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NEW YORK (AP) -- Peyton Manning back in Indianapolis -- in a Broncos uniform.
Peyton vs. younger brother Eli in another Manning Bowl.
Andy Reid returning to Philadelphia: Let the booing begin now?
The NFL schedule is filled with return visits and intriguing matchups, beginning with a road game for the defending Super Bowl champions.
And Peyton Manning will be part of that too, as the Baltimore Ravens travel to Denver for the now-traditional Thursday night opener on Sept. 5. The Orioles are home that night and Major League Baseball could not move their game.
So $121 million quarterback Joe Flacco and his fellow champs were sent to Denver -- to face Manning and the team they beat in double overtime on their way to the Super Bowl.
"It still bites on everybody," Broncos receiver Eric Decker said. "It's tough to kind of relive that game, especially the opportunities I think we left on the field. It's going to definitely fire us going into this year."
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan, who spent 10 years as an assistant in Baltimore, seemed most interested -- and was annoyed by -- the Ravens being forced to kick off the season on the road.
"I think that the world champs can open up at home and that's where I think they should open, at home," Ryan said. "I think it is common courtesy. I don't know what gets involved in that. I am not in charge of it, but if I would have been, the Ravens would be opening at home.
"If baseball had only 16 games, I might understand it. But just as common courtesy maybe (the Orioles) say, 'I'll play this one on the road." Just from a fan perspective of sports."
In Week 2, Peyton visits Eli's house.
Both Manning brothers often have said it's uncomfortable yet memorable playing against each other; it's only happened twice, with Peyton and the Colts winning. Even though Peyton now is a Bronco, the dynamic is unchanged for the star quarterbacks.
"We haven't talked about it a whole lot," Eli said. "More kind of joking and jabs at each other, but obviously anytime you play your brother it is special. It is unique and I cherish those moments whether before the game or looking across during the national anthem and seeing my big brother and seeing him at the coin flip; those are great moments that we'll cherish."
The folks in Indy cherished having Peyton Manning as their record-setting quarterback for 13 seasons; he sat out 2011 after several neck surgeries, then was released by the Colts and signed with Denver. The reception he almost certainly will receiver at Lucas Oil Stadium will be warm and loud.
"It's always fun when you spend time at a place and then go back," said Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, who has done that in Foxborough four times. "I'm sure he'll get a standing ovation right when he comes out. Hopefully, it will be loud and the fans will make it hard for him (to call plays)."
Like they do in Philadelphia -- for both teams.
Reid jokingly acted surprised about the Chiefs' Week 3 trip to the City of Brotherly Love -- and, at times, venom for the coach of the Eagles, which Reid was for 14 seasons. Reid and the rest of the Chiefs knew about it long ago, and they got the Thursday night spotlight.
"We're playing Philly?" said Reid, hired by Kansas City days after being fired in Philly.
"Nah, it'll be an exciting atmosphere. It always is at Lincoln Financial Field there. But right now, I'm a Chief, so we're going to get ourselves ready to play, whenever and wherever we have to play this season."


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Well-documented cocktail lore has it that the Tom Collins began as a sort of name-game hoax circa 1874. People would prank their friends by telling them that a Tom Collins had been speaking ill of them in a bar just down the road. When the slandered walked into said bar demanding Tom Collins, they'd be told that he just departed for another nearby watering hole, and so on. (It's oddly comforting that people still found stupid ways to waste their time before television.) Eventually, enterprising bartenders got in on the joke, and a crisp refreshment was born.
Poorly documented family lore (on my Mom's side; Lorre lore has been quite meticulously researched) has it that "That Girl" actress Marlo Thomas was so named thanks to a chance encounter over a few cigarettes between her father, entertainer Danny Thomas, and my maternal grandfather, Thomas Marlowe, outside a jazz club in Newark, New Jersey, sometime in the late 1930s.
After dispensing with the usual pleasantries, my grandfather pointed out that they had the name Thomas in common. Danny Thomas asked him his last name. When my grandfather replied, "Marlowe," Danny Thomas told my grandfather that he really liked the name. So much so that a few years later he named his daughter Marlo.
All this history became slightly more relevant to me when my Mom gave me a bottle of Marlow's London Dry Gin for Christmas — then slipped back into obscurity just as quickly. Besides the fact that I've yet to find anything about Marlow's gin online, I've also discovered gaping holes punctuating the old Marlo Thomas yarn.
Marlo Thomas was born in 1937, which means my grandfather was 23 or younger when this conversation took place. By itself this bit of information is not that problematic, however pair it with the fact that Danny Thomas didn't rise to fame until after 1940 and the supposed timeline seems less likely. Perhaps most damning, Marlo Thomas's full name is actually Margaret Julia Thomas and the name "Marlo" was supposedly a childhood mispronunciation of Margo.
I should've known better, I suppose, when my mother's quick e-mail synposis of this story concluded with, "Feel free to add what you please. Both people in the conversation are no longer with us."
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Obama wants immigration reform in first half of the year
(CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants to get an immigration reform package passed as soon as this summer.
"I'm hopeful that this can get done, and I don't think that it should take many, many months," Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. "I think this is something we should be able to get done certainly this year, and I'd like to see if we could get it done sooner, in the first half of the year if possible."
Obama previously said he wanted to accomplish immigration reform within the first year of his second term, but his latest comments represent a more rushed timeline of his goals.
The president said "now's the time" for reform and highlighted his agenda Tuesday in a Las Vegas speech, specifying three pillars: better enforcement of immigration laws, providing a path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country, and reforming the legal immigration system.
His speech came one day after a bipartisan group of eight senators outlined their own framework for immigration legislation. A main sticking point between the two plans involves a path to citizenship: Obama says he wants a "clear" path, while the senators want a "tough but fair" path and only after bolstering the nation's border security.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the so-called Gang of Eight senators, criticized the president Tuesday for not making border security more of a priority in his proposals.
Obama, however, said Wednesday in an interview with another Spanish-language network, Univision, that his administration has already "done more on border security in the last four years than we have in the previous 20."
"We've actually done almost everything that Republicans asked to be done several years ago as a condition to move ahead on comprehensive immigration reform," he said.
The president added that he doesn't want to "create some vague prospect" that would kick immigration reform down the road, or "manana," as he put it.
"We want to make sure that we're very clear that this legislation provides a real pathway," he said.
Asked why he hasn't met in person with any Republicans in the "Gang of Eight," Obama said he's "happy to meet with anybody" but added that lawmakers have a different way of going about forming bipartisan deals.
"Oftentimes what happens is members of Congress prefer meeting by themselves to build trust between Democrats and Republicans. They want assistance from us but sometimes they want back channels, and if they want to have a public meeting, if they want a private meeting, anything that is necessary to move this forward, we are happy to."
While Obama issued an executive directive last year that deferred the deportation of some young undocumented workers, he said Wednesday that broader reform can only come from the legislative branch.
"I'm not a king," he said in the Telemundo interview. "You know, my job as the head of the executive branch ultimately is to carry out the law ... this is why we need a comprehensive immigration reform to make sure that once and for all, in a way that is ratified by Congress, we can say there is a pathway to citizenship for people."
