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International Energy Outlook 2014
Release Date: September 9, 2014 | Next Release Date: May 2016 | Report Number: DOE/EIA-0484(2014)
World markets for petroleum and other liquid fuels have entered a period of dynamic change—in both supply and demand. Potential new supplies of oil from tight and shale resources have raised optimism for significant new sources of global liquids. The potential for growth in demand for liquid fuels is focused on the emerging economies of China, India, and the Middle East, while liquid fuels demand in the United States, Europe, and other regions with well-established oil markets seems to have peaked. After a long period of sustained high oil prices, improvements in conservation and efficiency have reduced or slowed the growth of liquid fuels use among mature oil consumers. The changes in the overall market environment have led the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) to focus on reassessing long-term trends in liquid fuels markets for the 2014 edition of its International Energy Outlook (IEO2014).
IEO2014 projections of future liquids balances include two broad categories: crude and lease condensate and other liquid fuels. Crude and lease condensate includes tight oil, shale oil, extra-heavy crude oil, field condensate, and bitumen (i.e., oil sands, either diluted or upgraded). Other liquids refer to natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels (including biomass-to-liquids [BTL]), gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), kerogen (i.e., oil shale), and refinery gain.
After the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s, much of the debate about world oil markets centered on the limitations of supply. Energy security was (and remains) a major concern, with large resource deposits located in and controlled by members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In addition, strong increases in demand for oil and a limited supply response to rising prices in the mid-2000s led to increasingly vocal concerns about resource depletion. More recently, with higher sustained world oil prices—by historic measures—and advances in extraction technologies, growing supplies of tight oil and shale oil in the United States have brought new resources to market, beginning in North America and, eventually, in other parts of the world. There is also hope that recent legislative changes in Mexico will reverse that country's recent trend of slowly declining oil production. Outside North America, the potential for large production increases in Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere could help ensure the availability of liquid fuels supplies for many years.
The benchmark oil price used in IEO2014 is based on spot prices for North Sea Brent crude oil, which is an international standard for light sweet crude oil. The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spot price and the North Sea Brent price diverged in 2011 to a high of around $30 per barrel, with Brent the more expensive oil. The spread eventually decreased in 2013 and 2014 as a result of new crude pipeline construction and crude pipeline flow reversals in the United States. EIA expects the WTI-Brent discount to continue to decrease over time and will continue to report WTI prices (a critical reference point for the value of growing production in the U.S. Midcontinent), as well as the imported refiner acquisition cost (IRAC). The recent decision by the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security to allow exports of some lease condensates after processing also has the potential to further reduce the spread between the Brent price and the price of domestic production streams.
Since July 2012, North Sea Brent prices have generally remained in the range of $100 to $115 (nominal dollars) per barrel. Growing liquids supplies in North America—especially from the United States and also from Canada—have brought more than 4 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) of additional liquids supplies to market since 2008. However, that increase has largely been offset by supply disruptions in other oil-producing regions, notably in North Africa and the Middle East. EIA estimates that unplanned crude oil production outages have averaged 2.7 MMbbl/d over the past two years and generally have trended upward, from 1.8 MMbbl/d in May 2012 to about 3.5 MMbbl/d in May 2014 [1]. OPEC member countries Libya and Iran and non-OPEC countries South Sudan and Syria have accounted for a sizeable portion of the unplanned outages. It is difficult to predict when the supplies may return, given the significant geopolitical difficulties faced by these producers. This adds considerable uncertainty to the mid-term and long-term projections.
Demand has also played a role in keeping world oil prices largely stable for the past few years. In countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (non-OECD countries), demand growth has moderated as key economies, including China, India, and Brazil, have seen slower economic growth and correspondingly slower growth in liquids demand compared with the past two decades. Liquids consumption among OECD countries, which reached its peak at 50 MMbbl/d in 2005, has generally been trending downward since that time, reflecting both slow economic growth and growing energy efficiency in the transportation sector.
Key influences on consumption and production are price trends and the reactions of consumers and producers to those trends, which in turn influence future prices. EIA has developed three price cases to examine a range of potential interactions of supply, demand, and prices in world liquids markets: the Reference case and alternative Low Oil Price and High Oil Price cases.
While the three oil price cases represent a wide range of uncertainty in future markets, they do not capture all possible outcomes (Figure 1 and Table 1). Because EIA's oil price paths represent market equilibrium between supply and demand, they do not show the price volatility1 that occurs over days, months, or years. As a frame of reference, over the past two decades oil price volatility within single years has averaged about 30%. Although that level of volatility could continue, the alternative oil price cases in IEO2014 assume smaller near-term price variation than in previous IEOs, because larger near-term price swings are expected to lead to market changes in supply or demand that would dampen price volatility.
1Historical price volatility is a measure of the magnitude of daily price movements in percentage terms over a specified period. It is measured by calculating the standard deviation (movement from the average) over the past 30 days of the daily percentage changes in price, and then annualizing the percentage. Market participants use measures of volatility to gauge uncertainty in factors that influence oil markets, including supply, demand, and geopolitical or macroeconomic events.
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It's not always easy being an Oscar-winner.
When Jennifer Lawrence returned to the set of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" after winning the best-actress Academy Award for last year's "Silver Linings Playbook," she was treated to a round of applause.
Then the teasing began.
"I kind of wish just the 'Hunger Games' group didn't know about (the award) because anytime I mess up my lines, Woody (Harrelson) is like, 'Ya better give that Oscar back!'" said Lawrence.
