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Before she entered rehab on May 28, it looked as if nothing – not a car crash, a drunk driving charge or even sheer burnout – could derail Lindsay Lohan's notoriously high-velocity life. Kicking off the holiday weekend on May 25, the actress and a posse of pals turned up at Hollywood restaurant and lounge Les Deux, where she smoked, chatted with fellow club-goer Paris Hilton and danced to the indie-rock playlist until closing time at 2 a.m. Says an observer: "She was in the middle of the table, laughing and trying to be noticed the whole night."
Lohan, who at 20 is underage, was about to attract a much more serious kind of attention. Following a 5:30 a.m. crash in which her Mercedes struck a curb on Sunset Blvd., she was arrested and cited for driving under the influence. After being hospitalized for minor injuries – and after police said they found a substance tentatively identified as "a usable amount" of cocaine in connection with the accident – Lohan headed out just one night later. The destination? A private bash in a poolside room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where sources say drugs were openly used. This time, the revelry ended with the paparazzi photographing a listless Lohan being driven away.
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I hear this coming out of the playroom yesterday. My three year old can't find his cell phone? Funny thing is that this is normal conversation between Jeff & me most days. Usually I just end up calling mine to find its mysterious locations.
Daddy: How old is daddy?
Carter: Thirty!
Daddy: How old are you & Noah?
Carter: Noah's 5 and I'm 3! (Holding up the appropriate fingers)
Daddy: How old is mommy?
Carter: Young and beautiful : )
Carter has a play cell phone and Daddy has been teaching him his cell number and amazingly Carter has memorized it!
Yesterday Carter asks me if I have a cell phone, too. I said yes and asked if he'd like to learn my number, too. He flips open his play phone and says, "but mommy, there is no 'young and beautiful' on my cell phone!"


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Richards Receives President's Medal of Distinction
MUNCIE, Ind. - Bill Richards, who completed his 40th year as the head men's tennis coach at Ball State University, will become the first coach in school history to receive the President's Medal of Distinction at the 2012 Ball State commencement this Saturday.
Richards is the winningest men's tennis coach in Ball State and Mid-American Conference history, reaching two milestones this season with 600 overall wins and 200 Mid-American Conference victories.
Over his tenure at Ball State, Richards has led the team to 19 MAC regular season championships capturing his last crown in 2011. Under Richards' tutelage the Cardinals have also made seven NCAA tournament appearances along with tallying 16 undefeated MAC seasons.
In 2008, Richards was one of six Division I men's tennis coaches to be elected to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Board of Directors. He has governed numerous clinics, including the Midwest Open while accompanying several top American junior players to competitions such as Wimbledon, the French Open and the U.S. Open.
For his outstanding achievements on and off the court, Richards was inducted into the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Benny Award, the highest honor for services from the Ball State Alumni Association, in 2006.


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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I said farewell to my soul mate this week. Bird Dog, my black Lab, was 14 (that is 98 in dog years) and it was time to say goodbye. Ive wept many tears and the emptiness of not having Bird by my side is difficult. But oh, we had a great run together.
In Birds full life he chased rabbits across the mountains of West Virginia, strolled the squares of Savannah, romped across the battlefields of Gettysburg and over the dunes of the beaches right here at home. He instantly made friends wherever we went and I can safely say that everybody loved Bird. As one friend wrote from Gettysburg, dont let anybody tell you ever that he was just a dog. Bird was exceptional.
Indeed he was. He might have been a wee bit smarter than some dogs and, as you can see from the picture, Bird was very much a ham. He loved donning clothes and smiling for the camera. More than anything, Bird was the quintessential product of his breed - happy, loyal and so remarkably well behaved that he even attended church with me (we called him the Episco-pooch.) He performed his own doggy ministry of greeting early service parishioners on Sundays with a smile and wagging tail.
Bird may have lived in other places for most of his life but he was very much a Lowcountry dog. He had beautiful manners. He loved the outdoors. He preferred wet to dry. And he would do anything doggily possible to make people (and even other dogs) feel comfortable and at home.
Thus Bird really wasnt so much unique as yet another example of the good dogs we grow down here in the Lowcountry. Like the humans who raised them, by and large our dogs are polite and radiate a happy, positive outlook. Theyre our boon companions.
Dogs show up almost immediately in early Carolina records. In 1672, an indentured servant named Philip Orrill was brought before the Grand Council because he had irritated the woman who held his bond. He not only refused to observe her lawful commands, he threatened to overturn the boat in which she was riding. Those were serious charges. His main infraction, what really got him in trouble, was that he had fed the dogs. Found guilty of giving the provisions allowed him and his fellow Servts to the Doggs, Orrill was tied to the usual tree and given 21 lashes on his naked back.
I say good for Philip Orrill. He appears to have been a bit of a bad dog himself but he made sure the dogs had dinner. Bird would have liked that man.
Early on, dogs became important as watch dogs, not so much for their bite but for their bark. In 1725 an act was passed requiring that all scoutmen, those hardy souls who kept watch on the then-remote lands and uninhabited barrier islands, have a dog to go constantly along with them in their scouting. Given a dogs keen hearing, even the most silent and soft-moccasined Indian creeping up would be detected as the dog barked an alarm.
The Indians, themselves, had dogs. When explorer John Lawson traveled through the southern region in 1700, he wrote, for domestic pets the Indians, in common with virtually every other race, kept dogs.
Sullivans Island has a history replete with dogs. In the early 1800s entire families moved to the island for the summer.
They brought servants, food, chickens, cows and the occasional upright piano. They also brought their dogs.
How happy were they all, wrote Caroline Howard Gilman about the island in the 1820s. Generous boys and gentle girls in innocent joy resorted there, gathered rough shells, and threw them in the dark waters; greeting their conscious dog as he came dripping, with some prize, from the surge.
In July 1848, one island dog became a true hero. Charleston merchant Jacob Schirmer wrote about it in his diary, noting, Today on Sullivans Island several young Ladies, amongst them was 2 daughters of Mr. Harleston & one of Dr. Ravenel, were bathing when all 3 were seen to Sink, and a Dog of Mr. Moffatt plunged in and brought the two first named out, apparently lifeless, but Miss Ravenel was drowned and her body never found. It was some time before they succeeded in restoring Life to the other two.
