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A wonderful collection of safe, educational toys for two- and three-year-olds.
Enjoy learning Bible songs
Develop fine motor and visual discrimination skills
Introduce numbers 1 to 5
Develop concentration and attention span
Teach sorting by color and shape
How do I teach a preschooler, kindergartner, and 1st grader together?
In pre-school, K and 1st grade, the differences in children's abilities are great. We recommend working individually with each child on reading, writing, and math skills. Children in preschool will benefit from 15 minutes of one-on-one parent time working on these skills preparing for K. Children in K and 1st grade will need 30-60 minutes of individual parent time to work on reading, writing and math. Specific skills will be addressed in each child's age appropriate curriculum. We recommend
God's Creation from A to Z
kindergarten and
Learning God's Story
for first grade deluxe packages along with our Preschool package. Please see How to Teach
How to Teach K and 1st Together
for more information about using these programs together. All children can join together to enjoy lesson activities and read alouds. School can be completed in 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours each day for all three children.
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Can I start My Father's World Kindergarten with a 3-year-old who is beginning to read?
My Father's World believes that there is more to being ready for Kindergarten than early reading. There are many developmental areas that most 3-year-olds will not be ready for, even if they are ready in one area. Fine motor skills, attention on a single task, obedience, visual discrimination, etc. are all important factors.
We would also suggest keeping the long view in mind. If you start your child in K at 3, how old will they be when they graduate? At 3, we recommend that one of the most important things they can do is play. Academically speaking, learning colors, numbers, letter sounds, shapes, counting, puzzles etc. are all valuable pre-reading activities. We recommend using the My Father's World Preschool Package to help prepare your child for Kindergarten readiness as well as having a wonderful time with Mom.
How do I keep my toddler/preschooler busy while teaching my older children?
At My Father's World, we like to say that toddlers and preschoolers need several things:
Involved - Toddlers and preschoolers need to be welcomed into our homeschool. My Father's World has great programs with many hands-on, engaging activities and your younger students can join you. My Father's World believes in the "Family Learning Model" and encourages parents to include their younger students in as much Bible, history, science, music, and art as possible. For that reason, we recommend getting Student Sheets for the upper (Adventures through 1850 to Modern Times) program that you are in for each of your children ages 3 and up.
Educated - Your youngest students need to develop necessary pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-math skills. My Father's World believes that this can be done while "playing." To this end, we have two packages for that age range. The Toddler Package is a wonderful collection of safe, educational Lauri toys for 2 and 3 years old. The Preschool Package has six Lauri educational toys for 3 to 5 year olds and also includes preschool activity cards with 65 different activities to build necessary readiness skills.
Occupied - We, at My Father's World, only very rarely want to encourage you to occupy your youngest students, however, we also recognize that it is sometimes necessary. We recommend occupying during the times in which you are teaching a math or language arts lesson with an older child. Both packages mentioned above will work very well for this. We encourage parents to keep these toys available only for "school time." Parents can also utilize things like paint chips to work on color matching or color sorting. Coloring books, magnets, puzzles, etc., can also be placed in a "school box" to only be used during those times that you find it helpful. Older children can also help occupy a younger sibling by reading a story, building a puzzle, or using one of the Preschool Activity Cards and toys.
My Father's World has a CD called Occupying Preschoolers While Teaching Older Children which speaks to this issue as well.
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Great free-time activities to enrich your family's learning experiences. These uniquely engaging educational toys and CD complement the Toddler Package. Bring even more excitement and enjoyment to your MFW educational experience. These enrichment items make great gift ideas too.
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Toddler Package
A wonderful collection of safe, educational toys for two- and three-year-olds.
Enjoy learning Bible songs
Develop fine motor and visual discrimination skills
Introduce numbers 1 to 5
Develop concentration and attention span
Teach sorting by color and shape
Items may be purchased individually on the
Toddler curriculum
Shape and Color Sorter
Little ones love this time-tested favorite. Helps kids master essential skills as they sort by five colors or shapes. The 25 inviting, chunky crepe rubber shapes slide over wooden pegs to promote eye-hand coordination.
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Tall Stacker Pegs & Pegboard
Kids will think they are just having fun with this educational toy from Lauri. However, they�ll be sorting, counting, adding, subtracting, making colorful patterns and designs, and seeing just how high they can stack the 25 easy-to-grasp, unbreakable plastic pegs. Includes 8� square crepe rubber pegboard. For ages 2-6.
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Number Express
Number puzzle, peg set, and creative play board all in one. Load the 20-inch train with "passengers" or see how high the 15 pegs will stack. A tactile, entertaining way to learn numbers 1-5, using durable crepe rubber train pieces and colorful plastic pegs.
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Wee Sing Bible Songs
Bible heroes, teachings, parables, praises, and prayers come alive in this collection of 63 traditional songs and poems on a one-hour CD, complete with a 64-page illustrated book of lyrics.
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Wedgits Building Blocks Starter Set
This fun and challenging multi-dimensional building set is the winner of several awards. Toddlers can discover a variety of ways to nest and stack the colorful plastic blocks. Preschoolers can create hundreds of unique vertical and horizontal designs with this open-ended building set that the whole family will enjoy.
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Wedgits Design Cards Starter Set
This card-deck provides 46 design ideas at four difficulty levels � ideal for toddlers, preschoolers, and older siblings.
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Brix Bounty Farm focuses on investing in our natural capital (soils) and human capital (community) to create sustainable sources of original wealth for current & future generations. At BrixBounty.com we offer resources and ideas for community members interested in sustainable vegetable production here on the Southcoast of Massachusetts and beyond.