If Congress fails to act in a "timely fashion," however, Obama has said he will send up his own bill on the issue.


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Excellent menu and knowledgeable staff! Very impressed. We had such a great dining experience. My husband and I both have celiac. Thank you P.F. Chang's for caring!
I love the gluten free chicken wraps!!! Yum!! The staff is amazing and I love how they understand how serious it is that everything needs to be safe. I'll be going back again and again.
Fantastic!! Separate area for g free, great selection, and delicious dessert!
PF Changs is in a league of its own regarding gluten free. They have a totally separate cooking area wonderfully trained staff and good options.
1190 Farrow Parkway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
I just can't get excited about this place. Food is super salty. Last time I ate here, they told me they couldn't make the dish I wanted vegetarian- even though I've had it there before several times. I had 2 waiters, management, and a cook at my table. Way too much attention. I gave in and let them make me a different dish. Not thrilled. What do I like? That amazing flourless chocolate cake. Wine and cake is all I need from here on out. Oh and please stop charging us extra to put out food on a plate that says GF. Enough already with over charging us.
Great Place! Rice, Noodles, Appetizers, Entrees and Dessert! Soy Sauce
Paseo de La Reforma 222, Cuauhtémoc, Juárez, 06600 Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico 06600
Great options, you can order from Appetizers, Soups&Salads, Rice Entrees, Vegeterian, Noddles and Dessert. Love their Singapore St. noddles.
12071 Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove, MN 55369
They have so many gluten free options here and they are so delicious!! We love eating here! They even have a dessert option!!
3000 184th Street Southwest #912, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Staff did a wonderful job explaining GF options and answering my questions about cross contamination. My meal was served on a different-colored plate, signifying GF. I was quite impressed and very happy to eat Chinese food again! My husband said there was little difference between the regular Mongolian beef and the GF version. So I wasn't missing out. :)
391 S 8th St., Boise, ID 83702
They have so many gluten free options! Always a treat to eat here.
9120 Shelbyville Rd., Hurstbourne, KY 40222
GF friendly. Staff very knowledgeable. . GF Food was delicious. Definitely my favorite place.
350 Riverside Square Mall, Hackensack, NJ 07601
Service was terrible and the menu was extremely limited for gluten and dairy allergies. Additional allergies were worse! Because it is a chain, they cannot make anything to order. My husband was stuck eating a plate of steamed veggies and rice for dinner. We won't be back!
12071 Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove, MN 55369
The GF selection is limited, but the food is great!! This is another of the places I can go to and not have to worry about getting sick.
10 Port Imperial Blvd., West NY, NJ 07093
I have eaten here many times, always have a great experience.
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway #3020, Columbia, MD 21044
Celiac friendly. Good experience.
1600 Settlers Ridge Center Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15205
I was so displeased and disgusted with P.F. Chang's. I shared an appetizer with my sister {also Gluten Free & Dairy Free} and it tasted greasy. I ate the street noodles and I was extremely disappointed because I got glutened. My sister and mom got glutened as well. My family and I were unsatisfied when we got home. I will never be back here again. If you do not want to get glutened, please refrain from visiting this location! Just looking at how many calories P.F. Chang's is, it's terrible!
9120 Shelbyville Rd., Hurstbourne, KY 40222
Great place. Very knowledgeable. Server, Shaun, was the best.
10309 Destiny USA Dr, Syracuse, NY 13204
Lots of GF options! Great GF dessert too.
575 East University Parkway A-20, Orem, UT 84097
Gluten free menu, varied choices. They serve your food on designated dishes so you know they're gf and separate from the rest. Staff was very knowledgeable. Food was good and not a a sacrifice the main menu. Nice to have a safe Chinese option. Even the cherished chicken wraps are on the gf menu! We'll go back again.
2425 Lake Lansing Road, Lansing Charter Township, MI 48912
The GF shaking beef was amazing!!! Didn't feel like it tasted GF at all!!
10150 California Street, Omaha, NE 68114
Felt very safe to eat here. Wish they could have more choices for sweet chicken meals
3255 West Chandler Boulevard, Chandler, AZ 85226
Decent sized GF menu, they make me my own sauces at the table from clearly marked bottles, and the food is brought out on different dinner ware indicating GF. I love the lettuce wraps and beef and broccoli.
1201 Lake Woodlands Dr #301, The Woodlands, TX 77380
Great options - have a separate menu and usually bring out on a separate plate - everything I've tried this far is good with no problems afterwards
1125 Fashion Drive, Nanuet, NY 10954
The chain in Nanuet is dangerous.. DO NOT EAT THERE if you have an allergy. Take the trip to Hackensack... You'll thank me.
307 Sail Pl, Annapolis, MD 21401
Ordered from gluten free menu, told server we were gluten free, and asked for gluten free sauces. However, my girlfriend and I are both sick and had difficulty sleeping last night from upset stomachs and gas pain because somewhere they screwed up. Our waiter seemed nervous at the end of the meal when we told her we had celiacs. I haven't had problems here in the past but I am very angry about my latest experience.
901 South Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33130
I'm giving this pf Chang's a three star rating because they do have a lot of gf options and as anyone with celiac knows, Chinese food is full of the sneaky wheat in soy sauce. however, this restaurant is always packed during lunch rush, generally has spotty service, has given me the regular version of a gf meal before and still gives you fortune cookies after you order a totally gf meal. get it together
2201 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96815
I love P.F Chang's! However, I'm not sure if my food was actually gluten free at this location... I told the waitress I wanted the gluten free Chang's spicy chicken, she confirmed I wanted my food GF, and my food arrived on the dedicated GF plate like always.. It tasted amazing but different than anytime I had it in Florida. I felt sick later that night and the next day. I'm not sure if it was their food or not. I will go back again and if the same thing happens I'll update my review and not go back to this location... I hope that isn't the case, my husband and I love eating at P.F. Chang's!
43316 Christy Street, Fremont, CA 94538
Rude server. Seemed very bothered that I ordered off the GF menu. Unconcerned with my questions. Didn't leave happy.
4094 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77027
My daughter was diagnosed with Celiac just 7 weeks ago and we are just beginning to build our list of restaurants we can go to... We had a great night here! She loved her Mongolian Beef, brown rice, Singapore noodles, and flourless chocolate cake! It was just a "normal" night out eating Chinese... And it was delicious!!!
201 East Magnolia Boulevard #281, Burbank, CA 91502
Their gluten free menu is delicious, all their staff is very knowledgeable about cross contamination. I have never gotten sick from here. Would definitely recommend it to anyone with gluten problems!
410 Legacy Place, Dedham, MA 02026
Lots of choices for gluten free eating. Also makes life easy for those off of dairy too - not a lot of dairy in chinese cuisine. Make sure the sauce they bring you tableside is in a red ramekin as that is the gluten free one.
10281 Midtown Pkwy. #137, Jacksonville, FL 32246
Great gluten free menu online and at the restaurant. I had the chicken lettuce wraps, egg drop soup and Mongolian beef. It was all incredible. The staff was very knowledgeable as well.