On August 8, 1898, on the third weekend that the brand new resort called Isle of Palms was open, the News & Courier ran this report: Thousands flock to the seashore: On the first trip out to the Isle of Palms yesterday the Commodore Perry carried fairly good crowds and at 3 oclock every seat on the steamer was occupied. Hundreds of ladies were on board and many of them had children and babies, and some had cats and others, dogs. It was a general family day in the sands and none of the children or the pets were to be left at home the bathing house was swamped and the nice blue suits kept in stock by the company were handed out as fast as the clerk could count.
With the suits once on the bathers ran for the surf and plunged in.
Presumably with the dog not far behind.
Ill miss my boy, my wonderful Bird Dog. He never saved me from Indians or from drowning in the surf but he certainly loved bounding into the waves and was every inch a hero in my eyes.
Bird was my bubba, my one-and-only. My own true love. I promised him Id never leave him; never let him down. Thanks to the wonderfully tender professional care given by Dr. David Steele and his staff at Advanced Animal Care in Mount Pleasant, I kept that promise to the end. Bird eased into dog heaven softly and painlessly, with love all around him.
In the little book of humor I wrote about cats and dogs called The Best Things to Eat Are Free, I wrote: Old pets never die, they get recycled into kittens and puppies.
Ill get another dog at some point. As Bird was slipping away I asked him to send me a good dog, one that he knew would be right for me. He will. And the love will go on.
Requiescat in pace, Bird Dog. You were the best.
(Suzannah Smith Miles is a writer and Lowcountry and Civil War historian.)
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W.Va. Hall of Fame
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Music Hall of Fame is now accepting nominations for its second class of inductions. The nomination process is open to the general public. A nomination form is posted on the Hall of Fame Web site at www.wvmusichalloffame.com. Nominations are open until March 31.
For more information on the induction process or if you would like to donate memorabilia, volunteer with the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame or host one of its exhibits, call (304) 342-4412 or e-mail mli firstname.lastname@example.com.
North Mountain Arts
HEDGESVILLE —The North Mountain Arts Festival is now accepting applications for the second annual arts festival on June 6. This is a juried show open to local and regional artisans.
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Exhibitors needed
CHARLESTON — Organizers of the West Virginia Book Festival are seeking exhibitors and vendors to participate in the event on Oct. 11 and 12 at the Charleston Civic Center. As part of the exhibitor package, all vendors will be listed in the official festival program, which will be distributed to more than 96,000 subscribers of Charleston Newspapers. Admission to the festival is free.
For more information, call (304) 343-4646 or visit www.wvhumanities.org.
Pageant contestants
ELKINS – Pageant officials have begun the statewide search for participants in the 2008 Miss West Virginia United States and the 2008 Mrs. West Virginia United States Pageants. Contestants are judged in evening gown, swimwear and personal interview. There is no talent competition and no experience is necessary.
For the Miss West Virginia pageant, each participant must be between 20 and 27, single, never married, without children and a U.S. citizen, a resident of the state, working or of a military family in the state for which you are applying.
Mrs. West Virginia participants must be at least 21 years or older, a U.S. citizen, a resident of the state, of good moral character and married and living with husband.
For more information, call Susan Wingfield at (304) 626-0053 or Linda Sponaugle at (304) 636-7309.
Writers needed
CHARLES TOWN — The Arts and Humanities Alliance (AHA!) of Jefferson County is looking for writers to join the AHA! Scribes, a creative writers' group, which meets at 7 p.m. every second and fourth Monday at the Firehall Gallery, 108 N. George St.
The AHA! Scribes is open to everyone 18 and older who writes — or wants to write — narrative or "storytelling" prose, whether it be family stories, biography, autobiography, travel writing, short stories, flash fiction, novels or screenplays.
Admission to the group is free.
For more information, call George I. Seffers at (304) 728-8237.
Arts training
BERKELEY SPRINGS — The Morgan Arts Council announces 36 hours of business training classes for artists to be held six hours each month for six months beginning in September. Six different topics essential for working artists are featured, one each month. All classes will be at the Ice House. Schedule includes:
March 19: Taxes as they relate to artists
April 16-17: Planning a residency
May 14-15: Creative curating
For more information, call (304) 258-2300 or visit www.macicehouse.org.


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COLUMBIA — For one quarter at least, the South Carolina Gamecocks looked like the sixth-ranked team in the country, a team that was capable of winning an SEC title and maybe even compete for a national title.
Next Game
Who: No. 6 South Carolina at No. 5 Georgia
When: Saturday, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Athens, Ga.
For 15 minutes of Thursday night's season-opening 27-10 victory over North Carolina, the Gamecocks played near flawless football.
In the opening quarter, USC recorded points on all three possessions — two touchdowns and a field goal. South Carolina outgained the Tar Heels, 203-35, and held the ball for more than two thirds of the quarter.
The Gamecocks displayed big-play potential with a 65-yard scoring strike from quarterback Connor Shaw to Shaq Roland on the third play from scrimmage, and churned out 82 yards on the ground.
Defensively, the Gamecocks allowed just one first down and 35 yards of total offense as the Tar Heels managed just 10 snaps.
It looked like it was going to be easy. It looked like all the preseason hype surrounding the program and defensive end Jadeveon Clowney was justified.
But the final three quarters were a different story. The final 45 minutes of football — which included a 104-minute weather delay — were a jumble of big plays, missed opportunities, poor execution and inconsistent play.
"We had some good plays and had a lot of bad plays," said South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier. "We only had 59 plays, and (North Carolina) ended with 79. We're happy to beat them. It was a good first game.
"They made a bunch of third downs, we were not very good at all on third-down conversions. But we managed to score enough touchdowns to beat them."
After completing six of eight passes for 92 yards in the first quarter, Shaw completed just five of 12 for 57 yards the rest of the way. He was just one of three in the second half. He also added 43 rushing yards on 12 attempts.
