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Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad Company-Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption-Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR), pursuant to a written trackage rights agreement dated February 3, 2012, has agreed to grant nonexclusive overhead temporary trackage rights to Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad Company (N&BE), between Lock Haven, Pa. (milepost BR 194.2) and Driftwood, Pa. (milepost BR 139.2), a distance of approximately 55 miles. [1]
The transaction may be consummated on or after April 11, 2012, and the temporary trackage rights are scheduled to expire on December 30, 2012. The purpose of the temporary trackage rights is to allow N&BE to operate bridge train service for temporary, seasonal traffic originating on the N&BE for delivery to an off-line destination.
As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the acquisition of the temporary trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk and Western Railway—Trackage Rights—Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast Railway—Lease and Operate—California Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any employees affected by the discontinuance of those trackage rights will be protected by the conditions set out in Oregon Short Line Railroad—Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).
This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). If it contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not automatically stay the effectiveness of the exemption. Petitions for stay must be filed no later than April 4, 2012 (at least 7 days before the exemption becomes effective).
An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 35597, must be filed with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a copy of each pleading must be served on Richard R. Wilson, 518 N. Center Street, Suite 1, Ebensburg, PA 15931.
Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at "WWW.STB.DOT.GOV."
Decided: March 22, 2012.
By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of Proceedings.
Raina S. White,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2012-7378 Filed 3-27-12; 8:45 am]
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1. A redacted, executed trackage rights agreement between NSR and N&BE was filed with the notice of exemption. The unredacted version was concurrently filed under seal along with a motion for protective order, which will be addressed in a separate decision.Back to Context


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Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer (see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect. Prowl also features an extensive API, which allows your scripts to integrate beautifully.
Infinitely extensible From getting delivery status notifications to updates on your Torrent subscriptions, Prowl is as expandable as Growl is. Nearly every application under the sun supports Growl, and Prowl supports their message display right along with it. You can browse through the Growl application list, or explore the applications you already use in Growl. The possibilities are endless!
A Push notification on the iPhone from Prowl
Push notifications As soon as a Growl notification pops up on your computer, Prowl will forward it to your iPhone or iPod Touch over the push notification service found in iPhone OS 3.0. Which notifications are pushed is configurable, allowing only the important messages to be delivered.
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Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?
Right now, I capture and sell images from a D200/MB-D200... camera purchases are things I do with a good deal of forethought.
I've long assumed I'd trade up to a D400, because of truly faster/better focus, truly better high ISO, and lastly, significant increase in MP'S... I didn't think a 1-generation improvement would be enough.
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#1. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 0intrepidnz Registered since 18th Nov 2004Sat 13-Nov-10 07:20 PM
Well, I might be a little greedy myself but I might try and go for both!
I have the D300 now and its an excellent camera but these news camerws are another level of teechnology so will happily upgrade if the new camerwas are that much better than the current range.
I miss having a camera around when the D300 gos in for servicing, which can takes weeks so I need a back up camera. IN the longer term, that will be the D7k. Once the D400 comes out, I will also go for that and that will become the main camera. The D7k will become my second and back up camera but will have the macro lens permanently attached to it.
Well, that's the plan so will see how it goes. One camerwa just isn't enough for me!
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#3. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 1KnightPhoto Nikonian since 18th Dec 2006Sun 14-Nov-10 01:25 PM
I am similar to Ross (IntrepidNZ), I plan to get the D400 also and the D7000 will then play a specific role being my 70-200 camera (with/without TCs).
I don't have a ton of D7000 shooting under my belt yet but it does seem pretty good so far. AF is responsive and the fact that it includes AF fine-tune is vital for my uses.
I do find the 35 points restrictive compared to my 51 points in my D300. But coming from a D200 35 would be a leg up wouldn't it? Because I constantly move the selected AF point all over the frame I would like even more frame coverage (70 points?).