"But when I got back, I told everybody that things were going to be very, very different," the actress said, puffing out her chest before bursting into a bout of laughter. "The applause was sweet, but really it was like, 'Let's move on.'"
And move on she did, back in theaters this weekend as heroine Katniss Everdeen in the "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" sequel. Although the role isn't traditional Oscar material, playing a bow and arrow-bearing fighter in the screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling trilogy also isn't hurting Lawrence's established Oscar track.
"I don't really look for something (like Oscar potential) when I sit down to read a script," Lawrence said in a recent interview at a "Catching Fire" media event. "There is not really a lot of thought. It's a bizarre instinctual and emotional thing that just hits me."
Able to tackle dramatic and comedy roles with ease — both in studio blockbusters and smaller independent films — Lawrence says her continued universal success wasn't by design.
"It just sort of happened and everybody complimented me on it," said the actress. "I started out in indies and I always imagined myself being in smaller movies for the rest of my career. Then 'Hunger Games' came along and I was in a big pickle. I would have done it in a heartbeat if it were an indie, but it was giant! I had to take a few days to think about it."
Lawrence accepted the role largely because of her fondness for the strong-spirited lead character. "The stakes are high for her," said the actress. "It's exciting to have a female hero like this. It says a lot about our society."
Though she was already on Hollywood's radar after starring in the acclaimed 2010 drama "Winter's Bone," which gained her an Oscar nomination, Lawrence said "Hunger Games" raised the bar. "It took everything to a different place that I could have never imagined. And the (Oscar) did wonderful things for my career. I'm just rolling with it."
Deemed Hollywood's "normal" girl, Lawrence's accessible personality contributes to her demand. She endearingly stumbled while accepting her Oscar in February. She refuses to starve to fit the entertainment industry's ideals of beauty. And at the Nov. 11 premiere of "Catching Fire" in London, Lawrence averted from the red carpet to embrace a teary-eyed fan in a wheelchair.
"It's refreshing," said Lawrence's "Hunger Games" co-star Liam Hemsworth of the actress' disposition. "She's not trying to be anything she's not and she's got one of the biggest hearts of anyone I've ever met."
Adds "Catching Fire" director Francis Lawrence (no relation): "Jen is such a down-to-earth goofball that she sets the bar for everybody. She doesn't take herself too seriously. She's able to do an intense scene. Then she'll stop and joke. It's pretty rare to be able to do it to the level that she can."
Does she take pride in being so relatable? "Not really because I never really meant to," said Lawrence, who's ditched her skirt and heels and has changed into a pair of sweats for her late afternoon interview. "A girl can only take so much!" she sighed.
Returning to theaters Dec. 18, Lawrence will share the screen with veteran actors Robert De Niro and Christian Bale in David O. Russell's 1970s corruption tale "American Hustle."
She admits working with the seasoned cast made her nervous. "But Christian is the nicest and made me feel so normal and welcome," said Lawrence. The film was also a chance to again work with Russell, her "Silver Linings" director. "He's like creative epinephrine," she said.
Next up for Lawrence will be appearances in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "Dumber and Dumber To."
And as if she wasn't busy enough, Lawrence will soon go behind the camera as producer of the adaptation of Jeanette Walls' 2005 best-selling memoir, "The Glass Castle." "I don't know if I will be any good," Lawrence said, "but I'm trying it."
Feeling "very satisfied" with the course of her career thus far, Lawrence said she's yet to reach her professional sweet spot. "I don't feel like I've gotten to a place where I am like 'Oh, yes!'" said the actress. "But I've always just had, fortunately, a very relaxed way about all of it."


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Receiving the Call
Beset by doubt about his path, young Martin Luther King, Jr. heard Jesus' voice.Martin Luther King came to Montgomery, Alabama in September 1954 to become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. He had accepted his first pulpit while completing his doctorate in philosophical theology at Boston University, a decision that marked a fork in the road for a young man who had planned to become a college president someday.
Although the young pastor arrived in Montgomery with no intention of becoming involved in social protest, events prepared the ground for his emergence as leader of the now-famous Montgomery bus boycott that began with Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man. At the urging of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, then pastor of the First Baptist Church, King reluctantly accepted the presidency of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the pastors' group leading the boycott, on the assumption that the controversy would be resolved quickly. Instead, the boycott stretched into 1956, spawning escalating tensions between black leaders and white officials. King, conflicted over his new role, was in crisis.
The pressures of the recent arrests, city crackdowns, and mounting fears had started taking their toll. In an organizational meeting on January 23, a despondent King offered his resignation as MIA president. None of the other MIA board members seriously considered accepting the resignation, but King's self-doubts had been registered loud and clear. He even planned to publish an advertisement in the Montgomery Advertiser reminding townspeople that the boycott was not seeking to challenge segregation laws. The protest was approaching its third month with no end in sight.
The season of police harassments reached a dramatic climax on Thursday, January 26, when King was stopped by two police officers on motorcycles after having chauffeured several Negro workers to their drop-off spot. In a confusing roadside arrest, King was charged with driving thirty miles an hour in a twenty-five-mile-per-hour zone and placed into a police cruiser, which had presently arrived on the scene. As King sat alone in the back seat, he quickly realized that the police car was moving in the opposite direction of downtown. The car then turned into an unfamiliar street, and through a wooded area and over an unfamiliar bridge, and King's hands began to shake. "These men were carrying me to some faraway spot to dump me off," he thought. "Silently, I asked God to give me the strength to endure whatever came."