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Outstanding - bartender was helpful and knowledgeable. Dish came out noted as allergy. Enjoyed some Omission with my GF dish.
7341 Corporate Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Had a great GF lunch here with my 10 yo celiac daughter. Service was good and food was excellent. I am GF intolerant and she has Celiac and neither of us had any issues. Another great PF Changs experience while traveling!
510 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Great GF options from appetizers to beer to dessert.
2420 West Happy Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ 85085
Most helpful staff I have yet to encounter. Looked up our sensitivities/allergies using allergen software specific to their menu. Fabulous food. We really enjoyed ourselves instead of cautiously waiting for the bellyaches.
6809-F Phillips Place Court, Charlotte, NC 28210
PF Chang's is always amazing for celiacs! And the food is great too.
436 North Orlando Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789
Went here tonight with my boyfriend and we ordered everything off the gluten free menu so we could share all the dishes (I have Celiacs he does not). While the food runner presented the food and identified it as GF, I've been writhing in pain since eating it. While Chinese food is easy to modify to be GF, my best guess is something either accidentally grabbed the regular soy sauce to make our dishes or there was some cross contamination. Will not take the chance of eating here again. Ouch :/
3000 184th Street Southwest #912, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Food is great just slow service and always busy
1201 Lake Woodlands Dr #301, The Woodlands, TX 77380
P.F. Chang's has a huge gluten free menu. I had Egg Drop Soup and Beef & Rice. The staff is very knowledgable about Celiac Disease and takes extra caution to prevent cross-contamination. My meal was brought-out on a special plate that was labeled "gluten-free." I took leftovers home and the waitress labeled my box "GF" as to not mix it up with others in my party who are not Celiacs. There is also gluten free cake on the menu. All of the food was delicious, and I didn't get sick!
230 Tresser Boulevard, Stamford, CT 06901
GF menu is included with the regular menu, lots of choices! I've gone many times and never had a problem with contamination.
17390 Hall Road R-103, Charter Township of Clinton, MI 48038
I'm glad they use different color plates for gluten free item! Great food and I've never had a problem 😊
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Great food and they have omission!
2801 W Big Beaver Rd, Troy, MI 48084
I enjoyed a delicious "gluten free" dinner and then ran to the bathroom. By the time I got home, my knees and ankles were extremely swollen. Something obviously went wrong. 😒
410 Legacy Place, Dedham, MA 02026
I'm glad I finally tried this place. P.F. Chang's really sets the standard among major restaurant chains when it comes to GF food. There are many options to try, and they even go so far as to serve GF food on differently-colored plates compared to the "normal" food to avoid confusion.
5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Big gluten free menu! It's hard to find gluten free Chinese food. We had Singapore street noodles, fried rice, and mongolian beef. All good!
350 Riverside Square Mall, Hackensack, NJ 07601
Great gf options. Wonderful food comes out on a different plate so there is no mix up. Have done eat in and take out. One of my favorites.
10150 California Street, Omaha, NE 68114
Lettuce wraps and the crispy chicken are awesome. Fairly knowledgeable staff
1180 Galleria Boulevard, Roseville, CA 95678
Plenty of GF options to choose from. Son and I were very happy with our choices. Lettuce wraps were fantastic! Everything can out to is on a special plate. My only wish is that they had a non-chocolate gf dessert.
Town Center Drive, Collegeville, PA 19426
Only place in the area to get GF chinese, and a huge selection at that! Never saw such a huge GF menu at a mainstream chain restaurant. Bravo! My girlfriend will be happy to have some chinese leftovers at home :)
18250 Tomball Parkway, Houston, TX 77070
Pretty good food and the waiters are aware of gluten when you order it. they have a good selection of gluten free options ranging from mild to spicy. wait staff is friendly and nice.
2041 Rosecrans Avenue #120, El Segundo, CA 90245
I got a bad case of diarrhea immediately after eating here.
1125 Fashion Drive, Nanuet, NY 10954
If I could give zero stars I would. The place is FILTHY. Whoever the "dishwasher" is needs to be FIRED. All utensils were dirty. The waiter came out with tea and tea cups. The tea cups had crusted food inside of them. The teapot had what appeared to be a CAT HAIR stuck on it. The chopsticks are REUSED. Plastic is POROUS and the chopsticks have teeth marks on them. Hepatitis anyone? The egg drop soup was cold and you can tell they didn't reheat it properly. Soup needs to be maintained at a proper temperature to prevent bacterial growth. It wasn't fresh and probably yesterday's backwash soup. The food was terrible. Rice noodles looked and tasted old like yesterday's leftovers. It was disgusting. The health department would shut the place down if they saw what I saw. The cloth napkins had very short rodent type hair on them. All these signs point to one thing.... Poor quality control, poor management (more like NO management) and unsafe food handling and little to no dish-ware/utensil cleansing. I will never go back.
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Paarl Ommiberg Round the Rock festival
When it comes to wine routes in and around Cape Town, we are spoilt for choice. There are so many right on our doorstop. Admittedly, an area that often gets overlooked in favour of the more popular ones is Paarl. And to give everyone a taste of what the Paarl farms offer, there's the Ommiberg Festival happening this Saturday. Here's what you can expect from all the various farms. -
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The bones (vertebrae) of the spinal column protect nerves that come out of the brain and travel down your back to form the spinal cord. Nerve roots are large nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and leave your spinal column between each vertebra.
The spinal bones are separated by disks. These disks cushion the spinal column and put space between your vertebrae. The disks allow movement between the vertebrae, which lets you bend and reach.
With herniated disk:
A herniated disk is one cause of radiculopathy. This is any disease that affects the spinal nerve roots.
Slipped disks occur more often in middle-aged and older men, usually after strenuous activity. Other risk factors include conditions present at birth (congenital) that affect the size of the lumbar spinal canal.
The pain most often occurs on one side of the body.
The pain often starts slowly. It may get worse:
You may also have weakness in certain muscles. Sometimes, you may not notice it until your doctor examines you. In other cases, you will notice that you have a hard time lifting your leg or arm, standing on your toes on one side, squeezing tightly with one of your hands, or other problems.
The pain, numbness, or weakness often goes away or improves a lot over weeks to months.
A careful physical exam and history is almost always the first step. Depending on where you have symptoms, your doctor examines your neck, shoulder, arms, and hands, or your lower back, hips, legs, and feet.
Your doctor will check:
Your doctor may also ask you to:
Leg pain that occurs when you sit down on an exam table and lift your leg straight up usually suggests a slipped disk in your lower back.
In another test, you will bend your head forward and to the sides while the health care provider puts slight downward pressure on the top of your head. Increased pain or numbness during this test is usually a sign of pressure on a nerve in your neck.
The first treatment for a slipped disk is a short period of rest with medicines for the pain. This is followed by physical therapy. Most people who follow these treatments recover and return to normal activities. Some people will need to have more treatment. This may include steroid injections or surgery.
Medicines can help with your pain . Your doctor may prescribe any of the following:
If you are overweight, diet and exercise are very important for improving back pain.
