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It is always exciting to see what happens when a community comes together to develop solutions to its most pressing issues. Led by Rev. Kenneth S. Robinson, M.D., Pastor and CEO of St. Andrew AME Church Enterprise, more than 22 South Memphis organizations, business and religious institutions worked together over 18 months to plan how to revitalize their neighborhood - and today, we see the first fruits of that labor (literally) with the opening of the South Memphis Farmers Market.
United We Serve: Let's Read. Let's Move. is thrilled to partner with Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities USA is an organization that provides assistance to more than 8.5 million people annually who are in need - they explore all avenues to secure resources and supports to assist families in meeting their basic needs and moving beyond poverty.
Two years ago two residents of Shelton, Washington donated a large parcel of their property to the city. They wanted it to be called Catalyst Park in hopes that it would someday provide a place for the neighborhood to gather, play, and grow together. This year our local Food Bank Garden, which was housed at the County Fair Grounds, was eliminated due to the county's budget issues.
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Hunger doesn't take a break in the summer. USDA and Let's Read. Let's Move. will encourage America's children to plant community gardens through the People's Garden Initiative, and use volunteers to connect children with healthy foods and meals as part of the Summer Food Service Program. Toolkits provide individuals and organizations guidance on building community gardens and ways to volunteer to deliver meals to youth.


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Begun in 1544, the cathedral was destroyed by earthquakes and fire and not finished until 1733. It honors the Virgin of the Assumption, whose statue can be seen on the facade above the door. The chapel at the back of the church and to the left of the altar houses the revered crucifix of El Señor del Rayo (Our Lord of the Lightning Bolt), the only piece to survive a fire that started when lightning struck the thatch roof of the original structure. There's no clapper in
the bell, supposedly because it started to ring on its own accord back in the 18th century. A recent scrubbing has made this a contender for the city's most gorgeous church. The inside, however, remains sterile.
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Sorry, old sport. These are the Nineties. The playground, as you knew it, is gone.
Gone indoors. Located in a strip shopping center. Airconditioned. Dehumidified. You have to pay to get in. Employees with headsets monitor your activities. Take off your shoes if you want to play. Forgot to wear socks? Two bucks, they'll sell you a pair.
Indoor playgrounds are one of the growth industries of this decade. From the turn-of-the-century paddlewheel motif of Mark Twain's Riverboat Playhouse to the immense, futuristic warehouses known as Discovery Zones, they're popping up everywhere.
And they're all different, angling for a niche by tinkering with a formula that includes skeeball (miniature bowling lanes that end in a target, sort of a cross between bowling and darts), video games, food, clowns, robotic animal shows, and "fun zones" where kids crawl through tubes, swing from trapezes, and slide down corkscrew chutes into padded cages with rope walls stocked knee-high with soft plastic balls.
Visually, vibrant primary colors are the order of the day. The noise quotient, largely a product of squealing kids and exploding video games, approaches that of a Vegas casino on a Friday night.
In a continuing effort to keep our readers apprised of the latest developments in popular culture, New Times recently sent a panel of experts into the field to rate the fun factories. Our elite team of pint-size playground pundits included five-year-old Michael, eight-year-old Nikki, eleven-year-old Jacqui, and twelve-year-old Janne.
Chuck E. Cheese's
3805 W. 20th Avenue
Mark Twain's Riverboat Playhouse
8700 SW 137th Avenue
Chuck E. Cheese's and Mark Twain's have a lot in common. Both are geared toward patrons under the age of six, emphasize freshly made pizza, cater to birthday parties (especially on weekends), and feature a show built around mechanical animals performing musical tunes. They also offer skeeball, pinball, an array of video games, and a small play zone the main attraction of which is a ball pit (picture an above-ground swimming pool approximately ten feet square, filled to a level of about two feet with thousands of soft, multicolored plastic spheres slightly larger than baseballs). Kids are encouraged to dive into, wade through, throw, or immerse themselves in the balls with impunity. No one taller than 48 inches is permitted into this area.
The middle of the week is slow at both enterprises unless they're hosting a day-care center field trip or a birthday bash, but both are transformed into zoos on the weekends, when they host nonstop parties. Chuck E. Cheese's is the cleaner, more colorful, and modern-looking of the two, and kids really seem to get a kick out of the techno-creature show, which features the Right Honorable Mr. Cheese, a tall, pink-and-gray rat. An employee in a rat costume makes appearances at parties and leads the kids around the room in a conga line.
Mark Twain's is, to be kind, more conceptual. The Riverboat Playhouse seeks to re-create a nostalgic slice of Americana lifted from Samuel Clemens's tales of Huck Finn and life on the Mississippi. The anachronistic appeal of such a bygone epoch would seem to be limited, especially in the MTV era. The fact that the Discovery Zone, which is bigger-faster-newer-cleaner-trendier than Mark Twain's, opened just a few doors to the north in the same Kendale Lakes Mall doesn't help. Our illustrious panelists cared little for the riverboat decor (assuming they even noticed it before they headed for the ball pit and the video games). They had especially harsh words for the "animatronics" show.
