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- "Daemonic fury, bound into the shells of metal beasts and set loose upon the galaxy. Tell me, mortal: have you ever seen such a glorious sight?"
- — Unnamed Chaos Lord
A Daemon Engine is a nightmarish artificial construct used by the Forces of Chaos that is a fusion of a realspace vehicle or combat walker with a possessing daemonic spirit of the Warp. Daemon Engines are gigantic war machines that prowl on mighty piston-driven limbs. Jutting from their armoured torsos are gargoyle-muzzled cannons and heavy weapon-arms that end in murderous tools of war. To compare a Daemon Engine to an ordinary vehicle is folly, for each of these beasts possesses its own malevolent sentience rather than a crew. Bound within the battle-scarred metal of each Daemon Engine is the essence of a raging Warp entity, imprisoned in a physically indomitable body in order to better serve the Chaos Space Marines in their Long War against the servants of the False Emperor.
The Imperium has little concept of how these affronts to sanity came into being. Fragments of ancient texts and post-action pict-captures have allowed Imperial strategos to gather that they are creatures of daemonic nature, but little else. Even amongst the ranks of the Chaos Space Marines, there are few who understand how these immortal beasts are created. With the correct rituals, a devout Chaos Sorcerer or Word Bearers Dark Apostle can coax a daemon to possess the body of a mortal man, but only the brotherhood of the Warpsmiths can bind an unwilling daemon into a machine.
Unlike the rituals of possession, the process of creating a Daemon Engine is not one of mutual assent. Using corrupt rituals and forbidden alchemy, Adepts of the Dark Arts can force immaterial spirits into a physical shell of the Materium. It is the Warpsmiths that bring hell-forged Daemon Engines into being, from Forgefiend gunbeasts to new Chaos Titans. Beyond the soul forges of the Immaterium, Warp entities are bound in nooses of rope woven from the hair of murderers or with chains fashioned of scrimshawed bone. These captive daemons are dragged biting and screaming into the flame-hearted citadels of the Dark Mechanicum. In the molten heat of the dark forges, the Warpsmiths trap the screaming daemons within the rune-bound hulls of the giant metallic beasts they have captured or created. The screaming and newly-created machine-fiends must then be bludgeoned into submission until the time of battle is at hand. Caging a hate-filled daemon in a physical form that can smash through a fortress wall is a hazardous business. Dozens of machine-thralls (and many more Dark Adepts) are lost with the creation of each Daemon Engine, for they do not fear death or pain, but delight in bringing it to their enemies in as vicious a fashion as possible.
Creation of a Daemon EngineEdit
- "All of the souls you will reap,
All of your spoils of war,
To be a keeper of the Forge,
But a trifle price for the boon that is bestowed upon you."- — From the Iron Pact
Daemon Engines are beasts of living metal, towering engines of war driven not by technology, but diabolic machine-lore. They take many forms, from tracked behemoths to towering giants and they carry a fearsome array of weaponry, much of it unknown or forbidden to the machine canon of the Cult Mechanicus. Within the armoured shell of each Daemon Engine is entrapped a denizen of the Warp, a being dragged forth from the Immaterium against its will and its nature, and sealed within the machine by the unreasoning hatred for the material universe in which they find themselves and seek only to shed the blood of its mortal inhabitants and to feast upon their unbound souls. They are as much a threat to their supposed masters as they are to the enemy, and must often be restrained with heavy, warded chains between battles, lest they fall upon those who summoned them in an orgy of bloodshed.
Daemon Engines are the product of tripartite blasphemy, for to bring one into being a Sorcerer, Dark Apostle and a Warpsmith or Dark Magus must come together in fell co-alignment. The Sorcerer must utilise the forbidden dark arts to weaken the thin skein of reality and create a portal through which a daemon may be drawn forth. The Dark Apostle must entreat the Ruinous Powers and bind that denizen to his ferocious will, thus dragging it through the portal the Sorcerer has created. The Warpsmith's role is to provide the mechanical shell into which the daemon is bound, and to set the warding-chains upon it so that the daemon does not escape. Such a process is costly in the extreme, and each step involved much shedding of the blood of innocents and the invocation of unspeakable powers. The greatest danger is to the participants themselves, for any misstep, any weakness of resolve or any misspeaking of the ritual incantations can bring about the doom of all involved. At the least, the summoning will fail, bringing down the ire of the warlord in whose name it is being enacted. At worse, the daemon will come forth unbound or possess one of the three, and violence unimaginable will be unleashed. In some cases, those who seek to create the Daemon Engine are dragged through the portal they have created and cast adrift upon the tides of the Warp, their bodies torn apart in seconds by the predators of that unreal dimension, their souls fed upon for all eternity.
Binding of the DaemonEdit
Those few savants of machine lore to have survived a close examination of any form of Daemon Engine have noted that many feature some manner of containment vessel, often warded and chained tightly shut and invariably aglow with the fell powers of the Warp. The exact nature and purpose of this device remain largely a mystery, but several observations have been noted. Firstly, the vessel is only present on war machines constructed in the realm of mortals -- it has yet to be observed in engines wrought in and summoned forth from the Warp. It has been observed, for example, on Blood Slaughterers, for these are held to be made by mortal hand, but not on Brass Scorpions, which are held to be summoned from the Abyss. Secondly, this vessel bears a disturbing resemblance to the cortex and reactor chambers utilised long ago by various machine constructs of the Cult Mechanicus, constructs almost entirely consigned to history as the mysteries of their construction and maintenance have been lost.
Several tech-savants and daemonologists serving the Ordo Malleus now suspect that these vessels are used to draw forth and perhaps contain the infernal spirit within the Daemon Engine. Indeed, breaching the vessel has been observed to bring about the daemon's escape and the catastrophic destruction of the engine itself. Though such an endeavour will secure the fall of the Daemon Engine, the escaping spirit is wont to reap utter devastation as it is driven back whence it came by the cold inexorability of realspace, making even its successful banishment a dangerous prospect indeed.