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The MFA curriculum can be completed in four semesters of full-time (in residence) study, with a fifth or sixth semester optional at either the faculty or student's request. The MFA degree requires 60 semester credit hours distributed as follows:
Major Studio 36
Liberal Arts – General Ed 12
Elective Studio 12
Total 60
The recommended semester course load for MFA students is 9 to 15 credit hours. Course loads over this limit must have prior written approval by the graduate director.
Normal Progression
|1st SemesterStudio Workshop & Studio Seminar I (9)Studio Elective (3)
LS/AH Seminar (3)
2nd Semester
Studio Workshop & Studio Seminar II (9)
Studio Elective (3)
LS/AH Seminar (3)
|3rd SemesterThesis Preparation & Studio Seminar III (9)Studio Elective (3)
LS/AH Seminar (3)
4th Semester
Thesis & Studio Seminar IV (9)
Studio Elective (3)
LS/AH Seminar (3)
Courses Descriptions
GS601/GS602: Studio Workshop
(9 credits)
As the cornerstone of the MFA program at MCA, the Studio Workshop is the self-directed component for the MFA candidate's production of work. Candidates conduct their own personal exploration of concept and technique in the art-making process under the guidance of the Graduate Faculty. During the course of the Studio Workshop, students are encouraged to consider the social, cultural, and physical context of their work as central to its interpretation. The studio seminar component of the MFA program brings together graduate students to build a common ground and develop a graduate community. This may include trips to galleries or museums, group critiques and critiques with visiting artists, videos, slides, readings, and discussions of contemporary issues. It also serves to develop written materials, such as the artist's statement, professional applications, and thesis in conjunction with input from other faculty.
GS701: Thesis Preparation
(9 credits)
In the third semester, MFA candidates are required to take Thesis Preparation. Thesis Preparation involves all of the components of the Studio Workshop with the additional component of honing in on a specific body of work or method of practice from which the final thesis work evolves.
GS702: Thesis
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Pending successful completion of Thesis Preparation, the acceptance of the Thesis Proposal, and the Advancement to Candidacy Review, MFA candidates are able to move on to the Thesis coursework. The Thesis coursework is the culmination of the candidate's work at MCA. Candidates are required to have an exhibition, a formal oral defense, and submit a written thesis document in which the historical, social, and cultural frameworks of their work are addressed.
HU600: History of Aesthetics
(3 credits)
The philosophy of art from the Greeks to the modern period is examined in this seminar. The Western philosophical tradition's changing treatment of the artist and the work of art is the focus of analysis and discussion. The metaphysical status of art, theories of expression and representation and the social value of the artist are some of the topics examined through the readings.
HU610: Modernism and Post Modernism
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Beginning with theories of what constitutes the dominant themes and issues of the modern period, this seminar explores the writers who have come to be associated with post modernism. Issues concerning art and the artist are examined in the work of such thinkers as: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Blanchot, Lyotard, Cixous and Kristeva.
HU613: Cultural/Visual Studies
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Introductory survey of foundational cultural studies theories and methodologies since 1965. Course will apply theories to various texts (literary, cinematic, visual, musical) so that students move beyond abstractions and toward praxis. Short essays punctuate discussions and comprise final grade.
HU615: Critical Writing
(3 credits)
This course is an exploration of writing as an art form. Through a variety of different genres, styles and imaginative composition, students learn to develop writing strategies for communication and expression.
HU620: The Artist and the Critic
(3 credits)
The place of the critic and art criticism is the central issue of this seminar. Writings by and about artists constitute the reading material. Both historical and contemporary sources are examined.
HU623: Cultural/Visual Studies 2 Picture Theory
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This is a follow-up course to HU613 and concerns contemporary theories of the visual sign, sign systems, and the critical issues surrounding visual imagery. The course explores the major genres of painting (history, religious, still life, genre, landscape) as a foundation for the discussion of visual semiotics. Other modes and media are explored as the course closes (photography, sculpture, film, etc.). The course asks students to produce a term project (artistic/critical) that engages one or many of the texts discussed in the course.
HU625 Mind in Matter: Material Culture Theory, Method, and Practice
(3 credits)
Simply put, the study of material culture is the study of "things"—human-made or human-modified products. These "things" can include clothing, your grandmother's heirloom jewelry, a formally landscaped garden, a painting, or the contents of a trash can. Scholars of material culture investigate these cultural products as a way to uncover the beliefs, values, attitudes, needs, hopes and fears of a particular society at a particular moment. This course introduces students to the methodology and theory of material culture studies through readings, discussion, and research. Most importantly, we will interrogate the ways material culture methodology may be used by practicing artists.
HU630: Topics in Aesthetics
(3 credits)
This seminar is a concentration on particular issues, themes or problems relevant to aesthetic theory.
AH631: Modern Architecture
(3 credits)
Trends and styles in Europe and the U.S. from Jefferson to World War II are explored, including Art Nouveau, the skyscraper, Wright, California modern, the Bauhaus, and Art Deco. Video and site visits may be offered. Each student will also complete a research assignment that is determined after consultation with the instructor.
AH632: Modern Architecture 2
(3 credits)
This course examines the developments in Europe and the Americas from the 1930s to the present, including planning concepts. Acceptance of the International Style led to the Postmodern reaction. Appreciation of leaders such as Johnson, Saarinen, Kahn, Pei and Gehry is enhanced by video and site visits. Each student will also complete a research assignment that is determined after consultation with the instructor.