"Borrring!" chimed Jacqui, Janne, and Nikki in unison.
To be fair, the picky threesome was significantly older than Mark Twain's target market segment. But they found nothing positive to say about the production, staged in a dark theater walled off from the main play area. (The venue-within-a-venue doubles as Uncle Funny's Comedy Club on Friday and Saturday nights.)
A Dixieland band composed of five automated musicians with dog heads and paws but otherwise human proportions occupies the center stage. The dogmen's arms and mouths move mechanically and out of sync with a tape playing covers of moldy oldies such as "Joy to the World" and "Spinning Wheel" that not one of our four critics recognized. To the left of the main stage is a smaller platform resembling the front porch of a Southern mansion. A mechanized Mark Twain sits there on his chair, glaring out at the audience. Periodically his head moves and he engages in canned repartee with the dogfolk, one of whom sounds a little like Louis Armstrong. A shaggy, vaguely canine-looking creature reposes at Twain's feet.
While our children's panel found the show to be merely lame, our adult chaperone thought the animated Sam Clemens downright scary. To the grownup he resembled a demented drunk more than an accomplished author, not that there's usually much difference between the two. "It looks so fake," summed up Jacqui in an opinion quickly seconded by Nikki and Janne. "After fifteen minutes, they play it over again and it gets really annoying."


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Portugal Road Map. 1:600,000. Turinta. An excellent road map of Portugal. Included in the map is a guide to hotels, restaurants, and other tourist-related services. Multilingual legend, including English. Thumbnail of the map A detail of the map
Portugal Travel Map. 1:500,000. Freytag & Berndt. Multilingual.
Portugal Travel Map. 1:600,000. ITMB. A shaded relief road map.
Portugal Travel Map. 1:400,000. Michelin (#733). Fully indexed with numerous inset maps. Bilingual.
Portugal Regional Travel Maps. Turinta, 2009. This Portuguese publisher offers an excellent series of regional maps of Portugal. The maps offers GPS references coupled with cultural and geographic information, indexes to place names and tourist sites, and a multilingual legend (including English). Index map showing coverage of the 5 regional maps. Sample from the Alentejo map. Sample from the Algarve map. Sample from the Beiras/Serra da Estrela map. Sample from the Lisbon Coast regional map. Sample from the Northern Portugal regional map.
Azores Travel Map. 1:75,000. Turinta. Multilingual. An excellent map of this popular tourist region.
(Portugal) Madeira Travel Map. Turinta. Multilingual. A good road map of the island. The map has insets of the major cities/tourist areas along the island's coast. In Portuguese. Size is 64 x 110 cm. Sample detail of the map
Portugal City Maps. Turinta. Turinta is the main commercial map publisher in Portugal and makes excellent city street and regional road maps. Multilingual legends including English. Detail of the Turinta Lisbon map Front of the Turinta Lisbon map
Laminated Lisbon City Map by Borch. Borch. Laminated city street map of Lisbon, Portugal. Our soft-laminated folded map of Lissabon in the 4th edition shows: Lisbon 1:14 000, Baixa, Alfama, Mouraria 1:8 250, Cascais & Estoril 1:12 500, Lisbon & Region 1:135 000, Lisbon District 1:650 000, Portugal administrative & time zones, Public Transport Lisbon and Top 30 sights. Borch Maps show hotels, museums, monuments, markets, public transport, top sights and points of interest, useful statistics, conversion charts for temperatures, weights and measurements, climate charts showing temperatures, sunshine hours, precipitation and humidity, overview maps, time zones, and much more... Front of the Borch Lisbon map Reverse of the Borch Lisbon map Sample detail of the Borch Lisbon map
Laminated Lisbon City Map by Streetwise. Streetwise. Laminated city center street map of Lisbon, Portugal. Folding pocket size travel map with surface tram & metro stations.
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Portugal National Atlas (Atlas do Ambiente). 1:1,000,000. 1978-1988. CNA, Portugal. This excellent loose-leaf atlas contains 47 sheets covering geology, weather, agriculture, and cultural topics. Most sheets have a separate 15-50 page descriptive text. In Portuguese.
Portugal 1:25,000 Topographic Maps. 1:25,000. Instituto Geográfico do Exército (Army Geographic Institute). Detailed topographic maps covering all of Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira islands. In Portuguese.
Portugal 1:50,000 Topographic Maps - click here for complete listings, index maps, sample images, and more.
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Portugal 1:250,000 Topographic Quadrangle Map. 1:250,000. Instituto Português de Cartografia e Cadastro. This 8 sheet set offers complete coverage of Portugal. In Portuguese.