"Connor did OK I think," Spurrier said. "He didn't have any picks, he only threw 20 passes, and he kept running and stopping. He'd run in there, stop and get knocked backwards. That's not like him. At least he can dive in there for two or three yards."
Take away Mike Davis' 75-yard run in the third quarter and the Gamecocks mustered just 60 rushing yards on 20 attempts in the second half.
"Mike Davis' run was about it for us in the second half," Spurrier said. "We had a good little running game going in the first half, but didn't do much in the second half."
With temperatures hovering around 95 degrees at kickoff, both teams had to battle through the elements, cramps and fatigue.
The Tar Heels reeled off 79 plays, but were held to nearly 200 yards below their 2012 average. UNC quarterback Bryn Renner was sacked twice.
"What pleased me is that we played a team that snapped the ball 79-to-80 times and gave up 10 points," said South Carolina defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward. "A team that averaged 40 points a ball game last year, with a veteran quarterback coming back ... The guys had to dig deep. We have a lot we can work on but those are some positives."
Clowney appeared to be winded several times, especially in the second half, but the Tar Heels were clearly running away from him and double-teaming him all night.
The ESPN crew was critical of Clowney, but afterward he said he had not been feeling well and hadn't eaten much that day. He finished with three tackles, three quarterback hurries, but no sacks. There was also a vicious clip on Clowney late in the game by UNC offensive tackle Kiaro Holts.
"I was pretty tired, but you have to play through that," Clowney said. "I was still coming off the ball and that's what matters. I might be bent over sometimes but when that ball snaps, I was getting off.
"It doesn't matter what people say about me. We got the win. Did you see the score? That's all that matters."
Injury update
Starting strong safety Kadetrix Marcus dislocated his shoulder and is expected to miss several weeks. Marcus' backup, J.T. Gurley, finished with a team-high nine tackles against the Tar Heels.
Defensive tackle J.T. Suratt suffered a foot contusion and his status for next weekend's game with Georgia is uncertain.


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Lowering pitch vs lowering voltage - differences in power system behaviour?
Quite simply:
If you have a 12x8 prop running on 4s and you want to lower the max speed, then you have two ostensibly similar options:
12x6 on 4s
12x8 on 3s
Which would be more energy efficient from the battery at the same speed?
Additional info:
At 12x8 on 4s, the ESC is near its limit, the battery is at 80% of its C rate, and the motor is ~at its practical current limit. I have more accurate numbers if necessary but I want to keep this discussion general if possible so it can be more useful to different people and situations in future. If more info is needed even to give a decent generalised response, please let me know.
For completeness of discussion it would be good to discuss the parameters of either system at full throttle steady state, partial throttle steady state, and during acceleration/low speed where pitch becomes interesting. It might also be interesting to compare to 12x8 on 4s at 75% throttle.
My own understanding:
A few months ago I would have said 12x6 on 4s, but now it's somewhat up in the air due to what I learned in a previous thread regarding pitch and prop efficiency. I don't feel my understanding is strong enough ATM, so I will wait till I can think about it more and maybe read some responses before I contribute too much personally .
Efficiency is a tricky word in my opinion.
Is it motor 'efficiency', i.e. power in to power out ?, (may have to be measured on a dynamometer).
Or is it 'efficiency' of the flight, i.e. the maximum flight duration.?.
What if the motor was quite efficient, but the model wasn't ?, or the model was quite efficient at flying, but the motor was the wrong one for the required flight ?.
As I said, to me efficiency is a tricky word when related to model aircraft.
There is no comparison. Going from a 12x8 to a 12x6 on 4s will decrease your pitch speed to 75% with a modest drop in power consumption. There will also be some decrease in propeller efficiency. But any change in the airplane's performance, which will be slight but noticeable, can be attributed more to the decreased power consumption and pitch speed.
However, going from 4s to 3s with the same propeller will cause a drastic decrease in power consumption and airplane performance. The motor's RPM, and thus the propeller's RPM, is proportional to the input voltage. A propeller's load, and thus the motor's power consumption, is proportional to the change in RPM cubed. Therefore, going from 4s to 3s will decrease your RPM to 75% of the 4s RPM. This means your power will be reduced to approximately 42% of the 4s level.
You will definitely notice a difference in airplane performance.
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This is interesting and worth exploring (but I think you have covered it in almost as much detail as you can with so little information already).
But what about in a situation of same speed, or both at full throttle? If both were at full throttle the 12x6 I believe would go slightly, slightly faster in steady state. It would also get to that speed faster. But what about at the same speed? Which would be drawing more current to go at X km/h in steady state? I think that is an interesting question.
What about both at 50% throttle? Would that be appreciably different to the relationship when both are at 100%? Etc.
Without knowing which motor, props and airframe are being considered, we cannot say for sure which combination will be best. However I have found that in general, a lower pitch prop at higher voltage produces more thrust and acceleration for takeoff and aerobatics, but a higher pitched prop at lower voltage cruises more efficiently.
The 12x6 on 4S will produce more thrust at low speed, but the 12x8 on 3S will produce more thrust at high speed. If the airframe is draggy then the 12x6 will win, but if it is slick then the 12x8 will win.
At 50% throttle the theoretical pitch speed of both props is similar (the 12x8 having a slight edge), but the 12x6 is spinning about 30% faster so it will suffer more blade drag and waste more power as it approaches its (lower) pitch speed. If the model has a high stall speed then the 12x6 may not even be able to keep it in the air!
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The idea with these props and batteries is they both theoretically have the same pitch speed/thrust speed. Why would the 12x8 get it slightly faster in a slick airframe? Does it actually produce slightly more 'thrust speed' than the 12x6 due to aerofoil considerations?
The note about the 12x6 having more blade drag is interesting, that's probably quite a significant effect, isn't it?
Considering the things you cannot change, the plane and motor, (or do not want to change, other than prop and battery), the only way to really determine the best 'efficiency', is to fly the model with different props and different Lipo packs, (number of cells).
Then determine from the flight results, duration, speed, rate of climb, etc., which was the best combination to meet your requirements.
