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So there's no little groove that the sit in or anything?
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
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Thanks for the help Ando. I think I'll pass then, I don't think the head sculpts are very good and since I have the xbox version, I'm pretty sure I will never see either of those two light and dark side costumes and so the set doesn't have very much appeal to me. The flaps and grooves just helps me feel better about deciding to pass.
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according to a recent Q&A by Raving Toy Maniac or Toymania.com Hasbro is planning another wave of figures from the Force Unleashed due on shelves in early 2010. wonder what the wave may consist of ?
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1. The Force Unleashed game is really cool and it makes me glad I bought all of the figures when they first came out. During one of the other Q&A's, you mentioned that there was "one more" TFU figure due out. Was this the Stormtrooper Commander? Is it possible to have this figure available via HTS as I had no idea this figure was going to be sold and it was sold out when I went to my local store?
Answer: The "one other" TFU figure mentioned was probably in reference to the GameStop exclusive Stormtrooper Commander, but it could also have been a reference to Shaak Ti who is scheduled for an early 2010 Expanded Universe wave at this point. We are also looking to add a wave of new TFU characters for mid-Spring 2010 and work has begun on these figures (at this time we will not be revealing which figures are in the 2010 lineup). Finally, fans will indeed have another chance to get the TFU Commander at the San Diego Comic Con 2009 - when it will be an exclusive shared by both StarWarsOnlineShop.com and HasbroToyShop.com.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Geez. How did i miss this thread?
I bought TFU the day it got released, and have been playing it constantly EVER SINCE!!!
I like being able to start the game from the beginning and always retaining the powers you had at completion...
Back to wants, i only really want a 1/24 version of the Rogue Shadow. The problem is that it's easily bigger than a properly scaled Millennium Falcon, and so it'll never happen...
I have made a set of plans, and i could make it myself, of course, but that's not going to help you guys out...(And it'd be five feet long...).
I would also like the little troop transport seen later in the game on Felucia and on the junk planet. Neat little ship, that.
And Ando, thanks for the namecheck in page one, but i have never seen that vehicle you mentioned in my XBOX360 version. If anyone has seen it in a level on the 360, let me know, but i have certainly never seen it.
From the wiki pic, it looks like an ARC170 with a troop bay and two sets of RG wings, is that correct?
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Yes. That's the picture that made me think it was a RG with two sets of wings but the cockpit of the ARC170...
If any of you guys have better screen caps from your version of the game(Or even a snapshot of the screen when it appears), i'd love to see other angles to better ascertain the shape...

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I dunno if there are many baseball fans here but wow was that a terrible call in the Braves vs Cardinals wild card game. I know Atlanta had a bunch of errors but that was a game changer.
I dunno if there are many baseball fans here but wow was that a terrible call in the Braves vs Cardinals wild card game. I know Atlanta had a bunch of errors but that was a game changer.
The call was terrible, but the behavior of the fans was even worse. Apparently Chipper's class didn't rub off on the fans, even after all these years.
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The NFL replacement refs didn't have anything to do tonight so they called the Braves/Cards game.
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I don't agree with a one game playoff. It's baseball at least play 3 games. I agree The fans throwing trash was uncalled for.but to play 162 games and lead the wildcard by 6 games then eliminated after 1 game is no good.
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I as a cards fan I even thought it was a crappy call, until I read up on it. The fans reaction was uncalled for though
first reaction was horrible call, after review of everything I think it was an ok call. There was a similar call for the Cubs this year where the SS went out just as far. Just so happens this rookie SS pealed off at the last second, plus it's magnified with it being the playoffs.
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The initial call when you watch it in regular time it looks to be a blown call. But when you watch it slowed down it is the correct call. The infielder can go all the way to the warning track and if he can get settled under the ball then it can be considered an "infield fly". I dont agree that the infielder can go that far and it be considered that but it is what the rule states. Had a game in college where this happend to us as well.
I am a Braves fan, just to get that out of the way. Watching it real time and only half paying attention since we were having dinner in a restaurant, I thought it was a bad call. Watching the replay, I think it was clearly the proper call. It matters little anyway since the Braves have shown all season that there is no way that they can take a series from the Nationals and that the ownership doesn't care.
Not sure what I think about the one game wild card. It sure makes the end of the season more interesting.
In discussing this with a friend of mine who is a former professional umpire, he says the rule states that the infield fly shall be called on any ball that an infielder can make a play on with reasonable effort. It seems to me that this call is made quite regularly in the course of a game, but that because the fielder rarely does not make the routine play, like the other night, it goes unnoticed.
The call was absolutely the right call according to the rules of baseball. Also the rule is in place to protect the Braves runners which in this case was the team at bat. The runners can advance at their own risk which they did.


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would just putting Rectangle randomBallRectangle = balls.get(i).getBallBounds()); in the update game method work? and would i first have to create the rectangle randomBallRectangle in the main game class? or can i do that all at once in the update game method?
just tried and it doesnt work. so im guessing id need a for loop
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After a shortage, I finally found canned pumpkin at the store last week. I ended up with some leftover from this recipe, and my dogs were thrilled to have it as a treat. The rest of us greatly enjoyed the muffins. They rose nicely and had a soft texture.
Because these muffins were to be eaten for breakfast, I purposely did not put much sugar in the recipe. You can add more if you like, but I didn't get any complaints. I was out of nuts, but would have enjoyed them in this recipe. Remember, you can substitute a gluten-free flour mix for the total amount of flour that I use in a recipe. Regular flour will probably work well also, just omit the xanthan gum. A milk substitute should work as well.
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- ½ cup sorghum flour
- ¼ cup millet flour
- ½ cup potato starch
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/16 teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅓ cup milk
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- Add the wet ingredients and stir well with a large spoon or spatula. Make sure all the flour mix is wet.
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He was born on July 15, 1985 to Ed and Donna Bardon in Dubuque Iowa. He attended DeForest High School where he graduated with high honors in 2004. He lettered in football and basketball and went on to play basketball at UW Eau Claire. He loved spending time with his family and friends, especially his nieces Myla, Sage, and Ilee, and looked forward to the two on the way.
Jared is survived by his parents; his brothers Jeremy (Erica) and Jay (Lisa) Bardon; grandmother Rita; many aunts and uncles, cousins and friends.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather Clem Bardon, and maternal grandparents Art and Myrtle Weber.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 1, 2013 at RYAN FUNERAL HOME, at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Thursday February 28, 2013 from 4:00-8:00 p.m. and again on Friday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service. Burial will follow at NORWAY GROVE CEMETERY.


