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Pink felt and our printable are all you need to make a Foofa egg instantly!
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Using the egg template, cut Foofa's flower top from the pink felt. Referring to the template, cut a circle from the yellow felt. Kids can glue it to the flower's center.
After parents cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth, kids can glue them to the egg.
As the face dries, use the template to cut out Foofa's flower base (ours is about 4 inches across) from pale pink felt. Glue its center inside the jar lid, and sit Foofa inside.
Razzle, dazzle Dad on Father's Day!
Make no-slip, marvelously magnetic monster bookmarks
Your Yo Gabba Gabba! fan is destined for sweet snugly dreams!
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This friendly cyclops has got its eye on your little monster
Let Muno keep an eye on your little one while he sleeps!
Cuddle up with Brobee!
Let your preschooler prepare for sleep with a cuddly plush Plex!
Just press print to put Plex on your preschooler's shirt!
Add some fun to your fashion with Foofa's funny face!
This Brobee T-shirt will quickly become a favorite!
Bring home a little bit of Brobee with this super springtime craft!
DJ Lance will rock your Halloween!
Teach kids to play it safe at home
Everything you need for a monster dance party--in your living room
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Beat the heat with help from Yo Gabba Gabba!
It's flower power at work as pretty pink petals provide sun protection!
A handy case with a friendly face!
Dad will eat this photo frame up! Give it a try
This fun do-together craft will make Dad's day
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Explore a new way to snack with Dora!
Every explorer will love these festive cupcake decorations!
Libby's lighting the way to a healthy snack!
Send guests home with favors that are sew silly!
Get the cupcakes in on the fun with these whimsical cupcake wrappers and toppers!
These goody bags are sew simple and sew sweet!
Your little Lalas will be sew excited to help create this party item!
Add some Lalas to your lollipops!
Celebrate summertime by crafting this 3D door sign
Kids are going to have sew much fun embroidering eggs!
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Tick, tock, Dora and Boots are inside this clock!
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Print, fold, and fill with finger-licking treats!
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This goody bag is dressed up for Dad's special day!
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I don't quite get how good a colorist you are. Your coloring and sense of texture is doctorate while your drawerings still kinda linger around promising, smarter high school. You have so much style if you could just crank out anatomy and perspective in a year ..that'd be gooood.
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CONWAY — The 29th Crank the Kanc time trial hill climb will be held this Saturday, and once again registration for this perennial cycling favorite filled up quickly. "We were full within 20 minutes," Phil Ostroski, event organizer, said.
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Kansas Honor Flight, an organization that allows veterans to visit war memorials, announced they have six flights fully funded for the upcoming year. The first flight will leave Wichita April 24 and return April 26. Their plans are to add more flights as the funds become available.
To qualify to go on a Kansas Honor Flight, one must have served during these years:
- Dec. 7, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1946, (World War II)
- June 25, 1950, to Jan. 31, 1955, (Korean War)
- Feb. 28, 1961, to May 7, 1975, (Vietnam War)
Because of the closing of one Honor flight Hub in Kansas, records may have been lost.
Everyone eligible needs to apply. If anyone knows of a World War II veteran who may have been overlooked, the organization needs to know as soon as possible.
World War II-era veterans are the highest priority right now. Terminally ill veterans also are flown at a high priority.
McPherson County Cans 4 Cash 4 Honor Flights has funded one veteran already in 2013.
More than $730 has been raised from aluminum cans from throughout McPherson County.
This is a total of 1,341 pounds of cans.
"Think about this amount the next time you take a sip of your favorite canned beverage," said Warren Vincent of Cans 4 Cash 4 Honor Flights.
It now takes $700 to send one veteran.
Cans may be dropped off any time at the southeast corner of First Street and Baer in McPherson. Vincent also will make house or business calls to pick up cans.
Special donation days are the first Saturday of the month at Scott's IGA in Lindsborg, the second Saturday at Canton Grocery, the third Saturday at Moundridge Recycling Center in Moundridge (Moundridge will accept cans whenever their recycling center is open), the fourth Saturday at Marquette at a location to be announced.
The collection times will start at 9 a.m. and go until at least 1 p.m.
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Softball to join Crimson Tide Sports Network
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11:48 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | The Crimson Tide Sports Network will broadcast every University of Alabama softball game this season. The new radio home for Crimson Tide softball in Tuscaloosa will be WDGM 99.1-FM, with select games airing on additional CTSN affiliate stations throughout the state.
"We are so excited about the extended reach that we will have this season on the radio in the state of Alabama," coach Patrick Murphy said.
Chad Haynie will call the action. Haynie will be in his fourth year broadcasting Crimson Tide softball, having spent the previous three seasons with WVUA-FM.
"I am humbled and honored to call Alabama softball for the Crimson Tide Sports Network," Haynie said.
Softball broadcasts will begin 10 minutes before first pitch and include comments from head coach Patrick Murphy. After each game, the crew will break down game statistics and preview the next game.
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Food pairings take on an entirely new meaning when you're planning your weekend at San Francisco's Outside Lands. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Gilroy Garlic Mac and Cheese? Perhaps Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a zesty banh mi, or The Killers with some sweet tots -- fried nuggets of sweet potato awesomeness with a spicy blackberry barbecue sauce?
Rockers and roadies won't be the only folks rolling into Golden Gate Park on Aug. 8 for San Francisco's eclectic, weekend-long music and food fest. A small army of chefs, winemakers and brewers also will be on hand to refuel music lovers at four gourmet "lands" filled with more than 200 sipping and noshing options. So many dishes, so little time.
If you were lucky enough to score tickets, and you're hoping to hit Kanye, 4505 Meats, Arctic Monkeys and Chino's eggroll stand all at once, a little strategizing is in order. Also, really good walking shoes.
The Outside Lands website offers a handy musical itinerary planner at www.sfoutsidelands.com. We're here to help with the gourmet end.
A Taste of the Bay Area
With more than 70 restaurant food booths and food trucks, Outside Lands is a gourmet dream. You'll find trucks, carts and booths sprinkled throughout the festival grounds, but the major clusters are on the Polo Field -- so you can watch Kanye West perform on the Lands End Stage while you wait in line for something delicious -- and near Hellman Hollow field. Pick up a map when you enter. And don't worry too much about your waistline. Sprinting between stages is a calorie-burner.
What's new: San Francisco's AQ, which was named one of the best new restaurants by Esquire magazine in 2012, will be serving Highbrow Spaghetti and Sloppy Joe's, while sister restaurant TBD is doing Deviled Eggs and Grilled Lemonade. Also new: Proposition Chicken, Curry Up Now and Glaze Teriyaki.
What's hot: Chino, the new Chinese-ish dumpling shop from Tacolicious geniuses Joe Hargrave and Sara Deseran, is making its Outside Lands debut with egg rolls and Dan Dan Noodles.
Over in Chocolands, a dessert-themed village some people have described as "Night Before Christmas" meets Day of the Dead, you'll find a new Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream booth, as well as Guittard, Kara's Cupcakes and a Candybar Dessert Lounge.
What's classic and irresistible:
Yes, these vendors are there every year, but we cannot resist Homeroom's Gilroy Garlic Mac, 4505 Meats' burgers and Straw's twist on tater tots. And the Margherita pizza from the gigantic Del Popolo truck. And bao from the Chairman truck. And did we mention the Nuernberger brats and potato salad from Rosamunde's?
Beer Lands
It's tough to miss this craft brew tent on the Polo Field, what with the 40-foot neon beer sign proclaiming "Ye Ol Beer Lands." (We bow before that truly great triple pun: ye olde, O.L. and -- bonus points for bilingual verve -- øl, the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic word for beer.) Curated by Magnolia Brewing's Dave McLean, Beer Lands features 30 breweries -- and 64 beers and ciders.