Thom implies a new much more advanced D4/D400 AF system is coming, but perhaps not until fall 2011, so timing may be a concern to you. Personally I also wonder if the D400 will have a new Nikon sensor, different than the Sony-based one in the D7000, and maybe just maybe with the D3S special sauce? ISO performance of the D7000 seems good but unlike my D700 requires careful post processing if shooting raw so as not to sharpen any noise.
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#2. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 0
I would read through this spirited thread that started in answer to the same/similar question: https://www.nikonians.org/forums/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=329&topic_id=255&mesg_id=255&page=5
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#4. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 0
A couple of people in this thread and other similar threads have said that they felt the D400 would have a similar sensor to the D7000 for a number of reasons including the fact that the D90 has the same sensor as the D300. I believe there are other similar examples (doesn't the D700 have the same sensor as the D3?).
But don't the cheaper little brothers usually follow the release of the more expensive version? Is there a precedent for the other way around?
#5. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 4JPJ Nikonian since 19th Aug 2009Mon 15-Nov-10 10:41 PM
The D90 came out after the more expensive D300 but before the even more expensive D300s.
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#6. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 5billD80 Nikonian since 22nd Jan 2007Mon 15-Nov-10 11:02 PM
Thanks for the feedback and link to an earlier thread.
One would assume a D400 would have the same sensor, but I just don't think I'd need the additional sealing, AF points, CF card option, or battery pack grip I now use.
The D7000 is just SO much more than I have now, and at $1100 vs. $1600. (not including an MB-D400), I think I'm going to go in the D7K direction.
Probably will hold one first though...
#7. "RE: Go for a D7000 or wait for a D400?" | In response to Reply # 4
Your question is a good one. It just seems that the mould is a broken one (trying to gauge Nikon's next model releases based on their past release pattern. I submit the following anecdotes and schools of thought:
- D400 "should have" come out before D7000;
- where is the D3S sensor in a smaller body? And also the D3X?
- D3100 said to have a pure (than usual) Nikon-only sensor;
- Thom Hogan heard their were up to 3 different sensors in the running for inclusion in the D7000 including two Nikon ones and the current Sony-based model. But the Nikon ones were not ready. Could they be ready in time for the D400?
- some rumor folks say there won't ever be a D400 or that if there is it will be full frame. Or that it will be a pro-sided body!
- is Nikon really about to leave the D3S sensor in the rubbish pile of history and include a higher megapixel but less light sensitive one in the D4?
- talk that Nikon and Sony are "getting a divorce" and therefore future sensors are going to be pure(r) Nikon ones.
- talk that D3X sensor was a one-time only offering and will not come out in ANY other camera.
- talk that there definitely will be a D700S/X/800/900 and that it is just around the corner and it will definitely have a 12/18/24 sensor
Anyhow I say all this only to indicate that these seem to be exceedingly tough times to predict based on past performance. Sounds like my mutual funds
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How the Rise of Refrigeration is Transforming China
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Cliffside Unit 6 Determined a Minor, Not Major Emitter March 13, 2009
Duke Energy received a revised air permit for the new, state-of-the-art Cliffside Unit 6 this afternoon from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Air Quality (DAQ), which designates that the unit is a minor source of hazardous air pollutants.
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The Cliffside modernization project, including engineering, procurement, construction and start-up activities, is more than 30 percent complete. Given the announcement earlier this week that North Carolinas unemployment rate has climbed to nearly 10 percent, Duke Energy is proud to be constructing one of the cleanest coal-fired plants in the nation while employing approximately 850 workers at the site.
Once the new unit comes on line in 2012, Cliffside Unit 6 will generate more than double the electricity for customers than the current facility, while significantly reducing emissions. In addition, Duke Energy has committed to retire 1,000 megawatts of older, less efficient coal-fired units in North Carolina as a result of this modernization project between 2012 and 2018.
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In this course we will investigate contemporary feminist thought from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We will focus on key issues in feminist theory, such as the sex/gender debate, sexual desire and the body, the political economy of gender, the creation of the "queer" as subject, and the construction of masculinity, among others. This course aims also to think through the ways in which these concerns intersect with issues of race, class, the environment and the nation. Texts include feminist philosopher Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, anthropologist Kamala Visweswaran's Fictions of Feminist Ethnography, and feminist economist Bina Agarwal's The Structure of Patriarchy.