Physical therapy is important for nearly everyone with disk disease. Therapists will teach you how to properly lift, dress, walk, and perform other activities. They teach you how to strengthen muscles that help support the spine. You will also learn how to increase flexibility in your spine and legs.
Take care of your back at home :
Steroid medicine injections into the back in the area of the herniated disk may help control pain for several months. These injections reduce swelling around the disk and relieve many symptoms. Spinal injections are usually done in your doctor's office.
Surgery may be an option if your symptoms do not go away with other treatments and time.
Diskectomy is surgery to remove all or part of a disk.
Discuss with your doctor which treatment options are best for you.
Most people improve with treatment. But you may have long-term back pain even after treatment.
It may take several months to a year or more to go back to all of your activities without having pain or straining your back. People who work in jobs that involve heavy lifting or back strain may need to change their job activities to avoid injuring their back again.
In rare cases, the following problems can occur:
Call your health care provider if:
Being safe at work and play, using proper lifting techniques, and controlling weight may help prevent back injury.
Your health care provider may recommend a back brace to help support the spine. A brace can help prevent injuries in people who lift heavy objects at work. But using these devices too much can weaken the muscles that support your spine and make the problem worse.
Chou R, Atlas SJ, Stanos SP, Rosenquist RW. Nonsurgical interventional therapies for low back pain: a review of the evidence for an American Pain Society clinical practice guideline. Spine. 2009;34(10):1078-93. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19363456
Jegede KA, Ndu A, Grauer JN. Contemporary management of symptomatic lumbar disc herniations. Orthop Clin North Am. 2010;41:217-224. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20399360
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By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Green consumers may be waging war against bottled water, but on the home front, when it comes to thirst, drinking water straight from the tap may still make you cringe.
The water may have a taste or odor that turns you off. There are also worries about whether it contains chemicals, metals, biological organisms, pesticides/herbicides and even pharmaceuticals.
Thus, the growing trend of trendy water-filter pitchers or carafes.
Thinking about buying one? You'll want to consider:
- Pitcher capacity
- Filtration claims (and flow rate)
- Filter cost and lifespan (they have to be replaced, usually every few months)
- Cost
- Certification
- Size (Is it a convenient fit in the 'fridge?)
- Style/special features
Manufacturers wax eloquent about what their filters can reduce or remove from tap water. All pitcher filters use a form of activated carbon, which primarily promises to reduce or remove:
- Chlorine and chlorine byproducts. Used to disinfect drinking water and remove pathogens, chlorine can leave a bad taste or odor and has been linked to the development of byproducts that are carcinogenic.
- Particulates/pipe sediments, including heavy metals such as cadmium, copper and mercury, which can cause organ or nervous system damage.
Others claim their more complex filters keep out many more contaminants. PUR, for example, says their pitcher
filters remove three times more contaminants than Brita's. PUR, Zero Water and Tersano all says their filters reduce lead, and almost 100 percent of microbiological cysts (parasites that come from animal or human waste.)
Pur also claims to filter out most "trace levels of pharmaceuticals" while leaving fluoride in the water. While many believe fluoride helps prevent tooth decay, others say it is linked to dental and bone disease, and cancer.
Despite Pur's claim, the science of pharmaceuticals in drinking water, their impact on health and their removal is still being scrutinized by researchers and scientists.
Zero Water says it is working to develop filters that will remove microorganisms, pesticides and traces of pharmaceutical drugs as well.
Brita and Pur pitchers make a point of saying they are made without BPA, a chemical found in many plastics that has been associated with health problems.
There is no federal regulation of these filtration claims, and pitcher filters can't do it all. Most faucet-mounted filters will remove more contaminants than the pitchers, and complex (and costly) whole-house systems provide multi-faceted maximum filtration. Be forewarned – no system can keep out all contaminants.
Look on the pitchers for certification from groups such as the NSF consumer health and safety group, the Water Quality Association or Underwriters Labs (UL) to confirm filtration claims.
Watch out for "reviews" conducted by companies that own or sell particular brands of carafes – stick with the objective reviewers.
The NSF offers a list of several "pour through" filter products and the elements they filter (and a scary rundown of common contaminants in drinking water.)
In addition to thwarting the environmental nightmare of plastic bottles, water filter pitchers save money. Filtered tap water costs about 25 cents a gallon, compared to bottled water's estimated $10.60 a gallon, according to the non-profit group Food and Water Watch.
Most people don't need to treat tap water to make it safe, the government's Environmental Protection Agency says. The EPA regulates and requires testing of 90 percent of the country's water services, and spell out its standards online.
But the Environmental Working Group says it has found more than 300 pollutants in U.S. tap water, and the government does not regulate many, many chemicals that can show up in household water. The group tested water in 48,000 cities, and lets you check out the quality of your tap water on their website.
The best approach to finding the right water filter is to start with a look at what contaminants your water may contain, and what you want to filter out. Every city and most water utilities must provide annual reports on their water quality, which is available to customers online or at their request.
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Sec. 5. (a) A person eighteen (18) years of age or over may purchase or possess a stun gun.
(b) A person who sells or furnishes a stun gun to a person who is less than eighteen (18) years of age commits a Class B misdemeanor.
(c) A person who uses a stun gun in the commission of a crime commits a Class A misdemeanor.
(d) A person who uses a stun gun on a law enforcement officer while the officer is performing the officer's duties commits a Class D felony.
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Croatia's capital isn't only an economic and political centre. Art, leisure and fun take over the streets creating a relaxed environment, which reminds you more of the joyous and colourful Mediterranean than of the cold and austere Central Europe.
Zagreb's charm is not only in its history and the monuments that tell it, but also in the way the city lives daily life joyfully. There is a relaxed environment, even during the months when the cold and snow dye the landscape grey. The cafés, the breweries, shops and squares are welcoming places where you would want to just watch time go by. The parks and gardens invite peaceful strolls and the busy nights become the perfect epilogue for days of commotion, between shopping and museums. The city has a continental climate, characterized by cold winters – with temperatures around zero degrees and with snowfall - and summer months of high temperatures. Between May and June, thermometers can reach more than 30 degrees. The autumn months are the rainiest ones and fog is also frequent this time of year. The city has a good public transportation system, with regular lines of trains and buses that operate all day long, with reduced nightly services. Tickets can be acquired in advance, whether in kiosks or by SMS. There are also rent-a-car companies and a lot of parking places in several zones of the city.


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September 13th, 2005, 09:35 PM #1
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I thought I'd post some general info on my books. I've been writing for many years, full-time for the past decade (yes, I am a rare magical beast, a full-time poet). But I'm a bit of a newbie at fantasy. I like the peculiar torment of writing long novels; I'll be doing more of them.
At the moment I am working on the Pellinor series. There will be four of these, and I have just finished No. 3, The Crow.