New: Firestone Walker, Golden Road, Calicraft, Faction, Mendocino and Stone.
Hot: Cider has suddenly become incredibly trendy, with new cideries popping up left and right. So this is the place to try a few, including Strongbow Hard Apple Cider and Ace Cider.
Irresistible: Linden Street, Magnolia, 21st Amendment, right? Also unmissable: Sierra Nevada's Beer Camp on Hellman Hollow field, where you can sip an Outside Lands Saison.
Wine Lands
Head for the richly baroque tent on Hellman Hollow to find more than 35 winemakers and 120 wines -- and a vintage sink that pours wine.
New: A dozen wineries are joining the viniferous fun this year. Among the first-timers: Calder Wine Company, Cannonball, Joseph Phelps, Red Car and Paperboy Wines.
Irresistible: Long Meadow Ranch will be pouring its organic Napa Valley kegged wine from the sink.
We'll be cruising the food scene at Outside Lands -- but we want to see your gourmet discoveries too. Share your food, wine and beer pics on Instagram or Twitter with the #OLFood hashtag.
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DETROIT -- Three days ago, the A's were 21/2 games behind the Texas Rangers in the American League West.
Today, they're still 21/2 behind the Rangers. But it's safe to say that in the wake of Wednesday's 14-4 win over the Detroit Tigers, the A's are feeling much better about their status now than then. Once again they look like a contender.
Three days ago, the A's were heading into a four-game series against a Detroit team that had scored more runs and had a better ERA than any team in the American League. Oh, yeah. The Tigers had the A.L.'s best record, too.
The A's, who at one point had a six-game lead in the A.L. West, had lost four of five and seven of their last 11. Things were not going well, and Oakland fans had to worry about Detroit delivering a knockout punch.
It hasn't happened. In three games, the A's have beaten three of the better starting pitchers in the league -- Anibal Sanchez, Justin Verlander and Doug Fister. They've outscored the Tigers 28-13 in those three games, and all of a sudden that "we're in it to win it" feeling is pervading the clubhouse again.
"All year long it's been tough for us to score runs," right fielder Brandon Moss said. "And this team, with the pitchers they have, they are a challenge every night."
Moss led the way Wednesday with four hits, matching his career best, including two home runs and a career-best six RBIs. He was hardly alone. Oakland had seven batters with multiple hits, and Josh Donaldson, Jed Lowrie, Alberto Callaspo and the recently acquired Kurt Suzuki each had three hits.
Suzuki, picked up from Washington, was particularly impressed.
"We came in here a couple of weeks ago when I was with the Nationals," Suzuki said, "and we just got smashed. This is a good pitching staff with a good starter every night."
The Nationals were outscored 16-2 in that two-game series, the kind of thing the Tigers have been doing to teams all season. But Oakland won two of three in the Bay Area in April, and now the A's have dominated this series.
The momentum is there for a sweep, but the Tigers, who still lead the A.L. Central by 51/2 games, are throwing the hottest starting pitcher in the game -- Max Scherzer. The right-hander comes in with a 19-1 record. The A's faced him in that April series in the Coliseum. The A's didn't beat him, but they got him out of the game and beat the Detroit bullpen that day.
"Tomorrow is another tough one," Moss said. "And this year he's probably the best of them all."
For three games anyway, the A's are playing back to their first-half form when they won 56 games before the All-Star break.
Starting pitcher Dan Straily put 10 men on base in six innings but allowed just one run. And Straily, who had been consistently betrayed by the Oakland offense since the All-Star break, had so many runs scored that he almost blinked and missed some.
"This is going to sound strange, but when I gave up that (third-inning) homer to Torii Hunter, I thought it was a 1-0 game," Straily said, explaining he'd been in the restroom when the three runs came home in the second, and he hadn't bothered to look at the scoreboard until the Hunter homer.
"I didn't miss any runs after that," he said with a smile. "It was a great job by our offense."
The game marked the return of Brett Anderson, who came off the disabled list and pitched the final three innings for his first major league save.
"I guess I'm out of the loop," Moss said. "I didn't even know he'd been activated, and here he comes in and pitches the final three innings. He looked great."
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Vertis Carl Webb, 77, of Prague, died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Oklahoma City.
Services will be at 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 10, at Walker Funeral Service Chapel with Bill Matthews and Phil Thompson officiating. Burial will be at Resthaven Memorial Park.
Walker Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
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Now that you've received your acceptance e-mail from the Office of Global Education you can't wait to hop on that plane! However, your departure is still awhile away, so what do you need to do between now and then? This page is just for you - to help you stay organized, understand the requirements, and take the necessary steps to prepare for one of the most exciting experiences of your life!
Mark Your Calendars
Friday, March 28, 2014: Deadline to submit Part A of Pre-Departure Paperwork. Items for Parts B and C are due as students are able to submit them.
Friday, April 25, 2014: Pre-Departure Orientation in Stayer, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) at 4pm.
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Pre-departure paperwork is to be completed ONLY by students who have already been accepted by the Office of Global Education to study abroad. All students studying abroad MUST complete all of the pre-departure items listed on their program's Pre-Departure Paperwork Checklist. Click on the following link to be directed to the Pre-Departure Paperwork website:
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The purpose of this handbook is to help you prepare yourself for your study abroad experience. Within your handbook, you will find information that can facilitate your understanding of what you can expect while studying abroad. Most handbooks contain general information for all students going abroad, host country information, as well as host university program details. Click the following link to be directed to the Study Abroad Handbook webpage:
This orientation is CRUCIAL to prepare you for going abroad and is required for all students who have been accepted to MU study abroad programs. (All students accepted to Non-MU study abroad programs are strongly encouraged to attend; however, it is not a mandatory event.) Read your handbook carefully and prepare a list of questions for the Pre-Departure Orientation. It is recommended to share your handbook with your guests coming with you to orientation. Before orientation, you must print your handbook, located on the following website:
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If you follow haute couture we don't need to tell you that we're entering one of the most exciting periods in the year. Over the coming weeks the Fashion World turns to New York then London then Milan in quick succession.
If you want to keep up on all that's happening on the catwalks then there's no better place to do so than in the comfort of your own home, curled up with Zite. Zite has always stood for incredible contents on the topics that matter most to you. Our "Fashion Week on Zite" is no exception – pulling some of the most stimulating and inspiring articles from all across the web into an exceptionally well-dressed experience.
This season we plan to offer something really special. We're teaming up with Bergdorf Goodman, one of the biggest names in the world of high fashion, to deliver an even more dazzling Fashion Week experience on Zite. Bergdorf is lending its name and some of its exceptional contents to the section over the coming weeks. You'll get all of Zite's incredibly fresh and diverse coverage together with a select set of promoted materials from Bergdorf.
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Determine whether the integral converges or diverges. If the integral converges, find its value.
This function is badly behaved at the upper limit of integration x = 0. We write the improper integral as a limit, work out the integral, then evaluate the limit.
This integral diverges, since approaches ∞ as b approaches 0. That means the area of this region is infinite.
This function is badly behaved at x = 0, which is the lower limit of integration. We write out the improper integral as the limit it is, then evaluate:
As b approaches 0, the quantity b0.6 also approaches 0. So the integral converges to .
This function is badly behaved at x = 1, which is the lower limit of integration. We write the improper integral as the appropriate limit and work out the integral:
As b approaches 1 the quantity (b – 1)1/2 approaches 0. The integral converges to 2.
for p > 1
This integral is badly behaved at x = 0. We worked out the antiderivative of in another problem.