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Abstract on canvas.High quality canvas.Ready to hang, no framing required.Sealed with clear lacquer.Medium: Acrylic on gallery-wrapped (staples out of sight at the back), stretched, cotton canvasColours: Green, Yellow, Orange, White, Brown, Grey, Size: 39.37" x " 31.5" x 0.71 (100cm x 80cm x 1.8cm)Each one: 19.68" x 15.75" x 0.71 (50cm x 40cm x 1.8cm)Created: To be painted to order This artwork shows the four seasons .top left : springtop right : summerbottom right : autumnbottom left : winterBut you can hang the canvases you like.This is an original abstract acrylic painting on canvas. This abstract painting was created using heavy-body acrylic paints on gallery-wrapped, cotton stretched canvas. The painting will arrive to you ready to hang and finished in an invisible, protective varnish. The sides are painted so there is no need to frame your painting unless you wish to. © 2015 Parscha Mirghawameddin. All rights reserved.NOTE: The images in context are not to scale and are for display purposes only.Certificate of Authenticity & Hologram SystemEach certificate is made of premium deckle edged mould made paper with a Hahnemühle watermark and fluorescent security fibres. A serialized numbered hologram should be added.The combination of certificate and hologram assures that each Certificate of Authenticity relates to one particular piece of art. If you have any questions, or would like a custom painting like this but in different colours or another size, please do not hesitate to contact me.Parscha Mirghawameddin
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simplehuman™ Steel Frame Dish Rack with Wine Glass Dryer
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Flip-out cup holders and a removable side rack for drying wineglasses make this dish rack adaptable. It's generously sized to hold assorted dinnerware and pots. A built-in bamboo knife block provides a safe place to dry cutlery, and an extendable drip tray with pivoting spout directs water into the sink. The elegant steel frame nicely complements stainless-steel appliances.
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Acrylic/Gloss on canvas 2016This painting comes FRAMED and ready to hang as pictured. From Merv's "Impasto" series All paintings are signed, dated, and comes with Certificate of Authenticity to verify its originality and uniqueness."In my studio, I am creating a free flow of ideas, thoughts and emotions, narrated in an abstraction in which colours and shapes randomly collide. My canvas is like a toy to me, extremely personal yet universally relevant to the human journey. I dabble in modern abstract images which are often received through inner vision and self-conflict expression. In this journey through expressionism, I have discovered my artistic style and philosophy. I have chosen primarily pure abstract expression as it allows individual viewers to reach inside themselves for their own inner response to the work. This way, I have created an emotional response without even being specific. I am entirely self-taught"
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I bought this for my 06 jeep grand cherokee with the 3.7 V6. it has a 2 in lift and bigger tires (31's, i didnt want to go too big since its my daily). i bought the programmer mainly for tire size calibration for my speedometer, but i was pleasantly surprised by the performance increase from the tunes. great power increase across the RPM range, throttle response is instant (i also have an injen cold air intake), its no race car but its a nice addition. MPG's increased also. only con is price


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I am a GIMP user and have found there are a few people who use it. If you do not know what it is, it is a free download program that is very similar to Photoshop. Since I have been out of work, I have had to find a program to use that cost little or nothing. I found this one and I really love it!! Thanks to everyone!
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I have heard about it, but haven't had time to download or play with it.
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Posted 25 April 2008 - 09:48 PM
I've played with it a bit, but not really got into it. Sometimes I felt like I just didn't have the technical knowledge - I didn't really understand what some of the terms meant, so I didn't know how to get going.
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I do use Gimp, along with PSP and Photoshop CS2. I love Gimp and think it is a fantastic freeware program.
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I've used GIMP for various things for over a year now. I just downloaded Photoshop Elements 6 free trial, and I can't wait to play with it. My mom is going to get me the PSE6 in August, but I get to play with it for now. GIMP is actually a pretty good system, not as intricate as PS in my opinion, but good.
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or seven leaders (ages 15-21) of the Children's Movement for Peace, a coalition of young people working together for a future of peace, along with their biographer, Sara Cameron, will speak at 4:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in 302 Frist Campus Center.
Cameron of UNICEF, won the Turner Tomorrow Award and the Edward Abbey Award for her first novel, "Natural Enemies." Her book about the Children's Movement is entitled "Out of War: True Stories from the Front Lines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia."
This event is sponsored by the Third World Center and the Peace Education Committee of the Coalition for Peace Action. For more information, call (609) 924-5022 or (609) 258-5494.
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FORT RILEY — The 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, will host a ceremony to honor soldiers for valor during the unit's deployment to Afghanistan at 10 a.m. Monday at building 727 on Fort Riley's Marshall Army Airfield.
A soldier, who rescued his close friend from hostile fire, will receive a Bronze Star for Valor. The soldier was wounded in the process and killed several Taliban fighters in the exchange.
Other awards scheduled to be presented are Purple Hearts and Army Commendation Medals for Valor.
The "Dreadnaughts" supported Operation Enduring Freedom as part of Combined Task Force Strike and Combined Task Force Spartan while partnered with the 2nd Kandak, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps from the Afghan National Army.
Throughout their yearlong deployment, the "Dreadnaughts" conducted numerous air assault operations into an area heavily defended by the Taliban, resulting in many engagements and awards for valor.
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http://blog.bioware.com/2012/04/11/o...on-resurgence/Operation BEACHHEAD eased the pressure on allied planets and freed up conventional forces that were being hammered by the Reapers. With these reinforcements, the allies can use RESURGENCE to target more critical infrastructure.
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and i thought locke was the only one who was crazy about that game. i dont think he got up off the couch the entire first day he had it. if i didnt kick him out of the house, i dont think he would have gone to work.
Finally got a new challenge up and running, plus new features.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/...ming-next-weekBioWare has announced that the Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut will be available as a free download for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 26th in North America. In Europe, the content will arrive on the same day for Xbox 360 and PC but will arrive on July 4th for PlayStation 3.
Id strongly recommend FemShep. When i played mine it gave the series a new breath of life. Jennifer Hale's voice acting gave the various situations a different light to them, especially in the first two games. While i have no problem loading up another male Shepard, i have been reluctant to play another FemShep because she wouldnt be...well, "mine".
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ahahahahahaha. Well, tried out the ME3 extended edition ending. Before i talk about the actual ending, i'll mention something Bioware added.
So im playing one of my characters and, having just watched the "green" ending on another Shepard, i decide to just goof around. Walking around, randomly shooting ****, doing whatever came to mind. Then i apparently went to far. While shooting my gun i hit something i was not meant to hit. Why? Because apparently Bioware ninja'd in a 4th ending. Dont want to give it away but will say the unexpectedness of it was absolutely hilarious.
The other 3 endings were great. They gave the players extra dialogue options when talking to the "kid". Instead of being vague(which i actually liked) they kind of beat you over the head with the explanations about what "he" is exactly and what his motivations were. While i believe those of us on here who have spoken about it will go "yeah, thats what i thought", i have little doubt that the majority of the rabid idiot fanbase that spent months 1 staring the game on Amazon reviews will go "Oh, i get it now, they should have said that from the beginning!".
On top of origin and motivation "clean-ups", they added extra scenes on different planets to show the effects of the choice you made(Earth, Palavan, Thessia, Tuchanka or whatever the damned Krogan planet is). Probably the biggest plus in my opinion is they add a small "slideshow" at the end showing a handful your former squadmates or important supporting cast members(Major Coats from ME3 for example) and it hints at what they are up to now that the battles are done and what exactly is going on immediate after the war(including the fate of the Reapers). It also gives a dialogue of what the future could bring with each ending, with EDI, Shepard, Hackett, and Liara voicing the different outcomes. As well, they add a final moment on the Normandy with your current crew.
Now the bad. Despite what Bioware stated, they did in fact change the endings in two different ways. For the main one there is enough wiggly room for them to keep whatever plot they want in future games to still be relevant, but they definitely changed it from what fans were sobbing about. I was fairly disappointed that they gave in. It can still be salvaged for whatever they have planned for ME4, but its no longer the definitive statement it used to be. Shepards "story" before seemed to say to me that: "The Reapers are a huge deal. Things wont be the same because they came and things SHOULDNT be the same. In order to stop them the galaxy will have to drastically change".
Now it seems as though they are saying "hey, things have changed but give it a few and stuff will go back to normal".
The second story tweak was hinting at the fate of the Normandy crew. I dont have a problem with it(its more optimistic), but i really wish they had saved it for the "good" ending instead of giving it to all of the endings. No big complaint.
Id say this download was well worth it. My only real gripe has been mentioned and even that the Bioware team can move forward with easily enough. If nothing else, this free download gives you a more definitive look at your choices and a few more space battle scenes(just a handful but i thoroughly enjoyed the combat scenes before the DLC and certainly didnt object to more of them). If i had put a number on my response to it, it would be 85% pleased 15% annoyed.
Just a tip for those wanting to try it: Bioware suggests you load up a pre-Cerberus headquarters mission to get all the scenes. I played the regular game to completion twice before the DLC and for the life of me couldnt see anything new until after i started running towards the beam on Earth. If you have any saved files from the London mission, you should catch all of it with no problems.