I don't think there is a way of coming up with an definitive answer here, other than try and see. The plane itself is a large part of the overall 'efficiency' of the system, choosing the right one to fit the flight parameters is only the start. Well actually defining the flight parameters is the start, then choosing all the components to meet those parameter.
Even then, flight testing will always be the final proof of meeting or failing them, and of determining if any changes are required. Starting with what may be equipment that may not be suitable will always end in compromise.
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Even though my plane has an OSD and a bunch of measuring equipment on board that gives me a decent advantage for example, my GPS based ground speed measurement is neither accurate enough, nor can it account for wind, for me to get the same speed twice in a row with two different setups (full throttle will not lead to the same speed with both props almost certainly). There are other limitations as well. I have an accurate altimeter for flying level but cannot account for thermals helping my plane out. I won't bother continuing to list issues
Meanwhile, Bruce Abbot for example has started to touch on some interesting stuff, I think for example that he was saying that aerofoil based lift from the props gives the 12x8 prop a significantly higher (zero?) thrust speed which is a very important issue. Going into more detail here could be fruitful. Profile drag from the prop at higher speed impacting efficiency and so on are also both interesting points to bring up.
I really don't think it is worth throwing away theory in this case just because we cannot guarantee it's correctness in one particular case. If you cannot find the truth in a specific case due to lack of information, it is still worth it to cover what you can so that when more information can be found, or reasonable assumptions can be made, the theory can become useful.
I think I annoy a few people on these forums with these threads they don't see the point in, but I have actually learned a lot from every thread I have made so far, and the last paragraph is just a strong opinion I hold that I would like to share so that people can understand where I am coming from in future
My best wishes for happy and successively flying achievement in the coming new year.
I hope the plane does meet all your requirements, on paper, and in the air. My apologies if you found my comments unhelpful.
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The planes requirements will likely be met with either option, I'm just trying to figure out which one will most likely meet it better, since I will only be purchasing either a lower cell count battery or a lower pitch prop for now, rather than purchasing both to be able to test.
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Props are designed to have the best lift-drag ratios at Geometric Pitch Speed (RPM X Pitch).
Props might develop their best efficiency at 70% of VIRTUAL PITCH SPEED or Zero Thrust Speed which is 20 to 40% higher than Geometric Pitch Speed depending on the P/D ratio.
Doesn't this imply that the power dissipation in both cases is the same and if the motor were being operated in the flat portion of its efficiency curve that the power requirement would be approximately the same?
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Also I feel like one or the other prop (not sure which) would get the plane going slightly faster at a given throttle setting due to being able to overcome the planes drag with slightly less difference between plane speed and zero thrust speed, or having a higher zero thrust speed. Mind you, 'same speed' is probably a more important comparison than "same throttle" for partial throttle cruise situations (which is a lot of what a lot of planes do).
Toronto Canada
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Your choice.
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Bruce seemed to be indicating that the 12x8 would have a higher zero thrust speed, does that sound right to you? They should both have more or less the same geometric pitch speed, I'm interested to hear more about differences in zero thrust speed if you're aware of them.
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Yesterday, DailyTech
reported on the news that the plethora of Android-based
smartphones on the market have finally jumped ahead of Apple's iPhone
in the United States. The numbers pegged Android's market share at 28
percent while smartphones running iPhone OS were a bit further back
at 21 percent.
We never expected Apple to respond to
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Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison gave
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Shut The Fuck Up.
The stupid bitch wouldn't STFU so I back handed her one.
av Sean 25. oktober 2003
Shut-the-fuck-up: a term used when a normal request for someone to be quiet seems to fall on deaf ears; may be used in either a normal or assertive tone of voice.
Honey, would you be terribly offended if I asked you to please STFU for five minutes?
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STFU means Shut the Fuck up
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One of the few Oriental saints, recognized by the Catholic Church. He watches over some of the most annoying miscreants on mother earth, they are also known as "the never ending talkers" You may also know him as "SHUT THE FUCK UP"
One of our co-workers never did know quite when to shut his mouth, so we always tried to call on St Fu to intervene before we beat him like a red headed step child.
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"Stop Trolling For Unicorns": a phrase coined by youtuber wickedshrapnel from his "This gun f-ing sucks" videos. This was originally made as a response to when he would make a tgfs video on a gun that someone thinks the opposite way about the gun and would decide to post an annoying comment on how the gun does NOT suck.
youtuber1:" OMFG THE HK21 DOES NOT SUCK IT IS BEASTLY YOU'RE JUST A FAGGOT WHO CAN'T USE THE GUN!!!!"
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1. Shut the fuck up, stupid.
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Adventure:-- LPNN (Manzanita Judging)
This thread is in response to Hallidor's adventure hook, and is termed (for now) simply LPNN.
Could all interested players please post a link to their character in their first post, as well as their PC's current HP, any spells they have memorised, and any other current status information (PSPs, active spells, etc). In addition, include a few basic skills bonus totals, like Spot, Listen, Hide, Sense Motive.
Once everyone has posted their PC in this thread, the adventure will "really" begin.
Playing (tentatively):
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Almayce, Grey Elf Cleric of Gliran 2
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Current HP: 10 / 10, AC 10, Init +0.
Skills: Bluff +3, Diplomacy +8, Hide +0, Intimidate +3, Listen +5, Move Silently +0, Sense Motive +3, Spot +5.
Cleric Spells Prepared (4/3+1, DC 13 + Spell Level):
0th: Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Light, Read Magic.
1st: Bless*, Command, Inflict Light Wounds*, Detect Secret Doors (D).
* = Already cast or otherwise unavailable.
Wand of Cure Light Wounds charges left: 30 / 50.
