pursuant to a Brazilian excise tax case ruling, compared to $13.7 million of gains last year, on a Brazilian real property exchange.
Mr. Pieter Sikkel, Chief Executive Officer and President said, "We are encouraged by our sales improvements this year, however there remain significant opportunities to improve our performance and we have further objectives to meet as part of reaching our goals. With South America returning to a more normal purchasing cycle and delayed shipments from some regions, inventory at year end was higher than anticipated, but well positioned. Our global team has pushed hard the last 28 months to deliver our restructuring plan laid out in December 2010. Our cost structure has improved substantially and has strengthened our market position, which is clear with sales that have improved from fiscal year 2011 by $149.7 million. We have evaluated our financial performance this year compared to last year, focusing on core operating results versus non-core expense and income. Understanding that we have now completed the second crop cycle since we began repositioning our business, we continue to progress in line with our internal plan and expect continued improvements as we move forward."
Mr. Sikkel concluded, "Strategic investment remains a primary focus and this year we deployed $39.9 million to further improve factory efficiencies and enhance our supply chain. Investment in farmer agronomy programs, which support secure compliant sustainable supply as embraced by our customers, continues to be a key component of our plans. Total demand for tobacco, while shifting, is stable and supply remains tight in burley and higher quality flavor tobaccos. Our balance sheet is well positioned with inventories at year-end of $903.9 million and uncommitted inventory well within our stated range of $50-$150 million. We are now executing on the next level of our longer term plan that should further increase volume, revenue and profit dollars, ultimately delivering enhanced shareholder value."
Performance Summary for Fiscal Year 2013
The following is a brief overview of the Company's financial results for the year ended March 31, 2013. For additional information and a more detailed discussion of these results, please refer to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on June 17, 2013.
Total sales and other operating revenues increased 4.3% to $2,243.8 million compared to the prior year. Tobacco sales increased $94.1 million primarily due to higher green costs from smaller crop sizes in Africa and Brazil for the fiscal 2013 crop, which were passed on to the customer. Processing and other revenues decreased 1.1% to $95.1 million due to the smaller crop size in Brazil.
Gross profit decreased slightly 0.9% to $285.2 million and gross profit as a percentage of sales decreased from 13.4% to 12.7% mainly due to higher processing costs on a per kilos basis from smaller African crop sizes that were not fully passed on to the customer. Also impacting gross profit and core operating results was $14.3 million of foreign exchange hedge expense versus $6.0 million of income last year, a $20.3 million increase versus the prior year.
Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased 1.2% to $145.8 million when compared to the prior year, driven by reduced building rent and professional fees.
Other income was $20.7 million this year primarily related to a non-cash benefit of $24.1 million for Brazilian excise taxes based on a court ruling on March 7, 2013, and $15.7 million of income last year mainly from Brazilian asset gains related to a real property exchange.
Interest costs increased 7.3% from the prior year related to higher average borrowings and higher average rates, which reduced pretax results for the year 5.7% to $51.1 million.
Cash taxes paid increased $3.6 million to $20.8 million, while the effective tax rate increased from 46.2% in 2012 to 54.8% in 2013. Effective rates in both years vary significantly from the statutory tax rate, due to foreign income tax rates that are lower than the U.S. rate, exchange rates, changes to valuation allowance on deferred tax assets and changes in unrecognized tax benefits.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 31, 2013, available credit lines and cash were $554.8 million comprised of $92.0 million in cash and $462.8 million of credit lines including $10.6 million exclusively for letters of credit, all consistent with internal expectations.
Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results Investor Call
The Company will hold a conference call to report financial results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, on June 18, 2013 at 8:00 A.M. ET. Those seeking to listen to the call may access a live broadcast on the Alliance One website. Please visit www.aointl.com fifteen minutes in advance to register.