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The beer company recently released a photo of a more modern-looking bottle that will hit bars and restaurants this summer.
The new bottle is still brown with a blue label, but the shape is entirely different. Perhaps most notable is that the top of the bottle is broader than the bottom. The bottle's neck is also shorter.
In a press release from MillerCoors, the company says the bottle was "inspired by form and design" and that its "contoured grip" is "intended for easy handling from the bar to the pool table."
Ryan Reis, senior director of Miller Lite, is quoted in the press release as saying, "We're proud of the new design and we're excited to see how everyone reacts to our new look. This time when you grab a Miller Lite, you'll know it."
(See also: How fattening is your favorite beer?)
This marks the first time in 40 years that the Miller Lite bottle has gone through a major update, according to Gizmodo. Other beverage companies (both alcoholic and non-) have been on a tear with new packaging this year, as well.
Heineken launched a new bottle design with a longer neck earlier this year. Budweiser recently came up with bow tie-shaped cans. And Pepsi rolled out a new design for its 20-ounce bottle, the first time the company has changed the bottle in 17 years.
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Just finished this pine box up for Gary. He asked for a little something different in the sound, and with a little digging I found the right piece of maple for the surface. It has a sweet smooth hollow sound to the yelps with just a little deep rasp at the end, but will get nasty if you get on it. The purrs are soft and smooth with a good soft chatter to them. The kee kees are a sharp clean whistle, both high and low tones. The cutts are snappy and sharp.
This pine also has the mineral stains in it with a bluish/grey on the bottom and a brownish/black ring around the top of the box.
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Oakley SI Ballistic M Frame 3.0 Sunglasses - Matte Black Frame with Gray Lens
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Plutonite lenses block 100% of UVA/UVB/UVC rays
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The smallest fragment can end the biggest mission for a soldier, but the best eyewear does more than protect against ballistic fragmentation. It provides the optical clarity that helps the soldier avoid the danger in the first place. It offers uncompromising comfort so the soldier can concentrate and stay focused. And it maximizes efficiency and convenience by offering the widest possible compatibility. Oakley has spent decades engineering combat-ready equipment for the U.S. Armed Forces, and the SI Ballistic M Frame 3.0 Sunglasses bring the future of protective eyewear to today's battlefield and beyond. The Oakley icon is synonymous with precision optical engineering and unrivaled innovation, and this design shows why. Barely more than an ounce in weight, the SI Ballistic M Frame's ultra-lightweight yet rugged design meets or exceeds the ballistic fragmentation impact standards of MIL PRF-31013, Clause 188.8.131.52, as well as the high-mass and high-velocity impact requirements of ANSI Z87.1-2003/2010. Oakley's entirely new thin stem technology optimizes durability while enabling compatibility with over-ear hearing protection and communication systems. Clear, unobstructed vision is maintained by an advanced anti-fog coating of all lenses. Offering the ultimate in convenience, compatibility, clarity, and comfort, this protective optical system is paired with three optional interchangeable lenses, all of which are optimized with the visual fidelity of High Definition Optics and Polaric Ellipsoid geometry. All optional lenses are made of Plutonite, Oakley's high-purity optical-grade polycarbonate, which filters out all UVA/UVB rays and harmful blue light up to 400nm wavelength. Oakley's patented ARGO lens cut maintains clarity at all angles of vision, not just straight ahead. Lightweight O Matter frame material resists chemicals and impact to ensure long-lasting durability. The hydrophilic Unobtainium nose pad provides a secure fit, even when it's raining or you're sweating. The frame system's convenient design allows for quick, tool-free lens changing. SI Ballistic M Frames are fully compatible with helmet-mounted night vision devices, as well as with MICH, ACH, CVC, PASGT, and Crye Helmets.
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RedGiant A00 Malleus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
" At around $65 USD (but also priced just over $40 USD in Taiwan), the entry-level Malleus is an economic tour-de-force. It does come with a much sparser set of accessories than the A03, with no felt carry case, no extreme bass-sealing tips or silicone elastomer rings (according to RedGiant, both may be included in future revisions), but it doesn't mean RedGiant skimped on the Malleus. ..." --tomscy2000
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RedGiant A04 Incus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
Durable construction and a powerful sound signature make the Incus a perfect choice for your daily use in-ear headphone. A solid cast zinc-alloy shell directs the energy from the tuned 12mm drivers into producing thick, rich bass instead of flexing or vibrating the housing. The solid build and sound quality offered by the Incus make it a go-to tool worthy of even the most discerning audio...
Aiwa HP-EC101 Ear Clip Headphones (Black/Carbon Color)
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HM422 - 2 Bedroom Suite / 2 Bath, Sleeps 4
Bedding: 3 Beds (K, BB)
BEDDING GUIDE: K = King, SK - Split King, Q - Queen, T - Twin, QSS - Queen Sleeper Sofa, BB - Bunk Beds, F - Full, FSS - Full Sleeper Sofa, TR - Trundle
This two bedroom suite offers almost 2,000 square feet of space for your enjoyment and relaxation. Enjoy the impressive views of the ski area from all of the balconies as well as the windows. This very roomy and comfortable space offers a large open floor plan with a main living area decorated with a contemporary style very unique to the property and reflects the international lifestyle of the well-traveled owners. With hardwood floors, a large flat screen TV and surround sound, flat screen TV's in each bedroom, a gas fireplace, gourmet kitchen as well as a washer and dryer, this residence will exceed your expectations. An iPod docking station feeds your personal music into the central audio system which can also be streamed into the bedrooms. The spacious gourmet styled kitchen equipped with double-ovens, a unique large banquet styled dining table that will seat 8 comfortably is ideal for home cooked family style or catered meals. The inviting master bedroom suite offers the sumptuous comfort of a king bed with luxury linens, plush bedding and a cozy sitting area. A spacious second bedroom has bunk beds, twin over full, perfect for travelers with young children. Each bedroom and the living room provide access to both balconies. This residence is equipped with a couple ceiling fans which increase air flow and create a comfortable climate.
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Attacks on the Press | Ethiopia
Attacks on the Press 2009: Ethiopia
• Terrorism law criminalizes coverage of sensitive topics.
• Broadcasting Authority serves as government censor.
4: Journalists jailed as of December 1, 2009.
Ahead of national elections scheduled for May 2010, the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) further curtailed the limited freedom of the country's small number of independent newspapers. The government enacted harsh legislation that criminalized coverage of vaguely defined "terrorist" activities, and used administrative restrictions, criminal prosecutions, and imprisonments to induce self-censorship. In all, four reporters and editors were being held when CPJ conducted its annual census of imprisoned journalists on December 1.