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HP: 26/26 (Stable), AC (Sword & Shield): 20, Attack (Sword & shield) +5/1D6+2/19-20x2
Spot -1, Listen +1, Hide +11, Move Silently +9, Sense Motive -1, Jump +3, Tumble +9, Intimidate +6, Open lock +7, Search +6
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Living ENWorld character: Ogrin Brutalfist, currently in Manzanita's S3: Scythe of Seto
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AC: 17(15 without shield)
Flat: 16(14 without shield)
Touch: 11
Initiative: +1
Flail +2 1d8+2 20x2
Longbow +1 1d8 20x3
Dagger +2 1d4+2 19-20x2
Guisarme* +2 2d4+3 20x3
Short Sword +2 1d6+1 19-20x2
Feats: Combat Expertise, Improved Trip, Psionic Body
Languages: Common, Elven, Dwarven
Craft: Armor 4 +2 +2 = +8
KN: Psionics 4 +2 = +8
Concentrate 4 +1 = +5
Craft: Weapon 4 +2 +2 = +6
Craft: Bowmaking 4 +2 +2 = +8
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Con Mod: +1
Wis Mod: +2
Int Mod: +2
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0 level spells: (3/day)
Cure minor wounds
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Entangle (DC 15)
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Welcome everyone!
Thanks Manzanita... our judge...
Thanks to the players for posting their PC's so nicely.
I will be entering Hallidor's confession very soon...
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{Rasereit Vundinn is welcome, but only because he has red hair. Edit your first post to include the relevant PC information.}
Hallidor leads those following him out the tavern door, down the street to the left a bit, then a right, then a left, and finishes up by going straight for a while. Then, as there happens to be a dark alleyway nearby, Hallidor steps into its gloom and motions everyone else to join him.
Hallidor speaks:
I apologize for the rude surroundings. I have had a feeling, ever since leaving Rangarata, that I was being watched a feeling thats only increased the last few days. And while you all seem like good people, there are unsavory types in the Tavern as well. At least, thats what I was told.
So. Enough of apologies. I come with an offer. I have 300 gold here in my purse. Each of you can have 50 gold now and another 150 when and if the mystery is solved to my satisfaction.
And what is the mystery? As I have already said, somebody very close to me my sister died two weeks ago, in circumstances that most people are willing to believe are simply tragic. They leave it at that. Im positive its much more. I think she was killed for some reason it could have been a lovers quarrel, or something much darker. Thats what I want to know, because without that knowledge I cannot revenge myself.
My town of Rangarata lies halfway to Lathirn and a bit to the West. It took me five long days to get to the Red Dragon, and
At this point, the sound of flint striking stone reverberates unnaturally, echoing back and forth between the narrow walls of the stone alleyway.
Everyones heads turn towards a point in space a little behind Hallidor, over his left shoulder. There, a spark can be seen gleaming in the air, which brightens as it is applied to a pipe. Soon wisps of smoke obscure the flame.
You sure you wanna keep talking like this Hallidor? says a gravelly voice, both intimidating and supremely self-confident, because you know, The Conclave have been informed, and they dont seem to be very happy.
TRYGGVI, what what are you doing here? Hallidor exclaims, obviously shocked.
{Your PC's associate The Conclave with old tales of organized crime. It's an intimidating name, but most people don't think it much of a real power, more of a myth. Much like modern people might think of 'The Mob', but even more distant in time.}


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Especially now that they're finally away from the TV cameras. After their 10-day honeymoon in Fiji, the couple made a joint appearance on The Tonight Show on Dec. 30 followed by a New Year's Day ride on a Tournament of Roses Parade float in Pasadena. Back in Vail a few days later, the couple settled into married life. While Trista unpacked, Ryan returned to work as a firefighter – but not without fanfare. On Jan. 17, Vail mayor Rod Slifer presented the couple with an honorary manhole cover – the Vail equivalent to a key to the city.
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Chan Gailey wasn't in the mood to talk about his future. His team had won a game, concluding a second straight run to 6-10. This was likely Gailey's final game as the Bills' head coach, his last as an NFL head coach, for that matter. He wanted to savor it.
"Let's talk about today," Gailey said. "We'll talk about tomorrow, or next week, at a later date."
Fine, Chan, but what about the performance by your team today? It finally looked like the guys were playing to save your job.
"I said this a couple weeks ago," Gailey said. "I want them to play for the fans and for themselves. We're all in a business, we understand that. The business today was to go win the game, and that's what they did."
That's debatable, actually. Ralph Wilson was in town this weekend for the team's annual holiday party. Beyond that, it's unclear what his objectives were. He didn't stay for the game. But if he wanted what was best for his team, Wilson would have ordered the coaches to do all they could to lose Sunday.
I'm serious. If it had been up to me, they would have mailed in that game against the Jets. I would have started all the backups, limited C.J. Spiller's touches, had the corners playing soft against Mark Sanchez — the way they did in the opener.
They had nothing to gain by winning. Gailey and his coaches are probably gone. Ryan Fitzpatrick is almost surely finished as the quarterback. Entering the game, the Bills had a chance to draft anywhere from fourth to 11th, based on the outcome of games on Sunday.
The Bills will be looking to draft a quarterback who could alter the fortunes of the team for years to come. General Manager Buddy Nix, whose job is also in question, has said it's time to find a franchise quarterback, even if it means trading up to get him.
So where they pick could be critical. Four or five slots in the draft could make all the difference — assuming, of course, that Nix and his cronies have the wherewithal to identify the correct QB and go get him.
What's wrong with tanking? In the NFL, teams routinely rest their starters in the finale after sewing up a playoff spot. They do what's in the best interests of the franchise. So why is resting guys to get a better draft pick any less sportsmanlike?
Of course, Gailey is too proud to do such a thing. Wilson, who has been meddling in his team's football affairs for half a century, apparently wouldn't intervene when it was warranted, when getting the highest possible draft pick was the best thing for the organization.
But there was no stopping them Sunday. The Bills drilled the Jets, 28-9, atoning for a bad loss in the opener.
Gailey finally beat Rex Ryan in their sixth meeting. The Bills tied the Jets in the AFC East at 6-10, though the Jets get third on the tiebreaker.
This one will not be archived alongside the classics at NFL Films. It was one of those games that came down to which team wanted it less.
Still, for awhile it looked as if the Bills might do the smart thing and lose.