For those who are unable to listen to the live event, a replay will be available by telephone from 11:00 A.M. ET Tuesday, June 18 through 11:00 A.M. ET Sunday, June 23. To access the replay, dial (888) 203-1112 within the U.S. or (719) 457-0820 outside the U.S., and enter access code 3583583. Any replay, rebroadcast, transcript or other reproduction of this conference call, other than the replay accessible by calling the number above, has not been authorized by Alliance One and is strictly prohibited. Investors should be aware that any unauthorized reproduction of this conference call may not be an accurate reflection of its contents.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future financial and operating results, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements are based on the current beliefs and expectations of management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results may differ materially from current expectations and projections. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: changes in the timing of anticipated shipments, changes in anticipated geographic product sourcing, political instability in sourcing locations, currency and interest rate fluctuations, shifts in the global supply and demand position for tobacco products, and the impact of regulation and litigation on customers. Additional factors that could cause AOI's results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements can be found in AOI's Annual Reports on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") which are available at the SEC's Internet site (http://www.sec.gov).
(in thousands, except per share data) |
2013 |
2012 | |
Sales and other operating revenues |
$ 2,243,816 |
$ 2,150,767 | |
Cost of goods and services sold |
1,958,570 |
1,863,115 | |
Gross profit |
285,246 |
287,652 | |
Selling, general and administrative expenses |
145,750 |
147,558 | |
Other income |
20,721 |
15,725 | |
Restructuring and asset impairment charges (recoveries) |
(55) |
1,006 | |
Operating income |
160,272 |
154,813 | |
Debt retirement expense |
1,195 |
- | |
Interest expense |
114,557 |
106,804 | |
Interest income |
6,547 |
6,149 | |
Income before income taxes and other items |
51,067 |
54,158 | |
Income tax expense |
27,992 |
25,039 | |
Equity in net income of investee companies |
1,637 |
72 | |
Net income |
24,712 |
29,191 | |
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests |
699 |
(260) | |
Net income attributable to Alliance One International, Inc. |
$ 24,013 |
$ 29,451 | |
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax: |
Net income |
$ 24,712 |
$ 29,191 | |
Currency translation adjustment |
(2,802) |
(1,546) | |
Defined benefit pension amounts, reclassified to income net of tax of $1,229 in 2013 and $420 in 2012 |
(13,717) |
(15,324) | |
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax |
(16,519) |
(16,870) | |
Total comprehensive income |
8,193 |
12,321 | |
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests |
699 |
(260) | |
Total comprehensive income attributable to Alliance One International, Inc. |
$ 7,494 |
$ 12,581 | |
Earnings Per Share |
Basic |
$ 0.27 |
$ 0.34 | |
Diluted |
$ 0.25 |
$ 0.30 |
SOURCE Alliance One International, Inc.


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Childhood obesity is a worsening social emergency. It affects even the youngest children and has become a major issue in schools throughout the developed world and beyond. In Italy, recent data from the Ministry of Health show that more than 1 million children, a quarter of all young people between 6 and 11 years old, are overweight; 12% of the child population is obese. In southern regions, the situation has reached staggering proportions: half of all children are overweight or obese. In fact, Italy is now third in the world for childhood obesity – behind the USA and Portugal. Consequently, over the next few years there will be a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes among young people in Italy, severely affecting the health and quality of life of future generations. In response, a range of lifestyle interventions has been promoted in many Italian schools in an attempt to teach children the basic principles of healthy nutrition and encourage them to be physically active. While these have enjoyed a degree of success, a new approach has been promoted in the northern city of Parma which takes a novel approach and, it is hoped, may resolve the shortcomings of previous initiatives. The Giocampus programme treats overweight and obesity as a public health problem that requires a global intervention as part of a multisectoral commitment to community welfare.
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CANNES, FRANCE, June 20, 2012 – Ogilvy & Mather has been honoured with a further 24 awards on the third day of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 in the Press, Cyber, Radio, and Design categories.
In Press, Ogilvy Brazil was awarded Gold for its compelling campaign - 'A' 'T' 'S' 'I' for mobile company Claro. The creative starkly sets out the consequences of texting while driving. Ogilvy & Mather New York office also scooped Gold in the Design category for its 'THINK' campaign for IBM - a deliberately low-tech solution for a high-tech event.
Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy & Mather and Film & Press Jury President at Cannes 2012 said: Having judged the quality of work entered into the awards, this is a wonderful achievement for the whole network. It is also testament to the power of creativity as a force for good and I'm thrilled to see our agencies across the world honoured on such a prominent stage."
As well as two Gold, the agency was presented with 3 Silver and 7 Bronze in Press, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze in Cyber, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze in Radio and 4 Bronze in Design.