Fresh Vegetables and Community Education – Perhaps you're a member of our Community Supported Agriculture program, visit us at the New Bedford Farmers Market, or attend one of our agricultural workshops? We hope you'll take a few minutes to explore our website, learn something new, find an interesting link, and make a deeper connection with our local foodsystem. We are honored to share the bounties of local agriculture with you: healthy food, clean environment, vibrant economy, and community.
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Howard County reviewing safety at schools
In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Howard County officials felt like it was time they re-evaluated their security.
They began with two community meetings led by a task force that's now come up with a list of recommendations to improve school safety in the county.
They want to see the physical security of schools improve, but they also want to see security practices more consistent across the school system.
Better communication between schools and parents and efforts to make staff more aware of available mental health resources for students are among items on the list of recommendations.
The task force says each school will be responsible for training employees on emergency response plans at least once a year.
Look below to view the entire report from the task force.
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April 10, 2013 | Posted By: Shannen Bayless | Categorized in: Food & Dining Out
Do you avoid digging to the bottom or the back of your freezer so that you dont have to think about what you might find or how long its maybe been there? I admit this has happened to me on more than one occasion in the 11 years that Ive been married.
We recently did a major clean out of our chest freezer. We now have our frozen goods organized by category and by recommended expiration date. Hopefully, things will stay neatly organized, and I will be able to find the things Im looking for when I need them.
How Long in the Freezer?Before you stock your freezer to the top with your favorites, you may want to check out the recommended length of time that your frozen favorites are good for. This is just meant to be a guide. I always tend to base my decisions to use a food based on how it might look or smell. Here's a link to other food safety storage times.
Other Items that are Safe to FreezeYouve probably got your freezer full of items that are bought frozen, but what about other items you may find great sales on that youd like to extend the shelf life on, so youre not stuck paying full price later on? Kristin from www.couponingtodisney.com shares some great ideas for freezing things like milk, vegetables, and cheeses. I would never have thought to freeze eggs, but then again eggs dont last long enough to at this house to be frozen!
Freezing Left-oversAnd before you freeze foods that you may have prepared ahead of time or have left over from meals, you want consider doing the following things:
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Other Freezing TipsSome other things to think about when freezing items:
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I know some of us, myself included, in the POD nation are getting excited about the draft already but I'm having a really hard time figuring out WHERE our greatest position of need is. Every time I start thinking about the draft I get frustrated and lose focus because I feel like we've still got so many areas of need. But I think I'll have a better idea of how I want the draft to play out if you guys can help me decide something...
Who on the current roster should definitely stay and who should definitely go?
Feel free to answer this question without even thinking of contracts. I just wanna know the Top 10 guys you would NOT get rid of and the Top 10 guys that have gotta go! Pretend you're Ford and you can just dump or keep anyone you want. Also, feel free to list coaches as well. Please keep Hanson and Muhlbach off the list unless you REALLY want them gone! Also, let's assume Titus is done!
Here's my list (in no particular order):
- Calvin
- Staff
- Suh
- Tully
- Reiff
- Fairley
- Houston
- Grew (I know a lot of people want him gone but I still think he's solid)
- Burleson (crazy, I know. I just think he brings so much extra to this team)
- Delmas
Honorable mentions : Mikel, Broyles (he'll be good), Sims, Scheff, Bell and SLH
Get rid of them
- Raiola
- Peterman
- Cherilus
- Avril
- Nick Harris
- Levy (I have never liked Levy. And although he's probably having his best season, he needs to go!)
- Logan
- Lacey ( He's just not an NFL caliber corner... none of our corners besides CH are)
- Delmas (yes, I listed him on both. Love his passion and fire but he misses tons of tackles and more importantly misses tons of games!)
Did I answer my own question? I have been wanting a safety or a corner for two years and yet here I am... looking at my Top 10 drops and seeing that OL and DE need to be evaluated.
Please help me out, guys! I would love to go into the draft having a position to root for in the first round. Sadly, it appears we'll be getting a top 8 pick! I had such high expectations for this season!!!
and yes... I would not mind if Gunny, Linny, or Schwartz are gone next year. However, I don't think all three getting canned is a good idea. The players deserve some continuity and a chance to rebound from this wildly disappointing season. Season?... more like nightmare.
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Can you relate to the biblical account of the Israelites wandering through the desert for 40 years in search of the promised land? If you are a Cardinals fan then you probably answered yes. For a brief stint of two years football was relevant in Arizona and the desert finally transformed into the promised land. Arizona Cardinals fans got a small taste of what it felt like to cheer for a real football team.
The duration of levity in Arizona has been short lived. What once appeared to be a desert oasis, now seems more like a fleeting and ephemeral mirage of success gone just as quickly as it arrived on the horizon.
Many people thought that Ken Whisenhunt was the Cardinals incarnation of Joshua. A guide sent from heaven to lead us across the threshold to paradise after our arduous journey. He now boasts a career 30-28 regular season record which is tending toward mediocrity and questions are already rising about his decision making, play calling, and ability to evaluate talent. Maybe Kurt Warner was really Joshua and Whisenhunt was more like Moses. Now that Warner is gone we're stuck back in the desert and Moses is lost.
I want to drink from the oasis of success, I'm sick of choking down sand.
A joke asks "Why was Moses stuck out in the desert for 40 years?" The answer – "Because men don't like to ask for directions." We have seen this ugly character trait reveal itself in Whisenhunt. He tends to be somewhat bumptious with the way he carries himself and has made decisions that are presumptuously arrogant. While Whisenhunt may be smart, he is not infallible. He tries to do too much and assert his influence in areas that don't seem to play to his strengths. If men don't like to take accountability for their mistakes, then Whisenhunt would fit that criterion as well. The ability of a coach, or any person for that matter, to take a step back and realize when they've been wrong is important. Problems can't be fixed if their existence is denied. That's right Whiz, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Here are a couple of examples of things he hasn't owned up to and hasn't been held to the fire for.