HU650: Special Topics: Representing Trauma
(3 credits)
Can the horrors of war, genocide, violence and loss be represented? What is at stake in representing experiences often referred to as unrepresentable? This graduate seminar will examine attempts to portray psychological and cultural effects of traumatic events through a variety of 20th-century fictions, films, graphic novels and autobiographies. Reading selections from trauma theory, students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies. In addition, students will have the opportunity to compare theoretical perspectives from scholars of trauma, violence, memory, gender, race, class and sexuality. Major questions to be discussed include but are not limited to: What challenges does trauma pose to representation? What are the ethical and political implications of defining and representing trauma in relation to significant historical events and personal past? How do contemporary artists respond to trauma and attempt to represent it? The course will encompass 20th-century catastrophes such as war and genocide as well as everyday experiences of violence and loss.
HU654: Special Topics: Film Authorship
(3 credits)
This seminar will examine the ways in which authorship has been defined and employed in cinema. While personal style and artistic reputation were used to indicate quality as early as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith in the silent era, our study of authorship will begin with the critical dialogue that coincided with the growing intellectual influence of film scholars and critics in the postwar era. Beginning with the early conceptualizations of authorship by André Bazin and Andrew Sarris, each week we will focus on a case study that allows us to engage an auteurist approach by analyzing films while also exploring the ways in which assigning authorial status in a collaborative medium have been complicated and contested over the years.
HU655 Special Topics: Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies: Focus on the Civil Rights and Power Movements
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This course will provide an introduction to the fundamental theoretical concepts that define the field of media studies. Once the basics are established, course discussion and readings will explore several modes of media studies analysis, including feminist, multi-cultural and political modes. Students will be asked to use these analytical methodologies to interpret a range of cultural texts, including Meridian by Alice Walker, Without Sanctuary online musarium, editorial cartoons from the Black Panther and Gidra newspapers, as well as the National Civil Rights Museum.


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Can a Smart Person Believe in God?
Contrary to the slanders voiced by arrogant atheists, we who believe in God are in very distinguished company indeed.
Excerpted from Can A Smart Person Believe In God? with permission of Nelson Books.
It is the stars as not known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows. --Henry David Thoreau
Can a smart person believe in God? The only reason the question even needs asking is this: persons identifying themselves as atheists, agnostics, humanists, and secularists-a total of less than 1 percent of the population, according to the City University of Mew York's 2001 American Religious Identification Survey-tend to see themselves as Marines of the mind: they are the few, the proud, the rational materialists.
Boasted the nineteenth-century American politician and atheist Robert Green Ingersoll:
"For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few crave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other."
In Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, best-selling author Anne Lamott describes how she became a born-again Christian. It wasn't easy: it involved overcoming a sixties childhood dominated by sex, drugs, alcohol, and snooty secularism:
None of the adults in our circle believed [in God]. Believing meant that you were stupid. Ignorant people believed, uncouth people believed, and we were heavily couth. My dad was a writer, and my parents were intellectuals who went to the Newport Jazz festival every year for their vacation and listened to Monk and Mozart and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Everyone read all the time. . .We were raised to believe in books and music and nature.
Atheism and its attending superiority complex are especially rampant among certain leading scientists. In an article titled, "Scientists Are Still Keeping the Faith," published in the April 3, 1997 issue of Nature, Edward Larson and Larry Witham revealed that about 40 percent of all American physical scientists believe in a personal God (presumably, still more of them believe in a non-personal God). Considering science's widespread reputation for being godless, that's a pretty sizable fraction. But in a subsequent study, the authors discovered that among members of the National Academy of Sciences-science's high priests-a mere 7 percent believe in a personal God.
During my years at Harvard, I recall a physics professor teaching undergraduates about the seminal contributions of the early twentieth-century Cal-Tech physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Robert Millikan. Millikan is renowned for his brilliant and historic oil-drop experiment, in which he discovered that every electron carries an indivisible electric charge. It's too bad, lamented the Harvard professor, that Millikan, a devoutly religious man, was such a "low-brow" (his exact words) when it cane to his personal beliefs.
If you believe in God and the importance of intelligence and education and civility, how do you respond properly to such haughty atheism? For starters, by recognizing that for all their superior airs, atheists are really no different from you and me. Like us, atheists believe in something they can't prove scientifically.
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Some customers have had problems on BSDI 4.0.1 that the mysqld binary after a while can't open tables. This occurs because some library/system-related bug causes mysqld to change current directory without having asked for that to happen.