The Gift, Part One, came out in Australia in 2002 with Penguin Books and in the UK (Walker Books) in 2004. It came out as a hardback in the US May 2005, with Candlewick, but we had to change the title to The Naming as Ursula Le Guin recently brought out Gifts. The Gift was shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards and is nominated as a Top Ten Read by the American Library Association, as well as gathering a starred review for outstanding merit from Kirkus, a hefty trade review journal in the States. And here are a couple of reviews-
"In The Gift, Alison Croggon has crafted an elaborate and beguiling world of legend. Densely and vividly patterned, the book leads us across the varied and menacing landscapes of the seven kingdoms of Annar. The terrain is peopled by Bards and slaves, by the monstrous Kulag and the treacherous Hulls, by packs of wers whose howls are "the very sound of un-life ... neither dead nor alive, but caught in a tormenting void between".
This is prose that shows not only how well Croggon writes, but how effectively she holds her nerve. In such fantastical imaginings as hers, the risk is always of the risible.
In fact, Croggon passes her work off as history, replete with bold and detailed appendices on pronunciation, on history - especially the tragic millennium of the Great Silence - on the composition of the seven kingdoms and on the Speech - 'defining attribute of a Bard and the central mystery of the Knowing'. ...
While The Gift is resolutely Croggon's own invention, it is full of echoes and glimpses of other fantasies of lost, past and future worlds. Thus we have the Dark (side) and the (chosen) One, magical powers and medieval settings.
This is a quest narrative, one of the most durable and enchanting kinds of story, as old as Odysseus and Arthur. Croggon tells it fluently and confidently. She mixes the unavoidably sombre and formal - "you bear black news" - with the bracingly colloquial. The novel is the latest, unpredictable move in a career that has seen Croggon as a poet, controversial theatre reviewer and librettist."
- The Sydney Morning Herald, 2002
"... a magical story that is reminiscent of Tolkien. This is a tale with passionate, inspiring characters, an enchanting protagonist and vividly described landscapes. The Gift is a powerful story and marks the beginning of a series of a great series of fantasy novels that will delight fans of Garth Nix and G P Taylor."
- The Bookseller, February 2004, UK
The Riddle came out in Oz late 2003, and in the UK in May 2005. It's due out in the US in November 2006 (sorry, guys) after the paperback release of The Naming. Blurbs are, well, blurbs, but here's the Penguin one for it:
Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor Cadvan, pursued by both the Light and the Dark, are seeking the Riddle of the Treesong. This mysterious Riddle holds the key to restoring peace to her ravaged kingdom and defeating the enemies she is fated to battle.* But what is the true nature of those enemies, and of the Riddle?* Or is Maerad herself the greatest riddle of all?
From terrifying seas to vast stretches of glacial wilderness, The Riddle moves through a legendary world steeped in the rich and complex cultures of Edil-Amarandh. Maerad's journey, which began in the highly acclaimed novel The Gift, continues towards a mysterious end.* For surely now she will meet the Winterking, the author of her sorrows - and ally of the Nameless One, who is the greatest tyrant of them all . . .
The Crow is due out in both Australia and the UK May 2006. The final book in the series will be called The Singing. I think. I haven't written that one yet.
There's more info, including a couple of sample chapters and appendices, at my website - alisoncroggon.com .
In the UK and the US, the Pellinor books are published as YA fantasy, in Australia as adult fantasy. I guess that means they're "crossover". Either that, or people can't decide what they are.
Pellinor Myspace
Books of Pellinor BlogLast edited by Gemini; December 12th, 2007 at 12:36 AM.
March 28th, 2006, 12:36 AM #2
How to get the books ASAP
Live in the Americas or somewhere else not lucky enough to have the upcoming books published any time soon? Here are some links to order the books from Australian bookstores.
Angus and Robertson shipping is $20 and the books are only about $24
You can also order it from QBD, shipping is $25.
There is also Galaxy Books, it's about the same price as the others, i'm not sure how much they charge in postage though.
And for those who can wait a little longer, UK Amazon or from Amazon.com
Some more Online Australian BookstoresLast edited by Gemini; May 23rd, 2008 at 09:57 PM.
May 28th, 2006, 10:48 AM #3
Some spoilers for Gift and Riddle
Q: Will Maerad and Cadvan get together?
A: I can't answer becasue i don't know yet myself!
Q: Towards the end of the Riddle when Maerad discovers her ability to "wolfanize"... how come she didn't hear her third name? Does she not know it yet, and if so, when will she?
A: Her third name is, er, something that's coming up...obviously it can't be given her in the same way that Bards are given their names. So there has to be some other process. It's obviously rather important... Don't want to give anything away, guys!!
Q: Have you got a drawn picture of the mearad you have invisoned? or of any other characters? Could you describe Maerad's looks?
A: No, not one. I don't imagine them like that (which is why it's so interesting to see all your drawings and imaginings here, and also why I like so much seeing what book designers do...) I am a very bad visual artist. Maerad is dark-haired with very pale skin, pretty but in an unconventional way, quite short and slight but wirey and strong for her size. Very blue eyes. She's stubborn, very intelligent and has a bit of a temper. Quite shy, but when stirred feels things passionately. white skin and is slight and small (maybe when Silvia is bathing her? also when Indik is training her?) When she looks in the mirror with Silvia, after she's dressd up for the Welcome Feast, the "fine bones" of her face and her "full mouth" are mentioned.
Q: In the riddle when Maerad meets the winterking i found the fact that she fell in love with him was quite sudden, so why did she love him? was it just a spell or would she still have fallen in love with him even if they had meet in different circumstances?
A: I made that deliberately ambiguous, though I think my feeling is that the attraction Maerad feels is genuine and not manipulated by the Winterking. Just as the Winterking is enchanting her senses with his ice palace, it's possible that he is also similarly confusing her emotions. However, the kind of attraction Maerad feels for him exists in real life, and does happen pretty much all at once - instantaneous, inexplicable and irrestistable. It's one of the cliches of love stories, and like all cliches has a basis in fact. It happens for Maerad when she perceives Arkan's doubleness, when he ceases to be a one-dimensional cipher to her; at once she feels both more frightened of him and, at the same time, a sudden desire for him. Of course, very contradictory: but love on the whole is like that too. It's important, from my point of view, that this desire doesn't take her over, that she is able to leave it without becoming a victim of it.
Q: Did you cry when you wrote about Maerad loosing her fingers? Also, when she gets her "fingers of light" I suppose, will they stay in place of her fingers, or only when she's playing her lyre?
A: Actually, I didn't cry at that part - I knew she had to pay some frightful price, and it's a terrible thought, especially for a musician...I spent a lot of time thinking about what it would feel like to have a hand like that. The "fingers of light" only appear when she summons her magery, so that is now the only time she can play her lyre.
Q: In the Riddle, when Maerad thinks about Dernhill's death (page 8) it says "Despite that love she had spurned him, and when Dernhill had been killed by Hulls - the Black Bards who were servants of the Nameless One - she had mourned both his absence and a vanished possibility that she would always regret."
What does the 'vanished possibility that she would always regret' mean?
A: It means, simply, that she would always regret that she and Dernhil were prevented from being lovers by his death. (Quite possibly, for Maerad, Dernhil is The One: Maerad is by nature very bookish, and the most reluctant of adventurers...but she met him when she was too young, and then too quickly it was too late.)