WAGS 207 - The Home and the World: Women and Gender in South Asia
Amrita Basu, Krupa Shandilya
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This course will study South Asian women and gender through key texts in film, literature, history and politics. How did colonialism and nationalism challenge the distinctions between the "home" and the "world" and bring about partitions which splintered once shared cultural practices? What consequences did this have for postcolonial politics? How do ethnic conflicts, religious nationalisms and state repression challenge conceptions of "home"? How have migrations, globalization and diasporas complicated relations between the home and the world? Texts will include Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, Ram Gopal Varma's epic film Sarkar and Partha Chatterjee's The Nation and Its Fragments.
WAGS 252/HIST 252 – Women's History, America: 1607-1865
Martha Saxton
Tuesday, Thursday 11:30 – 12:50 p.m.
This course looks at the experiences of Native American, European and African women from the colonial period through the Civil War. The course will explore economic change over time and its impact on women, family structure, and work. It will also consider varieties of Christianity, the First and Second Awakenings and their consequences for various groups of women. Through secondary and primary sources and discussions students will look at changing educational and cultural opportunities for some women, the forces creating antebellum reform movements, especially abolition and feminism, and women's participation in the Civil War.
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Wednesday 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Because food is necessary to sustain biological life, its production and provision occupy humans everywhere. Due to this essential importance, food also operates to create and symbolize collective life. This seminar will examine the social and cultural significance of food. Topics to be discussed include: the evolution of human food systems, the social and cultural relationships between food production and human reproduction, the development of women's association with the domestic sphere, the meaning and experience of eating disorders, and the connection among ethnic cuisines, nationalist movements and social classes.
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This course examines the historical construction of the witch and the context of the women (and men) labeled as witches. Our main topics will be: European Pagan religions and the spread of Christianity; the "Burning Times" in early modern Europe, with an emphasis on the German situation; 17th-century New England and the Salem witch trials; the images of witches in folklore and fairy tales in the context of the historical persecutions; and some contemporary Wiccan/witch practices in their historical context. Readings are drawn from documentary records of the witch persecutions and witch trials, literary representations, scholarly analyses of witch-related phenomena and themes, and essays examining witches, witchcraft, and the witch persecutions, including from contemporary feminist and/or neo-Pagan perspectives. Readings and discussions will be supplemented by related material taken from current events in addition to visual material (videos, slides) drawn from art history, early modern witch literature, popular culture, and documentary sources.
HIST 432 – Gender, Class and Crime: The Victorian Underworld
Victorian Britain was a nation of contrasts. It was at once the world's foremost economic and imperial power, the richest nation in Europe, and the country where the consequences of industrialization – slums, poverty, disease, alcoholism, sexual violence – took some of their bleakest forms. In an era of revolution, Britain enjoyed one of the most stable political systems in Europe; yet it was also a society plagued by crime and by fears of popular unrest, the place where Marx predicted the worker's revolt would begin. This seminar explores the complex world of the Victorians through a focus on what contemporaries termed the "social problem": the underclass of criminals, paupers, and prostitutes who seemed immune to reform. Themes will include political Liberalism and the Poor Law, imperialism at home and abroad, industrialization and urbanization, sanitation, hygiene, and disease control initiatives, shifting cultural understandings of gender and class, and Jack the Ripper.
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This course examines central issues in the relationships between several religious traditions and human rights. The first two-thirds of the course is largely theoretical: we explore some of the most influential religious and philosophical criticisms of human rights, assess several proposed theories of human rights, and survey the approaches to justifying human rights of three religious traditions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the remaining third of the course we will consider several contemporary human rights debates in which religion is centrally or frequently involved. These may include women's rights, sexual orientation, religious violence and terrorism, religious freedom, and the role of religion in politics and public law.
PSYCH – Sex Role Socialization
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Wednesday 2:00-4:20 p.m.