The fix is to either upgrade MySQL to at least version 3.23.34
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|gooey goodness
|homemade marshmallows + caramel + chocolate = heaven!!!
|- Megan
|Absolute Decadence
|My husband has been getting me these as a special gift for a few years now. Of all the things we've gotten from Vosges, they are in the top 3. The textures and flavors are perfect.
|- michele malone
|Absolutely Divine!
|The pillowy marshmallow is engulfed with dark chocolate and caramel to make all of that goodness stick together. The pecans also add a nice crunch texture to the smoothness of the marshmallow. I think they should try them enrobed with milk chocolate too!
|- Gina
|Tasty little treat...but was smaller in size than I thought it would be.
|- Michele
|Sweet, chewy, and slightly crunchy, amazing!
|I fell in love with these a few years ago when I ordered some drinking chocolate and saw these and had to order them. They are amazing, I've ordered them several times since and even as part of a friend's wedding gift (she LOVED them). The flavor combination is wonderful.
|- Shannon
|What clouds should taste like!
|I'm usually not one to turn to a marshmallow as the first line of defense against my sweet tooth cravings but after sneaking one of my husband's Caramel Marshmallows...I'm now craving them! The lightest airy puff of goodness with oozing caramel coated in the richest deep tasting chocolate with an added bonus of texture with the toffee crunch! So I'm done with the review to hop in the car and go get one now! MMMMmmmm
|- Gretchen Dust
|My husband brought these back for me along with some other Vosges goodies and these are my favorites! So rich just one hits the spot but, I can certainly put down a few more at a time if need be! :)
|- Tiia Mandell
|simply heavenly!
|I have yet to come across a product at Vosges that I do not LOVE!
|- Erin Smith
|I bought these for my mom as a Mother's Day present and they were an absolute HIT! Then, was totally excited when someone bought them for ME as a gift. Melt in your mouth decedent!
|- Emily
|I discovered Vosges on my walk around downtown NYC. Since I love chocolate I went in.. I was happy to find that they had chocolate covered marshmallows which I really love.So I bought some to take home. I thought they were fantastic! You get that terrific combination of chocolate,caramel and toffee flavor rolling around in your mouth and you just want to savor every bite! I only wish they can be made with milk chocolate as well. Everything is always fresh and delivered quickly. You wont be disappointed!!
|- karen glavin
|The Best Treat!
|This is the most delicious treat you will find at Vosges. Chewy caramel, moist marshmallow, covered by their perfect chocolate. Oh, and don't forget the toffee! The only thing is, eat them fast or else the marshmallow will tend to get hard. Plus, it will be an excuse to buy more!
|- M Rubin
|These are outstanding! Be sure to eat them by the date recommended as they are so fresh that they do get stale kinda fast.
|SCRUMPTIOUS! First bite feel the chocolate break and the soft sweet flow of carmel.The finish is the pull of marshmallow and the final crunch of toffee.A meld of textures and a finely tuned crescendo of flavors! My favorite.
|Soooooo good!
|I ordered these for my husband because he is less daring with his food. I didn't expect anything amazing but I was wrong! The quality makes it a night and day difference between these and cheaper versions!
|- Alesha Holley
|I've always loved chocolate and marshmallows. But when you add caramel, you have a bit of chewy heaven.
|- mary janssen
|Hmm... Mmm?
|I must admit, when these arrived today, I was very happy to see them. And I was right. They are absolutely delicious. But the dark chocolate threw me for a loop. I suppose I did not read the product info, just stared at the pictures and went "YUM!", adding them to my cart without another thought. And I was right, they are absolutely delicious. Surprising, because I'm normally a milk chocolate gal. The marshmallow is, of course, the star, and it's quite large. Fluffy and foamy in texture, it's got that sweet marshmallowy flavor, without a lot of the not so great oversweetness. Someone really thought this through! The dark chocolate is VERY dark, almost bittersweet, and the top layer of caramel is quite thin, to keep the marshmallow center-stage in flavor, I suppose. The toffee crumble on top is very fine. I quite enjoy it! I'm just surprised at how much I am!
|- Nina
|Make sure they are at room temperature
|I have to be honest... we brought these home from one of the shops (they had been refrigerated there), set them out for a couple of hours, and had some. They were OK, but not great. I left them out unrefrigerated overnight and just had some. Wow, what a difference. Make sure they are at room temperature for several (more than 12) hours. They are really good. A little pricey, but very good. Very complex flavors in each ingredient that you can actually taste.
|- L Bower
|Let me just say I hate marshmallows -- but Vosges you have made me a convert. Delightful-- simply delightful.
|- jamjem
|Simply Delicious..
|I received a box Vosges chocolates with a Victoria Secret purchase on my way to Las Vegas. The chocolates were so delicious I looked up the nearest store and it just so happen to be one in Las Vegas. My lucky day. Not only were the sales girls knowledgeable they possessed great customer service skills. The Caramel marshmallows are to die for a combination of chocolate, caramel, marshmallow goodness. The quality of their chocolate is definitely worth the price. My new favorite to-go-to for chocolate.
|- Sheila Ann Pullum Jr.
|True comfort food!
|This is for the beginner in chocolates and is a comfort food. It's gooey and good and will not last long. These remind me of s'mores at the campfires during Girl Scout campfire outings. These are great fun to eat because they are messy but delicious. These are the perfect gift for your tween or teen.
|- Miriam Marcus
|True comfort food!
|I just can't say it enough: this is the true comfort in comfort food!! Don't miss out by missing this, it's some of the best of Vosges.
|- Miriam Spectre Marcus
|The Best
|Simply the very best chocolate candy ever!!!
|- Lois
|Best sweet treat ever!
|I'm not much of a sweets eater, but I do like marshmallows. Holy Hell... best sweet treat I've ever put in my mouth. These are making it onto my Valentine's Day and Christmas wish lists this year!
|- Melissa J
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is mixing his Argentine past with his Roman present to create his new papal coat of arms, while harking back to a pope associated with the Second Vatican Council for the simple ring that he will receive during Tuesday's installation Mass.
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- "And what do knights swear to do? Protect the weak and uphold the good."