Known Daemon EnginesEdit
The following is a list of all known Daemon Engines, with the exception of Chaos vehicles that are daemonically possessed, such as the Rhino, Land Raider, Hell Blade, and Chaos Titans:
Daemon Engines of Chaos UndividedEdit
Daemon Engines of KhorneEdit
- Blood Reaper
- Blood Slaughterer
- Blood Throne of Khorne
- Brass Scorpion
- Cauldron of Blood
- Death Dealer
- Doom Blaster
- Kytan/Skull Reaper
- Lord of Battles
- Lord of Skulls
- Skull Cannon of Khorne
- Tower of Skulls
Daemon Engines of NurgleEdit
Daemon Engines of TzeentchEdit
Daemon Engines of SlaaneshEdit
See AlsoEdit
- Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition), pp. 17, 44
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition), pg. 50
- Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pg. 151
- Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost & The Damned, by Andy Hoare with Alan Bligh & Neil Wylie, pp. 111-134
- White Dwarf Magazine #394 (UK), "New Releases: Daemon Engines," pp. 4-11
- White Dwarf Magazine #188 (UK), "Plague Engines of Nurgle," by Gav Thorpe, pp. 25-28
- White Dwarf Magazine #164 (UK), "Space Marine: Daemon Engines of Khorne," by Andy Chambers, pp. 18-25
- White Dwarf Magazine #156 (UK), "Chaos at Kadavah," by Mark Watts & Richard Helliwell, pp. 36-53
- White Dwarf Magazine #148 (UK) "Space Marine: Daemons & Chaos War Machines," by Andy Chambers & Rick Priestley, pp. 22-28
- Games Workshop Oficial Site
- Games Workshop Oficial Site
- Chaos Space Marines Datasheet - Nurgle Plague Tower
- Forge World Webstore - Chaos Decimator
- Forge World Webstore - Nurgle Plague Hulk
- Chaos Space Marines Datasheet - Slaanesh Subjugator


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Feb 1, 2013
I thought the school board made the decision??? Not the search committee??? I was told search committee only selected coaches to move before board. Then board made the big decision. Was I told wrong? Was I told wrong? Search committee was given the power to make this decision?
Feb 1, 2013
What playoff games has pooh won with Bobby J? As a player or coach? Or maybe water boy. It doesn't really matter what e does this year as long as he gets that BobbyJ statue completed. The TD club got the money raised for that yet?
Feb 1, 2013
Search committee recommended finalist to the board. Pooh might not have made the cut if he had been treated like the rest of the applicants? Search committee just slid him right into the finals. Not sure if they even checked his references or looked at his résumé. |
Feb 1, 2013
I thought the big deal when Johns was hired was for the head coach to have head coach experience. That philosophy worked when we hired him, why compromise that with his replacement. The guy before Johns didn't have head coach experience when he was hired and the "local"s ran him out of town and said he should have never been hired. Ironic?
Feb 1, 2013
With all that being said...we all need to get over it and move forward. We can only hope that the ones involed had the kids best interest in mind. That is what really matters anyway, not what you or I think. No point in pissing in everyone's cornflakes because your panties are in a wad. Let's be big boys and girls...believe me...I had to put mine on this morning and suck it up. Decision was made, nothing we can do but pray right decision was made. Then after that pour all our love and support to those sweet young men that we call Raiders. So much more is in this game other than a head coach. i say if you want to complain, then complain about the people who continue to moan and whine about the program and destroy everything it stands for. Always will, no matter what, be a Red Raider til the day I die.
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Feb 1, 2013
MayB now we gonna see some old peoples grindin n tha stands
Feb 1, 2013
Pooh has coached on some really good playoff teams in GA and FLA. Give the guy a chance.
Feb 1, 2013
Open the other eye and put on your glasses, cause somebody needs a better view.
Feb 2, 2013
First off Coach Pooh has coached on some really good teams and he has been an OC before and DC on two different staffs, that doesn't mean anything, McNeil is a great guy I am sure of it but he has only been RB coach and QB coach on to several staffs and both will tell you the guy not a big planning hard working type. I do know this about Pooh, whether you like him or not the guy works his natural ass off. I don't know really how I feel about him as a coach, but as a person that I have had some dealings with he is hard, he demands discipline, and he does take any crap of the kids and they know it, and he expects them to work hard. Maybe we support him and maybe he will keep it going. Last time I checked we just got a taste of winning and Coach Pooh knows how to make them tough and play tough hard nose football. That's all I want to see continued, go red raiders.
Feb 5, 2013
Exactly. Coach Pooh was the reason some of our key players stayed on the team last year. He was the disciplinary coach last year and has the respect from the players. From what I hear, he knows just as much as Bobby J when it comes to lifting weights. Thats where the games are won and lost. He also knows the x's and o's of the game just as much as any other Coach...since he's had experience coaching both sides of the ball. So since he is that knowledgable about football, and alrdy has the respect of the players, then it was a no brainer to make him H.C. If he dont work out then maybe some of these "all american coaches" on here should apply and try their hand and leading the Raiders to a championship.
Feb 5, 2013
Small school, small budget.Alma will always be a steppng stone for coaches to put in a year or two and then go get paid. Bacon County doesn't have money to hire anyone that wll stay.Until the money is there Alma will never contend. And something should be said about small town population. It is tough to make winners out of people when you do not have as large a talent pool as some bigger schools. A few talented kids are about all you can hope for with a county like ours. When you have 25 players, too many of your talented have to go both ways.Those are the facs.
Feb 5, 2013
We "all American coaches" would not get hired. We don't have a weight program or a Florida connection to Bobby Johns. Can't "weight" to see who he ends up dumping that responsibility on....it will be entertaining to watch though. |
Feb 5, 2013
Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are! |
Feb 8, 2013
Bacon County's new slogan..."Don't step in the pooh after the game is through!"
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3 – Take Three drinks
4 – Questions – Well this one is funny, you look at the person of your choice and ask them a question, they must reply to you in the form of a question and this keeps going until someone gets screwed up.
9. Power Hour
One more great drinking game you can play is to play 60 songs each one minute long and after each song, you do a shot of beer. What an amazing way to enjoy the pleasure of bar at home. Make sure to call the bad ass chick Ali Spagnola who puts out an amazing Power Hour concert of 60 minutes and she writes all the 60 of her songs. Power hour enjoyment with the beer is a great combination and is enough to rage out the audience while playing these cool songs.
8. Chandelier
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7. Thumper
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6. Circle of Death / Kings Cup
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Beer ball is a lovely drinking game to play if you are a kind of adventurous guy. It is a demanding sports, speed and agility game requiring accuracy and cat-like reflexes. It should be played when you are feeling extremely competitive and have enough energy to burn while you are drunk on the go and requires the player to have the ability to crush the beer in as little time as possible.