An examination of the processes throughout life that produce and maintain sex-typed behaviors. The focus is on the development of the psychological characteristics of males and females and the implications of that development for participation in social roles. Consideration of the biological and cultural determinants of masculine and feminine behaviors will form the basis for an exploration of alternative developmental possibilities. Careful attention will be given to the adequacy of the assumptions underlying psychological constructs and research in the study of sex differences.
LJST 374/POSC 474 - Norms, Rights, and Social Justice: Feminists, Disability Rights Activists and the Poor at the Boundaries of the Law
Kristin Bumiller
Tuesday 2:00-4:00 p.m.
This seminar explores how the civil rights movement began a process of social change and identity-based activism. We evaluate the successes and failures of "excluded" groups' efforts to use the law. We primarily focus on the recent scholarship of theorists, legal professionals, and activists to define "post-identity politics" strategies and to counteract the social processes that "normalize" persons on the basis of gender, sexuality, disability, and class.
LJST 349 – Law and Love
Martha Umphrey
Thursday 2:00-4:00 p.m.
At first glance, law and love seem to tend in opposing directions: where law is constituted in rules and regularity, love emerges in contingent, surprising, and ungovernable ways; where law speaks in the language of reason, love's language is of sentiment and affect; where law regulates society through threats of violence, love binds with a magical magnetism. In this seminar, placing materials in law and legal theory alongside theoretical and imaginative work on the subject of love, we invert that premise of opposition in order to look for love's place in law and law's in love. First we will inquire into the ways in which laws regulate love, asking how is love constituted and arranged by those regulations, and on what grounds it escapes them. In that regard we will explore, among other areas, the problematics of passion in criminal law and laws regulating sexuality, marriage, and family. Second we will ask, how does love in its various guises (as, philia, eros, or agape) manifest itself in law and legal theory, and indeed partly constitute law itself? Here we will explore, for example, sovereign exercises of mercy, the role of equity in legal adjudication, and the means that bind legal subjects together in social contract theory. Finally, we will explore an analogy drawn by W. H. Auden, asking how law is like love, and by extension love like law. How does attending to love's role in law, and law's in love, shift our imaginings of both?
PoSC 217 – Domestic Politics
Kristin Bumiller
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This course will explore the domestic sphere as a site of politics. We will define the domestic sphere broadly, including politics in the home, private life, indigenous culture, and internal versus foreign affairs. The principle questions addressed will include: How does the boundary defining the private sphere shift over time and what are the forces driving these changes? How is the domestic sphere seen as a site of safety versus danger? What are the consequences of the intervention of state power and policing into private life? How are power relations within the private sphere interconnected with privilege and status in the public domain? Our attention will be focused on the social construction of gender, race and ethnic identities, and local/grassroots activities. A wide range of issues will be covered regarding the social organization of families, domestic violence, local/urban politics, the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities, disadvantaged communities, policing, political activism, and domestic and "homeland" security. The course will examine these issues primarily in the context of American politics and society.


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Santa Claus Village attracts record number of visitors
A record number of visitors have attended the Santa Claus Village at Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle this year. The number of visitors is expected to top the 330,000 mark for the first time.
Visitors have been recorded from at least 76 countries. Foreign visitors accounted for 85 percent of the total.
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Charities might be Super Bowl's biggest fans
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Super Bowl Sunday can't come fast enough for local charities that serve families struggling to buy food and fuel to heat their homes this winter.
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◆The Storehouse at 627 Seventh Ave. E. is open 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. It welcomes donations of food, coats, blankets and money. Call 692-8300 or visit www.storehouseonline.org.
◆Interfaith Assistance Ministry at 210 Ehringhaus St. is open 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday. The nonprofit accepts donations of food and new or gently used clothing, blankets, sheets, towels and shoes. IAM will pick up large quantities of food, blankets, winter coats or children's clothing. Donations may be addressed to P.O. Box 2562, Hendersonville, NC 28793.
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◆For more information about the Souper Bowl of Caring, visit www.souperbowl.org.