Since the quantity p – 1 is positive, as b approaches 0 the quantity bp – 1 will also approach 0. Then the fraction
will approach -∞. The limit does not exist, so the integral
for p < 1
This integral is also badly behaved at x = 0. Most of the work is the same as in the previous problem. We don't need to change anything until we get to this step:
At this point, since p < 1, the exponent p – 1 is negative. As b approaches 0 the quantity bp – 1 will approach ∞, and so the term
will approach 0. The limit converges to
Since p < 1 the quantity is positive, which is reassuring since the area between and the x-axis on (0, 1] is all above the x-axis.
Determine whether each statement is true or false. Explain your answers.
If does not exist, then
must diverge.
False. Take the graph of on the interval [-1,0). This graph is the graph of reflected over the y-axis.
does not exist and
If does not exist, then
must converge.
False. If we take the graph of on the interval [-1,0), then
does not exist and
Determine whether the integral converges or diverges, and find its value if it converges.
This function is definitely weird at 0. We break up the integral into two pieces, splitting the interval at x = 0:
Let's integrate the one with non-negative limits of integration first, since this integral looks more likely to diverge and save us work.
As b approaches 0 the quantity approaches ∞, which means e1/b approaches ∞ also. This integral diverges, which means the original integral diverges. We don't have to bother with the other integral.
This function is weird at x = 1. So we split the integral at x = 1.
Let's start with the right-most integral. When x is in the interval (1, 2] the quantity x – 1 is positive, so we can drop the absolute value signs in the denominator.
As b approaches 1, the quantity b – 1 approaches 0 and so the quantity 2((b) – 1)1/2 approaches 0 also. This means we have a convergent integral:
Now for the other integral. Since x – 1 is negative when 0 < x < 1, we can get rid of the absolute value signs in the denominator by writing
|x – 1| = -(x – 1) = 1 – x.
We have to use substitution to find the antiderivative, since x has a coefficient of -1.
As b approaches 1, the quantity 2(1 – (b))1/2 approaches 0, so we're left with
Putting everything together, we see that our original integral converges:
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On Oct. 22, 2012, a consortium in France announced the establishment of Europe's first ever industrial manufacturing facility dedicated to the large-scale production of novel, advanced cell-based therapy medicinal products. The plant, located in Les Ulis, near Paris, at the site of the French biopharmaceutical company LFB Biotechnologies, has the capacity to produce 3000 to 5000 therapeutic batches per year. The facility will be used for innovative R&D projects on autologous and allogeneic cell therapies that are progressing from early clinical research stage up to industrial production.
The facility project, known as C4C, is coordinated by CELLforCURE, a subsidiary of LFB Biotechnologies, and will involve two biotech companies—Celogos and CleanCells—as well as seven public organizations and university medical centers. Members of the consortium have invested EUR80 million (US$104 million) in the project alongside EUR30 million (US$39 million) public-sector financial aid provided by OSEO, France's state innovation agency. The project seeks to provide an efficient pharmaceutical and industrial tool for improving patient access to cell therapies. Academic, public and private sector stakeholders will have access to the new facility for routine production of phase III clinical trial batches and commercial batches of new cell therapy products.
Five products are currently under development, with the first batches expected in late 2013, according to a press release.


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Definition of arrhythmic in English:
(also arhythmic)
1Not rhythmic; without rhythm or regularity: the arrhythmic phrasing of the music
More example sentences
- They're not completely arrhythmic, the rhythms are just highly unconventional, often with different parts playing in different time signatures.
- His eyes were darting around frantically, his left leg bounced with a steady, arrhythmic, annoying rhythm and he was wringing his hands consistently.
- Featuring only Spencer Seim's erratically melodic guitar and Zach Hill's pummeling, rhythmically arrhythmic drums, Hella has enough energy to power a small town, or at least get a few folks convulsing in reaction.
1.1 Medicine Relating to or suffering from cardiac arrhythmia.
Example sentences
- The ACCP recommends that patients with suspected PAH be screened with echocardiography to detect cardiac anatomic and arrhythmic problems.
- Continuous ST-segment monitoring provides uninterrupted, real-time information about the occurrence, frequency, and severity of significant arrhythmic and ischemic cardiac events.
- All 10 mice that received the drug thrived and never developed an arrhythmia, while 8 out of 9 untreated mice became arrhythmic and died.
arrhythmical adjective
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- This arhythmical bouncing of the backpack ruins the pleasure of running and technique, as well.
- It's nature is to erratically move from flash point to flash point in an arhythmical manner.
- This treatment may consist of a steady pressure upon a specific area, prolonged for a desired period, or it may consist of a rhythmical, or arhythmical variation in the pressure.
arrhythmically adverb
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- They're usually attended only by the other residents of Ramsey Street and perhaps a few others swaying arrhythmically in the background.
- The dancefloor duly cleared, and I was dragged into the centre of the clapping masses to arhythmically twitch and prance for what seemed like ten minutes.
- It seemed like the entire student body had turned out, from the couples that seemed like they were attached at the hip, to the awkward wallflowers bobbing arrhythmically at the edges of the large mass.
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'As It Is in Heaven' starts Feb. 21 at USC Upstate
Published: Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 4:27 p.m.
The Shoestring Players at the University of South Carolina Upstate has cast roles for its upcoming production of "As It Is In Heaven" by Arlene Hutton.
"As It Is In Heaven" will be performed Feb. 21-23 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Theatre.
"As It Is in Heaven" features a religious community that is changed when a non-believer has an ecstatic experience.
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Dark Horse has provided CBR with exclusive previews of its June 5 titles, including Mignola and Allie's "Abe Sapien: Dark & Terrible" #3, " Oeming's "The Victories" #2 and more.
Dark Horse and creator Michael Avon Oeming have provided CBR with an exclusive, extended preview of the first issue of Oeming's ongoing "The Victories: Transhuman" and his retailer incentive sketch cards.
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR has an exclusive preview of "Mice Templar IV: Legend" #1 by Bryan J.L. Glass, Michael Avon Oeming & Victor Santos. Young Karic's quest to restore the Templar continues April 3.
Brian Bendis and Michael Oeming reteam for a four-part serial debuting today to flesh out the back stories of four members of the Guardians of the Galaxy on Marvel's digital-ready storytelling platform.
Dark Horse PR Director Jeremy Atkins spoke with creators Kelly Sue DeConnick, Michael Avon Oeming, Francesco Francavilla, Joshua Williamson and Frank Barbiere about the publisher's superhero initiative.
Co-writers Bryan J.L. Glass and Michael Avon Oeming make their triumphant return to the world of "Mice Templar" with the fourth and final volume, "Legend," from Image Comics. Plus loads of exclusive art.
With "Powers: Bureau" launching from Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming in February, CBR spoke with Oeming about the series new threats, its double-name change and the TV pilot's status. Plus, exclusive art!
FX President John Landgraf assures that the adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's "Powers" is still in the works, with crime novelist Charlie Huston helping develop "a whole new pilot from scratch."
The "Powers" creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming unite to provide the penultimate issue of Marvel's "New Avengers!" A new Sorcerer Supreme rises on November 14.
CBR spoke to comic book newcomer Duffy Boudreau makes his Image Comics debut with the ongoing sci-fi actioner "BlackAcre" with artist Wendell Cavalcanti, about a soldier tracking down one of his own.
DC Comics has revealed a new creator lineup for its digital-first "Legends of the Dark Knight" comics that includes Jeff Parker, Michael Avon Oeming, Phil Hester, Gabriel Hardman and Joshua Hale Fialkov.