Portugal 1:250,000 JOG Topographic Maps. 1:250,000. Instituto Geográfico do Exército & NGA. Part of the worldwide series by NGA/NIMA, these eleven charts give complete coverage of Portugal, plus three sheets for the Azores and Madeira.
Portugal 1:200,000 Topographic Quadrangle Map. 1:200,000. Instituto Português de Cartografia e Cadastro. This 8 sheet set offers complete coverage of Portugal. In Portuguese.
Portugal Geologic Map (Carta Geológica). 1:1,000,000. Instituto Geológico e Mineiro. 1982. One sheet showing generalized geology, in Portuguese. 40 x 70 cm.
Geological Map of Portugal (Carta Geológica de Portugal). 1:500,000. Serviços Geológicos de Portugal. 1992. Two sheets, in color. A detailed map showing the geology of Portugal and the near off-shore area. A full legend and two inset maps are in the margins. With separate descriptive memoir. In Portuguese.
Geologic Map of the Continental Platform (Carta Geológica da Platforma Continental). 1:1,000,000. Instituto Geológico e Mineiro. 1978. Shows the geology of the offshore region only. 40 x 72 cm. In Portuguese.
Portugal Aeromagnetic Map (Carta Aeromagnetica De Portugal Continental). 1:1,000,000. 1990. Shows the aeromagnetic field for Portugal, overlain on a topographic base map. In Portuguese.
Portugal Tectonic Map (Carta Tectónica de Portugal). 1:1,000,000. 1972. PIGC. In Portuguese.
Portugal Quaternary Map (Carta Geológica do Quaternario de Portugal). 1:1,000,000. 1969. SGP. A generalized map and 37-page text in Portuguese. 40 x 70 cm.
Mineral Map (Carta Mineiro de Portugal). 1:500,000. 1962. Two sheets in Portuguese.
Carta Geológico de Portugal. Serviços Geológicos de Portugal. 1:200,000. 1992. This is an 8 sheet series. Sheet #1 is recently released. It includes an 82-page text. In Portuguese. Sheets 7 and 8 are also available. In Portuguese.
Carta Geológica da Regiâo do Algarve. 1:100,000. Instituto Geológico e Mineiro de Portugal. 1992. Map consists of 2 sheets, eastern and western with a 15-page text. In Portuguese.
Portugal 1:50,000 Geologic Quadrangle Map Series (Carta Geológica de Portugal). 1:50,000. Instituto Geológico e Mineiro.. There are now 104 sheets available for this series, which will eventually cover all of Portugal. New sheets have been listed individually below. Many sheets have accompanying text booklets. Note the significant discount on complete sets. In Portuguese.
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Yet another technology conference took place along the West Coast. This time it was DEMO, a long-standing tradition in the industry where companies got the opportunity to compete for a $1 million prize. This year seemed to be a little bit more concerned with celebrating an individual as much as the winners. For the past 13 years, executive producer Chris Shipley has helped judge thousands of applicants and oversee the production of one of the most prestigious tech conferences known to help make or break products.
In full disclosure, I was invited to be a part of this DEMO experience as the official event photographer. Even so, here are a few thoughts on the conference:
Expect a different environment compared to other tech conferences. This isn't a panel discussion. For the most part, this is focused on product launches and demonstrations. If you're thinking that you're going to be taught something new besides what companies are doing, you're at the wrong event. Be prepared for a marathon of presentations that will go by in a flurry of six-minute intervals.
Don't try and jot down a lot of notes during company pitches. There just isn't enough time for you to remember everything about these companies. The good thing about DEMO is that each of the presenters makes it a point to tell the audience where they can find additional information and which booth they are located at in the nearby pavilion.
Don't expect to see companies be all about social media. Contrary to the belief about technology conferences, not everything centers around social media. There were some companies that presented iPhone applications and even some that had hardware products that they were launching – one of which was awarded part of the $1 million prize from DEMO.
Do come into DEMO with an open mind – there may be some products that surprise you. The beauty of these conferences is that they segment the companies by industry. This lets you check out what other folks are doing in different industries with technology being the common linkage.
Do plan on bringing equipment to help with your technology needs. Unfortunately one of the things that I've encountered at DEMO was the diminished capacity of the Internet. Not only that, but there weren't enough outlets in the back of the room for all the laptops.
DEMO is a really good event to be at, but in the end I felt a bit "quarantined" simply because all the activity took place in the hotel. While that saves on transportation, after three days, you can get pretty claustrophobic or perhaps just sick of the food.
But let's face facts…we're not there to simply enjoy the nightlife. We're there to check out the startups and new emerging products and DEMO definitely has some good value to those who attend the event. The grand scheme of things is the last day as judges awarded lifetime achievement awards to some great people, including the former president of Palm, the founder & Chairman of Salesforce.com, and many others.
In the end, the winners of the $1 million prize from DEMO were Emo Labs, who won DEMO's consumer-facing award for their invisible speaker system and Liaise, who won the enterprise award for their service in analyzing the content in your inbox, figuring out the important items and then building out a to-do list for you to execute.