That's because when the Super Bowl is played next weekend, many individuals and churches will collect cans of soup and dollar bills to donate to organizations that help those in need.
The annual collection held on professional football's biggest day is called the Souper Bowl of Caring. It encourages people to donate the money and cans of soup they collect directly to local charities.
"I encourage people to make it fun," said Lynn Staggs, the executive director of the Storehouse on Seventh Avenue in Hendersonville. "Don't ever discount what happens when everybody does a little bit."
The Storehouse is a Christ-centered food and hygiene pantry serving low-income, elderly and needy families in Henderson County. It operates with a staff made up mostly of volunteers and is funded through donations from the community, local churches and food-focused grants.
Clients come to the Storehouse by referral from other area organizations.
Staggs said the charity budgets about $5,000 a month to buy food for the people who come to them for help. It rarely has any of that money left at the end of each month.
"We're pretty much hand-to-mouth all the time," she said. "We run to minus sometimes. We live on donations."
The Storehouse helps struggling families, elderly people who are trying to survive on fixed incomes and homeless students who attend Henderson County's public schools.
Staggs described a recent case involving an elderly woman who was struggling to both heat her home and buy groceries as typical of the clients she sees.
The woman, who was 72 years old, was out looking for a job when she stopped at the Storehouse for assistance.
"She had a great need," Staggs said. "Her husband passed away a couple of years ago. Things snowball on the elderly."
At Interfaith Assistance Ministry, Judie Carson Sloan said she sees much of the same need.
Sloan, who is the ministry's community relations and development coordinator, said bitterly cold temperatures this winter have led to more people being unable to both heat their homes and buy food. Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 21 this year, 108 families sought help with their heating bills from IAM. During the same time period last year, only 63 families had sought assistance.
"That's a 71 percent increase. This isn't surprising, considering how much colder it's been this winter," she said.
IAM is a faith-based nonprofit organization providing assistance to Henderson County residents since 1984. The charity, located on Ehringhaus Street in Hendersonville, helps people with their heating costs, food, clothing and emergency prescriptions.
The agency usually sees an increase in donations during the Christmas season. But those are often used up by mid-January.
"It kind of takes awhile to build up again," Sloan said. "Everyone is in the giving spirit during the holiday season. Then the coldest months come."
IAM needs money for its heating program and is running low on some foods, including dry milk, cereal, juice and peanut butter and jelly.
Sloan and Staggs said they welcome upcoming efforts to raise funds for their charities, including the Souper Bowl of Caring.
The Souper Bowl of Caring began in Columbia, S.C., in 1990 when a seminary student called on young people at a Presbyterian Church to use Super Bowl Sunday as a time to collect dollars and canned soup for the needy. The money and items collected were sent directly to the charity of their choice.
The Super Bowl Sunday collection idea eventually spread to communities and churches around the country and has raised $90 million for food banks, charities and soup kitchens, according to the organization's website.
In 2013, IAM received 5,269 pounds of soup and $6,473 from 34 churches during the event.
Staggs said the Storehouse will also put any money or food it receives during the Souper Bowl to good use.
"We give away a lot of food," she said.
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Shows that they Cancelled Too Quickly
- Dead Like Me- great showtime dark comedy about grim reapers....loved it!
- Point Pleasant- Creepy show, really was starting to get good when they pulled the plug!
- Homicide- Loved homcide! One of the best cop shows ever!
- Tru Calling- Great show about Tru who could relive time to stop a person from dying.
- Playmakers- Great show about a pro football team on ESPN. It showed the dark side of the NFL which angered the league......so ESPN cancelled it so the NFL would not ban ESPN from the games.....HOW LAME!
- The Jury- This was a great show. It would show the trial from the juries perspective and they would go through the evidence. Then after the verdict you find out if the jury was correct.
- Boomtown- Great cop show. It would focus on different characters' points of view. I loved it!
- Twin Peaks- Great David Lynch drama about murder in a small town. Very creepy show and way before it's time. It was fabulously done.
- Sliders- This show was about traveling through time to correct wrongs.