Cutting Leinart just days before the season was obviously a mistake. Leinart may not have been a vast improvement upon Anderson or Hall. We will never know. He still had a promising future when Warner wrestled the starting job from him. He did a serviceable job in his last start at Tennessee on a moment's notice due to a Warner injury. Leinart will most likely get a chance to start for another NFL team next season and will succeed or fail based on his own merits. The puzzling series of events from this preseason may never be fully understood. That being said, if he wasn't going to be the starter for the Cardinals this season, he shouldn't have been on the roster to start training camp. Good organizations don't cut top 10 quarterbacks and get nothing in return. That's how bad organizations stay bad. Either the timing was wrong or the evaluation was wrong, but either way this situation was flat out mishandled. No other single incident has been more defining of the greasefire this season has transformed into.
Not hiring an offensive coordinator has been a mistake. Whisenhunt has made several questionable play calls in specific situations (Anderson's interception to seal the deal against Tampa) and is pass happy overall (64% passes to 36% runs). When Haley left after the Super Bowl, Whisenhunt took over the duties. After a first year of running mostly the same system that Haley left, the second season has been disastrous. Does anyone besides me consider it more than a little ironic that the Chiefs now sport the #1 rushing offense in the NFL and the Cardinals have the lowest number of rushing attempts in the league? Pittsburgh Steelers West my ….. It's time to rectify this situation and hire an offensive coordinator.
The talent evaluation and acquisition have been filled with mistakes. Whisenhunt shouldn't shoulder this burden alone. Other front office personnel should also be taken to task for the exodus of talent. There has been a dearth of newly acquired talent during Whisenhunt's tenure. A couple years ago, the Cardinals cupboard was full. The team had pro bowl caliber players in spades. Warner, Boldin, Fitz, Breaston, Dockett, Dansby, Rolle, Wilson, and other players who showed promise filled the roster. Now many of these players are either gone or a shell of their former self. Wilson looks like father time has caught up to him. Dockett looks like Benjamin Franklin has caught up to him. Breaston is the only young player realizing the potential the Cardinals brass envisioned. The Cardinals may only have 5 or 6 players on their roster that a winning team would even be interested in. The Cardinals need help at qb, running back, offensive line, tight end, defensive line, and secondary. In summation, that's pretty much everywhere.
The media and fan base in Arizona perpetuates an inferiority complex. I've heard from multiple sources that we should be glad that we had our run but that all good things must come to an end. Look how great things were for a couple years compared to how they used to be. This is not acceptable. The team should be expected to put a competitive product on the field EVERY year. Failure should not be put up with. If we accept the team's failure, we are enabling future failures. Well I'm angry as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
The puppet show put on this season by our coaching staff and front office should not be tolerated. Real NFL cities like Dallas and Minnesota have shown their coaches and fan base that failure results in termination. Wade Phillips (34-22 through 3-1/2 years in Dallas) gone. Brad Childress (39-35 through 4-1/2 years in Minnesota and one year removed from the NFC Championship game) gone. That's right, both of them had better records than Whisenhunt. Lovie Smith, Tom Coughlin, and John Fox have all felt the heat recently for underachieving and all have a more proven track record than Whisenhunt with their respective teams.
I'm not saying that Whisenhunt should be fired. I think he has earned at least one more season to clean up his mess. What I am saying is that accountability starts form the top and that just in the same manner that players are being evaluated, the front office and coaches should face the exact same scrutiny. Being the head coach of an NFL franchise carries certain advantages and drawbacks. One of the drawbacks is that the success or failure of the team is squarely laid at the coach's feet whether or not it is entirely his fault. If the team finishes with 4 or 5 wins this year and follows it up with a repeat performance then I've seen enough.
I implore the media and other fans not to accept our team taking the declivitous descent back to the "Same Old Sorry Ass Cardinals". I like the winning Cardinals. The Cardinals I can be proud of. The Cardinals that enthralled me every weekend of the football season. The Cardinals who made me daydream about Sunday all week long. The Cardinals that made me pine for football season in the middle of March. I can't go back to the years of misery I've endured. Please help me let the organization know we won't put up with a return to those losing ways. I've changed. I'm not inferior. I deserve better. I've upped my standards. Please help me tell the Cardinals they need to up theirs.


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"On Monday, Sept. 19, the Panthers will host the second annual Hockey Day in South Florida, a daylong fan festival highlighted by a number of incredible fan events including a historic preseason doubleheader with the Panthers hosting Nashville Predators at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m on the Lexus Rink at the BankAtlantic Center. In addition, fans will have the opportunity to receive autographs from select Panthers players, interact with team broadcasters and front office personnel, and take part in a variety of other interactive games and contests including the Panthers Patrol on the JetBlue Tarmac."- Sun-Sentinel
Yes, Monday's are incredibly convenient for the general public to get a chance to come out and meet the "select players" who aren't playing in one of the 2 games slated for that day. I think my view is politically charged. I am pretty tired of propaganda being passed out as truth or news. Calling this double header of games could accurately be named Hockey Day but to say its an opportunity for fans to feel the joy of Hockey for the day is complete poppycock! Make a real Hockey Day- a Saturday or Sunday when most people are free from work and make all the players available for a few hours, to the fans and potential new fans for pictures and autographs. Give all your Sponsors tables where the players are and give them a chance to talk to fans directly, fill the lot with Lexus's to sell that day, there are so many better ways to serve your fans and financial supporters!


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Nov 19th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
When we make poor decisions, we should take personal responsibility for our actions instead of turning to lawsuits. But that's exactly what a young Louisiana man is doing – and boy, did he make a poor decision!