- ―Margaery Tyrell
Knights follow a religiously influenced code of behavior and honor called "chivalry". This code states that knights must defend the weak and the innocent, must protect women and children, must fight fairly and honorably, and obey their lieges. How closely a knight follows this code varies immensely from individual to individual.
Pursuing a knighthood is one of the few ways for a member of the smallfolk to achieve rank and standing amongst the nobility. However, such a task usually involves the expenditure of significant sums of money on armor and weaponry which puts it out of the reach of most commoners. The rank of knighthood is not hereditary, and thus a knight's sons must go through the whole process of becoming knights themselves. Of course, a commoner who has been knighted will have greater opportunity to gain the wealth needed to put his sons through training as knights.
In peacetime, knights prove their martial valor through training and contests of skill known as tournaments.
Knights have to be devout followers of the Faith of the Seven. As such, non-followers of the Faith, such as most of the inhabitants of the North (who follow the Old Gods of the Forest instead) and the Iron Islands (who follow a deity called the Drowned God) cannot become knights. Because it is tied to the Faith of the Seven, knighthood does not exist in other cultures outside of the Seven Kingdoms, either among the wildlings Beyond the Wall, or across the Narrow Sea in other continents such as Essos (though of course, a knight from the Seven Kingdoms may travel to the Free Cities). Sometimes, however, a soldier who does not follow the Faith of the Seven may nonetheless be rewarded for exemplary service with the title of knighthood by a lord who does worship the Seven, i.e. Ser Rodrik Cassel of the North.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, knighthood is an institution that came with the Andals when they invaded Westeros some six thousand years ago. Knights wore armor (derived from iron) and rode horses into battle, using massed-formation charges and lances to shatter enemy armies. The devastating effectiveness of this tactic permitted the Andals to conquer most of Westeros. This tactic was later adopted by others, so the cavalry of the North uses much the same weapons, armor and tactics as knights, but are not called knights due to their devotion to another god. In practice, there is little difference between knights and Northern heavy cavalry.
There are several types of knight:
- Hedge knights are typically commoners who have risen to knighthood. They have no fixed abode and wander the Seven Kingdoms looking for a cause to fight for. They are called "hedge" knights because it is said that they are so poor that they just sleep under hedges by the side of the road as they wander from one job to the next.
- Sworn swords are knights sworn to a particular lord. Sometimes this is permanent, but mainly it is temporary, with hedge knights joining a lord for a particular purpose and then being released from his service afterwards.
- Landed knights are knights who have been rewarded for their service by a lord with land, typically a smallholding, large farm or small manor with servants. They form the minor nobility of the Seven Kingdoms. Successful landed knights who expand their holdings or continue to perform exemplary service for their liege may be raised to the rank of "Lord" in time, leading a major noble House.
Most knights pass through three stages to achieve the rank. They start as pages, young boys who perform menial tasks for their lieges. Pages are not expected to fight in battle, but some do regardless. They are given lessons in riding and weapons in return. Upon reaching adolescence, pages become squires. Their training intensifies and they are taught the full comportment and responsibilities of knighthood. Squires are expected to fight in battle and carry themselves as knights at all times, even though they have not achieved the rank yet. They finally become full knights after they have proven themselves. Any knight can make another knight.
Thus the full course of steps for a prospective knight is: Page-->Squire-->Hedge Knight-->Sworn Sword-->Landed Knight. A man does not necessarily have to go through the first two steps to become a knight: if a commoner has significantly distinguished himself in combat, a knight may choose to elevate him to knighthood. Even a sellsword that has fought valiantly in combat may be rewarded by being dubbed a knight, though this is uncommon.
Further, a soldier who is rewarded by a lord for valorous service by being dubbed a knight might instantly be taken on by that lord as a sworn sword within his own household, skipping the hedge knight step. Further, while rare, it is not unheard of for a lord to reward a common soldier not only by dubbing him a knight, but by at the same time giving him lands, instantly elevating him from a simple soldier to a "landed knight" and member of the minor nobility, skipping the steps of "hedge knight" or "sworn sword" entirely. This was the case with Ser Davos Seaworth, who was a common low-born smuggler, but performed such valorous service running the blockade around Storm's End to bring food to the besieged castle's starving garrison, that Stannis Baratheon rewarded him by not only knighting him but giving him lands to rule.
Becoming a knight requires the applicant to swear an oath of allegiance and fealty to the Seven and to stand vigil in a sept for a night (these tasks need not be performed consecutively: it is not uncommon in times of war for a newly-made knight to not stand his vigil for weeks or months).
There is no formal bar against women becoming knights, only that it is simply not done. There is no "official" rule against women becoming knights, because it makes as much sense in their culture as making an official rule forbidding pigs to fly: it is absurd and simply impossible for a woman to be a knight. While rare, female warriors have served as pages and squires.
"Ser" is not a typo: the title for knights within the fictional universe of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series is spelled "S-e-r" with an "e", not as "sir" with an "i" as in real life. This is just a quirk of their culture. According to the TV series official pronunciation guide developed for the cast and crew, "Ser" is pronounced "SAIR". Actors usually say it very fast or slur it so it sounds very similar to the standard "sir", but this is not the case. That is, actor Sean Bean isn't saying "sir" with a Received Pronunciation accent so it sounds like "SAIR", the correct pronunciation of "ser" actually is "SAIR". On the WinterIsComing.com fansite, writer Bryan Cogman clarified that some pronunciations would differ due to the accents and languages of the speaker, "Ser" in particular.