TV writer Chic Eglee has announced that his involvement with AMC's adaptation of Robert Kirkman's "Thief of Thieves" does not mean "Powers" on FX is dead, saying the superhero police drama is still moving forward.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics' Icon imprint, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's all-ages "Takio" #2, on sale in July!
The writer behind superhero hits like "Earth X" and "Justice" discusses his recent return to creator-owned work at Image as Jim Krueger reveals how "Foot Soldiers" is back not just as a reprint but soon as new apocalyptic adventures.
A return appearance by Loki, Peter Panzerfaust taking a break from the war, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim keeping watch over the city, the world's worst - or best - tailgater, and Hollywoodland's fastest-rising star.
Khary Payton, the voice of Aqualad on "Young Justice," spoke with CBR TV about voicing the young hero, returning to the role of Cyborg for Teen Titans shorts and the current status of FX's "Powers" pilot.
The FX Network adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's superhero crime drama "Powers" has lost at least actor Khary Payton but the network says it's not all over just yet.
"Powers" artist Michael Avon Oeming spoke with CBR exclusively about - and shared a first look at - his new creator-owned series "Victories," a bleak superhero epic with intensely personal overtones.
Courtesy of Marvel's Icon imprint, the stars of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's all-ages ongoing series deliver a message to readers as a Public Service Announcement.
Brian Michael Bendis spoke with CBR News about the status of his and Michael Avon Oeming's creator-owned series "Powers," providing an update on the "Powers" television pilot in development at FX.
Last year Brian Bendis and Mike Oeming introduced readers to a pair of super powered sisters in their all-ages OGN "Takio." Bendis spoke to CBR about their return in a new series this spring.
Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso unpacks the April solicits, discussing "AvX: Versus," the return of Point One issue and the animated Marvel Adventures, addressing changes on "Wolverine" and "Moon Knight" and more!
Last week we learned FX was considering reshoots of the pilot for "Powers," based on Bendis and Oeming's Icon series, but now SPINOFF has learned there may be a concrete date for the decision.
FX is expected to decide in the next couple of months whether its adaptation of "Powers," the long-running comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, will move beyond the pilot stage. SPINOFF has details.
Marvel Comics has provided CBR News with an exclusive preview of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's "Brilliant" #2. The Marvel Icon title continues January 11.
"Powers" co-creator Brian Michael Bendis speaks up on FX's call to retool the pilot based on his and Michael Avon Oeming's comic series, calling the decision "pretty good news."
CBR News spoke with acclaimed "Powers" artist Michael Avon Oeming about his upcoming work on "Black Panther: Most Dangerous Man Alive," getting an exclusive first look at issue #527 in the process.
Dynamite Entertainment has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Kirby Genesis: Captain Victory" #1 by Alex Ross, Sterling Gates and Wagner Reis. The series debutes November 16.
CBR News spoke with the creators of Marvel's "Hulk Smash Avengers" series that ties into the upcoming "Avengers" movie and chronicles the Jade Giant's rocky relationship with the Avengers.
The first official image has surfaced of Jason Patric as Det. Christian Walker in FX's "Powers" pilot, an adaptation of the acclaimed comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
Dynamite Entertainment expand the "Kirby: Genesis" universe with the Sterling Gates-scripted "Captain Victory," a new series set to launch in October.
"Lost Boys" star Jason Patric is in talks to play Christian Walker, the lead character on "Powers," cable channel FX's adaptation of the comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
"Dinner for Schmucks" actress Lucy Punch will play the female lead in "Powers," the FX pilot based on the long-running comic series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. SPINOFF has details.
Big things are in the works for Brian Bendis' and Mike Oeming's long running creator-owned series "Powers." CBR News spoke with Bendis about the FX television pilot and the future of the comic series.
Emmy Award-winning actor Charles S. Dutton will play Captain Cross in the FX adaptation of the long-running comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. SPINOFF has details.
Brian Michael Bendis spent some time with CBR TV to answer questions regarding his and Mark Bagley's creator-owned "Brilliant," the 1950s Avengers storyline, the status of the "Powers" TV series and more.
Augie looks at this week's release of Bendis and Oeming's OGN "Takio" and likes what he sees. Also, join him on a trip back 20 years for the first issue of an upstart comics magazine not named "Wizard."
Marvel has released a new seven-page preview of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's all-ages graphic novel "Takio," which is due in stores March 2 under the creator-owned Icon imprint.
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All-New X-Men #16
Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen and Wade von Grawbadger nicely manage an array of X-Men from multiple eras, but Bendis' usual slow and talky approach does little to advance "Battle of the Atom" in "All-New X-Men" #16.
|September 4th, 2013
X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1
Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho and Stuart Immonen give readers a sample of the disasters that could result from the original X-Men lingering too long in the present day in the pages of "X-Men: Battle of the Atom" #1.
|August 28th, 2013
Michael Turner's Fathom #1
"Michael Turner's Fathom" #1 joins Aspen Comics' "10 for 10" promotion with David Wohl and Frank Mastromauro writing the adventures of Aspen Matthews for Alex Konat to draw.
|July 29th, 2013
Savage Wolverine #6
"Savage Wolverine" #6 re-teams writer Zeb Wells and artist Joe Madureira: the best they are at what they do.
|June 12th, 2013
Adventure Time Annual #1
"Adventure Time Annual" #1 features six short stories by Roger Langridge, Alex Cox, Dustin Nguyen, Jason Ho, Bryce Carlson, Josh Williamson, Derek Fridolfs, Kory Bing and Sfé Monster, many of them new to the "Adventure Time" universe.
|May 31st, 2013
Charismagic #1
The fourth of Aspen Comics "10 For 10" comes in the form of "Charismagic" Volume 2 #1 from Vince Hernandez and Vincenzo Cucca.
|May 6th, 2013
Jirni #1
April showers bring the third title in Aspen's "10 for 10" promotion: the sword and sorcery adventure of "Jirni" #1 from J. T. Krul and Paolo Pantalena.
|April 19th, 2013
Shrugged: Volume 2 #1
"Shrugged: Volume 2" #1 isn't the most approachable or memorable of Aspen's "10 for 10" initiative, but still makes for an enjoyable read.
|March 14th, 2013
Legend of the Shadow Clan #1
Aspen Comics launches their "10 for 10" promotion with a solid comic from David Wohl, Brad Foxhoven and Cory Smith in the form of "Legend of the Shadow Clan" #1.
|February 11th, 2013
Deathstroke #16
"Deathstroke" #16 has Justin Jordan and Edgar Salazar wrap up a good two-parter with Deathstroke tasked to kill an "unkillable" meta-human. The solution says a lot about Jordan's approach to the character, which bodes well.
|January 16th, 2013
Secret Avengers #33
"Secret Avengers" #33 from Rick Remender and Andy Kuhn is a great slice of action oriented superhero soap opera with scenes of love and violence.
|October 26th, 2012
The Ravagers
"The Ravagers" #0 provides the origin of Beast Boy and Terra, sort of. There is nothing excessively revelatory here, but there is some colorful art.
|September 17th, 2012
Daredevil: End of Days #1
Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack, Klaus Janson and Bill Sienkiewicz open the story of Daredevil's final days in masterful fashion with "Daredevil: End of Days" #1.
|September 11th, 2012
The Ravagers #4
Beast Boy and Terra get the spotlight treatment in "The Ravagers" #4 and readers get a bit of a surprise at the end of this issue: a Beast Boy-specific surprise with a New 52 twist.
|August 13th, 2012
Secret Avengers #29
Recovering from the "Avengers Vs. X-Men" crossover, "Secret Avengers" #29 sees the team short on Avengers, choosing to play up the secrets with an appearance by the new Masters of Evil.