4. Slap Cup (aka Gonzo)
Slap cup also known as Gonzo is a kind of sleepy game. It is not a very well-known drinking game but it becomes really favourite for the ones who discover it. The odds are incredibly high as you will walk away from Slap Cup covered in booze making it perfect when you don't plan to go out to the bar.Slap Cup is great for a close group of friends as in this game it will turn the most laid back of people into strange animals but you can also play this game with new friends just to break the ice and have fun with new people around the corner.
3. Quarters
Quarters is one of the most popular and well known yet old drinking games of all time. While it may not be the most exciting drinking game it is definitely the most played drinking game on the planet. This probably has something to do as it's really embarrassing at times when you try to play Quarters the very first time. But once anyone is into it, he will surely be the first one to suggest to play this game so that he can show off their extremely useful new skills and can finally make fun of someone else for sucking up pretty badly.
2. Flip Cup
Flip Cup is another classic drinking game to get the juices flowing and to see how your friends and peers perform under pressure. It is a great way to get almost everyone in the pre-game involved. Beer Pong game is great but having to wait an hour to play each time can get a bit old. So a better solution is to have a combination of both these drinking games. The simultaneous game play of both beer pong and a flip cup is really awesome as everyone wins and then have a cracking can of beer. So Match up Ladies and Gents and get started.
1. Beer Pong
Quite possibly the first game which ever comes to the mind when you think of playing drinking games is Beer Pong. As per my knowledge, it was the first drinking game played in the history of mankind. In Beer Pong, you need a ping pong ball and 12 glasses of beer. Divide yourself in a group of 6 and sit opposite to each other. Now throw the ping pong ball on the opposing team's beer glass and if it falls in they need to drink the beer cup immediately. The winning team is the team which manages to make the opposing team drink all their drinks. While the concept is pretty simple, beer pong makes for one of the most competitive and addicting drinking games of all time.


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Extensive cross-regulation of immune function has been reported between the T lymphocyte antigen receptor (TCR) that mediates T cell immune activation, and CXCR4, a chemokine receptor that stimulates cell migration and gene expression. Yet the molecular mechanisms responsible for the integration of CXCR4 and TCR signal transduction pathways are still mostly unknown. The CXCR4 ligand, SDF-1, is constitutively expressed in many tissues, including lymph nodes and gut. CXCR4 is widely expressed and critically regulates multiple diseases, including HIV-1/AIDS and cancer. At the beginning of the last funding cycle, we showed that SDF-1 signals in T cells by inducing the formation of CXCR4-TCR heterodimeric complexes, which are required for SDF-1 to stimulate migration, increase cytosolic Ca2+, and activate the ERK MAP kinase pathway and gene expression. During the last cycle of this grant, we found that CXCR4-TCR complexes signal in regulatory T cells (Tregs) to potently increase IL-10 secretion via a signaling pathway that specifically requires a particular phospholipase isoform, PLC-23. We also found that CXCR4-TCR signaling via PLC-23 critically cross- regulates and antagonizes naive T cell activation in response to ligation of the TCR, even in the absence of SDF-1. IL-10 is an immune modulator and inhibitor of T cell-mediated autoimmunity including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Thus, our results indicate that CXCR4-TCR signaling via PLC-23 is a potent promoter of immune tolerance that both enhances functions of Tregs while modulating activation of naive T cells. Assessing the physiological significance of these observations is important, however, until now this has been difficult since targeting either CXCR4 or the TCR disrupts multiple immune functions including T cell development and homeostatic T cell migration patterns. Since PLC-23 is required for many immune effects of CXCR4-TCR complexes but not for T cell migration, we here propose to address the molecular mechanisms and in vivo immune impact of CXCR4-TCR signaling via PLC-23 by studying PLC-23-/- mice. Our Central Hypothesis is that signaling by the CXCR4-TCR heterodimer depends on PLC-23 in order to activate the Ras- ERK pathway to promote Treg functions, and to antagonize TCR signaling, thereby inhibiting autoimmunity.
Our Specific Aims are to: 1) Characterize the molecular mechanisms by which the CXCR4-TCR heterodimer uses PLC-23 for signaling, 2) Determine the role of CXCR4-TCR heterodimer signaling via PLC-23 in regulating Tregs and preventing autoimmune disease in vivo, and 3) Characterize the role of the CXCR4-TCR heterodimer and PLC-23 in modulating TCR signaling and T cell immune responses in vivo. Together, the proposed studies will address key questions regarding the in vivo immune impact of CXCR4-TCR heterodimers and PLC-23. These studies also have the potential to characterize PLC-23 as a novel pharmacologic target that could be used to selectively enhance CXCR4-TCR heterodimer signaling and thereby Treg function and tolerance without disrupting the normal in vivo migration patterns of immune cells.
CXCR4 is a molecule on T lymphocytes that participates in regulating the human immune system, and CXCR4 dysfunction contributes to many diseases including autoimmunity, immune-deficiency, cancer, and AIDS. Currently little is known about the chemical mechanisms that determine how CXCR4 works, especially how CXCR4 uses these chemical mechanisms to regulate the immune system in a live animal or human. This lack of knowledge prevents the development of effective drugs for many diseases. This project aims to change that, by studying the chemical mechanisms used by CXCR4 and by showing how these chemical mechanisms regulate the immune system in mice, when mice have autoimmune disease or a viral infection.
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Norman Daniels
Norman Daniels | |
Born | 1942 New York |
Residence | Massachusetts, USA |
Citizenship | USA |
Nationality | American (US) |
Fields | global health, population health, health ethics, philosophy, ethics |
Institutions | Tufts University, Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University |
Known for | political philosophy; a theory of justice which includes health possibilities and healthcare ethics; moral epistemology; allocation of resources; public goods |
Notable awards | Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation[1] |
Norman Daniels, born in 1942, is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science, political theorist, ethicist, and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[2] Before his career at Harvard, Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and at Tufts University School of Medicine, also in Boston.