In 2012, Ray Conrad II decided to drink at a bar, despite the fact that he was underage, and then drive home while intoxicated. Unfortunately, he crashed his car on the way home and injured himself.
Now, Conrad and his father are suing the bar that served Conrad alcohol, saying that they are at fault for his injuries.
Nov 14th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reform has been a priority in the last few legislative cycles for Sick of Lawsuits. Although we have seen some recent reforms (here's looking at you California), as a nation we still have a long way to go. South Florida provides us with the perfect example of a place where reform is needed.
Nov 12th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
If you read Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly, you know that we keep you up to date with the latest legal reform developments at the state level. But here's some news – big legal reform legislation has made it to the U.S. House of Representatives!
This week, the House could consider two bills that would have a major impact on our national civil justice system: the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA) and the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act (FACT Act).
Nov 10th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country.
Nov 7th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
If you're a regular reader of our blog, you know that California has one of the country's worst legal climates. That's why we were hardly surprised when we heard yet another ridiculous settlement from the state.
Listen to this: in 2011, after more than two years of litigation, a man won a sexual harassment case for $550, or less than percent of damages requested. While he didn't walk away empty-handed, he clearly didn't win the lawsuit lottery.
Nov 6th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
In 2005, Congress passed the groundbreaking Class Action Fairness Act, which cracked down on out-of-control lawsuits in which lawyers got millions and plaintiffs got coupons. While we still see plenty of ridiculous some class action settlements (remember the one where plaintiffs got $5 drink vouchers and attorneys qualified for up to $7 million?), this legislation was a great step toward improving our civil justice system.
The bad news is that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has potentially been exploiting a loophole the Class Action Fairness Act.
Nov 5th, 2013 by Tom Scott
Editor's Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today, Tom Scott, Executive Director of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, contributed a guest post for Project Lawsuit Abuse.
Nov 4th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
Something frightful brewingA newly released report questions the activist tendencies of one of Louisiana's regional appellate courts, where a number of rulings seem to ignore well-established legal statutes in an apparent attempt to manipulate the law to achieve preferred outcomes. - Daily Comet Time to act on 'lawsuit abuse'
Oct 31st, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
As if we haven't heard enough about personal injury lawyers behaving badly, another one has been caught stealing from his client. And this time, it was an elderly client!
Prosecutors say Kerry D. Brown entered a guilty plea Monday to theft of the assets of an aged person, monetary instrument abuse and forgery. Brown represented an elderly client in an automobile accident and stole more than $58,000 in settlement funds. Can you believe that?
Oct 29th, 2013 by Project Lawsuit Abuse
Another day, another personal injury lawyer in trouble. Latest on our list is Thomas Corea from Texas. Maybe you've heard of him? He used to host a biweekly call-in TV show, called "Ask the Lawyer with Tom Corea."
We hope you never called him for legal advice, though – turns out he wasn't very good! He was recently convicted of stealing from several of his clients, with a counsel for the state bar calling it the "most extreme case of lawyer misconduct" that she had ever seen.
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Like, whoa, it's been awhile. The brief energy renewal I thought was coming around what seems like forever ago was but a farce. Between the nine famillion degree weather and all the napping, little has transpired in these parts lately. But all is well.
Previously, on the blog, there was discussion of baby knits and lace and socks and other knitty what have you. Good news? Items still on the docket. Bad news? Docket looks like this: Nap, nap, eat, nap, eat, shower, nap, report to office, nap, think about knitting, watch more CSI reruns, nap, look at knitting wistfully on the way to the kitchen for a snack, nap, consider that knitting might break us out of this summer slump we are in, nap again.
In the last month or so, I've worked sporadically on the Monkey-in-progress
But mostly I've been lurking on Ravelry. If you've won a golden ticket, the user name is fiberjinx. I am adding projects here and there, but mostly taking full advantage of the resources in there. I know lots of people are still waiting to get in, and I can't wait for the day when knitters are allowed to roam the candy fields together, free to distribute yarn related information at our every whim. This is but step one in our multiple step plan to take over the universe.
And here is where we start to talk BABY. Clearly it's been on my mind lately. We had the ultrasound a week ago and were very excited to be told we have a super healthy (kinda shy) nine ounce fetus hanging out in there.
We were interested in learning the sex, mostly for name reasons-we have not been able to agree on a boys name in all the days we have ever discussed names. Lucky for us, we are spared the discussion for now… the babysaurus is a girl, and that name was picked out in fifteen seconds quite some time ago.
The concept that life and its routines are soon about to be usurped by this little creature is beginning to set in. I went ahead and ordered cloth diapers, further cementing in the fact that there will be a baby in the near future. I suppose it is a little hard for me to grasp because at the moment, besides my extreme need to sleep every few hours and some food aversions, it doesn't seem like anything is out of the norm in my body. I'm just wondering how long that might last.The nesting instinct has also been kicking on lately, and I've been weeding out even more stuff I don't think we needed to donate to the thrift store. I really thought I had done well in cleaning up already (we once packed this 1600 sq ft house to the brim with what we had in a wee townhouse apartment), but the more I look around the more I see to do. Now If I could just down a can of spinach and come up with the energy to get things going…
I think I'll stick with some knitting on the couch today instead.


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49ers' Friday pool report
San Francisco 49ers Jim Harbaugh accomplished his coaching plan of trying to make Super Bowl week a normal week for his team both in practice and in preparation.
Harbaugh brothers could envision working together
At their joint news conference Friday, Jim and John Harbaugh said they would welcome the opportunity to work together in the future.
Super Bowl matchup: 49ers RBs vs. Ravens front seven
When San Francisco's Frank Gore and LaMichael James square off against the Baltimore front seven in Super Bowl XLVII, it will be strength vs. strength.