Overall, the DEMO conference is a great event to be at and it definitely showed that there is some pretty good innovations happening during a time of an economic downturn. Very promising applications and products that hopefully will succeed to be the next biggest thing since sliced bread.
Photos from the event, courtesy of DEMO conferences can be viewed by clicking here.
Photo credit: DEMO Conferences.
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Getting, Stephen J. and Perretti, Mauro (2001) Arthritic diseases: melanocortin type 3 receptor agonists as potential therapeutics. Current opinion in investigational drugs, 2 (8). pp. 1064-1069. ISSN 1472-4472
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Gouty arthritis is currently treated with drugs that have an array of side effects. Therefore, identification of novel endogenous targets for drug development may have beneficial properties ACTH4-10, a heptapeptide fragment derived from the hormone adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) modulates the inflammatory response in a corticosterone-independent manner, via agonism at melanocortin type 3 receptors (MC3-R) expressed on peritoneal macrophages. MC3-R agonists inhibit cytokine formation and subsequent neutrophil migration, while antagonists abrogate these effects. Together, these data highlight MC3-R as a potential therapeutic target and suggest that small molecule agonists directed at MC3-R with more specific actions, may be potentially novel therapeutics for treating this pathology.
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Riven - Valor
I got Riven yesterday (New Favorite Champion) and I was wondering why Valor can't dash through walls? She is obviously made to be a mobile champion, so why would they not have this available? I guess where I am mostly coming from is that Shen's taunt has the ability to dash through walls but Valor doesn't. I guess some people could argue that Shen only has one escape while Riven has 2-3, but Teemo has Camouflage, Move Quick, and Noxious Trap. Some may say that Teemo can't dash through walls, but if you look at Lee Sin he has the ability to jump through multiple walls. Some input would be nice.
Same reason that Vayne cannot tumble through walls, it has too short of a range to do so. And honestly, Riven can be a difficult melee champion to 1v1 due to burst, sustain, CC, and mobility, allowing her to go through walls too would be way too much.
Lets be honest though, if they give this to Riven, you know they will just nerf Irelia for it.... |
You said you just bought her, I have been playing her since release, she didnt get hit with the nerf bat, her HP regen and Ult CD was silly. You ult to kill them, and by the time they get back to lane, your ult was back up, that shouldnt happen.
Broken as hell since she's got multiple dashes on decently low cooldowns and they don't require targets.
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We take a look at the hard-sell tactics that Australian energy retailers such as Energy Australia, AGL, Red Energy, Lumo, Origin and TRUenergy were rolling out late last year, when predictions of price hikes were especially dire.
For more information about saving energy, see Power and energy.
It's not an easy time to be shopping around for an energy provider. With the cost of electricity rocketing and consumers scrambling for better options, retailers are trotting out special deals to try to lock in your business. We're deluged with marketing material, but whether it's a good idea to take the bait is far from certain. Late last year, when talk of sky high electricity increases began to reach fever pitch, CHOICE reviewed a slew of online promotions and found, not surprisingly, that they aren't much help in making an informed decision. They often play on fears of drastic rate hikes, and the deals are far from straightforward.
EnergyAustralia, AGL, Red Energy, Lumo, Origin and TRUenergy all enticed consumers to sign contracts in exchange for a rate freeze, a one-off payment, a 10% or similar discount, a bonus point program, or some combination thereof. Many of the long-term contracts had complicated terms and conditions, warned of unspecified costs and imposed early termination fees. Some promos only included usage; others both usage and delivery to your home (that is, the fixed cost onto which your usage charges are added) to your house. Pay-on-time discounts were especially perplexing. In a typical example, Lumo offered a 13% discount on the company's "best rates" if customers pay on time, but it also says in the contract terms and conditions that "we may vary your energy charges for any reason". A quick perusal of the deals on offer at the moment reveals that current marketing tactics are much the same.
As with other offers, the Lumo deal appeared to be contingent on signing a contract that allows the retailer to raise prices, but we couldn't find these critical details in the online marketing material. By contrast, the number for the sales department on most of the ads was easy to spot. And prices can go up in ways consumers might not expect. For instance, CHOICE member Geoff Goonan told us that his Lumo off-peak charges "increased by a staggering 24.5%" with his latest bill, as opposed to 9.8% for peak charges.
Another member, Nick Haggarty, told us he was shocked to find out his ActewAGL Greenchoice rates were going up in line with those of non-renewable energy customers – due in part to carbon pricing, according to the company. "I completely understand that it's not possible to have two electricity networks, one from renewable sources and the other from non-renewables," Nick says. "What I don't understand is why my bills from ActewAGL have for years included a graph of my greenhouse gas emissions and every one of them has shown them to have been at zero tonnes." Nick is not the only consumer we've heard from who's been mystified by retailer explanations of renewable pricing calculations. Renewable energy options were excluded from some of the promos we reviewed.