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The Center for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) is a professional non-government organization engaged in developing and promoting appropriate/rural technologies effective in meeting the basic needs of the rural communities and improving their life support system in Nepal. Initially it was established in 1989 under the Company Act, CRT/N is now registered with His Majesty's Government of Nepal under the Social Registration Act since 1998. Since its establishment, the organization has been dedicated and actively engaged in upgrading traditional technologies and developing new technologies and effectively promoting and disseminating these technologies to strengthen the capability of rural poor communities. The program is focussed on responding to their needs and creating better options and opportunities for sustaining the rural livelihood.
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- February 2013: The Center for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) recently exhibited a parabolic solar cooker and other renewable technologies at the "Green Solution Fair", organized by ICIMOD, at Knowledge Park, Godavari, Lalitpur in December 2012. . The objective of the fair was to demonstrate various green technologies and raise awareness among students, researchers, and the general public. CRT/N demonstrated the parabolic cooker by boiling eggs and potatoes, which was found fascinating by the attendees. Similarly, CRT/N also participated in the two-day exhibition at Energy Week, organized by the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), to demonstrate the parabolic solar cooker again, along with a number of other renewable technologies. The solar cooker drew the attention of most of the visitors.
- February 2013: the government of Nepal, working through the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), has supported the promotion of about 600 solar cookers, mostly the SK-14 parabolic cookers, and has offered incentives to help with purchasing them. The Center for Rural Technology (CRT/N) in collaboration with its sister concern, manufacturing company Gramin Urha Tatha Prabidhi Sewa Kendra (RETSC), have taken a lead role in this promotion and dissemination of cookers. With this assistance, they hope to able achieve the project goals. Similarly, AEPC/NRREP with the support from stakeholders is planning to disseminate a number solar cookers, in the newly formed NRREP, over a five year period by conducting workshops, seminars, and demonstrations.
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Submitted on November 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Volunteer State Community College is hosting its first Open Table Tennis Tournament for players ages 8 and up on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pickel Field House.
Players will compete in a double elimination format in four age groups (8-12 yrs. old, 13-17 yrs. old, 18 yrs. old+ and Seniors/55+) and registration will be accepted on-site beginning at 8:30 am. Cost to register is $10 and includes a t-shirt and Pong-Pack provided by tournament sponsor Newgy Robo-Pong. Proceeds will benefit the Physical Education and Athletic Departments at Volunteer State Community College.
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(a) In general
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may make grants to the State of Alaska for the benefit of rural and Native villages in Alaska to pay the Federal share of the cost of—
(1) the development and construction of public water systems and wastewater systems to improve the health and sanitation conditions in the villages; and
(b) Federal share
The Federal share of the cost of the activities described in subsection (a) of this section shall be 50 percent.
(c) Administrative expenses
The State of Alaska may use an amount not to exceed 4 percent of any grant made available under this subsection [1] for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the activities described in subsection (a) of this section.
(d) Consultation with State of Alaska
The Administrator shall consult with the State of Alaska on a method of prioritizing the allocation of grants under subsection (a) of this section according to the needs of, and relative health and sanitation conditions in, each eligible village.
(e) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "section".
Source(Pub. L. 104–182, title III, § 303,Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1683; Pub. L. 106–457, title IX, § 903,Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1982.)
Section was enacted as part of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.
2000—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–457substituted "to carry out this section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005" for "$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1997 through 2000 to carry out this section".
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ENGL 5382: Contrastive Linguistics
Advanced comparative study of phonemic, morphological and syntactical differences between English and a sampling of other languages represented in public schools. It seeks to provide the prospective teacher with the opportunity to identify sources of difficulty experienced by students for whom English is a second language. Students will also study works by international writers. Students will tutor a limited English-proficient student for a minimum of 15 hours.


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May 5, 2016
The Department of Justice says a civilian from Beulaville working aboard Camp Lejeune has been sentenced for lying to get workers compensation benefits. Michael Lanier, 57, pled guilty in October to making false and fraudulent statements in his application for receipt of Federal Employment Workers Compensation Benefits.
Lanier was accused of submitted false information that he was not working for an employer, self-employed, involved in a business enterprise, or performing volunteer work in order to get benefits from the Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation Programs. That agency provides assistance to federal civilian employees who suffer an on-the-job or workrelated injury or illness. Federal prosecutors say Lanier collected money from the agency even though had been working. His jobs included property manager and deliver driver for two local pharmacies, a
sales representative and manager in a used car sales business, and a vehicle dismantler and general worker in a vehicle scrapping business.
Lanier was sentenced to five years probation, six months home detention with electronic monitoring, and payment of $30,000 restitution to the Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
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Smoke could be visible around Fort Carson Friday and in the upcoming weeks, as the Mountain Post begins burning debris leftover from a forestry project.
According to Fort Carson, environmental staff with the base will begin burning 250 slash piles, which are branches that accumulated after a forest thinning project. The burning was prescribed in order to reduce the risks of a fire in training areas on Fort Carson.
The base said in a release that they developed a plan to reduce smoke impact by "combining favorable weather conditions with a variety of management techniques designed to keep smoke to a minimum."
The prescribed burning begins Friday and is expected to run through March.
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Greenville Police are searching for a suspect following an armed robbery at a sweepstakes business.
The robbery happened at Emerald City Sweepstakes at 703 Southeast Greenville Boulevard in the K-Mart shopping plaza.