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H2O Audio Surge Contact 2G Waterproof Sweatproof Sport Headset with Waterproof Mic
H2O Audio Surge Contact Waterproof Sweatproof Sport Headset with Waterproof Mic combines our leading waterproof speaker technology with an innovative in-line waterproof microphone, allowing you to stay connected while you submerse yourself in sound. Pair your iPhone, Droid, Blackberry or other music enabled phone with an H2O Audio Amphibx Waterproof Armband and you'll never have to worry...
Dynex Ear Bud Headphones for Apple iPod Shuffle
Listen to your iPod shuffle while on your way to class or at the gym. These ear bud headphones feature a lanyard neck strap for hands-free transport whether you're lifting weights or rollerblading.
H2O Audio Interval Waterproof Headphone System for iPod Shuffle (2nd Gen)
The Interval Waterproof Headphone System's sleek waterproof housing and integrated waterproof headphones attach to practically any swim goggle making it a low profile, hassle-free way to stay motivated during your next swim.
H2O Audio H3 Waterproof Headphones
H2O Audio H3 Waterproof Headphones let you listen to music while swimming with the optional H2O Audio waterproof housing. Their modular design allows you to use the headphones as standard earbuds, or with the detachable wrap-around sports band. Aquatic silencer earplugs reduce noise and seal out water. The reactive coiled cable eliminates tangles and provides flexible slack that moves with you.


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News just in from Lucasfilm and Disney reports on a new animated Star Wars tv show, Star Wars Rebels. The Clone Wars showrunner Dave Filoni will be executive producer on this series, along with Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, Young Justice) and Simon Kinberg (Ep VII, X-Men First Class, Sherlock Holmes). The show will take place between Episode III and IV, it will be CG and will borrow from Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie's iconic designs. Star Wars Rebels will air on Disney XD with a one-hour special on Disney Channel first, and is looking to release in fall of 2014. More details and a video below.
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Wooden Mallet DW10-1LOAK Prairie Armless Guest Chair in Light Oak; Arch Khaki (WDNM418)
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Additional fees apply to the following: If an installer is not in your immediate area, businesses located in the state of New York, stairs (quoted per stair), before/after working hours (8:00am-5:00pm), weekend deliveries, customer requested installation dates, panel systems, tables over 8 feet and removal of old furniture. Due to the nature of high-volume orders, we need to work directly with the installer for a quote.
- Dakota Wave by Wooden Mallet's Prairie series standard leg armless chair with its full length, fully upholstered back offers graceful styling for sophisticated good looks.
- Built with a 1" thick solid oak frame and extra thick seat and back cushions for comfort and durability.
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- Materials: Solid Oak (frame), Metal (brackets) Fabric, Foam, Plastic (seat base).
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Never lose power when you're on the move.
- Play for longer - the portable charger can carry 1.5 times the battery life of the PS Vita system's internal battery, giving a massive boost to on-the-go gaming sessions.
- Take the sleek and lightweight portable charger anywhere and everywhere.
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Rick Dees At The Lone Ranger World Premiere!
Rick Dees was one of the many celebrities who walked the red carpet at the world premiere of The Lone Ranger at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim, California, Saturday, June 22nd.
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Sam Sheridan has an intimidating bio. In addition to stints in the U.S. Merchant Marines and a degree from Harvard, he's worked construction at the South Pole, been a cowboy on the largest ranch in Montana, and toiled as a wildland firefighter, a sailor, and a wilderness EMT. He's also written a couple books on his time as an amateur boxer, MMA fighter, and student of muay thai and jiu-jitsu.
You'd think that would make him the top draft pick for anyone's fantasy survival team. But guys like Sam tend to be overachievers, so in the interest of really preparing for the end times, he challenged himself to learn the few practical, adaptable, post-apocalyptic skills he didn't already possess. Then he wrote a book about the point and process of learning each of these. This is The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse.
On the occasion of his book's release, we gave Sam a call to discuss stealing cars, outdriving zombies, and if there's anything he wouldn't do to survive. Highlights from our conversation follow.
Brett Berk: "You have quite an impressive, varied, and very butch resume. Are you working from some sort of lifelong checklist, or do you just enjoy a challenge?"
Sam Sheridan: "There's no checklist. It's just you sort of—I'm always looking for what's the most fun thing to do at the moment. I definitely try to set up things and see if I can get things working that seem kind of extreme. But I have a million jobs I've tried for that I haven't gotten—like, I tried to get hired as an oilrig firefighter once."
We're all going to die sometime, and when the bomb hits, I personally plan to drive into the mushroom cloud. Why this profound interest in resisting the apocalypse?
I think it's human nature. You may say now that you hope you'll be incinerated, but when an event actually happens, the natural thing is to choose life. Also, I recently had a son. When you're a single guy, you think: if a tsunami comes, I'm a good swimmer. I'll be fine. But when you have a family, you have other people who you're responsible for.
You learn how to forage for food, perform close-range knife combat, and patch up traumatized family members. But you spend a lot of time discussing your "go bag"—the items you need to be ready for whatever comes. If you had to winnow that down to just three things, what would they be?
People always want lists—what's the best this, what's the best that. But you have to look at problems and think about what you'll be facing and what tools you'll need. Survival is very much like jazz. It's improvisational. There's no right way to do it, it's just doing what works. In order to survive, you try to move within the rules, and play a jazz song.
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Well, a project that has been on and off again for years is now on again, with a different developer. In the latest issue of Computers Games Magazine (CGM) it was announced that Turbine Entertainment, creators of Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2 are now developing a Middle Earth: MMORPG (Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game). If it's even half as good and revolutionary as the first Asheron's Call, it will be an amazing game.
Finally, Asheron's Call's own Turbine Entertainment is working on the genre that almost seems to be an old standby at this point--another massively multiplayer online game. Middle-Earth Online sets itself during the fellowship's conflict with Sauron, and will entail Men, Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits working together in small and large groups, where they will explore the world, build homes and craft Mithril Swords, or just get drunk and sing. A large number of resources will enable you to create more powerful weapons and armors, and even food or decorative items. High-end crafters can create the most interesting items in the game.
You'll undergo the usual activity of creating and developing a character and choosing its specialties, but, as in Asheron's Call 2, nothing is ironclad. You'll be able to reevaluate your decisions as the game progresses. For short-term adventures you may have up to nine characters in your party or "fellowship," and their will be Kinships (think "guilds"), and online marriages and adooption. Turbines track record indicates that you can probably expect a solid product, but at this writting, it looks like there's nothing perticularly new. But since this, too, is a 2004 product, don't count on finding out anytime soon."
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By Sarah Robinson/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – While everyone seems to be cringing at the pump these days, not many are as sensitive to the higher prices as Coley Trucking owner Brad Coley.
He's making big investments to grapple with rising gas prices.
In the past 18 months, Coley has replaced almost half of his 34-truck fleet with newer, more aerodynamic models and has outfitted all 34 vehicles with speed limiters and air inflation systems to regulate tire pressure.
According to AAA, gas prices have risen for 29 consecutive days, and are 35 cents higher than a month ago. Businesses that rely heavily on the trucking industry are forced to either endure a slimmer bottom line or pass this hardship on to consumers.
Coley said high fuel costs and the investment outlay he has made significantly impact his profit margin. Each truck costs about $135,000.
Wiley Noah, a salesman at Busylad Rent-All, says the company has implemented a fuel surcharge in response to rising fuel costs but has not increased prices. "When the price of trucking goes up … companies have no choice but to offset," he said.
John Bean, president of Eat With Us group that owns Sweet Peppers Deli, Park Heights and Harvey's, said although higher gas prices have not significantly increased overall food costs for the company, they have affected volume. Bean said the strain on household disposable income has a big impact on dining out.
"The first thing people cut is entertainment expenses," he said. "The first entertainment expense cut is dining out."
Fears over diminishing profits could inhibit hiring, making a timidly optimistic economic outlook more bleak.
According to GasBuddy.com, an analytical site, you shouldn't count on seeing lower prices at the pump any time soon. Analysts warn it could be November before prices drop back to the lower rates seen at the start of the year.
The increase is due to several factors including the closure and/or disruption of several refineries this year and uncertainly about Iran's nuclear ambitions that many believe could threaten supply.
Also, gas prices usually rise in the summer due to a more expensive blend of gas refined in response to peak demand aimed at curbing emissions.
Experts say the best advice for now is to start making changes to reduce fuel consumption and plan for prices at the pump to remain high.