|July 30th, 2012
Batman Annual #1
With summer on the horizon, Mr. Freeze comes to the relaunched DC Universe in "Batman Annual" #1 to cool things down.
|May 30th, 2012
Batman #8
"Night of the Owls" kicks off in "Batman" #8 with an attack on Wayne Manor.
|April 18th, 2012
Secret Avengers #25
"Secret Avengers" #25 matches high science with good cape characterization.
|April 16th, 2012
Justice League International #4
"Justice League International" is superheroes by the book, in every single way.
|December 8th, 2011
Justice League International #3
JLI is a fun superhero book that accomplishes what it sets out to do. This month, the team pairs off to investigate the threat. . .
|November 2nd, 2011
Justice League #1
The relaunch of the DC Universe starts with this issue. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of hype left unfulfilled.
|August 31st, 2011
Batman: The Dark Knight #4
Etrigan. Ragman. Batman. I thought you really wouldn't need much more for a good comic. Yeah. I was wrong.
|August 1st, 2011
Lady Mechanika #2
After a seven-month layover, the second issue of "Lady Mechanika" hits the stands and is, surprisingly, worth the wait.
|July 17th, 2011
Ultimate X #5
The definitely-not-an-X-Men-team finally recruits its last member.
|July 4th, 2011
Brightest Day #24
"Alec Holland died in the swamp. And his memory was absorbed into the life web of the Earth called the Green."
|April 27th, 2011
Brightest Day #23
Everything comes together in a mass of exposition.
|April 6th, 2011
Ultimate Comics X #4
"There is no school. There isn't any of that life left. We're being hunted now. . . but we're here to keep you safe. And help others like you."
|April 2nd, 2011
Action Comics #899
Hey kids, let's talk it out.
|March 31st, 2011
Brightest Day #22
"Stein and I barely held our own against him alongside Superman, Captain Atom, and like thirty others. And that was back when I was the best Firestorm I could be."
|March 16th, 2011
Michael Turner's Soulfire
"Don't speak Russian, but I get the tone in your voice. Hopefully you understand the universal language - power."
|March 9th, 2011
Brightest Day #21
"God, I . . . I think I'm standing in the ashes of my best friend. First Firestorm implodes aboard the Justice League satellite. Then I find Carter and Shiera vaporized."
|March 2nd, 2011
Brightest Day #20
"Each one of us is caught between two worlds. Each one of us knows how hard it is to face that alone. Which is why we never will be. Never again."
|February 16th, 2011
Brightest Day #19
"Mera's people are planning an assault on the surface world, but without you they won't be able to shut down the Bermuda Triangle and escape."
|February 2nd, 2011
Action Comics #897
"Lex, this is all I'm going to tell you – soon, unless you make the wrong choice, you will crack the biggest joke of all time."
|January 27th, 2011
Brightest Day #18
"When the Black Lantern charged to 100% Nekron was teleported to Earth. What happens when the White Ring - -"
|January 19th, 2011
Brightest Day #17
"Brightest Day" is picking up the pace.
|January 5th, 2011
Action Comics #896
In which the two villain-led books of the DC Universe have themselves a crossover.
|December 29th, 2010
Brightest Day #16
"I'll explain everything in detail later. Mera will. Right now, it's time to claim your birthright."
|December 15th, 2010
Lady Mechanika #1
"The Lady Mechanika does not care what others say about her! She is her own woman, as am I."
|December 13th, 2010
Brightest Day #15
You know from the start what the conclusion of this issue will be, and yet it's still somewhat entertaining.
|December 2nd, 2010
Action Comics #895
"Action Comics" continues to bring a lot of fun, even without that much action.
|November 24th, 2010
Batman: The Return #1
Batman is back and he's ready to take on the world. Literally. Pity the world.
|November 17th, 2010
Brightest Day #14
"I might not be meant to save the universe or the Earth, but I can make life better for others and for me. Why is that wrong? Why?!"
|November 17th, 2010
Brightest Day #13
Did someone say... hawk?
|November 3rd, 2010
Brightest Day #12
"I will bring Mars back my way not your way!"
|October 20th, 2010
Brightest Day #11
The cover promises the return of the Black Lanterns. The interior pages deliver.
|October 7th, 2010
Brightest Day #10
Black Manta stops by to liven things up a bit. In Manta's own words, "Unexpected. But interesting."
|September 16th, 2010
Brightest Day #9
When even the other characters in the comic find the plot hard to swallow, something has gone wrong.
|September 2nd, 2010
Superman/Batman #75
"Holy seventy-fifth issue, Batman!" Time for an extra-sized, extra-priced anniversary celebration.
|August 25th, 2010
Brightest Day #8
Hawkgirl or White Lantern Firestorm? Those are your cover options for this issue. One of them will cost a pretty penny, the other one will only run you two hundred ninety-nine pennies.
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This month's "My Echo Story" features the missions of two incredible local organizations, Tahoe Magic and Discovery Blind Sports. Both are the current recipients of Vail Resorts and Specialty Sports Venture's Adopt-A-Cause campaign, which is garnering support from holiday shoppers at all of the Heavenly Sports and Kirkwood Sports locations until Jan. 6.
Tahoe Magic, now in its 20th year, helps families in crisis throughout the year and during the holiday season. Many families experience a financial crisis at one time or another because of unexpected job loss, medical expenses, prolonged illness, death of a family wage earner, loss of reliable transportation or divorce. Tahoe Magic provides one-time assistance with utilities, rent payments, medical and dental expenses, transportation costs, car repair and other crisis needs that prevent families from being homeless, cold and hungry. So far in 2012, Tahoe Magic has provided $26,892 to South Tahoe residents in need of help.
"Working collaboratively with Vail Resorts, Specialty Sports Venture and other agencies, our most vulnerable can find help immediately when they need it most," said Wendy David of Tahoe Magic. "We tell families 'yes, we can help,' and thank Vail Resorts and SSV for echoing that."
Starting in 1979, Discovery Blind Sports has taught challenging sports to people with little or no vision by offering guides for alpine, telemark, and cross-country skiing, as well as snowboarding and snowshoeing. It achieves this mission through innovative methods developed by skiers, guides, racers, coaches and ski instructors. Discovery Blind relies 100 percent on volunteers, family, and friends who have one thing in common: loving spending time on the slopes. The organization's unique program allows guides to be with athletes for the whole day, from start to finish. Sometimes families will join for a few runs, meet up for lunch, or want to learn how to be a guide. Offering training clinics for guides, Discovery Blind encourages all family and friends to attend, all at no cost to the individuals. One thing we know for sure, after a day with Discovery Blind Sports, individuals have "felt the freedom!" For more information, visit www.discoveryblindsports.org.
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Thibodaux woman killed in crash near Lafourche Crossing
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A Thibodaux woman was killed this afternoon when a teenage driver struck her car head-on near Lafourche Crossing, State Police said.
Ethel Robinson, 65, was traveling north on La. 308 at about 12:13 p.m. when her 2007 Nissan Maxima was hit by Corey Melancon, 19, of Thibodaux, who was driving south in a 2008 Dodge Ram, police said.
Melancon drove off the right side of the road before over correcting to the left, crossing the centerline and hitting Robinson's car, police said. Robinson, who was wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead on the scene by the Lafourche Parish Coroner's Office.
Melancon, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from his truck, police said. He was transported to Thibodaux Regional Medical Center with minor injuries.
This was the week's third fatal crash on or near La. 308 and second near Lafourche Crossing.
Kenner resident Cesar Castillo-Ortiz, 29, was killed Tuesday evening when the SUV he was a front-seat passenger in went off the road and hit a tree along La. 308. The driver, 53-year-old Manuel Dejesus Velasquez Mejia, also of Kenner, is suspected to have been intoxicated and was charged with vehicular homicide.