Thursday practice report for Super Bowl XLVII
Here is Thusrday's practice report for the Ravens and 49ers for Super Bowl XLVII.
49ers' Thursday pool report
First, it's the Harbaugh Super Bowl. On Friday, it will be the Harbaugh dual press conference. Thursday offered the Harbaugh dual practice.
Jim Harbaugh: Much more than meets the eye
Jim Harbaugh has a reputation for being extremely intense. But below the surface is a warm soul and impassioned family man.
Super Bowl matchup: Ravens WRs vs. 49ers secondary
The 49ers' secondary has been a stout unit for most of the season, and faces a Ravens' passing game that has taken off in the postseason.
49ers' Culliver expresses contrition for anti-homosexual comments
A day after anti-homosexual comments made by 49ers CB Chris Culliver came out, he spoke contritely about what he had said.
Ravens moving practices to Saints' facility
The Ravens will use the Saints' facilities for practice the rest of the week, sharing it with the 49ers.
49ers' Leavitt makes best of second coaching chance
49ers LB coach Jim Leavitt isn't letting the fallout of South Florida define his career.
Wednesday practice report for Super Bowl XLVII
Here is the Wednesday practice report for the 49ers and Ravens for Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII.
Wednesday's 49ers pool report
Winds from the aftermath of a Wednesday storm sent the 49ers into the New Orleans Saints indoor practice facility for their first full practice for Super Bowl XLVII.
49ers 'reject' Culliver's comments
The 49ers released a statement Wednesday rejecting CB Chris Culliver's comments made on Tuesday.
Pierce, James diversify Super Bowl rushing attacks
Ray Rice and Frank Gore lead their teams' running games, but Bernard Pierce and LaMichael James have helped elevate them to a new level.
The Pro Game: The Age vs. Beauty Bowl
The 49ers franchise peaked decades ago; the Ravens are near the precipice, holding on for dear life. Tom Danyluk offers his take on the big game.
Kaepernick said Tuesday that he'll be training in Atlanta within a week, and the strong-armed and fleet-footed quarterback will be bringing some of his receivers along with him. All of it is part of Kaepernick's quick evolution from backup to starter that will continue as he enters training camp as the unquestioned franchise star.||||||| After losing 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans on Sunday, Kaepernick said he'll only be able to remember his breakout season "as not being good enough."
Kaepernick set an NFL record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a 45-31 playoff win over Green Bay on Saturday. He also joined Chicago's Jay Cutler and Cleveland's Otto Graham as the only players to throw two TD passes and run for two TDs in a postseason game. Graham did it twice.||||||| Kaepernick broke Michael Vick's mark of 119 yards with a 56-yard keeper on an option play in the third quarter of Saturday night's playoff game against Green Bay. The run helped Kaepernick finish with 181 yards on 16 carries, setting a 49ers postseason record. Vick set his record for Atlanta in a 47-17 win over St. Louis on Jan. 15, 2005. Kaepernick earlier scored on a 20-yard run and had his two TD passes in the first half.
Kaepernick threw for a career-best 276 yards and two TDs in the Niners' season-ending win against the Cardinals.||||||| He found Michael Crabtree for both scoring throws.
Kaepernick threw for four touchdowns, including the go-ahead score to Michael Crabtree with 6:25 to go, as the San Francisco 49ers withstood a 28-point comeback by New England and beat the Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night.||||||| Kaepernick totaled 123 yards on the four TDs and finished with 216. In his five games as the 49ers' starter, he's completed 66.4 percent of his passes (85 of 128) for 1,083 yards, seven touchdowns and two interceptions.
Kaepernick completed 18 of 23 passes for 185 yards but came through with a big effort on the ground during Sunday's 27-13 win over Miami.||||||| Kaepernick broke off a 50-yard touchdown scamper with just over two minutes left in the game, saving fantasy owners in what was a lackluster display otherwise. Almost all of Kaepernick's value comes from his legs.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - New billings show that taxpayers have now paid more than $570,000 for legal bills related to a criminal case involving the former chef at Virginia's governor's mansion and a related gift-giving investigation.
The additional legal fees are for two firms retained by the state attorney general's office to represent Gov. Bob McDonnell in his official capacity, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Friday. The counsel was also provided to his office and state employees.
The latest legal bills cover work performed in July, August and September. The bill for that stretch was $331,165.
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Photos and Video from Grant Park in Chicago
Young evangelicals were among the many supporters of Barack Obama celebrating in Grant Park Tuesday night. Here are some images, as well as a video clip of the general crowd reaction to Obama winning the presidency:
Your chosen title is a misnomer. Greg and Mitch are not evangelicals, and you just helped elect the most pro-abortion, big-government politician in US History. And now you're having a party? Let's watch big companies pay more taxes and see if their claustrophobia doesn't trickle down to you. God's judgment on you will be that you actually get what you voted for. Thanks,
A Fellow Wheaton Alumna
I am getting tired of people defining Evangelical as someone that agrees with them politically.
(Another Wheaton Alumni)
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Is there anything good coming out of the Chicago-area these days? Good Lord, please someone step forward and stem this noxious growth. The area is a font of the facile and the falsehood, big and small -- neo-Marxisms, faux- intellectuallism, and emergent mush, moral, philosophical, and theological. Please, enough of Oprah, Obama, Rahm, Blago, Wheaton, and CT.


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Blackburn Rovers fans' jury
5:00pm Thursday 9th January 2014 in Sport
Captain Scott Dann is wanted by Crystal Palace. If an acceptable bid comes in for him, would you sell to reduce the club's losses? Or would you look elsewhere within the squad?