The marketing is confusing, and much of it has been down and dirty. Energy Australia's offer to lock in current rates for two years, for instance, was marketed along with a warning that electricity prices have increased more than 50% in Sydney in the past three years. Yet the independent Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has estimated that electricity prices across Australia will see an average annual growth rate of about nine per cent through 2013-14, with retailers free to go below any regulated increase in order to grab market share. In late August 2012, the launch of a Senate inquiry into the causes of high energy bills was announced, which will include looking at options to reduce prices.
Around the same time, AEMC proposed new rules to strengthen regulation of distribution and transmission networks (the poles and wires that delivery electricity to your home, the expansion and upgrading of which are cited as the main cause of electricity price increases) with the aim of reducing consumer costs. And with the Prime Minister herself threatening to use the "big stick of regulation" late last year if the industry doesn't figure out how to keep prices in check, consumers should be wary of price predictions, especially when they're made by energy retailers. It can be a good idea to lock in a rate, but first make sure you understand what you're locking in as well as all the terms and conditions of the deal.
Some energy marketing has been particularly aggressive. In March 2011, for instance, AGL set out to lure at least 500,000 customers away from the competition with the launch of what it called "an aggressive sales and marketing campaign in NSW utilising many channels".
At the time, AGL's GM of marketing, David Hamilton, said: "we intend to educate people about the fact that they can choose their retailer". (The lure to switch was a modest $300 off the regulated tariff over a three-year period in exchange for committing to a three-year contract.) One marketing channel, AGL's door-knocking campaign, got the energy giant and independent marketing firm CPM into hot water and cast a revealing light on the current state of energy marketing.
In March 2012, the ACCC filed a suit against both and accused AGL of misleading and deceptive conduct and making "a range of false representations to consumers in the course of door-to-door selling". Neighbourhood Energy, part of the Alinta group, and its former marketing company, Australian Green Credits, were also named in the suit. To prevent further transgressions, the ACCC said it and the Australian Energy Regulator had signed agreements with state and territory energy ombudsmen to allow greater scrutiny of the door-to-door marketing of energy products.
But as recently as August 2012, CPM was advertising for "residential field sales agents" to sell energy products at $18 per hour plus "uncapped commissions" and a chance for weekly and monthly bonuses based on sales. CPM said applicants need only learn some "simple procedures and selling techniques" and would be carted around neighbourhoods in a company van. Backpackers "fluent in English" were invited to apply. In a recent report, the ACCC said one million door-knocking energy sales were attempted across Australia in 2011, usually by external marketing companies.
There are an average of eight door knocks per year on every Australian household, with residents in NSW and Victoria likely to experience more than the average. The door-knocking epidemic has led to the introduction of a Do Not Knock bill, an idea that CHOICE strongly supports along with the Consumer Action Law Centre's Do Not Knock Campaign. In a belated act of contrition, both AGL and Energy Australia have since sworn off door knocking campaigns - at least for now.
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- 1 pound(s) large shrimp, in their shells
- 3.5 teaspoon(s) lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 1 tomato, seeded and cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) fresh-ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoon(s) chopped fresh parsley
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the shrimp, cover, and bring back to a boil. Continue boiling, partially covered, until the shrimp are just done, 1 to 2 minutes. Drain. Let the shrimp cool and then peel them.
- In a large glass or stainless-steel bowl, combine the lemon juice with the olive oil, tomato, salt, pepper, and parsley. Add the shrimp and toss.
- Variations: Substitute a pound of sea scallops for the shrimp. Heat one tablespoon of oil in a large nonstick frying pan over moderately high heat until very hot. Season the scallops with one-eighth teaspoon salt. Put the scallops in the pan and sear until brown on the bottom, one to two minutes. Turn and brown on the other side until just done, one to two minutes longer. Remove the scallops and cut them into quarters. Toss with the marinade. Spice up the dish by adding one-quarter teaspoon dried red-pepper flakes to the marinade. Use chopped fresh basil instead of the parsley. For an extra flavor dimension, add a clove of minced garlic to the marinade.
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daviso452 wrote:Did you hear that there is going to be a Samurai jack movie? Currently it's only rumors, but apparently J.J. Abrams is going to produce it. I hope it's true, because I agree that Jack is my favorite CN character.
Wolf_Pup wrote:You know, since this is Mimi's story, I wonder if they won't even reveal the identity of the traitor. That'd be a huge tease I think but it could be possible. Or maybe the traitor would be revealed later on
wonder3 wrote:thier are three charecters that have an alliance with both good and bad in the ppgd universe so they probably instigated a fight between the heroes and the city itself thus making the surving heroes villians who had to escape and with the heroes out of the way as well as mandy's new position as wife of grim and queen of the underworld, the villians of ppgd could come in and clean house.
the three i am talking about are the rowdyruff boys being as the are technically human and everytime the powerpuffs fight them it ends with thier deaths it would be a twist if they killed the powerpuffs( not going to happen) or becuase they had the brutally kill three goverment agents are seen, along with the rest of the heroes as villians now agianst the goverment.