- Roswell- This sci-fi show was not given much of a chance.
- Philly- Good cop show that only lasted one season.
- 12. Law & Order: Trial By Jury- A good show even after Jerry Orbach pasased away.
- Over There- Great show about the Iraq War. It also showed the people at home dealing with their loved ones in Iraq.
- Medical Investigation- Well done show about the best doctors curing epidemics before they get out of hand.
- John Doe- This pissed me off because they left me with so many unanswered questions!
- Reunion- They cancelled before the end, so I will never know who was the killer.
- Twilight Zone- remade by UPN.....it was done well. It was the same type of show but set in more modern times. I love the TZ series and I liked this remake too. But, the remake did not last.
- Undeclared- Good fun comedy about life in a freshman dormitory.
- Clubhouse- This was a fun show about the life of a batboy. He gets to meet his heroes. It shows about his crappy homelife and his friendships that he makes.
- Wonderland- Only lasted 2 weeks. They put it against ER. They never gave this great show a chance.
- The Book of Daniel- It was a good show about the family of a minister. It was too contraversal, so the sponsors yanked their sponsorship. Therefore, the show was yanked.
- Arrested Development- Great show that won awards. Too bad, the show did not get a big enough audience.
- Jack & Bobby- Great show about the childhood of the Kennedys.
- Eyes- Great show about private eyes.
- Square Pegs- Quirky high school comedy.
- My So Called Life- Quirky Dramady.
- Carnivale- It was a bizarre show on HBO that you really had to watch.
- Millineum- Great sci-fi show.
- Politically Incorrect- One of the best talk shows that would try to conquer hotly debated issues. They always had the best guests.
- Nowhere Man- My husband kept telling me about how great this show was, so I got it on DVD. It was a great show that got cancelled after a short run.
- Justice- It is a great drama where it takes you through the court case. Then at the end, it shows what really happened.
- Joey- I liked this show. It was funny.
- South Beach- This was a good show set in Hawaii. They left me with a cliffhanger where one character was going to jail for a crime another one of the main character did.
Some of the best shows get the axe before they should. Sometimes, they get cancelled only after a couple of episodes. Some of these shows if given time could develope an audience. Some needed to be publicized more or changed to different times to give them a chance to survive. There are probably more shows like this that I missed. Maybe I did not get a chance to see these shows.
Now I am starting to TeVo new shows and wait a few episodes to see if the shows will be cancelled. That way I won't be pissed off if the show is cancelled. I get so mad when they leave me hanging with a cliffhanger and do not wrap things up. At least give us 1 more show to answer any unanswered questions. I think that the networks at least owe that to their viewers.
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I would add Earth 2 to this list, it lasted one season (1994-1995). It was one of my favorite shows while it was on, then they just canceled it.
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I never saw Earth 2.
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I agree with some of these, but I have to strongly disagree wtih Killer Instinct. They played some of it here in the UK recently, and boy did it stink. Hackneyed characters, storylines that beggared belief (a killer that paralyses his victims by siccing spiders on them? Do me a favour!), and merely mediocre acting. I was not at all impressed, and I was watching at a time of day and week when any old trash would have entertained me.
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I like Chi McBride, from other shows.....so I might be bias.
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Arrested Development, the show so good you listed twice ;)
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my bad
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Great choices. But no such list is complete without "Freaks and Geeks"!
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Your South Beach comment reminds me of the show Duckman; did you ever watch it? The last ten seconds of the last episode of the show feature an cliffhanger that indicates that one of the main elements of the very premise of the show was indeed never true, and the show was canceled before it could be explained.
Not that I think 70 episodes was too few to tell the tale of Eric Duckman, but I wish they could've done one more just to explain what the hell was going on.
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Exactly. At least they could at least rap it up for the fans.
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A Canvas That Stretches to China
Meet the people shaping life and culture in Asia. More from The Moment
The paintings of Charles Billich have hung everywhere from the White House to Hugh Hefner's home, and the critical response to his work is just as varied, with some comparing him to Salvador Dalí while others slam his art as kitsch.