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Rob Gagliardi was named vice president, finance in August 2007. He oversees all accounting and finance operations of the Rays organization.
Rob brought with him more than 15 years of managerial experience in developing and implementing financial-based initiatives for industry leaders Comcast and Ernst & Young. Gagliardi joined the Rays after seven years with Comcast, the last two as vice president of finance for the cable service leader's Maryland/ Delaware/Richmond region. Prior to Comcast, he worked for more than seven years at Ernst & Young, where he left as a senior manager in their assurance and advisory business services group.
A certified public accountant, Rob earned a degree in accounting from Villanova University.
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WATER! Water!
She had slept again all day, and now that she awoke it was dark, and she was parched with thirst and there was no water—none in the barrel, none in the jug; her tongue clave to the roof of her mouth and her veins seemed scorched by liquid fire. She shook the barrel fiercely in her anger and tried to draw the tap out with her teeth. There must be some water in it, if only one could get it; it seemed to her some cruel living thing withholding life from her; and when she found she could do nothing she ran round and round the tent in the vain hope of growing cool. In her delirium it seemed that behind her a whole host of small hideous beings followed, howling—old women with long canine teeth that touched their breasts, old men with hunchbacks and little twinkling eyes which they closed tight and then opened suddenly: before, behind, they followed her; at every side they pressed her; and her thirst grew greater, till her tongue refused to move and keep them off by words.page: 366
"Water, water, water!" was all she could murmur. And at last, as if in answer to her cry, water came. The great clouds that had made the night so dark burst, and the great torrent poured down on the earth. In an instant the heavy canvas sails were drenched, and she knelt down eagerly, holding them in both hands and sucking them. Then she lay down and let the rain fall on her till the fever left her and a great shivering seized her.
She went into her tent and climbed into the box, but her hands seemed powerless to undo her wet clothes, so she drew the blanket over her and lay there till morning.
"Mother," said the children of the Dutchwoman opposite—"mother, perhaps some wicked man has been to kill the Englishwoman in the little tent. Three days the sail is hanging loose, but we never see her coming out or doing ironing. We think she must be dead."
"Nonsense!" said the mother. "Don't you have anything to do with her; she's a bad woman."
"How do you know that?" asked her husband, who sat at the door, smoking his pipe.
"Because I asked her the other day if the man who lived with her was her husband, and she said no. And I asked her if he was any relation of hers, and she said no. So she must be bad," said the wife.
Nevertheless, when her work was done, curiosity page: 367 led the dame over to the Englishwoman's tent. She looked in at the door and at first thought there was nothing but the three packing-cases in the tent; then, in the farthest of these, which lay bottom downwards, she noticed the purple blanket move, and went up to it.
"You are very sick," said the Dutchwoman in English, better than Boers generally speak.
Undine opened her eyes, but did not answer.
"You are very sick," repeated the Dutchwoman. "What is your name?"
"Undine, Undine Bock," said Undine, slowly, as though puzzled to remember what it really was, and going back to the old name of her childhood.
"Great heavens!" said the Dutchwoman. "Do you remember me—Sannie Muller?"
"Yes," said Undine; but her eyes had closed again.
"Can I do anything for you?" Sannie asked with some real kindness in her voice, as the memory came to her of the little schoolmate who, in company with her monkey, had been first and foremost in all evil and forever in disgrace.
"No, thank you," said Undine.
But the woman remained sitting by her till it grew dark; then she lit a candle and stood at her side, saying as she did so: "I will come again during the night and see you."
"Mother," asked the little child who had been page: 368 waiting for her in the road, as she trotted along at her side, "is the Englishwoman very sick?"
"Yes," said the mother. "She will be dead in the morning."
The Dutchwoman had worked hard all day, and when once she fell asleep she did not awake.
But the little tent had another visitor that night.
Not long after the Dutchwoman left, a great, rough curly head pushed itself in at the door, sniffed for a moment, and then four black paws carried it up to the side of the box. Undine was roused by a soft warm touch on her hand and when she opened her eyes the rough old face was close above hers, looking down at her. Her mind was too confused and dull for his presence there to cause her even the vaguest wonder. She only moved her fingers feebly and called his name, "Prince, Prince."
He stepped over the low side of the packing-case and lay down across her feet, with his head turned to one side so that he could watch her as he lay there.
A very quiet sleep followed, and Undine did not know when the candle dropped into the bottle, or when Prince moved higher up so that his head rested on her breast. She knew nothing till she woke at one o'clock. Then she raised herself a little on her elbow, looked round, and fell back heavily again on her pillow.
The racking pain, the fever, the dull confusion page: 369 of brain, all had vanished. Free from pain, calm and clear as she had never felt before, she lay there, yet cold, strangely cold. What did it mean, this strange feeling? She lay wondering, thinking, with her hands folded on the dog's black head. Then the truth came to her suddenly.
Death—only that, nothing more. What she had longed and prayed for; what she had looked for in the muddy pool; what she had sighed for in days of emptiness—it had come at last.
Again she raised herself and again fell back heavily upon the pillow. "Not death, not death!" she said, "not death!—anything else—death is too horrible and I, I am so young, so young to die!"
What was the use of crying out! She only grew stiffer and colder and her breath came slow and heavy in the closed tent. She would leave it and go out into the starlight, she would be braver there. The great horror that was upon her gave her strength, and she pushed the dog from her and crept slowly over the side of the low box. There she lay long, and then again, inch by inch, crawling on hands and knees, she reached the doorway. The skirting that crossed it, three inches high, was hard to pass, and again she lay still; but when she turned her head and caught sight of clear starlight outside, she crept on once more. Still on her hands and knees, and falling sometimes with her face into the page: 370 dust, she gained at last one of the low gravel-heaps 1 and lay down on its side.
She looked up at the old stars that she had looked up to and loved from her childhood as other men love their friends of flesh and blood—the dear old stars that had shed their light on the thatched roofs and stone walls of the old farm on the Karoo; that had looked in at the window of the little whitewashed room and on the leaves of the small brown Testament and the little child who cried and prayed there; the same and yet, tonight, looking so strange and new to her. Over the tumult and agony that reigned within, they spoke a great peace, and she lay still and watched them.
'Twas one of the gorgeous nights when the sky, shooting light from a million points, overwhelms and silences us; and the little circle of our life, that has seemed to fill all creation, sinks to its proper size—a shadow, a breath of wind that, being or not being, matters not.
High over her head was one great blue star that gave a steady and unflickering light. At this she looked with dark wide-open eyes till it seemed to speak to her as clearly as the priest speaks who stands at the bedside of the dying with bread and wine, reproof and blessing, whereby he hopes to help the soul in its last struggles among the waters.
"Is death so horrible and ghastly to you?" said
page: 371 the star, "so ghastly that even the pain and suffering and despair that are in life grow beautiful in your eyes? I am only your brother," said the star, "a few million years older than you, and I know nothing; but I have seen some things—a few. I have seen the sun pour forth his light and heat as a great heart pours its life-blood for others. I have seen it fall on a world dead and silent, and awake it; till in place of death there was life, and for silence sound and ceaseless change. I have seen a world find birth through that light, even those strange and tiny creatures 1 who deep at the floor of the sea have formed their graves and a new land; the waves have rolled back from it and the land that is built from their skeletons has become tree and grass and a million forms of life; on these other creatures have lived; and these again have died that others might have life; and at last man has come, to bring one of whom from the shapeless germ in which he lies plants innumerable die, and his very next of kin are sacrified that he may grow and be. I have looked long and carefully," said the star, "and I have seen that the thing which you call death is the father of all life and beauty. Till life goes, till blood flows, no higher life can come. There is nothing added to Nature, nothing taken from her. She has only so much in her hand, and with that she must do all things. Would she build better, she must pull down page: 372 first; would she raise a new world, an old must sink; would she double a flower, the seed of the single must go; and to make a man a million million forms have been and are not.
"Without death there is no change, without change no life; without the shedding of blood no good thing.
"If what you fear in the death that is upon you is not change but a fearful endless silence and annihilation, then take comfort," said the star; "I have been young and now am old; I have seen great ebbs and great flows, and myriad never-ending changes; but such death as you dream of I have nowhere seen. Nature is too poor to lose, too poor to let rest; her work is not yet done; she has other things to make.
"Mark you well, I know nothing," said the star; "and what you are, or I am, or the gravel is on which you lie, I cannot tell, and what we mean I cannot tell; only that which I have seen I speak of.
"The stump now burning at your side, it was a great brown lifeless stump an hour or two ago, now a lurid glowing mass shooting out flames and heat, cracking and changing every moment. It will be a small heap of ashes soon, but the light and heat were in it before the match touched it, and I know they are not lost, only doing other work in other forms.
"I have been young and now am old," said the page: 373 star; "yet if I should say I have seen death as you fear it, I should lie. Change I have seen and desolation, but no death. Take comfort."
And she was comforted and looked upwards with her arms folded and almost a smile on her lips.
For, as in our hours of sin and weakness, we weep because the great ever-changing, many-waved current on which we find ourselves will flow on just the same when our small wave has spent itself, so, in our moments of sight and strength, a joy, calm and mighty, comes to us when we see that the great current will flow on uninjured, unchanged by our loss, in its deathless progress.
She lay still and was comforted. And what if the star never spoke, and only her own thoughts were thrown back to her! If it be to a bedside with priest, wafer, and book, or to a gravel-heap under the stars, that peace and strength come, are they not the children of the soul, and no outcome of wafer, priest, or star? Though blessed be all three if they can call them forth in the hour of that battle the last and strongest.
She rested till it seemed as though a mist were creeping over the brilliant night sky, and then as though the smoke from the fire passed before her eyes. She raised her hands slowly as though to wave it from her; but it grew darker, and one by one the stars vanished. Then she knew that it was the shadow of death that lay between her and them.page: 374
Slowly she turned away her head, and even in that darkness could see lying between the two great stones the stump, now coal from end to end with blood-red cracks upon its surface.
The cold was growing greater, so she crept a little nearer the coal and lay with her face to it.
Was it because the glowing light, seen through the mist, brought back a night of long ago, that she heard in the dim delicious confusion the voice that had called her so tenderly under the red lamplight in the little hall?
"My little girl, my own little girl—Undine," it said over and over, and the soft tears of gladness filled her eyes, and in delicious dreamy darkness it seemed as though his arms were close around her.
Presently the moon rose and looked over the ridge of the tent into the little yard among the gravel-heaps. The glowing stump had burnt out and gone to ashes between the great round stones.
Before them, in her little purple print, with her feet crossed and her head resting on one arm, lay Undine.
Her white kappie lay near her and cast a grotesque shadow, like a man's face with long nose and chin; and the light glistened on her soft brown hair.
There was nothing else to be seen in the little yard.