Teaching positions[edit]
Until his retirement at the end of June 2016, Daniels had been Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Previously, and for 33 years, he had taught political philosophy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.[3][4] At Tufts University, he had been Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department, and at Tufts University School of Medicine, he was professor of medical ethics (1969–2002).[5]
- 1970 - Harvard University, Ph.D. (Philosophy), awarded the Plympton Dissertation Prize, 1971[6]
- 1966 - Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. (equivalent to M.A. in USA) (Philosophy and Psychology, First Honors)
- 1964 - Wesleyan University, B.A. (English, Summa cum Laude)
Personal life[edit]
Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels (Ed.D.).[7] They have one son, Noah M. Daniels, formerly a postdoctoral research associate at MIT, is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The University of Rhode Island.[8]
With Jared Israel, Daniels co-chaired the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1969.[9][10][11]
In a public letter to his fraternity brothers at Wesleyan, Daniels wrote: "At Harvard, I ended up co-chair of SDS and gave the speech on the steps of University Hall April 9, 1969, that began the take-over of that administration building and thus led to the Harvard Strike. I would have been fired as a teaching fellow, so I followed my advisors advice and quit that position to take a part-time job at Tufts, teaching philosophy of science and political philosophy. I stayed 33 years."[4]
Professional affiliations[edit]
- Formerly Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department at Tufts University and professor of medical ethics at Tufts Medical School, 1969–2002
- Fellow, Hastings Center
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance
- Member, International Society for Equity in Health
- Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission (Bill Clinton administration)
- Member, Ethics Working Group of the Clinton White House Health Care Task Force (Spring 1993)
- Member, Advisory Board of the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health (Fall 2009)
- Member, Ethics Advisory Board of the Centers for Disease Control (Fall 2009 - Fall 2012)
- Member, Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine
- Member, National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare
- Member, Century Fund task force on Medicare reform
- He has consulted with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy
- Consultant, United Nations
- Consultant, World Health Organization
- President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine
- Thomas Reid's`Inquiry': the Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism (1974; Stanford, 1989)
- Reading Rawls (1975; Stanford, 1989)
- Just Health Care (Cambridge, 1985)
- Am I My Parents' Keeper? An Essay on Justice Between the Young and the Old (Oxford, 1988)
- Seeking Fair Treatment: From the AIDS Epidemic to National Health Care Reform Oxford, 1995)
- Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- (with Donald Light and Ronald Caplan) Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform (Oxford, 1996)
- (with Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, and Dan Wikler) From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66977-4. (Cambridge, 2000)
- (with Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi) Is Inequality Bad for Our Health? (Beacon Press, 2000)
- (with James Sabin) Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? (Oxford, 2002;2nd ed., 2008)
- Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly (Cambridge, 2008).
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Fellow, The Hastings Center
- Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Founding Member, International Society for Equity in Health
- Founding Member, National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences (served He served four years)
- Founding Member, Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession, and on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO. He served recently on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts.
Fellowships and grants[edit]
- Greenwall Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine
- National Science Foundation
- Retirement Research Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1997 (for the period 1998-2001)
- "Limit-Setting in Managed Care and Other Health Delivery Systems: Legitimacy, Fair Process, and the Goals of Health Care Reform"[1]
- Rockefeller Foundation grant, international adaptation of the benchmarks
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Award page for RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
- ^ HSPH faculty profile
- ^ Justice, Health, and Healthcare, an article on political and social justice vis a vis access to healthcare, while Norman Daniels taught at Tufts
- ^ a b Bios_63-64 htm
- ^ Faculty Associates of the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, noting some of the topical areas which Dr. Daniels researches
- ^ Biosketch: Norman Daniels, personal homepage
- ^ Health Providers Data for Anne Lacy Daniels, EdD
- ^ MIT CSAIL profile for Noah M. Daniels, PhD
- ^ Robert M. Smith (May 2, 1969). "169 Fined in Harvard Sit-In; 2 Cleared at Cambridge". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
- ^ "70 Youths Ejected In Protest on Draft At House Building". The New York Times. May 9, 1967. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
- ^ Alexander Reid (April 9, 1989). "Harvard, Ex-Radicals Remember Many Talk of Feelings 20 Years After Protest". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
External links[edit]
- HSPH Faculty Site for Prof. Norm Daniels
- Publications of Prof. Norm Daniels
- 'Norman Daniels Symposium' lectures/papers presented published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (January 2009, Volume 35, Number 1), published by British Medical Journal and the Institute of Medical Ethics
- HSPH-sponsored personal Faculty website for Prof. Norman O. Daniels, PhD
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American academics
- American ethicists
- American philosophers
- Harvard University alumni
- Wesleyan University alumni
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Harvard University faculty
- Harvard School of Public Health faculty
- Hastings Center Fellows
- American political philosophers
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Baby Name Poll
Names like vs. Grace
I've always wanted to name my daughter Grace Elizabeth, but I've never advertised this to my family. My sister, who is also expecting a baby girl, just announced recently that she and her husband will name her Grace. Obviously, we cannot both use the name. So, what are some names like Grace or similar in style to Grace for my baby girl, or some new suggestions altogether? Thank you!
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I've got to sign up...or the price goes up...and it's funny how much $10 can influence my decision. I've been going back and forth on which event I want to do at the Pacific Crest this year.
I'm thinking a half-marathon, or maybe a 10k or maybe even a duo with my hubby...
My sis and niece are doing the 10k so it would be fun to run with them...but...
I don't know. And the price goes up tonight so I have to decide...and quick
We'll see, decisions, decisions, decisions
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Equitable Life is being taken to court by irate pension policy- holders over guaranteed annuity rates. They claim Equitable ratted on the promises made for 20 years when it sold them pension policies.
In a conscious invocation of the pensions mis-selling scandal, they want the courts to rule the company was guilty of misrepresentation when it guaranteed minimum annuity rates on tens of thousands of pension contracts. Interest rates have plummeted, and the annuity rates the insurance company guaranteed are substantially above the rates obtainable today.
On the face of it the Equitable has no case. When annuity rates are at 8 per cent, as they are today, it means that anyone with a pension fund valued at pounds 100,000 can expect to receive pounds 8,000 a year as income until they die. Nobody disputes that the Equitable guaranteed to pay much higher rates on thousands of pension contracts it sold in the 1970s and 1980s. Rates of 10 per cent to 13 per cent were typical then. Translated into hard cash, the difference could easily amount to pounds 5,000 a year for every pounds 100,000 accumulated in your pension fund.
If the litigants win, it will be serious indeed for the Equitable, which rightly takes pride in its reputation as the oldest and the lowest-cost life insurance company in the country. In a business not best known for either efficiency or integrity, the Equitable stands apart on both counts (though in the last two to three years its investment performance seems to have dipped rather worryingly).