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May 5, 2016
A Greene County man who was arrested after deputies say he was smoking pot behind the wheel, with a baby inside the car was due in court Friday, but the case was continued.
31-year-old Jason Morelock of Hookerton was arrested in October during a driver checkpoint in Jones County.
Deputies say there was a baby in the backseat of the car and he was "reeking" of marijuana which prompted a search of the vehicle. The search revealed drug paraphernalia, eight guns and $500.
His case was continued until March 30.
A Greene County man has been arrested after deputies say he was smoking pot behind the wheel, with a baby inside the car.
Jones County lawmen arrested Jason Morelock, 31, of Hookerton, Wednesday night. Deputies say Morelock drove to a checkpoint reeking of marijuana. Once they took Morelock and an infant out of the car, lawmen found drug paraphernalia, $500 and eight guns.
Morelock is charged with trafficking opium, possession with intent to sell marijuana, driving while impaired, child abuse and possession of a firearm by a felon.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- A person familiar with the situation says Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy will interview for the vacant head coaching positions with the Chicago Bears and Arizona Cardinals this week.
The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly speak about the interviews, said the talks would take place in Denver.
McCoy, who interviewed with the Miami Dolphins last year after retooling Denver's offense to fit Tim Tebow's skill set, burnished his head coaching credentials this season while helping guide Peyton Manning through his comeback season.
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Flak jackets are a form of protective clothing designed to provide protection from such things as blunt-force trauma or even bladed weapons, shrapnel and other projectiles or weaponry. They are usually worn by chūnin and jōnin over their normal clothing in most villages, although the design varies among the villages and have also changed over time. The jackets are among the most iconic pieces of shinobi equipment. Most of them have pockets, which can be used to store scrolls and also allow a ninja to access them with only one hand, as seen with Kakashi Hatake's case when he normally does this secretly to extract a kunai.Also the color of the villages flak jacket stand for the their village symbol color.
- In episode 190 of Naruto: Shippūden, Iwagakure genin are seen wearing flak jackets.


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Ivan Pongracic on Why Socialism Failed
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Recorded: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Ivan Pongracic explains the impossibility of socialist states to engage in economic calculation, and why this always spells disaster. Talk given on July 17, 2013 in Berkeley, CA.
Experts: Ivan Pongracic Jr.Type: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Political Ideology and Philosophy
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Nanoparticle opens the door to clean-energy alternatives
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Research team members led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State, have found that an important chemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water is effectively triggered -- or catalyzed -- by a nanoparticle made of nickel and phosphorus, two inexpensive elements that are abundant on Earth. The results of the research will be published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More details and two photos are online at http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2013-news/Schaak6-2013 .


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- 1 Intro
- 2 Getting Started
- 3 Working on Joomla! Code
- 4 Beyond the Basics
This document will provide a brief overview of working with the Joomla Platform repository on github.com for people who are interested in making code contributions and using eclipse as an IDE. Much will also apply for people who just want to follow development, but that is much simpler.
Some preliminary information.
What is Git?
Git is distributed version control software. Such software (another example is Mercurial while subversion and CVS are non distributed version control systems) allow many people to contribute code to a single project and also allow for well defined tracking of code changes and provide mechanisms for recording commit by commit records of changes.
What is Github?
Github is a host for git repositories. It is located at github.com
What is the Joomla! CMS?
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What is the Joomla! Platform?
The Joomla! Platform also known as the Joomla! Framework is the set of libraries that are used to build the Joomla! CMS and other applications.
The platform is managed separately from the CMS and has its own release cycle; each release of the CMS uses one specific version of the platform.
The platform repository is located at: github.com/joomla/joomla-platform
Getting Started
Setup a Github account
First, you will need to register at git hub.
Once registered, you will probably want to go to github.com/joomla/joomla-platform and click follow. Then whenever you log in you will see the latest things that have happened in the repository.
If you are going to code, you will also want to click on fork. This will give you your own copy of the platform to work with. You'll probably want to follow that too.
Install Git
Now you will want to install git on your local workstation. Github provides excellent instructions on how to do this that will detect your operating system. Simply click on the Set Up Git button.
You will need to set up SSH. As it says on the Github instructions " Setting them up is fairly easy, but does involve a number of steps." Some will be specific to your operating system, so follow the instructions at github.
You will also need to tell Git your user name and password so that it can connect to your repositories on github.
Methods of Using Git
Command Line
If you like using the command line, git by itself provides commands to create a local copy of your fork at github. There are a number of tutorials and reference sites for git including:
Github itself has many documents about how to use git on its help site
Using Eclipse
For updated information on working with Eclipse and Git, see Working with Git and Eclipse.
Working on Joomla! Code
Getting to Work
Once you have your repository you are ready to start working on code. Whenever you have some code that you are happy with, you should commit it locally. Note that unless you commit, your local changes will not enter into version control. To commit, you click Team>commit.
Creating patches
The most painless method seems to be the command line as described on the git home page as a quick start "Cloning and Creating a Patch"
$ git clone git://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform.git $ cd joomla-platform $ (edit files) $ git add (files) $ git commit -m 'Explain what I changed' $ git format-patch origin/master
It seems also possible to create patches in eclipse eGit
You can also use git-diff to create patches, to create a diff with the latest commit
$ git diff --no-prefix ^HEAD
Beyond the Basics
Further steps
To be continued ...
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Trouble Shooting
If you get a message about unpacking try adding .git to the end of the remote repository url.