The International Festival of Creativity, also known as Cannes Lions, is the world's leading celebration of creativity in communications. As the most prestigious international annual advertising and communications awards, over 28,800 entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival. Full information about the 2012 Awards and winners can be found at: www.canneslions.com.
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Indonesian police have arrested more than 30 Afghan asylum seekers who were attempting to travel to Australia, a report said Friday.
Police said the men, aged between 20 and 40, had passed through Thailand and Malaysia before being detained on Thursday night in Jambi province on Sumatra island, the state-run news agency Antara reported.
"The police arrested 31 Afghan immigrants because they did not have passports or other official documents," Jambi police chief Yassir told the agency.
Parman Ali, one of the Afghans, said he and the other men were trying to get to Australia.
"Our goal was to go to Australia to seek asylum because our country is still troubled, and therefore we hope the United Nations will help and protect us," Parman told Antara.
Indonesia is not signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, and asylum seekers are regularly locked up as illegal immigrants.
The arrests come 10 days after a boat of around 70 Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani asylum seekers capsized and sank off the coast of Pangadaran city on Java island, leaving eight dead.
The boat was destined for Kupang on the western part of Timor island, a key transit point for refugees trying to reach Australia.
Thousands of asylum seekers head through Southeast Asian countries on their way to Australia every year and many link up with people smugglers in Indonesia for the dangerous sea voyage.
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The Supreme Court of South Carolina
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on Proposed South Carolina Criminal Rules
By order dated October 6, 2008, a Task Force was established to study and propose revisions to the South Carolina Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Task Force has proposed that the current South Carolina Rules of Criminal Procedure be replaced with the attached South Carolina Criminal Rules and the Rules Advisory Committee has recommended adoption of the proposed rules.1
Persons or entities desiring to submit written comments regarding the proposed South Carolina Criminal Rules may do so by filing an original and seven (7) copies of their written comments with the Supreme Court. The written comments must be sent to the following address:
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The Court will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed South Carolina Criminal Rules on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom in Columbia, South Carolina. Those desiring to be heard shall notify the Clerk of the Supreme Court no later than Tuesday, December 29, 2009.
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Feb. 1, 2012 EL PASO - UTEP volleyball's Stephanie Figueroa named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Volleyball second team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). A 2010 C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medalist, Figueroa carries a flawless 4.0 grade point average in multidisciplinary studies. The libero ranks fifth in the conference in digs per set with a 4.80 avg. and has posted double-digit dig performances in 27 of 30 contests this season. The senior leads the Miners at the service line with .35 aces per set and ranks first in the league. The Puerto Rican native has been named C-USA Player of the Week twice this season and four times during her career. Figueroa has helped the volleyball team accumulate over 1,400 hours of volunteer assistance. To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
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'Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop' Comes To Metropolitan Museum Of Art October 11 (PREVIEW, PHOTOS)
Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990, ushering in a new age of tampering with photography. Yet the history of manipulated photos stretches back over a century before the dawn of Adobe's software.
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Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations
Club Player's Manifesto
In this DVD GM Damian Lemos presents a series of Super GM games that have the running theme of both attacking and counterattacking play. Attacking is an important part of chess, but you need to know how to attack well and also when to evaluate a position correctly.
Counter Attack Like a Super GM - EMPIRE CHESS
Attacking Chess is a highly rated series on analyzing plans to initiate attack against strategic positions. Valeri explains both theory and in practice. Disk 1 covers The Uncastled King French Defense: Paulsen Variation, The Castled King, Striking the Center Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical, 6...a6, Time is Everything! King's Indian: Fianchetto, The Piece Fist Dutch Defense: Leningrad, Main Variation.
Attacking Chess 1 - Chess Lecture - Volume 69
How Grandmasters Make Tactical Decisions
What is it that separates Grandmasters from club players in tactical situations? You might believe it is knowledge of patterns or the ability to see more moves ahead and this is part of it. The big difference, however, is a different way of thinking. Grandmaster Max Dlugy – a former World Junior Champion and highly respected chess coach – gives you the advice and techniques you need to reach the highest levels of tactical ability.