On Wednesday morning, Thibodaux High student Adrian Ledet, 16, was killed on Laurel Valley Road when the pickup truck he was a front-seat passenger in overturned in a sugarcane field and he was ejected from the truck. Police said high speeds were suspected in the crash in which the 16-year-old driver of the truck Adrian was in clipped another pickup while trying to pass.
Blood was taken from Melancon, and test results are pending. Impairment is not suspected to be a factor in the crash, police said. Routine toxicology tests are also pending for Robinson, and the investigation is ongoing.
The Thibodaux Police Department, Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office and Lafourche Crossing Fire Department also responded to the accident.
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We can use high-performance computing tools in modeling and simulation studies of semiconductor and other solar materials. We also determine the performance of solar devices. Theoretical studies can help us understand underlying physical principles or predict useful chemical compositions and crystalline structures.
NREL has strong complementary research capabilities in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), combinatorial (combi) methods, and atmospheric processing. From fundamental physical studies to applied research relating to solar industry needs, we are developing the new materials, device structures, and tools needed to create polymer-based solar cells that are flexible, lightweight, and inexpensive.
Our primary work focuses on photovoltaic (PV) cell research. But our advances in understanding and creating new materials and processes are also being applied in such areas as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and thin-film-transistor displays.
This section summarizes these additional topics:
OPV is a rapidly emerging PV technology with improving cell efficiency (currently > 8%), encouraging initial lifetime (>5,000 hours unencapsulated), and potential for roll-to-roll manufacturing processes. The building-integrated PV market may find OPV especially attractive because of the availability of absorbers in several different colors and the ability to make efficient transparent devices.
OPV's great strength lies in the diversity of organic materials that can be designed and synthesized for the absorber, acceptor, and interfaces. Considering the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative goals, we need to further improve efficiency and lifetime. We must understand the fundamentals of device operation, including charge-separation processes, device physics, and interfacial effects. This will allow us to design more efficient, stable device architectures based on materials with improved energy-level alignment, spectral response, and transport properties.
Many solar technologies use TCOs as transparent contacts. We focus on discovering and evaluating new materials, developing new processes for high performance at low cost, and directly optimizing transparent contact materials for PV conversion technologies, especially silicon, copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), and OPV.
We Address Industry's R&D Challenges
Our R&D addresses key challenges in the following areas:
- New absorber, contact, and barrier materials. We develop and apply new high-performance absorber materials for improved performance and lifetime, focusing on improving photovoltage and stability to photo-oxidation.
- Better contact materials and device architectures. We are developing new or improved TCOs, including robust indium-free TCOs for PV applications. We have also demonstrated one of the first inverted organic photovoltaic devices, which are exhibiting greatly enhanced device lifetime by eliminating unstable contact and electrode materials.
- New electron/hole contact layers. We have the scientists and the tools to combine molecular design using computational resources with organic synthesis to develop new acceptors and donors to enhance device performance and lifetime.
- Mechanisms of materials and device degradation. We investigate and demonstrate new materials and device architectures that mitigate degradation, leading to improved device stability. We have developed a combinatorial degradation system that allows us to measure the lifetime of thin-film devices under light, at different substrate temperatures, with or without filters, or under different duty cycles. This system enables us to evaluate the lifetime of a large number of samples under the same or varied conditions in a parallel manner.
We Have Special Capabilities and Tools
Our resources and scientists can help you in your research areas, including thin-film deposition, high-throughput combinatorial methods, and atmospheric processing.
We have expertise in solution deposition of organic and inorganic thin films by spin coating or spray deposition in an inert atmosphere, with capabilities that include:
- A thermal evaporator housed in an inert environment that is available for metal evaporation for completing devices
- A solar simulator, external quantum efficiency unit, Kelvin probe, probe station, and impedance spectroscopy in an inert atmosphere
- Hood space for organic synthesis capabilities.
We also specialize in thin-film deposition by both sputtering and pulsed-laser deposition (PLD), with related characterization, analysis, and mapping capabilities that include:
- Multi-source and radio-frequency (RF), DC, and RF+DC sputtering
- Mapping tools for composition, conductivity, work function, and optical reflectance/transmission
- X-ray diffraction (XRD) and spectroscopic ellipsometry mapping
- XRD with in situ annealing (<800°C).
We perform high-throughput combinatorial materials science. Combinatorial approaches, based on thin-film sample libraries across a range of compositions, accelerate the development and optimization of new materials for PV and other energy technology applications. Our group has developed state-of-the-art deposition, characterization, data handling, data analysis, and modeling tools to enable these high-throughput parallel approaches. Using these tools, we work closely with applications experts to rapidly develop and optimize application-specific materials.
We understand atmospheric processing. Atmospheric processing can reduce overall cost and scalability issues of PV production. Our research focuses on developing "inks" and ink-conversion processes to create desired materials with desired properties. Research is performed across all PV technologies, i.e., silicon, thin-film, and organic PV. Atmospherically processable materials developed include metals (Ag, Ni, Cu, Al), semiconductors (CuInGa[S,Se], CuZnSn[S,Se], CdTe), and oxides (ZnO, In2O3, SiOx, BaxSr1-xTiO3).
Our stand-alone atmospheric processing capabilities include:
- Tabletop inkjet printer for testing inks and commercial-style inkjet printers
- Ultrasonic spray stations
- Slot coater
- Controlled-environment rapid thermal processing (RTP) systems
- Laser scribing and annealing system.
We also have integrated capabilities in our Atmospheric Processing Platform in the Process Development and Integration Laboratory (PDIL) that include:
- Multi-color inkjet printing and ultrasonic spraying, aerosol jet spraying
- Integrated vacuum deposition capability
- RTP system in controlled environment
- X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction analysis.
We Have Deep Expertise
Our researchers have invented and transferred various OPV and TCO technologies to industry, and we develop cells with improved performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness. One example is our work with an industry partner, HelioVolt, to develop a hybrid CIGS scheme that involved inkjet printing of precursor metal inks. The value of this approach was recognized through two awards in 2008—the Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and an R&D 100 Award.
In addition, members of our group are key organizers and participants in industry-wide conferences, such as the Organic Photovoltaics Meeting and International Summit on OPV Stability.
We also reach beyond our group at NREL to tap into exciting work on the theoretical, experimental, and characterization focus of new materials by design. We do this by participating in the Center for Inverse Design, which is an NREL-led Energy Frontier Research Center of the DOE Office of Science. Partners include scientists from Northwestern University, Oregon State University, and Stanford University.
We Partner with Industry
We transfer our technological advances to major industrial players through licensing and high-value cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs). Some examples of our industrial collaborations include:
- ConocoPhillips (new absorber materials for organic photovoltaic systems)
- Plextronics (contact development and lifetime of OPV)
- TDA Research (multicomponent systems for infrared absorption)
- Luna Innovations (carbon nanosheet electrodes for OPV)
- Konarka, TOTAL, Solarmer, and others.
We also collaborate in research with academic institutions such as the University of Arizona, Georgia Tech, University of California-Santa Barbara, Princeton, Stanford, University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, and Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands.
Working with Us
Visit Working with Us to learn more about NREL's PV partnership opportunities.
You can also contact us regarding research within specific technology areas:
- TCOs, High-Throughput Combi
- Atmospheric Processing
- Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Other group capabilities/projects (e.g., fuel cells, batteries)


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THE NEW ULM/Sleepy Eye Peewee A boys hockey team took second place in the Owatonna Tournament on Dec. 7-8. Front row (left to right): Josh Seidl, Cade Bushard, Jack Raymond, Glavon Schugel, Carson Giefer and Kyle Domeier. Back row: Shane Esser, Landon Depew, Andrew Neid, Landon Strong, Kyle Tauer, Blake Tauer, and Ryan Esser.