SCOTT Dann started his Rovers career with a lot of criticism and many would have been happy to see him leave. It is testimony to the player that he has changed many opinions which were justified and rigid.
There are still elements to his game lacking but it would be bad business to allow him to leave for a fraction of the fee we paid for him.
I struggle to think of another player who could naturally take on the captaincy.
I would first and foremost look to release players such as Leon Best and Dickson Etuhu, who are costing a lot of money and having no impact on the pitch.
TO sell Scott Dann to reduce the deficit would be a drop in the ocean of debt.
And given Dann has taken his last two clubs down, and taking into account Rovers' current position, stranger things have happened than the club he may join swapping places with us come May.
Sadly the players who are surplus to requirements are players on massive salaries whom no club would pay a fee for, nor take on the wage bill.
Dann is decent – but at this level. He may need someone to remind him how much he struggled in the Premier League last time.
OBVIOUSLY there's a lot of dead weight at Rovers that I would rather discard, but nobody would be daft enough to take it off us.
Losing Scott Dann would be a blow despite him never really quite living up to expectations.
At least we have Matt Kilgallon waiting in the wings to partner Grant Hanley.
Eventually the club's financial debt is going to mean we have to sell some of our better players and I would rather see Dann go than Jordan Rhodes.
What a pity we are haemorrhaging money to players who often aren't even in the squad.
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5:29pm Thu 9 Jan 14
MatthewCA says...
If we sell Dann the effect will be bad for example " he took one game OFF(wigen game this season), Hanley got a Red card with captain tag and we start loosing the points....."
Dann is very consistant and always keep the accuray,sharpness in ground and build the team. I think he earn rovers fans now " Super Dann "
5:34pm Thu 9 Jan 14
RoversSwiss says...
There is nothing coming from the club that says we have to sell to cut the debts, it's all about cutting wages and reducing the day to day costs of running the club. I believe the useless Murphy is still receiving his massive pound of flesh every month.
As everybody says we have a lot of big wage earners who are very ordinary players, no other club will want them. Unfortunately I believe it will be a long process waiting for contracts to expire.
6:26pm Thu 9 Jan 14
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keanoutofrovers says...
If we did sell we would be way too short in the centre of defence so another body would need to come in and I suspect it will depend on who we could get.
Overall I wouldn't rule it out entirely but we should probably stick with him until at least the summer.
7:15pm Thu 9 Jan 14
Angry From Accrington says...
On the pitch, he is a reasonable Championship centre half but certainly not indispensible.
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NASHVILLE, Tn., (KNOE 8 News) - More than three dozen students have spent the night in a hospital after carbon monoxide leaked at their Nashville private school.
Drexel Preparatory Academy principal Cheryl Bowman said that students began coming to the office Monday morning complaining of flu-like symptoms. Officials decided to cancel classes.
After students were sent home, the school got a call from Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital, saying several students had been brought in and showed high levels of carbon monoxide.
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Voracious invasive mussels create enough turbulence in the surrounding water that it actually disrupts Lake's Michigan's natural currents near the lake bottom.
That is the initial finding of Qian Liao, assistant professor of civil engineering and mechanics, and Harvey Bootsma, a scientist with the School of Freshwater Sciences, when they applied a unique apparatus to the question of whether quaggas alter how nutrients in the lake are mixed.
Quaggas filter-feed by siphoning water containing phytoplankton and then expelling just the water, creating micro-jets. And they do it at an extraordinary rate, about three liters per mussel per day, according to consumption rates reproduced in a lab setting.
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Liao has modified a system called Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), which captures images of very small particles and charts them as they move through the water. The system uses a vertical laser sheet that penetrates water, illuminating the flow and showing how the interplay between the lake current and the current created by the mussels' filter-feeding can affect their consumption rate.
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Indeed, the largely computer-generated Jack acts the pants off his co-stars, which can and should be taken with a whole trough full of salt.
Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
The film's crude humor and violence -- cartoonish, but still violent -- should offend parents of younger kids. Yet its ultra-broad, pratfall-filled comedy will satisfy only the most indiscriminate teens.
Were it not for the involvement of producer Bruckheimer, who has made billions by conning millions into believing they can't live without his celluloid crack, it's doubtful Kangaroo Jack would even exist. As it stands now, the "movie" barely exists anyway.
Run -- dont walk -- from this film or you might end up watching a bad CGI character do a painful Dr. Evil impression.
Bruckheimer shifts from high-concept historical romance "Pearl Harbor" and high-concept T&A "Coyote Ugly" to a first attempt at high-concept light comedy, yet only his fondness for dragging acting talent down with him carries over.
This salt-and-pepper buddy movie set in the scenic environs of downtown Brooklyn and the Australian bush is a crowd-pleaser -- for the elementary-school set.
The kangaroo is devoid of charm, as are the actors, who have the chemistry of fingernails on a blackboard.
Straight from the fiery, churning bowels of high-concept hell comes Kangaroo Jack, Bruckheimer's idea of kid-friendly fare, and some of the longest 90 minutes ever committed to film.
In the life-is-too-short category, file Kangaroo Jack as a sub-Farrelly Brothers, dumb-plus-dumber buddy picture.
What better to do with such a quiet, majestic landscape than to liven it up with the noise and vulgarity of lowest-common-denominator American pop culture?
This fish-out-of-water buddy/action comedy is aimed squarely at undiscriminating 10-year-olds, and that demographic may well enjoy it.
For auds unwilling or unable to grapple with the subtle nuances of "Scooby Doo," Warners now gives us Kangaroo Jack, a shrill and silly farce.
Virtually every shot of the kangaroo was digitally created, and perhaps that was an insurance policy masterstroke. Forcing a real live one to act opposite these co-stars could have easily constituted animal cruelty.