A constant, however, is the influence of dance in the 78-year-old's work (once a ballet student in the former Yugoslavia, he fled his home in the 1950s). He heads to Beijing later this month to paint the principals of Beijing's ballet and opera—a city he is well acquainted with, after his "Beijing Millenium Cityscape" helped China win its bid to host the 2008 Olympics.
Mr. Billich spoke with The Wall Street Journal about painting kings, his short-lived journalism career and why he, a former political prisoner, still feels drawn to China. Edited excerpts follow.
The Wall Street Journal: You have a special relationship with China, starting with your involvement in the Olympic bid. Until recently you had a home in Beijing. What draws you to the country?
Mr. Billich: The Chinese industrial influence has been with us forever, the cultural and artistic influence on the West. That is why I am interested in going back to the origin of things. China is a perpetual source of research and inspiration. There's a mutual respect and a mutual symbiosis between the Chinese and I.
How did you get tapped for the Beijing Olympics job?
Prior to the [2000] Sydney games, I was engaged to help with the visual and artistic side of the bidding and was active during the Sydney Olympics as official artist. The Chinese Olympic Committee decided I was a useful device for obtaining Olympics so asked me to cooperate and help.
You tried to escape a communist regime in Yugoslavia when you were 18 but were caught and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Having experienced a repressive regime firsthand in your youth, you have in your adult life found yourself working in China, where many worry human-rights abuses still occur. Is that past something you wrestle with, or have you somehow made peace?
Reforms are taking place in China and despite our frustrations with the pace of change, it's happening. I first went to China in 1996 on the invitation of the Chinese Artists Association and have witnessed so much change since. We must not forget that world communism was created by the Western powers, so it would be cynical for us to turn our backs to the problems we have indirectly generated. We must now mea culpa and assist in the dismantling of that system.
How did you go from being a student dancer to a visual artist?
I started out as a folkloristic dancer, and then the opera sent some scouts around. I was picked, together with a couple of my mates. We were a fantastic trio—it was so much fun being guests of this ballet company for a limited time. But I never could fulfill my aspirations of becoming a great solo dancer. In retrospect, I'm happy my career was terminated when it was. I don't think I ever would have made it to the great vertigo heights of ballet. I physically don't think I had it in me. It's a one in 10 million thing. But it remained in my blood. In my fantasies I see myself as a choreographer, producer, director, you name it.
So your upcoming trip to China is in a way revisiting that past?
It's linking the past with the present and with another civilization, another culture, another tradition, another set of images. In one way you could argue that there's very little relevance between Western dance and traditional Chinese dance, and yet there is. They're both into storytelling, exhibiting emotions.
You also worked briefly as a journalist.
In my misspent youth. I had my own magazine. I was 17. But I got into ideological problems in a repressive political regime. I had to pay the price. I love writing, and I have written a few scripts, but there are not enough hours in the day to produce movies as well.
You sometimes paint subjects posthumously, for example, in your painting of the recently sainted Mary MacKillop, which hangs in the Vatican. How do you capture their likeness when a live sitting is no longer possible?
You look at as much archival material as you can and then you make your own mind up about how you use that material. What are you going to add or subtract? You want to tell a story. In a way, I like religious painting or any painting that is relevant to the past, because there's no record. I painted a king not so long ago, part of Croatian folklore from the 1300s. Not only were there no photographs of him, but there were not even paintings. The first painting done of this king was not during his lifetime, but 100 years after his death. It made me conclude that to paint this king, I couldn't rely on this paltry reference, I had to use intuition or fantasy.
An Australian critic once described your work as kitsch. Others have likened it to Dalí. How do you respond to your detractors?
In the ultimate analysis most art has kitsch undertones. I have been called worse, like set designer, illustrator. Without being philosophical, kitsch is, in the main, positive, and all artists have been guilty. Yes, my work tends to be at times too rich and enigmatic—God forbid, thought-provoking—in content, but my story lines are complex, disturbing and different.