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Back on the C25K again and this time I will continue to run. Last time I completed the programme and after a few weeks I did less and less running because of the winter. This time I am going to keep it going.
Week 1 day1 completed yesterday and don't feel any different, which can only be a good sign. Do need to loose a few pounds so hope the additional exercise will help. I have some kettlebells and should start to swing them for 30 mins or so on my days off.
Who is on the programme ? What week are you on ? do you do other exercises? is so, what and how often?
Oh, I am 45 and live in the UK, the weather is not kind to us so sometimes I use my treadmill. Going to start the first few weeks on the tm before I venture outside again.
Miz T
Day 2. Started on the treadmill and after about 10 mins had to get off and rush to the little room. Did not expect that to happen. Anyway got back out into the garage and back on the treadmill to finish the programme.
I then took my DD to the train station and on the way back I was feeling so good I thought about doing the programme all over again. So half hour later I was back on the treadmill and did it all again.
I feel fantastic. I am not running as fast as last time. I just want to finish the programme, speed will come later.
I'm thinking I'll move on to week 2 next time I run.
Hi Miz T. My name is niki, I am 49 and I live in Indiana, USA. I am not doing c25k but am doing a very similar program called 5k runner which takes you to running 35 min over a 8 week period. I did a similar program about 2 1/2 years ago and ran up until late last fall when I got bad shin splints and then in Jan I tore my ACL skiing and had to have knee surgery. I missed running (even though I am quite slow) and am excited to be back at it. I just finished week 5. W6d1 will consist of a 10 min run, 5 min walk, 10 min run. I ran 8r, 5w,8r today and have to admit I struggled the last minute or so (knee was fine, out of breath) But, I am going to try the w6d1 and if I can't then I will redo w5d3. My son has a serif kettle bell he doesn't use, maybe I will give them a try as I am trying to drop a few pounds too. Sounds like you are progressing well! Happy running :)
Hi Longtallsallee, Indiana ? I have heard of it but will need to look it up on google. The only place in the US I have been to is NY, many times as I have family there.
sounds like you are doing well on your runs, congrats on running for 8, I can only dream of that much at present. I enjoyed my run yesterday and looking forward to my next one tomorrow. Although I've just eaten Ravioli and feel like I'm going to burst, just hope I'm ok for tomorrows run.
I am thinking of new running shoes as an insentive to keep going, once I get to 5K I will buy them to keep me running. That is when i want to do the programme for 8K or 10K.
Well done.
Hi guys - I am new runner too so glad to hear that someone is on the same track as me I am on week 5 but not really following the guidelines (push myself - impatient) I can run 10min then walk 2 first mile and1/2 and then from there is gets harder doing about 3 min run then 2 walk on last mile & 1/2 doing 3.5 miles every other morning today I pushed hard very hot/humid in central FL but I feel good drenched in sweat when I am done.
On the days I don't run I go to the gym and do the stationary bike or eliptical 30 min and weights -Oxygen Magazine great mag. to show you different moves with weight training for women and can do at home. maybe just walking if you don't do the gym on the days your not walking or bike ride.
Hope to hear from you some more on your progress I feel a little alone I read the blogs all the time trying to find someone who shares in this new challenge.
sounds like you are getting on well with your programme. Well done.
I moved on to week 2 yesterday and omg I loved the 90 sec runs, to be honest I found it great going so I did an extra one at the end and did it a little faster than the others. I am looking forward to my next run tomorrow.
Happy running
Hi guys :). I have been cross training on elliptical. My daughter and I going to start road biking once a week. We went yesterday for an hour, so much fun. However my knee was quite swollen and sore last nite:(. But, I am determined to do my w6d1 run today. I think I also need to increase my core strength so I am going try and fit in some weight work during the week. How are you runs going? Happy running!
Hi all.
I had a couple of rest days Saturday and Sunday, rest from running only, not from other housework etc. Run week 2 day 2 on the treadmill tonight as the weather is horrible. Heavy rain tonight, looks like autumn (fall) has arrived for us. Oh well that's what happens when I live in Scotland.
Anyway legs hurt a little tonight so off to bed early.
Longtallsallee, is your knee sore because of your shoes, have you had your running shoes checked? I hope you feel better soon.
Happy running and I hope your weather is better than ours.
I tore my ACL skiing in January and had to have surgery. Was cleared for running in June but unable to run then because of pain. Can run now without pain but my knee swells after but doctor said this would happen. W6d2 run went great. Beginning to wonder if I am running to slow but I have been reading Long time Nick's threads and he is very insistent about keeping it slow at first. Weather is not good here either, high 80's and very humid(96% today). How did your w2d2 run go?
Hi Mizt, I too began C25K some time ago, then stopped running but stayed active w/ Tennis and Soccer. I missed running so I decided this time, I can't get side tracked.
Like Longtallsalle, I am using the 5k runner program. I love it! It is somewhat similar to C25k. I love the fact that I have it on my iphone and it tells me when to run, when to stop and walk, run, etc. makes it so much easier to work with. When I originally did C25K, there wasn't such a phone app.
Gogolegs, I wish you luck. When I originally started C25k back when, I felt I was able to run more than they recommended on a particular run. Unfortunately for me, I got stuck at just under 3 miles and had a hard time pushing past that point. Maybe that is what caused me to stop running. Don't know. This time I promised myself to stick to the program and hopefully move forward to a greater distance. So far, so good. I still feel a great sense of satisfaction at the end of my run even though I could probably push myself more. Taking the motto, slow and steady....
Seems as if we are all in a similar age bracket. I am 47. Good luck everyone!
I am also re-doing the C25K plan.
I first went through the program starting back in Oct. of 2009.-Cruised through it without difficulty ,built up my base and eventually did a Half Marathon a year later in Oct. 2010
My Half. time was disappointing- I think I did too much ,too fast for my age and weight- I injured myself training for the Half-and quite frankly I limped from mile 2 untill the finish.
I took about 6 weeks off after the Half to try and heal up--and I ran pretty consistantly from then untill January 2012
this past January a bad kidneystone/surgery situation through me out of action for over 3 months----and by the time I was able to resume running-well let's say it was just easier NOT to resume running, LOL.
At any rate- I am re-doing the C25k plan now-and I am doing it with a running partner- my 4 year old Labrador Retriever Annie.
Annie has run with me in the past- but she was younger then and more rambunctious---since then she has gone through basic obedience training, settled down and works well on and off lead so every outing is much more enjoyable
I am 50 now-and I am a pretty big guy, which largely accounts for my dis-appointing Half time in 2010. I am thinking of doing another half marathon in either 2013 or 2014-and knowing now, what I didn't fully know THEN, I think this next Half will be more successfull,
Good luck!!! I have had great luck doing kettlebell swings on my off days. I feel like it's helping me do much better on my runs, strengthening my legs and back. I use a 25 lb kettlebell, and do 3 sets of 20. That gets my heartrate up. I also do stairs whenever I can at work.
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— More than a month after talks about a possible strike, the North Pocono School District teachers union met last week to vote on a strike date. Following the conclusion of the meeting and a vote to strike, the union set a strike date to begin April 18.
According to Bill Lydick, UniServ representative for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the date allows additional time for the two sides to reach an agreement.
It was reported that negotiations for a new contract, which expired last summer, began back in November 2011. On Jan. 30, 2013, the North Pocono Education Association voted to authorize a strike.
Although the specific issues contested in the negotiations are still unclear at this time, it has been previously reported that significant factors include raises and health care benefits.