Tactical Decisions - EMPIRE CHESS
1001 Chess Tactics From The Games of Everyday Chess Players
The best way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. But why do regular tactics books make amateurs study master games? Is it useful for beginners to analyze games that are unreal for everyday chess players? YES! If you want to improve at chess but have limited time and energy available, this is your book! Now you can study positions that are happening in games you yourself might have played!
Tactics Time
A Chessworks Publication
This book provides one thousand combinations from chess tournament play. It is not the typical book with positions and their solutions. Rather, it tests the actual players against the computer. Sometimes the computer finds the correct solution but not always. The reader needs to study the positions and determine for himself whether the move selected by the computer is correct or not.
Big Book of Chess Combinations
Club Player's Manifesto - Volume #1 of 10
Grandmaster Damian Lemos' excellent presentation skill guides you through this DVD which is 1/10 of The Club Player's Manifesto produced by the World Leader in DVD instruction OnlineChessLessons.net.
GM Attacks for Club Players - EMPIRE CHESS
Tactics are the tricks and techniques you use to surprise and ambush your opponent. The more you know about tactics, the better you'll play the game and the more games you will win. In My First Book of Chess Tactics you will: Learn the ideas behind tactical patterns and how to name them See how to focus on a position to find tactical patterns Practice tactics by solving realistic puzzles Recognize not only what you can do to your opponent, but what your opponent can do to you.
My First Book of Chess Tactics
A mastery of tactics is essential to a competitive chess player and Lev Psakhis is ideally qualified to show the way. In Advanced Chess Tactics Psakhis showcases many beautiful attacking games to make his points. Psakhis has the ability to explain deep analysis while also offering simple yet wise tips gleaned from his lifetime of experience.
Advanced Chess Tactics
The DVD ''GM Crushing Attacks'' shows players how to attack like a Grandmaster, presented by GM Maxim Dlugy, he uses examples from Tal and his own games to show techniques and thinking structures to enable excellent attack play.
GM Crushing Attacks - EMPIRE CHESS
The positional exchange sacrifice is one of the most powerful and fascinating strategic weapons in chess. On this DVD Sergey Tiviakov explains why the positional exchange sacrifice is such a strong weapon and how to use it. This DVD is based on 35 games or positions from the practice of the World Champions such as Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Botvinnik, Garry Kasparov and other strong players who used the positional exchange sacrifice to initiate brilliant attacks or defend difficult positions.
The Art of the Positional Exchange Sacrifice - Sergei Tiviakov
Grandmaster Jesse Kraai examines objectivity in a series of two lectures, calculation in a series of 2 lectures and a bonus on rapid chess. Chess psychology, intuition and practical thinking.
Concerning Chess - Chess Lecture - Volume 37
This workbook offers a unique framework to study chess tactics independent of themes, difficulty and—most importantly—even the existence of an actual tactic in a given position. Analyzing carefully selected games, from beginner level through to club and tournament level, the reader assumes the role of a tactics detective, checking for mistakes and missed opportunities by both sides without the help of a chess engine. This training method resembles live play far more realistically than solving puzzles, because each move has to be analyzed with respect to tactical possibilities—whether they exist or not.
The Chess Tactics Detection Workbook
M David Vigorito gives an overview of what to do when a game goes outside theory, beyond tactics and you are over the board and on your own. Over a series of three example games he delves into what the considerations are on the board and how to make decisions.
Decision Making - Chess Lecture - Volume 44
Club Player's Manifesto
In this DVD you will see some of these great deadly combinations that bring about a direct mate attack against the enemy king, or at least gain in material heading into favorable endgames. If you want to improve your combinations, improve your calculation and attacks on the opponent's king, you must see this DVD. All of this is clearly and concisely explained by Grand Master Damian Lemos, one of the best presenters of chess videos and DVDs, and brought to you exclusively by OnlineChessLessons.net.
Killer Combinations - EMPIRE CHESS
In Attack & Defence Jacob Aagaard presents the main principles of how to attack and defend in chess. By carving dynamic chess into separate areas of ability, he gives the reader a clear way to expand his understanding of this vital part of the game.