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By Tiernan Ray
Morgan Stanley semiconductor analysts Shawn Kim and Ka Keun Lee and staff this afternoon want you to know that there is "no more upside" in the memory chip market, as prices are primed to peak and there is rising risk to estimates.
"We would reduce positions in the memory sector across regions, as getting the industry call right is a lot more important than picking stocks in the memory sector, as these stocks move in a pack," writes Kim.
The team cut Samsung Electronics (005930KS) stock to Equal Weight from Overweight, and cut SK Hynix (000660KS) to Underweight from Overweight. Today's downgrades follow a cut in rating for SanDisk (SNDK) two weeks to Equal Weight by colleague Joseph Moore. Micron Technology (MU) is also rated Equal Weight. Colleague Kazuo Yoshikawa today cut Toshiba's (6502JP) rating to Equal Weight from Overweight as well. The firm's Francois Meunier is still bullish on ASML Holding NV (ASML) as an equipment supplier to memeory names, given what is seen to be rising capital spending for production.
"We expect DRAM revenue growth, ASPs and operating margins to peak in 3Q13," writes Kim, as "there is growing risk that a normal ASP decline cycle will commence."
Investors think things are different this time around with respect to traditional memory supply-demand cycles, writes Kim, but he thinks they're mistaken:
Most investors we met are convinced that this time it is different – new wafer capacity will not be added for memory, given that pushing the envelope on geometry no longer works, due to cost limitations beyond 2XY nanometer technology, i.e., the cost per transistor is no longer going down. However, industries do not stay in a vacuum or steady state when faced with huge excess returns building and significant shortage heading into 2H13. We are now seeing evidence of new capex, capex pull-in and faster technology migration. This is similar to 2010, due to persistent shortage conditions, and, historically, this type of industry environment has led to bigger investments in the following year. The July earnings season is around the corner, and we lean toward consuming capex numbers and new supply growth as a sign of further imbalance entering 2014.
Rather, Kim points to several recent developments indicating plans for increased supply:
Samsung raised its 2013 capex to W24tr, with W13tr for memory and equally allocated to DRAM and NAND. Samsung converted its logic fab to DRAM. We estimate this to be equivalent to about 25k monthly wafers capacity, or 6.7% of the company's existing total capacity. Its new NAND fab in China is likely to ramp earlier in 2014 [...] Hynix M12 fab NAND capacity expansion could amount to 30k wafers per month. Equipment move-in is likely to start in 3Q13 and production by year-end [...] Inotera raised its 2013 capex from NT$4.5bn to NT$8.0bn. The increase in capex is for immersion tool, to enhance 30nm productivity and 20nm advanced node migration. Management thinks 2014 capex could be substantial as well [...] Elpida plans to build additional capacity at its 12-inch wafer plant in Hiroshima, Japan, to meet growing demand for mobile DRAM chips. Monthly capacity at the facility is close to 120,000 wafers, of which 80% is utilized for the manufacture of mobile DRAM used for smartphones [...] Toshiba plans to expand the capacity of its NAND flash chip fabrication facility in Yokkaichi, Japan, with a nearly ¥30bn (US$300m) investment. Toshiba will begin construction on Phase 2 of Fab 5 in August 2013, with completion slated for the summer of 2014. The expanded facility will also produce 3D NAND memory, in addition to additional capacity for chips on more advanced nodes [...] Micron is looking to shift 60,000 wafers of capacity from DRAM to NAND flash chip production at its 12-inch fab in Singapore. As a result, total production capacity for NAND flash will climb to ~240,000 12-inch wafers from the current 180,000 units.
The result will be falling prices:
Rising supply growth suggests that pricing power will be limited during the next one to two years, and a pricing recession would lead to earnings risk in 2014. We reduce our DRAM blended ASP in 2014e by 6%, from US$0.77 (per 1Gb equivalent) to US$0.72. Our NAND pricing assumption falls by 9% from US$0.47 to US$0.43 on a per 8Gb equivalent. We cut our EPS in 2014e to reflect a lower pricing outlook. Current consensus earnings expectations for 2014 are high for memory, with 27% growth, compared to 17% earnings growth for our global memory universe. As Exhibit 2 indicates, consensus earnings revisions are approaching historical peak levels, and if supply turns out to be stronger than consensus expects, we would expect earnings revisions to turn negative for the industry.