LaughingTarget wrote:Mandy isn't the one. Traitor implies being an ally, and Mandy doesn't fit that bill. Additionally, Mandy is a rule the world type, not a destroy the world type. Her appearance on this page is more along the lines of a hatred of someone who destroyed her power base.
The traitor has to come from the hero class, so characters like Olga are out.
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At the time Haniel only owned slightly over 50% of Celesio and the deal hinged on Elliott's acceptance. However Elliott, which is led by Paul Singer, had said the approach undervalued Celesio. Singer's fund had made a case for breaking up the target, which acts as a European pharmaceutical wholesaler and also runs its own pharmacies. Legally, suitors are prohibited from taking another shot at a company for a year but there are exceptions, a spokeswoman for Germany's Bafin securities regulator said. "The bidder can make an application for a waiver and if the target approves it they can make a new offer," said Bafin's Dominika Kula. "The price they paid for the convertible bonds can be used as a component for calculating the new minimum offer price but it doesn't necessarily have to be." McKesson needs international heft after drugstore giant Walgreen (WAG) scooped up 45% of its U.K. counterpart Alliance Boots GmbH for $6.7 billion in 2012. Boots and Walgreen then strengthened their cooperation with pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen (ABC) in a March deal that gave them the right to buy up to 23% of the Dublin, Ohio-based distributor. Then, Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health in December agreed to form a 50/50 generic drug sourcing joint venture with CVS Caremark (CVS) to directly battle Walgreen/Boots and become the biggest wholesaler in the U.S. CVS and Cardinal had been seen as a Celesio suitor. "The next offer probably won't come in much above that 23.50," wrote NordLB analyst Thorsten Straus in a note. He has a sell rating on the stock. Celesio shares jumped 5.2%, or 1.25, to trade at 25.26 in Friday morning Frankfurt trading. Elliott was advised by JPMorgan Chase. McKesson took legal advice from Linklaters and Wolf Theiss. Hengeler Mueller's Maximilian Schiessl, Thomas Meurer and colleagues handled legal details for Haniel while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer provided counsel to Celesio. --Written by Andrew Bulkeley In BerlinCheck Out Our Best Services for Investors
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In March, the vice president gave an informal speech at a fund-raiser at an opulent home in northwest Dallas, standing behind a podium in a large room decorated with modern art. He began by talking about Barack Obama.
"I didn't know how good he was until I joined the outfit," Biden said. "And then I realized why it was I did not win. So for those of you who endorsed me first, you all made a mistake." It's not unusual for Biden to give several speeches a day, so most of the things he has to say, he says more than once. This comment about the president, and variations upon it, is repeated often.
Biden's unqualified respect was not always there. Like many of those who sought the Democratic nomination, Biden felt early on that the press was giving Obama a free pass, in part thanks to his race. But after more than a year and a half in office, any doubts about Obama's talents have disappeared. Biden is not given to downplaying his own gifts, but he clearly regards Obama as something of a phenomenon.
In part, this transcends Obama's personal qualities. "Look, I ran for president," Biden told me, "because I honest-to-God believed that for the moment, given the cast of characters and the problems of the country, I thought I was clearly the best-equipped to lead the country … But here's what I underestimated: I had two elements that I focused on, which made me decide to run. One was American foreign policy, and the other was the middle class and what's happening to them economically. If Hillary were elected or I were elected, and assume I did as good a job as I could possibly get done, it would have taken me four years to do what [Obama] did in four weeks, in terms of changing the perception of the world about the United States of America. Literally. It was overnight. It wasn't about him. It was about the American people … It said, these guys really do mean what they say. All that stuff about the Constitution, and all about equality, I guess it's right."
But Biden has been impressed by Obama the man as well. "He has a backbone like a ramrod," the vice president told me. "He sits there, he gets handed the toughest damn decisions anyone has since Roosevelt, and he sits there and he wants an opposing view. He wants to hear all of it, and he'll sit there and he'll listen. He'll ask really smart questions, and he'll decide. And it's like he goes up, he goes to bed, he doesn't re-litigate it. I mean, the guy's got some real strength. And the thing about him is—what I find impressive is—he really starts off almost everything from a moral and ideological construct, knowing exactly who he is … He knows what he thinks. When he talks about [the theologian and political theorist Reinhold] Niebuhr, it's not because he's trying to impress. He really does think about the social contract. I mean, the guy's thought it through.
"He reminds me of [Bill] Clinton. I don't think he'd like it, and maybe Clinton wouldn't like it, but whenever you're with Clinton … he was never afraid to say to you, 'I don't understand that. Explain that to me.' Or 'I didn't know that.' Because he knew you'd never walk out of the room thinking you were smarter than he was. Barack has the same internal confidence."