Grandmaster Preparation - Attack & Defence
As the National Head Coach for the English Chess Federation I train many improving players, and see some typical mistakes that repeat themselves. In this DVD I have taken a large collection of games played by players, predominantly in the rating range 1600-1900, and I have looked for typical mistakes. Each theme has several examples to demonstrate typical mistakes, and there are various test throughout the DVD so that the viewer can try and find the best move in certain positions. This should be a great tool for players to use in order to improve their middlegame and endgame play. It will hopefully also highlight any areas that you need to work on in order to improve quickly. Enjoy the DVD!
Typical Mistakes by 1600-1900 Players - Nicholas Pert
Presented by International Master Valeri Lilov for ChessLecture.com Attacking Chess is a highly rated series on analyzing plans to initiate attack against strategic positions. Valeri explains both theory and demonstrates in practice. Disk 2 covers Attack an Opposite Castled King, Counter Attack, Positional Piece Sacrifice, Opening Initiative, Attack Creation.
Attacking Chess 2 - Chess Lecture - Volume 68
Aggressive chess produces some of the most memorable games in history and you can play this way too, creating your own brilliancies on the board. GM Damian Lemos presents "Aggressive Chess Domination", a detailed analysis of awesome attacking GM games that will elevate your understanding of forcing moves and winning with the initiative to a whole new level.
Aggressive Chess Domination I - EMPIRE CHESS
Every chess player loves to win with a devastating attack. But even beginners know the importance of early castling, so the most significant attacking strategies are those against a castled king.
Mating the Castled King
Finally a new and improved version of the legendary CT-ART has been released! CT-ART is an indispensable training tool for chess players of all skill levels!
Chess Tactics - CT-ART 6.0
This book is a collection of attacks in chess against a castled king position. The author, a FIDE rated chess master and a professional chess coach and teacher, writes: ''In the course of my many years of teaching at all levels from elementary school to graduate school. I have often found it useful to use source books containing materials around which I could build lessons.''
Hunting the Castled King
Attacking Techniques and Transformations
Similar to the first MOCT-DVD it' s all about tactical explosive stuff. In lively opening-, middlegame- and endgame discussions Bremen chess trainer and analyst FM Claus Dieter Meyer again has put under the microscope a comprehensive fund of topical and timeless games/fragments, a great deal taken from German Bundesliga praxis, and in doing so has filtered out many motifs/themes and brought attacking techniques and transformations in focus.
The Magics of Chess Tactics - Meyer & Muller - VOL. 2


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text: No recent wiki edits to this page. Origins Not Much in known about Ethan.In the early 70's he met Rupert Giles(who was then known as Ripper) they along with other friends began practicing Dark Magic. The whole group tattooed themselves with the Mark Of Eyghon. When things turned tragically wrong and one of their friends died. Rupert Giles left the group and they disbanded. Ethan himself turned even deeper into the Dark Magic Ethan and Giles Meet Again Ethan first appeared in Sunnydale as the owner of a custom shop. Though he used his dark magic to curse the customs turning anyone who wore the custom into that (example Xander dressed as a military figure and when the spell activated he instantly knew everything about that rank and all of its association. Even after the spell ended he kept the knowledge). Though sometime later Giles reversed the spell. Ethan shortly returned to Giles after he saw visions of the people who whore the Mark Of Eyghon being killed off. Though this was only a trick and he was using Buffy and Giles love fore each other to hide. He trapped her and tattooed the mark on her and burned his off. It fooled the demon and instead of coming for him it went for Buffy. While Buffy and the gang fought the demon Ethan escaped. A year later Ethan returned to Suddydale with a vampire called Mr. Trick(now working for the evil mayor) called Ethan to curse candy bars that were being sold for the Sunnydale High Band. These bars would make the adults act like teenagers while the Mayor and others performed the ritual to pay tribute to the demon Lurconis. His plan was later reversed once again by Giles. Ethan again returns to seek revenge on Giles. After having a drink with Ethan the night before Giles is turned into a Fyarl Demon. Buffy and the gang think the demon ate Giles and set off to kill him. Luckily Spike speaks this demons language ans is able to establish who he is. Though later Buffy Still kills him the spell is reversed by morning and Giles is unharmed. Ethan was last seen being sent to a detention facility in Nevada. After Sunnydale After several years Ethan suddenly re-appears acting as a guide in the dreamscape dimension that Buffy was in. Though it appears that Ethan was doing some sort of Astral Projecting. When Buffy found out that he was still in his cell in Nevada she finds him dead. Powers and Abilities Ethan was one of the most powerful magic users in the Buffy universe(though no where near the level of users such as Willow). He can easily perform dark magic such as es and transmogrification. Thought the series and his limited appearance he has shown that he has little to no hand to hand skills. Relying mostly on fast acting spells or traps.