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Chevron won a second court order today forcing Greenpeace activists to end their protest of deepwater drilling. The protest began last week when the Esperanza, a Greenpeace ship caught up to the STENA CARRON, a Chevron leased drill ship, off the Shetland coast. Four activists from the Esperanza managed to attach themselves to the anchor chain using climbing gear. A day later the environmental group attached a pod to the drill ship anchor providing activist's shelter from the elements.
Greenpeace claimed they would be able to live in the pod for a month, with food and even a makeshift toilet. Chevron called on the company to discontinue their actions and remove themselves from the ship but Greenpeace refused. Local police warned the protestors of poor weather conditions and that their presence was a danger to themselves and others. Chevron took to the courts filing a petition for Removal and Interdict.
The petition was granted Friday, forcing Greenpeace to remove themselves from the ship or face huge fines. A spokesperson from Greenpeace said they would comply with the order to avoid handing over any of their supporter's money to Chevron. After Friday's court order activists came down from the chain and began swimming in front of the ship to prevent her from reaching the Lagavulin oil prospect where Chevron wants to drill an exploratory deep-water well.
Chevron was back in court with another petition this one banning the activists from interfering with the vessel's progress. Wednesday, September 29, the Stena Carron is now en route after more than a week of protests.


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France 1839 – 1906
Gustave Geffroy
oil on canvas
canvas 110.0 (h) x 89.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of the Pellerin family 1969
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Cézanne's work faced the wrath of the French press during the 1870s. At the third Impressionist exhibition of 1877, his portrait of friend and patron Victor Chocquet was described as having a face that looked like it had been run through a mill, and so yellow it would give an unborn child yellow fever.1 It was not until the critic Gustave Geffroy praised Cézanne in 1894 that the artist began to consider a re-entry into the Paris art world.2 Monet believed that his old friend Cézanne had yet to receive the patronage that was his due, and explained to Geffroy how Cézanne had 'come to doubt himself far too much', while being 'touched' by Geffroy's comments.
A meeting was arranged by Monet, and Cézanne subsequently asked to paint Geffroy's portrait.3 Geffroy is shown as a modern man of letters, seated in his library. Cézanne has tipped the desk towards the viewer to emphasise the sitter's engagement with writing. The desk is covered with open books, papers, and a cropped plaster figurine.4 The writer gazes directly at the viewer. Perhaps Cézanne had in mind Degas' groundbreaking portrait of Edmond Duranty, shown in Paris in 1880 in the fifth Impressionist exhibition. The precedent of a portrait of a modern writer in a modern context had already been set by Edouard Manet, who had painted Cézanne's friend Emile Zola.5
Geffroy sat for Cézanne almost daily for three months from April 1895, and was painted, as the writer observed, 'with meticulous care and richness of tone, and with incomparable harmony'.6 Yet something was amiss. Cézanne appeared incapable of completing Geffroy's face, only sketching his features. In mid June, Cézanne asked to be relieved of his commitment. At the writer's request the artist returned, however his heart was no longer in it.7 Cezanne then left for Aix. In the following year, incapable of rendering the face of one of his great admirers, he wrote to Geffroy asking that his props be returned. The two men never met again.
Jane Kinsman
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- Cézanne was also advised to wear glasses. Charles S. Moffett (ed.), The new painting: Impressionism 1874–1886, 4th edn, Geneva: Richard Burton 1986, p. 215.
- At a sale of Théodore Duret's collection, writing in Le Journal, 25 March 1894.
- Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: sa vie, son temps, son œuvre, Paris: Crès 1922, quoted in Michael Doran (ed.) and Julie Lawrence Cochran (trans.), Conversations with Cézanne, Berkeley: University of California Press 2001, p. 4.
- Identified by Geffroy as the work of Auguste Rodin. Geffroy, in Doran and Cochran, p. 197.
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris.. Manet's painting had been selected for the Salon of 1868. Devoid of archaisms, Zola is shown at his desk with books, papers, ink pot and quill surrounded by favourite images such as a Japanese print by Kuniaki II and Manet's Olympia 1863.
- Geffroy, in Doran and Cochran, p. 5.
- Geffroy, in Doran and Cochran, p. 6.