They were trailing, 9-7, late in the first half. The Jets were running the ball down their throats. They seemed to have shaken off the horror of watching Sanchez throw the ball directly to Bryan Scott at his own 20-yard line, leading directly to six points.
But for once, when it mattered most, Gailey couldn't hold down C.J. Spiller. With 3:32 left in the second quarter, the Bills had third-and-10 at their own 34. They had done virtually nothing against the NFL's second-ranked pass defense. Fitzpatrick had completed one pass the entire half.
That's when Spiller messed up the plan. Fitz hit him with a quick toss a few yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Spiller took the football in stride and sprinted up the middle for a 66-yard touchdown, the longest of his three-year NFL career.
The Jets never recovered. Spiller's run was the kind that can crush a team's competitive spirit, especially when it has little incentive in the first place. Whatever motivation Ryan's squad had seemed to evaporate at that point. They basically quit in the second half.
Spiller didn't have one of his better games. He had 24 carries, the most of his career, but only 59 yards. That left him with 1,244 yards rushing for the season. His average per carry dipped to 6.0, which means he won't have the highest average of any NFL 1,000-yard back in 78 years.
But the 66-yard catch helped push Spiller to 1,703 yards from scrimmage for the season, making him the first Bill to surpass 1,700 since Travis Henry had 1,747 in 2002. Of course, Henry needed 368 touches to get there. Spiller had only 250 touches this season.
That's a pretty productive season, when you consider that fans have been clamoring all season for Gailey to give Spiller the ball more. Imagine what his yards from scrimmage would look like if he had 100 more touches, or even 50. Maybe the Bills would have a .500 record and Gailey wouldn't be looking at a pink slip.
As Gailey said, there's no sense in killing yourself with "what-ifs."
"You don't do that," Gailey said. "You get excited about what you do have; you don't complain about what you don't have."
You could torture yourself by asking why the defense couldn't figure things out sooner, and how they could have allowed 48 points to that same Jets team in the opener. It's pointless. The fact is, they never came up big against the good offenses. Offense, defense, they never came through when it mattered most.
Gailey is 1-19 against teams that finished with a winning record.
He beat bad teams. It happened again Sunday. The Bills beat a bad Jets team that would have lost handily to every team in the NFL that day. It means nothing. All it did was hurt their draft position.
"As a player, you want to go win whenever you're out on the field," said center Eric Wood. "We don't play for draft position. A little bit more momentum going into the offseason, a little bit better feeling, probably helps us a little more than a couple extra spots in the draft."
Wood has been the wisest voice in the locker room lately, but the momentum argument is silly. Momentum doesn't carry over nine months, even when the cast of characters is unchanged. Really, a "better feeling" means more than a couple of precious spots in the draft?
Remember the Bills blowing out the Colts in the snow here in the '09 finale? There was talk about them "building on" that win. They cleaned house soon after. Gailey came in and they started 0-8 the next season.
Momentum? Talk to me four months from now, when the Bills and their new coach are wondering how to move up for a stud quarterback in the draft.
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Twelve expert speakers will be featured at the 9/11 Forum: Impact on Young Children for parents, educators, student-teachers, community workers and others interested in the welfare of children to be held at the Fred. M. Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, October 6.
This special event is sponsored by Saint Vincent College, The Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media, the National Park Service, the Friends of Flight 93, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Excela Health.
Featured speakers include Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93; Jeff Reinbold, site manager of the Flight 93 National Memorial; Dr. Roberta Schomburg, associate dean of education at Carlow University; Steve Woods, retired child grief specialist, The Highmark Caring Place; Hedda Sharapan, director of early childhood initiatives, The Fred Rogers Company; and Dr. Mary Margaret Kerr, professor and department chair, University of Pittsburgh School of Education; Adam Shaffer, park ranger, Flight 93 National Memorial; Andrea Lurier, program manager, Highmark Caring Place; and Karen Miller, a second grade teacher in the Shanksville-Stonycreek School District.
Remarks will also be offered by Lladel Lichty of the Friends of Flight 93; Br. Norman Hipps, O.S.B., president of Saint Vincent College; and Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, chancellor of Saint Vincent College.
Mr. Felt is president of the Families of Flight 93, a not-for-profit charitable corporation dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93. He also serves as a member of the Flight 93 National Memorial Federal Advisory Commission and on the Flight 93 National Memorial executive committee. Outside the scope of his involvement with the Flight 93 National Memorial, Mr. Felt is a special educator serving as Executive Director of Camp Northwood Inc. and The Northwood Center. For the past 30 years he has been involved in the development of socially therapeutic programming for high functioning autistic and learning-challenged children. He received degrees in education and special education from Ohio Wesleyan University and The Bank Street College of Education. His eldest brother, Edward, was a passenger on United Flight 93.
Dr. Kerr is professor and chair of administrative and policy studies at the STAR-Center Outreach at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh and professor of psychology in education and child psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kerr has responded to more than 1000 school-related crises, including the TWA 800 and USAir 427 crashes. She designed the Pittsburgh Schools crisis response team model, one of the first in the country and has consulted with many schools on crisis responding and school safety. Dr. Kerr served as an expert panelist for the U.S. Government report, A Guide for Intermediate and Long-term Mental Health Services after School-Related Violent Events and authored School Crisis Prevention and Intervention, a textbook by Prentice-Hall.
Ms. Sharapan has been associated with Fred Rogers and his small non-profit company since 1966. Over the years she worked closely with Fred Rogers on his books for children and adults, while also speaking at conferences, and creating professional development materials for early childhood. A number of her writings and presentations centered around helping children deal with death and tragic events in the news, topics that Fred Rogers handled sensitively and thoughtfully – from his special for parents when Robert Kennedy was assassinated to his PSAs about the Persian Gulf War and September 11. As part of the Fred Rogers' Company mission to develop materials that carry on his legacy, she continues to work on ways to translate his approach for parents and professionals in many venues, including consulting with the Friends of Flight 93 on their booklets for children and parents.