Both sides seem to be acting from genuine motives. But the closer you look at the arguments, the more apparent it becomes that this "scandal" is actually no scandal at all. It is not about mis-selling, but about wider principles of equity and insurance company practice. Nobody can criticise the guaranteed annuity holders for wanting a better deal out of the company, but it is not clear to me that they have right on their side.
I feel those who are bringing the action have little chance of winning(though they may win concessions in an out-of-court settlement). If they do win, the other 500,000 policyholders with the Equitable will regret it, since it will cost them money, and threaten the end of the principles that make buying a policy from a company such as the Equitable worthwhile.
The real issue is not the rate at which their annuities are guaranteed. Rather it is about the value of the fund to which this rate should be applied. Equitable's case is that it intends to honour its guaranteed rates in full. But it does not intend to apply that rate to the fund value to which the applicants think they are entitled.
Instead, it intends to apply the higher rates of the past to a smaller pot. To do this, it is proposing not to pay the normal level of terminal bonus on the policies of the aggrieved policyholders. As most people know, terminal bonuses can amount to anything from 20 per cent to 60 per cent of the total value of a long-term life fund. These bonuses are, and have always been, set by the insurance company at its discretion.
The bonus system is far from ideal. It allows insurers enormous scope to fiddle around with bonuses so they can, legally, discriminate between one type of policyholder and another, without outsiders being much the wiser. The irony is that the Equitable is one of the few companies that actually tells you each year what the value of your "asset share" of its life fund is.
Equitable operates on the principle that all its policyholders are entitled to be treated as equitably as possible. It undertakes that the benefits policyholders receive when their fund matures will broadly reflect the value they earned through the contributions they made and the investment returns achieved.
The company says policyholders with guaranteed annuity rates have already earned more than their asset share in the fund, so to pay a terminal bonus would be an unreasonable one-off redistribution of the assets in the life fund in favour of one set of policyholders versus another. As a mutual society, only other policyholders pay the bill for the guaranteed annuity rates.
The issue comes down to whether the Equitable is entitled to cut the terminal bonuses to nothing in pursuit of this principle? And is that reasonable and fair? To a layman, the answer to the first question is yes. The second issue is not so clear-cut. True, the affected policyholders stand to receive a lower income than they might expect, but the fall in interest rates that brought down annuity rates so sharply has been one of the factors behind the growth in the stock market, where the bulk of the life fund is invested.
The 20-year returns on the fund have been considerably higher, in nominal and real terms, than anyone who bought a pension policy at the time could reasonably have expected.
The case for aggrieved policyholders now depends on proving in court that the sales literature the Equitable and its in-house salesmen used when selling the policies many years ago failed to make clear the guaranteed annuity rates would be applied to a fund that might not qualify for a terminal bonus. This argument has force - but little merit. The important issue is whether there is underlying injustice. And in my view that case has not yet been made.
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A Night With Amber Rose: Friday August 12th Presented By Vintage Frames Company x Revive
Yes yes y'all! It's true, Vintage Frames Company and Revive will be bringing my sis Amber Rose to town this Friday night! In conjunction with Muzique the crew will be throwing down one of the most epic nights Montreal has ever seen. Come and meet Amber Rose and the whole crew! The Vintage Frames Company will be previewing the debut release of Amber Roses's Vintage Frames. Real talk, be there, we got some pretty gnarly tricks up our sleeves!


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I recently received this lovely sample kit from Pearls Olives and have enjoyed tossing them into my lunch box and using them in recipes at home. When I was younger, I mainly ate just the pimento stuffed olives and was sort of scared to try any other type! We always have pimento stuffed olives out as a snack at our holiday gatherings. Now I particularly love black olives and kalamata, especially on pizza or in pasta dishes.
Olives are considered a good fat, which is great for lowering bad cholesterol. The fat also helps you stay full longer.
I like that the cups come without liquid and are pre-portioned in smaller sizes, which prevented me from overeating.
While I thought the packaging was going to create more waste and I considered that a negative aspect, I just washed the cups out and recycled them. Seeing the recycling symbol on the back of the packages reminded me to be green and do this!
I enjoyed eating green olives at work as a mid-morning snack! I tend to snack on sweet things like bars or fruit at work, but it was nice to have something savory in my snack drawer for a change.
Facts about Pearls Olives:
- Musco Family Olive Company is the leading supplier of table olives in the U.S.
- Nearly all olives grown in the United States are from California.
- They are headquartered in Tracy, California, which is the most advanced olive plant in the world.
For those of you in Milwaukee, look for a coupon for Pearls Olives to Go in The Journal Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal and many other Milwaukee-area newspapers on Sunday, May 3rd.
Thanks to Sweat Pink and Pearls Olives for sponsoring this review!


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Lord Henley moved Amendment No. 30:
The noble Lord said: Again, this is another relatively simple probing amendment whereby in Clause 5 we seek an assurance from the Government that in those cases where a Minister of the Crown wishes to intervene, should there be extra costs as a result of that, the other parties in the case will not be subject to the extra costs caused by that intervention and that those costs will be met by the Crown. That is a relatively simple point. I hope that the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor understands it and can give me an assurance that that will be the case.
Lord Lester of Herne Hill: I have some sympathy with this amendment. I am entirely in favour of the right of the Crown to intervene where a declaration of incompatibility is being considered. That is obviously extremely important.
I welcome also the wide range of persons who will be entitled to intervene under Clause 5(2). However, given the deterrent effect of costs orders, which was mentioned on Second Reading, it seems to me extremely important that the litigant should not be deterred by the risk that he will have to pay the costs of the intervention of the Crown in such a case.
Obviously it would normally be dealt with as a matter of discretion by the courts, but it seems to me that it would be right to put the matter beyond doubt in the way that this amendment suggests so there is no sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the litigant that if there is a Crown intervention, then there may be liability for his costs, the respondent's costs and the Crown's costs as well.
Lord Williams of Mostyn: This is plainly a genuine probing amendment--
Lord Williams of Mostyn: As indeed all the earlier ones undoubtedly were. This is of course an important question, but we believe it is best dealt with in a different way. I shall take a moment or two to explain why. As the Committee will be aware, the courts, in particular the higher courts to which this clause is relevant, already have considerable discretion to make
In relation to civil cases in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, Section 51(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 states that,
Various well known provisions on the award of costs in criminal cases are contained in the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.