Q: When is Maerad's birthday and do we see it celebrated?
A: Maerad wouldn't have a birthday, she would celebrate a name day (when she received her usename). To be honest, I'm not sure when it is!
Q: How did maerad end up with elemental blood?
Q: Nobody quite knows, but it seems that Ardina had some liaison with an ancestor of Maerad's, the House of Karn. The big love affair for Ardina was of course Ardhor, but I don't think Ardhor is the mortal referred to. After the Great Silence, Elemental blood would be considered scandalous, so it was no doubt covered up.
Q: Assuming that irigan is now in the possesion of the Ice King, will he ever give it back to Maerad? Or will Maerad just get a new sword?
Q: More than likely Maerad will get a new sword.
Q: Could you describe Cadvan?
A: Cadvan is tall and dark-haired, high cheekbones, physically strong; prone to be taciturn, often difficult and argumentative, sometimes arrogant, but with a talent for friendship.
Q: what's Cadvan's sword (Arnost)s name? As in, Maerad's is Iceblade in the speech, so what is Cadvan's?
A: Arnost means sharpness or edge in the Speech
Q: Is/was there anything between nerili and cadvan?
A: It's pretty safe to assume that there was, and that it didn't end that happily, for Nerili at least.
Q: Exactly how old is Cadvan?
A: Cadvan is about 70.
Q: When cadvan looked into maerads eyes on owan's boat that night to ossin, did he mean to show her his love and affiction, if it was that at all?
A: I think what happened in that moment was very complicated. Maerad reminded Cadvan suddenly of Ceredin (she is not much younger than Ceredin as Cadvan remembers her), and by association of what he felt for her. And that may have touched awake whatever feelings he has for Maerad (calm down people, Cadvan is a very complex man...) There's no doubt, I think, that Cadvan feels very deeply for Maerad, and she for him. What that means I don't know; it doesn't necessarily mean romance!
Q: Has Cadvan had any girlfriends other than Ceredin and Nerili?
A: I expect so... he's lived quite a long time. He mentions Il Arunedh with special fondness in The Gift, perhaps there are romantic memories there for him. But to be honest, I don't know.
Q: Did the winterking love Maerad, as she loved him? Or did he just want the treesong from her - and what did you feel about the winterking when you were writing about him?
A: I really enjoyed writing the Winterking, he was really interesting to think about. I don't think there's any doubt that he was manipulating Maerad, but I also think that his feeling for her was genuine.
Q: Does Arkan appear in the singing?
A: I don't think the Maerad/Arkan thing is by any means finished or resolved...so I would be very surprised if he didn't turn up somehow.
Q: How did Clavila die?
A: It was in a horse riding accident
Q: At the end of the gift, theres about 3 pages with lists of books by random people some by maerad and cadvan this slightly confused I was wondering are these lists of books? Are any of the books real?
A: My famous Appendices. You're talking about the footnotes. I have a lot of fun with these... The fictional books are all by people who have initials like mine (A,J or C), or by Bards. There are some real people there too - in The Crow, even some real academics who are kindly permitting me to distort and pillage their very serious essays.
Q: How many books are there?
A: There will be four, The Gift/ The Naming, The Riddle, The Crow and The Singing
Q: We know that the quest is to reunite the two halves of the treesong but can you give any hints as to whether reuniting the song will play a part in Sharmas demise?
A: Yes, it's an important part - but not the whole of it. I'm not going to say anything more - All Will Be Revealed in The Singing...
Q: the crow complety from hem's point of view? Are Maerad and Cadvan involved at all?
A: The events in The Crow take place at the same time as the events in The Riddle - it begins when Hem and Saliman flee Norloch and ends on Midwinter Day. So you already know how Maerad and Cadvan are doing.
Q: Why is The Gift called The Naming in America?
A: A book was released in America called "Gifts" just before Alison's was due to come out and to save the public from confusion the name was changed.
Q: Why did you choose to tell Maerad's story and Hem's story in seperate books, instead of switching points of view in different chapters?
A: Originally The Riddle and The Crow were imagined as a single book, with alternating narratives. I had written three chapters when I did some maths and worked out that the book would have been around 1000 pages long. So I split the narratives into two books, which ultimately, I think, has worked out better. The Singing will have alternating narratives, because now both Maerad and Hem are at the same point in time...
Cutting it off half way through wouldn't have been half so satisfying, for me, anyway. This way I could follow both Maerad and Hem's stories at this point of the book all the way through to an emotional climax.
Q: Can you explain the ageing process of Bards?
A: Bards mature as children at the same rate as normal human beings, but once they are physically mature, everything slows down. So adult life is extended. At 17, Cadvan would have looked like any 17 year old, at 30 he probably looked about 20, at 70 he looks about 30. A middle-aged looking Bard would probably be around 150/200, and Nelac, at around 300 (which is old for a Bard), looks very old - probably around 80 or 90
Q: Do we ever find out Cadvan or Hem's Truenames? Would Cadvan tell Maerad his Truename as a way of proving his trust of her etc?
A: I'm not sure how to answer this...I guess the easiest way is to say, yes, you find out more about names in Book IV
Q: What does Pellinor mean in the speech?
A: Pellinor means roughly "home of the flame", or even "hearth
Q: Do you think you will do another book after The Singing?
I really can't think past The Singing... one thing at a time! I'm not planning another Pellinor book, though I have ideas for other books that will hopefully get written. But you never know. I don't want to put out new books just for the sake of it - it's really important to believe in what I'm writing.
Q: Is the Speech based on any written language? (eg. Latin, Russian etc) or is it from your own head? Is it a complete language? or is it just bits and pieces you've made up to fit the story?
A: I based the grammar, such as it is, on Latin, but the words are not Latinate. It's basically made up as I go along - I have a couple of irregular verb forms, and two small dictionaries, English into the Speech and the Speech into English, so I don't get lost, and so it has some coherency as a language. But I think basically it only exists, such as it is, in the present tense.
Q: Would you like your books to be made into movies?
A: If someone made a beautiful movie out of The Gift, I would be very gratified, but I can't say it has been an ambition for the books - for me, they are books first and last, and books offer an imaginative freedom that movies just can't. I do know something about the movie industry, and I know how difficult it is. For one thing, something like this would require a king's ransom of a budget...To be frank, if someone wanted to pay me a lot of money to make a movie from the Pellinor, which is fairly unlikely, I would be very pleased - I'm a little tired of having no money - although I would have some concern, after Ursula le Guin's experience with the Earthsea adaptation, about what how it was adapted. The fact is that writers really have very little to do with movies, and once the rights are sold have no control over what happens.
Q: Do you have any preferences for the film? (if there will be one)
Q: There a few threads disscussing this, i think alison has posted on most of them
Books of Pellinor as movies???
Mearad's Thread
Dernhil's Thread
Who should play Cadvan? IYO
Cadders Cadidates: The Second Coming
Who do you think resembles Maerad?
The movies- should they be animated?
Taking after other books
There were also discussions on most of the threads dedicated to characters, "Cadvan's thread" and "Saliman and Irc's" thread.