The bargaining units from both sides were expected to meet Monday night in hopes of reaching an agreement so a strike can be avoided.
North Pocono Superintendent Bryan McGraw and North Pocono School District teachers union president Jeanne Yazinski declined to comment on the matter at this time.
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The Gypsum Fire Protection District's proposed property tax went down by an almost 2-1 margin.
Gypsum's Ballot Question 4A lost, 1,038-570.
The proposal would have raised a total of $260,000 a year for the Gypsum fire department.
Since 2008, the Gypsum fire department has lost one-third of its budget, which is based on property values, said Fire Chief Dave Vroman.
In 2008, the department's budget was $1.5 million. It's now down to around $1 million and they're looking at losing another 15 percent as property values continue to fall.
With their tax proposal failing, the department will have to cut staff and services, Vroman said.
"We don't want to cut services. We worked for 30 years to get to where we are," Vroman said.
The Gypsum fire department was founded in 1911 and operates three stations - Gypsum, Sweetwater and Dotsero. It covers 450 square miles in Eagle and Garfield counties, with 11 paid fire fighters and 40 volunteers.


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Tylted Gets Replay With New Mobile-Game Plan
Instead of watching its mobile-gaming audience disappear in the wake of the smartphone, Tylted is transforming itself from a game developer into a gaming technology and advertising company.
Many companies that were in the mobile business before the launch of the first iPhone in 2007 have had a turbulent ride as their market has exploded. But along with a bigger market has come new challenges—the technology has changed greatly and where the carriers were the most influential players, now it's tech companies like Apple and Google.
Tylted, founded as Cellufun in 2006 to develop games for the mobile Web, has built up an audience that now has about 10 million unique visitors each month.
The New York-based company would have been able to maintain itself as a good lifestyle business, but wouldn't generate the kind of return that its largest investor, Longworth Venture Partners, is looking for, said Lon Otremba, who joined as chief executive a year ago and since hired a new executive team to develop a new strategy for Tylted.
As smartphones gained in popularity the company recognized that its market, mainly customers with standard phones, was not poised for growth. "If the company didn't take some dramatic steps to up the ante, they were going to lose their audience," Otremba said.
It considered transitioning its existing set of games to iOS and Android operating systems, but that would have been a long, expensive process, he said. Then it hit on the idea of encouraging other smartphone game publishers to use its HTML5 platform to make their games available on standard cellphones—a move it made earlier this year.
Now it's giving game developers a chance to place fully-playable versions of their games within another application. Rather than just seeing advertising for game downloads on banner ads in apps, customers will be able to play the game without leaving the application.
In its pilot test with Pandora, the company had three times the normal interaction rate when compared with standard mobile banner ads and an average length of playing time that was about 13 minutes, "an extraordinary amount of time to interact with an ad," Otremba said. "We're still finding ways to test and improve that and don't feel we're anywhere near the ceiling."
Tylted's plan is to get ad inventory from app publishers, run games in that space and offers and other deals with those games. It will share revenue with the app publishers rather than buying the ads.
Initially, it will run games from its platform–both those it developed and some from other publishers. Eventually, it plans to make the service available to all game publishers as a way to advertise and grow audiences for games.
Despite all the excitement around the mobile ad sector, there's still a lot of unsold inventory and most ads aren't performing as well as those in other channels. "For once, this glut of unsold inventory can work for you," Otremba said.
The model is similar to what is already employed in television and radio, where broadcasters give unsold inventory to incentive-based advertisers who share the revenue generated by the ads, he said.
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Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 30(c). Examination and Cross-Examination - Record of Examination - Oath - Objections.
Examination and cross-examination of witnesses may proceed as permitted at the trial under the provisions of Rule 43(b) and the Idaho Rules of Evidence. The officer before whom the deposition is to be taken shall put the witness on oath and shall personally, or by someone acting under the officer's direction and in the officer's presence, record the testimony of the witness. The testimony shall be taken stenographically or recorded by any other means ordered in accordance with subdivision (b)(4) of this rule. If requested by one (1) of the parties, the testimony shall be transcribed at the party's own expense.
All objections made at time of the examination to the qualifications of the officer taking the deposition, or to the manner of taking it, or to the evidence presented, or to the conduct of any party, and any other objection to the proceedings, shall be noted by the officer upon the deposition. Evidence objected to shall be taken subject to the objections. In lieu of participating in the oral examination, parties may serve written questions in a sealed envelope on the party taking the deposition who shall transmit them to the officer, who shall propound them to the witness and record the answers verbatim.
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An American buffalo. Comes from the Sioux Indian language. Common usage native Americans.
Whoa! Look at the tatanka outside!
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Once again, Samsung's smartphone successes have come at Apple's expense.
In its latest report, research firm IDC revealed Friday that even though robust iPhone 5 sales helped goose Apple's total smartphone sales in its most recent quarter by 6.6 percent over the same quarter last year, it was not enough to keep archrival Samsung from extending its big-footed share of the market.
Thanks to its smorgasbord of different products, along with inexpensive prices that make Apple's products seem Tiffanyesque by comparison, Samsung's global smartphone market share rose in the first quarter of 2013 from 28.8 percent to 32.7 percent. Apple's share, much like its stumbling stock price over the past year, dropped to 17.3 percent, down from 23 percent a year earlier.
"Clearly the growth for Apple and everyone else is in the emerging markets, while the developed markets where Apple dominates are becoming saturated and growth is clearly slowing," said Laurence Balter, an analyst at Oracle Investment Research. "Its market-share will continue to shrink until Apple gets its head out of the sand and starts putting out improved and unique technology. Otherwise, they're going to continually play catch-up to Samsung, which right now is eating their lunch."
Despite strong sales of the iPhone 5 in the most recent quarter, when Apple sold 37.4 million of the devices, a flood of cheaper Android-powered phones from the South Korean maker lifted Samsung's shipments about 60 percent to 70.7 million. In fact, in the first quarter Samsung shipped more smartphones than the next four vendors -- Apple, LG, Huawei and ZTE -- combined, IDC said.
Neither Apple nor Samsung could be immediately reached for comment. But some analysts cautioned against assuming Apple was caught in a death spiral just because it's been steadily losing market share to its main rival. They point out that when placed side-by-side with competitors by measures such as customer satisfaction and usage patterns, Apple usually wins by a wide margin. So while it may not sell as many phones as its rivals, it conceivably will hold on to its customers for the long haul, giving Apple the opportunity to sell users even more of the gadgets populating its sprawling ecosystem.
"If you looked, for example, at the premium end of the smartphone market, Apple would dominate," said analyst Ben Bajarin with Creative Strategies. "Not all segments of a market are created equal, so you have to keep that in mind when you're just looking, say, at unit sales."
As Bajarin points out, "even if you have 40 percent of unit sales in the lower end part of the market, you might not be making as much money or be as healthy as a company dominating a different segment."
According to the IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the global mobile phone market grew 4 percent from a year earlier in what it called "the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013." For the first time, said ICD, smartphones sales beat out sales of so-called feature phones. Contrary to its name, the latter type doesn't carry as many features as a smartphone.
"Apple has held the second spot in the smartphone rankings for the past five quarters," said the report. "Apple's mix of models shipped to market is increasingly diversified as it tries to reach new buyers."
Yet while Apple continues to tweak the prices of its products, for example by selling marked-down versions of its older generation iPhone as newer models are launched, it's still unclear whether Apple will unveil a new, or perhaps cheaper, iPhone later this year. At this week's earnings announcement, when Apple showed a year-over-year profit decline for the first time in a decade, CEO Tim Cook hinted to analysts that it would be at least September before any new product launches.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.


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