I suggest, with great respect, that there are good reasons why the allocation of costs should be left to the judges' discretion. The important point, among others, is that the court in question has heard the case fully; it knows all the relevant facts and it has had the benefit of submission from counsel for all parties. There are many factors which judges would properly want to take into account when assessing how costs should be allocated. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but these would include whether the case put forward by the party seeking the declaration had any substantive merit. Some cases are more meritorious than others and some which get to court have little merit at all except the opportunity of outdoor relief for members of the Bar. Perhaps it ought to be indoor relief for members of the Bar! We all know of litigants who insist on taking up court time when it is not reasonable or legitimate to do so. This is a matter for the judge's decision, having heard-- I stress--all the facts of the case and considered all the interlocking legislative provisions.
Another question could be: was there any wider public interest in the case? That ought to be a matter affecting the judge when he decides on the costs order. He would probably want legitimately in this area to consider the financial position of the applicant. That is not, of course, a strong aspect of judicial discretion in costs orders in the generality of cases, but it might--if a particular judge thought it appropriate--be relevant in this class of case. What is the outcome of the case? Is a declaration of incompatibility or a declarator ultimately awarded? How many other members of the public might be affected? What is the ambit of the legislative component which is the subject of a declaration of incompatibility? All those are subtle questions that judges ought to balance rather than being disqualified from carrying out that balance simply by the brutality of this present amendment. It is only right and proper that I should try to protect the judiciary from brutality from any quarter, even probing brutality.
We do not think it would be reasonable or sensible to put a specific provision in the Bill that in every case the Crown should bear the cost of a Minister applying for or being joined as a party. I do not regard this response as in any sense a party political point. It seems to us much better to leave questions of discretion with the judge in question. Judges do this every day of the week and by and large, if I may say so, they do it extremely well. They are well accustomed to deciding those issues, not least, for instance, in the general analogy of which one might think: in cases of judicial review.
My noble and learned friend the Lord Chancellor has already plainly indicated--this was reaffirmed on Second Reading--that he regards those cases as particular, because he spoke of--he repeated it earlier today in Committee--a dedicated fund that there may well be for litigation within this general area. Bearing in mind that this will be peculiar litigation, and the clear indication which my noble and learned friend has given, I should have thought that this was an occasion when one should come to the conclusion: trust the judges. They know the full facts. This place, however infinitely wise, is not necessarily possessed of a crystal ball which would be suitably accommodating for every conceivable occasion in the future.
There might well be cases many years from now when this Government are no longer in power. Behind me I hear "shame" and "oh", but I am such a naive country boy that I can contemplate that further in the future perhaps than Members opposite. It might well be the case that a Minister of any governmental party would want to have a matter tested, but not within the constrained straitjacket that costs would always be dictated by Act of Parliament rather than by the discretion of the judge.
We do not believe that it is reasonable or sensible to insert a specific provision in the Bill that in every case the Crown should bear the costs of the Minister. There are likely to be cases--one recognises this--where the Crown would be required to meet its own costs. For instance, a tribunal might feel that the point behind the declaration of incompatibility was so plain that the Minister in question had behaved irrationally or unreasonably in contesting the matter. It might be thought that the interest of the Crown was so marginal that the relevant Minister might perhaps never have applied to be joined, on the powers given him in the Bill.
There is a wide spectrum of possibilities which reinforces our stance. In some cases of course the Crown may be required to meet its own costs, as I said a moment or two ago. It may even be that there would be circumstances where the Crown would have to meet the costs of other parties. There might be some cases where neither would be appropriate.
We do not see any grounds for moving away from the general well-known position that the allocation of costs in individual cases is a matter for the courts to determine in the light of individual and particular circumstances. I have taken a moment or two, because, although it is late, and although it does not go to the heart of the Bill, it is an important aspect. I hope that the noble Lord will think that I have done his amendment justice in replying as fully as I can.
Lord Lester of Herne Hill: Before the Minister sits down, he has rightly indicated that this is important, because it is about access to justice and the deterrent effect of costs. I wonder whether he could deal with my point, which goes more to Crown policy than to fettering the judges' discretion. I shall give just two examples. In the past year I have known public authorities--in one
In both cases it happened that the same judge-- a compassionate and commonsense judge--refused the application for costs, but the deterrent effect of the possibility of a costs order being made against those litigants was extremely severe. Had they not had confident counsel who encouraged them to take the substantial risk, they might never have been able to get their cases finally determined.
My question is: granted that the courts need to have wide discretion in deciding costs matters, will the Minister assure the Committee that, so far as concerns this Administration, the Crown would not normally seek a costs order against a litigant where there was a strongly arguable case, properly brought, on a genuine issue of public importance, because, with that assurance, the deterrent effect to which I referred would be much less? I realise that one cannot fetter the Crown and that one cannot give an absolute, unequivocal undertaking; but what I am seeking from the Minister is some indication of how the Crown sees the matter generally in terms of the deterrent effect.
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("( ) The legal expenses incurred by a Minister of the Crown in making an application under subsection (2) and in taking part in any proceedings to which he is made a party shall be borne by the Crown.").
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command that will generate a
file containing the complete flattened set of
project dependencies each pegged to a git SHA. The lock file acts
similarly to Bundler's Gemfile.lock
file and allows for reproducible
builds (*).
Without lock-deps
you might rely on the discipline of using a tag
for all of your application's deps. This is insufficient if any dep
depends on something not specified as a tag. It can also be a problem
if a third party dep doesn't provide a tag. Generating a
file solves these issues. Moreover, using
can simplify the work of putting together a release
consisting of many of your own repos. If you treat the master branch
as shippable, then rather than tagging each subproject and updating
throughout your project's dependency chain, you can
run get-deps
(without the lock file), compile
, and re-lock at the
latest versions throughout your project repositories.
The reproducibility of builds when using lock-deps
depends on the
SHAs captured in rebar.config.lock
. The plugin works by scanning the
cloned repos in your project's deps
directory and extracting the
current commit SHA. This works great until a repository's history is
rewritten with a force push. If you really want reproducible builds,
you need to not nuke your SHAs and you'll need to fork all third party
repos to ensure that someone else doesn't screw you over in this
fashion either. If you make a habit of only depending on third party
repos using a tag, assume that upstream maintainers are not completely
bat shit crazy, and don't force push your master branch, then you'll
probably be fine.