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Every girl is seriously weird when they are in love. |
I bet you hate cows too. |
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Spokesman Brian Wright said Monday 130 employees were being laid off starting next month because of the company's merger with Winn-Dixie.
Bi-Lo LLC bought the Jacksonville, Fla.-based grocery store chain in 2011 for $560 million. The newly merged company will be based in Florida.
Mauldin Mayor Dennis Raines says the news is troubling but says he's been assured by Bi-Lo officials that the company will not pull out of the city entirely.
Bi-Lo was founded in South Carolina in 1961. In 2010, the company completed a financial restructuring and emerged from protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. The merger was announced the next year.
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The War for Your Digital Wallet
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Read the full Summer 2012 issue.
Consumers are already using their mobile phones to make in-store purchases, and as the technology evolves, the payment-processing industry will never be the same.
The shift from plastic to digital wallets and mobile payments is in full swing. Consumers can walk into Best Buy and not only use their phone to make a purchase, but they can also get information on the hottest deals or compare prices with other stores. Mobile devices are sitting at the intersection of payments, advertising and marketing.
Credit card companies, banks, mobile service providers, Internet companies and retailers are all scrambling for a piece of the growing market for payment processing, and the winners will be those who demonstrate technology leadership, provide the best user experience, and give the most business value to merchants.
Consumers will choose the winners with their digital wallets — but what's in it for them? What does the typical consumer really want, and how can companies deliver that?
Get to the point (of purchase)
Many of the top companies in the United States are attempting to answer these questions. Financial institutions derive a significant percentage of their annual revenue from processing payments, but that piece of the pie is quickly shrinking. Banks are being crowded out by emerging competition from nontraditional financial services companies, such as PayPal and Square Inc., both of which offer a small hardware device that can be attached to a cell phone to read credit cards.
The number of nonfinancial companies jumping on the payment processing bandwagon is growing and includes some of the top retailers. Wal-Mart and Target are among the large retailers developing technology that will let customers make purchases via mobile phones. In addition, several U.S. mobile carriers have created their own mobile wallet technology, Isis, a joint venture of Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA.
To see who wins the early battles in the payment-processing war, also keep a close eye on the big four companies that have emerged as "consumer darlings": Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Consumers keep flocking to these brands because they are familiar, and in many cases, their products and services have become interwoven with everyday life.
Apple's massive popularity with consumers may indicate how they will choose payment-processor winners. Consumers simply prefer the sleek design and ease of use of Apple products. In the case of mobile phones and tablets, user experience trumps price, and Apple has won. Not surprisingly, Apple has publicly stated that it will eventually transform its iTunes ecosystem into a platform for payment processing.
Whom do you trust?
With all the jockeying for market share, it will be the consumers who decide the winners — with their wallets. Or their digital wallets, that is.
When a consumer goes about making a purchase, three questions come to mind: Whom do you trust the most? Whom are you most comfortable sharing information with? And finally, who is going to blend the advertising world and the payments world most successfully?
The companies that win will be the companies that address these consumer questions and provide the easiest and most secure experience for people who walk into a store to make a purchase by using a mobile phone. Security is of paramount importance. Consumers demand the most stringent security possible for their credit card purchases, and companies that can deliver relatively secure solutions and can also address concerns about potential fraud will set themselves apart from those that cannot.
The best news for many is that the ultimate winners could be the consumers themselves. Increased competition will drive down processing fees, and the wider playing field will give consumers a better selection of financial services and banking offerings to choose from. Still, when it comes to credit card payments, trust and security will be the key factors. May the best (and most trusted) solution win.
RANDY BARKER is director of channel solutions for banking and credit services at CSC.