Q: If someone offered to animate the Naming/Gift and every other book into movies, what would you say? What are your views on animation? Overall, do you like it? Dislike it?
A: I love anime and am a HUGE Miyazake fan - in fact, own dvds of everything except Howl's Moving Castle. I can't imagine what an anime of the books would be like (who me? I'm only the writer). There's a big thread here arguing about the merits or otherwise of this.
Q: Would you ever try another genre of fiction or just stick to fantasy and poetry?
A: I have actually already written another novel, a very short poetic novella called Navigatio which is a kind of meditation/memoir/outrageous literary fiction, so fantasy isn't the only kind of novel I write. I have also started another novel sort of based on a story that happened when the Conquistadores came to South America, which I would very much like to finish. These would I guess be called adult literary fiction, fwiw... I do find novels kind of addictive.
Q: Will u right another fantasy book? thats not to do with pellinor?
A: I have ideas for a couple, in fact: one a short book (with SHORT chapters) for younger readers, of which I've written five or chapters and hope to finish one day, and one a more adult-type fantasy about a kind of cruel extreme Wuthering Heights Grande Passion.
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A Map to the Forum...
New to the forum? Trying to find a thread? Here's your first stop, every thread in Alison's forum is listed here by catagory.
Many threads do contain spoilers, most of the time they are covered or a warning is given. Though, despite the Mods best efforts, we can't catch them all.
The Rules
Very Important; Read This For Newbies and Oldies
Character Threads
Saliman and Irc's thread
Cadvan vs Enkir
Other Characters
Arkan or Ardina?
Darsor and Imi
Fave character (overall)
Best of the Best - Best character?
Do you like/dislike the Winterking, Arkan?
Mirka's Thread
Dislike Enkir or not?
What character do you relate to the most?
Dernhil's Thread
Maerad's Thread
Cadvan's Thread
Cadvan or Saliman?
Hem's Thread
What Would You Have Done? (Riddle Spoilers)- Maerad/ Arkan relationship
Which character do you relate to the most?
The Books
The Books – The Original and The Best
The Books General Info
How to get the books ASAP
The Singing Discussion
Music – in the books
Why do you like Ali's books?
Annaren Nursery Rhyme [SPOILERS]
Relationships in the Books
And Then . . . ? – What will happen after the end of Singing?
Poetry in Pellinor – Everything from Alison's poems to poems you like to poetry in the books
Quotes – Your favourite Quote from the series
Names – most interesting names in the series
Book Covers
The Gift/ Naming discussion
Pellinor – Genral Discussion
The Crow Discussion (non spoiler thread)
The Crow Spoiler Thread
The Gift vs The Riddle
The Treesong – Spoilers
Favourite Moment in the series
Pellinor in the US
How you found the books
What do you think will happen between Maerad and Cadvan?
M+C: Should they/ will they get together
Author Questions - Submit a question for the FAQ's on a website created for Alison by her US publishers, Candlewick.
What If? Predictions for the Series
And Then . . . ? – What will happen after the end of Singing
Predictions for the series
Who Will Die?
What do you think will happen between Maerad and Cadvan?
M+C: Should they/ will they get together
Sharma's death
Pellinor "What ifs?"
Creative Pursuits
Pellinor: The Neverending Sentence
Sharma's death
Forumites Poetry
Tips for other writers
Bard Names – if you were a bard, what would yours be?
The Secret Escapades of Cadvan of Lirigon
Fan Fiction for The Gift
1st Chain story thread – now abandoned
2nd Chain Story thread – now abandoned
3rd Chain story thread - Still active
4th Chain Story Thread- Still active
Scenes from other POV's
Art – Pellinor fan art
Bards of Annar - A fan club based at DeviantArt
Role Play – The Glandugin Hills
Quiz Competition
Ask a stupid question get a stupid answer
Corrupt a wish
Lyre - One enterprising fan's home made version of Maerad's lyre, also discussion about music in the books.
Pellinor "What ifs?"
Who should play Cadvan IYO?
The Books of Pellinor as Movies???
Who should play: The Others
This is why there should not be a movie
Who do you think resembles Maerad?
Cadders Candidates: The Second Coming
The movies – Should they be animated?
Peculiar Places - where do you read?
Poetry in Pellinor – Everything from Alison's poems to poems you like to poetry in the books
Bard Names – if you were a bard, what would yours be?
If you were a bard – What school would you frequent?
Women and Fantasy
Where are your ancestors from?
What else do you read?
The Chattery
Ask a stupid question get a stupid answer
Corrupt a wish
Bards of Annar - A fan club based at DeviantArt
Inspirational Quotes
The Originals - A thread for founding members of the forum (Those who joined in the first 6 months)
Forum Tags
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ALUMNAE NUMBER The College News Volume I. No. 15 BR\N MAWR, PA., JANUARY 28, 1915 Price B ('cuts CALENDAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 33 11 v. m.� Taylor Hall. Meeting ol the Alumna' Association. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Second Semester begins at 9 o'clock. 7.80�Bible Class. The Rev. C. Deems. 9.30�Mid-week Meeting of the C A Lander, Mia Hall< tt. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 B.80 p. m.�Swimming Meet, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 fl p. m. -\'r~|)ir- Speak*t. A Wernet, '16 8 p if.�Chapel. Preacher, Dr. Kidman. BRYN MAWR COLLEGE LIBRARY Serenity anil peace and sunny dream Have laid their blessing on these grace ful towers, And airs august from old-world Oxford seem To breathe among these courts and cloistered bowers JOHN RUSSELL HATES (Reprinted from the "Public Ledger") ANNUAL REPORT The annual report of the College Library for the year beginning October 1, 1913. and ending September 30, 1914. has recently been compiled and the fol- lowing summary may be of interest In living some idea of the work of the library. During the year 2.584 volumes wen added, of which 392 were gifts, so the total number of volumes in the librat > on October 1, 1914. was 74,299. The number of volumes registered at the Loan Desk during the year was 24.648. of which 3,."fi8 were placed in the reserve book room and seminary rooms. The remainder were taken for study or gen- era! reedini outaide the building. \ record of the circulation of books by sub Jed was kept. The literature subjects (including the I lassical, French, Ger- man. Knglish. etc.) M With the circula- tion of 12,539 volumes. History and biography follow with the circulation of 2,""3; economics,, sociology, and education had MM; philosophy and psychology, L042; art. 779: religion and church history, "03; philology, 964, The, Heel had 3"1 taken tram tha main library, but as this number does not in elude the books taken from the DaltOti Hall libraries tha circulation for sciences inn. I .hi /'I THE ALUMN/E ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE The annual meeting of the association will he held in the Chapel on Saturday. January 30th. at 11 o'clock. It is the one regular business meeting held in the year Tha assiK-iation is composed primarily Of all who have received degrees from Hiyn Maur College, with the exception of about ninety ahiinnie who have signi- fied I lack of interest either by failure to pay dues or by a dlrecl Statement that they do not care to continue as members. In addition to the 1200 full members there are over two hundred associate members, former students who have not received degrees Associate members pay the same dues as full members and have the same rights and privileges, except the power of voting, and the right to hold of flee or serve on standing committees. Since the interest of a student in and her loyalty to the College is not always niea- urecl by the length of time she spends here or by the letters she is allowed as a result to affix to her name, we have among the associates some of our most faithful, active and valuable members. Inasmuch as there is each February in the College a Senior Class and several candidates for the Ph.D. degree, who in four months will become full member! oft the association, and who will then scatter so that many of them will rind It difficult to come to future meetings, the association makes a practice of inviting the Seniors and Ph.D. candidates to at- tend Though the meeting is a long one. its length has the advantage that in one day all the activities are reviewed, and any investigating visitor can liftd out ex- actly how the alumna?, as such, busy themselves in "cultivating intimate nla tions and friendly feelings among the graduate's of Hr> n Mawr College," in "fur therlng the interests and the general wel- fare of the said College, and thus main taining and advancing the cause of higher education." The Board of Directors. The five offi- cers of the association, president, vice. president, recording secretary, curie sponding secretary and treasurer, const i tute a Hoard of Directors which manages the affairs of the aeaoclatton in the in- terim of its meet inns They are elected biennially; the present officers eon ale< ted in January. 