For 20 years, Mr. Reinbold has led planning and partnership projects at national park sites around the country. His work has included building diverse constituencies to support parks, developing new methods for working with local governments and gateway communities, and exploring ways to make national parks relevant to new audiences. He came to the Flight 93 National Memorial in early-2003 and oversaw the international design competition and long-range planning for the Memorial. The competition marked the first time an entire national park of this scale was designed through a competition. Mr. Reinbold lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two young sons.
Mr. Shaffer has been involved with the Flight 93 National Memorial since 2005 and joined the staff as the first field ranger in 2006. Prior to his service at Flight 93, Shaffer worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and volunteered with Currents of the Juniata (non-profit), and Gettysburg National Military Park. Aside from working at the memorial, he serves as Lieutenant for the Somerset Volunteer Fire Department and in 2001, assisted with the recovery and investigation of Flight 93 as a member of the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. He expects to complete his graduate degree this Fall. Shaffer is married and the father of a toddler.
Dr. Schomburg earned a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education and Spanish at Macalester College, a master of education in early childhood education at Salem State College and a Ph.D. in child development at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Education and its board of directors, Pennsylvania Early Learning Advisory Council, Pennsylvania State Board of Private Academic Schools, Pittsburgh Children's Museum and its board of directors, Community College of Allegheny County Advisory Board for Education, and the Advisory Board for Child and Youth Studies. A frequent presenter at regional, state and national conferences, she is the author of numerous publications on early childhood professional development.
Mr. Woods has spent the past 50 years working with children and their families in various settings including public education, religious, community mental health, child day care, family literacy and grief support groups. His lifelong career interest and graduate thesis work has been helping children cope with death and grief. Before retirement he was the family services coordinator for Highmark Caring Place, a center for grieving children and their families. Steve currently volunteers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Dr. Lurier has been the program manager of Highmark Caring Place, A Center for Grieving Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, in Pittsburgh since 1998. She has presented on a range of topics related to children's grief and support group models to support grieving children and families. Her dissertation focused on understanding the experiences of inner-city families who experienced traumatic deaths. She brings 20 years of experience in child assessment, research, and clinical interventions for children and families and is ADEC certified.
Ms. Miller has been employed for 32 years as an elementary teacher. She has taught first, second, third and fourth grades with more than 25 years of that experience being in second grade. Her community outreach with children at the Shanksville United Methodist Church includes directing a monthly children's bell choir, conducting a weekly music ministry with an after school program, and writing/performing a monthly children's puppet show. She is a single parent of a seven-year-old daughter.
Br. Norman is the 17th president of Saint Vincent College. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Saint Vincent College in 1966 and did graduate studies in Theology at Saint Vincent Seminary from 1966 to 1969. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1976, both from Northwestern University. He has been involved in a number of community outreach programs including the Small Business Development Center, Drug and Alcohol Prevention Projects, and BRIDGES, a college-school-business partnership to improve mathematics and science education.
Archabbot Douglas is the eleventh Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey and Chancellor of Saint Vincent College and Seminary, and the Major Superior of the Benedictines at the Priory and Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and the Benedictine Priories in Brazil and Taiwan. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Saint Vincent College, a master of divinity from Saint Vincent Seminary and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee. Prior to his election as Archabbot, Archabbot Douglas served for five years as Secretary for Education of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. At Saint Vincent College he served as chair of the department of psychology and associate academic dean. He was also a member of the staff in the behavioral science department at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The Archabbot also served as a psychological consultant to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for a number of years.
Because of increased discussion of the tragedy in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the opening of the first phase of the Flight 93 National Memorial, the mission of the forum is to focus on the needs and questions of children ages 5 to 9.
Cost to attend the Forum is $20 which includes continental breakfast and luncheon. The deadline for registration is Monday, September 26 but early registration is advised due to limited seating. Register online at http://www.stvincent.edu/events/september-11-symposium-online-registration or direct registration inquiries to the Event and Conference Services Office at Saint Vincent College, 724 805-2177. An overview of the event and program agenda can be accessed at http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/resources/september-11-forum/.
The forum is being coordinated by a committee headed by Mrs. Ginny Barnett of Latrobe, a member of the Friends of Flight 93.
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Why are v1 and v3 more compatible than v2 and v3?
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Jill Cataldo: What happens after you use coupons?
Dear Jill: You recently wrote about stores getting reimbursed by the manufacturer. As a longtime coupon user, it's interesting to learn about couponing from the store and manufacturer's ends. I am very interested in how this reimbursement works. Do the stores hire people to submit coupons to each manufacturer? How many people do this per store? How often do they submit? Consumers never see this behind-the-scenes process and I'm very interested. -- Kaori B.
Consumers don't often get to peek behind the curtain of how coupon redemption actually works. We cut our coupons, hand them to the cashier, enjoy saving some money on what we're buying and then, what happens next?
If you've ever looked at the fine print on a manufacturer's coupon, you might have noticed that there's a physical mailing address. Your coupons can be sent back to the manufacturer and the manufacturer will reimburse the store for the value of the coupons.
But does someone really sort through the thousands of coupons a store receives each week and mail them to each individual manufacturer? Usually not. This would be a labor-intensive process that would require the store to devote staff to sorting and redeeming coupons on an ongoing basis. Instead, most stores use the help of a coupon clearinghouse or redemption center.
Stores collect their coupons and box them up. If the store is part of a chain, each individual store might send its coupons to the store's corporate office first, which combines each of the stores' coupons together into a larger shipment. Then, the coupons are sent to the clearinghouse.
At the clearinghouse, the store's coupons are sorted by manufacturer and product. This is usually done via an automated system that utilizes both digital scanners and conveyor belts. Once the clearinghouse has sorted and scanned the coupons, they total up the value of the money due to the store from each manufacturer.
At that point, the clearinghouse sends an invoice to each manufacturer for the value of the coupons that is owed to the store. Then, depending on the clearinghouse and its arrangement with the store, the clearinghouse will pay the store for the value of the coupons, or each manufacturer can send payment directly to the store for the value of that batch of coupons.