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Dermabond Skin Adhesives vs Skin Staples for Closure of Repeat Cesarean Section Skin Incisions
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Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Dermabond Skin Adhesives vs Skin Staples for Closure of Repeat Cesarean Section Skin Incisions |
Estimated Enrollment: | 50 |
Study Start Date: | July 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2007 |
This research is interested in using Dermabond skin adhesive as a closure for repeat cesarean incisions. The current standard of practice is to close these incisions with either skin surgical staples or suture. We will compare the use of Dermabond vs. the use of skin surgical staples in the closure of these incisions.
Eightenn-50 year old pregnant patients are eligible for this study. Other inclusion criteria are history of a previous Pfannenstiel (transverse) incision and no evidence of infection at the incision site. Exclusion criteria include a previous vertical incision and active infection at the incision site. Patients will be enrolled during their prenatal appointments and the Texas Tech OB/GYN clinic, Grand Expectations, and the Southwest OB/GYN Associates offices. They will be consented by faculty, residents, and nursing staff. This is a preliminary study of 50 patients (25 in experimental arm, i.e. Dermabond and 25 in the control group, i.e. surgical skin staples). Patients will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion by placing the terms "Dermabond" and "Staples" in a sealed envelope. The envelopes will be kept in the Family Birth Center under lock and key. The envelopes will be opened at the time of repeat c-section. A data set will be collected prior to randomization and include: gravidity, parity, age, BMI (weight and height), comorbid diseases and ethnic background.
At the time of closure, there will be subcutaneous reapproximation of tissue to take the tension off of the skin. This will occur for all subjects. The type of suture used and the suturing technique will be recorded. The skin edges will be closed with either Dermabond per label directions or with skin staples, depending on randomization. The length of the incision, the type of suture used, the type of stitch used and the total number of layers closed will also be documented. The number of staples will also be documented.
During the hospital stay, the patients wound will be examined on post operative day one and three. At this time, wound characteristics will be documented using a modified Hollander scale. A digital photograph of the incision will also be taken. The patient will also be given a patient satisfaction survey about their wound. The patients will then be seen at two weeks post partum and again at six weeks post partum. The wound characteristics and patient satisfaction will again be documented using the above materials.
Other data that will be collected includes the incidence of wound infection, as documented by wound culture, wound separation rates as documented by need for wound packing and wound dehiscence.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 50 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- pregant; between ages of 18-50; previous cesarean section with a transverse (sideways) skin incision.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous vertical (Up and Down) skin incision; active infection at site of incison
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00505856
United States, Texas | |
Texas Tech University HSC Dept OB/GYN | |
Lubbock, Texas, United States, 79403 |
Principal Investigator: | Robert Casanova, MD | Texas Tech University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00505856 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | July 23, 2007 |
Last Updated: | December 11, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 30, 2017


text: what do you think is the best new bow for 2013 for the money. i have been looking around and going to bow shops in my area to decide which one i will get. i have checked out the creed , chill, elite hunter, hoyt spider 30, dna, and the motive. the one thing i have noticed with all of them except one is that they all shot 20 to 30 fps slower than advertised and that was with a 350 gr arrow. i have never owned a bear bow and have no reason to be an advocate for thier products, but the motive 6 and 7 were the only ones that shot at the advertised ibo rating. seriously if your gona spend $1000.00+ on a new hunting rig you should excpect it to shoot at its advertised ibo rating. i know some of you guys are going to say speed dosent matter or it depends how it feels in your hand , but really i dont think people are gettin what they are payin for. this whole ibo thing seems to be alot of hype


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Game Two - Lenoir-Rhyne 12, Coker 5 (seven innings)
L-R once again scored early and often, leading
After the Cobras cut the margin to 7-4 on a two run home run by Ben Davidson (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Lenoir-Rhyne responded with five runs in the bottom of the sixth including Verdinek's two-run single that put the game out of reach.
Verdinek finished with a pair of hits and two runs batted and sophomore first baseman Jordan Ackley (Walnut Cove, N.C./South Stokes HS) went three-for-three with two RBI to lead Lenoir-Rhyne's 15-hit attack.
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I was going to say the same thing as Katya. I don't know what the chances are of me going to Indiana to visit, realistically, but probably better than the chances of me going to Pennsylvania.
Also, Katya, I'll assume that you were assuming that FoxyJ and I would be in town visiting when you said that you'd be able to visit all your friends.
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