There are two distinctive features to the movie: the mind-numbingly banal plot as one chases another who chases another, and all the offensive material.
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Aug 24, 2014What Kangaroo Jack is attempting to accomplish is far beyond me. Sure, O'Connell and Anderson have compatibility... but that certainly doesn't make them funny.… Full Review »
Oct 26, 2013My memory does fade from time to time, but I do remember being unable to apprehend the convoluted storyline and hammy acting and stereotyped subplots. And the artificial computerized Kangaroo Jack is shockingly painful to look at when at a movie theater. Jerry O'Connell was downhill from 'Stand By Me', and Anthony Anderson, I don't when he acts decent, not even in 'The Departed'. I give it a four because I got a few laughs, a few. Otherwise, this would be a one from me.… Full Review »
Aug 2, 2012this is my favorite movie of all time. sure it is silly, and the premise is silly, but thats the point of the movie. i found it entertaining as a 9 year old, and now as an 18 year old. its a good fun movie.… Full Review »


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16-10-2010 18:35
None of the controls in the bundled handsfree of my N8 is working. When I connect it tha phone identifies that as the headphone.
Help anyone
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16-10-2010 22:31
I thought I had the same problem as you but you need to press in the headset until you hear a snap. This will let you know your headset is completely in. Hope this helps.
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07-11-2010 5:59
when i connect my headset wid nokia its show connected but buttons (MUSIC KEY ND CALLING KEY,SOUND KEY)not works .plz help me ...IS WH-701 not supported or what plz nokia rply nd solve my problem>!
07-11-2010 6:54
I have the problem too and solve it this way, each time I want to use the N8 headphone (WH-701).
1. Activate Music Player. But do not plug in the N8 headphone yet.
2. Start playing a song on Music Player.
3. While the song is playing with the Music Player still open, then only plug in the N8 headphone (push connector all in until you hear a snap sound).
4. After that, you may hide the Music Player.
With that method, the sound on N8 headphone is great and all its media controls work well.
12-11-2010 10:37
thanks heaps for the helpful tip. the phone is great i love it. i got a bit worried when the headphones didnt work properly. now they do. thanks again.
17-11-2010 12:39
Ye the sounds great !! But the handsfree buttons do not work!!!!!!!!!! The sound play forward and reverse..all buttons on the Handsfree do not work !!!!!!!!
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15-02-2011 13:45
Hey 'P2829" Thanks a lot dude... I had the same problem with my headset and always thought there would be some sequence that i needed to follow. cos the head set controls would work in between.. Kudos
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29-03-2011 18:36
i have the same problem , the tip was helpfull
but i'm realy wonder how Nokia department is so oblivious on this issue
i hope fixing it by new frimware comming out ....
31-03-2011 0:52
I believe that the problem is with speed. If you don't plug in the headset quickly enough, it gets recognized as headphones only. If you do it quickly, it's OK. Just my experience.
15-04-2011 11:02
Numis has got the correct solution. If you insert the headset slowly there's an increased chance that it will be detected as simple headphones whereupon you'll receive the message "Default accessory: Headphones. Use phone microphone". If you see this message your headset controls will not work.
I tried going into Settings->Phone->Accessories->Accessory Settings and setting the default to Headset, but this just caused the previous "Default accessory: Headphones..." message to be replaced with a prompt to "Select accessory:" from "Headphones / TV-Out cable / Music stand".
Thanks Numis, inserting the headset connection quickly every time has completely solved this problem for me.
18-04-2011 18:51
Many thanks, N8 purchased 15/04/2011 with same problem.
Your information is very perfect. Phone is really fantastic phone.
20-04-2011 8:32
22-05-2011 21:52
such a simple solution... thanks a ton bro... just as u stated, all i needed to do was plug it in till it snapped and voila!!!
01-07-2011 18:11
Oh yes! Inserting it in quickly solves it all. Thanks.
26-07-2011 0:42
I've always the same problem.
The headphone runs but any key control runs.
I hear a snap sound and I've a message that it asks me to talk and after the phone switch between music player and the famous message to talk.
And After 5 or 6 time I've a error system.....
so if somebody has an idea....
Thank you....
07-10-2011 12:30
i had the same problem too with the headfree controls, at the begining, it worked for awhile..but, since a few days, i plug-in the headset, it works, and , after i put the cellphone in the pocket, with the headset connected, the handsfree controls doesn't work. could be a problem with the contact? please help me


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|Apinda Mpako, Pan Africa ILGA
|Apinda Mpako, Pan Africa ILGA
Despite efforts to change peoples' perceptions, homophobia and hate-crime remains rife in our communities - even in schools. What can we do about it?
AJ is a white lesbian now in her 20's; she remembers during her school days, "I've always had crushes on girls. One day a friend of mine asked me, 'Who do you like?' So I told her. The next day I got beaten up at school. They kicked me and threw stones at me, and called me names."
Violence committed against learners who do not conform to hetero-normative roles and behaviours, more specifically lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) learners, is pervasive in South African schools. This violence largely goes unchallenged. Policy-makers and teachers must urgently take steps to ensure the safety of these learners, and promote school environments respectful of diversity and human rights.
We know from our own history that prejudice is a breeding ground for violence. The school environment is no different to the rest of society in that, despite the policy framework that protects learners from discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes are still a common experience amongst LGBTI school-goers.
Gender roles and identities
School-going years are a critical time in the formation of a person's individual and social identity. Part of this process is the learning of gender roles and identities. This takes place both within and outside of the classroom, largely based on the social construction of what it means to be a 'man' and a 'woman' in society.