Getting Started
Install the plugin in your project by adding the following to your
%% Plugin dependency
{deps, [
{rebar_lock_deps_plugin, ".*",
{git, "git://github.com/seth/rebar_lock_deps_plugin.git", {branch, "master"}}}
%% Plugin usage
{plugins, [rebar_lock_deps_plugin]}.
To test it out do:
rebar get-deps
# the plugin has to be compiled so you can use it
rebar compile
rebar lock-deps
If you'd like to take a look at a project that uses the plugin, take a look at CHEF's erchef project.
Bonus features
If you are building an OTP release project using rebar generate
you can use rebar_lock_deps_plugin
to enhance your build experience
in three easy steps.
rebar bump-rel-version version=$BUMP
to automate the process of editingrel/reltool.config
to update the release version. The argument$BUMP
can bemajor
, orpatch
(default) to increment the specified part of a semverX.Y.Z
version. If$BUMP
is any other value, it is used as the new version verbatim. Note that this function rewritesrel/reltool.config
. I check-in the reformatted version and maintain the formatting when editing. This way, the general case of a version bump viabump-rel-version
results in a minimal diff.Autogenerate a change summary commit message for all project deps. Assuming you've generated a new lock file and bumped the release version, use
rebar commit-release
to commit the changes torebar.config.lock
with a commit message that summarizes the changes made to each dependency between the previously locked version and the newly locked version. You can get a preview of the commit message viarebar log-changed-deps
.Finally, create an annotated tag for your new release with
rebar tag-release
which will read the current version fromrel/reltool.config
and create an annotated tag named with the version.
The dependencies, they are ordered
Up to version 2.0.1 of rebar_lock_deps_plugin
, the dependencies in
the generated lock file were ordered alphabetically. This was a
side-effect of using filelib:wildcard/1
to list the dependencies in
the top-level deps
directory. In most cases, the order of the full
dependency set does not matter. However, if some of the code in your
project uses parse transforms, then it will be important for the parse
transform to be compiled and on the code path before attempting to
compile code that uses the parse transform.
This issue was recently discovered by a colleague who ran into build
issues using the lock file for a project that had recently integrated
lager for logging. He came up with the idea of maintaining the
order of deps as they appear in the various rebar.config
files along
with a prototype patch proving out the idea. As of
3.0.0, the lock-deps
command will (mostly)
maintain the relative order of dependencies as found in the
The "mostly" is that when a dep is shared across two subprojects, it
will appear in the expected order for the first subproject (based on
the ordering of the two subprojects). The deps for the second
subproject will not be in strict rebar.config
order, but the
resulting order should address any compile-time dependencies and be
relatively stable (only changing when project deps alter their deps
with larger impact when shared deps are introduced or removed).
Digression: fun with dependencies
There are times, as a programmer, when a real-world problem looks like a text book exercise (or an interview whiteboard question). Just the other day at work we had to design some manhole covers, but I digress.
Fixing the order of the dependencies in the generated lock file is
(nearly) the same as finding an install order for a set of projects
with inter-dependencies. I had some fun coding up the text book
solution even though the approach doesn't handle the constraint of
respecting the order provided by the rebar.config
files. Onward
with the digression.
We have a set of "packages" where some packages depend on others and we want to determine an install order such that a package's dependencies are always installed before the package. The set of packages and the relation "depends on" form a directed acyclic graph or DAG. The topological sort of a DAG produces an install order for such a graph. The ordering is not unique. For example, with a single package C depending on A and B, valid install orders are [A, B, C] and [B, A, C].
To setup the problem, we load all of the project dependency
information into a proplist mapping each package to a list of its
dependencies extracted from the package's rebar.config
read_all_deps(Config, Dir) ->
TopDeps = rebar_config:get(Config, deps, []),
Acc = [{top, dep_names(TopDeps)}],
DepDirs = filelib:wildcard(filename:join(Dir, "*")),
Acc ++ [
{filename:basename(D), dep_names(extract_deps(D))}
|| D <- DepDirs ].
Erlang's standard library provides the digraph and
digraph_utils modules for constructing and operating on directed
graphs. The digraph_utils
module includes a topsort/1
which we can make use of for our "exercise". The docs say:
Returns a topological ordering of the vertices of the digraph Digraph if such an ordering exists, false otherwise. For each vertex in the returned list, there are no out-neighbours that occur earlier in the list.
To figure out which way to point the edges when building our graph,
consider two packages A and B with A depending on B. We know we want
to end up with an install order of [B, A]. Rereading the topsort/1
docs, we must want an edge B => A
. With that, we can build our DAG
and obtain an install order with the topological sort:
load_digraph(Config, Dir) ->
AllDeps = read_all_deps(Config, Dir),
G = digraph:new(),
Nodes = all_nodes(AllDeps),
[ digraph:add_vertex(G, N) || N <- Nodes ],
%% If A depends on B, then we add an edge A <= B
[ digraph:add_edge(G, Dep, Item)
|| Dep <- DepList ]
|| {Item, DepList} <- AllDeps, Item =/= top ],
%% extract a sorted unique list of all deps
all_nodes(AllDeps) ->
lists:usort(lists:foldl(fun({top, L}, Acc) ->
L ++ Acc;
({K, L}, Acc) ->
[K|L] ++ Acc
end, [], AllDeps)).
The digraph
module manages graphs using ETS giving it a convenient
API, though one that feels un-erlang-y in its reliance on
The above gives an install order, but doesn't take into account the
relative order of deps as specified in the rebar.config
files. The
solution implemented in the plugin is a bit less fancy, recursing over
the deps and maintaining the desired ordering. The only tricky bit
being that shared deps are ignored until the end and the entire
linearized list is de-duped which required a . Here's the code:
order_deps(AllDeps) ->
Top = proplists:get_value(top, AllDeps),
order_deps(lists:reverse(Top), AllDeps, []).
order_deps([], _AllDeps, Acc) ->
order_deps([Item|Rest], AllDeps, Acc) ->
ItemDeps = proplists:get_value(Item, AllDeps),
order_deps(lists:reverse(ItemDeps) ++ Rest, AllDeps, [Item | Acc]).
de_dup(AccIn) ->
WithIndex = lists:zip(AccIn, lists:seq(1, length(AccIn))),
UWithIndex = lists:usort(fun({A, _}, {B, _}) ->
end, WithIndex),
Ans0 = lists:sort(fun({_, I1}, {_, I2}) ->
end, UWithIndex),
[ V || {V, _} <- Ans0 ].