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Roundtable: Is Adrien Broner boxing's next superstar?
Is Adrien Broner boxing's next superstar?
CHRIS MANNIX: Color me impressed. There has been something about Broner that didn't sit right with me -- maybe it was the connection to Al Haymon, who puffed up Broner's record by keeping him away from the toughest challenges for most of his young career -- but after that pounding of DeMarco, there is no doubt Broner is a bona fide star in the sport. DeMarco is an underrated fighter and an excellent finisher, and Broner picked him apart, savaging him with uppercuts, patiently peppering him with jabs while utilizing that (wait for it) shoulder-roll defense to deflect DeMarco's power shots.
Broner was already a television star; he has the HBO numbers to prove it. Now he has earned his status in the ring, too. Let's hope he keeps it going. Ricky Burns, who will defend his version of the lightweight title on Dec. 15, is a logical next opponent, and there are no shortage of guys at 140 pounds to give Broner a fight. Finally, a young American star who seems worthy of the hype.
RICHARD O'BRIEN: After an impressive and, on his part, decidedly relaxed dismantling of DeMarco on Saturday night (it was more like watching an enthusiastic technician entering code on a keyboard than it was like seeing a guy actually fighting), Broner declared himself "the new era of boxing." That remains to be seen, of course.
Certainly Broner, at 23, and clearly comfortable having stepped up to the 135-pound limit, has the physical gifts (speed, strength, power) and the schooling (he's technically very sound, with a varied offense and a polished defense) to make him, well, a problem for any fighter in the lightweight or junior welterweight divisions. (A quick assault on Juan Manuel Marquez or Ricky Burns would be a great start.) The question, of course, is how far can he extend his effectiveness. At 5-foot-7, Broner may be a bit too compact to keep moving up, to junior welter, welter and beyond. And multiple titles and challenges to the best across a range of weight classes are what make for the biggest stars in boxing.
At the same time, I also think there's the danger that Broner could get pegged -- or, indeed, could peg himself -- as a kind of poor man's Money, a Mayweather clone, and that such an image could keep him from becoming the star he could be. There's the physical resemblance, of course, and the shoulder-rolling defense (and the smirking and self-celebratory rhetoric), but Broner has a natural aggressiveness in the ring that Mayweather has seldom shown. He would be wise to play that element up. A boxing public weary of Mayweather's slick showmanship would welcome a supremely talented champion who actually came to fight. If Broner does that, superstardom should be no problem.
BRYAN ARMEN GRAHAM: Broner is now a two-division world champion at 23. He's 25-0 with 21 knockouts. He just cracked SI.com's pound-for-pound list at No. 12. On Saturday, he made his seventh appearance on HBO and his headlining debut on the flagship "World Championship Boxing" franchise: He took a step up, both competitively and commercially, and he dominated.
He is opinionated. He is eccentric. (Quite eccentric.) Call him cocky and call him profane, but Broner gets it. It's not enough to be Andre Ward, not if you want to be the first boxer to generate a billion dollars, which is Broner's articulated goal. "I'm not just a professional boxer, I am a professional entertainer too," he said over lunch in Manhattan last month. "Since the first grade I've been a class clown. This is just me." Broner is coming along at a time when boxing needs fresh stars, with Floyd Mayweather (35 years old) and Manny Pacquiao (34 next month) nearing the twilights of their careers. He's managed by Al Haymon, the enigmatic force responsible for making Mayweather the richest athlete in sports. The heavyweight division remains stagnant and domestically irrelevant. HBO has invested millions in building him up and they're enthused by the return thus far. "He's making the progression that great fighters make," HBO's pay-per-view chief Mark Taffet said last month. "He's on the path. For a 23-year-old man, he's exactly where he needs to be." If he stays hungry, keeps winning and keeps entertaining, there's no reason why Broner can't be one of the top names in boxing within the next three years.


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Main institution:
Paracelsus Medical University
Other institution:
Salzburg General Hospital
Principal investigator:
Andreas Soennichsen
Other investigators:
Raimund Weitgasser; Henrike Winkler; Sophie Keller; Tim Johansson
Location of the project:
Salzburg, Austria
Amount allocated:
June 1, 2010 - August 31, 2013
Knowledge and expertise regarding proper treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) don't translate well into diabetes care. Even disease management programs (DMP) appear to have rather small effects. Emphasizing patient self management and peer support are promising new approaches in diabetes care beyond DMP. We therefore propose a study evaluating a peer support program centered on patient self management. The intervention under investigation will be that peer groups of diabetic patients will exercise together, meet to talk about personal, social and emotional issues regarding diabetes and have access to support by MDs, dieticians, clinical psychologists and physical education trainers.
Results to date :
"Forum Medizin 21", a congress for General Practice and Family Medicine in Salzburg (Austria), September 2011
World Diabetes Congress, Dubai UAE), December 2011
ÖDG Congress (Austrian Diabetes Association), Salzburg (Austria), November 2011
EbM Congress of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, Hamburg (Germany), 2012
47 Kongress für Allgeimenmedin un Familienmedizin, Munich (Germany), September, 2013
World Diabetes Congress, Melbourne (Australia), December 2013
EbM Congress of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, Halle (Germany), March 2014
49. Kongress für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin, Bolzano (Italy), September 2015
World Diabetes Congress, Vancover (Canada), December 2015
- ÖGAM News, "Ausgabe 12"
- Salzburger Nachrichten "'Diabetes: Hilfe in der Gruppe", December 2012
- Salzburgorf.at "Gesundheitsprojekt für Diabetiker boomt" December 2012
- Salzburg 24 "Salzburger Pilotprojekt für Diabetespatienten zeigt erste Erfolge", December 2012
- Salzburger Volkszeitung "Diabetes-patienten haben Zucherwert mit Sport im Griff" December 2012
- "Can a peer support intervention improve type 2 diabetes outcomes?", Diabetes Voice, June 2014
"Effectiveness of a peer support programme versus usual care in disease management of diabetes mellitus type 2 regarding improvement of metabolic control – a cluster-randomised controlled trial" Journal of Diabetes Research, September 2015
Project completed in September 2013
BRIDGES (Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems) is a programme initiated by the International Diabetes Federation, and supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes.


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As I am sure all you US folks are aware, Star Trek Enterprise starts on Wednesday.
Unfortunately, I am told it will not start on UK satelite channels until the New Year.
I therefore ask to be spoiled..........can one of the Yanks please email me and tell me EVERYTHING that happens.
I already know that it is about first contact with the Klingies, but I want to know more, more, more.......
Yours in anxious anticipation.


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Laurel Harvey
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Harvey named general manager for safety and administration
Posted April 25, 2007; 02:14 p.m.
Laurel Harvey, a member of the University staff since 1981, has been named general manager of a newly created Office of Safety and Administration, effective July 1.
Harvey, who has served as general manager for administration and compliance since 2004, will continue to report to Executive Vice President Mark Burstein.
Her direct reports now will include the University's Department of Public Safety. She also will continue to oversee the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, which has reported to her since 1995.
"I'm thankful to Laurel for taking on additional responsibilities," Burstein said. "Locating public safety and environmental health and safety in the same organization will provide a better structure as both departments continue to improve the quality of the critical services they provide to the University community."
Harvey also will continue to provide University oversight for the managers of academic departments and programs, a role she has filled since 2004.
Harvey came to the University in 1981 as manager of planned giving. Five years later she became the associate director of investments and then the assistant vice president for finance and administration. In 1995 she was named associate treasurer and director of the Office of Risk Management. She was appointed general manager for administration in 2002 and added the duties of chief compliance officer in 2004.
"Laurel quickly developed a first-rate University compliance effort, and was an early advocate for Princeton to combine its audit and compliance functions," Burstein said.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Harvey earned an MBA from the University of Rochester.


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