Whilst youth have the opportunity to both challenge and redefine traditional gender constructions, this is often perceived as posing a threat to the status quo and the prevailing power systems which serve to maintain the dominance of masculinity and heterosexuality. For example, young women who may identify as masculine are often the targets of violence when they refuse to wear the appropriate school uniform.
"I remember a lesbian at my school always dressed like a man. She preferred to socialise with the guys at school. The hostel mother and the other girls used to give her a hard time for not acting like the other girls. One time the other girls beat her up," says Sello, a black gay deaf man in his early 20s.
Although the reaction to LGBTI youth is still often one of intolerance and prejudice, this may be slowly changing in urban areas. Responses by learners to a Gay and Lesbian Archives (GALA) exhibition featuring life stories of gay and lesbian youth at the Apartheid Museum were largely positive.
Learners were encouraged to write on a chalkboard as part of the exhibit. On learner wrote, "If we can't respect our people it will be apartheid again so let us respect and appreciate diversity in our country."
Whilst educators have the responsibility to role model the type of society we want to fashion, they often struggle the most to engage with issues perceived as taboo and often silenced in the classroom.
"High school was probably the worst... like being called 'gay' and 'faggot'. I'd walk out of a class and down the corridor, and someone would say, 'Shake that ass, baby'... Teachers never intervened." – recalls Bradley, a coloured gay man now in his late teens.
The education sector has a powerful role to play in actively addressing prejudice and discrimination against LGBTI learners and teachers. Educators are leaders in transforming society to embrace difference and respect diversity.
For this reason, OUT and GALA are working within the sector to sensitise policy-makers and teachers to issues that affect learners in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Department of Education should mainstream sexual orientation, positioned with the broader ambit of gender equality, within programmes to address school violence. This includes the integration of such issues into policies on victimisation and bullying at schools. In addition, Codes of Conduct and enforcement mechanisms for all schools should explicitly include sexual orientation.
Most importantly, as key role models for the youth, we need educators that are clear on their role as advocates for human rights and the protection of the dignity of youth. Educators should engender an awareness of the dynamics that aid targeted violence and abuse within the classroom, and lead on a proactive response to this concern.
The South African Schools Act makes imperative that a school must serve learners' educational requirements without unfairly discriminating. This will be achieved only by ensuring a safe and affirming school environment that respects the rights of every learner.
(Melanie Judge is the Programme Manager at OUT LGBT Well-being and Ruth Morgan is the Director of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa. This is part of a series of articles produced by the Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service for the Sixteen Days of Activism).


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Astellas Pharma
|Public (K.K.)
|Traded as
|2005 (from merger)
|Tokyo, Japan
|Key people
|Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President & CEO
|¥ 972,586 million JPY (FY 2007)
|Net income
|¥ 177,437 million JPY (FY 2007)
|17,085 (2012) [1]
Astellas Pharma Inc. (アステラス製薬株式会社 Asuterasu Seiyaku Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (山之内製薬株式会社 Yamanouchi Seiyaku Kabushiki-gaisha?) and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (藤沢薬品工業株式会社 Fujisawa Yakuhin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha?).
Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology (transplantation), dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease. Priority areas for R&D are infectious diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, oncology, and diseases of the central nervous system.
The company's headquarters are in Tokyo, with research centers in Tsukuba and Osaka. Clinical development is centred in Northbrook, Illinois and Leiderdorp, Netherlands. Combined revenues of the two pre-merger companies were $7.9 billion in 2004. Worldwide the company employs about 17,000 people.
Its advertising slogans are:
Fujisawa Shoten was started in 1894 by Tomokichi Fujisawa in Osaka, and was renamed Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co. in 1943.
Yamanouchi Yakuhin Shokai was started in 1923 by Kenji Yamanouchi in Osaka. The company was renamed Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. in 1940 and moved to Tokyo in 1942.
Both companies started their overseas expansion at about the same time, opening offices in Taiwan in 1962 and 1963, respectively, and in the United States and Europe from 1977 onwards. Fujisawa acquired Lyphomed in 1990 and thereafter established its US R&D center in Deerfield, Illinois. Yamanouchi's R&D center in Leiderdorp was established with the acquisition of the pharmaceutical division of Royal Gist Brocades in 1991.
Fujisawa and Yamanouchi combined in a "merger of equals," forming Astellas Pharma on 1 April 2005.
At least some of its older products continue to be distributed under the original brand, ostensibly due to high brand-name recognition.[3]
On June 9, 2010, Astellas acquired OSI Pharmaceuticals for $4.0 billion.
Some of the key products produced by Astellas include:
- Prograf (tacrolimus) - Prevention of post-transplant organ rejection
- Protopic (tacrolimus ointment) - Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Amevive (alefacept) - Plaque psoriasis
- VESIcare (solifenacin succinate) - Overactive bladder (OAB) marketed with GlaxoSmithKline
- Myrbetriq (mirabegron) - Overactive bladder (OAB)
- Flomax (tamsulosin hydrochloride) - Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
- Adenocard (adenosine injection) - Pharmacologic stress agent for myocardial perfusion scan
- Adenoscan (adenosine injection) - Pharmacologic stress agent for myocardial perfusion scan
- Lexiscan (regadenoson injection) - Pharmacologic stress agent for myocardial perfusion scan
- Vaprisol (conivaptan) - Hyponatremia
- AmBisome (amphotericin B) - Anti-fungal
- Mycamine (micafungin sodium) - Anti-fungal
- Symoron (methadone HCL) - narcotics misuse cessation
- Tarceva (erlotinib) - Non-small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer
- Xtandi (enzalutamide) - Prostate cancer
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- ^ "Corporate Philosophy of Astellas Pharma".
- ^ "Yamanouchi Pimafucin (natamycin) product line manufactured at least up to 11/2007"
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