If the manufacturer believes the totals being submitted are not correct, they can request an audit. Then the store must provide proof that they had and sold the quantities or volume of items that coupons were being redeemed for. (Years ago, a common form of coupon fraud was "clipping rooms" where less scrupulous stores would clip unused coupons from leftover newspaper inserts, and then submit them for redemption.)
Along the way, if there are any counterfeit or fraudulent coupons, they are pulled from the line and not reimbursed. These coupons are kept on file (in many cases for a year or more) at the clearinghouse and a fraud investigation may be opened. Photocopied coupons receive a similar treatment.
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The 5 Strangest Cases of Simultaneous Invention
#2. E=mc2
OK, hang on. This was Einstein. Everyone knows it was Einstein. Not many people know what this equation represents (mass-energy equivalency) or what it does (confuses undergrad physics students), but everyone knows that it was Einstein who first figured it out. How could it not be? Einstein is the personification of genius.
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And daring fashion sense.
And all that's true. But only just, as there were more than a few other people sniffing around the same problem. Henri Poincare was working on a related problem a few years earlier and discovered the relationship between mass and energy, although he didn't come up with the famous equation.
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"Wait. E=mc ... pared? Bared? Scared?"
And an Italian physicist called Olinto De Pretto, while working on a theory centered around the slightly daffy idea of aether, managed to come across the equation E=mc2 a couple years before Einstein.
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Based on the standard genius metric of follicular entropy, his mustache is smarter than the rest of him.
Now obviously, none of these people framed their work in the same way Einstein did in the context of special relativity, a truly legitimate breakthrough. So Einstein's discovery and reputation remain intact. But if one of those others had just a slightly messier haircut ...
#1. Polio Vaccine
Polio is one of the biggest assholes of the virus kingdom, causing paralysis and occasionally death, almost exclusively in young children. One of the cruelest diseases in the world, its near eradication in the last half-century was a big smack in the face of nature, and as sure a sign as any that humanity ain't nothin' ta fuck with.
Here, two members of the Wu-Tang's research auxiliary, Virus Killa and Ol' Hygenic Epidemiologist, celebrate their victory over nature.
The story of polio's eradication is pretty widely known, especially among people who were alive in the 1950s and who probably don't read Cracked, so maybe I'll just explain it here anyways. Back in the 1950s, polio outbreaks were a common occurrence in the United States. Stepping up to this challenge was Jonas Salk, Man of Science, who created the polio vaccine in 1952, probably using test tubes of some sort, before sprinting around the countryside, distributing his vaccine to all the grateful schoolchildren.
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Later, his work stabbing children would earn him the cover of the 1950s predecessor of Cracked.
Only, as you might have guessed by now if you've read all the way through this article, Salk wasn't the only one to create a vaccine, nor even the first. Salk's vaccine was a "dead virus" version, containing dead samples of the polio virus, jabbed into kids to allow their immune systems the opportunity to have some target practice on dead versions of polio. "Live virus" versions of the vaccine were being developed at the same time, with the first, an oral version developed by Hilary Koprowski, apparently in a working state as early as 1950. A few years later, Albert Sabin's version of this oral vaccine would eventually replace Salk's vaccine in most parts of the world (but not the U.S.). Indeed, in many parts of the world Sabin is more famous than Salk for his work eradicating polio.
This isn't to discredit Salk, whose work made it to large-scale trials first, which does count for something. (All those lives saved, I guess.) No, he fully earned all the virologist tail that Wisdom cover surely would have gotten him.
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Recent developments since the Blix report to the U.N. have some speculating that Powell has put Bush between a rock and hard place. It was Powell that insisted that Bush go back to the U.N. before attacking Iraq militarily.
Bush may enjoy rather high (but slipping) approval rating but most Americans and onlookers form outside the U.S. see Powell as a much higher authority on maters involving armed conflict. Bush having served on what some consider the very lowest levels of military service, the National Guard, and Powell having served as the highest-ranking military person in the country. (The Commander and Chief is a civilian position)
Powell presented his "lacking the smoking gun" case to the U.N. and failed to gain any ground at all among the all-powerful Security Council. Then in walks Blix and hands the opposition exactly what the needed to support their containment with out force position.
Seeing Bush's failure to move and haven taken Powell's advice to seek U.N. approval before attacking, can he expect Powell to reevaluate his position now that he has failed to gain U.N. support? It seems doubtful to me that Bush can ignore a very popular Powell and go it alone with out his support.
There seems to be some division on rather the Blix report has increased the possibility of war or hastened it. At least on Wall Street analyst with one eye on the markets and one on the war is saying he thinks this will come sooner rather then latter.
Prudential Sec. analyst Chuck Gabriel believes the U.S. and Britain will decide to go it alone. "We guess that this might entail giving Saddam an ultimatum to evacuate Baghdad within as little as 48 hours." He believes war could come in two to three weeks.
Others see at least a bit of a reprieve for the time being. Here's a Reuters story to that effect.
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Danica McKellar was injured during a practice for Dancing with the Stars on Thursday, apparently breaking her rib.
The former star of The Wonder Years, 39, Tweeted about it Friday, and asked fans for a little support.
"So…I broke a rib in yesterday's #DWTS rehearsal. Trying my best to pull thru and could use your prayers!! #wanttokeepdancing," she wrote.
In the aftermath of the injury, McKellar was emotional. "Everything hurts right now," she says through tears in exclusive footage captured by show producers. "It hurts when I'm crying."
McKellar rushed into the women's restroom at their rehearsal space and was comforted through the door by partner Val Chmerkovskiy.
"I'm mad at myself for being hurt or something and not stronger and injurable. Like I wasn't injurable," she says. "It's just so weak and ... there's so much about this that I don't like."
"Just relax, breathe3, calm down," Chmerkovskiy says. "Let's go to the hospital and check it out. Everything is fine."
McKellar was one point shy of a perfect score earlier in the season, when she and Chmerkovskiy performed a Beauty and the Beast-themed routine.
A rep for the competitor has no comment.
So...I broke a rib in yesterday's #DWTS rehearsal. Trying my best to pull thru and could use your prayers!! #wanttokeepdancing— Danica McKellar (@danicamckellar) April 25, 2014