Conclusion and the end of this post
The great thing about posting to your blog is, you don't have to have a proper conclusion if you don't want to.
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Status Quo
Status Quo are an English rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive brand of boogie-woogie. The group originated in The Spectres, founded by schoolboys Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster in 1962. After a number of lineup changes, the band became The Status Quo in 1967 and Status Quo in 1969.
They have had over 60 chart hits in the UK, starting with 1967's "Pictures Of Matchstick Men", and the most recent being in 2010, which is more than any other rock group. 22 of which reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1991, Status Quo received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
Status Quo starred in their first feature film, Bula Quo!, which was released to cinemas in July 2013. The film coincided with the release of the soundtrack album Bula Quo!, which peaked at number 121 in the French records chart. The first single from the album, "Bula Bula Quo" was released in June 2013, and is Status Quo's one hundredth single release.
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Shortia galacifolia
Shortia galacifolia Torr. & A. Gray
Oconee bells, Oconee-bells, Shortia
Diapensiaceae (Pincushion-Plant Family)
USDA Symbol: SHGA
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
A low, spreading, evergreen perennial with long-petioled, shiny, round, basal leaves. A 4 in., erect scape bears a single, large, white or slightly pinkish flower with five, frilled petals. The leaves turn bronze in the fall.
This species is of considerable interest to botanists. Extremely rare, it was not found again for almost a century after its initial discovery in 1788. It grows well in gardens. The species name suggests its resemblance to Beetleweed or Galax (Galax urceolata), but its scalloped leaves are smaller, and the flowers are solitary, not in long spikes. The genus name honors a 19th-century Kentucky botanist, Dr. Charles Wilkins Short.
Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Leaf Retention: Evergreen
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Breeding System: Flowers Bisexual
Size Class: 0-1 ft.
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: WhiteBloom Time: Mar , Apr
USA: GA , NC , SC , TN , VANative Distribution: Locally in a few GA, NC & SC cos.
Native Habitat: Rich, wooded stream banks
Growing Conditions
Light Requirement: Part ShadeSoil Description: Well-drained, acid, humus-rich soil.
Conditions Comments: Difficult to establish and slow to spread. Rare in nature, but commonly cultivated as a ground cover.
Description: Most easily propagated by division. To produce seed, cross pollination must occur between plants of different clones. The seed should be planted immediately after collection. Give seedlings protection for one year.Seed Collection: Not Available
Seed Treatment: Not Available
Commercially Avail: yes
National Wetland Indicator Status
Region: | AGCP | AK | AW | CB | EMP | GP | HI | MW | NCNE | WMVE |
Status: | FACU |
From the National Organizations Directory
According to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:Mt. Cuba Center - Hockessin, DE
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Locating the Best Lawyer
When the accident occurs, it is important to report it right away. While telling a passing witness may expedite assistance and advice, it is not considered to be an official notification. A slip and trip legal professional wants to make sure that the client sat down with a lawyer of the company and filled out the essential documentation.
This will not mean that someone from the corporate office in an additional city or state needs to make the journey to the location. It does mean that someone with authority to speak for the company should be addressing the incident. A slip and fall counselor can be present at the announcing if necessary.
Filling Out the Papers
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Maintaining Documents
Once the file is submitted, a personal injury lawyer establishes that the individual keeps a hard copy of any and all forms that are filled out and signed. These sheets will come in handy when the time comes to put together a case. Remember that even if the statement was not entered until much later on, it does display that someone was made aware of the situation. From there, an attorney can document how the other person handled the relevant information and what was done to make enhancements to area in question.
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Go now! Quickly, before a mod catches onto the explicit sexual mentions and puts a stop to it. By clicking you promise not to notice such things mods. Oh and I didn't post it here because this board is dead while the SHD isn't.
typical of a loser to make a thread about his post count. edit - lol i take loser back. words cannot express how sad a human being has to be when he writes an 8954983298 word essay about people on a message board. grats valvavaavavbababados
"grats valvavaavavbababados" Thanks guy... even though it looks like you had a seizure while typing my name.
I never really had an opinion about you. Then I found out you posted on the punk boards. Now I think you are stupid and a bad dresser. Possibly white trash too.
JF, do you remember when he posted his pic? He had more craters on his face then the moon. And he also had this huge mohawk.
-Lacan- - Final Fantasy 7. I don't think I used that one in any other mention, but I don't remember. I hope not. Anyway, figure stuff out yourself. FFVII? FFVII?! You picked a game for me, knowing my user name was -Lacan- and knowing all I talk about is Xenogears, and that game you choose is FFVII? But congrats and all. I don't want to hit 10k anytime soon. Still feels like it wasn't long enough since the first time I reached it.
I posted on the thread. Dull and dry as usual. Not that I mind what you said about me. I'm just thankful for the mention....... Congrats on 10K.
Why are you bothering? You know you won't get out of making me a pie. If worse comes to worse I can withhold sex, and you know what happened last time I did that.
If he doesn't know the answer he makes it up and proves it by some archaic logic. It's a foolproof plan, but luckily if you know even more archaic logic you can debunk him. John Edwards is crafty that way. What were you saying again? Well, anyway, I enjoyed those mentions. Still an intriguing way to do them. Vivi, get on AIM more often
i been playin s1 and s2 since release...and i was in s2 beta. yeah im awesome, but my problem is that i frequently take long ass breaks(weeks) and i always come back rusty... right now i havent played in a month
I'd waste both your asses. The 30 kills with 90 deaths record is just there to lure unsuspecting douchebags like yourselves into my trap.
I have the same problem tru, I lose interest every couple of weeks. Plus my clan isn't active enough. I play in West 1. You can usually see me in the OPM room, Opium Den or in an LR room. LR is basically the OPM clan.
My name is supposed to be Silent, but I had to add an accent mark on the i, so it's something like Sìlent.
Thanks for the mention. One of these days you people will realize the folly of your Xenogear-thinking ways. And I'll be here playing Halo....hopefully Halo 2 soon. Final Fantasy > Xeno Series Halo > Xeno Series Wario Ware > Xeno Series Watching my poodles hump eachother > Xeno series...Wario Ware....Halo.... and yeah Final Fantasy


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