That said, it's clear that Biden feels he has the superior people skills—not that he puts it that way. He says the skill set he brings is "different," but it's a difference he values, and one that he sees as part of his contribution to the administration. Obama's "personality is more reserved," Biden said. "He has the ability to touch large audiences, but he is a little more buttoned-up. I'm a little more Irish. I'm more old-school. What used to be normal. [Bill] Clinton and I are more similar, whereas [Obama] and probably some of the newer candidates are more similar, in terms of the way they went through the system." It is just a difference in style, Biden says, but it works. "I think we complement each other."
There was some initial worry in the White House over Biden's looseness in front of cameras and microphones. Most of his slips have proved minor—such as the one that earned a withering presidential look and nudge on Day One, when Biden, standing beside Obama behind a podium, poked fun at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for flubbing his recitation of the oath of office at the inauguration. But some have been more troubling. During the swine-flu epidemic of 2009, when the administration was treading a delicate line between stressing caution and triggering a panic, Biden told a Today show audience of millions, in a nutshell, to avoid air travel. "I would tell members of my family—and I have—I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," he said. "If you're in a confined aircraft and one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me." The air-travel and tourism industries reeled. Visibly annoyed, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found himself before the pressroom podium trying to explain what Biden had "meant to say."
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Judged strictly by appearances, the black, youthful Obama is without question the least likely man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Biden, on the other hand, is close to what you might get if you digitally blended the portraits of the 43 white men who have been president. Where Obama is cerebral, Biden is emotional. Where the president is methodical, the vice president is steered more by his gut. And where Obama is famously disciplined both in public and in private, Biden is—well, you know.
On March 23, minutes before the national health-care-reform bill-signing, Biden famously greeted the president behind the podium by saying, "Mr. President, this is a big fucking deal." Some alarmed White House aides showed the incriminating video to Gibbs. "The sound is not that good on my office computer," Gibbs told me, "and one of the guys said hopefully, 'I think he might have said "This is a big freaking deal."' I said, 'Have you ever actually heard the vice president use that word?' Later, when [Biden] talked to me about it, he said that he didn't think he could be heard. I said, 'You were standing in front of a podium in the White House with a microphone and the whole world watching!'" Still, in the end, Gibbs couldn't deny that Biden had a point, tweeting, "And yes Mr. Vice President, you're right … " It was a big fucking deal.
If the White House is still worried about Biden's verbal blunders, there's little evidence of it. He is being encouraged to speak more in public, not less, and is regularly trotted out to the Sunday-morning TV interview shows, where his loose verbal style has long made him a favorite, and where he can mix it up with the administration's critics while allowing the president to remain above the fray. There are some weeks when the vice president is more the public face of the administration than his boss.
And Biden has grown accustomed to the constant ridicule. He is a regular target for the late-night talk-show hosts—"Joe Biden is living proof that people can give up sensitive information without being tortured," quipped David Letterman in May 2009. On Saturday Night Live, cast member Jason Sudeikis regularly portrays him as a cheerful, loud, fast-talking buffoon, wincingly tolerated by the more sober, judicious Obama. "It's always been that way," Biden said. "I think it's the nature of the office When you come to be vice president, it is clear that all you are is an appendage of, you know, a part of—it's not a bad thing, it's just—by nature, it's a diminishing office."
I watched Biden on his visits to Warsaw, Bucharest, and Prague last fall, as he arrived with all of the pomp and circumstance of a head of state— the red carpets, the ceremonial bands, the squadrons of security—and I wondered how it felt for him to have landed so close to his life's goal, and yet short of it.
"I crossed the Rubicon about not being president and being vice president when I decided to take this office," he told me. "The only power you have is totally, completely, thoroughly reflective. There is no inherent power. And so it depends totally upon the relationship you have with the president."
Biden is pleased with that relationship, and seems to be enjoying the perks of the office. The biggest change, he says, is his mode of travel, which has both its pleasures and its drawbacks. On the one hand, he has helicopters, jets, and fleets of armored SUVs at his fingertips, and he often brings members of his family along with him on state trips. He and his wife now live at the official Vice President's Residence on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory during the week, but travel back to Wilmington most weekends. During his first year in office, he insisted on taking the train home, which was troubling for his security detail.
"First time we get on, one of the conductors sees me and he goes, 'Joey!' and he grabs my cheek," Biden said, grabbing a thick pinch of flesh to illustrate. "He's an Italian kid from North Jersey. And, swear to God, Secret Service was going to take his arm off because he reached out for me and he grabbed my cheek. So it drives them crazy."
Security concerns have since prevailed: Biden now usually makes the commute on a small jet. But when he's home in Wilmington, he insists that his Secret Service detail maintain a very low profile. "It's so easy to get bubble-ized," he said. "I told them, 'Guys, look, I'll do whatever you tell me I've got to do in Washington and in other states, but in Delaware, no limos, no police escort, and I don't want any goddamn ambulances following me.'"