1914. The president. Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs. Frederick It. Kellogg), of 1900, was the president of the Cnderuraijuate Association when in College. This is her tirst term as presi- dent of the association. The other offi- cers were all re-elected last year. Jane Haines. "92, has been treasurer since her graduation; Abigail Dimon, '.'t>. has been corresponding secretary since 1910; Louise Congdon Francis, 1900, recording scretary since 1911, ami Mary Richard- son VValcott, "06, vice -president since 1912. Business of the Meeting The business of the meeting consists largely of reports from tha Board of i)i--"\ rectors, the treasurer, tin Standing com- mittees, the alumna' directors, the local branches and the special committees These reports usually bring subjects for discussion at the meeting. Taken to- gether they present a View of the activi- ties of the association in more or less de- tail. They will be published in full in the April number of the Alumna- Quarterly,- which is the official Organ of the associa- tion. The Alumna' Quarterly" was started in 1909, and until last year it was pub lished by an editor appointed by the Hoard of Directors. The editor as-unii-il entire responsibility for the magazine. which depended for its support entirely on subscriptions and advertisements. As its circulation was small, its financial standing was precarious, and the last edi- tor, Kvangelinc Walker Andrews, ''.'.:. after four years of manage.....nl that had been most satisfactory to the Alumna?. reelgned her position in 1919, and forci- bly presented the dilhYulties of the situa- tion. After much discussion it was de- cided in February, 1914, that the "Quar- terly" become an official organ of the as SOl iation. under the control of the Board of Directois In order to finance its pub lie�ation. amendments to the by laws wen- proposed, raising the annual dues of the association to one dollar and fifty cents, and life membership dues to thirty dol- lars. 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event_horizon wrote:You could be right though...maybe LV-426 was another planet that had nothing to do with us, and was just a botched mission. It's an interesting thought.
As stated above it's reported to be the same star system. Taken exactly as worded there is the possibility of a different planet or moon, but still being LV-426 is a possibility. Just another wait and see thing I guess. The derelict from Alien could have been there for a long time and even the Space Jockeys forgot about it.
You could be right about the Atmosphere Processor being what made it different. They never did explain how they worked in any great detail. However the climate was pretty bad in the first film. When they're walking to the derelict the wind is blowing quite fiercely and there doesn't seem to be as much in Prometheus. Maybe it has something like a "windy season" or the climate is affected by it's orbital location.
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Influenced by the work of Erich von Däniken, Anderson researched Däniken's theories on how he believed early civilizations were able to construct massive pyramids with the help of aliens, an idea drawn from Aztec mythology.
Incorporating the traditional Ancient Astronaut theory is a great idea. I wonder what it would be like if the Space Jockey race's name is Anunnaki. The film seems to be saying either that or it's just what we Humans call them.
If this were the case then maybe they worked in the Humans made to mine gold and the ship was on course to wipe out the slave population until a Facehugger got loose and crashed it on LV-426 to be found by the Nostromo and possibly Prometheus crews. This might work into the line about searching for our beginnings could lead to our end.
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1 cup Cheddar Cheese, grated
1 sm. Onion, chopped
1 can Sliced Water Chestnuts, chopped
1 can Cream of Celery Soup
1 cup Mayonnaise
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Mix all ingredients, except butter and crackers, together and place in greased casserole dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes then add cracker topping and back for 15 more minutes or until golden brown on top.
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February 19, 2012
Never heard of Veg-all, don't think we have it here in Michigan.
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Going against the name, I'd use all fresh/frozen veggies.
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either have I...but then again I never use canned vegetables
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I don't care for Veg all, the veggies all taste the same to me. So I'll pass on this one.
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Sounds good and I might consider it when I figure out where to get Veg All. Have never heard of it. Thanks for an easy and interesting recipe!
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My mom-in-law was a big veg all fan. She would have loved this.
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I agree. And I just can't use mayonnaise! Oh, my goodness, that's not for me. I'm sure others will love it. Thanks for sharing.
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Wieze/Belgium, April 27, 2012 – Barry Callebaut's Gourmet brand Callebaut® has taken an important step into the future by launching its 'Growing Great Chocolate' campaign that shifts the entire production of the 'Finest Belgian Chocolate' to sustainable cocoa as from May 1st , 2012. Since 100 years already, Callebaut® is the preferred partner-chocolate brand for food professionals and craftsmen all over the world. As of today, the chocolate will be made exclusively with sustainable cocoa, which recognizes Callebaut® customers' requirements for high-quality chocolate that comes with a guarantee of sustainable cultivation. With the 'Growing Great Chocolate' campaign Callebaut® invites its customers to discover the fascinating story behind their trusted, high-quality chocolate, starting right at the bean.
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quote:Take that with a grain of salt though because I can hang with a Vette until 100.
quote:Now thats some funny shite. Maybe a Chevette.
quote:The Vette would have to be C5 or older and not a z06, plus have a crappy driver.
quote:One series
quote:That being said, the girlfriend is wanting a car that both of us can drive
quote:600hp and 1200lb-ft of torque to the wheels
quote:Vettes are very hard to hook up correctly off of the line
quote:Dyno? 12.5s on street tires?
quote:Doubt it all you want, but it is true. I am putting down ~600hp and 1200lb-ft of torque to the wheels. 4wd launches and a very good driver can get it around 12.5s. By around I mean + or - a tenth or two. The high 12s low 13s was with the 3rd from highest tune.
quote:Oh yeah, I spent $900 on the mods to get it to where it is today so in your little drop-top Miata
quote:You can put a fricking rocket launcher on the F250 and you wont sniff a stock Corvette. Sorry
quote:Basically youre full of shite.
quote:So you are telling me that for $900 you added 300 RWHP?
quote:I agree w/ what you are saying, but that thing will need trans work, too.
quote:Once the air gets up under the front end, they are a bit of a handful.
quote: Some programmers can add over 300rwhp