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Enthusiasts will be shocked to learn that not every component in a system has to be a flagship component to achieve premium results. The CyberPower Gamer Xtreme XE, like all of CyberPower's systems is fully customizable in the ordering stage. CyberPower's website is easy to navigate and changing components in a system build is quite easy. Let's have a look at the Gamer Xtreme XE configuration in the default state and now it was shipped to us.
Processor: Intel E8500 overclocked to 3.9
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-DS3R
Memory: Kingston KHX12800D3K2 1GBx2
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4870X2
Power Supply: Corsair TX650W
Hard Disk: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 500GB X2 (RAID 0)
Optical Disk 1: Sony BR-5100S 2X Blu-ray Reader
Optical Disk 2: Sony 20x DVD RW
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Cooling: Asetek CPU Liquid Cooling, 4x 120mm Blue LED Fans
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Input Devices: Logitech EX 110 Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Set
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit loaded, 64-bit disk included)
Additional Accessories: CyberPower T-Shirt, CyberPower Accessory Bag (notebook bag)
Looking at the specifications, I see a couple of places where flagship components were replaced with more than capable products that allow for more bang while keeping some bucks in your bank account.
By using a dual-core processor and overclocking it with the aid of a liquid cooling system, a great deal of value was gained while losing little in the real world performance. Very few games (or software for that matter) can take advantage of today's quad-core processors in a single activity environment. The inclusion of the P45 to the system further lowered the overall cost over an X48 and performance between the two chipsets is nearly equal. For most users 2GB is more than adequate for daily use.
When it comes to components that matter to a gamer, CyberPower led with the Radeon 4870X2, the current king of the FPS mountain. One area where many system builders like to cut corners is with power. CyberPower didn't follow suit and used the Corsair 650 watt PSU. I have seen one of these PSUs power a dual processor workstation running SLi, so the system definitely has power in reserve if needed.
The rest of the components follow the price vs. performance pattern. Nothing stands out as a poor product and to be fair everything is well above average when it comes to quality and performance. A good example is the combination Sony Blu-ray reader paired with a Sony DVD reader/writer and RAID 0 hard drives. It would have been easy to omit the Blu-ray reader or just include a 1TB drive, but a majority of gamers watch movies on their computer and a significant performance gain is achieved by using two drives in RAID.
It is important to remember that while we are dissecting the build list, every system that ships from CyberPower is fully configurable. If the purchaser wishes to have a quad-core processor, the option is just a check box away. The same is true for every component in the system, from the motherboard all the way down to the cooling and case used.
The CyberPower Gamer Xtreme came to us with an invoice price of 1599 USD. I was surprised to find that once shipping charges were calculated I couldn't build a system with the exact same components for less money than CyberPower charges for their Gamer Xtreme XE.
The Gamer Xtreme took around two weeks after the order was turned in to its arrival on our doorstep. Most of that time was in the ground shipping where we chose to save a couple of extra Dollars. CyberPower offers upgraded shipping through UPS, but in many cases shipping is free when using the ground option. CyberPower also has a couple of system configurations that ship out the same day the system is ordered.


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Christ bestows gifts upon His people as He sees fit, guaranteeing that all of us have an important part to play in the advance of His kingdom (1 Cor. 12:1–11). As Christians, then, we must truly appreciate the variety of ...Read More
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God always has a good purpose for allowing suffering to come into our lives, but we do not always know what that purpose is. Yet, because we know the Lord is perfectly good (James 1:13–18), we trust that He will ...Read More
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Some of us have had dramatic conversion experiences that we remember vividly. Others cannot remember a time when they did not trust in Jesus. Whatever our story, the same God who raised Jesus to life and knocked Saul of Tarsus ...Read More
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Slowness to identify God's design is important when we deal with tragedies. Too often we unhelpfully "identify" a specific lesson that the Lord is teaching to hurting people. Generally speaking, we know all things happen to help us learn to ...Read More
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God's willingness to give up His own Son to death demonstrates unambiguously that He is for us. He is on our side, or better yet, we are on His side, and there is nothing that anyone or anything can do ...Read More