One weekend, he and Jill decided they wanted to go see a movie, so they went to their usual multiplex near Route 202, the Regal Brandywine Town Center 16. The vice president and his wife got in line to buy tickets and, when they reached the window, learned that the movie they wanted to see was sold out. Disappointed, they turned to leave.
"And the Secret Service says, 'What do you mean?,'" Biden said, chuckling. His escort felt an exception should be made for the second couple of the United States. "I said, 'Look, no, no, no, no. Do not do this. They're sold out, they're sold out.'
"In Delaware," Biden said, "there's a semblance of reality. I still go to the drugstore. I still go to the hardware store. I still go to the haunts that I go to, and restaurants. Because after all these years, in Delaware, I'm Joe."
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Stefan's getting over Elena by getting under someone else, and I think everyone is better off for it.
When Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) first broke up on the Nov. 15 episode of The Vampire Diaries, we all figured they'd get back together eventually. But after Stefan's actions on last night's episode, it's clear he's finally moving on — or at least attempting to move on — and I couldn't be happier for him.
I'm referring, of course, to Stefan getting down and dirty with Rebekah (Claire Holt) in the final moments of the Jan. 24 episode after promising, "no feelings, no attachments." Basically, it was incredibly romantic.
So why am I coming out in support of "Stebekah?" Is it just because I'm a dirty "Delena" shipper who's glad to have an obstacle removed from their path to happiness? Believe it or not, no! I actually have two solid reasons for loving what went down last night:
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I don't like to compare The Vampire Diaries to Twilight — because, let's face it, Twilight sucks — but even that franchise knew when it was time to put the love triangle to bed. Jacob may have remained a Bitter Betty after Bella chose Edward over him, but at least he stopped actively trying to get between them. It was awkward and uncomfortable for everyone involved, but it worked.
Of course, I'm not a total idiot. I know full well the triangle isn't dead, and that Elena will undoubtedly go back and forth several more times before the series comes to an end. But for now, it's nice to see Elena exploring a relationship with one brother without having to deal with constant interruptions from the other.
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Plus, Elena literally told him she's not in love with him anymore. Like, straight-up, to his face. What kind of man would he be if he kept pining for a girl who's not into him?
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To be honest i don't care for Elena she kept dragging the two brothers everywhere she went they aided to her hand and foot. She is all right i suppose but she needs to choose someone and stay with them… I used to be team Stefan and i wanted her to be with Elena because he was the best for her but know im starting to think she's not good enough for him.. He done everything he could for her and she just slept with Damon.. I like Damon also he's funny an very entertaining, also i want him to end up with Elena.. but saying this i'd rather have Stefan.. I want him and Rebeka or Caroline it doesn't matter to me


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"two dollars for a mars bar! I remember when.." "WHAT what do you remember? Fucking slavery! Shutup."
And an obsession with the past is like a dead fly
Only a few things are related to the "old times"
Only a few things are related to the "old times"
This post isn't aimed at my historian friends, but rather those that wish to become cultural relics by refusing to acknowledge that which is happening right now. Also, it will be short.
You people harp on endlessly about how much music, film, 'society', 'values' and everything else was better back in the day. This might be the 20s (decadent), 50s (racist), 60s (naive), 70s (angry), 80s (even angrier) or any other time period so long as it's not now. When we talk about how something was better back then, we're always taking a blinkered view of history. Some things might have appeared better only in relation to other media of the time; or maybe some parts of society appeared less harmful than they are now but you can narrow your vision enough to make anything look good.
I mean let's face it, special effects are still pretty terrible. I love action/sci-fi movies from the 70s & 80s but they're technically awful when compared to today's, which will be equally terrible in ten years. Compare: Star Wars vs. Avengers. I'm much more impressed by attempts at photo-realistic CGI (which falls into the 'still terrible' category) than Michael 'explode as many things as possible simultaneously' Bay and obviously this wasn't at all possible in previous decades, so people had a different criteria for what constituted 'cool' and it was stuff like this.
Focusing on the (even recent) past slows down the rate of technological advancement. When critics write about the grand old days of cinema when hundreds of 'real' extras were used rather than CGI. Statements like this are unhelpful, and they malign the talent involved as just being strokes of a keyboard or clicks of a mouse. Simply because the implementation is not as difficult (arguable), the development was much more so, but because that's hidden from the end-user (audience), it's not appreciated. Similarly, I really don't care how many extras appeared in Gandhi, why is that more impressive than writing and then using computer wizardry to do this? (Note: I don't like Avatar).
I think the ultimate end-goal of creatives should be the verbatim transmission of the idea in their head, to what appears on their medium of choice. When all have is a butter knife, this is a lot harder to do than with a full set of tools. Maybe if some of us weren't such luddites we'd have more art in the world and if you're going to say that's a bad thing, then clearly we can't even have this conversation any longer (also you're basically this guy:)


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